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New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-12-14

VIII leave on or nboet WEDNESDAY, Dec. a. o'clock
EOR LOUISVILLE and all inter- -
mediate ,ndns. R.zsla. louis vile and New L@&S =
Orleans Packet A. L. sHOTWELL.-rhs mag -
ahcsnt aad passenger racket steamer A l. SHOT
WELL, b. Elliott, receiving freight and will
passage unsurpassed
da.ions, apply board,
" STRorHER 4 BROS. Is Poydras
~ plan Rooms by
spplying 70 the Agents. d.
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NOTICE.-Office of the e. xn -
IN n o. and opslous. and 6. W s * x.f1a,---sszs
Passenger will leavs
sook and p. ss II A. r. and
~ On Sunday, the Train viii leave O'clock
return at s5s TX, and ~ o'clock.
Nv isf R.~
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-14
Cubic feet discharged

II appears that fifteen feet deep on Wheeling Bar the
Ohio current at the rate Of three miles per hour and
discharges than hundred millions Of cubic feet OF
rdt per hour. At thirty feet high water on the Ohio
equivalent TO sixty feet at Cincinnati the current
nearly fee miles hour, and discharges seveR hundyed mil
hons Of cubic feet Of mater.
With these elements it is not difficult to calculate the
Deficiencies at low water, and the high water and
consequently the amount necessary be retained in re-
servor in order to make the Ohio of given depth at all
Mr.. Eet has done this and certainly the ma
ygaon and shipping interests of the Ohio are deeply
indebted TO him for his clear and able exposition Of this
subject
But we must hasten to the conclusion which when we
consider the magnitude Of the object be obtained re-
markable for the smaness Of the cost required Mr.
Eet has ascertaned beyond doubt that only three or four
dams no higher than those the Schuyk navigation
placed the Allegheny, Monongahea, and Kanawha
above navigation would be sufficient equaze the depth
of water at least feet and that sufficient for packet
boats or large class The following para graph from Mr.
Elet's report gives his conclusions
It has been the duty Of the writer at former periods to
conduct along considerable portion Of the upper AL
egheny and the whole Of the Great Kanawha and become
familiar with the character Of the Monongahea It
susceptible Of improvement Aided by this personal know
ledge and that acquired the he hazard.
the opinion that less than mon and quarter Of dollars will
suffice supply the Ohio with depth sufficient for boats Of
five feet draught TO and
CATION up the Allegheny TO franklin and sackwater navi
CATION during Of the year from Franklin to the
line Of the Erie Railroad in New York improve the navigation
Of the Monongahela into Virginia. and that
kanawha seventy eighty miles above Point Pleasant
plying water Of unryacd capacity and permanence
lines Of steamboat navigation and curbing
scntially the destructive power Of foods"
The Of this most important enterprise is insign
cant compared with the magnitude Of the objects and
II will be most surprising If the Government whose duty
is, should fail in the performance Of that duty il the
shippers navgators and merchants of Ohio should not
do it on their own account Nothing repay. them
better,
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1.-THE WORD sELAH y

The ransators of the Bible have left the Hebrew word
Seah which often in the Psalms they found
it, and Of the English reader often asks his min
lister, some learned friend, what it And the
minister or friend has most often been obliged confess
ignorance, because IL is matter in regard which the
most learned have by means been of one mind The
Targums and most Of the Jewish commentators give the
word meaning eterndy forero Rabbi Kinchi regard il
sign to elevate the voice The authors of the sep
Taught translation appear TO have regarded as musical
sign equivalent perhaps to the word repeat According
Luther and others ii means silence Genius explains II
TO mean, lei The Instruments play and The singers stop wo-
chem regards it equivalent to svsts eorda M my
soul Summer, after examining all the seventy pas
sages in which the word occurs recognises in every
an actual appeal summons TO Jehovah y They are
calls and prayers to be heard expressed either with
tire directness, or not the imperative ear Jehovah -
or Awake, Jehovah and the like still earnest address,
es to God that he would remember and hear &C. The
word itself he regards indicating blast Of trumpets by
the priests selah itself he thinks abridged express
sion, used for litigation seah-Higgaion indicating the
sound Of the stringed instruments and Seah vigorous
blast Of rumpets.-Bi6Iiotaeca Sacra
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NOTICE or THE DIsCONTINUANCE
OF the United states Land Once at Charlottesville

