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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY EXAMINER. ■W E5 IS 3ESL L 'ST CIRCULATION’ OF THE 333 282 -A. I JNT ES XX, IQOOO C'Or> TK ; M , JOHN H. STEELE, ) CHAS. L. BARBOUR. ) VOLUME 11. THE WEEKLY EXAMINEK u Publhed every Friday mornin S tn ike Vity of Atlanta, at ONE DOLLAR Pr.n ANNUM, To be paid strictly in adv, ce. ty No subscription lai en for less than six months. RATES OF ADV ‘3RTISING. Advertisements are insert 1 in the Weekly Examiner at the following rates: Seventy-five cents per square (of 10 lines brevier) for the first insertions, and 37 J cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. 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Obituary Notices exceeding ten lines will be charged as advertisements. jy Nearly Advertisers exceeding in their ad vertisements the average space agreed for, will be charged at proportional rates. jy All Advertisements not specified as to time will be published until forbid and charged accordingly. Legal Advertisements. Sales »f Land and Negroes, by Administra tors, Executors or Gurdians, are required by law to be held on the First Tuesday in the month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court House in the County in which the property is situated. Notices of these sales must be given in a pub to gazette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must bo given in .ike manner 10 days previous to salc- Noticos to the debtors and creditors of an es tate must also be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne groes, must be published for two months. Citations for letters of Administration, Guar dianship &c., must be published 30 days—for dis mission from Administration, monthly six months —for dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgages must be published monthly for four months—-for establish ing lost papers, for the full space of three months —for compelling titles from Executors or Admin istrators, where bond has been given by the de ceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always bo continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless other wise ordered, at the following Rate? • Citations on letters of Adndstration &c. $2 75 do do dismissory om Adminis tration, 4 50 Citation on dismissory from Guardianship, 3 00 Leave to sell Land or Negi cs, Notice to debtors and eredi us. 3 "0 - Sales of personal property,! i days, 1 square 1 50 Sales of land or negroes by t,xecutors, &c. 6 00 Estrays, two weeks, . . , J ™ Tor a man advertising his wife, (in advance,) 5 0 Letters on business must be (post paid) to en title them to attention. FIIUiWDAY, J VNUtItY, 29, 1856. __ The Mails and Ourselves. Despite the frigid temperature prevalent hereabouts, it requires all our usually large stock of patience to "keep cool” about the mails. North, east south and west, the cry comes up, <‘no mails.” Human nature can’t stand it; and. but that we are in the situation of the boy who lost his ashes, we might be tempted to forget the seventh admonition of the decalogue, and ejaculate terribly. But it’s no use—we “ can t do justice to the subject.” The irregularity of our mails, and the ex tremely cold weather, p ay the Old Harry with the types ; and we havs to thow ourselves upon the charitable forbearance of our readers for the uninteresting character of oc ■natter, and the unusually “short allowance" of reading fur nished in our daily issue. If the mail-bags ev er do thaw, we will try to recover our good hu mor, aad, at the same time, improve our paper. Legislative intelligence. It is really provoking that we cannot receive the letters of our Senior who is at present in Milledgeville ; and it is a little singular too that such a preference should be shown to the Augusta poet office over Atlanta. Our Angus ta exchanges furnish us with the latest dates from Milledgeville, and upon them we are com pelled to rely for legislative news. The fault must lie in Macon or its vicinity, since we can see no good reason why matter mailed in Mill edgeville should not reach Atlanta os soon, or nearly so, as Augusta. The latter city seems to have regular communication with the seat of Government, while we may co: sider ourselves unusually fortunate if me get two or three mails a week. The facts speak for themselves. Now who is to blame? We can easily say who suffers. Kansas. We published yesterday the Bill of Mr. Crook, of Chattooga, providing for the appropriation of $50,000 to Kansas emigration, and reim bursing the State by a special tax upon the ne gro property of the State. It is sincerely hoped this bill will meet no opposition in either branch of the General Assembly. We are confident it •rill not be opposed by holders of the property opoeed to be taxed. Nothing can be more equitable, and the small tax per head will be paid without a murmur by every slaveholder in the State. It is their own property particular ly which is menaced by the mendacious crowd of higher law hirelings who have been sent to Kansas to resist its laws and disturb the peace of the country. Let Southern men. whether slaveholders or not calculate the individual in tcrest they bare in the adnuKon of KauMs m THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL ANB NEWS IN TH? SOUTH—A WEEKLY FIRESIDE COMPANI9N FOR ONLY ONE COLLAR A YEAR, IN ADVANCE, a slave State, and it will be found that liny or an hundred thousand dollars contributed by the State is a mere pittance, compared with the incalculable injury its admission as a free State would inflict upon the South. Let those go. then who can, and those who want the means, receive of those who have an abundance. The entire S tate will sustain any judicious action of the Legislature to secure to the South her unquestionable right of equal participation in the Territories. The following notice of Gen. Whitfield, the regularly elected Delegate from Kansas, may interest our readers. We clip it from the Washington correspondent of an exchange pa per. “The regular delegate from that Territory, General Whitfield, is here, and of the most unconcerned spectators ofxnie contest which shadows forth the struggle that is to arise over his own right to a seat in Congress, In deed, be avows that he “cares not a fig hovthe question is decided, so far as his own personal interests are affected;” that if unseated, he*can go back npon his claim in Kansas, and 1 lien the trouble