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ATLANT! WEEKLY EXAMINER. TXZ-grg-srs-Fg T OIBLCUIiATIOKI O3F* THE E3JBLA.JMCIJXTEH., IQOOO 00-3= IE85: JOHN IT. STEELE, Editor. VOLUME 11. THE WEEKLY EXAMINER is P üblhtd every Thursday morningin the City of Atlanta, at ONE DOJLLAR PHO ANNUM, To be paid, strictly in advt ce. I3r" No subscription taken for less than six months. RATES OF AD V SRTISING. Advertisements are insert 1 in the Wbekly Examiner at the following rates: Seventy-five cent 4 per square (of 10 lines brevier) for the first insertions, and 37 J cents per square lor each sub* sequent insertion. 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[-XT All Advertisements not specified as to time will be published until lorbid and charged accordingly. Legal Advertisements Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administra tors, Executors or Gurdians, are required by law to be held on the First Tuesday in the month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court House m the County in which the property is situated. Noticas of these sales must be given in a’ pub ic gazette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must b« given in nice manner 10 days previous to sale notices to the debtors and creditors of an es tftto inus* also be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne groes, must be uublishcd for two months. Citations for'letters of Administration, Guar dianship &c., must be published 30 days —for dis mission from Administration, mouthy 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, lor the full space of three months —for compelling titles from Executors or Admin istrators, where bond lias bien given by the de ceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless other wise ordered, at the following Rate? • Citations on letters of Adn mistration &c. $2 75 do do dismissory om Adminis tration, . ’’J! Citation on dismissory from Guardianship, 3 00 Leave to sell Land or Neg: es. Notice to debtors and cred. >rs. 3 GO Sales of personal property, I 1 days, 1 square 1 50 Sales of land or negroes by hxeeutors, <Scc. 5 00 Estrays, two weeks, 2 •>*[ For a man advertising his wife, (in advance,) 5 Letters on business must be (post paid) to en title them to attention. 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 THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL AND NEWSPAPER IN THE SOUTH—A WEEKLY FIRESIDE COMPANION FOR ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. 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