FINDER the provisions second section of the Act Of
~ Congress- approved June H. s4O which declares that
whenever the quantity Of public land remaining any
Land District shall be reduced to number Of than
hundred thousand it shall be the duty Secretary Of
the Treasury to discontinue the Land Office such districts
and any land in any such district shall
time OF the disconnuance Of land Office the shall be
subject sale at Of the existing land Offices
convenient to the district in which tho land Office shall have
en- discontinued Of which the Secretary Of the Treasury
shall give notice and ndsmuch ne duty ADORE required
has been derotred the Secretary Of the Interior BY h Act
establish The Home Department. approved Sd March, 1s49
Notice is accordingly hereby given that the Secretary or
ne interior has directed that the Land Office at CRAwFoRDs
vLLr IN the State Of INDIANA be discontinued and the lands
remaining unsod at the time Of the dsconnuancc DO
subject to sale at the Land Office at ISDAsApoLs in said
State.
Lands remaining unsod and unapproprated by law andt
subject to private entry within the limits Of the CRAwroRps
VILE district will to be subject to entry heretofore
Mt that Office from the date OF the receipt Of this notice by the
Register and Receiver thereof and the land officers INDIA
SAroLIs m sioe public notice Of the day chch they wi De
prepared to receive applications entries Of any .gch lands at
their office. JOHN WILSON,
Commissioner Of the General Land Once.
mp 12-3taw6v
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GUANo DIscovERY.-The Journal of Commerce
states that parties in the city Of New York have
certaned the existence Of large deposte of guano,
on barren and uninhabited island Of the ocean,
lying more than two hundred miles from the main
land, and are negotiating with the United States
Government for the protection Of their rights in case
an effoft should be made to secure these hitherto
unknown treasures The valuable agricultural pro-
perties Of the article now generally known and
appreciated, and great demand has been created
for it in consequence Not less than 100000 tons,
to arrive, have already been Sold and it is estimated
that the importations Of the present year will ex-
coed 100000 tons, for which the farmers Of the
United States will pay several million dollars
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-14

The descent of the Ohio from Condesport Cairo ke
mouth is just about the the descent of the Mis-
sissppi from its in Itasca Lake the point
But the Mississippi, passing through much longer space
has consequently less rapid fall.
From Cairo TO Pittsburgh the INCLINATION of
the Ohio is l-5 inches but from Pittsburgh Oean
Point the inclination is feet 10 inches The whole
cinaton Of the river is gentle cure which bends more
and more rapidly it ascends TO the of the
stream.
ment for that depends its depth Of and the
fulness of its navigation. Mr. Eet Is believe the
only engineer who has made complete experiments on the
curves and drainage Of the river, that s volume
water at different depths be fully ascertaned The
ooty and drdindgare matters Of great scientific interest
and give Of the results Of Mr. Ees calculations
matter Of curiosity
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-14

EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY on Saturday the
ooth utmo at the advanced age Of 100 years. Monica
servant woman Of Mrs. Eliza Lancaster Of Cobb Neck
eharies county Maryland Incidents which she frequent
ly related furnished data from which her ace cond be
nearly ascertsned She was servant Of the most un-
common industry and fidelity Though for many years
left 70 herown pleasure and under restraint would
until within lev months Of her DEATH try to render SER
vices TO her mistress to whom she was devotedy
Such longevity, kindness and attachment speak well for
our county.-Pou Tobacco Taes
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-14

sHocKISe MURDER-A singular Of shooting occurred
at New YORK on Friday afternoon young German, named
Frederick W. Mitchell had been paying bis addresses to Miss
Magdaene Thompson and the father the young LADY had
forbidden him from visiting her. He was seen on several
occasons 10 watch for her near the premises and on Friday
afternoon he entered the Shade Factory where the girl
employed, and, upon meeting her. exclaimed at is well
pistol her The charge missed her. and she ranup air
but endcavorng TO his fury received pistol
ball in the left thigh The wound is Of serious nature and
may prove fatal Immediately after shooting the
girl, Mitchell gave himself up 70 the police.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-14
No. 4S9
POSTPONEMENT OF THE PUBLIC LAND
SALES WISCONSIN,.

hereby given that the public sales of lands
de-ed by the proclamation of the President of the Uni
ted States dated the st day of February, 1862 held
the following named Land Offices in the State of Wisconsin
to wit, at the Land Offices at Willow River La Crosse, Ste
venss Point and Menasha, TO the I'd, 10th,
9TH and 2Sd Of May next declared to be postponed until
the 4h 18th, lsth and 25th Of July next respectively
Given under my hand at the city of Washington this 18th
day Of April Domin thousand eight hundred and
fifty three.
BY the President: FRANKLIN PIERCE.
JOIN WILSON, Commissioner Of the General Land Office.
ap 20-wl3w
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-14