will begin.” He thinks there may be blood shed in the pre ent difficulties, and he thinks there certainly will be if Congress adopts the State Constitution of the anti-slavery party in Kan as, and admits that Territory as a free State. He declares that now is the time for the South to save Kansas—that unless enough Southern men go there du ing the winter and spring to countermine the northern emigration, the Southern party will be overruled. The Ab olitionists are making sternuous efforts to secure an ascendancy in Kansas, and will succeed in so doing uuless the south sustains her friends in that quarter. Whitfield is a bold, resolute fellow, somewhat upon the “rough and ready” order, and well qualified, we should think, to be a leader in such a struggle as that of which Kansas is the are na.” Our Relations with England. We sometime since expressed a belief that our friendly relations with England were pred icated upon a basis too questionable for secu rity, and concurrent facts which have since then traaspiered would seem to have satisfacto rily established the conviction then forced upon us by the tone of the British Press.— Whether an open rupture is to be apprehen ded or not, these facts have nt least the effect to set our thinking men to calculating the consequences of such an event. This is one step in advance. The security which our busi ness men have so long felt we have regarded as mistaken upon their part, and being calcu lated to distract attention from the develope ment of home resources, and the evident neces sity for a greater independence of English mar kets, we were earnest in our appeals to them— to study the uncertain chances for he per manency of tha accessibility of those markets to them, and provide for the revolution in trade which would necessarily follow the closing of British ports to our commerce. We consid ered that our business public were risking too much by their continued slavish dependence upon the fluctuating markets of the old world, and that, in view oi »jj deplorable consequen ceof an abrupt ten •'.a of our friendly reia lions with Euglanu,. > ..3 imperatively de manded they should ,s for a contingency so probable. We hope naw a proper attention will be awakened, in the right quarter, to the subject, and that we will be relieved as soon a possible, at least to some extent, from our too closely interwoven commercial relations with England. When it comes to this, that the slightest pulsation of trade in trans-Atlantic cities is felt with electric rapidity, and a force increased with every mile of the distance, by every cross-road hamlet in this country, men may well be alarmed for the permanency ol our national independence which is itself so intimately connected with the prosperity of our commercial interests. But, while it is proper this subject should receive more attention, our people are too prone to exaggerate alarms, and lose their presence ol mind when immed’ate dangers threaten them, thus becoming incapacitated for that deliberate action demanded by the exigences of the threat ened storm. As instance of this, we see the press of the country pouring into the public ear sounds of alarm, and forgetting that all this rut tliug of drums and sounding warlike notes but confuses the popular mind and makes it ineffi cient for the overhanging crisis. This is all wrong. The fact- ;nem«elves will awaken the people. It had oeen well for us could they have been awakened sooner, and before the cri sis was so near, but now that its probability approximates so alarm'ngly to certainty, it i* reasonable to assume that everybody sees it, and. instead of calling to arms against a foe that cannot possibly reach us in some time, let u s set ourselves to work preparing defenses against him, and by all means take the most effective measures to deprive him of the power we have heedlessly given him over an interest so vital as our trade. It is presumed that American mus kets are always ready, and particularly when they are required to be pointed at Albion—in stead then of burnishing arm? already fit for service, let «s concoct prescriptions for the wounds our trade must receive in the conflict, and, since overt acts of hostility need not be apprehended until eastern affars assume a more settled appearance, let us ns soon as may be, untangle trade alliances which threaten such disatroui consequences from an abrupt termina- I tion. How this shall be effected those more immediately interested are better able to sng gest. To them the country looks for relief from a state of affairs in which they have involved it. Let them come to the rescue. Meantime, let the press cease to u ’necessarily excite the pub- I lie mind, and deal more in arguments than ! phillipics. j The American people are a reflective people, i when once they rise above unnatural excite- I ments. and there rever was more necessity for i the exercise of their proverbial sagacity than | now. We have gunpowder enough—give us | cooler beads, to prepare for its use. Letters from Grenada say Walker’s ; force has been decimated by cholera, which j has broken out with violence in Nicaragua : : that the place is nearly deserted; and that i heavy conUibutiens are levied on everybody « ATLjLSTA. GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1856. Georgia .Legislature. Milledgeville, Jan. 21, 1856. SENATE. Mr. Alrcad, of Pickens, moved a reeonside'ra tion of tjg? action of the Senate on the biff re ducingj'the Senate, and providing for annua: sessjjjiis'bf the General Assembly. The motion was lost. Yeas 31—nays 53. resolution fixing the hours for at nine A. M., three P. M., seven at night, was agreed to. * -'The bill introduced by Judge before the recess, altering, amenTng and modifying the statutes of limitation, was taken up, consid ered by sections, amended in various respects, after a thorough and careful discussion of very portion of it, by the ablest lawyers on the floor, and passed. As soon as I can obtain an au thentic transcript of the bill, as amended, it shall be forwarded for insertion. The charges which are made by it in the periods of limita tion, and its recognition and adoption of new legal principles in controversion of old judicial maxims, will probably interest the public whose interests are effected by it; and the profession whose practice is altered, The friends of the "Georgia Military Insti tute bill,” exceedingly anxious to have its fat - settled immediately succeeded this afternoon in getting it before the Senate. On Motion of Dr. Screven, of Chatham, th - was amended so as to require a complete transfer of the entire property of the Institu tion to the State; and iim : tii:g the cost of the stock, to he held by the State in the Institute, to twenty-five hundred dollars- On motion of Mr. Calhoun, of Fulton, the bill was further amended so as to free the State from any liability for the debts of the Institu tion, and to reserve to successive Legislatures the liberty of refftffig the annual appropria tion of five dollars, as given in the bill. .' Mr Hardeman, of Bibb, offered a substitute making a donation of a sufficient amount to cancel the debts of the Institution, and an ap propriation of five thousand dollars to erect suitable collegiate buildings. He said he was opposed to making it a State Institution, was willing for it to prosper and thrive, and was ready to advance it with State money, but he wanted appropriations, how ever, liberal to be unquestianably specific, and then we would know when we were done aid ing. He wishes the blank in his substitute filled with an ample amount, and then he wished to stop. Mr. Miller moved to insert twenty-five thous and. Lost. This was no test vote. Many friends of the against the insertion. Being very sanguine as to the safety of the or iginal, which was preferable to them, they Were unwilling to risk the adoption of the substitute with a smaller amount. The Senate adjourned without proceeding further. HOUSE. Bills Introduced. By Mr. Sapp, of Whitfield—A bill to give the election of City Marshal, Clerk, and Treas urer, of the city of Dalton, to the qualified voters thereof; to compel a publication of semi annual Reports on the state of the city finances by the Mayor; and to confer the election oi County Treasurer of Whitfield o the people of said county. By Mr. Montgomery.—A bill giving all per sons furnishing materials for the construction or repairs of buildings the same lien as that now allowed Masons and Carpenters. By Mr. Smith, of Tatnall.—A bill to repeal the act of 1851, giving persons in possession u perference over others in granting lands under the Head Rights laws; and conferring on occu pants of migrant! d lands, who survey the same within three months after having received a written notice from the County Surveyor of the intention of some oue else to do so, a para mount right to a grant to such land. The County Surveyor is entitled to a- ee of one dollar fee giving this notice. By Mr. Warihen, of Washington.—A bill authorizing a levy of an extra tax of five thou sand dollars for each of the years 1856. ’57 and ’SB, for county purposes, by the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county. By Caldwell, of Walker —A bill incorpora ting a railroad company to construct a road from some point on the Western and Atlantic Railroad,at or near Johnson, to the town ol LaFayette’ in Walker county. The company to be c lied the Lookout Railroad Company. Capital four hundred thousand lollars. By Dr. Phillips, of Habersham—A bill to reduce the stock of the Dalton mid Gadsden Railroad Company to three hundred thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing, as tiecs sity may require for the completion of the Road. By Mr. Smith, of Union—A bill appropr a ting ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof a: may be necessary, to compensate Capt. Sami Patterson’s company of Mounted Volun teers for fifty-three days tservi.es rendered in the Cherokee Nation in 1838. By Mr. Lawton, of Chatam—A bill ceding to the United States jurisdiction over the in tended site of the Light House in the city o. Savannah. By Mr. Durden, of Morgan—A bill compell ing "persons between the ages of fourteen and fifty to perform road duty in Morgan county. By Mr.’Owens, of Talbot—A bill abolishing the necessity of producing the original books of entry in suits for the collection of open ac counts ; and making a true transcript, from such original books, properly sworn to before, and attested by an officer authorized to admin ister oaths, sufficient evidence. By Mr. Wood, of Fannin—A bill to incor pornte the Georgia Baptist Convention. The bill giving the city authorities of Atlan ta, the entire control of the retail traffic in spiritous liquors was passed, after having been amended so as to submit the question to the legal voters of the city :to be determined by endorsement of ratification or disapproval on their t ckets. Mr. Terhune sought to kill the bill by num erous restraining amendments, all of which were decisively voted down. If finally passed bv a large majority of the legal voters of the city of Atlanta, it’ becomes a law : if not. a nullity. The Elijay Railroad bill was taken up. Mr. Pickett, of Gilmer, off red a substitute basing the aid to be given on the same terms as that of the the Brunswick Road. Mr. Smith, ot Union, opposed the biil and Mr. Puckett, of Gilmer, favored it. Both the gentlemen made fervent speeches, and manifested a deep feeling. The hour for adjourning arrived, and the bill was necessarilly left undisposed of. The ru es of the House provide for the entertainment of other matter in the afternoon, and the discus sion will be resumed on to-morrow. Probably Mr. Crook’s suggestion may yet be e. tried out, and this bill postponed until the ‘ Bruns wick bill ”is disposed of. Mr. Crock urged its postponmeut in a short speech. He thought the principle involved in both bills the same that the Brunswick and Florida Road was of tar superior importance, and that it should first be acted on. The bill appropriating money for the endow ments of the Atlau’a and Savannah Medical Colleges, which was Jett ou Saturday evening last to be called up this morniagas ••’uufiuishcc. business ” was made the special order oi the day for Saturday next. I House btlla we.e read a second, and Senate I ji iis a third tins evening, 'the three following bills were introduced: By Mr. Butts, of Ba’dwin—A bill to allow coroners twenty dollars for burying pau pers. By Mr. Jones of Muscogoe—A bill to al low the Mayor of Columbus toissu new bonds for the city of stock in the Gas Light Compa ny, with interest payable semi-annually, thes< to supercede the bonds of 1853. Also, a bill repealing the laws prohibiting the introduction of slaves into this State. Passed A bill refunding to the State Bank, three thousrnd three hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety-eight cents, the amount of taxes, improperly paid on the stock of the State in ■aid Ba k. From the Savannah Morning News. Tlse Disorganization of Congress. The continued disorganization of the Houst •f R presentatives is beginning to cause dissat isfaction. if not uneasiness and apprehension, in the public mind. The people are becoming tired of this disgraceful war of cliques and fac tions, and are beginning to consider the conse quences'to the interestsand character of the cou try. Nearly two months have elapsed since ti e Representatives assembled at Washington and still we are without a Congress. Day after day passes in fruitless ballottings and profitless par ty disputation, whilst, as has been justly re marked, the Government is brought to a dead lock, important domestic interest ssufier, and foreign affairs that should be promptly submit ted to public inspection and made subject to an expression of popular will are allowed in the seclusion of Cabinet secrecy to drift into com plications that may be dangerous to the inter ests of peace. Such a condition of things is disgraceful in the eyes of the world and will tend to prejudice our republican system in the opinicn of European nations. The responsibil ity rests somewhere, and however it may be shirked the people will be sure to visit it in the right quarter. We believe that the present condition of things in the national Legislature has its origin in a reckless, licentious spirit of hostility to the constitution and the rights of the South, aud whilst we applaud the firm, uncompromising stand taken by the democratic minority, we believe the patriotic men of all sections of the country, will hold them blameless for conse quences which they could only avert by a com promise of their principles. In the issue be tween them and the black Republicans, the du ty of patriotism is plain. Time can only disclose the extent of the evil which may result from the disorganization of the House. If no worse consequences should ensue it will in all probability, devolve upon the other branches of the government the exer- ' cise of new aud questionable expedients of gov ernment policy. Alluding to this subject the intelligent Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says: The Senate will have a question of some im portance to dispose of very soon in relation to the proposition for the preparation of the ap propriation bills in that body. The subject lias been referred to the committee on finance, who will report thereon. The right of the Senate to take this step is unquestionable, al though by long neglect of its exercise, the right has become a subject of dispute. The next question it whether the Senate will proceed t the eoMtlwation of legislative subjects while the House is without an organization. So far they have been undecided in regard to it, unless the vote of yesterday for adjournment be re garded as a decision. The question is yet to be more maturely considered. It would be somewhat encouraging to the country if the Senate should, at this time, assume some degree of responsibility. In times of disorganization, revolution and commotion—the occurrence of which will be gen erally attributable to the more popular branch of tiie legislative body—we must look to the Se ate as the sheet anchor of the government as the only barrier between the people and an unrestricted and absolute executive power. The probability is that the present state of the House will be continued, but With agreater degree of demoralization, till the spring, and perhaps till so late a day in the fiscal year as to render it impossible to supply, in a constitution al manner, the wants of the government. The government is not therefore to stop. It will be continued by a resort to extra constitutional means. From the Memphis Appeal. Jan. IS. Death of Maj. A R. Williamson. We have the sad duty to record the melan choly and horrible death of this estimable man —Maj. R. A. Williamson, Superintendent ot the Memphis and Ohio Railroad. This fear ful accident occurred yesterday morning about 9 o’clock, some sixteen miles from town, ou the “Hatchie Bridge.”over waters kuowu as Griffin creek, some three hundred yards from Shelby depot. 'Mr. W. was on the train and it is sup posed that he put his head too far out of the train’s passage’ and was looking backward when his head came in co tact with a post ot the bridge, kiliing him instantly. His body fell from the ear in the water below, aud as no one in the traiu was noticing his position at the time of the accident, the train passed ou without discovering it. Maj. W. was a native of Baltimore, and has been known as connected with important railroad enterprises in our country. For many years he had been engaged on the Memphis a d Cha .leston road, giving much ot life and ' impetus to the same when he resigned his posi tion and was placed iu the same official capaci ty over an important railroad in Georgia. i The Savannah Republican, of yesterday, says: I 1 ’•■We were in error yesterday in stating that I the bark E. Shultz, which left this port for' Charleston the 28th ultimo, had not since been i beard from. She arrived safely, and at last accounts was about completing her cargo for another trip. “The Wm. Hitchcock.—We have already made mention of the burning of this ship at sea. while on her way from Savannah to Havre with a cargo of cotton. We gather the follow ing particulars concerning her from a northern exchange: ••The cargo of Wm. Hitchcock consisted of two thousand two bundled and fifty bales of cotton, and was valued at about $112,000. Os the above number, we hear one thousand six hundred bales are insured in France; the re mainder, six hundred aud fifty bales, or a large portion of it. is insured in Wall street. The W. H. was an A 1 1-2 vessel, of six hundred aud ninety-three tons register, built at Newcas-1 tie, Me., in 1848, owned by Bogert <fc Knee-' land, valued at $32,000, and fully covered by | insurance, as also the freight money, in New . York. The ship was consigned to "the Havre • branch of the house of Messrs. Lahens £ Co., of New York." The special agent of the American Gu ano Company writes from San Francisc. under | date of Dec. 19th. that Commodore Merwin, of j the U. 8. razee Independence, had ordered the I U. S. steamship Massachusetts, at San Juan )to proceed at once to San Francisco to fit oat I for an examination of the new guano island in I he Pacific. 