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BY TELEGRAPH. Three Days Later from Europe. arrival OF THE STEAMSHIP . -COTTON ADVANCED >g TO }{. 'Srw York, April 19.—The British and North American Royal Mail steamship Africa, Capt. Harrison, has arrived with Liverpool dates to the Oth April. The Cotton market has advanced from % to %d. von the ordinary grades, and from 1-16 to %d., on the better grades. The sales of the week had reached 67,000 bales, of which speculators took I4poo pad exporters 3,000 bales. Middling Or leans 6d., Middling Uplands 5%, and fair Uplands <>%d. Stock on hand 410,000 bales. [The quotations furnished by telegraph by the Africa, compared with the quotations received by the Baltic of the 2nd April, and Cambria of 20th March, do not show the improvement in prices rthat is claimed in the above despatch.] Consols were quiet, and were quoted at 03. Breadstuff* were rather inactive. Trade hi the manufacturing districts was active, ; and money was easy at previous rates. The Peace Conference was still in session at Paris, discussing minor details. The intelligence . :>f the action of the Conference was very favora bly received at St. Petersburg. There was a report of lights haviug been seen in the ice off Newfoundland, bnt it is regarded as n humbug, so far as it is intended to excite favora ble hopes in regard to the safety of the steamer Pacific. Later from Central America. Xbw Orleans, April 22.—The steamship Charles Morgan, Henry Place, commander, has arrived .from Nicaragua. The defeat of Col. Schlessinger, at the battle with Uie Costa Ricans, is confirmed. lie has been court niartiuled for treason and cowardice. Nine ty of his army are missing. Another slight en gagement with the enemy had resulted victorious ly for the Nicaraguans. Gen. Walker is at the head of seven hundred troops, and gone forth to meet the enemy. New York .Market. New York, April 19.—The Cotton trade was .active to-day, and the market firm. Sales ">,OOO bales. Middling Uplands 11% to 11% cents. Flour.— The Flour market has improved 12% cents per barrel. New Orleans Market. New Orleans, April 21. —Sales 9000 bales. Mid dling 10% to 10%. No change in freights. New Orleans, April 19.— Cotton. —Sales to-day 14,500 bales. Middling Orleans 1 c\% to 10%c. New Orleans, April 17.—Cotton is stiffer, and 6*500 bales changed hands at 10%c. for Middling. Albany, N. li., April 13.—The vote for Mavorin the seventh and eighth wards, f which elected Dr. Quackcnbush, Democrat,) was rejected bv the Com mon Council last night, on the ground’of alleged frauds in canvassing, and Eli Perry, the American candidate, was declared elected Mayor. Washington, April 16.—Gen. Robes, to-dav pre sented his credentials as Minister to Mexico, with expressions of friendship, and an earnest desire to preserve peace between the two Republics were mutually interchanged. Cincinnati, April 14.—Eighteen houses in Wil liam.® town, Ky., were destroyed by fire on Satur day. The mahogany saw miil of Henry Albro, in Cincinnati, was damaged by tire yesterday, to the extent of #12,000. Cleveland, April 10.—A steamer which arrived here to-day from Detroit reports encountering very little ice on the trip. Detroit, April 10.— Steamers left here to-day for Sandusky and Toledo. Buffalo, April 15.—The Erie Canal'is reported to be in such condition, between this citv and Lock port, as to preclude the possibility of open ing it before the 3th of May. New York, ApVil Id.—Biship O’Reilly, who was supposed to have been on board the missing steamer llaeiftc, is safe, und came in the steamer Cambria. Albany, April 10.—The *Milwaukie AgrituHu ralutt, of Saturday, publishes letters giving the stock of Wheat und Flour at Milwaukie, Chicago, and other ports on Lake Michigan, Detroit, Cleve land, Cincinnati, Rochester, Oswego, Toronto and Buffalo. The whole amount is stuted to be 1,501,- 770 bushels of Wheat, and 319,237 barrels of Flour. Montpelier, April 13.—The extensive flouring mill of R. W. Hyde, in this village, was burnt this morning, together with the stock of machinery. It was fully insured. Washington, April IS.— Mr. Dallas, in a letter just received here, says that the subject of the dif ferences between the "English Government and the United States will be fully discussed in Parliament. He is led to believe that the discussion will not be devoid of acrimony towards this country, but he is prepared to bear it like a philosopher. He mentions with particularity numerous acts of murked courtesy extended him, including those of members of the Cabinet; and he regards these manifestations as expressive of a peaceable dispo sition towards this country. New Orleans. April 19* 6 P. M.—Middling Cot ton is worth 10% etuis* :»•. Freights of Colton to Liverpool rule at 3-1 6d: t!-. * New Orleans, April 18.—Cotton is greatly exci ted under the Baltic’s advices, and 15,000* bales were sold at an advance of %c. Middling was worth 10%c. The sales during the week comprised 66,00# bales, and the receipts 48,000. The increase in the receipts amounts to 520,000 bales, and the stock to 260,000. Bacon Sides were worth 9 cents, aud Shoulders from 7% to Bc. per lb., and scarce. Raleigh, (N. C.) April 16. — The Democratic ‘state Convention met to-day and was duly organ ized. Gov. Bragg was nominated for another term without opposition. A resolution was adopt ed recommending the renomination of Gen. Franklin Pierce for the Presidency, and the nomi nation of Hon. J. C. Dobbin for the Vice Presiden cy. Messrs. Shaw and Hill were nominated for Presidential Elector*for the State at large. Messrs. Avery, Ashe, Ileate aiid Brown were chosen to delegate for the State at large to the Democratic National Convention, which assembles at Cincinnati on the 6th of June. There is a full attendance of delegates to the Convention, and the best feeling prevails. Additional by the Africa. New York, April 19. — An Imperial manifesto, dated St. Petersburg, the Ist iustant, says that al though the war had not been sought by Russia, it had been waged with great energy by the Russian people; and that, notwithstanding peace had been f>roclaimed, the