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4VEEK.LY CIRCUIaATION OF THE EXAMINTER., 4= 5Q O COPIESS! WILLIAM KA/ VOLUME 1. TERMS. ' THE WEEKLY “ EXAMINER,” s Published every Friday Morning, at Two Dol lars per annum, payable in advance. No subscription taken for less than six months. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements are inserted in the Weekly Examiner at the following rates: Seventy-five cents per sipiare (of 10 lines brevier) for the first insertions, and 37| cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. 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Publications will always bo continued accord ing th these, the legal requirements, unless other wise ordered, at the following Rates: Citations on letters of Administration &c. $2 75 do do dismissory from Adminis tration, 4 50 Citation on dismissory from Guardianship, 3 00 Leave to sell Land or Negroes, 4 00 Notice to debtors and creditors. 3 00 Sales of personal property, ten days, 1 square 1 50 Sales of land or negroes by Executors, ike. 5 00. Estrays, two weeks, 3 50 For a man advertising his wife, (in advance,) 5 00 titlJtWm FRIDAY, MAVIS, ' ’ Islt N ATION AL! A leading Know Nothing journal in New Or leans reached us the other evening, in which the editor violently and indignantly repelled the idea that the American party is or could be anything but national, and called upon members ot the or der at the South to stand firm and fear nothing from the organization at the North. This is en tirely in keeping with the denunciations with which the charges, preferred and proven by the Democratic presses South, that Know Nothing ism North is but another name for anti-slavery fanaticism, have been met by the Know Nothing press. Every where these American organs have wriggled and twisted—doubtless to their own sat isfaction, but with less success with the people— out of the elections of Seward, Wilson and others of like stamp, and sought to convince Southern men that these wery not indices of the American party. Indeed some of them have stoutly averred even in face of the proofs, that their organization is entirely free from any sectional feeling, and that they are united upon the great principle that “Americans shall rule America.” and that no side issues shall be made in toe contest. But it seems that Sam has not drilled his editorial corps prop erly, and they don’t pull together well. Some of the leaders uro trying to get in the Temperance issue, and the Temperance candidate. Others kick at this, and stick to “first principles," deny ing that even “one idea" more can lie added to the load they draw. The Chronicle J- Sentinel, which has been a sort of off-jpader in the Georgia team, and has heretofore strained his traces con siderably in pulling the lumbering wagon over the heavy road, now comes to a dead halt, and lets fly its heels nt a rattling rate, against the load. It says it is useless to talk of transporting the whole load over uncongenial Georgia soil—we mu«t thr >w oil'some, or we’ll bog down ; and proposre t > Jump out the national feature, and the North ern reight which he thinks will lighten the load. What’s to be done now ? The argument of the Chronicle is convincing. The team will never be able to tedder in the executive stables if they hold on to the Northern goods; and yet they can’t well dispose of the unlessthey bring in an emp ty wagon, for they are all of Northern manufac ture. Here, then, is decidedly a go. Thexvhole train is stopped—the drivers can’t agree, and the Chronicle is snappish about the extra weight.— Will they cut his traces! No, that won’t dr, they can’t get along well without him over these roads —he knows all about them. And yet they cannot throw off any thing. Bo the matter stands. But how is it that the Chronicle has tugged away so long at this same load, and just now finds that it is impossible to 4 carry it. Its notes, heretofore Have been encour. aging, rather than complaining, but now its tone is materially changed, and it obstinately refuses |o echo the cry of nationality. Has its editor suf ficiently opened his eyes >o the real state of feel- THE ATLANTA WEEKLY EXAMIWT ing existing in Goorgia, to perceive that Northern Know Nothingism don’t go down, and that it is necessary to secede from the national organiza tion, if they expect success. It worked well enough in municipal elections, where men were opposed ; but when an issue of principle is made before the people, they find it necessary to throw off some of their roost obnoxious weights. The Chronicle could fight, without any compunctions visitings, under a national banner, stained and blackened though it was, by abolition and free soil hands, in its city election ; but now it sudden ly discoveries the spots, and desires to hoist a sec tional ensign ! If any reliance could be placed *n the honesty of this new-born distrust of its Northern brethren, we could commend its appa rent independence; but we strongly suspect its stubborn halt is made more in view of the diffi culties of the road, than distrust of the load. What more proof of the rottenness of the or ganization than tins admission of the Chornicle, that the party North is under the control of abo lition influences is needed ? The recent con vention at Macon, too, found it necessary to put in a Southern resolution. And why so! Why was it not done before ! The solution is easy. — The people of Georgia are, not blind to the fruits of this new order, and are beginning to ask, what good has it done the South 1 They see the next Congress gradually being filled by the order, with abolitionists, and as yet, Know Nothingism has done nothing for us. And it is in view of these enquiries that they begin now to repudiate their Northern brethren. Had they felt certain of suc cess, the organization would continue national, but fearing defeat it suddenly becomes Southern. Vive la. humbug.' FIRE A T'tH eTsTO NE MOI INTA IN. It is with regret, we learn, that the fine hotel at the Stone Mountain was destroyed by fire on Thursday night last, with most of its furniture.