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Notice Holders Of Claims against Mexico, provided
by the Treaty of February ., 1878.

TNITRSUANf TO order of the Board, notice is hereby
given that the Board of Com appointed under
the act Congress OF the 81 OF March, 1919, entitled An
ACT 10 carry into effect certain spul,tons of the be-
tween the United States and the Republic OF Mexico, oil
,be second day OF February thousand eight hundred
AMI Ey-sig have established the following Rules and
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Lives insured, III
MORRIS ROBINSON. President.

MORRIS ROBINSON. President
SAMr. HANNAY, Secretary
Charles De Seldng, No. III, Todd's Buildings, Pennsy-
vana avenue agent; w Johnston, NJ d., oPPos''e Guy
Post Office, 7th street, physician. .x.,;...
of the company can be obtained ON apphc""'" n '"'
agents office.
Nav 5--4t
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the Sd section Of the act of the Sd March last entitled
- IAN act to provide for the settlement of the of
public officers and others who may have received moneys
arising from military contributions otherwise in Mexi-
CO.,, it is enacted "that where questions arise in respect
the reiunding OF duties collected in Mexico, the rems
sion OF penalties imposition the ground that the collection
was improper or the penalties wrongfuIy enforced, the
same shall be referred TOR the decision of the Secretary
the Treasury, who is hereby authorized and required
pay, under the direction OF the President of the United
States out of the money in the treasury raised from
buttons such sums be determined by him have
been improperly levied or imposed contributions
ments, or penalties"
For the Information Of claimants under this section the
act notice is hereby given that this department will require
that all claims shall be presented in writing setting forth
the character and amount Of the contribution, assessment
penalty, for which remission Of duty claim
ed WHERE when, and wherefore the contribu uon
ment or penalty was imposed and whom paid The APP
pcaton 10 be verified by the oath of the claimant coobo
rated by the evidence OF dsnteresed credible
witnesses, and be accompanied by the certificate of the
proper accounting officer that the contribution, duties
penalties alleged TO have been improperly wronguly
lved imposed have been duly accounted for paid
to the OF the United States by authorized dis
bursements dsposes.
w. M. MEREDITH,
APP H-eodif2w Secretary OF the Treasury
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LNVENING AMUSEMENTs.-Just received at Sta
IL TONERS Hall number Of interesting and instructive
games; among which we enumerate tho following;
Comic conversation cards
Cheerful Cht-chat
The Menasere, or game of beasts
The poor old soldier and his dog
The Pictorc password
Game Of the States, or who'll be President
Game of Heroes
Conversations on Paley's theology
Philosophical cngmas
The sacred Orace--a religious pastime
The Caudle History
Urania, an astronomical game
Besides many other entertaining games; for sale by
WIN. FISCHER,
Mays Stationers' Hall.
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4 PRIL Report OF tho Mutual Life Insurance Com
"A pany of New York, Office No Is Wall street.
This institution, during the month Of April issued
hundred and one new policies. viz,
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SyTRAW Mnttings, Linen Sheetings &c.Just received
y per schooner Washington direct from New York. l25
pieces Canton Mangs and rs pieces Barnsley Sheenss
to which invite the attention Of housekeepers; among
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which
80 pieces A. extra super premium mattngs
25 do Ga do do
Is do "a do do
40 do different widths, low priced
10 do 1874 super linen sheetings
10 do l04 do do
do Ga do do for pillow
and single beds
Also, table damasks of every width, from the lowest
price finest grade huckabacks Russia Scotch, and
Irish diapers iowengs, crash and table Napkins &C., all
Of which will be offered at unprecedentedy low prices
APP lO-3taw4wf r. H. HOOE q co.
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three -fourths of the people, and indirectly benefits
the other fourth.
Surely, then, the farmers have right TO demand
of the government the means 70 sustain their agri-
cultural societies, and 10 collect and disseminate
important information relative 10 their calling. Let
the light of science and education be brought 10 the
aid of agriculture. Let resources be developed,
and the skill and industry of the husbandman be
directed into their proper channels, and that
would soon be obtained in which not only the far
mer would rejoice, but the whole community with
hm-Maine Farmer.
