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The true Democrat., 1855-09-11
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
 STATES OF AMERICA.


 WHEREAS, by an act of the Congress of the United States, approved the 5th day of August, 1854 entitled "an act to carry into effect trea- ty between the United States and Great Britain, signed on the 9th day of June, 1954,' it is pro- vided that, wheneverthe President of the Unit ed States shall receive satisfactory evidence that the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and the Provincial Pariaments of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edwards Island have passed laws, on their part, to give full effect to the provisions of the said treaty, he is authorized to issue his proclamation de- claring that he has such evidences:
 And whereas, satisfactory information has been received by me that the Imperial Parlia- ment of Great Britain and the Provincial Par laments of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edwards Island have passed laws, on their part to give full effect to the pro- visions of the treaty aforesaid:
 Now, therefore, I, ERANKL& PIERCE President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that, from this date, the following articles, being the growth and produce of the said provinces of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Ed wards lsland-to wit: grain, hour and bread stuffs of all kinds; animals of all kinds, fresh, smoked, and salted meats; cotton n-wool: seeds and vegetables; undried fruits; dried fruits; fish of all kinds; products of fish and all other crea- lures living in the water; poultry; eggs; hides, furs, skins, or tails undressed; stone CT marble in its crude or unwrought state; slate; butter, cheese, tallow; lard; horns; manures; ores of metals of all kinds coal; pitch, tar, turpentine; ashes; timber and lumber of all kinds, round; hewed, and sawed, unmanufactured in whole or in part; firewood. plants, shrubs, and trees; belts; wool; fish oil; rice; broomcorn and bark; or unwrought burr, or grindstones; dyestuffs; flax, hemp, and tow, unmanufactured; unmanu. | factured tobacco; ;rags;-shall be introduced into
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| l5- The know nothngs have been playing 8 characteristic game in the recent elections.- Their organ at Cincinnati is the Times, and the Bardstown, Ky, Gazette thus shows up it's two ugly faces:
 "This paper, intended exclusively for Ken lucky ctrculation we have had in our possession some days, and we have now succeeded in get. ting hold of one of its issues, for OHIO AND NORTHERN CIRCULATION, of the SAME DATE AND NUMB ER--and the papers are as dffe- rent as if emanatng from different offices and edited by different men. The northern mum. Der has nothing about the fifth district in it--no article appealing to the citizens of Kentucky and nothing favoring the south or southern institutions. Itspeaks with pleasure of Chase's election being Secure--gives anti-slavery plat lorms-pata the abolitionists familiarity on the back, and openly avows that SAM ISA FREE SOILER IN OHIO.' The other number is made of quite different materials--goes against negro stealing and under ground railroads-and hurrahs for orCharley Wntersmith. Both papers are numbered Volume XII, No. 52,' and dated Thursday, July 19, 1855.' They are both in our possession, and can be seen by any and every one"
 This rascally Times figured in the same way in the Virginia, Tennessee, and other southern States, to preserve the rights of native e-born citizens and secure the integrity of the bal | lot"
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language of Gen. Washington, in his letter to Sir Edward Newenham, dated Philadel phia, 2oth October, 1792, (Sparks's edition, volume 9, pages 3O9 and 31O)
 "O Of all the animosties which have existed among mankind, those, which are caused by difference Of sentiments in religion appear to be the most lnveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes, that the enlightened and liberal policy which has marked the present age, would at least have reconcied Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see their rel- gious disputes carried to such a pitch, as to en- danger the peace of society,"
 We conclude our quotations from the writings of Gen. Washington on religious liberty, with the following extract from his letter to the Roman Catholics in the United States" dated December, 1709, (Sparks's edition, volume 12, page 178.) It may not be too much to express the hope, that all candid and reasonable men will consider it a refutation of the charge, that the Roman Catholic owes allegiance in tempo ral matters to a foreign power, and to the as- sertion based upon it, that he can never be loyal citizen of the United States, nor worthy to be iutrusted with public office.
 ''As mankind become more liberal, they will De more apt to allow, that all those, who con- duct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the r:otec. ton of civil government. l hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in ex- amples of justice and libera!ity. And 1 pre-. sume, that your fellow-citizens will not forget the patriotic part which you took in the ac- complishment their revolution and the estab- lishment of their government, or the import ant assistance, which they received from a na- ton in which the Roman Catholic religion is professed"
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BY AUTHORITY. Public Acts Of the Thirty-Third Congress nf the ITnifeI Sfales.

