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Correspondence of the Baltimore Sunl
 WASHINGTON, August s.

There is now more than an even chance that every measure recommended by the committee of thirteen will pass Congress separately. We shall regulate the Texas boundary, admit California as a State, pro- vide New Mexico with territorial gov ernment, without "a Wilmot," pass the Utah bill ditto, then the fugitive slave bill, and last the bill for the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia. The Nashville Convention may then meet six weeks after the adjournment of Congress, and play Fra Diavalo without the music.
 The letter of the Hon. Howell Cobb, Speaker of the House of Representatives, addressed to Wm. H. Hall, Esq, Athens, Georgia, which is published in to-day's Un- ion, from the Southern Banner, is by far the ablest paper l have seen on the subject of the present difficulties. MT. Cobb's hstor- ical exposition of the rise and progress of the slavery controversy, his calm, sober, common sense reflections thereon, and the dispassionate mode in which he treats of the whole subject as statesman and pa- triot, commend themselves to the earnest attention of every American, and to the se- rious consideration of every friend and sup porter of our republican institutions. It ought to be published in form of tract, and circulated throughout the country as most valuable disinfecting agent against that most awful disease in the bod y politic-conges- ton of the brain in the shape of disunon.
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PUBLIC-No. i3.
IUBLIC-NU. To, AN ACT to grant the franking privilege to

AN ACT to grant the franking privilege to
 Mrs. Margaret $. Taylor.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives. of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the franking privilege heretofore accorded to the widows of the deceased Presidents be, and the same is hereby, granted to Mrs. Margaret Smith Taylor, relect of Zachary Taylor, late President of the United States.
 Approved, July IS, 1850.
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Kent, including the port of East Greenwich and that part of Warwick lying upon Greenwich bay, is hereby taken from the collection diitrict of Newport, in said State and attached to, and made part of, the col lection distrct of Providence.
 Approved July 29, 1850.
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PUBLIC-No. }. RESOT HTTON evnraSsinr tha condo

A RESOLUTION expressing the condo a 5S-A.9 of Congress for Mrs. Margaret $ ResoIUed 6y the Senate and House of Repre- senta'ioes 9 the United States of Anaerica ir Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be requested to transmit : copy Of the proceedings of the two Houses on the tenth instant, in relation to the deatF of the late President of the United States 10 Mrs. Margaret $. Taylor, and to assure her of the profound respect of the two Houses of Congress for her person anc character, and of their sincere condolence on the late afflcting dispen5ation of Pro vidence.
 HOWELL COBB,
 Speaker of the House of R0resentotives
 WILLIAM k. KING,
 President ef Me Selatepro tenpore Approved, July IS, 1850
 WILLARD FILLMORE.
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COLUMBUS (GA) CoTToN FAcToRIEs.- There are three large cotton factories at this point. The Coweta Fall. Manufacturing Company, 250O spindles, make l,SOO yards of heavy osnaburgs per day, and employs IS boys and girls; Carter's factory, cal culated for 200 looms, and l0,OOO spindles, and employs over 300 hands; the Howard Manufacturing Company, lO3 looms, 5000 spindles, manufacture per day l5,OOOy yards oSnaburgs, sheetings, and shirtings, and consume annually 1900 bales of cotton. In addition to these, the citizens of Colum- bus have several of the finest Touring mills in the South, besides one or two blaming and variety mills, the Rock Island Paper Mill, and two large manufactories. Co., lumbus is fast becoming the Lowell of the South.--Amer. Farmer.
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Facts about Digestion.

