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Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1850-01-24

YEARLY REPORT OF THE TOBACCO MARKET.
During the past year prices have been
we'll maintained, and at the close there was
a marked improvement in prices noticeable.
This was owing principally to the reduced
stock and the active demand in the European
market. The crop oil Virginia and North
Carolina was hardly an average one, say
some 4S 900 hhds., and owing to the in>
creased demand for manufactured Virginia,
it will require full $4,000 bids, 10 meet the
wants OF the manufacturers there; leaving
1900 hhds. for the remaining States and
Europe. 1t is the general belief that prices
for Kentucky and Virginia Tobacco will ad.
vance still higher, before the spring trade is
over. Holders at present are very firm.
The better feeling in Kentucky leaf has not
been owing 10 short crop; as it is estimated
that the receipts in Orleans. for 1850, will
no, fall far short OF 10000 hhds.; against
SO, 900 in ls49, and SO, 900 in 1s4s. It's
though! that so. 900 hnds., the produce of the
States Of Kentucky and Missouri, will be
amply sufficient 10 meet The demand.
Connect cut, Pennsylvania, and Ohio seed
leaf were scarce during the whole year. The
balance OF the old crop is now in the hands
Of spectators.
Maryland end Ohio tobacco has, during
the past year been bought more freely for
home use than ever before. The high rates
demanded for common Kentucky smoking
tobacco having forced our manufacturers 10
take it as an equivalent for the latter.
The ne crop Of Florida Leaf has been
large, and Of fair quality; in consequence
Of which prices have slightly receded.
The last crop Of Cuba leaf having almost
entirely failed. prices have advanced twenty
per cent. The stock at the close this year
is smaller than ever before.
Ysra leaf has been in good demand, and
during The year the quotations were we'll sup,
ported.
81. Domingo has met with prompter sales
than for some years, owing to the scarcity OF
Spanish seed leaf.
During the last six months, the stock OF
manufactured tobacco has been exceedingly
small, and prices have consequently inns
proved nearly so per cent. A good enquiry
was percep,ibe during the whole year.
The amour. Of Segars imported during
The wear. rom the City Of Havana. and other
parts OF the Island, was about 44.25s.
Domestic segars we're inactive; request and
prices well supported.
Annexed are the prices, and stock at the !
close OF the year:
Stock on hand Prices
Jan. |. Jan. /.
Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1850-01-24

FRANKINe PRIVILEGE OF PosrMAs-
TERs.-The following important letter
is in reply TO one from the editor of the
New York Mirror:
Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1850-01-24

ISsPEcrios OF ToBAcco IN 1S49.-
Stock on hand in the State warehouses 10
the city Of Baltimore on The 1st day Of Jan
uary, 1919. . $1,000
Inspected during the year lS49 45,e76
Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1850-01-24
BUSINESS OF SAINT LOUIS.

The ST. Louis papers contain elabo-
rate statements Of the business Of tha,
city during the pas, year. We copy
the following table, showing the amuuni
and aggregate value of thirty of the
leading articles of. Produce received at
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-19

