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THE ATLANT\ WEEKLY EXAMINER "W E3 ‘JS K. T . 'ST OIUCTTZjjgLTXOdNT OF ’X’ JEX !iS E3 3K! A. JMC IjVE K-, 13 00 0 COPXEItt! CHAS. L BARBOUR, Editor. VOLUME 11. THE WEEKLY EXAMINER r? Publhed every Thursday morning in the City of Atlanta, at ONE DOLLAR PEU ANNUM, To be paid strictly in advi cc. SF* No subscription vat. en for less than six months. RATES OF ADV JRTISING. Advertisements arc insert I in the NV rekly Examineu 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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Legal Advertisements gales of Land and Negroes, by Adiiiinistra rors, Executors or Gurdians, arc required by law to be hold 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 bo given in a pub ic gazette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must be given in .ike manner 10 days previous to sale dl,Notices 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 Nr grees, must be nublishcd for two months. Citations for'letters of Administration, Guar dianship &c., must be published 30 days—for dis mission from Administration, monthy 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 11# < < 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 Adn juistration *c. $2 75 do do dismissory om Adminis tration * ** Citation on dismissory from < Juardiansbip, 3 <>o Leave to sell Land or Negites, 4 W Notice to debtors and creditors. « «•» Sales of personal property,! > i days, I square 1 0 Sales of land or negroes by r.xecutors, &c. o UU Betrays, two weeks, ’ For a man advertising his wife, (tn advance,) 5 0) Letters on business must be (post paid) to en <itlo them to attention. THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1856. Graham, For April is on our table, with its usual sup ply of interesting letter press, and several cred itable engravings. We consider it decidedly the most substantial lady’s magazine published. Wood! I What has become of all the wood ? Our 1 country friends certainly do not intend to allow ( us to perish for want of wood 1 If they irnag- ( iue the mere fact of its being April modifies the ( orthose occasional raw days, we beg to say they are mistaken. We would suggest that subscriptions tn our Weekly may. for a short time, be paid in wood. The Empire State- Usually “up to time" in the way of news,, comes to us this morning, with the following j paragraph: Small Pox. —This loathsome disease is now in LaGrange. Two merchants of that place, contracted the contagion in New York, and it developed itself after their return home. It is also in Chattanooga, as we learn from our ex - changed, and for some weeks has been prevail ing in the counties of Hall and Gwinnett. Would it not be well for our people to resort to vac cination? “An ounce of preventative is worth a pound #f ture." Surely friend Gaulding hasn t read his ex changes carefully, lately. ’Hie report of Small Pox in LaGrange lias been exploded for a week. Wc mention this because the report, of its prevalence in Atlanta is several days! later than the above, which seems to have just reached our Griffin cotemporary, and we wish; to anticipate its receipt with a denial, so when I it does reach him, friend G. will know it isn’t j so. N. B. Since writing the above, we notice. the column from which we make the extract, is dated May 2nd. So we arc mistaken in j supposing the editor behind time—on the con- I trary, he seems to be “ahead of the music," and the announcement therefore assumes the tone of prophecy. Our isiGrange friends will take due notice, and look out for Small Pox about the 2nd proximo. —■— Ifcjy- The blood-steeped field of Inkermauu one large violet bed. where early in the year ■ 1 flowers spring up in extraordinary profu sion. An •■American” Measure Dkfe\tft> in ruK Massachusetts Legislature.—Boston, March 27.—1 n the Lower House of the legis lature. to-day, the resolution to amend the State Constitution, so that no person hereafter shall hold office in the State unless born in the I’ nited States, was defeated. Two-thirds were required in order to pass it. and the vote staod 155 fbr, to 128 against Strange Doings in Alabama ■ They have a peculiar way of doing things jin certain parts of Alabama. Recently the ! Sheriff of Walker county in that State, hung ' a man named ’Franklin, notwithstanding he ■ had in his pocket the unfortunate criminal’s rc I prieve from under the hand of Gov. Winston. He denied the genuineness of the paper, and coolly proceeded to swing up the unfortunate man, as per direction of the sentencing court The Tuscaloosa Monitor says: j “Wc are unable to say whether or not the i Sheriff of Walker county can sustain the legal ity of this proceeding; to us it appears very I much like an unjustifiable homicide, and we . would not like to be exactly in his place.—• ; But they sometimes do strange things in the ! “State of Walker.” Many of our readers ' may have heard, and probably suppose it to I be merely a joke at the expense of that en- I lightened county, that a man was once con ; victed and sentenced to be hung there, for ! burning down an old barn, which he himself had built, and which was untenanted by any living thing; in fact it was his own property and the burning of it injured no one in the world, if not himself. But theae is no jok ing about it. The thing actually occurred, i the man did burn the barn and was senten : eed to be hung for it. Luckily for him, however, there was a Supreme Court in the State, which had the power to reverse the decrees of the Court of Walker; luckily again, too, that the pres ent Sheriff was not then in office, or he might have swung.” Putnam. This monthly comes regularly to our table, and is the only abolition publication we allow to visit our sanctum. We tolerate it only be cause of the literary merit it mixes with its abolitionism, and while we cannot conscien tiously commend it to Southern patronage, we are free to confess it would afford ns pleasure to do so, did not its course force upon us the conviction that its conductors are inimical to Southern institutions, and make their Monthly a masked battery to attack them. Still, not withstanding its literary merit, it is a serious question for Southern men whether they should patronize Putnam. We think not. It is true, abolition sophistry can have no influence upon Southern minds, and many, on this account, tolerate the work, and subscribe for it for its literary matter ; but, though it may not in the remotest degree affjet their loyalty to the South, viewed as a matter of dollars and cents, the patronage is wrong. If there