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THURSDAY, JAN. 11.
8®, Tiie Southern ./ffroida- says JkatJ
“Mr. Thos.°B. Bn.nla4.4jbe Unton oaniUdnta
was recently closed TOXMtiUeetjr.iii Fulton
County.” Wo were lioi-ijware before ’' the
question of union or disunion was In issue at
the latoclectton of tax-collector. Who were
the disunion candidate '! Can any of the
defeated tpllj . . - ua wsMWKS''e-\
The Nalls
We learn from the Oharlostotf. papers of
I’edpesday tliot the dHSculty w hich has for
Caniliha Raifeoad ^Company and the Rost
Office jjBepnit®cntv and' in uuimioqnenofe of
Avliiohdlie ilailrttad Comipany ■dfecontinned
the tran.sportivti^h of the mails on the first
of the present month, haw at last been ami
cably adjusted, and- from and after to-day,
(i',,rre»pHOii.-nci' of tit* Atlanta Iluily lel<Q)igt>ncer.]
Mew York. Matters.
New York, Jan. 5, 1865.
eti between the South j ^ j tl , h „ 6nii . v «t Avenue ft.
The Southern Cultivator.—'The Janu- . thc 12th in8t -. *® nmil * wil1 a g ain betran8 '
ary number of this- faVorite Agricultural
ported regularly on the Road as heretofore,
journal is on our table, filled with it* ^ual j^^harleston cotemporaries arc rejoicing
variety of valuable and interesting matter." 1 ffrcdlTy over the adjustment of the d.fficul-
* i! n .. •••.ill Alt att mnv t/tu n naf nrn in in a
In the quantity and quality of its contents
the Southern Cultivator cannot be excelled
tips, and well they may, for a return to the
old two-horse conveyances for mail trons-
portatiou in these-times of steam and light
ning is rather too much of a retrogade to be
North or South. The present number com
mcuces the thirteenth volume;- and eonse- .... . . . .
. . . _ patiently endured. As the present arrage-
the tunc for those wanting 1 . - . 1 , „ . P,
quentlv now is
a first rate Agricultural work to subscribe.
Terms, one dollar a year. Wm. S. -Jones,
Augusta, publisher.
Another Fire.
About one o’clock yesterday morning, the
residence of Mr. Joseph Wins!dp, on Peach
Tree street, in this city, was discovered to
be on fire, and liotji withstanding the almost
superhuman elforts made to save it, in h
short time the building was a smouldering
mass of ruins. This was one of tho hugest
and lirest dwelling houses in thc city, and
in its destruction Mr. Wiuship suffers a loss
of about $8,000 none of which, we learn,
was covered by insurance.
meat is a permanent one, we shall probably
bear no more of this old and disagreeable
quarrel.
The Soil of the South.—'The .January
number of this excellent agricultural work
is on our table. The Soil of Hie South is a
first rate journal and should be in the hands
of every farmer. Thc present number com
mences the fifth volume, and, of course, now
is ju«t the time to subscribe. Terms, one
dollar per annum in advance. Published
by J. M. Chauiliere, Columbus, Ga.
Opening of the Illinois Central Rail
road.—The 8th of January is fixed for the
It is the gcr.er- , formal opening of the Illinois Central Rail-
al belief that thc lire was thc work ol an in
cendiary.
road from Cairo, on the Ohio, to Chicago.—
The Chicago Democrat observes:
“ This is one of the most important an
nouncements we have been recently called
upou to make. Chicago will be united to
perpetual navigation on the Mississippi, as
that river is never obstructed by ice or low
water below Cairo. It is an interesting era
in the history of the Illinois Central Rail
road Company. Notwithstanding the finan
cial difficulties with which they, in common
with others, have been called to grapple
csting entertainment should not fail to at- ‘ within the past few months, they have push-
• en( j | ed their work steadily forward until the
- | main trunk is completed, and the North is
The Mayor of Boston deserves the credit ■ united with the South, and the extremes of
of having furnished a description of office j our State have been made to meet.”
seekers, which is as significant as comprc- ; Mr. Beardsley, of Albany, N. Y. has suc-
liensive. He says—“numberless persons ; cec j e j j n manufacturing good newspaper
solicit responsible situations to take charge I f rom basswood. lie says that he is confi-
Wymaii.
At thc Athenaeum, on Tuesday night,
Wyman performed before a large audience
—the largest which has assembled since the
opening of the new Theatre To night we
understand, will be the last of his perform
ances, during his present visit to Atlanta.
Those who would witness a rich and inter-
of the city’s property who never take care j don t tlia.t he can make better paper than
of their own.” j this from Spruce, Cedar and some other
woods,
Rogues About. , woous. The experiment seems to be a tri-
The occurrence of two large fires in our 1 umph in invention, and seems to inaugurate
city this week, under circumstances that
scarcely leave room for a doubt that thore
are incendiaries among us, should bo a
warning to our citizens to exercise all pos
sible caution and watchfulness to provide
a revolution in the manufacture and price
of paper.
People’s Ticket.
The Ticket in another column headed as
above is one that will bear examination.—
against further occurrences of the hind, is a strong ticket throughout—enmposedof
and to ferrit out and bring to punishment J nien we jj qualified, if elected, to discharge
those who are guilty. Our night police j tj lc various duties appertaing to the admiu-
sliould lie largely iucrersed at once, and the j istration of the affairs of our city. Capt.
in lirondffny—APke' W<<
unit
(ftutimehti—A.utncrutcnD—MrrmdiUJt**uteitated
Muncy—Item*,
In these day-’, it biu, curae tu pass that tve bare
u new Administration; our dirty, ill-governed
city iickuowk'jlgod u pew ruler, even Fernando
- [Correspondence «»r the AtUgfa. lkilj Intdffipenrer.]
Tlie Mines eC Carrol
M n. W. 11. Rrgules—Air.*—As tbe whole State
is interested in the mineral wealtli-ef all its parts,
I Hike the fibertybef troubling y i ;• with a few- re-,
mark.--. Having bficly hod an 01 -erte-uityAif exart-;
Villa Rica, and Inr
; lii e of CnrreJ, I have
in-ng the mines in Camd,
. Polk and Paulding, noart
been agreeably surprised to End the extent and
immense value of: this region for minerals. In
Polk is Waldruss’ mine of chopper, where they arc
Worn!. This Mayor opens his career with a loud raising ore; near it Gamble's copper mine,Irhere
and decisive blast of the olficiaL trumpet. H<
the dirt and corruption-with which this-metropolis
is overwhelmed, and as sure ns his name is Wood,
lie means to introduce a new era, and the grass
slniil not grow beneath his feet. So he bids the
retainers of the'city goverjiment awake from their
long and peaceful slumbers and do something to
clean their pass. They must shovel up the dirt,
cart 0? thc ashes, kick over the apple-stands,
lam ” tbs rowdies and choke off oil lawlessness,
• they are also raising ore. The copper mines in
.’ the South’corner ol Pauhiiug, one of which is
1 owned by Mr. S. W. Mvllarty, another by Big--
| low & Co., ot Cedar Town, and several others in
the immediate vicinity, are all active and promise
rich rewards to the proprietors. And here, also,
. Mr. D. H. Mitchel has struck a valuable mine of
j tin ore, which is, I have no doubt, a good lend.—
1 The neighborhood of Villa Riea promises to bo a
mining region not surpassed by any in the State.
oppression and crime. Now if Mr. Fernando : There is a heavy copper load running North-East
Wood’s promises and threatening shall be fulfill- j g out h-West, one mile North of t’ue town,
ed, we shall soon have a model city, the pride of w hieh is opened at Vr.Unit’s, two miles West of
thc nation, tho admiration of the whole earth.— j thc town; and Mr. J. B. Wick has just strnek a
But there are many hindrances in the way of Re- i h^yy lead of- copjrer ore on the same lead os
SATURDAY. J AN .,13:
HSH
The Building Associations of New
Wbe Bketlou.
