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The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-02-25

ger and no private entries Of land in the townships
90 offered will be- admitted until after the expiration
Of the two weeks.
Given under my hand, at the city OF washington,
JOHN TYLER.
BY the President:
Tho III. BLAKE,
Conpissionsr of the General Land QFies.
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CLOTHS, CAssIMEREs, vEsTiNGs, &c.

CLOTHS, CAssiMEREs, vEsTiNGs, Se.
WE have this day received large assortment Of
w Cloths, Cassimeres, and Vestings, which, IN
point of quality, price, and quantity, cannot be sur
passed in this market all Of which will be sold at tho
lowest possible prices. We name IN part
rs pieces extra finish woo-dyed black Cloths
no do medium do
rs do do blue do
no do medium do do
40 do invisible green, dahlia, olive, brown,
and green cloths
IS do assorted Cloths suitable for ladies'
use, exceedingly cheap
rs do London, Plaid, and plain Tweeds
SO do assorted Cassimeres, in fancy plads,
striped, figured, and plain
rs do rich Cashmere Vestings
10 do medium do
S dozen rich Cashmere Scarfs
do low priced do
IS pieces silk pocket Hdkhs
10 dozen linen cambria do
Together with Gloves, Suspenders, Knit Shirt
and Drawers, and Hosiery Of every description.
nov 24-tf ESTEP & CATLETT
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4, REAT ARRIvAL-NEW GOODS JUST RE-
" CEIyED.-we have this day received
Is pieces super jet and blue black Alpsccas
10 do do drab and invisible green Alpaccas
do do chameleon change Alpaccas
Is do do jet black Bombssns
Is do do blue black do
IS do figured and plain low priced black SILK,
10 do extra heavy (wide) Poult de Sole
10 do eros de Swiss and Italian Lustrng
80 do rich chameleon change Poult de Sole, rich
stripes
rs do plain Gros de Naples, suitable for Innings
Is do double Forences, all colors
IS do ladies' plaid and figured Cloakings
IS do rich new style Mousselines de Lame
10 do Cashmere do
Is do rich embroidered Thibet Shawls
10 do chameleon change do
rs do and medium Cashmere do
so Shawls Of assorted qualities
Is pieces 5-4 extra white Flsnnels
10 do do - - DO do do
Is do red yellow, and green Flannels
10 do French Merinoes desirable goods
25 do A Gothic Chintz, for inside blinds
so do rich Furniture Calicoes
case rich and new style Chintzes
| case handsome Cacoes, at ~ cents
20 dozen super black Cashmere and Alpaca Hose
20 do Raw Silk and Mohsir Hose
so do assorted Cotton do
10 do ladies' Merino Vests
do do Silk do
Is do colored and white Skirts
10 pieces extra fine Cambria Dimities
IS do extra fine Irish Linens, CHEAP
30 do medium do de-
30 do low-priced do do
10 do Linen Cambrcs from 81 TO 50 per yard
IS do extra fine Long Lawns
Is do medium do
SO do Birdseye Diapers, some Of which are
beautifully fine
10 do "a, 1914, and l2-4 Damssk Table Linen
Is do Damask Napkins
rs do Russia, Huckabsck, and other Diapers
Is do 81, 1914, and 1874 Russia and Irish Sheet
ings
cases Ga and l2-4 Hamilton Sheetngs
10 do Longcloth Cottons
100 pieces real Georgia Nsnkeens
100 do Cassinets, assorted in golors and usI
100 do Canton Flannels
100 do Penitentisry Plaids
so do Curtain Muslins
Is do red Cashmeret
10 do drab Damask Moreen, and
1000 do brown Cottons, ut cents per yard
Together with every article kept in dry goods
stores.
The subscribers would invite purchasers TO call
and examine their extensive assortment of goods, at
the same time pedgng themselves TO sell as low, II
not lower, than any other establishment in this or
any other city ESTEP & CATLETT
A GAIN, THE BRANCH OF +. PULVERMA-
n CHEERS LACE EMPORIUM 81 Pratt street,
Baltimore. In introducing to the Ladies of Wash
ington this card wish them to pay it their partcu
lar attention. because there two things Joined
my between 9Th and 10th streets north side Of
Pennsylvania avenue, which will prove the greatest
magnetism TO every one who is inclined to buy,
cheap and handsome The following desirable goods
arrived the other day:
Black and bue-b Velvet for scarfs, cardinals,
and bonnets, together with the most suitable
Trimmings, as black silk fringes and lace for the
hrst ones, and the very corresponding in and out
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NEW AND Rich WINTER uooDo.
WE have this day received large and superior
w stock Of Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, 10
which invite the attention OF purchasers In part
We have
IS piece extra rich Camslion change (Pout
D'Sou)
S do do blue black Anime silks
5 do do do do satin striped do.
Is do assorted figured and plain, blue black silks,
some Of which viii be sold great bar
IS do rich Mouseline de Lame
10 do Camelon Brocade Ian entirely new srti-
10 do Cashmere D'Esootte lido do)
do black Cashmere Cloth "a beautiful article
for ladies wearing black, and suitable
for mantas)
Is do Jet and blue black Silk Velyets
25 do superior Alpaccas (at all prices and ex-
tremely cheap
20 do black and blue black Bombazines
carton rich embroidered Cashmere shawls
do do oamelion silk do
3 do do Cashmere do
200 assorted shswls (of every description varying
in price from 81 To Sl0)
25 do Cashmere Hose ribbed and plain
20 do black mohair and wonted Hose
50 dozen linen cambria pocket handkerchiefs lem
braeng all qualities and prices)
so pieces Irish linen Cheap
40 do Birds eye Diaper (extra hne)
100 do medium and low priced hannes
40 do extra quality
10 do Rob Roy piaids (fOr Ladies wear)
20 do Cashmere do (for boys wesr)
5 dozen shirts Ia new article without a sosm)
10 do Ladies Merino and Silk vests
do Plush, Silk and Velvet Points
carton Dimity Bands
pieces French Dmity
Is do extra fine Linen Cambrics
III do medium do do do at 81 per yard,
Ia substitute for fine LAWN
25 do Gothic Chintz (for close blinds)
50 do rich furniture Chintz
100 do Leopard do Glow priced)
10 do furniture Dimity
25 do cambria do (medium)
20 do do do (extra)
100 do curtain Muslin (assorted)
10 do drab damask Moreens
25 do scarlet Cashmarette (for csrtains)
25 do crimson satin Damask
25 do super ingram Carpet
Is do low priced do
25 do "A, "a, and SO Venetian Carpeting
10 pieces fancy floor Druggets
10 do floor Oil Cloth
100 do assorted Tufted and Wilton Rugs
Also 100 Gilt Rods, Rings and Bands, and suitable
curtain trimmings, together with Damask Table
Cloths, Damask Diaper, Damask Napkins, French
Towels, Diaper Towels, Irish and Bamsly Sheetings
"a, l0-4 and l24 wide.
The above goods have been purchased at extreme
ly low prices for the qualities, and will be sold
cordngly.
We again ask a call before purchasing elsewhere
when we will be enabled to give entire satisfaction
nov 81 ESTEP & CATLETT.
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES.

