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Thorn's, Buck Creek, and R. H. Hick's, to Shelby C-' H , 30 miles end back, once a week. Leave Rutherfordton every Tuesday at 7 a m, arrive at Shelby C. H. same day by 6 p m. Leave Shelby C. H. every Wednesday at 7 a m, arrive at Rutherfordton same day bv 6 p m. 3961. Prom Rutherfordton, by While Oak, Green river, Edneyville, and Hendersonville, to Mill's river, 60 miles and back, once a week. Leave Rutherfordton every Tuesday at 7 a m, arrive at Mill's river next d*yby 6 pm. Leave Mill's river every Thursday at 7 a m, arrive at Rutherfordton next day by 6 p m. Proposals for service once in two weeks are invited. 3963. From Catawba View to Deal's Mills, 9 miles and back, once a week. Leave Catawba View every Tuesday at 8 a m, arrive st Deal's Mills same day by 11 a m. Leave Deal's Mills every Tuesday at 13 ra, arrive at Catawba View same day by 3 p in. 3963. From Jamestown, by Deep river, Browntown, Midway, Huasey's store, ana Phillip's ferry, to Mocks ville, 40 miles and back, oin^ a week. Leave Jamestown every Friday at 6 a m, arrive at Mockaviltc same dav bv 7 P m. I Leave Mocksville every Saturday at 6 a m, arrive < at Jamestown same day by 7 p m. 2964. From Aahboro' to Lawrenceville, 40 mile* and back, once a week. Leave Ashboro' every Wednesday at 6 am, arrive at Lawrenceville same aayby 7 pm. Leave Lawrenceville every Tuesday at 6 a m, arrive at Ashboro' same day by 7 p m. 9965. From Merry HiU to Edenton, 10 miles and back, once a week by water. Leave Merry Hill every Tueaday at 11 a m, arrive at Edenton same day by 1pm. Leave Edenton every Tueaday at 7 a m, arrive at Merry Hill same day by 10 a m. 2966 From Kinston, Lenoir county, by R. D. Nunn's, Lewis Jones's, and Stephen M. Graddy's, to Hallsville, in Duplin county, 35 miles and back, once a week. Leave Kinston 'every Friday at 6 a m, arrive at Hallsville same day by 6 p m. Leave Hallsville every Saturday at 6 a m, arrive at Kinston same day by 6 p m. 2967. From Hallsville, Duplin county, to Richland, Onslow county, 20 miles and backbones a week. Leave Hallsville every Saturday at 6 a m, arrive at Richland same day by 12 noon. Leave Richland every Saturday at 1 p m, arrive at Hallsville same day by 7 p m. 2968. From Hunt's Cross-roads to Nashville, ? miles and back, once a week. The distance of this route not being known, bidders will stale it, and also a schedule by which they will run. 2969. From Chilhowee, Tennessee, Blount county, to Cheoce, Cherokee county, North Carolina, 50 miles and back, once a week. Leave Chdhowee every Monday at 6 a m, arrive at Cheoce next day by 12 noon. Leave Cheoce every Tuesday at 1 p m, arrive at Chilhowee next day by 6 p m. SOUTH CAROLINA. 3193. From Newbury C. H., by 8hop Spring, John Williams's, Wells's Store, Island Foro, and Saluda Homestead, to Woodville, 50 miles and back, once a week. Leave Newburv C. H. everv Wedneadnv at 6 n Oreenville inmt day by 9 p m. r FLORIDA. 3537. From Newnanaville, Alachua county, to Mi-Kinney'a, Columbia county, 20 miles and tack, omen week. l,eave Ncwnansville every Friday at 5 a m, arrive at McKinney'a same day by 12 noon. Leave McKinney's every Friday at 1 p m, arrive at Newnanaville same day by 8 p m. 3538. From Marianna, Jackson county, to St. Andrew's Bay, 60 miles and back, once a week. I Leave Marianna every Wednesday at 6 a m, ar-{ rive at St. Andrew's Bay next day by 6 pm. Leave St. Andrew's Bay every Friday at 6 am, arrive at Marianna next day by 6 p m. N0TE8. 1. Seven minutes nre allowed for opening and i b> ~ing ilie mails, at nil offices where no particular Umr. ia specified. 2. Post office blanks and mail-bags are to be conveyed without fur.her charge, on mail-lines admitting of such conveyance. 3. In all cases there ia to be a forfeiture of the pay of the trip when the trip ia not run; a forfeiture of at lenat one-fourth port of it, when the running or arrival ia so far behind time as to lose the connexion with a depending mail; and a forfeiture of a due proportion of it, when a grade of service ia rendered inferior to that in the contract. These forfeitures may be increased into penalties of higher amounts, according to the nature or frequency of the failure and the importance of the mail. 4. Fines will be imposed, unleaa the delinquenoy be satisfactorily explained in due time, for failing to ^ lake from, or deliver at a poet office, the mail, or * any part of it; for suffering it to be wet, injured, jost, or destroyed; for conveying it in a place or ' f m, arrive at Woodville next day by 12 noon. Leave Woodville every Thursday at 1pm, arrive at Newbury C. H. next day by 7 p m. 9194. From Laurens C. H., by Anderson C. H., to Athens, Ga., 110 miles and back, once a week. Leave Laurens C. H. every Monday at 6 a m, arrive at Athena next Wednesday by 6 p m. Leave Athena every Thursday at 6 a m, arrive at Laurens C. H. next Saturday by 6 p m. Proposals for service once in two weeks are invited. 