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AY Mar. 28.
light tfc* Prorirtw HtarKM. -
W* thought w» (Mold tell a ■ufficieutly
dolorous "tale of suffering’’ when we- not
long ago quoted oom meal at a dollar and a
quarter per bushel, and other things in pro
portion, but our cotemporary of the Savan
nah Morning News eclipses our account en
tirely, and by giving us a peep into the pro
vision stalls at the seaboard, makes ua think
we are living in “ flush times ” up here in
the interior. We truly commiserate the
condition of our friends below, but let them
stay their stomachs on cat fish for a while
longer and we doubt not East Tennessee
will soon come to their rescue. The News
gives the following account of a visit to the
market:
With the exception of Catfish, Gouber
Peas and Turnip Greens, there was nothing
to speak of in the market. What little
there was abundantly made up in prices for
the deficiency in quantity and quality. Here
and there were to be seen a few pieces of mis
erable Beef at 15 cents per pound—and no
grumblingabout the bones. If you didn’t like
it, you could let it alone. Fowls were hard
to obtain at $1 a pair. We saw two game
chickenstiedbv the less with their necks trim
med and their heads pecked till they were en
tirely out of shape, offered for a dollar. The
owner had “fit” ’em until they couldn’t come
to time,and now he offered them a3 ‘provisions’
at that price, but he wouldn’t abate a dime.
Pork, ordinarily good, was selling at 12}
cents per pound. Eggs 25 cents. Shad, of
which there were very few in market, went
off readily at 50 to 75 cents a piece. Irish
potatoes at the rate of SC per bbl. or about
one cent a piece—small ’taters at that! But
cat fish were on hand by the cart load—cat
fish from the size of a tadpole to something
less than a porpoise—sola at prices accord
ing to size—generally cheap, and were ta
ken off by the colored population with avi
dity. We thought, what a blessing are cat
fish to those that take to them. Catfish are
stiU between us and starvation!
At the Light Depot.—We notice that
our friend T. R. Ripley, as will be seen by
his advertisement in this morning’s paper,
is offering new and increased inducements
to the trading public. lie has, probably,
the largest and finest assortment in Upper
Georgia of all articles in the line of Chinn,
silver, plated and glass ware, cutlery &c.—
Persons desiring such articles, as well as
camphene, fluid, oils, turpentine &c., would
do well to give him a call.
In Baltimore on Thursday, the superb
steamship Tennessee, was offered at public
auction and withdrawn at a bid of $70,000.
It is thought she may again be placed on
. the Baltimore and Charleston route.
We learn from the Boston Journal that
the premium of $100 has been awarded by
the association of banks for the suppression
of counterfeiting, to Messrs. J. M. Wilcox
& Co., of Pennsylvania, for the best bank
note paper.
The Huntsville Advocate of Thursday
says: We had several fine and seasonable
rains last week, which appear to have been
general over the country. On Saturday
night there was a sight snow, and the weath
er since has been quite cold and raw. The
Tennessee River has risen considerably, and
the boats can carry up full loads of cotton
and the article can also go below, which is
a great relief to the country.
•The Know-Nothing candidate for
SMUcrtriUe 1m Bnin»
Tenntlle, March 25, 1855.
». Editort: I have just' returned
from Sdhdersrille, and I am sorry to s *y it
is a heap of smouldering ruins.
One of the most dreadful fires I ever be
held broke, oat in our town yesterday, about
2 o’clock; it commenced in the wood shop
of Nathan Renfroe, in the extreme South
eastern part of the town ; the wind blowing
almost-a gale from that direction, theiire
spread with alarming rapidity; it was n of
more than two hours before the whole busi
ness part of the place was consumed. It
left Renfroe’s shMbwent up Church street,
consuming in it^vray Renfroe’s dwelling
with all his furniture, several new carriages,
and, in fact, made a clean sweep of every
thing it contained.
Next it took the dwelling house of Hay
wood Brookins, our excellent Ordinary and
Post Master, who was at his office endeavor
ing to save the hooks of his office, which I
am happy to say he effected, but tbe devour
ing element consumed his dwelling with all
its contents, thence taking Mrs. Skrine, W.
W. Carter, Mrs. Ainsworth and various oth
ers in its onward march to the Storehouse
of Messrs. Lazeron & Newman, Haines &
Bro., Brown & Webster, and in fact every
business house in the place, together with
our Court House and Jail, with all the coun
ty records and papers, the offices of the
clerks of Superior and Inferior Courts both
consumed with their contents, the Ordinary
only excepted.
Capt. Henry' C. Lang who so signally dis
tinguished himself in the late Fire and who
then saved our Court House, is now entirely
burned out, saving no clothes only what he
had on at the time. Such hei’oic doing and
~ A Kew Building Ifeteilaj/Cincinnati, March ap-noon.
fcor many years past tha. lhbabitants of; has fallen two feet. IFeather .
Wisconsin have been in the habit of build- 1 snowed two hoaro this morninjr. J the Western (Oinn.) carisuau .-tavocuic.
ing their houses r Wherever sand and lime Flour firm at $8.25(3(830. VVhilkey 2o, i c *• Vkmatmw th« Extinction at
are plentiful, of a substance known as j Provisions' buoyant—mess \>»rk $13.50.—-J *■*▼•'*• ■
Grout, which is a mixture of lime and l Bulk meet—stamldera S ; -ides 6. Groce- A meeting was held on Tuesday, the 13th
sand. In all parts of that State houses of j r ies firm; Bales .of 100 hhd augar at 5(3ll j * nst -» afc 3 o’clock, p. it., in the basement of
this description are to be met-with, many of: 51 • ga i eg of -ISO bbls mobiles at $5 tbe Association Reformed Presbyterian
which, though they have been erected from j ' '
sixteen to twenty years, do not show the
least signs of decay. This fact, we under
stand,* suggested to Mr. Ambrose Foster, of
Portland, Dodge county, Wisconsin, the
idea that it might be possible so to compound
and manipulate these two articles, lime and
sand, as to form a building material which
should not only be as durable as the best
stone itself but should also be adapted to
the many requirements of builders through
out the United States. After devoting con
siderable time and ingenuity, he has at
length succeeded in producing an article
that bids fair eventually to drive clay-made
bricks entirely out of the market, and to
supersede in many instances the use of stone.
Tak* * * *
liking for the basis of his operations the
established fact that hydrated lime, when
exposed to the action of the atmosphere
again, takes up the carbonic acid which it
lost iu the process of burning and slacking,
and so becomes indurated, he set himself to
work to find out the proper proportions of
sand and lime to form a species of sand
stone. These he found were one part lime
to twelve of sand. In Wisconsin, little at
tention had been paid to these proportions
in the making of Grout, which is there al
ways used in a wet state, like mortar, the
walls being built up by layers of this mix
ture being laid on between two parallel
boards. Hitherto, then Mr. Foster had but
valor as was yesterday performed by our j very slightly varied his process from that
townsmen and friends from the country j adopted in his native State. Eventually,
(several whom were in town at the time) ; however, lie fouud out that, in order to ef-
are seldom witnessed, and they deserve our f ect a more perfect combination, the lime
lasting gratitude for their prompt and en- ! and sa nd should be mixed together in a
ergetic efforts to stop the fiery elements, but nearly dry state—in fact, the sand. a3 it was
all in vain, the fiat had gone forth, the fire i dug out of the earth, and the lime in the
was out, the wind was with it, and Sunders- j powdery state it acquires after being slack-
rille has fallen. P. j e d. The mixture is then run into molds,
Some thirty-five or forty houses have been . passed into a machine constructed for the
destroyed. Our correspondent gives tbe purpose, and subject to great pressure—as
names and probable loss of the principal ! niuc h, indeed, as' one hundred and twenty
sufferers. We have not time to insert them t01)s U p on a single brick of the ordinary
to-day. Total loss estimated at forty-five g ; ZC-
or fifty thousand dollars. j On being removed from the machine, the
The sufferers have our heartfelt sympa- j brick presents a white appcarnce, showing
thies.—Southern Recorder ■ on its surface that it is simply as yet a mix-
Phosphorns. ! ture of lime and sand compressed into shape.
