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Public IMPRovEMENTs.-Tho two Boards Of the
City Councils, at their session yesterday evening,
sevcrally passed the bill appropriating twelve hun
dred dollars for grading and gravelling New Jersey
avenue between Massachusetts avenue and d
street north. Other bills Tor the improvement Of
strcets were pa5scd
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The new cotton factory at Autaugavillc, near
Alabama river, is in full operation, and turn
Georgia, and Virginia mills now supply the bulk
of negro osnaburgs and unbleachcd cotton goods
required for the planting States. 1t will not be
long before bleachcd goods will also be made to a
large extent. These facts show that the South il
gradually freeing herself from northern bondage
Mobile Tribune.
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Flowers IN THE PUBLIC GRousDs.-A Washing
ton correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says:
at is matter of regret that SO many persons,
who claim TO be respectable, tempted to pluck
the flowers which 80 beautifully adorn the Capitol
grounds. These depredations have become SO fire.
quent and annoying that the watchmen deter
mined to enforce rigidly the regulations with re-
gard to trespassers. On Saturday evening wo-
detected in the act of picking some of the
finest tulips in of the flower beds, for which she
was promptly taken to the watchhousc."
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MILLINERY

MILLINERY,
WILL BE OPENED AT MRS. M. A. H1LLS'S,
wv on Saturday, a large and varied assortment
of Summer Millinery, Pennsylvania avenue, oppo-
sitc Harper's. May 1-Iwif
TTNHE STONES OF VENICE, with illustrations.
II by Ruskin author of Modern Painters" &c.
For sale by TAYLOR 4 MAURY,
| Mayo Booksellers, near 9th street.
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FRESH BEEF AND VEGETABLES FOR
THE NAVY.
NAVY AeENr's OFFICE,