The electionfor eity officers lbr;the en
suing year tv ill take place flu Monday, next. • affected by tfiestringency in.tbe monev-fnar*
Taxation-
- ceived prompt monthly payments, are nowj wa3 -pleasant to see„:hear, feel, smell, or
there
But two tickets, we believe; are now in the ket, for, the mechanics and workins
field,*;both of which will be fotiud fin our who contributed to thfem are not able to conr
paper this mornings A majority’ of those
on the one headed “ People’s Ticket ” are
well tried and unflinching Democrats. The
tinne their payments. The latter are pro-
posing to get legislative action, requiring
, . , all tiieie Oi'gauizatioEui toreport immediate-
othwiwtM, we km. f»m ».,<1or,ty yT,,oR ;, , heir ol „ rfiHon toU>e nto a
we have no reason to doubt, is a regular out viftw ^ the dev ; 8in
and • out ‘ Know-Nothing ticket, though it
lias a powerfully strong appearance tff f pi*irtci-pl e
Whiggery about it, barwc suppose the two |
are about synonymous. Know Nothingism *
of a plan for the winding
up of their affairs upon some equitable
Tit* People’s Ticket.
For Mayor
ALL/SOM NELSON.
-taster-taxes upon warmth, light and loco
motion”—what will it be in another century, ■
if England; as the " ^London Times reconv- I
mends, keeps “drawing on posterity?”— 1
Will not posterity before long begin to re- !
pudiate debts that other people have con- 1 First Ward
tracted ? Taxation is the inevitable conse-:
quence of “ being too fond- of glory.” All
the nations of Europe have bought their
fame at a dear rate, and there is not money ! Third Ward—J. W. THOMPSON,
enough in the world to pay their indebted-j.
For Aldermen
-U. L. WRIGHT,
\V. W. BALDWIN.
Second Ward—Dr. T. Al. DARNALL,
J- L. DUNNING.
JOHN FARRAR.
ness.. the people are overburdened with { Fonrth ward— Wm. BARNES,
taxation. France is no better in this respect
than England, while Turkey is even worse
The Michigan papers assert that the
and Whigism, in Atlanta, are evidently prisoners in the .State prison at Jackson | 0 ff A recent number of Jltaclacood states
enough convertible terms though under the J have actually been engaged in the manufac j that, in the latter country, all land pays a
former guise there is one advantage, that ! ture ,lf >*»g u es coin, and by the aid of accorn- j tax in kind, and it never amounts to less
gather in the P lices ‘-utside^he walls have put the same in i than one-tenth of the gross produce of the
gamer in me . circu]at ; op ; ’ j soil, besides all the Jabur ot gathering in,
imocratic fold. ‘ OTrcshiiig, and wumov.iug the government
The Chattanooga Advertiser of Tuesday
JOHN GLENN.
1 Fifth AVard—Til OS. KILE,
Dr. C. POWELL.
they have a better chance to
unwary lambs from the Democratic
At all events wc shall have a pretty tight oh
form, and we must have a new Hercules for thc | mine, and only one mile North of the town,
cleansing of onr Augean Stables. That Mr. iVood j to be tha richest top ore yot found.—
may prove such wo fervently pray. Rowdyism j ^ Keaton’s mine, 4 miles South of the town, they
greatest possible vigilcnce observed by all.
jggy-The Millcdgevillo papers arc quar
r cling over thequestion whether Gov. John
son is or is not opposed to tlic Know-No
things. Why don’t they ask the Examiner?
We have no doubt but our neighbor could
answer the question by authority.
A committee, representing two thousand
unemployed mechanics and laborers, waited
iituin tho Movnr of New \ork with a r.cti-
upon the Mayor of New \01-k with a pet
tion requesting the municipal government
to erect buildings on tlio public lauds ol
the city for the occupancy of tenants at a
moderate rent. The petitioners hope in this
Nelson would make an efficient and energet-
j ic Mayor and his election would be a guar
anty’ that the affairs of our flourisliingyoung
city would be well and vigorously conducted
during the ensuing year.
A. T. Stewart & Co., of Now York, have
opened a soup kitchen in the Basement of
their store, on the Readc-st., side, where a
large cauldron of soup is prepared and dealt
out by a detachment of the clerks, to all who
apply, between twelve and two o’clock.
Within the last two or three weeks three
of thc theatres in New York have been shut
up on account of the hardness of the times—
thc National theatre, and last Niblo’s, one
way to secure employment for themselves,
3 1 il benefit j °’the most popular places of amusement in
and at thc same time to be of actu;
to the city. The Board of Councilman have
since had the proposition under considera
tion, and there was a prospect that thc plan
would be adopted.
A despatch dated at IV ahiiingtou last
Saturday, states that a captain of volunteers
in the Mexican war. is in that city enlisting
roeruits for the Kinney Central American
expedition. Many young men were prepar
ing to join, they receiving a bounty of fifty
dollars in advance.
An anti-slavery petition has been drawn
up in Boston, urging the passage of a law:
“That any person who engages in arrest
ing, holding or returning a fugitive slave,
either as United States Judge, Commission
er, Marshal, Deputy Marshal, or in any
other capacity whatsoever, or even as a .,,.0
private citizen, shall lie form ci incapable of die [ a - V) ;lni l (h e offenders prosecuted.—
acting as a Juror 111 any Court ot tins btate, I ^ , . , . . , _
the city.
The (Jannandaigua and Niagara Falls
Railroad is advertised for sale at sheriff’s
sale in the Lockport and Buffalo papers, or
at least so much of it as is located in the
counties of Erie and Niagaria.
Sir A" In France some alarm is manifested
lest the Czar should hold out thc hand to
Marini and Kossuth in revenge for the de
sertion of his quandam ally, Austria : and
the fact ol' the Monifeur seriously undertak
ing to disprove such an anticipation, shows
that some uneasiness on the subject exists
in high quarters.
The Maine Law in Boston.—The inforce-
ment of the liquor law gives a great deal of
trouble in Boston. In six months there
were four hundred and fifty-five violations
will shake its fist in his face, and bribery will dis
play its fat parse before lais eyes. Through all
these dangers and temptations may oi r Mayer
persevere unenrrupted, undismayed.
Tho Grand Ball for the relief of the poor will
soon come off in the Aeademy of Music in style
most magnificent. Thc poor will realize a part <;f
the ticket-fine, two dollars a head, but if they ' ad
only a little of what will lie spent for equipments
and decorations by the fashionable participants
they would need no more for tho present, at least.
Thousand dollar shawls and priceless silks and
satins, diamonds and rubies and all the shining
wealth of Golconda and tho Indies will form a
magnificent exhibition for the benefit of the poor.
A great deal, however, is really being done for
the poor at tho present time. The muttorings, and
groans, and cries of desperate half-starved thou
sands send a hoarse murmur into thc luxurious
penetralia of wealthy homes and awake many
from apathy and indifference. And those now
give who never gave before. Here let us note an
instance of liberality worthy of a “ merchant
prince.” A. T. Stewart has opened a handsomely
fitted up soup saloon under his celebrated store in
Broadway. Air. Stewart superintends the distri
bution in person. A poverty-stricken face is the
requisite for admission to the privilege oftheestab-
lishment. Some time ago, we remember, a noble-
hearted German, who kept an eating house in
Chatham street, was in the habit of providing
meat-dinners for hundreds daily of his country
men, free of expense. I wish all our wealthy cit
izens could be induced to indulge in such invest
ments. They aro quite ns likely to pay as the
visionary speculation of stock-brokers.
