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SUPPLY OF NEW SPRING
GOODS.

THE SUBSCRIBERS have just received their full
i and complete assortment of Fancy and Staple
Dry Goods, which have been selected with care
from the most recent imporations OF the cities OF
New York and Philadelphia, embracing every ar
tice in their line Of French, English, India, Ger
man, and Italian manufacture; of which they
name
25 pieces rich small checkcrc,' Glacc Silks
10 pieces rich small striped do do
l5 pieces rich plain ch'ble do do
5 pieces rich small plaid Mourning do
10 pieces extra rich plain black Gros de Rhine
Silks
II pieces plaid and striped India Foulard Silks
~ pieces new style Alberine
pieces embroidered Grenadines new article
20 pieces satin striped and figured Silk Tissues
pieces Cashmere style M. dc LANES
20 pieces figured French Bareges, new style
Is pieces plain French Barcge, every shade
10 pieces solid colored nj. de Laine, every shade
5 pieces printed Linen Cambrcs
30 pieces real French Lawns and Jaconets
25 pieces real French GinghaIns and Chntzes
$500 yards small figured Lawns, warranted coors,
at ~. cts.
Together with great variety of other dress ma
terals not herein enumerated, but which will be
shown with pleasure to all who may favor US with
call p. H. HOOE & Co.
Mar. l9-2m
[Union & Alex. GAIL
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PRINTERS AND BINDERS
Nos. % and 81 Gold st.-Mar
w ufactory, corner of Broome and Sheriff sts

WAREHOUSE, Nos. % and 81 Gold st.-Man
w ufactory, corner of Broome and Sheriff sts.,
New York.
The subscribers offer for sale, OF their ownman
ufacture, their improved patent Single and Double
Cylinder Printing Presses, for newspaper and book
work; Card Printing Machines, Proof Presses,
Hydraulic Presses, with Wrought iron Cylinders
Geercd and other Standing Presses; also, Litho-
graphic and Copperplate Presses, Binders mate;
rials, &c. &C.; Chases, Cases, Galcys, Furniture,
Stands, Imposing Stones, &c. &c, constantly on
hand, and every article necessary for complete
Printing Office, including Type and Ink, furnished
on the most favorable terms. Printers, publishers
and others, wishing to establish Newspaper,
Book or Job Office, will be furnished with an esti-
mate for the same, in detail, if desired Machinery
made to order or drawings Iron and Brass Cast
ings to order. They also manufacture superior
cast steel MILL pit, crosscut, circular and other
Saws supply OF which they keep constantly on
hand. X. HOE * W
N. b. Proprieiors of newspapers who will insert
the advertisement three times and send us a num-
ber of their paper containing it, will be entitled to
payment on purchasing OF US four times the
amount OF their bill. Jan 2o-u
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ASHINGTON AND SMITH PRESSES.

Composing Sucks, b and inches, y ou. FOR
each additional inch ~ cents.
Mahogany Job Sticks, So.
Ohases of every size for job news, and book work.
Imposing Stones of any required size.
Galleys of every description.
Type Cases, of best quality.
Job two third and half cases
Cabinet Cases of 8, TO- and Is pairs each.
Single and Double Stands, with and without
racks.
Furniture and Reglet, of all sizes.
Quoins, of cherry, hickory, iron wood, and ma
hogany.
Roller Moulds, copper or iron.
Brass rule, suited for every purpose.
Brass Dashes, of various patterns cut 10 suit the
column.
Heads for Newspapers, prepared 10 order, in wood
or brass.
News, in kegs of l6 90 and 30 lbs. each, 25 cents
per Id.
News, for Napier presses, so, 100. and l75 pack
ages, % cents per lb.
Book in kegs of 10, 10, 20, and 80 lbs each, from
30 10 75 cents per Id.
Book, in canisters, 8 to So
Colored Red, Blue, Green, Brown, and Yellow,
in canisters of and Id. each, 80 so.
Varnish in canstors of Id. To lbs, so cents.
Rich gold, pale gold, silver, red, and orange
Bronze.
Sizing, for working in bronze.
SECOND HAND MATERIALS
A variety of second hand materials, consisting
of Presses, Type of various Sizes, Chases, Cases,
and Stands, Imposing Stones, &c, &c, may be
had at the Foundry.
OLD TYPE delivered at the Foundry, taken in
exchange at cents per lb. for new Type. Printers
will be expected 10 send their old Type to tho Feun
dry as carly as possible after their order is given
for new Type in exchange for IL.
SrxRRoTYpfsG carefully done, with new Type,
at the lowest rates Blocks furnished OF any re-
quired size.
Orders addressed 10 the undersigned, for every
thing required by Printers, will meet with prompt
attention by y. LUCAS, Jr., Proprietor,
Aug. M-u Baltimore.
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TERMS

