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WHEAT DECLINED. 1t will be seen by reference to
our quotations the fourth page that wheat decn-
cd in this city during the last two days. to 10
cents per bushel. This is owing mainly to the un-
settled state of the Northern markets. the art
Gle having undergone decline in those markets Also
Our millers are only purchasing such as is brought
to the city deemng it mprudent to contract for lots
to be delivered some future day in the present un
settled state of the Northern markets.
Pet Express
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A FORTUNE MADE BY A MISFORTUNE Mr.. Quigley,
of Bowling Green, Kentucky it is said bought large
quantity Of tobacco last winter expecting to ship it
to the southern market before the of low wa
ter and high freights Unfortunately the Ohio fell
before he could get his tobacco out of Green river,
the consequence of which is it has advanced in val
ne on his hands to the amount of $2O, 900.
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s,s DIsrREssMG CASUALLY We learn from the Ma
tional Intelligencer that Thos Walter jones' son of
GEN Walter Jones, Of Washington city, was recent
IL drowned in the lower Rio Gfande, where he was
engaged in the discharge Of his duties one of the
Mexican Boundary Commission. The accident oc-
CURED in consequences Of small boat upeettng in q
squal ~ ssESa,sS 49,
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ARRIVALS. Among the distinguished gentlemen
now or very recently, in city are General Quit
man of Mississippi, Governor Reid of North Carroll.
ma, Hon. Truman Smith of Connecticut and Hon.
Thomas H. Bayly of Virginia We learn that Gen.
Bayly is on his way to the White Sulphur Springs
Washin0ton Union
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az The Whig Editors have been making them
selves merry the division and strife of the Dem
ocrats in this District. They appear to forget the
state of affairs in their party in the Edenton
and Mountain Districts; and they also seem to have
lost sight of the fact that the questions of Free
Suffrage and State Convention they are hopelessly
divided. These Editors would do well to look at
home and cure the breaches in their ranks, be-
fore coming forward to advise Democrats as to what
they should do.
The Democrats of this District, it is true, have
been divided, not on principle, but about men; but
divisions Of this sort must in the very nature of
things, soon terminate. There are some six thous-
and five hundred Democrats in this District, and we
venture to that 50 far as principles concerned
they are together almost to man. Future contests
will show this to be SO.
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Nothing can excuse q want of charity to . fellow
in distress. He is poor, perhaps through his own
folly that of his ancestors; and we rich per.
haps through our own roguery or that of ances.
tors; we need not often insist the difference of
merit as the reason for difference of condition.
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Four parties are now in the field surveying routes
for the great railroad to the Pacific. " The Pacific
Railroad say the prophets is to be the topic Of
the next session Of Congress"
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ALABAMA We expressed great confidence some
days SINCE that the official returns from the elections
in Alabama would exhibit splendid democratic tri-
umph. Those returns have not reached us ; but the
information received is sufficient to satisfy beyond
peradventure that our predictions are fully real
lied. The democracy have elected a democratic
Governor, six of the seven members of Congress,
and majority in both branches of the Legislature
We have no doubt that the Alabama delegation in
the next Congress will be composed of the following
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MIR. BREcKINR1DGE.

The Louisville Journalone of the most rabid of
Whig prints-bears the following testimony to the
high and honorable character Of the able and elo-
quent Breckinridge
: We have been half afraid, during the canvass,
to express fully opinion of him, lest our whig
friends in his district and elsewhere might deem us
written by us some months ago in relation to Mr..
Breckenridge have been kept at the heads of his
newspaper organs Throughout the conflict and we can
and do emphatcay reassertevery word of these par
agraphs. Mr.. B. is pure and noble-hearted man,
and liberal minded politician, and he has earned
tation for talent belongs to any of his age in
the United States. We do not know of any gentle
man of his party whom we would rather see in Con-
gress, and if he lived in locofoco dstrct-for in
stance Lynn Boyd's-we should sincerely rejoice at
his election"
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RAILROAD ACCIDENTS DURING THE PRESENT YEAR.
The following is the number of railroad accidents
with the killed and wounded, during each month of
the present year.
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Total to Aug. 12, 65

Sixty-ive casualties, hundred and twenty-six
deaths and three hundred and thirty-three persons
injured! There is total which should put civ
ilization to blush, and almost make men forswear
the progress of the age
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Washington Republic.