were no South ern works of equal merit, the practice would be less reprehensible, but when such periodicals as the Southern Literary Messenger appeal to the Southern man for support, and he turns away to patronize Putnam, we cannot see how he reconciles it with his loyalty to the South. We do not propose to discuss the merits of the two periodicals, and make no appeal for either. Th# bare fact that one is true to its section, and the other inimical to the same, should lie enough to decide the preference, and it is a poor comment upon the discrimination of our people that the Messenger js suffered to lan guish for want of patronage, while Putnam fattens upon Southern favor, and with the basest ingratitude stabs the section to which it owes so much. We would direct the attention of every Southern reader of Putnam to an article in the last number, entitled tho “ Thue Issue ” and, when he rises from its perusal, let him put the question to himself, can be conscientiously con tribute his money to the dissemination of such sentiments ? The Peace News of the Atlantic The peace news brought by the Atlantic, that the arrival of the Prussian Ambassador was all that was wanting to conclude the con ference, is certainly u subject of congratulation this side the water. In addition to an impetus to business, it will no doubt bring about a de finite understanding between this country and the allied powers. Not unfrequen* official boasts and intimations from beyond the /Atlan tic have opened tha eyes of our people to the fact that the friendly relations between tb e United States and the eastern alliance are nour of the firmest, and are susceptible of interrup tion upon very slight pretexts. The revela tions which have induced this conviction, it is not now cur intention to recount—they are too fresh in the memory of our readers to re. quire it; but we think it safe to predict that the unsettled and critical character of those re lations will soon receive an attention which will 1 decide them one way or another. If it is the intention of the alliance to turn its atten tention westward, why, the sooner it clearly in dicates such a determination, the better it will be for us ; and if not, the sooner the un certainty of our relations is settled the better it will be lor both parties. The ! former contingency would not be altogether so ; deplorable just now, as it might be if it were ’ postponed until the eastern combatants have ecovered from the debilitating wounds received j in th# recent struggle, and it' the declaration o f ■ neace in Europe is to be followed by the con j summation of otir war fears here, why the soon- Icr the former is concluded the better will be ! our chances, for having a crippled foe to en- ■ counter. So, view it as we will, the Atlantic’s advices arc subjects of congratulation, and are ■ better now, i» all their effects upon this ■ country, than if received later. Now ■if the Bull and the-Frog eater havu’t had I enough of lighting, and are anxious to con- I tinue the exercise, why, its our opinion Jono | than can satisfy them thoroughly, and finish i the -squeezing " process so handsomely com- ! menced by the -Bear." If, on the contrary, ■ they arc satisfied, and have become more i nacifie alter the squeezing, let them say so, j and. when they are inclined to be sanev. cease j to “turn their eyes westward. Eugene has a baby, and Nopoleou may be too busy, roekingjthat magnificient cradle, to devote much “attention to the west," but such affairs are quite common in England, and the circumstance will sot affect our English rela tiOMVDry materially. THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL AND NEWS PAPER IN THE SOUTH—A WEEKLY FIRESIDE COMPANION FOR ONLY ONE COLLAR A YEAR. Di ADVANCE. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 10. 1856- COMMUNICATED. To the Public. Atlanta, April 3, 1856. Having been informed that a report i.« in circulation, perhaps to some considerable ex tent, that there is a case of Small Pox in the City of Atlanta, and having examined into the cause of said report, 1 found that it had its origin in an attack of measles, under which a Mr. Wells has been laboring. This fact will appear more fully from the annexed certificate o' Dr. Boring the attending physician. The comma, nity may rest assured that there is not now. nor has there been within the last four years, a case of Small Pox in said City. WILLIAM EZZARD. Mayor. Having attended Mr. Wells in his recent sickness, I take pleasure in confirming the above sta'ements. The case was one of measles, and has been discharged some six or eight days. JESSE BORING, M. D. Who Sunk the Wrecks in Savan nah River. In the course of the debate in the Senate on the 13th ult., a warm discussion arose touching the historical truth of the fact recited in the original Appropriation Bill for Savannah I’iv er, members of the Finance Committee con tending that the. wrecks were placed in the river, not by the . American forces for the “ common defence,” bnt by the British to pre vent the French from coming up the river—a ; point upon which Senator Butler, of South Carolina, spoke as follows: Mr. President, I have had my attention drawn to this subject more than once. I recollect that on one occasion Mr. Berrien, of Georgia, on this floor certainly gave me to understand, and I think gave the Senate to understand, a very different statement of things from that which has been to-day presented to the Senate. 1 He stated what I always understood to be the historical fact in relation to the obstructions in the Savannah river. My State, Iconfess, is deeply interested in their removal, but that fact would not change my position with regard to the constitutional power of Congress to ap propriate money to clean out rivers. I recollect distinctly the ground on which this appropriation has been heretofore placed, or at least the ground on which I was recon ciled perhaps to make some appropriation.