The announcement Of the death Of Judge BUR
NET, at Cincinnati which we made few days ago,
seems to be the result Of transformation. He is
reported BY the telegraph to be low that his re-
covery is almost despaired Of, but at the last ac-
counts he was still alive. The announcement was
made on the authority Of postscript note writ
ten BY friend Of Judge Burnet, one Of the most
widely known citizens Of the West, who stated that
he died that afternoon, the 9th. He was Of
course mistaken or wrongly informed.
Nswqrk Daily Advertiser
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1t is HALLEcK who thus happily hits the utilitarian
moneylovng nobility is less satirical than 1t

These are not the romantic times,
So beautiful in Spenser's rhymes:
Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt
The Duke Of Norfolk deals in malt:
The Douglas in red herrings:
And noble name and cultured land.
Palace and park, and vassal band,
Are powerless TO the notes Of hand
OF Rothschild or the Barinrs.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-14

GOVERNOR OF New MExIco-The Union" Of
Saturday announces the appointment Of successor
70 Oov. W. CARR LANE, Of New Mexico in the
person OF the Hon. DAVID MERTwETHER, Of Ken
lucky lie recently filed for a short time the seat
IN the senate Of the United States made vacant
by the death Of Mr.. Gay
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Notice 70 Pre- Emption Claimants.

Every person entitled to the right Of presumption TO any Of
the lands within the townships and fractional townships above
enumerated required establish the the satsfac
ton of the Register and Receiver Of the proper land Office
and making payment therefor practicable after
seeing this notice. and before the day appointed for the
of tho public sale of the lands embracing the
claimed, otherwise such claim win be forfeited.
JOHN WILSON,
feb 4-w13w Commissioner of the General Land Office
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NOTICE TO PRE-EMpTIoN CLAIMANTS.

-.
Every person entitled the right Of presumption any Of
the lands within the townships and fractional townships above
enumerated is required establish the the satsfac
ton OF the Register and Receiver of the proper land Office and
make payment therefor practicable seeing this
notice and before the day appointed for the
of the public sale Of the lands embracing the tract claimed
otherwise such claim will be forfeited
JOHN WILSON,
feb 4-w13w Commissioner of the General Land Office.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-07-29
ALLIS & HOWES
"SI nfnS.nEn C.rsnnnr'S


CorHsr Of Water and Pine SITS :, Eransciiie, Ind
IAVE on hand of the largest and best selected
Ii stocks of Groceries, opened in the Wesi and
offer inducements that will justify dealers. to prefe
the market at Evansville to any more distant point
Merchants are invited TO call and examine.
COFFEE-Rio Jamaica, Java, Mecca.
TEA-Imperial, Gun Powder, Hyson, Young Tyson
Poushong Oolong of all grades from lowest price to fine
est.
SUGAR-New Orleans, Havannah, Loaf, Crushed
powdered.
MoLASSES-The very best Plantation purchased pre-
vious to the first Frost Also reboed and Sugar House
BRANDY-Of all grades from the best imported,
great variety of Brands to domestic manufactured.
WINES-Port Madeira, Claret, White, Sherry, Cham
paign, different Brands and favors.
GIN-London Excise, Pine Apple and very fine liol
land in Jugs.
CIGARS-A great variety of Brands at all prises from
SO 80 to S75Ur y 1000.
AXES-Simmon $, Davis and the celebrated Collins
Together with general assortment OF all articles gen
orally kept in Grocery Establishments. such as Seap
Candles Dye.Stufs Nails Leather, Starch Nuts, large
lot of Gunny Bags Turk Island and kanawha sat- Oils
Paints, Brooms, Brushes, Paper, Tobacco, Counter
Scales, Coffee Mills Spices do ground Matches Traces
Well Chains and fixtures, Tumblers, Decantcrs, Jars
Lanterns Hall Lamps, Oysters lines Maekerel shad
Goldfish, Herring, Shoyels, ect., ect., ect.
All the goods we sell are warranted. OCH
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-07-29
NEW GOODS FOR SPRING 1853.
J. IT. MAGHEE e. co.

