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water have become unproducve and almost worthless Re-
cultivation has been greatly improved and powerful impulse
has been given Industrial pursuit in every part Of the
State Various works of internal Improvement have been
sci on foot and years hence Virginia will resume her
ancient rank the great members OF the confederacy
She has always been emnently conservative and being
looked the most prominent OF the slave STATES she has
welded very potent moral influence in the South. Regard.
r her rs powerful link in the chain which holds the Union
Gether BY of her POSITION her ancient renown and
h hirh character of her gifted sons rejoice her
baking oil the elhargy BY which her energies have been par
iwsed and ennating the example OF her enerprsing
sisters IL y. y Comm erciat Adrcrtiser
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Northwestern Railroad.

The Baltimore american, in publishing tho law
passed ut the recent session of the Virginia Legs-
lature, Incorporating the Northwestern Railroad
Company, says: 'sThs law authorizes the construc-
ton Of railroad from point on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad at or near Three Forks, in Tay-
or county, to the town of Parkersburg, ON the Ohio
river. 1t enacted at the instance of that por-
ton of the people of Virginia residing in the
ties through which the road 10 expected to rum and
in order to afford them the benefits of an easy and
rapid intercourse with the seaboard and the Ohio
river, from both of which they were debarred by
the Legislation which restricted the Baltimore road
exclusively to Wheeling as its western terminus.
The charter covers the whole ground of the fright
of way" which in years gone by was SO earnestly
prayed for by the Baltimore Company, and 80
steadily refused by the Virginia Legislature. We
take it for granted, now that this important char
tered privilege has been secured that the people of
Virginia will adopt prompt and decided measures
to give the act vitality, and the great enterprise
which II is designed to create early and sure
impetus to completion. The line of road which it
comprehends is prominent link in the chain of
the great bee line railroad which, commencing at
Baltimore, will run through Parkersburg, Belpre,
Chillicothe, Cincinnati, and vincennes to st. Louis.
It will form the shortest and quickest route between
Baltimore, Cincinnati, and St. Louis, and will COM
mand the travel and trade of the West to its utmost
capacity"
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"NArs-Messrs Bagby. Benton. Bright. Butler,
Calhoun, Chalmers. Mason, Turnsy. and Yuiee-9.
'sThe bill was then taken up in committee of tho
whole.
Senate by opposing the bill itcm by item, he had
promised, and would simply content himself with
moving, a test question, 10 strike out the appro
priation of $3.50, 900 for the improvement Of the
ton he should asr the yeas and nays without fur
thor remark.
''The question was taken, and decided in the
negative a. follows
ssYEAs-Messrs. Bagby, Butler, Mason, Niles
Turney, and Yulec-G.
"NAys-Messrs. Allen, Ashley, Atchison. Bad
ger, Benton. Breese. Bright, Calhoun, Cameron,
Crittenden. Dickinson. Dix. Evans. Fairfield.
Greene, Hannegan, Houston. Huntington, Jarna-
gin, Johnson Of Maryland, johnson Of Louisiana,
Mangum, Miller. Morehsad. Pearce, Phelps, Rusk,
Westcott. and Woodbridge-3s.
"The bill was then read third time and pass
ed"
Thus, upon the question (Which was under
stood to be test) there stood for it twenty
Democrats and eighteen Wings, and only six
Democrats against it,
Now, what was the question tested by this
vote2 Why, sir, the one which is now before
us-the constitutional power of this Govern
ment to improve our rivers and harbors, leaving
the exercise Of that power to the sound discre-
ton of Congress. That was the question. And,
as we have seen, it was answered in the afiirma-
geographically answered in the afirma-
tive-by Democratic Senate; and that, too,
by vote as nearly unanimous as it is easy to
find upon any mooted question Of like import
ance. And among the twenty Democrats who
then affirmed this power, and the propriety of
its exercise, there stand out in bold relief the
name of the distinguished Senator from Michi-
gan, (Mr. CAss,) our Democratic leader in
1848, and that of the late illustrious Senator
from South Carolina, Mr.. CALHOUN every
where recognised as the leader par ercellencc
Of those who give a strict construction to the
Constitution. If, then, have left the Demo
cratic platform, have done SO in company with
the leader who was given us by the Baltimore
convention in l84S-and that, too, after he
had given the vote have cited. And if have
departed from strict construction of the Con-
stitution, have done so In company with him
whom we all regarded as the very impersona-
ton of strict construction. But, sir, insist
that neither of us has left the platform-that
neither of us has stretched the provisions of the
Constitution one inch beyond its true meaning
and legitimate purpose. In my present posi-
ton, then, claim to occupy the true and we'll
established platform of the Democratic party,
as known and promulgated before my time
certainly long before | had the honor of seat
within this chamber.
