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TO BE SEEN,
Il; the Rarti. East corner at ksns ard
Washington Streets,
4 bf u s f u VI,

THE only ono of the kind that has ever
been exhibited m Anlarlca, beirg composed
nf nare than 500 Different subj cts, OF rare,
beautiful md elegant COPPER PLATE
PRINTS, which collection OF NEUROLOGICAL,
alIesoricq+, e,nblern2tical Pictures and views
OF iae.l and seas, together present prospect
so interesting IS 10 gfatity the curiosity OF
those who have taste tor the productions
Of genius and of the admirable art oct pant
J.. which assenbl ige must impress on the
jn,iirious observer the most agreeable SEN
sations.
AS the greatest part of th collection is
deuble and treble, the overplus will De sold
to those who may desire to ehllven and ce-
corate their houses, rs they will not tor a
long time have an equal opportunity OF meet
inc With such variety out ofwhich to make
Choice 10 their iSIng--the prices varying
fre,n 2s cents 10 q and dollars.
This Museum, for short time, will be
open every day, from 10 o'clock In the Tore
noon 10 2, and froal TO in the afternoon
E-y;S atimittance, for Grown Persons, each
day, % cents, to be paid Ia small money,
as Change will not b. given. Any person
purchasing dollars worth shall be adm tied
onoe gratis
Children, half price, and the parents re-
sponsible for any damages done by them to
any Of the Prints.
Nothing is TO be touched or displaced.
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FROM TURKEY.

Extract sfo letter fran a gentleman at
Conssantinople to his friend in Provi
dsace, (R. l. dated dug. %, 1910.
J" was invited by the English minister.
to accompany him in bis ceremonial visit
tothe grand seignor, and | availed myself
with great eaperness Of this unexpected
proposition. We assembled at the British
palace yesterday NOTHING, at four O'Clock,
aud at five we departed. The procession
consisted of the Janissaries and footmen Of
the palace. who walked; they were sue.
ceaded by the colonel of the Jaaissasi-s,
who was in his full dress, by the minister
and his secretaries, the British consul in
uniform, and by the merchants and srran-
gers under English protection, mounted
on Turkish horses. We wen, thus thrs'
the two cities OF Pera and Gaiata TO the
water, where we left our horses and there
embarked for the city OF Cons,antinople.
Here we found other horses prepared and
We recommended our expedition in the
same manner as before. Ahou, half
mil. from there we met the vizier, and all
his train, who joined US, and we then con-
tinued to the palace. Upon Cor arrival
within its walls we d'smounted, and after
some delay we were introduced to the Di-
van, where the vizier was seated, with his
associate judges A seat was here given
TO the minister; and here We were inte-
rested by remarking their manner of con-
Quoting their judicial business, and by
knowing that the grand seignor was a, a
closely latticed Window above, observing
US SIS w. regarded every thing about US
After waitng some ;iIne. tn. srcreiar, Of
the vizIer wrote petition GO The grand
stignor in favor Of the Christians. We
DID not hear it but lis contents were tha,
,te lnhdels hungry and naked desired to
present themselves before his angus, per-
GOA" lhis was despatched by ou. OF the
great officers, who had golden cane. and
in a quarter OF an hour we heard the .ouad
OF his suck, the signal Of his approach
On his appearance az the door OF the Di.
van the viz.er arose trom his sofa, and me,
him 10 receive the answer. 1t was racIas.
ed in a black cover, and that was -ny.Ioo.
cd in muslin handkerchief viii, the eraud
seignor's seah The vizier on receivnp
kissed the pa, kage. and returned towards
his seat. He then opened it and kissed a.
gain the signature OF his mss,er. and the
reply was said to be "let dc hungry B..
ted and The naked be cloatted. aud then
iet them be admitted to:,my pres nee I"
In obedience to the f,s, par, OF ih;s
command tables we're laid tor us.
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onr fellow citizens. We, must recollect
tha, the nou-inte,course act OF MAY last,
eonte mplates three events, viz. A removai
b. one of the bvllig-ren's OF his restrictions
upon our commerce. Secondly, reiusA
or neglect to follow him on the part, ot tAe
other, by doing so also. And thirdly, a
revival of the nun-intercourse act by. the
United States, against the power Sc retus-
ing, or nrgecsing to follow. In the case
before US, Bonaparte promised to do the
ftst act: In such case England was 10 do
the second act. and readily pro missed 10 do
SO, as soon as BonaPar,e actually should
have performed the FIRST. Lastly the u.
States was to have performed the third act
on -Bonaparte's actually performing the
fl-st. and En3land's refusing TO follow, by
performing the second Such is the order
In which these events were placed by the
law, and in which reason & common sense
requires they should stagd. This order,
how.vsr, has been totally subverted ny the
fatal precipitation of the president. In.
Stead OF waiting ill the frs, and second t.
vents, contr mpa,rd hy the law, mad taken
place, with the weakest credullty, ne &C
crpts Bonaparte's promise, instead OF per-
fo,mance makes his own act, WHICH ought
to have been the third, the first act, and
demands of England, under severe penal.
ties, to follow him, though only bound by
her promise to follow the other bei!igrrenr,
while on the other hand, Bonaparts pert
t!iously breaks his engagement, by refusing
TO perform the first act, until Great Britain
should nave periorned the second, which
he himself had exempted her irom by his
own failure. Lastly, with injustice the
most paIpabic, stFroniery the most insolens,
and Under preteaces ,he most aosu'd, ne
insists upon our quarreiIng with h"ssand,
for not following MS promised REVOCATION
IF his DEGREES, with an sctua repeat Ut her
orders in council, si,rr a,cning US, In case
ofreiusal, with the couhsca,ion OF all Amr-
rican property, on which lie has been or
Will be sble to lay his hands in consequence
of he presidents proclamation.
We nave no; time at present to pursue
this melancholy subject any further. Sucn
is the state of our affairs with France. 1t
beAoves every America to ponder it well.
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rHE Members of the Washington Soci-
! ETY., Of alexandria, are hereby nouhed,
that II, Anniversary Meeting of the said So
e,etv viii be held at Brooks hotel, on Friday
the 32d instant. at u O'Clock, II the fore
noon. This Society will move in procession
a, - O'Clock, to the Presbyterian church,
where an ORATyoN wiz be delivered by
licherd B!Gad Lee, Esquire, one ofits mem
bers.
G.. Deneale, Sr,y.
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- The Duke Of MAssa.
T" RIrFY, Sec. St."

