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PORT OF NEW ORLEANS.
CRKsCEKT OFFICE,
Monday Morning, June 2, 1851. (

CREscExr OpsrcR,
Monday Morning, June q, 1851.
Cleared Saturday.
9$s fsss:n
GS.: ham, Yea sss
liverpool wss:; Is 4:
ss ssSs s.; s,s.a.
ss "a, l S RRo.s M.ni'os Ts%ps Bay. z.I.n &c.
ss Ws.ao Apslss%so. aa Dsses ssS
cK.y S:w"e Maze,
sch jos phins. Vsysde Noble. jas t faei ely
echr Eagle, stone, Pensacola, Master
Arrived.
Steamship Fanny Fooe, from BRACES St Jago 18th ut, to
Steam propeller Rsy6urn, Granchaw. days from Key
r . Msi Hsss Ksnoey 8 s,v, ,om
Ship -aIsh Loq;a. Mcclellan. from Liverpool April 10.
sch Ella. schernbeck, days from Pensacola. to master
Bulletin No u Church. from 81 Louis.
BostoDa Bentley. from Louisville.
Flora, Bas.ett. from Ve!milon.
Fashion: Wilson. from MInden.
Hecla, Kay, from NatchIt ches 80,
oes %o ns si,hr iom ia Gm wermOn Bay
Ophela, Gordon. from Washington.
Towboat Defiance. Hamburg from the Passes-brought up
Towboat Anglo American. Porter. from the Passes-wsnt
down hght-brought up ship Sarah & Louisa.
-
ExpOrts.
TR!ESTE-Per ship Charles: LIT bales cotton.
BbRUEAUX-Per bark Horace: 81, 900 slaves, 2 bbs
sugar ~
LtXEkPOOL-Per ship Berlin: 1896 bales co ton.
LlvERPOOL-.e ship len Maria: 257S bales cotton
NEW YORk-Per steamship Union III pigs lead etc
NEW YORk-Per schr WIN Bryan: Az sticks cedar
3U0 slaves. ''
NEW YORK-Per ship Oswego 2a2 hhds tobacco, 200
sacks 90 b. les hemp, $50 bss candles, I09 do ga Us
locks wanu 46l terces l4 casks 598 bbs pork 3 terces
209 bb lard.
VERA CRUZ-Per steamship Alabama: Is horses. etc.
GALVESTUN-Per steamship Louisiana 767 bbis flour
10 do pork II do whisky 10 bales Tobacco as sacks corn
do coffee. ~ cks bacon. etc.
BOsTON-Per bark Y Brown: $3.50 pigs lead 1856 SKIS
l3 rolls leather aU BIB whkey, 80 do lard aOU bb
ur IL teces OIL 1915 hides SOO slaves, bbs tobacco 81
CARDENAS-Pev brig Leontne: On, 900 hoop poles
Ia MPA BAY-Per schr John Roalef 10 ibis -four, 20
do whisky ~ kegs bt lard Is cks bacon $50 ks co n rs
do oats 70 do cUee 400 feet lumber 1900 aths 5JVO hoop
pc es.
APALACHCoLA.,Pers chr E S James: 8 hid. sugar
hhds 53 cks bacon, N baggng l6V coils rope So bb
hams 10 % whisky ~ do -four ~ do pork, IL kegs 100 bb
Observation-Disclosures hr Aurelia: hhds sugar, 1888
b6 Hour l5O DO pork, ~ do whisky 70 kegs bbls lard,
APALACI1iCOL A-Per schr A Mckay: 700 bbls
hJur, ~ do pork ~ bb m0asses. 40 baggng 800
ao0 skecorn. 10 les 81 cks bacon
MOBlLE-Per schr Josephne 200 SKIS wheat, Oil do corn
IL hh 8 sugar, do lari etc,
PENSACOLA-Per schr Eagle ballast.
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Passe hKerss
Per slip Sarah Louisiana. from Lverpool-1S7 seerags
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EMIU NANIS to CALIFUNNIA
a X invited to call and see the PORTABLE
"A BEDS AND BEDSrEADS which shut up like ar
Umbrella. They cot only $i5. Come and see them
charge nothing to show them to yNu.
mylb 4. WtNJD Pi.ERV 80 Nap,yre al ,
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HIS well-known Summer Retreat is now open
for the reception of Roarden. Dung The soring, IA
many additions and improvements have been made .::
ensure degree of comfort and
the guests Of the house, TIE Table will lie always
with all The deicaces which the and the New Or
leans markets afford, and the b-s Table Claet. Of
charge and always III of pure Mix from kept
The premtes Attached to the house fine airy Bath
Houses and fine Shady Lawns. which make ii OF
most pleasant the shore.
Arrangements for be made with the proprietor,
at the Poydas Restaurant No. 80 poydras street
my29 I'm JOHN COATES, Prop,ietor
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Artgs.

