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taue as to offer as great inducements to purchasers
as can be offered at any similar establishment In
the country.
IN order iha, their assortment shall be at all times
complete, new and fresh supplies of drugs and Fan
cy Articles will he from time to time received as
occasion may require,
A liberal share Of the public patronage is respect
fuy solicited.
Physicians prescriptions carefully compounded.
DIR. A. L, LAIRD,
JNO. B. ESKRlDGE.
Slaunton, July l6, lS5l.-Vin. copy.
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PostponeIient.

The above sale is postponed until Monday hs
IIth day of .4ugast neat, at which time it will
take place, II. STEWART, Comm.
july 9, 1S5f.-tds.
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5S Liberty Street,
9,.r,.n B,oad,cau & Nassau ST., near the Post Office
NEW YORK.
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NEW DRUG STORE.
- So.-

,9NHE subscribers have this day associated them,
selves together under the firm and styl OF
Dr.. A. Il. Laird & Co., for the purpose OF con-
Quoting general
Wholesale and Retail Drug Business
in this place, al The store formerly occupied by
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Attention Cavalry.

rI,HE Cavalry attached to the 93d Regiment
L will parade in Middlebrook. at II o'clock on
Friday, the first day Of August, in full unlform'-
A full attendance is required.
- " W w. P. GALE, O.S.
July 9, 1851.
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nANrEL F1sHRURN,

IBAS just received from Baltimore, ~ kegs
n Nails, assorted, including the Finishing Nail.
Also. | Hind Prime Brown Sugar; Cracked and
Puverzed Loaf do, and fierce w. |. Moasses,
&c, Sc All for sale cheap.
Wayneshoro', July %, lS5l.-3t.
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porYood Shot and Powder.

Bar Lead, Shot and Powder. !.
roo tI,I, Bar Cead; SIS bags Shot, assorted
0UU sizes; so kegs Rock Powder; 20 do Rife
do 10 900 feet Safety Fuss-for sale low by
W. G. l.. WOOD.
Winchester Depot, 5'h mo 80, 1851.
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The Junior Partner fatters himself
that four years experience in one ofth'
LARGEST Wholesale and Retail Drug
Establishments of Philadelphia, vii
enable him, a, all times, To give to TIT
public generally, the most entire satis
faction. An acquaintance with tn
dl!leren, varieties and qualities Of drug
and their lowest market prices, vii
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PRESBYTERIAN HIGH SCHOOL.
At BrOwnsburg ROckbidge Co Va.

OFFICERS
Rev. w. w. TRIMBLE, A. M. Principal.
Mr.. w. S. M. Gay LIST Assistant Prof.
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Family Groceries

Family Groceries
WE are daily expecting at reduced prices,
w 3 Hogsheads and 5 bbls Of best Molasses;
80 Sacks NlarshalI's Liverpool Salt;
Barrels Clarified Brown Sugar;
s i" Porto Rico and N. o. Sugar;
10 Sacks Rio and Lagura Coffees;
8 Boxes Hydraulic Candles /;
2 Z" Spernaceti F"
Crushed, Pulverized and Double refined
80 Sugars, &c &C.,
WHITE & Co.
Slaunton, June 9, lS5l-Vind. s. Mess, copy.
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Commissioners Notice.

July .. I00I.-tdS.
fea5- Harrisonburg Rep. copy ids.
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WYE are receiving, by Daily Arrivals from Europe
w our Fall and Winter assortment oil klCH FASH
II FANCY
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)NE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.

Staunton, July l6, 1851.
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Union Hill, in Nelson County, for Sale

4 WILL offer the above named Tract Of Land
L for sale at public auction, on Wednesday the
9th day of August next, should it not be sold pri
valey before, and in that event timely notice will
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Sale of Valuable Real Estate & Slaves

Union Hill, Nelson County,
july 9, lS5l.-tds.
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Augusta Land for Sale

VI ~ W AsASe -
SlauLton, June Is, 1851.
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NEW YORK IMPORTERS & JOBBERs.
FREEMAN, HODGES & 90,

Staunton, July %, lS5l.-4t.
The republic., 1851-07-11
Arkansas Election.

