The Charleston Mercury from Charleston, South Carolina • 2

COMMERCIAL CHARLESTON: CHARLESTON MERCURY BY JOHN CARE City Printer General Summary Brutal Mubdeb Yesterday at about four o'clock a brutal murder was committed on an Irishman named James Shannon at Mr Arthur O'Don-nell's grocery store corner of Poydras and Circus Friday Morning February 2 1849 Latest Dates Latest dates trom Liverpool Latest dates from Havre Latest dates from Havana Jan 13 Jan 12 Jan 21 TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGEN CE FEBIICAHY 1849 New Orleans Jan 27 Arrived during the past week 32025 bales Cleared in the same time 34340 bales making a reduction in stock of 1715 bales and leaving on hand inclusive ol all on sliipboard nut cleared this day a stock of 134112 bales At the close of our last weekly report we left the Cotton market brisk and firm under a good inquiry for Europe and the North We noticed at the same lime that prices wore an advancing appearance although the rates were somewhat irregular The sales that day reached 55011 taken lor England France ami the North Buyers lor France weie brought forward by the letters per Washington received ill the morning which gave a very favorable account ol the Havre market On the follow ing day Saturday the market opened with a good demand based on the letttrs above alluded to and on the verv "eneral imuresslon which prevail FOR CHARLESTON MERCURY CHARLESTON MARKETS Week Ending Tliiirailay Eveninf Pel) 1 Received the past week by railroad 12504 bales by water and wagons 40S7 bales together 16001 bales (corresponding week last year 12218 bales Exported in the same time to foreign ports 12259 bales coastwise 3006 bales making the total exports ot the week 15205 bales and leay- DAILY 810 Dollar per annum OOl NTRY PAPER (three time a week) Five Dollars per a nnum 13 lines or under 6a cents and 5 cents tor eyery additional line EC3 All orders for subscription out of the State mint be accompanied with the cash or a city reference ed that the An erica's lettere would prove more favorable than the advices already lo hand which latter were somewhat contradictory As the day progressed the inquiry gradually iucreastd until it became general resulting in sales ot hilly I5UU) baits Prices stitlened gradually until New York Feb 1 1S49 Sales of Cotton since the arrival of the steamer Canada have reached 2000 bales at a positive decline of one eighth to one quarter cent Since advices the market i3 heavy Treasury 8's new loan 9J per cent prem By a Telegraphic Despatch received last night we earn that the stock of Cotton on hand at Augusta on the 1st instant was53S10 bales The receipts for the month of January were 56372 and the shipments 159588 bales it the close ol business when an advance of lrom to i cent per lb was plainly perceptible although we noticed conside rable irregulai ily 111 prices 1 he demand ran for the middling grades and the purchases were lor shipment lo the Continent Great Britain and the North with a lair proportion taken 011 speculation The niarkef closed firmly but streets by a man named William Arinur a painter but who kept a store in Poydras street wiihin a short distance of O'Donnell's It appears that much ill blood had existed between the parties for some lime previously high words having passed between them on Sunday last They met again yesterday in the afternoon at Arthur's oyster store when an affray occurred and the deceased fled from his antagonist who had assailed him He was pursued and took shelter in Mr O'Donnell's store Here Arthur on rushing in found a butcher's meat saw lying by and seizing it struck Shannon several blows on the side of the head one of them opening his skull penetrating through bone and tissue arid lacerating the brain He fell on the ground expiring In this state as we are informed by the police officers Mr O' Donnell's bar-keeper Thomas Narry thrust him out on the sidewalk where he quickly breathed his last Those active officers Petrie and McDonnell being apprised of the murder repaired to the spot and took into custody the above named Narry and also on individual called Samuel Russell who is charged with aiding and abetting The principal in this savage affair William Arthur was at large up to late hour last night Times 2'illiult Lieut Bell's Sword Through the politnes3 of hs father Mr Wm Bell of the United States Arsenal at this place we were shown on Wednesday the beautiful sword presented by the City Council of Charleston to Lieut Ralph Bell of this place who went to the Mexican war with the Palmetto Regiment The scabbard is of silver with gold mountings all beautifully wrought Among the engravings are the names "Contreras Churubusco and Chapul-topec" the scenes where American valor made an impression not only on Mexico but on the world It is the handsomest swordnve have ever seen a noble tribute from a noble people and we doubt not will be mgon hand a stock of 3-003 bales inclusive of 0740 bales on shipboard net cleared against a stock of U77S3 bales same time last year utd receipts since the 1st September up to the latest dates 1313012 bales against 'JKOO-i bales the same time last year and 102G810 bales the year previous The partial and rather irregular decline of about in the Upland market during the week ending on the 18th ult-arising from the advices then received by the America steamer had been fully recovered in the course of an active de-niand the week following and as we then stated in our review ol the 25tu prices at the close of the market had not only reassumed their former range but for the finer descriptions had also partaken ot an advance The past week has been one of comparative quietness arising in some measure from the great firmness of holders and the stringent prices asked hy them but perhaps more on account of the daily expected later accounts from the other side The market on Friday last the first day of the past week opened with a fair demand the sales in the course of the day amounting to rising of IoUO bale at lull prices On Saturday Monday and Tuesday the attendance of buyers was quite limited the sales during the three days averaging only about J0 bales per day without change in prices Towards the close ol the latter day telegraphic despatches announced the arrival of the Canada with Liverpool dates to the ult inclusive The brief statements of the Upland The Northern Mail of yesterday was not beyond Washington City We give below the remarks of the National Whig of the 30th ultimo on the Southern Address We are pleased to see the liberality and fairness which characterise this editorial and only wish that the tone of the Whig press generally throughout the country was more in accordance with it How any Southern man whether Whig or Democrat can read this address without coinciding in the plain doctrines which it avows and the principles which it advocates we confess we are at a loss to perceive Mr 4Jalhoi--n's This paper is a very clear exposition of the relations which have subsisted from the foundation of the Government up to the present time between the shiveholding and the non-slaveholding States and is valuable in a historical point of view It is temperate in tone and sentiment a merit which public rumor before its appearance had pronounced it to be devoid of Nor do we lind in it any thing like a threatening of dissolution of the Union as the alternative of restricting slavery in the new Territories which newspaper report had ascribed to it in advance It states with great force of language what the writer believes will be the certain consequence of persisting in the crusade now carried on against slavery in the non-slaveholding States We are sure that the Northern people when they come to read Mr Calhoun's portraiture of emancipation in the Southern States will pause and reflect before they proceed any further in their war against slavery The masses in the free States if they could FOR THE MERCURY" The No 25 "Why look you I am whipped and scourged with rods Nettled and stung with Hotspur The "blood bolstered" Banquo having called as we suppose the usurper of Scotland to his last account we are now ushered into the august presence of no less a personage than King Henry IV and being so introduced we are next told by our kind friend that instead of having gone to Avon to pay his devotions to the land of his favorite bard's nativity he had only "been at great feast of languages and stolen all the scraps" But returned he is again welcome and we shall be "patient" aye