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The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-02
From the .Ne,p York Evening Post.

A MOVEMENT IN BEHALF OF FREE Trade
The project of forming an association, for the
single purpose Of bringing the Legislature of the
country to recognize the principle of freedom of
trade, has long been talked of in this city. Last
evening considerable number of gentlemen,
entertaining the same views on this subject, as
sembled at the Irving House, and took the pre-
liminary steps for carrying the design into effect
A resolution was passed declaring the basis of
the associ ton to be absolute free trade, the abb
rogation Of all indirect taxation, and the substi-
tuition of direct taxation for the support of The
Government. A committee was appointed to
draw up constitution for the ASSOCIATION, which
takes the name of the Free Trade League, and
another committee to prepare an address to the
people. The ultimate object Of the League, our
readers will perceive from what we have said is
to abolish our revenue duties and place the in
tercourse between our country and others, on
the same footing of good neighborhood and I'M
molested liberty, which exists between this city
and the other ports and cities of the Union.
The protectionists in this country have under
stood the advantages of organized cooperation
far better than the friends of free trade, or, at
least, have ayailed themselves of them freely,
while we have always neglected them, more or
less, and of late years altogether, There was
once free trade convention held at Philadel-
phia, but that was the last effort of the econo-
mists of that school, at any thing like combina-
ton for the support Of their opinions. The
manufacturers, on the other hand, are always
meeting in conventions, dispensing publications
designed to recommend their views, and keeping
their agents at Washington, whenever there is
any apparent possibility of producing an effect
upon Congress. At all times, the mutual UNI
derstanding and frequent communication be-
tween the manufacturers, who imagine that their
interests depend on the protective system, is
such as almost to have the effect of a regularly
organized league.
1t is owing to this that the doctrines Of free
trade, notwithstanding the favorable disposition
of the public mind to receive them, have made
no more progress in this country. 1t is owing
TO this that their advocates in Congress have,
for the most part, been wantingin boldness and
thoroughness in their support. If the Free
Trade League, of which we shall soon hear
further, shall take but half the pains to operate
on public opinion, and to strengthen the minds
of members of Congress who are with them on
this question, that the manufacturers have done,
we may hope soon to see the beginning of re-
form in the revenue laws, which will not stop
until it shall have abolished the whole patronage
which the Government derives from the Custom
House.
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INDIANA CONFERENCE.-The constitutional
convention, on the l4th, were engaged IN fur
ther discussion Of the negro immigration ques-
ton. An amendment was offered by jus 20
Hall, allowing all negroes and muattoes nop in
the State to hold property, and motion 10 L,y
this on the table was rejected by ayes "A, noes
81. The special order was then takenu up which
was = the rights of married women as follows:
Women hereafter married in this State shall
have the right to acquire and possess property TO
their sole use and disposal, and a law shall be
passed securing to them, under equitable condl-
tons all property, real and personal, whether
owned by them before marriage, or acquired
atterward by purchase, gift, devise, descent, or
any other way, and also providing for the regis
tration Of the wives separate property" v
Laws shall be passed securing TO women now
married the right to all property hereafter to be
acquired by them in every case in which such
married women in conjunction with their husbands
shall file for record, in the recorders Office Of
the county in which they reside, a declaration,
only attested, expressing the desire of the parties
to come under the provision of such laws. I'd
On this subject, Robert Dale Owen made
brilliant speech, before brilliant audience, says
the Journal. "a e, ss' t17'.'
On the 18th, the convention transacted no
business, the death of Mr.. Vanberthusen, del
egate from Shelby county, being announced.
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We regret to learn of the loss by fire of the
large steamer Columbus, which runs between
Baltimore and Richmond as freight and passage
boat She was totally destroyed by fire yester-
day morning, while en- route for Richmond, in
the Chesapeake bay, off the mouth of the Poto-
mac. 1t Is not known how the fire originated.
