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The GOLDEN GArE.-This steamship, it is
now said, will not 60 to California this summer,
but will in few days sail from New York for
Liverpool, in order to give her oscillating en-
gines the fullest possible test before ventur-
ing round Cape Horn. SO says the Clipper;
but the Tribune says: This splendid new
steamship will leave this port on Friday, Isl
August, for San Francisco, touching at Rio
Janeiro and Valparaiso. The Washington Re.
public says that it is authorized by the Post
Office Department to say that she win take
mails, to be made up at New York, for both
Rio de Janeiro and Valparaiso. In this parti-
cular instance, as til mail will be conveyed to
destination by the United States packet, the
single letter postage viii be twenty cents, and
the newspaper portage two cents each, to either
place-in both cases to be prepaid.
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RAILROAD DELAY.-The cars which left Bal
timore at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, and
were due here at seven, did not arrive until
four o'clock this morning. The delay, we un-
derstand, was occasioned by the running off the
track of the cars which left this city at the
same time. A COW on the track was the cause,
and her death the only fatal calamity.
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i H. WHlTEHURST has extended the field of his OPP
y erations over more ground than any daguerreo-
typist in the country. His Galleries may be found
Pennsylvania avenue, between and 9th streets; No.
207 Baltimore street. Baltimore; corner Broadway and
Leonard street. New York. No77 Main street. Richmond
Sycamore street. Petersburg Main street. Norolk and
Main street, Lynchburg, Virginia.
His beautiful and highly finished Daguerreo-
types extraordinary improvement insuring faithful
and highly finished hkenesses in few seconds.
j. H. W. calls the attention of the public generally to
his elegantly furnished Gallery Lane fuckers
new store where free exhibition Of pictures will be
given.
Notwithstanding the unusual competition in Daguerre-
oypes at the recent Fair Of the Maryland Institute he
was awarded the first medal by the judges.
Lkenesses of every description copied and postmortem
attended TO. an 3O-d6mo
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COLLECTIONS OFFICE, July 4, 1901.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Taxes for the
In year 1851 due and payable at this office,
and that abatement of 10 per cent will be allowed by
law upon the Taxes for the current year, If paid on or
before the 31st day of August ensuing.
jy 22-eotd II. j. ROCHE, Collector.
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DEPARTMENTAL REFoRM.-We to-day quote
with much pleasure, from The United States
Postal GUIDE, an article on the subject of
"Clerks in the Departments" and commend it
to the attentive perusal of all who have read
our several brief essays entitled "The Depart
ments ut Washington"
These articles should interest all our citizens,
and indeed the nation at large. They relate to
subjects Of vital Importance to the people Of
Washington and aim at effecting a great and
much-needed reform in the economy of the
National Government.
IL is very generally admitted that, as Mt pre-
sent organized, the Departments are inefficient,
corrupt unjustly administered, and anti-repub-
hcan' Our purpose is to simplify, purify and
elevate them; and in endeavorinq to consum-
mate this purpose, we are delighted 10 ace bo.
fore us on the road one so capable Of le.a;nn
as the experienced and able editor Of the worI
we have named.
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jy 2s- booksellers, near 9th street.
lust OPENED-A case of fine Spanish, French
81 and German Guitars. Also another lot of those fine
Volins limitations of Druffo, Guarnerius, Magni and
others; together with large assortment of the best
French Italian and German Vions from one dollar up
Call and examine for yourselves at
HILBUS'S Musical Depot,
next to cor. of 10th st. and Pa av., So side.
Instruments furnished to bands at New York prices.
Repairing done usual ut prices TO suit jy 2S-3td
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lust RECEIVED AT TAYLOR u MAURY'S
b supply of Rejected Addresses, and Warrenia
Hawthornes House of Seven Cables and Scarlet Let
err the Solitary by the author Of Piccioa " De Qun
,ys Cesars Opium Eater, &C.; Longfellow's 0utre-Mer
md Hyperion; Tennyson's POEMS and In Memoriam
3oethe's Faust, and Wilhelm Mester; Oliver Wendell
Poems jy 2S-
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Copper, TIN, Sheet-Iron and Store Manufacturer
ROOFING, GUTTERING, SCOUTING, &C.
