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DRED SCOTS FAMILY EMANCIPATED.
ST. LOUIS, May 27.-Dred SCOTS wife and two
daugbtera we're emancpated yesterday by their own.
err and have been taken to Massachusetts, by Chafee.
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MONROE SYRINGE FOR SALE.

II OFFER for sale the MONROE SPRINGS, to- n
IL eether with all appu1ensnces, consisting of slI
ample supply o! Beds, Bedding Household sp r.,
Kitchen Furniture; also Crockery, Cutlery, eI,,,
springs situated In the Northeastern part 'iIu
county, Ala. in mile 0. the Mobile ami Girs T
and the same distance from tho Mobile saI .I ~ No
tract belonging to the Springs sontais $50 nop
creek land The growth 10 hickory u6ite or ;,t nm
lar,sweet gum, mulberry, elm, hollis Sparsn oaA, re- I'M
dergrowth of stink.bush. buckeye SUM ON, su n,
dergrowth indicating rich soD Aoo,t Nv "a i,I nrs
above lands Is In high culti'hton' hn' h,J
duce 100 TO 1900 pounds Of onon 10 the acre N
ings In good condition Nth lnrge and coihiroa p
Hotel and winter resid ace for family; Also lenpM
Alley Billiard Room I'd Table. Bath House. two Ban
Rooms one OF which some fifty yards distant from !S'
hotel Also two rooly Stables together with Corn Croa
Negro Houses etc In fact there 10 nothing wanting
make this one of .e desirable watering placer ns
South az tho WISER stands in high repue a. any In W
State Teaimonab OF tho fact can be produced II ri
quired. Lila
per aTe-onef fourth cash, the balance in three snnu
payments, with notes and approved security or mon
gaze Of the place.
Any person wishing to engage In business of the king
you'd do we'll to examine these springs, as the bus'ne
could be commenced without any outlay, save for gro'i
es there is ample supply Of things necessary
hotel business. ANY number Of sheep be had al g.!
beef at TO cents, turkeys at rs cents, chickens st
cents, eggs 10 cents per Dozen butter IS cents
For further particulars apply to e. Z. Haynes, ESQ., u
ze,te Office, Cahsba, Alabama, or myself at the Spring.
Dsr 3i--wutT J ENGLISH, Trustee.
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THE MECKLENBURG IN. C.) CELEBRA-
TION.-The anniversary Of the Mecklenburg Decla.
ration of Independence Of May 2Oth, rs, was osle-
brated at Charlotte, n c., on Wednesday last. The
day was beautiful, the crowd in attendance great,
and the procession large and imposing Chief Justice
Nash, Gov. Bragg, the Rev. DR.. Lacy, and many
other prominent gentlemen were present. James w.
Osborne Esq. read the Meckl.nburg Declaration of
Independence, and the Rev. Dr.. f. L Hawks pro
nouuced an GRAFTON the delivery of which occupied
three and half hours. A: o'clock a splendid din
uer came off at the Depot, of which several hundred
partook. The festivities ceased with grand ball at
night, which was largely attended
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CROPS IN TENNESSEE.
MEMPHIS, May 26.-lt is reported that the crops
n this State are all dying for The want Of rain.
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SEVERE HAIL AND RAIN STORMS.-Our eI.
changes bring accour Of terrible storms Of rain
and hail in North Alabama, West Tennessee and Ar
Mississippi river. In some places the hail Of
immense size and very destructive 10 corn cotton,
vegetables and shrrbbery, killing pigs and doing SO.
rious damage TO the roofs and windows of houses II
nine inches in circumference, fell week since in
Kinds county, Miss. The general size was about that
of hens egg,
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puoDr observation-disclosures.

PROVIDENCE, May 26.-Ths General Assembly of
this State met at Newport this morning Gov. Dyer
and all the other State officers were sworn H. There
being choice for Lieutenant Governor, Thomas 5.
Turner was elected Spseker Of the House.
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BELLEyUE HOSPITAL.

