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of nIty thousand dollars per annum, to be Sc
Haea that nS aePost OF United States currency to
that amount In the Treasury Department, and
In addition thereto the parties who NAV take
the contract shall bind themselves to nav fa,
10 the Government OF two dollars on each skin
taken and shipped from the islands the entir,
number so taken not to exceed one hundred
Thousand seals per annum. The contractinc
parties will also be required to take measures
i9r the comfort, maintenance, and education OF
the native inhabitants Of the islands.
EXHIBITION OF CLASSIC ART.-A collection
OF 1oreign autotype fac SMILES of the works O.
tne great masters by an improvement ON the
photographic process can now be seen for a few
days at Smith & StrOng's, F street, which all
lovers OF classic art, particularly those unable
will do well to inspect. They come from Braun
OF Paris, and embrace over five thousand auto
types OF the paintings, statuary and cartoons OF
home, vienna, and Paris, and all of the great
irescoes from the time of Perugine. Copies OF
Michael Angeles cartoons OF his works IN the
Sistine Chapel, never before published form a
special attraction in this collection
anto,rninG mo nanared d. artists are now employed N
other galleries. We see i'm this collection moi
only the finished works of the masters. but
tner numerous cartoons, representing the exact
size. color, &c, of their studies; sketches. iusi
as they appear in the original drawings So.
too, OF the statuary subjects-not rendered in
the smooth trim manner of the old engraving
process, but exhibiting their texture, surface
and other signs of antiquity with a tone and
soft gradatiOns of shadow which the Ordinary
Photographic process has failed to render Tbi,
rs accomplished by means OF carbon and Other
pigments, which at the same time secure per-
manence of effect. 1t is to be hoped the Cor.
coran Art Gallery (though not vet ready for II,
destined contents) will secure nop q set of thes.
autotypes, thousand dollars worth OF whicl
were at once bought by the New York Art Mu-
scum, an institution founded only few week
since.
The COLoRRD PEOPLE OF MARYLAND TO SEx-
AToR REvELs.-Among the many compliment
airy letters received by Senator Revels is tn.
following:
BALTIMORE. Md. Feb. &c. 1S7o.--Hon. n. r
Rereis. U s. Senator for Nississippi-Dear Sir
In behalf OF two hundred thousand newly en-
franchised American citizens OF the State OF
sion into the most august legislative body in the
whole world: made so from the fact that they
represent the freest people living. 1 regard
your admission into the United States Senate A.
being the capstone of the triumph of true Res
publican principles in free America; it Is an
epoch in the history of American politics that
great many who oppose that great fundamental
principle OF equal and exact justice to all
men cannot readily comprehend. IL is a liy-
ing evidence of one of the inevitable results
OF the late civil war for the Preservation
OF American iberty-and it must be a further
evidence to such minds as William Llovd Car.
rison, Wendell Phillips, Frederick Doueiass.
Horace Greeley, Charles Sumner, Henry VIII
son, and a host of others, that the battles that
they have been fighting 50 long in behalf OF
human rights have not been fought in vain but
have been as ''bread cast upon the waters, seen
and gathered after manv days" God grant
that the good work may continue, until the free
institutions of this country may 20 influence the
whole woi Id to support thegreat truths set forth
In the declaration of American Independence.
Very respectfully, yours, SC,
GBoReE MYERS.
The MISSING STRAMER, Cry OF Bosrox
The steamer Druid has returned to Halifa,
from Sable Island, where she has been cruising
in search of the City of Boston, but Obtained No
Haffer, of the bark L. A. Kennedy, arrived in
Boston yesterday from Liverpool, reports:NAts
a. M. February IL, in latitude As, longitude s5
passed long, low propeller, apparently living