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THE ATL ANTA INTELLIGENCER Dally, Tri-WttMy «■* Wwkly, IT RFCRLE8 I H8WARP. w. B. RUGOLES,) T. C. HOWARD, ) >E41lsrt. twin or subscription. Dailf lawlligeaeer per inus, la eOeeaee, M-JJ Tri-WeeUf, Weekly, “ too RATES OF ADTEETMISO. Advertising in th# Drily latelligeneer will he Inserted at tha foilotnni rata® par o^aara ai tea linaa: 06 cts. *1 00 1 35 I 50 1 T5 2 00 Oaa month. Two " Thraa •• Fow “ Six “ On# year. ti 00 t 00 10 00 12 00 15 00 25 00 Special contract# will ha mad# for yeeriy adver tisements occupying a quarter, half or whela col- ■inn. . , ... . PiT Advertisements from transient person* mast bo paid in advance. Legal advertisement* published at th# usual rates. Obituary notice* exceeding ten lines charg ed as advertisements. Announcing candidates for •ffice, <5 00. to be paid in advance. When advertisements are ordered in all the is sues, including Daily, Tri-Wee idy and Weekly, 25 per cent, will be added to the above rates. The privilege of yearly advertiser* is strictly limited to their own immediate and regular busi- iou. Professional Cards hot exceeding six lines, 8 15 per annum. Advertisement* not specified as ta time will be published till ordered out, and charged at regular rates. Advertisements inserted in the Weekly pnper enly will be charged at former rates. THE WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. ^PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY EVENING. FRIDAY, APRIL 7. [From the Washington Union.] tHas ary A. Wise la Virginia. There is a knightly bearing about Henry A. Wise in his present contest against the serried hosts of proscription in Virginia fh. proecnptii that enlists attention in all quarters, mere is an energy in his labors, a freshness in his thoughts, a bold frakness in his' counsels, and a lofty disinterestedness in his tone, that show how fully be appreciates the noble responsibility confided to him. He seems to reel as if such a cause as that in which he engaged it is a lofty honor to be a leader. A Whig Know Nothing paper in Mem phis, Tennessee, the Eagle anil Enquirer, notorious for its personalities and maligni- n u insertion. 60 cts. on# menu. •» •>» ties, cannot forbear doing justice to the Tw* “ 91 *0 Tw# " t 00 course of Mr. Wise. In a late number of fhrse, " J.g Thrs# ** 10 0* that print the editor says: Fonr " J “ Hon. Henry A. Wise, Democratic can- u . 00 0n . «. no didate for Governor of Virginia, delivered a On. week, * 00 One y«r. 16 8peech the ^hcr day at Alexandria. which we find reported in full in an eastern paper. It is a great speech, barring its special pleading on ‘the American question,’ end conclusively establishes the fact of Mr. Wise’s eminent ability as an orator and as a statesman, whatever may be said of his past career, or of those peculiar crotchets with which his brain sometimes becomes tangled. “Now, with all his faults, we contend that Henry A. Wise is a brave and glorious man to say such things as these in this cor rupt age and standing in the position be does, as the candidate of the democracy of Virginia! The sentiments and the chivalry of their utterance are worthy of the better days of the republic. “We had always rather praise than blame. And we are sure we nave quoted enough to show that if Mr. Wise makes such speeches as this all over the Old Do minion the man who runs against him—be _ .. . ,, . , it Mr. Summers or Extra-Billy Smith—will 1 9 j have to get up before day every mormugto bent him. “ But he is* particularly eloquent when speaking of the immense resources, but We are glad to learn, that of the ten thousand dollars of the Stock in the Gas Company, which remained to be subscribed to ensure the success of the enterprise, about six thousand dollars have been sub scribed by responsible citizens since the opening of the books. The remaining four thousand will, of course, be mode up with out difficulty. So we may consider the en terprise of lighting Atlanta with Gas, as among the “ fixed facts.’’ Gwinnett County Presentments.—We learn from the Grand Jury Presentments of Gwinnett county, that the taxable property of that county last year was estimated at $3,332,667, and that 750 children have for the last three years received the benefits of education at tie exponse of the county.— The Grand Jury are of opinion, that the experiment of biennial sessions of our State Legislature has proved a failure, and they recommend a return to annual sessions. 8®* The sale of the late Mr. Webster's estate andstock at Marshfield on Wednesday by Coi. Thompson, was well attended. The right and title of the Mansion House and 340 acres surrounding it was bid off by J. W. Paigo for $200, and this portion of the Marshfield property will be kept in the fam ily, according to the request in the will of the deceased. It is stated that the Hon. David J. Bailey will be a candidate for re-election to Con gress from the Third District. Hon. E. W. Chastain writes to the editor of the Cassville Standard that he is willing to abide the action of a convention of the Democratic party of the Fifth Congressional District. Griffin Municipal Election.—We learn from Griffin, that the municipal etection in that place on Monday, resulted in the suc cess of the entire Temperance ticket. IQy The Democratic Convention of Ten- nosse met at Nashville last week. Andrew Johnson the present incumbent was nomin ated for the office of Governor. Resolutions were passed denouncing the Know Nothings. Mr. Gentry, whig, who refused to support Gen. Scott, has been in the field for some time as a candidate for the same office—by virtue of a self nomination. He will prob ably be supported by the whigs and Know Nothings. meagre developeraent, of the old Common wealth—that grand old mother of States and of statesmen. Witness the following: “The State of Virginia has every element of commerce, of agriculture, of mining, and of manufacturing. On the Chesapeake Bay, from the mouth of the Rappahannock to the Cape of the Chesapeake, you may have rondsteads and harbors sufficient to float the navies of the world. From the river of Swans, on whose margin we are, down to the line of North Carolina you have the Po tomac, the Rappahannock, tnePenankatank, from Mob Jack Bay to James river and the Elizabeth river—all meeting in the most beautiful sheet of water of all the seas of the earth. You have the bowels of your western mountains rich in iron, in copper, in coal, in salt, in gypsum, and the very earth is rich in oil which makes the very rivers inflame. You have the line of the Alleghany, that beautiful blue ridge which stands placed there by the Almighty, not to obstruct the way of the people to market, but placed there in the verj bounty of Prov idence to milk the clouds, to make the sweet springs which are sources of your rivers.— [Great applause.] And at the head of eve ry stream is the waterfall murmuring the very music of your power. [Applause.]— And yet commerce has long ago spread ner sails and sailed away from you. You have not jet dug more than coal enough to warm yourselves at your own hearths. You have set no tilt hammer of Vulcan to strike blows worthy of gods in the iron foundries. You have not yet spun more than coarse cotton enough, in the way of manufacture, to clothe your own slaves. You have bad no commerce, no mining, no manufactures.