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/d \ * * i §::■ THE ntOEPKNOENT FREtk«, 1 lines to . without hope can love the brightest tuir, Hpove can hope, where reason would despair,'' Mpough reason hid me.to forget, ■she hour, the day, when first we met, HHjjind though it bid me to despair Bjjfh' winning thee &•> tirighf gnd fair, Hpopc whispers it). niv willing oar, H|A i-.onsoliition ever degr.' Bp'hough iin |teurt's love be gnK'hjfued, Bpit least it never ran be spurned, KBy one, whose sympathizing heart. . F" would blwni to launch the cruel dart, r Which well it knows would ever blight, I And sink my hopes in endless night. Though I cannot hope to win thee, l<et thine image ever with me Stay, cherished as youth's brightest dream, And on life's gloomy moments beam; hot that bright image now inspire The members of my humble lyre. As down life's gloomy stream I glide, W'hate’ar the, weary barque betide, That imago shall a bem-on l»e, Evtirlo turn ruy thoughts to thee, ** Atid ittsplrd ih'saddest hthtr, W licntlomls and dark ness round m q Tow or. * Tliough tliOu forget the virgin vow. Which once I ottered thee, and now Pearce know’st that e’er we met as friend*, (’hat brief remembrance to life lends The aspect of a brighter glow, Than could the pomp of earth bestow. Though fame should seem my idol now. As at its shrine I seem to bow; And though to win a name should seem Mv dearest hope, my foudest dream, tine smile from thee, to me were worth The plaudits of the whole of earth. Fate may decree that we shall meet No more again—That all those sweet Aud haripv hours with you I’ve passed •Should be of all their kind the last: Well be it so—Let mem’rv still With happiness my bosom fill. May 10th, 1854. EUGENE. FOB TPE INDEPENDENT PRESS. “Far? thee well, Dearest Ellen.” A SONG. Aik :—“ Tis Ok last Rose of Summer," Fare thee well, dearest Ellen, No longer mine own— And my life’s brightest vision Is faded and flown! Oh! no more may I linger Like Eve at the gate Os her Eden’s fair bower— So dark is my fate. We have loved weil together In moments now flown, And the path we have trodden With roses was strewn: But their leaves now are faded, Their fragrance is fled, And our hopes, like these roses. Lie scattered and dead. Nov. 20th, 1854. IJisallitraus. Some Ghost Stories. Left Holland House in time to get to Rogers’, where Sir W. Scott was to call tor us. Called at three to take us to dine with his son Major Scot t, at Hampton.— Scott very agreeable on his way. Told hiru our conversation at Holland House about ghosts, which brought on the same topic. His own persuasion, one night, •that he saw the figure of Lord Byron. He had cither been talking of or reading him; and on going into the next room, was startled to sec through the dusk what he could have sworn was Byron, standing as he used to when alive. On returning into the drawing-room, he said to his daughter, “Ifyou wish to see 1 -oi and Byron, go into that room.” It was the effect of either moonlight or twilight upon some drapery that was hanging up, which, to his imagination, just then full of Byron, presented this appearance. Rogers’ story of the young couple at Berlin, in their opera-box, between " bom, at a distance, there always ap peared to be a person sitting, though on .going into their box it was found that ( here was no one there but themselves, b rom all parts of the house tiiis super-! natural intruder could ue seen; but peo ple differed as to its appearance, some saying it was a fair man, others a dark; some maintaining that he was old, .and others that he was young. It should be mentioned, that there was some guilty ■ mystery hanging over the connection ! between these young people; and as, at last, no one ventured to visit their box, they disappeared from Berlin. This anecdote of Lord Wriothesley, Russel brought with him from aboard. Scott ( who evidently did not like the circum stances being left unexplained) proceed ed to tell a story of Mrs, Hook, the wife >»f Dr. Hook, who wrote the Roman Ilis-' tory; “It being .as well,” he said, “to; have some real person to fit one’s story j on. ’ Mrs, Hook becoming acquainted | and intimate with a foreign lady, a widow j lir resolving to live together j saying to her friend next j had a visitor yesterday?” iwering, “No; she had seen Mrs. Hook left her.” Mrs. |* uuujviug this odd, going another day lake ayd seeing the same officer there alone stretched on the sofa. Boimmiow she was carrying on, determined grnd unlly to give up her acquaintance. The foreign lady soon after preparing to go to London; and tyfj'g. Hook, being ju the room when her maid was packing (the j lady herself not, being present) saw a. immature pase fallout pftho portman ; teau; and taking it up and opening it., j saw the very person whom she hud met, on the stairs. “ That’ said the maid, ‘’is i the picture of rnv mist.i'O.Vs husband.'