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LIFE OF JOHN RANDOLPH

ID. Appleton d Co., 200 Broadioay Ne,o York
Have now ready the fourth edition.
I IFE OF JOHN RANDOLPHO OF ROANOKE
| IL BY Hugh A. Garland. Two volumes l2mo.
| Portraits; 50 so.
Mr.. Garland has given us daguerreo.ype of
a character more eccentric and variable than Ura-
nus itself, and withal two volumes of exceedingly
choice historical reading. "-[ Republic.
The biography of Randolph has greater charms
than the most exciting fiction - Charleston .ier-
curry
"a good life Of this remarkable man has long
been desired. Mr.. Garland has furnished an ex-
tremey readable book; the two volumes not only
contain the history of his life, and analysis of his
character, but an interesting account Of the poll
tics and the public men of the day ."-[ Crescent.
" Since Kennedy's life of William Writ, we
have had no biography, certainly no American BIZ
ography, which will at all compare in interest with
this work Ii must be read by multitudes with in
tense interest. ."-[-Hewark Daily .4dpertiser
" Mr. Garland has made good use of his mate
rial, and has given a striking and accurate por-
traiture OF the erratic and brilliant subject of his
pen. ."-[.Ne,o Orleans Delta
/" This book fills blank in the biographical no.
tices ofdistingushed of Americans. The two vol
umes gives us faithful account Of his whole ca
reer, an analysis of his celebrated speeches, &C.,
Philadelphia Enquirer.
As a biography, it is marked by directness
and unity of purpose, and by comprehensiveness
and variety of manner II Boston Post.
" 1t is one of the most interesting American BIZ
ographIes with which we are acquainted. ."-[ Epe-
ming Post.
" The work is written in on easy and beautiful
style, and is replete with striking passages. The
author is intimately acquainted with American
literature, and the great men who, at different
times, have played distinguished part in the
drama of the Republic 1t forms valuable add-
ton to our national history '-Democratic Repieiv
March 17-d.tw-w
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AMERICAN AND FOREIGN AGENCY,

CITY OF WASHINGTON,
Under the direction OF AARON HAIGHT PAL.
| MER of New York, and WORTHINGTON
GARRErrSON SNErHEN Of New Orleans, At.
oneys and Counsellors Of the Supreme Court Of the
United States
This establishment is formed for the following
objects
1. For practicing law the Supreme Court OF the
United States, and conducting professional business
before Congress.
2. For the prosecution and recovery Of all claims.
IN law equity against the United States before Con
gross OF the Executive Departments, against for
eign Governments before Boards Of Commissioners,
3. For the settlement Of accounts with the State,
Treasury, War, Navy, Post Office and Inte,ior De-
psrments, and obtaining the remission Of fines penal
ties, and forcitures, for alleged violations Of the
revenue, post office, or other laws.
4. For securing letters patent for inventions from
the United States or from foreign Governments, and
procuring land warrants and pensions under the va
rious pension laws OF the United States.
5. For collections generally, embracing debts, lcga-
ces, and inheritances in the United States and for.
eign countries.
g. For the purchase and sale OF lands in any Of the
States or Territories ofthe Unon and loaning moneys
on mortgage or real estate lying therein.
Z. For investment OF funds in United States and
State stocks and loans, collection Of the dividends
thereon, and, generally, for the transactions OF all bu
siness pertaining to law, loan, and banking agency
All communications addre- post paid, to Messrs
Palmer S Snethen, American and Foreign Agency
city oi Washington, will receive promptand faithful
attention. PALMER & SNETHEN,
Office No. 3, Carroll Place, Capitol Hill
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DRY GOODS In CHARLESTON, S. G.
DIRECT IMPORTATIONS.
C. & E. L. KERRIsoN. g. co.

nIRECT IMPORTERS. of European Dry
~ Goods, are happy TO inform their friends and
customers, that they are now receiving by every
arrival from Europe, additions to as complete a
Stock of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, as has ever
been offered in their market. Good Goods are
furnished at lcio prices, and those who purchase in
their city, are invited 10 examine their Styles,
which will be found peculiarly adapted to the
Southern Trade.
Ladies' Dress Goods and Domestic Fabrics in every
variety of Negro Cloths Blankets and Plantation,
Dry Goods, a complete assortment. House Keeping
articles in their line in every variety, together with
a full stock Of Cassime,es, Yestings, and Cloths.
Also Linens, which will be found free from any
mixture of cotton.
All articles sold, are guaranteed to prove as re
presented. Terms Cash, or city acceptance
c. d Z. l.. KERRlS0N, g. CO.,
209 Northwest cor. Of King and Market SITS.
Charleston, Sept Q, 1851. law6t
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The MASSACRE MoNUMENT.-The project OF
erecting monument in honor of the Americans
massacred at Havana, is seriously entertained in
New York, and the Sun of that city says:
We are authorized to state that the following
contributions have been already rendered The
sum of SIC, 600 by one gentleman, on the condi.
ton that $4,000 more shall be subscribed. From
two gentlemen jointly, $4,000 on the same condi.
tion. From another (wIthout condition) $4,000,
and the pledge to raise much more from few
friends. From a few Cuban exiles, $500. From
another gentleman, Cuban planter IN this city,
three thousand nluskets.
The southern press., 1851-09-06

