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ATLANTA, APRIL 17, 1856.
Our Weekly.
An unaccountable failure to receive the sup
ply of paper of proper size, ordered and en route,
for our Weekly, compels us to print -our is
sue, this week, upon paper of smaller size,
though not of inferior quality. It contains,
however, the usual amount of reading matter,
aud do:s no injustice to our advertising friends’
whose favors appear as before. We hope to
issue our next, or the succeeding one, in the
usual form, as our supply of the proper size
which we have no intention to abandon, should
certainly reach ns by that time.
See notice of Seago <t Lawrence, in
another column, who advertise a rarity in our
market, in the shape of Yam Potatoes.
“ Enquirer ” and Col Howard-
In relation to the second card of Enquirer
we have only to say that the rule we have be
fore announced applies to it. Personal allu
sions to any members of the profession in the
city or elsewhere, come within the rule of ad
vertisements and are chargeable as such. We
shall insist upon this in every instance of the
kind.
Large Fire in Nashville.
Just as we were about going to press Mr.
Bulkley, the Attentive Agent of Adams & Co’s
Express informed us that a large fire broke out
in Nashville about 4 o’clock A. M., 13th inst.,
destroying a large amount of public and private
property. The Court House, and Nashville Inn
were burned together with the establishments
of H. Douglass, H. G. Scovil, Streck
ler, Ellis i. Gardner, Sheford & Co., all whole
sale houses. We have no further particulars.
Public Documents.
We have been favored with a number of in
teresting Congressional Document, and not un
frequently several copies of each. These we
keep for the accommodation of those friends
and patrons who have not received them, and
shall take pleasure in supplying them to such
persons as desire them, believing that by so
doing we better accomplish the ends desired by
the donors.
The Adams Express Co-
We neglected noticing, us we intended be
fore this doing, the extension of the Adam's
Express Co., over the Memphis & Charleston
R. 11. as announced per card of Mr. Bulkley
the Agent, iu another column. It is hardly
necessary for us to commend this company,
which is rapidly outstripping its rivals, in pop
ular favor, and we need only cull attention to
the card to direct the patronage of all inter
ested, to the company. We could furnidi
abundant instances, coming under our own
observation, of the efficiency of the Agents
and Messengers of the company, and the cor
tninty and dispatch which attend their move
ments, but it would be w work of supereroga
tion to recount them. We beg, however, to
express our obligations to Mr. Bulkley for re
cent opportune attentions.
880“ Our correspondent Enquirer has not
been misinformed; nor has the Discipline played
off a hoax in its announcement of the appoint
ment of Cot.. Howard to the Depot Agency.
At the same time we beg to say Enquirer
knows quiteas much about the double appoint
ment us we do ourself. Our worthy friend, the
CoL made but little noise about them, and we
were as much surprised as pleased to learu that
tie had been the fortunate recipient of two
commissions. To the Discipline, which by the
way seems to know more about the State
Hoad’s, and everybodyelse’s, business than most
folks, we are indebted for our information of
Col. H’s Railroad appointment, and we learned
on Sunday last that he had also been appoint
ed Dost Master. This is all we know about
the matter, and hence we have said nothing
before, upon the subject. Indeed, had we
known of the first appointment we do not know
that we should have heralded a matter of im
portance only to himself and the road, for no
matter - bow much he may have deserved it, and
however glad we might have been to express our I
opinion of his merit, he would hardly have I
thanked us for travelling out of our course to '
notice an appointment, not usually noticed.and I
which falls so far below his deserts. The Post
Office appointment, however, is a matter of more
general interest, and Enquirer has anticipated
onr intention to make it public to-day. The
Col. is a fortunate man, aud richly merits the -
consideration at the hands of the Federal and i
State administrations for his untiring support'
of both—to say nothing of his unquestioned ;
capacity for the positions.
••»»»
Saturday last, about twenty or thirty
of the "most respectable ladies' - iu Farmington
- backed up and protected by about three
hundred men and boys—turned out, armed with
suitable implements, went to every grog shop
in the place, aud emptied out all the intoxica- j
ting drinks they could find; which, from all,
that we could learu, was not a very small qnan-;
tity. One man locked up his groggery, deter- s
mined to keep them out; but finding them res-I
olute and unflinching, he finally unlocked it'
again to save them the trouble of break iag the
door in. then stood aud watched them turn his
liquors out; and when they had finished, he
jumped upon the counter and proposed three;
cheers for the ladies, after which he made them
a speech, ami declared that he would never sell j
any more intoxicating drinks as long as lie j
lived iu Farmington.— Canton (111.) Register. |
Mr. Fillmore’s Luck.
The following singular paragraph we clip
from the American Organ. It discloses a new
feature in Mr. Fillmore’s nomination, and would
seem to indicate that his availability was en
hanced in the estimation of the nominating
Convention by his luck.
“We sometimes meet with individuals in the
various walks of life who seem to be theespecial
favorites of Fortune; who are always lucky;
and with whom nothing seems ever to go amiss
save that they are as liable to domestic afflic
tions, the loss of friends and relatives as all
other mortals, and must of necessity be.
