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4 The editor OF the Washington Southern
Press wishes to know why the people OF the
border slave States do not 60 into the nom
saveholding States and get more OF their fu'
gitive slaves now residing there. Perhaps they
are convinced Of the truth Of his reiterated as
surance to them that fugitive slaves, when re-
covered, are worth less than nothing. Can he
wonder that the people of the slave States on
the border agree with him in opinion! Does
he suppose that none except the folks OF The
extreme South have sense enough to agree with
him in anything!
Doesn't the editor of the Southern Press
cut pretty figure, saying in one breath that
fugitive slaves, when recovered, are worse than
valueless and, in the next, tauntingly asking the
people of the South why they don't 60 TO the
North and recover their fugitive slaves
Louisville Journal.
Doesn't the editor Of the Louisville Journal
cut pretty figure in asserting all the time, that
the Fugtiye-slave law is great thing for the
South, and worth all the California gold she
surrendered, whilst the border sub nissionists,
whose policy he represents, are 80 remarkably
bashful that they decline going after some ten
millions Of property, which it ia pretended this
law secures them!
As for the law, we have pronounced it worse
than worthless-not because the law itself is
defective, but because the Northern people will
not permit its execution, except in few ex-
treme cases, and, in some Of them, the cost Of
recovery is more than the value of the pro-
perty-nay, the value of the property itself is
destroyed by the tampering of Northern people.
We know the border States are compelled to
adopt our views Of the law, and hence they
wisely abstain from invoking it. Bat border
editors persist in extolling it, and after each
outrage promise there will be no more--all to
retain the semblance of defence for the blunder
Of supporting the compromise.
According to the census of 1850, the follow
ing was the number of fugitives which escaped
that year: M.-..~ :.a ..a
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fa Total l0l7
And we presume that number has escaped the
last year. The Fugitive.slaye law has been in
operation one year. How many have been re-
covered! And at what cost! Why, the South
has not realized one dollar of benefit from this
law, although Union demagogues have been
Boosting of it all the tine, and the army and
navy have been constantly proffered to enforce
it. So much for the glorious compromise.
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port be correct that six OF the Union candidates
and two of the Southern Rights men have been
elected TO Congress from the State Of Georgia, the
following will compose the delegation from that
State LIST district, James w Jackson, Southern
Rights ID district, James Johnson, Union: Sd
district, David J. Bailey, Southern Rights ;4th dis
trict, Charles Murphy, Union 5th district, z
w. Chastain, Union 9Th district, Junivs Hillyer
Union 7th district, A. II Stephens, Union 9Th
distict, Robert Toombs, Union.
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HALIFAX, N. g., Oct 1.-THE latest account
from the scene of the late storm in the Gulf OF
st. Lawrence, states that over one hundred dead
bodies have already fioated ashore. or the fish
ing vessels out, about 400 sail have succeeded
in reaching harbors. The schooner Florence, OF
Gloucester, the schooner Ocean, of bingham,
the schooner Lake, of Cohasseti, and the schoon-
or Branch, of Nswburyport, have arrived AZ Bos-
ton since the gale, and give dismal account OF
the storm, which they say was never before
equalled.
Several vessels are ashore, with their crews
saved. The Golden Gate, Of Kennebec; For
rest, of Newburyport; aud the Triumph, OF Cape
Elizabeth, are ashore, and their crews lost. An
American vessel, name unknown, grounded to
the westward of Cohead, and went to pieces
al the crew lost Sixty barrels Of flour from
on board of her foated ashore.
Two vessels sunk near Stanhope, and all were
lost Five Of the crew of the Harriet, OF CAS-
tine, were saved and six lost. Subsequent to
her loss she had picked five naked persons Oft
the sides Of the Franklin Dexter, of Dennis.
The following particulars Of the late tremen-
dous gale on the coast Of Nova Scotia have been
received from Mr. Norton, U. s. Consul, dated
at Pictou, N. s., Oct. 10th. The names OF a
few of the vessels ashore, the crews OF which
were saved, are given.
The Harriet Newell, of Harwich, two hands
of which persisted. The Lyon" of Castine,
was lost with master, mate and six hands. The
Forre,t, of Newburyport, and Mary Moulton, Of
Castne, lost all hands, The Founding, of iiar-
wich, lost ten hands The Flirt, of Gloucester,
lost fourteen, and the Telegraph, Of Boston,
eighteen.
II is impossible to tell the loss of life and the
mum Der of vessels foundered. There are hun
dred and fifty vessels ashore on the Island.
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NEw M,eHmE,-Mr. r. s. Stops, OF New
Castle Hundred, (Del.,) has fled cavsat in the
Patent Office, at Washington, for a new machine,
which he calls the "Clover Harvester" IL is
designed for gathering the clover intended for seed
and ss il strips hehesds OF, there Is no necessity
for ,hrsshng. prior TO their being sent to the mill.
As great amount Of labor Is thus saved, il must
prove a valuable acquisition to the implements
invented for the use OF the farmer.
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Ho! FoR ClLHoRsrl.-The rush for Calfor-
MIA seems 10 have been resumed with redoubled
wgOr The New York Express says that the
steamer Illinois on the 9th ult, had between
500 and 100 passengers, and the steamer on the
18th left with quite as many. The Ohio last Sat
urday Carried over GOO. Through passages
to San Francisco can now be had in the steer.
age for $3.50.
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The Alexandria Gasefte states that the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, South. in that place viii
be dedicated on the 18th Of the present month, by
the Rev. Levi Rosser. The church will seat, com
fortably seven hundred persons, and is to be liz ur
with gas.
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The Sell Of the South.

