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ATLANT! WEEKLY EXAMINER.
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JOHN IT. STEELE, Editor.
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THUR4DAY, Anti I. 24, 1856.
Swan’s Bank Note List and Detector
This valuable Monthly publication, is before
us. To business men in the South, we partic
ularly commend it. Aside from its accuracy
and reliability as a Bank Note L'st, and Detec
tor, it contains much valuable information. —
The April number is of itself worth the price
of the subscription. Every merchant in At
lanta, should have it upon his desk.
President and Vice President,
Who shall be the candidates ot the Demo
cratic and Anti Know-Nothing Party, lor
President and Vice President, is a source ol
great anxiety to many of our cotemporaries, in
Georgia, as well as the adjacent States. With
refereue ■ to it, we too, feel a deep interest, and
are almost tempted to place at our mast head
the names of the man, and men of our choice.
Indeed we do uot know but we shall some day
soon, yield to a sudden impulse, and do as off
ers have done. For instance, in Alabama, at
Montgomery, the Advertiser and Gazette
spreads before its readers, “1' ranklin Fierce,
for President, and Benjamin Fitzpatrick, for
Vice President.” Aud, in other States, we
see also the democratic papers hoisting tin
names of their favorites, particularly for the
last named office. Under such circumstances,
we can scarcely keep silent. For the present,
however, we shall only say that we should like
Georgia to have a “finger in the pie,'’ in some
way, provided Alabama. Tennessee and South
Carolina, don’t object. But more anon !
Out for Franklin I’ikrce.—The Boston
Post is out in a formidable three-decker of an
article in favor of the re-nominatian of Frank
lin Pierce for the Presidency, upon “vital con
gtituiwaai pruwipW
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 24. 1856.
A CARD
The Proprietor of the “ Examiner ” takes
pleasure in announcing to its numerous readers
and patrons that he has secured the services of
its late “ Senior Editor,” Major Steele, who
will, in future, have the exclusive control of its
editorial and reading columns.
The financial and business department of the
paper remains as heretofore announced.
T. BURKE.
From the foregoing, it will be perceived that
the undersigned lias again assumed the conduct
ot the “ Examiner.” It is not necessary, in
making this announcement, to refer to its past>
or, in detail, to its future course, in reference to
'he great political questions which agitate the
whole country. As in the past, so in the fu
ture, the columns of this paper will be devoted
t. the advocacy of Southern Rights, and those
fundamental principles of Constitutional Gov
ernment which, alone, make this union of
“ Free, Sovereign, and Independent States ”
worth maintaining. The hideous head of fanat
icism must be crushed under the heel of its op
posite in all that is promotive of a just and
good government, else anarchy and dissolution
will be the result. The most effective weapoij
to destroy the one, and maintain the other, is
the Press. However humble its pretensions ;
how distant soever its location from the great
marts of Commerce, the halls of legislation, or
of a dense population ; however limited its cir
culation or its patronage ; still its influence
“ for good or for evil ” will be exercised, and
as it sows, so it may expect to reap. For our
self, with no trifling experience as to t.ie duties
imposed upon, and responsibilities assumed by,
one who is placed at the helm of a press, to steer
it through the shoals and quicksands of politi
cal heresies and party strife, to a port of safety
and success, we yet, trusting much to an indul
gent public, lay our hand again upon the helm
of the “ Examiner.” To the great Constitu
tional Party to which we are attached, we pledge
ourself, as its sole conductor, to the great work
referred to. Responsible for a 1 that shall ap
pear in its columns, both to our friends and our
foes, we shall fearlessly discharge all duties that
properly devolve upon us. In so doing, how
ever, we shall not fail to preserve our own self
respect, by excluding from our columns all that
will either do injustice to honorable antagonists
or detract from that elevated position which
every Journalist in our State should occupy.—
When the argument fails us, we shall prefer to
vacate our scat, rather than to supply its place
with vituperation and abuse, the weapons in all
political contests of the fool or the knave.
