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BY RUGGLES & HOWARD.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1855.
VOL. VI. NO. 4,1.
T1IB ATLANTA INTELLIGENCER
Dally, TrI-Wcekly and Weekly.
BV RUGGLES & HOWARD.
w. b7 UUGGLL8,| Edltor(
T. O. HOWARD, J
Itauijnet to sir Charles Napier and Lord them, they will immediately discharge me
Cardigan. j and turn me out of the service. [Hear, hear
bitter invective bv sir CHARLES xapier— and laughter.] The Admirality perverted
curious disclosures. my language. They not only did that, hut
The Lord Mayor of London gave a pub- the T me “os? goading letters
MONDAY, MARCH 5.
$e.oo
TERMS OF SCBSCRIPTXOS
Daily Intelligencer per annum, in advance-
Tri-Weekly,
Weekly, “
RATES OF ADVERTISING. ^ _
Advertidns in ImeUigencer will bo miralNapier‘andCapt." Lynck
inerted ftt tho ioU<^vui S rate* per square of ten 1 -
New Hat Store.—The attention of our
readers is invited to the advertisement of J.
j a ,— - - _ Taylor, jr.,' who is about to open a regular
lie banquett Nov. Gtb. Among the notables j th «T T c °“ Id write; they asked me j hat store in Atlanta. This is an enterprise
! dd&aSjZ *- needed in « ein-,
and other officers returned fi-om the Crimea ' te U .S‘Y ,R g . an account of how Sweabog ! there having been, up to this tune, no e 0 -
4 on and Baltic. Enthusiastic cheering greeted mi ght be token, upon the 4th of October— j tablishment of the kind in Atlanta.
the appearance of Cardigan and Napier.— ' lhe very uay tne reports reached this coun-
Thc Lord Mayor proposed the toast of “the *7** ^ ^.ng oT Sevastopol.
Navy,” coupling withit the names of Ad-
linen :
Oi c ins«rtioii,
(.0 cLs.
One inonlb,
Two “
$1 00
Two -‘
Three, “
1 25
Three “
Fo.ir “
1 50
Four «
live “
1 75
Six
One veek,
2 00
Olio year,
$5 00
S U0
10 00
12 00
15 00
25 00
Special contracts will be ramie for yearly ailvor-
tbomciits occupying a quarter, half or whole «>!-
jjjV* Advertiscn’-cois front
must be paid in advance.
transient persons
The health of the gallant Admiral having
been cordially toasted,
Sir Charles Napier, in replying to that
toast, said: My Lords, ladies and gentlemen,
if an officer, having returned from a foreign
service, like my noble friend near me—if he
will allow me to call him so (the Earl of
Cardigan)—after having performed prodi
gies of valor, lias been received in the man
ner he has been received this day, how
much move proud I must feel, who have re-
A Superb Property for Sale.
On the 9thof Of October: 1 the news came J die attention of capitalists abroad
that Sevastopol was not taken : but the Ad- i t0 the advertisement ot Mr. J. F. Trout in
miralty had not the plain straightforward j this mornings issue. The offer of this line
dealing, or the honesty to write and apolo- oropertv for pale lias taken us by surprise,
gile to me, but they perverted what I had . we h ‘ ave knov , n that f rom the first day of
written, and which gave them apian for the ... ,
- ’ — - e - 1 - its being open to tne public it has been more
Legal mlvcrtiscincnti published at .ho usual j turned from my command having hardly
rato=.° Obituary notices exceeding ton lines char;;- performed any service al all, and been cell
ed os advertisements. Announcing candidate? fer ] Sl - re q fo- ; l iC Government and dismissed
■ m m all tho u- ; my wrnroimd? (mo, of “m, oo,”) 1
« •—* ** i rcVL Sriifr ^o-Sid'wSc
aking of Sweaborg. 1 was not going to
j stand that [a laugh and cheers.] I am not
the man ro put up with an insult, [renewed
cheers! I remonstrated most strongly: but,
; after all my remonstrances, the Admiralty
I persisted still in saying that I had led them
i astray. Y/hat could i do ! I was not going
i to be driven into ail this, particularly us
than realizing all that was anticipated.—
Private considerations, not in any way con
nected with the success of the Trout House,
induce the proprietor to offer it for sale.—
Under its present management, and hard as
the times are, it is a splendid interest.—
Sir James Graham, during the whole time Those who have the capital should avail
including
25 per cent, will hr added to the above rut
Tbo privilege of yearly advertisers is strictly J present company that some account should
limitod to their own immediate and regular busi- },c. given of the very small services perform-
ness. _ cd in the Baltic by the magnificent fleet
Professional Cards not exceeding .-.is lines, S>lo %v jp iC ]j was scn t oa t from this country.—
per annum. //-«i ,. \
Advertisements not specified as to time will bo j V ,.1, 3 'J
published till ordered out, and charged at regular j
rate
Advorti.-ument
inserted iu the Weekly pi
only will be clutronl at former rate-'.
per
TJJE WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER.
PUBLISHhi) KVERY TIICKsDAY >:VI XJN«i.
Ttn\\%—$2 00 per aintuht, z n rttriu hb, in "tier
SATl'RDAY, MARCH.
That fleet was certainly magnificent to a
■ degree, but it was very badly manned auu
worst disciplined: bn!, however, we managed
to take it to the Baltic without pilots, with
out charts, all the officers being perfectly
unacquainted with the sea and the difficul
ties of if.-; navigation, and we succeeded in
getting there iu perfect, safety. Now, the
first object I had in view waste endeavor, if •
i possible, to satisfy the wishes of the people •
i of this country. 1 was quite aware, when I
; went there, that not one-tenth part of what j
was expected, coulu be performed; hut, ne-
j vcrthcle.-s, 1 was determined to do the best .
{ I possibly could. When wc first went up,
iny view was to give Russia every chance of
sea with her fleets. I divided my
two squadrons. 1 left one in the
Censure of (lie sjni»er.«ntcmtc»t of <!ic
State Itor.tl.
Whatever other objections may be made to
the conduct of those entrusted with the
management of the State Road, wc arc very , to
certain that nothing that the Superintend- 1 ,, ee(; • ” to t
ent has done in repairing the great damage j Gulf of Finland, and the other not very far
" off-—at the Island of Gothland. However,
we have lately suffered by the loss of Etowah
Bridge can be justly censured. We arc-
sorry to see a disposition in one or two pa
pers in the State, to take captious and par
tial views of Maj. Cooper’s course in refer
ence to the increase of charge in freight
and passage money. If this had been done
simply to swell profits, already large, or
from any other motive than to reimburse
the people of Georgia for an extraordinary
outlay, made to save the community from
far greater loss, by delays and hindrances
in the business of the Road, wc would not
have a word to say. We claim to be im
partial judges in all that relates to the
administration of the lload, so far as wc are
advised of it, and wc would not hesitate to
condomn the late changes in the tariff of
charges ifwc thought them blameworthy.
