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ATLANT! WEEKLY EXAMINER. WANTHfID, WEEK.I_,Yr CIRCUL,ATiOTV OF QO.oOG COFIEM! JOHN H. STEELE, Editor VOLUME 11. the weekly examiner Publhed every Thursday morning in the City ofAtlanta, at ONE DOLLAR PEH ANNUM, To be paid strictly in adv< ce. O'" No subscription tai en for less than six man ths. RATES OF ADV 3RTISING. Advertisements are insert I in the Weekly Examiner at the following rates: Seventy-five cents per square (of 10 lines brevier) for the first insertions, and 37 J cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. 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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 in the County in which the property is situated. Notices 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 be given in like manner 10 days previous to sale- notices to the debtors and creditors of an es tate must also bo published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne groes, must bo published 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 iag lost papers, for the full space of three months —for compelling titles from Executors or Admin istrators, where bond has been 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 Adnduistration &c. $2 75 do do dismissory om Adminis tration, 4 50 Citation on dismissory from Guardianship, 3 00 Leave to sell Land or Negroes, 4 00 Notice to debtors and creditors. 3 00 Sales of personal property,! in days, 1 square 1 50 Bales of land or negroes by Executors, &c. 5 00 Estrays, two weeks, 2 50 For a man advertising his wife, (in advance,) 5 00 Letters on business must bo (post paid) to en title them to attention. THURSDAY , MAY 22, 1856, Cholera and Diarrhoea Preventative, This valuable medicine, which operates as a preventative and cure forCholera aud Diarrhtva, •rom the house of Lyons & Co., Nashville, Tennessee, who are its sole importers, will be found for sale at the Trout House Bar. either by the bottle, or dozen. Aside from its vir tues as a medicine, it is agreeable to the taste, and operates admirably as a tonic. Every f amily should have a bottle of it always at hand Atlanta Bank. We learn that the handsome granite build ing erected for, and known as the “ Atlanta Bank," has recently been purchased by the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company, for the sum of twelve thousand dollars. It has been said here, for some time past, that the <• Atlanta Bank ’’ had closed business opera tions in this city, and in the West. Eor this reason, we presume, the banking house has been sold, and we are glad to learn that it has passed into the possession of the banking com panv referred to. k Strange Advertisement. I We find the following in the New Orleans ’ Evening Delta. Who has babies to dispose of? #IOO,OOO. —Wanted—By a person who has one hundred thousand dollars and no heir, to adopt from birth, a child. It must be of Amer ican parents and from one hour to ten days old: sex immaterial. Any person having a child to dispose of can thus secure it a good home and a fortune ; or any lady about to become a moth er and willing to part with her child, can have a respectable physician to attend her, and no questions asked or answered. Applications must be made within ten days. Address A, through the Postoffice or the Delta office. ma'.l 3t* THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL ANO NEWSPAPER IN THt SOUTH—A WEEKLY PIHESIDE COMPANION FOR ONLY ONE COLLAR A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 22. 1856. Municipal Extravagance. We have been much amused at the com ments of the Press, both in and out of Georgia, at the extravagant appropriation of One Hun. dred D ollars per annum, by the City Council of Columbus, as the salary of the Judge of the City Court at that place. ; Surely this must be a mistake! I! true, a sad change must have come over her once mag nanimous people. In days past, we never saw the hour when we could not proudly point to Columbus and her citizens for every thing that was chivalric and just. Nor do we yet give i her up, although her City Council have made a i /ujgarrfZi/appropriation to a high minded polit | ical opponent, and the promising, talented son of as true a patriot as ever stood on the banks of the Chatahoochee, or trod upon Georgia’s soil. Nay we will go further and say, we do not believe that the people who were represent ed in the last Legislature of our State, by Wales, Jones, and Thornton, and