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BEEBE's NEW YORK HATs!u

CTEVENS, No. |, Bro,on's Hotel, has Just re-
- ceived further and full supply Of Beebe Is
Hats. Also, complete assortment of his own
make, of every quality and style. Gentlemen
wishing Hats Of fancy shapes can have their or
STEVENS great Hat, Cap, and
Gents Quitting Establishment, No. Brown
Hotel.
Nov. 30-6tif Qntel Repub. Union.)
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yYTILLIAM TUCKER, MERCHANT TAILOR,
w (of the late firm of Lane e. Tucker,) would
call the attention of his friends and the public gen
orally 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 respectfully and earnestly so
oore purchasing, as am confident it will be to
heir advantage.
And would especially call the attention of Of
hcers, both Of the army and the navy, to the fact
thai am prepared execute all kinds OF uniforms,
according to the late regulations, at the shortest
notice. and at moderate prices, warranted, both IN
the cutting and making departments, equal to any
establishment in this country
w. T. tenders his sincere thanks to his numer-
GUS friends for theirlong and continued patronage,
and hopes, by the same diligence and attention 10
business, to merit continuance OF the same.
All orders promptly executed.
sep 20--3tW3w-d&trW
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WILL be opened at Mrs. S. Parker's, on Sat
w urday, 23d inst, at 10 o'clock A. M in the
new store under the National Hotel, rich assert
ment Of Winter Millinery, consisting Of Hats,
Caps, Head-Dresses, Feathers, Florences, Rib
bons, &c. &c. PARIER'S
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DRESS COMBS.--We are just opening MI
| other and prettier assortment Of those hand
some Rope and Chain pattern Shell and Buffalo
Dress Tuck Combs; prices from 81 to 800 eacn
Also, 200 different patterns Spanish Dress Fan;
Laces from rs cents to $40 each.
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lost

ON the Avenue yesterday, a letter envelope
containing fifty dollars, in FIVE ten dollar bills Of
the bank of Selden Withers q Co.-aiso draft
for fftv dollars on Corcoran & Riggs.
Ths6nder will be literally rewarded on lenaA,s
il at this Office.
March S, 1852.
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NEW FANCY GOODS

WILL BE RECEIVING every day during
w next week, a beautiful assortment Of Fanny
Goods suitable for PRESENTS, &c Also d
large assortment of fresh Perfumery, Pomatums,
Soaps, Hair washes, and every article pertaining
to the toilet. PARkERS' Periumery ana
Fancy Store, Penn. av., near National Hotel
sep2l-3td
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Inducements for Clubbing.

Any person who will send us four subscribers
for six months, at regular rates, shall be en-
titled to one copy for the same length Of time; or
we will furnish
10 copies for mos, $S Is copies for l2 mos. 500
10 do IL Is 20 do IL 4" %
Southern and Western money taken at par for
subscriptions or Post Office Stamps taken at
their full value.
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T e II M 8.


For Farmer Guide Complete in % Nos) 500
(Payn,ents TO be made in all cases in .qduance)
CLUBBING.
A discount of twenty-five 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 to one address foA$9 copies
of the four Reviews and Blackwood for $50 and
so
*.*Orders from Clubs must be sent direct to the
publishers, as no discount from these prices can be
allowed to Agents. !,
Money, current in the States where issued, vii
he received at par.
ISRemihances and communications should be
always addressed, postpaid or franked, to the
Publishers.
LEONARD SCOTT & co,
rs Fulton STREET, New York,
Entrance 81 Gold st
n+Subscrptions received in Washington by
Frank Taylor, Taylor & Maurey, and w. Adam,
booksellers.
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PREMIUM.

entitled to copy Of the 4" History of Propellers
and Steam Navigation" republished in book form
now in press, to be ready about the first Of Oc-
tober 1t will be one of the most complete works
upon the subject ever issued, and will contain
about ninety engravings
Oct. eft
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PAPERS MiSLAlD.

