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Vocal and Instrumental Music

'OSdi anu 1uSIE uIuGuGdl III USlc.
MUS SICAL CARD.
Prof. A. F. LITTLE takes pleasure in ,npourc-
ing to his friends and to the citizens of-
wa hingtnn, Alexandria, and vicinity, thai ~
pf Is prepared to receive pupils for the' sfl
Orders left at the Music Store OF Mr. Metzrrott
Washington, ID. c., and the Music store of Nj
iaIrot, A!exandrIa, Va, will meet with prompt at
tentl0n: Residence, Dr. Hunts 3OI Penn avenue.
Sc Z8 3tawlm
AIRS. CECILIA YOUNG will resume her les
w sons IN Noca Music eltheri classes or private
pupils, on Thursday next, October LIST.
OF tGrmS' C.. Apply at No. 468 Tenth street. be-
t"eoh ~ aho =. stre"ts. Sc 8 -3tawIw
INSTRUCTION IN VOCAL MUSIC.
C.IRVING'S Vocal Music Classes meet for in
stTuctIOn and practice at Temperance Hall ON r.
evenings. Afternoon classes at IA O'Clock, and
night class at75I.
FERNS. I'm either class, p lessons, s5
Private instruction, vocal or piano, per quarter,
Ladies and gentlemen dssirous of receIving a
thorough know edge of music will he gratihed by
uniting with either of those classes.
=, Application can he made To MIR. L. al the Hall or
ihrnngh me PoSt Ofhce Sc 2 tf
NR.W. HENRY PABMER'S SPIANOFORTE
t1 GLASSES are daily adding memheTs Per
sons desITous OF avaIng themselves of Mr. PALM
ER services a3e requested to enrol! their names
This Glass system js more advantageous for the
advancement OF Children, than any other sy stem Of
1t is equally advantageous for the perlecing of the
most brilliant performers.
Terms ~ ADVANCE.
- oIHmaTy CiasS p per quarter Advance Classes
$40. All applications to be made to Mr. w. H.
PALMER, at his residence, 260 + street, between
Thrteenth and F Fourteenth.
THURSDAY at u o'clock at Miss Harroyer's George
town Female Seminary. sea tf
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GOODS FOR VIRGINIA BANK NOTES.

COODS FOR VIRGINIA BANK NOTES.
R.H. MILLER, son & CO.. will sell all
descriptions Of G HINA, GLASS. and-N
QUEENS WARE, GAS FINTURES~
&c, &c, at their usual regular low prices 49,
with a discount Of FIVE per cent. for cash as w
heretofore, and receive IN payments notes Ot of
the Virginia Banks except the Bank OF kanahwAD ,
par. ANY and all debts due thcm, can be paid IN
the same currency, with thanks To such Of their
debtors as choose 10 avail themselves of this prop
osItion-
Alexandra. Sept. "a 1857. ssea-u
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L'Oh "a lE-llandSOme residence on the HeIgnts
l. OF Georgetown. he subscriber, as Trustee OF
fers for sale that spacious and handsome residence
~ Heorget0wn, nj present occupied 10y Charles w.
Palro, Esq. The property comprises entire square
oi ground, beautifully improved W Ith walks, trees,
shruhb"ry flowers, c large and well built green
house, with plants IN great variety. There also
on the premises, Stables Carriage house. and other
convenient out houses. The Dwelling House is
large and rOomy, having, with the wings. front of
ninety hive 1861 feet and commands one of the finest
views OF the Potomac river and country around. IL
is heat cd by furnace ghted with gas nd contains
bath fixtures for hot and cold water; large cstern,
Kitchen ranges and almost every COnVen enCe for a
hrst class residence If desired the Furniture will
be sold with the house. Possession can he given
immediately. For further part Gu lars. terms of sale,
&C., apply to SAM. c. EDES, Trustee
At Paro & Nourse's Banking House,
So 81 -d3w2aw4w opposite the Treasrry
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TWO WEEKS LONGER