AUSTRALIA. The people of Australia are in the
midst of terrible quarrel with their colonial govern
mcnt reminding us in many fits details of what we
read of the early troubles between the royal COVER
nors and councils and the (hcn) British Colonies of
North America In this case, however, the colonists
possess advantages vastly superior to those which
surrounded our forefathers. The marked difference
in the ideas of the respective ages concerning gov.
ernment is to them an advantage incaculable great
er than any enjoyed this continent amid the cir
cumstances leading to the times that "tried mems
souls. Britain, too, is tired of colonies however
much her commercial interests may keep her welded
to the policy of holding possessions wherein, in
India the of the people virtually slaves. The
discovery of gold in Australia is causing her ports
swarm with emigrants better fitted than any other
class to work out her independence from their quail
tiles of mind well as character; shrewd, desperate
and uncomfortable men, as large portion of them
Australia already possesses an immense amount
of shipping to be owned in colony, and the mass of
her people resemble those of the United States in
their enterprise far than the present inhabit-
ants of Canada, next door neighbors The exist
ing condition of the Chinese empire, too, is very
tempting bait auring them to break with the moth.
country; for they that it mnst come under the
virtual control of some European nation or of the u
nited States in the next half century, If not under
theirs Indeed it strikes that in the distance, we
have to dread in the probable commercial rival
~ Of the Australians in the East than in that of the
mother country.
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The number of exhibitors who display their wares
in the New York Crystal Palace, is six thousand.
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A meeting was held in Warrington, on Saturday
evening, to aid in the relief Of the sufferers by the
yellow fever in New Orleans President Pierce sent
letter enclosing fifty dollars; Mr.. Corcoran gave
five hundred dollars; and other subscriptions were
made to the amount of three hundred dollars
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Ep1roR AND PROPRIETOR.

rrR,Js OF THE WEEKLY-7sco Dollars per AMMAN,
adrance or within the first month; Two Dollars ana
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TERMS OF THE sEMI-wEEKLY-F9ur DoAqrs per
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scribing.
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& 10 The Washington Star says that Btsnson G..
Graham, Esq, has been appointed Postmaster at
Greensborough in this State. = q.
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Terms of Advertising.

sd one time for One Dollar cents for each
Subsequent insertion those Of greater length in proportion ION
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted in the otandaro VIII
charges for ADVERTISING BY THE YEAR are as foliows
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gentlemen .

The seventh district was represented in the last
Congress by the Hon. Alexander White, and the Sec
ond by the Hon. James Abercrombie, both antiScott
wings. Washington Union.
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THE PACIFIC. ROAD.