I'm pursuance Of law, 1, JOHN TrLEH; President OF
il the United States Of America, do hereby declare
and make known that public sales will be held al
the underline nlIoned Land Offices in the State OF
MISSOURI at the periods hereinafter designated,
TO wit
AT the Land Office at FAYETTE, commencing
on Monday, the thirteenth day Of January next, for
the disposal Of the public lands within the under
mentioned townships, viz
North Of the Base line and Wssi Of the Gfh principal
.usrdian.
townships sixty i've and siIty-sir, Of ranges
fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen.
At the Land Office at CLINTON, commencing
on Monday, ths twentieth day Of January nett, for
the disposal Of the public lands within the under
mentioned townships, viz
North Of the Base line and West Of the I'M principal
meridian.
Tow Oship fory-twO, of ranges twenty-eighr and
Township thirty-fve Of range thiry-one.
At the Land Office at SPRINGFIELD, com
msncing on Monday, the twenty-sesenth day Of
January next for the disposal OF the public lands
within the aforementioned townships, viz:
North Of the Base line and Wss Of the I'M principal
meridian.
Township thirty-four, Of range nineteen.
Township tkirty-two, Of range tweDty-one.
Township thirty-two, OF range twent, -four.
Townships thrty-three and thirty-four, Of range
twenty-five.
Lands appropriated by law for the Of schools,
military or other purposes will be excluded from sale.
The sales will be kept open for two weeks,
unless the lands ale sooner disposed off, and no
longer, and private entries Of land in the town
ships offered will lie admitted until after the
piration Of the two weeks.
Given under my hand at the City Of Washington
this eighth day Of October, Ammo Domini, 1874.
JOHN TYLER.
BY the President:
Tho. III. BLAKE,
Commissioner Of the General Land Office.
The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-02-25
NEW MUSIC.

