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Notice.
| HAVE sold my stock Of Furniture and entire
4 interest in he Furniture business, to Mr.. G. s.
ABBOTT, of the Gate City Furniture Rooms. thank
my friends and customers fur their many fayors and
cordially recommend Mr.. Abbott 10 their future ia
y0r and patronage r. WILsEl.
Feb l3--dtf
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Valuable City Lot Tor sale.
IsIGHIi feet front Oh 4th street, b. 100 deep,
IL between Main and johnson streets, opposite
the market. One third cash, balance in one and
two years, with ten per cent. interest.
apr2 dim BRUCE 4 DANIELS.
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SsILES! SILKS We have received very re-
- GENTLY by express several Large Lots 81 Dress
Silts, which We are offering at Unprecedented low
prices. Also another lot Of splendid More An
tques' in dress patterns. No. IS Main Street
da,Ind DlrRKEE6 Co
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I An receiving large stock Of first clo.a goods, Of
l. every style direct from the eastern cities, which
will be gold cheap for cash.
Come and see what bargains. Hear We our cry,
and viii make glad thy home. freely invite
all hand to unite. Friends Of Freedom cheap. yes,
very cheap, swell the song, young and old tlte
strain prolong. My stock consists IN part If the
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IyLOOR OIL CLOTHS - Another lot y feet in
L width, n, W and splendid patterns just received
I at SIS Main Street DUKkEE go.
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SsEAMLESS nAGS-Stark Aiils-600 just receIy-
y ed at S. Main Street DlkkEE "
deel Cd
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Mr.. FiIImOre's Acceptance OF the Georgia
Nomination.
BUFFALO, NstO York, July 81, 1855.

BUFFALO, Net York, July 81, 1855.
Nv. NJ MILLER, Eso.-Sir: have the honor
10 acknowledge the receipt of your letter Of the
18th inst, informing me that at Convention Of
the American party of the State Of Georgia, held
in the city of Macon on the 9th and 9TH INST,
was unanimously nominated as their candidate Tor
the Presidency of the United States at the ensuing
election.
Being already in the field as the candidate OF the
American party of the Union, cannot feel other
wise than attered and honored by the accession OF
Georgia to her sister States in the support OF my
nomination. Ny political sentiments are too well
known to need any recapitulation here, and my
character and former services the only pledges
which can offer that | will, If elected use my
best endeavors to administer the government as to
restore harmony to the conflicting sections and
maintain cordial union betyeen the States, by
giving to each and all that protection which the
constitution has guaranteed. If my friends believe
that | have sufficient intelligence to know their
constitutional rights and sufficient honesty and
moral courage to maintain them they will be salts
fed with this, but if lack either, no pledge could
supply the deficiency or justify them in giving me
their support.
/ accept the nomination 30 generously rendered,
with grateful appreciation of the honor done me
by the convention, and beg leave to express to
you my thanks for the kind manner in which you
have been pleased to communicate the result Of
their deliberations.
remain, your friend and feow-citizen,
WILLARD FILLMORE.
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The Presidency.