PREMIUMS
Consisting Of back volumes Of the following val
uable wurks, viz
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY,
THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE,
BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE,
LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW,
EDINBURGH REVIEW,
FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW,
WESTMINSTER REVIEW.
Any one subscribing to Blackwood, 10 one Of
the Reviews, at So year, or to any two Of the
Pers,iicns at S5, will receive, gratis one volume
of any Of the premiums above named.
A Subscriber 10 any three Of the Periodicals, nj
81 year, 20 the four Reviews, at 80, will re-
ceive two premium volumes as above.
A subscriber to Backwood and th.cw Reviews,
at 80 year or TO the four Reviews and Blac wood
at $40, will receive three premium volumes.
Consec,iire PreDitfm Uoiuaes 'ciH BE- furnished
,chen practicable bat, 10 prevent dtsopponaet. Sub
scribs requested 10 order many different pogks
for premiums as they nayreTsire roiames
CLuBBIso.
Four copies Of any al Of the above works will
he sent 10 one address payment of the regular
subscription for three-the fourth copy being
gratis.
s.+ No premiums will be given where the above
allowance il made 20 clubs will premiums in
any case be furnished unless the subscription
money is paid in full 10 the publishers, without
recourse 20 an agent.
lu- Remittsnccs and communication should ho
always addressed, post paid, or franked, 10 The
Publishers. LEONARD SCOTT 4 co,
79 Fulton street, New York,
Dec. lS--tf Entrance 81 Gold 1t,
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moRsE's TELEGRAPH.
Messages sent through I'm half minute
n.IIr MAGNETIC TEL ElR Apu rnMpA

Messages sent through I'm half min"fei
rINHE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY,
II owning the old line Of truly American Telc-
graph between the cities OF Washington and New
York, have now in operation four wires, which are
working, by single manipulation at each termi-
nus, between the Offices Of the Company on Penn
syvana avenue, i'm Washington, and at the corner
OF Hanover and Beaver streets, New York, and at
all the intermediate stations. Any message left nj
the Offices Of this Company in Washington, Balti-
more, Hsvrc de Grace, Wilmington, Philadelphia,
Trenton, Princeton, New Brunswick, Newark, Jer-
scy City, or New York will have prompt despatch.
This line with all the Morse lines north,
south, cast and west.
Interpretations Of this Company are not interrupt
ed by rain storms
An business entrusted 90 this Company will be
considered strictly confidential and win I've prompt
ly attended 10. Vs. X. FRENCH,
President Of the Magnetic Telegraph Company.
EoI,
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BLACKWOOD's MAGAZINE
And the British Quarterly Reviews.
PREMIUMS TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS,

PREMIUMS TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS,
OWING 10 the late revolutions and counter revo-
" lutions among the nations Of Europe, which
have followed each other in such quick succession
and Of which ''e end NOT yet" the leading peri
odicals of Great Britain have become invested with
a degree Of interest hitherto unknown. They oc.
cupy middle ground between the hasty, disjoint-
ed, and necessarily imperfect records OF the news
papers, and the elaborate and ponderous trcatscs 10
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 offered 10
subscribers The following is their list, viz
THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW,
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW,
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW,
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW, and
BLACKwoOD's EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
In these periodicals are contained the vicws mod
erately though clearly and firmly expressed, Of the
three great parties in EDgland--Tory, Wing, and
Radical. " "Blackwood" and the Z" London Quar-
tcriy" are Tory; the Edinburgh Review" Wing;
and the E" Westminster Review" Liberal. The
" North British Review" its establishment TO
the last great ecclcsiastcal movement IN Scotland,
and IL not ultra in its views any Of the grand
departments of human knowledge il origin.
ally edited by DIR. Chalmers, and now. since his
death, is conducted by his son-in-law, DR. Hanna,
associated with Sir David Brewster. Tts literary
character is of tte very highest order. The "west
Minister, though reprinted under that title only, IL
published in England under the title Of the [" For
cign Quarterly and Westminster," IL being, in
fact a union of the two Reviews formerly published
and reprinted under separate titles. ID has. there
fore Tie advantage by this combination of uniting
in work the beet features of both heretofore
issued.
The above periodicalsare reprinted in New York,
Immediately ON their arrival by the British steam
ers n beautiful clear type, on line white paper,
and faithful copies OF the originals Blackwoods
Magazine being AN exact fac -simiie Of the Edin-
burgh edition.
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PRICES OF TYPE.

