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TELEGRAPH REPORTS, &c.
BALTIMORE. MAY a-5P.

BALTIMORE, MAY 9-5 p. M,
Judge BRIcE Of the Baltimore City Court died at his re-
sdence in this city last night after lingering illness of some
two years He had been very infm from age, being 10 hi
esheh year. and has not occupied bis seat hsbench
more than eighteen months. He appointed to the Judge
ship in the year 1917 The usual tribute Of respect will b.
paid to bis memory by the Bar and Bench. ost.
The -four market is dull There were ofsrs Of Houart
street brands to-day at 4.3, and no buyers Nohng done
in City Mils-held al 81. so. Grain dull red wheat 95
W while DO 100 l02 cents, prime do. lie. Corn ha.
declined yellow 90 60: white go; oats 40 ~.
The tobacco market is quiet Small sales Of MARYLAND
previous prices Sales Of 576 hhds Ohio at S5 10 S as
quality Holders are firm, and buyers not much disposed
purchase The weeks inspections in all ll63 hhds,
Of which si7 are Ohio, TIT Maryland and SO Kentucky
New YoRK, MAY 81 p. M.
Stocks are steady U. g. loan 1921 bid. Flour is
active at yesterday decline common standard brands "a
"a "a Southern -four S4.623 O SASH, wheat un-
changed Northern yellow corn 81 cents The mske, for
cotton is SO unsettled that s impossible to give quotations
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OFFICIAL.
Circular Instructions TO Collectors and other Off,
GERS Of The Customs.

19gssp5j TREAsuRr DEPARTMEsT, MAI 9, 1851.
Inquiries having been made the operation Of the cir
cusr instructions Of the 2ls October $780, with special
ference 70 cases OF imported merchandise duly exported
Canada and Chihuahua," it is deemed proper instruct
collectors and other officers Of the customs that merchandise
imported prior the passage of the of the 2sh Sepem
Der last entitled to all the drawback privileges conferred by
the laws then In force, due compliance with the require
ments and conditions of those laws. As however, the law
Of the 2sh September last took effect from its date merchan-
disc imported subsequently thereto and taken out Of the
tody Of the officers of the CUSTOMS be exported with
benefit of drawback.
On careful re-examnaon Of the subject the Department
s OF opinion that the eighteenth section of the Of the 2sh
September last was intended and be construed legal
zng the practice previously permitted under the regulations
Of the Department. of the expectation Of sndse from
warehouse to ports in the adjoining British provinces,
without payment Of duss under the provisions Of the Of
9th August 1916 and the practice thus egazed will con-
nued in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed
in the circular of the l7,h February, ls4s.
The circular instruction Of the 2lst October 1885, as well
any subsequent instructions the subject consequent
ly modified TO the extent contained in the foregoing
WIN. L. HODGE,
Acting Secretary Of The Treasury.
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Tar EXPLOSION At PArERsos, IN. live had a
brief record yesterday Of terrible calamity at Paterson (N
J caused by the explosion Of locomotive boiler the
tabishment of Messrs Rogers, Kechum and Grosvenor
The accident occurred few minutes after O'clock We'd
ne,day morning, in the testing Of locomotive, which
had just been commenced for the Rochester and syra-
suse railroad This engine weighed about twenty TONS bad
fteen-and ahal inch cylinder and twenty Inch stroke.
had been twice before tested with pressure Of 100 pounds
Of stea On this occasion, which intended the final
a there were but seventy pounds pressure when the boiler
exploded The locomotive which the ground floor
of the building, forced through the upper floor and roof
and fell back into the ruins The building about l25
feet in length Its front part thrown down, and the win
dows for the whole extent, were much shattered.
Within ten minutes utter the explosion the bodies OF four
killed Were taken from the ruins-Amos Whitehead super
intenden; Thomas Bustard. mechanics John McNsmars,
apprentice; and Patrick Dougherty laboer William War
rsn foreman Of Of the departments severely bruised
and scsded and lower broken; he not exectd to re-
cover Twenty -four Others wounded, some OF hem
severely hurt but it is hoped fatally with the exception
Of the first named.
The testimony before the coronors inquest indicates that
The want Of sufficient in the boiler the cause Of the
ex xplosion. 5s aa
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NATIONAL MEDICAL CONVENTION.