Wholesale Dealers and Jobbers in Foreign and Do
nestle Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps,Sc., .
FIRST STREET, EVANSVILLE, IND.
Respectfully invite the attention of Merchants and
the trade generally TO their unusually large and full
otment of Spring and Summer Try Goods, which they
have now in store. and 10 which they will be daily
ceiving additions through the coming
1t Is unnecessary for them To enumerate, rarticu
arize the different styles; qualities. and varieties of
their goods. tits sufficient TO that their stock will
be found full and complete with every description OF
goods suitable for the Western market all of which
have been selected with particular regard quality.
style and price, and which, from their long experience
in the trade, they confidently recommend to their
friends and the trade in general.
Their stock of Boots aud shoes is also large aud COM
plee, consisting of Mems and Boys Boots and Shoes
Monroes, and Brosans of all kinds and varieties Wo
mems and Misses Callers, Booees, Shoes, slippers
and Buskins, with ChldreD's Shoes and Bootees, OF
every kind and price. all of which they offer at exraor
binary low prices being purchased in Boston for cash
exclusively.
They have also hand fine assortment of Hats,
Caps and Bonnets of all kinds for Spring and Summer
Wear.
They earnestly request of buyers examination o
their stock before purchasing elsewhere they
will sell at prices low and terms advantageou,
as can be met with at St Louis Cincinnati any other
Western market.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-07-29
CERTIFICATES.

RocKPoRT STEAM Mills, April. 1850.
AGENTS OF THE BosroN BETTING COMPANY: Gents
As respects the Vucanzed Rubber Betting, 1t Will
speak for ITSELF having been two years In USE The
large main belt makes hundred and eighty reyolu-
lions per minute and apparently as good as the day
they were put on. We have also LARGE quanut! oil
the Railway Betting which is also doing very well.
JAMES HASKELL Superintendent,
NAuMKEAG CoTToS Mills SALEM, April 4. 1850.
AGENTS OF THE BosroS BETTING COMPANY: Gents
In reply your inquiries would say, that after the
use OF the Vulcanized Rubber Belts manufactured o!
the Boston Betting Company for two years, am fuly
satisfied with their operation, although at first taken as
matter OF necessity, 10 drive the machinery that was
stopped by the failure of the gears adopted for this pur
pose. The Railway Betting, had OF you for the Con,
duetors complained of by the overseer that started
them properly adjusted BY his successor and have
been i'm operation three years. and have worked We'll
recurring no repairs particular attentions from which
fact am of the opinion, when first put at work, they
were Kept TOO tightly trained on the pullies
Respectfully yours, $500
EDWARD SMITH, Treas. Nauukeag Mills.
CocHEco MAN'G Co., DOVER, n. H., April, 1850
AGENTS oY THE BosTox Betting COMPANY: Gents
we have had one OF Your Vueanzed Rubber Belts one
hundred and ten feet long and twelve inches wide In
use five years. and will say. if another was wanted we
should the Rubber rather than leather.
| Yourstruly GEO. MATHEWSON
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-07-29
VUVCaNIZED sNDIA RUBBER
v1,cr,ire KseltiEG.

~r@tr o~;,ca of the last five years mas cameo iof
Pa; ,Se confidence OF the consumers; this,
,1s,ha S with The act that great Improvements have
b.en made in the quality warrants the III
I. q, he superior TO leather anything else.
r al omen Belts (more especially for heavy or main
Relts ) for the foewi g reasons
l. The perfect equality of width ana thickness "hieh
IL will retain. - -,
inurcs it, and il remains flexible in any degree oil cold
n is of great strength and durability does not slip
on the pues consequently gain of power is obtained
and when adjusted machinery does not require alter
alton as Is the case with leather, or any other.
A. In wide Betting, the cost is much below that OF
leather, any Other.
II i large ortmeni always on hand, and furnished
of given lengths, at the shortest notice. by.
decll-ls5 BABCOCk BROTHERS.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-07-29
HALLS PATENT ooNcRETE SAFES

OATENTED August q, 1873 Warranted from
Il damp and mould well as fire proof.
We are manufacturing the above superior Safe at
establishment on Columbia street. between Broad
way and Sycamore Streets No. 49, and have constantly
on hand good assortment.
These Safes better article, as it regards fire
proof quality and dryness than any other manufacture
ed in the United States.
We say further that no manufacturer dare risk the
reputation OF their Safesby testing equal in size
and thickness with ours, on fair trial by fire.
Should they, or any of them conclude TO do so, we
will furnish them Safe free Of charge provided it does
not trial prove to be the best article
HALL DODDS & CO.
They can be had at the Factory No. 40, Columbia
street, Cincinnati, Ohio and in the State of Indiana.
at the follow agencies:
HORNBROOK & WOODARD, Evansville.
FRY 81 MAXWELL; Madison.
MUNFORD, & HOOKER, Lafayette.
J.H. VAGIN, Indianapolis.
W.T.. DENNIS a. CO. Richinond.
marl5 end
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-07-29
MEDICINAL.
DR. GRAVES FAMILY MEDICINES

