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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY EXAMINER. CIRCULATIOIV 0 3?’ ’£» lEE E3 7SZ 3K J2L 11W E3 ISOOO COFIEH! JOHN H. STEELE, 1 „ CHAS. I- BARBOUR. f - Ed,to «' VOLUME 11.. THE WEEKLY EXAMINER n Publhed every Frida yinxrnini <i the City of Atlanta, at * ONE DOLLAR PEW ANNUM, To be paid strictly in ailv, ce. J3T No subscription tai en for less than s months. RATES OF ADV iIRTISING. Advertisements are insert 1 in the Wkekly Examines 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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Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Laud or Ne groes, must be published for two months. , CitutionH for letters of Administration, Guar lianship &c., must be published 30 days—for dis mission from Administration, monthly six months -—for dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgagee <nust 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, whore bond has b :en given by tbu de ceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless other wise ordered, at the following Rate? • Citations on letters of Adn luisttation &c. $2 75 do do dinmissory om Adminw- . .• 4 Do (.ration, .. . . o Citation on dismbwory froir Guardianship, 3 0 Leave to sell Land or Neg* e», 4 « Notice to debtors and cred*-us. •> Sales of personal property, t ■ * days, 1 square 1 •> Sales of land or negroes by Lxecutors, &c. 5 00 Estrays, two weeks, ~ ' For a man advertising his wife, (in advance,) o u Letters on business must be (post paid) to en title them to attention. THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1856. Speech of Hon. M- J- Crawford. We are indebted the Iba M. J. -Crawford, for a copy of his speech in the House of Repre sentatives in opposition to the Majority report of the Committee on Elections recommending the sending for witnesses in the Kansas contested election case. Wc regret we’eanuot lay it before our readers in order that they too might enjoy the clear and logical conclusions Mr. Crawford in it draws upon the subject. Wc are compell ed, however, to forego the pleasure to do so would afford us,from the limited space we have at present to appropriate to such matter. The effort of Mr. Crawford, upon this occasion, is one that reflected credit, both upon himself and the constituency he represents, and will do much to increase (if possible) the confidence of the latter in the ability of their Representative. Consistency. The Augusta Constitutionalist complains of the know nothing party of that city that they do not stick to their “ first principles,” and shows up the consistency of the “ Order ” after this fashion : “The Know Nothings make it a cardinal * point that forigners should not hold office. The-intensely American’ sort have quite an abject horror of any but natives ruling Amer ica. If the principle holds good in national, why not in city matters? Are there not na tives enough of Augusta—or at least citizens, to fill all the offices? -But our good Know Nothing Council have overlooked both native and adopted citizens in tilling the new office of Recorder—an office which gives the incumbent power to fine and to imprison, and is therefore the most potent of all "in its gift. The Know Nothing Coun cil have bestowed the office on one who has not been here even long enough to entitle him to a vote —one, therefore, not a citizen. “The new Recorder is a worthy gentleman, and we doubt not, will make a good officer. We make no objection to him. But is Know Nothingism in Augusta always consistent with itself? It objects to sqtattera from abroad vo ting in Kansas, yet it brings a gentleman not entitled even to vote in our city, and squats him down into the Recorder's chair to rule over the natives." We thought our cotemporary understood the matter, and rather wondered at the query why national principles could not be made to apply city mat turs? Those national principles have ? a mythical sort of existence, ami like china toys, were never made for use. W hen you bring them down to practice, then you find the »n --siibstautial character of their texture. F .tla delphiu platforms, at a distance, look well enough, for our near-sighted American, frfoiwh, but when brought home to them, they have a conveaieut practice of ignoring certain sections, ‘or certain local purposes, like the Augusta THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL ANO NEWS PAPEB IN TH:' SOUTH—A WEEKLY FIEESIDE COMPANION FOR ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Recorder’s case. And why shouldn’t they, pray ? Hasn’t it been satisfactorily demonstrated that they have no national existence? What use have they for national principles then ? Why should they not be allowed to “ ignore ” what they have no use for ? We comend their course is, so far, entirely consistent— they never acted any other way. The Charleston Mercury on the Geor gia Platform. The Charleston Mercury thus represents, or rather mtrnpresente, the position of Georgia, and the States that have ratified her determination, uponquestions of national import: “The South did submit—State after State. Not one could bo found to ‘-bell the cat.” ■ But Georgia undertook to “lay down a platform;” to say under what circumstances she would resist, “if they did it again.” Strange is it, that platform of resistance emits the very meas ure by which the South bad been sacrificed in the case of California, and which Georgia de clared she only acquiesced in “for the sake of peace.” While it is declared that Georgia “will resist” the refusal of Congress to admit a State into the Uaion, on account of its adoption of slavery, not a word is said of the case of Congress admitting a State which ex cludes slavery, in a constitution adopted by a faction or handful of squatters, and under the presure of the means and appliances us din the case of California. “This platform has been lately re-affirmed by conventions of the Democratic party in Geor gia and Alabama. Yet, with all the lights afforded by the late procecings in Kansas, it does not appear to have occurred to these Southern men, that the interests of the South can in any way be compromised except in the contingencies enumerated by Georgia. Enga ged in the old game of President-making; in party contests for power—that bane and curse of the South—they lose sight of the urgent question about to press upon them, or foolishly imagine that a President of the Uuitcd States can fight their battles. It