— The loss, we learn, will fall principally upon the Georgia Rail Road and Messrs. Clarke & Hitch cock, the gentlemen who, for some time past, have had its management. We have not heard the cause of ths disaster—whether it was designed or accidental, but hope thut the damage will soon be repaired, as the Mountain is one of the most pop ular Summer resorts, for our citizens, in the State We were pleased, on Thursday lust, to see Governor Johnson in our city, in fine health and spirits. He left in yesterday morning’s train for Cartersville, and will, we learn, proceed up the State road, as far as Dalton, and from thence, in a lew days, return to the Capitol. TO TEACHERS. The several teachers of high and preparatory schools in the city, will oblige us by sending in lists of the number of their pupils, male and fe male, and any other educational matters of in. terestthey may have to communicate, by Thurs day of next week. [For the Examineri\ f ILL ALL THE OFFICES WITH DEMOCRATS. .Mr. lililor :— I mn one of that clhh.i of Jeinu crats who believe it right, when the democracy have the majority, tor them to fill all the offices with men of their own political faith. Some say that politics should not enter into country elec tions, or Judicial elections, or any other except elections for President, Governor ami Congress men. This is certainly a great error. If democrats expect to bo able to cany these general elections, while their opponents fill all the county offices, they labor under a great mistake. Take a dem ocratic county, and let nil the county officers be whigs, and if they be efficient men, they will soon change the politics of the county, and the democ racy will be defeated in their general elections.— Hence the importai O' of having all county offices reliable, efficient, working democrats. *lf the de mocracy would always look well to this in their county elections, they would scarcely ever bo de feated in their more important elections. Some democrats have also fallen into an error on the subject of judicial elections. Since the election of Judges is given to the people the whigs in strong democratic districts are very active in attempting to convince the democracy that politics should have nothing to do with these elections. Why not! They say that the office is too sacred to be associated with polities in anv way. Is it more sacred than the office of President, Governor, or Congressman ! -if a democrat, who is honest and capable, may be permitted by the whigs (when they cannot prevent it) to hold either of these of fices, why may he not hold a judicial office ! Is it too sacred for a democrat to fill, when a large ma jority of his fellow-citizens are democrats ! To acknowledge this, is to admit thut democrats are less capable, less upright, and less honest, than whigs. Are democrats prepared to make the ad mission ! If not. let them in districts, where they have the power, bring out candidates of known ability, and of acknowledged integrity, honesty, and purity of purpose, who will not only adorn the position, but will reflect honor on those who have honored them with their confidence; and let them rally around and elect them! We have • such men in our ranks in each district. They ! have labored long and hard for the promotion of democratic principles, because they believed them to be the true principles of the Government.— When there is a judicial officer to elect, shall the democracy lay them aside and support whigs who have been all their lives at war with the princi ples of the democratic party ! By .-o doing, you say to a democrat, when there is work to do, and sacrifices to be made, we need your services; but when there is a judicial office to fill, you say to him stand back, and let a whig who has always labored for the .defeat of our principles have the place; because the whigs say it is too sacred for a democrat to fill. Will the democracy thus act? Or will thcv rise up in their might at the ballot box, and claim, ami maintain all the rights which belong to them when they have the majority ! The elections this coming fail in some of the cir cuits will decide this question, I do not wish to be understood as advocating the erection of in competent democrats over competent whigs; but I maintain that the democracy have num who are as purr l , as honest, as capable, and, in every re spect, as well qualified lor the office as the whigs and that it is their duty to rally around such men. and elect them by triumphant majorities. A DEMOCRAT. 'Sit* A Florida paper says the corn in that | State is in tasslc, and notices u bunch c»f lettuce measuring six feet in circumference. S®„The cholera is malignant in the western part of the territory aud Kansas city Among the list of prizes awarded | at the recent Fair of the South Carolina ! Institute, we are pleased to note a silver' ; medal for very superior sole leather.and a diploma for brogans, both from the tannery of Col. Glover, of this city, -i-Marietta I Georgian. Branch Bank at Washington.—Dr. i J. J. Robertson was elected Cashier of the i} Branch of the Bank of the State of Geor ■ gi» in this place, at the meeting of the ■ I Directors in Savannah Tuesday last “ ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS, WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT."— Jefferson ATLANTA. GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 18. 1855. The London Postal System.