EMBRACING his celebrated Ague, Pills that never
fail TO cure the Auge chills or ntermtant Fevers IN
all their complicated forms. ....
Also his popular AGt Bilious, Anti Dyspeptic purify
ing and cathartic Pills that been much mace
use OF for the of Dyspeptc Liver complaint ana IN
digestion, aa1 giving much RELIEF WITHOUT INC use "
Mercury. -, ,,ed
Also his Pain Extractor that never fails to give md
ate relief from pain in the severest burns or FIR
cures old Ulcers, Scad and letter. and very
Rheumatic pains, and pains in the br east ,.rv or
Also his Cholera Pills. for Diarrh9a, IL! -
Flux &c. ,,.,rover and
Also his Worm Pills exec ent worm aes.iV .enara
will expel them from the systematic ao9s1 af for
lions have besn sold and extensively maue S,,es and
eSght xaers mas, throuqhout the Western States anu
stands high in theestimaton OF tno"s"" ~
cured by them. Sold 10y ,,,,rc,Iv Drpcy;s,s
NELLIE" sept7
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-07-29
COOKIES FAMILY GROCERY.

NHE undersigned las this day opened, in Lincks new
L building First street. between Main and Locust. a
splendid stock of Family Groceries, Of my own selection
from Eastern markets. which will sell al very low prices
for cash, Produce of all kinds.
shall keep constantly hand fresh supplies OF uter
Cheese Lard Poultry and other leading articles for the
table direct from having made arrangements
to be supplied several tmesa week during the summer
with all kinds OF Country Produce. All goods purchased
Cooks will be delivered a, residence of customers
If desired as have market wagon especially for tina
purpose therefore solicit share ofpublic patronage
and will try to merit II. Please call and examine m!
stock Tie3OtfI z. IL COOK.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-07-29
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.

HOPkiNS & k e. ID would say to their friends
- ana customers that they now receiving their
FULL supplies for the SPRING TRADE, TO which they
respecuuy invite the attention of all. comprising
large ana carefully selected assortment of the
designs an Dress Goods and the most desirable of ali
kinds Of rokEiGN AND DOMESTIC FABRICS. Our
stock OF roroiderles large, comprising every
Linen Cam brio do Collars. Jaconet and Swiss Poitings.
Edgings and Insertions; Plain Pc
ohA Wis, from $40 10 $50. Also variety of cheap
Spring and Summer do: Curtain Muslns and Iaees. Fine
Painted Shades and Trimmings Gloves OF All pinds
Printed SILK Ms, Fine Fans Parasols and Ladies'
Umbrellas &C., &C. IL Is useless to enumerate every
thing have In store suffice IL 10 say that our s,ot
be more complete this than ever and hsns, IT.
termned to sell goods Low, ask an %
OF our stock by the community In general mhao
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-07-29
COMPREHENSIVE NOTICE

THE undersigned have this day formed copartner
Il ship under the name aud style of LEWIS d. GRAY
and have made arrangements with the late firm of Har.
rngton Crane Co., to their successors in the
Receiving, Forwarding and Commission Business in th.
city.
We would respectfully solicit Continuance of the pat.
ronage heretofore literally extended the late
firm, and bespeak the good Offices of friends pledg
ing ourselves TO spare no efforts 10 promote the interests
| of all who may entrust business our care.
EDWARD LEWIS,
Evansville, Sept. LIST 1852 sept2-tf CHARLES GRAY
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MERRITT, FIELD & CO.
Wholesale Importers of Dry Goods.

RE receiving and opening in the large and com
n modious building lately erected by Mr. Ohcer Ladd
First Jercen Main and Syeomore street the
largest and best assorted stock OF fancy and staple
Dry Goods ever brought to this market. Our extern
siye facilities in connection with New York house.
enables to offer such inducements To purchasers
will make to their advantage 10 purchase of US. We
shall continue to add weakly TO already large stock
keep il at all times full aud well assorted.
PRINTS PRINTS u
Spragues, Franklin, Cochco, Globe, Merrimaek,
ID Allen 81 Son. Dunnels, Washington aud all desir
able brands, for sale small advaDceon manufacture
ing prices by lmar2l MERRITT, FIELD & co.