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Washington mi found at prayer one
morning in the camp when the American
cause was looked upon as dtepcrat* and
straightway the augoty was taken up by the
knowing onee and construed to mean lots of
bloody work for the fbture, A man never
gets to be thoroughly in earnest in a dread-
fal emergency until he either prays or cries.
When he does one or the other, let the wrong
doer stand from under, for the powers of
vengeance are at hand. Governor Winston
has immortalised himself by setting the
South the example of the hard-pressed and
outraged man, who, though feeling his
weakness, has resolved to do his best in
standing up for bis rights though he die fm
it Now let'the whole of philo-negrodom
look to it. We have, in trying to match the
sophistry of our assailants with solid logic,
found that in talking their wind was too
much better than ours. In resorting to the
bluff and brag game, we were made asham
ed of our greenness by those adepts that
have bluffed and bragged over “ faith, hope
and charity,” the laws, the constitution and
the Bible. So as a last resor , though full of
sorrow at the waywardness of our rivilers,
of pity at their folly, of misgivings of their
strength we are about to go to prayer. So
did the Methodists South, when they feared
that they would have to part with their
Pharisaical brethren and the Charleston
Mercury then with the prophets ken declared
that this made the “ first dissolution of the
Union.”
But one warning of the impending ruin
was not enough—and “ line upon line ” in
the attempt to enforce the same salu
tary teachings have been literally thrown
away upon the people led by this stupendous
craze of abolition. The papers of the last
few days abound in instances of recent in
sult to Southern men in assaults upon their
penons and of forcible abduction of their
body servants while passing the free States.
But we will never, we think, make fools of
ourselves again by speaking of these things.
A thousand fold worse .than such petty an
noyances as these has fallen time after time
upon the “ dull cold ear ” of the Southern
people without stirring our heart's blood—
at least for any useful purpose. But wo can
see to the end of this thing if we have not
reached it. Gov. Winston, we guoss, is
thinking, not about the repeal of the Ne
braska Bill—tbo repulse of the next new
slave State—the abolition of slavery in the Dia'
trict—the capture of the first ship with slaves
that from a Southern port takes to the high
seas—buttothat speedyday in which thehell
hounds will be after us in our own streets.
It is coming—that very day. But lot’s bo
still. Wo object to the word Convention—
any more mass meeting remonstrances, res
olutions and such stuff. We had rather see
the whole South on its knees—but not beg
ging,—only praying with all the powers of
our soul for that grace that will enable us to
hit with a will—and hit altogether—if
hit we must. But here is Gov. Winston’s
proclamation:
Mobile, March 8, 1858.—Messrs. Brit-
tan & Blue:—Gentlemen—At the suggestion
of some intelligent and devout gentlemen,
and in compliance with my own sense of
propriety, under the peculiar circumstances
in which we find ourselves placed, both as
regards our pecuniary and domestic affairs
and tho gloomy aspect of the political rela
tions of the Southern States, I nave consid
ered it proper to do what, under other cir
cumstances, I should have left to those
whose religious position it more properly
becomes to move in spiritual affairs. It
well becomes every one whose political lot
has been cast in this section of the Union,
to examine prayerfully the end to which
political fanaticism at the North is bo rap
idly tending, and to implore Ilim who en
dued the stern men, the fathers of our Re-
S ublic, with fortitude, patriotism aud wis-
om to conduct our infant people through
tho difficulties of the revolutionary struggle
and the establishment of a Constitutional
Government, to enable us to bear ourselves
in whatever emergency we may be placed
so ns not to reflect disgrace on our ancestors.
Yours, &c._, JOHN A. WINSTON.
Democratic Convention.
The party press are beginning to move
in reference to the next Convention to be
held for the purpose of nominating a candi
date for Governor. Some difference of opin
ion seems to exist between Democratic edi
tors as to the proper time for calling the
Convention. The limes d~ Sentinel sug
gested the first Tuesday in May, while oth
ers propose the 5th of June. For ourselves,
we are perfectly indifferent as to the time,
ns we enn see no sort of advantage to be
gained by the Democratic party so far as
the particular time of nominating its candi
date goes. We know at this hour perfectly
well the parties we have to fight, and if
there are to be any unsettled points cleared
up as to the name that must fill our side of
the triangle, the press has been somewhat
remiss in talking out. Let, then, the Con
vention meet at the Capital on the 5th of
June next, if the majority wish it.
New Hampshire Election.
New York, March 15.
The latest returnes from New Hampshsre
give 195 fusion to 53 democratic represen
tatives in the State Legislature.
Metcalf the Know Nothing Goveonr, has
7000 majority over Baker, Democrat, and
15000 over all.
Upon the State Legislature will devolve
the election of two Senators, one for the full
term, and the other in place of Mr. Ather
ton, decensed, whose term closes in 1859.
|gy*Kissane, the noted character who
has figured in the Martha Washington and
Chemical Bank cases, was placed upon his
trial in this City yesterday, on the charge
of obtaining money from tne Bank by forged
checks. The case is of peculiar interest; it
will occupy several days.
WaP* The Russian Minister at Washington
discredits the report of the death of tho
Czar of Russia.
New Hampshire Election.
In New Hampshire the coalition of Know-
Nothings, Free Soilers, and Whigs have
elected a large majority to the Legislature
and the entire delegation to Congress.—
Metcalf, Know Nothing, has been elected
Governor by 4000 majority.
Earning! of the Central Railroad.
A friend has handed us the following
statement of tho earnings of the Central
Railroad for the months of December, 1854,
and January and February, 1855, compared
with the earnings of the same months in
the immediately preceding years:
The Emperor of Russia. The Africa’s AcOOtUlta
Nicholas Fauloviteli, Emperor of Russia, Vienna Conference,
now reported to be dead, was the ninth child Lord John Russell arrived at Berlin, and
of the Emperor Paul, by bis. second mar- • immediately hod an audience of the King
ria^.witb Maria Feodorowna, of Wurtem-! an d Baron Manteuffel. Russia seems at
nud was born on the 25th of June,
179$, at Gatshina, near St. Petersburg.—
Imperial historians call him the fifteenth
sovoreign of the House of Romanoff who
has ruled in Russia. Others call bim the
length to be making attempts to come to an
; understanding with the Western Powers.—
1 General Wedell, the Minister at Paris, has
j personally gone to Berlin to explain the
' points at issue, and Lord John Russell's
eigth sovereign of the Holstein Gotorp dy-. mission is expected to conclude the desired
nasty, which is of German descent. At the
time of his birth, and for years afterwards,
there was little sign of the high destiny
arrangements.
An official editorial article in the Corres-
I pondens of Vienna says that the draft of a
which awaited him. Two elder brothers, ; general treatv is prepared, securing the in-
the Grand Duke Alexander and the Grand j tegrity of Turkey, preventing the future
Duke Constantine, were immediately be- j encroachments of individual powers, and
tween him and the ' ru J 1 .... - r
ly were their issue,
off from it forever.
the Throne, and prospective- j guaranteeing the rights of Christians. This
isuo, 'which might cut him . document will be considered at the Confer-
ne was four years old
when his father Paul ascended the throne.
He, with his yonnger brother Michael, re
ceived his education under the immediate
superintendence of his mother. The first
event of his youth, which stamped itself
with terror on his memory, was the murder
of his father Paul.
