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yeas and nays were taken on the motion, and it was lost:
Yeas 56, nays 113.
The question was then taken by yeas and nays on the mo-
tion that the bill be laid on the table, and decided as follows :
YEAS—Messsrs. Abbott, Anderson, Arnold, Ashmun, Bar-
ringer, Bell, James Black, Blanchard, Brodhead, Milton
Brown, Buffington, William W. Campbell, John H. Campbell,
Carroll, John G. Chapman, Chipman, Cocke, Cranston, Cro-
zier, Culver, Garrett Davis, DeMott, Dockery, Dunlap, Eds-
all, Ellsworth, Erdman, John H. Ewing, Edwin H. Ewing,
Foot, Goodyear, Gordon, Graham, Grider, Grinnell, Gro-
ver, Hamlin, Hampton, Harper, Elias B. Holmes, Hough,
John W. Houston, Samuel 1). Hubbard, Hudson, Hunger-
ford, Washington Hunt, Charles J. Ingersoll, Joseph R. In-
gersoll, Jenkins, James H. Johnson, Joseph Johnson, Daniel
P. King, Preston King, Leib, Lewis, Levin, Long, McClean,
McCrate, McHenry, Mcllvaine, Marsh, Miller, Moseley,
M out Ion, Niven, Norris, Pendleton, Pollock, Ramsay, Rath-
bun, Ritter, J. Rockwell, J. A. Rockwell, Root, Runk, Saw -
telle, Scammon, Schenck, Seaman, Severance, Truman Smith,
Albert Smith, Stephens, Stewart, Strohm, Strong, Sykes,
Thibodeaux, Thomasson, Benjamin Thompson, Jas. Thomp-
son, Tilden, Toombs, Trumbo, Vinton, Wheaton, White,
Williams, Wilmot, Winthrop, Wood, Wright, Young—104.
NAYS—Messrs! Stephen Adams, Atkmson, Bedinger,
Biggs, James A. Black, Bowlin, Boyd, Brinkerhoff, Burt,
Cathcart, Reuben Chapman, Chase, Clarke, Cobb, Collin,
Cullom, Cummins, Cunningham, Daniel, Dobbin, Douglass,
Dromgoole, Karan, Ficklin, Garvin, Haralson, Harmanson,
Henley, Hoge, Isaac E. Holmes, G. S. Houston, E. W. Hit-
bard, Hunter, Andrew Johnson, George W. Jones, Seaborn
Jones, Leake, La Sere, Ligon, Lumpkin, Maelay, McClel-
land, McClernand, McConnell, Joseph J. McDowell, James
McDowell, McGaughey, McKay, John P. Martin, Barclay
Martin, Morris, Morse, Owen, Parish, Payne, Perry, Pet-
tit, Phelps, Pilsbury, Reid, Relte, Rhett, Roberts, Sawyer,
Seddon, Alex. D. Sims, Leonard H. Sims, Simpson, Thomas
Smith, Caleb B. Smith, Stanton, Starkweather, Jacob Thomp-
son, Thurman, Tibbatts, Towns, Wentworth, Wick, Wood-
ward—79.
And so the hill was laid on the table. There is no inten-
tion of taking it up again ; in other words it is dead.
The House proceeded to the reconsideration of its amend-
ment to the Senate bill to provide for the payment of certain
evidences of public debt, (stolen Treasury notes in the hands
of third or innocent parties.)
To this amendment the Senate have disagreed.
Mr. JOSEPH R. INGERSOLL fully explained the origi-
nal bill of the Senate and the amendment (substitute) of this
House, in which he showed the great superiority and advan-
tages of the amendment of the House. Mr. I. moved that
House insist on its amendment.
After remarks from Messrs. PETTIT, McKAY, FARAN,
COBB, and DROMGOOLE—
Mr. D. moved that the House recede from its amendment.
This took precedence of the motion to insist.
The Senate having disagreed to the amendment of the
House to the bill granting a pension of $24 a year to old
Richard Elliot, of the city of Washington, a brave old Revo-
lutionary soldier, whereby that small amount was reduced to
$20, and several years of arrears was taken from him, asked
a conference on the amendment.
The House agreed to the confeience, and appointed Messrs.
Bhodhead, Ashuux, and Tibbatts managers on its part.
Mr. MORRIS, of Ohio, asked that the motion made by him
to reconsider the vote laying on the table the resolution pro-
posing an inquiry into the propriety of amending sundry laws
in force in the District of Columbia, so as to ameliorate the
condition of the people of said District, might be taken up.
Mr. M. also gave notice that, if his motion to reconsider
prevailed, he would make a modification of .his resolution so
as to propose the adoption for said District of the laws of the
State of Maryland as now in force in that State.
The House refused to take up the subject.
SUBTREASURY.*
Mr. DROMGOOLE, from the Committee of Ways and
Means, to which was referred the amendments of the Senate
to the bill to provide for the better organization of the Trea-
sury, and for the collection, safe keeping, transfer, and dis-
bursement of the public revenue, (subtreasury,) reported the
same, with a recommendation that the House agree to the
said amendments.
Mr. ASHMUN said he objected to the report being made,
unless in the regular order of business.
The SPEAKER said it was in order to make reports from
committees at this time.
Mr. HOUSTON, of Alabama, moved the previous ques-
tion.
The amendments were read by the Clerk.
Mr. ASHMUN moved that the bill be laid on the table.
The yeas and nays were taken, and are as follows :
YEAS—Messrs. Abbott, John Q. Adams, Arnold, Ashmun,
Barringer, Bell, Blanchard, Milton Brown, J. H. Campbell,
Carroll, J. G. Chapman, Cocke, Cranston, Crozier, Culver, G.
Davis, Dockery, John H. Ewing, Edwin H. Ewing, Foot,
Graham, Grider, Grinnell, Hampton, Harper, Hilliard, E. B.
Holmes, John W. Houston, Samuel D. Hubbard, Hudson,
Washington Hunt, Joseph R. Ingersoll, D. P. King, Lewis,
Levin, Long, McGaughey, McHenry, Mcllvaine, Marsh, Mil-
ler, iVioseley, Pendleton, Pollock, Ramsey, Julius Rockwell,
John A.Rockwell, Root, Runk, Schenck, Severance, Truman
Smith, Albert Smith, C. B. Smith, Stephens, Strohm, Thibo-
deaux, Thomasson, Benjamin Thompson, Toombs, Trumbo,
Vinton,White, Winthrop, Wright, Young—66.
