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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1853-08-25

GPRING SUPPLY OF English, French and A
~ merican Drugs, Medicines and Chemicals,
Paints, Oils, Earni$hcs Glass, Putty, Glue, Brush
es, Pcrfumery, Fancy Goods, Patent Medicines,
&c. The subscriber is now receiving large stock
of articles in his line of business to which he in
vtes the attention of the trade and dealers general
Iy, comprising in part
Peruvian barks, asphaltum, arsenic, arrow root,
slippery elm, ALCOHOL tartarlc acid, basam copavia,
blue pills, boraX, brmstone british ustre, caomel,
camphor, extract lemon, extract vanilla, chamomile
flowers, gum arabic, gum aiocs, gum assafotida,
ginger root, irish moss, Using lass, laudanum, lip
salve, chloride lime, matches, mustard, nutmegs,
oil lemon, oil peppermint, oil cloves oil sassafras:
olive oil, black pepper, sal soda, boneset, EPSON
salts, fly stone, chalk, white wax, powdered gals,
gum opium, oil vitro!, tummeric, CASTLE soap put
ty in hadders white mustard seed, indigo, extract
logwood, cinnamon, Cloves nutmegs. alum, pull.
rbubarb, quinine, suph morphine, canary seed
Iitharge &c. HENRY PEEL,
Wholesale Druggist, corner of King and
NH "a. Fairfax street, Alexandria.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1853-08-25
BAF5BOROyGH'S PATENT WHEAT
FANS

I NHE subscriber, only agent for the manufactlr-
Il ers IN Alexandra, is prepared to supply far
mers with the above Fan at manufacturers prices.
1t has received upwards OF SO Premiums, and is
admitted by the best Farmers to be one of the best
Fans in for cleaning wheat of all its impurities.
They made in the strongest and best manner,
and are more durable than most other Fans made
In the country.
To be bad only at the Agricultural Warehouse,
Fairfax Street, Of R. S. EUCk, Agent.
lie 30.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1853-08-25

{; Horton No. Is Ploughs
i beautiful size for Corn and Tobacco, just re-
may 2e ceived by WIN. FERGUSON.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-23
From Philadelphia.
DWELLINGS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES LAUN,
PHILADELPHIA, May q
A FIRE occurred to- day, at noon, in Sixth stree

Sailing OF California Steamers from New
Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS May %, 1853
The steamship Philadelphia sailed for Aspnwan this
morning, and also the steamship Daniel Webster for San
Juan.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-23

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Seeing such incorrect statement In the report of the
NEw YORK HERALD Of yesterday, of the unfortunate acct
dent the Harlem railroad, think It my duty to
rect IT, Az my mother attempted to the track
the Of the Bowery and Grand street. four horse
car furiousy driven by careless man, with such
swtness and the flag man not being or not attending 10
his duties that the poor woman before having time 10
cross knocked down and most seriously injured be-
fore the stopped. She then taken to neigh
boring drug store and from there TO my residence
panied by two Of the Fourteenth ward police and few
friends and not by the conductor enormously stated
BY giving this publication you will convince the public
that caused by the negligence Of the driver and
not BY the csreesspess Of the lady stated In your
paper. s. SYLVESTER,
No. 40s BoWsry.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-23
City Intelligence.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE, BY CUTTING HIS THROAT
WITH A RAZOR.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE, BY CUTTING HIS THROAT
WITH RAZOR.
Yesterday afternoon terrible scene occurred on the
premises No. 101 Essex street. consequent upon J. Ere
derrick Becker keeper Of lager bier shop at the above
named place, having terminated his life by cutting his
throat with The deceased found to 10 ab.
sent from his family fer unusual length Of time and
search being made his step daughter discovered him ly
ing his back in the cellar with his throat cut in
q dreadful manner, his clothing saturated with blood
and the with which the horrd deed perperaed
The poor GIRL alarmed at the sight, screamed for ~.
sstance, when several persons hurried to the spot and
found the unfortunate man dead The facts given BY
the family, relative to the cause of the self destruc
the deceased S:d BEEN Considerably under ptssh K:
bis wife he was going up to the Crystal Palace .hs re-
monstraed with him. and would not give her consent He
Of ~s the IN
house in the direction Of the alarm the family did not
him return, and between and two O'Clock search
made and his dead body found In the cellar
above described The impression is that he sborng
under temporary alteration Of mind at the time he In
years of age native of Germany but had been in this
country for the last seventeen years. Formerly he
sided in fhadslpas TnsIs he carried on the bakery
resided in this city, and since the LIST Of April has kept
lager beer shop in Essex street. Coroner Wilhelm
notified to hold inquest the body The deceased has
left wife and three children Captain Bradford Of the
the Tenth ward police took charge Of the body by placing
apoiceman on duty at the premises until the arrival Of
the coroner.
~ &c tha na eT was voly The gay, pro-
LIB % a w.. IL daIs 90 S;h n;t I. nnt;n.d S,
the remainder Of the day. Towards night the thermc-
meter did not appear to fall but rather betokened An
upward movement.
Tn n, , a..u,a.r .ft. moan .ho,. IN. o,,,o.L
a;.nossnS 4; c,o,ha. n.r+rv ~ .Sa lo... Ut
- ~. Ta,;nc hns. No lao vcrax riscs o.cwr;.f ~
A. Hesth -. e.tioan;shsd 9Th t,;Hng dsm.rsy
and was no Doubt the work an noendiary as no re
had been used there by the family during that day.
r,sr A,.yxLrbs ord,rorv monoton, AZ s,ndsx
oi,s.aa aft.rnoon sSout s;x o,cioch nv an s,
NJ Are bch wss ssid 10 nroceed from the NJ
lao E,cn strost .nds g ,nnss rss
nv The r;nono ~ the Are hell Rnrinss we're sssn
b,r.no down Town In ali attractions Tor the .csne ~ The
onv to And ont ON their Arrival that II Vas
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-23