— I “Her husband?” “Yes.” answered the 1 maid ; ” lie died a short time before wo .left Germany.” Inn low weeks after wards, there arrived an order in England to have this foreign lady arrested on a charge of murdering her husband,— j Moore's Diary. Personal Sketches in Con gress. We find in a letter to the New A pile Times, a number of sketches of mem bers cjlth.e House of Representatives.— After alluding to the ordinary appear ance of most of the gentlemen in that body, the writer proceeds; “Yonder is one pf them —that, spare, wan-looking man, With a head about the size of a, chijd’s qf twelve years old, a low forehead, with dry brown hair combed carefully down over it, the sal low and beardless face, the small nose and compressed lips. That is Alexan der 11. Stephens, of Georgia, a very in ferior-looking man, you would say, and yet as a parliamentarian and a debater, he has no peer in the present House. The first tone of his shrill, piercing voice, as he shrieks out, “Mr. Speaker,” rivets the attention of members ; the newspaper is cast, aside, the pen drops from the hand, and every word that falls from his lips is listened to with breath less interest. Away there, far to the left of the Speaker, that rough, hardy old fellow, with the ragged white locks, and bull-dog countenance, is Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio, the oldest, member of the House. Ever pregnant with ab olition harangues, a ready and fluent, de bater, he misses no opportunity to ob trude his peculiar sentiments on the ear of the House. To his left sits another noted abolitionist—Gerritt. Smith, of N. York, Yes, that is he, in the blue coat with metal buttons, and .spotless^shirt collar turned down over the black cra vat. Ilis countenance- is pleasing and benevolent, but deficient in firmness, and his style of speaking chaste and persuasive, although his tone would, perhaps, better suit, a camp-meeting or a revival than a legislative body. Gerritt Smith is a great man among the motley crew of “Reformers” now I gathered together in Washington—a | very whale among minnows. He is a 1 “ land-reformer,” and abolitionist J preaches teetotalism at the Temperance i Hall—and, for aught I know to the con ! trary, be may be a believer in vegeta | bie diet, phonography, and spirit-rap pings. On the opposite side ofthe hall is a cluster of New-York "Hards.” I need hardly tell you who the short,, thick-set young man with red face and coarse black hair is, for every New- Yorker knows Mike Walsh. Reside him sits Maurice, of Broekiwu - 1 -- p gentlemanly-looking little fellow, with ample moustache und stylish dress. And there, immediately in front of Mike, is the lion of the House, with luxuriant moustache and beard, piercing eyes, and flowing locks. Observe the gaudy pink silk neckerchief, and then the pattern of the pants —the envy of Beau-Hick man —an ingenious mingling of snakes and terrapins, done in black upon a gray ground. There is not such anoth er pair of pants in the House; no, nor in all Washington. Beau would give one of his ears to be possessed of them. That is Caleb Lyon, of Lyonsdale—poet, orator, and traveller, and a pleasant, good-hearted fellow, with all his eccen tsieity. The tall, stiff, gray-headed man is ’Peckham, of Albany, who has been very much bepuffed in the newspapers, but ; has not yet distinguished himself in any j way. Peck itnd Oliver, of the rank and | file of the “ Hard” faction, complete the j group—-ordinary looking men enough, ! aud with no claims to particular note. But see—the business of the day has | commenced in good earnest. Thegood ; tempered looking little man down there in front., who is shouting at the top of his voice, endeavoring to make himself heard i above the din of the Speaker’s descend ing hammer and the laughter and cries j of “ Order !” fori mall parts of the hall, is I Col. To m. Florence, of Philadelphia—a j jovial hatter he, who likes better toad l dress the House than any other man j here, and has more difficulty in obtain -5 ing a patient hearing, lie is silenced | at last, and retires to his seat with a mor j tilled air. The Colonel is always war ring upon some "measure that may re motely benefit X. y M U nd has shown so | much jealousy of the Empire City since | he came here, three years ago, that his | motives are % ghvays suspected by the House, The three industrious scribes in the centre of the area, perched high aloft on long-legged chairs, with revolv ing seats, and desks of wondrous me chanism—evidently designed for muse, not ornament—are official reporters for | the Congressional Gfobe. Through out the session, they are constantly on the move, ever changing places. The most THE IMiEI’EMiENT TRESS. EATONTOS, GA. TOq-iU.IY MORNING, MAY Js3, 1854. - - ——- dr Our Subscribers.