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NEW PROSPECTUS
OF THE
SCIEN FIC ERICA

SCIEN TITO A Nj ERICA
TO Mechanics, Inueators, and Manufacturers
T,HE Publishers OF the Scientific American re-
spectfully give notice that the SIXTH VOLUME
of this valuable journal, comm menced on the 2Ist
of September, offering valuable opportunity for
all to subscribe who take interest in the pro-
gress and deveopement of the Mechanics Arts
and Manufactures of our country. The charac-
ter of the Scientific .4neriedn is too well known
throughout the country to require detailed ac-
count of the various subjects discussed through its
columns.
II enjoys a more extensive and influential cir
cuaton than any other journal Of its class in
America
II will be published weekly, as heretofore, in
Quarto Form, on fine paper, affording, at the end
of the year, an ILLUSTRATED E.NCYCLO-
PEDLf, of over FOUR HUNDRED PAGES,
with an Index, and from Five to Six Hundred
ORIGINAL E.N'GR.7YLA'GS, described by letters
Of reference; besides vast amount of practical
information concerning the progress of SCIE.N,
yME.NTS, CHEMISTRY CIVIL ENGINEER
ING, MANUFAC TUR ING in its various
branches, ,.8RCHITECTURE,. MASONRY, BOT.
AN'Y,---in short, IL embraces the entire rahse OF
the Arts and Sciences.
II also possesses an original feature not found in
any other weekly journal in the country, viz. an
Official List Of P.qTE.NT Claims, prepared ex.
pressy for its columns at the Patent 0ffice,-thus
constituting it the " AMERICAN REP ERTORY
OF INVENTIONS"
TERms-S2 a-year ; 81 for six months
All letters must be post paid and directed TO
MUM e. CO,
Publishers Of the Scientific American,
l2S Fulton street, New York.
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WASHINGTON CITY, THURSDAY, JULY s. 1851


+ AW AND AGENCY OFFICE. The under
j 4 signed, Attorneys and Agents, practice Law
IN the Supreme Court of the United States, and
the Courts of the District of Columbia, and attend
promptly To claims against the United States, IN
cluding the settlement Of all accounts of officers
and agents Of the Government, Bounty Lands,
Pensions, Return of Duties, Patents for new in
ventlons, &c, &c.
They tender their services to members Of the
profession at distance, and, when the case in
prepared by local agent, will abae onehalf their
usual fee. All information relative to the FORMS
ana usages OF business in any of the Departments
will be Furnished TO our regular correspondents
without charge. They have made arrangements
Tor the payment OF taxes, and for the sale or loca
lon OF bounty land warrants on the best Western
lands
L5-Offce on Pennsylvania avenue, Lane &
fuckers Building
DUFF GREEN,
BEN. +. GREEN,
KlCH'D. III. CLARKE
Oct. l4-3taw3m.
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TIE r. M 8.
DEPARTMENT. or HAMP-