3195. From Unionville, by Meanaville, Smith's Store, and Rogers's Bridge, (on Tyler's river,) to Woodruffs, 32 miles and back, once a week. Leave Unionville every Thursday at7 am, arrive at Woodruffs same day by 6p m. Leave Woodruffs every Friday at 7 a m, arrive at Unionville same day by 6 p m. 3196. From Cannon's Store, Spartansburg district, by Furger's Mills, to Buck Creek, 20 miles and back, once a week. Leave Cannon's Store every Monday at 6 am, arrive at Buck Creek same (lav by 12 noon. Leave Buck Creek every Monday at 1 p m, arrive at Cannon's Store same day by 7 p m. 3198. From Augusta, Ga., by Hamburg; South Carolina, Edgefield C. H., Dantonsville, Longmire's Store, Winter Seat, Fraziersville, Abbeville C. H , 4^ Due West Corner, Craytonsville, Anderson C. H., Steal's, Pendleton, Double Branches, and Pickenaville, to Greenville C. H., 140 miles and back, once a week. Leave Augusta every Monday at 5 am, arrive at Greenville C. H. next Wednesday by 8 p m. Leave Greenville C. H. every Thursday at 5 a m, arrive at Augusta next Saturday by 8 p m. Proposals for service once io two weeks are invited. GEORGIA. 3406. From Hawkinsville by Milwood, Vienna, Cedar Creek, and Holydaysville, to Albany, 75 miles and back, once a week. Leave Hawkinsville every Tuesday at 6 a m, artS. rive at Albany next day by 6 p m. Leave Albany every Friday at 6 am, arrive at Hawkinsville next day by 6 p m. Proposals for service once in two weeks are invited. 3407. From Monticello, by Planters and Indian Springs, to Jackson, 34 miles and back, once a week. Leave Monticello every Friday at 2 p m, arrive at Jackson Rame day by 10 p m. Leave Jackson every Saturday at 8 a m, arrive at Monticello same day by 4 p m. Crnm Mnrlhnqvillr [V K stilt rniintV hv Villarica and Cairollton, .to Jacksonville, Ala., 85 miles and back, once a week. Leave Marthasville every Monday at 6 a m, arrive at Jacksonville next day by 7 p m. Leave Jacksonville every Wednesday at 6 am, arrive at Marthasville next day by 7 p m. Proposals for service once in two weeks are invited. 340!). From Mnrthasville, De Kalb county, by iNewnan , Corinth, and La Grange, to West Point, 90 miles and back, once a week. Leave Marthasville every Monday at 6 am, arrive at West Point next day by 8 p m. Leave West Point every Wednesday at 6 am, arrive at Marthnsvillc next day by 8 p m. Proposals for service once in two weeks are invited. 3410. From Tnlbotton, Talbot county, to Pineville, 10 miles and back, once a week. Leave Talbotton every Saturday at 1 p m, arrive at Pineville same day by 4 p m. Leave Pineville every Saturday at 9 a m, arrive at Talbotton same day by 12 noon. 3411. From Marietta, by Roswell, to Cumming, 35 miles and back, once a week. Leave Marietta every Thursday at 6 a m, arrive at Cumming some day by 6 p m. Leave Cumming every Friday at 6 a m, arrive at Marietta same day by 6 p m. 3412. From Villarica, Carroll county, by Van Wert and Carpenter's store, to Cassville, 50 miles and back, once a week. Leave Villarica every Wednesday at 6 a m, arrive at Cassville next day by 11 a m. Leave Cassville every Thursday at 12 noon, arrive at Villarica next day by 6 p m. 3413- Frorr) Greenville, Meriwether county, to Ncwnan, 25 miles and back, once a week. Leave Greenville every Friday at 4 a m, arrive at Newnan same day by 12 noon. T TVewnsn evrrv Fridnv at 1 n m. arrive at =**r -7? uanner that exposes it to depredation, loss, orinju y; and for not arriving at tne time set. And for . letting up or running an expreaa to transmit comnercial intelligence in advance of the mail, a penaly will be exacted equal to a quarter's pay. 5. The Postmaster General may annul the contract for repeated failures; for violating the post ofSce laws; lor disobeying the instructions of the de- , partmenl; for refusing to discharge a carrier when required by the department; for assigning the contract without the consent of the Postmaster General; or for setting up or running an express, as aforemid. 