The Baltimore American contains a communca-
ton on this subject, from the pen of one of the
most prominent and influential Wings of Maryland,
one who never allowed partisan zeal to blind his
judgment, or to express opinions that he has not
the best reasons for believing to be correct and
| liable"
Abiding to the probability of the election being
carried to the House of Representatives the writer
remarks:
If the House fail to choose President before
the 4th of March, the three candidates for the
Office Of President are wholly set aside, and, upon
such failure, neither Mr.. Buchanan, nor Mr. Fre-
mont, nor Mr.. Fillmore can be chosen at all.
| Ia the event supposed, the contest will be be-
| tween the two highest on the list for Vice Pres
dent, and, as the Senate is now constituted, Mr..
Breckenridge, If he be one Of the two highest on
| the list, will be the man.
| Now, the certainty that Democratic President
| must be the consequence of permitting the right
of choice to pass from the House into tho hands Of
| the Senate is a fact which we must constantly
bear in mind for that fact is to influence in es-
sental manner the choice Of President by the
House.
The Democrats know that they may with perfect
safety hold on until after the 4th of March. That
| If they lose Mr.. Buchanan by allowing the election
| to 90 to the Senate, they will gain Mr.. Breckin-
| ridge, and of all parties in the world, they care
| least about men. The Democracy of the House,
therefore, will stand firm. The 4th of March may
come, and not a man viii have struggled from their
| ranks
The Americans know that by standing firmly to-
gether, the worst that happen will be the elec
ton of Democratic President Let the 4th of
March come for them, and it only gives them
Breckenridge instead of Buchanan. But they
never can and never will vote for Fremont mere
boy, without political knowledge or experience,
Who if he we're elected, would be a mere instru-
ment in the hands of the worst men for the worst
purposes.
The Republicans win make an earnest struggle
for their man, but when they see, they must,
that IL is destined TO be rutless, they viii join the
Americans and make Mr.. Fillmore President. They
will neither vote for Mr.. Buchanan nor suffer the
election to 20 to the Senate My information on
this subject is derived from the most intelligent
and authentic sources.
The result upon the whole Is that the people
will fail to elect President; that the House will
elect one, and that the choice OF the House VIII
be Mr.. Fillmore
But if these results were infinitely less proba-
BILE than they are, what folly II were in the
Wings, as long there is no chance for Mr.. FIRE.
mont, either by the people or by the House, 10
power OF doing good, and vote at once for Mr..
Buchanan, with all his own denominations and all
the additional denominations of tho Cincinnati plat
form on his head
Let the Wings Of the whole Union meet in
Council, in the city of Baltimore, on the 18th Sep
tember. Let the old Whig banner again float to
the breeze and thousands and tens Of thousands
Of hearts win warm to It. that are now cold and
ifeless
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Mr.. FiIImore,s Reply
To the Resolutions of the Virgimia Wing State
Convention.

To the Resolutions of the Virginia Wing State
Convention.
BUFFALO, N. Y, august 6, 1856.
WYNDHAM RoBERTsoN, ESQ.,:
Sir have the honor to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your letter of the 23d ult, transmitting
copy of the Preamble and Resolutions adopted by
the Whig Convention of Virginia, lately assembled
at Richmond, by which that intelligent and pat
riotic body recommended to their Wing brethren
throughout the State to yield to my nomination for
the Presidency their active and jealous support
Standing, as | do, as the known candidate of
another party, yet receive this Recommendation
with gratitude and pride. feel that it is made,
not because the principles of the two parties are
identical, nor with a view of merging them in each
other-for such an object is expressly disclamed
by the Convention--but because the principles
which my nomination represents approach more
nearly to those maintained by the Wings of Vr-
ginia, than those of any other candidate and
because, as the convention was pleased so say, of
their confidence in my late administration of the
government
Whatever may be our differences on minor sub
jects, am sure there is one on which we agree,
and that one at this moment is paramount to all
others | allude to the preservation Of the Union
OF these States and the rescuing the country from
sectional strife. The question is not so much how
shall the government be administered as how shall
it be preserved and on this great, vital question:
National Wings, National Democrats, and Union
loving Americans may well act in concert On
this basis, shall with great pleasure receive the
votes of all who have confidence in my integrity
and ability, and who ask no other pledge than my
past service for my future conduct This position
seems to me alike honorable TO all. No principle
is sacrificed. No deception is practised; and
trust that no one casting his vote for me on this
ground will ever have cause to regret it.
With many thanks for the fattering manner in
which you have been pleased to communicate the
result Of the Convention,
have the honor to be
Your friend and fellow-ctizeR,
WILLARD FILLMORE.
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A CARD.