When last seen she was burnt nearly to the
waters edge. The crew and passengers all es-
capped in eight boats. She was commanded by
Captain Hollineshead. The boat is valued at
$4,000. The cargo valuable-all lost. We
learn there Is $4,000 insurance on the boat
She had recently undergone thorough repairs,
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BASE GoLp-TAKE CARE We were shown
yesterday, at Moffat g. Co.'S, some golden ingots
of quite inferior carat, less than eighteen, and
consequently not worth twelve dollars per
ounce. They were galvanized on the surface
and thus made proof against the test of acids
Some small pieces resembling closely in appear
ance the coarse placer gold, and galvanized,
proved to be only zinc or some such metal
They were very light A large amount of the
latter quality, we understand, has been bet and
lost at some of the monte and other tables Of
chance in this city. Persons should be on their
guard. This is one of the effects of irresponsi-
bic persons being allowed to issue ingots--
Alta California, Oct. 10.
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A SLIGHT MIsTAKE.-When Sir Isaac New
ton changed his residence, and wentt live in
Leicester Place, his next door neighbor was
a widow lady, who was much puzzled by the
little she observed of the habits of the philoso-
pher.
One of the Fellows of the Royal Society of
london called upon her one day, when, among
other domestic news, she mentioned that some
one had come to reside in the adjourning house,
who, she felt certain, was poor mad gentleman,
because" she continued, I" he diverts himself
in the oldest ways imaginable. Every morning
when the sun shines so brightly that we arc
obliged to draw the window blinds, he takes
his seat in front of tub of soap suds, and occu-
pies himself for hours blowing soap bubbles
through common clay pipe, which he intently
watches floating about until they bursted He
is doubtless" she added now at his favorite
amusement; do come and look at him." The
gentleman smiled, and then went up stairs, when
after looking through the staircase window in
the adjourning courtyard, he turned round and
said,-"My dear madam, the person whom you
suppose to be poor lunatic, is no other than
the great Sir Isaac Newton, studying the refrac-
ton of light upon thin plates, phenomenon
which is beautifully exhibited upon the surface
of a common soap-bubble"
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Total Mouth l4,O77 ,O7s Il, 6e6. O36 lG, 73s, sos

Total Mouth l4,077 07S II ,6e6. 036 lG,73s,6O5
"Here it will be seen that the aggregate value of
all the imports into the North was $500, 959 ,279
while the total value Of the imports the South
was only S4s,44l,719 Yet, within this period,
the South furnished Of the exports, values to the
amount Of S2l3, 277, 294!"
Let us now glance at some Of the advantages
which the North derives from its connection with
the South, and see what would be the injury ac-
crung to our Northern bretren in case they should,
by their intolerant and proscriptive laws, force
the South out Of the Union.
"Cwing to the operation Of certain laws Of the
Federal Government, the Northern States have
now the entire monopoly of the Southern market
for large amount Of the articles which they man
ufacture, and upon which hundreds Of thousands
Of their citizens depend for support. They enjoy,
also, bo,,,ties upon another large class of their
manufactures, upon which millions more Of their
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stitutiBg direct taxation upon the people, upon
IN equitable basis, according to the taxable pro-
perty Of the citizen, This movement may be
the beginning of great and powerful element
in rhe politics of the country. Il will be well
TO watch its progress from this initial meeting
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One Of the late Mr.. Southcy's letters to his
friend, DR.. Couch, justpublished in the last num-
Der of the poets life, contains curious fact
1t seems that while Prof Sparks, the Biogrpher
Of Washington, was in London, exploring the
Government Offices for State papers relating to
the war of Independence, he came upon good
deal Of material which gave The British Govern
ment some uneasness, as to what might be the
effect of its publication. They, therefore, APP
piled to Southey to write history of the war,
cned it, however, on the ground that it would
interfere with pursuits In which he took deep
interest, and that other persons could be found
to do the work equally we'll.
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PLEAsUREs OF LYING IN BED.-Leigh Hunt is
said to have perpetrated avery bad pun connected
with the dorniitory, and which made Charles
Lamb laugh immoderately. Going home to-
gether late one night, the latter repeated the
proverb, "a home 8 home however homely."
Somebody has called it bundle of paradoxes;
we go to it reluctantly, and leave it with regret.