NAYS—Messrs. S. Adams, Anderson, Atkinson, Bayly,
Bedinger, Benton, Biggs, Jas. Black, Jas. A. Black, Bowlin,
Boyd, Brinkerhoff, Brodhead, Burt, Cithcart, R. Chapman,
Chase, Chipman, Chrke, Cobb, Collin, Constable, Cullom,
Cummins, Cunningham, Daniel, De Mott, Douglass, Drom-
goole, Dunlap, Edsall, Ellsworth, Erdman, Faran,Ficklin, Fos-
ter, Fries, Garvin, Giles, Goodyear, Gordon, Grover, Hamlin,
Haralson, Harmanson, Henley, Hoge, Isaac E. Holmes, Hop-
kins, Hough, Geo. S. Houston, Edm. W. Hubard, Hunger-
tord, James B. Hunt, Hunter, Chas. J. Ingersoll, Jenkins,
James H. Johnson, Toseph Johnson, Andrew Johnson, George
W. Jones, Seaborn Jones, Kaufman, Preston King, Lawrence,
Leake, Leib, La Sere, Ligon, Lumpkin, Maelay, McClean,
McClelland, McClernand, McConnell, McCrate, Joseph J.
McDowell, James McDowell, McKay, John P. Martin, Bar-
clay Martin, Morris, Morse, Moulton, Niven, Norris, Owen,
Parish, Payne, Perry, Pettit, Phelps, Pilsbury, Rathbun, Reid,
Relle, Rhett, Ritter, Roberts, Sawtelle, Sawyer, Scammon,
Seddon, Alexander D. Sims, Leonard H. Sims, Simpson,
Tlios. Smith, Stanton, Starkweather, St. John, Strong, Sj kes,
James Thompson, Jacob Thompson, Thurman, Tibbatts,
Towns, Wentworth, Wheaton, Wick, Williams, Wilmot,
Wood, Woodward, Yest—125.
The question then recurred to ascertain whether the previous
question would be seconded ; when—
Mr. HOUSTON, of Alabama, withdrew it at the
quest of—
Mr. McKAY, who moved to amend the amendments so as
to postpone the time at which nothing but gold and silver
shall be received in payments to the Government from the 1st
January, 1847, to 1st April, 1847.
Mr. McK. renewed the motion for the previous question.
It was seconded, 86 to 61.
And, under its operation, the main question was ordered to
be now put.
Mr. DROMGOOLE demanded that a question be put on
each amendment separately ; but subsequently agreed that the
question might be taken in one vote on all such as upon their
reading should not be excepted to by a member.
The amendments were then again read, and several of them
were excepted to and laid aside for separate votes. Those not
so laid aside were agreed to.
As soon as the Clerk got through with them, the first
question now recurred.
Mr. BARRINGER inquired of the chairman of the Com-
mittee of Ways and Means (Mr. McKay) whether the com-
mittee had not refused to recommend that amendment ?
Mr. McKAY said he did not recollect.
Mr. SEABORN JONES said the committee had refused.
Mr. DROMGOOLE made the same declaration.
The question was then taken by yeas and nays on Mr.
McKay’s amendment, and it was lost by the following vote :
YEAS—Messrs. Atkinson, Bayly, Bedinger, Biggs, James
Black, Boyd, Burt, William W. Campbell, John H. Camp-
bell, Reuben Chapman, Chase, Collin, Constable, Cullom,
Dobbin, Dunlap, Edsall, Ellsworth, Ficklin, Garvin, Giles
Goodyear, Gordon, Hamlin, Hilliard, Isaac E Holmes, Hop-
kins, Hough, Edmund W. Hubard, Hunter, Jenkins, James
H. Johnson, Joseph Johnson, Andrew Johnson, Kaufman,
Leake, La Sere, Maelay, McClean, McClelland, McCrate,
Joseph J. McDowell, McKay, Marsh, John P. Martin, Bar-
clay Martin, Morse, Moulton, Niven, Norris, Owen, Parish,
Perry, Pilsbury, Reid, Rhett, Julius Rockwell, John A. Rock-
well, Sawtelle, Scammon, Seddon, Leonard H. Sims, Simp-
son, Thomas Smith, Stanton, Strohm, Strong, Sykes, James
Thompson, Tibbatts, Wentworth, Wick, Williams, Wilmot,
Winthrop, Woodward, Woodworth—77.
NAYS—Messrs. Abbott, John Q. Adams, Arnold, Ash
muu, Barringer, Bell, Benton, James A. Black, Blanchard,
Bowlin, Brinkerhoff, Brodhead, Milton Brown, Buffington,
Carroll, Cathcart, John G. Chapman, Clarke, Cobb, Cocke,
Cranston, Crozier, Culver, Cunningham, Daniel, Garrett
Davis, De Mott, Douglass, Dromgoole, Erdman, John H.
Ewing, Edwin H. Ewing, Faran, Foot, Foster, Fries, Gra-
ham, Grider, Grinnell, Grover, Hampton, Haralson, Har-
manson, Harper, Henley, Hoge, Elias B. Holmes, John W.
Houston, George S. Houston, Samuel D. Hubbard, Hudson,
Hungerford, Washington Hunt, James B. Hunt, Charles J.
Ingersoll, Joseph R. Ingersoll, Geo. W. Jones, Seaborn Jones,
Daniel P. King, Preston King, Lewis, Long, Lumpkin, Mc-
Clernand, McConnell, James McDowell, McGaughey, Mc-
Henry, Mcllvaine, Morris, Moseley, Payne, Pendleton, Pettit,
Phelps, Pollock, Ramsey, Rathbun, Relfe, Ritter, Roberts,
Root, Runk, Sawyer, Schenck, Alexander D. Sims, Truman
Smith, Caleb B. Smith, Starkweather, Stephens, Stewart,
Thomasson, Jacob Thompson, Thurman, Tilden, Toombs,
Trumbo, Vinton, White, Wright, Young—101.
The amendment of the Senate, which fixes the time for the
receipt of gold and silver only in payments to the Govern
ment at the 1st January, 1847, was then concurred in.
All the excepted amendments were then agreed to, one by
one, as they came up.
And so the Subtreasury Bill has finally passed both
Houses of Congress.
RAILROAD IRON.
The bill received from the Senate to-day to remit duties
which have accrued or been paid upon the importation of
railroad iron was read, and Mr. McKAY moved that it be re-
ferred to the Committee of Ways and IMeans.
Mr. ROBER1 S moved that it be laid on the table. It was
decided in the affirmative by yeas 131, nays 41.
Mr. HOPKINS, from the Committee en the Post Office
and Post Roads, reported a bill to establish certain post routes.
Read and committed.
Mr. JOSEPH R. INGERSOLL made an ineffectual at-
tempt to get up his bill to abolish custom-house oaths.
Mr. McKAY, from the Committee of Ways and Means,
reported a bill regulating the appointment of clerks in the Ex-
ecutive Departments, and for other purposes. It was twice
read.
Mr. McKAY' moved that it be engrossed and read a third
time.
Mr. CONSTABLE moved that it be laid on the table.