DIAPERS in the case of Thomas Crown, govern
ment contractor for brick, &c The finder will
De literally rewarded by restoring them to the
office Of the Ne.ionnl Hotel, or TO me
BEVERLEY TUCKER.
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National Medical College, Washington,
District Of Columbia
rHIIE annual course of lectures will commence
L on the first Monday in November, the 4th
Instant
FACULTY.
Thos. Miller, M. D., Professor of Anatomy and
Physiology.
VIM p. Johnson, M. D., Professor of Obste-
tries and the diseases OF women and children
Joshua Riley, M. D., Professor Of Materia
Medical Therapeutics, and Hygiene
John Frederick May, M. d., Professor of Sur
gerry.
Grafton Tyler, M. D., Professor OF Pathology
and Practice of Medicine.
Robert King Stone, M. D., Adjunct Professor
of Anatomy and Physoogy.
Edward Foreman, M. D., Professor of Chem
istry and Pharmacy.
James e. Morgan, M. D., Prosecutor and DEM
onstrator.
Clinical lectures three times a week, on cases
selected from the Washington Iniirmary. Ope-
ration performed before the class.
For a full course Of Lectures $50
Demonstrators t.----, III
Graduation fee 20
Good board can be procured at from ~ to 80
per week.
JOSHUA RILEY, M. D.,
Sep 3-2awtNovlif Dean of the Faculty.
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EVENING DRESS FANS.

EVENING DRESS FANS.
100 newest patterns Evening Dress Fans
HUI (spanish) mounted in Pearl, Iyo ,Sy
P.nier msche, Just opened at PARKER'S
faacy and Psrfumsry Store, under tbs IVA
Hotel
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WANTED TO PURCHASE
krA> A SMALL HOUSE on Capitol Hill, con
M;:S tanning six or seven rooms, with consider
able ground attached.-Apply at this Office.
Oct. l6-3t.
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nAcIFIc MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY

/ ONLY through line for California and Ore
gon. THE public are informed that under the
new arrangement Of this Company, steamers in
spected and approved by the Navy Department,
and carrying the United States mails, will con-
tinue to leave Panama and San Francisco the LIST
and 5th DAYS of each month, unless detained by
unavoidable accident, and will touch Acapulco,
San Diego, and Monterey.
The following steam packets belonging to the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, are now in the
Pacific, one of which will be always in port at
each end of the route
OREGON 1909 tons. REPUBLIC L. 200 tons
PANAMA. 1887 tons. CAROLINA 600 tons.
CALIFORNIA 1850 tons. COLUMBUS. 600 tons.
TENNESSEE 1900 tons. lsTHMus - tons.
NoRrHERNER 200 tons. UNICORN. GOO tons.
COLUMBIA SOU tons. FREMONT 0uU tons.
ANTELOPE. = tons go
The new steamship COLUMBIA will ply be-
tween San Francisco and ports IN Oregon, await
ing at the former port the arrival OF the mails and
passengers from Panama, and returning without
delay with the mails and passengers for the steam
or from San Francisco.
A regular line of propellers will be kept up for
the transportation Of freight and transient passen-
gers between Panama and San Francisco.
The well known steamship SARAH SANDS,
Of 800 tons burthen, now under charter to the
company and peculiarly commodious in her cabin
arrangements, win be kept running as an extra
family boat.
One of the above steamers will keep up the con-
nection between Acapulco and the other Mexican
ports1
| The connection in the Atlantic will be main
tanned by the United States mail steamships
| Georgia 5000 tons. CRESCENT Cry l 800 tons.
Omo I. 1900 tons. CHEROKEE 1900 tons
EMpIRECIrY2, 900 tons. PHILADELPHIA !, 100 tons
| Leaving New York for Chagres on the llth
and Goth Of each month.
The new steamships Ell DORADO and FAIL
CON will form direct line between New Or
leans and Chagres, leaving at such periods as will
insure as little detention possible on the 18TH
mus, and forming with the Pacific steamships o
through line to and from New Orleans, and ports
| in Mexico, California and Oregon. Passages from
New Orleans can be secured from Armstrong
Lawrason & Co., agents, at that place.
| The fare for through tickets from New York tC
San Francisco has been reduced from
$780, in state rooms, to $3.50.
$780, in lower cabin, to $500.
5000, in Storage, to SlG5.
The rates from New York to Chagres will III
at the lowest adopted by any safe sea steamer be
tween those ports.
For choice of berths, apply at the Office Of thu
company, 81 and So South street, and at thei
agency, III West street.
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.,
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THE STATE OF
SOUTH CAROLINA.
HyHE Annual COURSE OF LECTURES in this
Institution will commence on the first Monday
in November next, on the following branches:
Anatomy, by J. Holbrook, NJ d.
Institutes and Practice of Medicine, by s Hen
nv Dickson, M. d.
Surgery, by E. Geddings, M. d..
Physiology, by James Moultrie, NJ ID.
Materia Medica, by Henry r. Frost, M. d.
Obstetrics, by Thos. G.. Prjoleau, M. ID.
Chemistry, by C. u. Shepard, M. D.
Demonstration of Anat"my, st. Julian Ravenel,
M. ID.
DIR. ID. J. Cain, Physician to the Marine Hos-
pital and Clinical Instructor. Lectures twice q
week on the Diseases of thut Institution.
Dr. E. b. Flagg, Physician to the Aims House
Lectures twice week on Diseases.
Denonstrative Instruction IN Medicine and Sur
gerry at the College Hospital.
HENRY r FROST, M. ID j., Dean.
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Average I,635,596 AVerase z'z'1'1!'
Average crop of the last seven years exceeds
,,.t The prior 6l5,7I9 bales, and the crop of the
double that s,o of as st. ss e ssSp of
Average consumption in Great Britain of Ameri.
car cotton the FIRST 7 years 1,153, 2l9 bales
The Cd period of years ,449 1913 bales
LARGEST consumption, Is 1885, sos bales
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MEMORIAL,