Oa the fearful night when that tragedy
occurred, his mother caught up the two
young princes in her arms, and amid the
ence. All the Plenipotentiaries, with the
exception of Lord John Russell, have arriv
ed at Vienna. The Conference meets on
the 5th of March, and hopes of peace are
strongly entertained. Notwithstanding the
Russian professions of peace, accounts state
that warlike preparatio s were never more
active in Russia.
A report reached England, via Berlin,
that the Czar was dangerously ill and given
up by his physicians; and although it
clash of weapons and the confused voices of j ■wanted confirmation, the funds advanced,
alarm m the palace, she ran through the
corridors leading to the apartments of the
Emperor, where she was stopped and forced
back by one of the conspirators. In the
meantime, the Emperor was strangled with
a scarf by the hand of assassins, and Alex
ander I. was proclaimed Emperor the ensu
The order prohibiting the export of wheat
from Poland into Prussia came into effect
on the 21st.
The German papers mention the capture,
by the Russians, of Schonaibkaran, Schamyl's
strongest fortress.
Tefik Pacha, the son-in law of Omer Pa-
ing day. The first years of the reign of i cha. has died of fever at Eupatoria.
Alexander were so full of stirring events, j sadden Death or the Emperor of Rus-
tnat the private history of his younger i
brothers Nicholas and Michael remains in a j
measure unrecorded. Their education was
eventually intrusted to tutors, both native
and foreign, who instructed them in the sci
ences and in the French and German lan
guages. In the acquisition of modern
languages Nicholas exhibited some adroit
ness, whilst he was passionately fond of
music, and even composed, it is said,' several
parade marches.
The demeanor of Nicholas is said to have
been cold and reserved in his youth to those
around him, even to his mother when he
had first passed the bounds of childhood,
and he began to understand his real position
in the imperial palace. He earlv manifest
ed a love of martial studies, particularly the
ordinary routines of field-muster discipline.
The youth of Nicholas was what may be
said to be moral. In tho gallant Court of
his brother the Emperor Alexander, he ap-
f ieara to have kept himself marvellously
ree from intrigues, and to have concentrate
ed all his pleasures on military exercises
and amusements. In 1814 Nicholas left the
Court of his brother for a tour abroad. He
visited France, Germany, England, ancl va
rious other countries, and returned home
early in 1817.
On tho 13th of July, 1817 being then
hardly twenty-one years of age, he married
Maria Charlotte, eldest daughter of the late
i king of Prussia. The bride was about two
| years younger than the bridegroom. Tho
marriage was solemnized at St. Petersburgh,
and the bride, in accordance with Russian
law, although sho came of a Protestant
family, adopted the Greek religion, and with
it the Christian names of Alexandra Fcod-
orowa. The marriage is said to have been
one of love on both sides, although there
was, doubtless, political expediency mingled
with it. There wa3 a great similarity be-
twen them not only in the majesty of figure,
but also of mind and character. At the
time of his marriage, Nicholas held the mil
itary rank of Head-Inspector of Engineers
in the service of hi 4 brother, the Emperor,
but lie was not admitted to the Council-table
when political and diplomatic questions
were discussed, and his sphere of operation
was confined to mere garrison service.—
Nicholas felt his subordinate position, and
lived with his wife retired from the Court,
a domestic man, deriving his happiness in
performing the part of a husband and fath
er in such a manner that the example of
himself and wife lias been cited as a model
of domestic bliss. Ilis eldest son, Alexan
der Nicolaiwitch, was born one year after
his marriage. In 1819 followed the birth
of bis second child, the Grand Duchess Ma
ria ; in 1822 that of the Grand Duchess
Olga.
Alexander died December 1st, 1825. The
news arrived at the Winter Palace, where
the Imperial family were assembled in the
chapel to render thanks fur the messages
received the previous day, announcing the
convalescence of the Czar. It was Nicholas
who received the final news, he only of the
three brothers then being resident in St.
Petersburg. It was supposed by the Rus
sian people that the Grand Duke Constan
tine, the next brother in age to Alexander
London, Friday Night, March 2.
This evening in the House of Lords, the
Earl of Clarendon rose and said, “I think
it my duty to communicate to your lordships
the contents of a telegraphic dispatch which
I received half an hour since, from her Ma
jesty's Minister at the Hague, that the Em
peror Nicholas died this morning at one o’
clock of pulmonic apoplexy, after an attack
of influenza. I have also received a dis
patch from her Majesty’s Minister at Ber
lin, stating that the Emperor of Russia died
at 12 o’clock this morning.
An hour before this despatch arrived I
received accounts from Lord John Russell,
at Berlin, stating that the Emperor was on
the point of death, and had already taken
leave of his family. Although this event
occurred so short a time ago as between 12
and 1 o’clock this morning, there can be no
doubt under these circumstances of its au
thenticity.
In the House of Commons Lord Palmer
ston made a similar statement.
It was surmised that the Emperor died
by the hand of the assassin, but the cause
assigned above was generally credited. The
effect of this startling announcement in po
litical and monetary matters has not been
developed, and it ia impossible to say what
it may produce. It created great excite
ment.
Great Britain.
The Earl of Carlisle is appointed Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland. Otherwise the Min
istry remains as announced per Pacific. In
Parliament the proceedings were unimport
ant. The chief business was the debate of
Lord Goodrich’s motion to increase the
chances of military promotion from the
ranks. The motion was negatived.
In the House of Lords a debate occurred
on the subject of acknowledging the loyalty
of Canada and other Colonies. No action
was come to.
Mr. Roebuck's Committee proceeds vigo
rously. They have reported that the ob
jects of the inquiry will be best attained by
making the Committee a secret one.
On the 1st of March Mr. Roebuck appeared
at the bar of the House of Lords with a
message from the House of Commons citing
the Duke of Newcastle to give evidence be
fore the Committee.
Wednesday, the 21st, has been appointed
as a national fast for the success of the
war.
Meetings depreciating the conduct of the
war are on the increase throughout the
country.
Everything is again quiet in Liverpool
and London.
The Earl of Lucan publishes a convinc
ing letter to Lord Raglan, exonerating him
self from all blame in the cavalry charge at
Balaklava.
Letters are making their appearance in
the English papers complaining of the non
return of Goods sent to the New York Ex
hibition.
The bark Avon, bound from Cuba to
Swansea, with a cargo of copper ore, was
totally lost in the British Channel. Crew
saved.
£500,000 in gold was received per the
(the latter having died without any direct j Kent and Marco Palo, from Melbourne.
heir) would succeed to the throne. But
Constantine had some years previously re
signed his claim in favor of Nicholas, the
fact being only known to the Empress moth
er.
Before the news of Alexander’s death
was bruited in the streets of St. Petersburg,
Nicholas obtained a brief interview with
the Empress Mother. What passed at the
interview is not known. Immediately af
terwards, Nicholas repaired to the Senate
Palace to take the oath of allegiance to his
brother Constantine. The State Council
replied by appealing to sealed packets de
posited by Alexander with the Senate to be
Dividends on the Cuba loans of 1834 and
1837 are advertised for payment.
France.
The emperor was at the Camp of St.
Omer’s. Nothing further was known re
specting his iutended visit to the Crimea.