Markets
New ORLEANS, May 2l-Noon.
The foreign advces by the Africa were received by ths
Associated Press at II O'Clock last night. Sales Of cot
ton 600 bales, at firm prices. The quotations
for strict middling are exc. loo.
New ORLEANS, May q, 1853.
Sales of cotton to-day 500 bales fair prices under
Afrcas news. The quotations for middling are 9Xc
l0c The receipts to-day only $50 bales. Exports
$500 Provisions are declining. Mess pork, $751; bacon
sides, 7Xc.; shoulders, 5slc. Rice heavy.
MOBILE, Nay 90 1858.
The sales of cotton for the week amount to 600 bales
Receipts during the same time, LOO. Exports LEGO
Stock in this port, exclusive of ship board $4,000
Closing quotations In middlng, 9xc
PROVIDENCE, May 81 1853.
There has been steady demand for cotton during the
week, with sales of 900 bales at quotations market
closing firm. For wool the market continues without
change in prices with larger saes the sales of the wee
were lis 600 pounds In printed cloths owing to the
scarcity Of goods the sales have light. Large or.
ders have been received from the South which cannot at
present be filed Prices very frm with advancing
tendency The sales of the week amounted to % 500
DieCea.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-23
Meeting Of the Legislature-The New Rail
road Law.


road Law.
On Tuesday next our Legislature will again
assemble at Albany The session will be i'm
portant Besides the canal question, which
will, doubtless, occupy several days, and the
Report on the Art Union, which may give rise
70 an interesting debate, the new railroad acct
dent law will be submitted, and the opinions Of
members taken thereon Most Of our readers
win thank us for sparing them any comment on
the first Dry as many Of our legislative pro-
ceedings are, none can vie with the canal
controversy in dulness it is hard to. say
whether the members who discuss it, or the
public who read their speeches, are entitled to
the greater credit The fate Of the Art Union
may be safely left in the hands Of the commit
tee: sufficient for the day is the disgrace thereof
The subject OF railroad accidents, and the means
Of preventing them, though largely dealt with
Of late, in the newspapers will still bear brie
examination.
Out Of one hundred railway accidents, causing
loss of life or injuries to the persons Of the
travellers, ninety-nine are clearly attributable
0o either want of care, or want of skill or want
Of precaution on the part of the railway
officials, or want Of proper machinery and
mechanical arrangements along the line.
Indeed, II we except such cases as where a mis-
chievous person causes train to fly off the
track by laying stone or log of wood on
the rails, or where an embankment suddenly
gives way, no previous symptom of it's I'M
soundness having been perceptible-and our
readers will easily estimate how many
railroad accidents are due to such causes
~ these-all injuries suffered by travellers on
railways are directly chargeable on the officers
Or directors. 1t would be very easy matter to
Scumulate mass Of evidence in support of this
statement from the published records Of railway
sc'ideAts in this country but let any one who
souHe recall to mind the cases he has heard Of
ana ne wiz not need further proof In every
case tnat has fallen under our notice, the dsas-
Ger might have been averted by proper pru-
dence, discretion and liberality on the part of
the company. Many railroads, doing profsa-
BILE business. have never caused the death of a
single individual. According to the published
re:urrs Of railways in England some A, 900
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-23