The Whig papers are taking it for granted because
Mr. Secretary Davis and Mr. Secretary Guthrie recent
made some remarks in public in favor of the Pacif
Road as government measure, that Gen. Pierce
is committed to the scheme. They not willing to
await the annual message of the President in order
to see what he says Of the measure, whether in
deed he will allude to it at all as measure claiming
the aid directly of the federal treasury but they
sme in advance, that he must necessarily be bound
by the declarations of his Secretaries This is unfair
Gen. Pierce has, we doubt not much respect for the
opinions of Mr. Davis and Mr. Guthrie, and the full
est confidence in their integrity; but he is the Presi
dent, and will speak for himself when he comes to
address Congress in December next. The people of
the States will hear him with the respect and atten
ton due to the great Office he holds as well as to
himself; and whatever others may have said or in
mated, zoe entertain no fears that he will announce
any proposition or press any measure in opposition
to the wellestabshed principles of the Republican
party. Our confidence in Gen. Pierce is strong if
not stronger than it is in any other living statesman
and it is because we have seen him tested in the
furnace of Abolition and Consolidation, and no bem-
ish left upon his bright escutcheon. He Is Neao-
hampshire Democrat and as such, a disciple of the
school of '9S and '99.
We repeat, then, whatever may be the aspect
which this Pacific Railroad question may assume in
the future, it is but common justice that the people
should await what President Pierce may have to say
over his own signature We say the people, without
respect to paries-for this is question of too much
magnitude to be controlled decided by party in
auences We take it for granted that every citizen
would be gratifed to see this magnificent work ef
fected We have no doubt it will be, in due time
Its effects upon the prosperity Of this continent and
upon the commerce Of the world, cannot fail to be
highly important and beneficial
W We learn that Mr.. Patrick MCGOWAN, of this
place, has been appointed Mail Agent upon the Ra-
leigh and CASTOR Railroad, in place of Mr.. II. II.
Potter, removed This is an excellect appointment
Mr. MCGOWAN is a steady and Industrious man, of
undoubted integrity and the business Of the Depart
ment on this line will be entirely safe in his hands
In addition to this he is and has been for many wears
consistent and active platform Democrat; and both
MS Democracy and his business qualifications have
Oeen repeatedly endorsed by the Democratic mem.
oers Of our State Senate
FELLOW FEVER m NEW ORLEANS. The scotirre
"ss sul on the increase on Sunday last The report
%e board Of health for the past twenty-four hours
ulne on Saturday, exhibits 1853 deaths from yellow
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WAsHINGroN GOSSIP Washington Aug "A 1853.
From reliable quarters learn that the many import
ant questions connected with foreign affairs
just now receiving the anxious consideration and at
tention of the honorable Secretary of State and his
accomplished assistant Dudley Mann, Esq. Discard
ing, for the present. minor matters connected with
our foreign relations it cannot be doubted that the
following subjects arc of momentous and imposing
interest:
First-The kidnapping of Koszta in Smyrna
Second-The incarceration of Capt. Gibson by the
Dutch authorities
Third-The fishery difficulties and
Fourth-The alleged interference of England with
slavery in the Island of Cuba
1t is currently reported that the documents relat
ing to the efforts of her Britannia Majesty ministers
to promote the abolition of involuntary servitude in
the "Queen of the Antilles have, for the most part
been committed to the keeping of Secretaries Davis
and Dobbin, who are expected to thoroughly inves-
tgate them and present statement of their contents
together with their opinion, in writing, as to the most
wise and judcious course to pursue in the premises
When the views of these Southern members Of the
Cabinet communicated to the President and their
colleagues in Cabinet council then the whole matter
will be discussed and decision made. There seems
to me to be evident peculiar propriety in COM
mtting this delicate subject one so closely connect
ed with the peculiar institution of the States lying
South of "Mason and Dixon's line," to the careful
consideration of the Secretaries of War and Navy.
1t is said that it is the intention of the Executive
should emergency arise to maintain at all hazards
the interests of his Southern friends.
The President and Messrs. Marcy and Mann will
give to the other subjects their enlightened consid
Grafton and undivided attention. and the public, ire
spective of party, entertain the belief the conviction
that whatever may be decided on will be for the
public weal-the maintenance untarnished of our
national honor.
Uashin1ton RepuJlic
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An ARMY OF GRAssHoPPERs. An army Of grass
hoppers has made its appearance ON the northern
confines of Guatemala and extended into Mexico as
far Oajaca It is about three leagues long by half
league broad and travels at the rate of twelve miles
day. 1t has already traversed 150 leagues Of coun
try, moving during the day and remaining quiet at
night and during the cowdy days, keeping near the
coast and never beginning its march until or o.
clock when the sun is felt It's preferedfood is the
indigo and corn, and it has not touched the sugar
cane Nis described as being from two to two-and-
ahalf inches long, Of deep yellow color and having
four small wings of the same color similar plague
took place in 1771, when they invaded Yucatan and
the coast efVera Cruz and New Mexico in formida-
bic numbers Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Deaths from Heat, dc.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. IA. There was five deaths
yesterday from the effect of the heat--Among them
was General Bennett, who was taken sick at the
Assayers Office of the Mint where he had received
an appointment on Wednesday. General Bennett
served q Captain in the Pennsylvania volunteers
in the Mexican war. Alter his return home he was
employed in room where the thermometer stood at
160 degrees.
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Later from Tepas.