Passed at the second session. which begun and held the City of Washngon in the District of Columbia on Monday the 4h day of December 1854, and ended on sa tnrday, the 3d day of March, 1855.
 FRANKLIN FIERCE President JESSE D. BRIGHT, Pre- sldent 9i the senate tempore LINN BoYD, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
 AN ACT to change the Boundaries of the
 Land Districts in the State of Iowa, and for
 other Purposes.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- presentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that portion of the public lands in the State of Iowa lying north of township line dividing townships 8 and 94, and east of the range line dividing ran- ges A and p, shall constitute a new land dis trct, to be called the Turkey River distrct.- hat all that portion of the public lands in said State, now situated in the northern land district winch lies north of the township line dividing smT"nshlps 85 and 86, and not included in the turkey River and Dubuque districts shall con- SIt9te n new land district, to be called the Fort Doage dlstnct, and the name of the northern uts'Hct IS hereby changedto to, and shall be here- a,.er called the Fort Des Moines district. That HI 'naC portion of the public lands in said State, no" lyIhS Tn the Kanesville district, and situat- ed hortn ol the township line dividing town sniPS % ana 80, shall constitute new land dis trlct to be called the Sioux River district and the name of the kanesvile district is hereby changed to, and shall be hereafter called the Council Bluffs district. Thattcwnshins 96 e7 s8, 09, 90, 9l, 92, and 93, of ranges IT and 1e are hereby attached to and made part of the ououque land district, and townships 67, 6s,
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Agents fol the True Democrat.

 VIM. F. HUNT, Hisboro', Union county; JASPER N. HILLHOUSE, SmlthvIile. Hon. B. BUNCH, Kings River Carroll county Hon. J. A. BECK Izard county. GEO. AUSTIN, Van Buren, Crawford county A. C. OIIVAR, Carroll county.
 J. R. THOMPSON, Amity, Clark county. W. M. PEBBLES, Green county
 Dr. L. T. CULLEY, Rondo, Lafayette county. JOHN ARNOLD, Lisbon, Union county D. M MARTIN, Mt. Penson, Jackson county. ]. R. PUMPHREY, Union county: II; II; B; COPE SPBRp Dix. oo"n,v Dr. J. W. WILLIAMS, Dallas county; W N. MAY, Danyile, Yell county; Dr. c. W. BRUTON, Clarksville; Dr. D. c. WRIGHT, Franklin counties; l.. M. STROUD, Carroll county; VIM. E. SMITH Washington county; GARLEN sILVEY, Jackson county. A. ]. HAYS, Ashley county; D. ". JEFFREY, Mount Olive, Izard county. R. l.. PHILLIPS, Washington, Hampstead county; GIDEON TUCKER, Batesville Independence county; JOHN A. LINDSAY, Powhattan; ELIHU RANDOLPH, Desha county; JOHN NJ. MITCHELL, Gainsville, Green county; VIM R. CAIN, Pocahontas, Randolph county; LEWIS SUTFIN, Boliver, Ponsett county; ROOF II. HOWELL, Dover, Pope county; J. $. JORDAN, Monticello, Drew county; .... THO'S RIGGS, Postmaster at Rchwoods, lzard county VIM. M. VAN VALKENBURGH, Warren Bradley co L. B. VENABLE, Van Buren county; JOHN HAvTS, Bradley county; VIM A CRAWFORD. Saline county; J. W. McCONAUGHEY, searcy White county; A. J. BROOKS, Bloomer, Sebastian county; JAMES NJ. MONTGOMERY, Lewisvie, Lafayette co Capt. w. LANDERs, Sulphur Rock, Independence co w B. YOUNG, Dover, Pope county; THo's F. AUSTIN, Melville, Marion county; J. w. BERNARD, Nomostown, Pope county; JAS R. BERRY, P. M., Huntsville, Madison counly; JAS N. JOHNSON, P. M, Friendship, Saline county; c. l.. SWEET, Sweetville, Crttenden county THO'S MILLS Polk county; JOHN w. FULLERTON, H. Springs; JOHN W. WILDER, Valley Grove; RoB'T ATKINSON, Leek's Store, Ouachita county; Dr. l.. L.. MARTIN, Long View, Ashley county; N. l.. BAKER, Fulton county; JACOB PATE, P. M, Pleasant Plains Independence co R. L. CARGILE, Conway county. VIM. c. NORTON Relf's Bluff. Drew county.
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PHILADELPHIA NAVY YARD.--The Philadel- phia correspondent of the Baltimore American, in his letter of the 24th inst, says: The number of workmen now employed in the various departments of the navy yard, is not less than 1,15O, which is larger number than has ever before been supplied with work in the history of the navy yard.
 The work upon the steam frigate Wabash is progressing rapidly, and she will probably be prepared for launching in the month of October. The United States steamship Sus- quehanna is dismantled and her machinery un- dergoing repairs. Her old boilers will soon be removed. The United States sloop-of-war St. Louis is still in dock, but will soon be hauled out. Workmen are employed upon the fri gate house in repairing it and renewing the l roof
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THE GREAT SOUT'HERN WEEKLY, THE SPECTAT TOR:
 Washington City. ID. C.
4 Family Journal of Literature and Nesos Jo

