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VENTILArIoN OF CHURCHES -nChurchss are
surely the worst ventilated places in the world >.
said lady TO Us lately. How often have We
silently made the same reflection, while sitting
among the auditory in crowded house of Worship
preparatory to the opening Of the services We
once knew physician 10 prohibit his patient who
was delicate female, attending concert, lecture
church, or any other place OF public assembly,
but particularly churches, because the latter. he
said, was the worst of all for her s.There il not
one church in dczen,'' he added by way of ex.
Ptepation, ''that be ventilated in any other wa
tnan oy pulling the windows down from the tops
measure almost certain to give sensitive person
coia; ana even of those churches which have
Hehtianng apparatus, not one in dozen has il
arranged 80 as to be efficient" He added that in
Illness at church than perhaps in all the theatres.
concert rooms, and other places of public Assem-
bly, put together Ph;,a. Bulletin
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-14

RAILROADS IN THE UNION On the first of Janu.
airy, 1885, there were in the United States l3, 227
miles of completed railroad IL 92S miles of railroad
in various stages of progress and about 900 miles
in the hands of engineers, which will be built
total of 80, 1856 miles of railroad which will soon
traverse the country, and which. at an average
cost Of $4,000 "a well ascertained ayerage) for
each mile of the road, including equipments,
&c. will have consumed capital amounting TO
Ss994, $50 900, as follows: .e
Is ,227 miles completed. S 396, 6l0, 900
1928 miles in progress 3S7 $4,000
1000 miles under survey. 2l0.OO0,00o
33,155 Total. ........... 1894 $50 900
Or, in round numbers, S 900 900 ,000--one bill
lion of dollars; sum which at six per cent. would
yield 60,00O, 900 annually, or more than sufficient
TO cover all the expenses Of the United States and
OF the governments of every State composing the
United States, if administered with republican
economy --Aneyican Railtray Guide. g3
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ihE LATE A J. DowslsG.-Wc have received
aGiIcu'"f OF the American Pathological Society,
s"'Cihug subscriptions for testimonial of respec
10 ias memory OF the late A J Downing The
correction and appropriation of funds for tits pur
pose mas been lett In the hands ola committee and
1t is hoped that sufficient means will lie Furnished
Tor the erection OF suitable monument. Probably
no INDIVIDUAL In this country has done mocil to
elevate ard purify the taate of his countrymsn "a
Mr. Downing. No one can justly appreciate the
value OF his labors in dIffusng knowledge of the
science and practice Of horticulture. And vet
though mis- fame rests chiefly On this foundation
We are IN truth no less indebted to him for the
moral influence his works have effected. His aim
was ever TO direct the tastes of bis countrymen &c
the truly beautiful in nature and art, and to de
stroy the love OF frPpery and false display which
Is our besetting sin. The Witnesses of his labor:
are scattered over the l.ngth and breadth of our
land, and their voices come up from stately mar
slons, whose architectural beauties and elessni
surroundings are the result of his Ia te as well al
from humble cottages round which his spirit ha:
thrown halo which conceals its poverty and gives
il the charm of a home. @ :
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The well known Democratic correspondent Of
the New York Journal Of Commerce, writing in
ference to the debates foreign affairs now going
on in Congress, says: ...,.>,..-
SIN order to comprehend what is going on in
Congress, it must be promised that they consider
Cuba as belonging to the United States by nature
and destiny, and that it is for them to decide at
what time and in what manner the manifest des-
tiny of Cuba shall be fulfilled ii 5faF
Sin regard to Great Britain, ii is assumed that
her presence in any form on the American CONT
nent' is violation Of our natural and national
rights, and subversive of our interests and de-
structive of our safety; and General Cass is al
ways ready, whenever the British show themselves
anywhere near the American continent to pop
the Monroe doctrine at them.
