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CoTToN oRowr IN srAIS.-rhc editor Of Bar
celona newspaper says he has had opportunity
Of seeing some samples Of cotton which was cult
waited ON the banks Of the Guadalquivir, the supe-
rior quality ofwhich can compete with the best that
is imported from the American continent. lie ro-
commends that the cultivation OF this most useful
plant be extended TO every part Of the peninsula
Of Spain; the coil and temperature Of which, he
says, calculated 10 give rich results. The cdi.
tor atters himself that intelligent speech lately
made by Don FsLrx RrvAs before the agricultural
society, at Madrid, may produce The effect Of ex.
tending the cultivation Of cotton.
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JoUtsIAsA LrorsLATunr.-This body was organ
lied on the 2Ist ultimo. The Senate elected Hors-
ito Davis ss secretary, and st. Colombo Davis az
assistant. Mcssrs. Emile Wilt and II. Lanoue
were chosen translators. In the House Of Repre-
sen,siives Preston w. Fsrrsr (whig) was elected
speaker on the first ballot, by vote Of SO 70 a. for
all others-onc member, Wing, being absent.
John =. Lsyet was elected principal clerk Y. Solo
mon minute clerk, and J. y. Briant sergesnt-st-
arms-all Wings.
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srRUcs nv LreHrrse.-Tbe brig Til, which left
Havana for New Orleans ON the 10Th ult., encoun-
tered storm, and was struck by lightning ON the
llth ut, but succeeded in arriving at her port Of
destination ON the 23d, in disabled condition.
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THE REPUBLIC.
WASHINGTON:
SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 2. 1850.
Congress.

The Senate did not sit yesterday.
In the House Of Representatives. the
Rev. r. r. GURLEY was elected Chaplain
on the third trial; after which, the House
adjourned till Monday.
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corrsr.-By an arrival at Philadelphia, adviccs
have been received from Rio Janero 10 the 18th of
December. The following Is a statement of The
coffee markets
"The market has undergone further advance
standing the indsposition OF parties 70 purchase,
have succeeded In rcsfxing their demands no alter
native offering but 10 send vessels away in ballast
or partly loaded, which, in many cases, where
there any discretion left, has been resortcd TO-
Under the impression that the supplies will be very
light for the next three or four months, we fear
prices viii be maintained by the dealers, in spite Of
every endcavor ON the part Of shippers 10 lower
their pretcnsions. II II stated the new crop from
the low lands will be early 70 hand, but II e TO be
feared that high prices will bring II 10 market be-
fore u is properly prepared for shipment, hence
there win be much risk in shipping IL. We there
fore look for no very fine coffee OF tho new crop
until the season is advanced"
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Fsfruss TO PAy.--No money was paid 10 the
persons employed in the custom house To- day. be.
cause no order received from Washington Il
appears, therefore, that the Government withbolds
not only the contemplated twcnty-six per cent,
but the whole. A. tomorrow IL quarter-dav we
suppose that the officials win, for the nonce Al
least, become anti-rentcrs. failure Of this Kind
has never before occurred.-N. Y. Epenine Posi-
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Iconosraph,e encyclopedias.