THE PEACH SEASON has passed it's climax, and
as the quantity OF fruit brought to marhet gradual
ly diminishes, prices increase. The heaviest bust
ness in this branch was transacted last Tuesday
when not far from 30 900 baskets were brought to
market, which is equivalent TO 5000 or $4,000
bushels. One Of the principal dealers estimated
the number Of baskets daily brought to the city,
at present. at IL, 900. The average price for faii
peaches now demanded is "a cents basket
~ Y Journal Of Commerce.
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pprL,prLpu,A.S Sept. 9

DEATH FROM THE BIrE or RATrLEsSAKE.-
|winam Lovatt, who was yesterday bit by rattle
snake, which he kept in his house as curiosity,
died abut three O'Clock this morning from the ef-
|fects ofthe poison He endured the most horrible
tortures from the time he was bit until death re-
lived him. His limbs and body were awfully
swollen, and actually, turned black. Three ply
kcians were in attendance, but their applications
Failed to have the least effect.
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S. GRIsWoLD g. CO.,
(Suceesors TO Daniel Pratt s Co..

(SueeesOrs 10 Daniel Pratt & Co..
d ESPECTFULLY informs the public that
IL they are now manufacturing
coTToH GINS
at Prattsville, Autauga county, Alabama.
Their arrangements for manufacturing are exten
sive and complete which will enable them TO furn.
sh Gins to planters on the most favorable terms
As to the superiority Of their Gins, they have on.
y to refer to the reputation which the manufac
ure and sale Of over 10000 has acquired for them
throughout the entire cotton growing region
From 25 years experience, with every facility and
good workmen, they confident that they viii
be able to give satisfaction to all who may patron
ze them.
n5@Their Gins are warranted to perform well
Engagements for Gins can be made with theil
travelling agents, who will call on planters gene
rally, or by letter directed to Prattvile, Autauga
county, Alabama.
A supply OF Gins always on hand with Camp.
bell & Co Mobile, and n. Kendall, & Garter Co..
.NeD Orleans.
& GRISWOT g. 60
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ONE DOLLAR PER .a.N:NUyM,
Pacific Mail Steamship COmpany.-The only
Line for California and Oregon.

VNHENpublic are informed that, under the new
IL arrangements of this company, steamers in
spected and improved by the Navy Department,
and carrying the United States mails, will con-
tinue to leave Panama and San Francisco on the
lst and 18th days Of each month, unless detained
by unavoidable accident, and will touch at Aca-
pulco, San Diego, and Monterey. The follow
ing steam packets belonging to the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, one of which will be al
ways in port at each end of the route, are now in
III Dn
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c. Il e. l.. KERRIsoN Il co.
D,rong T,otoryore of

80 r + GIN DRY Y-G 20 ID S
IN Charleston, South Carolina,
WoULD respectfully inform their friends, and
w those who purchase Dry.Goods in their
city, that they are prepared, and are offering n
very large and well assorted stock OF Foreign and
Domestic, Staple, and Fancy Dry Goods selected
for and particularly adapted to the Southern trade.
Importing direct, they feel assured Of being able
TO sell goods as low m Charleston, as they can be
bought in any other market in the United States.
They would call particular attention to Linen
Goods, Of every descriptions; the make will be
found of best finish, and perfectly free from any
smirture Of cotton. Also to their stock Of Dres
Goods, which will be found second to none in the
market.
Terms Cash, or city acceptances.
G. e. Z. l.. KERRISON, g. co.
No 2O9 King, northwest corner King and Marks
Feb. 10. streets.
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METHODIST BIsHoPs.--Two ofthe senior Bish-
ops Of the Methodist Church at the North are
lying very sick, with but feeble hopes ofrecovery.
Bishop Heddng is represented by a correspondent
of The Christian .4dpocate, as very week, but
cheerful humble, and simple in manners, accord
ling to the primitive pattern Of Methodist Bishops
Bishop Hamine is also very feeble, and expects
10 survive but little time. His state Of mind is
What would be expected Of him-perfect peace.
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M. THOMPSON.

