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PERSONAL.

Sarah Felix (Rachels sister) will give concert
in Charleston, s. c., this week.
Matthew Hale Smith is now newspaper cores
pondent in New York.
Thomas Cubitt great London builder who be-
gan life as bricklayer, has died worth over mil
lion sterling.
Barnum, we think, is playing "possum, and
after buying up his own paper at fifty per cent.
discount, viii laugh at his fnanciering dodge.
John T. Ford, of Baltimore, has taken the Mar
shall Theatre, Richmond, and ]. Jefferson the
comedian, is to be stage manager.
Rev. Thomas r. Lambert, of the United States
Navy, has received and accepted call to the Rec
torats of the ST. Johns, Charlestown, Massachu-
sets, and has already entered upon the duties Of
his office.
David Sears, Esq, of Boston, who owns beau
tfu summer residence at Newport, r. l., has given
$4,000 to be held in trust by committee appoint
ed by the City Council of Newport the interest
annually accruing to be appropriated in certain
proportions to the establishment of the city Of
Newport, and to charitable purposes
The Rev. Dr. Ide, of Springfield, Massachusetts,,
formerly of Philadelphia, has been invited to be-
come the pastor of the First Baptist Church in
Chicago.
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Brownlow to his Old Customers.

Now zoe. the veritable editor of this paper, on
this I'd of February, 1885, in the 10th year of
American Independence and being of lawful age,
do issue this our Official and Dunning Proclama-
tion Hear us for our dcbts--for the sake of our
pecessties--and as a means of easing your own
guilty consciences For the first five years of the
Wing at this place. and for several years at Jones
horo', many of you owe u.s. Others of you owe us
fer one two, three, and four years. at both places.
All together, you owe US more than we are owing
in this world. ~ N.
We have sold out our entire office, and now
edit the paper for very moderate salary. 1t is
time we were paid up what old, outstanding, and
scattering debts are due us, and they are numer-
ous We have been patient 10 these many years,
and indulgent to fault !; and now, we should not
make this call, caring but little for money while
our creditors, who eternally after us, seem to
think that money is essential to salvation
AS many of you as will enclose to us what you
owe us justly, we viii credit you on our books, and
write opposite your names that you are gentlemen
and CHRIsTIANsi Those OF you who can't pay,
and will write to us, acknowledging your indebted
ness we viii record cieDcr feilops and those of
you who viii not do either, we will publish this
Spring, in extra sheet, as set of GRAcELEss
RAsoALs, willing to have poor man labor for you
for years for nothing, and pay for paper ink, and
the hire of hands to serve you, without pay
Come to Knoxville, you lousy rascais, on pill
grimage, and see our little ones chips of the old
block" looking daggers at us, and crying for
bread. Come and see US with our elbows out,
and the officers of the law leading US about for
debts created to furnish you paper, and you will
fork over at once
And you hypocrites who are members of differ
ont churches, owing us for our paper, how dare
you, around your family affairs, night and morning,
pray to Cod pay us this day our debts, as we
pay to others!" He knows you owe us, and won't
pay, and until you do pay, you may pray yourselves
out of breath, and you will never be heard yes,
you sanity villains, you have been owing us long
enough TO make us "poor, halt miserable, blind,
and naked, and yourselves ride, at our expense.
You get TO Heaven without paying US up-neverl
.sa w. G. BRowsLow,
Editor of the Whig.
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eign population. 1t is clearly deducible from
these facts that the South has most to fear
from immigration. Besides the physical and
political power which immigration gives to the
North, Of which the South has so long com
planned, the South suffers comparatively more
from the accompanying evils Of immigration,
crime and pauperism, than the North, yet in
terested partisans and demagogues tell us the
South should fear nothing from immigration.
Must the South be converted into an Euro
pean pesthouses Will it through revenge and
malice, or in consequence Of Northern aggres-
sion, actual or imaginary, deluge the whole
country with the evils Of foreign immigration,
when it is clear that it must suffer from these
evils more than any other portion of the coun-
try? And even though the North may have
committed wrongs upon the South, is that any
reason why the South should commit wrong
upon itself and the North too?
The question then of amendment of the nat
uralization laws and the prohibition of the i'm
portation Of foreign criminals, paupers and
idiots, is neither Southern nor Northern ques-
ton, but national question, and is the direct
issue between Americans and anti-Americans
1t is with the masses the all-absorbing question,
the paramount issue, the test of fidelity to the
institutions and interests of the country. We
need but the one issue.
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General sam Houston.