very "patient" in examining the credentials he brings with him Although "Temperance Hall" may never have tasted of the "bitter fruit" the vine yields he has certainly approached that Pierian spring of which Pope speaks and if he has forborje to drink of its waters it is not surety owing to his temperance compunctions Now to his arguments (in sooth "a rose by any other name would smell as The Grocers are called upon to "jirotest against any continuation of 'Vindicator's' interminable scries" What! abridge the liberty of the press? Shackle nay destroy the' constitutional right of the citizen to make public his opinions on public matters 7 Can it be possible that here in South Carolina utterance is given to a wish that the press be silenced He who entertains such desiretars the press and has no weapon to do battle with hat would be said of us if we dared breathed the word let the people protest against the weekly assemblages at Temperance Hall and the publication of their proceedings? Would it not be the worst of arrogance? Would we not make ourself supremely ridiculous in doing so? We know we would and know too that the press brings forth light out of darkness and it is through that very safeguard of liberty that truth is ever elicited But we forgive the hasty thought "Temperance Hall" has said that "every body but Vindicator seems to know the difference between those grocers who sell grog to negroes and those who do not and the communication in the Courier and the memorial to council were obviously aimed not against grocers in general but against grogshop-keepers in particular" Now here we have a candid confession that each grocer who sold liquor was the object alluded to and to whom was intended to apply the insulting and libellous language which induced us to "unshealh" our quill We do know or at least think we know "the difference between those who sell spirits to negroes and who do not" We say they who sell are not the "twenty-seven licensed retailers" expressly mentioned by the writer who originally assailed them they are not the "licenty-scven licensed retailers" whose licenses the deity Council took from them nor are they the "twenty-seven licensed retailers" "Temperance Hall" would have protest against our telling the truth We are charged with "perpetrating written treason against the powers of the Legislature and ol City Council" This charge we flatly deny and without-giving "Temperance Hall" the trouble of going over our last numbers we shall remind him of a single fact with which he is perfectly familiar that the Legislature only at its last session refused to have any thing to do with an alteration of the license law and we applaud them for their good sense: If this be treasonable then we admit we have waitten treason As to the City Council they are but the servants of the people and it is that people's right to review at all times their acts and doings and either to approve or to censure them This right we shall exercise whenever occasion may require it let it be treasonable or whatever else "Temperance Hall" may choose to call it "Temperance Hall" says "many a fair case is befouled by a bungling advocate" There 's truth in this and we will not doubt his knowledge of the market at that place together with the quotations received at the same time were of rather a vague character and wag followed by an unsettled state of our market On the following day Wednesday the transactions amounted to rising of 'jtKJ bales at irregular but generally to buyers more lavorable prices The total sales up to this time amounted to 51US bales at the following particulars: 605 bales at 7 cts 471 1510 3S50J 105 13-10 432 6f 32s Gjj 201 0i 243 0g: 1 23 5- 1C 7C 6fc 55 3-1G 159 6J 220 0- luu 5 13-10 177 5J 5 13-16 292 5 19 5 1 1-10 5 The market yesterday up to the middle ot the day seemed to have come to a stand Telegraphic accounts from New-New York had announced a decline in that mirket consequent of the Canada's acrouuta and buyers in ours claimed with quite a moderate stock on sale Some 1-actors art- holding off and demand a further advance The total transactions ol the wees reach 445uO bales which amount is considered by all parties extremely large The buyers who have operated to the greatest extent are those who purchase lor the North France the Mediterranean Spain and the North ol Europe Purchasers lor England have bought but to a limited extent but speculators have entered the market finite freely Liverpool Classification Louisiana and Mississippi Inferior 4J a5J Ordinary 5' a Middling 0J aO1 Good middling 0 a Of Middling fair 0J a 7J Fair to fully lair 74 a Good lair nominal Good and fine nominal The Rice Market iswell supplied but there is but little doing lloldersare however firm at the asking prices which for Be-t Carolinas are 3 a 'ij els per lb The height market during the inst week has presented a very animated appearance and the rates both to foreign and coastwise ports have advanced more particularly to New ork and Boston To toreigu ports the engagements are a ship lor Havre at 15-10 cts a Bremen ship Ior Rotterdam at 1 ct a bng lor Bordeaux at lor Staves: two British ships lor Liverpool at 15 32d one American do at 15-32 and to-day two British ships at Id per lb lor Cotton Mobile Jan The receipts since the 20th instant inclusive amount to 32247 bales and the exports for the same period to 10731 bales leaving a stock oil hand not cleared last evening of i03'J8 bales against 135023 same time last year At the close of our review of the 20th inst there was a good demand for Cotton and prices although not entirely uniform were nevertheless very firm at about 0c per lb lor middling Riles of the week bales For the current week we have again to report a continued activity in the market with a constant upward tendency in prices The America's news which was only partially developed last week seems to have inspired all parlies with confidence iu the gradual and permanent improvement of commercial affairs both in England am on the Continent and hence the active and buoyant tone of our market lor I he past six days Iu some cases however the very lull prices demanded by factors had lor the momeut the effect ot restricting the operations of some classes of buyers but in summing up the week-s business it ipeeo that the buying has been gt-neral for England France the Coniinent and the North Iu regard to prices we may remark that they stand about Jc higher than on Saturday the advance having been established iu the early part of the week since when they hive ruled very evenly and full Yesterday in consequence of the inclemency of the weather (here 'was but little done We quote as tollows the rates being in accordance with the last (rans-aclious Liverpool Classification Ordinary 5J a 5J Middling 0 a 0 Good Middling 0 a Middling'fair 0J a 0J Fair nominal The sales ol the week reach to about 21000 bales Rice Light sales have been made at 34 a 3jc per lb The stock is about equal to the demand Freights Since our last weekly review there has been a good business doing in freights to all the ports The toreigu engagements are three American ships tor Liverpool at 4d and three British ships laid on the berth with portions ol their cargoes taken at 15-32d a Br bark for Glasgow and one for Grenock each at a ship lor Havre at lc and one lor St Petersburg at Coastwise we report two ships lor Boston a brig for Baltimore a brig lor Providence and a schooner for Philadelphia all at 9-10c The packets 011 (he berth lor New York are nearly lull at those wanting freight demand an advance the same A partial demand at mid-day resulted iu the sale of near 1300 bales principally made by one house who submitted to a decline of lully Jc on the betterand perhaps a fraction more on the lower grades buyers generally appeared how" ever to claim a larger reduction and on refusal by holders declined operating The sales of the day were made at the following particulars 540 bales at5 7 at 0 25 at GJ 223 at GJ 332 at 0i £25 at 0J 129 at GJ In accordance with these transactions we give the following quotations Liveipool cias sification which however in the unsettled state of the market "in which it closed must be considered as more or less nominal We quote Ordinary to good ordinary 5 (3 fJ Middling and good middling OJ (H 0 Middling lair 0 Fair and fully lair 0 (3 0J LONG COTTONS same causes which operated in rendering the Upland market quiet during the past week have also effected the inquiry for this article There has been