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bore upon its face the evidence of its
falsity. No one could have been deceived
by it but one having Z" a certain degree OF
French susceptibility" to the honor of the
Government That a paper capable Of
purloinng message should keep it nearly
two days before publication, (for it should
be borne in mind that the advertisement
in the Ledger must have been handed to
that paper on Friday night, and the mes
sage was not to appear till Sunday could
only be credited by those who deal in fab
relations until it becomes luxury to be
gulled. The advertisement in the Ledger
was conceived pretty much in the same
spirit, and published after the hardihood
OF many of the articles which appear in
the Union.
The Hon. STEPHEN A. DoUGLAs, Sen
ator from Illinois, and family, arrived in
the city yesterday, and have taken rooms
at Wizards hotel.
appropriations lsDo- anu Estimates
for 1851.
There is no way in which we can meet
the daily misstatements of the Union eX-
cept by reference to the documents; from
which we copy this morning two tables.
The first is a recapitulation Of the actual
appropriations made by Congress for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1850. The
second is a recapitulation of the estimates
of the appropriations TO be made for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1851. The
first we copy from page xxx of Blair &
Rives's Congressional GLOBE for the sec
ond session of the thirtieth Congress. The
second we copy from pages 3S, 80, and 40
of the Estimates Of appropriations recently
submitted to the House of Representatives
by the Secretary of the Treasury. From
this it will be seen that the appropriations
asked for the year 1851 are less than the
actually made for 1850.
Appropriations for Is49-'5O.
Civil, diplomatic and miscellaneous SO, 30l COS Ia
Military Qualifications In
dian department, revolutionary
and other pensions 1881, l6l 90
Naval, including naval pensions 1901 $50 81
Post Office Department 4,32S, 39l 90
In fulflmcnt of the treaty with
Mexico 100000 90
Total a35 100 O1J 81
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has yielded 10 the earnest solicitation of his friends
TO be returned TO the United States Senate, one
Of the first representatives of the State OF Cali
fornia To this end, he has resigned his seat
member from Georgia, and as he publicly an
nounced at the meeting III Portsmouth square, IN
June last, he has emphatically taken up his resi-
dence with us. His past history, his early and de
voted efforts in behalf of California, his experience
and knowledge of naval affairs, and the leading
part which he has always taken in bringing the
whole subject of steam navigation before Congress
and the country, as evidenced both in his speeches
upon the floor of Congress, and in the mastery re-
port upon the subject, which have already laid
before our readers these qualifications combine,
with his seeing forecast statesman, to form
an earnest and give guaranty OF what we may
expect from him the direct representative of
rapidly increasing population OF country yet
destined TO command the attention OF the whole
world.
We shall have more 10 say anon-in the mean
time we feel that the ground zoe occupy Is enhanced
an hundred fold by his generous consent TO become
the conservation of our gigantic interests next win
ter at the Capitol.
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rns pre.lden,,s Me..sge.-More bunsllng.


Before our paper went to press last evening, we
received from Philadelphia the following Geographic
despatch:
''The Presidents mcssagc will appear IN the sun
dan Globe ON 10 morrow, (Sunday nOrning,) a
copy having been secured in advance from the
Office Of the Rep,rbiie The Ledga ADVERTISE the
above this morning. II il true-it Is important
We are tstDundcd at this information. II true, IL
reveals a state Of things connected with this Admin
istration which shows that il is utterly unworthy u
the confidence Of the country, the respect of the
people Ofcoursc il will call for immediate invcs-
tigaton the part Of Congress. Hoping, for the
honor Of the Government that orr informant is
mistaken, we forbear further comment until his
statement is confirmed.
Since writing the above, We have received the
Phladelpha Ledger of this morning, aud find
among it, advertisements the following
"Ths Presidents message will appear in the Sun
,ay GloJe on 10 morrow Sunday morning q
COPY having been secured in advance from thcOifce
Of The HcpuJiic. -" Union.
Who can imagine the state Of exquisite
Identification and relief into which the
. sole organ" will subside when it learns
that the honor Of the Government" is
safe, and that It's astoni,bnent was merely
the result Of some one having made a fool
Of it, The advertisement in the Ledger
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Mas MILLER.--The Rochester dmerican, il ap-
pears, was mistaken in stating that this woman
had been arrested, in her flight from Niagara Falls
at Syracuse The Syracuse Star says the state
mcnt of the american lacks one important feature
that of truth
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SIsi2,75l Is
INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS.
