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A Curfoua Calculation

The Rai'woy Times thus defends the prnct
cal character of the anti-sbavins Society, who
emulate the hairy honors Of the goat.
AsII-SHAvIsc. A contemporary has given
his readers few figures on the subject of shaw
ing. lie says that man who SLAVES sever
times week spending ten minutes in each opc.
ration, uses up 81 hours in the year, and il the
person lives to the ago of four score years, he
will have spent the working hours Of leap year
with arazor in his hand
Nov let us cypher little further on the sub.
ject. The number Of males in the United States
is about ten millions, each Of whom must shave
on an average, at least fifteen ycars II they
shave every d'y-and no person can keep his
face free from beard, and carry out the idca Of
shaving fully, uuless he shaves each day--thc
coming generation will spend nine hundred and
6fleen millions Of days work in shaving; equal
to nine hundred Z ID fifteen million dollars
Allowing each to txpend five dollars for raxors,
strops, brushes snd soap, the aggregate cost Of
the articles will be fifty million dollars. mixing
the whole cost Of shaving IN the United Stntes
for one generation, nine hundred and sixty FIVE
million dollars, "a
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NV Bull and Your Or

The Baltimore Argus thus responds to some
allegations in the Patriot Of the same city, teach
ing the Frce-sol procvites Of their respective
parties. This is case in which n great deal i.
to be said on both sides.
IAN old subscriber in the Patriot makes
some statements which for down right impu
dence we have not seen surpassed even in that
journal. Speaking of the partial union of the
Democrats of Massachusetts with the Free-soiI-
ers as a thing Of nnspeakable enormity, this
writer says-"the Wings, as party, scorn such
amalgamation.' Now, in the face of a thousand
facts to the contrary, showing the amalgamalion
Of the Wings with every faction that has eve,
existed in the country, wherever such alnalgn-
nation could result to their party interest, we
think nobody but "nn old subscriber" to the Pa
triot would have ventured upon such declnra-
ton We have seen these Wing amagamatons
with anti-masons, antirenters, aboltionists, ma.
tive Americans, &C., and not word of reproach
or rcproof, ever escaped the lips of ian old sub
scribcr' or the journal through which he il now
Illuminating his anatlemas against the DEMOCRACY
Bali Argus.
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THE WEEKLY DISPATCH,
IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

4ar PUBLISHED IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.,
III The lo,o price Of ONE DOLL-7R per swnssns,
3 the cheapest weekly newspaper south Of the
/ Potomac, and as cheap any in the Union.
This paper is made up chiefly from the Daily
Dispatch, consisting Of the enter raining and
news matter of that sheet, and carefully selected
light literature and poetry.
HucH X. PLkAsAsTs, Principal Editor.
II is designed to make it equal 10 any Weekly
sheet in the Union for its general interest. In
tone and sentiment, it 10 Southern--its conductors
are Vlrginians, and they hops TO merit and re-
ceive the encouragement Of their fel!ow.citizeos.
They enter upon no mere speculation in their en-
terprize. nor are their views and ooinions shapeJ
merely to catch the popular breeze. From eiu
cation, from position, from association, from in
tsrest. from choice, they are Southern men. Their
defence u Southern rights ID a defence Of them
selves and all they hold dear;---that il has been
warm unrsmiting, and a. far a. their capacity al
lowed, vigorous, man who has read their shee,
WIZ deny. To doubt that it will continue to be
40 u to presume that the principles and ideas
which have been ins,illed into them from their
birth, can be sradicated, al period Of life when
men rarely change their views. They, at least,
know it to be impossible
pfFhe low price at which the paper is pub
'shed requires that the subscription bs paid al
pays in adrsncs.
njTO CLUBSxn
W q6sr ne foiiosrinS lhs.cs~e~t.
For Ten Doilsss TSit To !" co,ie.
For Fifteen Dollars Twenty Copies
JAS. a. C0WAkplN,
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Two Voices from Georgia.