— You have relied alone on the single power of agriculture; and such agriculture!— [Great laughter.] Your ledge patches out line the sun. Your iuattention to your only source of wealth has seated the very bosom of mother earth. [Laughter.J in stead of having to feed cattle on a thousand hills, you have had to chase the stump-tail ed steer through the ledge-patches to pro cure a tough beet-steak. [Laughter.] And yet, while your trust has been m the hands of the old negroes of the plantation ; while the master knows as little as his slaves about the science, the applied science of agricul ture ; while commerce, manufactures and mining have beeu hardly known, and agri culture neglected—notwithstanding all that, and notwithstanding the effect of this has beeD that you have parted with as much population as you have regained—notwith standing all this, I sav, Old Virginia still has a million and a half population left within her limits. She still has her iron, her coal, her, gyp sum, her salt, her copper. She still has bee, harbors and rivers, and her water power, aud every source of wealth which thinking men, active men, enterprising men apply to. What boast like that can be made Third Congressional District.—A cor-1 for any other State on earth? What, then, respondent of the Maoon Telegraph suggests i ' 8 our duty as \ irgiuians as patriots, as ,i „ f T n n i r I men worthy of our fathers—worthy to be . , , J.,!*. . i the husbands of our wives? What is our suitable representative of the Ihird District j diujj Come to the poll and vote against in the uext Congress. Mr. Lamar, says the . me, and welcome. 1 am nothing. Record writer, is a modest, unassuming, accomplish-; your votes under the influence of any blind ed gentleman, and a true Demacrat; besides, | prejudice you please. Record your votes as an orator he has few if any superiors, i ?? ain8t rae \ You strike down but an bum- j , . , ‘ ^ ' bio man when you strike me down, and and possesses talent of the first order. -- ... though you 6trike down a man who is too v „ _ j proud to beg you to vote for him vet he Know Nothings Giving up tub Ghost.— « Ht>!« im n W The New York Daily American Times, after a month’s devotion to Know Nothingism, has departed this life. The same disaster has fallen upon the Guard of Liberty, pub lished at Rutland, Vermont. The “ thing’* seems to be dying out from Vermont to Georgia. 'P. you to come to the pools, to do something, to put forth your strength to raise up this blessed Old Commonwealth. [Great cheer ing.] Her head is in die dust. With all this plentitude of power, she has beeu dwarfed iu the Union; but by her gods 1 say that she has the power now, the energy, the recources—may I say the rneu?—to be , put upon the line of progress to the eini- West Point, Georgia.—The West Point j nence of prosperity, to pass New York yet Beacon gives must encouraging accounts of i ^ ter iu the Union, then ever New York has the increasing prosperity of the place in > her. [Cheers.] You have been call- • i ... T..| I m, F ; ed the “Old Dominion.’ Let us as Virgin- - nr lt 18 J )UD lS .' C ^' . * ie Editor says: ( Jans, I implore you this night resolve that West Point is evidently going ahead, a new era shall dawn, and that henceforth am. will ere long rank among the first in- j she shall be called the New Domioion.” land commercial towns of Georgia. No ; [Cheering.] place iu the State, we venture to say, hus | What a picture is this! While the en- unproved in-»ro rapidly in every respect, . emies of die Democracy of Virginia go back within the last six months, than has our to the charnel-houses of the past, ana bring embryo cuy ; and this spirit of improvement thence the dead and buried proscriptions is not nagging the least. Preparations are defeated by Jefferson and his associates, and making for immediate erection of other aud | cloth diera with the thin disguises of a spur moie exteusive business bouses, which will , ious Americanism. Wise unfurls the ban- be m readiness for toe fall trade.” j ner of progress, looks boldly into the future, h ; prepares V irghiia for the contest with her Honoring a Musical Composer.—Meyer-! sister States in the march to substantial beer, the lainous German musical composer, j greatness, and infuses into all his speeches was lately honored with the cross of Com- the rarest eloquence. How appropriate mander of the Order of Albert, at Dresden, j this noble attitude with his thrilling appeals by the King of Saxony, in consequence of; to the broadest liberal doctrines—his scorn the ^reat successs there of his opera “ Etoile | of the little jealousies of political bigots— du \urd.” j his contempt for the narrow schemes of con- I ] I ~ * _ , tracted demagogues—his reliance upon the EOROXRIES.-Lewis L. Taylor, clerk in truths that gave us our freedom and are to the First Auditors Office at Washington, ip I perpetuate our insdtutions! reported to have forged the name of the i —; Secretary of War to notes amounting to ten j IS> The new steam frigate Niagara, or twelve thousand dollars. ; building at New York, is intended by her —— builder. Mr. George Steers, to be thestrong- Scarcitt.—In some sections of the State • est and fleetest of her size and class afloat, of N. Y., and especially some of the western i rhis vp ' 11 stir up the naval constructors of countries, there is a scarcity of hay almost. ot h«r ports, and we will see where the great- unprecedented. The Buffalo Renut,Hr ! est talent in naval architecture resides. The many farmers have l*en obligXseTlS cattle to considerable disadvantage, to save them from starvation. 1 ty el< sell their • Kiagnra is to be three hundred and forty- re | five feet long, fifty-five in breadth, and thir- -one in depth. She will carry twelve [epth. even-inch swivel guns. Mr. Steers says IS>A memorial is in circulation in North i *^ e Ba *^ seventeen miles an hour* under Carolinia for a change in the laws rugula- an orainar J P re88 canvass, and is willing ting the slave system. The following re-' to risk 11,1 “® can command upon the Niaga- forms are proposed:—The introduction of ra i? lfil,in 8; thi8e ?P5 ota . t !. on - , . marriage among slaves, with legal guaranty ! ■ he u8ual speed of sailing vessels of this for its perpetuity; the recognition of the tie j ***?- ander a L fu11 8 P rea <* «f canvass being of parent aud child, and the instruction of i from ® ,ght to ,en m ' ,,es an bour * an “ the slave in reading and writing j from ten to twelve miles being considered 2} , j extraordinary speed. Col. KiNNxr.—Thio .Oomewkat famous j " V ^ V - ' „ • ^ gentleman has, it is said, sold hie fine ranch I A J oun 8 m * n front Mmsachosetts at Corpus Christi, Texas, to a French wm- {*** rode on a ***1 at Greensboro, Ga., on the paoy iit $105,000- oaoh dowa lOOgUOO. 117tk oik. for baisf aa aboUauniot. leua’s KlagOea TessMisg Pewa. “Toombs amp Stephens.