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congrera.

This body seems to be getting along slow
~. Nothing of importance has been done
within the last week. On Friday the Sen
ate adopted a resolution calling upon the
Secretary Of State for his views in relation
to adopting scale of diplomatic salaries.-
Tie California Land Claim bill, consumes
good part Of the time. 1t is said that the
New Postage bill will not pass the Senate
without some modification Or amendment
We should not be surprised if action were
delayed so long as to make it part of the
aUnfnished Business" for next session.
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Acknowledgements.

y Hon. Stephen A. Douglass will accept our
thanks for a copy of his speech on the "meas-
ures Of adjustment"
We are under obligations to Hon. S. P.
Chase for documentary favors.
Hon. J. L. Taylor has furnished US with
sundry documents, for all which he will ac-
cept our grateful Acknowledgements
To Mcssrs. Salter and Moore, our repre-
sentatiyes at Columbus, are due the acknowl
edgment of sundry State Reports.
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n-g- One bundled and forty -four retu

o~y One bundled and forty-four return
ed Californians reached St. Louis on the 10Th,
bringing with them about 100000. They
are from Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois. Two
persons had about $4,000; Others, sums va
rying from $500 to $4,000; and some have
no money at all. A colored man named J
Way, passenger on the Grand Turk, brings
with him $500 of the counterfeit fifties, ant
another passenger $3.50 OF $500 of the sam;
funds.
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COLUMBUS, Jan. 30, l0A P. M,

SOLOm Juli' cO, tO2 VA
You will of course not look for any mat
ter of serious import in this evenings letter,
when you learn that the writer has this mo-
ment returned from a. Ladies' Supper where
were congregated some $50 or 200 Of the fair
est daughters of Columbus, with their bright
eyes, rosy cheeks and captivating smiles; and
especially when, if you had been there, you
might have cen a certain staid and quiet
gentleman, with a captivator on either side,
marched round the spacious hall like some
poor ct1prit, led 10 punishment for the sin of
being twenty years too old. "Good enough
for him." you might say, "why didn't he
stay at homer For the simple reason that,
it being a charitable gathering, his benevo-
lence led him into temptation. Hereafter,
he will doubtless be alittle more cautious.
Both houses, to-day got along with bust
ness in very praisworthy manner. A num-
Der of bills were read third time and pass
ed. In the afternoon, the house being in
readiness, the senators came down, headed
by their Speaker, and both branches commen-
ced the farce of trying to elect U. S. Sen
ator for six years. Everybody thought there
would be no election, and everybody was
right. AS / informed you by telegraph, ten
ballotings were had, without choice. Sey-
erol members, or pairs of members, were ex-
cused from voting for sundry good and suffi-
cient reasons, SO thai l02 was declared BY
the Speaker to be the whole number of votes
10 be cast Payne received from 50 to A,
Griswold from 80 to AZ, Giddings from 10
to Id, and Scattering from 3 10 IL. Nobody
knows what, by possibility, may happen,
but it is generally supposed that the next
Legislature will have two Senators to elect.
Perhaps it is better SO. Certainly it is, if to
be otherwise, the free soil faction must tri-
umph si Ai
! cannot give you anything definite in re-
gard to our railroad matters. The bill is still
| in possession of the Judiciary committee
and il is to be hoped when it comes before
the House again it will be in the right shape
and will be so passed. SA
The city charter. while waiting for its
time, as they do in barber shops, is taking
nap. WAS looking il over to day, and no
ticed several verbal errors, that must have
escaped the attention Of IFS trainers. There
are one or two of another kind that need cor
rection. The vote upon the charter is put
for the same day as the election Of officers,
and as both cannot be done in one day, there
must be an alteration or the charter will not
become operative for year after il tisadopted
BY the citizens. Yours, Hsfl @. n
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A MIsrAKE.-Mrs. Swisshelm has not cut