A canvass of more than usual interest is going
on at the present time in Arkansas. II is an cleo
ton for member of Congress. Before the close of
the last session Mr.. Robert Johnson, who had then
occupied the place for two terms announced his
intention not to be candidate for reelection. He
seems to have had conviction that strong opposi-
tion would be made to him. the more especially as
he had taken strong ultra Southern ground In re-
gard to the rights of the South, and the duty of
secession He then, in truth, q Disunionist
but he doubted, we infer, the disposition of the
people Of Arkansas to indulge in any such tom
fooisry, and declined denomination. Jacob
Thompson, of Mississippi, occupying precisely the
same grounds, did the same thing; but this did not
prevent him from accepting nomination when
1t was rendered him. So with Johnson; he found
the party divided between General Clarke and
somo other candidate, and rather than suffer
eithor of them to run against the other, he
stepped in and bore of the prize. Johnson
! ia now the secession candidate for Congress
But the Union men have avowed their intention
not TO support him, and some of the most iniiuen-
| tal men in the State against him. General
Clarke, of the Van Buren, Inteligencer has got his
press in operation again, and ia pouring hot shot
into Mr.. Johnson-on various grounds, but mainly
because he has done any thing for the State,
and is linked with Quitman, Rhett, and the South,
| to bring about disunion. This will be made the
distinct issue before the election comes on, invov
| ing it docs all othcr questions, and the issue
will be fatal to MIR. Johnson. The State of Arkan-
cas-, like Missouri, whatever heresies and absurdi
ties they may tolerate will listen to no such enor
/
will mark and put down any man who lends him
self TO it,
Two other candidates in the field against Mr..
Johnson in Arkansas-one, Mr.. Mitchell, Demo
crat supported by the Enieiigenc0; ana the other
Whig, Mr.. John Preston, jr., gentleman of fine
abilities, and devoted to the support of the Compro
mise and the preserv alton of the Union II is hard
for Democrats to give up their party men; but
when, as in the of Mr. Benton in Missouri, and
"a in the case of Mr.. johnson in Arkansas, an al
tentative is distinctly presented to them, involving
something more than mere personal considerations,
they have the nerve TO do it. The people of Ar
kansas must that the election Of johnson will
place them in the absurd position OF electing man
10 Congress who entertains sentiments in regard to
the dissolution of the Union which are not common
10 one in thousand of them, and which, If put di-
rectly to them, would be regarded direct in
suit If true to themselves, therefore-if true to
the Union, of which one doubts-they must
throw Mr.. Johnson overheard, even at the expense
of defeat of what is termed party nomination.
tSf Louis Republican.
The republic., 1851-07-11

JOURNAL OF INsANIr.-We have received the
July number (the first ofvo s of this periodical,
published by the New York State Lunatic Asy-
lum, at Utica. New York, and have had time to
peruse fits articles, translated from the Ga
sette Medicale de Paris, ''On the Importance of
Certain Premonitory Symptoms of severe Cerebral
Disease" by DIR. Devay, of Lyons, in France.
This treatise refers to some very interesting phe-
nomena observable in the enervation and disinte-
grafton of the human mind From our superb
cial acquaintance with the subject of which it
treats, we should suppose this journal highly use
ful and interesting to the medical profession as
well to those philanthropists who take pleasure
in becoming acquainted with this melancholy
form of disease, and in ameioratipg the condition
of those who subject to it so far lies in their
power
The republic., 1851-07-11

