Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

m WEDNESDAY Mar. 14. Mr. Barclay, of Adam’s & Co’s. Express will please accept our thanks for valuable papers of the latest dates. Cheap as Dirt—More Land tor the Bfg- «»■»• This is a great country. We speak of seas and continents as a mere bagatelle and throw away by a single bill, without giving it a thought, a domain a slice of which would be enough to set all Europe by the ears. Every man in the Union that has “ been to the wars” since 1790, can now claim his 160 acres. The General that gave command—the subs that repeated them— the Boldier that carried them out—the man —that drove the wagons as the bullies went to their work, are all to be paid, and paid over again we don’t know how often. From the debates or the apology for one that was allowed on this vital measure, (the last land bill,) we must believe that all that was thought of was setting the trap to catch votes for the friends, or rather the promot ers, of this wasteful and prodigal measure. Now-a-days to propose one of these largcs- es is to carry it through, for so many arc scattered throughout our bounds who are so directly to be bcnefitted by such donations, that hardly any one dares to stand up against such legislation. The Romans in their decline opened public corn cribs and got up vast spectacles for the people and at the public expense. The people were tlicu considered to be the soldeiry and only the soldeiry. It is getting to be the case here, and if ours becomes essentially not only a military but a bucanneering people, the pol icy of our Govcrumeut has induced and fos tered this spirit most pertinaceously. Let us test the principle involved in this public charity. Would the people of Geor gia hold their publ’C servants in Congress guiltles were they to vote a donation of §200 in money to all the soldiers who had been in any war service since 1790 ? The bare proposition sounds like corruption. Yet where is the difference between a gift in money and a gift in money’s worth ? Rut the ugly feature in this matter is that those men only who do military service arc made partakers in their country’s gratitude, and in this substantial proof of it. What man who has served the Government in a civil appointment ever gets a slice of the public land? Let him labor like a horse for years in the humble yet most essential post of civil duty and you never iiear him spoken of when millions of fat acres arc to be scram bled for. The soldier, the man who fights, fills the public eye, aud fills his pockets, too, at the public expense. Raise the pay —make the contracts between the people and the army more liberal, if they are not enough so, and let men look to t lie contracts of enlistments for their pay, and take the glory and “ fuss and feathers ” that always follow upon the steps of a campaign, as per quisites Our public land property we do regard a serious trouble, and it is likely to grow more and more so, till the trouble is to become greater than the profit. These donations of laud, unless made after the Georgia plan of the lottery, must be partial, and by making the discriminations in favor of the military, as has always been our policy, we arc gradually getting to pre fer the claims of this class of community, aud soon we will come to do as is now fash ionable in Russia—not only prefer the mili tary, but postpone every other class to that. There was a bitter irony in Mr. Webster’s reply to the serenaders in Washington, when they called to claim his ratification of Gen. Scott’s nomination—“Alas, gentle men,” said lie, “1 am only an humble civil ian.” And in the public estimation, the clumsiest son of blood and thunder that gets into a fight is a cherished pet in comparison with the statesman, however laborious and serviceable his life may have been. We would much prefer to see the public lands given to the States in which they lie, and have them managed by the local legislatures, than have this property go into the hands of private speculators. Here is truly the end of the matter at last. As to any division among the States of the proceeds of the public lands, we have come to regard that as an obsolete idea. There will never again be any such thing as proceeds of the public lauds, unless it be from the sale of the rem nant left in the older States. llritisli Periodicals. The following interesting article giving a concise history of the origin and charac ter of the leading British periodicals, is cop ied from a late number of the Philadelphia Banner. These works are republished by Messrs Lcnard Scott & Co., New 4 ork, to whom,those wishing to subscribe for any or all of them should send their orders.— For terms &c., readers are directed to out advertising columns: Many of our readers are aware, we doulit not of the circumstances under which, the Edinburgh Review was started, by Sydney Smith, Jeffrey, nml Brougham. We need not advert to the won derful excitement which was produced in the po litical world by the belli and unsparing articles, which appeared in the early numbers of the young giant which, at one time, seized on the abuses and evils in civil affairs, and hold them up in glowing and indignant terms before the nation: at another time most dogmatically laid down its canons of criticism with an “ex cathedra'’ authority, and, so far as the literary aspirants of the day fell short, or come up to the standard, the lash or the nod of approbation was awarded. Very speedily “the Edinburgh” was felt to be a power in the coun try, and as it advocated the political views of the Whig party, it soon received all the support that Lord Holland, Lord Urey, and the heads of that party, in both Houses of Parliament aud the coun try gentry could bestow. To meet and neutralize tho influence of “the Edinburgh,” “the Quarterly” originated in London, and it forthwith appeared in all tho might which the Tory party could infuse into its pages. Thus, the two great organs of the opposing parties in Great Britain entered on their career. The Edinburgh, which demanded Politi cal Reform and Catholic Emancipation, and pro claimed itself as the advocate of progress, was in debted for tho brilliant and slashingartieles which, at times, arrested even the attention of the Halls of Legislation, to the pens of such men as Jeffrey, Smith, Brougham, Mackintosh, Napier, and Ma caulay. The Quarterly, under the editorial care of Gifford, who was aided by Southey, Scott, LoSk- hart, Croker, Wordsworth, Lord Mahon, Dr. Mill- man, and others of equal lame, maintained a con servative position, defending the Church Estab lishment, opposing Catholic Emancipation and Parliamentary Reform. Both Itcvieim were char acterized remarkable cmiucnco in their literary articles, the contributors being men of profound thought, cultivated understanding, and conversant with every department of science and literature. To secure the services of such writers, tho most liberal provision was made—twenty guineas a sheet was the recognized rate of payment, and very frequently fifty and even one hundred pounds, we believe, were given for certain articles. It would have been strange if Reviews, sustained fiy such liberality, and such a wealth of talent aud learning, did not produce a corresponding r. tilt on the public mind. . A third party iu the country, desirous ol : - ug represented in the world of letters led to the estab lishment of the Westminster Review. The Ultra Liberal or Radical party, being opposed out and out to the Quarterly, wore dissatisfied with the middle position which the Edinburgh occupied, and hence a Radical Review was projected. Dis union in their councils led to the commencement of two organs instead of one, viz: the London Rcviow and Westminster Review. Much about the same time, and in consequence of the greater intercourse which prevailed between Grcut Britain and tho Continent, a desire was expressed to pos sess a first class organ, to keep the English mind informed on tho progress of Continental literature, just as the required organ was about to be com menced, tho dissensions of publishers and others led to tho appearance of “Tho Foreign Review and “Tho Foreign Quarterly.” In less than two ▼ears these periodicals amalgamated, and iu pro cess af time tbo Radical party felt themselves un- mmI to the weight of sustaining tho London and Westminster Reviews. The latter two were unit ed under the name of the London and Westmin ster Review, and a a few years ago the publishers •ud supporters of the Foreign Quarterly consent ed that their periodical should be swallowed up by “the Westminster,” and thus it has come to pass that four Reviews are concentrated in this single name. The character of the Westminster is well known. Radical in politics ns Roebuck, Mill, Bowi ing, and others would have it, it has been as Unitarian as the Martineaus, and writers of then- school, could desire. At one time influenced by Germanism, at another by English skepticism, al ways conducted with talent, and often replete with talent, and often replete with scientific articles of profound research, it has been a faithful servant of its party, and well worth watching by the friends of Revealed truth. The great movement which led tho Free Church out of the Churoh of Scotland, was instrumental also in originating the North British Review. The object of its founders was to raise it to as high a literary eminence as had been obtained by the Edinburgh or the Quarterly; and, instead of limiting its articles to pure theology, its staff of contributors were to sweep over the whole circle of scientific truth, and to gather treasures out of nil departments of ancient and modern lore. The names of Chalmers, Sir David Brewster, Drs. Hanna, Cunningham, Candlish, Hamilton, Gordon, Buchanan, Isaac Taylor, Professor Fras er, McCosb, and others, are associated with the eminent success of this Jterieic, the appearance and prosperity of which has had a remarkable reflex influence on tho Edinburgh of a most desir able kind. Of Blackwood's Magazine, known all the world over, read by political foes as well as by political firiends, and esteemed by each alike, even when dissented from as to its conclusions, nothing need be said—but that among Magazines it is wbat the Quarterly is among Reviews, in religion and politics. In classic literature, history, travels, antiquities, biography, poetry, criti- tism. fiction, philosophy, reviews, 4:c., it stands, and ever lias stood, without a parallel. Even in this country, where its Toryism is opposed every political sentiment of a Republican people, yet its sterling tal ent and seductive pages have always secured for it a large band of admiring readers. The Bounty Laud BUI. The following is an official and correct copy of the Bounty Land Bill which passed the House of Representatives, Wednesday last, having previously passed the Senate. We publish it for the information of those who are interested: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That each of the surviving commissioned and non commissioned officers, musicians, and pri vates, whether of regulars, volunteers, ran gers, or militia, who was regularly muster ed into the service of the United States, and every officer, commissioned and non-commis sioned, seamen, ordinary seamen, marine, clerk, and landsmen in the navy, in any of the wars in which tins country has been en gaged since seventeen hundred and ninety, and each of tho survivors of the militia or volunteers, or State troops of any State or Territory, called into military service, and regularly mustered therein, and whose ser vices have been paid by the United States, shall he entitled to receive a ccrtifiicate or warrant from the Department of the Inte rior for one hundred and sixty acres of land; and where any of those who have been so mustered into service and paid shall have received a certificate or warrant, he shall he entitled to a certificate or warrant for such quantity of land as will make in the whole, with what he may have heretofore received, one hundred aud sixty acres to each such person having served as aforesaid. Provid ed, The person so having been in service shall not receive said land warrant, if it shall appear by the muster rolls of his regi ment or corps that he deserted, or was dis honorably discharged from service. Provided, further, That the benefits of this section shall he held to extend to wagon- masters and teamsters who may have been employed under the direction of competent authority in time of war. in the transporta tion of military stores and supplies. Sec. 2. And he it further enacted, That in case of the death of any person who, if living, would he entitled to a certificate or warrant as aforesaid under this act, leaving a widow, or if no widow, a minor child or children, shall he entitled to receive under the provisions of this act, if now living;— Provided, That a subsequent marriage shall not impair the right of any such widow to such warrant if she he a widow at the time of making her application : And, provided further, That those shall he considered mi nors who arc so at the time this act shall take effect. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in no case shall any such certificate or war rant he issued for any service less than four teen days, except where the person shall actually have been engaged in batttlc, and unless the party claiming such certificate or warrant shall establish his or her right thereto by recorded evidence of said service. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That said certificates or warrants may be assign ed, transferred, and located by the warran tees, their assignees, or their heirs at law, according to the provisions of existing laws regulating the assignment, transfer, and lo cation of bounty-land warrant. See. 5. And lie it further enacted, That no warrants issued under the provisions of this act shall be located on any public lands except such as shall at the time he subject to sale at either the minimum or lower graduated prices. Sec. 0. And he it further enacted, That the registers and receivers of tho several land offices shall he severally authortoed to charge and receive for their services in lo cating all warrants under the provisions of this act the same compensation or per cent- age to which they are entitled by law for sales of the public lands, for cash, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. The said compensation to be paid by the assignees or holders of such warrants. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act, and all the boun ty land laws heretofore passed by Congress, shall he extended to Indians, in the same manner and to the same extent as if the said Indians had been white men. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the officers of the revolutionary war, or their widows or minor children, s,hall be entitled to the benefits of this act. Sec.9. And be it further enacted, That the benefits of this act shall he applied to em brace those who served as volunteers in the invasion of Plattsburg, in September, 1814; also at the battle of King’s Mountain, in the revolutionary war, and the battle of Nickojack against the confederated savages of the South. See. 10. And he it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shall apply to the chaplains who served with the army in the several wars of the country. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act be applied to flotil la-men and to those who served as volunteers at the attack on Lewistown, in Delaware, by the British fleet, in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve aud fifteen. State Action. We quote, in another colum, some timely refleettions from the New York Journal of Commerce, made witii special reference to the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, declaring the Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional. But this is only a beginning. Connecticut and Vermont have passed laws that enforce the same result practically, and Masschusetts and New York are on the eve of doingthe same thing. Possibly these Abolitionists may yet teach us the force of State interposition. The Journal of Commerce warns the North that such may he the result, and it has often given the same warning in vain. The North, in supreme self-consequence, believs it can practice in safety what it denounces as treason and rebelion in the South.