Whether there is really anything in luck or
whether all depends upon judgement, forecast,
and the proper application of the proper means
to secure success, we will not undertake to de
cide; but sure we are that while some are ap- I
parcntly the foot-balls of fortune, others are j
her favorites—the one being always unsuccess- j
fill, and the other invariably fortunate in what- j
ever they undertake. Mr. Fillmore has al- |
ways been considered by those among whom
he has resided as one of fortune’s favorites, a
lucky man, as the following anecdotes will
show:
After the nomination of Taylor and Fillmore
in 1848, a Free soil Whig in New York, who
was not particularly friendly to Mr. Fillmore,
said to a friend of ours:
“Well, the Whigs have nominated Taylor
and Fillmore. They will be elected, but Gen
eral Taylor will die and Fillmore will be Pres
ident, He has stood showers of Indian and
Mexican bullets, but he can’t stand Fillmore’s
luck.”
It so happened.
A raffle was once proposed for a certain set
of books, valued at §SOO. There were one
hundred chances at §5 each. After severel genj
tiemen had subscribed, one of them asked to
have the list of names read over, and upon
hearing the name of Millard Fillmre. asked
for the paper, from which he erased his name.
When remonstrated with he replied:
“Do you think 1 am such a fool as to take a
chance against Fillmore’s luckl Not I. The
books will be his anyhow, and there's no use
taking chances against him.”
Mr. Fillmore drew the books, as it was pre
dicted he would.”
We confess the appearance of the foregoing
in the central organ of the National (?) Amer
ican party, rather surprised us. What does it
mean ? Was the proverbial luck of Mr. Fill
more an inducement to the representatives of
an expiring party to place him in nomination,
in the face of his “ conscientious ” convictions
against the institution of slavery, upon which
rests the fate of the Union ? Was it the hope
of resuscitating, by the prestige of his luck, a
party whose inherent corruption bad brought
it almost to the last stage of deserved dissolu
tion, that induced Southern men to endorse the
nominations? Luck! Just think of it—Mil
lard Fillmore recommended for the Presidency
on account of his luck! Because, forsooth, he
won a pile of books at a raffle (a species of
gaming prohibited by the Statutes of his State)
the American people must elevate him to the
Presidency, in order that they may enjoy the
luck which it seems Mr. Fillmore carries about
with him 1 If that were a qualification for the
position, friend Swan, at the Lottery office,
might sapply quite a list of ready made Presi
dents, by a moments reference to his books.—
Matters have certainly reached a pretty pass, if
the fortunate turn of dice is to determine who
shall be President.
But we are disposed to think Mr. Fillmore's
luck has deserted him. The Organ will re
member the fickle Godess sometimes causes her
favorites, and her foot-balls to change places-
She sometimes tires of showering so much luck
upon her pets, and it not unfrequently happens
she drowns a man fr< m whose neck she has
often before cut the deserved hemp! We are
disposed to think this is the case with Mr. Fill
more. She smiled upon him in that “book
raffle,” but when he went into the Philadelphia
Convention, she didn’t like the crowd, and
turned her back upon him. His nomination
was the most unlucky occurrence of his life.—
Thu tables have been turned upon him, and
the cautious gentleman who wouldn’t “take a
chance,” on account of Fillmore’s luck, can i
“go iu and win” now, for it is clear fortune i
turned her knuckles on him there. The Cin
cinnati nomination, after this unquestionable
evidence of her abandonment, need not fear
anything from his luck.
ncome of the W. & A. R. R. for March
1856.
From Freights 8 81,568 32
Passengers 16,565 70
“ Mail 1,895 83
100.029 85
E. B. WALKER, M. T.
Report of Down Freight Shipped fro m Chat
tanooga Station, in the month of March, 1856.
7,593 bales Cotton ; 66,576 bushels Corn ;
212 barrels Potatoes ; 16,244 bushels Wheat;
3,525 bushels Oats: 404 bushels Feas: 370
bushels Meal; 797 barrels Flour: s,793Sacks
do; 2,800 barrels Liquor: 290 barrels Molas
ses : 412 hhds Sugar ; 105 sacks Coffee ; 89,-
559 pounds Lard; 48 Horses; 1,21’2 pounds
Feathers; 2.834,792 pounds Bacon ; 840 head
Ca tie; 300 Hogs; 6.975 bushels Coal; 114
barrels Beef; 1,751 pounds Butter: 208.287
pounds Sundries.
The Voyage of Life.
We have received a descriptive catalogue of
a series of allegorical pictures entitled the Voy
age of Life—“ Childhood,” "Youth," "Man
hood," "‘Old Age." From the descriptions, and
the opinions of reliable critics it contains, we
infer that the forthcoming pictures will be
something extra in that line. They are to be
copies of Cole's celebrated pictures of the same
subjects, and, so far as completed are represent
ed as the finest engravings yet published. We
shall take pleasure in showing the catalouge to
all interested. Address A. R. Walle, Spiug
ler Institute. N. Y.