The origin of pliosporus is the most re- ‘ These bricks arc now piled up in regular
markable thing concerning it. Every other heaps, so that the air may Circulate freely
substance with which we are acquainted I around them. At this point commences a
New Orleans, March 24.—Cotton is firm.
The sales during the week have comprised
29,000 hales. The stock on hand amounts
to 97,500 bales. The decrease in the receipt
as compared with the same time last year
72,500 bales. Middling is worth from 8} ~~
8f cents per fl>. The sales to-day were
bales.
Boston, March 23.—The Manchester op
eratives embracing the entire force of the
Cotton Mills continue their strike, and the
greatest excitement ever known exists. The
Manufactures contend that they are making
no profits, and so had no objection to stop-
ping.awhiie.
The House of Representatives have, by a
large majority, refused to amend the ten
hour law.
Cincinnati, March 22.—Judge Prior, of
Kentucky, decided at Covington to-day that
Association Reformed
1. Church, to consult on the propriety of call
ing a convention of Christians, of all evange
lical denominations, to be held in this city,
in May next, for the purpose of considering
what measures ought to be adopted to hast
en the extinction of slavery in tbe U. S.—
Tbe'attendance, says the Central Christian
Herald, was good, nearly all the evangeli
cal churches being represented, and a large
number of the ministers being present.—
After prayer by Rev. Dr. Aydelotte, he was
called to the chair. After a full discussion,
it was resolved.
1. That it is expedient to call a conven
tion, as above suggested, on the first Wed
nesday in May next.
2. That the chairman appoint a commit
tee of seven, from different denominations
of Christians, to prepare and publish a call
for said convention.
The following gentlemen were appointed.
Rev. Professor Day, Rev. Dr. Wilson,
[UomupoadMM of tho Atlanta l)«ly loUUiffanoar.]
T«A Aftlri.
Hxwt&BX,
“ Sol ’’ has got over the lute
it. Tis a painful thingfor the * old
fellow to wheel himself ent of h: hit
in the Southern skies, where
he has been holding soft daUiaifee with the g*ntl<
season, and like a hardy pionaer “blase” him
Mir. E. Oakes Smith IpeiSeili discoursing
to tbe good people of Boston on this femi
nine; branch of Young"Americn. The sy
nopsis of the lecture, which we find in the
Boston Traveler, contains some shurp and
low--spicy hits ait the lords of creation. Sne ev-
, 'ideally thinks Adam was an Old Fogy when
she says:
Women‘ must take this work into their
the makers of notes given for stock in the | Rev c B Boynton, Rev. Wm. G. W. Lew-
Kentucky Trust Company are not liable for , iSj Lev ; Cuffin Rev j French aad Mr Jo _
the payment of those notes, unless it can be jjff e
shown that they combined to defraud the j x ' ho namea of IIon . Bellamy Storer and
public. This decision reduces the assets of j Rey West, Jr., were added by the con-
the Bank nearly 00,000. I vention
The weather continues quite cold here, j ' Go ahead> gentIemen of the cloth. This
Providence, March 21. A foolish attempt, j s y 0ur work emphatically, and as you have
has been made to get up an excitement i ..... - , ,1 .
, „ i , ,, , . been the beginning and the continuance so
about a young lady of this city, said to be • .... . , , ...
confined in the Convent of the Sisters of j “« the end of lt - If disunion and fratricide
Mercy here. There is no foundation for it! be sins, let not the American Church say
except that a lady has joined the Sisters I so, for the ministry of that church, with but
against the urgent wishes of her friends
Norfolk, March .22.—A terrible snow
storm has been prevailing here since early
this morning. The snow is now six inches
deep and still falling.
New York, March 23.—Kissane, lately
convicted in this city of forgery, was to-day
sentenced to two years and six months im
prisonment at Sing Sing.
Baltimore, March 23.—Flour has declined
—small sales on Howard steet at $8.75,
market dull. Wheat dull and unchanged.
Corn a little better; sales of white at 87@
88c., and yellow at 83c.
Trenton, N. J., March 22.—All the bank
two honorable denominational exceptions
that we now remember, may take the blame
of disunion and the shedding ot brother’s
blood by brother upon their own souls.—
The clergy of the Union have a vast amount
of erudition among them—-/to- this country.
their share of natural endowment—■probably,
and we do know more than their share of the
cool and quiet shade of contemplation.—
And yet if we will dispassionately review
the intermeddling of the Cloth with politics,
both in this country and in England, we are
constrained to say that for their intelligence
as a body they have less practical sense and
can be traced either to tbe earth or air; but
phosphorus seems to be of animal origin.—
Of all the animals man contains the most;
and of the various parts of the body,
the brain yields, by analysis, more phos
phorus than any other. This fact
chemical change. The moisture of the at
mosphere enables the lime to again to take
up the carbneic acid, and the whole is trans
formed, in the course of a few days into
bricks of remarkable hardness, ready at once
for all ordinary building purposes. The
umuus UlllU iVHJ UlUCJ . J 1113 IttPt JO , • •/ O i *■ _
of no little moment. Every thought j surfaces now present the appearence ot a
lias, perhaps, a phosphoric source. It
certain that the most intellectual beings con
tain the most phosphorus. It generally
happens that when a singular discovery is
vhitish sand stone, while month after month
and year after year, the same chemical
change is going on, and the bricks become
harder and harder, until at length they are
made, many years elapse before any appli- | lls indestructible as granite itself. In tlieir
cation of it is made to the welfare and hap
piness of man. This remark applies to
manufacture they neither shrink nor wrap,
hence they can be laid so evenly that but
bills have now passed the House, and the - -
bill to recharter the Cumberland Bank pass- fewer f£ e f afe counsellors among them than
ed the Senate to-day. The remaining bank | an J other class of men on earth. \V e do not
charters are now certain to pass.
Columbia, March 25.—The Northern line
is again down.
New Orleans, March 24.—McClnng, the
long. And so, with his fane muffled for grief and
returned by sympathizing troops of sable clouds
which weep rain tears as they go, he takes up his
march. Like ft warrior, whose braced sinew* Rare
softened in the bans of ease until bis knightly
harness cumbers and wearies him when ho would
seek new strifes, the stont monarch seems obliged
to begin the fight with moderation, bathing twelve
hours with the hostile powers of the upper air and
resting an equal number in the caves of tho under
world. But he is sure to come off conqueror. The
March winds, those tattered danalion of retiring
winter, who dart their frosty lances at his face un
til all the air tingles with very cold, do but frothim
into hotter action, until stripping off his morning
weeds, while the lengthening days gain upon the
nights, he guides still higher his flaming ohariot
searches out and consumes the linking remnant of
his foes and smiles victoriously over sea and land.
All this ho has achieved very handsomely within
the last few days, and we in the corporate capacity
of a city glorify him exceedingly in our “ daily
work and conversation.”