There were rumors of some important ar
rests for political causes having been pri
vately made in Paris. Persons of high dis
tinction are said to be implicated.
The Moniteur announces the loss of a
French frigate with troops, in the Straits of
Bonifacio. A11 perished—COO or upwards.
Italy.
The Sardinian Chambers have voted the
opened after his death. The packet was ! suppression of Monasteries.
found to be the resignation of Constantine
addressed to Alexander, a letter of Alexan
der assenting thereto, and a decree which
gave the throne to Nicholas.
Nothing further is known of the adher
ence of Tuscany or Naples to Allies.
Belgium-
Lord John Russell had an interview with
Nicholas was then invited to a seat at tho j King Leopold, on his way to Berlin.
State Council, but lie answered he had no
right to sit there as he was not a member
of tho Council, but be was ready to receive
‘ any communication which the}’ might have
to make at his winter palace. To the palace
the Council immediately repaired, and were
to take tho oath of allegiance to him, when
he refused to receive it until his elder bro
ther had signified to him his determination
to resign. After a lapso of fourteen days,
during which all the official acts of Govern
ment were performed in the name of the
Emperor Constantine. Nicholas received
the newsofhis brother’s refusal of the throne,
and on the 24th of December, 1825, he
formely accepted the government. lie fixed
however, December 1st, the day on which
Alexamjp r died, as the commencement of
his reign. A conspiracy was the first gree
ting which Nicholas received at the very
moment he seated himself on the throne,
and the promptness, daring and energy with
which he met and quelled it, shadowed forth
the determined character which he has
since exhibited. Wo need not repeat the
details—a portion of the army revolted and
refused allegiance. Nichilas used mild
measures at first, but when they were found
to bo of no avail, a few shots of the cannon
did the rest, and throwing down their arms
the rebellious who had survived the fire,
begged for mercy. Some of the leaders
China
The intelligence from China is important.
Dates are lmd from Ilong Kong up to Jan
uary 15. The insurgents hold Canton in a
state of seige, and have the commerce of
the whole river—their fleet having gained
several victories over the Imperial —
Consequently the supplies are being cut off.
Provisions, especially rice, are rising rap
idly,
A fight took place at Whampoa Anchor
age, in the presence of the American and
English ships of war, and foreign shipping
was considerably damaged by the guns of
the belligerents. The English and Ameri
can Commissioners have drawn a line
around the factories, and notified that no
hostilities will bo permitted to take place
within it.
Shanghai dates of the 1st are important.
A difficulty occurred between the Insurgent
authorities in Shanghai and the French,
whereupon Admiral Laquerre, with the
ships Jean D’Arc and Colbert, bombarded
the city,—which, ere this, has probably sur
rendered or been stormed.
The Insurgents have met with reverses
to the east of Pekin.
Captain Adams had arrived from England
and would proceed to Japan with the ratifi
cation of the treaty.
Liverpool Cotton Market.
Messrs. Dennistnn & Co.’s Circular re
ports numerous arrivals, but without any
effect on. the Cotton market, which remained
dull, though without any marked decline.—
Quotations of Middling are reduced Is. 1-
Csrlsw an* VssM Aaparatna- . ■ Mr. Jos.
A. Whipple's SSSSpaS Wry mt
the Pensacola BTaVjr Tar*. |
We had tlie satisfaction of observing the
operations of the workmen in the water ar
mor. In the -first place, the manner in
which the dress was fitted on the person
was a curiosity to us. Ti e body and legs,
with boots, are of unseamed rubber, but
the sleeves are open at the wrists, so as to
leave the hands free to work. Around the
wrists are bound straps of rubber, through
which there cannot soak the least particle of
water. A shoulder piece of solid sheet or
plate brass is put over the head, and fits ad
mirably the form of the shoulders; to this
the dress is buttoned on screws, then nar
row brass clamps are adjusted on the screws,
and screwed up with small nuts, so as to
compress the rubber perfectly air and water
tight to the brass plate.
The brass helmet is then put over the
head of the person, and screwed on to
the neck of the shoulder piece. The
helmet is made of a solid sheet of brass,
without a seam of brazing; with two small
glass lights for the eyes, and a larger one
in the centre, which is screwed on like the
bull’s eye of an air port, in a ship. The
gutta percha tube, which conducts the air
into the helmet, is then screwed on to the
back part of the head, and there are three
small holes curiously fitted in the helmet,
over with a nnt, with a wire-spring, is fas
tened, through which the foul air escapes.
The man in armor then has a large pair of
woolen stockings draw over his feet and
legs, and a pair of shoes, soled with lead,
weighing, conjointly, eighteen pounds, are
put on his feet. Then they arrange a jacket
and trowsers of duck over all. which is call
ed the chafing gear, and is intended to pre
vent the rubber from being cut—the air
tube is next screwed on the air pump, and
now the man is ready to descend into the
water.
A rope ladder is affixed to the outside of
the launch and the diver gets his feet
on the rungs to go down, and then they
place two large pieces of lead, shaped like
the breast plate of a baggage porter,
but weighing forty-six pounds each, on his
back and breast, which are fastened to the
shoulder-plate—a rope is now made fast
round his waist, by which to send down
anything he may require, and, likewise, for
a signal line; thus attired and secured, he
descends thirty feet to the bottom. After
having landed on the bed of the Bay, he
signals accordingly, and they send down to
him a cross-cut saw, with which he saws
of a large pile, fourteen inches in diameter;
this work occupies about half an hour, in
asmuch as it is difficult for one man to work
a cross-cut saw, in or out of water, but when
two go down together they perform the op
eration in half that time.
When the steamer Princeton was here, she
lost an anchor, and a long range of chain,
for which they were dragging two days,
without success. It was in the middle of
the Bay and the man in this marine armor,
walked out, across the Bay, found the anch
or and chain, after he was put on the right
track, made a line fast by which a hauser
was sent down, and it was speedily recover
ed. A barrel of beef fell overboard at the
wharf; again he went down and fastened a
line to it, by which it wa9 raised to the sur
face, and secured.
Occasionally there comes near bim an
enormous blue shark, but he evidently mis
takes the diver for some sea monster, as he
halts near him without making any demon
stration ; and as soon as the man stirs up
and riles the water, the blue cannibal of the
ocean slowly moves away. Different kinds
of fish play around him, and even nibble at
his garments—sometimes he grabs one, but
cannot hold it, as it slips through his fin-
gers.
Mr. Whipple, the intelligent inventor of
the submarine armor, gave us a very inter
esting account of his operations on the
Spanish Main while searching for the treas
ure, sunk in the Spanish three-decker “ San
Pedro,” not far from the city of Cumana.—
He likewise showed some of the old, black
ened and chafed Spanish coins, of which the
company had more than three hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, which had been buri
ed in the wreck upwards of forty years.
A moRt favorable report of this great in
vention has been made to the Government,
we are assured, and doubt not that each
naval station will, in future, be supplied
with suits of this submarine armor, or the
manifold purposes they are so well calculat
ed to subserve.—Pensacola Gazette.
Barnum in one Paragraph.—We have
already extracted quite freely from Black
wood’s criticism of Barnum’s Life, but we
really cannot refrain from one passage more.