NEW MUSIC.
lust received the following pieces of New Music,
d at the old established Store, two doors east of
18th street, Pennsy vania avenue.
w. FISCHER.
Oh, come to me--by F. A. Rawlings.
Forget thee i-by Jane Holman.
My happy home-by J. Blockley
The promised hour-for the guitar-by G. II.
Derworl.
Sound, sound our horns--from "Amelie'- for the
guitar.
Corinthian Waltz
Souvenir de varsovie valss--by A. Hen.elt.
L'Aragonaise valse-by ID. F. E. Auber.
Gabrelsky's six polonaises-arranged for two
flutes
Kufner's light do do do do
Berbigner's airs--from La Dame Blanche, do do
Wess' studio moduaton--for the flute.
Walkers airs-from La Bayadere-arranged for
two flutes. oct 26
CAPTAIN MARRYATTs NEW WORK.
~ Travels and adventures of Monsieur Violet in
California, Sonora and Western Texas, by Captain
Marryatt This day received (Harpers cheap edition)
and for sale by +. TAYLOR. Price Is cents.
nov. LIFT
lNKOlSSAkT'SC ONICLES-translated into
l. English-complete in large volume, hand
somey bound, with many engravings-price three
dollars.
Also, the same work in the original French, i'm
ported from Paris by +. Taylor. +.
Ireland and the Irish, by J. G. Kho author of Rus
STA and the Russans-cheap edition, complete for Is
cents.
Thirty Years among the Players in England and
America, by J. Cowell, Comedian, written by him
sclf, vol.
Scenes and Scenery in the Sandwich Islands and
IN Central America, by j. J. Jarves, vol: with en-
Cravings +. TAYLOR
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NOTICE TO PRE-EMPTIoN CLAIMANTS

NOTICE TO PRE-EMPTION CLAIMANTS.
Every person entitled to the right Of presumption to
any lands within the limits OF the townships above
enumerated is required to establish the same to the
satisfaction Of the Register and Receiver of the pro-
per Land Office, and make payment therefor as soon
practicable after seeing this notice, and before the day
appointed for the Of the public sale OF
the township, embracing the tract claimed, above de-
sgnated, otherwise such claim will be forfeited.
THO. II. BLAKE,
ConmissOnsr Ofhe General Land Office.
Oct. 10
The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-02-25

NOTICE TO PRE-EMPTIoN CLAIMANTS.
Every person entitled to the right of pre-emption
to any lands within the limits of the township above
enumerated is required to establish the 10 the
satisfaction of the Register and Receiver OF the proper
land Office and make payment therefor prac.
eabLe after seeing this notice, and before the day APP
pointed for the commencement Of the public sale OF
the township embracing the tract claimed above de-
signaed, otherwise such claim will be fortified
THO. III. BLAKE,
Commissioner Of the General Land Office.
Oct 10
The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-02-25

THE MEDICAL STUDENT, BY "PUNCH."
The Physiology of the London Medical Stu
dent, and Curiosi,ies of Medical Experience; with
illustrations by Leech. Price 25 cents.
Received for sale by
Dec. g. F. TAYLOR.
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New AND CHEAP DRY GOODS JUST RE |

New AND CHEAP DRY GOODS JUST RE
~ CEIVED.-The subscribers have this day re-
ceiyed their assortment OF Spring Dry Goods and
they are prepared 10 offer goods at such prices as
will compete with those Of any other establishment
ia this or any other city Their selections have been
made with great in regard 10 cbespness, style,
and quality and will be sold on such terms as cannot
fail 10 give unusual satisfaction.
Purchasers requested To call and examine their
stock before purchasing elsewhere. They name, in
part
SILKS.
is pieces extra quality black Poult de Sole and
other Silks
pieces 5.4 heavy figured aud striped, and other
Silks
IS pieces rich chameleon, Foulsrd, and plaid, and
other Silks
The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-02-25

