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Episcopal High-school Of Virginia, near
Alexandria, ID. G.
Rev. E. A. DALRYmpLE, RECTOR.

nv r. II. DALRYMPLE, RECTOR.
'HlS INSTITUTION (the diocesan school
Il for boys) is delightfully."- situated in Fairfax
county, about three miles west of Alexandria It's
design is to educate youth thoroughly on Christian
principles. The students are prepared for an adj
yanced class at college, or for the business of life as
their parents or guardians may desire. The course
OF instruction is extensive and acknowledgements.
ing the Greek and Latin languages, Mathematics.
and the various branches Of an English education
Particular attention is paid to classical literature.
The students are practised constantly in double
translatons and mennonite exercises; and il is be-
heved that the system pursued cannot fail to make
perfect and accurate scholars. The morals of the
youth are particularly cared for; no boy is permit
ted to join the institution Of whose good character
here is any uncertainty; and when any one is dis
covered to exercise an unwholcsome influence he ia
dismissed at once.
The year is divided into two terms of five months
each
Terms: 5000 per annum for board, tuition,
washing, &c; payable invariably advance; that is,
sl0O at the commencement of each session Bed
and bedding IS per term-extra. The NEXT term
VIII commence on the LIST May. For further rar-
ticuars application can be made to the Rector. The
post Office the school is Theological Seminrvn
post Office, Fairfax county, Virginia"
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1000 sheets parchment, ruled to pattern, and cut
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May 10
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stationery, printing, and binding.
NAyr DErARrAESr, May ~. 1875
CEp p A ~ SEALED pVOpOSAIS

NAV DHrAhfAhsNg way ~ iotts
CEP ATE SEALED PROPOSALS
- Will be received at the once Of thu Secretary Of
the Navy, until O'Clock, p. m, Of Mo.day, The
22d day Of June Rext for furnishing all the siAnon-
cry, and executing all the printing and binding that
may be required by the Navy Department and ~
several bureaus, for the year commencing Isl July,
1886, and ending on the Both June, l547.
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tract, will be required Of the person or persons con-
tracing The authorized name or names Of the
sureues that will he given, as also satisfactory est-
monials TO fulfil contract must accompany the bid,
otherwise il will not be considered.
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dering greater or less quantity Of each and every
aric.e contracted for, the public service may re-
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CEPARATE PROPOSALS win be re-

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To be published once week for four weeks in
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Pennsylvania, Keystone, and Spirit of the Times,
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From hc London P.mch.
Mississippi legislation.


In the City Article Of the Time, Of the I'm
April is the Report Of d Select Committee Of
the Mississippi Legislature, the object of which
is the abolition Of all laws for the recovery Of
debt, 1t is not against mere imprisonment for
debt, but against legal Intervention generally
in obtaining performances of a contact. The
Report terminates with the accommodation Of
a Bill.
A copy of this Bill has been forwarded to ID
Exclusively, and we have'groat pleasure in law
ing it before our readers.
a Blu for Ms total abolition Of all means Of
recovering debts IN Me STATE Of Misaissfppt.
Whereas, the practice of applying for, and
recovering debts, is found detrimental 10 that
spirit of friendship and good fellowship that
should prevail among the citizens Of a free and
enlightened state: And whereas, in cases Of
debt generally, the lender is the primary cause
of the debt being contracted, and should not
therefore be allowed to take advantage Of his
own wrongs BE IL enacted, That from and az
ter the Both day of June next, ne person in this
State to whom a sum Of money is owing, shall
make any attempt to recover it from the partv
from who's it 10 due, either by legal process,
application, plain request, delicate allusion,
gentle hint, or otherwise; nor shall he in the
presence of the said indebted party ever make
any mention Of the said sum due, either direct.
y orindirectly, under penalty Of FORGETTING his
rights as a citizen of this State.
il. And be 1t further enacted, That if al any
time aiIertho said 3Oth of June any party shall
contrary to the provisions Of this Act, make
any mention of a debt due TO him in the pre-
sence Of the party indebted, and such last-mcn-
toned party shall resent the same by a prompt
application of the bowie-kniie, the said party
aforementioned shall be deemed to have.commit-
ted no offence whatever against the laws Of this
State.
III. And rtereas, sundry st~hooImasters il
this State have BEEN in the habit Or instructing
the children committed to their charge to write
on divers states and copy-books such perniciouS
moxims as Honesty is the best policy,s4sout
OF debt out Of danger,' and the like: BE There
By enacted, That any schoolmaster who after.
the said 3Oth Of June shall be convicted Of
having taught any child or adult these or SINH
lar maxims, or any other maxims tending 10
the justice or expedieucy Of paying debts;
be deemed to- Come within the applica-
of the law Of JOHS LgNoH, Of blessed me-
". And be i enacted, That this Act shall
DO repealed by any Act to bs passed III this
any future session Of the Legislature.
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Number 40.