And larger sizes at equally low prices.
Fancy letter of every description, Combination
Borders, Flower Cuts, and Ornaments in great
riety
Wood Letter of every description, from to rs
lines Plea, at manufacturers prices
Smith, Washington, and Power Presses, Of the
following sizes and prices, viz:
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BARSUM's HOTEL. NEW YORK,
Late Bowsrd's,)

BROADWAY, CORNER OF MAIDEN LANE.
TI'IIE above extensive Hotel has been leased by
Il the subscriber, and has been completely reht
ted in the most elegant manner; large additions
are being made, which, when completed, will
make IL the largest Hotel in New York. II s the
determination Of the proprietor to make IL equal in
every respect 10 any other house in the United
States. lts location is the most desirable in the
city, being Ia the most fashionable part OF Broad
way contiguous 10 all the public buildings, places
of amusement aud business.
Grateful for tho liberal patronage while at Cum
berland, Md, and more recently the Wcddel
House, Cleveland, Ohio, he would respectfully soli-
cit the favor OF call from his friends visiting New
York. y. RARNUM.
March 25-2aw2m
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TO PRINTERS.

TYPE PRESSES, AND, EVERY MATERIAL
j. NECESSARY FOR FURNISHING NEWS
PAPER, BOOK, AND JOB OFFICES, al
ways be had at the long established BALTIMORE
TYPE FOUNDRY, Bank Lane, adjoining Barnums
City Hotel, at greatly reduced rates, six months
credit for approved notes, or liberal discount al
lowed where money is Daid
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MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE AND FIRE IN
SURANCE COMPANY OF LOUISIANA.

Business Of the Company confined to Life
Insurance only.
Permanent Fund by Act or incorporation,
S2O0,OOO.
Office No. 3S Camp Street, bet,oeen Gravier and Com
streets.
This permanent fund to be invested as per char
ter for the benefit of the policy holders in bonds
and mortgages unincumbered real estate valued
at double the amount loaned thereon, and in stocks
OF the State and Of the United States government.
This company being organized not for the benefit
of stockholders and capitalists, but solely for the
protection Of the policy holders and their families
against want and poverty, is in its operations q
great national benevolent institution, conducted
upon the most and solid principles, and af-
fording, for small annual sum, paid during life,
large and handsome legacy to widows and chill
dren after death.
All policy holders, whether for life or for shorter
terms, who continue the insurance till death, par
ticipatc in the whole of the profits of the company,
without any reservation.
Creditors can insure the lives of debtors, thus Sc
curing prompt settlement in Of death.
married woman effect insurance on the life Of
her husband, for the sole benefit and OF herself
and children, free from the claims of creditors.
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rI,uE CREOLE, OR SIEGE or NEW Or
i LEANS, by Jos. B. Cobb. just received for
sale by TAYLOR mhuhi,
ApriI n Booksellers, near 9Th street
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rI,HE MASONIC CHART, or Hicroglyphic
il Monitor, by n. w. Jeremy L. Cross, g. y
Tho Freemason's Monitor. by Thomas Smith
Webb
The Tcmplar's Chart, by Jeremy J.. Cross.
The Gilman Reyon, containing view Of the
History and Polity Of Frecmasonry, &c.
For sale by TAYLOR Il MAURY,
May4 Booksellers, near 9th st.
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CLEMENT's CUSTOMS GUIDE FOR 1850

" vol. London. Giving Imports, Exports, Du-
tics, Laws, Ericse, Bountics, Drawbacks, Ware
housing, &c, &c.
McCulloch's Statistics of the British Empire.
vols.
Banfeld and Yields Statistical Companion. vol.
Daniels Shipowners' and Shipmastcrs' Foreign
Port Directory. vol 1850.
Daniels Shpowners and Shipmasters' Directory
for British Ports. | vol. ls49.
Brougham's Political Philosophy. vols.
Porter's Progress Of the Nation. vols.
Tookc's History Of Prices and of the Circulation,
from 1893 10 lS47 4 vols.
McCulloch ON Taxation and the Funding Sys-
tenn vol.
Just imported from London, by
Mays FRANCK TAYLOR
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DANK OF THE METROPOLIS STOCK
Id WANTED. Apply TO
J0URDAN w. MAURY,
Mnv2 One door cast Of National Hotel.
LONDON MUSIC.

