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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 10 .e
satisfaction of the Register and Receiver of the
Land Office and make payment therefor as soon as
practicable after seeing this notice, and before the day
appointed for the commencement Of the public saie
Of the township embracing the tract claimed, above
designated otherwise such claim will be forfeited.
THO. Fl. BLAKE,
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
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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 tho
satisfaction of the Register and Receiver OF the pr
per Land Office, and make payment therefor as soon
practicable after seeing this notice, and before the day
appointed for the CONNIE ncement OF the pubc sale
OF the township, embracing the tract claimed above
designated otherwise such claim will be forfeited
THO. II. BLAKE,
Commissioner Of the General Land Office
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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 ofthe proper
land Office, and make payment therefor prac-
tcabe 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-
sgnated, otherwise such claim will he fortified.
THO. II. BLAKE.
Commissioner Of the General Land Office.
Sept. 5, lS44.
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THE NEVILLES OF GARRETSTOWN; A
i Tale of l760-By the author Of " Chas O'Mal-
ly," sc. Published IN numbers. Number one just
received by y. TAYLOR.
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est toll, and with sofest spirit soothing the heart
of lonely and neglected sorrow, instinct with
all that is loveliest in man or angel. --him you
cannot give over to the portion of the lost, or
consirn to the tomb of the forgotten His
weakness, his errors, his vices even,--reached
only the court of the temple itself, hung round
with golden harps, continued to his last hour,
through all the storms that beat upon its roof, to
shine with clear effulgence, and to charm with
the rich and chaste magnficence Of its first
morning.
Take your Voltare, already gone to his own
place, beyond the reach of any attempts OF French
galvansm to resusc'ste him,--your G1the
with his morality of selfishness wrought and
polished into the beauty Of statute, and his re-
lgion Of sensuality spiritualized and adorned
with angelic graces,--your Shelly and Byron
though we part with them not without reluct'
ance and tears-take these and do what vol
will with them, write over the alcove that con
tains their productions the dreadful letters, tina
shook the heart Of the monarch of Babylon will
terror, weighed in the balances and fount
wantng;' but Burns is not of them, and de
sends not into their doom. The world canno
spare him. He is embalmed for preservation it
the delighted memory of ages. For the goot
that was in him he is loved and for the goot
he has done humanity, virtue and religion CLAIM
him as their friend. Burns will live when al
we who speak his name, and all our doings arr
| forgotten
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but will dissolve dead flesh. These creatures
then, live upon other animals, and even bones
are soluble in their gastric juice, while it will
not dissolve vegetables at all. On the other
hand, some animals live entirely on vegetables,
and their gastric juice will not dissolve animal
food.
We cannot alter the nature of the animal by
changing its food. 1t will still belong to the
same family. 10 this particular bees are better
instructed. When they lose their queen bee
which is entirely different from the working
beef you present another to them within
twenty-four hours, they will not accept OF her
nor obey her. They prefer taking an ordinary
grub before it has become flier, and feeding il
with particular food and treating it in pecul.
lar way, and when it leaves the grub state il be.
comes queen bee, and they always suffer
themselves to be governed by her.
| The habits Of ants are curious. We all have
heard of ant houses, sometimes twenty feet in
diameter, filled with halls and rooms of grea
strength. These and beaver dams are con
structed on strictly mechanical principles.
| In some insects the males have wings while
the females have none.
| This is the case with the glow worm, and the
female has the property of emitting phospho
resent light, and were it not for this, the gen
teman glow worm would never find his way /,
his lady's chamber. The ostrich, like the che
rubin, is not provided with the means Of sitting
down. She cannot therefore hatch her eggs
and buries them in the hot sand, and leaves ma
ture to hatch them for her. Some birds bull,
no nests; like the cuccoo, which deposites he
eggs in the nests Of other birds that have bill
like her own, for then she is assured her youn
will have the same kind Of food she hersel
would procure.
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IMPoRrENT SURGICAL OPERATIoN.-We
learn from the Dedham (Mass.l Democrat,

lMPoRrENT SURGICAL OPERATIoN.-We
learn from the Dedham (Mass.) Democrat,
that very imporient surgical operation was
performed in that town. on Monday last, by
Dr. s. S. Whitney, upon Mr.. Curtis Alden,
aged about 20 years. The object was the
restoration Of parts of the face distorted in
consequence of burn some Is or 10 years
since. The deformry had become perma.
nent, and his appearance hideous. The
eyelids we're lost; consequently the eyeballs
were unprotected, in any degree, by their
integuments and one eye turned perms.
nen.ly upward and outward the angle OF
the mouth drawn upwards, leaving the teeth
on that side covered.-The operation was
instituted to restore these displacements, and
the success, thus far, is encouraning, promis-
ing not only the "luxury Of winking," but
great improvement in his appearance. The
operation is thus described:
In the first place circular incsion was made, cor.
responding in length and in its direction with the edge
OF the inverted lid, far it could be traced up the
parts with which it had become identified the cica
rx Tor scarf Ofthe burn was then dissected away
such manner as to form directly the point up
on which the lid is 10 be placed large triangu.
lar surface Of raw lntegument. Over this flap,
which was dlssecled from the cheek on the one hanH
and from the forehead on the other, was turned up
with what remained 1.-THE jarsa cartilage Of the eye
lids, and made 10 correspond well as possible with
the ball OF the eve. An ncision was then made
through this flap just below the edge Of the tarsa
cartilage through which the conjuncve Tor the lining
membrane of'he eve) was seized and drawn through
until the inverted lid was made 10 adapt itself to the
[ form of the eyebal; portion of this membrane wal
then excised, and the eige Of the arsal curtiage
secured by stitches to the part conguoes.
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ROMANTIC, BUT MELANcHoLY.-On Tues

ROMANTIC, BUT MELANcHoLY.-On Tues.
day last. the body Of Mrs. Hooper Ellis,
who had been missing for more than two
months, and about whose studded disappear.
ance from The midst of Their friends, strange
and various reports have been circulated,
was discovered in mill pond in the vicinity
Of Mount Pleasant, Penn, by some Indians
who were passing the place. The deceased
was granddaughter to Mr.. Benjamin Fair.
child, Of Oakland, and had been married on
ly last New years day to Mr.. H. Ellis, son
Of John Ellis, Esq, Of Mount Pleasant she
was pretty, interesting person, aged II
years and months.
About two months after her marriage, she
intimated to the family Of Mr.. John Ellis, al
whose house she was then stopping, her in
tenlion Of visiting her grand mother she
accordingly went, and on The night of her
arrival, after having retired, as her friends
thought. to sleep, she dressed herself with
more than usual neatness and precision, left
the house s,ealthily, and walked three miles
to the mill pond, where she deliberately took
off her bonnet and veil, and tied them to a
bush, which we're also noticed on Tuesday,
tied a white pocket handkerchief tightly
round her throat, for the purpose, il is sup.
posed, of preventing her swallowing a large
quantity rapidly, confined her hair with
another handkerchief, and then dressed in
cloak and gloves, &c. plunged into the va.
ter.--Newark Daily Adp.