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BY RUGGLES & HOWARD. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING; MAY 24, 1855. VOL. VI. NO. 52. THE ATLANTA INTELLIGENCER Dally, TrS-Weekly and Weekly. BY RUGGLES & HOWARD. W. 13. RUGGLES,! dMo „. T. C. HOWARD, J $6.00 4.00 2.00 60 cts. One month, $5 00 $1 1 00 Two “ 8 00 25 Three “ 10 00 ] 50 Four “ 12 00 1 75 Six “ 15 00 2 00 One year, 25 00 terms op subscription Daily Intelligencer per annum, in advance, Tri-Weekly, “ Weekly, “ RATESOF advertising* Advertising in the Daily Intelligencer will be inserted nt the following rates per square of ten lines: One Insertion, Two “ Throe, “ Four “ Five “ One week, Special contracts will be made for yearly adver tisements occupying a quarter, half or whole col umn. 7&r Advertisements from transient persons must be paid in advance. Legal advertisements published at the usual ratc*r Obituary notices exceeding ten lijics charg ed as advertiseufonts. Announcing candidates for office, $ j *10, to he paid in advance. When advertisements arc ordered in all the is sues, including Daily, Tri-Weekly and Weekly, 25 per cont. will be added to the above rates.. ” The privilege of yearly advertisers is strictly limited to their own immediate and regular busi ness. Professional Cards not exceeding six lines, per annum. . Advertisements not specified as to time wilt no published till ordered out, and charged at regular rates. Advertisements inserted in the Weekly paper only will ho charged nt former rates. THE WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY EVENING. T-rmn—$2 00 per annum, invarialty in advance. FRIDAY, MAY 18. No line to Try it. Not long ago, a very few weeks since in deed, the new “Order” looked very bright in the eyes of many who arc now very much impressed the other way. The thing shines low, hut it “shines and stinks, stinks and shines, like a rotten herring in the moon light,” in the view of some who hut very recently thought this Americanism, “ com- mendod itself to the sympathies of every American heart.” But, however, all this may he, and whatever changes the minds of some Whigs in Georgia may confess to upon any other point, there is to he kept up an opposition to the Democracy—let us call it a hate—as hitter and relentless as the pangs of death. By the last Chronicle & Sentinel we sec that a call is made upon all who are “ opponents of the present State and Na tional Administrations, the constructors{!!!) and supporters of the ‘ Georgia Platform’ ” to meet in convention on Wednesday, the 18th day of July next, for the purpose of bringing before the people some suitable name for Governor. Upon this platform, we suppose. What can Georgia, what can the South hope from such a factious spirit as this ?— It is faction and nothing else; for while all the State, with the exception perhaps of 3d degree Thugs, may he rallied upon the Georgia Platform, yet the demand that the Chronicle <(• Scntiw l is making upon us, to include its other conditions of adhesion, will only distract the counsels of our State and lead to a useless and wicked dispersion of our strength. For our part, we aro wil ling to make any fair sacrifice to secure the unity and the full power of Georgia for the coming danger, hut to ask of us to denounce and desert Gen. Pierce after all that he has suffored in our behalf is to suppose our peo ple to he utterly eailous and that we make a merit and boast of ingratitude. We con fess we did not look to see Wilson’s taunt of Southern heartlessness so soon endorsed. Massachusetts Electioneering in Vir ginia.—A telegraphic despatch from Wash ington says. The Know Nothings here, as well as the national Whigs, rejoice at the decision of Gov. Gardner upon the Loring case. Had he concurred in the arbitrary act, it would have convinced every one that Massachusetts Know-Nothingism is nothing but abolitionism in another name ; and it would have greatly prejudiced the interests of that party in the Southern States and especially in Virginia. It is now commonly said that Gov. Gardiner’s veto will secure the election of Mr. Flournoy, the Know Nothing candidate in Virginia. The people Duel between Gwinnett end Blclntbnk. A correspondent of the Charleston Mer- j _ cury gives a letter from Gen. McIntosh, dated 30th May, 1777, referring to his meeting with Gwinnett. The letter, howev er, does not give the details of the difficulty so well as the certificates which we publish. The writer in the Mercury says: This letter is valuable on many accounts, and will suggest sundry clues to the histo- New SeUedule on the State Road. Our readers will see by the advertisement' appearing this morning, that the Superin tendent of the State Road proposes to re move the objection that has been widely en tertained against previous schedules on this Road, which have uniformly, we • believe. caused a.detention here of through passen- rian of Georgia, in respect to the extreme i gers for the night. This was made necessary, and violent character of the party struggles j we believe by the running time ontheGeor- ' in that State during the first years of the j „; a Rai i road . B y the present arrangement, Hon. Thomas H. Benton, has published a letter in the National Intelligencer, de fending Lieut. Ed. F. Beale, late Superin tendent of Indian Affairs, from the impu tations of Commissioner Manypcnny, which have been published in Lieutenant B.’s absence. Taxing Clergymen.-—A law has been passed in Albany exempting dedicated churches from taxation, but taxing minis ters on all property they may own over $1500 worth. Crops in the West.—A heavy snow fell in Michigan on Monday, the 7th, and Revolution. But it does not fall within my iIS*"" ! through™* the western part of Illinois of Massachusetts will no doubt approve the j present purpose, nor have I the space for re- j “ ie travehn S public are lett to their option , there wa3 a heavy frost and did great dam- conduct of the Governor. I mark upon it; particularly as it requires, j either to remain over or pass through with- , age to the crops. The corn fields will have No man here, or any where else, doubts ; for the completion of this notice, that I j out detention. This double service will j to be planted over again, that the scandalous procedure in the Massa- I should give the enclosure, to which Mein- j 3 i S0 have the effeet, besides making the ! Chicago, May 12.