We shall continue selling off for two weeks longer
and beg all who really want bargains 70 eaii anu so
cure them as everything we have on hano must Oe
sold out. Persons rho buy TO sell again W III hnd ~
to their adysntage 10 f, fe SsTe Vet on hand yery
large stock ef fine goods rcuuIN cn
E No ~, between 8th and 9Th cts.
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DEAL. ESTATE INVESTMENTS sub
L scrhcr has n large number of CITY LOTS
some of The most desirable, IN every section Of tho
city, which he will sell for reasonable prices for the
paper or certified checks of our City Banks. Titles
all good. JAS. CADEN
&C 2aWlm No. pa STREET.
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~ y OTl g f. - Having been informed that Ger
tam persons In the habit of collecting and
gathering together the Bottles which contain have
contained our beverages and putting therein an arti
Gle made by Others than curse ives. ana then dSpos
ing of such article the faith and credit nfour
stamped on SAID Bottles, all persons are hereby
notified that such Bottles our own property, and
not subject to sale and that they delivered to our
customers only to be returned. and that it firm
intention tn prosecute To the utmost extent of the
law, any infringement Of eur rights fhP premises.
Army & SHINN,
Union BOttllng Depot. 81 Green street.
sc " Genrgetnwn. ID. G.
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nU POINTS GUNPOWDER.
- am all times supplied with all he varOus kinda
of DU POINTS GUNPOW DER, and am prepared
TO supply the same any quantity to parties wanting
on the most favorable terms.
w. ALBERT KING,
Agent for the District of Columbia,
No. s. High street,
NAV l2-f UntAl. v Statns Genrgetown. ID. g.
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EOR RENT-The two comfortable and convent
Il ent BRICK HOUSES on Fayette street, ad-
joining the Convent ARE now undergoing complete
PAIR, and will be for rent the ith of August The
Houses are very desirable, particularly to parents
having children 10 educate. Apply TO JOHN j..
KIDWEI,I.. High street. Genrgefown. iy n
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For Rent and Sale.

EOR RENT.-My HOUSE on F street, between
Il 18th and 18th.
se 2o-u w. F. PHILLIPS.
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Phtladelphia Back Again,

II is highly pleasing 10 The Democratic par.
", and any thing but gratifying to The 'oppe.
stion, 10 see one sfier another of ,helr strong
holds give way and wheel into the Demo.
cratic ranks. New England the very bot
bed of fana,icism, shows grea, disposition
to reform, ,..and ere long we will hear such
glorious news from that section that will
make the heart of any true patriot rejoice
Old Connecticut has taken the lead, and
where but a year ago there were heavy ma.
jorities against US, ihe Democratic party have
come out Of the contest covered with victory,
and now Philadelphia comes on with clear
majority of FIVE Thousand over The candidates
OF both the other parties, and plurality of
nine or ten thousand. We remark this to
show that all The elements opposed TO the
Union party are becoming settled, the tever
OF young Sam has received quieius, and
The whining, caniing hypocrIes, who chant
Dred Scott and Bleeding Kansas are being
left behind TO mingle their voices among The
sighs Of nervous women and the cries o!
small children. Kansas, that garden of The
western world. will soon be admitted as
free State, the thing is inevitable, blood has
already ceased to flow, even in the imagina-
tions of Beeeher and Greeley, and where
will republcanism find foohold. 20 where!
for the red eye of Kansas is shut in despair."-
Scranton Herald.
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OCEAN STEAM NAvIGATIoN.-New York,
with all It's preensions TO commercial enter
prise, is losing considerable of its carrying
trade through the competition Of British
steamers. Steamships now engross more
Than two.fifihs of the Atlantic commerce, and
The humber of such vessels is constantly in
creasiIg. There are thirty steamships run.
ming between New York and various Euro
pean ports. Only ten of them are American
steamers The whole number of steamships
crossing the Atlantic between ports Of the
United States and those Of Europe, is fifty
one; ,hry.four are scIsw propellers, with
iron hulls, and oil European-making quick
passages and generally preferred for carrying
goods. A majority of the foreign steamers
were built in Glasgow, and are owned by
merchants in that city. The Scientific Amer
lean calls the attention of New York mer-
chants to these facts, as likely TO take the
shipping business from them unless they en-
deavor TO gain their lost ground by building
propellefs.
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The State shaking Fund.


