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HIGH Prices FOR SERyANrs.-Ato sale of no,,roos
by Mr.. Jno. G. Herndon, of Green county. va, act
ing as commissioner, under decree for the sale Of
the negroes belonging to the estate of James Hern
don, deceased, on the 4th inst, negro boy about
Il years old was cried off at 81, 1856 two negro
just grown up one for 81 300 the other for 81 $50
and small girl for $685. Nine of the negroes from
children to middle-aged, averaged $500 each The
sale was equivalent to a cash one. and the figures
are certainly no indication of hard times.
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Sons Chauncey Brooks, Esq, President b. o RR Co;
Pat'k Gibson, Esq, Bank of Baltimore; Tueman
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FATAL AFFRAY.-The Wheeling hdedi@eaeer states
that on the 22d inst, an afiray occurred at New
burg Va village on the Raltimore and Ohio Rail
road, between constable named Gordon, and
farmer named Crogan, resulting in the death of the
latter and the fight of the former. The friends of
the deceased have threatened to lynch Gordon, If
caught.
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THE DANvILLE (VA.) TOBACCO MARKEr.-We have
been delighted for few days, saws the Danyille
Ae"s, IN noticing the animated tobacco market of
town. All grades of the article have been noup
ing in and from the signs we may predict that the
''weed will continue to come. The season is very
good, and the demand for tobacco in our market L
so great that it has gone up in price very consider
per hundred. N'''
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EDWARD DE CoRMIs WILLIAM ROGERS
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IL IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
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Between FREDERICK and HARRISON SITS
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GREAT SAVING IN GAS.
" BALTIMORE, Feb. 9th, 1858.
MEssRs. JACKSON CHANDLER:
Sirs:-We have been using J. II. COOPER'S LEVER
GAS REGULATOR upon metre for the past six weeks,
and satisfied that economses from 20 to 25 per cent
of Gas The light Uniform and ample aud all blowing
and arng the fame is obvated and the escape of
consumed gas prevented.
NOAH WALKER & Co.
As there great complaint about Gas bills the public
will find it their interest adopt the above apparatus
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At the Office OF Messrs. GRAPTAN L EVANS,
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will attention. m
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G0utatiOn.
PATAPsco FEMALE INSTITUTE, MARYLAND.

PATAPSC0 FEMALE INSTITUTE, MARYLAND.
FNHE TRUSTEES of the Patapsco Female
Institute announce to the public that the additional
buildings and Improvements commenced by them year
i'll accordance with the suboined resolutions
plete. These improvements have not been made with
view to increase the school, but for the greater convent
ence and comfort of the usual number of pupils.
The new chapel is handsome and appropriated
structure for the exclusive of the of the In
stitute, and in all its arrangements it is most complete 1t
is furnished with new organ of fine construction and
cellent tone.
The administration Mr. Archer for the past year and
the present has been attended with unprecedented
and the Trustees feel themselves fully justified in
recommending the Institute to the continued favor of the
South
1t has preeminence in healhfuness The pupils avoid
ing, the hand the debitatng effects a Southern
climate and the other the rigors of the North hav
few of the Interruptions incident to both these climates
1t is sufficiently to the city of Baltimore enjoy
benefits of a city without any of its evils.
As Institution of learning it has the advantage of
full organization resident chaplain, and corps of
compsed teachers and professors called together from
time TO time in the long experience of those having charge
of the Institute.
The Trustees Patapsco Female Institute having
been duly notified by Mrs Lincoln Phelps of her intention
to resign her Office of principal the close of the
school have elected Robert H. Archer her
The eminent of Mr. Archer in conducting
many years School for Young Ladies in the city of Bati
entities him to confidence person peculiarly
qualified to maintain the present high standing and
the permanent prosperity of the Institution and with this
view engaged in the erection of another building in
addition to the present extensive accommodations of the
Institute
CHAs. W. DORSEY, PRESIDENT. wM. DENNY, NJ
D., SECRETARY. T. WATKINS LIGoN, Z. HAMMOND
JOHN. P. KENNEDY fe22-dn
T AW SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY
IL AT CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
The Instructors in this School are
Hon. JOEL PARKER LID Royal Professor
Hon. THEoPHILUs PARSONS, LID, Dane Professor.