rights of the Christians in the East lad been secured—thus attaining the objects of the •war on the part of Russia. Special arrangements had been made to prevent -collisions between Russian and Turkish vessels in the Black Sea. A new line of frontier had been agreed upon in Bessarabia. A letter from Cronstadt says that a squadron, consisting of five steamers, had been ordered by the Russian government to be ready for sea by the middle of next month, and it was generally* sur mised that the Czar, or his brother, would visit Louis Napoleon. The Spanish government had conferred the order of the Golden Fleece on the Prince of Al giers. A Heet of Sardinian vessels had been ordered to sail from Genoa, for the purpose of bringing back troops from the Crimea. Tne health of tbeFrench troops in the Crimea was improving, aud they -were to return in bodies of twenty thousand men. The Austrian army had been reduced thirty thousand men. The British squadron in the Baltic had been re called. The authorised quotations of the Liverpool Board of Brokers were G %d. for Fair Orleans, 6%d. for Fair Uplands, and o%d. for Fair Mobile. The Liverpool Circular of McHenry & Co., dated the 4th instaut, quotes Middling Orleans at 6 l-16d. The barque Suinter, Capt. Humphrey, had ar rived at Gravesend; the tern W. B. Scranton, Capt. Cat heart, and the ship Yenmssee, Captain Childs, a; Deal, and the ketch Commerce, Captain •Hinckley, at Marseilles. From the April 18. Jk The French Empire. Jr The birth of an heir to the French raises another Europ©o»i tjtre?Tioii, which will become of serious consequences whenever peace is re-established amoug the parties to the Russian war. The Emperor Napoleon will have established himself as a powerful sovereign, con trolling the conditions of peace, and adjusting the balances of power among the other sovereigns and nationalities iff Europe. He will be no sus pected adventurer of uncertain position, whom.it is safe to slight, and to mark for ostracism and ex pulsion, at a convenient season; but a dictator among sovereigns, whose will must be their law. The Eastern war will have placed France at the head of the nations of Europe; and the elected Emperor of France on a level with or above the proudest and oldest of the dynasties ; und he will then have the right to require that they shall re ceive and treat him as such, and revoke all the proscriptions which they enunciated against him, when France placed him in the seat of the exiled Bourbons over the wreck of a betrayed republic. The birth of his son creates the occasion and ne cessity for him to make that demand, and the French Emperor is not the man to defer asking for his rights, or submit to tlie denial of them with complacency and resignation. He has an heir to ais throne ; and the French people, under all the forms of free choice, which were permitted to them, and such as arc evidence to other natious which they cannot deny, of a national will, have made Louis Napoleon Emperor, and given him the pow'er to settle the throne on his own posteri ty, making the elective empire, hereditary. To all this, and against it a lawfulness apd principle, and against its dangerous effects upon the principles to which their own Government owe stability, and even existence, the three leading powers of Eastern Europe have made a combined protest. They have, moreover, entered into an al liance with each other to restrain the fact of a French empire w ithin the limits of the life of Lou is Napoleon, and bound themselves to each other to prevent the posterity from ascending the French throne, and to recognise as its only lawful posses sor the eldest heir of the Bourbons. The treaty, in which Russia, Austria, and Prussia made this compact with each other, in hostility to the per manency of any imperial dynasty of the Bona partes iu France, was signed at Warsaw in March, 1852, after the repression, by the allied despots, of the republican movements" within their several dominions, and the consolidation, then plainly at huud, of the Empire iu France, on he ruins of the republic. This treaty declared the principle of hereditary right as the law of succession to the thrones, ami the basis of all order in Eu rope ; that the principle of hereditary sovereignty is embodied in France, in the person of the Count de Chambord, as the head of the house of Bour bon ; and that the imperial dignty, when assum ed byXouis Napoleon, would be a negation of this principle, and the three powers undertook to lay down precisely the rules of action, by which they would be guided in the following contingencies: If Prince Louis Bonaparte, nrnv President of the French Republic, should be named Emperor for life, by the voice of universal suffrage, the powers will only recognize this new form of the elective empire after having demanded from Prince Louis Bonaparte explanations of the signification of this new title—after having drawm from him the pledge, first, that he will respect existing treaties; second, that he will not seek any increase of the territory; and third, that he will forbear any pretension to found a dynasty. In case Prince Louis Bonaparte should declare himself hereditary Emperor, the powers will not recognize the new Emperor; but will send to the French and all the other Governments a protesta tion, grounded upon ♦he principles of public right, - and the literal interpretation of treaties. They will then, according to circumstances,consult upon new* • measures. i In case that a rising of the people or army shall i overthrow the Government of Prince Louis Bona parte, or in case he should die, the powers pledge . themselves to favor the restoration of the heirTff , the legitimate throne by all menus in their power. , and to recognise in future no dynasty but that of . the Bourbons. The treaty is now’ in force, binding Russia, Prus sia and Austria to maintain the pretensions of the Count de Chauibmd (the Bourbon Henry V.) as lawful inheritor of the throne of France, whenever \ Napoleon 111. shall die, or be overthrown by any internal revolution or external force. The young Prince of Algeria, who has just been recognised