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THE C
J. M. BOTTS’S
CONVENTION.
tonu, June 12, 1847.
My Deah Sin : Your letter of the 12th May, "accompany-
ing'an invitation from the Committee of Correspondence “ to
attend a Northwestern Harbor and River Convention, to be
held in Chicago on the first Monday in July next,” was duly
received, and its not being answered at an earlier day arose
from the earnest hope I had indulged (notwithstanding the
distance from home) that I should have been able to accept
the invitation, and to have been with you on that interesting
occasion in person, as I shall be in feeling and in principle. I
am sorry, however, to say that just now it seems to be altoge-
ther impracticable.
Nevertheless, at a future day and upon a different theatre, I
hope to have it in my power to render you more efficient aid
than I could in your proposed Convention for the subject of
these national improvementsJ I have no morbid sensibilities,
I labor under no constitutional difficulties, and I indulge no
metaphysical abstractions; for, in my judgment, we should
have bestowed very unmerited eulogy upon the wisdom of the
.illustrious dead, the framers and builders of that godlike in-
strument to which our Government owes its existence, if
they had neglected to confer upon the representatives of all
the interests of all the people in the land the power to pro-
tect the property and the lives of those same people, by re-
moving obstructions to navigation, constructing and improving
harbors and erecting lighthouses, as well within our own ter-
ritory as beyond it—as well upon the river and lake naviga-
tion as upon the high seas—as well upon the Mississippi as
upon the lakes—and as well upon the shores of Lake Michi-
gan as upon the Atlantic coast, provided the “commerce
among the several States,” in the language of the constitu-
tion, should render it necessary and expedient. That they did
not neglect, but fully provided for, the exercise of this indis-
pensable power, is clear to my mind ; and how much more it
would have become an enlightened and civilized Government,
and how much more our individual and national prosperity
would have been advanced by the expenditure of the untold
millions in the accomplishment of such works than for the in-
discriminate and wholesale slaughter of a defenceless and un-
offending race of semi-barbarians, whose chief crime at last (as
will be found) consisted in owning territory that “ must be
acquired” under the guise of “ indemnity,” is a question that
time will determine, and that the people of all classes and of
all parties will have an opportunity of understanding and ap-
preciating before we get through with and recover from the
effects of this horrible and most unnecessary and iniquitous
war.
Yet it is pietended that he who can make war ; after two
bloody battles have been fought, communicate its existence to
Congress, and thereby himself escape the responsibility ; who
can, through his subordinates, annex territory and dismember
empires, and establish civil governments ; swear in citizens
by the wholesale, require them to t ke an oath of allegiance
to the United States, try them by a drumhead court martial,
and hang them up in six hours as rebels or traitors ; make laws
for and collect customs in Mexico, when by the constitution
it is declared that “ Congress shall have power to make rules
concerning captures on land or water”—when all this can be
done with impunity by the one-man power, the people are to
be cheated out of their rights and dearest interests under the
shallow pretence that that same one man cannot find consti-
tutional warrant for affixing his signature either to a bill pass-
ed by the Representatives of the People for the payment of
what they recognised as a just debt duefrom the Government;
or for another making appropriations from their own means, for
the general improvement and interests of the country, and for
the protection and preservation of American life and property.
If our constitution were fairly susceptible of such a reading,
what odium would it bring upon its authors, and who would
be satisfied to live under it another day ?
Without undertaking to decide what does or what does not
constitute an “inland sea,” as the term is not to be found in
the constitution, nor yet in the celebrated resolutions of ’93
and ’99, (which are of more importance with some of our dis-
tinguished statesmen,) I have no hesitation in expressing it as
the conviction of my mind that the navigation of the Northern
and Western lakes and rivers is entitled to the fostering care
of Government, and that the interests of that region of country
imperatively demand it; and I sincerely hope tne day is not
distant when it will be obtained.
I should despise myself if I were capable of occupying a po-
sition in public life with views so narrow and contracted as
not to see and be willing to administer to the wants of every
section of our ever-to-be cherished Union, with as free and
liberal a hand as I would to that where my own more imme-
diate interests were concerned. No ; sections of the country
have no influence over my mind in giving constructions tosec-
twns of the constitution.
As this letter is designed as an answer to the Committee as
well as yourself, you will be pleased to hand it over to them,
and oblige, very truly, yours, JNO. M. BOTTS.
S. Lisle Smith, Esq. and through him to the Committee.
Mr. CORWIN’S SPEECH TO THE CONVENTION.
Mr. Corwin said he would have been most happy could
he be excused from answering to the call which had brought
him before the audience. He complimented the reverend
gentleman who had preceded him, and united with his tribute
to the Purilans, one of whom he presumed the gentleman was
himself [A laugh.] As for himself, he thought it must be evi-
dent to every one who saw him, from a prima facie view, that
he could not be descended from the same stock. [Alaugh.] It
almost seemed as if he was brought forward directly after the
reverend gentleman, to produce a sort of discord by compari-
son. Yet, however much we may have been indebted to the
hardy and noble sons of New England for much that elevates
and ennobles the West, he would venture to say that, if any
one would enter the interior of Illinois and Iowa, he would
find many of the strong-aimed sons of Pennsylvania, many
from the good old State of Kentucky, and huge swarms
(turning to Mr. Allen) from Ohio.
Gentlemen had all heard of Ohio ; he resided there himself.
If they doubted the existence of such a place, and would put
him upon the stand, he would prove it to them ; yet there are
some in our wide world who have not a very clear idea of it.
He once met a Frenchman who complained bitterly of our
diplomats. He inquired what was the matter with them ?
Were they not dignified and gentlemanly in their deportment ?
Yes, but they spoke no language at all. What, not their
own mother vernacular ? No, they spoke a kind of patois,-
he believed they called it Ohio. [A laugh.]
He spoke of the involuntary impulse which had gathered
together from all parts of the Union men of the highest re-
spectability and most exalted worth. In this remark he meant
by no means to be egotistical. [A laugh.] They had here
united, forming a great Congress of the American People.
It is a far nobler patriotism than conquering distant nations
with your war-clad armies, thus to assemble to secure the
blessings of a free Government. There is no people under
the wide heaven who would have exhibited, as you have to-
day, so keen and true an estimate of this truth. This im-
pulse had moved men from every part of the land to this ga-
thering point.
Away from distant Massachusetts, from the city of the
merchant princes, the old Bay State has sent her sons.
And from the old colony of William Penn come represen-
tatives to this Congress of American People, without any per
diem allowance or mileage, to marry the good old drab city of
Philadelphia to the young city of Chicago.
And from distant Savannah comes one, to learn here whe-
ther our glorious Republic is destined to be composed of wide-
ly disjointed fragments, or whether it is to become and remain
united until the “ last syllable of recorded time.”
Was not this a noble Congress ? He had been for many
years a member of another Congress, but could he transplant
this one to the Tea Miles Square, he would gladly swap the
old one for it.