While our goodly city is rapidly growing to an
excellence over all the cities of the country, and
perhaps of the world, in the varied and many
qualities which constituted the acknowledged
worth of a metropolis, it is not surprising that it
should become such a seat of professional learning
os to do honor to and be the pride of the Western
Continent. I am thinking more particularly of
the profession of medicine. Our sister city of tho
worthy Quakcrsand right angled brotherly lovehas
for a long rime claimed her superiority in the ad
vantages which she offers for tho study of this de
partment of science and art, (for, though a modest
sister, she often naively says that she is beautiful
and meritorious,) but at tho present day we can
scarcely yield tho palm, even in this, to any city
in the world—Paris not excepted. The schools
here, conducted on principles of education the
broadest and most comprehensive known to the
age, provided with teachers who arc among the
ablest and most learned in the scientific world, lo
cated in the midst of and in connection with our
numerous hospitals, offer advantages to the stu
dent of medicine unsurpassed if not uneqalcd any-
phosphorus. It is only the other day that j lbrle mortar is needed in putting them to-
duellist, committed suicide at Jackson, to
day.
[Prom tbe Savannah Morning News.]
Fire in Saudersville 1
Sandersville, March 25th, 1855.
. Dear Thompson :—As promised, I pro
ceed to send you some further particulars of
the disastrous fir* of yesterday:
scruple to say, that, in our opinion, the j w bcre. Their general prosperity and the rapid
i i-u „ i ,1 .• i growth of the younger ones to popularity attest
present amazing hardihood and corruption , . , • ° „ ... A .....
-r i , I their real excellence. [Notwithstanding the high
or some ol the leading; presses North have , . , . . „ °
* " standard of scholarship adopted as a test of profi-
been encouiaged by the countenance and c ; cc0 y. about two hundred yonng physicians are
example of the Northern pulpit. Co-relig- ! graduated here annually, nearly all of whom carry
ionists are at work all over the country, | their learning and skill away to the country towns
North and South, as if purposely to bring I and lesser cities of the Union. The oldest school
religion into disgrace. The other day, a j * n the city—that of the University of the State of
New York, now located in Crosby street, near
Spring—is soon to be removed to a new and splen
did edifice in the course of erection in the upper
part of town.
gether. Indeed, the amount of lime required
to make the bricks and put them together,
the quantity
[From tlic Abbeville Banner.]
Charleston Artesian Well.
it was sold at live shillings an ounce ; now
it is so cheap that the penniless portion of
our population hawk it about in tbe form ot’ in building, does not exceed
matches. But what, a noble, life, light and ; necessary in ordinary brick bi
fire-giving office docs it til!! For commer- ; turns,
cial purposes—match-making—phosphorus
is extracted from burnt bones. The demand
for it is now so great that many tons are an
nually prepared. When Kraft traveled, he
had not more than half an ounce “ to set
before the king!”
The Deaf mape vo Heai:—An Import
ant Invention.—We were shown this morn
ing a new contrivance to relieve the deaf,
which appears to us admirably adapted for
the purpose for which it is designed. It
consists of two small “metalie shell like af-
.... .. consists ot two small imetanc sneii iseai-
Mavor of Troy gave a new rendition ot the ! • * , .. .. . , ,,
* • *. j j • —., _ | fairs, wuh small ivory tubes fitting into the
Declaration of Independence, viz: ‘ Life; | cav jty 0 f the ear. The instruments tire
Liberty, and the Pursuit of Irishmen !”
The Way the Money Goes.—Congress
presented each of the reporters of the Globe
for the last session, with $800, amounting
in the aggregate to $10,000. This is in
addition to their regular compensation. At
the previous session, $300 was given to each
of the Globe, reporters in addition to their
regular pay from the publisher of the Globe.
At this rate a reporter’s pay is at least
equal to that of a member of Congress,
while, if tho reporter does work hard for a
few months he has no constituents to call
him to an account for his stewardship.
held together by a light spring which pass
es around the hack part of the head, and
which, by means of slide* can be graduated
to suit the size or shape of the head. The
instrument is made with metallic plates of
great vibrating power, and their strength
can he increased to such a degree that per
sons unable to obtain relief in any other
way have been made to hear readily by their
use. The “Acoustic Auricle,” as the in
strument is styled, is graduated to suit diff
erent degrees of deafness. One of the most
prominent advantages of 'his invention is
the fact that they can be worn constantly
and with perfect comfort: they are so small
i as scarcely to attract attention, and their
■ weight is so trifling as not to be noticed by
Ladies who are afilictcd with
; lo the Editors of the Banner :
Gentlemen—If doctors differ, why not
: mere men, on this point? More than three
! years ago, and since, I have published my
humble opinion on the impossibility of ob-
■ tainiug an Artesian Well, not only in the
city of Charleston, but in the basin of
: Charleston, embraced within a radius of
; two hundred miles, and even more; and my
1 reason tor sa^ ing so is, that tho geological
formations that yield an Artesian Well, are
j entirely wanting in this region, or nearly so
• tor all practical purposes.
Science is merely a nicely adjusted sys
tem of classified, carefully and correctly
observed facts, and its conclusions can be
but true when the facts are well and truly
observed. Now, those who are the friends
: of the opinion that an Artesian Weil ispos-
j table in such a basin as that of Charleston,
will have to point out to u - first the existence
! of the geological formations that are to yield
' the water ; and as, so far as we know, they
' are entirely wanting, it is, therefore, very
' rorsonable to conclude from the facts and
' experience of ages, that Charleston, like
' Venice, cannot possess an Artesian Well.
Joseph Togno.
Montevino, Abbeville, S. C.
Fashionable Gambling Pai-acts broken
it.—Mayor Wood of New York, may well
idefatigable.” The E:c-
vening says:
rr—r — r—-7~, - the wearer. Ladies who ure
C. G. Baylor, Esq., it is said, has gone as j dea f neg8 can effectually conceal the “Anri
des” with their hair or cap.
This discovery in aecoustics is of recent
date. It is the invention of an accomplish- j p c pronounced "inti
ed English Aurist, and it lias already at- ■ press of Tuesday eve;
tractod much attention in England. We | “Last "night Capiain 'Tuinbull. of the
have seen a letter from a highly respectable ■ $th Ward police, arrested on a warrant is-
and intelligent lady in this city, who has for | sued ] )V Mayor Wood, Pat Hearns, one of
many years been afflicted with deafness.— | the most celebrated gamblers in the city,
She speaks in she most unqualified terms of j an( ] keeping a gambling palace at 587
, , .... , A , . j the advantages she has enjoyed from the | Broadway, where lie lias held forth years
abandoned all hope of taking Sevastopol, or j ug0 of the ‘Auricles.’ As we are blessed i past—sometimes, according to rumor, ma
tt least have concluded that it will cost a with excellent hearing, we are unable to ! king as high as $15,000 or $20,000 a night,
great deal more to take the place than it Ih j judge practically of the new instruments, « Pat is an Irishman, 52 years of age, and is
' but so far as neatness and comfort to the • sa j d f 0 ] >e very wealthy.
a special agent to Europe, to obtain in do-.
tail all necessary information in relation to
tho Cotton interests, and the remedies tor
the present ruinous Liverpool monopoly,”
by means of direct trade.
IgL- It is stated that Napoleon’s prepara
tions are making for a visit, not to the Cri
mea, but to Berlin ; that the Allies have
Woi Hoilges, ....
loSsP insurance. :
$2500 1800 i
.1 T Youngblood.
7000
5‘dOO
Brown & Webster,
- sooo
4000
Haines 6z Brother, -
1000
none J
Col IV K Flornoy, -
- 1200
none
Hr.vwood Brookins.
2500
none I
Z Gray,
- 6000
8SOO
Haines & Wicker,
1250
none
Haines li Br» (store) -
- 1600
1150
Z Brantley,
6000
4000
Hr Brantley,
- 5000
SOOO |
Mi l’ournell,
2000
none j
Dr Turner, ...
- 500
none
Pendleton. Hodges S Keneau,
1000
none j
Dr Kincliley (Drug store)
- 1100
100 !
Ainsworth & linger.
5000
4000 !