—We ate glad, to learn that both of these distinguished gen tlemen are open and avowed in tbeir oppo sition to this secret political organization— Know-Notfaingisia. With tbeir well known influence with the great body of what once constituted (be Whig party, and the almost united opposition of the Democratic party, we have nothing to fear on this subject.” The above is from the Macon Telegraph of Tuesday morning. At first we were in clined to diaeroditit. But then the announce ment, which is made in the Telegraph’s ed itorial columns, is so positive, and our oo-la- borers ale so sddom wrong in tbeir state ments, that it must needs be true. Toombs and Stephens backing out of Know-Nothingism! Astounding intelli gence ! We should as noon have expected to near of Satan backing ont of ein. is it not, indeed, Danaos dona fir entsx. “ Greeks bringing suspicions gifts” after all, or can it, by any possibility, be true? If so, where will our ootemporiee be, the Savannah Re publican, Chronieb. As Sentinel, La Grange Reporter, Southern Records, he., they who have pot tbeir Know-Nothingism in black and white? Will not those furious invec tives against an honest class of citizens, who though foreign-born have never done them harm, will not they rise up like Banquo’s ghost aud never down ? Surely the little dictator must be trying his dictatorial powers to the utmost. At first he shrewdly leads his organs into t'ue sup port of the secret order, and then, not only deserts them, but, as it were, commands them to whip round with him and the times. Will they do it? Doubtless. Whoever knew a Georgia Whig to disobey Toombs and Ste phens ? It will, it is true, be something of a somerset, after proscribing foreign-born eitizens, in the army, navy, couucii, and at the ballot box, to turn round all at once, and “ admire that rich Irish brogue.” No more sadden, however, than they have turn ed before, when votes were needed and spoils were in the distance. Georgia whiggery is a history ef somersets, and many of them more skilful and complete than that which Stephens now bids his menials turn.—Sav. Georgian. AccMcxt to Mrs. Webster- The New York Tribune, of Saturday says: “Yesterday afternoon, as the carriage of Mr. Curtis was passing through Fourteenth street, the horses become frightened and ran away—the driver loosing all con trol of them. Mrs. Webster, widow of the late Daniel Webster, was in the carriage at the time, and, becoming alarmped, jumed out of the vehicle, in consequence of which she was severely injured, she was thrown with great violence upon the pavement, and striking upon her head, was badly cut.-— Some citizens, who witnessed the occur- ranee, hastened to her relief and conveyed her, in a state of insensibility, to the dewl- ling house No. 76 Fourteenth street. Med ical attendance was promptly at hand, and Mrs. W. recovered sufficiently in a short time to be conveyed to ner residence. The injuries she sustained are of a very serious nature.” Honobs to tok Late Emfebob of Russia. —A letter from Berlin, Prussia says: “ The death of Nicholas bad made a pro found impression on the court of Berlin, and particularly on the king, who is report ed to have been for some time in a state bordering on frenzy. Unusual honors are paid to the memory of the deceased, all the theatres are closed, and the whole Prussian army is put in mourning. Quite a mob of princes and princesses are passing through this city for St. Petersburg, to express their sympathy with the bereaved family, and to be present at the funeral, which, it is expect ed, will soon be followed by that of the Em press, who has been for years in a most del icate state of health, and will probably not long surrive her husband.” What is a Pamphlet?—The Post Office Department in determining the rates of postage legally chargeable on various things, thus define what is chargeable with pamph let postage: “ A pamphlet is a printed hut unbound publication, relating solely, to some subject of local, ephemeral or temporary interest or importance only. Hence, with the excep tion of those not containing more than six- tee octavo pages each, for whioh under cer tain conditions, the act of August 30, 1852, has made special provisions, no publication, although folded and unbound, can be per mitted to pass in the mail as a “ pamphlet,” instead of a “ book,” unless its scope and subject are such os to bring it fairly within the distinctive definition above given. Riot in Cincinnati.—At the municipal election in Cincinnati on Monday, there was great excitement and bloody riots between the Americans and Germans. The cannon was used and ten or twelve killed. The 11th ward ballot box was destroyed. Frauds were discovered in another ward. The elec tion was close and the result is doubtful between Taylor, American, and Faran, Dem ocrat. Hard Times in Pulaski.—We learn that there are two hundred and thirty-six civil suits docketted for the April term of Pulaski Superior Court. This is thought to be the largest number of cases ever known on re cord in this county at one term of Court.— Certainly there must be a’“screw loose” somewhere. Either the times must be very hard, and money distressingly inconvenient to fingers, or else a determination of the people not to pay their debts must be the cause. Pulaski hitherto has been very just ly noted for prompt paying disposition, and we feel much at a loss to acknowledge her inability to sustain this enviable position, which she has so faithfully regarded as a model virtue in the history of her former character.—Ifaickinsville Herald. From Havana.—The steamer Black War rior has arrived at New York with dates from Havana to the 29th nit. More arrests had been made.. The acting American Consul is said to have entered a strong pro test against the execution of Estamps, and that Concha had resolved to refer the mat ter to the Spanish Minister at Washington. The steamer Star of the West has arriv ed with a quarter of a million in gold. Charleston.—The Standard of Saturday says:—The money market, for the few days K , has evinced some little stringency.— necessity of making returns at the end of the month has induced upon the Banks the necessity of curtailing accommodations, in order to show as fine a balance os possi ble in the way of specie. It is possible, al so, that the diminished receipts, arising from the diminished price and the shorter crop of cotton, may leave a deficiency of funds necessary to meet the foreign indebt edness of the community, and that to some extent there may be a. balance occurring at this period whioh has to be met; but, re stricted as have been our operations within the last year, we cannot believe that such deficiency will ultimately rest upon us, aud we contemplate with some certainty, there fore, if not the flush times of a year or two ago, at least a very fair aud comfortable con dition of monetary affairs. A Nxw Invention.—We have seen spec imens of a superior article of printing f>a- JeO|suM *a Darien Bank Claims. The Federal Uniem of the 2d inst., says: —Judge Hardeman held an adjourned term SATURDAY, APRIL. 8. Messrs. E. J. Camp and S. A. Caldea i £ Friday - la f t ’ bave « prospectus of a weekly cam- i the 30th ult, chiefly for the purpose ot de-1 . - . ,, . .. _ r _ j ciding the claims of the creditors of the i P^P® r be called the Georgia Pro- 1 Bank of Darien carried up by appeal from j hibitioniefc.” the first number of whioh is to ~ of Commissioners, be issued in Marietta, Ga., about the 20th inst. The object of the paper is the advo cacy of the great temperance movement on the basis of the Atlanta Platform and the claims of B. II. Overby the temperance can didate for Governor. Blackwood’s Magazine.