The unfavorable news front tho scat of war ex
cites considerable sensation in. the community
generally. There is a large party of England-
haters in the city, mainly composed of the Irish
refugees and their sympathizers. These do all in
tlicir power to represent thc public sentiment as
adverse to England and favorable to Russia, in
this war. There is certainlya degree of ill-lceling
toward England prevalent in our community, but
it seems to us that it iE such ;is one relation might
entertain for another, while he would still side
with him if in danger from an outside foe. Some
such feeling exists ns the husband and wife had
for each other, who were constantly quarreling
and fighting, but if a neighbor interfered on ei
ther side both would turn upon him with the ut
most fury. We believe there are few true Amer
icans who would hear with grief and pain of the
humiliation of thc- Anglo-Saxon arras before Rus
sia. Under ull sectional prejudice and bitterness
I are dow boxing ore to ship, which has been assay-
j ed by Dr. Cotring to be worth 37 per cent. Mc-
! Horty & Co. have also a promising mine opening,
j 5 miles East of the town, and two shafts are now
! sinking on the load which runs North of thc town.
There are two steam mills working gold quartz
| within 1 or 2 miles of thc town, and also 2 pound-
: iug mills operating by water power. Gold veins
now being worked are owned by Col. John Jones,
Hargroves A Williams, and Triglnwn ; and J. B.
Wick has found tho largest body of mineral lands
of any one person in the region, but tho old
fellow has neither worked them himself to any
extent or suffered others to do so, although he inis
room on his veins for a dozen steam engines.—
There is but little doubt that al! thc gold veins at
tho Villa Rica mines, when sank to a sufficient
depth, will yield the yellow sulphurate of copper,
as it has so proved in North Carolina and in
Hampshire county of this State.
Jan. 9, 18.15.
acting as a Juror 111 any
or of holding any office of trusi honor or
emolument, whether such office he a State,
County, City or Town office, unless r< lieved
from such disgrace by a pardon; and also
to punish by fine, and imprisonment any
* ' -—■* *• --- 1 aider
claimant of an alleged slave, or tiny ai
or abbetter of such claimant who shall at
tempt to remove such alleged slave from this
State, without his first having a jury trial
on thc question of liis slavery or freedom.”
l<utcv from Hnvaun.
New Orleans, Jan. 5.—Thc steamship
Cahawba has arrived from New York via
Havana, with advices from the latter purr
port to the 5th inst.
The Prineetown arrived at Ilavanua on
the 31st ult., after an unsuccessful search
for thc Albany. She was to have sailed for
Key West on 2d inst.
The trial of Don Fraueiscq Estampcs,
alias Mr. Laeoste, is progressing. He has
mode a declaration exhoncrating Mr. Felix j and vestin
from all blame in the affair of Baracoa, ic- j
5 udiating all connection with thc Cuban
unta of the United States, and stating that
Mayor Smith, in his inaugural address on
Monday, remarked:
“ Those familiar with the working of self-
interest in these prosecutions, to evade the
penalties of a conviction, represent that
there is a fearful amount of hypocrisy, mis
representation, and willful perjuries com
mitted, indicative of a state of demoraliza
tion so truly painful, as to lead many of the
staunchest friends of temperance to lament
that the attempted suppression of a vice,
destructive to reputation and the body,
should sometimes peril the soul by sins of a
darker hue.”
In thc New York State Senate on
Wednesday, Mr. Putnam introduced a bill
relative to conveyances of property for reli
gious purposes, the object of which is evi-
there is still among us a class still current of af
fection for old England, thc cradle of Jehu Milton
and thc Puritans.
The Dusseldorf Gallery, wc aro informed, U
likely to be closed for some months on account of
insufficient public support. It seems singular that
there is not enough artistic enthusiasm in New
York to keep open this magnificent collection at a
remunerative profit to thc owner. The Burning of
Huss ulone should make the man’s fortune, were
it properly appreciated. But for this, as every
thing else, tho excuse must be “ hard times.” All
kinds of exhibitions, almost, are killed dead.—
Barnum’s everlasting Museum stands where it al
ways did, aud keeps going some way. Somebody
up Broadway has picked up a kind of living mer-
‘maid, stimulated and directed, we suppose, by the
hints in Barnum’s 'Autobiography. It is a living,
amphibious animal, with the head of a woman
and tho tail of a fish. The head is certainly a
real one. As for tho rest, “ not knowing, can’t
tell.”
Tho day of reckoning has past, the bill day,
the first of January, thc “ day that tries men’s
souls.” Therefore, money ought to bo a little
looser. It is somewhat. Thc reports from Wnll
street are somewhat encouraging. As for tho lost
specie which everybody has been hunting for, it is
said that this has all gone out West. Reports
from Iowa say that gold is plenty there, farmers
with full crops and full pockets, in short, that thc
land is flowing with milk and honey. They laugh
at hard times out there, dou’t believe in thorn think
them mere cant. This is encouraging to emigrants.
Here we aro growing in numbers daily and thc
“times” tightening correspondingly.
A purse has been set on the head "of Robert
Schuyler, thc defaulter, with an accurate descrip
tion of his personal appearance. His confederate,
Kyle, is now on trial.
Keen, the warden of the Penitentiary on Black
well’s Island, has been found innocent of thc
charges which I stated in a previous letter.
Itis thought by some persons hero that-Sir Job-;
Franklin’s people did not die of starvation, hut
were massacred. In a previous expedition a na
tive was shot by a soldier, and this massacre was
Fruits of Demagoguelsm.
The Washington Evening Star, of the
30th ult., has some pointed remavks in re
ference to the results which may possibly
accrue to the North from the higher-law
teachings. It alludes particularly to the
encouragement given to the mob to violate
the fugitive slave law, and the application
which the same mob may give it under
their present circumstances. The Star
says:
It was designed to teach them only that
the legal rights of Southern persons were
not to be observed. Hunger is now, how
ever, suggesting that if i£is right to set the
law at defiance for so-called philanthropic
reasons, it is eminently so, to keep body and
soul together, and that it is 110 more improp
er to own a man, than (in hard times like
the present) to own the property for which
other men have labored faithfully, and for
a mere pittance, to create.
Nothing is easier than to slide from high
Monday and if “Billy PattersM*” is struck j last, has the followin
—*■■--* :1 ‘ ’— 1 — — l '~ l: ' 1 1 Now fob a River.—Since Saturday night
we have had incessant rain and the long
looked for tide in the Tennessee, will bo
nobody will be at a loss to know who did it.
Col. Jared I. Whitaker requests us
to state that he is not a candidate for re- forthcoming and no mistake, with it, corn,
election as member of Council.
Col> Dent.
We regret to learn that the health of our
Representative in Congress from this Dis
trict, Col. W.B.W. Dent, is very poor at pres
ent. He has not j et been able to take bis
seat in the House this Session, and it is
quite doubtful whether his health will per
rnit him to visit Washington at all during
the present Session of Congress.
flour, bacon, potatoes, apples and not least
! of all Kabbage Krout.
There are at the present time 100,000 bales
of cotton 011 the Tennessee River awaiting
an opportunity to get to market.