Congress has the power to regulate commerce between the
sevemI States. If you send a cargo of wheat from Chicago
to Buffalo, a distance of one thousand miles, crossing lake
alter lake, stretching away in their magnificent length, would
not one naturally think that this might be called commerce ?
Lut no ; that is a mistake, we are told. What is it, then, my
brother ? Why that is trade. [A laugh.] But if you send
the same cargo from New York to New Orleans, what is it
then ? Well, then it is commerce ! Why is it not in the
first instance as well as the last ? Oh, it is not on salt wa-
ter. [A laugh.]
He begged gentlemen would notice this nice distinction be-
commerce and trade. If we are engaged in business upon
saltwater, it is commerce,- if upon fresh water, then it is
trade. [A laugh.]
Such is the beautiful construction of that clause in the con-
stitution, as given to it in various parts of the Union. If you
are desirous of knowing the construction of that clause, recol-
lect you are not to ask the opinion of some able lawyer or
erudite statesman, but you must seek some distinguished che-
mist and have the water carefully analyzed to discover whe-
ther it is salt or fresh. [A laugh.]
It would be interesting to inquire what influence commerce
has had in producing the success of your own good city, and
in building up the abodes of civilization where but yesterday,
as it were, the wild savage rul ;d your prairie land. Without
commerce it would never have existed, and we should not be
assembled here to-day. Commerce and Christianity have
marched hand in hand the pioneers of the West. It is com-
merce that builds up and enlarges a nation. Countries are
prosperous, as an almost universal rule, exactly in the rela-
tive proportion of the seaboard to the inland extent of territo-
ry- Africa at this day is as dark and desolate as ever ; her
seaboard is only one square mile to nine hundred inland.
Even our New England, without commerce, notwithstanding
her stern and heroic sons, would have sooner become barbar- j
ous than what she now is.
He spoke of the future greatness of the country between |
the East and the Rocky Mountains ; it would at no distant day j
become the arbiter of the destinies of the Republic ; it would 1
make our Presidents and enact our laws. [Turning to Mr. j
Allen :] It is well, sir, that you have come among us to see
your future mas'ers. [A laugh.] Its right will be maintain-
ed : the ballot-box will secure us the same privileges accorded
to our brethren. I have never seen a disease in the body po-
litic that could not be cured by the ballot-box. Shall treasure
be poured out for the ocean mariner, and shall not a dollar be
given to remove impediments from our lakes and rivers ? No,
we do not believe this. The same indomitable energy that
brought our Pilgrim forefathers through the snows of winter
and the perils of the deep is fast bringing their descendants
thitherwards with their notions. [Alaugh.]
He need not argue more on this occasion. Every man
present had an opinion in accordance with his own. In this
Congress there would not be a dissenting voice.
Let us not, then, allow any discord to creep into our coun-
cils to mar the harmony of the present or jeopard the vast in-
terests of the future. Let the bugles of party have no sound
in this Convention. Let there be here no Whig, no Demo-
crat—nothing but Americans. Let us here form a new par-
ty, and let it be the boast of us all in future years that we aid-
ed harmoniously in urging on this great movement.
[Turning to Mr. Wentworth, the Representative in Congress
from this district, he continued :]
Gentlemen, when he and I can agree on any subject there
must be harmony. He had the pleasure to know that that
gentleman was warmly enlisted in favor of the objects of this
Convention. He might say he was latitudinous upon the
subject; perhaps this was owing to his longitude. He goes
the whole length. [A laugh. ]
If any of the empires on earth injure or assail us, we are
ready to arm ourselves to the teeth, and go forth to do battle;
to spend immense treasures, and draw upon all our resources;
but here on these lakes, and in our Western rivers, thousands
of lives are lost—more than have fallen in the Mexican war—
for want of a small appropriation. A single ship of the line,
destined to protect our foreign commerce, costs us more than
a million of dollars. That same gallant ship which bore the
name of his own State, Ohio, cost a million and a half of dollars.
Four of these ships have cost us more than has been expend-
ed for our Western harbors since the formation of our Gov-
ernment. Every gun that you would find on board these
ships costs you tourteen thousand dollars. Would it not be
better to take some of these fourteen thousands and improve
our harbors at Chicago, Milwaukie, and other places, or to
remove snags and sawyers from the Ohio and Mississippi ?
It is a curious fact that eighty-two per cent, of our revenues
have gone to supply our forts and our ships, leaving eighteen
per cent, to be invested in peace. He thought this state of
things had better be reversed. There is no fear that this coun-
try will be invaded. He did not think there was a country
in God’s creation which would invade a land that the Yankees
had already invaded.
He alluded also to the fact that these obstructions of the
lakes reacted to the great injury of the farmer as well as com-
mercial men. If the farmer raises more produce than he de-
sires to use himself, he wants a good market for the surplus.
If he cannot sell his produce to advantage, he is prevented
from giving good education to his sons and daughters, .who
are to be the future voters and the future mothers in the land.
Our Union ought to be so connected and consolidated that
all parts can be accessible to all. It should be bound together,
hooped round with railroads as with iron ribs. The true de-
finition of a commonwealth is that land where all parts are
equally accessible.
It is said that Thomas Jefferson violated the constitution to
acquire Louisiana, his design being to prevent what he feared
might take place—that the West in some future day would
seek to divide the Union, making the Alleghanies the separat-
ing line. If a railroad had then extended from East to West,
we should not have needed to acquire Louisiana for any such
reason. The sons of the Pilgrims will look out upon Asia,
and have commercial associations with her. If proper appro-
priations are not made to bind the growing West to the dis
tant East, their swarming Puritans will build up on the shore
of the Pacific an independent republic of the Anglo-Saxon
blood.
But this great work on which we are engaged will be ac-
complished. Since these same Puritans have take it in hand,
they will never rest nor sleep untd it is done.
He thanked God that he had the assurance in this vast and
intelligent assemblage that the hopes of the West are not to
be disappointed.
A LETTER FROM Hon. REVERDY JOHNSON.
FROM THE NEW YORK COURIER AND ENQUIRER.
We can hardly regret the misapprehension of a paragraph
in this paper, which has brought us the annexed straightfor-
ward manly letter from our friend, the distinguished Senator
from Maryland, Revekby Johnson :
Baltimore, July 20, 1847.
My Dear Sir ; In your article in yesterday’s Courier,
headed “Chicago Convention,” there ie a paragraph admit-
ting perhaps a meaning, which, although I am sure you did
not intend, I beg permission to say a word or two about in my
own justification.
It is when, in assigning your reasons for moving that Mr.
Corwin should be the President of the Convention, you say
that “he alone, of so many Senators invited, had deemed the
invitation one which, from sympathy with the great cause
and from respect to such a Convention, he felt himself bound
to accept.”
