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The republic., 1851-07-17

SINGULAR DrsEAsE.-The Annapolis correspond
ent Of the Baltimore Sun gives the following ac
count of fatal disease which has appeared in that
vicinity;
"a disease is now raging in the county OF Anne
Arundel, between South and Wost rivers, which
has proved to be as fatal the cholera. The early
stage Of is marked by an eruption of the skin,
swelling of the muscles of the throat pxrtakng of
the character of scarlet fever in children; and at
tended, apparently, with very slight fever. There
is nothing alarming in this stage of it, which con-
tinues for three or four days, when all sudden
it fixes itself upon the vials with violence and fa
tality which are srrested by nothing that has, as
yet, been tried"
The republic., 1851-07-17
The president OF tho United states

Returned to the city yesterday morning from An
napols, Maryland, whittier he, with other gem
tlemen, went on Tuesday, in a special train of
cars, by invitation, to view the magnificent
steamship Golden Gate," which had arrived
from New York on Sunday.
A very large concourse Of citizens, we learn,
were in waiting at the railroad station to well
come the PRESIDENT, and Mayor CLAUDE re-
ceived him in the name of the corporate au-
thorities of the ''Ancent City" He subse-
quently visited the naval school, and, in COM
pany with other invited guests, made an ex-
cursion in the Golden Gate" up the Chesa-
peake bay TO the Patapsco river. When oppo-
site to Fort McHenry salnte was fired from
that ratification; and the vessel afterwards re-
turned to Annapolis
A gentleman with whom we have conversed
describes the welcome of the PRESIDENT on the
part of the people as highly enthusiastic, and
says that the attendant proceedings generally
were Of the most pleasant character.
Mr.. WEBSTER, together with Mrs. FILL
MORE and her son, were to have left Annapolis
yesterday in the g Golden Gate" for New
York
The republic., 1851-07-17

APoTHEcAnIss' MsrAKEs AND ApULrERArED
DaUas.-The New York Journal of Commerce hav-
ing recently advocated prescriptions in the Eng
lish language instead of the Latin, writer in that
paper asks:
"Would it not remedy the evil complained of, in
a very great measure at least, If candidates for
apothecaries' clerks should be subjected to rigid
examination by some proper tribunal, in most
European countries? If this were the case, and
such tribunal would grant certificates only to COM
petcnt persons, apothecaries would have some
guide in selecting their assistants, and the public
some confidence in those who compound medicines.
1t would not interfere with the reading of lit might
with the guessing a) prescriptions, if physicians
would take more pains with their hieroglyphics.
"There is q law in Congress against the importa
ton of adulterated drugs, but there is no law,
either Of the United States of this State, against
their ndulteraton by druggists themselves. In this
case what security have we that the medicines pur
chased are pure In France, and perhaps clse
where, public officers are appointed for the exami
nation OF medicines in apothecaries' shops; and, if
found impure, they are destroyed, and / believe
the venders fined or otherwise punished.
"There is vast room for Improvement in all con-
cerned."
The republic., 1851-07-17

MUSICAL CATEcHIsM.- find the following
ahoat in the papers
ssWhat is slur 7"
almost any remark one singer makes about an
other.'
"What is rest 7"
"Going out of the choir to eat some refreshment
during sermon time"
"What is called singing with an understand
ingr"
Marking time on the floor with your foot"
What 10 a staccato movement"
"Lenving the choir in huff, because one is dis
satisfied with the leader
What is a swell ?'
ga professor of music, who pretends to know
every thing about the science, while he cannot con-
zeal his ignorance"
The republic., 1851-07-17
oFTIcrAL.
GENERAL oRpERs-No. 81.
HEAP QUAHTKRs or THE AMY,
ADJuTANT GwNppax,a Apt,c -

ADJUTASr GEHRRAL's OFFfcx,
Washington, July ~, 1851.
Again it becomes melancholy duty to announce
10 the Army the death Of veteran soldier, Breyet
Brigadier General MATHEW AHnuoKLE, Colonel
of the 7th Infantry, who died on the lIth ultimo,
after a short illness at his post, Fort Smith, Ar
kansas
General Arbuckle entered the Army Ensign
of Infantry, the Sd of March, 1899, and during his
long continuous service has uniformly been dis
tinguished for correctness of department, high
moral excellence and unremitted devotion to the
interests of his country-a devotion that charac-
terized his whole military career, and strik-
ingly exempliiiedin his dying hours.
AS appropriate military honors to the memory
Of the deceased veteran, the several posts within
his late (7th) Department will fire minute guns,
(ll) commencing at ~ o'clock, m, and display
the national flag at half staff, from the same hour
until sunset, the day next succeeding the receipt
Of this order.
Officers of the Army serving in his late com
mand, and of the regiment of which he was Colo
mel, will wear the usual badge of mourning for
thirty days, and the colors of the regiment will be
put in mourning for the period.
BY command of Major General Scott:
X. JONES, Adjutant General.
The republic., 1851-07-17