—We have re ceived, from the American publishers, Mesrs. Leonard Scott A Co., New York, the March number of this valuable Magazine. The following is its table of contents: The Beg gar’s Legacy ; Zaidee’: A Romance—Part IV.; Vagabond Life in Mexico; Civilization: the Census; A Peep at Paris; The Story of the Campaign, written in a Tent in the Cri- Part IV.: The Ministerial Changes. | the award of the Board i The effect of the judgment delivered by ihim—is to lessen the amount of the first j award more than one-half—making the ! State liable for about $94,000. | The Act of 1834 was-declared to be con- i stitutional—and that tbe State had no right j to refuse to pay any further instalments I than she had then paid—and did actually j refuse to do so. The effect of this decision I is to throw ont all claims founded on certifi- ' cates of deposite, Ac. | Bill holders receive the whole amount of j their bills, without interest, except in those i casese where an actual demand was made upon the State of Georgia, through her leg islature ; that demand running from an ad journment of the legislature of 1849—which was on tbe 23d of February, 1850—the Di rector of the Central Bank having made his j _ - . report of certain claims filed in the Bank at j For terms of Blackwood and the other for that time. ^eign periodicals, see advertisement in anoth- The Judgment held by tlie Planters Bank j er column. 1 receives $27,000. and that held by the Bank i j of the State of Georgia, $10,000. The Bank ; The Temperance Candidate.—A writer ; of Milledgeviile receives about $3,000 on its . in the last Athens Watchman, a Whig pa- ! judgments on Bank Bills. j per, thinks it entirely useless to bring out a j. Tbeciaimof James Ilolford for $17,000, Wh ; candidate for Governor> and 8ay# is paid with interest from February 23d, , . . , _ ’ _ J I 1850, the adjournment of the legislature, to * t * ierc 18 no chance for a Whig Governor which it was reported. while Mr. Overby is before the people.” As will be seen, the whole amount to be Ilis advice is for the Whigs to rally round i paid under this decision, is less than one- j and nominate Mr. Overby, The editor of rSe°n the al - egCd lkbUitie8 ° f theBankof j the Hatchman, however, thinks there is no < . ! chance either for a Whig or Democrat Gov- , correspondent of the New Orleans Delta , ®™ 0r ’ f S * m . P rol * lb1 / a «end M j writing from the city of Mexico, March 19, j filbng the executive chair. Is this the same | thus chronieles this event: 1 “ Sara” that is now trying to fill the Lieu- i Santa Anna returned late in the evening, , tenant Governor's chair, in Virginia, with a j and was received with no pomp or triumph- , man w jj 0 voted in Congress to abolish slave- l a! entrance. He rather stole back, in the : . .. » « . .. , ' gloom of night, to the consolation of his pal- j r - v ‘ ‘J 6 of Columbia ?-the same ! ace: and the^e again to enjoy, in dreams, j *' ^ am object John P. Hale sava is i the visions t»f empire, which the “ Barbari- i to Abolitionise the South ? i an Alvarez” has, for a time, “ dissolved in- j The recent resolutions by the Law I to thin air.” Since his return- he and bis , . _ . .. , J j Ministers of State have been in seclusion— i indents in Cambridge, upon the removal of | and even the prying-eyes and attentive ears ! Judge Loring, were passed directly in defi- j of the whole diplomatic corps, and their i once of the expressed will of the Faculty. I feelers, have been unable to get at the histo- j This fact gives them a still higher value ; j ry or de *ig ps the conclave. j f or otherwise, probably, the majority of votes ! Fatal Bravado.—A man named Stedman, I would have been still stronger in their favor. The Professors now, it is said, are very fool ishly determined to inquire into the matter, and set forth, that the assembly, by which the resolutions were passed, is dissolved.— ; a cabinet maker, at Aurora, Portage coun- j ty, Ohio, one day last week, remarked to a j homcepathic physician there: “ I could take i any quantity of vour pills without injury.” ‘ The d<*etor replied—“ If you were to take ! such a quantity of this,” pointing to a spe- j College Faculties never “make anything” i cial medicine, “ it would kill you.” The i | u contests of this nature with students. ; foolish man swallowed the medicine before i . | he could be prevented, and died the same ; It seems to tie pretty well resolved ; day. j in Mobile, that the Mobile and Ohio Rail road shall be completed. Citizens have al ready subscribed to the Income Bonds of the Company to the amount of $100,000.— The local moneyed institutions of the city have subscribed $100,000 more, which it is thought will be increased to $130,000, and it is considered certain that before the close of the present week, $500,000 will be ac counted flir in the city. If th6 people in the country are as ready with their aid, it is thought that in a few weeks a sufficient sum can be made up to ensure the comple tion of the work to Columbus, Mississippi. Good Dividends.—The Bank of Augusta has declared a semi-annual dividend of Five Dollars per share, payable on demand, and the Mechanics Bank of that city has declar ed a similar dividend, also payable on de mand. A Challenge to Daniel Webster.—A enrresdundent of the New York Dost dis closes a fact not known even to many of Mr. Columbia. April 2, 1855. Columbia Municipal Election.—Colum- I bia having become to-day a city by the new | act of incorporation, it devolved upon her | citizens to select a Mayor and six Aldermen j to take charge of her affairs. The follow- ! ing is the vote for the Mayoralty: i E. J. Arthur 342 Wm.UA) bin, ,211 ' T. H. Wade, 91 Mr. Arthur is claimed as the Know Noth- ! ing candidate, and Col. Maybin as the An- j ti-Know Nothing representative. The six Aldermen who were elected are also claimed to have been on the Know Nothing ticket. Cincinnati, March 29, 1855. Slate Excitement in Cincinnati.—A 1 colored girl named Rosetta, brought here from Kentucky by an agent of her master, i and who was declared free by the State Court at Columb.us, has since been arrested under the fugitive slave law; but Judge Parker declared that when ever a slave by consent ef the owner sets foot on Ohio soil, ha is free; and therefore he declared the girl free. The United States Marshal at- _ , , . . . ..... ! tempted to arre<t her, which caused much j Webster s most intimate friends, that he was j excitement, and a mob being apprehended : once challenged by John Randolph. Mr. ! she was finally conveyed to the Woodruff j Webster declined, but the correspondence j House, where she now remains. j which passed between the parties, Mr. Ben- WyiheoiUe, Va., April 2.—On Saturday i ton acting as the friend of Randolph, ap- 1 p *gbt last, a most shocking tragedy occur- j pears to have been highly creditable to the : red here, by which- one of our oldest and I i most influential citizens was instantly killed, ; | and three other persons dangerously*wound- j #Sk- The Augusta Constitutionalist & Re- ' ed. The particulars of the bloody affair, as j public has no doubt of the ultimate comple- j far as I am ab'e to gather them, are as fol- j tion of the Savannah River Railroad, now ■ .