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Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

KNOWN went ashore on Sciua,a Rs..b
NE NE mouth Of the river, about /, a,, "e
wednesday. She went to pieces. CO.. r,
ScItuate Lighthouse was entir.,v
ec by water on Wednesday and Wanl 1ound-
night, and The underpinninp i. vunesday
damaged. This light has not bee, ".ucn
SINCE The light on Mno,'s ledge Wen, G ,s
operation. ' INTO
The oldest inhabitanf' at Seirus,e mr..
ed us that The tide has not been SO biz h III
was on Wednesday, since December. l7s6
Al MARsHFiELD.-On ednesday. m.
orig Elizabeth, Capt kilborn, loaded with
sugar and molasses, went ashore sourh Of
lhe North River. off Marshfield and is a total
wreck. The entire crew, save one man per
'sneu. lhe only survivor foaled ashore
| upon spar and was taken off with hi, thigh
broken. 1t is thought he cannon snrv;v.
The brig Elizabeth belong. 10 Ea.,nor,
and was bound from Matanzas for por,lra'
schooner from Thomaston. Me ioadad
with lime. took fire nj The momh oc NJ.
River, near the wreck of the El,z,l,.,h 4
was totally destroyed. When the fr. -.
discovered, the vessel was run on The h...L
and the crew saved.
The injury IN New York city is supposed
10 have been 100000. In The cross $50,
running from Washington and Greenwich
streets to The river, people living in the base
rnent rooms were driven out by the food
The village OF Plermont was much injured.
aud laborers on the Erie railroad had 10 leave
their houses.
MORE PARTICULARS OF THE LIeHT.-We
learn from MIR. Bennett, who returned from
Cohasset this morning, that the lamps in
Minot's Rock Lighthouse were seen burning
at ten O'Clock on Wednesday night by several
persons in the vicinity ofIhe Glade. The
bell was also heard 10 ring with unusual
violence, as II indicating danger, and sound
ing an alarm 10 the jewellers on the SHORE
These facts show that The TWO assistant KEEN
crs remained faithful TO their rosls, amid the
horrors of The fate which awaited them.
Another life buoy has come ashore and
bears the appearance of having been, like
the hrst, used by one OF the untor unate men
"a caSk OF oil has also washed ashore The
beach for two miles is strewn with fragments
OF The wood work Of the lighthouse, pieces
OF the furniture, &c. ~
Nothing has yet been seen of either of
The bodies of The men. Mr.. Bennett has
offered reward of S25 for their recovery.
Iowboal S. B. Forbes which left Minot's
Ledge al halt past 5 on Saturday morning,
reports tha; the posts of the light house. + or
averaging from 10 feet above the rocks,
were all standing, and appeared TO have been
broken off square, like cast iron. The
stumps are inclined to the westward, show.
ing that the piles were broken by the action
oflhe easerly sea.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

A negro boy of thirteen years named George
Long, has confessed that he killed the little
son of Mr. Rumpf, in Baltimore, aged five years.
They had been spinning tops together, and the
big boy beat the little one on the head with a
stone because he lost his string. He then
hunted for another, and not finding one he
beat him on the head with a stone until he
was insensible ..-..- ...
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

.Ne1 Hampshire Constitutional Contention
At Concord on Wednesday, 10 members were
present. A proposition was introduced to SUBJ
nit to tie people amendments abolishing the
reli gious test and property qualification; also,
to increase the senate to twenty-four members,
to be chosen in single districts. On Thursday,
there were about 240 members present. The
above named propositions were adopted, and
the convention then adjourned.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

FRE.-A dwelling honse, stable and shed,
belonging to Moses Woodward, Esq, of the
United States Hotel, Portland, and situated at
Lisbon Factory Village, was consumed by fire
on Monday night. Loss, 500. Insured for
$500 in the Gorham Mutual.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

y Russell Fellows, aged about Is years, a
native of Winthrop, now in State Prison for
rape, attempted to hang himself on Thursday
morning last. He was nearly dead when cut
down. He is sentenced for ten years, and has
been in prison about months.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

- G. Thompson, British M. p, having
reached Toronto, Canada, delivers his mind
very freely concerning the press and the clergy
of the U. States. The fact is, his trip to this
country has been a failure. i.4H i"
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

y The Massachusetts, Plurality Bill (Which
provides for the plurality rule after the first
triaD has been signed by the Governor, and is
now law. The next election for their repre-
sentatives in the different congressional dis
tricts will therefore be under this law, and be
final
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