AMEnIcAN Trade WITH CHINA-A letter from
Hong Kong states that during the first three months
of the present year upwards Of 200 Chinese had
cmigrated to California, and that many more would
emigratc in the course of the year. The same let
ter says;
"Sixty thousand tons Of American shipping have
called at this port (Hong Kong) during the last
nine months. They come mostly from California,
70 take in frcights for the United States or Eng
land. Eleven American ships (seven thousand
tons) have loaded at whsrnpoa for England since
the first July, 1850. Fifteen whaers entered this
port the past winter, and the all report fa
voraby of the port the terms being reasonable and
the authorities having aided me to prevent the de-
sertion of crews"
The republic., 1851-07-17
Postage to Chagres, Panama California, and
Oregon.

We are requested to call the particular atten-
tion Of postmasters to the rates of postage on
letters to California and Oregon, and also to the
foreign places (Chagres and Panama) on the
route to California.
In rating letters for California and Oregon,
it must be borne in mind that these coun-
tries no,c form part of the United States, and
domestic rates, according to the official ''tables
of postage ,cihin the United States" recently
sent TO postmasters throughout the country.
Hence we are authorized to say that the single
rate to California or Oregon (the distance be-
ing over 5000 miles) is sic cents prepaid, and
ten cents unpaid. On newspapers and other
printed matter sent to California or Oregon, the
domestic rates also of course apply.
But to Chagres and Panama .foreagn) the
letter postage must be rated under that clause
in the law specifying letters to be conveyed
wholly or in part by sea, and to or from for
eign country" Therefore the single-letter
postage to either Chagres or Panama is ten
cents, if the distance from the mailing office is
under $500 miles, and t,centy cents if the dis
tance is over $500 miles; in both cases to be
prepaid when the letter is sent from, and col
lected where received IN, the United States.
To either of these places, from New York, we
are informed that the distance erceeds $500
miles from all the southern ports the distance
is less than 2, 800 miles.
As the law on these points appears, at first
eirbt a Iittla doDhtru1 and ie tbaraf,ro ahIa 10
misconstruction, we think that editors of pa
pers generally would do a public service by
calling special attention to the subject.
The republic., 1851-07-17

MAIL POUCHES SToLES.-An attempt was made
after the arrival of the express train on Monday
night at the Susquehanna depot to steal the pouches
containing the York and Harrisburg mails. The
agent had taken the pouches containing the mail
to the post Office, leaving some empty pouches in
the car, which were carried off by some rogue,
doubtless under the expectation that they contained
the mail One of the stolen pouches was found yes
terday in the vicinity of North street cut open the
other has not been recovered.
TBaIfimore american.
The republic., 1851-07-17

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM KossUTH-The Ereter
NetDs Letter learns by private letters received in
that town from "Constantinople, that Kossuth has
recently stated to gentleman commissioned to
visit him al Kutayeh, the place of his confinement
in Turkey, and inform him of the offer of this
Government to furnish him free passage to an
asylum in the United States that he has finally re-
solued TO remain in Europe. although he Expressed
his gratitude to this Government in the warmest
terms for the interest which it has taken in his
fate. thereby showing its sympathy to have been
with the Hungarians in their late struggle. 1t is
supposed that this determination may not be final,
but that Kossuths desire to remain is engendcred
triotc hope, that he may yet be of service to his
unhappy country. The illustrious exile quite for
getful of himself, seems to hope, even in this day
of gloom, that the future may be more kind than
the past has been to his native land"
The republic., 1851-07-17
-nmenl lor Nev Mesleo haa .he lolIowlug