4 Fdmily Journal of Literature and Nescs .tor
 Southern Readers.
 THE South has too long been dependent upon the northern cities for its periodical literature. The weekly newspapers of Boston, New | ork and Phila delphia have swept like flood that part of the nation south of Mason and Dixons line, many ot them carrying with them some of the prejudces ot abolitionem; andfnculcatng. to greater or less ex tent doctrines injurious to southern institutions This dependence of the mass of southern readers should be thrown off-and it is bell eyed would have been long ago, if there had been facilities in the South for the publication of first class literay papers.
 The Spectator,
 Is published by gentleman who has long been con nected with some of the southern dailies, and has been undertaken tosupply this want-that of high toned weekly paper
 Of southern interest and character. The general plan of the paper is as follows: It has eight pages; three of which filled with the best articles Literature, Science, and the Arts to the editors comments upon passing themes; to general news foreign and domeslic to the inter will be mainly derived from the Agricultural Bureau of the |. s. Patent Ohcel; to synopsis of the operations of the Departments of the Government; and one, during the winter, to report of the pro ceedings of Congress- altogether making plan which will be rigidly adhered to, and which is unequaed by any paper in the country, North or South.
 The SPECTATOR is printed type and on fine paper. Its quarto form makes it for bind ing, and each annual volume being accompanied by full index, it will be most valuable paper tor preservation and reference.
 Subscription, Two dollars n year. No paper is sent without the money. Specimen copies can be had on application to AUG. F. HARVEY.
 Elitor and Publisher,
 Sept. 4, 1855 l2t WdShia0t0n D C.
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the United States free of duty, so long as the said treaty shall remain in force; subject, how ever, to be suspended in relation to the trade with Canada, on the condition mentioned in the fourth article of the said treaty; and that all the other provisions of the said treaty shall go into effect and be observed on the part of the United States.
 Given undermy hand, at the City of Wash
 ington, the 18th day of March, in the IL. S. year of our Lord 1855 and of the in-
 dependence of the United States se-
 venty- ty-ninth.
 FRANKLIN PIERCE. BY THE PRESIDENT:
 w. l.. MARCY, Secretary of State.
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OI5~An anecdote is related of the Rev. Dr. Kirk of Boston. Early in life, lady of fortune, whose attention was awakened towards him by his conspicuous talents, wrote him note of fering him her heart, fortune, and hand. The Rev. Dr., however, with more terseness than gallantry, replied to her, that she had better give her heart to the Lord, her fortune to the church, and reserve her hasd .tor him soho should ask at
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NARSHAL,S SALE,

