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FOREIGN ITEMS.

Three young noblemen from Senegal, of the
brightest ebony tint, have arrived in Paris from
that FIR, nch colony, and have entered the mill
tary academy of St. CSr.
The Gazette de France, a Legitimist journal,
Ia an article on the Regina Coeli incident, says,
England is insulting u.s." and concludes BY
asking, When shall we cease to be dupes,
and compel England, by our attitude alone, to
treat us with the same respect as the United
States
M. Delangle, the new French Minister of the
Interior, was the son of an artisan of the De-
partment of the Nieve.
The German URirersal Gazette contains an
on at to the effect that Prince Alfred of Eng.
land will shortly arrive in Berlin, and enter
the hrst regiment of the Guard, in order to
become acquainted with the Prussian military
service.
The use of crinoline has received n severe
snock In VIENNA The actresses of the Carl
Theatre have been prohibited from wearing il,
because an actress who, in the character of an
orphan, was te have tainted away and fallen to
me ground, found it impossible to realize the
latter idea with anything like nature, from be.
ing 90 strongly cssed in her steel bound frame.
work; 30 that ladies of delicate sensibilities
must give mp fainting or crinoiue.
Lord John Russell recently, at a public
school, after recommending the study of gram.
mar, advised them to read Defoe's Robinson
Cfusoe, as q model Of clearness and simplicity
of style.
The London Times Paris correspondent gives
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one a tolersbly good notion of the French GEN.
sorship, in the following extract from oie of
his recent letters: #
1.-THE Lionnes Pauures' of M. Emile Angler
has Just been published. 1t is dedicated 10
Prince Napoleon, without whose intervention it
would never have been performed, and it is
preceded by preface which makes some
amusing revelations respecting the dramatic
Censorship. Among other things, it is said
that the author made a femme de chansbre say
to Mime. Pommeau, the Home paurre, hear
Monsieur Pommeau run - amnse him and
the censorship wrote in ths margin :: This is
indecent After the phrase, 'Ask for weeks
delay-there is no Englishman 80 much an
Arab az the censorship wrote An at
tack on the alliance After the phrase, These
turpitudes are no secret to Punch was written
the remark, Bad taste 'At all the stages of
society they wrote Dangerous M. Angler
adds, ask pardon of the censors for viola
ting the secret of the deliberations, bat they
have set the example by not keeping it them
selves. One of them even amused himself by
going about, proclaiming everywhere that our
piece was q turpitude
The Paris Patrie devotes an article to the
Anglo American difficulty, in the course of
which il attributes the excitement in the United
ties to divert public attention from their Kan
sas blunders, and from tie pitifal results CT
their Mormon campaign. 1t says, with some
truth:
The mania of the Americans is to 90 to
war; but they have always INDUCED in more
noise than deeds, and their sword is never more
than half-drswn. Quarrelsome, but economi-
cal, they hesitate before heavy expenditure,
and prefer q satisfactory arrangement TO costly
laurels. We must conseq aently pay little at
tention to the noise creat,,d on the other side
of the Atlantic. The warlike articles which fill
the immense columns of tn, American journals,
the vehement speeches, tbs, orders given for the
fitting ont of fleets, have ready been witness.
ed four or Eve times With twenty years, with.
out harmiDg any one aid the Mayor Of New
York enjoys light consci, pee, notwithstanding
that journal denounced him as traitor for
having drunk the health ef Queen Victoria at
banquet recently givon by the English
couaul ~
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AZA ARNOLD, PATENT AGENT,
Sevsnh Street, Opposite the Patent Office
Furnishes Drawings, Specif cations, Caveats,
Conveyances,
PR0cUREs PATENTS,
And attends to all business usually required to
be transacted with the Patent Off ,e.

DATENT Inventions have become numerous as Ia
make ii difhcult TO describe any clearly
interfere with some OF those already patented
and person al a distance from the Patent Office car
do the business so well the SPOT, having con
access 70 The models drawings and records of the
Once
Being the only Solicitor Of Patents who is thorough
practical mechanic, and engineer, his knowledge Of
mechanical operations enables him understand new
Inventions and TO specify them with facility and
cy that cannot be expected Of lawyers
He often proeures patents in cases that have been
jeced Tin the hands Of other sgensl and frequently by
appe ang from the Judgment Of The examiners in
such case has he failed Of getting patent.
His extraordinary SUCCESS in procuring patents is due
his Intimate acquaintance with the principles the con
s,rucor and the using OF machines, well his many
years experience in the laws and business of the Paen
Office All orders promptly attended 10.
Ali commune atoms inventions strictly confidential
Persons writing from distance, should give thei
town, county, and State. COZ
| 60 nHf i9 EEFERENcRs:
Hon. c. T. James, u. 8. Senate.
