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Is@ The worms they crawled in, and the worms
they crawled out" says the old ballad, but once
touched by Peters, Worm Lozenges, these destruc-
tive pests never crawl again. Children whose pale,
cadayerous cheeks, blue lips, and unhealthy appe-
tites betoken the existence of worms, will soon re-
gain all the rosy charms of childhood under the in
fnence of this infalibe specific. Many Of the YER
mifuges in are less destructive to the child
than the disease and not unfrequently ruin the gen.
eral health of the sufferer while removing the local
disorder. This can be the case as regards Pc
ters Worm Lozenges, which contain no mineral sub
stance, and may be fearlessly given to an infant.
Perfectly harmless to the patient they yet effect
complete and permanent eradication of the disorder
in much shorter space of time than any other YER
mifuge before the public. For sale by
may 2l-eoIw CHAS. STOTT.
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IL The BLACK Tor Allebasi,sl sALvE, an in

I55= The BLACK Cor Allebasis) SALVE, an in
vention of old DIR. Kittridge, of Massachusetts, is
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1t is already we'll known, but deserves to be univer-
sally known and used It cures, invariably, Fever
Sores, Ulcers, Felons, Burns, Scads Swengs of
every kind Cuts, Bruises, Rheumatism, Sore Throat,
Quinsey, Chilblains, Ague in the Face and Breast,
Tumors, Pain in the joints, Muscles &c., &c. Ply
sicians supplied gratis, for trial. See pamphlet.
For sale by CHAS. S'TOTT
N. B. Allebasi's Health Pills, Toothache Drops,
and Poor Mans Plaster, for sale at the same place
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HIGH DRAGGING.

We heard it said in the street yesterday, that
some man had deposited in Washington City
$4,000 for the purpose of betting upon Polk and
Dallas. We are authorised by number Of gen
tlemen to inquire if such be the fact; and to say
that, if it be, the whole will be Immediately taken
up. Will our friends of the Standard be so kind
as to publish this notice, and let us know if the
facts are as represented !-Richmond Wing.
We doubt it very much: we have heard of Sc
veral bets having been made upon single States,
but you can't get anything like "even up" out Of
the party. We can inform our friends of the
Wing that, should such be the fact, it will not
be suffered to go out of the District: all such
chances as that will be "promtly attended to a,
the shortest notice."
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BRIG PANpoRA-The brig Pandora, Captain
Paxton, arrived here on Thursday evening from
Hayti. Some account has been already publish
ed, Of fight between her and three nsurgent
schooners, while she was employed in dscharg-
ing provisions for the Hayten forces. We Learn
from the Mercantile Journal that the fight con-
tinued an hour. The Pandora had her rigging
great deal cut away. The schooners were from
so to 100 tons each They had, it was estimated,
at least 40 men killed and twice that number
Wounded.-Boston Advocate.
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From the St. Louis Evening Gazette
THE MISSISSIPPI.

