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1000 TONS MOL
SUPER-PHOSPHATE OF LIME

nEBURG'S ORIGINAL AND GENUINE war
- ranted of superior quality, the cheapest ma
nure in the world
Farmers and dealers supplied at low prices.
EXTRA QUALITY LAND PLASTER
5000 barrels extra quality Land Plaster, selected
expressly for its fertilizing quality.
$4,000 bushels of same in bulk.
1000 barrels Cacined Plaster.
500 =" Casting
100 g Dentist
J.. PERUVIAN GUANO. .t.
This article we offer n confidence to our custom
ers, as equal to any imported and far superior to
most in the market. 5000 bags Of this superior
Guano, for sale at the lowest market rates Also,
PATAGONIAN GUANO.
GROUND CHARCOAL
.-.... P0UDRETTE, &c.
c. FRENCH Il co.
AT the STEAM PLASTER Mills, junction York
Avenue, Crown and Callowhill Streets Philada.
Mar I'm
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FARM FOR SALE.

4 DESIR ABLE FARM AND STOCK, sit
"A uated on the river half mile from the
village of n orth East. containing 40 Acrss,
in a good state of cultivation, with good build
ings thereon; consisting of Il Dwelling, Ten
ant House, and Barn; which will be sold ON
reasonable terms by application to
+. l.. WOOLEY,
May 81 IF North East, Md.
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WE YET CAN LIVE!

E0R ASH has just returned from the city with a
L splendid stock Of
Ladies Dress Goods,
such as the latest styles Of Cashinercs, Merinos.
Delaines. In CHAINS, Prints, Mus!ns, &c.
BOOTS and SHOES for Ladies' Uses and Chill
dren and general assortment Of all kinds of wear
ing apparel for Men and Boys.
But forgot, we cannot live on these. Well if
We cant;
Why he S got first rate ACkERAI., COD FISH.
HA 5, HERRING, CHEESE, and Jersey sW EET
POTATOES.
Let 60 get some. Oct. Z, %.
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GTAEO.

A full supply Of No. Government Peru
Wan Gnano on hand. Also, cXican Guano,
Poudrette and Plaster, for sale at the lowest
market rates. ALLEN < NEDELES,
% South Wharves and 80 South Water
ST. first Store above Chestnut Street,
Jan ~ 3m PnLADELpnIA.
DyFarmcrS can load on Water Street and
avoid the crowded Wharf.
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Mercantile.
FREDuS .
FREDUs ALDRIDGE. SAMUEL b. GRANT.
NEW STORE,

~ IL w ~ i " H ~
A LBRiDGE Il GRANT, would respect
IA fully inform their friends and the public
generally, that they have taken the stand
lately occupied by Mr.. Samuel Miller, at the
corner Of Main and Bow Streets, and have
opened with general variety of
Dry Goods and Groceries,
embracing every variety ofMerchandise that
arc usually kept in town and contry stores.-
Consisting in part of Cashmcrcs, Coburgs,
Muslin De LANES, Manchester Ginghams
Aipacas, Prints from to II cents; Swiss and
Book Muslins, Silk and Linen Iandkerchiefs,
red and white Flannels, black and fancy col
ored Cloths. Cassimeres, Satinetts. Also, an
extensive and well selected stock Of Queens
ware, with general assortment Of Hats,
Caps, Boots and Shoes, including II great va
riety Of Trimmings, &c.
They would particularly call the attention
Of House Carpenters and Builders to their
stock of Hardware, comprising Locks, Latch
cs. Screws, Nails, &c, as they fatter them
selves they can sell them much lower than
has heretofore been done.
All kinds Of Groceries, and very cheap.
Their stock is entirely new, hay!g Just pur-
chased them in the city Of Philadelphia.
Those who are in want of cheap goods, would
do we'll to call and examine their stock before
purchasing elsewhere. Country produce Ia
ken in exchange FOR goods. Han %
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Wilmington.
WATCHES, JEWELRY AND
SILVER WARE.