Such facts as the above cannot be too widely dis
seminated; and if editorial brethren will only
press the attachment of Bureau of Agriculture to
the newly formed Home Department of the gene
raj government, we may hope for channel
through which agricultural improvements may be
made known. Is il not ridiculous that the inter
ests OF three quarters Of the whole community
should be left secondary in importance to those
Of one-quarter? We admire the practice of the
Society of Friends, 80 pay due Difference to the
wishes of respectable minority but cannot con-
sent that our poiteness should far interfere with
our interests as TO permit the minority alone to be
ostered by government patronage, Mapes's Amer
lean Farmer.
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THE REPUBLIC.

to its senses with regard to the abuse and
outrage with which it has loaded General
TAYLOR, from the day it became probar
BILE that the people would select him as
their candidate for the Presidency. Loco
focoism now sees and feels that it would
deservedly injure mans political pros
poets to be supposed capable of having
voted with JACOB THOMPSON on his infa-
nous proviso; and yet how many Loco
focos in the House, on its passage, ven
tured to dissent from its propriety' We
have seen no tribute to General TAYLoR's
great and growing popularity which com
pares, in emphasis and significance, with
the anxiety evinced by MIR. McLANE's
friends to be relieved from the charge
of having voted with his party for that
proviso, and the acGuiescence of the Loco
foco press in the idea that, if true, it ought
to iniure Mr.. McLANe with the people.
Twelve months will not pass over our
heads before Locofocoism will arrive at a
similar conclusion with regard to all the
other abuses and outrages of which General
TAYLOR has been, and continues to be,
the subject.
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Hound IsInnh.

On the 18th ultimo there were at this
place one two-masted and one three-mast
ed schooner, the steamer Water-W Witch,
and the Albany-all belonging to the
United States. Another steamer, the name
of which was unknown, arrived on the
same day. Several of the party at Round
Island had gone on board the Albany; and
Captain Randolph intended to send them
and such others as left the island to Mo
bile, rather than New Orleans; thinking
that in the smaller city they would have
greater inducements TO disperse.
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Though baffled oft, Is ever Won
Alas for Hungary PROSTATE and chained,
Beneath the feet of despots low she lies
She. who flung wide her banner 10 the skies,
By conquest gilded and by yalor stained;
What, shall her cause no longer be maintained?
Must she, deserted, groyel in the dust,
Without one boon from generous Freedom gained
Forbid it, Heaven. Forbid it, faith and trust
In virtue, courage, constancy, and all
That most ennobles men, resolved TO win
Most glorious victory, or, fighting, fall
In the red midst Of battles widest din
IT'S not in hearts so brave to quail or yield,
While the broad land holds unconquered field.
No! step by step shall she again achieve
The mighty independence that belongs
To men impatient of Expressions wrongs,
And resolute TO triumph more than grieve
Der dark misfortune She shall nobly heave
Theburden from her breast, and stand once more
Proudly amid the nations famed of yore,
And a bright memory to the future leave.
Kossuth survives--his hero soul still beats
Invincibe, and patriot armies send
Bold, martial strains from their unscaled retreats
Vowng TO fight victorious TO the end
Where glow such hopes, where burn such high de-
sires,
Nor cloud nor storm can quench fair Freedoms
fires! PARK BENJAMIN.
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Literary Notice

BlackUood's Magazine for august, ls49. Leonard
Scott Il Co. From Taylor & Maury.
We have received this sterling magazine some
days after time, though we see by southern papers
that it has been commented ON by those who, in
the ordinary of events, would have received
it after us. The paper Charles Lamb, with
which the number opens, will be read with plea
sure by the admirers of that pleasant essayist,
and, much as has been written the uie intime of
Ella, will throw light on him and his associates
There is also pleasant-tempered article on Mr.