— There will be State Legislation South of Mason and Dixon’s Line, as well as North of it, and when it comes in full answer to the war-notes of Abolition, there will no longer he a Union, but only a longer or shorter parting asunder of all the ties that make us one people.—Char. Marcury. Profeasor Lee. Oi the Terrell’ Professorship of Agricul- turc, in the University of Georgia, gave his introductory Lecture, at the Presbyterian Church, on last Tuesday morning. A most intelligent audience, both of students and our citizens, ladies ond gentlemen, attended this ahle and interesting address. No doubt greater numbers will he present at the others and it is hoped gentlemen from the country, practical farmers, will he there, and take an interest in that which concernes and will benefit their great intrests. Dr. Lee will deliver two lectures a week—on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tho next one will bo to day, at 11 o’clock, at the Presbyterian Church—subject: M Organic Elements oj Soils, and Agricultural Plants.”— Southern. Banner. TLe Railroad Riot*. Raii.road Troubles.—Various rumors were in circulation yesterday, concerning some disturbances on *the North Eastern Railroad line, about eighteen miles from the city, in consequence of a collision betweeen two forces of workmen. A hand lately em ployed had agreed on a strike for higher wages, which not being accorded, they unit ed, and by violence and menaces, prevented the progress of others who were engaged for the work. Our Sheriff accompanied by several gen tlemen started for the scene of the difficulty yesterday afternoon, and it is hoped the in fluence and exertions of the party may ef fect an adjustment without detriment to the work or serious violation of the public peace. We refrain at present from attempting to give particulars as rumors are varied and contradictory.—Charleston Courier, 9th in stant. On Wednesday evening application was made in due form of law, to John A. Gyles, Esq., as Magistrate, for a warrant against the principal instigators, thirty-three in number, of the disturbance on the North Eastern Rail Road, to which we referred yesterday. The applicant and affiant, was Mr. H. H. Phelps, one of the associate contractors, now prosecuting the works of construction on the line, and the faets stated were in substance as we have previously indicated. A warrant was accordingly issued against the parties named, and the process, by a special endorsement of the Attorney Gene ral was assigned for execution to the Sheriff —it being deemed a case requiring the offi cial and direct services of the highest Dis trict Executive. Sheriff Yates proceeded, on Thursday af ternoon, to the scene of the difficulty, ac companied by Col. T. P. Huger, President of the North-Eastern railroad, C. B. Nor throp, Esq., and P. J. Porcher, Esq. On arriving, these gentlemen found a throng, estimated to number some forty persons, or more, among whom were the thirty-three parties named in the warrant. The Sheriff was met with threats of de termined resistance, and the chief of the rioters, armed himself with pistols, which were procured from a neighboring shanty, and protested his determination net “to be taken alive.” Most of the party were armed with clubs, bludgeons, and various implements, and under the circumstances, the execution of the process was rendered impossible. On returning to the city at an early hour yesterday morning, the Sheriff made the return required by this state of facts, and a similar and corroborative affidavit was giv en by Messrs. Huger & Northrop. Under these circumstances, and pending an answer from the Governor, to whom no tice had been sent, nothing definite could be done yesterday—there being no sessions Judge in the city, and consequently no pos sibility of a recourse to the fortifying strin gency and efficacy of a Bench AY 7 arrant. From considerations that must he obvious to all readers, we omit further particulars in the present attitude of affairs. It is but due to candor aud justice to state, however, that reports are various and contradictory, in relation to the degree of violence mani fested by the parties implicated, and to the nature and extent of their demands. We hope to he able in our next issue to report fully and favorably.—Charleston Courier, Full Ahead. Bennett, of the Herald, says he knows nothing of his life about issuing—don’t want to know—yet says: “ But if we have no time at present to give, like the lion. Tom Benton and other literary vanities of the age, our life in two or three dull volumes, price §3 each, de ducting 20 per cent, for lies, we are prepar ing to publish a collection of original ‘ Po ems and Sketches of Society,’ which we wrote for our own amusement forty years ago, and which we may place before the critical public, to read, to abuse and to crit icise as much and as often as it pleases. “ So, therefore, the amiable and wicked reading public may prepare to see, in these latter days, a volume of the ‘ Early Poems of James Gordon Bennett,’ written between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three years, before he became a live journalist, a critic, a reporter, a politician, a revolutionist or bugaboo among the newspapers.” Virginia Elections. At the election to be held in Virginia on the fourth Thursday of May next, in addi tion to a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General and a member of the Board of Public Works, there will he chos en Representatives in Congress and Mem bers of the Legislature. The Democrats arc generally in the field, and if we may judge by the excitement which they arc endeavoring to raise, they are by no means .as sanguine of success as formerly. For Congress, most of the old members are already' or expect to be candidates.— Only one declines—the Hon. Henry' A. Ed- mundson, of the Montgomery district. In the Kanawha district, the lion. James M. II. Beale, formerly a member, is out as an independent “ old line ” Democrat, in oppo sition to the Hon. Charles II. Lewis. Mr. Beale repudiates political conventions as af fairs are now managed. The election of Members of the Legisla ture is of more than ordinary importance, as well on account of the fiuaucial condi tion of the State and its internal improve ment as because there is to he a United States Senator chosen to supply' the place of Mr. Mason, whose term will expire on the 3d of March, 1857. The sessions being biennial, the election is a matter of necessity during the next winter. A Little Boy iu Love auil Crime. Four little hoys were arrested on Friday evening at Barnum’s Museum where they had called to hire a private box for them selves. The eldest of the youngsters had “ fallen in love ” with little Eva, and for several nights last week had hired a stage box for himself and companions at §5 per night. The manager of the Museum seeing them come so often for a private box, and suspecting they had money that had been obtained disonestly, sent for the police, and on searching them an empty envelope, ad dressed to Sheppard & Co., Fulton St., was found on the person of the oldest boy. It was then ascertained that that firm had re cently' lost several money letters, and this hoy' having been the person who took the letters out of the Post Office for the firm, he was suspected of retaining them for his own use, he was sent before the United States Court. On one evening last week, lie threw upon the stage a handsome gold bracelet for “ little Eva,” and lias been in the habit of watching the stage that she entered as she was leaving the Museum for home after the evening’s peoformance, and of getting into it. He is about 14 years of age. [From the New York Tribune.] Thom Shalt mot Stool* AVe breathe freer and deeper. 