1.1 IHen uud Money lor ixiiusas. These are the articles now wanted to secure v Kansas as a slave State for the South. It is h now a practical question of dollars end cents. Theoretically, and on paper, the Constitution has triumphed, and the equal rights of the s South, in the common territories of the Union, have been recognized in the Nebraska Kansas r act. The South has stood up firmly in Con- I gress for her rights, and President Pierce and the national Democracy have seconded and sustained her. But while she has won the vic tory, let her not lose the spoil. Let her’s not , be a barre l victory, ou paper alone, and the substantial fruits of the contest enure to the benefit of the Freesoilers. It is now the tini ’ for Southern men to act as well as speak. We have published Mr. Buford’s proposals to emi graats. We have published Senator Atch inson’s appeal. Let the South act. Let the Lesislatures of the Southern States act. Geor gia stands in a position to set the example. The initiative is already taken in our Legisla ture by Mr. Jones, of Muscogee, and agreed to unanimously:— Aug. Const. Resolved. By the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Superintend, nt of the Western and Atlantic Railroad be instructed to give to Maj. Jefferson Bufford, of Alabama aud his company of Kansas Emigrants, or any other company of like character, free passage over the State Road. Mr. Cr.ooK, of Chattooga, has introduced the following bill which we trust will meet with a like unanimity : A bill'entitlcd an act promote the settlement of the Territories of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that whenever any citizens of this State wishing to emigrate to the Territory of Kan sas. but unable to do so for means, ’ upon the fact being made known to the Go.ernor, and when the leader of said company shall have giv en bonds, payable to the State, with such amount of security as the Governor shall ap prove, conditioned to expend the money ad vanced thereon, in transporting, subsisting and outfitting such destitute emigrants, and also conditioned, within twelve months thereafter to transport one hundred emigrants to Kansas, then the Governor shall issue his warrant in viivu uuv Oilex; I 1.-CUV UJO < t 1 si'lt 111 favor of the principal obligor in said bond up on the treasury of this State, for a sum equal to fifty dollars per head, of such distressed emi grants, provided that the sum expended under this act shall not exceed 550.000. And pro vided further that the amount so expended shall be re-imbursed to the Treasury of the State, by a special tax on slaves, and any mon ey in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, is hereby appropriated for the purpose aloresaid. Read the first time. 1 ‘ The Grey-eyed Man.” The El Nicaraguensehas the following: In an English work, published in London in 1840, called the Gospel ii Central America, there is recorded a singular fact. This work is the only reliable authority on this country. 'The author. Fredreck Crowe, was an exempia ry preacher of the Gospel of the Baptist per suasion, and lie has recorded so many facts that the work has been suppressed by’ the Brit ish Government. He states that there exists among the Indians an old traditionary pqphe ey, that they would be delivered from oppress ion aud cruelty by “The Grey-eyed Man.” Mr. Crowe, in a note, adds this prophetic remark: -“'We would remind those who are disposed to attached any importance to the prognostic that grey eyes are common to ti c entire Aug'o Saxon race; and that the fulfill ment of this prophecy may be reserved to our Transatlantic descendants, (the Yankees,) who are tow, even, taking u livery iuteici t in Cen tral Aaieiica.” [See Crowe’s Central America pagr 248.] Tllstr»dition is well known to many’ residents nowin Nicaragua to exist among the Indians and is religiously believed by them. It has been narrated by many to us. If.we were disposed to believe that the race bf -pYophetsdid not die with Isaiah and Jeremi ah, jand why should they?) we would say that tbisir.ditionary prophecy i as been fulfilled to thepiter. “The Grey-eyed man" has came. He las come not as Attilla, oru Guarola, but as Jfriend to the oppressed aud a protector to thebelpless and unoffending. The prophecy is dtetned by the Indians as fulfilled: for lust we<k we saw in Granada a delegation of them wh«| ran-ly visit this city, who desire to see Gen Walker. They were charmed by his gen tle (eception, and offered him their heartfelt thaiks for their liberation from oppression and for the present quiet state of this country.— Tley laid at his feet, the simple efli rings of tleir fruits and fields, and hailed him us the •Grey-eyed Man." so long aud anxiously waited fir by them aud their fathers.—N. Y. News. Stabbino.—O Tuesday last, in this city, a nan by the name of Samuel Leak stabbed Vm. H. Coats in the head, in the left temple, be knife penetrating the skull, and fastening iself so tight in the bone that it could only be attracted by f equent and severe exertions of trength, the blade even having been snapped iff in the effort. We are informed that tin tnife blade passed directly into the 10., er region jf the brain, severing the temporal artery and its branches, from which the blood flowed very copiously. Coats is recovering; Leak is in jail. —Griffin Union, Jan. 10. Aotiic“t.TrßAL Papers.—Those excellent agricnluual papers, Soil of the South, L nnax i Ellis, Columbus, and Cultivator, W. J.Join.- Augusta, came to hand this morning. Their existence and prosperity is a credit to the State laud the p’anter who does not take and read Ibotb, isa loser by his parsimony. Subscribe for then this month—only a dollar each. We endorse fully the above cotap iiaent which we find In the Macon Telegraph of this moru- Tie Russian ship Russia, which arrived at Bost® some time ago, and has since been in port, thqowners being doubtful what disposi tion to lake of her, was burnt on Saturday, at East Bston, i« order to obtain her iron and copper. 1 ery little delay is now experienced, as we leal, in transmitting freight on the Nash, ville & ihattanooga Railroad. The new Bridge struct® is progressing well. Frighting Business.—There are loading this waj, at New Orleans for Liverpool, seven ty vesejs. aginst twenty-nine at the same period, last yei. No less than one hundred andeigh. ty ship and barques arc at this time loading in the leathern ports for foreign ports, one hundrd of which are for Great Britain. SoMfnixG about Gas.