The following is a model of terseness and
truth, and it ought to bo printed in every
newspaper, from one end of the country to
the other:
“We do not blame Barnnm for having
exhibited Tom Thumb; but we denounce
him for his acknowledged lies, and for his
confessed deceptions. Fraud, falsehood
and willful imposition were the principal
causes of his success in almost every specu
lation which he has set down ; and so far
from being ashamed of his conduct, he is
positively proud of it. The mendicant who,
on the highway, exhibits sores on his per
son produced by the application to the skin
of a half-penny dipped in aquafortis, and
solicits charity on account of his infliction,
stands, morally speaking, quite os high as
Barnum, who, if one-half of his narrative
be true, he most richly deserved the tread
mill.
“ Read his book, and you will see that
most of what he calls his “ speculations ”
are attempts to obtain money under false
pretences—an article of dittay well known
in this country, and constantly visited with
punishment. If it should be said that the
public must take the consequence of his
own credulity ; we ask what is the difference
between the case of Barnum, and that of
the person who tries to collect alms by
means of false certificates ?”
THURSDAY, MARCH. 22.
dP '
JS53—December....
1854—January
102,749 5ft
1864—December
1855—January
“ February
137.C * IS
02
Total
406,411 23
were hung, some sent to Siberia, while the
punishment of a few were of a lighter char
acter.
From that day forward, Nicholas, Czar
of Russia, has been firmly seated on his
throne. How he lias governed—liow lie, --- -
has improved on the absolute sovereignty i , f ort,1, K‘ lt * Sales of the week
of his predecessors, until now more than , 3^,050 bales, including l,000 on speculation,
ever, all its people are but one mighty piece j ” ba 9. © x P“ri. Quotations are: Fair
of humtn machinery, moved and controlled j ?, r l ea Vf., jf-'L Middling 5 $d. Fair Mobile
by his will alone, we need not here relate.— m-j’ji-o lo-16d. Fair Upland 5}d,
J Middling 4$d. Sales on Friday, G.OOfi bales
closing quiet: prices unchanged. Stock,
528,000 bales, Week’s imports, 200,000.
In eremite in the three month* $89,799 42
Savannah Georgian.
New War Bounty Warrants.—The first
of July is named by some cf the Washigton
letter writers as the earliest day at which it
will be possible for the Commissioner of
Pensions to make a beginning in the issue
of the new Land Warrant*, under the re
cent liberal act of Congress granting boun
ties to the Soldiery and Seamen employ ed in
the War service of the country from 1790
to the present time. It is stated that the
Commissioner and his chief clerk are push*
ins the preliminary arrangements to this
object. Blanks have to be printed; plates
engraved; an extra force of clerks to be
employed, and other indispensable prepara
tions to be made, before the evidences of the
innumerable claimants to these bounties can
be acted upon.
b 7.
Neither is it necessary for us to enter into
the events of his reign, and the causes of
the present war, in the midst of the blaze
of which, if reports are true, he who lighted
the fire expires. These are all well known
to our readers, and we have neither the time
nor space, in the hurry of this brief sketch,
to give them.
In personal appenrence, Nicholas is said
Gen, Cass Triumphant at Home,
We are gratified to learn from the Detroit
Free Press, that the true Democracy of De
troit has achieved a most splendid and mag
nificent victory over the combined forces of
the Know-Nothings, Fusionists and Bolters,
to have been the handsomest man in Europe, ; r> ie vn . uw *’ in S - > ,
tall, commanding, with a perfect outline of Every inch of ground was contested by these
form—physically a fitting monument to
make tne history sf the present age. A
broad chest, a face in which severity and
consciousness of majesty were the prodom
inant characteristics, a mouth regularly
chiselled, sometimes beaming mildly but
never smiling, eyes which glared terribly
in anger, but were calm and mild when the
soul was unruffled—such was the physical
man Nicholas of Russia. Besides his eldest
son Alexander and the two daughters we
have mentioned, he leaves another son, the
Grand Duke Constantine.—A r . K Courier.
Bennett, the editor of the Herald, denies
that anybody is going to write hie life.
factions—every conceivable artifice was re
sorted to by them to carry their city and
ward tickets. The secret agents of the or
der were everywhere present and everywhere
active ; but all to no purpose. The united
and indomitable Democracy met the com
mon enemy and routed him. The victory
is complete. Know Nothingism is buried
j in Detroit ; Fusionism has breathed its last
gasp; the Bolters are no where.
New State Capital.
Advices from Columbia are to the effect
that his Honor Judge O’Neal has issued his
Mandamous compelling the Treasurer to
pay over to the Commissioners of the new
State Capitol, the funds deposited fur the
purposes of that erection.
Edwin Forrest, the tragedian, has
lately had an offer of fiifty thousand to act
fifty nights in California. He has also just
received an offer of six thousand dollars to
act twenty nights in St. Louis.
We take the liberty of publishing
the following letter, from an officer of the
East Tennessee and Georgia R. Road Com
pany.
Athens, Tenn.. March 16th 1855.
James Gardner, Esq:—Augusta, Ga.—
Dear Sir.—We have had fine rains, and the
Tennessee River this morning, is seven feet
above common water at Loudon, and con
tinues to rise. The Traders, Merchants,
and Farmers, of East Tennessee, will now
be able to send forward their products, and
your people may look for good supplies of
Flour, Wheat, Bacon, &c., <fcc., if there is
no detention at Etowah Bridge, which I
have no idea Maj. Cooper will allow. This
will be a matter of great convenience just
now to the citizens of Georgia, and work a
wonderful relief to our people and banks.
We shall cross the Tennessee by steam
to-morrow, and hereafter run six miles near
er to Knoxville, which place we expect to
reach with the cars by 1st July, and will
certainly do so if we have no further deten
tion in the transportation of iron.
Respectfully Yours,
C. WALLACE.
Augusta Constitutionalist.
Fall op a Tunnel.—The Richmond Dis
patch of Saturday says, that a portion of the
Tunnel on the Virginia and Tennessee Rail
road fell in on Friday, throwing an immense
mass of earth on the track, by which the
passage of trains will be obstructed for sev
eral days.
Boston, March 17.—The Cunard steam
ship Canada left at 10 o’clock this morning
with 70 passengers for Liverpool and 16 for
Halifax. She takes out $1,267,855 in spe
cie.
Poughkeepsie, March 17.—An effigy,
with n string of potatoes round its neck and
labelled “ St. Patrick,” hangs this morning
on an elm tree, in front of the Gregory
House. No effort has yet been made to take
it down.
Snow has been falling here fast since 6
o’clock this morning, and it is getting quite
deep.
•tsckHss(e.
The Charleston Standard is out in a very
suggestive article Upon the recent disastrous
fires in South Carolina, originating in the
practice of burning the woods by the stock
raiters. It says:
“Our present enormous charge for fencing
is not required by any interest which we
have in stock. It is scarcely questionable
whether, if stock were required to be en
closed, it would not be more improved,'and
really more profitable to its owners; but if
not—if stock coaid not be raised at all, ex
cept upon our present enclosure system—it
is doubtful whether the charge is justified
by any interest which we have in stock;
for, as* compared with our interests in agri
culture, all the value of our stock is scarce
ly to be noticed. And it is greatly ques
tionable whether the stock of the entire
State is worth more than the annual cost of
fencing to the State. Certainly the profits
of stock, beyond its expenses, bear no pro
portion to this charge. And all things con
sidered, we still are of the opinion express
ed two years since, that the State, without
her fences, would be richer by $1,800,000 a
year than she is at present.
