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spertY or Ios-41'here ought Ger.
tainly To- be an abuudant and cheap.
supply Of Ice The coming summer, for
tie winter which has Just passed away
has afforded Ice dealefs most ample,
opportunity Of gathering stores suffiei.
ens for any possible demand. III Dos.
ton, which seems to be- The dsme,. re-
sort Of all tho rest Of the country, the
Ice houses are all filed 10 repletion,
and ID New York cisy. the Ice corn.
panic are set down ~ iiaAing gathered
100000 tons J; a largo quantity than
was ever before collected Id one sea-
son.
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= & = ii ~ 3
TIE PfffsiefAHB or THE IATg,
NlcHoEAs Il letter from 81. Peters
burg, says Dr. Mart, homeopathic,
physician toitho late Emperor, has,
left Russia ID great haste and secretly.
He Is reproacirsl with having toolong
concealed from the august deceased,
that his Itsng was attacked also with
having his3llelf prepared the medicines
destined for Che Emperor, instead 81
having them prepared l,y druggist.
Crest irritation was manifested against
him at st. Petersburg and the Enper-
or Alexander himself advised him, it
is said, TO leave Russia.
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~ Prof: w. p. RrDDELI. is de-
livering o series Of lectures at 4
Lyceum Hall, New Orleans, on A.
lytical and Agricultural Chemistry.
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SILVER CHAsaB.--Orders have
been sent to Treasurer Casey to issue
transfer draft on the branel, treas-
,,rer Of the branch mint at New Or
leans in favor oftbe depository 1T Mo-
bile for $4,000 in silver change.
The fame officer is requested to issue
transfer drafton The assistant treasurer
at New York in favor Of The treasurer
Of the branch mint at New Orleans
for $22'352 43, account Of silver pur-
chased for change.
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L. The number Of deaths in the,
sity Of New York for the week ending
on the 10th inst, amounted to 497
an increase Of 38 on the mortality of
the previous week. OF this number,
l45 were from di1eases Of the lungs,
and throath- 64 being from consump-
.ions
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A correspondent Of the Scientific
4dmerican suggests TINT difficulty
exists Ii getting white paper to print
upon that black paper might DO sub.
stituted, with white ink. White on d
black ground IL more distinct, and the
eye Is then relieved from the glars Of
rays from the white surface. We
should like TO see the effect Of a news
paper Of this kind.
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THE Main LIouon Law IN MAls.
The liquor agent % Bangor, Ne, sells
no liquor except on a pysiciai's certi-
Hcase. The doctors there held i meet
ting recently. and proposed to refuse,
to grant o certificate even to sick,
person, but the proposition failed. Ii
was finally resolved however to require
that they arc. accustomed to receive
for ordinary prescriptions.
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~ Poor Teunyson !. if all tho par.
odieson the Balaklava ode we're piled
upon lie would never write another.
We published the first, and the best
on this side Of the Atlantic, and sent
II overto him bya bearer Of despatch-
81 We l,ambly beg bis pardon. For
multitudinous others we connot be-
apswerable, The effect ofthem will
BE- 70 reconcile the pablie 10 the orgin~
M--Boyfom .Post.
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The London Times on America,

The London Times is still endeavoring TO kndle
war spirit in Great Britain against the United
States. Ii menaces this country, in no ambiguous
terms, with the same vengeance which England
has visited upon Russia. Our countrymen may
be pardoned for not being much frightened at such
an appalling announcement If England does not
chastise the United States more severely than she
has chastised Russia, we may all expect to get of
with whole bones. Americans, it is probable, can
make a better show in a field fight than Russians.
and the descendants of the men who drove back
the best soldiers of Britain, at New Orleans. will
not easily be vanquished by the degenerate race
whom the Russians compelled to fy, at the top Of
their speed, from the Redan.
Kossuth in late letter to this COUNTRY, saws that
we may expect great fight with the kings of En-.
rope, unless the insurgent democratic clement gives
them occupation at home. The Hungarian has. on
one or two occasions proved good prophet and
1t is possible that this prediction may be verified
unless in the meantime we get up civil war
among ourselves, and are sraciously permitted to
cut our own Threats. Ii, however the people Of
Great Britain have any control of their Govern.
Inent, they will not permit the London Times. or
The Palmerston ministry, or any other tools Of
Louis Napoleon in England, to involve that conn.
Try IN war which will increase the public bur.
thens oil England, till they become intolerabla ao
1oF her manufacturing prosperity, and annihilate
her commerce
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Legislative Recess.