Ayes 48, noes 59 ; not a quorum.
The yeas and nays were ordered ; when the motion to en-
gross was withdrawn, and the bill was then committed.
Mr. McKAY, from the Committee of Ways and Means,
also moved the printing of sundry documents and statements
in the possession of the committee, showing the operation of
the tariff, amount of revenue, &c. Agreed to : Ayes 66,
noes 55.
Mr. McKAY reported the following resolution :
Resolved, That the Clerk of this House be and he is hereby
required, on or before the first day of December next, to eause
to be made a full and correct inventory of all the books and
other property in his office ; in the House library ; in each of
the committee rooms and elsewhere, belonging to the House,
and file a copy of the same in the Library of Congress.
Resolved, further, That the Clerk cause to be prepared and
submitted to the House at the next session, a full and correct
list of all books to which present or former members are enti-
tled under law or resolution, and which have not been deliver-
ed, and the names of such members.
As soon as the resolution had been read—
Mr. SEAMAN and Mr. ASHMUN and others said they
wished to debate the resolutions.
Mr. ASHMUN moved that they be laid on the table.
Negatived.
Mr. McKAY moved the previous question; which the
House refused to second.
And the resolutions went over under the rule.
Mr. McKAY also reported the following resolution :
Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be and he is hereby
instructed to suspend the execution of the resolution directing
him to furnish certain members with the books therein named,
and not to purchase or deliver any of them until an appropria-
tion is made by Congress to pay for the same, agreeably to an
estimate furnished by the Clerk to the Committee of Ways
and Means.
While the resolution was reading—
Mr. ASHMUN and several other gentlemen observed that
they would debate it, and it would therefore go over.
The moment the Clerk had read the resolution—
Mr. McKAY moved the previous question.
Mr. ASHMUN and several others simultaneously gave no-
tice of their intention to debate the resolution ; and demanded
that it be passed over, according to the order under which the
House was receiving reports.
The SPEAKER (Mr. Hopkins officiating) said the pre-
ious question had been moved before notice of debate was
given ; and that, therefore, the notice of debate came too late,
according to the usual practice of the House in such cases.
He should, therefore, receive the resolution as the report of
the committee, and proceed to entertain it.
Mr. ASHMUN appealed, on the ground that the notice
was given in time ; and on the further ground that the subject
had not been referred to the Committee of Ways and Means,
nd they had no right to bring it before the House.
The question on the appeal was taken by yeas and nays ;
and the decision was sustained : Yeas 82, nays 67.
Mr. EWING, of Pennsylvania, raised another question of
order. It was this : that the rule was suspended to receive
such reports as would not give rise to debate ; and, as notice
of debate was given, the resolution could not be proceeded
with.
The SPEAKER again decided that the call for the previous
question took the resolution out of the rule, and that it was
therefore in order to proceed with it.
Mr. EWING appealed.
And the decision of the Chair was again sustained.
Mr. WOODWORTH moved that the resolution be laid on
the table.
The question was taken by yeas and nays, and was lost:
Yeas 75, nays 77.
Here the hour for which the rules were suspended for re-
ports from committees expired, and the resolution went over.
The House resolved itself into Committee of the Whole on
the state of the Union, (Mr. McClernand in the chair.)
Mr. SIMS, of South Carolina, moved the consideration of
the bill to authorize attachments on mesne process in the coun-
ty of Washington, in the District of Columbia, and to provide
for the more speedy and effectual legal remedies in the said
District, and for other purposes. Negatived.
Mr. ROBERTS moved Senate bill No. 19, to aid the State
of Mississippi to construct a railroad from Jackson, through
Brandon, to the line of the State of Alabama. Negatived.
Mr. BOWLIN moved the bill No. 97, to organize a Gov-
ernment iri the Territory of Oregon.
Mr. McKAY moved the Navy Appropriation bill, with the
amendments of the Senate thereto, and he claimed that, ac-
cording to the rule which gives a prefeience to general ap-
propriation bills, precedence should be given to such bills.
The CHAIRMAN decided to give preference to this
motion.
Mr. GARRETT DAVIS appealed.
And the decision of the Chairman was sustained.
The committee then proceeded to the consideiation of the
amendments of the Senate to the Navy Appropriation bill.
The first amendment was read. It proposes to give to
passed midshipmen the pay of sailing masters in the navy,
when discharging the duties of sailing masters.
Mr. McKAY opposed it, and said the Committee of Ways
and Means recommended that the House disagree to it.
Mr. WINTHROP went into a full statement of what took
place in the Committee of Ways and Means on the subject,
and controverted the statement of the chairman of the com-
mittee, and then went on to argue in support of the amend-
ment.
The amendment was further opposed by Messrs. BRIN-
KERHOFF and RATHBUN, and advocated by Mr.
HOLMES, of South Carolina.
The question being put, it was disagreed to by the Commit-
tee of the Whole.
In the bill, as passed by the House, was a proviso that no
spirit ration shall be issued, and that a commutation thereof
The Senate struck out this
WASHINGTON.
“ Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and
inseparable.”
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1846.
The bill to reduce and graduate the price of the
public lands was yesterday laid on the table of the
House of Representatives by so considerable a ma-
jority that it may be considered as decisive of the
fate of the bill for the present session.
The French Claims.—We observed yesterday
that bills had heretofore passed one House of Con-
gress or the other to liquidate the claims for French
spoliations prior to 1800. Bills have repeatedly
passed the Senate for their payment, but we believe
that the other House has never until Tuesday last
come to a direct vote on them, although committees
of that House have several times reported in their
favor. Indeed, out of twenty-five reports made by
committees of Congress on the subject of these
claims, twenty-two of them we believe have urged
their payment; and not a single unfavorable report
has been made on them since the publication of the
documents which were drawn from the Depart-
ment of State some years ago respecting them, and
which appeared to settle the question of their jus-
tice. The bill which passed the House on Tues-
day received a majority of seven votes.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT,
By and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Robert C. Grier, of Pennsylvania, to be one of
the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the
United. States, in the place of Henry Baldwin,
deceased.
James Page, Collector of the Customs for the
district of Philadelphia,
THE CHEROKEE DIFFICULTIES.
The Cherokee commissioners and delegations,
which have been in session for some time in this
city, for a settlement of the rival claims of the dif-
ferent parties, have concluded their labors, and, ac-
cording to a letter in the New York Commercial
Advertiser, to the satisfaction of all. The follow-
ing is given as an abstract of the arrangement which
has been made :
“That the Western Cherokees have no exclusive title to
the present Cherokee country, but that the country was in-
tended for and belongs to the whole nation.
“ That the Western Cherokees had an interest in the old
Cherokee country east of the Mississippi, and have a claim
upon the United States for the value of that interest. The
value is represented to be about $450,000, to be divided
among three thousand Western Cherokees. This is in addi-
tion to their share of the invested funds.