• ^ * a t a j that the South Carolina Road has exhibited i For some tune past, a man named J. Aus- ' . , . , , .. . . ^ „ I tin Graham has been paying his attentions j a helping hand. .Ir. Arms, the First Kn- j to the daughter of a wealthy old gentleman ! gineer, proceeds immediately to survey the j named W. 11. Spillcr, who is reported to be | road from Anderson to Aiken, which latter : worth about $200,000. Graham was unsuc- ! place is understood as intended to be its ter- ! oe " f i 1 ” h " 9 “J> the fact th , a * tke I mination. For the benefit of Augusta and young lady loved, and was engaged to be „ , . ... , . , “ . .. i married to a physician named Dr Hamet. I Ilambur g there will be a branch road of ten j Graham, on aucouotoif this state of things, : miles length to the latter place. has been very violent,, and threatened to! . .7 ,, . x . v , ' take the life of his.rival the first opportuni- j I®* ^ sporting gentleman in New Y ork i ty that offered. ' j offers to bet a large amount that during the On Saturday night, about 10 o’clock, he i coming Summer he will drive from the entered the Wytheville Hoiei keept by Mr. ; As tor House to Union Square in a light- wagon drawn by rats. He calculates that he can accomplish the task with one hun dred rats in harness. Death of Mrs. Twiggs.—The New Or- i Thomas J. B.iyd, where Mr. Spiller was sit- ! ting, in company with Mr. C. F. Trigg, tel- i ler of the Exchange Bank at Abingd.un; ■ Mr. C. Cox. an attache of the hotel, and a Mr. Terry of this place. Graham drew a rev lver and commenced , . i firing into tbe crowd, killing Mr. Spiller at ,eaus ^ ca V une of the 27th ultimo announ- i the first fire. Mr. Cox is very hadiy wound- oes the death of Mrs. Telitha Twiggs, wife | ed; but will, it is thought, recover. Messrs. ! of Major General Twiggs, of the United | Terry and Trigg were wounded, but not I States army. j seriously. _1— ; The murderer fled immediately after the j n bread making, the vinous fermentation ; commission ot the bloody deed, and has not .. . , ,, •, ! since been heard from. I sometimes passes into the acid, thus ren- Yours F. 1 Bering the bread sour and disagreeable.— I New York-, April 2._In the Court of Oyer j Liebeg has iateIy formed a series of ex- . and Terminer this morning, a motion was ! pcrimeDts to improve the preparation of i made by the counsel of Morissey, Ilyler, ; bread, from which he comes to the conclu- i Irving nod Lynn, who are charged with lie j gjon that the only effective and innocuous ing accessory to the murder of Win. Poole, means 0 f improving tie quality af wheat rj&x&sss. Hm * e “- _ i r t, •r*. *• itae a A motion was then made to admit them , duU S b lie advises one pint of clear lime ’ to bail. There has lieen some taik about in- ! water, to be used for every 5 lbs. of flour.— Lime water can be prepared by stirring some quick lime in a vessel containing pure cold water, then allowing the sediment to settle. The clear is then to be poured off and kept in a bottle for use. Rabun Gap Road.—We learn that a party of the Engineering Corps of the Blue Ridge Railroad Company, which was detailed for the purpose of examining the line of the branch of that road from Citico, on the Ten- creasing Irving’s bail to $25,000. Irving is still at large. Baltimore, April 2.—Howard street flour is seeling at $9.25@$9.37 per bbl. Wheat : has advanced—red is quoted at §2.20@ $2.34; white $2.30@2.40—the highest fig ures ever held in this market. White corn command 89@91 cents per bushel, and yel low 91 cents. Philadelphia, April 2.—In the Supreme Court, this morning. Chief Justice Lewis gave a decision Rating a writ of error in ; Iiessee river to ^ on the line of the case of Dr. Beale, the Dentist, convicted L. -r, ' a, r , ,, . r, , - of violating tbe person of a young lady. 1 the Tennessee and Georgia Road, is The writ of error was granted, on the j engaged in that work at present. ground that the jury in the case had been ! Barnum annouces that twenty-seven sworn to try the guilt or innocence of the | vladiBa o have already entered their children prisoner, instead of being sworn to render ! . “ " a verdict according to the evidence in the I as competitors in his national baby show. ' ease. j We doubt the fact of any lady being con- , Another ground for granting the writ of j neoted in any way with so gross, debasing error was, that instead of Dr. Beale having j and obscene exhibition, been sentenced to solitary confinement at - ! labor, be had been sentenced to imprison ment at hard labor. per said to be made entirely of cane poles, which invention, if all we hear is realized, will work a great revolution in the printing biuinese. The paper is superior to that made of rags, and at one-third less cost.— The steamer Charleston which passed here a short time since, had on board twenty-five tons iff cane poles, destined for Wheeling, where they are to be manufactured into pa per. . Mr. -B. A- i»ayender, uf Baltimjre, who is interested''in the project,-has made contracts at the South for large quantities cf him poln^XoiiMlIi Oturitfm ‘The Georgia University Magazine, for April, has been received. It is an unu- ! Know Nothing Movements.—'The Know 8uaU J interesting number, containing the ' Nothings in.several States are dividing off I annual anniversary addresses before the two j into several cliques and coteries. In New j Literary Societies of the College, the Phi f York there ate three factions: 1st, Baker’s K ft ppa and Demosthenian. party called Hindoos; 2d, the Allen party, ; tSt" A Breach-loading Cannon was tried called Originals; 3d, the Utica organisation, j at the Charlestown (Maas.) Navy Yard on 1 called bogus or Seward Know Nothings.— i the 29th ult., in tbe presence of some United : In Massachusetts, New Hampshire and N. I States officers. Dischargee were made re- - Jersey, there are two factions in each. All i peatedly, as often as 6 rimes a minute, hut ' this is, says the New Yor\p,Herald. weaken ;ifis claimed that, having everything perfect, J ing. Unless-they Unite iH <eaeh: Stnt«-and j from 15 to 18 dischargessaneasily U-made then in all the States, they will be demolish- j in that time. This is pronounced a furmid- ed by the democracy. I abb weapon for naval warfare. Arrival of the Daniel Webster. Eight Days laater from California. We find in our New Orleans exchanges eight days later news from California, brought by the steam ship Daniel Webster. She reached New Orleans last Friday night. The Parser furnishes the following particu lars in relation to the insult offered this ves sel by a Spanish sloop of war: Steamship Daniel Webster, Capt. T. D. Lucas, left New r Orleans on her regular day of sailing, 14th of March, for San Juan.