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The Metropolitan Railroad.
The Baltimore .Argus says:

The Baltimore y4rgus says:
eve would inform our neighbor of the District
that we opposed in principle to the capitatior
tax upon passengers-but we desired to intimate
to our Legislature that if they thought it good polio,
to keep the tax on the Washington Branch, upon
which the people of the city and State mostI y
travel,) we thought it was bad policy to make a
free road for travellers out of the State thus offer
ing them inducements to pass by our city and
State to the cities of the District. We said this
policy was unjust to the State, and unjust to the
present road, and if the Metropolitan road was
made free, simple justice would demand the Wash
ington Branch should be free also. The Republic
does not deny this, nor does it doubt its correct
ness"
Not bit of it.
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By the President:
w. L. MACY, Secretary Of State.

THE DEMOCRATS OF NORFOLK, VA numer-
ously attended meeting of the Democrats of Nor.
folk, Va, (says the Baltimore American of yester-
day. was held in that city on Saturday night last,
at which preamble and resolutions were adopted
strongly demonstrating against the course Of the
Administration in renstating as postmaster and
navy agent the old incumbents under former Dem
cratic administrations. They complain that the
postmaster has held Office sixteen years, and the
navy agent nearly the same length of time. The
meeting also resolved to support General Francis
M. Boykiu for Congress, instead of General Mill
son, the reg ular nominee. The following, among
the resolutions adopted, pointed as well as
spicy:
Resolred, That Father Richie will confer favor
on the Democracy of Norfolk if in future, be will
mind his own business and let ours alone. We
have given him no authority to speak for us, and
cannot permit him to crafty bis private feelings
at the expense of party he has little contribu-
ted to sustain and enlarge.
Resolped, That the other "Od Fegies, /" in or
out of the State, who aided him in effecting this
outrage on our rights, were guilty of great imper-
thence by meddling with the concerns of q people
who can discover nothing in them dead
weight on the advancement Of the Democrats
cause.
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NEXT MARYLAND ELECTION. - In November
next the State election takes place, and the voters
of this city will then be called upon to cast their
sufrages for the following officers Governor,
Comptroller of the Treasury, Lottery Commission.
err, Commissioner of Public Works, lin place of
Mr.. Pouder,) Judge and Clerk of the new chan
Gerry court, members of Congress, ten members Of
the House Of Delegates, Sheriff, City Surveyor,
and probably magistrates and constables. The
Governor to be elected will serve four years, and
members of the House Of Delegates two years.
There will, however be but one regular session
of the Legislature during their term OF service,
commencing in January next, and closing the
10Th of March following, after which the Lefis-
lature is TO assemble bennially. No Senator is to
be elected in this city this year. but in the follow
ing counties Senators are TO be elected to for
four years, viz: Frederick, Washington, Mont
gomery, Anne Arundel, Prince Georges, st Ma
RVS, Calvert, Charles, Queen Anne's, Caroline,
and Somerset, now represented by five Democrats
and six Whigs.-Baltimore Sun.
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SMART WoMAN.-In Lexington last week, an
Irish woman, named McGrath, was engaged in
baking bread, when, from defect in the hue, an
and, not being able to lift the pig, With axe she
knocked away portion of the ETY., took away the
pig, and tied it at some distance from the house,
On returning she discovered the roof of the house
ing her three children, her fret movement was to
carry them away from danger. Then, returning,
she removed every article of furniture, excepting
one bedstead, which, having lost the key, she
could not take apart. She then removed every
door and window safely from their places almost
before any assistance arrived, and was only pre-
vented by force from entering the flames and
saving her bread from the brick oven. In little
more than an hour from the breaking out of the
fire, she walked over the smoking ruins and took
out her bread. which was found to be very nicely
baked.-Bunkn Hill aurora.