—A most destructive ehusetts Legislature again,. Judge Luring, j I I SSSSXS SS2 was backed up by the sympathy and conni- | na t ure of a deposition, and is taken before : a P the °* ier roads ’ °f raising the mail > S q Uare . Loss $150,000. vance of Gov. Gardner. As an exponent of! a magistrate whose signature is attached, j vice on the State Road to the first class, j Wilmington May 14 Gariche’s Dryiug abolitionism as it is to be under the do-j [certificate.] j thereby entitling the State to a far better and Grind f ng p owder Mills, near this city, minion of the didappers, that infamous Le- ** Habersham, &c., saitli: That on contract for transporting the mails than ever ; hlew up at 11 o’clock this morning. No gislature has given satisfaction both to j eml wS&SS*d»owld ttS* a ^ I ^ .”7 ^rangement , lives were lost nor w^ any one hurt. friend and foe. > ten challenge, signed Button Gwinnett, ; begins Sunday the -Qth mst. ; Louisville, May 12. The Courier this Now the North has been assured that the : wherein the General was charged with call- Mr- Wise’* Letter. morning publishes a long letter from Prof. Know Nothings o r Massachusetts arc fully ing Mr. G. a scoundrel in public convention, } We give upon our fourth page this ndmira- Morse, addressed to Bishop Spaulding of andrequired to give satiation for it a, a | bIo proJuclio „. I, Joe, ,eeut to u. that i S’sSSuSrtSStotoa M<J “o'Sid 1 "T r-’* mi " d r re “r ib, r r 1 Martin’s house! To which the General P eals of reason and patriotism, this conciu- i phrase: “If ever the liberties of this coun- sent an answer to Mr. G. that he would as- j sive argument leaves nothing unsaid. Upon ; try are ^destroyed, ^it will be .by ^Romish abolitionised it is thought prudent just on the eve of the Virginia elections to throw this poor sop to those willing and conscious traitors who have run off from the Democ- . „ „„ , — „ T „ , , .. ,, M - , . - w raev and who will he more than pacified i suredly meet him at the time and place ap- | the strength of such a lucid and resistless j Priests. Morse does prove it. tie also J - - 1 — I ---j —--i, - —--- -/■ * ° - -- . .. — ; proves that Spaulding s statement and proof to the contrary are false and a forgery. New Orleans Post Blaster. for the present to strip a Judge of his un-j « 'pj ie General and his second waited himself some of las exhausting labors, that- Kendall, the late Post Master, has been spotted robes because he would not commit about fifteen minutes on the ground the 1 from the public accounts we have of them, ! bound over for trial in the U. States District perjury. next morning before Mr. G., with liis sec- were hardly ever before equalled in the his- ; Court. When the present purpose is answered, ® nd » appeared, and when they came up, po- t OI .y 0 f canvasses. He deserves to succeed ! then it will he time enough to complete the pASr!? then IdZZJZ'J'Z I ni l : lct the issue > as it may, and we were never when it is told them that one single Know ! pointed, with a pair of pistols only, as ■ document, it would seem that Mr. Wise Nothing in Massachusetts was not willing | S seeond ’ whobrouh g t might have been content to have spared litre ii vs. Beaton. St. Louis, May 15. . I General then drew his pistols to show I that] j lue lS3UC ’ ^ " lL j Birch recovered $4,000 damages in the degradation of this now most distinguished he was i oaded on ly with single halls, but more sanguine of the happening of any j 8 i ander su it against Thomas H. Benton.— and enviable Judge. j avoided entering into any other conversation event than we are in our belief that Wise j The case will be carried to the Supreme than the business on hand, &c. The rest will he the next Governor of Virginia. I Court. j Capt. lagrahaoi. hut only I®-Gov. Reeder having denied some of i Capt j ngraham dec Unes the dinner ten- 11 eat It If You Dare. . We give below a gem that has made us : as tbe °^ ,er a ^davit. , ... ,, f ,, , v Ihe other affidavit is defective break into small shatterracks one ol the in the mere formula of the legal introduc- liis rash expressions in liis late speech at i dere d him by the Philadelphians, business requirements of the tent.i commandment.— j tion. It begins abruptly—no person being i Easton, the New York Herald says it he-! calls him to S. Carolina. We would give a large sum, for a poor edi- named-and is, no doubt, the statement of j lieveiJ the report ; 8 correct> and that hc did> Crime and Death.-Ou Saturday last, wi tz: ~ && • <*•—- ** ^ »• ^ ~ ^ ^ ^ bo?ics ' ?f Republican got tlicm \ve cannot tell likely i Button Gwinnett; wherein the said Button j from the Knickerbocker, as it smacks of the ! Gwinnett charged the General with calling ; spicincssof its old contributor, Cayenne. But him a scoundrel in public convention, and i lot tho author ho who ho oviv a nativo or a ! desired lie would give satisfaction for it as i Weather, Crops, Ac. - . J X. r .. . n . loolTrl ’’ ZTa Wo Wo ! a gentleman, before sunrise next morning, The editor of the Taledega (Ala.) Watch- j appointed Bishop of that Diocese, vice bloody furnner he s a trump. We have ; ^ Jame ’ Wright>8 pasture> behind Co t i man has rece ntly been in a wheat field, Blsho P ke y nolds * deceased. made repeated efforts to read aloud the last Martin’s house ; to which the General hu- j where the heads were up to his neck, and Maylville, N. Y., May 14.—Hall, the in fact, say “border ruffians.” The speak> . . • _• san Tatsapaugh and her infant, in Alexan- ! , ’ , . dna. ihe poor girl had fallen from virtue taken than the reporter,—the former get- and in attempting to rid herself of the evi- ting excited, while the latter keeps himself de nce of her shame, lost her life, cool. ; Clerical.—Rev. Dr. Barry, Roman Cath- ' olic Vicar General of Savannah, Ga., has ! morously sent in answer to Mr. G. that the : hour was rather earlier than his usual, but ; [that he] would assuredly meet him precise- I ly at the time and place appointed, with a pair of pistols only, as agreed upon with Mr. Gwinnett’s second, who brought the challenge. “Early the next morning, Mr. G liis pistols, to show that he was loaded only with single halls, hut avoided entering into any other conversation than the business on hand. It was then proposed and agreed to, that they should go a little lower down the hill, as a number of spectators appeared, and when the ground was chosen, the sec onds asked the distance. Mr. G re plied, “ Whatever distance the General pleases.” The General said he believed Johuiou and Gentry Canvassing. The Tennessee Democracy arc in high glee at the style in which Johnson deals out to his Know Nothing competitor his gruel. Johnson says he can always tell after feeling his man what hc can do with him, and that hc knows hc “has got Gentry sure.” We believe that it is plain that Johnson has him, and wc give’his rejoinder at Mur freesboro, which, in our opinion, is a stunner. Wc take the following from an exchange: Gov. Johnson’s rejoinder was the happiest effort wc ever heard from him, and it told with overwhelming eflect. lie excited the democrats to the widest enthusiasm, and it did’nt need the shower which fell before he had concluded to dampen know nothingism. He said he could always tell when lie had a victim in his grasp, and in his present competitor lie had one sure. The crowd evidently agreed with him. lie illustrated the sincerity of liis competitor’s crusade against foreigners, by reading the bill at Brown’s Hotel, in Washington, of