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A GREAT NATIONAL WORK.
Daguerreotypes by Brady--Engraved by
D'Avignon.


EDITED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF LITERARY MEN.
FINDER this title will be published, during the
- year 1850, twenty-iour Portraits and BiogTaphi-
cal Sketches OF American citizens Who have become
lusrlous in the service OF the country Every por-
ton of the work win receive the most careful aten-
ton, and nothing will be spared TO render IL a worthy
mad enduring monument to the great OF The Re
public.
MIR. Brady has been many years engaged, at great
expense, collecting Portraits Tor National Gal.
lery, md those which being engraved for this
work are believed 10 be superior TO any that have
ever been taken In the accomplishments 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 daguerrcotypes are in the
highest sense the works OF art glowing with the soul
of the living countenance
The awnings and engravngs Of D'Avignop have
been pronounced by Europeans Of taste TO be fully
equal and ~ some respects superior 10 those of the
best artists Of London and Paris and every i'm
preston In this Gallery viii be taken under his i'm
mediate supervision, The typography will be exc
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the finest imperial folio paper, l6 by % riches, made
expressly for this purpose.
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win therefore be comprehensive in its spirit The
names Of those men only admitted whose talents
and public services have won for them honorable
fame throughout the nation. Each of the great do
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and Literature universal in their spirit, and the
Gallery 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 laver OF Art, and
friend OF our glorious Union, viii respond TO our APP
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undertaking, that It's publication may make in
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE,

WAsBISGToN, May 27 1850
| SIR have the honor TO make known to the De-
partment OF State the action which this Institute has
taken on the subject of your communi cation of the
ing resolutions unanimously adopted after full dis
cussioI at the meeting held this evening.
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Central Committee
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Hon. Misrd Fillmore, Vice President OF the United
States, and ez oBico Chancellor OF the Regents of
the Smithsonian Institution.
Col. Peter Force, President Of the National Insii-
tute
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Board OF Regents OF the Smithsonian Institution
Hon. Levi Woodbury., M. ~ l., Associate Justice OF
the Supreme Court OF the United States.
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Chiei OF the Bureau of Ordnance and photography.
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era e. Seaman, ESQ, M. MI
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Very respectfully, your obf servf
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Hon JonN M. CLAYTON, Secretary Of State.
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INNLARGEME NT OF THE CAPITOL
~ The Committee on Public Buildings of the
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erection of separate and distinct building, within
the enclosure to the sasi 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
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Importance and merit Of each part adopted
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, .rune 8 1850.
SIR have duly receiveo your letter OF the 9th
uiumo' communicating to this Department the pro
ceedings OF The National Institute the subject Of my
note OF the 18th of the month. Those proceed
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which IS enclosed for your information.
am, sir, respectfully, your obf servt,
JOHN NJ. CLAYTON.
WALTER N JoHNsoS, Esq, Corresponding
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THE WEEKLY DISPATCH,

Whole number Of representatives 23l.
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-12-08
THE FINAL, Rally

The African Church was crowded to excess,
Saturday evening, by an old-fashioned, enthusias
tic gathering of the Wings OF Richmond The
finest feeling prevailed, and the only subectof
regret was the inability of Mr.. B. Johnson Bar
bour to be present, on account of indispostion.
H. w. Fry, Esq, was called to the CHAIR
Mr.. Johnston, of the Wing, addressed the meet.
ing briefly. Col. Meredith spoke with his usual
clearness, force and pertinence. Mr. Bolts fol-
lowed in one Of the finest speeches we have ever
heard from him.
At a later hour in the evening and after the
transaction of some business by the Vigilance
Committee, Mr.. Joseph M Darlington came for
ward and announced that he would no longer
be candidate for the House OF Delegates The
following resolution in commentator of his course
was adopted by the Committee
Resolved, That the thanks of the Wing party are
due and are hereby rendered to Jos NJ. Darlington.
Esq. for his patriotic course in Withdrawing from the
present canvass and thus enabling us at this import
crisis to present an unbroken Wing front in this
old Gibraltar of Whiggery
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WINGS, TO THE POLLS.

The great contest is to be decided to-day.
The Wings of Richmond may have it in their
power to turn the scale one way or the other
Accounts from all quarters Of the State give us
the best reason to hope for triumph. But to
achieve it, every man must do his duty Our
friends in the country are looking with special
intsrest to Richmond with her large accession
of new voters. Will not every Wing in the
Gibraltar contribute with his voice to swell the
response, that she stands, not only mistaken, but
strengthened, by the extension of popular suf
frage! Her young men, and mechanics, and
tradesmen, who ha We heretofore been obliged to
stand aoof from elections, and see few deter
mine the pc itical character of the State, may
now como forward, unres trained by vexatious
restrictions, snd proclaim their long cherished
wish that Virginia should be Wing.
Let it be remembered that every vote counts
Great issues are often determined by small ma
jorites. At the late election in New York, in
popular vote of some forty thousand, Demo-
mocratic Comptroller was elected by 25s major
ity; Democratic Attorney General by 2o2;
Wing Treasurer by 23l; and Wing Canal Conn.,
missioner ny Slf n urge or sHlaii vote IN
Richmond may therefore decide the election of
one OF all the candidates, on either side, upon
the State ticket.
The West assures US that if the Wings don't
lose in the East Summers, Watts and Baxter
must be elected. Let the Wings of Richmond
try by how many hundreds they can increase their
old majority.
They can double ii 10Th ease if they viA.
But, to do this, they must vote; and to avoid
all chance of accidents, THEY MUST VOTE
EARLY IN THE DAY
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mander on the West india station directing him to
prevent by force the landing OF adventurers from any
nation with hostile intent upon the island of Cuba.
The undersigned has the honor to aequaint M. de
Sartlges that he has submitted the same TO the pres-
dent, who has directed HIM to state in reply that the
apprehensions of this Government and the reasons
therefor in regard to the orders referred to,
sidered to have been frankly and fully stated in the
note of Mr.. Cruenden of the I'D of October last
And, inasmuch as M de Sartigcs that the
French Government had only in view the execution
OF the provision of its maritime code against pirates,
further discussion of the subject would for
the present unnecessary.
The undersigned avails himself of this occasion to
offer TO Nj de Sarges renewed assurances of his very
distinguished consideration
DANL. WEBSTER.
M. DE SAkTIGgs, &c.