! FIVE Then | will take the other side This
was done in the latter part of August and in
| September and October. In these months at
| any one time don't think there was less than one
! hundred aud fifty men at work, and sometimes /
| presume there was from four to five hundred in
these diggngs, small as they are yet doubt if
every tenth man made his boarding.
have now given you some idea of gold-dig-
Sing. must next give you sketch of how we
live. We put up comfortable log cabin, which
was soon done, timber being plenty in this part
OF country, and in which we eat and sleep. Our
living consists of pork pilot or hard bread, cof-
fee, tea and sugar dried apples and peaches, and
occasionally venIson, when we go out and kill it
ourselves
Should you hear any person talking of COM
ming to California, you can try him how he will
like 1t by giving him shovel or spade, large
tin pan, and taking him down to the creek any
place between the bridge and Sterrett's mill; let
HIM shovel up his painful of mud or gravel and
then hunt a convenient place to wash it, If he
gets l2l or Is cents out of it, let him go on all
day. Then If he wants dry diggings, take him
up in the square, in front of Meyers Hotel, and
lay him off say eight ten feet square, and let
him sink it twelve or fifteen feet deep, and very
probably not get much as he did in the painful
al the creek or if he does get some gold then
he must either fill his pan or get bag with one
and half two bushels of dirt, and tote it half
a mile to find water to wash it. He will soon
think there are better diggings than these. Then
give him two or three blankets, few flannel or
hickory shirts, a sho' Il, pick, tin pan, coffee boil
er, tin cup, rifle, and little pork and hard
bread, and start him across the seven mountains
To Bald Eagle creek. Don't let him take the road
for there is such thing here from mine to
other. When night comes on him he can eat
his pork and bread, aud lay down under some
tree and sleep till morning. If he don't meet
with success on the Bald Eagle, he can go on to
l. a. -
ready to come to California. / don't know how
to give you more correct idea of the labor 10
be done than what have just given you.
We were unfortunate with our baggage
When got TO the City of Mexico we could
not engage pack mules, and were advised to have
it sent to Acapulco and from there shipped to
San Francisco last May. We have, however,
not heard from 1t since. had two trunks full
of clothes, &c.
will close this long epst!e by giving you
list of prices in the Dggings, furnished BY one Of
our merchants
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-19
The kidnapping Case.

The case of the Commonwealt lth vs.. Jonathan
Little and others, was settled by the counsel
upon both sides and as the case has excited
some interest, we give the facts, as we have
learned them to the public.
The Hon. ALBERT CONSTABLE, appointed as
Counsel for Little, by the Governor Of Mary
land, having learned on his arrival here, that an
indictment for kidnapping was pending against
him in Centre county, upon which Bench war
rant had been issued, and was 10 the hands Of
the Sheriff at Huntingdon county; and that
another warrant tor the apprehension of Little
had been issued in Mitfin county, upon simi-
lar charge, both Of which were ready TO be
served on him whenever he appeared in this
county, and also that other cases would be com
menced against him, if he were arrested and
taken to Belefonte; it was an object OF the
first Importance to avoid, if possible, the trial
here. by which his appearance in Court would
be dispensed with, and thus his arrest on the
other process avoided. This was accomplished
on terms entirely satisfactory. The records of
MARYLAND were here to prove Finley (the negro)
. slave: the sons of his mistress were here
who knew him, and had authorized Little to
take him; every thing requisite to proue the
nsgro slopc, and consequently Little iano-
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-19
cent upon the indictment. Upon these grounds
a. ..oser,,t;o,, ,DnS abnud0ned

c.ntupon the indictment. Upon these grounds
The prosecution ,Oas abandoned.
This settlement not only acqufs Little,
which was the only object OF the mission of
MIR Constable, but avoids the necessity of pro-
curino bail in both Centre and Miffiln counties,
upon similar charges, which of course would
have involved the same attention on the part
of the State of Maryland, one OF them having
already been tried there and disposed of, aud
likewise have maltipled expenses TO hesvy
amount.
The county was indemnifed from costs by
the settlement, which would have come out OF
the Treasury, whether Little had been convict
ed or acouitted Little was virtually acqnlt-
ted. and avoided arrest and imprisonment upon
process from adjoining counties, and returns TO
his family, which we are assured ID large, aud
entirely dependent on his labor for suPport.--
Huntingdon journal.
/, may have been we'll enough to settle this
'vexed question" at Huntingdon in the manner
stated above, but it seems to US there must have
been considerable stretch of power and law
in doing So Little may have been innocent
SO far as the case in Huntingdon county was
concerned, but was he so in those in Mlff1n and
Centre We have strong doubts whether he
was, and hence we cannot but regard the
course of the Huntington authorities, in en-
tering nOlle prOsequi tor the express purpose
of saving him from arrest for high crimes
committed in other counties as highly iniudi-
cous
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-19