To our brethren of the Georgia Press we
again, therefore, extend the right hand of fel
lowship. We stand prepared, we assure them,
••todo as wc would be done by ”; and, confi
dent that such must be the feeling of every hon
orable man, we enter upon our duties with the
conviction that a prosperous career is not only
before us, but that we shall be cheered on in
our work by thousands of political, and a host
of personal, friends.
• J. 11. STEELE.
The readers of the “Examiner” will per
ceive from the following card addressed to them
that the late Editor of this paper, and our “Ju
nior" for a twelvemonth or more, is no longer
connected with it. lie retires from the ar
duous duties imposed upon Irm, we trust, with
prospects bright and encouraging for the future.
Fearlessly and ably has he battled for princi
ples, the perpetuity of which is preservation of
our once beloved Union. We wish him every
success in life, and doubt not fiat in some other
sphere he will do good ‘service to the State.”
A CARD
To the Readers of the Examiner.—The
undersigned, after a very pleasant connection of
some thirteen months, with the readers of the
Examiner, cannot take his leave without ex
pressing to them, and his cotemporaries of the
State, his grateful acknowledgements for the
kindness they have severally manifested.
The announcement that Major J. 11. Steele
the former Senior Editor, resumes his post,
precludes the necessity for any comment upon
the future course of the Examiner, and 1 have
only to say to one and all. farewell I
C. L. BARBOUR.
Atlanta for Groceries, Dry Goods, and
Produce
The Atlanta Market for Groceries, Dry
Goods, and Produce, is not behind any in our
| State, and invites a trade far surpassing that
, which it actually commands. We do uot pre
: tend to assert that it is supplied, in groceries
■ and dry goods, with so large a stock as either
j Savannah er Augusta, but we do assert that the
| traders of middle and upper Georgia, can be sup
pl.ed with either, upon better terms than in any
■ other market of our state. For “Produce”-Ba
: eon. Wheat, Corn, and so forth-purchasers'have
■ only to gve it a trial, and we will venture the
■ liuest beaver, or, as Summer is approaching, the
lk|Fst panama hat, that our dealers iu these ar
ticles, wili sell to them upon better terms than
dealers iu any other city iu Georgia, In proof
of t is, we know it to be a fact, that only a
few days ago, two gentlemen visited our city for
the purpose of purchasing a large lot of bacon.
They were not satisfied with the prices of our
merchants, and left for the purpose of procur
ng their supply in Tennessee. After trying
the markets of Nashville and Chattanooga, they
returned, and, in no little haste, made their pur
chases in this city. Having completed them,
they were frank enough to tell of their expe
dition into Tennessee, and of its result, and de
declared, that, from thenceforth, this was their
market for country produce. The truth is, we
can leave our sanctum this very hour, and can
at less cost purchase any article of groceries for
family use ; any article of wearing apparel, or
goods for making the same ; any quantity, large
or small, of good hams, or bacon ; any quality
of family flour or of meal ; at less cost than we
can purchase the same in any other market of
our State. And there are many reasons we
might offer, why this is so, which we do not
think necessary here to present. All that we
have to say to our numerous readers, in middle
and upper Georgia; in North Alabama, and
in those portions of Tennessee adjoining our
State; is, give Atlanta a trial; and when you do
so, call npon us. We will take pleasure in in
troducing you to our merchants, and the het
shall be yours, if what we represent does not
prove to be true.
The Bank of Fulton-
On yesterday, the Book of Subscription for
the Stock of this Bank, by direction of the
Corporators, was opentSP, at the office of E. W.
Hofland, in this City, and will be kept open
for sixty days, or until the stock is taken.—
Os the result we shall keep cur readers advised.
The Legislature, at its late session, chartered
a number of Banks. We present here a list
of them.
Mechanics & Planters’ Bank, Savannah.
Exchange Bank, Griffiin,
Hamilton Bank. Hamilton.
Bank of Columbus, Columbus,
Bank of Fulton, Atlanta,
Bank of Cuthbert, Cuthbert.
North-Western Bank, Ringold.
Greensboro’ Bank, Greensboro.
Bank of Morgan, Madison.
Central Bank of Georgia, Macon.