The question is, should lhe public call upon
the State of Georgia, after all her generous
expenditure inbuildingup this great interest,
to suffer any further loss, when by the
division of the extra charge on freights be
tween our own people and three or four oth
er States the burthen will be trilling. Re
verse the thing, and let Georgia bear all the
loss that our Road has sustained, both by
the destruction of the Bridge and large out
lay that must have been incurred in passing
freights over tiie River, and how unjustly
this would have worked towards tiie larger
portion of the State. IIow little do our
people below ibis point, comparatively,
cpjoy of tiieadvantageof the Road? Except
in the way of clear profits that go into our
Treasury, uot one iu a hundred of the people
of lower Georgia can have it to tay that the
Stale Road lias been of the least advantage
to him. Wo do then most respectfully sub
mit to our readers iu upper Georgia if it is
just, after all they have enjoyed in tiie en
hancement in tiie value of their land, the
convenience of transportation and locomo
tion, to insist upon having all the State to
contribute in bearing an expense the advan
tage of which is really so partial. This ar
gument holds good more especially in the
matters of the extra charge of fifty cents on
passage money. As io the freights, it is
strange that Georgia newspapers sLold raise
anv objection. IIow much, for instance, of
all down freights do (leorgians have to pay?
Possibly onc-thiul, probably even less than
one-third. As iax payers, wc, for one. say
tlui t so long as you do no injustice to those
living beyond our Stale limit.-, lhe idea of
having this tax borne by others rather than
.ourselves is not a subject of much inquiet
ude. AYc say so long as we do no injustice.
This will never be done so long as v.e only
charge men just what we must pay to serve
them efficiently. As to the contract for
transhipment at the River, of course know
ing nothing, we can say nothing. For ali
that has been done the public will expect
aud get an account. But one thing is sure,
if no energetic steps had been taken to ease
the Road ol freights, and they had been al
lowed to dam up this grand channel of
trade aud travel— or agents had beer, cm-
ployed that could nut have been readv at a
day’s warning to begin the transhipment of
freights, such disorder and loss would have
Hollowed upon this state of tilings as would
have created au outcry from Savannah to
Nashville.
ti-o Russians did not think proper to come
out of their harbors. Our next object was
to go to Cronstadt and see what was to be
dene there. We went there with the assist
ance of a French squadron, to do all vc
possibly could to attack the place, should
the emergency arise. We found the thing
totally impracticable. In the first place,
the batteries were of such strength that to
attempt to attack the place would be to risk
the fleet, with the almost certainty of its
destruction, f, therefore, think 1 acted a
prudent part in the course 1 pursued. The
' I was iu the Baltic, had written to me, call
ing upon mo to beware of the scone walls—
not to risk her Majesty’s fleer—that these
stone walls were not to be trusted, and say
ing “when you ver going to the Baltic, you
were gone-ally accused of want of discretion,
but now you have pru\ v.l yourself a consum
mate commander in chief.'’
After chat came the most insulting and
degrading letters ever addressed to au officer,
and I mention this particularly, and I hope
it will go tlioughout the world, and that
Sir-James Graham vill be preueuted from
every sitting again in the administration as
the First Lord of the Admiralty. I state
it to the public, and 1 wish it to be known,
that, had 1 followed the advice ofSir James
Graham, I should most inevitably have left
the fleet behind me in the Baltic. I will
prove ic before all the world, and ifSir James
Graham Las one single bit of honor in him,
he will never take his seat at the Admiralty
until this matter is cleared up : and 1 have
no right ever to be employed again, and 1
ought to be scratched off ike navy list if I
am not telling the truth. [Cheers.] Iam
taking the first opportunity, and
the only one 1 may
statement
fectly ready
the- House of Commons, whenever they
choose to call upon me to do so.
Instruct ions Io -Mr. Bachaaan.
themselves of this excellent opportunity, to
seciirc the best Hotel in the South.
Those papers that have received the first
advertisements of Mr. Trout, will please in
sert the one we give this morning.
Offer
sell the fugitive Burns.—
Rev. Mr. Grimes, tiie colured clergymen in
Boston, stated in the Old South Chapel, a
few days ago, that he held the written con
tract of the master of the fugitive-slave
Bu rns to sell him for the sum of §900.—
Mr. Grimes also said that he liad already
raised full one-half of site required sum,and
he had no doubt that there st would be sub
scribed, and that he -hould soon have the
pleasure of introducing Burns to those who
attend that meeting.
8@i=Cliureh going has become a very ex
pensive matter in San Francisco; at a sale of
pews in Dr. Scott’s Church a few days since
several sold as high as twelve hundred dol-
perhapa ; lars, equivalent to about §22 per Sunday.—
no I may lime, ol making this ; R very much as Dow remarked, “Religion
pablw- :i = J. now <2 >, and I am per- j ias g 0t t0 ] j0 expensive a luxury, a poor
■V to answer lor my conduct before , , v
i.:au stands no kind of a chance of getting
to heaven.”
Iu the counties of Sonora and San
Hie special Washington correspondent-of ,
the New York who pretends to Francisco, Colifonna, fave hundred murders
know everything tk-u 1- pa—ing in Wash- have been committed in the last five years,
iuglon, writes: and only throe of the murderers have been
“ -Ur. Marey is preparing to Mr. Buchan- j executed under judicial sentence,
an a letter requesting to know the true ob
ject in view by the British government foi
l-entering so large a naval force in the Amer
ican waters, anu for explanation regarding
French Admiral entirely concurred in this English and I-reach interference null pur j
opinion; and wc returned thence to our affairs in South America and in the 1 aoific. j
former anchorage, and proceeded to Bomar- This letter is to anticipate a resolution about j
: to be presented to the House calling for m- j
I had written before to the English Gov- j formation upon the latter subject. The res- j
eminent, proposing to attack Boniarsund.— 1 oluthm will oe replied to by scuuing a c
i wanted no other troops to go there. 1 had
troops enough [a laugh and cheers} but tiie
French Admiral thought it more proper a to
have some. The Fiench Government sent
out ten thousand troops. 1 did not want
them. They had much better have been
employed at Sevastopol. 1 only asked for
one or two thousand men, to make the thing
more sure; but 1 could have done the thing
without them, [a laugh,) and I -wrote home
to that effect. However, the Government
sent out 10,000. It is needless for me to
say how quickly the thing was done. [ A
laugli j Bnniarsund was taken in no time
I renewed laughter]—with little loss a great
fortification was destroyed—a series of forti
fications, which extended a considers bit- dis
tance over tiio Baltic.
