The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-24

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Wen meet again-more happy than we eve met
| For there the Golden Sun shall never set!
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| WASHINGTON, D. c., January 81, 1853.
New Publications.
The WIG ALMANAC, FOR 1858, has Just been
issued from the Office of Messrs. Greeley & Noel
ratn' at New York. The useful character of this
little publication has been we'll established in pre-
vlous years. The Almanac is a repertory of valu
able political and statistical facts The number
Tor the present year contains, among other inter.
esting information, returns of the Presidential
election from every State in the Union, carefully
compiled and compared with returns of the State
election and previous Presidential election Single
copies l2z cent?, 81 per dozen, or 81 per hun
| dred.
RoDE's UNITED STATES PosT OFFICE DREcroRY
AND POSTAL GuIDE-This is publication com
piled from the records of the Post Office Depart.
ment containing complete list of the post Offices
| in the United States, including name of place,
| county, and State, and the present postmasters;
| tables of domestic and foreign postage, sc. So
far as we enabled to judge by casual inspection,
| the work is accurate. Published at New York bY
| Charles r. Rode. at so cents copy.
| SPAIN.-SeVcraI
| lomatic changes have been announced in Spain
Among others, M. Sandoval, who was at the
Hague, proceeds to Mexico; and nj. Vera, Secre-
tary at Lisbon, to Caracas. General Vigo, form
erly Governor of Eastern Cuba; NJ Planeda, Fis.
cal at Havana; Manuel Munes of Puerto Rico, and
Manuel Quesada, Chief of the Squadron, have been
| appointed members of the Colonial Council Gen
eral Urbestando has rendered his resignation of
the government of the Philippine Islands.
The NEW STEAMBOAT LAw.-The Cincinnati
Commercial Of the 18th instant states that licenses
under the new law are being daily issued to the
captains and pilots of the several steamers. The
fee ia i've dollars.
LIFE PRssRRvRRs.-The Cincinnati Commercial,
of the 18th instant, says:
"Nearly all the steamers a.e providing them.
serves with tlnware buoyants. ridiculously termed
hfe preservers. They look like the candle boxes
we sometimes see ornamenting the walls of
kitchens'
VISIT OF FIREMEN TO WAsHlSGTos Cry
Manhattan Association Fire Engine Company No.
D. who intend paying visit to Philadelphia, BaIti
more, Washington and Mount Vernon, with their
new and splendid engine, to leave February 81 will
present at the inauguration of the President, and
return In eight or ten days. They will number
about sixty men, accompanied by Dodworth's
band, twenty-five men.-Ne,D York Times
RELIEF FOR MADERA.-The barque Nautilus
has been chartered at Boston to carry supplies to
the starving inhabitants of Madeira, and the pub
lie are invited to send any articles of food or of
light clothing to the vessel, lying at India wharf,
in that city
SINGULAR SPEcrAcLE.-The Assembly Chamber
at Albany, New York, the Register says, presented
a spectacle on Friday morning of an urprece-
denied character in the history of New York egis-
llation. By courtesy of the House the rules were
suspended, and committee of the women from
the Temperance Mass Convention, sitting in the
State street Baptist Church, were admitted upon
the floor, and granted the privilege of pc rsonally
presenting the address. 1t was read in a firm
tone by the chairman of the committee, Miss
Emily Clark, of LIE Roy.
NEW YoRK HIsToRIcAL SocIETY.-The sixth of
the course of lectures in aid of the Fire Proof
Building Fund was delivered on Thursday even
ing at Metropolitan Hall, by Hon. VIM. A. GRA-
HAM, of North Carolina. 1t was a very detailed
and minute history of the war of independence,
with particular reference to the invasion of the
Caronas by the British in FISH,
The Hon. RUFUS CHoATE has been appointed
Attorney General of Massachusetts, He will enter
upon the duties of the Office next week.
Boston Courier, 22d.
The PLAGUE In RussIA.-The Boston Traveller
is indebted to mercantile house of that city for
the following extract from letter just received
from St. Petersburg, and dated the 2lst of Decem-
ber:
"There is report that the plague has entered
Russia, and ia prevalent at Astrachan and another
place. The emperor has ordered military cor.
don OF sixty or seventy thousand men to prevent
ts advancing further into the interior of the coun
try. Some alarm is felt at St. Petersburg though
in former times, in the reign of Catherine it
stopped at Moscow"
NAvAL.-Purser Mexican Buchanan, now at the
Chariestown navy yard, has received preparatory
orders to the line of battle ship Vermont, now fit.
ting out as flagship of the Japan expedition.
Purser John O. Bradford ia ordered to relieve him
at Boston.-Boston Times
GOLD DoILARs.-The Philadelphia Ledger speaks
OF having, on Wednesday, been shown pattern
goid dollar, prepared by the officers of the mint
TO be sent to the authorities at Washington In
size 1t 10 about half large again in circumfer.
ence as the present gold dollar, with hole in the
CENTRE On one side is the word ssdollar, in
large letters, and ON the other ssUnited States of
America, 1882
SALE OF "A FARM.-The Rockville (Md Journal
of Saturday says:
sWe learn that Mr.. John McKelden has disposed
OF his fine farm in this county for SIS per acre.
Mr.. Nick. paid $50 per acre for it few years
ago, since which time he has very greatly i'm.
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