Nor, Mr.. President, do assume this posi-
ton, or make an avowal of these views, now
for the first time. Ever since / have taken a
part in the politics of the country, have occu-
pied substantially the same position, and made
public my opinions on more than one occasion.
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Finances OF Maryland.

A statement of the public debt and resources of
Maryland, prepared for the Bankers Magazine,
and drawn up from authentic sources, shows the
aggregate amount Of the State debt chargeable
upon the treasury to be $l0O59, 1865. The interest
payable upon this amounts to $647,439
The annual income of the State from all sources,
according to the exhibit of the last years accounts
is 81, 208, s23. With this revenue, together with
the income from the sinking fund, the State has a
surplus annually of some four or five hundred
thousand dollars applicable to the reduction of the
principal of the public debt.
At the beginning of the present fiscal year--De-
cember /, lSs0-the sinking fund amounted to
$2,O00,726. II is annually increasing.
The productive property of the State, consisting
OF bank and turnpike stocks, railroad and canal
stocks, amounts to $2,72O,273, valued at cash
prices. Her unproductive property, at cost valua-
ton, amounts to S5,696,Ol7. The amount due
her for loans to, and unpaid interest by, sundry
corporations and institutions, reaches the aggre-
gate of So 1893 Baltimore american.
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Gl,aden,. P.ner.m. OF the Nile.

From the concurrent testimony of all who
have witnessed Mr.. GLIDDoN's Panoramic
View Of the Nile, Egypt, and Nubia, there can
not be doubt that it affords rich treat to the
admirers of the picturesque and beautiful, as
well as to those who are fond of scientific and
archaeological Investigations. Mr.. GLDDoN
enjoys high reputation as scholar and artist,
and as an industrious explorer of antiquities.
He was for some years the consul of the United
States in Egypt, during which he had abundant
opportunities of becoming intimately acquainted
with the hieroglyphics. paintings, sculpture,
occult sciences, and other requirements for
which the ancient Egyptians were SO celebrat-
ed. We learn that it is the purpose Of Mr..
GLIpDos shortly to deliver course Of archs-
illogical lectures entirely distinct from his Pan
Drama. We veritably believe that it is seldom
the people of Washington will have an oppor-
tunity of enjoying feast like that which
awaits them on this occasion; and we feel as
sured that all who have cultivated an acquaint-
ance with the lore of antiquity, as well as those
who not having done 30 may wish to be en-
lightened on the material points thereof, will
not fail to attend these lectures, which to the
learned promise to be full of agreeable interest,
and to the unlearned to be equally captivating
and exceedingly instructive.
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WHO SECURED THE PASSAGE OF THE FvorrfvE
SLAvA LAw?--The Danville Register says that Dr.
Avcrctt, at the last Pttsylvania court, declared
that the anfi- Compromise members Of Oongress from
The South secured the passage of the Fugitive Slave
law! This IL certainly sad error. II IL true they
voted for the bill; but, far from possessing any
evidence OF strenuous effort on their part 10 &C.
cure its passage, we have reason to believe that
they desired its defeat. Mr.. Rhett has openly de-
clared that he voted for the BILL but desired lie de-
feat whilst the ultra advocates of southern rights
have uniformly pronounced the law uneonstih.isom-
a. We agree with the Rsgisfsr, that If to oppose
It with force and energy until il came 10 the vote.
and then to yield s'sucn acquiescence," be Ia
boring xealously for its passagc then indeed are
indebted TO the anti Compromise southern MEM
bers for the Fugitive Slave law.--Rickmowd Wing,
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ST. LOUIS AND VINcENNrs RAILRoAp.-The di-
rectors of this company held meeting at st..