but little done the sales of all descriptions probably not exceeding 300 a 350 bales former prices however remain nobly worn as it has been nobly won Fayettville North Carolinian Racing in Camp Street Yesterday afternoon a little before four o'clock a well dressed young man was seen in front of Mr VV White's exchange office on Camp street dreaming of California gold and its mines of wealth while drinking in with his eyes the mighty glittering heaps of gold and notes that temptingly lay exposed in Mr White's window Seeing the" back of the gentleman behind the counter turned for an instant hemadeabold thrust with his fist through the pane of glass and grabbed a pile of notes which game was "right into his hand" when he immediately "put" down the street crying out at the top of his voice "stop thief!" thinking to run an old saw on the broker But in this he was mistaken for hardly had the vibrating jingle of the glass died on the broker's ear before he was off in hot pursuit like one of Minor's lucky ones at the tap of the drum The jockies would have considered the start very unfair and would no doubt have called them back for the thief had full thirty yards the but the broker proved to be in tip-top condition for a "brush" and showed clean heels and it was evident he was fast overhauling his adversary Bets of two to one on the white nag were freely offered The race was very exciting and having so much the advantage in the start the leading nag had many backers The white nag came in winner however and a considerable amount of money changed hands The beaten nag we hear will not run on the Camp street course again he having let down to the tombs He may however be at Baton Rouge in time for the spring meeting there A Picayune 27th ult As Affray On Friday night an affray took place on Royal street nearly opposite this office The result of it was that a Mr Cottrel was shot by a police officer named Philiber Two or three shots from a revolving pistol were fired One ball took effect and ranged through the breast of Mr Cottrell and came out at his back The wounded man after being shot knocked the officer down The wound we are told will not be fatal Mobile Tribune 28th ult Bloody Tragedies in the West A terrible affair took place near Nashville Tennessee lately The Banner says "It appears that a man named George A Willis had become enamored of the sister of another named Henry A Rice the parties all occupying one house She having repulsed his advances he had been heard to threaten her life in the event of her persisting in her determination Having packed up his clothes with the avowed intention of going down the river he suddenly made an attack upon her in the presence of her brother with a large knife The latter rushed to the rescue with a knife also and received from the desperado a slab through the hand but in the scuffle after sundry passes had been made Willis had his knife knocked from his hand and then fell having received thirteen wounds from his antagonist almost any one of which would have proved fatal" The Jefferson city (Mo) Metropolitan notices the following tragedy 'A few days ago a citizen of Gasconade county with a rifle and two pistols went to the house of a gentleman named Beck and shot him He then shot a woman who was at Beck's and immediately afterwards blew out hia own brains The woman was shot through the head and died instanily Beck FOB THE MERCURY 1 Men and by mrs marys whitaker The Spring the Spring the radiant Spring How brightly docs it bloom Glad Nature's Jieart doth sweetly sing As earth were not a tomb The sky the azure sky is soft Like childhood's lightsome sleep Its elouds dissolve in rain as oft As little children weep Blush on blush on ye Spring-time flow'rs Your doom is early death -Amid earth's fragrant blooming bow'rs We too yield soon our breath Ye die we die a little while Sees man and rlow'r depart Ye smile we smile alas we smile Oft with a breaking heart "Weep not weep not poor child of clay Methinks the flow'rs reply "Your better home is far away In heav'n where none may die "Bind up bind up the broken heart Wipe otVeach failing tear The tomb bids earthly joys depart But soul's ne'er slumber there "Ye die we die the body dies The spirit's garment frail Far far from earth the spirit flies Angels its coming hail "And Spring and llow'rs and joy await The soul from bonds set free And changeless is the happy state Ot blest eternity From Vncatan The brig Machisroane Capt Chamberlin arrived here yesterday from Campeachy which port she left on the 1 lt-h instant bringing us files of Kl Bole-tin Official of Merida to the 26th ultimo These papers announce that the whites are every where triumphing over the Indians and nobly supported by the American regiment under Col George White the war which has been so long devastating the peninsula is drawing to a close by the subjugation of the insurgents The capture of the city of Peto already recorded has been followed by that of the important stronghold of Tihusuco which was the headquarters of the revolted Indians and the very focus of the insurrection This place fell into the hands of Col Men-dez commanding the fourth division of the Yucatan army in which are Col White's volunteers The Indians retreated without striking a blow in its defense The Boletin in an extra published at Meri-da on the 17th ultimo expresses the belief that this crowning success of the army of operations virtually puts an end to the war The American- Regiment By a passenger on the Machigoane Lieut Gaines we have been put in possession of the following account of the gallant achievements of our brave countrymen under the command of Col's White and Besancon Lieut Col Besancon with a detachment of volunteers had an engagement with a large body of Indians on the 24th ultimo in which Capt Kelly and Lieut Campbell were mortally wounded and a private belonging to Capt Gainer's company killed Col Besancon had about three hundred men and the Indian force was from six thousand to eight thousand men On the 23d ult nn engagement took place at Tehu-suco Col George hite in command in which the Americans lost 33 in killed and wounded Lieut John Gallagher of Captain Malvy's company was killed also sergeants Lang and Convery of Captain Brisg's company and corporal iIorse of Captain -Kreeland's company of Rangers On the 27th ult on the march from Tehusuco to Tela an Indian town a' distance of about six leagues the regiment had continued skirmishes with the Indians the whole route The Indians were in large force and barricaded the road in some sixty places by throwing up stones and rocks with loop-holes to fire through As the regiment pushed forward when one barricade was taken they would retreat to another and so on The Americans reached Tela on the evening ol the 7th ultimo and captured and burnt the town with a loss of eight men killed and wounded The volunteers then returned to Tehusuco where they arrived on the 29th ultimo after some hard fighting On the Cth instant Colonel White look up his line of march from his headquarters at Tehuscuofor the sea-port of Bawla where the Indians were reported to be in considerable force under the command of their celebrated leader Jacinto Pat It was expected they would have a severe engagement at this spot We anxiously a wait the arrival of further intelligence from the scene of hostilities Bark Altorf El Boletin of the ISth ultimo announces that the goods composing the freight of the bark Altorf wrecked on the Alacranes Reefs in the beginning of November had been brought to Sisal for the benefit of the underwriters Commercial Times Jan 25 From Mexico By the Mexican schooner Adela Capt Barba which arrived here yesterday from Vera Cruz the lllh instant we have received ll Monitor of the Capital to the ihh instant inclusive two days later intelligence There is little to interest in these papers The President held a review of the National Guands of the city of Mexico on the 7th instant They were about two thousand in number and exhibited much attachment to the Government Gen Herrera pronounced an animated address on the occasion which was re-pponded to by the District Governor expressing the firm from 15 a 23 cents lor common to fine quality Sea Islands and 15 a 19 for Maiues and Santees Received the past week 1012 bales exported in the same time 1883 bales leaving on shipboard not cleared 1722 bales RICE We have but few remarks to make on the state or Mobile nisrlit Jan Cotton There was a good demand to-day lor France the Noith