A Washington despatch says, that
Gen, Walker, has suggested the basis of a set
tlement between himself and the claimants of
the Musquito grant. Mr. Phillips, former
Secretary to Col. Kinney, has left for Nicara
gua. with full powers to accept and close the
arrangement
“Glorious Victory.”
The Louisville Journal characterizes the re
cent success of the American party in that city,
as a “ glorious victory.” That it was so, is.sub
ject to some question. The scenes of blood and
arson which characterized the late gubernatorial
election in that city are tco fresh in the memo
ry of our readers, aud too horrid in their details
to be recounted here. It is enough to know
that they drove from the city a large number
of legal voters, and that the fear of their re
currence intimidated many who were entitled
to vote, and kept them from the polls. With
these facts before him, the Journal deciares the
triumph a glorious one! After driving from
the polls by scores, men legally entitled to vote,
and decimating, by blood aud fire, mob violence
and assassinations in broad day-light, the ranks
of the opposition, and menacing them with re
enactments of the same heart-sickening scenes,
these Louisville Americans come out and boast
to the world of a glorious victory ! No won
der sensible men leave such associates with dis
gust, and refuse to co-operate, in bringing about
such “glorious victories.”
We know there is not a man in Georg a who
endorses the action of the Louisville “ Ameri
cans,” or who would, in view of the facts, re
echo the cry “ glorious victory,” but they cer
tainly occupy an unenviable position is sustain
ing men and measures to whose support the
Louisville Americans come with such agencies
to secure for them “ glorious victories.’'
The Chronicle & Sentinel and Ourself-
We were(surpri«ed to notice the following
note, written in pencil, upon the margin of a
copy of our Daily of the 12th inst.
“This is net the first time—a repetition will
strike you from the exchange list of the Chron
icle & Sentinel— such credits are not acciden
tai. „
•‘Editor Chroniclb & drntinel.
The credit which called forth this extraordi
nary note was an abbreviation of the words
Augusta Exchange, thus Aug. Ex., to an item
of news cf some ten or twelve lines in length,
which we clipped from the Chronicle <V Sentinel
of late date, without really noticing what paper
we were clipping from. Upon reading the proof
! sheet, we noticed no locality was given, and
without considering it necessary to hunt up the
paper from which we extracted it, wc credited
it to an Augusta exchange, just as the editor of
the Chronicle would, no doubt, have done a par
paragh of its kind. As for its not being the
“first time’ ’ this has occurred, we confess the
editor keeps himself better posted in our credits
than we do, for we cannot recall another in
stance where wc have, in the few selections we
make from the editorial columns of the Chroni
cle, failed to give the proper credit ; and as
for the authcr-tative tone of the declaration
that “such credits are noi accidental ’ we beg to
say that the editor assumes what is very likely to
be untruein numerous instances.jwliere the name
of the paper is not recollected, or the paper itself
is lost. If, however, he imagines because of his
known ill-will towards us, we are unwilliuEgto
give him full credit for everything we copy from
him he places a construction upon the omission
not warranted by the facts and lays himself liable
to the same charge of selfishness, since wc have
ourself seen unimportant paragraphs from the
Examiner copied into the Chronicle without the
proper credit. But wc did not think enough
of the matter to violate the postage law. by
sending such a peevish note to the editor. So
far as cutting us from the Chronicles exchange
is concerned, it is a matter of small consequence
to us; and, while we shall endeavor hereafter to
be more particular about the precious para
graphs of the editor, we beg to say, if he consid
ers an exchange at all onerous, he will not in
convenience us by discontinuing it. We say
it respectfully, but truthfully, the discontinuance
of the courtesy would not seriously affect our
facilities for gathering interesting matter for
the Examiner.
[communicated.]
Firemen’s Annual Meeting,
At the Annual Meeting of the Atlanta Fire
Company, No. 1- held on the 7th, intc.. Ihe
following officers were elected for the ensuing
year.
W. W. BALDWIN, President.
Thos. Haney, Ist., Director.
Geo. R. Frazer. 2nd.. do.
Burr Winton, 3rd., do.
H. Muhlenbrink, Treasurer.
J. 11. Mkcaslin, Secretary.
Reuben Gardner. ) Axemen.
Jacob Stadelman, J
[COMMVNICATBD.]
Mr. Editor —Last week it was announced
by the Discipline, that Col. T. C. Howard
was appointed Depot Agent of the W. & A. I
R. R„ and to-day I learn that he is Post Mas- i
ter. How is this? Have the public been;
hoaxed by the Discipline: or is the Col. filling
both offices?
Please enlighten the public upon this subject..
It is usual for these changes to be noticed by j
the party press, and as yourself and the Intelli- \
gencer have been silent, we fear a hoax has 1
been played off by the Discipline.
Atlanta Ga., April 12. ENQUIRER.