In regard to the CLArroN and BuLwEa treaty be
remarks: t9'sa
off the treaty do not expel the British, the Mon
roe doctrine will be stretched back for two centu
ries in order to do it. The Belize and the Bay
of Islands are five hundred miles from any point
on the rCute of the Nicaraguan canal, and the Bri
fish settlement there is not inconsistent with the
security of American interests in that transit; and
probably there are not to be found dozen indi-
viduals in the whole United States, not dema-
gogues filibusters, who feel the slightest con-
Germ about the British settlement" --v-
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The last number of the Hebrew Christian Maga-
zine mentions the discovery of some interesting
MSS. in that language, which, it lie said, are not
unlikely to come into the market. The titles and
contents of five works are enumerated: l. "The
Mantle of Elijah,'' commentary on the Penta-
tench, by Rabbi Jacob Elijah, cirra Charles II.
tThe Gleanings of Paradise collection of Ca.
balisc pieces, explanations of difficult passages in
the Hebrew Scriptures moral aphorisms illustrated
by allegories, and q treatise on Hebrew grammar.
A MS OF this workout thought to be copy
Is now in the Bodleian Library. g. Eight MS.
burg. 4. Three volumes of work called ..Great
UNDERSTANDING" being commentary on the OBJ.
scure passages of the Medrash Rabba, with an
explanation Of ull foreign words not in the Rabbi
nical lexicon "Aaruch." s. A Book of Names,
written by r. Solomon Ben Aaron, in 1876, be y q
an analysis Of the Cabala, with an illustration Of
the Caba.istc alphabet. IS
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-14

;, Inc CHAIR laid before the Senate a report from
the Secretary Of War, transmitting statement of
the expenditures Of that Department for he year
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Government of the United States, or under the
Senate or House of Representatives of the United
States who, after the passage of this act, shall re-
ceive any gratuity from any claimant against
the United States; or agreeto receive, or receive
except by Inheritance, bequest or marriage, any
share or pecnniary interest in any claim againt
the United States; or shall act as an agent or at
torney for prosecuting any claim against the
United States, or shall in any manner, or by any
means otherwise than in the discharge of his pro.
per official duties, aid assist in the prosecution
or support of any such claim or claims, shall be
liable to indictment, as for inisdemeanor in any
court Of the United Statea having jurisdiction for
the trial of crimes and misdemeanors; and on con-
yietion, shall pay fine not exceeding twice the
amount of gratuity, fee, or compensation received
by the person SO convicted, suffer Imprisonment
as the court, in its discretion, shall adjudge
8. That any Senator or Representative in Con.
gress who, after the passage of This act shall re
ceiye any gratuity from any claimant against the
United States, or agree to receive, or receive ex.
cept by inheritance, bequest, or marriage, any
share or pecuniary interest IN any claim gainst
the United States; or shall, for compensation paid
or TO be paid certain or contingent, act as agent
or attorney for prosecuting any claim or claims
against the United States, or shall in any manner
or 6y any means, Ior such compensation, aid or
assist in the prosecution support of any such
claim or claims, shall be liable TO Indictment. as
for nisdemeaIor, in any court of the United
States having jurisdiction for the trial of crimes
and mlsdemeanora; and. on conviction, shall pay
a fine not exceeding twice the amount of the gra-
tuity or compensation received by the person con
yicted, or suffer imprisonment in the pententiary
not exceeding year, or BOTH as the court in its
discretion, shall adjudge
4. That if any person or persons shaIl, directly
or indirectly, promise, offer, or give or cause or
procure to be promised, offered or given, any mo.
ney, goods, right in action, bribe present. or re-
ward, or any promise, contract, undertaking, OBJ
iigaticn, or security for the payment or delivery
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see her mother. and would not be back
for a day Or two
aOn Wednesday about noon. Below
had large new trunk conveyed into
the room where the body Of his dead
mistress lay, and the terrible suspicion
cannot be avoided that he intended III
this trunk to remove the remains OF
his victim, and that, as the body could
not be otherwise slowed into such d
receptacle, the axe and knife were to
be employed for the purpose OF disfnem-
berment Tue extreme heat OF the
weather, by its eorrupting agency, de.
faatea the terrible intent, and 1t would
seem that, finding it impossible. IN
consequence Of the great and rapidly
increasing stencil Of the body, to re-
move it undiscovered, BELOW. IN order
to turn suspicion from himself into
another chaunel, went to the police
Office and informed the Chief and
Lieut.. petrie that something was
wrong down in his neighborhpua.