1 now come to a subject of greater conse
quence, and I think it my duty to make
known as 1 can do here, because I have not
a scat in Parliament. I have been very
much censured by the Government. Groat
clamor has been raised against me, and in
stead of the Government discountenancing
that clamor, they hate actually supported
it. The moment it was known in England
and France that the army intended to re
turn home, seeing that it was perfectly im-
-f the lhesideut's letter to Mr. Buchanan.
Bo not surprised to learn, at the last mo
ment, Congress voting to tiie President ten
millions and upwards ol' dollars, subject to
his demand. The question is now before
the Committee of Foreign Relations in the
House, with every prospect of a unanimous
conclusion. Marey warmly advocates the
necessity for such an appropriation, and
Senators Cass. Douglas and Mason stand
ready to lend it their aid.”
U r.cn we leaf! the shocking accounts from
the Briii h camp in the Crimea, and then of
the preparations now making, under the
war-loving Palmerston administration to
repair the disasters of the Iasi campaign,
we regard any immediate demoustiaiioitj of
hostility from England a
improbable. It trui
(For the Atlauta Daily Intelligencer.]
We hear a good deal of flippant decla
mation about the march of mind,” pro
gress and discovery, Ac. And v. e mav ad
mit there have been some discoveries, some
ad vancement in the precise sciences; vet
wc may- be admitted to doubt whether the
time may not have arrived when this
“march of mind” should not countermarch
a little and come back into the region of
common sense. But the most astonishing
j discoveries of the times are the discoveries
i made by Senator Douglas—that Moscow
was not burnt at all, but merely a few in-
j significant outbuildings and those outside of
the city-—that Napoleon and the French
! army were all mistaken as well as all the
inhabitants of the place and the Russian
■ Empire, and have remained under the delu-
1 si-.-n ever since, until Senator Douglas passed
j through a few years ago and made the dis-
j covery. In addition, a Miss Bacon, of
I England, (whether an old maid or lass in
the last degree j her teens, we tire not informed,) has latterly
ic- immense fleet is j found out that no such man as Shakspeave
iu a great measure disengaged, but her pov- i over did exist at all. Will not tiie next
er must have a wider range than this to do . draft upon our credulity- require of us to be-
us much harm, it i: kes money, and vast } lievc that no such
AVm Roue’s Recollections of John Wes
ley.
The following extract from a brief memoir
of the late William Hone, for many years a
noted infidel, is not only interesting in itself,
bat conveys a lesson which parents and
guardians would do well to meditate.—Lon
don Watchman.
The account he (William Hone) at dif
ferent times gave me of his conversion, be
gan with that of his early belief, and the
causes of it. His father was an indepen
dent dissenter, aud brought him up very
strictly, the ordinary penance for a slight
fault being to get by heart a chapter in the
Bible. On one occasion, being sent to get
his task, setting on the garret stairs he
threw the book from him down the whole
flight, saying, ‘ When I am my own mas
ter I never shall open you.’ ‘And, alas!’
said he, * I kept my word but too well; for
thirty years I never looked into it.’
* My father and his friends,’ said lie,
‘ were in the habit of speaking much anil
bitterly of John Wesley-. They frequently-
called him a child of the devil. I had a
most terrific idea of this child of the devil.
Being under six years old, I went to a dame
school to learn my book, and to be out of
harm’s way. My dame was a very staid
and pious woman; she was very fond of
me, and I was always good to her, though
naughty at home. She lived in one room,
a large underground kitchen; wo went
down a flight of steps to it. Her bed was
always neatly up in one corner. There was
a large kitchen grate, and in cold weather
always a good tire in it, by whicit sbe sat
iu an old carved wooden arm chair, with a
small round table before her, on which lay
a large Bible open on ore side, and on ttie
other a birch rod. Of the Bible she made
great use, of the rod very little; but with
fear we always looked upon it. There, on
low wooden benches, books in hand, sat
her little scholars. We all loved her, I
most of all, and I was often allowed to sit
ou a stool by her side. I was happier there
than anywhere. I think I see her now;
that placid old face with her white hair
turned up over a high cushion, and a clean
neat cap to the top of ali, all so clean, so
tidy, so peaceful. I was happy there.
‘One morning I was told I was not to
go to school, I was miserable, haughty-, dis
agreeable, cried to go to my dame; I got
up hoping to go to school; but no I might
not and they told me she was ill, and then
I cried myself to sleep. Next morning cv-
body- was so tired of that, tiie servant
was told to take me to her. As we ap
proached the house, all was still—it gave
me an awful feeling that all was not right.
The kitchen door was shut, the servant tap
ped and the girl opened it; no scholars, no
benches, the bed let down and curtained,
the little round table covered with a clean
white cloth, and on it something unintelligi
ble covered up with another, ‘llero is mas
ter U illiam—ho would come,’ said my bear
er : and a low hollow voice from the bed
said. ‘Let him stay, lie will he good. There
lay my dame ; how altered! Death on her
face, but I loved lier all the same. My lit
tle stool was placed near her bolster and I
sat down in silence.
Presently- she said to the maid, ‘ Is he
coming!" The maid went to the window
anil said ‘No.’ Again the same question
and the same auswer. Who could it be?
I wondered in silence and felt overawed.—
At last there was a double knock at the
“The hero of San Jacinto is not helping
the Know Nothings by talk like this:
Tie congratulated the North upon the en
lightened, refined, elevated state of society
which he saw. But, he asked, do you be
lieve that but for the influx of foreign la
bor, you would have these railroads?—
Would you alone have been able to build
them ? Would the people of New England
since the revolution have been able to do
the digging in making these works? [Ap
plause and laughter.] You never would
have done it in the world. [Applause.]
Well, it is done, and we are glad to see it
done. But, let us reason a little farther.—
Suppose this work had been laid out, and
uo foreigners had come to these shores.—
You would have had negroes working upon
these railroads sure as the world. It is ne
cessity-, convenience, profit, that produce
slavery. This is the great receptacle of
foreign labor, because it is cheaper to em
ploy it than to employ slaves. When for
eign labor shall in the same way reach the
South, will she retain slaves ? No, she will
construct ships—though they are no hands
at it—[laughter j—to transport the blacks
Africa, rather than have them among
The merchants of New Orleans are mov
ing in the matter of short credits. The
system of long credits has prevailed in that
city to a greater extent than in any other.
Twelve, eighteen or twenty-four months are
said to be common, and of these credits the
Crescent says:
“After the present monetary troubles have
been outlived, we trust our business men
will abandon their 3y3tem of selling at long
credits, because they can thus dispose of a
larger bill, and content themselves with
and sure profits. If, in some
is, the profits are not so great, the risks
certainly much less; and when one man
:e3 a fortuue by this gambling in luck,
one hundred lose all they are possessed of.”