We present to our readers an interesting &C
count Of the various expeditions fitted out by
the government and citizens of the United
States to various parts of the world, and the
discoveries in science to which they have led.
Of these the following aye the principal Mara.
time expeditions Pendleton's South Sea expe-
dition, Wilkes exploring expedition, Lynch's
expedition to the Dead Sea, the American Arctic
expedition, the Japan expedition, Ringgolds
North Pacific surveying expedition Lieut.. Hcrn-
dons exploration of the Amazon, Lynch's Afri-
can expedition, and Kanes Arctic expedition
The following are the principal inland expedi-
tions:-G rey's discovery of the Columbia river,
expedition of Lewis and Clark. Pixies expedi-
ton. Longs expedition to the sources Of the
st. Peters river, Schoolcraft's expedition, Ere
mont's expedition. Kearney's expedition, DC
The HERALD has always been the friend OF
national exploration. We do not consider our
navy by any means 30 aLiquiscusiy and en-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-23
WILLIAMSBURG City Intelligence.

ERECTION NEw CHURCH EDHICg-The congregation
attached the Protestant Reformed Dutch Chrch are
about negotiating for plot OF ground the corner Of
Hews street and Bedford avenue which they intend
erecting a handsome church edfce.
ANOTHER NEW BANKING HorsE.-The trustees OF the
Williamsburg Savings Bank have recently purchased
several lots the OF South Third and Fourth
streets which they intend erecting splendid bank
ing edfce 1t is to be three stories high built of brown
stone and have forty eight feet front both streets
BAPnsM.-Rev. Mr. Fister, pastor of the Methodist
Protestant Church in Grand street. baptized young
female converts at the foot Of South Eleventh street
view Of large concourte Of people yesterday afternoon
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-23
Marine Affairs.

THE STEAM YAsM NORTH STAR AND STEAMSHIP ASIA
The ship Robert Kelly which arrived yesterday reports
that Thursday, at half past eleven A. NJ in lat 40 49,
lon 90 sshe exchanged signals with the ASIA
hence for Liverpool the day previous. On Saturday.
at noon in lat 10 o. lon. 10 &c. the X. passed Com.
modore vsnderbits steam yacht North Star, steering
Y
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-23
The News.

By reference to the despatch of our special Wash.
ngton correspondent will it be that the foreign
appointments are at last fairly emerging from the
pnpenetrable mist in which they have so long been
enveloped. True, they have not all been decided
upon, but large number have, and the balance, it
is understood, will be arranged either to-day or to-
borrow. On inspecting the list thus far completed
We do not find the name of single New Yorker
mentioned. This looks little squaly for the
prospects of the hards and softs. However, it
may be that the President is keeping the mis-
SION to France in reserve for either General Dix
or John Van Buren,, or, possibly, some prominent
man Of the bunker school. Ex.Governors and
sx-Congressmen, it will be seen, are still coming
h for liberal share Of the good Offices and, at the
same time the services of few editors are duly
appreciated. Read the despatch.
EThe jury in the Gardner case had not arrived at
decision at nine O'Clock last evening.
general onslaught against gambling houses has
Of hate been made in Cincinnati. The last establish
the police on Friday night The proprietors were ar
rested and the tables and other gambling utensils
destroyed.
The anniversary of the Hickste Quakers COM
nenced in this city yesterday, will be observed by
convened as usual in the Rose street Meeting House
Among those who spoke we're Mrs. Rachael Barker
and Mrs. Mary Lppincott. The substance Of their
remarks win doubtless be perused with great
interest.
Father Gavazzi last evening delivered his usual
lecture to the Italians, at the Stuveysant Institute,
On the subject of the Hopes Of Italy" He con-
tended that that country could never enjoy civil and
religious liberty until Popes and Popery were utterly
abolished, and in conclusion passed a severe CEN
sure on the Italians engaged in the late ARRAY with
The sailors Of the San Giovanni.
j. Frederick Becker, keeper of q lager bier shop
81 No. l0l Essex street. yesterday afternoon put an
end to his existence by cutting his throat with ra
FOR. An account Of the melancholy affair will be
found elsewhere.
vast amount of highly interesting and instructive
Information is given cn our inside pages to day, as
win be seen by the following list:-Letter from
Washington relative to the Cuban Slave Trade, in
Gliding several dispatches upon the subject from
Lord Palmerston and Marquis Mirafores, Of Spain;
Account ola Visit to the Jesuit College at George
town; Political and Gossiping Letters from Albany,
Boston, Florida, Oregon, Rio Janiero, and Mica
agua; the Negotiations for Spanish and Mexi-
can Alliance; Communications concerning Spanish
Reputation and the purchase Of Cuba, the Fishe-
Yies, the Norwalk Disaster, and the comparison be-
tween Servants in Europe and America; Review Of
Commercial Affairs, &c.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-23