-It is sta-
Mr. J. B. Robets, the tragedian, who
formed the principal attraction at the Athe-
najum during Mr. Crisp’s last visit to At
lanta, we understand, is playing a very suc
cessful engagement at thc Galveston theatre,
Texas.
Falling Off in the Revenue.
j ted that the entire receipts of customs of the
• month of December, are estsmated at the
; Treasury Department at not more than two
, millions of dollars, against four millions and
j a half for December, 1854. The available
surplus in the Trersury has fallen off al
ready seven millions of dollars since Sep
tember. The payments of this month will
; further reduce the surplus five millions of
dollars.
government
share. To guard against fraud, the whole ]
grain crop of the farmers is frequently ex- 1
posed nearly two mouths iu the open air
near the threshing floors, and large quanti
ties of it are destroyed by wind and rain.
Thus industry is paralyzed, energy repress
ed, and the tillers of the soil discouraged.—
Agriculture is also kept in a most barbarous
state, and the whole country allowed to go
to ruin and decay. This is the way
the people are taxed and ground down
worse than slaves to the earth. If we would
avoid it, we must discourage a fondness of
military renown, and cultivate no other love
of war than that “ which is founded upon a
determination not to submit to serious in-
sultand injury.—_Y. Y. Sunday Ti/neo.
Mayor and Aldermen.—Editor*:—
The following ticket is suggested as suitable for
Mayor and Aldermen of this city.
AN AMERICAN.
. For Mayor
/. o. McDaniel.
For Aldermen,
First Ward—Dr R. 0. JONES,
Dr. N. L. ANGIER.
Second Ward— V. U. STRONG,
L. C, SIMPSON.
The Alabama Lottery.—The followin
numbers took the twelve highest prizes in 1 dates from St. Thomas up to thc 19th of
Important from St. Thomas.
By way of Kingston and Havana we have
the Southern Military Academy Lottery,
Class, I, which was drawn on Wednesday
last:
No.
5828
§15,000
No. 5520
§1,100
3078
5,000
3199
1,000
6044
4,000
4799
1,00c
2859
3,000
7224
1,000
9236
2,000
2219
1,000
8808
1,500
5320
1,000
Russian Patriotic Fund in New York.
—Some of the citizens of New York, like
those of New Orleans, ixre about to raise a
Russian “ patriotic fund ” in aid of the
widows and children of Russian soldiers
killed in the Eastern war.
Senator Seward.—The Albany corres
pondent of the N. Y. Express says that all
the officers elect of the New York Legisla
ture members of the Know-Nothing order,
and adds:
“ Thc U. S. Senatorial Question is to be
the absorbing one of tho session. With the
er lawism into agrarianism, and the late i probabilities in favor of Mr. Seward, there
prevalence of higher law teachings has fear- | is no certainty of his election, though evc-
fully increased the tendency towards agra- j rything is to be done to secure that end
nanism which has always so crazed our j Should his election be secured, it will be, as
Northern cities. We expect nothing else j is said by members of the Assembly, to thc
more than to hear the terrible bread riots at
the North ere long, aud shall regard them
as but the quod erat demonstrandum of the
industry with which, for the vilest political
ends, the ignorant and poor there have been
urged to believe that their opinions of the
fitness of things may rightfully be carried
out, the law to the contrary not withstand
ing.
Louisville, Jan. 3.—Heavy rain and
snow Saturday and yesterday. River fall
ing, with six feet scant in the canal and
three feet six inches over the rocks on the
Falls.
Two hundred aud sixty-four thousand
three hundred hogs have been slaughtered
up to yesterday. Provision market dull,
with a downward tendency.
Cincinnati, Jan. 8.—Flour STlaTil.—
Hogs dull at $4a4I. Provisions dull except
prime barrel Lard at 8Je.
Cincinnati, Jan. 8.—The Democratic
Convention, for thc nomination of State offi
cers, assembled in Columbus to day. Gov.
Medill and all the present officers were re
nominated, and resolutions were adopted
against Slavery, Know Nothingism and
Adams’ amendment of the naturalization
laws.
face of the fact that a majority are commit
ted against him to their constituents. I
hear that neither Harbor Masters nor other
nominations are to be made until this ques
tion is settled, and that everything is to be
secondary to this one.
Boston, Jan. 9.—Gov. Gardner was inau
gurated this morning. The whobeof hisin-
gugural message is directed against foreign
ers. He recommends that they be deprived
of the elective franchise until after a resi
dence of twenty one years; the disbanding
of all military companies composed of for
eigners; is very severe upon imported dema
gogues, agrarians, and red republicans; and
says the present depressed condition of the
country arose principally from a want of
unity in encouraging American labor and
industrv.
Gen. Scott on thc War.
The Washington correspondent of the
Charleston Mercury, writing under date of
Jan. 8th, says that lie has recently had tiie
pleasure of hearing thc criticism of the hero
of Vera Cruz on the war in the Crimea.—
| Gen. Scott’s opinion on this subject is, of
! course, high authority, and we copy it bc-
! low:
“ The Allies committed a great blunder in
j delaying the attack upon Sebastopol as long
as they did ; that immediately after the
raising of the siege of Silistria they should
have attacked Sebastopol, at which time
there wa3 a comparatively small force in
the Crimea; that thc Allies cannot take
Sebastopol unless they receive reinforce
ments giving them a superiority of force to
the extent of from 30 to 50 per cent; that
the Russian regular soldiers arc the best
troops in the world for defence ; they never
fly, but perish unless ordered to retreat.—
He thinks the Allies labor under a great
disadvantage in having two commanding
Generals ; that the road to victory is through
unity of design. The inference I would
draw from General Scotts’s ideas, is that
Sebastopol will not be taken; for I doubt
whether the Allies can throw such a prepon
derance of force there as is necessary. Thc
General further said, that the Allies could
not re-embai’k now without immense loss of
men, and all the materials of war in camp,
except the weapons in their hands.
dently to prevent Catholilc Bishops from re- ! very probably in retaliation for that outrage. That
presents or donations of property
the title in themselves.
New Orleans, Jan. 9.
expedition would furnish full materials for a grand
romance, if thoy could be obtained aud put in thc
hands of Dickens or Bulwer Lytton.
There is rumored about this morning a horrible
The Southern Convention was permanent- murder, under singular circumstance. As it has
he was alone in the attempt to revolutionize ! l v organized to-day, by the election of Gen. I no t yet been fully investigated we give noparticu-
j. . * . . 1 1 .nitiuv DYS18 ne Prncinunt nnil 4-wrn * *
Cuba, and is prepaired to die. The captain
and mate of the John E. White, he also sta
ted, were innocent of everything but .smug-
gling.
Advices from St. Thomas to the i9th ulti
mo, state that the steamer Ben Franklin,
chartered to conv ey passe;.gers toMvtinique
and other islands had been siezod by tlic
authorities before leaving.
Lamar, of Texas, as President, and two
Vice Presidents from each State represent
ed. Ten States are represented by one linn
lars.
©gy We published a dispatch from New
dred and twenty delegates, including eighty- j Orleans on Tuesday morning, stating that
three from Louisiana.
j the trial of Francisco Estrainpes (Ernest
Resolutions were offered for the improve- ! Laeoste) was still going on before the mili-
ment of Galveston harbor and bar, and the I tary count at Havana. The New Orleans
establishment of a Marine Hospital there. I Picayune says, Estrampes has made a dec-
\ ,1 swl i i i.: • !.- ^ 11 p
New York, Jan. 0.—By a joint resolution
of tho Legislature, both Houses have agreed
to go into convention for tho election oi a
United States Senator, 011 the Gth of Febru-
laration in which he gives a full expose of
! liis motives aud actions. He denounces
: Francisco Hernandex, who informed upon
■ him at Baracoa, as a coward, a traitor and
1 a liar, and asks to be confronted with him.