Meivelles kaloolah, and a striking review of Lam
artines Revolution of ls4s, written with power but
tinctured with the opinions for which Blackpood
has so long been famous. The above, continue
ton OF the CATIONS, of CHRIsTopHER under canpass
an account of the instruction in Baden, and few
lighter articles, make up the number
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Tolls ON MAsuHEs.--Much would be added to
the wealth of our country if turnpike companies
would permit manures 10 pass over their roads
without the payment of toll; and when the trans
portation of increased production is taken into ac-
count, the companies themselves would be the gain
ers by the reform. Every inducenent should be
offered to farmers calculated to make market for
the refuse of factories, &C., which lost, but
might be rendered productive of real wealth to the
country, if brought into use. Untold amounts of
waste the salt works of our State would be used
manures, if the canal toll ON this article, when
required manure, could be lessened so as to de-
liver the dirty understandable salt along the
line of the Hudson river The English farmers pay
neither tolls nor duty on salt for agricultural pur-
poses, and the wealth Of the nation has in conse-
quence been permanently increased to much
larger amount than all the duties ever collected on
salt, under the old law. One hundred thousand
dollars worth of dirty salt could be sold annually
at the city of New York for twelve and half cents
per bushe, which is wasted for want of prac-
ticable market, and the increased annual product
in vegetable results would be so many times that
amount Mapess american Farmer.
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General Ayezzana, now attracting 50 much atten-
ton in New York for his services In the cause oil
Italian freedom, it appears, Is not mere man OF an
hour but one who has for long time been con
spicuous in more than one country. He served in
the Italian army of Napoleon, and, after the Con-
gress Of Vienna entered the service Of Piedmont In
which he soon became superior or field officer AT
the Of the Italian connections OF 1921, Avezzana
was one of the most active and daring in the insur
rection, and its repression fled to Spain into the
military service of which country he was received,
and few months after made gsfe de bataiions. The
popular having failed in Spain, Avezzana
went to Mexico then engaged in her contest against
Spain for independence. After participating in the
alterations of the fortunes Of that country Avez
zana was made by Santa Anna colonel, in which
grade he won much distinction. When, however,
Santa Anna unveiled his designs against the liber-
ties of Mexico, Avezzana opposed him, and in the
long siege of Tampico commanded the constitu-
tionalist troops.
Some years after the capitalization of Tampco, he
established hmsefin New York, became a citizen,
and engaged in mercantile pursuits. While there
he organized the guardia Haliana, and, having been
chosen president the societa Haiiana d benz
spent large portion Of his private fortune on the
hundreds of exies who, at that crisis, were driven
from Italy to America.
On the breaking out of the Piedmontese difficult
ties year since, he determined again to return to
Italy; and, notwithstanding the news of the dsas-
ter which he received in France, he hurried thither
and after twenty years of exile was appointed by
Charles Albert commander chief of the National
Guard of Genoa. Some two months since we pub
shed an account of his gallant services in Pied
mont and of their disastrous finale, after which
Avezzana went to Rome, and By the Triumvirs was
appointed minister of war and marine In this ca
pacity he often fought at the head of the troops and
on the surrender of the city driven again to
America.
These services in behalf of his native land and of
liberty are the occasion Of the tribute gracefully
paid him few days since by his compatriots and
the Hungarians in New York
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equal rights which have made the greater
part of Europe scene of strife. MOI
shall we be ashamed of the sympathy
which we entertained for the instructions
airy masses, who periled themselves for a
glimpse of liberty, should the reactionary
victories of late end in the catastrophe to
which they tend. If they did not sue
coed, they at least deserved to do SO I'M
less it be crime to hope for and to fight
for liberty because those who fell in her
cause were unable to comprehend all her
beauties. Their oppressors had for cen
turtles held the enlightenment Of the sub
ject as dangerous to the prince, and the
revolutionary levies rose to their work as
from darkness so profound as to make
the light bewildering. They will not
sleep so long again.
