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Piss Pins were not known in England till To-
wards the latter part OF the reign Of Henry the
Eighth. Tho ladies used ribbons loops, skewcrs
made OF wood, of brass, silver or gold. The pin
was at fret SO i'll made that parliament enacted
none should be- made unless they had double heads
and have the heades soldcrcd fast 10 the shankc of
the pynne." After this act few were made The
"pynncrs" declare that "scns the making Of the
sade act. there hath been scarctee of pynncs with
IN this rcalme. that the kynge's liege people have
not been wei completely served of sue pynhes "
They pray that Gin consideration thereof, IL maie
please the King that the act may be adjudgcd and
deemed from henceforth frustrated and initiated
forever. - Edinburgh Journal
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ARTssIAN WELLs.--The celebrated DR.. Buck.
land recently delivered lecture in London the
subject Of artesian wells. A real artesian well is
one that Is constantly overlooking, either from its
natural source or from an artificial tube. IL is
stated that there from two hundred and nifty to
doctor contended that one half Of them ought not
TO be called by that name, the water did not rse
TO the surface in them. On one well fls,OOO, or
ninety thousand dollars, had been expended, and
yet the water did not rise within eighty feet Of the
surface.
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Rev. WALTER CoLroS, in his book Of
travels, "Dcck and Port" in discoursing Of the
hne appearance of a ship full rugged and dressed
up in her BEST apparel says that she does not look
40 well when more minutely examined, but cap
pears best at the first blush, like fashionable wo-
discernmcnt than discretion, good manners or
gallantry, has just been reading the paragraph re-
fcrcd to, and remarks that, before he undertakes
10 judge of the force Of the comparison he should
like 70 sec "thc first blush Of a fashionable wo-
mani
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ALEXANDRIA ACADEMY.
ALExAsDRIA, vIRelNIA.

TI,HE course of study embraces the Ancient and
i the Modern Languages, Mathematics, and
Natural Science. Courses Of Lectures on Natural
PHILOSOPHY, Chemistry, and Astronomy, are de-
livercd during the year. The school-roon, recita-
ton, and lecture rooms arc all handsomely fur
nishcd. The Institution is supplied with complete
other requisite for thorough and extensive study
Terms, for board, washing, fuel and lights, with
tuition in Latin, Greek, and Mathematics, = $50
per annum For further information address
Oct. l-u II. J.. BROCKETT, Principal.
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FUnIE BATHs.

VI,o all who are afflicted with Rheumatic
j plants we would say, go and try DIR. EMER-
SONS SULPHUR FuME BATHs, at COpp's Pavilion,
on Louisiana avenue, near Sixth street. The pc
culiarities of il are such that IL cficctualy
this complaint. Also all other diseases Of Chronic
nature, such Scroua Gout, diseases of the skin,
joints, &c.
Galvanic and Electro Magnetic Electricity.
Dr. Emerson still continues to apply these inn
portant remedial agents TO such diseases and such
cases as indicate their usefulness.
Au1 12--9auG
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MISS E. u. sCOTT.

Music Lessons on Plano and Guitar.
A PPLICATION 20 be made at Mrs. DUVALL'S,
"A on Missouri avenue, corner 81 4 street, WASH
IsoToS, ID. G. After the experience Miss ScoTT has
had in teaching in Seminarcs, both South and
West she il confident she will give satisfaction to
those who favor her with their patronage.
Nav 7--tf
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s;sssz Z ssss5s !; sss: O.
OFFICE OF TRANSPORTATION.

OFFICE OF TRANSFORMATION.
Washington and Baltimore IL. X. Company.
PASSENGER TRAINS run as follows, viz:
i From Washingtonat a. m, and p. m. daily,
and a. m. daily except Sunday
From Baltimore at n. m, and p. daily,
and a. m. daily, except Sunday.
April 29-dly r. III. PARSONS, Agent.
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PROSPECTUS
;. THE SOUTHERN PRESS. ,

