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ATLANTA WEEK! Y EXAMINER. CIRCULATION O3F* THE 12000 COr'IEH! JOHN H. STEELE, Editor. VOLUME 11. the’ weekly examiner <■» Publhed every Thursday mornins in the City of Atlanta, at ONE DOLL.AB PCO ANNUM, To be paid strictly in adv, ce. S2F No subscription tai, en for less than six months. RATES OF ADV fiRTISING. Advertisements are insert 1 in the Weekly Examiner at the following rates: Seventy-five eenti per sipiare (of 10 lines brevier) for the first insertions, and 37 J cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. Advertisements continuing three months or more are charged at the following rates: 1 Square 3 moths $4 00 j .< 6 “ 600 j « 12 “ 10 00 n » 3 “ 000 I „ 6 « 10 00 3 « 13 <• 15 00 3 « 3 “ 800 3 « 6 '• 12 00 3 <. 12 “ 20 00 4 u 3 “ 10 00 4 « 6 « 15 00 4 >i 12 « 25 00 i Col’n 3 “ 15 00 i « 6 “ 20 00 i .. 12 “ 30 00 i « 3 « 20 00 ? « 6 “ 30 00 44 12 ** 40 00 One Square, changeable, one year, sls 00 Two “ “ “ 4,7 „ .. “ 25 00 i“ ree .. 30 00 Four 40 00 Quarter Column J „ 55 00 p<r Advertisements leaded and inserted un per the head of Special Notices will be charged One Dollar per square for the first insertion and Fifty Gents for each subsequent inßCrUor. rijr Legal Advertisements published at the usual rates. Obituary Notices exceeding ten lines will be charged as advertisements. tar Yearly Advertisers exceeding in their ad vertisements the average space agreed for, wdl be charged at proportional rates. r»- All Advertisements not specified as to time will be published until forbid 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. Notices of these sales must be given in a pub io gazette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must be given in ako manner 10 days previous to sale notices to the debtors and creditors of an es tate must also be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne groes, must be oublished for two months. Citations for letters of Administration, Guar dianship &c., must be published 30 days—for dis mission from Administration, monthy six months —for dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgages must be published monthly for four months—for establish ing lost papers, for the full space of three months -for compelling titles from Executors or Admin istrators, where bond has boon 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 ths following Rate? • Citations on letters of Adnjuistration Ac. $2 75 do do dismissory om Adminis- t > ti *n Chation on dismissory from Guardianship, 3 00 Leave to sell Land or Negros, 4 0 Notice to debtors and creditors. •’ W Salos of personal property, t >n days, 1 square 1 50 Sales of land or negroes by Executors, &c. 5 00 Betrays, two weeks, ~ ’’. For a man advertising his wife, (m advance,) 5 00 Letters on business must bo (post paid) to en title them to attention. 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. THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL AND NEWSPAPER IN THE SOUTH—A WEEKLY FIRESIDE COMPANION FOR ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. 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.