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Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1847-05-14
WHOLE NUMBER G,5.

MY dear Sutherland, ,h. a5yssiag-s 10 ta.s
matter ers not bis. but ours, ard we must hor
calculate risks 10 securing Them, 80 vast aad IN
poragt o5 they ere TO his Gu. .sfy'5 arms. Nv
own life 10 nothing weighed ggaill gAe value Of
Wcs, Point. BJl there no need of sacrificing
life. There is no danger under cover yCught, ui
going on shore and meeting ibis mani on hours
lue win sgiHcs iyr the interview, aai shat. b.
oa board again By two hours 5slgr. day.Jrsak." 4"
"Iaiyr Andre, I'.l BE- --- j! you d."
"Nyt q wgrl, Sutherland" ra.j the officer
ployfu.y, "lhls pryjgc, must not b. given Up gl a
time when IL Is aJo-t'o 5. crowned with sgccos3
The hour has arrived when th. fNi3 Of our
.ocg pending negotiation may BE- ca'b=rsd--
when the hopes q General C..a'on nay b. r-a.,.
zej-whsu the reward FOR which W. have so
long iy.lcd. moy BE- reaped. Fauc..u. a?pr-her-
sioas ought to have no weight with a.g lla; notu-
ing, hfs itself would no: max. me wav-r. Eve.
r. thing depends on me :h.s ght. lvi.l g on
shore aul meet Arnold. Sc: 10 Fr.a, r.E ia
il, ua5 what there j.. lchscrll..y ercyg-,-r fer
he sake oF he object have IN view.
"a" I'll, do as youw.i, aLsr.. have no pow
er to control your movement, ny ori-fs b..Jg
10 afford You every means Q! achieving Success
fully yogr object. 1, ygg uG5i r9--gy, and
may CD J.e-s you! b.! far -g.i So. cy.D- u!
Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1847-05-14
VOLUME 13-...NUMBER 81

which was filled with smokers and tpper5, he
called loudly
"Black Sam!"
"IIere, sir. What genn'man wishl"
Then striding across theroom, he flung ghimsef
into chair, which a liule thin man vacated on
his approach, and throwing his feet over a liable,
on which three or four men, with blue coats,
cockadcs, aud strait swords, were resting their
mugs, he received his polaon, with the addition,
also, Of u pipe aud tobacco. Leaving him 10
discuss.,heso at disclosure The object of ule-housa
curiosity and the centre Of sundry ominous CLAN.
ces, we will change our scene TO the quarters Of
sir Henry Clinton.
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TERMS nF ADVERTISING

One square, fourteen lines or les-,l three inser.
tions, 81; every subsequent insertion % cents
Larger ones IN proportion. liberal discount will
be gwen to those who advertise by the year.
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Printed and Published BY
COLLIER A PORTER.

TERMS.-rHE CARROLL FgEg Pass is publish
ed every Fridiy morning al Two DOLLARS per au-
mum, payable in advance, or TWO DOLLARS AED rIT-
TYcrSrs il not paid until tie end OF the year. No
paper discontinued until all arrealages are paid.
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-30