The annual session Of this body commenced Charles
ton (S C.) on Tuesday last, Or. MussEr presiding.
The Delegates present from other States welcomed By
Dr. SMoss the Chairman Of the Committee Of the South
Carolina Medical Association in and hearty address,
which was responded to in becoming by the Pre-
sideRt.
After further preliminary business Dr. MussEr, be-
fore retiring from his post President Of the past year, read
address Of some length matters connected with the pro-
fssson and the advancement Of medical science which was
well received and elected the commendaion Of those present
The following gentlemen then elected officers for the
ensuing year, the recommendation of the nominating
muee a41
DR.. JAMES MoULTRIE, Of 8. c., President.
y Dr. Gro. HEYwARD, Of Mass.
. DR.. r. D. ARNOLD, of Ga.
DR.. d. r. WELLFoRD. of Va. " 10 fiesueh's.
Dr. ]. B. FLINT, of Ky.
b. D.. 1s.4e f. vi H1a. n.s.''''a1' Of 5 g ssers'ss.
Dr. P. G. GoocH, Treasurer.
The new President having been installed Office the
Convention without having transacted any other business of
consequence, adjourned to the next day.
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THOMAS H. SEYMoUs, the present Governor Of
Connecticut was reelected to that station yesterday
by the Legislature Of his State, which met in annual
session at Hartford on Wednesday. This may be
regarded as settling the question as 10 which o
the parties has majority in joint meeting Of the
Legislature. They are nearly equally balanced
but il would seem, from having reelected their
Governor, that the Democrats can command ma.
jority. Other State officers are to be elected the
people having failed to elect them,) as well as
United States Senator. @
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LAKE SUPERIOR COPPER DIGGINGs.

The last dates from Lake Superior the rstof April
and learn that the CLIFF MSERs have reached mass Of
copper the South Drift fifty fee, in length, foot thick
and of pure metal. Also the North Drift, they have
found mass weighing fifty tons, which they cut
ting up Also the Bottom Drift they have run against
sheet Of copper eighteen inches hck and its length unds-
covered
The Ononagon mines also yielding richly. Some four
teen have been opened during the winter 10 the Porcupine
mountain vein has been struck from foot to eighteen inches
thick. Five men dug out sixty TONS
The Ononagon country israpidy improving. Plank roads
and even railroads projected steamboat is building
ply upon the river and its mouth is village containing
three public houses eight stores &c-Cincinnat Gazette
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THE PRESIDENTS VISIT TO THE NORTH.

The New York Express of Thursday even
inc thus happily welcomes the expected visit Of the
Psrs,nrNr Of the United States and part of his
Cabinet Ministers TO the North, for the purpose of
being present at the opening, in its entire length, of
that great line of communication between the Allan
tic and the Lakes, the ERIE RAILRoAD:
.The President and his Cabinet-so state our
w ashington letters-will leave Washington on
!. Monday morning next, and be in New York
Tuesday noon. On Wednesday morning they
will 90 upon the Erie Railroad trip to the Lake,
and i is highly probable that they will 60 thence
to Buffalo. Tuesday thus will be our day to
welcome them here, and to express the respect we
feel.
"The visit of MLLARD FILLMORE to his own
State and his own home, upon this iron linking
Of the Ocean and the Lake, inspires US with many,
9 many reflections, and we regret that we have SO
little space this busy week to indulge in them.
He is our own son, our own fellow-citlzen, bone
Of our bone and flesh of our flesh. Step by step
!. we have seen him rise up among US. honorable
to US the Chief Magistrate of.wenty three millions
: Of people. AS the Chief Magistrate, he has ad
ministered the Government in the most perilous
hours of the Republic, amid its most trying
scenes with an integrity infexible, and fearless
ness that has challenged public admiration, and
we hope and believe, public appreciation. Fhe
South he has had to chide sternly in two instances
most significantly when Texas threatened to in
wade New Mexico and the North he has had to
: schide with equal energy, when passion was
threatening notification of the Laws. But with
an equal and fearless hand he has held the scales
of justice, thinking nothing of himself, but only
: his duty to his country. No man has done sc
little to court popularity, but few men have won
more. His highest ambition seems to have been
to rescue his country from the peril in which ht
found it, and from which it is yet far from being
free. During his brief Administration laws have
been passed and principles settled in no degree
less important than the Federal Constitution itself
His name and his fame are thus engraven upor
history through his agency, in measures the value
of which is as impossible to exaggerate as it is
difficult to describe.
eve hope, therefore, to see our city, our peo
pie, our constituted authorities, in all their various
organizations, seize upon this fitting occasion t
express and utter their respect both to the Presi
dent Of the United States and to the great Defend
er of the Constitution. 1t should be no stinted
tribute, no parsimonious appreciation, but the
hearty, prolonged utterance of great metropolis
to statesmen who have done so much to keep ant
: make that metropolis great Fitting occasion, W.
say, because the reason of their presence is tht
Inauguration Of great work, beyond what Roman
ambition ever dreamed of or Egyptian energies
ever conceived. The success of that work is
great era in our day, and appropriate is the pre-
sence of the President of the United States, witt
8 such Secretary of State"
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-05-10

