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sTRAsoERs.-Ths following are among the arrivals q,

oIEatokf&s-Ihe f0lDWinS &5 among ne eSrIvhs ~
the Principal Hotels,
HOWARD HOTEL.
J. p Cock New Orleans. Dr. n C. Brows. L : Nay
!. p Carcnsi. Milwaukee. 4. q Cabot, Ph! ..-iDhi.
y Poster. Ha7riltoo { w. John LndrsJ Pis.-b1rz-.
T. Wsshbrrn Bostol. T J. Tanner, Grs15 Rspi1s Nj
: w Bal. -. Louis. 4. J. Czsrcy, flo-1s.
v. ". Goddard. Ksn'resT. Wn- Roger. HzrstGs
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asTOR HOUSE.
iIon. >. Cameron, PenL J. Z Nay, Syr,cuss
Dr. D. Resetue servce. Cart Caldwell ship Bad Earle
Or. q eroViti, Ky. Dr.. Ffher NJ
DR.. Folbro0S. Charleston Dr. poI-n,. Hsryl.la.
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y Middleton 81. jos phs No. Dickinson. Tenn.
y Roytsn Ae1Pii. Tn reithercs, Penn
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METROPOLITAN HOTEL
Col. J. Tco'zg, Texas. -crntDes South Cs,olua-
Jrcfe bowin, s. Louis II. n Cove, St J5A7I y =.
ton.I J. Titus Ohio A. Biilnss s. L,ais
CIV Jocd Ohio y San ,tsE. sog.s cs-o'fol
J. c. Gricer Kentucky DR. Rsdoa, Ohio.
W. n CGSicy, Pain. ). Bcg41. Esltg-ors.
S.N. Hart, ,h,rics on.
PRESCOTT HOUSE
II. J. Reed, 81. Lonis. T. G. Taylor. Pniladep5a
Il = 1ucter, Norb Carolina w Kennard. l. ss,n.
T.. Eomonos, Toronto z. j Torl-y rsa1esis-
J. J.. Rice, Detroit Wul- X. Davis Kentacsy.
C. ID. OseTd, Cleveland {. " Fuller Louisville. 81
s. Rufin Alsbin,
IRVING HOUSE.
Rev B Eaton, Gsiyesion. c. Wager Rome
CAPT. FGLtai1e, PLs'eipas J. I. Nsabod Pa,adsphiL
II G MsTolefa, " a.hnetOn T.. n Kerr
- Parks St Louis n & Peake So1fh csroliss
D. Hfsoect, Texss. Al isclssa. sOFta Cs-sll4z-
DI. EislfT AisfissppL b. A. Winsheh. Georgia
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-20

The balance Of the property, comprising some OF the
choicest lots will be sold Wednesday, Aug "a at IL
O'Clock NJ, on The ground
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-20

WAsHIrcToy PARK -Worknen have connsrcsd plan.
ing post. at the upper end Of this Prk prep rAtry -
closing the grounds with q wooden fence
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-20

HID TO BAIL Two boys ansd james Bslse- and Pc
ter NoeD we're taken befre Justice Blstchsy. yee-aS
On the charge OF vfuy smashing in The window # =
grocery 10 ooEdst suighi PrsvioEs They hsi 10
e2g0 b2A each ~ answer
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-20

The house Of Joseph ssMkins, =. Hun.ng;on. Was
burned on Saturday last
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-20

FRIDAY, Aaz. ls-PA
Tie Stock market much improved In feeling TO day'
AID messursbiy in prices. Erie Railroad rose Can
ton Parker Vein II Budson River /; Can'shisnat
Florence and Keyport Michigan Central !. Long issnd
declined 4; Harlem A correspondent i.qaf's 10 Sn.t
the dividend we noticed recently IN Edsswo'h csnpaay
corsitsd The capital stock Ct The Company Is ssooeoo
r.,rg n 40 GOD shares of Is each. OF these l2ooe
-. ON tbs Boston Books and $1,000 on those Of Hew-
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-20

FIREyEss PsRADE-Ths frener Of this city are max
ing arrangements for their third annual parade In Der
pe1t TIE niiStOry steps have been taken AMI tbs
dsrces are that there will be fac tr-n OFT.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-20
LAW INTELLIGENCE.
Railroad aiding.