and (he coniinent of Europe and although holders asked verv lull prid-s the sales sum up at le-ist 4000 bales The market is somewhat irregular hut tj a 0c was generally paid lor middling Columbus Jan 37 Prices range from 14 to ceuts COTTON STATEMENT Stock on hand old Cotton Sept 1 184 1725 Received his week 4725 Previously 52424 2214 21000- Shipped this week Previously Stock on hand Washington Correspondence Washington Jan 29 1S49 The select Committee of the Senate to which the California State project of Mr Douglass was referred this morning reported by Mr Douglass its Chairman a bill proposing the admission of California as one State and of New Mexico as another No action was had upon it further than to order it to be printed It may perhaps be useful to report these numerous projects for consideration with a view to elicit the opinions and ideas of men generally and if that be the object why it is all well enough but if there is any idea that these projects or any of them can be carried through at the present session of Congress why I am very much mistaken I believe the temper in the House of Representatives to be such that if Mr Douglass's bill to admit California as a State ever comes before them they will either lay it on the table at once or incorporate the Wilmot Proviso in it I think it most probable that it would be laid on the table for I believe the Whigs have no notion of admitting California as a State at the present session nor do I think it very probable that they will be inclined to do so at the next session unless they should find it necessary to escape a greater evil It is refreshing to find in this age of California fever that the monster gold speculation has not absorbed all other minor speculations An evidence of this was presented to-day by the appearance of a memorial in the Senate praying Congress to make an appropriation for carrying a magnetic telegraph across the Atlantic ocean suspended on a cork cylinder anchored to the table land which the memorialists aver has been ascertained to exist between the Coast of Nova Scotia and that of Ireland The scheme would be a notable one in which to expend some of those monster lumps of gold which It is said are being found in California An incidental debate also arose to-day in reference to Mr "Whitney's modest request for a grant of land sixty miles in width and one thousand two hundred in length to construct a railroad from the Mississippi across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Mr Borland very properly suggested that the most appropriate mode of proceeding before granting" such an extent of territory to an individual was to see whether the route he proposed was practicable or not inasmuch as it was currently reported that a large part of the route was covered with snow from six to eight months of the year I think it might be added that it is much easier to lobby through State Legislatures resolves approving of the construction of a railroad than to obtain the approval of the American people to any such proposition as a grant of seventy-two thousand square miles of territory to an individual who proposes to build a railroad The bill was made the special order for Monday A message was laid before the Senafe this morning covering the correspondence which had been called for relative to the disagreements between our Minister at Rio Janeiro and Commodore Storer commanding the Brazil squadron It was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs for examination with a view to its publication if nothing should be found in it which it would be improper to make public Mr Douglass called up the Panama Railroad bill for the purpose of offering a substitute which fixes the compensation at $250000 per annum the contract to be for ten years only the fare for a passenger not to exceed eight dollars for the first ten years five dollars for the next five and three dollars for the next five and the freight of goods not to exceed five dollars per ton for the first ten years and to be reduced in the same proportion as the passenger fare after Whetherhe recent intelligence from Panama as to the discomforts and difficulties and annoyances of the crossing the Isthmus from Chagres to Panama will have any effect upon Congress to induce it to hasten its action upon this matter I know not but the probability is that no action whatever will be had during this session Messrs Aspinwall and Chauncey are now in this city whether they will be able to induce attention to their interests or not remains to be seen An attempt was made this morning in the House of Representatives to proceed to the consideration of the postage bill but it failed for want of two-thirds There remains now but one of the appropriation that for tho on the calendar of the House and as soon as that is disposed of there will-be another determined eflbrt made by the friends of cheap postage to get this bill up and dispose of the subject The Free Soilers will make a struggle also to get up the California and New Mexico territorial bills but I think it probable the cheap postage wilj have the preference It is a little singular that the rates now in operation of five and ten cents were carried just at the close of a Presidential term and after a most determined opposition and it will be somewhat remarkable if the improvement upon that system should be carried under similar circumstances at the present The friends of establishing a branch mint at New York were successful to-day in procuring the passage of a resolution to make the bill for that purpose the special order for the first Tuesday in February The vote on suspending the rules was 141 ayes 40 noes more than three to one The vote on the last attempt three weeks ago was 124 to 70 two-thirds The New York Common Council being very desirous of having this measure consummated sent on here last week a Joint Committee of the Boards of Aldermen and Assistants with the Chairman of each Board and the result of their presence and exertions in the matter is shown by the vote above given Having despatched this matter the House then went into Committee of the hole and before adjournment went through with and passed the Military Academy Revolutionay and Naval Pension Appropriation bills There was a little debate upon the Military Academy bill arising out of a proposition made by one of the Pennsylvania members to establish a Professorship of Mines Several short speeches were made pro and con upon this amendment and among others Mr Sawyer of Ohio made some remarks principally to the favoritism which was shown at and to this institution particularly specifying the injustice which he said had been done to the Volunteer force in the late war by attributing all the valor displayed and success achieved to the Military Academy and presenting to it as trophies of its renown flags captured in the Mexican war flags too captured by the Volunteer force He said he meant to use every opportunity to change this disposition of those trophies and to have them deposited in the National Insttiute of this city Affray The St Louis Exchange was the scene of a melancholy occurrence last niaht Two gentlemen of this city Mr John Jonshon formerly a commission merchant in Poydras st but latterly out of business and Mr Thomas Harper brother of Capt Harper the predecessor of Captain Winter in the office of Chief Constable of the Second Municipality Police met there between eight and nine o'clock in the evening when a quarrel ensued There had previously been much ill blood between the parties and a challenge had as we are informed passed between them Mr Johnson being the chalenger Mr Harper declined to meet his adversary and out of the creminations to which the former difficulty gave rise a warm altercation took place between them last evening Mr Johnson it is said struck Mr Harper" with a small switch when the latter drew a bowic knife and stabbed his adversary to the heart Mr Johnson fell and expired in the spot His body was first taken to the Watch-house near the Place D'Ar-mes and afterwards conveyed to the residence of his friends Mr Harper had up to a late hour last night eluded tho vigilence of the police fact Our cause however is in no possible fear of be made to understand the true eflects ot emancipation would never consent to see their Southern brethren placed in such a terrible position by any act of theirs To suppose otherwise would be to rank them among the enemies of the South All they want is enlightenment upon the question