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THE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME
A OF THE

SUOIhEAN LITERARY GAZETTE,
WAS commenced on Saturday, the 4th of MAY,
Weekly Gasette-as more significant of it's peculiar
character, being the only weekly organ Of Liter,
ture in the entire South! 1t is
Greatly Enlarged and Improved,
Containing weekly Thirty-two Columns OF
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WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE.
TINE next annual session of this Institution will
commence on the Cd Wednesday in October.
FACULTY.
The RICH, Rev. JOHN JoHEs, d. d., Preslden,
and Professor Of Moral Philosophy
Judge BEVERLY Tucker, Professor Of Municipal
and Constitutional Law.
BENJAMIN S. EwELL, Professor of Mathematics
and Astronomy.
MORGAN j. 'smEAp, PHI. D. Professor of Flu
manity.
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Fl. A. WASHINGTON, A. NJ, Professor of His
tory and Political Economy.
Rev SILAs ToTrEN, D. d., Professor of Intel
lectua Philosophy, Bellies Lettres, and Rhetoric.
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study with any class which they may be prepared
to join.
July Isl aW.
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Sir have the honor to transmit to you herewith
copy Of the correspondence which has passed be-
tween this Department and the National Institute for
ths Promotion Of Scsnce respecting the organization
OF committee to constitute the central authority
qiired by the regulations of the Royal Commission
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THE AMERICAN FARM Err, published
in the city Baltimore, Maryland, commences tie
eth volume Of the present series on the lst July,
1885, (Which will be the 32d of is existence Ii
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ENLARGEMENT OF THE CAPITOL
| ~ The Committee on Public Buildings of the
Senate, having been authorized by resolution OF
| that body, "to invite plans accompanied by esti-
mates for the extension of the Capitol, and to al
low premium Of FIVE hundred dollars for the
plan which may be adopted by the Committees on
Public Buildings Of the two Houses Of Congress,
! accordingly invite such plans and estimates, to be
delivered to the Secretary of the Senate on or be-
fore the first day Of December next.
Ii is required that these plans and estimates
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north and south of the present building, or by the
erection of separate and distinct building, within
the enclosure TO the east Of the building.
The committee do not desire to prescribe any
condition, that may restrain the free exercise OF
architectural taste and judgment, but they would
prefer, that whatever plan may be proposed may
have such reference to and correspondence with
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Although but one plan can be adopted the COM
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selves the right to divide or apporton, according
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may in part be adopted, according to the relative
Importance and merit Of each part adopted.
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JEFFERSON DAVIS,
JOHN III. CLARKE,
Committee of the Senate on Public Buildings.
SENATE CHAMBER, Both September, 1850.
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Oct 4-twf
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Total, exclusive Of Delegates
Democratic majority

/ Two members from California, Edward Gill
bert and George w Wright, are now in Wash
ington, awaiting for the admission Of that State
into the Union.
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The Mn Territories

I The .Ntlr 1eITifOrteS.
! We give the names of the new territories, al
| though they have not yet been organized. Cali
fornia WILL in all probability, be admitted into the
Union as a State, with two senator's, and one or
two representatives to Congress- Utah and New
Mexico, and probably Nebraska, will be granted
territorial governments, and delegates admitted
from each, before Congress adjourns-perhaps.
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,Lslll7, -. - CIT cv'J
A MONTHLY JOURNAL. or TRADE AGRI-
CULTURE, COMMENCE, COM
\ .MERCIAL POLFTY, MAN
iUFACTURES. INTER
NAL IMPROVE
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u A. PR1NGLE, No. 80, East Bay street,
1ts Charleston, South Carolina. Importer of
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THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW,
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW,
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW,
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW,

BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
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Quoted by his son-n-law DIR. Hanna associated with
Sir David Brewster. Its literary character is of the
very highest order The &C Westminstcl," though
reprinted under that title only, is published in Eng
land under the title Of the Foreign Quarterly and
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Reviews formerly published and reprinted uhder sePa-
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TIE GovEaHMENr oy rue UNITED STATES OF
AMERIcA, 4. D., 1851.
The Executive.
MuLAKp FILLMORE, of N. 7. President
VILLAS r. king, of Alabama vice president
The Cabinet. ..-..rf
xvvx,rru of Mass Sec. of State
.T..a.,.s Couw,N. of Ohio, Sec. Of the Treas
yvm1I,m A GRAHAM, OF N, c. Sec ofthe Navy
CHARLES M. CONRAD, or La: gee. OF WaF:
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Total 100 Ill 9 5 3
Democratic majority in the 3lst Congress
Wing majority in the Both Congress
Democratic gain
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BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE
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Actual Democratic majority
Free and Stare State Classi fcat0n.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-07-09
Otto of Roses.

Newspaper readers have no doubt
wondered why the small vial of Altar
Gul, or OIto of Roses. purloined from
the Patent Office, should be esteemed Of
such value. 1t is esteemed in the East
"more precious than gold. and is made
chiefly in Persia, Turkey and Egypt.
The following brief account of it may
not be uninteres,ing at the present time (;
"The usual method of making il is,
to gather theroses with the calyxes, and
put them into a still with nearly double
their weight of pure spring water, which,
when sufficiently distilled, will be highly
scented with roses; this is then poured
into shallow vessels and exposed to the
nocturnal air. Next morning, the Altar,
or essential oil of the flowers. is found
swimming IN small congealed particles
on the surface Of the water II is care