It will prove a heavy task, indeed, in
many sections of the Southern States to
overthrow this custom now possessing tho
authority and sanctity of common law. A
ranchero, whether in North or South Amer
ica, is a predestined drone. Any one of the
class regards thrift or painstaking as against
the law of nature, and thinks that, like his
cow or mustang, be should be allowed to de-
gposture at will and help himself to any
thing that is worth the trouble of coveting.
When the ad valorum principle of taxation
was first discussed in this State to a man the
herdsmen were against it, and some of these
very men whose income amounted to $3,000
per annum for the sale of cattle thought it a
heinous outrage on private rights to pay
the tenth of one per cent, upon this lucra
tive capital. We would like to see the rum
pus that would be kicked up by the wire-
grass people were the Legislature to enact
a law requiring of stock raisers to restrict
the pasturing of their cattle to their own
lands. Why, in Georgia it would produce
a revolution if the “ cow boy3" were not
permitted to burn your land every Spring
for their own benefit, though you did not
own a hoof or a horn. But when we come
to talk of fencing range land, in addition to
the enclosure of arable surface, it is out of
all reason. As far back as 1832 Nicholas
Biddle estimated tho value of the fencing in
the Union to be worth more than $300,000,-
000—nearly the value of all the real and
personal estate in Georgia. We have no
doubt that the expense of fences now en
closing open lands in Georgia, at first cost,
leaving out repairs, is fully $10 for every
inhabitant—more than half the value of
all the live stock in Georgia. But it seems
to us that the Standard is wrong when it
says that the live stock of South Carolina
is perhaps not worth more than the annual
expense of the fencing for that State. Tak
ing the Standard’s estimate of this expense
as correct at $1,800,000 we will see that the
value of live stock on tho other hand is ful
ly eight times that sum. The value of
slaughtered animals in South Carolina is
not far from the amount claimed by the
Standard for the annual expense of fencing
for our neighbor. The annual worth of our
own stock slaughtered in Georgia is not far
from six and a half millions.
But this does not touch the important
problem in the economy of the planting
States, whether less and better stock, with
less fencing, would not be a gain over the
present system. It is easy for mere theo
rists to find fault, and just as easy for them
to find remedial measures—on paper. As
a general thing, a thrifty, working people
usually prove that the vogue is right, or at
least is as near the “best that they can get”
as present circumstances allow. Where
there is really an extended range, such, for
instance, as we find in the piny woods, it
would be folly to talk of any other pastur
age as a reliance but such as the open coun
try furnished and usually in such sections
good rail timber is superabundent. But, in
the older portions of our State, we do not,
ourselves, entertain a doubt that enclosed
pasture and enclosed live stock would pay,
and pay better than the miserable starvation
policy now pursued in such sections. We
do not say that there is any the least fear of
such stock running out, for they have reach
ed the point of ultimate deterioration, and
have run until they can run out no longer.
The man who has never tried it can form
no idea of the real difference between one
of the Graham fed and corn fed cows ; nor
can he estimate the amount or the value of
fertilizing material that may be saved from
even a small stock well housed and cared
for. Perhaps, though, our readers may
think that journalism is descending when
it enlarges upon such topics, we. however,
give it as our opinion that the policy of hill
side ditching and raising large guano heaps
at home are considerations that involve un
told millions of money to our people, and
surely interest us more truly than did ever
the United States Bank or what the Pope
intends to do with us native Americans
when he gets us in his power 1
ACorlonOAr.
The following communication was receiv
ed yesterday by Mayor Wood:
March 13. 1855.
Hon. Mayor Wood—Sir: I noticed in
the New York Evening Hants* of the; i2th
inst., the case of seduction occurring in
Fifth-avenue, said to have been lately res
ported to you. Thesedueer reported to be
a wealthy retired merchant, 4c. You are
no doubt familiar with the case I refer to.—
I have a proposition to submit which can
settle the difficulty and relieve all parties,
and hush the matter up' for ever. I will
marry the girl on condition that she be giv
en $5,000 to be invested in her name in a
farm upon which we will settle. I am wil
ling to have the money secared to her; I
am worth abont $3,000; am a bachelor of
good character; an American; fair in ap
pearance ; have a taste for farming and un
derstand the business. Can give the best
of reference as to character; my habits are
moral and temperate. The proposition is a
fair one and made in good faith.
If you can bring about a settlement of
the affair in this way, it will be no doubt
pleasing to all parties. This is no hoax,
but a bonafide proposition.
Compliment from the President to Col.
Benton.—A letter from Washington says:
* “ Perhaps a reconstruction of the Cabi
net may be necessary. Of that, however,
there is nothing absolutely known, but the
appointments of late clearly pointed to a
new* and better state of things at hand.—
When Col. Benton was being tried in the
furnace of affliction, the President called on
him and tendered to him a borne and the
hospitalities of the White House. This was
too much for the stern old Roman, who
could defy a world in arms against him, but
melted to tears at such consideration and
kindness from the President. He declined,
with suitable expressions of gratitude, ac
cepting, however, the proffered use of libra
ry and manuscripts.
Fires ms* Fire InssraM* in London.
The magnitude of the interests involved
in this important organization, renders it a
subject worthy of consideration by our citi
zens. We therefore condense from the Lon
don Quarterly Review, a history of the ex
tent and operations, bf the preventive and
protective system, adopted Joy the Corpora
tion and Insurance Companies of London.
The original resource for extinguishing
fires consisted in a number of volunteer
companies, each under the control of the
parochial authorities. These companies are
represented to have been very inefficient
and turbulent. The engines were generally
out of order; they arrived too late, and the
men preferred a fight or riot to extinguish
ing fires. In 1833 was organized the cele
brated Fire Brigade. The Fire Protective
system of London then consists: 1. Of 300
engines supported by parochial taxation.—
2. Private engines. 3. The Brigade, which
consists of 27 large horse engines, which
can throw 88 gallons of water per minute,
to the height of 70 feet, and nine smaller
engines drawn by hand. The force employ
ed to work them consists of 12 engineers
and 7 assistant ; 32 senior firemen ; 49 ju
nior firemen; 14 drivers; 104 men and 31
horses. There is a supplementary force of
4 firemen, 4 drivers and 8 horses. The
members of this Brigade reside at the diffe
rent stations. They are regularly enrolled
and paid. The members of the supplemen
tary force are provided with lodging and
clothes at the stations, and paid when em
ployed.