Adjourned.
New Orleans, January 9.
Cotton.—The market is unchanged, ex
cept lower grades, which are slightly lower
Sales GOO bales.
A correspondent of the Richmond Enqui- \ completely exonerates J. H. Felix from
"I;. 4 .. , i nr, writing from Powhattan, states that | a *y eomphcity or connesxon m the attempt
ihc British steamship Glasgow, I there is a negro woman living in that neigh-! at Baracoa - ^ attempt it may be called
Glasgow, lias arrived at this port. ^j ie j borhood who is known to be one hundred ! at length of the inhuman treat-
news by the her has been anticipated by the , ;ind nvcm ix years old . who has never • ment he has received since his arrest, and
• 1/1,1 *• l l n rpi ^ Lv\eiu\-Mx yearh uiu, vviiu nas never . ^ « , . , . / .
armval ofthe steamer Asia at Bostou. The l(Jgt hflr ^petite or eyesight, never took a ? 10rc particularly previous to his being
Glasgow brings a very large freight and a , dose of m< $ icine or ^ tick a day, and brought to the More Castle; repudiates all
4iiil nnmivlnnAnf /.f 110ccanirflrc . . . * . 7 __ ; imnna/ifinn with tliA I'uhnn Ttmtn >n tK/i
full compliment of passengers.
The Collins’ steamer Atlantic, of Liver
pool, will sail on 'Wednesday next, the 10th
inst.
connection with tho Cuban Junta in the
States with the plans and policy of which
he says that he is at variance; distinctly
S&T Among the passengers who arrived j asserts that he was alone in the attempt at
i who was the mother of sixteen children, ail
of whom died of old age.
Washington, Jan. 9.—The Old Soldiers !
met in Convention again this evening, and j
appointed a committee of their body to re- |
main in Washington during the present ses- j
si on of Congress to protect their inicrest. I
A flag was presented to them by the la- j
dies of Albany New York. It was deliver- j
ed by Col. Taylor of New York, with a j
handsome speech. Speeches were also j
made by Ex-Gov. Ritner, Mr. Taliaferro of
Virginia, and others. The meeting was
very interesting.
Thurlow Weed was iu the procession j’es-
terday.
Chicago, Jan. 8.—An anti Know Nothing-
resolution was to-day laid on the table by a
vote of 38 to 34.
Philadelphia, Jan. 9.—An application
Mail Robbers.—Within the last two
months, says the Baltimore Sun, something
like twenty mail robbers have been arrested
in different parts of the country and about
half of them have been tried and condemn
ed to imprisonment. The department ap
pears to be exercising great vigilance in
ferreting out depredations of al! kinds upon
the mails.
The remains of Gen. Robert Armstrong,
late publisher and proprietor of the "Wash
ington Union, were interred with imposing
ceremonies at Nashville last Monday.
December. The fever was at that time pr
vailing to a considerable extent, but it was
of a mild type.
The British West India mail steamer
Parana, with one hundred and fifty passen •
gers, reached St. Thomas on tho morning
of the 18th of December, from Southamp
ton, the greater number of those on board
for the different islands, the Spanish Main,
Aspinwall and Vera Cfuz. On tho evening
previous to her arrival, owing to the stupi
dity of tho agent, the branch steamers had
all been sent off’. To remedy this gross
blunder, the Parana was despatched to
Kingston, Jamaica, with such passengers
as were destined for that place, Havana,
and the Mexican Gulf ports, while the
American revenue steamer Ben Franklin
was chartered to take off such of tho pass
engers as were bound for Martinique, Bar-
hadoes and other islands in that direction.
Most of our readers are doubtless well
acquainted with the fact that the Franklin
has been detained for months at St. Thom
as, or from the time when she put in at that
port, with guns and ammunition for the
Paez expedition to Venezuela. Her com
mander, Capt. Byrum, stated that all his
papers were regular at the time the passen
gers from the Parana, with their baggage,
were transferred on board his vessel in the
harbor of St. Thomas—that he had received
both his register and clearance from the cus
tom house. This was on the evening of thc
19th of December, and just after dark set in
the anchor of the Franktin was hoisted, and
she steamed out of the harbor crowded with
passengers, among whom was the new Brit
ish Governor of St. Vincent, Mr. Eyre. As
she was passing the outer fort four guns,
two of which were doubtless shotted from
tho peculiar sound of the reports, were
heard, and as the Parana passed out, half
an hour afterwards, thc Franklin was seen
lying under the cannon of tho fort. A small
boat at the same time approached from the
detained steamer, with word that she had
been stopped by the authorities, and was
not allowed to proceed. The captain of the
Parana, with a shrug of the shoulder, said
that he could not help it, and keept on his
on liis way.
If Capt. Byrum had obtained his papers
in due from the custom-house, it was a gross
as well as a wanton outrage thus to bring
his vessel to under the guns of the fort. It
may be that the custom-houso authorities
had not sent down word to the commander
that the Franklin had received permission
to sail, aud that he was acting under an
old order to detain her in case she attempt
ed to pass out of the harbor. The next ar
rival from St. Thomas will probably explain
a matter which is at present involved in
mystery.
The Pardon of De Corn.—One of the
iatest acts of Governor Seymour before the !
close of his term of office was to grant an
unconditional pardon to thc young French
man, De Corn, who was sentenced to the
Stu'e prison, about a year ago, for the hom
icide of one of his countrymen in New
York. The circumstances of that crime are
doubtles; fresli in thc remembrance of our
readers. The pardon is said to have been
granted at the special instance and urgent
request of the Count dc Sartiges, the French
Minister at Washington. As the applica
tion for the pai-den was urged by the Count
some months ago it seems that the Governor
did not grant it without deliberation, or
perhaps it may have been delayed in defer
ence to public opinion. Tho Albany Jour-
nal remarks that,
“ Though the court and jury discharged
their duty in reference to De Corn, there
was that in his case which rendered him,
after a suitable measure of punishment, not
undeserving of the mercy which has been
extended to him. He was tenderly reared,
well educated, and, before the fatal occur
rence, of good general character. lie was
a grandson of a French officer, who, with
La Fayette, helped to achieve our indepen
dence. His mother and sisters divided their
patrimony that lie might come and establish
a home for himself and them in America.”
Third
“ A. IK. O WEN,
R. CRA WFORD.
Fourtli
“ LEMUEL DEAN,
G. IK. ADAIR.
Fifth “
IK. R. VENABLE,
J. IK. MANNING.
PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL.
City Hall, Atlanta, )
January 12, 1855. j
At a meeting of thc Mayor & Council, held
the 8th instant, the following resolution was unan
imously adopted:
Resolved, That the thunks of the Council he,
and are hereby, tendered to tho Atlanta Fire Com-
1 pany, Xo. l r for their energy and activity in saving
our city from fire on thc night of the 7th instant,
and that a copy of this resolution be published in
the city papers and also furnished to the Chairman
or President of thc Fire Company.
The above is n true extract from the minutes of
Council.