Gen Brantley,
- 100O
500 :
.T Brantley
0000
none
Mrs Alensworth,
- -2000
none 1
Mrs Harris. -
3000
none j
A XortLington,
- 2000
1500
I, H Gordon,
860
none
Mrs Skree,
- 500
none !
Jlr Usina.
100
none i
CenTSWatbea,
• 7000
none J
Mr Carter,
500
none
N Renfroe,
SOOO
none
Cant Inng,
- 1500
none j
Mr McConkey,
2.0110
none !
T A Wicker.
- 2500
2200 j
Gen Jernigan,
5000
none i
I.azaron & Xi-mtnan,
Mr Newnnn (dwelling,) - -
8000
3000 |
• 2200
none j
I Frederick.
400
none
Dr HallEeld,
- 600
none: J
S A H Jones. -
300
none* I
Public Property,
1-200
none
Wm Slade (cash)
1G8
none i
Mr Reinlreart,
- 200
none ’
Mrs A Fulmer.
SO
none
Pr Haines, -
- 2000
none j
Wm Renfroe,
200
none
Sir Rmbuer, ....
Major Bangs, - - .
400
none i
1500
none |
Dr Cullens, - - - -
- 100
none !
D B Even*. ....
100
none
Haines & Wicker 7 bags of cotton.
220
none |
Public money in bands of M Brooklius. SOO
none
Masonic Hall,
- 1600 i
nftMam’t j
Wm Mills,
not remain'd
*2000 none i
S12138S
$34750 !
miscreant stood up in Boston, in Fannueil
Hall, and raved out that his people went in
for an “ anti-slavery Constitution, an anti
slavery Bible and an anti-slavery God.”—
each other in the face and thought it all
amons. They preach against (or at least they'
A new way of advertising, rather costly, hut
certainly calculated to tell well, has been discover
ed and adopted by Mr. Bonner, the proprietor of
“ The Merchant'* Ledger." Mr. B. keeps np a
constant succession of new and continuous stories,
once did,) impure thoughts and then openly an 'I in order to call attention to them he advertise*
concert with thousands to commit outrages the first part* word for word in the daily papers,
„vi-„ j T u .1 with the line, “To bo continued in our next,” un-
upon public decency. Long homilies they • ’
give us upon performing our vows to God
and man and then come down and abet a ;
stupendous national perjury that while it :
brings down the public character of the ; them, ho learns that the rest can be obtained in
American people into the mire, at the same the Ledger. This system has largely increased
time overwhelms the Government. Yes, a the circulation of the Ledger. Mr. B. is a shrewd,
“Convention to Hasten the Extinction of = enterprising publisher, and although men of other
Slavery.” They will hold that same Con- ; ^Positions might think this would ruin him. it
der them, as if they were written for those jour
nals : but on the second or third day, when the
reader gets to the bottom of the instalments of
these stories and becomes thoroughly interested in
worth, and that they will march through ;
I wearer are concerned, they are as much su- j “A descent'was also'made by Capt. Turn-
perior to the old fashioned, bungling ear , p u ii npor , the gambling house 537 Broad-
trumpet, as a pair of modern spectacles ! waY) kept by J. S. Hall, a Southerner, who
would be to a ship’s telescope, or the habit- j keeps a magnificent place, and who has
ual use of the near or weak sighted. Mr. . made a fortune equally as large, perhaps,
George C. Bower, the well known Druggist, | as p a t Ilearn. Half was also arrested by
at Sixth and \ ine sts. is the sole agent in | order 0 f Mayor Wood, who has issued an
this city for the sale of the “Auricles.”— . edict to other police captains to apprehend
are afflicted with deafness can a j[ gue h offenders as arc to be found in their
Those who
Prussia, if she consents, or over her if she
resists, into Poland.
The Crimean destination, and the rumor
ed opposition of the British Cabinet, is
deemed merely a ruse to ward off suspicion
until the iesult of the Vienna Conference is
disclosed.
A Methodist Missionary to Rome' A I r , ead . il - v sati « f J themselves of the efficacy of ; respective districts.
A Methodist missionary to xvoMF,. A i the instrument, by {aymg Mr. Bower a vis- “Hearn and Ilal
young Italian, boy, pious, and of great | and they can receive the address of the
promise, is now being educated at the ex- j lady referred to who has worn them so sat-
pense of a Sabbath School in Chillicotlie, J isfactorily for several-months.—Philadelphia
Ohio, with the purpose of sending him as a ] Enllettn.
Methodist missionary to Rome. j The Arms of jHi^EwlS^i^The
IQT A most striking illustration of j President and War Department are using
the superiority of the Jethro Cotton o- ! TO e « deavor toai ™ !’ ,e ncw regiments in
r J . . j • « i the best and most eflective manner. A tew
ver any other species happened in Au- weeks ago a trial was raade of the United
gusta a few days since where a lot, j States muskets, grooved sighted after the
grown by Dr. P. II. Hanson, of Oglethorpe ! manner of the Minie ritie. by which it was
county, was sold for 12J cts. per lb., while ; fouud that Hartley’s invention would make
the great mass of cotton in the market was j °- ur ^ d u } us hets equal to the
ill were taken before the
Mayor, and held to bail in the sum of $1,-
000 each to answer indictments which may
be found against them by the grand jury.”
not yielding an average of 8 cts. per lb.
The Wheeling Intelligencer announ
ces the arrival in that city of Col. Benton.
He stopped at the McLure House. He has
in charge the remains of his wife, which he
arm used by
ilie Russians and French with so much suc
cess. Yesterday the “Sharp breach loading
aud self priming rifle ” was tried at the
arsenal, in the presence of the President,
his private secretary, and many of the Ord- 1 f u r:
nance Bureau and officers of the line, in- ' - •
Tlic California Xevri.
Sandy Hook, March 24.—The steamer
George Law left Aspinwall on the morning
of the Kith, and brings California dates of
the 1st inst., being one week later than pre
vious advices.
From papers received by her I send the
following abstract of her advices.
She brings 234 passengers brought to
Panama by the steamer Golden Gate in 11
days tour hours running time. The outward
passengers by' the George Law landed at
Aspinwall on the morning of the 15th, and
left Panama on the Golden Gate the same
facility of its rapid ,-..o cu,,,,., ; ,. , , - , . , , .
known, as the Irish patriot, reached our city 1 —some twenlv sfiots being tired to the min- 0 . f J tlie r h o u = e a ba i an ^ e . 0I ) * he r .‘S ht
last week, and took rooms at the Coleman u tc. All present expressed unqualified sat- : sided about $100,(JOG, Mr. IV oods has given
House. He has a wife and five children, j isfaction at the results shown. over ah his private property, estimated at
and comes to settle in this vicinitv perma- It will bo remembered that the House
nently, as lie informs us = His wish is to would not accept the amendment which !
purchase a farm, not far distant from this provided tor prescribing die arms which
city. Mr. Mitchell is a small man, rather ; should be used by ine frontier troops, on
spare made, and is, we should say, about) the ground that the War Department was !
forty years of age. He is genteel in his i best qualified to decide that matter. We
dress, rather easy in his manners, and, in ; now see the wisdom and also the solicitude
the absence of any information on that j manifested by the government for the best :
point, we should say he lias been well rais-: discharge of'that duty. It is our opinion
ed. We see nothing in his face indicative j that they will decide in favor of the Sharp
of superior talents, and in his conversation rifle, or that, if they do not. it will be Le-
he is mild and prudent, so far as our obser-' cause a still better arm will be brought tor-
vation extends.—Knoxville Whig. ^ ward, of which, as yet, we “ don’t know.” ,
During the discussion of the bill, Mr Jon-' Washington Star.
athan Pierce of Boston rose to Jaddiv • th.- •
House in opposition to the measure. He. „ ( ,„ i “ l i H I n N 7f, 0I,l;CTioN .°*. It ap-
stood in the area in front of the Clerk’s I P^s tbat the appropriation of boO.OOO to
desk
InterruptedItim-oiTb^fancied that he was j J-“7 ?G<1 ' V “ aV ? U -"“
interupted—the fact of the matter was Dot . . *. ls ‘ti'cstioii. A wide
very clear in the confused state of affairs at
$250,000, Which weal to make up the total
of assets.