H4 EOlCAL DEPARTMENT OF HAMP-
Nl DEN, SYDNEY COLLEGE, RICH
MOND, VA.---The thirteenth Annual Course of
Lectures will commence ON Monday, the l4th OF
October, 1850, and continue until the LIST Of the
ensuing March. The commencement for conferring
degrees will be held about the middle of March,
r. l.. BoHANNAx, Nj d., Prof of Obstetrics
and Diseases Of Women and Children.
l.. w. CHAMBERLAYSE, M. d., Prof. OF Mate
ria M Medica and Therapeutics.
S, MAurN, M. d., Prof. of Chemistry and
Pharmacy.
CnAs BgLL G.Bsos, M. d., Prof. of Surgery
and Surgical Anatomy.
CARTIER p. Johnson, M. d., Prof. of Anato-
my and Physiology.
DAyIp III. TUcKER, M. d. Prof of Theory and
ractice Of Medicine.
ARTHUR +. PEricoLAs, M. d., Demonstration
of Anatomy.
The study Of practical Anatomy may be prose
cuted with the most ample facilities, and at very
triaing expense.
Clinical Lectures are regularly given at the Col
leoe Infirmary and Richmond Almshouse The
infir.nary, under the same roof with the College
and subject to the entire control of the Faculty, rs
At all times well filled with medical and surgical
cases, and furnishes peculiar facilities for clinical
instruction. Many surgical operations are per-
formed in presence Of the class; and the students
being freely admitted to the wards, enjoy, under
the guidance of the Professors, unusual opportu-
mites for becoming familiar with the symptoms,
diagnosis, and treatment of disease.
Expenses--Matrculatio fee, IS. Professors
fees, $lO5, Demonstrators fee, $40. Graduation
fee, $25.
The price Of board, including fuel, lights, and
servants attendance, is usually $3 TO S5k per
week.
The catalogue, &C., containing fuller Iniorma-
ton concerning the institution, will be forwarded
to those applying for it, or specific inquiries WIN
be answeree by letter Address,
S. MAUPIN, M. d.,
Oct Dean of the Faculty.
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vUvHE Subscriber returns his thanks to the
II public and the old customers Of Srmms Il Scs
and informs them that TIL GROCERY AND
WINE BUSINESS heretofore carried on by them,
is continued by EpwARD SiMms he has added a
full and fresh supply Of the finest TEAS, BLACK
AND GREEN, FRESH GROCERIES, &c. ard
has also on hand full assortment Of the hness
WINE, and will be sold a, the lowest rates,
amongst which will be found 100 baskets Of ths
choicest brands Of Champagne, Hook, and Clare,
Wines, Of the pursst kinds.
EDWARD SlMMS
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THIRD ANNUAL EXHIBITION

Msryland state Agricultural Society.
A PPEAL4 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE MARYLAND
~ STATE AGRICuLrURAL SOCIETY w desire
that you should bear in mind, that on the 23d,
oath, and 25th days of October, your Society VIII
hold it's annual Exhibition and Fair at the Guy o.
Baltimore and we appeal to you, one and all, TO
bring for exhibition thereat portions or your sock
the products of your orchards, and o you" gardens
Don I presume that any animal, or prouuc'' you
NAV own is inferior to others that VIII be mere,
and be thus deferred from bringing them, as 1t is
oply by comparison that the relative merits OF any
thing can be determined The safer presumption
for YOU to arrive at, will be that what you nave
is as good. If not better than that Of others, and
that it behooves you to gaantly enter the iist OF
competition If defeated honorably, ana the hiSh
character of the Judges is guarantee that you
can be defeated in no other way, you VIII ENJOY
he luxury of knowing that Others were more en-
tied to gu ccess than yourself
And while we address you to bring such articles
as are properly in your department, we crave per-
mission to solicit your interest, to induce your
acipes and daughters to bring whatever appertalhs
to their peculiar departments, as emoroide'y "oose
hold mnnfactures. the proauets of the dairy aud Of
the pouitru uard preserves. domestic iones, coyec
tions, and, above all things, to come themselves as
,cthout tcon,at and the beautiful celebrations o. hef
aste and genius, no display can be perfect
To the Manufacturers Of agricultural implements
and Tools, we would say, that interest ana Patri-
otism both combine to enjoln upon you the pro-
priety of making grand exhibition OF your ma
chinery of all kinds, as from our present advices'
we are led to believe that the assemblage OF farm
ers and planters, and of distinguished stranger y
from most of the States of the Union, VIII be
greater than upon any former occasion here or
elsewhere. We therefore say to the agricultural
Implement makers aud Mechanics Of the United States
make il a matter of pride to display your machi-
merry at our exhibition, and vie with each other 10
having the best and largest assortment on the
oropn5 Sucb ambition is laudabe-is worthy of
American genius, and should be cherished by The
American heart.
uR Editors with whom we exchange VIII con-
fer favor by copying this notice.
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American statistics.

A short time past we published some statistics
relative to the number Of soldiers supplied from
the different States to the revolutionary war. De
Bows Commercial Review gives some tables re-
ative to this, and other subjects of equal interest,
which we copy.
L. The number of soldiers furnished by the
American States during the revolution, and the
population of each State in 1890 and in IS47
2. Principal battles of the revolution, their sew
eral dates, ommanders-in-chief, and losses on
each side.
g. Amount of continental money issued to cup
port the war, and the estimated cost in specI
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THE BRITISH PERIODICALS AND THE
FARMERS GUIDE.

