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Baliimere and washinslon Railroad


IN Wednesday 9th instant the station Penn
vana viii he vacated and the new one on New Jer
avenue occupied
usual, and o. and ), p daily except ON Sunday,
when trains win at o. a M, and ., p M
making change the undersigned desires to call attention
regard 10 the reception aud delivery
merchandise.
is shippers reminded that in all bill with full drcc
should accompany the goods
projection Of both parties and unless complied
the good received.
ID Consgnees nou6od that all merchandise b.
which II 10 received, the
cannot hold itself responsible Tor ss ns len IN Its house during The
night u~#
The reception and delivery Of merchandise
.. m iii 4, p.
The undersigned takes occasion 70 remark tina, these
regulations has been compelled call attention them
frequent violation, which caused much and
ncon venisnce.
r. H. PARSONS, Agent
Ap 6-2wd
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TO CONTRACTORS.

orrrcr or TOMBSTONE o. PrpLio Bulpsa,
March ~, I55l.
PROPOSALS. viii be received this once Saturday. The ot
OF April next for furnishing the following articles via
5000 pounds OF best pure American white lead
300 gallons Of best linseed oil
400 gallons Of best boiled inseed OIL
900 pounds puuy
~ dozen 8 10000 brushes
dozen sash tools hlcher-
dozen busters
800 pounds best hthnrge.
One half Of the above articles be or before The os
day OF April the remainder to b. delivered
May
More Of the articles required han
specified The Commissioner by giving notc.
qure a larger quantity than above stated
VIM EAsBY,
Mar 22-tApl9 Commissioner Pubic pn,laings
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TO CONTRACTORS.

oruos o. cosussroSss rUrtio Bon slses
Mavb 49, 1881.
PROPOSALS win be received at this Once until osck
days The s day Of Aprl next for grading and p.yepr
Jersey avenue, between and Capto The
grading VIII require about o,00O cubic yards Of
As the gravel viii be confined
pchca area to be covered will probably
thickness OF The gravel covering viii be
gradually dim,sled TO FIVE inches each side
s the Price per enbie yard for the fg
hca yard for the gravel The
work must be procured by the work m., he com
menced WIN as Ile delay possible, and
force as may be deemed necessary FOR early competop
49, WM. Easily,
""%-hpo Commissioner Of Public Ruildings.
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TO CONTRACTuRs

orrIos OF cosAtsslosrn Punuc BufIprsas,
Marca II, is5l.
PROPOSALS viii be received Tuesday the eh
day OF April nort inclusive, for srcayang line and
contracting barrel calvert and
nine inch wallis be lad OF best hard
side l7, eide Of
New York south side OF avenue
hundred twenty proposals. viii
state the thousand brick hing all
the price cubic yard for
and computed BY the engineer The work
to be completed by the 30th OF June.
wM. Easily,
Commissioner o. Public Building.
Mar lp-dtArrs
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Hos,. q. II. Jasnes's POSI- lton.