This little army of 104 men and 31 hor
ses is under the command of a General-in-
Caief, and paid by the Fire Insurance Com
panies. The city of London is divided into
districts, each of which is under the super
vision of a subordinate officer. London
covers 21,000 acres, or 30 square miles.—
] It is patrolled by 0,000 policemen, who con-
' stitute the fire watch of the most efficient
! character. To these are added the volunta-
i ry watch of the cabmen, and the vigilance
President Pierce and the New IIamp- j tb 9 se nicu is stimulated by a reward tor
shire Election.—The following extract
from a private letter of President Pierce,
written a few days before the election, to a
friend in Concord, is thoroughly character
istic of the man—high-toned, firm in con
viction, and uncompromising in principle :
Gen. Pierce says: “ I am naturally anx
ious about the result of tho election in New
Hampshire. But tell my friends that if, af
ter a contest conducted with the ability,
honor and courage with which this has
been, we are defeated, such defeat, under
such circumstance.?, will never disturb me
for a moment. If you could have carried
the state with the aid of any one of the
isms, by a majority of 20,000, and would
have consented to do so, I should in my
the discovery of fires. The engines receive
! also a reward of 30, 20, and 10 shillings,
I from the parishes, according to the order of
S priority in which they arrive at the fire.—
I The hands who work the pumps are employ-
| ed upon the spot, and the pay of one shil-
; ling for the first hour, and sixpence per
j hour thereafter, with refreshments, seems
i to ensure sufficient force. Tho Brigade ex-
| tinguishes alike insured and uninsured
i property. The statistics of fires are very
! curious. The whole.number of fires occur-
i ring in London during the year 1853, was
! 900; fires and alarms, 1,092. Houses to-
I tally destroyed, 20. The largest per cent-
i age of fires occur at 10 P. M. The small-
I ost at 9 A. M.
feelings, have sounded the depths of humil- j . origin of fires is now so narrowly
iation. As it is, no disappointment can de- | matured into by the officers of the Brigade,
press me.” j and by means of inquests, that we have
— i been made acquainted with a vast number
Spiritualism run mad.—A spiritual me- j of curious causes, which would never have
dium, named Randolph, lectured in Syra- ! bee . n suspected. From an analysis of fires
cuse on Saturday evening on the origin of ! w kich ^ ave occurred since the establish-
• « •! —- • C-O * 1 | .. . /» v . +- ,, X* i-1% n tt A - I- Still
the devil. His conclusion was that this
celebrated character was of heathen origin
and purely imaginary. A short speech,
says the Standard, was at the same timo
made by the spirit of Daniel Webster, regret
ting his disregard of the claims of humanity
while on earth, and especially a short speech
made in Syracuse in relation to the prospec-
! tive execution of the fugitive law! In New
! York spiritualism is reduced to a business’
ment of the Brigade, we have constructed
! the following tables :
Curtains, 2,511; Candle, 1,178; Flues,
i 1,555 ; Stoves, 494; Gas, 932; Light drop-
! ped down Area, 13 ; Lighted Tobacco fall-
| ing down do. 7 : Dust falling on horizontal
i flue, 1; Doubtful, 76; Incendiarism, 89;
! Carlessuess, 100; Intoxication, 80; Dog, 0 ;
! Cat, 19 ; Hunting Bug3, 15 ; Clothes hor-
| ses upset by Monkey, 1 ; Lucifers, 80 ; Chil-
and we find in the advertising columns of i dren P la .Y in S with do. 45 ; Rat gnawing do
tho journals of that city plain, matter-of-fact ; I 5 Jackdaw playing with do. 1; Rat gnaw-
cards from “mediums,” soliciting the pat- i Gaspipe, 1; Boys letting off Fireworks,
ronage of the public. The following will ! 14 > Fireworks going off, 63 ; Children play-
serve as a sample: i ing with Fire, 45; Spark from do. 243 ;
“Miss Seabring, rapping, writing, tipping j Spark from. Kail way, 4; Smoking Tobacco,
and impersonating medium, the best in tho
city, at home all hours this day and to-mor
row at 640 Sixth avenue. Price 50 cents.
“N. B.—Will attend private circles at
residence when required.
We would call special attention to
the educational notice of Mr. A. G. Thomas.
It is fortunate for our city that a young
gentleman of so thorough an education has
settled among us, and we hope he will be
liberally encouraged.
Masons are called upon to beware of
a Daguerrean artist who calls himself E. H.
Barton, and who says he is a member of
Spartan Lodge of this State, ne has left
Claibourne, Ala., $100 in debt to the hotel
keeper in that place. He also neglected to
pay for sundry advertisements inserted in
newspapers in that vicinity.
New Advertisement,
We call the attention of our readers to the
Advertisement of G. H. Daniel & Co., which
appears in this morning’s paper. We nev
er go into the establishment of our friend
Daniel, but we see many things, that like
much we hear in sermons, seemed to have
been intended for us—so exacly do they fit
our wants. The stock of this firm attracts
especial notice not only from its adapted
ness to the market but also from the choice
description of the articles embraced in it.—
We can answer for it that no one calling
upon our friend will fail to be pleased both
with prices and the extreme politeness and
attention >. h Veil he will dispense his
good things.
The Clairborne county miners in Tennes
see, besides the inexhaustible beds of iron,
have recently discovered extensive veins
and deposits of rich copper, and vast quan
tities of very superior marble, large depos
its of zinc, and veins of argentiferous lead
ores.
The latest new society spoken of in Cali
fornia is the Pay Nothing. It is said to he
alarmingly prosperous. The pass-word is
“ Lend me a dollar.”—the response is
“ Broke.”
A dandy, while being measured for a pair i
of boots, observed, “ Make them cover the j
calf.” “ Heavens!” exclaimed the aston- I
ished artist, surveying his customer from |
head to foot, “ I have not leather enough !” !
Morbid Taste.—The Syracuse papers I
state that during Fyler’s trial for murder in j
that city, the court room was crowded with
females, many of whom brought their din
ners, which they enjoyed during the recess,
so as to be promptly on hand to secure their
seats. We have on several trials seen
enough of this unfeminine curiosity in our
own city, but the fair creatures were willing
to go even without dinner.
166 ; Smoking Ants, 1 ; Smoking in Bed,
2; Reading in do. 22; Sewing in do. 4;
j Sewing by Candle, 1; Lime overheating-14 ;
j Waste do. 43 ; Cargo of Lime do. 22 ; Rain
{ slacking do. 5; High Tide, 1; Explosion,
j 16; Spontaneous Combustion, 43; Ileat
i from Sun, 8; Lightning, 8 ; Carboy of Acid
j bursting, 2 ; Drying Linen, 1 ; Shirts fall-
i ing into Fire, 6; Lighting and Upsetting
j Naphtha Lamp, 58; Fire from Iron Kettle,
i 1; Seal Letter, 1; Charcoal fire of a Sui-
! eide, 1; Insanity, 5; Bleaching nuts, 7 ;
j Unknown, 1,323.
Among the more common causes of fire
| (such as gas, candle, curtains taking fire,
j children playing with fire, stoves, &e.) it is
I remarkable how uniformly the same num-
i bers occur under each head front year to
year.
A trial of a newly invented, self breech
loading and priming carbine, has been made
at the School of Musketry at Hythe. Sixty
shots can be fired from this, weapon in seven
minutes; out of that number at a range of
100 yards, 47 struck the bull’s eye. Total
immersion in water, of tho carbine loaded
did not affect its explosive power, the fuso
being readily discharged. The rapidity of
the firing did not produce the slightest
derangement, the peice neither requiring
oiling qot cleaning.
The Pacific Ocean covers 78,000,000 of
square miles ; the Atlantic, 25,000,000; the
Indian Ocean, 14,000,000; the Southern
Ocean, to 30 degrees, 25,000,000: the North
ern Ocean, 5,000,000; the Mediterranean,
1,000,000.
The Baltimore Sun has received a Japan
ese book. It is described to be printed like
the Chinese on thin paper, and only on one
side, each leaf being a folded sheet with the
edge of course uncut, and designed to re
main so.