6. The Postmaster General may alter the contract ind alter the schedule, he allowing a pro rata increase of compensation, within the restrictions imposed by law, for the additional service required, or for the increased speed, if the employment of additional lock or carriers is rendered necesaary; but the contactor may, in such case, relinquish the contract, on imely notice, if he praters it to the change. He may alao discontinue or curtsil the service, lie allowing one month's extra pay on the amount dispenaed with. 7. The payments will be made through d *As on post qlficcs, or otherwise, after the expiration of each quarter?aay in February, May, August, and novemuer. 8. The dutlmncei art given according to the beet fn/brination ; but no imcrtaeed pen/ will be allowed, should they prove to be greater than a advertited, if the placet are correctly named. 9. The Postmaster General ii prohibited by law from knowingly making a contract for the transportation of the mail with any person who shall nave entered into any combination, or proposed to enter into any combination, to prevent the making of any bid for a mail oontract by any other person or persona, or who shall have made any agreement, or shall have given or performed, or promised to give or perform, any consideration to do, or not to do, anything whatever to induce any other person not to bid for a mail contract. 10. A bid received after lime?to wit, the 23d of September next, at 9 p m?or without the guarantee required by law, or that combines several routes in one sum or compensation, cannot be considered in competition with a regular proposal, not adjudged to be extravagant. 11. A bidder may propose different days and hours of departure and arrival, provided no more running lime is asked, and it is obvious that no mail connexion, or other public accommodation, is prejudiced. He may ask for a specified number of days, or for more running time to the trip at certain seasons of peculiar bad roads. But, beyond these changes, a proposal for service different from the advertisement, will prevent its being considered in competition with a regular bid, not set aside for extravagance ; and where a bid contains any of the above alterations, their disadvantages will be estimated in comparing it with other proposals. 13. There should be but one route bid for in a proposal. 13. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the bidder's name nnd residence, and the name of each member of the firm where a company offers, should be distinctly stated. The following may be used as a form for the bid, where no change from the adrertieemenl is contemplated by the bidder: "I [or we, as the case may be,] hereby propose to carry the mail on No , from to , agreeably to advertisement, for 4 per annum." 14. The following is the form of a guaranty which should be filled, the first blank with the name of the guarantor, the second with that of the bidder; and the third and fourth with the beginning and terminating points of the route ; and after being dated, should be signed by the guarantor, who must be shown by the written certificate of a postmaster, or other equally satisfactory testimonial, to be a man of property, and able to mnke good his guaranty. This guaranty, so certified, should accompany each bid. " The undersigned guarantees that if his bid for carrying the mail from to be accepted by the Postmaster General, ?? shall enter into an obligation prior to the first day of January next, with good and sufficient sureties, to perform the service proposed. ? Daud .? 15. The bid should be sent under seal, addressed to the First Assistant Postmaster General, with " Mail Proposals in the State of " written on the face of the letter ; and should be despatched in time to be received by or before the 22d September next, at 9 o'clock p m. 16. The contracts are to be executed before the 1st January next. Post Office Department, 11th July, 1845. C. JOHNSON, Postmaster General. July 16?law4w By A. Green, Auctioneer. Household furniture, pianos, &c., at auction?On Thursday, the 17th instant, at 5 o'clock, p. m., i shall sell at my auction room, Concert Hall, Todd's buildings, a good lot of furniture, such as? Mahogany hair-seat sofas, divans, ottomans, &c. Do sideboards, bureaus, workstands Do book-case and secretaries, dressingstands Do dining, breakfast, and other tables Chandeliers, astral, solar, carcel, hanging, and other lamps Arm