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am row prepared to furnish planters with
L my Patent Tobacco Prize. upon the shortest
reasonable notice. This PriEe Is now being
quite generally used in this locality and has so
far, given universal satisfaction. The advan-
,sges IL possesses over all other Pri.es now In
use arr too varied and manifold 10 admit, % De-
scrip,ion in this advertisement Il is conceded
by all who have used il 10 be great economist
OF labor, and il is admitted that il places To-
hacco in market in a condition very superior 10
that Of anv other Prize now IN use
Prize with railway attachment 10 rriEe two
hhds. alternately, $50. Without railway, 500.
kEFE9FNCg.
Col George Forbes, James Carherry,
Joseph 7 Cough, Rev n peWolt,
Geo Mattiugley, John nilahav,
and many others who have the prize in use on
their estates.
J FELiN MORGAN
leonardiown, Nd.
June 10, lS13-;f.
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LET US HAVE THE BEST.
WORLD RENOWNED NEW SINGER
Sewing Machine.

FESHE returns &C sales Of the different
q sowing machines, during last year,
show the Singer M-chine" to be By far
the most popular of all in the market,
the number sold birg ISL 200, out Of a
total Of 6l0l9i, oftwclty- different
patterns. |; AL ears, too, that the CHI
caco Relief Comai,tcc, w,ich undertook
20 furnish sewing machines 20 rcrs ns
need u. .hcm, piled >, i2T Singer ma
cEincs a ainst 81 Of all other kinds. This
rscicrcnccfor the Singer machine is due to
its intrinsic superiority. and seems Xix Is
IN 10 meiutaincd as inst all compositions.
! viii visit around AMI give all instruc-
tons o. persons .urchas ng OF me free of
chargc. All o. the extras furnished by
me.
p. II. J. READMOND,
Mcchanicsyi!lc.
St Mary's county. Nd.
Er Machines delivered and ins:.uc-
items given FIR $1,000.
Aus IS, lS13-3m.
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Boarding and Day School,

1896 $. IL s., epPcsiss HsriliH Park, Wasl
iAsfon, ID. c.
'VsHiS school viii reopen MONDAY, Sept.
u the sth. Rare facilities afforded for thor
ough Instruction in English Brapeies. Music
aud Languages. For particulars. address
Miss II HANOVER.
JAY u, is7S--ems Principal.
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Great Nils Z a., 81 Mary .eeaaiy, Nd.
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fore Dec 81. Specimen numbers free
Agents wanted ever, where.
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New 6, 1873.
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And Potomac river Landings.

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DIRECTORS:
5 II Caughy, Noah Walkcr& Co
Philip + George, " George & Jenkins.
L ID Anderson, " Anderson & Bro
John Stack, Carpenter and Builder.
Hon George Breut Court of Appeals.
George Jenkins. Charles county.
Gec:se Combs, ST. Mary's coInty.
D. u. Harris, =.
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Southern Maryland. to enable them to over.
come the difficulties they experienced in
procuring Insurance in tie ordinary Insur-
ance Companies. with a majority of its Di-
recturS well known in that community.
1t has been in business row over four
years. All losses accrued, and they have
been unusually large, hare been faithfillly
and promptly paid, which as our best guar
aniee for the future.
Tie plan adopted is the safest and cheap
est known In Insurance, and affords TO all
Insurance at its exact cost. and ought to be
encouraged by all who wish to protect them
selves against loss or damage by fire.
If those interested will get ii their patro-
mage and interest themselves in the increase
Of It's business, in few years it will rank
among The largest Insurance corporations
in Maryland. credit and benefit to all.
and an honor TO the State.
GEO. a. SIMMS,
General Agent for ST. Marys Co.
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New-York tribune., 1873-05-06
gnoex 10 advertisements.

