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REEnE's NEW YORK HATs,l,
FOR CALIFORNIA, via cHAGREs.

WITHOUT DETENTION 1T P.d.h.1.Msf.
TIME United States Mail Steamship Company
n will despatch the splendid double-engine
steamship GEORGIA, on Wednesday, Dec IL /,
at 3 clock, p. M, from the pier, foot of Warren
street, North river, New York, with the Govern
ment mails and passengers for San Francisco
and intermediate ports.
The connexion at Panama viii be carefully
kept up, and passengers for San Francisco are
guaranteed that they viii not be delayed at Pana-
ma beyond the usual stay IN port.
The books now open, and passage can be
secured at the following rates
FROM NEW YORK TO CILaGRES.
Stnte-room berth 800
Standee berth, forward salooon so
Storage berth, found bed q separate table so
FROM P.aN.4JI.f TO san FRANCISCO.
Siate-room berth 80 $500
Steerage berth, found bed & separate table 1850
FROM NEW YORK
latt Siaie-roon Sfaildee. Sfeerage
To Charlestono or Savannah sos 500 $40
70 70 New S Orleans IS IS GO IS
Freight to New Orleans 80 cents per cubic foot
Freight to Havana will be taken in limited
quantity at reasonable rates.
Passengers for Chagres will be transferred al
Havana to the new and splendid steamship PA
CIFIC.
To secure freight or passage, apply at the Office
Of the company, n West street, corner Of War
rem steet, to M, o. ROBERTS.
SPECIAL NoTIcE is given 10 shippers by this
line, that the company have prepared a form OF
bill of lading adapted TO their business, which will
be furnished to shippers on application at the
company's Office, and with which they are re-
quested to provide themselves, as no other form
will be signed by the agents OF the company. All
bills Of lading must be signed before the sailing o.
vessel. Dec. Z, 1850
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MEMORIAL.

To the Senate and House Of Representatives. Of Ire
United STATES ia Ccngress assembled; The memorial
of the undersigned, respectfully representa- that
they are entitled to Bounty Land, under the act
Of o5h Of September, 1880, that they are informed
and believe that the INDICATED warrants are worth
more to them than the patented binds would be.
that they do not expect desire TO reside on the
land thus granted; that if patented to them, the
expense Of agencies and taxes will be an annual
charge, reducing the value OF tho grant, which
they could AVOID II permitted to ser the warrant
Your memoriosts further represent that the law,
by preventing the sale of the warrants, assun es
that the officers and volunteers entitled 20 bounty
lands, nre not competent 10 act for themselves,
whereas many OF them among the most stel-
ligentand respectable citizens Of the States They
therefore respectfully ask that the act aforesaid
may be 80 modified as TO make The warrants for
bounty lands assignable, and they viii ever
pray, &c.
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h.dneemenls for CIubbing

Any person who will send us four subscribers
for six months, at our regular rates, shall be en-
titled 10 one copy for the same length Of time or
we viii furnish
10 copies for 6 mos, SO 10 copies for 10 mos 500
Southern and Western money taken at par for
subscriptions; or Post Office Stamps taken at
their full value
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nRESS COMBS.-We arc iua opening an
other and prettier assortment Of those hand
some Rope and Chain pattern Shell and Buffalo
Dress Tuck Combs; prices from s2to $50 each.
Also, 300 different patterns Spanish Dress Fan;
I.aces from rs cents to $40 each.
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MILL be opened at Mrs s. Parier's, on SAT-
Wv urday, ODD inst, at 10 o'clock A. M, in the
new store under the National Hotel, rich assert.
ment OF Winter Millinery, consisting Of Hats,
Caps, Head-Dresses, Feathers, Florences, Rib
hons. &c. &c. PARKER'S
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ga THE HOUSE now occupied by Mrs
'5,H SpREGCs, on Capitol Hill, Carroll Place,
mediate possession given. To good ten
terms will be reasonable. Apply 70
I7--3 BEN, II, GREEN
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CroaeETowN CorbseEs ID "
I1HE CLASSICAL ..EXERClSESof this Col
legs will be resumed on the 10th instant
sspt. IA. 2td JAMES RYDER, Prsrl
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Any person sending us three subscribers will be
entitled to a copy Of the {" History OF Propellers
and Steam Navigation" repubshed in book form
NOV in press, to be ready about the first OF Oc-
tober. II will be one Of the most complete works
upon The subject ever issued, and viii contain
about ninety engravings.
Oct DIFF
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Aw AND AGENCY oFrrcr Tbs und,r-

