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PROPOSED DATES OF SAILING.

For freight or passage, apply to
EDWARD X. COLLINs, No. So, Wall street,
New York.
BROWN, SIMPLIFY 4 Co, Liverpool.
STEPHEN KENNARD CO., n, Austin
Friars, London.
3. G. WAINWRIGHT CO., Paris.
The owners OF these ships will not be accountable
for gold, silver, bullion, specie, iewelry, precious
stones or metals, unless bills of lading are signed
therefor and the value thereof expressed therein.
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Balance remaining with the Company :. exs,o57 o.

The Assets Of the Company dre as Jollotos:
Philadelphia city and county bonds .Sl6,S48 Is
Railroad bonds. ii goo %
First mortgages, real estate. $4,000. 500 90
Stocks, oollaterals, on call $500 90
Girard and consolidation bank stock 5,l25 90
New York 49,. =. 80 $50. 10000 90
Deferred payment on stock not yet due Y,7O0 %
Notes for marine premiums. ........--- Io8 ,O8O 50
Due from agents, secured by bonds .....; 35,S6 ID
debts due the company -----........----- a,47o 50
Balance In bank 16,i56 "A
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SCO aedY corasy of lSfk Street.

b. Fl. STINEMETZ having made ARRANGEMENTS
with Company of Hatters to be fur
nished with the most popular STYLES
OF MOLESKIN AND BEAVER
HATS, will hereafter make a dis
count ofl2h per cent upon the actual
market price, making heHat sold for
81 (end not unfrequently for S5) for q -
the the low o.! price Of Ss5o, slight yarla SlT
psIlor quality for the money. To make this system
ly for CASH ON DELIVERY, which cannot fail being
advantageous to the purchaser, thereby enabling hun
to buy for cash and sell at a small profit, meeting
with no losses by bad debts.
New Styles FELT HATS, CAPS, and STRAW
GOODS, for Men, Boys, Misses and Infants wear.
Persons are invited to call and examine stock.
Call at Z6 Pennsylvania Avenue, near corner of
18th Street. ap lift
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rnsurance. 90,
PsoEE5SsSsT1ESSHb Dir zRIsRR fFNQ Y1Kl2Xs,F From
TIE 1''l ffAi IEksi0Hxs1FB57ffff6ED INLAND
SOS % FARMERS AND MECHANICS,
NS U r 4 n Z CO NJ p A ny,
OF PHILADELPHIA.

Authorized Capital Sl,2so,ooom
OFFICE. NORTHWEST CORNER OF PENNSYLVANIA
AVENUE AND 18th STREET, WARRINGTON.
80 DIRECTORS.
Hon. Thos. B. Florence. Charles Dnsee,
George ii. Armstrong, Thomas Mapderfeld,
Charles A. Rnbicam, Edwa6d X: HelmbOld.
George Helmbold, p. Carroll Brewster,
James f. THHoMAs B. rE Issfs ESssSsh President.
EDWARD r. HELMBOLD, Secretary.
LOCAL SURVEYORS.
Charles Walter, No. T ID street, opposite City
John NJ. Thornton. corner LIST street and Virginia
James Williams, No. p ~ street.
John Riggles, No. sol 18th street, below Pennsyl
vania avenue.
MARINE SURVEYOR.
Captain T. Ley, No. S67 Hsnnsytv,nia avenue,
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT.
John Thomson.
Authorised Capital aad Asssts---.-..sI 47s,057 on
Invested in Bonds, Mortgages, and Good ssourlt,es
The following statement exhibits the business and
condition of the Company to November 1, 1856:
Premium received on marine and inland risks to No
FIRE premium ---- .----- 1875 81
Interest on loan 8,704 ~
Total receipts ..--a 49,. .S4OOl85 68
Paid marine losses. S64,4H o.
Pald hire losses. :.....-.-. S3,7S3 50
Expenses, salaries, and commits
slOnS.. Observation-Disclosures. l5,lS9 90
Reinsurance, return premiums,
and agency charges..--- T,4H So
-sl7,las 81
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Source OF FAr.-During the course of the
past year, experiments have been made in rance
on number of ducks TO prove that the fat may
exceed the quantity which could be referred to
the food they were supplied with. Some were
fed on rice, a substance which contains only
few parts of fat in thousand. Others fed on rice
with certain amount of butter added. At the
end OF the experiment, the first were as lean as
when first placed upon the diet the latter, in
few days, became positively balls of fat. Other
experiments were made on pigs. II was found as
the result of several trials, that there more fat
produced than was contained in the food on
which they were fed. Food which, given alone,
has not the properties of fattening, when mixed
with fatty matter acquires the property to as
tonishing degree; and fattening articles of food
which do not contain much fat, always abound
with its chemical constituents, the principal of
which Is aZote, and from whence the fat acquired
is certainly derived.
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TEA TAsTING.-Eew of our readers are aware
that tea-tasting is reduced to regular profess
sion, and which isas certain death to o man as
the continued practice of opium eating. The
success Of the tea broker, or faster, depends
upon the trained accuracy Of his nose and pal
ate, his experience in the wants of the American
market, and a keen business tact If he has
these qualities in high cultivation, he may
make from $4,000 10 $40 900 per annum while
he lives and die Of liberation of lungs. He
overhauls a cargo OF tea, Classics it, and deter
mines the value of each sort. In doing this, he
first looks at the color of the leaf and the gem
eral cleanliness of it, He next takes quantity
of the herb in his hand, and breathing his warm
breath on it, he Snuffs up the fragrance. In
doing this, he draws into his lungs quantity
of Irritating and stimulating dust, which is by
no means wholesome. Then sitting down at the
table in his Office, on which is long row of lit
tie porcelain cups and pot of hot water, he
draws the tea and tastes the infusion. In
this way he Classics the different sorts to the
minutest shade, marks the different prices, and
is then ready to compare his work with the
invoice. The skill of these tssters is fairly
marvellous, but the effect Of the business on their
health is, as / have said, ruinous. They grow
lean, nervous and consumptive. At the end of
a hard days work they feel and act as fdgety
and cross as hysteric old maid.
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TRATNS RUN As FoLLOWs,

