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United states Mail.
posr orrlos DrfAnrnEEr,

DEfAETMEETt
Washington, D. o., January 10, 1881.
RoPosALs M conveying the mails Of the United States from
ssp's%ssf 1857 70 ane 30 lass inclusive ?. as oorns
wasnISeros. and UrAn viii be received Cou,ae
10 be decided by the aoh Of June:
CALIFORNIA
S@ o Sss. Drs y ass, Happy Snd Quite
leave Organs Bar s's S,sss Monday 7am
Leave Yreka every other Thu,sday ar7am;
ia57a From Peauma ~ bloomfield To@ales mile. and
Leave Pelaluma Tuesday atsam;
n nss.Ss T r. S%a. Weanssaas DEAN,
1873 From riaesrvle county, Utah.
Leave u pa PaesGV,le ever, y o,ser Monday a,7sm
Arrive a Genoa neIi "Wednesday BY spmi
Leave osIss sysy other sy
Propos ls weekly ApIi 70 January and once
1854 Prom rraneseo Humboldt, Bay tuuonown o D
$50 miles and back twice nohth -
Leave San Francisco al m On the I'd and 10Th OF each
Arrive al Humboldt Bay tU.i lnlown o) 40 hour;
Leave Humboldt Bs, tUhonownp O on The 0th and 10th
Arrive al ssn Francisco in 4s hours.
Proposals Ior til monthy .so for weekly ip will be con
Prom Benardno by For Tpn, y.ss aas miles
Leave San Bsrnardino every other Thursday am;
arrive visaa Tuesday by JPN,
Leave Vissia every other Thursday at .
Arrive a, san Bernardino mex, Tuesday BY 5pm.
Bids embracing Monte and Los Angeles will be considered
also bids commence Los Angeles inssad Of San Ber
dino
1856 From Trinidad, by Forks
TO ae.rsiiie, iOj miles back, weeks.
Arrive q Bss,Sille y edne.day BY 6pm,
aye nssS Ss nss G' Saturday, py ~
Bids 10 carry oee week. bids extend petersve
From Quincy county, Nelson Point, 10 miles
aud hack, once week
Leave Quincy Tuesday pm,
Leave Nelson Poin, Tusstas at a N;
Arrive AT daincy BY 4 IN
Bids for ir, quent tips will be considered
AhG .rt nj
1875 From Corvallis by inney Nuay Eugene City, Cottage
Grove aud The Coast FOX OF Willamette, Oakland, 81
mite mite. and o., bach X, once once, a week.
Arrive oakaed saturday by pm;
Leave Oakland Thursday at Z a MI
brdve at toivals sntuda, by pun
Bids end al Sinsaw inch sier, will be considered
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
l74s From Cow,z Landing Bose Port Prairie, Is miles
back, in TWO wee Ks.
Arrive :, % e rq. Fi.irs y spms
1874 F.o n' OAK o Pa By Ss o to Grand Mound
Leave oas f S'ss S ssfs "'hsr s1day
A "t s ais %o aSas sss ss ss
Arrive " U2k Point next day BY 5p III.
bidders state schedule Of arrivals and departures, dis
From Olympia, by Montgomery and N Eu,on's, In
Prime aaa back; once; once in nt Two s, wssks'
1871 From Pacific Guy By oy and oysev' to Bridgeport
Bidd.is 0 schedule ard dsarco.
a7is From steilicoom seal IS miles and back
Leave stclacocm CITY Saturday at6am;
Leave saa,,e Friday ntssm
tr,u oiy, military road, Fort waa
s - sa Sna y" H. &c a % "e mons
ARMY z, For Wala&alla IL one week,
a Stel. Ciry week.
~ n. gs ns y a aSs ~
UTAH TERRITORY,
aslo From G. der City, by Harmony and Pine Valley, to Santa
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INSTRUCTIONS.

