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FANCY SILK GOODS, DIR sSs TRIMMINGS, 40.

X MsItwAiN SON, Philadelphia No . Bank
street. importers and dealers In trinses, Gimps and
Buttons Hosiery Gloves Ribbons, Purse Twist Combs
Steel Beads Spool Cotton, Tapes Needles Pins BObbus
&c. 10. 10 Jaa. z
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TIE NEW YORK AND LIVERPOOL UNITED
STATES MAIL STEAMERS.

FTNHE shIps eomPosIhY IbIs IiHf are-
i The ATLANTIC Captain West
TLS PACIFIC, Captain ky1
The ARCTC, Captain Luce.
The BALTIp, Cdpfa,, Co1Sfoek.
The ADRATfC, Captain GrayIon.
These ships having been built by contract expressly for
Government service every hiss been taken their con-
sructon also In their engines to insure strength aud
speed and their accommodate for passengers are uns
qlssd 2 elegance or comfort.
Price Of passage from New York TO Liverpool $3.50 Ex
elusive u extra size safe rooms 36 ana $3.50. From
Liverpool TO New YORK, eJ
An experienced surgeon will be attached TO each chip.
No berth be secnrei until paid for.
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SIMMOvSS OAK HALL. BOSTON.

s fvorby known throughout the country the largest
Clothing Establishment In the Union. Il ia the Of
thousands Of traders from every section purchase their
stock Of clothing.
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OF F0WLERS 4 WELLS Phrenologists and PAD.
fishers Clinton Hail. l3l Nassau street. New York. Once
Of the Water Curs and PhrsnoioRieoi Journals
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Detrm ned 10 spare Ia mskiDg their establish
meDt perfect possible they have recently got up com.
pete set II the Justly celebrated Sooerf Letter from
Diamond to English TO which they particularly invite at
tenciDn.
Having ls-y made additions 10 their stock Of
Fancy Typ,s, Borsrs OrnaDsnt &C. their assortm
methods VI casting and Of preparing metal them 70
fo,nlsh orders In manner 10 insure satisfaction
Printing Presses Gases Stands Chasss Gseys Printing
on hand, at the lowest rstes
s,ond hand Pressss and Type used only 10 stereOypng
at reduced prices.
books Pamphlets, Music, Labels &e. 40, stereotypsd
With correctness and despatch
~ Specimen Books will be sent b printers who wish
TO make orders. l.. JOHNSON co,
Jan No SAMSON street.
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PROPOSED DATES oR SAILING.

For freight or passage apply 70
EDWARD X COLLINS,
No 60 Wall street, New York, or 10
BROWN, sHiPLEY, l. co,
Liverpool.
The Of thee ships will not be ,untsbe for gold
silver bullion specie jswslry, precious stones OF astas
unless bills Of Aang signed therefor and the value
thereof Hprsssed therein.
or After the hrst Of April next ths rate Of FREE ght by
the above steamers from Liverpool viii be materially reda
ced Ian d
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PHILADELPHIA TYPE AND STEREOTYPE
EOIINHlX

THE subscriber would call the attention printers 10 the
greatly reduced prices Of the present list They now
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PROSPECTUS OF THE NATIONAL ERA.
VOLUME V.-is5i.

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
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EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.