is into the same game and delusion that we in Both Carolina arc now invited to enter.” We have no complaints to make of the Mer cury for its views upon the admission of Cali fornia. The reasons for the action of our State, in the premises, have been fully set forth, and if the Mercury views the matter differently, it is only a difference of opinion which we do not care now to discuss. But we do complain of the reflections upon the patriotism of our people, contained in the above extract. If, in the eye of the Mercury, Georgia is inexcusable for not having, before this, hastily, and without due consideration, dissolved the tics that bind her to the Union, it is not the province of that paper to charge her with want of firmness or of attachment to the honor and the constitution al rights of the South, or to accuse us of flinch, ing from the issue, for paity purposes. It is because there w hope for the Union—a Union not derogatory to the South—that Georgia has not determined to desert it. That hope, we grant, is but a small one, scarcely able amid the discordant elements which whirl and seethe around the capitol at Washington, but Georgians are too honorable to leave it un nourished while it remains in their power to quicken it into life. Our noble Stale, true to tic instincts of our fathers has, history will abundantly prove, stood attacks of the enemy of our common country with a self-sacrificing devotion not less patriot ic than any of her sister States—shocks which, proportionally with her capacity for endurance, were equal with those borne by any other—and notwithstanding her determined resistance, upen several occasions, of the misapplied power of the general government, she has never been found wanting in respect for the Union to which she, in common with her sister States, owes to much for her prosperity. Nor will she ever desert it at [he dictation of near-sighted politi cians who cannot discern the least remaining hope of its honorable perpetuity. But, while she is so patriotically and wisely tenacious to the gift of her forefathers, the imputation that participation in the spoils of office is the cement which binds her to the Union, is a misrepresen tation not warranted by her past history, or her present position. No State—and wo say it proudly—occupies a nobler attitude towards the Union, or cne more consistent with the hon or of her sons, than Georgia. Tis true, she stands by the Union, and is willing topour out the blood of her nobly descended sons in its de fence from attacks, external or internal, but when the price of her adhesion is dishonor “hen the tribute it demands is the sur rounding of her sovereign constitutional r ghts, she will as remorselessly sunder her con nection with it, as the blindest secessionist of South Carolina would now do. But the congre gated intelligence of our State, not less wise or chivalrous than the editor of the Mercury, docs not regard that condition placed upon her adherence to the general government, and though she is menaced, she sees yet no justification for disregarding her obligations to it, and would scorn to desert it iu this, the hour of its (Hal, no matter who may meanly beckon her away from her duty, or, in impotence of wrath at lier refusal to follow such unwise advisers, heap upon her such ungenerous and untruthful charges as. by implication, the extract we clip from the Mercury contains. When the time comes, which we have too much cause to fear it may, the editor shall see that Georgia will maintain her proud position in the van of re sistance, and put to shame those who hastily reflect upon her courage, aid charge her with interested motives. Au experienced sea captain of Phila delphia informs the Philadelphia Inquirer, that he is of opinion that the pieces of a steamer's cabin seen in lat. 40 deg. and long. 49 deg.. eould not have belonged to the missing Pacific. He thinks that they were portions of a large i steamer wrecked some two or three months 1 since, at or near lhe Bahamas, and that, forced ; into the Gulf Stream by the winds, tl ev floated ; to the north-east towards the place of discoverv. I A young son of U. S. Minister Wbkklsr 1 I was accidentally shot oh the 16th ult, by a gun ■in the bands us an cider brother. Though se j verely, he was not fatally wounded. El Nica- ■ rugticr.se uetices the first deserter, James i Bitche, from Walker's army—fifty dollars re | word was ofiered for hiu. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 27. 1856. Tlie Douglas Victory in Chicago. Wc lay before our readers the result of the t election in Chicago yesterday. It is gratifying to the lovers of freedom every where. We have had to encounter the greatest combinations that a gallant party had yet to oppose. A gainst us were arrayed the entire K. N, party; the entire abolition party; tiie entire Anti-Ne braska party ; the entire Maine law party; and all the odds and ends of all factions and isms that find a home in this fair city. We have not only had to encounter open and avowed enemies, but we have had to meet the most unblushing falshoods, villification and shin der that ever disgraced the lips of men or stained the columns of public journals. That distant readers may form a faint idea of the powers against us, we will state that F. C. Sherman had, up to first day of February, 1856, been a member of the Democratic party, with out suspicion of being tainted with any of the isms of the day. When the Democratic party made its nomination, Mr. Sherman was spoken of as a man calculated to divide our ranks and weaken our forces. He became the candidate of all his personal and immediate politcal friends who desired revenge upon the party for not se lecting Sherman. Following rapidly upon this nomination by the disaffected Democrats, was his unanimous nomination by the Know Noth ing Convention. Hardly had he been pro claimed the Know Nothing candidate before the “Republican” or Abolition party, under the specious cry of “Anti Nebraska,” selected him as its candidate. One would think this array of opposition was formidable enough : but in the two “Know Something” lodges, com posed principally of foreigners, lie was also nominated. The entire Maine law party wheel ed into his support, and all the strength, power and corrupting influence of a vast body of po lice and city officials. John Wentworth, with his corrupt troop of mercenary foreigners— gave himself entirely to the enemy. We had to contend against everything t'mt was base and villainous. Banks