The fol-, ing case IN which heavy railroad contractor
The oencaIt having been looked upon with consid
erste interest by the laborng classes print longer
rCrf n than usual;
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-20

Tie annual poem was delivered by Rev. w CE-.n.
graduate II The New York University.
On Frc-y evening the Convention adjourned, aftsc raw
ing psr'aken of splendid supper
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-20

man mined Wa. A Henry hand on bol-d o. the
brig Aur Of NoVs Scotia fell overheard and d-own
az N rosy ngh las, while she lying at ths dock OF
sbt Line sid Cement Work al Nessik.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-20

T,e are abb Ut 5o0 bsk-. Of peaches shipped daily
from Hight to- s'siion 20 N.w York market
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-20

Yoorrr PrcRxG Friday morning about ~ % clock LAZY
al her pock,t p ed Of S35, in OF T. sons stages
le purse from her peck ~ the oney ATTRACTED
-, he purse returned The lady messed her money be-
he stage started, Int the ihrt could not b. fouai.
There ihutecf grown persons in the stage, and chill
drC., Rr ing pick .. cKtfs a brstTats chance.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-20

Al Camden escrts making to have the stores closed
At clock ia The evening.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-20

The public schoo. horses q ~ T6rk are undergoing
tbcrcpen ci.ssng preparatory - iis comma ut %
neat tsim the last Monday 81 the present lth
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CA1HALfNf KsNSrDT.-To day II il expected tla. the
reuds oi Catbarne Kennedy vii 60 to Trenton IA flrah
tie required bail s3Ct for her Appearance ~ the Spen
Der term Of the Court if iniioe.en is ,anj xng
her with aiding ia the robbery the Asohalic aud rrl
er,' Bank. Mr. - keenan, vii become TIE surety II
iIdc N. If found sganft her james T. BAdy E-l, 0f
New-Yuk, will be engaged a counsel 20 sc Win Gdge
Nevius a. X H. Dcclan+, Jr Il Aer tnsL
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SUPREME COURT-Is CH,NsrSs-Bsfofo judge MITCHELL.
CORPUS
In the case at william Gerry who recently enlisted NJ
Boston, and whose discharge IS ask ed for fsrssdy
lerred to the ground Of minority the Coar did not
cor slider The testimony sufficient to that effect and he
-euarded TO duty. but with permission to rene the APP
plcaiiCn, on additional pr,sf
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The Morris C-nsl Company will be willing % conpen
safe czeDs o. Paterson The damage done by the brssk
pg M the csn banks during he late storm, only far
cor NJ M BY lar.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-20
NEW-JERSEY ITEMS.

special meeting Of the Common Counsel has
ca led for Monday evening next
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A DARING TgTFT-A young entered ths is@el.
str 70 of Mr. Henry Lyman No ~ Canal't ~ O'clock
Thu.1sy ng under pretencs % mNking Inquiry IL
regarc 10 some person whom he said he lousht IL
tlfrs aud managed to sted box q eRelry which va
Ming up0n The counter viii which ne of lie Va
how er quickly pursued end finding hin'sf likely to b
ovel'sktr he dropped the box ami ultimately effected hi
esctle The box sad jswslry were covered
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-03
United States Patent once,

w AsHINGToN, FEBRUARY 70, 1888
an the petition of Hezekiah Haynes, of Middle
" town, Vermont, praying for the extension Of
a patent granted to him on the eighteenth (l8)
of June, 1889, for an improvement in mode of con-
structing rake-teeth, for seven years from the
expiration of said patent, which takes place on
the eighteenth (ls) day of June, eighteen hundred
and fifty three (lS53:)
1t is ordered that the said petition be heard at
the Patent Office on Monday, the sixteenth (16)
of May, 1853, at IL O'Clock M; and all persons are
notified to appear and show cause, ii any they
have, why said petition ought not to be granted.
Persons opposing the extension are required to
file in the Patent Office their objections, specially
forth in writing, at least twenty days before the
day of hearing; all testimony filed by either party
to be used at the said hearing must be taken and
transmitted in accordance with the rules of the
office, which will be furnished on application. 3
Ordered, also, that this notice be published in
the Republic, National Intelligencer, and Union,
Washington, D. c.; Express, New York City;
Courant, Hartford Conn Daily Bee, Boston; Re-
publican, Springfield. Massachusetts; and Rut-
land county Herald, Vermont, once a week for
three successive weeks previous to the sixteenth
(l6) day of May next, the day of hearing.
s. H. HODGES,
Commissioner of Patents.
P. S.-Editors of the above papers will please
copy, and send their bills to the Patent Office, with
paper containing this notice.
Feb 2S-Iaw3w
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PROPOSALS FOR IMPROVING THE HAIR.
Boa OF BRIDGEpORT, CONN.