— In 1778, Robert Howe, the/American General, a North Carolinian, or a Virginian, was in possession of Savannah. Campbell was the commander of the British forces who attacked I Howe and drove him from Savannah, under a ; capitulation, I think on Christmas day 1778. i I have always understood that the British gar rison kept possession of Savannah from that | period until the time when it was threatened by : D’Estang, and then ships were sunk at the i mouth of the Savannah river by the British < garrison to prevent the French fleet from com-■ ing np. It was a war measure adopted by the i British and American Governments when they j were alternately in possession of Savannah ; I and I think when the true facts are ascertained, I it will be found that botn the officers represent-; ing the American Government and the officer • representing the British Government sunk ships at the mouth of that river for the same purpose ' —to protect the city of Savannah. However that point may be, 1 can see a great difference between an appropriation for removing these hulks and the incidental ob structions occasioned by them, and one for regulating commerce by cutting ditches and canals, or opening rivers. I recollect that on former occasions the bill making appropriations to remove these hulks underwent discussion, and the ground was distinctly taken that when ; the Government of the United States used the \ property of a State or individual for general, purposes, for the common defence, it was bound, under the obligations of honor and good faith, to make compensation for the use of the prop erty. At the period of the Revolution, the Savan nah river was, as it is now. a great highway of; commerce. If our own Government, as one of' the moans of defending the city of Savannah sunk ships there, and thus appropriated that highway for its awn purposes, as one of the i means of carrying on war with Great Britain, j I could vote appropriation to remove them, on i the ground that when property has been taken I for the public use wc have made appropriation for it. When, as in the Revolution, private property was used for public purposes—as the occupation of a house as ajplace of defence— compensasion has been allowed. The principle has been recognized in a general act; and so, also, when American property was destroyed or injured while in the occupation of the ene-' my, and destroyed by Washington's cannon, as in tlie same case in Germantown, eompen sation has been made on the broad ground: that when flagrant# bello during a state of ac-1 tual war. property has been used for public i purposes, and was destroyed in consequence of j such use, the Government was bound to allow : compensation. In regard to the ships sunk in J the Savannah river, I have always understood ; that they were placed there both by the Brit-! ishaud American Governments, as a means of j defending Savannah when they were alternate-1 ly in possession of that city. In a Quandary.—The Newsboys, says the N. Y. Express, who generally know how to treat well the name of a steamer that brings “news" for" an Extra—were sorely puzzled ■ when it was announced that tbe -Emeu " was! in. Some of them thought it must have some I connection with the feline paternity, "Emeu” ! —while others, who like to "speak by tbe book | got Webster's big Dictionary, and read aloud. ■ as follows: Emeu. n. A very large bird as New Holland, i allied to the Cassowary and Ostrich, and of ten called the New Holland Cassowary. lt»; wings, useless for flight, serve to balance the] body in running. This definition of principles, the little ureb ins received with great applause,—after which the meeting, on motion, adjourned The Pope's Golden Rose for Emi-i:kss Ft gknic.—A letter from Rome, of the sth. in the Debats says : Rumors are current that Cardinal Altieri will go to Paris to represent the Pope as godfather to the infant of the Emperor at the ceremony of the babtism. bnt others think it probable that there will not be any special envoy, the Nuncio, in Paris executing the mission. On Sunday last, being the fourth Sunday in Lent, the Pope gave his benediction to the Golden R<>se at the Sistine Chapel. It is said that it will be sent to the Empress of the French, it is a very ancient rite of the church that the Pope should, on the day just mentioned, bless a golden rose, which it is a custom to send to a sovereign, to a celebrated church, or to some eminent personage. If it be not presented to any one, it receives a second benediction the year following.- This pious present was substi tuted for the gold and silver keys, and for the pieces cut with a file from the chains which are said to have bound the hands of St. Peter, wbirt w#re fonswly mt I'rom the Fe'dcrat Union, April 1. fleeting of Commissioners <»i'At lantic and Gulf Railroad Com i Daisy. The Commission assembled in our city <». yesterday. At least two-th>r<is of tlv : mission was present. Present, lion. E. A. Nisbet. Hr.-I. I’. Sere 11 ven, N. Collier. Hons. W. .1. Inwton, .Lx i Crawford and E. C. Andeison, C. •>. Montiuo lyu, Esq., E. R. Young. I'sq., W. B. Hodgson , Esq., lions. A. 11. Colqnit, .1. M. Calhoun ■ Titos. Hamilton, CharlesSqualding. Alov. Aik inson, 11. J. Jenkins, and Major. -1 IL II ;w --’ aid. Judge Nisbet was called to the Chair, mid J. W. Dunean. Esq., requested to m-f, as Sec retary. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and adopted. On motion, a Committee was appoint'd to ■ prepare business for the action of the Board. i After consultation, the Committee, through 1 i their Chairman, reported resolutions, the sub ' stance of which are as follows: That books of , subscription to the Capital Stock of the Atlan ; tic and Gulf Railroad Company, shall be opeu j ed at the following places, on Monday, 12th of . May next; Milledgeville, Augu-ta, Savannah, • Columbus' Thomasville, Albany, Troupsville. '! Waresboro.’ Bainbridge. Brunswick, Magnolia, ; Macon, Newton, Ft. Gaines, Blakely, Atlanta, i Morgan, Isabella, and in the counties of Telfair, j Appling, Coffee, Irwin, Randolph and Lee, uu i der the superintendence of certain Comtnission . ers, and to remain open for three months. ; The Commission also provided for the ad i vertisement of the times and places for opening ! books, for the re-assembling of the Board on ; the 27th of August, or such earlier day as may ! be designated, when the Secretary is notified i that the required amount has been subscribed. ] The official proceedings of the Board will be furnished our readers in our next, by a spe cial resolution to that effect. Mr. Trumbull on the Rack at Home. ; Our readers retain a lively recollection oft! c late exciting recountre in the Senate b-tween the two Illinois senators, in wlvcli Mr. Douglas; subjected his colleague to one of those excoria- ! ting tortures which renegades from their party ■ entail upon themselves, and which Mr. Douglas . is so eminently qualified to administer. Mr.; Trumbull is now in the bands of the democrats { of Illinois, and the following article from the Springfield Daily Register of the 22d inst.,; shows that he is not likely to fare better at home i than in the Senate : “Tbumbcu, on ths rack.