late number of the buffalo Commercial Advertiser"
contains article rejecting, with great asperity upon
this Report and charges 'ndoence unwngness to
work the part of some clerk employee of the gov
eminent" The article complains that the report is de-
ecve in three particulars First that it does not con-
tain statement OF the domestic of Buffalo
second that mention is made of entrances and clear
ances of vessels trading with foreign countries and
third, that it does not show the tonnage built at Buffalo
during the last fiscal year Although the report does not
contain these particulars, 1t is neither the fault
of the Register of the Treasury, nor of his clerks
who compiled it. We know OF no officer here who is
more energetic and vigilant and who more thorough
ly understands all the details of his office than the
register; and it is universally conceded that more in
tegent, wellnfomed hard working and careful set of
clerks cannot be found anywhere than in his office A
visit TO it, and examination of their work. will prove
the Justice of this remark But the OMISSION we I'M
destand, does exist; and, except the Of two steam
boats in 1884, and two steamers, two briggs, soop
and one schooner in 1874, has existed in this annual
document for some ten years There is no law requiring
returns from any officer TO the Register of the domestic
commerce of any port. strong desire TO secure this
much-desred information has induced Secretaries of the
Treasury to endeavor to it. But all such efforts
have proved fruitess 1t is the opinion of the officers of
the Treasury Department that this defect in the law
should be emedied, and accurate accounts taken of all
domestic as well as foreign commerce, rs far practical
BILE The law of 1920 provides most broadly for returns
by the collectors of entrances and cearances of vessels
from foreign countries both American and foreign No
such returns received Mt the Registers office from
the collector at Buffalo, and it presumed there were
no materials in his office from which make them This
presumption was strengthened by the fact that nothing
of the kind has appeared for ten years in this report
on commerce and navigation. The law requires this
statement to be compiled from the collectors returns and
Il only be taken from them. There being no such
returns received no entrances and cearances of
vessels in foreign trade could appear as occur.
ring at Buffalo. Full returns received from
each of the other districts named by the CONNER
cial Advertiser; hence the entrances and cearances
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And it is believed, with an expenditure of $780, on the
part at the corporation, from the entrance of the canal
to the mouth OF the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, eight
feet water may be easily gotten with the mud machine,
which would make easy ingiess and egress for YES
sells of 81 80 tons, which the average size of
vessels that trade to Washington with coal and this
may approach to the mouth OF the city canal with
their cargoes at twohrds food tide its present state,
whilst vessels OF 90 or 10 tons go to the mouth OF
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal at any reasonable aver
age tide. And besides, the Washington canal basin is
of the most spacious canal basins the country, and
the best protected from storms and that pos
sbly be- and larger vessels could lie opposite Casanoves
where there is eleven feet water, which would swim u
vessel of 300 The bar running from Capt Easby's
wharf, on the west side of the Washington channel, to
the north side of the Potomac bridge, would as
breakwater which would be safe under all ordinary
casons for the coal boats at all times 1t has been pub
shed several occasions that the water had been blown
out of the river thereby preventing the mail boat from
making her regular trips, by OF the north
west winds; but this is error The that per-
sons owning wharves will not keep them cleaned out
alongside they should Thus there is hardly any time
but what the mail boat and other vessels may run, there
being water enough in the channel of the river The
tide GIBBS and flows about four feet Ii has been recently
said by two distinguished gentlemen, Messs William
H. Swift and Nathan Hale, in their report the capaci-
ties Of the Washington canal for the Cumberland coal
Alexandria apiace suitable for the shipment of
coal But thus Is mistake, and no doubt these gentle
will correct it when they shall have examined the
facts this report Tor II beyond question that Alex
andrla never have the capacities of Washington city
TO make basin for the boats lie as large the city
basin for it would destroy the navigation of the Potomac
to do If it should ever be found that the basin is
not large enough the bar the outside of the channel
with an lmmateral expense, could be filled ms and
then should have basin for boats from the mouth of
the canal to the Long Bridge, which will be than
ample for all the boats that will ever through the
canal. r.
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boundless commercial resources of the populous East
That such measure will receive attention from
the administration is not to be questioned Such atten-
ton fully guaranteed by the spirit and ability, by the
large and comprehensive view of the welfare OF the
country which the administration has already shown
And we had thought that even Federalism would put
of its usual spirit long enough to greet the attempt to re-
alize such project with something better than the mean
absurdY OF a sneeri
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-30

in them were given. Under the navigation acts, and
the instructions issued by Mr. Hamilton and other secre'a
ries collectors of the customs make quarterly returns OF
tonnage of ships and vesses and owned in their DIS
tricts From these returns the annual official district
tonnage statements compiled. When no return is
made by coector OF vessels owned in his DISTRICT the
statement Of the previous year repeated Nothing can
be given under the head of vessels built during the year
unless returns showing the number description, and tons
mage received FROM the collector. From 1882 10
1916 inclusive, returns OF vessels bult at Buffalo have
been received except lsll and ls4i above stated
being a period of fourteen years The tonnage
owned in Buffalo in 1916, IN the absence OF reg
ular returns was copied from the statement OF
lS45. In consequence OF a call by the Senate, IN
1885, for OF the number and size OF vessels OF
various classes, circular issued from the Registers
Office to each collector, asking the required information
up June 30th of that year In letter. dated Novem
Der u.s. 1885, the collector of Buffalo closes state
men dated the 18th of that month"; of lass, name, and
tonnage OF all vessels owned and license IN the district
of Buffalo creek New York. on the 30l day of June,
1916" The information contained in tn is return Will
be found Senate document No s. OF tn last session.
Before the receipt of this RETURN the tom age books had
been proved and finally closed and the various state
mens on them copied for the Senate and o and pre-
pared be sent according to statute, and could not be
altered if it had contained the proper mate rails for ma
king accurate statement OF the tonnage owned we
do know that there is fault anywhere IN relation to
this matter; but be that it may, we are entirely con-
fden that it is not with the Registers ofrce, where all
the proper materials, furnished in the usual of
business have been coated wrh care and diligence and
promptly congress the opening OF each session,
since the present Register has beer in Office His office can
only be responsible for the correct use OF the materials
furnished to it, In this respect complaint has been
made. In the taken to secure accuracy In COM
png and printing, all essential errors are avoided, We
hope the Commercial Advertiser I'll promptly with
draw its charges and thereby perform simple act OF
Justice to the Register and his clerks 1t will also render
good public service if will lend helping hand in favor
of amending navigation tonnage and other laws as
to secure more full and perfect information concerning
our trade and commerce A report this subject en-
anatiug from the Register, will be found among the doc
uments of the last session.
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-30