BALTIMORE, DECEMBER 124 P. M.
learn upon good authority that the great Telegraph
between the Balm and Morse parties has been final
ly and amcably adjusted by compromise, which will pre-
its being carried to the Supreme Court The Balm
party have agreed to amagamate interests with the Morse
magnetic line, extending from Washington to New
York They have consented to allow certain per
age their profits receipts for the of the Morse
patent thus substantially giving up further contention
and acknowledging their invention to be Infringement
The interests of both lines viii henceforward be one
though they will be kept separs and distinct lines as
heretofore This will have rathes dispiriting effect
Of other tines Of telegraph in the United
States constructed upon the Balm patent
Business is quiet, usual at this Of the year
Howard street -four 81, City Mills 81 Red wheat rs
81 white "a 95 white 81 So; yellow 81 55
cents; oats 81 81; rye 10 cents Coverseed SIS per
bushel Whiskey 81 3 % cents.
The tobacco market is quiet and sales of the week
small, within the range of last weeks prices The in
spectons moderate only amounting to 500 hhds for
the week. Holders quite firm.
NEW York, DEC 12-2 PM
The stock market is steady. Sales of United States
6s, 1l6 fancies dropping Flour AIS 81 81 for State
and Southern brands. Grain unchanged. Cotton firm
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THE LAST AND GREATEsr ACHIEVEMENT OF
MoRsE's TI.EaRArH.--EIAN ALKxASpER, ESQ,
the able and energetic President q the Washington
and New Orleans Telegraph Company, whose line
Of wire, by based line from the Washington aud
New York Magnetic Telegraph Company, now OK
tends from New York 20 New Orleans, writes a
despatch, dated Sd instant, from New York, ss
follows: ave are this day working our line Tor the
first time direct from this city TO New Orleans
and ara receiving instant replies 10 our mesSAgc."
This long line Of Telegraph. On Tuesday. sent ard
received messages and from each terminus with
much as though l, only 10 end from rhilsas
phia Boston AT twelve o'clock message 81 thirty
four words. addressed the New Orleans rosyune vas
sent from the once In Sc~ York Direct and sns-sr
was returned In less than fve minutes The distances be-
tween New York and New Orleans BY telegraph u over
nineteen hundred mica
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nrronrnD DIsc %tR Y{s AZ aBgD AT THE SAND

WITCH ISLANDS.
A correspondent of the Newark Daily Adver-
tiser, writing from Lahaina, under date of Septem-
Der 10th, says:
Yesterday received letter from Hawaii or Owy
hee enclosing sample of gold which found there; in
fact gold mine has been found that island Dr. GREGG
who wrote the letter. says there is doubt that the
ground is full of gold 1t is found in the way is
in California The natives delighted and If the
element does not abate they win 60 crazy The for
cigners prefer hearing before they in the mat
ter. We viii have full particulars next week.
We suspect that, if there were any substantial
foundation for the above report, we should before
now have received more satisfactory information
specting it, 1t may be that the expedition lately
fitted out Mt San Francisco for the Sandwich
Islands, has some connexion with the matter.
1t is stated by the San Francisco Pcayune
that this expedition gees out with the cogi-
xance and cooperation Of the agents and the rep
resentatives Of the Hawaiian Government in Cali
fornia; that Mr.. Spence, the Hawaiian Consul,
is the agent Of the company, and translates all its
business that "the course to be adopted BY the
cmigrants Is one that ensures complete success
and that Il il intended to DO carried out in man.
ner that will be crcdtablc and peculiarly advan-
tagcous TO both the United States and the Islands.
Full confidence is expressed by the parties en-
gagged in the movement that few months only
viii elapse before the Sandwich Islands make a
part and parcel Of the great Republic
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We observe by communication from Judge
B&occncs, rahli~hed IN the 81 Lcais Intelgencer,
that the letter written BY him from Salt Lake. which
appeared IN our paper cf the 18th ulsimo, was Of
private character, addressed 10 friend and not de-
signed f~ Publication. We state this fact, Of which
We were not before spprized, in justice 10 Judge
Baccuus, who says that be makes this statement
not besaase there u any thing in the extract from
his letter that IL not true, but in order to correct
any false imprcssion that would represent him as
newspaper correspondent, upon subject in regard 10
which he ha scupnIously forbome 10 make any
public demonstrations, either In writing for the
press or in ordinary pabiic speeches. He and his
associate officers who have returned from the country
Of the Mormcns, intend making 10 the PRESIDENT
report II the condition Of affairs in that Territory
which has rendered their longer residence there UNI
pleasant and undesirable.
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INTERESTING FROM MEXICO.

