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fflUektn (Constitutionalist.
BY JAMES GARDNER.
TUESDAY, HORSING, AERIE 12.
Franklin College.
The Savannah Republican , of the Bth instant,
says: “ Joseph B. Gumming, Esq., of Angnsta, has
been appointed by the two Literary Societies of
Franklin College, Athens, to deliver the annual
address, during commencement week, in August
next.
Flection m Griffin.
On Monday last, we learn, an election was held
in Griffin, Georgia, for a Mayor and Aldermen,
which resulted in the choice of Wu. M. Cline,
(Dem.,) by a majority of fifty votes over Col. A.
R. Moore, ( American >. J. B. Pilsbcrt, (Dem.,)
was elected Justice of the Peace for Griffin Dis
trict, over the American competitors.
Correction.
The Sandersville Central Georgian , of the Oth
inst., contains the following item :
We see our contemporary of the Q/nstUulionalist
has made a slight mistake with regard to the Geor
gian's being a political sheet. Ours is strictly a
neutral paper, in politics aud religion.
Snow and the Wheat Crop.
We understand, from a gentleman passing
through this city, and who left St. Louis but a few
days ago, that the snow was a foot and-a-lialf deep;
and that fears were entertained there that the
wheat crop was seriously injured.
The Old Police Force of New York.
The New York Ray Book , of the Gth instant,
says : “ A private telegraphic dispatch was this
morning received by a city official, announcing the
decision of the Court of Appeals in favor of the
old police receiving their pay. The Judges stood
three to five.”
The Journal of Commerce, of the 7th instant,
says that the entire number of the old police re
stored by the decision is about eight hu idred and
thirty-two. Some three hundred went over to the
Metropolitan force shortly after its organization,
and fifty more were subsequently accepted, after
waiving all claims for back pay. The total amount
of arrears is said to be not far from a million of
dollars.
Mr. Lanier. Hie Horse Tamer.
Mr. Laniek is reaping a rich harvest in this city,
by teachiug his method of horse taming and break
ing; and he certainly deserves it, for a man
with more patience in the management of an un
ruly horse than Mr. L., we have never yet seen.
He can take the most fractious horse that can be
found, and in the short space of one hour the
horse will be as kind and gentle as even a lady
could desire. We have seen his method practiced,
*nd you can safely rely on there being nothing >n
it injurious to any horse, mole, or any other quad
ruped.
Mr. L. is kind and getftle with the horse; and
he would not think of harming a hair of his hide,
lor that is contrary to bit method.
Give Mr. L. a call; let him give you a few les
sons, end you will come away satisfied, cud withal,
a number one horse manager and breaker yourself.
ttrrmnrmr cab wrtwiw at ifafaws upper sta
ble, from eight o’clock, A. M. until twelve M., and
from two o’clock, P. M. until sever. P. M., where
he will teach or practice his method for the smull
boos ten dollar*.
A Gleam or Two ol Swashino.
Amidst the general gloom, occasioned by the
-several opposition victories at thcNorlh and West,
we have a couple of rays of sunshine in the Brook
lyn and Milwuukie elections:
Brooklyn, April 6. —The whole Democratic city
ticket is elected. The Mayor’s majority is three
thousand.
Milwaukik April o. —The Democratic candidate
for Judge of the Supreme Court has three thou
sand majority. The result in the State is doubt
ful. _
Thr Rhode Islautf Election.
The New York Journal (*f Commerce, of the 7th
inst., has the following dispatch from Providence,
April Ctb, giving the resultcf the recent elections
in Rhode island:
Thomas G. Turner is elected Governor, Jchn R.
Banlelt, Secretary of State, and Jerome fc. Kim
ball, Attorney General. 7 hey are on b«*h the
American aud Republican tickets.
There i« no choice lor Goverr >r, and
General Tieasurer.
In the Eastern Congressional District there is no
choice. Tne vote stands Robinson, American-
Republican, three thousand seven hundred and
ninety-seven; Davis, Republican, two thousand
four hund*ed and twenty-two; Arnold, democrat,
one thousand five hundred and thirty-two. Rob
inson lead i in every town but two.
In the Western Congressional District Brayton,
who was supported by the American-Republicans
and the Republicans, iseHcted. The vote is: Bra
ton, two thousand nine hundred and forty-six;
Amhony, 1 emocrat, seven huudred. There is no
electiono;f members of the General Assembly in
this city. . Theopposition huve both Heusesot the
legislature by an overwhelming majority.
JjgT* At the recent exhibition closing the winter
session of Erskine College, South Carolina, Joe
H. Pol,oil:, of Louisville, Ua., delivered an ad
dress on “Fat iign Loyalty to the American Flag.”
The newspapers in the upper portion of
Georgia, and.-in some portions of Tennessee, state
that the recent heavy froc'.s have materially in
jured tlbe prospects of the p each crop ; end appre
hension* are feP. for the wheat crop.
£s?“Tlhe Charleston Courier, of the Bth inst.,
says that Hun. J* remiaq *S. Black, Attorney Gen
eral of the United States, arrived in that city, in
the Keystone Sta*?, from Philadelphia, ca the 6th
inst., BDd £,dds: Jt He will remain some days, we
believe.”