were opened and money poured like water through the hands of bribing men into the willing palms of unprinci pled voters. The Know Nothing organ and the German newspaper united hands to defeat the Democracy. The name of Douglas was on the lips of every ribald ruffian, and men wear ing the cloth of clergymen joined their voices with the. men who named Douglas with the epithets of villain, ruffian, slaveholder and mur derer. Every imaginable issue that could be conjured up was presented. “Rivera and harbors,” the murder of drowned seamen, the wreck of prop erty, the chains of slaves in Kansas, the walls of slaves in South Carolina—all were sung up on every breeze, and they bad their effect upon ths result. In spite of all this, the banner of Democracy this morning floats proudly over Democratic Chicago. The issue of the right of the people of Kansas and of each State and community to regulate and decide their own domestic concerns, was forced upon us, and we could not refuse it, even if we were willing. We met it, and as has been the case every where else where the issue has been boldly met. we hare triumphed. To say that we are individual rejoiced would be but feebly to express our feelings. The Chicago Times has borne the brunt of the con test, and, though if our ticket had been defeated, ' we would have borne our banner just as proud ly as ever; still the victory, coming as it does, after a conflict in which we stood alone, is even more gratifying than it would have been under other circumstances. We cannot close the account, written at this late hour, without expressing the valuable aid rendered the party by The National Democrat, under the charge of Dr. Koch. Our hearts are too full to-night to add one word to this brief account of an unexpected result of an election, the first one which has ta ken place since November, 1854, in winch the Democracy has met the enemy. Mr. Dyer is elected Mayor by over four hundred majority. Chicago Times, March 5. Another American Triumph. The following article, translated from the Paris Moniteur of February 21st, is tlie record of another victory gained by American inven tive talent in Europe: “The Emperor accompanied by the Minister of War, an aid-de-camp, end an officer of or '- nance, went on the 2d ofFeb.uary to the Seine, near the Military School, to witness some experiments made to exhibit the qualities of a military carriage, ofcorrugated meta’, that Mr. Francis, of New York, had constructed to present to his Majesty. Mr. Francis commenced by giving some in formatioßon the mode of construction, and on the processes employed in giving great strength to a very thin and very light metal, and furn ished a proof of it by.striking the wagoa body with all bis strength,re lows redoubled, and at the same point, with a large, long handled hammer. He afterwards caused the wagon, with all its equipments, to be launched in the water, where it floated like a boat. The men who were iu it, to the number ofsixteeu, placed themselves in a mass on the sides, without being able, in spite of all their efforts to make the sides sink to the level of the water. The wag on afterwards taken into the current of the river, to show that a load could by this means be transported from one bank to the other.with out being necessary to take off the wheels, so that a train of these wagons could continue to follow their route without delay. “Afterwards, tne running gear having been detached, the body was manoeuvred separately, like a boat, with oars. “These experiments obtained the approba tion of his Majesty, who had the goodness twice to ca*l Mr. Francis and congratulate him on his success. “The Emperor caused Mr. Francis to give him detailed information about his metallic boats, which have obtained great celebrity, aud of which the models were on the spot. After a minute examination, which lasted more thau an hour, his majesty showed the interest which he took in these inventions as being as impor- ! tant improvement for the army and mariue! set vice. “At the same time Mr. Francis informed his! Majesty of official news received from the Uni- ■ ted States army, giving acccuut of an exp di- ' tion 1.510 miles over very bail routes—an ex pediation during which his wagons had crossed rivers, floating with ther cargoes from one shore to the other, without any watercourse having been able to arrest their’ march.” tfe?* A dispatch from Washington, dated the 15th inst.. says: “ Information from official sources confirm the statement that an alliance has been formed . between San Salvador, Cpsta Rica, Gautamala and Honduras. “ It is said that the alliance is complete, and that those States are now prepared to defend their own territory, as well as to assist their brethren iu Nicaragua against Walker's gov i ernment. It is supposed that hostilities have ■ already commenced. ' “It is also true that instructions Lave been issued by several of the European governments to their squadrons in the Atlantic and Pacific, with reference to events in Central America. J - B : Kertland, and others, have been convicted of illegal banking at Memphis, Tens. The fine is SI,OOO. and one month's imprison ■cal. Spunky. Washington, March 14. Senate.—Petitions were presented from the merchants and importers of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, asking a revision of the tariff. Mr. Johnson reported in favor of printing thirty-one thousand copies of the majority and minority report of the Committee on Territories on the Kansas case, it being five hundred to to each member. Mr. Trumbull opposed the motion. He thought the minority report presented the sla very question in a masterly manner. Its posi tions are unanswerable, but it did not enter in to details as the majority report; henra he was unwilling to send out. with the Senate’s indorse ment, a document containing so many unwar ranted assumptions, erroneous deductions, and inconsistencies. Mr. Wade asked Mr. Trumbull to yield the floor for adjournment. Mr. Douglas—l hope not. The courtesies of the Senate have been taken advantage of on account of my absence to make au assault on me. Mr Trumbull—No, sir; 1 knew not whether you were present or absent. I was comment ing on the report. I did not introduce the subject, nor did I know it would come up to day. Mr. Douglas—My colleague dares io say in the face of-the fact, that he did not know I was absent. lie acted with unfairness in at tacking the report when I was detained from the Senate by ill health. I would ask him witbin what reasonable time will his speech be printed ? Mr. Trumbull—l think it will be published by Monday. Mr. Douglas—ls I can ask the postponement of the question till Monday, I will reply to Mr. Trumbull’s speech on Tuesday. Mr. Seward—Take your own time. Mr. Douglas (quickly)—l understand that game, “take your own time.” The Senator from Massachusetts took his own time to write and circulate a libel on me about the time the Nebraska bill was reported.’ I understand my colleague to say that he came here as a Dem ocrat. That will be news to the Democracy of Illinois, ami is libel on the Democracy of that State. Mr. Crittenden interposed, saying that the debate was transcending the rules of decorum. The Senator bad charged a libel on Mr. Trum bull. [Sensation.] Mr. Douglas—l should have been better satisfied if the Senator from Kentucky had, when the Black Republicans denounced us in coarse terms, rebuked them for want of cour tesy. Air. Crittenden—To what do you allude ? Mr. Douglas—When they made vulgar coarse partisan assaults on the Democratic side of the Senate. Mr. Crittenden—’Twas no more my busi ness than that of others, to call Senators to order for personalities. This is not the place for vituperation. It should be settled else where. Mr. Douglas—l do not regard the Senator a good authority in I lliuois polities. 1 was speak ing of events of which I was better capable of judging than he. [There was a further colloquy, when the Chair decided that Douglas’ remarks were not personal.] Mr. Douglas—So far as I am advised, I be lieve my colleague was the candidate of a mis erable set of Abolitionists and Know-Nothings, who are one aud the same thing. Mr. Crittenden—l want the Senate to un derstand that I operate with the American party, standing as a gentleman and Senator in absolute independence; and claiming all the respect due to honesty as a freeman, 1 re pel with scorn every imputation of that kind, as intended to embrace me and my political asso ciates. Mr. Douglas (explaining)—l spoke of what I know Know-Nothingisai is in Illinois, and said it might be otherwise in the South. Every Know Nothing Lodge in Illinois adopted the Abolition creed, aud that is the miserable fac tion which sent my collegue here. The Sena tor from Kentucky misunderstood me, else he would not have conceived that my remarks were personal tower Is him. Mr. Crittenden—The gentleman did not make the qualification he now does. Mr. Douglas—Every gentleman must have understood me as making a distinction. I said nothing about Southern Know-Noth-| lags. Mr. Trumbull—l shall not permit such re marks as these from my colleague to pass un answered. I shall suffer no man here or else where to state of me things which arc absolute ly and totally unfounded. If he means to say that I am or ever have been a Know-Nothing, or connected with any secret political organiza tion, the charge is base. 1 wiil not violate the rules of the Senate, but will say that such a charge is untrue. He proceeded tospeak of the politics of Illinois, claiming that she is and al ways has been Democratic. Secret History of tlie Death of Gen. Taylor. A correspondent of the Cleveland Herald was riding in the cars a few days since, and re ports a conversation which passed between the Hou. Thomas Ewing and some one else. Rath er a trespass on private property, we think, but what Ewing said of the death of Gen. Tay'er is very interesting, and ns it has already been in type here it is: I was at the President's house on the third of July,” he said—“ Gen. Taylor had just re ceived au invitation to attend tne celebration on the following day. ind hear a speech by Sen-; ator Foote. Though Mr. Foote was a member' of the opposition party, he was a gentleman, i and the President felt disposed to show him ail ’ the respect possible. He did not. however, i immediately conclude to accept the invitation. I “Having taken my leave. 1 had not yet' reached the street on my return, when a nies-; senger overtook me to say that the President would attend the celebration, and desired that I I should accompany him. Seats were assigned us in the shade of the: Washington Monument. Foote made a good! speech, of reasonable length, and sat down. It 1 was then announced that the c remony of the * presentation of a block by the District of Co-1 lumbia, would take place immediately, at the opposite side of the Monument. The presenta-, tion speech would be made by Walter Jones,: on the part of the District, and the reply would be given by Mr. Seaton, in behalf of tlie Mon ! ument Association. The President asked me !if the speeches would probably be short. As I 1 knew both the speakers to ba men of lew words : and many thoughts, I replied that the exercises ’ would certainly be brief. Accordingly, the President concluded to remain, and we repaired I to the other side of the Monument. I •• Mr. Jones made a speech, which was brief ! and to the point, and sat down. Mr. Seaton 1 then arose aud said that he was gratified to be ! able to announce that Mr. C. had consented to i make the speech in reply to Mr. Jones. I at ' once concluded that we were dead men. I j knew the proposed speaker, and was certain that 'we were doomed to hear a long speech. I en ' deavared to persuade the President to retire. I but he was unwilling to do so. We endured j the intense heat for an hoar and a half before his speech was done. The President went home wearied by the length of the exercises, and suffering from long exposure to the heat.— In the i veuiug I heard that he was violently ill I repaired to the Mansion, and urged the fami ly to call a physician immediately. But the President wa-* unwilling that this should be <L:>e. J then induced the family physician to i eali, as a friend, and request to see Gen. Taylor. I But tlie sick man refused to sec him. On’ the follov/iug afternoon I called again, and as the President desired to see me. I was admitted to his room. He was lying on a sufa apparently destitute of pain, and very cheerful. He desired to hear the n -ws. and I told him of as many agreeable circumstances as I could. When 1 lelt his room, alter ::n hour’s conversation, I was qtvte confident that he would soon be well. I very soon heard, however, that his disease had returned with renewed violence, and that he wits suffering with intense agony. 1 hastened to the telegraph office, to send for his son-in-law, Dr Wood, a skillful physician of Baltimore.