—The Baltimore American of Thursday last says: That the London postal system embrace a principal office and not less than live hundred branch offices within the area covered by the city. Carriers with light spring carts call at the receiving offices al most hourly, and deliveries are thus made easy at intcrvala of’ two hours at most, in every part of a city. Frequent deliveries are the life of the system, and thg vast ac comodation it affords for messages requir ing prompt answers, secures a use of the post office to an extent which has no par allel in our slow old fashined method The statistics of the British postal depart ment show that the people of all England write five times as many letters as our peo ple, and in the cities and towns the cor respondence is said to be from twenty to fifty times greater than with us, yet it is familiar to every one that the proportion of the English people who know how to write is much less than of the American The letters mailed in London alone are close upon one hundred millions a year, as many as in all the offices of the United Stttes. The proportion of letters annnally to inhabitans in that metropolis, is forts to one; while in this country it is fourteen to one. The revenue of the British office from “drop letters,’’ so called, that is let ters mailed and delivered in the same town or locality—is, upwards of §2,000,000; while the revene from the same descrip tion of letters in the whole United States is less than §IO,OOO, and this enormous difference arises wholly from the fact in an English town a drop letter may uniformly be answered in from two to four hours— never more than four—while in our cities one is lucky it an answer is obtained in twentj’-four hours. The Martha Washington Conspira. tors. —On Friday afternoon three of the Cincinnati! police arrived in New York, having in custody Lorenzo Chapin and Benj. Erie, who, withßenj. W. Kimball and others arrestedj stand indicted for fraudently obtaining §4,500 from the At lantic Mutual Insurance Company, being the amount of insurance upon goods which they claimed to have had on board the steamboat Martha Washinton, which was burned some years ago on the Mississppi Riv< r. fey-In the memoirs of Sir Robert} Strange, just published, it is mentioned | that in the pursuit after Culloden, that I knight had some narrow escapes. One of them is amusing: ‘-When hotly press ed he dashed into a room, where the lady whose zeal had enlisted him in the fatal cause sat singing at her needdlework, and ; failing of other means of concealment, was ' indebted for safety to he prompt interven- } tion. As she quickly raised her hooped I grown, the affianced lover disappeared be-! neath its ample contour, where, thanks to ; her cool demeanor, and unfaltering notes I he lay undetected, while the rude and I baffled soldiery vainly ransacked the house. I To this lady, Miss Isabella Lumisden, he i was soon afterwards united, and her let-| ters, containing much shrewd sense, con- i veyed in the homely style of her day make } up great part of the Memoirs. Desperate.—The Kingston (Canada) I News of Tuesday learns that in conse- ■ quence of the price flour having been rais to thirteen dollars per bbl., and other I breadstuff's in proportion, the people at | Smith’s Falls have broken open the stores ' and helped themselves, ad libitum. A great deal of suffering is said to prevail in the townships, which were devastated by fire last August, many of the settlers being destitute of food and the means of procur ing the seed for the spring crop. coucterfeTt bank bill. The Fayetteville Observer of the 2d I inst.,says:—“The Teller of the Bank of| Fayettville showed to us a few days ago, I a counterfeit §2O note pn the Bank of Charlotte, which is well calculated to de- j ceive. The following description may put our readers on their guard. Letter A. No 513, dated Bth Oct., 185.3: signatures well executed, but upon comparing them with a genuine note, a very slight difference may be seen. The No., date names of. Cashier and President, all seem to be in the same handwriting and with the same ink, which is not the case with the gen-} nine The vignette of the note is little : blurred. The legs of the Horse getting J shod can hardly be seen, while on the : genuine they are plain. The faces in each j corner of the note are not well done The! general appearance of the note is lighter I than the genuine “A man by the name of J. H. Skill-1 man, said to be a mule driver from Ken- ■ tucky, attempted to pass one of the above! named bills at the Bank of Fayetteville on i Friday last and was told there that it was not a good note, and yet he afterwards! passed it off in this place. He had left' town before the imposition was discover- ■ ed. ” i St S'* The Paris Academy of Sciences has been experimenting on the new metali recently announced as being contained in abundance in common potters’ clay. A report has just been presented to that bo dy by M. Delville, which says it can be I manufactured cheaply from that article, i and is apparently destined at no distant| day to supplant copper, iron, brassand tin in many, if not all manufactures. The qualities of this metal, producible from so ■ eheap and accessible a raw material, are stated to be the lightness of glass, the! whiteness and brilliancy of silver, mallea bility and ductility nearly equal to those of the precious metals, the tenacity of iron, and the fusibility of copper; so that it may be rolled, drawn, hammered, and filed into every variety of form. fey* The flags of the Adams Express Company, and Wells, Fargo & Co., were raised at half-mast yesterday, in respect to the memory of an excellent clerk of the former establishment, Mr. John 11. Abbott who died the evening previous, of enlarge ment of the heart. 