At a Democratic meeting, recently held in
Cherokee county, the following gentlemen were
appointed delegates 13 the State convention : John
McConnel, W W. Worley, S Wkil, J L. D.
Harbin, Jas. E Husk, Elias E. Field, T. J High
tower, Jesse £ckts, E C. Hardin and Joshua
JiQi’Eßr.
gsff” The De«uocra«y of Butts county have ap
pointed Messrs. Ei>ward Earner, Thomas Mc&jb
ben, end W. O. Robertson, as delegales to the State
Convention. Dr. Wheeled, Col. J. &. Lyons,and
H. Williams, Esq., were appointed delegates to
the Congressional CouventioL of the third district.
Resolutions were adopted, endorsing the senti
ments of -Senator Iv&a3oN, and condemning the
course of Judge Douglas.
The fallowing gentlemen have been ap
pointed by a Democratic meeting, held in Carroll
ton, on the sth of April, to represent CarroJleuun
iy in the State Convention : Col. A. T. Buitxe, B.
H. Wright, and W. F. Johnson. Esqrs.; and as al
ternates, Col. B. J. Thomason, R. T. Richards, and
W. P. Muse, E3qrs. Tlwrty-three delegates to the
Congressional c< nventioo of the district were ap
pointed at the same time Resolutions were adopt
ed, endorsing the course and sentiments of Senator
Iyeeson.
Current News ol the Day.
A few young ladies and gentlemen of Americus,
Georgia, have established a Thespian corps in that
c ; ty, and were to have opened on Thursday night
last. The South Western News says that, “after :
payment of expenses, the proceeds of the exhibi
tion will be applied to charitable purpose?.
On the 6th of April, m Chicago, the Republican
ticket was elected by two thousand majority.
The bill to prevent the carrying of deadly
weapons has passed the legislative council of
Canada.
Seventy-five divorce cases, are pending before
the Supreme Court, now in session at Providence,
R. I.
In Keokuk, lowa, April 6th, the Republicans car
ried the municipal election by one hundred and
eighty majority.
A dispatch from Boston, April 6tb, says : “The
Yarmouth Telegraph Cable project is again de
feated iu the Massachusetts Senate.”
It was reported iu Washington, on the Gth inst.,
that after the 30th of September the mails between
New \ ork and San Francisco will be carried via
the Nicaragua instead of the Panama route.
A whale, forty feet in length and thirty feet in
circumference, was captured near Beaufort, N. 0.,
on the 4th inst.
There was a slight fall of snow in Baltimore and
Washington, on the sth inst.
O. I). Fillet, the Republican candidate, has
been re-elected Mayor of St. Louis, by one thou
sand five hundred majority.
The United States Commissioner at Cincinnati
has surrendered to Mr. Kilgour, of Cabell county,
Va., his fugitive slave, lately arrested in Ohio.
Ex-Senator C. 11. Smith, who recently died in
Indiana, was first elected to Congress in 1826.
He rode on horseback to Washington to take his
seat, which journey occupied seventeen days.
A dispatch from Philadelphia, of April 6th,
sfates that the alleged fugitive slave was on that
day discharged by Commissioner Longstrbth, his
identity not being proven.
The Bainbridge Georgian recommends Charles
J. Munnerlyn, Esq., as a candidate for Governor
of this State. A correspondent of the South
western News suggests Timothy M. Furlow, Eso.,
of Sumter, for ihe same office.
At the municipal election in Portland, Maine, on
the 6tli Inst, the Republicans w ere successful—they
elected Mr. Jkwell, Mayor, by two hundred ma
jority. The same party was successful in Cleve
land, Ohio; they elected Mr. Skxtre, their candi
date for Mayor; and, probably, their entire ticket.
The weekly Gazette , of April 6th, says: “The
election lost Saturday for Mayor and Aldermen of
the city of Qreenesboro*, resulted in the choice of
J. L. Brown, for Mayor; David Howell, W. G.
Johnson, W. S. Davis and F. C. Fuller, for Al
dermen.
A new steamboat company has been organised
in Rome, Georgia, who propose to run the steam
er Oostanrula regularly between that place and He
saca and Calhoun.
, A negro man named Phil, belonging to Thomas
D. Walker, Esq., is now in the jail of Upson
rntiftT. Ibr Attempting to telce the life «>f an
] old citizen of Thmnaston, Dr. A. F. Schackel
i* FORT). The negro told the Doctor that his
1 son, who was at the Court House, Minted
am umbrella—und the Doctor on going out into
the street, was followed by the negro, who tired a
pistol at him. This circumstance occurred on the
5 night of Friday, the Ist inst., as we leant from
» the Upson Pilot. Phil's master is in Texas.
A letter to the editor o! t.*e Pulaski Times, states
that the hog cholera is prevailing, with fatal effect,
in Macon county. On last Sunday, the correspond
ent says he counted "thirty dead hogs on the
B branch in OgVettiorpe,” and understands that the
- carcasses "are being hauled out of town at the
- rate of ten a day, for the last three or four days.”