From WASHINGTON @ 6 g. M, conueot,ns a
with those for Philadelphia and New York: "a -
9, m, for Annapolis, Baltimore. PhIladelpha. An
New York 81 5 p. N. for Baltimore and Norfolf
and at Relay with Frederck tram ''"''oN'
EAPRESS 81 40 p. IN. az Relay for the West
New York. -...I = -
On sunday Ma n, and t2op.
As and IS q. m, and SIS p. m. -
On Sunday At AIS a. m. and SIS P. m.
eIstf I. H. PARSONS. Aren't,
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DYE AND BARLEY MALT for sale at the
HI CITY MALT HOUSE, corner Of West FALL
avenue and Block street. Baltimore. Md.
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MANUFACTURED BY
DONALD KEN EDY.
No. 40 Warren Street, Roxbury, MasSdch1sett

Agents for Washington.-Chas. Stott Il Co., z.
Gilman, KidweIl & Lawrence, J. b. Gardner, BURY
4 Co, d. Walsh CO., F. 8. Walsh, J. P. Stone,
Martin King, Marin Il Palmer, Schwartz Co., o
Boswell, Daniel B. Clark, J. P. Milburn, Dunbar
Dyson, F. ord 4 Bro. Agents for Georgetown.-R.
&. CIssell, . M Lentham, J. l.. Kidwe.
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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-07-22

A MAGNETIC WHIRLw,ND.-We wit
messed singular phenomenon while
coming from Milwaukee to this place,
last week, on steamtug, which may or
may not be new to sailors; but it was
something we never saw or heard of be-
fore. When off Baileys Harbor, about
three miles from shore, the compass be.
gan to oscilate from point to point, with
out remaining a moment at any one
place, until finally it acquired a rotary
motion, and spun around with great ra.
pidity. We stopped it several times,
but it would again commence veering
backward and forward, and very soon
begin whirliDg again. This continued
for several miles
We are Informed by Capt. Crooks, Of
the White Cloud, who was on board at
the time, that from local attraction or
from some other cause, the needle never
can be depended upon in that vicinity /;
though in that instance it was more than
usually affected The weather was fine
at the time, aud we had 6pe weather be-
fore us; but had there been rough
weather and dark night, we should
have had some anxiety for our little
pocket steamboat. Green Bay Ad.
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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-07-22
Home Items.