experimentally, ofthe trials of the Chief Execu-
tive of the nation, for instance, or of the diff
entities that surround the chief officers OF the
Government, in the performance of their duties.
Yet how constantly are they assailed, even by
their own political friends, and condemned for
acts often-times performed in their names by
their subordinates, without the motives which
influenced them being known, or the clrcum-
stances in which they are placed being even
thought of, much less understood.
Mr.. COOPER, in the preface to one OF his
novels, says that our Government is not re-
public, but gossipric; that we are governed by
gossips, and not by law and reason. Undoubt-
eddy, there is too much truth in the satirical re-
mark of our great novelist, and it is mortifying
to see how the minds of the people have been
influenced in the most serious matters by the
idlest of gossiping rumors that are daily set
adrift in reference to the highest officers of the
Government. Statesmen ought not to be eX-
empt from censure more than other men for their
mistakes of judgment or misdCeds; but truly,
like other men, they have right to be regard
ed as innocent until they are proved guilty.
But the rule is reversed with them, and 1t
seems to be the way TO regard every man con-
nected with the Government as guilty until he
is proved innocent, and the enorInity of his guilt
is supposed TO be in exact proportion to the dig
nifty of his office and the past purity of his con-
4
The republic., 1851-07-11
Mr. whitney In England.

From the article which we copy from the
London Morning Chronicle, it seems that our
enterprising fellow-citizen, Mr.. ASA WHIT
NEY, is astonishing John Bull with his PROPOSE
ton to build railway two thousand miles in
length without capital.
The Chronicle compliments the 90 simple,
plain, and emphatic English" Of his style,
and the eminently practical character of his
scheme. 1t moreover expresses the hope that,
if the United States does not entertain the
proposition, England would avail herself of
it to build railway through her Canadian
possessions.
We have been inclined to consider the va
rious projects to connect the Atlantic and Pa
cific States by railroad directly across the conti-
nent rs premature, because we deem the line
too long, and too little supported by wayfarer
or freights. 1t will be subject to casualties Of
flood, fire, notwithstanding to the unhappy
experience of Michgan--to the love of plum
der or the malice of fiends. These would, we
think, prevent persons or valuable property
from risking an overland route of such length.
We do not think the commercial intercourse
DelWeeH ASH anu Tie pOrtS ol tne Alidnllc
States could be carried on by such line, be-
cause there is no estimate Of freights given by
any railroad protector low enough to take the
trade from the route around Cape Horn. Whilst
we think that the trade between Asia and the
United States will pursue its present route
around the Cape, until ship canal shall be
opened across the Isthmus, we are of opin-
ion that the more valuable and less bulky
articles, such as gold, silks, teas, merchan-
disc, with the mails and travel, will cross
the Isthmus of Central America by some one
of the routes that American enterprise is en-
gagged in opening. Yet we believe Mr.. WHIT
NEY's scheme to be eminently practical. 1t
will carry population and wealth into the will
derness. 1t will accomplish its own extension.
1t will furnish facilities of expectation, lmpor-
tation, of mail and travel intercourse. 1t will
ultimately extend itself across the continent.
1t will found system Of States, and will fur
nish source of political power. We are far
from undertaking its Importance; nor do we be-
lieve that the overland transportation Of Asiatic
commerce is at all important to the success Of
Mr.. WHITNEY's railroad.
The republic., 1851-07-11
Ftom he Richmond Whig.

We have rarely seen more contemplate exhi-
btion Of partisan malignity than appears in the
columns of last Tuesday, Washington Union. A
stupid story is raked up from some western paper,
that Mr.. Corwin, in assuming control of the Trea-
sury Department, promulgated decree that any
clerk who was sick for a given time should have
his pay reduced accordingly, and il his illness
lasted more than week, he must "siLIer die
sign" We hardly presume that any honest mind
can give credence 90 so ridiculous and improbable
story. II may suit the morals as we'll ns the
policy of Locofoco presses to manufacture such
miserable ialsehoods for the delusion OF the dear
The republic., 1851-07-11

