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ATLANTA WEEK! Y EXAMINER.
CIRCULATION O3F* THE 12000 COr'IEH!
JOHN H. STEELE, Editor.
VOLUME 11.
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fIIUBSDAY7MAY 1. 1856.
“The Empire State."
Our old friend “Guulding,” of the “Empire
State" one of the raciest aud ablest Anti-
Know Nothing and Democratic papers, in
Georgia—in a late number of his paper, per
petrates the following:
THE ATLANTA EXAMINER.
We learn with pleasure, that our old esteem
ed friend, Major Steele, has resumed his posi
tion as Editor of the Atlanta Examiner, from
which i.e has been for a few months. Mr. Bar
bour having retired from his connection with
the paper. We welcome you again Major to
the Editorial Fraternity, and shall be happy to
meet vou, aud give your paw a hearty shake,
as well as to smoke a good cigar with you and
tight our battles over again.
Thank you, my old friend. In ‘ days lang
syne," we have passed together many a pleas
ant hour, and labored hard to promote the
interests of our beloved State.
It affords us great pleasure to be cheered on
in our work now. by one whom we so much
esteem, and whose “heart is always in the
right place." To meet you, and with the •
“cigar" (of course, a good one.) lit, and to
"tight our battles o’er again," will give us more
pleasure, than, some twelve years ago, as you
have often said, during a night session of the
Legislature at Milledgeville, we “gave unto
you." When we do meet we can assure each
other, that we have not forgotten the maxim
, taught us in our youth— “Dum vivimus riea
uius"—“whilst we live, let ns live!” Success
to “The Empire State.!"
Ex-Congressman-tall John Wentworth
of lit, has come out for Fremont for
and Speaker Banks for vice.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 1. 1856.
®gy» We or e an apology to our readers for
omitting the publication on yesterday of the “Dai
ly Examiner;” and for whatever it may deficient
in to-day. At the request of its Proprietor,
and in justice to him, we will present our read
ers with a brief statement of the causes which
prevented the publication referred to. And in
order that we may be as explicit as possible we
shall invite their attention, first, to the follow
ing, which adorned the advertising columns of
yesterday’s Daily Intelligencer:
To Printers Generally!
All Printers in search of work are advised
to avoid the Exam ner Office of this city. The
Foreman of that establishment has been dis
charged without cause, and all rhe hands have
followed him. RATS take notice, if you wish
to avoid a close CHASE and sound drubbing.
L. S. MITCHELL, Foreman.
I. B. PILGRIM, Pressman.
JOHN D. HOLMES, Compositor.
GEO. W. BOWEN,
HENRY 11. DULIN,
Atlanta, April 23,1856. d&wlt.
In the foregoing notification, there are two
facts stated. First, that “ the Foreman ”of
this “ establishment was discharged ;” and se
cond, “that all hands” (save one) followed
him. Whether or not, the Foreman was dis
charged “ without cause,” is a matter of no
consequence to our readers; nor does the Pro
prietor offer any apology for it. Suffice it to
say, that, in the exercise of a right which no
reasonable man will question, the Proprietor of
this paper, dissatisfied with the Foreman, dis
charged him from bis service; hence the adver
tising patronage bestowed upon yesterday’s
Daily Intelligencer, in the form of the forego
ing notice “ to printers generally ”!!
Including, however, the Foreman, the Pro
prietor has advised us that “ all hands," reflec
tion, we presume, having performed its work,
ere the ink was dry upon the Intelligencer pa
per that contained their notice “to printers
generally,” in person, applied to be received
again into the “ Examiner Office.” Three of
them were received, and, while we write, are at
work. Arrangements have also been made by
which our force will be as effective to-morrow,
us it ever has been, and we trust that the “Ex
aminer ” will then “ go smoothly on."
At the request of parties concerned, and not
that we care a jot for the advertisement that
appears in the Intelligencer, marked dtwtf
(daily and weekly till forbid) we present our
readers with the following—
To Printers Generally.