in l France as the heir of the Emperor, is thus, at his ! birth, repudiated by the three strongest powers of continental Europe, as incapable of inheriting the throne of his father, with or without the consent of the nation. The son of the Emperor is not the j heir of France in the eyes of those who assumed 1 in 1852 to define the law of succession for all En . rope, and to dictate the law for France. And on the day when the French Emperor gathers around him, in his own capital! the representatives of oft these poweis, to w'noniJhe has been an arbiter, if [ not quite a dictator, in marking ont the bounda ries to which each df them shall confine itself on the map of Europe, there is a subsisting pledge ' among them to wait only for his death to expel his son from the inheritance. Will this be submitted 1 to V and for how long ? Can there be any cordial ' itv of intercourse, or indeed any intercouse at all, between parties which stand in such an attitude !. towards each other! that of public insult on one side ipi atoned for and public injury unredressed, and on the other the full consciousness of power, • and the stern will to assert the rights and the dig -1 nity are denied ! \Vhen peace is made, therefore, the relations of Fiance to the rest of Europe on terms of absolute equality, will, without doubt, be asserted by the | Emperor Napoleon, and insisted upon with his constitutional determination of character. It will be a curious problem for the asserters of the invi olability of hereditary rights to meet under such ; circumstances, one who has been to some of them f f an indispensable ally and a powerful protector, and , to another a rival wnom it is all-important to con ciliate. The question of who shall be acknowledg ed heir of France w'ill thus, in all probability, be come a European question, affecting the alliances of States, and indirectly all the movements of Gov ernments and nationalities. Destructive Fire in West fomt. We regret to state that a most destructive fire broke out in our town last night about half past 11 o’clock. It originated in the Railroad Hotel, occu : pied by Mr. G. W. E. Bedell, and consumed the whole of that large building and three others, be , sides outhouses. No one knows how the tire start ed, though we heard it asserted that it was first : discovered in a room usually unoccupied. The de • struction was complete, allowing but little time ■ even for saving some of the furniture. We under stand that the Hotel was insured for $5,000, and the furniture for $3,000 —in what company w e did ■ not hear. The Hotel belonged to Mr. Timothy ■ Collins, and the furniture to Mr. Bedell. We have • been unable to ascertain whether or not any of the other buildings destroyed w’ere covered by insur • unce. The destruction*of property is variously es » timated—some estimating it at $i5,000 and others i $20,000. Our townsmen, generally, were very ready and ■ active in lending assistance to stop the flames, but for w’hose labor and the stillnes of the night, near ly all of the business portion of the town must have been destroyed.- It is almost invidious, where all acted so well,’to make any discriminations; but we cannot forbear mentioning the namesof Messrs. ; W. C. Darden, A. W. Pyle, 11. M. Scott, B. W. | Pyle, E. Hulbert, W. H. Lanier, and Laws, as , among the most active and persevering. West Point Beacon, April 19. Greenville and Columbia Railroad. —We ex tract a few items from the reports of the officers 1 of the Greenville and Columbia railroad. We hope to be able to publish the President’s report in our next issue. The income of the road for the year 1855, was $879,012.56, exceeding that of 1854 by $22,295.79. Current expenses for 1854 were $192,241.19, which in 1855 was reduced to $181,735.60. The differ ence of expenditures in 1854 and 1855, added to the increase of income in 1.855, would give an ex cess of income in 1855 over income in 1854, of $32,- 802, 35. The reports show’ a surplus income over and above the expenses in 1855, of $151,181,89, which has been applied to the debts of the Com pany. Only $71,500 of Coqpon Bonds have been sold since the last report. —Abbaville Banner. Corporation Subscription to the Trunk Road. We learn from the Argus, that the town Com missioners of Bainbridge purpose submitting to the voters, resident within the corporate limits of that town, that they shall subscribe one hundred thousand dollars conditional stock to the Atlan tic and Gulf road. Also, that Hon. W. S. Beal, a wealthy citizep and member of the board of Town Commissioners, purposes to relinquish gratuitous ly to the Company one half of his town property, provided the road is located to Bainbridge. Thomas side Watchman. The first private execution in Virginia took place in Bedford county last Friday, when a slave was hung for killing Capt. Robinson. — r- T - Murderer Convicted by a Horse. "\VaS7 Peterson was tried at Raleigh, Shelby county, Tennessee, for the murder of Thomas Mer riweather, a young planter of Mississippi. The incidents developed upon the trial were of the most romantic nature; and the evidence, although circumstantial, made out a clear case of one of the most revolting murders “to be found in the chroni cles of guilt. There was one point in the case, about which alone there could be said to be doubt, and this point was met by the evidence afforded by the horse of Mr. Merriweather. In order to understand this, we must state by the law of Tennessee, the criminal court of Mem phis has criminal jurisdiction of all crimes com mitted in the sth, 13th and 14th civil districts of said county v The circuit court of Shelby county had criminal jurisdiction in the 12th and other civil districts of the county. The prisoner was indicted m the cir cuit court at Raleigh, and *the murder was al leged to have been committed in the 12th district. The dividing line between the 12th and 13th dis tricts was the rqful leading from Memphis to Her nado. «• If the crime w’as committed in the 13th civil district, the court of Raleigh had no jurisdiction, aud the prisoner would have to be acquitted. The deceased was found some forty