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A letter from Constantinople in the New York Post, states
that DR.. SMITH, Of South Carolina, Chemist and GeoIogist to
the Sultan, had procured a complete set Of the Magnetic Tel
egraph apparatus used BY Professor MoRsr, and presented it
to his Majesty. The system of Professor Morse was fully e1-
planned to the Sultan by DIR. Smith and Mr.. HamIin, an
American Missionary, who has charge ola seminary for young
men on the banks of the ~Bosphorus. The Sultan was de-
lighted, and is said to have decreed to Professor Morse a d.
ploma in the Turkish language and a diamond decoration. 1t
is also stated that he has determined to present to the Profess
sor a sum Of money, but of this the correspondent of the Post
has some doubts.
The same letter says that Dr. King, the American Mission
AIRY, had been virtually expelled from the Kingdom of Greece
by the Government.
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STILL IN SUSPENSE.


This is the eleventh day since we had full con-
frmation of the success Of the arms of the United
States at the gates Of the Mexican capital, Of the
appointment of Commissioners to negotiate with
us for Peace, and Of the actual meetings of those
Commissioner with the Commissioner of the
United States on two or three successive days I;
and to this hour no addition has been made TO that
information, nor has any communication whatever
reached this city from Mexico of later date than
the dispatches, public and private, which brought
that news.
That an intense anxiety is felt during this sus-
pense by all who realize the importance of the un-
certain issue, we need not assure our readers, the
body Of whom are capable Of fully comprehending
how grea, are the interests, temporary as well as
1--WE may say eternal, which are at stake in the de-
pending negotiation. Should PEACE be the result,
Heaven will smile upon it, and all the Earth re-
joice. But, (which may Providence AVERT should
the WAR be resumed, what man living can pretend
to foresee when and where that War, as yet only
between the United States and Mexico, but here
after too probably to extend to other nations of this
continent if not of Europe, is to end, or what may
be its final influence on the happiness of this People,
and the very structure of this Government?
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The Providence Journal says that a correspondent in
neighboring town gives the following rather unpromising ac
count of the occupations of a rainy Sunday in the country:
at has been a stormy day and the Westinghouse has no
been opened. Most of the members of the society have beer
out shooting pigeons or firing at a mark. One Of the elders
has beens' working out his tax, | suppose, as | noticed him
mendng the road in front of his house"
So much for a rainy Sunday IN the country. We doub
whether there was ever a more rainy Sunday in any part ii
this country than was witnessed from the windows of evey
house in this city during the greater part of yesterday. How
our %neighbors employed themselves we are not able to say.
Mending their tcayS, perhaps, some of them, (fguratively,D
like the elder in the country. Comparatively few Of then,
we presume, were able to get to church.
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The tide Of emigration from the North is. directed in some
degree to Vrginia. The advantages offered in this State,
from its location, capacities, and climate, are superior to those
offered by any other State of the Union. With an increase
of population and wealth, we hope to see an increased auen.
ton to Manufactures. The ~proprietors Of the valuable pro-
perry a. the Great Falls Of the Potomac, already laid of and
incorporated as "sou'h Lowell" intend, we learn, to Offer
inducements rarely presented for the establishment Of manu-.
factories there. Should they succeed, and The place be built
up as a seat for manufactures propelled by water power,
ALEXANDRIA ought to be the port for the introduction Of it's
supplies and the sale Of its manufactured goods. We hope
this will be borne in mind, and some attention given to the
subject.-Akrdndria Gazette. "
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We understand that the POSTMASTER GENERAL
has just received a letter from Major HoBBIE. He
was at rankfort-on-the-M aine, and will proceed to
Bremen, and will return to London by way of Paris,
and leave for home early in October. He has not
yet perfected his mail arrangements with England,
France, and Germany; but has every reasonable
prospect of being able to make a satisfactory and
advantageous arrangement with these countries.
We cannot yet say what these arrangements will
be.-Union.
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AUTHORIZATION OF PRISONS.