of emancipation and its effects This address furnishes a vast fund of information upon the subject In the meantime we hope that our Northern brethren will remember that there is a Union to preserve and perpetuate and that this mission to be successful must tolerate the presence of the evil of slavery where it is In regard to the extension of slavery over the Ter-tories the position taken by Mr Calhoun is one that every patriot can occupy if the preservation of the harmony of the Union be the first object of his affections We do not say that it is the only position that can be occupied to save the Union The wisdom of Congress may develope another more tenable but Mr Calhoun disarms in our opinion those who insist that the South requires the passage of a law by Congress to extend slavery into the new Territories He asserts that no such a thing is desired All he asks all the South asks is to be let ulone But whatever be done we hope that all parties will remember that there is a Union to preserve Another Expedition to California Messrs Nichols and Gibus of Charleston have already set on foot another expedition for California which will be ready to leave as we understand by the 1st March The vessel to be used although not named as yet will in all respects be a first rale one selected in reference to her adaptation for such service and will be placed under the command of a skilful and experienced Captain About twenty-five persons have already engaged a passage a list of whom may be seen at the counting house of the above named gentlemen where every information can be obtained in relation to the voyage From the well known respectability of Messrs Nichols and Gidbs the public have the most ample security that everything will be done that can contribute to the comfort and security of those who may take passage in their vessel The Washington Union This paper has reached us very irregularly of late The Sunday number which was due here on Wednesday morning has not yet come to hand and we have received no paper since We mention it for the information of the Union The Concert last night Young Ikelheimer gave a sixth Concert last night at the Hibernian Hall and in his performances added to his already enviable reputation His pieces were well selected and executed in a style that is truly astonishing in one so youthful There were many charming things besides and if disposed to particularise where all was so pleasing we should notice the Duett on two instruments by Madame Hammerskold and Mr Le Grab It was a gem of itself and was performed with a taste and spirit that we have rarely heard equalled Take it altogether it was a most delightful entertainment Counterfeit The Sumter Banner of the 34st ultimo states "that a twenty dollar counterfeit note of the Bank of Georgetown is circulating in our vicinity As described to us the face of the note bears the letter No C07S dated Nov 4 1S46 payable to Geo Davis Signed McKay Cashier Coachman President" SeeiCane in Bad Condition The Planters' Banner (La) of the 13th ulti says "There is great complaint among many of the planters in this vicinity of the condition in which they find their seed cane Some estimate that one-third of their cane is ruined Much of it is hollow with a sort of red coating on its interior surface the joints have red streaks passing through them and many of the eyes appear to be entirely destitute of vitality If the cane generally proves to be in this condition we may look out for short Mempliis (Teiin) Jan 23 Cotton The dull ness noticed at the close of last week continued yesterday and operations were very limited sales a cent decline from the highest point of last week market heavy Columbus (Miss) Jan 27 Cotton The price of our great staple fluctuates slightly but we think the gene ral tendency will be upwards during must of the present season The crop is not so large a one as it was at one time supposed to be In this section the amount raised is certainly much below an average yield AVilminaftoii Jan The last week has not been a very busy one iu the way of business Arrivals ol produce rather light Some thousands of barrels perhaps 5 to of Turpentine have come to hand the Solt sold mostly at S- 25 up to Monday night yesterday S2 2d was offered but no sale at that heard of Hard has ranged from 125 up to 140 depending on the quantity mixed with the Solt one rait of all Hard superior brought 1 40 the competition for Hard is among the distillers We do not think there has been a single sale of Spirits Turpentine within the last three or lour days last sales at what we reported at on the 24th inst say 20A'cts per gallon bbls charged at £1 75 In Tar no change worth noting several hundred barrels brought iu during the last week sold at I 13 we think it doubtful if the article will go much over that yet awhile No change in the pi ices of Timber common qualities will not bring over S34 to 8 14 very fair to superior 5 to 0 long shipping 7 to 9 There is so little doing in Lumber Staves and Shingles that it is not worth while to make any remarks about prices the market for this article during the past week since we perceive no material cnange from that of the w-eek previous The demand has been generally good though somewhat fluctuating Prices for prime parcels on account of their great scarcity were at all times full and firm hile the lower descriptions have occasionally been very dull and prices in favor of buyers The sales of the week have probably reached about 4000 bbls at extremes from S2 7-16 a £3J for inferior to strictly prime a parcel of about 110 bbls a choice and lancy article at a higher figure which was however not permitted to transpire Received the past week 4S37 bbls exported in same time 5127 bbls leaving on shipboard not cleared 1722 bbls ROUGH RICE The receipts of the past week have been quiie large amounting to some 115000 bushels The demand during a part of the week was good the sales footing near 00000 bushels at extremes from G3 a 73 cents a large proportion at 75 a 78 prime quality is scarce and more readily disposed of at our highest quotations than inferior parcels are at lower prices EXCHANGE We quote Sterling at 7 a 7f percent premium and francs 537 a 540 both at a downward tendency For Domestic rates see tables FREIGHTS To Liverpool continue steady at gd and Jd for square and round bales and 3os for Rice To Havre two vessels loading but fully engajed at Jc and lie for square bnles anil Sea Islands and S2 per bbl of 000 lbs for Rice The following are the current packet rates coastwiee To New York cents for Cotton and 8112J per bbl for Rice To lloston sent for Cotton and per bbl for Rice GRAIN Corn continues without change but rather dull A cargo of 2500 bushels prime white North Carolina brought 55 cents About 3200 bushels Georgia by Railroad are mostly disposed of to city consumers at 50 a 50 cents per bushel without and with bags Of OATS there have been no arrivals A cargo of North Carolina PEAS 2200 bushels received had been sold to arrive at prices not made public We quote 00 a 03 cents as extremes HAY No arrivals but the market well supplied and no demand except for at retail ior city consumption FLOUR The arrivals of the week amount to some 1200 barrels principally of Baltimore ami Western llakers have taken freely of both at on landing and in smaller quantities sales are made from stores at S5J a £6 About 125 bbls superfine Carolina country brands sold at 8550 Georgia superfine SO Etowah family brands at £0i rGROCEUIES PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS tO Our country friends will please to observe that our quotations generally have reference to wholesale prices and that therelore the rates lor small transactions or such as are was shot through the body and it is thought may recover Derangement it is supposed was the cause of this tragical affair" The Chicago (III) Democrat says "At Menominee in Joe Daviess county in this State on the 17th instant an old man named John Sparks attacked his wife aged 56 years with a knife and cut her bowels out The miserable creature was immediately committed to jail" The Oregon Steamer Capt Fox well of the bark Active arrived a this port on Sunday from Rio de Janeiro reports that as he was coming out of that port on the 22d December an American steamer was going in no doubt the mail steamer Oregon Capt Pearson the second ship of Messrs As-pinwall's Pacific line Bait Sun We are informed that the smokehouse of Mr Edward Broughton of Clarendon was burnt on