The names of the undersigned appeared in
yesterday's Daily Intelligencer to an advertise
ment, headed as above. We signed that notice
under misapprehension, and while in a state of
excitement. Having always been well treated
at the Examiner Office; and our wages punc
tually paid ; we regret, as indeed we believe
“ all the hands do,” having any thing to do
with the publication. In signing it, we did
ourselves and the proprietor of the “ Exami
ner” injustice.
I. B. PILGRIM, Pressman.
J . D. HOLMES, Compositor.
Now, we might proceed to comment upon
the appearance of the advertisement in the col
umns of the “ Intelligencer ” of this City ; but
we prefer to let judgment upon it be passed by
a discerning public.— Daily Examiner. 2-1 ult.
Bi-.-S' We have been favored with several
ballads, odes and songs, some of them from the
German of Uhland, written by "Francis A-
Carl,” a name familiar to the publishers of
several literary papers North and South, which
have never before appeared in print. We thank .
the gentleman for his contributions, and trust,
that, as he is now in our city, seeking employ
ment as a teacher of languages, either as a pri
vate tutor, or otherwise, for which he produces
the highest recommendations, be will find it to
his interest to remain with us. With reference
to the employment he' seeks, any message left
for him at this office, will receive his prompt
attention.
The beautiful lines which will be found in
our paper to-day, headed “Stanzas," it will b e
seen is from the pen of Mr. Carl.
Opening of the Stone Mountain House.
We are in the receipt of a polite, and very
acceptable, invitation from Messrs Alexander
& Chirk, to attend at the opening of the “Stone
Mountain House." on the evening of the 29th
instant. We arc advised that a fine band of
music will be in attendance, and that the spa
cious hall of that fine establishment will be
• n trim," for such of the guests as may de
sire "to trip it on the light fantastic toe. ” B?
an arrangement made with the various Rail
Roads connecting with Atlanta, the guests of
Messrs Alexander .<• Clark will lie furnished
with special tickets, to go and return at one
halt the customary rates. We doubt not that
a large and fashionable audience will attend
the opening of the season, as well as the -House" 1
at the Stone Mountain : and that they will all
have a merry time of it, we will ensure. At |
any rate, we shall be there to see, and report i
proceedings. I
The Atlanta Ice House.
We call the attention of our readers to the
advertisement, which appears in our paper to
day, of Messrs. Wright & Kidd. It will be
seen by those who will peruse it, that these gen
tlemen are prepared to supply, not only Atlan.
ta and its vicinity with Ice, but to fill orders
from distant points. Rail Road facilities from
Atlanta, will enable them to do so, at short no
tice and with great despatch. Their Ice too.
as we are advised, is of the very best quality—
solid and clear as chrystal—one pound of it is
worth more than two put any where else than
from the market that supplies them.
A prompt compliance with their terms, and
adherence to their directions, will enable fami
lies, Hotel keepers, and all others who use Ice
during the summer, to have an unfailing supply
of what has now become “a necessary of life” al
most and will ever be esteemed one of its greatest
luxuries. Give them a trial, and, our word for
it, you who do so, will have no good reason to
complain.
-
Late from Nicaragua-
By telegraph from New Orleans, the defeat
of Col. Schlessinger and his troops by the
Costa Ricans, has been confirmed. The cause
of the defeat, it is said, was “the total disre
gard of the usual precautions to prevent a sur
prise and the cowardly conduct of Schlessinger.”
Both very good causes indeed. We see it fur
ther stated that—
“ Some of the passengers by the Charles Mor
gan report that Walker was in a good position
and receiving large accessions to his lorces.—
An engagement had taken place at Artopoka
between fourteen Americans and two hundred
Costa Ricans, in which the latter were defeated
and thirty killed. Col. French had reached
San J uan in high dudgeon, and chartered a
schooner to carry him, his printing office, and
all his effects, to Aspinwall. The cause of his
quarrel with Col. Walker, at the head of 700
men, was marching to meet the Costa Ricans,
who expected to invade Nicaragua. The ac
counts are meagre and possibly unreliable, but
affairs decidedly have a strange look.”