11 AN i)S() M E COMP LI M E NT. Our friends of Savannah have a happy faculty for maiiHging matters handsomely. Monday eve ning Inst, Mr. Crisp’s popular company nave a benefit to Mr. Oates, their treasurer, and the nu merous friends of Mr. Morton, improved the oc casion by presenting the latter gentleman, through Mr. Crisp, with a beautiful sword, with appro priate inscriptions, as a testimonial of their ap preciation of his many estimable qualities as a gentleman, and his high order of dramatic talent. This compliment, coming as it docs from an audi ence which discriminates between hifaluten rant, and simon-pure acting, is gratifying to the At lanta public who are proud to see their favorite, winning laurels from such impartial judges. Mr. M’s., first appearance in Georgia was upon At lanta boards,and the impression he made here was most favorable. town of Blackville, Monongalia county, Va., has been visited by a destructive fire. It appears th.»t thirty-live houses were consumed, involving a loss of about $30,000. New Yorky May 6. The Circuit Court .ester day fixed to-morrow for the hearing of the in junction case brought by Miss Bunkley for the suppression of certain manuscripts intended for publication by a party who represents them to be a narrative of her experience in a Roman Catho lic Convent. .... The Buffalo Express says large numbers of emigrants are passing through the city daily bound lor the West. The rush was never so great as now. More "Troops from AnuricaS— An exchange says: “Recruiting for the foreign legion of the British service is going on vigorously in Boston, under the direction of the Provincial Secretary of Nova Scotia.” .... The Turkish Government has decided that lor the future Christians are to be allowed to hold rank in the Turkish army up to that of colo nel, which will give them the position of a state functionary of the second class. Queer Prayer.— The Rev. Dr. Cox, it is said, interlarded one bf his prayers with an unusual sentence. When speaking of the goadness and kindness of God, he characterized him as the sine qua non of all our expectations, and the ultima thule of all our hopes.’’ Petersburg, May 'l.— The election of Munici pal officers took place here to-day. W. W. Towns, the Democratic candidate for Mayor, is elected by 152 majority’. The West Ward has rctuinedall Democratic Councilmcn. The Council stands, 15 Democrats and 9 I Americans. I .... The State Know Nothing Convention of ! Illinois, adjourned on Friday evening, after a ■ stormy session. It is stated that this disruption i took place on the slavery question. I .... A hog, sai<l to weigh thirteen hundred i and thirteen pounds, was taken through Toledo . i on Friday last on his way for exhibition in New ; York. This monstrous animal is described as j ' three years old, three feet eight inches high, and • [ nine feet long. It was raised near Monroe, Mich igan. Prohibition in Boston. — Mayor Smith has is- | sued a proclamation that the new liquor law shall! be fearlessly enforced, and urging those engaged ' iin the traffic to abandon it. as after the 20th of ' May, no violation of a single section of the law > i will be allowed. Sunday, the law was generally | I oliserved, and the city was unusually quiet. ' ... Twenty-one fires, whe*e the loss in each ■ • instance exceeded SIO,OOO, are reported to have j occurred in the United States during the last i month. The total loss of property during that | I time, including that occasioned by the late fire in ' Boston, is set down at $ J ,200,000*. ' Found Guilty.— Dr. G. Fields has been con-: I victed in Columbus county, N. C., of manslaugh- • ter, for killing F. M. Stephens, and sentenced to ; ;be branded and imprisoned six months. He is , i <>nly 19 to 20 years of age. .... Mr. Hiss, the modern Joseph, has with” ' drawn his resignation of his seat in the Massachu* ' I setts Legislature until the charges against him ! i are investigated. ... We learn, says the Mountain Target, that j a few days ago there was passed out of the “Wild ’ Cat Mine,” in Floyd county, Va., a lump of cop per ore weighing about two thousand pounds, and containing about fifty per cent, of copper. .... King Richard the Third and Richmond, on the stage of a theatre in St. Louis, lately got into a real fight. The curtain descended. The ; manager and the two actors came forward and made speeches. Great excitement, but no bones broken. Washington, May 6.—Secretary Dobbin is still! 'at Fayetteville, N. C., and is slowly recov-j I ering from his recent sickness. He is expected | here the last of the present month. The Case of Booth, of Milwaukie.— ln the i case of the United States vs. Booth, of Wisconsin. • for a violation of the Fugitive Slave Law, a writ of error was obtained, returnable to the Supreme Court of the United States, for the purpose ofde termining the question of the limit of the juris diction between the courts of the States and those of the United States. • Washington, May 6.—The redemption of the public debt last week amounted to $11,700. The number of land warrant applications for ! the week amounted to 13,600 making the total number of applications 120.500. . The Vanderbilt Correspondence—No Hoax.— i The Newark Advertiser says the note of Mr. La- : fetra, stating that he understood the letter from . i several members of the New Jersey Legislature : to Com. Vanderbilt a hoax, has produced consid-* j erable sensation among the other signers, who! earnestly disavow any such intent. They allege . | that it was done in good faith and will probably ! I soon make a pubi c statement to that effect. The Paris Ezhibition.— The Crystal Paleceat j ’ Paris, with the last addition resol ed upon, and 1 for which, it is stated, ground has already been • ; broken, will present a surface of 89,000* square ‘ : yards—3,ooo more thou were contained in the : Hyde Park Palace. Although the official open- i ’ iog was to take place on the Ist of May, it is thought it will be the middle of June before it is j complete in all its parts. A Paris letter says: The opinion is general among Americans that their oau display will not be very creditable. 7'hc j sixty American commissioners have had a mcct- ■ ing. and have threatened to resign, and to make other demonstrations, unless their wives are gen erally admitted to oil the ceremonies of inuugu- | ration. Marriage Partions.— ll was one of the laws of! I Lycurgus, that no portion should be given with ; ! young women in marriage. When this great lawgiver was called upon to justify this enact- 1 ment. observed: “That in the choice of a wife, merit only should be considered, and that the law was made to prevent young women being chosen • for their riches, or neglected for their povertv. C.T'Thr Know Nothing candidate for Mayor ’ of Troy gave a new rendition of the Declaration of Independence, xiz: ‘Life, Liberty, and the Pur suit of Iris’.nnen!’ Cholera, at J< tfersnn Barrack.— The St. Louis Republican of Wednesday last says: we have known fur some time that cholera i existed among the new recruits at Jeff, r H son Barracks, but it did not strike usas • so alarming a character as to require sp. ; - ‘ al notice. The disease now yields readily : to prompt treatment, and of the total num ber of persons attacked—about seventy — j only fourteen cases terminated fataly ’ NEW S ITEMS .... It m rumored in Washington that the President wit! appoint Judge E. G. Loring, of Boston, to the vacancy in the Court of Claims, occasioned by Judge Lumpkin’s declining the ap-; pointment. .... “A young lady of great personal attrac- ' tions and accomplishments,” advertises in the I New Orleans Picayune for a busband whose es sential qualification—“good family, handsome | features and prepossessing appearance” being j thrown in—shall be the ability and inclination to take her to the Paris Exhibition the coming sum mer. The address is F. R. T., St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans. .... In the Pennsylvania State Senate, on Fri day. the bill for the sale of the Main Line was passed finally. It fixes the price at $8,000,000, to any other purchaser than the Pennsylvania Rail Road Company, which must pay $9,000,- 000 for it. .... The Massachusetts House of Representa tives voted on Thursday, 186 to 110, to abolish the death penalty. More Paupers.— The collector of New York has been informed that a large number of pau pers sailed from Antwerp the 15th April, for New York. .... Thii Remains of the Hon. Walter T. Col quitt were taken to Columbus, the place of his residence, and interred there Tuesday afternoon last. .... Giberalter papers ot the Bth April, state that the St. Louis, Capt. Ingraham, is weather bound at that place. Large Hauls of Shad.— There were nine thou sand Shad taken at one haul at Hoke’s shore, Havre de Grace, on Tuesday last; and at Van divers shore, eight thousand were caught. Great Powers of Endurance. — Widow Sarah Merrill wandered from her home in Woodstock. New Hampshire, and was three days and two nights in the woods, without f. od, the snow be ing three or four feet deep. When found she was in a sheltered spot, but had lost one shoe and stocking; yet she was able to walk h f me with her friend. Her bodily health is good. Singular Accident in Cincinnati.— The Cin cinnati Gazette of Tuesday states that while sev eral workmen were engaged in rolling a salaman der safe weighing upwards of three thousand, in to a banking house of that city, the flagstones of the pavement gave way or broke, precipitating the safe aud men into the vault under the side walk. Two of the men were killed on the spot, and others badly injured. .... Fdr the month of April last, 4U5 vessels arrived at Boston from foreign ports, of which about 150 were schooners, mostly from the Brit ish provinces. LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. Halifax, May 1. The steamer Asia arrived here this evening, at 10 o’clock, with Liverpool dates to April 28th, one week later than last advices. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. ; —• Liverpool, April 27. From Prawn <T Shipley's Circular: —Cotton —The sales of the week foot up 102,000 bales, including 31,000 hales to speculators and 10,000 bales for export. The market has been very ac tive, and prices have slightly advanced, say 1-16 - ®}d; Fair and Middling qualities have improved ■ most. Orleans Fair 6d; Middling 5 5-lGd; Ip land Fairsjd; Middling 5 3-16 d. Ilrcadstuffs. — Brown & Shipley quote Bread ! stuffs as having considerably advanced, with a large speculative demand and the market buoy ant. Wheat has advanced 6d®Bd. Flour has ; advanced Is. 6d®2s., and (lorn has advanced 3s. The quotations are as follows: Western Canal Flour 38s®42s, 6d., Ohio 435®455.; white Corn 455.6d®46; mixed Corn 465. 6d.; yellow 465. 6d®47.; the market closed steady. From Richardson, Spence & Co’s Circular: — Provisions. The market is generally unchanged except Bacon, which has advanced Is. with an ■ active speculative demand. Lard has advanced 2s. with sales din ing the week at 565,®505. Stocks and Money.—American stocks are steady and prices unchanged. Produce. Sugar has advanced 2s. 6d., with a firm market. Coffee is steady and prices un l changed. Lard has advanced to 50s. Iron is I steady and unchanged. Freights.—The rates are steady and un changed. zl Long War in Prospect.— The Vienna Con ference having totally failed in leading to any thing on which might be based prospects of peace, appearances at present indicate only a protracted war in the prospect. Hence some decisive suc cess in the Crimea was anxiously hoped for, but up to the latest dates from that quarter nothing decisive had occurred. The bombardment, how ever, w as still continued by the allies. Halifax, May 7. The Asia arrived at 10 o’clock, and bring dates to the cveningof Saturday, the 28th ult. The dates from the Crimea arc to the 19th ult. from Lord Raglan, and to the 22d from the Rus ! sians, via St. Petersburg. The bombardment was still continued, with- ■ out any decisive result, but with great loss on . both sides. The French Exhibition opening has been post poned from the 10th to the 15th of May. Since the breaking up of the Vienna Confer ence there has been several supplementary tneel i ings of the lour parties without any definite re sult. The Plenipotentiaries assembled on the I 23d, and signed the protocol of the last confer i ence. Subsequently another meeting of the four I powers was held at the request of Prince Gorts ; chakotii when further inadmissable propositions ; were made by Russian Plenipotentiaries and re- ■ jected by France. England and Turkey. DtsCiPT.tNE.