28 nl2 Yarmouth .....l2,m2
3 m2 Yamura. Canal street
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REGULAR PACKETS 1

These packets all first class vessel. asd OF light 6u
of They will always be towed and dows The dva.
and vi sail promptly ADVERTISED
The cabus q ihse ships A.. hands fovnseed. -
exertors will be sosred by them accommodate sl,
and to pay every attention % u eonveusncs and of
passer gers. 80 Il
t Esi ffsh' passage s Hr MIN 4 =
corner Magazine and Lafayette cts, Newlsesns.
THoS. r. Sta N RON, s. south t., N York. apls "
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NOTICES.
ron STATE TAX COLLECTOR,

DOR AUDITOR OF PUDL1C ACCOUT0s
- We are authsiai = ssussnn usn- x1uns Dsu.
D6tsss present. Audnk Of Rsbis Asssens 4 - DssAs,
= casiidats for Fesiectioa. NJ
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w1LLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE.

WlI1xAIu ANIL xAxAAA SOA1Ai1A0AS'
rHIIE next annual session of this Institution will
commence on the I'd Wednesday in October
FACULTY.
The Right Rev. JOHN JOINS, ID. D., President
and Professor Of Moral Philosophy.
Judge BEVERLY TucHER, Professor Of Municipal
and Constitutional Law.
BENJAMIN S. EwELL, Professor of Mathematics
and Astronomy.
MoRoAN J. SMEAD, Phi. D. Professor of HUI
mainly
WILLIAM +. HOPKINS, A. M, Professor
Chemistry and Natural Philosophy.
II. A. WARRINGTON, A. M, Professor Of Els
tory and Political Economy.
Rev SILAs TorTEN, d. D., Professor of Intel
lectual Philosophy, Bellies Lettres, and Rhetoric.
There are two courses of study for undergrad
uates--the regular course for the degree of BACH
elor of Arts, and Science course, occupying two
years. Candidates for admission to the Science
course will be expected to produce the written re-
quest of ineir parents or guardians. Students not
desiring to join regular class may, for special
reasons, be admitted to study with the regular
classes, in those branches which, on examination,
they may be found qualified to pursue.
The necessary College expenses range between
SlS6 and $l96 per annum.
Circulars will be forwarded to all who may de-
sire fuller information, or specific inquiries Will he
answered, if addressed to Professor MORGAN
SmEAp, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Students, not desiring to attend either the Reg
uar or the Science course, will be permitted to
study with any class which they may be prepared
to JOIN.
July Isl ew
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ENLARGEMENT OF THE CAPITOL
IL The Committee on Public Buildings of the
Senate, having been authorized by resolution Of
that body, T" to invite plans accompanied by esti-
mates for the extension of the Capitol, and to al
low a premium Of FIVE hundred dollars for the
plan which may be adopted by the Committees on
Public Buildings of the two Houses Of Congress"
accordingly invite such plans and estimates, to be
delivered to the Secretary Of the Senate on or be-
fore the first day Of December next.
1t is required that these plans and estimates
shall provide for the extension Of the Cspitol,
either by additional wings, to be placed on the
north and south Of the present building, by the
erection Of separate and distinct building, within
tbs enclosure to the east of the building.
| The committee do not desire to prescribe any
condition, that may restrain the free exercise of
architectural taste and judgment, but they would
prefer, that whatever plan may be proposed may
have sdch reference to and correspondence with
the present building as to preserve the general
| symmetry Of the entire structure, when complete.
Although but one plan can be adopted, the COM
mittee to themselves the right to form such
plan by the adoption of parts Of different plans
submitted, should such course be found necessary
which event. the committee also TO them
selves the right to divide or apportion, according
TO their own judgment, the amount of premium to
be awarded for the whole, to those whose plans
may in part be adopted, according to the relative
| importance and merit Of each part adopted
r. NJ r. HUNTER,
| JEFFERSON DAVIS,
JOHN II. CLARKE,
| Committee Of the Senate Public buildings.
| SENATE CHAapeE, 30lh September, 1850
| N. b. The several daily papers published at
| Washington will please insert the above daily for
two weeks, and send their accounts to the Secre-
tary Of the Senate. oct 4
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/" THE SOUTHERN PRESS. 2