South side Pennsylvania avenue, Third street,
jy 25-n Washington CITY, d. o.
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The Virginia Resolutions.

The Select Committee of Thirteen in the
Virginia House Of Delegates, to whom were
referred the resolutions offered by Mr.. Scorr in
regard to South Carolina and the Compromise,
unanimously reported the following preamble
and resolutions instead
Whereas the Legislature of the State Of South
Carolina has passed an act to provide for the APP
pointment of delegates to q southern congress,
to be entrusted with full power and authority to
deliberate with the view and intention of resisting
further aggression, and If possible of restoring the
constitutional rights Of the South and If not, to
recommend due provision for her future safety and
independence" which act has been formally COM
municated to this General Assembly:
1. Be IL therefore rssolued by The General Assens-
Div of Virginia, That, whilst this State deeply
sympathixes with South Carolina in the feelings ex
cited by the unwarrantabe interference of the non
slaveholding Statcs with our common institutions;
and, whilst diversity Of opinion exists among the
people of this Common wealth in regard to the wis
DOM justice and constitutionality of the measures
of the late Congress Of the United States, taken
a whole, and commonly known as the Compromise
measures; yet the Legislature of Virginia deems 1t
duty TO declare to her sister State Of South Caro-
lima that the people of this State are unwilling to
take any action lin consequence OF the samc) cal
culated TO destroy the integrity Of this Union
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One of the objections urged by the 'sDemo-
cratic" opponents of the River and Harbor bill
in the Senate was the enormous amount of the
appropriations--the sum total being s., 34l 1916.
To be sure, they sought by various amend
ments to increase this total and seUen Sena-
tors-Messrs. ATCHIsON, Downs, FooTE,
HoUsroN, RUsK, SoULE, and WALKER--voted
to add $4,000 to it for the improvement of
the Mississippi and its tributaries. They hoped,
of course, to weigh down the enormous" bill,
or, as General HousroN styled it, ''the bill of
nominations" by increasing its enormities,
and making it still more abominable. With
how much sincerity they advocated these addi-
tons, and at the same time denounced the bill
for its extravaganza, the country can Judge.
1t is clear that both objections could not have
been urged in good faith. The bill appropriated
$3.50, 900 for the Mississippi and its tributa-
ries-or as much as could be usefnlly and eco
nomically expended in single year-and yet
Mr.. RusK declared that it was better the Mis-
sissippi should ''get nothing than get some
thing more than half a million of dollars.
Let us see if, under the circumstances, there
was any thing enormous or disproportioned in
the appropriations contemplated by this bill.
MIR. HAMLIN furnishes us with the following
table of the amounts that have been expended
for similar objects during long series Of
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THE REPUBLIC.
WASHINGTON:
FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH %. 1851.

1.-The series Of measures to which / have alluded
are regarded by me settlement, in principle
. and substance-a final settlement-of the danger
Gus and exciting subjects which they embraced"
ssBy that adjustment we have been rescued from
the wide and boundess agitation thatsurrounded
us, and have q firm, distinct, and legal ground
to rest upon. And the occasion, trust will JUS
tify me IN ExHoRrINe Dry coUSTRyMRN TO RALLY
supoN AND MAIsTAIs THAT GROUND AZ the best, if
not the only means, of restoring peace and quiet
to the country, and maintaining inviolate the in
tegrity Of the Union"
president FILLMoRE's MESSAGE.
"The Presidents message, at the opening of the
present session of Congress, expresses fully and
plainly his own and the unanimous opinion Of all
those associated with him in the Executive admin
istration Of the Government, in regard to what
are called the Adjustment or Compromise mea-
sures of last session. That opinion is, that those
measures should be regarded in principle as
n final settlement of the dangerous and exciting
subjects which they embrace; that though they
we're not free from imperfections, yet, in their
mutual dependence and connection, they formed
system Of compromise the most conciliatory
and best for the entire country that could be OBJ
tanned from conflicting sectional interest and
opinions, and that therefore they should be ad-
hered to, until time and experience should de-
monstrate the necessity of further legislation to
: guard against evasion or abuse. That opinion, SO
: far as know, remains entirely unchanged, and
will be acted upon steadily and decisively. The
peace of the country requires this the security OF
the Constitution requires this; and every conside
ration of the public good demands this. If the
Administration cannot stand upon the principles
of the message, it does not expect to stand at all
[DAsIEL WEBsrRR's Letter TO the Union Meeting
at JVestchester.