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR 1T L.aV.
COMMISSIONER of Deeds ofNorth and South
~ Carolina I; Agent for Revolutionary Pension
Claims, Bounty Lands, and every other descrp
ton OF Claims against the various Departments of
the General Government and before Congress
Also, Agent for the British Commercial Life In.
surance Company; Capital s3,000,000
I5- Office one door Wed Of Jackson Hall, Penn
sytpania .4penue, WASHINGTON, d. C.
z. ;. Refer, IL necessary, to the Heads of De-
partnfents and to Members Of Congress generally.
The southern press., 1851-09-06

Tgr ExPoRrArtoN OF SLAVES from New Or
leans to Europe is an item Of some importance.
Two firms load twenty ships for France and
Spain. Eight ships leave that place freighted
with slaves as their soc cargo, and twenty more
carry slaves as the principal part Of their load.
The slaves come from Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana,
Tennessee, and Missouri Sent to Europe, they
are manufactured into casks and filled with the
foaming and sparkling vintage of the sunny slopes
Of France and Spain, and return to the New
World, the forests Of which are ielled to procure
them.
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PROSPECTUS
THE SOIL OF THE SOUTH.

n NHE undersigned a committee OF publication, on
IL the part Of the Muscogee and Russell Agrcul-
tural Society, respectfully invite public attention
to the. following prospectus Of a 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 .qg-
riculture 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-
nexion with the interests Of the soil, the other in
dustral pursuits of the land, will receive their APP
propriate attention.
The "SOlL OF THE SOUTH" will be under
the editorial supervision of CHARLES A. PEABODY
esq and Col. JAMES M CHAMBERS. Mr.. Peabody
has been for two years past connected with the
Agricultural Press, and is equally distinguished as
a practical and scientific farmer and gardener
Col. Chambers is one ofthe 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
quarto size, printed with new type on superior
white paper, and furnished to subscribers at the
rate of
ONE DOLLAR PER .aNNU.M,
which must be paid in advance.
I5Postmasters are authorized to act as agents,
and they may retain in their hands twenty-five
per cent. fall subscriptions collected by them, or
if they perfer it, copy Of the work will be sent
to any one twelve months gratutously who will
remit four names ioith four dollars.
All communications must be addressed, post
paid, to VIM H. CHAMBERS, publisher of 'tThe
Soil of the South, !" Columbus, Ga.
VAN LEONARD, Committee
r. A. WARE, of
]. E. HURT, SPublication.
Columbus, (Ga.) March, 1851.
The southern press., 1851-09-06

ANOTHER PLANET DIscoyERED.-M. Gasparis
Of the observatory of Naples, has announced the
discovery by him, on the 29th of July, of yet an
other member of the group Of small planets reyov
ing between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. II
has the appearance Of a star of the ninth tenth
magnitude This is the fifth small planet dis
covered by him.
The southern press., 1851-09-06

Par AT THE PosT OFFIcE.-The following col
loquy actually took place at an Eastern post Off
ce:
Pat" say Mr.. Postmaster, is there a litther
for mei'
P. M-Who are you, my good sir'"
Pat" am meself, that's who am"
p. M.-"Wel, what's yous name"
Pat-An' what der you want wild the name
ism I it on the litther!
P. M.-"So that can find the letter ifthere is
one.''
Pat-"Well, Mary Burns, thin, if ye must
have it,
Pm. --"No sir--there is none for Mary Burns. .
Pat" Is there no wayto git in there but thrugh
this pane of glass Z"
p. M.-"No sir"
Pat "It's well for you there isn't. I'D teach
ye bitther manners than to insist on gntlmin \
name but ye didn't git it after also | am aver
wild ye, devil bit is my name Burns"
The southern press., 1851-09-06

