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Census Of CaIiforn ia.

We are indebted TO the courtesy Of Governor John
Bgler for copy OF his message OF January 28h commu-
nicatng report OF the secretary OF stats the census
of California, taken in 1852. The returns show popu-
laton OF 24436. emitting 4 Dorado county, one Of the
most populous and productive OF the State The popul-
ton OF that county estimated At 10000, which would
make the entire population 264436. But il believed
that not than fve-sixhs of The entire population
have been enumerated, account OF the difficulties at
tending 90 complicated and extensive undertaking in
and comparatively unknown country, the mixed
unsettled. and fuctuating character OF the popsla.
lion, the difficulty OF thoroughly exploring the noun.
tain counties, hostile Indians nesting portions Of
the State. and the supposon the par, OF many that
the census was in connected with taxation
But making allowance for these causes and looking
to the actual returns, they show increase in The pop
ua,ion in two years of 99.435 souls, an annual liz.
crease of 4s7l7, equal TO thirty per centum The esr
timated population exhibits annual increase Of
for,y- per centhe increase in the population Of
the whole Union, according the census OF 1850 beirs
three and half per cent. year.
The following abstract presents the capital and pro.
ducon. of the State. the youngest in the confedeacy
and which little better than barren waste four yeas
E +
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any way oensurnk regarding disposition Of the
matter improper
Be this, however it may be. 10 quite certain that
the Democrats accusation that acted ia hostile spn
towards Colonel Benton is absolutely absuIdjust alb
surd as further allegations that have shown our
selves hostile TO the West, and hostile the organixa
ton OF the Nebraska Territory. aud that We are CO.
ope Tatng with the nulders. and scheming for United
States South" All such crazy abuse this from the 81
Louis Democrat We can afford to receive with the silence
OF contempt But whenever in any quarter an attempt
is made to falsy position and course towards
Colonel Benton, or towards any other leading Statesman
OF the democratic party, will meet such malignant
iasehood it deserves TO be met We seek no con,ro
versy with any democrat; but who thus assaults
and ISLANDERS US, however high however humble he
NAV be- shall escape with impunily
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The Commissioner OF Customs.

The Portland Advertiser, staunch wing journal. ae-
knowedges in the following just terms the merit and ca
paci,y of x-Governor Anderson, Of Maine, who has
lately been appointed to the important Office Of commits
sioner of customs
President Pierce ha, made good appointmen-that
of Governor Anderson, of Maine, commissioned OF
His talents such required in that
Office He is a Of enlarged views and extensive
reading. patient investigation sntirng industry and bust
habits possesses fund OF general information, and
always in hi, bearing towards both friends ano
opponents IL will be forunst. Tor General Pierce and e
oountry if all hi, appointments ar. rod this"
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Alexandria and Orange Railroad.

Among the internal Improvement bills which have
passed the present session of the Virginia legislature il
one providing for the extension of the Alexandra and
Orange railroad to Lynchburg. and for tina, purpose
thorizing increase in the capital stock OF The CON.
panythe Stale making the usual subscription OF three
ffhs, and proposing certain amendments the charter
From Lynchburg road is besg constructed the Ten
nessee line, where it will unite with Tennessee roads
running to Memphis, the Mississippi, making con.
tnuous route from that point to Alexandria Tbs
leg TO which have alluded caused meeting OF
he ockholders of the Alexandra and Orange road. at
Alexandria on Friday last. when the following resolu
tons were passed
L. To accept the .dments is ch ,rer granted as
the present session Of the Virginia Legislature extending
the road to Lynch burg
Tina, $3.50 900 Of the $40 900 additional
lied be made preferred Stock by guaranying dividend
Of six per oo Of tho net earnings Of the
road provided that whea dividend of six per per
upon the whole of oiplta stock. both old
and new, shall have been declared aud paid con-
secuve years. then the said preferred stock shall DO put
and forever after remain, on footing of equality with the
other stock of the company.