He has also heard of some half dozen cows dying
within thb last few days.
j The Cincinnati Gazette says six thousand two
hundred aad eighty adventurers have passed
* through that.city this season, by river alone, for
Pike’s Peak.
The majority by which Grice, Democrat, was
- elected Mayor of Portsmouth, Va., last Saturday,
L * was two hundred and thirty-eight.
j The naval force the Government has on squad
rons is, forty ships, seven hundred und twenty-four
> officers, seven thousand six hundred and soventv
six men, und six hundred and eighty-four gone, a
j larger navul force than has ever at one tme been
commissioned under the American flag, since the
- establishment of the Union.
The Lawrence Herald of Freedom states that the
prospects'for the establishment of a University in
Kansas arc very flattering.
; The Vice Regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies’
> Association of Pennsylvania, has receded, since
’ herappeal-of the 2‘2d of February, one thousand and
thirty-nine dollars.
A Toronto correspondent of the Montreal l Gazette
' says. There is a rumor that on the expiration of
j the presens Governor General’s term of office, Sir
- Edward Bi;i»wbr Lytton will be sent oat.
A. Dudley Mann is about visiting Bremen with
a view to induce the Steamship Company of that
thriving city,*whose vessels run to New YoTk, to
5 allow one of A heir steamers to alternate its trips
from Bremen between -3k-r folk, Va., *nd 'New
■ York.
The annual-report of the Secretary of State of
New York, on the statistics of the poor, shows
that fee number of townufci county paupers in
that Slate relieved dining the year ending Decem
ber, 1-858, was t've hundred -ar.d ninety-five thou
sand and sixty-oix; the amount expended in af
fording this relief was one million four hundred
and nicety-one thousand three hundred and 'nine
ty- one dollars and twenty-eight cents.
Lake‘Pepin, on the Upper Mississippi, Lac an
average width of one mile und oneMalf, and is deep
enough to float the largest vessels. Sounding*
show a very uniform depth, varying from twesty
five to thirty-six feet. Three rods -from the shove,
the water is twenty-five feet deep, and for a dis
tance of one hundred and thirty-two r.vds, mea- ]
Miring across the lake, the depth does not var>
one inch from thirty-two feet. It is vne* of tbe
most beautiful sheets of water in the country, and
abounds in the most dtliciou-i fish.
In excavating the grounds lately covered by St.
Peter’s church, Albany, New York, the remtins of
Lord Howe, killed at the battle of Lake George, 1
were found. The Journal savs: 1
There are persons now living in this city who dis
tinctly recollect the fact of their removal from (
beneath the English Church,as it was then called, .
iu the grounds of the present St. Peter’s. It is j
alleged by them that the coffin was covered with
canvass, and that saturated with tar; that it was
opened, and exhibited the hair in a good state of
preservation, dressed in the fashion of the day. ,
The eoffin was enclosed in another and then de- 1
posited under St. Peter’s church.
Extraordinary as it may appear, says an ex- <
change, a piece of brown paper, folded and placed s
between the upper lip ana gum, will stop bleediDg c
at the nose, 'fry it.
AUGUSTA. OY. s WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18. 1859.
Augnsta Oipi*«»«i Asylum.
At the aimn&l meeting of the members of the
Augusta Orphan Asylum, held on the Oth ot April,
1859, the following preamble and resolutions were
passed unanimously:
Whereas, since the last annual meeting of this
body, death has, in two most solemn and impressive
instances, entered into our midst, and strict en
down two of our most valued and useful members,
and it becomes proper that a recoi d be made of our
deep sense of the bereavements which have vis
ited us—be it
Resolved, That, the death'of Foster Blodget, a
member of the Board of Managers of the Augusta
Orphan Asylum, is a calamity to the institution;
for he was its early, zealous and etlicient friend,
devoting to its interests much of his daily atten
tion for years. In him, the children of the Asylum
lost a kind friend and protector. His heart was
ever alive to the claims of helpless orphanage; his
precepts and example were a daily lesson of moral
beauty, calculated to improve and benefit those
young persons who shared so much of his Christian
sympathies. In him, the Managers lost an asso
ciate whose judicious and prudent counsels were
always valuable, and whose alacrity in serving the
interests of the Asylum lightened tlie cares of their
position.
Resolved , That the members and Managers of
the Asylum unite tti the heartfelt regretaso widely
pervading this community and the medical pro
fession of the State, at the premature and deplor
able deuth of Dr. George M. Newton, a most valu
able and zealous member of the Board of Mana
gers. Cui ot in the prime of life, and in the full
vigor of his faculties, while many years of use
fulness to the profession tu which he was distin
guished for his scientific attainments, aod to the
community of which he was a prominent citizen,
seemed yet in store for him, his death leaves a
void not easily filled. While living, the Orphans of
our city shared largely of his sympathy and boun
ty. In his last moments, the interests of tola In
stitution were munificently remembered. He has
erected a monument to his memory more durable
than brass; for it is perpetuated in the .heajrts of
the inmates of this Institution, now, and in all
future time. T. Snowden*
Oglethorpe Medical Journal.