We have received from Taylor & Maury the first
five numbers of the Iconographic Encyclopedia af
Science, Literature and ART; systematically ar
ranged by G. Heck: with five hundred steel en-
cravings, by the most distinguished artists in Ger
many. The text translated and edited by SPEs-
GER F. BAIRD, A. M, Professor of Natural Sciences
in Dickinson College. Carlisle, Pa"
This encyclopedia is intended TO embrace Tin a
series of five hundred quarto steel engravings, and
upwards Of two thousand pages Of letter press in
large octavo) all the branches of human knowledge
which can be illustrated by pictorial representa-
tons, viz l. Mathematics; 2, Natural and Medi-
cal Sciences; 3, Geography; 4, Ethnology 8, Mil
itary Sciences s, Naval Sciences; 4, Architec-
ture; s, Mythology, &c; 8, The Fine Arts; 10,
Tcchnology-witha all their respective sub divisions.
The work will be published in twenty five month
ly portfolios, each containing twenty engraving,
and eighty pages Of letter-prcss.
The beautiful and highly finished illustrations
which accompany the letter-p press are taken from
the original German plates, under the immediate
supervision of Mr. Heck, the original Trainer Of this
valuable work.
small proportion Of the five hundred engraving
constituting the whole work (about fifty, repre-
senting astronomy and geography have i'm
scriptions Chiefly astronomical and geographical
names) In the German language, which could not
have been altered except at very great expense.
This Circumstance will, however, in no way inter-
fere with the perfect understanding Of the matter
represented, az the accompanying English text, re-
crring TO the designs Of the plates gives every c1-
PLANTATION required. Besides, full glossary Of all
foreign words occurring the plates will be issued
at the end Of the work. Indexes and tables Of con-
tents viii be Issued with the last part OF the work
adapting 10 practical use, and facilitating refer
to any Of the branches Of science IL embraces
This valuable work is published in monthly parts
at one dollar n number, by RuDoLPH GAnRrour,
Barclay street, New York; and subscriptions may
he addrezaed kaellcr In tl,e Hated
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vrsorrrA LRoIsLATuaE.--The Stanton and Cow
ington Railroad bill was, on Wednesday, passed by
the Senate, by majority Of three.
In the House. the bill guarantyipg the bonds Of
the Louisa Railroad Company, for The purpose Of
extending It's road 10 Richmond, TO the amount Of
100000, was passed.
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YuosTAN.--Advicesf from yucstsn have been re.
ceivcd at Havana to the 2lst Of December. BY
these IL appears that Governor Bsrbachino has
thrown open the ports for Indian TO be admit.
ted free for nine months from the day Of the proc.
lamstion. which II December nth
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The following papers were to-day presented un-
der the rule, viz
BY Mr.. PUTNAM: The petition Of II. ,. Clio
wsski and twelve other citizens OF Batavia, New
York, praying that postage ON prepaid letters not
exceeding half an ounce in weight may be cstab
lisbed At two cents.
Also the like petition Of 3. G. Holden and forty
others, Of Genesce county, New York
BY Mr.. BUTLER, OF Connecticut: A motion
that the papers in the Of Isaac Downs be taken
from the files and referred 10 the COMMITTEES ON
Invalid Pensions.
BY Mr.. HAMPTON: The petition Of r. Miller
and fty others, citizens Of Pittsburgh, for cheap
postage. Referred 10 the Committee ON the Post
Office and Post Roads.
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year more than the amount designated in
that bill. 1t is probable, that if Mr..
WALKER had then told Congress that he
was unnecessarily, and therefore corrupt
y, expanding 500, 900 of the public mo-
ney annually, committee of investiga-
tion would have been appointed on the
spot, and the bill have passed through both
Houses without moments delay. Mr..
Walker was not very accurate in his fig
ures; but we suppose no man ever suspected
him Of asking for less money than was ne
cessary for the proper expenditures of any
service under his control. Mr.. WALKER
had made great blunder, but he was in
capable Of doing mean and unworthy
thing. He was willing enough to amuse
Mr.. MCKAY by falling in with his penny
wise schemes, and writing economical let
tiers 10 him, but we see that he took good
care not to suffer the bill to pass through
the Senate--as long as he was likely to be
made the victim of it. Nor do we believe
that Mr.. WALKER would have been access
sary to scheme for factiously embarrass-
ing the new Administration. We believe
that the bill finally passed without his
knowledge or consent, and that if he were
appealed to he would admit that he was
not aware Of the inadequacy of the appro-
priation, or that he was not aware ofthe effort
that was to be made for the final passage
of the bill. We believe that it was owing
to the oficious, meddling folly of man
who had no right to interfere with it, that
the bill was hugger-muggered through
Congress in the manner we have de-
scribed.
The public injury and the extensive in
dividual suffering occasioned by this bill
do not belong to President TAYLOR or his
Administration. They are to be attri-
buted solely to the factious spirit Of Loco
focoism, which is determined to withhold
from the PRESIDENT the means indispen-
sable to the exigencies Of the public SER
vice. The estimates of Mr.. MEREDITH
and the special message of President TAY-
LoR relieve them from all responsibility
for the inconvenience and injury caused
by the present state of things in the reve-
nue. department.
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BY a ,clegraphic despatch from Baltimore last
evening, we learn the state Of the New York mar
ket. Cotton hrmcr, with speculative demand.
Twenty five hundred bales sold at full prices.
Flour drcoping-grsin unchanged. Kentucky To-
bacco advanced half cent per ID. Government
ks improving.
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THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
FIRST SESSION.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
FaIDAY, February I, 1850.

The SENATE did not sit to-day, having yesterday
adjourned over until Monday.
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Notice.
MASTER ATTENDANTS FFice,
MALTA Yard. October Is. 1919.