He feared, he said, that u woman
BY the name Of Eliza Love had been
murdered, as nothing had been seen
Of her for a day or two. ard TINT a
suspicious T1eneh1nan had been in
the habit of visiting her The officers
Immediately repaired TO Eliza room,
aud found that she had indeed been
murdered. She was laying in her bed,
aud the fatal blow appeared to have
been dealt with Ratchet, on some
weapon Of that character while she
was asleep. for she WIS wholly in her
night clothes, and had handkerchief
tied around her head as 4 substitute
for night cap Her dress was nfatly
folded On chair at the head Of the
bed
Inquiries made by the officers led
them at once to suspect that the muir
der had been committed by BELOW
himself, and acting on this suspicion,
they had him forthwith arrested
Ballow was presnt when the inquest
was held. He assumed caltnness
which he evidently did not feel, and
kept continually saying that he did
not do it y 4 gold watch and chain.
belonging to the deceased, was found
in BaiIuw, i possession. It is sud that
three rings which Eliza was in the
habit Of wearing had been forced from
| of her fingers. and that a sum OF
money of which she was possessed had
been taken from her work bog.
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We ALL HAD 70 DO IT.-A hall
score Of young urehins were gathered
around companion whose pallid face
indicated that lie was very sick, the
result Of some juvenile 1nalscfetie1l.--
The little fellows were busy IN offering
their sympathy in various holnely
phrases. The truth is, be had taken a
chew Of tobacco for the first time in
his life, and swallowing Il portion OF
the weed, grew deadly sick. One
little fellow, who seemed to understand
more fully his companions situation,
than any Of the others, gently placed
on the sick boys shoulder bis hand,
and said i'll avoice Of deep coincidence
"Neyer mind, Jimmy, arc Ill had
10 go tha-oagh this ue1y seeere
trial p
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IT, a copy Of the "RovsE's po1sr
ADVERTISER Is before us. We have
looked all over The paper itself, and
have been hunting on our map of
creation, to find where Rouse's Point
ii" and must confess thai we are be-
nighted on this subject. The Rouse's
Point Advertiser, has at It's head a
very beautiful cut, representing the
scales Of Justice; one side Of Which Il
weighed down BY what looks like a
two edged sword. A scroll Of paper
near by, has distinctly written there
cn "The ConstttattoH,' below this
is that very quaint quotation, "No
pent mp Utica contracts our power
10 which we might ada--''iFo sor1se's
roint il ouEs.n Underneath this in
very bold and bloody looking eharae-
acters we find "Canada-Ctlba -Mexi-
co.. We never before looked upon
these places as belonging to this
great nation Of nonsense; but now we
feel that they are, since the Roaae's
Point Advertiser is out. and the Rouse's
Point Cavalry pledged to support the
Rouses's Point Division Of the Lone
Star, which is pledged to keep on
extending the area Of liberty until the
whole pent up Utica is ours. We
would advise the editor Of the Rouse
Point Advertiser, to direct his gen
ious into some other channel, for he
has most certainly mistaken his call
ing.
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ULetters from the Hague say
that the Dutch Government has de-
termined to send out the war steamer
Amsterdam with contributions from Hol
land, to the Worlds Fair at New
York.
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r. The Cincinnati Gazette says
there never was SO much counterfeit
money In circulation at any one time
Cd there Is now. About 800 per
day are received in regular business.
and thrown cut Of the banks.
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Il is said that the Hou. Edmund
Burke ID about to start a newspaper
ID New HamshIre ID opposition to the
Administration.
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NY@It has been said Of an eminent
journalist, now no more, that she
rushed into clubs, rolled about all day,
copio,lsly talked s1onsence. or senee,
and listened to tie like, with the null
hilarious n1iscelleany Of men; came
home at night; redacted it into a
leader and was found to have hit the
essential purport Of the worlds inn
measurable babblement that day, with
an accuracy beyond all other men,"
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Candidates.