JUVENILE BOOKS, for youths of all ages
- A large and valuable collection of the abovris on
hand and tor sale by F. TAYLOR
Among which are many new ones Just received
and all Of the most approved and standard works of
TINS class Miss Edgewoith's Mary Howht's, Miss
sedgwicks, Miss Lesle's, Mrs. Hollands, and
others.
Also, small lot OF French Juvenile Books Just i'm.
ported direct from Paris; fine collection of the most
esteemed writers in puet,y and prose, both EnOlsb
and American, beautiful ednions-many Of them fine
y illustrated, others richly bound, for Christmas and
New Years presents.
Portfolios, Drawing Books, beautiful English Ri.
bes, Albums colored Toy Books, gold and silver
prices, F. TAYLOR,
dec rs Immediately East nj q odshv,. Uo,,I
The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-02-25

EARTHENWARE, CHINA, AND GLASS
~ THOMAS PURsELL, Importer, has the pleasure Of
informing his friends and the public generally that he
has just received by late arrivals from Liverpool and
other sources
lib packages of the above articles of the new.
est patterns and shapes
Ivory handle and other Knives and Forks, in sets
Of 81 pieces, and separate
German and Britannia Table and Teaspoons,
Walters "
Plated and Brass Candlestcks and Shutters and
Trays
Looking glasses, Casters, English and American
Tea and Coffee sets
Coffee Urns, covered and uncovered Pitchers SC
Astral, Hall, Side, Liverpool, Solar, and h cad
ing Lamps and Wicks, of all sizes
Also, Southworth's Patent Lard Lamp.
All of which will be sold, wholesale and retail as
low and on as good terms as at any other establish
ment.
Goods assorted in the original packages, Pipes in
boxes, Window Glass of assorted sizes at very low
prices, Stoneware at reduced factory prices
The subscriber has the agency of q Britannia man.
ufactory, which enables him to sell these articlesi
reduced prices. He solicts call from his friends
and the public generally at his store on Pennsylvania
avenue, opposite Browns Hotel.
nov 2S-eolm THOMAS PURSELL.
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II Press.
The Eneid of Virgil, with English notes, critical
and explanatory Metrical Claws, and and an His
torcal, Geographical, and Neurological Index. By
Professor Anthem. volume. This day received
by +. TAYLOR.
dec 2-3t
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-05-10
And the meeting adjourned, after a bencdiction.
Grand National Reform Convention.

SPEAKERS GopwIN--CnANNING-BE
OWEN, NC.
THIRD DAy--MAY7
The Committee met at 2 =. NJ, pursuant to adj
joumment, Mr.. RycKMAS in the chair After some
discussion, the call of the Convention was with
drawn.
Mr. GOWN then moved resolution calling a
Convention, and recommended Albany a. the place
of meeting Committee appointed TO cores
pond with all Associations Of Progress, to induce
delegates to attend Adjourned to ~ O'Clock in the
evening, when they met and were addressed by the
Rev. W. H. Claiming, in earnest and eloquent
manner.
Mr.. CLAIMING advcrted to the present degraded
condition of the working classes. lie considered il
indicative of a radical defect in the order of things
Here said he in this land where we boast of free in
sttuonsof our democratic principles we are the
verest slaves. Even the poor slave of the South
down-trodden and degraded az he is, is better off
than we of the North. Mr.. Charming then went on
TO say, that he considered it the privilege and the
duty OF man, with all his energy OF usefulness to
qulre wealh--tat - 10 acquire what - really good
and useful; and that, as he accommodates wealth. he Is
healthy, morally and physically. In the increase of
wealth il the increase OF health. As a man obtains
wealth he also improves his mind. The man who
works-who chlsels and drives the plane-who, stand
ing over tc blazing forge, yields The mighty hammer
that moulds the implements of human industry
comes IN contact with hard iacts-solid, substantial
everlasting tacts and he learns 10 understand them
Ito learn the laws OF cause and effect and just as
nc accumuates wealth, does he unfold and dcvcope
hs higher nature. Man, from the perception that
he ls increasing matter, awakenshs social faculties
and as ne strikes, lifts, and digs, he calls out his
social affections. As ne developes wealth. he has
also strong sense OF dignity, he feels that he u
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-05-10
American Home Missionary socicty--Nino-
ternth Anniversary.

