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pLANETT'S BITTERs

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NREATE healthy action throughout the body,
~ restore the appetite, equalize the circulation,
give tone and energy to the system, and create a
power OF resistance to disease in all its FORMS rarely
to be obtaiDed they will perform speedy and
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tectonS
HEADACHE
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is adapted to all ages and conditions.
FEMALES
will find in this delicate and paatable preparation
combination of Tonic, Aiteratiue and Aperient
qualities peculiarly adapted to their systems
The specific action that this article has on the
Liner and Digestioe Organs, render it complete
antidote for Fever and Ague, and Bilious and Ty-
phus Fevers.
CHAsEvILLE, Il. ID July IT, 1850.
DEAN Sir: | have used the article of Planett's
Bitters, and have derived from them great benefit.
have been subject for years past to the FeUer and
Ague, but since the introduction Of your bitters
have entirely escaped my usual attacks, and
with confidence recommend them one of the best
Tonics in use. Respectfully yours,
SPRINGFIELD, June 20, 1850.
NY DEAR Sin: 1t gives me much pleasure 10
state, that the Dyspepsia with which my wife has
been SO long troubled, arising from inaction of the
Liver, has been entirely overcome and cured by
the of your invaluable preparation of Bitters;
and for your kindness in recommending them
please accept my thanks. Your obedient servant,
G.. l.. LEECH.
Distributing Agents,
WILLIAM #. HICKS & CO.,
149 and Isl Front street, New York.
And for sale by R. S. Patterson and H. d. and
w. H. GILMAN April l6-1y-(Jy 24)
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JACOB SNIDER, JR.,
10 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA,

( NFFERS THE BEST AND CHEAPEST WINES

& lFFERS IHE BESI AND CHEAPEST WINES
" AND LIQUORS IN PHILADELPHIA.
The importations of the undersigned are only
from houses of long established reputation in Eu-
rope, and the integry of every thing he sells be
relied upon.
Special attention is solicited to bis present mpor-
tations of MOET's CHAMPAGNE, a wine of extra
and matchless quality, and imported by no other
house in the United States.
Various other brands and qualities Of CHAM
PAGNE always on hand
SPARKLING MOSELI.E, the we'll known extra
"Schar sbrg," the best wine of the Moselle, direct
from Dienhard & Jordan, Of Coblentz, the first
house on the Rhine and Moselle.
RARE AMONTILLADO, old and deicate-a
great wine for convalescents-and assorted SHER-
RIES direct from the Bodegas of DUFF, GORDON
& Co, at Puerto Santa Maria, in Andalusia,
PORT WINES, red and white, of unsurpassed
qualities, direct from "BURMEsTER's," at Oporo.
His HOOK WINES, CLARETS, BURG UNDIES,
sAUTERNE, BARSAC, &c, &c, offer every IA
cility for a seasonable selection.
He has besides full stock of all the various kinds
of MADEIRA, SHERRY, PORT, LISBON, TEN
ERIFFE, SICILY, and other Wines usually offered
for sale. Also-LlQUORS OF ALL SORTS, in
cluding some of the very choicest COGNAC
bottle.
SCOTCH ALE and LONDON STOUT always
on hand by the cask or dozen, cheaper than at any
other store.
HAVANA SEGARs of direct importation, of va
rous sorts and prices.
HOTELS AND COUNTRY TRADE supplied at
wholesale prices most favorable terms.
CLUBS will find it much to their advantage to
order from the subscriber.
FAMILIES command the best Of Table
Wines at rery o,c prices also the cheapest sorts
of Wines and Liquors, for Culinary Purposes.
MEMBERS OF LEGISLATIVE BODIES, and
others at distance, be supplied (dad haze them
sent by "Package Express" free of CHARGE with
Wines, sc. for table, by the dozen, in cases of
assorted Sorts at the shortest notice, by addressing
their orders, through the Post Office, to
JACOB SNIDER, Jr.,
Importer and Dealer in Wines, etc,
July 4 rs Walnut st., Phila.
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CAvE DISCOVERED AT SHARoS.--A correspond
ent OF the Springfield Rcpubi,can, writing from
Sharon, in the State of New York remarks that
two men, digging train last week about half
mule from the Springs, came to large fssure in
the rocks, which led them into a cave; "thst they
entered the opening, and reached an Offset of
fifteen or twenty feet which they descended, and
alter proceeding short distance came TO another
offset similar to the first, which they descended in
like manner and at once found themselves in n
room some twenty feet square and sixty feet high,
with tunne-shsped root; that little further ON
they discovered another room of about the same
dimensions the first; that they found a success
zion Of such of different sizes; and that they
thus for the space Of three hours travelling
AT least mile under ground They stated that
they found the cave every side hung with large
and brilliant stalsctites. In one place they OBJ
served waterfall, which, so far as the sound and
the light of their torches would enable them to
Judge. must have been sixty feet high"
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CIRCULAR.