—ln the recent f sharp colloquy betw. cn Messrs. Douglas and 1 Trumbull, the following passage occurs : “Mr. Douglas. Mas not the gentleman voted ! for by abolitionists and know-nothings from nil parts of the State ? “ Mr. Trumbull. I tell him no, to his teeth : I never was a candidate of the abolition or ! ! kno.w-nothj ng party, T have been vnTCd fi u’ by , members of the American party, and it was so , with the gentleman— but that 1 was their can - j ; didate it is.not true." i “This reply of Trumbull is a most singular : one in the face of the facts shown by the re - j cord. Mr. Trumbull did not receive one soli- 1 tary vote now acting with the democratic par- ! ty. He was the candidate of the united aboli tion and know nothing opposition, and spent, the entire winter here juggling to concentrate that force upon himself. He secured his elec- I tion by professing to back Mr. Lincoln's claims as agreed upon in an opposition caucus, held 1 here previo: s to the meeting of the legislature ' but he took especial care to have his reserved corps of five—Messrs. Cook, Judd. Palmer, Baker, and Allen, recreant democrats—with hold their votes from Lincoln and defeat his election, and thus force the main body of black republicans and know nothings to take himself. In this he succeeded. It is astonishing that he now has the unblushing effrontery to stand up in the American Senate, claiming to be a dem - ocrat, and denying that he was the candidateof fused abolition-know-nothingism. “He was not only supported by these fac tions. but assisted in electing 'its members to to the legislature. He aided the canvass, and run upon the same ticket with Gillespie, a know nothing leader, and the hitter was a hies man I ager in securing Trumbull's election. Hisnn-i blushing denial of affiliation with the opposing ; factions will excite surprise in this State, while . it will add to the contempt in which he is held by every fair and candid man. His effort to, maintain a position as a democrat at Washing ton will prove a disgraceful abortion. His pre-! tensions in this beha.f will be scouted by the I democrats, while they cannot gain him respect! with the factions for which he is laboring. " ; IFns/i. Unfon. —■ - \ alck of thi: Chin v Then Beriiiks. -They i make good manure when put in the hill with corn. They arc a preventive to ants injuring ! cabbage or other young plants, when sown in ‘ the drill with the seed. They also make a dark 1 colored soap which answers the purpose for: washing course clothing. One fact in relation j to the China tree is worthy the attention of; I every housekeeper. A gentleman living in the | ; pine woods near Augusta, on the Carolina side' I of the Savannah river, was for several years very much annoyed by ants. They were so numerous as to get in every portion of his house, I among his provisions, in bis beds. Ac. Every I method suggested was tried to get rid of them, j bnt to no purpose, until he was told to plant | • China trees in his yard and around his dwelling, i ! This was done, and in three years from the I i time he had drilled the berries, they had disap-1 I iieared and never after troubled his household.! i Wc may add that the cold winter of '35 killed i the China trees in our yard where we had resi-1 ; ded for a numlier of years, The year following. | and qever until then, wero we troubled with the ant. ' Another fact in relation to this tree. A | gentleman owning a valuable plantation on ' 1 Beach Island, near Augusta, which had grow-' ; ing upon h a kind of grass that prevented bis working in a proper manner, and doing great injury to his cotton crop, determined to get rid ot it in some way : he drilled China berries, which were suffered to grow three years, coni- i pletely destroying the grass. They being o! 1 ! quick growth were cut down and hauled to Augusta for firewood. Wc would suggest to ( the owners of the old fields around Memphis, to drill the berries in rows ten feet apart and I they will reclaim, from the foliageofthrtr.-e. i: i plowed in every season, — Cx. Fiout among rhE Admiral.-. — Ihe t auada . reports a sharp debate ia Parliament, on the; motion of Admiral Napier for a select commit-1 tee of inquiry into the management of the Bal- 1 tic fleet while under his command. He enter- , ; ed into a statement of a lengthened correspon-' dence between himself and the Admiralty, with, a view to demonstrate that he was sacrificed to ; cover Sir James Graham’s incapacity. Sir ! James retorted by reading Admiral Napier's own correspondence, and saying that the Ad- I miral'was physically unfit, also that his reputa ; tion was greater than his courage, and his j courage greater than his skill. Admiral Berke- i jtey also attacked Napier, who replied, and! I •renttuulg xtotiai fm Fitbdrawc. I Seizure of ass Americans Ship ai San Blas. - I’h' ■ \ merieaii ship Adeline, of Boston. Capt Woods from Valparaiso for San Blas, with i ”< uer t| cargo, consisting of dry goods, &e., con signed to Mr. Forbes, the American consul a that place, reived on the Mexican coast, tifte: having sprung a leak, and the crew being oi an allowance of a bottle of water a day each Put. into Ties Marias Islands Dec. 20tli an< sent n bout on shore fur water : the boat wa : lost in the surf wi.eu another boat was des ; patched to tiy and rcaeh the shore, the captain mate, and steward being all that remained or board. I A Mexican man-of-war schooner hove it sight, and soon camo alongside the Adelino . which she boarded and took possession of.— : (’apt. W.oods was taken on board the scboonei ■ and plaeeAunder a guard of twenty-six soldiers. When the crew of the ship returned on board the commander of the schooner took charge ol ‘ ■ the Adeline, and then brought her into San 1 Blas, where she laid until January 20th. Ji During this time they sent officers on board . and took out the entire cargo, and also nearly | all the wearing apparel of the captain, mate ’.J and crew. Tliev then hauled her into the inner ; harbor. ’I Capt. Wood protested strongly against this '! high-handed outrage, but all to no purpose.— ' i lie then left and went to Mazatlan, where be ’! still remains. The cargo of the Adalii e was shipped at ’; Valparaiso by 3/essrs. Mickle & Co., American merchants. Mr. Hale, the supercargo, was on board, and remained at San Blas. The mate r; and a portion of the crew came passengers in ’! the schooner Giulictta. i; Tlc reason given by the authorities for seiz ,; ing the vessel was, that they took her for a i smuggler. The ship at the time was 73 miles j I from any port on the Mexican coast. A Governor in Trouble.