[From the Washington Union.]
Rifleman Beecher in a New
Character.
The best explanation, we will not say justi
fication or apology, which has yet been offered
in behalf of Henry Ward Beecher for his Shar
pe rifle proclivities, is furnished in a late num
ber of the Louisville Courier. That paper
says •
“He is engaged in preaching an anti-slavery
free Kansas crusade, delivering himself of bel
licose addresses throughout New England, and
urging the fitting out of expeditions armed with
Sharpe’s rifles. To test his sincerity in this,
let us know that it has been definitely ascertain
ed that Mr. Beecher has a pecuniary interest
in the patent and manufacture of Sharpe's ri
ces—apart from a handsome commission on all
rifles sold under the influence of his preach
ing-"
What authority the Courier may have for
putting forth the above unqualified statement
we do not know; but we know that the reverend
gentleman has lately evinced a decided penchant
for Wolfe’s aromatic Schiedam Schnapps.—
Whether a love of gin is one of the necessary
consequences of a love of gunpowder we leave
for casuists of the church militant to decide.—
Mr. Beecher says:
“It makes us sad to remember the unneces
sary days and months of unprofitable chills and
fever that we ourselves have had ; and if any
think that a regular ‘orthodox fever and ague
is no great shakes, we heartily wish them a
trial of it. But it is all over. Our home mis
sionaries can now go to the most unhealthy
river bottoms, with the Bible in one hand and
Schnapps in the other, for the very beard is
plucked out of this grim monster who has had
so long a despotism in western valleys and riv
er bottoms. The quarterly droughts of mis
sionaries will no longer signify mere cash, but
something more subtle; for it will, of course,
be the duty of the present society to send forth
this essence of Wolfe to all their stations."
But the Parson goes on stronger and strong
er yet, and says:
"No temperance man should take a boat on
the Ohio or Mississippi until he has removed
his name from the pledge, for those two rivers
are as poison and death from the first drop of
head-waters to the last eddy at the Gulf of Mex
ico ; and no remedy has ever been discovered
for their effects, except brandy or whiskey, un
til our incomparable Wolfe discovered his bo
tanical variety of juniper!
“With a flask of juniper in our pockets we
defy the waters of the world !"
From a rifle propagandist to a gin propa
gandist the transition is both easy and natural.
If it should turn out that the juniper loving,
belligerent Beecher has a pecuniary interest in
the sale of Udolphus Wolfe’s famous Schnapps,
as he is said to have the sale of another life
destroying instrumentality, a change in the
programme of the New England Emigrant Aid
Society will be made forthwith. The collec
tions in” the North Church of New Haven
will have to be doubled. No emigrant for the
new State of Topeka will hereafter consider
himself safe from the insolence of the "border
ruffians" without a Sharpe's rifle in one hand
and a bottle of gin in the other. The slander
! ous insinuation in regard to the alleged parti
ality of a few of the fairer portion of creation
• for the distillations of juniper should not deter
Miss Mary Dutton from subscribing liberally
for a liquid compound, which will no doubt
add greatly to the breadth, depth, and volume
of the “shrieks for freedom.”
sgt„The Rome Southerner states that Cap;.
Chas. A. Hamilton has already sent foward
twenty-five emigrants to Kansas, and that his
company will comprise about one hundred men
in all. Fifty more will leave about the first
of May, and they will all concentrate at Atchi-I
son.
the Daily Examiner.]
Stanzas,
BY FRANCIS A CARL.
I know, I know of a jewel bright,
That shines smid the darkest gloom ;
Revives and cheers, with its glorious light.
And will live beyond the tomb'
Its beams are abroad o’er sea and land.
The savage its influence fee’s;
He gives h ; s spear to the wild winds, and
At the shrine of its beauty kneels.