whose course there as —we design ere long to show— was distinguished by a lofty patriotism, ap prove the “ extravagance ” of their City Coun cil. If they do, however, we have only to re peat, times are sadly changed in Columbus! Georgia Air Line Pail Road. We invite the attention of our readers to the proceedings of a Georgia Air Line Rail Road Meeting, held in Carnesville on the 6th in stant. We are requested also to invite the attention of our city papers, and those of Athens, Geor gia ; and Anderson So. Caroline; to those pro ceedings, and to request a republication there of. To Atlanta, the contemplated Georgia Air Line Road, is of incalculable importance. All other enterprizes are insignificant, in compar ison to this great work. If constructed, its advantages would far exceed those for which our citizens have been so anxious—we mean the rsmoval of the Seat of Government to this place. It would add to the value of property in Atlanta, in a ratio for greater, in our humble judgment, than the erection of the Capitol here and, what is more, it would add one hundred fold to the travel through, ”and commerce of Atlanta. We rejoice'to see that not only in this vicinity, but throughout the whole line of the contemplated Road, the people are waking up to this great enterprize. The proposed con vention will doubtless be largely attended, and from its deliberations we trust that something practical will be effected. Already has its utility been satisfactorily settled in the minds of all, those that have considered it, and if capi talists, large and small, will only “come down with the dust,” the “ Georgia Air Line Rail Road ” will soon be a reality and not an idea. Bounty Land Acts. We publish to-day the bill amendatory of the Bounty Land Acts, as passed by the two houses of Congress now in session,’ and which only requires the approval of the President, to become the law of the land. In this bill the public have a deep interest, for directly, or indirectly, the people all arc now affected by the Bounty Land Law. The financial world particularly is deeply involved iudonations made of the public lands under the old laws, for land scrip is now money, and is received in Wall Street as such, as well us at all other financial points of note in the U. States. The bill, therefore, to which we refer is impor tant to all. Self Destruction. An unfortunate man whose name, we learn, was Frederick, Lewis. Ferdinand, Wardig, a native of Statteen, Prussia, put an end to his life, in this city, on Wednesday evening last, by cutting his throat, with a razor, from ear to ear. The desperate act was committed in a room occupied as a sleeping apartment by the unfortunate man. A noise in the room having attracted the attention of a gentleman who oc cupied the adjoining one, he proceeded to it, and finding it locked, with the assistance of oth ers, it was burst open, when the deceased was seen lying on the bed, upon his back, with a razor upon his breast, and his throat cut as be fore stated. A coroner’s inquest was held upon the body on yesterday. We learn that the deceased was in a depress, ed state of mind for some days past, and spoke of difficulties to some of his friends in an inco herent manner. It appears that his friends, or family, in Prussia, arc largely engaged iu the Copper business and that there was some mis understanding between them. From his state of mind, however, this may have all been imag inary- For two years he was employed in the Georgia Rail Road shop, and was considered a good workman ; inoffensive and industrious. He spoke several foreign languages: was intel ligent, aud thirty-one years old when he com mitted the fearful act. By a friend of his, we are requested to call the attention of the pa pers in North Carolina, where the deceased has some friends, to these facts : and to request the New York papers that exchange with the Ger. man or Prussian papers, to copy this article. The Amende The City Council of Columbus, we are grat ified much to see, have made the amende hon orable to their city Court, and its recently elected Judge. On yesterday, we referred to the meagre appropriation of one hundred dol lars per annum, as the salary of that officer, and ventured to express the opinion, that, if this were to remain a fixed fact, a sad change had taken place in old Columbus, a city heretofore renowned for its magnanimity and chivalry.— We are therefore glad to see the following item, in the “Sun’’ of Afonday List. “City Court.