HNEIS Institution 10 situated on Church Hill }
mond, Va, in delightful, airy position, ana al
nished with every convenience essential TO the pj
treatment of disease. The object OF this Hospi,s
furnish medical aid, good nursing, and suitable did
such servants strangers and others, as have not,
sick, homes where attention 10 comforts, so requu}
the succrssful treatment Of disease, can be given
Lylng.In Wards are peculiarly commodious. Part
.tteLtion given to Surgical Cascs. The unders!}
their charge.
Colnred Patients per VI
These rates embrace all charges for Board, Aeil:
Medical and Surgical attendance
rFEo SMALLPOX admitted.
PHYSICIANS
James Bolton, NJ D.. Grace street, between i,h s.!;
C. s Mills N. n, l2th between Broad and Msr.s,
RT Coleman, ". D.. corner 4th and Grace.
Rs.; lcnr pbysician-Dr Wood Feb oS-cs-
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COMMERCIAL SAVINGS BANK.

COMMERCIAL SAVINGS BANK.
CHARTERED by the Legislature OF Virginia, Deoer5
~ Der 18th, ls53-Capita $5O,0O0This Institution a
ceives deposits which in,eres Is paid at tho rate
per per snnum if remaining on deposit six month
and per cent. for shorter periods.
WIN. q. PAINE, President,
GEO. J. SUMNER, Secretary,
JOHN II. MONTAGUE, Treasures.
CVeOfice No. l53, corner Main and 18th vt.
I.r
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w land or wood land, say from so TO 500 acres
James River some other navigable s,roan Addrea
with full particulars, stating location price, distance ho
Richmond &c. also price Of wood per cord at landing
W., Valley Forge Post Office, Pennsylvania-
ANA
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LUMBER, LUMBER.
MY STEAM SAW MILL is now in successful open
Dspot 10 Ffederick me lie.
former place. and very accessible TO the surroundiI
country will say to persons in want Of Plank s,ht
for building farming purposes that shall endes9' .
keep always on hand good assortment which vii VI
ut fair prices. Send in your orders.
ANDREW J. NELSON,
Nav 2l-c6w Elk Creek Louisa County, Va
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4 CERTAIN CURE FoR DYsPEPsIA

CERTAIN CURE FOR DYSPEPSIA
a Nd SUMNER COMPLAINT, highly reconmenae..
"A by all physicians, of both the old and new wore
Lager Beer up in bottles for family use. {.
Per dozen pints 81 25. Per dozen quarts &? 20 !,
packages Of from two u six dozen Put up and soo
P. WILBACHER, No. 2oe, Main street,
Richmond, VI
No extra charge for package or draysge. -,
Orders from the country will be promptly reipor,
to- provided amount being added, or good city Fe'e's
given. )
For SALE a!so-Lager Beer in quarter and half csih
and i6 gallons. 80,
16 aaIlnn. Anil Pc
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IN WO THOUSAND FIVE HCSD
IL AGENTS WANTED IN VIRGINIA, 10 &C" -:
an easy and honorable business IN which any nCI
of ordinary capacity can actually make from 20 70
month Business light, easy and all done at ho"ed 4.
Fo. further particulars, enclose post STANG aA
dress, F. P. AYMER Io.
South Kingston, RockiuRhsT coa n.t;,.
NAV 5-cwlm New hehps.-<
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THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD,