— The dispatch could not be sent that night, so that the doctor did not arrive until the next evening—too late to be of any avail. The President failed rapidly, and expired in a short time. I shall ever believe that his death may be traced to the last long speech, which was made on the Fourth of July. Such an effect was, of course, not intended by the speaker.— This is an instance of murder without malice “I immediately handed in my resignation to Mr. Fillmore, to take effect in a few davs!” [From the Sew York Journal of Commerce.'] Increase of the Navy. The history of our national legislation shows that the progress of the country constantly keeps in advance of the estimate of statesmen in all the departments of public affairs. The buildings required for the accommodation of the government officers at Washington, projected seemin Jy at the time on an extravagant scale, is no sooner finished than they are found too contracted for the public wants; aud ev.en the brief interval required for enlargement or sup plementary construction lias to be provided for by hiring private edifices, or the adoption of other inconvenient resorts. The same is true of government buildings elsewhere. The New York Custom House, undertaken with reference to all future time, is too small to afford suitable facilities for the immense business of which it is the theatre. The post office is so cramped for room that it is forced to the expedient of unsightly projections ; and the once venerable church, deformed by successive compilations, now resembles those old hulks of condemned water crafts which one sees in new settlements moored to bay or river shore, built upon, and around, and rooted in, to protect a thriftless tenantry from the elements. So it is with the provision made on the western plains for the protection of emigrant travel. .Parties are compelled to combine iu large caravans, rely ing on their own unaided strength for mutual defence against reckless and desperate savages. Even the armed forces of the government are too weak to maintain their self security.— The small bodies in which they are sometimes compelled to move are not unfrequently encoun tered and overcome by the Indian foe; and even the fortrerses which they garrison cannot he relied on to provide a safe retreat from massacre and c ,:.flagration. Our land force is altogether too small to defer the turbulent from outrage by the terror of its aspect, and, inadequate to prevent crime, it is compelled to wage battle for the infliction of punishment.— Every session of Congress presents us witii a deficiency bill, the necessary expenses of the government having considerably exceeded the appropriations estimated to be necessary to de fray them. Not less true is it that the expan sion of our foreign commerce requires a much larger force of national vessels in commission to extend to it that protection which, not alone its magnitude and importance, but the honor and interest of a great people, in resourc. s co-1 ordinate with the most powerful in the family | of nations, importunately demand. Not only are our ships of war too few to traverse the diverging tracks of American commerce, but for the most part they are not a class to satis fy the exigencies of a modern naval service.— We want steamers instead of sailing vessels.— In time of peace, rapid movement is more necessary than heavy armament It is as a measure of peace, and not in contemplation of war arising out of any existing complications, that the construction of ten steam sloops of war is asked by the government. Occasion for their employment is presented iu every day's expe rience. We want them to counteract the plans and intercept the ventures of fillibusters. We wan to send them to the relief of vessels strug gling with the storms of winter to reach our coast. Those of our fellow-citizens whose ocea siots take them to foreign lands ask their pres ence. if need be to invoke their interposition should tyranny or caprice seek to subvert the right and establish the wrong. Our comm- rec seeks anew extension in the Pacific. The world is looking w ith eager expectancy for the open ing of trade with Japan. The position of our young communities bordering the Western < cean gives us peculiar advantages iu the com petition soon to arise for the benefits of that traffic. The Japanese are a peculiar people. Their government is only to be deterred from repressing the disposition certain to be excited among them for intercourse with foreigners by a show of force that must be always present aud active in its demonstrations of capacity for ex ecuting the resolves of policy or resentment.— We have our part, too. to perform in the de velopment of human know,edge, the promotion of science, and the diil’usii n of Christianity.— All these objects may be vastly encouraged and aided, aud have heretofore, to some extent, been more or less directly performed by the instru mentality of the naval service. There is little danger that tbs navy will be increased out of proportion to the interests which it is needed to subserve. Wc are glad, therefore, that the Sen ate have passed the bill providing for the con struction of ten new screw - e_mcra, and trust there will be no effectual opposition offered to' its passage iu the House. The Secretary of Stats upon the Wail J —A Washington Correspondent of the New I ; York Herald, says : The Secretary of State, so far as tiie question , I of peace or war is concerned, seems as mild as ' ’ a May morning. “Let John Bull swagger and ■ j bluster," he exclaimed yesterday, “oar policy is ] to be firm, dignified anil positive.” These lew : ' words, spoken in great earnestness, give the : key to the whole of our foreign policy towards I Great Britain. We have England in the wrong 1 i adde 1 Marcy, “and we'll keep her there." Yet I know it to be the impression of an adminis ' tration, that, with ail the swaggering and blus ! tering of tiie British ministerv, the British ■ people will never permit themselves to be forc -: ed into an unnecessary and ruinous war with ; tiie United States: aud the tone lately of the Lon ‘ dou Times would warrant us in believing that I: Lord Palmerston himself would not be willing H to press matters to an extreme. I aS- A man n.m?d George Eagan has been re arrested in Boston for the murder of his twin >; sister, a y ung aud beautiful girl, whom it is II said he beat so severely as to crease her death. I. . t Marcy vs. Clarendon.