New ORLEANS, Aug. 14th. sAdvices from Calves.
ton to August 9th bring no definite returns - me
election. The crops promised well. Gen. Hhsbean
Lamar died at San Antonia on the 9th.
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Later from lEerieo.

New ORLEANS, Aug. IA. The steamer Texas has
arrived from Vera Cruz with dates to the 6th inst
Among her passengers are Captain Mordecai and the
Gardner investigating commission. -
The government has called upon the governors of
the different States for correct returns Of al foreign
ers without licenses, intending to subject them to
fine and imprisonment - -
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Relief for Ne.e Orleans

- heey .yoT 0eD OTtcdn&
PHnApELPHIA, Aug. IA The collections In this
city in aid of the sufferers by the yellow fever at
New Orleans, now amounts to eli 400.
New YoRK, Aug 13. The contributions for New
Orleans have now reached 10000 Paul Julien:
proposes . concert in aid Of the fund.
Outrageous attempt to Destroy Life on tie .Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, dc.
WHEELING, Aug 18th. man named Martin
1alvey, lately in the employ of the Baltimore sad
Ohio Railroad Company, was arrested at Cameron,
near Wheeling. this morning upon the awful charge
of designedly throwing the passenger train Of cars
off the track, by unlocking and misplacing switch
ON Thursday last, near that place. Mr.. Bogard, m
intelligent farmer in the neighborhood, testies that
about an hour previous to the arrival Of the train
from Baltimore, on the day of the accident hewas
driving q team homcward, and a. he reached the
brow of high hill that overiooks the track he OBJ
served Aalvey to approach the switch, and delibcr
ately take key from his pocket unlock the bali or
lever, and leave it in that state. Supposng him TO
be in the service of the company and acting In obe
dence to orders Mr.. Bogard said nothing about his
discovery until after he learned the train had rum
off the switch on account of Malvey's arrangement
of it The prisoner was taken TO Moundayile, on
the Ohio river and safely lodged IN a TO await his
trial. 5EssF
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Months. No. of Accidents. Kille
The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1853-05-07

CoURTING IN THE DARK.-A circum-
stance once befell two friends Of ours
in Gloucester, who met one evening at
the house of mutual friend, a young
lady for whom both entertained tender
sentiments, In spirit of lrolic, one Of
the young ladies put out the lights; and
the two gentlemen judging the moment
favorable for making known the state
of their feelings to the fair one, changed
at the same instant and placed them
selves as they supposed at the lady's
side. Each gentleman took as he fond.
ly supposed, the soft, little hand Of the
charmer, and each was enraptured to
find tender pressure assuming lio CHA
racter of an unmistakable, mutual
squeeze. Some moments flew in this
agreeable Interchange of sentiment, and
it is fair to presume that both heads and
hearts were reached, as Mr.. Bird
would express it, when the lady of the
house becoming suspicious from the un-
usual silence of her friends, suddenly
relighted the lamp and discovered the
two gentlemen, with love and delight
beaming from their eyes, all absorbed
in the novel recreation of squeezing
EACH others hands. The gentlemen
sloped inconiinently and one of them
confidently remarked to us a few days
afterwards, when the joke got abroad,
he Thought all the while Hannah's hand
felt plaguy FtcdDug Reejlle.
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by AUTHORITY,
Public Acts of the Thirty-sOccnd Congress
OF THE
UNITED STATES.
lS5l-52.
BY AUTHORITY |