—The City Council,at its last meeting, reconsidered their former action rela tive to the salary of the. Judge of this Court, aud then, by resolution, raised the salary of that official from one to five hundred dollars. Medical Convention. A convention of the “Medical Reform Prac titioners” of our State, by previous arrange ments, assembled in this city, on Wednesday last, for the purpose, we learn, of making by laws and regulations, for their ’government in the practice of their profession, and for other pur poses connected with the advancement of their peculiar theory of practice upon the “ills that flesh is heir to.” We learn that the convention is largely at- I tended, some forty or fifty practitioners being in attendance. Our engagements have been such as to prevent an attendance on their daily deliberations. On Wednesday night, however, we had the pleasure of hearing a lecture, de livered at the Atheneum by Prfessor Bankston, and regretted that engagements prevented our remaining to hear Professor Loomis, who fol lowed Professor B.,in an animated and cheer ing address, as we are advised, to the profess ion in attendance. On yesterday, the conven tion was still engaged in the transaction of business. We presume their deliberations will be officially made known to the public. For the Atlanta Daily Examiner. From Kansas. Kansas City, Mo., April 24th, 1856. Dear Examiner : Our company arrived at this place on the 1 6th inst., a portion of them, comprising those who intend to go out upon the survey, stopped here to await orders from the Surveyor General, whose office is located just across the Kansas river from this, in the Wyandott reserve. The balance of the com pany, numbering about 22, among whom is a family of five or six that joined us after we left Atlanta, went up the river higher, some of them to Leavenworth City, others to Atchison. I have heard from them since they stopped, most of them have engaged iu business of some kind, others were holding off with the intention of going into the interior. I cannot give you anything reliable as to the quality of the soil at any distance in the Territory, so I will .only speak of that which I have seen, and reserve what I shall have to say es the interior, of course, until I see it. As yet I have made on ly two or three small circuits around in the Territory, and find the land all that it has been represented to be to the Georgians. The only barrier, which is a considerable one, is these Indian reservations, which will retard, for a considerable time, settlements of the whites upon them. The soil as far as 1 have seen is A. No. 1. I do not wish to come to that which is better. It is well adapted to farming and raising stock. It washes very little, the rain that falls upon it soon sinks into the soil and it is almost instantaneously dry enough for the plow after the heaviest rains. The pas tures, prairies and woods are now almost per fectly green with grass and other vegetation.— It is the same soil as that of Western Missouri, in which are some of the most beautiful farms I have ever seen. But more of the lands at some future time. It seems that the abolitionists, who have es tablished a town of their own, at Lawrence, are bidding defiance to all law, whether Territori al or Congressional. Sheriff Jones of Douglas county and also Marshal for the Territory, a sound pro slavery man, was assassinated by these vile fanatics, last night about 9 o’clock. As near as I can learn the circumstances are these: S. N. Wood, a notorious abolitionist that lives in Lawrence, had embezzled and kept back some important papers, that were nec essary for the Committee of Investigation in the contested election, sent out by Congress, to have. Orders were issued for his arrest, which Jones immediately did. but through the aid of some men of like stripe with Wood, he made his escape. Orders were then issued for the arrest of those who aided in his escape. Some four or five of them were arrested by Jones, through the aid of the U. S. Dragoons who were ordered out to assist him. About 9 o’clock while guarding the prisoners within one of the Dragoon tents, he was fired upon twice from the outside, the balls Jgoing through the tent cloth. One of them took effect just be tween the shoulders, injuring the spine. At last accounts he was not dead, but no hopes were entertained of his recovery. The impres sion here, is that every man in Lawrence, a cit izen of the place, knew that it was to be