Louis on the 22d ult The Missouri Republican
says:
"Wc are pleased to learn that tho greatest har-
mony characterized the deliberations Of the board,
and that it s the intention to adopt the most
completion of the work. Books will be immediate
ly opened for stock subscriptions, and arrange
ment will probably be made for the present corps
of engineers, under Erasmus Gest, esq, chief en-
gineer Of the eastern branch of the road to extend
their survey from vincennes Cat which place they
will be in a week or two) to Illinoistown. A
"Col. McClernand, who was on his return home
from Washington, gave very gratifying account
of the universal favor with which this great tho
roughfare from Cincinnati to st. Louis was re-
ceived in the Atlantic Cities and venture to say
that no road has ever been undertaken under more
favorable auspices. 1t IL in good hands, not only
hero but at the other end Of the route and il il
to be built"
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The Milwaukee wisconsin, Sentinel and
Gazette quotes two paragraphs from the letter
of Senators DopaE and WALKER to the SEC
RErARY OF THE INTERIOR, and says:
"Of course, in this State, where the officers Of
the Government are we'll known, and the facts in
the case are also well known, there is necessity
Of denying the allegations contained in the frat
sentence quoted. II is absolutely untrue that the
marshal has been continually seizing,' &C.; nay,
we doubt very much whether half a dozen in
stances of the kind can be mentioned, if 30 much
as one can be found"
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THE REPUBLIC.
WASHIN GTON:
FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 4. 1851.

.eThe series of measures to which have alluded
are regarded by me a settlement, In principle
and substance-a final settlement--of the danger
Gus and exciting subjects which they embraced"
oBy that adjustment wc have been rescued from
the wide and boundless agitation that surrounded
US, and have firm, distinct, and legal ground
to rest upon. And the occasion, trust, will JUS
. tify me IN ExHoRrIEa NM couNrRyMEH 10 RALLY
UPON AND MAINTAINS THAT GROUND as the best, il
not the only means. of restoring peace and quiet
to the country, and maintaining inviolate the in
. tegrity OF the Union.''
[PREsIpEsr FILLMoaE's MESSAGE.
1.-THE Presidents message. at the opening OF tho
present scssion of Congress, expresses fully and
plainly his own and the unanimous opinion OF all
those as,ociated 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 10, that those
measures should be regarded in principle as
a final settlement Of the dangerous and exciting
. subjects which they embrace; that though they
: were 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 sd-
: hered TO, until time and experience should de-
monstrate the necessity of further legislation TO
guard against evasion or abuse. That opinion, 30
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 consde-
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"
[DASIsL WEBsrxR's Letter to the Union Meeting
at Westchester.
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Postmaster General HALL met quite mum

Postmaster General HALL met quite num-
Der of Bostonians on Monday evening, at
the house of the postmaster in Boston, Mr..
GORDON. The Transcript of that city, in
noticing the fact, speaks Of Mr.. HALL as gen
tleman of fine attainments, superior business
habits, and eminent qualifications for the i'm
portant post which he holds; and it adds that
president FILLMORE showed his accustomed
sagacity in the selection of Mr.. HALL for a
place in the Cabinet. He is most efficient
officer"
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Arrival Of the Baltic.

We received Geographic information of the
arrival of the steamer Baltic at New York last
night, but up to the hour at which our paper
went to press we were not furnished with her
political news.
American cotton had advanced Id, and there
was better demand for other descriptions
at previous sales. The sales of the week
amounted to AZ, 800 bales,
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SEARCH ron NEW DOUBLE SrARs-M mfr. Editor:
On the evening of Saturday, goth. double star
was detected, of the eighth magnitude, in CAMS
ncnts nearly equal, and distant eight tenths of
second. II is not mentioned in Smyfh's Celestial
Cycle, which treats very fully upon this class Of
it is followed by ono of the eleventh magnitude,
in twelve seconds of time This discovery Ito which
s attached strong negative evidence Of original
ity) was the result Of systematic and laborious
search for unknown double stars; q search hither-
to only rewarded by learning with what consum-
mate skill and patience observers have sought out
and recorded the places and characters of these
merous and interesting telescope objects.