It comes to the sick, and it soothes their grief,
Supplants every venomous dart!
To the widow and fatherless, brings relief,
And binds up the broken heart.
It comes to the poor, and the poor rejoice.
Their path tho’ rough’s made clear;
While a meek, yet high and hallowed voice.
Breathes hope into every ear!
It comes to the mourner, and dries his tears.
Unlooses the captive’s chain 1
The dying cheers, disrels their fears,
And softens their every pain!
O ’tis when death obscures the sight.
And to the grave we ’re driven;
This jewel sheds its brightest light.
Religion ! —child of Heaven.
Atlanta, Ga., March 1, 1856.
From the San Fransisco Herald.
Recovery of a Young White Girl
from the Mohave Indians
We have received the following interesting
account of the rescue of a beautiful young
American girl, named Miss Olive Oatman,
from a slavish captivity by the Yuma Indians.
The whole narrative is of painful interest:—
Steamer Sea Bird, at sea. March 9, 1856.
By the last arrival from Fort Yuma, I am
enabled to give you the details of the rescue
from the Mohave Indians of a young and beau
tiful American girl, who has been a prisoner
for five years. Having made considerable in
quiry in Los Angelos and vicinity, I have suc
ceeded in collecting all the facts attending her
capture, the murder of her parents, &c., which
are willingly placed at your disposal.
On the 19th of March, 1851, a family of
emigrants, named Oatman, from lowa, en route
for California, composed of Lorenzo Oatman,
wife and seven children, (three boys and four
girls,) while encamped about one hundred and
twenty-five miles from the Gila river, were at
tacked by the Mohave Indians, and all but one
boy and two girls massacred in cold blood.—
The boy, in the dark, succeeded in escaping,
and was picked up on the following day by a
company of emigrants, about forty miles from
the scene of the murder. The lit’le fellow was
perfectly exhausted when found, without hat
or shoes, and covered with blood. After re
covering sufficiently to tell the tale, some of
the men started on to ascertain if anything
could be done, and on an iving at the fatal
place found the version was, alas! too true, the
bodies being then half eaten by cayotes, enough,
however, was ascertained to show that the two
youngest girls were missing. The boy is now
living at the “ Monte," near Los Angelos, and
distinctly remembers that horrible night.
For years nothing had been heard of those
two young girls, and their fate appeared to be
wrapped in mystery. About five months since
an article or letter was t published in the Los
Angelos “Star." stating that the Yuma In
dians had offered to exchange two female pris
oners with the office s at Fort Yuma for beads,
blankets, &c., and that the latter had refused
to trade with or purchase the unfortunate suf
ferers from the Indians. Col. Nauman, U. S.
A., who was at that time en route for Fort
Yuma, immediately inquired into the subject,
but found the charges against the officers whol
ly without foundation ; and fearful that by
some possibility there might be some prisoners
never before heard of, sent out runners to the
different tribes offering heavy ransom for their
recovery, in answer to which a Yuma Indian,
of the name of Francisco, came in saying, “He
could find a young girl ten days travel from the
fort.” Beads, blankets. &c., were immediately
given him, and in twenty days he returned with
Miss Oatman. When brought in she was
dressed as all the females ofthe Yuma Mohave
Indians, and on a white'man approaching,
threw herself prostrate on the sand, and would
not rise until suitable female garments were
brought her. She has almost entirely forgot
ten her native tongue, being only able to speak
two or three words. Being asked in the Indi
an language her name, she replied, “ Olive Oat
man is tatooed on the chin, and bears the
marks of hard slavery. Her arms, wrists, and
hands are largely developed, was a slave for
two years with the Mohaves, who sold her to
the Yumas. Her youngest sister died about
six months before the rescue of Miss Olive.—
The hair of the younger lady being of a light
golden color, the Indians colored it black—
using a dye made from the bark of the meskeet
tree. She was eleven years old when taken;
prisoner, which will make her sixteen now.
though she is more fully developed than many
girls of twenty.