The failure of Messrs. Robinson & Co. is
considered a bad one.
Arrangements for the resumption of pay
ment by Messrs. Page Bacon & Co. were in
progress, but net completed. It was expec
ted, however, that this house would be in
vention, and more than that, they will give i
the lie, as they have done time and again
whenever it subserved their purpose, to their
promise to have nothing to do with Slavery
in the States. That was what they started
for when in their self-righteousness they sat
themselves un as reforming lights that were
to make men ashamed of their institutions
—tlieir Bible and their God. One-half of
these fellows were never intended for any
thing better than-to milk their lathers cows
and dig their onion patches—and with all
their grand worU-raovi ig, world-smashing
airs, we know them tor a set of poor no ac
counts, who having proved themselves worth
less iu doing any thing really good, have
gone to work to serve tlieir master—the
devil.
The actual loss is no doubt much greater,
as there was destruction of property of diff
erent kinds not estimated. In some cases,
Woman’s Rivals.
Lucy Stone, the Rev. Antoinette Brown,
where there is no insurance, the loss is se-1 and a U the female crusaders for Woman’s
vere indeed. Some are homeless and pen- i Rights, are thrown clear into the shade by
nyless. Mr. Nathan Renfroe, a ease of pe-' a little wooden Box, now in thiseitv. This
culiar hardship, did not even save ins books J
of account. All the property and records
of the Masons, Odd Fellows, and Knights
of Jericho, were consumed. It is doubtful
if either of the latter orders can organize
again. You may announce that the Central
Georgian will be resumed about the first of
May next. ^
Please request our exchanges to state this
fact. P. C. PENDLETON.
Sear Chair aud Rail.
Their seems to be no end to- the new in
ventions and improvements which are
brought before the public to simplify econo
my and Expedite railway traveling. The
Pottsville Register speaks of a new inven
tion, for which a patent has been secured.
The patent is for a hollow revolving Rail
way Rail, and Chair to support it The i
inventor is sanguine it will make a perfect
revolution in Railway construction. The
rail is like a Gas-pipe, but very strong, and
the chair that supports it is of cast iron,
with a socket at each side, into which the
Rail slips, making a perfect joint, and al
lowing it to revolve when it is desired to
turn it. The advantages in the manufac-
ture of this kind of Rail are very material: j these same knights of the wash tub made
in place of machinery costing many thou- j big promise and then gave us but short per-
sands of dollars, necessary to produce the j formance—that one minute and a half was
present railway iron, these new rails will j , . ~ . ,, , ^
be drawn through dies presisely similar to ! a ver ? short 1 8 P a ^ of t,me and tllilt a din - v
making Gas-pipe, which is a simple and I sh,rt was a bard subject to get through with
pays him well.
“ The news of an hour’s ago doth hiss the
speaker,” said the Bard of Avon, felicitously fore
shadowing the life of a great city in modern times
when the variegated wheel of events runs so swift
ly from tlic boon of time that Us brightest colors
only flash upon the vision for an instant to bo for
gotten. So you must not wonder that tho Poole
tragedy, which stowed the city to its lowest depths,
has become an untalkcd ot “bygone,” or that even
the startling intelligence by the latest California
mails of overwhelming financial disasters, which
set Wall street “ on a roar ” of alarm, has been
obscured by fresher topics. Marriages in public
and birth3 in private are centres of exciting hut
narrow interest: and Death, whose “heal” extends
from 5 th Av. to the Points, has startled our ears with
a new feat: for, crossing the Bay day before yes
terday to Bergen Point, he superintended the
blowing up of a fireworks factory at Grenville, by
which he gained two immediate victims and left
eight survivors so badly wounded that one soon
after joined him, while the fate of the remainder
hangs doubtful.
Then on tho evening of the same day the “solid
men of Gotham ” met in great numbers in the
Tabernacle to protest against the Police bill, now
under consideration at Albany, which proposes to
ve waited tor Adam to pluck the ap
ple off the tree of life, it would have been
ungathered to this day. (A laugh.)
Mrs. Smith evidently dislikes men.millin
ers as much as wo despise sewing machines.
In speaking of employments for women, she
says:
Men confessed to a difficulty in finding
employments for women. It was said that
they could set types in a prin ing office, that
they could bind books, be waiters at hotels,
arrange flowers, they might work in facto
ries, and there were other menial and sub
ordinate offices which they might till. She
did not see why they should not fill public
offices. She rejoiced, clergymen were be
coming advocates of woman’s rights ; Hen
ry Ward Beecher was a babe of six months
old in the new doctrine. (Laughter.)
Mrs. Smith then treated of the dispropor
tion between labor and its results to the op
eratives of the two sexes. In onr cities,
we had men who dodged the penalty of la
bor whenever they could. Wc had. men
milliners, men selling pins and needles and
ribbons—men selling shoes, and trying them
on women’s feet also—(laughter:) and they
liked these employments, too ; they liked to
be figuring about in bright waist-coats and
showy cravats and rings, and were as fond
of starched ruffles as a woman of her curls.
Let all these be sent into work shops, and
then it would do to talk of the lords of
creation.
Mrs. S. said that all women were beggars,
from the dainty dame with her silken purse
to the poor woman who held out her hand
for a penny. They had no money. By this
means, a father held the daughter, and the
husband of the wife, in check. She said
that “woman was not free so long as public
opinion prevents her, from doing wbat she
feels a capacity for. She might choose to
command a ship ; well let her as one female
had for 25 years on the coast of England
and had never met with a disaster. She
might choose to farm ; why not when men
were milliners? Let us remove the stain
from industry by making it remunerati ve.
Nothing was degrading but ignorance, idle
ness, and vice, and work of any kind was
the antidote to this. Woman, if unmarried,
often became a menial domestic dependent
in some .household; if married, she was an
adjective during the life of her husband,
and when he died she was called “a relict.”
Warming with the subject, the lair and
talented lecturer thus discourses:
Woman was the true husband of a family
as the word ment house-bond, or bond of the
house. She knew many clergymen who
preach sermons of their wives suggestion,
and many of their wives’ writing, and show
their sense in doing so. She knew wits and
poets who used their wives brains as a sort
offend from which they regularly extracted
their material. It was a woman who dis.
covered the process of casting shot, but she
had to pretend that it was revealed to her in
a dream, or her husband would have given
no credit to her invention ; and now every
shot tower in the country seemed to her
(the lecturer) not to be a shot, tower, but a
monument to that wise woman’s discre
tion.
The men would have to work now with
their intellectualism to keep pace with wo
men. She should not wonder to see them
mounting the rostrum in defence of men’s
rights liy and by. She had seen several
times the order of nature reversed. She
had seen a wife casting up the accounts of
a shop, with a pen behind a pretty ear,
whilst her husband, dressed like Maritilini
was sitting at his ease smoking a cigar in
the adjoining appartment. She had seen a
woman making baskets, while her husband
diligently rocked the cradle. (Laughter.)
When misfortunes overtake a family wfiman
has the first to lax her energies to meet them.
Really she did not see that men were very
much theirinferiors, even in physical power.