VNHE UNDERSIGNED proposes to publish a
Il political Weekly paper in the German Ian
guagc in the CITY Of Washington, in support of the
principles by which the Administration of Gene
raj Idyior came into power, and being dcsirous 10
obtain the aid and cooperation Of the Wing party,
he would respectfully state the rcaRons which, IN
his estimation, make IL desirable and necessary
that such paper should be established at the sea
Of Government.
l. The number of those who use the German Ian
guage their medium of intercourse Is upwards OF
Three Millions, and this number is constantly IN
creasing by INNING grafton.
3 The name of Democrats being the appclaton
of the liberal or popular party OF Germany, TO
which all the immigrants before their emigration
belonged, they do OF course, range themselves with
the party bearing that appclation IN this country,
soon they able 10 exercise the elective
franchise; and the more 80, as the country teens
with Democratic papers in the German language,
whose particular object and anxiety IL Is to this
Interpretation TO the best advantage.
3. Although there arc few Wing papers in the
country, they bear principally local character,
and relying for their support more on local patron
age than on their subscription lists, they do gene
rally stand or fall with the defeat of the
Wing party in their particular section.
{. The Germans, however, being an Intelligent
and reading people, arc accessible 10 sound argu-
mcnt, and a paper conducted with uprightness, and
speaking the plair truth, will be able, by degrees
20 overcome preJudicct, correct crrors and mlsap-
Prchensions, and by its own direct influence, as
well by its influence upon the local Wing pa
pcrs, in existence, viii, II ls hoped, produce
he desired effect, and gain the rejecting and think
ing, that is the influential portion of the German
citizens, over 20 the Whig ranks.
3. The undersigned Is well aware that hc has
many and serious obstacles TO overcome, but rely
ing upon the power Of truth and the cooperation
Of the Whig party, on account Of the intrinsic
merits Of his enterprise docs not fear TO be charged
with entertaining too sanguine hOpcs, II he antici
pates satisfactory result.
FREDERICK SCHMIDT.
RECOMMENDATION Wing State Central
Committee of Massachusetts, being satisfied that
German ncwsI apcr, TO be published at Washing
ton az proposed by Mr.. FEEDERIcK ScHSnDT will
be of great importance and benefit 10 the Whig
party and the country, chccrlully and earnestly
recommend 70 the Wings every where TO subscribe
for such paper. GEORGE MOREY,
EzRA LINCOLN, Chairman.
Secretary.
BoeToN, October 20, lS49.
TERMs.-THE SPECTATOR AT THE PoToMAc APP
pears every Thursday. The terms arc TWO DOL
LARS AND FIFTY CENTS, payable in advance.
No subscription taken for less than year, No
paper sent to a subscriber before payment is made,
nor for n longer time than the payment entities TO.
Advertisements must be prepaid, and are inserted
ut the usual prices. All communications must be
postpaid. Address: Frederick Schmidt, Wash
ington, ID. e. Nov S-u
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PRINTERS, AND HryDERs,
NTAREHOUSE, Nos. % and 81 Cold ST.
wv ufactorv CORNER of RroDuuc and Shcri0