VALUED, JEW GLNx AMI
SILVER WARE.
| "a zIBA FERRIS & SON, CORNER OF rornru
| NJ AND ARKEr STREETS, WILMINGTON. have
sfsas.zea on hand the largest ment Of fine
WaTCHES. JEWLLRY and SlLNERWARE. to
be found in the State and respectfully solicit the
attention of the citizens of ELkTON and rs yicini-
~ 70 Our stock, consisting in rt, of the following
articles:
ENGLISH WATCHES, in God or Silver Cases
Richard Willis Chronomctcr Watches. Sole
Agency.
Chas. stovcnson's do. do do.
VIM. Cooper's Duplex and Lever Watches
NJ j. Tobias q Cos Liverpool Watches.
jos Johnson's do. do. made ex-
pressy for usl
JOSH % f BPosmtsi. DO DO. Do DO: railway
Time kcepe,sl
Joseph Sewill's do do RAILWAY
Time keeprrs)
Jno Iedbury 4 Co.'S do. do.
FINE SWISS WATCHES.
jules Juigeson Copenhagen Chronometer
y. Gendrcs Geneva Chrunometels
H. Capts Geneva Lever and Lepines. very fne.)
Nachcron Constantine Geneva, very fne)
James Conrvolsier Geneva.
II. ahey Peytcu.
Rrlguet, Paris. very fno.)
Char. Il. lissot & Son, )l.ocle.) &c,
JEW ElhY
Fine sets, consisting OF Breast Pins Ear Rings
and Bracelets. OF the same pattern; Gold Chains
Medalons Pencils, Cuff Fins. &c.
SlLVERWARE.
In the Silver department we arc preparcd 70
furnish the latest patterns. The Tuscan and Eliza
bethan warranted equal to coin in purity and as
cheap as can b. purchased in this country Also a
i;r5e assortment of plain Silver Spoons Forks, &c
Tea Sets, Plated Ware, Mlrbie and Bronze
Clocks.
Yankee Clocks for Churches, Halls and Schools
Richard Willis and Chas. Stevenson Celebrated
GhronOmefer Watches,
Having secured the Agency of the hove finest
quality English Watches, we are prepared 10 furnish
correct umc- keeper at Il REASONABLE price which
for finish and accuracy. cannot be eXcellel BY any
watch made. Each watch is accompanied by a Ger
tiicate from the manufacturer. which guarantees it
Ito keep tine to the stsiItion of the purchaser"
or to be returned. Wccan give the best references:
from gentlemen the greatest respcc ability in our
city; and we respectfully request the attcnt on of
those wishing Watch which they can depend
upon.
r5' WATCH REPAIRING done in the best
manner. and all work warranted TO give entire sat
isiacton for one year. At the old stand of
IlBA FERRIS 4 son,
Corner of Fourth and Market SITS.
Dec. 2. '5f-iy. WILMINGTON. Del
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Elkt0n Brick Yard.

THE subscriber is prepared at his Brick
J. Yard in Elkton, to supply the public with
all kinds Of
COlLHON AND PRESSED BRICKS,
at prices much lower than they can be bough:
for in the cities. Enquire at his brick yard
at the west end Of tho town.
Mar 8 ly SAMUEL KING.
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AN EXPERIMENT FOR RAISING PoTAToEs.-
The following experiment which was fur
nshcd for the volume Of the ComnAesloner of
Patents for 1853, and therein published by
Levi Bartlett, of Merrimack county, n. H.,
will be likely to interest those of your read
ers who intend, as we do, to plant potatoes
on the sod Of an old pasture. Mr.. Bartlett
says he tried an experiment with guano and
bone dust from button factory, in the fol-
lowing way and with the following results:
The soil upon which the potatoes were
planted, was mostly light sandy loan,
which had long been pastured with COWS
perhaps fifty years. Mr.. b. began by plant
ing on one end of the plot. and dropped a
teaspoonful of guano in each hill of ten rows,
and then left several rows without manuring.
the next ten rows received tablespoonful
of bone-dust in each hill; other rows were
their left unmanured, thus alternating until
the field was planted. When the tops APP
rearcd, the dark green and broad leaves told
where the guano and bonc-dust had been
applied. and the difference was very apparent
all through the season. At the time of har-
vesting, it was found that the crop where
the g'lano and bone dust had been used, was
Just double that of the unmanured rows: and
also, that il took no longer to dig bushel
from the MANFRED, than it did to dig half a
bushcl from the unlnanured hill.
Old pasture lands, chemistry informs US,
become very deficient in phosphate of lime
Are they also deficient in ammonia If def
cheney in the phosphate is the main one in
old grazing land, then the double crop of
potatoes was probably owing to the sup
ply of this deficiency by the two fertilizers
used.
In the same volume of the Patent Office
Report for 1858, we find the following items
in regard to the potato crop, which may be
interesting to those intending to plant the
coming season. The average yield of pota-
toes is smaller than it was ten and twelve
years ago. Where formerly 200 bushels was
an average crop, it does not now excede 70
or IS. The soil is sandy loan, and on the
sod. Manure (barn-yard) is more advanta.
geous if applied year before planting pota.
toes, than at the time.
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NOTICE..
A LII persons wishing to subscribe for Stock
"a in the Elkton, Andora and Lcwisville
Plank Road Company. can do so, BY applying
either OF the undersigned managers.
Price Of Stock $50.
SAMUEL B. FOARD,
JOSEPH MILLER,
FRANCIS G. PARkE,
WILLIAM G. CARTER,
NICHOLAS HISS, )
JOSHUA l.. GATCHEL,
WILLIAM RUDOLPH.
EDWARD RICHARDSON
GEORGE EARLE.
Elkton, April 30, 1854.
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OHs WHAT BARGAINS!

