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imports.

decrease ................ l456,997 o,oi5 594
The quantity of wheat delivered at the official towns is
usually estimated fourth the whole This would give
an increase of 3, 600, 900 qrs. home wheat.
The farmers sections of the United States have also
done well Others the crops have been short and this
has been one element of the present high rates in addition
the proportion the crops of 1853 exported too large
while the railroads drew aborers from farms to make them
rather than producers of food and immigrants at
the rate of 900 per swell consumption. 1t is
the railroad aborers have gone back to farms that
considerable portion of the immense land sales Of the
past two years into cultivation in the hands of those
immigrants who last year produced nothing and the high
prices have stimulated all farmers to get much seed into
the ground possible With fair season. the next harvest
may therefore, be very large but will be called upon to
meet large consumption repensh Stocks and supply the
markets as bring down the present famine prices The
following table will show the prices of Genesee -four in New
York in the week of the first four months of several
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April I'D

NEWS Ladtes.-Mrs A. Il. YOUNG, fashionable
would respectfully inform her friends and custom
generally receipt Of the latest fashions
French English American OF dress She has
which she will be enabled to
short notice and in the best Good h
old il is needless anything,
good well good fits All she asks
give finest goods in the Market and those who
NAV favor will find their advantage
CARDS prices well good fitting and good work Give her
call, door from west side, No. 44I
Apl ll--eodlm
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INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

Surveyor General for Utah.This gentleman d. II. Burr,
esq., leaves Washington in day for the Great Salt
Lake City, At St. Louis Mo-, he will take charge
boxes containing records pats Instruments FORMS
structions &c. for the of his office. He will be allowed
his actual expenses for this service but is uncertain
whether he will be able avail himself of the of Uni
ted States troops about leaving for Fort Laramie beyond
that point however, his only companions will be such civil
officers may accompany him. and emgrants whom he may
fall in with on the road
Surveyor General for Kansas and Nebraska General
Land Office preparing to send by Adams Co.'s
press two boxes containing instruments field and descriptive
notes. township plas &c. for the of the gen
erals office for these Territories.
applications under the Neo Bounty-Laad AcUnder the
bounty land of March s. 1885, the first claim was pre-
sented the Pension Office about the 10th utmo up
this date eyhyone thousand hundred applications have
been received About twenty thousand been en-
veoped numbered and brieed and yesterday the office
menced the Of claims under hsaw They purpose
having least ten thousand ready for when the plates
furnished Although the forms and by Com
missioner aldo plain, explicit and easily understood
of the first thirty examined only
with the requirements of the law and the instructions the
office The remaining twenty cases. course were re-
jeced An applicant for bounty land should first
whether his particular embraced within the
provisions of the late act Ii he is really of the beneficial
rie he should next that his application drawn up in
accordance with the forms and instructions which the Com
missioner has issued few minutes of care and intelligent
| attention may months of delay.
Patent 0Gcs.-Applicaons from the 9th to the 18th OF
August
Applications l0s
Caveats "a
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BY TEL g X A p Ill !.
TIE Poole Murder Aaain.

TIC TOOIt NTHTueT liyHFH'
New YoRK April 1s.-In the of the parties charged
with being participants in the murder Of Poole Judge
Cowles decided holding Irving and Morrssey to bail
in the Of $4,000 each and Hyler Ling and Van Pet
in the EACH The motion to admit Turner and
Paudene to bail is denied.
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no TEACHEHSI wish to dispose OF the extensive properly
known Rugby Academy The buildings and
ceent They afford accommodations
pills, including school domores,
The excellent opportunity obtan and
established institution To purchaser The terms viii be made
payments Autographs plans
q. G. Kennedy
Mar I7--eod2wd&cp. q. r. MORRISON
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A lShoeting Affair