Kossuth and his suite, paid by the United States, and for the payment of;which Cel Gentry ngTr voted, while in Congress. Ihe hill is as Dc . lawarc 8 follows : , * , _ To hoard lor Governor Kossuth and suite, having ten parlors and twenty-one cham bers, thirteen and a half days, 23 persons, :::::: $2,588 00 SUNDRIES. Champagne, Sherry,Cigars, Lem onade, bar-bill, washing, medi cines, postofficc-stamps, poter- age and messengers, hack-hire, paid at different times, tele graphs, sugar, brandy, and whiskey in room, porter and ale, envelopes, barber’s hill, amounting in all to ; ; ; 658 S2 Bill for carriages engaged for Governor and suite, : : lines and can’t for crying. THE LOCUS. You little red-ide Insex, What sings your song Upon the okes and various Other trees, making a constant noise Like a steem engine Mowin’ At night a long ways off, Wliar liav you bin sense last I liurd your voices, Some sixteen years ago ? I wonder if you have Staid ever sense under the ground Buried thar out of sight? I also wonder, now you liav cum out, What you do find to eat ? For you don’t seem to liav Such appetites as Pharo’s insex, And eat up every green thing. Ef you devour anything at awl I can’t descover it. Arc you raly a sign Of War, or Pestilense, or Fammin, Or all together ? I don't think so, For I liav seen you several times Before, and nutliin’ pejticlar happened Immejiately afterwards. I can’t think You bring any effex of consequence At all, and you can leeve just When you plees, or stay and holler on. Democratic Meeting in Cltatliam. ifcaf The Committee of 13 appointed by the Chairman of the Democratic Meeting to select five Delegates to attend the approach ing Gubernatorial Convention, report that they have unanimously chosen the follow ing gentlemen as delegates: John E. Ward. William H. Stiles, Thomas Purse, George A. Gordon, Philip J. Punch, The following resolutions, offered by John Boston and seconded by Thos. Purse, were) Ten days later news had been received submitted to the meeting: I by telegraph, and the Russian General rc- Resolved, That the I emocracv of Chat- i p 0r t a that the fire of the Allies had become ham county, whilst they will support, with wea }j ; and no great effect had been produced, cheerfulness, the nominee of the approach- j Iu shortj the ° siege guns had been worn out I L n £. Gubernatorial C onvention, cannot re- j b y thirteen days of incessant cannonade, j fram from expressing their decided prefer- j and the battc ri4 must be renewed to carry cnee for the re-nomination of the present; on thc bom bardment. This gives the Rus- I distinguished incumbent of the Gubernato- j gjaag time to repair all damages, and thc j rud chair the lion. Ilcrschcl \ . John- ; w liolc work has to he done over again.— ! SOn ,‘, , , ,m . tt T T o j , i This siege of Sevastopol is the grandest , Resolved, I hat the lion. J L Seward has pagc j n t j ie record of modern warfare, j justly earned mo gratitude of the people of I Savannah, by his zealous and successful ad- ! vocacy of our rights on the floor of the large and well filled. So vigorous was the , negro barber, who was arrested in New Or- growth that his hat was sustained on the leans for robbing a man of $1400, by ad- unbent stalks. Apropos—if the Watchman ministering chloroform to him while shav- forgot his hat and left it on the stalks, he : i Q g him, at Dunkirk, was tried on Saturday, can take ours. j convicted, and sentenced to 15 years impris- Apropos of this, too—if the editor of the onmen t- Charleston Standard knew as much 0 f ^^g May ld.-There was considera- , ,« , ... , . . : ble confusion and excitement in the House farming as we a admit he does of the mo- 0 £ Represan bitives this afternoon, from the dns operandi of turning out a first rate pa- ; thafc Mr. Hiss, the expelled member, and his second found the General with liis second waiting on the ground, and after po- . . . litely salutin' 1 - each other, the General drew I P er > * ie would never have written what he ; twice resumed his vacant seat, and was each has about that hat. The Standard should ' ’ ^ ~ 15 A * know that this lodging of a hat is the trial test among farmers of a number one crop of wheat. [For the Atlanta Daily Intelligencer.] Proceedings of Council. Messrs. Editors:—As a constant reader of the city papers, I, in common with many others, have been at a loss to account for eight nine or ten feet would be sufficient, | & facL that undcr thc ent administra- and three steps were immediately measured . .. .. . . to which the General’s second desired 'that tion, the citizens hate ceased to enjoy ihe ■ privilege of knowing, through the medium to which the General’s second desired 'that another step might he added. It was then proposed to turn back to hack. The Gene ral answered, “By no means. Let us see what we arc about.” And immediately each took liis stand, and agreed to lire as they could; and both pistols went off nearly at the same time, when Mr. Gwinnett fell, (being shot a little above the knee), and said his thigh was broken. The General who was also shot through the thick of the thigh, stood still in his place, and not think ing his antagonist was worse wounded than himself—as he afterwards declared— asked if he had enough or was for another shot; to which all objected, and the seconds declared they [had] both behaved like gen tlemen of honor , led the General up to Mr. Gwinnett, and they both shook hands.— And further this deponent saitli not. [Signed] “GEO. WELLS.” 310 50 To Sportsmen.—Wash your gun barrels in spirits of turpentine by dipping a rag or House of Representatives, and wc do here- i sponge fastened^on your gun rod into the by recommend him for re-nomination for liquid, and swabbing them out three or four Congress, from the First Congressional Dis- - times, when they will hc cleared from all trict. The above report being read, was unani mously adopted by thc meeting. Philadelphia, May 12.—The steamer Keystone State, from Savannah, about ten o’clock, in the she was run into by tlic .schooner Adrian, hence for Fall River, coal laden, the latter sinking in 15 minutes. Throe of thc crew were saved, L-ut Geo. A. Wallcttc, thc Captain, and Prince A. Small, cook, were lost. Off Bombay Hook, at 2 o’clock, A. M., the steamer was run into by the schooner Little Tom, which sunk in ten minutes.— All hands saved. Chicago, May 11.—The Michigan South ern passenger Depot was burnt- this after noon. Thc cars and baggage were saved, but the building was totally destroyed. Cincinnatti, May 11.—A locomotive at tached to a freight train on the Jeffersonville Ra tl; other persons instantly. The locomotive was blown to fragments. Cincinnati, May 12, noon.—River falling time removed by the Sergeant-at-Arms, at the order of the House, passed nearly unan imously. It is presumed that Hiss acted in this singular manner at the advice of liis counsel, B. F. Butler and Benj. Dean, who had published an address denouncing the expulsion of Mr. Iliss as an arbitrary exer cise of power; and intimating that the House feared important developments to he made in the case. Washington, May 13.