rockers, cane, wood-seat, and office chairs Wardrobes, tin safes, washstands. looking-glasses China, glass, crockery, stone, ana Britannia ware Feather-beds, bolsters, and pillows, mattresses, drc. ? Also two second-hand pianos, with a large lot of other articles, not necessary to enumerate. Terms cash. A. green, July 15?3t Auctioneer. By Bottler, Donn, f( Co., Auctioneer?. SALE OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AT AUCTION.?On Thursday afternoon, 17th instant, at half-past 4 o'clock, we shall sell, on Capitol hill, on New Jersey avenue, between R and c streets, (the flag will designate the houae,) all the household and kitchen furniture of a gentleman declining housekeeping, consisting in part of the following, viz: Mahogany sofa, mahogany bureaus, mahogany column dining tables, mahogany centre table, bedsteads, feather beds and mattresses, mahogany work table, solar lamp, mantel ornaments, cane and wood seat chnirs, rocker chairs, clock, china, glnss, and crockery, kitchen utensils, &c.,&c., Ac. Terms: all sums of and under |25, cash; over $25, a credit of two and four months, for approved endorsed notes bearing interest. boteler, donn, <fc Co., Auctioneers. July 15?2t By A. Green, Auctioneer. WATCHES, JEWELRY, Ac., AT AUCTION.?On Friday, the 18th instant, I shall sell, at my auction room, Concert Hull, Todd's buildings, at 4 o'clock, p. m., a large lot of jewelry, ? A.? 1..1 : ' ,l ?r .u. I-,. 1 P. Latruite, deceased. I enumerate, in part? Fine gold breast-pin*, ear and finger ring* Watcnes, chaina, aeala, keya, lockets, and pencils Silver spectacles, jet buckles, and ear-rings Several gross watch glasses, spoons, Ac. Glass counter-case and signs, with many other articles, not necessary to enumerate. The public are particularly invited to attend this sale, as there is some valuable and handsome jewelry in the lot. Please be punctual to the time, as I have a long road to travel, and a short time to travel it in. I wish to be off precisely at (bur. Terms rash. A.GREEN, July 15?3t Auctioneer. Department or Statk, Washington, 33d June, 1845. T T N DER the provisions of the act of 3d March last, vJ "reducing the rales of postage," Ac., all letters, packages, and other matterjiroperly transmittible by mail, received by officers or the general government, after the 1st proximo, will be charged with postage, at the rates therein established. With a view to economy in the disbursement of the funds of the Department of State, it is therefore desirable that officers connected with it, in preparing the despatches, letters, reports, Ac., they may have occasion to forward to the Secretary of Slate, should bear in mind the provisions of the act referred to, and take care to confine their communications to one sheet, when their extent and character will admit of such restriction without injury to the public service. All applications addressed to the Department of State for passports, certificates, information relative to claims, appointments to office, or any other matters involving private or personal interests merely, aught to ht prepaid. Postages accruing on letters or communications to the Secretary on public or official business, will be paid by the department; but the postage on private letters will be chargeable to him personally. June 96?dAswtlA FOR SALE, 300 cords of best quality yellow pine wood. Also, hickory, oak, snd anthracite coal; which will be delivered for cash on reasonable terms. PETER CASANAVE, 10th street and canal. July 1? 2aw3w COMMUN ICATIONS. r _ 0 (ommunlcalej '' DEMOCRACY AND FEDERALISM. ' The comment! in regard to the liberation of Gov. a Dorr, have called forth the animadversion! of the n "Intelligencer," a federal paper published in Ohio, b The pretended or real fear of jacobinism, exhibited o by the federal party, has always been a marked a feature in its career, designed to strike a mortal tj blow at the principles of democracy, and clearly v proving their distrust of the virtue and intelligence p of the people. The people of the republic have re- g turned this compliment to their patriotism, by allow- n ing those who thus doubt, to remain in private life; r while they have ever bestowed a generous confi- v dence upon the party who (with one or two trifling tl exceptions) have held the political power since the fi days of Jefferson, and have given to our national re- ti nown whatever of glory or honor it may possess, j If the Declaration of Independence is true; if the o brilliant close of the war of 1813 was honorable; if g the overthrow of that corrupt monopoly, which s nearly destroyed the liberties of the people, was j right; they are all attributable to that jacobinical democracy, "which ia ungraded by worth, and unrestrained by justice." 