We have accounts from the city of Mexico to the
18th ultimo.
The Chamber of Deputies had been engaged in
discussing bill for the regulation Of the public debt
which they had passed and sent to the Senate.
In the Senate M. Ramon Gamboa had submitted
a draught Of bill to empower the Executive to
open negotiations with the British Government for
opening the Isthmus Of Tehuantepec. The bases Of
the arrangement are to be, that Great Britain shall
construct canal within given period, shall erect
such Notifications as Mexico may designate, and
shall assist Mexico in case of an invasion of the
Isthmus, or Of any attack being made on her right
to the lands situated thereon Mexico will bind
herself to keep garrison Of two hundred men on
the Isthmus aid travellers garrison FORTS &c., and win
make over to Great Britain oil the tolls and other advan
tages to be derived from the canal.
The of the raising Of the siege of Matamoros had
been received in the capital and great rejoicing
In Congress many propositions had been made reward
the brave defenders of the beseged city 1t appears that
Caryaa had the siege on the 3Oh Of October after
having prosecuted for nine days. On the Goth the ca
vary made sorte with piece Of artillery against the
besegers and drove off large body Them causing them
great loss The flag Of the insurgents remained the
hands of the Government troops
most daring robbery committed in Esclavos street.
in the city of Mexico, the night of the 9th instant
party of robbers broke into house. tied up the family
remained in the house all night and rode off in the coach
next morning, taking with them $4,000
An electric telegraph has actually been established in
Mexico 1t extends from the capital to Nopaucan dis
lance of forty leagues. 1t works admirably according
the newspapers About eighty dispatches
it the first day.
The Government has proposed law establishing corps
de rsu to be attached to the army and to consist of
seventy EIGHT companies of infantry, twenty of cavalry
and nine of artillery.
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A relegraphic despatch from Philadclphia in
forms us that verdict Of acquittL was yesterday
rcaaered by the Jury in the Of Caser Hana'ocy,
on trial before the Circuit Court Of the United
States charge Of treason, ~ one Of the partci-
paion in the negro riot a, Chrissiana in September
last The trial commenced about fortnight ago,
and in che course u is progress has elected great
mass a testimony and much elaborate and able ar
gassent BY che counsel on both sides. In commit
ting the e4~s, Judge GaIR charged the jury that
che crime 81 treason had not been sustained by the
evidence
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FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.