Without an exception, there is no point in
the wide limits of our State that needs a good,
sound Bank—one that is content to do a le
gitimate, profitable business—than our thriving
city. For the want of such an Institution,
our business men have been cramped in their
mercantile operations, and the growth of our
city, rapid as it has been, has been impeded.—
In fact, we Lave paid tribute to more than one
Caesar, in the shape of Bunking Institutions
elsewhere, and it has been exacted from us too,
if not at the point of the sword, with as little
of justice, and with no remorse.
Atlanta, now, has it in her power, in a great
degree, to free herself from a state of depen
denccy—to rid herself of this tribute. Let her
say as did General Pinckney to Talleyrand at
the Court of France, “ millions for defence, net
a cent for tribute!” Let every merchant, far
mer, mechanic, in Atlanta, and iu upper Geor
gia, according to his tjtetqjs, take stock in this
“ Bank of Fulton I” Let thj conditions of the
charter be complied with to the letter! And
upon an actual cash capital, the gold and silver
paid in, aud under the management of reliable
and responsible officers, it will go soon into op
eration. It will be the dawn of a new business
era in our city, aud will advance every interest
of this section of our State.
The books opened to day, require the pay
ment, in gold and silver of fifty dollars upon
every share subscribed for, and the remaining
fifty to be paid in when called for, by the prop
er authorities. As before remarked they will
be kept open for sixty days. We venture the
assertion that subscribers now for stock, can, in
three months, sell at a premium. Ever£ man
in Atlanta is interested in this matter. If you
cannot take ten. you can take five shares—if
not five, go and take two, or even one. The
diversion of a small portion of your means from
mercantile, farming, or mechanical operations,
to attain the end proposed, is of trifling con
sideration. This is true, also, when applied to
the thriving towns near us—Newnan, Marietta.
Campbellton, Calhoun, and other points de
prived of all banking facilities. We should
like them all to take an interest in this “Bank
of Fulion ” for their dependence, elsewhere,
like Atlanta's, will be, to a very great extent,
lessened, if it be not actually thrown off.
Georgia capitalists at all points, would do well
to invest in this Bank. Atlanta is, of all points
in the State, the place for a Bank. The field
is an open one, and it presents advantages that
no other point in the State, ever did, or ever
can.
Department News
Under the ab:ve head. in another column
will be found an article which appeared lately
in the “Washington Union,” in reference to the
“Graduation act,” of 1854, important to pur
chasers of land from settlers who, under tha t
act, --entered" land in the West, for"settlement
and cuiaraikn.”
From the Washington Union.
Department News.
Interior Departiuent-
Graduation Act of August 4,1854.—A
circular, bearing the above caption, was issued
by tins department, under date of April 7,
1856, having for its object the extension of the
time of receiving proof of actual settlement.
&c., upon the public lands. The time fixed
upon by the circular of the 23d January last
within two months from the date of the entry
for “settlement and cultivation.” Wo copy
from the circular as follows:
“ ‘ As the benefits of the act were designed to
be for actual settlers only,’ as declared by the
Attorney General, in his opinion of the 28th
July, 1856, it i proper to fix the time within
which proof of the settlement shall be presen
ted, but it is the opinion of the Secretary of
the Interior and the Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land Office that it should be fixed upon
the most liberal principles, and that the time
heretofore allowed is too short, aud that one
year should be allowed, thus assimilating the
period to that ] r scribed in the preemption
act of 1841, in relation to lands subject to pri
vate entry.
“Therefore you are hereby directed—
“lst. In all existing entries, for ‘settlement
and cultivation,’ to allow the parties one year
from the first of June next for the production
of the required proof of actual settlement,
&c.
“2d. In all entries hereafter (that is, after
Ist June,) one year from the date of entry is
hereby allowed for the production of the re
quisite proof. k
“3d. Where entries have been made, the
purchasers not intending to occupy the land in
person, under a misconception of the law, up
on filing an affidavit to that effect, you will al
low them to hold the land at SI 25 per acre,
requiring them to pay up the difference between
that price and the sum already paid under the
graduation act. For the additional payment
the receiver must issue a supplemental receipt,
giving a half number to it in the regular se
ries. The transaction must be reported in the
monthly abstracts of the register and rdeeiver.
and the receiver must, of course, charge him
self with such additional payments in his quar
terly accounts.