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pILIIAEps SCrefh PCac--itn column.
BOARD AID I,puNs-Acc1pa IGge-Cth column.
Pr-lNc>s AOuCIs--f Ourh P0Do--ist cOunn.
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pIvIDNND NO1ICTs-N NcrCHh PGGc-ith column.
DRY GOOD.- S,Ttt P0ge-ita column.
FINANCIAL -SfrriN pigc-Sl dud ith columns
PINE AETs-Scr0h Yuge-o column.
EUHNiIUUt- ScrcHbt POqs--5th column.
HORSES. CARuACts, HAENEss, ~e.-Serchm fdge-''h
column.
UOTEIs-T6ird PGgc-3d column.
INSTRUCTION SirN Pdgc-4ti, column.
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LOAN OrFICIs-T Titrd Pdge-l column
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NEw PrHnC ArIONs-SrH, Page-3d aud attn column.
RiAL ESTATE lOR SALE CTrY-JhTd ragged col
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IERsEY-Third P0ge-2J column; COUNTY, Third
PaCC-2d ana 81 Columns Al AUCToN-Ihird Fagc
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3IUAuOss WASTED, MALEs-SccOAd PdOc-G 9th column
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VOluinu.
sTCI,L NouCEs-lYrh Page-6th column.
sIAII0NERY-Serc,,t, Pdge-5t column.
STEAMBOATS, AND l.AnKOAIs-Si4A Pdgc-jth aud 9th
columns.
3TrAMFEs. OCEAN-SIh P1ge-,ih and sth columns.
SUMNER MrREAIs-Ihyd PdGt LIST column.
IEACHEEs- NiTh Pdge--ih column.
To LET CITY rEurfEfr- IAird FdOe-3d column
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-9lorls Daily griblure.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1873.

The Csbint crisis IN italy T. at end. There is
renewed excitement at Madrid. z== An exciting de-
bate is expected to-day in the Canadian Parliament
It's believed that nearly persons lost their lives
Or were severely injured by the Dixon Bridge disaster
.-- railroad bridge IA miles from Sedalis, Mo-, fell
before i; was finished, killing three and wounding
eight COY. Dix has vetoed the bin compelling the
Controller % pay the salary Of the assistant clerk D the
rhird Police Judicial court Of this city. over 30
persons were injured 10y the upseing Of an excursion
train near Princeton, Ind.
The Mayor nominated the President and Commission
,r, of Taxes and Assessments, two Health Commission
sra and an Alderman The consolidation Of rail-
roads East and west has been perfected == Several
OF the May anniversary meetings were held == The
Indian Commissioners presented report on the Modoc
war -- President Watson has written letter to
Mr. McHenry on the Future Of the Erie" ==z A
matchmaker was arrested Co., The Health appoint
aents were made in Brooklyn. = Gold iGi III, hCk
Thermoioetor, go, TO, 500.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-06
THE FARMERS WAR.

The Farmers War in Illinois is approaching
n crisis. 1t will be remembered that in a suit
brought against the Chicago, Alton, and St.
Louis Railroad Chief-Justce Lawrence of the
Supreme Court of the State declared the act
of the Legislature prohibiting discrimination
in rates unconstitutional The farmers bitterly
resented this decision, and pledged themselves
to "reverse the Supreme Court" by electing
in the Chief Justices place some one COM
mitted in advance against the railroads. Judge
Lawrence has been sustained for denomination
by nearly all the lawyers of his district, and
a strong feeling has been manifested on his
behalf by those who look upon the hostility of
the agriculturists as an attack upon the inde-
pendence of the Judiciary. Nevertheless, the
farmers have probably carried their point.
They have just held convention at Prince
ton, formally rejected Judge Lawrence, and
nominated Mr. Craig and as the district is a
grain growing one, they will doubtless compel
one or the other of the regular party organiza-
lions TO follow their lead. We need hardly
saw that we regard this action. which is
equivalent TO q declaration that grave ques-
tions of constitutional law can be taken out
of tbe conrts and settled at the polls. rs highly
unfortunate.
Meanwhile the Legislature has passed now
New-York tribune., 1873-05-06
N.-r..m.r,,. ..... eh,, crenirr.

