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Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-03-16

I'D ACON e. BASK& offer for sale
-ES $50 hhds w India and Orleans0
81 hhds Crushed
Ito bbls do
$50 boxes and half boxes Loaf SusARs.
25 bbls Powd'd and Granulated
us bbs Coffee
100 bags White Brazil
46 hhds Cardenas Molass.s
rs bbls prime O do
IS bbls fine Sugar House Syrup
425 bags Rio
$50 bags Laguyra
100 bags Cape CoFFEE
$50 bags Govt Java
40 bags White Maracaibo
63packages Green and Black Tea part fine
500 sides good and damaged Sole Leather
60 bushels Clover Seed
100 boxes Winchester Tallow Candles
so half boxes Hulls do
35 boxes Adamantine do
tierces Rice
500 kegs Nails, "Old Dominion"
800 bags Shot
Bar Lead
25 bbs prime Cider Vinegar
100 doz painted Pals
40 hhds Bacon Sides
$50 cases Mass and Stick Licorice
No 3 Mackerel, Sporting and Blasting Powder
Cotton Yarns Bed Cords. Leading Lines
Wrapping Paper and Irvine, Candle Wick
Brown Soap, Blistered Steel, Hoop Iron Tar
Window Glass, Starch, Pepper, Pinento, Ginger
Archer & Cos Axes, &C., &c. NH
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-03-16

DACON.-l2 hhds Sides Shoulders and Joles re
ED ceiving and for sale by
NH 9 JOHN N. GORDON Il SON.
A COOK WANTED.-We wish to hire or
IN purchase first rate cook. None need be Of
fercd that cannot be fully recommended. Terms Gbe-
raj. TOLER Il COOK,
NH 9 General Agents.
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b6ANA EsAess5NO. I PERUVIAN qua
H@VVNO at $44 so cash, taken from the vessel, OF
drayage added delivered at any point in the city shall
receive the above nten Or fifteen days and will contract
in the mean time on the above terms, at SAG So il
taken fl omnly store.
NH 10 las WINSTON
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r. Il. DUvAL,
tadsrtke Americas Hetel.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-25
The THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME
OF THE N.
SOUTHERN LITERARY n y NTvC E

~
Was commenced on Saturday, the 4th Of NAV
ISo0, under Its original name-instead of ReLaris
VeeHty Gasetfe--as more significant of its peculiar
character, 1t being the only weekly organ OF era-
ture In the entire South tits
Greatly Enlarged and Improved.
Containing weekly Thrty-two Columns OF
matter. tits, moreover IN an
Entirely .Ne,o Dress
from mead to foot, }" and upon beautiful wnirs
paper, so that, III mechanical excellence, il is not
surpassed S ny any paper whatever in the United
States! 1t continues under the same Ediloria.
direction as heretofore, and no pains or expense
will be spared to make it
u Choice Family Newspaper,
"as cheap as the cheapest, and as GOOD as TIE
pest! Utterly dlscardng the notion ,hat a
ooutiier,' journal cannot compete with the Norths
eih Weehiles, III cheapness and interest,
Tie Southern Literary Gazette
rivals the best of them in all the chasacterisics of
truly valuable freside Journal Its aim Is the
diffusion OF cultivated and refined taste tbrouebcut
the COMMUNICATED it embraces in, its ample
this result. -
Original Contributions,
from many OF the abIest writers in the Soutbs
cnlehy occupy It's columns, but not to the excla
sion or choice miscellany, selected from the best
American and European sources
The tone OF the ssGazette, is indenepdenr =,
criticism and in the discussion or every Ieoitim,,.
topic, but 1t is strictly
Neutral IN Politics and Religion,
LIS columns are occasionally embeshed with
Southern Portraits and Landscapes,
engraved expressly for the work and accompa-
med by biographical and Typographical sketches
us General Information
is copious, but carefully condensed from Inc
leading journals of all parts Of the world.
notwithstanding the great increase in the size
ana 'r'c''phs OF inc paper, 1t is still published,
ltoo Dollars Per .annuns, ~, Advance 5,
II VIII be furnished to persons becoming respon-
slbIe for the whole number Of copies, and having
them sent 10 one address, on the following terms:
Three copies,. As
Five copies,
Ten copies, Is
Sd Fifteen copies, 90 va
twenty copies, 25
Fifty copies, "a .
money, and addressed, posi- pai, to
WALKER & RICHARDS
Charleston. s. G.
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I WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE.

WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGG.
rT,IIE next annual session of this Institution will
| commence on the I'd 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. Ur
WILLIAM F. HOPKINS, A. M, Professor
Chemistry and Natural Philosophy.
Fl. A. WAsHMGToN, A. M, Professor Of His
tory and Political Economy.
Rev. SEAS TorrEN, 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
eor of Arts, and Science course, occupying two
years. Candidates for admission to the Science
will be expected to produce the written re-
quest of their parect~ pr guardians. Students not
desiring to JON 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
1856 and SI9G per annum.
Circulars will be forwarded to all who may de-
sire fuller information, or 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 uW.
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EDITED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF LITERARY MEN
FINDER this title will be published during the
~ year 1850; twenty-io Portraits and Biographi-
cal Sketches OF American citizens who have become
lusrious in the service of the country Every por-
ton of the work will receive the most careful aten-
ton, and nothing will be spared to render il worthy
mad enduring monument to the great men OF the Re
public.
MIR. Brady has been many years engaged, at great
expense, IN collecting Portraits National Gal
lery, and those which are being engraved for this
work are believed to be superior to any that have
ever been taken In the accomplishment. of this great
object he has experienced the utmost courtesy and
encouragement from distinguished men Mr.. Brady's
reputation has been too long established to need any
recommendation. His daguerreotypes in the
highest the works OF art glowing with the soul
of the living countcnance
The drawings and engravings OF D'Avignon have
been pronounced by Europeans Of taste to be fully
equal and in some respects superior to those OF the
best artists of London and Paris and every i'm
preston in this Gallery will be taken under his inn
mediate supervision. The Typography will be exc
cuted carefully and in superb style the en-
cravings themselves. The entire work will BE- Oh
the finest imperial folio paper Is by % inches, made
expressly for this purpose.
This work has nothing sectional in its scope it
viii therefore be comprehensive in its spirit The
names of those men only admitted Nv hose talents
and public services have won for them honorable
fame throughout the nation. Each OF the great de-
partmcnts of life wrl have its representatives Art
and Literature arc universal in their spirit, and the
Gallery is intended to be worthy and enduring mon
uIncnt to the great men Of the Republic, whose
achievements and fame constitute the chief glory of
the nation We hope that every lover Of Art, and
friend of our glorious Union, will respond to APP
peal for encouragement and aid III SO commendabc an
undertaking, that its publication may make era in
he progress of American Art, and by grouping the
llnstrous men OF the Union together, consolidate it
still morc firmly.
As no work of this kind has appeared in America,
and the prices they sustain in Europe would place it
beyond the reach of most OF citizens, the publish
ers have resolved to merit large circulation, by
charging very low price. They have, therefore,
established the following
CONDITIONS SUBSCRIPTION
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at The lo,o price OF ONE DOLLAR per an,,u,n,
I S the cheapest weekly newspaper south of the
i Potomac, and as cheap as any in the Union.
This paper is made up chiefly from the Daily
Dispatch, consisting of the entertaining and
news matter of that sheet, and carefully selected
light literature and poetry.
HUGH X. PLEAsANTs, Principal Editor
1t is designed to make it equal to any Weekly
sheet in the Union for its general interest In
tone and sentiment, 1t is Southern-its conductors
are Virginians, and they hope to merit and re-
ceive the encouragement Of their feow-citizens.
They enter upon no mere speculation in their en-
terprize, nor are their views and opinions shaped
merely to catch the popular breeze. From edu-
cation, from position, from association, from in
terest, from choice, they are Southern men. Their
defence or Southern rights is defence of them
selves and all they hold dear-that it has been
warm unremittng, and as far as their capacity al
lowed, vigorous, no man who has read their sheet
will deny. To doubt that it will continue to be
so is to presume that the principles and ideas
which have been nstilled into them from their
birth, can be eradicated, at period of life when
men rarely change their views They, at least.
know it to be impossible -
N5TThe low price at which the paper is pub
hshea requires that the subscription be paid al
,oays in aduance.
rTO CLUBS-Sn
Ne offer The Jollo,cing inducements:
For Five Dollars Six Comics
For For Ten T;s9 Dollars nn,1. : Thirteen Copies
For Fifteen Dollars Twenty Copies
For Twenty Dollars Twenty seven Copies
JAS. A. COWARDIN
ClHTY-ONE desirable lots, situated in the most
~ hourIshing parts of the city and suburbs, for
sale on the most accommodating terms Applv
TO M. THOMPSON,
Office one door west of Jackson HaIl, Pen
avenue March
SPRING MILLINERY
MILL be opened at Mrs. s. PARKER'S on
wv Saturday, 18th instant, at 10 o'clock.
PARKER'S new Fancy store,
March I2-3t under National hotel
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"INCONUGRAPHIC ENCYCLOPAEDIA
HAfLOR ~ MAURY, booksellers near 9th
i street, have for exhibition complete copy
OF this valuable and beautiful work, now publish
ing IN numbers, 10 he competed in twenty-five
parts. Subscriptions taken, and the work supplied,
by
March 81 TAYLOR Il MhURY
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STEELE'S FASHIONABLE HAT
HOUSE
N, SouTH CAROLINA.

CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
THE SUBSCRIBER establish
ment being one Of the most extensive
TX and fashionable retail HAT HOUSES
- in Charleston, the public may depend
on hnd'ng there superior assortment of all the
,Mest styles of Hats for this fall. Fine French
Nlo'eskin and Beaver Hats, with an extensive
variety of fine black and blue cloth Cans for gen
iiemens, youths, and children.
M 10 SOUTHERN PLANTERS.
c rn"''ers can be supplied with Hats and Caps
'or plantation and house servants. Black, white,
Pea''' anu orao waterproof Wool Hats with good
Fashionable Halter, 23l King. onnos;,a TI,,0,
street, Charleston IL rF'"e ii"~e'
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DEPARTMENT or STATE,

SIR have the honor to transmit To You herewith
copy of the correspondence which has passed be-
tween this Department md the National Institute for
the Promotion OF Science, respecting the organization
o! committee TO constitute the central authority re-
qu'rcdby the regulations OF the Royal Commsaas
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woRTH1NaroN G. sNErHEN.
Formerly Solicitor Of the Genera Land Office

Formerly solicitor Of the Genera Land Office
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT Law, m
Continues to practice in the Supreme Court OF
me United STATES, in the Courts Of the District or
Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, to prosecute
claims OF all kinds against the United States, e-
iher before Congress any of the Executive De-
partmens, and to procure letters patent for inven
IONS. BUSINESS confded to his care, will be
promptly attended to. -.
N. 3. Particular attention paid to the prosecu.
ton OF claims before the BRAZILIAN Commission
now sitting in Washington
WAsHINeToN Cry. ID. c.. july II. 15N
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CONDITIONS OF SUBSCRIPTION AND SALE.
=, -. e. ,,,,,.,t... gsyn