NTAREHoUsE, Nos. % and 81 Cold st.-Man
w ufactory, corner Of Broomc and Sheriff sts.,
New York
The subscribers offer for sale, Of their ownnan-
ufacture, their improved patent Single and Double
Cylinder Printing Prcssc., for newspaper and book
work; Card Printing Machines, Proof Presses,
Hydraulic Presses, with drought iron Cylinders
Geered and other Standing Presses also, Btho-
graphic and Coppcrplnte Presses, Bindcrs mate;
rials, &c &c; Chascs, Cases, Galleys, Furniture,
Stands, Imposing Stones, &c. &c, constantly on
hand, and every article necessary for complete
Printing Office, including Type and Ink, furnished
on the most favorable tcrIus. Printers, publishers
and others, wishing to establish Newspaper
Book or job Office, will DC furnished with an csti.
mate for the same, In detail If desired Machinery
made TO order or drawings. Iron and Brass CAST
ings 10 order. They also manufacture superior
csst-stcel MILL pit, crOss-cut, circular and other
Saws supply Of which they keep constantly on
hand II. HOE * co.
n. b. Proprietors Of newspapers who will nsert
the advertisement three times and send us a mum
Der of their paper containing it, will be entitled TO
payment on purchasing Of us four times the
amount of their bill. Jan 26--tf
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AUouT A PARRoT.-An incident touchingly illus.
rative OF the power of tachnent in the lower ami
mails Is related in the Portsmouth, (N.H.) Journal
OF a recent date. In small family in the south
part of that city, there was parrot which had
found home there for years, and had become n
pct of the family. A child was taken sick this
spring, and was not seen by the parrot for some
days. The bird had been used to repeat her name
and in the child's absence kept repeating the name
so necessarily as to annoy the family. The child
died the repetition OF the name was kept up I'm
I'll one Of the family took the parrot to the ro.m
where the corpse lay. The parrot turned first one
side of its head and then the other towards the
corpse, apparently eyeing it, and was then taken
back. He never repeated the name again. was at
once silent. and the next day died.
This incident is more poetical even than that on
which Campbell has founded his graceful little
poem of The Parrot" OF this story he ssvs
" 1t is not fiction. | heard it many wears aeo in
the island of Null from the family to whom Il be-
longcd." We quote a few Of the stanzas, contain
ing the substance of the story:
-" parrot from the Spanish main,
Full young and carly Gagged, came o'cr,
With bright wings, to the bleak domain
or Mula's shore.
To spicy groves, where he had won
His plumage Of resplendcnt hue,
His native fruits, and sky, and sun,
lie bade adieu.
"At last, when old, and seeming dumb.
lie scoldcG laughed, and spoke no more;
ASpanish stranger chanced to come
To Mulla's shore,
I" lie hailed the bird IL Spanish speech;
In Spanish speech the bird replied;
Flapped round his cage with Joyous screech-
Dropped down, and died"
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NOTICE TO CLAIMANTS AGAINST MEXI-
co, UNDER THE TREATY OF ed FEB
RIAUY. 1919,

OFFICE OF THE CoMMIssIoNxRs,
June %, 1850. s
A T THE SITTING Of this day, the following
n der was made: "0rdeTed, That the Secretary
notice to be published in the National Intelh
gencer, Republic, and Union newspapers, that no
memorial will be received by the Board after the
first day of February next, unless for special rea-
sons shown, which must be verified by affidavit;
and that all cases where memorials have been re-
ceived but not yet decided be set down for hearing
on the fret Monday in December next; and If fur
ther delay in any case be wanted motion in writ
ing to that effect must be submitted on or before
that day, setting forth the reasons for such delay
Claimants will please receive, accordingly, the
notice conveyed by the recital Of the foregoing or
der. EDWARD WIN. JOHNSTON,
Secretary to the Commission.
July Q-VtiatEcb
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MONTGOME PATENT TUBULAR
BOILER.

yJNHE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC is IN
Il vied to this valuable improvement. Expert
mcnts the past year on boats both in Salt and Fresh
water, as also for land purposes, have fully tested
its superior qualities steam generator, and the
great saving of fuel, weight and space occupied,
any boiler now in
These Boilers can be seen in operation at
Mes.rs. HECKER & BROS, Flour Mills, POI Cher
ry street
HOOPER g. BROS 1913 Pearl street.
+" MOTT & AYRES, Foundry, foot 25th
street, N. H.
ATLANTIC DOCK, Brooklyn.
A. w. METCALF, SO and 65 Centre street.
ID. d. BADGER CO., "A and 46 Duane
street.
N.B. sTARBUCK's Foundry, Troy, New
York.
SMITH & CURLETT, Baltimore
READING DEPOT, Reading, Pa.
And on board steamboats, JONAS c. HEARTT and
EDWARD PAYSON, foot of Liberty street, ~ Y,
and towboat JOHN p. WHITNEY, New Orleans.
For further information apply to
JAMES M0NfG OMERY and
SAMUEL WARD,
is South William street, New York.
June 20-tf
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TERMS.