Attempt at Murder.—A correspondent of;
the Charleston Standard writes as follows : I
A fellow, by the name of Sloan, came from i
somewhere in North Carolina, uot long ago 1
got engaged in teaching school, and to the j
daughter of a wealthy gentleman, living at -‘the
Fork." some eleven mihs below Orangeburg
village, obtained from his proposed father-in
law—and on the strength of his intended mar
riage—the loan of some two or three hundred
dollars worth of notes, and when, upon the oc
casion of some suspicions that all was not
right, he was required to deliver them up, put
strychnine in the wine of the gentleman from I
whom he obtained them. No very serious re
sults followed the poisoning, except that the I
poisoner is locked up for trial.
[Fram the Times <V Sentinel.]
Tlie PresideMcy-”Pierce and Buc
hanan—The two-thirds Rule-
Great men.
A very singular quarrel is going on bet ween
the Pennsylvanian and the Washington Un
ion, in which the names of Pierce and Buchan
an figure conspicuously. Some short time
since, an article appeared in the Pennsylvanian,
reviewing at length the political life of James
Buchanan, and giving in detail his views and
votes upon the subject of slavery. It was the
intention of the writer to commend him to the
favorable notice of the National Democracy.
The Washington Union, however, pretends to
regard it as a covert attack upon the fair fame
of the Pennsylvanian Chief, or at best the lame
defence of an ill advised and indiscreet friend,
and solemnly and in form defends Mr. Buchan
an from the indiscreet defence, or covert attack
of the Pennsylvanian. We have not seen the
reply of the Pennsylvanian, but presume the
Editor regards the friendship of the Union as
simulated, as he has heretofore charged the
paper with designedly suppressing resolutions
adopted by mass meetings of the people in favor
of Buchanan.
Now, for ourselves, we regret to see this war
fare between leading Democratic presses as to
the succession. Both the distinguished candi
dates for the nomination of the democratic
party for the Presidency are deservedly popu
lar with the people ; their good and great deeds
are held in grateful remembrance; and either
of them would be heartily supported, if put in
nomination. The exigences of the occasion
j require that the claims of the one shall bepost
| poned in favor of the other. The performance
of this delicate duty devolves upon the Nation
!al Convention, and"the best interest of the conn
try as well as that of the party, demands that
they be left to perform that task, free from all
outside pressure. A heated contest, as to which
of them deserves best of the country, will neces
sarily result in alienating their respective friends
from the rival aspirant, and lead to the selection
of a third person as the candidate of the demo
cracy for the Presidency. This would be un
fortunate in the present juncture of affairs, as
j the public voices has plaiuly declared that the
one or the other of these rival chiefs is the
choice of the democracy for the nomination.
We have very little preference between them.
Either of them could be elected, if the party
can be concentrated upon him. But if partisan
presses inflame the public mind by pitting
Pierce against Buchanan, or Buchanan against
Prierce, the most disastrous consequences might
result.
We cannot expect either editors or politi
cians to refrain from expressing preference for
to one or the other ; we have indulged ourselves
in this privilege. But good faith and fellow
ship demand that while democrats urge the
claims of their fovorite statesmen, they should
be just if not kindly to rival opponents. No
man is spoken of for the Presidency, by the
Presidency, by the democratic party, who has
not, by long and faithful service, earned the
gartitude and respect of the country. Partisan
presses, no more than private citizens, should
forget to render homage to exalted character,
bright intellect, and distinguished services.
The great evil of these preliminary quarrels,
among the friends of rival aspirants, is, that
it forces the Convention to nominate second
rate men for the first officers in the government
in order to appease dissensions which ought
never to have existed. The twe-thirds rule has
been generally charged with bearing this evil
fruit. We do not believe it has anything to
do with it. The democratic candidat. s chosen
under it will compare favarably with those se
lected under the majority rule by the Whig
party. In point of ability, Van Buren, Polk,
Cass and Pierce, are fully equal to Harrison,
j Clay, Taylor and Scott.
We therefore protest most solemnly against
the abrogation of the two-thirds rule by the
Cincinnati Convention. It is the only check
held by the South, in these extraordinary as
semblies, upon the overwhelming Northern
majorities. Until quiet is restored to the coun
try ; until the rights of the South are recog
nized anil respected by the North : and the
slavery agitation is settled, we should regard
that Southern man as either knave or fool who
should propose or vote for the abrogation of
the two-thirds rule. Is not the North now
vastly in the majority in these conventions ?
Why increase their power, until at least they
have shown themselves capable of using it with
discretion ?
There is a very great mistake as to the ne
cessity of having a great man for President.—
Wc want a just, firm and patriotic man at the
head of the government. If he has brains en
ough to keep in the constitutional rut, he is
great enough for all practical purposes. Gen
' ius is needed only on extraordinary occasions.
British Krcruiting in the North
of Europe.