3S DY virtue of an execution in favor of Fassett A ID d Co.,, against Isaac c. Mills, issued out ot XI the office of the Clerk of the United States Cir cult Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, have levied on all the right title and interest of said Mills in and to the following slaves towt; Adaline aged twenty eight years and her two children, Su- san, aged live years, and Albert. aged nine months George, aged forty-three years; Owen, aged twenty four years; Marah, aged twenty eight years, and he three children, Sarah Ellen and Isabella aged four and six years and will proceed to sell such interest at the court house door of said Circuit Court in the city of Little Rock, between the hours of judicia sales, on the 9th day of October, 1855, for cash in hand, to satisfy said execution
 Sept 4, lo55 It JOHN QUINDLEY,
 U. s. Marshal East Dist. Ark.
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Or" Now girls" said Mrs. Burlington, the other day, to her nieces, "You must get hus- bands as soon as possible, or they'll be murder ed. Why, l see by the paper that we have al- most fifteen thousand post offices, and nearly all of them dispatches a mail every day The Lord have mercy on us poor widows'--and the old lady stepped quickly to the looking glass to put on her new cap.
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A DELICATE CREATURE.-Youthful Swell !" Now, Charley, you're just in time for break fast: have a cup of coffee?'' Languid Swell. (probably in government office. )-" Thanks! no; l assure you my de-ah feliah, if was to take cup of coffee in the morning it would keep me awake all day!''
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RESOLUTIONS.

Joint Resolution to modify or change the ori.
 ginal Plan of the Custom House at New Or
 leans.
 Resolved by the Senate and House of Re- presentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proviso at- tached to the appropriations for the New Or leans custom-house of Mach 3d, 1851, August 31st, 1852, and March Sd, 1853, be so modified as to allow the substitution of wrought-ron beams with light segmental brick arches, in- stead of the present heavy groined ones in the upper story; and also that, instead of the mar ble roof contemplated by the original plan, au- thority be given to substitute such other suta- ble ire-proof roof as shall be found best calcu- lated to relieve the walls from superauous weight
 Approved, December 19, 1854
 A Resolution for the Appointment of Regents
 in the Smithsonian Institution.
 Resolved by the Senate and House of Re- presentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That the vacancies in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian h. stitution, of the class other than members of Congress-" be filled by the reappointment of the late umbcnts, viz: Rufus Choate, of Mas sachusetts, and Gideon Hawley, of New York
 Approved, December 27, 1854.
 A Resolution providing for the Engraving, Litho.
 graphing, and Publishing of Drawings, Maps
 Charts, or other Papers for Congress
 Resolved by the Senate and House of Re- presentatives of the United States of Americs in Congress assembled, That hereafter, when any charts, maps, diagrams, views, or other en- cravings shall be required to illustrate any do
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SINDRIES.

rrATE X MOORE have just received per Poage' Coffee Salt, Powder, Lead, Shot. Lard oil. Vinegar Turpentne. Brooms, Tubs, Buckets, Wash Boards Sad Irons Nails Cotton Yarn, Soap, Starch etc., etc
 Sent. 4 1855
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CURE FOR A RATLEsNAKE BITE.-The Mad

CURE FOR A RATLEsNAKE BITE.-The Mad ison (Wis) Journal contains the following:
 We are informed by Dr. Ward that the child of Mir. White, that was bitten by rattlesnake last week, has recovered. The remedy used is so simple and attanable by every one that 1t ought to be generally known. The hand which was bitten and arm were enveloped in a poultice of moistened ashes, and the child was made to drink freely of whisky punch.
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SINDRlES.

EORTY kegs Nails, coils Mania Rope, barrels IT Tanners Oil, , brls Ale 10 boxes Soap 2 barrel. Lard Oil Tobacco. Segars, Maccaboy, Congress anc Scotch Snuff, assorted Wines, Brandy, Rum, Gin, ole Rye Whisky, Linsecd Oil, Turpentine' Whiting Pa Red. Yellow Othre Ros sum- Candlewick, f-skns Linings, Sole and Upper Leather, Shoe pegs, Tacks and Sparbles Horse shoe nails Cross cut Saws Axes Spades Shovels hay and manure Forks, Hoes. Reap hooks. Sythes, cotton and wool Cards, wire Selves Tang Shears corn and coffee Mills Baskets, Buckets Churns, Brass Kettles, wooden and zine Washboards Violins, Vioin-strings Window glass etc, etc, late ly received. and for sale by
 Sept 1855 VIM. GEORGE tS BRO.
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NEW SUPPLIES

nF Groceries, Dry Goods. Boots and Shoes O Queensware, Cutlery, Hardware etc., just reeei- we'd and for sale cheap for cash by
 Sept 4 WM. GEORGE & BRO.
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MO-. 4S.
Judicial Election.

