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FURTHER CAUTION To THE PUBLIC.
SIINCE THE NOTICE from this office of the 10th
- January last, which appeared in the newspa-
pers of this city, cautioning the public against re.
ceiving certain drafts purportng to &c those Of
Captain l.. C.. Easton, Assistant Quarte-master,
recently stationed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, n
third forged draft OH the Quartermaster General
has been presented for payment. 1t is numbered
Il3, Santa Fe, N. M, lst May, 1851, in favor OF
Robert T. Brent, esq. for $3,756, and signed L. c..
Easton, Captain and Assistant Quartermaster.
1t is known, from official advice in this office,
that the only genuine drafts of Capital Easton on
the Quartermaster General are numbered from
to IL; all of which have been long since paid.
Captain Easton having ceased to draw, there are
consequently genuine drafts of his now in cirou-
lation.
BY direction of the Quartermaster General:
VIM. A. GORDON, Chief Clerk
QUARTERMAsTKR GENEsAL's OFFICE,
WAsHINGToN CRY, February ID, 1852.
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When il is not convenient to forward amount OF
order per mail or express, reference to respect
able New York house will be sufficient. All orders
will meet with prompt attention., if addressed
WILLIAM MURPHY,
263 Madison street, New York.
Ordcrsw be attended to promptly if left at the
stores of Mcssrs. She'll Mott, 20 Waistreet, or Of
Messrs. II. Jcroiiman & Co., l34 William street.
N. u. Business cards, embossed in colors from
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50 FIRE PROOF CHESTS, for nooK

ssr,-, FIRE PROOF CHESTS, for BOOK
ARa# PAPERS, JEWELRY, &c.-EVANs 81
I@ WATSON, No. SO Dock street, opposite
the Philadelphia Exchange. Patent Soap
stone Lined and Keyholc Cover SALAMANDERS
Fireand Thief ProofIRoN CHESTS, warranted to
stand more heat than any other Chests in the coun
try Also, Patent Air Chamber IRON CHESTS;
TOO now in use. They also continue to maketh
ordinary Fire Proofs at very low prices.
We, the undersigned, were present, on the llth
day of September, when Messrs. Evans & Watson
tested one OF their Salamander Fire Proof Chestsat
which time they consumed five cords OF woodovcrit,
commencing at A. M. and continuing until2P P.
M making five hours intense heat, amountingt to
a white heat The Chest remained in the lire until
the ext morning, when it was opened in our pre-
sence, and all the books and papers were taken out,
having been preserved entire. The above named
Chest, together with the books and papers, may be
examined by calling at the store OF Evans Wat
son. S3 Dock street.
THOS. HANSELL, 18th street above Arch.
SAMUEL L. DAVIS, III N. 3dstreet.
Messrs. Eoans f. Watson.
GENTLEMEN: Having been presen twhen the CON
tents of the chest alluded to in the above certificate
were exposed to view, tako pleasure in adding my
testimony to the professionally OF the papers NO
Respectfully, S. v. MERRICR.
PHIlApsLrHIA, Sept. 10, 1850
BALTIMORE, June Is, lS49.
Messrs. Exams & Tpaison, Phi.adeiehfa.
GENTLEMEN: We have much pleasurein recon-
intending your Fire proof Chests to the notice ofthe
public, the one we purchased from you having
dcrgong very scvere heat during the fire which
destroyed the entire block of buildings on Arch
street whar on the Schuylhi on the 9th OF June
lS49. Yours, very respectfully,
Cast and Wrough- Iron Houses, of all sizes and
patterns, made to order. -
Seal and Letter Copying Presses, Pre- proof
Doors for Banks and Stores, Patent Slate-hned he
frigerators warranted superiorto allotners, Water
Filters. Nov 5u
THE UNITED STATES HOTEL.
PENNSYLVANIA aDenue, beticeen land d streets.
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w. N. B. JUDKfNS, Conductor,
Mars
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N H.HOOE Il CO., W holesalt and cotaildeal
L. ers in Carpeting Floor Oil Cloths, Mattings,
Rugs Curtain Materials Sheeting, Blankets md
house fur nishin goods generally.
Pennsylvanisavenue,b etwecn7thand sthstrects
Washington, ID. c.
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DEoUiNILLo. a Tale, by G. p. R. James, esq.
4 just received,
June q FRANCK TAYLOR.
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CTRAw AND COCO NIATTINGs.-We have
- just received, per schooners "Mary Jane" and
"Mott Bedell,' an extensive supply Of Colored and
White and Fancy Canton Mattings of the follow.
ing make, which we think will be found good
the country can afford:
Al, 5 4, and extra Manning. All who pur-
chased this make of US last season will remember
its excellence.
The same widths in first quality Gushing
This ia a new kind, very good and cheap.
The same widths No. Goquoa, fancy. These
Also, a heavy stock Dundee Coco Mating. This
article is of great for churches, hotels, halls
looms of and other public places where
there is much of thoroughfare. 1t is indestructi
bic dampness, and will be sold lees than ever OF
lered before in this city.
ApI2 D.. CLAGETT & DODSON.
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ID ENINANT OF THE EDITION OF THE
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Salary md Location of every Public Officer, Civil
and Military, in pay of the United States.
Price SO; few copies remaining Of the late
edition, for sale by .
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May 10 Booksellers, near 9th street
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RMY AND NAVY PENSION LAWS AND
"A Bounty Land Laws of the United States, in.
Guiding sundry Resolutions of Congress, from
i776 to 1852, with an appendix, containing the
Opinions of Attorneys General, with the deci'
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Srcrearies relative to the execution of thoso laws
Que volume ocihvo law sheep binding. Compiled
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MARYLAND STATE LOTTERIES,
FOR JULY, 1852.
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(Successors to +. Morris & Coz