The New York Evening Post furnishes us I
with a translation of a letter dated Hamburg. |
March 15th. 1856, published recently by
the Independauce Beige, iu the following i
words:
“The English government, notwithstanding •
the strong probability of peace, continues ex I
tending throughout the different countries of
northern Europe the circle of its operations for
enlisting troops for the services of the Anglo-
German legion. Its numerous and well-fed
agents display a zeal in the exercise of their '
functions that is sometimes outre, and which
finds a corrective in the severity of the laws
and the energetic resistance of the neo
pl.-.
“Almost everyday the police of Hamburg.
Altona and surrounding localities, succeed in
arresting a certain number of agents engaged I
in the active prosecution of their business.—
These agents are generally sentenced to im- ■
prisonment, varying in duration, and to the I
payment of a fine. If they are foreigners j
they are conducted by an armed force to ■
the frontiers and expelled from the conn-1
try.
“Since the navigation of our waters has re
sumed its usual course, the English govern
ment has sent hither the Prometheus, a ship of
war. w itb the avowed intention of further pro
tecting and prosecuting her enrolments. This
vessel is continually plying between
and and our port of Coxhaven, at the entrance
of the North sea.
“It is estimated that less than in a month
more than a thousand men have been again
tjansported by English steamers to the island
of Heligoland. The number of new recruits
obtained iu this manner has been deemed suf
ficient to warrant the formation ot a fifth re -- i
iment of infantry, and it is only a tew davs I
ago that the steamer Victoria, of 900 tons bur
den, came from an English port Heligoland, to :
take on board 700 of these recruits in order to I
transport them to riherneclige. Anotoer
steamer, also, is daily expected in the island I
in order to transport to the same destination' ■
the rest of the recruits that could uot be cm-|
barked on board the Victoria-"
We call attention to the facts here stated.—
A British man-of-war is continually plying'
between Heligoland ed the German' port of i
Coxhaveu, under cover of whose guns recruits j
avowedly enlisted in violation of the local law, j
! are smuggled from one shore, where they are
i collected in pertinacious defiance of the terri-
I torial sovereignly, amid the most discreditable
| contrivances on the part of British agents to
baffle and defeat the legal authorities of Ham
burg, A.tona, and surrounding places in Ger
many. It is in the lace of such acts of the i
British Government, persevered in down to the
15th of March, last, that Lord Clarendon un
dertakes to say in his let ter to Mr. J/arey of
the 27th of September, that "the British Gov
ernment is fully aware of the obligations of in
ternational duties, and is no less mindful of those
obligations than is the government of the
United States.” Is it possible to conceive of
a more signal confutation of this declaration of
. Lord Clarendon's than is furnished by these
I occurrences in Germany? Here is no pretence
I that the local law is not violated: for arrests of
I of recruiting agents are made, it seems, -al
j most every day;" these agents are imprisoned
or fined if they belong to the country: and if
not, they are seized by the police and marched i
out of the territory under guard of an armed
force. Meanwhile, the sovereignty of the
feeble State of Hamburg is insulted ahd out
raged by t'p presence of British mcn-of-war
stationed off its waters to counteract “the en
ergetic resistance of the people” in support of
their laws,, and thus to show the respect for
•‘the obligations of international duties” enter
tained by Great Britain.— BaJi. Union |
A Successful experiment.
f I'he world is full of of experiments and expe
rimenters, but those who experiment are al
ways looked upon with disgust the most intense
unless, forsooth, they are successful. Those
who attempt and fail, are damned beyond a re
demption. Speaking of successful experiments,
an elderly looking darkey, w. ose gray hairs
bespoke a long contact with society and exis
tence, decently attired, a day or two since, l
culled at a house on South Division street, and ’
rang the bell. The lady of the house, herself I
came to the door. “Good morning, Missus,” I
said the old darkey, taking r ts his hat and sera-'
ping his feet lustily- -I cum on a rater pecool- ■
ier errand It being very wet without, and
the rain drizzling down, the lady asked him if
i he. would not : top in a moment- "Oh yes
Missus—l cum on rafer pecoolicr errand.”—
Alter he had seated hims- If, the lady asked:
|“ \\ ell what is your pecooliererrand ?” “Well,
j Missus.” responded the wicked old darkey,
i rock De solemnly backward and forward on the
j legs, of his chair, “you see 1 lives in I’ennsyl
: vauia : Is a Pennsylvania nigger, J/issus, and
jde chickens dar are of a smallest breed ; and I
| beared cl.it dey had big shangy (shanghai)
chickens in dis place, and I cum down to see if
1 I could git some. I heard you had some, and
] it you didn’t have any chickens, den perhaps,
1 I thought, I mout git some ob de seed (eggs)
i to carry home to raise big chickens out of.—
I Hub you got any ob de seeds, Missus ?” "Why,
j no 1” responded the lady. “I gathered the eggs
this morning, and used them all for pies, which j
| 1 have just baked—won’t you have a piece?” I
I The old nigger didn’t know but that he would,
as he had “eum on a very pecoolier errand.”