rial government for New Mexico has the following
proviso
SC PyOsidsd, That nothing in this act contained
shall be construed 10 inhbit the Government OF the
United States from dividing said Territory into two
OF more Territories. in auch manner and at such
times as Congress- shall deem convenient and pro-
per, or from attaching any portion thereof to any
other Territory State; and prosidsd fTtsr, that
when admitted rs State, The said Territory, or Gsy
portion c the same, shal be rsceiUtd inio DE Union
WITH on WITHOUT SLAVERY, a. their eonstitatson
may prsscribe at Lhs time Of u.ig adnissioil."
Does Governor Trousdale know that; and, if SO,
what more docs no ask
Again, the act providing territorial govern
msnt for Utah has the following important clause
And, when admitted as a State, the said Terri
tory or any portion of the shall be receUed into
the Union. WITH OR WITHOUT SLAVERY, as The con-
stifution may prescribe at he time of their admis-
Sion."
Could Congress with propriety have gone much
further than this? Will those who maintain that
Congress has constitutional pocer TO legisate on
the subject Of slavery continue to complain that
Congress did not lsgsIats slavery into Utah. in spite
of the Constitution
As to the act admitting California, it is silent
upon the subject of slavery. Congress pursued the
non inirosnion policy insisted by he South;
though the people Of California, in erecting State
government, determined to exclude slavery, yet
how can We claim 10 trithhod that right from them,
when we claim il fundamental right for our
seiUes to determine whether or not we will have
slavery among us9 How could Congress have fixed
il better for roithou lgislafing the subject Of
slavery, which we say it cannot rightfally do?
And now, to the act abolishing the slave traf-
fc in the District OF Columbia; it is we'll known
to be just such an act have passed in Tennes-
see and most or the Southern States have enact
ed. II passed in accordance with the known
wishes of the people of the District of Columbia,
and who should complain if they are satisfied?
Lastly, the Fugitive Slave act was drawn by q
southern man, and passed by southern votes, and is
unquestionaby all we can expect from Congress
on this subject
There the six measures OF the Compro-
mise. What reason is there to upon any OF
themH They certainly constitute great compact
with the North, which has thus far saved the
Union. What sense is there in breaking up such
compact? And if it is not intended to violate it,
what good can possibly arise from continued agi-
tation, creating prejudice against it2 viii the
friends of Governor Trousdale answer that? He
commenced this agitation in his very first speech,
and has kept it up evr since Will he continue it1
The republic., 1851-07-17

RAIN WITHOUT CLouDs.--The phenomenon of
rain pithout clouds, which the Philadelphia North
american notices as having occurred in that city
on Wednesday of last week, was noticed at Nor
ristown by the editor of the Free Press who says
this place about Quarter past ten O'Clock on the
same evening. On the north and northwest hori-
zon dark clouds were resting, from which light
ming issued at repeated intervals These clouds
did not rise from the horizon more than thirty de-
grees. Over head it was perfectly clear, and the
stars shone forth with remarkable brightness. In
this state of the heavens the rain commenced fall
ing quite smartly, increasing in volume as it fell,
and lasting some four or five minutes."
The republic., 1851-07-17

TIE THAoEDr NEAR LTNoHBURa.-The Lynch
burg Pngfnian says:
"Our information from Nelson court bouse with
regard to Williams and Hill is that the former is
entirely out of danger, and the latter improving,
with a fair prospect of recovery
The republic., 1851-07-17

ToUR on THE BALTIMORE AND ONO RAILRoAD.-
The President and Board Of Directors of the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad Company, during the
coming week, will make visit of inspection to
that part of the road west Of Cumberland recently
opened for travel. The Mayor of Baltimore and
members Of the Council of that city, and other in
vited guests, will accompany them. The excur-
sonists will start from Baltimore on Monday
morning i'll special train.
The republic., 1851-07-17

Marrow ESCAPE AT NIAGARA.--The Cincinnati
Commercial states that Mr. It. A. Logan, young
lawyer Of this city, very narrowly escaped with his
life few days since at the Falls of Niagara A
young lady, to him stranger, who had vcntured
out on projecting rock above the Falls, became
dizzy and cried for help. Logan, who stood near
by, flew to her relief and succeeded in rescuing
her from danger, but in doing SO lost his balance
and fell into the boiling surge The lady tainted,
and the men near were too much paralyzed to as
sist him. After the whirl Of the water had carried
him round once or twice, he succeeded in sezing
bush which hung over the water and drew him.
self out. Had he fallen foot farther out, beyond
the edge of the whirlpool, no human aid could have
prevented him from being swept over the cataract.
The republic., 1851-07-17