Woman would endure more than man, she i
would live through what would often kill !
him outright. Mrs. Smith read here an |
extract from a Maine paper, giving an ac- !
count of a female leaving her husband, who j
was delicate, in charge of tlieir six children j
at home, and setting off herself to Califor- j
nia. She had cooked on the voyage out and :
sent home fifty dollars.
Tne Basin or
The basin of th«
trough, separi^injJ^
New, and extending
pole. This ocean farrow
scored into the solid crust of ^
the Almighty hand, that there
which he called sans might ba g
gether so as to let the dry land appear and
tit the earth for the habitation of man.—
From the top of Chimborazo to the bottom
of the Atlantic, at the deepest place yet
reached by the plummet in the Northern
Atlantic, the distance in a vertical line is
□ine miles. Could the waters of the Atlan
tic be drawn off so as to expose to view this
great sea-gash,- which separates continents
and extends from the Arctic to the Antarc
tic, it would present a scene the most rug
ged, grand and imposing.
The very ribs of the solid earth, with the
foundations of the sea, would be brought
to light, and we should have presented to
us, at one view, in the empty cradle of the
ocean, “a thousand fearful wrecks,” with
that dreadful array of dead meu’s skulls,
great anchors, heaps of pearl and inestima
ble stones, which, in the poet’s eye, lie
scattered in the bottom of the sea, making it
hideous with sights of ugly death.
The deepest part of the North Atlantic is
probably somewhere between the Bermudas
and the Grand Banks. The waters of the
Gulf of Mexico are held in a basin about a
mile deep in the deepest part. There is at
the bottom of the sea, between Cape Race
aud Newfoundland and Cape Clear in Ire
land, a remarkable steppe, which is already
known as the telegraphic plateau. A com
pany is now engaged with the project of a
submarine telegraph across the Atlantic.—
It is proposed to carry the wires along this
plateau from the eastern shores of New
foundland to the western shores of Ireland.
The great circle distance between these two
shore lines is 1600 miles, and the sea along
this route is probably nowhere more than
10,000 feet deep.—Prof. Maury.
The Boston Atlas says that a merch
ant in Boston is in receipt of a letter from
a gentleman in England, written just before
the depature of the steamer, in which the
writer alludes to the reported illness of the
Czar, which he discredits, and attributes
the report to the illness of the Empress.—
It will be remembered, says the Baltimore
Patriot, that we noticed on Wednesday that
a commercial house in Baltimore had recei
ved a letter written in London at the last
moment .before tho sailing of the Africa,
stating that the report was that the Empress
of Rusia was dead.
The letter received in Boston only speaks
of her illness—but it might be as has been
suggested, that on the account of her illness
or death the report arose that the Czar was
dead. We shall not, however, be long in
doubt about it, for the steamer Atlantic, now
over due, will no doubt tell which is true
and which is untrue.
We have received tho first number of the
American Exponet, a know nothing paper
just started at New Orleans. Its figure
head is a half naked savage. The Indians
are the real natives of the country ; and are
entitled to lie considered the sole benefici
aries of the doctrines of the new party. The
device is appropriate. The paper in keep
ing with its emblem should have been called
tlic Tustenuggee Advocate, ChoctawThun-
derer, Pushmataha Banner, or Seminole
Warrior.—Boston Post.'"
COMMERCIAL.
said Box is not more than 30 inches Ion
by 20 wide. For the very poor woman , ^ thc management of thc c ' ontrol of * the * M ayor,
■without help for the tolerably poor woman ; R ecorc i er and City Judge, where it now lies, and
with very little help—tor the rich woman ; vei ^ j n f our commissioners, to bo elected by the
that wants repose from the most troublesome
of all household cares—this little Box has
really done more, or will do more, for the
relief and comfort of our women than a.ll
the transcendental moonshine of all the
Blue Stockings in the nation—that go spout
ing over the country.
Mr. M. S. Woods is the gallant man
whose sympathies tor the oppressed of the
“weaker half” of our creation has brought
him into our midst. He proposes that from
this time, if the ladies will only allow It,
that washing day, tho next most dreadful
day to dooms day, shall be robbed of its a n-
; voters of thc city. Able speeches were made
against the bill, and a roll of 7,000 names of vo-
| ters was displayed attached to a petition against
: its passage. No measure which aim3 to abate tho
! authority of Mayor Wood as this bill would do
; can be popular among our citizens. Whigs, Dem-
j ocrats, Free Soilers, all who would conserve the
| public peace, have been gained over to tbe num-
; l;er of his warm friends by the extraordinary en-
: ergy, impartiality and ability which have thus far
; signalized his administration. Last Monday he
! issued warrants for the arrest of the proprietors of
| two of the most notorious gambling houses in thc
j city—Pat Ilcarne, of 537, and joseph S. Hall, of
! 537, Broadway. Tho first has made himself rich
cheap process, and the machinery costing i in any time. But it would
but a few thousand dollars; while as regards
speed, they can make a hundred feet, while j
they are making one of the old shaped Rail, j
The Register says:
“ The average wear of all Railroads is
seven years ;—that is, they are constantly
laying down new rails along the Road, anil
the calculation is, that in seven years they
have done sufficient to relay the whole road.
In this work of relaying of track, the dan
ger to life and property is very great. By
the use of the Devlan Rail, when one side
wears, a man goes along the Road and sim
ply turns it with a wrench, and so on as of
ten as they like. The rail being a tube, as
all mechanics know, with the same weight
of iron it is at least three times.as strong;
—ihe wheel treads on it as well, and is not
as liable to run oft* the track, as it is a per-
at his infamous trade, rumor saying he has fleeced
cient terrors. Ilis Washing Machine is now | his patrons OCC asionclfy to the tune of $15,000 a
in motion to bring about this grand result. ! night. Hall’s place, a description of which was
We hinted, upon his visit to our den, that | given in one of our recent letters, was one of the
he should moderate the steepness of his lav- j most luxurious and splendid in the city. They
atory promises—that often and over lut'd ; are held to bail in the sum of $1,000 each. Also
an afflicted husband in the good city of Boston,—
whose soul had been wrung by slanderous reports
of his desertion and betrayal, by his wife, whom
ho had left in this city until such time as he could
earn the means to carry her away,—writes an ap
pealing letter to Mayor Wood, begging that he
not all do and i will find her out and restore her to his arms. A
policeman is immediately set to search, and lo!
the constant wife is found in destitution, but in
innocence, and despatched on her rejoicing way to
her sorrowing spouse.
condition to resume in the course of a few ! lect incline plane, and no sharp corners to
days. j catch the flange of the wheel.
Messrs. Read t Co., of Sacramento, had
applied tor the benefit of the insolvent
act.
A. S. Wright, of the Miner’ Saving Bank
was in expectation of shortly resuming.
In the way of general news there is lit
erally nothing of interest.
Copious rains had fallen, much to the
gratification of the minors and agricultur-
sits.
A bill had been introduced into the Leg
islature tor a prohibitory liquor law, sub-
; in uie area, in uuut w .r. •» - , .. ,
held in his hand a copy of the bill.— , t ” 0 in ^P e . rim . eat of introducing camels
as he addressed thc Speaker some one ^I s * C °w trj ( f ° r ? uh '
hr, Vr.r,,.\cA that La was j P dr P°«w, has passed. W e have long
lelt an interest in this question. A wide
' belt of country stretching from the M^is feature for a prohibitory liquor law, sub- expense. . m view ox me maguimue or me
sippi to the Pacific, is in just thc latitude t!ie n ’ attcr to the vote of the people ; Railway interest m this country, the inven-
where the came! and dromedary flourfh in ! at lbe gened election of 1855. turn of an improvement such as that of Gen.