Post Master Russell has just com
pleted and moved into bis new Post
Office, in the construction of which he
has displayed much taste, and little re-
gard to expense. Competent judges
pronounce it the most pleasant and con-
veni0nt Office in the state. If the DR..
continues his efforts be cannot fail to
give general satisfaction in the admins
tration Of the Office.
During thunder storm on Monday
is inst, two barns belonging to Angus,
tus Taylor in Hancock, were struck by
lightning and sew srely shattered. Tive
young men in one of them at the time
we're considerably shocked but sustained
no injury.
Coon T1ME.-We learn that the trot.
ting stallion Plato, owned by d. A. Ben
nett & Co., of Bridport, trotted on the
"Champlain River track" July Sd, for {
purse of 1925, for all trotting horses
Mile heats, best three in five in harness
There were four contestants, two gelding
and two stations, S25 to 60 to thu
second best. Plato won the S25, in tn,
following time:
LIST mile. I'd mile. Sd mile 4th mile
249 2.47 2:48 2.42
We understand that his owners star
him for the Island about the first Of Au
gust, for little schooling.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-07-22

Gov. MARcY's DEATH.-SINGuLAR
PREsENTMENT BY HIS UAUGHTEE,-The
Troy Wing relates tho following;
at is generally known that the daugh.
ter of Gov, Marcy passed the 4th of Ju'
ly in the family of an acquaintance in
this city. She formed one of q circle
of friends, including ladies and gentle.
men, at the house during the day. While
all the others were in cheerful spirits, it
was observed in the forenoon that Miss
M. appeared to be depressed in mind
So obvious was this to her companions,
that it was made the subject OF remark,
when sho said her mind was unaccount-
ably impressed with the fear that q
signal calamity had befallen some mem.
Der of her family. Early in the after
noon, the news of the death of Gov.
Marcy reached this city, and it was
known to gentlemen composing the par.
ty in which Miss M. was sometime be-.
fore it was communicated to her. While
the gentlemen were in q room by them.
selves, discussing the mannar Of convey.
ing to the daughter the sad intelligence,
and before she could by any means have
received the least intimation Of the e.
vent, she suddenly threw her handker-
chief over her face, and evidently in
deep grief retired alone up stairs.
The facts we have related were com.
municated to us on the evening of the
4th. by gentleman who was cognizant
of them but there seemed propriety
of withholding their publicity for a few
days. Tie mental phenomena which
they present is worthy of the study o:
the curious.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-07-22

We learn from the Ashville Spec
tatOy, the following particulars of the
death of Prof Mitchell, of the Univer.
sity eff North Carolina, whose prob,
able loss on the mountains we have
noticed
He was engaged in exploring the re-
gion about the Black Mountains. He
started alone from the Mountain House
intending to crOss the Mountains to
Caney River. He did not arrive there,
and search having been made for him,
his body was found last week in the Cat
tail fork Of the River. 1t is supposed
that he was walking on the edge Of a
preOipice, when his foot slipped and he
Fell to the earth, forty feet below. To
his abilities and efforts, the University
owes much of its present prosperity
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Burthened with Fragrance.

Burthened with fragrance.
Pleasant as we'll as ruder customs
grow up in the Academic shades, and,
while the idle may dream of little else,
il is not to be wondered at that the dill.
igsnt and energetic should find in them
that relaxation Of mind and lively social
qualification, for which their absorbing
pursuits are so keenly prepsrative. At
Yale College, as we'll as at Harvard, the
custom of public exercises on " class
day" obtains, when, by the election OF
the class and not by faculty appointment,
q Poet and Orator celebrate the conclu.
sion of the college course in class OK.
Aibitiou. The appointosrs are selected
for talent, from those not distinguished
by honors from the faculty in the col.
lege commencement, and distinguish
their, failure quite often with no little
sclat. The Poet Willis, thirty years
ago, appeared with early laurels already
won. Additional observanoes have grown
upon the occasion since then, and do.
gree of fes,ivity is INDUCED o Fl the stage,
which it is expected the habits Of the
world will modify to a just temper of
sobriety, no doubt, and the moral effect
be profitable of having passed the age
of merriment and left it behind.
The following was the closing song,
sung in the social circle on the college
grounds on the late presentation Day.
a. they call it, at New Haven, by the
class OF 1857, to the air Of ELLEN
Bayne" 1t has the summers breath
upon it of the first and last rose, surely.
CLOSING SoNo
Burthened with fragrance
Breezes float by,
Laden with gladness
Hours DER us fly;
Drown we our sorrows
In music and mirth,
This meeting may be
Our last one ON earth.
Pleasant seem our college days
Dimmed by memory's golden haze
BE tins last their brightest phase,
Brothers of Yale!
Elms arching DER us,
Glorious and green,
Mellow the sunlight,
Hallow tho scene;
Fond arms of shadow
Round us they throw,
And tell of the future,
Whispering low.
May your sunset shadows fall
Lengthenipg on each college wall
When the grave shall fold Us all,
Elm-trees of Yale
Brightly the future
Smiles on US now,
A vast summer ocean
Tempting the PROV;
Leave we our dream-life,
Breaking the spell,
Clasp we our armor,
Brothers farewell.
Der that future gmmerng far
Hope may shroud her guiding star,
But our friendship naught shall mar
Classmates of Yale
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Our thanks are due Messrs. Greedy
and McElrath for the report of the case
of bred Scott, in the United States Su-
preme Court, with the full opinions Of
Justices fancy and Curtis, and abstracts
of the opinions of the other Judges.
Price rs cents, 81 90 for five copies
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-07-22

