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ToPAcco DUST PRorEcrIoN AGAINST
lNsEcTs.-We last year procured from a
snuff mill barrel of dry but damaged
snuff flour, and prepared drudging box
es, covered with fine boiling cloth
with which we sifted it over the surface
of any plants attacked by insects, and
with most signal success. The snuff
should be applied, if practicable, while
the plant is wet with dew, and repeated
after every shower. If the boxes are
properly made, like common flour drudge
and the snuff is perfectly fine and dry,
but little time is necessary to 60 over an
acre of plants. Even the rose bug, cab
bage louise, thrips on grape vines, &C.,
feel the influence of snuff, and the most
delicate plant of the hot house is not in.
jured by its application. For field veg.
etables, caustic lime, made into fine
powder, while dry, and applied before
shaking by contract with the air, will
produce similar rcsults.-Prof. Mapes.
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TOMATOES AND POTATOES

Tomatoes and potatoes, grown with
corn, are said to possess a vastly superb
or favor, and to be less liable to rot
The cause assigned is, 'that corn. from
its superior powers Of attraction and as
similation, appropriates to ltselfth solu-
BILE heterogeneous matter contained in the
soil, and thus prevents the less energetic
plants in its neighborhood from absorb
ing those compounds of nitrogen which
experience has shown to be injurious to
the quality of their products. Clear as
mud
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miscellaneous.
Sound Doctrine.

The following, from the Liverpool
Mail, discloses an important fact, and no
person can deny that this new test of
willingness in debtors to pay, is based
upon common sense.
We were not aware until recently
that many newspaper publishers are con-
suited, TO large extent, by people in Or
der to ascertain the peculiar standing of
persons. Debts tor newspapers become
due once year, and persons who pay
up regularly once year, for their pa
pers, are considered as prompt men, and
worthy Of confidence. We had person
come into our office the other day and
say
"Doyou send the paper to Mr.. W.
We replied that we did.
"Well," said the man, che owes me
f5, and can't get it; | don't think he's
good"
We looked secretly at his account,
and found him paid up. We then re-
piled to the inquirer, "That man is good.
Your debt is safe. He may have forgot
ten it, or something else may have pre-
vented his paying, but he isgood,"
The mans eye frightened. Said he,
81 have written to several printers, and
could not find where he took paper.
thought of you and said would come
here Said he again, after a pause,
"This is the way to find out whether
people are good. We ascertain what
papers they take, and contrive some way
to peep into their accounts. Men who
are good are sure to pay for their news
papers; and if they donot pay for these,
we don't think them good" We We're
forcibly struck by the idea.
"Well, said he, 81 will send my bill
by the post"
In a few days the person came in
again. Said he, 81 sent my bill"
"Well, did he pay you! I"
ayes, sir" and opened his hand, he
showed us the draft ''rhere," said he,
"give me printers book after all, to
tell whether mans good, there's a
complete thermometer; we always know
man to be bad if he don't pay the prin-
ter"
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JOHN S. hENNARD,

= Informs his friends and the inhabitants of Cecil
h County, that he is still located at the "Old
Stand" No. sc Market Street, Wilmington
Del. His assortment Of
DRY GOODS,
CARPETS,
TRIMMINGS,
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THE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME
OF THE