All the numbers sold separately. For single
number, 81; and larger quantity of any single No
at the rates above.
All orders for single numbers, more, will be
promptly filed on the receipt of the money The
whole can be sent without danger OF injury, by the
expresses, to any part OF the country.
81 Any Bookseller. Postmaster, Librarian or any
other person, may obtain subscribers and his orders
will be filled when the money is received.
Advertisements which concern the Fine Arts, in
every department, will be admitted on the cover in
the style of the European Journals, on the following
terms
For ono square (of eight lines) once, 81
For square FOR year, . . . 10
corresponding reduction for larger space.
Cards OF Artists and others, (of half square, far
N. B.-Al orders and business communications
may be addressed Post paidD to BRADY, D'Avignon
Y Co., 205 Broadway, New York
Subscription lists opened at all the principal
Bookstores throughout the u nitcd States
THE EDITORS
Taylor and Maury and Franck Taylor, Agents for
washington.
NEW YoRx, Jan, |, 1850
DN CONSiGNMENT.- Oak Tn,ned R,tSs,u
" BROG.4.NiS.--I,0 900 pair Oak Tanned Russell
l;rogans, prime article of Southern Manufhc-
ture, For sale hy r. A, PRINGLE,
No 30, East Bay street,
July 10, lS5o--d4m Gsarlesten, s. C..
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Terms.
For any one of the four Reviews, 50 90 per annum.
For any two do. 5 90
For any three do. 90 &C
For all four of the Reviews 500
For Blackwoods Magazine, 3 90
For Blackwood and three Reviews, 9 90 GO
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Premiums,
Consulting Of back volumes of the following vaIu-
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Westminster Review.
Any subscribing to Backwood, or to one of the
Reviews, at 50 year, or to any two of the perodi-
Gals, at So, viii receive, gratis volume of any of
the .~"miums above named.
subscriber TO any three OF the Periodicals, ut ~
year, TO four OF the Reviews, at s., will receive
two premium volumes above
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at 10, will receive three premium volumes.
Consecutive premium volumes will be furnished
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Subscribers requested To order many IAcrent
works Tor premiums as they may require volumes.
Clubbing.
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agent.
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ways addressed, postpaid or iranked TO the publish
e.
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"rHE SOUTHERN PRESS, "

for the conduct of which, suitable Editors have been
engaged, who will also receive the aid OF number
vi eminent and and able contributors.
There will be daily, tri-weekly, and weekly
issuethe 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 poiitical-but
will embrace ON its broad sheet the General News Of
the day, Domestic and Foreign, by mail and tele-
graph J. 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 will be taken to give full and COR
rect Reports OF the Proceedings and Debates in both
Houses of Congress, well as the action OF the
local Legislatures on the Southern question.
limited number only Of Advertisements will be
eceived--thc main object being to furnish large
amount Of reading matter.
The paper will be printed on sheet equal in size
to those OF the other Washington papers, and the
teral will be procured especially Tor the purpose.
is confidently hoped that every true friend to the
South will aid in procuring subscribers and forward
the names, with the amount subscribed, to some
Southern Representative at Washington, forthwith.
Postmastcrs authorised by law to remit sub
scriptions Tree Of postage
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NATIONAL, INSTITUTE.

WASHINGTON, May a. 1850
Sir have the honor to make known to the De-
partment of State the action which this Institute has
taken on the subject of your communication of the
18th instant. That action is comprised in the follow
ing resolutions, unanimously adopted after full dis
cussioI at the meeting held this evening.
"Resolred, That the Institute will take action on
the subject submitted to it by the Department of
State.
s'Iesolced That the Institute do now proceed to
constitute committee suitable to be Recognised by
the Government to hold correspondence with the
British Commissioners, and TO The reception OF
Americsn productions at the proposed Industrial Elk
hibitiun in London.
sfRcsolued, That committee of not less than nine
teen be appointed to constitute Central Committee
on the Industrial Exhibition, and to cr--aspond with
societies and local committees throughout the United
States
sResolred, That the President of this Institute be
member Of the Central Committee.
aResoiocd, That the Corresponding Secretary com
mncate to the Secretary Of State copy OF the forer
going resolutions, together with the names Of the
Central Committee y
The following are the names Of the members of
The Central Committee appointed in accordance with
the foregoing resolutions fN t't
Hon. Willard Fillmore, Vice President OF the United
States, and CT oGicio Chancellor OF the Regents of
the Smithsonian Institution.
Col. Peter Force, President of the National Inst
Hon, James Pearce, u. S. Senate, member of the
Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Hon. Levi Woodbury., M. N. L., Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court OF the United States.
Commodore Lewis Warrington, U. S. NJ, M. N. L.
Chief OF the Bureau of Ordnance and photography
Prof. Joseph Henry, Vice President of the N L. See
rotary of the Smithsonian Institute.
Rrof. Walter r. Johnson Corresponding Secretary OF
the National Institute.
Prot. Alexander ID. Bache, M. N. L., member OF the
Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institute, and
Superintendent of the Coast Survey.
Commander Charles Wilkes, IT, S. NJ, M. N. L., late
Commander S. s. Exploring Expedition.
Hon. William w. Seaton, M. N L., Mayor of Wash
ingon.
Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institute
ct the National Institute, and Superintendent OF the
National Observatory
J. James Greenough, Esq, M. n. !.
Charles +. Stansbury, Esq. Recording Secretary of
the National Institute.
Col. j. j. Albert, NJ N. L., Chief of tho Typographical
Bureau.
Gen Joseph G.. Totten, Vice President L., Chief
Engineer u. =. Army.
Thomas Ewbank, Esq Commissioner of Patents
William Easily, Esq, Treasurer National Institute
Leonard d. Gale, NJ d., M. N. L., Examiner of
Patents
Joseph G. G.. Kennedy, Esq, M. N. L., Superin,en
dent of Census.
era c. Seaman, Esq, NJ MI,
have the honor to be
Very respectfully, your obj serv't,
WALTER II. JOHNSON,
Cor. Secretary of the National Institute.
Hon. john M. CLAYTON, Secretary of State
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u A. PRfNGLE, No. 30, East Bay stree,
1U' Charleston, South Carona-Importer Of
French CALF SKINS; Manufacturers Agent
and Dealer in BROG.a.VS, BOOTS and SHOES.
Advances made on consignment Of Brogans OF
Southern Manufacture Parties wishing to con-
sign, Will send samples Of their make, und on re-
ceipt of their consignment, liberal cash advance
will be made. Information promptly impaired,
as to the style, but adapted to the trade
Charleston, S. c., July IG, la5O-dlx
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For Daily-the price will be per annum, $1,000
For Tri-weekly during the Session Of Con-
gress, and Semi-weekly during the recess, S 0O
Weekly paper, 2 90
The price of subscription must be paid invariably
in edvance, and the cash accompanying the name
sent
All persons procuring ten shall be entitled to
receive copy gratis for one year
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BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE
AND THE
BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEWS.
RrnmiumS to New Snhacrihers