or fifty steps from the Hernado road. The witness stated that the body, as he thought, had been dragged there from the road, hence the doubt whether the mur der took place in the 12th or 13th civil district. At this critical point, the counsel h'etook them of certain marvellous and of the noble horse which had been which had come to their knowledge in coavenHopn with the wit nesses. The known instinct of animals has, from time immemorial, been esteemed in the law as among the sources of evidence by which the dearest rights of life, liberty and property have been de termined. Testimony as to these facts was proposed to be submitted on behalf of the State, but was stoutly opposed by the prisoner s counsel, who knew its overwhelming force. The learned judge over-ruled the objections and admitted the testimony. It had been proved in the course of the trial that about eight o’clock on the Sunday following that on which the deceased and prisoner left Mr. Hammel's, a gentleman coming toward Memphis met the horse proven to have been Mr. Merriweather’s, on the road, about two thousand yards from the scene of murder, and South of the same, gallopping at full speed in the direction of Hernado, and appearing to be ex ceedingly frightened; with difficulty tHb gentleman intercepted and caught him. The gentleman finding the animal almost un-‘ controllable from fright, had 9ome difficulty in retaining the rein until a young man came forward and claimed him. The young man who claimed the horse was re cognized by the gentleman at trial, as the prisoner at the bar. He came forward, said the gentleman, claimed the horse, thanked him gracefully for catching him, mounted and rode off hurriedly in the direction of Hernado. The facts here sub mitted to the jury, in reference to the wonderful instincts, are these: It will be remembered that the noble animal in question was of extraordinary intelligence, and singularly attached to his master, whom he was in the habit of following about whenever he would come to the pasture or the farm yard where the horse was. * j Some several months after the prisoner had been committed to jail under indictment, William Merriweather, accompanied by a number of gen tlemen, witnesses in the case, came up from their homes in Mississippi to attend the trial. William Merriweather was riding the horse of the deceased brother, which had, by this time, been recovered in the family. The journey lay along the Hernado road, and by the spot where the body had been found. About two hundred yards before the party reached the scene of the murder, the horse upon which Wm. Merriweather was mounted, began to exhibit symptoms of alarm, and his intractable conduct much surprised his rider and the gentlemen who were with him. There was no apparent cause of alarm, and the several other horses of the party betrayed none. His agitation increased as the party approached the fatal spot; and when they reached a point in the road opposite to it, the excitement of tne horse rose to so ruriousa pitch that he became almost un manageable. The whole party now' checked their horses, and for a moment regarded the strange eonduct of the horse with profound astonishment. His flesh quivered—his nostrils distended, and his eye glancing into the wood where his noble master had met his horrible fate—he stood for a moment, snorting and neighing—a sublime picture of the wildest excitement. One of the party suggested to Mr. Merriweather so give him the rein that, meanwhile, had been tightly drawn. This was done, and ■ noble animal rushed into the wood, and down to the identified tree under which the body had been found, and commenced pawing at its root. After a moment h$ trotted out further into the wood, and, after making a semi-circle in his course, re turned to the same spot, and there stood neigh ing, trembling and pawing until he was forced away. Similar exhibitions were made by the horse a number of times afterwards in passing the spot. “At this startling development in the testimony, a tHrill of feeling ran through the Court-room like an electric shock. Thus far the proof had traced out the history of this mysterious murder with a certainty too fearful to be doubted ; and had pointed to the pallidyouth who sat in the prisoner’s dock as the guilty agent thereof. Justice tempered even with au unstrained mer cy, seemed impatient for the sacrifice, when the strong arm of the law interposed iu its might and majesty to shield him. The venue unproven, or even in doubt, would have left to the tribunal of justice uo other alternative than to bid him to go out again a free wanderer upon the earth, with the blood and guilt thick upon him. But the God who “marketh the sparrow when he falls,” in his in scrutable Providence, had yet in reserve an elo quent witness against him—whose faithful heart was steel to the wiles <ff the corrupter, and whose testimony foil upon the astounded ears of the jury, “Confirmation strong, As proof of holy writ.” No blood had ever been seen on the. road—and no appearance of any struggle there. If the kill ing had been done in the road, the horse, whose rapid flight aud wild fright must have been occa sioned instantly bv the death struggle, would have known nothing of* the tree in the wood. The scene was pictured before the minds of the jury—as if typed by the glorious art of Daguerre; the decoy into the wood—the robber’s demand for gold or blood—the death struggle at the tree—and the in stincts were destined to vindicate, as if by a mira cle, the unerring certainty of retribute justice; and thus the venue was proven—thus the doom of the prisoner was sealed, and thus A Debbie in the streamlet Hath turned the course of many a river; A dew drop on the baby plant Hath warped the giant oak forever. The verdict of the jury was, that the prisoner was guilty, and sentence of death was pronounced against him, w hich was afterwards commuted to imprisonment for life in the State Penitentiary. In that gloomy catacomb of human hearts and hopes, where time is as eternity, and by a sense of liberty lost, William Peterson now expiates his dreadful crime. Singular Compromise