. . , , , i , .• . 11,11 111 , • * • i .1 n iWinn hoPAniM nr t.hft lmnnptunnA
Aside from the fact that this new Rail
will last five times longer than the kind in
use, it should be remembered that the cost
of its production is very low. The manu
facture of Railway iron is at present a mo
nopoly, and hot very profitable at that, be
cause it requires au enormous amount of
capital to carry it on. The new process of
manufacture, on the contrary, places it
within the power of every iron master in
the Union to make Railway rails at a trifling
expense. In view of the magnitude of the
so we had to attend the performance of the
“ Floating Balls or Knuckle Washing Ma
chine.” Well, we did, and never before did
we see a tub of soap suds look so amiable.
Sure enough, that shirt aud not one alone,
but a half dozen of them went through a
most salutary ablution in about two min
utes.
Brother Heard was there, and we thought
he looked not only jealous but chapfallen.—
He said, after a searching scrutiny, that it
would do, that the machine was almost equal
to his “world-renowned incomprehensible
and indomitable grease eradieatorand
furthermore, Brother Heard gave it as his
firm belief that Mr. Woods could wash the
stain from a “ Texas lawyer’s reputation.”
This is backing the Floating Balls to the
last extremity, we admit, and yet we do not
think it is going an inch too far.
Ladies, call at the Washington Hall and
see one of tiir nest hampions of Woman’s
Rights.
Era* - The Me.m.dhu Protestant Conference
at Alexandria has paseei resolutions raising
“ ’Twas very good
In Mayor Wood.”
‘Sic itur ad astru
Cot.. Benton’s Tunned—Tiie Highest in
the World.—According to the report of the
topographical engineers assigned to the
survey of Col. Benton’s great Central Pa
cific route, au iron road by that route will,
for many hundred miles, be the loftiest in
the world, and it will have a tunnel at a
higher elevation than any other tunnel, ex
cavated or projected, on the face of the
earth. This tunnel will strike through one
of. the depressions in the backbone of the
Western mountains, at an altitudee of 9,-
540 feet. Mount Washington, in New
Hampshire, is considered a giant—the Alle-
ghanies are regarded as a grand chain of
mountains ; but put the Alleghanies on the
! top of Mount Washington, and the highest
] of the Egyptian pyramids tin the top of
i these, and Col. Benton’s railroad tunnel will
' overtop them all. Wc think that Old Bul-
; lion is right. The Pacific Railroad being a
? moonshine enterprise, he proposes to build
the salary of unmarried preachers from $1- j it above the clouds. From the mouth of
upon
pers from him, stepped upon thc platform,
and exclaimed, in a fierce tone. “Bv God,
I will not bo called to order ! I am a'Boston
boy 1” The Speraker dropped his gavel, and
called upon the gentleman to come to order.
Charleston News.
Convention of Cotton-Geowers.—It is
fpH that a convention of cotton-growers,
and others interested in direct trade, is con
templated at Aix Chapelle the coming sum
mer. It is supposed that large representa
tions from both continents will at that time
be together by tbe Crystal Palace ex-
hibition at Paris.
the old world. It is the opinion of men
famiiiar with the use of these animals in
the east, aud also acquainted with the geo
graphical and climatic character of* the
irairies and deserts which separate the
Business circles were rather more confi
dent, but the financial stringency was never
theless so great that very little had been
done in trade.
Cash sales of Gallego Flour were made at
g raines ana aeserts wuicu 6epi
antiers of civilization from the Pacific I a (' )ut $14 ; choice new butter 45 cts.; Hams
coast, that great advantage might be dcriv- i Eard 13) cents.
ed from the naturalization of these “ships j yy—
of the desert.” We hope the experiment j Hail Storm.—There was a tremendous
will fairly and carefully' tried, and we have ! J ia '^ 8tdnu at Louisville, Ky., Friday night,
great hope that it will prove successful; and < The hail stones were at leas: two inches in
that these valuable animals will become fa- i circumference, and they came down with
miliar and useful in this country.- Provi- su °h force as to break in roofs and demolish
denceJoumat. I sky-lights.
Devlan, becomes of the greatest importance.
We will refer to this again when more leis
ure offers.”—Railway Times.
Mrs. Alexander Hamilton once told a friend
that she was the first person in the United
States for whom ice-cream was made. A
famous cook from Paris came to see her to
obtain employment, and by way of showing
her skill, asked for some lemons, cream, ice,
and sugar, with which she made some de
licious ice-cream, which from that time be
came the fashion in New York for dessert
and evening entertainments.
00 per annum to $1-50, and married preach
ers from $200 to $300, and making an al
lowance of $25 tor every child under 15
years of age.
The River.—The Chattahoocho is at a
stand, with about tour feet water in the
channel. The steamer South Carolina, ar
rived at Columbus on Tuesday evening, and
left again on Friday. Without more rain,
it is feared that navigation will he again
suspended.
The Boston Post is responsible for the fol
lowing “definition:” “Capital” Punishment
—to be hung round the neck of a girl till
you are dead, dead, dead.
Col. Benton’s tunnel we look down with
perfect contempt upon the Kinney expedi
tion.—A*. r. Herald. . /*'
Emperor of Russia.—Nicholas held his
throne by right- of direct descent from the
founder of the imperial house, Michael Ro
manoff, who was elected by the national
council and crowned at Moscow in April
1613. In the course of tho 242 years
that have since olapsed, Russia has had
13 monarchy of that family. The order of
their succession was as follows: 1st Mieh-
tel, 2d Alexis; 3d Feodor; 4th Peter the
Great; 5th Catherine I; 6th Peter II; 7th
Anne; 8th Elizabeth; 9th Peter III; 10th
Catherine II; 11th Paul; 12th Alexander,
113th Nicholas.
Tiie Locusts iu the South.
To the Editor of thc Baltimore Patriot:—
Besides the seventeen year locusts, Cicada
Septemdecim, already announced in the Pat
riot to appear this Spring in Mass., Eastern
Shore of Maryland, from Baltimore to Car
lisle, Pa., a portion of Kv., and a portion of
Western Ya., there will be several extensive
districts of the Southern family of Locusts
that will appear this Spring. These South
ern locusts only require 13 years to com
plete their existence, and their name. I sup
pose, should be Cicada Tridectm. I have
on my Register the location and dates of ten
districts ol this family, some of them very-
large and one or two very small. The dis
tricts that will be occupied this year by
them, are as follows :
South Carolina—Chester and adjoining
districts, extending into N. Carolina.
Georgia—in Newton. Cobb, Coweta, Car-
roll. Heard, Meriwether, Campbell, Fay
ette, DeKalb, Gwiunette, and Murray coun
ties.
Alabama—in Greene, Sumpter, and Mar
engo counties.
Louisiana—in Union, Caddo, Claiborne
and Washita parishes.
Mississippi—about Jackson, and proba
bly all adjoining parts of the State.
Arkansas—in Union, Lafayette, Hemp
stead and Saline counties.
Tennessee—from Nashville to the Miss.,
river, and extending into a portion of South
western Ky., probably as far up as Louis-
ville.
In the extreme South the insects begin to
appear about the 5th of April, and some
may appear by the 1st of that month.—
Their appearance is later and later as we
come North, about week for every hundred
miles, until the most Northern will appear
from the 1st to the 10th of May. I should
be very glad if persons in the South where
the locusts appear this year would inform
me of the fact, stating the exact time of
their first appearance, and the counties oc-
cupiad by them.
There is no difference whatever between
the Southern locusts and the Northern in
sects, except in the time occupied by them
in completing their existence.
The districts of the Northern locusts ex
tend far into, the territory in many places;
and so do those ol* the South extend far up
into the Northern territory, interlocking
and lapping over each other for more than
a hundred miles. This has caused great
confusion in tracing out tho true history of
the insects, and the family and districts to
which each visitation belonged. North
Carolina, Term., and Arkansas appear to
lie thc middle ground between the two large
families, and nearly the whole of those
States are occupied alternately by tbe North
ern and the Soumheru insects, interlocking
each other, &e.