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ssKEEP NO SEcRErs-Ihen there aoiU be no e.
aggeraions," is the sensible and practical sugges.
ton of the Washington Republic in noticing the
exaggerated reports which lately got abroad in
regard to the smallpox at Dickinson College,
alarming parents and friends outside, which sent
off the students in canter to their homes. The
same remark is applicable in thousand cases
which almost daily come within the scope of the
public press, including various incidents, acct
dents, criminal doings, detective and preventive
measures, Sc, &c. 1t is wise always to give
"things as they are,'' in matters in any way con-
corning or of interest to the public and it is the
worst OF policy to throw impediments in the way
of accomplishing such purpose, by doing so
erroneous impressions and statements are sure to
gain currency.-Baltimore Sun.
Our readers no doubt remember the views
we expressed few weeks since in relation to
the means of preventing the spread of infec-
tious diseases by placing each case under the
surveillance and supervision of special
health officer. We are gratifed to learn that
that article was read at late meeting of the
Board of Health of this city, and the subject
referred to committee with instructions to re-
port thereon at the next meeting.
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FEMALE TYPE-sETTKRs-The Boston Oliue
Branch, on which females are employed COM
positors, save:
''Our rooms are we'll carpeted, and the girls do
not come in until nine or ten O'Clock in the morn.
ing, retiring in good season, seldom making
over seven or eight hours day. Smart compost
tors can in that time earn from Sc to SIS week,
We have also one female clerk out of the three we
employ. Added to this, one desk has been occu-
pied by female editor our assistant, at salary
of $500 year. She has spent seven hours day
in the Office for five days in the week. We gen.
orally have in our office organ and piano
forte, and we have music at the meal hours, when
the ladies feel like playing"
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The SHIP CHALLEsaE.-Referring to w. H.
Webb's acceptance of a challenge to sail clipper
ships, noticed in this paper yesterday, the Boston
Atlas seems to intimate that the challenging party
will recede. 1t says:
''To those who do not know the condition of both
vessels, this acceptance will appear fair. The
Young America is now loading, and probably has
much OF her cargo engaged, whereas the .Sove-
reign of the Seas has not yet discharged her home
ward cargo, and moreover will require to be re-
rugged from the lowermasts up, consequently she
cannot be ready to sail within the time proposed
by Mr.. Webb. The acceptance, therefore, is per-
fectly safe on his part, and will have the desired
effect of making landsmen believe that the chai'
lengers backed out -
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SPLENDID Let OF CATTLK.-A lot of cattle passed
our office yesterday on their way to the World q
Fair in New York. which has probably never been
equalled in the United States. They numbered
fifty head, and their average weight, as we under
stand, was 300 and 1000 pounds! They were
sold by Isaac Shelby 4 Son 10 w TAYLOR, of
New \ ork, and are destined as above stated Ken
lucky can well risk her reputation, as the finest
stocking country in the world, upon this lot of
cattie'-lez'nston (Ky) Obssrpsr, I4A.
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brankhn Pierce, President of the United
States of America.

~ ALL WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN
Satisfactory evidence having been exhibited to
me that Z. d. d. PAPESDIcK has been appointed
Consul OF Mecklenburgh Schwerin for the States
OF Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Indiana, and the Ter
ritory OF Min to reside at Milwaukee. | do
hereby recognise him such, and declare him
free to exercise and enjoy such functions powers.
and privileges as are allowed to the Consuls of the
most favored nations in the United States.
In testimony Whereof have caused these letters
to be made patent and the seal of the United States
to be hereunto affixed
Given under my hand at the city of Washing.
ton the 18th day of May, A. D. 1853,
Il. 81 and of the Independence of the United
States of America the seventy seventh
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
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A VALUABLE GEM, on A Touch SroRy.-The
Goshen Wing states that Rev. Robert Armstrong,
Of Newberg. New York, purchased, among other
minerals, what he supposed was topaz, but which
turned out to be diamond. for one half of which
he has been offered S500.O0O, which he declined.