Case. —A New York let’ jer, of the 10th inst., to the Baltimore American, says: You may remember the facts of the arrest of a young man at the Astor House, some three or four weeks ago, charged with having left Australia very suddenly, with some $40,000 of his em ployer’s property. You may also remember that a member of the firm. succeeded in attaching a large portion of the monev, which had been placed in the hands of Messrs. Coleman & Stetson, by the young man for safe-keeping. The principal tried the laws of New York upon his defaulting em ployee, but finding that the case would probably take years to bring it to a final settlement, conclu ded to compromise the matter, and submitted to a loss of about SII,OOO. The late clerk remains in New York to spend what he has left of his ill-got ten gains, and the employer took his departure from Boston yesterday m the steamer Cauada for NOTICE. A PHYSICIAN wishing a location in a wealthy community,’where an extensive and profitable practice can be secured, can obtain one by paying about $350 for Medicine, Instruments, Ac. An early application to D. B. PLUMB, Au gusta, Ga., will likely please one feeling interested. jan22 toctf bacon and lard. -| A ASIA LBS. Tennessee BACON. JL Oiimv hog round. 100 kits and cans of LARD. For sale by apt daclm A. STEVEN'S. '■"■■■Jg:! l . ll " ',■■■ —— COMMERCIAL. Augusta Market. April 22, 4 P. M. COTTON. —For the season of the year, and the stock offering, there was a considerable amount of business done during the past week, at very full prices. To-day there was a decided calm in the trade, and we heard of but few sales. As near as we could ascertain, the following are the quota tions current at the time of making this report. Ordinary to good middling 9%@10; low middling to middling 19%@10%; strict middling to good . middling 10%@11; middling fair to fair Prices are full, and the receipts are daily on the decline at this point. At New Orleans the receipts continue larger than last year, but at all other At lantic ports there is a falling off. HEAVY COTTON GOODS—In this depart ment of trade, sales have been large, among the wholesale dealers) for the past week, and stocks would necessarily have been greatly re duced, but for the weekly supplies which have regularly come in. The quotable changes in prices are trifling. Osnaburgs, Brown and Bleached Sheetings and Shirtings, and all other heavy Cot ton Goods are beginning to show slightly the ef fects of the high price of Cotton, but in the finer fabrics no advance is yet perceptible. 1 DR"I GOODS.—Our Dry Goods houses have re ceived very full supplies of staple and fancy arti cles adapted to the season, of new and elegant styles. The warm weather of the past week has made this department of trade quite active, the Ladies in selecting beautiful Spring Silks, Grena dines, Bareges, Muslins, Mantillas, and many oth er articles with new names, while' the Gentlemen have provided themselves with articles cf less i show, but not less necessary for comfort, with the ! thermometer at 00 in the shade. Our Millinery j establishments are also amply provided with every thing m their line of trade, and of the latest Pari* fashions , comprising a gretgtvafiety of choice and elegant articles, the Ladies’ ward robe. Our Co >ds linery, not it, but from uhants for good taste in their selection!?! SjpTtter of no little im ’ portallje to inexperienced purchasers at retail. We advise ctar country friends not to delay their risit j too long, lest our city Ladies (so remarkable for chaste and refined taste in articles of dress) get a decided advantage over them, in making the best Selections. Several of our Merchants are selling for cash, and offer Goods at a very small margin j from New York cost. BUSINESS.—From a cursory glance through theleveral railroad depots, and at the wharves, we s|he mipressed with the conviction that there must he quite an active business going on in the re jeiving and forwarding departments, for this late period in the season. But the maim feature is, that a very large portion of this business is sup plied by our merchants, from their well selected and large assortment of goods. Grain, Flour, Ba con, Ac., from Upper Georgia and Tennessee, are ■ readily exchanged for Groceries, Hardware, staple and fancy Dry Goods, Ac. A surplus finds an out let through the many avenues to and from Au gusta, by the several railroads, plankroads, the river and the canal. Our extensive carriage and furniture establishments, machine shops, foundries and other departments of enterprise among us, are sending forward their commodities to the interior, and quite an active business is apparent on every side in our midst. GROCERIES.—Our merchants are actively em ployed in the spring trade, and constant accessions keep up their supplies. Stocks are largo, fresh, and bought to good advantage, and they are well , prepared to enter into competition with other mar kets in furnishing merchants and planters in the i interior. There has been no material change in 1 any of the leading articles. » SUGARS.—Porto Rico 8% to 10 ; Moscovado 8 5 to 9%; New Orleans Bto 10. The supply of hhd. . Sugars is good. Os barrel Sugars, we quote for A i tiQUU ; B 10% ; and C 10% to 10% cents. } COFFEE.—Rio, good to prime, 12%@13; choice | 13X; Java 16X. MOLASSES.—Cuba 57, and New Orleans 47@50. CANDLES.—SuppIy large, and good Adaman tines from 26 to 28 cents. SHOT—S2.2S ; fonder $8.50; Lead 8 cents. BACON.—There is still ait active demand for Bacon, and prices are firm. Tennessee, liog round, 10; clear Sides 10%@11 ; Shoulders 9to 9% ; and Hams 10 to 11 cents. Western Bacon Sides, ribbed, 10 obits; Shoulders 9; and Hams 12 to 15 cents. ‘ The supply of Bacon is light. FLOUR.—City Mills, Superfine SB, and Extra $9.50; Country Mills from $7 to $8.50. The sup ply of Flour is large, and the demand limited. CORN.—Selling in lots at 60 cents, but at retail 65 cents. LAND WARRANTS.—The demand continues • good, with a slight advance in prices. Buyers are now paying tor 120’s 90 cents $ acre ; 40*s, 80’s and 160’s, $1 V acre. STOCKS.