BUFFALO, April ia returned Californian, by the name
Of Forbes shot another here to-day by the Of Scha
er Of Schaler intimacy with his WIFE Schaer
not considered dangerously injured Forbes surrendered
himself confessed the deed expressed regret that Sha
Ter was dead Forbes has been absent three He
has been committed for a further examination.
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NEW GOODS, NEW GOODS wv. II. Stanford merchant
~ tailor has just received handsome and
French and English goods for geailemen suitable for the
approaching all which will
order at shortest notice and The most fashionable and elegant
STYLE the lowest possible at No. 4Sd, Pennsylvania
avenue north SIDE three doors west OF Third street
Mar 28-2aw3wG
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FURNISbtNs Dah eooD>---lne sutscFeeFs
III OF houekesp@rs and others
there of furnishing goods, such
lea, ia, and l24 linen sbirtngs, IN great variety
lo@F, Ia, and ~ 4 cotton sbrtings
ia, and ia Msr~eles quilts corded dim
i,y bed spreads
81 aud 10 dsmssk table linens
Satin dsmask table cloths, all sizes
superior fine piowcase linens
Very superior bed and crib blankets
Satin damssk table napkins
French and English furniture chnsxss
Lace and muslin curtains
Huckshack, damask. and diaper towsiings
Al which selected with great care upon e '
they be hsa ~ NE
HooE, BROTHER h. Co +
attention 10 invoice ot i1-h
ltnens prices ncm ~ esh''
which know 90 De pure nsa
and he goods in the market - ~
27-3sswtwn hoohf oeot - ~
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Hofman's Rosendale Cement

THIS hydraulic manufactured the Cement
Company aud has the unqualified appreciation emf
architects and department
Of the works under the United For sale The
ONCE OF the company by
M. w. WOODWARD, Secretary,
LA Front street, New York
Mar 25--d2mif
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18th In ~ O. by the Rev BERNARD
A MAauIRH, President II Georgetown college Mr. D.
o'BYRsE Of Georgia, 70 JOSEPHINE, daughter q
RxxNETT CLxmKsrs esq.
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The Nunneru hapestiiqation.

BosToN April 1.-THE committee the nunnery investi
CATION reported to-day, recommending no definite action
1t accepted.
The committee charged with investigating the special
charges against Joseph Hiss have not yet reported.
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rurRr OF CLAsMs-uriah Forrest attorney asiaw, Rock
U viii claims OF claims and
before departments washington Communications
Rockville No. 2s2 north will be
promptly attended TO.
March 3i--dtlstyuy
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~ OWEN SON, Military and Naval Merchant Talors No
u would respectfully call the
public generally their stock Of goods
ust exhibition
cloths casmeres and vestng together with full assortment OF
genlemens furnishing articles.
They would remark The selection made principally by
Junior partner Of the firm.
~ B1hcy have style OF gloves, something superior can
Josephine kid which they invite particular attention
Washington, D. O. Aprt 6-Jtawsw
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After the best harvest had in England the price
nved double what did in 1851 and proporonate rates
we're maintained upon the continent The following shows
me quantities Of wheat and imported into Great Britain
and the average prices for the whole year;
Imports
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nIFFERENTIAL and Integral Calculus, by Ed. ~.
Courteney professor the University of Virginia.
Loomis's Practical Astronomy
Orators of Ancient and Modern Times by
Harsha.
The Country Neighbohood by Miss Dupuy.
Robert Graham by Caroline Lee Hentz.
The Rag Bag; by N. r. Willis.
FeuIbach's Essence VI Christianity.
Cumming Family Prayers. vols.
Tricolored Sketches in Paris.
Inventors Guide by J. g. Moore
April 10 FRANCk TAYLOR
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Sailing of the Baltic,

New YonK April ls.The steamer Baltic sailed hence to-
day for Liverpool with 260 passengers. and ST. 900 in
specie
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Violent Thunder and Hail Storm.

New YoRK, April lsA violent thunder storm occurre'
this morning, extending the whole of this State.
Brockpot hail measuring inches in crcumsr
ence fell
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EARIsA BOILERS. all sizes, for ssle by
w. N. NARROWER, TN street,
April 4-H near Pennsylvania avenue.
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Law Notice.