Boarding. lodging, washing, mcuding, fuel.
lights, and tuition in all the classes English, Ma
thematcal and Classical, Modern Languages, &c,
$3.50 year, payable half fyearly in advance, one
fret of February.
Pupils may be entefcd at any time, and will be
harged accordingly.
Yscation-the months of July and August.
RI. Rev. JAS II. OTsy, ID. D., President
ANDREW J. PoLx, esq, Ashwood, Maury 90.
JAMES WALKER, ESQ.,, Columbia, do.
Rev. L. II. CRrssEy, Ashwood Rectory, do.
Jan. 2 Trustees,
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RAvENsCRoFT COLLEGE,

Under hc control qf Bishop Otey and Contention Of
the Protestant Episcopal Church
TINHE next session will begin on the fret Monday
Il in September Professor Macleod is head OF
the household; and will fully carry out the plane
by which II is proposed to make quiet, refined,
and aflectionate homecircle, promOtive alike of
moral, mental, and physical culture In the study
hall and the playground in the dormitorcs at
table and in the parlor, constant attention will
be paid TO the habits and manners OF the students;
and pains will be spared TO supply as far as pos
sible ali the tender ofhces Of parent.
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MEXICAN LETTERS. written during the
l'l progress of the late war between tho United
States and Mexico. BY n. II. NJ. Breckenridge.
Now collected and republshed, with notes and cor
reetions, TO be completed in two numbers. Part
just received, price l2l ccnt..
Augs FRANCK TAYLOR,
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GUIDE TO HEALTH AND LONG LIrE

~ or What to Eat, Drink, and Avoid: by Robert
Culvcrwell, NJ ID. 25 cents
Culverwoll on Coughs, Colds, Consumption, and
other diseases of the chest. 25 cents.
How to be Happy, an Essay for general and fam
lily perusal, by Culverwell. % cents.
Redfcld's Outlines of a new System of Physiog
nomy, with numerous engtavings. 25 cents.
The Family Dentist, including Surgical, Medi
cnl, and Mechanical treatment Of the teeth, by
Charles A. Du Bouchet. NJ. ID.
Thompson on the Management Of the Sick Room.
For sale by TAYLOR & MAURY,
AuRS Booksellers, near 9Th st.
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Orders for Tickets and Shares and Certificates of
Packages in the above Splendid Lotteries will re-
ceve the most prompt attention, and official ac-
count of each drawing sent Immediately after II is
over TO all who order from
Address j. & {. MAURY, Agents,
Alexandria, Virginia.
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From the California Courier, judy |.
The CeIestiaIs in California.

San Francisco probably has population of one
thousand Chinese, and this population is the most
orderly industrious, and prudent of any class in
our city. You never catch any of the long queues
in any of the haunts of dissipation, and per conse.
qucnce, none of them on the police books They
| are generally pretty good mechanics; some ofthem
keep restaurants, and few trade in nick knack ks
and curiosities. When lumber was scarce in the
market, a large quantity was brought from Chi
nesc ports ready framed and matched for ten.
footers. These made quite comfortable little cribs
when a man was satisfied TO sleep under a carpcn-
ter's bench or creep into a crockery crate for pro-
lection against the weather, bat now, when lum-
Der Is a drug, people much prefer larger space TO
breathe IN, and American carpenters infinitely pre-
fer 10 labor upon square timber to the picayunc
process OF coaxing together the round, crooked
sticks Of the celestlals. We saw, the other day
some American carpenters trying 10 put up Chi
nesc frame, but il wouldn't do As fast as one side
rose TO perpendicular, the other side tumb,ed
over. At last they gave il up in despair when n
gang OF Chinese were sent for, and presto the
building went up like magic The thing wac done
No man can put Up a Chinese frame who does not
understand the lingo. 1t is necessary 10 talk TO il
to coax II into shape, and to pat It patronizingly
upon the pate, TO keep II in shape, until the last
nail has been driven home. IL would be as irnpos
sIble for American carpenter to nut up tbi
ncsc frame as II would be for him To make a per-
feet pyramid Of the twenty two hundred letters of
the Chinese alphabet.
Now that the Chinese frames have gone ont of
date, the Cecstias are turning their nttention
To competition with our own carpenters in Amer
lean material, and, from their known Ingenuity
we doubt not that in few weeks they will be found
perchcd upon every embryo house top and going
into the shingle and clap board business with per-
feet rush.
As evidence Of the worthlessncss of the Chi.
nese sticks in this market, VIC have only to state
what was told us for fact. A gentleman not long
since was railing against our worthy collector
when hfs friends replied, why my dear sir
am surprised; have found Mr.. Collier one of the
most obhgng men in the world lie allowed me
TO throw overheard cargo of Chinese lumber
thereby saving me the duties, which would have
amounted TO four dollars per thousand, to cay no.
thing of the lghteragc, which would have nearly
ruined me. am surprised to hear you talk so ,"
The lumber would have brought the custom.
house into debt.
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rJ,uE FRENCH COOK, giyinp full djrectio