Having eaten his pie, the lady told him that I
| if he would come the next day she would give
' him several ot the Shanghai seeds without
I charge, for the benefit of tiie poultry race in !
i Pennsylvania, and that his “pecoolier errand”
I might not be utterly /’rud-less. The old nig
' ger bowed his thanks, called down all sorts of
I blessings on her head, and went hobbling off—
! After he had gone, an old lady friend who had;
1 been sitting in the i a»n said to the mistress of
' the house : "1 :1 !>•-: lie's a thief—that's just the |
way these nigger. do—coma in the day-time |
' and we how everything is about the house, und I
j then come back at night and steal the [
chickens; and if 1 were you 1 would ao I
i right out and catch my chickens and shut
them up at once.” The lady thought it would
be a good plan, and went immediately out for
the purpose, when, 10l and behold I her whole
stock of chickens, consisting of six or seven
Shanghai hens and roosters, with a number of
' Cochin Chinas and Dorkings, had disappeared, j
! and an old Shanghai hen, who was “setting” in i
! a melancholy manner upon her nest in an’ out |
lof the Way corner, was the only thing left to I
' relieve the general desolation.' The robbery]
had been complete-- the trick magnificent—the ;
‘ est ct stupendous. The gray headed wooly !
wretch of a negro had kept them in attendance
within the house while his accomplices "fixed
things” outside. Our citizens had better be
more careful of their poultry, and above all, do
not allow old niggers who come on -‘pecoolier
errand.-” to occupy your entire attention, to
the decimation of your hens and the disappear
ance of your roosters.— lduSalo Daily Rep.
h'roni the Washington Union.
Is Kansas a State 1
This question lias been the subject of discus-
I sion in the Senate during the morning hour for
several days past. It wasdisposed of yesterday
on a question of order, upon which the Presi
dent decide] that as the memorial, on the mo
tion to print which the debate arose, was not
from a legislature of a State which could be
legally recognised as such under the rules of the
Senate, it would go to the Committee on Print
ing for a report. On motion of.Mr. Mason, the
order referring memorial to the Comm.'tt® on
Printing was rescinded, und the same was then
. withdrawn by General Cass. It hid been in-
I troduced by him, and purported to come from
i the members of the legislature of Kansas. In
‘ making the motion in print, he did not commit
I himself in any respect either to the truth of
I the statements of the memorialists or to the re
; cognition of the legality of the self-styled State.
Other senators objected tothe printing, because
' this might be construed into an endorsement of
I the right of the memorial'sts as members of the
I self-styled legislature to ask admission for it.
The debate involved the question whether Kan
sas ean in any light be so regarded as to claim
i the rights of a State. Some senators sought to
find precedents in the cases of Missouri and
| California. Me srs. Douglas and Weller clear
ly showed that these cases were no precedents.
The distinctio ) is that Kansas came forward
not only without any law of Congress of the
territorial legislature, but directly m defiance
of both. Xo other State ever applied for ad
mission under such circumstance. The simple
fact of the case was stated by Mr. Seward in
his speech on Wednesday. Aansa* Z>- in a slate
of revolution— the revolutionary party have de
fied the territorial laws, and made a 'constitu
tion without the concurrence of a large portion
of the inhabitants. This revolutionary party
claims that Congress should sanction their un
lawful and defiant proceedings, and admit them
a- a State. However this question might be
where there- was no territorial organization, it
is clearly true that when there is a territorial -
legislature apart of the inhabitants can no more
form a State within the Territory, and against
its authority, than could the same thing be
lawfully done within a State. To admit
Kansas under such circumstances is to give
birth to a State which washonceived i. rehel
-IL'C
Tire Reaction rx Maryland.—The muni-i 1
eipal election held in Annapolis. Maryland, on ' '
Monday, last resalted in a brilliant Democratic '
triumph. Last year the Know Nothings car- ]
ried this city by a majority of one hundred and
twenty ... (
LATEST NEWS.
A.RRIVAL OP THESTEASISJITp
WASHINGTON.
Later From Europe.
The steamer Washington. from Havre, has
arrived bringing Liverpool dates to the 26th
March, four days later than the Asia’s ac
counts.
Liverpool 'Market.
Liverpool., March 26—Cotton.—The lower
grades are easier, and the better qualities un
changed and steady- Sales of the two days 15.-
OOtt bales.
Consols 927-6.
Herman Cox & Co. say : Common Ameri-
I can cotton was freely offered and difficult of sale
at a further decline. For the better qualities
i there was a fair demand at last week's prices.
Richardson says: though dull. it. is freely of
fered but not lower.
Saturday was a holyday.
The peace Protocol is unsigned, owing to
difficulties raised by Russia, but peace is vir
tually concluded.
Fire in Bairdstown, Ky.
Bairdstown. Ky., was in flames Saturday
I evening.
Charleston Market.
Monday, April 14,1 p. m—Cotton—There
is a good demand to-day at unchanged prices.
Sales 1200 bales at 9 3-8 to 11 1-2 cents.
Further by the Washington.
Flour had declined Is. lb bbl. of 196 lbs., and
and Corn 2 a 3s. lb 480 lbs.