The same sympathy with what is around
and about us, which induced us to expose
and repel the assaults of the Opposition in
this country upon the Administration Of a
wise and patriotic citizen, has impelled us
to express indignation at the conduct of a
representative of the United States abroad,
who has invoked the Cossack to crush the
nationality Of Hungary and extinguish the
torch Of liberty wherever it burns in Eu-
rope. In the hereditary institutions of the
country, in the traditions of centuries OF
obedience, in the wasting of long acquies-
cence under oppression, the masses of
Europe have enough to contend against,
without the prestige Of the opposition of a
representative of the United States being
thrown into the balance Of despotism. In
joining the league Of Legitimists and Alb
solutists, Mr.. Walsh misrepresented the
Government of the United States, and
every man in it, except perchance those
rare and ethereal spirits whose bodies only
are on earth, whilst their heads are ever in
the cool of the blue welkin. Such may,
indeed, look calmly upon the apostacy Of
France, philosophically upon the degrade
ton of Rome, and conplacently upon the
dissertation of Hungary. But Of these there
are not enough in the United States to be
represented any where in Europe, and
especially in the first capital on the CONT
nent. The remainder of the people OF
America have right to insist that their
consul to Paris will at least not begrudge
them the sympathy which the prosperous
owe to the children of suffering, though
their humanity cost them sigh, per-
chance tear for those who have lost all
but honor.
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THE Boon ISLAND BIRD-TRAP---We have heard
many strange stories about the great number Of
birds which, being bcwildered by the bright glare
Of the lamp Boon island, fly against the iron
railing which surrounds the light with such force
as TO kill themselves. We have heard that some
mornings several bushels of dead birds have been
gathered up around the light, which had fallen
victims TO the brilliancy of the previous night
A few dayssincc we inquired of Capt Thompson
the keeper, whether there is any truth in the stories
He says that such devastation not Of daily oc-
currence, bat that frequently large number of
dead birds was found around the light house. One
morning, about three months since there was A
rather larger number than common. His assist.
ant, Mr.. Fletcher, gathered in one heap three hun.
dred and srtsen birds, which had fallen the previous
night. There were in this heap at least twenty va
rieies OF land and sea.birdssome Of beautiful plu-
mage, such as he had never seen before Walking
around the light, Capt. Thompson saw many more,
which would have added largely 10 the heap.
Portsmouth, IN. HI journal
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Messrs. WHEELER & Co., of New
York, have opened store at the corner
of Pennsylvania avenue and Tenth street,
which is one of the handsomest in the
city. Their assortment of stationery and
materials for the desk and office is as per-
feet as can be found in the country, and
will be great convenience to the citizens
of Washington.
The POSTMASTER GENERAL has established, discon-
tinued, and changed the site and Of the totloto-
ing Offices during the iosek, Sept Sth, lS49.
ESTABLISHED.
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AccIDEST.-A son Of TIM Hon. James Cooper,
Senator Of the United States from Pennsylvania,
about eleven years Of age, recently met with most
distressing accident near the junction ofthe Mount
Carbon and Reading railroad, in Berks county.
While standing train ofcars drawn by horses,
he attempted TO jump TO the ground, but fell, and
was over by the train, which severed one Of his
limbs from the body.
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We find in the Union of the 1th instant
the following paragraph, copied from the
Easton PA. .Argus, Democratic paper,
without comment:
The GOOD TAYLOR TIMEs-Sirty cents day.
We have received two letters from Catasauqua Le-
high county informing that the wages of many
of the hands working at the Crane Iron Works have
been reduced from SEVENTY to SIXTY cents day
AS our informants are respectable men, there can
be no doubt about the fact, and presume that
our amiable friend, Mr.. Thomas, will scarcely deny
it this time. Is this specimen of the ''good tines
we TO have under the Taylor Administration
This is one of the blessings of the tariff
of 1886 The farther we carry out the
notions of the Free trade school-the great
er the extreme to which we push the doc
trine that the sum of human wisdom is to
''buy cheap and sell dear''-the nearer we
shall bring the wages of American indus
try to the pauper standard Of Europe. In
the tariff of 1916, capital has got the bet
ter of labor. The consuming classes have
outwitted the producing classes. The cap
italist finds that his money will buy more;
the laborer, that his toll will sell for less.