rey' This place is about 90 leagues from Mat
amoros' and Is approached By difficult road
running through an arid and ill.watered couB.
Try ms the principal city Of the pvayince n,
New Leon, and commands the entrance Of the
table lands, or The interior Of Mexico, through
the passes ofthe Sierra Madre.
TO maSOtho operations Of tho army upon
Monterey more secure,if not absolutely certain!
Gen. Taylor designs occupying the town il
Camargo, about $50 miles, by water. ubova
MOtamo'os. To do this securely Il Ii necessary
ior him TO have Transports ola draft suitable 10
navigation Of the Rio Crande. camaruo wilI
be the basis Of his operations upon Monterevt
ana this point must BE- FIRST made the depot III
supplies, and ebtrenched in a style capable Of
sustaining a siege.
i was the design Of General Taylor, as we
earn 70 he.at Monterey-by the LIST Of July;
altogether better for the army 10 proceed from
camargo upon Monterey than from MOtamo.
ras.
With a view to expcditing the march of M
""J' 0"P'aih oahaers, VINO has distinguished
himself in the admirable defenccs he has con.
structed about Point Isabel, has been despatch
go to this city to procure the necessary trans.
ports He is now in the city Of New Orleans,
but will proceed up the river immediately 10
supply the deficiency IL transports which his
purchases here may leave. From the mouth
OF the Rio Grandc 10 Matamoros, vessels draw
ing four feet water, can run without Obs,ruc-
ton; above that point up to Camargo, there ara
not more than three feet Water in many places.
steamers of the proper draft can scarcely BE-
got IN sufficient numbers here to answer tho
purposes OF the invading army, and therefore,
captain Sanders will go West to fad thcm.
Before reaching Carnargo the army viii have
to take the town of Rcynosu, which is between
Matamoras and Camargo. Il Is not expected;
howevei, that any defence will be made Of
such villages.
Gen. Taylor designs now to be at Monterey
az soon in July as possible. 1.-THE troops under
Gen. Taylor occupy Monterey, the whole Of
Mexico this sidesthe Sierra Madre will Be II
the possession of the United States, including
che mining districts ofNew Leon, New Next
co, Santa Fe, chihuahua, &C., &c.
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residing within the Alleghanios, lin the great
hollow OF the continent, that the control Of the
government and the affairs Of the continent are
passing. Theirs will be the task to give digni.
" to the diplomacy Of the nation and speak
with the voice of power-to vindicate the ex-
Gmptlon of the American continent from the
experiment Of transatlantic doges and teach
them modesty-to understand Alright the great
destiny of Amefica-to make Justice equal to
ALTO confirm union, and to heal distractions
Ito correct inequalities, to remove obstacles
ana to Ian our great career onward to its
goal"
"But the destiny Of cur nation hu become
now clearly revealed, and great events quick
ening in the womb Of time reflect their clearly
defined shadows into our very eye-balls. These
events are the imperial extension of our repub-
lie oTerthe northern continent, and our access
sion to the commercial dominion Of the Orien-
tai seas.''
; "ob, why does a cold generation frequently
repel ambrosial gifts like these, or sacrilige-
ously hesitate to embrace their glowing and
resplendent fater'
"Must this backward pull of the government
never cease and the nation tug forever beneath
a dead weight which trips its heel at every
stride!
"Nhat longer binds usto hang astupid cero-
mony upon the Haunting barbarism Of Europe,
where mankind, hurled in each generation
round the circle Of revolution, returns through
deluges of blood and hearths nca,nadjncd
with domestic slaughter to souse again into the
oft trodden mire of oppressionm
"Let not the government war against its cid
zens, nor interfere to mar what must in some
way be accomplished. The men of these TWO
great enterprises If which we have spoken
may notb be thwaried, The ambition Of the one
him in the womb Of a ship, to pur-
sue over the boundless ocean, and through ex-
citing dangers the capture Of the s~alt-sea mon-
ster; his spoil is blubber, oil illumes the long
night OF his home, ivory rolls over the billiard
table, and whalebone bends to the fancies Of
female taste. The other rescues the wilderness
from savage masters and idle nature. He Gre
ates a farm; he surrounds himself with the fiery
blooded racer, and with cattle; he sends forth
to the starving world provisions and material
the loom; these return to him in silks and
delicate fabrics, to give taste, elegance and
comfort to the household,
In both burns the glorious genius Of enter
prise, commingled Of virtue and valor. Paral-
lei in origin, in growth,and in gay success, mu-
tual faith, mutual reliance and protection, and
mutual and brilliant emulation are due mutually
from both to each.
Together, side by side, linked in the fresh
ness of the bridal hour, let them tread onward
their welded and indissoluble GREER"
There-I have not one word to offer, except
merely to say that if Judge BIBB ever can beat
this style of writing, why lethim do IT,"
POTOMAC.
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Crimes and their Punishment.
FROM THE COMIC BLACKSTONE.