— ■ I Ti e Yankees say “Lord Clarendon Is talking rather scarcy ; 11 But don't let's fight 1 it’s much the best el Ts lat Um Lord have Marcy Foreign Ministers in Washing ton. A very cleyer correspo. dint of the Louisville Courier, writing from Washington, says of the foreign ministers : Yonder, with four dapple, bob-tailed greys, is the turnout of Mr. Almonte, the Mexican Min ister. He drives at a faster gait, and lives at a higher rate than any of the foreign ministers. Soog we see a dashing brace of bays, with a light uncovered wagon. In front, holding the reins, is evidently the proprietor, while behind him sits the footmen. That is Mr. Crampton, the British Minister, about whose recall we have heard so much through the newspapers. He lives in the adjoining city of Georgtown, in no particular style, drives his own team, and sub serves the interests of Her Majesty, Victoria Regina, in a manner worthy of the crowning diplomat, which he is, and nothing more. To continue about foreign ministers, I find that they are below par, very considerably- not that they have no grace, and manners, and reputation, and talents, and all that sort'of things but they lack-the cash and that is indispensable to currency iu Washington society. M/ De Sartiges. the French Minister, has actually been banished from this city by the force of fashionable will. And why? It chanced that in his odd, fanciful way, ho re cently called at a party given at Senator Bay ard’s (of Delewar*) residence, and entered the parlor smoking a cigar. He was remonstrated with concerning the impropriety, and rcsporu del that it was but an American prejudice against his conduct. The Senator gave hitn I notice to quit, and public sentiment tfcjjujL agair-t him. he has sh.ee lhen alis* self from the city, save when he has hawlcsi ness with the State department. Baron Stce. kle, the Russian Minister, likewise lives in New York. Tlie members of the other foreign p:\vers are but inferior personages—chiefly distinguishable by their long coats, long hair, long beards and long faces. They hurry about with ungainly strides, and unchristain gestures, speaking in foreign tongues, and evidently, though among us, not of us. One Ki ndred and Eighty Thousand Dol lars worth of Cotton Destroyed. —Quite a brisk fire started into existence about seven o'clock on Friday morning, among a lot of cot ton piled in the third yard of the lower cotton press, Third District. The fire was observed a few minutes before by the yard cleak, who tried to quench it, but the flames spread with too great a velocity to be stopped by the menus and appliances at his command. Not more than ten minutes elapsed from the time the fire was first discovered until the entire cotton shed and all was in flames. Not only the cotton in this shed, but that stored in two adjoining sheds was destroyed. The three sheds in question are now a mass of ruins. A brick wall, front ing on Greatmen street, fell, and falling on an employee of the yard, broke his leg. He was removed to his home for surgical attendance.— There was a rumor afloat at one time that five or six other persons were under the wall, crush ed in by rubbish. This, we are glad to say. was not the case. A number of fire engines, together with the “Y< ung America” steam en gine, were on the ground, but owing to the scarcity of water little good was tha remit.— M hen our “Young America” was playing away right rapidly, with six branch hose, bearing heavily on the smanldcriag rem nant of the conflagration. A strong opinion is aboard that t e whole thing is the work of an incendiary. If it had occurred iu the night time, there is no knowing or calculating on the loss of property which would have taken place. Another very fortunate circumstance is, besides that of the fire haying taken place in the day light, that Ferdinand street intersected the cotton yard at a point where the wall fell, and hence the progress of the fire was cut off from the cotton in the yard between that street and the river. We learn the property was ins: red in three different insurance offices—in the Cresent, tbu Merchants’ and in another office, the name of which our reporter cnuld not ascertain. Strong censure fails on the Water Works Company in this, as in other cases similar, where prop erty could have been saved if there was only a proper supply of water.—A'. O. Sam and Sambo.—The editor of the Hart ford Couraut, an abolition Know Nothing or gan, insists with great pertinacity, that Sam aud Sambo are one and the same person, or, it separate beings, that they are the children of the same parents, and twin brothers so far as size, looks and complexion arc concerned. After defining his own position at considerable length, the editor comes to the following conclusions : “ Wc have, then, the two ideas—Republi canism and Americanism. Is there any clash ing between them? Not the slightest. They are brothers ; there is no earthly uece.sity for the slightest collision. They are a smart pair of Yankee twins ; such boys as it would glad den any father's heart to see ; such boys ou only a bad man would wish to set a fighting. Let Sam aud Sambo keep good friends. There is no necessity for jealousy or collision.” Old Dennis kept a grocery store, re tailed petrified hams, bar soap, eggs, cheese, etc in fact he kept evrything in the provision line, from a salt codfish to dried apples. Old Den nis stuttered awfully; and the letter T would stick to his mouth like a gloss on water in an alderman’s throut. The old man once went in to a store to get a skein of silk, the clerk knew him. and when he commenced asking for a sk -sk the young man dodged down behind tlie counter, rushed out of the back door, arid went to dinner, getting back just as the old man had managed to finish the word “silk,” You may infer from this that he stuttered very bad. 1 was in his grocery one day, when a well-known withered old maid came in. Like most old maids, she was os particular os she was homely. When she made her appearance I dodged be hind a barrel of mackerel, to hear old Dennis talk to her ladyship. Miss Totten (that was her name,) asked the old man •• if he had any fowls ?" He replied that he had, and proceeded to show them up. She lifted a fine fat chicken of five Summers, and after handling it long enough to make a two year old rooster tender, sue raised oae of its wing’, and taking a good smell underneath, she threw it down with the exclamation, Mr. Dennis, that chicken smells trowsy ! ’ Old Dennis was considerably “ riled." •• Ma-Miss To-To-Totten,” said he, " I gu-gu gess, t-t take you aud rise up your arms, and st-st-ick one’s n-n-nose under, you'd smell frowy t-t too ’ Miass Totten slid, and so did I. Arrest of a Georgia Convict.