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/ .AH0E Prsnt Of the senate Chamber giving q.
~ many as one hundred striking kenesses of dstin-
gnisnea ,navdas OF the United States senators and 9TH
' I "Nea f. TAYLOR.
Also collection of beautifully engraved medallion nor
traits framed IN enamel OF Clay Webster TAYLOR Butler
Aug Is ~ "' o'"oi''
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From Spain, we learn that the Queen has been Off
cialy declared enciente. However, mprudence had
occasioned alarming fears for the Illustration of the hopes
of all loyal Spanards.
We learn that the Montemolinist movement on the
northern frontier had not succeeded but the
so little trustworthy that it is impossible to speak of the
subject with any degree Of certainty Don Francisco de
Paula the father OF the King Consort, has been exed
Nothing remarkable has occurred in Portugal. The
last dates are to the 9th instant, from Lisbon when d
fairs were very gloomy.
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VXTAsHINGTON Gas-Light CenPany.-Tne stipulated
w of stock in this company having been sub
scrbed, meeting of the stockholders will take place
the company's office Wednesday, the 18th instant, at
o'clock, p. m, when bylaws for the government OF the
company will be submitted for adoption, and other sub
ecs considered
BY order of the board
Aug. I5-2uf j. BIGELOW, Secretary.
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THE AMERICAN LAW JOURNAL, published in
L monthly numbers at Philadelphia and Lancaster
Pennsylvania, by association OF gentlemen learned in
the law. Price 81 per annum
The work may examined at the bookstore of f. TAY
LOR, who win have the numbers regularly forwarded
strongly enveoped any office in the United States
Aug Is
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OF September al
NAVY Yard free OF expense To the govern
nen the materials and articles hereinafter spec fled
vizi
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Alto be delivered by the 18Th Of October merit.
paving
25OO best quality fire. bricks
1000 arch and pillar bricks
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Ga perches of foundation stone
$500 supe cul feet blue tagging not less than by
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CLASS No. s.
$1,000 feet inch white pine merchandise boards
1000 do lt-inch do do
45OO do Pinch select cuttings
25O0 do linch do
$500 do linch common cuttings
1890 do by inches North Carolina yellow pine
ling
inches wide, and 10 feet long
66 North Carolina yellow pine plank, inches thick l0h
inches wide, and Is feet long
5000 feet OF 2.inch white pine panel boards
1000 do linch do do
All of the above well seasoned and in l6 feet lengths
yellow pine piles, IL feet long each, 10 inches diane
at head, inches at heel
20 pieces white oak TIMBER ~ feet long each, rough
hewed, to be not less than IL inches square, nor
l2i inches
piece white oak TIMBER squared, 10 by ~ inches 10
feet long
pieces white oak TIMBER squared, l6 by 20 inches 10
feet long
piece white oak timber, squared IL by IL inches,
feet long
s white oak plank, III by 81 inches, Is feet long
The foowng pieces OF seasoned strai ght-graned south
yellow pine TO be free OF sap large knots and Shakes
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~ do II byi do do
Is tons American gray pig Iron mo ID
CLASS No 7.
To be delivered by the 18th of October vert.
Is gallons best Japan varnsh
1000 pounds pure white lead dry
$50 do do do in oil
1920 do Spanish whiting dry
80 do Paris green
Is do chrome do
234 gallons pure nseed oil (raw) American
80 do do spirits of turpentne
Is do best copal varnish
756 pounds pure white lead in oil
1860 lights of best glass, 10 by IL
AZ pounds litharge
600 feet first quality glass, 10 by IL inches
MIsoELLANEoUs-To be delivered required.
500 gallons best quality wnter-straned sperm oil
300 do do meats. foot oil
20 pounds stone ochre dry
80 do Turkey lumber
10 do Prussian blue dry
do Chinese vermillion dry
200 feet first quality glass, IL by Is inches
CLASS No. 8.
MiscKLLANKoUs-To be delivered as required.
IL sheet. of % inches wide 80 inches long, and
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Washington Branch haiiroad.
NTOTICE.-For the accommodation of members Of Con-
gress and Others who may desire with the
steamboat which leaves Baltimore at a. m for Phia-
depha train of passenger will be despatched from
this depot for Baltimore Monday next, the l4h inst
IL O'clock and leave the hour daily
until Saturday, the 10Th inst. inclusive
BY order; THOMAS II. PARSONS,
Washington, Aug. ltd Agent
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FOREIGN.
NEWS BY THE ACADIA.