Guar. CIVILIAN Act making Appro-
priations for the Civil and Diploma
tic Expenses of the Government for
the Year ending The tlIirtieth of June,
eighteen hundred and fifty three, and
for other purposes.
BE Henaciea by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the following sums be and are hereby
appropriated, ont Of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, for
the objects hereafter expressed, for the
fiscal year ending tho thiltielh Of June,
eighteen hundred and fifty three, name
ly:
Legislatiye.-For compensation and
mileage of Senators, one hundred and
ten thousand seven hundred and seven
ty six dollars.
For compensation and mileage of
members of the House of Representa-
tives and Delegates from Territories,
three hundred and thirty five thousand
three hundred and fifty two dollars.
For compensation of Senators, mem
bers of The House of Representatives,,
and Delegates, fifty thousand dollars.
For compensation of the officers and
clerks of both houses Of Congress, for'y
two thousand FIVE hundred and fifty sew
en- dollars and fifty cents
For the contingent expenses of the
Senate, viz:
For printing, thirtyi.e thousand dol.
lars.
For binding, fifteen thousand dollars.
For lithographing, thirteen thousand
five hundred dollars. 4..
For books, twelve thousand dollars.
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PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
21,Sl0 FEET OF LUMBER.

CEALED proposals for The delivery of The fol-
y lowing description of sawn lumber will be re-
ceived at the office Of the Commissioners of Public
Buildings, for the Territory of New Mexico, Till
IL o'clock, M on the 2lst day Of April 1888
1856 pieces 20 IL feet long ID inches.
81 IS IS srn
Amounting to 81 l,S4O feet of lumber, board meas
ure, more or less. To be Of good sound pine tim
Der, such as will be accepted by the Superinlen-
dent, and to be delivered in wagons at or near The
site Of the proposed public buildings in Santa Fe,
and not to be dragged on the ground. No proposal
will be received for less than half the amount
specified
The contract TO he completed by the 18th day
Of June 1858, and the faithful fulhlment thereof
to be guaranteed by two responsible securities,
whose namvs must be entered in the proposals
PRESTON BECK, L.,
a' MANUEL ALVAREZ,
. FRANCISCO ORTIZ DELGADO
Santa Fe, March l4th, 1S53.-6t3y
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Territory of New Mexico,
First Judicial District
Francis A. Cunningham
Alexander W. Reynolds.
This day came The said plaintiff by bis attorney,
and il appearing to the satisfaction of the court,
that Alexander W. Reynolds, the defendant in
said cause. is not a resident of the Territory Of
New Mexico, but resides beyond the limits there
Of, so that the ordinary process of law cannot be
executed upon him, 1t IS therefore ordered that he
enter his appearance hereto on or before the first
day Of the next term of this court to be begun and
held at the court house in the city Of Snta Fe, on
the third Monday of June next, and plead, answer
or demur to plaintiffs petition, or Judgment will
be rendered against him. II is further ordered that
publication be made of this order according to Jaw.
A true copy of the order made in the above en-
titled cause al the March term of said court, AID.
1858.
30 R. H. ToMPKINS,
Santa Fe, April %, 1858. a 45 Clerk.
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PUBLlC BUILDINGS.

PUbLlC DUlLDlNuo'
Office of Commissioners on Public Buildings,
Santa Fe, April l4th 1853.
CEALED proposals will be received at this Of
y fee until u o'clock M. of the Both June 1858,
for 1000 cubic yards of rubbIe masonry, more Or
less, comprising The basement story of The Ter
rltoriaI Building to be erected in the city of Santa
Fe. The masonry to be executed IN substantial
and workman.lke manner, under the direction OF
the superintendent of Public Buildings.
The stone will be furnished at the quarry within
a mile Of the building lime can be burned and
sand obtained within The same distance.
The contractor will be permitted to extend his
contract to three thousand cubic yards, or 10 the
completion of the stone masonry of the whole
building, should there be funds in the hands of the
Commissioners, at the time of completing the first
contract, to enable them to carry on the work.
PRESTON BECK, Jr.,
MANUAL ALVAREZ,
FRANCISCO ORTIZ y DELGADO
Commissioners.
J. H0UGHTON, Superintendent.
Santa Fe, April lith lS53.-tf ni3