—ln the U. S. Circuit Court of New Jersey, the ease of the i United States Government against Rodman F. J Price, Governor of New Jersey, for supposed i defalcation has commenced, The defalcation ; , is alleged to have occured while Governor ■ Price was a Purser in the Navy, and the amount ■ claimed by the Government is £77,81842, and ' i the action brought is one of debt for that de | ficiency in the settlement of accounts. j Brevity.—The fol.owing is the annual mes | sage of the Governor of New Jersey in 1713, i and tie reply of the Legislature to the same. I They are sound on the score of brevity : 1 “ Gentlemen :I am heartily glad to meet ! you here after so long an absence: and believe ■ you are not sorry to meet me in so good com ! pany." REPLY. ' “ Your Excellency :It is with the greatest | satisfaction we meet your Excellency in such ; good company now. and hope we shall befavor- I ed with it often. —— Tin: Earth Growing Colder.—lt is stated j by German astronomers that the sun is increas ! ing his distance from the earth annually; and, in the course of six thousand years from the I present time, it is -opposed, that the distance will he so grein.iiiat only one-eighth part of the warm.h we now enjoy from the sun will be 1 communicated to the earth, and it will then be I covered with eternal ice, in the same manner as we now see the plains of the North, where the I elephant formerly lived, and have ncitherspring ‘ nor autumn. , * **”* I Death of C'oium oil ore McKeever ! Norfolk, Va.,April I.—Commodore Isaac! McKeever, Commandant at the Norfolk Navy Yard, died in that city to day. He entered the seavice of the Navy in 1803, and lias been em- ! ployed by the Government for about forty I seven years. ! The Unnatural Parent.—Jack Robinson, the -mock governor elect” of Kansas, writes I from Lawrence city on the 25th of February ; as follows: “Tell our fr'ends to admit us into the Union if they can. but if they cannot do that, get ns I through the house, if possible, and at al I events | I stop all appropriations for the territorial gov-1 ; eminent, state house and all. Pass no law i for the territorial government; accept us into J the Union or nothing.” It is pretty easy to see that the man neither i ; represents the people of the territory nor cares I , for them. His election was a farce, and he is! ; attempting to turn it to mischevious account. I : —Albany Argus. Baron, the French actor, was a great I favorite with ladies. A woman of rank used to l ' receive the visits of Baron very privately. One j . day. Baron, uninvited, come into her drawing i room, which was full of company of the very;' ; highest fashion. “Baron,” said the lady haugh tily and angirly, “what do you come for?” i -For my night-cap, madam.” replied the in- j : dignant actor, in a very loud voice. Another Hiss Legislature.—The Cincin- ' i uati Enquirer speaks of the present legislature I • of Ohio in the following plain style: “ The present legislature of Ohio bids fair to I . rival and excel, in beautiful legislation and use-} fulness, the celebrated conclave, of Joseph Hiss 1 ■ notoriety, which last year ruled Massachusetts, j j Never was there congregated at Columbus be- | fore such a number of ignoble and impractica-. I ble fanatics, and never did demagogism and ! I hypocritical cant so effecjually rule the destinies I 'of the great and nobl ’ State of Ohio. It is,! ! however, not unexpected to reasonable and dis-! corning men. who observed the auspices under I which this Legislature was clivsen. nnd the ele ! ments of which it was composed. The people j were warned that it would plunge into all kinds J of fanatical folly, and even the specifi; acts that 'it would probably pass were named. Those ' predictions were scouted at by onr oprfonents! ; but time has proved them true. 1 Acrr nos Mississipi.—The following rcso-i I lutionreported by the commitee on Federal! Relations, has been unanimously adopted by! i Inth branches ■ f the Mississipi Legislature: | Resolved' That we sympathise deeply with . i the friends of domestic slavery in th? Territory I of Kansas in the struggle they are carrying on in resistance to the efforts made to expel slave ry therefrom: and that we fully appreciate the 1 importance to the influence and safety of the! South that Kansas should became a slavebo!-; ding State; and the -fore we recommend to the l iK-ople • f tills State to take early and active ! measures to encorage emigration to that Ter- : ' ritory. and by all lawful nnd proper means' to strengthen the hands of the friends to .- nth- I ern institutions there. i There are ripe strawberries in this city IWe saw tla-in ten minutes ago. cn the vines and others ripening besld, them This will be .as much a» the New Orleans l’:cayunc folks} ' can stand in one day, and we therefore forbear; ■to state that we'.are tasted any of the saidj | taw berries in a iiat julep.— Bos. Post. j I i Important from Mexico-—Siege Puebla. I The news from Mexico by tie steamer Tex il in is'of some iuterent. The Government troops, ■ ; under President Comoufort, these attacked the J.! insurgents under Haroy Tamariz, and killed a j | large number of his men and taken possession J of a great portion of the city of Puebia. II The Veracruzano announces that intelligence -■ ■ was received on the 12th, that an engagement -! had taken place petween the Government troops , | and the insurgent forces under Haroy Tamariz, :; at I’uebla, in which the latter suffered much ; loss in killed and wounded, with the destruction 11 of u great part of their armament and muni . i tions, while the former gained possession of part -1 of the city, Haro being left shut up with one ■ | half of the forces he had previously raised there. . It is also stated that Hare had sought n truce , from President Comonfort, with terms how ever, which were rejected, he being required to i surrender at discretion, with the sole promise of sparing his life. I In a letter from Huamantla, dated the 17th, the Veracruzano says it is stated that President : Comonfort had directed the officer in command ■ there to establish a line between Nopaincan i and Puebla to protect the introduction of some I I mortars ; that Haro was confined to the plaza, | and the heights and streets leading to it; that I the drinkable water had been turned off from I him, and that his troops were commencing to ; I feci the effects of the scarcity of that connnodi-' ty; that the Government forces were firing on I the place all day, except for two hours allowed' for the pacifically inclined to submit, and once; j every hour during the night; that the Govern-; I ment forces were receiving constant aid from i I the inhabitants of the adjacent