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provements," including the gold mines Of Cali
fornia, and the Congressional railroad land job
beers, &c, will come again, and in ten-fold lustre
to be followed by crash Of corresponding
grandeur
In this broad and general view Of single re-
form in the Cabinet, how sublime win be the
" manifest destiny of Mr.. Forney when he shall
come to apply the same progressive Interpretation
to every department of the government! We
stand appalled, before the tremendous tout ensemble
GunboaRs and commandments, bombs, drums and
batteries, victorious descents of irresistible Anglo
Saxons upon Cuba, Hayti and all the islands of
the'Gllf Of Mexico-great battles on land and
sea-splendid victories, creating heroes by the
thousand, and lighting the whole land, frem Coney
Island to San Francisco, in perfect blaze of
glory-are some of the elements of the gorgeous
future before us, with Mr.. Forney once more at
the head of the Kitchen Cabinet and the Presi-
dents organ Marcy has stood in the way, re
gular old Cerberus, or We might have had taste
of these things under this .dispensation of Mr.
Pierce. Marcy will be out of the way in 81, and
the coast will be clear.
Amos Kendall was the Richc1ieu behind the
scenes of the Jackson and Van Buren, admins
trations John Jones was the +" good man Fri
day" of Captain Tyler General Taylor had
score of scene shifters and Mr.. Fillmore rejsiced
under the counsels and confidence of Edward
Curtis 1t is, perhaps reserved for John W. For
ney, after having been the Marplot of Mr.. Pierce
to become the magnificent Cardinal Wolsey of
Mr. Buchanan. Let US hope that with his past
experience, should he return to rule the roast at
Washington, he win at least provide us few
gunboats for our coast defences before venturing
upon the active fulfilment of the Cincinnati plat
form and the Ostend manifesto.
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Old Line Wing Meeting at Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, June %, 1856.
The old line wings held meeting here to night which
was largely attended An entire Fillmore Delegation to
the National Convention elected without opposition
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CONFERENCE OF THE HARD AND SOFT STATE COM
MITTEEs-PROPOsITIoNs TO UNITE-PLANs SUBMIT
TED-FINAL DECISION.
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"Sam WHY YOU no tell your massa TO lay him up
treasures i'll hebbiD! why for, Cuff What de
use 90 him lay up treasure dere, where be nebber
no mure sees um again-eh, niggert'
Senator Rusk of Texas was at Louisville KY
a day or two since ON Iis way to Washington
As something remarkable in commerce, we
chronicle the fact that on "wednesday the steamer
Wilmington from Charleston, S. e., arrived at Os'
wego n. Y. via Quebec.
Thomas Doughty, the landscape painter, died in
New York Wednesday in affect poverty.
A French writer says:-"The seasons in Lon.
don are equally divided: there are four months cf
winter four OF fog. and four of raia. "
j III Christian, was shot and killed at Edge
field. $ c., on Monday last, in an atfray with Geo
ID. Tillman.
A Fillmore and Donelsou national mass meeting
is to be held at Cincinnati on the fourth Wednes-
day of August
The National Musuem, Upited States Patent
Office, has received large additions from British
Guiana, through Mr. Champion, late British Min
ister.
p. 7. Herbert, II c. from California, left Wash.
ington Saturday morning on visit TO the Berkeley
Va Springs.
A subscription has been opened in ST. Peters
burg, behalf OF the sufferers by the late inun-
dation in France.
Young Widow Brooks who married Randolph.
the coored lecturer on spirituaism, In Cincinnati,
has left the dark dominion and returned TO her
friends.
John Fl Done, Superintendent of Tran sporation
oa the Illinois Central Railroad, and formeraly
prominent member of the Maryland Senate. was
accidentally killed on the road on the gath inst.
There are 600 visitors at the Greenbrler tva)
White Sulphur Springs.
The peach crop of Delaware this season, It Ia
said will bs poor and of bad quality,
The Edgetield Is C) Advertiser suggests the
propriety OF Mr. Brooke constituents paying his
dpe
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a CURIOUS CLAIM MIR. Samuel w Chambers
the purpose OF prosecuting heavy claim for real
estate The estate is valued at over S2O,OO0O0O -
It consists Of twenty acres of land iu one Of the
best parts OF this city Ii granted to his great
gre at-grandta,her by William Penn in 1899. The
deed WAS IN possession of an ancestor et Chester
when that town was taken by the British, and car
red TO the State archives for safety and is now in
Harrisburg
Mr.. Chambers seems to have worked at the case
with rare fidelity for many years. His great diff.