Hon. r. Allen, u. 8 Senate.
Hon G. Mason. Commissioner of Patents.
Hon. H. B. Anthony, Ex-Governor OF Rhode Island
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81. Johns, July 1.-THE steam.tug Blue
Jacket, from Liverpool, has arrived here, and
reports having seen, on the Oath ult., large
and small steamer, both British, in lat ole 32/,
long. 32o. She also saw on the same evening
q large steamer bearing down for the others,
but could not make ont whether the last was
'Englisb or American. n
The Blue Jacket reports the weather hszy,
with q strong westerly swell; but continued
moderate and thick until the Sd, when strong
southwesterly gales set in.
Ntp Orleans, July 9.-By the arrival at this
port to day Of the barque Brilliant, Captain
Sigsbee, the Hcaynne has received advices
from Vera Cruz to the 26th ultimo.
Mr.. Forsyth, the American Minister, had not
demanded bis passports, a. had been reported,
but still remained ct the Capital, awaiting in.
structions from Washington.
Inc British and French merchants had re-
solved to pay the forced loan upon imports, as
demanded BY the Government, but would only
do 80 under protest.
A terrible earthquake was experienced
throughout the country on the 18th, DESTROYING
large amount of property, and causing the
loss of nearly fifty lives, besides a great manv
wounded. At the Capital, several buildings
were thrown to the ground. The shock ia re o.
resented in the papers to have been the most
severe of any that has occurred for the past
fifty years, s-5t -.. ...-...
The Opera closed in New York with a dead
loss to the artists of $l34, after playing a
month. Of this amount Gszzaniga lost $63.
Horatio @. King, of this city, is among the
graduates of Dickinson College who received
the degree of A. B., at the late commencement
The New York and New Haven R. R. Co. is
in trouble touching the uss of steam power in
the city of New York. The common council
has directed II to cease running steam engines
below Forty-second street, after the 10Th inst.
An application for an injunction restraining
the commissioners from enforcing the ordi.
nance has been granted, the hearing upon which
is to be had on the OH. The railroad company,
at an expense of some 100000 has but recent,
" removed from Canal to Twenty seventh
street, and this new order, it ia claimed, would
be very injurious to its interests.
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This may certify that l have used Perry
Davis's Pain Killer in numerous cases, and be-
lieve it to be very valuable medicine l
have prescribed it extensively in bowel com.
plants, particularly for chidren,) and it is in
my opinion superior to any preparation have
ever used for the relief of those diseases.
20 A. HUNTING, M. D.
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Wheat Crop in Virginia.

Half -.p Of inferior wheat is reported in
CAROLYN ~ 1ty. The same from Stafford. In
! Bing G or e. Westmoreland, and the Northern
Neck oelties, generally the accounts are
gloom IA Fairfax, Prince William, and
Eoudoa here is better yield than it was
thought >saere would be, but still some damage.
Ia the ALLEY counties, generally, an average
ceop-i @'ome of them, still better. All over
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John s. Rarey, the American horse-tamer,
who is making fame and fortune abroad, was
brought up as farmer in Franklin county,
Ohio, and has three brothers in that vicinity,
all of whom possess the horsetaming secret.
William a., the older brother, is said to have
been the discoverer of the process, and is about
to make the tour of the United States, to teach
his system.
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At Cattaraugus, N. Y, on Saturday, Dennis
Sullivan was sentenced to be hung on the Goth
of August, for the murder of John Hammond,
at Carleton, in October last. They were both
Irish Iaborers on the Bradford Coal Railroad.
A London letter to the New York CONNER.
cial mentions report from France that the
Emperor had notified Spain, that although Eng.
land has threatened to leave her to her fate on
the Cuban question. he will support her to the
last.
Lord Napier is at the Nahant Hotel with his
family.
Hon. Jefferson Davis arrived in Boston, in
the steamer Joseph Whitney, from Baltimore,
on Monday.
Edward D. Chamberlin, of Boston, mem.
Der of the freshman class of Brown Universe.
ty, was drowned on Tuesday.
Hon. 8. s. Whallon, canal commissioner of
New York State, died on Tuesday afternoon, at
Erie. His disease was scarlet fever.
Col. B. NJ. Hoe, the ingenious inventor, was
severely scalded, few days since, while ex.
perimenting with an improved washing ma
chine. .asf
A writer in the Charleston Mercury proposes
the name Of William Gilmore Simms, the
novelist and poet, for the vacant South Carolina
Senatorship.
st. Louis, July IA Utah news letter from
an officer of the army, writing from Gen. John
ston's camp on Bear river on the 18th ultimo,
says that the army would resume its march on
the 18th. Gen. Johnston had received an ex.
press from the Commissioners, stating that the
army would be peaceably received but Gen.
