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LlFE OF JOHN RANDOLPH

d. Appleton d Co., 200 BrSHdaoay Iyero York
Have now ready the fourth edition.
T IFE OFJOHN RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE
Ia BY Hugh A. Garland. Two volumes I2mo
Portraits; 81 so.
Mr.. Garland has given us daguerreo.ype of
character more eccentric and variable than IRA
nus itself, and wlthal, two volumes of exceedingly
choice historical reading. "-[ Republic
The biography of Randolph has greater charms
than the most exciting fiction. - Charleston, Mer
curry
"a good life of this remarkable man has n
been desired, Mr.. Garland has furnished an ex
remeiy readaoie book, the two volumes not only
contain the history of his life, and analysis of il.
character, but an interesting account of the poll
tics and the public men of the day. ~ Crescent.
Since kennedys life of William Writ we
have had no biography, certainly no American BIZ
osraphy, which will at all compare in interest with
this work. 1t must be read by multitudes with in
tense interest. "-[ .Neloark Daily advertiser
MIR, Garland has made good use of his mare
rial, and has given striking and accurate por
tralture OF the cratic and brilliant subject of his
pen. "--[Nslo Orleans Della
" This book ILLS blank in the biographical no
tees OF distinguished Americans. The two vol
umes gives us a faithful account Of his whole ca
reer, an analysis of his celebrated speeches. &c -
philadelphia Enquirer
as biography, 1t is marked by directness
and unity of purpose, and by comprehensiveness
and variety OF manner ri Boston Post.
1t IS one OF the most interesting American BIZ
ographies with which we are acquainted ''-[ Eue
ming Post.
Ahe work is written in on easy and beautiful
style, and IS replete with striking passages The
author is Intimately acquainted with American
literature, and the great men who, at different
times, have played distinguished part in the
drama of the Republic 1t forms valuable add-
non to our national history. "-Democraiic Repep
March lid .tw-w
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An association OF sxty-three Members OF Congress,
Senators and Representatis bAve constituted the
undersigned a Committee to superintend the esta-
blishment of Southern Press at Washington Clty,
TO be devoted TO the exposition and defence OF South
ern. RIGHTS and instituGons-the dissemination of
correct information as to NortheIh foiicy3 ana the
course of Political affairs generally, withoureierence
to the oisi party lines of Wing and Democrat Ar
engagements are now in progress, promptly TO ensure
the issue OF such paper under the title OF
1.-THE SOUTHERN PRESS"
for the conduct of which, suitable Editors have been
engaged who will also receive the AID OF number
OF eminent and and able contributors
There will be daily, tri-weekly, and a weekly
ss,leihe latter to contain substantially, the
matter as the former, and intended TO reach those
points of the country whose mail facilities limited
The paper will not be exclusively polltical-but
will embrace ON its broad sheet the General News of
the day, Domestic and Foreign, by mail and tele-
graph !; Commercial and Agricultural Intelligence,
Literary Criticisms Original Essays, Literary and
Miscellaneous; and, in short, all those items Of
general interest the collected aggregate of which
constitutes the interesting and valuable Newspa-
per- Great care will be taken to give full and cor
rect Reports of the Proceedings and Debates IN both
Houses of Congress, as well the action of the
local Legislatures on the southern question.
A limited number only of Advertisements will be
eceived-the main object being to furnish large
amount of reading matter
The paper viii be printed sheet equal in size
to those OF the other Washington papers, and the
teria will be procured especially for the purpose.
II is confidently hoped that every true friend to the
South viii aid in procuring subscribers, and forward
the names, with the amount subscribed, to some
Southern Representative at Washington, forthwith.
Postmasters are authorised by law to remit sub
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The THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME
OF THE