The Senate or Tuesday, determined that, if the
House consented it would take holiday from Sat
nrday next until Monday, the 3lst of December
Yesterday, the House of Delegates concurred in
tbs resolution. and as one good turn deserved an
other, they determined to ask the concurrence of
the Senate in similar resolution in it's behalf
The Senate promptly concurred. SO there will be
no session Of either House next week
This act the part of the Legislature is credit
able to their frankness and independence. 1t is
absurd to refuse TO adjourn during the HOLIDAYS.
merely to propitiate Buncombc, and to continue
tho sessions with SO few members as TO render the
attempt to transact business of no utility whatever
The members had better all be at home than tina,
lesa than quorum should remain and go through
the farce Of meeting and adourning without doing
any thing, detainng the officers to dance attend
ance upon them while going through the farce
In the House the screw of the ayes and noes was
brought down under the superstition that members
would not have the courage to vote for the recess
hat with this terrible agent before them and in
spite Of The ninety days limitation, the question
met and carried by vote of ninety-one to ff.
ty-four. We think the better of the Legislature
for this. That sterling old gentleman Mr. WEST,
from Tyler came up bravely to the scratch. He
said he had doubted the proprety of the recess,
and would have vote; against it. but as the ayes
and noes were demanded he would vote Tor it: and
he did
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~ rHrnoRAru1c NEHs.
.tposrrp f0S 7EE pasfA ! cn


" ,sauscToS,s Dec. 1A.~Serdee-The Senate
was occupied this morning receiving memorials
petitions and remonstrances, many Of which were
Ia relation to the action Of the late Naval Retiring
Board fts 81 Is IS - e kfk
House--fn the House, today, an exciting discus.
sion took place on American principles which was
participated In by all PARTIES 5
Mr.. Whitney, Of New ork,proposed to elect the
Speaker by plurality vote, which proposition
was defeated by al3 noes to z ayes
Mr.. Fuller, of Pa, defined his position. He said
he would have been willing TO have admitted Kan
sas free or slave State.
After the discussion two ballots were taken, the
last of which resulted as follows:
". +. Banks, (Ab) Mass. LOG
w. A. Richardson (Dem.) m..--............. "a
II. ~ Fuller, (NThig) Pa. "a
ScattefinS
The House then adjourned.
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Admiral Bruat, commander of the French feet
in the Back Sea, whose death off Netsina was an.
nounced by the last steamers papers was but. fif
ty-nine years of age, and enjoyed high reputa.
born at Coleman, May Goth, 1896, educated at the
Naval School of Brest and in 1915 entered the ma
~. In 1897 he became a leuten ant, and with that
rank commanded the brig Adventure at the block
ade of Algiers. The brig ran aground and he and
his crew were captured and imprisoned in Algiers
until released at the taking of the city by the
French He was then tried by court martial for
the loss of his vessel but honorably acquitted The
next year he became captain, and in 1913 was
sent to the Marquesas Islands to establish the
French protectorate there. Accomplishing this he
became Governor of the French Islands in the Pa.
ciiic
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-12-20

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGISIA.-The catalogue o.
students of the University of Virginia has just been
g ISSUED Among the names we find the following
from tho cities of the State. From Richmond -
Archer Anderson, Richard Anderson, ). II. Cham
benayne, Marion b. Carter. w. w. Davis, Thos.
III Deane, Henry w. Drewry Thomas I. Dudley.
jr, Edward Fontaine, jr, Morton b. Howell. Elem.
ing James, jr.. Roger Martin, Vim. r.. Ritter. VIM
s. Rayiand j. M. strother, and Lewis IL Terre,,
Seventy students were refused matriculation this
year because their previous standing showed them
unqualified TO derive any benefit from the Iyn,
versfy.
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The sectional strsssle.