Now, sir, I was amongst the invited, and my fear is that I
may be considered to have been indifferent to the great object
which called the body together. It was, to be sure, not my
good fortune to be present, but I was alone prevented by pro-
fessional engagements from which I was not at liberty to es-
cape. If strong sympathy with the truly great cause, and
sincere respect for such a body, could have induced any Sen-
ator to accept his invitation, I should certainly have accepted
mine. There lives no citizen who feels a more solicitous in-
terest in the internal improvements of the country than I do,
nor one who holds a more clear and decided opinion that the
Constitution of the Union contains full and ample authority to
promote and extend them. Nor was there one who, on the
occasion of Mr. Polk’s former veto and of his subsequent
pocket veto, of the two last harbor bills, felt more chagrined
and mortified, not less for the character of our people than for
the prosperity of the country, that, in a misguided and un-
guarded moment, there should have been elevated to the Pre-
sidency a citizen who, in this particular at least, so little un-
derstands our true interests and so feebly comprehends his
constitutional duty.
A constitution which gives no power to render navigation
safe, or to extend it, by improving the channels through which
it may be pursued, could justly but be esteemed a miserable
abortion—a constitution which should in words limit such a
power to the ocean—to salt water rivers—to rivers already na-
vigable, and only so far as navigable—to the exclusion of our
great inland seas—our unrivallbd fresh water rivers, navi-
gable, or easily to be made navigable, would be upon its face
wretched and superlative nonsense.
A constitution which for purposes of commerce would give
the authority to build harbors and piers, locate buoys, construct
breakwaters, and erect lighthouses, and deny that of deepen-
ing rivers or removing obstructions in them, would be equally
ridiculous.
The Convention which formed our constitution were guilty
of no such egregious fallacy. The power they vested in Con-
gress is general and unlimited. They are authorized “to
regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the
several States.”
Commerce among the several States and commerce with
foreign nations is entrusted to them by one and the same terms,
and under one and the same power—the power to regu-
late IT.
From the beginning of the Government to the present time,
who has ever doubted that, under this authority to regulate
commerce with foreign nations, Congress has the power to
build harbors, piers, breakwaters, lighthouses, or to do any
and every thing which in their judgment is calculated to im-
prove, secure, and protect the foreign navigation of the coun-
try t And yet, although the object is the same, the necessity is
the same—even greater—the terms are the same and the pow-
er is the same, (they are to regidate commerce among the
States,) Congress are usurpers when they undertake by the
same means to improve, secure, and protect the inland navi-
gation of the country ! Moreover, when, in addition to this,
it is remembered, from the character and extent of the United
States; their vast internal seas; their majestic rivers; thematch
less fertility of country by which these are surrounded and
through which they run ; the unequalled and yet growing en-
terprise of our citizens, and their unparalleled increase ; that
the internal, already at least three times the value of the ex-
ternal commerce of the country, is sure to increase it in a much
greater proportion, the wonder with us is, that there has not
been one universal burst of indignation throughout the entire
extent of the land that such an interest, so vast, so momentous,
and so pervading, should be left wholly unprotected, and sub-
jected to the perils and the losses from which the comparative-
ly valueless foreign commerce of the country is guarded, and
that, too, by the wholly unjustifiable and tyrannous act of the
veto power.
It is no objection to the existence of the power that it may
be abused. What power vested in human hands is not abus-
ed ? If the possibility of abuse is to erase this power from
the constitution, what power does it contain which can stand ?
The provisions to establish a uniform rule of naturalization—
uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies—to establish post
offices and post roads—to declare war—to raise and support
armies—to provide and maintain a navy—to borrow money—
to levy and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, are all
liable to be abused, and some of them, in the judgment of
many good citizens, are now being greatly abused. But are
they on that account never to be executed ? Are they, there-
fore, unconstitutional ? The implied Executive power to re-
move from office—does not that exist, because it has, in mo-
dern times, been constantly and shamelessly abused ? Has
the motto of the political proclamation, the burning disgrace
of the land, that “ to the victors belong the spoils,” now be-
come the] motto of the Executive—constituting in itself the
most flagrant of all abuses, and deserving, in the judgment of
Mr. Madison in the purer days of the Government, impeach-
ment and conviction as a high misdemeanor—has that motto
and the practice under it rendered unconstitutional the power
of removal ? The veto power, is not that liable to abuse, and
has it not been abused } Has not its exercise in the case of the
harbor bills and the French spoliation bill given the answer ?
Has not its threatened exercise in the proposed Irish charity bill
of the last session—a bill as honorable to the character of the
nation as it was invoked by the dictates of an enlarged and
humane policy—given the answer ? The truth is, sir, that
the practical construction of the constitution by many of the
men in au hority, is to deny to Congress powers intimately
associated with the true interests and honor of the country,
and vested in it by terms of clear grant or by necessary im-
plication, regardless of past precedents, and the highest judi-
cial, legislative, and Executive authority, and to claim for the
Executive the most extensive, unnecessary, and dangerous
powers, often upon the slightest pretence, and against the
opinions of the founders of the Government. In a word, the
constitution, instead of being fairly construed so as to render
it capable of accomplishing its great end of promoting “the
general welfare,” is being practically administered, as if its
sole purpose was to increase ihe Executive power, to the dis-
paragement of the legislative and judicial—to convert it into
a Government of a party instead of a nation—into a mere in-
strument for the distribution of the public revenue of the coun-
try, amongst the public officers of the country, selected upon
party grounds, and for party purposes. If this downward and
destructive tendency is not arrested, who can tell how much
longer, in spite of the Government, the inherent energy and
virtue of the mass of the people can ensure *ur social and
political happiness ?
I think, however, and I rejoice in being able to think, that
the day is near at hand when we shall have restored to us the
constitution ars it was administered in its origin. If the signs
of the times are to be relied on,, the virtue and intelligence of
the people are again awakened, and, in opposition to all mere
party tactics and contrivances, an eminent citizen is about to
be called to preside over us whose fixed and steady virtue,
sound, natural sense, and sterling patriotism, not less than
his immortal achievements on the battle field, prove him emi-
nently worthy of the nation’s confidence and the nation’s
honor.
With such a man at our head the political atmosphere will
again become wholesome and pure—corruption and incompe-
tency in public officers must cease—peace, and an honorable
peace, be secured—the spirit which animated Washington’s
administration will be seen to prevail—the improvement of
the country, no longer arrested by Executive power, will be
onward—and our progress in commerce, inland as will as ex-
ternal, among the States, as well as with foreign nations, be
limited only by the resources of the country.
When such a condition of things shall be brought about,
the nation will wonder how they could so long have rested
under the afflictions with which imbecility and incompetency
in Executive rule have heretofore cursed it.
With sincere regard, your friend and servant,
REVERDY JOHNSON.
Charles King, Esq., New York.
PUNISHMENT OF CRIMES.