“4th. In case of tee death of a purchaser
before perfecting his rights, on proof to the
sat-sfaction of the General Land Office of the
bona fide intention of the decedent to fulfil the
requirements of the law, his claim shall be
confirmed to his heirs or legal representa
tives.
“sth. If a‘minor’ is the ‘head of a family’
his entry is valid. If not the head of a fami
ly, it is invalid. (Opinion of the Attorney
General, July 25.1855.)
“In the case, however, o£a purchaser whose
entry is invalid by reason of his minority al
the time, but who afterwards reaches his ma
jority, and has identified himself with the prem
ises I y actual settlement an 1 cultivation, the
land may be secured to him by producing
poof of such actual settlement and cultiva
tion.
“7th. Where an entry is made for the use
of an ‘adjoining’ farm, it is required that an
affidavit shall be filed designating the ‘origi
nal farm;’ so it may appear that the entry
forms, with the said ‘farm,’ a compact body
of land, ’['his is all the proof required in this
class of cases.
“7th. Where the validity of entries may be
contested, and the sales made void, no prefer
ence right will be given to the contestant to
enter the land thus vacated, unless it shall ap
pear that he had a right under the law, as an
actual settler thereon, at the date of the illegal
entry.
“ Where entries made by speculators in vio
lation of the law are set aside, the lands cover
ed thereby will be laid open, after proper no
tice, to actual settlers.”
Surveys on the North Shore of Lake
Superior.—lnstructions have been issued by
the Commissioner of the General Laud Office
for the survey of the lands ceded to the Uni
ted States by the Chippewa Indians under the
treaty of 3th September, 1854, situated north
of the St. Louis river, and along the north
shore of Lake Superior. The work is to be
commen.ed early next moith, with the view
of accomodating settlers after the Indians shall
have been satisfied for the rights accruing to
them under the above named treaty
A Singular Fact in History.
By long odds, the man who, at this time,
exerts the most potent influence in European
affairs, is Louis Napoleon, the Emperor of the
French. He was born April the 20th of 1808.
and is now within a few days of being forty
eight years of age. He is the son of Louis Bo
naparte, brother of the first Napoleon, and
King of Hofland. His mother was Hortense
Beauharnois, daughter of the Empress Jose
phine, by her first marriage.
In noticing this fact, a recent writer remark o
that there is one circumstance connected wi’h
this family which historians have not y<t ob
served. but which is well worth mention. Na
poleon. the Great, set aside his own best friend
and counsellor. Josephine, to obtain an heir to
the throne of France. He married a Princess
of Austria, and by her he had a son. That
birth was the culminating point of his power
and his dignity. From thence he did nothing
bat descend. He died an exile—his son also.
Who succeeded to his name, his fame, his pow
er? Tito child o. Hortense, who was the child
of Josephine! In the person of the Emperor
of the French, we find not the off-pring ot Na
poleon the Great, but the offspring of uis dis
carded wife. What an illustration of the truth
of the adage, “ That it is the man who propo
ses. but God whe^disposes!”
ferySale of Creek Indian Reservations.—
The -Columbus Sun" says:
■•The sale of the “Unsold Creek Indian Res
ervations,” lying in the counties of Coosa. Tal
lapoosa. Chambers. Russell, Macon and Bar
bour, will commence too the first Monday in
May. That being election day, for Judg<s.
ic., we understand no lands will be sold on the
first day. but the sale will merely be opened,
aud continued over to Tuesday. The valua
tion of these lands has been completed, and we
presume everything will be in readiness for the
•ale by the twe specified. ’
[From the Augusta Constitutionalist]
VI asliingtoii Correspondence.
Washington, April eOth, 1856.
The politicians in the Metropolis, both inand
out of Congress, are moving with the usual ac
tivity that precedes a Presidential nomination.