AN DA~A l.olA IEhtODlChillo AND IliE
FARMERS GUIDE.
EoNARD SCOTT e. Co., No. 54 Gold street
IL .Ns,o York, continue to publish the four lead
ing British Quarterly Reviews and Blackwood,
Magazine; IN addition to which they have recent
ny commenced the publication of valuable Aori-
cultural work, called the
/" FARMERS GUIDE TO SCIENTIFIC AND PRAcTrcA,.
AGRIcULTURE,"
by HENRY STEPHENS f. r. s., of Edinburgh su
thor OF the "Book Of the Farm, &C., &C.; assisted
by JOHN z: NoRroN, MA, New Haven, Professor
OF Sc!entihc Agriculture in Yale College, &C., &c
Ihis highly valuable work will comprise two
large royal octave volumes, containing over 400
pages, with 10 or 20 splendid steel engravings
ana more than 600 engravings on wood in the
highest style Of the art, illustrating almost every
Implement or husbandry now in use by the best
iarmers' the best methods Of pIoughing, planting,
haying, harvesting, &c, &C., the yarioua domes-
tic animals in their highest perfection; in short.
the pictorial feature of the book is unique, and
VIII render 1t of incalculabIe value to the student
of agriculture.
The work is being published in semi-monthly
numbers of 64 pages each, exclusive of the Steel
engravings, and is sold 25 cents EACH or As for
the entire work IN numbers, ofwhich there will be
at least twenty-five.
The British Periodicals re-published are as fol-
lows, viz
IHE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW (Conservative)
The EDlNBURGH REVIEW (Whig),
IHE NORTH BRITsH REVIEW Free Church),
IHE WEsrMINsTER REVIEW (Libera)
nlaoKwooD,s EDiNBURGH MAGAZINE (Tory).
Although these works are distinguished by the
political shades above Indicated yet but small
portion of their contents is devoted to political sub
lects IL is their literary character which gives
them their chief value, and in that they stand con
fessedly far above all other journals oftheir class
Biackirood, still under the mastery guidance Of
Christopher North, maintains its ancient celebrity,
and is at this time, unusually attractive, from the
serial works of Bulwer and other literary notabes,
written Tor that magazine, and first appearing in
us columns both IN Great Britain and in the United
States. Such works "The Caxtons" and "My
New Novel Doth by Bulwer,) "My Peninsular
Medal, "Ihe Green Hand" and other serials,
ofwhich numerous rival editions are issued by the
Leading publishers in this country, have to be ref
printed by those publishers from the pages o.
Backwood, after IL has been issued by Messys Scot
& Co., so that subscribers to the reprint of that
Magazine may always rely on having the earliest
reading of these fascinating tales,
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Il Il r. M s.


Payments TO be made in all cases in fdpance.)
CLUBBING.
A discount of iDentysfue per cent from the above
prices will be allowed to Clubs ordering four or
more copies of any one or more of the above
works. Thus: copies of Blackwood or of one
Review will be sent 10 one address for So copies
ofthe four Reviews and Blackwood for $50 ano
80 on.
"a Orders from Clubs must be sent direct 10 the
publishers, no discount from these prices can be
allowed to Agents.
Money, current in the States where issued, will
,e received al par.
UsPRemittances and communications should be
lways addressed, postpaid or hranked, to the
Publishers.
LEONARD SCOTT & co,
10 FULros STREET, New York,
Entrance 81 Gold st
Frank Taylor, Taylor g. Maurey, and W. Adam,
Booksellers.
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pr REMTUM