The following remarks on the interminable dis-
cussions of the subject of imprisonment and pun-
ishment of crimes are from the London Times :
“ The greater the variety of speakers the more extensive
the informa'ion ; the longer the official experience the more
vigorous the mind ; and the more lucid the order and style
the more evident became the result that this is a very hopeless
matter. The only consolation is that which rnay possibly
arise from the universal character of the problem. Our fellow
sufferers and fellow inquirers are the civilized people of all
ages and climes. The military code, and its more permanent
development into feudalism, cut the knot very easily, by treat-
ing all breakers of the law with as wild and summary a ven-
geance as if they were enemies in the field. Christianity has
ever struggled with imperfect success against this profanation
of justice. It has taught the sacredness of human life, the
worth of a single soul, the preference of reformation to pun-
ishment, and other ideas, which, after many centuries, are
now at last beginning to be acknowledged. But the more
civilized, the more humane, the more tender we become, the
greater is our difficulty. The delicacy of our moral percep-
tions is rewarded with an indefinite increase of embarrass-
ment. As the late Home Secretary showed in his remarkable
speech of Thursday night, there is no one manner of dealing
with offenders which is not becoming almost impossible, sim-
ply because the feelings of the country will not endure it.
The most inevitable result—nay, the mere fact of the punish-
ment, when seen in its full proportions, is so shocking as to
frustrate the purposes of justice, and procure sympathy and
even immunity for the offender.
“ To this fastidiousness there must be some limits. Pun-
ishment is a burden that must be borne, not only by the of-
fender, but also by that other party in the question, not en-
tirely without share in the guilt, viz. society itself. We have
no right to complain if the punishments inflicted by the State
recoil with disastrous effect upon the comfort, the credit, the
morality, and the resources of the country at large. Unfortu-
nately the State does not punish with clean hands ; it is partly
answerable for the crime. It might have prevented, at least
it might have done more than it has done. The law may be
righteous, the Legislature virtuous, the judge without preju-
dice or favor. Yet it cannot be assumed without a ridiculous
degree of presumption that the aggregate operation and in-
fluence of society is so sound and pure, as to clear it of blame.
Society, then, has no right to complain of the difficulty, or
rather the impossibiity, of punishing without a painful or an
injurious reaction upon itself. The parent must not expect to
punish a son and have done with him. There have been re-
cent cases, so numerous as to elicit the censure of magistrates,
in which it appeared that parents sought the imprisonment or
transportation of their children simply to be rid of them. This
was atrocious. But the State, the universal parent, and so-
ciety, the national brotherhood, commit the same error and in-
decency when they expect to be easily rid of offenders, and
spared further inconvenience from their crimes. Crime is not
so easily effaced. That decree which makes its consequences
eternal may also admonish us that even in this state of being
they shall not be short-lived. We cannot take the depraved
portion of society and bury it in a well, or surround it with
walls, or put it into a cage, and think no more about it. It will
still live to plague, and to vex us. We mistake, therefore,
our own true position, and grossly flatter our relations to the
offender, when, his sentence once pronounced, we claim an
immunity from further disquietude on his account. Some
form of annoyance we must still expect.”
Chinese Notions of English Carriages.—The two
elegant carriages made by Hatchett were objects of great ad-
miration. But it was a puzzling question for the Chinese to
decide which part was intended for the Emperor’s seat. The
neat and commodious seats with their cushions inside, with
the windows and the blinds, and every part within, were ele-
gantly fitted for the reception of none but the monarch. But
then a question arose who was to occupy the elevated position,
with its splendid hammer-cloth, edged with gdld and decorat-
ed with festoons of roses ? To determine the disputed point,
the old eunuch, who had a particular affection of the carriages,
applied to me, and when told the Emperor’s place was within,
and that the elevated seat was for the man that drove the
horses, with the usual ejaculation of surprise, hai ya ! he
asked me if I supposed the ta-whang-tee would suffer any man
to sit above him, and to turn his back upon him ? “That,”
he said, “ will never do,” and asked if the splendid coach-box
could not be substituted for the seat within the carriage or
placed behind it?—Sir John Barrow's Autobiography.
The Courrier des Etats Unis has commenced, in its week-
ly literary issue, the publication of Lamartine’s “ History
of the Girondins,” a book which has acquired great popula-
rity in Europe, and which, although comprising eight volumes
in the French edition, will be published by the Courrier in
two, and at the low price of $3. An acquaintance with the
French language has become an indispensable part of a good
education, and we know of no more agreeable or more pro-
fitable mode of acquiring it than by reading the works of the
modern French writers of genius. Lamartine’s book will
therefore be peculiarly useful to the student, and a valuable
addition to every library. It may be procured through the
mail by sending the price of subscription to the Editor of the
Courrier des Etats Unis, New York.—Richmond. Times.
A Capital Joke.—The Lord Chancellor of Ireland,
having made an appointment to visit the Dublin Insane Asy-
lum, repaired thither in the absence of the chief manager, and
was admitted by one of the keepers, who was waiting to re-
ceive a patient answering the appearance of Sir Edward. He
appeared to be very talkative, but the attendants humored him
and answered all his questions. He asked if the Surgeon
General had arrived, and the keeper answered him that he
had not yet come, but that he would be there immediately.
“Well,” said he, “I will inspect some of the rooms until
he arrives.”
“ Oh, no,” said the keeper, “ we could not permit that at
all.”
“ Then I will walk for a while in the garden,” said his lord-
ship, “ while I am waiting for him.”
“ We cannot let you go there either, sir,” said the keeper.
“What !” said he, “don’t you know that 1 am the Lord
Chancellor ?”
“ Sir,” said the keeper, “ we have four more Lord Chancel-
lors here already. ”
He got in a great fury and thty were beginning to think of
the strait waistcoat for him, when, fortunately, the Surgeon
General arrived.
“ Has the Chancellor arrived yet ?” asked he.
The man burst out laughing at him, and said, “ Yes, sir, we
have him safe ; but he is far the most outrageous patient we
have.”
Mr. O’Connell told this anecdote in Dublin, at a public
meeting.
COTTON MANUFACTURES.
It is said that some of our energetic citizens are taking ac-
tive measures for the establishment among us of the proper
apparatus for the Manufacture of Cotton. I rejoice to hear
this, and trust that it will be no idle, spasmodic, and fruitless
effort, but one which may result in permanent good to oui\
city. If the plan be devised with prudence and carried out
with efficiency, nothing can tend more to promote the interests
of the various classes of our population than this. The wealth
and prosperity of a community—among us, at least—arise not
by a transmission of these gifts from an opulent ancestry, but
come as the results of continuous and well-directed industry ;
and they are the best friends of the poor who provide them
regular labor and certain though even moderate wages. If men
can find employment, and be paid for their labor, they need
not covet riches ; they have the best wealth, the truest inde-
pendence.