No WILDE made psromed and for each such
explained
aeIon depending mails, and sufficiently excused,
6uTih for the trip suhject fOctre.
will grade OF performance
. spec Il d In the
2. behind of the mails, portion
them, III. sdnon of for iang concerned In
sLs conveying Intelligence in advance
OF the m all, gu rteI's may be deducted
3. delinquency be promptly
satisfactorily explained by
adav of cdble failing arrive IL
tines for nee!ecnG take the mail FROM deliver into
place carr, ny wet injured, destroyed,
robbed, aud rcusine aer demand the
mail frequently the ID concerned In
ming coach, car, amboat
for repeated
failures agrecably violating The Office
dsoheyig The OF the department.
10 discharge caryr when required by the do
for without Of the Postmaster Gen
ea afnresad Transporting
packages mailabie OF the mail
s. The Postmaster General order OF service
He schedules Of aud arrivals in all
and particularly Them conform connexions with rail-
without provided be running hine be
abridged General curai discontinue
whole rGtG decrease allow
months dispensed with,
Ills public do require
In he desires TO supersede II by different grade OF
transportation
g. Payments for the service by collections FROM
drafts otherwise after the expiration each
quaiter- say ia February, May, August, and Nov.mher
T. The distances according the best information hut
Increased will he allowed shonld be than
verd IL the points supplied be correctly stated Bidders
inform Themselves oin and aso IN reference the
weight CONDITION Uf roads, hills, &c, and
ferries, kind by which *
pense may Offices established AFTER this
issued, during be visited with
out x ia
~ JAMES CAMPBELL,
Jan l5--iaw4w Postmaster General.
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niece ships will not be accountable Tor
bullion, specie, cwcy, precious stones mens unless
'sdipR are sned therefor and the vane
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The New York and Liverpool United States
Mail steamers.

rho - ps comprising lhis line following;
The hUsnhc. Cupi
The bailic ~Cap Jod
aurals ..'Nap.1 49,"
rS. These ships hNVmg been huilt by CONTRACT ~
04E Pressly for government serece, care nss ~
taken their constructions also in tleif eup
8f*kSSh& innure strength ard sesed and their accoh"
6aons passengers uneqnaed elegance and cooio m
Price passage New York Liverpool in first cabin
In second cabin, e75 from liverpool 10 New York, 80 ana
giIneas
An expsrianced surgeon attached 10 each chip.
No hsrths be secured until paid for, -
The ses OF this line improved wa,eriRi bulk eada
to avoid danger from viii the Banks north '
until amer the Int OF August.
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Tickets Sl0--haivos S5--quarers 81 SO.
Of whole $3.50 co
DO do 70 half do......,.......,.. rs 90
DO do &c quarter do 81 90
Lottery the benefit OF tbs
STATE OF DELAWARE
Glass 50, for 1867.
To b. drawn at WILMINGTON, Dell Saturday, March H. 1851
rs number lottery--i2 drawn ballots.
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JOHN WEIDNAN Lebanon, Secretary. V n
March 97-lawtMar3 (Intellgenccr]
All newspapers civilized world
ed to notice this their editorial columns,
be Of several casses scattered through the four III
visions the globe ard a throughout the United
States requested give srataons
casonaly between this date aid the ID OF March, 1881
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Nassau Hall College Of New Jersey, princeton
" Shou)d auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought 10 mini;
Shouij auld acquaintance be forgot,

/" sheu,d aud acquaintance be forgot,
And never bf5aghtt TO mini
Shonij aud acquaintance be forgot,
And days o. aud lang syne"
The members the Oft ending In June 1889
The junior class Of the year ending June 1892 the sophmor'
endny June 1884, and Freshman cass the
year ending y Jsne PIP hr,esf teares.ed y assemble 10
brighten tho links iii lie cBalh live aud endshp which
tide can ever entirely exchange in he
lives greeting and sympathy and lament the unIaey fate
some or their MOST pi0mtsinR compecrs.
preliminary meeting the stEapponed committee will BE-
held on the frs, Mondy in September D. 1885, The United
Hotel Chestnut Fourth and Ffh
which those members the classes whom be
invited when the will be
adopted full ndance possible
In the whom this notice addressed will be
furnish secretary ofhe committee by mail with
their respective post Offices,
EDWARD J. GRANT, NJ. D.,
sta G}t Of Trenton, NJ j., Chairman Of Committee.
.. ALEXANDER q, HART, N. D.,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
], NEWTON LiGHTNER.
of Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
... PHILIP PBNDLETON,
~ Winston, AI,esnany Co, Md,
SAMUEL. r. RICHARDS, E
...E Of BRsto Iron and GIass Works. N. j.,
LEWIS w. WASHINGTON
Of Montgomery county Maryland,
| d = 1. Z Z y { unit
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WATCHEs-Thc La gest assortment ever offered TO
Those search Of very keepers
will lind all the ceiebst makers,
able both for ladies and gentlemen >
confident complete this
y and possessing advantage getting
offer Inducements
Members Of Congress and strangers design
witches would do well make early quail
ity may bs thorou h tested before leaving city,
NJ. w. GAIT b BRO, 3
3a5 Pennsylvania avenue,
Feb 20 Between Oh streets.
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r,oro.sp p.r,, ., r.lmr..