I’hc Democracy, conscious of the purity an I
ultimate invincibility of their principles proceed
firmly, but with unflagging ard rin the main
tenance of those great political dogmas which
have come down to us from the very cradle of
our Independence, unchanged, but expanding
as our glorious country advances in her proud
career of national progress. Cautiously, but
undaunted, our friends meet the combined forces
now arr :yed against them, in both halls of
Congress; and when, now and then, as has oc
curred, since the opening of the session, the
conflict has been characterised, on the part of
our friends, by unusual excitement or a more
desperate resistance, it has only happened when
treason stalked boldly before them, or arrogant
defiance was hurled from the perjured lips of
pseudo-philanthropists. Not so, however, with
the Black Republican forces. Every element
ol combination is sought for—every- shade of
of apostacy is welcome. Know Nothings,
those of them who are arrogate and prostitute
the title of National, are caressed, intimidated
or wheedled into the service of the negro wor
shippers. Caucuses are held by night and by
day. Northern money and northern promises
are cquafly abundant, until it has become but
too apparent that the coming battle must be
fought by the national Democracy, against the
most incongruous and unnatural combinations,
and that on the result are staked the Constitu
tion and the Union. What a dastardly foe!
What a noble prize!
There is something refreshing in a calm
review of the forces they marchelled for the
coming contest. The Black Republicans have
staked, on the result, their only, last hope of
disorganization and supremacy.
The Know Nothings, if we nominally ex
cept the few who, like Trippeand Foster, claim
the irreconcilable cognomen of national, as
distinctive of their apostacy, are part and par
cel of these confedetated traitors. The fusion
is completed, notwithstanding their nominal
exception, for it would be insulting to common
sense, and contrary to every principle of polit
ical ethics to suppose, for a moment, that men
who gloried in witnessing the failure of our
memorable and patriotic efforts to rescue the
Speaker’s chair from the desecration of Black
ty'puclicanism, and actually contributed to that
infamous deed, would not betray the South
still further, if called on io do so by their blas
phemous, secret obligations. All these ele
ments,
“Black spirits, and white,
Blue spirits and grey,”
whether they are attracted into adhesion upon
Fillmore, or Seward, or McLean, are combin
ed in solid phalanx against the Democracy.
On the other hand, how proudly do onr ban
tiers wave over the ramparts of constitutional
freedom! How nobly do our friends rally
around the altar of the Union, which it isn't
once our privilege aud our duty to defend. If
we have had to mourn over the apostacy and
desertion of brethern of weak faith, have we
not gained in return ? Georgia proudly ans
wers that question, and points the Democracy
of the nation to that gallant band that has
come to the rescue under the lead of Stephens.
Every State in the Union gives its quota of
honest patriots to rally around the standard of
the Constitution. Party names, and party
associations are forgotten in the common dan
ger ; and, with the Democracy of the country,
all now turn their eyes to Cincinnati for a
chief to lead us on to a glorious victory. Such
is the present aspect which parties present.—
The result depends on an over ruling Provi
dence. and lhe valor aud fidelity of the Nation
al Democracy.
While, however, but little is done in either
House of Congress, not connected in some
shape or other with the Presidential race, the
scene is sometimes varied, if not enlivened, by
interesting inter.udes. Senator Iverson’s elo
quent and unanswerable speech on the Naval
Retiring Bill, deliveied March 31st, was of
this character. This able argument, was ad
drersid to a motion submitted by that gentle
man on the 30th February, and seldom lias the
Senate listened with more profound attention
and deeper interest than it did, while the Geor
gia Senator dissected with ski ful and practised
hand, the late board of naval inquisitors. It is
said, I know not how truly, that the President
is now satisfied that injustice has been done to
many merito.ious officers, and tha Judge Iv r
son’s efforts to repair that injustice has bis
warmest sympathies. What a noble represen
tation Georgia has, during these trying times,
in b th branches of Congress. The two ex
ceptions may well be over looked for they are
scarcely ever thought of when estimating' the
proud position Geotgia occupies in both halls
of Congress. Like the lost Pleiades they have
become invisible amid the bright constellations
which their State has placed in the firmament
of national legislation. My political telescope,
however, is keen, and I shall, therefore, contin
ue to watch their course, no matter how erratic
it may be.