AW AND AGENCY OFFICE. The under
j 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
yenlions, DC, &c.
They tender their services TO members Of the
profession at distance, and when the case is
prepared by local agent will abatc one-hal their
usual fee. All information relative 10 the forms
and usages ofbusiuess in any of the Departments
will be furnished 70 our regular correspondents
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.
sI5-Ofiice on Ps nsyvania avenue Lane &
fuckers Building
DUFF GREEN,
BEN. T.. GREEN,
kICH'D III. CLARKEi
Oct. l4--3taw3m.
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rEvHE SUBSCRIBERS, Direci Importers Of all
Il WOODEN GOODS, have jas, received Pc,
Sl,;os sC,,,lnare - g Orion and % Somerset
from LIVERPOOL, their fan supply Of PLAINS.
KERsEYS' WHITE and COLoRED BLANK
Prs WHITE, RED, BLUE and GREEN
vi. ANNEI, BLANKETiNG, Guernsey Shirts
K,lmarnock Caps, Scotch Bonnets, &c, &C., cN..
presslv suited to our Southern Planters trsds, and
70 an inspection Of which, they. confidently m
N u. l.. KERRISON q Co,
900 King e.. northwest cor. King ~ Market SITS.
Charleston, ospe o.
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MEDICAL, COLLEGE OF TIE STATE OF
SOUTH CAROLINA.

MEDICAL COl.LEJE Of- lbb otA ~ VI
SOUTH CAROLINA.
nHE Annual COURSE OF LECTURES ~ THIS
Institution will commence on me hrst s"onaas
~ November next, on the following branchesi
Anatomy, by J. Holbrock, M ID
Institutes and prgctIce Of Medicine, by ; Hen
ry Dickson, NJ D
Surgery, by T.. Gsddings, M. d.
fhysiology, by James Mcuitrlet M y.
Materia Medica, by Henry X. Frost M "
f,hs,etr;,s. bv Thos. G. Prioleau, NJ ID.
Chemistry, by G. IT, Shepard, M ID.
Demonstration Of Anatomy, st. Julian Bnvepel,
M ID.
DR.. b. ]. Cain, Physician to the Marine tloe-
pifal and Clinical INSTRUCTOR. Lectures twice
week on the Discusses OF fhut lnsf,iuuon.
DIR. +. II. Paqg, Physiclan 20 the Aims houae-
lectures twice week on Diseases.
Demonstrates Instruction IN Medicine and Sur
0ery al the College Hospital.
sS' HENRY n FROST, M. D., Dem.
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Average crop Of the last seven years sxcee es
hat the prior 6f5,7lg hales, and the crop OF the
last iuat double that Of the irstand the crop Of
1850 was more than 1867 by fly per cent.
Average consumption in Great Britain Of Amer
cnp cotton the Art 7 years 1,I53,2la bales.
The "a period of 4 years l,4is,ssc bales
Largest consumption, 1912, l,5Sb,coo bales
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THy PAsr, rHr PnEsrNr AND THE FuTuRE.--Of
the COTTON trade, from the London Economist,
August pa 1850. 1T is calculated that upwards
of 1000. 900 persons depend entirely upon this
trade ~ ali its bra pehesn American cotton crop ;
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G. B. FLAGG.
Attorney az Law and solicitor In Equity
CHssIEsrov, s. G.
Al the Office Of Msssra Memmirgcr ard Jsrvy
Meeting st., next the Courthouse. kyens
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3. CONTINENTAL MONEY

Amount issued no ltl5 ~ S'VVv'VvV
l777 20 1000 900
/" in all to July, 1899 3ss,OoO,o0O
The whole expenses Of the wer, estimated in
specie, amounted TO sl35, i93,7O3.
COTTON STATISTICS
We compile from the New York Shipping List
and Price Current, OF the lIth September, the fol-
lowing statement, showing the crop Of Cotton an
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2aI Ell 2.e2O. 959Il,5i6,O OO
$3.50 British taken prisoners.

The surrender Of CORVALLIS at Yorktown, o.
iober 1881, closed the war; prisoners 1873.
The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-01-23
AGRICULTURAL GEOLOGY No. 6.
BY JOSIAH HoLBRooK.