E- The York Republican says, there is not
Furnace in operaron in York county Codo-
rus NzIgarctia, Woodstock, York and Manor
are all blown out, and no talk of putting them
IN blast again, according to our information.
The thing has come to a dead stand. Such are
the withering effects Of the Tariff of 1s46
York is not the only county in which the
Iron interest is prostrale. In Miffin, the Fur
naces are lying idle, with no prospect Of being
put in blast so long as the locofoco tariff per
tnits British Furn 'ces TO supply Us with what
We ought to manufacture ourselves; or if any
Of them are put in blast again, it will have to
DC done bg reducing The rates of ia0or from
the woodchopper up to the manager. Locofoco
sophistry may extoI The policy which brings
z5out such 4 state of affairs in a county abound
sag with valuable ore, but facts are stubborn
:lings that sometimes in an hour upset thou
sand theories.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-19

lSFANr ScHooL-It may not be generally
known. that Miss MARTHA ALLEN, a young lady
well qualified, by experience and attainments,
has opened school for children, from the ages
of three to six years. Persons wishing further
information, will obtain it upon application tc
Mr. EpwIx ALLEN, at his store, on Market street.
We might further add, that the terms are low
and the qualifications Of the young lady for the
business she has assumed undoubted
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-19

THg GALPHn CLAIM.-The Democrat makes
several erroneous statements in relation to this
matter. In the first place, Mr.. Polk's Secretary
Of the Treasury did not reject the interest, but
held it under adyiscment, in the next place Mr.
Ewing had nothing at all to do with it. These
facts as well several others, the Democrat
can ascertain for itself by reference to letter
IN the Washington Union, from Mr. Mon
tague, locofoco clerk under Mr. PoIk's admin
istration, which concIusiyeiy shows that our
neighbor's TRADE about the piIaging, want of
common honor, honesty, and character Of the
Taylor administration, is all moonshine We
know little about the matter, but ii appears to
Us that the common sense view of such claim
would be, that if the claim was Just, interest
would be equally so. Such al least would be
the result of similar transaction between in
diyiduals, and it sounds somewhat strangely to
hear processing democrats condemn governmen,
for doing that which the Law declares 10 Ia
right in private affairs.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-19

ExPL L7sIoN.-The Locomotive Chiefain"
burst her boiler on Tuesday last on the Balti-
.eore and Susquehanna Railroad, about fifteen
ml'es from Bal more, throwing Nr. Ailhaw,
ne fireman, almost perPenIIcuiarly into the
Or 10 the height Of about slxty feet, passing
through the top Of large oak tree. the limbs
IF which stripped nearly every thread OF cloth
ing from his body Davis, the engineer. who
was standing on The locomotive with the de-
ceased, was thrown with violence against a
bank of earth on the side of the road, and was
considerably bruised and scaIjed, SO much so
that bis recovery is considered doubtful. The
deceased was young man of excellent char
acter, and vas married only last fall. Almost
every bone in his body was broken, and the
fesh terribly scadeG about the breast and face.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-19

PRINCIPLES OF THE HUMAN MInD, dedaced
from physical laws, together with a lecture On
Electro Biology. or the Fol,ac Mechanism of
Man, with ilIustrslions--by 4 fred Since, F.
R. s. Fowlers & Wells, Publishers, New
think, from a hasty examination Of this work,
that 1t is one worth purchasing BY lhose rho
make science their study.
The game publishers continue % put forth
the PhrenoIogicat journal and Water Cure
Journal, both most excellent works, which ma y
be read with profit snd instruction BY believers
and unbeliegers in the d. ctEin .s taught, as
there Is much inioTmstion Of genersl nature
contained in them.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-19
Renew your subscriptions.

The present issue of the Gazette closes
the year for large number of subscribers.
Those who wish to take advantage of the
advance terms, had better send on their
money. as A DOLLAR will now pay for a
vear-a fact worth remembering.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-19
yey GuHD0Vder.