The PRISON ASSOCIATION OF New York have
called a General Convention of all those interested
in Prison Discipline, to be held in that city on the
first Monday in October next, to which they special
ly invite the attendance of the Governors of States,
the Inspectors, Wardens, Physicians, and Chap
lains of all our prisons.
The Committee Of Arrangements, composed of
some of the most distinguished citizens Of New
York, viz: WIN. L. MoCoUN, JOHN DUER, BENZ.
F. BUTLER, JOHN w. EDMoNDs, JOHN ID. Russ,
PROSPER M. WETMoRE, ISAAC t.. HOPPER, WILLIS
HALL, and THEODORE TELLKAMPF, have proposed
the following list of important subjects as the most
suitable to occupy the deliberations of that body
/. A comparison of the separate and congregate systems of
prison discipline.
2. The best means of securing a uniform method Of report
ing prison statistics.
8. The proper length of sentences, and the extent Of the
discretion allowed to Judges.
A. The best method Of supplying the prisoners with food
and clothing.
5. Prison labor, considered in relation to the separate and
congregate systems-its effects on the habits and morals Of
prisoners, and its interference with free labor.
6. The imposition of fines, and the conditions to which
they shall be subjected.
Z. The best method of appointing prison officers.
8. A comparison of the criminal laws Of the several States,
and the best means of securing uniformity therein.
8. The classification of crimes.
10. The use and abuse Of the ~pardoning power.
ii. The discipline Of prisons, and the treatment of pi-
soners.
IL. The organization of county prisons.
The important subjects above enumerated be-
speak for the Convention the attendance of every
man interested in making our prisons both places
e. -,-. IL -uI--I. r.. - III 49,.
that every where throughout our country sufficient
Convention, and that it will be influential in intro
ducing such reforms not only in the management
and government of our prisons, but in the laws of
the several States, as shall be best suited to secure
the great ends of imprisonment-the protection of
the community, and the reformation of the offender.
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Letters have been received from the camp Of Gen.
TAYLOR, who was then near Monterey. The Gen.
eral had made the necessary arrangements for car
rying out his late general order for sending the
troops he could spare to Vera Cruz, to join the
column of Gen. ScoTT. In addition to the troops
which he kept upon his line of defence, he had de-
tanned the light battery of Capt. IDEAS, to strength
en- his line. A mixed force of Dragons and
Texans was employed in clearing the country be-
tween Camargo and Monterey of the rowing
guerrillas.
Reports are renewed of the Generals intention
TO visit the United States but he does not yet men,
ton such an intention in his recent dispatches.
Union.
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One of the Washington correspondents Of the
New York press has intimated that the materials
were already in the course of preparation for the
Annual Message to be sent by the President to
Congress, though Congress does not assemble for
two months to come. We learn from the cores
pendent of the Philadelphia Ledger, indeed, that
the compilation of the Message is only deferred
until the Executive learns the result Of the confer
ences for peace in Mexico.
TIL moment that our course towards Mexico
: begins to be Defined" says the Ledger's cores
pondent, appropriations will be made for the next
: Presidential Message, and the course the Admin
: istration intend to pursue in regard to all important
: questions now agitated in the country"
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GRAND LODGE OF H UNrrED STATES 10. OF

AT the meeting Of the Grand Lodge, on Tuesday morning
the following gentlemen were duly installed as officers for the
ensuing yeas: HOAX r. Ksrass, of Pennsylvania, N. w,
Grand sire' Newell A.. Thompson, of Massachusetts,, R.W,
Deputy Grand Sire; James L. Ridgely, of Maryland. R.
Grand Recording and Corresponding Secretary Andrew E.
Warner, Of Maryland, r. w. Grand Treasurer Rev. James
d. McCabe, Of Virginia, w Grand Chaplain Smith Skin
ner, Of Pennsylvania, w. Grand Marshal Samuel L. Har-
rR, of the District Of Columbia, w. Grand Guardian and
John E. Chamberlain, of Maryland, w. Grand Messenger.
The proceedings Of the Grand Lodge, we understand, have
thus far progressed very tremendously. The session win be
continued for some days yet.