The officers at the fort have clubbed togeth-;
er. making up a purse for her. and furnishing |
such clothing as is necessasy : also, have placed I
her in charge of a female residing there, and '
where every care and attention will be paid to j
all her wants, and until any relations or friends j
may eome forward to relieve the poor girl from
her present dependent position, and endeavor
to wean her from all savage tastes, or desire to
return to Indian life. I hope that some of our
philanthropic San Francisco ladies will offer j
their services to either provide a home for her, l
or use their influence in procuring her admis
sion to the Orphan Asylum.
JOS. A. FORT.
Pacific Ex. Co’s Messenger. Southern Coast.
The Sisters of Mercy, of San Francisco, have
notified the friends of Sliss Oatman, the young
lady recently rescued from the Indians, that
they will receive her into their care
From the Baltimore Patriot, April 17.
Costa Rica and the Defeat of Col
onel Sclilessingir.
The news brought by the steamer George
Law, as it relates to the operation of General
Walker against Costa Rica, and more espec
ially with reference to the force of Col. Sechles
singer, if true, is certainly of a very unfavorable
character, but those who are best acquainted
with the grandiloquent bulletins of Santa Anna
and his Generals, the style of which is common
to all the Spanish race in America, will be dis
posed to receive these late flashing accounts of
Costa Rica heroism with considerable distrst
and believing them to have been written by the
enemies of Walker, they will, no doubt, if they
receive them at all as true, make many grains
of allowance for the bias of partially. If the
bulletins of such a race could have gained cre
dence with the public, the Texas independence
would never have been achieved, and Generals
Houston and Rusk wonld have been very or
dinary men now, and the Texans have been
driven by the overwhelming force of the Mexi
cans East of the Sabine- The people of the
United States looked on in despair at six hun
dred Texans coping with Santa Anna’s hordes
but the Texans were undismayed, like the Greeks
at Marathon, and their independence was on
the plains of San Jacinto. And so it may be,,
perchance, in Costa Rica, and will be, if France
England and the United States continue to play
the neutral game.
That Col. Schlessinger has met a reverse is
not to be doubted, but no man who is aquain
ted with the character of such men as compose
Walker’s army will believe that five hundred
Costa Ricans could scale the fortified walls
of Hacienda de Santa Rosa, with knife and
bayonet, defeat four hundred Americans hand
to hand—Credit Jreudas Apetta. The last ac
counts from Col. Schlessinger left them in
possesion of the town of Guanacasta, with a
force of two hundred and eighty men, from
which he probably advanced to the fortified
Hacienda of Santa Rosa, where he no doubt
has been attacked and been forced to retire
before a very superior force. The whole af
fair has doubtless been blown into undue con
sequence, and by the next steamer it will pro
bably be found that he has retreated on Wal
ker’s main body, who still holds his position
intact, awaiting the arrivals of the reinforce
ments know to have been en route for Nica
ragua and which by this time no doubt have
effected a junction with the army of Nicara
gua, to wit: 500 from New York, 400 from
San Francisco, and 200 from New Orleans,
under Gen. Hornsby—ready to resume the
offensive as soon as he reorganizes his fora s.
In fact, the truth of the reports brought by
the George Law is already contradicted by an
agent of the Nicaraguan Government, who has
published a card stating that Col. Schlessinger
whole force was only 250 men, which was at
tacked by 3,000 men and retreated to San
Juan; and this tallies well with the previous
account, giving him 280 men, and swelled to
400 by the account, received by the George
Law, which ; uts down the Costa Rician force
opposed to him at 500 men. It is further re
ported that General Walker has seized the En
glish mail from Grey town for Costa Rica, a
fact which is questionable. He may have in
tercepted it for the purpose of substiacting let
ters of his enemies which might unfavorably in
fluence his military operations, but that he' has
done anything likely to interrupt or injure the
English commercial interests in Costa Rica is
tey unlikely. Such an act could in no wise
benefit him but wonld certainly be productive of
injurious consequences to the success of his
cause. It is not probable that Walker will
take any decisive step until all the forces he ex
pects this season shall arrive and be organized
for active operations. He wil Iquietly maintain
his present position, occupying the leading
mountain passes in his front, organizing and
equipping the new accessions to his force and
striking a blow, when ready, onthe most expos
ed and vulnerable points of the enemy ; and we
cannot expect anything very important to tran
pire there under three or four weeks, by which
time he will accurately know his resources.—
He commands a class of men who have before
met the degenerate Spanish race in Texas, Mex
ico and California—men who know their supe
riority and never have quailed before numbers;
and who, if they have “half a chance," will
compel victory to perch on the standard of the
Red Ribbon.
