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The sale to private parties is conditional; the
house and grounds are to be offered to Congress
next session for purchase. If It refuses or ne
elects to secure them, we are told that the cher
1t is to be hoped public sentiment will be aroused
on this subject, and that the people will indicate
its wishes to the Government, 20 unmistakably,
that Mount Vernon will be rendered forever safe
from profane and vandal hands. The price named
is exorbitant beyond doubt, and objection to the
purchase by Government is made from the sus
picion that the sale to private parties is only
ruse, designed to help on q scheme Of speculation
upon the patriotic sympathies of the country. |
don't believe it. Mr.. Washngton's reputation
forbids such thought for moment. But if this
were all true, it would only furnish an additional
motive for the purchase by Government at any
price, rather than the dust of the great and good
and the scenes amid which he is laid, should re-
main single day the subject of such disgusting
speculation.
Utilitarians ask what Government is to do with
the place if it becomes the owner! That is a
surely ut any future time. 1t is enough for the
present to say that, whatever is done with it, it
would stand pleasant monument of country's
love and grateful reverence. AS such it would
pay noble interest. But its uses would be still
higher. Government may well invest small
portion of its ample means in attracting thither
the steps of Young America. s'It is good to be
valuable and lasting. Let the mothers of the Re-
public come here and drink some ofthe spirit that
hallows the spot. 1t will tend to fill their hearts
with those sentiments which were instilled into
Washington by his revered maternal parent, and
which made him great. And thus they will be
better fitted to train and mould the youthful
minds of our future Generals and Presidents. If
our statesmen will but tread these scenes, and
catch something of the spirit they inspire, they
must be the better and the wiser. This hallowed
spot could never fail in teaching the history and
nculcating lessons of the patriotic past as no
written page can teach them. The politician
may here learn and feel what was the tone of
public life in the early, earnest, simple days of
The Republic, and be disenthralled from the infiu
snces of the chicanery and hypocrisy of partisan
politics; here, where there is such exempli6cation
Of the simplicity, frankness, purity, and whole
heartedness of the great prototype of American
The reflections which, inspired by
this presence, crowd upon the mind of man,
well calculated to enlarge our patriotism, and
provoke elevated and dgnifed notions of public
service If 1.-THE of all would be effected by the
national ownership of Mount Vernon, who shall
in paltry dollars, its value to the Amer
can people
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NOTICE TO PRE- EMPTION CLAIMANTS.

Every person entitled to the right of pre.emp.
ton to any of the Hands within the townships and
parts of townships above enumerated, is required
to establish the same to the satisfaction OF the re-
gister and receiver of the proper land office, and
make payment therefor soon as practicable gftfr
seeing this notice. and before the day appointed for
the commenc ement of the public sale of the land
embracing the tract claimed; otherwise such claim
will be forfeited JOHN WILSON,
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Nav lO-1awl3w |
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FANNY FERN, it is said, is about to commences
paper in New York Don't you dot, Fanny. Stick
to your sparkling paragraphs, your delightful
sketches and don't blunt your pen with the drudg-
cry, and break yourself down with the RESPONSE
TProridepcs Journal,
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ANEcDoTE OF Mn. WEBsrER.-A fsherman's
sends the fnlln,xinn to the Boston Transcrinf:

ANEcDoTE OF Mr.. WEBsrER.-A fsherman's
son sends the following to the Boston Transcript:
s'In the summer of 1923, when a mere lad,
master was there also, and from him had the
tale. John Trout was the well-known sobriquet
of the fisherman, who attended amateur anglers
on their excursions. John was not remarkable
for his veracity, but quite otherwise, when his
success with the hook and line was the subject
of his story One day he was 'out' with Mr.
Webster. Both were standing in the brook, pa
tient walters for bite, when Mr.. Webster told
John how he caught large, pery large trout on
former occasion. your honor, said John, shat
was very we'll for gentleman. But once, when
l was standing down by yonder bush, took fish
, Msg na..ys s aolge. INV aue ~. h
fish, sAh! John, John,' exclaimed Mr.. Webster,
You are an amphibeous animal-you lie IN the
,oater, and you lie out ofHr'
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This journal has bssa snIasssd, and i printed o.