In Manchester business was steady.
The treaty of peace had not been signed, al
though peace was regarded as being virtually
concluded. The difficulty that prevented the for
mal signature arose from Prussia having deman
ded to sign the treaty upon the same footing as
if she had been a party to the French and English
alliance throughout the war, and from Russia
[ supporting the pretensions of Prussia in the
I matter.
I The British government had sent two steamers
! in search of the Pacific.
' The Freeh army in the Crimea was said to be
| drawing off'rapidly.
The blockade of the Russian ports in the Cri.
niea had again been resumed.
Arrival of the Steamship Cam
bria.
Halifax, April 14.—The steamer Cambria,
i with Liverpool dates to Saturday, the 29th, are
!at hand. She brings three days later neivs
i than the Southampton steamer, Washington,
i The Cotton market was reported quiet, but
prices were unchanged. Sales of the five days
(Monday was the day after Easter, and a par
tial holiday,) 42,000 bales; of which Export
ers took 4,500. and Speculators 7,200 bales.
I The final accomplishment of the treaty of
| peace, by the Paris Conference, has not yet
been effected, but it is confidently announced
j that all the difficulties attending it are removed,
iind that the treaty will be signed in a few days.
Further by the Cambria.
The steamship America arrived at Liverpool
on the 26th and the Baltic on the 28th of
March.
' The deliberations in the Conference at Par
is, on the 27th, were said to have been of a
very important character, and it was confident
ly believed that the treaty of peace had been
signed. Ou the 24th it was announced by the
Empcrior Napoleon that he expected the final
settlement to be completed sooner than the 27th
and he bad ordered suitable demonstrations for
the occasion.
Prussia's claims were earnestly resisted by
Lord Clarendon, which caused considerable de
lay. The views of Clarendon, however, pre
vailed, and his policy so arranged that the Al
lies were to sign one Protocol, and a second
Protocol should be drawn up and signed by
the Allies and Prussia jointly.
The London Times dislikes the demonstra
tions in favor of peace, and intimates that the
people of England will be discontented with
the terms arranged at Paris.
The armistic between the contending pow
ers has not been positively prolonged, but tel
egraph despatches have been forwarded to the
Crimea not to renew hostilities without ex
press orders to that effect.
[advertisement.]
Mr. Editor : I am under obligations to you
for your answer to my inquiries, and concur
with you fully in saying “ the Col. is a fortu
nate man and richly merits the appointments
at the hands of the State ami Federal Admin
istrations for bis support ” &c. True, he was
a little opposed to the administration of Gov.
Johnson and the management of the State Road
along at first, but then he came out fully into
the support of both before the election! This of
course only gave him stronger claims on the
Governor. And, again, it is true that he gave
Judge Warner the “ cold shoulder ” when first
nominated, but he whipped into the ranks
jug before the election, and for this he •• richly
deserves ” the Post Office!
But. Mr. Editor. 1 doubt not the whole thing
turned on his “unquestioned capacity” for the
position. You know Mr. Editor, that but
few of the “unterrified” have capacity to fill
such responsible offices. (But you must not
say so aloud, for you know the old Whigs,
now Americans always told us they Lad all
the decency and talent, but you know we didn’t I
like to own it.) And hence the necessity of I
giving two to the Col
I again repeat my thanks to you for your
satisfactory salutation of this affair, and con
gratulate the ,State and Federal Governments
i that we have one fit man belonging to the
; Democratic party, upon whom they can bes
. tow the appointments of Fulton County. I
therefore subscribe myself
ENQUIRER SATISFIED.
■ Atlanta, April 15th.
Special Notices.
Georgia Rail Road,
ALGUSTA, April Ist, 1856,
j >‘>'c '>'■ ’f -
-’ ■ •••: - ■ AwT” w?
i Uiiti further Notice—
The Charge for transportation on Corn will
■ be
Atlanta to Augusta, 8 cents, per bushel.
! Atlanta to Charleston, 16 cent, per bushel.
George Yonge,
] aprillSwlm General Superintendent.
FACTS, WITHOUT COMMENT,
The Public should know them.
New York, October 10, 1852.
i Uf“Mrs. Harder, No. 110 Suffolk street, writes
I us that she has been troubled with worm, for
j some three years, and that she used one vial ot
j Dr. M’Lane's Celebrated Vermifuge, which
l brought away over fifty large worms. Her usual
I good health immediately returned.
Mrs, Quiby, No. 18 3 Essex street, New York
I under date of November 23, 1852, writes us that
she had a child which had been unwell for bet
ter than two months. She procured a bottle of
M Lane’s Vermifuge, and administered it—
Ihe child passed a large quantity ot
worms, and in a few days was as hearty
,as ever it had been. Parents, with such lestimo
, uy before them, should not hesitate when there
| is any reason to suspect wo-ms; and lose no time
I m procuring anil administering l) r . M’Lanc’s
I Vermifuge. It never fails, and is perfectly safe
I Purchasers will be cartful to uskibr J)j-
M’Lane’s Celebrated Vermifuge
manufaettued by Fleming Bio%
. <>t Pittsburgh, Pa. There are other I’ills
| purporting to be Liver Pills, now before the pub
| lie. Dr. M’Lane’s genuine Vermifuge, also his
I cl ' llllr Med Liver Pills, can now bo had a- all re
jspectable drug stores. N ollc genuine
I without the signature of
FLEMMING BROS.