Col Bankhead, of the I'd United States artillery, ar
rived at New Orleans on Wednesday from Vera Cruz,
bearing dispatches and trophies of from Gen Scott
to the government He commanded in the trenches from
the opening OF our batteries until the surrender of the
city and castles and for his distinguished services that
OCCASION selected by Gen Scott to carry to Wash
ngton the trophies won In the siege
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Tennessee.
The COMING coNTEsT.-OUR ELEcTIoN.--The ensuing
elections promise deep interest the State, and is
be hoped that the western district of Tennessee will not
overlook the issues involved in this contest to its
we'll being We have great confidence of electng
Aaron v Brown governor; there is well grounded
doubt of his election, 10 mind do we stand alone
in this freedom from all doubt His election nav there
FORE be set down certainty. He has conducted the
affairs OF the State with signal ability, and almost without
question OF its advantages to the State even bv
cavers; his defeat is, therefore, of the impractical
BILE efforts of the wings of Tennessee
That we shall carry the legislature, we have the full
est assurances to our mind. This gives us the United
States senator.
We shall elect congressman. II is conceded upon
all hands that our talented and faithful representative
the Hon. f. p Stanton be defeated-indeed il ia
not certain that candidate will be against him. He
has accomplished much for us, furtherance of the
great interests OF the town and the country that his re-
turn is the duty and interest of all both wings and dem
Gratis, to reelect HIM Many wings favor this view
and we therefore his election inevitable under
any sort of opposition.
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Atkinson's majority

SUSSEX
For Congress Atkinson, democrat, 40; Watts, whig,
So Atkinson's majority lSl.
For Senae-Walker, democrat 1877 Daniel, democrat,
l60. Walkers majority, T.
For House of Delegates Briggs. democrat, ITS Jar
RAFT, democrat l50 Brggs's majority, 20.
THIRD DISTRICT.
The wings on Wednesday made desperate efforts to
twist the of Amelia so to elect Boiling; but the
Petersburg lntegepcer publishes letter iron Amelia
Court house. giving the returns ia ken irom the poll
books, which show majority of II for Dromgooe The
nelligencer also admits Dromgoole's election BY 81
oty, will appear from the full vote in the district
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-30

Commodore Conner has accepted the public dinner of
ered him by a number Of the citizens of Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania says: GAS testimonial of the high
honor entertained of the distinguished services of Com
modore Conner he has been offered by the Secretary OF
the Navy, speaking for the President the responsible po
ston OF Chief OF the Bureau of Construction, Equipment
and Repair. This offer accompanied by letter OF
the most complimentary character. If it should be ae
copied, we have hesitation in saying that the duties OF
the office will be ably and faithfully discharged"
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-30
Fire In DumfrIes, virgina-IIighteen Houses Burned
Extract Of q letter, dated

''DUMrRIEs, Va April %, 1917.
s'About o'clock, yesterday, while the wind was so
very high from the west, fire broke in Mrs Boyles
house. opposite the brick tavern, and destroyed nearly
all the houses at the east end of the town. the house Of
Mr. Dunnington the large three story Frame containing
about 80 rooms, belonging to Coquhoun's and Dun
nngtons heirs; the old banking house, Mrs Waters Mr.
Aliens and several other houses, in all eighteen, were
consumed. About 10 persons turned out of their
homes
sc Nearly all the were absent engaged in the
fisheries on the Potomac There was an awful silence
bells, no engnesand the inmates of the houses most
ly females, looking in mute despair. Such was the
dyness of the houses, and rapid the progress Of
the anes that but few saved anything but their wearing
apparel"
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UNITED STATES sHlr INDEPENDENCE,

NIOltsrcy, JAN q, T5II.
The Lexington has Just arrived with Captain Tompk
and his party She sailed about months before us from
the United States The captain fine health We shall
land his guns Tomorrow with the arcers and various
implements Our part in this Mexican is vexaous
and troublesome, but without particle of glory. think
desirabe however, that should be engaged in it this
we owe 70 The cOnnIrY and the seryiee.n
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FROM CALIFoRNIA.--The Norfolk Courier learns BY
the Lesant, that the United States store ship Lexington
arrived at Monterey, California, on the 9th January
last as we learn from extract OF letter from OF
ShubnckO which ship had arrived at Monterey three
days before the Lexington.
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For the Union.
The following are the various soundings of the Wash
ington channel OF the river Potomac from opposite Lam
bes wharf up the mouth OF the city canal There being
ample depth of water from Lambles shp-yar TO the
sena for vessels of 200 tons and upwards deemed
unnecessary to extend the sounding lower down:
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-30