4 i 1

INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS.
Salarie- # ministers If tho United
states S72,OOO 90
Salarics 81 Sccrctarie. 81 Legation 5000 90
Salary Of Minister resident 60 Tur-
key $500 90
Salary If the Dragom,,n 10 tho Lc-
cation to Turkey $500 90
Salaries of Charge de- ailarc- Of
the United state. 72,Ooo ~
Contingent expense. OF ~ the mis-
-iuI- abroad tD,ODO 80
Contingent expenses Of foreign in
trr,Our-c 5O,bO ~
EYpcu-o- # intercourse with th"
Barbary Powers 1000 90
salary # the Consul at London 300 90
Salary Of Tho Commissioner 90 the
Sandwich Islands 5000 90
Interpreters guards *. Of the con-
sulates at COustantinoplc, Smyr-
ma and Alexandria, 500 90
Office rent Of the consul at Ba-lo
Switzerland 100 %
Salary Of Commissioner 10 reside in
China C.OOO 90
Salary Of Secretary and interpreter
to said mission $50 90
Compensation ~ the COnsuls at the
Eve ports IN China 1000 90
Salary of Consul General At Alex
andra, 1900 30
Relief and protect ton Of American
scanen Ia foreign couutric- l2j,OOO ~
Clerk hire office rent, &c, Of the
office Of the American Consul at
b0ndpn $500 90
Salary Of the Consul At Bcirout 800 90
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An influential and wealthy German, Mr.. Hol.
zcndorff Vicrmannsdorff proposes TO form society
for the emancipation Of the people in Europe, TO
commence with preparing the way by their moral
improvement He has opened correspondence
with such men Lamartine, Golden, Bright, and
Surge. The project is said 10 be encouraged by
tho German government. A convention is 10 he
held next year at Lege of the friends of tho cause
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The Cincinnati Gazette states that O'Reilly's tel
egraphers intend to send the Presidents message
to the West, at their own expense, as a compliment
10 the press
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WISCONSIN MARINE AND FRE Insurance Cow
rANy.-Grcat exctcment existed in Milwaukee and
Detroit Saturday last, in consequence Of a run
ON the Wisconsin Fire Marine and Insurance Com
pnny. The Bank in Milwaukee was surrounded by
a large crowd Of excited bill holders.
it, circulation is reported 70 b. s 100000 On
Monday the friends in Milwaukee and Chicago
wcro sangune they would be able 10 weather the
storm. Mr.. Smith, Il was said, had pledged one
and half millions Of real estate for tho redemption
Of tho bils.-Bufdio papers.
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The entire vote pollcd at the late election in the
State Of New York, by all parties, was 405,923
In 1874, five years ago, the aggregate vote for gov
ernor was 4s7 ,2s3. Aggregate dirnnution 81 800
The Democrats fall of 80, 1855; the Whigs, 29,03O;
the Abotionists, 1885.
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S2,2GO,767 90
MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS.
Annuities and grants $3.50 90
Miscellaneous claims not otherwise
provided for 5000 90
Salaries Of assistant treasurers and
clerks 1000 90
Contingent expenses, under the act
for the safe Keeping, &c, ofpub-
lie revenue 1880 90
Compensation, &c tospccial agents
TO examine books and accounts,
and money on hand in the several
depostaries 5000 90
Expenses of loans and treasury
notes 10000 90
TO supply Deficiencies in the fund
for the relief OF sick scamen, &c. 100000 90
Amount required to complete ma
rine hospital at Chicago, Illinois, $4,000 90
Furnishing marine hospital at Lou
isvIlc, Kentucky 1000 90
Furnishing marine hospital at Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania 1000 90
Furnishing marine hospital at
Cleveland, Ohio 1000 90
Repairs and improvements 10 ma
rine hospital at Mobile, Alabama 1880 %
Repairs and improvements Ia
riuc hospital al Key West Florida GO 90
Grading, piling, &c, marine hos
pital site at Cleveland 5000 90
Continuing the construction of the
custom house AT New Orleans 1900 90
Continuing the construction Of the
custom house at Charleston 10000 90
States $4,000 90
Continuation of the survey Of the
reef, shoals, keys and coasts Of
South Florida 80 1000 O0
Light-ho house establishment 500 97 Il
Payment to be made 30 Mexico on
3Oth May, ISL, under 18th article
Of treaty 1850 900 90
Payment for ~ and 81 volumes Of
5th series Of Documentary His
tory 5000 90
Expenses 81 running and marking
boundary line between the United
States and Mexico 10000 %
To enable the Clerk Of the House Of
Representative 20 comply with
former orders of the House, direct
ing him b. furnish members with
certain books 1908 II
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The jury in the case Of Foster, who has been on
trial before the circuit court or tho last four FIVE
days on the charge Of murder, yesterday morning
rendered a verdict Of manslaughtcr in the first de-
gree BnHalo Erpess, 5M.