(successors to F. Morris & Coz
having their orders for Tickets in the Maryland
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Bonds to heavy amount are deposited with the
State to secure the payment OF prizes
Drawings conducted in public, under the super
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$4s, SOB 20 Prizes of $4,000
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| advertise
o. Prize Tickets must be returned before they
| can be renewed or cashed.
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x1AR BUILDERS AND RAILROAD cow

GAR BUILDERS AND RAILROAD COM
u PANIEs.--The subscriber is now part owner
of "Fuitrr's Patent India Rubber Car Springs,
and cautions all persons interested of his determi-
nation to maintain his rights under this patent
Fuilcr's patent ia the original first, and only gen.
une patent. Extensive arrangements are made to
supply the springs to car builders, railroad COM
panies, and all who require TO use this patent.
The price is fixed at fifty cents per pound, in.
GLIDING the privilege to use the patent. ...
The American Institute have just awarded the
advertiser the first premium for the beat Indiarub
Der springs.
Orders from any part of the United States, Civ
ing the exact size of the piece Of tho rubber
auired, will be promptly executed.
No other person has authority to make vend
the India rubber car syringe. which operate by
preston OF the rubber. HORACE II. DAY,
Oldest manufacturer OF India rubber now in the
business in the United States, and owner of nine
teen India-rubber patents. Warehouse % Court
land street, New York ..ef @
Public attention is called to the advertisement Of
MIR. Day. He ia now the only person authorized to
manufacture and vend my patent in the United
States VIC. FULLER. .,
By his Attorney, G. M KNEyITT. \
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L fine edition, in two closely. printed volumes,
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The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-09-25