Guilty has been to establish his ancestry by docu.
mentary evidence; in this lie has finally succeed
ed Es is now in possession of tue marriage Ger
tlhcate Of his great-great grandfather, and also
those CT every one of his descenGants down to his
father The certificate of 1929 is one drawn in the
style peculiar to the Quakers OF those days A
copy OF II is in his possession which is written in
Bible bearing date 1851. This Bible was printed
by Robert Parker, printer to the kings most ex.
ceient majesty" The Chambers family removed
from Phliadeiphia to Delaware, Where many of
them now reside Samuel Chambers is duly au-
taorlsed To prosecute the claim for all the descen-
dants He has employed J. W. Stevenson, an emf.
nent lawyer OF Covington, Kentucky to supervise
the business, and consulted very eminent counsel
here. There seems to be very curious provision
in the deed from William Penn which taken in
connection with still curious statute of our
State, passed during the Revolution in regard to
proprietary rights, which prev ents the statute of
limitations from running againstit Mr. Chambers
designs to prosecute for its ecoYery-PhiLadeIpLta
Times.
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NEWS FROM LIBERIA loo, 900 NEGROES SOLD
We have received the Liberia Herald of the 2lst
of Nav The contents OF this single number re-
fleet but family any light Oh the position and pros
poets of that interesting Republic. The longest
article the Herald contains is devoted 10 proofs Of
the Scristures being revelation from God; and
in contribution in another column, some inter
esing facts are given respecting the heathen wor-
ship of the natives of the interior. The Herald
announces the arrival at Monrovia OF the govern
ment schooner Lark, from Grand Cape Mount,
with President Benson on board His Excellency,
it appears has been absent, efectiDg personal
adjustment of hostilities existing between TWO
neighboriug native tribes, the Earroh people ana
the Vey; and his negotiations are said To nave
been successful 1t is estimated that there nave
been no less than l00,0U0 natives killed and soid
out OF the yey country, and these predatory wars
have been the great productive cause OF the slave
trade in the region. One article, headed our
Country" urges the importanse Of more strict
attention TO agriculture, basis for true nation
al prosperity; but propounGs the somewhat com
munist doctrine, that success in farming cannot
be expected from individual enterprise alone the
State should take hold of the nineteenth part
OF her existence" and devote capital to the pur
pose The lady of his Exceilency, President s A.
Benson, gave birth to q son on the l0lh Of May
Boston Ira0eller, July e.
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BROOKS TO HIS CONSTITUENTS TIL Charles
ton papers published an address from Mr.. Brook .
to his constituents. The following paragraphs are
a specimen of its style and temper:
But majority of the House has pronounced me
because of my act, unworthy of seat in the Amer
lean Congress. l could not as the representatives
of high toned and allant constituency, rest with
this imputation upon you and myself. I resigned
my seat aud kicking the black dust of Black
Republican majority from MY feet, lett the all
in indignation and disgust
My appeal is to you Ii have represented you
faithfully, then reelect me with unanimity which
will thunder into the of fanatcism the terrors
Of the storm that is coming upon them II in aught
1 have failed to represent You you are, then in
Gods name send some man whose blood is more
sluggish than mine
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VOUNf3 LADIES, sCHDOD.-MIss MA

NOESG LADIES' 'SCutOL.-MlSS MA
l. RY PEGRAM will open Boarding ana Day
school for young ladies' the ist October next.
her residence il Linden Square, Frank lin street.
The course Of instruction will be thorough and
snsiye reaching from the elementary the hi CHEST
branches of education. Competent assistants will be
employed in each department, and great care be
used in the selection of Text Books
The English department will be under the imme-
date supervision of MISS PEGaAM. With due
of the responsibility she assumes, she will de-
vote herself sedulously add honestly to ITS proper
fluff lment; aiming the high standard of female
education, and conscientious OF the means es-
sential 10 Its attainment.
Mathematics, Latin and the Physical Sciences, will
be taught by gentleman well qualified for the task
jta ian and German by native masters OF each
tongue. Music on the Piano. Harp and Guitar and
singing and Drawing, by the best Professors
The French Language will receive special atten-
tion and be under he charge of French lady who
will reside in the family; the object being to teach
the Pupils both the philosophy of the language and
20 speak it with ease and accuracy. To this end It
will bs the medium Of commuaicato in the fan lily.