ALvAN CLARK.
BosroN March 81, 1851.
Boston 7}onscript
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HE SETTLERS GRANGE IN LInERIA.-Every set
tier In Liberia receives grant of ten acres Of good
fret six months in Africa. The whole expense
OF the voyage il betrayed by the society. tenn
porary home can always be obtained nctc, on land
venicnce
These ten acres may be improved 70 an TO be-
come an independent fortune TO any family. Ono
acre will produce 400 worth Of indigo; half an
acre will raise thousand pounds of arrowroot;
five acres will plant one thousand two hundred and
nifty coffee trees which, at Eve years old, will for
thirty years. bear six pounds to the tree, which il
$4OO year; half of cotton trees will stand
many years without replanting, and yield every
year enough to clothe whole family; one aero Of
cane will furnish sugar and preserves abundantly;
one acre in fruit trees will give more bananas,
any family eat; one acre in a garden will give
fresh vegetables two crops in year, directly out
Of the ground, ten months in year. sufficient for
twenty persons; hogs, poultry. &C.. may be raised
the nmplest manner, with moderate labor, and en-
joying, 0uer and aboUe their support, from six to
seven hundred dollars q year..
Schools of the best kind are provided for the chill
dren. Measurable county alone has twenty places
of worship, six of them exclusively for natives of
the country, eighteen schools, and eight hundred
and seventy five scholars.
When settler gets little forward, he may be-
gin to work on the wild and luxuriant productions
of the forest, and find the fullest employment and
reward. He may cut camwood, make indigo, or
palm oil, or castor oil, or establish manufactory
of sugar, arrowroot, raise rice ginger, corn,
cassada, hogs, &C., &C., for sale.
Let these considerations be well weighed, and
what colored man that Is man will stay in Ameri-
ca, crushed by poverty, and condemned to rise no
higher than barber, or steward on a steamboat?
But all pccuniary considerations sink into in
significance. when the political and personal aspect
Of the case is considered. The Liberian il = man
among men; and wins for his entire posterity
every civil and religious immunity. Had the CO.
lored population of this country fraction Of the
spirit of the pilgrim fathers of New England they
would go and found glorious empire for their de-
scendants.
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But however this view Of the case may be
regarded, we presume that no one will deny
that it is the right and duty Of the Administers
ton to seek to give effect to its own policy
when it is generally approved and sustained
by the organs Of the WING party. We con-
slider that the policy Of the Administration in
regard to the Compromise measures OF the last
session has been so approved and sustained.
President FILLMORE did not assume in his
message to give his individual endorsement to
all the parts of the adjustment He distinctly
stated that some portions of it might be justly
deemed Objectionable but he thought and
said, in view of the state of the country and
the circumstances under which the Compro-
mise was effected, that it was the best settle
ment ofdifferences and discussions that could be
obtained; and that, therefore. he recommended
an adherence to it, In this view of the subject
there was very general, not TO say an uni
versal, acquiescence of the Wing press in all
sections of the country. The Wing jour
nails everywhere encouraged the Admins
tration in the policy it had indicated; and,
thus sustained, the. Administration would
have been sadly wanting in firmness and in
good faith if it had faltered in its position or
receded from it. In honor it was directly
pledged and committed to the country, no less
than to the WING party, to adhere to the ad-
justment-net coldly, not pretendingly, not in
sidiously, but frankly, earnestly, in truth and
sincerity. 1t was the belief that the Admins
tration would thus adhere that has caused the
great reaction in the public sentiment of the
slaveholding States. 1t was the confidence of
the Wines, and the moderate men of all par
ties of those States, in the integrity and
good faith of the PRESIDENT, that has restored
tranquility and peace among alienated and dis
tracted commonwealth. This confidence he
ought not to forfeit; and it would be just as I'M
reasonable for him to lend the aid and countenance
Of his Administration to southern journals which
denounce the Compromise for abandoning an hun
dred thousand square miles of Texas to Free-soil
as it would be to continue the same aid and
countenance to northern journals which de-
nounce the same Compromise for selling the
same territory to slavery. Each section has
secured the good results it expected from the
Compromise; let each section bear with what
it may consider the i'll results, in consideration
of the incalculable advantages which the whole
country derives from the termination of dan
gerous and distracting controversy.