A SUCCESSFUL SURGICAL OPERATION.
Some time since boy in this vicinity
fell from tree with an open pen knife
in his hand. He struck in such a man.
ner as to force the blade through his ear
and into his head. The blade broke off,
leaving an inch and quarter of its
length buried out of sight in the sub,
stance of the head. The blade even.
tually passed into the brain. An appli-
cation to several eminent surgeons in
New York and elsewhere failed to bring
relief. The case was at last brought to
the attention of DR.. MIDDLETON GOLD
SMITH, Of Castleton Medical College,
who lately succeeded, by delicate ope-
ration, in removing the blade. After
the removal the brain could be distinct.
ly felt at the bottom of the cavity. The
hearing, which had been impaired was
entirely restored, and the boy is now as
good as now.
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Republican County NOMINATIONS,
Compensated Emancipation,

Comp ensated Emancipation,
Mr.. Elihu Burnett seems to be prose.
cutting his new scheme of compensated
emancipation with characteristic energy.
The reader will remember the outlines
of his plan; the government is to apply
the proceeds of the public lands to the
purchase aud removal of the Blacks to
Africa, so fast as the States will enamel
pate on such terms Mr.. Burrett is un-
doubtedly great man and great phi
lanthropist, but however great man he
may be, he may concoct schemes Of phi.
lanthropy quite beyond his ability to
compass. Though we might cheerfully
consent to extradition of the whole race
to their ancestral home, we can but re-
gard it like the Universal Brotherhood
of Man" ga contamination devoutly
to be wished" but not to be expected so
summarily as Mr.. B. proposes. Suppose
the States of the South we're ready to
part with SO much productive labor, the
means are not at command to accomplish
the work. A moderate estimate of the
value of the slave property of the U. S.
is sixteen hundred millions of dollars,
and even this could hardly be expected
to be the larger part Of the expense Of
the proposed emigration. Could the
government come in possession of the
whole stock gratuitously, it would not
be able to furnish the necessary outfit
and transportation across the sea of ev.
en- the increase. If this were possible,
it might be seriously asked, whether the
infant State Of Liberia would DO willing,
ana II willing, uhethor it could with
safety receive such tide of ignorance,
barbarism, vice and poverty.
Probably if he were permitted to
proceed to the prosecution Of the theory
of his Imagination, he would soon find
tho matter involved in difficulties much
more embarrassing than at present. II,
for instance, as his programme proposes,
the State of Maryland could be induced
to part with half of its agricultural
labor, in a couple of years, without the
means of supplying the deficiency, what
would be the effect upon its material and
social interests ? 1t would soon be shown
that " Nature abhors vacuum" The
inevitable laws Of Political Economy
would assert their rights, and decree
ruin to just the extent they were imping
ed upon.
The black population of the South
can never leave the place they now oc'
cupy until another race is ready te
| fill it. AS the desirable and &C
oessable vacant territory Of the Wosi
becomes occupied, free labor will force
itself upon the South. As the necessity
for slave labor in the border states di
minishes, it will withdraw to the invi
ting markets, and moro lucrative occupa
tions of the southern plantation. A.
the supply of labor on those plantation
becomes moro readily attalnable, and
consequently more profitable, it will be
more excessively applied, and the cotton
rice, and sugar fields, so little encourag
ing to fecundity, will become less SO
and thus the race will sustain gradua
diminution. Thus the great problem
which puzzled the brains of philan
thropists, will be wrought out by tn
inevitable processes of emigration ant
the certain laws of supply and demand.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-07
RATHER SEVERE.

