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Lie southwest Of and Twelfth srcea, Washington G
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Hon n Floyd Secretary Of War; Drinknrd chief clerk
seen and -Four watcmen me
following bureaus attached 70 this department
usaanine 0@cThs ccc al the head of which Is
lieutenant General Scott, s NJ New York
.d;dnn c>seaps OAoeo samuel Cooper Adjuant General
ssantsrevet Major Townsend, Breve Capt Williams.
ana evct Cart Gareache Judge Advocate ere MAJOR John
Zoo nine In this Ofnce kept a
s records the personnel q he he rolls nc
n i here where al military commissions made out
oun,rrsasr Generals Major General Jesun.
General ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Thomas Captain =
mler and Mayor Bger ercn clerks and one messenger
rv.as,r Generals 0Gescot IArncd paymasl4r general
Major Leslie district paymaster; eight CLERKS and one mesen
cor,
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332 Pennsylvania avenue, between
May I4-leod2wif Ninth Tenth streets
sar&sstatesl
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Commissioner Of Dsods Jor all ac States,
NOTARY PUBLIC
May Idly Seventh street No. 800
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A RE prepared TO furnish lumber sawed 10 or
Washington Georgetown other
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lvI wine seventy
imported 1894 per dozen
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TT J. MIDDLETON, Ice dealer Office and depot
s southwest Of and Twelfth streets, Washington
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Posr orucE DEPARTMENT,
Auril 20 1851.

The undersigned, postmaster 0 Stats of ---,
cerhes cdh II eGrs that he acquainted
good their guarantee
Dated. GSigned)
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price attached eacI prize
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UNITED STATES MAIL.
FLORIDA.

Post Office Department, Sept. 80, 1857.
DR0POSALS for carrying the mails of the United States
Il from 1st December 1857, to 30th june 1859, the
following routes in the State of Florida and in the
herein specified will be received at the Contract Office of the
Post Office Department. in the city of Washington, until
M of the 18th November 1851 to be decided the fol-
lowing day:
1915 From Prescots Store on the line of the Florida rail
road by Fort Harlee, Gainesville and Micano-
py, to Ocala and back three times week, il
four-horse coaches.
Bidders will state the distance, other intermediate
offices, if any, and propose schedule of depar-
tDres and arrivals, making close connexions
with the railroad.
6S76 From Prescots Store on the line of the Florida rail-
rcad) by New River and st. Louis, to New
nansville, 35 miles and back, three times week,
in four-horse coaches.
Bidders will propose schedule of departures and arri
walls, making close connexions with the railroad
6s7 From Presco Store the line of the Florida rail
road) to Middleburg, 13 miles and back, twice
week, in two-horse coach.
Bidders will propose schedule of departures and arri
walls, making close connexions with the railroad.
For of proposal guarantee and certificates also in
structons requirements be embraced the contracts
see advertisement January H. 1885, in pamphlet form, at
the pIincipal post Offices A. v. BROWN,
oct 5-iaw4w Postmaster General.
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LAW SCHOOL. OF THE UNIVERSITY
At Cambridge, Mass.


Hon. JOEL PARKER, LID, Royal Professor.
Hon. THEopHILUs PARSONS, LID, Dane Professor.
Hon. EMORY WAsHBURN, LID, University Professor.
TIME of embraces the various branches
l of the Common Law; and of Equity; Admiraty Com
ercial, International, and Constitutional Law and the
Jurisprudence of the United States The Law Library
sists of Volumes and works appear they
added and every effort is made to render complete
instruction given by oral lectures and expostions and
by recations and examinations in connexon with them)
which there ten every week Two also
holden in each week. at each of which cause previously
given is argued by four Students and opinion deiv-
cred by the presiding Instructor Rooms and other facilities
also provided for the club courts and assembly held
weekly for practice in debate and acquiring knowledge
parliamentary law and proceedings.