Let me beg the reader to 60 back and
peruse the above once more. Ii he under
stands it perfectly, let M now ask him to
carry back his recollection to Cadore's let.
ter to. Gen. Armstrong, above alluded TO
heemu.t remember that that letter, dat. d
the 5;h OF August, assured gen. Armstrong,
fest, tha. both tie Berlin and Milan DEGREES
were on that day revoked, which every ho.
dy knows was falst hood aud, secondly,
that they would cease TO operate on,the I'd
of Nov. which we are cow assured, as we
formerly eonectured and predicted, is also
a falsehood. That this j. so. We have late
" been officially told BY our own accredited
agent in France /; but which, nevertheless,
the administration squad at Washington
have affected ITO disbeliev-, and certainly
tried to make the people disoslirve. At
length. however, the disastrous truth APP
pears under the official signature Of i" the
grand judge, minister of justice. to the pre-
siden, Of the Council Of Prizes" IT'S to
be hoped, therefore, that it will no longer
be disputed, ty the mos. jealous French
par,izan in the Us Nay, it is not only
confessed, bot openly justified and defend-
ed by the French chief magistrate.
Eary in December, the N-w.Orleaus
Packet, from New York, bound to the Me.
dIterranean, for marker, was s-izrd by
the French and carried into Bordeaux,
where she was seques,ered On the 10Th
of the same month. Mr.. Russell addressed
rote TO the dnke of Cadore, at Paris, re-
mon.trsting with 6rmn-ss and dignity, a.
gainst this breach OF piighted faith on the
part OF the French government. On the
26Th OF the same month, the above opinion
OF the grand judge was delivered. will
thank the reader to 60 back with me once
more and examine IL. Here We see, tina,
so far is 1t from being true, thar Bonaparte
has ever caused his decree, TO cease to ope.
rate on The 1st of Nov. as declared bv MIR.
Madison in his proclamation that he now,
ON the 25th of December, openly iustihes
the captures made nnd,r them, bv express.
" ordering all such captures 10 be held fast.
Is seeurs,esed till the ed Of Feb. thea to
be cohfsea,ed, or not, according as we
shall or shall no, have become subservien, 10
his pleasure-Ihus making the property
of our fellow citizens surety for the GOOD
behsvior o. the government d the q States
And yet suppose we still call ourselves
an indie pendeot nation.
/, appears then that the Berlin and Mi.
Ian DEGREES were neither revoked on the 5th
OF August, nor did they cease to operate
ON thu 1st OF November, The consequences
Of which viii prove 30 ruinous to many Of
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LEXINGTON, IKen.) 1.