done. and aided in the escape of the assassin. th,.ugh the citizens passed resolutions, pledging them selves to do all in their power to bring the murderer to justice. This is believed to be a sham to keep down Southern feeling. The Missourians are perfectly hot, and are anxious to avenge the death of Jones, as he is well known to them and much respected. You may lie assured if they go over again they will not listen to compromises as they did in the “Waukarusa campaign.'' The Committee of nvestigation, their aids, clerks, &c., with Gen. Whitfield. Reeder and Lane, are now at Lawrence. Send out Southerners, men of the right stamp, to aid in the election. Kansas justly belongs to us, as is witnessed and sealed by the blood of the gallant Southerners who were slain upon the fields of Mexico. Shall Southerners then stand by aud see it wrenched from us by Nortbern fanatics, and foreign emigrants of the North, who are immediately sent out by the “ Beecher Aid Societies." God forbid, Southerners forbid, and come out with your families and negroes, and rest assured you will never rue the bargain. Missouri testifies to this by her beautiful farms and residences, for Missouri and Kansas are in the same latitude, have the same soil, and, with the slight differ- ! ence caused by the prairies of Kansas, thesame | climate. Yours truly, DANIEL PITTMAN Gor. of the Sav. Gear. 4 Jour. Examination of Herbert—Little doing in CoNgress—Deficiency Bill. VV ashington, May 9. Although the examination of Mr. Herbert, of California, is not yet completed before the mag istrate, I rejoice in the well grounded convic tion, not that he will be acquitted, but that he is guiltless of killing except in self defence.— 1 hat he was culpable in carrying a deadly weap on, and getting into a melee with the servants instead of referring the matter to their employ ee, will not be contended ; and to the extent to which he has offended, I trust he may be sub- j jected to appropriate penalties, and to the pre- I scribed penalties whatever they aw*. Congress has to-day, (Friday) ended its week's work, with little to show’ as to the pro duct. As the session wears away the nomina tions for the Presidency approach, and business becomes a bore, speeches with party bearings are alone thought of. The Deficiency bill is still a football between the two houses, and they who kick it do so solely with reference to the party effect. Some will not vote for it because it proposes to make up a deficiency caused by the removal of troops to Oregon and Washing ton, others because it proposes to bring water into this city, and Mr. Giddings because it pro poses to pay for arresting some runaway Ken tucky slaves, who were caught in < >hio. A great objection has arisen from a palpable misunderstanding. It is alleged that adeficien cy bill is a new thing,—so it is : but it has I been introduced because of a new state of affairs. fiscal year used to end with the year.— Now it ends in the middle of the year. Then it was easy to embrace deficiencies in the new regular bill. Now we would have to wait six or nine months for that. Estimates are. there fore, only good guesses, and theirerrors must be corrected. Ido not see anything unreasonable in a deficiency bill. If anything is unreasona ble, it is the arrangement which has made it necessary. The debate upon concurring with the Sen ate in this bill took a wide latitude to dav, and gave 11. Winter Davis, of Baltimore, an op portunity to illustrate his powers as a debater, which he did nobly, and to the delight and ad miration of the House, although he cut right and left with great effect. In denouncing the , ‘higher law men” cf the present day, he ad mitted that they had Jefferson as a precedent, and he declared that the extremes of Secession and Abolition had both met an extra constitu tional ground in this respect, though claiming to be strict constructionists. He was met bv Mr. Giddings for the North, and Mr. Bocock for the South, but they failed to drive him from 1 bis position. The advent of Mr. Buchanan will,doubtless, i interfere with the work of legislation for a few days, and then the disposition to labor will lie still less than ever. Impartial. Hoopinc. Cotton.