— When three days out, while passing Cape San Antonio, was brought to with a shotted gun from a Spanish sloop-of-war mounting 24, and papers demanded and overhauled, under protest of the Captain, and the only reason given for so doing was that they served all the steamships that passed the Island the some way; after which we were allowed to pass on our course. The Alti California, of the 9th of March, in its summary of the week, says: The events of the past week are neither numerous nor startling. The bank excite ment has in a groat measure subsided. The suspended banks have not resumed, and it is altogether improbable that any one of them, with the exception, perhaps, of Page, Bacon & Co., can resume. At Sonora, on Sunday last, a mob gathered and bro^e open the banks of Adams & Co., which had been closed since the 23d ult. A committee was appointed and depositors paid off to the full extent of their certificates. Some $10,000 above the evidence of deposit was found in the vault. The creditors of Dr. Wright and Robinson have held several meetings, with no result, however, other than satisfying everybody that the assets of these “ savings banks” have been placed beyond the reach of attachment. Among the failures of mercantile houses during tbe week may be mentioned those of Chapin, Sawyer & Co., and S. B. Conrey. Tue newly discovered diggings—the Kern River mine-.—receive their full share of public attention. People are flocking thith er by land and water. The most wonderful stories ar® reported, many of them undoubt- ly very much exaggerated. The rain has fallen abundantly of late, and all the streams are swollen. At Sacra mento the river has been rising rapidly for several days past, and was only two or three feet below the maximum height attained since the foundation of the city. The Supreme Court adjourned on Tuesday, hating rendered a number of very impor tant decisions. One decision was to the ef fect that persons who enclose lands in the mining region cannot hold them against miners. A “conflict of Courts is becoming quite interesting. The Supreme Court of thi3 State decided a month or two ago, that ap peals could not be taken from the State Courts to the United States, and Judge Shat- tuck of the Superior Court, of San Francis co, disregarded this decision, and transfer red a cause to the U. States District Court. Down comes the Supreme Court with a per emptory mandamus commanding him, &c., but it was of no avail, Judge Shattuck re cognizes a higher law, and says he “shall not touch the case again.” The charter elections in Marysville and Oakland have resulted in the triumph of the Know Nothing candidates. The Pacific Express Company has taken the place of Adams & Co.’s Express. Gov. Bigler has granted on unconditional pardon to John Tabor, of Stockton, who had been convicted and sentenced to execution for the killing of Mr. Mansfield. The Alta Calijornia, in its commercial article of the evening of the 8th, says: The business of the past week has not been so heavy by any means as it was gene rally supposed it would be. The idea pre vailed heretofore that the first week of con tinuous rain would bring about an imme diate revival in trade, and induce an active demand for goods. Such has not so far proved to be the case, but we see in this no cause for discouragement. We look upon the business of the country as certain, and 'although the financial crisis through which we have just passed may retard orders, and the conditions of the roads may impede the transportation of goods, the wants of the country must be supplied sooner or later, and the trade of this week or of this month will only be forced into the next, as soon as business commences. Policy of Louis Napoleon.—The Wash ington correspondent of the New Y. Journal of Commerce writes: * Late letters from Paris have attracted more than usual attention, on account of their disclosure of the designs and policy of the French Emperor. He will not only go to the Crimea, and take tbe war into his own hands, but will greatly extend the field of its operations. Napoleon believes in the star that led him successfully to the Empire, through the coup d’etat of the 2d of Decem ber. After he shall bring the Russo-Turk- ish war to such a conclusion as he aims at, he will not, probably, follow the example of his uncle, in repudiating an unfruitful wife, and espousing a princess by whom he may expect accession to hi9 strength, as well as to perpetuate his dynasty in his family?— Then, will he not attempt the crowning act of his destiny—the invasion of England? These are shadows of events that may not be distant. On the other hand, if Napoleon fell a vic tim to his Crimean expedition, the results will bo quite as important to the world; for it may be followed by democratic revolution in France, and political convulsions every where. A long series of wars and revolu tions, seem to menace the world. Even were the Conference of Vienna to result in a general pacification, it would nut be but of momentary duration. But the opinion gains ground, that the continuance of the war in Europe will not be hereafter, so detrimental to our industrial pursuits, as has linen generally supposed, provided we may be able, for some twenty years longer, to maintain peaceful relations with all foreign powers. “ The Fir momentum or mud fires are eve ry day improving in public estimation. Their applicability to all steam purposes has been severely tested. We understand that an ex periment was tried a day or two since upon the Jackson Railroad with this wonderful material as a steam generator, and was en tirely successful. A train of cars was run for a distance of some fourteen miles upon this road with only one fire, and that with the fire box only about half jull of the mate rial. Enough of steam was produced for all purposes, and the trial was perfectly suc cessful This test is probably , one of the strongest to which it could be subjected, for, if with the constant escape and use of the steam a locomotive requires a sufficient quantity could be generated, surely, for all other pupnses to which steam is applied, it is especially adapted.” An Odd Idea.—Among amusements, the latest novelty we notice is the excentrio tar get at Mr. John Travis’ Pistol Gallery, on St. Charles street. A shot, skillful enough to strike the “ bull’s eye.” sets in motion certain ingenious machinery behind the scenes, and the uninitiated sportsman is amazed at beholding the target slowly open in the centre, disclosing the figure of a beautiful dancing girl, who stands before him in the attitude of cutting an extra pig eon wing, and it is then hidden from view by the closing of the iron slab. Whenever we saw this occur, it appeared to us precise ly as if the lady knew when a good shot was made, and wished to know who had fired tbe pistol.—N, O. Bella. 89* There were sold before the Court House in Savannah, on Tu^day, t«s* shares on the Bank of Savannah, qt.