MAsrER ATTENDANTS OFFIcE,
W Malta Yard, October 10, 1919.
On the north side of the entrance of the harbor Of
marsamuscetto shoal runs off from the southeast
part OF the low rocky point of Fort Tign6, Ia s. E.
by Il. direction, about forty eight or fifty fathoms
At that distance from the shore, there is depth of
twenty four feet water rocky and bot
tom.
MARKS ron AVOIDING THIS sHoAL.
black mark, six feet broad and eight feet deep,
with white border,) is painted on the north part
ofthe bastion of Fort ST. Elmo. This mark, brought
in line with St. Elmo lighthouse, bearing 8. by
E. by compass leads along the east side Of the shoa
in six and seven fathoms water.
And Boschetto Palace, brought open to the south
west bastion of Fort Manoel, bearing W. by s.,
leads along the south side of the shoal in four and
five fathoms water, passing about thirty fathoms
from the shore of Fort Tigne.
In the angle Of meeting of these marks where
both are on, there are seven and quarter fathoms
of water.
These marks perfectly safe, but close, and
must not be passed towards the shoal
In working out, keep Boschetto Palace open to
the southwark of the southwest bastion of Fort
Manocl until the light house is open, the east
side of the black mark the north part of the ba-
ton of Fort st. Elmo.
And in working in, keep the lighthouse open to
the eastward of the black mark on st. Elmo, until
Boschetto Palace is open to the southwark of the
bastion of Fort Manoel.
DESCRIPTION MARKS.
The south end of the bastion Of Fort Manoe is re-
markable, being close to the water, having stone
sentry box built on the top of it.
The Palace Of Boschettois also remarkable, being
a large square building on the most distant high
land near the centre of the island.
The light-h house of st. Elmo, with the black mark
bearing s. by E. and N. by w. from each other,
cannot be mistaken.
(Signed) ]. NAPIER,
Master Attendant.
NATIONAL OBSERVATORY,
WAsHISGToN, d. c., JAM 81, 1850.
GENTLEMEs: The accompanying "noticc" from
Malta has been received at this Office. Be pleased
to publish it for the benefit of navigators and obge
yours, respectfully, sc.
M. F. MAURY, Lieut.. u. 8. ~
EDrToRs REPUBLIC, Washington
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sILAs WOOD, Chairman pro tenn.
IsAAc WiSsLow, jr., Recording Secretary.
PETITION FOR CHEAP POSTAGE.

To the Congress Of the United States, the petition
OF the undersigned, - -, respectfully repre-
scnts.
That the subject Of cheap postage has been
widely considered among the people, and tie results
in Great Britain for ten years have been success
full that we earnestly ask National Legislature
20 grant MS the same benefit, by establishing the
rate Of postage prepaid letters at fco esrfs per
half owncs. ftH
Oy-An editors throughout The Union, favorable
10 the cause, requested 10 publish the foregoing
resolution, circular, and petition.
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Necessary 10 q choice

Mr.. GvaLxy, having received a majority Of all
the votes cast, wac declared duly elected Chaplain
for the present Congress.
The House then adjourned until Monday.
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WI1LIAM AND MARY COLLEGE.

WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE.
.U,IIE next annual session Of this Institution Will
commence on the Cd Wednesday in October
FACULTY.
The Right Rev. JoHN JoHYs, ID. d., President
and Professor of Moral Philosophy.
Judge BEVERLY Tucker, Professor of Municipal
and Constitutional Law.
BENJAMIN S. EwELL, Professor of Mathematics
and Astronomy aV
MORGAN j. SMEAp, Phi. D, Professor Of HUI
manlty.
WILLIAM F. HopKISs, A. NJ, Professor o
Chemistry and Natural Philosophy.
H. A. WASHINGTON, A. NJ, Professor Of lis
tory and Political Economy.
Rev SILAs ToTTEN, ID. d., Professor Of lntel-
lecnal Philosophy, Bellies Lettres, and Rhetoric.
There are two courses of study for Undergrad
uates--the regular course for the degree OF Bach
elor of Arts, and Science course, occupying two
years Candidates for admission to the Science
course will be expected to produce the written re-
quest Of their parents or guardians. Students not
desiring to Join regular class may, for special
reasons, be admitted to study with the regular
classes, in those branches which, on examination,
thev may be found qualified to pursue.
The necessary College expenses range between
SlS6 and S196 per annum.
Circulars will be forwarded to all who may de-
sire fuller information, or specific inquiries will be
answered, if addressed to Professor MORGAN J
SMEAp, Williamsburg, Virginia
Students, not desiring to attend either the Reg
ular or the Science course, will be permitted to
study with any cass which they may be prepared
TO Join.
July l5-1 aw.
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A GREAT NATIONAL WORK.
THE GALLERY OF INDUSTRIOUS
AMERICANS.
Daguereotypes by Brady-Engraved by
D'Avignon.
EDITED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF LITERARY MEN