WAsHlNsros, February 10, 1883.
PROPOSALS will DO received at this Office until
the tn Of March, 1858. for dredging cnann on
through the inner and outer bars Of this harbor lOo
feet in width, by length for the inner par o. aoout
22O yards, and for the outer Of bout IVY yasos 80
as to give uniform depth over both these oars.
The amount of earth to be removed 10 estimated
at 900 cubic yards for the inner, and 5000 cubic
Yards for the outer bar, in all $4,000 cubic yards,
more or leas, for the two.
The outer bar ia composed OF coarse sand, the
sboa lest water in the channel it being feet
at low tide.
of the former, is composed of coarse compact gra-
vel and has depth Of S feet at low water on the
shoalest part ofthe channel over it.
The mean range of the tides in the harbor of
Bridgeport ia o. feet, and the greatest depth of
water in which the earth will require to be raised
will not be over l4t feet
The earth excavated from the outer bar is to be
disposed of by dumping on the shoal ground 300
yards to the east of the channels; that from the
inner bar may be deposited $50 yards to the west
Ward, or else upon the shoal ground 300 yards to
the eastward Of it.
The channels to be excavated will be marked
out by an officer or an agentaof the Engineer De
partment. and the proper execution OF the work
will also be similarly superintended.
The proposals, which are to be sealed and en-
dorsed customary. will sta tie the price per cubic
yard of earth removed as above.
Payments will be made monthly at the rate OF
eighty per cent. on the value of the work perform
ca, ds Aeasus Gu anu esIiudteu ny az oBcn' Va suo
United States; the remaining twenty per cent to
be paid to the contractor upon the faithful
execution, according to the terms of the contract,
of the work provided for, which is required to be
completed prior to the first of November, 1858.
The Engineer Department reserves the privilege
of fixing the amount of earth to be excavated and
removed SO as to bring the cost thereof within the
limits of the present appropriation for this i'm
provement
For further information, application may be
made, by letter or otherwise, to Captain George
Dutton, Corps of Engineers, at New Haven, Conn
JOS. G.. TOTEM,
BIT. Brig. Gen. and Col. Engineers.
Feb 23-dt7thMar
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FIRST VESSEL FOR LIBERIA.
CoLoNIzATIoN Rooms

CoLoNIzATIoN Rooms,
WAsHINGToN, February 25, 1858.
THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY
Il is making preparations to start a vessel from
Norfolk, Va, the first Of May, with emigrants for
Liberia One hundred and seventy eight persons have
already applied for passage; of whom one hun
dred and fourteen are from Virginia, fifty two from
North Carolina, six from Kentucky three from Mas
sachusetts, one from Ohio from Pennsylva MS a,
and one from New York. A fine large weasel will be
chartered, affording the most ample accommoda-
tons for two hundred and fifty passengers. APP
piicaton for a passage should be made immedi-
ately. The price of passage and six months sup
port In Liberia, is sizty dollars each one, for all
who are able to pay A free passage and six
months support will be given to all worthy per-
sons who are unable to pay, and who come
w ell recommended
pamphlet containing all necessary "Informa
ton about going to Liberia will be forwarded to
all who desire it.
w. McLAIN,
Secretary American Col Society.
O. Papers please copy.
Feb
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PUBLIC NOTICE.
Pass1os oEy.cs February Is, 1856