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President FiLLMoRz acts with the Wing party;
his Cabinet of the oldest and ablest Wings OF
the nation; his foreign and domestic policy on all
questions aside from slavery ,areindisputably Wing.
And on the question of slavery ninc-te of the
party of the country coincide in the wisdom and
justice of his action Outside of this State there
are but few malcontents, and they angry with
him because he is patriot, and not sectionalist
Utica IN. " Gazette.
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TN New YoRK HIsToRIcAL SocIErY.-A meot-
ing of the New York Historical Society was held at
its rooms, in the University. last evening and an
interesting paper read by Major Richardson upon
the events of the war OF 1919, and the circum-
stances attending the death of the famous Shawa-
nese chief Tecumseh who fell in the battle Of the
Thames, in October, 1918. The librarian reported
among the donations to the library large box
containing about hundred valuable manuscripts
Of General Anthony Lamb, in relation to tho war
Of the Revolution. The committe on the new IL
brary building reported that they had obtained a
suitable lot on Lafayette place for the erection OF
the proposed fre-proof library.
Nesc York EueninS Post
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ALI Is NOT GOLD THAT GLIrrERs-we have
been shown, BY Munroe's New Bedford) Express,
large lump of California gold, of about twenty
ounces, which Nantucket gentleman lately
bought in San Francisco at the rate of sixteen do
lars per ounce. Much gratified with his large
lump nc despatched it to the mint in Philadelphia
to be coined-but the "Express' will take word 10
him with the lump returned, 'that there is not
gold enough in it to pay for coinage" The out.
side sprinkcd over with gold, the inside is copper
&C; This manufacture of "lumps" is a new trade,
and let traders beware.-N Y. Eruess. IL
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o r r CIAL L.
Cadets at Large appointed by tho President.

Sons Of Officers ,pho werc killed or died in
Service.-FRAscIs l.. WILTON, w. H. PEN
ROSE, J. H. HILL, WIN. b. ROWLAND, CHAs.
B. WATsoN.
Sons Of Officers now in Serpice-R. b.
ScREvEN, F. l.. CHILDs. A. S. CUNNINGHAM
From Civil Ljs.-JAMEs A. WHISTLER,
N. l.. Powers.
District Of Observation-Disclosures w. VIII
LIAMs.
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FIRES IN WAsHISoror County. PA.--The WASH
ington Reporter gives an account OF four distress
ing fires which have recently taken place in that
county. BY one of which tho life Of colored child
was lost. The mother had left the house for fcw
minutes on an GRAND
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Funeral obsequ,ss or General Brooke.

The San Antonio (Texas) Westrn 7sran, of the
18th ultmo, says:
"The procession that followed the remains OF
General Brooke their final resting place, Mon
day last the largest seen in this city, and
would have been much larger had 1t not been for
the distance. This tribute of respect due the
memory of the deceased, and will be gratifying to
his distant relatives and friends. The arrange
ments for tho occasion did credit to the heads and
heart of all who participated in the last sad rites.
The funeral services were performed by the Rev.
Mr.. Fish, of the Episcopal Church. As much Of
paper is already occupied with the proceedings,
we are not allowed room to add more"
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RAILROADS. IN THE UNITED STATES arere-
gate extent Of all the railroads in the United Sses
including those which will be completed during
Thousand six hundred and eighteen miles. Adding
those which will be entirely completed next year,
the total extent will exceed twelve thousand ii x
hundred miles; more than SUFFICIENT, If extended
IN one line, to reach round half the circumference
Of the gobe. This aggregate goes beyond thai Of
the railways in oil the rest Of tho world.
Boston Post,
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CouRr-nous BunsT.--We learn from gentle
man who arrived yesterday from the counties be-
low, that the court house Of Weilborn, Coffee
county, was burned last week, with all the county
and circuit books, papers, and records, of all de-
scriptons. 1t 10 supposed to be the act Of an in
cendiary. -Montgomsrr (dla.) Journal