Its weight is two and half ounces, and II a real
diamond, it's value will be more than 81 900 900.
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DErARrMBMr or ErArH,
WAsHlMnHn,a. nx IL

"AsHAA05oHA - I1s 1903.
Information has been recaived fynxn xos r
CoRwrNE, esq, United States Consul It Panama,
OF the death in the charity hospital ia that city,
leaving no effects, of the following citizens
Of the United States, viz:
CHARLES LAWRENCE. HuntsdaIe. Pennsylvania:
JAMES BURTON, Albany, New York; Oarss AL.
BRIDGE, Ossippee, New Hampshire; PArRrcx
CLocKLIS, Rhode Island, (name of town or county
where he resided not known.)
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The MoaMoss-Dates from Utah, of the Deseret
Nes, to February 18th, represent the affairs of the
Mormons in prosperous condition. site for a
temple, to outshine the Nauvoo structure, has
been selected at Salt Lake City, and the corner
stone of the edifce laid with great ceremony. On
festival, opening new social hall with perform
ances by dramatic corps. The NetOs gives
glowing accounts OF the success of Mormon elders
in Europe and other parts OF the world.
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"Now roR HONE PIN the mem orandum-b book
of Mr. Ring one of the victims of the late railroad
tragedy at Norwaik, was found entered the fol-
lowing sentence: Friday morning Now for
home: Dear father-dear mother" What COM
mentary on life,
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The MoRMoNs of Utah are about to cultivate
oysters, crabs, and Holsters in the Salt Lake. If
the water should prove too salt, they design to
construct sluices to let off the salt water and let
In the fresh.
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TIE MEXICAN BOUNDARY CoMMIssIos.-The
in New Orleans, and its way to the scene of its
labors. 1t is organized as follows:
Robert B. Campbell, ESQ.,, Commissioner; MAJ or
N. H. Emory, United States Typographical Engi
neers, Chief Astronomer, Surveyor, and Head Sci
entic Corps.
Lieutenant N. Michler, Corps Topograp hical
Engineers; Messrs. Kadriminak, Gardiner, Clark,
Schott, Ingraham, Prideau, Seaton, Jones, and
Houston, assistants.
Charles Pavoy, M. D., Geologist and Botanist.
The survey was brought by Major Emory as far
down at Laredo last fall, and for the present ope
rations will be confined to the Rio Grande below
that point, with the exception OF the work con6ded
to Lieutenant Michler.
The Baltimore american notes the fact that the
New Orleans Picayune, in mentioning the appoint
ment of General Robert B. Campbell, who super
sedes MIR. Bartlett as Commissioner for running
the boundary line between the United States and
Mexico, says that it learns that General Campbell
T. not empowered to touch that part which has been
the occasion of the late action the part of Gov
ernor Lane. 'The means at his disposal, and his
Instructions" says the Picayune, edo not permit
him to go beyond the survey and location of the
boundary along the Rio Grande below the town of
FL Paso, and therefore he will have nothing to do
with the contested point of the southern boundary
OF New Mexico, which commences above FL Paso,
troversy." As the newly appointed Commissioner
was recently in New Orleans, says the American
on the way to assume the duties of his appoint
ment, it is probable that the editor of the Picauune
speaks on information derived directly from him.
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a letter from IT1nIdad OF N 70 says:
yesterday, from Martinique, having on board a
commission of planters, sent at the instance of the
emperor, to inquire into the manner of sugar cul-
tivation on this island. They will afterwards pro-
coed to Demerara to witness the working of the
coolie system."
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Hon. H. w. HILLIARD, of Alabama, has been
recently elected a corresponding member of the
Imperial Academical Society of Cherbourg, in
France.
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HUMBOLDT, the philosopher, derides the idea of
magnetic table moving, and advises those who
have consulted him on the subject TO ''try their
chaf upon some younger bird"
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portant coosideration with those who know
how far tbs shsence Of the families of the mem.
bers of our NationaA Legislatnre often tends to
render them comparatively regardless of their
habits of life, and Of the good name that a,
their homes is the choicest Of their most valued
jewels.