ANY person sending three subscribers will be
entitled to a copy Of the Z" History Of Propellers
and Steam Navigation" /" republished in book form
nov in press, to be ready about the first OF oc-
tober. IL will be one Of the most complete works
upon the subject ever issued, and will contain
about ninety engravings.
Oct. 22-tf
r IFE INSURANCE.-Britsh Commercial
Life Insurance Company, established in 1920,
and empowered by act of Parliament, for the In
surance OF Lives and Survivorships, and the en-
dowment of Children, &c, &c, CAPITAL l.
THREE MILLION DOLL.9RSl
Ts-Offce I'd story Colonization Buildings,
near Jackson Hall, Pennsylvania avenue, Wash
inton city, ID. G
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VNTILLIAM TUCKER, MEnoHtNr IAILoh'

yTTILLIAM TUCKER, MERCHANT TAILOR
w (of the late firm of Lane & Tucker,) would
call the attention of his friends and the puphc gen
erai.y to his stock OF Goods now opening, which
has been selected by himself from the largest I'M
porting houses in New York, and by far the great
est variety and richest styles ever offered IN this
city Strangers are respectfully and earnestly So
Iicited to give me call and examine my stock be-
fore purchasing, as am confident 1t Will be to
their advantage.
And would especially call the attention OF Of
fcers, both of the army and the navy, to the tact
tha, am prepared to execute all kinds OF uniforms,
according tc the late regulauons' at the shortes'
no,,ce and at moderate prices warranted, both in
the cutting and making departments, equal 10 any
establishment in this country.
w t. tenders his sincere thanks to ms numer-
GUS friends for therlong and continued patronage
and hopes, by the same diligence ana at'ehtioh 70
business, to merit a continuance OF the same
All orders promptly executed
sep 20-3tw3w-d&trw
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MEMORIAL.

To The Senate and House Of Representatives. qffhe
rEu;f,d STATES in Congress assembled The memo
rial of the undersigned, respectfully represents that
thew are entitled to Bounty Land, under the act
Of 18th of September 1850, tina, they are informed
and believe that the unlocated warrants are worth
noore 10 them than the patented lands would be,
Thai thew do not expect or desire TO reside on the
land thus granted; that If patented to them, the
expense of agencies and taxes will be an annual
charge, reducing the value Of the grant, which
thew could avoid if permitted TO sell the warrant
Yonr memorialists further represent that the law,
bv preventing the sale Of the warrants, assun ei
that the officers and volunteers entitled to bounty
ands, are not competent to act Tor themselves
whereas many of them are among the most intel
ipent and respectable citizens of the States. They
therefore respectfully ask that the act aforesaid
may be so modified as TO make the warrants for
bounty lands assignable, and they will ever
pray, &c.
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Inducements for Clubbing.

Any person who will send us four subscribers
for six months, at our regular rates, shall be en-
titled to one copy for the same length Of time or
we will furnish
10 copies for 6 mos, s9 IS copies for ~ mos. s22
10 do 10 Is 20 do ~ %
Southern and Western money taken at par for
subscriptions or Post Office Stamps taken at
their full value
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DRESS CoMBS.--We are just opening All
J other and prettIer assortment of those hand
some Rope and Chain pattern Shell and Buffalo
Dress Tuck Combs; prices from s2to 500 eacn
Also, 300 different patterns Spanish Dress Fans
Laces from IS cents to SO each
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WILL be opened at Mrs s. Parker's, on Sat
wv urday, 23d inst, at 10 o'clock A. M, in the
new store under the National Hotel, rich assort.
ment Of Winter Millinery, consisting of Hats,
Caps, Head Dresses, Feathers, Florences, Rib
bons, &c. &c. PARkER'S
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BEEBE'S NEW YORK HATS.!!

CTEVENS, No. 1, Bro,on's Hotel, has Just re-
~ ceived further and full supply of Beebe 3
Hats Also, complete assortment of his own
make, of every quality and style. Gentlemen
wishing Hats of fancy shapes can have their or
ders filled at
STEVEN s great Hat, Cap, and
Gents Quitting Establishment, No. Browns
Hotel.
Nov. 30--6tif. Untel Repub. Union.)
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N OTI CE.

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS having books
that belong TO the Library ofths House of Repre-
sentatives are requested to retnrn them this week
with their names upon them, 80 that their sc-
counts may be properly credited
z. WILLIAMS, Lib, III r.
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FOR CALIFORNIA, via CHAGREs.