TIME above reward will be given for the delivery =
Il HARVEY,a yellow boy, 5feet, 6 or inches NJ
with grey eyes, and red coored hair He 10 well =,
He sbsconded last week and when heard from was " -
mel zhborhood Of Loyds, In Essex county He a9L.
IL yesrs old will give the above reward for s1 Tna
10 taken In Essex county. WIN. 8. CRoA4o''
NAV o. CIT
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NEw YORK, May 27.-Tbe town Of Addison,
Stuben county, was yearly destroyed by hre Il
morning.
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Hickory, of great strength just yielding enough ne
yer to break The Constitution has specified clearly
en- ugh the few general purposes for which
the General Government means is to be applied,
except for extreme latitude and longitude politicians
that can't live in temperate zones but are forever on
some Arctic excursion, for party purposes or filthy
lucre and far from the Constitution as the equator
from the poles then turn round and charge others OF
running into extremes. But if they meet with no
better fate than "Sir John Franklin they had bet
ter stay and attend to their msesties 1.-THE Peope's
matters at home. Some try to squeeze the word
distribution out of dispose Of" in the Constitution
of the United States They scratch their heads, and
search dictionaries walkers, &c-l and have come
out with wonderful discovery, that dispose of
means to give away to the States. Now, lexlcogra-
piers may be the Legislators Of language IN certain
sense, as they give the meaning OF words outthey
do not make the laws Of language, or have any more
power over it than Congress has over surplus, to
give 1t away They tell US in what sense certain au
thors use certain words, which, by common consent,
consent Of the people, regarded as standard a
thors. For example, johnson, in his dictionary Will
tell us OF rome twenty senses, or egn,hcstions 10
which word has been used by Addison, Pope, Mil.
ton, Shakespeare, Souhey, So; in what sense poets,
prose writer's paraments, and courts have used the
word, but the photographer himself hxes no meaning
TO word by arbitrary power. This would be grant
ing him more authority than even the dstrbutlonists
claim for the General Government. Besides, words
are used in a different sense in common parlance,
from what they in government, or courts, and in
technical mesning-a common and constitutional
meaning. Even the same author uses word in a
different Specification at time than he does at an
other. This lie the case, even, among sacred writers;
hence concordance is the best mode Of ascertainng
the meaning of Scripture words. Some writer would
do good public service to compile constitutional
concordance. II would be better than Walkers Die.
tionary There would not be half ths dispute about
political principles, or the meaning Of political words
4 people would consult the constitutional concord
snoe. -
the territory or other property belonging to the Uni
ted S,ates Is to appropriate it or the money for
'the general welfare" defraying the expenses OF gov
ernmentl of the United States or the Union. Inc
Constitution of the United States of America, was
ordained to promote the general welfare" No mat.
Ter IN what way Congress- or "the United States in
congress assembled" OF the lands belonging
70 tae United States il must be done for the welfare
OF tne unlted States But it will be said, that dis
trio1ion VIII be for the general welfare Is the Uni-
TOO S'sss composed of all the particular or indivi-
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in perigee one hundred billions of miles from the
Constitution. This comet seems to be disappearing
at present, as only the tip end OF its tail is dis
coverabls, with great magnifyng power. When
il will make its appearance again In the pc.
litica wcrld. or in what part of the Heavens, or,
whether it ever will be visible to us again, s mat.
ter of conjecture Perhaps. judging from the ex.
treme eccentrcity Of its orbit and centrifugal power,
not in the present century. For part, of all
these late phenomena, we dread what is called the
aurora borealis, Northern lghts than all the
comets that have been recorded from the Chaldean
Observatory from the time of the priest of On in
Egypt, from whom Joshua derived the Copernicsn
system, until now. All these strange phenomena make
their appearance at FIRST in the North. There the old
Federal comet first appeared and it's discovery due
to the Democratic party. and the extreme end Of it's
tail; also, distribution, visible only at the South
Some, however, have mistaken this luminous speck,
inst going out for new constellation, Just appearing
in the Wing zodiac, which the Wing astrologists call
distribution" The tip end OF the tail Of Know
Nottingham seems to be all now OF Old Federal As
tronomy that hangs over u.s. and this Is daily dimin
shing and s more of apparent than real magnitude
While these erratc bodies are ranging out side Of the
constitution, and do not belong to our system and
others that fall like meetora, and 20 out Just giving
light enough to make their darkness visible, tits plea
ssut to behold the old Democracy, revolving round
the constitution, in regular orbit. with great
csntripetal power. None ofshese bodies belong to
our system, but seem to be possessed With extreme
rowing and periodical properties Sacred writ Is wont
to compare false teachers to wandering stars to
to whom is reserved the biackness of darkness for
ever '-"Clouds without water"-"Ragng waves Of
the sea, foamiug out their own shame" Some Of
the ancient Mythologsts supposed that He'll was in
a comet, and the punishment contested in alternate
tremes of heat and cold II allow to conjecture, it may
BIZ the "bad place" Of Know-Notbingism. and they
are suffering now from extreme cold. The Demo.
cracy seem to be remarkably versed In political az
,ronomy, and should at this time, particularly, Of
LEISURE be brushing up their optical Instruments
and engaged in viewing the political heavens. We
have doubt that there nebuls Of error forming
even now in the Know Nothing world, invisible to
the naked eye, but, with some Herschel power, may
be brought distinctly into view. Some Of those old
comets may return, with new presentation. under
different name. Old Federal Whigism may come,
newly oordated, and approach tail foremost next
opake body "Back Republican" ism, with Know.
Nothing halo around it. or, old Federalism may be
seen again way South, like Saturn with lie rings and
seven satellites. Our astronomers hsvs calculated
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Corner Of Coates and 18th Streets, Philsdelpti
Or HEDGES e. FREE, Cincinnati, Ohio.
For sale at retail by all the dealers in Farm Implsm,
il Richmond March 2s-cw2r
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-12