A RE to be had at ASH'S, nearly opposite the
"A Fountain Inn, Main Street, Elkton, Md.
You Farmers who are getting high prices for
Of Clothing. Cloths, Satnetts, Flannel, Musns.
Boots shoes, Hats Caps and Groceries ali would
0 well to cnll and see them. lOct. Z, ISL
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NEW FALL GOODS.

4 J SCOTT & BRO. have Just opened their new
"A. stock Of Fall and Winter Goods embracing
larger, choicer and cheaper assortment than they
have ever heretofore offered to the pubic.
y Call and see them opposite the Fountain Inn,
before purchasing elsewhere, if you want bargains.
Ekton. Oct a.
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nOCTOR YOURSELF

nOCTOR YOURSELF
1.-THE Pocke Escaiapius
or every one his oscn Ply
slciam. The 40th Edition.
with 100 engIavinss,
showing diseases and mall
formations of the human
sy stem in every shape and
form. To which is aided
a treatise on the diseases
Of females, being OF the
highest importance to
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VIM. PINkNEY EWING,

II 4 Dh-N l. nav
"AFING returned from the West, and
IL L permanently located in Elkton, will give
prompt attention to all business entrusted to
him.
~ nice-with Hon. 4 eXandAr Evans.
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SundrieS

SundricS.
MINCED MEAT in jars, best quality Olive
Il Oil, mixed Pickles, Pepper Sauce, Cat
sups, French Mustard. Picked Sardines, Sap
sage Cheese. For sale at the lowest market
prices by VIM. TORBERT.
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THIS remedy has won for itself such notoriety
from its cures of every variety Of pulmonary disease,
that it is entirely unnecessary TO recount the evil
Genccs of its virtues in any community where it
has been employed. So wide is the field Of its
funess, and numerous the cases of its cures,
that almost every section of the country abounds
in persons publicly known, who have been restored
from alarming and even desperate diseases of the
lungs BY its use. When once tried its superiority
over every other medicine of its kind is too appa-
rent to escape observation, and where its virtues
known, the public no longer hesitate what antdote
to employ for the distressing and dangerous afIec-
tons of the pulmonary organs which incident
to our climate. And not only in formidable at
lacks upon the lungs, but for the milder varieties
of CoLDs, CouGHs, HoAKsESEss, &c; and for
CHILDREN it is the peasantest and safest medicine
that can be obtained.
AS it has long been in constant use throughout
this section, we need not do more than assure the
people its quality kept up to the best that it ever
has been and that the genuine article is sold by
AGENTS--Dr. J. WALLACE and DR.. H. H.
MITCHELL. Elkton; X. L. THOMAS, North East; JAS
W lLSoN Port Deposit. Jan u On
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A CA IL ID.

THE signed, having entered into CO.
L Partnership for the practice the Law in
all its various branches, will give their prompt
and undivided attention to such business as may
be entrusted to them. Office oppositeth the Court
House, where one or both may always be found
during bushes hours.
GEORGE EARLE,
Dec 81 If JOHN A. J. CRESWELL.
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CATERS and Morocco Boots

JUST RECEIVED Ladies will please cal
j and examine handsome lot of Caters, Morocco
Boots Buskin Shoes, Misses dressed and undressGd
Morocco Boots; also, an excellent lot ofchildrens
boots, for sale by
Nov IL BF MAY.
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n. q. CAZIER,
TOBACCONIST.

Ok n0O SEGARS for sale on Baltimore
Oo. UUU terms. Also, Trunks, Carpet
Bags and Umbrellas. Also, Tobacco at city
prices; Penknives, Razors, &c.
U5~Wanted-2 APPRENTICES, (white or
black in the right way; will treat them we'll.
No. .. Howard House, Aug 5 If
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MORE NEWS.