WAsHINGToN, %. c. May 3. 1851.
q EALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
- office until Monday, tho second day of June,
1851, at noon, for the supply of such quantities of
fresh beef and vegetables as may be required on
the Washington station during the fiscal year COM
mencing on the lst day Of July next, and ending
on the 30th June, 1852
The beef and vegetables must be of good quality,
and the best the market nffords, and each article
must be offered for by the pound.
Bond, with approved security will be required
in half the estimated amount of the contract,
and ten per centum in addition will be withheld
from the amount Of each payment to be made, as
collateral security for the due performance of the
contract, which will account be paid until
it is fully complied with.
Every offer made must be accompanied Gas di-
rected in the act of Congress making appropriation
for the naval service for 1916 and lS47, approved
10th August, ls46) by written guaranty, signed
by one or more responsible persons, to the effect
that he or they undertake that the bidder or bid
dcrs will if his their bid be accepted enter into
an obligation, within five days, with good and suf
fcicnt surcties, to furnish the articles proposed
No proposal will be considered unless accompa-
]. II. LATHRoP, Navy Agent.
May 6-law4w
LITTELL's LIVING AGE. No. 365-Ia. cts.
CONTENTS.
/. The Closter Life of the Emperor Charles W
Fraser's Maya xine.
.. William Pcnn-Aihennun and Spectator.
8. A Wreck of the Old French Aristocracy-Re-
| que des Deur Mondes.
4. Journey to Colchs and the German Colonies -
JPesfminsfer Reuicic.
5. Anecdotes of Paganini-Dutiin University
Magazine.
6. Weekly Gossip--ifhensum.
I. Mans Nature and Development Westminster
Rerie,r.
s. An Antediluvian Romancc-Fraser's Maga-
zine
| 9. The Court Of Chancery-I Times.
10. Tessellated Pavements, Ancient and Modern.
/ neafrn nj Lila VeaSela--
Boston Journal.
r. Western Africa and Colonization CONNER
| ci1i advertiser.
With Poetry and Short Articles.
wAsHINoToN, December 81, lS45.
or all the Periodical Journals devoted to Ltera-
| turc and Science which abound in Europe and in
this country this has appeared to me TO be the most
useful II contains indeed, the exposition only Of
the current literature Of the English language, but
this by its immense extent and comprehension, in
cludes portraiture of the human mind in the ut
| most expansion of the present age
J. Q ADAMS.
| Published weekly at So a year, by
+. LITTELL & Co., Boston,
And sold by JOS. SBlLLINGTON.
| May 6-dtrw&wlw corner of Pa. av. and 81 st.
| MOLLETS WORKS, complete in large
~ octave volume, in full cloth binding, for > 20,
containing Peregrine Pickle, Ferdinand Count
! Fathom, Roderck Random, Sir Launcclot Greaves,
| Humphrey Clinkcr, Adventures ofan Atom, Poems,
\ &c., &c., with Sir Walter Scotts Memoir OF the
| Life and Writings of the Author.
| Mav6 FRANCK TAYLOR.
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ii
~ posite the Treasury Building. Apply to Z.
St. J. Chubb, ~ the Banking House OF
Ian l-tf CHUBB. SCHENCK Il Co
MILLIONAIRE ASSOCIATION OF CAPITAL,
LNOR the purpose of forming company with
II thousand shares, OF ,ooo each, Tor whicn
certificates will be issued, paying ten per cent per
annum in return therefor, with safe prospect OF
doubling the whole amount invested, leach and all
special partncrs.l free from assessment and ha-
bity, under the Revised Statute Of New York.
Dcsirous of having influential parties through the
entire Union interested for the purpose of ohaain-
ing contracts with the Government 10 garry the
United States mail in steamers and vessela 10 and
from New York. California, tho East lndies. Eu-
rope, &C., proposals will be received Tor limited
number of certificates of shares Of 81 900 each.
OLIVER HOLDEN,
General Partner, and Chief A gent Of Company,
II Wall street, New York.
Banking and Commercial Houses in Europe and
the Americas, on application and investment OF
capital, viii be appointed agents.
Ech l-du
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AGENCY OF CLAIMS.
TTyHE undersigned attends to the adjustment Of
i all classes Of Claims against the Government,
whether pending before Congress, Boards Of Com
mission, or in the Departments
TERMS, GENERALLY, FOR CLAIMS.
Ten per cent on the fret five hundred dollars re-
covered. Five per cent on the excess over five
hundred dollars. Pension, and halfpay cascs,
included in the above terms.
yESPASIAN ELLIS,
irving Hotel, Washington City.
Hon. w. r. King, U.S.S. Hon. T. J. Rusk, U. S. S.
Hon. S A. Douglas, do Hon. ID. r Atchison, do
Hon James Shields, do Hon. Sam. Houston, do
Hon. Henry S. Footc,do Hon. Jas. w htcomb, do
Hon. A. C.. Dodge, do Hon. John Bell, do
Hon. X. NJ. Il. Hunter do Hon. J. Morton. do
And also the Heads of the Departments general
ly, and Representatives in Congress.
o. Communications must, in all cases. be post
paid. Apr lS--eodlmlf"
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WASHINGTON CITY
Private Family PROTESTANT Boarding
school,
(ENGLIsH AND fRENCH.)
For the careful and thorough instruction OF
YOUNG LADIES
In all the branches OF study, both solid and orna-
mental. whchare required in an
AMERICAN FEMALE EDUCATI0N.
Located ON Indiana avenue. near the City Hall.
Rev. X. w. CVSHMAN, A. M,
Mar i7--dlys Principal.
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Receipts and Expenditures Of the Unite
states from 1st Jan,y TO 3Ist March, 1851.
sl5.eO4,Il7 II

EXPENDITURES. n
Civil, Miscellaneous, and Foreign
Intercourse. ................... $4,354,24 40
Department of Interior, (Indian
Department and Pensions).... 1,l27 1872 SO
Army proper, &C., and fortihca-
tions. ................ 3,O4s, 27s 81
Navy. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1925, 462 05
Interest, &C., on public debt, and
Treasury notes ..........,... 1896 l6
Reimbursement of Treasury notes. $500 90
Redemption of Treasury notes per
act 4th February, 1919. ........ 527 90
80 {, - 60, -
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Mich Cows.