nvERTURES 10 Figaro, Freischutz, Bsrbiere,
~ and Don Juan, arranged for the piano, by
Rockstro-the four complete in ono number
81 cents.
the piano. from the Orchestral score-words in
German and English, | vol London, 1850.
Jullicn's Musical Album for 1850, music by Lo.
der, Linley, Smart, Balfe, Meycrbeer, &c, nc
VOL, illustrated.
The Musical Biiou for 1850, music composed by
Lee, Crouch, Rodwell, Glover, Schwartz, Linz,
Bardoni, &c. l vol, with many engraving
One hundred Rounds, for Two, Three, -Four,
Five, and Six voices, just received direct from
London. FRANCk IAtbon.
May g.
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DRITlsH ARMY LIST FOR Is5o-pam
ID phlet.
Afso, Harts Annual Army I.ist for 1850, being
the eleventh annual volume, containing the dates OF
commissions war services, wounds, nc, Of nearly
every officer Of the army, ordnance and marine,
by Major Hart, f9th Regiment. volume.
Just imported from London, by
May7 FRANCK TAYLOR.
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California Permits are issued to Life Insurance
members at New York and London rates Pros
pcctus table of rates and all information to Life
Insurance, and all papers necessary to effect Insu
rance, can be had at the office of the Company, or
by letter to the Agent at New Orleans.
In order to accommodate all classes, young men
and mechanics having families dependent upon
them, the Company will allow all persons nsuring
for life, where the premium amounts to over $50
per annum, to pay one-halfin cash, and one-half
in satisfactory endorsed note at IL months bearing
interest at per cent. per annum. Feb. 49,
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STUpiO "a the Capitol, near ths Library II the
~ House of Representatives
Lovers OF Artare requested 70 call aud examine
bis specimens.
scpt 5--W
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CLOTHING AND cLornsa MATERIALS.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,

NAVY DEPARTMENT.,
Bureau Of ProDisions and Clothing, April 20. 1850.
CyEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed Proposals for
y Navy Clothing and Clothing Materials" will be
received at this Office until o'clock p. Mon
day, the 2Oth day Of May next, for furnishing and
delivering ION receiving thirty days notice) at
each or either Of the Navy Yards at Charlestown,
Massachusetts,, Brooklyn, New York, and Gosport.
Virginia, such quantities only OF any or all OF the
following named articles of Navy Clothing and
Clothing Materials may be ordered by the Chief
Of this Bureau, or by the conmandants oi said navy
yards, respectively. during the fiscal year com
nencing Oh the first day Of July next, and ending
ON the 3lth day of June, 1851, viz:
Blue pilot cloth pea jackets, wool-dyed. 1000
DO do do monkey jackets do do. 900
Do cloth round jackets do do. ..........,...4 900
do do trowsers do do. ........,....4,OO 900
Blue hanncl shirts, twillcd and wool
dyed d,..,...:....,;,.,. 10000
Do do under-shirts DO and wool-dyed 5000
DO do drawers do do do 5000
Do flannel do do yardsl50pO
Barnsley sheeting irocks s,.........,.,.... 1000
Canvas duck trowsers. ..-.............. 1000
Barnsiey sheeting Tor do. o........... yards 900
Canvas duck for do. ................. do. 600
Dungaree> ..........,......... do. $1,000
Calfskin shoes. palrs o,OOU
Kipskin do. high cut. ut................ do. 5000
Calfskin pumps. s..................... do. 10000
Woollen stoc kings Observation-Disclosures. do. 10000
Woolien socks. do. 10000
Mattresses, with two covers to each) 2,50O
Black silk hand kerchiefs s.,............ :, IL 900
nketa OOD
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KROWN,S HOTEL.

BROWNS HOTEL.
n. ". & VI. BWOws. PRoPRfEroRs,
pa. Avenue, between 9th and 7th streSs-.
wAsHrNoroH, ID. &
June lg-tf
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"ANTED.-By Lady every way competent
wv to teach Music the Piano Forte and
Guitar, a situation in some Seminary south or
west, though the former would be preferred. She
has much experience in her profession, having
been employed in several Of the most respectable
Seminarics. The most unquestiOnable references
given as 10 character and capacity.
Any communication addressed, post paid, to o.
p, Washington city post-ofhce, will be promptly
attended TO. Feb. l9tf
M M o 4 RS OF THE HOUSE OF OR
WI LEANS, including sketches and anecdotes of
the most distinguished chaNcters in France during
the nth and 18th centuries; by W. Cooke Taylor
LII. ID.
Memoirs of the court Of Marie Antoinette, by
Madame Campan, 2 vols.
No. 10 Of ''Thiers' History Of the Consulate and
the Empire" This day received for sale by
TAYLOR & MAURY,
April 20 Booksellers, near 9th street.
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BRILLIANT LOTTERIES
FOR MAY, 1850.
j. w. MAURY & Co., MANAGERS.


