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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-11

THE CosTRABAsDs.-To-night there will he
grand festival given at Continental Hall, corner Of
Eighth avenue and Thiny-fourh ,treet by the col.
ored people Of this city, for the purpose Of procuring
clothing and books for the coDtrabands at Fortress
Monroe aud Port Royal. The Rev. II. II. Garnet
and Dr. Delany viii deliver addresses.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-11

ilIkiis 49,.
4 deareo tas been iesned, announcing the pu. Ice
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-11

DR.. TRALL's LEoTUREs.-Dr. A. T. Trial! Of this
city is announced to lecture in the Smithsonian To-
sttution on "Wednesday evening, 18th inst, on tie
True Healing Ar, with especial reference to the
HYGIENE treatment Of the prevalent dseases in the
camps and hospitals Of our armies.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-11

Tpg wHlusG voTAGr.-Cspt. Williams, who
was under the weather lac. week Is now on deck
again, hale and hearty ever, and nightly embark,
on bis exciting chase after the whale at Hope
ChEpeL
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-11

CRY MoRrArIrY.--Thc deaths in the city during
the past week have been 422, viz: men, 81 women,
&c, boys 1885, girls i3G This is a decrease OF. 80
from the previous week but increase of So on the
corresponding week last year.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-11

THIS not 81 sDferng specially caused by 'he
bat such quite familiar 10 these who st acrg q
poor D. H. bAhbV"'
la 81 1867
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-05
16loTeestet Sally SPY.



Mails Close follows:
Northern Worcester County, Vermont and New lamp
hlre via orcester Nashua Railroad, at sec and
are due at 100 p.
Fitchburg, Lancaster Leominster West Boylstcn Oak
dale, Clinton, Lowell and Nashua n. H., at 500 a. n
ana $50 p n and are due at 9l5 a. and 100
9l5
City OF Boston, $50 and 800 a m u 10, g. and 500 n
M and are due at So go m, $3.50 and els p m.
Maine, Eastern New Hampshire, and Eastern Massa.
chusets-9O0 m, and 500 p and are due at SAC
a. m, $50 and Sis p. H.
Rhode Island-(Except towns on the Worcester and
providence Railroad $50 m. and $50 p and
d e at Z ~ a. M and $50 p. m
m. and is due at $40 a.
westeTn-tAll towns in Massachusetts West Of wor
cester,J 5 a IN, and are due at l245 p. IN.
Albany. (WeStcrn New York and Western States Oh
a. M and GO p m; and are dae at 1919 and 1913
Springfield, 5,90 am, and 90 p and are due at 40
Hartford, all Connecticut (exeept Windham and New
LONDON counties $40 a m. and 800 p and due
Towns on line Of Norwich and Worcester Railroad and
New LONDON and Wlndham County, Conn, 1000 a. n,
New York CITY and Southern States $50 a. NJ and at
and 10 IS m.
Barre, Barre Plains, Petersham, Paxton, Dana North
Holden, Rutland, North Rutland, IIubbardston. Cold
Leicester 945 a. m, and 40 m, and due at 900
a. M and 500 ?, n.
and are due at $40 a. m, and 63e ?. m,
Shrewsbury. Sl5 p; M, and is due at 500 g.. m.
Grafton, New England Village and Cordayille, 6,30a
M; ana are due at 33Q p m.
Framingham, South birmingham, Hopkinton, Ashland
Woodvle, Westboro', Northboro', SOuthboro' Cords
vile, and Grafton l2l0 p. and are due at 30 A. M
Milford Mendon. Holliston, Bolton. Berlin 800 a. m
and 500 p. and arc due at 800 N. ana g. Is n m
mail for New York and Boston and beyond is closed
at this office on Sunday at 60 O'Clock p. m.
Office hours from 6,45 a. n, TO 500 D. m. SUNDAYS
from 1000 TO 1910 a. IN. j. NJ. EARLE z. M
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Stebbins of Bangor, Maine, and Catherine c.
Ward of Dorchester, Massachusetts, the sum
of six thousand six hundred and torty-seyen
TdOlarS and to Edmund Monroe and Ben
jamin Sewall of the city of Boston, in Mas
sachuSetts, the sum of seven thousand six
hundred and thirty-tve dollars, in the proper
ton of three fourtlls of the same to said Mon
roe, and one fourth to said Sewall and to
James A. Drew of Chelsea, Massachusetts,
and Rufus Mansur of Houlton, Maine, the
sum of nine thousand three hundred and
twenty-eight dollars; the said several sums
being in full compensation, at the rate of one
dollar per acre, for timber taken from lands
owned by said parties, respectively, and To-
Gated in the Eaton grant and Plymouth town.
ship $50 called) in the state of Maine, and
within the district recognized as the disputed
territory" and which timber was taken off and
lost to the proprietors in consequence of the
diplomatic arrangement entered into between
the United States and Great Britain in eight
| cen hundred and thirty-two, by which botf
| parties agreed to abstain from the exercise O.
| jurisdiction in said territory Provided, tina
the payments authorized and required by thi
act may be made, in whole or in part, at tn,
option OF the secretary of the treasury, in an,
of the bonds of the United States, bearing in
terest at the rate of six per centum per an
uum, which have been or may hereafter b
authorized by law to be issued.
Approved, July u, 1862.
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TPUBLIC-No. $50. /