This is all right, says the Free-trader-that
is the very state of things which ought to
exist, when you can buy the most labor
with the least money.
The only wonder is, that the iron-master
is able to pay sixty cents day to laborers,
under the state of things produced by the
tariff of 1886 The present stagnation in
the iron interest of Pennsylvania has been
the consequence of that act-an act passed
by men who defrauded the people of that
State into the belief that in voting for Polk
and DALLAS they were voting for the tariff
of 1912 1t is estimated that upwards of
seven millions of dollars are taken from
the wages of the GOLFERS, miners, furnace
men, and other laborers dependent upon
the iron trade, by theSpernicious operation
of the tariff of 1916 Pig-iron, which was
in demand in lS45 at $37 per ton, is now
sold at $40. Railroad iron, which was
worth $67 so per ton, is now reduced be-
low the price of profitable manufacture.
Is it strange, then, that the-value of labor
is proportionably diminished
The "good times" that we are now en-
joying-with wages reduced to sixty cents
day-are part of our inheritance from
the last administration. 1t would be about
as sensible in the Opposition journals to
throw the responsibility of the recent de-
falcations upon General TAYLOR, as to visit
him or his Administration with response
bility for the "good times" The defal-
cations result from the character Of the
"men" employed by the late dynasty
The "good tines" with wages at sixty
cents day, result from the character Of
its measures" II is by change OF
" men" that the WHO'S are to improve
the morals of Office. II is by a change Of
1" measures" that the WHO'S are to inn
prove the times" II is by the change
both of men and measures that they hope,
under the auspices of President TAYLOR,
TO check the downward tendency of at
fairs" and restore the prosperity of the
! country.
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Lieut.. GRAHAM, II. N, and Mr.. Elliot recently
officers of the British soop Childers, from which
they accused Of deserving the coast Of South
Africa, have recently been arraigncd before court
martial on board Of the Impregnsbe, at Davenport,
and found guilty. They were declared incapable
Of again being employed in any civil or military
capacity, and sentenced TO be imprisoned lieu.
tenant for twelve, and the master for six months,
in the common Jail Of Exeter. This unusual inn
prisonment for military crime in a cipa place Of
confinement, ELECTS much comment in England
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The bark Florida is incorrectly said 10 have been
seizcd by the agent Of the United States for the
same reasons that the New Orleans and Sea- Gull
we're. She is about $50 tons, clipper built, carries
four guns, and can accommodate ninety passen-
gers. She has been built exclusively for the
Chagres trade, and has already made several trips
thther. Her owners, etc, are known TO be en-
gagged IN legitimate business.
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AsRtcutrunE THE LEADIS0 ISrEaEsr.-I il sup.
poscd that three fourths Of the population q tie
country are employed IN agriculture the other
quarter beng divided among all other employ
ments and professions. Besides, the mechanic, the
manufacture, the merchant and the professional
man, are all mainly dependent upon the farmer
for patronage and support When the farmers ss
class prosperous, al others participate in thei
prosperity From this Il follows that whateyel
benefts The agricultural class, directly benefit
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NAVAL ISTrLLreENcE.--we learn that the U. $.
vessels Raritan and Saratoga, which arrived AT
Newport the 9th instant, found orders there
directing them TO sail at once for Cat leland. Such
was the exigency that the vessels Immediately put
To sea, without waiting for letters expected from
Boston.
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The article that follows, for which we
are indebted TO the Boston Daily .fdper-
tiser, discusses the triple coalition between
the Free-Soilers, Aboltionists, and Loco
focos, whose professed object is to break
down the Administration of " President
TAYLOR, the southern stakeholder" We
cannot but rejoice that this base and dis
gusting coalition has been signally rebuked
in VERMONT and RHODE ISLAND. In both
those States The WIG party proper have
triumphed by signal majorities over the
combined forces of the Opposition. We
commend the article we copy from the
.9dCerfiser to the especial attention of our
readers.