II. C. HOLCOMBE, Cl’k.
The Immaculate Conception.—Mr. Walsh,
(who is a Roman Catholic,) in one of his
late Paris letters to tho New York Jourrnal
of Commerce, says:
“The Rev. Athanasius Ooquerel, one of
the pastors of tho Reformed Church, deliv
ered to a very numerous auditory, on the
12th uit., a sermon which he has printed,
with the title—New Dogma, concerning the
\ irgiu Mary, it forms a small pamphlet
of thirty pages. liis doctrine produced a
strong sensation, and oacame thc theme of
controversial discussion in various social
circles. His subject, or at least that of the
Immaculate conception, is rife in all the
Catholic world, owing to the Pope’s encyc
lical, and the convocation of the Prelates
now assembled at Rome. Mr. Coquevel
treats original sin as an error, repugnant to
the Gospel, conscience and reason. He con
tends first—that in the beginning of human
life, before the human being has seen the
light, and after, before the awakening of
mind and conscience—during our merely
instinctive and vegetative days—there is
neither sin, stain, nor condemnation : and
secondly, that we are, in no manner nor de
gree, guilty of a first sin committed without
our participation, before our existence, many
thousand years ago, by another. Of course
he rejects baptism for infants, believing
that it eannot effect tho matter of their sal
vation. The able correspondent on religious
topics of the London Morning Chronicle
protests, inthenameof theEpiscopalChurch,
against these tenents ; but the preacher is a
skilful, experienced polemic, and eloquent
rhetorician. This discourse is not without
force of logic, and deeply impressive pass
ages. Tho author admits that all human
creatures are liable to sin: the essential
fallibilitj’ of our nature is the consequence of
the original fall. This view of thequestion
is not new.
COMMERCIAL.
Socialist Movements in New York.—
Tho Germans appear to be taking the lead
iu the socialist and agrarian movements
among thc unemployed in New York. At
one of the recent meetings the Express says;
“ It was also resolved that one thousand
posters, printed in the German and English
languages, be placarded throughout the city,
calling on all working men and mechanics
out of employ to meet at Ilildcrbrand Hall,
No. 100 Hester street, on Saturday evening;
for the purpose of completing the necessary
arrangements for a grand public demonstra
tion and procession, to take place on Mon
day morning next. On motion, it was fur
ther resolved to invite thc Corporation, and
assistance of the Turners, and other benev
olent and free societies.”
The officers of the Commercial Bank of
Philadelphia were placed on trial before the
Supremo Court of Pennsylvania, last Sat
urday, on a charge of discounting paper af
ter bank hours at usurious rates. They
are alleged to have levied over eleven thou
sand dollars above legal interest between
the months of May and November. In the
course of tho argument on the subject the
judge raised a question as to whether the
court had jurisdiction in the case—the
charge being one of a criminal character,
over which the court had no jurisdiction ex
cept for a review of decisions of inferior
courts.
John Hinds, one of a gang of scamps who
make it their business to ingratiate them-
Faiia res.—The New York Tribune of
Thursday has some additional items in re
gard to the failure of Belcher & Bro., it
says .•
“All thc failures which were announced
j yesterday were in thc financial circuit, and
were partly consequent upon each other.
One house, if not more, in the same cat-
egory, will go unless the meeting of its
was to-day made to the Supreme Court for \ e l ve s into the good opinions of the unwary I friends holcFto-day should decide to furnish
a writ directed to the Sheriff of Philadelphia
commanding him to proceed to Erie to exe
cute the laws in relation to the the new dis
turbance there. The Court will decide to
morrow morning, whether or not the writ
shall be granted.
Washinton, Jan. 9.—Senator Morris was
attacked this morning with disease of the
heart and his situation is regarded as very
critical.
New York, Jan. 9.—Thc steamer State
of Maine ran down a schooner at Ilurlgratc
last night. The crew of the schooner were
saved, and the steamer was uninjured.
New York, Jan. 10.—The steamship
North Star has arrived from Aspinwall with
over §1,000,000 in specie, and advices from
San Francisco to the lGth ult.
and then rob them has been arrested
New-Orleans on a charge of haring induced
how-
_ . have
a Mr. McBride to drink a glass of drugged | tailed were mainly drawing posts for Bel-
liquor, which soon put the victim to sleep, j cher &-Bro.; who appear to have carried on
the funds to sustain it. This is not,
ever, probable. The houses which
and who, while lying insensible, was robbed | their extensive operations almost entirely by
1 J J^ll .1 1J 1 • ■ • A 1 -rr • ^
of over seven hundred dollars and a gold
watch. People should be very careful about
receiving the kind attentions of newly made
friends. It was but the other day that a
kiting on New Orleans, New York, and
Boston. The}’ were believed to have been
making money by their buisness, but it is
now stated that “such was not the fact.
In regard to the conviction of George W.
Green in Chicago, of of the murder of his
wife, the Chicago Democrat says:
From the report in another column, will
be seen that the Jury in this ease have i<
turned a verdict of guilty. Whatever may
have been the opinion oi" the public in re
gard to bis position and tho influence of liis
wealth, no one with whom we have conver
sed, or who can have read our extended and
accurate report, can have failed to have
made up their minds as to the guilt of the
prisoner. Tho verdict, so far as we have
been able to learn, is regarded by all clases
as a proper one, and as a necessary
vindication of public justice.
gentleman of Georgia was put to sleep by i The Boston house ailuded to will lose its
ot
ehloform and robbed of a large amouut
money, while sitting in a railroad car, in
the midst of his family. Transactions of
this kind are so frequnt that people oannot
be too cautious.
entire capital, some $350,000. The two
houses in this city are in about §5000,000
to getlier. New Orleans and Havana will
also lose lamely.
"The defaulting director of tho Empire City j at New York by the Atlantic, was the famous revolution; states that for assistance in car-
Bank, Samuel Legctt, committed suicide in , Daniel E. Sickles, the American secretary : rying out his project he
this city last night. He wrote liis wife
note previous to committing thc rash act,
in which lie stated she would never see him
_ looked to the liber-
of Legation at London. It is supposed he j gJgjLi C “* U1 ' 8 aloae > an T d jhat he is
is the bearer of disnatohcs from 3 Ir. Buc- i revolutionary flag found in his possession,
again.
Thc Ocean Bank is understood
hanan
The Mormons.—Late dates from Utah
announce that the Mormons were becoming
divided among themselves, and the prospect
was that they would soon split into factions
that wonld eventually lead to the breaking j They have employed the time gained by the
c il~ <-_i :i.. S.-i £• _ .£• _ • ® ..." •
Private letters from Sebastopol, re
ceived in Paris, give a most unfavorable j
S icture of the prospects of the siege. The |
Russians do not lose a point in the game of
war, and are displaying the most extraor- ,
dinary energy aud activity in their efforts
to defeat the advances of the besiegers.— 1
up of the fraternity. The Gladdenites are j partial suspension of the siege operations in
said to be in deadly opposition to Brigham i preparing such a reception for them as will
Young, and should he and his followers at- render the issue of an assault extremely
tempt to carry out their threats of resistance j doubtful. One of these letters goes so far
TUc Bills.
Oh ! the bills, Christmas hills !
What a world of misery
Their memory in.-tils!
As thc merchants with their quills
Stuck behind their “ears polite.”
So caressingly invite
Your kind and prompt attention
To their hills!
now they dun, dun, dun.
As they kindly urge upon
Your earliest attention their blessed little
to the new Governor, the former will turn j as to state that although the engineering
Little bills!