—The Jamestown Association celebrated their anniversary yesterday at Mount Vernon with a dinner fe .. in the Washington mansion. An eloquent of the press, what the men whom they have oration was delivered by George Washing- placed in office for the purpose of adminis- ton Park Curtis, Esq., and the festivities . were terminated with songs and music from tenng the affairs of the city government the Washington navy yard band on board are doing in the discharge of their official the boat as the company returned to the duties. For several years past, the pro-1 city. ceedings of the City Council were regularly Boston, May 12.—In the Senate to-day a published in the city papers, and the people ’?‘ 1I J ra3 Reduced incorporating Donald ., , | , f , i ^ McKay, G. B. Upton, Enoch Train, B. Hall, were thus enabled to keep themselves ac- and j^ mes M fceele, their associates, sue- quainted with the action of their municipal • cessors, &c., as the Boston and European officers—to know the nature and judge of , Steamship Company, with a capital of $2,- the propriety of the various measures adopt- 000,000. cd for the ‘regulation of theaffairs of the city. We see it stated in the Baltimore Patriot The tax-payers—the men who furnish the that the price of Peruvian Guano, is soon hone and sinew for the support of the gov- 1 to be reduced to $45 per ton. It is also eminent—certainly have a right to lie in- ^<*1 that-Peru has appointed a chief agent formed of matters that so intimately con . ^ the United States, who will have power , , ‘ , i iuu.lv.ij wu tQ appoint numerous subordinate agents cern themselves. Why has this system, so and agencies, at all important points—these salutary in its effects, been discontinued agents to be American Citizens—and by now ? I cannot think the Mayor and Coun- them are the entire details of business to cil have all gone over to Nnow-Nothingism, ho transacted. Sales in all cases to be made and resolved hereafter to conduct their de- ! consumers When this system ... ... . , (which is intended to break up any mono- liberations m secret conclaie. L they have poly in the guano business) goes into effect, not, will they not give us an occasional ■ any guano offered or sold as Peruvian by jlimpse of their works ? A Tax Paver. The Cheapest Food.—One hundred pounds of good wheat flour contain 90 pounds of pure nutritive matter and 10 pounds of water. persons not belonging to, or connected with the legitimate agency, will be pronounced spurious. 1 learn from Baltimore that M. Bonaparte, , Sr., is about to leave this country for France, One hundred^ pounds of where he will permanently reside. liis son, potatoes contain from 20 to 25 pounds of; who was educated at West Point, and was nutrititive matter depending upon thequan- I a Lieutenant in the United States army, is tity of tiie potatoes, say 221 pounds upon | n0 w a Lieutenant in the French army in impurities, and can he used almost incess- j an average consisting almost entirely of: the Crimea. He writes to a friend in Bal- antly as the turpentine will evaporate and starch, and 771 pounds of water and inert j timore that the allies can take Sebastopol at leave the barrels dry; even if they are a ; matter. It requires, therefore, exactly four any time they choose, by assault, but not little moist it will not prevent their going j hundred pounds of potatoes to supply the without immense loss. fCurrespnadeuce of tlie Atlanta Daily lutellisrencer.] New York Affairs New York, May 15, 1S55. We are luxuriating in the most delightful of weather, sunny and yet cold, delicate as the breath of May born flowers, yet bracing and elastic with al. The anniversary inundation has subsided and we arc left at the low water mark of humdrum commonplaces.. Wo have spoken hopefully of bu siness, auticipating it would swell into its wonted proportions; but mid-May has come without bringing Gotham its usual Spring trade or any other encouragement of an increase. Nothing but the signs of warning which' appeared in the com mercial horizon in early winter of last year, could have saved from utter ruin a great number of our merchants, who, forewarned, prudently abated their foreign orders, struck from their books all names of doubtful customers, gathered iu with might and main their outstanding claims, curtail ed their expenses, and since have been sitting with folded arms waiting for better times. Look at the figures. The total amount of imports of foreign goods at this port for the week ending last Saturday was §1,935,IDS—for the corresponding week of last year, §3,133,655, showing a falling off of one week in the present Spring of §1,19S,- 457, or over a third. This fact will explain how our business men can maintain themselves with two-thirds the amount of trade (and the ratio of this Spring’s business compared with an ordinary season is not greater) usually done. They can prosper and sell less than in previous years, be cause they have bought less. Country merchants sustain the same relative position to their custom ers and tho New York importers that thc latter do to them and foreign dealers, and buy less because they anticipate a less active demand. The cus tomers of thc country merchants, farmers and mechanics, by buying loss, accumulate wealth faster and recover from thc disasters resulting from the extravagant speculations of the last two years, the country sobers down to its even pace, and in a few months all is well and souud again.— But I am getting out of my depth into the myste rious waters of political economy. The annual reports of the various benevolent societies show an encouraging condition of things in tho moral world. It is refreshing to turn from the sickening details of carnage which come to us by each steamer from tlia Old World to thc records of the peaceful triumphs of charity and disinter ested love over selfishness and thc proud disdain which has made inen callous to the sufferings of his follows. Some of the statistics offered by thc various societies last week wore of a startling character. I was, for instance, quite unprepared to hear it proved trom the last census returns that the city of Chicago had provided church accom modations for a larger proportion of its population than the model city of Boston, and was gratified to know that in this age of mammon worship a half a dozen men can be found in our city to sub scribe §2,000 each to tlio establishment of an Bye Infirmary, and that a business man volunteers his time and thought to advance without prospect of pecuniary reward, "the literary advantages of thc Who Gave tUe First Provocation - Before as lies the St. Louis Republican, of May 9th, in which a writer attempts to apologise for the conduct of thc Missouri rioters in Kansas, by saying that they were