EDWARD X. COLLINs, -
No. IS Wall street NJ
Liverpool
STEPHEN RENshRD b cva
~ Austin Friars, Lono'''
n. a. WAINW RIGHT n W.
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brilliant schemes for February. 1867.

Orders tickets saTes and certificates packages
above will the prompt
an drawing will be
10 all who order from mo- 800
Address P.J. BUCKLEY, Agent,
Jan l0t Wilmington, Delaware.
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JSLEGANT TOWN CARRIAGES-JAMES BREWSTER
SON, 3s6 broadway, New York. would invite tho attention
Of Washington and vicinity their stock elegant
vehicles in new and beautiful designs comprising
Janianer clnli coaches, baroucies,
.N. Brrnes. caechsF, and coupe-
Having varied
New York trey partcu ar invite the of gentlemen
unable v, New York; whom drawings
carriage win be sent by mail u
Jan 7--d2mif r,s.ar ,.. ..as .sr
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Dee e7--iawsw
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DsPARTNrSr INTERIOR,
December Ie, $50
SEALED PROPOSALS. will be received at this department until
y eighteenth day February IL O'Clock noop fur.
hing granite gane work be Ieqned above
sisry erection of the north front Of The
Office building
lids he In the form of che following schedule and
spscify the prices aral huing, dressing, and setting
cluGing al The machinery and other expenses.
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Washington, d. o., January IS, 1857.
R0PosAL5 for conveying the United from
september 1851 10 June 30, 1885, incusive The following
In The Stale OF CALFcRsIA the TeTroTes ORE
WAsHsoroS, and UrAH viii be received Contract
department unL3 D. m OF the June 1857
Il decided by the Goth OF June:
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DLATIcD WARE, aIbasN Forks and Spoons Tab
[ cutlery, &c.--M. w. GAIT * BRO. have just received
large very elegant plated ware superior qat
consisting Of M EaG .H.at#s..f
Richly engraved waters from TO 30 irches
Plain and chnsed tea sets, pieces complete
Coffee ums, water kettles, cake baskrtr casters
Albata forks, spoons, &C.
ALSO, ....
The best English and American Table cutlery.
The goods made and uay low
NJ. w. GAIT n BRO, Jewellers,
3l4 Pennsylvania between 9th and 10th
Feb 20--6t
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-14
New Music.

Horace Waters, 1913 Broadway, New York
Music Publisher, and Agent for the sale Of Pi
amos, Melodeons and Harmonious, has sent us
the following popular piece of music
Fanny in her Grare: Song Words by Wm.
NJ Byars, NJ. d.. music by F. W. Smith. Price
% cents.
A beautiful descriptive song in the key of two
sharps; highly effective in both words and mel
ody. In recommending the music received by
us from this popular publisher, it is always with
the knowledge that its sentiment is of the best
character and calculated to improve as we'll as
to please our readers. Mr.. Waters forwards mu-
sic wherever ordered, post paid; and to those
forwarding one dollar prior to the lst of Febru-
airy, 1857, he will send two dollars worth of hi:
publications-the one dollars worth extra being
Il present for the holidays.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-14
Negro Hiring.

The rates at which negroes have hired in most
parts of the State are higher this year than ever
before known. At Fairfax Court House farm
hands brought from $3.50 to $3.50, women $50
to 500, and boys 500 to $40. In Washing
ton county men hired at $3.50 to S143, woman
sixty three years old at ST., and girl aged sew
enteen, without any qualifications, at 800. AT
Winchester the prices We're considerably lower,
Able bodied men brought 800 to $120, women
$40 to $50, boys $50 to $40, and girls $50 to S35,
according to age. We notice that at several
other places the prices Were remarkably low,
compared with the rates elsewhere, In this
place the average price for farm hands was S12O,
for boys seventeen or eighteen years old $50,
women $50, Zone or two recommended as first
rate servants brought as much as S75,) and girls
$50 to $40 Towards the close of the week hi
rers refused to give more than these average
rates, and persons who demanded more had
their servants thrown on their hands.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-14
Church Building,