Let Manufactories be established here that shall employ
many hands, and they will scatter abroad blessings that shall
cheer the drooping spirits of thousands The people of both
sexes need this means of earning their bread. It is not the
rich that will profit by Factories so much as the poor. The
money of the capitalist may and I hope will be increased, but
that is not the great object to be attained. Manufactures are,
in this country at least, like the Christian faith, a blessing to
the poor. It Is so wherever they are established and main-
tained—at the North and the South, at the East and the
West. If we look at the Laurel Factory, the example near-
est to us, we see what a flood of light one little gem can throw
upon the surrounding darkness. There, in the midst of bar-
ren acres of sterile land, a Factory arose : the hum of indus-
try was heard, a village was gathered, the walls of the village
church and village school were upreared; and now where,
upon the broad leagues which own the sway of that sovereign
State of Maryland, can the eye rest upon a more smiling scene
than greets it from the tower of that same church t
Our citizens owe it to themselves to foster and carry for-
ward this enterprise : it must be successful. I do not urge it
because it will give good dividends to the stockholders, though
that will be its effect, but because it will bring money and
subsistence to those who in every community are its most
numerous class, the poor. By this 1 mean those who are
not exempt by their circumstances from the necessity of daily
labor. H.
A Quaker Marriage —The Leed’s Mercury gives an
account of the solemnization of the marriage of John Bright,
a member of Parliament, with Miss Leatkam, at the Friends
meeting-house in Wakefield, in presence of a large number of
the inhabitants of the town and neighborhood, including a
large delegation from the fair sex, and many of Mr. Bright’s
political friends. The following is the description of the mar-
riage ceremony :
“ Within a few minutes of half-past 10 o’clock the wedding
party arrived, and immediately took the seats apportioned to
them. The whole company sat for about three quarters of an
hour in perfect silence, when Mr. Bright arose, and, taking the
right hand of Miss Leatham, pronounced in a low but distinct
voice the following words : ‘ Friends, I take my friend, Margaret
Elizabeth Leatham, to be my wife, and promise by Divine as-
sistance to be unto her a loving and faithful husband until it
shall please God to part us by death.” While still holding
hands, Miss Leatham pronounced the same words, substituting
John Bright for her own name, in a low but tremulous voice.
After which another pause of some minutes occurred, when
one of the congregation offered up a short prayer, the whole
assembly standing. After some minutes had again elapsed,
Mr. George Bennington read the certificate, or declaration,
which was signed by the bride and bridegroom, and their re-
lations and friends, and afterwards by a large number of the
congregation.”
A child of Mr. Charles Chapman, of Danbury, Connecticut,
was poisoned on the 5th instant by putting a visiting card in
its mouth which its mother had given it to play with. It died
in forty-eight hours after. An analysis of the card showed
that the enamel or coating was composed of carbonate of lead.
Death by Lightning.—The storm of Thursday passed
over Danbury, (Conn ) and Mr. Willard Taylor, recently
from South America, and who was on a visit to his mother,
standing in the door of her house, was struck by the light-
ning and instantly killed. The lightning killed 7 cattle at
Oxford, (Conn.) on Tuesday last.
TYTOT1CE TO BREEDERS OB' BTNE SHEEP.
JNl Public sale of 12 head of Oxfordshire Bucks.—The
subscriber offers at public sale on Wednesday, the 1st Sep-
tember next, at bis farm, Marsh Mount, near Delaware city,
Newcastle county, Delaware, 12 fine long woolled shearling
Bucks ; the get of his imported Oxfordshire Bucks, selected
by himself out of the best flock in England in 1845, and out
of his best Leicester ewes. They will be numbered and sold
by auction, without reserve, to the highest and best bidder.
The sale to commence at 2 o’clock P. M. Terms cash.
The subscriber will be pleased to see any gentleman who
will favor him with his company,
july 24—lawts C. B. REYBOLD.
BROWN’S HOTEL.
rpHE UNDERSIGNED (sons of the late proprietor,
I Jesse Brown) have the satisfaction of informing their
friends and the public generally, that the Hotel so long and fa-
vorably known as Rrocvn’s Indian Queen Hotel, Washington,
has, by an arrangement among the heirs, come into the full
possession of the undersigned, as sole owners, and that they
alone will hereafter conduct this extensive and commodious es-
tablishment. They pledge themselvesto use every exertion to
uphold the high reputation and retain the large business which
it has heretofore possessed ; and they earnestly hope, by the
improvements in the buildings and the renovation of furniture
about to be made, together with a strict and unremitting atten-
tion to the comfort of their guests, to merit and receive the
usual large share of public patronage with which it has so long
been honored. T. P. BROWN,
MARSHALL BROWN.
Washington, July 9,1847. july 14—eolmif
35“ Union, Baltimore Sun, New York Herald, and New
Orleans Picayune, every other day for one month.
,4 CARD.—Mrs R. S. MEADE announces to her triends
f\ that, in consequence of the successful experiment of
past years, she is induced to offer accommodation to a few
families or individuals who may be disposed to spend a por-
tion of the summer in the country. She is prepared to receive
company to the number of twelve or fifteen, at Lucky Hit,
Clarke county, Virginia.
Terms : $4 per week for adults, and half that price for ser-
vants and children.
No situation in the country is more salubrious, nor is a more
polished and sociable community to be found than in the
neighborhood of Lucky Hit. Many places of worship, be-
longing to different denominations of Christians, are conveni-
ently located in this vicinity, and other inducements could be
mentioned to those who desire to spend a pleasant month or
so in an agreeable way.
Those who wish to engage rooms (which are spacious and
airy) will much oblige Mrs. Meade by addressing her through
the post office at White Post, Clarke county, Ya.
July 22—3t
A SALARY of Nine Hundred Dollars per annum
r\ will be paid to a competent person who will employ two
female assistants and take charge of the Berlin Female Semi-
nary, to teach and cause to be taught the elementary and high-
er branches of female education, with music on the piano.
Fifty scholars in all, twelve of which number to be taught
music on the piano. Should the pupils exceed the above num-
bers an additional price will be paid in proportion to the above.
Berlin is a healthy village. By order of the Board.
JOHN R. PITTS,
july 8—eollif Berlin, Worcester coupty, Md.
TN VALUABLE FAMILY COMPANION.—SIX
X LECTURES on the USES OF THE LUNGS ; causes,
prevention, and cure of consumption ; asthma, and diseases of
the heart; on the laws of longevity, and mode of preserving
male and female health, symmetry, and beauty ; exposing
causes and cure of those diseases that produce-consumption or
shorten life, as affections of the skin, spine, stomach, bowels,
kidneys, liver, scrofula, piles, gravel, and female complaints.
Its rules—easy, practical, and pure—form a guide to perfect
health and long life. 28 engravings, 324 pages. 50 cents.
Postage 94 cents. By Samuel Sheldon Fitch, A.M., M.D.,
at 707 Broadway, New York.
Any person remitting fifty cents, free, will receive one copy
by mail, to any part. The trade supplied. ian 18—wlycif
LAND FOR SALE in Fairfax County, Virgina.