Mich Cows.
The Providence Or. ~ Journal publishes COM
munication, dated April 30, from correspondent
signing himself "W. S. k" in which the follow
ing statement appears
oIn a few days the Gne herd of mich cows which
have collected and bred at Woodland farm will
be scattered in various hands New England.
But, ipils the proof or the REPUTATION is easy, desire
to put record for comparison the present yield OF
the herd as a whole, that every farmer may judge
for himself whether, and how much, q good stock
is better than poor one.
"All farmers know that the present month, 'be-
tween hay and grass, is one of the most trying in
the year TO a COW. She is tired of her long winter
feed, and yearns for the green grass, which the
spring weather suggests. And all milkmen are
aware that, to obtain regular supply of milk, the
large herd; that, in twelve cows, at least is
dry, and two others are giving but nominal guam
titles of milk, leaving nine to maintain the reputa
ton of the stable.
taph write at once. OF seventeen cows, three are
dry-thcse will calve within the next twelve weeks;
leaving the honor Of the association of milk
to be sustained by fourteen of the sisterhood, who
have been active in tho manufacture during their
present engagement, from twelve months down to
twelve days respectively.
ssOf these fourteen, the best has not attained her
maximum yet, and yields about twenty quarts per
day the one longest i'll milk giving about six quar- Ia
per day.
"The sum total of the entire yield of the sevcn
teen co,os, dry and fresh they stand, is hundred
and 'irty five quarts Of strained milk per day, with
an increasing yield each day. On the first of June
thcsc same cows will be giving two hundred quarts
per day; as two fresh cows giving at least forty
quarts day are to calvc within that ime and the
increase of the remainder upon green fodder will
more than counterbalance the decrease by drying
up.
"This statement is made in no spirit of vanity or
Of bravado. Some gentlemen more familiar with
pencil and paper than with cows cats have. to be
surc demonstrated that 90 q 900 worth of milk per
annum' could not be procured from the stock at
Woodland farm Let these facts decide that point.
Here the cows, and here are the cans filed with
milk daily, soitin ftpsnty minutes ride Of your city,
and courfing The Investigation Of all. Our milk sels,
without exception, at five cents quart. Out with
the pencil and paper once more, then, my friend.
"But this is by no means tho object Of this COM
munication. What desire is, to excite a spirit OF
generous competition with best farmers. and TO
give them friendly challenge to exceed this yield
with the number of cows at this Of the
year, and with animals who are kept the year
through, and ealve in their turn
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Slo.S47.69s so

TOWNSEND HAINES, Register.
1t [Union and Intel.
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New YoaK, May 5--2p. III Stocks are steady.
United States 6's, 1867, ll7s offered
The weather to. day has been wet and disagreea-
BILE, which has checked business operations. Sales
of 800 barrels flour common standard brands, at
"a O64 a S4lS2. Southern, 81 6S a 81 81. Rye
-four 50 Al a 50 so. Cornmeal, $3a SO l2i.
Wheat unchanged. Rye, rs cents. Oats, 46 a
Al cents. Sales Of 10, 900 bushels yellow corn at
65 cents Provisions and groceries steady.
Cotton ia firm at previous quotations.
Whisky, 30 49, cents.
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SPEECHES

Delipered at Dinner gicen to the
HON. DANIEL WEBSTE R.,
BIZ the Reform Conuention Of Maryland, at
annapolis, in March, 1851.
very handsome edition of the above Just pub
lished and for sale at the Republic Office. Ap Is
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FOR LIVERPOOL. United States Mail
steamship BALTIC, Captain J. Comstock.-This
steamship will depart with the mails for Europe
positively on Wednesday April 10th, at u O'Clock.
NJ, from her berth, at the foot Of Canal street.
All letters and papers must pass through the
Post Office
For freight or passage, having uncqualled ac-
commodations for elegance or comfort, apply to
EDWARD X. COLLINS,
Sc Wall street, N. Y.
Positively no freight will be received after Mon.
day evening, April 18th
The steamship PACIFIC will succeed the Baltic,
and sail on the 10th of May. Ap1l
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CMOLLET'S WORKS, complete in large
- octave volume, in full cloth binding, for ) rs,
containing Peregrine Pickle, Ferdinand Count
Fathom, Roderick Random, Sir Launcclot Grcaves,
Humphrey Clnker, Adventures Of Atom, Poems,
&c., &c., with Sir Walter Scotts Memoir of the
Life and Writings OF the Author.
May6 FRANCk TAYLOR.
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THE REPUBLIC.
TelcgrnpIaic.
From Cuba and Die Wesf indies general,