The Junior and senior classes shall receive equal at
tention.
MISS PEGRAM proposes also, the formation of a
BELLEs-LETTRE5 Class for the study OF English
Classical Literature. Young ladies' who have left
school, may and this a material aid TO self Improve
nent; and those from distance. who may wish to
come as Paror Boarders can join this class.
MRS. j. w. PEGRAM will have charge of the
Boarding Department, and will unite with Miss Pc
in butpg to the comfort and proper train
ms Of the Young ladies'.
Terms-Boaroing during the entire session. s 200.
English Course. ...........................S 49,
Foreign Languages, each. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 20
Music at Profesors' charges.
Persons wishing TO enter Pupils to make further
enquiries relative to the school, Will spplyto
MRS or MISS pEGRAM,
jy 16-dff-wtOc Linden Sonare. Richmond, We.
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CRAWFORD, THE ScULPToR-A private letter
from Munich gives charming account of q little
impromptn tae in honor Of our countrymap, Craw.
ford, who arrived last week in the Fulton. Muller,
the master ST the celebrated Foundry, invited the
sculptor and q few friends to see the newly cas-,
statue of Washington by lamplisht Accordingly
thirty or forty artists and gentlemen entered the
building after dark, and beheld the grand bronze
figure to view, against dark-green curtain, and
by the somewhat misty illumination of a few scat.
tered lamps; the effect was quite solemn. The
grand proportions of the statue half revealed the
dnsky space around, aud the sombre back. k.ground
gave it q spectral sublinty, like Don Giovanni in
the opera The guests formed q silent and atten.
tive circle, with the artist in the CENTRE they sang
with impressive accord an appropriate canzone,
and rs the chorus died away, Muller stepped forth
with an enormous glass of beer in his hand; he
addressed the company and conplimented the ar
t'st; each person then drank from the huge goblet
70 Crawford's health and prosperity. Suddenly a
Bengal light flashed noon days radience on the
statue, where majestic grace and p-essed dignity
were thus revealed, as it were, by enehantmeDt;
cheer after cheer broke from the electrified assem-
bly,. They escorted Crawford to Niler's house,
each bearing a lighted taper;-there q supper
awaited them. Mrs. Crawfords health was drank
with enthusiasm, and speeches, songs and con-
Rratulations gaily closed this truly German tete.
Cor. Boston TRANSCRIPT
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THE DAILY DISPATCH.
Iiondny Morning. July rs, 1855.
Later from California and Nicaragua.
Inausurnttou Of President Walker-Snn
francisco stiii in the hands OF the Com.
nliffre.

NEw ORLEANS, July 20 The steamer Grana
ia arrived last night from Aspin wall via San Juan
bringing San Francisco dates TO the 9th inst and
Grey tswn dates TO the 2lss
The steamer Illinois takes forward 10 New York
81 ,6l0.0 600 in specie
The isthmus was quiet, but Aspinwall was
sickiy
General Walker was Insugurated President Of
NlcuIsgua on the 18th inst. Ex-Pfesident Rivas
sthl holds possession OF Leon. II is reported tha.
many OF tue natives consider the new government
n usurpation, aud have declared against it Among
tue aeserterS from Walker are Col Mender and
Ten Chii!on. There was r.uch sickness among
Dis troops. aud frequent dcsertons occurred
At San Francisco there was no abatement Of the
excitement touching the revolution. The Vigil
aoce Committee were still i'll session. Judge
Terry, of the Supreme Court had been arrested
Tor siaobiIg one OF The Committee police while
making an arrest The Committee were firmly es
tablisEed. lie Governor still remained at Sacra.
munto.
All the arms collected by the law and order men
nave been seized by the committee Mr. DurKee,
member OF the committee, had been arrested,
charged with piracy and seiZing arms belonging TO
the State, from schooner
Tue accounts from the mines are encouraging,
and the agricultural prospects cheering
he conduct Of Mr.. Herbert excited considera-
bie indignation.
From Oregon there is intelligence that the skir.
mshcs with the Indians continue.
Col Wright had not been killed ss reported.