— pur subscribers who fio not live in town, will plopso call at our office and get thoir puperfc, as we are not’allowed', l- Kv law, to put them in the Post Office. "«♦■»<► - - E3T To Correspondents.—^ Correspondents who live in town, or in tue county, must drop liaqr favors iu our box at the Post Office. No notice v ill be ■ taken of thoijo which come any other way, Bad Crops — The Remedy. The coniplaint of btyd crops is mover sitl. Here in Middle (Georgia, especially, tin; farmers, for the last several years, have made actually nothing. Many of them, we are inclined to think, have sunk capital;—we confine ourself, in tips remark, to actual farming, leaving out of view increase in negroes, and the enhanced value of property. And we repeat, that, taking into consideration the interest on capital invested, in con nection with the number of mules, hogs and barrels of corn purchased by our farmers, we believe many of them have sunk capital. - The climate of this section, it would seem, is undergoing a change :—from what, cause we do not now pretend to say. It is almost true that we have but two seasons,-the wet and the dry. Nearly all the rain falls in the winter, and drought folfo\v§ in the' spring and sum mer. When we plant our corn and cot ton, it is with no probability that it will come up. The cry from every quarter is, bad stands of cotton and corn. And without good stands, we cannot secure good crops. Our troubles and our com plaints begin early in the spring, when there is not moisture enough to sprout the seed we plant, and they end only “on or before the 25th day of December next,” when we have to face, with our last dollar, the hog and mule-drover, to begin again as soon as rainy, sleety January ushers in the new-born year. — The plain, glaring truth stares us in the face, that our farming community is in a distressed situation. And, of course, if the backbone and sinews of the coun try are not performing their functions, the whole body politic suffers. Is there no remedy? Emphatically, there is. There is a sovereign remedy for all our woes, a-specific for all our troubles, a panecea for all our griefs. And that is, plant less land, The remedy is embraced in these threc words. The farmers motto, when he goes lo plant should be less, lesser, LEAST. Now of course we do not mean if the farmer plants less land, without do ing any thing else, it will answer the purpose. But if he plants less land, it will leave him time to do other things. He ought never to plant more land than he can prepare v r ell in the spring, and keep cultivated like a garden in the summer. Instead of planting from 18 to 25 acres to the hand, let him plant 10, and from that down to 5. “But, Mr. Editor, when do you con sider land well prepared ?” W r o consider land well prepared when it has been well and deeply broken, or bedded, at least tv icy when the hill- Ad:* buVe been wdi uliehfo, :;A when every furrow to be planted, lias been filled with well rotted manure. No farmer ought to plant a foot of land which has not been prepared in this way. It matters not what is the character of the soil—barren or fertile—it should be tended in this wav. Then, if we can not prepare ten acres, lot us prepare live; and if not five, two and a half. When the land is prepared in this way, it is ready to receive the cotton seed, and the corn. Then we should not be in too big a hurry to plant. Wait till spring comes, and the earth gets warm, and then seize a favorable opportunity for seed-time. Having but a few acres to plant, we can then get through with planting in 5 or 6 days, and the seed will come up and grow off, instead of lingering in the ground, fear ful of poking out their heads lest they be nipped by the frosts. In this way they get in the habit of staying in the i ground, become timid and cowardly, and don’t know what is good for them, even when they ought to be stirring out of doors for the good of their health. But plant your seed at the proper time, and the genial rays of the sun by day, and the cooling dews by night, are invi ing them out, until they are speedily in duced to leave their earthy retreat, and away they go, in a frolic, into a healthy | and vigorous growth. This is the way j to secure stands. As much complaint as has been made j for the, past several years, of drought, | we do not recollect a year when the 1 course we recommend, would not have ' produced good stands, and good crops. | Nature has done enough for us, if we \ had only done more lor ourselves. But another thing. When you go to plant, be sure to have two acres of grain, including your wheat &c., to one of