TIE royal mail steamer Niagara has arrived az
Halifax, bringing dates from Liverpool to the
Goth ufsimo, four days later than was brought by
the America Through the Telegraph we have the
following report Of her intelligence
The Liverpool cotton market is animated There has
been large. demand and prices Of ordinary and mdling
have advanced about OF penny and in better quail
sies The sales of the week amount $4,000 Bales;
1000 to exporters and 1900 spectators FafrOr
leans may quoted 81 Middling 81 Pair Mobile5i;
Addng 5 Fair Upland 81 = Niddling AZ
Lieut. Pm had arrived at Berlin, route to Siberia
On Che 23d he introduced % the King by Baron Hum
bolds The King gave him letters to the Emperor Of
RUSSIA who would undoubtedly afford him assistance to,
prosecute his search for the lost franklin.
The engossng topic of attention throughout Europe is
the approaching crisis in the affairs of France.
The Assembly, despite the recent evidences Of the
misakable popularity of President BoSApARTE seem re-
solved provoke him to direct collision. Every step
taken by either party is evidently watched with intense
interest by the other countries of Europe.
On the Goth the President delivered the crosse,s and
medals to the successful French exhibitors at the London
Exhibition and delivered speech calculated to increase
his popularity among the working cnsses and artisans of
the country and with the moderate republican party In
the part of his speech frequent ausion made the
Republic. Many persons previously to Gen. Ca
voSAc have declared their determination support Ma
| PoLEos the only means Of saving the Rspsblc.
An extraordinary article has appeared In the Constitu
tionne wherein direct attack made upon the highest
names in France. Among Others Changarnier and M
Beringer charged with being members of secret
committee having for their object the overthrow of the
Government The chief remark of the writer is directed
against the Orleanst and Legitmst parties No newspa
per article produced much excitement in Paris It
has led to nterrogaons being addressed to the Ministers
The Constitutional believed be in the interest Of
the Government and the Ministry who supposed be
of its production if not assisting in the preparation
of the article Hence. the excitement.
1t is generally believed that the demarfor urgency
with reference to the bill the subject of the response
bty Of the President will be refused by the Assembly
The French funds had advanced and at the latest dates
had an advancing tendency.
Letters from Toulon represent Marshal Sbult able to
leave his bed. t5
No taxes to be declared but an increase of
the army deemed Indispensable
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A PRoJEcr TO TAKE THE SANDWICH ISLANDS !
The San Francisco papers BY the late arrival con-
tain various ambiguous paragraphs in relation to
expedition that recently started for the Sandwich
Islands. The New York Commercial Advertiser
gives the following extract Of letter. received from
San Francisco by the last arrival as explanatory Of
the matter II is Of some consequence as showing
the progressive spirit Of our people In California
There has been expedition fitted out from here Of
some three four hundred persons hound for the Sand
wich Islands, with the view Of taking possession Of them
either by suason force IL Is rumored that the King
has certain terms agreed TO abdcate In favor Of this
party which has credenee here. and has induced
many indeed 10 join the party The Game Cock" and
two other ships sailed yesterday with large passenger
list for the islands Should the expedition be successful
their fortunes made IL is fine spot lies out
of DOORS
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depends and upon this point we cannot as nation,
remain Indifferent We cannot remain Indifferent to the
common law Of humanity This is something which
Washington taught He recommended neutrality
in foreign wars but indifference to the violation
of common laws of humanity.
KossUTH continued to speak in this strain for some
time before he entered upon other and less general topics
His speech occupied three hours inis delivery Speeches
were also made by Judge EDMoNDs N. b. BLUNT Esq,
and others The party did separate tltyo o'clock
IN the morning
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Aletter from the city of Mexico, under date of
the 18th ultimo, published in the New Orleans
Picayune, says that Governor LErcHER, our Minis
ter to that Republic, received most hearty well
come on returning to the seat Of his mission Pre-
sident ARIsTA sent his carriage and bodyguard Sc
veral leagues to receive him the day Of his arr
val The writer adds: g We hear but little said
now about Tehuantepec but still think the grant
will be made by the next Congress, which will soon
meet, though the chances rather against il at
this timeo
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A Treaty between the United States and Switzer-
land has been pending for several months past but
it will be seen by the following extract from the
Asmonean, the Hebrew organ in the city Of New
cluded, owing to religious disabilities interfering
DEPARTMENT or STATE,
Washsagon, Norem6~ "a 1851.
TO DIR. M. LrLiESrHAI, New York:
The Secretary Of State has directed TO acknowledge
the receipt Of the letter which you dessed to him under
date Of 81 nsant and state in reply that this Gov
will ratify treaty with the Swiss Confede-
racy which makes any determinations against citizens Of
tho United States Of the Jewish persuasion
I am, very respectfully. your oncdicnt ssrs..s
w. HUNTER, Acting Chief Clerk.
righteous determination
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"A righteous determination!

THE METHODIST Book CONcERN.--Thc y. ,.
Circuit Court for Southern New York has, in
accordance with it's late decision, directed that as
the present Trustees deny the right Of the Methodist
Church South to a share in the Book Concern" the
shares belonging the latter be pacedn hehandso Of other
trustees agents. to be appointed BY the Church South
md that the whole subject be referred TO the Clerk Of the
Court to ascertain and report the value Of the real and
estate and other Of the Book Concern at
the period Of the DIVISION and the propcronate share ac
corng to the number Of the benecaries that the Church
South is entitled to- and what amount II has recciv-
ed snce aso and reporn what form the trans
fer Of the share the Methodist Church South may with
most convenience and advantage to both parties be made
All questions which disposed Of by this opinion,
well as the question of costs to remain till the coming
In of the report.
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In the House 81 Representatives VI SoUrH CARo-
aIsA, on Thursday, the proposition for prohibiting
the use Of the Courts Of South Carolina for the col
lection Of debts, &e. 10 States opposed 10 the rem
diticn Of fugitive slaves was rejected, ayes SO to
NAYS 81
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Late accounts from BuESos AyRss, received by
way Of Boston, state that Gen 0RrBE had surrcn.
dered TO Gen. uRorIzA without firing gun, and
that his officers took refuge ON board II foreign
sells. We had such n report before, which was con-
tradictcd by later accounts via England
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The Journal Of Commerce thus dispo-es Of III