$jOfoi>«r share, and forty-seven shares Central “Railroad at $104. sSenetklag flatten la Danmark.” There appears just now, from what hid den cause we cannot divine, to be a gener al bouleversement in the domains of Whig gery, throughout Georgia. Either tbe wires are not skillfully pulled or they are badly laid. The Republican a few days since at tempted gently to ease Mr. Jenkins.off the stage, it “ being unwilling to assist in forcing him into the position of a candidate, especially under the peculiar circumstances which surround parties at this time in Geor gia.” Alarming this! critical state of af fairs .' Mr. Jenkins is evidently not the man for the times. For this temporary distrust and disobedience the Southern Recorder takes occasion to rap his editorial brother rather rudely over the knuckles. “ Noth ing,” it says, “U farther from our desire and intention, than to attempt to force Mr. Jen kins into the position of a candidate. If our recollection serves us, *a writer in the Republican first agitated the Gubernatorial question, and suggested the name of Mr. Hull, &c.” Again “ we trust there will be no falling out by the way, upon mere questions of pot of those who' icy of those wl tied together.” nave heretofore nobly bat- Rather scary times these! One pulling one way another another, and all “ falling out by the way upon mere ques tion of policy.” The Republican takes all this very meek ly, and assures its cotemporary that “ there snail be no falling out by the way, so far as we are concerned.” This is as much as to say, let us have our own way and there will be peace in the wigwam. As for Mr. Jenk ins, the Republican seems still “ unwilling to see him placed prematurely in the posi tion of a candidate, and before it is known that he can be elected.” That is oertainly wise. Our neighbor closes by a very sug gestive compliment to “ Mr. Hull, one of the soundest men in the State,” and further adds that “ there is time enough yet to de termine what is best to be done.” There is PerelfB Powers Protesting Against? V. 8- Treaties.' The United States Government have re cently entered into a commercial treaty with the Equatorian Government, by which it is said the former grants a protectorate over the islands of Gallipagos. This treaty, which is proper enough m itself and which is within the sovereign powers of the two nations to ratify, has been protested against by tbe minister of Peru, the charge d’ affairs of Spain, the charge d’ affairs of France, and the English consul at Quito, on the gaound that the Government of Ecuador cannot and ought not tc bind itself without the assent of the four nations they repre sent. Here we have another unjustifiable and impertinent interference with the na tional rights and prerogatives of the United States, and an addition to the combination against its interests. We cannot make a commercial treaty giving us snob advanta ges as any other sovereignty chooses to con fer, bnt we are to have the leading govern ments of Europe, with a South American State combining against it, and asserting a right to be consulted, though the matter, as between the two contracting nations, is clearly none of the business of such inter meddlers. But what will such a protest as this avail? Who cares for it? What will it accomplish, except to show the arrogant pretensions of the parties making it ? It will amout to nothing at all. Such pre tensions as these no nation will submit to that has any respect for its dignity and hon or, or any power to assert its own just rights. The people of this country care not whether other nations are pleased with their progress or not. They will make such treaties as will promote their own interests, always bearing in mind, however, the rights of oth ers ana the obligations of international com ity. Acting justly, fairly and honorably towards others, they will submit to no im pertinent intermeddling with themselves, or their progress. The nations that attempt it nothing decided then yet. Everything is ! sh ™J a be warned in time, and see the ab- still afloat. But the entanglement does not end here. The LaGrange correspondent of the Recorder discusses at length the dubious question, “ what effect will the Temperance nominations have upon the October elec tions ?” He rationally concludes that as Mr. Overby is a Whig and his followers of that ilk, that the Whig party is in danger said to be that wri of being drawn off to an alarming extent The following is ai by that leakage. How can it be stopped? That is the very question. The writer turns it over and over in a variety of ways, first pressing Mr. Dawson’s claims then Mr. Hull’s, and finally Mr. Jenkins’. Light, however, will not come ont of darkness, or der out 6f disorder, nor peace out of discord. There are a great many conflicting claims to be adjusted, and many difficulties in the way. above all Mr. Overby sticks, and there’s the rub. If ho cannot be wheedled off the track, there is little hope for Whig gery. Query! How far Toombs and Ste phens backing out of Know Nothingism is due to these intestine troubles.—Sav. Geor gian. “TO* Lett A. K. JHcClnug. The death of this daring Mississippi&n by his own hands is very generally noticed by the press. From a friend who knew him well and admired him much, we learn that he was a native of Kentucky. It is said that first and last he was engaged in nearly or quite a dozen combats, most of which re sulted fatally to his antagonist. But he was something more than a duelist. He was an orator of no mean rank. One pas sage of surpassing eloquence, we well recol lect, taken from a euology called forth by the death of Mr. Clay. The following remarks we find in the Petersburg Exprees. We recollect to have been much impressed in reading a Biographical Sketch of Alex ander K. MeClung, in the Southern Lite rary Messenger for January last, to see how much there really was to be admired and remembered gracefully in the character and career of this unfortunate man, whioh never theless overshadowed by the cloud of a great remorse and thus hidden from the sight of the world. Col MeClung was a generous and magnerous and magnanimous spirit—a brave man, if ever there was one, which cannot be said always of duellist by profes sion, and he was gifted by nature with en dowments that would have raised him to eminence in any profession he might have chosen. Over sensitive in the point of his personal honor, he was led to the bloody combatsof the pistol and the knife upon slight provocation, and having como off on every occasion only too victorious, leaving* his antagonist dead upon the field, there was peace for him no longer upon this wide earth. The nemesis of an accuesing con science fastened upon his soul. As it pur sued Herod and Macbeth, it pursued him. The furies hovered over his bed. In vain he sought relief, in change of scene, in the distractions of public business, in the wild rage of battle. He travelled much—he accepted a ^diplomatic position under Gen. Taylor in South America, but without find ing beneath fereign skies that forgetfulness of the past, which lie failed to experience even amid the excitements of the Mexican War. Wherever he wont, there was no “surcease of sorrow,” no nepenthe for his tortured being. And as a last fearfulrofuge, he went into the world of spirits unsum moned, without hope, it was a leap in the dark? A friend of ours who once occupied an adjoining chamber to Col. MeClung, at a hotel in New York City, tells us that thorugh- out tbe live-long night, that wretched man walked up and down his apartment or the hall leading to it, as if fearing to throw himself upon that couch from which sleep had departed. Later from China. We make the following interesting ex tracts of a letter from a highly responsible and intelligent source, which has been kindly submitted for our perusal: Shanghai, December 30,1854. We are still in