FROM THE COMIC BLACKSTONE.
The law relating to crimes and punishmentl
forms WHAT'S termed in every country the cri-
minal code; thought the code does only that
which is right, it seems unjust to call it erimi-
nals With us, in England, it is denominated
&e pleas Of the crown, because the sovereign is
supposed 10 be hurt by every injury done to
the public. So that if A hits B on the head,
the blow Is supposed to fall on the Cro,0', in 0
double sense, and the sovereign comes forward,
nominally, TO prosecute.
The criminullaw, say the commentators, was
down to the end Of the eighteenth century, re-
m~arkably rude; but we think there was some
thing more than mere rudeness in booming q
man to be hanged@for cutting down a cherry
tree; and Plowden allows that She must have a
black heart indeed, who suggested placing such
a law on the Statute-book,'
Crimes andmisdemeanors are nearly the same
thing, except that the former arerather Of o
deeper dye; and many are of opinion that we
get the word crimson from the sanguinary hue
which some crimes are invested with. One oil
the deepest offences is imagining the death Of
the sovereign, because it is possible that a per-
son who imagines the death of the sovereign
may take a fancy to murder him.
Punishments are not intended as an atone
ment Of an offence, but TO amend the offence
and serve as n precOutioh for the future, Thus,
the law imprisons-or, in some cases, hangs
a man to-day, that he may know better to-mor-
row.
Its, however, difficult TO say what should
be the measure Of punishment, and many wise
men have failed when they tried their hands at
il. 1osephus alludes to a law of the Egyp-
tians, that every one having poison in his pos
session should be bound 10 take it; which
would besvery hard on Mr.. Butler, the respect
able chemist Of St. Paul's Church-yard, and
would entail on Messrs. Savory and Moore the
necessity of consuming several pounds Of ar
senic. The Locrians had a law demanding an
eye for an eye, which rendered gouging a re-
cognized pari Of their Judicial system; but as
some eyil-disposed persons selected people
with one eye as victims, The law was altered,
with an.eye TO equality, and it was decreed
that he who struck the only eye outof a one
eyed man should lose both his optics;-an ems
actment, by the bye, which led to SOM very
horrid pectacles. This law Of rotaliations how
ever, often caused much injusticei for il a
Locrian had docayod tooth, which he wanted
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Tho ARMY al oconnnlinn.

The 'army Of INVASION would be a better
designation Of the force under Gen. Taylor, as
the American troops have crossed the Rio
Grande, and are now in possession Of the terri
tory ofthe enemy. But as the army has gain
ed credit undeg iis " title,it would DO well
to keep this nomenclature until it has done
greater things under its new one.
We understand that the next demonstration
81 Gen, Taylcr will be upon tho city Of Monle-
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extracted, he had only to knock out the tooth
Of some respectable dentist, who would be
bound by the law TO take out tooth fer tooth;
and thus he might lose at once e valuable mo-
lar and the price Of his professional services
The law of retaliation was once tried in Eng
land, during the reign Of Edward the Third,
when il was founded on the principle Of in
flicting on one tho same injury that he design
I'd u%niustly to inaict on unothers This was,
however, found inc%onvenicn', and only lasted
a year; for one man might threaten to knock
another into the middle Of next week, but il
would be impossible for the law to carry out
this threat against tile individual who had ut-
tered il.
In England it has always been difficult to ap-
portion the quantity Of punishment due to diff
terent crimes; but some; general rules have
been usually acted on. Thus, stealing a loaf
on account Of hunger is a grave and serious Of
fences for il is melancholy business, and the
punishment is no joke; but wrenching a knock
er from a door and running away with it, is
neither grave nor serious, because there is some
fun about il, and the penaltysto be in charge
ter, is proportionably ludicrous. The criminal
law of this country formerly made hanging n
matter of such fatal facility, that 'hang me-
and I'll see you hanged frst,' are to this day
familiar phrases amid all classes Of English So
ciety. Excess, however, always brings an end
70 an evil; and the aanguinury system Of CAPT
tai punishments having been allowed a fright
full abundance Of rope, has at last nearly work.
ed out its own destruction.
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MILITARY oRDEts.-The Cincinnati Atlas, Of
the 4th, says;
Through the politeness of Captain McRea,
VIC were allowed the pcrusal of the general or
der for tho march ofvolunteer troops lately en-
rolled. The'cavalry from Kentucky and Ten
nessee are to take the route Of Memphis, Little
Rock, in Arkansas, Fulton in Red River, and
thence from San Antonio de Bexar. The IN
fantry are to be conveyed by way Of New Or
leans and Mobile 10 Brazos San Iago.
General Wool was expected to arrive in this
city last evening. We understand that the
troops are to be despatched with as little delay
as possible.