cot ton. You may not make quite as /nueh cotton, but more clear money, since you will not have any to lay out for mules- —having had time to raise them— and none to lay out for meat and bread for your family, white or black. “ \Mhy what a young American tin's I man is,” we hear some old fogy say, who I reads this article Why all this is book-fanning--it is ideal—it is abstrac tion—it is not practical!” | W" 114** 3 11 +L , , j 1 f FTr. Benton the Might of t*e titio *f t At the close of Mr. Tientpres http, pnti* Nebraska Speech, he speaks qf the fact that no petition lias gone in from the South in favor of Mr. Douglas’s bill, and lays great Stress upon it as sshpyviug that the Southern people do not desire the passage of the bill. In this Mr. Benton lias uttered a mistake, and lie knows it. It would be lolly in us tp gup ; post! that a man of Okl Bullion's knoY'l-. ! <A&<\ was ignorant ofthe fact that South: j ei;n people do not petition. They ask j nothing but their rights, and these they | demand of their government and their i legislators as being the subject, and not j the so vereign. Li America, the people | arc the sovereign—the government the j subject. It is reversing the order of | things for the sovereign to become the petitioner. The word petition implies inferiority in the person wh6 is seeking something.- It smells of the bended knee, and the suppliant att.ifqde-an attitude that South ern people do not assume. There is more folly and more hum buggery in this to-do about the right of petition than a little. It is one of the instances in which we have followed an English precedent, utterly regardless of good sense, the necessity of the ease, or reason. Blaekstofte enumerates the right of petition as the 4th of the secondary rights ofthe subjects of the British realm. And so far from its being n right about which Americans should make a noise, it is now hardly a right about which a British citizen should trouble himself to say much, in the advanced state of freedom in which he finds himself. It was aright claimed by the British when th e royal prerogative was much greater than now—when there was not that facility whichfexists at the present day for ma king the will of! the people known, and when the people themselves were more nearly the slaves ofthe king than at the present time. Under these circumstan ces, the right of petition was worth talk ing about. Now, however, in England, and especially in America, the case is! i different. And for citizens of the Uui i ted States to be growing warm over the j right of petition implies a relation on the j part of the people to the government j which does not exist, \Ye consider it ' ! derogatory to the character of American j freemen to talk so much about the right lof petition. What is the right of peti ition? (Jui-bono? It is a means used ! in kingly governments to acquaint the | ruler with the wishes of his humble sub- ! jjects. For them to proceed in any oth- | j or way to declare their l ights, would be j treason against the crown. But in ; | America we have our conventions, our ! stump speeches, our resolutions, our ; demagogues in Congress, and, above all, j i we have the press whose thunders the ' i powers that be, dure not disregard, to j i let our government know our wishes-—i | and our government, knowing them, would as soon think of cutting their own I . ° throats, as of setting them at naught. Why then should American freemen £0 far dp-qi!: thrives as ic petition < | W hy seek for any thing which they have 1 dot the right to demand' The right of petition may be the privilege of those living under despotic governments, but the right of demand is the prerogative of American citizens. Those who make so much noise about the right of petition must feel their in feriority. Their necks are not very far removed from the point at which they j would be willing to take on the yoke. ; May it be long, long, ere the Southern people think that it is essential to their freedom and well-being, to have the right of petition bruited and peddled about by hack orators, and shin-plaster prints. Nobody denies the right to be sure, but it should be ranked with the right to eat —the right to sloe]) —the right to laugh and be merry. Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re. | ii Thc Georgia Blister and Critic—ExtraJ ’ We have seen the above “Extra,” containing a likeness of the editor which all will recognize as being very striking. The artist has performed his task with marked fidelity.