Johnston did not feel any increased confidence
on that account, and kept the army in readiness
to repel any treschery. he had issued procla.
nation to the people, in which he stated that
the army is now - ready 70 afford assistance
as It was to oppose them when in rebellion.
The troops were in fpe condition. a
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Governor Perry, of Florida, recently hailed
the stage between the terminus of the Florida
railroad and Micanopy, and the driver refusing
to 60 few yards out of his way for q passen.
ger, the indignant Governor thrashed the driver
until he made him willing.
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The New York canal tolls for the month OF
June show decrease, as compared with last
year, of $2l, 588.l5. This reduces the increase
of 1853, up to the first of July, over 1867, to
l5,05289.
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The Revue Vinicole says, the Towering of the
vines is going on admirably throughout France,
az! everywhere abundance is expected. Ac.
cordingly, decline in the wine has taken
place, but it is not thought that it will be very
considerable before the vintage.
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The condition of the rAasaes was 20 exceed
ingly bad on Wednesdsi June I'll, that every
window of the House g. Commons was tightly
closed to keep out the jsench but the smell
was condensed with teelpld power in the pas
sages and corridors. There were mot more
than thirty members present. So foul and
wide-sprsading has the tench from the Thames
nov become, that Mr.. Siuraey has given the
Speaker of the House tf Commons notice that
he can no longer be responsible for the health
of the members. Up Is Tuesday, he got iresh
air draughts from the Stx Chamber, but when
night came, the poison 10 enemy took posses.
sion of that chamber, aai No beat him outright.
Several of the clerks vrtesforced to get mp and
leave their rooms in thu aigat. Two notices of
motion have been plaesd upon the orders of
the House OF Commissions motion calls
upon Government to pvide some other place
for the meetings of tie LsgislAture. In the
Court of Queens Ben, 4, on the 22d, business
was almost stopped bystis efauvium from the
river. .i''
At meeting of the directors of the Mag.
netic Telegraph Compspy, held in Philadslphis
on Thursday, q quartot1 dividend Of three
per cent, payable on and. liter the 18th inst,
was made to the stockholders Of the Magnetic
Telegraph Company, snA semi-annual divi.
dend of two per cent o the stockholders of
the Washington and New Orleans Telegraph
Company, the hne of tae sitter company being
worked under q lease ts tho Magnetic Company.
The reports of the Hurs show the lines Of
the two companies to DE- in excellent working
condition, and the 6rsscas a. prosperous a.
ever before. Mr.. Swsis ), for eight years. the
President of the Magnet telegraph Company,
being compelled by thu prassure of his private
business, declined ra-clection, and Zsnas
Barnum, Esq, of Baltimore, was unanimously
elected President of the smpany. Joseph Sail
or vasre.elected Secret. !, and George q. Hart,
Esq, Treasures. Pro-ssor Morse, Hon. Amos
Kendall, William n. nam, B. B. French, A.
s. Abel, Merritt Canbss 9ehn THORNLEY,, Albert
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Washington Irving disclaims the authorship
of Sweet Home, and nov let no further attempts
be made to rob the memory of John Howard
Payne of this honor.
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Inc new OK tunes says tn6t the cargo OF
African apprentices which had been recently
taken from French vessel, andI returned to
Monrovis, are supposed to have been freed
slaves sent from this country to Liberia The
surgeon of the French ship says they were
shipped by consent of the President of Liberia,
and could nearly all read ard write. If this
be 30, the Colonization Society of this country
should look to it. 1t would be hardly worth
while to 20 to the expense of sending freed
slaves from this country to Liberia, to have
them Immediately shipped, by consent Of the
agents of the Society, into worse state of ap-
prentice slavery in the colonies of France.
Such is the poisoned and filthy state of the
Thames, ct London, that Gsh are sickened, and
become 90 helpless that they can be taken out
with the hands. On being placed in pure wa
ter, they revive. An officer of health writes tc
the Times, that the aspect and odor of an open
sewer is not 30 offensive or unhealthy a. the
Thames, for the reason that there is q constant
agitation and whipping up of its filthy contents
BY stsamboa's. he proposes that the traffic be-.
tween the bridges by steamboats, be stopped en-.
tirely, and their proprietors' compensated.
Whether that practical patriot and Union
saver, John Calhoun, is saved up for higher
honors, or is cruelty turned out to private life
by the Administration, the world will be Curl
Gus TO know bat his place as land surveyor 10
Kansas and Nebraska is given to another. We
have suspicion, that having exhausted bis ca
pacity, because his opportunity, for rascality in
the service Of Slavery, he will be cheated Of his
pay, and that we shall soon find the Admins
trstien claiming credit for disowning him.