—We noticed editorially several days ago, a new invention of Mr. D. M. Combs, of Memphis, Tenn., for hooping cot ton bales with hoops and clasps made of hoop iron. Our Mr. Blue has received full informa tion and a model from the inventor, which he will take pleasure in exhibiting to all who may feel any interest in it. A slight examination only will we think, satisfy any one of the value of the invention. With the other great advan tages, Mr. McCombs offers the hoops and clasps at eight cents per pound, and assures us that the same weight only of the iron hoops will be required as has heretofore been used of rope.— Tue invention is certainly worthy of special notice from the cotton growers, and we hope they will bejquick to discover their interest in the matter. Call on Mr. Blue at the Post Office, if you wish to see the model.— Montgomery Gazette. The oldest paintings in the world are the seven frescoes that were recently discovered in the Via Graicoza in Rome. They were imme diately transported to the Vatican, where they were visited during holy week by large num bers of persons. It is supposed that theee paintings are due to a Greek pencil, for each of the persons represented has his name written beside him in the characters of that language. , I For the Examiner. Rail Road Meeting at Carnesville. , Ata meeting of a portion of the citizens of Franklin county, held in the Court-house in 1 Carnesville, on the 6th J/ay, inst. Nathan ‘ Gunnels, Esq., was called to the chair.and Jos. ; N. Chandler appointed Secretary. i The object of the meeting having been ex plained, on motion of Thomas Morris, Esq.,’a I Committee of ten was appointed to prepare business for the aetionof the meeting, consist- > ing of Col. Thos. Morris, Gen’l. W. T. Milli ; can, James W. Payne, John G. York. C. 11. I Little, Pleasant Holbrook, Levi Sewell, W. T. ■ Crow. James M. Edwards and John H. Ader- II hold, Esqrs. After an absence of a few minutes, the Com- ■ mittee submitted the following report. Whereas we have seen with lively interest [a meeting of the citizens of Atlanta, held on the I 16th ultimo, friendly to the building of the i “ Air Line Rail Road ’’ from Atlanta to An , derson C. H., S. C., asking the counties inter ested in said enterprise to meet them in con vention, to be held at Carnesville on the sec ond Tuesday in July next, to consult upon the ways and means necessary to the carrying out the building of said Road. Be it therefore Resolved, That wc cordially respond to the recommendation of the meeting at Atlanta, and that this county appoint thirty delegates to attend said Convention, being two rom each Militia District. i Resolved, That the following persons be and | : they are hereby appointed delegates (with pow-! i cr to fill their own vacancy) to said Convention j to wit: From Carnesville District, Col. Thomas i -Morris, and Gen’l. W. T. Millican. Manly’s District, W. F. Bowers, ond Oba diah Dean. Byans District, Samuel Knox, and Swell. Gumlog District, (Yliver Harrison and Rob’t Stribling, Big Smith’s District, Daniel Camp'and Hugh Crawford. Wolf-pit District, Daniel Mosa nd Mandat thias Crawford. Byram’s District,Thos. K. Sparks,and Silas W. Kay. Flintsville District, Christopher Adison, and Stephen Crawford. Candletown District, Eli 'l'. Willmot, and Allen T. Garrison. Anderson District, Enoch Anderson, Win. M. Ashe. Bushville District, John W. Pruitt and Dan'l <4. Chandler. Davids District, John P. Jolly, and Bailey Smith. Gunnel's District, Nathan Gunnels, and Ed ward W. Mayfield. Dooly’s District, Wm. 11. Wellborn, and W. T. Crow, Stranges District, Julien R. Earle, and Wm J. ’Wiley. Resolved. That Henry Freeman,!'. F. Coop er and C. S. Wild, Esqrs.. be and they are hereby appointed u Committee of correspon dence, to correspond with persons along the line of the proposed road, with regard to the hold ing of said convention ; and to give general publicity to the same. On motion, the report of the Committee was i taken up, and unanimously adopted. On motion of Geu. Millican, Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by , the Chairman and Secretary, and forwarded to , the Atlanta. Athens, and Anderson papers for publication On motion of John G. York, the meeting i then adjourned. _ t Nathan Gunnels, Chairm’n. ] J. N. Chandler, Sec’y. An Ordinance. The following Ordinance was passed by the Mayor and Council on the 9th of May, 1856’ and ordered to be published in the city papers, to-wit: An Ordinance in addition to those for pre serving the peace and good order of the City of Atlanta. Sec. Ist. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of Atlanta, and it is here by ordained by authority of the same that the keeping of a lewd house within said City shall be adjudged to be a public Nuisance. Sec. 2d. It shall not be lawful for the owner or occupant of any house within the City of Atlanta, to permit such house to be used or occupied as a house of ill-fame, and any own er. lessee or occupant of any house within said City, who shall permit any woman of ill-fame to occupy such house for the purposes of forni cation or adultery for the space of two days after having been notified thereof, by the Mar shal or other officer of sc id City, shall be liable to be tried for said offence and upon conviction thereof before the Mayor or three members of Council shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars; and if said nuisance shall be con tinued after said conviction it shall be lawful to abate the same by demolishing said house, which shall be doue'by order of the Mayor or three members of Council, by the Marshal or his deputy. The following report was aliso rieceived and adopted, to wit. Atlanta. .Way 9th 1856. The B»ard of Health met, the president Dr. E. N. Calhonn in the chair Present. Drs. Westmorland and Roach. Gn motion the secretary was requested to inform the Mayor and Council, that we have no epidemic prevailing whatever, aud the city is in an unusual healthy condition. Resolved. That the Mayor and Council be requested to publish the proceedings of this Board, at least once in all the city papers. On motion the Board adjourned to meet Friday 16th instant at 2 o’clock i>. m. Dr. E. N. CALHOUN, chairm’n. Dr. E. J. Roach, Sec’y. The Atlanta Daily Intelligencer, and Ex aminer, will please give the above one insertion. Atlanta Ga., May I3th 1856. 11. C. HOLCOMBE, Clerk Council. Ssa»“The waters of the Danube have not been so low for the last twenty years as they are at present, and all the commerce of Upper Aus tria that looks to this river as a medium of transportation is completely suspended. Gov. Jolvuson—-liis visit to iVa'is iugton. : The Know Nothing papers in Georgia are I greatly exercised just now on the subject of ' Gov. Johnson’s visit to Washington City.— j The following from the Journal A Messenger,, ! (we almost said Southern Recorder, it sounds ) so much like the productions of that sheet eight months ago) is sharp, very sharp : Gov. Johnson of this State, was in Wash ington city last week. By the way. we have heard jt shrewdly hinted that his Excellency has serious aspirations to the nomination of his party for the Vice Presidency ! — Savannah Republican. We heard it intimated some weeks ago, that I one of the Georgia delegates to the Cincinnati Convention was at Washington attending to his Excellency’s political interests in that di rection, but had not supposed that the “ wild hunt” had again vacated the Executive Chair of our State. Whilst we cannot sanction this course of conduct upon the part of our Chief Magistrate, candor compels us to admit that his claims to the second office in the Gov ernment, according to modern democratic tests are of a superior character. Wc allude to his bitter hatred and proscription of Ameri cans, and intense love and devotion to foreign ers. We suppose his neighbor are about as well posted in reference to the object of the Gover nor’s visit to Washington, as anybody : and it is’shrewdly suspected by them that his absence attributable to the fact of his having accompa nied his eldest daughter, and the daughter of a fellow-townsman, to the Institute at Georgetown D. C. That he should visit Washington city is natural enough. If it should be the pleasure of the National Democratic Convention at Cincinnati to nominate a Southern man for the Vice Presidency, there is no man in this sec tion of the Union whose nomination would be hailed with greater joy by the South, or who would give to the strength. Weli may our Know Nothing contemporary endorse the claims of the Governor, if they are to be predicated on his past castigation of the dark lantern crowd—excuse us, /— Fed. Union. . . °BK, May 10—There was a cowhid ing affair m this city the other day. Alfred Carson, Chief Engineer of the Fire Department received a severe drubbing at the hands of a Mr. whose sister Carson married.