* Os course, we cannot eqndescend to notice the obscenity of the editor, which is but a stereotype of all the vulgarity | he has imbibed from the bottle and the brothel for the last dozen years. j J i Ire cannot condescend to a contest of J any kind with the- editor of the Quack's Journal. But since Dr. Ramsay seems j to be so very belligerent, we have upon ! our farm a gallant -beast, whose name is j suggested by the lirst syllable of the j Doctors, with whom, as a courtesy, ho ! | can have the privilege of gratifying his propensity to his heart’s content:—Pro vided he will put himself upon equal terms with our animal by knocking off one of his own horns—he already has the ■ cloven foot—as our beast has lost one i of his in a former contest—perhaps with the Doctor, as we know not what bad company he may have kept before we bought him : And provided, further, that the Doctor will give us bond, with good security, conditioned not to cor- i nipt the morals of our Mam , or sink him i to the level offt ifamsay. The “Kxira" contains the picture of a vary ugly ! ~— l - Agricultural i'air. AYe this week publish portions of the Premium List offered by the Exec: Utiye Committee of the Southern Cen tral Agricultural Society of the State of Georgia, for the eighth Annual Fair, to be held in Augusta, Gu., on the 23d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th days of October, 1854, and call the attention of our renders to the same. We would be pleased to publish the whole* of the list, did not, our limits deprive us of that pleasure. Bv sending a letter post-paid to Da vid W. Lewis, Esq,, of Sparta,, Gu., the Secretary of the above Society, a copy of the Premium List, as also a copy of Dr. G. F. Pierce’s speech, delivered at the lost lqeetiqg of the Society, may be obtained. Another Premium lAst. Some one has kindly sent as, from Atlanta, the Premium List for the 4th Annual Fair of the Atlanta Agricultu ral, Manufactural, and Mechanical Asso ciate!), to be held on the 9th, 10th and 11th of August, 1854, which we would publish did our limits permit. The fob lowing extract, however, will cover pret ty nearly the whole ground ;• — “We invite articles of every descrip tion for exhibition, and all meritorious articles, not enumerated in the foregoing list, may be entered, and will receive such premium as the awarding commit tees may think best. In case of no competition, the Com mittee to act discretionary as to amount awarded. All premiums awarded will be paid in Silver Pitchers, Goblets, Cups, Medals, &c., &c.” We are gratified to see the Agricul tural and Manufactural spirit so much alive in Georgia, as is indicated by the liberal premiums offered in the two Lists we have noticed. We hope to see a large number of competitors among our farmers, manufacturers and mechanics in attendance at both the fairs. fish ing* Excursion. We are requested to state that there will be a fishing excursion on next Sat- i urday, 27th, from this place to Little j River, near the Railroad Bridge. Alii are invited to attend, young and old. ; An extra train will leave the Depot j in Eatonton at half past 6 o’clock, and ; will stop a sufficient length of time at ! Dennis and Meriwether Stations to ue-! commodate persons who may assemble i at those two places. We are authorized by the citizens of i this place to extend a special in vita'ion j to the ladies and gentlemen of Mi Hedge- j vide to meet them on the above occa- [ sion. HI J. Scott's Address . .Some friend has favored us with a copy of the able address of the above gentleman, “on the principles and ob jects of the order of the Knights of Jer icho,delivered in Atlanta on the 10th of March, 1854," for which our thaeks are tenured. The address is full of thought, expressed in chasU language, and replete with classic an 4historical allusion. V Brother Chapman. Brother Chapman, after quoting what i we said of President Pierce in our last issue, says, “This, we think rather du bious canonization.” Wo asked our cotemporary about guns, and he has gone off into canon*. Hon. David A. Reese Will please accept our thanks for various public documents sent us since the beginning of the present session of Congress. Our Prospectus. A publication, or notice of our pros pectus, by our exchanges, would confer a favor. We should be glad at any time to reciprocate. Southern Ladies > Rook. Shortly after the publication of this Journal was suspended, Mr. Jones, the publisher, wrote to the Georgia Home Gazette , that he would give the cause and circumstances of its early demise. Will the Gazette enlighten us on this' subject? We have a reason for wish ing light. A Request. Til*'. Athens Banner, Southern Re eorder, and Eleetic Magazine will please discontinue coming to us individually, as the two former have already favor ed us with an exchange, and as we hope the latter will. If we owe either of the three any thing, we will pay the bill when presented, as we are a great advo cate of paying editors. ! The Black Warrior Affair. A few days since