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A witty friend of ours being asked if he was in
favor of the war, replied, " Yes, | am in favor OF
the war. | went against a war once TO my great
cost, and you will never catch me in another scrape
of that kind. This time (said he) / go in for par,
p%estaence, and famine" How admirably does
this stroke of irony take off some of the cold.
hearted and hot-headed demagogues Of the day.
For there are demagogues who do not go in for
the war, nor for any thing else, simply because
they deem it just but they would 90 in for war,
pestilence, and famine, if they could gain their own
selfish ends by it.-Minois Journal.
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WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT US !

When the ancient Aztecs were wandering, many a long
century ago, over the mountain deserts of northwestern Mexi-
co, pausing here and there to build cities only to be impelled
by an memorable fate To desert them in the quest Of new sites
in some more s~outherly CLINE, they were told-or. that is the
legend-by their seers, who interpreted the will Of their God
Mexiti, to expect a permanent home and found a durable
empire on the spot where they should find an eagle sitting on
a nopal devouring a serpent. III these they found in the vale
Of Mexico there they built their city; andthere, in that beau
iful nook, in a mountain elysum far up above the earth, a
mile and a half in the air, sequestered from the world, and un-
known to the world, grew up the barbaric, but magnificent,
Empire of the M~ontezumas, and endured until it was broken
by the sword and trodden under the foot Of the SpaniaId.
When the descendants Of the conqucrors shook off the yoke OF
dependence, they chose the old emblem of the Aztecs-the
eagle and the serpent-as the arms Of their Republic, perhaps
expecting for it the same power and ~perpetuhy which had been
vanly promised to the Indian Empire. Little did they dream
of a future day when another eagle, from the north, should
swoop into their valley and rob their own bird of the nopaI Of
his prey. That day, however, has arrived. The eagles Of
the two Republics have fought together in the sacred valley
the American eagle has prevailed over the Mexican eagle and
now the former exults over his prize, which is, after all, a
bunch of thorns and a serpent
These are, indeed, likely to prove all the spoils which are
to reward us for all our Mexican victories, won at the price Of
SO much treasure and SO much blood. We make peace we
acquire Mexican territory, which we know not how to dispose
Of without a quarrel among ourselves a quarrel which threat
ems the greatest danger to the Republic. There is the diff
Guilty whose thorns already wound US there is the serpent
which may sting US. 1t required little political wisdom to
bring about the war with Mexico it will demand all the wis
dom that belongs to the best statesmen of the country to con-
trive a peace that shall be equally safe and honorable.
The p~erpetuity Of the Aztec conquest was the promise only
of a pagan god, or the false prophets who palter to US in a
double sense. 1t vanished from the hands Of the Aztecs ii
declines in those of the Mexicans in ours, the period Of pos
session could only be a few brief years of contention, and per-
haps CONFUSION North american.
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SEAL ESeRAvISG.-We have examined with much plea
sure a very beautiful impression of the Corporate Seal of the
Smithsonian Institution at Washington, just finished by Mr..
Z. SrABLER, of Sandy Spring, Montgomery county, Mary
land. II represents a medallion head Of Mr.. Smihson,
steel in a style of execution that we have never seen surpass-
ed. The likeness is said to be perfect and the admirable
taste displayed in the entire arrangement of the seal indicates
the high degree of perfection that Mr. Stabler has attained ia
this difficult branch Of the arts. -Bdkimore American.
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In the City Court Of Baltimore, on Thursday last, the fol-
lowing business was disposed Of:

In the City Court Of Baltimore, on Thursday last, the fol
lowing business was disposed Of
State Us. Robert Groober, colored, indicted for the larceny
OF a $500 note, the property Of Messrs. Thomas ]. Carson 4
Samuel z. Edes, Light street. Mr.. Edes testified that h,
had drawn from bank eight five hundred dollar notes on a Ger
tain occasion that one Of them was missing, and about fou
weeks afterwards it was returned to him by officers Zell ant
Ridgely also, that Groober had formerly been in the employ
Of the firm of Carson q Co., and had had free access to the
store and dwelling. Officer Ridgely testified to his having ar
rested Groober and recovering the note, which was fully iden
tilted by Mr.. Edes. The note had endorsed on its back the
following words " Nomine sfuAorum Unique sunt," 1.-THE
names Of fools are every where which fact Mr.. Edes had no
tcsd when he received the note, and by which means he fully
identified it. Mr.. Edes further stated that be imagined, until
the finding OF the note, that it had been accidentally lost in the
office Of the store, and that the place where the notes were de-
posted at night was locked, and had not been broken open.