'Hie Pres ident has done a good deed. He 4uu come down to Congress with the Decalogue in his hand, and uttered the most appropriate of its ten commandments to t he case in hand. The Collms grant is vetoed ; corruption is rebuked. The attempted swindle is arrested at the moment of its triumph. We congrat ulate the friends of honest legislation every where. We congratulate the Senators from Ohio; they, at least, have done their duty during the operation of this hnge battering ram at the walls of the Treasury. Their efforts and votes will be remembered to their honor hereafter. Gentlemen of the South have done well. We never expected to ap plaud the President. We do applaud him. A hold stand was necessary against the overwhelming surges of venalty that broke over a debauched Congress. The President has made it. We thank him for what he has done, whether his action had any reference to the coming New Hampshire election or not. It will give him votes there, and lose them to the other side. But we don’t care for that. AVe would not have the thing change, let the consequences be what they may. We trust the President’s action on thiscase will mark a new era in our legislative histo ry. AVe trust it mav be the beginning of retrenchment and reform in good earnest— Let monster schemes of Congressional rob bery be hereafter called by their right names and let the vile system of lobbying for and writing up these enormous money appropri ations, by ex-Senators and ex-Representa- tives and outsiders of every hue and stripe, be branded as it deserves. We invoke the hot fires of a just public indignation upon the whole mercenary host. Let the atmos phere of Washington be purified from the foul taint which has hung over it during the past and preceding session like a moral miasm. AVe expect to hear great harking over this veto, but it will afford no cause for terror. It 4 will he the growling of pups that have lost their bone. But they will not all howl, some at least know better.— Let us hear those who do not begin. Some members of Congress grew indignant and revolutionary at the announcement that Mr. Pierce had plugged the golden stream.— Revolutionize because the President recites the commandment, “thou shait not steal!” This won’t do. There are old fashioned notions afloat that render stealing unpop ular among the people. AVe know that an anti-robbery party could not do much at AA r asiiington, but in the country it is diffe rent. AVe beg gentlemen not to be too obstreperous till they shall go home and whet the dull edge of their virtuous suscep tibilities against the grit of the unde bauched popular sentiment. AViiat should we think of a fellow who had thrust his hand through the window of a jeweller shop to clutch some tempting diamonds, and who having it seized, inveighed lustily against the outrage upon his person ? But let us he understood. Wedonotsay that every man who voted for the Collins appropriation was bought up, or that such is the case with those who decry the exer cise of the veto power on this measure. AVe only say that enough were bought to carry the measure. Look at the immortal com mittee of nine, at the last session, unani mously recommended the withdrawing of the extra appropriation for this service. Of that nine, three were found to oppose it still at this. The other six voted for it, the oth er day, or turned up missing. AVhat wrought the miraculous change ? AVhen a man steps forward to intercept the following of a righteous judgment upon a piece of gigantic official peculation, he cannot be allowed to take the position of an immaculate defender of a just principle.— The man who defends a band of robbers, though he be no robber himself, has but little advantage of them in moral position. The Collins appropriation was caused by outright corruption. Let no man defend it and claim to wash liis hands of the stain.— In law, fraud vitiates a contract. In legis lation, corruption should work a similar consequence. A contract carried through Congress by the purchase of votes, (if the purchase could he proved, which, in such eases, would always be the great difficulty,) would doubtless he held to he invalid by the Courts. The men who were corrupted in the Collins appropriation, and the agents engaged in the work of doing it, deserve the penitentiary. But we do not stop here. If the principle of law to which we refer is sound, then it is the duty of every upright legislator to withhold his vote from every measure which he knows, or has good reason to believe, is aided by corrupt appliances.— In this way only can a stop he put to the infamous business of buying measures through Congress. Tlie Pacific* The telegraph wires being down North we are not able to learn whether the Pacific has arrived at New York. There will, how ever, he no cause for alarm if this steamer be somewhat delayed. It will he remem bered that when the Pacific should have left the harbor of New York a violent snow storm prevailed, and she did not finally get to sea until two days after her regular time; so that if she performed the passage out in twelve days she would only have three days to remain in Liverpool, which is scarcely enough for her to discharge, reload and take in coals. It is not improbable, therefore, that the Pacific may take a day or two’s grace on her present voyage. Chicayo, March 7.—The Know Nothing majority for Mayor in this city is 345.— This morning the order formed a long pro cession, and headed by a band of German musicians marched in triumph through the strees, shouting in triumph. No disturbance of the peace took place. Petersburg, March 9.—A portion of the Tunnel’on the A’irginia and Tennessee Rail road fell in yesterday. The mass of earth, &c., on the track is so immense, that the passage of trains will ho obstructed for several days. Washington, March 9.—A letter from Mexico states that Santa Anna is daily losing ground, and that Alvarez is rapidly advancing towards the Capital. Santa An na has a steamer ready to carry him off, on the approcli of Alvarez, and has horses waiting day and night to aid him in his flight. His valuables have all been sent out of the country. It is further stated that he lias sold the scrip for §3,000,000 due from the U. S. to Mexico, arising from the Gadsden treaty and the transfer of Mesilla Valley. Cincinnati, March 8.—There is conside rable excitement among the politicians at Indianapolis since the adjournment of the Legislature. The Governor yesterday ap pointed several state officers, but the Secre tary of State refused to administer the oaths of office, and consequently the places remain vacant. Harrisburg, March 8.—A scries of reso lutions have been offered in the Senate, to The growing wheat crop of California is estimated at 8,439,533 bushels. Pulling Down the Telegraph AA’ires. -AVe observe that a disposition is evinced ^fthe kdjouroment of the convention of by the people in many sections of the conn- the twQ IIou J ses tiU October, and fixing the try to destroy the telegraphic wires. In a adjournment to the 20th inst. They were recent instance in Mississippi, the populace ; re k rrcd to the judidary committee, assembled and carried off Jour miles of the ■ J J wires! It appears that some learned The- New York, March 8.—Warrants for^eve- ban had demonstrated, an scientific prinei- ra ^ persons implicated in assisting in the pies, to tho satisfaction of the people, that 1 escape of Baker, the murderer oT Poole, the cause of the long drought, whiclwlias j have been issued. Members of the police so much retarded vegetation, was solely ow- are suspected of preventing Baker’s arrest, ing to the telegraphic wires, and that, in a j Bill Poole, the pugilist, who was murder- few years, when every section of the coun- j ? us ly assailed last week in a drinking saloon try will he belted by a lightning wire, rain j j u this city died of his wounds this morn- will cease altogether! AVe are sorry to hear 1 i n S- of this spirit of lawlessness among our coun- j Boston, March 8.—Anthony Burns arriv- try friends, though we are free to confess, j ed in this city yesterday, and had a public from our extensive experience, as journal- | reception last evening at Tremont Temple, ists, of the tricks and rascalities of the tele- j at which about 1,000 persons were present, graph, that it would he a great national ; Prayer was offered up by the Rev. Dr. Neale, blessing if every inch of telegraph wire, Burns was then introduced to the assembly now in operation from Maine to Louisiana, | by the Rev. Mr. Grimes, a colored clergy- was hurried in the bottom of the sea.