1 can forgive the bitterness of the "Intelligencer," c for the gates of the Rhode Island iiastile are open, and Thomas Wilson Dorr is free. I have op- ] posed his imprisonment, because it was an attack i upon equal rights, and an invasion of the rights of 1 the people. The people of Rhode Island had peti- ( tioned 'or the abrogation of the old King Charles's r constitution, which limited the right of suffrage to freeholder* only, or thoae holding real estate. The federal party, with their usual distrust of the people, wished property to be the qualifying test of citizenship; while the Dorr party wished mind to have its just superiority. In the New York convention of 1B21, the federal leaders?Williams, Van Ness, and others?took precisely the same ground; assuming that properly would be deprived of its just influence, and that the multitude would rule; when all past experience has shown that the "rich have taken care of themselves"?while the present proud standing of the Empire State, her wealth, her common schools, attest how wisely and how well the "mob" can rule! To the democratic leaders in the convention of 1821, is due the high honor of giving universal suffrage to the people of New York; thue giving them the rights of citizenship?the privilege of saying who shall govern them; a right, in connexion with others, denied by a British King, and maintained and established at Saratoga and Yorktown. The people of Rhode Island "petitioned for a redress of grievances"?which wus neither "revolutionary nor disorganizing." For years their petitions were treated with contempt, and the power of the manufacturing and landed interest reigned supreme. Where was the remedy?in abject submission, or a recurrence to first principles' A convention was called; a State constitution formed; Gov. Dorr nominated and elected?the constitution formed by the federal party having been voted dotm by five hundred majority, in the heavy poll of sixteen thousand votes; which was a virtual overthrow of the anti-Dorr party, even if Gov. Dorr received, as his opponents state, many illegal votes. For exercising the rights of governor, Mr. Dorr was tried for high treason, found guilty, and sentenced for ife to imprisonment. I have not the figures within my reach; but, if the editor of the Providence Gazette will send me the statement made by John Brown Francis and others, (a whig statement,) prior to the last presidential election, 1 think I can demonstrate tnat Gov. Dorr received a majority of the votes of the State?his opponents having never established the fact that tnere were sufficient illegal votes to invalidate his election. In any event, the constitution proposed at that time by the anti-Dorr nwas lost by five hundred majority?a rebuke c advocates of the freehold qualification; although, since, the people have rubmillcd to one not as liberal ns they wish, but still far preferable to the original charier of King Charles, for which the federalists were ready to fight, with the same patriotism which they displayed by lowering the flogs at half-mast, and tolling the bells, at the news of the declaration of war, and the surrender of Hull. If the Declaration of Independence is right in the position that "governments derive their just power* from the consent of the governed; that, when they become subversive of the ends for which they were established, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them,"?then Gov. Dorr, ho far from being guilty of treason, was a martyr to principles which are eternnl. But it was not my purpose to enter into a labored defence of Gov. Dorr, (who, by a vote of the people, has been released,) so much ns to vindicate the democracy from the charge of jacobinism. I have done this in part, by showing tnat all we have of prosperity or glory we owe to democratic administrations, who, for a period of near half a century, have controlled the nation. But I go one f--l.