w as commenced on Saturday, the 4th of Nav
iooo, under Its original name--nstead of RiehayJs
Veehfy Ga-eHe--as more significant of its peculiar
character 1t beng the only weekly organ Of itera
lure IN the entire South 1t is
Greatly Enlarged and Improved
Containing weekly Thirty-two Columns q,
matter. Ii is, moreover, In an
Entirely .Ni,o Dress
IRON head to foot" and upon beautIfi,r Univ.
paper, so that, In mechanical excellence. il 10 ma,
surpassed by any paper whatever in the United
States! Ii continues under the same Ed;,or;.
direction as heretofore, and no pains or evnens.
will be spared to make it
II Choice Family Newspaper,
" as cheap as the cheapest, and as GOOD "a =, j.
pest oueriy dlscardmg the notion that a
southern Journal cannot compete with the North:
erh weekIIes, In cheapness and interest,"
The Southern Literary Gazette
rivals the best OF them in all the cbaracter,s,.. %
a truly valuable hreside Journal Its aim is the
diffusion of cultivated and refined taste tbronpboyt
the communicated it embraces in its ami.
loids ever species of intelligence that can tend to
this result W
Original Contributions,
from many of the ablest writers IN the Sou,bs
chieny occupy It's columns, but not to the exciu
SION or choIce miscellany, selected from the hest
American and European sources.
The tone OF the "Gazette" is independenr -
criticism and IN the discussion of every legtimar.
'oHiS, pue ~ rs slrIClly
Neutral in Politics and Religion!
lts columns are occasionally embelshed with
Southern Portraits and Landscapes,
engraved expressly for the work. and accomp.-
MED by biographical and typographical sketches
us General Information
is coplous, but carefully condensed from III.
leading Journals Of all parts of the world.
Notwithstanding the great increase in the size
ana attractions of the paper, it is still published
itDo Dollars Per .ifntDl, in .9dpancs
II VIII be furnished to persons becoming respon
slble for the whole number of copies, and having
them sent TO one address, on the following terms:
Three COPIES. as
Five copies,
Ten copies, *
Fifteen copies, %
twenty copies, %
Fifty copies, 81
~ All orders must be ACCOMPANIED with IN.
money, and addressed, post pai, TO
WALKER q RICHARDS
Charleston. S. C
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WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE.
V,I1E next annual session of this Institution will
/ commence on the I'd Wednesday in October
FACULTY.

TIME next annual session of this Institution will
/ commence on the I'd Wednesday in October.
FACULTY.
The Right Rev. JOHN JoHNs, d. D., President
and Professor of Moral Philosophy.
Judge BEVERLY TUCKER, Professor Of Municipal
and Constitutional Law
BENJAMIN S. EwELL, Professor of Mathematics
and Astronomy.
MORGAN J. SMEAp, Phi D. Professor of HUI
mani,y
WILLIAM F, HOPKINS, A. NJ, Professor
Chemistry and Natural Philosophy
II. A. WASHINGTON, A. NJ ;. Professor of His
tory and Political Economy.
Rev. SEAS ToTrEN, d. d., Professor Of Intel
lectual 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 paren.g 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,
they may be found qualified to pursue.
The necessary College expenses range between
SlS6 and 1886 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 the Science course, will be permitted to
study with any class which they may be prepared
to JOIN.
July Isl aw.
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A GREAT NATIONAL WORK.
THE GALLERY OF INDUSTRIOUS
AMERICANS.
Daguerreotypes by Brady---EngIaved by
D'Avignon