al have no doubt, ma, am, !" said the cap
tain, greatly relieved. that you win find IN
dividuals not exactly IN my situation, who
viii be-will be very happy to-in short,
am, wish you very good day."
'sCold hearted, vain egotisti' said the
widow, when he had left ssI rightly gaug-
ed your character. You only wished for a
handsome wife to enhance your consequence
and parade in society, as you show off
your handsome horse in the street. Let us
see if my thoughts have wronged Mr.. Care
less"
To Careless she told the same story
The young gentleman heard of the loss of
her beauty with great nonehalanee.
'sBut this is not all, said Mrs. Cham
pion, "my business man has been with me
all the morning. My investments were
most unfortunate. lam completely beggared.
Chow unfortunate" cried Careless, for /
am in the same predicament. I don't see
my way through this quarter. Now it is
very evident that it would be the hight of
folly for two persons without any income or
prospects to marry only to multiply misery.
I beg you to consider my proposal of last
month only as conditional. Doubtless there
are rash unprincipled men who would in my
case think only of sentiment, but / am too
good moralist and too good citizen TO
think of persevering now Farewell, mad
am! farewell foreverl / leave you with des-
pair in my heart and madness in my brain!"
Probably no declaration of despair was
ever SO bypocritical, and SO thought the
widow.
'tHe loved me for my money as thought.
/ BEGIN to believe that all the men are
alike. If Stanley prove equally heartless,
/ shall renounce the perfidious SEX
The young artist heard of the loss of his
lady's beauty calmly.
s.It is misfortune said he. Beauty
is glorious gift, but perishable; the true
heart and mind alone remain unchanged till
death.
"ButI am poor, Stanley" said the widow.
ssYou give me new life, Isabella cried
the painter. ''The world cannot say now
that any mercenary views tainted the pure
feeling with which I regard you. Trust
me, you shall never want while have brain
and hand to work for you"
.'Then take me for such as I am and was,"
cried the widow throwing off theyeil, 'sboth
in person and in purpose, and forgive the
fabricated tale, which proved two of my
suitors worthless
Freed from the veil, her dazzling beauty
beamed on the painter in undimmed radiance,
and her hand thrilled to his touch. Need
we say that they were happy?
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-12
A Virginian in New York.

Some time since Mr. NJ, of Virginia, a
gentleman of rare intellectual endowments,
as well as of superior physical strength, was
in this city; passing up Broadway one after
noon, he stepped into an auction room and
bid off one or two articles, when he was ask
ed to step into back Office. In few min
utes bill was presented to him for $780,
Mr.. NJ. examined the suddenly increased
bill, and then in a manner decidedly cool,
arose and said: "Ah, yes, 1 thought when
came in this was a respectable auction
house, but l was mistaken, and find it is
one of the regular 'mock auction sWindling
concerns 'sThis,' said one of the at
tendants, sis respectable auction house,
and,' turning the key in the door, eve will
let you know, SIR that we are no swindlers,
and that you must pay this bifl.'' 'sNow, %
said Mr. NJ, ''you are fixing things right,
and I understand matters, and we will see
who viii open that door first" At this he
drew his arm back, and before the mock
auctioneer' could take note of time,' he
found himself heaped upon the floor, and
his companion in rascality knocked into the
outer room, through the door, to the no small
astonishment of outsiders. Mr.. NJ. delibe-
rately left the room, and heard no more of
the bill of $50, as the swindlers found they
had locked up the wrong customer. Mr.. NJ.
often amuses his friends by giving them an
account of his first attendance upon an auc-
ton sale in New York.-NeU York Post.
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-12
Air and Water.