The sectional struggle In Congress and ihe pre-
variations in Kansas FOR an appeal to arms are' We
fear. but tho beginning Of the end, an emo most
disastrous TO our own government ana 70 rue
proud hopes of the friends of freedom throughout
The world We think we are not disposed to view
the suhjee, in a rreudiced or one-sided manner,
and vet VIC cannot see that the South is In any
way responsible for the present unhappy state of
affairs Admitting that tho Kansas Nebraska bill
was irprudcnt and illsimed, 1t was movement
" hich did not proceed originally from the South,
aud whether right or wrong, has not been the
rause Of the present sectional strife, which bids
fair TO ccnyulse If not destroy tho Union 1t is
seized upon as a mere pretext for agitation oy
those who have all along been glaringly in the
wrong, and who employ this new element OF
agitation an instrument for aiding the accom-
plisbmcnt of malignant schemes for which they
had plotted and labored for the last quarter of a
century In fact, the differences that separate the
free and slave States almost old as the gov
errment; there was rot in the American oak
almost from its birth, and stately and fair it
looks 10 outward view it has An inherent weakness
in tho subject of slavery which may prematurely
bring il to the ground. The free States have from
the beginning acted upon the aggressive. The
slave States have had no motive to pursue in an
aggressive policy They have stood all along
nj GA the defensive, not seeking nor desiring to
establish slavery in the non-slavholding Common
~eslshs, but simply aiding to protect their in
terests and institutions. If in this struggle for
sctpreseryation the Union perishes, let the re
sponsibilty rest upon those who made the struggle
necessary.
Whilst however, we think that the South i,
eiameless in this quarrel, and whilst we admir-.
the spirit aud unanimity with which she defends
her rights we cannot say much for the preparations
she is making to sustain her position against future
contingencies. She seems TO expect that her cause
will take care of ITSELF and shows no sort of dis
position TO prove her faith by her works. Instead
of providing sagaci,us and comprehensive plan
Of defence; instead of building railroads, which will
prove source of wealth to her in peace and of Sc
crity in war; instead of establishing manufactures
and making herself independent by learning to
supply all her own wants, she is paralyzed by sec
tioual divisions upon her own policy of internal
improvements she buys everything at the North
and thus practically every day FORCES her own
chains
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-12-20

FROM PORT Az PRISCE.-By the bark Clara
Windsor, arrived at New York Monday, we have
dates from Port Prince to the Cd inst. The fever
was still raging, particularly among the shipping.
Every vessel in port lost more or less men, The
schooner Susan had lost two schooncrs Leon and
Excelsior two each and the captain of the schooner
Samuel Rankin had died. All the English and
French vessels had lost two or three men each
The Emperor Faustn /. intended marching on the
9th inst, with his entire army, against the Domn
cans. He would first attack Lascapohas and con.
templated entering the city of ST. Domingo on New
Years day
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IL Daguerreotypes DaguerreOtypes .--
WHITEHURSTS GALLERY continues to make
those beautiful Daguerreotypes for which his galleries
are 30 celebrated Having lately re-refted his rooms
in this city, and also secured Artist long expeen
ced in making the improved glass and paper Pictures
he prepared to furnish ali the different styles exhi
bited ut the late Mechanics Fair, the most
able terms Gallery No. n Main street.
de 1-2t*
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BALTIMORE, Dec 19-Flour of all kinds declined
10 cents per grade Wheat dropping, but not quo
taby lower. Provisions unchanged.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. l5.-Saes of Cotton to-day
reached $4,000 bales. Mddling quoted at 81. Su.
gar and Molasses firm. Sterling Exchange 7dS.
NEW YORK, Dec 19.-Flour declined; State So
%; Ohio $50 Southern S9.37. Wheat dropping.
Southern White 81. 10; other kinds unchanged
Corn lower; Western mixed 97l. Pork and Beet
unchs nged. Lard lower. Whiskey }st.
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MARRIED.

On Tuesday evening, the 18th inst at Union station
Church, by Kev. Philip Cosrtney. MI. GEoRGE w
RAnY, Chief Operator Of the Warrington and new
Orleans Telegraph Office, TO Miss MAR9AKET a.
SEWELl., both of this city.
On Wednesday. the 18th day Of December, at
Union Station. By the Rev. Mr. Petherbridgs, Mr.
JOHN +. BARNES, of Richmond, to MISS Eliza
BETH T. SOUTHALL, of Hsnrico.
On Tuesday 18th inst by Rev. A. n. Smith, Mr.
wM A. SHEPPARD TO Miss LEoNORA A. En-
ROUGHLY all Of this city.
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DIED.