We have before US d sample of the newly in
vented gunpowder preparation. 1t is perfectly
white and is said to possess ten times the strength
of ordinary powder. 1t tignites very readily, and
in blasting rocks must, we think, be great ac-
cession to operatives. Persons feeling curious
on the subject can see the article at our office.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-19

The Turkish Sultan has granted full
toleralion to the missionaries throughout
his vast empire. Seven churches have
been formed at Trebizond, Constantinople,
and other towns, embracing from two 70
ahree hundred members.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-19

I@ Postmaster Butler has added large
number of new Boxes for the accommodation
Of those who do not wish TO be continually ask
ing for letters and papers.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-19

Sterrett's "Lewistown Mill" is rapidly re-
building, a large number of hands being con-
stsntly at work on the walls. machinery, &c,
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-19
THE GAZETTE.
LEWIST0WN, Pa.
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1850.
TER MS:
ONE p0ZLAss PER ANNUM,
Fnr SIX months, IS cents.
IN ADVANCE.

u-An NEW subscriptions must be paid in
adya9ce. If the paper is continued, and not
paid within the first month, 81. IS will be charg-
ed if not paid in three months. 81 so; if not
paid in six months, s1.75; and If not paid in
1Iine months, S200.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-19

VIM. J. Beatty, son of the Hon. VIM. Beatty,
of Butler, died in California on the lst February
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-04-19

BuleT, moi ffesh-dont HNots much higheT IA pro
eat HHy) " 300 portion.
Enclosed send few specimens Of the a. root
Of all evil, obtained from a rayine about one
mile from our encampment, where We have been
working since the rainy season commenced.
am your most obd't serV't
J. NJ. MORROW.
We have also letter from MIR WILLIAM
ScoTr 10 JAMES MrLLIEEN, Esq, but as it en-
bodies the same inform alton contained in the
above, we have not deemed il necessary to pub
lsh it,
Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-05-21
TIE R MS
DAILY RICHMOND TIMES.

From this day MAY 5th, l949) the DAILY TIMES
will be published at FIVEDOLLARS per annum, pro-
vded payment be made at the office, by letter post
paid, in Advance, or ,oithin 80 days from the
not so made within 80 days. SIX DOLLARS will be
charged and in no case whatever will an exception be
made to this rule.
ADVERTISING-Fo square of thirteen lines
or less first insertion so cents and every succeeding
insertion Is cents.
Ttoice meek, thrice ,oeek, and once a week-
First insertion so cents, and every succeeding insertion
375 cts.
Advertisements containing more than twenty lines will
be charged as two squares.
The number of insertions of Advertisements must
ed to be stopped, and charged accordingly.
Annual Advertisers charged $50 for 26 lines and
in that proportion for advertisements of greater length
and $50 for ID lines, and in that proportion for adver
tsements OF greater length; except Auctioneers, who
charged 800 paper included) for all sales before
their doors
Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-05-21
10 tons Manila hemp, per ton OF 2,240 lbs.

CLASS No 4-Sperm Candles
10000 lbs sperm candles short SKIES per sample per h.
CLASS Nos.
Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-05-21
NAVY YARD, WASHINGTON
Glass No. Iron, by the pound:
The plate iron for cambooses, for first class irig
ale weighing about 23 80
Bar iron for 10 cambooses, estimated to weigh

Bar iron for 10 cambooses, estimated to weigh
about 80 400
The plate iron must be of the best quality of Amerl-
can rolled iron free from bisers hoows, other de-
fecs cut correct to the given Sizes and kept straight from
the shears The bar iron to be OF the best quality Anne
rcan rolled on with square edges and to the exact
lengths without fag ends except the bars marked
H on the schedules which to be hammered iron.
Schedules of the sizes Of each class OF cambooses will be
furnished the contractors Also the following round
iron, viz
1000 pounds inch round iron
5000
concluded on fourth page.l
Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-05-21

also agree furnish and deliver at the said navy
yard on like and conditions any additional guam
ity of said articles that may required before the ex-
piraton Of the fiscal year ending Both June, 1851 on
fifteen days notice from the Bureau or the commandan
of said navy yard.
If my offer be accepted, desire to be addressed
through the post office at - and the contract to be
sent to the navy agent at -, tor execution.
Very respectfully, a, b.
To Com. CHARLES WIN. SKINNER,
Chief OF Bureau of Construction
Equipment, and Repair, Washington.
We the undersigned, residents of -, in the State
of -, hereby guaranty that in the foregoing
bid of - be accepted, that - will, within ten
days after the receipt of the contract at the post office
designated, execute the same, with good and sufficient
suretes furnish the supplies embraced in said bid in
conformity with the terms OF the advertisement under
switch it was made C. D.
E.F.
hereby certify that, to the best of my knowledge
and belief the above named guarantors are good and
sufficient. G. H., Navy Agent
FORM OF ENDORSEMENT
on the envelope transmitting the offer,
Proposals for Napal SuppLies"
Class No ~, 49, Nauy Yard, -.
Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-05-21
CLASS No. 4-Cotton Canuass.