—A Methodist minister, of Washington city, on Sunday last, while i reading the discipline to the congregation, > paused to suggest that if any of the con • gregation will continue to wear jewelry, the number of rings on the finger be not more than five, nor the breastpin larger } than a good sized turnip. ! fert The Salt Lake Mails says that the I Sioux Indians are very troublesome. They : threatened to attack the settlements. The settlers are leaving the outspots. The Work goes Bravely ox. —From all parts of the country the glorious tri- ; : umpbs of Democracy come crowding upon us. The miserable faction of Buntlinism i •is on its last legs. In places where one ycai ago the k. n.'s carried everything be fore them they hare this year been entire ly routed. Buntlinism will be kicked out of the Old Dominion, and sent howling [ like a whipped cur, back to its native: \orth. Buntlinism has shown its cloven foot too often, its doom is sealed, and it will soon pass away. Its namg will become a buy-word, and future generations will ; ; wonder what manner of men the k. n’s j were.— Lou., Tima. ANIMATED CLOCKS, In China the inhabitants of the provin } ces turn their cats to a most useful purpose I if we may believe the following story which is related by’ M. Hue, in his travels in China. “One day, when we went to pdy a visit to some families of Chinese Christian pes santa. we met, near a farm, a young lad, who wis taking a buffalo, to graze, along our path. We asked him, carelessly, as ; we passed, whether it wits yet noon The!! child raised his head to look at the sun, but it was hidden behind thick clouds. } and and he could read no answer there.—! “The sky is so cloudy,” said he, “but wait | a moment;” and with these words ran to] wards the farm, and came back a few min-; utes afterwards with a cat in his arms. — ! “Look hero,” said he, ‘it is not noon yet;’} and he showed us the cats eyes, by’ push-} ing up the lids with his hands. We look-! ed at the child with suprise, but he was I evidently in earnest; and the eat, though astonished, and not much pleased with’the ! experiment made upon her eyes, behaved ■ with the most exemplary complaisance.— “Very well,’’ said we, thank you. and he ! then let go the cat. who made her escape pretty well, and continued our route. To say the truth we had not at all understood i the proceeding; but we did not wish to question the little pagan, lest he should that we were Europeans by birth As soon as ever we readied thefarm, how- : ever, we made haste to ask our Christians j | whether they could tell the clock by look ing into a cat’s eyes. They seemed sur-} prised at the questions; but us there was no danger in confessing to them our ignor ance of the properties of the eats eyes, re- I lated what had just taken place. That was all that was necessary; our eomplais i ant neopthetes immediately gave chase to : all the cats in the neighborhood Thcv ; brought us three or four, and explained in ; I what manner they might be made use of ! I for watches. They pointed out that the, 1 pupils of their eyes went on constantly ' growing narrower until 12 o’clock, when i they became a fine Hue, as thin as a hair. : drawn perpendicularly across the eye, and . that after 12, the dilation recommenced.” ; When he had attentively examined the i eyes of all the cats at our disposal, we con-! ■ eluded that it was past noon, as ail the } eyes perfectly agreed upon the point. We } } have had some hesitation in speaking of I !of this Chinese discovery,ns it may, doubt-1 i less, tend to injure the clock making trade and interfere with the sale of watches ; but | all considerations must give way to the ; j spirst ot progress. All important discov ' cries tend in the fit st instance to injure i private interests, and, we hope, neverthe-} j less, that watches will continueto be made ’ ; because among the number of persos who ( may wish to know the hour there will most! ' likely, be some whowiil not give thethem ‘ selves the trouble to run after the eat. or who may fear some danger to their own eyes from a too close examination of her THE ANGLO-FRENCH ALLIANCE ANO SLAVERY- It will be recollected that more than a ! year since Lord Clarendon. English Minis ' ter for Foreign Affairs, took occasion tosay i in the House ofPoers. that “the union bc i tween the two governments [France and j England] is not confined to the Eastern | question, but extends to all parts of the! i world; and that there is no part of the : ! world, on either hemisphere, with regard to which we are not entirely in accord.” } General Cass took an early opportunity ' to eall the attention of the American Sen- j i ate to this declaration. He argued from ■ ;it that the alliance between France and ’ England not only contemplated interfer- ■ i ence with Russia on our hemisphere, but was aimed equally at thwarting the exp-.ui i sion of the United States on the other.— i The South was aroused, and immediately j I commenced that reaction in the sentiments ; of our people which resulted in the trans , fer of their sympathies from the Allies to ' the Czar. Her fears were not quieted un til it was proclaimed through the press i that Lord Clarendon had disavowed thei construction which Gen Cass placed upon ! bis language. * What we desire now to do is to lay be-1 fore our readers, without note or comment! a few of the remarks of Louis Napoleon in response to the speech of tne Lord Mayor of London: , “Indeed, England and France are nat -1 urally united on all the great questions of politics and of human progress that agi i tates the world. From the shores of the i Atlantic to those of the .Mediterranean— front the Baltic to the Black Sea— -frnm ' \ the desire to obohsh Sl'ir' ry to ocr hopes tor the amelioration of cfl the countries ot' ! Europe— l see in the moral, as in the po- ■ litical world, for our two nations but one I course and one end.” This language can hardly be mistaken. The union between England and France, i contemplates results in both America and Europe:—The abolition of slavery in the, former, the “umelioiation” of all the coun-; tries of the latter!