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NEW PROSPECTUS
THE
SCIEN TITO A NJ RIG A N
To Mechanics T1peuforx and Manufacturers

SCIEN TIFIC A NJ ERICA
To Mechanics, Inpentors, and Manufacturers:
THE Publishers OF the Scientific american re-
spectfully give notice that No SIXTH VOLUME
Of this valuable journal, commenced on the 2lst
of September, offering valuable opportunity for
all to subscribe who take interest in the pro-
gress and Development Of the Mechanics Arts
and Manufactures Of our country. The charnc-
ter of the Scientific american is too well known
throughout the country to require detailed nc-
count OF the various subjects discussed through its
columns.
IL enjoys a more extensive and influential cir
cunton than any other journal of It's class in
America.
1t will be published weekly, as heretofore, in
Quarfo Form, on fine paper, ahording, at the end
of the year, an ILLUSTRATED E.NCYCLO-
PEDLa, of over FOUR HUNDRED PAGES,
with an Index, and from Five to Six Hundred
ORIGINAL E.N,GRaVLNGS, described by letters
of reference; besides vast amount of practical
information concerning the progress OF SCIE.N
TYFIC and ME CHANICAL IMPROVE-
.ME.NTS, CHEyMIS TRY, CIVIL ENGINEER
ING. .MANUF.a TURING in its various
branches, AR IITE CTURE, MIS- .NRY, BOT
.a.NY,--in short, it embraces the entire range OF
the Arts and Sciences.
IL also possesses an original feature not found in
apy other weekly journal in the country, viz, an
Official List of P.4TE.N'T Claims, prepared ex
pressly for its columns at the Patent Office thus
constituting it the /" AMERICAN REPERTORI
OF INTENTIONS.
TrRMs-s2 a-year 81 for six months.'
All letters must be post paid and directed to
MUM Il CO.,
Publishers of the Scientific American,
1913 Fulton street, New York
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MEMORIAL.