The April number of this journal hao been re
ceived. It contains a number of origins! and
selected articles on various subjects of interest to
the medical fraternity.
The Oglethorpe Medical Journal is published bi
monthly, in Savannah, Ga., at two dollars per an
num, iu advauce—each number containing seven
ty-tao pages.
An Extensive Pipe Trade.—A correspondent of
the Lynchburg (Va.) Republican, writing from Ap
pomatox, Virginia, says: “It is estiuu.‘ed that
sixty thousand dollars worth of pipes sold
from this region of country in the courgfl fll twelve
months. The pipes ate sent all over the Jortntry
by merchants. One gentleman sends one iiindred
thousand to lowa, another twenty thousiami to Bt.
Louis, and from New York they send tjtm to
Australia. From some experiments n’hifjj have
been made, this is the finest dirt known tof'aottery
and is well worthy the attention of scientfjK men
and capitalists.”
The receipts of the Wesleyan Missionary Society
of England, for 1858, are put down bred
! and thirty thousand pounds alLm
, hundred and fifty thousand dollars. jfc-*
Negro Hung. —The Orangeburg Southron nays
' that the negro Isaac , sentenced some time ago, by
a court of Magistrates and freeholders, to be hang
ed on the first Friday in this month, was, in ac
cordance with said sentence, duly executed oa that
day.
A Heavy Day at the New York Post Office.
Wednesday last wilj be remembered by the clerks
in the New York Post Office. The foreign letters
dispatched were thirty-five thousand one huudred
and eighty-seven ; the foreign letters received per
Niagara, Kangaroo and Persia were seventy-two
thousand four hundred and ninety-nine; add to
these ninety thousand for domestic, sent and re
ceived, and we have a total of lieurly two hundred
thousand letters, making the largest and heaviest
, day’s work ever Known in the post office.
Chbering News. —The Fernandiun News, of the
r 3d inst., says: “The steamer Randolph arrived here
a few days since from Savannah, bringing a large
quantity of wire for the Cuba Telegraph line. The
’ work of raising the wires is rapidly approaching
our State line from Savannah, and will, we learn,
be shortly coninienced on the line of the Florida
railroad from this place to Cedar Keys.”
a Connecticut Election.— The latest returns from
1 Connecticut indicate that Buckingham (Hep.) will
have about two thousand five hundred plurality in
e the State for Governor, which will be a falling off'
on the Republican majority of last year. The fol
b lowing Congressmen are chosen: First District,
1 Dwight. Loomis, sixty-five plurality; Second Dis
trict, John Woodruff, three hundred majority;
f Third District, A. A. Burnham, five hundred ma
jority; Fourth District. O. S. Terry, eight hundred
t s majority; all Republicans, being a loss to the
\ Democrats of two. The State Senate will stand
twelve Republicans to nine Democrats. The House
about one hundred and thirty-one Republicans to
e one hundred and six Democrats. The Democratic
f vote is largely increased, fn tbe First Congres
r sional District it is fifteen hundred more than at
the Presidential election
New York Day Book, April G.
The Journal of Commerce, of the 7th inst., says
that the returns from all the towns, but Salem and
Ledvard—which last year gave fifty-four Demo
cratic majority—elect Governor .Buckingham by
two thousand and eight majority. In the State
legislature, the Democrats gain one or two Sena
tors and about fifteen Representatives.
[communicated. J
Editors: No time has been agreed upon,
nor even suggested, so far as l know, for the hold-
I tog of the Congressional Oonvention for the Eighth
District,though the names of various prominent
citizens of the District have been suggested as
worthy Ur, fill the vacancy to be occasioned by the
anticipated resignation of Mr. Stephens.
Worthy and distinguished citizens of Oglethorpe,
Burke, Wiikes, Elbert, Warren, Jefferscn, and
I Richmond, have been named as tit an 1 proper to
be the Congressional Representative from this Dis
trict;, and will you allow me, through yourcokimns,
to.giTe the cannty of Scrvoen. "a place in the picture,
and to suggest, for the consideration of the con
vention, the name of one of her most prominent
and useful citnens —J. Lawton Singleton—than
whom, kd the humble opinion of the undersigned,
a and proper” person has not been named.
Talented, brave and chivalrous* a consistent and
unambitious Democrat, and a perfect gentleman,
it would be his pe de and pleasure to serve hie
section with all tha: zeal and devotion which shone
so eoifrspicuovwlv in the career of another of Scn
ven> -j'stingfcished .sons—the lamented Black.
No one could represent his District with greater
fidelity juui fearlessness than Mr. Siogleion. and I
take plea>xire, as his humble friend, in suggesting
his name, and placing him amongst those worthy
sons of Georgia who are V> pas»m review before
the assembled representatives of our District. i
In comparing him with others, I do not include 1
Mr. Stephens, whose place cannot be filled. The ,
people of this District, in losing the valuable ser
vices of their distinguished Representative, are
consoled by the reflection that he will consent to
serve his whole country in a more elevated and »
dignified sphere. A Coitnt. f-Gv
Os Rich mo:
BY TELEGRAPH.
THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL
°F THE .grfggfe, STEAMSHIP
CANADA.
SALES OF COTTON DURING WEEK 70,000
BALES.
Advanced During Week I-Sd., and Closed Firm.
CONSOLS DECLINED.
Halifax, April B.—The steamship Canada, Capt.
W. J. C. Lano, of the British and North Ameri
can Royal Mail Steamship line, has arrived, with
Liverpool dates to Saturday march 20th.
Commercial News.
Liverpool Cotton Market.— The sales of Cotton
for the week reached 70,000 bales, and the advance i
of %d., previously reported by the Indian at Port
land, was fully sustained, and the market closed
firm.
Liveipool General Markets. —Breadstuff’s and pro
visions generally were reported dull.
London Monty Market. —Consols were quoted at
a 95%.
[second dispatch.]
Halifax, April B.—The sales of cotton for the
week in Liverpool were 71,000 bales, of which
speculators took 9,50© and exporters 9,000 bales.
All qualities advanced %d. during the tTeek, owing
to the peaceful aspect of continental affairs. The
sales on Friday were 10,000 bales, of which specu
lators and exporters took 1,000 each. The market
closed firm, at the annexed quotations :
Fair Orleans B%d. I Mid. Orleans 7%d.
“ Mobiles.. 711-16 d. “ Mobiles 7%d*
“ Uplands. .77-16 d. , “ Uplands... .7 1-lfid.
The stock in Liverpool was 317,000 bales, of
which 808,000 were American.
Latest. — Liverpool , Saturday afternoon. —Sales of
cotton 10,000 bales, and market closed firm.
Manchester accounts favorable.
Latest by Telegraph — London , Saturday.—Con
sols 95% a 95%, owing to the announcement of
the Russian and Indian loans.
At Havre Tree Ordinaire was quoted at 105
francs, with sales of 10,000 bales during the
week.
It is stated that the Sardinian cabinet have ad
dressed the five powers, insisting on an admit
tance to the Peace Congress.
France has consented to the Congress, and Aus
tria assents to it only under certain conditions.
It is stated that half a million of muskets, of an
improved pattern, are being made for the French
army.
THIRD DISrATCH.
Halifax, April B.—The markets, at Liverpool,
are thus reported in the newspapers and circulars
received by the Canada:
• Breadstuff's closed quiet but steady. Provisions
were reported quiet. Flour was very dull; Wheat
steady; Corn was dull, at easier prices, but quota
tions remained the same. Beef was firm for good
qualities. Fugar reported quiet, but quotations
were nominal. Btoon dull ; Rice firm ; Rosin dull;
Spirits of Turpenline firm, and active at 405., and
holders were demanding 41s. to 41s. Gd.
The steamship City of Manchester was adver
tised as the pioneer vessel in the Belfast and New
York line.
Arrival of the Quaker City—Late and
Important from Mexico.
New Orleans, April 9.—The steamship Quaker
_ City has arrived from Minatitlan, with San Fran
cisco dates to March 21st.
By this arrival we are placed in possession of
intelligence from Vera Cruz to April Ist.
Geu. Miramon appeared before Vera Cruz on the
18th of March, with a force of three hundred men,
acting as on advance guard, and, after reconnoiter
ing, retired. His main army was encamped nine
miles oft'.
The women and children at Vera Cruz have been
i transferred to the ships in the harbor.
■ The Liberal party appear very animated, and
; confident of success.
(len. Miramon has sent twelve hundred men to
, take Alvarado, but the force retired without mak
ing an attack. Miramon, finding himself out
generaled at all points, broke up his camp on the
| 27th of March, and commenced a retreat on the
capital.
f Gen. Ampudia, with a strong force, was in
■ Mirimox’s rear, to cut off'his retreat.
Gen. Dkgolaoo, with four thousand men, was
at Tacubaya.aud other Liberal forces had surround
. ed the capital of Mexico, which, it was expected
I would soon surrender.
Mr. McLan-s, the recently appointed United
, States Minister, had arrived at Vera Cruz, and
. was received with great rejoicings.
A New Submarine Telegraph.
New Orleans, April B.—The most extensive
chain of submarine telegraph cable in the United
States, has just been successfully laid by John
| Kendall, Esq., General Superintendent of the New
York and New Orleans telegraph lines, and Col.
W. Tanner, Local Superintendent, in connection
with the new line between this city and Mobile,
via the lake shore. The new line is now complete
from Mobile to Fort Pike, and’s some forty miles
shorter than the old route—five sections of cable,
in all thirteen miles, some of which are five miles
in length, have been laid at different points across
the rivers and bays—the steamer Setaria, of Mo
bile, having been chartered for this purpose by
Mr. Kendall.
Tbe Sickles Trial.
Washington, April B.— The prosecution closed
its testimony to-day. The interest in the trial is
increasing.
The Sickles Trial.
'Washington, April 9. —At the Sickles trial, to
day, Mr. Graham, for the defence, made the most
brilliant and forcible forensic effort ever made in
Washington. He spoke for five hours.