AN ACT to provide for the payment of fines
and penalties collected by or paid to the
justices of the peace of the District of Co.
lumbia under the acts of Congress approved
the third and fifth of August, eighteen hum
dred and sixty-one, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled, that the several
justices of the peace of the District of Co.
lumbia who have imposed fines under the
acts of congress approved the third and fifth
days of August, eighteen hundred and sixty
one, on or before the fifteenth day of July,
eighteen hundred and siXty-two, make full
and faithful report of their doings in that be-
half, stating the name of the party, the
amount of the fine imposed, and the name of
the witnesses examined in each case, to the
superintendent of metropolitan police, and
shall pay over all moneys in their hands
arising from such fines to the said super
intendent; and such of said justices as
shall fail by the time specified to make such
report, and comply with the other provisions of
this law, shall be liable to a fine of not less
than three hundred nor more than five hun
dred dollars, to be collected from said Justice
by prosecution in the criminal court in the said
District of Columbia; and it shall be the duty
of the superintendent of metropolitan police to
inspect the dockets kept by the said justices
of the peace, for the purpose of ascertaining
the amount so collected as aforesaid by them;
and the said justices shall submit their dockets
to the inspection of the said superintendent;
and, failing to do so, shall pay a fine of not
less than fifty nor more than one hundred dol
lars, to be collected as above.
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, that
said justices of the peace shall, on or before
tho fftoap+b &c T,,I1- ~, III
year, make full and faithful report of their
doings as aforesaid, for the preceding year, to
the superintendent of metropolitan police,
and shall pay over all moneys in their hands
arising from said fines TO the said superin-
tendent; and if any justice of the peace of
the District of Columbia shall fail to comply
with the provisions of this law, he shall be
liable to a fine of not less than three hundred
nor more than five hundred dollars, to be
collected as provided in the first section of
this act.
AODrOva6 Tulv 1870
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TPUBLIC-NO. 105.7