IL is surely no misnomer that this giant stream
has been styled the Eternal River" the "Ter-
rible MssissIppl;"f for we may find none other
embodylng SO many elements OF the fearful and
the sublime. In the wild rice lakes of the far
frozen North, amid solitude broken only by the
shrIll cang OF the myriad water FOWLS is its home.
Gushing out from its fountains clear as the air
BELL it sparkles over the white, pebbIy sand beds,
and, breaking over the beautiful falls of the
Laughing Water" II it takes up its majestic march
to the distant Deep Rolling onward thro' the shade
of magnificent forests, and hoary, castelated
cliffs, and beautiful meadows, its volume is swol-
len as it advances, until it receives to its bosom
tributary, rival, conqueror, which has roamed
three thousand miles for the meeting and its or-
ginal features are lost forever. fef
Its beauty is merged in sublmity! Pouring
along in its deep bed the heaped-up water Of
streams which drain the broadcast valley on the
globe sweeping onward in boiling mass, fu-
rious, turbid, always dangerous; tearing away,
from time to lime, its deep banks, with their giant
coonnades of living verdure, and then, with the
stern despotisni of a conqueror, hinging them
aside again; governed by no principle but its
own lawless will, the dark majesty of its features
summons up an emotion of the sublime which
defies contrast or parallel. And then, when we
think of its far, lonely course, its journeying on
ward in proud, dread, solitary grandeur, through
forests dusk with the lapse Of centuries pouring
out the ice and SHOWS of arctic lands through
every temperature of cline till at last it heaves
free its mighty bosom beneath the Line, we are
forced to yield up ourselves in uncontrolled adj
miraton Of its gloomy magnihcence. And its
dark, mysterious history, too those fearful scenes
of which it has alone been the witness !; the ven
cradle tombs of race departed which shadow its
waters the savage tribes that yet roam its for
ests the germs of civilization expanding upon
its borders and the deep solitudes, untrodden by
man, through which it rolls all conspire to throng
the fancy.
Ages on ages and cycle upon cycle have rolled
away wave after wave has swept the broad
fields of the Old World an hundred generations
have arisen from the cradle and hourshed in their
freshness, and like autum leaflets, have withered
in the tomb; and the Pharaohs and the Ptolmies,
and the Caesars and the Caliphs have Numbered
over the nations and passed away; and here,
amid these dark solitudes, in the stern majesty 0
loneliness and power, and pride, have rolled on
ward these deep waters to their destiny!
"Who gave you your invulnerable life,
Your strength, your speed your fury, and your joy?'
God let the torrents, like shout of nations, F.
Answer!
"a name Of Algonquin orgin-Mssi, sgnifyng great
Sepe river.
tIndan for the " Falls of st. Anthony"
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A SINGULAR ACCIDENT AND PRovIDENTIAL
EsCAPE.--A most remarkable accident happened
on Friday last the cars from Harrisburg were
approaching Philadelphia. When about twenty
miles from Harrisburg, and while going at the
rate of fifteen miles an hour, large piece of rock,
which had probably been loosened by the rain of
the previous night, fell from bank above lmme-
diatey upon the railroad track, and within three
yards of the engine The engineer saw it falling,
and instantly reversed the motion, but 1t was too
late to prevent a conclusion. The cars dashed
on, struck against the rock, and the wheels Of
the engine were forced off The shock was very
great, and the passengers we're much alarmed
Fortunately no one was hurt except the engineer,
who slightly spraned his ANGLE. Had the rock
fallen few seconds later the consequences would
have been appalling The passengers were de-
tanned by the accident several hours.
Phild. Inquirer.
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John Farkin, convicted at Philadelphia few
days since of murder in the second degree, in
sabbing one James Lemon, into whose house he
had gone for the purpose of repairing clock.
was sentenced on Saturday last to twelve years.
solitary confinement in the pententiary. After
the sentence of the Court had been pronounced,
the prisoner, moving his features convulsively,
while savage expression shot from his eyes,
said, IL ought to have killed five or six of them
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NAvAL.-The U. s. sloop-of-war Warren. 63
days from Rio de Janero, arrived at Valparaiso
March 5, and U. S. schooner Shark, 80 days from
Caao, arrived March 10, and both sailed on the
18th for Callao. The U. S. brig Somers, Lieut..
Com Gerry, on cruise in the Gulf of Mexico,
was spoken off the Southwest Pass on the Odd ult.
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CONVENTION OF CLAY CAUSE.-THE conven-
ton of Clay Clubs of New York is to meet at
Utica on Wednesday next. 1t has been called
with view to adopt plan of perfect organiza-
shall extend to every county, town, election and
school district in the State that every nook and
corner may be reached, and no Locofoco strong
holds left in darkness and undisturbed this year.
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FARMER, A WORD?