“ The treaty party are to be allowed their expenses of re-
moval and subsistence—about $53 each. The families of the
two Ridges and Elias Boudinot are to have compensation for
property sacrificed when they were obliged to fly after the
murder of those three men.
“John Ross is to account for the money received by him,
and the residue of the five million fund, after deducting all
proper charges, is to be invested, or otherwise disposed of, for
the benefit of the nation.
“The Cherokee country is not to be partitioned at present,
but ample provision is to be made for enabling the several
parties to try and live peaceably together.”
At the final meeting, although all the parties have
not got all they asked, the best spirit appeared to
prevail, and all agreed to comply with the terms of
the decision and enter into a treaty for the payment
of such claims as have been allowed. The “ old
settlers” are to be reckoned as one-third of the na-
tion, and will thus get about half a million dollars.
FROM OUR EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT.
money should be made,
proviso.
And on the question to concur in striking out there were—
ayes 72, noes 40. Agreed to.
After a good deal of discussion on an amendment touching
the Memphis navy yard—
A motion was made that the committee rise. Ayes 41,
noes 59—no quorum, as usual.
Another count. No quorum again; yet there was a full
quorum in their seats within the hall.
And the Speaker took the chair, and the Chairman report-
ed that the committee could not get along with business for the
want of a quorum.
Mr. HOUSTON, of Alabama, moved a call of the House.
A motion was made to adjourn.
Decided in the affirmative, by yeas and nays—74 to 63.
And the House adjourned accordingly.
SITUATION AS INSTRUCTRESS WANTED.—A
£3 young lady, -who has had experience in teaching, wishes a
situation (a Southern one preferred) as instructress in the
higher English branches, and in the Latin and Greek languages.
Satisfactory references given and will be expected. Address
(postpaid) “ Box 306, lower Post Office, New York city,”
stating terms and other particulars. aug 6—2t
By WM. MARSHALL, Auctioneer.
/^LOSING-OUT SALE OF CARRIAGES AND
\_y HARNESS.—On Tuesday afternoon, 11th instant, at
5i o’clock, I shall sell in Iront of my store a very large and
handsome assortment of Carriages, to close consignments, viz.
Close Rockaway and Clarence Carriages
Square Carriages, for four and six persons
Rockawavs, with falling and standing tops
Buggies, with and without tops
Also, several second-hand Carriages
Single and double Harness, Saddles, Bridles, &c.
aug 6—ThM&Tu WM. MARSHALL, Auc’r.
GENERAL WOOL’S COLUMN OF INVASION.
We learn from a correspondent at Fort Smith
(Arkansas) that on the 13tli of July the following
troops left Fort Smith for San Antonio de Bexar,
Texas, viz:
Company “A” first United States dragoons, seventy-five
strong.—Officers: Captain, William Eustis ; First Lieu-
tenant, J. Henry Carleton ; Second Lieutenant, Joseph
H. Whittlesey.
Company “E” first United States dragoons, seventy
strong.—Officers : Captain, Enoch Steen ; First Lieute-
nant, Daniel H. Rucker ; Second Lieutenant, Abram
Buford.
Company “D” sixth United States infantry, eighty
strong.—Officers: Captain, William H. Hoffman; First
Lieutenant, E. Howe ; Second Lieutenant, William Read.
Company “H” sixth United States infantry, eighty
strong.—Officers : Captain, Albemarle Cady ; First Lieu-
tenant, Edward H. Fitzgerald ; Second Lieutenant,
Henry Rhea.
The whole commanded by Major B. L. E. Bonneville,
sixth United States infantry.
[Captain Washington’s company of light artillery, our
correspondent adds, is said to be under orders to proceed from
Carlisle barracks, Pennsylvania, via Little Rock, Arkansas,
to join Major Bonneville’s command ; and Captain Sum-
ner’s and Captain Cook’s companies, of the first United
States dragoons, are ordered from Forts Atkinson and Beau-
ford, Upper Mississippi, for the same purpose. ]
“ When all these troops shall have united, says
‘ our correspondent, which they probably will do
‘ by the end of July, they will form, for their num-
‘ bers, as effective a force as could well be brought
‘ together ; and, when operating in connexion with
‘ the volunteers already directed to rendezvous at
* San Antonio, there to be organized by General
‘ Wool into the central column of invasion, of
‘ which, it is understood, het is to have the com-
‘ mand, they can but do the country and themselves
‘ that credit which they are so eminently calculated
‘ to gain.”
All demands for interest due on the loans of the
State of Pennsylvania have been promptly met, and
the August interest, may now be said to be paid in
full, leaving a surplus in the Treasury of the Com-
monwealth .—Pennsylvanian.
FIFTY DOI.LABS REWARD.
/YN Sunday, the 26th ultimo, a negro man named MIKE,
A/ belonging to the estate of my deceased husband,
Thomas Thompson, left Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in a
buggy, taking with him his wife Emmeline, and their female
child about three years of age, the property of Hon. A. Ren-
cher, on leave and under pretence of visiting Pittsborough for
a few days. Not having reached Pittsborough, and having ta-
ken their clothing, it is apprehended that they have made off
westwardly, or by railroad northwardly, with the design of
reaching a free State.
Mike is by trade a carpenter, and has been living at Chapel
Hill in that capacity for the last three years. He is a black
man, about twenty-seven years of age, of good countenance and
soft speech ; under the ordinary height, with no distinguishing
marks; has a variety of good clothing which cannot be de-
scribed ; knows how to read, and is quite intelligent.
His wife Emmeline is a black woman, of rather darker hue
than Mike, and nearly of the same height; can read and write ;
is perhaps twenty-five years of age ; has travelled North, and
resided at Washington with her master and mistress ; and
during their absence from the United States, has been living
at Chapel Hill as a washerwoman and seamstress for the
students.
The horse they drove was a tall, thin sorrel, with a long
and wide blaze in the face, and one eye. They will doubtless
attempt to pass under for ged papers as free persons.
A reward of fifty dollars will be paid for the apprehension
and confinement of Mike, in any jail in the United States, so
that I get him again; and, it delivered to me, all reasonable
expenses in addition. Suitable compensation will also be paid
for the apprehension and delivery of the woman and child,
but I am not authorized to offer a specific reward.
Any information concerning them, or either of them, will
be thankfully received, and may be addressed either to me at
Pittsborough, Chatham county, North Carolina ; or to Charles
Manly, Esq., at Raleigh ; Judge Manly, at Newbern ; or to
Dr. Johnson D. Jones, at Chapel Hill.
LOUISA S. THOMPSON.
aug. 6—lawSwcp Pittsborough, Chatham county.
Naval.—The Independence, at the Charlestown navy yard,
has her provisipns stowed and her stores on board, and will
receive part of per crew to-day. Capt. Lavallette, with
most of her other officers, has reported.