From Cisba and As Hest Indies generally.
New YoRK, May 81 p. m.--An arrival from
Matenzas reports great excitement existing there
relative To the invasion OF the Island. Two thou
sand troops were kept constantly under arms The
smallpox was raging fearfuily at Barbadoes and
Martinique. The inhabitants OF Grenada had held
meeting in opposition to a further reduction OF
the duty on sugar. The captain and crew OF a
British vessel which had been destroyed by fire r.
rived ut st. Thomas on the 18th OF April The
name Of the vessel is not mentioned.
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Law REFoRM.-At the last meeting Of the soce
ty for the amendment of the law MIR. Stewart read
the answers which had been received from Amcri-
can lawyers to the questions proposed as to the
working Of the American law. The result appear
cd to be highly satisfactory Mr.. Justice DAILY one
of the justices of New York, having been particu
larly requested by Lord Brougham to favor the So
ciety with his opinions upon the manner in which
the recent changes in the American law had ope-
rated, gave a synopsis of the particular reforms
which had been effected within the last three years
in the courts Of New York. In Now York he fully
expected that they would abolish all restraints
upon admissibility of evidence; that it would be
made open TO parties to have opportunity of try
ing their suit before the court without jury, as it
was found that in difficult and technical cases the
practised intelligence Of the court preferable to
the chance intelligence Of jury. lie hoped to see
the laws for collecting debts abolished, and many
other reforms of comprehensive and practical
character The learned gentleman having cx-
pressed his Willingness to give any further infor-
nation upon the state Of the law in America, con-
vorsation cnsued upon various points and ntrica.
cics of law in this and other countries. Lord
Brougham took lively part in the proceedings,
and at the conclusion Expressed the satisfaction
with which he had listened to the learned gentle
mans lucid explanations"
ApuLrERArIoN OF BnEAp.-Out OF forty -four
samples of wheat flour, purchased in various parts
Of the metropolis, by the worthy inspector OF the
Lancet, not single instance was detected OF ad-
mixture with any other farina, or of the presence
of spurious matters of any kind As respects
bread, however, the results were not 80 favorable.
Although its adulteraton with alum is an offence
liable to penalty of 500, this material found
in every one of tho samples examined. In all
the quantity such TO be injurious TO health,
the operation of the drug being to interfere with
the activity of the digestive functions. An cxami-
nation of the weight of bread delivered at houses
showed upon an average a deficiency Of from u te
| ounces In every quartern loaf!
| EauEsraIANs IN The PARKs.--Th at.Portion OF ths
parks hitherto devoted to equestrians has been,
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Cotton Marktf-Specie going.
New YoRK, May Cotton has advanced from
an eighth to quarter Sales OF 5000 bales
The steamer Humboldt takes out half million
Of specie to- day.
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Accilent--tte Neather, S.c.

PHILADELPHIA, May 5-2 p m.-Judge Stroud (,
of the district court. was thrown out OF his car
rage this morning, and broke hs arm.
The weather has been exceedingly stormy, and
has put a check to business operations.
Stocks are dull. Sales OF Pennsylvania Sc at
93, Flour is unchanged. Sales Of common stand
ard brands at 81 25 a 81 81. Grain is without
any alteration in price. Provisions and groceries
unchanged.
Cotton is without movement. Whisky 23l cts.
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Hardly of less interest are portraits which hang
upon the walls. The rufIed dress and angular Ease
OF the virgin Queen, always the same in print or
picture; the ugly face and cavalier air OF Englands
'smerry monarch" who never said foolish thing
and never did wise one; the scholastic brow OF
James LIST, that prince of pcdants; the open brow OF
the great Peter OF Russia, when nc hammered out
the future fortunes of his nation in the ship yards
Of Holland; tho calm, profound face OF Bacon,
s'that greatest, wiscst, mcanest OF manklnd;
panel portrait of Martin Luther, dated February
i5 1916, and looking not only as If he had just
thrown his ink horn at the devil, but as II ne had
hit him too; an original of Chaucer. dated in the
year 400; and an undated and unauthcnticated
likeness Of Shakespeare
The print room, as il is called, interested me
least of all, though there are superb and most cost
ly cngravings there, which would richly repay the
study they would cost to understand them as an
amateur. They are arranged by schools--these
prints, such as the Florentine, German, Roman
schools sand arc mainly bound in volumes. In this
room one sees beautiful silver cup, designed and
carved by thnt vanest and most unfortunate Of
men, whose autobiography will probably be read
while the world lasts-Beuvenuto Cellini.
The collection of coins and mcdals-for adjoin
ing the print room follow the apartments devoted
to these-is superior here to any existing In the
world. j do not pretend to knowledge OF even
the alphabet Of numismatics. as that branch OF
archaeology which treats Of coins and incoas
is called, and yet confess to looking upon the
rusty head of Alexander the Great, or the twisted
nose OF Ethclbert, the Saxon King Of Kent, or an
authenticated piece Of silver, louged, perhaps, IN
the pocket OF a piebeian Roman wnlle ne hcefo
Mark Antony harangue, with a sort OF loving IN
terest that neither statue sarcophagus nor bas
reliefs from Hadrian's villa can excite. II is Gu
rious to think for how long period the world con-
tinucd to transact all its business without coined
money. The ancient Egyptians had no coin; there
ia no allusion throughout the Old Testament to
coin % having been used by the Hebrews; nor in
all OF Homer is it spoken Of For at least three
thousand years mon lived and toiled, bought and
sold without using piece Of coined money. The
very frat coins used by the Grccks pieces Of meta
rudely stamped with device on one side, are here
and from that date, from ago TO age, through the
ramiica,ons Of thousand nations, 1t 10 wonderful
how complete 10 this collection.
Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-04-22
tFrom the Miners (Dubuqne) Express.l Distressing Accideat.--Hsrrible Exposure.