What did Locofocoism bequeath to the coun.
try!
Mr. Van Buren, left US bankrupt treasury
He left the public interest every where aban-
doned.
He left us without currency.
He left us debt of fifteen millions.
He left us the North Eastern and North West
ern Territorial questions-lhough Of years dura-
tion-unsettled.
its conclusion, and treasury notes in lieu of manly
revenue action
And with all these difficulties foreign and do
mestic, piled "mountan high" upon the shoulders
of the new administration, the Wings are asked
for the promised reform!
Suppose, friend farmer, in the generosity of
your confidence you had employed an unworthy
overseer upon your tarm-that you had confided
in him for years, trusting in his promises Sup
pose this overseer to have suffered your land to
run wd-to have destroyed your timber-to have
| 'eveed your buildings to the ground-to have
fred your orchard-to have killed your horses
| to have run you thousands of dollars in debt-and
that, under such circumstances, he had been dis
charged by you, and successor appointed in his
stead. In this state of things, while the newly
engaged superintenden of your premises was busy
in planning the reparaton Of these injuries, ina
CINE that the villanous wretch who had caused
them all, were to come upon your ground, and,
with grin on his face, ask the following ques-
tions:
Why does not the corn grow upon this land
which suffered to run ,0iId
Why is there no cash coming from the mill
for the timber that l destroyed?
Why are not the houses erected in the stead OF
those that burned down2
Why have you horses, to supply the places
Of those achich I killed?
Why is there no return from The orchad that
fired?
Why have you not paid the thousands of dollars
TO The amount Of ,ohich ran you IN debt?
Don't you think, in this state of the case, that
neither church state could prevent you from
knocking the rascal down!
This is a true picture of Locofocoism.
Twelve years has it ravaged and laid waste
every interest, undoing in an hour, that which for
years has taxed the virtue and wisdom Of the ma
ton, and now, we who are grooming beneath its
enormitles, are insultingly asked Why haze you
not bu,H up a0hat zoe haze torn doaon2
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MONEY MARKEr.-The New, York Evening

MONEY MARKET-The New York Evening
Post of Saturday says
money is more easy to be obtained in the
street, and the rates of interest are lower. Good
paper and short leans are easily effected at 4 5
per cent.
"The demand for foreign exchanges by the
steamer was considerable, and the supply mode
rate. The prospect is that there will be no ma
teral decline in the rates at present; some par
ties have, in consequence of the present rates,
resolved to ship specie, and the Britannia will
take out about 100000 in Mexican dollars and
five franc pieces.
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. EXPLORING EXPEDITIoN-ARTIsTs."

In the article which appeared in our paper of
Monday last, with the above caption, we have
been led to believe that we were in error in at
tributing to the Library Committee, who have
charge of the embellishments of the Exploring
Expedition, an unfairness in the distribution Of
them to the various sections of the country We
have taken some pains to inform ourselves on the
subject, and feel desire to place the matter in
its true light AS far as the embellishments,
&c, have progressed, the very large number of
ninety engravers have been employed in different
parts of our counry-a greater number than any
other similar work ever published can boast of /;
and the engraving has been so well distributed,
that the names of most of this number will appear
on the different plates. And we are informed
that no application for a portion Of this work has
ever been made, that has not been attended to.
The Superintendent of the illustrations was
regularly appointed by the Library Committee,
and is one of the artists sent out in the cxped-
ton. He is acquainted with engraving and
photography, and has had many years experience
in the duties now assigned him by the commit
tee in one of the largest publishing houses in the
country. We have no desire whatever to attach
blame in this matter where it does not belong,
and hope what we have heard in reference to the
course of the chairman of the committee may not,
for the sake Of the work itself, prove true
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ANAGR AMMAT