The October number OF this invaluable agri.
cultural paper has appeared. We know Of no.
thing in the whole range Of publications more
worthy OF universal patronage than such paper.
- the Soil of hs s. ud.
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TELEGRAP HIC.
Pennsylvania Election-Thisf KILLED.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. IA.
The weather to-day L. delightful, and the cleo
ton 10 progressing very spirtediy. The great
number Of officers TO be voted for, creates much
confusion.
A thief who was detected on the Truck farm
last night. was shot in the neck, and instantly
killed The man who shot him immed ately
surrendered himself
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NEw ORLEANS, Oct. 10

The steamer Yacht arrived with Brazos tdvi.
ces 10 the 9th inst. The reyolutionists captured
Reynosa together with great quantity Of am.
munition and implements Of war
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Why are the women OF China like the whig
party Of Mississippi.
Guv IL up.
Because contrary to their interest, they fancy
very smou r { (Foote.)
Ycroo Dswoera,
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Ohio Election.

ClscIEEATi, Oct. IL.
Scattering reports from Ohio show a Demo
cratic gain, indicating The success Of the Demo-
Gratis.
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MONEY MATrERs.-The Panic Nearly OUer.
The money panic at the North is nearly over,
and things begin to look better. The New
York Tribune, of Saturday, says
The money market has experienced a decided
relief to-day, on call, and there is more currency
for paper, although rates show no important
change, and much caution is exhibited in select
ing names. On call the rate is Z per cent, usu-
ally with commission, making it equal to 10 a
IL per cent, and frequently more. The gov
eminent and State stocks the leading houses
lend at per cent Paper goes at a ] 5 per
cent. for first class; 10 IL per cent being the
usual rate. 1t is easier TO sell good names at
IL per cent to-day that it was at Is per cent.
last week.
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ST. LOUIS, Or',

Major Wsightmsn is elected delegate for
Congress from New Mexico BY FIVE hundred
majority.
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PAUrrR,a IN PARD--The administration Of
public assistance has just published a statistical
account Of the INDECENT population Of Paris for
1850. According to this account, the number OF
poor families in that year was 2s,724, numbering
63,133 individuals. In lS29 the number was g..
705 1e32, 6s,os6; 1895, 62,539; 1871, 66, 4s7
1874, 66,l4s; 1847, 1906. In order to form a
just estimate Of these numbers, il s necessary to
give the amount Of the population at each CORES.
pondipg period. As the new census OF 1851 has
not be yet made, the population remains Off.
cially in 1850 what il was in 1si7, viz ,J34 ,096
For the other periods il is as foIlows.-ln 1899,
sl6 SAG in 1892, al .2s6 1893, SS9, 3l3 1871,
ss4, 7ss in 1874, 912 .933 and in Is47, 1884, 096
The average number ofindigent, as compared with
the total population, will therefore, be in 1929,
in 10. o ; in 1891, in Ill in 1895, 1 in 1873
in I54I, 1 in 1873 in 1914, I in 1877 in Is47, I
in 1879 and in 1850, in 1863.
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THIRD DESPATCH.

Bigler gains In York and Lancaster counties
and the returns leave little doubt Of his cleo
ton.
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FOURTH DESPATCH.