On Wednesday night the aseemblage in the Ta-
bernacle was great az has been seen on any occa
SION during the past year; il was the celebration of
The iyh anniversary OF the American Home Mis-
sonary Society, whose efforts to evangciize the
West have been carried on with much energy and
success, according to the Report The choir was
full OF singers; the platform crowded with clergy
men, and the large of the body of the house was
cra,nmed with eager listeners.
The services commenced with voluntary ON tbe
ofgani after which desout prayer was offered up
suitable to the occasion. y
ne lrcasurers report was read by the Treamif-
ef, jasper Corning Esq, from which il aporars thai
there was balance in the Treasury of S2I7 81 ON
the 10Th April, 1874; the receipts during The ensuino
year we're Sl2I,oi q, making the sum al The di
Po,a! OF ule society Tor the year Just ended SIP
1868 -. The total liabilities amounted 10 sJD -
70, OF which sum Slls,360 IL, have been n,id
the debts contracted and obligations ncurrpdanlonn,
to SOL go, ~ meet which there is only tha ann III
3co3 40 IN the treasury. The increase Of receints
or TINS, over the previous year, is $20,0l %: OF
which over $4,000 were donations, and over Qss)oo
beques5. Tins SUN supplied the sl2 go ncceasarics
To enable them TO carry on, during last year win
surplus OF 5000 towards cnlargng liz operations
An abstract OF the report OF the Executive Commit,
tee was read by the Rev. Milton Badger one of Inc
secretaries. The report was upon The whole. ru
couragng, and the Openings for the eHart. ri II,
soclety had augmented. Nine hundred and f,rrv
three ministers were employed in the work duri,
ne present year, OF which 2W are ad litona With,
ne same period The field of their tabor Ntends or.F
wenty-threo st1tcs and territories of The Union ma
snada and Texas also, and the aggregate numbr. ~
congregations l285 Thirty.six missionaries moro arc
Employed this year than last The exemplary nannerin
which the missionaries had performed their duties do.
eryod the warmcst support and sympathy of tho
shurches their industry, their endurance of prvaton
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-05-10

rose But let me select one field Of labor which is many
thousand miles from here. as the subject OF few re-
marks | cannot reach it with my hand but can with
nv heart which yeans towards it, for there my best be-
loved son is missionary, md would esteem II high
privilege to be permitted g lay my gray hairs there
We call ourselves great people. and are, but China
has noie than 500 millions inabans, while have
only wcnty The province OF hean Shu alone contains
thirty seven millions eight hundred thousand people
Can the mind of imagine more magnificent field
of labor than this 1t is emphaticallg true that they
arc without God in the world; the lower classes
are degraded be yond the yilest i'll own landtheir
moral degradation and social depTavty are absolutely
beyond conception saw short time ago, in the So
cietys rooms beloved brother missionary from Chi
ma and young Chinese he had brought with him from
that country / went with him to the Museum, where
there were number of Chinese images, and asked him
TO show his fathers god lie pointed to little ugly
image and said that it, then asked him to show
me his god. He said, =" have not chosen my god
yetr What an illustration of the condition the people
And vet have heard it said, 1.-THE field is too arge-we
cannot answer the demand"
The Rev. gentleman, after taking cursory glance at
the uncivixed state of China, Africa and the great
field that open in these parts OF the universe for
the introduction OF the Scripturesthe improving condi-
ton Of New Zealand through the influence OF tie Cos
pel passed high eulogy the American missionaries
After which he proposed the following resolution
Resolved That while furnishing the Bible to our dcsti-
tue countymen on the land and on the sea- we must not
forget the destitute and benighed in foreign
tries. .
The Reverend MIR. WILKEs, of Canada, followed in
very elegant address, during which he took fling
Fopery, Catholicity, popish influence in Montre-
oil, Canada, and the Virgin Mary and went on to
If fhe Bible generally diauscd, it glo
rious thing This is subject in which feel great deal
Of interest 1t deserves the attention of every high
minded man. But must conclude. feel ! am in the
midst Of Anglo.Sax ondom believe all that is great,
good and glorious is in that book and cannot better
express the aspirations of my heart than in the Ian
guage of who though Engshman is the poet of
all who speak the language (CowpeD:
Come, then, and to thy many crowns,
Add yet this onc-the crown OF all the earth,
Thou