A correspondent of the New York Evening
Post, refers to charge published by the
Galpeston Neaos, that correspondence had
passed between Generals Houston and Pierce,
which would, if published, "refect discredit-
ably upon the Hero of San Jacinto," The
Evening Post correspondent intimates that
General Houston was "bluffed off by President
Pierce in an application for himself or his
friends"
We observe, in peruslng the speech of Gen.
Houston, which has just been published in the
Organ, that he alluded to this charge on the
Odd of November last, as follows:
"What it means, | am not aware of. If any
correspondence has taken place between Mr.
Pierce and myself release him from all obligation
to withhold it, and he is at liberty to publish it
whenever he may think proper. Surely have no
recollection of any private correspondence and
do not only release him from Withholding such cor
respondence, but all others who may have cores
pondence of mine. / have no secrets. / may
have charged that Mr.. Pierce had not redeemed
the pledges given by him to discountenance all
agitation of the slavery question. / have alleged
that he was pledged to resist it, and if he has not
done so, he has aided with his influence in brng-
ing about repeal of the Missouri Compromise and
that was the sole cause OF agitation and do
charge him with violation of his solemn pledges
Agitation dead but he has given it vitality and
lifen
Here is an open and bold challenge to the
administration, coupled with denunciation of
its course in reopening the agitation of the
question of slavery, and with violating the sol
emn pledges of General Pierce. Hill the de-
tenders Of the administration nOao publish the
alleged correspondence The presses of the
American party will not conseal it. We pledge
ourselves to copy it into the organ whenever
it appears, and to send it broadcast over the
country. If General Houston, or any other
prominent member Of the American party, has
written anything to General Pierce which is
" discreditable" to the writer, out Nth 1t and
let the public SEQ IT. I General Houston is one
among the many gentlemen whose names have
been brought forward by their friends for nom
nation by the American party as candidate
for the Presidency, and it is due to the party
that any " discrcditqble" correspondence of his
with the present powers, should see the light.
Shall pe hare at
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my opinion is warped, but believe what have
written, as have taken pains 10 learn the truth
and faithfully relate it. i am, rs you know, 40
fLlibuster, or in favor Of annexation still am in
favor Of this beautiful country becoming Ameri-
canized, and, consequently, good neighbor and
fiend, instead Of its always being, as 1t has been
for the past years, government of misrule, blood
shed. ignorance, oppression, and superstition.
Let Walker be sustained, and all our difficulties
as regards the Monroe doctrine" and the Mos
queto question will be put at rest and we shall
never more hear offurther interference on the part
of John Bun, in the business
Now, have written you long letter, as pro-
missed 10 do; and sad scrawl fear 1t is. But
my occupations and duties, as you are aware leave
me little time for correspondence of any kind so
shall make no excuse for errors but leave you TO
take what send for what ii is worth. You must
give me credit at least for attempt to give you
fithful and accurate information, whatever may be
the stylc in which present it.
Very truly, your friend,
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The American College at Rome.

"Nine persons have already come forward and
subscribed 81 900 each towards the formation Of
an American Catholic College in Rome. "--Boston
Pilot.
Surely there ought to be fifty such subscribers
In this city alone. The poor man gives to charity
his as or $40 cheerfully; ought not the rich, of
their abundance, show their gratitude to God by
giving what they can spare as easily as the poor
man does his mite f'-American Ceh
Can it be possible, then, that there are any
"poor men" giving rs and $40 "cheerfully," to
build an American College away off In Rome, IA
city in which almost every other edifce is a Col
lege or Church, Awhile here at our own doors
are thousands Of poor men, and women, and
children, appealing day and night to the public
and private charity Of our people On Ash We'd
nesday morning we saw about half dozen poor
gaunt, half starved beggars with infants in their
arms, shivering with the cold, in or near by the
porch Of 81. Peters Church, in Barclay street.
and as many more, under the shadow OF the Arch
bishops gorgeous Cathedral, in Mulberry street.
True Christian charity should move the "poor
man to give his As or $40 to these SONS and
daughters Of poverty, instead Of sending II over
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should the south Fear Immigration