It is understood that the English and French
Ministers at Washington, have actually sent
orders to the commanders of their respective
squadrons, to supply and land at Punta Are
nas, or any other accessible point on the Costa
Rica, a suitable number of forces, if ca’led on .
by the authorities of that State, to aid in rep
resenting the invasion of General Walker.— |
Gov. Marcy’s reply to this intelligence is under- :
stood to have been a very complacent smile of
incredulity, behind which one could see slyly j
lurking, let them try that game.
Letters have been received from Mr. Dallas;
by Mr. Marcy, but they contain nothing re-I
specting the unsettkd points lietweeu the t<"o
governments. Thegeiieral impression in Wash
ington is that the status of these questions at I
present is this—with lespect to the recruitment I
question, our government will await a reason- |
able time for the expected communications I
from the British government. Should they
fail to come, Mr. Crampton will be seat home.
In regard to the Central Americain embroglio,
the occasion will, perhaps, soon present itself,
unless John Ball is the great! st blusterer in the
world, for bringing that question to an unmis
takable issue.
: Marriage of flic Princess Royal
of ringland.
1 We are authentically advise 1 that the Prin
| cess Royal of England, now in the sixteenth
year of her age, is betrothed to Prince Fred
erick of Prussia, a young gentleman some nine
1 years her senior, and that they will be married
probably in the course of the current year.
It is only a few months since the intended
bridegroom visited England, where it would
seem ho wooed and found favor in the eyes of
the Princess Royal, and, what was more to the
purpose, perhaps in the eyes of her royal par
ents. The papers of that day reported how be
was conducted to the palace by Prince Albert;
how he was received in the most gracious man
ner by the Queen ; and how he was treated
there for some days as a most favored guest.
A general impression was creat d at the time
that the visit was not an ordinary one of cere
mony ; and the idea soon got hold of the pub
lic mind that the Prince came as suitor to the
Princes- Royal, or rather as visitor to his be
trothed wife. An outcry was raised against
the projected alliance, the Queen was lectured
about the mode of marrying the daughter, and
the matter ended at tha. time by the departure
of the Prince from Balmoral. It is now ap
parent that the royal families of England and
Prussia merely deferred the execution of their
project until more pacific views became ascend
ant ; and the renewal of this subject at the
present moment affords decided proof that, in
the opinion of both families, the accomplish
ment of peace is certain, aud the contemplated
alliance may have exerted no inconsiderable
influence in securing the consent, of England to
lie admission of representatives from the Court
at Prussia to the Paris Conlerences.
Priuce Frederick WiilLm Nicholas Charles
of Prussia was born on the Ist of October,
1831, and is consequently in his 25th year.—
He holds the commission of Major, a la suite
of the first regiment of foot Guards, and Chief
and Colonel Proprielaire of other Regiments
in the Prussian service. He is the eldest son
and heir of Frederick William, Prince of
Prussia, brother of the King, and heir to the (
throne. Consequently, if the projected niarri- I
age shall take place, it may be anticipated that |
the time is not fa' distant when the throne
of Prussia will be occupied by a Princess of
England.
The young lady’ whose hand is about to be
made the pledge of renewed amity with Prus
sia, “ Iler Royal Highness Victoria Adelaide
Mura Louisa, Princess Royal of England,”
was born at Buckingham Palace, on the 21st
of November, 1840, and was baptised on the
16th of February following. She was to be
confirmed at Windsor Castle on Thursday, the
20th ult., and as a preliminary to her marriage,
which is likely to follow in convenient order
the proclamation of peace, and swell the popu
lar rejoicings which may bo expected to suc
ceed that event.— N. Y. Post.
[From thl Augusta Constitutionalist j
Election for Mayor and Mem
bers of Council.
Theelection passed off day in a very
quiet way, as there was no opposition for the
Maoralty, nor in any of the Wards for Mem
be sos Council, except in the second. The
eleet on resulted as follows :
Gen. G. W. Evans was elected Mayor.
, First Ward —F. Blodget, Jr., Win. 11.