=
The following letter from General James has the merit
OF candor and shows the position he is to occupy in the
Senate OF the United States:
Editor Of the Prouidsncs Daily Journal:
Having the letters published your PAL per OF Fn
day last relating me- deem IL act Of justice to
sell, my friends and to the public says l. Thai
have occasion, to person, said that
was wbg. On the contrary, have always belonged
to the old democratic party. / in favor OF Judi.
cious tarh-such will etiectualy protect the labor
of the country, by taxing lightly the necessaes Of e and
heavily the Injuries thee be one measure OF government
more democratic than another, consider that which by
such compcls the rich 10 give employment and sup
port the poor be such. T. / in favor of internal
improvements by the general government, especially on
southern md waters far the Be
carried istentIy with the constitution, and which
the interests Of our country demand These
consider the only euding whig MEASURE Of the
day To these and support siven not
because OF any pledge hst effect bat because adopted
by many years since principle. Tbis is all con
slider 10 be embraced he Hon. VIM. Spfsgue,
and 1t regarded at the time written. These
only whig, but democfatic lying ut the
fopnda'icn of neoosi ",''v and prea
especially that OF protection to our industry.
regret exceedingly Tie necessy cornpcls me
appear Ia the pub press IN my own behalf, and as IN
duced 10 hope should be left fee what nr abb
ny and influence Iiight possess for The benefit CT our
State and county, in accordance with my best Judgment
nde pendently OF patty dctaon and still hold the hd
without Difference such dictaion 10 put
such ltne Of conduct Ia my Judgment best
port with the interests OF our common county
THIS much have said IN justice myself and Others and
shall leave my in the Ssnaie OF The United States
10 peak Tor isseii when the Time may CONE r. r,,rs
Pun. March H. 1851.
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ny A. GREEN. Auctioneer.
rVRUsTEEis SALE or EXCELLENT HOUSEHOLD AND
L KITCHEN FURNITURE AT AuCTioN-on Wednesds,
the 9th sa sell by Of deed OF tst the Union
House street. between ~ and 9Th streets, at 10 O'Clock
hne assortment offurntnre, namely
Mahogany French and other spring soas dvsns, &c
DO arm, parior, and rocking chairs and otoinans
DO marble top dressing bureaus
Do pier and tables
DO wsrdrobes, and wnshsnnds
DO card, side, dressing, dining and other tables
gilt French plate and other looking siasses
Mahogany French and maple cottage bedstesds
Feather beds beading, hair, cotton, and other mattresses
Round ONCE cane, and wood seat chairs
Maple and psint.d washstsnds and wsrdrobes
lend sik and and other window
splendid psrlor carpet, s2i yards
Velvet Rrssses tapestry
and other
Girsndocs, cha Hdecrs
Solar hall, and other lamps
China, glass, crockery,
Table cutlery, quality nbsta and forks
Cooking, tight, and and long
With among
good lot cooking -coppers.
AlaSe vorton Of the allow furniture
aud All Of an erceent quality Any wishing
good furniture will do wen attend the and
hour. II +. aN.I9
Terms Al suns Of and under sp, 40
ceedna 4o two and four months o. credit
and six months for lin Of credit satisfactorily
dorssd, bearing interest. e
n. a. WILLIAMS, Trustee,
hpt-d A. GREEN, Anctonrer.
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SENATOR Housros IN BAToS RoUGE-We learn from
the Baton Rouge Advocate that Gen. Houston was in
Baton Rouge on the oath inst aud delivered temperance
lecture al The request OF the Sons" The Advocate
says il understands IRON good authority that the General
is about TO retire permanently 10 The shades OF private
life
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Any distance exceeding

Subscribers 10 all periodicals. must pay one quarters
postage in advance and in such The postage shall
be one. half the foregoing rates.
Bound books not weighing 80 ounces may be sent
by mail al the above rates All printed matter sent BY
mail must be prepaid, and, if sent without prepayment
is charged double the amount OF the above rates
The above are the rates, according 10 my understanding
OF the new postage law.
RnlVI Ann Hill
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CLERKS orrIos Housr or RrrassrSrArIvs. aus
ArrT s. is5l.
phOrosnS will he received At this once ANIL she
e'h day OF May merit for the delivery CAPITOL Of xo hun.
dred and hv tons OF the best 10 b b,ok
Jumps sbont INC sire Of fourteen pound same 10 bc
posted IN The vaults Of the CAPITOL free particles
Also o two hundred and my cords Of best quality
wood, twenty cords 10 be
In pieces delivered sawed sna slowed
away IN the vaults o" or before the hr-t day Of July
RICHARD N YOUNG, -.
,.,... cisrh House OF Representative u, a.
intel, Republic h Southern rrs..1
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REEBE'h New York HAta.-STEvEN5 has this day opened
Further supply OF Bcebe hats OF the fashion Also
part Of his importation French hats. ttt
oensmcn invited call him. at his store under the
An
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paris MTLLuNERY.-Mrs. ANN H. CLARK hs. Inst re-
turned from New YORK; with srKv splsnd
French millinery and fancy hats with evy variety bsnd-
howers morning and dress which
Of the ladies Saturday, April O'Clock srore Ave doors
east a" the Farmers and Mechanics Bank Bridge
Apt-dA.
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PHuApsIrsia, March IL, 1851.