EDITED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF LITERARY MEN.
FINDER this title will be published during the
~ year 1850, twenty-lou Portraits and Biographi-
cal Sketches OF American citizens no have become
llusrious in the service OF the country Every por-
ton OF the work will receive the most careful atten-
ton, and nothing will be spared TO render it worthy
mad enduring monument to the great men of the Re
public.
Mr.. Brady has been many wears engaged, at great
expense ~ collecting Port: ants Tor National Gal
lery, and those which being engraved for this
work are believed to be superior to any that have
ever 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
recommendation. His daguerreotypes are in the
highest sense the works OF art, glowing with the soul
Of the living countenance.
The drawings and engravings 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 i'm
preston in this Gallery will be taken under his i'm
mediate supervision The typography will be exc
cued as carefully and in as superb style the
cravings themselves. The entire work will be on
the finest imperial folio paper, l6 by % riches, made
expressly for this purpose
This work has nothing sectional in IFS scope il
will therefore be comprehensive in its spirit The
names of those only admitted, whose talents
and public services have for them an honorable
fame throughout the nation. Each of the great de
partments of life will have its representatives Art
and Literature universal in their spirit and tn,
Gallery is intended To be worthy and enduring mon
ument to the great OF the Republic who's,
achievements and fame constitute the chief glory of
the nation. We hope that every lover of Art, and
friend of our glorious Mon, will respond to our ap
peal for encouragement and aid in commendable an
undertaking, that its publication may make IN
he progress of American Art, and by grouping tn,
illusrious Of the Union together, consolidate il
still more firmly
As no work of this kind has appeared in America
and the prices they sustain in Europe would place
beyond the reach OF most of citizens the publish
ers have resolved to merNa large circulation, by
charging a very low price They have, therefore
established the following
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All the numbers sold separately. For singh,
number, Slj and larger quantity Of any single No
at the rates as above.
All orders for single numbers, or more, win b,
promptly filed on the receipt of the money. Tn,
whole can be sent without danger OF injury, by tn,
expresses, to any part OF the country.
~ Any Bookseller. Postmaster, Librarian, or an,
other person, may obtain subscribers, and his order
will be filed when the money is received.
Advertisements which concern the Fine Arts, II
every department, viii be admitted on the cover H..
the style of the European Journals, the following
terms:
For one square (of eight ines) once, 81
For square Tor one year, 10
corresponding reduction Tor larger space.
Cards Of Artists and others, (of half square, fer
the year, !, s
~ BAH orders and business communications
may be addressed (post paid to Brady, D'Avignon
CO., 205 Broadway, New York.
Subscription lists are opened at all the principal
Bookstores throughout the United States.
THE EDITORS
Taylor and Maury and Franck Taylor, Agents for
washington.
New YoRK, Jan. |. 1850
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At the ior price Of ONE DOLLAR per a,,,,,n,
3 the cheapest weekly newspaper south of the
i Potomac, and as cheap any in the Union.
This paper is made up chiefly from the Daily
Dispatch, consisting Of the entertaining and
news matter Of that sheet, and carefully selected
light literature and poetry
HuGH *. PLEAsANrs, Principal Editor
II is designed to make il equal to any Weekly
sheet in the Union for its general interest. In
tone and sentiment, 1t is Southern--its conductors
are Vrginians, and they hope TO merit and re-
ceive the encouragement Of their fellow citizens
They enter upon no mere speculation i'm their en-
terprlze, nor are their views and opinions shaped
merely TO catch the popular breeze. From edu-
cation, from position from association, from in
terest, from choice, they Southern men, Their
defence of Southern rights is defence of them
selves and all they hold dear;--that it has been
warm unremlttng, and as far as their capacity al
lowed, vigorous, no man who has read their sheet
will deny. To doubt that it will continue to be
so is to presume that the principles and ideas
which have been instilled into them from their
birth, can be eradicated, at period of life when
men rarely change their views They, at least
| know ii TO be impossible.
! IPThe low price at which the paper is pub.
ished requires thai the subscription be paid al
rays in advance.
lT.TO CLUBSIH
We offer The Joiioicing inducements:
| For Five Dollars Six Copies
For Ten Dollars Thirteen Copies
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JAS. A. C0WARDIN
| CIXTY-ONE desirable lots, situated in the mos
- nourishing parts of the city and suburbs, fol
! sale on the most accommodating terms Apply
to M. THOMPSON,
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avenue March
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ID A. PRINGLE, No. 80, East Bay street
LIZ Charleston, South Carolina Importer q,
French CALF SKINS; Manufacturer Arso,
md Dealer in BROG.4N,S, BOOTS and SHOES
Advances made on consignment of Brogans or
Southern Manufacture. Parties wishing to con.
sign, viii send samples of their make, und on re.
,ePt of their consignment, liberal cash advsnc.
will be made. Information promptly impaired.
AS to the style, but adapted to the trade.
Charleston, s. c.. IuY LIZ IH5n-dIu
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Terms.

For Daily-the price will be per annum, $1,000
For Tri-weekly during the Session OF Con-
gress, and Semi-weekly durng the recess, 90
Weekly paper, 90
The price OF subscription must be paid invariably
in edvance, and the cash accompanying the
sent.
All persons procuring ten shall be entitled to
receive copy gratis TOR one year.
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THE SOUTHERN PRESS, /"

