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THE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME
OF THE

Was commenced on Saturday, the 4th of Nav
1850, under its original name-instead of Richard.
Weekly Ga=ehe-as more significant Of its peculiar
character, 1t being the only weekly organ OF Liteu-
ture IN the entire South! 1t is
Greatly Enlarged and Improved
Containing weekly Thirty-two Columns OF
matter u is, moreover, In an
Entirely .Ns,c Dress
" from head to foot" and upon beaut,fi,r wn,,.
paper, that, in mechanical excellence. it il not
surpassed by any paper whatever in the United
States! Ii continues under the same Editor;a!
direction as heretofore, and no pains or expenss
will be spared to make it
Il Choice Family Newspaper,
g as cheap as the cheapest, and as good as the
best" Utterly discarding the notion that a
Southern Journal cannot compete with the North
ern weeklies, IN cheapness and interest,
The Southern Literary Gazette
rivals the best Of them in all the charocter,stics NJ
truly valuable freside Journal It's aim is the
diffusion of cultivated and refined taste througs,.t
the communicated it embraces in its smnle
folds ever species of intelligence that can tend to
this result
Original Contributions,
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chiefly occupy its columns, but not to the exclu-
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American and European sources
The tone Of the Gazette" is independent -
criticism and IN the discussion Of every legitimate
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Its columns are occasionally embellished with
Southern Portraits and Lo-d,capes, *.
engraved expressly for the work and accompa-
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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, "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 Crpito,
either by additional wings, to be placed on the
north and south of the present building, or by the
erection of a 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 to preserve the general
symmetry of the entire structure, when complete.
Although but one plan be adopted, the com
mittee reserve TO themselves the right to form such
plan by the adoption of parts Of different plans
submitted should such course be found necessary; in
which event, the committee also reserve to them
selves the right to divide 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. M. 4. HUNTER,
JEFFERSON DAVIS,
JOHN III. CLARKE,
Committee Of the Senate on Public Buildings
SENATE CHAMBER, 30th 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. oct4
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THE Am ERlCAN FARM Err, published
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A GREAT NATIONAL WORK
THE GALLERY OF TLLUSTRIOUS
AMERICANS
Daguerreotypes by Brady--Engraved by
D'Avignon.


EDITED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF LITERARY MEN.
TTNDER this title will be published, during the
~ year 1850, twenty -four Portraits and Biogrsphi
cal Sketches OF American citizens who have become
illusrious 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 il a worth
mad enduring monument to the great men Of the Re
public.
Mr.. Brady has been many years engaged, at grea,
expense, ~ collecting Portraits National Gal
lery, and those which being engraved for this
work are believed TO be superior to any that have
ever been taken In the accomplishment: of this great
object he has experienced the utmost courtesy and
encouragement from distinguished men Mr.. Brady's
reputation has been too long established to need any
Recommendation. His dagucrrcotypes in the
highest sense the works OF art, glowing with the soul
of the living countenance.
The dra wings and engravings OF D'Avignon have
been pronounced by Europeans 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 he exc
cuted carefully and in superb style the
cravings themselves. The entire work will he on
the finest imperial folio paper 16 by % riches r.ade
expressly for this purpose
This work has nothing sectional in its scope ; il
win therefore be comprehensive in its spirit. The
names of those only 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 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 our glorious Union will respond TO our APP
peal for encouragement and aid in so commendabe an
undertaking. that lis publication may make era IN
he progress of American Art, and by grouping TIE
illustrious of the Union together, consolidate it
still more firmly.
As no work of this kind has appeared in America,
and the prices they sustain in Europe would place j,
beyond the reach Of mos, Of citizens the publish
crs have resolved TO merit large circulation, BY
charging very low price. They have, therefore,
established the following
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""''''g '0''o'10T 9 He UtHffd land tTIce
ATTORNEY AND CoussELLoR AT LAW.
Continues to practice in the Supreme Court OF
the United States, in the Courts Of the District or
Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, to prosecute
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Their before Congress or any of the Executive De-
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A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF TRADE AGRI-
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON, .psss,e 1, 1850

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
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SIR have the honor to transmit to you herewith
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the Promotion Of Science, respecting the organization
OF committee to constitute the central authority
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