~ MIR. Editor: The Franklin Fire Com
pany desire, through the medium of the Organ to
refute an article casting imputation upon their
Company and which appeared in the local column
of the Organ on Monday, August 18th.
The article alluded to states that as the Perse-
verance and Anacostia Fire Companies were peace-
ably and quietly returning to their homes from the
fire in the First Ward, they were attacked by men,
bers of the Franklin with stones, clubs, &c'-
This statement the Company pronounce false in
every particular. The members Of the Franklin were
the assailed, and not the assailants which can be
testified to by not only one Eyewitness but many
eye-witnesses of the highest respectability.
1t has always been, and ever will be- the endeavor
OF the franklin company to promote good will and
friendship among the different Companies in the
city but they cannot and will not quietly submit to
unprovoked attacks upon their persons and their
apparatus.
Believing your Local Reporter to have been misin-
formed by some enemy of the Company, we request
that you will give this card insertion in your paper
of to-day.
BY order of the Company:
G. r. CROSSFIELD
aug le-lt Secretary
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"If there be those either North or South who desire
an administration for the North against the South
or for the South as against the NORTH they NOT
the men who should give their sufrages to me-.
For my own part know only my country, my whole
country, and nothing but my country"
IMILLARD FrLLMoRE's SrExcn IN NEw YORK.
"The foundation of my preference is, that Mr..
ment with signal and ability. He has
been tried and found true faithful honest and con-
scientious wish to say nothing in derogation from
his eminent competitors, webster and Scott) they
have both rendered great services to their country
the one in the field, and the other in the Cabinet
They might possibly administer the government as
well as Mr.. Fillmore has done. But then neither Of
them has been tried he has been tried in the eleva
ted position he now holds and think that prudence
and wisdom had better restrain MS from making any
change without necessity for it, the existence OF
which do not perceve.' OLGys letter to UHnsansa,
March 9Th 1859 ~
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Official.
By the President ofthe United States of Aanerica
PROCLAMATION.

By the President of the United States of america.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, whilst hostilites exist with various In
dian tribes on the remote frontiers of the United
States, and whilst in other respects the public
peace is seriously threatened, Congress has ad-
journed without granting necessary supplies for
the army, depriving the Executive of the power to
perform his duty in relation to the common de.
fence and security, and an extraordinary occasion
has thus arisen for assembling the two Houses Of
Congress: do therefore, by this my proclamation,
convene the said Houses to meet at the Capitol in
the city of Washington, on Thursday, the 2lst day
of August, Instant hereby requiring the respect
i've Senators and Representatives then and there
to assemble, to consult and determine on such
measures as the state of the Union may seem to
require.
In testimony whereof have caused the seal OF
the United States to be hereunto af
L. s. fixed and signed the same with my
hand.
Done at the city of Washington, the 18th day OF
August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and ffty-six, and the independence of the
United States the eighty-frst.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
BY order
W. L. MARCY, Secretary of State.
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CIRCULAR.