Holloway’s Pills, undoubtedly the best Meo
icine on sale in the Union—The extraordinary
power possessed by these Pills have rendered
them justly an universal favorite with with the
citizens ot the Union, owing it is presumed to
their efficacy in all diseases of the liver and
stomach. For the cure of sick headaches,
bile [and indigestion they arc also unequalled ;
and for all female complaints, whether of the
daughter entering into womanhood, or the
mother at the turn of life their effect is infallia.
hie as they speedily remove all such complaints
i from the system
City Tax Returns.
HOOKS are now open for the receiving of re
turns of City Tax, in my office at the City Hal.
Hl persons subject to a poll or street tax, or who
have property subject to u tax, are hereby noti
fied that it is their duty to make a return of the
same to me before the first day of June next—
-1 he books will be kept open during April instant
and May next.
Office hours (Fridays excepted) from!) to 12
o'clock A. Ms, and from 2 to 5 P. M.
H. C. HOLCOMBE, Collector &.Rec'r.
april 13 dtj For the city of Atlanta
1 lii. Lieut Russian RcuKrdy.
PRO BONO PUBLICO.
B-»~ “Every mother should have a box in the hortee
handy in case of accidents to the children.”
Rt'thliiig’N Russian Salve.
It is a Boston remedy of thirty years’standlng, and Is
recommended l>y physicians. It is a sura and speedy
cure for Burns, Piles, Boils, Corns, Felons, Chilblains,
and Old Sores, of every kind: for Fever Sores, Ulcers
Itch, Scald Hoad, Nettle Hash, Bunions, Sore Nlpph »’
(recommended by nurses,) Whitlows, Sties, Fosters
Flea Bites, Spider Stings, Frozen Limbs, Salt Jthcuu.
Scurvy, Sore mid Cracked Lips, Sore Nose, Warts and
flesh Wounds, It Is a most valuable remedy and cure,
which can be testified to by thousands who have used
it in the city of Boston and vicinity for the last thirty
years. In no instance wiii this Salve do an injury, or
Interfere witli a physician’s prescriptions. It is made
from the purest materials, from a recipe brought from
Russia-of articles growing in that country- and the
proprietors have letter, from all classes, clergymen,
physicians, sea captains, nurses, and others who have
used it themselves, and recommend it to others. Red
ding’s Russia Salve Is putin large tin boxes, stamped
on the cover with a picture of a horse and a disabled
soldier, which picture Is also engraved on the wrapper.
PtitCE, 25 Costs a Box. Hold at all the stores In town
or country, or may lie ordered of any wholesale druggist
For sale by SMITH k. EZZARD, Atlanta.
f el> 14 dwtar
A 1 BttFCMEn BnniTii.—What lady or gentleman
would remain under the curse of a disagreeable breath
when by using the “Balm of a Thocsanu Flowbus”
asa dentifrice would notonly render it sweet but leave
tiie teeth white as alabaster? Many persons do no
know their breath is bad, and the subject is so delicate
their friends will never mention it. Pour aslngle drop
of the - Balm "on your tooth-brush and wash the teeth
night and morning. A fifty cent bottle will last ayear
A Beactu cl Comfluxios may easily be acquired by
using the “IJalai or a Tiiocsasd Flcwebs.” It wii
remove tan, pimplis, and freckles from the skin, leav
ing it of a soft and roseate hue. Wet a towel, pour
on two or three drops, and wash the face Highland mor
nlng.
Shavisc Made Easy.—Wet your shaving-brush ir.
either warm or cold water, pour on two or three drops
of "Balm of a Thousand Flowers,” rub the beard well
and it will niakea beautiful soft lather much facility
the operation of shaving. Price only Fifty Cents
1- etiudoe &. Co., proprietors, annd all druggists.
Forsale by SXHTIi ic EZZARD, ami WILLIAM
* ■ (feb 15 dlt-wOni
Express Notice.
Memphis and Charleston Rail Road,
/ AFEN lor Travel i JO m STEVENSON to
X /TUSCL’MIRA. The ADAM’S EXPRESS
CO., have arranged t >(-x'cnd their Express, on
the line, of the Memphis & Charleston R. R., end
will recicve an I 'orward Freights, Packages, &c .
for Huntsv lie, Decatur and Tuscumbia, and in
termediate Stations. By Passenger Trains, in
charge of special Messengers. Express leaves
office, at Pa- -nger Depot, pr. Western <fc At
lantic train, at nine o’clock, a. m , Daily.
, C. H. BULKLEY, Agent
april 12 dwtf / .