We subjon the following items OF foreign intelligence
by the Acadia, in addition to the summary which gave
Yesterday.
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Money Market.

LIVERPOOL, July 29.-The progress of trade and COM
merce during the past week. has been greatly by
the extreme uneaslnes which felt respecting the
affairs in Ireland
Tine markets for colonial produce have therefore, been
less active with the exception of sugar. which has
fair demand
The sales of cotton are to a moderate extent.
The corn trade has been active prices rather higher
Manufactured goods less inquired for for home use
, LONDON MONEY MARKET, Friday, July 2s-Consols have
as nigh as SOY but the correct accounts from Ireland
ers We're encouraged operate less boldly, and prices
were reduced to S5i They have partially receded from
a extreme point, but they quoted 853 1, both for
money and time. -
The money market is easy and the rates of interest RI
man at the figure last quoted
,tead e n early part Of the week the money market
anu AZ Quotations similar to those last quoted but
hey have attey fucuated much on account of the
excitement which prevails in Ireland.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-03-04
maxissss ON yoouex.

The art OF living easily as TO money, is
to pitch your scale Of living one degree be-
low your means. Comfort and enjoyment
are more dependant upon easiness in the
detail Of expenditure than upon one de-
gree s difference in the scale. Guard against
false associations Of pleasure with expendi-
ture-the notion that because pleasure can
be purchased with money, therefore. money
cannot be spent without enjoyment. What
a thing costs a man, is no true measure of
what il is worth to him; and yet how often
is his appreciation governed by no other
standard, as if there were a pleasure in ex-
Penditure per Sc. Let yourself feel want
before you provide against il. You are
more assured that il is a real want and il is
worth while to feel il little in order to feel
the relief from it. When you are undeci-
ded as to which OF two courses you would
like the best, choose the cheapest This rule
will not only save money, but save also a
good deal Of trifing indecision. Too much
leisure leads to expense; because when
man IS IN want OF objects, it occurs to him,
that they are to be had for money, and he
nvents expenditure in order to pass the
dme.-Iaylor's Notes from Life.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-03-04
Lord Eislom Accused Of sseuch Ing.

An old friend of his has communiac
ted to me the following story of the great
danger in which the Lord High Chancellor
OF Great Britain once was Of being held up
before magistrate as poacher. al heard
that Lord Eldon was spending few days
with his friend, Mr.. W., whose domain was
very rural and pretty, but not extensive, and
on calling on him there, found him in his
usual suit OF black, with the addition of his
well-known travelling topped boots, and
with an old shot-belt over his shoulder. His
countenance at once convinced me that he
had something amusing to tell land with an air
Of assumed alarm, he related an adventure in
which he had Just played the principal part.
q unfortunately crossed lane in pursuit Of
my game, and in the second field from this
lane was accosted by powerful and al.
most savage looking farmer, who challenged
me as the poacher for whom he had long
been looking. | at once acknowledged that
| might have made mistake as to his land,
and offered TO turn back Immediately, but
this did not at all pacily him, for, putting him.
'NAi az hOhe VI hio, ttClCitu lildt
not stir ill he knew who was and where
TO be found. tried to evade giving de-
scdptidn Of myself by renewed offers of de-
parture and promise not to return, but this
did but increase his violence, and so | was
at last forced to acknowledge that was the
Lord Chancellor, communication which
was 30 far from allaying his, ire, tina, it did
but increase its fury, for, in language which
looked very like earnest, he swore that of
all the impudent answers he ever got, mine
was the most impudent; and verify believe
he would have laid hands on me if my tall
footman (one Of the finest young men ev
er saw had not come up to US and addressed
me as my lord. Lord CampbeUs Lires
of the Chancellors.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-03-04