Lime formations are more ates than ides Car
Donates are most abundant, various, and useful,
frequently very beautiful. Common limestone
of different textures and coors most, perhaps
all, the marbles, chalk, and crystals, of various
forms and hues, are the carbonates of lime about
forty-four parts carbonic acid and fifty six quick
lime-oxyde Of calcium.
Next to tho car Donates Of lime, sulphates are
most abundant an d useful Common gypsum, n
powerful manure; alsbsster, much used for orna-
ments under beautiful polish, crystals of con-
siderable variety and beauty, are the sulphates
OF lime.
Fluate Of lime Is another calcsreous formation
Il is known As fuor spar, also Derbyshire spar
Il receives fine polish, when 1t is used for vsri
ous ornamental purposes. From the fuate Of
lime auoric acid is obtained, which has the power
of acting on glass. By covering any piece Of
glass with thin coat Of wax, then cutting
through the wax letters or any figures, and ex-
posing the glass to fuorio acid, etching Ia pro-
duced on the glass. The faorc acid is set free
from the lime by charging it with salphuric acid.
Nitrate Of lime, though not common, Is found
in some considerable deposites. Ii has been sup
posed that il would furnish q good material for
producing the oxygen gas for the calcium light.
Bones are the phosphate Of lime Chloride of
lime il manufactured article, formed by expos
ing lime TO chlorine IL was hrH manufactured
some forty years since, and is now most import
ant article in the manufacture OF cotton fabrics
II has great bleaching powers
Every child knows that lime formations espe-
cislly carbonates and sulphates, are alike essen
tisl for the purposes OF agriculture and srchitec
ture They are essential 70 the greatest fertility
OF soils. By proper mixture Of quartz aud
feldspar, or sand, clay, and lime sol becomes
permanently fertile. The three may be consid.
cred the essential elements OF soils, though sand
and clay, without the presence Of lime produce
vegetation Both the sulphate and the phosphate
Of lime probably add more IN temporary stimu-
lants OF vegetation than % essential ingredients
In soils.
By taking review OF the d>s and nes already
presented, as forming the elements OF mountains,
rocks, and soils, no one can well fail OF being
struck with the simplicity, beauty, and practical
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BosroN January II, 1851.
To the Editor ftbe National Era:
The best thing by all odds which we have had
this winter, by way Of public lectures, was
one delivered last Wednesday evening before the
Mercantile Library Association, by Rev Henry
Ward Beecher, of Brooklyn, New York. His
theme was Character and better subject
could hardly have been selected to develop the
intellectual resources Of the speaker and his in
innate acquaintance with the human heart as
seen in the various walks of life.
Mr. Beecbcr commenced by drawing adstinct-
i've line between character and reputation The
former he compared to staple stocks, possessing
an intrinsic value, subject to but little variation.
The latter was sort of fancy stock, with no in
trinsic worth, but rising and falling from day to
day with the fluctuations of the market.
Character, according to Mr.. b., might be di.
vided into three classes The first of these classes
comprised those in which one dominant faculty
of the mind held all others in subsection. The
man whose ruling passion was the selfish love Of
appreciation furnished an example Of this class
Every feeling of such mans soul would be sdb-
servient to this one; to crafty this passion he
would be and do anything--wth the religious, he
would be devout-with reformers, a reformer--
with conservatives, an ardent admirer Of stabil-
ity-and his religion, like a scaman's dress,
would vary with the latitude, from the equator
to the pole, apparently chapgeable as the wind,
but really as fixed as Natures laws to his own
controlling end. A miser Is another form of
one-idea man. A thorough miser he considers as
the victim Of monomania, and fit only for the
lunatic asylum and the care Of physicians but
there are class of men, whose every idea hinged
on gain, not misers, but The ayG of whieh misers
mere made Such man might be lover of art,
and have his walls hung with Guidos, but the
pleasure with which he would point to them
would nrise from his having purchased them at q
quarter of their real value. II engaged in poll.
tics, he calculates revolutions by their probable
effects on stocks; and as for religion, he would
hardly consent to go to heaven at all, unless he
could enter its gates for half the usual price of
admission.
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utility of geology and chemistry, as at the very
foundation Of the most practical knowledge, Of
course peculiarly fitted for the very FIRST les
sons" both in schools and families.
ExPERrmEsr.-By applying the thumb nail and
the point Of a knife TO the different line fOrma-
tons, especially the carbonates and supbates, it
may be found which give to the former, and
whether all yield TO the latter. Their hardness,
compared with each other, also with feldspar,
quartz, and other minerals, may thus be ascer-
tanned
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For the National Era.
TO ELMINA.


