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Land and Agency Once at the Capital OF ILL
noIs, City Of Springfield.
ITO norsdent of Illinois lands, holders Of tno,s
indbedness and all dsrous Of purchds,ng state
nds NTH Illinois scrip bondsrhe undersigned would
specuy inform the public that they have established In
this city-he capital the State of noisa land and gent
agency office for the transaction OF all business apper-
Ia ming thereto within the limits of the State
transactions relative to the purchase and sale OF lands,
exam ming lands and reporting their location, advantages
and value paying taxes rcdecming land sold for taxes
investigating tte &c buying and selling all descriptions
Of State indebtedness This aud every other description OF
attached general land agency the most
tended SCALE will be promptly and faithfully attended TO-
ASH DlLLER.
REFERENCES.
Messrs Deifendorf IL Niles, Washington City.
A. Gowdy " Co., Louisville, Kentucky
Thomas j. Reed, esq
Me,srs. syckIes Il Co, st. Louis Missouri
Chrlsty, esq. :, a
John M. Winner esq, ,.
HIS excellency A. C. French. Governor Of Illinois.
Hon Thomas H. Campbell, auditor "
John Moore, treasurer
$, ii. Treat Judge supreme court
Lyman Trumbull, "
j. Dean Cation, -
Messrs. WadsworihS Sheldon, New York city
David Leavitt esq,
G Bartlett, esq, No Front street,
Gen Robe IT Patterson, Phladelphia.
Gen Adam Diler.
Co.. Co.. S V " Black ,' Pittsburgh, Pa.
Gen Caleb Gushing, Boston, Mass
p. Sanger esq, =,
j. d. Pratt " Co., Baltimore, Md.
Ap ll-dlm&sw3m
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CITY OF WASHINGTON.
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 4, is4s.

90 Mir C. JAMES, No Harrison street oineinn.u oH,o
is general travelling agent for the western S,''9'
James n smith J. r Dent T O. smith Frederick Hawse John
Armstrong, Taylor, L. NJ Stevenson '" ramsey anu
Perrin Locke. , 4,
M MIR T. JAMES South Tenth street. rhilsaei
oha is our general travelling agent assisted by James X Whp
pie VIM H.. Weld, o. II. p stem John b. Weld T. s. waterman
Collins. James Deering, Albert X Wellington, H. D. James
Henry Pat and +. A Evans.
mr. Mr. HENRY M LEWIS of Montgomery, Alabama, rs sui
travelling agent for Alabama and Tennessee assisted by
b. b. Brett
o. agents particularly requested make frequent r""
IRIS .hes especially regard TO sb'erbe aud d'eoH
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sThs Includes the Commissioners him self and three
porary clerks appointed under the provisions Of the 7h
ton OF the civil and diplomatic appropriation bill OF the last
session. and packers and four messengers these
last all democrats. The reader will recollect a commu nj
cation which was published in the Union tho 2ls ut.
by which appears that Eat about tho
OF tho last session of Congress- thirty forty
porary clerks wore employed in the Land Once AVID bv
Of them dswotrufs."
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Correspondence of the st. Louis Union

NEW ORLEANS, MarCn ~, lSf9.
Whilst at San Antonio, Cuba, about two weeks ago. |
read in Havana paper Spanish translation of General
Taylors inaugural and the names of his cabinet officers
resolved TO defer all those important matters
until my arrival in the United States where fuller inform
alton could be obtained. On reading since | reached
here the leading public events of the last four weeks,
my opinions, formed at distance from the of
action where local excitement could disturb my udg
ment were strongly confirmed. When | left home last
December, wing friends were well agreed con-
corning Gen Tayos policy as they appeared to be during
Inc election In the eeconeerng effort TO votes
tney alleged that he would not be party President that
ne would remove no from office for opinions sake
and tnat he would not attempt force his views upon
congress OF interfere in any way with the legislation of
Inc country they were justified in their statements
Tor such were the assertions OF the General throughout
the canvass When the democrats called for Taylor's
views the tariff, bank distribution, proyiso and
other great questions, the sole reply wa. that such
topics belonged to the legislature and not the execu
tive departments that the President ought merely TO
approve what Congress might do and the one man
power be crushed. We insisted, in reply. that the
constitution enjoned the Executive the duty of rec
for the country and OF Withholding his assent from ali
bills which he could not, his Judgment, endorse This
met by idle talk about Executive encroachmen and
" one. man" power-the will OF the people expressed
through Congress, &c. As the election was
over, new tone was infused into wing journals. and
the conflicting OF the various factions composing
the great Taylor party, began TO show themselves Last
December the ST. Lotus Republican issued its manifesto
IN which the repeal of the Independent treasury was laid
down as a fixed fact" in whg tactics The Era joined
ISSUE ana IN an article of great truth and force demon
straea mat the Republicans counsel prevailed, the
Taylor administration would soon be poweress So
IN many po'ions OF the Union the tarf question,
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TWELVE Hectares m Comparative Physioioky,
l. delivered before the Lowell Institue," AT Boston, by
For sale bv TAYLOR 81 MAURY,
APPS Booksellers, near 9th street
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Hy Ed. G. 4 g. r. DYER, .7"cifoneers.

