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Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-21

CuLTIvATIoSor OF CoTToS CErLoS-The subject ofcot
ton cultivation appears to be spreading throughout The British
colonial possessions The last from Ceylon show that
n that island the subject considered be of material
Importance whle from the great mass Of information col
ected on all the principal points worthy Of notice. il would
appear that its capabilities Of producing cotton Of fine quality
and in large quantities unquesionable The soil and
climate considered 70 be superior India for the purpose
and competent authority has declared that can be
equal in quantity and cheaper in price than that of the Unit
ed States About twelve thousand square miles of land
mentioned admirably suited for its cultivation and is
thought that 10 about three years from the Of its being
put under cuivaton than one million bales would be
produced annually. The natives have raised crops sufficient
for their own from time immemoria and the native cloth
strong and useful Il has also been shown that cotton
great abundance be grown in Africa on the west coast
fully equal quality that Of the United States Samples
already received from Liberia have been valued at from I'D
to SID. per Pound.-EngEsh Paper.
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MARYLAND CoNyENTIoN.

The Maryland Constitutional Convention has re-
solved to take recess from Wednesday, the 18th
instant, to the 3lst. The committees to which the
most important subjects were referred have not yet
reported nor are they expected to report until after
the re.assembling Of the Convention. The Annapo-
lis Republican says that it is satisfied, from ndica-
tons already afforded, that the subject Of represen
tation will form not only the most exciting topic Of
debate but prove the most perplexing and difficult
matter of adjustment likely to occupy the attention
of the Convention. The present composition Of
the popular branch of the Legislature will, no doubt
what plan will be substituted. Some of the men,
bers are for systematic reduction Of the existing
number Of delegates, others favor the granting of
fair increase to the larger counties and Baltimore
city, whilst third class land very small one( are
desirous Of adopting thorough plan OF representa-
ton according to population.
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GALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE AND
- IRON WORKS, In M0nOngalia county, Virginia.

y IRON WORKS, In Monongala county, Virginia.
Pursuant decree the Circuit superior Court OF Law and
Chancery of said county, rendered the wherein John
Tassey and others plaintiffs and Evan T. Ellico and
pointed for the purpose will proceed sell Mogantown
in said county, the fourth Monday in February 1851
ing day all that property in Monongaa county, Vir-
gnia lying along and Cheat River generally known
the Monongaa Iron Works., and the that
veyed by said John Tasey and others said Evan T. Elco
and Others containing about 900 Of land whereon
Rolling MILL Forge, Foundry, Nail Factory, Grs and Saw
l all driven by water power together with three Blast
Furnaces On this land there is abundance OF Iron Ore
Stone Coal Timber and Limestone There is also valuable
Ferry crossing Cheat river belonging TO the property
This well situated for manufacturing purposes not
only OF ron but of Wool and Cotton, being situated in the
heart OF good farming and oolgrowng country about hy
FIVE miles south OF Pttsburg having of the best water
powers in the and water communication to Pburg and
elsewhere.
On these premises there have been expended within the last
twelve years. fifty thousand dollars in the
ton Of the Rolling MILL Nail Factory, Blast Furnace, and
other buildings.
The Works are now in toeraby good order. Immediately
connected with the Mills four hye hundred
OF superior farming land five six smaller farms, to-
g.ther with sixty eighty Dwelling houses suitable for the
workmen. .."s. .. ...
The sale will be credit Of one two, and three years.
the purchaser giving bond with security for the payment Of
purchase moneythe bearing interest from the day
SALE tits expected that the property will be offered for sale
three our more different parcels and then
geer and will be told in such way win realize the
money.
Those who may be disposed to make NAV
great bargain the purchase Of this valuable property and
they would do well examine the premises The undergn
ed will take pleasure in furnishing further or
information which may be desired by persons wishing
chase. EDGAR C. WILSON, +.
w. T. WILEY,
Morgantown, Dec. IL, 1850. Commissioners.
dec I8-Swcp
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RE-ApYEARAScE OF THE CHoLERA.-The cholera appears
to have broken out almost simultaneously several points at
the South and West The New Orleans Courier says it has
broken out with great fatality in Gainesville, Pearl River
the first time il appeared in the pine woods 1t is also
reported that the cholera exists to extent in Franklin
Parish Louisiana
The Planters La Banner reports the death Of nine ne
cinty.
At Selma (Ah two persons have died of cholera recent
y, and near Summerfed, in the State, Mr.. Glass,
Mrs. King, and Of her slaves have been attacked with the
same malady.
Every boat arriving Cincinnati from New Orleans has
more less cholera board The disease is, however,
mostly confined to emigran,s.
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s'FRoM ALABAMA INDEPENDENT MONITOR"
REMARKABLE CoIscIDEscg.-The assembling Of the
Legislatures of South Carolina and Mississippi and the meet
ing of the Georgia Convention made to happen 90
nearly the time that the coincidence is very remarkable
very apparent that the Governors and head eeaers of
those different States had fixed upon day in the present
month for general stampede out Of the Union If the plot
had not been maed by the gallant and patriotic
the des of December would doubles have witnessed the at
tempt establish Southern Conderacy under the direc
ton Of that famous umvirate, Gen. Qualebum, Presi
dent and Commander Chief and Gems Towns and Quit
man, heads of the army and navy and heirs preumpve
the Presidency The attempt draw Alabama into the
scheme to have been frustrated by the discretion Of
Gov. Collier, or perhaps by his want of ambition.
From present appearances the authority Of President Quat
tebum is likely be confined to the Palmetto State for
Georgia has buried Governor Towns, and Mississippi will
hardly consent TO be revoutionized by Gov. Quman.
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ported upwards Of $50 in specie pay for our i'm