we had the pleasure of an hour’s intercourse with Col. Mitch ell of Athens, Ga., e.n route from Cuba. Among the many other interesting to pics of con versation, he referred to the one heading this paragraph, and gave to his hearers a clear, though succinet state ment of the circumstances which at- j tended the affair. He says that the | Americans were palpably in the wrong, j and that had the Warrior been a Spanish ! vessel in American waters, an incidents ! similar to those of Havana had trans pired, the shipand cargo would have been ; certainly confiscated. We hope Hlfat j that have led him ro the Conclusion above stated, We would that taome | thing may be said to check tin* spirit, of -filibustering now so rifts amor A our people, and so disgraceful 1o our (nation, “ Let j ustiee be done though the Heavens fill 12’ —Madison Visitor. WEEKLY SUMMARY. I / THE MARKETS. I The SteaM'SllU* Atlantic, from Liverpool, arrived at New (Turk on Monday 10th. The cotton market, and provision market had both declined.. — Trade in the Manufacturing Districts had largely declined. The London Money Market was tighter—Consols 87 3-4. Provisions, especially grain, contin ue scarce and high at the South. The Cotton markets generally, dull, i FOREIGN. . By the Atlantic avc learn that the j report of the 24th of April is authenti- i cated, that the allied fleets had bombard- ; ed Odessa. The engagement lasted ten j hours. Part of the city was laid in ruins, ! tour gun fortresses dismantled, eight Russian and one Austrian merchant j ships burnt in the harbor, and three British bombarding steamers badly dam aged. The attempt of the British to land 1800 men, failed. The Russian fleet came out of Sebas- j tapol during the engagement and threat ened the allied fleets, but retired with- i out a battle. The Russians have evacuated Little I AY allachia entirely. A wing of their ! army now rests upon Alata, their head I j quarters having been established for the ! j present at Bucharest. Nicopoli, there- j fore, is again becoming the scene of the ! most interesting part of the campaign. ! The Turks have come out of Kalefat, j and are occupying all the towns in the track of the retiring Russians. They ; are also besieging Silistria, and would, in conjunction with the troops of the I Allies, attack it on or about the Ist of! May. There was nothing interesting from Asia. The Russian Government hud impos ed a heavy war tax on all classes. Sir Charles Napier’s fleet, whilst await ing the arrival in the Baltic of the French fleet, was blockading the Gulf of Fin- : land. He was in the Gulf of Bothnia on j the 21st, April. The Greek insurgents had been do- j seated. g m .. j On the 2nd May, tjhe ratification of 1 the treaty between Austria and Prussia 1 was exehanuvd. DOMESTIC. Mh. Gl-iKKN, our charge so Ecuador, has resigned. Mil Gadsden has gone to 'Mexico with the Senate Treaty,' J UK bI’KAM-POAf I.IITER is the name “fa new invention designed to set Steam boats afloat when ihev have grounded. Post-masters, it has been decided, are not obliged to register letters, con taining money; but the Department ad vises all Post-masters to keep a memo randum of them. Marks made to call attention to any particular paragraph in a newspaper does not subject it to letter-postage. Poetry is being perpetrated in Cali fornia after this wise ‘ Keep your eye fixed on the American eagle, Whom we as the proud bird of our destiny hail; For that wise fowl you can never inveigle | By depositing salt on his venerable tail,’’ Mr. Daniel, formerly editor of the I Richmond Examiner , and charge to Tu | rin, has recently had a verdict of SB,OOO | damages rendered against him in New | York, for ridiculing Mr. Spooner and his Boydell’s Illustrations of Shak speare. In Philadelphia large failures have recently taken place. In New York 4000 or 5000 persons recently held an anti-Nebraska meeting, and passed various Bedlamite resolutions. The Ship Winchester, from Liver pool to Boston, was wrecked in the frightful gale of 13th ult. Her crew, 750 in number, Were taken off by the Steamer Washington, the ships Marv and Caroline, and Paragon, and the Brigs Ann Edward, and Robert Bruce, only about 30 minutes before she went down. Matt Ward is out in a card in the New Orleans Delta, asking a suspension of public opinion until the evidence in his ease has been published. FROM WASUING TON. The Union advocates the blockade | of Cuba if Spain does not make immedi ! ato reparation for the Black Warrior affair. The House was in session 35 consec utive hours upon the Nebraska bill, the members having their meals carried to them. Oregon is applying for admission in- j to the Union. Mr. Morton of Florida, from the j Senate comm it te on agriculture, has made a report in favor of the purchase of Mt. Vernon by the government for ! the establishment of an agricultural school. ~~ ££ll % GEORGIA ITEMs. On tiie 7th day of the il uora} c i On the Bth day, (Tuesday 9th,) the j clainvof Brother Davis, (lawyer,) lor a i fee was turned over to Brother i (miqist<.