The President has also removed Mr. Harrington, tn free
soil postmaster Buffalo, New York. and Lee. OF Liur
Falls another of the kdney and this is TO be fol owet
~ by the removal of the asers at Utica and svea
her places LousrIis Courier.
While The wings OF Ohio are sending free soil part
to the United States Senate. pledged publicly to r1
nto the fugitive compromise, TO Imprisonment noe
md deaih, II necessary, and while they are hlng all "
departments OF the State government, so far as 10 hen
power, with the kidney affecting at the same me
most religious love for Mr.. Fillmore and his admins
trallon that worthy is busy, with all the power oil h'
osii!on and IN The cases specified In guiHoning ever
man whom he find holding sentiments IN symPa W
with them. The Ohio wings put sueh men IN mn
,laces-Mr Fillmore kicks them out OF has places it
Ohio wings effect most loyal attachment TO The man ana
his policy l-Ctneinpafi Enquirer.
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Newspapers not containing three hundred square
inches fourth the above that the postage on
annum
Monthly newspapers one fourth. and semi monthly
one hall OF the postage on weekly newspaper
NEWSPAPERS, CIRCULARS. uAspBLLs PAMPHLETS rgRIopl-
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To The Editor Of The N. Y. Herald
The new postage law which goes into operation on the
LIST OF July next complicated and my sled that il
would puzzle Philadelphia lawyer 10 determine exactly
the rates OF letter and wspaper postage and espe
cally the rates TO be charged on transient newspapers
and other printed matter.
Al the request OF OF our publishers, prepared a
synopsis OF hs OF postage understand the law
and sent copy OF il to the Postmaster General 10 be
rervised by The Post Ohce Department, but have
ceiyed reply TO my request Indeed, very much
doubt from what have heard, whether they understand
themselves what their own law means for il must be
recoleced that the substitute Tor the bill which passed
the House prepared by the Postmaster General and
his assistants as stated several times by General Rusk IN
the Senate.
The postmaster OF San Francisco, who left here few
days snce told the writer OF this that he could not tell
whether the postage 10 California IS TO be twenty OF
ak cents single letter. and that he had APP
piled 10 the department for information on the subject
and was told that The question would be submitted q The
heads OF The bureaus Tor their decision Strange maj
law should be framed that The trainers themselves
cannot interpret IT,
Had the rates recommended by Rusk, of the Senate
and Durkee OF the House. The first session OF the las
Congress, been adopted, all would have been PLAN
simple, a-d uniform. "Two Cents prepaid, on letters.
" one cent newspapers, and one cent an ounce on
all printed matter, allowing the publishers hiiy per cent
discount If they disposed to prepay the postage
These would have been satisfactory, easily under
Stood and would have yielded, in two years, ample rev
enue 10 meet the ordinary expenses oil the department
POSTAGE ON LETTERS.
Letters are TO be charged three cents prepaid, and fU
cents not, every half ounce, under 5000 miles, and
double those rates that distance Drop letters on.
each, and dduesd letters only cent in addition
to the regular postage.
"A letter when conveyed wholly in part by
or tom iSss" noaay over Iou' s hs1 ne e"
have been shah be adjusted at different rates b,
postal treaty or convention
Let US contrast the rates OF postage under the new law
with those under the Old and the present laws:
/ a I,,v N Anil nil K mic n
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ROWLAND HILL.
ClRCULAR-POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
Posr OFrcE DEPARTMENT,
Appointment Office, April /, 1851