provoked-by the attempt of the Emigrant Aid Societies in the Northern States to set tle the country, and make it, in the end, a free State. That was a sort of challenge which naturally, he thinks, roused the an^er of the people of Western Missouri, and Ted them to acts of violence. A like apology was made by the Journal of Commerce for the frauds committed by a horde of ruffians from Missouri, in the election of a delegate from Kansas to Congress. The people of the free States, it was contended, gave the first provocation. But what right have those who make i-his excuse to stop at the proceeding of the Emi grant Aid Societies ? In following up the series of provocations, both thc Journal of Commerce and its pupil in the St. Louis paper, put out of sight the first provocation ST K A lu ll A LT I C SHIP Louisville, May 19, M. The details of ihe Baltic’s news were re ceived too late to send South last night. The Baltic arrived at 6, P. M. with Liv erpool dates of 5th inst. Thc allies are gaining ground. All the Russian outworks have been taken. Sanguinary encounters are frequent . A great number of Russian mortars have been taken, together with many prisoners. The latest dates from Se bastopol is the 4th. The Emperor Napoleon narrowly escaped assassination on the 28th hit. An Italian fired two pistols at Napo. Icon, whilst he was on horseback. It is of all, the passage of the Nebraska bill, a j supposed that personal revenge was the only measure which wrested from the free States ,* • ,— *— object of assassination. Nothing has been done in the siege yet to warrant an assault. The bombardment was much slackened, and what the people of those States believed to be their just right. That was the very earliest provocation—that was the beginning of the quarrel—that was the real cause of i had not produced the results anticipated. i the acts which reflect so much disgrace up- i Consols closed at SS^. Cotton active--’ j on the country, and most of all on the State ; weeks sa l es 107,000 bales at Jd advance. I of Missouri ft was the advocates of the ! 4 to 6d highcr . Flour advanc- Nebraska bul, by whom it was forced < _ . ° through Congress, partly by bullying and j cd 2s• . Corn 2s higher and market aetive- I partly by bribes; it was its champions in Lard firm. ! Congress and its friends out of Congress, | Thc position of the allies was regarded ! who must bear thc blame and share the dis- j as critical, notwithstanding the advantages i g^e of the crimes perpetrated in the torn- j th had ga incd. The bombardment slack- I tory of Kansas, and on its borders.—iV. I. , ,. 00 .. ,, , , „ „„ . i p .-j ’ : ened on the 28th ult., so as not to exhaust | ‘suchamanasWm.C.Bryantis responsible ammunition An immense Russian force I for such stuff as this while discussing one of 1 was reported as concentratmg near Sebas topol, said to be 100,QUO men strong. Dai- tbo phases of the most momentous ques- | tion that can by any possibility engago our ! attention. This trifling with a great argu- | ment wo have seen and always oxpcct to ; see, whenever the Northern pulpit touches 1 it. But when we find old travelled politic ians, who must have some insight into prin- ! ciplcs as a necessary preparation for thedu- : ties of their craft, descending to such vile ! twaddle as this, we feel more and more con vinced that thc “ argument is exhausted.” The passage of the Nebraska Bill the first 1 provocation indeed! The repeal and the disavowal of the Missouri line a great out rage and wrong ! How besotted must have become the minds of all these people since they regard the wearing out of our patience , in suffering wroi gan injury, and our claim to an open field and a fair chance a provoca tion and outrage. The turn that the anti-slavery discussion is now taking young by interesting the rich in providing l'or their J North should be a warning for all time use libraries and other means of instruction Think of the city of Chicago, which has sprung up beside tho beauteous waters of Lake Michigan “us from the touch of an enchanter’s wand,’" with all its enorgios as it would seem necessarily given to crcato the material of its growing life, furnish ing means of a moral culture to a greater portion of its citizens than Boston, tlic modal of puritanic goodness, and then go forward in imagination to thc not far distant day, when the flowery prairies of the new West and its deer-frequented wood lands shall become the swarming hives of a grand er civilization than Greece or Rome ever knew, and wo-on the seaboard shall dwindle to mere purveyors of thciulaml “peoples" mid our boast ed cities become mere entrepots of their commerce and warehouses of their multifarious products, controlled by their gigantic power and enriched by their overflowing wealth. Dagger John, Archbishop, Is. out this morning with tlie letter which has been simmering through tho ten days for which hc asked a “ suspension of public opiniou.” He heads it with a Latin quota tion to the effect that tlic truth can't permit error to triumph any longer, and then turns him to re view the course of Senator Brooks, " the vile in sect whom, a few weeks ago, he threw out of the window with covered hands." I think your readers will agree with me, .that thc tenor of his letter shows the “ vilo insect” has galled liis reverence sorely. Wc shall hear again from Brookes. The caloric ship Ericsson has been furnished with a steam engine, improved and modified by Ericsson so as to save fuel and economize space, and lust week made a successful trial trip down thc hay. She is one of tlie stoutest amt finest boats on our waters and will now go into service in earnest. W e see that thc proprietor of tlic Merchant’s Ledger has made arrangements with Fanny Fern to furnish a story for his columns at §100 per column, showing both the reputation of Fanny and tho enterprise of thc publisher. to come to Southern statesmen, that noth ing can be gained by paltering with the encroachments of the free States, and should teach i.s that the wrong we tamely bear to-day, and make the basis of a com promise, will soon be erected into a prece dent that complicates our quarrel, and makes a return to first principles almost an impos- . . .. , . , , , . .... . : repaired immediately, and that skirmishes sibility. It makes every dron ot mood boil 1 e , , ly telegraphic communication with tho Crimea continues, but Government.was very cautious with the news. Lord John Russell reached London: and M. Drouyn De L’Huys had reached Paris from Vienna. The British Budget passed both Houses-.- The King of Prussia was ill with fever. Lord Raglan admits that the bombard ment has not produced the result looked for. The impression in England i.s that the siege will be abandoned, for the present, and thc whole of Kanrusch and Balaklaya would be left fer defence, and a few corps of the main portion of the allies would try to pen etrate into the interior and cut off supplies from Sebastopol: and then completely in vest the town. Numerous reinforcements arc almost constantly reaching thc allie~.