—The Charleston Evening Seres, of Suturoay, says : •• About 10 o’clock lost night officers McDow ell aud Twohill arrested Calvin Lewis, an escaped convict from the Penitentiary at J/ill edgeviUe, Ga. He was found in bed’with his brother, at the house of Mr. Veroxrt, on L : ne street. He was put in the Penitentiary for robbi: the Georgia; . Iroad. He was remand ed to j .reson, where he will be kept till the au thorities at Milledgeville can be heard from. Washington, March 9.—la the ladies’ parlor of the National Hotel this afternoon, a man named Stuart, of Louisville, Ky., knocked down another named Mays, of Washington. The latter shot at him with a pistol, the bullet gra zing Stuart's clothes. The affray originated in a ; rQcitd • La Marseillaise, tlie celebrated French National Hymn. The following brief history of this world renowned national anthem, from the columns of one of our exchanges, wiil be interesting. history of this song, now heard in France no more, now crushed down in the hearts of the French people and made to give way to Partant pour/a S’y/ue, is not without interest as a matter of history. It was co i - posed, both words and music, by a young royal ist officsr of artillery, Rouget de Lisle by mime. He was stationed at Strasburg at the time when France was heaving with the throes of the revohitiop. He was famed throughout the country as a favorite ol the muses of poetry and song. The winter of 1792 was one of scarcity in Strasburg, and at the table of a poor acquaintance, Deitrick, who could set but little food before his guest, DeLisle 'always found at least a bottle of generous wine. It was on an evening of this gloomy season of want and turmoil, when Deitrick and DeLisle were warming themselves with the old ‘Faler nian,’ that the former proposed to the latter that he should produce ‘one of those hymns i which convey to the souls of the people the ! enthusiasm which suggested it.’ De Lisle repair-; cd at midnight to his lodgings, and there, on j his clavicord, now composing the air, iu a sort: of frenzy struck off’a hymn, ‘which,’ says a dis tinguished French writer ‘seems a recovered echo of Thermopylae—it was heroism sung.’ Over come at length and exhausted lie fell asleep, and it was not until the next day that he wrote out the hymn and presented it to his friend Deitrick. The hymn of the country was found. Alas! it proved the requ’em to poor Deitrick. He went to the scaffold to its notes, within a year. “It flew from city to city. At the opening and closing of tho clubs in Marseilles, it was sung, and hence its name. De Lisle himself, proscribed as a royalist, heard that song when fleeing for safety from his country, and what he had created iu-a moment of enthusiasm and as an incentive to freedom, became the death cry-of the revolutionists, and stirred the blood of desperate men to the most fearful deeds of tyranny and terror.” The Great Fillibuster.—“Tho kingdom of Oude has been annexed,” is the brief and cool announcement by telegraph, from Trieste, of the latest news from India. It is thus the rapacious subjects of Victoria piece her opulent empire with kingdoms. Onde contains twenty four thousand square miles, and three millions of inhabitants. The soil is fu lof that warlike ingredient, saltpetre—and nourishes all agricul tural products to fruitful growth. WitL Oude perishes the last representative of Hindoo na tionality, although her independence had been guaranteed by regular treaties with Great Bri tain, rendered the more solemn and obligatory because a valuable consideration, in the form of a cession of territory and sacrifice of indepen dence, was paid as the price demanded for the protection of England. Tims tho provinces ol India are violently wrested from their sovereign owners by English brute force, upon the hypo critical pretext that the cause of humanity and civilization demand it. What is the history of British rule in India but a tale of oppression and horror? Even Englishmen, familiar with India affairs, have acknowledged that the Bri tish yoke is the most cruel to which the Hin doos have ever been subjected. Lord Metcalf, so long employed in India, describes the tyran ny of England as almost unbearable in many things. A/aeaulay, partisan as he is, docs noi venture to assert otherwise. No Hindoo can hold any office but a subordinate one. No Hindoo is trusted with a command in the army. It is a tyranny of race as well as of power.— Boston Post. Compartments in the Collins Steamers. —The bulkheads—eight in number t which the Messrs. Steers are putting into tlie Baltic, now in the dry dock, at tho foot of Market street, are built in the most substantial maime -. and may be considered thoroughly waterpn of The kelson is Covered with oaken plank, water tight ; a stanchion is run up to the deck above, and a section of kiln-dried yellow pine pitink two inches thick, tongued and grooved tegetii cr, and firmly fastened to the sides of the' ves sel, is constructed. Upon this is iastone:! :> coat of white turpntine, audit is afterwards covered with a very thick blanket. Another section of yellow pine plank is built over this —the planks ruuning transversely to those of the first section—and the whole is riveted to gether with an immense number of bolts. The Messrs. Steers have already fitted up the At. lantic (while in the water) with the same num ber of bulkheads, similarly constructed. The Adriatic wii be furnished with bulkheads aftci launching. The statement already made that the Pacific was provided with bulkheads, lias been widely discredited. We are infornu< however, upon good authority, that one bulk head (in her bew) was placed in her two voy age’ ago. It was the intention of the owners to fit her up, on her return from this trip, us thoroughly as her consorts have been.— Journal The Case of Mr. Crampton.—A Wash ington correspondent says that the British Minister has delayed the contemplated answer to the despatch of recall of Mr. Crampton and the consuls, until time shall have been afforded for collecting cer tain information on matters of fact introduced into that recapitulation of the whole case.