A MIsrAKE.-Mr Swisshem has not cut
our exchange, as we stated. The non-arrival
of the Saturday Visitor was owing to delay
in "making up" lis new dress, for want Of
sorts" II came to hand the other lay look
ing for all the world like we have often i'm
agine,l its cditor- barring the head gearing
tastefully neat. Mrs. S. is pleasing wr-
ter, and we relish the perusal of her paper,
hugely, notwithstanding our dislike to some
of her anti-man sentiments.
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y [*The counties of Delaware and Marion
were diminished in population, by having part
Of their territory taken off to make the new
county of Morrow, which also derives part
of population from Richland.
The growth of the Scioto Valley during the
last thirty years has been as follows
In 182O| 93,274-to the square mile, 14a
In 1880 130,752 do do 20
In 1910 l96,25s do do 80
In 1850 268,041 do do ALI
The increase oil the Scioto Valley has been
more uniform than that Of any other portion
of the State, having in the last three decen-
NAL censuses increased at the rate of40, so
and 39 per cent. =. 1t presents under the pres
ent census one extraordinary fact; that six
Of its counties, viz: Adams, Pike. Scioto.
Ross, Madison and franklin, all increased
ut a greatpr ratio, from l840 to 1850, than
they did from 1880 10 l940, which is contra
ry to the natural law Of progression in popu-
Tation, and proves :hat, for some reasons,
tina. region has received a new impetus
A port of il is due to the growth OF the towns
Of Columbus, Chi.licothe, and Portsmouth
hut there are also other causes. In the rap
id, rise Of lands in. Ohio, the bill lands of
Adams, Scioto and Pike counties have be-
g,n to appreciate. Thousands of acres have
been sold to immigrants, which few years
since was not marketable. The vallies Of
little streams among the hills begin to. fill
up with a new people, who have small
fields in which the stumps are yet fresh, and
from whose log cabins the auxen haired
buckeyes begin TO count up -ons-tico--
tonr--Sir.
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Indiana ConstitutionaI Convention
The Veto. t.

The Veto section Of the proposed new
constitution was passed on Thursday last,
without the ayes and noes being taken on it,
1t provides that bills. II no; returned by the
Governor In three days, shall become laws.
Ifvetoed, majority of the members elected
to each HOUSE may re-pass il. Bills not re-
turned by the Governor. at the close Of The
session, are to become laws, unless he Giles
his veto, with the Secretary of State, within
fivedsys after the adjournmspt, but the
nesi legislature may override such vetprs.
No billio b sent % TIE Goyernor the last
twodsJsof The sersion. " N
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greatest 60

SENTENCED TO BEHUNG.--ln the Lo2is-
vile, KY, Criminal Court, on Saturday last,
Daniel, slave oil n. II. Bray, was Sentenced
TO be hung on Friday, the 2elh of February
next, for the murder ol Shaug ghnassy, near the
railroad, short distance from the city.
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Loss of the John Adams.

The Telegraph reports the loss OF the
steamer John Adams bound for Cincinnati
from N. Orleans. About 100 deck passen-
gers were lost. None Of the Cabin passen-
gers were lost but no baggage was saved,
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Aaannis q Co. Expreas robbed.

Adams & Co.'s Express car, between Bal
timore and Philadelphia, was robbed on last last
Tuesrlay night, Of keg containing ooOO
Mexican dollars. There were similar Kegs
ON the car; but one was taken. No clue 10
the robber, 4ga..s,. pa,
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The New York EreninE Post.