Wisconsin Ias given charters for fifteen thousand
miles Of raroad, that will require $500 100000 TO
construct.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-23

The first passenger train from Syracuse TO Roches
ter by the direct route passed oyer the road on the
18th Inst.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-04-15
EY Among the laws in our paper of t,

EE- Among the laws in our paper of to-
day, will be found one for the preservation of
game. BY reference to it, it will be seen how
extremely careful our Legislators are of the
interests of spotsmen-how mindful of the
palates of epicures-and tender of prairie
hens, quails, DE. Tt will be seen too that they
entirely repudiate the idea of natural rights,
SO far as killing this wild game is concerned
indeed a man may not shoot this game on
his own premises, even to save his crops,
without the risk of penalty. And yet these
careful, considerate, tender Legislators, when
asked by $4,000 petitioners to pass law for
the protection Of men, women, and children !;
to prevent their wholesale slaughter by the
wary sportsman, who traps them to their
destruction by the bait of liquor, doubted
whether men had not natural right to thus
destroy their brethren, which could not pro-
perly be interfered with, and they did moth
ing When shall we think as much of our
citizens as our prairie hens9
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-04-15
Kenosha and BeIoit Road.

Books of subscription to the capital stock
OF this road, We're opened in this city on
Tuesday last. Before closing for the evening
SIyrY-oNE THOUSAND DOLLARS had been sub
Scsibej, and the five per cent required by
Law, paid in The books still remain open,
and from indications, we think from ninety
TO one hundred thousand dollars of the stock
will be taken in this city. Certainly there
will be if previous pledges are complied with
which We cannot permit ourselves TO doubt.
This, with the amount ($l5o,oo0) che city
is authorised to subscribe in its corporate ca
pacity, together with such other private sub
scriptions as may be reasonably expected, will
make very fair basis of capital for COM
Inencement, aud We think must insure the
commencement of the work All that has
been done thus far with reference to this road
has been in earnest and in good faith, and in
that spirit shall we deal in what We have to
say. We have no disposition toexcite hopes
that may never be fulfilled, nor instil fears
that are groundless. We have great work
on hand. and should look at it seberiy and
with reference 10 It's magnitude.
II will take then, great deal Of money,
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-04-15

THE HAPPY FAMILY-CoMALIME
TO ALL coNcERNED.-The Madison Argus
and Democrat, frees its mind as follows:
Z" A despatch to the Milwaukee Morning
News announces the appointment of Josiah
A Noonan, as Postmaster. We are not much
surprised at this; his appointment was strong
ly urged by four of the five Congressional
Delegates from this state, who appeared to
act upon the hypothesis that no man was fit
for office who had not committed crimes
enough to entitle him to place in the pen
itentiary, and shrewdness enough to escape
conviction.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-04-15