We lately saw a very lino article upon
the subject of short credits in the Columbus
Enquirer, which we would have been very-
glad to insert if we could have made room
for it. It has occurred to us, that as the
public have voted so large a province to ed
itorial labor, and taken every suggestion
affecting the public weal so kindly from the
press, that much good might be done by a
united effort of the editorial corps in chang
ing the universal custom of our people of
It has been
them. These are the things we have to
Ju k , a A ,,H sI:l ' e i become unprofita- j making accounts'on long time,
ole, and the Soutn will throw ir. ofl. i , , ... . ,. ,
j not an injurious Habit only, but the- capital
Admiral Nafiek and his Sfeecii.—In i vice of the times. Merchants, the fashion
the House of Commons, on the 9th, Mr. j is to sav, must go in debt. Yet, whenever
Crawford asked the First Naval Lord of the L. n
Admiralty whether it was true-as it would ! 7 ] ° n °, ? f ^ at Chlss abstamin S
appear from a speech stated to have been ‘ h ' on * C1 ', f:dlt - 0r :ls king it sparingly, we gea-
mado recently at a public dinner by the j er ally find a man who succeeds in the long
late Commander-in-Chief in the Baltic fleet '
- Baltic’ fleet I r un. It was long ago said by Sterne that
—that the Board of Admiralty had dismiss- i nothing acted as such a powerful retrain!
ed ami censured Sir Charles Napier, and ] upari the imagination as ready cash. Mr
also what were the instructions given to the . n ail -j , ,
gallant admiral, and whether o? they were ! Randolph said that the tru0 P blI °sopher’s
such as would fetter him in the performance 1 stono was » “pay as you go." The peoul-
of his duty ?
Admiral Berkeley—No one could regret
more than I myself do the necessity the
honorable gentleman feels in putting this
question. No one can regret more than I
myself do that my old and gallant friend,
Sir Charles Napier, should have been so
highly indiscreet as to make the speech
which he is reported to have made at the
late dinner at the Mansion llonse. [Hear,
hear.] Having _ expressed these regrets, it
is my duty to inform the House that Sir
Charles Napier has not been dismissed from
his command ; and that Sir Charles Napier
was not goaded into improperly attacking
any one fortification in the Baltic ; that Sir
Charles Napier was not restricted in any
way from attacking those fortresses, if he
had so thought proper: and that Sir Charles
Napier was informed by the Admiralty that
the country expected everything that such a
fleet could perforin to be carried out and ex
ecuted against the enemy. [Hear, hear.J
l regret extremely that Sir Charles Napier
is setting so bad an example to those officers
whom lie would command I regret ex
tremely that it is my duty to stated as the
senior naval officer of the Admiralty, how
highly wc must disapprove of such conduct
in any officer in her Majesty’s service.—
[Hear, hear.J While Sir Charles Napier is
complaining of tiie want of confidence in
the Board ut Admiralty, Sir Charles Napier
should reflect, whether by such conduct—
whether by the conduct he is pursuing to
wards his superiors—lie is showing an ex
ample fitting for those who are under him
door above, and the maid said joyfully, ‘U
madame, Mr. Wesley is come ” Then I ; to follow—whether heTs abfefby 7u‘clT c‘om
was to sec the child of tne devil! I crept duct, to secure the oonfirUnna, ,\v +w.„
io the window, I could only see a pair cf
black legs with silver buckles. The door
was opened, steps came down the kitchen
stairs each step increasing my terrow, I saw
the black legs—then came in au old man,
with, as it seemed to me, the countenance
of au angel, shilling silver hair waving on
his shoulders, with a '
sums of it, to prosecute suck a plan of op
erations as now await filling up, and tho-igii
the English people are rich, ;lie English
Government i. not. We are probably ink
ing a running start of the warlike prepara
tions which are proposed, but we think
' ' ‘ ‘ ‘ oii'Im
possible at that season of the year to per- - -
form any further service without risking her theie will be ample tunc mu v> cool >
Majesty’s licet, the Government became dis- 3t ' re we _ :L 1 r9ne “ t;L English foe,
satisfied, and ordered a council of war to be nieiiai ;i Horse,
held. 1 dare say nobody ever heard vet cf Gov. Uerberc inane a presentation speech j
a council of war lighting. [Laughter.]— to the owner oi Lecomte when the honor of j
IIow ever, wc did not want that to drive us a medal was awarued to Die cuampion of
fir , the American Turf, and he-re
ton ever existed at
uy such occurrence as our Revolutiary
Truly our progress is wonderful.
' MUNCHAUSER.
V.
Washington, Feb. 27.
An eiectiuii was held yesterday in George
town for Mayor and Councilman. The
Know Nothing ticket was elected by a large
majority. “
At an election in Frederick, Md., on
Monday last, for members of Council, the
the horse’s ' Know Nothings triumphed by an oyer-
But the whole subject was oaaefully aud r °p|Y b T proxy: .. j whelming majority
- - - Gen. \v ells replied with mac.i emotion.— r Washington, Fob. 28.
He said: ^ ] The nomination of Gen. Scott as Brevet
“1 thank vou, gentlemen, for the honor
you have done uie. It is painful, nay, im
possible, for me to say anything of myself,
but the manner in which tids compliment is
paid, and the source through which I re-
thoroughly considered by a marshal of
France, a French admiral, a general of
French engineers, and by no less than three
British admirals, and they unanimously de
cided that it was perfectly impossible' to
proceed farther: and had we done so we
should have encountered the rfek of almost
cers who arc under him, if such confluence
they have in him: and whether such con
duct is becoming in an officer who assumes
to command a fleet in conjunction with our
allies the French. [Cheers.]
Sketch of the Leader oftlic Chinese Re
publican.
The Rev. J. F. Roberts, a missionary to
China, recently delivered a lecture at Lou
isville, ou the insurrection. He alluded
dame, but he took her hand and spoke so ; p art3CU TwIy to the leader and said that lie
kindly to her, and my dame seemed so glad! bad brst visited the houso of Mr. Roberts in
18-19. He was then a literaw man, enga-
>it was su-
table, and | pormuuccu oy a design to learn from Mr. R.
I saw- the bread and wine at iny father's i w,I,at -’.e knew concerning the new faith, as
chappel, and then he knelt down and pray- i teimcd the Christian roligon. AYith
ed. I do not say I prayed, but I was aw i b > u L- : to inmate of his house, a close student,
fully impressed, and quite still. Aftor it 3n j l3S attendance on worship, and
was over, he turned to me, laid his hand on : d33 ’o 0nt 3n pursing the Bible—lie remained
beautiful fair and fresh
complexion and the sweetest smile ! This
was the child of the devil! And be went
up to the Led—I trembled for my poor
person as Gen. Washing- 1 ^looked _at me and said something: she; 18d0 .- Ue was thou a literary m
i ,i i said, ‘lie is a good boy, he will be quiet - i A-'- 3;! leaching ssuool. Bis visit
,‘ d t 7t° re »”® V fV ,V0S After much talk lie uncovered the table, and : penuduced by a design to learn ft
Lieutenant General, under the late act re
viving that rank in the army has been con
firmed by the Senate in Executive session, j
Boston, Feh. 28. !