An association oil three Members Of Congress,
Senators and Representatives, bave constituted the
Undersigned Committee tc supcrintend the cstA-
blishnent OF Southern Press at Washington Wy,
10 be devoted to the exposition and defence Of South
ern Righ hts and institutions--the dissemination OF
correct Information to Northern Policy, and the
course of Official affairs generally, without references
to the old party lines Of Wing and Democrat. Ar
engagements in prog ess, promptly To ensure
the issue Of such paper under the 'hic Of
THE SOUTHERN PRESS"
for the conduct OF which, suitable Editors have been
engaged who will also receive the aid OF number
oil eminent and and able contributors.
There will be daily, tri-weekly, and weekly
lssuethe latter to contain substantially, the same
matter as the former, and intended to reach those
points OF the country whose mail facilities are limited
The paper will not be crciusiUeiy poitical--but
will embrace on its broad sheet the General News OF
the day, Domestic aud Foreign, by mail and tce-
graph !. Commercial and Agricultural Intelligence,
Literary Criticisms Original Essays, Literary and
Miscellaneous; and, in short, all those items Of
general interest the collected aggregate OF which
constitutes the interesting and valuable Newspa.
per. Great care will be taken to give full and cor
rect Reports OF the Proceedings and Debates III both
Houses OF Congress, well as the action OF the
local Legislatures on the Southern question.
A limited number only OF Advertisements will be
eceivcd-ihe main OBJECT being 10 FURNISH large
amount Of reading matter.
The paper will be printed on sheet equal in size
to those Of the other Washington papers, aud the ma
teria will be procured especially Tor the purpose.
Il is confidently hoped that every true friend to the
South will aid in procuring subscribers and forward
the names, with the amount subscribed, to some
Southern Representative at Washington, forthwith
Postmasters are authorised by law To remit sub
scriptions Tree OF postage
Terms.
For Daily-the price will be per annun, $lO,U
For Tri-weekly during the Session OF Con-
gress, and Semi-weekly during the recess, "
The price of subscription must be paid invariably
in cdvance, and the cash accompanying the name
sent.
All persons procuring ten names shall be entitled tf
receive copy gratis for one year.
A, P. BUTLER,
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J. THOMPSON.
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THE GALLERY OF JLLUSTRIOUS
AMERICANS
Daguerreotypes By Brady--Engraved by
D'Avignon.

EDITED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF LITERARY MEN.
FINDER this title will be published, during the
~ year 1850, twenty-four Portraits and Biographi-
cal Sketches OF American citizens who have become
llusrious in the service Of the country Every por-
lion of the work will receive the most careful atten-
ton, and nothing will be spared to render il worthy
mad enduring monument TO the great men OF The Re-
public.
Mr.. Brady has been many years engaged, at great
expense, ~ collecting Portraits National Gal
lery, and those which are being engraved for this
work are believed to be superior to any that have
becn taken In the accomplishments Of this great
Object he has experienced the utmost courtesy and
encouragement from distinguished men MIR. Brady's
reputation has been too long established to need any
Recommendation. His dsguerreotypes are in the
highest the works OF art, glowing with tie soul
of the living couptenance.
The dra wings and engravings Of D'Avignon have
been pronounced by European, of taste TO be fully
equal and in some respects superior TO those OF the
best artists OF London and Paris and every i'm
preston in this Gallery will be taken under his i'm
mediate supervision The typography will be exc
cuted carefully and in superb style the en-
cravings themselves. The entire work will bs On
he finest imperial folio paper, l6 by % ,schcs r:ade
expressly for this purpose.
This work has nothing sectional in its scope il
will therefore be comprehensive in its spirit. The
names of those men only admitted w hose talents
and public services have won for them honorable
lame Throughout the nation. Each oil the great de-
partncnts OF life will have its representatives. Art
and literature univer in their spirit and the
Gallery is intended to be worthy and enduring mon
u,nent to the great men Of the Republic. whose
achievements and fame constitute the chief glory OF
the nation. We hope that every lover of Art, and
friend of glorious Union, will respond to APP
peal for encourag, mcnt and aid in commendablc
that lis publication may make era in
he progress of American Art, and by grouping the
illnstrious of the Union together, consolidate il
still more firmly.
As work OF this kind has appeared in America,
and the prices they sustain in Europe would place il
ers have resolved to merit a large circulation by
charging very low price. They have, therefore,
established the following
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All the numbers sold separately. For single
number, 81; and larger quantity OF any single No
at the rates as above.
| All orders for single numbers, or more, will be
promptly filled on the receipt OF tho money. The
whole can be sent without danger OF injury, by the
expresses, TO any part of the country.
8S- Any Bookseller Postmaster, Librarian, or any
other person, may obtain subscribers, and his orders
will be filled when tho money is received
Advertisements which concern the Fine Arss, in
every department, win be admitted the cover in
the style Of the European Journals, on the following
terms
For ono square (of eight lncs) once, 81
Form square for one year, 10
A corresponding reduction for larger space.
Cards OF Artists and others, (ot half square, for
n B.-An orders and business communications
may be addressed (post paid) to Brady, D'Avgnon
& Co., 205 Broadway, New York.
Subscription lists are opened Mt all the principal
bookstores throug bout the United States.
THE EDITORS
Taylor and Maury and Franck Taylor, Agents for
washington.
Nrw YoRK, Jan. l. 1850
ON CONSIGNMENT Oak Tanned Russell
" BROG.9.NS.-l,0 900 pais Oak Tanned Russell
Brogans, prime article Of Southern Manufac-
ture. For sale by r. A. PRINGLE,
No 30, East Bay street,
July l6, lSJ0--dsm ."ssr'sstsn, S. @
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PENSIONS AND BOUNTY LAND