FOR the conduct OF which, suitable Editors have been
engaged, who will also receive the aid OF number
OF eminent and and able contributors.
here will be adaily, tri-weekly, and weekly
issue--the latter to contain substantially, the same
matter as the former, and intended to reach those
points OF the country whose mail facilities are limited.
The paper will not be exclusively political-but
will embrace its broad sheet the General News OF
the day, Domestic and Foreign, by mail and tee-
graph !. Commercial and Agricultural Intelligence,
Literary Criticisms. Original Essays, Literary and
Miscellaneous; and, in short, all those items OF
general interest. the collected aggregate OF which
constitutes the interesting and valuable Newspa-
per. Great will be taken to give full and
rect Reports OF the Proceedings and Debates in both
Houses of Congress, well as the action OF the
local Legislatures ON the Southern question.
limited number only of Advertisements will be
eceived-the main oblec, being TO furnish large
amount of reading matter.
The paper will be printed sheet equal in size
TO those OF the other Washington papers and the
teral will be procured especially Tor the purpose
II is confidently hoped that every true friend to the
South will aid IA procuring subscribers, and forward
the nantes, with the amount subscribed to some
Soutirrn Representative at Washington, forthwith.
rostmas'ers are authorised by law 10 remit sub
scriptions tree OF postage
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DEPARTMENT OF Sr,rr
DEPARTMENT or STATE,
IIFx..J. ....f-.. I...,, I IA,n

SIR have the honor 10 transmit TO you herewith
copy of the correspondence which has passed be
tween this Department md the National Institute for
the Promotion OF Science, respecting the organization
Of committee To constitute the central authority re-
quired by the regulations OF the Royal Commission on
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WORTHINGToN G sNET9EN
Formerly Solicitor Of the Genera Land One,

Formerly Solicitor Of the Genera Land Office
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT Law.
Continues to practice in the Supreme Court OF
me United states, IN the Courts Of the District OF
Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. TO proaecu,.
Claims OF all kinds against the United States, Ell
ther before Congress or any of the Executive De-
Partmens, and to procure letters patent for inven-
uons. BUSINESS conhded to his care will be
promptly attended to-
N. b. Particular attention paid to the prosecu-
lon OF claims before the Brazilian Commission
now sitting in Washington
WAsHrNeroN CRY, ID. C.. July H. $50
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To Southern Gentlemen or Literary In
sfitufiOns

a young man, a graduate of ST Mary's Col
"A lege; Baltimore, wishes to obtain as ituation
Us Assistant IN an Academy, or Private Tutor
He's qualified to teach the highest branches a
oieeh' La',' french, Natural Philosophy, Che
mstry, Mathematics and English Literature
The highest testimonials as to character and on,,;-
icatlons can he produced. Address, post-paie,
G. \. Post Office Baltimor. Md.
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PROSPECTUS oFTHE EIGHTH yoLJMl
THE AMERICAN FARMER. D

THE AMERICAN FARMER published
in the city Baltimore, Maryland, commences the
9th volume of The present series on the lst July,
1850, (Which will be The 32d of its existence.) 1t
is published on the lst OF each month, each number
containing thirty two arge oc' avo pages.
Terms: "a per annum six copies for S. thir-
teen for $40 thirty for $50, in advance
The publisher offers for the largest list of new
subscribers, at the above rates, the prize Of Sill
yer Pitcher, valued at $50 for the Cd largest, a
Goblet, valued at S35 for the Sd do, SOS; 4Ih do,
SIS; and for the 5th, 9th. It'll, 9Th, and 9th largest
list, prizes Of sl2, so, So, S. and SO, payable in
agricultural books or implements-the lists and
cash to be forwarded as received, up to the meet
ing Of the Maryland Agricultural State Society on
the 22d October, when the decision will be made
known
The Farmer is peculiarly adapted to Middle
Atlantic States, and, being the organ of the Mary
land State Agricultural society, all their prize
says, reports, and proceedings published in its
pages The increase in its subscription list during
the past year, particularly in eastern and middle
Virginia and the Carolinas, has been unprecedent-
ed. Its correspondents among the ablest and
best practical farmers and planters of the above
States well as of Maryland and spirit of i'm
provement has been aroused, principally through
its nstrumentay, in these States, which effect
ing great revolution in the agriculture thereof
and we are authorized to promise TO its readers a
still increased supply communications from good
pratlcal cultvators or lmproVerS oil the SOIL Among
the new supplies from such sources will be contr-
buttons from the pen of Edmund Rufin, Esq.,, of
Virginia, to every number the ensuing volume.
The work of this gentlemen on Gale arous Manures
much altered from the preceding edition, it is
peced, will also be published, in separate volume,
the privilege therefor having been secured, of
which due notice will be given in the Farmer.
| Those wishing TO subscribe will forward their
names and money, as to commence with the
volume. 1t will be seen by the terms that any one
obtaining five subscribers and forwarding IS, will
be entitled to sixth copy, and in proportion for
a larger number. The American Farmer is belize
we'd to be the most practical work on farming pub
lished. Orders, post paid, to be addressed to
SAML. SANDS,
! june 80. 1913 Baltimore ST., Baltimore Md.
| a GREaT NJ rION AT. WORK
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/" THE SOUTHERN PRESS. !"