MIR. Bancroft, our minister to England, has recently
been elected member of the London Society of Antq
rams, on motion of Lord Morpeth Mr. Bancroft is be-
eved to be the first American on whom this honor has
been conferred It..
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-30

Col Samuel Medary, editor of the Ohio Statesman,
mas been appointed postmaster at Columbus place OF
his brother, lately deceased
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do shout che is the nvinebe and alconquerng hero
n YOUNG SMOOTH AND READY.
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ELECTIONS.
FIRST DISTRICT

Asw suspected the aority assigned to Mr. Atkinson
for Congre (39) too small From the following full
vote, will be that this consistent republican and
valuable representative is elected by 90 In this
the wing Growing was alb thrown away. The Norfolk
astrict Is nm regnabe
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This evenings mail confirms the death of the distin-
guished Dromgoole He breathed his last on Wednes-
day evening" after attack OF peurisy for eleven
DAYS
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-30

We lay before our readers all the accounts which
have reached us through the Baltimore Sum-" from Vera
Cruz to the l4th instant. They came TO New Orleans
by the Massachusetts steamship. These accounts are
later than the late letters addressed to the War Depart
ment from Gen. SCOTS army. The last dispatches
ceved from him, up to this time o'clock this evening
are dated on the sth April, from Vera Cruz The fol-
lowing the last letter which had been received, from
General Scott
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From the Spirit of Jefferson, April 80
THE TENTH DISTRICT

We have the vote from all the counties in this district
except Page, which is reported and the following is the
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-30
3l4 maj. for Bedinger

From the Memphis Monitor
Tennessee,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-02-04
ARAB SCHOOL IN ALGIERS.

Ir was building adjoining the principal
mosque. We saw about twenty children
seated confusedly on mats, studying and re-
peating aloud the lessons they had been set
to learn. They repeated these lessons in
sort of singing tone, accompanied by con-
tinued movement of the body, In the midst
of all this stunning noise, the Arab school
master communicated his instruction. He
was poor marabout or priest, whose only
source of subsistence was the emoument
he derived from his little class, together with
the payment he received from some shieks
for chanting the Koran. No regular meth
cd of teaching was observed in the Arab
school. Each scholar was furnished with a
little piece of vanished wood, on which the
master traced few letters of the alphabet.
When the lesson was learned, the master
rubbed the piece of board with wet wag, and
having oblberated the old lesson, he traced
new one. The instruction was not col
lective; the master successfully called up
each pupil, showed him his lesson, and then
sent him back to his place to learn it. In
front of the little building in which the mar
about had established his school, there was
inscribed the following appropriate passage
from the Koran -" During the first seven
years of life, let the child play; during the
next seven years, instruct and correct him
during the seven following years, send him
forth into the world, so that he may acquire
and adopt its usages-the man will then be
perfect P'-ViSH to Algeria.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-02-04
Newspaper Literature.

PRINTING, the great preserver of all arts,
seems as if it had arrived at point beyond
which improvement is impossible. Books
suited to almost every taste and capacity
monthly journals intended to amuse and in
struct, and newspapers devoted to the sup
port of every creed and party are issued in
thousands, and scattered throughout the CIV
ilized world, Valuable works, at one time
to be found only in the Libraries of the
wealthy, are now brought within the reach
of all who wish to possess them. Every adj
vantage for the acquisition of knowledge
that man can ask for is at his disposal, and
renders an ignorant person in this favored
land at least, and object of shame to him
self and the community, and reproach to
the author Of his being.--BOstOn AthRGum.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-02-04
A Lapland wedding.
The following is from Fuller's worth

The following is from Fuller's Worthless
of England;
Here let me insert passage of custom
in this barbarous country, from the mouths
of credible merchants, whose eyes beheld it.
1t is death in Lapland to marry a maid with
out her friends OF parents consent; where
fore, if one bear affection for young maid,
upon breaking thereof to her friends the
fashion is that day is appointed for their
friends to behold the two young parties run
race together. The maid is allowed IN
starting, the advantage of third part Of
the race, so that il is impossible, except will
ling of herself that she should be overtaken.
If the maid overrun her .suitor, the matter
is ended, il being penal for man to renew
the motion of marriage But if the virgin
hath an affection for him, though the first
running hard to try the truth ofhislove, she
will without Atlanta's golden ball to retard
her speedy pretend some casualty, and make
a voluntary halt before she comes to the mark
or end of the race. Thus none are compel
led to marry against their own will and
this is the cause that in this country the mar
ried people are richer in their own content,
ment than in other lands, where so many
forced matches make feign love, and cause
real unhappiness,