To The Senate and House Of Representatives offhe
United States in Congress assembled The memo
rial of the undersigned, respectfully represents that
thew are entitled to Bounty Land, under the act
of 18th Of September 1850, that they are informed
and believe that the INDICATED warrants are worth
more to them than the patented lands would be-
that thew do not expect or desire to reside the
land thus granted; that If patented to them, the
expense of agencies and taxes will be an ANNUAL
charge, reducing the value Of the grant, which
they could avoid if permitted to seP the warrant
Your memoriaists further represent that the law,
by preventing the sale of the warrants, assuna
that the officers and volunteers emitted TO bounty
lands are not competent TO act for themselves,
whereas many Of them among the most intel
lgent and respectable citizens Of the States they
therefore respectfully ask that the act aforesaid
NAV be so modified as to make the warrants tor
bounty lands assignable, and they VIII ever
pray, &c.
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Sugar Plantations.
Manufacturers of Railway, Bar, Round Ribbon
and Rod Iron.
Wheel, Axle, and Spring Makers.
Engine Drivers, and Persons connected with the
Locomotive generally
Engineers, and Captains Of Steam Vessels.
Managers of Stationary Engines.
Lumber Dealers and owners of Saw Mills.
Veneer Cutters.
Owners of Planing Machinery.
Corn Millers, and Persons connected with Boiling
and Bran-Separating Machinery.
Farmers and Persons using Grain-Shelling and
Thresning Machinery
Bull Workers, Carvers Engravers, and Ornamen1
Makers in general
Persons employed in the Manufacture of Gas.
Mixers of Copper and Lead Tubing.
Linen and Straw Paper Makers.
Ship Owners, Harbor Masters, and others inter
ested in Dredging Machinery.
Well Sinkers.
Astronomers, Philosophers, and others using Phil
osopbical Apparatus and Instruments.
Miners Engineers, and other interested in Pump
ing Engines
Persons Interested in Canals and Aqueducts.
Warehousemen, and otners, using HydrauiiC
Presses, Dynanon,etric Cranes, Jack Screws
Common and Feed Cranes.
Workers in Metals and Alloys.
Tin Plate Workers.
Wheelwrghts, Clock Makers Horologists, &c
The publishers have expended large sum o.
money to get original drawings OF machinery ~
practical use in this country, and have procured
almost every work on the subject, whether Pho,
lished in England, France, or Germany, the mos
essential parts of which being comprised IN TINS
Die .ionary, render it as perfect and comprehen,
slye as possible The publishers have endeavored
to use great economy in type, SO that each page OF
the work contains at least four times the number
of words found in ordinary pages OF the same size
This has also secured to each plate workns-draw'
ngs of ample size and cearness, so that Mecnahie
may construct accurately any machine described
The publishers are, in short determined, regard
less of cost, to make the work complete as pos
sble and it is hoped every one desirous 10 oDtaii
the work will procure it as issued IN NUMBERS ahe
thus encourage the enterprise.
The work will be issued in semi-monthly mum
bers, commencing in January, 1851, ana VIII pro
gress with great regularity.
The whole work will be published IN Az mum
| bers at IS cents per number, and completed win
in the current year, 1850. liberal discount will
be made TO agents.
| Any one renting the publishers 10 in advance
shall receive the work through the post ohice fre'
of expense.
Notice to Proprietor, Of Newspapers throughout IN
| United States and Canada.
! If the foregoing advertisement is inserted nv
times dur! the year. and the paper containing !
sent to us, a copy Of tie work will be sent grati
in payment.
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OFFICE WILMtsoroa AND MAscHEsTEK IL. II. 20.
MAsror Cousr-HousE, 8. c., Oct. 10, 1851
OEALEn PROPOSALS. will be received until the
y 18th ofDecsmber next for the piers ola bridge
across the Great Pee Dee river. The Job comprises
four piers--one very heavy pier for draw, and
the sinking Of cast-iron hollow piles by DR.. Potts
pneumatic process for forming foundations. The
plan and specifications of the piers will be exhib-
tied by the Secretary Of the Company at Marion
Court house, and by the resident Engineer, l.. j.
Fleming, esq, at Wilmington, North Carolina.
WALTER GWYNN,
Chief Eng. Will. and Man. r. R., Richmond, Va.
p. s. Mr.. Charles Pontsz, 81 Liberty street,
New York, is the proprietor Of Dr. Potts patent
in the Unitsd States nov Sim
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TO EDITORS OF NEWSPAPERS.

WE beg leave to call your attention to an ad
w vertisement, and to the memorial annexed,
and tender our services in the prosecution Of any
claims for Bounty Lands or Pensions, which you
NAV send to us. We will allow you one half our
usual fee which is fpe dollars for obtaining war
rant for I60 acres, and three dollars for warrant
of eighty acres or less, for publishing our adver-
tisement, and preparing and forwarding the papers
to us.
If you accept this proposal, please insert this
circular and our advertisement in your paper,
with the following editorial notice;
awe call the attention OF our readers to the adj
vertisemert of Messrs. Duff Green, Ben.
Green. and Richard II. Clarke, Attorneys ana
Agents at Washington, ID. c., and would say
persons having claims for Bounty Lands or Pen
sions, that we have made arrangements for the
requisite forms, and that claimants calling at our
Office can have their papers properly prepared and
forwarded to these gentlemen at Washington,
who will properly attend to them in their proper
Offices"
Please get each claimant to sign the memorial,
and forward il to your member of Congress-
Please send us a copy Of your paper containing
our card, which will notify that you accept our
proposition. Dgrf uhE arr,n
RlCH'D II. CLARKE
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r AW AND AGENCY Off CE The under
| 4 signed, Attorneys and Agents, practice Law
in the Supreme Court of the United States, and
the Courts OF the District of Columbia, and attend
promptly to claims against the United States, IN
GLIDING the settlement Of all accounts Of officers
and agents Of the Government, Bounty Lands,
Pensions, Return Of Duties, Patents for new in
ventions, &C., &c.
They tender their services to members Of the
profession at a distance, and, when the case in
prepared by Local agent, will abate one-half their
usual fee. All information relative to the FORMS
and usages Of business in any Of the Departments
will be Furnished 10 our regular correspondence
without charge. They have made arrangements
for the payment OF :axes, and for the sale loca
ton of bounty land warrants on the best Western
lands.
I5-Ofice on Pennsylvania avenue, Lane &
fuckers Building
DUFF GREEN,
BEN. z. GREEN,
KICH'D. II. CLARKE
Oct l4-3taw3m
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American statistics.

