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U BUMM •* bMtl 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. («*>}