[hills,
to be
heavy loser by thc failure of Wadsworth & i
Sheldon.
revolutionary uug munu mnis possession, against their old confederates, and assist in 1 works have arrived at a point which ena- !
awTt lL k ^ ! Ringing them to terms. Thc internal eon- bias the allies to say that they can enter
j , - "ir j - — , . x , - * ’ iinugiii^ mem iw icimn. J-uc « mwiwu cun-1 bles the allies to say that they can enter
Greek Fire.—Greek fire is a composition , , ’ ?. a i ^ ! fusion is precisely what was predicted from ; when they please, they dare not stir a foot
combustible matter invented by one Callin- | rj „ ^L 03 ^’ i the beginning with regard to these people. ■ in presence of thc terrific obstacles which
they will have to encounter.
” . . , 7 -’ 7— — I the Beginning witn regard to ttiese people.
5? “ ■i % i»»s *» ««• w** &*!«.
A by the General of the Emperor Pego
the stock has consequently declined consid- ( nat > s fleetj and 30 OOO men were killed.—
I e . . . • , . — 1V1IX WO WIV* IIWD IIUOUU UUU Iiat i llO.V
y abou wenty-eight years of age, 1 ^ f rom without, they had no opportunity
determination, and, it he had any j 0 f deliberately scrutinizing the character
faa ? reso1 ^ U P°“ dymg rather , and intent jons of each other ; but,
erably.
New York, Jan. G.—Thc
Chicago and Galenna
25 per cent., within a.... L_,_, D . . .. . „
large amount of it being found upon thc j could quench it. It was blown out of long
market. ! tubes of copper and shot out of cross-bows,
i and other spring instruments. The inven-
Sx. Louis, Jan. G.- The money market tion was kept a secret for many years by j r tno snipper 01 me*ionn
here is considered somewhat easier. There Uic court of Constantinople, but is now \ a ' Vh,te * with his mate, are still in con-
werc apprehensions that other oC our mer- ! i ost 1 nnement at Havana; but the only charge
chants would be obliged to suspend after | ‘ against them is for smuggling. Their puu-
the recent failure, hut no fears 01 this kind , The policemen of New York are said to I ‘snment, it is uiought, will be imprisonment,
are now entertained. Business seems to be j be .carrying out the recent order of the; Savannah Republican.
! 1 - irft entirely .to tadm ’the
The property of this fire is to born briskest : J 1 ®.” 1 ,!* 1)6 ] altered—they then were afforded a chance
• r , A :i IT n . • ° . ! but there 18 Bull a hope that hlB life Will be I ~e « j: . il..
Let
intimate that they have proof sufficient to
condemn him.
Capt. McCulloch, thc skipper of the John
longer, and tbe prospect
is, that Mormonism will work out its own
: redemption. u A house divided against it-
, self must foil.”
gradually improving
Mayor, enjoining them to arrest all street
i beggars and convey them to the institutions :
specially provided for’ the relief of the poor.
Fourteen persons of this description were
apprehended in the Eighteenth Ward on
A cougar commonly called an American
lion, was recently killed on the Chowchilla,
California, which measured eight feet in
length, aud weighed two hundred and fifty . .... , ~
' He had previously carried off a girl, and the remaining thirteen were Irish, | “J®* aad ° n
“Beat this who can.”—Under this
heading, the Adrian (Mich.) Watchtoaer
says that Key. Mr. Pilcher, of that city,
has a white Shanghai hen that has laid ere-
Thursday—one of the number was a negro r >’ da y f ? r om hundred and twenty-three suc-
■■ -- - - 1 cessive days, and on the one.hundred and
Congressional.
Washington, Jan. 10.—In the Senate to
day, the debate on the Judicial Reform Bill
was resumed.
In thc House, the Bill amendatory of the
Land Graduation Bill was discussed. A
long debate ensued on Mr. Dawson’s amend
ment, giving a homestead of 1G0 acres, at
14 cents per acre, on condition of actual
settlement, and it was eventually rejected.
The substance of the Senate hill was then
ie Governor of Pexnsyl-
vernor’s message has been
Mess a ;e
SO 80011 VANIA.—The
sent in to the Legislature. It shows tbe
aggregate receipts of the State for the year
tonave been §6,660,000, expenditures §5,- *
425,000, leaving a balance in the treasury !
of §1,220,000. The receipts of the public
works show an excess over expenses of §736,- 1
000. The statistics show an expenditure 1
during his term of office, for the rent of 1
works, of over §3,000,000 ; yet tho funded 1
debt has been reduced a quarter of a mil- J
lion. He alludes to the vQte by the people ■
With a power of performation,
And a maw that never fills
What sad dissimulation
To call them little bills !
While all the tin that tiukles
In your poekot, only sprinkles
A litlc liquidation on thc
Bills!
Oli! tho destiny that fills
All our holiday’s with bills,
When tho very Christmas dinner
Of the poor indebted sinner
Might be cookod with tlio fuel of his bills
Oh ! the bills, bills, bills, bills !
Nothing else bat hills !
^ It is now thought that thc proposition for
in relation "to prohibition, 'arM remarkTthat I the reorganization and increase of the army
though the vote shows the people to he averse 1 ™ 1 F^the present session of Congress,
to the measure proposed, It gives no reason 1 <>• l>er with or without the provisions for a
for supposing them opposed to a reformation, i ™ tn ;f hst and an 'f?T ° f ®f n :
He -recommends a revision of tho license j
j awg % _ , liv the military committee of the two houses
x ‘ s ‘ ! of Congress, (ast weok, aud it is understood
Recent demonstrations of the existence
of a volcano in Arkansas have been the
cause of much nneasineas and anxiety to
a portion of the inhabitants of that State.
The subterranean fires appear to be located
j in a mountain, about five miles from Wal-
1 dron, in Scott county. Three explosions
1 lately occurred in one week ; they were
, very loud and terrific , threw up stones and
i earth; filled thc atmosphere with clouds of
j dust aud smoke, and caused the earth to
quake for miles around. One of the reports
j was heard at a distance of forty or fifty
j miles. The earth on tho mountains is re-
i presented as having sunk to a considerable
i depth.
Coal in Alabama.
j The Selma Sentinel of Tuesday says that
: for thc last two weeks a large number of
| hands have been engaged in excavating the
! river bank at the terminus of the Alabama
i and Tennessee River Railroad, and other-
i wise making preparations for an extensive
! Coal Depot: and that it is the intention of
! the Railroad Company to extend the road
ou testlo work some 180 feet, and some 10
i feet high, so that coal cars can be run out
• over tbe depot aud the coal “ dumped.”—
■ Thc location, it says, is convenient for the
f delivery of coal to city customers, and then,
! being immediately on the bluff of the river,
i stemboats or other water crafts can be sup-
! plied in a few minutes with any amount
! they may require.
'flic Sentinel further says :
“ Large amounts of coal are already be
ing brought down the Railroad, and the dig
ging of coal is already assuming a degree
of importance in the counties of Shelby and
Bibb. Col. Brown is largely engaged in
tho business, and quite a number of others
aro already, and others soon will be, engag
ed in digging coal. All that is now neces-
* savy to make Selina the most important coal
' depot in the Southern States, is for the Di
rectors of the A labama and Tennessee River
Railroad to afford die proper degree of con
venience to those engaged in this business
along the line.
The Know-Nothings of Pittsburg, Were jJhat-Gen. Jessiip, and other distinguished
defeated on Tuesday, at the election for ! a r m y« ffi P er 8, will likewiseube requested to
awaimim iutoij, m i c ^ uu * U1 give their opinions respecting the proposed
judges and inspectors of elections. I alteration. . %
New York, Jan. 10.—The Steamship
North Star has arrived from Aspinwall,
with over §1,000,000 Hi specio and novices*
from San Francisco to the 16th ult.