DEMOCRATIC TEsrIMoNY.-In the L.
5. Senate, when the bill creating the Of
flee Of Lieutenant General was under
consideration, the following Democratic
testimony TO the point was given:
Mr.. Hamlin, of Maine (Pier,e Dem. J
said: 81 think as highly, and | speak
openly and publicly everywhere, of the
distinguished general upon whom this
rank is 10 be conferred, as any Senator
here"
Mr.. Rhett, of S. c., Estates Right
Dem. said: Il shall vote for the resou-
tions on the simple ground that Gen.
Scott merits it--any testimonial of your
sense of his high and distinguished SER
vices should be cheerfully paid. He has
shed glory on the United States, and we.
representing the States. ought to bestow
on him all the honor we can with propri-
ETY. bestow. shall vote, and vote most
cheerfully, 10 bestow on this distinguished
soldier the honor the resolutions propose,
on the simple ground that he has fairly
and gloriously won it,
MIR. Butler, of S. c., Estate Rights
Democracy said: 6" | concur with my COL
league i'll saying that shall vote for this
resolution most cheerfulIy as a tribute, a
personal tribute to Gen. Scott, He has
won for himself and his country histori-
cal reputation, and l am willing, as far as
l can, to bear testimony in my official
character to his merits.
Mr.. Hale, Of N. H., Gree Soil Dem. }
said: Il believe, myself, that as far as
military skill and military prowess are
concerned, Gen. Scott has a reputation
compared with which no man in the
world can stand before him. | believe.
and l am sustained by information from
military men, who were with him in
Mexico, that greater skill, greater sci
ence, and more of those characteristics
which go to make upa great solder, never
were displayed by any mortal man than
were displayed by Gen. Scott from the
time he landed at Vera Cruz, until he en-
tered the city Of Mexico
Mr.. Foote, Union Pierce Democrat
said: d" honor the illustrious parsonage
alluded to SO often in the progress of this
debate, as highly as any one here. All
the commendation bestowed upon him on
this occasion, is, in my Judgment, not at
all beyond his deserts; as a patriot rec
ognize him as entitled to the most pro-
found respect; as high-minded and ac-
complished gentleman, ne possesses my
esteem and affection; as the victor upon
many a well fought field in which the
national honor was maintained, and the
enemies Of our beloved country humbled
before our triumphant flag, | respect him,
| am grateful TO him, am proud Of
him."
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THE WHITE HOUSE IN l794.-A Mr..
Wansey, whose published notes of tour
in this country in 1894, have recently
been the subject of notice in the Ameri-
can papers, gives the following descrip-
ton of breakfast at the White House.
Will the breakfast there in these days
bear comparison with this?
"Mrs. Washington herself made tea
and coffee for us. On the table were
two small plates of sliced tongue, dry
toasted bread and butter, no boiled fish,
as is the general custom. Miss Gusts,
her grand daughter, very pleasing young
lady of about sixteen, sat next her BROTH
err, George Washington Gusts, about two
years older than herself. There was but
little of form, no livery. A silver urn
for hot water was the only expensive
thing on the table. Mrs. Washington
appears to be something older than the
President, although born in the same
year, short in stature, rather robust and
very plain in Dress"
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MARRIAGE IN LAPLAND.-It is death
in Lapland to marry maid without the
consent of her parents or friends. When
young man has formed an attachment TO
female, the fashion is to appoint their
friends to meet, to behold the two young
parties run race together. The maid is
allowed, in starting, the advantage of
third part of the race, SO that it is i'm
possible, except voluntarily, that she
should be overtaken. If the maid out
run her suitor, the matter is ended; he
must never have her, it being penal for
the man to renew the proposal of marriage.
But if the maid has an affection for him,
though at first she runs hard, to try the
truth of his love, she will (without Alta
lanta's golden balls to retard her speedy
pretend some casually, and make volun-
tary halt before she canes to the mark or
end of the race. Thus none are compel
led to marry against their own wills; and
this is the cause that in Lapland the mar
ried people are richer in their content
ment than in other lands, where too many
forced matches make feigned love, and
cause real unhappiness.
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THE MINNES0TIAN.


An ACT TO reduce and define the bounda-
ries of the military reserve at the St.
Peters river, in the Territory of Min
nesota.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives. of the United States of
.4merica IN Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of War be and he is hereby re-
quired to cause the lines of the present
military reserve at Fort Smelling, in the
Territory Of Minnesota, to be SO contract
ed as to embrace the following bounda-
ries, to wit: Beginning at the middle of
the channel of the Mississippi river be-
low Pixies island thence ascending
along the channel of said river in such a a
direction as to include all the islands Of
the river to the mouth of Browns creek ::
thence up said creek to Rice lake; thence
through the middle of Rice lake to the
outlet of Lake Amelia; thence through
said outlet and the middle of Lake
Amelia to the outlet of Mother lake :;
thence through said outlet and the
middle of Mother lake to the outIet
of Duck lake; thence through said out
let and the middle of Duck lake to the
southern extremity of Duck lake thence
in line due south to the middle of the
channel of the St. Peters river; thence
down said river so as to include all the
islands to the middle of the channel of
the Mississippi river, reserving further,
Tor military purposes, a quarter section
on the right bank of the St. Peters river,
at the present ferry; and also quarter
section on the left bank of the Mississ-
ippi river, at the present ferry across that
stream.
SEC. 2. find be it further enacted,
That the Commissioner of the General
Land Office be and he is hereby required
to cause to be surveyed, as soon as prac-
ticable, SO much of the lands heretofore
included in the military reserve aforesaid,
but without the limits of the said militia
ry reserve aforesaid, as defined bv this
act, as have not already been surveyed,
with the exceptions hereinafter set forth,
to be sold at public sale, under the drec
tion Of the President of the United
States.
SEC. 3. find be 1t further enacted,
That the land on which the establishment
of the Fur Company is situated, known
as MENDOZA, with the settlements imme
diatel Y around the same, not exec eding
three hundred and twenty acres, be and
the same is hereby reserved from sale du-
ring the term of one year after the lands
surrounding the same shall be offered for
sale; and the proper authorities are here
by authorized, at any time during said
year, to enter tho samo for Il town site,
agreeable TO and in accordance with the
terms and conditions of 'sAn act for the
relief Of the citizens Of towns upon the
lands Of the United States, under certain
circumstances" approved May twenty
third, eighteen hundred and forty-four.
Sec. 4. find be 1t further enacted,
That the lands comprised within the lin
its Of said reserve be and the same are
hereby annexed to and made part of the
Chippewa land district in said Territory
of Minnesota.
Approved August 26, 1852.
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BARNUM AND Tom THuMn.-The N.
Y. Express gives some statistics relative
TO these noted characters:
Barnum's chiefest sources of income
out of Connecticut, are his Museum, said
to be very profitable, and his famous me-
nageric now in Michigan. Sixty thou
sand dollars were the profits of the me-
nagarie the last year, and among its incl
dental expenses arc 5000 Il week, or
$lO,4 400 year for Tom Thumb. Bar
mum made Tom Thumbs fortune, and
Tom contributed not little to Barnum's.
Tom is about l6 years Of age now though
passing for more, and it is his money that
built for his father the house in Bridge
port. Tom has made all his family rich,
and when at home is of course the ele-
phant of the town, Barnum being then but
a simple lion. Tom has his bijou of a
room in his great house, with rosewood
bedstead, chairs, tables, and a tea set,
&c., all made to match his own diminu-
tive proportions. His quarters contain
all the presents he received in Europe,
and pistols, bowie knives, jack knives,
&c., have been among his lavoritc play
things, but he is amiable, intelligent and
much esteemed. Barnum took him as an
experiment about 10 years ago. His pay
at the start was So week; soon it was
raised to $25, and then to 4,37. AT this
price Barnum took him to England, where
his great success prompted Mr.. b. to
share the receipts with him. Now for
showing himself merely he earns an in
come equal to the official salaries of Dan
iel Webster and John J. Crittenden,
combined.
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The New Postage Law.