FHHsl0N OFFICE FEBRUARY los 1865
TIME ATTENTION Of this Office has been drawn
i TO Autographed ercsser Lter, addressed by GER
tain claim agents Of Washington city, and extern
sivey distributed to persons Believed to be interest
ed in claims for revolutionary pensions which It is
rect and unauthorized reference to the Pension
Office. az because it has become the subject of re-
peated and annoying correspondence ana inquiry
by those to whom it has been sent. In one part OF
this letter it 10 stated that the writer for the time
icing is q Government claim agent, and IN another
pace that he is duly Gstkorixed agent couchsd for
at the Department. Again, he requests his corre-
qualifications to addrsss The Pension Office. To the
many applications touching such references no
special answer has been given; and 1t Is proper 10
give general notice that agents haze 0sen 0astn0
rixed to refer to tis office for testimonials Of char
acfer or qualifications, tcS such testsnonsos De
givsn Claim agents become 50 OF their own
Choice without any reference to this Office, or con-
sulting it, and they must rest upon their indi
viduaI merits and qualifications for public support:
The Pension Office ought not to afford any partial
discrimination by endorsing any of them, nor will
it do 30
The circular letter referred to- which it thought
proper thus officially to notice, ID founded upon
printed volume published by the United States
Senate in 1852, SENATE Executive document No.
Pension Office, in compliance with call from the
Senate, of all suspended and rejected pension claims,
tpi marginal notes Of the cruises Of suspension
rejection. This volume is doubtless in the hands Of
many agents; but It does not authorize, has this
office authorized, the pretesi0n that SUCH agents
haze any privileged access to the files Of the Pension
Bureau, or that they can possess any information
'oithheld from the public at large ,.
Feb 16-d0u Com aaiOner of penaions.
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NOTICE

NOTICE
Of the DiscontiHu0nce of the United States Land
Office at pincennes, Indiana.
FINDER the provisions of the second section of
" the act of Congress approved June 12, 1910,
which declares stthat whenever the quantity of
public land remaining unsold in any land district
shall be reduced to number of acres less than
one hundred thousand, it shall be the duty of the
Secretary Of the Treasury to discontinue the Land
Office for such district; and if any land in any
such district shal remain unsold at the time of the
discontnuanceofa land Office, the same shall be SUBJ
ject 10 sale at some of the existing land offices
most convenient to the district in which the land
office shall have been discontinued, of which the
Secretary of the Treasury shall give notice;' and
inasmuch as the duty aboue required has been devolued
upon the Secretary Of the Interior By the "Act to
t0blish the Home Department" approved Sd March,
lS49:
Notice is accordingly hereby given that the Sec
rotary Of the Interior has directed that the Land Of
fee at VINcENNEs in the State of Indiana, be dis
continued, and the lands remaining unsold at the
time of the discontinuance to be subject to sale
at the Land Office at JEFFERsoNvILLE, in said
State
& Lands remaining unsold, and unappropriated
by law, and subject to private entry within the
limits OF the VINcENNEs district, will cease to be
subject to entry heretofore at that office, from
the date of the receipt of this notice by the Regis
ter and Receiver thereof and the land officers at
JEFFERsoNvILLE toiH gtpe public notice Of the day on
,chich they suu be prepared to receive applications for
entries Of any such lands at thsir office.
fe5 JOHN WILSON,
Commissioner of the General Land Office
Feb 7-3taw6w
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.Every Day Brings something New"
BUCKINGHAM,s
National Periodical Depot, under the Ma
tionul HOTEL

BUCKINGHAM'S
/ National Periodical Depot, under the Ma
tioYul HOTEL
TINE SUBSCRIBER respectfully announces to
i his friends, strangers, and the public, that be
has opened his new National Periodical and News.
paper Depot, under the National Hotel, Pennsyl-
vania avenue, near the corner of 9th street, and
cordially solicits their patronage.
shall keep constantly on hand a great variety
of all the cheap publications. Magazines, PERIOD.
Gals, American and Foreign Reviews. acting edi-
tons of the Modern Standard and Minor Drama,
together with the Weekly, Literary, and Daily
Newspapers, Sc, &C.
Also Letter, Note, and Cap Paper, Envelopes,
and Fancy Stationery of every description, and a
well-selected assortment of Visiting and Playing
Cards; all of which now offer at the most moder.
ate prices.
Having made arrangements with several of the
largest publishing houses for their works as soon
as issued, I am fully prepared to execute with
promptness all orders entrusted to my care. Par
tcuiar attention will be paid to sending. by mail
Or otherwise, all publications to any part of the
United States,
E. F. BUCKINGHAM,
National Periodical Depot,
Dec ~ under National Hotel.
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A DYE ON coURTs-MARTIAL; / vol, Lon