~ a f>fNN Ii IEHARY GAZETTE,
,oe w as commenced ON Saturday, the 4th of May
1850, under its original name-instead of RicLay,ls
WeeEfy Gazehe-as more significant of its peculiar
character, 1t beng the only weekly organ OF itera
ture in the entire SOUTH It's
Greatly Enlarged and hnproped,
Containing weekly 'Thirty-two Columns Of
matter. 1t IS, moreover IN an
Entirely .Neau Dress
from head to foot, and upon beaunf,,, ,rn,,.
paper, SO that, IN mechanical excellence, il is NOT
surpassed by any paper whatever in the United
States! 1t continues under the same Editor;,.
direction as heretofore, and no pains or expense
Will be spared to make it
n Choice Family Newspaper.
as cheap as the cheapest, and as good MS III,
best! Utterly discardihg the notion that a
southern Journal cannot compete with the North
erh weehHes, IN cheapness and interest,
The Southern Literary Gasrits
ilssus the pest OF them IN all the chaacterstics of
truly valuable Preside Journal. Ita aim is the
diffusion of cultivated and refined taste tbrough.,,,
the communicated it embraces il, lis amnls
folds ever species Of intelligence that can tend TO
this result ~
Original Contributions.
from many OF the abest writers in the Son,b
chlehy occupy Its columns, but not to the exc,u
SION VI cholce miscellany, selected fom the best
American and European sources
The tone OF the "Gazette, is indenenden, :.
criticism and IN the discussion of every legitimate
topic, but 1t is strictly 70 '''''~
Neutral IN Politics and Relssions
It's columns are occasionally embeIIished with
Southern Portraits and Lo,,dscapss
engraved expressly for the work, and accompa-
med by biographical and typographical sketches
IT'S General Information
is coplous, but carefully condensed from ,h.
leading journals OF all parts of the world ~
Notwithstanding the great increase in the siz q
ana attractions OF the paper, it is still published
=, itoo Dollars Per .innum, in .4apance!
~ VIII be furnished to persons becoming respon
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them sent IN to one address, on the following terms
Three copies,.. AS
Five copies,
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rs All orders must be accompanied with the
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N. TNNMPSON,

.aTTOR.NEY AND COUNSELLOR 1T Law
COMMISSIONER of Deeds ofNorth and South
" Carolina Agent for Revolutionary Pension
Claims, Bounty Lands, and every other descrp
ton OF CLAIMS against the various Departments of
the General Government and before Congress-
Also, Agent for the British Commercial Life In
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III Office one door Vest of Jackson Hall, Penn
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L. ). Refer, If necessary, to the Heads of De-
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WILLIAM AND MI RY COLLEGE.


THE next annual sess of this Institution will
commence on the Cd Wednesday in October
FACULTY.
The Right Rev JOHN JOINS, d. D.. President
and Professor of Moral Philosophy
Judge BEVERLY Tucker, Professor of Municipal
and Constitutional Law.
BENJAMIN S. EwELL, Professor of Mathematics
and Astronomy
MoRGAN j. SmEAD, Phi. D. Professor of HUI
manity.
WILLIAM f. HoPKINs, A. M, Professor
Chemistry and Natural Philosophy.
III. A. WASHINGTON, A. M Professor of His
tory and Political Economy.
Rev. SEAS ToTTEN, d. D., Professor of Intel
lectual Philosophy, Bellies Lettres, and Rhetoric.
There are two courses of study for undergrad
uates-the regular course for the degree of Bach
elor of Arts, and Science course, occupying two
years. Candidates for admission to the Science
course will be expected to produce the written
quest of their parent or guardians. Students not
desiring to join regular class may, for special
reasons, be admitted to study with the regular
classes, in those branches which, on examination,
they may be found qualified to pursue.
The necessary College expenses range between
1886 and Sl96 per annum.
Circulars will be forwarded to all who may de-
sire fuller information, specific inquiries will be
answered, if addressed to Professor MORGAN
SMEAp, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Students, not desiring to attend either the Reg
ular or the Science course, will be permitted to
study with any class which they may be prepared
to join
July Isl aw.
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A NEW SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE
ENCOURAGE HOME INDUSTRY.