—N. \ man of the city, who made a statement in Orleans Delta. regard to the efforts made to accomplish his Benton and Calhonu. ! liberty. AA’e have received from a distinguished j Burns then addressed the audience in Southern correspondent, several pages of \ substantially the same terms that he did in extracts from an unpublished work, entitled I New York. He was followed by the Rev. “ Incidents in the life of John C. Calhoun, E. N. Kirk, who denounced slavery with from conversations with Richard K. Cralle, emphasis. Esq.” As they conflict with some of the Tho doxology was Eung, and many per- statements, and correct some of thc^histori- : sons advanced to the platform and shook cal errors, contained in Col. Benton’s “Thir- j hands with Burns. The reception seemed ty Years in the Senate,” we shall take an j to he quite of a religious cast, and no prom- early opportunity of publishing them. Mr. inent abolitionist took part in the services. Benton’s memory will be severely ove " THURSDAY, MARCH 15, Georgia Telegraph amd the Adminis tration. Our friend, the Editor of the Telegraph, is out in an exceedingly forcible article upon the contemptuous treatment the Democratic party in Georgia has received at the hands of Gen. Pierce. The Telegraph takes excep- ion to the appointment of Judge Lumpkin to the bench of the “ Court of Claims,” and insists that it deserves additional cencure from the fact that it complicates the difficul ties in the way of the party success at the next election. This view of the case is per fectly just, we think, and while we are not prepared to indulge a censorious spirit in regard to the fact that one out of the three members of the Court is a AVhig, we yet think that the Telegraph in its general view of the President’s treatment of our State is perfectly correct. It really seems that Gen. Pierce from the first, conceived that he had a just cause of quarrel with the Democracy in Georgia, and that he determined to ignore our existence and dismiss ns in disgrace.— If there has been one instance since hi3 in auguration, in which the appointing power in our limits has been exercised with ' even a reasonable care of the future consolidation of our strength we do not remember it. AVe think with the Telegraph, that his privy council for the State has not been well se lected, and unless there is a secret influence that has been using the President in refer ence to Georgia politics, that Gen. Pierce means to use in his turn, we fear that at the next Presidential election some of this miserable Executive bungling is to “ come back upon our heads to roost.” Mr. Overby’s Letter. AVe reserve all we have to say for or against the Prohibition party until the re maining corners of thetriangle are occupied. AVe will only say at this moment, that we suspect that in the scheme of Mr. Overby he has mistaken the name of the party—it should be Protection not Prohibition. AVe suppose that if the Prohibitionists get in, that jug fighting will he free to all, and that even the poor defence against the issuing of license to improper persons, that we now have, is to he taken away. As to the place where the liquor is drunk it is not half so important a point as to where the liquor is to go when drunk, and there will be found among Georgia Yankees more than enough smartness to drink all the liquor that can be bought, for mechanical purposes if that will Soil of tlie South. 'The March number of this work is upon our table with its usual punctuality. If farmers, (who are not absolutely persuaded they are smart enough already,) wish a pe riodical that will be of infinite service in their vocation, let them subscribe for tlie soil forthwith. AVe must say however to our friends of the Times & Sentinel, put more oil on the pressman’s elbow, you do not perform your part of the contract as well as Messrs. Chambers & Peabody. Supreme Court Vacancy. It was a cause last winter of deep mortifi cation to see what disregard was shown the original understanding between all parties at the establishment of the Supreme Court, as to the political complexion of the incum bency. It was well understood at the time the Court was created that that party should have the nomination of the majority of the Court that was then in power and that the vacancies should be supplied by the same rule. Yet, at the last election of Judges, this liberal and highly proper understand ing was forgotten, or would have been if certain aspirants could have drawn public attention from the fact. AVe fully agree with what the Constitutionalist says in re gard to the course that should he followed by the Executive and we hope that the ques tion will not after this bo left an open one. The Constitutionalist says, very properly as we think: “The proposition seems to have been con ceded from the beginning, and faithfully adhered to, that the minority should have one member on the Supreme Bench. It is a proposition correct in itself when applied to an office not political, and to a Court which has the ultimate decision on all the great legal questions involving life, liberty and property. The people and politicians, have alike acquiesced in it, and we trust a Democratic Executive will not be the first to deny and defeat it by a partizan exercise of his appointing power. [For tho Atlanta Daily Intelligencer.] I* the Ilog Law Defunct 1 AVe would like to know if the City Coun cil has repealed the Hog Law, forbidding “grunters” “passing and repassing” under the solemn penalty of being impounded and sold. AVe see that it is no uncommon thing to find them stalking about, as large as life, and quite as natural, unmolested, with perfect freedom to convey themselves wherever they may choose to go—even at a sacrifice of other people’s gardens : Is that law repealed ! or is it merely in a dormant state of existence ? ENQUIRER. More Improvement.s. As another item in the course of improve ment constantly going forward in our grow ing young city, we notice that the old build ings on the North-AVest corner of AVhitehall and Albania streets, occupied by Messrs. J. & J. Lynch and II. Muhlenbrink, are about being removed to other localities while their place is to be filled by a large and beautiful three story brick block. This is one of the best business locations in the place, and the new establishment to be erected will add greatly to the business appearance of the city. Our Kelt Court. A professional friend informs us that the returns, which closed last night, to our next Superior Court amounts to 420 cases or thereabouts. Mr. Soule’s Letter of Resiguatiou. Madrid, Dec. 17, 1854. Sir : Your despatch of the 13th ultimo, in reply to mine dated London, 21st of Oc tober, and enclosing the joint communica tion of Messrs. Buchanan, Mason, and my self, &c., leaving me no alternative but that of continuing to linger here in languid im potence or of surrendering a trust which, with the impediments thrown in the way of its execution, I would strive in vain to dis charge in a manner satisfactory to the Gov ernment or creditable to myself, you will not be surprised at the course which a sense of dignity impels me to adopt. I resign my commi- -»• -n of Envoy Extraordinary and.Ministi. : ;iotentiary of the United States near thi- \mrt, and beg the extreme kindness of the President to he retired from duty by the end of January. I have, &c. Hon. AVm. L. Marcy. Pierre Soule. (■Correspondence of the Atlanta Doily Intel!igenoer.] Hew York Affair*. New York, March 9,18C5. Oar hotels are full of ex-honorables, fresh from Washington, with their pockets lined wiih Uncle Sam’s allowance. A large portion of these pat riots hare only recently stepped out of obscurity into public life, and are now subsiding into insig nificance with little prospect of being again called upon to serve their country in the halls of Con gress. Tho fine weather has given a fillip to the retail business in Broadway, hat trade generally is rath er “slow” for the season. Probably when navi gation opens and the great agricultural staples be gin to come in we shall have plenty of our country cousins in town with their wives and daughters with well filled wallets. There ought to he a plethora of money in the “ rural districts,” for the farmers have been realizing glorious prices for tbeir crops; but, unfortunately, many of them have caught the railroad mania, and have sunk their surplus in profitless lines. The “Assembled Wisdom” of the State is ex pected here to-morrow on a visit to the ten govern ors of the alms house, who are preparing to lionize and feast our representatives during their stay.