BILEs the occasional Boston correspondent Of
the Tribune in one of his late journeyings, met
some lellow-travellers, whose personal habits seem
to have thoroughly awakened his sense Of penal
justice. lie says;
On the Springfield Railway, I fell into company
which it tuok all my hupcs Of promotion at the
hands Of Mr.. Buchanan to make me endure. IL
consisted of numerous delegations Of the inter
ri6ed Democracy OF Connecticut going up to their
State Convention at Hartford. l am afraid | shall
never succeed in qualifying as n good Democratic
spite OF all my expectations, il being unterryfed
he u necessary element Of it For | must Own to
being very seriously terrified. especially ut the
Tree and independent way in whici they gave I'M
limited expression to their tobacco juice. / don't
wish to let it it 90 farther, as 1t might be an in
jury to my prospects. but they we're the most dis
gushing aud nastiest animals | have stumbled upon
for a long time. Many Of them were partially
tipsy and one or two roaring drunk. They might
any OF them have run for II South Carolina Sen
atorshir. with every personal claim to success. Ii
these were the representatives of the party, wha;
must the party constituents be? They did not
seem to lie i'll natured, though coarse. vulgar.
ignorant and filthy, but only bent on saving their
country and having "a high old time" as they ex
pressed it, as they went along. Perhaps, how.
ever, | do the intelligence of sumo of taem inius.
iice. inasmuch as the evening papers which | had
living on the sett beside me. disappeared with
them and my eyes 5eheli them no more. You
are talking n great deal just now about murder
aud garroting and other branches Of art against
which you take exception, in point Of taste. But
| put it to you, as n practical man. whether a little
sta rbing or stransulation now and then are so
damaging to general happiness and comfort as
the crime Of tobacco chewing and splitting which
lays waste the land and makes it scarcely fix for
the hahitation Of civilized man? am not blopdy Y.
minded. as a general thing. and am strongly in
favor Of a mild administration of penal justice
but my notion is. that every man who chews
should he sent to the Penitentiary for n term vary
ing from five years to life, according to the agsra
vation of the offcnse, but if he spits he should be
hanged without benefit of clergy.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-07

GONE BEFORE.

Nelly darling. Nelly darling, why this palor on
thy check
Quarters from i've clock have sounded since l
heard my loved one speak
Since | heard thy gentle voice, Nell, full an hour
has pass'd away,
Why those tears upon thy eyelids why SO silent,
Nelly, say?
since, this very day,
Darkness fell upon our dwelling, one we w~orship'd
turn'd to clay.
Long we mark'd his color fading, long we mark'd
his eye grow dim.
Day by day the strength departing from each
wasted limb.
Came at last the dreaded moment in the watches Of
the night,
Back into the realms of H0av'n the infant spirit
wing'd its flight,
While the morning sun, uprising in a flood Of gol-
den red.
Fell on two bereaved mourners, ~kneeling by a lit.
tie bed.
Brave were the broken words I u~tter'd, brave rs
husbands words should he,
But the fathers choking sorrow struggled hard to
be set free.
I talk'd to thee of resignation, strove my anguish
TO conceal;
Said it was the common lot that time at length
the wound would heal.
Nelly dearest, Nelly dearest, raise thy dropping
head again,
Sit not thus in speechlcss sorrow ,thereIis q balm to
500 he thy pain
Dwelling with the blessed in glory, happy now for
evermOTe,
Think, o think, our darling cherub is not 'lost
but zone before"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-07
WHAT ODDS WHETHER YOU sTARvE OR
BURN.

Professor Youman, in a learned lecture on
chemistry, said:
"What is the relation of oxygen to the living
body Every animal is busy drawing in and
throwing out air--un increasing tidal ebb and f,w.
The oxygen Of the air passes through the mem.
branes OF The lungs, is taken mp by the blood, and
carried to all p,rts OF I'll body. 1t does h,re wha,
il does everywlere-it burns, Slow combustion
goes on in the body and carbonic acid and water
are produced. This combustion is nece -sary t,
keen up heat and fever. and the oxygen Of the all
must have carbon and hydrogen. in the form o
food and drink. TO feed upon. Cut of n man from
everything but air, aid the oxygen ut every breath
will cut away II portion of his own frame. The
most comiusril'le parts are first consumed he
grows lighter and moie en- aciated every hour.-
First. The fat disal pears, then the muscle,
are assailrd, and lastly. the 1evouring giant, Cxy
gen, attacks the brain and nerves. delil ium ensues
and death cluses tie scene. Men say ne has
starved to death, but the scientific truth is that he
las been burned to cinders."