-- Ihe alleged reason was an Insult offered to Le verich’s wife by Carson. The friends of Car son explain it in another wav They do not deny the cowhiding, but attribute it to another cause. There are two cliques in the Fire De partment, between whom exists a bitter enmity Canson heads one and Harry Howard the oth er Lcvench is of the Howard clique, and for some unpardonable affront on Carison’s side Lcvench undertook to chastise him, and for the purpose of obtaining public sympathy, made his -casus belli an indignity offered to his wife these are the rumors floating around, and as such 1 give them. i o P era reason is fast coming to a close. Ihe I resident of the Board of Direc tors, Mr. Phalen, offers it to let front the Ist October, tor one year. „ White some of the papers are pitching into Mr. Burton for the low and vulgar character of the pieces produced at his theatre, he is pre paring a volume entitled, “A Cyclopedia of W it and Humor.” The societies have nearly all had their ani tersary meetings this week, and rendered up their accounts. The receipts for this year com pared with those of 1855, are as follows For IB.ij, $1.641,826.61; and for 1856, $1,849- 823 40. Fo » r steamers sailed from this port to day. Ihe .Ericsson, for Liverpool, ’having 78 pass engers, the North Star, for Southampton and Bremen, having 154 passengers, the Tennessee, for St .Diomas, and the Orizaba, for San Juan. In addition to these there are the Southern stea mers, and the Ocean Bird, which is supposed to be ready to go ; anywhere. A Miss Witty, ofyour city, is playing a thea trical engagement at the theatre in Providence. She is characterized by the papers there as “personally very attractive ; possessing a fine face and figure, aud excellent voice." She is said to play Juliana in the -‘Honey Moon" xceedingly well. It is stated that the Steamer Ericsson to-day carries out to England one of Hoe's six cylinder presses lor the Loudon Tinies. Six Americans were also sent out as “feeders” of the press, ac companied by u foreman, thinking that the Britishers would require a little instruction be fore they .could work it to advantage. Ihe rainy “spell” still continues. We arc almost in despair of ever seeing the sun again. he Anniversaries are some of them suspen ded in consequence.— Char. Con. PINK. Mrs. Rusk, wife of Gen. Thos. Rusk, U. S. Senator from Texas, died at Nacogdoches on the 25th of April. Mrs. Gen. Rusk was the daughter of Gen. Cleveland of Habersham county, Ga., which he represented in our Legislature of 1853 and '54 The sympathies of the country are with the distinguished Senator from Texas, in his melan choly bereavement.— Fed. Union. The Kendal Case in New Orleans. New Orleans, May 12. In the case of the United States t-«. Ex- Postmaster Kendall, the Texas case was con tinued at the instance of the U. S. District At torney, although the defence pressed the trial and offered to admit in evidence the testimony of the absent witnesses heretofore introduced. fieri" Henry Gilman was shot in Nashville on Friday night last, by Charles Wright, his brother-in-law. Wright surrendered himself to the authorities. Gov. H. V. Johnson and Hon. J. L. Reward were in Savannah on Monday. T. BLRKE, PROPRIETOR NUMBER 41. From the Charleston Courier. Sew York Correspondence. New York, Maj’ 8. —The anniversary fever may be sa’d to have reached a crisis yesterday. There was warm work in the proceedings of several of the societies. The American Tract Society, where the great struggle was to have bean decided between conservatism and aboli tionism. had a stormj’ time. Tt was given out that the old executive board would be ousted in consequence of their suppliancy to the slave power. The Independent and the Tribune newspapers have been blowing the flame of fanaticism for weeks, and laboring hard to stiffen the backbones of the timid. But the whole scheme fell through. The old directors were re-elected, including the Rev. Nehemiah Adams, of Boston, author of the South Side View of Slavery. The threatened appointment of a Committee to investigate 4he affairs of the society was about abandoned until demanded by those who conducted the business of the institution during the past year. It is a pity that the performan ances of the clique who had secretly avowed to Africanize the Tract Society should have come so far short of their promises. Had the scheme had any chances whatever of success, the strong and united conservative sentiment of the meet ing would have been displayed with such unex pected power and influence that future attempts of the kind would be confined to diseased im aginations and fanatical wishes. The Congregational Society assembled at the Church of the Pilgrims, in Union Square. I am not exactly aware of the nature or the ob jects of this institution. But there was no misunderstanding the