AN ACT relating to schools for the educa-
ton of colored children in the cities of
Washington and Georgetown, in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives Of the United States of Amer
ca in congress assembled, that the duties i'm
posed on the board of trustees of the public
schools in the cities of Washington and
Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, by
virtue of an act entitled can act providing
for the education of colored children in the
cities of Washington and Georgetown, Dis
trict of Columbia, and for other purposes"
approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred
and siXty-twO, be and the same are hereby
transferred to Daniel Breed, Sayles J. Bow
en-, and Zenas c. Robbins, and their success
ors in office, who are hereby created board
of trustees of the schools for colored chill
dren in the cities aforesaid, and who shall
possess all the powers and perform all the
duties conferred upon and required of the
trustees of public schools in the said cities of
Washington and Georgetown by the aforesaid
act.
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, that the
aforementioned trustees shall hold their of
fees for the respective terms of one, two, and
three years, to be determined by lot and it
shall be the duty of the secretary of the inte-
rior, on the first day of July, eighteen hun
dred and siXty-three, and annually on that
day thereafter, to appoint from among the resi-
dents of the said cities trustee in place of the
one whose term has expired or is about to ex-
pire. And the secretary is also authorized to
fill vacancies in said board of trustees when
ever, from any cause, such vacancies may oc-
cur. Approved, July IL, 1862.
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and twenty-five cents an acre, equal to the
quantity entered by them at two dollars and
fifty cents per acre, so that the lands origi-
nally entered by them shall be thus reduced
to the rate of one dollar and twenty five cents
per acre.
Sect. 4. And be it further resolved, that the
even sections of public lands reserved to the
United States by the aforesaid act of June
third, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, along
the originally located route of the Marquette
and Wisconsin State Line Railroad Company,
except where such sections shall fall within
six miles Of the new line of road so as afore-
said proposed to be located, and along which
no railroad has been constructed, shall here
! after be subject to sale at one dollar and
twenty-five cents per acre.
Sect. 5. And be it further resolved, that
upon the filing in the general land Office of
! the lists of said railroad lands, in whole or in
| part, as now selected and certified in the gen.
eral land Office, with the certificate of the
governor of the state of Michigan, under the
seal Of the state, that said state and its assigns
surrender all claims to the lands as aforesaid,
set forth and described in the lists thereof
thus certified, and that the same have never
been pledged or sold or in anywise encum-
bered then the state of Michigan or its as
signs shall be entitled to receive a like guam
tity of land selected in like manner, upon the
new line of road as thus surrendered upon the
first line, and to the extent of six sections per
mile in the aggregate for every mile of the
new line, according to the general provisions
of the act of June third, eighteen hundred and
ffty-SiX. And it shall be the duty of the
commissioner of the general land office to re-
offer for public sale, in the usual manner,
the lands embraced in the lists of surrendered
lands aforesaid, when duly filed in his office,
as herein directed.
Approved, July 5, 1862.
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pproved, July IL, 1862.
TPUBLIC-No. 1914. I

AN ACT to authorize the secretary of the
treasury to appoint deputy collector of
the customs at Chincoteague island, in the
state of Virginia,
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled, that the secretary
Of the treasury be and he is hereby authorized
to appoint, according to law, deputy collec-
tor OF customs to reside on Chincoteag Tu is
land, in the state Of Virginia, and to exercise
such powers, under the revenue laws, as he,
the secretary OF the treasury, may prescribe !;
the compensation of the said deputy collector
to be the legal fees on the business he NAV
transact, and no more.
Approved, July IL, 1862
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-05

PUBLIC REsoLUTIoN-No. SO.
A RESOLUTION rendering the thanks of
congress to Captain Louis NJ. Goldsborough
and officers, petty officers, seamen, and ma
rines, under his command, for the victory
at Roanoke Island.
Resolved by the senate and house of repre-
sentatiyes Of the United States of America in
congress assembled, that the thanks of con-
gress be and they are hereby rendered to Cap
tain Louis NJ. Goldsborough, and through him
to the officers, petty officers, seamen, and ma
rines attached to the squadron under his COM
mand, for the brilliant and decisive victory
achieved at Roanoke Island on the seventh,
eighth, and tenth days of February last.
Approved, July IL, 1862.
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Approved, July -, 1862.
TPrBLrc REsoLUr1oS-No. So

PUBLIC RESOLUTION-NO. IS.
4 RESOLUTION of thanks to Captain Da-
vid G. Farragut, of the United States navy,
and to the officers and men under his com
mand.
Resolved by the senate and house of repre-
sentatives of the United States OF America in
congress assembled, that the thanks of the
people and Of the congress of the United
States are due and are hereby rendered to
Captain David G. Farragut, of the United
States navy, and to the officers and men I'M
der his command, composing his squadron
in the Gulf of Mexico, for their successful
operations on the lower Mississippi river, and
for their gallahtry displayed In the capture of
forts Jackson and st. Phillip, and the city of
New Orleans, and in the destruction of the en-
emy's gunboats and armed flotilla
Sect 2. And be it further enacted, that
the secretary of the navy be directed to COM
municate this resolution to Captain Farragut,
and through him to the officers and men un-
der his command.
Approved, July II, 1862.
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GPUBLIC-No. 1881