— The statement of fact understood to be in dispute between the two governments, refers to the enlistments alleged to have been made after Lord Clarendon’s disclaimer of an intention to violate the laws of the United States, and after the issue of the order which he states had been given to discontinue the recruiting. Mr. Marcy will have no difficulty in proving to the. satisfaction of the British Ministry, the allega tions made by him on this head, and it is be lieved that Mr. Crampton will admit them.— 1 his state of the cass gives countenance to the conjecture- that Mr. Crampton may be promo ted in the diplomatic service, and transferred to another station.— Balt. Amer. E®- The last invention is a plan for cooking without fire, described in the Scientific Ameri can. The invention is a combination of tin cooking dishes, placed one above another, the bottom of one vessel fitting on the top part of th* dish below. In the lower dish ot all, a small quantity of quick lime is placed, and then, by means of a tube, cold water is introduced upon the lime. Chemical action generates in tense heat, whereby the articles on the dishes are quickly cooked, ready for the table. A young woman, who gave the name of Ann Linden, was arrested at New York last j week as a vagrant She was dressed in male attire, and stated that she had assumed the dress to save herself from insult and to gain better compensation for her labor. According to the narrative she gave, she had, for three or four years, dressed as a boy, and worked as bar-keeper, cabin boy and waiter. I and may have taken possession of one or two i sleamors for that purpose, a proceeding for which Walker would have little difficulty in finding a precedent, and which in itself is of no great importance. It has probably by repeti tion attained the magnitute of the report now rewived. WM. KA if PROPRIETOR L- L NUMBER 33. I From the Murfreesboro Telegraph, \bth inst. Awful Fire—-Fourteen Houses in Ruins! ns morning our citv was visited by one of the most calamitous fires that hus ever been by our , , ' i k tiz '’" 9 - ‘ v '’ar three o’clock ■ -m.reo I n"" 1 that ,lir ' , ' i, ' ncr ’« S| '°P of Mr. : rnrnT 0!1 'he north-w.at corner of the square was on fire. The large fl r o^' r y store of Messrs. Crocket Ransom ahi,' w Masonic Hall, Ihlen was m the third story of this building, nsdeJroyjd, with all the furniture, jewels A-c of Mount Monan Lodge No. 28, of Muifrecs- No°23.’ , g 0 2O5 ’" ud Chapter ’‘’“‘o Rrocery store of Messrs. J. A. Collier & occupied byMr"w *T y j iia,ro - vt,L 'l'hchouse biy injured, CroS £ u -rgoanmunt of wllolt> Corn mil various other articles, supposed altogether ; near eleven thousand dohars,“three five >' eBWS - J- A. Collier & Co' Itheh™eri,s' m rr”’ , I ’ he !rrpatcr P° rli, >n of i it".,. completely destroyed them, n ,X‘the n’/' ing buildings of Tho. w r; / • n "!°.' n ' irere two groceries and ‘one 'LiS- SB 'i‘ from reaching his dwelling ImJ ° The loss of Messrs. J. a. Collier Co 1” “a, Xk'?', Great Earthquake in CALTrom.-u._One of the severest earthquakes ew experienced iu California, took place on the 15th of February. city, says the Ban Francisco O'cry buddmg shook to its foundation, and in some quarts the bougeg were pwayf ) cd as vessels in a heavy sea. Tho inmates of every dwelling were awakened, and some were even thrown from their be<ls, so violent was tho shock. Many persons rushed into, tho streets, and but that the circumstance of their sudden np. pearunco was of a character to produce sensa. lions ol terror rather than merriment, the scene would have been most ludicrous. The largo hotels were depopulated instanfor, and in the general rush articles of furniture were thrown down, occasioning noises which added consider ably to the clutter and confusion caused by tho earthquake, i he Alta Californian says ; “ Instances of persons being thrown out o ( b rne! O ina Ar <SSt n , ’ piu !g'’ '.’ r<i[ ’ir of windows racing of Malls and d.eiirrunging of house- Hold Ihiygs generally, nro entirely too numerous to mention. Ihe whole city was in uproar, mid ■be cm.re population a good deni alarmed, while many wore nearly frantic. P< oplerushed wild ly into the streets m their night cloths, and Stood amazed and astounded at what had han penea. 1 Ihe earthquake wiis felt very seriously all over the State. At San Joaquin three heavy, waves, following each other in rapid succession, were noticed the evening previous to the shock. , I’otatoe Rot.—The Sparta editor of the Central Georgian, notices the fact that potatoes in that section have nearly all rotted in the heap. ITacays: Out of about fifteen bushels saved for seed, wc had only two bushels of sound ones, and this is better luck than most of our neighbors. We suppose it is owing to the unpredented cold of January, for prior to that time there wus no complaint of rotten potatoes. Tne Washington Star says the Black Republican caucus at Washington was a fail ure. They were unable to seduce politicians into their ranks, and have come to the conclu s on that it will be impossible for them to win in November, unless they concentrate and form a junction with the National Am.-rieans,which the Star thinks is impracticable. Ai’freiiended Overflow.—The citizens of New Orleans ure painfully apprehensive of an unusal overflow of its banks by the Mississippi diving the Spring. The extraordinary full of snow in the northwest during the past winter, and the unusal coincidence of u rise ut the pres ent time in all the rivers tributary to the Great Father of Waters, arc alleged as grounds for serious uneasiness. '1 Be Picayune earnestly ad vises the planters and all others interested, to be prompt and diligent in the work of prepara tion for higher water than they huvekuowu for many a year. The Texas route for a Railroad to the Pacific.—Major Heintzelman, of U. S. Army after many years spent in the West, publishes a letter in the Cincinnati Railroad Record, ad vocating the Texas route for a railroad to the Pacific. The Records udds a tabic of distance showing that even Cincinnati is four hundred and seventy-one miles nearer to the Pacific by way of Texas than by its most formidable rival line—tha^ through th* southwest pass, on the parallel of forty-one degrees. The Record thinks that it would, moreover, be impossible to run through the Rocky Mountains in win ter. EDi- At Parodi’s farewell concert in Augus ta, on Friday night, while Parodi and Mud. Strakosch were singing “ The Star Spangled Banner,” the gas went out, leaving the compa ny in darkness. Enchanted with the music; the audience remained attentive to the end, when the song was rapturously encored, w** the ladies repeated the last two stanzas by th ß light of a candle held from the side sceacs-