places, and be-! , ing otherwise strengthened; that a part ol the | | Borja suburb had been destroyed ; and finally') I that the balls from their pieces were effecting ; i great destruction and consternation among | the insurgents. Haro is said to. have a second | j time made proposition, which were rejected, j : The Government had issued several iinpor- i I tant and promising decrees. New postal I ! routes have been established ; new and lower I | rates of postage have been fixed on the basis of | pre-payment, and a law fixing the public ex | penditure had been issued. This last is icst« | mated at §14,227,325.93. The President has | also issued a decree, appointing a Board of ! Directors, consisting of Senors D. Gregorio Meir y Teran, D. Hcrmenegeldo de Viya y Cosio, and D. Fabio J/artincs del Rio, to form a company, to prosecute, as promptly as pos- . sible, the construction of a Railroad from Vera Cruz to Mexico, by the way of the plains of) Apatn and Puebla. Foul Mvbdei: Near Mount .Weighs.—A , most outrageous murder was esmmitted on ! Saturday last, on the person of Mr. Thomas ; J. Capeheart, who was acting overseer and j sole manager of the plantation interest of Mr. , John G. Williams, of North Carolina, by a ; negro man named Harry Ganze, belonging to I said \V illiams, whose plantation is situated I within a few miles of the village of Mount i 11/eigs in this county. The particulars, as we 1 learn them from a number of the neighbors that arrived at the scene a short time after the I murder was commuted are these: Mr. Capeheart as usual, on Saturday morn ing rode to the village for the purpose of get ting his letters and pap.rs from the post office, and on returning home went into a field where some negroes were plowing, and Harry with boys and women were ditching. On arriving at the ditch he discovered that Harry had been idle, having done little or no work since wr. C left him in the morning. He attempted to ' chastise Harry, and ordered an old man who j * acted as driver, to bring a plough .inc and tic , him. On attempting to obey this order, Hur ry struck at the old man with a long handled scoop, used for throwing dirt from the ditch, | and got out of the ditch on the oppoisite side.- Mr. Capeheart then tried to make his dogs ‘ take Hurry, who. to prevent being caught by | them, jumped across the ditch and got among! the other negroes. The dogs seized two oj the; boys, and .Mr. (’. and the <ld man turned to ; take the dogs off, when Harry’ rushed up be- I hind and felled Mr. Capeheart to the ground | by striking him on the back part of the head; j then striking him twice on the sides of the head Harry stabbed him with a knife in sixteen dif ferent places, either of the wounds being suffi cient to produce death. Two negro women, in endeavoring to prevent the murder, were.severely cut by the despera do and their recovery is attended with doubt. Runners immediately started for the neigh bors and to Monnt Meigs for a doctor. Harry, in the meantime, book to the woods, and hud not been heard from up to the time of writ ing. We were personally acquainteii with Afr. C. and speak knowingly, that te was a moral and industrious man. humane, kind and genoitrous in his disposition, and having always at heart the good of his employer, using his best en deavors to advance his employer's interest and I to protect his property, without abusing it any ! manner. The deceased had drawn arouhd him I many true friends during his residence in this I State. He wasa native of Bertie county, N.' C. He came with John G. Williams, as over-1 seer, some two years since, and has been sole I manager of Mr. W’s property here np to the! time of the murder. The community around Mount Meigs is determined tojspare no pains to capture the savage murderer, and no pun-! i’hment is too excruciating for the demon. i I'hcre is a reward offered by the citizens of I Mount Jiieigs of §2OO for his apprehension. ! 4&F*The Galveston News, of the 22d. fur- j nishes the following intelligence: The San Antonio Herald, of the 15th insi.. j learns from Mr. J. S. Brown, who lives at the | Fredericksburg crossing of the Gaudalupc, that i a lieutenant from Fort Mason, with a party of! twenty dragoons had a light with twenty In-' dian , on the Gaudalupc, about forty miles I above this place. The troops were following j a trail and came upon the Indians where they . were encamped, before either party was aware i of the close proximity of the ot ,cr. The lieu- : tenant ordered his men to dismount, and leav- I ingnearly one-half to the Indians with the others. Three Indians) were killed and several wounded. They were so taken by surprise, that they made little or' no resistance, but fled to the mountains, leav- i ing their horses, bows, arrows, shields, booty i and camp equipage behind. Among the hor-1 ,-es taken, was one fine bay American horse, in good order, and a dun stallion. Five or six six-sl: r-. several rifles and shot guns were among the captured articles. Among th.-ir blankets and camp equi]>age wasjfound a large number of papers, among which was a note for I £IOOO sterling, a deed for three hundred and) twenty acres of land, with 81000 pa'd thereon. I dited in February last, and a blank book con- . taining the owner's st le, and the date of his leaving .»town on the -Mississippi, (Mr. Brown did not recollect the name.) The lieutenant, (whose name our informant did not learn.) will I make out and forward to this city, the full par ticulars of the articles recovered. The Indians! were believed to be Lipans. The pajiers were evidently those taken from -IZr. Hill’s. 1 The citizens of Medma county have resolved to organize a company of minute men, for the protettion against the Indians. . J j From the Columbus En'juircr.] I .lurisdictiou of Justices Courts. i W e Lave been furnished with a certified copy of the law of the last. Legislature, raising .; the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in civil suits. The Act will be interesting, we pre • j sume, io our readers generally, and especially to that portion ol the officers ol the judiciary 1 department, whose duty it will be to attend . i more particularly to the alterations which it i makes. Here is the Act. JAN ACT to raise the jurisdiction <•!' Justices l of the Peace. ; ’ Sec. I. Bo it enacted, Ac.. That from and | after the first day of Mach next, the jnrisdic i tion of the Justices of the Peace shall extend to the amount of fifty dollars principal, with interest. s>ec. 2. J hat it shaUiand may be lawful for ad promissory notes, accounts, and all other evidence ot debts that do not