AT late sitting of the Paris Academy OF
Medicine, M. Orfla, the celebrated toxicologist,
read a paper on nicotine, the poison used in the
Bocarme murder. 1t is the essential principle Of
tobacco. Virginia tobacco yields the largest
proportion of nicotine: from twenty pounds
were extracted four hundred grammes of the
poison a gramme is equal to 15,444 grains
troy. The Maryland leaf affords about third
of that quantity. Nicotine is nearly as power
full and rapid as prussic acid with the animal
economy. Five or six drops applied to the
tongue Of dog, killed him in ten minutes
The progress which medical jurisconsults have
made recently, is so great that poisoning by
morphine, strychnine, prussic acid, and other
vegetable substances hitherto regarded as innc-
cessible to our means of inves igation, may now
be detected and recognized in the most incon
testibe manner nj. Orfila, in closing his no
tice, says: 'After these results of judcal med
cal investigation, the public need be under no
apprehension. No doubt intelligent and clever
criminals, with a view to thwart the surgeons,
will sometimes have recourse to very active poi
sons little known by the mass, and difficult of
detection; but science is on the alert, and soon
overcomes all difficulty. Penetrating into the
utmost depths of our organs, it brings out the
proof of the crime, and furnishes one Of the
greatest pieces of evidence against the guilty.
International Magazine.
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eB- CHARLES NJ MARTIN, Of Haynesville'
Alabama, is our authorized agent to collect les
and receive subscriptions for the Southern Press
in Alabama and Mississippi
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LOUISVILLE, Sept. .

Powell, governor elect was inaugurated to-day
with great pomp at Frankfort He has appointed
d. Merriw, ther, late candidate for Congress,
Secretary of State.
The Cuban excitement is dying Off Returned
volunteers from New Orleans state, that there
are l,400 men there with no means of getting
off and nothing wherewith to pay their expenses.
The southern press., 1851-09-06

The new steamship Columbia will ply between
San Francisco and ports in Oregon, awaiting at
the former ports the arrival OF the mails and pas
sehgers from Panama, and returning without de-
lay with the mails and passengers for the steamer
from San Francisco.
A regular line of propelers will be kept up for
the transportation Of freight and transient passen-
gers between Panama and San Francisco.
The well-known steamship Sarah Sands, oi
500 tons burden, now under charter TO the COM
pany, and peculiarly commodious in her cabin
arrangements, will be kept running as an extra
family boat.
One of the above steamers will keep up the
connexion between Acapulco and the other Mex
lean ports.
The connexion in the Atlantic will be main
tanned by the United States mail steamships
Georgia. a....................3,OO 1000 tons
OHIO. .3,OOO
Empire city,. .2,UUu
Crescent City. l,5OO
Cherokee. .l,oOU
Phlladelphla. ...-............LlUu
Leaving New York fer Chagres on the llth
and Goth of each month.
The new steamer FL Dorado and the Falcon will
form a direct line between New Orleans and Cha
gres, leaving at such periods as will insure as
little detention as possible on the lsthmus and
forming with the Pacific steamships through line
TO and from New Orleans and ports in Mexico,
California, and Oregon. Passage from New Or
leans can be secured from Armstrong, Lawrence,
& Co., agents at that place.
The fare for through tickets from New York to
San Francisco has been reduced from
S40O in state room TO. o............ $3.50
$3.50 in lower cabin nto.............S29O to.
$500 in steerage to. ................Slb Slb5
The rates from New York to Chagres will be
the lowest adopted by any safe sea-sieamer be-
tween these ports.
Each passenger is allowed $50 lbs. personal
baggage free, not exceeding in measurement 10
cubic feet
Freight will be taken TO Chagres at 20 cents per
rate Of 500 rer ton.
For choice Of berths apply at the Office Of the
company, 81 and SIS South street or at their
agency, No. III West street, New York city.
Aug l2-dly
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pension and Bounty Land Agency.