—The Engineer of the Gal Works in Philadelphia siy- th t the difficult inmakingGas burn in very cold weath. er. removed by ponrinsr boiling water on a d>th spread over the metre and the pipe 1 ‘'hat «mea in through the front wall. AjtUiiss avitu iungiand. Our relations with England are rapidly as suming a grave and threatening character. In the unorganized condition of Congress, it is al most imposible to know what is transpiring in Washington, so far as our foreign relations are concerned ; but intelligent person at the Capi tol have communicated with the press, in dif ferent localities, and there seems to be re markable unanimity in the statements they make. Ist. The correspondent, of the South . Side Democrat. (Petersburg, Va.) says : "Rumors to day are rife that a meeting of the ('abinet, held last night, at which it was | decided to recall Mr. Buchanan, and thus sus-1 pend diplomatic intercourse with Great. Brit- i ain. The last steamer brought dispatches in-1 ilicating a determination on the part of the i English Government to adhere to its position I relative! to the questions at issue between the I two countries. 'The intelligence is supposed to I have led to the action of the Cabinet last night.” 2nd. The correspondent of the Baltimore , Sun "Ion.” says The delay has not prevented the President I from the exercise of his proper functions in ; relation to foreign affairs. He sent an execu-1 five message to the Senate to day, which was the subject of consideration in that body lor' some time. It may be presumed that it related ■ to the subject which was mentioned in my letter j yesterday, ond none of greater importance has I ever been submitted to that body or to this I country in relation to our foreign affairs. 'The packet for Liverpool on Saturday will i take out a despatch to Air. Bhchanan that will | test the full extent of Lord Palmerston’s irrita- j bility. It is already known to our government that j Lord Palmerston had stated t' at it would bring the subject of Ameri an relations before tin Parliamnetupon their meeting, (to morrow the 18th.) and urjre upon that body an adher ence to the positions which the "government had taken on these subjects. If Mr. Buchanan be withdrawn and diplo- . matic intercourse suspended, it is very certain , that intercourse will never be restored while Palmerston is at the head of the ministry. 3d. We publish below, almost entire, the let- 1 ter of the correspondent of the Charleston Cour- ; Washington, Jan. 17.—The President has ■ conferred with a number of members of the i House, of different parties and given them in | timation us to the present condition of our i foreign relations, which ought to induce them ■ to complete their organization. I Yesterday the Cabinet determined, after a I long sitting, to suspend diplomatic relations with England. This bold and decided, if not rash measure, has been adopted for the reason that the President, in the present condition of the House, cannot communicate a special mes sage upon the state of our relations with Eng land, to Congress. It was his purpose to send in a message, stating that the British Government had finally refused to make any further explanation o’s their orders for the prosecution r f their recrui ting services in this country. In the annual message of the 31st ult.’ the President states that he wculd communicate to Congress the result of the pending question upon the enlist ing case. < The final answer of the British Government came out by the Atlantic. The ultimatum of the British Government amounts not only to an utfer refusal of further explanation, but is accompanied with a declaration from the head of the Government—Lord Palmerston—that I he will bring before Parliament upon its meet ing. the whole subject of American affairs, and will advise that the Government shall adhere to stand they have taken npon the enlistment question aud the Central Americon question. The answer is considered by the Administration as rude, harsh, and unfriendly. One thing more was necessary to make hostile—and that one thing has happened, as the Government is advised—the British Government have again ordered another re-inforcement for the West India squadron. Though no alarmist, yet knowing what is passing in the Executive Goverment, I must say that our affairs are in u most critical posi tion. You will scarcely believe it, but it is a fact, that yesterday the Cabinet, after a pro longed session decided in favor of the suspen sion of diplomatic intercourse with England.— Mr. Buchanan is to be withdrawn, with a dec laration that no other Minister will btaccred ited to that Government, until it shalHassume a more friendly attitude towards the U. B. This course, as you may remember, was adop ted by our Government towards France, during I the administration of John Adams. He sus pended diplomatic intcreourse, and in a{* mes sage to congress declared that he would not resume it. until France was prepared to do us justice. 3he result was that, through our Min ister at the Hague, an intimation was given that th" French Government was prepared to treat on more liberal terms, and Messrs. Mar shall Pickney and Gurry were sent out as cdhi missioners. But. in this case, there is no prob ability that the British Government will, while that wild, wilful, blundering” Palmerston, as Lord Grey’s frietals used to denominate him shall remain at the head of the Ministry. From the Swunnah Georgian, Minutes of Points decided by the Supreme Court at Savannah, January Term, 1856. BY THOMAS U. E. COBB, REPORTER TO THE COURT. Phillips vs. Phillips from Montgomery—l. A bequest of a negro was to A. for life; and alter her death “to become the property of B." In a subsequent part of the will the testator said ■I-give and bequeath” lhe negro to B. after the death of A. Held that the remainder was vested in B. and that the increase of the negro during the life estate passed to the remain derman. Gaulden for Piss: Shewmake for Deft. Akin vs. Anderson, from Chatham—l. Un der act of 1819, giving the property of free persons of color to their “descendants,” a sister cannot claim as a descendant. 2. The wife of a free person of color takes bis realty in preference to hie sister. DeLyon for Pl’ff; Gordon for Def’t New Line of Atlaxtic Steamers.