Fifth section OF the act OF the 81 of March, 1851
SIC 3. lad be AZ further enacted That lists OF letter.
remaining uncsled Tor in any post office in any city,
village where spaper shalt be printed shall here
alter be publ shed only In the newspa per which,
being issued weekly oene shall have the largest circu
aiion within the range OF delivery Of said Office be
cided by The postmaster at such Office, such and
under such regulations the Postmaster General shall
pfescrbe and charge OF Tor each letter advc
used Aud the postmaster at snch office hereby directed
post, In conspicuous place In his otce copy
list on the DAY or day after the publication thereof and Il
the pnbsher oiany such shall refuse publish the
lists letters provided ia this secttou the po,
may designate some other paper Tor such purpose
list OF letter. shall be published once IN every six weeks
aud much oener, not exceeding once N week as the
Postmaster General may cialy directs Provided Thai
he Postmaster General may In his discretion direct the
publication of German and other foreign letters in any
Newspaper printed Ia the German any foreign
gunge which publication shall be either la lieu OF or In
addition to the publication OF the list OF letters, in the
first IN This section provided, the
C,ene al SIN direct
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ARRANGEMENTS IN NEw YoRK RECEPTION on ip'
sLAvg.Thc marshal OF the State OF New York received
o,mmun caton Saturday from the marshal Of bo0
requesting that he and his aids would he in readiness Y
ssst in the sale transmission OF tho slave Smm on ~
quite through to ivapnah.
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POSTAGE on NEWSPAPERS.
Weekly papers sen, free of postage the county where
published Papers under three ounces, for the future
law, will DC charged at the following rates:
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DEATH or Con-. WApswoRTB-We regret TO announce I.
d-ab OF Commodore Alexander s. Wadsg worth, when
| place In Washington on Sunday las, He was IN w
KY fleet ofhis age. ;,
Commodore w adsworth was a ratvs oil the oA" :
lsine and served his country for many yesp win t~
distinction He originally entered the navy Of inc op'
States the ID Of April, 1901 and held his commission
pos captain from the I'd Of March, 1925, up 10 the t
lis death. lie was the seventh Of the veterans heao"s
naval list a.
As mark of aspect to his memory and serslces",,
Navy Department directs that funeral tonor pe -
thereto by hosting the flag at hafnasi and hrna 'n. "a
IN mute guns each of tho naval sa'ions 10 the
States on ne day suece M h. r-ceirt The oroer
,HARPr Patent hines, with MAynard's f'n \.
wssson Lesvts, and Aliens revolvep and cell oocr
tolls ~
Fine English double barrel fowiine pieces
English and GcrWan single and double barrel psson -.
suppiy Of the goods received, and for sale
JNO. w. BADEN 4 BRoIHlni.
Pennsylvania avenue, near our '''
Mar 1-law6~ #.
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Foreign CopYriPht.

The absurdity of English law in reference
to literary property is well shown in the fol-
lowing remarks from the London .Ne,cs on the
subject of the late decision of Chief Justice
CAMPBELL, in the case of Boosey Us. Jeffrey,
which we recently copied
''Let us take the we'll known case of the illus
trious American writer Mr.. Washington Irving.
That gentleman having put down upon paper his
until then unspoken and unwritten ideas, and
having thereby called into existence this thing,
commodity, or book, had no property in it, because
he was a foreigner, and the English publisher to
whom he sold it had bought what the author had
no right to SELL II was, consequently, decided
that the English publisher might be deprived Of
his purchase by any other who chose to enter into
competition with him. Strange judgments are oc-
casionally given, and strange things occasionally
happen in our law courts but any thing more
strange than this it is difficult to imagine If MIR.
Washington Irving, foreigner as he is, had come
over TO this country with horse, or a cow, or a
bale OF cotton, even a pound of American
cheese, the law of England would have pun
ished any man, whether English or foreign who
robbed him Of any one of these thngs; and if he
had sold the horse COW, the cotton or the cheese
to any man who traded in such articles, the right
of the purchaser TO hold and enjoy, TO re.vend
it, would have been enforced. if need were by the
whole weight, authority, and majesty of the Eng
ish law. But the court held that there was no such
property in foreigners book. If it had been an
Englishman's book, the English law, as laid down
in the Excbequer, would have treated the book like
any other commodity produced by the skill or ac-
quired by the industry of an Englishman and if it
had been foreigners watch, it would have been
-. n
was gravely alleged, was passed for the encourage
ment of English, and not of foreign writer's; and,
therefore, all the booksellers of England were at
liberty to make what profits they could out of the
brains of foreign authors, even although they spole
and wrote the English language"
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we'll PIT.

The Lynchburg Vrgiridn propounds GER
tain interrogatories to Mr.. BococK, the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in its district,
which we apprehend he will find difficult to
answer. We should be pleased with an oppor-
tunity of publishing Mr.. BococK's reply to the
suggestions and queries of the following para
graphs:
"Mr Bocock holds that State of this Union has
right, upon causes to be judged of by itself, TO
withdraw from the Confederacy, and of course
being then an independent power-it has a right
to form any alliance it may choose. If this be the
right ola State, it is which it may at any time
exercise. Many of the citizens OF Massach usetts
were opposed to the last with Great Britain.
Does MIR. Bocock believe that, while that war was
being waged, the State of Massachusetts, could
have withdrawn from the Union, entered into an
alliance with England, and turned her arms
against the citizens of the United States?
again, it has been proposed that the United
States should purchase Cuba from SPAIN and take
it into the Union a State, Louisiana and Flor
ida and California were purchased and made States
Of If the purchase were made, and q hundred or
go miilions of dollars paid for the island, does he
think that Cuba would have right, the day
after, to withdraw from the Union and return to
lite Spanish allegiance -
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The sailor-steam-rhe Princeton.