— Of course there is more in this than meets the eye. Perhaps, as one of the ten governors has a large capital invested in the distillery business, he may have a confidential word or two to say on tho pro hibitory liquor bill. This measure hnngs fire iu tho Senate. The liquor dealers hero feel certain that it cannot pass in its present shape, and with the search and seizure clauses stricken out it would he useless. The Tribune seems to think that there is treason in the temperance camp, and symptoms of a “ caving in ” among the cold-water members of the Senate are certainly apparent. The attempted “ fusion ” between the Hards and Softs of the Democracy in the crucible of Tammany Hall was partly a failure. A re-union of the two elements may possibly take place, but it will only be a limited partnership for a special purpose. Tho entente corcliale canuot he perma nently renewed. Cuba is a standing topic in political circles here. Tho prepositive “Ostend Conference,” to take the island “ peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must,” is decidedly popular, although a scru pulous minority iusistthatto seize the colony simply because it may become a dangerous neighbor, aud would certainly he a valuable acquisition, can only be justified on the principle that a man has a right to appropriate bis neighbors house for his own benefit lest the owner should sell it to an obnoxious purchaser, I leave this matter an open question for those who have studied the “ morals of politics ” more closely than myself. The death of Bill Poole, the pugilist, in conse quence of tho wounds ho received in the Stanwix Hall affray, has occasioned a tremendous sensation among the class to which he belonged, and will tend to increase the natural antipathy at present existing between Americans and Irish in this city. That Poole was foully murdered cannot he doubt ed; and as one or two of the parties arrested are likely to turn State evidence, the crime will proba bly be brought home to the perpetrators. It is generally believed that the attack upon Potile was the result of a conspiracy, and report says that one, at least, had engaged his passago to California in anticipation of the event. Poole’s chief regret upon his deaih-bed was, that he had been the vic tim of a gang of Irishmen. Morrissey, tho lilo leader of the enemies of the deceased, is accused by the friends of the latior of having instigated his assassination. Startling dc- velopements are expected during the inquest.— Baker, who is supposed to have fired the fatal hot, has not been taken, but his eseapo is impossible. The funeral of Poole will take place on Sunday. His remains are to bo interred at Greenwood and his remains will bo attended to the grave by an immense concourse. Dennett, of the Herald, announces a new con tribution to the literature of the age in the shape of his own “ Early Poems.” I had no idea that the hard common sense and caustic shrewdness of James Gordon had ever tempered with the influ ence of the muses. The early poems of such a man must bo, to use his own favorite phrase, “a rich brochure." The arrest of Pliny White, the California gold shaver and financial trickster in general, affords another proof if a scoundrel has rope enough ho is pretty sure to hamper himself at last. Stealing diamonds is an offence that cannot be got round, and if it he proved on Pliny he will unquestiona bly go into “ retiraey ” at the Stato’s expense. The chronic tendency to explosion, which seems to he inherent in Italian opera companies, has just been exemplified at ihe Academy of Music. The company is broken up, and a delicious series of re criminations is in progress between the empresario and his troupe, and between the members of ihe troupe. Maretzek, the musical director, is sav agely satirical; Ole Bull, the manager, diplomatic and dignified; the prima donnas at swords and points, aud the poor chorus singers minus their pay, and in want of a dinner. The disbanded ar tists are to have a benefit—the house being placed at their disposal for one night, free of cost,—and the season is to recommence under a new reginue, if possible. Ole Bull is accused of pocketing re ceipts and forgetting to pay salaries. There are, however, two sides to the question, and the Nor wegian fiddler may yet turn the tables on his ac cusers. Iu the meantime, the public maintain a masterly indifference to the squabbles, and in the absence of Verdi’s Opera, patronize Christy’s and Buckley’s Minstrels. Those of your theatre-going readers who pro pose to visit our city during tho season, especially if they bring their families with them, will proba bly feel obliged to us if we designate the Temple of Thespis, where the performances are artistically ihe best, and at the same time free from the im moralities which sully tho modern stage. To such I mention AVallack’s, corner of Broadway and Broome sts. His company comprises much of the finest talent in this country, including such names as Messrs. Lester and Drougham, Mr. and Mrs. Blake, Miss Hoey and others. Mr. Wallack brings out old standard English plays with a rare fidelity of representation, and light comedies arc rendered with an elegant natuialness quite in contrast with the coarse and oftimes inde cent carricaturo which some of our theatres offer for pictures of real life. The spring fashions are fairly inaugurated, but tho milliners and dress-makers are not reaping their usual golden harvest this season. The “tightness of the times” has extended so to the purse strings of the leaders of the ton, and there is moro revamping than purchasing going on among the upper circles. The number of stores and warehouses advertised to let is unsuafiy large, and the rent asked for places of business of all descriptions arc lower ihan last year. This is not the case, however, ns regards dwellings; but it will be, I presume, before the 1st of May. Mr. Overby’s Acceptance. Atlanta, March 3d, 1855. Gentlemen .-—I am in receipt of yonrs of the 22d of February, by which I learn that on that day I was nominated by the Prohib ition Convention a candidate for Governor. I accept the nomination ; and in order that a misunderstanding shall not occur between you and myself, nor between us and the voters of Georgia, permit me to say— 1st. I am in favor of repealing the Li cense Laws now of force in this State. 2d. I will advocate legislative action to suppress the sale of liquor in any quantity, to be drank as a beverage at the place of sale. I do not object to the sale and use of wine or spiritous liquors for medical, mechanical or religious purposes. This is my exposition of the platform laid down by the Covention. Our Banner, with the above sentiments plainly inscribed upon its spotless folds, is thrown to the breeze. AVe invite every philanthropist and patri ot and Christian to rally with us under this standard, and make one determined, indom itable efi’ort against grog-shops and crime, and for our wives and children. I am, gen tlemen, Your friend and fellow citizen, B. II. Overby. To Messrs. J. B. Randall, A. A. Robinson, G. J. Pearce, E. L. Newton, J. T. Mont gomery, Committee. A Certain Cure for Scrofula.—Nich olas Longworth, the famous millionaire and wine grower of Cincinnati, publishes the following cure for scrofula: Put 2 oz. of Aquafortis on a plate, on which you have two copper cents. Let it remain from 18 to 24 hours. Then add 4 oz. of clear, strong vinegar. Put cents and all in a large mouthed bottle, and keep it corked. Begift by putting 4 drops in a tea spoon full of rain water, and apply' it to the sore. Make the application three times a day, with a soft hair pencil, or one made of soft rags. If very painful, put more water. As the sore heals, apply' it weaker. I request editors, in all parts of the Union, and abroad, to copy this, and to republish it quarter yearly’: it may' save many lives. N. LONGAVORTH. Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 18, 1854. P. S.—Capt. Markness, of our city, the first person cured by this remedy, applied it without water and he informed me that he thought it would burn his leg off; but the next da^it was cured. Ilis was a small sore, and had been attended to for months by one of the best physicians without any benefit. The mania at the North for lecturing, seems, if anything, to be upon the increase. There is scarcely a topic in the entire ranpe of knowledge and experience, which 1 .s not been touched upon with more or s ability. If wearied of metaphysics, poin - cal philosophy, or literature, there are lec turers ready to amuse the public with dis cussions of altogether a different caste.— Thus, a large audience assembled last Thursday evening, at the Mechanic’s Insti tute in New York, to hear tho Hon. Zadock Pratt, uf Prattsville, discourse upon the horse. Tho speaker, from his own account, must be a perfect Centaur, lie informed his hearers that he had worn out more than a thousand horses in his own service. If he is not competent to talk upon horse-flesh who can he ? Nevertheless, for one man- - unconnected with a circus—to work out one thousand animals, does sound a little start ling. llow many' stone, wo wonder, do^s the Hon. Zadock Pratt, of Prattsville impose upon his animals. Creole Bi tter.—The neighbors of a cer tain lady in the Fourth District N. O. have recently discovered the nature of something that has seemed a miracle, for months past. They kuew the lady had hut one cow, and they' knew also that the lady’s two little ne groes peddled as much Creole butter daily as could he produced by half a dozen com mon cows. Inquisition got so high on the subject at last, that the lady has let out the secret, and in its travels it has reached us. She told a friend that her cow was only a common cow, and didn’t produce any' but ter, hut yielded milk enough in which to re-churn any quantity of strong Goshen butter, converts, by the said rechurning iu new milk, to that pale, sweet delicacy known as Creole butter, which always commands the highest of prices. She added, also, that by this process she had made a clear profit, since June last, of licet ce hundred dollars! One cow is not much, but one cow and Yan kee ingenuity together are considerable.— Our authority in this matter is indisputable, and tho speculation is worth imitating. Later from Havana. Havana, March 10.—The steamship El dorado was fired at twice with hall on the night of the Stli inst., by a Spanish frigate, about ten miles from Cape Antonio. The trials of Ramon Pinto, Doctor Pinclo and Juan Cadalzo, are to take place this day before the Military Commissioner. The steamship United States and Pliilax delphia arrived yesterday from New York The above was received at Charleston by the Isabel. Nothing important from Key AVest. Later from Mexico. New Orleans, March 11.—The steamer Orizaba has arrived at New Orleans, bring ing dates from Vera Cruz to the 8th, and the city of Mexico to the 3d inst. Santa Anna left the capitol on the 2tith Feb., for the South, taking with him all the troops except 1,500, and carrying a large amount of baggage. The official paper says he has gone to Baths, and it is rumored that he has gone to join Alvarez, to execute a grand coup d’etat. [This is to us quite intelligible, hut it is all we can make of our despatch.—Ed. Chron. Sen.] A severe shock of an earthquake was felt in the City of Mexico on the 28th ult. The particulars of a curious case are given in the Medical Examiner for March. It is that of a physician, of Ohio, wiio had habitually used opium for six years as a stimulant. From the pleasant hallucina tions and hopeful feelings experienced at the commencement of the practice, he was suffering pangs of the most awful descrip tion, and using the enormous quantity of from fifteen to eighteen grains of the sul phate of morphia in twenty-four hours. A number of physicians of celebrity were con sulted, who all suggested a recourse to sub stitutes—extracts of belladonna, acotnio and cannihis were tried, but without the least benefit. Reason was already partially dethroned, and death seemed inevitable.— Mr. Myers then addressed a letter to Prof. Mr. J. AV. Atkinson having matje affi davit before Alderman Evans recently, that a duel or street fight was likely to take place between Mr. Roger A. Pryor, one of the Editors of the Enquirer, and Dr. AVm. S. Easly, the Junior Editor of the Penny Post in consequence of some obnoxious senti ments mutually expressed by the parties through the columns of their respective journals, a warrant was issued for their ar rest, and both having appeared before the Mayor and Alderman Evans at the office of the High Constable, were required to enter into hail respectively in the sum of §2,000 to keep the peace for twelve months. Washington, March 9.—The Brigadier General will not be appointed until after the meeting of the next Congress. Ben. Mc Culloch declines the Majorship, and it is re ported that Colonels Lee and Bragg will al so refuse to accept. The urgency of the service is such that Captains and Lieuten ants of the new regiments will be appointed without delay. Gen. Dodge, the new Minister to Spain, has had several long interviews with Soule’. Later and. Important from Cuba. The U. S. Mail Steamship Isabel, Capt. Rollins, called off Tybee yesterday after noon and delivered over to the Metamora, Captain Gladding, her mails and passen gers for this city. AVe are indebted to the officers of the ship for our usual favors, which will he found to contain interesting and important intelligence. Advices are to the 10th inst. Among the passengers by the Isabel was a hearer of despatches to our government. AVe are not informed as to their contents, hut learn they are important. The excite ment on the Island was on the increase.— Steamers, under the command of Govern- nient officers, are plying to and fro between Die various Cuban forts, industriously en forcing the blockade. Numerous alterca tions had taken place, and serious difficul ties were everywhere apprehended. The rapid and mysterious movement of troops continues throughout the Island.— The city of Havana was almost deserted.— Not a regiment had been left in the place.— A large encapment, however, was formed iu the vicinity under the particular com mand of Gen. Concha. Ilis Excellency had been severely injured by a fall from his horse, though he still continues to visit the camp daily, where he is always received with enthusiasm.—Savannah Georgian. On Thursday evening, the New York Board of Aldermen adopted a report of the Committee on Lands and Places, in favor of permitting John Tryon to exhibit the great California tree in the Park. This tree cost Captain Hanford, its former owner, §12,000 to cut it down and transport it to New York. It arrived in this city about a year ago, hut no room has been found of sufficient size in which to exhibit it. It is in sections, and it will take ten men at least ten days to erect the tree in the Park. The body of it is thirty feet in diameter, and ninety feet high. Cenator Gwin, of California, it is said, saw the tree growing at Sierra Nevada, and of fered Copt. Hanford a certificate to that ef fect. It is also said that there is indisputa ble evidence of this monster of the forest being three thousand years old. A section of the wood from the trunk of the tree con tains concentrick rings, hv which its age is computed. The tree will he taken to the Paris Exhibition on the first of May. Its transportation to that city, owing to its great size, will cost the owners one thousand dol lars. The Boston Post of the 8th inst., says that John P. Hale, who is speaking for the Know-Nothings in New Hampshire, was actually introduced to a meeting