Col Bucbanaa had fight at Big Meadows with
tue Indians in which forty Indians and ten whites
were killed
Maj Waters command was sent to Leon, by
Gen Walker, on account of a. rumor that the
Guatenaian troops were at that place. They
were fired on by the ltivas party, and one of the
company was wounded, whilst several OF the Rivas
party were killed Major Waters waited outside
some time but the enemy not appearing, retired -
There were no signs of an invasion. bnt it was
considered that certain league OF the Northern
States still existed aad all invasion was looked for
at the close of the rainy season. Gen. Walker
needed men and money for the coming struggle
The whole vote for President 81 ,000-W alker
received ii coo and the remainder scattered
between kivas, Ferry, Jerey, and Salizar
Arrived at San Francisco, Wizard from New
York; also arrived at San Francisco, ship Storm
King from New York.
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MOST TREMENDOUS FEAT-Miss Kate Cooke
has announced for her forthcoming benefit Ashley
that she will take a flying leap lady IN (uil
Dress and clear the entire body without touching q
single iounce The distance-measured from
skirt to skirts calculated 10 exceed, by two OF
three yards, that of the longest leap Gu record -
There are wagers to a considerable amount, both
In sporting and circles that the daring
young lady will not be able TO accomplish the diff
calt feat She has been strongly advised by all
her friends to abandon the foolhardy undertaking,
and to Jump over sixteen hoops. or half q dozen
elephants, or Greenwich hotel blu, or any other
bulky object, instead.-Pandh
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MARRIAGE AN EPIDEMIC "A Pennsylvania ed
itor says that marriage has broken out among his
neighbors, and that it Is spreading with frightful
virulence all over the northern end OF the country,
carrying off hundreds of h. Subscribers. Hun.
dreds of cases. he saws have come under his own
observation all Of them hopeless-once seized, the
victim is case; the only thing that be done is
to call In clergyman to prepare him for his fate.
Having had the complaint before. he says, Is no
protection against it. widow who had caught Il
years before. aud WAS slowly recovering from its
effect suffered relapse. and was now lost beyond
recovery. Sic has married second time.
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PERILOUs FEAT On the 10th instant, j. R. F.
Mosely, of Amherst, aud James L. Christian, of
Appomattox, undertook to cross the Ksnawha
river. about one mile above the falls in skiff.-
Getting into deep water, they were carried down
rapidly, and could not touch bottom with their
poles. The skif went over the first fall in safety
and at the second. went far below the surface of
the water. Nr. Mosely saved himself by clinging
to the boat, and Mr. Christian picked up few
yards below, almost drowned This is the first
time this feat was performed without send
ing the navigator into eternity.
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MASSACHUSETTS AMERICAN CONVENTION. -
The American Massachusetts, State Convention
finally organized by elscting Z. C Baker, Fre-
nont man, president. Two-thirds of the Fillmore
men thereupon left the ball in body Governor
Carer was sui sequenly nominated for re election
by acclamation; Henry Benckly was nominated for
Lieut. Governor Also the present State Secretary,
Attorney General and Auditor were renominated
The Fillmore boilers marched to ther head quar-
ters, where, after some speaking. it was voted to
endorse the call for the Fillmore convention called
for the 9th of August
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INDUSTRY AND ENTERPRIsE.-An exchange
says:-A few years since, COL Colt went to Hart
ford, Conn penniess. The citizens enabled him
to raise $25 900 capital and he began the manufac
ture of his revolvers, since 80 celebrated through
out the country. His establishment has supported
hundreds of employees, he has expended Il ,O0O.-
900 in beautifying and improving the city, and he
is to day worth probably, So, 0OO.0O0. A good re.
turn that for So, 900 investment.
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FROM SOUTH AMEKICA.-The steamer Tennes-
arrived at New York Friday from Port Cabello,
Porto Rico, sc. She left St. Thomas on the 10th
inst. Among the passengers was Jno. H. Young,
U. ). Consul at Curacao bearer of all important
commercial Treaty between the American Minis
ter and the Vene zulean Government, securing to
citizens valuable commercial privileges with
that country and placing the general relations OF
the two governments on a very satisfactory foot
Jug. The cholera was raging at Caracas Capt.
Cooke, of the n Y. snip Vespasian, died of ye!-
low fever at Porto Cabep The st Thomas
Times publishes notice from the Governor of
Guadaloupe in relation to American merchandise,
which he will hereafter allow to a certain extent
free of duty.