r From short statement made by the Com.
missioners Of the sinking Fund, ard publish
ed in The Harrisburg papers, wa learn that
the Fond is virtually a nullity--not dollar
having been paid into it for the last years.
The means set apart by sia,u,e 10 create a
Sinking Fund for the gradual liquidation Of
the State Debt, consisting mainly of the Ton
mage Tax collected off the Pennsy ylvania
Railroad, which for the past eleven months
amounted 10 1921 ,24s. This sum together
with other resources, has been consumed 10
meet the increased expenses of government
extra pay to legislators, salaries Of judges,
etc.
The bill for the sale of The Main Line
which is likely 10 pass both branches Of the
Legislature and become a law, does not real.
ize 10 The Treasury one cen, above the pres
ent income, while IT wilhdraws the Tonnage
Tax, which is annually increasing in mag.
nilude, from the payment Of the State debt.
Our Legislators raised their salaries two
years ago some twenty five hundred dolIsrs
and depleted the Treasury 10 that amount -
A, the present session they have raised the
salary again of each member two hnndred
dollars more--msking an additional drain on
The Treasury of s26, 1000! AT this rate of f.
nanciering, can any one tell when The public
debt will be paid OF The taxes reduced?-Lan
caster Inteuigsn esr. ..,
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The Farmers Daughter

Few years since, farmer living near
Easion, Pa, sent his daughter on horseback
10 that Town, 10 procure from the bank, small
noles for one hundred dollars. When she
arrived there the bank was closed; and sha
endeavored 10 effect her object by offering ii
a, several stores, but could Iot get her note
charged. She had not gone far on her way,
when stranger rode up 10 her and aocosted
her with SO much pollteness, that she had
not The slightest suspicion of any evil inten-
lion on his part. After ride of q mile or
two, employed 10 very social conversation,
they came to retired part Of The road, aud
the stranger commanded me to give him The
bank note.
II was with some difficulty that she could
be made 10 believe him IN earnest, as his de.
meanor had been 60 friendly; but The pre-.
sen,a.ion Of pistol placed the matter beyond
o doubt, and she yielded TO necessity. just
as she held the nole 10 him, sudden puff OF
wind blew The note into the road, and car
ried il gently several yards from ihsm. The
discourteous knight alighlsd 10 overlaks il,
and the lady whipped to get out Of his pow.
OF, and the horse which had been standing
by her side, started with her. His owner
fred pistol after her, which only tended to
increase the speed Of all parties, and the la.
dy arrived safe at home with The hore Of
the robber, on which was q pair Of saddle.
bags. When these were opened, besides .
quantity Of counterfeit bank notes, fifteen
hundred collars in good money was found
The horse proved to be good one, and
when saddlsd aud bridlee, was thought 10
be worth al least as much as the bank note
that was stolen.
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The Anti.Siavery Party.

The Abolition or Anti Slavery Society,
which is only the most ultra branch of
the Republican party, has for some lime
been 10 session at New York. Passmore
Wiliamsea and his sympa,hsers belong 10
this Society. We give the following extracts
from it's proceedings 10 show lie character.
"Rev. Mr.. Froiaingbam thought civil war
or dissolution of the Union was the only
hope of emanpaiiug the slave. .e9 -.q,.
Rev., Mr.. Ross said George Washington
was traitor, Jesus Christ was lraiIor, every
man was traitor 10 Iyrannous government
and an iuidel TO pro slavery religion. The
Tract Society was in league with The devil,
if there is any Docler Spring has stood up in
his pulpit and said just what rowdy says in
a barroom: "D--n nigger!-,he is only fit
TO be slave!" Dr.. Spring has said precise
iy Ibis, only he has said il in different words.
He loved 10 denounce such hypocriIical men.
They had plunged down to the lowest depths
oil Millions hell, and were trying 10 dig a
hole IN the bottom Of il 10 crawl inio."
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LEFT IN DIseUsT.-The New York Euening
Post announces that it's editor, Mr.. Bryant,
has sailed for Europe in The ship William
Tell, accompanied by his wife and younges
daughter. The period of his absence 10 mol
determined upon.
Mr.. Bryant, ii is SAID, leaves the country
broken-spisiied and ia disgust. Over. .pe,sua'
ded by those with whom he was associated
he forsook the party with which he had been
so long indeut flied, 10 link himself 10 Black
Republicanism and when it was too late,
discovered himself hand in hand with those
political proaigates whose dishonesty be had
spent half life.hme in exposing aud de.
nouncing. His proud and irdependen, spirit
lebslled against concealing, and his honesty
forbade his approving the reckless schemes
of plunder and usurpa,ion into which The
Black Republican leaders plunged upon their
first success; and despite the Establishment
or threats Of his new associates, he held some
of those measures up 10 public scorn. So
says the Albany Statesman.
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Washington Affairs.