Besides the political power with which for
eigners are invested under existing laws, i'm
mediately upon their landing upon our shores,
there are other evils attendant upon immigra-
ton from which the South has much to fear
Crime is not blessing to any community, and
notwithstanding the comparative freedom of
several of the Southern States from foreigners,
yet tn ecriminal record exhibits the startling
fact that those very States have suffered most
seriously from foreign crime.
By table published in the Compendium of
the Seventh Census, giving the number of
convicts-in the prisons and penitentiaries of
the several States, out of every ten thousand
of the population, the proportion of natives
and foreigners in that number is as follows:
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The proportion Of foreign crime to native in
the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, South
Carolina, and Alabama, is far greater than that
among any of the Northern States, and in
Georgia and Mississippi it is equal to any of
the Northern States.
In Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississip-
pi Alabama, and South Carolina the aggre-
gate foreign population in 1850 was $4,000,
and the aggregate proportion of crime was one
hundred and ten foreign to seven native. The
proportion of foreign to native crime in these
six Southern States, is greater than in all the
Northern States combined, and yet Southern
Sag NIGHT presses tell us the South should
have no fears from immigration. The num-
Der of residents in these six Southern States
who are natives of the Northern or free States,
far exceeds the number Of foreigners, and yet
Southern Sag NIGHT presses and orators tell us
more danger is to be apprehended from this
latter class of people than from foreigners, and
this, too, in the face Of the fact that the pro-
portion of crime is one hundred and ten for
eigners TO seven natives in these six Southern
States -
The proportion Of native crime is not con-
fined only to the white population, but includes
the negro and the aggregate proportion Of
crime among the native white and negro popu-
lation is but fraction less than one-sixteenth
Of the crime among the foreign. Is there, then,
no reason why the South should fear immigra-
tions Fifteen-sixteenths Of the crime in the
States named is the result of immigration and
IT is not unreasonable or unjust to charge the
remaining sixteenth to the influence Of the for
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THIRTY-FOUR TH ONGRESS,
FIRST SESSION.
SENATE.
MONDAY, February IL, 1855.

MONDAY, February IL, 1855.
A communication from the Department of State
was received respecting the salaries of clerks Or
dered to be laid on the table and printed
Also, communication from the Postmaster Gen
era giving notice of a late contract for carrying
the mail between Cairo and New Orleans.
The Secretary of the Navy announced the trans
mission of 80 copies of the Naval Register for the
use of the Senate.
Memorials were now received from many Sena-
tors on various subjects. ..Ea
Mr. SUMNER introduced bill for carrying on
certain public works in Massachusetts. Referred
to Committee on Commerce.
Also, bill to secure wages to seamen, in case
of wreck. Ordered to be printed, and referred to
Committee on Commerce.
2 Mr.. SUMNER introduced a resolution in refer
ence to cheap ocean postage.
Several resolutions OF inquiry were introduced,
and referred to appropriate committees.
Mr.. BROWN introduced bill for the incorpora-
ton of the Washington Wood Gas Company, and
several other bills in reference to the District
which were referred to the Committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia.
A resolution was introduced making it the spe-
cial order on Monday next to elect Assistant Door
keeper, Sergeant-at-Arms and Secretary of the
Senate. Laid on the table.
A resolution was introduced ordering the reno
val Of the military asylum from Harrodsburg, KY.
upon which,
Mr.. THOMPSON, of Kentucky, advocated its
passage, on the ground of the place being unsaita-
BILE for such an establishment, in pecuniary and
in every other point of view.
The resolution was then referred to the Com
mittee on Military Affairs
Mr.. WRIGHT presented set Of resolutions from
theILegslatpre of New Jersey demonstrating against
the removaIof Commodore Stewart and instruct
ing their Senators and Representatives to vote for
his restoration of rank.
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TO ITHEiLAD OF WASHINGTON.
NUIDWIFERY.-M BANGS. Profess