— Sav Courier. Nashvilll and Chai tanooga Rail road. —The Union and American learns by inquiry at the office of the Nashville and Chattannooga Railroad, that the busi j ncssof the road exhibits a most gratifying increase over that of the same time last 1 year, for the four months ending March 31 this year, the gross receipts were ■ §32,000 per month. For the correspond ing months last year, about §22,000 per ' month. The average increase per month 1 is $9677, and the gross increase for the i four months is 838,708. And while the ! receipts have thus increased, the expen ses of the road have decreased for the four §I,OOO, or at the rateof §2,500 per month This isa most encouraging exhibit. With a good crop, the business will show a still heavier increase next year. Immense Lump of Copper.—ltis sta ted that a lump of copper ore, weighing about two thousand pounds, and containing probably fifty per cent of copper, was taken } from the Wild Cat mines, in Carrol county ! Va., a few days ago. MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOLS, Folly seems to have become epidemic in the Massachusetts Legislature'. Know nothingism is no longer a name but a fact. It denote s the exclusion of all knowledge or sense, or of decency. The doing of the representative folly, are the subject of popular mockery and derison. The papers quote and hold up to laughter the Star- Spangled-Banner rhetoric of the priests of the Order. The following extract is from a report of Mr. Evans, on a school subject. Mr. Evans, it will be recollect' d, was chairman of the peeping and smelling committee in which Hiss acted. Read it: “In this town (Salisbury) there are seven school districts, and each district is provided with one building, with two ex ceptions. To these buildings your com mittee propose to ask the following ques tions, aud to call upon the histories of of these venerated spots for the answers : Do our school-houses contain the ele ments of beauty, neatness, and conveni ence '! The Grammar school bouse, in district No. 2, is one of those venerable old hou ses which have come down from former generations. The hyperborean winds pierce its nothern hemisphere, and the tropical ii.- southern, while at its equator stands its opaque heating apparatus, crack ed from the two sudden expansion of its inner surface, and, “presto,” too sudden contraction oi' its outer, with now and then the falling of a boyish iceberg upon its top 1 The wall is black and furrowed with age The pureb of this once noble build ing, and the outer ami inner gates varie gated and much worn from the rampaut steps add thriving “recklism” of its for-} mer and present pupils. Over the inner door are the marks of punctuation with ' the index reading to the pupil that life! is filled up with stops and marks. Near' the old schoolhouse is its satelitc. the pri mary shool-house, performing its stated rounds through of later creation but, not fit. for the business to which it is devoted. Pleasantly embosomed in a beautiful grove of black elder and blackberry bushes, with here and there a tuft of maple and one lone solitary elm, the favorite haunt of the earliest warblers of spring, stands this villa of learning. (111) — Albany Atlas GENEROUS FIDELITY," The following instance of generous fi delity is related by a Buffalo journal : “Our readers generally know that last week was consumed the railroad bridge at Painesville, Ohio, which, as n viuduet across tlfe deep valley at that point, pas ses the immense travel and traffic of the south shore line ofroads. The bridge was i at points eighty feet high—at its eastern abutment it was forty feet high. While the vast crowd eollec.ted at the depot were discussing and bewailing the calamity a man engaged in travelling the road, nam ed John Casement, hurriedly demanded a lantern. One was found and lighted, and snatched by Casement, who ran down the bank into the valley and disappeared. He ran nearly a mile to the short curve be yond the eastern end of the ruined bridge. There he took his stand, and emptying his pockets of letter, newspaper scraps, i and other paper, he lighted them and} waved them in the air. Caseinent knew that two freight trains were coming from the East. Soon their lanterns blazed on the track. He signalled them again with burning paper. The engineers did not respond with their whistles.- The man's paper was exhausted. With ready wit ho drew a linen hankerchief from bis pocket, aud set it ablaze and waved. The eugineer saw the warning and heeded it' just in time to save their heavy train from i plunging off'the forty feet abutment into! ruin. Not to speak of the human life} saved by this act of generous fidelity to a corporation, with which he was connected only ns a gravel conductor, Casement res cued from instant destruction over §50,000 worth of property.’’ What is a Levee ? This Word is greatly misused among us. Cnlcss the President of the United States gets out of bed in the evening.it is imp. opertoi speak of his evening parties as levees.— The word is derived from the Court of France, at which it was the duty of cer-! tain noblemen to attend the king at his | getting up and hand him his clothes, one ! presenting his seekings, another his shirt,, etc. The name levee was given to these assemblages from the verb lever, to get up. ' in the evening they attended to assist him I to undress. These gatherings werecalled i couchees from voucher to go to bed.—2>'i zar'7- IMPORTANT NEWS S'JPRESSED. The Paris correspondent of the London News, writing at the latest moment before the Atlantic sailed says: It is certain that some news must have been received from Sebastopol which the government thinks it expedient to keep} back Bankers and others who habitaul-l ly receive the latest intelligence, are ut terly without information to day and feel certain that private telegraphic despatches must have been suppressed. The remark as obvious that General Canrobert’s des patch, occupying but four lines of the Moniteur, is extremely jejune and unsat isfactory, considering that it professes to give the only results known of five days continuous bombardment. lam enabled to state that the Moniteur was again re modelled last night after it had been set tled for the press. Nobody at all con versant with the way in which these things are managed supposes that the pub lished despatch attributed to General Can robert is a textual espy of one sent him.