''NHNCA III AISf IIOJf VA fNIsN.1Ju.J-
NNHE United States Mail Steamship Company
IL will despatch the splendid double-engine
steamship GEORGIA, on Wednesday, Dec. IL,
at oclock, p. M, from the pier, foot of Warren
street, North river, New York, with the Govern
ment malls and passengers for San Francisco
and intermediate ports.
The connexion at Panama will be carefully
kept up, and passengers for San Francisco ars
guaranteed that they will not be delayed at Pana
ma beyond the usual stay in port
The books are now open, and passage can bt
secured at the following rates
FROM NEW YORK TO CHaGRES.
State-room berth SIOO
Standee berth, forward saIooon 80
Steerage berth, found bed & separate table SO
FROM P.a.N:ayEa TO SAN FRANCISCO
State-room berth $500
Steerage berth, found bed e. separate table $50
FROM NEW YORK
State-room. Standee. Steerage
To Charleston or Savannah SOS 500 $40
10 Havana 70 SIS 25
To New Orleans rs GO 25
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TO EDITORS OF NEWSPAPERS.

WE beg leave to call your attention to an ad
wv vertisement, and to the memorial annexed,
and tender our services in the prosecution of any
claims for Bounty Lands or Pensions, which you
NAV send to us. We will allow you one half our
usual fee, which is fpe dollars for obtaining war
rant for l60 acres, and three dollars for warrant
Of eighty acres OF less, for publishing our adver-
tisement, and preparing and forwarding the papers
TO us.
If YOU accept this proposal, please insert this
circular and our advertisement in your paper,
with the following editorial notice;
oWe call the attention Of our readers to the ad
vertisemert of Messrs. Duff Green, Ben. +
Green. and Richard III. Clarke, Attorneys ano
Agents at Washington, ID. c., and would say
persons having claims for Bounty Lands or Pen
siona. that we have made arrangements for the
requisite forms, and that claimants calling at our
Office can have their papers properly prepared and
forwarded 10 these gentlemen at Washington,
who will properly attend to them in their proper
Offices"
Please get each claimant to sign the memorial,
and forward il to your member of Congress-
Please send us a copy Of your paper containing
our card which win notify us that you accept our
proposition. rSn Dgrf ~ GSn, 1nrr,N
RiCH'D III. CLARKE
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PLAINS, BLANKETS, KERSEYS AND
FLANN ELS.

TIME. SUBSCRIBERS, Direct Importers Of all
i WoOLEN GOODS, have just received per
Ships, "Gunare," Orion" and Somerset,
Gron, J.;verpool, their fall supply of PLAINS,
KERSEYS. WHITE and COLORED BLANK
E-rS. WHITE, RED, BLUE and GREEN
FI .ANNEI, BI.ANKETING, Guernsey Shirts,
Kilmarnock Caps, Scotch Bonnets, &C., &c, ex,
pressv suited to our Southern Planters trade, and
10 an inspection Of which, they confidently IN
yite ali who visit the Charleston Market.
C. e. T.. l.. KERRlSoN a. W,
200 King ST., northwest cor. hing @ Marhe' s'S'
Cbarlsstong Sept B.
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VOL III
FOR CALIFORNIA.
UNITED STATES MAIL STE M SHIP
COMPANY THROUGH PASSAGE TO
CALIFORNIA