1.-THE SOUTHERN PRESS"
A N ASSOCIATION Of sixty three members Of
"A Congress, Senators and Representative, have
constituted the undersigned a committee TO super
intend the establishment of Southern Press at
Washington city, TO be devoted TO the exposition
and defence of southern rights and institutions, the
dissemination of correct information as 10 northern
policy and the OF political affairs generally
without reference To the old party lines of Wing
and Democrat. Arrangements are now in pro-
gress promptly 10 insure the issue of such paper,
under the title of
The Southern Press"
for the conduct of which suitable editors have been
engaged, who will also receive the aid of number
Of eminent and able contributors.
There will be both TRr-wEEKLY and a WEEKLY
issue, the latter TO contain substantially the same
matter as the former, and intended 10 reach those
points of the country whose mail facilities are linn
tied.
DAILY issue will be added hereafter, should il
be deemed advisable or necessary by the press and
people of the southern States.
The paper will not be erciustcciy political, but
will embrace on s broad sheet the general news of
the day, domestic and foreign, by mail and tele-
graph, commercial and agricultural intelligence,
literary criticisms, original essays, literary and
miscellaneous and ia short, all those items Of gen
eTal interest the collected aggregate OF which con
stitutes tho interesting and valuable newspaper.
Great care will be taken TO give full and correct
reports Of the proceedings and debates in both
houses of Congress, well AZ tho action OF the
local legislatures on the southern question.
limited number only of advertisements Will be
received, the main object being to furnish large
amount Of reading matter.
The paper will be printed sheet equal IN
size to those of the other Washington papers, and
the material will be procured especially for the
purpose.
IL is confidently hoped that every true friend TO
the South will aid in procuring Subscribers, and
forward the names, with the amount subscribed, TO
some southern representative at Washington, forth
with.
Postmastcrs arc authorized by law to remit sub
srriptions free of postage.
TERMS.
For tri. weekly during the session of Con-
grcss, and crn-weckly during the recess,
the price will be, per annum.. .,.....,.s.. so 90
The price of subscription must bc paid invaria-
bly, ia advance and the cash must accompany the
name sent
All persons procuring ten names shall be entitled
to receive copy gratis for year
A.P. BUTLER,
JACKSON MORTON,
II. TOOMBS,
J. THOMPSON.
Ort- Editors and papers friendly TO the cnterprse
will please publish this prospectus, which will en-
title them 20 exchange with the newspaper. All
who comply with this request will send copy of
the paper containing IL 20 the committee.
WAsHINeToN, May %, 1850. June
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rRaNxLIs ExpEDrrroN.-

~ Vol; london; IbJU
Nichols's Architecture Of the Heavens, new and
enlarged edition; London 1850.
Lady's Album Of Fancy Work; vol; London,
1850.
Introductory Lectures delivered at Queens Col
lege, London; vol; London, 1S49.
Chemistry Mystery, by Doctor Scofiern; !
vol. London, 1850.
Casualties Ahoat, with practical suggestions, by
Lieutenant Knyaston, Royal Navy; vol; London,
lSl9
Barry CornwaIPs English Songs | vol, Minia-
ture edition.
Cravcn's Young Sportsmans' Manual; vol; Lon
don, lS49.
Disons Ornamental and Domestic Poultry; |
vol. London, 1850.
just imported from London direct, by
lime rRANCK TAYLOR.
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NAvIoATIoN OF THE YouGHroe ENY..-This river
unites with the Monongahela, short distance
southeast of Pittsburg The towns of Brownsville,
on the Monongahela, and Conncllsvillc, on the
Youghiogeny, in direct line fifteen miles
apart. The meanderings of the Monongahela,
however, render the distance from Brownsville to
Pittsburg considerably farther than the course of
the Youghiogeny to Pittsburg from Connellsvlle
But the navigation of the latter river is obsructed
by natural impediments, for the removal of which
the ''West Newton and Connelsville navigation
Company has been organized. The Hon. Andrew
Stewart is President of this company. We are in
formed by the proceedings that have come to hand,
that meeting of its officers and citizens held
at Connellsville ON the 10th of May, at which
port was agreed upon. which contains many in
teresting statements. We quote from it;
at appears from the report of l. E. Day, esq.,,
chief engineer, that the portion of the river TO be
improved from West Newton TO Connelsville is
about twenty five miles, the fall to be overcome,
122 feet requiring nine dams, costing > 1872 ,SO5,
affordlng constant steamboat navigation capable
OF passing fifty boats of 200 tons each, per day,
from Connellsville Pittsburg, passing through n
highly improved country of unsurpassed fertility;
the shores lined with coal banks from nine to four
teen feet thick, and abounding in rich mines Of
iron in the immediate vicinity. Besides. MIR.
Day expresses the opinion that the water power
clusvely, created by this improvement, at a mod
crate rent, would yield 81 per cent. per annum on
the entire cost of its construction"
The report further says:
Looking to the great superiority Of the Yough-
iogheny any other to connect the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
with the Great Central road now in progress from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, the committee hold the
opinion that the day is not far distant when rail-
road communication will be opened by this route to
Pttsburg, by the cooperation of the Pttsburg and
Connellsviile Railroad Company and the compa-
NY recently established and Incorporated by the
Legislature of Maryland, the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company"
The report then proceeds To make comparative
analysis Of the routes via Pittsburg and Wheeling,
and urges the former, which will take the above inn
provcment in its course as the more desirable.
If our space would permit us to make full
hibit of these routes, as presented by the friends
of each, we would take pleasure in doing The
subject is one of great public importance.
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& HIGGINS. WHOLESALE