Psper Of superior quality. It u not mara COM
p'iation from the DMly KEYvsIsc, but 4 well
conducted literary, Political, and miscellaneous
periodical, embracing IN it, cpntents summary
Reviews Of Passing Events; Tales, Sketches, Es.
says, Poetry, &c., &c. It is our detsYminstion to
render it an agreeable and instructive nswspa per,
alike worthy the patronage of every family, and
appropriate for the perusal of every reader.
TERMS:
Two DOLLARS per annum, payable invariably
in advance.
GIDEON & co. Washington, DC.
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NoffCE TO PRESCRIPTION CLAIMANTS.

NOTfCE TO PRE-EMPTION CLAIMANTS.
Every person entitled to the right of pre-emp-
ton to any Of the lands within the townships and
parts Of townships above enumerated, is required
to establish the same to the Satisfaction of the reg
lister and receiver Of the proper land Office, and
make payment therefor soon as practicable after
seeing is notice, and before the day appointed for
the commencement of the public sale Of the lands
embracing the tract claimed, other wise such claim
will be forfeited.
~ 1.'l . b, JOHN WILSON, m
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
June 23-lawl3w l,t
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The MEAGHER CLUB of United Irishmen, and
the Meagher Rifles, of the city of Boston, are
making arrangements to celebrate the Sd OF Au-
gust, the birthday of Thomas Francis Meagher,
on an imposing scale by grand civic and military
banquet in Faneuil Hall. MIR. Meagher,s father,
Who IS member of Parliament for Waterford, Ire
land is expected to arrive in this country on r.
short visit to his cxPatr'ated put honored son.
Yrevous TO the day Of the celebration. Mrs. II.
f. Mcagher accompanies her father-in-law, to re-
mite with her husband aa
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COMMENCEMENT AT CAMBRIpGE.-The COM
mencement at Harvard College was celebrated at
Cambridge, Mass, on "Wednesday with the usual
ohservances. The ceremonies were attended by
the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Mas
sachusetts, and large number of official and dis
tinguished persons, among whom were two ex-
Presidents, Josiah Quincy and Edward Everett.
The addresses of the graduating class, the .qduer
tiser says, were of IN unusually high standard of
excellence. The degree of A. M. was conferred
upon eighty graduates, only two ofwhom, Messrs.
j. d. Newbern, of North Carolina, and VIM. H.
Feck, of Louisiana, resided south of Pennsylva-
MIA. The graduating class exceeded in number
that Of any previous year. The honorary degree
of d. d. was conferred upon Rev. Richard Full
Ter, of Baltimore. One of the features of the
day was the attendance of quite number of the
classmates Of President Walker, to greet him in
his new office. Thirty-nine years have elapsed
since they graduated together.
In the law school connected with the college
the prize for the best essay on the Rights and OBJ
legations of Riparian Proprietors was awarded to
Henry Woodruff, of CINCINNATI sixty dollars;
and for the second best essay on the same subject
to Daniel Clarke, of Prince Georges county, Ma
ryland, fifty dollars. The number of graduates
in the law school was fifty-one. The Hon. Ed
ward Everett was reelected President of the As
ISOLATION of the Alumni.
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and the north half Of thirty five, in toDn.1ip ten,

Of range five.
LAnds appropriated BY law for the use Of schools.
military and other purposes, together with those
swamp and overflowed lands, made unft thereby
for cultivation, If any, granted 70 the state oy
the act entitled Gan act to enable the State OF Ar
kansas and other States TO reclaim the swamp
lands' within their limits" approved September
%, 1850. soiW b. sxcIudtd from ne sales.
In accordance with tho provisions OF the act OF
18th July, 1886, hereinbefore referred to, pre-
emption claims will not be allowed to any of the
above. mentioned lead mineral tracts to be offered
at Mineral Point, until after they have been offered
at public sale, and become subject TO private en-
try And these tracts will be sold in such legal
subdivisions az will include the mine or mines at
not less than tpo dollars and fty csnts PER acre;
and II not sold at the public sale at ouch price, nor
shall be entered at private sale within twelve
months thereafter the Same shall be subject to sale
as other lands. $3.50, ,.3i! y l6s8a.U
The Offering of the above lands will be COM
menced on the days appointed. and will proceed
in the order in which they advertised until the
whole shall have been offered, and the Gales thus
closed but no sale shall be kept open longer than
two weeks, and no private entry ofany OF the ands
will be admitted until after tho expiration OF the
two weeks. aa.'i ilal .f5..