ILo Royal Mail Steamship Asia sailed to i
my head, and said ‘ God bless you my child
and make you a good man.’ AYas this a
child of the devil ? I never saw Air. AVes-
ley again. My dame died; but from that
hour I never believed anything my father
said or anything I heard at Ills chappel. 1
feit, though I could not have expressed it,
Low wiekod enmity was between Christians,
and so lost all confidence in 1113- father, and I : lC t °* m - s
in all his religious friends, and so in all v e- brobr ‘ ;ll “
ligion.’ ' 1
over two months. Then he presented hint-
self as an applicant for baptism and church
membership, hut at the suggestion of one of
the members, deferred being baptized until
some meant of livelihood could be obtained.
This was necessary, as instant lie left his
native religion, he would lose his caste.
After that Mr. Roberts heard nothing fur-
’ - 1 ' pupil until! the insurrection
Ci
> =]' 5
if men
last At-
Tv
One of the <h got
iantu It'jnihtiani says of the
mice Convention: “ What in the world arc
they there for, but for their own and their
country’s good.”
About as unsophisticated ami green, itiis,
as the speech Queen Caroline, when fresh
from the Dutch, made to the crowd that
mobbed her carriage: “ AVhat v.u dint, wc
come for? For your goots—for all 3'our
goots.”
SsaT AYc understand that Viokhousc, alia;
Pool, whose arrest for negro stealing, we
engineers,
er council of war, in order to ascertain
whether French generals and English ad
mirals would abandon their own opinion
and adopt that of the Admirably-. The
French generals felt insulted at die propos
al. Had 1 been desirous to consult the
opinion of the brigadier general of English
j engineers, and to give up my own opinion,
j still, when the ocher members of riie council
had once giuen their opinion, iliey thought
it was necessary to hold another council,
and the French admiral also very properly
refused to join in such a step, lie said, "1
have already given iny- opinion, and it is not-
the sentiments of any general of engineers,
whether he lie English, French, German, or
of any other country-, which will make me
change that opinion, uii the subject of an
attack purely naval in its character.” The
g rvermont at home was not satisfied with
that. The French general oi engineers send
another report home, still more ba;c than
the first, and it i.-- unnecessary for me to say
that we nil concurred in condemning that
opinion also, and the French army returned
home, and 1 believe, and have no hesitation
in saying that had they gone up the Gulf of
Finland again, instead of returning home,
our fleet would not have been totally- lost.
Not satisfied with this, however, I went
up, determined to have another survey of
that fortification, which is one of the stron
gest in Europe. This was in the month of
September, and that month in the Baltic is
equal in severity io the month of Xovmber
here, and among the Channel Islands. I
sent home a report of the survey 1 had made
after great care and deliberation, aud with
the intention of doing all that man could do
it possible, te satisfy the expectations of the
people <>t England. At the moment it was
it was
Lie, time
lowed Lecom
feet of the v;
defected and
iibii. ..
house
i . _ . . . p,ts ;
- iter ike finite stake I fol- for 2d volume of Thirty Wears iu Benate, j
, . ike liable to -I'i. the ef- which were in the library, have been lost ;
I,: up It.:-.-,: I Annul Jliin; ; tlm flames haring paid no respect to the la-
mclanchoiy. ! 10 said: - Air. i box-of years.
ht.
A new Anaesthetic Agent.—Professor
Dugas, in the Medical College of Georgia,
a few days since had to extirpate a large
tumor from the hack weighing about ten
pounds. He surrounded the base of the tu
mor with the freezing mixture for four or
five minutes, which so obtunded the sensi-
bflity of the parts, the operation was per-
oirmed with comparatively little pain.
r.ce f n- l in the
the Worst abused
AVells, you have the best
world, aud he lias been
itorso in the world.’ To console 1 im, 1 re
plied, * Wc v! ; l try 15m agoix. Hark.’ To
this he sail. • li \..ii can get Ah to ride
Lecomte he will beat Lexington, cerinin."'—
Therefore, gentlemen, for the gray old man,
1 will give you ten-fold thanks, and ho will
appreciate this honor as the _ „
of hi, life : and I will accept these medal-
as a pledge that on future fields, as hereto
fore, Lecomte shall always give a fair and
honorable contest.”
A dispatch from AVashington .-ays.
“It is an error to suppose that the French
Spoliation claims arc effectually smothered
by the veto. If the House should pass the
•Senate bill for the establishment of a Court
Thomas Kcutoit avid tlie Baptists. j
A Texas correspondent of the A. AV. Bap |
tist, says:
Some time since the Rev. Daniel Baker, |
ol the Presbyterian Church, in a sermon on |
the Republican form of that Church, refer- i
red to Ex-President -Jefferson as proof. If
Elder Baker made the statement, as I un- •
derstand he did in the town of Huntsville, 1
Texas, and lie has the testimony, we should :
Louisville, Feb. 28. ni-du. i ! ,c §^ ad 30 sec 3 b 3n connection with tiie fol- j is a singular document to come from 5 him.
Tne river is closed above. Navigation j lu 7i n o> lls made by- tiio Rev. Dr. Fishback, 1 AVhy, he professes to stand side by side of
suspended. To day is tiie coldest of the . Ecxiugton, Ky., to the editor of the Buj>- j the ultra Southern State Rights platform of
season. j list Guardian, Richmond, Ya. “The fol-! the 1798 ATrginia and Kentucky resolutions!
New Orleans, Feb °7 lowing circumstance which occurred in the j But will the State Rights
The tow-boat Thomas McDaniel exploded I State of Virginia, relative to Mr. Jefferson, j stand by the side of him ?
Senator Wilson’s Better.