The connection between the various svmp- toms of consumptiVe diseases and the infu- ence which one diseased condition has in etfecting another, is wonderful. There are really three processes of digestion; the first occurs in the stomach, the second along the tract of the inteStines, the third and last, in the lungs; this process is carried on by in- cessant motion of the three parts named, and when either of these ceases their mo- iion permanently, we die. If the lungs cease to act altogether, we perish in three minutes; if the bowels, in common language, become "to1pid," we take on sickness, fever, and death in a few days unless they are aroused by some means or other. In health, the bowels are as lncecsant in their work ings as the waves of the ocean, during every instant of our whole existence, and the instant they cease, we begin 10 die; if, for example, bullet penetrates the abdomen, and pierces a bowel, it becomes quiescent that moment, and death is inevitable within four or five days, generally within two. A bullet may pass through the lungs, or be lodged in the heart, and the man may get we'll and live many years; but he never sur wives bullet penetration through the bow els, because that instant they cease to move; state of activity, then, is state of health, as far as the bowels are concerned; they are kept in motion by three means which 1 shall name:
 By the stimulus of the food passing thro' them.
 By the motion of our bodies, exercise, for example, of any kind.
 By the motion of the lungs in breathing, for in every breath we draw, an undulating movement is imparted thereby to the whole of the intestines. But there are times when a man is liable to be without food for hours and days and weeks, for he can live twenty days without food in rare instances: then the bowels not having their natural stimulus would stagnate, and we would die if there were no other means to keep them in mo- ton.
 As to the second means, we do not exer- else in our sleep, and the very first night the seeds of death would be sown in us if the bowels were wholly dependent on bodi- y exercise for their activity.
 But if we are starving for weeks, and if, in nAGltion, we confined for Eonths- by lingering disease, or bound to prison floor for years together, yet we always breathe every instant of our existence, as ceaseless- ly as that Kind Eye that never sleeps in it's vigil for the happiness of His earth born children.
 But when the lungs begin not to breathe free enough, the bowels do not receive their proper motion, digestion becomes deficient, the blood poor, the strength fails, the body wastes away, and the man dies.
 It is the whole end and aim in my sys- tenn of treatment to detect this deficient lung working it's very incipiency, and to lend all my energies to bring them back to their natural healthful acton-in proportion as succeed in doing this, men get we'll, and as certainly as this is not done, they die.-Dr. Hal on the Throat and Lungs.
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N 0 T 1 C E

YEVHE undersigned having this day bought G- from Martin < Norton their entire stock of GOODS. will continue the Mercantile business I at their old stand in Helena. He hopes to retain the customers of the old concern, and make as many new ones as are punctual in their engagements.
 SAM. MARTIN. June 10, 1850.
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Disunion speeches were rife in South Carolina on the 4th inst. Ingorious desc n U cration of glorious day.
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Professer FoRsHEY, in an essay on the physics of the Mississippi, just published, proves by the result of observations kept up through a great number of years, that the channel of the Mississippi riveris deepening, and consequently the levee system will not necessarily elevate the bed of the river, as has been feared, On the contrary, he thinks confning the river within narrow channel will give if additional velocity, and serve to scrape out the bottom; while opening arti-
 icial outlets, by diminishing the current, will cause the rapid deposition of sediment, and thus produce evil to be guarded against.
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NationM Mtelltgencer, Sd anst.