"A don. So .-' -
Hickman on Courts martial; vol, London {,
Grif6th's Notes on Military Law and Courts
martial; vol, London. -
The Mutiny Act and Courts martial, by Captain
McNaghten, Judge Advocate General, Bengal;
VOL, London. 49,
Robinson's History and Practice of Prize Laws;
vol, London.
Trial of Admiral Keppel; VOL, Dublin.
O'Brien on Courts. martial; i VOL, Philadelphia.
De Hart on Courts. martial; vol, New York.
Maltby on Courts martial and Military Law
VOL, Boston.
Macomb's Practice of Courts martial; VOL,
New York.
Du Mesquil- Dictionnaire de la Justice Mill
taire; vol, Paris.
Chenier-Guide des Tribunaux Militaires, GU
Legislation. &
Crimenelie de HArmee; 2 vols, Paris.
Chenier-Manuel des Conseils de Yuene; vol,
Paris,
Huii,s Trial, Porter's Trial, Scott and Gaines
Case, Cooper's Raview of the Mackenzie Case, and
Others.
Expected shortly from London, several works
on the same subjects by Hough, Simmons, James.
Kennedy, Macarthur, sc.
Jan IS FRANCK TAYLOR. I
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JOS. G. TOTEM,
RI Rrin Cen and Cal IL

BIT. Brig. Gen. and Col Engineers.
To be inserted in the Republic, InteHigencer,
and onion, Washington; Savannah Republican,
Daily News, Philadelphia; Courier aud Enquirer,
and Express, New York; Wing, Troy, New York;
Boston Courier, Boston, daily for two weeks; one
copy OF each paper containing the advertisement
to &c sent to the Engineer Department.
Mar DIV
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PROPOSALS FOR FINISHING PORTLAND
HARBOR BREAKWATER, MAINE.
ENGINEER DEPARTMENT,

WAsHINGToN, February rs, 1858.
TINE Gaping WALL of this structure will
i be extended 100 feet towards Ferry Point and
100 feet towards the harbor channel. 1t will be
built of split stone, laid (without mortar) in two
courses, each two feet in height. The lower
course will be formed of two headers, each II
feet long and not less than feet wide, passing
entirely through the wall, alternating with two
other headers, each feet long and not less than
feet wide. In the second or top course the CORE
spending headers will be 8 feet and d feet long
respectively The enrolment on which this wal
points in order to secure firm foundation AL
the ballast stone wanted for this purpose-say 200
or 500 tons-may be taken from the end of the
breakwater, at such point as the experimenting
Engineer may direct.
The stones of the last 10 feet of the Gaping wall
should be firmly secured together by l. inch iron
dogs and bowels. Proposals for furnishing the
stone and building the wall, at a fixed price per
running foot, will be received at this office until
the 30th March, 1858. The work must be executed
in a manner satisfactory to the Government officer
in charge.
There are blocks of stone hand sufficient to
build twenty feet of THE wall.
For further information direct to Brevet Major
T. b. Tower, United States Army, Portland,
Maine. JOS. e. TOTEM,
BIT. Brig. Gen. and Col. Engineers.
To be inserted in the Republic, Intelligencer,
and Union; Washington: Boston Courier Boston:
Portland Advertiser Portland daily tor two weeks
ono copy OF each paper containing the advertise
ment to be sent to the Engineer Department.
March 2--d2w
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For freight or passs ge apply to
EDWARD K. COLLINS & CO.,
No. Sc Wall street, New York:
BROWN, SHIPLEY & co
Liverpool.
R. G.. ROBERTS & CO.,
Is Kings Arms Yard, London.
J. MUNROE & CO
26 Rue Notre Dame DIES VICTORIES, Paris.
GEO. H. DRAPER Havre.
The owners of these ships will not be account.
able for gold, silver. bullion, specie, jewelry, pre-
cious stones, metals, unless bills of fading
signed therefor, and the value thereof expressed
therein. Jan IL
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WASHINGTON BRANCH RAILROAD. (
80! ;l i : = - ]
Change of Hours.

Change Of Hours.
On and after Monday, 18th of January, the pas
senger and trains will be run as follows:
Leave Washington at and 81 a. m !, 81 and 5
p. m. On Sundays at a. m. and 5 D. m. The
trains leaving att a. m. and D. m. connect at
the Relay House with trains going West, and
at Baltimore with those going East, and by these
only are sold the through tickets to Philadelphia
and New York.
Leave Baltimore at and 81 a. M, 4.45 and 6. IS
p. m. On Sundays at a. m and 4 Is p IN.
The first and fourth trains each way will be Elk
press Mail Trains, stopping only at Washington
Junction and Annapolis Junction
T. r. PARSONS,
Jan % Agent.