The following is the full official vote of the several counties composing this judicial circuit, cast for Judge and Prosecuting Attorney, at the special election on the 18th inst. to fill the va cancies caused by the resignation of Messrs. Adams and Badham:
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Joint Resolution making an Approlriatio

Joint Resolution making an Approlriation for
 the Purchase of Territorial Libraries
 Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame- rica in Congress assembled, That $5, 900 be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the purchase of Territorial li- braries for each of the Territories of Kas.s and Nebraska
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or Letters from the East Indies mention tliat Miss Catharine Hays has departed from Calcutta for Australia where her popularity is described as being almost without limit, and her gains beyond all precedent
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Approved, February 29, 1855.
A Resolution in Relation to the New Orleans
 Custom UnuSp

Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatves of the United States ot America in Congress assembled, That authority be given to the Secretary of the Treasury to make such change in the mode of constructing the New Orleans custom house as will best, in his judg- ment, tighten the foundation from the great weight of the superstructurc. Approved, March 2 1855.
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Approved, March 3, 1855.

Joint Resolution making Appropriation for the
 Payment of those entitled to the Benefits of the Resolution of the House of Representa- tivcs of the United States, passed March 3d, 1855, voting Extra Compensation to Pages, Folders, and Others.
 Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame- rca in Congress assembled, That the sum voted by the House of Representatives, March 3d, 1855, for the payment of pages, folders and other employees, be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated
 Approved March 3, 1855.
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0 BOXES gents super Chewing Tobacco just recei ~ ved and for sale dy
 Sept FIELD & DOLBY.
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0.T There is man in Vermont who feeds his geese on iron filings and gathers steel pens from their wings.
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Approved, February l5, 1855.

A Resolution accepting the Sword of General
 Andrew Jackson, and returning the Thanks
 of Congress to the Family of the late Gene
 ral Robert Armstrong.
 Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the thanks of this Congress be presented to the family of the late General Robert Armstrong, for the present of the sword worn by General Andrew Jackson, while in the military service of his country; and that this presious relic be hereby accepted in the name of the nation, and be deposited for safe keeping in the Department of State; and that copy of this resolution be transmitted to the family of the late General Robert Arm strong.
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THE DEsERTION BY THE SOUTH OF THE NORTHERN WATERING PLACES. - The editor of the New York Mirror, in most genial art- cle upon society at Newport, remarks that in the drawing rooms of the hotels there, there is complaint of a scarcity of beles and beaux- What has become of all the beautiful butter flies that used to fit, flirt and flutter at the watering places, everybody is asking. Are they all married and marred, leaving no new crop to supply their places? No, no, not at all, replies Col. Fuller, the beles at the North are eith- CT caged in cottages, or gone to Europe; and the brilliant daughters of the South are lustrat- ing on the sunny side of Mason and Dixons line. The thieving spirit of abolitionism is driving the South into a system of non-social intercourse. And who can blame them for it. N o. Pie.
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69,7 70, Fl, 72, 73 "A, and 75 ofranges 32 and 33, are hereby attached to and made part of the Charitan land district.
 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be and he is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, register and receiver of the public moneys for each of the districts respectively hereby created, who shall each be required to reside atthe site of the respective office to which he may be appointed, and who shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and be entitled to the same compensation, as are or may be prescribed by law in relation to other land officers of the Uni. ted States.
 3. And be it further enacted That the President of the United States is authorized to cause the publica in said districts respec- lively, (wlth the exception of sections number ed l6 in each township, reserved for the use of schools, or such lands as may be selected by law in lieu thereof, and such other tracts as may be selected for military or other purposes,) to be exposed to sale in the same manner and up- on the same terms and conditions as the other public lands of the United States. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States is hereby autho- rized to designate the sites at which each of the several offices shall be established, and to re- move the same to any other places within said districts respectively, whenever ill his opinion it may be deemed expedient.
 2 5. And be 1t further enacted, That any locations or sales of land, in either of the dis tricts of land now subject to sale at Dubuque, Fort Des. Moines, or kanesvile, after the pas sage of this act, and before the recept, by the land officers respectively, thereat, of instruc- tions from [the] Commissioner of the General Land Office, under this act, shall be as good and valid in law as if this act had not been passed.
 Approved, March 3, 1855.