The Insurance offices of New York have determined to take no more risks on ouild- lngs in which satpetre is stored. It IS no" settled that saItpetre will explode.
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The credit that is got by lie only lasts till the truth comes out.
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We very much regret to learn that the Hon. EDWARD BATES, of Missouri, now in this city, is prevented, by his private rela- tons and engagements, from accepting the office of Secretary of War, to which he had been appointed by the Executive. He was from home when notified ofhis appointment, and came to this city for the purpose ot making known to the PRESIDENT the req Sons which oblige him to decline the honor rendered to him.
 1 Nntinnnl LlteLLtgencer, 3d lnSt.
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For lighthouse the south shore Of Lake Su-
perior, at Ontanagon 5000 w
For lighihou,e at Ottawa Poirt, in Saginaw
Bay 900 GO
For al lighthouse Beaver Island, Lake Mchi-
gan 5000 90
In Wisconsin.
For lighthouse at the mouth of Twin rivers $500 90
For lighthouse at Port Ulao $500 90
In Teas.
For lighthouse and beacon light at Brasos San
tiaeo Is 900 90
For a lighthouse at Bolivar Point $4,000 90
For lighthouse at Matsgorda Island $4,000 90
In Florida.
For the erection Of light Sea Horse Key 5000 90
In Georgia.
For the purchase Of the signa-ight at the Savan-
For dumb beacons to be erected.
Black Oyser Rock, the other on Sugar Loaf,
in the river Savannah 1000 90
In Louisiana.
For Clubhouse at or near the head Of the South
west Pass of the Mississippi river $4,000 90
In California.
For lighthouse at Alcatras Island; for light
house at Point Conception, and fog signal
for lighthouse Battery Point, entrance of
the Bay Of San Francisco for Ighthn use at
San Degoi for lighthouse and fog signal
at Monterey for lighthouse at the island of
Faraloucs off tie harbor of San Francisco,
and fog signal, and for the transportation,
erection, and placing the same 10000 90
In Oregon.
For lighthouse on Cape disappointment, a the
mouth OF the Columbia river island
off Cape Flatery, at the entrance Of the Straits
of Fuca, and one at New Duogenness twelve
iron can buoys in Columbia river, and the
transportation, erection, and placing of the
So l40 90
To horize the Secretary Of the Treasury to
test the and economy of the calcium light 5000 90
For fog-signals at the lighthouses on Execution
Rocks, Gull Island, Long Island Sound, Bea-
yer Tail Point, Rhode Island and hoard
the lightboat at Bartlett's Reef, Long Island
Sound $500 90
For li.b)ats for rendering assistance to wrecked
mariners and othes the of the United
States 10, 600 90
To purchase steamer to be employed in the
coast survey upon the Pacific coast, and used,
if deemed expedient in designating the sites of
the several lighthouses provided for in Cali
fornia $50, 900 90
To pay the balance due to NJ. La Pon, of Paris,
for the light at Saneoty Head, Nantucket 1000 90
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veral poss and army depots, of subsistence,
from the places OF purchase and from he places
of delivery, under contract, to such places as
the circumstances OF he er,ces may require
it to be sent OF ordnabce ordnance stores,
and small arms, from the olndr and the
armores to the arsenals fortifca,ion- frontier
posts, aud army depos; feights, tolls and
fenages; the purchase aud hire oil horses, wa
gors, mules, oxeB CARTS drlys, ships and
other DING vessels and boats for the trans
portaon of supplies and FIR garrison purp1-
ses, dTayage, ard carriage at The several pests;
hire OF teams,ers, transportation OF iuods for The
pay and other discussing departments; the ex-
pen ses of sailing public transports the various
rivers, the Cult OF xco, ond in the Atlantic
and Pacific, aud of procuring water at such
post, as from their situations require ,752, Of2 90
For medical and hospital departments 81 500 90
For of Publications 1907 900 90
For purchase Of ordnance, ordnance stores and
supplies 100 900 90
For expenses the ordnance service 100 600 90
For manufacture of at the national armo-
res $780, coo 90
For repairs and improvements and new machin-
cry at the Hsrper's Ferry armory so, $50 90
For repairs and improvements and new machin-
cry at the Springfield aImory 500 %
For arsenals 1888 90
For purchase of lot Of ground at SprnafflJ,
Massachusetts,, adjoining the armo'y grounds
the HILL and the arsenal 800 90
For surveys 10 reference to the military delences
of the frontier, inland and Atlantic IL, 600 90
Mississippi 10000 90
L or ConutlllNS the surveys Oi ule NOithefH ara
Northwestern Lakes $4,000 90
For RACES prior to the first OF July, enc thou
sand eight hundred and fifteen, under the act
If the first of May, thousand eight hun
dred and twenty, payable through tie ! bird
Auditors office 1900 90
For compensation TO drsughtsm,n employedin
the bureau of Typographical Engineers
map Of the Western Territory Of the Unied
Siaes and of The northern part Of N xico,
which made under the order of the Senate
of the United States 900 90
For the army subsistence 60S2l8 SO
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BY the act to establish Territorial Government for Utah.
For the purchase of library, to be kept at the
seat of government, for the use of the Cover
nor, Legislative Assembly, Judges of the SUI
preme Court, Secretary, Marshal, and Attor-
ney Of said Territory, and such other PERSONS
and under such regulations shall be pre-
scrbed by law 5000 90
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Bythe act making appropriations lighthouses light boats,
buoys, DC, and pyouiding r the erection and establish
ment ofMe same, and for other purposes.
In Maine.
For a buoy ledge abou! league east of
Boon Island $50 90
For dumb beacons Drunken and Elders
lodges, at the mouth of the horoughfare be-
Northhaven and Vinahaven 1000 90
For lighthouse Black Saddleblc Island in
the county of Hancock 1900 90
In Ne,o Hampshire.
For beacon and buoys at the mouth of Little
Harhor near Portsmouth $500 90
For beacon Logys ledge, in Pscatsqua
river 800 90
In Massachusetts,
For a yelling house for the keeper of the bea-
con light at Hyannis 500 90
For spar buoy the middle ground off Chat
ham, the east end of Mouomoy Rip;
Schooner Bar at Powder Hole
Harbor and one a Stone Horse Shoa, near
Pollock Rip 400 90
For spar buoy at the north and at the
sou'h end of ledge called Muskeget Rocks,
the northwest end of the Horseshoe,
at Hyanns the Sturgeon Flat, one
off Soney Point, and BIankenshp's
Rock in the EJgarlown district $50 90
For lighthouse on Egg Rock, Nshant 5000 90
For fog signal, to be placed at the outer light
house in Boston Bay 5000 90
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$40 900 90