tn m, Senate and House of Representatives offhe
United States in Congress assembled The memo
rial of the undersigned respectfully represents that
they are entitled to Bounty Land, under the act
of 18th Of September, $780, that they are informed
and believe that the INDICATED warrants are worth
more to them than the patented lands would De-
land thus granted; that if patented to them. the
expense of agencies and taxes will be an animal
charge, reducing the value of the grant, which
they could avoid if permitted to sell the warrant
Your memorialists further represent that the law.
by preventing the sale of the warrants, assun e
that the officers and volunteers entitled to bounty
lands. are not competent to act for themselves,
whereas many of them among the most intel
lieent and respectable citizens of the States. They
therefore respectfully ask that the act aforesaid
NAV he so modified as to make the warrants for
bounty lands assignable, and they will ever
pray, &c.
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FALL, MILLINERY.

MRS PARKER will open on Wednesday 10th
wi inst, a few cases Of French Hats. Also
beautiful assortment of Ribbons, Feathers, Flow
srs &c, &C.. Penn. az. under, N Hotel
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TO EDITORS OF NEWSPAPERS.

WE beg leave to call your attention to an ad
w 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 u.s. We will allow you one half our
usual fee, which is fpe dollars for obtaining war;
rant for l6O acres, and three dollars for warrant
Of eighty acres or less, for publishing our adver-
tisement, and preparing and forwarding the papers
to US.
n you accep. 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 adj
yertisemert of Messrs. Duff Green, Ben. +
Green, and Richard Fl. Clarke, Attorneys ana
Agents at Washington, D. c., and would say
persons having claims for Bounty Lands or Pen
sions, that we have made arrangements for the
requisite forms, and that claimants calling at our
office can have their papers properly prepared and
forwarded to these gentlemen at Washington,
who will properly attend to them in their proper
Offices"
Please get each claimant to sign the memorial,
and forward it to your member of Congress.
Please send us a copy Of your paper containing
our card, which will notify us that you accept on
,ronosition. DUFF GREEN,
BEN. E. GREEN,
RlCH'D Fl. CLARKE
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THE PAST, THE PRESENT AND THE FUrURE.--Of
the cotton trade, from the London Economist,
August "a, 1850. cit is calculated that upwards
of 4,O00,000 persons depend entirely upon this
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,97l 1880, 959 II, $780, 900

The surrender of CORVALLIS at Yorktown, DC
tober 1871, closed the war; prisoners 1913.
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s5,752 British taken prisoners.