The Journal of Commerce thus dispcses Of The
intervention question
"Our Government was creatcd--such II the do
claration Of the preamble 70 the Constitution
" order to form more perfect Union establish JUS
" ticc, ensure domestic tnBquillity, promote the
general welfare, and secure the blessing IL liberty
toourseiecs oadosr posterey and as Intervention in
the Affairs Of Europe - NOT among the objects, "
is sufficient answer 10 say to whoever asks Il !:
- We have not the power under our present form
" Of Government
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The velvet win grow sterile rock the mistletee
aourishes the naked branches the ivy cngs to the
Wondering ruins the pine and cedar remain fresh and
fadeless amid the medsons of the recedng year and
Heaven be praised something beautiful to and CRATE
full to the soul will in the darkest hour Of fate, still wine
its enrs around We crumhlng affairs and broken arvhea
of the desoiste temples Of the human hearth
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COLONIZATION CAUSE IN ALABAMA number

COLONIZATION CAUSE IN ALABAMA number
of respectable citizens Of Montgomery, Alabama,
pubaish~ cord in tho Papere of sLst s;sy, ;~ ~L;sh
they say that, being satisfied that the accumulation
Of the free people Of color in that State is just
of solctude to every lover of his country and that
their removal to Liberia will be alike beneficial to
the whites, to them, and their children, as well Ms
to Africa, they recommend meeting to consult on
the expediency and practicability Of establishing
State Colonization Society for the purpose Of aiding
free persons of color from that State to Liberia.
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ANOTHER THREE CENT CAsE-The Circuit Court of
Washington county (Md) decided, few days ago, that
has right to pass round ollgate with view
to evade the payment Of the toll; and that nothing but
absolute business can be plead in justification fer such
violation c. Hldebrand the defendant in the case
fined 50 and costs by magistrate, for going round the
to avoid paying three cents toll and the Circuit
Court sustained his decision
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The Hon VIM G. RIvEs, American Minister to
France, was announced by several New York papers
to have arrived there. The statement was erro-
Nneous, and arose from the name Of the eldest son
It Mr.. Rives (W. c. Rives, Jr.) being among the
passengers in the "Pacifc."
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S5,45O,OOO 90

Silver Bullion deposited in same time $2O,8OO 90
A large supply of small gold coin remains on hand be-
yond the demands Of depositors
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MORE GoLD-Our Oregon papers contain &C
counts of the discovery of gold in large quantities
in Queen Charlotte's Island. Capt. Rowland, who
had recently arrived from there, reports-and his
statements are confirmed by others--that the mines
on Queen Charlotte's Island are equal, If not mpc-
rior, to any thing Of the kind yet discovered The
gold is found the surface Of the ground near the
beach, and is dug by the natives in great quantities.
without any thing like pick or shovel, having
nothing but such tools they make themselves
they manage to get from two to eight ounces per
day to the hand They are very friendly to the
whites, and are anxious to have them come and
trade and dig with them Capt. Rowland brought
some beautiful specimens of virgin gold and gold
bearing quartz with him. Queen Charlotte's Island
is in the North Pacific ocean, and be reached in
about seven days sail from Oregon city.
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Another railroad collision happened Monday evening"
between the Philadelphia and New York trains about
seven miles other side of Amboy damaging consider
ably both engines, and njurng the conductor The
gneers and remen saved themselves by jumping from the
cars None Of the passengers hurt.
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The steamer Atlantic sailed from New York for
Liverpool on Saturday, with thirty-6ve passengers
and about one million of dollars in specie.