1t is already proverb among our people that
tits misfortune to be born here, because Of
the absence Of industrial pursuits, and of the
closed doors of the public departments to such
as have not State influence to barter for official
appointments; and to welcome among them those
who are brought hither to fill these places has
been their chiefest pleasure. To be told now
that the determination of these with them is
an objectionable sin, and that their city must
recognise fixed line of demarcation between
itself and the national operations that are here
conducted, is thing too absurd for credence.
The jealous and oppressive spirit that has con-
ceived this notion will surely witness the per-
ishing of its monstrous offspring; for we can
not believe that the practice of prescription
and spoliation can ever lead the high officers Of
this Government so far from the boundaries OF
justice, policy, and reason as to betray them
into the measure that has been so relentlessly
urged upon them.
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DEATH OF Hon. JESSE B. THoMAs.-Jesse B.
Thomas, an old and wel-known citizen of the
West, in a fit of insanity, committed suicide at
his residence in Mount Vernon, Knox county
Ohio, on the Sd instant. Judge Thomas was one
of the pioneers of the West, and at one time was
the delegate to Congress for the whole northwest.
ern territory, except Ohio. He was subsequently,
appointed judge of the United States court for the
district of Indiana, and was afterwards chosen the
frat Senator in Congress from Illinois in 1919,
after the admission Of that State into the Union.
He was a man Of great ability and extraordinary
tact in legislative bodies, and it said the au-
thor of the celebrated Missouri Compromise law.
Jud ge T. has been suffering from disease for sew.
eral months, and in fit of mental alteration, as
above stated, he severed the jugular vein with
razor, which caused his death.-Bufalo Courier.
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The Professional MAN who dares wear
threadbare coat until he is out of debt was in town
yesterday very good looking but melancholy
sort of man he was, and wonder. At the book
store the salesman suggested the advantage of cash
payment, and taking the package home ones SELF
over trusting it to bungling porters who don't
know how to make change properly on delivery.
The sexton of the church he attended gave him
back sea and spoke of the poor ventilation of the
upper part of the room. His landlady was very
much crowded with boarders, and could scarcely
find seat for him at the table. His lady acquaint-
ances found him 90 thin and reduced that with
difficulty they recognised him. and after his intro
ducton could not feel familiar as of old. 1t was
surprising how many of his old compa Mons, who
formerly had leisure enough, had become men of
business, and suddenly remembered pressing en-.
gagements as he met with them. clerical friend
who knows him thoroughly, says that he fancies
singularity, loves to be noticed, and s evidently
proud of his shining raiment. He left town this
morning by the early boat-N. Y. Tines, 14h.
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Miss GRIswoLD.-An item in a New York paper
of yesterday says that Mrs. Griswold, Miss Girls.
void, Mr.. Newell, and two others, are all who
now remain at Norwak, and they are all doing
we'll. it will be remembered that it was Miss
Griswold whom the stage-driver took possession
of and resuscitated after she had been placed
among the dead by direction Of the physician.
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II said that Thurlow Weed of the Albany Jour.
mai, 10 on the eve of bis departure for Rome with
view oil becoming aCatholic,-N. Y. Truth Txller.
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"Clara Moreland, or Aduentures in the Far South
Dest, by Emerson Bennett, is the title of a novel
just published by T. B. Peterson, Philadelphia.
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Godey's Ladys Book, for June, is here. This
periodical is what its name implies, magazine
suitable for ladies, containing, besides much inter-
esting miscellaneous reading, several handsome
embellishments, one of which portrait of the
Empress Eugene.
To be found at BUCKINaHAM's.
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The Virginia Medical and Surgical Journal, for
May, has just been received. Its contents are
original communications, proceedings of medical
societies, chronicle of medical science, editorial
| and miscellaneous, and photographed record.