Henry AYilson’s letter on “ State Rights ’
men consent to
, —w v^j/.vuvu , .. „ Let us see. lie
her whole six boilers yesterday below the ) v . as ae toitcd te me by Elder Andrew Trib- i went to AYashington with vows ofur.com-
kiliintr seven net-sous and inimdnrr ; ,3iC > a ^° at S1X years ago, who since died j promising hostility to Slavery on his lips ;
city, killing seven persons and injuring i ,1 a00at six y<
glory others, and somewi at damaging two vessels i , en ninety-two or three years old. An-, at the Burlingame lecture he "unequivocally
in tow. The boat is a complete wreck. j dic ''. Fi-iLiL>le was tne pastor of a small j endorsed, 1st, repeal the Nebraska bill: 2d,
iar moral influence and effects of long
credit are so well understood among us that
they have become a sort ox stock in trade
that tho skillful so well understand how to
use. The crafty merchant will connive at
imprudence in the solvent purchaser and
use all his ingenuity in decoying the wary
trader upon his books. ’Tis very singular,
too, to see what a complete transformation
is effected in the character of almost any one
who, after trading for cash, trusts himself
to the infatuation of unrestricted credit.—
Prodigal men are oftentimes made to think
more than twice before they part with means
that they- have in hand, and even the most
skittish and niggardly tire sometimes hard
to convince that the twenty-fifth day of De
cember next will over overtake them. AVhat
now would be the condition of every por
tion of Georgia were the creditor part of the
community to press for immediate pay
ment? AVliero would tneu stand, who have
been purchasing negroes at §12,00to §15,00,
with fair prospects ahead, if now they were
called on for payment, with cotton—and a
short crop at that—at present prices?—
Farmers, above all men, should pay as they
go, and be the lenders if there needs must
bo borrowers. But after some experience,
that lias left scars on our memory, wc do not
hesitate to say that the community that is
made to “ pay as it goes ” is very fortunate.
Because this thing is not so in cotton grow
ing countries wc think is the true cause why
so few, comparatively, to the number en
gaged in the business of cotton raising, ever
grow rich at it. It takes, as the popular
phrase has it, twelve months to make a crop
of cotton, and consequently overtrading on
the faith of a crop not above ground is the
easiest thing in the world. It cannot bo
that cotton producing is more uncertain or
less remunerative than other branches of
industry, for at 8 cents per pound, or say
three good sized bales for §100, we had
rather raise cotton for a livelihood than
trust to any other business accessible to men
of ordinary means.
A v e have been somewhat surprised at the
marked difference between this city, in re
gard to the extension of credits, and the
lower portions of the State. And, so far
from regarding the custom here as hard or
unpalatable, we only regret, for the sake of
all concerned, that the rule is not more
stringent. AVc arc nut sure, however, that
the custom of short credits did nut begin
along the wrong line. For men must eat,
whether they can “ down with the dust” or
not, while people can wait for cashmere
shav.-ls, ten dollar handkerchiefs, and bro
cade silks, at least we know that husbands
can. AYc, for one interested party at least,
can say that, until times press with some
more mercy, we should be pleased to see
the leader of fashion among the men of At
lanta, (whoever he is,) stoutly set evil
tongues at defiance by walking the streets
in a seedy suit, and we should then not care
the snap of a finger for all those ill manner
ed cards that stare at us from every other
door ir. the town—“ Don’t ask us for credit
if you please.”
The Capital of Neck ask a.—Omaha City,
the present capital of the newly organized
territory of Nobraska, is described as con
taining from sixty to eighty houses, . located
on a rising ground on the banks of tho Mis
souri river. The government house, occu
pied by- the Governor and Council, is a two-
story brick, and the principal hotel is also
two-stories with a wing, tho rest of the
houses being of all sorts and sizes. In Au
gust last there was but one small hut in this
place, but now it contains taverns, stores,
shops, dwellings and a government fully or
ganized in all its departments.
83L.AA r e are informed by the Rome Cour
ier that a gentleman from Pennsylvania is
about to establish in that city a large shop
for manufacturing the various kinds of ma
chinery- from a steam engine down to mill
irons and gearing. There will ho connected
with the establishment an iron foundry.—
The proprietor has twenty thousand dollars
worth of machinery- with which to furnish
his shop, and lie proposes to do business on
a large scale.
Miss Catherine Hays reaped a rich Har
vest in Sydney ere she left that city for Mel
bourne—some £7,000 from nine concerts,
besides presents of plate and jewels. Her
visit was one continued triumph—tho “Queen
of England could hardly have received mure
attention.” Music evidently hath very
powerful charms at the Antipodes.
British Constitution Attacked
One of the most remarkable features ot
the new position of tho statesmen and press
of England, growing out of events connect
ed with the existing war, is the fierce attack
upon the far-famed British Constitution.—
Taken in connection with the afflicting re
cord with which our readers are already too
familiar, it is indeed one of the most signifi
cant events of the present day. It shows
not only that, however long justice may be
deferred, the day of reckoning is sure a last
to come, but also, that the only safe founda
tion of a Government, is the people and
equality of political rights. Hear the Lun-
don Times, speaking of the recenc heart
rending calamities:—
“There is no reason to suppose that Eng
land would, have fared better in other possi
ble hands. The result is failure ! failure !
failure!—and the cause of the failure is the
system.”
Again, alluding to the “dead-lock” to
which things had come, the 'Thunderer
To
Louisville, Feb. 27. ; Baptist Church which held its monthly;
The river is falling fast. AYcather clear i nle< ]tiiigs a short distance from Air. Jeffer-
and cold. Navigation is still open below, eight or ten years before the
The river is closed at St. Leu is. : Amenean Revolution. Air. Jefferson atten-
~ - — j Jed the meetings of the church for several
A Ch allenge to the South.—The owner j mouths in succession, and after one of them
ot me famous race horuo Wild Irishman ; asked Elder Tribble to go home and dine
nas challenged Lecomte, or any other South- j with him. with which he onmrJiod
repeal die Fugitive Slave Law; 2d, abolish
Slavery in the District of Columbia ; 4th,
abolish the inter-state Slave Trade: next he
would declare that Slavery should not spread
to one inch of the territory of the Union ;
and he has again and again given his pledge
to the doctrine of “ no more Slave States?”
Will the State Bights men who stand on the
resolutions, go with him ou
Tins is the terf. AVe have
that indicates any change
iv Senator, and we predict
questions he will vote just
elf would vote if he were
iroin
Tun Ten
states that aecordii
from AYasliinp
a powerful oil!
the i'resilient
The X. Y. Hnuld
its special advices
there is a probability that
vill be made to grant to
i’.screuumirv fund < l ten
noticed a few days since, is in a fair wav of re I'° r led that Sevastopol was tak
being proved to be a thorough going “Aim- ;ll ?° rt ^. ked ’,“^ hy does /1 n ( S t Adn, f l J Xa J». cr
fact it was asked, “AVhy do you not go and
take Moscow?” [ Laughter. 1 Now, I did
millions in view
which may arise
gre.-s, especially
with Spain.