rJVRUSTEE'S SALE ,OF VALUABLE CITY PROP
L ERTY Pursuant decree of the circuit court of
the county of Washington in the District OF Columbia
sitting as court of chancery, the of Joseph Ed
mund Law James Adams, executor, Lloyd NJ Rogers,
others the subscriber, trustee VIII sell TO the highest
bidder at public auction Thursday, the 18th day OF
MAY next, at the auction rooms OF Messrs Edw T. " U
Dyer the following described lots and premises, belong
ing to the estate of Thomas Law, deccasei to wit;
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May the auction rooms Oh hessls EuW ". " "
f. Dyer the following described lots and premises belong
ing the estate Of Thomas Law, deceased 1, to wit;
In Sauare No 229 all except subdivision
Do 229, lots 2 and
DO 26O, lots l. 3. s, and
Do 29J, lots 3 and
DO 32i, lots 8 and IL
Do 1872, part lots and 5
DO SIS, lot 9
DO 633, lots 8, L. s. 81, ii, and IL
Do 67, lots l. z, 3, T. ., y, and IA
Do 6S5, lots 5, 6, IL, IL, Ii, Ii, Is, and Is
Do $50 part lots L. T. I, s, 49, IA, l6, and 10
DO 600, lots 3, s, part and 10
DO 692, lots 3, 4, g. 10, IL, and IL
Do SOB, lots A, 8, Q, 10, IA, 90 81, 70, "a, 26
Do ssa Iots2, 8, 4, 8, and
DO 705, loss
Do ~ lot, y, IL, 20, 81 20, %, and part 2s
Do 742 lotsI, 4, 8, 10. subdivision
Do 743 part lots L. 2, 8, 8, 8, 10, Is, l6, and ls
DO NJ 7l3, lots q 3. 1, g. 8, 10, IL, II, 10, H. u.s.
10, II, Is, ~, and %
Do TIA part 10 l and
DO 1866 lots 2 and s. part 8, 7, 8, and
DO no, part I. par2, part 8, part T. part 5, 6,
SO, part TO- part II, partH
On lots l. 2, and 49, $50, erected three three.
story brick houses, occupied by the United States
Coast Survey.
On part lot 3, square 69o is threc-story brick
house.
Terms of sale. Ono fourth cash the balance in three
equal annual nsalmcnts secured by notes satisfactorily
endorsed. with interest from the day Of sale.
The trustee the right TO resell at the risk and
cost OF the purchaser the OF sale shall not be
complied with within five days after the sale.
On the payment Of the purchase money in full and the
final ratification of the sao. deeds will be given at the cost
OF the purchaser.
Tide believed to be ndisputable.
Sale to commence at IL O'clock
JAMES ADAMS, Trustee.
E. G. ~ q. +. DYER,
APP 29~3tawifds Auctioncep.
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silly OF leeng, an excuse Tor the 1eaTeSsness win which
have thrown myself on your generosity, and will par
don the homage thus pay to your own high character
and to that OF the people over whom you have the high
distinction to preside.
have the honor to be- sir with great respect your
obedIent servant, JANE FRANKLIN.
beg to annex some explanatory papers
Notice Of the expeditions of discovery and search an
the Arctic seas.
In the year ls45 her Majesy's government
expedition Tor the purpose of discovering northwest
sage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. along the
northern coast OF America, between Davss and Beh
The expedition consisted of two ships the "Eebus and
the Terror, under the command OF Sir John franklin
and Captain Crozer the complement of officers and men
IN the two ships being about hundred and thirty
They were viciualed for three years
Their instructions were, to proceed to Bailns Bay and,
as soon as the ice permitted to enter Lancaster Sound,
and proceed westward through Barrow's Strait
of Cape Walker, about 80 deg They then to
use every effort to penetrate sonhward and westwards
greatest difficulties were apprehended II these proved to
be insnrnounabe. they were next directed TO
Barrows Strait, and proceed northward by the broad
channel between Devon and CORVALLIS Islands, commonly
called Wellington Strait, provided it appeared open aud
clear OF ice 1t is evident that their ability follow either
OF these must have depended upon local circun
stances, of which we have cogn zance.