Once within in the downy precincts Of the four
posts, how 10th we are to make our exodus into
the wilderness of life. We are as enamored of
our curtained dwelling as if it were the land of
Goshen or the cave of Gree. And how many
fervent vows have the dumb bedposts heard
broken every fresh perjury rising to join its
cloud Of lowering fellows, each morning weigh
ing heavier and heavier on our sluggard eyelids.
A caustic proverb says-we are all "good risers
at night" but wo's me for our agility in the
morning; it is falling of our species, ever ready
to break out in all ofus, and in some only van
quished after q struggle painful as the sundering
of bone and marrow. >'F t' @@.'''sN
The great Frederick of PRUSSIA found it easier
in after life to rout the French and Austrans,
than in youth to resist the seductions of sleep.
After many single-handed attempts at reforma-
ton, he had at last to call to his assistance an
old domestic, whom he charged on pain Of dis
missal, to pull him out of bed every morning at
o'clock. The plan succeeded as it deserved
to succeed. All men of action are impressed
with the Importance of early rising. "Whcn
you begin to turn in bed, it's time to turn OUT
says the old duke; and we believe his practice
has been In accordance with his precept.. Lite
rary men-among whom, as Bulwer says, a GER
tain Incidence seems almost constitutional
not so clear on this point they are divided be-
tween night and morning, though the best au-
thorties seem in favor of the latter. Early ris %
is the best elirir rite it is the only enghthe er
of life that man has ever devised. BY its id
the great Button was able to spend half cun-
tury-an ordinary life time-at his desk and
yet had time to be the most modsh Of the phi
losophers who then graced the gay metropolis
of France Household Words.
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s75,6l5, 700 y, 633 ,543 5000, O5l

"Here it is shown that the aggregate amount Of
the exports Of Southern industry made to foreign
countries within three years, was S2l2,273, 1874.
GLOW much of all this, does the reader suppose,
was imported by the South Why, as shown by
our tables, only S4S,44l 7l9 The rest, $l64 1885,
SIS, went through the HANDS Of the North. How
much Of this was left in those hands, and how
many hundreds of thousands ofpeople in the South
would this have maintained How many cities
would it have helped to build How much would
it have served to reduce the per capita amount of
taxation which we pay to our States
"Our tables show that within the three years
above named, the value of the whole amount ex-
ported from the free states Of materials Of their
own production, was Sl67 ,209 ,2l4. That is, the
South furnished to the exporting mercantile en-
terprise OF the North within fraction of as much
as the whole of the exportable industry Of that
section.
"The total value Of all the imports into the
United States within the three years, is stated as
fellows:
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Total 1926, $50 1895 los, 3O2, STA Ill ,549, Asst
"Ofwhch there were exported to foreign coun-
tries, during the same period, derived from official
retp
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SlO7 1882 1895 s9,Sl6,574 sS,sO3,27
SI Issse @ MO- ls,4l7,5oo l64ss,oOo 92,7464so
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Total North 1873, 7sO 1861 1877 373, 1871 100 sO6, O27
New Orleans s,077,9l0 9,351, 439 9,222, 1863
Charleston l,3l0,591 l,4S5,299 $50, 65S
o' hers 4,sss,5n. s,7eo,a9s 5,ss4,sS7
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1S49 lS4S lS47
New York . 92,736, 497 94.525,lH s4,I67 1852
Boston 26,327, s74 2s,647,7 07 34,477,O0s
other mort Mor,A- l47l6,oao l4,2ooo4s ,16l ,667
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FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1850
TO THE PUBLIC.