3 Two boys, VIM. Gray and Frederick
Henderson, were tried before Judge Smith on
Monday last, on charge Of stealing some clothes
from gondola, ard sentenced to fifteen days i'm
prisonment in the County Jail.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

8 The Augusta Age proposes to publish
a llrl-weekly, as usual, during the session of
the approaching legislature It will be the
only legislative paper published during the
session, and will contain faithful transcrint
of Legislative proceedings. The subscription
price is ST. 90 in advance. .., ... +
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

VIsrTEs, MANTILLAs, and the like, are now
worn by the ladies as extensively as shawls, and
are not less becoming or servceable. .Jeaoett
& Prescott, No. Milk Street, Boston, are al
ways in receipt of the latest Paris styles, and
furnish materials, or the ready made articles,
on the most reasonable terms
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

MAN KILLED-An Irishman was killed on
Fast day, in fray among those employed on
the railroad in Lebanon. On Monday an Irish
man was arrested in Biddeford, on suspicion of
being the murderer
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

The FALL Or MANrEurFEL.-T correspon-
dence of the Journal des Debats, upon which the
London Globe places great reliance, gives infor-
nation that Baron Manteufers career as Prime
Minister of Prussia in drawing to close, and
that the consequence will be fresh rupture
between Austria and Prussia 1
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

N The city authorities of Boston have re-
fused to grant the use of Faneuil Hall for
Daniel Webster to speak in on Thursday eve
nipn tIf'
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

- The scholars in the female department of
the High School were thrown into state of
intense excitement on Saturday last by the I'M
ceremonious entrance into their room of several
intoxicated sailors. Upon an alarm being CIV
en-, however, they all took their heels but one,
who was finally secured and taken before Judge
Smith, who sentenced him to pay fine Of 81
and costs.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

O The Executive Council convened on
tuesday last, and will continue their session
until after the Legislature meets and a new
council is chosen. 3 .53 ~ ~
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

LAuNcHEDAAt Augusta, l4'h inst, by
Messrs Jones & Small, a brig OF 200 tons,
called the Abby Jones, owned by Messrs
s c Gage, Robt H Leavtt, and the builders.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

81 A fine bark of about $50 tons, called the
I" MArANzAs," built at Simpsons yard in Rich
mond, was towed down to this city on Satur-
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

SUIcIDE-A colored man named Williams,
committed suicide in this city on Friday night
last, by taking laudanum.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

METROPOLITAN BANK.-This banking insti-
tuition, which is to assume to the New York
banks the relation which the Suffolk Bank,
Boston, holds to the New England banks, has
at last perfected its organization under the title
of the {" Metropolitan Bank instead of The
Bank of the Metropolis" as at first proposed
a safety FIND institution having appropriated
the name before the monster could complete its
organization. The Metropolitan Bank COM
mences with capital of $3.50, 900, with right
to increase itfve millions. The directors have
already voted to increase it to two millions
The banks throughout the state are to be forced
TO redeem its bills at its counter, after the fash
ion of the Suffolk system, or be discredited. 1t
creates a sensation among the "small fry y
banking institutions of New York Pol" ''
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

SHORT Dresses. Mrs. Bloomer, editor of
the Lily, has adopted the "shors dress and
trowssrs," and says, in her paper of this month
that many of the women of that place, (Seneca
Falls,) oppose the change; others laugh; 9TH
ers still are in favor sand many have already
adopted the dress She closes the article
upon the subject as follows:
"Those who think we look queer would do
well to look back few years. to the time when
they wore ten or fifteen pounds of pettlcoat
and hustle around the body, and balloons on
their arms, and then imagine which cut the
queereSt figure, they or we We care not for
the lrowns of over fastdious gentlemen; we
have those eff better taste and less questionable
morals to sustain US. If men think they would
be comfortable in long, heavy skirts, let them
put them on we have no objection. We are
more comfortable without them, and so have
left them off. We do not say we shall wear
this dress and no other, but we shall wear it
for common dress; and hope it may oe-
come so fashionable that we may wear it at all
times and in all places, without being thought
singular. We have already become so attached
to 1t, that we dislike changing to long one
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

portland TRANscRIPr-This well conduc-
ted and interesting literary Journal has just en-
tered upon its 18th volume. No. appears in
an entire new dress, and looks as g neat as a
new pin''
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24
City Government.
In COMMON Cousc,I,