The discovery ships sailed from England the 18th of
May, lSl5 and were last the 18th OF July the
same year, in latitude 7t' lS north, longitude S. ID
fastened to an iceberg waiting for the opening the ice TO
cross into Lancaster Sound
These ships have since been heard Of and il is for
the purpose OF relieving them and at least OF asceranng
their fate that in lStS her Ma estys government again fit
ted our an expedition. 1t was in three divisions.
ne nrst (n point of ne) consisted of single ship, call
ed the Plover, commanded by Capt Moore which Ie Eng
land IN the latter end of January for purpose of
ing Behring's Strait. the westward passage in
tended that she should arrive month of July
ana having looked out for winter harbor should send
OUT her poas northwad and eastward which directions
the discovery SHIPS, II successful, would be with
on3rluna,ey The Ployer never even approached, last
year. the place OF her destination and search she
may yet be able to make, has be accomplished this
me, Inc a. .Esyns vessel in the Pao has
The second division Of the expedition of boats,
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aBIRDs OF A p

The American A nti.slayery Society, at its
recent anniversary meeting in the city Of
New York, adopted the following r%esOlu-
tions:
"ResolUed, That which is giving strengths
extension and perpetuity to slayery-tS-wltt
The Union-on being overthrown by a peaceful
withdrawal from it by the non-slayeholding
States, FOR conscience SAX and for the self pre-
servalion, must necessarily weaken, limit, and
speedily extirpate slavery from the American
soil. Therefore,
"ResOlred, That the motto Of every chris
tian and of every patriot should be- No I'm
ion with shareholders, either religiously Of
politically"
"Resolred, That this is not a question Of ex'
pediency, on which action may be innocently
deferred " till a more convenient season. buI
one Of absolute morality. Of obedience to Coo
and fidelity to mankind-to be met and car
lied out to the letter without delay"
Take at random a bird from the Palmetto
flock and compare its notes and plumage with
the above. We copy from the Columbia 1ete-
graph.
"a continuance in the Union as it is, vii
ruin US, politically and pecuniarily, and cor
rupt us morally. We cannot remain SO init
mately connected with any people, withou
partaking Of their vices; or, in other words
1--WE cannot touch filth without being de6led.'
In the event of secession. the South, prof
ting by the experience of the past, with
common interest binding them together will
hooks Of steel, with free trade with all thu
world, and her peculiar Institutions undisturb-
ed, may unite in a Southern COnfederacy will
ont cOnvulsion, and pursue her manifest des.
tiny, Per onward march to greatness and glo-
ry, the admiration if not the envy Of thu
world"
Such are the Southern and Northern "move
msnts" in a nut hell.-.AugustG Chron.
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DEMOCRATIC JOY.-The chuckling Of the Dem
Ocracy over the defeat of Mr.. Bolts in Rich
mond district, and of Mr., Pondleton in the
Fauquier, district and of Mr.. Scott for the
House in Fauquier, is excruCiatingly funny
They find consolation in every feature. They
rejoice over the downfall of Bolts, because he
was ultraJTaylor, and of Scott, because he
entertained opinions almost identical with
Governor Mcdowell upon the slave question
1t is enough that victory enures to the benefit
Of the Democracy. The qualification is al
ways intense whether Frse Soil or Slavery
men succeeded. Only tar him with the Dem.
o%cratic stick and he is orthodox enough
Winchester Republican.
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GOLD PLACER ON TIE ARKANSAS.

OObO EhAOGN YIN InE kANOAOs
On the 18th Of August next a party of about
100 men will start, under the guidance of Col.
Black, for a gold region on the Arkansas riv-
er, which Col. B. says he visited in 1926 in
company with about 90 other persons. The
Colonel is an old and respectable citizen of
Crawford county Arkansas, and his account
OF the discovery which he proposes to retrace
is plausible and intelligent. He says:
sin regard to the gold region, / have not a
shadow Of doubt of it's existence in the neigh
borhOod which l have pointed out. In addi-
ton to the vague and apparently rOmancing
rumors that have been aHoat in this country in
regard to it, facts, substantial facts, golden
facts, that have seen with my own eyes 90
10 prove it.