at Haver hill as “Esquire Hale, of New York.” He several months ago acted as delegate in a Suite Convention in New York, and is, of course, a citizen of that State. So that tlie chairman of the Haverhill meeting was correct in his designation of his residence. But Air. Hale did not like the announce ment, nevertheless. Ilis modest intention is to get back into Congress as a Senator from New Hampshire ! This patriotic love for Washington life is so great that, accord ing to the New York Tribune, he has been lobbying there this winter for the Collins line of steamers. AVe trust the people of New Hampshire, whether Know-Nothings or not, know enough to take care that their exceedingly disinterested migratory friend shall never appear in the Senate, by their assistance; as anything more than a lobby member. The Conjurer Ont-Conjurcd. The other morning, says the Reville, we were thinking of something infernal, when in walked Signor Blitz, looking us full iu the face at the same time, from behind that shadowy cloud of hair and whiskers in which he envelopes his Satanic countenance. AVe were very good friends, instanter, spite of hoof or brimstone, and we were just about to surrender ourselves in wonder and admiration at the way in which the Signor conjured coin into our pocket, and more mysteriously still out of our pocket, when who should pop in but De Meyer, with his lion port and kid-like courtesy. Here was another victim of the arch enemy', and ac cordingly' Blitz began to play the devil with the musician, even as lie had done with us. De Meyer stood it for some time, in high admiration, when he exclaimed: ‘Veil I am surprised at nothing else p>_- side! Now, Monseur Pleetz, I will sho..' some hombogs, too. He forthwith tore small strip from the margin of a newspapwL which again he divided into six very sm, pieces and spread them out on the palm his hand. Now Monsurer Pieetz I vash desired to know if you can give von pouf (puff) wis \ you mout and blow away all disc little I beets, except von dat I shall show you. The magician studied the problem close- j ly, but to puff - away at a breath, five of the pieces, without stirring tho sixth, was | enough to puzzle the divel himself, and so j his disciple gave up, earnestly desiring to be | At the session of the New Jersy Legis lature, on Thursday last, the Bribery Com mittee. appointed to inquire about the one thousand dollars that was said to have been offered to Air. Dicker to influence his vote upon the hank question, reported in the affirmative, refusing at the same time to disclose names. There was rather a poor show for special charters; four bank bills having been rejected. The veteran statesman, Gen. Cass, arrived at liis home in Detroit on Thursday iast, and was received by liis fellow-citizens with great enthusiasm. A salute of thirty-two guns was fired on the occasion. Catlin, tue Portrait Painter.—Letters have received from George Catlin, the In dian Portrait Painter. He writes from the head and tributary waters of the Amazon, whose strange and uncouth savage tribes have furnished him with new subjects for his pictorial skill.— Air. Catlin observes that, as civilization has not only reached but overtaken and passed beyond liis Pawnees, he was resolved to find some uncultured human beings, out of the reach of locomotives, on land or water. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. SAVANNAH, March 12—Arr, ships Florida, Woodhull, Now York ; Keystone State: Hardic, Philadelphia. Cld. ships, Ludlow, New York. CIIARLETTON, March 13.—Arr. steamships Marion, Foster, New York. Cld. M. L. schr, Susan Cannor, Bureh Baltimore ; schr C - H. Ro gers, Langley Philadelphia. COMMERCIAL. High Price for AVhf.at.—In St. Louis, on tho 2d inst., there were sold on ’Change 600 bushels of white wheat at §2 per busn- el, being the highest price, the St. Louis Republican says, ever obtained in that mar ket. The quality was choice, but tho price is evidence of the scarcity of the article in that market. The N. Y. Herald declares that the story about the Czar’s autograph letter to the President has no foundation in fact, though the people will not believe it. ed.—N. Y. Herald. fed* Bennett, the editor of the Herald, overhaul- A fee of 25 cents was charged for admis- i denies that any body is going to write his sion. life* Dunglison, of Philadelphia, asking his ad- . „. vice, in reply, said that the narcotic indul ! informed as to the art of the matter, ed in must be diminished daily, taking dur- j Ferry veil, I show you, said De Moyer.— ing the depression and sinking of spirits, j Now den vat piece shall 1 keep on my hand three or four times a day, from forty to lIx- i when I pouf? ty drops of the spirUxus ammonia: teeth' Blitz pointed cut the very center piece, of the “Ismdon and Edinburg Pnarmca*» | Oh, dat is him, goot! Now, regardez!-— pcelias, ormulce, for which are to be found i Tlie impromptu conjurer deliberately lam • .i rv» . .. r* ii . tt •. x n. .. i • ..1 *]»,•* wortni* dncirmtlfotl in the Dispensatory of the United States. This plan, persevered in with the most de termined resolution, diminishing, almost imperceptibly, the doso from day to day, was entirely successful in twenty weeks in reclaiming the victim, and curing him of the pernicious habit. Hiram Powers.—Among the appropria tions inserted in tho civil and diplomatic bill by the Senate and agreed to by tho House of Representatives, before the ad journment, was one of §25,000 to enable the President to give commission to our dis tinguished countryman, Hiram Powers, for the execution of some suitable work for the Capitol. liis pencil upon the bit of paper designated, • gave a pouf, and sure enough the other five | pieces left his hand in a hurry. There was a great laugh at the expense 1 111 P ncos - of Blitz ; he, however, immediately got rid of tho sell by disposing of it to our Senior, who entered at tho moment and who, by the bye, is now in the market with it. Some change has been made in tho man agement of the Kinney expedition, but its destiny is unchanged. Col. Kinney will soon leave for Central America. The rumors that Hon. Jefferson Davis will presently or ultimately receive the ap pointment of Brigadier General in tho new regiments is untrue* Atlanta, March 13 Cotton.—6@7J, extremes. Exchange, on New York is selling at per l cent premium. On Charleston and Savannah I per cent. Bacon.—Wo quote hog round 9J to 10. Hams 12to 12J cents. Sides Ribs 9 91 cts. Sides clear 9V to 10. Shoulders 7i a 8 cents. Lard by tho bbl. 11®124 cts. loaf. Iron, Swedes 51 to 61c; English 5 to 5f cents; Nails havo advanced to 6 a 04 cts. Corn,.is selling at SI to $110. CorjqMeal, $1 to $1,20 cents. Tour, Ilog round, 6i@7 cents. Reef, By the quarter, 6 54 cents. Sweet Potatoes, 00 to 75 per bushel. Irish Potatoes, $2 to 24 per bushel. Salt, Liverpool sacks plenty, $190, @$.2, LiqroRS.—French Brandy, $2,50 to $3.00 per gallon: Domestic 50 to 75c. Peach do. 60 a 75 cents. Whiskey 45 a 50 cents. Gin 50 to 60. Rum 45 to 00 cents. Wheat.—Good will bring to $1,70 per bushei readily. Flour.—Seareo at $5 to b't per hundred. Butter, Country, 15 to 20 cts. Goshen, 35 cts. per pouud. Tenn. Rutter, 10 a 15 by the Keg. Fair N. O. Sugar, by hhd. 54- Prime “ “ “ Choice “ “ “ • Syrup, N 0. by bbl. 33 to 35 cts. gal. Extra Whiskey “ 45 “ “ Star Candles per box 28 “ lb. No. 1 Rio Coflee by sack 113 to 12J “ “ Gunny Bagging 10 to 17 cts. Roue 12 to 13 cents. Chickens, 15 to 20 cents. Eggs, lOto 121 cents. Fodder, 75 to 100 per hundred. Peas, $1,40 to $1.50 Feathers.—10 to 45. Candles.—Sperm 37 o 45c. Tallow 20 22 cts AUGUSTA, March 13. P. M- COTON.—The market continues firm with a rood’domand and an nctivo business. No change Charleston. March 13, P. M.—Cotton. — Partise are waiting later European accounts, now duo, and thcro are few buyers in tho market.— Sales to-day 000 bales 74 to S3 cents. New Orleans, March 1, 11 P. M.—Cotton.— Tho market is firm with salco of 5000 yesterday- State of the Weather. Mar. 14 7 ocloclt a. in. 5a degrees 2 o’clock p. at. 1 6 o’clock p. m- 73 degrees) 75 degrees CANDIES. . . RfiXFS Bteam .refined Candies f<w sale at IScw DJ