ported upwards Of $780, in SPECIE to pay for our i'm
mense exports. se
Balances Of trade be paid in some way or other the
as any other indebtedness and that have paid ours
whatever they have been is certain as that we have psd
for any part of imporaions from abroad Occasionay
they have been paid in specie but generally by other
means, such as freight &C. while is probable we now
owe as we have stated S20O yet 10 be paid
We pretend accuracy in portion OF these
statements but tbirk they ought to satisfy the most
which We should have saved had concentrated our opu
aon and encouraged the useful might have DONE
The great prosperity have enjoyed has enables US to meet
this immense loss and still to become rch but we might
have done much better hsd kept mportanons WITHIN
our exports. Respectfully yours, h.F.
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rTEACHERs WANTED.- :

TEACHERS WANTED.-The present Principal OF
BERLIN FEMALE SEMINARY having in consideration OF
health rendered his resignation, take effect in March next
proposals will be received for Principal and Resistant
Females to take charge of the Berlin Female Seminary in
Maryland The Principal may be gentleman or lady, who
capable OF taking charge OF the Seminary for bosrders
One OF the Teachers must be qualified teach vocal and IN
srumenta music on the Piano. The other to teach
the common and higher branches of English education For
such Principal and Assistants the board OF trustees will
5000 per annum, payable quarterly The house, gar
den, and lot also furnished clear OF charge.
Proposals will be received until 10Th Of February next
The Teachers will be required take charge by the 10Th Of
March. JOHN r. PITTS,
President Of the Board.
Berlin, Maryland, Nov. 81, 1880. dec s.
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TO THE EDITORS.
NAYS LICK, Mason Cousrr, Kr..

Mars LICK MAsos CousTr, KT., ,
DECEMBER IL, 1850.
Messrs. GALES & SEAros The phrase " "A Vase and
Mastery Lactirty" is commanding and it deserves cele-
biy The Cincinnati Gazette attributes its origin John
Randolph. Your correspondent sF NJ" in the IntelL-
gencer of the 7h instant Sir James Mcintosh,
and thinks probable Sir James the author He may
have been the author of the particular form in which the
sentiment couched but the sentiment itself had higher pa
ernty, and submit originally expressedin terms
orcible and elegant In Isaah chap XXX, and IS,
have the sentiment precisely Their strength is to SIT
still In returning and rest shall ye be saved Quiet
ness and in confidence shall be your strength"
& ast fz C. p. ].
BRooKLrs, NEW YoRK, DECEMBER l6, 1850.
Messas. GALES & SEATos-GESrLEaEs As the ques-
on who the author Of the expression Mastery Inac-
v seems likely to be severely contested that Of the
authorship Of Junus, beg leave suggest the claims Of
EusIss In speaking Of shs pQlicy of EaIus ha. ,hx
say Hanni5al be says n ,
g Unus homo no5is cunctGndo restituit rem
Non ponebat enins runsorcs ante sdhstem."
Your Richmond" correspondent H. AYERS thst the
phrase in question be fouHd in Dcmosthees but does
not give the passage be do so will surrender the
claim of my candidate Euus nasmuch he younger
Than Demosthenes-(who would surrender all the
honors Of authorship and genius for the boon of being young
er -the Athenian having died hundred and fifty
years before my Roman friend Until H." does so, claim
that the latter is entitled % the verdict. 5.
'"By wise and mastery inactivity"
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The COMMISSION APPoIsrKs Br THE NAvr DEFIANT
mxsr to examine into the merits Of the various condensers
for supplying the boilers Of marine engines with fresh water
and report the Navy Department the result Of such ex
animation together with their opinion Of the value Of the best
Of said conensers to the Government Of the United States
is now in session a. the Philadelphia Navy Yard This
mission composed Of Prof JoHs c. CREssos Of Phia
delphia and Prof. j. H. ALEXANDER Of Baltimore, who are
prepared receive and inspect any drawings model or ap
paratus which inventors may desire TO submit to them
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COMPLETE CENSUS OF MAINE.-We find in the
Portland Advertiser the official table of the COM
plete census of that State, by which it ap-
pears that the population on the lst Of June last
was 5s3,O26. Ten years previously il was
1895. The census for 1850 does not include
,s75 inhabitants residing north Of the St. John
River, which were included in the census Of 1910,
but, being in the territory ceded to Great Britain by
the boundary treaty, are now out OF the State.
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THE WEEKLY NATIONAL INTELLIGENcER.