FTHE FRENCH COOKS giving full directions
Il for all the best dishes Of French Cookery
translated into English. vol. 25 cts.
Domestic Cookery for the American Housekeepcr;
formed on principles Of economy for the use of
private families ! vol. Of 2l6 pages, and ongrav.
ings in full binding. 81 cts.
Seventy five Receipts for Pastry, Cskes, Sweet.
meats, &c BY Miss Leslie vol. 25 cts.
July 23 FRANCK TAYLOR.
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VALUABLE MINERAL PAiNr DlscovERy.-On On the
west side of Agawam river, in West Springfield
near the falls and factories quarry of stone ma
terial, suitable for paint has recently been discoy-
cred and purchased by skinner & Hancox The
premises consist OF high bluff of four or five acres
ON the top Of which Springfield may be plainly
scen. The tract cOutains AN mex haustiblc supply
OF the material, which IL soft reddish brown stone
with some veins of blue, which, when exposed 10
the air, slacks or softcns and crumbcs TO pre-
pare II Tor mixing with oil like lead, il is first
washed, then ground. Nothing of the kind be-
sides this has yet been found in this vicinity Ac-
cording TO DIR. Jackson's analysis it contains a
larger proportion Of the hardening qualities than
any paint material yet known. II is consequently
more mperviOus to fire and water. We have seen
some specimens Of it, painted on wood, and dry,
and II looks we'll. The cost is not half ss much as
lead, and IL is thought TO be more durable. besides
its protection against fire and water. Should this
material prove TO be what is now believed of IL. by
those who have examined IL, the result will be for
tunste for community, and asource of profit to
the enterprising proprietors Similar discoveries
at the West have been already fsvoraby intro.
duced to the public but this one in West Spring.
field prosents, as we have said, more substantial
qualities for the to which it is found adapted.
than any other discovery Of the kind yet made
known,
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ALEXANDRIA ACADEMY.

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.
rI'HE course Of study embraces the Ancient and
Il the Modern Languages, Mathematics and
Natural Science. Courses Of Lectures on Natural
Philosophy, Chemistry, and Astronomy, are de-
lvered during the year. The school room, rccita-
ton, and lecture all Handsomely fur
nishcd The Institution is supplied with a complete
Philosophical and Chemical apparatus, and every
other requisite for thorough and extensive study
Terms, for board, washing, fuel and lights, with
tuition in Latin, Greek, and Mathematics, 8 $50
per annum. For further information address
Oct l-0 r. l.. BROCKETT, Principal.
DUILIp BARTON KEY will attend 20 any
Il business he may be entrusted with before either
OF the Courts Of this Districts and will also attend
10 the prosecution of Claims before Congress and
the Departments. Office on street.
July l7-tf
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ITO RENT.-The whole, or part Of comfort
Il ably FURNISHED HOUSE can be had 10y n
genteel family, on very moderate terms, IL immo
diate application is made, street, between 18th
and 18Th, north side, ono door from 18th.
June l5-tf
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BRILLIANT LOTTERY
Capital Prize,
@GS60, ,000!-GH
$4,000! $4,000! $15,000
200 Prizes Of 81 ,250.
VIRGINIA STATE LOTTERY,
For the Benefit of Monongalia Academy,
Class No. H. for 1850,
To be drawn at Alexandria, Va, on Saturday,
August 2t, 1850.
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BROWNS HOTEL.
II. II. ~ NJ. BROWN, PROPRIETORs,
Pa. Avenue, between 9th and 9Th streets.
WAsHrNGToN, ID. G.
!Fss4Ys2 So s;s;sys;s sssss ;,ss:5;s ~ - !
OFFICE OF THANsPoI

OFFICE OF TRANSPORTATION,
Washington aud Baltimore X. IL. Company.
PASSENGER TRAINS run az follows, viz
Il From Washington at n. IN, and p. IN. daily,
and a. IN. daily, except Sunday.
From Baltimore at a. m, aud p. IN. daily,
and a. m. daily, except Sunday.
April 29-dIy L. III. PARSONS, Agent.
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Tickets Sl0-IIalves $5-Quarters So so
Certificates packages of 25 w hole tickets 100 90
Do do 25 Half do 90 90
Do do % Quarter do 80 60