We have repeatedly alluded to the isolated
and embarrassing position occupied by the
f" Union agitators' in Georgia, who went so fal
in advance of the music as to be cut off entirely
from the main body.
Their sufIerings is intolcrable"- instead
of sympathising with their sorrows, those wicked
Southern rights men are joking and jcering
them. Never did any body of men, or any fac.
lion, make more fatal blunder than the Geor-
gia "acquiescents' was retribution more
swift and thorough than that now visited upon
them. But this they must submit to too, fol
toey have brought it upon their own heads.
in the very hour Of the announcement OF
their triumph in the elections to the State Con-
vention, we declared TINT that triumph would be
more fatal far than a defeat to them-and the
result has proved the truth Of that assertion
even more speedily than we had anticipated.
The submission party was demoraIized and
dsbanded, as soon as its delegates put forth Their
manifesto rs the action Of that convention. Nc
party could stand on a platform so rickeiy and
so rotten--and therefore they sought TO jump
of from that on the Union platform. That, too
crashed beneath them: and where are they now
In The dust! And where their opponents ,
Standing in n firm and scrried phaIanx, whose
ranks are receiving new recruits on each success
sive dny--more confident and hopeful now Of
redeelniug Georgia from her false position than
ever before.
The very tone Of the presses Of the two rar-
ties there, which have swallowed up tho old or.
CARNATIONS, proves this. From the one side
rises a Willing cry Of wrathful and agonized
remonstrnnee---fro the other, the calm, assured
tone Of coming triumph, or scornfu mockery Of
the shallow contrivanees by which the platform.
builders are seeking to prop up their rotten tim
bers.
We append two specimens from leading pa.
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W We arc requested TO state By members
OF Congress-, whose constituents are writing to
them for copies of the agricultural part Of the
Patent Office Report, made to the last session,
that, though II was ordered to be printed yea
since, It j. not yet ready for distribution, though
1t Is supposed that the contractors will at no
very distant day begin TO deliver it,
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For The Southern Press.
Meteorological Register.
GEORGrrowN, d. c., Fl

Gr0RGrTowH, u. T., Feb. j, 1851.
Mgasns. EpIroRs IL herewith enclose you the
accompanying Meteorological Register for the
month Of January; though irregular, it may yet
prove useful. The thermometer used il Fahren-
hets, and was suspended on the north side Of the
house. The weather during the past month has
been generally mild and spring like, until within
the last few days when ii set in suddenly cold.
ALEXANDER J. SEMMEs.
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The qusdrangular quarrel between SEWARD
and Administration Wings, Van buren, and
bunker Democrats, goes bravely on in the Le-
gislaknre, and 10 the organs Of those respective
fctions- the Abolitionists still more en-
bspil tho fray, and compicate the chances Of u
choice Of SENATOR to succeed Mr.. DicKISsox.
The following is said to be the relative strength
Of partiss 10 ths Legislature;
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And dry, and the Potomac river frozen over
for me first time. AIS
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spoils cannot be had, console thysef with such
crumbs Of comfort as may be thrown out by the
Great Central Union Committee of New York
who, having determined to "save the Union,' "at
all hazards and to the last extremity"-will eff
feet it, by COMMANDING THE CELEBRATION OF
WAsHrScroS's BIRTH DAY throughout the coun-
ty!l.
Since the days when stbe wise men Of Gotham
experimental in navigation-ncver has there
been such set Of bold mariners embarked in 80
fitting ressel--and il is but just that some Of
their Georgia friends, WHO bsavcly risked their
fortunes on the sauc bottom, should take a
seat in " the bowl that cirres tho Union Com
mttee, and its fortunes.
But we ARE losing SIGHT Of the recent pro-
ccedngs of the Georgia forlornhopc al home
Let US recur to them
In the Federal Uuion wo find the following
brief chronicle Of the series Of interesting ex-
periments at resuscitation,rcc attempted by
the consulting physicians--though every one
was satisfied that the poor creature was "kt
and murtbered entirely
THE CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY AND ITS
REsURREcrIorisTs.- our last issue, We laid
before our readers veritable history Of the birth
life. death, and burial Of tho Constitutional
Union party. Strange as 1t may seem, its stiff
fsned corpse has not been permitted TO remain
in the grave. II has been exAumed by few Of
its disc0nsolatc aud heart-stricken friends, who
In the bitterness Of their grisf and dsappoint-
ment, have insisted that i was not dead, but
Iat II had merely swoonsd, and was in trance.
After It, exhumation, II was determined that il
was beyond the reach Of "red pepper" aud If
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Thus then, from the showing Of one Of their
number, this much lauded opposition to Seward
and his policy, on the part Of the Syracuse sece-
dcrs, was squabble about men and spoils after
al. Whew. how THE will delectify the jeering
opposition, who have 20 charged Throughout
Such frank confessions may be good for the
soul--but they certainly cannot prove beneficial
70 party whici, has made such professions Of
dsinterestcdness.
The editor Of the Commercial has the astute
mesa TO perceive the danger Of allowing such
undue ffsnknsss 10 pass uncensured--and there
fore iubhcatss IT. readers rs foliows--as though
lhs organ u party would circulate . document
It believed to be what u pretcnds u sa~pevt!
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Foreign scraps.