= In COMMON Council,
April l6, 1851.
Present Messrs. Blasland, Dearing, Films.
Frye, Harding, Houghton, Jackson, Larrabee,
Pattee, Robinson, Sewall and Swanton.
The President being absent, JAcoB ]. SEW
ALL, Esq. was chosen President pro tern.
Y On motion of Mr.. bearing, a convention was
proposed for the election of additional city Off
GERS The Aldermen concurred, and the two
boards in convention made choice Of the follow
ing officers
School Agent, District Mo.2-Owen A. Tim
MUS. 1T q 4
Conta6les. = Albion j. Potter, and Jesse
Grace.
Fence Eeoer and Field Driper.-Thomas
Bradley
Mr.. Films presented the petition of Charles
Croker and others for sidewalk. Referred
to the committee on Highways, &c. Also the
petition of B. S. Quinnam and others for new
street. Referred to the committee on new
streets. The petition of Studley Bisbee and
others for new street was referred to the COM
mittee on new streets in concurrence.
An order from the Aldermen, appointing
committee to call meeting of the citizens to
consider the subject of the location of the new
Custom House was passedin concurrence. The
Mayor, Alderman Ellsworth and Mr.. Hough-
ton of the Common Council were appointed as
said committee.
Mr.. Harding offered an order instructing the
committee on the fire department TO inquire in
to the expediency of purchasing suitable lots for
the several Engine houses, and providing suit
able Engine houses, which was adopted and
sent up for concurrence.
The two boards adjourned to meet the first
Wednesday evening in May next, at o'clock.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24

Touching upon the objection that the law
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-24
Tremendous Gale
Great Damage and Loss of Life

MINOT'S LEDGE LIGHT ONE!
Xhe storm Of last week has been one of the
most disastrous upon record. particularly along
the coast of Massachusetts, an account of which
will De found below. The river at this place
was higher on Wednesday night than ever
before known, but we hear Of no serious dam
age in this vicinity either from the wind Oh
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-13

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF HAMP-
NI DEN, SYDNEY COLLEGE, RICH

EDiCAL DErAR WEN Vt l!hM,
M DEN, SYDNEY COLLEGE, RICH
MOND, VA.-The thirteenth Annual Course Of
Lectures will commence on Monday, the l4th OF
October, 1850, and continue until the LIST OF the
{ .suing March. The commencement for comforting
degrees viii be held about the middle of March.
T. l.. BoHANnAA, M. d., Prof. OF Obstetrics
and Diseases OF Women and Children.
l.. w. CHAMgERLAyHE, M. D., Prof OF Male
ria Medica and Therapeutics.
s. MAuriK, M d., Prof. of Chemistry and
Pharmacy.
CHAs. Bell GiDsoN, M. d., Prof. of Surgery
and Surgical Anatomy.
CARrTER p. JoHssos, M. D., Prof OF Anato-
nav and Physiology.
Dawn H. TUCKER, M. ID. Prof. Of Theory ana
ractice Of Medicine.
ARTHUR E. PErIcoLAs, M. d., Demonstrators
Of Anatomy.
The study Of practical Anatomy may be prose
cuted with the most ample facilities, and at very
trifing expense
Ci;nifal Lectures are regularly given at the Col
leee lnrm airy and Richmond Amshouse The
lnkrmary, under the same roof with the College
and subject TO the entire control of the Faculty, Is
at all times well filled with medical and surgical
cases. and furnishes peculiar facilities for clinical
instruction. Many surgical operations are per
formed in presence of the class; and the students
being freely admitted to the wards, enjoy, under
the guidance Of the Professors, unusual opportu-
mites for becoming familiar with the symptoms
diagnosis, and treatment Of disease.
Observation-Disclosures fee, IS. Professors
fees, Sl05, Demonstrators fee, $40. Graduatio'
fee. $25-
The price OF board, including fuel, Lights, anc
servants attendance, Is usually " 10 Wa PEI
week. 49,,
The catalogue, &C., containing fuller informa
ton concerning the institution, will he Forwarded
to those applying for it, specific inquiries vii
be answeree by letter Address,
S. MAUPiN, M. D.,
Oct Q Dean of the Faculty.
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NEW PROSPECTUS
g IN tt &c A M ERICA
TO Mechanics, Inuenfors, and Ma th/acturers