Of all silly things none is more silly ,b.,
by elaborate proofs. to show to o1IseIva,
that We ought, on such and such oeeas;oUS
to have been successful, when it 50 hapnsn
ed that we have not been 50. WbepSr.
we fail, we are paying both God and On,
selves suitable compliment, by admir-
frankly and at once. that we deserved 70 ri
This is philosophy, and it is likewise rar
gion. We have failed; well, then -.
wisdom is to take care that we do NO, en-
again. To fail, and fail, and fail again ana
again, is not to prove that we do No, ~
serve success, or that We shall never Or
it. How often We fail, matters not NJ,
have not failed as long as our spirit ous1.
not, but only grows stronger in The cona;e,
Our enthusiasm. il it continue undaun,.5
by obstacles, unsubdued by def ats j. i,.sIf
success, and the most glorious of all sne
cess. The blows We receive, however bs,I
ii We receive them as all true entbps;,.,'
receive them, are only preparing Us for 4,
ture triumphs; for they only more elo.s,v
incorporate the idea which dominates a.,
whole being with the affections Of an,
whole being; they create within, an in,srs.
and more resistless enthusiasm; tbev NIL
more radiant, ON our brow, the high ti,ls IS
prophet, so that the entire world may see !,
and bow to its NaccalFs FI,
menus of IadiUiduaIism.
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An Angry Princess,

A tide of fierce
lnvective seemed TO wait behind her lips.
As waits river level with the dam
Ready to bunst and flood the world with foam:
And so she would have spoken, but there rose
hubbub in the court of half the maids
Gathered together: from the illumin' d hall
Long lanes of splendor santed Ger press
OF snowy shoulders, thick as herded ewes,
And rainbow robes, and gems and gemike eyes,
And gold and golden heads; they 10 and fro
Fluctuated, as flowers In storm, some red. some
pale,
All open-mouth'd, all gazing TO the light,
Some crying there was an army in the land,
Aud some that men were in the very walls,
A nd some they cared not; till clamor grew
As of a new-world Babel, woman built,
And worse COMPOUNDED: high above them stood
The placid marble Muses., looking Peace.
Tennyson's Princess
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Aneedose. Of ssr George ks.ereue.

There was formerly at or near Charinp
Cross famous ordinary, kept by one Lock.
ct. It is often mentioned in the PLAYS OF
Cibbtr, Vanbrugh, &C., and was much
irequtnted by Sir George Etherege. On
one occasion, Sir George and his company.
provoked by something amiss in the enter.
tanment or attendance, got into violent
passion, and abused the walters. This
brought in Mrs. Locket. I'VE are so pro-
voked, said Sir George, that even could
lind III my heart to pull the nosegay out of
your tosom, and throw the flowers in your
face This turned all their anger into lest.
Sir George discontinued Lockel's ordinary.
having run up score, which he could not
conveniently discharge Mrs. Locket sent
one TO dun him, and to threaten him with
a prosecution. He bid the messenger tell
her, that be would kiss her. if she stirred a
step in it, When this answer was brought
back, she called for her hood and scarf. and
told her husband, who interposed, that
shed see if there was any fellow alive that
had the impudence. '-'Pry'thee, my dear.
don't be so rash, said her husband. YOU
don't know what man may do in his pas
sion.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-03-04

The Thirty-hve unpublished letters OF
Oliver Cromwell still continue TO be the
subject Of controversy. Mr.. CARLYLE has
repeated his belief Of their commences
in letter addressed to gentleman at Nor
witch, and the Examiner has handled the
dispute on MIR. Carlyle's side with talent
and ingenuity. Lord Jeffrey, we hear, has
written long letter on the subject, weigh
ing the probabilities like a Judge, sitting the
letters from first to last, and summing I'D
against them. Mr.. Bruce, too, long the
secretary oil the Camden Society, and gen.
tleman thoroughly versed in the history OF
Cromwell and his times, has, it is under
stood. expressed his strong conviction that
they are nothing more than ingenious impo-
sitons. Some Of the general arguments
used in conversation may not be generally
known. There is not a new fact, it is said,
IN the whole thiry-fve letters; they confirm.
they illustrate, but beyond this they contri-
butte nothing. Cromwell, says another per-
son, could never have written "Hobbes'
Wan for Hobson's VAIN" the wagon
OF the well-known Cambridge carrier; while
Others urge that they are untrue in one i'm
portant point To Cromwell's character. rep
resenting him as seeking the Lord in the
Bible by the Sortes Virgliane; whereas,
Crorawells seeking the Lord was always BY
physiological paper.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-03-04
Aneedote Of the Tudoru-