The Franklin is nearly ready for sea as a receiving ship,
and as soon as the recruits are transferred to her from the Ohio,
the latter will be taken into dock for repairs.—Boston Post.
The Delay of the News.—The New York Mirror of
Tuesday evening says : “Therewas considerable dissatisfac-
tion expressed in Wall street yesterday at the non-appearance
of the foreign news ; for it was natural to suppose that, if the
Magnetic Telegraph could inform us of the arrival of the boat,
it could also have furnished a synopsis of the news, at least
by 9 or 10 o’clock in the morning. Whether it was forward-
ed or not we are not prepared to say, but have reason to be-
lieve that it was purposely held back for speculating purposes.”
Speaker Davis.—Mr. C. Bohn, who keeps the bookstand
near the main entrance to the Hall of the House of Repre-
sentatives, has just published an excellent lithographic like-
ness of the Speaker, by Fenderich.
From the Prairies.—The St. Louis Republican of the
28th ultimo learns that a large number of Oregon emigrants
had returned to St. Joseph’s landing, having proceeded about
five hundred miles, when the Indians stole all their cattle
from them.
There was a report at St. Joseph’s that sixty-odd persons
bound to California, among whom was a Mr. Cunningham
and his family, had starved on the route, having lost their
way and run out of provisions. We entertain hopes that it
may prove to be without foundation, or at least greatly ex-
aggerated.
Fire at Marion, Alabama.—A block of eight buildings
in Marion, Perry county, Alabama, was destroyed by fire in
the night of the 27th ultimo. The sufferers are Messrs.
Heigh, Towns, Mason, Stokes, Gordon, Wyatt & Houston,
Brown & Fowlkes, Sanford, Long, and some others. Loss
about $10,000.
Paris, July 14, 1846.
We received yesterday afternoon the advices
from the United States by the Great Western.
We have a mere summary in the Journal des De-
bats of this morning; but an ample report and in-
telligent discussion of the whole in La Presse, and
good exposition in the Constitutionnel. The
Oregon Treaty and the President’s new message
touching a war-tariff are warmly commended.
Stress is laid on the profession of readiness for
peace, in case Mexico should propose reasonable
terms. “According to the London papers,” ob-
serves the Constitutionnel, “ England has given a
lesson of prudence and moderation to the United
States ; if so, the United States have, on their side,
given one of firmness to the other Powers having
relations and controversies with England.” The
idea of dissent by Lord Wellington and Sir Ro-
bert Peel, in the Cabinet, to the terms of the trea-
ty, is held to be refuted by Sir Robert’s language
in announcing the event to Parliament. My im-
pression, from the epoch of the disclosure of Sir
Robert’s Anti-Corn Law project to the latest pe-
riod, has uniformly been that he meant to yield in
the Oregon question what he believed could not fail
to be accepted. He seemed, in all his public pro-
ceedings, to have put himself entirely at ease on
that question. Some of the Paris editors now re-
mark : “ After all, the British naval preparations
were not intended for the United States ; France
must have been in the eye and calculations of Eng-
land.” The “ preparations” were, we may pre-
sume, no more than a general refitting—an arma-
ment adapted to national security and pretensions ;
just what the restoration and reorganization of the
French maritime forces are proclaimed. A story
travels in the Opposition journals that Louis Phi-
lippe, in several letters, urged Queen Victoria to
persuade or command Sir Robert Peel to post-
pone the dissolution of his Ministry until after the
French elections; and that her Majesty (unavail-
ingly of course) exerted herself to that end. The
notion obtained here, in all quarters, that the acces-
sion of the Whigs would operate in France unfa-
vorably for the Conservative canvass ; but it is now
dissipated. It was argued that France would no
longer consent to be dragged in tow by England;
that there must be in both countries Cabinets who
could treat with each other on equal footing. All
the Deputies are included in a series of biographi-
cal sketches published in many numbers of the
Ministerial organ, the Epoch. Those in Opposi-
tion are not spared in the least, but handled with
very amusing and pungent sarcasm and disparage-
ment of one kind or other. The truth of most of
the lives and traits heightens the effect and pro-
motes the purpose, in all the denominations of
Deputies.
We are informed from Rome that the new Pope
(the 258th) has not yet appointed the Secretary of
State—the functionary who enjoys more control
over the foreign relations and internal policy than
his Holiness, in whose case the maxim, reign and
not govern, is usually realized. A higher congre-
gation, or Council of State, of six eminent Cardi-
nals, of different political attachments and senti-
ments, has been formed to examine all matters of
civil administration. Meanwhile no changes occur,
no reforms are announced; and Pius IX. incurs
blame for tardiness. His name, you know, is Mas-
tai-Feretti. The Romans play upon it thus :
“You are very handsome and good—ma-staifi
which means “ but stationary.” His election,
however, has proved more popular in the provinces
than even in the capital. In authorizing railroads
to Cevita-Vecchia., Ancona, and Bologna, he has re-
stricted the granting to natives and the employment
of laborers also, when natives can be obtained. Pas-
quinades abound at his expense. He is said to join
in the public merriment. A French writer well re-
marks : “ A politically ambitious or personally im-
moral Pope is now impossible.” It is a subject of
complaint in the London prints that England has
no diplomatic representative—avowed or in form—
at the Court of Rome : the Consul at Ancona has
served as political agent.
Old French soldiers are rare in proportion to the
past and present numbers of the army. The oldest
died lately at the age of eighty-eight. One of the
captors and demolishers of the Bastile, Dr. Puber-
bielle, departed this life a few days ago, in his
ninety-fourth year. He retained to the last a vivid
recollection of the process, and a fondness for con-
versation about early revolutionary scenes.
By the demise of the Duke of Fitz-James, (de-
scendant of James II,) the Legitimists have lost a
primary oracle and orator.
You have the printed narratives of the portentous
accident on the Northern Railroad on the 8th in-
stant. It was on the 8th May that the Versailles
Railroad tragedy occurred. In the one case the
havoc was by fire, in the other by water. We may
credit the present official reports of the numbers of the
killed and the merely injured; but the newspapers
and letter-writers of the nearer cities double or tri-
ple the victims. As the Rothschilds head and sway
the company of the northern road, and are particu-
larly obnoxious to the National and some others of
the Radical organs, a virulent cry has been raised
of the most culpable mismanagement. The chap-
ter of escapes, of assistance, of recovery, of lost ef-
fects, of wonderful incidents in general, in this aw-
ful catastrophe, nearly rivals any in the annals of
such casualties by land or sea.