A LUNATfc PoET.--The correspondent of the
Morning Chronicle notices the Northampton Luna
tic ASYLUM, where the patients are scholars, and
restraint is almost entirely unknown. Among the
number of its inmates is Clare, the Rural Burns,'
as he IL called From his earliest life he doomed
to toll For considerable period he received nine
shillings a week and his board farm at Help
stone; but his employer proposing to reduce his
wages to shillings week, he returned to the
home of his father, who was then helpless cripple
and pauper. He is now lunatic in this asy lum,
and the bittercst complaint which he made to the
correspondent Of the injustice done him by the
public in not recognising him, instead of Scott and
Byron, as the author Of "Marmion" and of "Don
Junn, % and in refusing him the honor of having
gained the battle Of Waterloo. Clare the wri-
ter, though not generally known as such, of the
lines, Here we meet too soon to part''-whicb, set
To one Of Roseini's most beautiful airs, some
time exceedingly popular
TRvE BLuE.-From documents relative to the
of the Scottish Covenanters in the seventeenth
century it appears that they assumed blue ribands
az their colors, and wore them scarfs, in
punches fastened TO their blue bonncts, and that
the border English ncknamed them "Blue Caps''
and "Jockies." Hence the phrase, "True- blue
Presbyterian Notes and Queries.
SHIPMENTS OF PoRr WINR.-Thc total shipments
Of port wine during the past year, as appears from
the custom houss return just received from Oporto,
amounted TO 81 ,4S7 pipes; Of which were exported
70 Great Britain, 25,400 pipes; to other parts OF
Europe, 2, O35; United States, 69S; Brazil, 2,755;
and to other parts of tho world 2,349 pipes. There
has been an increase of $40 pipes to Great Britain
and of ,O66 pipes 70 the United States To Brazil
there has been a decrease of 2, s2s pipes.
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1915 to l6lss one hundred millions Of pounds Of
cotton sent from the plantations would have brought
back moro iron than six hundred millions in
1856, and yet the manufacture Of iron had been
improved in the intermediate period far moro than
the culture of cotton.
absolute free trade between tho two nations
would close every mill and furnace in the Union,
without exception, and thereafter England would
still efectually dictate the laws Of purchase
and sale. Thereafter the cotton planter would be
allowed two cents per pound. and the price of iron
would be ElO. II il really singular that the advo-
Gates Of what is called 'frce trade do not see
that what England is sontending for is the power
TO compel all tho produce of the world to be
sent there that she may fix the price at which she
will buy, and also fix tho price at which she will
sell. Protection is act Of resistance to this
ercisc Of power, and tends to enable the farmers
aud planters of the world to trade equal terms
with the world for their cloth and iron; and there
fore il ia that trade grows in amount under it,,
while it withcrs with every approach to what in the
Manchester system of political economy is called
free trade
"The British policy has been gradually exhaust
ing the nation and diminishing its productive
power; and therefore il is that il is driven to the
effort to compel all the world 10 come there with
their products, haze the prices fired accordance
cih the ability Of her people TO pay for tohat they
need. That ability has diminished rapidly; and
therefore IL has been that the planters have been
compelled to give more and more cotton, sugar,
and tobacco for less and less cloth and iron, while
the amount Of freight, commissions, brokerage.
and storage to be paid on the steadily increasing
quantity of raw products, has been constantly in
crcasing, until throughout the world they havo
been almost ruined"
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