Executions in lialtimore.
Baltimore, April B.—The execution of Gam
brill, Corrie, and Cyphus, took place in
the jail yard at 11 o’clock, A. M., to-day. Fully
thirty thoufaud people occup ed prominent posi
tions outside, but no disturbance took place
Cropps confessed his guilt previous to his execu
&on.
Arrival of Lord Lyons.
Washington, April S.—Lord Lyons, the English
Minister to this country, reached this city last
night. He arrived at Annapolis on yesterday in
the English frigate Coracoa. The vessel had a
long and tedious passage.
Market Re'ports.
Savannah, April 9.—Sales of cotton to-day 1,500
bales. The market was firm. There was a good
'♦etmind, w»th full prices.
Mobile, April 9.—Sales of Cotton to-day 3,500
bales, at an advance of % cent. Middlings \i%
a 12}-£ cents. Tbe market closed firm.
New Orleans, April U.—Sales of Cotton to-day
8,000 bales. .Middling 12 cents.
New ork, April 9.—The cotton market was
buoyant, to-day, with sales of 8,000 bales. The !
market advanced % cent, and closed for Middling j
Uplands 12% cents, and for .Middling Orleans, iu j
transit, 12%c., with 7-1 Gd. freight. Flour closed
heavy, with sales of 8,000 barrels. Wheat report- ‘
ed quiet. Corn dull, with sales of 16,000 bushels, i
Spirits of Turpentine was firm. Rosin buoyant, 1
sales 7,000 barrels, at $1 63 a $ 1 65 per 310 l
pounds. Rice closed quiet. Freights active, and
3-1 Gd. for cotton to Liverpool.
From the Covington {Ga.) Times, April 7.
Improvements.
We are pleased to see that a spirit of general
improvement has sprung up in our city. The City
Park has been thoroughly remodeled, under the
supervision of Mr. Stephen Shell, who, we think,
is deserving a vote of thauks from our citizens,
for the excellent taste displayed, in arranging the
walks and shrubbery, and the style in which tbe
work has been executed. Many of our citizens
have contributed flowers and shrubbery for the
decoration of our public park, but as there is abun
dant room for more, we hope that all who feel an
interest m beautifying our city will bring forward
anvthing they may have in the way of shrubbery
and flowers, and deposit them in the park.
The large brick building adjoining the court
house belonging to our enterprising tellow-citizen,
Wm. P. Anderson, is nearly completed, and is an I
ornament toourcity. In the attic of this building ,
a skylight ambrotype gallery will be fitted up for ,
the accommodation of artists who may visit our j
city. We also notice that some of our citizens |
have commenced painting up their residences, i
making' sidewalks, setting out shade trees, &c., j
which will add greatly to the general appearance
of Covington.
G. W. 11. Murrell &. Son have remodeled their :
store room, and made great improvements in its j
appearance, and we think that in point of neatness, |
their store will compare with any in Middle i
Georgia.
Several new residences have been built within 1
the past year, which is an evidence that our city is
slowly increasing in size, lint we need more I
bouses. It is a notorious fact that there is not a j
vacant house within the limits of Covington that is
at all suited for a residence.
From the New York lit raid, April G.
Settlement of the Paragunyaii Diffi
culties.
The British brig Ann McKean, Captain Richey,
has arrived at this port from Pernambuco, whence
she sailed on the loth ult.
She brings us very important news—no less
than the actual settlement of the difficulty with
Paraguay.
The packet Apa arrived at Pernambuco on the
4th ult., from southern ports. The dates which
she brought from Montevideo reach to the 16th of
February, seventeen days later than our previous
advices.
The Apa was bearer of the important intelligence
that the question recently pending between the
United States and the Republic of Paraguay, has
been peacefully arranged. Although this result
was generally expected, it ought not, for this
reason, to be received with less satisfaction; be
cause there is nothing more important than the
triumph of the pacific means so opportunely em
ployed, or more to the credit ot the civilization of
, the age in which we live.
Tbe toNo wing communication from Gen. Urquiza,
addrp.sSccf to the government of the Argentine
Confederation, dated the sth of February, gives a
complete account of the event to which ire refer:
To the most Excellent National Government:
On returning from Asuncion, I proceed to fulfill
my duty in giving to the most excellent national
government an account of the fulfilment and re
sult of the mission with which 1 was intrusted,
and concerning which your excellency thought
proper to authorise ine in consequence of the note
which I directed to you under date of the 10th of
January.
I dedicated my best efforts from the earliest mo
ment to remove from the mind of President Lopez
the apprehension and alarm produced by inten
tional reports and sinister declamations on the
part of a certain portion of the press. The gov
ernment of Paraguay was decidedlv resolved to
make a heroic resistance; a considerable concen
iration of military and warlike elements had been
prepared to defend to the very utmost degree the
digniiy of the country.