—Several small lots of Georgia Rail road A Banking Co., have beeu sold at 98 since dividend. We hear of no other operations in Stocks, although all kinds are in good request. EXCHANGE.—The Banks are drawing on the North at %th prbimum. UNCURRENT MONEY.-Tennessee and North Carolina, large bills, 2 $ cent, discount; small bills 3; Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana aud Vir ginia bank bills, 2 $ cent.; Texas and Northern Bank of Mississippi, 10 # cent.; Dalton and La Grange Bank Bills 10 cent. Macon, Atlanta, Griffin, Columbus, as well as the money of the Northern and Eastern States, 2 y cent. FREIGHTS—To Savannah, by the river, 25 cts. y bale, by the railroad 50 cents. To Charleston 75c. <jS bale, by railroad. Corn to Charleston 8 cts. and to Savannah 6 cents by the river. CHARLESTON, April 21.— Cotton. —There was a good demand for this article to-day, the sales having reached upwards of 2,150 bales Prices have gradually stiffened since our report of the 18th, and the market closed showing an advance of %<s%c. on the prices current at that time. The transactions comprise 120 at 9% ; 22 at 10% ; 110 at 10%; 64 at 10%; 91 at 19%; 151 at 10%; 134 at 10%: 184 at 11; 34 at 11%; 155 at 11%; 55 at U%J 57 at 11 7-16 ; and 936 bales at like. We quote Good Middling 11%@11%, and Middling Fair 11%@11%c. SAVANNAH, April 21. — Cotton. —We report sales to-day of 148 bales, at the following prices: 7at 9%; 12 at 10; 7 at 10%; 50 at 11% ; and 72 bale» at 11% cents. Freights. —Owing to the small demand offering, freights are dull at the following quotations : To Liverpool %d.; to New York, Baltimore and Phila delphia 5-16 c. MACON, April 19.— Ottton. —But little doing; prices range from 3to 10%c. Freight to Savan nah 45 cents $ Central Railroad. Groceries. —-There is a good supply of Bacon. Hog round at 10 cents. Sides and Hams 11 cents. Molasses, Cuba, 42 to 45 cents. Goshen Butter 82 to 35 cents. Adamantine Candles 26 to 27c. No Cheese in market. Corn. —This article sells at 50 to 60 cents, by the quantity. Flour.—U to $4.50 $ 100. Hay. —Northern $2; Tennessee $1.50 ip 100. Peas. —Bo cents to $1 p bushel. Exchange on the North % of one $ cent. Apples $2 $ bushel. April lT—Flour very dull, $5.25; Bacon Sides 8 ; prime Lard 9%<510 ; Whisky 20; Mesj Pork $14.50. BALTIMORE, April ?6th.—Bacon Sides 8%, Shorters 7%, Jfttms 9, for bulk meat; but for hhds.>3ides 9% to 9%, Shoulders 8% to 8%, and Hams 11 to 12%; Whisky 25; Coffee 11% to 12%; Baltimore Flour $6.50;” Ohio extra, and a few choice brands $7.50 to $10; Corn 48 to 52; Rye 80; Oats 32 to 34; Mess Pork $16.25 to $17.50; Cheese 9% to 10; Butter, Western and Glades, 16 to 22, and Goshen 25 to 27. NEW ORLEANS, April 17.— Chiton. —The large business of yesterday left only a moderate supply on factors’ tables for to-day's operations, and very full prices have been claimed: but with a still eas ier market for freights, buyers have come forward pretty freely, and tne sales reach about 9500 bales. The fates have been firmer, especially for the mid dling and better qualities, and we slightly raise our figures for these grades. Inferior 5%@7%; 1 Ordinary B<sß% > Good Ordinary 8%(g9%; Low Middling 9%@9% ; Middling 10@10%; Good Middling 10%@11; Middling Fair 11%@11%; Fair—. COTTON' STATEMENT. Stock on hand Ist Sept., 1855 bales.. 38.201 Arrived since 1,586,635 to-day 1,448 1,626,284 Exported to date 1,350,755 “ to-day 13,180-1,368,935 Stock on hand and on shipboard not cl’d. 262,349 Sugar. —The demand has been fair, and with easier prices for most qualities; the sales amount to 1,000 hhds. Molasses.—' The market is firmer, end 1,000 bbls. have been sold to-day at 32@54c. fof*fermenting, and 35@56% and 86 cents y gallon for good re boiled to prime lots. Flour.— 2so Ohio at $6 ; 250 Indiana at $6.12%; 400 St. Louis at $8.25; 224 extra at $3 ; and 100 fine at $5.25 # bbl. Corn. —The demand has been moderate, with sales of about 3,000 sacks, including 920 at 45 and 46c.; 3,100 at 47c.; 2,900 in 2 lots at 46(548c., and 1,000 white, also in lots, at 48c. y bushel. Bacon.—We have noticed sales of barely 50 casks Sides in several lots at B%c. for ribbed,"and 10% ($lO% cents for clear, with a few retail parcels of Shoulders at 7% cents $ lb. Pry Salted Meats. —The transactions comprise 27 casks, hog round, at 7 cents, and about 140,000 lbs prime, in bulk, at 7% cents £>., which is an im provement. Whisky— There is a large stock of Rectified of fering on the Levee, and the market is dull at 23($ 23% cents $ gallon. A lot of 75 bbls. Dexter’s sold' to-day at 32 cents. Candles.—We have noticed sales of about 200 boxes Star < Proctor A Gamble’s) at 22cts., in lots, and some light weight at 21 cents $ lb. Fraught*. —A ship was taken yesterday for Bor deaux at 15-16 c. for Cotton, and another was laid on for that port. About 2,000 bales Cotton have been shipped to Liverpool to-day, in British ves sels, at %d. Exchanges. —The market is still firmer, and we quote London S(s9 and 9% y cent, prein., Paris sf. 17 %(ssf. 22 %; New York 60 days 1($1% y ct. disc.; New York Sight par to % y cent, discount. 23F* Diseases of the Liver.—When the celebrated Dr. Rush declared that drunkenness was a disease, he enunciated a truth which the experi ence and observation of medical men is every day confirming. The many apparently insane excesses of those who indulge in the use of spirituous liquors, may be thus accounted for. The true cause of con duct, which is taken for infatuation, is very fre quently a diseased state of the Liver. No organ in the human system, when deranged, produces a more frightful catalogue of diseases. And if, in stead of applying remedies to the manifestations of disease, as is too often the case, physicians would prescribe with a view to the original cause, fewer deaths would result from diseases induced by a de ranged state of the Liver. Three-fourths of the dis eases enumerated under the head of Consumption, have their seat in a diseased Liver. Dr. M'Lane's Celebrated Liver Pills , prepared by Fleming Bros., are a certain cure. Purchasers will be careful to ask for DR. M’LANE’S CELEBRATED LIVER PILLS, nianu ufactured by Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa. There ore other Pills purporting to be Liver Pills, now' before the public Dr. M’Lane’s genuine Liver Pills, also his celebrated Vermifuge, can now be had at all respectable drug stores. None genuine without the signature of FLEMING BROS. Sold, wholesale and retail, by . SCOVIL A MEAD, 111 Chartres-st., New Orleans. Genera! Agents for the Southern States, to whom all orders must be addressed. I For sale iu Augusta by Haviland, Rislet A Co., D. B. Plumb A Co., Barrett, Carter A Co., Clark ’ & Wells, N. J. Fogarty A Co., Wm. H. Tutt, W. A J. Turpin. , j Haviland, Harral A Co., Charleston, S. C. | A. A. Solomons A Co., Savannah, and by one j Agent iu every town in the South. ap2o d+Aclw BULK SALT. IV' E are prepared to ftirnish Liverpool bulk v W SALT in quantities to suit purchasers, and five bushel sacks, made of the old fashioned “ Holmes Striped Sacking.’’ ap6 d&c HAND, WILCOX A CO. JOHN CASHIN, GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT, Xo. 4 Warren Block, -MTILI, receive and sell on consignment, all ff articles of WESTERN PRODUCE and MERCHANDISE, and execute orders for COTTON and GRAIN. ap22 H. G. FARRELL*S CELEBRATED ARABIAN LINIMENT IS well known to possess the most wonderfully healing, penetrating and stimulating properties, and by its promptness iu effecting cures, w’hich previously had resisted all other medicines, ad ministered by the most scientific physicians, has placed it far beyond any similar remedy ever in troduced to the people of the United Slates. It stimulates the absorbents to increased action, and thus enables nature to throw off disease— it pene trates to the boneSy adding strength and activity to the muscles—it is powerfully anodyne and thereby allays nervous irritation , producing a delightfully pleasing sensation through the whole frame. * Owing toils remarkable anticeptic properties, it purifies and neutralizes that poisonous, corrosive principle which renders old ulcerous sores so difficult to heal; it therefore is peculiarly adapted to their speedy cure. This Liniment from its penetrating and strengthening qualities has been found to be a spe cific for Paralysis or Palsy, Whiteswellings and diseased joints, and in fact all comDlaints invol ving the muscular system. It has cured cases of Rheumatism of twenty to thirtv years’ standing, and affections of the B>pine wherein the entire spi nal column was so crooked and distorted, that the patient could not walk or stand without artificial support. Numerous cases of Palsy have been cured when the flesh had withered, leaving nothing but the dried skin and bone, and the limbs totally without use or feeling. For Children with Croup it is of inestimable value, rubbed and bathed over the throat and chest. If applied freely on the chest it never fails to give relief in the severe Coughs at tending Consumption, Asthma, and Colds. It heals wounds speedUy—will cure Scaldhead, Mange, etc. Planters and Farmers will find it a most valuable medicine to be applied to Horses and Cattle for Sprains, Bruises, Lameness, Stiff Joints, Sweeney, Dry Shoulder, Wounds, Burns, Splint, Chafes or Galls, Hardened Knots on the flesh, etc. Lookout for Counterfeits! The public are cautioned against another coun terfeit, which has lately made its appearance, called W. B. Farrell’s Arabian Liniment, the most dan gerous of all the counterfeits, because his having the name of Farrell, many will buy it in good faith, without the knowledge that a counterfeit ex ists, and they will perhaps only discover their error when the spurious mixture has wrought* its evil effects. The genuine article is manufactured only by H. G/Farrell, sole inventor and proprietor, and whole sale druggist, No. 17 Main street, Peoria, Illinois, to whom all applications for Agencies must be ad dressed. Be sure you get it with the letters H. -G. be fore Farrell’s, thus—H. G. FARRELL’S—and his signature on the wrapper, all others are counter feit. Sold bv HAVILAND, RISLEY A CO., W. H. A J .TURPIN, N. J. FOG ART \ A CO., CLARK, WELLS A DuBOSE, and D. B. PLUMB A CO., Augusta, Ga., and by regularly authorized agents throughout the United States. Price 25 and 50 cents, and $1 per bottle. AGENTS WANTED in every town, village and hamlet in the United States, in which one is not already established. Address H. G. Farrell as above, accompanied with good reference as to char acter, responsibility, Ac. dis24&c4 mh29 ■jr AND WARRANTS WANTED—The higli- JLi est cash prices paid by us for Land Warrants. mh22 HfOWARD A DUGAS. ■■■■■ MARRIED, ' f On the 2d instant, by the Rev. Luke T. Mizell, j Samuel if. Bradford, Esq., and Miss Mart Sophia ' [ Ca clues, all of Cobb county, Ga. In Warren county, on the 4th of March, by Elias Lazenby, Esq., Mr. Talbot Jones and Miss ‘Nancy | Norris. On the 6th inst., by the same, Mr. Thomas Hin j ton and Miss Seaxt Locket, daughter of Cullen R. j Locket, all of Warren county„ OBITUARY. j Died, in Edgefield District, on the 6th instant, of | Consumption, Mre. Susan T. Harris, wife of Mr, | Willis G. Harris, in the 29th year of her age. The premature death of tins amiable and much j loved lady, has cast a deep gloom of sorrow over , the whole community in which she lived. Posses- I sing, in an eminent 'degree, many if not all of the noblest traits of the female character, she won the love, admiration and esteem of all who knew her. Surrounded by every earthly comfort, what a bright future was before her—but, alas! how uncertain are all human calculations! for whilst in the very prime of life, the destroying angel comes ana claims his victim, regardless of age ? position in so ciety, or the bitter anguish of family and friends. Thus by one blow of the fell destroyer, an aged and infirm father has been deprived of an only daughter, the stay and support of his fast declining vears—the strongest ties which bind the devoted husband to earth, have been abruptly severed, and four lixtle orphan children are never more to know a mother’s tender care. Mrs. Harris was admonished for several weeks of her approaching dissolution, and she was fully prepared to meet, unawed, the mighty king of ter | rors, and thus death was deprived of his sting, and the grave of a victory. “The sacred tie Is broken; yet why grieve? for time but holds His moiety in trust, till joy shall lead To the blest world Where parting is unknown. DIED. At the residence of her father, near Abbeville C. 11., on the morning of the Bth inst., Mrs. Mary 1 Norwood Lomax, consort of Mr. William James , Lomax, and eldest daughter of John A. Calhoun, Esq., all of that District. She was born at Abbe ■ yille C. H., on the 3<>th of March, 1834, and was l just twenty-two years and six days of age. £gr Covington, Newton County, Geo., , 18th April, 1856.