We have understood from good authority,
that gov Harrison has requested of the exc
cutive Of this state, permission for troop OF
the Jefferson Cavalry to accompany him on
his proposed expedition against the Indians,
and that the request was grated. The con-
pany is to be made up out of volunteers from
the two troops in Jefferson county: captain
Funk will command them. Gov. Harrison's
first object is to erect some forts upon the
upper boundary of our late purchase from the
Indians and eventually to remove the ban
ditti which have been collected upon the Wa
bash river by the Shawanee prophet. This
statement may be relied on. A kind OF in
Official statement is ahoat, that the Shawanee
prophet will be taken into the custody OF the
whites, if he can be caught. The last mail
from Vincennes, furnished us with no papers
from that place or beyond it.
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FROM A PHILADELPHIA PAPER.
II FAMILY SECRET.

The first morning use your common nuanti-
~ of we'll burnt Coffee, and having poured
from the pot inwhich its made, as much as as
will run fine, leave in the boiler what you call
the grounds-next morning add to these
grounds two thirds of the quantity of ground
Coffee-and reserving your grounds in like
manner, add on the third morning, only one
half your first quantity of coffee-and in like
manner ON the fourth morning add one hall
the ouantity--by this means not only will one
tbtrd Of your Coffee be saved, but your Coffee
will encrease both in its strength and fiavor
for four Iaus at least, both IN summer and
winter. And you will, thus not only .ec
chea 4er out your will also hye better AIS
is a secret worth knowing in hard times,
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The Legislature Of the state of Massaehu'
sets contains many strange names as well as
MANY strange characters; some that are nell
Their Jew, Pagan, nor Christian. From cur
sory inspection of our Court Calendar, it will
appear that in our State government are al
most every species of lumber, animals, four
footed beasts, plants and trees, from the hys-
SOD in the wall to the cedar OF Lebanon, hsh,
fowl, men of high degree and low degree,
and of all crafts and mysteries and men in all
prcdicaments and of all qualities, as compre-
hended in the scholastic verse.
Quis, guild, u6i, qui6as, au.riliis, cur, gu0mo-
do, quondo.
SURNAMES. ~
Kings, Princes, Lords, Barrons, Nooies'
Chamberlains, Pages, Buffers, Cooks, Hoars'
Popes, Bishops, Parsons, Clarks, Deanes,
Taylors, Miller, Brewer, Mason, Smiths,
Baylev, Gardner, Cutler, Brazer, Turner,
Carpenter, Wheelwright, Plummer, Fisher,
Fowler. Hunter, Huntress, Sawyer, Chap
man, Warder, TYLER, Potter, Fuller, Super,
Barber, FrizelI, Shearer, Skinner, Colin,
Saxton. Graves, Carr, Carter, Spooner, Car
yer, Marchant, Scribner, Draper, Ensign,
Scudder.
Black, White, Gray. Brindley, Brown,
Green, Dunn, Good hue, Greenleaf, Browneil
North, West. Winter, Spring, Snow, Frost,
March, May, Weeks, Day, Knox, Gale,
Starkweathcr.
Cannon, Ball, Gum, Arms, Bangs, Noyes,
Kiham, Burnham, Thrasher, lizard
House, Barnes, Shead, Temple, Tower,
Hall, Story, Barristar, Ward, Locke, Keys.
Mann, Boies, Childs, Bachelor, Fellows,
Longfelow.
English, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, French,
Ireland, Holland.
Learned, Wise, Witt, Worth, Love, Bliss
Paine, Sweet, Small, Young, Hussy, Swift,
Hasty, Forward, Folsom, Primo, Little, Doc
little, Low, Hight, Wilde, Wilder, Hardy,
Abel, Hall, Loud, Strong, Sampson, Bragg,
Cram, Savage, Blunt, Moody, Makepeace.
Stone, Flint, Marble, Pebbels, Oaks, Burch,
Hothorne, Tufts, Cotton, Cobb, Ropes,
Tarr, Whiting, Gold.
Jack, Gill, Barrell, Gage, Kettell, Jordan
jacques, Savary, Rose, Lilly, Hartshorn, Per-
nv, Beverage, Porter, Goodale, Milk, Fish,
Bass, Pike, Frye, Fowle, Bird, Hatch, Spar
rows, Hawks, Partridge, Dawes, Crane
Wing, Capon, Swan, Bull, Bad lam, Bacon,
Pease, Berrys, Roots, Bullock, Hyde, Head,
Blood, Livermore, Pepper, Hunt, Buck,
Hart, Moose, Badger, Fox, Martin, Metcalt,
Rice, Mace, Foote, Spur, Rider, Bottom,
Webb-Salen, Gazette.
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From. the Poaskkeeiasie journal