the night of the 23d ult and that one hundred and fifty baconed hogs were consumed in it The fire is believed to have originated accidentally A smoking fire was kept in the house at the time Sumlcr Banner Railroads The Railroad Journal estimates the Rome Jan 10 Cotton There was a good demand lor Cotton 111 the streets yesterday and considerable quantities changed haudsat irom lj to ij Tallnliassee Jan 23- The extremes of yesterday's market were 54 and 04 prices tending upwards Camden Jan 31 We have no change torn fire in the price of Cotton since our last There has been little or no falling off iu the supply We continue the quotations ol last 5 to 04 Clieraw Jnu During the past week there has been a good demand for Cotton and the sales from tin- streets and stores have been large in the aggregate say some 1500 bales Several planters' lots have been sold at 0J to 0'c llniiiliiug Felt 1 Cotton The market under the influence of the late accounts was quite brisk yesterday and may be quoted fully higher We quote f4 to 0J as extremes 31 Cotton Prices Irom 5J Sumt erville Jan to Oj Cargo of bark Saranac cleared at New Orleans 27th ulr for this port: 00 hhds Sugar 0 do Tobacco 30 do Bacon 132 tcs and 24 bbls Dams 81 casks 31 bbls Pork 25 do Beef 100 do Flour 550 do Whiskey do Liquor 40 do Pork and Beef 47 kegs Shot 215 sacks Oats 17 do Cotton Seed Cargo ot schr Renown cleared at New Orleans 25tli ult for this port 09 hhds Sugar 34 caskB Bacon90 bbls Molasses 40 do Pork 105 kegs Lard and 573 sacks Oais entire expenditure wiihin the past twenty-five years in the projection and construction of railroads not to fall short of one thousand millions of dollars! and their influence in facilitating business in reducing the expenses and time of travel and in opening up new regions of country as giving an increased value of licice that amount And yet their influences are just beginning to be felt Within the last month two hundred and eighty-two miles of railroad was added to that previously in use This addition is made up as follows New York and Erie Railroad one hundred and twenty-seven miles New York and New Haven eighty miles Nashua and Worcester forty-five miles Harlaem thirty miles Sausages Chop six pounds of lean with two pounds of fat pork four table spoonfuls of salt six ditto of powdered sage four of black pepper and two of cloves a little rosemary may be aided If not stuffed keep the meat in a lin vessel tied down close and when to be used roll it into cakes dust them with flour and fry John Smith has gone to California This disposes of one hard case Iteceipts per Kntlrontl February 1 1417 bales Cotton anil Mdze To Robinsons fc Caldwell Sims ifc Dulin Caldwell Martin Starr Walter Adger Co Chambers White Glovers cfc Davie Iiow-land fc Taft Meetze Dye Harris Co II Rodgers fc Co II Gilliland Wiley Banks Co Faekler Gadsden fc Co Iawsou Clark Woodruff Farrar Ashe and order ordinarily embraced in filling country orders are invariably Higher SUGARS About 100 hhds New Orleans have arrived within a day or two but only a few having been landed there have been no Sides worth reporting We quote the article with a gi'od demand lor the trade at 4 a 5J cents Two cargoes of Rio in all about 4700 bags have been received by direct arrivals since our last Some 20(10 bags of one cergo have been disposed of In parcels at Irom Oi to 0 hile the oilier consisting ol 2100 bags is going into store without being offered Near 300 hhds 40 tierces and 43 bbls Cuba Molasses the receipts of the week were taken by jobbing houses at 19 a 1 'g cents Of New Orleans some 250 bbls the bulk brought 27 cents on landing The arrivals of Western Sides amount to some 175 casks a portion of which had been sold to arrive at cents holders from store are asking bhoulders are very scarce but at the same time little inqured for on account of the high prices asked for the article We quote 6 cents Hams old and new are selling from 7J a 10J The market however is bare at present of the latter quality LAUD Sales of about 00 kegs new Western were made at 84 cents There is however but little demand for the article The market wftfrfn the week past has received an ample supply some 13000 'saks having arrived in that time Sales to the amount of about 7030 sacks have been made at from 90 a 95 ceuts principally at 92 a 95 some holders however refuse to accept of these prices BAGGING AND BALE ROPE 2G0 pieces Dundee received this week direct had been sold to a dealer to arrivei at 17 cents We have heard of no other transactions none being in the market For Rope there is a limited demand at 94 cts DOMESTIC The arrival of New Orleans Whiskey has been about 450 bbls of which sales had been made to arrive and since on landing at 25 cts per gallon We have heard of no other transactions The market continues inactive and the occa that danger as it is now confided to the hands of a just and discerning people It is well "Temperance Hall" lias admitted there is evil in vending liquors by wholesale But have any of these venders some of whom are likely enough members of the Temperance Society themselves said so Have they discontinued these sales If they have "Temperance Hall" will oblige us by saying how long since they have done it He is mistaken we repeat if he supposes we seek in any way the defence of those "dramshop-keepers" who sell to negroes W'e have already told him we never desired to do so But we have said and say it over again that we will repel slander "Whose edge is sharper than the sword whose tongue Outvenonis all the worms of Nile Whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners ol the world" let the slander come from what quarter it may "Temperance Hall" has given us copious extracts from Holy Writ to which he has with great earnestness invited our attention Now if we desired either directly or indirectly to make drunkards as it has been insinuated by "Temperance Hall" we did we should just say to him the words of the Apostle Paul to Timothy (23 vers 5 chap 1 Tim) "Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine olten infirmities" VINDICATOR loth Made from IMne Apple leaves Some time ago we observed in the neighborhood of Batu Blyer a number of Chinese laborers employed in cleaning the fibres of pine apple leaves lor exportation to China anew and promising branch of industry in Singapore The process of extracting and bleaching tho fibres is exceedingly simple The first step is to remove the fleshy and succulent side of the leaf A Chinese astride on a narrow stool extends on it in front of him a pine apple leaf one end ot which is kept firm by being placed beneath a small bundle of cloth on which he sits He then with a kind of two-handled plane made of bamboo removes the succulent Another man receives the leaves as they are planed and with his thumb-nail loosens and gathers the fibres about the middle of the leaf which enables him by one effort to detach the whole of them from the outer skin The fibres are next steeped in water for some time after which they are washed in order to free them from the matter that still adheres and binds them together They are now laid out to dry and bleach on rude frames of split bamboo The steeping washing and exposing to the sun is repeated for some days until the fibres are considered to be properly bleached Without further preparation they are sent into town for exportation to China Nearly all the islands near Singapore are more or less planted with pine apples hich ut a rough estimate cover an extent of two thousand acres Tho enormous quantity of leaves that are annually suffered to putrify on the ground would supply fibre for a large manufactory of valuable pine cloth The fibres should be cleared on the spot Fortunately the pine apple planters are not Malays but industrious and thrifty Bugis most of whom have families These men could be readily induced to prepare the fibres Let any merchant ofler an adequate price and a steady annual supply will soon be obtained Journal of the Indian Archipelago The Dancing Star The curiosity of our citizens has been for several days or rather nights considerably excited by the capers of a Star which appears in the South about 10 o'clock every night and seems to move about in all sorts of directions without rhyme or reason so far as any of our wise ones have yet been able to discover This however is the age ofimprovement discoveries and inventions and we see no reasons why the Stars should not make some improvements too Certainly its movements do not appear