Yours, Gideon B. Smith.
Luuatl. Asylum.
Y e learn that contracts of a satisfactory
character have been made for constructing
additional buildings for thc accomodation
t.f the insane of this State. The wood work
was given to Messrs. Thompson & Smith of
Amerieus ; the brick work to L. W . Wall
of Savannah; tho lime contract to Messrs.
Brigham, Kelly & Co., likewise of Savan
nah ; tiie excavation to Mr. Brown of this
eitv ; the tin work to Messrs. Morse & Nich
ols of Savannah.
Atlanta, Mareli 28
Cottox.—6@7i, extremes.
Exchange, on New York is selling at peri cea
premium. On Charleston and Savannah J per
cen t.
Bacox.—’Ve quote hog round 94 to 9i- Hants
12to 121 cents. Sides Bibs 9 94 cts. Sides clear
94 to 10. Shoulders 74 a 8 cents.
Laud by the bbl. 10@11 cts. leaf.
Iron, Swedes 54 to 64c; English 5 to 5J cents;
Nails have advanced to 6 a 64 cts.
Corn is selling at $1 to $110.
Corn Meal, $1 to $1,20 cents.
I’o'.’.k, Hog round, 61@7 cents.
Beef, By the quarter, C 54 cents.
Sweet Putatoes, 60 to 75 per bushel.
Irish Potatoes, $24 ’to 3 per bushel.
Salt. Liverpool sacks plenty, $190,@$,2,
Ltqcor.s.—French Brandy, §2,50 to $3.60 per
gallon: Domestic 50 to 75c. Peach do. 60 a 75
i cents. Whiskey 15 a 50 cents. Gin 50 to 60.
I Rum 45 to 60 cents.
! Wheat.—Good will bring to $1,70 per bushel
readily.
Flour.—Scarce at $5 to 53 per hundred.
Butter, Country, 15 to 20 cts. Goshen. 35 cts.
per pound. Term. Butter, 10 a 15 by the Keg.
Fair !\. 0. Sugar, by hlid. 54-
Prime “ “ “ 64.
Choice “ “ “ S-.
Syrup, N O. by bbl. 33 to 35 cts. gal.
Extra Whiskey “ 45 “ “
Star Candles per box 28 “ lb.
No. 1 liio C'otfee by sack 11J to 124 “ “
Gunny Bagging 16 to 17 cts.
Rope 12 to 13 cents.
Chickens, 15 to 20 cents.
Eggs, lOto 124 cents.
Fodder, $1 to 125 per hundred.
Peas, $1,40 to $1.50
Feathers.—40 to-45.
Candles.—Sperm 37 o 45c. Tallow 20 22 cts
CHARLESTON, March 27, 1 P. M.—Cottox.
The demand is unabated, and prices are onward.
Sales to-day 900 bales, ’at. 74 to 94 cents. Prices
have advanced fully 4 cents.
AUGUSTA, 'March 27.—COTTON.—The de
mand continues moderate, and prices fuli with
out change.
New York Provision Market.
[Reported for the Daily Intelligencer by Bennett k
Brokaw, 110 Broad St., New Yerk.J
FLOUR <h GRAIN.—Common State and Wes
tern Brands Flour range at from $8.75 to $9;
Fancy $9 to $9.25 ; Extra $9.25 to $10; Extra
Genesee $11 to $12i75 ; Canadian Common Brands
§9 to $9.25; Extra do. $9.50 to $10.50: Rye
Fiour $6.25 to 7.25: Buckwheat $3.75 to $4 'jp
100 ftis. Wheat, White, ranges from $2.30 to
2.65; Red 2.00 to 2.15. Corn 95 to 1.00. Rye
I. 30 to 1.32. Barley 1.30 to 1.85. Oats, Jersey
33 to 55; and 61 to 63 for State and Canadian;
Western 66 to 68cl. White Beans 17 to IS ^ bus.
Canada Peas 13 to 14 ^8 bus.; Marroufats 16 to
18 cents.
PROVISIONS.—Prime Butter 28 to 30, with
less buoyancy than a few days since, yet with no
want of confidence that the supply will all be want
ed without reduction of price. Common grades
range from 15 to 20—and are dull. Primo Cheese
124 to 14—and in good demand. Mess Pork
$14.25 for old and $16 for new ; Prime 14.23 for
new; Dressed Hogs 6J to 7J. Beef, City Mesi,
13 to 14; Prime 8.25 to S.50 ; Country Mess.9 to
II. 50 ; Prime 6.25 to 8. Beef Hams IS to 13.50
^8 200 lbs; Smoked Hams 10 to 11: Shoulders 7}
to 8 : Hams in Pickle 84 to 9; Shoulders 64 to 7.
Lnrd94to9J.
FRUIT.—Green Apples 3.50 to 4 bbl; Dried
do. 6J to 64 cts. lb. Dried Peaches 14 to lo.—
Dried Plums 13 to 14.
POTATOES.—Best varieties 3.50 to 3.75; Com
mon 2.50 to 3 ^ barrel.
SEEDS.—Clover 10 to 104 cts. $ ft.; Timo
thy do. 3 to 3.50 ^ bus.
‘ASHES.—Both Pots and Pearls 6.25 to 6.31-
in good demand.
EGGS.—18} to 20cts. doz.—marketdeoliaw.
-IJtauo M
MUSIC, &C.w
H. BRAUMULLER,
(Successiir to Truax, Finmdeii Herg ct Co.,)
■Whitehall st., Sign of tho Golden Piano,
T/ EEPS constantly on hand PIANOS, whichM
IV warrants to be of superior tone, touch en
quality. Second hand Pianos taken in part P a P
ment when new ones arc bought.
Melu.li-ons, Accord,-ons, Flutes. _
Violins, Guitars, Banjos,
Tambourines. Triangles,
in short, all Mitsicul Instruments of all P ru '? ! ',
SHEET MUSIC—700 new pieces just receirco,
and weekly he receives additions of the la tc -
publicatioDS. Being a musician himself, his sK*
is freo of tho compositions of musical tnow-ne -
ing*. Music-Portfolios aud Music Cases—P re .
able to those that are bound, as music changes tr
quently.
Atlanta, March 26. 1855.
d*wtf.
CABINET MAKING ft UNDEHTAKISG-
THE Subscriber will keep constantly
on hand a variety of J. Williams
S-AastS. 4 Co's Cottage Furniture together
Lounges, Mattresses, &e., General Upholstering^
all work in our lino made to order. Mr. '
West will give his personal attention to the ,
dertaking business whenever called upon,
| from a practical experience of twenty-three ye ’
The services of Messrs. Sholl & Fay, have j he flatters himself ho will give satislaction.
en secured for personal supervision of the Old furniture repaired with neatness am)
been
whole work, which, wc doubt not, will be
an ornament to the Capital and a credit to
the State.—Southern Recorder.
TnE Court of Claims.—Judge Blackford,
of Indiana, one of the newly appointed claims
court, has arrived in Washington. It is
stated that a large number of claimants are
already preparing to lav their cases before
the court, and that French spoliation eluims,
and numberless others, will be pressed, at
•a early period, upon its considration.
patch.
Atlanta, March 26. 1835.
T. W. WEST.
J. S. GLOVE®;
[diyJ
Notice. b
T HE firm »f Maggie ft Co. is this day
mutual consent. M.
Atlanta, MarchS",’55.
For Rent,
TWO or three SMALL HOUSES, dtmteiw
Peuch Tree, Ivy and Crawford Streets, f w
apply to A. ALEXANDER;
March 27ft,'M.