The defence was conducted by Messrs. VIM. p. Preston and
VIM. H.. Young, both Of whom made very ingenious argu-
ments before the jury, who rendered a verdict Of equity. =
The man was sentenced to the penitentiary until the 3Oth Of
August, l~S52.-ChPpe.
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DIsTREssISG SUIcIDE.-A most distressing suicide took
place in New Orleans on the 9th instant. A Frenchman,
named Jerome Dubois, committed suicide by cutting his
throat with a razor. The cause assigned for the committal Of
this rash act is alleged to have been the grief that he suffered
from the death of a beloved sister, who fell a victim to the
yellow fever a few days ago. After his sisters death poor
Dubois kept aloOf from society, refusedNll consolation, and
gave himself up entirely to despair finally, in a moment Of
temporary insanity, he committed suicide.
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NAyAL.-The following is q list OF the officers attached to
the United States sloop-ofwar Jamestown, now at Norfolk,
ready for sea
Commodore WILLIAM G. BoLroS. Commander SAMUEL
MERcER. First Lieutenant Henry X. Thatcher. Purser H.
M. Hieskelt. Fleet Surgeon Stephen Rapaje. Lieutenants
H. N. Harrison, w. Ross Gardner, and Richard L. Love.
Passed Assistant Surgeon Morris b. Beck. Acting Master
Wilmer Shields. Lieutenant Of Marines, Israel Greene.
Commodore's Secretary, John Carroll Brent. Passed MID
shipnen, VIM. II. Mufdaugh and Jas. Armstrong. Acting
Midshipmen, A. J. Barclay, o. T. Johnston, H. Kimberly,
and 0. p. Allen. .
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Here is a paragraph eminently American, and which (say.
the Courier and Enquirer) could hardly be written in any
other country. A Judge leaving the Bench to become the
superintendent Of a railroad, seems to be a mixing up of pro-
LESSONS and a change in pursuits to which Americans alone
are prone or are equal -
"The Concord IN. H. Statesman learns that Judge
GoDe, of Nashua, has been appointed Superintendent of The
Nashua Railroad, and will shortly leave the Bench to enter
upon the duties pertaining to that office"
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MINERALS IN LOUISA COUNTY, Won Saturday, (says
the Richmond Enqurer,) our eyes were dazzled by a heavy
ingot Of pure virgin gold, valued at about $780, which
had been collected on "White Walnut, = the farm Of Hugh
Goodwin, IT,, Esq, six miles from Louisa Courthouse. The
vein, which promises to be rich, was recently discovered by
Mr.. George Fisher, jr, who has made arrangements to prose-
cute his discovery and work the mine on an extensive scale.
Quite an excitement, we hear, is s~pringing up in Louisa on
the subject Of gold, copper, and iron mines, in which the coun-
ty is said 10 abound.
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TERRIBLE FIREmES's FIeHr.-The occurrence Of two or
three slight fires in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening was
made the occasion Of a most fearful and disgraceful riot be-
tween the Northern Liberty and Lafayette Hose Companies,
which resulted in several persons being seriously injured. A
young man named King was shot through the knee. John
Abel was shot in a vital part, and the ball lodged in tho lower
part Of his abdomen. Another named Winn was severely
wounded in the leg. Two gentlemen, one named Lewis
Wolf the other Grausbach, who were looking on, were knock.
ed down and much hurt. Also, an elderly lady of the Society
of Friends. Only two arrests were made.
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FATAL STAGE AccIDEsr.-We learn (says the Baltimore
PATRIOT that the horses of one of the four stages which left
Cumberland on Saturday morning for the West became
frightened by a locomotive on the Mount Savage Railroad,
shortly after leaving Cumberland, and ran of, dashing down
a high p~recipice, breaking the stage, and killing one of the pas
sengers, and injuring another ~dreadfully. The names Of the
sufferers we have not heard.