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The statement in the St. Adams (Vermont)
Messenger, SO greedily snapped at by the Bos-
ton .Atlas-that the "Republic, in summing up
the next Senate, puts down Hon. SOLOMON
FooT as sFree-soiP us absolutely untrue;
there being not, according to our belief, the
shadow of foundation for such an assertion, I'M
less an article copied by us from the New York
Journal of Commerce month or two ago, and
credited to that paper, classifying Mr.. Foor
as a Free-soil Wing, could be SO construed,
which we do not think it could. We shall be
most heartily gratified to learn, beyond doubt,
that Mr.. SOLOMON FooT is not Free-soiler,
as we are already gratihed to learn that the
Boston Atlas regards the term as odious, and
the application of it to Senator as equivalent
to saying that he sis not a Wing"
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1t appears, by the above, that in too success
sive years of so-called democratic +" admin
istration these appropriations exceeded a mil
lion of dollars. 1t also appears that, taking the
ten years from 1884 to 1874, they averaged
more than half a million Of dollars an
nually. So for sac years NO appropriation had
been made for these objects. Itcice against
large majorities in the two Houses, and against
the well understood wishes Of the American
people, Mr. Polk vetoed the River and Harbor
bills. Mr.. FILLMORE took strong grounds in
favor of these improvements in his annual mes
sage distinct, decided, unequivocal. The bill
which passed the House in consequence of these
recommendations included appropriations to the
amounts we have above stated. Diffused over
the SIC years for which these appropriations
have been withheld, and they average less than
$4Oo, 900 year.
This would be an hundred thousand dollars
less than was appropriated in single year as
long ago as 1929. We apprehend that the OBJ
lection of .'extravagance" and "enormity" to
this BILL as reason for defeating it, will hardly
satisfy the people who dwell upon the Missis-
sipp and its tributaries, or on the borders of the
great lakes. 1t may answer for MIR. SoULE
and General HoUsroN to satisfy their people
for the loss of the appropriations for the benefit
of TEXAS and LOUISIANA; but we apprehend it
will hardly satisfy the constituencies which
were represented at the Chicago convention.
We imagine that their verdict will be one of
condemnation against the men who either
spoke, read, or voted to kill the bill in ques-
ton on the ground that an average of $4OO,OOO
year was too much to devote to the improve
ment of our rivers and harbors.
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The Senators complain that the Secretary
wanted courtesy in not sending to them icrit-
ten answer to their letter. II is sufficient to
say that the Secretary, surprising that the Sen
ators had left the city, sent the answer by mail,
addressed to their places of residence in Wis
consin.
II is also due to the Secretary TO say, that he
had no agency in causing the publication Of the
correspondence in this paper. AS we have be-
fore stated, copy was furnished us on our
express application, inasmuch as we deemed it
a matter of public interest; and we believe
there was nothing in its publication inconsist-
ent with previous usage, or the strictest rules
of propriety.
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THE REPUBLIC.

2. Resolved, That, regarding the said acts of the
Congress of the United States, taken together as
an adjustment of the exciting questions 70 which
they relate, and oherishing the hope that, il fairly
executed. they will restore to the country that bar
mony and confidence which of late have been 80
unhappily disturbed, the State Of Virginia deems
it unwise Tin the present condition of the country
to send delegates to the proposed southern oon
gress.
3. RESOLVED, That Virginia earnestly and affec-
tonatey appeals TO her sister State Of South Caro-
lima to desist from any meditated secession upon
her part which cannot but tend to the destruction
of the Unon and the loss to all of the States of the
benefits that spring from it..