That the president and directors BE- dec cd open
books of subscr pon for the stock Gofdonsvie and
Lynchbug, such places they decide, but that
the privilege be given the old stockholders take the
new stock within sixty days
4 That the president and directors reconnols.
and survey to be made of the Lynchburg
That ia view OF the great importance Of completing
the Orange and Alexandrs railroad Gsr3onsvile the
earliest possible day, the board OF directors make applica
ton forthwith to the city council of Aexaadra, aking
that they will favoaby consider tho proposition
ther subscription by the city council enable
pany proceed with the work. and they DO requested
open poll early day take the Of the
on the subject.
That a, The city Of Washington is deeply Interested
in the extension OF the Orange aud Alexandra railroad to
Lynchburg to connect with the Virginia and Tennessee
and East Tennessee and Virginia railroads. CONNECTING
Cha,s with the southern and south railroads
leading to Memphis New Oheans, and Mobie) the mayor
be requested lay the before city councils,
and ask that they will take into consideration the pro-
pde of cooperating in this great line OF raoad and to
make such subscription behalf OF the city Of Washing
ION will enable this company promptly 70 20 forward
with the work 4esas
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NArHAsEL MISUNDERSTANDING the appointment. !,
OF which we publish the official notice today na' OF
Nathaniel Hawthorne as consul to Liverpool "e gan
not hermit the occasion TO pass without congfatu'asnG
one of the most deserving prose writer's OF me eoeny
ppon an event which will relieve him henceforsh iro"
The mere dudgery Of The literary profess'on and The
psdsn mon an appointment which will never cease TO
reneo, honor upon bis administration. The Office is re-
pued to be quite lucrative, though probably less 40
man like Hawthorne than to who has keener scent
Than he for the profits and fewer scuples about the
means Of getting them. II IL certain, however, TO yield
sufficient to give him. in the few years which he is com
paravely Of holding it,, pecuniary Independence
Hawthorne though man Of the most moderate wane'
is not wha, the world calls thrifty nor have D"
writings possessed the kind Of merit to win for him. I'M
I'll recently, any other than honorary rewards.
I his appointment will emancipste his mind ana pen
and hereafter he will be in condition to do fuller usue'
his genius and resources, perhaps than be has svo
We, been able TO do He 10 jos, At the sse when "s"e
Scott first created sensation novelist, snd tns.
10 no reason why the last half Of his Vie should not
a. pr,lllsn,.--Evsnssx Pest
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SAULT STE MARIE CANALseaed proposal. for the oon'ue
Falls Of ST. Mary, IN The state Of
Michigan be received until OF the first day Of April ne II
and will be opened that day.
agreeAby 10 The act OF Congress
and csss Michigan providing for the consrc
specicsD hIe nj the ONCE
of Captain Csnhed Detroit which references IL made
for more accurate information.
Conant Detroit and be
Of sureies Contractors names to b.
wrie full -.
HENRY LEDYARD,
aHUBAEt. CONANT, Canal Commissioners
ALFRED WILLIAMS,
CHAUNCY Jo5LIN,
Detroit, Feb. 10, 1883
Mar l-dfuApd
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CITY OF WASHINGTON.


aMr HxKKY M LAWS, Montgomery, Alabama, Is oar gem
er OF Alabama and Tennessee
sisted by O. LEWIS JAsxs LEwIs and sAauHi ID Lswts
f-,i O. w J.AKs OF Cincinnati Ohio general travelling
agent assisted by Jonr H. Dssr, H. =.
THoaAs o. DrEH, M l.. WlsEaAs, Isaac bAkrLAfr H. Z
COOKS, A. l.. CnILDs, and l.. II. BHowsELI
nxMr Iss.EL JAAas No. loa South Tenth street. fhisdei
phs, general travelling agent assisted BY VIZ H. WILD
Jsas CoLLiH JANIS DExEISs, HAaarr, Jos
IODINE, EDauSp W. Willy, WtLLiAA l..
WATERMAN, and GGokos L. Nelson.
lex-Reeepls nom either 81 The will bo good.