BY Meaet making appropriations for The payment Of reDO-
onary and other pensions Of the United States or the
year ending the tieh Of June, one thousand eng MT hun
dredand Giy-one
For revolutionary pensions under the act of the
eighteenth of March, one thousand, eight hun
bred and eiahteen Al, 1913 90
For invalid pensions under various acts 5000 90
For pensions to widows and orphans, under the
acts of the fourth of July, eighteen hundred
and thirty six and twenty first of July, eigh-
teen hundred and forty-eight -36O,bOO w
For pensions widows under the net Of the
venth of July, thousand eight hundred
and hrty-eight OOo w
For pensions widows under the act of the
third of March, thousand eight hundred
and f,ry-three 10000 90
For pens to widows under the act of the Sc
venteenh of June, thousand eight hun
dred and forty -four, second of February,
thousand eight hundrd and forty-eght ard
twenty ninth Of July, one thousand eigh, hun
dIed and rty-eight -5s4, 600 W
For haf-pay pensions TO widows and orphans,
under the act Of the sixteenth of March,
thousand eight hundred and twelve, and the
Of the sixteenth of April, ore thousand
eight hundred and sixteen, payable through
the Third Auditors Office 49, l0 90
-
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100000 90

By the ae supply efficiency in Meeppropria'ion for The
srUice Of the fiscal year ending tie Mirfja =,
eighteen hundred andffy.
To supply deficiency in The appropriation for
dcfroying the expense of the supreme, Cir
cult, and District Courts Of the United States
including The District Of Columbia also for
jurors and witnesses in aid Of the funds arising
from fnes penalties, and forleitures incurred
in the fiscal year ending Juno ihirtieth, eigh-
teen hundred and fry, and previous years,
and likewise for defuyng The expenses Of
suits in which the United States are concern
cd and Of prosecutions for offences committed
against the Uoitcd S,siei, and for the safe
keeping Of prisoners go 900 90
Bg the oct fore construction ofcetan roads in the Territory
q Minnesota, and for Other purposes.
For The construction Of read from Point Dou
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OFFICES, &c.

Report Of The Clerk ofMe House Of Representa-
Hrss Of the United STATES, in compliance Wh the act TO
authorize tile appointment Of additional nymasiers and
for other purposes, passed July A, 1886
OrFIcR oY THE HousE or REPRESENTATIVES,
OF THE UNITED STATES, November %, 1850.
In obedience the sixth section of the act to authorize
the appointment Of additional paymas,ers and for Other pur
poses passed July A. 1885, which requires the Secretary
OF the and Clerk OF the House of Representatives
may be after the close of each session of Congress-
publish statement Of all appropriations made during the
md also atsmcn of the Offices created, and the
salaries OF eac and also statement the Offices the sala
es OF which increased and The of such increase"
the Clerk of tbs House of Representatives submits the
panying statements. RICHARD M. YOUNG,
Clerk House IF Reps. U. s.
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By The act making appropriations the support Of MIL
tary academy for the gear ending the Mrtie Of June,
one thousand eight hundred and ftty-one.
For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and mu-
sicians ,436 COL
For Communication of subsistence 1893 90
For forage Of officers horses S64 90
For clothing for officers 80 00I
For repairs, fuel! spparsius, forage for public
horses and oxen, stationery printing, and
other incidental and contingent expenses 2s,ssi 90
For the increase and expenses of the library 1000 90
For expenses of the board OF vsers 2,5l7 AZ
For barracks for cadets 4s, 500 90
4 For new me IS hall 25, 600 90
For hospital for enlisted men 1000 90
For erecting permanent guard-house sDd COM
missay store 5000 90
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S5.435.6l7 90