The country, having been administered to for
fifteen years past by political 'mpyrics and char
latans, surfeited with vetoet and depleted by
Treasury leeches, until almost exhausted, needs
change of regimen, and she must and will have
it. The panacea is in her own hands
e. g., HER FINE, TRUE, OLD HYsoN-
and she will try the virtues of it.
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Philadelphia was the scene of horrible ira
gedy on Saturday morning. man named Jules
Lesuer, actuated by jealousy, shot his wife, and
Immediately afterwards shot himself He died
instantly but his wife was still living on satur-
day afternoon.
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Thornton II. Freeman, formerly postmaster at
Carrollton, Missouri, now in prison at St Lous,
awaiting his trial for purloining money from let
tiers, has made full confession OF his guilt. He
has given up Isl $50 of the money, and appears
penitent, and very anxious to restore the whole
amount taken, by sale Of all his property, and
the aid of his father, who is man Of some pro-
perty and good character.
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MASSACHUSETTS,.

The Wing members of the Massachusetts, Lee
gisature have called La State Convention to assem-.
Bile at Worcester on the 10Th inst, for the purpose
of nominating candidates for Governor and Lieut.
Governor, and Electors for President and Vice
President.
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REPRESENTATION IN GREECE The National
Assembly Of Greece having lately agreed on all
the articles of the constitution, before their dis
solution passed an electoral law. By this law,
the provinces which have population Of 10000
souls will elect one dcputy-those which have
from 10000 to 1000 souls will elect two-those
from 10000 to 10000 three, and those which
have over 100000 four deputies. The Ipsariotes
resident in Greece will elect three deputies
the Hydriotes three-and the Spezziotcs two
The Assembly ordered statue to be erected in
the Place des Platancs, at Napol de Romania, in
honor of the late President, ]. Capo d'Istra, as
benefactor Of Greece-Boston Advocate.
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This is, apparently, very simple question, and
ordinarily would be addressed to ladies'; but It is
one OF great interest at this juncture to the whole
country, and the answer to it will be fraught with
important consequences to the welfare of the
Union.
The American people will be called on, during
the present year, to decide whether they prefer
Gunpowder L, Tyler, Texas, and Trouble or
Old Tyson and Peace-Tyler, or Theodore.
Our forefathers once raised storm about Tea !;
and, if we do not mistake the signs of the times,
the people will soon give significant hint that
Gunpowder L is no longer relished it has lost
It's flavor and favor here, and must seek market
elsewhere. Perhaps it may suit the meridian Of
Texas, where hot water hot words, and hot heads
are more plentiful.
The whole world is now inclined to peace-war
is going out of fashion-and we hesitate not to
predict that very large majority of our citizens
will choose to moisten their Clay with dish of
Old Hyson and Peace, in preference to Gunpow-
der L and War.
The "Tyler and Texas" plot, a year hence.
will be no more thought Of than a "tempest in a
teapot" A DISH OF L.
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A Sabbath Convention, composed of upwards
of five hundred delegates from various parts of
Pennsylvania, is now in session at Harrisburg.
This body, like the one which met in Baltimore
some time SINCE has been convened for the pur-
pose of promoting due observance of the Sab
bath day.
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IowA.-The result of the recent vote in the
the Territory of Iowa, on the question of forming
State Government, and demanding admission as
such into the Union, was as follows for State
Government, $780, against it, 4,l9l; majority
in favor of the change, 1916.
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gang of counterfeters, some fifteen or TWEEN
ty, have been arrested in the interior of Illinois.
The counterfets found in their possession were
principally half eagles.
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The Mobile Advertiser says that the jury in the
case of Henry Etter, charged with the murder of
Mr.. William Finn, formerly of Baltimore, after
being locked up nearly three days, were unable
to agree, and were discharged. The case now
The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-06-05