Personal Courage.—An English officer,
returned from the Crimea, (where, he says, he
had been studying metaphysics.) under the head
of “Philosophy of Sebastopol,” in Chamber’s
Journal, makes the following remarks as per
sonal bravery:
“Men, when they prite their life highly on
account of the capacities they feel to be with
in them are capabb of acts of great bravery,
provided an aim of high ambition is- before
them; but they will not encounter the chance
of destruction for a straw; those, on the other
hand, who have not learned to cast up accounts
with themselves, will as soon face the cannon’s
month for the most trifling object, as for the
highest and grandest achievement. This, no
doubt, is coolness; my own observation has in
duced me to hesitate as to whether I would ac
cord to it the more dignified appellation of
courage. In the majority of cases in which it
occurs in the ranks of a British army, I am
convinced the coolness is born of indifference
rather than of bravery.”
This distindtion between the true courage
and mere indifference to danger, (says a New
York paper.) has been illustrated in the epi
grammatic reply of one of Wellington's officers
to a subordinate.
Col. Rivers, t tried and gallant officer, never
went into action without manifest emotion:
and on one occasion, when leading his regimeqt
under fire, a raw subaltern who noticed the
quiver which shook his frame, had the imper
tinence to remark. “Why Colonel, you’re
afraid!”
-Yes, sir; and if you were half as much
afraid as I am. you would run away.
Scolding i.- the pepper of matrimony,
and the ladies are the pepper boxes. So says
an old fogy bacholer. We would give his name,
but are afraid lest the peace of his neighoor
hood might be disturbed by the noise of a broom
handle!
The Triumph in Michigan Com
plete.
We copy the following from the Detroit
Free Press.
The Democratic triumph in the State is com
plete. The returns come in better and better.
Since the State election 0f1847, the opposition
party had not been so throughly routed. We
have certainly carried eight-tenths ofthe super
visors, and our present impression is that the
Democratic popular majority will not be less
than six thousand! and it is very likely to reach
seven thousand!
This is the first gun of the presidental cam
paign from the North-west. The glorious sound
booms over the Union, and carries gladness to
tens of thousands of patriotic hearts. It an
nounces the great fact that the reaction is fair
ly under way, and that its progress is irresisti
ble.
All honor to the gallant democracy of Michi
gan. AU honor to the party that has admin
istered so withering a rebuke to fanaticism and
so sternly reprimanded rebellion. All honor
to the party that has so gloriously upheld the
Constitution!
It is a triumph of popular sovereignty—of
the Kansas Nebraska act. It is a triumph of
the Union. It is a triumph of right and jus
tice. And, too, it is a triamph of good faith
—of the faith which binds the North and South
together.
It is an occasion of great rejoicing. Let us
rejoice.
Scene Court.—Judge—Bring the prisoner
into court.
Pete—Here I is, bound to blaze, as the spir
its of turpentine said when it was all afire.
Judge— We will take a litle fire out of you.
how do you live?
Pete—l ain’t particular as the oyster said
when they asked him if he’d be fried or roasted.
Judge—We don’t want to know what the
oyster said, or the turpentine either. What do
you follow?
Pete—Anything that comes in my way, as
the locomotive said when he run over the little
nigger.