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RonRKnr AT THE WARN SrnISss.-We learn from the
Stanton (ya Democrat that a daring robbery was committed al
the Warm Springson Friday nightlas The large iron chest that
was kept in ono Of the front rooms Of the hotel belonging 10
Dr.. Brockenbrough was carried of about three-fourths Of a
mile, and, by means Of powder introduced through the key
hole and a slow match, was blown to atoms. The Doctors
loss Is between "a, 900 and $4,000.
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"DEATH OF Az On SoLDIER.-An old soldier named
FuGITr, living at Washington city, who was in Washing
tons army during the Revolution, died on Thursday, sged
90 years"
II was the happiness of the writer to enjoy the personal ac-
quaintance ofihe venerable old soldier many years ago. Often
have we sat with him upon the banks Of the beautiful Poto-
mac, and enjoyed the spirit of patriotism which fred his bosom
and animated his conversation. Our old friend Fugit loved
to entertain his friends by recounting the stirring incidents Of
our revolutionary struggle. When the venerable man spoke,
the young friends surrounding him would be breathlessly 81
lent, drinking in his words q as the hunted hart drinks at the
cooling wafer brook" He was a man distinguished for in
trepidty of character, strict probiiy, kindness Of disposition,
and patriotic devotion 10 the best interests Of his country.
Peace to the old :" Revolutionary s-hes-immortality to his
spirit. Orleans National
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SINGULAR AccIDEST.-The New London News states
that on Saturday last, during the funeral ceremonies over the
body Of a Mrs. Kelley, in the north part Of that city, and
while the friends and ~neighbors were assembled in the room
to view the corpse, the floor gave way and p~rccipitated them
all, with the coffin and its contents, into the cellar beneath.
What is more singular still, no one was seriously hurt. The
house where the accident occurred was quite an old one.
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A story has been going the rounds Of the papers that a
physician in Manchester IN. H. had opened the stomach Of
a patient, and removed several hard substances which had
completely obstructed the passage from it. The patient was
represented as doing well, and likely to recover. The medi-
cal journals were much interested in the case, and many learn
ed comments made upon it, butt now appears from the Man
chester American that the patientwa val a hen! A scurvy jest,
truly
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NAvAL.-The U. S. flag ship Jamestown, Capt.
MERCER, bearing the broad pennant of Com. w.
Q. BoLToN, was towed from Norfolk TO Hampton
Roads on Monday by the steamer Georgia, whence
she made sail and went to sea with a fine north
westerly breeze.
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A woaAs AND MAN DnowsKD.-On Thursday afternoon
at Troy, New York, a team attached to a barouche belonging
to Mr.. Beach became manageable, and rushed overheard
from the ~fery-boat at the foot Of Washington street, taking
the carriage, with five inside passengers and the driver with
lady, and the driver were rescued. The other two were
drowned. One Of them, Mrs. Lyons, resided in Troy, and
has a husband living, but no family. TIE other was a Mr..
Thomas Reynolds, who il is supposed had a wife in Mon
treal. They were going TO attend a funeral at West Troy.
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RErREHESsInLE.-A loaded car was driven at a rapid rate
down the decivity Of Howard, at Baltimore street, on yester-
day, very nearly coming in contact with an omnibus, full of
passengers. The driver Of the car should have driven slower,
and have blown his horn, a precauton which is too much
neglected by car drivers and this neglect, il continued, may
lead to a serious accident, which was nearly the case in. the
above instance.
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GROWTH OF THE WEsr.-The Iowa Sentinel says that a
colony of Hollanders, amounting to about l 00O, have pur-
cased two entire townships in Marion county. They bring
their own mechanics and artisans with them, and have select
ed the site for a town. About 5000 more are expected to
join them by next spring. These are the right kind of emil
grants for Iowa.
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Hon. THOMAS L. CLINGMAN, Representative elect
to Congress from the Buncombe district in North
Carolina, arrived in Boston on Saturday last, to be
present at the Convention Of Biologists about being
held there.