Brown, STANTON, WALKER.
lITM. T. BROWN, FRED p. STANTON, and J. KNOX WALK
Err formed partnership practising Supreme
OF claims
Offices Washington and Mem
will either place.
letters addressed 10 them will receive attention.
April l9--tfeo (Iatel. and Sentinel copyl
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~ sNERaL AGENCY AT WAsHINGTON,--The sub.
In Richmond, Virginia. having established
few doors in ront OF the Treas
claimants the govern
and for land bounes
and pensions under of Congress
OF the David Darlington,
perhaps only index which was made 10 NE I'M
the first auditors ONCE IN
Richmond copious index the IN all
Capitol OF Virginia These, and The
OF years experience
claim inustad 10 him be Just ne wiz De
the claimant himself be enbrey
unable TO do IT,
For claims 30 March, 1855 giving ICE acres
Of battle who served surteen Gays
chsrse. WI, he very moderate FELIX RICHARDS.
REFERENCES.
Henry A. Wise, AecomRc, Virginia
James Lyons. Esq, Richmond, Virginia
r. Heath late Commissioner OF PENSIONS, Richmond,
Virginia,
Stafford H. Parker, Richmond, Virginia.
Hon. John 4. rendleton, Virginia
Hon. Samuel Chiffon, Washington, D. O.
William J. Ward, esq, Baltimore
Lewis Tmberlake, esq, New YORK.
March 7--dscplyt
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SALE % BURroSs THEkrRE--We understand fsays the
w. orK Express) that Messrs A. r. Stewart Co. Of
have been negotiating for the purchase Of Mr.
theatre in Chambers street and that the sale was
n. made on Saturday last The price demanded by
mr. Burton was $4,000
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Price Of Flour in Ncw York.

These very extraordinary figures. 1879 was shor-
crop year; 1897 the great paper money year. Since
1851 the prices have been high but before has flour
and all provisions hold the ratio in vauereached such
aleve II is evident that old stocks exhausted Cattle
have been greatly reduced in numbers by the hortness
food last fall which compelled the sale. Good crops will
induce the repenhng of these stocks Under all these
cumstances, whether England wants much little,
prolific haryests will permit the export of any considera
BILE quantities The amount Of money that has been absorbed
by the English agricutursts very great constituting al
most all the earnings Of the other industries In the United
States this has also been the extent and will
probably be time before the branches of general indus
try have their revenge The imports of goods continue
be very small, comparatively, and there is disposition
to purchase at higher rates which ELECTS desire hold
back aud the activity OF trade is rather less The bank
statement Of the present week shows pause the expansive
movement which has been long pursued by the banks The
returns are follows from the point where the upward
commenced.
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Loans. Specie Cearinus. D~poses
Dec 67s4o3 So,4ss,3s3 sic 2l5, is7 sac sS 26
Apn, I..... e4,499,394 4,essOo4 ls,oao,sl 592s3Og
H....... o. 40,399 4s90,979 i7sO3644 5o47s so

The loans have kept pace with the actual depostes
which embrace the balances due country banks these are
not discounted commercial notes. but mostly loaned
calf upon stocks constituting the brokerage portion
the bank business and have been the of the rise
stocks mostly The discounts have not been much increased
indeed the quantity Of business paper aaoat large 1t
remarkable that the specie has increased also with the
sno showing that it has been business loans that
increased the business of the banks. The value Of money
continues about the same and the exports of specie are now
less than last year. although the of bills higher The
amount shipped last week $34s7lT against $685.
same week last year. II is estimated that about ST 0O0
VIII go this week. against 81 409 s2l week year
Great apprehensons entertained that the operation
vac new liquor law Of New York will produce difficulties
Inc number of persons and OF capital engaged in this
business which in fourteen days will be Illegal is such as
already to affect credit in various ways Official estimates
make the number Of persons engaged in the traffic in the
e oooOO and the business has up to this time been
uuSed IN manner that showed apprehensions of its
'us"y' The law does not prohibit imports, nor di-
ecuy prevent the importer from selling but forbds any
person but those duly appointed from buying As persons
appointed can resell only for certain purposes the demand
% hem mrst be limited and the import Of spirits be trans
eu 70 other porsJersey City, perhaps. If the law is
served with its pains and penates-and it is very curious
uose Who like the Drawing Tribune, the most ac-
ave Ia setting at naught and deriding the compromise
are they who express the greatest horror not
D2ug law OF the landthere must be great change in
w qoorouness, disastrous to those engaged in it, and
consequently to all their business connexions which EN-
orsee most mercantile business
ne produce markets generally firm. Cotton rose 4
- Pon me foreign last week, closing firmly ll9@
au New Orleans with sales Of about 900 bales per ay
M Oetter-sales western canal, 50 so 50 ST. mixed
$40 o6 $40 so; Genesee, s13 southern is brisk
CIV 10 Rye -four, So % 81 62K. Corn meal, "a 81
~ nheat-hichigan prime white, 81 40. Rye 81 40.
ose y rs cents Jersey, e6 a 20 cents Cornsouthern
VI o6i western 81 o. Porkold mess SIC SIC u !;
"eN prime, SIS prime meas $40 s2A Lard a7k 1o7L
e0s' Potatoes very hrm-Mereers, 81 81 a. Rice.
sac cents - 49,
s'ooA market has been pretty dull and prices rather
under the market.
Yours, PRENTICE
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CHARLES y. N. GwsNN,