THE ILLUSTRATED FAMILY FRIEND,
A new and elegant paper, published at Col
"a umbia, South Carolina, and Edited by s. A
Goldman, solicIts examination and challenges
with any Northern paper
1t is large sheet, magni6cently printed upon
splendid paper, contains Original Tales, Sketches,
News, Poetry, Agricultural Articles, and what
ever else that will interest an intelligent commu-
nifty besides, four elegant Engravngs each
week. Terms, 50 per annum address,
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ing in numbers, 20 he competed in twenty-five
parts. Subscriptions taken, and the work supplied
oy
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DErARrMrNr nF SrArr

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, June 8; 1850
SIR have duly received your letter of the 9th
ulhmo, communicating to this Department the pro
ceedings of the National Institute the subject of my
note of the 18th of the month. Those proceed
ings appear to me to be perfectly satisfactory and
have accordingly transmitted them to the British Min
lister in this city, with the communication copy Of
which is enclosed for your information.
am, sir, respectfully, your ob't serv't,
JOHN M. CLAYTON.
WALTER N. JOHNSON, Esq, Corresponding
Secretary of the National Institute.
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~ j. Knox Walker,
attorney at Lac and General agent.
OFFER his services in his profession and as
W Agent for the Prosecution and Collection of
Claims before Congress and the Departments also for
obtaining Patents.
All business con6dea to him Will be promptlyst
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DEPARTMENT. OF STATE,


SIR have the honor TO transmit to you herewith
a copy of the correspondence which has passed be-
tween this Department and the National Institute for
the Promotion OF Science, respecting the organization
of committee to constitute the central authority re-
quired by the regulations 1.-THE Royal Commission en-
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AND THE
BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEWS.
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nWING to the late revolutions and counter-revo-
~ lutions among the nations of Europe, which have
followed each other in quick succession and OF which
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est hitherto unknown They occupy middle
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imperfect records OF the newspapers, and the elabo
rate and ponderous reases to be furnished by the his
torian at future day. The American Publishers,
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they are offered to subscribers. The following is
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AND
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dicals' Blaclwood " and the &C London Quarterly y
are Tory the &C Edinburgh Review" Wing; and
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variety Of fine black, and blue cloth Caps for gen
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terest, from choice, they are Southern men. Their
defence of Southern rights is defence of them
selves and all they hold dear-that it has been
warm unremIting, and as far as their capacity al
lowed, vigorous, no man who has read their sheet
Will deny. 10 doubt that it will continue to be
so ID to presume that the principles and ideas
which have been instilled into them from their
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u ENLARGEMENT OF THE CAPITOL
~ The Committee on Public Buildings of the
Senate, having been authorized by resolution of
that body, " TO invite plans accompanied bv esti-
mates for the extension of the Capitol, and to al
low a prem:-nn Of five hundred dollars for the
plan which may be adopted by the Committees on
Public Buildings of the two Houses Of CONGRESS-. -
accordingly invite such plans and estimates, to be
delivered to the Secretary of the Senate on or be-
fore the first day Of December next
1t is required that these plans and estimates
shall provide for the extension of the Capitol,
either by additional wings, to be placed on the
north and south of the present building or bv the
erection of separate and distinct building, within
the enclosure 10 the east of the building.
The committee do not desire to prescribe anv
condluon, that may restrain the free exercise of
architectural taste and judgment, but they would
prefer, that whatever plan NAV be proposed noov
have such reference to and correspondence with
the present building to preserve the general
symmetry of the entire structure, when complete
Although but one plan can be adopted the com
mltee reserve to themselves the right to form such
plan by the adoption of parts of different plans
submitted, should such course be found necessaru; in
which event, the committee also reserve to them
selves the right to divide or apportion, according
TO their own Judgment, the amount of premium 10
be awarded for the whole, to those whose plans
may in part be adopted, according to the relative
Importance and merit of each part adopted
X. M t. HUNTER,
JEFFERSON DAVIS,
JOHN II. CLARKE,
Committee Of the Senate on Public Buildings
SENATE CHAMBER, Both September, 1850.
IN, The several daily papers published at
Washington will please insert the above daily for
two weeks, and send their accounts to the Secre-
tary of the Senate oct
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PENSIONS AND BOUNTY LAND
OBTAINED for the officers and soldiers of the
" Revolutionary war, or their legal representa-
tives
Pensions for life, for the widows of such
GERS ana soldiers who married previous to 1900
Bounty land for the surviving, or the widows,
or minor children Of deceased officers and privaes,
who served in the war CT 1912 with Great Bri-
tain, the Mexican war, or in any of the Indian
wars. since 1880
Afternoon paid to suspended s1d rejected claims
Terms moderate, where the claim is established,
otherwise no charge
communications addresses, 20 the subscriber,
washington, ID. @, will receive prompt attention
M. THOMPSON,
Commissioner Of Deeds for North and South
Carolina.
Refer to the heads of Departments, and to
members of Congress generally.
Oct 4---twtf
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10 Southern Gentlemen or Literary la
Sfifufionu