Hon. EMORY WAsHBURN, LID, University Professor
The of instruction embraces the various branches
Of the Common Law and of Equity, Admiralty, Com
mercal International and Constitutional Law, and the
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CORNER BALTIMORE AND ST. PAUL STREETS, STAIRS.
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results Machines recommend themselves to tho at
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DOL M E S TIC.
DEPARTMENT NEWS,

PRoGRESs OF THE SURVEY OF THE ATRATo RIVER
Dispatches, dated respectively at Pisis February
II and February 22 have been received from Lieut..
I. a. Craven, in command of the u. $. expedition
engaged in the survey of the Atrato river, lsthmus
of Darien. The party had returned to the Gulf of
Darien for provisions. On the 18th of February,
Lieut.. Craven commenced surveying the Atrato,
and continued the survey until some of the men
were prostrated by sickness and required rest and
the necessaries of life.
Lieut.. Craven confidently believed that he could
complete his survey by the goth of this MONTH
While descending the Atrato, he had met the divi
sion under Lieut.. Michler, within - miles of the
Pacific coast, rapidly advancing with the level All
the party were well. The party would ascend the
Atrato again, soon the men could have day
or two of rest and change of air.
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ERANCIS DENMEAD.
IL Manufacturer Of RYE AND BARLEY MALT,
CITY MALT HOUSE, West Falls Avenue,
BALTIMORE.
n B-Hops constantly hand f.o11,,
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LIEUT.. IVES EXPLORATION OF THE CoLoRADo NOT
A FAILuRE.-Private letters received from Fort Yu-
ma show that there is truth in the statement fur
nshed by the San Diego Herald, as regards the ex-
pedition under Lieut. Ives
The steamer Jesup, belonging to the transporta-
tion company, which was forced to give up ascend
ing the Colorado for want of provisions, was in no
way connected with Lieut.. Ives party. As this
boat returned she passed Lieut.. L. at the mouth OF
the Bill Williams Fork, and dispatches which the
War Department received from him sta ted that his
boat had fulfilled all his expectations that he should
push on to the head of vigatiOn-which the Jesup
had failed to reach--and that he was confident Of
ultimate success. This was the last authentic in
formation received direct from him.
The Jesup on her way down. was sunk before
reaching Fort Yuma, and consequently did not as
cend and fail second time, because of Indian hos
tilites, as stated in the San Diego Herald
1t is remarkable that the last three steamers from
California have brought nothing in relation 10
Lieut. Ives, IN the newspapers but prognostcations
or assertions OF his failure. First his boat was pro
nocnced unsuitable then she was reported helpless
y aground, both of which were contradicted by Iat
ters from him, and that he is too far advanced
to send information back his boat has been
sunk, and his expedition failure. Such misrenre.
sentation of an officer a distant and trying ser
vice is contemplate on the part of those Who orig
mated it, if Intentionally and if the result of ono
rance, is little less culpabe when it misleads the
public.
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THE DAILY EXCHANGE.

In the city TWELVE AND HALF per week, paya-
BILE to the carrier Mailed subscribers city
at SIX DOLLARS per annum for six months
and ONE DOLLAR for two months Invariably ddUance
for the time ordered
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VNGERSOLL'S IMpRoyEp PORTABLE
IL HA p RESS
We call attention to this press which combines greaer
p0icer and durability requires less labor occupes less
space and costs less money than any other Machine for
bang Hay or Cotton offered to the public For sale
at manufacturers prices by ]. A. WESTON & Co.
fe22 Al South Charles street
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DR.. ELDER, in his recent biography Of
DR.. Kane, relates that he once asked him,
after bis return from his last Arctic ex-
petition, "for the best proved instance
that he knew of the souls power over the
body-an instance that might push the
hard-baked philosophy Of materialisn1 to
the consciousness Of its own idiocy." He
paused moment, aud then said with a
spring: "The soul can lift the body out
of its boots, sir. When our captain was
dying-I say dying, I've seen Scurvy
enough to know-every old scar in his
body was running ulcer. If conscience
testers under its wounds correspondingly,
hell is not bard to understand. / never
saw a case so bad that either lived or died.