w Manufacturers of fine Rosewood, Walnut,
and Mahogany Tctc Tete. Sweep back, Gothic,
and other rich Antique and Modern Furniture.
Store, pos Bowery; factory, Nos. "a, and s.,
Attorney street, New York. April lS-d3m
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DHILIP BARTON KEY will attend TO any
business he may be entrusted with before either
of the Courts of this Districts and will also attend
co the prosecution OF Claims before Congress and
the Departments. Office on street.
July 17--u
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BLACKWOOD's MAGAZINE
And the British Quarterly Reviews

- PREMIUMS NEW SUBSCRIBERS!
OWING to the late revolutions and counter revo-
" lutions among the nations of Europe. which
have followed each other in such quick succession,
and of which s'he end is not yet the leading peri
odicas of Great Britain have become invested with
degree of interest hitherto unknown They oc-
cupy middle ground between the hasty, dsioipt-
ed, and necessarily imperfect records of the news
papers, and the elaborate and ponderous treatses to
be furnished by the historian at future day. The
American Publishers, therefore, deem il proper to
call renewed attention to these Periodicals, and
the very low prices at which they are offered to
subscribers The following is their list, viz:
THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW,
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW,
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW,
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW, and
BLACKWOODS EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
In these periodicals are contained the views mod
crately, though clearly and firmly expressed, of the
three great parties in England-Tory, Wing. and
Radical. 60 Backwood" and the :" London Quar-
tcr.y' are Tory; the Edinburgh Review" Whig;
and the g Westminster Review Liberal. The
g North British Review owes its establishment TO
the last great ecclesiastical movement in Scotland,
and is not ultra in its views any of the grand
departments of human knowledge; it origin
ally edited by DR.. Chalmers, and now, since his
death, is conducted by his sonin law, DR.. Hanna,
associated with Sir David Brewster. Its literary
character is of TIE very highest order The "West
minister" though reprinted under that title only, is
published III England under the title of the " For
eign Quarterly and Westminster" it being, in
fact, union of the two Reviews formerly published
and reprinted under separate titles. IL has, there
fore, the advantage byt this combination of uniting
in work the best features of both heretofore
issued.
The above periodicalsare reprinted in New York,
Immediately on their arrival by the British steanI-
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and faithful copies of the originals, Backwoods
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The Cincinnati Conaeretoi says that the farm,
OF Edwin Forrest, opposite that city, containa
twenty five acres $4,000 per acre has been Of
fered and refused for IT,
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FOR NORFOLK.

e The steamer oSCEoLA, having
1cf4aY954S undergone thorough repairs, has
- resumed her trips 10 the above
place. Leaving Washington every THURSDAY,
at O'Clock, a. M; returning, leaves Norfolk every
FRIDAY, at 4 o'clock, p. m. Touching at Cone
river and the usual landings on the Potomac.
Passage and fare, So.
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FOR BALTIMORE.