Students may enter the School in any stage of their
fessonal studies mercantile pursuits and the
ment of either term the middle other part of
They at liberty to elect what studies they will pursue
according to their view of their and attanent
The academical year, which Thursday six
weeks after the third Wednesday in July divided into
of twenty weeks each with vacation of six
the end of each term.
During the winter vacation the Library Is opened warmed
and lighted for the of the members Of the School,
Arrangements in progress which is hoped viii mate
rally diminish the expenses of living in Cambridge.
Applications for admission fer catalogues any further
nformaon be made to either Of the Professors
bridge. sep 3-dc&w1y
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country.
1--WE had, however, saved right from the general
wreck-that was the right of phlosophisng freely on
the origin of society, the natural principles of gov
ernment, and the primitive rights Of man.
GA rage for this political literature seized all who
were nconvenienced by the legislation of the day, in
cuding many who were naturally little prone in
duge in abstract sIeculations Taxpayers wronged by
the unjust distribution of the tae, warmed the
principle of the natural equality of man. Farmers,
whose harvess spoiled by rabbits kept by their
BILE neghbors reoced hear that repudiated all
privileges without exception Popular passions thus dis
guised themselves in phosophic garb political aspi
ratons were forcbly driven into literary channel, and
of letters, taking the direction of public opinion,
temporarily occupied the position whichin free countries
belongs to party leaders
"Nor could their claim to that place be disputed
vigorous aristocracy will not only conduct public bust
ness, but will make public opinion, and give the key
note to authors and authority to principles but these
prerogatives had passed away from the French nobility
long before the eighteenth century, they had lost power
and credit together. The place they had occupied in
the public mind vacant, and could gainsay
the authors for seizing upon it.
The aristocracy rather favored than impeded their
usurpatlon Forgetting that established theories sooner
or later, inevitably become political passions and find
expression in acts they made objection to the discus
sion OF doctrines that wholly suhversive of their
rights and even of their existence They con-
sidered them ingenious exercises for the mind amused
themselves by taking part in them and peacefully enjoy
ed their mmunities and privileges while they sereney
dscoursed on the absurdty of all existing customs"
To such an extent was this philosophic insou-
cience pushed that the mobiles and the rulers of the
State talked aloud in the presence of the people, as
though the people themselves were deaf and dumb.
1t was common for the upper classes to discuss,
philosophicaly of course, the cruel injustice and
unreasonabeness of class distinctions 1t was COM
mon for civil officers to expose and lament in pub
lie bulletins and executive papers, the burdens un-
equally borne by the poor in consequence of the
privileges accorded to the mobiles. 1t was says NJ.
de Tocqueville, as though the trainers of such do
euments and the authors Of such philosophical dis
QUESTIONS imagined themselves to be living in a
country like Gsllicia, where the higher classes
speak different language from the lower, and
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trary measures, while since that time it been legally
empowered to let them violate the laws
Who does not see the sardonic smile directed at
the Moniteur in the subjoined pregnant comment? ?
The effort Ito interesting newspaper from
the of the nendans spread throughout the
departments seems to have with small success for
we learn from ministerial mssive that the King
who himself has the goodness sometimes to descend to
the detail of deemed best to perfect the gazette
and who desires to give this journal the superiority and
celebrity it deserves has evnced much dissatisfaction
seeing his views inperfecty fulfilled II win be seen
that history is gallery of paintings, where there
few originals, but plenty Of copies"
The dispensation Of official patronage under the
ancient monarchy is thus adyantageousy contrasted
with the usages of the present administration
The Government Of that day did not dispose of the
infinite Quantity Of favors charities honors and emou
which has the power Of distributing at the pre-
time IL had less Of the well of seduction
Of constraint."
Is there no covert allusion to the e>pyesent Gov.
ernment in the singing contrast drawneby M. de
Tocqueville between the loyalty which was proudly
rendered by the subjects Of the ancien regime and
that submission which, as at later day, ac
cepts each de facto Government only pas aller
power which il would not be safe to contest?