AN ACT to change the place Of holding the
circuit and district courts of the United
States for the district of west Tennessee.
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled that hereafter the
circuit and district courts of the United States
for the district of West Tennessee shall be
holden on the first Mondays in April and Oc-
tober, in the town of Huntingdon, in the coun-
ty of Carroll, in said district, instead of the
town of Jackson, the place heretofore fixed
by law. And all process, civil and criminal,
which may have been or hereafter may be is
sued, returnable to said courts at jackson,
shall be returned to said courts at Hunting
don; and all books and records of every kind
pertaining to said courts shall be transferred
from said town of jackson to said town OF
Huntingdon.
Approved, July IL 1862
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OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Second Session of the Thrty-SeYenth
Congress.
TPuBL1c-No. 1927

PUBLIc-No. l22.
AN ACT for the establishment of certain ma
tional arsenals.
Be it enacted by the senate and house Of
representatives of the United States in con-
gress assembled, that there be and hereby is
established a national arsenal at Columbus, in
the state of Ohio, at indianapolis, in the state
of Indiana, and on Rock Island, in the state
of Illinois, for the deposit and repair of arms
and other munitions of war.
Sect .. And be it further enacted, that for
the purpose of carrying this act into effect,
the sum of one hundred thousand dollars for
each arsenal named in the preceding section
be and the same is hereby appropriated out of
any money in the treasury not otherwise APP.
propriated.
Approved, July II, 1862.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-05
mtoinnss.
EVERY FAMILY SHOULD USE
SPEER'S SAMRUCI WINE.

celebrated for its medicinal and beneficial qualities as
genuine stmulant, Tonic Duretc and Sudoric highly
esteemed by eminent physicians, and some OF the first
families of Europe and America.
AS 4 DIURETIC
timpar:s healthy action to the Glands and Kidney
and Urinary Organs, very beneficial in Dropsy, GOu
EruptiOns and Rheumatic affections.
AS SUDORIFIC
Il opens the pores and expes all impurities by nsens
Die perspiraton, thereby driving off Eruptions and
cleansing the suface giving tone and igor the whole
SYSTEM and BLOOMING, SOFT, and HEALTHY condition
to the SKIN and COMPLEXION.
SPEER'S WINE
not mixture or manufactured article but Is pure
rom the Juice of the Portugal Elder cultivated in the
United states, recommended by Chemists and Physt
cans as possessing medicinal properties superior TO any
ot1er me IN use and an excellent article for all week
anu uebiltated persons, and the aged and infrm i'm
proving the appetite and beneftne ladies and children.
A LADIES' WINE.
because II VIII not ntoXicae other wines as il con.
tans no mixtures of spirits other liquors. and is a0
mred Tor lis rich, peculiar flavor and utritiye nroncr.
ties nparting healthy tone the digestive organs
ana Dloomng sort and healthy skin and complexion
ALFRED SPEER, fassaic, n. j.
is over the cork of each bottle
MAKE ONE TRIAL OF THIS WJyE
w., "A. SPEER, Proprietor,
New York. -00 Di0"o"Ay
For sale by GEO. R. sPURR. Agent for Worcester.
jel3 deadly eN'V- "'iNSo'ol'
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Wn1mlbuses.
SPENCER. Leicester,

SPENCER, LEICESTER,
sgSaEfEE& "A CHERRY VALLEY, NEW woR
EgfE@,.=z-3 Rs8sAstSS CESfER. and WORCESTER ON
zgz77sS NJ "a NIBUS. SHBlieer ARRANGEMENTS
Sl<=za-s14kshIss3- commencing May l6, 1852;
90 p. m. -
Leave Leicester at 8 a. m, l90 p. m. leave No.
Flagg s Block at 1890 .. ~, and 500 D.
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings: Leave
Leicester at Gee, and No Flaggs Block at 300 ocl6ck
Leave Cherry Valley Is minutes after starting frum
Leicester each trip.
Leaye New Worcester at $50 M 10. 80 m. lSO p.
m, 400 p. m, TIC p M; leave No. Flagss Block at
80 a. M, u m, $50, 5 90 9 90 D. m.
SUNDAYS.
Leave Leicester rs. and Cherry Valley at 9SOa m
Leave City Hall at 4 90 D. IN.
Leave New Worcester at 10 a m. and 90 D. m. Leave
City Fall at close OF meetings.
Express business promptly attended to.
L. b. STONE IL CO., Propra
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A CASE OF GENERAL DEBILITY.