exceed fifty dol lars, to be sued before a Justice <1 the Peace in a Justice Court, in the’same manner us is ] '’ OW , by law, and when any person ! shall be sued in a Justice Court on a Finn that | exceeds thirty dollars and a judgement obtain-1 ed against the party defendant, the defendant i within four days after the adjournment of said ' | Court upon paying all cost that may have ac-! | cured, and giving good and suficient security I ! *? r P rißt ' , P al : ' ! ‘d interest involved in the case, j shall have the right to stay the execution sixty ! days, and on all judgements obtained in a Jus i tice Court where the amount is thirty dollars j or under, the stay of execution shall be the same I time as is now prescribed by law. Approved, March sth, 1856. An officer on board the Q. S. ship Mucedo ! nian, under date Hong Kong, Jan. 15th, ! says : -n ll, 'daliu is just down from Amoy, and i will sail soon for Manilla. The movements of , the Macedonia are not yet certain. When this ; reaches you, both ships will have been absent > from the L mted States over three years, and the terras of service of all their original crews must have then expired, nnd they, without ex-1 ccptiou, will be receiving the one’qnarter nddi- f tiona! pay allowed to men kept over their time, i lite Macedonian started from the United States ; with two hundred and seventv souls on board • 1 but now. notwithstanding she has been con-1 stantly recruting her crew by new enlistments. I, ? B „ but two hundred and twenty aboard.— he deficiency is to be accounted for by deaths, desertions, and the number invalided home— twenty two deaths have occured, and about Uity invalided and returned;to the United States. We are now anxiously and impatiently await ing the ban Jacinto sent to our relief.' Allow ing her the average time, and supposing that i she sailed on the Ist of November, we c.nno ! reach our Atlantic shores before we have been Tull I three years and six months in commission, and | ttic whole of three summers in this unhealthy I climate. As the Vandalia sailed a month be-1 fore the Macedonian, and there is no news of our relief being rciulv. her rase is even harder 1 than ours.” Another Wreck.—The ship Sea Lurk, ar - rived at New Y’ork from Antwerp, was for four days in March from the 4th to the Bth, among icebergs but fortunately escaped without coming into actual contact with any oftliem, though at , times the danger was imminent. ; On the 20th inst. in 'at. 38 deg.sß min., and long., 63 deg. 30 min., the wind blowing a heavy gale from the northwest, the wreck of :i large vessel was set n Her topmast ■. w ith nil riggmg |„ nppa rO nt]y perfect condition, were upright, nnd in tbe subsidence of th(? waves, alter a heavy swell, the topgallantmasts, and even the lower masthead, were visible. The Sea Lark passed to windward of the wreck, and kept a good look out for boats or rafts, but none were discovered. From the size of the ma 'ts of the sunken ship, the captain supposed her t<> 1> ■ about 1,000 tons burden. No flag was flying, and it was of course impossible to earn anything further about her. 'The fate of her crew is wholly a matter of conjecture. Rumohed Disaffection in Canada. A Toronto correspondent'of the New Y ork Daily Times writes on the 4th inst: A P° l b 'ttous story is at the present moment passing from mouth to mouth and meets with some degree of credence. It is confidently sta ted that a plot his been discovered, havin’’ for its object the placing of Canada tinder the"ban tier ol the stars an I stripes, and that a number of men holding high offices in this country are implicated in it. It is said that Mr. Seward, sometime ago in the United States Senate, spoke of the probable conduct of Canada, in the event of war with England, he proceeded not on a vague estimate of the state of public feeling, but on tangible documentary evidence, in the shape of letters from influential parties on this side, then actually in his hands. And it is add ed, that the conspiracy has been blown upon, and that the Governor General is now in pos session vs the names of eight inembers of the Canadian Parliament, and of a number of Ca nadian Magistrates, who have been engaged in treasonable correspondence with Mr. Seward We doubt the truth of this statement, but give it for what it is worth. Some attention has been excited in com mercial circles in England by a very hard ver ; diet. A gentleman and his wife contracted for a passage from Jamaica in a vessel advertised ! to sail m August, but which did not go till , October, and then sailed without them. On ; the gentleman’s arrival in England, he brought ■ an action against the owner of the ship, who ; was shown to have received 20 per cent, of the i passage money, but the court directed a non- ■ salt, on the ground that the Captain only was , liable. -If this be law,” says an English pa i per, toe wrongs to which passengers arc likc- Ilyto be subjected will be innumerable, in a [ vast majority of cases Ihe master of the ship , would be found to possess no property to ren- oer it safe to bring an action against him, and it his owner be not responsible there io no re dress whatever.” The Foreign Enlistment Question.—Yes terday, the 27th uh , in the U. S. District Court for the .Southern District of New Y’ork, Mr. McKeon. U.S District Attorney, moved a nolle prosequi in the cases of all persons in dicted for a violation of tbe law of the United States relative to foreign enlistments, except only those holding an official connection with the British government. 'The writ was grant ed accordingly, and the prosecutions are discon tinued. The reason of this course is briefly this, that the question is no longer between the Uni ted States government and the individuals in dieted, but between die American and British governments—the latter having virtually ac knowledged the acts complained of, as its own. —Journal of Commerce. The Pittsburg Gazette, in reply to an article in the Louisville Journal, saying that the nomination of Fillmore and Donelson was received with “shouts of exultation,” says: No shouts of exultation have yet been heard at this particular point of the compass. After diligent search, two Fillmore men have been found, and these have hunted in vain for t_e third. No particular inclination to shout, on th# part of th# two, has y#t been indicated. WM. KA Y PROPRIETOR NUMBER 35. Remarkable incident at Sea. Among the startling incidents with which the papers are filled, of the sufferings and losses that have recently occurred on the ocsan, tho following account, of the escape of the ship \V