A short time past we published some statistics
relative to the number of soldiers supplied from
the different States to the revolutionary war. DE
Rows Commercial Review gives some tables re-
ative to this, and other subjects of equal interest,"
which we copy.
|. The number of soldiers furnished by the
American States during the revolution, and the
population of each State in 1870 and IN lo4I
Principal battles OF the revo"non' .me,r sew,
each side.
q. Amount of continental money ISSUED 10 sup
mort the war, and the estimated cost IN speci
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MEDICAL, COLLEGE OF THE STATE OF
SOITTH CAROLINA.

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THE STATE OF
SOUTH CAROLINA.
rT,uE Annual COURSE OF LECTURES in this
institution will commence on the first Monday
in November next, on the following branches'
Anatomy, by j. Holbrook, M. ID.
Institutes and Practice of Medicine, by s Hen
ry Dickson, M: ID.
Surgery, by E. Geddings, M. ID.
Physiology, by James Moultrie, M. ID.
Materia Medico, by Henry r. Frost, M. ID.
Obstetrics, by Thos. q. Prio,eau, M. d.
Chemistry, by c. U. Shepard, M. ID.
Demonstration of Ansiomy, st. Julian Ravenel,
M. ID.
DIR. ID. ]. Cain, Physician to the Marine Hos
pital and Clinical Instructor. Lectures twice b
week on the Diseases OF thut Institution.
DIR. T.. b. Flagg, Physician TO the Aims House.
Lectures twice week on Diseases.
Demonstrntive instruction in Medicine and Sur
eerv nt the College Hospital.
HENRY r FROST, M. d., Dean.
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PLAINS, BLANKETS, KERSEYS AND
FLANNELS

rr,HE SUBSCRIBERS, Direct Importers Of all
Il WOODEN GOODS, have just received per
sb;ns "Gulnare," "Orion," and " Somerset, "
from Liverpool, their fall supply of PLAINS,
KERSEYS, WHITE and COLORED BLANK
FITS. WHITE, RED, BLUE and GREEN
M .ANNEI. BLANKETING, Guernsey Shirts,
Kilmarnock Caps, Scotch Bonnets, &C., &c, ex-
pr.ssly suited to Southern Planters trade, and
to an inspection of which, they confidently IN
vite all who visit the Charleston MARKET
E. l.. KERRISON IL CO.,
900 King st. northwest cor. King e. Market SITS.
Charleston. Sept g.
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TVyHr undersigned, a committee OF publication, on
IL the part Of the Muscogee and Russell AgrcuI-
tural Society, respectfully invite public attention
to the following prospectus Of MONTHLY
JOURNAL. to be published in this city under the
AUSPICES Of the above named association.
The work will be devoted to the interests Of .4g-
ricuitwe and Horticulture, Domestic and Rural
Economy. Under these several heads will be in
cluded all that concerns the culture of crops, the
Improvement of the soil, the management of the
farm, the garden, the orchard, the flower yard,
and the house-keeper's department. In their con-
nexon with the interests Of the soil, the other in
dustria pursuits Of the land, will receive their APP
propIiat attention, ..
Ths "SOIL OF THE SOUTH" will be under
the editorial supervision Of CHARLEs A. PEABODY
eso. and Col JAMES M. CHAMBERS. Mr.. Peabody
has been for two years past connected with the
Agricultural Press, and is equally distinguished
a practical and scientific farmer and gardener r
Col. Chambers 10 one OF the most intelligent and
successful planters in the South. They will be
assisted by an able corps Of contributors, among
the practical farmers and planters Of the land.
Each number will contain sixteen pages Of
auarto size, printed with new type on superior
white paper, and furnished TO subscribers at the
ONE DOLL.4R PER .9N.NUJN,
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yuyHE Subscriber returns his thanks tn the
I public and the old customers Of Sims q sos
and informs them that TIE GROCERY AND
WINE BUSINESS heretofore carried on by thsfu,
is continued by EpwAsp SIsms he has added a
full and fresh supply Of the fines. TEAS, BLACK
AND GREEN, FRESH GhoCEkiEs, &C. And
has also on hand a full assortment of the hnest
WINE. and will be sold at the lowest rates,
amongst which will be found 100 baskets Of the
choicest brands Of Champagne, Hook, and Ciaret
Wines, of the rursst kinds
DWARD SlMMS
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RoTa,Ico MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO

TIME Winter Cou rise of Lectures in the Medical
Department Of the Cincinnati Literary and Sci
.nii6e Institute, formerly the Literary and Bo.
tanico Medical College OF ohio') VIII De resumed
=: ~. Col,eoe Ed,fce, Third street, east Of Broad
w,v, on Monday the Sd Of November. pre-
,;ro;nsrv course on Anatomy, Physiology, and
Operative Surgery, will be commenced on the 9th
s1n.,cher There were t,csire iadi,s IN the Spring
cI.ss. aid the most OF these, and many others,
are expected this ~in'er; The suosc,'oer WI ,b DC
-.nL. II reform. The College Edifoe Is elegant
"a convenient, and sbundantly supplied with
everything essential to the illustration OF every DE-
mar TIM nt Of medicine.
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WILLIAM TUCKER, MERCHANT TAILOR
NAI L A, Cucker.A WOu

WILLIAM TUCKER, MERoHASr i ALuh,
w (of the late firm of Lane & Iucker') woulu
call the attention of his friends and the puohc
sraiIy to his stock Of Goods now opening whicn
has been selected by himself from the largest I'M
porting houses in New York, and by far the great.
sst variety and richest styles ever offered IN TINS
city. Strangers are respectfully and earnestly So
icted to give me call and examine my s;y1 hs 70
gore purchasing, as confident 1t VIII oe 10
their advantage. :,
And would especially call the attention OF c OF,
fcers, both of the army and the navy, 10 iae lac'
thai am prepared to execute all kinds of uniforms
according to the late regulations, at the shor'es'
notice, and at moderate prices, WARRANTED, o
the cutting and making departments, equal to any
establishment in this country.
w. Il. tenders his sincere thanks to ms numer-
Gus friends for theirlong and continued patronage
and hopes, by the same diligence ana a''ens'o' "
business, to merit a continuance OF the saine'
All orders promptly executed
sep 20-3tw3w--d&trw
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VOL III
UNITED STATES MAIL SrEA MSH III
COMPANY THROUGH PASSAGE TO
CALIFORNIA.