Tutt, and A. V. Laßoche were elected mem
bers of Council.
SECOND WARD.
Anti-Know Nothing.—E. J. Walker,
II4!. George Slater, 95, John C. Sneed 98.
Know Nothings.—James M. Dye 95, B. F.
Chew 93, Wm. H. Maharrey 91.
Second Ward.—E. J. Walker and .1. C.
Sneed were elected, end George Slater and J.
M. Dye having received the same number of
votes, the contest will have to be decided by
another election by the people, for the other
member.
Third Ward.—Benj. Conley, R. If. May
J. D. Butt. ;
Foi-rth Ward.—Wm. H. Stark, B. F.
Hall, W. H. Goodrich.
The result of the election yesterday has giv
en to the Anti-Know Nothing and Democrat
ic party of-the city, in the Second Ward one 1
additional member of Council, and tied Ihe
highest candidate on the Know Nothing side
for another member.
L ist year the Council stood, including the ,
Mayor, twelve Know Nothings, and one Anti ’
—by the election yesterday it stands, including
Mayor, ten Know Nothings, two Anties, and
one tied.
There was no opposition for Mayor, because j
it was well understood that Gen. Evans, al-!
though nominated by the Know Nothing party. I
would sustain the action of the citizens reconi- i
mending the subscription by the City Couniil I
of $500,000 to the stock of the Savannah Vai- ,
ley Railroad ; and as all the candidates run
ning in the Third anil Fourth Wards, for Coun
cil, were understood to be in favor of that I
enterprise, no opposition was offered to their
election. It is true that gentlemen were voted
for, in all the war ’s, who were not candidates,
but the Second Ward was the battle ground,
and the Democrats achieved a victory there.
'The Mayor and the Members of Council in
the First, Third and Fourth Wards are Know
Nothings.
Li-ss- Military gentlemen should not take
nice young ladies in thfn silk to the ball, and
I Ave their wives to mope in calico at home.—
One of them tried it, in New Yotk, the other
night, and when he handed the girl in pink
from the carriage at the ball room door, lhe
wife in calico was there, and for a few mom nts j
pink ribbons, artificial flowers, hair pins, and
fragments of the pink dress aforesaid, flew as
thick as bail on all sides. The valiant gentle- j
man iu regimentals left lhe disordered pink on
the steps, while he led his wife down the street
and made a compromise, the terms of which
have not transpired.
The East India Trade of the U. S., inclu- i
ding the African and Pacific trade, employs I
at the present time 400 ships and 150 barks,'
the greater proportion of which arc owned in 1
Boston and Nwe York. Fifty years ago al
tew 200 ton ships and brigs controlled the j
hast India bugiuese- 1
T. BL'RKE, PROPRIETOR
.NUMBER 37.
How to Popthe Question.
“Gracious I" sez I, “it’s now time to look ar
ter Nance.”
Next day. down I wint. Nancy was alone,
and I axed her if the squire was iu. She said
he wasn't.
“'Cause,” said I, making believe that I want
ed him, “our colt has sprained his foot, and I
come to see if the squire wont lend me his mare
to go to town.”
She said she gussed he would. I’d better
sit down and wait till the ’squire come in.
Down I sot; she looked sorter strange, and
my heart felt queer around the edge.
“Are you going down to Betsy Martin’s
quilting ?” after a while sez she.
Sez I, “reckon I would.”
Sez she, “suppose you'll tako Patience
Dodge?”
Sez I, “I motight, and then I moughtn't.”
Sez she, 111 heard you was going to get mar
ried.”
Sez I, “I would'nt wcndeca bit.”
1 looked at her and saw nic tears cummin.
Sez I, “may be she'll ax you to be brids
maid.
She riz up, she did, her face was as red as a
boiled beet.
Seth Stokes I” and she could'nt say anything
more, she was so full.
“Won’t you be bridesmaid. Nance?” sez I.
“No,” sez she and she burst right out.
Well then,” sez I, “if you won’t be the brides
maid, will you be the bride?”
She looked at me—l sworn to man I never
saw anything so awful purly. 1 took right
holt of her hand.