Love OF THE UNIoN.--Some men profess to
have, great attachment to the Union, but have the
most extraordinary mode Of manifesting it. They
blow hot and cold with the same breath" For
instance: Ex-Governor RICHARDSON, President of
the South Carolina Convention, in his address on
taking the chair, said that he loved the Union, and
did not believe that there was amateur disnnion-
ist among the members; and yet in the same
speech he went strongly for secession. So gross
is the inconsistency Of those who are now engaged
in the effort TO destroy the Union.-CHpper.
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THE AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS.

We give below an extract OF letter from al
American gentleman in London to his friend in th
city respecting the portion Of the Grand Exhibition
which has been contributed by our countrymen
and the comparison which il bears with the contri
buttons of other countries. The view which he pre-
sents is not pleasant-ndeed it is rather mortify
ing to our national pride-but il is from an honest
and intelligent source, and, though unpalatable
the bitter may prove wholesome:
"The importance Of this Exhibition has been
greatly underrated by us. The European display
. will be costly and magnificent beyond description.
Some single individuals have gone to an expense
Of 100000 in the arrangement and display of their
goods. If our Government had granted as many
dollars to the object, we might have made Gre
ditable appearance. As it's the American portion
. will bear an appearance of stinting and meanness
not very fatteriDg to our national vanity. The
articles, now that they are in the building, are
found to be insufficient to fill the allotted space,
and considerable portion of it has been resigned
to other countries. fear we shall be very badly
beaten and advise any one who intends COM
ing here in the expectation that this Exhibition is
going to raise our country in the eyes Of the world
to stay at home. was one of those who expect
ed it, but now that | see the splendid results of
the art and taste Of the European nations, feel
that what we have to show is only creditable con-
s sidering our youth Some of our carriages and
machinery are, however, quite comparable with
the best here. In daguerreotypes, also, we shall
= excel, and in India rubber fabrics. But in all
works Of art and tasten sculpture, glass, silks,
: woollens, and even in agricultural implements
we shall either be entirely surpassed or quite
equalled. In designs we are thrown entirely into
the shade. There will be an advantage growing
outiof all this. We have been comparing our
selves among ourselves" until we have become
convinced that we are ahead of all mankind. This
direct comparison will open our eyes, and must,
think, result in great good, by giving powerful
impulse to the arts in country if SO, the tenn
porary modification will be more than compensa-
= ted, and may be recurred to without regret
"Etiam h~c olim fortasse memnisse uvabt."
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The steamship North American, from Chagres,
via Kingston, JAM. arrived at New York on
Wednesday evening. She brings $50 passengers
and 100000 in gold dust. She brought no later
news from California. The Jamaica Standard y
of the ,lst instant says:
"We learn from undoubted authority that Gen. SANTA
Anna will leave Carthagena in all this month for this Island
en- to Mexico, where it is expected he will be again
elected President"
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SHARP AS RAzoR.--We have not had the ad.
vantage of seeing any part of the" polite discus
sion, referred to in the following paragraph from
the Newark Daily Advertiser, distinguished by the
way, by the excellence of its own leading articles,
'butwe should be very unwilling to fall into hands
winch manage SO dexterously the keenest weapons
of criticism
UTILITY OF DIscussoE. has been agitated for
some weeks past in the columns Of the Christian Enquirer
Of New York, very polite discussion between Mr. HrsHr
JAMES and the Editor Of that paper which wants onv one
Ingredient to make IL Of the most interesting now carried
The feature aude to is inslgbiliy We are era
duay borne along upon current Of smooth ecorou. words
from stoppngpace to snothe seeming have now and
then sort Of glimpse Of the shore. But s deception
after all The reader in fact far out Of soundnss and no.
thing s in sight but heavy bauk Of fog every side lis
not certain ths. if any thing visible would be worth
seeing but every reader Of that excellent journal
will be glad to be relieved from the necessity Of straning his
eyes 'to what is not be seen This s happily
accomplished and the debate is length closed without
however, coming to any conclusion" t
/, Il
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EARLY WHEAT.