The undersigned, members of the National Ex
eoutioe Committee Of the american Party, have
pleasure in announcing to the people, that salts.
factory arrangements for the future maintenance
of the AMERICAN ORGAN, as an authoritative s1po-
snt and advocate of the principles of the Amsri-
can Party have been completed.
Recommending its labors, under these new au-
spices, the undersigned cheerfully commend the
AMERICAN ORGAN to the generous confidence of
the American Party, in every section of the Con-
federacy, and they hope its columns may command
tie widest circulation. . +. .
HUMPHREY MARSHALL, OF KY.
.o SOLOMON G. HAVEN, ofN. Y.
J. MORRISON HARRIS of Md.
aa. JACOB BROOM, Penn.
WASHINGTON CRY, ID. c., May 18th, 1855.
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dents Proclamation, convening both Houses of
Congress on Thursday next, was issued yesterday
at 8 P. NJ. Many of the members received the
first notice of it while in the cars on the
steamboat on their way to the South, North, and
Northwest. A portion of them returned, and 9th
ers continued on their journey and viii be absent
until Thursday. 1t is presumed that considera-
BILE number however will not attend the extra ses-
sion, in consequence of private engagements at
home.
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Of his title; that no one could say lord or lord
ship" in his hearing, but he thought that be was
the person spoken to or spoken Of In proof Of
which he stated that one Of Strings soldiers was
sentenced TO be shot, for some offence, and the
poor devil was going TO the place Of the execution,
with his arms manacled behind him, he raised his
eyes 20 heaven, and, in the agony Of his despair,
exclaimed
:" Lord have mercy on me I"
Says Stirling, with all the importance OF Jupiter,
with both cheeks puffed up with rage, III DC
damned If / dc" imagining that he, alone, could
be the object of the ejaculation. IL was extremely
well told, and produced high enect.-Aob1s
Tribune
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ANOTHER Press FOR FILLMoRE.-The Hudson
County (N. J.) Courier, published in Jersey City,
has run up the Fillmore flag. The Fillmore feel
ing in New Jersey is evidently on the increase.
Within short time three leading journals, namely,
the Trenton State Gazette, the Salem Standard,
and the Hudson County Courier, have all declared
themselves for Fillmore, the Cons ttution, and the
Union. These indications are quite significant
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FLoRIDA.-We learn from the Pensacola Ga.
zette that rousing Fillmore meeting was held at
that place, few days ago, and addressed by ex-
Senator Morton in an eloquent and effective strain.
The following is among the resolutions:
" Resolved, That in Millard Fillmore we have a
devoted and unaiterable friend Of the Union-one
who can never consent to be one thing to the
North and another to the South"
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Let the Wings determine that Fillmore shall be
President, and the thing is done.
Mr. Fillmore Is the man for the times. We
want him to read the riot act and keep the dis
tmbers Of the public peace in order We want
him to restore harmony and kind feelings to dis
tracted country. He has done it heretofore, ne
can do II again.
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The Albany Register, which refused to support
Mr. Fillmore, is dead, and its remains are to be re-
moved to New York, with view of setting up in
that city paper favorable to George Laws nomi-
nation for the office Of Governor.
While the Register has thus become food for
worms, and its late editor, the venal traitor Ham,
mond, compelled to hide his woolly head in some
obscure village the posterors of society," the Al
bany Statesman, established only four months ago,
has already attained large daily circulation and
weekly circulation of 10000 copies That is the
way traitors are punished and patriots rewarded by
the intelligent freemen of New York.
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Mr.. STEPHENS ENDORSING Mr.. FILLMoRE.-ln
September ls4S, the Hon. A. Il. Stephens, ad-
dressed meeting Of citizens at Griffin, on the
questions Of the day. After discussing at consid-
cradle length the various questions that agitated
the public mind, during which he told the people
that General Cass's squatter sovereignty "was
worse, if anything, than the Wilmot Proviso," he
endorsed Mr. Fillmores sonndness on the slavery
question in the following decided and emphatic
terms:
''But it has been said by the supporters of Gen.
eral Cass, that Mr.. Fillmore was an Abolitionist
He (Mr S. had, for himself examined into the
matter both from his votes while in Congress, and
from those personally acquainted with him. and
he would assert without the fear of successful con
tradction, that Millard Fillmore was as true
friend to the South and Southern institutions, az
any man, Wing or Democrat, north of Mason and
Dixon's line. The charge against Fillmore was
only brought up to prevent full investigation oi
the opinions and position of General Cass."
We commend this endorsement of Mr. Stephens
to those Buchanan, squatter sovereignty organs,
who are even now, at this late day, after his model
administration, endeavoring to make the people
believe that Milard Fillmore cannot be trusted by
the South. Either Mr.. Stephens did not tell the
truth in l84s, or they do not in 1856. That il
beyond dispute-whose veracity is at fault an in.
telligent public will have no difficulty in determin
ing
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THE GERMAN VETo.-0ne hundred and seventy
four Germans signed the Fremont constitution, at
meeting in this city this week, one hundred and
thirty-one Of whom voted for Pierce in 1852.
Detroit AdVertiser.
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WHITE HOUSE PAVILION,
Mondan. Auaust 2b. 1s66.