The above large and ably Conducted paper has
commenced its 49th volume. DpTine II IS long
+;,.. - ~ hse,, ~ 80 az :,
49,, ~ q, 3.
lne county, DOM IN polilical aiiu 'i'as5
tiers. WILLIAM G. BRYANf, the senior editer
is well known throughout the literary world, az
one of Tho hest noe,S 80 An,s,;s. q ~ NJ mann.
~ X IA
eeols III theii, circulalys say s. 80 u
While we havemuch to be grhtefulfOf, iuthe
support heretofore given by the public to The
Evening Post, our readers will bear Witness that
we have madecorrespontii eif9 Is 70 merit IL,
During the past year we have added to the
strength of our commercial and murine depart
mentS, an annual expense .of tween two and
three thousand dollars, and have eStabllshed .
telegraphic correspondence with all the prin-
cipal cities in the lnlen at. an llQnal all-
nual expense OF nom three 70 i've Thousand
dollars. Z 81 u u 4 =
We have, also, duTlngthe past year, enlATgeu
both our Semt Weekly andssfeekly eqltlons (
the SIZE OF our DAILY, ana havet thllS ADDED oyei
twelve iull columns othsif capacities with9pl
any ncreaseln thelr prices, wlnch are lowefl
we beieve' Than those OF any other papers, q
equal interest and value, punished N tht
United States. x.
Ia s4aY TERMS. %al3slsr
The Evening Post, Daily, containing the lates
news by Telegraph and otherwise, fromall part,
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ROYAL BIRTH.--It has always been the
custom in England for the Press TO an,
nollnce the fact whenever birth in the
Royal Family took place, and as we have
Royal famil, atthe present time in our city,
we can do no less than follow in the wake
of our iIlustrious predecessors. On Thurs.
day last the Lioness, belonging 10 the
menagerie of Raymond & Co., wintering in
this city, gave birth 10 three whelps, the first
ever dropped west Of the Allegheny noun
tains, and they are very paturally looked up
on as the curiosities Of the day. Unlike
Romulous and Remus, the great Roman
lions, who were sucked by a vol, these
have been taken from their dam and given
in charge of a slu. OF the bulldog breed,
who takes the same care Of them that she
does Of herown progeny.
Mr.. Ballarl, the manager OF the menage-
rie, bps very kindly presented one Of the
.vhelps 10 Mr.. Erasmus B. Denison, of the
Denison House, who intends TO rear il and
have it domesticated about The house as a
,patch dog, and il is needless 10 say that he
will wSnlno better guard overhs premises.
The mother of this family has produced.
within the past three years, upwards of 20
of these royal sons and daughters, and out
of that number never has raised but two
pairs, The climate here appears TO agree
with the new comers, and they may possibly
live, and II they should. we presume they
will receive appropriate names in honor Of
their birth place. -Cia, Eng.
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WIscoNsIN-U. S. SENAToR.-We notice
dispatch dated Madison, January 2l
which states that the Hon. Henry Dodge
has been reelected United States Senator
for six years from the 4th of March next.
The vote stood for Dodge SO, Doty 8.
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The growth OF the principal towns in the
Total, :. $3.50 1898 =

To-
Increase Of town population from 1880 to
1910 was ninety per cent. and from ] $40 TO
1850 it was one hundred and thirty three per
cent. This rapid growthis, however las the
figures show chiefly in the town of Colum-
bus, Portsmouth and Chillicothe, however,
are both growing rapidly.
The statistics Of population in the Scioto
Valley does not yet show, however, one of
the principal features Of that region. This
is its uaricty. No part of the State of Ohio
is as udrious in its natural aspects and re-
sources, as that district. You may 90, in
one day, from the Iron Hills of the Little
Scioto, dlazing with furnaces, to the smooth
and grassy plains of Madison, where scarcely
stone or a mineral is to be found; from the
woody hills Of Pike and Adams, where the
deer vet roam in their native liberty, to the
corn covered plains of Pickaway, where the
Durham OK is .fatting for the Atlantic epi-
cure; from where vast horizontal strata of
sandstone crop out on the Ohio and Scioto
to Kenton, where the grey limestone under
lies the county Of Hardin. Finally, you
may have the society Of the new German i'm
migrant, with hrs pipe and his pig, begin
ming his new world; or, you may enjoy the
improved hospitality and refinement Of old
Virginia, transplanted to the more prosper
Gus soil of Ohio. All the elements of growth
wealth and refinement, are found in the Sci
otto Valley. 1t needs only time to expand
them into the. largest magnitude Of sue
cessfl and happy communicates. Gag.
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MRnnt. Pig. or Die.n

Francis Pigg has strayed OF from Indian
apolis leaving Mrs. Pigg and the little pigs
to hunt their own feed hereafter. Well do
our share toward psn-ning him.
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DELAwARE-U. S. SENAToR.-On the
23rd inst, Hon. James A. Bayard was elect
ed TO The United States Senate for six years
from the 4th OF March next.
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TIE WIpow's HoME.-Up to Wednesday,
the subscription for the erection OF an .Asy
lum for aged and destitute widows, at Gin,
cinnati, amounted to over four thousand
dollars. This liberaliry iS'truly commenda-
ble. NI
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nC- The Senate Of Indiana, rejected, by
large vote, proposition to modify the
fugitive law.
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\ or Charleston, 81 Cs contains A2,604
iuhabitasts, ,psainst sl,a2e5ig ls4Q,
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II your sherry isbsd, send il TO Sheuy
Cobber and have itmenaed. ssaNf fhrs6'ss
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BY the President of the United states.