A Bitter fi.m
§20.50. Las been
York, from Col
distributed ainuii
of the possible exigencies
during the recess of Con-
in a few uf our relations
reputation of the
thinks AVild Irishman
match for the best of t
ance, last season, o
beating Red Eye, Berry. Granita, Selinei
.’•laid of Orleans Gratli, Ac., in the best time
ever made on the Island, mark him as a
elebrated nags, and
litf'e more than a
etn. His porform-
the National Course,
m
the best plan o f Gocernment for the Aincri
can Colonies. This was several years be-1 " Rt Oku and tiie Collins Steaji Ship
fore the Declaration of Independence. ‘ Lin e.—ifessro. Editors : — Gentlemen :—
Harmony of n»c Democracy. | Your AVashingfon correspondent is in error
The Southern Banner, alluding to the fa- j when he states that I have ehangedmy opin-
vor with which the prospective return of j 3011 ( ls the compensation now paid the
Ex-Governor Cobb to Congress, is universal-! Collins steamers. I voted in 1852 against
hi
i;.st extraordinary horse, and warrant the j ly- received by the Democratic press, makes j increasing their compensation from §19,600
igb estimate placed on him by his owner, j the following very just and
received in tl
minis, Missisippii, t
the lieodv colored
adoring
of New
.'ir. James irvin.
Feb. 28
Conv ention today at this place re-nominat-
cl by acclamation the entire St
State
linat-
e State ticket of 1
rcll man,” 011c of an organized gang, uf ne
gro stealers extending from Florida to Ten
nessee. Immediately after his arrest our
energetic Alayor dispatched Deputy- Mar
shal Ilunnicutt to Tennessee to follow up
his trail and find what manner of man lie
is. AVe were shown a letter yesterday from
the Debuty Marshal in which he informs tiie
Mayor that he had succeeded in collecting
evidence of said Vickhouse’s villainnics to
not expect that the Admirality would join
in that clamor. I say, I certainly never ex
pected that they would be so mean and de
spicable [a laugh, and hear, hear,] as to
join in that clamor, in order to bring odi
um upon a naval officer who had done the
sons in that city.
Luted by slaves ii
cents up to two ci
The Journal ot
letter was enclosed,
remarks:
rfjord, Feb. 28.—The AVhi„
State is again an united and harmonious
party. Past differences and dissensions are
;.t year. I forgotten and buried. The spirit of jealousy
^ , The convention passed a series of resolu- I an< ^ suspicion has given way to the more
lhe money was c.ntri- J {j uns endorsing tiio American principle, in- noble spirit of confidence, and we present
11 sums ranging from five eluding protection to American industry, dic picture of an united brotherhood, eo-op-
ollars. and declaring that the|repeal of the Missouri i er ati:ig in the maintenance of our time-hon-
'(.'t.-minsive, to which the cumprumise had put an end to all eompro- • ore< ^ principles. And surely there never
followin'* U1 ises on the slavery question. Also, ex- 1 " as a time when the union and harmony of
‘ •" pressing a determination to resist-, by all ^ le Democratic party was more important
. . . constitutional means, the admission of any : ^ lan present. All other parties, factions
“In several points of view this is a very more slave States: denouncing Senator fragments arc busily engaged in uniting
. . . _ interesting affair, -t shows a becoming Toney’s course in the U. S. Senate; con- dle31 ‘ discordant elements for the purpose of
best in Ins power to bring honor aud credit 1 sympathy between colored men North and detuning the veto of the river and harbor "’arring upon the integrity and principles
to ms country, j Hear, hear, hear.] AVliat South, it shows that southern siavc-s have and French spoliation bill; approving tho i of the Democratic party. 'AVe must ho pre-
‘Bu I do? I sent home a clear and detailed money to spare, when tree colored men, and Connectieot prohibition law ; and declarin'* : P ared to meet and defend them ; and in our
secure him a place in the penitentiary dm- ^unt to the Admirality, stating to them ; free white men,-too, are in distress for the ; t ] ia t President Pierce’s administration ; bonest judgment, that preparation is well
ing the balance of his davs It, kpluuk fhnt ni ^ °P in . ,on ‘ i > and what appliances were ne- necessaries of life. 1 entitled to little respect. , nigh consummated, when we willhavein-
, i’-'ii - “ .t-t...! ggk, The new county Jail of Polk eoun- j Baltimore, March 1.—Flour firm at §8 -‘ 5 ul ’ ed un i QD ‘and harmony in oar own ranks.
ty, and which cost §3,500, was set fire to on ! G2\ for Howard Street, and §8.25 for City 1 i2h,$S*. th !v Samo 8 P ir „ it ' vhic ^
j, u« muv v > » lVTill« .toll -1,7, i exhibited m the t-ase of Gov. Cobb be felt
Sunday morning the i8th. and entirely con- , { H rau ?L duU - of white AVheat
, „„ . .... , , , . o , at fil.lJf. Corn—we note sales of white
v - r?L a : n ? S | at 86@87 cents, and yellow at 88 cento
Washington, March 2.—The U. S. Treas-
_ _ appropriate re- j P ei ‘ trip. At tho last session I voted to give
marks: j notice to Collins & Co., to terminate the
‘ It indicates that the Democracy of the present contract. I cast the same vote at
' ” ’ ’ ’ ‘ the present session. . So far from bavin
.. days, ai seems mat . cessary in order to take Swenbog. You will
v iCkhousc has lately had six negroes in pos- j not expect me to state what these opinions
session two of which are here in custody, were. ^ [Hear, hear, hear.] Suffice it to say
and we hear that two at least of the ne-roes i dlat the , re were two .opinions given, of which
, i c ... ., ° ; 1 tnought was certain to obtain su
were stolen from near the 1 lorida line. - - -
Boston, Feb. 28.—AY in, Jackson, former
ly a member of Congress from this State,
and a leading fxee-soifer, died yesterday.
_ success, the
other certain of insuring destruction. AVliat
did the Admirality do? Now mention this
particularly and plainly, in order that there
may be no mistake whatever—because if tho
Gonenunent have the least spirit about
before, been received by the Inferior Court.
The Republican says “ it was beyond all
doubt set a fire by some incendiary, as no
fire Had been about it for several weeks.
uver’s statement for February, shows that
tho total ^amount in the Treasury, sub
ject to draft, is $23,500,000.
exhibited in the case of Gov. Cobb be felt
in all our nominations and elections, and
the October elections will add another to
the brilliant triumphs of the Georgia De
mocracy.
Senator AYilson, of Massachusetts, has
agtiin, for the third time lately, “ defined
his position,” on the slavery question. The
following is given as a brief programme of
his principles and intentions, as avowed du
ring the late exciting debate in the Senate,
on Friday night last. lie wishes the fugi
tive act repealed, slavery in tho District°of
Columbia abolished, the AVilmot proviso es
tablished ; ail new slave States excluded;
all connection between the general govern-
meat and slavery abolished, and agitation of
slavery continued until these objects are ac
complished. He understands these views
to correspond with those of the Know Noth
ings as a party, so far as they have taken
any position on the question.
no time fur diffidence, or oven for
too much scruple. AVc never were in a
worse scrape. AYc have lived since tho
peace on the military reputation we gained
in the Peninsula and at AVaterlou : we have
now lost itin half a year. AYc have upheld,
till now, the efficiency of constitutional
Government, till absolutism itself was al
most converted. This, too, breaks down,
evidently to the intense satisfaction of nu
merous neighbors who have never loved or
trusted us, and who now affect to find their
suspicions and dislikes more Hutu ju-iif.d.