Johnstoh's major 10 Philadelphia city and
co Inty, will not much exceed 500.
1t Is supposed that Bigler will have abont
$4,000 majority in the State.
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VoTr.e THEMSELVES FARns.-General VIM
Of Sacramento. having discovered very rich mines
10 the vicinity Of carson's Valley, from which
whites were excluded by the Indians, was raising
a company Of seventy-hvs men, at last accounts
to 20 there, treat with, or drive off the savsges
and lay out "city," and appropriate l6O acres tC
each man. The valley is situated on the eoas
sid. OF the Sierra range Of mountains, just abou
due east Of Msrysyile. The climate is said to b,
delightful, fsh plenty, soil and timber good, and
miners can operate the year round--snow seldom
falling more then ten inches in winter. A com
pany OF sdysnturers, from Sacramento, are sbou
to proceed TO the valley with view to settlement
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SECOND DIsPATCH.

Lehigh gives 400 majority for Bigler; North.
umberland 100 majority for BgIer 10 thirteen
districts of Schaylkill, Johnston loses 1886 !;
in seventeen districts OF Allegheny, Johnston
loses 237. ..... ..
Bigler is doubtless elected.
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PenpsyIvania Election.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. l4-10A.s NJ.
Philadelphia city 5000 majority for Johnston
Northampton 1900 majority for BigIer Pitts
burg, Johnston 500 majority.
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C.ApIrsros. 8. q. oct. IL.

CHARLESTON, 8. c.. Oct IL.
The steamer Isabel has arrived here with later
advices from Hayans. All was quiet on the
island.
A subscription of $3.50 900 bad been raised
for the relief Of those who suffered in conse-
quence of the late Lopez expedition.
\ New York, Oct. Is.
The steamer Ohio sailed this afternoon fol
Chagres.
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The jury in the case of Margaret Clarity win
was tried for the murder of her sedncer, Edward
Drum, rendered verdict this morning of no
gully, on the ground OF insanity.
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i
In iS48-49 the Southern States were unanim-
Gus in asserting their equal right with the North.
ern, to the new territory. In 1850, the Southern
delegation divided on the question of surrender.
Ing this right but a majority persisted in assert
ing it. in 1881, the Southern States were az
unanimous IN the sure nder, as they were il
lS4S-49 in resolving that they never would sur.
render. In ls4S, the Northern States were
unanimous 10 resolving to grasp all the new ter
ritoy. In lsl9- 80 they determined to abolish
the slave trade in this District besides. And
now we behold the Southern States praying that
their conditional surrender by the compromise
may be accepted by the North, and the latter
spurning by successive elections the recognition
Of any terms, but insisting on unconditional sub
mission. TY .st,
The compromise was rs great blunder as a
wrong. 1t was based on gross ignorance of
human nature, N we'll as gross departure from
justice. II assumed that fanaticism and covet-
BUSINESS could be stated by concessions--onl q
little short of their demands: whereas, all his
tory shows that their demands increase as they
are submitted to. The restitution Of fugitives
was the most trivial Of all the rights of the
South involved in the controversy, and hence
was reserved in the capitalization to make show
of treaty. 1t would have been better for the
South to have retained her share Of California,
or to have preserved the territory of Texas. 1t
would have been even better to have prevented
the abolition of slavery in the District--For the
r;oht IF recovarinu fuuitivas althouph Of
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The THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME
OF THE
SOOIH ERN IIEER A u