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The Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad Compa
ny have advanced the rate Of fare between the two
cities to 50. This is the usual winter arrangement
and VIC presume will not continue beyond the
spring, when the travelling is much more than in
,tyi,
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LAKE CHAMPLAiN.--Wc understand the steam.
loats on Lake Champlain have withdrawn for the
season. The lake is frozen over for some distance
below whitehall.
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GENERoUs,--M ynder Van Shack an eminent
gentleman Of New York, hns presented 10 the Fire
Department Of that city two scholarships in the
New York University.
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s39s,gOm

USDER THE DIRECTION o. THE DEPARTMEST o. THE
INTERIOR.
To meet the expenses incident 90
the collection Of the revenue from
sales Of public lands Sl1O,-3j %
Surveys Of the public ands 2I9,759 10
Current expenses Of the Indian De
partmcnt S9,1O %
Annuities and other objects provided
for by treaties with various In
dian tribes 80 "
Census Of 1850 ,I33. 1913 %
Pcnitcntary in the District Of Co
lurnl,a $50 90
Pensions l,ll6,OOO 90
Expense Of courts Of the United
States, &c. 5j7 81 90
Expense If pauper lunstics in.thc
Maryland hospital at Baltimore S,GO0 90
Public buildings, grounds, bridges,
&c, Washington 1875 40
4 oqj t92 "a
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OFFICIAL.
DEPARTMENT or STATE.

DEPARTMENT or STATE,
WAsmNoToN, December \, ls49
Information has been received at this Depart
mcnt from John Black, ESQ., United States consul
at the city 81 Mexico, Of the death, at San Luis
Potosi, on the 10Th Of August last, Of THoMAs s.
LEWIS, an American citizen, born in the State Of
Nirpinia
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The five medical students in Syracuse. arrested =
few days ago for robbing grave, have been
amincd and held TO bail in the sum Of FIVE hundred
dollars each
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S35,429,0il 81 !
Estimates for Is5O-'5I.

Estimates for Is5O-'5I.
LIST.
Legislative S164, 944 90
Executive ,094 ,945 rs
Surveyors general and their clerks $1,000 90
Secretary to sign patents for public
Commissioner of Public Buildings,
assistants, &c 1000 90
Mint of the United States and its
branches 1857 90
Governments in the Territories of
Oregon and Minnesota $1,000 00
Judiciary 10000 W
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Mr. Kings health continues 10 improve daily,
and we learn with unfeigned satisfaction that he
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The Hon. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, SEN
ator from Illinois, and family, arrived in
the city yesterday, and have taken rooms
at Wizards hotel.
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Hon. Thom.. Batter King

From NE Pacific San Francisco Ne,os, of The 27h
October.
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UNDER THE DIRECTION or THE NAVY DEPARTMENT..
General service of the Navy S9203, $50 10
Marine corps Jl,722 OF
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A DEFIANCE.



Lest the Union might overlook, in the
multiplicity of its exchanges, the .Nep
York Tribune of the 18th instant, we copy
the following defiance for its especial
benefit Whilst replying to the inquiries
touching the condition of the suffrage in
Virginia, the Union might explain the
course its senior took pending the discus
sion of the subject before the people. The
Union has asserted that free suffrage is the
badge of the Democracy; if to give full
and candid replies, therefore, would read
its master-spirit out of the ranks, it may
hold its peace. We shall be quite atten.
tive observers Of the forthcoming passage
at arms, provided the Union's prudence
will allow it to lift the gage.