—The Montreal Ocean Steamship Company have giv en notice that five first-class powerful screw steamers will form the government mail line between Montreal and Liverpool. The stea mers are named North America, Anglo-Saxon. Indian. Canadian, and Sardinian. They are to leave each city semi-monthly. The North America is to leave Liverpool on Wednesday, the 23d of April, and on her return leave Mons treat on the 24th of May; the others follow in regular succession. ©gF* Maj. E. A. Ogden, U. S. A., was among the victims of the cholera at Fort Riley, Ist August. His friends have erected a very hand-1 some monument to hia memory, with a suitable. inscription. ] I'xoi’. Bache on tlie Stream Prof. Bache says that the Norwegian p< u 1 ant who picked up on the shore of his couiitr; • unknown fruits, and the inhabitant, ol Scotian 1 who found the logs of the cotton wod, knei 2 that these were products of another land. ’I Ii ■ botanist knew that they grew in a mere genit ■ clime, but, the route by which they came wa • conjectural. The facts were early known, am were thought to indicate a north west passage they proved at least that the fruits of the South ’ ern point of North America were landed oi Northern Europe. He went on to say tha the beat of Ute sun was the cause of motion ii ■ I the air. He described the log in the vallevs on a Summer morning, resting in the valleys I and shrouding the rivers and the lakes, but si in motion by the snn, and rising to the moun i tain tops, to be diffused as a haze through tin i atmosphere. These ma tes show Jhe motion o I the air. The same process is carried on, on r great scale in the great belt which is traverse! by the annual course of the sun, ai d the coast- I ets and landsmen of temjierate iTgiops have in I idea of form and regularity of the winds ol t in I topics, which point with the accuracy of tin | hands of a clock to the position of the sun.— I These winds carry the waters to the equatorial i regions, and give rise to the circulation long | known, two gn at streams of which are known as the North Atlantic or Gulf Stream, mid tin ; Asiatic Stream in the North Pacific. | Ponce de Leon in 1512 may be considered I the discoverer of the Gull Stream, and Anto | nia D’Allmenes, the pilot of Fortes, sail d a ] long it to bear the news of the conqn.st*o|. Cortes to Europe. The first delineation that by Dr. Franklin in 1769-70, and the in I formation was principally derived from Capt; i Folger, a Nantucket shipmaster. Franklin wa- I then in the management of the post office, and' I the circumstance that, the merchant ships from Europe to Rhode Island made their passages a fortnight sooner than the Falmouth packets to New York, excited the attention of AgJL>rds of the Admiralty. Capt. Folger exptiiitv dit by saying that the Rhode Island captains w. re aware of the existence of the Gulf Stream, and avoided its current. Prof. B, showed a chart drawn, by Dr. Frank lin, and which has been copied into" modern books without acknowledgement. He alluded to Ma jor Rennell’s chart of the currents of the ocean, and various valuable papers on the sudject of the stream contributed by Lieut. Maury. In the hydrographic department of the coast survey, the temperature had been regarded the leading fetrturo of the stream, nd the observer had been directed to go below the surface to a void the disturbing influence of winds, rain, &c. It was difficult to carry on these investigatiors. for the pressure increasing at the rate of an ad ditional atmosphere for every 29 feet of depth soon broke the thermometers. Mr. Saxton of the coast survey had invented a thermometer consisting of a spiral slip of silver and one of platinum of about four inches in length, sold ered together. These metals expand unequally and the coil is wound up or the reverse by a change of temperature. An index cun be made to mark this change and thus a thermometer is obtained which is applicable to any depth of water. Another instrument Massey’s Lead, is used to ascertain the depth of the wa ter, and with these two the depth and tempera ture are accurately measured. Sections of the stream arc measured at right angles with the coast line and with the axis of the stream, which conforms to the main direction of the coast. The bst time of observing is Summer, both because the navigation is less dangerous and the surface is less affected by rains, winds and the cooling of (he air. Lieut Charles 11. Davis was the first observer in 1815—he had found bottom in 1,300 fath oms, and it consisted of Cue clay, which Prof. Bailey of West Point pronounced to consist almost entirely of the shells of iyfusoriff. The speaker paid u high tribute to the scientific la bors and industry ol Lieut, George N. Bar be another observer who perished in a storm 81li September, 1846. He discovered a wall of cold water bounding the stream on the nst. the warm water overflowing it on the surface. Lieuts. Maffitand Craven had discovered ridges of hills in the southern portion of the stream. And the latter observer found in the Straits of Florida a stream of cold water only three degrees above the freezing point below the warm current of the gulf. The difficulties of observing were very great; the section of] Nantucket was attempted to be observed three times and as ofton resulted in a failure. A number of diagrams were exhibited show ing the temperature at various depths at the cold wall. 'J’he temperature diminished rapidly from the surface, and after reaching a tempera ture of 37 degrees than slowly, the line marked by the temperatures and debth being what mathematicians call the logarithmic lurvc. This Prof. Bache said, was identical with the curve indicating the conduction of heat slowly downward through water. 'J’he curve at th< axis of the stream was different, indicating di ur bonce and motion in the fluid. At othn points t e curves were of a mingled character. Another set of diagrams showed the distribu tion of heat at the surface on the section aero.