Monday, august 25, 1866.
The members of this Lodge pledge themselves that
no pains expense will be spared to make this THE
Excursion of the season, and that every exeron will
be made to render the trip agreeable to all may hon
or them with their company.
The Boat will leave her wharf at So clock Navy
Yard at 8, Alexandria ut 91S o'clock; the second
Boat at O'Clock. Returning, first boat will leave
the Pavilion at o'clock second boat at TO- p. NJ
OMNIBUSSES will be in readiness at the corner
OF Seventh and streets, and Nineteenth street aud
pennsylvania avenue, to convey passengers to the
Boat and also to convey passengers on their return
TO Georgetown and the Navy Yard
No Liquor will be allowed on board the Boat or at
the Pavilion.
DINNER AND SUPPER will be furnished by an
experienced caterer at city prices.
Bath House has been fitted up at the Pavilion,
and is in charge of an experienced chambermaid for
the accommodation Of the Ladies.
Band has been engaged for the occasion
TICKETS ONE DOLLAR, admitting Gentlemun
and two Ladies. To be had at the principal Drug
Stores at the Boat, or of any of the Committee OF
Arrangements.
Committee of Arrangements.
A. J. Borland, John IT. McChesney
J. Sylvester, Richard Barnsclo
N. ii. Topping, w. 8. Hiltr
James T. Walker, VIM. Scott
j. Boyd
aug i8-Mw&F
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READ THE FIRST PAer.-Let none Of our read
ers fail to read the article on the fret page, from
the Louisville Journal, proving Buchanan's oppo-
sition to the Compromise Of 1850.
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country upon the American nominees. We
propose the motto, union OF all americans
for the sake OF the Americdn Union
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A FALSE REPoRT.-We are authorized to state
that the statement ma le in the New York Times
by its Washington correspondent, that the Ameri-'
ican members of Congress from the South recent.
ly held a caucus to discuss the expedency Of
dropping Mr.. Fillmore, is false in every respect
Daily American organ., 1856-08-19
DIED.

Last night MARY ELIZABETH, daughter Of
William j. and Mary Griffin, in her 9Th year.
~ Her funeral will take place Wednesday, at
r. NJ from the residence Of her parenta on Seventh,
betweeI q and II streets.
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COLONEL BENTON ON FREMoNT.-The following
letter is published in the New York papers

WASHINGTON Cry, Tuesday, April Is, 1855.
SIR: Your request for material to be used in
writing memoir of Col. Fremont has been re-
ceved. l suppose it is with view to be used in
the election with which his name seems to be
connected, and as l am entirely opposed to that
movement, can do nothing>to promote it in any
way Respectfully yours,
THOMAS Fl. BENTON.
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by the underslgned untI the 3Uth instant Tor
grading and gravelling Twelfth street west, from
Virginia to Maryland avenue; the gravel to be
inches in the centre, and to hold that width feet
and brought to AZ inches at the gutter line; the
gravel to be of good quality, to be well raked, clear
of stones of improper sze and then well rolled with
heavy roller.
Proposals will state the price per cubic yard for
grading and per square yard for gravelling Should
there not be earth enough the street. the balance
to be taken from such portions of street south
the Commissioner may direct, free of charge
Notice is hereby given that cutting or filing, that
which measures most will only be paid for.
JAMES ESPEY,
Commissioner of the Seventh Ward.
JOHN MURPHEY,
j. E. T. CARLING,
aug 19- Assistant Commissioners
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MECHANICS AND WORKINGMEN,S
MEETING.

VIE MeChanlcs ana WOfkingmen of
- Washington and Georgetown, who are op-
posed to military superintendent ofthe Government
Buildings and other structures not intended for mil
lary or naval purposes requested to assemble at
so clock, on Thursday evening, at the City Hail. to
take such action as may be deemed necessary in re-
ation to the subject.
The Mechanics of Alexandria and Baltimore are
invited to attend. aug le-3t