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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.