'5,752 British taken prisoners.
3. CONTINENTAL MONEY
Amount issued in ITS 5 1900 900
:" 1777 10000, 900
&C in all to July, 1899 358,000,000
The whole expenses of the war, estimated in
specie, amounted to $l35, 1885, 03.
COTTON STATISTICS.
We compile from the New York Shipping List
and Price Current, of the llth September, the fol-
lowing statement, showing the crop of Cotton in
the several States for the year ending 3Ist August
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DIRECT IMPORTATIONS
4 II SH LIN IL N ;.

rTNHE subscribers constantly receiving direct
from the manufacturers, MADETO THEIR
ORDER, and expressly adapted to the Southern
trade, and to which they with confidence invite
the attention OF purchasers, with guarantee that
the goods will be found PURE Flax, to wit:
Shifting and Fronting Linens and Lawns
Pillow Case, Coatee, and Sheeting Linens
Russia, Birds Eye, and Huckaback Diapers
Reached and Brown Table Damasks, of as
sorted widths
Damask Doylies, Napkins and Cloths, Of varl-
Gus sizes
Dowlass, Glass Cloths, Black, Whte& Brown
Holland
Lady's, Gents, and Chidren's Linen Cambria
Handkerchief, etc. etc.
C. g. T.. l.. KERRISON e. co.
209 King street, Charleston, S. c.
Gan Z I850--3m
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syrayico ngol CAL COLLEGE OF OHIO,

Office F: Pennsylvania Avenue, next to Jackson
" Washington.
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gagged to him, she discarded him for another,
which he took so much to heart that he quit
ted all society and soon rctreated into the
depths OF the wild forest never to return"
Some months after his disappearance Stev-
ems was found dead by two hunters on the
banks Of the stream and buried near bv on
the spot where his bones were found in the
manner we have mentioned. His body Law
resting on an old log on the bank, beneath
which was deep cove favorable to fishing.
A fish pole equipped with hook and line, lay
by his side. In his rude shantv, a rod dis
tant, were found his gun and steel trap. On
a pointed knot, on spruce tree close bv. were
strung a few furs, while over some charrctl
wood. or brands, before the door of the shan
t!y, hung small kettle partly filled with Wa
ter and medicinal herbs And these were all
the facts ever discovered to show the manner
OF the life and death Of the poor self-banishet
Stevens, who cropped, siokencd aali died, Of
a broken heart it was SAID, alone in the DARK
and drcarv wiiderncss.-Fre,man.
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possibly be devised. Such teachers as N!-C
will prerent, what a thousand Judges and law
yers could not cure. Who nccd ever fear
that children thus early trained to act iust!v
and honorably. will be found in poor-house,
and pcnitent;aries. How many watchmcn
would it have required TO preserve Mrs
fruit Yet few words from Mr. c., prevent
cd the least trespass upon it.
One of the grandest features of our State, is
its system of public schools. 1t excels its ca
mails and railroads, 1t is the personification
OF republicanism. lis results on public NOR
ais will be incaIculablc. lately heard a pa
rent say he could not think of sending his
son to district school. He wanted him to
associate with the sons of gentlemen. 1t so
happens that the 10y with whom Mr. C.. has
had the most trouble is the ''son Of a gentle
man" The children of common proole'
come to school to learn. not to show their in
dependence and want Of control. ami from
this class OF youth, supplied by the District
School with the means Of education. will
spring most Of our useful citizens and our en-
lncnt men, leaving far behind them those
who, born TO a fortune or reared in luxury,
have had no stimulus to their genius, or spun
TO their ministry
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WHOLE No. 75t.

ever, and Soa!t, a'ie- various rclulses, ea,e
up the command aud returned 30 Paris.
On the restoration ot I,a;S NNIiI. Sarlt
gave his adhesion 10 rotaiiy, was rrriinne,i
in hi> rank AMI titles, ar,,l made l!1,ii>t, OF
War On he return ci NAPOLEON from iibs
he accepted a seat in the Chamber Q, Peers.
lie fought for the En.r:oc IN the last Of his
coniilri>,-H Haterl"o-lat milh !,ss dis,inc-
non than wa> expected fro,n lis former re-
nown, ami .!> nam" wa> et.t,red I'm The rrrp-
>c'lbcd h>t "i the 2iih oI ,July, I-l5. Upon
lhe final li'G!ca'ion of' i6o,.a;aric, So-it re-
. tired 10 the Ducly ot B,.rs-slle native coan-
try vf MS wi:e-sherc he ren.,ii.ei several
years. In 1920 ne received the permission
ot the king 10 return to France when hiS
marshal, staff WIS restored to HIM On the
dedication and fight q Charles y, in $3.50,
Soait gave hi> adhesion 10 the new order nf
things, ami on ia" l4ih u August MAS called
into the cabinet OF Loni> ihii!irpc-N r.
.,,s,.y-.
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STEVENS BRANCH.