TT'HE subscriber offers for sale 530 acres (more or less) of
8 valuable Land in the above county, lying its entire length
on a main county road leading from Fairfax Courthouse to the
Falls Church, and thence to the Middle turnpike road, (paved,)
which leads direct to Alexandria. The land is in two tracts,
equally divided by an improved farm, (of same size,) distant
from Alexandria fourteen miles, Georgetown about ten miles,
city of Washington twelve miles, and lies four miles east of
Fairfax Courthouse, and three miles west of the Falls Church.
It is well watered by springs and never-failing streams ; has
an abundant supply of wood and timber. Northern farmers
are constantly taking up lands ire the vicinity, and under theii
management becoming every year more valuable. The tracts
will be sold separately or together.
The terms of payment will be made agreeable to purchasers.
Apply to THOS. R. LOYE, Fairfax C H
Or to EDWARD PITTMAN, Baltimore, Md.
july 12—diw&law3w
T1TANTED, l(K)Cords of PERSIMMON WOOD,
T V suitable for last blocks, to be delivered in Baltimore or
Havre de Grace, lor which the highest cash price will be given
by the subscriber. For further particulars apply to
H. C. LOCHER,
ap 17—2awcpSm Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
TIMBER FOR THE NAVY.
Na y Department,
Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repair,
July 26, 1847.
QEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed “ Proposals for Tim-
O her,” will be received at this Bureau until 3 o’clock P.
M. of the 25th proximo, for furnishing and delivering, at the
several Navy Yards hereinafter mentioned, folio wing the quanti-
ties and descriptions of timber, as designated for each parti-
cular yard, respectively.
Contractors may del ver as soon as suits their convenience ;
but at least one-half the quantity of each article or kind of
timber must be delivered by the contractor for the same on or
before the last day of March, 1848, and the balance on or be-
fore the last day of July, 1848.
The offers must be separate and distinct for each navy yard,
and embrace the whole quantity of each particular article re-
quired at any one yard. The cost of the quantity of the seve-
ral kinds of timber must be carried out, amt the aggregate
amount of each kind made up by the person offering.
All the timber and lumber must be of the very best quality.
The oak and pine timber must have been felled between the
1st of October and the 1st of March following. The pine
timber must be of the best quality of long-leaf, fine-grain
southern yellow pine, and both pine and oak be free from
heart or wind-shakes, bad knots, short crooks, and other de-
fects ; and every artic e subject to the usual inspection and
measurement, and be of a quality to the entire satisfaction of
the commandants of the respective yards where the deliveries
are made.
Persons offering are desired to offer for no more than they
are sure of being able to deliver within the times above speci-
fied, as no extension of time for deliveries will, under any cir-
cumstances, be granted ; and forfeitures will be rigidly en-
forced.
The Department reserves to itself the right to reject offers
by persons who have heretofore failed to fulfil contracts, or to
enter into contract after their offers had been accepted, if it
should be deemed advisable for the public interest.
Ever\ offer must be accompanied with a written guaranty,
signed by one or more responsible persons, to the effect that
the bidder or bidders will, if his or their offer be accepted,
enter into contract and bonds within five days after being no-
tified of such acceptance, with good and sufficient sureties, to
furnish the articles proposed, agreeably to this advertisement.
And no proposal will be considered unless accompanied with
such guaranty.
A bond, with two approved sureties, will be required ; and
ten per cent, in addition will be .withheld from the amount of
each payment to be made, as collateral security for the due
and faithful performance of the contract. The balance, or
ninety per cent., will be paid by the United States within
thirty days after presentation to the Navy Agent of bills in
triplicate, duly approved by the commandant of the yard
where the deliveries are made.
AT THE NAVY YARD AT CHARLESTOWN, MAS-
SACHUSETTS.
2.000 cubic feet white oak, butt pieces, from 12 to 25 feet
long, and from 15 to 19 inches diameter at the small
end, clear of the bark, (per cubic foot.)
300 cubic leet white oak, butt pieces, from 10 to 15 feet
long, and from 10 to 15 inches diameter in the mid-
dle, clear of the bark, (per cubic foot.)
500 cubic feet white oak, butt pieces, from 14 to 30 feet
long, and not less than 18 inches diameter at the top
end, (per cubic foot.)
200 white oak boat knees, arms not less than 4 inches di-
ameter, clear of the bark, the bodies and arm to ave-
rage 32 inches long, and one-third of the whole num-
ber to be square knees, (each knee.)
250 cubic feet rock msple timber, 16 to 18 inches diame-
ter, (per cubic foot.)
2 cords hickory butts, 6 to 10 feet long, 8 to 12 inches di-
ameter, (per cord.)
AT THE NAVY YARD AT BROOKLYN, N EW YORK.
3 yellow pine sticks, spar timber, 50 leet long, 16 inches
parallel
3 yellow pine sticks, spar timber, 45 feet long, 15 inches
parallel
4 yellow pine sticks, spar timber, 73 feet Iona-, 25 inches
I from butt
4 yellow pine sticks, spar timber, 65 feet long, 23 inches
I from butt
4 yellow pine sticks, spar timber, 52 feet long, 19 inches
4 from cutt
4 yellow pine sticks, spar timber, 4S feet long, 18 inches
4 from butt
2 yellow pine sticks, spar timber, 54 feet long, 16 inches
4 from butt
4 yellow pine sticks, spar timber, 72 feet long, 22 inches
parallel
4 yellow pine sticks, spar timber, 65 feet long, 22 inches
parallel.
These pieces having the dimensions marked at “ 4 from
butt,” are for yards, and must be the same at the butt, and
lined full towards the end, which can be tapered off—the large
pieces to 14 inches, and the smallest to 11 inches.
20,000 cubic feet Eastern white oak plank stocks, ,cut within
60 miles of the sea coast—length not less than 35
feet, averaging 45 feet—one-half to square 14 inches,
and one-half to square 12 inches at the top end of the
stick
10 pieces locust timber, 7 feet long, to square 10 by 12
inches
450 cubic feet Long Island locust, to average 12 inches di-
ameter, not less than 10 inches ♦
1 piece African mahogany, 7 feet long, to square 28 by
28 inches
1 piece African mahogany, 10J feet long, to square 28 by
30 inches
1 piece African mahogany, 10 feet long, to square 26 by
28 inches
25 spruce spars, 55 to 60 feet long, of proportionate size
25 do do 45 to 50 do do do do
1.000 inches of spruce spars, 64 to 94 inches
2.000 inches of white oak boat knees
20 rough hickory bars, 12 feet long, to square 4 feet, above
the butt 44 by 44 inches
20 rough hickory bars, 14 feet long, to square 5 feet, above
the butt 5 by 5 inches
400 rough-split hickory bars, 5| feet long, to square 34
inches at the butt
1 ton each lignumvitse, 8, 74, 7, 64, 54, and 5 inches
2 do do 44 and 4 inches
20 sticks of yellow pine timber, 45 to 50 feet long, to
square 134 to 14 inches.
AT THE NAVY YARD, PHILADELPHIA.
White Oak Plank.