I'VE mustb on our guard. he says, against estimat
the Of by the degree Of their subms
sion TO the sovereign authority Submissive th
Of the old regime to the viii of the King, there
species Of obedience to which they strangers
They did not know what 1t crook the knee befor
ieetmafe disputed power which ia but little honor
ed Is oen despised hut which is submitted to velunta
rly through hope of reward fear Of injury This de
grading form Of servitude ever unknown to them
The King inspired in their breasts such feelings as
absolute monarch Of later times has ever been able
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SudIuldu
The towns of France at this period could neither
establish ocro articles of consumption nor levy
rate mortgage, SELL sue farm their pro-
perty, nor administer that property, employ
their surplus revenues without the Intervention of
an Order in Council made the report of the Inten-
dant All their public works executed in confor-
nifty to plans and estimates approved by the Council
These works adjudged contractors before the
Intendant his Subdelegates and were generally en-
trusted engineers or architects of the State
facts viii doubtless excite the surprise of those who
posed that the whole present condition of France is
novelty"
The Governmental machinery of France in the
latter days of the dncien regime may therefore be
summed up as follows A peculiar and anomalous
body, placed in the centre of the realm and subject
to the will of the King, which regulates the public
administration of the whole country; minister
who directs nearly all the domestic affairs of the
State; in each province single agent who attends
to the details of the system while of secondary ad
ministrative bodies, or of bodies which can act
without authority from the governing power at
Paris, there are none. What is this, Justly asks M
de Tocqueville, If it is not the GENERALIZATION
which we now observe in France?
Meanwhile France had become, of all Europe
the country in which there was the greatest SINH
larity, in point of intelligence, between the mobiles
and the more educated Of the untitled classes The
former no longer monopozed either the land or the
intellect of the nation The Bourgeosie had be-
come moral power in the State, though its place
was not recognised in society by the grand segneur
IN whom the pride of caste seemed only to rise as
his political significance became less and less The
effect of this -assorted combination is traced by
M de Tocqueville in the following historical re
| fections:
The real of the stanch attachment Of the mid
die classes Of England to their srstocracy did not le
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lar in Sweden, and deeply and warmly interested
in the union of the Scandinavian States and friend
ly to reform and progress. He is held to possess
active and vigorous mind, and to be well quail
fed to combat the intrigues of the German Powers
and to aid in saving the Danish throne from the
designs of Russia. The hand of the Gear is, how
ever, already upon the sceptre of Denmark The
succession of the reigning family in Denmark is
likely to terminate abruptly, and Alexander II.
stands In fearful proximity to the Danish throne
Probably nothing but the union of Denmark with
Norway and Sweden can prevent that kingdom fall
ing into the position OF an appanage to the mighty
possessions of the Gar preliminary step to this
end is the abandoning all claim to the Duchy of
Holstein as part of the kingdom of Denmark. and
the restoration of it as an Independent member of
the Germanic Confederation for it is through this
Duchy that Russia derives her pretensions to the
Crown of Denmark The Hosteiners hate the
Danes and the Danes hate the Russians but by
insisting upon an unnatural and ungenerous su-
premacy, Denmark sacrifices her own future RIGHTS
and may bind herself in dynastic fetters which.
when too late, she viii learn to abhor Austria and
Prussia, for once, are found defending the true
policy of Europe. Separate Holstein from Den
mark, and the Czars forfeit their artificial claim
In due course the throne will become vacant
and then will arise the opportunity of erecting a
powerful Scandinavian State, by uniting the Swe-
dish, Norwegian, and Danish kingdoms This
question is one of the most important that can be
submitted to the public opinion of England and
may, at any moment, become an object of Euro-
pean negotiation. The future history of the world
perhaps hinges upon it, and its correct settlement
concerns the future wel-being of all civilized ma
tions.
We hear by letters from Bombay that an expert
ment is being tried in Inda the result of which is
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out God, without divine worship, and without
future life-a sort of political Mohammedanism, in
undating the world with its soldiers apostl es and
martyrs, and offering every where to popr llar ac-
cepsance either the Koran of universal liberty or the
sword of a revolutionary propagandism.