MIRACULOUS CURE. About seven years ago. 1
contracted very heavy cold which chung to Inc with
dreadful tenaclty, resisting all the skill of PLY scians
and the power of medicines suffered constantly from
pain in the heart; Appetite; part of the time too
weak TO walk; night sweats which reduced nc to A
shadow agonzng pain in every Joint in my body; cen
stanty chilly; in word, a poor, miserable nm
happy wretch, and often prayed for death. | employed
SIX or eight pysicians and must have taken at least
hOeshcad OF nauseous cdicines, of one kind anot
err, but to no good purpose grew worse every dav
Finally went to Dr. Hill who succeeded in curing me
by his new and delightful system of treating dspasGs M
which the patient is not required 10 take nasty medi-
cincsl was thoroughly cured in about three months
and am now as well and hearty buck / advise fbo
sick to goto DIT HILL who will effect II speedy cure M
one-half the price charged by other physicians and no
hlthy medicines ITO be well shaken before taken g Nv
80 JOHN TRASK Providence. X I
HILL Maiu strpet Worrestnr NJ ~ Il
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II r H l L l. S
BOTANIC MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT,
No. 50 Main Street, VVOrccser.

A FEW WORDS TO YOUNG NEN.-DUrng the prac
tce OF fifteen years DR.. Hill has i'll contact with
Almost lnnumerable cases of Debility occasioned by
dreadl habit of solitary self abuse They continue
to warn all Young men who not afflicted to avoid
1t as they value their lives, and advise all who arc
troubled with the habit or its consequences where
they can be cured of such trouble and let them know
the dire disasters resulting in the attendance them
III time 1t no eNageeraton to say that three tOurhs
q the insane owe their maady to this hOrrd habit The
proprietoTs OF Insane Asylums corroborae the state
meht ana If the victim escapes insanity idocy yet he
or she entirely untitled for the real pleasures of life
either in or out of the domestic erce-wth pocrcatye
powers ruined afflicted with dstrust ever doubtful Of
ms friends, III TACT, perfect hypOchOndriac what is he
nj Tor but to castout and die Attend them at once
All you who are addicted to this miserable habit or If
may pc 100 late, ana you may go down to dslonorcd
grave hardly lit to meet the God who you the pow
as they intended There exists not i'm the whnfa
world an object more oathsome miserable than one
thus broken in health and hopes Avoid il then ms VIM
wish for happiness and heaven. y"
Dr. ills practice is wholly the botanic principle
and therefore upon natural foundation. fN'
Office No 81 ~ ain street Worcester open from n,
to p M Letters (postpad) will receive prompt aten
ton. fP'" ''9h
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HELMBOLD'S EXTRACT BUCHu

FOR WEAKNESSES
Arising from Excuses, Habits of DESTINATION,
Early Indiscretion or Abuse,
ATTENDED WITH THB FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS.
Indispesition to Exertion, Trembling
Less of Memory, WakefuIness
Weak Nerves, Pain in tho poo,
Horror OF Disease, Flushing of The 1lod
Ilmness of Vision Eruptions on t6o Ega
Hot Hands, paliid Cornt,aoS. s'~S'
Dryness of the Skin, Universal T. sSsi,,t r.,
Loss of Power Muscuinr Srst'' VI alis
Dithculty of Breathing,
These symptoms, If allowed to 60 on which this mod
il ne invariably removes, soon follows
IMPoTENCY, FATUIlY, EPILEPTIC FITS
one of which the patient may expire Who co, CO.,
tna they are not frequently followed by those drefuI
Diseases" -"-
INSANITY AND CONSUMPTION.
Many are aware of the cause of their suffering I'M.
none will confess. The records of the Insane Asv,rs
ana the melancholy deaths by Consumption bear amne
witness TO the truth OF the assertion. P''
TIE CONSTITUTION ONCE AFFECTED 1yITEJ
ORGANIC WEAKNESS LII
requires the aid of medicine to strengthen and nvipor
ate the System, which HELMBoLD'S EXTRACT RIr
CHU invariably does. a trial will convince tho D,o.
skepticsl. -"'''