An association OF sixty-hree Members OF Congress,
Senators and Representatives, have constituted the
undersigned Committee to superintend the esta-
blIshmeni OF Southern Press at Washington City,
to be devoted to the exposition and defence OF South
ern Rights and instiutions--the dissemination OF
correct information as to Northera Policy and the
course OF Political affairs generally without preference
to the old party lines OF Wing and Democrat Ar
engagements now in progress, promptly TO ensure
the issue Of such paper under the title OF
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j. Knox walker,

j. Knox Walker,
.9forn<y at Lap and General Agent
nffEks h's services in his profession and as
" Agent Tor the Prosecution and Collection of
Claims before Congress and the DEPARTING nts also tor
obtaining Patents.
An business con6ded to hun Will be promptly at
tended TO.
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ENLARGEMENT OF THE CAPITOL

ENHANCEMENT OF THE CAPITOL
IL The Committee on Public Buildings of the
Senate, having been authorized by a resolution OF
that body, F." to invite plans accompanied by esti-
mates for the extension of the Capitol, and to al
low premium OF FIVE hundred dollars for the
plan which may be adopted by the Committees on
Public Buildings of the two Houses of Congress, 4"
accordingly invite such plans and estimates to be
delivered to the Secretary of the Senate on or be-
fore the first day of December next
Ii is required that these plans and estimates
shall provide for the extension Of the Capitol,
either by additional wings, to be placed on the
north and south of the present building, or by the
erection of separate and distinct building, within
the enclosure 10 the east of the building
The committee do not desire to prescribe any
condition, that may restrain the free exercise of
architectural Taste and judgment, but they would
prefer, that whatever plan may be proposed may
have such reference 10 and correspondence with
the present building to preserve the general
symmetry of the entire structure, when complete.
Although but one plan can be adopted, the COM
mlttee reserve to themselves the right to form such
plan by the adoption of parts of different plans
submitted, should such course be found necessaru in
which event, the committee also reserve TO them
selves the right to divide or apporton, according
TO their own judgment, the amount of premium TO
be awarded for the whole, to those whose plans
may IN part be adopted, according to the relative
importance and merit Of each part adopted.
r. Nj. T. HUNTER,
JEFFERSON DAVIS,
JOHN II. CLARKE,
Committee Of the Senate on Public BUILDINGS
SENATE CHAMBER, Both September, 1850.
N. Il. The several daily papers published at
Washington will please insert the above daily for
two weeks, and send their accounts to the Secre-
tary of the Senate. oct4
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PENSIONS AND BOUNTY LAND
OBTAINED for the officers and soldiers of the
" Revolutionary war, or their legal representa-
tives.
Pensions for life, for the widows of such
GERS and soldiers who married previous to 1900.
Bounty land for the surviving, or the widows,
or mnor children of deceased officers and privafes,
whe served in the war Of 1879 with Great Br-
Jam, the Mexlcan war, or in any Of the Indian
wars, since 1870.
attention paid to suspended nd rejected claims.
Terms moderate, where the claim is established.
otherwise no charge.
Communications addreseas 10 the subscriber
Washington, d. G will receive prompt attention
M. THOMPSON,
Commissioner Of Deeds for North and Sou,h
Carolina.
Refer to the heads Of Departments, and TO
members of Congress generally.
Oct A--twtf
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ON CONSlGNMENT.- Oak Tanned Russell
" BROG9N'S.-l 900 pair Oak Tanned Russell
Brogans, prime article of Southern Manufac-
ture. For sale by X. A. PRINGLE,
No 30, East Bay street,
July 10, lo50-dfm -aaslsstsn, s. e.