I'll was one OF a party Of twenty persons, in
dnced BY representations made by hunters and
lndians, that started from this county in Sept,
1925, that went in pursuit Of gold, and con-
trary to our expectations, where we did not
expect to find it, cume upon a beach filed with
shining PARTICLES, which evidently were wash.
ed down from some creek from it's original
bed and although we w6ro in pursuit Of gold,
we did not look for it in the sand where we
should be compelled to dig, sift and wash for
it, believing as we did that it cost more labor
to procure it than we were then in the habit
Of devoting to any purpose. We went out
10 get gold in Jumps big as a hens egg, and
we could not reconcile ourselves to work
here, we explored further, until fatigue, sick
ness and disgust, tired down a majority of the
party, and we returned to be laughed at BY
our neighbOrs, although all Of us continued in
the belief that gold was there, and that we had
acted foolish in not stopping and gathering the
dust.
1t may be asked why we did not wash the
sand: can only answer, that at this time
when things are SO altered, it is hard to ex.
plain In the days | speak Of, no one worked
money was plenty in comparison to what il i
now, and we turned out to make our sever-
lasting fOrtunes"in amonth. We started with
these high expectations, and we found Il i'm.
possible to come down to the reality. Than
again the want Of knowledge upon those sub.
Jeo's' as we were entirely ignorant about min.
erals, and believed that washing sand for gold
would not poy; and further, we felt certain Of
getting it at some other place in larger 1uan-
! titicsD
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The gold Is 10 he found on Walnut creek
which empiies into the A arkansas about t'ity
miles below the Little Arkansas. Col Black
says his beliefin the existence Of much gold
on Walnut creek has been strengthened since
1926, as follows:
"Since my return l have seen the squire
stuff" a piece brought in from there, in 1885,
by Mr.. Carter who lived near Fort Towson'
He stopped all night Mt my house in
1885, and showed me the lump which
weighed near an ounce. / certainly believe
if we go prepared with a proper outfit and not
be in too great a hurry as we were before, we
will get gold enough to pay us well for our
trouble.
ain the summer of l847, James M'Nai >, and
Nicholas McNair, ofthe Cherokee Nation, who
lived about six miles from the Grand Saline,
William Clilders, and James Callan, Of the
Creek Nation, who live on the Verdigris, were
out in the p~rairics up the Big Bend, and found
sore of those gold sands on Walnut Creek,
is miles above the mouth and brought some
of the dust home in quilts, which proved to be
pure gold. These men went down the creek
and there saw the beaver dam, which identifies
the creek. They also reckon Walnut Creek
to be about IS miles below the Little Arkan-
sas. l haveRo doubtthat it is thesam creek,
and down it were washed the golden sands we
saw. These men also express a desire, to 60
with US this summer.
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Lisnt. Rsals at New York.

We make the following extracts from the
New York Herald Of a recent date.
The arrival ofLieut. Beale, in the southern
er with this late news from California, with a
lump of gold weighing eight pounds, threw
Wall street into a state OF the greatest excite
ment and delight. Mr.. Aspinwall was sur
rounded with crowds Of eager brokers and
merchants, all curious to catch a glimpse Of
The eight pound lump. There was no mistake
about it. There was the pure gold fresh from
FL Dorado. No gold ever attracted more at
tention or was ever more coveted, than that
lump. We shall see what efectit will have on
stOcks.
We understand that Lieut.. Beale has in his
possession a watch, encased in a big lump Of
pure California gold, 2S4 carats fine, W tn a
brass cable chain with large Jumps of gold at
tached to every other link, hammered in the
toughest and richest prOfusion. Big Jumps
of gold were hammered together around the
watch, till the whole, except the face, was
OHOooOu III TUG PIoClOuS meIdl' Inc Key was
a " chunk" Of gold, with the pipe inserted in
it for use. Altogether, it was one Of the ug.
lieSt looking and richest, and most valuable
watches in existence.
We learn that labor was very high 1T San
Francisco and the quantity of shipping there
very large. Many vessels were laid up.
The price Of goods has declined consider
ably, in consequence Of the stocks on hand
and still larger ones expected; the fall haC
been very material. There wal no end to the
gold. Its richness and abundance more thar
confirmed all previous accounts. Although
he himself brought a piece weighing eight
pounds, Lieut.. Beale assures us that he ha
seen a lump weighing rs pounds. He say
that everybody is getting ricl in California
that common laborers can almost mako a for
tune,
Poor Beole was pestered to death, with th,
crowds anxious to hear from California, an,
to see his lump of gold, &c. &c. He was gla
to get out of the city, and left in the train
h~alf-past four o'clock, yesterday afternoon, f
Washington.