Given under my hand, at the city of Washing.
ton, this twenty first day of June. Ammo Domini
one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
~. VI .s FRANKLIN PIERCE
BY the President: 3F
JOHN WILSON, . IS
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
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The reported defeat of Russian force in the
Caucasus is thus denied in letter dated ST. Pc
tersburgh, June %:
81 presume you have had accounts or reports Of
a defeat that the Russians 0,0OO men, under
General Wreski) are said to have sustained in the
Caucasus, with loss of % guns, on which occa-
sion FIVE battalions of Poles are said to have gone
over to the enemy, with number of irregular
troops. | cannot find that there has been any
such defeat. There is no general of that name,
but Major General Wrenshi, who however, has
not 4O, 900, but only 1900 men under him; the
terrain there does not admit of any such large
bodies of troops being man9uvred.
ssMoreover there no Polish regiments in the
Russian army what Poles there are in the service
are mixed up promscuously with the Russians,
and form no distinct regiments. On the whole, |
am told they constitute about fifteenth part of
the army. The regiments that bear Polish names
such as Lublin and Bug, contain no more Poles
than others, nor do the regiments that are called
Kew and Odessa contain any undue proportion
of the inhabitants Of those places"
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Lnms Gorerning the Engle.-

Lars Gorerning the Eagle.-
"All boarders must pay weekly" ,"
This is an unexceptional rule it can
be mathenatically demonstrated that
II man cant pay one week, he can't
pay tsro-see the 47tl problem of
| Euclid
Z, persons stopping without bag
gage must pay in advance.
This is rather hard on Pedestrians.
but is deemed necessary TO the healthy
existence Of the Eagle.
drunkenness positively prohibited.
This will be a rule difficult Of enforce
ment. What is meant by drunk q
Are there not degrees. az in other
things. for instance Temperance. -
Are there net FIRST, second, and bird
degrees and are there no. some
people so excessively temperate, that
they deem it an act Of impiety to
"crack SMILE or even breath the
perfumed air Of midsummer It il
even SO. Hence the difficulty of de-
fning drunkenness. Law makers
with all the light of New England.
shining them in the face, have been,
and still are unable to fis in the stat
ute what is drunkenness
Staggering is no sign A man may
be drunk (as many are from day to
day and never stagper. And agreat
many Singer without being drunk at
all 1t would not do for the lse to
say that "every man who talks loosly,
shall be deemed drunk" because a
great many Of the most respectable
class, do this habituaily. How then
is the Eagles rule to be enforced
unless some man is stationed in the
dining room door, who'has been drunk
a time or two himself aud knows what
it is; but Who now in his official ea.
pseity as inspector Of heads, takes
nothing stronger than green ten
Come somebody who is acquainted
with this matter, and let us know how
The third rule Of the Eagle is to be
enforced.
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Gbt1prtklu Gull1rt
GEORGE A. PIKE,

EDITOR AND PRDPRlET
~ Ohr,a, Jopyai of The Parish of Enst
Hahn Ropge. .iiso Of The Crosse 1dc and
Ht,on Rohge, anf Of ne Batoa Rouge AMI
Clinton PLANK Rad Corr,an'es. -sI1
13-1he cause Of war IL at an end
The Message has been deliycred-re-
ported, printed, read and digestea BY
at least one half the citizens of the
Republic. Our city contemporaries
may as well shake hands again in fel-
lowship, and look fer something else
to quarrel about III Is a matter Of
very small moment now. who stole II
who guessed at its contents and
made an abstract from imagination,
or who, in the White House, in tho
kitchen, or the Cabinet, violated the
breach Of confidence, ny poeping in the
missivc. It's all over now the child's
born, and its name is Anthony
After the Message has passed
through the editorial grest-mill, and has
been fully sualzed and synthacized
by the whole corps editorial then il
there Is enough Of it left to serve TO
make q leader Of for this paper, We
shall make il the ground work for the
expression Of cur sentiments in refer
ence to it,
1Tluitc revival is At present
going on, at the new Christian (C.n,p
belite Bap,is, Church. on Fifth street.