TIIE subscribers are now selling off at cost
l. their entire stock ofCLOTIlING, consist
ing of large and beautiful assortment o
Fall and Winter clothing. We only say
COME ONE, CONE I'LL!
Our motto is sscontidence.'
Feb Al SCOTT 4 BRO.
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MAGAZINES FOR MARCH, just receiv
Ivled and forsale by E. BROWN. Also
Life and Beauties of Fanny Fern, and "The
Sons Of the Sires."
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Miscellaneous.
LUMBER YARD.

10 IIDLIC i iElD.
A general Ssortment of seasoned Lumber
n such as Pine and Hcmlock Boards, Scant
ling, Pla 1kJ oists, Pine and Cypress Shin
giles, Plastering Lath, Paiiings, &c, constantly
on hand and for sale by
SAMUEL B. FOARD,
JOHN G.. ALDR1DGE.
GRAIN WANTED.
I will pay the highest cash prices for Corn
Wheat and OATS, delivered at the Elkton
Depot, or any place on the Elk, Sassatrss or
Bohemia River, or in the Chesapeake and
Del. Canal. SAML. B. FOARD.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-17
THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

MONDAY Jan. 10.
SENATE.-Mr. Brodhead, of PENNSYLVANIA,
moved the reconsideration of the joint reso-
luton i'll favor of an expedition to relieve DR..
Kane.
The joint resolution upon the Arctic expe-
dition was then taken up.
Mr.. Hunter objected, on the ground that
the expedition would involve the loss of more
lives.
The resolution was finally passed.
The bill establishing Gland districts in
Florida was read a third time and passed
The Ocean Steam Navigation bill, which
was defeated last session, was then taken up.
and desultory debate ensued upon its con-
sideraton.
Finally, motion to indefinitely postpone
was agreed to, and the Senate passed to the
consideration of the Judicial Reform bill, on
which the discussion was interrupted by the
Senate going into Executive Session, after
which the it adjourned.
HOUSE Mr.. Letcher, of Virginia. rose to
question of privilege in the case of Mr.. w.
b. Chase, who refused to answer questions
before the select committee appointed last sea.
son to investigate whether money had been
improperly used to secure or defeat the pas
sage Of a bill before the House. Quite an an
imated discussion sprung up on Mr.. Letcher's
question Of privilege.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole on the Railroad bill, without con-
Guiding the consideration of the privilege
question.
Mr.. Stephens replied to Mr.. Campbell of
Ohio, in explanation of bis expressions regard
ing the acquisition of Louisiana and Florida
He, Mr.. Stephens, was in favor of the acquisi-
ton of Cuba.
Mr.. Boyce, of South Carolina, opposed the
acquisition of Cuba. He considered it mex
pedlent in every point of view, and fraught
with danger to the South.
Mr.. Smith obtained the floor, and the House
took recess until o'clock.
When the House met again, Mr.. Smith
made aspeech in favor of the Know Nothings.
Adjourned
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-17
Crime in California.

The New York Tribune publishes a letter
from San Francisco, giving list of the prin-
cipal events in the criminal record of Califor-
MIA, for the last year, SO far as they could be
ascertained from the newspapers. The whole
number of murders, recorded in the list, is
four hundred and sirty- -four. But the writer
says the list is very incomplete, and that the
entire number of murders would probably
amount to 575 or 600. This, it must be recol-
lected, is in population only about twice as
large as that of Worcester County. If crime
were as rife here, it would be equal to an av-
erage of five murders year, in each and ev-
cry town of Worcester County, or to more
than fifty murders year in the City of Wor-
crime, there were only fifteen legal convictions
of murder and manslaughter. There were
six executions for murder by officers of the
law, and eighteen executions by Lynch Lao.
Another letter gives list of the divorces
granted in San Francisco alone. during eleven
months of the year. There were, in Janua-
ry, s.; February, 9; March, 8 May, 8 !;
June, /; July, 8 August, 4 September, !;
October, q November, 3; total SS, pretty
liberal allowance for a city of thirty-fye
thousand or forty thousand inhabitants.
In list of the persons convicted and sent
to the California State Prison, the last year,
we find the following names of natives of
Massachusetts,, viz.;-Edward II. Hoyey, of
grand larceny, sentenced for two and half
years; VIM. Ogley, assault with intent to
murder, five years Doris w. Duncan, grand
larceny, one year; John Wright, grand larce-
ny, four years; Henry F. Lawrence, grand
larceny, two years; John Henderson, burgls-
ny, three years; Francis Brown, grand larce-
ny, two years; Albert Edwards, grand larce-
ny, one year.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-17
WELCOME FARNUM, President.
john r. Ballot, Clerk.