The spread of its influence greatly accelerated
by the condition of Europe at that date. During
the Middle Ages the institutions and the maxims
of Feudalism were prevalent throughout the cont
nent and tended by their CT atemporaneous pre-
to impress striking uni ormity on the people
of that time, without regard to national distinctions.
From the fifteenth century these institutions were
smitten with decay and they declined the nucleus
of separate nationaties began to receive distinct
form and pressure, each society and State the
while retaining more or less of the institutes and
principles of Feudasm, according to the progress of
the great change which was gradually but surely
transforming the face of Europe. In England this
change was the first to be effected, though the outer
and exterior forms of its social and civil organza-
ton were even less modified than on the continent
Equality in the presence of the law, liberty of the
press, publicity Of legislative debates, the right of
representation were all principles unknown to the
Middle Age, but the gradual introduction of which
into the civil polity of England wrought the over
throw of Feudalism, while preserving, as it were
embalmed, not few of those outer embodiments in
which the spirit of feudality had once resided.
England, in the sixteenth century, is already a
modern nation; the rest of Europe still sitting
in the shadow of the Ozark Ages"
In France this great social and political transfer
nation had not kept pace with the progress of IL
beral ideas in the thinking classes. What with the
civil forms of the State which perpetuated the eete
maxims of the past and the quickening spirit Of
modern thought which had outgrown them, there
was schism in the body politic-a schism whose
width and extent only disclosed by the terri
Bile chasms which the Revolution opened in the
bosom of French society; for the Revolution came
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PERSONAL

go. Hon. W. G. Rives, of Va, has been Sc
lected as the orator ut the jamestown celebra-
ton on the 18Th Of May.
...."Prof. Squiszins," Of the Boston think
the poet, Cowper, must have died in debt, as
he
"0k'd for lodge In some vast Wilderness"
....John Lawlor, the United States recruit,
who confessed to the murder of Q young wo-
man in Ireland, and who was confined in the
lunstic asylum at Blackwell's Island, has es-
capped, and is now at large. Lawlor having
entirely recovered from his real or feigned in
sanity, was about to DO sent back to Ireland
for trial.
.... The Paris correspondent Of the Natior.
al Era in a notice Of American artists at that
point, says Mr.. P. Cranch, from Washington
city, made q number of sketches from nature
during his visit to the forest of Fontaineblesu
last autumn. These sketches arc true m ster
pieces Mr.. Cranoh has represented nature
to perfection. and without losing sight of tho
artistic effects so difficult to produce in forest
scenery. The present Partisan school is an
excellent one for landscape painting, and Mr.
Cranch is one of it's NEST successful followers.
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NKw YORK MoRALs.-The New Workers
have another tragedy" It seems that about
20 clock on Thursday morning person named
Barr induced female named Margaret Gun.
ningham to 90 into his room, in q fashion able
boarding house, corner Of Broad way and Ninth
street. A dispute arose between them, the
woman grew noisy, and Barr drew q pistol
and threatened to shoot her. The wumsn
getting frightened, as is supposed, ran to the
window to call the police, but either lost her
balance or was pushed out by Barr She fell
to the sidewalk, q distance of some thirty feet,
and was SO dreadfully injured that she Is not
expected to recover. The police soon after
arrested Barr, and on his way to the station.
Aouse he deliberately drew pistol and dis.
charged its contents into his head He fell to
the ground horribly wounded, and was carried
to the residence Of q brother, near by, in a
dying condition
"A suit has been brought in the Supreme
Court Of New York by Mr. Jas Y. Smith,
against his wife Emily A Smith, for divorce,
ON the ground of alleged adultery with one of
their boarders. The parties hat been mar.
RED for several years without having any is.
sue. but in April last tho lady presented her
lord with scion of tho ancient and universal
family of the Smiths; he, however, denied this
paternity, and suspicicusly pointed to another
party as the progenitor of tho young stranger.
The jury returned verdict for Mrs. Smith,
the defendant.