The REvENUE.-The receipts of customs at
the port of New York alone for the first five
months of 1874, Gust closely somewhat exceed
n'"e and a ha.f million Of dollars, against some
Tour million in each of the two preceding years
Inc total collections at this port alone, during
1914 VIII pretty certainly exceed twenty million
o. dollars being considerably more than the en-
tire revenue OF the Government for either of the
last four years. The entire revenue of this wear
will almost certainly exceed forty million of dol
lars, of which over fifteen million, (if we keep
out of trouble with foreign nations) may be de-
voted to the reduction OF the public debt which
amounted to twenty-five million on the first day
of January last. Let the tariff be sustained and
Mexico and Texas left to themselves and the
Government may be entirely out of debt again on
the LIST Of January, 1646,--N Y. Tribune.
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Five negro men, recently arrested at Norfolk,
charged with the commission of several burglares
in that vicinity, have confessed twenty bur
glaries in all.
The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-06-05

The Washington Hotel, at Nashville, Tenn.
was destroyed by FIRE on The 9th ult.
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DR.. THOMAS F. DEvAN, highly esteemed
physician of New York, was ordained as Bap
fist Missionary to China last week.
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a Washington letter in the New York Repub-
lie says that the late Secretary of the Treasury,
Mr.. Spencer, is preparing for the press an expose
of matters and things connected with his late ex.
pulsion or secession from the cabinet.
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s. M. Cucullu, Esq, Collector Of the port of
New Orleans, died at Pass Christian on the 25tb
instant, where he had gone in the hope of improv-
ing bis health.
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Brig Gen. Worth returned to ST. Augustine on
the Oath ult. During his absence he paid short
visit to the city of Havana, where he was receiv-
ed by the authorities with distinguished marks OF
attention.
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The case of the American seaman lately muir
dered at Havana by Spanish soldier, has been
taken up by our Government, and is now under
going investigation.
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A New York State Loan of $5O0,00O bearing
per cent interest and payable in 1862, was ia
ken at ! to per cent. premium.
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NEGROES TAINTED.

L wish to purchase any number of negroes for the
New Orleans market, and will give at all times the
highest market price in cash for likely young negroes.
Those wishing to sell, will find it to their interest 10
call at my establishment, of Seventh street
and Maryland avenue, where myself or agent can 10
seen at any time.
Communications promptly attended to.
june 5-H THOS WILLIAMS
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VARIETY STORE.

VARIETY STORE
u ID. BOFELER having removed his store to next
door of +. Simms's wine store on Pennsylvania age
nue., and second door from Al street. calls the atten-
ton of his friends and the public generally 10 his
stock of staple and fancy articles, which consists III
part Of
Hardware and Cutlery
Crockery Glass and China Ware
Brushes, Tin and Wood Ware
Baskets, Basket Carriages and Cradles
Hollow Ware, Sc, &c., SC.
With many other articles too numerous to mention in
an advertisement; all of which he pledges himselfto
sell as low as they be obtained in The District
ap30-lm
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wv NEW GOODS! .NEW GOODS!-
wv have just received fresh supply Of New
Goods from Northern auctions consisting Of
Ladies' fine cambria Hdkfs
Gentlemens' fine cambria Hdkfs
do do thread Gloves large size
do do cotton do new style
Ladies' do Gloves, colored and white
do fancy Silk Shawls and Neck Ties
do do Writing Desks and Dressing Cases
Also, further supply Of Clothing for gentlemen,
Coats, Pants, and Vests, and lots too numerous to
mention to which invite the attention Of the c;li-
zens of the District before purchasing elsewhere at
the New York Cheap Store,
Penn. avenue between a. and Sd streets.
N. b. Auction every Tuesday Thursday, and Sat-
urday evenings, at early candlelight.
may 25 VIM. MARSHALL, Auct,r.
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SCHOOL BOOKS
II large and general assortment of School Books
and school requisites, all of which have been care
fully selected as regards binding, &c., for sale
liberal terms as elsewhere in the District, at
GARRET ANDERSON'S,
may 21-tf Penn. av., btw It'll and 18th streets.
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IA name Of Algonquin origin-Miss, signfying great
sepe, a river.
+Indian for the Falls of st. Anthony
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