OWING to the late revolutions and counter-revo-
~ lutions among the nations Of Europe, which have
followed each other in quick succession, and of which
the end Is not yet the leading periodicals of Great
Britain have become invested with degree of inter-
est hitherto unknown. They occupy middle
ground batwecn the hasty, dsjontcd and necessarily
imperfect records OF the newspapers, and the elabo
rate and ponderous reatses TO be furnished by the his
torian at future day. The American Publishers,
therefore, deem proper to call renewed attention
these Periodicals, and the very low price at which
they offered to subscribers. The following is
their list, viz
THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW,
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW,
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW,
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW,
~ AND
BLACKWCOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE
In these periodicals are contained he views mode
ratey, though clearly and firmly expressed of the
three great parties in England-Tory Wing nd RAJ
dical'' Blackwood and the &C London Quarterly y
are Tory the &C Edinburgh Review" Wing and
the &C Westminster Review y Liberal. The g North
British Review owes its establishment to the last
great ecclesiastical movement in Scotland and is not
ultra in ITS views on any Of the grand depart
ments OF human knowledge il originally edited
by l)r Chalmers, and now, since his DEATH is con-
Quoted by his son-in-iaw, DIR. Hanna associated with
Sir David Brewster. lis literary character is of the
very highest order The 6 w estminstei," though
reprinted under that title only, is published in Eng
land under the title Of the Foreign Quarterly and
Westminster )" it being in fact union OF the two
Reviews formerly published and reprinted under sepa
rate titles. 1t has therefore the advantage by this
combination ot uniting IN work the best features
of both as heretofore issued
4 he above Periodicals reprinted in New Y orlx,
immediately on their arrival by the British steamers
in beautiful clear type, fine white paper, and
faithful copies of the originals. Blackwood's Maya
zine being an exact fac Sin,ie of the Edinburgh cd
ton
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To Southern Gentlemen or Literary In
Riilufi0nQ

A young man, n graduate of ST. Mary's Col
"A lege, Baltimore, wishes to obtain az iluation
MS Assistant in an Academy, or Private Tutor
He is qualified TO teach the highest branches OF
Greek, Latin, French, Natural Philosophy, Che
mistry, Mathematics and English Literature :.
The highest testimonials to character and quail
hcat,ons can be produced. Address, postpaid,
q X Y Post Office baltimore Md