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DIsGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF AMERICANS IN PA
RIS.-The title of American citizen $50 long pass
port TO favor y now raises prtjudices against
one III court circles, in consequence Cf disgrace
ful scenes which stain that bonored name, and
but few of which ever reach the public ear in
the United States, although they the gossip OF
al Europe. 1t has not been loug since four or
i've Americans became beesty drunk al ball in
the TuilleIies, aud forced their way to the En-.
perors table at supper making the greatest up
roar, and ndulging in liberties which might be
pardoned only at the penultimate hour OF r poll
teal clam bske The annoyance "scene"
would cause and the fact that two of the party
were q prevented them from being
eXtruded from the PRECINCTS uf the palace by he
imperial menials. But the disgust and astonish-
mept raised by their degraded misconduct per
5uadei the court characteristics that there must
b., mistake some~ here; they believed these
brutes had surreptitousiy obaned their tickets
aud uniforms several detective police officers
were summoned and ordered to observe tGese
persons during the remaining period of the bail,
and 10 dog them home when they retired that they
might ascertain If indeed these persons we're the
people they represented themselves to be. To the
astoniShment of the French, the police discovered
that there was no manner of fraud. You will not
be surprised after this, when tell you that these
persons regard the whole occurrence good
joke" and the circumstance of their being attend
ed home by the detective police, decidedly
rich
With the exception of forclble entrance into
the Empcror's supper saloon, disgusting incidents
OF this nature occur whenever the Emperor or the
Prefect of Seine gives ball. Americans regard
tne invitation these palaces as carte Blanche on
which they may write any spree" they please -
At the last ball given at the Iuilileres, two Anne
ricaus went in full court costume from the palace
to the Maison dOr, where they exhibited their
state of beastly iutoxicat!on to the large throng
until late hour of the morning! Drunk kenness
is vice which here is confined to the most de.
graded of the lowest classes American ministers
fail to exert the influence which belongs to them.
and which, if used, might altogether put end TO
these disreputable scenes.-PGris Cor. Of Boston
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VERMONT DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION The
Vermont Democratic State Convention has norni-
mated Hon Henry Keyes for Governor; Willis Ly-
man for 1t. Governor: James F.. Thurston for
Treasurer. Resolutions were adopted expressing
the intensest confidence in the ability and patriot
ism of Messrs Buchanan and Breckenridge en-,
dorsing the Cincinnati platform; and Kansas and
Nebraska act, and President Pierces administra
ton, as highly pure and honorable. The conven-
ton was well attended and enthusiastic
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THE GRAPE CROP IN OHlO.-Notwithstandng
the croaking prognosticstions elected by the &C.
verify of last winter, the prospect of fine yield of
grapes in the north Of Ohio, is better than usual
The Cleveland papers represent the Isabella
vines being full, and the promise of fruit, well
as of wine, very hattering.
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EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE IN PRUSsIA-In the
course of next year there " i'll be reunion of
delegates from all bodies of Evangelical Chris.
tians throughout the world assembled in Berlin, at
the call of the Evangelical Alliance which has
been empowered and invited to do so by the King
of Prussia
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A GOOD EXAMPLE-kev MIR Conway, Unita-
rian minister at Washing tohn City, who has been
ndscreet enough to turn bis pulpit into political
rostrum to illuminate Black Republican abolition
ism FROM has been respectfully invited to vacate
the position he desecrates. II is good example,
and one which we earnestly hope may be Uniyer-
sally initiated -PeRnsUlcanida.
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The passenger train on the Va. and Tennessee
Railroad will run to Abingdon. Va on the 10Th OF
August.
John Kendall, Esq, son Of the Hon. Amos Ken.
dali has been appointed General snperintenaei
of the Union Telegraph Lines between New YORK
aud New Orleans.
Bepi. Boiling was found dead 10 Fredericksburg
oa Friday last
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L!-DREAbFUL!!-The New York
Trbune's special correspondent, July 9th, writing
from Lawrence, says:
Never did the Free-State cause stand in greater
jeopardy. We have more peace now than we
have had for many months. and the lull witnesses
activity in agriculture, building and business
affairs.
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PAINFUL ACCIDENT On last Friday morning
q little son of Mr.. Elisha Anderson, residing near
Floyd Court House. accidently overturned a coffee
pot of boiling coffee and was severely scalded
that the skin aud in some places the flesh left the
body he fingered until Sunday night, when
death relieved the little sufferer.