| TIME subscriber has opened in the city of Wash
| IL ington an AGENCY for the prosecution o
all descriptions of claims against the Genera
Government.
| His perfect knowledge Of all the Pension Laws
and the places where are deposited all evidence OF
service now extant, will enable him to establish
many claims which have long remained suspend
ed for want Of proof aud proper attention..
He, therefore, offers to the public his services,
particularly in the following cases, VIZ:
Suspended and rejected claims under all the Pen
sion Laws
Applications for increase Of pension, under any
of the Pension Laws, where the pensioners are
dissatisfied with their present allowance.
For all those widows who received, or are enti-
tied TO receive the ten pension due on the 4th
of March, lS4S; under the acts of July 7th, 1888,
March Sd, lS43, and June l7th, 1874, being those
who were married before the lst Of January, 1884,
he will undertake to establish, under the act of
February I'd, l64S, their claims to pensions for
life. commencing on the 4th Of March, l84S, when
their pensions under lie foregoing acts termi-
uated.
For all those widows of revolutionary officers
or soldiers, who were married after 1893, but be-
fore January I'd, 1900, he will undertake to estab
sh their claims to pensions for life, commencing
on the 4th Of March, 1S48, under the act of July
20, IS4S.
To all those widows ofrevolutionary pensioners
whose claims have been rejected or suspended for
want OF PROOF OF service; or thOSe VINO are In tne
receipt of pension under any of the pension
laws, less than that received by their husbands
under the acts of May 18th, 1928, or June 7th,
1892, he will ensure the same amount per an
mum that their husbands received, from the time
the pension is made to commence by the law un-
der which they claimed or have been pensioned,
BOUNTY LAND,
For the surviving, or the widows, or minor child
rem of deceased officers and privates, who served
in the war of 1912 with Great Britain, the Mexi-
can war, or in any of the Indian wars, since $780,
Terms moderate, where the claim is established, !,
otherwise no charge.
The subscriber is also appointed Agent for the
District of Columbia for the British Commercial
Life Insurance Company, established in 1920, and
empowered by act of Parliament, for the insurance
of lives and the endowment of children, in Lon
don, New York and Washington city. Capital
S3,000,000.
Communications addressed to the subscriber,
Washington, d. c., will receive prompt attention.
M. THOMPSON,
Attorney and Counsellor at La,p, and Commits
missioner of Deeds for North aud South Carolina
T. 5. Refer, if necessary, to the heads of de-
partments, and to members Of Congress generally
March DIFF
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American AFFAIRS IN tue MEDITERRANEAN.-
correspondent Of the Newark Advertiser, writing
from Genoa, Aug. 4th, says:
The King Of Naples has shown his teeth towards
the United States, by forbidding his diplomatic
and consular agents to issue, or risd passports to
any OF his subjects who may desire to enjoy the
blessings Of freedom in our country, or even 10
visit the great exposition of the worlds progress
in London How different from the spirit Of the
noble young king Of Sardinia, who has just made
contribution of 600 francs to a fund subscribed
at Turin to defray the expenses ofa delegation ol
one hundred workmen from the various branches
Of manufactures to that same exposition.
DR.. George q. Baker, Of Ohio, the recently ap.
pointed United States consul for this port, has
reached Turin on his way hither. The Mediter-
ranean squadron, Commodore Morgan, consist
ing of the flag ship Independence and the steam
frgate Mississippi have Just returned to this coast
from visit Trieste where they were visited by
over so 900 Austriars, including the Arch Duk,
John and family and the King and Queen Of Sax
ony. The presence ofthe vessels in these waters
is justly regarded as highly important to our
national influence.
The Rev. DIR. Bacon and his son, Of New
Haven, have just reached this country on Their
way home, after long and perilous tour ia the
East, through Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia 10
Turkey. The doctor proposes to he in London
at the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance. lie
is at this moment among the Waldenses in the
Vaudois valleys, near Tnrn.
The southern press., 1851-09-06

AN EMPLOYEE OF SPAIN IN NEw YoRK-We
were told yesterday by a respectable Spanish gen.
,leman who had lived some time in Cuba, that the
editor Of the Spanish paper-the Cronca-s paid
by the Spanish government to edit that paper in
this city, and that the government officers in Cuba
are taxed for its support.-N Y. Day Book.
The southern press., 1851-09-06

THE CuBAS FLAe.-The New York Sun has a
letter from Savannah which says that the steamer
Pampero, or, as she is now called, the "Libera-
tor, when she returned from Bahia Honda to
Key West, had the Cuban flag flying, and
brought clearance papers from General Lopez.
The collector, however, did not seem inclined to
recognize the flag, and on Capt. Lewis being
informed that he was preparing to seize her, he
nnietly removed from his jurisdiction.
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PRINTING TYPES

A re now sold at BRUCE'S NEW-YoRK
"A TYPE-FoUNDRY, at the following very
low prices, for approved six months notes
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TELEGRAP HIC.
TWO DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.
COTTON MPRoyED-rLoUR DECLINED.


New YORK, Sept. 3.
The steamer America arrived at Halifax this
morning. Common and middling oottons have
advanced within one week fully quarter. Bet
ter qualities an eighth. Fair Orleans FIVE and
seven eighths. Mobile five and half Sales
of the week, sixty-eight thousand bales. Specu
lators took nine, and exporters fourteen thousand
bales. Sales on Saturday of eight thousand
bales. Market closed firm
The harvest is progressing finely.
Flour and wheat are greatly depressed. Flour
had declined six pence, wheat two pence Corn
had advanced six pence.
AT Havre there have been active sales of cot
ton during the week of fifty,fve thousand bales
Sales up to two o'clock on Thursday, two thous-
and bales very ordinary Orleans, fully eighty.
three.
The yacht America, at regatta on Friday
beat eighteen British yachts easily
The political news is unimportant.