-"Hhy ,oiH ye die ~

THE light of science is penetrating the mist
J. which has 30 long shrouded the cause OF Asiatic
Cholera. Eminent physicians and naturalists in
Europe, and in this country, have ascertained be-
yOnd doubt the presence of vast numbers of animal
cule in the atmosphere of places infected by this
well as other diseases. The "myriad races" OF
these insects in their various kinda, are therefore
believed to be the medium by which epidemical
and contagious diseases spread. similar
opinion advanced by the French Medical
school, and different PERSONS in 1885 although the
admirable scientific plans for investigation, above
noticed, were not then attained, nor published
early enough in the past season to be OF general
advantage. It is well known that an eminent
physician of France ascertained, by an experiment
called "Itch'' is caused by animalculs, which the
fume of sulphur (among its other admirable quail
ities) promptly destroys strong coincidence with
which, appears in fact published late in the past
ally impregnated with this "potent agent" or ac-
cidentaly, (such attendants in works where gas
is obtained from bituminous coal,) e,jsyed perfect
immunity from cholera
for applying this, any other vapor, to the human
system portable and safely reclmbent manner, is
the apparatus invented by the undersigned, in the
State Of Ohio, and lately completed by him in Tur.
key; by adapting it to giving the far-iamed and
salutary baths Of that country. This machine can
be used any tchere with perfect ease, then placed
entirely out Of the way, and costs but tribe, as
considerable part can be made by females Am
ted States surgeons, and other respectable physi-
clans, in and out of Congress, on which was found
ed the unanimous adoption Of the inuenti0n by both
Houses. These documents show the admirable pow.
er of different applications in this apparatus of pro
noting health at all times, ("means which no fam
lily should be without,'O and aiding the physicians
in its restoration. For sample Of their opinions
as to its advantages in Cholera, the following ex
tract from given by the estimable and we'll
experienced Chief of Bureau of Medicine and Sur
gerry, is offered: "The improvement which you
have made in your bathing apparatus, very high
ly approve, as it combines means which must be
highly serviceable. Its structure is simple, and
easily managed in its adaptation to Cholera, &c.
Statements Of recent remarkable cases also given.
Applied at the Office of the undersigned, City
Hail. east wing basement, No Is, and at the resi-
dence of the sick Plain drawings and instructions
furnished to families individuals, at FIVE dollars,
including patent-right. Public institutions in pro-
portion. A powerful and safely graduated electro
galvanic apparatus also applied.
Press please notice BOYD REILLY.
March l2-1awl2w
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LAW SCHOOL OF HARVARD COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.


TNHlS Institution affords complete course Of le-
i gal education for the Bar in any of the United
States, excepting only matters of merely local law
and practice; and also systematic course OF in
struction in Commercial Law for those who propose
to engage in Mercantile pursuits.
The Law Library, which is constantly increas-
ing, contains about $4,000 volumes. II IN.
cudes very complete collection of American and
English Law, and the principal works of the Civil
and other foreign Law. II is open to students, and
warmed and lighted for their use during both terms
and vacations.
The first term of each academical year begins in
the last week of August, and the second Term In
the last week of February; each term continues
twenty weeks. Students are admitted at any Pc
riod Of term or vacation. The fees are 100
Term, and $25 for halfa Term. For this sum stu
dents have the use of the Law Library and text
books, and of the College Library, and may attend
all the courses of public lectures delivered to the
undergraduates of the University.
The instructors of the Law School are Hon. JOEL
PARKER, LII. D., Royal Professor; Hon. THEoPHI-
Lus PARsoNs, IL d., Dane Professor; Hon. FRED-
ERIcK H. ALLEN, University Professor, and Hon.
LUTHER s. CUSHING, Lecturer upon Parliamentary
Law the Civil Law, and Criminal Law. lnstruc-
ton is given by lectures, recitations, and exani-
nations, and Moot Courts.
For farther information application may be made
10 either of the Instructors.
JARED SPARKS, President.
CAMBRIDGE, Feb. IL, 1880
Feb. 26-lstSl 5themly
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JACOB SNIDER, JR.'S

Wines and Liquors.
rI,HE UNDERSIGNED would respectfully call
attention 10 his stock Of WINES AND IL
QUORs.
The facilities possessed by him for obtaining
from abroad all Wines, &c, in their purity, his
Longer experience in e business, conducted BY him,
and more direct personal kno,cledgs tc,h The rarious
bv anu othcr house in this city, afford assurance for
the character and quality of all articles sold by
him.