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An American Missionary lately entered a
box Of Bibles at the Customhous at COnstan-
tinople, valuing them at a certain amount
but the Turkish officials who are in the prac-
tice of afixing a sliding scale .ofl valuation
to suit themselves, regardless of invoices or
Oaths Of importers. appraised the Bibles at dou-
BILE the value placed upon them by the Mis-
Sionary and demanded the Gd paIorem duty Of
S per cent, on their valuation, In this diem
ma the Missionary availed himself of a regula-
ton Of the Turkish law which permits duties
to be paid in kind, and paid them in Bibles,
FIVE out Of every hundred. After that he had
no more trouble. He paid what duty he liked.
They wanted no more Bibles.
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The WA TO TEND A BABY.-A Chippewa
Indian has been lecturihg in Hartford whore,
in a lecture on Tuesday evening, according
to the Times he advised the ladies Of Hart
ford to tie their babies, as soon as they were
born, ito a board, bind them there most of the
time till they are ten months old. "Put A
hoop round the head," he says, land then when
the board gets knocked over, il won't break
the child's nOse." He sums up other advan.
tages as follOws:-" You see ladies (holdin0
up asPecimenO the child's hands are tied down
so it cannot scratch it's mothers breast. too,
1t can't wriggle about and get very tired; wbsn
the mother goes out after herbs, she can hang
i ton a tree, and snake can't bite it; when Il
cF'ee' the mother can swing il across her back.
ana rock it 3d. (swaying his body to and fro i
and can carry tia great distance in the same
MANNER TOO; can sit it up side of the wipwam,
very handy; and when canoe turnover. ,ba
child 0wlms of on the board, and don't drown,
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DlED-At the residence Of her father in thi
County on Friday, lst inst. Miss Ann, daugh.
ter of Col: w. W. Walton, in the year O
her age.
The circumstances attending the death oil
this most amiable and accomplished young la
dy, are mysterious and painful. A few day.
before her demise she had a slight attack oil
sickness. but had cOnvalesced sufficiently to
be up and walking about the house. On
Friday morning, though cheerful and we'll as
usual, she related to the family, a dream that
she was to die that day, But little attention
was paid it. About II o'clock she complain.
ed OF chilly sensations of the acknowledgement
to bed and was soon in a sound slesp, from
which she never woke till in eternity-having
died in about an hour and all efforts to arouse
her being ruitless.-LexingtOn Advertiser, o.
the 9th inst.
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slavery at the North.

The following wildly drawn picture Of the
terrible slavery-tha slavery of want-in which
tens Of thousands Of poor white people at THE
North exc out a miserable existence, wretched
from its commencement to its close, is drawn
BY the hand Of a master. The writer, Horace
Greedy, knows full we'll the truth Of the state
ment made, and while he thus depicts the mel
anchOly condition of the poor around him, is,
perhaps, the next moment engaged in writing
an inAammatory appeal against slavery-stim-
ulating the people Of the North to the commits
sion of things, that must, if carried out, result
III the disruption of the bonds Of the Union
and hypocritically symPathysing with the
we'll clothed and happy slaves of the South
while hundreds md thousands are suffering
and starving around him! Out upon that
"whited sepulcre." If Greedy does net meet
with the doom denounced against hypOCritesI
in the world to come, if not in this, it will no,
be for the lack Of desert.
"The spires Of our city church overshad"w
a population Of over half a million, not one
fifth Of whom are owners Of the roofs that GOV
er them-not one tenth Of whom have legal ac-
cess to tho soil from which their subsistence e
must be drawn. Ninetenths depend for a live
lihood on the chance that one or more will at al
times be ,ready to hire them or buy them. Thi:
expectation is subject to continual disapPoint-
ments; hence wide spread bankruptcy, desti
tuition, beggary. In defiance Of tho notorious
superabundance Of our population, the tides O.
American and European adventure here dash
against each other, and thousands who are
urged hither by sanguine visions Of sudden
wealth soon awake to the re lity Of a lack Of
shelter for their heads. Here Vics and Mise
ry, DestitutiOn and Crime, Prodigality and
Want react upon and stimulate each other
Here Rents and Pauperism are expanding will
fearful rapidity ."-Natch. COur.