e. Are you federalist or democrat Uncle
Peter :" simple countryman asked an Inn
keeper as passed his door Yesterday noTn-
ing. A democrat to be sure, was the an
swer. Sand what is democrat, Uncle -Pe-
ter" They are them sort of folks that never
tax our labor and industry Jenny: when -fe-
fleralists had the rule they taxed us all over,
we therefore turned them out and got In our
friends the democrats, who never tax us at
ALL "-But Uncle Peter remember OF read
ing in hook, that no nation Can exist without
contributing part of their earnings to their
mutual support at home and defence from
foreign invasion !"-s Wen Jemmy,~l dire
saw YOU read that from your Bible; but don't
YOU know Jenny that we have tine income
from taxes OH the damned English manutac.
lures that ruin our wool farmers and weavers!
know that our congress men, have curta'ed
them in order to bring England on her mar
row bones, but that very thing, saves all our
money at home for the benefit OF our own cl.
tizens' g . understand you Uncle Peter,
we shall by this means become able to pay
taxes" PHI tell you Jenny the short and
the long of the matter; as you say all coun-
tries must pay taxes but we must make II
appear that these burdens are the evils OF
federalism; we democrats will carry on with
grand effect as long as we can borrow or
swim without taxes, and then we will make
virtue of necessity, and let in the federalists
to Cypress and tax the people, while we rail
at them, to make ourselves seem the real
friends of the people, and thereby ensure our
succeeding to them in Office as soon as the
repaired state of the finances makes that ell
giblc.' "Bless me, Uncle Peter! but you
make the matter as evident to me as that
quid of tobacco: give me the tumbler; here's
to all honest, Gsinterested democrats, and ruin
to the tyrants of federalism"
PETRO PETROVITCH.
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THE MAN OF FEELING.

j.
Erhibitine en excellent steefmen Of modern
fathos.
All I! whittier, Stranger, dost thou journey on,
With hurried steps and wild exploring eve,
Thy wither'd check so pale and woe begone,
Thy bosom struggling with the deetl5eH
sigh.
All tell me, stranger, whittier wouldst thou
stray
'Tis piercing cold, and chilly blows the blast
The sky with murky clouds IS overcast
Portending, svanderer, an unweleome day
Say, stranger, is thy soul Oppressed with care
is thy last, only DROP of comfort gone,
What means that doleful groan, that vacant
stare
All ! say what ails thee, solitary one.
He heard--and thus with voice half-stifaed
spake, -,
"Inquiring friend, tits, It's the 6eAy-aede 20
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CHARLESTON, Sept. 81.
Loss Of the Pilot Boat Schooner X. !. eatfa,n


Loss of the Pilot Boat Schooner X. J. catta'n
Eflhord.
Capt Hilliard sailed from this port on the
5th inst. bound to Key San, and on the sth
encountered violent gale from the N. +.
which obliged him to scud for several days,
when he found the vessel had sprung aleak,
which soon obliged him to keep both pumps
going, and she was hove to; the leak increas-
ed, and the gale continuing, some OF the cargo
was hove overheard, and all hands set to bail
ing and pumping; finding it impossible to
keep her free, and that she must soon 60
down, captain Hilliard anu the crew, consist
ing of 4, his mate and three negroes, took to
the boat, and scarcely had time tc obtain his
quadrant, compass, about 20 lbs. OF bread and
gallons Of water, when she went down, IN
lat. 90, long. 70. They were then left upon
the ocean in boat l2 feet long their only
hope of preservation was to fall in with some
vessel to rescue them from impending de-
struction. They soon discovered a schooner
scudding under foresail, with which they
made every exertion to come up, but not be-
ing discovered, they soon lost sight of her
They then rugged up sheet for sail, and
made for the coast, and after suffering every
hardship incident to such situation, they ar
rived at this port, in the utmost distress, hav-
ing been nine days at sea in an open boat, and
lived two days without food.
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LOUISVILLE, (Ken.) Sept. 6.

On Tuesday last arrived at Jacksonville,
commanded by col. John P. Boyd, 500 regular
troops, and on Thursday proceeded on to-
wards vincennes IN good health. The militia
of Clark, Harrison, and Jefferson counties,
Il. To will meet at Lindley's mill on Satur-
dav, the l4th inst and will Immediately go on
to Vincennes, to Join the regulars, and from
thence proceed up the Wabash to the Pro-
phet's town, and intend building fort, and it
the Indians make the least resistance, no
doubt there will be an engagement imme-
diately.
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NEW YORK, Sept. IS.