PENSIONS AND BOUNTY LAND
OBTAINED for the officers and soldiers of the
" Revolutionary war, or their legal representa-
tives
Pensions for life, for the widows Of such
GERS and soldiers who married previous to $500.
Bounty land for the surviving, or the widows,
or mMor children Of deceased officers and prvafes,
who served in the war Of 1912 with Great Bri-
tain, the Mexican war, or in any of the Indian
wars, since 1870.
Attention paid to suspended and rejected claims
Terms moderate, where the claim is established
otherwise no charge.
Communications addressed to the subscriber,
Washington, d. c will receive prompt attention.
M. THOMPSON,
Carolina.
Refer to the heads Of Departments, and to
members Of Congress generally.
Oct 4--twtf
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BLACKWCOD'S MAGAZINE
AND THE
BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEWS
Premiums to New subscribers.

nWlNG to the late revolutions and counter-rcyo-
~ buttons among the nations Of Europe, which have
followed each oth" in quick succession, and Of which
the end is not yet" the leading periodicals OF Great
Britain have become invested with degree of inter
est hitherto unknown Thoy occupy middle
ground between the hasty, DISCOUNTED, and necessarily
imperfect records Of the rewspdpcrs and the cabo-
rate and ponderous t-eatses TO be furnished by the his
toran at a future day. The American Publishers,
therefore, deem proper to call renewed attention
these Periodicals, and the very low price at which
they offered to subscribers. The following is
their list, viz
THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW,
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW,
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW,
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW,
AND
BLACKWCOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
In these periodicals containedt he views, mode
rately, though clearly and firmly expressed, of the
three grca, parties in England-Tory, Wing and RAJ
deal" Blackwool " and the &C London Quarterly y
are Tory the "EdinbuSh Review" Wing and
the " Westminster Review " Liberal. Thes North
British Review " owes its establishment to the last
great ecclesiastical movement in Scotland, and is not
ultra in its views any one o. the grand depart.
ments Of human knowledge it was originally edited
by Dr. Chalmers, and now, since his death, is CON
Quoted by his son-n-aw DR. Hanna, associated with
Sir David Brewster Its literary character is of the
very highest order. This g Westminster" though
reprinted under that title only, is published in Eng
land under the title of the Foreign Quarterly and
Westminster )" it being in fact union of the two
Reviews formerly published and reprinted under sepa
ratetilcs. 1t has therefore the advantage by this
combination OF uniting in one work the best features
of both as heretofore issued
The above Periodicals are reprinted in New York,
Immediately on their ARRIVAL 10y the British steamers,
IN beautiful clear type fine white paper, and are
faithful copies of the originals. Blackwoods Maya
zine being an exact fac sn,ile of the Edinburgh ed
ton
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THE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME
OF THE
4Or1rTH ERN V.VTCBy Adv ~ A ~ r~rv,~v,

