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MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE AND FIRE In.
sURANCE COMPANY OF LOUISIANA

INCORPORATED IN APRIL lS49, AND DECLARED A
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Permanent Fund by Act Of Incorporation.
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October III, 1851.
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AMERICAN AND FOREIGN AGENCY,
CITY OF WASHINGTON,


Under the direction Of AARON HAIGHT PALMER, ~ NeC
York and WoRrHINGToN GARRETTsoN SNETHEN, Of Neio
Orleans, Attorneys and CbunseHors Of The Supreme Court
ofDe United States.
This establishment is formed for the following objects
l. For practising law in the Supreme Court OF the Uni
ted States and conducting professional business before
Congress.
For the prosecution and recovery Of all claims in law
or equity against the United States before Congress or
the Executive Departments, against foreign Govern-
ments before Boards of Commissioners
For the settlement Of accounts with the State Trear
sury War; Navy, Post Office and Interior Departments,
and obtaining the remission of fines penalties, ana Tor
FIXTURES for alleged violations Of the revenue, post office,
or other laws.
For securing letters patent for inventions from the
United States from foreign Governments and procu-
ring land warrants and pensions under the various pen
sion laws of the United States.
g. For collections generally embracing debts legaces,
and inhertances in the United States and foreign coun-
tries. .
g. For the purchase and sale Of lands in any Of the
States Territories Of the Unon and oaning moneys
on mortgage of real estate lying therein.
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q law, loan, and banking agency.
All communications addressed, postpaid to Messrs
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Kantuokx EIection.

l. +. d + &
The election for Governor, Members of Con-
gress, and the State Legislature took place yes
terday. The following returns of the Congress
sional voting up to noon have been received;
LOUISVILLE, August 4-3 p. MN this the
7th Congressional District, Marshall (Whig)
and Merriwether (Dem.) are the candidates.
The following returns exhibit the vote up to
noon to-day. The majorities viii doubtless be
materially augmented ON each side by the
voting during the afternoon:
Jefferson county, 81; Shelbyville, 112; total,
393 majority for Marshall.
Col. M. runs ahead of his ticket. Two Wings
are certainly elected to the Legislature from
Louisville. The other member is doubtful
In the 9th District, General Leslie Coombs
(Whig) has majorities as follows: Lexington,
200; Frankfort, 96; Versailles, 49, Paris, 81
total, 439.
AS the district is strongly Wing, Coombs is
most probably elected.
From the 10th Congressional District the
vote of Maysville, in Mason county, has been
received, which gives Stanton (Dem.) "a ma
jority for Congress. This precinct is usually
Wing by from rs to 100 majority.
CINCINNATI, August 4.-The boilers of the
distillery at Harrison in this county, blew up
on Saturday, killing fifteen persons The par
ticulars of this horrid accident have not yet
been learned.
| New YoRK, August 3.--Mademoiselle Jenny
Lind has disbanded her musical troupe, and ar.
rived here this morning from Buffalo and Mia
CARA. 1t is reported that she will give two con-
certs here, previous to her departure for Eu-
rope, about the sixteenth of the present month.
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GEORGETOWN AND IT'S AFFAIRS.
anonanrows. August 6-l2 M

0EOhoNloWNs AuSuol O-lA m
The Boards of Aldermen and Common Coun-
Gil met last night The report of the joint
committee upon the $4,000 guaranty was
read and ordered to be printed. The report is
favorable one, but accompanied by certain
restrictions which, it is thought by many, will
defeat it.
AT meeting Of the Potomac Fire Insur rance
Company held yesterday, the following gentle
men were chosen directors for the ensuing year:
John Marbury, Richard Cruikshank, j. Orme,
Robert Reed, William Ernest, NJ G. Ridgely,
Stephen Cassin, Joshua Riley, and William H..
Edes, of Georgetown; W. B. Todd, W. P. John
ston, and John Purdy, of Washington.
We would call the attention of single gentle
men, in want of q good boarding house, to the
advertisement of Mrs. Palmer This lady is
situated in q pleasant part of the town, and
upon its most busy thoroughfare, with the
omnibuses passing by the door to Washington
and back every FIVE minutes and, what is still
better, her table is furnished with the best the
market can afford.
Baynes celebrated Panorama reached our
town this morning by the canal, and intends,
understand, exhibiting at Forrest Hall.
The health of our town never was better
than it is at the present time.
Ar7ipals. Reform, Rotten, Philadel-
phia, to ]. Dickson & Co.; Independence Price,
King George county, Va, to Boyce, Taylor &
Co.; schr. Virginia, Weaver, Westmoreland, to
Charles Wilson; schr. David Henry, Short, do,
to A. r. Ray and Bro. schr Eliza, Fales,
Washington, N. c., to JOS. Libbey Son.
Flour and Gram MARKET. Flour, old, dull at
81. Wheat-large quantities coming in and
market steady. There was sale this morning
of 1000 bushels old red wheat at $780,; another
of | 900 do. white, new, at 85c. (both to Colum-
bia mills.) Corn, white, 6O@62c.; yellow, sc
@58c.
Canal Trade.-Arrived, Gen. Tyson, Cumb,
coal; NJ r. Zimmerman, do; Southampton,
Cumb., coal; Miles Standish, do; James Terrell,
Old Town, 1900 bushels wheat; M. R. Hall,
Cumb., coal; Martin Hoffman, do. ; Delaware,
do. Tonoloway, SO miles, -four; Daniel Web
ster, 62 miles, limestone, &c.; F. Bloodgood,
Cumb., coal; Lady of North Bend, -four. The
packet boat Fashion is hourly expected.
Departed Charlotte, and Charles F. Nude.
ELECTRO.
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