to be regulated by any of those laws by which it has been generally supposed that the humanly bodies are governed but like all new impossible and unaccountable things we suppose it will be very soon be explained upon very plain natural principles Columbus Geo 7'imes Homestead Exemption in Ohio Dr Dimmon'i has introduced a bill in the Senate of Ohio to exempt homesteads from forced sales on execution It provides that any resident of Ohio the head of a family may set apart and hold for the benefit of himself and family exempt ftom forced sale on execution a lot of land not exceeding in extent one hundred acres nor in value together with the buildings the sum of SI 000 It also provides that the owner of a house on land not his own may set apart and hold said house as his homestead a house arid lot in any village town or city not exceeding the value of SI 000 It provides that in case a house and lot or other homestead shall be appraised at more than 81000 the plaintiff may accept a sum annually equal to a fair rent for said premises until said debt is paid or at his option he may cause the homestead to be put to sail and SI 000 of the proceeds shall be paid over by the sheriff' in execution and the balance be applied in discharge of the debt But such homestead shall not be sold for less than its appraised value It also exempts to the heads of families not owning a homestead chattle property to an amount notexceedina SI 000 Mr has also laid before that body an ably written report on homestead exemption Steamer Ashore Capt Chamberlain of the brig Machigonne reports that on the 15th inst he saw large steamer ashore on the Alacranes wiere it may be recollected one of the British West India mail steamers was lost Capt saw a number of wreckers going to the assistance of the steamer seen by him He was so far from her that he could not make out to what nation she belonged LV Pkayune25 tilt Pork Packing in Iowa More than thirty thousand hogs will bep acked in Burlington Iowa the present season some of which are very heavy BCjDr II Peery's Vermifuge or Uend Shot for Worms This preparation lias the peculiar advantage of not only destroying every worm but also ol producing a healthy action ol the stomach and other organs of digestion thereby relieving many complaints arising irom a derangement of the digestive organs Although prompt and certain in its operation and not unpleasant to the taste it is perfectly safe and adapted to the tenderest age Richmond Va May 13 114 Acting as Agent for Dr Peery 's Vermifuge lor the past twelve months during which time I have sold some thousands or more bottles at retail I take pleasure in saying that I have yet to learn ol a single case where it has proved inel-feetual to the contrary hundreds of ourmost respectable citizens have repeatedly volunteered their certificates in testimony of its unrivaled-Superioritv over all other Vermiluges DOVE Druggist Main-si Price 25 cents per vial Prepared by Dr II Peery and sold by A and I Sands 100 Fulton-st New York Sold also by II AV1LAND IIARRAL CO King-st Charleston And by Druggists generally throughout the United Stales feb 2 1 uevotedness ot the National Guard to law and order Toluca The attempt at revolution here has been completely crushed the Monitor of the 9th states that General Moriega with the forces of the Supreme Government quickly dispersed the disatlected Tampico All was harmony here as we learn from the Monitor The troops re-entered the city on the 30lh ultimo so that public tranquility has been restored Yt'ic Orleans Commercial Times 2titt tilt From Texas By the arrival here yesterday of the steamship Galveston Captain Crane from Galveston we have received the News of that city to the 23d instant inclusive We take thence the following items of intelligence The steamers New Orleans Captain Auld and Yacht Captain Wilson arrived yesterday from Port Lavacca The various towns on Matagorda Bay were quite healthy General Worth and stall' were to leave Lavacca yesterday for San Antonio where as we before stated the headquarters of the division will be established We hsre by the Yacht's mail the Victoria Advocate of the 12th instant from which we learn that a company is being organised in Victoria to go toCalK fornia by land on the 1st of March next Mr A VVigginton is at the head of the party The steamer Kate Ward was at Indian Point a few days ago says the Advocate preparatory to her entrance into our river Major O'Brien is stationed as Quartermaster at Port Layaca The Advocate apprehends that a strong effort will be made at the next session of our Legislature to remove the Seat of Government to some other part of the State probably to Huntsville Cholera at Houston The steamboat Billow arrived from Houston this morning and we regret to say that the accounts represent the Cholera there to be now worse than ever The following is an extract of a letter dated Houston an 23d "The Cholera has broke out again and I am afraid it will be bad owing to the horribly filthy condition of the citv Col Walton and his daughter died last night Gen Baker's daughter is not expected to live There are a good many other cases" The Houston Presbyterian of the 20th inst states that owing to the bad weather they have not had a mail from the interiot counties for several days The same paper says that little business is now done in that city They have had continued rains and the Bayou was very high and rising rapidly A Good Move The farmers of Lavaca county have formed themselves into a society to be called the Lavaca County Agricultural the object of the move being to bring about a better spirit of improvement in farming We believe it is the first move of the kind that has taken place in Texas and we trust will accomplish the purposes intended by its A Com Times 2'lh ult crops again next fall" North Carolina The Legislature of this State adjourned sine die on Monday the 29th ultimo after a session of about a eleven weeks Virginia Congressional Nominations Hef-ry Edmonson esq has been nominated as the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Monroe district Va and Henry Irving esq as the Whig candidate in the Charlotte district The Whigs of Fayette county Virginia have held a meeting and appointed delegates to a Convention to be held at Braxton Court House on the 22d instant for the purpose of selecting a candidate to be run for that district at the ensuing election The district is a large one and will of course present a host of candidates It is at present represented by the Hon Robert A Thompson a Democrat who will have many competitors in his own ranks for the honor Died at Baltimore on the 29th ultimo Captain James Hill Assistant Quarter Master United States Army in the forty-first year of his age The Government and the Gold The following note from Mr Secretary Marcy is published having been elicited apparently by the current rumors that his son had made an enormous fortune at the gold washings Washington Jan 25 1S-49 Sir In reply to your letter of the 13th instant I ENGLISH GAS FIXTURES 79 J0I111 street IVe-v York The Subscriber has in stock an extensive assortment ENGLISH GAS FIXTURES comprising Chandeliers Mantle Ornaments Hall Lanterns 4c manufactured by Messenger and Sons of London The Goods are of the newest styles choicest patterns and most elegant designs For sale by EDVV'D LLOYD feb 1 0 PASSEXGERS In steamship Isabel for Key West and Mrs Weaver Mrs A Prince MissE A l'rince It Mallory and lady Messrs Velasco Vardewater Taylor Lloyd Roiiebahd Nursey De McCarty DeBrillon and Castenenger In briii Wm II Spear from Galway Miss Malloy Mrs Flaterty Messrs I Flaterty A Sloper and 102 in the steerage In steamer Gladiator from Wilmington Mis Vanderhorst Dr Carr Messrs Smith Dawson Suirpel Vanderhorst Sherman Jardim Bullock Rosenplatt Preaner Mann and Cox In steamer General Clinch from Savannah via lieaulort Mrs Herrien Miss Mcintosh Messrs A Allen Ballard Somes Harmstead Lovell Rice Brown Midturn and 10 on deck In steamer Charleston from Georgetown Rev A Betts and 2 daughters lion Ward lady and 2 children Dr Sparkman lady and 2 children Jones lady and 3 children Miss Heriot Maior Heriot Col tiger Col 1 A Alston Capt Petigrue US Allston Allston Lane Clardy Sandey Hewitt Delettreand 10 on deck Departure of the Atlantic Steamers From Europb From America sional transactions are of a very limited amount Our quo RIGGS Jr Broker Auctioneer and General Commission Agent Tfo 4 State street 2 duurs Nurlh of the Btimk of Ouirlesten Will