COMPANY THROUGH PASSAGE TO
CALIFORNIA.
TIME public will be gratiied to learn that the
/ United States Mail Steamship Company are en-
abled to announce that their arrangements are now
complete for sending passengers through from
New York to San Francisco and back.
In the first attempts of this Company to meet
the wants OF travel to California, by providing
ships on the Pacific, in connection with their
ships from New York to Chagres, they were pre-
vailed upon, at the urgent solicitation OF the great
number then DESTROYS TO 20 out, to cell tickets for
through passages from Panama in advance, for
their ships then going round This was done
from desire to accommodate those who could
procure passages in no other quarter, and by
which, whatever might be the detention, they
would reach San Francisco sooner than by any
other line. Unforeseen difficulties, and the preva-
lence of fever at Rio de Janeiro at the time, pre-
vented their ships from reaching Panama as soon
as anticipated, and caused detention at the 18TH
mus, which was increased by the impotence OF
passengers in going forward, against the advice
of the Company at an earlier day than the ship
could possibly reach Panama.
These interruptions now all removed
Three of the four ships OF the Company, intended
for the Pacific service, have arrived at Panama,
and several of them have performed trips to San
Francisco and back. So that the Company are
now able to give the public the assurance that the
voyaee through from New York to San Fran
cisco, will be performed with regularity and des-
patch.
Their Pacific Line, from Panama to San Fran
cisco, consists of the
REPUBLIC, Capt. HupsoN.
ITHMUS, Capt. HITcHcocK.
COLUMBUS, Capt. PECK.
ANTELOPE, Capt. AcKLEY.
| Their Atlantic and Gulf Line, from New York
to Chagres, Of the
GEORGIA, Capt. PORTER, U. s. N.
OHIO, Capt. ScHENcK, U. s. N.
FALCON, Capt HARTsTEM, U. 3. N.
| The connection between the two lines will be
carefully and regularly kept up, so that no delay
beyond the usual stay of the ship in port at Pana-
ma, will arise.
| sThe large size, well known speed, and superior
accommodations Of their New York and Chagres
Line, and the speed and accommodations OF the
ships Of their Pacific Line, offer the most certain,
rapid and pleasant through passage to California.
NJ o. ROBERTS,
| Cor. Warren and West sts., New York
| Aug. l5-lm
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THIRD ANNUAL EXHIBITION

Msryland state Agricultural socIcy
~ STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY wv ue nn.
that you should bear in mind, that on the ~o :,i,
oath, and 25th days Of October, your ooc,e' WI ~
hold it's annual Exhibition and Fair at me cry %
Baltimore and we appeal to you, one ana all 70
bring for exhibition therea portions OF your S,och'
the pTodcfs of uotr orchards and Of your gardens.
Don't presume that any animal, or Prouao'' w
NAV own is inferior to others thai WIN pe h.'c
and be thus deferred from bringing thehi' 90 20
only bv comparison that the relative merits oi any
thing can be determined The safer presumption
for YOU to arrive at, will be that what you nave
is as good, il not better than that or others anu
that it behooves you to gaiiantiy en'ei w - a
composition if defeated honorably' ana the h'sn
character of the Judges is guarantee tn". ~
can be defeated in no other way, you VIII ENJOY
the luxury Of knowing that others were "o'S "
tjled to success than yourself.
And while we address you to bring such articles
as are properly in your department, we crave per
mission to solicit your interest, TO induce youl
scircs and daughters to bring Whatever aPPe .,' 800
to their peculiar departments, as emoro'aYy' "ou'
hold manufactures, the proarets Of the aa'ry ama y
the poultry uard preserves, domestic mtneS' eoS'e
tions and above all things, to come fhensetoes ~
p,thout voraan, and the beautiful Celebrations "e'
oste and genius, no display can De PERFECT
To the Manufacturers Of agricultural Implements
and Tools, we would say, that interest anu p
otism both combine to enjon upon you 'ne Pr
prietv of making grand exhibition OF your ma
chinery of all kinds, as from our present aeslces'
we are led to believe that the nssem6iage OF arm
ers and planters, and of distinguished s'range h
from most OF the States of the union' VIII oe
greater than upon any former occasion nele ui
elsewhere We therefore say to the .dgrtea ~.
implement makers and Mechanics OF the Onea ot'
make il a matter of pride to display your mach,
nery at our exhibition, and vie with each otne, ~
having the best and largest assortment on VI.
ground. Such ambition is laudabie-is worthy o.
American genius, and should be cherished oy Inc
American heart.
err a favor by copying this notice
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THE BRITISH PERIODICALS AND THE
FARMERS GUIDE