EDITED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF LITERARY MEN.
FINDER this title will be published during the
- year 1850, twenty -four Portraits and Biograpbi-
cal Sketches OF American citizens who have become
illnstrions in the service Of the country Every por
ton of the work will receive the most careful aten-
ton, and nothing will be spared to render it worthy
mad enduring monument to tho great men OF the Re
public.
Mr. Brady has been many years engaged, at great
expense, in collecting Portraits ior National Gal
lery, and those which are being engraved for this
work are believed to be superior to any that have
been taken In the accomplishment of this great
object he has experienced the utmost courtesy and
encouragement from distinguished men. Mr.. Brady's
reputation has been too long established to need any
recommendations. His daguerreotypes are in the
highest sense the works OF art glowing with tie soul
OF the living countenance
The drawings and engravngs OF D'Avignon have
been pronounced by Europeans OF taste to be fully
equal and in respects superior to those of the
best artists OF London and Paris and every inn
preston in this Gallery will be taken under his i'm
mediate supervision. The Typography viii be cxe-
cuted as carefully and in superb style the
cravings themselves. The entire work will be on
the finest imperial folio paper 16 by % inches, made
expressly Tor this purpose.
This work has nothing sectional in its scope il
win therefore be comprehensive in IFS spirit. The
names of those only admitted whose talents
aud public services have won for them honorable
fame throughout the nation. Each of the great de-
parments of lie will have its representatives. Art
and Literature universal in their spirit, and the
Gallery is intended to be worthy and enduring
uncnt to the great mon Of the Republic, whose
achievements and fame constitute The chief glory of
the nation We hope that every lover of Art, and
friend of our glorious Union, will respond to ap
peal for encourarc nent and aid IN commendable
undertaking. that its publication may make an in
he progress of American AIT, and by grouping tie
lnstrous OF the Union together, consolidate it
still more firmly.
As no work of this kind has appeared in America,
and the prices they sustain il Europe would place il
beyond the reach Of most OF citizens, the publish
ers have resolved to merit q large circulation, by
charging very low price. They have, therefore.
established the following
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PROSPECTUS OF A NEW SERIES OF
The Southern Quarterly Review.

COMMENCED ON THE lsT OF April, 1850, BY
WALKER g. RIcHARDs, Propretors s. Publishers.
TERMS-S5.00 per annum, payable in adj
vance.
The publishers of the SOUTHERN QUARTERLY
REVIEW beg leave to entreat the attention of the
public to that Work, to return thanks for the IN
variable indulgence which has smiled upon It's
progress hitherto, and to express the hope ,ha,
this countenance will not be Withdrawn, now that
the publication, passing from the hands of the
former publisher into their own, makes, as il
we're a fresh start in the pursuit of a well known
PROCESS They cannot allow themselves to doubt,
that-with all their former contributors, with the
addition OF many new ones, not less valuable and
distinguished the conduct still of Mr.. w
GILMORE SIMMs its sole Editor during the past
year-and with the assurance which the subscri-
bers now beg leave to give, that the work will be
henceforward issued in style very superior to
that OF the past on better paper, with fine new
type, and with regard to neatness and finish,
which will leave il second to none IN the country
they will continue TO receive that patronage which
thar own endeavor and the claims Of such ain or
gan seem reasonably to demand
The writers for the REVIEW include the greater
number of the best and ablest names of the
country They represent the highest literary
talent of the South, and reflect truly, with ma
tive earnestness, force, and fidelity the real pol
icy and the peculiar institutions OF our section.
w e entreat the people oil the SCUM, VINO lee,
the importance of such periodical as the Review, {,
! to excuse its Deficiencies, and generously lend
/ themselves to its assistance. With their counte-
| nance and concurrence, 1T can become the estab-
! shed organ of domestic opinion--the champion
of our rights and character abroad--the gaside and
counsel to intellectual progress and proper taste
| at home--the arena in which the better minds of
! the country may always distinguish themselves,
and find the proper proyocatlon to execution and
performance--the wholesome authority to which
| we may always turn for the correction and re-
strant of crude and undigested speculation. These
are all objects of the last necessity TO civilized
| people, who have anything to gam by enterprise
or any thing to lose by rcmissness and mdlffer-
| ence. Once more, we ask from the patrons of the
Review, indulgence for the past and such sym:
patly and support for the future as are due to The
vital interests which faithfully serves, and the
character which it seeks to establish.
T All communications should he addressed
WALKER & RICHARDS,
Publishers So,tfhe,,, Quarterly Rsrieu.
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u A. PRlNGLE, No 80, East Bay street.
LIZ Charleston, South Carolna.--lmporter of
French CALF SKINS; Manufacturers Agent
and Dealer in BROG.9Ns, BOOTS and SHOES.
Advances made on consignment of Brogans or
Southern Manufacture. Purtes wishing to con-
sign, will send samples Of their make, und on re-
ceipt of their consignment, liberal cash advance
will be made. Information promptly impaired.
as TO the style, but adapted to the trade.
Charleston, s. c., July Is, IS5O-drv
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To Southern Gentlemen or Ltterarv m
stitutiOns