Judge—We don’t care anything about; the
locomotive. What’s your business?
Pete—That’s various, as the cat said when
she stole a chicken off the table.
Judge—That comes near the line, I suppose.
Pe’e—Altogether in iny line, as the rope
said when it was choking the pirate.
Judge—ls I hear any more absurd compari
sons, I will give you twenty months.
Pete—l am done, as the beefsteak said to
the cook.
Judge-Now sir, your punishment shall de
pend upon the shortness and correctness of your
answers. I suppose you live by going round the
docks.
Pete—A’o, sir, I can’t go around the docks
without a boat, and I haint got none.
Judge—Answer me. How do you get your
bread?
Pete—Sometimes at the bakers,’ and some
times I eat tater.
J udge—No more of your stupid insolence.
How do you support yourself?
Pete—Sometimes on my legs and sometimes
on a chair.
Judge—l order you now to answer this ques
tion correctly. How do you do?
Pete—Pretty well, I thank you, Judge- How
do you do?
’Judge—l shall commit you.
Pete | Well, you’ve committed yourself first,
that’s some consolation.
Charlotte Cushman.—All who have seen
and heard tho celebrated actress, Charlotte
Cushman, could not fail to observe her unu
sual masculine development both in person and
voice. Her unfemininity on the stage destroy
ed much of the .harm of her personations.
For it would not require much stretch of fancy
to imagine that her “ Mrs Haller ” or “ Meg
Merriles” was a man in disguise. On her first
appearance on the London boards this peculi
arity was immediately noticed, and her exact
resemblance to a distinguished English trage
dian formed the subject of many spicy articles
for the public papers. The following appear
ed in one of the Sunday papers of that time :
“Possibly it may not have been very gener
ally noticed that, since the appearance of the
talented American actress, Miss Cushman,
upon our stage, the admirable tragedian Ma
cready has been seen nowhere in London either
before or behind the curtain. .Some have
imagined that he purposes retiring altogether
from the scenes into the quietude of private
life. Others—of his friends, be it observed—
who have inquired for him at his residence in
Regent's Park, affirm that he is now engaged
in making a provincial tour. We are, howev
er, credibly informed that such is not tin fact.
Anxious to extend his reportoire, he has ven
tured upon a bold and hazardous experiment,
in which we have the happiness of saying that
he has most fully and completely succeeded.
He has donned the petticoats, and may be seen
at night by all who have the desire to measure
his ability in wearing them, under the as
sumed name of Miss Cushman and in the part
of the 1 ady Macbeth on the stage at the
Princess’ Theatre. TIM OTIIY.
Good news for foor folks. —The Journal
of Commerce says:
“For the first time in many months we see
that common to good New York State flour is
quoted by wholesale at a fraction under six
dollars a barrel. "When the channels of com
munication with the interior are fully open, an
avalanche of breadstuffs and provisions will be
down upon us: and as the demand from abroad
is diminished, except at reduced prices, there is
a fair chance that consumers will yet reap
some benefit from the immense crops of last
year. The farmers, millers, and dealers have
had their chance; the consumers wili now have
theirs. Much, however, will depend upon the
prospects of the growing crops, which thus far,
so far as we have learned, are generally favor-,,
able."
The trial of the prophetess, Rhoda Wake
man and her disciples, Samuel Sly and Hank
ful S. Hekley, for the murder of Justus W.
Mathews, is now in progress in New Haven
Conn., and ucitg. much interest.
T. BURKE, PROPRIETOR
NUMBER 38.
Additional by tlie Africa.
New York, April 21.
Additional per Africa. The news is of great
importance.
The United State) Mediterranean squadron
was about to cruise off the Spanish coast.
The Conference had one or two informal
meetings to settle up details.
The Africa brings 100 passengers.
News from the Criema reports 16 men
burned to death in some wooden huts occupied
by the Commisary department.
The armistice had been extended on sea and
land; and the natural consequence is, the
blockade of Russian porta ceases.