The immense power of the American Union
would encounter the force of a people and a gov
ernment proud of their national powers. 1 may be
permitted to express to your excellency that the
aspect of that war profoundly affected my heart;
I trembled for tiie destiny of the mnoceut people;
I trembled for the future of these newborn coun
tries in political life and in the progress < f com
merce and industry, thus to be disturbed by an
international war. * * * * *
The commissioner declared that hi 3 instructions
did not permit him to accept tbe official mediation
which the plenipotentiaries of Brazil and of the Ar
gentine Confederation were disposed to offer; that
it was in deference to the spirit of conciliation,
and as a tribute of especial consideration to my
self he accepted only the personal intervention of
my kind, fruuk, and disinterested offices, and that
to this end he would open preparatory confidential
conferences so as to arrange the manner of a set
tlement. *******
Several conferences took place, in the whole
course of which I took the pait which had been so
honorably conceded to me by my illustrious friend
the President of Paraguay and the commissioner
of the United States, even to assisting in the last
conference in which the question was decided.
*****
Such a happy result will elevate the Argentine
government in the consideration of the free powers,
Uiawiog closer our friendship with the colossus of
America, whose institutions serve as an example,
and whose influence and stimulus we require in
our but recent life, and winch we honorably de
sire; such a prosperous result must bind us in an
eternal bond of fraternity to our immediate con frere
of Paraguay—united to us by the community of
interests, of origin, and of destiny.
I come proudly with this laurel—green and pure
—which 1 have had the happiness to cull, and to
deposit on the altar of my country, offering to it
anew the sacrifice of all my life as a holocaust to
the principles of peace, of fraternity, and of honor
—which are the bases of the Argentine policy.
Justo Jose De Urquiza.
The following are the reported terms of the set
tlement:
We have received no information of the part
which has been takeu by Senor Amaral, the resi
dent minister of Brazil, in the peaceful termina
tion of this question, but know that he was receiv
ed by President Lopez with the most expressive
demonstrations of friendship for the imperial gov
ernment, and that his uresence was hailed as the
precursor of a happy conclusion.
Neither have we any news of the terms of tbe
arrangement made, because the private docu
ment** to which Gen. Urquiza refers have not been
published.
An English letter from Buenos Ayres says that
the basis of the adjustment was an indemnity of
ten thousand dollars to tbe family of the person
who was killed on board the Water Witch in the
conflict with the fort of Itapiru, and another of
twenty-five thousand dollars to the company that
was represented by Mr. Hopkins.
We do not suppose that this statement is exact,
in view of the terms in w hich the arrangement is
applauded by the chief of the Argentine Confed
eration; and above all, from lhe fact that he took a
part in the transaction, and that he claims for his
honor sentiments of peace in negotiating in per
son with the Plenipotentiary of the United States.
Briefly, however, we have the information of
the arrangement made between the two powers,
fur we have evideuce of the tact in the official
communications of the Brazilian minister, who
was on board the gunboat Ivaby, which left Monte
video before the Apa, and which, on the 18th, was
at Santa Catbanna.
VOL. 38-:N O. 16.
* From the X. Y. Journal of Commerce.
Peaehef—Culture in Different parts of
the Country.
This most wholesome and delicious fruit, which
a tew years since was so abundant and cheap
as to come within the reach of all classes, has
again been winter-killed in the fruit growing dis
tricts ol this part of the country. There is still a
prospect of some fair crops in Hunterdon county,
and perhaps some other mountainous districts of
Jersey, (if the present cold term does not de
stroy the truit buds,) but very little can be expect
ed from the localities that hare heretofore sunn lied
this market.
Ihe culture of this fruit is also declining in the
northern portion of Delaware, where it has here
tofore flourished most abundantly. The large
peach growers of that section have of late years
been extending their plantations southward, and
of a Ma n rvHnd rge ° rCha rds * D t * le neighboring State
Since New Jersey has failed to supply us. cur
dependence has been mainly upon Delaware and
* la r> i ; ut l^e l° n K carriage by railroad,
and the numerous trans-shipments and rough
handlings, together with the length of time that
intervenes, so deteriorate the qualitv, that a fine
fully ripened, luscious, perfect peach, is now al
most a thing of the past. '
The far South has, within a few vears, taken up
the peach cultnre on a large scale, and with great
The high grounds in the vicinity of
Aiken, S. C., and of Ga., are now covered
with extensive peach orchards, numbering from
five hundred to tilteen thousand trees each.
It is a singular fact that peach trees should be
less hardy and shorter lived in the States of New
Jersey aud Deleware than in the more northern
latitude of western New York, or the far southern
States of South Carolina ar. 1 Georgia. At the
North the fruit is often killed by severe cold or
late frosts, and even the trees themselves have
sometimes been destroyed by the severity of the
winter. Aside from this, they are long lived and
fruitful.
In New Jersey, when the peach culture was at
its height, three good crops were considered a
satisfactory yield from one set of trees, and eight
or nine years from the seed, comprised, in that lo
cality, the productive life of the peach tree—if,
indeed, the yellows, or the grub, or some other
enemy, did not materially abridge this period.
The southern localities above mentioned seem to
be particularly genial to the growth of this luscious
truit, and orchards twelve year 3 old appear to be
just iu their prime, producing each year abundant
crops.