AN ACT to amend the act entitled can
act to reduce and modify the rates of
postage in the United States, and for
other purposes" passed March third,
eighteen hundred and fifty-one.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives. Of The United STATES of
.America IN Congress assembled, That
from and after the thirtieth day of Sep
tember, eighteen hundred and tifty-two,
the postage upon all pristed matter pass
ing through the mail Of the United States,
instead of the rates now charged, shall be
as follows, to wit: Each newspaper, pc
riodical, unsealed circular, or other arti-
Gle of printed matter, not exceeding three
ounces in weight, shall be sent to any
part of the United States for one cent,
and for every additional ounce, or fraction
of an ounce, one cent additional shall be
charged; and when the postage upon any
newspaper or periodical is paid quarterly
or yearly in advance at the Office where
the said periodical Or newspaper is deliv-
cred, or is paid yearly or quarterly in ad-
vance at the office where the same is
mailed, and evidence Of such payment is
furnished to the office of delivery in such
manner as the Post Office Department
shall by general regulations prescribe,
one-half such rates only shall be charged.
Newspapers and periodicals not weighing
over one ounce and half, when circula-
ted in the State where published, shall
be charged one-half the rates before
mentioned: Provided, That small news
papers and periodicals, published month
y OF oftener, and pamphlets not contain
ing more than sixteen octave pages each,
when sent in single packages, weighing
at least eight eounces, to one address, and
prepaid by affixing postage stamps there
to, shall be charged only half cent for
each ounce or fraction of an ounce, not
withstanding the postage calculated on
each separate article Of such package
would exceed that amount The postage
OH all transient matter shall be prepaid by
stamps or otherwise, or shall be charged
double the rates first above mentioned.
Sec. 2. And be 1t further enacted,
That books, bound or unbound, not weigh
ing over four pounds, shall be deemed
mailable matter, and shall be chargable
with ostage at one cent an ounce for all
distances under three thousand miles, and
two cents an ounce for all distances over
three thousand miles, to which fifty pc,
cent. shall be added in all cases where The
same may be sent without being prepaid
and all printed matter chargeable by weigh,
shall be weighed when dry. The pub.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-09-25

The Cincinnati Commercial mentions
the trial of Life Preserving Trunk in
the Ohio river on Thursday Of last week.
In the trunk was placed lot of clothing
and a variety of articles. From the
mouth of Deer creek the inventor start
ed seated on his diminutive craft ; when
opposite the foot of Main street he met
the steamboat G. w. Sparhawk, and rode
the wave safely, not drop of water en-
tering the trunk. On the Kentucky
shore below Covington, he landed, and
upon inspection, the contents Of the trunk
were found TO be free from dampness.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-09-25

Gov. Wood with all his dignity is
wag. Yesterday he introduced Gov. Cass
to the audience. He did the same thing
in '49. Yesterday it was as follows =
Fellow citizens: have the pleasure TO
introduce to you Lewis Cass. You have
all heard of him; but many oil you have
not seen him. hope the noise and con-
sion will not prevent you from giving
him your respectful attention." 1t is
needless to add that the Gov. 4" brot down
the house. Cleveland True Democrat
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-09-25
Central House, st, Paul.

(NAFE X BURTON have taken this old and well known
~ house. They have fitted it up anew, and are now
prepared to accommodate boarders and travellers with
comfortable quarters. No pains will be spared make
tne Central House one of tbs best Hotels in the West
November, 1851.