Tickets $l0-Halves $5-Quarters So 50.
Certificates Of packages Of 20 Whole tickets y l30 90
Do do of 26 Half do 65 %
DO do of 26 Quarter do 80 go
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC AND INSrRUC-
TIONS TO POSTMASTERS.

TJNHE second steamship of Collins's Line. (the
i "Pacfc,' y having been inspected and accept
ed by the Secretary of the Navy into the service of
the Government for the transportation of the United
States mails between New York and Liverpool, no
tee is hereby given that the United States steam
packet Pacific" will be despatched from the port
of New York Saturday, the 25th of May, instant.
Mails may be sent TO New York for Great Brit
ain the continent Of Europe, and other foreign
countries beyond the United Kingdom, to be con-
veyed by said packet under the postal treaty en-
tered into between the two countries.
Pcstmasters reminded that letters and papers
TO Great Britain, and to countries beyond il, can be
sent by this line of steamers in the same manner
by the Cunard line, with this difference, that
besides the five cents single rate which must he
prepaid ON letters for countries beyond Great Brit
ain on account Of the American inland postage,
there must also be prepaid the postage of six
teen cents the single rate. The postage to be col
ected Of the person addressed in the foreign coun-
try will be sixteen cents less in consequence Of the
prepayment of that amount here. These letters
therefore subject TO twenty-one cents postage, the
single rate.
Newspapers TO countries beyond Great Britain,
four cents-to Great Britain, two cents-to be pre-
paid. J. CoLLAMER,
Postmaster General.
PosT OrricE DEPARTMENT.
May II, 1850. May ls-3t
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Rnnr Ireland.

The foreign journals, by the last steamer, give a
melancholy picture Of the condition of affairs in
Ireland Thousands Of the natives of that unfor-
tunate country unable 10 obtain the means Of COM
Portable subsistence at home, preparing TO leave
for the United States.
Tho Limerick Examiner states, that out OF three
hundred creatures who were seen and spoken 10
by the proprietor Of that journal, during recent
visit TO the Kirush Workhouse, fifty six have since
died Of starvation. On the morning OF the 9th oil
April, poor man died Of restitution ON the road
side near Knockeven. II il further stated that at
the last accounts from the Kilrush Union, six hun
drcd patients were under medical treatment from
diseases arising principally from the want Of sufi-
cient food An inquest was held on the morning
of the 9th ult at Ballinascken, the body OF Mi
chael Fitzgerald, and the verdict Of the jury
death for the want OF food" The same day an
inquest was held on the body Of young lad named
James Grady, and the verdict was-"Death from
disease Of the lungs, accelerated by destituton. y
The papers abound with similar accounts. The
details Of some Of the cases truly touching and
heartrending.
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OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER or PUBLIC BuLprsos,
Nav Doth 1850.


- EPARATE sealed proposals will be received at
- this Office until the 9th instant. inclusive, Tor
the following described labor and materials that is
TO say, for excavating and removing the surplus
earth from the street around the Capitol enclosure
The depth of cutting to be determined by an en-
gincer, and will probably be from II to Is inches
Il will be removed 10 the adjacent low grounds,
either north, south, or west Of the Capitol IL will
be required that the work shall be commenced at
am early period after the terms are accepted, and
continued with such force may be deemed ne
cessary for the progress of paving, &c.
Also, for delivering and spreading the bed OF the
pavement, and for after covering. The quality OF
the gravel and the manner Of spreading and grad
ing Il, must be under the direction and approval OF
a superintendent appointed for that service
And also, for the delivery Of round paving stone,
sufficient 10 pave about $1,000 superficial yards; n
specimen Of the kind and quality Of which may be
seen in this office, which Is similar TO those used in
paving Pennsylvania avenue. Bids win be con
siderod for all or any portion thereof
The bids will state the price per cubic yard for
the excavation and for the graveling, TO be mea-
sured and computed by the engineer or superin-
tendent IGNATlUS MUDD.
May 2O-dtd Intel. and Union.l