The last number of the British Quarterly Re-
view contains an article entitled "Church Build
ing" which we wish all persons interested in
building churches and other public edihces could
read. There is no kind of extravaganza more
common. and more inexcusable than that dis
PLAYED in connection with such enterprises In
almost every instance plan is adopted far be-
vond the means provided for its execution, and
debt saddled upon a society or congregation
which it is totally unable to bear. Then appeals
are made to the public to contribute funds to-
wards an object professedly religious or benevo-
lent, but which in truth only serves to crafty
the vanity of those engaged in directing and dis
playing the work in progress. Moreover the
rivalry excited between two neighboring con-
gregatons in regard to their houses of worship,
is an evil of no small consequence. Each en-
deavors to out-vie the other in the elegance OF
the building and decorations, and, as the Quar-
terly remarks, the "doing up Of church has
too often been made the pretext for giving vent
TO every unchristian temper, and the cause of
general discord and discomfort in the neighbor-
hood And there is generally found 10 be some
defect in the building after it is Completed
Convenience and comfort are nearly always sac
riiiced to mere matters of TASTE like certain
church from which the light had beenso excluded
by donations of painted glass; THAT the curate could
not see to read without skylight in the roof
A church, says the Quarterly, should be built
soidlv to resist the attacks of time, and its de-
sion shonld he such as to enlist in its favor the
associations of decency, order, and reverence
sIf the funds collected do not suffice for this, it
would be better to build mere school or lee
ture room, and to trust to the increase OF rell-
ligious feeling in the district for the erection of
q suitable church at future time" The fol-
lowing remarks are to the point;
''The charity is not in the building but in the
amount of suffering which the building enables
us to relieve; and we cannot but think if the
good men of the world were to consider how
much physical agony goes INTENDED, how much
ignorance untaught, and how much sin unre-
proved, they would pause before they bestowed
upon Woodworking and stone-work, those sums
which, wisely dispensed, would alleviate the ills
of the flesh, and give immortal nfe to benighted
souls"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-14

Hon. HENRY w. HnIIARD-A paragraph
which has appeared in several Southern papers
in regard to this gentleman's purpose to change
his present relations t. his church is, we have
reason to know, premature. The remarks made
by Mr. billiard had reference to the future, and
not to the present. 1t is well known that he
has long been connected with the Methodist E
piscopal Church, and that his political and pro-
tessonal engagements have not prevented him
from advocating in this city and elsewhere the
claims of the gospel. 1t is not, we understand,
his purpose to make any change at this time in
his relations to the church, or to relinquish his
usual pursuits, if that should even take place.
-NdtiOnaL InteLLi1encer.
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The Insnrrection Rumors.

The rumors of negro instructions in various
parts of the country have generally died away
With scarcely an exception they are now pro
nounced entirely groundless. In most cases il
turned out that the reports originated in the
circumstance that the negroes were heard to ex-
press their vague notions about Fremont, and
nothing more Generally where so-called soon
LESSONS" have been made, they have been ex-
torted by the use of the lash, and are totally un
reliable In Arkansas, for instance, q commu-
nifty was recently thrown into excitement by
"the discovery of a projected Instruction." and
a negro, "being achipped, exposed the whole
PLAN We can have no faith in confessions OBJ
tanned by such means. The use of torture to ex.
tort testimony, is not only barbarous but fool
ish. Our apprehension from the first has been,
not so much of an instruction, as that the ne
groes would be unnecessarily subjected to rigor-
Gus treatment. Under u high state of excite
ment caused by fear, even humane men will
perpetrate crGelties at which they would shud-
der in calmer moments We deprecate every
approach to this state of affairs, and would
dread the wild mob spirit engendered by it lit
tie less than we would servie nsurrection it.
SELF
In almost every county Of Eastern Virginia
there was an uneasy feeling among the people
during the holidays. In Halifax, the largest
slavehoding county in the State, committee
of intelligent and influential citizens undertook
to Investigate the cause of alarm, and we under
stand that they became satisfied that there was
no Just ground for it. The negroes had an idea
that some great change was to take place in
their condition about Christmas, and that dev-
erance was to come to them from the North, but
contemplated no insurrecton themselves. The
belief was prevalent, however, that white ennis
sares had been amongst them.
But while we believe that the negroes are too
enlightened, and know too well the direful con-
sequences to themselves, to attempt any move
ment of the kind, we do not intend by these re-
marks to advocate undue indulgence to servants.
1t is necessasy at all times that proper discipline
shall be maintained, and the duty of attending
to the matter is incumbent upon each slavehold-
err or master for the time being.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-14