D.
The cotton canvass so yards to the bolt, to be 20
inches wide.
Hammock and bag stuff, so yards to the bolt, 40
inches wide.
Glass 5-Paints, &c.
300 lbs. dry white lead per h.
300 lbs. dry red lead do
300 lbs dry litharge do
500 lbs. dry white do
100 lbs. dry French ochre do
800 90 gallons all s gaT 1 assn e Dutch" gallon
900 lbs. beef tallow per Id.
80 lbs. beeswax do
CLASS 6-Leather.
ID sides bellows leather per side
al do (about Is lbs to the SIDE say els lbs.) rig
ging, Ito be delivered damp per ID.
Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-05-21
FLAT.

$4,000 lbs. per ID.
All TO be of the best quality American iron and sub
iect to the test and inspection OF the Navy Yard.
Glass No 2-Hard,oare.
Brass, &c.
2 dozen pairs by 3! in brass slip pin
/ i
Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-05-21
erpound

pounds best scarlet waters q" per pound
IL " sealing " q
CLASS No. 12.-Oak Wood
300 cords young growth best quality oak wood, per
cord OF 1913 cubic feet.
Glass No. 13.-Leather.
sides heavy oiled pump leather, 80 lbs per pound
40 " w. o. tanned pump leather not less than 80
lbs. per side, 200 lbs. per pound
200 " rigging leather per side
100 " bellows
10 +" buff
10 q" white oak tanned sole leather, 300 lbs per
pound
80 q" harness leather per side
100 best quality sheepskins, dressed in the WOOL per
skin
Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-05-21
"a lights plate glass, for top and bowsprit lantern
Glass No. 6.-Fh

Zach bolt to contain 40 yards in length, and be 90
inches wide-See samples)
10 bolts Russia duck sample per bolt
10 Ravens duck, light
1900 pounds flax sewing Irvine per sample per pound
25 whipping
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-12-25
BALTIMORE MARKET,
December 81, 1850

| GRAIN.-Whe at.-Prices have been pretty uni
form throughout the week, with sales of good to
prime reds at 95al02 cents, and we quote the
same rates to-day, with sales.
Corn.-To-day sales of both kinds are generally
being made at So cents, with an occasional parcel
of white at 81 cents. Of old corn there is little
or none in market.
Oats.-For some days past the range of the mar
ket has been 3oa40 cents, as IL quality, and we
quote the same to-day
| ToBAcco-As usual at this season, the Tobacco
market Is very dull, the stocks being extremely
small, and no vessels loading. Except for parcels
OF Ground Leaf of which the supply is rather bet
ter than usual for this time of year, there is no
demand for Maryland Tobacco. Shippers pur-
chase Maryland Ground Leaf at 5.5OalO, mostly
at s65Oas. We quote as before, viz:
Common Nd $3.50; good common Sc brown
S55Oa7; and fine brown S7al0. The holder of 90
hhds. good common Maryland refused tc sell the
whole at fraction under 81 round
The inspections of the week are 396 hhds Md.
33 hhds Ohio,-total 429 hhds. Tie total nspec-
tons this year are a 800 hhds against Is, 1877
hhds. to the period last year.
We have some calculations in regard TO
the stocks of Tobacco from which we gather the
Ifollowlng-The average stock on hand at the ware
houses In this city at the beginning of the year for
twenty years past was 1927 hhds. For ten years
past, II, S3 hhds., and for five years past 255IO
hhds The stock on hand at the beginning of the
coming year will not exceed $500 hhds The
stocks In Bremen and Holland at the beginning of
the next year will be about 5000 hhCs less than
this year l-Balt. American.