"A young man, graduate of St Mary's Col
"A iege, Baltimore, wishes to obtain as ituatiop
as Assistant in an Academy, or Private Tutor
Heis qualified to teach the highest branches OF
Greek, Latin, French, Natural Philosophy, Che.
mstry, Mathematics and English Literature
The highest testimonials character and quar-
hcations can be produced. Address, post-pAi..
G x x Post Otice Baltmo<s NJ
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y A. PRINGLE, No 80, East Bay street
lo, Charleston, South Carolina. Importer o
French CALF SKINS; Manufacturers Agen,
and Dealer in BROGslyA,S, BOOTS and SHOES,
Advances made on consignment of Brogans OF
southern Manufacture. Parties wishing to con-
sign, viii send samples of their make, und on re.
ceipt OF their consignment, a liberal cnsh adyau
VIII be made. Information promptly impaired.
as to the style, but adapted to the trade.
Charleston, s. c., July Is, lS50.-dIy
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wORTHINGToN G. sNErHEE

T""e'Y solicitor % The Genera Land Office
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
CONTINUES to practice in the Supreme Court ca
the United States, IN the Courts of the District CT
Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, to prosecus
claims OF all kinds against the United States, e.
ther before Congress any of the Executive De-
partments, and to procure letters patent for inver-
uons Business confded TO his care, will be
promptly attended to-
IN y. Particular attention paid to the prosec,.
ton of claims before the Brazilian Commission
now sitting in Washington
WASHINGTON CRY, ID. c. Julv II l50I
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THE WEEKLY DISPATCH.

Whole number Of representatives 233.
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The Government Of the United states OF
America, A. D.s 1861.
The Executive.
MmLARD FILLMORE, or N r., President.
WILLIAM r. KING, OF Ala, Prea't ofthe Senate.
The Cabinet.
DANIEL WEBSTER, of Mass. Sec of State.
THomAs CoRwIN, of Ohio, Sec. of the Treas.
CHAaLEs M. CONRAD, of La. Sec. of War.
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM, of N. C Sec. of the Navy.
A. Fl. IL. STUART, of Va. Sec. of Interior
NATHAN X. HALL, of N. Y. p. M. General.
JOHN ]. CmTTENpEE, of Ky. Att. General.
t5ItH The Judiciary.
SUPREME UNITED STATES.
RooER b. TANEY, of Maryland Chief Justice
JOHN Mclean, of Ohio Associate
JAMES M WAYNE, of Georgia {"
JOHN CArRoN of Tennessee
yoHs MCKINLEY, of Kentucky -
PErER v. DANIEL, OF Virginia
SAMUEL NELSON, of New York
BENJAMIN CURTIS, Of Massachusetts 4"
ROBERT G. GREER. of Penn. 4"
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! '7Nef eft'T VI Ute NIttIlNg.
b--Assoclatons, committees or ind. ,nls
desrous to make propositions or to recei, mar
nation, are requested to address their conn. ,ico
tons to j G, G. Kennedy, ESQ