The subscription price Of this paper for year is THREE
DoLL ARs, payable in advance.
For the long Sessions Of Congress- (averaging eight
months) the price will be Two DoLLARs for the short
Sessions OsE DoLLAR per copy.
reduction Of 20 per cent Cor oneh Of the full charge
will be made to any one who shall order and pay for at
time, five copies Of the Weekly paper, and alike reduction
Of 25 per cent Cor onesurh Of the full charge to any one
who will orderandp pay for time ten more copies
No accounts being keptfor this paper will not be for
waded any unless paid for in advance nor sent any
longer than the time for which it is SO paid.
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The population Of the Cry Of New York, ac-
cording to the census just taken, s5l7,s49 If we
add Brooklyn and Williamsburgh, which are part
of New York in every thing but name and organi-
zaton, the entire population is about 900. New
York in 1910 contained but little than 10000
inhabitants. .:s@..
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The first railroad in Peru (South Americal completed
and into operation the 9th Of November It extends
from Lima 10 Caao. distance of only six miles, yet is
regarded gigantic affair The preudces Of the natives
entirely against railroads, and when did, the loco
motive of the track and smashed things, before it
peted the first me the people condemned it soundy.
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YET ANOTHER STEAMBOAT DISASTER.

NEw DREAMS, DECEMBER lS.
The steamer South America burnt yesterday near
Bayou Sara, and thirty to forty lives lost There
hundred persons including hundred u s. soldiers board
The soldiers going to Texas Seven soldiers peshed
The boat totally destroyed in twenty minutes and the
passengers lost all their baggage Many compelled
Jump overheard and were drowned.
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We learn from the Fsyete (Pa.) Whig that the first
arrest under the Fugitive Slave Law in that county was
made at Union'own, on Saturday week. The slave was
claimed by citizen Of Maryland, and was to have bad
hearing before Commissioner Irwin on Wednesday last
There the slightest excitement on the occasion.
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Whole freight Tor lS45 foreign commerce. S22 627 020
Now sixty years at s2s 627, ,02o is 81, ,ss7 s2l 200 II
is true that our tonnage engaged foreign trade much
larger IN s45 than the average since 1871 but eghts
scarcely half the price then obtaineddung the trade
particularly It is therefore by unreasonable es
mate the eghs earned since 1871 reach considerably be-
yond S7OO, 600, being little more than half Mr. Lambs
estimate for l845 To this be added the passage money
paid by the hundreds Of thousands cmipran that have an
nuay among and the specie and capital of various
kinds they have brought with the probably 600 900 to
S5, ,OOO 900 per Take the medium Of Sd 900 900
and in the above sixty years they would amount 600 600
to 20 the credit side of foreign commercial intercourse.
while the whole earnings Of valuable fishing trade should
20 to the credit of foreign enteprseshough il is as
much domestic industry the manufacture of cotton of
WOOL of ron-al,hough being earned by shipping
comes under the commercial head.
These manufactures, too nasmuch they have furnished
great Some market for produce have vastly enrich
ed and han oil this, coasng tonnage earned
a sum overestmate
To add oil this have before eyes the fact that
we owe abroad geo. 900 of dollars foreign capital
ists The statistical tables published in London in ls43
charged us with an Indebtedness that time OF 2ls
One thing more a most complete all
disbelief in the Indebtedness which the balance
of trade and that is that the year 100 Great Britain
has eported more than she has imported by exceed
ing 0l4275. And II cannot admit of doubt that
she has been paid for this in way other by the
ons with which she has traded else they would still owe
to her that portion of this which has not been paid
With regard the payments Of balances in SPECIE any
doubt that this takes place, let bm to trade
in with Europe during the late famine when We i'm
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MASSACHUSETTS Governor BRIses has direct
ed elections to be held in Districts No. and for
another trial for members Of the present Congress,
and in Districts No. Q, 8, 4, 5, 6, T. and 10, for
second trial for members of the next Congress, on
Monday, the goth Of January, 1851.
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LONDON INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