TO Mechanics, Inuenfors, and Ma tl/acturers.
TNHE Publishers Of the Scientific American re-
i spectfully give notice that the SIXTH VOLUME
OF this valuable journal, commenced on the 2lst
of September, Offering valuable opportunity for
all to subscribe who take an interest in the pro-
gress and Development of the Mechanics Arts
and Manufactures of our country The charar-
ter of the Scientific american is too well known
throughout the country to require detailed ac-
count of the various subjects discussed through its
columns.
II enjoys more extensive and influential cir
culation than any other journal Of its class in
America.
1t will be published weekly, as heretofore, in
f2uarfo Form, on fine paper, affording 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 EN'GR.9VLNGS, described by letters
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IIFIC and ME CHANICaL IMPROVE.
MEN'TS, CHEMISTRY, CIVIL ENGINEER
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.ANY,--in Short il embraces the entire RAJ, re OF
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IL also possesses an original feature not found in
any other weekly journal in the country, viz, an
Official List Of P.aTEN'T CLAIMS, prepared ex
pressly for its columns at the Patent Office ,-thus
constituting it the " .4.MERIC.aN REPERTORY
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CITY, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1851
Sugar Plantations.

Sugar Plantations.
Manufacturers Of Railway, Bur, 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 Planning Machinery.
Corn Millers, and Persons connected with Boiling
and Bran Separating Machinery.
Farmers and Persons using Grain-Shelling and
Threshing Machinery.
Bull Workers, Carvers Engrayers, and Ornament
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
Astronomers, Philosophers, and others using Phil
osopbical Apparatus aud Instruments.
Miners Engineers, and other interested in Pump
ing Engines
Persons Interested in Canals and Aqueducts.
Warehousemen, and DINERS, using Hydraulic
| Presses, Dynanometric Cranes, Jack Screws,
| Common and Feed Cranes.
Workers in Metals and Alloys.
Tin Plate Workers.
Spring Maeufacturers.
Wheelwrights, Clock Makers HoroiOgists, &c.
The publishers have expended large sum OF
money to get original drawings Of machinery IN
practical use in this country, and have procured
almost every work on the subject, whether pno-
lished in England, France, or Germany, the most
essential parts of which being comprised in this
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TO use great economy in type so that each page Of
| the work contains at least four times the number
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This has also secured to each plate worklng-draw-
ngs of ample size and clearness, so that Mechanic
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| The publishers are, in short determined, regard
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L n w AMI h0ENO TIC uuuef
a 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
Guiding 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 TO our regular correspondence
without charge. They have made arrangements
for the payment OF axes, and for the sale or loca
ton of bounty land warrants on the best Western
lands.
I5Oiice on p. .nsylvania avenue, Lane &
fuckers Building
DUFF GREEN, a4
BEN. T.. GREEN.
| a KICH'D. Ii. CLARKE
| Oct. 14-3taw3m. 49,.
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WILLIAM TUCKER, MERCHANT TAILOR
w (of the late firm of Lane e. Tucker,) would
call the attention of his friends and the puoic gen
eral,y to his stock Of Goods now opening, which
has been selected by himself from the largest I'M
porting houses in New York, and by far the great
est variety and richest styles ever offered IN this
city Strangers are respectfully and earnestly SO
licited to give me call and examine my STOCK De
fore purchasing, as am confident 1T viii be to
their advantage.
And would especially call the attention OF OF
fcers, both Of the army and the navy, to the faci
that am prepared to execute all kinds OF uniforms
according to the late regulations, at the sno,'es'
the cutting and making departments, equal 10 any
establishment in this country.
W. T. tenders his sincere thanks to ms numer-
Gus friends for theirlong and continued patronage
and hopes, by the same diligence ana at'ehtioh 70
business, to merit a continuance OF the same
All orders promptly executed
sep 20-3tw3w-d&trw
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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
Bows Commercial Review gives some tables re-
lative to this and other subjects Of equal interest
which we copy. $50,
1. The number Of soldiers furnished by the
American States during the revolution, and the
population of each State in 100 and IN lS47.
g. Principal battles Of the revolution, their sew
eral dates. commandment chief, and losses on
each side
3. Amount Of continental money issued to sup
port the war, and the estimated cost IN speci
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-13

vIrHE Subscriber returns his thanks To the
IL public and the old customers Of S'sms e. Sow
and informs them that TIL T. GROCERY AND
WINE BUSI NESS heretofore carried on by them,
is continued by EpwApp S'mSs he has added a
full and fresh supply Of the fines, TEAS, BLACK
has also on hand full assortment Of the hnes,
WINE, and win be sold At the lowest rates
amongst which will be found 100 baskets Of Ans
choicest brands Of Champagne, Hook, and C,sre
Wines, Of the pursst kinds.
EDWARD SlMMS,