AT the residence of bis grandfather Dr. Jpo H. Pat
teson in Lynchburs. on Tuesday morning peesmner
i8tb a, o'clock Of scarlet fever, JAMES. only son
of Rev Fruneis J. Boggs of the a Conference aged
4 wears months and IS days.
Thns we are called to lament but not without nope
the of one of the and most inter
es,ipg children we have ever seen. III w.
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DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.-On Friday, 18th inst,
little girl about 10 years Old daughter of VIM
Il. Page, of Ionia Michigan, was placed on a horse
TO crafty her with ride for short distance,
when the horse started, and the poor childs foot
caught in the stirrup leather, and she was dragged
and trampled on by the horse and so badly injured
that she died in less than an hour
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THE PAWNEE CITY SPECuLATIoN-A Wash
ington dispatch in the n Y. Herald says that Mai
and Brevet Col. Montgomery has been sentenced
by court martial to be dismissed from the service
TOR his participation, while commanding at Fort Ri
iey Territory of Kansas, in the arrangements for
conveying part of the military reserve there into
Pawnee City, in which Gov Reeder was concern
cd, and at which he summoned the Legislature OF
Kansas to meet We find no mention of this in the
Washington papers,
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A LOWELL COLONY CONG WEsT--we under
stand that there Is now being organized 10 this city
10 settle = township in Minnesota They wiiI 20
prepared To establish at once those Institutions
which areths pride and glory Of NeW Englapd--
hes schools and Christian ministry. LoreR Goa.
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LEASE OF SALT WoRKs.-Col. Thomas l.. Pres.
ton has leased the Kings Salt works in Washington
county Va, at an annual rent of $4,000. These
works are adjacent to and win be worked in con-
neetion with his own. Both together constitute the
most valuable property of the kind in Virginia if
not In the United States
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a SU6GEsTIoS.-It is stated that the President
will recommend in his Message the purchase OF
the rights and possessions of the Hudson Bay Com
pany on the northwest coast of the continent.
These rights and possessions are exercised and
held within the territory of Oregon, large portion
of which formerly belonged to the Old Pacific Fur
Company
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c0MMnnuAf..

RaS< fnenA Markets. Dccs - 1853.
rLofjA There are still no transactions to. qnote
sfhe rnafkct 10 dull, and Snpcrfns coud nok brinl
An a. thoush holders not ofernGx
wfIEAT-No change to note. oopd TO prine ri
:, a05fi s5 do white s1.a5dl0n with cts. hiGhe
ct 4 month";. These H. however. very little dosns
and large quantity Ii going into store, to await TN
state Of the markets. after the holidays. 8ffA
COIN--Dun at so cts.
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GONE TO PERu.-Rev. Mr.. Clerghorp. for,,ou,.
pastor of a congregation in Augusta county ".
has been appointed chaplain at the port Of CAVE,
by the Seamen s Friend Society, and has sailed fo
his destination.
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'ALoAhLE DlsCoVERY.-There has been dis
covered on tue farm OF Mr.. James Peage. about
IA miles from staunton, an apparently inexbaus.
" supply Oh nitrate of lime Some specimens
oH .Aana'l0h proved to contain large portions O,
pure 'aipe'fe' and in all tho nitrate is stron,,,
evident. - ''iohsly
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Eyr ne Indies Fair OF the Cer,meu

ID Evans i,,SSies Fair Of the German
between cIh sn C9ngresation on 9th st.,
MING, nth instant, at o,niang, on MONDAY EVE
n f The ssen S fPi 10
respectfully invited attend ma "a and vicinity
ssa The Church
character has experienced many trials s peculiar
oraei penod: now however, in very aoa, ms
ING condnon and has the most fatterug
the future and as the Sunday School as well =. n Tor
school connected with the Church, increased yery rs
pay, y was thought necessary by the vestry tc
build School-house for the better accommodation ~
both day sud sabbas chool, which they were for
merry obheed ~ he Church. To defray the
expenses OF inns Rse, is the object OF the in
Lenaea far, an idently Trust and hope thai
the tuends o. every pm aud Of the Sabbafhschoo
exhibition will be Fair and consisting Of the great
est variety of articles admirably suited for
and New Year Presenfs A refreshment table. will
all sorts OF Cakes and Jeies will be- spread and W.
feel persnnded that who viii honor US with !
caa. viii leave the Fair without satisfaction.
ds l7-4ts
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