— lam told that he adds an expression of his opinion that he will “not be able to' hold the positions taken.” On the other hand, there is a rumor that some very good news has arrived, and that it is not published, in order that the Emperor may announce them for the first time to the Boulogne camp. I wish I could be lieve this. PROPRIETOR. NUMBER 38 Why Cities Grow WES'rWARDLr.— The Academy of Sciences in Paris have been investigating the causes which al most invariably make the west end of a city grow more, and become more fashion able than the east. “It arises from the atmospheric pressure,’’ answers the Acad emy of Science. The wind which causes the greatest ascension of the bnrometic column is that of the east, and that which lowers it most is the west. When the lat ter blows, it has the convenience of car rying with it to the eastern parts of a town all the deleterious gases which it meets in its passage aver the western parts and the inhabitants of the eastern part of a town have to support not only their own smoke and miasma, but those of the west ern part of the town, brought to them by the westwinds. When, on the contrary, the east wind blows, it purifies the air by causing to ascends the pernicious emana tions which it cannot drive to the west.— The deduction from this law is that the western part of a city is the best place of residence for persons of delicate health, and that all estnlishments from which emanate prenieious vapors and gases should be placed to the east. There seems to be good philosophy in these conclusions.— Phila. Ledger. K2T Perhaps there are no race of chil dren in the world so beautiful as those of the Spanish race. There is a smoothness of skin, a richness in color, and a noble “hidalgo” expression in their round blue eyes that is rare in other countries.— Spanish women retain this expression to a good age. The men lose it earlier, be cause. ns I believe, they are often r of cor rupted morals and habits; andlhese long exercised certainly stamp their lines upon the lace. Those which are mean, and low vicious, produce a similar character of countenance; while those which are high and holy, and virtuous, give it an aspect of beauty and nobility. The Washington Union says :- s - It is scarcely necessary to say that the ar ticle in the New York Times of Friday last, in which it is asserted, on the author ity of a telegraphic despatch that Mr. Wise has appealed to President Pieree for the removal ot Governor Reeder us the only means of carrying the election in Virginia, is without the shadow ot truth. Mr. Wise needs no such help, and has asked none such, to render his election in estimation entirely certain; his confi dence in his success is growing stronger and stronger every day ; the confidence of bis friends needs no such action of the the President as the removal of Gov. Reeder to assure them of a Democratic victory. A Compliment to the Ladils.—Wal ter Savage Lnnitor, now residing at Bath England, m his 31st year, became aequuii:- ted with Lady Blessington at 1 loreiice, in 1852. In Madden’s Life and Correspond ence of that Lady, just published, we tir.l several letters of Landors. We make the following extract from one‘of them. lie writes to Lady B “Cannot you teach those about, you to write somewhat more purely Y 1 am very fastidious. Three days ago, I was obliged to correct a friend of mine, a man of fashion, who so far for got the graces, to say, of a lady, ‘I have not often been in her company. Say ‘pre sence;’ we are in the company of men, in the presence of angels and of woman.”— Transcript. E®.Someone has remarked how singu lar itis that all the heroes of the French Revolution were ugly. It seems as curi ous to us, that they were either very large or very little persons Danton was a Li tan ; Mirabeau, though not so tall, was large, and carried a huge head on his shoulders : whereas Marat and Napoleon were both small men. But the French found their characteristic love of extremes gratified in all of them. Even vice and cruelty they will not admire, unless sauced by some piquant oddity, and served up in some extraordinary dish. A little lean corporal like Napoleon, conquering the Brobdignagian marshals aud emperors of Europe and issuing from his nut-likc fist the laws of notions; a grinning death’s head like Voltaire, fjighteninp Christen dom from its propriety, were stimulating to in tox ication. (> el fill au. Kings Going to Crimea —A letter from.Turiu in the E<o <T Italia says that Victor Emanuel King of has written a letter to the Emperor Napoleon, expessing a desire to accompany him to the Crimea. The Emperor is said to have been pleased vvi.n jthe idea, ami readily gave his consent • An Ungrateful Rascal.—About three yeais ago a man named Wells was sentenced in Washington, to De hnnged for murder, and, after the gallows had been erected, President Fillmore commu ted the sentence to imprisonment for life. A few days since, Wells employed coun sel to bring him up on habeas corpus, mid contend for his liberty, on the ground that the President, had no right to commute the sentence, and was obliged either to hang or pardon him; ' feT* Bayard Taylor lately delivered a lecture at Kalamazoo, on the Philosophy of travel, before a large audience. The next, day a gentleman chancing to meet a lady, who listened to the lecture, asked her opinion of it. “Oh” says she “it was excellent —he has such a sweet mus tache.” FUF Gen. Cass, in a letter to the Detroit St. George’s Society, expresses his hostil ity to Know Nothingism. Gen. William O Butler, who ran on the same ticket with. Cass in 1848, in declining to run for Con gress, takes a similar position ‘ The Governor of Mtv <ichu<.-rU has sent a message to ftMi House deelini;.' remove Judge L.iring. -. The laid on the table licut