—Mr. Editor : In the Chronicle dk i Sentinel, of the 16th inst., I see the Presentments . of the Grand Jury, for the second week of the • March Term, 1858, of the Superior Court of New ton county, presents the conduct of the Managers 5 of the election at Brewer’s Precinct, in said county, • in sending three or four miles and receiving a vote ' at the last October election. I acted in the capacity of manager in the election 5 alluded to, and feel myself called upon for an ac ’ count of my actings and doings. While the elec tion referred to was in progress, young Mr. Fielder, son of 0. M. B. Fielder, Esq., came to the polls with a certificate enclosing a ticket from O. M. B. Fielder. The managers informed Mr. Fielder that the vote could not be taken ; the friends of Fielder insisted that one of the managers should wait on Mr. O. M. B. Fielder, and receive his vote,, as it had been the universal practice in Covington, at all former elections. Thomas J. Kitchens, Esq., one of the managers, waited on Mr. 0. M. B. Field er. received his vote, brought it to the polls, and it was received, numbered and recorded. After the entire vote of the county was counted out, and only one or two majority for Mr. Pharr over Mr. Baker being the result, the friends of Ba ker spoke of contesting the election, and Mr. Field er’s vote was spoken of by the Know Nothings as being either illegal or improper. This gave rise to a closer examination into the matter, and it was ! said that some twenty or more of the operatives at : and about Newton Factory had voted, and had not paid their taxes; aud as they were all under the surveilance of the Newton Manufacturing Compa ny, and the Company all good, sworn in Know Nothings, this had rather a quieting influence, and 1 the election was not contested. A day or two be fore the January election following, I called on Mr. , William Stewart, Tax Collector, for a list of de k faulters, and informed him that I intended they . should either pay their taxes or not vote at Brew er’s ; he did not furnish me vritkii list. On the day of the election, the proprietors of the Newton Fac b tory were there, with the operatives, and all voted. I called on all, and informed them that voting was illegal by persons who had not paid their tax, and • could do no more. The Grand Jury of the first week allowed ALk k Wm. Stewart, Tax Collector, SiO.7S foV - vent list. The political Grand Jury, for the second week, March Term, 1856, who seemed to have sucSL a tender regard for the purity of the stood about eighteen Know Nothings to five Anties. I avail myself of this opportunity to say to that honorable body, that the list of defaulting tax pay- % ers, and the list of voters, were subject to their control, and if they had been as careful to compare and look into that side of the question, they would probably have laid the axe at the root of the evil. Respectfully submitted, ap2o c4_ HARRY CAMP. pT The Great Russian Remedy.—Pro Bono Publico.—“Every mother should have a box in the house handy, in case of accidents to the children.” Redding’s Russia Salve.—lt is a Boston remedy of thirty years’ standing, aud is recommended by physicians. It is a sure and speedy cure for Burns, Piles, Boils, Corns, Felons, Chilblains, and Old Sores, of every kind; for Fever Sores, Ulcers, Itch, Scald Head, Nettle Rash, Bunions, Sore Nipples, (recommended by nurses,) Whitlows, Sties, Fes ters, Flea Bites, Spider Stings, Frozen Limbs, Salt Rheum, Scurvy, Sore and Cracked Lips, Sore Nose, Warts and Flesh Wounds, it is a most valuable remedy and cure, which can be testified to by thou-jgj sands who have used it in the city of Boston vicinity, for the laet thirty years. In no . will this Salve do an injury, or interfere physician’s prescriptions. It is made from purest materials, from a recipe brought from RtllWi sia—of articles growing in that country—and the proprietors have letters from all classes, clergy men, physicians, sea captains, nurses and others, who have used it themselves, and recommend it to others. Redding’s Russia SALVE is put up in large tin boxes, stamped on the cover with a pic ture of a horse and a disabled soldier, which pic ture is also engraved on the wrapper. Price, 25 cents a box. Sold at all the stores in town or country, or may be ordered of any wholesale Drug gist. REDDING & CO., Proprietors. For sale by GEO. OATES, at his Book, Music and Piano Store, Broad-st. d&ceow6m febl7 Excelsior.—Perhaps no preparation or tonic, for the restoration an ' preservation of the hair, has ever been used with success equal to that of “ PROF. WOOD’S HAIR RESTORATIVE.” In the production of this great remedy. Professor ’ Wood has materially benefitted the human family, while he has added additional laurels to his already world-wide reputation. It never fails to restore hair to the prematurely bald, and cause the silvery locks of the h mry-headed to resume their original color. To be had at 114 Market street. — St. Louis Morning Herald. For sale, wholesale and retail, by WM. HAINES, Druggist. ap23 d6*cl Broad-st., Augusta, Ga. r-*f“ Augusta, April 15, 1856.—Fancy AND STAPLE DRY GOODS —New Goods, New Styles, and Prices Reduced.— THOS. BRENNAN has now in store, and will receive weekly from New York, the newest styles of FANCY AND STAPLE SPRING AND SUMMER DRY GOODS, which he offers at a small advance on cost. The public are respectfully invited to call and examine the Goods before buying elsewhere. Terms cash. See advertisements in other columns of this paper. ap!6 f3*cl