IL snsed 70 eas.s referred TO- originating a. ne eoos,
W cisiasn Washington D. &, person desiring
cate win HIN Do BY Balumsre
ing ION, ID. O.
pnl i5-eodim TNat fnt1
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NTH INsrALMENr.-Ws opon TO-DAY ne
ment OF our celebrated
them The best article Al ne price in this country.
SHAKER LONG CLOTH sHIaTlNs.p
Five opened sday, stout expressly
ing, shade two heavier than the housewife eouom.
Tho shaker coh
10 brand ladies and childreais
The brands
full, We take all the mil kinds
hesitation pfonoaacirs them
class W
all other and rehsble quality eooas
The best makes known 20 the trade
our stock II goods general family consumption was never
complete than At present
MOURNING GOODS.
stock all black goods Of the
qualities, mentioned IN this cunncx.cn thai
especial keeping throughout ia. entire large
supply Of all kinds ~ dry goods required of mourning
IN PURE aALL-iIsENp GOODS.
We All large portion Of
which manufactured ireland the remainder
leced from trade this co 1s
facilities enahle decided bargains In
linen goods; deal 10 other kind.
Daily additions arriving Ia fancy goods.
One price only.
Delay settling any bills present expected
PERRY BROTHER,
Central Stores "wcs buiduF,o
April lI--l0dif Opposite Centre Market
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SUlopE ACID LApy-A VICTIM sPIRrTuALrsM-
Mrs Ann Dickson old and respectable lady, committed
suicide at Troy New York. by hanging herself Friday
last The Budget says:
"A the place where she hung herself the roof was very
low She found her knees having stranged her
self with several skens Of yarn She occupied
this house alone by herself She kept almost continually
talking about her daughter who dead She seemed
always be perfectly in all her talk and actions
At about 10 o'clock yesterday she called the persons
occupying the below her and handing Of them
a piece OF paper which contained writing with lead
pencil requested the latter read it, it written
her by spiritual medium She then left leaving the
piece of paper in the room which the last which
seen Of her.
"The following is all could decpher from the piece Of
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BLACK PAPER AND NK-A correspondent of III
Scientific American suggests that difficulty exists il
getting white paper to print upon black paper might
substituted with white ink. White black ground i
distinct and the eye is then relieved from the glar
of rays from the white surface.
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CALIFORNIA AND THE TRADEGovernor Bigler has
recommended in special message to the California legs-
ature the adoption of to San Francisco
the benefits of the whale trade Of the Pacific. He cites
many advantages for San Francisco.
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THE FISHERIES MARBLEHEAD-The Peoples Advocate
says We shall send the banks this year about double
the number that sent in s4 the year following the
great gale the business has again the confidence Of
the public promising of wealth and prosperity
to the town. Seven vessels will be added the fleet this
year. most of them being We have been informed
that vessels stocked from six to eight thousand dol
lars year and if this be true together with the fact
that lives lost is very gratifying to those who
desire the prosperity Of citizens and the town"
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Survey Of Lake Superior.