— The French reserve lured of 80,000 men, near Constantinople, is expected to be sent to Balaklavu. Cotton.—-Sales to speculators of 4JJ00 bales, and to exporters of 9-1,000 bales.— Orleans Fair 6!; Middling 5 1-15 to 5-10. London.--Barings’ Circular quotes Amer ican stocks inactive, unchanged and nomi nal. Russian official accounts of 24th rep resent the damage as but little, which was in our veins when we read a line in a north ern print that accuses us of the South, of bad faith in the repeal of the Missouri line, which from first to las*’ was a record of in famy both to us and to those who establish ed it. Lei Him Plot, 1»nt not say a Won't. Here is the plump confession of a fool that has, no doubt, picked the mouths of his betters of what they intended to be kept in tlic dark. Yet, despicable as the platform of this bloody-minded “minister of peace” is, it will inevitably be the platform of every man who belongs to a political party that is based upon religious proscription. The re freshing extract we giv r e below is taken from a long letter written by an Irish Me thodist preacher, of Kentucky 1 , to his son which we see is going the rounds of the Thug press without a word of exception or qualification. We suppose, therefore, it lias the ring of the true K. N. metal. You will very naturally inquire what First, I would were generally successful. The loss sus- ; tained by bqitotics on 11 th was seven sub batteries wi't9M36 men killed six superior and 34 subordinate officers and 1899 wound ed. The English captured iirst Russian i ltifie pit on the night of the 17tli. In a desperate personal encounter Col. ; Graham Egcrton, tieid officer in command, j was killed. i On the 20th an attack was made on thc i second Russian Riflemen and theyabandon- 1 ed pit. Immediately tlie Russians made a ! soirtie to regain their position and after a ■ sanguinary engagement were driven back, i The forts on the North side of thc harbor | had taken part in thc oanonade. carrying j shots clear into the lines. ! The British fleet had left Kie), and the i French fleet was about to sail from Cher I hong. j At St. Petersburg every article of oon- i sumption was selling at famine prices. Sir John Burgoyno, before Roebuck’s i Committe, gave important evidence in rela- ! tion to the war in the Crimea. off like water. After being washed thus, ' same amount of nutriment that one liun reports (i iere j s uo danger of rust as when water is | dred pounds of wheat flour supply. The ,n + used. 1 am an old experienced gunner, I best potatoes weigh about 64 pounds to thc and have practiced this for years, and found ! bushel; and, a bushel contains 15 1-5 it useful. Spirits of turpentine can be pro- j pounds of nutriment. At two dollars per cured at all country stores, and a small i bushel, or fifty cents a peck, the retail price quantity suffieoth.—Scicntifc American. | lately in our markets, the nutritive nortion Drou.utTv TEX.vsT-From the interior I °f potatoes costs a fraction over thirteen cts. of Texas we learn that there is much suf- j a \ J , ound ’ which tsequt valent to twenty-three fering in that region ; the wells are dried up dollars fifty cento for a barrel of good and Ihe watw “which thc inhabitants arc I J 0 ”’ ^ h ‘ le has doubled m price compelled to drink is muddy, and almost as j P otatoe!S have incrcased at f ™ rfold thick as molasses. The Prairies aro of a ! r ’ russut brown color, and the cattle are dying ! ~ ~ ' ~ ~ ~ by thousands. The corn fields are cleared* The Camel Snir.—-The U. S. store ship The game would not be a safe one with out double the present force. The allies cannot venture to sacrifice 20,000 men in an assault until they have a force sufficient to overthrow the Russian army in the field, and to stop the curront of reinforcements and supplies through Perekof. The opera tions in the Crimea may therefore be soon commenced on a much larger scale than ever.— Correspondence Charleston Curier. Interesting Discovery in a Tunnel.— Mr. Butterfield, who is running a tunnel into Table Mountain, near Sonora, Califor nia, has given the editor of the Herald a country 1 . Post Office Robberies.- And when they understand the matter they will not complain, for they all know the Theodore S. Fay, U. S. Minister to Switz- Ba P al Church so well that they believe if erland, writes to Mayor Wood of New York * hc should gam the ascendancy it would lie that the cantonial authorities of that country i tbe knell ol libeity. In tie second p < ■ are adopting every precaution against thc would bury the gtten carcass of old Dem- sliipmeAt of paupers and criminals to the ocracy, head downward^ deep^hat every United States. Mr. Fay thus explains a fact not generally understood: “Numbers of Swiss, on leaving their country, receive a sum of money from the county authorities without being paupers. It happens in this way—a part of the soil belongs to the commoners, and every mem ber has a certain property in it. Although the Swiss enjoy the privilege of expatria tion, ho does not lose the rights of nationali ty, except with consent., even by foreign naturalization. Wheu he emigrates, there fore, he sells thcoC rights, and receives in re turn from the communal authorities a sum of money, not an eleemosynary donation, but the payment of a debt, or an equivalent for value received. remedy l would propose alter thc naturalization laws that not one of. . . ,. them should ever become a citizen ; and if l Indignation meetings, regarding the con- we cannot discriminate between them and j duct of the war, had been held in various the Protestant emigrants, lct them all stand j places. .*n thc same footing—they will not make j the fortieth part of the Papist emigration. struggle to rise would place it farther beyond the power of resurrection. I remain vour affectionate father WILLIAM FLINN. Montgomery and West Point Railroad Company!—We have received says thc Mont gomery Mail, a copy of the annual report of the President and Directors of this Com pany. The receipts of the year ending 1st March, 1855, have been From passe 115:1* rs Freight 84,432,41 Miiil pay 24.120,05-240,628,69 Expenses have been Repairs ami working the Road 135,305,60 Interest on loans 33,346,95-168,051,55 Nett income • SO,077,14 8 per cent on the capital stock. Showing the increase over last year of receipts $19,- 582,64, and this too under circumstances of up, and if rain does not soon fall, a famine ; “ Supply,” which is fitting up at the Brook- ‘ description of a discovery made by his com- i will visit this fertile country. i b' n Navy Yard tor a voyage to the Mediter- pany last week, in the course of their exca- is—Tlie" New Or- raaeai ?’