<Y for adjudication., A\ e repeat | the hope, formerly expressed, that ‘ Brothel' Davis will get a good fee.—The : Book Concern was discussed. On the 9th day, (Wednesday fUth,) the discussion was brought to a close, and the Book Concern, South, triumph ed. Its location has not yet been, deter | mined, but Pratville, Athens, Altanta, Columbus and Savannah have all spo ; ken for it. AVe think Savannah ought, ! to liyve it. * On tiie 10th i>ay, (Thursday 41th,) j Dr. Taylor from Shan glial addressed tin; j Conference.—not on the subject of chick- Lens but—on the topic of educating* Chi-.- i nose youths in this country. A File, of the London Gazette front, 1656 to the present time—the only com plete file in existence— has been added to the Library of Congress.* Since 1846 the value of city property has inerased four or live millions.. Ji is rumored that General Pierce’s Administration is assuming a Hurd Shell basis, and that it will be support ed by the men at the North not crazy about niggers , and the whole South. So mote it be. It is reported that adiveeshave been received from tho Spanish Government refusing all the demands of Mr. Soule, On the 11th day, (Friday 12th,) the time of the Conference was principally taken up in the discussion of an increase in the number of Bishops. On the 12th day, (Saturday 13th,) the subject of a great central newspaper was introduced.—The Bishop discus sion was continued.—Of course there is nothing said in the proceedings of tho body as to who the new Bishops will be, but wo learn from other sources that Dr. George T. Pierce will probably bo one. LOCAL ITEMS. Our thanks are due Ike lor that? At ? ; Cream he sent us. If you want a good dinner, and other good things, cull at, Ike's saloon, under the store of Messrs Lincli & Davis. A\ r e had fine ruins in this countv on last Tuesday and Wednesday. tVops are brightening up considerably. Some few of our farmers are cutting wheat. Although this crop will neces sarily be Aery poor, still it Avili be bet ter than once anticipated. Airs. John 11. Orafton sent us, a few days ago, by far the largest beets we have seen this season. Our esteemed correspondent “G,” must excuse us for the non-appearance °f AG article. It is partially in type, but avus croAvded out by matter which •u:nc in before his did. ‘ MISCELLANEOUS AND LATEST!. I ll e Steamer Europa arrived at N. h ork on the 19th, (Friday) with three 1 days later accounts than those bv the : Atlantic. In the Cotton market middling and ! lower grades have declined, but better qualities remain firm. The Money Market was tighter. The War news by this arrival, is of ! unusual interest. The fighting has com menced in earnest on all sides, and each i day brings the news of important and ' startling events. j Tiie Allied fleets have bombarded | Sulina and Boghaz at the mouth of the. | Danube. The details of the action have not yet been received. Omar P ascii a has signally defeated'. | the Russian forces under General Lu ders. The American privateer Grape Shot, it is reported, has been captured by a j French brig of war off Land’s End. SECOND DISPATCH. On the 18th and 19th of April Omar ; Paschn, with 90,000 men, gave battle t«> ! General Luders, between Silistria and Rustchuk. The battle which was a very sanguin ary one, confuted for several hours.- During the previous night Omar had sent a division of his army towards the sea. This division, during the night of the battle, attacked the Russians fiercely in the rear, causing great panic and confu sion among the Russians, who retreated behind Tehernavova with the loss of many stores, baggage and the military chest of the army. 1 he Russians are still carrying on the i siege of Silistria. The Turks crossed the Danube on April, for the purpose of destroying the Russian batteries on the opposite side of the River. They advanced to Kut < huk, and after two days hard-fighting, retreated on the 23d to Listria in good j order. j 1 askiewitcii, the Russian command t j er-in-chief, lias ordered his armies to ad J \ anee no further into the Dobrudseha. An important battle was fought on , the 25th, between the Turks and Greek Insurgents. Aila was taken by assault in fifteen minutes by the Turks! Lhe Greek leaders, Karaskaki and Jeballas, fled. Considerable slaughter ensued. riiE important town of Meizos was also taken by the Turks, and pillaged by the Albanians. fHE Greek leader, Friries, fled. Ex cept the Piros. all the coast of Greece ls blockaded by the Allied