From the .Nsc York Tribune ofhe l7h.l
The Union Of Saturday has an article entitled
"The Consistency of whiggery," Astounding in
gross misrepresentation for party ends Of the Dorr
struggle in Rhode Island, Of which the materia,
passages are as follows;
"He [Dorrl was invited by the people of his ma
tive State, two-thirds Of whom then had no more
voice in the government under which they lived
than the serfs OF Russia, to place himself at their
head, in struggle for the extension Of the right of
rDrye-the very principle for which the people OF
Europe are now resortng to revolutions and over
turning thrones. The only difference in the two
cases is, that he acted upon well-known principle,
soemply proclaimed in the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence as the birthright Of American freemen. He
claimed il as peaceful right with which existing
authority had no right 10 interfere; whereas in Eu-
rope the people, although claiming the natural right
TO change their forms Of government had no way
TO assert il but by forcible revolution But the two
cases are identical in abstract principle.
"At this day the poor phit man IN Rhod, bland 1,
fared dollar for the right Of suffrage, phioh Ne must
pay before he can pofe; whereas in France every man.
poor well AZ rich, can vote without the pay
ment Of farthing The right Of suffrage is more
free in France than IN Rhode Island Are the lead.
ers Of the Wing party ready to condemn this lib
crafty practsed by the Wing State Of Rhode Island,
If not, they should say nothing Of their sympathies
for the struggles Of the people Of Europe TO secure
for themselves the very rights denied to the people
Of Rhode Island
Taking the above averments az our text, we
challenge, dare, defy the senior editor Of the Union
to answer frankly and fully the following ques-
tons:
l. Has the doctrine been hitherto fully svowed
and consistently upheld by the Virginia Democrs-
cy, (of which you are known for forty years as an
orscle,) that every "poor white man" was entitled
to the right of suffrage
Q. Did the late constitution Of Virginia Framed
by the fathers Of virginian Democracy recognise
and guaranty such right to every "poor white
mani" If not why not
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3. Does the pgssssu constitution of Virginia
GRAINED abou, twenty years ago. guaranty such
right to every poor white man" If not Why not
Z. Did the whole or most of the Democratic
members of the Virginia convention of 1929 80 re-
cosnise and affirm the right of every ''poor white
man" to vote'
5. If universal suffrage be "a well Unknown prnci-
pie, solemnly proclaimed in the Declaration of In
dependence as the birthright Of American free
men," do you or do you not hold that every same
rican Iesman no,o entitled to thai right without
restriction or qualification
And, to come to the point
6. Suppose the nonfranchised freemen of Vir-
GINA, countenanced by sufficient number of the
enfranchised to form majority of the whole body
Of freemen of that State, were to assemble con-
vention without legal authority, form constitu-
tion vote for it at election called and held by
themselves only, and proclaim that constitution
duly adopted and in force as the paramount law of
the State-the whole proceeding being utterly un-
known TO the constitution, laws, and authorities
hitherto existing-woud the editors of the Union
recognise the new government thus established
legal and valid, rendering the present nulIity and
the present authorities rpers'
And
Z. Supposing the present authorities and their
onsttuents-impelled, if you please, only by fear
of boodshed and pllage--to call convention and
legally frame constitution granting half or two
thirds what the outsiders constitution demanded,
and that the outsiders should thereupon rally all
hands to the polls and pote docn this legally framed
constitution with its vast extension of suffrage and
to effect still further reforms, throwing the 'law
and order" government and its supporters back
upon freehold suffrage in opposition to their siren
uous exertions and votes, would the Union con-
ceve that the faction thus abusing the right of suf
fragc when first conceded, to nvalidae the conces-
sion ITSELF had acted so as to deserve success or
sympalhy'
These queries, we believe, cover all the material
points in the case of Rhode Island law and order
against Virginia sham Democracy. We dare the
string and urging the complete restoration of Dorr
to citizenship, as advocated his liberation from
confinement, we yet feel that the course into which
he was deluded by certain demagogues at Washing
ton stimulated by large number in this city, was
alike unjusfable and injurious to the cause he pro-
fessed to have at heart. And whenever any peo-
pie of Europe shall meet large concessions by those
in whom political power is vested with insult, hos
tility, and defiance TO the field of carnage-shall
throwing those who rejected them back upon
linquished despotism-though we shall still labor
and hope for complete liberty and equality to that
people to all others, must, nevertheless, feel
that it has rushed upon a course at once short
sighted sanguinary, actious, and preudicia to the
general advancement Of freedom.
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7 H E R E P u B IC.
WASHINGTON:
FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 20, ls4s
FFICIAL.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.
CUsroM-HoUsE OFFICERS.


CUsToM-HoUsE OFFICERS.
EDWARD w. LAwToN, to be Collector
OF the Customs at Newport, r. l., vice
Edwin Wilbur, removed.