. and to T f u ™ 10 t! . ic Uni ^ d vations. They have got their tunnel in a J first to thc CJCS of a pack of newsboys and a ; d °;\ ad . ; Wlth . th . irt y ? ame * s > fo r on ^ West- distance of 300 feet. Here, 110 feet from j other urchin i, who were prowling around at auiiLg tne aa . cra nlaras. has been taken from the Drv ttn Knrf«<*r. nf fimnd i i A.. aAu A Thc New York Herald says a large quan tity of Spanish silver coins was discovered on Sunday under a house which is being unparalleled depression, demolished on the corner of Nassau and Beokman streets, New York city. It came $4,566 32 That is a hill for twenty-three persons, thirteen and a half days, amounting, 1 be lieve, to some $14 per day for eachperson. , s I 0 wIy. Weather'pleasant. Flour firm at “Gentlemen, arc yon ready.” j $9.50(a;$9.60. Whiskey 33c. Provisions To-day we believe was the date assigned firm but quiet. No change in Lard, by a distinguished divine of this city for the end of all sublunary things. We hope if this chronology is well grounded that our merchants will notact so unseemly in view of thc short credit that is to be allowed ns all, as to lie griping with their usual avid ity after our useless dimes. And surely all bank notes are to lie over without the old botheration of a protest. This is uo time for such worldly-mindedness. We may speak of the result if we arc spared. il Vl^lll UU1I1 UU ‘.ill, -J Liil/4 OVAAl V 111U ; .VI* lailway, exploded near Seymour, Indiana, : leans True Delta states that during me aa- j cra pi a i ns> has been taken from the Dry the surface of the ground, they found the his morning, killing the engineer, and four ministration of Postmaster Kendall, letters ; p> oc k after being newly coppered, and will trunk of a pine tree, 22 inches in diameter containing thousand thc Post under ar in these robberies. The inference from the character of thc leaders of the Know Nothing movement in this State, is confirmed by the fact that in Louisiana the Party professes no hostility to thc Catholic Church. There thc Catholic is as freely admitted into the Order as the staunchest Protestant, as is confessed by the Know Nothing organs in New Orleans.— 1 his fact convicts Know Nothingism of the most shameful hypocrisy, in its profession of zeal for the Protestant faith. Will a Protestant people perm it their principles and their prejudices to le prostituted to the vile purposes of profligate politicians K and with be in a the out- „ , o- ing unmistakable evi- of the main deck has been removed, and a dence of the contact of fire at some period. A Duel in the Daf.k.—A late California ; “ trunk,” or a kind of low house, has been Having cut out the portion of the tree found X Sinking Skip. The dark lantern party in Mississippi seems to be laboring under thc same disease that has lately manifestedfitself in Virginia. The disease is appearing in the former State under a peculiarly malignant and threaten- ing type, in tlie shape of a rapid disinte grating process which promises to scatter -----. , , „ , , i . , , , . • , . , -—- i I ivith large canvass bags, very much decayed paper mentions a duel which was fought constructed longitudinally along the deck, in the tunnel, the company have commenc-1 „ nf i , vorn Tt- is not vet ‘ - - - - ; n » n /n«'i u ?"' v vessc * ' between a Yankee and an Englishman in to afford light and ventillation, and space ed sinking a shaft for the purpose of roach- j K-.. ftr » ‘ nine hot l^il. d ;!l! th VH ctlc expedition in search a room. The Yankee not wishing for the humps of the animals. Instead of ing the roots of the tree. Their informant! gypbogg,! to p 0 "-cod iud SfiPYP to fKorrt ic ltuf. litfln rmiilif flini. fVin 1 , * * , s v the premises, and who, before the thing got! out, managed to carry off a good sized pail-! full. The police got wind of thc affair and ; seized on what remained—to the amount of as much as a bushel basket full. The coins resemblir« e< A Crdi” ris^and ^cre^enveloned ! ^ lie constituent elements of the system to an for experiment, or co test their adaptation, resembling 'erdigris, aacic enveloped J j to the climate. This tree, in its native coun- Vnluc of Farms i. i Differesit Stales. The late Census sIioavs the aggregate cash value of all the Farms in the several States. Distributing this aggregate according to thc white population of each State, we find thc folloAving result: New Jersey is tho high est. The aggregate cash value of the farms in that State'ls $120,237,511 ; the popula tion is 489,555, Avhich gives for each inhab itant $245.00. The next of all the States L Vermont, in which the cash value of the farms is equal to $201 for each inhabitant. Connecticut is next on the list and nearly equal to Vermont, being $190.41. Massa chusetts is fi-i below either Vermont or Con necticut. Her population is 994,514: tlie aggregate value of her farms is $109,076, which is equal to only $109.77 to each per son. To be equal per inhabitant to thc ra tio of Vermont Massachusetts should have an aggregate value of farms of $199,897,- 314—a difference of more than $90,009,000; and to bo equal per inhabitant to Connecti cut she should have a value in farms of $197,272,494— a difference exceeding $88,- 000,000. The average in Ohio, without fractions of a dollar, is $181 to each inhab itant ; in New York, $179 ; in Pennsylva nia, $172 ; in Virginia, $152. In Illinois and other Western States, although the ag gregate intrinsic value is far greater, the cash value is far less. By referring to the compendium of the census any one can find the materials for thc same calculations as to all the States. About a hogshead of acorns of the cork oak have been introcuced from the south of .Eurobe by the U. S. Patont Office, and dis tributed in the middle and southern States It is not yet determined whether j As an illustration of this process we notice ^ height of twonty 0 Kthirty feet, but in of l)r. Kane and his party, has been com- j ] c i iare picod , _ p etc , an is nmv taking her stores on up t ] ie chimney, and to his horror, down divide the space into stalls. Each animal : formation surrounding this tree is a solid ! twelve*and” half cants each! the Jews, Avho arc udges of such matters, on liis hands, fired his pistol cutting avvay the beams, the latter serve to states that there is but little doubt that the j bought them ofthe newsboys for as high as is thus offered a small window, and every bed of lava, which, at some remote period, board. She sails to-morroAv at noon under ; came tb e Englishman. . . command ot Lieut. Simms, to join her con- : — . ,,. . ^ ^ , | nceessarv comfort for his passage to the flowed into its oresent location. coA-erino ud : sort d* Brooklyn Nay Y„d. ! grtlrolaiS&iwtoS IP** Om. • j trees, (a, this disoover, shorss,) I T ^ Amateor Gardener’s Ex™,esc*. , St. Louis, May 10.