The several parties engaged in this survey
upon Lake Superior, under the eOnmsnd Of
Lieutenants Rose and Reynolds and general
command Of Capt. ]. N. Macomb, closed their
work for the season in the last week Of Sep
temher.
The work performed during the present seas.
on has been Of very important nature. The
corps under Lieut.. Reynolds we're ordered 70
make detached surveys Of the most difficult
aud important hsrbOs on tie KeWsensW
Range. This has been accomplished, and The
work is marked 50 perfectly that when the
general survey is prosecuted there viii be no
necessity for gOiFg over the ground second
time. The topography Of the county has
been made on this part Of the work, the obser.
VstiOns extending fiOm three to Eve miles into
the interior, The most prominent bluffs at
this distance have been marked and such Of the
mines as are in sight Of the lake. In addition to
thisoV er 25,O0U sOundings have been made
with the small lead and about 600 with The
deep sea line. The result Of the latter sound.
ings cannot fail to be gratifying to the student
and interesting to all connected with this coun-
try. Lieut.. R. has ia bis possession earth
brought up from the bottom Of Lake Superior,
$50 feet below the level Of the ocean. The
depth Of which this was procured was 7s7 feet
The work on this section has been most thor
Oughly aud faithfully performed. and reflects
greet credit upon those engaged In it. Il il
the wish and the hope Of all interested in this
county that the future surveys may be
entrusted in this party. The extent Of Lake
coast surveyed by Lieut.. Reynolds is embrae-
ed in the districts Of Eagle River and HArbOr.
Copper! HarbOr, Agate HarbOr. Grand MOrsa.
and ontonagon. Some other points were msn,
toned which We are unable to remember.
No less importantis is the work performed By
the party under the command OF Lieut.. Rose.
The survey of the saut st. Marie river, to.
gether with the topography Of the shores and
islands in the Falls have been accurately
made and noted. Whaiskaie Bay and the
creeks emptylng into It have been thoroughly
examined aud all the shoals marked. Sta.
tiOns have been placed upon the most import
ant points, and every care taken to mark ell
shoals that are dangerous. The total num-
Der of sounding has exceeded 5000. Il is
worthy of remark that wherever sOEndings
we're made at the spots where the charts taken
from the survey made by Capt. bayfield, show
ed his work they agreed exactly. This is ;
significant commentary upon the accuracy Of
his work, ami enc that is highly complimentary.
Cap. Bay6eld's charts are the only complete
ones as yet of Lake Superior, and 1t must be
gratifying to bis friends to learn that they
stand the most stringen. test Of accuracy; and.
as matter of course, their value is mach en-.
HANGED, Lake Superior Journal
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NlisteIIaneous RcoOiuD,
QuaCks and QuaCkeries.

The labors and researches of the physician,
made public through considerations ofhuman.
ity, are too often seized upon by rapscious
quackery, turned into channels of unmitigated
selishness. and made the instruments of evil
rather than good. In this manner many of
the brightest discoveries of human genius have
been degraded by vile and unscrupulous imi~
tations, which, assuming the same name and
wearing the same garb, have been thrust be.
fore the people, Nothing is mere truly humi-
liating to the physician who, with high pur
poses, labors though weary years to work out
the great problem of science to which he has
devoted himself, than to see the FIRST announce
yment Of his success eagerly seized upon by
class of piratcal quacks, whe live and grow
fat upon other mems labor. This class is as
old as the days Of Virvil-
sic vos non vobis'-
is as applicable at the present day as when the
old poet chalked il upon the walls of Rome
No sooner does the physician proclaim the
truths he has discovered, and the knowledge
he possesses, than . dozen hungry nostrum
,yenders set to work to enrich themselves with
the fruits Of his toll. The charlaan, the quack,
the greedy adventurer. begins bis trade by as
.sOciating himself with the name, or the sys-
tem whick he means to initiate, aud strives, by
every means in his power, to confound and
misIead the public to his own advantage.
In the ordinary affairs of life, such decep-
tion is attended with only passing consequences
the loss Of few dollars, watch, horse,
or Of property more considerable in vaIue--and
in most instances is amenable to the laws a.
gainst 'swindling.' In the sale of patent med
icines.' on the contrary, health--nsy, life It.
self--is daily sacrificed, and yet the law has
no power to afford protection to the afflicted,
or uccord punishment to the guilty,
Medicines are employed as the antidOtes to