Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-03-21
Four Days Later News.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER AFRICA.
DEATH OF THE CAR OF RUSSIA.

ARRIVAL OF THE SIEAMEH AFKkC1l.
DEATH OF THE CAR OF RUSSIA.
COLUMBIA, March II.
Tie steamer Africa arrived ut Halifax on the
18th inst, with Liverpool dates 10 the Sd inst.
1t had been officially announced in both hou.
SEES of Parliament that the Gar of Russia died
on Friday, 23d February, Of apopIcxy. This
had caused great excitement, and there were
strong hopes Of peace.
LIVERPOOL. MARKET, March 3.
Brown g. Shipley quote Cotton dull and un.
changed. Nliddling slightly lower. The sales
of the week are $4,000 bales, of which 1000
were to spectators and $500 10 exports
There was IN active speculative demand. Fair
Orleans was quoted at SD, sAlddng l-l6d.;
Fair Uplands SID. Middling AID. Buyers de-
mand 4 reduction.
Dennstoun says the imports Of the week
were 100000 bales: and prices were easier
MiddIing one sixteenth lower. Fair Orleans
5 esd Middling Uplands 4 7.Sd. Sales Friday
GOOO bales, the market closing unchangcd.-
Stock $4,000 balcs including 10000 bales OF
American.
Money was easier. The Bank expected TO
reduce the rates Of interest Immediately.
Brcadstuffs are unchanged, except corn which
had declined Cd. to Is. Canal Flour 40s.; Ohio
43s.; provisions unchanged.
Consols had advanced to 9ld.
American securities were better.
Advices from Manchester were more iarora-
bic.
There was nothing new from Sevaslopal.
The Vienna correspondent OF the London
Times says, that the draft for Il general treaty
han been prepared, securing the integrity OF
Turkey, preventing future cncroachncnts and
guaranteeing the rig ghts of Christians in Turkey.
] his will be presented ut the Vienna Conference.
Russia was still making immense warlkc pre-
paralions
There was no reason to doubt the death of
the Gar. 1t was known on Friday, that the
physicians had given him up, which CAUSED the
funds to advance.
Lord Clarendon announced the fact i'll the
House of Lords, and Lord Pamerston in the
House of Commons
No details were known, but it was Surmised
that he was poisoned; but most probably he
died Of pulmonary appUpexy.
Prussia seems inclined more favorably towards
the allies.
THE SUFFERING IN THE CRIMEA-The allied
soldiers in the Crmea hive been congratulalIng
themselves on the termination of winter, when
their suiferings, they hope, will cease. But
from all accounts there will only be change
from one form of suffering TO another, for as
soon as the warm weather and the spring rains
commence, the animal decomposition from the
multludes of dead bodies of men and horses
lying unburied will spread pestilence through
the camp, which will depopuate it faster than
sickness is now doing. A French officer of
rank sys since the first landing Of the troops
in Turkey $4,000 men and 10000 horses have
perished. Vast numbers of both row lie in
masses, or scattered over the earth as they fell,
it being impossible to inter them in the present
state of the weather there, and they present Il
spectacle that is disguslingly horrid. There
they will remain to be consumed by carrioneal.
ers or to putrify on the return Of mile weather.
A MORMON PApER.-Tho mormons have CON-
menced, in New York, the publication of paper,
called tho Mormon, devoted to the spread OF
their principles. 1t defends polygamy ms an or
dinancc from God, the Christian world having
been laLoring under n delusion on this subject
for oyer eighteen hundred years. Mahomme-
dansm is in danger of extinction on the Eastern
Continet. 1t would be little dangerous if it
should spring up in full force on the Western
Continrt.