—l’he cholera contin- \' t d must prov ide himself with thread ^ progress.. ; Let any man or woman state without osten- ues its ravages among the emigrants on the ! Sks MSwhiftriform in repair } „ A " CSt S r nC * I tation an ff little matter ° r ^ ma Y haTe ! Upper Mississippi The boats are general- Tht ^ must replace all things lost or | H wl^mfirdirS ExcU * ment *“ t^MaasachuBettaLeg-is- : 0 b ser ved, and an immense amoun’ °f know- ly crowded beyond their camcitv ITmmnnl , l * ° r t>ent in pursuit ot .Baker, who murdered tatur©. , , . , __ . ,l “ ' .... 1 spoiled while in Ins possession, rom ie j Poole in Ncav York, has returned with him. Boston, May 14.—There was considerable ledge may be gained. Here now is a hint | army stores. He is lurnisne 10ne j She arrived at Palmos seventeen days be- confusion and excitement in the House of! from one who is not a gardener by profes- oi s iocs i ore the arrival of Biker d*tao iina nAmmAnn ika iv>nr nnn fa iyiiTildtioyc iti rrPTiAFiil. IVTv Hrot.lifir that in Lauderdale'no less than 60 Derno- ocrats have published a card, with their names annexed, announcing their AvithdraAV- al from tho order. The president of the lodge at Oxford, Miss., also published a card announcing his withdrawal and giving a history >4 the rise, progress and plans of thc organization in that State. fatality seems to attend the disease. E r*r n » M^ says that an attempt^was made on Tuesday ; ^ avi ’ serv ice at the end of the seven week to assassinate Dr. S. D Beloate at his j ear8 , t he”gun, sabre and coat are taken a i mi e8 ,f rom Florence, Ala. from him, and Avhatever is left he is entitled Whilst he Avas reading, a ruffian fired a t0 gun at him. Thc window curtain being i down, he could not exactly see the position Representatives this afternoon from the fact . j thqt Mr. Hiss, the expelled member, twice Arrest of Col. Ktaney. I resumed his vacant seat, and was each time Col. Kinney has been arrested in Phila- j removed by the sergeant-at-arms -at tlie delphia, and held to bail in $4,000 for fitting ; order of the House, passed nearly unani- ont an unlavvful expedition. It is stated he ' mously. It is presumed that Mr. Hiss acted sion to gardeners in general. My brother has a small greenhouse, but be has no Avay train leaving Baltimore at 3 o’clock ou Monday afternoon, ran upon a bridge on fire, four miles cast of Anapolis junction. Thc locomotive and four passen- learned gardener ; his tender plants gene- j ger cars got over safeiy, but the last car rally died in thc winter. lie used to put on • and wa y ma il car ran off, slightly injuring in verv severe wcatkev, n. fire in thc evening : . . • . i *1 \ so as to keep out the frost and damp at night, ! ho brakesman and mail agent try, where it is an evergreen, usually grow to a height of t\ England there are specimens which exceed fifty feet in height, with a diameter of more than three feet. The substance familiarly known to us as cork, is the epidemis or outer bavk, and sometimes grows two or three inches thick. Should the experi ment succeed, it will be a subject of great national importance that plantations should be established in various parts of the coun try for the purpose of growing this useful substance, particularly in tho event of a war betAveen this country and Europe, in consequence of which the supply would be cut off. of liis victim. But the shot cut off the stem of his pipe within two inches of his mouth. He was unhurt. Married, on the 15th inst, by Rev. J. S. Wilson, D. D., Maj, Z. A. Rice, of Atlanta, to Miss. L. R. Green, of Campbell county, Ga. - Bev. Mr. Cnmmings, of the Christian Mirror, Portland, has fallen heir to a fortune of $50,000. Thc little white box came safely to hand, for which, “may ‘the parties,’ live a thousand years, and their sliadows never be less.”—[Eds. A new American manufacture, that of \ had a vessel ready to sail, containing arms in this singular manner at the dfivice of his but the plants died nevertheless, not from j Humboldt is eighty-five years of age, and . .— i— i 1 w:i ■> a „......orwi counsel, B. F. Butler and Benj. Dean, who ! frost but fiom damp: so he being a medita- j doesn’t know ihat the Constitution of tlic plate glass, has been commenced in Wil liamsburg, N. Y., where plates of glass ten feet wide and twenty feet long will be made. A plate ten feet square can be made so strong that it will hold a ton weight, and so clear that persons can read the fine print of a newspaper through a piece four inches thick. It is a singular fact that the best English plate glass is made from American sand. With New Jersey, possessing the proper raw material in so remarkable a de gree, it is singular that this article has been so long imported. and ammunition, and 300 men. ,. „„„ . . . , , - — — have published an address denouncing the t tire man, thought it was just possible he was , United States, provides for tho return of It is said that seventy babies have been expulsion of Mr. Iliss as an arbitrary ex- ! going contrary to the laws of nature by j persons held to service who escape from one entered for Barnum’s Show. Hue not spe- ercise of power, and intimating that the j making the night warm and the ciay cool, i State to another. On the contrary, the old cified. Some of the great showman’s efforts House feared important developments to be In despite of all gardeners hc lighted his baron says Mr, Webster made the law about the Ioav places in New York, in the made in the case. | fire in the morning when the Aveatlier Avas | therefor in 1850, and ever since he has way of obtaining material, are said to be ——; —2 r—— ! ver J c °ld, and let it go at night; he let the j hated Mr. Webster. The learned Prussian altogether peculiar and worthy himself. tgk-We understand Fillmore embarked on the 16th inst., on a trip to Europe, accompanied by a party of friends. The ponds in the vicinity of Alexandria, j sun set, as he said, naturally. The result ! Va., were covered with ice on Monday ! "was all that he could wish—he hardly lost that Ex-President morning last. That was what was meant I a plant. It is wrong, said he to have heat probably by the announcement that “ice j without light, and equally wrong to have was noticed in the BuburbB of Washington,” ) light without heat; and this I think is on thft mne T" n r tl *"fr I sound reason.*— Cor. of “The Field." had better go on with his large white neck cloth, and curiously figured velvet waiscont, and the fourth volume of his Cosmos, and not talk any more of his hatred of the de fender of the constitution till he knows something about it. is said that there has been recent ly discovered in the Island of Sardinia some caverns filled with guano, the production, of bats, aggregated since the creation of the world. Chemical analysis have proved that this guano is as rich as that of Peru in ammoniac matters and in sulphate of lime. Several land proprietors are said to have already purchased quantities of this ucav manure for their lands. ^ It is intended to hold a “Grand Bazaar” in London this month, to promote the move ment now making to extend the use of free labor in cotton goods, with a vieiv to the discouragement of slavery in the Amer ican States.