There is somewhat comic story related
OF The family of Owen Tudor, the husband
of Henry the Filth's widow, Catharine of
France, whose mother, it seems, resided in
Ang lesea. Although Of high blood, their
fortunes do not appear TO have allowed the
family TO live according to English ideas of
rank. Catharine had announced her in.
teniion of marrying the young Welshman,
who first gained her good graces by COM
bnatlon of agility and awkwardness, for.
in dancing before her. not being able to re-
cover himself in turn, he fell into her lap
as she sat on little stool, with many Of
her ladies about her. The match she pro-
posed TO herself was considered beneath
her dignity, owing to the supposed obscurity
OF Owen Tudor's birth. A deputation OF
English lords was, therefore, sent to Angle
sea o report the style of his mothers living.
They found themselves in as great perplex.
liy as Sancho in reporting his interview with
Dulclnea, Tor the matron was discovered
sitting in field surrounded by her goats
and eating dried herring on her knees.
having no other table. The lords did not
dare TO relate the case exactly as they found
1t, for the fair Catharine had already made
her election, and they saw the ill.policy of
too strictly adhering to truth. Their &C
count, therefore, ran as follows: they said
'the lady was seated in state, surrounded by
her JaveIln men, in spacious palace, eating
her rePast from a table, whose value was so
great, that she would not take hundreds of
pounds for Miss Costello's Mountains
Of North Wales.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-03-04
Incident ns the Coronation Of George the
Third.

George Ill, with his consort, Charlotte
Of Mecklenburgh StTelitz, was crowned at
Westminster. on the Odd of September,
lT6l; and afterwards sat at his coronation
banquet in the Hall with his young bride,
attended by all the formalities and ceremo-
mails which had been digni6ed by the Gus
tom Of past ages. And, looking down
from one Of the galleries, sat one, who, in a
disguised habit, and with his face halfcon-
cealed, was no unconcerned spectator of that
gorgeous scene. This person was he, who,
in his youth, had been the idol of the rude
ard devoted Highlanders who fought their
way to Derby with their claymores in 1745;
the young hero Of Preston Pans, and Fal-
kirk, the descendant of hundred kings he,
who, BY the right of legitimate descent, and
who, but for the bigotry Of his grandfather,
James the Second, would have sat on the
splendid throne, which he now saw occupied
by the German alien, who was the usuIper
of his rights. David Hume writes to Sir
John Pnngle, on the 10Th Of February,
1913, "What will surprise you, the lord
mmechal, few days after the coronation OF
the present King, told me that he believed
the young Pretender was at that time in
London, or at least, had been so very lately,
ami had come over to see the show of the
coronation, and had actually seen it."
asked my lord the reason for this strange
fact. "Why, says he, "a gentleman told
me that saw him there, and that he even
spoke to him, and whispered in his ears
these words, "Your royal highness is the
las. of all mortals whom should expect to
meet here" ut was curiosity that led ME. -
said the other; ''but | assure you that person
who is the object Of all this pomp and mag
nihcence is the man | envy leas.." What
if the Pretender had taken up Dymock' 5
gauntlet. "-Jesse's Memorials of London.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-03-04
Passages I'm the Life Of l.edyard the IT,.

MIR. Beanfoy had am interview with Led
yard Just as he was setting of on his last
expedition, and repeats the following pas
sage from his conversation" am acc,ls
toned, " said Ledyard, 30 hardship. have
known both hunger and nakedness to the
utmost extremity Of human suffering.
have known what it is to have food given
me as charity to mailman; and have at
times been obliged to shelter myself under
the miseries Of that character, to avoid a
heavier calamity My distresses have been
greater than have ever owned, or ever viii
own, to any man. Such evils are terrible
TO bear; but they never yet had power to
turn me from my purpose. If live,
will faithfully perform, in its utmost extent,
my engagement to the society; and il per.
ish in the attempt, my honor will still be
safe, for death cancels all bonds lied.
yards Life.
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rhe moasrn RIsaI,a,,ve man'. Dl..ava..