“Yes or No,” sez I, “right off.”
“ Yes,” sez she.
“That’s the sort, s?z I, and I gave her a kiss
and a hug. I soon fixed matters with the
squire. We soon hitched traces to trot in
double harness for life, and I never had cause
to repent my bargain.
A Case of United Living Children.—On
the 4th of April 1855, one of the rarest cases
of double formation occurred at the St. Peters
burg Foundling Hospital—namely, two girls
growing together by their skulls—which still
live, and so far appear to be in good health.—
Os all cases of this kind hitherto known (of
which there are seven,) the union of two indi
viduals was never of that kind to bring the
face of one child directly opposite the face of
the other. These twins are so united that if
the middle line of the face of one child be pro
longed from the nose; this would strike upon
t,e ear of the other. Through the mobility of
the necks the two children really lie in a
straight line, one girl lying on the back, the
other on the side, and thus they sleep. The
face of one child is quite symmetrical as far as
the so ehead, and it is first in the formation of
the skull, that want of symmetery appears.—
In the face of the other the right half is much
slior'encd, and the eye of this side opens less
than the other. The two children possess a
perfectly independent existence from each other
as relates to sleeping, walking, want of food,
etc. The one sleeps quietly whilst the other
takes nourishment or looks about. Common
sensibility does not appear to exist, since in
case of this kind the bruins and nerves of each
individual are preserved di tiuct. Not so al
ways with the blood vessels. Once one child
screaming awoke its sister. The face of the
screaming child b came suffused and reddened
deeply; whilst the other was still asleep. Then
the face ol the other began to redden and swell
and it was only after this that it opened its
eyes. The fiatur< aof the two children, espec
ially of the one whose facts is not shortened,
are very pleasing.
A Shanghai Twenty-nine Days in a
Well.—A correspondent of the Virginia Sen.
line!, writing from Fauquier county, tells a
story of a Shanghai pullet thut fell through
the covering into ati unfinished well, seventy
< ieet deep. It was not considered worth while
l to look after it; but niter the lapse of twenty
nine days, the covering being removed, it was
discovered yet alive. A buy was then lowered
by a rope, and biddy rescued from imprison
ment in her dungeon, where for to long a
time she had been without food or water.
Sharpe's Rifles.—lt is stateefthat Sharpe’s
rifles sell in Kansas for u mere trfile. Some
keeu Yankees there, the Dayton Empire in
forms us, have been buying th niup, almost
from the first month of their introduction,
shipping them East, and re selling them to the
humbugged, to be again sent buck us ‘ aid to
Kansas." It is supposed that a large number
of thes t famous w apons have been paid for
by the Beechers and others a half dozen times
over.
Religion among the Chinese.—Religion
would appear to be at a low ebb among the
Chines. The priests sits down in front of an
altar with a small mallet in one hand a string
of beads in the other, he begins to hum or half
sing a number of words; this appea: s to be
all the worship they have, and their belief is
that the priests can and must do all the pray
ing. In this latter particular the Chinese are
not alone; there is a large class of religionists
in our own country who look to the ministers
to do ull the praying.
City of Avgusta.—We stated yesterday the
public debt of the city was §355,805. With
out referring to the revenue derived from taxa
tion on real estate, merchandise, market rent
and fees, dray, auction and other licences, <kc.,
<kc., the iuteiest on the entire public debt cun
readily be paid out of the receipts from three
sources alone, the bridge, wharves, and the div
ide! ds from the Georgia railroad stock, and
leave a surplus of several thousand dollurs to be
appropriated to other purposes.
Movements or English and French Fleets.
—Advices from Hayti bring intelligence that
i on the Sth ult. lour Engli h and two French
men of war, lately composing part of the Bul-
I tic fleet, arrived m the roadsteand of I’ort au
. Prince. It is added that other vessels were ex
pected, and that from twelve to fourteen ihou
i sand Freyeh troops bad been disembarked at
! GuadaloJpe. What's in the wind ?
| The reported recall of Mr. Wheeler, our
I Munuiw to Nicaragua, is contradicted