w sonal Medium, would respectfully inform her
friends and the public, that she has removed from
her late residence 10 Twelfth between and streets
next door TO John ID. Clarks Police Office. She here
by tenders her thanks to her friends and customers
for the liberal patronage bestowed upon her, and
hopes, by her attention and assduiy to business TO
merit . continuance OF public patronage.
Refsrs TO Dr. Hogan and Or. Fairfax Alerandria.
jan 29-1y
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MUNIFIcENT BEoUEsT.-John D. Fink, wealthy
old bachelor, who died lately in New Orleans left
property to the amount of 100000, Of which only
100000 goes to his relatives and friends, and the
residue to be appropriated to the erection of an
asylum for destitute Protestant widows, to be call
ed after him, the Fink Asylum"
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The Americans here, in the local election
last week, elected the President, four or five
Trustees, two or three Assessors, Clerk and
Treasurer, together with several minor Off
GERS while Fusion, intensified by the aggre-
cation of antipodes, as above referred to, elect
ed one Trustee, one Assessor and Collector.
Over 600 votes were cast, and the American
President was elected by lac majority.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

gay- Great Cure after the Physicians had
Failed -RUssEvmLE, ONO, January 10, 1855. DIR. c. NJ
JACKSON Dear Sir: We would inform you that
OF Hollands German Btters which meet with ready SALE
One of neghbors has been doctoring for me
think about years. with all the doctors In the country
but all OF avail. He looked much like dead man
going about anything compare him TO- His dis
appeared TO be oyerfowng of the gall With hard
persuasion prevailed him to try your Btters with
the promise TO him. II 1t did good would charge him
nothing for It, provided he took six bottles according to the
direction which he has done, and is entirely cured
and has become well man. This has created great
sale In this neighborhood.n
Respectfully EDWARDS A BROWN"
See advertisement. feb elm
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ROOMS AND BOARD
ING.

a TRY and Elegant Rooms, with board
m ing, Suitable for Members of Congress and
other gentemen,) can be obtained at No. 479, Tenth
street. few doors north of Pennsylvania avenue.
This is one Of the best locsons in the city, being
between the National and Kirkwoods' Hotels, and
but few doors from Pennsylvania avenue.
H. J. SCHREINER.
nov 92<-eotf Star
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The election of printer was proceeded with. The
knIl ACRES OF LAND FOR SALE.
00YHYK This tract hnda abouf rte az

q mile on the railroad, and about midway between
Washington city and Baltimore. 800 acres are in
wood and timber, the balance in clearing well fenced
and small cabin on the place.
This tract will be divided to suit purchasers. Terms
will be made easy. Any one DESTROYS of purchasing
will call upon the subscriber, No. 548 Pennsylvania
avenue between First and Second streets west Wash
ington city u. N. GILBERT,
ie H-eof Land Aren't
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a Ii STRANGERS
n Visiting the city should ace Hunters Catalogue
of the curiosites ofthe Patent Office.
Also, his description Of Powell's great picture.
ssh U---dlvif
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lust R ECEIVED, LADIES' FINE
81 calf doube-sole Boots, with quilted tops
Ladies' fine double-sole Wellington Boots
Do heeled Caters rv.
Ladies' high Morocco Boots
Gents patent leather Dress Shoes and Caters
Do calf double-sole Shoes and Detached Caters
With assortment OF misses boys, youths, and
chldrens Boots and Shoes all suitable for the sea-
son. HARMON BURNS
No. 40S, Pennsylvania avenue,
A few doors east of the National Hotel.
feb 11--0t
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We invite the attention of our readers
to the letter from San Juan, published in an
other column 1t is from highly intelligent
gentleman now in Nicaragua.
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wHoIloway,s Ointment and pills