iseonsin, Captain Scott, from Havre to this port, from destruction bv lightning, and tho unusual phenomena attending it, will be read with interest: Tn e «l 1 ' I) V ORit ' on WU3 lttt 3 <-30 N„ long. <0 40 V\. temperature of water 69, air 28 Fahrenheit; the weather dark nnd lowering, with sharp hghtnmg, and barometer fulling , fast; shtp under double reefed topsails, foresail and, iib. A. 2a. tn. commenced blowing hard, . with heavy ruin and sleet. At 2.30 a. m., , uhde■shortening sail, an immense ball of fire ; struck the main royal mast-head, and then fell , on the main hatch, where it exploded with tre ; mendous force, filling the deck with fire and I ? P ar ‘ <3 ’ *'"> continued explosions of the parti- I cle like detonating powder or torpedoes. Ow ' \ US i . ‘cC'/lcct’ n »d snow, wtth which the decks, bulwarks, rigging, and sails were covered, I the fire was soon extinguished. About ten mmutes ntterwards, a second ball st.uck near the same place, but was driven by the force of the wind just clear of the ship’s side to leeward, when it exploded with a loud report, nnd great commotion. s I here were several men furling the jib at ■r’ur," 1 !' ’, and ’ lO eon cossion was so great that it lifted them nearly clear off the boom. The al! next day and night; from N. • yA • Ihe air very cold and water 69 liu- ca l u . si . n " an immense exhalation from tho Gulf, which congealed as soon ns it rose, and was driven furiously over the ship, excluding the very hgnt of day. One of the crew was Knocked down and stunned, for a time, but was not scrtotisly injured. The mate was blinded ij it, and probably will not recover the sight ct both eyes. Had it not been for tho ice, sleet and rain; which deluged the shin, there can be no doubt bnt that she would have been on fire from the truck to the water. The fore top-sail was forced out of the bolt-rope, and the rnval inast-huad burntag it wore with a red hot iron, being all the damage the ship received, which, to say tho least, was very providential. —5. i. Courier. ■ Lie Editor of the Afonfgomery JlfaiL in a spicy article, in his issue of tho Ist inst., has fallen into two errors in relation to ourself, which a reference to the head-lines of our first page will correct. Il is a matter of no conse quence, except the reference to “ gas lights." Wc nre a young Benedict and don’t confess to the charge, though wo don’t speak for our ; ptondam Senior. All right,’though, Mr. Mail, ; and. though perhaps not intended for us, we ■ shall appropriate your invitation, and hope be fore long to test the sincerity of your promise to fill us with “smiles." Meantime should yon | be “ bobbin’ around " this way again soon, we . hope to be able to prove that if our physique doesn’t indicate as good feed as the Major’s , wn ■ nt least know where to find it for a friend. Rachel's Visit to America.—ln the ac ■ eo. nt of Mr. Benvaillct, one of tho company, i now being published in n Paris journal, it is , stated that the trpgedicnne cqpcrienced a series ; <>f mortifications here When she was to np ; pear at New York, a transparency was stuck i up in front of the theotro, as if she was figuring inn mountebank’s booth. Her reception was nothing like so enthusiastic as that accorded to Jenny Lind. Her first night's receipts were only $5,016, whereas Jenny Lind's first night’s were I 7,864 ; her second night's receipts were, hi English money, £2BO less than the first night s. On the two nights some mischievous boys collected near the theatre and amused themselves in ridiculing the French, by imito ihe crowing of a cock ; and at another theatre, where a French company were playing such pieces as “Jocko, or the Monkey of Brazil," there was no getting a place at any price, where ns she hail places enough and to spare. Plastic Zinc for Rooms.—A property has been discovert d possessed by oxychloride of ‘ ziuc which renders it superior to the plaster of Paris for coating the walls of rooms. It is ap plied in the following manner : “A coat of ox yclc ol zinc mixed with size and made np like a wash, is first laid on the wall, ceiling, or waipscot, and oyer that a coat of chloride of zinc applied, being prepared in the same way as the first wash. 'The oxyde and choloride effect an immediate combination, and form u kind oi cement, smooth and polished as glass, and possessing nil the advantages of oil paint without its disadvantage of smell, &c. The inventor further suggests the employment of ox'ycbloride of zinc as a paint for iron, and al so to stop hollow teeth, for which its plasticity and subsequent hardness and impenetrability to the moisture of the mouth, render it partic ularly applicable. The Monster Steamship.—Next week about one t housand men will be employed upou the “great leviathan " belonging the Eastern .Steam Navigation Company, now in course of construction at Messrs. Scott He Russell’s.— She will be twenty-three thousand tons regis ter, and will curry übout twelve thousand tons of coal in addition. She will be able to carry ten thousand passengers, and will have eight screw steamers as her complement of large boats, four on each side. She is of most gi gantic proportions, and a visit to her is a sight to be talked of. When she is completed and in the water, she will assuredly draw “all Lon don" to her ; and, in fact, be the greatest cu ri i ity in the kingdom.— ll’diner if Smith. Counterfeit.—We have been shown a SSO bill, counterfeit, Bunk of Tennessee, payable at Athens, Wm. Ledbetter, Prcs’t, Jas. Mor ton Cashier, letter A, August 1, 1853. The engraving generally is good, and well calcula ted to deceive. The counterfeit is shorter than tbe genuine. In the “coat of arms” left band end, the engraving is coarser and the parallels too distinct. The letter A, in the word “agri culture,” fails to appear at all in the counter feit. The President’s name is not u good imi tation, and tbut of the Cashier is too light.— There are counterfeit fifty’s on the same Bank, altered from ten’s, in circulation, but this is an entirely different affair. Athens (Tenn.) Post. VViiu i» Central America. New Orleans, March 29.—Tho steamer Daniel Webster has arrived from San Juan.— She brings the intelligence that war has been firmally declared between Costa Rica and Ni caragua. Gen. Walker has issued an address breathing war, and has gone to meet the enemy. The government of Costa Rica has issned an address calling on al) Central America to unite and expel the invaders. [The above despatch reached us from Colum bia, S. C., on Tuesday noon, only three days from New Orleans. This is just about th# peed cf the mail.]— Augusta Const