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sc n ECHANICs OWN.n-A weekly paper,
III will be issued in this city, pre- vioas thu Lea
Of
pvss~d and talented engaged
contribute To its columns. 4tI Nt &EA"6
for the hrss number he handed
once, OF and 10th PAIGE 4 COATES,
Mar o-a~ M
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And he began to sing drinking song, then
well known:

well known:
'sServe your time to drinking trade;
When you've learnt that, your fortunes made"
was hnmbIed and confused, and did not
know What to rel ly. | knew well that Maui
rice did not speak serious y; but to approve,
would have shamed me; TO contradict HIM,
was to condemn myself | hung my head,
without say ing Il word In the mean time, he
continued to look at the cursed gable end.
{" Poor Jerome !' continued Maurice, changing
his voice as with emotion; " if he had not fol-
lowed bad examples when he was young, we
should have had him now with us Madelalne
would have had some one to direct You. But,
no; now there remains nothing of him-not
even good memory; for we regret only the
the true workman When the unhappy man
was crushed there, on the stones, do you know
what the foreman said q" 4 drunkard the
ess!-take him away, and sweep this up! l
could not restrain movement Of Indignation
Well he was hard fellow" continued Mau.
rice; {" he only valued men for what they were
worth. If death had taken good workman
he would have sad "It's pity" At bot
tom every body thought as he did, and the
proof is that Jerome was followed to the grave
by his friends only. Even those with whom
he drank turned their backs upon him as soon
as he was in the coffin; for, you see, scampss
are companions, but never friends" listened
all the while without reply. We had begun
az ain to walk at the first cross-way Maurice
stopped, and showing ne the chimney, which
far away rose above the roofs" When you
wish to begin again your yesterdays life" said
he, &" first look there, and the wine that you
drink wiN taste Of Jlood" Ile departed. leav-
ing ME quite overwhelmed.
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and while there is yet hope, like him cast away
the filthy, oathsome and poisonous weed, that
if they must die prematureIy, let them resolve
it shall not be by suicide, nor by such nsu,
scous, disgusting instrumcntality as the use OF
tobacco. And we do deliberately assert, that
with thousands of facts like the above, although
perhaps not so striking, constantly before them,
those who deliberately continue the use OF this
deadly narcotic, will be just as guilty OF sui
eide as if they shortened their days by arsenic
or poison hcnlock.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
THOMAS J. WARREN.
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will find Messrs Walker Il James ready to ex-
tend to them liberia, terms, or, if they happen
to be overllowing with work, (as is freqently
the case in the winter season) there are others
on less scale, but equally deserving, who are
both skilful and prompt in business, and ac-
colnmodaling in disposition. We confidently
invite you, gentlemen, to test the matter for
your own considerations III.
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CorroN-From the November number of
DcBow's Reriem, itappears that the total cot
ton crop Of the United States in 1923 was
3,262 $50 bales; to which, if We add the pre-.
vious stock on hand Of 9l,l76 bales, we have
for the total quantity now 3,354,05s bales.
Of this amount, after deducting the foreign ex-
port and stock on hand in the country of
1876 CAB bales, and 20,S6l bales burnt at New
O.leans, there remain 81 ,009 bales for home
consum ption, against 603,029 last year, and
4O4lOs the year before, exclusive of the
amount consumed by manufacturers south of
Virginia. In this and southern establishments,
it is estimated that 10000 bales are used in
North Carolina, 10000 in South. Carolina, 90.
600 in Georgia, 5000 in Alabama, 5000 in
Tennessee, and $4,000 on the Ohio; making
total of 10000 bales; which, if added 10 the
stock of interior towns, etc, give total crop
of the u. S., last year, of about 100000
bales.
In 1851 the cotton exported from the Uni
ted States amounted to 81 ll2,3l5.3l7. In lS-
50 the value of the cotton exported from the
ports Of the Gulf of Mexico alone amounted
to about Sl00,000,000; and the other products
from the same ports amounted to Sl00,000,000
more. The total value of the cotton exported
from the United States from 1890 to 1851, was
SILL ,G9l ,676
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SLEEp.-Few of our readers, perhaps, are
aware that the human body falls asleep by de
grccs. According to NJ. Cabins, French
Psychologist, "the muscles the legs and arms
lose their power before those which support
the back, and he illustrates this by cases OF
persons who sleep on horseback, or while they
are standing or walking lie conccivcs that
the sense of sight sleeps first; then the sense
of taste next the sense Of smell next that of
hearing and lastly that of touch. lie main
tains also that the visccra falls asleep one at.
ter another, and sleep with different degrees OF
soundncss.