The present summer teems with gigantic calami-
ties—the destructive earthquake in Messenia—an-
other at Smyrna; the fire at St. Johns ; submer-
sions in mines ; the burning of the theatre at Quebec,
so like the old calamity at Richmond ; more deaths
and conflagrations by lightning, more coup de so-
liel, more suicides, atrocious murders, and mutila-
tions ; more sudden visitations of body and mind,
are recorded for France, within the two months
past, than in any former year for this generation.
The extraordinary and protracted heat of the wea-
ther has a large share in the assigned causes. At
Stockholm, on the 26th ultimo, it was so cold that
ice was formed in the open grounds. Extensive
strikes, popular tumults, sanguinary affrays, roman-
tic or curious trials, have been frequent in a rare
degree. By the way, the two persons, the doctor
and the valet, accomplices of the escape of Prince
Louis Napoleon from the castle of Ham, and the
commandant of the fortress and two of the turnkeys
charged with negligence, have been tried by the
criminal court at Peronne. Three days were con-
sumed in what was not serious at bottom. The
crown prosecutor scarcely concealed his own de-
sire for the acquittal of the accused; the accom-
plices were convicted on their own acknowledg-
ment ; the rest acquitted, though their remissness
at least did not admit of doubt. A few months’
imprisonment was the sentence. The Government
would gladly have saved Prince Louis the trouble
of plot and flight; but he resembled the romantic
girl in the comedy who saw no interest in marriage
without an elopement. France cares nothing now
for any living Bonaparte. She mocks at an impe-
rial pretender.
to the rights of the British crown than the terms upon which
the northeastern boundary question was settled in 1842. But
it is fortunate for the true credit of English statesmen and the
most solid interests of this country and of the United States,
that no factious spirit or lust of political contention can inter-
fere in this instance to impugn the wisdom and propriety of a
compromise so necessary to the general peace of the world.
The treaty just signed by Mr. Pakenham, and brought overby
General Armstrong, after it had received the ratification of three-
fourths of the Senate of the United States, arrives under cir-
cumstances which prohibit and disarm that species of criticism
which originates in party motives. Each party in the State,
and each of the leading statesmen who have been or now are
engaged in the conduct of our affairs, has an equal interest in
securing the fruits of this pacific termination of an awkward
and threatening question ; and, although Lord Aberdeen has
bequeathed to Lord Palmerston on many points the benefits of
that temperate and dignified system of foreign policy which
has been followed by this Government for the last five years,
yet there is no part of this reversion more deservedly prized by
the successors of the late Cabinet than the amicable arrange-
ment of our controversy with the United States. That one
tact makes an incalculable difference in the prospects of Lord
John Russell and his colleagues. The nation looks forward
with far greater confidence to the long continuance of peace ;
and the Oregon question, which has never excited a strong
interest in this country, except for the consequences it might
have had on our relations with America, will soon be as much
forgotten by the public as Mr. Pitt’s quarrel with Spain in
1790 for the possession of Nootka Sound. There is no one,
we are confident, either in this kingdom or in America, who
will venture to compare the real amount of the sacrifices made
on either side with the result which has been obtained.
[London Times of July 14.
The New Ministry and its Prospects.—The new
Ministry has got fairly into work, and the business of the
country is again in a state of progression. All the members
have been returned without opposition, save Mr. Macaulay
and Lord Ebrington, and their addresses to their constituents,
divested for the most part of all personal and political acri-
mony, read more like essays on the theory of Government,
than electioneering expositions. In truth, fortune has favored
the Whigs. Their star is again in the ascendant, and they
possess the power, if they have the tact, to retrieve the errors
of the past, and to lay up a stock of popularity for future exi-
gencies.
Time, since the sailing of the last packet, has enabled
public opinion to develop itself with reference to the new ap-
pointments. In every quarter a disposition exists to give
them a fair trial. After the excitement of the past the coun-
try needs repose ; and, with the exception of the sugar duties,
there is no prominent question likely to embarrass the Minis-
try, or test their capacity.
In the composition of his cabinet, as well as in the person •
nel of the Government in every department, Lord John Rus
sell is admitted to have shown judgment as well as impar-
tiality. The Russell Administration will have a fair trial;
and, notwithstanding its weakness in the Peers, public opi-
nion, if its measures are up to the mark, will beat down op-
position there, and compel hereditary legislators to be just as
well as generous.—European Times.
FROM THE LATEST FOREIGN PAPERS.
The American Treaty.—The honor of ratifying the re-
cent treaty for the settlement of the Oregon boundaries now
devolves upon the Minister who denounced in no measured
terms the last “ capitulation” entered into with the United
States ; and we have no doubt that Lord Palmerston and the
new Administration will at once subscribe to the terms which
the American Government has acceded to upon the proposal
made by Lord Aberdeen. It is needless to inquire what re-
ception this treaty might have met with from the more active
members of the late Opposition at a less fortunate moment, or
with what degree of candor Lord Ashburton’s treaty was stig-
matized as a disgrace to the late Government, whilst the pre-
sent convention is accepted with the strongest marks of satis-
faction by its successors ; for we cannot regard the arrangement
by which this dispute has been terminated as more favorable
The Atlantic and Pacific Canal.—The engineers
dispatched by the French Government to take the requisite
surveys for the projected canal across the Isthmus of Panama,
which is to join the two oceans, are stated, in accounts from
thence, to have successfully accomplished their mission. The
preferable point for the end of the canal on the Pacific side
was selected at Vaca de Monte, a few miles west of the city
of Panama, in the valley of the Caimito. On the Atlantic
side, the Bay of Leinon was fixed upon as affording superior
convenience for shipping to the port of Chagres. The total
cost of construction of the canal was estimated at 125,000,000
francs, or say five millions sterling. The total length would
be 76| kilometers. There would be the necessity of cutting
an “immense tunnel,” which, for shipping, must form an
important portion of the estimated expense. The depth of
the canal was to be about seven yaids, the width of the bot-
tom twenty yards, and on the surface forty-five.
The Intense Heat.—The heat has been so intense in
Ireland that it has nearly melted away the whole of the Re
peal fund. The rent is oozing in large drops every week,
the present warmth continues the dissolution of Repeal is cer-
tain. The heat has lately been so intense that an enormous
split has taken place in Conciliation Hall. O’Connell has
tried to cement it once or twice, but it is no sooner made up
in one place than it breaks out in another.—Observer.
Electors, &c.—It appears, from a return delivered on
Saturday by order of the House of Commons, that the num-
ber of persons now in the register of electors for counties or
divisions of counties is as follows : England, 468,258 ; num-
ber of polling places, 542. Wales, 37,092 ; number of poll-
ing places, 69 ; and Scotland, 48,082 ; making a total in
Great Britain of 553,432 electors for counties or divisions of
counties. The number of persons who have voted at any
contested election since 1840 in Great Britain is 119,889, of
whom 95,672 voted on the first day, and 11,507 on the second
day of the election.—Chronicle.