Men die of it usually long before they are
so i'll as he was. There was trouble
aboard-there might be mutiny. So
soon as the breath was out of his body we
might be at each others Threats. | felt
that he owed even the repose of dying to
the service. [ went down to his bunk,
and shouted in his ear. mutiny, captain,
mutiny! He heard the complaint, or
dered punishment, and from that hour
conyalesced. Keep that man awake with
danger, and he wouldn't die Of anything
until his duty was done"
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THE PHILOSOPHY AND BEAUTY OF
MANNERs.-Manners are the garments OF
the spirit-the eternal clothing of the be-
ING, in which character utimates itself.
If the character be simple and sincere,
the manners will be at once with twill
be the natural outbirth ofits traits and
peeuliarities. fit be complex and self
seeking, the manners will be artificial,
affected, or insincere. Some persons
make up, put on, take off, alter. or patch
Their manners to suit times and seasons.
with as mach facility, and as little appa-
rent consciousness of duplicity, as If they
were treating their clothes in like fash
ion. The fine lady of this class may be
polished to the last degree, when, arrayed
in silks and laces, she gides over the rich
carpets of the drawing-room; and yet,
with her servants at home, she is possibly
less the ladv than they; or, worse still,
the fine lady, married, perhaps, to fine
gentleman of her character similar to her
own. in the privacy of domestic life car
ries on civil war with him, in which all
restraint of courtesy is set aside. The
best manners possible are the simple
bringing down Of the perfect law Of char
ity into the most external ultimates OF so
eial life. Until character tends at all
times and in all places, and towards all
persons, to ultimate itself in manners of
thorough courtesy, it is not building itself
upon a sure foundation. This is the gol-
den rule of true manners.
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al NEVER DRISK ENOUGH TO HURT
ME."-You never do? Then why that
peculiar tinge to your cheek? Why that
growing recklessness of character? Don't
deceive yourself dear friend. Yod are in
danger; and it is a kindness to tell you
50. Thirty thousand persons die every
year in our country, simply because they
do not drink enough to hurt them. Half
million are pressing hard after upon the
crumbling verge Of a drunkard's grave.
Several million more are bending their
steps more or less rapidly to the same
direction. You are one of this great
crowd. You are candidate for place
among the half million of actual drunk
ards.
Think you that any one of the throng
of moderate drinkers with whom you
train, viii admit that be drinks enough
to hurt him? Aud vet from this class do
death and the devil take their pick. They
are after you, and you are welcoming
their insiduous approach. Reware! Young
man: beware!
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CHARLES LAMBS WARM


Charles Lamb, genius and drunk
ard, tells his sad experience as warning
to young men, in the following Ian
guage:
.sThe waters have gone over me. But
out Of the black depths, could / be heard,
| would cry out to all those who have but
set foot in the perlous flood. Could
the youth to whom the flavor of his first
wine is delicious as the opening scenes of
life, or the entering upon some newly
discovered paradise, look into my desole-
ton and be made to understand what
dreary thing it is when a man shall feel
himself going down a precipice with open
eyes and a passive will-to see his de-
strnction and have no power to stop it,
and yet feel it all the way emanating
from himself; to see all goodness emptied
out of him, and yet not able to forget
time when it was otherwise; to bear a.
bout the piteous spectacle of his own
ruin; could he see my fevered eve, fe-
verish with last nights drinking. and
feverishly looking for to sights repetitien
of the folly could he but feel the body
Of the death out of which | cry hourly
to be delivered-;t were enough to
make him dash the sparkling beverage
to the earth in all the pride of its mant-
ling temptation"
If you have young friend who may
be in danger of acquiring an APPETITE for
strong drink, invite his attention to
Charles Lambs dreadful experience.