4. ResolUed, That Virginia, believing the Con-
stitution of the United States, if faithfully admin
istercd provides adequate protection to the rights
of all the States of this Conederacy and still look
ing to that instrument for defence within the
Union. warned by the experience of the past, the
dangers OF the present, and the hopes Of the future
invokes all who live under ii to adhere more strict
ly to it, and 70 preserve inviolats the safeguards
which it affords to the rights of individual States
and the interests Of sectional minorities.
8. Resoiued, That all legislation combinations
designed in any way to affect the institutions pecu
liar to the South, deserves the most unqualified re-
Pioo"'on, uCtoBototy W IlBnte oAs anu poCu-
liarly Offensive to, the southern States, and must,
If persisted in, inevitably defeat the restoration Of
peaceful and harmonious sentiments in these
States.
6. Resolved, That the Governor of this Common
wealth be requested to transmit copy Of these
solutions to the Executive of the State of South
Carolina with the request that they be laid before
her next Legislature, and that copies be also trans
mtted to the Executive of each of the other States
of this Union--the State of Vermont only ex-
cepted
On Tuesday evening, the 25th instant, the
House adopted the preamble without divi-
sion, and the first of the resolutions by vote
of ITO to 1; the second by vote of Ill to 8;
the third by vote of la to l.; the fourth
and fifth by ayes llS, noes none; and the sixth
unanimously, without count.
The Richmond Wing says:
eve perceive no substantial difference between
the resolutions as referred to the committee and
those reported. They both affirmed the Same facts
with regard to public opinion.
81. That Virginia would abide by the settle
ment.
"2. That she sympathizes with South Carolina,
and advises against secession.
49, That she will take part in the proposed
southern congress.
"The first set of resolutions were, perhaps, more
audatory of the Union, and more distinct in their
denunciation Of the fanatics than the last But we
have disposition TO be hypercritical. The peace
of the country is object paramount to all others,
and 30 that object be secured have no objection
to the language employed, nor any jealousy of the
party advantage to those who may achieve it.''
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The MILITARY AsyLUM.-A portion of the Mill
tary Asylum Board, (including Generals Scott,
Wool, Jones, and Lawson, and Col. Larned,) inn
proved the pleasant weather of Tuesday last, by
paying official visit to the Heights of George
town. They spSnt considerable time in examin-
ing the place known as WoodIey, which contains
one hundred acres, and is reputed to be Of the
handsomest places in the District. formerly the
residence Of Philip Barton Key, esq, but now the
property of Col. Lorenzo Thomas, U. s. A. The
Board also visited Linnean Hill. the property Of
Mr.. Pearce.-Infelligencer
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THE Minor LIGHTHOUSE IN THE LATE SToRM.-
The Boston Journal learns from of the assistant
keepers of the Minot lighthouse that
s'The late storm commenced on Sunday morning
about clock the wind blowing from the northeast,
accompanied by heavy snow, and preventing OBJ
iects at a distance of half mile from being seen.
During the day the storm increased, and on Mon
day morning the oscillation Of the lighthouse be-
came 30 great from the action of the sea, that the
inmates could with difficulty keep upon their feet;
and, indeed, were frequently knocked down. They
were finally obliged to retreat TO the store
the next below, their cooking utensils having been
broken, and II being impossible to remain where
they were. Here they remained for four days,
without sleep, and compelled to live upon dry bread
and uncooked meat. The chimneys in the light
were continually being thrown out, and Of course
broken, and the difficulty of ascending to replace
them may be inferred from the fact that the person
who was compelled to perform this hazardous duty
was several times thrown from the ladder in con-
sequence of the vibration Of the building, caused
by the storm. The spray as:ended TO the receiving
deck, distance of some fifty feet. and thoroughly
soaked the provisions and every thing contained in
that DIVISION making it necessary to secure or re-
move them to the store room above"
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DANIEL WHISTLE AND Isaac HILL.-A pleasant
incident was connected with the last moments Of
Isaac HILL which, being authoritatively in our pos
session. do not feel at liberty to withhold from
ourreaders. A few days before Mr.. Hills death
he received letter from Mr.. Webster, earnestly
offering him any attentions from himself or family
which might alleviate his sufferings. Mr. Hill was
too feeble in body to answer the letter otherwise
than by debating reply, which he did, aided by
the pen of his son. In that reply he took occasion
to approve of Mr.. Webster's course in regard to
the Constitution and the Union, both of which he
considered in great peril during the discussion of
the Compromise measures before the last Congress.