- .Sandy Hook. There were three bands of cold water alternating with warm on this Stu ds Hook section. Prof. Bache ascribed these bands to the conformation of tho bottom. There were three ranges of submarine hills, tl,< inner one 1,500 feet high, the second 800, the third 300. The lecturer concluded and was greetto with hearty applause by the audience. DSp-The National Intelligencer publishes :: letter from a friend who has recently visited tie- Crimea, and examined, with a crtieal eye, its. military works. Speaking of the tremendou sweeping fire which the French had to nice' in trenching toward the Malakoff for two miles over a level narrow ridge, he says that •‘Fiance will never know the number of French men sacrificed in those two miles.” The Mid akoff itself, he says, is not a steep tower, bein' only twenty feet to its top above the level o. approach by the French, but its great strength lay in its commanding position, and he think if the Russians had exercised extreme vigi lance, they might have defied the French and everytbinge.se. The French, it appears, had trenched up to within sixty or seventy feet ol the Malakoff. According to the estimates of seveial French officers, forty thousand brav< fellows slept their last sleep and fought their last bat tle, in the assault upon that famous tow er. The correspondent adds that the Russian? appear to be surrounded by very heavy for i fications on the North side, extending from hill to hill up the Tchernaya, as far as he could see with a glass. These fortifications, he says are far stronger than those on the South side. The Petersburg Express says that at City Point the people are passing ov# to Ber muda Hundred and returning, the ice being con sidered of sufficient strength for the crossing of a team. This is certainly a state of things ua usual for that latitude. WM. KA/ PROPRIETOR NUMBED 25. LA TEST N EWS? J”" „ * Uuteriiom luurwpe. A ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP I ' AFRICA ( [telegraphed expressly FOR the daily ex am INER.) Aug ,sta Jan. 23- 3 p. tn. The Sf’anier Africa has arrived. Ih' political intel igei.ee she brings is uu ni portant. Cotton —Some circulars indicate a decline of ] -4d.; oth( rs quote it as unchanged. Suhs of the week 18000 bales. ■ !• iirthcr by the Africa, i New York Jan. 23.-0 ’ the sales of t i week spoeulators mid exporters, each took 1000 i bales, 'rhe quotations were nm changed since the last, s teamer. Corn had advanced 6d. at. I I Wheat 2d. r orn tending upward. Canal Flour 40 a . 125.. Oh 042 a 445.. Southern 41 a 435. Red t U hen’ 1 Is. 3,1. a i Ja . 9J< hite Corn 4(J & 40s. Fellow 425. a 43s 9J. Rice firm at 32 I a 355. j 'flie answer of Russia to the Austrian ulti - nntuni cannot arrive 111 the 10th. It is ex | pected to contain neither an absolute assent or i rcfllsa, > I’ 1 ’! will p.obably consist of counter to be settled by a renewed Confer ence. Public feeling in France mid England was again becoming warlike, and Russia continues incessant preparations for war. The- French blew up the docks at Sebastopol on the 22d. Affairs in Asia were unchanged. Our Foreign Relations. Washington, Jan. 22. The following statement in reference to bur Foreign Relation may be relied upon as authe tic and official. The American Government lias demanded the recall of Mr. Crampton- Mr. Buchanrn will not be recalled except nt his own request. No Special Message relative to Foreign Affairs has been contemplated by the Presi dent, nor has such a message been the subject of Cabinet delibrations. Mr. Boyce’s resolution was offered to-day without the previous knowl edg of the Executive. Negotiations betwe n the United States and Great Britain are still open. Washington Rumtors. The geneally well informed r»td ecut ions cor respondent of the South Side Democrat, thus writers under date of Washing t 0„ J„ n 17th “There is a well fonded rn.J m’losf here that the next four or five w ..,. « h ibit movements indicating the f tl - , ; ;1 great plunder party, embracing a t ... s>*tween the Southern Know Nothing! aaok Re publican, and disaffected u,” with Crittenden ns its candidate for ’residency standing on the spoils plutfi,;;.,. It j s under stood hue that Seward and Grecly, despairing ol ob aining possession of the government, through their recent antislavOry fusion move ment. have given in their adhesion to this new scheme, mid that in the course of sixty days the corrupt league will a.-sume a well defined und unmistakable shape. heir hopes of being able to sweep the most of the North and to carry Ki ntncky, Jennessee, Mrrylund. and Georgia and perhaps other States at the South. 5 ou may rely on it that this plan of getting charge of the federal treasury, bus been talked of for weeks past among the hegb contracting perties and is now prclty well agreed upon. The Botts movement in Virginia is to be part of the programme." , I here may lie a rumor, that such an arrange inent is hoped for, but. we have no idea that ■o"nd Southern men can be inveigled iu any «uch combination. 4@“K\-Gov. Tom Corwin has broken Ills thigh, by a full on the ice at Cincinna ti. .Seizure of Ambriz by the Poiitcocfsk. Ambriz, on the w<st coast of Africa, has been tuMi posses ion of by the Portngues govern ment. An expedition was secretly fitted out nt Lisbon, consisting of a frigate, two brigs of war an J a transport. A governor and four hundred troops embarked, ai d on arriving at Ambriz a proclamation was published, stating the object of the expedi ion to be that of chas tising the natives for some annoyances lately given to Portuguese residents. Thu governor ad no sooner landed his troops tlufti the no. tives all fled ; nun, after burning several de fenceless towns, he commenced erecting a fort, forming entrenchments and temporary public building. A proclamation declares that the place is to be considered a porto franco for all nations for twelve months, after which time du ties and imposts are to be levied on all foreign hips undgoods, as at Loando. It remains to be seen what view the British government will fake of these proceedings; but they were view 'd with the greatest anxiety and alarm by the British und other foreign traders on the coast, and must involve questions of serious importance to all parties connected with the legitimate trade to Africa, now so greatly increasing. An Appropriate Prayer.—a miserly church member becoming excited by a sudden burst of eloquence from the minister, clapped his hands, and shouted out— “ Thank God for a free gospel 1 Twenty-five years have I been a church member, aud it has not cost me as many coppers!” “And may the Lord forgive your stingy soul!” exclaimed the preacher. BQy* A western e litor, in speaking of’ one of the newly-elected Senators, says that his ignorance is so dense, that the auger of common sense will be longer iu boring through it, than it would take a boiled carrot to bore throuh Mont Blanc.