FARMERS GUIDE.
r EONARD SCOTT g. Co., No. 81 Gold street
Ii Nsw York, continue to publish the four lead
ing British Quarterly Reviews and Backwood'
Magazine; in addition to which they have recent
ly commenced the publication of a valuable Agri-
cultural work, called the
/" farmers GUIDE TO SCIENTIFIC AND PRAcTIcAL
AGRICULTURE"
By HENRY STEPHENS, F. r. S., OF Edinburgh, au-
thor of the "Book Of the Farm, &c., &C.; assisted
by JOHN p. NoRroN, M "A, New Haven, Professor
Of Scientific Agriculture in Yale College, &c, &c
This highly valuable work will comprise two
large royal octave volumes, containing over 400
pages, with 10 or 90 splendid steel engravings,
and more than 600 engravings on wood, in the
highest style of the art, illustrating almost every
implement of husbandry now in use by the best
farmers, the best methods Of poughng, planting,
haying, harvesting, &C., &C., the various domes-
tic animals in their highest perfection; in short,
the pictorial feature of the book is unique, and
will render it Of incalculable value to the student
Of agriculture.
The work is being published in sem-monthly
numbers of "a pages each, exclusive Of the Steel
engravngs, and is sold at 25 cents each, or IS for
the entire work in numbers, Of which there will be
at least twenty-five.
The British Periodicals re-pubshed are as fol-
lows, viz
The LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW Conservative
The EDINBURGH REVIEW (Whig),
The NORTH BRITIsH REVIEW Free church,,
The WESTMINSTER REVIEW Uiberal.)
AND
BLAcKwooD's EDINBURGH MAGAZINE (Tory).
Although these works distinguished by the
political shades above indicated, yet but small
portion of their contents is devoted to political sub
jects. 1t is their literary character which gives
them their chief value, and in that they stand con
fessedly far above all other journals ofther class
Black,cood, still under the mastery guidance OF
Christopher North, maintains its ancient celebrity
and is, at this time unusually attractive, from thu
serial works Of Bulwer and other literary notabes
written for that magazine, and first appearing IL
it's columns both in Great Britain and in the Untet
States. Such works as ''The Cations" and "M
New Novel" doth by Bulwer,) "My Peninsula
Medal, 1.-THE Green Hand, +" and other serials
of which numerous rival editions issued by tn
leading publishers in this country, have to be re
printed by those publishers from the pages o
Backwood after IL has been issued by .Messrs. Scot
& Co., so that subscribers to the reprint Of tina
Magazine may always rely on having the earties
reading of these fascinating tales.
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Il e r. M 8.

For Farmers Guide Complete IN 22Nos.) 5,O0
Payments to be made in all cases in .4dpance)
CLUBBING.
discount of twenty-five per cent. from the above
prices will be allowed to Clubs ordering four or
more copies of any one more of the above
works. Thus copies of Backwood or Of one
Review will be sent TO address for 50 copies
of the four Reviews and Bnckwood for $50 and
so on.
- Orders from Clubs must be sent direct 10 the
publishers as no discount from these prices can be
allowed to Agents.
Money, current in the States where issued, vii
be received at par.
l5-Remittances and communications should be
always addressed, postpaid or ffanked, to the
Publishers.
LEONARD SCOTT a. CO,
70 Fulton STREET, New York,
Entrance 81 Gold st
observation-disclosures received in Washington by
Frank Taylor, Taylor Maurey, and w. Adam,
Booksellers.
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DRESS COMBS.-Ws are just opening MI
| J other and pretter assortment of those hand
some Rope and Chain pattern Shell and Buffalo
Dress Tuck Combs; prices from s2to $50 each
Also, 900 different patterns Spanish Dress Fan;
Laces from IS cents to $40 each.
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N o r. &c E

MEMBERS OF CONGR SIS having books
that belong to the Library ofths House OF Repre-
sentatves. are requested to return them this week
with their names upon them, so that their sc-
counts may be properly credited.
p. WILLIAMS, Lib, II X