The cuts and reading matter are evident
ly engraved on the same plate, and the im
pression very much resembles lithography.
The drawings indicate the slightest possible
idea of perspective, while the execution of
this slight idea is very imperfect.
Later from California,
The steamer Prometheus, has arrived at
New Orleans with dates from California to
the 20th ult, Business was prostrate caused
by the suspension of Page & Bacon, Adams
& Co., Wells & Fargo, Robertson & Co., and
Wright’s miners depot. Wells & Fargo
would resume payments on the 26th; Adams
would not resume for sixty days; Page &
Bacon would resume in a few days their as
sets are large.
Destructive fire had occured at Shasta,
Stockton and San Francisco.
The Legislature failed to elect a Senator
in joint convention, andadjourned.
Heavy rains had set in.
The Legislature of Washington had se
lected Olympia as the Capitol.
Advices had been received from Sydeney,
Austrilia, to December 20th.
Riots had occurred at Bullarat, owing to
the refusal of the miners to pay the tax.—
Twelve miners and twenty-two soldiers were
killed.
Additional by the Africa.
Boston, March 17.—The Africa arrived
at this port at 7 o’clock this morning. Her
mails were too late for the morning trains
but will be forwarded South and West this
afternoon.
The London Morning Herald says that
despatches from Cleylon to the 1st ult. an
nounce that Australia has declared her in
dependence, and that troops have been sent
to quell the insurrection. A sanguinary
engagement had taken place and Melbourne
was in a state of siege.
The Paris Cunstitutionnd says that the
Moniteurs account of the loss of the frigate
Siiuilante from Toulon in the straits of
Bonifaccio in the Mediterranean has been
confirmed. Seven hundred soldiers and the
crew perished, and all the munitions on
board were lost.
Petersburg, Va., March 14.—Henry D.
Bird, late president of the Petersburg and
Roanoke Railroad Company, was to-day ar
rested on the charge of having embezzled
some §31,000 of the funds of the company.
He w r as taken before the Mayor, who refus
ed to bail him, and he was committed to
jail. As high as $100,000 bail was offered,
but the Mayor declined to receive it.
Washington, March 16.—The Russian
Minister here says he believes that the re
ported death of the Czar to bo an unpardon
able hoax, gotten up entirely for sinister ef
fect. lie has no information whatever on
the subjoct, and feels confident, had so im
portant an event taken place, ho would have
been promptly informed.
B®, Wejundorstand, says the New York
Evening Post, that Mr. Putnam has sold his
Magazine for $12,000. What, if any.
changes in its editorial management are
contemplated, are not stated.
Nassau Hall in Ruins.
The destruction of Nassau llall has al
ready been announced. The sons of “ Old
Nassau,” as they are wont to call her, were
proud of the historic recollections that clus
tered so thickly around the building whose
walls alone remain—magnificent even in
their desolation.
About 8 o’clock, P. M., upon Saturday,
the 10th inst., a fire broke out in one of the
rooms of the second story. It is not pre
cisely known how it originated. It is prob
able, however, that the carpet caught from
a spark, or from a piece of wood having
rolled from the fireplace upon the floor.—
All the efforts of the officers and students of
the College, and of the citizens of the town,
to arrest the flames proved unavailing, 'i he
building was of stone, three stories high,
with a basement. It was one hundred and
seventy-six feet in length, and at the time of
its erection (1754) was the largest edifice in
this country. At the time of its destructii n
it was occupied by two of the tutors and
eighty-three students. One of the tutors
and many of tho students had their furni
ture, libraries and wardrobes entirely de
stroyed. The greater portion, however, of
the effects of the students was rescued. The
loss upon the building is about $30,000—
insurance, $12,000. The personal property
destroyed amounted to about S5,000. This
will fall heavily upon the students, many of
whom can ill afford the loss.
At an early period of the fire, even before
the building was, by most persons, consid
ered in danger, the door ot the picture gal
lery was forced open by Mr. Cameron, one
of the tutors, and Mr. Gilchrist, a member
of the senior class. They were soon joined
by Professors Giger and Duffield, and others,
citizens and students, eager to rescue the
portrait of Washington by the elder Peale,
and the portraits of the earlier Presidents
and friends of the College. These were all
removed without injury to a place of safety.
The portrait of Washington was painted in
1784 at tho request of the Board of Trus
tees, and is considered one of the finest pro
ductions of American art. The frama in
which it is placed formerly contained a por
trait of George I. During the battle of
Princeton, January 3, 1777, a cannon ball
entered one of the chapel windows and de
stroyed the portrait of liis Majesty. Little
respect was shown to royalty of those days.
During the Revolutionary War, the build
ing just destroyed was occupied by the Brit
ish as a barrack, and subsequently by the
American troops as a hospital. Congress
also met in it in 1783, when obliged to leave
Philadelphia that its deliberations might
not be overawed.
Lalcrfrom Havana.
New York, March 19.—The steamer Car
haicba has arrived with dates from Havana
to the 14th inst.
Pinto, Cadelso and Pinelo have been sen
tenced to death. The Captain General re
fused to receive tho Consul’s application for
clemency.
Business was reviving.
The Northern Light has arrived with
$200,000 in gold. She brings no later news
from California.
Cm m Mas ]*!▼• Wit*
n»«h#
_ 36H mortem examination of
the prize-fighter,-Bill Poole, who died fr om
wounds received in the late assault upon
him at Stanwix Hall, in New York, a ft*
days ago. The following aoconnt U from
the N.T. Tribune:
A post-mortem examination was made oa
Wednesday by Dr. Finnell, in connection
with Drs. Carnochan, Putnam, Cheeseman
Hart, Wood and others. They found two
wounds on the surface of the*body—on e i n
the lower and outer portion of the thigh
the other in the chest. The one in the thigh
had two openings about an inch anart, and
measuring a quarter of an inch in diameter
It passed through just beneath tbe skin
without touching the muscle of the leg
The ball in the chest entered the sternum
just at its junotion with the cartilage of the
fifth rib, passing through the bone and per.
icardium into tbe substance of the heart
where it was found. On raising tfie breast
bone and exposing the pericardium it wa*
found very much distended, measuring five
inches in transverse diameter, and six in its
vertical. It contained about thirty ounce*
of a sero-sanguineous fluid.
The external surface of the heart wa*
covered with tibrinous exudation, the recent
product of inflammation. The heart was
washed and laid aside with no suspicion
that tho ball was lodged in it until after
nearly two hours’ search in the cavity 0 f
the chest, and especially along the side of
the spine. At last the heart was very care
fully felt over, and the bullet was found
imbedded in its muscular texture. On
making an incision it was exposed. It,
lodgment was in the septum, between the
ventricles, about and inch and a half from
the apex of the heart, and quarter of an
inch from its surface.
The muscular substance had united over
the ball and healed so far that the point of
entrance was obliterated. He lived for
12 days without any palpipation, or any
fainting or syncope such as is usually expe.
rienced in a morbid condition of the heart.