~- --..I aau.,1 .k?, publican-whig party have been, in their career, jacobinicnl and monarchical. They favored the gag law and aedition law of John Ailam* in 1798, and upheld the Hartford convention in 1812. They justified the United Statea Bank in its war upon the government, and sustained it in its struggles for power; and, when vetoed by the patriot Jackson, threw the country into one wild scene of dismay, by the discharge of laborers, and the panic-cry of distress and ruin. They proclaimed, through Daniel Webster, in tlpe streets of Baltimois, "that there were no Sundays in revolutionary times," and have endorsed Iieniyr Clay, whose life, since he left the democracy in 1825, affords no evidence that he would go for "liberty restrained by justice, or a democracy graded by worth." But I have not the space to exhibit more of the jacobinical despotism of federalism, under its hallowed name of whig;?I leave them in the hands of the people. The democracy of the French revolution is not the democratic republicanism of the United States. Robespierre, Dnnton, and Marat, governed by no principle, and backed by a people, tnen destitute of public virtue, cannot be compared with Hancock, Henry, Otis, Warren, Madison, Jefferson, and Jackson, sustained as they were by high and ennobling principles, and loved by a people governed by convictions of duly. Even Lafayette doubted the propriety of a democratic republic in France. The excesses of the French revolution cannot be attributed to the principles of democracyi but to the absence of those feelings of right, which alone conduct a nation to honor and glory. If we doubt the experiment of free government; if we believe the people incapable,?then, indeed, was the "star-spangled Banner" unfurled in vain. No; we would ruther cling to the beautiful Sentiment of Bancroft, "that democracy and Christianity are twin sisters?one and indivisible. 1 have faith to believe that the star of our hope will never set, and that millions yet unborn will drink at the fountain of liberty, ami be refreshed by the "high swelling regenerating tide of democratic freedom." PATRICK HENRY. For the Union. PRINTING TELEGRAPHS. The annexed letter of Professor Morse, written some time ago, at the request of a friend, is given to the public, in consequence of the notices of a printing telegraph which have recently appeared in the New York papers. Dnntifln?ti it mnut inwniniiR machine hnn l>rf n in vented there, which is made to print actual letters. But we may well doubt whether it can arrange the type, distribute the ink on them, and lake the impression, as quick as Professor Morse's simple macnine can make the sign of a letter. But if all that can be effected in the same time, it must be by a more eomrdicated machinery; which is, consequently, more iable to get out of order. And then the ink, its preparation, and all that belongs to it, Professor Morse di>q>enBes with altogether. He spent much time himself in attempting to write with ink; but found it troublesome and dilatory, nnd finally abandoned it altogether. A dot or a mark made with a sharp point on a piece of while paper, is just as good as a dot or mark made with a pen and ink; and a dot which is understood to represent a letter, is just as good as the letter itself. Thus, in Professor Morse's telegraphic alphabet, a dot represents the letter E; it is made instantly, without taking time to bring a type into place, put the ink on it, and take an impression. Of the machinery used in the printing telegraph, we know nothing; out it is impossible to make anything more simple than Morae's, in its essenlial parts. One end of a lever is fixed over a piece of soft iron, which, changed for the instant into a magnet, by the passage of the electric or galvanic fluid, gives the lever a jerk, when a point in the other end thus thrown up, makes a dot or indentation on a slip of white paper which is passing over it. The dots are repeated at will by the operator, and as rapidly as his hand can move, letting on and breaking oflr the current of galvanism; and, if he wish to make a mark, he permits the current to run on a second or two. Combinations of these dots and marks make up the letters of the alphabet, which any one can learn as r??y as he can learn A, B, C. Printers can set their types from them as readily as from actual lelteri; and, as a dozen copies can be struck ' on in once, a uozen printer! can be supplied at the Mime time. 1 If a machine aa simple, aa rapid, and aa efficient, ' haa been invented in New York, which will throw 1 off actual lettera, and multiply copiea aa faat aa Profeaaor Moree can ptalte his dou and markf-^ 1 nd all that, without more danger of getting out of