RIor AT ToRoNro.--A public meeting Of the
Anti Clergy Reserve Association convened in To-
ronto the 9th was broken up by the interference
of the opponents OF the associations headed by sew
eral cergymen of the Established Church. who
claimed right to be heard, on the ground that the
meeting was public. The excitement ran high, but
no one was hurt
The republic., 1851-07-17

MAGNIFICENT SwoRD.--Mr. Samuel jackson,
Baltimore street, has just finished, per order of the
State of Virginia, most elegant sword, to be pre-
Francis Otway Byrd, in honor of his gallant de-
pertinent during the war OF 1912, and in the expe-
dition against the AIgerines.--BaIt. Sun.
The republic., 1851-07-17

The COINAGE at the Philadelphia Mint for the
last six months has been twenty four millions
of dollars. 1t is thought that the amount coined
during the same period at New Orleans will swell
the amount to thirty mllions.
The republic., 1851-07-17
43,66l Z

The land thus entered within the last quarter in
this district will be taxable in year, and will
be assessed at three dollars per acreamounting to
$l30,9S3. Quadruple this amount for the year,
and the sum will be $523,932. We believe there
eight other land districts in the State, and that
the entries, take all these land offices together,
will be found to reach eight times the amount en-
tered at this land office; and should land be valued
there as here, it will make the amount $4,7l6 1888;
and shows how rapidly in regard to single item
the assessed property in this State is augmenting
Let the Central Railroad progress, and other con-
tempated railroads in this State, and we shall soon
be in condition to pay the interest on State
debt without heavier rate of taxes than now
pay.
The rapidity with which land is being entered in
our State shows the confidence that moneyed men
have in her advancing wealth and increasing pop
ulation.--Springfeid (HI.) Journal
The republic., 1851-07-17

DEATH FROM ToBAcco--The other day, at Rox-
bury, Mass, an Irish woman Administered guam
tity OF tobacco stepped in milk TO her child an
antidote for worms. The child, which was not quite
two years OF age, died in less than an hour and a
The republic., 1851-07-17

The steamship Isabel Captain Rollins, arrived
at Charleston Friday. She left Havana on the
Sth, and Key West on the 9Th. Among her pas
sengers was Commander Thomas Petigru, United
States navy, who has returned after absence Of
two years and two months in the Pacific.
The republic., 1851-07-17

The Hon. NATHANIEL MILES, Charge to Sardinia
has arrived at New York from Havre in the steam
ship Franklin.
The republic., 1851-07-17

The PoTAro Ror.-Dr. T. W. Harris, the dis
tnguished entomologist, calls Mr. Flanders's the
ory 'the latest humbug concerning the potato
pestilence." DIR. II. maintains that insects have
no concern or connexion with the potato disease
He says:
cas- the potato rot has spread over Europe, and
prevailed there to alarming extent before it
reached America and as the disease, found here,
occurs with precisely the same symptoms and re-
sults in Europe, it must, wherever and when
ever it appears, baye one common, specific cause
II occasioned by insects, then the insects causing
it must be of the kind, or species, in all re
gions where the disease has extended 1t would
be entirely unphilosophical and contrary to all
alogy and all experience, to attribute the disease
to one kind of insect In country, and to en-
tirely different kind of insect in another country;
to aphides in England, to black bugs in America,
to lady birds in Massachusetts, and to the Bards
trinotats in Pennsylvania. 1t is well established
fact that the insects of America and of Europe
NOT identical, excepting only in those few cases
where come species of one country has been
introduced by the intervention of man into the
other country. 1t has never been shown, and
think will never be proved, that any species of
insect, ofsufciently destructive powersto prove
tensvey injurious to the potato crop, to be found
alike on the potatoes of Europe and Of America"
The republic., 1851-07-17

Miss DAVENPORT, the actress, accompanied by
her mother, arrived at Boston on Saturday.
The republic., 1851-07-17

LAND ENTRIEsWe copy the following state
ment from the books of the United States land Of
fice in this city, second quarter, 1851:
Lands taken up with Mexican bounty land war
rants. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 35, 900 acres
60 new issue ....... 3,640
money. 4,06l
American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-08