74 inch plank, 74,000 superficial or board measure
64
do
13,000
do
6
do
213,000
do
54
do
31,000
do
5.
do
122,000
do
44
do
20,000
do
4
do
15,000
do
34
do
10,000
do
rUHEORY AND PRACTICE OB' TEACHING, or
8 the Motives and Methods of good School-keeping; by
David P. Page, A.M., Principal of the State Normal School,
Albany, New York. Just published and for sale at the Book-
store of R. FARNHAM,
may 24 corner of 11th street and Penn, avenue.
498,000 feet board measure.
The above plank to be of the best young white oak, from
40 to 50 feet in length, and to average 44 feet, from 10 to 124
inches wide at the top end, and from 12 to 15 inches wide at the
butt—all clear ot the wane edge, sawed fair and full to the
thickness; to be tree from heart, cross grain, twist, shakes,
large knots, holes, and all other defects that would injure
them as ship plank, for which they will be used. The timber
must have grown near to, and not exceeding 60 miles from,
the salt water. About one-fifth may have a regu'ar and fair
curve, but no short or sudden crooks will be received.
The dimensions above given are those by which the plank
will be received, and no sap will be allowed in the measure-
ment.
82.000 feet, inch or board measure of 74 inch white oak
plank, of the same quality in all respects as that above men-
tioned, to be from 40 19 50 feet in length, averaging 14 feet,
in width 18 inches, clear of sap, all to be straight, sawed fair
and full to the thickness, free from heart, shakes, and defects,
above mentioned, that would injure them as kelsons, for
which they will be used
The dimensions given are those by which they will be mea-
sured and received.
White oak plank slock.
20.000 cubic feet of white oak plank stock, to be of the
best young timber grown near to, and not exceeding sixty miles
from, salt water. - In length from 40 to 52 feet, averaging 44
feet. Rough hewed, according to the growth of the tree,
from 11 to 134 inches at the top end, and from 14 to 22 inches
at the butt, exclusive ot a tongue-piece of from 4 to 6 inches ;
to take out the heart shakes at the butt, when necessary ; for
which the contractor will be paid. One inch sapon each cor-
ner is included in the sizes given. About one-third the short-
est logs may be from 134 to 17 inches at the top end ; the butts
being as the other logs. About one-fourth may have a regular
and fair curve, but no short or sudden crooks will be received;
and the whole must be Iree irom cross grain or twist, large
knots, holes, and other defects.
The dimensions given are those by which the timber will be
measured and received.
Yellow pine plank stock.
32.000 cubic feet of long-leaf or fine-grain yellow pine that
has not been tapped ; to be rough-hewed according to the
growth ol the tree, so that the heart-wood sha 1 show on the
facg 7-10ths ol the diameter ; to be from42 to 60 feet in length,
and no top end to be less than 14 inches in the 46 feet logs and
under ; those over that length must not be less than 12 inches
diameter when rough-hewed, clear of axe-marks ; the whole
to be free from ring-shakes, cross-grain, twist, and other
defects.
There must be six pieces in the above amount that will work
straight 53 feet long, 22 inches by 16 inches ; also six pieces
that will work 40 feet long, 22 inches by 16 inches, with not
more than 1 inch sap on each corner.
AT THE NAVY-YARD, GOSPORT, YA.
By the cubic foot.
76.000 cubic feet white oak stocks, to be got straight the
siding way, and rough squared, the wane on them not to ex-
ceed one-fourth ol the width of the face of the side as squared;
one-half to square not Lss than 12 inchesat the small end, and
clear of wane, and one-halt to square not less than 14 inches at
the small end, and clear ot wane.
White oak timber.—By the cubic foot.
No. 1. Ten pieces of No. 1 to be ten feet in length, to have
from 12 to 24 inches spring, to side not less than 12 inches,
and to mould not less than 12 inches at the small end.
No. 2. Ten pieces ot No. 2 to be 14 teet in length, to have
from 18 to 24 inches spring, to side not fessthan 12 inches, and
to mould not less than 12 inches at the small end.
No. 3. Ten pieces of No. 3 to be 16 feet in length, to have
from 24 to 30 inches spring, to side not less than 12 inches,
and to mould not less than 12 inches at the small end.
No. 4. Ten pieces of No. 4 to be 18 feet in length, to have
from 24 to 48 inches spring, to side not less than 12 inches,
and to mould not less than 12 inches at the small end.
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No. 5. Ten pieces of No. 5 to be 14 feet in length, to have
from 20 to 30 inches spring, to side not less than 12 inches, and
to mould not less than 12 inches at the small end.
The above fifty pieces are to be of the best white oak, clear
of splits, rot, bad knots, and other det cts. Diagrams of the
above will be furnished the contractor by the commandant of
the navy yard.
Locust Timber.—By the cubic foot.
Fifty pieces of the very best yellow locust timber, clear of
knots, rots, splits, and stains.
Ten pieces, each 8 feet in length, to square at small end 14
inches.
Twenty pieces, each 7 feet in length, to square at small end
13 inches
Twenty pieces, each 6 feet in length, to square at small end
12 inches.
Yellow Pine Timber—By the cubic foot.
20,000 cubic feet yellow pine plank stocks; to be got straight
the siding way, and rough-squared ; to be of the best southern
yellow pine, of fine grain to the centre of the pieces, as per
samples, which can be seen on application to the navy yard.
The stocks are not to have more sap than one-eighth of the
breadths of the /ace from each corner ; one-half to square not
less than 12 inches at the small end, clear of sap, and one-half
to square not less than 14 inches at the small end, clear of sap ;
to be clear of heart or wind-shakes, bad knots, and all other
defects.
Seventy-eight pieces of fine grain southern yellow pine of
the following dimensions ; to be tree from all defects, such as
knots, shakes, and rot; not to have more sap than one-eighth of
the breadth of the face from each corner, and to be got straight.
By the cubic foot.
N
Spruce Spars.—By the inch.
50 spruce spars, 9 inches diameter
60 do 8 do
70 do 7 do
90 do 6 do
100 do 5 do
The abovfe spruce spars must average not less than five feet
in length for one inch of the diameters, and are to be straight.
By the piece.
100 spruce poles, not less than 20 feet in length, 4 inches
diameter, and straight.
150 spruce poles, not less than 16 feet in length, from 2 to
4 inches diameter, and straight. The whole ol the spruce
to be fresh, with the bark on.
The following papers will publish the foregoing twice a week
for four weeks, prior to the time above specified : Union and
National Intelligencer, Washington; Eastern Argus, Portland,
and Age, Augusta, Maine ; New' Hampshire Patriot, Concord,
New Hampshire ; Morning Post and Daily Times, Boston ;
Journal ot Commerce, Globe, Evening Post, New York ; Penn-
sylvanian and Public Ledger, Philadelphia ; Chronicle and
Old Dominion, Portsmouth, Ya. ; Beacon, Norfolk, Ya.
july 29—2aw4w
E W MUS I C —WM. FISCHER, Stationers’ HalL
Pennsylvania avenue, has this day received the follow-
ing New Music, together with many other new pieces, which
will be sold at a reduced price :
Tell me that you love me, song, by Charles H. Grander ;
The Sailor Boy, song, by Gibsone; Sweet is the smile of my
Mary, song, by G. Barker ; Nuptial Song, music by De Vla-
ming ; Oh, think not my spirits are always as light, by P.