"a -
Was commenced on Saturday, the 4th of MAYS
iS9o, under It's original name-instead of Rchard.s
Veehfy HdzeHe--as more significant of its pecuor
character 1T beng the only weekly organ OF Litera
ture In the entire South! Ii is
Greatly Enlarged and Improved.
Containing weekly Thirty-two Column, q,
matter. ii ia, moreover, IN an
Entirely .Nep Dress
IRON head to foot" and upon beau,Y,r wc,,.
paper, so that in mechanical excellence !, - no,
surpassed by any paper whatever in the United
3.a'es! IL continues under the same Editoria
will be spared to make it
II Choice Family Newspaper,
=" as cheap as the cheapest, and rs GOOD 90 ~
'Des' ouery discardlng the notion that a
ooutuerh Journal cannot compete with the North,
EN- Weehhes, IN cheapness and interest
The Southern Literary Gazette
rivals the best of them in all the characteristic ~
a truly valuable hreside Journal Its aim - III.
diffusion OF cultivated and refined taste throuo,oyt
the communicated it embraces in its amnl.
folds ever species of intelligence that can tend to
this result WI" :"
Original Contributions,
nom many OF the ablest writer's in the South
chiefly occupy its columns, but not To m. syci,.
sion or choice miscellany, selected from the hes.
American and European sources.
The tone of the "Gazette" is inde,.ndep, =:
criticism and IN the discussion of every legitimate
toPlS, out IL is strlctly
Neutral in Politics and Religion
It's columns are occasionally embeshed with
Southern Portraits and Londscapes,
engraved expressly for the work and accomn,.
med by biographical and typographical sketches /.
rs General Information
is copous, but mefuy condensed from IN.
leading Journals OF all parts Of the world
Notwithstanding the great increase in the si.s
ana attractions of the paper, it is still published,
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il will be furnished to persons becoming resnon.
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them sent 10 one address, on the following terms:
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A.
At the to,c price Of ONE DOLLAR per annum,
the cheapest weekly newspaper south Of the
j Potomac, and as cheap as any in the Union.
This paper is made up chiefly from the Daily
Dispatch, consisting Of the entertaining and
news matter of that sheet, and carefully selected
light literature and poetry.
HucH K. PEASANTS, Principal Editor.
II ia designed to make it equal to any Weekly
sheet in the Union for its general interest. In
tone and sentiment it ia Southern-its conductors
are Virginians, and they hope to merit and re-
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They enter upon no mere speculation in their en-
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terest, from choice, they Southern men. Their
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warm unremitting, and as far as their capacity al
lowed, vigorous, no man who has read their sheet
will deny. To doubt that it will continue to be
30 is to presume that the principles and ideas
which have been instilled into them from their
birth, can be eradicated, at period of-life when
men rarely change their views They, at least,
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II ENLARGEMENT OF THE CAPITOL
IL The Committee on Public Buildings of the
Senate, having been authorized by resolution Of
that body, {" to invite plans accompanied by esti-
mates for the extension of the Capitol, and to al
low premiuD Of FIVE hundred dollars for the
plan which ma zoe adopted by the Committees on
Public Buildings of the two Houses Of Congress, I"
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
Ii is required that these plans and estimates
shall provide for the extension of the Capitol,
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
the 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 such 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
mitee reserve TO themselves the right to form such
plan by the adoption Of parts Of different plans
submitted, should snch course be found nscessarp in
which event. the committee also reserve 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.
| X. M. L. HUNTER,
| JEFFERSON DAVIS,
JOHN II. CLARKE,
Committee Of the Senate on Public Buildings.
SENATE CHAMBER, 30th September, 1850
| N. b. The several daily papers published al
Washington will please insert the above daily for
two weeks, and send their accounts TO the Score
| tary OF the senate oct
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EDITED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF LITERARY MEN.
FINDER this title will be published, during the
u year 1850, twenty flour Portraits and Bographi-
cal Sketches of American citizens Who have become
iusrlous IN the service OF the country Every por-
ton of the work will receive the most careful atten-
ton, and nothing will be spared to render ii worthy
mad enduring monument to the great men OF the Re
public.
Mr. Brady has been many years engaged, at great
expense, collecting Portraits a National Gal
lery, end those which being engraved for this
work believed 10 be superior TO any that have
been taken. In the Accomplishment. of this great
object he has experienced the utmost courtesy and
encouragement from distinguished men MIR. Brady's
reputation has been too long established 10 need any
recomme ndaion. His daguerreotypes are in the
highest sense the works OF art, glowing with the soul
of the living countenance.
The drawings and engravings OF D'Avignon have
been pronounced by Europeans of taste 10 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 win be exc
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the finest imperial folio paper, l6 by 20 lachcs rade
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 are admitted whose talents
and public services have won for them honorable
fame throughout the nation. Each Of the great de.
partmcnts of life Will have its representatives Art
and Literature universal in their spirit, and the
Gallery is intended to be worthy and enduring mon
ument to the great 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 Mon, will respond 10 our ap-
peal for encouragement and aid in commendablc
undertaking, that is publication may make an era IN
he progress OF American Art, and by grouping the
illusrious Of the Union together consolidate it
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WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE.

WILLIAM ANIL MAA1 NOAh1A11
THE next annual session of this Institution will
commence on the I'd Wednesday in October.
FACULTY.
The Right Rev. JOHN JOINS D. D., President
and Professor of Moral Philosophy.
Judge BEVERLY TUCKER, Professor Of Municipal
and Constitutional Law.
BENJAMIN S. EwELL, Professor of Mathematics
and Astronomy.
MORGAN J. SMEAD, Phi. D. Professor of HUI
mainly.
WILLIAM F. HOPKINS, A. M, Professor
Chemistry and Natural Philosophy.
III. A. WASHINGTON, A. NJ, Professor of His
tory and Political Economy.
Rev. SEAS TorrEN, 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 their parer, 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
Sl86 and SI96 per annum.
Circulars will be forwarded to all who may de-
sire fuller information, spsnf inquiries will be
answered. if addressed to Professor MORGAN
SMEAp, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Students, not desiring to attend either the Rec
ular or the Science course, will be permitted to
study with any class which they may be prepared
| to Join.
| July Isl aw.
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