IMPORTANT ARREsT.--James Scrivenner was
arrested this morning, by officer Barnaclo,
charged by various worthy citizens with having
represented to them that he was the vertable
City Commissioner; and that upon this repre-
sentation, he had managed to swindle them out
of various sums Of money, alleging that the
Board Of Health had directed him to visit each
and every yard, and notify the owners to have
their premises cleansed, and charge for such
notice from twelve to fifty cents. Capt God
dard, after patient hearing of the case com
mitted him to Jail to await his trial before the
criminal court. This is but another way to
raise the wind.
American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-08

but looksr-oa in the game Of politics, has kept
his eyes open in the meanwhile, and has doubt
less learned enough to know how to conduct .
campaign with discretion. We repeat it: let
all the patriots in the land who desire to defeat
the General. be up and doing; for this one
thing is manifestly apparent, that neither he
nor his friends can be surprised at any point
They are preparing for action in such way as
to storm and carry conventions, and menace
the ballot-boxes, in manner peculiarly eau
tionary. Be up, then, and doing, all you who
would PROSTATE the General and his designs
and save the country. Let no one slumber at
his post, for there is soon to be the talest kind
of Q Wool gathering.
American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-08

1NsoLvKNT LIsTs.-We often read these lists
in the Baltimore papers, and have remarked
that the name seldom occurs Of one who has
been hnbitual advertiser of his business in
those papers. The man who keeps the run of
his business in his mind, likes to communicate
with the public about it.
American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-08
A CARD.

WASHINGTON CRY, July 8, 1851.
"AYING been apprized of most unfounded impress
IL sion made by rumor in Georgetown, connecting
my with unhappy event that occurred recently
In respectable family of that city, and being advised by
my friends that nothing less than statement from under
my own hand that impression, am reluct-
antly induced TO adopt this means Of scfdefence.
simple allusion TO the event in question will doubt
less be sufficient indication to those concerned, shall
not speak in specific terms But call my late fell
lowcitizens in general and the really guilty party par
tcular, to the solemn assertion which here make In
the face of the world and in the presence Of Him who
my heart and knows its innocence that the
charge made against in connection with the event
above alluded TO is most foul most false nquitous
wrong perpetrated against my character, for which
act Of mine, overt covert has furnished the least
shadow of justification.
What shall schoolboys prospects be blasted forever
when he IL just about TO enter the hard battles of e
by secret and reckless lbertne, who hoped to elude
the consequences Of his datary crime and him
self from the views of indignant by adding
Hypocrisy to vllany and shifting the burden of guilt
from his own TO the shoulders Of innocent person.
For there can be doubt that the desperate wretch
threats against her life forced his unfortunate victim
substitute another In his the partner Of her guilt
Forbid II, humanity MOI the time will come, and SHALL
II any efforts Of mine and of my friends can bring 1t
about when the base author of this foul wrong shall be
dragged forth into the face of day Ibis second ipno
cent vicm--shaU stand triumphanty indicated from
the unmerited suspicion Of from which my soul
revolts with horror here soemply declare my readi-
make oath before them, the Holy Evangelist Of Al
mighty God, that am fully and entirely free from any
particle Of the guilt which Rumor laid at my door
EDWIN Y. KING,
American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-08

The CENTRE MARKET.-There was lively,
pleasant market at an early hour this morning.
Potatoes sold at 81 to so cents per peck
tomatoes, rs to 80 do. do; cymlings, II cts.
per dozen; cucumbers, Is do. do. /; eggs, fresh,
l8 do. do; butter, 16 to 25 cents per ID. ;
honey, Is do. do. blackberries, cts per at. /;
whortleberries, 6 to 10 do. do. Raspberries,
Is do. do. cherries, 6 do. do. Apricots, %
cts per dozen; apples, 25 cents per peck
chickens, $3.50 to $50. so per dozen.
American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-08

COMMODORE STOCKTON ON SLAvERY.-Com.
Stockton delivered a speech at Elizabethtown,
New Jersey, on the 4th instant, when he said,
in allusion to new territory:
g That the citizens Of the South had a perfect
right to carry their slave property upon all such
acquisitions, and that any attempt of the Gen
eral Government to invade that right was an
aggression upon the guarantee of the Constitu-
ton" ".. i.
This is not saying much. We all know that
the new State, and not the General Govern
ment, has enacted the prohibition. Had the new
State determined the other way, the action of
the General Government would not then have
affected the matter. The above extract has
been published by some one as a startler; but
Stockton is not going to throw such things out
just now.