TN pursuance of law, /, WILLARD FILLMORE,
Il President of the United States of America, do
hereby declare and make known that public sales
will be held at the aforementioned land offices in
the State of FLORIDA, at the periods hereinafter
designated, to wit;
AT the land office at ST. AUGUSTINE, COM
mencing on Monday the twenty fourth day OF
November next for the disposal ofthe public lands
situated within the following named townships and
parts of townships, viz:
South of the base line and east of the principal meri-
dian.
Townships fifteen, (except sections five and six,
sixteen, seventeen, Except section thirty one, }
and eighteen, fractional townships nineteen and
twenty, township twenty one, fractional township
twenty-five, and townships twenty eight and
twenty nine, of range twenty-five.
Townships sixteen (except sections one, two,
eleven, and twelve,) seventeen and eighteen, (ex-
cept sections three FOUR hve six, seven, and eigh-
teen, ) fractional townships nineteen, twenty, and
twenty one, and townships twenty eight and TWEEN
ty-nine, range twenty six.
Townships seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, and
twenty, (except sections twenty seven 10 twenty
nine and thirty-one to thirty -four,) and section
one in township twenty -one, OF range twenty
seven.
Township seventeen, Except sections four and
five,) of range twenty-eight
Fractional township seventeen west OF St John
river, (except sections FIVE, six, thirty-hve, and
thirty-six,) and township eighteen, Except sec-
tions one to three eleven TO fifteen, twenty-five to
twenty-six, and thirty-fve and thirty six,) Of
range twenty nine.
Fractional townships thirteen and fourteen, o.
range thirty-two.
Fractional townships fifteen and sixteen, of range
thirty-three.
Fractional townships sixteen and eighteen, anC
townships nineteen and twenty, of range thirty
four.
Fractional townships eighteen, nineteen, anC
twenty, Of range thirty five.
Sections three, ten, fourteen, fifteen, twenty
three, twenty-six, thirty five, and thirty-six, II
township thirty-fve, of range forty.
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BY the President of the United States.

TN pursuance of the act of Congress entitled ''An
Il act to authorize the President of the United
States to sell the reserved mineral lands in the
States of Illinois and Arkansas, and Territories of
Wisconsin and Iowa, supposed to contain lead
ORE" approved llth July, 1916, i, MILLARD
FILLMORE, President of the United States of
America, do hereby declare and make known that
public sales will be held at the undermentioned
Land Offices in the States of Illinois and Wiscon
sim at the periods hereinafter designated, to wit
At the Land Office at MINERAL POINT, WIS
CONSIN, commencing Monday, the third day
of November next for the disposal of the following
tracts containing lead mines, which were withheld
from the public sale of the oath OF May lS47, or
dered by the Presidents proclamation of the goth
November, 1916, viz:
North of the base line and east of the fourth principal
meridian.
The cast half Of the southwest quarter Of section
nine; the northwest quarter of nineteen and the
cast half of the northeast quarter of twenty-one, in
township one, of range one.
The east half the cast half of the northwest quar-
ter and the east half of the southwest quarter OF
section two; the southwest quarter of the northeast
quarter OF seven the southeast quarter of the south
east quarter of section twelve, and the southeast
quarter of thirtytwo, in township one; the south
east quarter Of the southeast quarter of twenty five
and the east half of the northeast quarter of thirty
six in township two; and the west half the south
west quarter of twenty -four, in township five, Of
range two.
The east half and northwest quarter of the north
west quarter of section twenty one, tho southeast
quarter of the southeast quarter of twenty five; the
south half of the southwest quarter Of thirty; the
| southwest quarter Of the northwest quarter, and
the northeast of the northwest quarter of thirty
one and the east half of the northeast quarter and
the northeast quarter Of the southeast quarter, o.
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Newark Academy.