Strong ; Dermot Asthore, reply to Kathleen Mavourneen, by
Crouch ; Oh, were I a bird, music by “A Lady ;” Hindoo
Mother ; Death of Major Kinggold, song, by G.W. Minnick;
Yesterday, a ballad, music by J. Bloekley ; It is the chime,
the hour draws near, music by Hart ; I miss thee, my mother,
music by Charles W. Glover ; Gipsey Girl’s Song, composed
by Stephen Glover ; Old Granite State, quartette, Hutchinson
Family ; Mahon Waltz, composed by Grafulla ; Saratoga
Lake Waltz, composed by T. C. Grambe ; Linden Waltz,
composed by Czerney ; Ostrich Feather Quickstep, by E. L.
White; Washington National Blues’ Quickstep, by Crosby, of
the “ Harmoneons;” Fantasia Elegante sur l’Opera I Lom-
bardi, par Rosellen; Beauties of Belisano, by Donizetti ;
Fantasie Brillahte sur l’Opera Somnambula, Hunten ; Fanta-
sie Brillante sur l’Opera I Puritana. july 29
I MB’TY BUSHELSPKlMESEEl) BUCKWHEAT
_|_ this day received and for sale by
FITZI1UGH COYLE,
General Commission and Agricultural Warehouse,
near the corner of 8th street and Pennsylvania avenue,
july 29—It
T UST RECEIVED, LACES, EMBROIDERIES,
&c—515 per cent made by calling at the New York
Cheap Lace Store, under the awning between 10th and 11th
streets, Pennsylvania avenue, and supplying yourselves with.
Laces, Edgings, Cap Ribands
Lace Nets, Silk and Lisle Illusion
■ Open-worked Stockings, Ruches
Swiss and Tarleton Muslins
French Worked Chemisets and Collars
Mourning Collars, Under Sleeves
Lace Capes, Dress Caps, Pins, Hooks and Eyes
Every variety of articles in my line, cheaper than any store
this side of New York. H. N. ROBY.
P. S. Fringes made to order, and warranted to match co-
lors. july 29—3t
TTlOR SALE.—The subscriber wishes to sell or exchange
I ’ for property in the city of Washington one hundred and
sixty acres of land in the county of Tishimingo, and State ot
Mississippi, to wit:
Southeast quarter, section 21, township 1, range 7 east.
The taxes have been paid to December 31, 1846, and amount
to$120 per annum, to wit: County tax $60, State tax $60.
The title is derived from the Government and is perfect.
ALSO FOR RENT, a neat and convenient two-story brick
house, with a basement and kitchen, a pantry in the rear, and
a good well of water in the yard, with an iron pump in it.
Said house has six rooms, besides two garret rooms, with
dormer windows, and is a desirable residence lor a small
family. It is on the north side of G street, between 12th and
13th streets. Apply to J. E. DOW,
july 28— G street, between 14th and 15th streets.
4 VALUABLE FARM IN LOUDOUN COUNTY
J\_ for sale at public Auction.—On Monday, (Court day,)
the 9th of August next, the subscriber will offer for sale, at
the Courthouse door, in Leesburg, at 11 o’clock A.M., that
valuable and well-known farm, formerly owned by J. L. Mc-
Kenna, Esq., and now in the tenancy of Mr. Alexander Mc-
Farland, containing 3314 acres, and bounded as follows, viz.
on the east by Broad Run, on the south by Kilgore’s mill road,
on the west by Col. Charles Taylor’s land, and on the north
by that of D. G. Smith, Esq.
It is a short distance from the Turnpike and Broad Run
bridge, near to the Potomac canal, nine miles below Lees-
burg, and twenty four west of Georgetown. This farm has
been much improved, and, from its fertility, abundance of
fruit in ordinary seasons, uncommon healthiness, and many
other advantages, offers a strong inducement to purchasers.
Possession will be given for the fall seeding ; and one hun-
dred acres it is said may be easily put in in land well adapted
to fall grain ; and, if required, full possession will be surren-
dered by the 1st of September next.
The terms of sale are: One-fifth of the purchase money to
be paid in hand, and the balance in one, two, and three years,
the purchaser giving his bonds, bearing interest, with securi-
ty, for the deferred payments. A satisfactory title will of
course be made to him, and a deed of trust on the farm be re-
quired to secure the payment of his bonds.
RICHARD SMITH, for himself,
And as Executor of the late Gen. Walter Smith.
An arrangement might be made, to suit the convenience of
the purchaser, to have the cash payment, made within sixty
days from the day of sale. R- S.
july 26—eodif
S'l ALVANISM versus DISEASE.—Dr._ MASSEY,
\JT having been repeatedly solicited to visit Washington,
announces that he is here, and may be found for a few days at
his rooms, on Missouri avenue, (Mrs. Latruitte’s,) between
44 and 6th stre' ts, daily, lrom 10 o’clrck A. M. to 6 P. M.,
where he will treat Neryous Diseases in all their variety ;
Spinal Affectiors, including Distortions and Curvatures;
Rheumatism, Acute and Chronic Deafness, Blindness,
Paralysis, Asthma, B 0 .chitis, Dyspeps a, Neuralgia, Con-
tractions and swe'dii gs of the joints and limbs, Erysipelas, &c.
N. B. Dr. M.’s treatment is mild, so that the most nervous
and timid need not entertain fearful apprehensions, whil-t
their own experience may very soon attest its efficacy in re-
storing them to health and vigor. july 22—d6tif
TTERY HANDSOME SILVER SET at Private
\ Sale.—I have for private sale a very handsome Silver
Set, consisting of the following pieces :
1 Coffee Pot, 1 Tea Pot, Sugar and Cream Dish
6 Silver Tumlilers, Table and Salt Spoons, Ladle, &e.
They will be sold low if immediate application be made.
R. W. DYER,
july 26—eo3tif [Union] Auct. and Com. Merchant.
On Saturday, July 31,
ALEXANDRIA LOTTERY, Class 44.
1 prize of.
1 co
1 do
1 do
1 do
5 do
SPLENDID SCHEME.
5 prizes of •. • • • -$1,250
75 do......-.1,000
75 lowest 3 Nos.... .500
128 do....... ..200
128 do...........100
&e. &c. &c.
.$40,000
..15,000
... 8,000
...6,000
.. .4,150
.1,500 ]
Tickets $10—Halves $5— Quarters $2.50.
Tickets and shares for sale by J- Ik C. MAURY,
Agents for Managers,
Next door east of National Hotel, Washington,
july 46—d&ciftd
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