Atlanta, January 13.
Cotton.—Sales light at 5 @ 6J.
Exchange, on New York is selling at j percent
premium. On Charleston anil Savannah I per
cent.
Bacon.—We quote hog round it! to 101. Hum?
12to 12J cents. Sides Ribs 91 10 cts. Sides clear
10 to il. Shoulders 9 a 91 cents.
Lard by the bbl. 11@12 cts. leaf.
Iron, Swedes 51 to 61c; English 5 to 51 cents;
Nails have advanced to 6 a 6J cts.
Corn is selling at 90 to $100.
Corn Meal, $1 to $1.25 cents.
Pork, Hog round, Gj@7 cents.
Beef, By tho quarter, 6 5J cents.
Sweet Potatoes, GO to 75 per bushel.
Irish Potatoes, 75 to 100 per bushel.
Salt. Liverpool sacks plenty, $2,35,@$,250
Liquors.—French Brandy, $2,50 to $3,60 per
gallon: Domestic 50 to 75c. Peach do. 60 a 75
cents. Whiskey 45 a 50 cents. Gin 50 to 60.
Rum 45 to 60 cents.
Wheat.—Good will bring to $1,40 per bushel
readily.
Flour.—City Mill from $4 to 44 per hundred.
Butter, Country, 15 to 20 cts. Goshen, 35 cts.
per pound. Tenu. Butter, 15 a 18 by the Keg.
Fair N. O. Sugar, by lihd. 51.
Prime “ “ “ 64.
Choice “ “ “ 8-.
Syrup, N 0. by bbl. 30 to 33 cts. gal.
Extra Whiskey “ 45 “ “
Star Candies per box 2S “ lb.
No. 1 Rio Coffee by sack 124 to 131 “ “
Gunny Bacging 16 to IS cts.
Rope 12 to 13 cents.
Chickens, 15 to 20 cents.
Eggs, 15 to 20 cents.
Fodder, 75 to 100 per hundred.
Peas, $1,00 to $1.10
Feathers.—40 to 45.
Dandles.—Sperm 37 o 45e. Tallow 20 22cts
AUGUSTA, Jan 10.
COTTON.—There has been a good and steady
demand for this article during tbe past week, and
prices have gradualy stiffend, partiulurly on the
lower grades, which constitute the offering stock
Grades above gooil-Middling are scarce anil in de
mand, and when put on tbe market readily bring
our quotations. It is necessary to remark, boa
ever, that in classing Cotton, as is always the ease
in a low or dull market, there is a difference betw
een buyers and sellers of full Ic, anil it must be u
strict grade of Inferior and Ordinary to Strict Mid
dling to bring our outside figures. The offering
stock is still light, as aro also the Receipts. Wc
quote as follows, which is an advance of i cent
on last week's prices:
Inferior and Ordinary, 51 @ CI
Low to Strict Middling, 6j @ 71
Good Middling 74 @ —
Middling Fair, Ti @ —
Fair, 8 @ —
GROCERIES —Buisness has been alittle brisk
er this weok in the Grocery line. We have no ma
terial change to notice in prices. The stock on
hand i» good and well assorted, anil Merchants
from the interior will find the Augusta market a
good one to deal in.
DRY GOODS.—There is a good stock of Dry
Goods on hand, particularly of such articles as are
sold in tiie country stores, and our merchants in
that line say they have no cause of complaint, a.-
thoir buisness is anually on the increase.
HARDWARE.—Stocks good and well assorted,
and a fair buisness is doing with the interior, Our
Hardware merchants are all direct importers, and
can sell their goods at as low prices as the same
articles can be purchased in New York.
HATS AND SHOES.—With both these articles
our market is well supplied, and dealers are an
nually increasing their buisness, to supply thc in
creased demand.
BACON.—Supply’ good with a moderate demand
Good Shoulders are selling at 8 a Sje by the quan
tity, and Sides at 9 a 91e.—the latter price for
clear. In small Lots prices range higher.
LARD.—We quote 10 a 12 cents—the latter
price for a choice artiele in small packages.
CORN, ic Stock of shelled still light but fully
equal to demand, which is confined to city want.
Selling by tbe 100 to 200 bushels at $1, sacks in
cluded—a large lot wc do not think would bring
over 95 cents. Retailing from stores at $1.1 a $1
15. Ear C orn is selling by the wagon load at 90 a
95e. Pens—are scarce, and the quantity have
been sold at $1 25 per bushel—Retailing front
$150. Oats—Supply on tbe increase, and sales
have been made [this week, by the quantity, nt 6s
a 70 cents—retailing at 75 a SOe.
POTATOES.—Stock of northern on hand limi
ted. Selling at prices ranging from $4 to 4 50 per
bbl.
WHEAT—Is very senreo and in demand. A lot
of White would bring $1 75 at $2 00 per bushel:
and good Red is worth $1 50, delivered.
FLOUR—The stock on hand is very light, and
prices have an upward tendency. We quote City
Mills superfine at 10, aud Extuu family at $11 in
bags, and $12 in bbls. Good brands of Country
Flour range at about tho same prices.
BUTTER.—There is a fair snpply of Goshen on
hand which is soiling at 30 cents for a choice arti
cle. Country is worth 15 a 20 cents, according
to quality.
COFFEE—There is a fair stock on hand, and
it is selling from stores at prices ranging from Hi
to 12 cents nccordiug to quality and quantity.
■MOLASSES—Cuba is still scarce, and is worth
from 25 to 28 cents. Of New Orleans there is *
fair, supply, and sales have been reported to us m
lots at 24 a 25 couts—Retailing from stores at 26 a
30 conts.
SUGARS.—There is but a moderate supply on
hand, although sufficient to meet the demand, and
some holders are asking higher prices. Our quo
tation will give a fair index of the market.
Savannah, Jan. H-
Cotton.—The demand continued good yesterday
with sales of 1129 bales, without change from the
previous day. The following are the particulars cf
the sales: 9 bales at 54: 15 at 61: 41 at 6-J: 53 at
6 15-10; 134 at 7; 52 at 74; 119 at 7*: •>! »t 1
5-10; 43 nt 7g: 2S nt 74: ‘lG9 at 7 9-16: 191 “
7$: 79 at 7.if: 03 at 7:1; 3atS; S at SI: IS at - 3,
and 21 at 84c.
New York, Jan. 9.—Cotton is unchanged."'
M iddling Orleans is worth bit cents per pound-
Flour is easier. Spirits of Turpentine is firmer,
at from 42@43 cents per gallon. 4,509 barrel 5
of Rosin changed hands at Sl.SO per barrel wj
Wilmington. Kentucky Tobacco is quoted nt»
@11 cents per pound.
Augusta, Jan. D-
Cdtton continues in good demand at firm P n . l ‘ e ’j
Transactions not extensive owing to tho limits
amount on sale.
Charleston, Jan. U-
Cotton:—There is a good demand at firm »“
full prices. Sales to-day 1,206 bales, at 64 to >-•
New York, Jau. 10-
Cotton is firm. Flour is drooping, and tn
OBio is worth from $9 12* to $9 561 bbl.
GEORGIA, Fulton County. ^
A LL persons having' demands' against Wm- «
Ogleby, late' of said' county, deceased, am
hereby notified tq present them, proporly attest®*,
to me, within the time - prescribed by law, or tne,
will not be settled : anil all Dersons indebted
will not be settled; anil all persons i
said deceased are horeby required to mako imm
diate payment. B. F. BOMAR., E*''
Afloat*. Job. 12,1855.