design of the meeting yesterday. It seemed as if intended solely to give Henry Ward Beecher an opportunity of firing one of Sharpe’s rifles in the cause of Kan sas. Mr. Beecher is a sharp shooter on all oc casions, and yesterday was no exception to the rule. He was eloquent, radical, full of fire and “hopeful for freedom.” The game now being played in the West was a sure thing in his mind. The South stood no chance whatever. Every body who heard him was of the same feeling, and of course the meeting was harmonious and enthusiastic. But the great event of the day, as the sport ing chroniclers have it, was the meeting of the abolitionists. If any one is oppressed with melancholy, there is no greater fun than to be I present at one of their gatherings. With them , variety is the spice (and odor) of life : so upon the platform you usually see white men and women, with a sprinkling of the darker shades of humanity. Like the “first come, first serve” rule of a country mill, the advantages of the floor are only to be obtained by jumping up and shouting away. But unfortunately several are in the habit of doing this at the same time, and no one cares to give his competitor a better chance by waiting to hear the decision of the chair. According to my own knowledge in disputes, at these meetings, when a man and woman are both trying to “ catch the chair’s eye,” the decision has always been against the latter. You know how difficult it is for a wo man to “ hold her tongue.” Can there be any surprise that these gatherings are so disorderly, riotous and disgraceful ? The radical abolitionists seem to have chosen I a new line of policy this year. Their denunci ations of the South, of Southern men, and of slavery, are less frequent and less secret. It is now the Black Republicans upon whom they shower their volleys of sarcasm, spleen and billingsgate. The women yesterday were es pecially bitter against Seward and Hale, Sum ner and Wilson. Though utterly opposed to the creed of the Black Republicans, it is inti mated that the abolitionists complain that their thunder has been stolen. About the only dif ference between them is that the abolitionists would like to massacre yon all, and the Black Republicans, who are more cautious, would rather see you massacre yourselves. There is a public call issued for a meeting on Friday’ night to express sympathy for Walker aud the Republic of Nicaragua. Among the speakers announced are Gen. Cass, Gen. Quit man, Senators Toombs, Benjamin, Weller, Douglass, and several members of Congress.— Opposition to the interference of Great Britain in the affairs of Central America will be the principal topic of the speakers. Speaking of Nicaruga, the boats belonging to Accessory Transit Company are still laying idle at their docks. It is currently reported that the parties principally engaged in the line byway of Panama and Aspinwall pay the Transit Company $40,000 per month not to re sume their trips. Our common Council took occasion last night to pay Mayor Wood a high compliment in his absence. His salary was increased from 3,000 to SO,OOO. The Comptroller, too instead of receiving as before $3,000, is to have $5,000, and the Street Commissioner had bis salary raised from $2,500 to $5,000. The owners and builders of the Adriatic arc sparing no exertions to ensure her .rapid com pletion. Her machinery is already nearly all in. If no disappointment or delay occur, this noble Collins steamer wifi sail from this city for Liverpool on her first trip, August the 20th. PINK. jKjjf'We find the following in the Journal de Constantinople: “Our readers will recollect the beautifulscul ptures which M. Place extracted with so much difficulty from the ruins of Nineveh, and which were unfortunately sunk in the Tigris by the bursting o. the skins which upheld the rafts that contained them. We are happy to be able to state that most of these sculptures are now being raised under the intelligent superin tendence of Nassoud Bey, aid-de -camp of the governor of Bagdad. Some of them are mon oliths of Colossal size." jKb 1 '- The workmen in the silk factories of Lyons, in gratitude for what the French gov ernment has done to develope the branch of in dustry in which they are engaged, lately sent a petition to the Minister of State, praying that “the effigy of him whom wur and peace have rendered equally illustrious, may hereafter be crowned with laurels on the national coin of France.” It is said the Emperor will grant the request.