The Somerset Herald (Pubished Princess Anne, Mary
and gives Us the following account Of remarkable growing
crop Of wheat in that neigbborhood
sOn Saturday last, the Sd of May, we were furnished
samples of heading wheat from the fields Of SAMUEL W.
JosTs Esq, this place. It's appearance otherwise wa.
most luIurant the stalks being than three feet long,
clear of shoots The field from which this wheat taken
covers about twelve acres, and we question whether finer
prospect to be found in days ride than is here presented
Mr. Jones, believe, the Mediterranean wheat in the
culture Of which he has been very successful Last season.
when the crops Of this county and shore proved almost total
failure from rust bis escaped unnued returning handsome
yield, and demonstrating the advantages of early seeding"
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e, TERRIBLE SroRN.-A storm of most extraordinary and
alarming violence passed portion of Raleigh N C)
Sunday evening last spreading ruin and devastation be-
fore it, We have knowledge Of any such remarkable
curence in this latitude BEFORE In the irresistible fury with
which bore down every thing, to the 'proudest
mousfch Of the forest before it, was like those onsdoes
Of the tropics Of whose desoaiing avases read Il
to have beea confined within belt Of hundred yards
perhaps more width, and, passing through the city from
southwest northeast amped every obstacle to its progress
within that compass under foot with the velocity Of lightning
and the power Of army Of giants uprootng the largest
trees overthrowng chmneys and fences unroo6ng houses
and in three actually lifting the houses themselves
from their foundations and shiveng them 70 the earh be-
sides DOING in other ways very considerable damage pro-
pery Foruns,ely-most maculously and provdentislIy
We should sy-there not far have ye. learnt
single instance Of serous personal injury We have heard
Of several remarkable escapes snd Of bruised
limbs how there should have been killed is almost
unaccountsbe. We only ascbe it. with hankfuness
10 that Omnpoence which rides upon the wbirlwnd and
directs the storm The track Of the hurricane, after the
storm had spent its rage presented tha, may be
easily imsgined than described It indeed an appalling
and deary spectacle. Raleigh Register.
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WESTERN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Line.

EnN IELEGRAPH.-MORSEL LINE.
C6ee Penn. aue'ue e,o doors ,yesf of BroDn's Htek
p4 Pfrrssunea, MArs.
r Bennett sass-drver, was arrested By shalcoss and
Oltinger Post Office agents. charged with robbng the Unit
ed States mail on the Allegheny mousains H. was
fined in jail Navigation on the saek-wsier will not be
inerruPteds the locks will be repaired By Monday Atlantic
sustained no material damage. River ssveh fee-slng.
Weather fine.
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SuDDKS DKArH-Dr. WILLIAM B. WrLsos, Of Phls-
delPnis, died suddenly Wedneedy afternoon, Of the
Washington House, in that city Hshad returned home
from this city, and, while sitting with members Of bis
family he seized with violent hemouhsee and expired
instantly The deceased had not good health for some
time previously.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-05-10
THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT..
We understand that the receipts of the Post Of
flee Department for the quarter ending on the 3lst
December, 1850, amounted to 1881 ,495.96 /;
showing an increase of $24I 1897 SO, or about l5
7-lOhs per cent. over the corresponding quarter of
the previous year. M
The quarter ending on the 3Oth September, 1850,
also showed an increase of more than II per cent.
on the corresponding quarter of the previous year
and probable that the increase for the fiscal year ending
on the 30h Of June next the receipts of the preceding
year, will be II or ls per cent. az "Ei M
These results extremely gratifying The increase 10
much beyond the estimate made by the Postmaster General
in his last annual report and much beyond the usual increase
from year year. The increase for the year ending the
sOh Of June, $780, l4 per cent, stated in the last
annual report from the Department. and the increase for the
three previous years. stated in the annual report made by
Postmaster General CoIIAnER in ls4s, follows
For the year ending June 80, ls47 a7loo cent
!" ls4s, 743 100 g..
lS49, IA 20-lO0 I"
Of great increase in the latter year the Postmaster Gen.
eral then said it "exraordinay and much beyond the
natural growth Of population and business; and being
double that of the previous year. cannot be supposed TO
continue, especially the causes to which it was mainly
attributable have ceased operate These the etaatory
postage Of June 27 S4s which superseded by the
postal treaty with Great Britain in February, l949, and the
greater frequency Of correspondence induced by the Pres
Dental canvass in ls4s" But the increase Of the succeed
ing year. under the administration Of Judge show
ed great increase and for the fiscal year much
larger per Of increase is likely to be exhibited
The and business Of this Department have nearly
doubled in the last five years and this increase Affords very
gratifying evidence Of the continued and rapid progress Of
country in wealth, business and population also beart
the most conclusive testimony TO hesnesy fidelity, and ab
y with which the sars of the Department have been man
aged by the present Postmaster General-RePu6He.
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orrrcr OF N.rrosAI IsrrLLrssscra,