By late reorganization Of this department OF
Delaware College, the Boa fdof Trustee5havet taken
measures to place it upon new and improve d.
foundation, and to endow ii with advantages pos
sessed by few similar instiuti in the country
The Academy, he e.ofore merged in the College,
and ofcourse subjected to all the evils which have
been fourd to attend the amalgamation of the two
departments in the same building, and under the
same government, now enjo q the privilege OF
separate establishment. without los .g those which
resultfrom it's relation to the College proper.
A large and elegant edifice, with all the neces-
gary xtures of a complete boarding establishment
has been erected and furnished, in which the stu
dents of the Academy board, under the lmmediato
charge of the Principal and his Assiste lts; and all
its exercises are conducted on system ofits own
uninterrupted by the interests or operations OF the
other department The furniture OF the study
rooms I'D dormitories has been chosen with pecu-
liar reference to comic tand ior study,
and no expense has been spared IN proVldlng the
apparatus necessaryto render the means ofinstruc-
| ton complete; giving TO Newark Academy iacill-
ties for pri "a ,e study and comfortable accommoda-
ton of Students fully equal to those Afforded by
| many of our col eges.
From itsintimate reationto the College,students
! of the Academy cnjoy ma ~ advantages not gem
orally obtained at inst ltions of this kind. Those
| who wish to pursue some part cuar branch which
falls more prope ly within the College course, ay
be admitted to recite any OF the College Classes
Students also of proper age and discretion, by re-
commentator of the Principal, and permission or
the Faculty, may enjoy the use OF the College LIZ
brary without additional charge. Admission also
may be had to the Lectures, and such otner PrNi-
leges of the College as can be prohtably enjoyed
by academcal students.
The charge for Boarding, Washing, Fuel, Light
&C., with tuition in English, Latin, and Greek, q
| seventy dollars for the Summer Session, and sew .
enty- five for the Winter Session The only extras
are one dollar per session for incidental expenses,
and fee of eight dollars TO-. Modern Languages,
and a fee of five dollars for Drawing, from those
| who enter these classes The sessions and vaca-
tions of the Preparatory Department are the same
| as those of the College.
| Rev. MATTHEW MEIGS, A. M,
| President of Delaware College,
| NpmApu Delaware Sept 10
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COAST survey CHARTS.
TINE FOLLOWING CHARTS have been

TIME FOLLOWING CHARTS have been pub
IL Iished under act Of Congress, at the Coast Sur
uey Office and for sale by agents In the princi-
pal ports of the United States:
New York Bay and Harbor, and Its Environs in
six sheets, completes; scale about two inches and
one tenth to mile. Price 25 cents per sheet.
Delaware Bay and River, In three sheets. Frlce
40 cents per sheet.
New York Bay and Harbor, and its Environs,
one sheet. Price rs cents
The Western Coast of the United States from
Monterey to the mouth of the Columbia River three
sheets, at 20 cents per sheet
Cat and Ship Island Harbors Price 20 cents per
sheet.
The charts of the following small Harbors and
Harbors of Refuge, are sold at 10 cents per copy,
viz:
Harbor of New Bedford, Fishers Island Sound,
Harbor of Annapolis and the Severn River, Harbor
of New Haven, Little Egg Harbor, Harbors OF
Holmes's Hole and Tarpaulin Cove, Harbor OF Oys-
ter Bay or Syopet, Harbor of New London, Harbors
of Black Rock and Bridgeport, Harbor of Edgar
town, Harbor of Sheffield and Cawkin's Islands,
Nantucket Harbor, Harbora of Captain't Islands,
East and West, Huntington Bay, Mouth OF Chester
River, Hyannis HarboT, Pasquotank River.
| The following sketches may be had gratultous,
on application to agents and at the Coast Sur
vey Office viz: Survey of the New South Shoal,
Nantucket with the new shoals lately discovered
Hatteras Cove, Hatteras Inlet, Bulls Bay Seacoast
! of Delaware and Maryland, &c; Cape Carnaveral
Shoals, ST. Andrews Shoals, Beaufort Haroor, &c.
The above Charts contain sailing directions,
views of the land, and of lighthouses, and ranges.
By direction of the Treasury Department the
dsbursng officer of the Coast Survey is authorized
to sell The charts at The wholesale price TO persons aP
plying for number of not less than ten Of set, the
payment TO be made to him in cash. -
According to the above authority, the under
signed is ready to sell the charts, as indicated, at
discount of twenty per cent. from the prices above
stated on application to him, IN person, or by let
ter, (under cover to the Secretary of the Trea
sury,) at the Coast Survey office
SAMUEL Helm,
Mar 2I-ti Disbursing Agent, Coast Survey.