people, but every intelligent man will view it a
pitiful trick, which reflects little credit upon the
ingenuity il does upon the integrity Of its orgi
nators
But this silly slander furnishes the linton with n
pretext to assail the President and the various
members of his Cabinet. because, forsooth, they
have thought proper to seek few days recreation
in the country, and recruit frames oyertasked and
exhausted by the confning duties Of Office. To
the jaundiced eye of the editor, the Presidents
visit to Virginia was an electoneering trick, and
Mr. Webster's great speech at the Capon Springs
an abomination in the eyes of pure and refined
democracy. True, the suggestion is not thrown
out, is done with reference TO Mr.. Corwin, that
curtailment of salary should follow this breach of
official proprety, but il Is quite apparent that the
editor of the Union will be grievously disturbed
should the Treasury be plucked. The numer.
Gus precedents which Locofocoism has furnished
OF official integrity justify of course, in Locofoco
eyes, any charge of Whig corruption. We sup
pose, therefore, that Mr.. Donelson, while acting in
diplomatic capacity abroad, was careful never to
receive pay for services not actually performed.
If SO, he must have found it rather expensive
mission.
The republic., 1851-07-11

We remember reading statement in an
English paper that Lord JOHN RUSSELL had
once spent night in one Of the cells of the
Pentonvile prison, to enable him to Judge of
the effect of solitary confinement, that he might
legislate understandingly in reference to crimi-
nails. 1t is hardly possible, we think, that so
sensible man could have been guilty of such
sottcism. He might as well have shut him
self up in dark closet in Woburn Abbey; for,
unless he had an imagination powerful enough
to conceive himself criminal, and forget that
he would be let out in the morning, he could
have but an imperfect idea Of the effect Of soli-
lary confinement upon the mind of convict.
But, supposing the story to be true, 1t was very
creditable to the heart of the statesman, and it
might be turned to very profitable account by
some of our own legislators, who, without any
appeal to their imaginatons, might easily place
themselves exactly in the position of those for
whom they legislate. The advocates for cor
poreal punishment in the navy, for instance,
might try the effect of dozen lashes on the
bare back from that peculiarly naval instru-
ment known as a cat; and some of the vehe-
ment advocates of free trade might be decidedly
enlightened by making an investment of funds
in cotton factory, rolling mill, smelling
furnace, or coal mine, or become inter
ested in any of the other great industrial
interests which have TO compete directly with
the ill-paid labor of Europe; or, it would be
better still, if, instead of investing money, they
were TO invest their personal labor In such EN-
ployments, and receive in return therefor the
low wages which competition with Europe inn
poses upon our intelligent mechanics. Itwould
be good thing, too, if some Of those people
who think that literary laborers should receive
no compensation for their toll and talents, would
but spend few years in the absorbing and
costly employment (costly in time and health
as well as money! Of literary productions, that
they might have sympathetic feeling for that
most unprotected of all the laboring classes,
and an intelligent understanding of information
al copyright.
1t is most fortunate circumstance that our
Legislators are, themselves, Of the classes for
whom they make laws, and, in most cases,
there is a perfect sympathy Of feeling between
| thehl, anu thOrough understanding OF each
others wants and necessities We have no
hereditary Legislators; and while the people
have the privilege Of choosing their, own law
makers, and the executive officers Of their own
government, there cannot, to any great extent,
be disregard to their wishes. The danger is
all on the other side; the people themselves do
not sufficiently sympathize with the legisla-
tive and executive, from the impossibility OF
comprehending the difficulties and responsible
ties OF position which they have never filed
and, since they cannot try the experiment
like Lord JoHN RUSSELL, for one night
they should at least endeavor to make them
selves acquainted with the trials and duties
of officials when they thoughtlessly Judge
without knowledge or sympathy 1t can fall
to the lot Of but few men TO know any thing
The republic., 1851-07-11
THE REPUBLIC.
WASHINGTON:
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY ii. 1851.