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Mr. BUCHANAN AT THE City HALL "A e

Mr. BUCHANAN AT THE City HALL "A tall
gentlemanly, kid gloved personage entered
tho Chiefs Office on Tuesday, and informed
officer Masterson that he was James Buchan
an, President Of the United States, and had
como to the City Hall, which he understood
was the United States Bank, to draw his year 9
salary. He presented o check on the Ulster
County Bank, drawn in favor of James Van.
derburg, for SIS, 900, and wanted to see the
cashier. The officer replied that he was the
cashier, but could not pay tho draft at that
moment, whereupon Mr. Buchanan expressed
bis regret, and stated that he had been offered
the money at the Mint, but as it was in coin
he declined taking it, as being too unweildy to
DO portable. Mr.. Buchanan talked very fu.
emily and sensibly with the officer, and as
sured him that the country would DO safe
while he occupied tho White House. He left,
promising 70 call again and get his draft hon
ored next day. We regret that we cannot say
where he puts up, for the benefit Of the Office.
seekers. The officer was inored ulous enough
to believe that tho party Was insane. and that
bis friends ought to look after him -Nsw
York Herald.
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A TELEGRAPHIc ERROR telegraphic
dispatch in yesterdays Star, concerning the
opposition nomination for Governor of Penn
sylvanis, was printed as We received it from
the telegraphing agent north, who accident.
ally omitted to insert the name of the nom:-
nee-David Wilmot
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HORACE VsRH.r, the distinguished French
painter, will arrive in this country, it il ex-
pected, In the early part Of the present. spring,
and will, soon after, commence the painting Of
. great national picture for the Capitol at
Washington. II Vernet was the father-in-Iaw
Of the late Paul Delaroche-both, dessrvedly,
standing at the head of all modern French,
il not of European artists. He Is the son Of
Claude Vernet, who was the SON of Claude
Joseph Vernet-who also the son of another
painter; 30 that Monsieur Horace 10 in the
fourth generation Of painters, all Of the same
family and name In the French school Of
art, the great pictures Of his grandfather are
Piaeed side by side with those Of his eminent
Gountrymen - Nicholas Poussin and Claude
Lorraine. And IL Il no exsggera alton whatever
20 assert OF Horace Vsrnst, that he IL the
S S1ss :: 6.ssls scene and Landscape painter
wv N s4Mtenee, z,l.layJ U - Ss-', -, - -
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O00 DOZEN EGGS.
HOO 1000 lbs. prime 6lades, Goshen ana
Roll Butter
5000 lbs. Sides, Shoulders and Hams
2Ot0 do Pork Shoulders and Sides
40 boxes Lemons and Oranges
Lovertng's Golden Syrup
New crop Porto Rico Sugar and Syrup
Pecan Nuts, Almo DIS and Filberfs
Nectar WHISKY 81 per gallon
Also, agent for the sale Of LIME, by the Dbl or
quintity, at MANUFACTURERS prices, and Kettle
Wells Inanir uiated GUANO.
w. H. TENNEY,
mar 2t-t Georgetown
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r. Extensive preparations are being made
BY the military Of Portsmouth, Va, for the
celebration at jamestown on the 49, of May.
-Four companies have already decided to take
part in tho ceremonies. -,
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DREADFUL EXPLOSION IN BALTIMORE "A
fearful boiler explosion occurred yesterday,
at distillery Of Higbee 4 Co, in Baltimore,
BY which three persons were killed and q large
number injured. Some idea of the forco Of
tho explosion may be inferred from the fact
that the smoke stack was thrown into Jones'
Falls, whilst heavy pieco Of tho boiler fell
west OF that stream, a distance of about 400
feet.
The scene ground the building was terrific
the flames bursting forth with ierceness and
immensely Of volume which rendered critical
tho near approach by the fremsn and citiscns.
Along Stiles street, in tho neighborhood of the
distillery, the burning alcohol mingled In
flaming streams with the running water in
the cutters, creating wall of IRE over which
1t was dangerous for pedestrians to pass.