Washington, May 16.-The Sec retary o.
War, to-day, examined The bids for the ma
a-.;-ss and construction us5In9 washington
Aqueduc, The awards will probably be an.
nouhced on Tuesday.
Waller N. Halderman, Of Louisville, mas
been appointed Surveyor Of Louisville, vice
Mr.. English, removed.
E. S. Hough has been re-appoin,ed Colec
Tor of Alexandra, Virginia. ~.
Senator Wilson is here on his way 10 Kan.
sas.
Past Assistant Surgeon Horner, of the U
5. Navy, has resigned his Office.
DR.. Ezra PanEen,er has been appointed
Special Inspector OF Drugs and Medicines al
Boston, vice Joseph H. Smith, removed.
The salaries Of the Supe rintendenls of The
wagon road routes, have been fixed al So, 600
Of the Disbursing Agents and Engineers, al
SO 900, and the Physicians at 81, 500 per an'
mum.
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Sale of the Main Line.


The Act providing for The sale Of The Main
Line of the Public Works, makes it the duty
Of the Governor to advertise the sale within
ten days after the approval of the Act. II
declares that the sale may be made for a
sum not less than $780, 900. No bid 10 be
accepted unless the sum of 500, 900 is de.
posted with the Governor, in cash or Stale
bonds, 10 be forfeited if the terms of The sale
are not complied with. l! the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company purchase it, The price is
$4,000, 900, the whole amount of sale to be
paid in the five per cent. bonds of the Com
paoy. Of these bonds, 100000 will fall
due July alst, 1858, and $Io0, 900 annually
theresfter until July 3lst 1890. when 81, ,000-
600 will fall duo, and $1,000, 900 annually
thereafter till the whole is paid. The Com
pany and lie connections are released from
the payment of all other taxes or duties on
its capital stock, bonds, dividends or proper
ty, except for city, borough, county, town.
ship and school purposes. II may purchase
OF lease the Hsriaburg and Lancaster road.
and i may siraighlen and improve the Phil
adelphia and Columbia Railroad, and extend
it 10 the Delaware. The purchaser of ihs
works is 10 have q perpetual corporate sue.
cession, but the Legislature may revoke the
privileges granted for abuse of them, judi.
cial decree of abuse being previously bad,
and full compensation being made TO the
stockholders, if the State decide 10 resume
the franchises. The purchasers are prohib-
lied from making any discrimination in tolls,
or eharges, or any priority Of passage through b
locks passing 10 OF from the Susquehanna di.
vision. Tnoy shalt a, oil times keep open
the presen, connection q, Columbia and Mid.
dleiown with the Susquehanna, Tide Water
and Union Canals, and shall at no time dis
criminate against the trade or :onusge passing
10 or from the said csnale; neither shah they
at any time chatge more for boats or Other
crafts passing the outlet locks a, Columbis
and Middleiown, Than ID now charged for the
passage Of boats or similar. crafts through
other locks owned by this Commonwealth
The ACT is now in the hands Of the Govern
or for his approval.-L<dgv.
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Cnse of ID. Ii. vOndersmith.

Deputy Marshal Jenkins arrived in Phia
delphia on Tuesday evening, from Lancaster,
having in custody D. B. vondersmilh, charg-
ed with having commnled pension frauds
upon the general Government, some three
years since. He was brought before Judge
Kane, OF the United States District Court,
and, in The absence OF the District Attorney,
The case was postponed until Friday nexl.--
Vondersmnh was one OF the Associate Judges
of The Quarter Sessions Of Lancaster, and is
charged, with Geo. Ford, one Of the mos,
prominen. rnsmboss of the Lancaster bar,
with obtaining fraudulent pensions 10 the
amount OF $4,000. He gave bail and fl ed
the country. Tired, however, il would seem,
OF being longer an exile, he last fall returned
10 his home in Lancaster, where he has kept
himself closely and unexposed until recent
ly, when he allowed himself 10 be seen more
publicly, probably thinking that the eyes of
the officer were not in search oil him. But
in this he was mistaken, for rumor Of lis
being here had been conveyed 10 the Mar
shal in Philadelphia, who with the assistance
of Mr.. Connor, proceeded, early on Wednes-
day mornins,to MIR. Vondersmi!h's s residence,
and finding that he was engaged at work in
his garden, they arrested him.
Since MIR. Vondersmlh's return to bis home.
he has been engaged in restoring his garden
10 its former beauty; and, being IN less affla-
eRt circumstances ,haa formerly, he had in.
iehded, il hfsaid, if left ands'urbed TO have
added 10 his means by pursuing the culture
Of flowers. His own relatives made Marshal
Yos acquainted with his whereabouts, and
led 10 his arrest The facts are said to be
strong against him. In the United States
Court he will be likely 10 meet with his de-
sers.
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Exponrs AND Inpoars fol,o,v;n