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The Loss of u wife.

In comparison with the loss of e wife, all
other bereavements are trifing. The wife! she
who fills SO large a space in the domestic hcav.
en,-she who is Busted, so unweariedly, for the
precious oues around her,-bitter, bitter is the
tear that falls upon her cold clay! You stand
beside her coffin and think of the past. 1t seems
an amber colored pathway, where the sun
shone upon beautiful flowers. or the stars hung
glttering overhead. Fain would the soul lin.
ger there. No thorns are remembered above
that sweet clay, save those your hand may nn-
willingly have planted. Her noble, tender heart
lies open to your inmoSt sight. iou think of
her now as all gentlcness, all beauty, all purity.
But she is dead! The dear head that laid upon
your bosom rests in the still darkness, upon
pillow Of clay. The hands that have adminis-
tered so untiringly, are folded, white and cold,
beneath the gloomy portals. The heart whose
every beat measured an eternity of love, lies
under your feet The flowers she bent over
with smiles, bend now above her with tears,
shaking the dew from their petals, that the
verdure around her may be kept green and
beautiful.
There is no white arm over your shoulder !;
no speaking face TO look up into the eye of
Love- no trembling lips to murmur, 90 it is
so sad"
There is so strange hush in every room !!
no light tootstcn passing around. No smile to
greet You at ghtEaI. And the old clock ticks
and strikes, and strikes and tcks--it was such
music when she could hear it Now it seems
to knel only the hours through which you
watched the shadows Of death gatheri g upon
her sweet face.
And every day the clock repeats that old
story. Many another tale it telleth too-of joys
past, of sorrows shared, of beautiful words and
deeds that are registered above. You fce.--O,
how often, that the grave cannot keep her.
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Tobacco Users, Read, Learn and Inwardly
Digest the following Facts.

Digest the following Facts.
4 friend with whom we have been well ac
quainled from his boy hood who was tolerabIy
athletic and healthy in youth. but in middle
life became feeble, and before he was fifty years
old, was attacked by distressing and alarming
fts-was very dyspeptc, and suffered uore
state OF the system very appropriately denom
mated the "horrorS," constantly sinking lower
and lower, until it might be truly said he was
torment to himself and all around him. From
a very amiahle, afectonate, kind-hearted man,
he had became excessively irritable, cross
grained aud troublesome, and very serious
trouble to his family. Of course the phys.
clans aid was constantly invoked but it was
all of no avail, he gradually became more ncr-
vous, and less capable of self control. lie
was very poor, mere shadow Of his former
self and the pcrSnnilication of dependency
and mental suffering. At length although a
thorough cold water man, he had fearful vista,
tions of "snakes in his boots" IN attack of
dclrinm trcmens He was at this time about
ffty.fvc years old And here we will leave
him as he was, and tell our readers what he is.
We had not seen him for six or eight years,
until he called upon us last week, but so changed
that literally we could hardly believe it was
the same ndividual-instead of the mere sal
low, lantern, jawed shadow, we saw before US
a healthy, robust and very cheerful, happy
man. Instead of the skeleton Of 10 or ll5
hounds, we saw the smooth-f;iced, elderly gen.
tleman, weighing from 40 to $50 pounds
Instead Of being barely able to drag himself
about, he was able to perform the hardest Ia
bor.
And now our readers will ask, what has pro.
duced this wonderful and entire transformation
The answer is, he aburcd tobacco after having
used it for forty years. His physicians assur-
ed him that medicine was OF no avail that
snakes would never leave him while they could
find pipe or tobacco box in which they coudal-
ways find shelter This excited his ire at first,
but he resolved to make the attempt. lie did
so-hc resolved and there was still enough of
manhood that had not been smoked or spit out
left, to enable him to keep his rcsolutiUn-to
save him from anticipating the tormcnts OF
another world, and snatch him from n prema.
ture grave.