By the act TO proude for carrying into erecution. in further
part the ttceh article If the treaty With Merico con-
eiuded at Guadalupe Hdaigo.
Fur the payment of the insalment and interes!
which will fall due the hirtieth of May,
eighteen hundred and ifIy-one, under the
twelfth article Of the treaty between the United
States and Mexico, made aud concluded at
Guadalupe Hldago the second of Februa-
ry, eighteen hundred and fory-eight 49, $50 90" On
Blythe act fosupply adsfcency Meappropriaon for pay
and mileage Of members Of Congress FIR the present
session.
For the payment Of mileage and per diem Of Sena-
tors, members Of the House OF Representatives,
Delegates Congress the present session 900 90
For additional expense of stationery for members
of the House of Representatives during the
present session 1850 90
For the contingent expenses of the House Of Re-
representatives. So 900 90
And that Hugh n. Smith and Amon w. Bah
biz late claimants for seats in the House Of Re-
representatives. from New Mexico and Utah. be
allowed their per diem of Eve dollars from the
day of their arrival in Washington to the day
when their claim to a at rejected by a
rote of The House of Representatives and also
the sum of two thousand dollars each for their
mileage Indefinite.
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eigh cen hundred and forty eight, between III
United States and the United Kingdom of Great
BlilaIn and Ireland flnd.fniie
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i glass; the Mississippi river, via Co'tsge
Grove, Saltwater, Marine Mile, and Fails OF
| ST. Crix, to the falls rapids of The 81. Louis
river of Lake Superior $1,000 90
For the construction Of a road from Point Dou-
glass. via Cottage Grove, Red Rock, ST. Paul,
and Falls of 81. Anthony, to Fort Gaines 10000 90
/ For the construction Of a road from the mouth OF
Swan river, the most available point be
tween it and the Sank Rapids, to the Winnie
bago agency Long Prairie 5000 90
For the construction of u road from Wabashaw
70 MENDOZA 5000 90
For the survey and laying out Of military road
from MENDOZA 10 the mouth of the Big Sioux
river on the Missouri 5000 90
$40 900 90
|
By The act making appropriations for the payment Of Macy
pensions for the year ending the Mirtih Of June, one
thousand sgh hundred and fifty one
| To pay invalid pensions 10000 90
| To pay the pensions Of invaids who woun-
! ed on board of private armed vessels during
the last with Great Britain 5000 90
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8, 396 $50 81

By the act making appropriations for the narai serrce for the
year ending the thitieih Of June, thousand eight
hundred and ftfy-one.
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STATEMENTS SHOWING

STATEMENTS SHOWING
FrsAppropriatons made during the first session of the
Thirty first Congress-
Second-Oticeis created, and the salaries thereof
IhdThe Offices the salaries of which have been increased,
with the of such increase during the period
NOVEMBER H. 1850 Prepared by the Secretary of the
Senate and Clerk of the House of Rep esentaves in
of tho sixth section Of the act of July A. 1886,
" to authorize the appointment of additional Paymaters,
and for other purposes"
By The act to carry into effect the convention bet,oeen the
United States and the Emperor Of Brasil Of the f,Oeny
seventh day Of January, tn the year one thousand eight
hundred and torty-nne:
To the commissioner 5000 90
TO tie clerk 1000 90
For the contingent expenses of the commission
Indefinite 5000 90
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BY the act proridng for hetaking ohe screnh md subrc
guent Of the United STATES, and to fir the mum
Der Of the members Of the House Of Representatives., and
prouide for their future opporfionnnf among he secdi
States.
For the purpose Of covering tho expense Of trans
hitting the blanks ard other matter through
the mail TO Inc paid to the Post Office Depart
mont $4,000 90
For the purpose of carrying into effect this oct
and dorsyng the preliminary expenses 10000 90
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HINT TO Poor FoLKs.-Don't threaten Ia
make way with yourself because you hav'nt the
amount of your rent when the landlord calls. ii
you kill yourself the landlord will lose his rent,
but will you or your family be any better off.
Don't envy your rich relations. Alas, they
have trouble enough, with wants which they
cannot crafty, with anxiety to know what the
world says of them, with jealousy of others, with
all the thousand ills of life.
Don't run in debt to keepup appearances. A
crust with contentment, will make you happier
than thousands who clothe themselves in pnrple
and fare sumptuously every day. The man Who
has complete control over his passions is the most
powerful monarch OF the nineteenth century.
Don't cry, if you can possibly find a chance
to laugh. Crying is a melancholy business al
The best.-City Item.