|, To correct misapprehension as to the course of
the Central Committee in reference to agents to
take charge Of goods intended for the London Ex-
hibton we are requested to state that no agent has
been appointed for that purpose by the Central
Committee. Exhibitors are left entirely to their
own choice in the selection of their agents.
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Ex-Governor WILLIAM PLUMER died at his resi-
dence in Epping IN. H. last week, aged about "a.
He vast the last surviving member of the Conven-
ton which framed the present Constitution Of New
Hampshire, which he took very active part in
framing, and which he lived under SO years.
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STORM ON THE IRISH CeAsr.-A Tremendous gale swept
along the Irish Coast the 25th ultimo in which the ship
Edmond Of London with hundred souls on board from
Limerick, bound to the United States driven ashore in
Kkee Bay, and ninety Of those board perished The
details of the disaster published in the English papers,
most melancholy Accounts state that other vessels left
Scaey Roads with the unfortunate Edmond of which there
has been no account.
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OFFICIAL.
DEpARrMENT OF STATE,

DEPARrMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 20, 1850.
Information has been received this Department, that
Caadoptc light will be placed probably before the end Of
this month, the top Of the light house Of Scheyenge,
which lis already considerably elevated. The size of this
Catadioptc preparation will be Of the third orde and visible
from distance Of four German miles. In return, the
coast light which located the of the Church Of
Brele will be suppressed As the precise period
for carrying these arrangements into effect shall have been
xed the Minister Of Marine Of his Majesty the King Of the
Netherlands will inform the public Of the fact through the
medium Of the official journal.
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AT Castle Donngton, Leicesershire, the keeper of Mr.
Batty menagee went into the Of the carriages in state
Of ntoxcaon He in contact with of the bears,
and after considerable contest the and the beast rolled
down TO the elephant who Immediately seized the bear by
the chain with which secured, and exricaed the
from the rude grasp brun keeping him suspended until he
had recovered hmse How fortunate that the elephant
sober English paper.
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The WHEELING BRIDsE CAsE.-The Commission for
taking testimony in this closed the lh Instant
by Chancellor WALwoRrH, who has relur ed home pre-
pare his report for the Supreme Court Of the United States
the present term. r."
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Coin WEATHER I'm Montreal (Canada) on Saturday
last the Thermometer stood degrees below and
in Quebec at thirteen degrees below zero
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The Hon. E. G. CABELL, Representative in
Congress from Florida, has been called from his
duties in the Capitol to the bedside Of his father,
who lies in critical condition at Richmond, Va.
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The Maryland Reform Convention adjourned on
Wednesday last until the 3lst Of the present month
No business was done on that day for want OF a
quorum. s'@ &e..
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The INDIANA Convention have adopted section
that half the State Senators shall be chosen for four
years, and half for two-.he Representatives to be
chosen for two years. and another that the sessions
of the Legislature shall be biennial, commencing
on 5th of January next.
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The census Of Montgomery county (Md.) shows popula
ton Of 9436 whites, 4s04 slaves and 1929 free coored
persons total s39. The increase Of whites since 1910
has been 670 the decrease Of slaves 27 and Of free cooed
persons l4-nett increase 3S3.
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THE CENSUS OF PHILADELPHIA.

The full returns of the census of Philadelphia
show population Of 406.35s, and an increase IN
the last ten years lin ls40 it was 25s,OS7) OF
l4s.22l. or ffty-seven per cent. The following
are the returns for the several districts:
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More retained for consumption in 1889 than

was retained in lS4O ........... 55, ,646, 400
So that there above fifty per cent of imported
goods retained for consumption in 1889 than there in
1870 while our exports could only be increased, it ap
pears $l This would to be satisfactory
answer to show what caused the immense difference Of
S67 s29775. For, if add to the amount retained for
consumption the deficiency in the export, shall reach
pretty nearly the above amount.
More retained for consumption in 1889
than was retained in ls40 .S55, GAG, 400
Deficiency of export only. ........... ll,O57,530
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The Census of the State of RHODE ISLAND shows
total population Of l47,543, being gain in ten
years of 3s7l2, which is fraction over thirty-fve
and half per cent. ....-... ...