"A young man, graduate Of ST. Marv's Col
IA lege, Baltimore, wishes 10 obtain as ;t,,ot;o,
as as Assistant IN an Academy, or Private Tutor. -
He Is qual!ned to teach the highest branches OF
m,stry, Mathematics and English Literature =
The highest testimonials az to character and ona-
hcatons can be produced. Address. nos,.na;J
G X Y Post Office baltimore, MAJ ''N''F''
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woRTHINGToN g. sNErHEN.
Formerly Solicitor cs the General Jond OGc,

Formerly Solicitor cf the General Land Office.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
Continues to practice in the Supreme Court OF
the United States in the Courts of the Distrc, OF
Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. to prosecute
claims Of all kinds against the United States, Ell
ther before Congress or any Of the Executive De-
parmenls, and to procure letters patent for invsn
tons Business confded to his care, will be
attended to-
n. b. Particular attention paid to the prosecu-
ton OF claIn1s before the Brazilian Commission
now sitting in Washington
WASHINGTON CRY, d. c. July H. 1a50S
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THE THIRD ANNUAL. VOLUME
OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAvETyr r,

n "a
was commenced on Saturday, the 4th of Nav.
is3o, It's original name-nstead of Richards
Vee"ty Ia-ete--as more significant of its peculiar
character, 1t being the only weekly organ Of Liter,
ture III the entire South! 1t is
Greatly Enlarged aud Improved
Containing weekly Thirty-two Columns Of
matter. 1t is, moreover, in an
Entirely .Ac.c Dress $50
from head to foot,' and upon beautlfi,f wn,,-
paper, SO that, In mechanical excellence il is NOT
surpassed by any paper whatever in the United
States II continues under the same Editorial
will be spared to make it
A Choice Family Newspaper,
''as cheap as the cheapest, and as good as tbe
pest. utterly dscardlng the notion that n
Southern journal cannot compete with the North
ern weeklIes, IN cheapness and interest
The Southern Literary Gazette
rivals the best of them in all the characteristics of
truly valuable freside Journal Its aim Is the
diffusion OF cultivated and refined taste throur;,-,.
the communicated it embraces in irs annie
folds ever species of intelligence that can tend 10
this result. s
Original Contributions,
from many of the ablest writers in the Sontb.
chiefy occupy ITS columns, but not to the exclu-
sion or cho,ce miscellany, selected from the best
American and European sources
The tone of the s'Gazette" is independent :,
Criticism and in the discussion Of every legitimate
tpPiO, Uut ~ iS StTlCtIy
Neutral in Politics and Religion
Its columns are occasionally embeIlished with
Southern Portraits and Lc.,dscopes.
engraved expressly for the work, and accompo-
med by Biographical and rnp ,graphical sketches.
its General Larornation
is coplous, but caietully condensed from the
leading Journals of all parts of the world
Notwithstanding the great increase in the size
and attractions of the paper it is still published at
Iico Dollars Per .4nnuns, in .7drance!
it will be furnished to persons becoming respon-
sible for the whole number of copies, and having
them sent TO one address, on the following terms
Three copies, IS
Five copies,
Ten copies, Is
Eifleen copies, 90
twenty copies, 95
Fifty copies, GO
A5@ Ali orders must be accomnanied with n.
money, and addressed, post pal, to
WALKER & RICHARDS.
Charleston, S. G.