Its action was perfectly regular. There is
no question but that, under favorable cir
cumstances, he might have recovered, and
experienced little if any inconvenience from
the ball. Four or 5 days after he was shot,
he was quite strong. A story goes that a
man came to see him with whom he had had
some difficulty, and asked him how he was
getting along, whereupon he jumped out of
bed and said ; “I ain’t dead yet; I am well
enough to flog you yet.” He died from ef
fusion in the pericardium, stopping the ac
tion of the heart. It is probable that, on
Wednesday night the effusion began to come
on, and it rapidly increased. At 9 o’clock
on Thursday morning it suddenly increased,
and he sunk immediately. The lungs were
pale and cedematous. The liver, kidueys,
stomach, and other organs presented an un-
usually fine views of organs in a sound con
dition. The whole body was a most perfect
specimen of fine muscular development;
even to the ends of his toes the muscle*
were remarkably developed.
Ingenious Fraud.—The N. Y. Times of
this morning, says:
An ingenious fraud by one of its individ
ual ledger clerks has been discovered in the
Pacific Bank of this city, to the amount of
$18,000 or $20,000. The perpetrator ha*
absconded. His practice was to use a sec
ond time the checks upon the bank returned
through the Clearing House, instead of can
celling them after examination and entry to
each account in the morning. The checks
were charged up, of course, but once on the
ledger, and in the pass books of the deposit
ors, and then the weekly or monthly balance
sheet forced for the general ledger, so as to
agree, apparently, with the cash of the
bank.
The process was carried on for many
months before exciting suspicion or detec
tion. The guilty party kept his private
bank account in a neighboring institution
through which the duplicate use of the gen
uine checks was conducted—of course in
moderate sums and only when payable to
bearer, or endorsed in blank, without cer
tification.
Lexington and Lecompte.—These cele
brated nags are contend on the Metairo
Course for the Jockey* Club Purse, four mile
heats, with an inside stake of $5,000 each
on Saturduy, the 14th of April.
State of tlie Weatlier.
Gclock a. m. I
40 degree^ I
! o’clock p. m. I 5 o’clock p. m.
59 degrees j 55 degrees
COMMKRf'IAL.
Atlanta, March 21
Cotton.—6@7J, extremes.
Exchange, on New York is,sellingat peri cent
premium. On Charleston and Savannah i per
cent.
Bacon.—We quoto hog round 9i to 10. Hams
12to 12* cents. Sides Ribs 9 91 cts. Sides claar
91 to 10. Shoulders 74 a 8 cents.
Lard by thc'bbl. 10@11 cts. leaf.
Iron, Swedes 51 to tile; English 5 to 5J cent*;
Nnils have advanced to 6 a 64 cts.
Corn is selling at SI to $110.
Corn Meal, $1 to $1,20 cents.
Pork, Hog round, 64@7 cents.
Beet, By the quarter, 6 54 cents.
Sweet Potatoes, 60 to 75 per bushel.
Irish Potatoes, $24 Jto 3 per bushel.
Salt, Liverpool sacks plenty, $190,@$,2,
Liquors.—French Brandy, $2,50 to $3,60 per
gallon: Domestic 50 to 75c. Peach do. 60 a75
cents. Whiskey 45 a 50 cents. Qin 50 to 60.
Hum 45 to 60 cents.
Wheat.—Good will bring to $1,70 per bushel
readily.
Flour.—Scarce at $5 to oj per hundred.
Butter, Country, 15 to 20 cts. Goshen, 35 cts.
per pound. Tenn. Butter, 10 a 15 by the Keg.
Fair N. 0. Sugar, by hhd. 54.
Prime “ “ “ 64.
Choico “ “ “ S—.
Syrup, N O. by bbl. 33 to 35 cts. gal.
Extra Whiskey “ 45 “ “
Star Candles per box 28 “ lb.
No. 1 Rio Coffee by sack 11} to 124 " “
Gunny Bagging 16 to 17 cts.
Rope 12 to 13 cents.
Chickens, 15 to 20 cents.
Eggs, 10 to 124 cents.
Fodder, $1 to 125 per hundred.
Peas, $1,40 to $1.50
Feathers.—10 to 45.
Candles.—Sperm 37 o 45c. Tallow 20 22 eti
CHARLESTON, March 20, 1 P. M.—Cotton.
There is a lively demand and prices have further
advanced a fall 4c. Sales to day 2,000 bale* at 7$
to 94 cents.
NEW ORLEANS, March 19.—COTTOX-All
qualities below Good Middling have advanced J
cent. Sales to-day 13,000 balos. Middling 84 to
8} cents.
SAVANNAH, March 19.—COTTON.— Ih»
market was quiet on Saturday with sales of 414
bales at previous rates. The following are the
particulars of the sales :—3 at 74; 40 at 74; 17® at
8, 127 at 8}, 26 at S4, and 36 at 8J, cents. Early
in the afternoon later dates from Europe by the
Africa were received. We heard of no transac
tions after those accounts became known.
AUGUSTA, JMarch 20—COTTON.—The de
mand continues firm and prices show an advance
of 4c.) since tho Africa’s accounts. Some sale*
have been made at a greater advance.
The Cost of the War.—Tho English
Government contemplates having engaged
in tho war during the opening year, no less
than 168,549 men of all ranks in both ser
vices, land and sea, and that the sum neces
sary to support and render efficient this
body of men and the ships to be manned by
thorn, for a single year, will bo more than
one hundred ane thirty eight millions of
dollars.
The phrase “ almighty dollar,” originated
with Washington Irving, who first made u e
of it in his charming little sketch of “ a
Creole village,” which appoared in 1837.
By the late act of Congress, the salry of
the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States was raised to $6,500 per
anum, and the salaries of the associate jus
tices to $6,000 per anum.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
SAVANNAH, March 19.—Arr. ship Express,
Boneie, New York ; Dutch Galliot V orenstern,
Ruggh, Neuwo Dieu, Holland. Cleard ships
Nebraska, Bostnmn Brernan, Ouoca, Weston,
Liverpool; New York, Edwards, Boston; br. bark
Atala, Ray, Liverpool; steamship Augusts, Ly on
New York.
CHARLESTON, March 29—Arr. L.ship Colum
bia, Sturges, New York; Spanish barks Tuva,
Roig, Havana ; Sirena, Boix, do., bark Saranac,
Bullcvdeick, Guayama, P. R.; Spanish brig I' a *
bellita. Oliver, Vlatanzas; M. L. brig Delaware,
Harding, Baltimore. Cleared, H. L. schr, three
Sons, Iligbeo, Philadelphia.
Notice.
THE firm of PARR A McKENZIE is this day
dissolved by mutual consent. Edwin MeKeniio
is authorized to settle up the affairs of tho late
concern, and its effects are plaoed in bis hands for
that purpose. L. J. PARR.
EDWIN McKENZIE.
. 559" L. J. Parr will continue tho uommis*' 011
Business oa his own account.
Atlanta, March 21st- d ( '- .
A CHANCE TO MAKE MOJNKV!
Profitable and Honorable Employment! '
1/1 r\l HE Subscriber is desirous of having an agent
<Li in or.ch county and town of the Union. A
capitil of from 5 to $10 only will be required, and
anything like an efficient, onergetio man can make
from 3 to $5 per day;—indeed some of tbe Agent*
now employed are realizing twice that sum. Eve
ry information will be given hy adddresting: (P os *
tage paid.) W V|. A. KINSLER,
Box 1228, Philadelphia, Pa., Post Ofio*;
March 20,1855. («*>}