Let the hundreds of thousands who arc pur-
suing the suicidal course of our friend, reflect,
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CorroH CRor.--The following extract from
letter from planter Of Jasper county, Ga. a
gentleman of high character, and in whose
judgment we have high confidence, presents
gloomy picture of the cotton crop in that sec
ton. The letter is in response to one from L
gentlemen in this city :-1ug"sta Sentinel.
JASPER Co., Nov. 9th 1853.
My FmEND: have wanted to see the cf-
ftcts of the frost fully developed before an
swered your letter. have examined my own
crop and some others in the neishborh"od, aud
have cn,rlred OF all my acqnaintances whom |
have seen since the reception of your letter up
on the subject. My own crop and Others in
that ncighborhood will not make more than
onc.thiri of the last crop. | made last year
lS7 bags; this year not more than 80. The
county will do better than this, bat from all |
can learn the county will not make more than
one half of the crop of last year. This is no,
an under estimate.
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CoHpUcr OF LADIES IN TIE STREET.-Whcn
three ladies are walking together, it is better
for one to keep in advance of the other two,
than for all three to persist in maintaining one
unbrokcn line They cannot all join in con-
vcrsaiion without talking across each other-a
thing that indoors or out-of:toors is awkward,
inconvcncnt, ungcntce, and should always be
a, odcd. Also, three ladies walking abreast
occupy too much of the pavement, and there
fore ncommode the other passengers Three
Young men sometimes lounge along the pave
ment arm in arm. Three young gentlemen
never do so.-INrs LcskeS BehaOior Book.
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ANOTHER VICTIM TO lNTEMPERANcE.-A
few evenings since stranger in our city was
found drunk out in the streets and to protect
him from danger of lying out exposed to the IN
cemency of the weather, he was placed in the
Guard House. Upon visiting him the next
morning he was found dead. A coroners M
quest was held over the body and the verdict
returned Died from the effects of drinking
Thus has ntemperance sent one more soul uI'-
prepared to meet its God, aud thus have liquor
venders one more mu,rler to answer for at the
great day, when God will sit in Judgment to
consider our actions whether good or evil.
atlanta (Geo.) InteWgencer.
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BEAUTIFUL IxcIDENr-A naval officer
being at sea in a dreadful storm, his lady was
sitting in the cabin near him, and filled with
alarm for the safety of the vessel, was so SUR
prised at his composure and serenity that she
cried out:
"My dear, are you not afraid ! How is 1t
possible YOU can be so calm in such u dread
full storm y
He rose from the chair, dashed it to the deck,
drew his sword, and pointing it to the breast
of his wife, exclaimed:
care you afraid!"
She instantly answered, "No"
"Why y said the officer. =.
"Bccausc," rcjoined the lady, q know this
sword is in the hands Of my husband, and he
loves me too much to hurt me-"
"Thcn," said he, remember | know in
whom believe, and that lie who holds the
wind in His fists and the water in the hollow OF
His hands is my Father"
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Whatever be mans station in life, whether
higher or lower public or private, he will be-
come better man, and escape many disas.
ter, if he will listen in due season to the voice
of the intelligent and the refined among the
other sex.
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A barber desired Il groggy customer OF his
one Sunday morning, whose breath smelled
strong of alcohol, to keep his mouth SHUT O:
the establishment might get indicted Tor keep
ine rum hole open on on Sunday.
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4 PERT RErLy.-A young buck belonging
to the independent drink or-Iet t.alone;Just'as-
as-I please. .wilhout.signing g-thepledse-soclety 3,
poppeA tie question to pretty girl short
time since. who brought u still deeper blush to
his alcoys blushing oountcnance, by replying
that as she had signed a pledge to neither
drink nor traffic in ardent spirits, she did not
feel at liberty to trc8c herself Off for ho:gs-
ycad ct' brandy.