Soft dweler in the sunset light,
How pleads my heavy heart for thee
That some good angels hand to-Idght
Gather thy sweet love back from me.
For down the lonesome way tread,
No summer flower will ever bloom
All hope is lest all faith is dead
Thou must not, csnst not, share my doom.
Nay, let me send no shadow chill
To the blue beauty Of thy sky;
fsin would shape my song to st
Thy sad fesrs like lullaby.
Not in thy memory would II cssa
As one that woe and sorrow eiSim--
Think Of me, dear one, dream
That faded when the morning came.
A.C.
Men York, December II, 1850.
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W. not exceeding ten lines inserted
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Pueblo, In the Spanish means town village The
Pueblo Indians take The from the ftct that instead
of rowing from place 10 place other Indians they dwell
together In Puebos They are doubt, the lineal de-
scendAnts Of the original Aktees.
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not every one on his own things, but also on
those Of his neighbors,n he devoutly responds,
"Amenp When he goes TO his store on the fol-
lowing day, and the voice Of Commerce exclaims,
Every one for HIMSELF to that too he responds,
"Amenp Are you in trouble in pecuuiary en-
bsrrassment, 60 to such man as your neighbor,
your friend, and he will relieve you in all friend
illness, and aid you 10 the extent of his ability
But go TO him at his counting room, and as bust
ness matter state to him your wants and your
strsitened condition, and you will find him the
cool man of business, ready to shave your note at
the largest discount, and perhaps he will calcu-
late how he may take the grestest advantage Of
your necessities, and map you out with all the
nicely that the OK is divided up in our cooking
books, to indicate where the choice pieces are TO
be found
The varied trickery Of trade, and the absence
OF sincerity Of politics. arc but forms in which this
manifold character appears, framing, as it does,
one conscience for public, and another for private
use. Mems hearts like houses, have various en-
frances; and articles which would be spurned
from the front door, simply because they were
brought to the wrong entrance, will find a ready
admission at the kitchen door, and a hearty well
come in the celsr.
The Christian, Mr. Beecher remarked, was he
who carried his honest convictions Of duty into
all his designs Can the rule Of Individual Right
be carried out into sll the affairs of the world 7
He (Mr. b believed that il could. "Christian-
ity," said he, "must be bankrupted, or Liberty
become universalp The greatest work of the
two greatest nations of the earth, Britain and
Americs, in developing this character, lies with
the peasant and the slave.
Individual welfare is bound up in the general
welfare The general welfare rests on obedience
to the rectitude of the law and the rectitude Of
the law on the rectitude Of conscience; and every
one is bound to obey the law because il is the ex-
ponent of all that is just, right, and true. Let
those beware then, who bring these two elements,
rectitude of law and recttudsSf conscience, in
positions antagonistic 10 each other
Such is a brief and mesger sketch Of this mas
terly essay, which was listened to with bresthless
interest far nAar)v sp kopr sn5 baD by aY en-
nience crowded to the utmost capacity of the IRE
mont Temple
At the close Of the lecture, a gentleman was
overheard to ask friend who had been present
what he thought Of Mr.. Beecher. The striking
reply attested how well his friend had been
pleased" Strike off ten extra copies Of that man,
and you would reform the worldp
G. F. b.
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9r The letter below is the first of series
which we expect from an intelligent citizen of
Ohio who lately left for New Mexico.-Ed Era.
FRAN NEW MFYICO
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THE NATIONAL ERA.
WASHINGTON, JANUARY 20, 1851
Forthe National Era.
MY SIMMER WITH DR.. SfNGLEfaRY.
CHAPTER III.

ny ruR AUTHOR or MARGARET SMITHS JOURNAL
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These are the Gardens of the Desert--these
The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful
For which the speech Of England has no name
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BEECH ER'S LECTURE.

fro BIZ Continued
Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-04-03
STATE OF MISSOURI, lss