{. The arrangements Of his store and vaults
such as 70 make them fact the substitute for the
cellar of every consumer.
Persons wanting small assorted lots OF choice
Wines for special occasions be supplied, at the
shortest notice, with Wines decdnted for immediate
use, including Wines o France and Germany, not
COUNTRY TRADE and HOTELS supplied at
wholesale prices ON most favorable terms.
CLUBS will find IL much 10 their advantage 70 or
der from the subscriber.
FAMILIES can command the best OF Table Wines
at very Iorc prices, also the cheapest sorts Of
Wines and Liquors, FOR CULINARY PUR-
POSES.
MEMBERS OF LEGISLATIVE BODIES, Mcsses,
and others at a distance, can be supplied (ond
hape them sent bp "PACKdGE EXPRESS"
FREE OF CHdRGE,) with Wines, SC, for
table by the dozen, or in cases OF ASSORTED
SORTS, at the shortest notice, by addressing
their orders through the Post Office, 70
JACOB sNIDER Jr.,
Importer and Dealer in Wines, &C,
76 Walnut street, Philadelphia.
hy-sEGARs, Of direct importation from Havana,
OF various sorts and brands, always on hand, from
Q19 20 $40 per thousand and cold by the single
box cheaper than at any other store in the city.
Jan. 16-dtf
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SALE OF UNITED STATES LAND ABOVE
GEORGETOVN, ID. G.
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT WAsHINeToS, }

ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT, WAsHISGToN,
March 10, 1880 :
PROPOSALS in writing will be received till the
il first of May next for the purchase, for cash, oi
piece of land situate near the Little Falls OF the
river Potomac which has been occupied as United
States magazine lot, together with the buildings
thereon This land conveyed to the United
States by deed bearing date 9th OF September, loi6
and is described in said deed as Beginning at
cut stone marked u s. on two sides, near the head
of the canal and 90 feet from the head bank OF said
canal'- (the canal referred TO being the old Poto-
mac Company % Canal land running south 80 de,
grees east All feet inches TO a cut stone marked
as above, same distance from the canal; thence east
SO degrees north AIT feet inches, to another cut
stone marked as above; thence north 80 degrees
west AIT feet inches, to another cut stone marked
as above; thence west 36 degrees south AT feet
inches, TO the place of beginning, containing four
acres and no more" And if the highest price Of
fered for the land and buildings shall be satisfactory
to the Secretary Of War, deed will be executed
by him, under authority of an act OF Congress
passed Sd Of March, 1919, conveying to the person
Offering the highest price, and to his heirs and as
signs forever all the right title, and interest OF the
United States in said premises. II being fully un
derstood that such conveyance is not to include
any part which may have belonged to said Potomac
Company, or which has been surveyed and laid OIL
for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which runs
through said land.
The proposals will not be opened till the above
named lst of May. They should be endorsed on
the outside " Offer for Lot at Little Falls"
GEO. TALCOTT,
BIT. Brig. Gen'l, and Col. of Ordnance.
March 2l--lawts
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dred and forty three, shall be accompanied by a
written guaranty, signed by one more response
BILE persons, to the effect that he or they undertake
that the bidder bidders WILL if his their bid be
accepted, enter into an obligation in such time as
may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy,
with good and sufficient sureties, to furnish the
supplies proposed.
''No proposal shall be considered unless accom-
panied by such guaranty. If, after the acceptance
Of proposal and notification thereof to the bid
der or bidders, he they shall fail TO enter into
obligation within the time prescribed by the Secre-
tary of the Navy, with good and sufficient surcties
for furnishing the said supplies then the Sec
retary Of the Navy shall proceed to contract
with some other person or persons for. fur
nishing the supplies; and shall forthwith cause
the difference between the amount contained
in the proposal SO guaranteed and the amount for
which he may have contracted for furnishing the
said supplies for the whole period of the proposal to
be charged up against said bidder or bidders, and
his or their guarantor guarantors; and the same
may be Immediately recovered by the United States,
for the Of the Navy Department, in an action oi
debt against either or all OF said persons"
Mar. 20-laW4w