THE LATE Nn. KAUFMAN.
MIR. HOWARD, under a suspension of the rules
offered resolution, which agreed to, directing
the Clerk to settle the accounts Of DAVID s. KAUF-
MAN, deceased, late member of che House, allow
ing per diem to the end Of the session. and this to-
gether with the amount due TO the day of his DEATH
to be paid to his widow.
GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS BILLS.
Mr.. BAYLY, from the Committee of WAYS and
Means under suspension of the rules, reported
bill making appropriations for certain fortifi
cations Of the United States for the year ending
June 30. 1852;
A bill providing for carrying into execution a
further part of the twelfth article of the treaty with
Mexico, concluded at Guadalupe HidaIgo; and
bill making appropriations for the civil and
diplomatic expenses Of the Go, crnmcnt for the year
ending June 80, 1852.
These billswcre sevcrally read first and second
time, and referred 10 the Committee OF the Whole
on the state of the Union.
Mr.. BAYLY asked leave to introduce resolution
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Trial Of John Henderson.

The second trial of Gen. HENDERSON, for a
violation Of the neutrality laws of the United
States, by being engaged in the late Cuba ex-
petition, was in progress at the latest advices
by mail from New Orleans. Quite warm
dialogue took place on. the 3lst ult. between
Mr.. HUNroN, the district attorney, and Mr..
HENDERSON, the accused, of which we find the
following report in the Picayune of the next
day:
During the examination of Capt. Moore, yes
tcrday-a witness on the part of the Government
the accused excepted to evidence tending to show
his criminality with those persons of the expedi-
ton who had sailed for Cuba.
"Mr. Hunton, the United States district nttor-
ney, said that it was plain that if Mr.. Henderson
had been one Of the instigators of the expedition,
and that fight afterwards ensucd at Cardenas, and
that murder. arson and rapne had been committed,
he was responsible for it.
: "Mr. Henderson said that tho proposition put
forth by the prosecuting officer Of the Government
was monstrous and most unjust.
"Mr. Hunton replied that the gentleman no
doubt thought that the whole prosecution was mon
strous He hold him far more responsible than the
young men whom he had persuaded to embark in
the expedition, and who had committed the crime :
they were accused of.
"Mr. Henderson-[ With great warmth and an
gcrl-I say, sir, the charge is most monstrous and
atrocious. am not on trial for murder, arson, or
rapne, and il is unjust for the prosecuting officer
TO charge me with il.
"Mr. Hunfon-I am not to be insultcd, sir.
''Nfr. Hsndrson-Neither am ], sir, and will not
be insultcd.
"Mr Hunton-Nor ], sir; and will not be pre-
vented from saying what think is right in this
prosecution.
"The court here called the gentlemen to order
Mr.. Henderson then argued the point with much
warmth, contcnding that no such evidence could
be admitted. He was not charged with murder
rapine, or arson, and evidence could be admitted
to show that the acts Of others to be traced
his instigation.
"Thc court decided that the declaration Of one
conspirator was evidence against the others, and
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The following brief memorial, addressed to
Congress by the Rev. Mr.. GuRLEY, whose
report to the Government on the condition and
prospects Of thatyoung republic has been noticed
in our journal, we publish with pleasure. 1t
will be seen that Mr.. GURLEY hopes, should
Congress grant his request, to obtain additional
and valuable contributions of books from the
State Legislatures and from generous individ
uals. When it is considered how important
to the government and people Of Liberia would
be good public library, and how unable they at
this moment are to afford the means of securing
it, we think an earnest and successful appeal
for so good and great an object may be made to
the Government and people of these United
States. Such library would be light to the
whole western coast of Africa it would send its
rays far into the interior, and would prove among
the most efficient means of the civilization of
that continent. Let Congress by joint resolu-
ton, or in some other way, make the donation
desired, and we presume several of the Eu-
ropean governments will initiate the example.
We can hardly think that solitary member
of either House Of Congress will hesitate to
give his vote for so unexceptionable and benef-
cent an object:
To the honorable the Senate and House Of Represent
atiues Of the Congress Of The United States.
The undersigned respectfully represents that,
during his recent visit, under the authority of the
late President of tho United States to the republic
of Liberia, he became deeply impressed with the
vast importance, both to the government and peo-
pie of that republic, of public library, to be pro.
served in Monrova, the capital; and promised the
authorities there (who then requested him, and
since have renewed the requcst, TO represent their
condition and necessities TO the Government and
people of the United States) to do all in his power
to persuade Congress, the several State Legisla-
lures, and generous citizens Of this favored coun-
try to aid, by donations of books, in founding in
Liberia library Of sufficient ertent to be of great
and permanent advantage The undersigned re-
spectfully but earnestly prays Congress, in such
manner and on such conditions as in its wisdom
shall seem best to grant 10 the government of Libe
ria set Of such books and public documents as
have from time TO time been published by it's order.
to form the commencement of public library to be
preserved and Increased, through all time, in the CAPT
tai and for the benefit Of that republic. And since op
portunities for doing good, and life itself
very uncertain, the undersigned prays that this
grant may be made during the present session.
With the highest consideration and respect, he
has the honor to subscribe himself,
X. r. -GURLEY.
WAsMNGroN, February 7, 1851.
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The Money Market.