ts TYs THE osCEoI leaves Wash.
tn1a947S Sington for Baltimore every sun
RDAY, att O'Clock, a. IN. Return
ing, leaves Baltimore every TUESDAY, at4 o'clock,
o. m Touching, going and returning, at Leonard
Town, Md, Cone river, Va, and the usual land
ings on the Potomac.
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HALFWAY ECONOMY In EUROPE AND
II America, by Doctor Lardncr, vol.
The Old Oak Chest, new novel, by O.. y. H.
James
Carlyles latter Day Pamphlets, No Spar
hainents."
Second Volume Of Gibbons Rome, liarper's cdi-
ton, price 40 cents per vol bound.
June lS FRANCk TAh LOh.
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Opt- Editors and papers friendly to the enterprise
will please publish this prospectus, which will en-
title them 20 sn exchange with the newspaper. All
who comply with this request will send copy of
the paper containing IL 70 the committee.
WAsHNeToN, May 25, 1850. June
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STATIONERY. PRINTING. AND BINDING.
Navy DrpAnrmEsr, May "a. 1850.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, May "a, 1850.
60 SEPARATE SEALED PROPOSALS will be re-
- ceved at the office of the Secretary Of the Navy
until o'clock, p. M, of Thursday, the 9th OF
June next, for furnishing all the Stationery and ex
ecuting all the Printing and Binding that may be
required by the Navy Department and it's several
bureaus, for the year commencing the LIST of July,
1850, and ending ON the 30th of June, 1851.
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Bonds in sufficient amount, with two or more ap-
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dering greater less quantity of each and every
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quire.
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S72,OOO!
$24,OO0! $i6,000l $4,000!
VIRGINIA STATE LOTTERY,
For the Benefit Of Monongalia Academy,
Class +, for 1850,
To be drawn at Alexandria, Va, ON Saturday, the
22d of June, 1850
10 Drawn Nos. in each package of 20 Tickets
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MO. I2 ByRNE's DICTIONARY OF EN-
IN CINE Work aud Engineering, this day re-
ccived for sale by TAYLOR MAURY,
June Is Booksellers, near 9Th street.
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Whole Tickets $20-Haves SO Quarters SIS
Eighths 81 90
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Do do of 20 Half do l20 90
Do do of 20 Quarter do 60 90
Do do of2 Eighth do 80 90
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Orders for Tickets and Shares and Certificates Of
Packagesin in the above Splendid Lotteries will re-
ceive the most prompt attention. and an official ac
count of each drawing sent Immediately after il is
over to all who order from us.
Address J. & G. MAURY, Agents,
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Tickets SO Halves $5-Quarters 50 so
Certificates of packages of25 Whole tickets $l20 90
Do do % Half do 60 GO GO
Do do 25 Quarter do 80 90
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SORE THROAT.

The following is an extract from letter received
from Mrs Bevan, who had been afflicted several
years with Scrofulous Ulcers, Dyspepsia, &c, and
recently affection of the throat and chest:
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$50, 900!
$4,000 $4,000 T!

~ FTIleS OF . I,UUU!
VIRGINIA STATE LOTTERY,
For the benefit of Monongalia Academy,
Glass No. 70, for 1850,
To be drawn at Alexandria, Va, Saturday, the
29th Of June, 1880
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from New Jersey, and set out three years ago
last spring They have grown finely, and will
average a bushel or more to each tree. The pro-
prietor expects to sell about fifteen thousand
bushels of peaches the present season. The as
sortment embraces a good share Of the late va
rieties as well as the earlier, so that the selling
pcriod will be prolonged into October. This
orchard has a most healthy and thriving appear
ance. and with the branches bending to the
ground under the loads of richly colored fruit is
represented as being most temptingly inviting 10
the yjsiter Mr. Davis is reaping a rich reward
for his enterprise and labor He has two or three
places of deposte in thecity for his peaches which
are sold, as in the Eastern cities, in baskets of
three pecks each
The railroad from Cincinnati TO Xenia has
been a good one, but needs new rail. IL is now
being relaid with the T rail, and when the cars
now and then, get on a section laid with it, it is
felt as an agreeable change by every passenger
From Xenia TO Columbus, the new railroad
(which was put in operation last winter is q
splendid one, equal indeed, to any in the Union.
IL is laid with the most substantial Il rail has no
curves of any consequence, and the cars have a
most unusually easy motion, taking you on at the
rate of from twenty-five to forty miles an hour.
| The distance from Columbus 10 Xenia, fifty-four
! miles. has been run over repeatedly in less than
an hour and half Before the commencement
of the next SUMNER season of travel the line from
| Columbus to Cleveland will be finished when
this route will be the popular one for Eastern
travel, being more direct than that by Sandusky,
recurring less steaming on the Lake, and passing
! through the State capital and Cleveland-next to
Cincinnati the most important place iet be Stote
( When communication is made frs4I.r -..>
| to Buffalo, making continuous line from Cincin-
natl TO New York, there can be no doubt that this
route will take precedence of all others
The cholera entirely disappeared from Cincin-
natl month since, and has left almost every
place IL has visited this season. The board OF
health at Cincinnati made final report, embrac-
ing the time from June lst to August l6th-two
months and half The deaths in June were
574; July, 1899; August to the 18th, 479 total
1852. OF these, 500 were children under five
years of age, and 400 of the whole number were
from cholera. OF the whole amount, also, 50
were of Irish and German, leaving but s5s of the
American population. Yours, p.