The miserable tool who conducts that abor-
ton, called the Worcester journal, attempts
to cast odium on the Spy, by connecting with
it the nnme Of David Higgins, man, what
ever may be his misdeeds, who, when he left
the Journal, took with him all that ever be-
longed to the concern, of character, respecta.
bility, or talent, and whose greatest disgrace
in the eyes Of his friends and the public, is,
the TACT, that he ever was associated with
Dexter F. Parker, from whose /" Journal of
yesterday we copy the following:
DAVID HIGeINs.-rhis gentleman who for
merly occupied a part of the Spy Office, has
turned up at Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he
Is now, or was, preaching the Gospel % His
first text was Make unto yourselves friends
of the Mammon of unrighteousness.
From the tenor of this characteristic para
graph, we judge that Mr.. Parker keeps up a
pretty constant correspondence with his
quoadanl friend and yony, Mr.. Higgins. Mr..
ii. never occupied, to our knowledge, any
part Of the Spy Office, but should he apply for
nook, we should greatly prefer his company
to that of the present editor of the Journal ;
for we would rather take our chance of being
cheated by knave, than Of being bored by a
fool.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-17

The PROPOSAL TO REOPEN THE AFRICAN
SLAVE TRADE,-We think there is sufficient
moral sense left in the country, to feel shock ed
at the proposal of the Southern Convention to
reopen the African slave trade When this
idea was first suggested, it was treated as an
extravaganza of the ultra slavery party, or as
a misrepresentation of the aboitionists, pat
forth with the view of heaping odium on the
South. This was the answer made IN some
Of the New York papers that had been con.
spicuous in their support of the compromise
measures; and those who referred to the pro-
position, were stigmatized as lending them
selves to the bad work of sowing sectional
dissensions, and making i'll blood bet cen the
North and the South. 1t comes now in a
shape that will not be questioned for it's au.
thenticity, and it shows, more than anything
else OF late, the length to which the advocates
of slavery are prepared to GO, in establishing
the institution as the distinguishing feature of
our civilization. The plan is not only to ex-
tend our borders in the direction of slavery,
not only to spread slavery over regions now
free, but to reopen the supply and legalize
the traffic which has been pronounced piracy
by the general judgment of mankind. This
is the way in which we are expected to hold
up the principle of American repuc lcansm
and to show to the world the blessings of free
institutions. Long ago the most eminent
statesmen Of the extreme Southern school
declared that slavery was the corner stone of
republican institutions. Prov. Journal.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-17

The SAD CALAMITY AT FoRT WASHINGTON
The Boston Journal says Mr.. Haven and
his family are well known in this city, where
they formerly fsided. Mr., Haven was ma.
tive Of Portsmouth, N. IL. A coroners in.
quest was held on Saturday, and a verdict
was rendered that Sarah came to her death by
burning, and Grace and Mary by suffocation.
Sarah was burned very badly, and was found
beneath the ruins, kneeling, with her hands
to her face, and her face to the ground. She
was 26 years Of age, and was born in this city.
Grace was Is, and Mary "a years of oge-
leave large circle of sorrowing friends. Mr..
Octavius b. Phillips, of this city, a friend of
the family, was staying at the house on the
night Of the fire. lie saw lady go into the
burning building, and following her, escaped
with difficulty. Anna, who was injured, is
recovering.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-17

In Vest BOylston, 10th inst Martha A. Eger aged %.
Funeral to take place the Congregational Church at
10 o'clock Friday morning. 10th inst. Friends and rea
tIves are invited to attend.
In 0akham Jan 7,h Eliza A. Howard, wife of Farley
Howard, aged 40.
In Boston, 18Th inst, Isaac P. Davis, Esq, 49,
In East Boston, Sd inst, Mrs Mary CrspeR, of Salem,
aged "a years.
In Charlesown, Jan r. of pleurisy Isaac T. Williams,
Esq 90 years and months.
In Brooklinc, 18th, Dea John Robinson 81 yrs mos
In stoneham, eth inst Elizabeth, widow of the late
Rev. John II. Stevens, 81.
IN FtchburE, 9Th inst, Hattie G., daughter of Waldo
Wallace, Esq, 10 years.
In Norfolk county, Va. 9th inst. Capt Ethan A. Allen,
formerly OF the O. 5. Army in the nth year of his age
Til. deceased was born in Vermont graduated at West
Point entered the army in 1904 and left it when the az
my was re uced in 1871, He the last su viyug son
Of Cen Eth'n Allen, Of American Revolutionary memory