A number have .joihed the Church, and
there will be a large EMERSON at an
early day
This will doubtless create 4 sensation
with other denominations, who will
as usual-rally their forces, and en-
deavour TO keep their frks together
This has generally proved impossible
The ladies Che Lord bless them fer
it) will change for variety, as we'll as
fashion sake and which ever side
makes the most noise, and thus carries
the day, will take The ladies' with il, in
spite Of all that can be done to prevent
it.
IL the weather is not very much
against IL, vo 'ook to see r,eny emer-
sion. in The coming month.
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HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO
THE EMPIRE PROCLAlMEDl!

teresting character
The press Of the Republic are silen
on every subject, except the fulsom
flattery Of Santa Anna and the lauda
ton Of his victories. The whole corp
editorial, are fawnihg upon the militia
~ ehicf,ain in the vain hope that some
thing may be received in reco,npens,
therefore, when the Empire is estab
lishcd. which II is confidentially asser
ted will take place on the 10Th instant
The order Of Guadalupe has been re
established, and a long list of foreign
recipients named. among whom are
Gen. Allnonte and NJ. Arrangois. Don
| Juan, u Ceballos and Don Marcelnc
Castenelo, have been broken of their
commissions as Judges Of the Supreme
Court, and incarserated in the Castle
of Chapu''erec, for refusing TO receive
he croas of lie order of Guadalupe, as
anti republican.
II is impossible 10 realize The hope
less condition u The crumblinR Repub-
lie. On the lst instant, Santa Anpa's
preparatory proclamation to the En-
rire was issued. Il WA uttered from
The Palace with a great display Of mil
i'ary in every part Of the city, TO quiet
any outbreak tl,st an exnlting popnla-
tion might be expected te be betrayed
into. But neither the troops nor the
police could restran some doz. ms Of
ragged men nnd boys with cane stafls.
shirt tails. a solitary flag with devices.
and miniature bust Of santa Anna
held high IN he air, from paralng the
streets and crying V,,n et Imper,o,"
"Adtos Santa hmm &C..
The title Santa Anna il 10 bear when
the Empire is proclaimed il Antonio
primero.
II IN confidently asserted and gener-
ally believed in the City Of Mexico, that
a secret treaty has been concluded be-
tween England and Spain for the eman-
cipa.ion Of tho slaves in the Island of
Cuba.
A dreadful accident happened near
Harranea. A team WINS conveying
several hundred kegs Of gun powder to
Vera Cruz. under y heavy escort Of ca
valry. One Of the kegs leaking The
friction Of the wheels ignited it md
the whole exploded with a force that
batfels description. But one body Of
the whole escort could be found-the
trees were uprooted and the earth riven
as ifhy earthquake. For miles around
the country was filled with dust and
smoke, and the DILIGENCE some dis
tance in the rear was nearly overturn-
ed by the terrific force of the explosion.
The ruling spirit of Santa Annals
Is one Bonilla, disciple
of the Jesuits who denounces repub-
|icanism as the acme Of Vandalism
rThe Point Coupee Echo. is
altogether a remarkable paper. It
has greater variety Of short articles
On the subject of the weather" than
any other dozen papers in the State.
The last we see is thia. "THE Wealth
ER.---The weather, which up to We'd
nesday, had for weeks previous, been
wonderfully fine, suddenly changed
The oldest inhabitants does not re-
member to have seen such favorable
veather--unfavorable to the crops, as
his season.
We cut out the Echo's weather
'rticles,' and paste them in book
or reference, and out Of three hund-
ed AMI sixty-three, there is not two
like. They are more varied in their
orm and complexion, than the "stri-
,ed Hyaena Z
D.
Z i. |
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to the times, having too mucl, OF the
Chesterfield and Count Dorsey about
IL. The Times says: "I'he true gen
tleman always respects the feelings of
others, and only violates this rule
when superior considerations compel
him. a., for instance, when he has to
expose knave
The very reverse Of this, is the
,n,,dern gentleman, he respects him-
self, and his own feelings FIRST and il
possessed Of any surplus revenue IN
this way, gives it to others as conje-
scension. When he departs f,ols
/. this rule be uninasks the knaye hy
exposing himself The Times says
again, in answer to his own questions,
The true gentleman never cuts
an acquaintance. We know not
what the Times means about "cuts.'