sIIaug otit p,ir l,ar,ne ii on the outward walls
The cry Is still, They come Our castles
strength
will laugi, siege to seorn,s-MtanETH
I. Hupson EoArnER and GEO q.
New HoR TER, for the Wings, and A.
vi. DuNN and sHTH DAVID, for the
Democrats, are to play over the ira
geay Of tile Ancient G9.derli, in a
contest for cane bottom chairs, at the
Capitol. Tie Gdsette says the Par
ISL viii he well represented, and the
1lapocats says The same, and we feel
satisfied to let 1t be 50. The fact is,
We never kick against the bricks :"
for anything else, thar to make fun Of
the farsical affairs Of The world. We
never sail against the wind, and which
ever uay the tide sets in, we will gens
orally be found floating not however
without having the liberty TO speak.
we must have liberty to speak,
For so fools, have, and they who get most
tiekled with our folly,
Most may laugh !"
To the candidates, we would say !.
do not trust to your party papers to set
forth your views and your qualifications
for Office. Come out yourselves, and
with the hodesty Of John Brown, eiti-
gen, let lis know what you may, might,
could, would, or should have done, ID
your own language. We shall not eS-
peot you to commit yourselves on
many great subjects Of national lmpor-
lance at one time, but we would like
to know if you are in favor O. mort
gaging the generation to come after
us. in order to benefit the present.
Are you, gentlemen--(eaoh one OF
you-are you in favor of issuing State
Bonds to build Railroads and Banks
Answer us this question and we will
ask no more.
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A young man named John Smith
died on the 10th inst, in 2 philadelphia,
from injuries received 10 an ARRAY On
the AtI
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Tie Martyrs ofthe Prism Ships.
AN elegant monument has been com
meneed iii Trinity Charehyara to the
memory Of those American Soldiers
and citizens who died in the English
prison ships in the war Of 1872. Il
will Be constructed with carved brown
stone, and its height will be seventy.
three feet. The base will be sixteen
feet square, and be placed ii the top
Of a series Of steps tWenty-four feet
square at the cotton. 1t is to cost
ten thousand dollars. which sum has
been appropriated by The Trinity
Church corporation for the purpose.
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The Prnsslan government has rur-
chased a large extent Of land ON the
northern coast Of Chill, for the purpose
Of forming transatlantic enlony there
on.
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General Scott il still suffering from
the injury to his arm received in his
late fall iu New York. and il is doubt
ed whether he will ever recover the
full use Of it. He is now staying at
West Point for the benefit Of bis
health.
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ANOTHER MunpER.-The TRUE
DELTA Of the 22nd lust, comes to us
with a detailed account Of still another.
most horrid and atroclous murder.
One that makes the heart sicken with
disgust at Tie depravity Of man, and
turn with horror against large cities
where the fostering ulcers If vice ger
inmate, to poison the sweet breath Of
/ heaven
"More blood blood which erieth TO
/ heaven for yengence---the blood of a
Young aud beautiful woman shed by
the hand Of man Never again dc
we wish to behold such a sight as that
which We saw yesterdaymorn in a
house on st, Peter street, few doors
from Poydfas The Chief Of Police was
there, and the Coroner, and a jury Of
inquest which had been summonsed to
enquire into the cause of a death By
violence. The victim, whose corpse
| lay stretched OH d coarse bed in a small
chamber, was the once beautiful Ber-
theme Sweeten, young woman Of but
seventeen years of age, whose remark
able personal charms had won for her
the Hatterina alias Of Eliza Love.
By this latter name she was generally
known, for her mother lived at Algiers.
and something Of d family delieaey
which remained to her even after her
! fall had induced her to abandon the
name which she bore and blessed in
| the innocence Of childhood.
There she was---tWo days before,
one Of the prettiest women in the city
--now, an object of unutterable disgust.
| Swollen and disfgured, with her brains
oozing through fracture which brute
force had inflicted in her skull her
body rocking with foulest odors her
fair skin and flesh darlened. gangren-
ed and corrupted Who, in such a
sight, would recognize the beauty Of
two days ago---the fair, though fallen
Eliza Love.