Accident on the Paris and Brussels Railway.—The
French train left Paris, with a large number of travellers, at
seven o’clock on Wednesday morning, (the 8th.) When the
train arrived at the station between Vairy and Douai, some
distance between Arras, the first engine went off' the rails at
the place where the line forms a very steep embankment; the
second engine being fixed to the first, there was a frightful
shock in consequence of the breaking of the chains fastening
the carriages. The engines remained on the line, but the
luggage wagons and the second and third class carriages form-
ing the head of the train, were precipitated down a height of
thirty feet, into more than twelve feet water. A luggage wa-
gon fell on a second class carriage, which was literally crush
ed. Eight carriages, others say more, were overturned at
once down the embankment. The confusion and affright that
seized the parties in the rest of the train may be readily con -
ceived. All the carriages upset in the canal belonged to the
train destined for Lille; the travellers for Valenciennes and
Belgium have not suffered at ail. A single first class carriage
was much damaged. A countryman and several of the rail-
way people threw themselves into the canal, and succeeded in
extricating some of the victims, of whom, however, several
were horribly mutilated or lifeless. Fourteen dead bodies
were taken out in the evening. Twenty have been seriously
wounded. Among the dead is the aide de-camp of Gen. Ou-
dinot, whose ribs were crushed, and who died this morning
after some hours of extreme suffering.
The Paris National gives the following on the authority of
a person who was at the scene of the accident, and who states
that he had his information from persons who were present
when the calamity occurred ;
“ The train consisted of twenty-four carriages, and was
drawn by two locomotives. At five minutes past three the
train was in front of the village of Fampoux and near Reux,
where there is an embankment near a deep lake over a peat
bog. At this point the rails were either disjoined, or displac-
ed, or broken. The first locomotive, however, got over them,
but the second entered the sand without going completely off
the rails. The violence of the shock, from this sudden stop-
page, was such that the chain which united the carriages to
each other was snapped like glass, not precisely close to the
locomotive, but at the fifth or sixth carriage. The carriages
thus detached were thrown into the marsh. The first was lite-
rally broken to pieces, others were upset and submerged.
Yesterday there were nine carriages lying on the embankment
where they had stopped after the first impulsion had ceased.
Nobody can know exactly the number of passengers killed or
drowned. The water is very deep at. this spot. The com-
pany admits that eleven dead bodies have been removed. The
person from whom we have our information heard, on the spot,
that up to yesterday it was ascertained that there were seven-
teen killed. The Liberal of Douai states the number to be
twenty. As to the number of wounded, one account gives fif-
teen. At Douai and Arras, however, it was said that fifty per-
sons had been wounded, which is not impossible, as fifteen car-
riages ran oft' the rails, and we may suppose that most of the
passengers in them received more or less injury.”
A Madrid letter informs us that by a recent order of the
Minister of Finances it is now permitted to export Spanish
coin, which was hitherto rigorously prohibited.
By a recent decision of the Minister of War artificial grasses
will in future form a third part of the rations of hay furnished
to the horses of the army.
It appears from a recent return that the population of the
Roman States is now 2,732,436.
In some parts of France the peasants still follow the absurd
and dangerous practice of ringing the church bells when they
think a storm is at hand, under the idea that they will thus be
able to conjure the tempest and preserve their crops from ruin.
This was done a few days ago at Saint Just, near Limoges,
and the consequences were near being fatal. The lightning
instantly fell on the parsonage-house, which adjoins the
church, and struck the Cure, who was for some time senseless,
but fortunately he recovered.
The Grand Duke of Tuscany has ordered the establishment
of electrical telegraphs in his States, and appointed as director-
in-chief of the new system M. Matteuci, a gentleman who has
acquired considerable celebrity by his experiments in electricity.
A vessel of foreign build, but displaying French colors, en-
tered the port of Brest a few days back. It is a Sardinian
slaver, named the Notre Dame de-Grace, which had been cap-
tured by the Fine schooner on the coast of Africa. She was
first taken to Goree, and the Adn iial there ordered her to
France with a French crew on board. The former crew were
brought home prisoners, and have been transferred to the na-
val prison to take their trial.
A letter from Hanover of the 3d instant states that on the
occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Leibnitz,
the room in the public library of that city, where the illustri
ous philosopher expired, was opened to the public. It con-
tains many articles which belonged to the deceased, and
amongst others his journal for the year 1696. The house in
which Leibnitz resided at Hanover has been purchased by the
Government, and is to be henceforward called the Leibnitz
Museum.
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
New York, August 4, 1846.
The foreign news by the steamer is generally of
a character to be highly satisfactory to our commer-
cial people. The new British Ministry are, in
some degree, popular : that is to say, as yet no
organized opposition has taken the field openly
against them. The general feeling seems to be that
they shall have fair play in making the experiment
of free trade. If it meets the expectations of the
country, Lord John Russell will be sustained.
In relation to the United States no unkind .or
angry suggestion is heard from any quarter. Every
thing on the surface looks favorable. The British
people are quite as much pleased with the Oregon
compromise as the American. In the language of
the elder Adams, “ May no dark cloud intervene to
interrupt the bright prospect before us !”
On the receipt in England of our tariff bill their
manufacturers, as well as their Ministry, will be in
ecstasies. They must be very unreasonable in their
wishes if this bill does not meet their most sanguine
expectations. In all its provisions and enactments
it is a British free trade bill. On this side of the
Atlantic it was suggested as such. It was discuss-
ed in Congress and in the newspapers of the day as
such, and it was finally adopted as such. We shall
hear no murmurs, therefore, from Great Britain on
this subject. At least, if we do, they will subject
themselves to the charge of the most shameful in-
gratitude.
It may now be taken for granted, I suppose, that
there will be no further investigation as to the Sena-
tor who published the late British treaty, Mr. Gra-
ham (of the Philadelphia North American) having
sworn that he received it anonymously.
You may judge whether our judicial system requires revi-
sion and amendment by a fact which I will state. One of our
police judges was charged with improper official conduct at a
time “beyond which the memory of man runneth not,” and
he has not yet had a trial.
A late Canada paper says, “ Heaven forbid that politics or
‘ party should ever be brought to influence military appoint-
ments. Both have been discarded from the management of
the British army since the days of the Duke of York. In
the United States the miserable system of partisan appoint-
ments is in full force, producing such heart-burnings and dis-
putings from one end of the Union to the other that we may
well avoid it here as we would shun a pestilence.”
It is thus that the partisan conduct of our Administration
is referred to by a foreign journal ; but the most mortifying
circumstance connected with it is—that it is true.
The produce market remains stationary. The foreign news
has not affected it in the slightest degree.
The stocks are all stiffer than they were yesterday. There
is a rise on an average of 1 to 1.74 per cent.
A CALM OBSERVER.