On Thursday, Dec. 1T, 1850, Samuel Brown, young man, aged 22, left the village of Quasque- ton, Buchanan county, Iowa, horseback, to transact some business at a grove some twelve miles distant-between the Wapsipinicon and Ce- dar rivers. On his return, when about four miles from Quasqueton, while riding over a strip of ice, the horse fell precpltatng Brown on hls right side, and his foot remaining tight in the stTrup, which a small one. The horse regained his feet be- fore Mir. Brown recovered himself and ran of at full speed. To preserve his head from injury he clasped both hands about his right thigh thus in part sustaining his body, whilst his left leg swung immediately behind the horse's heels. Incredibly II may seem, m this horrible position he was dragged three miles. The horse. ia the mean time, by repeated kicks had fractured both bones of his leg about four inches above the ankle, and bruised the leg from the knee down, into perfect jelly. At the end of three miles, the horse becoming ia tgued, abated his speed, and by severe efforts, the young man succeeded m extracting his foot from the boot, the latter remaining m the stiTrup. He was dropped upon the open prarie, three miles from any house, and a mile and half from road, and iii such fractured, braiSed and spraned state, that he was entirely unable either to walk os crawl.
 ln this situation, lying flat upon his back, he remained from TuesG ay afternoon, December I7, till Saturday afternoon, December 2i, the ground being hard frozen, and the weather the eol3est we have had this winter, with snow upon the ground,
 
 by the storm on Wednesday. Dec. IS. He took of his overcoat and wrapped 1t around his broken leg to prevent it's freezing. but without success, hIs Jeff leg being frozen above the knee when he was found, also his right foot, hands and ears
 During the foar days and nights. he neither ate nor drank anything else except snow, nag closed his eyes in sleep. The small prairie wolves hoy cred around h.m al night, but without moles:ing htm. During the day he could see teams and men passing the public road, mile and half dts- tant. He exersed himself to the utmost of hts strength to make himself heard by those teamsters. but without bringing any of thesa to his aSs's it was in this way that he was heard on Saturday, by those who were hunting for him. aI the distance of two mhes. and by this means he was fouad.-- His efforts at hallolng had Set his iuags to bleed ing, and when found, he had cflmsoaed The snow for several feet around him with blcod He was brought back to Qias4aeson, aud two weeks after the accident, Out not until modification had taken psace,1 his friends succeeded, afler unsuccessful efurts. in getting surgeon to anpatate the iIab. He still aliye at last accounts but with little hope of recovery.
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A,,emp, to seduee a child.

On Wednesday afternoon while two little girls, named Mary C. Agar and Clara Kendall, uae former II and the latter years of age, were playing in To.npkins Square they were accossed by we'll dressed aBl fine looking man, who after a short caaveFsstipa presented tsem with sotne oraageg anl fntlly as+sa hesn to :aka sail witi him The chiliren consented, and were lel 10 the foot of Tenth street, East River, where boat ss3s pro- enrcl. ant Inc parry started for Green Point ca the opposite sde4 of the river. On landing they took walk into q rcsrei place. and the scSaadrci attempted improper liberties with Inc cider of the glrls. She howef screamed, aud hr dessted lrosn his purpose. They so9a after returned 10 the city and before leaving them the fellow requested ;he elder girl ts meet him on Thursday. a. the same spot ia the sqaars, asi eAaEge her nst to mention what had taken place to hsr parents, who Ersde al i9i Fourteenth street. Ths the child fortu- nately neglected ta do, bet rclated the whole ot the eir3 las aaces 10 thegA. Af. Agar, the father of the grl, inmsiatel, nsoEnel Capt. SaliGr oi ths Seventeenth War; Police. of the aaair. who adslssi that the ehi,d shoaid keep her promise te the hbertaas, and .aset him in the s4aars Tai, ptan was pursae9. antths fsliog ws eaaeht and takea heiSrs astlce Moaatioss. He gave his aalns a Charles Abb1t, and was contniitc2 |, prisoa fo exansinstiaa.--N Y. Trisaae.