Booru's TuEATEE-"Daddy ODowd." MIR. Dion
B,4ccauit -
Se,Nn OyERA HOUSE," Monte Cristo." Charles
fcoheE
NEw FnTu AVENUE TnEATER.-" Divorce
Nmro's GACpEN.-"Azrael; or. The Magic Charm
OrY,ipic THEArER.-"H Hump:y DInpN' George
l. foI. 49,
uxfo< SQUARE THrArRR.-" Frou-Frou." Miss
Ages Iihe -,
WNL,cE's TE,TER. -- The Squires Last shil-
dns." \ A. ,O.hcrh
ACADEMY OF Music. --" Kenilworth." Lydia
II lompson.
SoMrRvuLU ART GALLERY. 80 Exhibition of Oil
Paintings
ToNY PAsro8'S OPERA HoUSE.-Vancties
New-York tribune., 1873-05-06

sts,e Commissioners IS not Encouraging. The
Illinois experiment may succeed for little
while. and il will be something if the farmers
are freed for only twJ or three years from
the exactions which are now driving them to
despair; but that the railroads Will own the
Commissioners sooner or later is a proposition
too clear for dispute.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-06

II is quite likely that, after all, we shau
have an extra session of the Legislature. The
consideration of constitutional amendments,
il is thought, will demand immediate atten-
ton; and the Governor consents, IN general
terms, objecting only, as We understand IT, to
the possibility Of involving tire State in the
expense of some constructive printing bill.
There was good prospect, little while ago,
that we should soon see the last of the Legis-
Iature; but its power for mischief and general
trouble-making is not yet at All eud.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-06
THE MONTH OF MANY.

Our t-grandiathers, some time during this
week, would have put up May-pole and hung
it with green, and gone capering about 1t in
ridiculous fashion enough in honor of Maid
Marian and Robin Hood. Very likely, toO
they would have had plenty of green grass for
their capering, and columbines and yio-
lets to string about the pole. We, who have
grown wiser and practical, keep holy the day
by shutting from house to house. Broken
crockery and topping wagon-lOads of rickety
furnituEe are the May mummeries wherewith we
delight our souls. We order inevitably. too
on the first of May the heaviest rain and mud
of the year. Our grandfathers had the best
of it in going to bed with the scent of the
cOlumbines and grass through their dreams,
and no worse accusation on their souls than
having celebrated III so jolly fashion the
death-day of the bold outlaw. But we carry
with us the smell of muddy streets and smoky
heaters, and are tOrmented by o nightmare
assurance that we have been duped 10y the
landlord in tho matter Of kitchen ranges or
waste pipes.
Shall we then take 60 jumping in our Spring
coats and new bonnets about May-polcs, or
decking ourselves with dandelions or arbutus
Because we do not, arc we wiser people, or
only more given to self consciousness Hu-
man nature, We fancy, though it decked itself
in paduasoy and leatherp jerlin then, and in
cheyiot and pongee now. cried, or laughed, or
grinned after much the same fashion in tho
one generation az the other. Robin Hood,
L..
New-York tribune., 1873-05-06

Miss Helena c. fraser OF San Francisco has sued
Mr James W. Thrift, Il thrifty land speculatOr of
the same city, Tor breach of promise Of marriage
damages being laid at $4,000. Helena is described
as q stately, intelligent, handsome woman of
twenty-five; as for Thrift. he is gray and even
snowy. Miss Fraser has had her little adventures
both amorous and political According to her own
narrative, a man or more has always been in love
with her. One of them educated her in a Canadian
convent; Others have given her money TO travel
with fine dresses to appear in, and to pay her board
bills at rstclass hotels Thrift too had been very
kind though at last he had trampled upon the most
sacred foelings Df her heart She processes to be
stanch Southern woman, and when her aunt was
arrested as n spy in Washington she went TO jail
with that relative She thinks that she born in
Tennessee. but is not sure. In San Francisco she
was acting as 4 governess, when Thrift wooed her
and won her promise. and then flung her like n vile
weed away. Now she is certain that Mr. Thrift will
compromise matters by marrying her, but she feels
sure of S25 if nc does Mt Except in the matter of
being stately and handsome" Miss Heleua seems
10 be a sort of Becky Sharp.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-06