55-Perseverance Fire Company.—A meeting of the
Company will be held this evening, (Thursday,) at the engine
house, at 8 o’clock.
The Relief Association will meet on to-morrow evening,
same hour and place.
aug 6 V. HARBAUGH, Secretary.
JOHN BIN NS
Is Commissioner tor the following States:
Maine Maryland Louisiana
Vermont Virginia Missouri
Massachusetts North Carolina Tennessee
Rhode Island South Carolina Kentucky
Connecticut Georgia Ohio
Delaware Alabama Michigan
and Iowa.
His office is No. 116 Walnut street, Philadelphia.
Commissions, &cc. promptly and faithfully executed.
aug 6—law2mcp
FEMALE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE,
Georgetown, Ky.
rTVHE 18th session opens September 7th, under a thorough
8 renovation, refitting, and refurnishing of the establishment.
There will be two new boarding bouses opened, for such as
may not prefer ours. In neither ot tlie three, will more than
two beds ever be put in the same room. The academy is anew
two-story building, entirely detached from all others. I lie
examination and graduation will close on the 24th of De-
cember.
Terms in advance.—For tuition, boarding, washing, fuel,
candles, &e., $68. For music and use of Piano, $20. For
French, drawing, or painting, $8.
T. F. JOHNSON, A.M. Principal,
aUg 6—gt With five Assistants.
fA OLD AND SILVER WATCHES, JEWELRY,
\JT AND FANCY GOODS AT McCARDLE’S, be-
tween lOth and 11th. streets, Pennsylvania avenue.
He now offers for sale such as fine Gold Patent Lever, Lepine,
Anchor, Escapement, Horizontal, and Vertical Watches, of
the most improved plan and style of workmanship.
Also, a great variety of Silver Watches, at all prices.
Thirty-hour, eight-day, mantel, chamber, and other Clocks,
remarkably low prices.
Jewelry of every description, viz. Pins, Rings, Bracelets,
Necklaces, Studs, Chains, Key-Seals, &c., set with all kinds
of precious stones.
Silver Spoons, Forks, Ladles, Sugar Tongs, Cups, Cream-
pots, and Sugar Bowls, ofhis own manufacture.
Gold and Silver Thimbles, SuckingTubes, See.; all of which
he will sell low for cash.
N. B. All kinds ol Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, and Silver-
plate, carefully repaired and warranted.
1 P. McCARDLE,
Patent Lever Watchmaker, Jeweler, and Silversmith,
Between lOtli and 11th streets, Pennsylvania avenue,
aug 6—d3t
FOR RENT.—A gentleman wishing to decline
pjsjjjT housekeeping would rent his House to a careful tenant
iiliiij.on moderate terms, and, if agreeable, would board his
family with the person renting. The house is new, fashion-
able, and built in the best manner, contains seven good com-
fortable rooms, and has every convenience for a pleasant resi-
dence. Its situation is healthy, within ten minutes’walk ot
the Departments, and has an excellent neighborhood. There
is a stable attached to the premises, with a garden partly im-
proved. For further particulars address box 166, city post
office. aug 6 eo3til
T>ANKOF THE METROPOLIS STOCK WANT-
|j ED.—The subscriber wishes to dispose ot the follow-
ing valuable improved property in Washington, viz : Lots 8,
12, and 16, in square 299, and a Lot in square 404, on 9th street.
The assessed value will be accepted, and payment can be made
in Bank of the Metropolis stock at its par value.
Apply to my agent, Mr. Wm. Lloyd, near the Potomac
bridge, or to the subscriber, at his lumber yard in George-
town. The above property is all under rent to good tenants,
and yields about $750 per annum. ____
aug 6—lawSwif JOHN PICKRELL.
I VOR SALE, on accommodating terms, a Farm, eligibly
JC situated in Montgomery county, Maryland, near the
Georgetown and Rockville Turnpike road, three miles back
of Tenallytown by the turnpike, and only seven miles from the
Washington market. It contains fifty-three acres of kind land,
about twenty of which is cleared; the balance standing in good
wood and timber. It is well watered, and has on it a spacious
log dwelling, with a spring of water convenient to the door.
For further information apply to the subscriber,
aug 6—la\v3w ALFRED SCHUCKING.
1VTEW LAW BOOKS.—Hilliard’s American Law of
J3I Real Property, enlarged edition, 2 vols. 1846. Hill on
the Law relating to Trustees, with notes and references to
American decisions, by F. J. Troubat, ot the Philadelphia
Bar, 1 volume, 1846. Reports of Criminal Cases before Rich-
ard Vaux, Recorder of Philadelphia, 1 volume, 1846. Jar-
man’s Treatise on Wills, first American edition, with notes
and references to American decisions, by J. C. Perkins, 2
volumes. Dallam’s Digest of the Laws of Texas, including the
Land Laws and the Opinions of the Supreme Court, 1 volume.
Meeson and Welsby’s Exchequer Reports, volume 13. Laws
of the United States, volume 10, extending from 1839 to 1845,
compiled by B. B. French, Clerk of the House of Representa-
tives. Tate’s American Form Book. Broom’s Selection of
Legal Maxims, classified and illustrated, 1 volume, London,
1845. Anstey’s History of the Laws and Constitutions of Eng-
land, 1845. Russell on the Law of Factors and Brokers, 1
volume. Greenleaf’s Evidence, 2 volumes. English Eccle-
siastical Reports, volume 7, edited by Gerhard, of the Phila-
delphia Bar. For sale by F. TAYLOR.
A valuable collection of Law Books on hand, tor sale at the
lowest New York and Philadelphia prices in every case,
aug 7
Q DANISH AND FRENCH LANGUAGES,—A gen-
^ tleman, well known in this city, who has filled professor-
ships in the most distinguished universities, and whose reputa-
tion is sufficiently established to merit confidence and ensure
success, will devote a few hours every day to instruction in the
above languages. For particulars, apply to Mr. laylor,
bookseller, below the National Hotel. juu® 9—tt
“HOUSE AND FURNITURE FOR RENT.
That desirable property on I street, between 16th and
1 17th streets west, formerly occupied by Mrs. Com.
Stewart, and more recently by the Chevalier Hulsemaun, is
now, together with the furniture, offered for rent. The whole
establishment has lately been put in excellent order, and forms
a most desirable residence for a small family.
Persons disposed to rent will be pleased to make appnea ion
on the premises, where they can see the state of the house an
furniture, and where all necessary information will e given,
aug 5—dlwif _________
T/iiS
HERVANTBOY AT AUCTION.—The sale of the ser-
^5 vantboy advertised to take place at my stoie on >>urs-
day, the 30th instant, is postponed until Thursday the 6th of
August, at 5 o’clock P. M-, when the sale will positively take
place at my auction store,
july 31—eod
A. GREEN, Auctioneer.
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