THE WISCONSIN CENTRAL RAIL Road
This is the name of road for the construc-
ton Of which a company was organized at
the late session of the Legislature. The points
named are Portage City, on the canal con-
Meeting the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, and
Genoa, twenty-five miles west of here, on the
state line. By glance at the map the i'm
portance and feasibility of this route present
themselves. A strait road between the two
points, for the construction ofwhich the ground
is well adapted, will run through the most
densely populated and richest portion of the
state. So far as a market by way of Chica-
90, is concerned, it will furnish much near
er route than the Rock river valley road, for
great proportion of the country that is ex-
pected to look TO the valley road for its car
rying business. But this road especially COM
mends itself to lis at this point By judi
cious expenditure of the money now on hand
we shall probably have as good harbor facil-
tiles as any point on the lakes. When the
cars reach Geneva or Genoa, they are within
twenty-five miles of this place, and eighty
five of Chicago. If the object be lake ship
ment, and we can offer as good facilities for
it as elsewhere, it will come here in prefer
ence to going farther; or if the object be the
Chicago market, it is nearer by this point
than any other proposed route We can ca
silly understand then what We may reasona-
bly, expect by the completion of our harbor
and the construction of our road as far as a
point of intersection with this road. AS to
the probability of the construction of this
central road, we think if any road is construc-
ted in the interior of the state, this will be,
for none now chartered offer equal induce
ments for the investment of capital.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-04-15

EE-T The Milwaukee Free Democrat says,
Gov. Farwell positively declines to be again
a candidate for reelection to his present po-
sition. If this be the Governors unalterable
determination, we regret il, but trust such Is
not the case. Young as Wisconsin is-jnsti
starting in her career as a state, she very much
needs in her Offices, men who regard her
whole interests, above any sectional or party
considerations. Any person who has been
much at the seat of government cannot fail
to have noticed the manner in which the va
rious political factions, and the various sec
tional interests and enterprises, seek to work
themselves into the government, for no other
purpose that we can imagine, but to use the
government power directly or indirectly for
the benefit of such factions and interests
Gov Farwell has been entirely independent
of all these infuences-has been emphatical-
ly the servant of the whole people, and so far
as he has had any discretionary power in his
acts has used that power for the best inter
ests of the whole state. 1t strikes us as very
important that this state of things should be
maintained in the Executive department, and
for that reason desire that Governor Farwell
should be reelected. If, however, he has po-
sitively declined, we must endeavor to find
another like him, in the matters we have men
toned, which, we apprehend, is not impossi-
ble
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-04-15
FAT CATTLE.

Ten head of cattle were weighed on the
city scales on Monday last, the respective
weight of which was as follows: 1855, 1880,
1855, zoos, 1860, 1925, 1925, 1925, 1925,
241O. Aggregate weight, 1926 lbs.
These cattle were fatted by our enterpri-
sing friend, LEONARD CROKER, Esq, of So
mers, and were part of drove destined for
shipment to eastern markets.
We know nothing about the trouble or ex-
pense of getting up such cattle for market,
but are inclined to think the investment prof
liable.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-04-15

COUNTY SUPERvIsoRs.-The following
are the persons elected to the County Board
of Supervisors, from the several towns in this
county, viz:-Pleasant Prairie, c. +. Nor
gan; Bristol, S. Epson; Salem, D. C. Bur
CESS; Wheatland, G. Gillet; Brighton, ].
Hockney; Somers, A. Fetch.
In the town of Paris two separate elections
were held, at one of which J. Russell was
elected; at the other, E. Baker. Aside from
the town of Paris, five of the aforementioned
Supervisors are Free Democrats. 1t should
be remarked, however, that the elections in
the County generally, were not confined to
party considerations.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-04-15
AGENT FOR THE SOUTHERN LINE.

Our excellent friend, JOHN T. SHEPHERD,
has been appointed agent at this place for the
Southern Michigan and Northern indiana
rail road and steamboat line. The company
has been fortunate in its selection, for whilst
Mr.. Shepherd has the confidence in all res
poets of those acquainted with him, his in
dustry is unparalleled, and what he cannot
do in an agency of this nature cannot be done
at all.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-04-15
HE"The Madison journal Tins renorts tb

EETThe Madison Journal thus reports the
Senator from this district, on the bill submit
ting to the people the question of prohibi-
tory liquor law:
Mr.. SHARPsTEIN: At the last session there
was before the Legislature a bill similar to this
which had been voted against.
He had found no reason for change of
his opinion and should vote against the pas
sage of this bill.
Mr.. Stewart would ask the Senator from
Kenosha, how he would vote on the Maine
Liquor Law?
AGAINST. Ninety nine times out of hun
dred