Mar 10, 1851.
suB.caIBras in the Stale Of VIReiSIA respectfully
informed that due this establishment within that
State have placed in the hands Of o. H. p STRx with
whom they will obge US by making settlement when called
upon. y. q =.
CCHOOL BOOKS OF every description tor sale b. r |,
- FARNHAM, corner Of Penn. avepue andElevenkA q.
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MISUNDERSTANDING the acts adopted by the late Legla-
ture aboshng all laws for the collection Of debt
Michigan has in force the most of the national reform
No land limitation law has yet been enacted al
though the homestead has long been exempted number
Of mercantile firms and dealers in Kalamazoo, since the abo-
on Of the law relating to debt have announced their nten-
ton Of publishing the Of all denquents being we'll
convinced, they say that no Of good intentions
and honorable principles will allow himself be thus posted
before bis neghbos and eowcitzens The honor Of the
is hereafter to be the foundation Of all ordinary
actions.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-05-10

MAILS TO SANDWICH ISLANDS AND CHINA.
We are authorized to say that the Postmaster of
San Francisco has been instructed to make up and
forward mails to Honolulu Sandwich Isands) on
every suitable opportunity, by steamers or other
vessels sailing from one port TO the other; which
mails are to contain all letters addressed to the
Sandwich Islands posted At this office, and all other
letters for those islands the postage on which is
prepaid to his Office.
The single (half-ounce) letter rate between San
Francisco and Honolulu, as established by the Ha-
waiian Government, is ten cents.
Until better arrangements are made, the Post
master of San Francisco is also instructed to for
ward to China, by transient vessels, as opportunity
may offer, any letters 50 addressed the postage on
which is prepaid to his Office. r
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-05-10
THE BASIS QUESTION IN RIcHMoND.

Polls were opened in Richmond on Wednesday
last Ito be continued for two days,) with view to
ascertain the sentiment of the qualified voters of
that city on the question, now pending in the Vir-
gnia Constitutional Convention, as to what shall
constitute the future basis Of representation in the
State Legislature. Something more than nine hun
dred votes were taken on Wednesday, with the fol-
lowing result:
Mixed OASIS. ........... 573
WMte pasls.- ........... .....-.....-.... $50
COMPROMISE. ......-................. 244
Of the votes stated TO be for Compromise,
the greater portion were alternate votes given by
persons who voted as first choice for the mixed
or white basis-generally the white. The voting
was continued yesterday.
This question has long agitated the Convention
which is now in session at Richmond for the pur-
pose Of remodelng the State Constitution. Accord
ing to its present provisions, both population and
property form the basis of representation by which
means the slaves are included; and, as Eastern
Virginia has much the largest proportion of slaves,
whilst Western Virginia has the largest white po-
pulaton, the contest between the two sections for
the ascendency in the Legislature, which is now
under the control of the Eastern members, who
are unwilling to relinqush their power The pro-
babii.y is that the question viii be ultimately set
tied by the acceptance of some Of the compromise
propositions that are now pending in the Convention