A few years ago the idea of transporting fresh
peaches from the interior of Georgia to this me
tropolis for a market would have been deemed ut
terly visionary.
Steam communication has, however, in a great,
measure revolutionised the fruit and vegetable
trade of our city. The period of supply of each
variety is on the average doubled, thus extending
to our citizens nearly through the year, luxuries
formerly enjoyed but tor a brief period.
That remarkably energetic and enterprising
gentleman, Wm Gregg, Esq., of Gramteville, S.
C., shipped the first peaches from the far South to
this market, in 1956. The experiment ol Mr.
Gregg proved a success, and the peach trade from
that region hasjrapidly increased.
The first arrival of peaches last summer was on
the 29th June—thirteen boxes, of one bushel each,
from Charleston, which sold at eight to twelve
dollars per box, and seventy-five baskets, of half
a bushel each, from Savannah, sold at three to four
dollars per basket.
The receipts of the succeeding week were about
four hundred and titty bushels, and sold at three
. to six dollars per bushel. In the height of the
season the arrivals were from two to four thousand
bushels per steamer. One trip running as high as
' six thousand bushel*. Price# r inged trom fifty
cents to four dollars per bushel, according to qual
ity and condititio.
The prospect of a large southern crop whs never
more uroimsuig then at the recent date of our last
advices.
The bloom had been shed, and the young fruit
had set, in the greatest profusion. Injury from
April frosts’may still occur, but a beneficial thin
| ning out of the fruit is quite as likely to happen on
the high elevations where most of the orchards are
located. We may, therefore, confidently expect a
largely increased supply the ensuing summer.
The spring up of this important trade derelopes
■ new features, and involves commercial transac
; tions of a higher order than the ordinary loose
methods of transfering fruits and vegetables from
the producers of the adjacent localities to the city
consumers.
Although the southern peach, from its nature or
from the conservative influence of the sea air upon
the voyage, or both, keeps much longer than those
grown in this vicinity, the greatest dispatch, com
bined with the greatest care, is indispensable to a
successful result.
All things considered, the crate, or slatted box,
is no doubt the best style of package for the
South, as it gives free circulation ot air, stows
economically, protects the fruit much better than
baskets, and in that section may be very cheaply
made.
From much experience . nd observation, we sug
gest for the southern peach trade a slatted box of
the following iuside dimensions: length, twenty
three inches; width, eleven and-a-half inches, depth
ten and-a half in» hes, with a partition one-half to
three-quarters of an inch thick, equi-distant from
each end; the bottom, top and end, to be tight,
the sides of open slats.
Each* compartment thus made will contain just
half a bushel, and being nearly in the form of a
cube, the same depth aDd pressure of fruit will be
maintained in all positions of the package. This
is important, because boatmen and cartmen are
sure to haudle and carry packages of this delicate
fruit with great roughness, and in any shape that
best suits their convenience.
Peaches, as well as apples and other fruits, will
stand land carriage much better, if well, but not
roughly shaken down, and filled so full that the
lid or cover of the package will press down tight
ly upon the fruit; thus keeping it from shifting
and bruising by the motion of the carriage or rail
car. For this purpose, tight instead of slatted
covers are necessary. Carriages and cars, with
adequate and well adjusted springs, should al
ways be used for peaches.
"'<l At the commencement of the season and for
veiy choice fruit, smaller packages would be de
sirable, bolding say half a bushel; and it would
pay well to pack the best fruit in paper clippings,
or wrap it in soft white paper, as is customary
with oranges.
Our experience indicates that if peaches could
be thoroughly cooled before packing, and then
packed in very light boxes, they would reach their
destination in much better order than by the ordi
nary mode. Where there is opportunity to cool
them properly, the experiment of tight packing is
worth a trial.
The picking for a distant market requires much
skill and good judgment. If picked too green
the fruit will be nearly or quite worthless; and if
too ripe, it will decay before reaching the con
sumer.
To attain the right point, a careful and prompt
correspondence is requisite between consigner
and consignee—touching the time of picking, the
state of the fruit when picked, its condition on ar
rival at market, state of the weather, incidents of
the passage, Ac.
Mr G. W. Adams, Superintendent of the Geor
gia Central railroad, promises every facility for the
rapid and careful transportation of this fruit from
the interior to the steamer at Savannah, and we
d übt not other lines will do likewise.
A pi opitious season and judicious management
will secure a large and mutually satisfactory trade
in this crowning fruit of the summer, between
these far distant sections of our common country.
Drew & French Commission Merchants/ *
New 1 ork, April 6th, 1859.
Governments of EußopE.-Of the government*
of Europe, the following are absolute sovereign
ties: Turkey, Russia, Hesse Hamburg, two Sici
hes, Monaca, Austria, Modena, Tuscanv, States of
the Church, Parma. About one hundred and
thirty millions of Europe are under this unlimited
rule.— Richmond ( Va.) Dispatch , April 7.
The Baltimore authorities are making provision
for the more general lighting of that benighted
c»tv A v*rv good idea.