a state of war at this port, and the French have been drawn into the quarrel. The rebels undertook to build a battery on some land near the city wall; the Admiral told them to desist, as the land had been sold to the French; they persisted, and he sent a file of soldiers to demolish their work. The rebels fired on the soldiers —killed one, and wounded several; there upon the French ship fired upon the town. It is said the Admiral is determined to in sist upon their surrendering the city to him, aud it is admitted on all hands that he could soon reduce the city to a heap of ruins, by throwing shell from his ships, (a frigate and a steamer,) hut he postpones this method of warfare, as it would involve the death of so many women, childern, and other innocent persons. The rebels are set on by some renegade foreigners who have joined them, who give them be-1 advice, and teach them to despise the Frc i; they offer to surrender the city to the A erica.is and English, but declare they wir. never give up to the French. The Americans and Englis Captains, Pope and .O’Callaghn, answer to this, that they are not at war with than, and it would he non sense to surrender to them, bnt that if they will surrender to the French they will, through their mediation, guarantee all their lives. To this the French Admiral assents, but they, poor infatuated creatures, refuse. It will be great relief to this neighborhood to get rid of both the rebels and the Impe rial troops. a . . _ We du not feel oureelve# in any da from either party. Both know that their beef policy to keep on good termBwith Wbat we have to dread moet^s tbe French foreigners; anarchy. Since I commenced writip have commenced bombarding; I now hear their, cannon; Booming air; it is a sad sound,, that I truat-yqft-y never hear in any one of year peaceful surdity of attempting to impose upon this continent the nonsensical theory of a bal ance of power, which has so often deluged Europe with blood.—Phila. Ledger. Nicholas and the Philip of Macedonia Of the many English obituaries of the late Czar the most striking and eloquent is ritten by Mr. Urquhart.— an extract: Commencing with a usurpation and a revolution, close followed by a victorious war beyond the Capian, close followed again by a triumph in a struggle for life and death on the plains of the Danube, instantly suc ceeded by a similar daring and achievement on those of Snmertia, a revolution of Europe by a mechanism, the springs of which were forged at St. Petersburg—such were the first five years of his illustrious career, when cir cumstances arose which seemed to bar him from the fruits of success, aud dis place Russia from her high position among nations—the commencement of the recon struction of Turkey, and the political union of England and France. Cautious now, ns hitherto daring, four and twenty years of peace succeed, in the course of which time he convulsed Europe from end to end, con verts Hungary for Austria into another Po land and his, secures the succession of Den mark, sets up an Emperor in France, and ruling all the nations and courts of tho West through his embassadors, and making use of their cabinets and statesmen ns the tools with which he worked, finally accumu lates the armies of Europe on tbe soil of his secular enemy, the old Ottoman Lion, to crush him by their weight and friendship, then draws them upon the soil of Russia, not only to defy the Western world, but to annihilate tho armies. Vanishing from the scene after bringing the power of Russia to the highest point that it ever has attained, or ever can attain, that in which, by combining the two’ great nations of Europe against Russia, he has in sured between them an internecine strife, which must make his country mistress, not of Constantinople and Calcutta alone, but of Europe and the world. Let the Russians inscribe this epitaph upon his tomb: “He has accomplished the will of Peter.” “ There are strange parallelisms in histo ry. Nicholas had his antetype, and so have we. There is nothing in events but Phillip of Macedon, to put beside Nicholas. The Athenians did say Phillip was nmd—the English did say Nicholas was mad. The The Athenians did say, ‘ Phillip is dead.’ The English, in the same sense, are saying, ‘Nicholas is dead.’ And Phillip was all Macedon, while Nicholas in Russia was but an Emperor. Though Phillip was all Mac edon, and did die, although the Athenians did rejoice, Athens and Greece did perish. Phillip was only a barbarian, while Greece was civilized.” An Augury.—Whilst Gov. Smith, was ad dressing his constituents at Rappahannock court-house on Monday the 12th ult., and at the precise moment when he endorsed a por tion of the Know Nothing platform as con taining “ much that was democratic,” a small bat, of the leather winged species, tho first and only one we have seen this season, suddenly issued from some hidden nook in the court room and proceeded to perform sundry gyrations around the Governor’s head, its sudden appearance at the partic ular juncture created a general burst of merriment, and this, with the volley of shouts of “there goes the Know-Nothing eagle,” and the shower of hats from the boys which accompanied the flight of hi9 Know-Nothing-ship around the loom added not a little to the noise and confusion of the hour. We thought of JEsop’s battle of the beast and birds—looked at the speaker and ruminated.— Warrenton Flag. We arc surprised to learn, that. notwith standing the repeated notices from our own and other papers, of the change in the pos tage law, requiring prepayment in all cases, on and after the 1st inst., that nearly fifty letters were detained in the Post Office in this'city, on the first day of the operation of the new law. And about thirty more were added the two days following—all in consequence of the non-payment of postage. Columbus Enq. What For?—We learn that several men have been for some time assiduously engaged in digging up portions of the earth on Tybee Island. They have a long instru ment, like a ram-rod, with which they probe the earth, and when they strike anything dig down to it. They some days since found a box containing horsemen’s pistols, and more recently have discovered some china and other articles, which were doubtless stolen from wrecks and buried.—Sav. Rep. Destructive Tornado at Danville Ky. —The Louisville Eveniog Bulletin says that Danville, Ky., was visited by a most de structive tornado on the afternoon of the I6tb, about 4 o’clock, which resulted'in the destruction of about fifteen houses, besides doing much damage to churches and other buildings, demolishing windows, throwing down chimneys, etc. The loss will not fafi short of $15,000. Mr. Collins had the entire roof of bis house carried a distance of fifty yards. The storm was followed by an im mense fall of rain, which contributed great ly to the loss of -property. in Operation.—The Alta e 9th ultiino, says: . coining silver yes- ana* we understand strdek off $7,000 ,000 to-day. The. only denomination so far, is half dollar, bat they mence-niaking quarters very short- coin before us looks tolerably well, with the exception of the date, the figures city, this present piecesbeora the' letter 75 on tha reverse, under tho figure of th* oaglo.