VIRGINIA AND THE PUBLIC LANps.-The
Washington correspondent of the Richmond
Wing, in his letter of the 18th, says:
Mr.. Hunter presented curious petition in
the Senate on Monday-that is curious for
Tirgiaia. It was no less than a memorial from
the Alexandria, Loudon, and Hampshire Rail
road company. asking for grant ofpublic lauds
to aid in the extension of their railroad l
believe this is the first instance yet, in Which
the Old Dominion has made such an application
and hail it as an earnest ofan awakened de-
termination to claim for Virginia some small
portion, at least, of the vast public domain,
which is the common property of all the States.
Yet, it would occasion no surprise if this APP
plcation were Indignantly rejected from the
Senate. The Western and Northwestern States
have, for so long time, looked upon the public
lands rs their peculiar property, that it really
seems as if they regard it as intrusive and i'm
pertinent, in any of the old States, to prefer
claim to any portion Of them. Indeed one cam
not but admire the reckless daring aud etfronte
nv of Mr.. Hunter, in even presuming to offer
snch memorial 1t fell among the land grab
bing Senators like the unexpected crash of a
thunder-bolt from clear sky-and, although |
saw Mr.. Hunter present the petition with my
own eyes, | was unable to give it full credence
until noticed it among the official proceedings
in the Globe. Even now, it appears incapable
of belief. The idea of ''old Virginia" asking for
grant of public lands. What are we coming
TO?
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-14

The Norlandsposton, of Stockholm, says
"The intelligence which we received from Lap
land is very deplorable. The severe cold which
prevailed in the month of August destroyed
nearly all the crops, which is an irremediable
misfortune there, where there are no means of
communication. The Laplanders are in great
alarm, foreseeing famine in the winter. The
temperature in Lapland presented most extraor-
binary variations this year, severe cold having
prevailed In July and August, whereas Septem-
Der and the beginning of October were as warm
as summer"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-14

Orr AT LAsT.-An old man named Gregg,who
has been confined in Fauquier county Jail since
the first of October, 1916, for debt under the
old law, was released on Christmas day by jaiIor
Cross, there being nothing left in the hands OF
the law to pay his Jail expenses. We learn that
this man had property enough to pay the debt
against him, but that he preferred spending his
weary hours within the gloomy walls OF the
county prison to paying the debt which he owed.
The person who had him confined has been dead
some years, but we learn put provision in his
will appropriating sufficient amount to keep
him in limbo as long as he lived. Some how or
other this stipulation has given out; and of
course Gregg becomes free again. When he left
the Jail door he appeared to be perfectly tewil-
dered, and did not know which way to travel,
but in a short time he became fully conscious of
his freedom, and strutted about with the air of
some who know what liberty used to be in "by-
gone days. Waarenton, (Ea.,) Wing.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-14
New Publication,

I. B. Peterson, No. 102, Chestnut ST., Phila-
delphia, has in press and will publish on Satur-
day, January 3lst, another volume from the
pen of Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz, entitled Love
after Marriage" and thirteen other choice Nou-
velettes of the Heart. Complete in one large
duodecimo volume, neatly bound in cloth, for
one dollar and twenty cents or in two vol
umes, paper cover, for one dollar.
Copies of either edition of the work will be
sent to any part of the United States, free o.
postage, on remtting the price of the edition the
purchaser may wish, to the publisher
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-14

The Right Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers. who
has been appointed British Minister to this coun-
try, and may soon be expected at Washington,
is brother of the Earl of Clarendon, the British
Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and, up to the date
of his appointment, held the post of Judge Ad-
vocate General-and Privy Councillor to Her Ma
jesty. He was in Parliament for q number of
years, but has not heretofore occupied diplo-
matte station. He is bachelor, tifty-six years
old, of hospitable and genial disposition, and
likely, so it is said, to be a favorite among the
diplomatic corps at Washington. This appoint
ment indicates the willingness of the British
government to obliterate entirely all traces OF
the dispute that lead to the dismissal OF Mr..
Champion.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-14
Rank Dividends.

The Bank Of the Valley has declared semi.
annual dividend of 8 IA per cent.-5 per cent
to the Stockholders; Central Bank at Staunton,
8 IA per cent; Bank of the Old Dominion, at
Alexandria, per cent. Bank of Rockingham,
at Harrisonburg, per cent; Bank of Wiuches-
ter, per cent; Exchange Bank, at Richmond,
4 ga per cent; Farmers Bank, per cent +;
Bank Of Virginia, 4 per cent.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-14
Conviction of Huntington.

Huntington, the New York forger, has been
convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary fol
four years and ten months. Twenty-six Other
indictments, for similar offences, are pending
against him. His counsel put in the plea of in
sanity, to the utter disgust of the public, but the
Jury paid no attention to it.