Arrived ship White Oak, - from Lisbon.
July 81, lat. as, %, was boarded by the Bri-
fish frigate Tiger, 10 days from Gibraltar, for
Portsmouth (Eng.) Aug. Is, lat. a., long.
43, was boarded by the French frigate Jason,
treated civillyr and informed that they were
short Of water, and III search of the British
West India feet, There were 8 or sail OF
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.5GRIcULTURAL REPORT, 1871,
I'm Massachusetts,.


Indian Corn.-Rathcr more than nniddllng
crop. The drought in June was inausplclous,
but the rains and intense heat which succeed
ed filed the car very well.
Rye.-The mill-dew which IS so destruc-
tive to the circulation of the juices, has been
observed but in few instances. The crop
generally will be fine.
Barley.--A heavy crop.
Ray-On dry ground, rather light for want
of rains in the early part OF the season. Inc
intervals will produce good burthen. 1t has
been cured in excellent order.
Potatoes-.As well as culinary productions,
generally never in season came In more plen-
tifully or more genuine.
.dthles.--The canker-worm as well as the
caterpillar, made great ravages IN the north
ern and eastern parts OF the state and con-
sidering there was so abundant crop last
wear, there will be but an Indifferent quantity
of Cider the present.
The after seed will be abundant, particu-
larry if the frost is stayed--Vines have been
very productive. On the whole the husband
nan will have abundant occasion to rejoice
and be thankful for the abundance OF the fruits
of the earth.
Communicated for the Boston Gazette.
Agricultural Results and Projects, in Ne7v-
York, far 1911.
Ray-Very abundant--;ilong the Hudson.
and south OF the Highlands, the crops COLI
sidcrably injured by the rains III the season Vi
getting in.
Hheat and Rye-Of good quality and a
bunLant in produce. Insecuring the crops.
the Same remark applies as in the hay, thu
in much less degree. On the whole the
products OF these articles was never probably
SO great in any former year. The grain uhi-
formly good and very heavy.
Fzar-Almost uniformly good.
Oats--In general, good; but the quantity
sown much less than in some former years.
Maize-Fron present appearances, pro-
misses a great crop. The stalks are unlver-
sally heavy: and the caring abundant.
Potafoes-Perhaps hardly middlinS, injured
by the excessive wetness of the early part OF
the season.
Ftut-Abundant beyond any other exam.
pie for twenty years past. Every kind OF
fruit-bearing tree, shrub, or plant, from the
hardy forest Walnut, to the dimnutiYe pro-
dues Of The garden or the field, have been
loaded with fruit.
Buck-zvheat.- well at present
but this is crop of little consequence IN this
region; being but little cultivated except Oh
the failure of wheat and rye.
The second crops OF grass are very abun'
dant, and our pasture fields ware never better
clothed, throughout whole sesson.--Bata"ee
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PUBLIC SALE.

On TU ESDAY, first Of October. at half past
ten O'Clock, wiz be sold, at the Vendue
Sore,
Forty Barrels Sour Cider.
P. c. MARSTELLER.
September e7 dt,
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An account of the female fashions for June,
says, e Many Ladies have nothing o. their
heads. An arch wag, reading this piece in
large mixed company, read il, I" Many La
dies have nothing in their heads PA sad
mistake
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ANECDOTE.

7, is well known that queen Elizabeth was
a great admirer of the immortal Shakespeare,
and used frequently Gas was the custom with
people of great rank in those days. to appear
upon TIN, stage before the audience, and to set
delighted behind thesccnes while the plays OF
he bard were performed. One evening
Shakespeare performed the part of the king
probably Henry the Fourth) the audience
new of her majesty's being in the house.
she crossed the stage while Shakespeare was
performing his part, and, on receiving the
accustomed greeting from the audience,
noved politely to the poet, but he did not
..otice it when behind the scenes she
caught his eve and moved again, but still he
would not throw off his character to notice her;
this made her majesty think of some means to
know quAether he would, or not, detart from
the DIGNITY IF his character 7ohile ON the stage
Accordingly, as he was about to make MS
Kit, she stepped before him. dropped her
glove, and rccrossed the stage, which Shake
speare noticing, took up with these words $50
immediately after finishing his speech, that
they seemed as belonging to 1t.
" Ind tho no7v bent on this high embassy,
aYct stooh zye 10 take nh our cousins Siope!''
He then walked off the stage, and presented
the glove to the queen, who was highly pleas
ed with his behaviour, and complimented him
on its propriety.
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DR.. johnson made Goldsmith comical
answer one day, when seeming to repine at
the success of Beattie's Essay on Truth
g Here's such STIR" said he, about fcl"
low that has written one book, and have
written many" All, Doctor, says his friend"
" there 90 two and forty sixpences to one gui.
nea."