Hunts Merchants Magazine, in an article
on "Money Matters" in the February number
argues that the effect produced on the money
market by the production Of forty millions Of
California gold during the past year has been
uncomfortable, and that the cheapness of money
has been caused, in no small degree, by the
abundance of the products of industry. In proof
of this position the editor states that the amount
of debts discharged under the General Bankrupt
law of l84l was SAC, 1874 ,6l5-an amount
which does, indeed. make the forty or fifty mil
lions from California look very small, and adj
monishes us to take care that there shall not
again be a seeming necessity for such whole
sale cancellation.
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In looking over Mr.. CAREY's recent pamphlet
we have been much struck with various facts
that he has there collected; and one of the most
remarkable and important, as it appears to us,
is the steady decline of the power of Britain to
pay for the foreign commodities that she re-
quires to purchase for her own consumption.
Mr.. CAREY has furnished statements of the
gross amount Of her exports, at various periods
during the last half century, accompanied in
each case with estimates of the quantity of for
eign raw materials included therein, and the
result appears to be that the actual value of
British labor and its products, sent abroad, is less
than third as much per head as it was in
the opening years Of the present century. To
this fact, Of the perpetually diminishing power
of Britain to purchase, it is due, according to
Mr. CAREY, that the prices of our staples have
so much diminished, and must continue to d.
minish, so long as we shall leave in the hands
of her people monopoly Of the machinery for
supplying iron to the world, and for converting
into cloth the cotton produced throughout the
world. The following remarks on this sub
ject, which we take from Mr.. CAREY's little
work, will be found worthy of the attention Of
our readers:
ut is supposed that, If England and America
were united by absolute free trade the reciprocal
exchanges between them would soon far exceed the
whole commerce of both' but we here see that the
productive power of England has diminished from
year to year, while free trade far il
has existed, has enabled her To fix the prices of all
staples that she desired TO buy and of all her
staples that she desired TO SELL leaving TO OPP
ton AZ to how we would buy or how would sell.
The moro sent her, the less she gave us for il
for the larger was the stock the land, and the
larger were the deductions. In tho period from
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commlssion on Claims against Mexico.
MorpAr. FEBRUARY 10. 1851.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY III, 1901.
The memorial OF Christian Abby, claiming for
seizure and imprisonment in California, in 1899,
and for consequent losses, being taken up for
sideration, together with the proofs and documents
connected Herewith, the Board camc to an opinion
that The claim is valid against the republic OF
Mexico, and tho same allowed accordingly I;
tho amount to be allowed subject to the future &C
ton Of the Board.
That of Asmus C. Brcdall, claiming for seizure,
pillage, &C., of schooner Lode, and her cargo, at
Corpus Christi, in 1888, being next taken up for
consideration, together with the proofs and docu-
ments connected Herewith, the Board came to an
opinion that the claim is not valid against the
public of Mexico; and the same was accordingly
not allowed. m
That of James l.. Rudolph, claiming for expul
sion from Reynosa, on the 9th Of April, 1876, and
for consequent losses in his business, being next
taken up for consideration together with the proofs
and documents connected Herewith, the Board
came TO an opinion that the claim is valid against
the republic of Mexico, and the same was allowed
accordingly the amount to be awarded subject to
the future action of the Board