An English church is to be built at Con
stantinople.
New Orleans, April 19—D. C. Talbott,
late City Attorney, is defaulter to the amount
of $300,000. The steamboat, S. F. Trabue
burned at the wharf opposite the City. Total
loss.
Cincinnati, April 21—Noon—Flour 5 55
a5 80 ; Provisions firm. Bulk meats 6,7 and
8 ; Bacon sides and shoulders 8 1-4 and 7 ;
M hiskey 19 1-2 Groceries steady. River fall
en sixteen inches since Saturday.
Cleveland, April 21—There .was a brisk
snow this morning.
New Y ork, April 19.—An Imperial mani
festo, dated St. Petersburg, the Ist inst., says
that although the war had not been sought by
Russia, it had been waged with great energy
by the Russian people, and that, notwithstand
ing peace had been proclaimed, the rights of
the Christians in the East had been secured—
thus attaining the objects of the war on the
part of Russia.
Special arrangements had been made to pre
vent collisions between Russian and Turkish
vessels in the Black Swi.
A new line of frontier had been agreed upon
in Bessarabia.
A letter from Cronstadt says that a squad
ron, consisting of five steamers, had been or
dered by the Russian government to be ready
for sea by the middle of next month, and it was
generally supposed that the Czar, or his broth
er, would visit Louis Napoleon.
The Spanish Government had conferred the
order of the Golden Fleece on the Prince of Al
giers.
A fleet of Sardinian vessels had been ordered
to sail from Genoa, for the purpose of bringing
back troops from the Crimea. The health of
the French troops in the Crimea was improv
ing, and they were to return in bodies of 20,000
men.
The Austrian army had been reduced 30,000
men.
The British squadron in the Baltic had been
recalled.
The authorized quotations of the Liverpool
Board of Brokers were 6 3-4 d. for Fair Orleans,
6 3 Bd. for Fair Uplands, and 6 3 Bd. for Fair
Mobile. The Liverpool Circular of McHenry
& Co., dated the 4th inst., quotes Middling Or
leans at 6 l-16d.
The barque Sumter, Capt. Humphrey, had
arrived at gravesend; the W. B, Scran
ton, Capt. Cathcart, and the ship Yemassee,
Capt. Childs, at Deal, and the ketch Commarce,
Capt. Hinckley, at Marseilles.
City Judicial Election.—The election for
Judge and Solicitor of the new Criminal Court
of the city of Columbus, came oil yesterday,
and resulted in the election of Peyton H. Col
quitt for Judge, and no election for Solicitor,
and there being three candidates in the field,
and the law requiring a majority of the whole
The vote was as follows:
For Judge ;
A. G. Foster, K. N. 225.
P. 11. Colquitt, Dem. 426.
For Solicitor :
R. E. Dixon, K. N. 229.
John Peabody, K. N. 199.
J. A. Fox, Dem. 213.
Though the candidates are of the politics
above indicated, the election ii not regarded as
a test of party strength.— Col. Sun.
BQu A n official communication, received at
Washington from Joel Palmers, Superinten
dent of Indian Affairs in Oregon, throws the
whole blame of the present war upon the
whites, who are denounced for having been
guilty of many acts of barbarity towards the
red men.
A very cross-grained old maid, desir
ous to make up for a mis spent life, is anxious
(this being l<-ap year) to know who'll take her?
That horrid Old bachelor, Tom Crabbit, who
investigated the commodity, replies unhesita
tingly, “the under taker!’’ Thundering old Ger
man file!
Bishop O'Reilly.—The statement that this
Catholic prelate had arrived at Boston in the
Cambria is contradicted by the Hartford (Con
necticut) Times, which says the steamer brought
a letter from bis brother in Ireland, dated the
27th of March, announcing positively that he
sailed in the Pacific. The Rev. Mr. O’Reilly
who arrived in the Cambria, is a nephew of
the late Rev. Mr. Brady, of Hartford.