" Young Mems Christian AssoctntiOn
The Second Lecture Of the Course will be dsayeIea
by Rev. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, on FRIDAY
Evening next u o'clock in the Centenary Church
Tickets of Admission may be had at Is cents each,
the Exchange Hotel and Bookstores or 1t ne door
ON the evening of the Lecture schools half pricel
Members of the Association who have not already
done 40, viii receive FREE TICKET for the course
upon applying to the Librarian at the Rooms.
de 2Q-2t r.
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Mr.. STEVENS BATTERY-Mr. Stevens "grea,
iron steam battery. both shot and shell proof" for
which Congress has appropriated some 100000, is
in progress To work in quietness at it, says the
L. s. Nautical Magazine:
"An excavated dry dock was built on the grounds
of Mr. Stevens, Hoboken extending from the cof-
fer dam at the margin of the river, to nearly the
middle and beneath one of the principal streets;
within the enclosure around the adjacent grounds,
is q building for the necessary machinery adapted
to punching, shearing and drilling the sheets of
iron, with lathes and other tools necessary for a
machine shop, all driven by a steam engine be-
sides other necessary buildings of secondary i'm
portance The vessel is now covered with her
outside shell, and sufficiently developed t. enable
us to Judge of the feasibility of the design. Her
dimensions as follows: 400 feet long, ID wide,
and 81 feet deep she is to be provided with 10 boil
ers and two propellers, driven by engines"
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DEER MEAT.-Yenison is abundant in Bangor,
BE. The prices are l2l cts per pound for steaks,
and 10 per h. for the saddle. Beef steaks, at the
same time, are worth u! cts. per h., for steaks
and roasts. But the greater part of the venison
sent to New York and Boston.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-12-20

DEATH OF Col. w. \. RIDDLE-The Louis vile
papers announce the sudden death of this gentle.
man, native of Pittsburg, but for many years a
distinguished citizen of Louisville. lie served as
Adjutant of the Louisville Legion in Mexico, and
was at the battle of Monterey
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sailing of the America.
(,0Il,ulprCial.

Boston. Dec. 19.-The steamship America saile'
hence this morning for Liverpool, with 100000 il
specie
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1FB a NIX OfVirginia ..-.The General
Meeting of the Stockholders of the Bank of Virginia
will be held at their Banking House, in the city of
Richmond, on MONDAY, the 18th of January next
The law provides, that officer director of a
bank shall vote the proxy of stakeholder in any
election of director officer of bank shall any
proxy be valid which shall have been executed sixty
days before the time of election.
de 11-2awtl4ja SAML. MARX, Cashier.
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BRFADSTUFFs PROM THE SoUTH.-From Friday
noon TO Sunday morning there arrived at Boston
by sea about 900 barrels -four, 900 sacks rice
-four 20 600 bushels corn, $50 barrels corn meal,
and LOO sacks of wheaI and rye.
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Wreck of the Cre,ceut CITY,

SAVANNAH, Ga, Dec. 19.-The steaneg Crescent
City struck the Little Bahama Banks 20 miles
Southeast Of Mcternilla Reef, and bilged imme-
diately. It is thought tho disaster was caused by
4 strong Southeast current
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WIN. Fl POWERS, Agt.

~ clio ak, NJ antle and eneraI
DRY GOODS DEPOT.-N. EZEKIEL, No. IS
Main Street, keeps constantly on hand
large assortment of Ladies' Cloaks and Nantes.
French Needle work Embroideries in Collars Sleeves
Bands. Chemizettes, Handkerchief, &c.
Ladies' Dress Trimmings; in every style, of latest
fashions
Ladies' Dress Goods of all kinds-Brocnde; Moire
Antique plain and other styles Silks, Grape Shaws
and Scarfs.
Furs Corsets, Blankets, Linseys, Cassimeres
With full assortment of Foreign and Domestic Sta.
pie Dry Goods. All Of which are sold for cash at pr
that will defy competition
Remember the place. N. EZEKIEL i
de l8-d&wts Is Main st.