That would be mean, but the persons that rule
MS have great capacity in that line.
A portion of the members of the Winchester,
Virginia, NJ. E. Church have separated them
selves therefrom, because of the authorities
designating special seats for certain persons.
They say that it is not their design to establish
o Southern or separate organization Of any
kind, but having urged in vain q recognition OF
their rights, they part Is did Abraham from Lot,
and for the present will connect themselves
With Winchester circuit. a
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Rev. Jabez Bunting, D. D., the most emf.
nent of the later Methodist divines of England,
has just died. DR.. Bunting was native OF
Manchester, where he was educated by Dr. Per.
cival. He was called to the ministry in 1899,
and labored by the side of DR.. Adam Clarke
and DR.. Coke. As pulpit orator, he stood at
the head of the denomination.
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The Hon. Jefferson Davis delivered an ap.
propriate and eloquent Grafton last Monday, on
board the steamer Joseph Whitney, at sea.
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In the London market Illinsis Central rail.
road shares, on the 22d, fell seven per cent. in
consequence of the call of $40 per share being
announced.
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THE NATIONAL ERA: WASHINGTON D. G, JULY Is, 1853

Vail, Col. R. M. hoe, aud Samuel G. Bishop,
were elected Directors. John Kendall, Esq,
was appointed general superintendent.
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The darlington correspondent of the Phil
ildelpfis enquirer is somewhat severe upon the
roads ins aiy vicinity, as well a. upon the skill
Of sonic q our farmers. The system of farm
ing in tb,s part of the country has undergone
great ia 5-oSement within few years past, and
we caanof think there are many now who lack
faith In Artiligers. As to some of the roads
leading and from Washington, We must sd.
NIT thas Z hey we're to be laid oct anew by
modern =, gineers, it is not probable they would
run whess they now do, But they, too, have
been mr :, improved, and viii undoubtedly I'M.
dergo st greater improvement a. time rolls on.
ain Z. ing about the environs of Washing.
ton, one sanot help being struck by the evi.
dences t.at, in many respects, the people Of
this reg are century behind the age; and
this rsbo'~ was recently made by one of our
high Ice officials on visit to the North and
New Eaf snd.
9Th, sracter of the roads in the District
is very p sliar. Instead of avoiding hills and
selectir Hey bottoms or gentler elevations for
their COG ., it looks ss though Whoever laid
them on. carefully searched for the highest
.points Nh the level Of the sea, and then ran
then, tir " up and down, sometimes going
out of hs,t 'ay to accomplish this object. The
only b,n,s / can see attained BY this strange
system iss pat the traveller thus obtains sue.
cession q plendid. views a. he reaches the va
rious unsnits, bat the residents are certainly
put to much Inconvenience which might have
beea ayeidsd.
u hsse also noticed some strange peculiari-
ties in. b. agricultural notions Of the native
farmers have seen sevsral of them put their
seed int the ground without any other prepare.
ton tbsa ploughing, and even that imperfectly
done. On suggesting the benefit of little
artificial ssimulus in the shape of manure,
have hssn met with the staggering assertion,
that tbs nDre manure we used the worse would
be the aorel I doubt this, for in sight from
nav VII dop are two fields Of corn enc plant.
ed in Washington style, end the stalks are nov
about eEht INCHES high, and siokly; while the
other - ~ to ones head, and the ears already
setting. che pieces are side BY side, and of aimi
lar sell The latter belongs to Northern
Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-08
Probate Notice.

n Office is hereby given to all persons interested
. that $ G. Tompkins, Executor of the estate OF
John Adams, deceased, has filed his petition in the
Probate Court, in and for Yuba county praying for an
order of said Court authorizing him 10 sell the Real
Property in said petition set forth and described
the Northeast quarter Of Lot FIVE, Co Block FIVE 90
Range A. Also, the North half of the South half OF
the West half of Lot five, (5 Block five, (5) Range
Also, the East half of Lot eight (S) Block fye 90
Range \; and that said petition VIII be heard at the
Office of the County Clerk of Yuba county, on We'd
uesday the Sth day Of December, A. ID. lS5S, at 10
O'Clock A. NJ, and you hereby further notified 10
be and appear before the said Court the aforesaid
appointed time, to show cause if any you can, why
the pras er OF said petitioner should not be granted
by order OF the Hon. ;. NJ Bliss, Probate Judge
...... Given under my hand and the seal of the
Il. s.. Probate Court, this 9th day of November,
'''''' \. D. 1888. WM. SHARKEY,
Clerk Probate Court.
novI.m By NJ. ID. DoBBINs, Deputy.