NOCSTS MARION.
In the Hannibal Court of Common Pleas. In va
cation. February 2sth. a. u. 1851.
Isaac l.. iIol., administrator Of the)
estate OF Robert Shockley, deceased pLAiNrirr.
against
$. n. Jones, DrrENpASr.
NOW at this day comes the said plaintiff, By his at
torney, and files in the Office OF the Clerk of the
lanpiba Couit OF Common Pleas, in vacation, hi,
petition herein, and on his motion, is ordered by the
clerk that the said defendant, s. N. Jones. be notified
OF the pendencyof this suit, by publication of,hc fol-
low ing notice, according 10 law.
To y. n. Jones--lou are hereby notified tina, III,
said plaintiff has commenced against YOU civil ac-
ton in the Hannibal court of common pleas. the OBJ
lcct and general nature of which is that said plaintiff
states tina, hc as administrator of said Shocklev. has
become possessed, hy distribution under the will Of
one Robert Tucker deed, OF certain promssory note.
for the Of one hundred dollars, executed by YOU
the 2s,h day of March. y. y. ISL and payable
the said Robert Tucker order two years alter date
with interest al the rate OF ten per ceutum per
ii ON date until paidand tina, you are required 10 BE-
and appear al the next term oi the Hannibal court OF
onmon pleas 10 be begun and held AZ the court house
the city of Hannibal, county OF Marion and state OF
Missouri, the frs, Monday IN June nest, aud OF
before the third day thereof answer said plaintiff
Petition or the will b, TAX against YOU con
iesscd. Attest. c. u. BOURNE,
NJ. p Grccn, Airy ior Flt. Clerk.
i,L11-SN
Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-04-03
STATE or MISSOURI, d,


In the Rails County Com, November adjourned
following weic had, 10 wit:
Now al this day comes Norman Robinson Admins
TRAITOR o. The estate of BENJAMIN Robinson Jr. deed.
by his attorney, Iii w Souh& orth, and prc scnts his
petition TO the Court, To which is xed lft OF de-
mands allowed against said estate. description OF the
real estate of which the said Benjamin Robinson. IT.
dicd seized verified hy the the oath OF said admins
traitor, praying the County Cont TO order the sale al
the following described real estate situate lying, and
being in the County Of Rail-, and State aforesaid, II
being the undivided uur-cl's ct the following de-
Scbed real cS,a hereinafter mentioned, SUBJECT 10 q
idow's DOVER az follows: North east quarter of
ton twenty five and east half south east quarter OF
section twenty five, township fifty six, range sN. con
tanning two hundred and twenty eight acres, except
twelve out OF the east hall oi the sou th-cast
quarter Of said section, and also the east half OF the
northeast, quarter OF section thidyslN. township hity
six and range six, con aiming III all three hundred
and eight acres. much thereof as may he nccessa-
" 10 raise the raqultrd to pay oil the debts a.
gainst said esac. II is therefore ordered by the court
that all persons interested in said estate, be- notified by
Publishing a cory of this order in some newspaper
published IN ,hi. State for six weeks successfully. the
las, insertion least twenty days before the next tern
of the Court that said administrator has filed his petit
ton aforesaid and unless the contrary be shown, 81
the si day of the next term Of this Court which vii
be begun aud held at the Cour, House N the town OF
New London. County aud state aforesaid. Oh the frs
Monday in May next, order Alll be made for th'
sale OF the above described real estate, or mucl
thereof viii be efficient 10 pay oil the debts OF h
said deceased.
\ true cory, Attest WIN. o. YOUNG. e
/ f,b206w CLruK G.
Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-04-03
Executors Notice.

\ Office is hereby gwen 10 all creditors and others
' Interested in the estate OF Richard G. DAVIS, de-
ceased late of Pike county that letters 'cSianrnay on
said estate bearing date February 81, ls5' have been
granted To the undersigned by the Pike county probate
court All per'ons indebted 10 SAID estate are requested
10 make payment, immediately and all persons having
claims against said estate rrquiitdto present ',n
properly authenticated, within one year nom the date
OF said letters, they may be pr'oluied II ON any
benefit of said estate, and if not presented WITHIN he'
years, they will be forever barred ,,l>,,
mcn2O SAMUEL c. WOODS.
Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-04-03
NOTICE,

II AVING disconnected myself f'om VIM 40
1 Sau.ser H. business ms friends and III" pub "A
lie grrrral, are informed thit viii. IN l"" IL
day h. in rccp OF avery general assortment II" 'r''h
a,i desirable Clothing Sc Sc. g., suited 10 The APP
p,oachirg season. o! tay own selection, winch shall he
sold as cheap he cheapest Please delay yonr rnF-
chascs until Obliged to buy, aud then civ" IN" ra
m.h97ti HIRAM McNFiGi.
iJLUSH Caps Of every DESCRIPTION al who,,,ale ana
tctaii by (oct2 Il FIR, SELMEA