The True gentleman, makes it his
business TO ascertain The ralue Of ev-
cry man and woman in the communi-
| ty, and regulates his attention accord
ingly. lie gives a condesceuding
wave Of the hand to "a thousand
accompanies the same with a pleasant
smile at five thousand---hows low to
ten thhnsand---lowcr to twenty, and
takes his hat off to tifty.
Speaking Of gentlemar--somc years
ago--when the wharf boat Princess
was new and alas, the enbers Of the
wreck hay cjust gone out When the
Princess was new and had comf,t.
able beds, breakfasts, and bar fixtures.
a certain Doctor of eccentric motion
took lodging thereon. lie boarded
until the beds were out the breakfast
things were broken, and the bar went
dry. Then he leta for more comfort
able quarters and Ms 'rpmembran-
Ger" he bequea'l,ed to the proprietor
Of the wharf. an nureceipted bill, as
lcpe as the boats keel. About two
years after, the proprietor Of the wharf
mrt Doct--- in Lafayette street.
stopped bim--spcke--asked him where
and hon he had BEEN To all of
which the Doctor said noth;sg for a
moment, but scanned the stranger
with tistru-,ful eye at length he
was free to say "Sir | tAi.k / have
seen you before--you have the al
,ss,,fo.ge Of me-" lie did not deny his
old friend and creditor, when the ,eiea-
t,ty was established hut taking him
by the hand in the most grateful and
gcattemd,slY manner, took him in'
fnr AZ much more as bis former indeht-
c,lness.
This, Mr.. Philadelphia Transcript
is good .ample--snd true of a mod
erH Gentleman--a gentleman without
any 'nawkish scntimentailty or stale
ofimorslity--a gentleman ,,o,.
s.rrc2ieace.
The Gatta- Percha payty.-This
$ to be the title Of new branch &c the
Louisiana Democracy. 1t is to be
rotten up in opposition to the Tam
many society Of New Orleans" By
he way what has become Of "Levi
North and his horse Tammany Have
hey gone over on tho side of the enc
ny 70 cut capers' A biltof last years
late, is on our back wall in which it
: said in flourish of rcd and blue
'aint, That Levi North and his
'orse Tammany will PERFORM and
lso that the splendid charger John
'hdeil, and the white horse surry
I'll do some of their marvellous
ricks. What has become of them ?
toREFcS MINISTERS TO BE DErArs-
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THE SociAL CtRcbE.--This i the
name Of a society Of ladies in jackson
La, The object Of which, is TO obtain
life pledges from the Gents, to ab-
stain from the use of all intoxicating
drinks, We think that as an offset
to this, that the Gents should get M
another society, to obtain from the
lsaic. pledge to indulge in none
Of the ahcmniations Of liquid--chalk.
ronge, bow-ketchers and other similar
unnatural and Incorporate fashions.
Drinking good vine temperately,
is no greater sin than falling in love
With beauty and intelligence. Gcd
ordained it in the nature ofthincs, that
man should inherit these weaknesses.
and why attempt to bind them up il
foolish pledges.
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u We call particular attention to
the work now being published at the
Office Of the True Delta, which will
embrace a full complete history of the
recent epidemic with full list Of all
the interments in New Orleans, from
The LIST of May to the ist of Novem-
b.r. 4 notice of the publication will
be found in our advertising columns.
The information has been complied
with great care, and expense. The
work can be had in few days by adj
dressing letter to the True Delta Office
103 St. Charles St. N. o.
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o. There is no disagreement, az
to what is sublime and beautiful.
The same impression is made upon all
alike, tntored and untutored II should
be the strife of every good citizens to
got up good models before the public,
for the very roason that they have
powerful Influence on civil liberty and
the progressive movement Of things.
II people would pause for a moment
TO think thus, they would cloth the
neither extremities of feminine iuyp
niles in dispite Of fashion If there
is any thing in the world to make q
feeling man. heart sink within ITSELF,
and keep before the mind living,
moving picture of "forked radishes !"
it is the juvenile misses, as they fit to
and fro in the public thorougbfsres
with bare-legs, decorated with fancy
colored hose Sometimes we can see
peeping down, modestly, all that re-
mains to view of the modest pantilet,
but it bushes to look on The attenua
ted spindles, whereon the present
stands. A lady friend in
forms us, that the anxious parents are
afraid their children will be thought
Boomers, If their pants arc risable.