Published at Richmond, Virginia, by CoLvIN and
NOWLAN.
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The Pictorial Papers for this week have been re-
ceived, and are hand at BUcKINGHAM's, under
the National Hotel
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New Publications.

Graham's Magazine, for June, is as usual quite
entertaining. Its descriptions, written and picto-
rial, of Mont st. Bernard and the Scenery of the
River Rhine, continue to be attractive.
To be obtained at BucKINeHAM's Periodical De.
pot, under the National Hotel.
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ciple she would claim the amount of any award
which had been made, and which, on investiga-
ton, turned out to be fraudulent We have read
you the correspondence of Mr.. Webster and Senior
de la Rosas upon that subject.
IMr. F. here made copious quotations from the
correspondence above referred to, and especially
from the letter of MIR. Webster in regard to the
hnaliy OF the powers of the Board of Commits
sioners.l
This shows that Mr. Webster's clear understand.
ing was that claim had been made for the bal
aace. So be understood it, and Mr.. Rosas .
derstood it, for he made no claim afterwards Mr..
Webster ID not prepared to admit it," but ays
"tbe claim shall be fully considered"
MIR. BRADLEY. Have you seen the minority re.
port OF the Senate, the report of Mr. Brodhead? He
admits the claim.
MIR. FEsDAtL. Well, if he does, let him pay 1t,
then. lLaughter.l Mr.. Rosas never put forth
this CLAIM on the part of the Mexican government.
MIR. Webster says he did not, because he says that
although he denies it now, it shall be fully and
candidly considered whenever Mexico makes the
demand. Now, has she made any such de
mand? Never. Two years have passed-almost
the period of limitation of this Northumberland she
has not yet set up claim. And what would have
been the effect If abe had claimed iG We have
already seen what was the opinion of Mr.. Webster
one OF the most able constitutional lawyers we
have ever known and think we can pit him
against Mr.. Brodhead any day
Mr.. CARLISLE. But Mr.. Brodhead was one OF
| your Senate committee.
Mr.. FENDALL. admit it. But 1t does 30 hap.
pen that these manifold efforts were stil further
manifolded. One of the efforts was to upset the
| indictment upon a demurrer, and the ground wac
| that the surplus belonged to Mexico. They assert
that principle In argument because the court met
| them upon it. They had said that it was not q
claim against the United States; and they urged
| with all their power, that it a claim against
Mexico. and on that ground they contended that
the surplus Of $4,000 belonged to Mexico. The
court replied that the balance belonged to the
United States; that they alone were interested in
| the fund.
can judgel
Mr.. FsSDALL. No; it is the decision Of the judR,
| of this court.
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Directors OF RAILROADS AND THEIR CARS
1T has been frequently remarked that il 10
not so easy matter TO prevent accidents on
Railways. Some have thought they were
suggesting mighty panacea, when they pro-
posed to put director in the cars, and oblige
him 10 90 along as security for their safe arri-
val. Why, remarks the Newark Advertiser,
these men could no, know much Ut Amer
can carelessness of life. or they would not
deem this any protection at all. Nobody
own cars, that these same directors, their
wives and children becau-e they can 60 Cor
nothing. One will 60 great way and often,
when it does not cost a penny. Only turn
to the Providence and Worcester tragedy a
few days ago. The President and super
intendent " ere both on board the Providence
cars, while they knew PUTNAM, was manag-
ing AFFAIRS young man, who had not made
time but once since his appointment, and
who has since been found incompetent by
the verdict of jury. Say what you please
of the criminality of directors, but for truths
suke, don't affirm that they dare not ride in
their own cars for they do it constantly, and
dare DO it in the very worst Of them. An
American, though he is director, don't mind
such tritles in the least; and il he is tired of
standing, will sit down to rest on a barrel of
gunpowdor in a storm of thunder and light
ming, and never thinks he has done amiss.