A quart of water is daily passing through
the skin of a sound person. 1t evaporates
through the minute openings which cover
the whole surface, and if these be plugged
up, is compelled to travel through the kid
neys, and gives rise to internal disorder
Ablution, therefore, if sound health is to be
preserved, is duty of the first importance.
Pure air is also essential to health, and at
night the free supply of it is of especial
moment. Each sleeper draws into the chest
about fifteen times in every minute, GER
tain quantity of the surrounding atmos-
phere, and returns it, after a change within
the body, mixed with poison. One hun
dred and fifty grains by weight of this pois-
onous ingredient are added to the air of a
bedroom in one hour by single sleeper,
more than one thousand during the night.
Unless there be sufficient quantity of air
to dilute this, or unless ventilation provide
for a gradual removal of foul air, while
fresh comes in to take its place, health must
be seriously undermined Christian Advo-
cate and journal.
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-12
A Democratic Judge.

The Kanzas correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Gazette thus describes one of the model
Democratic Judges who are authorized by
Buchanan to sit in Judgment on the lives
and liberties of the Free State people of
Kanzas
'.Judge Cato is man of dissipated hab-
its-notorious as a drunkard, even here
where drunkenness is so common. At a
drinking party he was called upon and made
a speech, in response to the following toast:
''The Union must and shall be dissolved,
peaceably if we can-forcibly if We must, %
in which he took the most ultra grounds
against the longer continuance of the union
of these States. He was decidedly in favor
of a Southern confederacy, and the ''chiy-
alric South to remain independent of the
North,' etc.
While the examination of witnesses is
going on, the Judge will take his hat and
leave the room, to visit some of the numer-
Gus saloons in town, for drink The pro-
ceedings are stopped, and after waiting a
while for the return of the Court, and that
dignitary not coming back, the Attorney
General then, in imitation of Eye Court, -
goes out to drink. The Jury, seeing the
Judge and Attorney go out to liquor, con-
clude among themselves to follow suit, and
soon the U. S. Marshal is left alone In the
room with the prisoners and witnesses. If
the Judge gets too drunk to return, the
Court is adjourned until the next morning.
Lecompte, in spite of his stupidity and
prejudice, has some decency In that respect,
while Cato has none whatever
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-12

How THE ENGLISH AND IRISH CLIMATES
ARE MoDIFIED.-An English Review COM
pares the way in which the north western
parts of Europe are warmed by the Gulf
stream to the method of warming buildings
by hot water, and calls the Torr:d Zone the
furnace, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of
Mexico the boilers, the Gulf-strean the con-
Quoting pipe, and the great hot air-chamber
being from the banks of Newfoundland to
the shores. of Europe, whence the heat is
taken up by the prevailing west winds
Owing to the influence of the Gulf-stream,
Ireland is clothed In robes of evergreen
grass while, on the American shore, in the
same latitude, is the frost-bound coast of
Labrador. The port of Liverpool has never
been closed with ice in the severest winter.
The Laplander cultivates barley in latitude
which, in every other part of the world, is
doomed to sterility. Should the perpetual
Isthmus of Panama be broken through by
some convulsion of nature, and the Gulf of
Mexico cease to be a gulf, allowing the equa-
torial current of the Atlantic to pass through
into the Pacific, instead of being reflected
back to England, the writer says, '.Britain
might then become Labrador, and cease to
be the seat of numerous and powerful
people,
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-12

MIS-. PARTINGToN' LAsT.-'Licentious
preachers" said Mrs. Partington, as she
heard some one read of the confirmation oi
a licentiate in the church: 81 want to know
if there wasn't icentious preachers enough
before, and confirmed ones, too, without
having any more of en- She took an inn
mense pinch of snuff as the idea crossed her
mind, and her spectaeles assumed an air OF
oraeular wisdom as she looked at the ceiling
at the three spit-balls Ike had thrown there.
'sSome of 'em,' continued she, "count
their rosemaries, and with the cloaks of
apocrypha in their mouth, go on for awhile,
but depend upon it they get found out at
last.'' She subsided with gentle sigh,
that sounded like sneeze--EceAi1g Ga
-efke