HENRY ADDISON, to be Collector of the
Customs at Georgetown, ID. c., vice Rob
ert White, removed.
JOHN M. SPENCER, East Greenwich,
K. l., to be Surveyor, vice Silas Weaver,
removed.
VIM. H. S. BAYLEY, Bristol, r. L., to
be Surveyor, vice Nathan Bardin, re-
moved.
CHARLES RANDALL, Warren and Bar
rington, r. l., to be Surveyor, vice Ben
jamin M. Bosworth, removed.
BENJAMIN T. FENDALL, Alexandra,
Va, to be Surveyor, vice James Mcclure,
removed.
WILLIAM BRowN, Salem, Mass to be
Naval Officer, vice John d. Howard, re-
moved.
CORNELIUS SAVAGE, New York, to be
Appraiser, vice Samuel ]. Willis, re-
moved.
APPOINTMENT BY THE SECRETARY OF THE
TREASURY.
WILLIAM w. THOMAS, New York, to
be Assistant Appraiser, vice John w.
Manley, removed.
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sessions upon the footing of the most
favored nations or which, without salts
tying these conditions, shall obtain from
the sovereign in council Especial grant Of
such privilege. Intercourse with the Brit
ish possessions in America Except in the
case of the expectation Of the produce Of
the tisheries) is also confined to certain
ports called " free port )" and certain du-
ties are imposed on imports into those
possessions, not being the growth of the
United Kingdom, to be disposed Of by the
local legislature. But notwithstanding any
thing in these acts contained, the inter-
course between foreign countries and the
British possessions in or near the continent
of Europe, or within the Mediterranean,
or in Africa, or the limits of the East In
dia Company, Except the Company's pos
sessions was subject to regulation by
the sovereign in council, in such manner
as might from time to time appear expe-
dent and salutary.
The first material invasion of the sys-
tenn Of the British navigation laws was
made by the treaty concluded by Mr..
VANsITTART with this country in 1915;
by which treaty the ships of the two coun-
tries were placed reciprocally upon the
same footing in the ports Of Great Britain
and the United States; and all discrimi-
mating duties, chargeable upon the goods
they carried, were mutually repealed. In
1923, Prussia followed the course of re-
taliatory duties originally adopted by the
United States, which led to the passage
Of Mr.. HUsKIssoN's reciprocity acts,
which empowered the king, by order in
council, to authorize the Importation and
expectation Of goods in foreign ships from
the United Kingdom, or from any other of
his Majesty's dominions, on the same
terms as in British ships, provided it shall
first be proved to his Majesty and the Privy
Council that the foreign country in whose
favor such order shall be made shall have
placed British ships in its ports on the
same footing as its own ships. Since that
time the United Kingdom has made reci-
procal treaties of navigation with Prussia,
Denmark, Hanover, Oldenburg, Meek
lenburg, Greece, Bremen, Hamburger, Luz
beck, States of La Plata, Colombia, Holland,
France, Sweden and Norway, Mexico,
Brazil, Austria, Russia, and Portugal.
The recent act does not per Sc affect
that material provision of the law of
CRoMwELL's Parliament, by which all
foreign vessels were prohibited from en-
gaging in the trade between one British
port and another, or between any British
port and colony or dependency of Great
Britain--a trade resembling the coasting
trade of the United States.
1t is not our design to speculate upon
the objects of this Legislation, nor on
the duties which it may impose on the
Administration. Real reciprocity has al
ways been the doctrine and policy Of the
United States-not that kind of reciproci-
ty which is all on one side, but an honest,
bond fde reciprocity. Whether under the
provisions of this act such reciprocity
can be established, is, the question now
presented to the examination of the Anne
rican people.
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The St. Catharine's Journal Of June 10th states
that duel took place between A. c. Hamilton,
esq, of st. Cetharines, and Capt Tench, Of Mia
CARA. They fred two shots at each other-distance,
ten PAGES These gentlemen were prevented from
continuing this edifying mode of settling their diff
Guilty by the interference Of one Of the seconds
IL is stated that much excitement existed at ST..
Csthsrine's on account Of proposed demonstration
of the orangemen, and that disturbance wos an
ticipated. The authorities had sent to Niagara for
the Rifles" to be prepared for any emergency.
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DsarBs IN LONDON AND New YoRx.--Tbe num-
Der Of deaths last week in New York. 1911 with
population of somewhat over 400, OO0 was greater
than the last received weekly report of deaths in
London, with over 1900, 900 inhabitants.