The inguestproeeeded, it was shown
that the deceased had lived with u man
named A. NJ. Bellow---on Thursday
they went together to the residence Of
her mother in Algiers. and Berthene
there stated that she and Prank, .
(by which name she called Below,
were to be married--that she would
send her Mama some wedding cake Ill
proof that she had become ON honest
wife 1t appears that Below was at
that time jealous Of attentions paid
Eliza, she had given her daguerreo-
type to a gentleman living below Ca
nal street.
i BELOW was seen to leave the room
occupied by the deceased on Wednes-
day morning He told the woman
4 who lived next door on the gallery,
! tkat Eliza had gone over the river to
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The Emperor Of Eayti caused
through an agent, an advertisement
to be inserted IN New York paper
inquring for the whereabouts Of u color
cd man whose name was given, setting
forth that be would hear something to
his advantage on making himself
known. The person Inns been found
and proves to be very intelligent
man and capital barber in Bridgeport
where he has been for some years
doing good business. He appears to
be a second cousin ofthe Emperor who
wishes the barber to reside in HaYti,
and accept Dukedom, or some other
high Office in the realm. 1t is said
that the fortunate individual is SO
mitch Of a Yankee that he doubts
whether he shall accept the offer.
Nevertheless he intends to make q
voyage to Hayti and see how things
look there. ---New Hauen Pa1.
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New Police GAzErTE.--We un-
aerstand that on this morning will be
published what is to be called the
..southern Police Gazette and New
Orleans Fireman $ journal, The
editor is j. j. Casey. a young man in
whose hands, We beliye, the sheet
will be very well conducted. We
wish the undertaken God speed in the
task he has just commenced, and we
hope neither he nor his readers will
soon tire it. Apply for other par.
tieulars at the City Hall
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GEORGE. u. PIKE.
sunday morning, II: July "a, 1853

nE We notice mark ed difference
IN the style Of the 1lazette's leaders,
lately. They are more heightened
and spirited than usual ; we feleeitate
the editor Of thasi journal. on an i'm
proyement, 50 malifast to his readers,
which il the subject Of tneny iable
r11f,rnert.
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which Is the subject Of tlnen Yiable
comment.
HW It Ii an unfortunate thing In
deed to be great. We see from Bos-
ton correspondents that tile Rev. Gehl'
.Ioel Sewer Of louisiana notWith-
standing his desire 10 travel t1tcog.
has been discovered and carried into
the cradel oflibertv at Boston: to make
a speech. Gen. Leslie Coonbs OF
Kentucky, aud the Hon. j. Sewer OF
Louisiana, have been sharing the
lions skin between them, ut Fanuell
Hall. We are informed that two
geMsIay toasts, were drank (standingl
to them; and DO other States received
the same compliment
Its no doubt gratifying to our fel-
low citizens to learn the fact, and we
feel satisfied that every bosom will
throb with the proper sentiment q
pride, to learn that one 50 well quail
fled as the Hon. Joel Is representing
tie sugar bowl Of the Union But
this thing Of lionizing great men, il
very repfehensible, in Mayors, and
Common Councils. 4 man cannot
travel nowadays UNLESS disguised
without rendering himself liable to be
pulled hither and thither, and requir-
ed to make speeches, and go through
the two common formalities of eerte-
Gus visits, and formal calls to the
prejudice Of his own business, and In
many instances his own pleasure. =
Its vrong-all wrong; for it must be
aunluteu uy even the most ultra re-
publican. that man has individual
rights with which 1t IS wrong for the
public to interfere
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rA novel dental operation was
performed at Allentown. Pa, by two
Of the resident physicians, lately
1t was the extraction Of three teeth
from the mouth Of a large rattlesnake.
Before commencing the extraction,
chloroform was administered until Mr..
Snake was raped In gentle slumber.
when the teeth were drawn without,
difficulty.
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EvApIse THE MAINE Laval
correspondent of the Hartford Times,
writing from Providence (R. IL says
there are three hundred Club Rooms
in Providence, where men resort to
get liquor. The Maine law only
strikes the SELLER, 10 these Club A.
soeiations buy their liquors in New
York, and drink them at pleasure.