The large tributary Of Onion river which
flows from the western slopes of the highlands
of Orange County, and enptics into that
stream two miles above Montpelier village, is
called Stevens Branch. Some. but not all
the circumstances connected with the mclan-
chov fate of the man from whom the name
OF the stream was derived are to be found in
Thompson's invaluable Gazetteer, under the
head OF Berlin. Well does the writer of this
article remember listening with feelings of
mysterious dread, -" hen small boy 10 the
remarks he often heard about the dead
man" that lay buried somewhere on his faith
crs farm, near the mouth of this quiet stream
And still more wildly does he recall the
scene, when subsequently his !athcr,in break
ING upa balk on the bank, turned out, with
the plow->harc, some strange looking bones,
which, he said, as he revercntly drove his
team aside. ''must be the bones OF poor Stev-
ems, the hunter. who died, it was said, near
the spot About mid way of the bones We
found a large Jack knife, nearly cat up with
the rust, Indicating the man was buried in his
clothes, and that his knife was in his Jacket
pocket. This was all that was then discover
: ed going to show any peculiarity attending
his death or burial; but subsequent enquire:
among the Old first settlers put us in possess.
ion of the romantic particulars Of his fate
which was once the theme of many a sad, fire
side comment in the then frontier settlemen
on Connecticut river, (which he had 50 strange
" left for some unknown retreat in the wild
crness. Stevens was a resident of Eewbury
VT, carpenter by trade, a fine social youn!
man. and much esteemed by all who knew
him. Il can remember, as of Yesterday" sal,
one of the most minute OF our informants,
spriehtly Old lady of nearly ninety, 'goin:
into his shop with other little girls, all thel
living in his cighborhood in Newburv, whel
he would p!ayfulIy decorate our heads will
fcstoons OF the long, ribon like sha,inss tha
came from his plane. lie was good an'
lively Young man-thc ltc>t OF the settle
r,c".' 10y. .kc~c 'r2s > 4" lle r-s. VII b.o,.
..l9l :" h., WORTH nd tiei.h -o'.Hu,v N
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DEATH OF MARSHAL SOULT.

Recent foreign news brig accoun, Of IL"
death OF the la-t OF the renowned Narslla,s o;
France under Naroi,on-,Ican De Dicu Souii
Duke of DllnIaIia, and Minister of War
during the rrisn of LouiS Pii.lipre. Mar
>ha! Snu!t WIS bora in I.G9. the same wear
as Eapo.r"n, ami Was consequently in the
SD year OF hl- aye lie was the son of hum
he parents, re>iiin" at ST AnIanrl. in the
Depart fmcnt Of the Tarn, and at ,lr,. ace ot'
ID entered tie ScrIirc as private Un,!.r
.ioehc and .I"urlan. b>ng then !i..utcnant.
he distinguished himself Is his bravery and
discretion. With We're striAinsiy DISPLAYED at
the battle OF Firuru>. In 1894 lie l,camc
chief ui the staff Ia zen. Lcicbrc. who head
ed the advanced guar! OF the a.mv oi the
IoSclie.
In l795 he was appointed General OF Brir-
ade-hcing then not - years of agc-and
.l"lncd the army OF Italy. He afterwards
was entrusted with tlie command of the Con
>uar Guard, and thencctorward was hunored
with the personal esteem Of Napoleon.
N-hap III. ;o,.,.;.,, -.
tempiat,d SmJt had ,,,r.,. Of ,ho ~
r,mnrd trom Rnloc,. % C,,,;.
,t tho memorable l,.., ,.ou,;,l.
commanded III. ,..r,.r o, H., ,u,,. ,,,,,:
plav.J surh skill IN ,br,r,;nc ,nd fn,,,, -
peIlip0 the Russians in IN ;r.,or,,n, r,o,,
mept. that Ron,n,r,e rod. ~, - HIM and :,
presence of his s,,,r s,;5 .>r,r.h.I
couDt ven the ,hlest tact;,;,n :, ~, rr,,;o p,
He WI. co:,,Iv ,,I;,,, ,,ro, H., f.3, -, l..
Ian and MAS >bo,,Iv ,f,or ,b,, ..ua;.,
,loorD,,n,,.;.
R,,t !, ,,
sk;II w,s .r,,i,;.,, :, ,r, =. 5.,
wbor. T.; .,Io.. ,u ,, =.
,ooo Lo ., G. y