In these days of almost universal emulation. one
hears without surprise that tie title of champion, so
liberally dispensed among banjo players, pugilsts
billiard persons, and the like, has been given by
common consent to a performer on poultry who
approved his title thereto by eating an entire goose
on a wager. Iii is backed by partial and admiring
friends as the champion goOseeater Of the universe
Similar honor deScends upon a Caiyinistic divine
in Indiana. On the strength of having immersed
fourteen penitents in fifteen minutes he IL
sidered the champion baptzer Of tho West if not of
the Union. There seems scarcely any limit to the
employment of this medieval term, andi may, for
aught we know, even come 10 be applied TO those
who have performed notable maternal exploits. The
bearer of twins may be considered entitled to the
champions belt un5l the bearer of triples asserts
her superior claim. Of late sundry idiots have been
deyising plans of card tournaments to settle the
championship Of euchre, brag mp, and other
beautiful though uncertain games. They print
challenges in the papers, and back up their pre-
tensions by the Offer of bets. II is obvious that un
less the enthusiasm of these persons be toned down
by the opportune loss of money some other de
pressing cause we shall soon have an entirely new
set OF CHAMPIONS going to and fro in the earth with
four aces in their sleeves and other powerful
combinations in their pockets. We have champions
enough rs il is and we offer a protest against the
extension of the list.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-06
Drslilc5s NoIlcc5.

Has PAID 1910 POLICY-H HOLDERS, and has the
cash fos few more-lRAyELERs Hartford
DR.. j. FRANK PALMER-Patent ARMS and
LEGs l69 ChestIutst Philadelphia; 80 Greonst Boston
BRAUNsDORF g. METZ have removed their
stock of Gr,tass Cabinet Furniture DrspeIes from Us
Grugonst their and elegant buildings J and 43J
Ihirty y-fOurth-sL
New-York tribune., 1873-05-06

The Board Of Indian Commissioners have
issued a carefully prepared paper on the
Modoc war, which is worth an attentive pc
rusal. The gentlemen composing the Commits
sion are all above suspicion of any political
connection with Indian affairs their public
spirited labors entitle them TO most respect
full hearing. Yet their report on the situation
in California and Oregon seems to just fail OF
being absolutely impartial. 1t reads too
much like a lawyers defense of given line
of policy to be free from criticism. 1t is not
so much the Presidents peace policy, as 1T is
called, that is assaled in this particular in
stance, as the lack of policy generally. That
somebody is to be blamed for the unnecessary
precipitation of the war with the Modocs,
even the Peace Commission admit. The Com
mi&sioners defend the Presidents much-abused
peace policy from any unjust aspersions on
this score. We take it that that policy
was sOt involved at any time in the
Modoc question. Whatever may be said of
the conduct of the war with the Modocs,
whatever of its issue, and whatever of the
incidents preceding, it is difficult to see where
or how the plan of putting Indians on reserva-
tions and keeping them there can be affected.
Therefore, this laborious defense of the Presi-
dents views and policy is not at all pertinent.
AS for the insinuatiOn that the Oregon people
hndered negotiations with the purpose of
prolonging "the profitable war;" it is not as
yet sustained by sufficient evidence.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-06

Much interest viii attach to the announce
Ioent by Prof. KirkwoOd of the probable ex-
isteDce of still another planet or possibly a
group of asteroids within the orbit of Mer-
cury. 1t argues nothing against the truth Of
Tho discovery that the speed in its orbit Of
New-York tribune., 1873-05-06

Later information from the Dixon disaster
throws no light on the immediate cause of the
destruction of the bridge though it hightens
the horrors Of the calamity. 1t is probable
that the list Of deaths will be nearly double
that first given, many additional cases being
already reported. 1t is said that the
bridge was cheaply built, and that the
builder had been unfortunate with previously
constructed works of similar character. We
must wait for an official examination before
gathering any trustworthy data. Enough,
however, is shown to prove that the structure
was utterly valuelcss as a means of transporta-
ton across the river. Less than 800 people.
it would seem were on it at the time of its fall
the spans nearest the banks gave way, leaving
the central part still resting on the piers OF
stone built in the middle of the stream. All
this is inexphcable on any theory which pre-
suppOses an honest or even passable piece of
work. Meantime, we have from Sedalia, Mis-
souri, a report Of q similar disaster, by which
three men were killed and eight were wounded
while working on this death trap. Like the
Dixon bridge, this structure gave way on
account of some fatal weakness. These warn
ings come thick and fast. IL they could only
be needed