But whose fault is it if tiie army, ii Gov
ernment, if the constitution appears I■. give
way, and, like a cumbrous and ill-adjusted
machine, to snap, to bend, to twist, to crum
ble under trial ?
is singular enough, that this fierce at-’
is made upon that very feature of tiie
British system, which distinguishes it from
most other Constitutional Governments, and
which has so long been the Englishman’s
proudest boast—we mean the ari-cocratic
feature. In one place, the Times say s, “the
English army is being made one vast job,
the plaything of tiie aristocracyin anoth
er, it charges the Government anu House of
Commons, with selling themselves to tiie
aristocracy, and, though the arislocrucv, to
their enemies. Still another article contains
tho following very significant sentence:
“ If the British people does not see tho
ultimate tendency of all this, we will ven
ture to enlighten their innocence. Thc-c
are the steps by which constitutional nations
sink into despotism. They are rapidly lead
ing us toward that very state of. thi
*-■ V-J u-nu.u l title T \tS. y D-AtiiV V'*. l
which in France has been held to justify the
Imperial usurps lion.”
This is pretty plain talk for a paper cir
culating in almost every family of Great
Britain, and supposed to represent the;:-
opinions. It may well ho considered one of
the signs of the times. But it is not confin
ed to the press alone. Is is heard iu Parlia
ment, and if we may judge from authentic
accounts, it originated with and constitutes
the staple conversation of the people. Thu
arrogance, the in competency, and the injus
tice of the aristocracy is the cry- every where,
and meuc ■ineneickelitphursiu is vvritteu up m
the oligarchical polity. If the present war
shall accomplish no uthcr good, it promises
at least to break down an oppressive system,
which has long been a slander upon consti
tutional government.?, and restore equal by
and their long lost rights to the various peo
ple of Britain and Iter dependencies.—Sa
vannah Georgian.
changed my opinion, observation and addi-
Prolia’jle Iufauticide.
AYc understand that on Thursday last
some boys being at play in the neighborhood
of a house, in tho outskirts of this city,
which in times past has bornearather doubtful
character, one of their[dogs attracted their at
tention by scratching under a log, and upon
examination the skeletons of two children
were found wrapt in a small piece of flan-
tioiial information has confirmed its propri- j nel. One of the boys having told the cir-
ety. The compensation greatly exceeds, in
m y judgment, the value of tho services
rendered.
JAMES L. ORR.
AVasliington, February 24, 1855.
“ Piling ur the Agony.”—At a trial the
other day, at Sherborne, Sergeant AVilkins
called to the jury, in tho most touching
terms, by their verdict to restore the
S risoner to the bosom of his family, and
welt on the effect tho result of the
trial would havo, for happiness or mis
ery, on those who arc so dear to him.
AVhen the learned Sergeant sat down, wip
ing his forehead after the effort, he was a
little surprised to learn this touching allu
sion to wife and children had been on be
half of a bachelor!
W^T Jullien was giving concerts at Ox
ford, Eng., at last accounts
Sale of Daniel AYebster’s Homestead.
—The homestead farm of Daniel AVebster,
in Franklin, New Hampshire, was sold for
$16,000, on Thursday last. Rufus L. Tay,
of Boston, was the purchaser.
eunistauce to a citizen, he visited the spot
aud found the facts substantially as stated
above. lie says the skeletons were of new
born infants.
Futlier by tiie St. JLouis.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Daily- News, says that Mr. Suole consider.-
the scheme for the purchase of Cuba euin-
pletely withdrawn.
The English Parliament re-assembled on
the IGth. Hammond, under Secretary of
Foreign Affairs, accompanies Lurd John
Iiusseil to A'ienna.
The Duke of Genoa is dead.
Despatches frouVaglan of the 27th report
that the days arc fine but the nights are cold.
Hats are being got up with much difficulty.
The India mail has arrived with dates
from Bombay to the 10th January. An
insurrection had broken out iu Cabul, and
12,000 Persians were besieging Bentie Cc-
brasi. A murderous conflict had taken
place and the beseiged had offered a fierce
resistance.
The French government has offered to
raise in France ten to twenty five thousand
men for the service of the English govern
ment, half the number to be ready in fifteen
days. The English government is disposed
to entertain the proposition
It is reported that the Czar has issued a
proclamation, dated 12tli Febuary, calling
tho entire male population under arms.—
An additional Russian force of 300,000 men
was to be sent to the Crimea.
The latest dates from Sevastopol was to
the 31st January. The weather was grow
ing milder.
Movement of the Allies.—The N. Y.
Herald has a report, brought by the George
Law, that they were daily expecting in the
Pacific a French squadron of five large ves
sels, under Admiral Fournichon, despatch
ed it is believed, to effect, if possible, the
reduction of Potropaulowski. It will be
recollected that an English expedition against
that place was repulsed by the Russians af
ter a conflict of several days.
Philadelphia, March 1.—A fire broke out
last night in Chesnut street, below Seventh,
which consumed’ the building known as
Fisher’s Block, occupied as stores. Loss.
A Mayor Circumvented.—The Mayor of
Detroit determined, a few days .-ince, to put
a stop to the driving of fast horses through
the principal streets of that city. So. In
Company with a posse of policemen, he
walked deliberately through tho middle of
Jefferson avenue, a beautiful wide street,
which is generally the course for trotters.
Arrived at the end of his promenade the
worthy Mayor, was fatigued, and gladly ac
cepted the invitation of a gentleman to take
a seat in his cutter. No sooner was he
seated than the horse broke into a 2.40 pace
and tho conservator of public morals found
himself flying along at a speed quite des
tructive of anything like dignity, and enti
rely subversive of municipal discipline.—
The proprietor and driver of tho sleigh mado
the most strenuous efforts to stop his horse,
and pulled upon the lines till his nrmos were
lame, which everybody knows is the way to
stop one of our American trotters, but the
animal could not be induced to tarry, and
dashed on. The other fast ones inthe street,
seeing the Mayor set the example, at once
ontred into the contest, and a merry time
was the result. The owner of the horse
has since extreme regret that his animal
should have behaved so badly and threatens
estimated at $40,000. The fixe originated to sell him, while the mayor has not since
from a defective fltue. | been seen promenading the evenue.