attend to the purchase and sale of NEGROES REAL ESTATE BANK and other STOCKS BONDS MORTGAGES Ac on Commission with punctuality and despatch to all who may favor him with their patronage jan 11 tations as per table are a fair criterion of the market were sales or purchases are not of a forced character Exports oft lie VeeIt FOREIGN Br bark George 791 bales Upland Cotton and 3-24 bbls Rice Brig 200 bales Sea Island Cotton 1372 do Upland do Br bark 428 bales Sea Island Cotton 144G do Upland do 74 bbls Rice and 1723 bushels Corn Br ship 373 bales Sea Island Cotton US7 do Upland do 571 bbls Rice 2470 feet Plank Br ship Bolton 140 bales Sea Island Cotton 1841 do Upland do and 227 bbls Rice Ship North 319 bales Sea Island Cotton and 1001 do Upland do HAVRE Bark 351 bales Sea Island and 2211 do Upland Cotton ROTTERDAM Ship bales Upland Cotton and 305 bbls Rice -HAM BURG VIA CO Bremen brig Charles Ferdinand 167 bales Upland Cotton and Gil bbls Rice Bremen bark Johau 595 bales Upland have to inform you that the Government have no information whatever in relation to the gold in California which has not been given to the public I further state that 1 have no information from my son on the subject except that the gold mania prevailed Washington Dee 20 United States Dec 29 Canada Jan 13 Niagara Jan 27 Europa Feb 10 America Feb 24 Feb 7 Feb 21 March 7 March 21 This is the third homicide that has taken place in the city within a period of three days We are exceedingly pained to record events ol this nature Why cannot men with the faculty of reason as their guide restrain their passions? Why will they through theee blind ungovatm-d impulses spread desolation round the family circle as often piercing the innocent with incurable wounds as the guilty or the presumed guilty whom they slay ii such hot haste? Commercial Times 2Wi ult PLASTERS' HOTEL Corner Cliurcli anil Queen streets Charleston CHARLES II MIOT respectfully informs his friends and Canada March 10 April 4 patrons that he has again resumed the management of the above establishment 1 mwf dec 15 at Monterey where he is stationed and to which he is confined by his pressing public duties He has not intimated to me that he has any of the gold collected' there or that he had taken or intended to lake any steps to get it Yours truly Marcy Illinois Senators Instructed A telegraphic despatch in the St Louis papers of the 20th ult states that the State ot Illinois having concured with the Hqse the United States Senators from Illinois are instructed to support the Wilmot Proviso The St Louis Organ says: "It is understood that Senator Breese stands ready to obey It is said however that Mr Douglass will 'resign first of course remains to be Jones's Spunisli Lily Wlilfe Is the best preparation for imparting to the Skin a natural healthy clear living white at the same time makiug it soft and smooth Dr James Anderson Practical Chemist of Massachusetts says: "Alter analizing Jones's Spanish Lilly White I find it possesses the most beautiful and natural and at the same time innocent white I ever saw- I certainly can conscientiously recommend its use to all wliose skin requires beautifying" Price 25 cents a box Sold by the agent MEL YIN COHEN 19 llaynest nov 24 Niagara March 24 April 18 Europa April 7 May 2 Cambria April 14 May 9 LETTER BAGS At the Charleston Reading Room 103 East Bay Ship AGENT (Br Mills LIVERPOOL Ship JOSEPHINE Crocker LIVERPOOL Bark A AG A SET Destebecho HAVRE TO COUNTRY MERCHANTS AND DEA-lers in Musical Instruments The subscriber would cal the attention of Country Merchants and others to his unequalled stock of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS of every description selected and imported by himself and which are offered at such unparalleled low-prices as to hold out extraordinary inducements to purchasers A visit to his establishment will prove the truth ol these assertions and a call is earnestly requested from all who are in want of Piano Fortes or other Musical Instruments Music or any description of Musical Merchandise ZOGBAUM Harmonic Institute 201 King-st four doors below Market-treet 27 PACKLER (From Huntsville Alabama) FACTOR AND COMMISSION MERCHANT II Central wharf jau 20 tlw Charleston Cotton 400 bbls Rice Schr Isabella-243 bbls Riee 35 bbls and S2 kegs Lard WEST Schr Merchant-254 bbls Rice Schr Ze- 21KJ bbls Rice Brig 295 bbls Rice HAVANA VIA KEY Steamship 23 pekgs Mdze lor Key West COASTWISE Bark Susan 0G9 bales Upland Cotton and 207 bbls Rice Brig 514 bales Upland Cotton and 139 bbls Rice iSEW Steamship 679 bales Upland Cotton 149 bbls Rice 17 bags Feathers 5 rolls Leather and 88 pckgsMdze ship Camden 1120 bales Upland Cotton 401 bbls Rice 4U0 boxes Raisins 250 empty casks and sundries Schr 24 bales Upland Cotton SO bbls Rice XSO bags Meal 100 jars Grapes 12 pes Timber and sundries NEW Brig Clarion-315bbls Rice and 14 bales Domestics MOBILE VIA INDIAN KEY AND KEY Schr Lucy 1510 bbs Rice and sundries CHE RAW VIA Steamer 50 hhds and 50 bbls Molasses 500 sacks Salt 50 bbls Whiskey hhds Sugar and 50 bars Iron CHE RAW Si earner Pee 500 sacks Salt 3 hhds Molasses and 300 peks Mdze Richmond Jan Cotton is quoted in our market at 0J a 0 ceuts More Gold Washers A novel machine for washing gold is now being made by Messrs Murrav and Hazlehurst for Col Bonner of Washing ton city The frame is in the form of a cradle which is covered within a few inches of the top by' sieves which fit them exactly cranks are attached to the framc'by which they are rocked The pounded rock is then put into the sieves containing about a bushel and by means of the crank they are kept in motion' with either the hands or horse power in the tubs containing the water This operation may be performed in ten or fifteen minutes and the coarse minerals remain in the sieves and if there are large gold specimens among them they may easily be detected but the finer sand will pass through the sieves and be deposited on the bottom and according to the gravity the gold will fall first down and the sand being the lightest on top One workman is capable of washing one hundred bushels a day In the evening the water is let off from the tubsand the gold and fine sand are then dried and by means of small fans or wind-mills the sand and gold dust are separated Col Bonner intends having made forty of the above machines Montgomery Manufacturing Company This company have added to their large establishment a Flouring Mill which is now in successful operation and turns out daily from eighty to one hundred barrels of superfine flour Our citizens can get fresh flour at these mills of the very best quality at the current market rates The gentlemen composing this company have in-tered upon a new field of labor and have expended a large sum of money in the various branches of industry embraced in their operations Their enterprise entitles them to look with confidence to the public for encouragement and support Whenever the Manufacturing Company can furnish articles of domestic consumption on terms as favorable as such articles can be had abroad a preference as a matter of home interest should be given to the products of the Company This they can do we are informed in all the various products of this Mill Montgomery Flag Gen Shields The St Louis New Era denies that there is any constitutional obstacle to General Shields taking his seat as Senator from Illinois and says he is perfectly prepared to prove his eligibility DR MORE HE AD'S GRADUATED "MAG-netlc Machines" The attention of the Medical Faculty and the public are invited to these ELECTRO MAGNETIC MACHINES They are superior to all others combining simplicity ami utility with economy aud durability whilst they can be graduated to any degree ot strength and are so compact that they occupy but little space For sale by COHEN Importer ol Drugs Medicines 4c 19 Hayne street aug IS 1 A Custom House Difficulty A New York let-leter ot Saturday says "Several foreign vessels have made application to to-day at the oustom house for clearance papers to San Francisco but I understand the officers there not being fully apprised how to act under thpecu-liar circumstances of the case have deemed it advisable to hold all such applications in reservation until inttructions be received from Washington" In Certreville and'theneighborhood in the parish of St Mary's La and therl have been some forty cases of cholera and five deaths from the disease Though genuine Asiatic it is of mild type SBROOKS Attorney at Law oc'9 EdgeEeld Court House ml7.