This approval Mr.. Hill had expressed 1t the time,
and, as Union man, believing that there are ma
ny hidden dangers still lurking in the body polite,
from his dcathbed and on the day before his death,
he begged Mr.. Webster to go ON in the good work
before him Of urging his countrymen to observe
each and all of their constitutional obligations.
Mr.. Hill died on Saturday, and on Sunday MIR.
Webster sent Mr.. Hills son letter of coincidence
full Of touching illusions to the past and recalling
the occasion Of burial Of great political differences
upon the altar of the Union. The deep political
enmities Of the past were mentioned with regret
by Mr.. Hill, and Mr.. Webster sympathixed with
this forgetfulness of differences. Time and reflcc
ton, he was glad to know, had moderated these
extreme animosihes, and taught each how much
sweeter were the hallowcd influences Of age and
experience than the bitter waters Of malice and I'M
charitableness.
This letter impaired feeling of sincere satisfac
ton to the family Of the deceased whose remains
were taken through this city on Monday evening,
for Concord, where they will be buried 70 day.
INsto York Hrprsss.
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Mr.. WMxEs.-The New York Star states that
Mr. Wilkes, for whose apprehension Geographic
report in our paper of yesterday represented re-
ward had been offered, denies having "abscended,"
in the sense implied by certain malicious persons.
Mr. Wilkes says he lives at the Atlantic hotel Ho-
boken, in New Jersey, and has no desire to return
to New York before the latter part of the week,
by which time he expects his counsel will have OBJ
tanned stay of proceedings.
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Trexpassers ON tho Public Lands In Wis
cousin,

ATchPAsbcHb Oh tAo 1-uOhC A1nub Ii WIZ
cOnsin.
LETTERS THE SENATORS OF THAT STATE TO
THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
That grave Senators. for the purpose of man
ufacturing political capital, should doff their
Senatorial robes and turn demagogues, may eI-
cite some surprise; but, to the initiated, it is
evident that the efforts of the Senators referred
to, to bring the Administration into odium
with the citizens of Wisconsin, are prompted
by desire to sustain their own waning popu-
larity.
the object Of the Senators is lt-fnding with
the Executive branch Of the Government for
having done, in the mildest possible way, its
duty to the country.
II might have been nationally supposed that,
after the Secretary of the Interior, in his letter
OF March 10Th, had assured the Senators that
the policy OF the Government was not to
harass, perplex, or annoy settlers on the public
domain, that no such purpose exists, and no in
structions, either designed or tending to produce
such results, have emanated from the Depart
ment, the Senators would have ceased their at
tacks more especially as one of the Senators,
at least, had been put in possession of the in
structions issued to the district attorney Of
Wisconsin two months since-a copy Of the let
ter Of the Solicitor Of the Treasury to Governor
DorY, dated January 6, 1851, which appeared
in the Republic of the 10Th inst, having been
enclosed to him. Did the Senator discover in
that letter any disposition to vex and harass the
honest settler
The Senators, in their letter of the 24th in
slant, assure the Secretary that they have no
sympathies for the roaming depredators on the
public lands-all their concern is for the honest
settlers. Why shed tears over fanced griefs
The letter TO Governor DoTY informed Mr..
Donor that not only no instructions had been
issued to annoy honest settlers, but that no suits
as far as the Solicitor had been advised, had
been commenced against them---and the De
partment has yet TO learn that up TO this time
any such suits have been instituted Notwith-
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FROM INpIA.-We are indebted to the kindness
of friend in the Island of Malta for the Madras
Overland Afheneum of the 18th of january, con,
tanning twenty four imperial quarto pages, filled
with details Of India news, the gist of much Of
which, however, has heretofore been published in
this country. Tho administration of Sir Charles
Napier, that has just closed is highly extolled by
the Alhenxum. We may hereafter avail ourselves
of tho columns of this journal to publish certain
matters Of historical interest therein contained.