In chapter of the very pleasant volume
from the pen of the late WALTER COTTON, en-
titled The Sea and the Sailor, we find an al
frequently have struck landsman, though it
is stoutly denied by many of our naval friends;
who insist that they are the most willing class
in the world to avail themselves of all improve
ments in the art and craft TO which they are
devoted. We copy the paragraphs to which
we refer, and take occasion to say, by way of
parenthesis, that the volume of Mr.. CoLToN, to
which we are indebted for our extract, may be
found at Mr.. FARNHAM's bookstore in this
city, issued in an unusually neat STYLE from
the press Of 4. 5. BARNES & Co., Of New
York:
"a prejudice against all innovations is another
trait in the character OF the sailor. Holding to
ancient Usage with the fidelity of Turk habit
consecratcd by time has with him sacredness
which he will not lightly surrender. He is at
tached to a custom because it is a custom
"'And scorns to give aught other reason why
"No regular sea bred sailor will ever go on board
one of our steam-frgates except by compulsion.
lie detests steam even in a dead calm, though he
must lie there
"'As idle as a painted chip
Upon painted ocean,
He thinks il fit to be used only in crawling of a lee
shore; and then, than resort to it. he
would risk thump or two with the breakers
He likes open sea, long sweeping waves, an
ample spread of canvas, stiff, steady breeze ard
the foam rolling away as if in terror from his ca
reering keel"
This prejudice against innovation does not
seem to be confined to the common sailor, but,
as far as our opportunities of observation ex-
tend, pervades the quarterback as well as the
forecastle Let us take a single illustration:
In the year lS43, or Whereabouts, Commodore
STOCKTON constructed for the navy Of the
United States the most complete and perfect
steamship of war that had ever been devised.
We refer, of course, TO the Princeton, which
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MoRMoNIsM. -Agreeably TO an enumeration
made in January last, there at that time il
England AZ conferences, 602 branches, II high
priests, l76l elders, $50 priests, ,226 teachers
6S2 deacons, and 25,454 members, making tota
of 30,747 saints. During the last fourteen years
more than $4,000 had been baptised in England oil
which II 900 had emigrated from her shores
The whole number of Mormons is now said to be
about three hundred thousand. The rise and in
crease of Mormonism is one of the most remar ka-
bic Developments of the age 1t has been treated
with contempt. and yet it has continued TO expand
this Confedcracy. 1t will not be long before the
Mormon State contains population enough to quail
ify it for admission into the Union.
When Joe SHth first began to preach Mormon
ism, no one could possibly have supposed that it
would become as important as ii has. There is
nothing in it that would naturally induce men TO
prefer 1t TO Mahometanism, and yet in the United
States and in England, in the face of facts proving
it to be n clumsy ilaposture, and in opposition
to all the lights OF the age, II has grown from
strength to strength until il claims three hun
dred thousand converts. Its prosperity has been
ascribed to its sanctions of free and easy life,
which it is supposed have fascinated thousands and
tens of thousands of idle persons We do not think
this Hypothesis however, sufficient to explain the
problem. Were there no other fascination than
that in Mormoniem it is not likely that the +" dis
ciples" would have held together twenty years.
IL is well known that there many persons of
considerable intelligence, who are also persons of
conscience, who have embraced Mormonism
What kind of deluson is that which has ensnared
them2-LouisuiHe Journal.
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Declined.

The Hon. GEo. w WATTERsToN, who was
nominated candidate for Congress by the
Wing convention Of the third district Of Lou
isiana, declines the nomination on account Of
his health being seriously impaired from late
spell Of sickness, from which he is just recov-
ering. The New Orleans Bee, in making this
announcement, says:
we are glad to announce, however, that Mr..
Watterston will consent to run candidate for
State Senator in the Livingston district, the more
limited field enabling him to perform the labors OF
a canvass without probable detriment to his
health"