EXPORTS AND IMpoRTs.-The following
statement exhibits the value of foreign inn
ports and exports from and 10 this port:-
The exports from the LIST to the 18th of May
amounted TO i,O6i, the principal arti-
cles being 1880 barrels flour, l4OO bushels
corn, 6s57 barrels corn meal, 800 do of rye,
l7,74s pounds hams, 4s,O63 do of lard, 49,
l72 do of butter, $500 do of soap, $1,000
do of candles, 23,li4 Goldfish, a. tons gu
ano, 7so barrels ship-bread and 5000 pounds
tobacco. The imports for The week ending
the 18th instant amounted to $a9s, ,679, di-
vided as follows Dry goods for consump-
ton, S4i5s; miscellaneous, $i33,647; ware.
housed dry goods, $l5,ois; miscellaneous,
$245, ,s6O-makins total since the first Of
January, of Sc, ,sO2, 2,1si-Ledgr.
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wiImot'sLett OF Acceptance.

Judge Wilmct has acceP,ed the Republican
nomiua,ion fot Governor ia a letter which
reads as If be thought he was candidate for
the Governor$ip of Kansas, but an entire
stranger 10 Pennsylvania. Ills for The negro
from beginpin9lo. end, and has not word
tor the wtile Filizen, except an incidental,
illiberal fling the foreigner. This was re.
membeTed to Hs necessary 10 reconcile the
daciious tempe, of Know-Noihingism, but
was forgotten until nearly The end Of The eps-
tie. Them is no aspect in which the letter
can have any fitness or per,inence to candl
dale for Gove,oor of Pennsylvania, unless its
author has misty visions of slaves floating up
the Susquehanpa, But it snaps and snarls at
the South in spirit better becoming rival
hack drivers than the .dignifed Governor of
a ifatarnal Stale. If be does not intend 10
interfere with the institutions of Southern
States why this TRADE against them. Certain
IL is that il the Governors OF all the States
showed like hostile spir, The Union would
not hold together six months, and we would
have civil war in less than year.
But Why is there nothing in this letter upon
questions Of State pelicys Has he no bowels
of compassion for the 1000, 900 ghites who
live in Pennsylvania He talks p,leously
for the emigrapi. But If he would take care
first 10 relieve our debt.ridden and tax.ridden
Commonwealth of her heavy bunhens her
industrious children would not so often be
driven 10 The rough frontier life of Kansas
We have delicate and difficult questions of
Stale finance, of banking, of state deb, and
slate improvements which have been qsite
enough for all our Governors; aud look as if
they would yet furnish abundant employment
for oil the wisdom Of the next five or six in
cumbents-and for thai OF all their constilu.
snts. {. n
Wllmot is like the sentimental lady whom
John Randolph found sewing for the Greeks
while her own children rolled in dirt and
rags in The street, until the eccentric Virginian
was constrained 10 cry out: "Why madam,
the Greeks are at your door," Wilmot will
find The cool-minded people of Pennsylvania
more anxious 10 know what he will do with
such corrupt projects as the one lately bought
through The Legislature for the sale OF the
Main Line, than what he thinks on the ab-
stfact question Of slavery. They want his
position on practical home questions, and fee |
that Pennsylvania has quite enough 10 do TO
mind her own business. Our people are Sc.
cure in state Of freedom, but they are not
secure from the thousand projects of specu.
iation and plunder that every year affict
them and ea, out their substance.
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Loss BY THE STORM IN MIssissIppI.-The
Sea Coast Democrat, published in Mississippi
City, thus sums the losses in that vicinity by
The recent storm:
Whole loss not less than 100000. The
largest losers, whose names we have heard,
are : Hon. R. c. Scaffold, $4,000; Messrs.
Mclean s. Henry, $4,000; Messrs. Taylor &
Myers, $4,000; Col Humphreys, 81 800 -
Some mills lost as much as 200, 900 feet OF
lumber each. Every man ensaged iu the log
and lumber business in this district has lost
al ha had invested in limher. Akfa :. haipg
the chief industrial pursuit Of khe people,
trade is completely psraly zed for the present.
None OF the mills can be started 10 work
very soon, because Of The damage sustained
by their machinery, and of the vast amount
Of drift accu .nulated about The buildings; and
even when the machinery can be righed
again, they will have 10 wait some time be.
fore supply of logs can be had.