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glory, Knocked by these thoughtless crea-
lures. And soon those trembling feet
would be treading the verge of the grave,
and the mold would crumble and fall on
q coffin, and they would think Of her as
the old woman whose presence was nui-
sance, check upon their pleasure-one
who was always quoting old-fashioned
songs, or singing them through her nose,
whose homely gown with her crossed
handkerchief, was distasteful to their fash
ionable eyes, and of whom even the ma
tron would say We'll, really, mother
was growing so very childish, I could
hardly mourn that sac was gone"
Thus it is, and in this way that many
Of the aged are treated at the present day.
Their sorrows, their tears, their sacrifices,
their humble, hard tolls, for children who
have grown to manhood. are all forgot
ten, and those to whom they have given
birth are ashamed of them. Alas! that
it should be so; that while God, the Great
Being to whom we owe all that VIC are,
treats the gray hairs with reverence, call
ing them crowns Of glory, we insult them
in our conduct toward them, both in pub
lie and in private. Let no one who has
any regard for his own character, his own
purity and integrity, treat the aged with
irreverence-they stand very near God.
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REVERENCE FOR OLD AGE

Where is the reverence of the olden
age? Men with gray hairs, women with
wrnkled faces, and some who have not
so far advanced in life, speak of it as a
thing that was, and they mourn that they
do not see it nowadays. Once, age was
respected because it was age without re-
gard to title or riches; the very children
in the street paused as the old man tot
tered by them, leaning on his stick, his
long white hair futtering in the wanton
breeze, and his dim eyes lighting up at
the sight of their pleasant smile.
We were visiting lately in a family
where were several pretty girls. Beauti-
fully attired, we'll educated, literally loaded
with accomplishments, for they could sing,
dance, play, embroider, chatter French,
translate Latin, sing Italian, and withal
were very handsome. The door opened
and in came an old lady-very old. She
looked about her as she slowly moved
forward; not head bowed in token of
her presenee,--no one moved to give her
a seat.
Louise" whispered one, "give grand
mother chair"
q shan't; she might as well stay up
stairs" was the ungracious reply.
Presently one of them (shamed at our
disapproval, for we Immediately rose and
conducted the aged woman toward our
own chair) offered her the seat with rock
ers, but she declined it, prcferring to take
what was given ungrudgingly. During
all her stay these very genteel young la
dies noticed her no more than if she was
not in the room, except when she made
IN odd or ungrammatical expression, they
Uttered, and ridiculed it among them
selves.
o, it was thoroughly revolving to see
thi. crown Of gray hairs desroiled Of its
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The Sea serpent Caught.

Ths sea serpent was caughtou Dec. 2e,
1857, in lat. 26 deg. $, lon. s deg. f.,
by boat from a British merchantmen.
The following account of the event is
published in London paper:
''The ship having only steerage-way,
saw about half mile on port beam a
very extraordinary-looking thing in the
water, of considerable length. With the
telescope we could plainly discern huge
head and neck, covered With a long shay
gy-looking kinu Of name, which ne kept
lifting at intervals out Of the water. This
was seen by all hands and declared to be
the great sea serpent. | determined on
knowing something about it, and accor-
dinghy lowered boat, in which my chief
officer and four mel. went, taking with
them a long small line in case it should
be required. I watched them very anx-
iously, and the monster seemed not to re-
gard their approach. At length they
GOT close to the head; they seemed to
hesitate, and then busy themselves with
the line, the monster all the time ducklng
its head and showing its great length
Presently the boat began pulling toward
the ship, the monster following slowly.
In about half an hour they got it along
side; tackling was got on the main yard,
and it was hoisted on board. 1t appear
ed somewhat supple when hanging, but
SO completely covered with snaky looking
L. ~.
had it some time on board before it was
discovered to be piece of gigantic sea-
weed, twenty feet long and four inches in
diameter, the root end of which appeared
when i'll the water like the head of the
animal, and the motion given by the sea
caused it to seem alive. In few days 1t
dried mp to a hollow tube, and as it had
a rather offensive smell was thrown over
board"