oOO II ENN LII r'hARf GAZETTE,
Was commenced on Saturday, the 4th of Nav
1850, under its original name--instead of RichnrL
Weekly Gazefte--as more significant of its peculiar
character, 1t being the only weekly organ OF Litern
ture in the entire South! 1t is
Greatly Enlarged and Improved,
Containing weekly Thirty-two Columns OF
matter. j ~, moreover, IN an
Entirely .As,o Dress
" from head to foot" and upon beauufur wnIr.
paper, 80 that, In mechanical excellence it tx not
surpassed by any paper whatever in the United
States. 1t continues under The same Editorial
direction as heretofore, and no pains or expense
will be spared to make it
a Choice Family .Ns,ospnper.
. an cheap rs the cheapest, and as good as the
best!'' Utterly discarding the notion that
Southern Journal cannot compete with the North
ern weeklies in cheapness and interest,
w The Southern Literary Gazette l
rivals the best of them in all the characteristcs of
truly valuable Preside Journal lis aim is the
diffusion of cultivated and refined taste tlrough,.-.t
the communicated it embraces in its annie
folds evei species of intelligence that can tend to
this result
Original Contributions, M
from many Of the ablest writers in the South
chIeny occupy Its columns, but not to the exciu-
sion or choice miscellany, selected from the hest
American and European sources
The tone Of the "Gazette" is independent u,
criticism and in the discussion OF every legitimate
topic, but 1t is strictly
NEURAL in Politics and Religion!
Its columns are occasionally embellished with
Southern Portraits and Lo.'d~apes,
engraved expressly for the work, and nccomnn
MED by biographical and 'op 'graphical sketches
It's General Information
is copious, but caiefulIy condensed from the
leading journals of all purts Of the world. N
Notwithstanding the great increase in the size
and attractions ofthe paper, it is still published at
Trio Dollars Per .4nnum, in .adtance
it will be furnished to persons becoming respon.
sible for the whole number Of copies, and having
them sent to one address, on the following terms
Three COPIES. SIS
Five copies, 8
Ten copies, Is
Fifteen copies, %
Twenty copies, IS
Fifty copies, 60
III All orders must be accompanied with the
money, and addressed, post PAL, to
WALKER a. RICHARDS
Charleston. S. C
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j. Knox walker,

j. Knox walker,
.9itornsy nj Lar and General .1g,nf,
EFFE RI h,s services in his profession and a.
~ Agent Tor the Prosecution and Collection OF
Claims before Congress and the Departments, also for
obtaining Patents
All business con6dcd to him Will be promptly at
tended to. Ji7 II
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SIR /: have the honor t. transmit TO you herewith
copy Of the correspondence which has passed be
tween this Department and the National Institute for
the Promotion OF Science, respecting the organization
OF committee to constitute the central authority
quiredby the regulations Of the Royal Commission
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woRrHrNaroN @. sNrrHEx.
Formerly Solicitor Of the General L,nnd orr,

Formerly Solicitor Of the General Land Office
ATTORNEY AND CouNsELLoR AT Law,
Continues to practice in the Supreme Court ot
the United States, in the Courts IF the District OF
Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, to prosecute
claims Of all kinds against the United States Ell
Their before Congress or any Of the Executive De-
ps-.mens, and to procure letters patent for inven-
tons. Business conided to his care, will b
promptly attended to.
N. b. Particular attention paid to the prosecu-
ton of claims before the Brazilian Commission
now sitting in Washington
WARRINGTON CRY, D. C. July IL. 1850
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SrEELE'S FASHIONABLE HAT
house

CHARirsroN, soUfH CAROLINA
D THE SUBSCRIBERS establish.
ment being one of the most extensive
Lf9HN and fashionable retail HAT HOUSES
in Charleston, the public may depend
on finding there a superior ass ortmen, Of all the
latest styles of Hats for this fall. Fine French
Moleskin and Beaver Hats, with an extensive
variety OF fine black, and blue cloth Caps for gen
tIernens, youths, and children.
TO SOUTHERN PLANTERS.
Planters can be supplied with Hats and Caps
for plantation and house servants. Black, white.
pearl, and drab waterproof Wool Hats with good
hair and coarse cloth Caps.
~ w. STEELE,
Fashionable Halter, 23l King, opposite Hazel
street, Charleston, IL