TIME public will be gratfed TO learn that the
United States Mail Steamship Company en-
abled to announce that their arrangements are now
complete for sending passengers through from
New York to San Francisco and back
In the first attempts of this Company to meet
the wants Of travel TO California, by providing
ships on the Pacific, in connection with their
ships from New York to Chagres, they were pre-
vailed upon, at the urgent solicitation of the great
number then desrous TO go out, to sell tickets for
through passages from Panama in advance, for
their ships then going round This was done
from desire to accommodate those who could
procure passages III no other quarter, and by
which, whatever might be the detention, they
would reach San Francisco sooner than by any
other line Unforeseen difficulties, and the preva-
lence Of fever at Rio de Janelro at the time, pre-
vented their ships from reaching Panama as soon
as anticipated, and caused detention at the 18TH
mus, which was increased by the impatence of
passengers in going forward, against the advice
Of the Company, at an earlier day than the ship
could possibly reach Panama.
These interruptions are now all removed
Three of the four ships Of the Company, intended
for the Pacific service, have arrived at Panama,
and several of them have performed trips to San
Francisco and back. So that the Company are
now able to give the public the assurance that the
voyage through from New York to San Fran
cisco, will be performed with regularity and des-
patch. -
Their Pacific Line, from Panama to San Fran
cisco, consists of the
REPUBLIC, Capt. HupsoN.
ITHMUS, Capt. HITcHcocK.
COLUMBUS, Capt. PECK.
ANTELOPE, Capt. AcKLEY
Their Atlantic and Gulf Line, from New York
to Chagres, Of the
GEORGIA, Capt. Porter, U. 5. N.
OHIO, Capt. ScHENcK, U. ). N
FALCON, Capt. HARrsrEM, U. s. N.
The connection between the two lines VIII be
carefully and regularly kept up, so that no delay
beyond the usual stay of the ship IN port at Pana-
ma, will arise.
The large size, well known speed, and superior
accommodations of their New York and Chagres
Line, and the speed and accommodations OF the
ships of their Pacific Line, offer the most certain,
rapid, and pleasant through passage to California
M. o. ROBERTS,
Cor Warren and West sts., New York.
Aug. l5-lm
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Freight to New Orleans 80 cents per cubic foot
Freight to- Havana will be taken in limited
quantity at reasonable rates.
Passengers for Chagres will be transferred at
Havana to the new and splendid steamship PA
CIFIC.
10 secure freight or passage, apply at the Office
OF the company, II West street, corner Of War
rem steet, to M o. ROBERTS.
SPECIAL NorIcE is given TO shippers by this
line, that the company have prepared form Of
bill of lading adapted to their business, which will
be furnished to shippers application at the
company's Office, and with which they are re-
quested to provide themselves, as no other form
will be signed by the agents of the company. All
bills of adng must be signed before the sailing OF
vessel ,sy0ec. Z, 1850.
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MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THE STATE OF
SOUTH CAROLINA.

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THE STATE OF
SOUTH CAROLINA.
I,HE Annual COURSE OF LECTURES IN thus
Institution will commence on the hrst .honday
i'm November next, on the following branches;
Anatomy, by ]. Holbrook, M. ~
Institutes and Practice of Medicine, by S Hen
ry Dickson, M. ID.
Surgery, by E. Geddings, M. ID.
Physiology, by James Moultrie, M. ID.
Matera Medica by Henry r.. Frost, NJ ID.
Obstetrics, by Thos. g. Prioiaau, M. ID.
Chemistry, by c.. u. Shepard, M. d.
Demonstrator of Anoiomy, ST. Julian Ravene,
M. ID.
DIR. d. J. Cain, Physician to The Marine Hog
pital and Clinical Instructor. Lectures twice a
week on the Diseases Of thut Institution.
DIR. +. b. Flagg, Physician 70 the Aims House
lectures twice week on Diseases.
Demonstrntive instruction in Medicine and Sur
gerry at the College Hospital.
HENRY r FROST, M. D., Dean.
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COTTON STATISTICS

The PAST, THE PRESENT AND THE FUrURE.--Of
the cotton trade, from the London Economist,
August "a, 1880 :" IL is calculated that upwards
of 1900, 600 persons depend entirely upon this
trnde In all lis bra anches.N " American cotton crop
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Average I,635,596 Average 2,25l,3l5
Average crop Of the last seven years exceeds
that the prior 6I5,7l9 bnles, and the crop Of the
last just double that OF the frst--end the crop of
ls45-9 was more than 1867 by fifty per cent,
Average consumption in Great Britain of Ameri-
can cotton the first years 1,I53,219 bales
The ID period of years Lag 1913 bales.
Largest consumption, lS4o, 1,5S6,6Os bales.
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WAsuNcros, ID. c., june, 1850
FOR RENT

ToII 8 "a FOR RENT.
kxA THE HOUSE now occupied by MR.
M SpRIGG, on Capitol Hill Carroll iisce
Immediate possession given. ToP gooo ten
n.nt the terms will be rsasonsble. Apply 70
Jan lT--J hhtS' w. """"N