HOllOway's Ointment and Piils..--
Astonishing of Abscess pronounced ncurabe by
the faculty. Robert Psrlett Of Cumberland Maine,
afflicted three years with abscess in the arm, and
was about to have the limb amputated, but recon-
healed It.
Sold at the manufactures, No 80, Maiden Lane, New
York. and No PA Strand London and by all druggists, at
rs cents. 62K cents and 81 per pot or box.
feb IL
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UyOR SALE on LEASE number Of nm.
1t improved lots for sale or Lease. located in various
parts of the city. u. WARD.
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JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to Gas Lights.
Resolced, DC, That the committee appointed to
represent the interests of this Corporation before
Congress be, and they hereby requested TO urge
ton of lamps on Maryland avenue from the foot OF
the Capitol to the Long Bridge and along New Jer-
sey avenue, from the Capitol to Massachusetts ave-
nue. and thence up Massachusetts avenue TO Twelfth
street. also, from Four aud -ahalf Seventh Twelfth,
and Fourteenth street bridges to b street south
Approved February z 1856.
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AN ACT for the reliefof George @. Wilson.
BE IL enacted By he Board Of Aldermen and Board
Of Common C6uRcu Of the Ltty or Washingtoa, That
the sum of thrtytwo dollars and lightweight cents
funds Of the general fund.- to pay George @. Wilson
for taking up and resettng the curb the west mont
Of square four hundred and sixty-six.~
JOHN 7. CLEMENTS,
President of the Board Of Common Council.
ROBERT CLARKE,
rE President of the Board Of Aldermen
Approved February Z. 1855.
JN0. T. TOWERS, Mayor.
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a PAINFUL DUTY OBLIGES ME TO
IN notify the public that my SON, A. hammond,
Jr has interest in, or connexion with, my store
and hereby warn all persons from letting him have
money on my account or his own, he having no
means of paying them.
feb list A. HAMMOND, Sr. s
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THE WISCONSIN GovERSoR.--Each new develop
ment made in the Legislature of Wisconsin, only
demonstrates more and more palpably, the atroci-
cious frauds perpetrated in that State, to secure in
the gubernatorial chair one whom the people have
not elected. The Wisconsin papers bring us the
report of the Judiciary Committee Of the State
Senate, made unanimously by men of both PARTIES,
10 which it is made to appear that, excluding all
supplementary returns Mr.. Bashford had major
ity of three hundred and forty-seven votes; and
it viii be made to appear in the course of the in
vestigations Of the suit now pending that his just
and true majority is nearly or quite double that
amount This committee had been instructed to
examine and report to the Senate, such facts in re-
lation to the canvass as they could obtain in the
Secretary's Office.
The case is being investigated before the Su-
preme Court Of the State. The Appleton, Wis
consin, Crescent, Democratic paper, speaking Of
the Waupaccs vote, says:
1--WE learn from undoubted authority that the
testimony taken at Waupacca shows one Of the
most stupendous election frauds on record. That
extra town sent in TO the State canvassers with
seventy-sr votes contained Just three inhabitants.
The identity of some men who voted several times
ut Waupacca win be shown up by legal evidence"
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Mr.. John T. Myers lately sold his farm, lying
few miles south OF Harrisonburg Virginia, TO Rev.
George Shaver & Son, of Shenandoah county,
for seyenty-fye dollars an acre. This farm was
purchased eight years ago at thirty-seven dollars
and ffty cents an acre. Rockingham lands are
rapidly advancing, notwithstanding the hard times.
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CLOCKS.
EOR a good honest Clock always 60 to

NOR a good honest Clock always 60 to
IL FRANCIS'S, on Seventh street. His Clocks
cannot be excelled and his prices viii not Brighten
you He tries every one thoroughly himself, and
those who buy of him are sure TO get a good one or
have their money refunded.
Chatting Dishes, Dish Covers, Soup Tureens
Soapstone Griddles, Plate Warmers
Game Roasters Oyster Brothers, Slaw Cutters, &c
Prices low. c. FRANCIS,
jan 26-- Seventh street
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CUPPING AND LEECHIN6

CUPPING AND LEECHING.
TNHE Subscriber desires to inform the
- citizens of Washington and vicinity that he
has supply of Swedish Leeches Those who desire
the Of them, or Cupping be accommodated
by calling at his residence, day or night street.
between Nineteenth and Twentieth, No. 232.
q feb 2--1aw4w* JOHN DEVAUGHAN.
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MYSTIC POWER.
BOARDING.

BOARDING.
MFRS. HUTCHINS is prepared to accom-
IvA modate gentlemen with rooms, with or with
out board on the most reasonable terms, at the Pa
vilion, on Capitol Hill, near the north gate of the
Capitol, No. q north street. feb 11--2w*