ssTheseries OF measures to which have alluded
arc regarded by me settlement, in principle
and suhstance-a final settlement-ofthed danger
Gus and exciting subjects which they embraced"
oRv that adjustment we have been rescued from
the vide aad boundless agitation thatsurrounded
Us, and have a firm, distinct, and legal ground
to rest upon. And the occasion, trust, will jus
stfv me is ExHoRTING MY coUNTaYMEE TO RALLY
ypox AND MAtSrAIs THAT GROUND as the best, if
not The only means, of restoring peace and quiet
to the country aud maintaining inviolate the in
'tegrity of the Union"
[PREsiDEsT FILLMoRE's MESSAGE.
THE Presidents message, at the opening of the
present session of Congress, expresses fully and
"piainly his own and the unanimous opinion of all
those associated 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 is, that those
measures should be regarded in principle as
final settlement of the dangerous and exciting
subjects which they embrace; that though they
were not free from imperfections, yet, IN their
neutrality-suspicious. and conncxion, they formed
system of compromise the most conciliatory
and best for the entire country that could be OBJ
stained from conflicting sectional interest and
opinions, and that therefore they should be ad-
hered to- until time and experience should de-
nonstrate the necessity of further legislation to
guard against evasion or abuse Thatopinion, Sc
IA. as know, remains entirely unchanged, and
will be acted upon steadily and decisively. The
peace ofthe country requires this the security OF
The Constitution requires this; and everyconsde-
ration of the public good demands this. If the
Administration cannot stand upon the principles
ofthe message it does otexpect to stand at al" "
[DAnIEL WEBsrER's Letter 10 The Union Meeting
AT IPestchesLer.
The republic., 1851-07-11

CHICAGO AND Rock ISLAND RAILRoAD.-The di-
rectors of the Chicago and Rock Isand Railroad
Company have received offers from parties of re-
sponsibihty, for the construction of the entire line
OF this road, including the necessary fixtures and
equipage TO put it in perfect running order on or
before the lst of July, lS53-the company to settle
upon the line OF location, the right of way,
and determine upon the sites for depots, stations,
ETC.
The board of directofS have given authority to
the executive committee to let the contracts as
Boon sarvoys and estimates completed, which
will be about the lst o. August.
The republic., 1851-07-11

Hon DANIEL WEBsTER's 0RATIoN.-Mr. Web
ster's Grafton at Washington, at the laying Of the
cornerstone of the addition to the Capitol, the
4th instant, ID the crowning effort of series of
public addresses which the speakers powerful and
prolific intellect has poured forth within the past
few months, with SO much advantage TO his own
reputation and usefulness to the country he so
IDENTIFY loves. II is quite safe TO say that other
man could have accomplished in the same time
what Mr.. Webster has accomplished within the
last fifteen months. His onerous duties as Secre-
tary OF State have been discharged with mastery
activity and unimpeachable fidelity in addition to
which he has travelled thousands of miles, address
ed his fellow citizens almost innumorable occa-
sions, often at great length and after the fatigue Of
a long days travel, and has written numerous let
ters and other documents Of great and permanent
interest and all this without giving the slightest
indication of weariness exhaustion, either of
body yor mind. We find him, in his Grafton at
Washington, as varied in resources, as vigorous in
intellect, and physically buoyant as ever if not
even more 1t is truly gratifying to find gen.
tleman who has done 30 much and worked so long
for his countrys good, still not only mentally and
physically able to achieve such herculean abors
but able to exhibit increased and apparently mex
haustible powers with every fresh demand that his
fellow citizens make upon, or any effort to which
his own high views prompt him.
Nsic York Commercial advertiser.
The republic., 1851-07-11

EAnrHaUAxE IN ST. LouIs.-The ST. Louis Re
publican says that a shock Of earthquake was
felt in that city on the ID instant at ten o'clock
n m. There were three distinct shocks, the whole
occurring in about one minute. friend who no.
ted the occurrence says that the motion un-
dulating, or wave-like and appeared to proceed
from the southwest. Tho second ehock was de-
cidedly the strongest, the first and third being
about equal 10 cnch other. None OF them were
companied with any percepible sound. The
morning wns somewhat cloudy, cool and calm
followed, not great while afterward, by slight
rain with thunder. About half past two 1t cleared
up, with warm sunshine, and 50 continued for the
balance Of the day.