The man who lies under no external OBJ
legation, (none that is apparent and palpa-
ble,) to occupy himself in one way or anoth-
er, will become prey to many demands
for small services, attentions, and civiliiies,
such as will neither exercise his faculties,
add to his knowledge, nor leave him to his
thoughts. The prosecution Of contempla-
tive life is not an answer TO any OF these
demands; for though the man who is in the
pursuit of an active calling, is net expected
to give up his guineas for the sake of aford-
ing some trifing qualification to some friend,
or acquaintance, or stranger, yet the man
who has renounced the active calling and
the guineas, in order that he may possess his
soul in peace, is constantly expected tc give
up his meditations, and no one counts it for
a sacrifice. Meditation, it is thought. can al
ways be done some other day. A man with
out something indispensable to do, will find
his life to be involved in some OF the diff
culties by which woman's life is often
beset, one Of which difficulties is the want
of claim paramount upon her time. And
these difficulties will not be the less, if the
poet have, as he ought to have, something Of
the woman in his nature-as he ought to
have, aver; because the poet should be hic
e. hGc homo-the representative Of human
nature at large, and not Of one sex only
With the difficulties Of woman's life, the
poet will not find that any Of its correspond
ing facilities accrue; he will find claims to
be made upon him as upon man, and no
lndemnities granted to him as poet. Thus
it is that in the busting crowds Of this pres
ent world, a meditative man finds himself,
however passively disposed, in a position Of
opPugnancy to those around him, and must
struggle in order TO stand still.-Henry
IayL0rs Notes from Life.
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q Goose Slory.

At the flour mills Of Tubberakeena, near
Clonmel, while in the possession Of the late
Mrs. Newbold, there was a goose which by
some accident was left solitary, without mate
or offspring, gander or goslings. Now it
happened, as is common, that the millefs
wife had set a number Of duck eggs under a
hen, which ia due time were incubated, and,
OF course, the ducklings, as soon as they
came forth, ran with natural instinct to the
water, and the hen was in sad pucker. her
maternity urging her to follow the brood.
and her selfshness disposng her to keep ON
dry land. In the meanwhile up sailed the
goose, and with a noisy gabbIe, which GER
tainly (being inlerpreted) meant. leave them
to my care, she swan up an down with the
ducklings and when they were tired with
their aquatic excursion, she consigned
them TO the care of the hen. The next
morning, down came again the duck ings to
the pond, and there was the goose waiting
for them, and there stood the hen in her great
illustration. On this occasion we are not al
all sure that the goose invited the hen. OBJ
serving her maternal trouble, but il is fact.
that she being near the shore, the hen Jump
ed on her back, and there sat, the ducklings
swimming, and the goose and hen after them,
up and down the pond. And this was not
a solitary event; day after day the hen was
seen on board the goose, attending the duck
lings up and down, in perfect con,entedness
and good humor; numbers Of people coming
to witness the circumstance, which continu.
ed until the ducklings, coming to days Of
discretion, required no longer the joint guar.
dianship Of the goose and ben.-Rep. C..
Ottrays Intellectualjty of Dumb Animals.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-03-04
Educnassm.

Edwation, conducted as il usually is,
upon one uniform plan, has constant ten
dency to cast the minds of the instructed
classes into one UNMARRIED mould, destroying
all originality, even where it does not alto,
gether tenumb and cramp the intellectual
energies. Thoughts and opinions, instead
oil being suffered to develope themselves
spontaneously from within, are compulsori-
ly stamped from without, until the faculties,
relieved from all necessity for their exercise,
lose their expansive aptitude and vigor, and
become passive recipients, instead OF active
exponents.-Horace Smiths Mesmrism.
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Substitute Eer siIk.

A letter from LeiPsic. (Sa1oay,) Of the
l4th, says, The owner Of some spinning
mills, at Berlin, has lately brought into M
market new species Of faxen thread, which
is extremely long and silky, white in
color. and spun and dyed with extrsor.
binary facility. This primary material
which possesses, even in a superior de,
gree, all the qualities Of silk, is EkeIy 70
compete with it, from its simple and ran.
id fabrication, and from its price beng very
low as compared with that Of slk.-
The appearance Of this new article OF CON-
merce has caused great sensation among
the dealers at the fair at Leipsic, and an
EngliShman has offered the inventor f2b
600 for his secret. but this was refused As
the owner intends to reserve To hinself all the
benefits of bis discovery. "-Galignan7s
Messenger.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-03-04

What really constitutes case of Gentle.
man in Difficulties, it would be very hard
indeed to define. We have heard il said,
"So-and-so is in difficulties" though We see
him driving his cab as usual, and giving
his municipalities with the utmost ease and
oh-handedness, as if the word difficulty
was one quite unknown to his vocabulary.
Alter an earnest and attentive consideration
OF the subject, we have come to the conclu-
SION that gentleman is really in ditfcul-
ties, when he attempts to pick up a four
penny-piece with worsted glove on his
hand.-Punch.