rder, or of infringing upon hia patent?it ie a great riumph of genius, which deserves to be rewarded, tut the mere production of letters by a machine forked by galvanism, is nothing new; and if it be t the expense of time or simplicity, however well it lay work in a room prepared for exhibition, it will a e found in practice to be of inferior value. While, t n the one hand, we would not deprive genius of its . ppropriate reward, by disparaging its new combina- {, ions, we should not, oil the other, throw aside that , rhich has been perfected and tested after years of j iivalion and toil, to run after untested new devices, , otten up by those who would now step in to con- ? est the palm which Professor Morse has so labo- a iously won. During his years of study, toil, and rant, nobody envied, him; but now, that he is on a he point of realising hia rewurd, many men will be c ound stepping in with new combinations, to reap , he harvest of which he has sown the seed. A just J press and a just public will be well assured of the c riginality and value of new contrivances, before ;iving their authors a preference over one who has t pent thirteen years of his life in maturing this great ? nvention. Nrur Voss. June t) IK4.1. . Dear sir: In relation to printing teUgrephs, con- j erning which you desire some information, I would y, thnt since my printing telegraph, invented in } [839, (which is the first ever devised,) there have f teen many attempts in Europe to construct one. ? 'rofeeaor Steinheil, of Munich, in 1837 constructed ( i printing te'egraph, making use of the magnetic leedle to strike dots upon paper. Professor Wheal- j itone, of London, and Mr. Alexander Bain, in 1840, . nvented printing telegraphs, concerning which an an- a fry controversy was foraome time waged between the , wo claimants. Both these plans have for their ob- . ect to print the real letter, or f he common Utter of the ilphabet?a matter of some importance, (if success- , ully executed,) as compared with the method Mr. , Wheatstone now uses, of merely pointing to a let- , er; but of positive disadvantage in some respects, , tnd of none in other respects, as compared with my , node of printing the conventional alphabet, whicn [ have invented. I As far back as 1836, the idea of printing the com- ( non letter of the alphabet, formed the subject of many ( duns and contrivances, both by Mr. Vail (my pres- . :nt assistant superintendent at the Washington a la- j ion) and myself; and they were abandoned, not be- . :ause they were not practicable, but because they , lould not compete with my simple plan already de- j vised. j A few considerations will show the fallacy into < which many have fallen, in supposing that any ad- ( vantage is gained by printing the common Koman , etter of our alphabet. The common letter of our j ilphabet is but a conventional sign, by which we rep- , resent the words of our language; and as it is con- j ventional, it may be changed as expediency may re- t pure. , The Greek signs for A, B, C, would spell the ( words of our language as well as the Romnn signs , familiar to us from our infancy, requiring, in order ( to be familiar with the change, about half an hour's , itudy by an intelligent child. So in regard to any ( other sign for a letter, which convenience may sug- , gest If, then, by the invention of a series of dots, , and lines, and spaces, variously combined to form h j conventional alphabet, and thus adapted to a simple . mechanism, 1 am able to dispense with a great com- , plication of machinery, and thus to simplify my ; mechanism, and render it less costly; and less liable | to be deranged, I consider such an invention as in advance of any contrivance which would attempt, at the expense of morecomplicatiun and greater cost, | to print the common letter of the alphabet. By means of a single key, like a piano key, (as , you well know,) and common clock machinery occupying a space of about one square foot, I can print my letters of the alphabet at the rate of more , than 50.per minute; and they aro read as fast as j they are written. A letter of my alphabet is recog- { nised the instant it is printed; and, certainly, more cannot be said if the common letter were printed. j Some have supposed, that the multiplication of j copies would be facilitated by printing in the com- , mon letter. This, also, is u fullaey. Experience , has shown that the public intelligence rend off by the attendant at the stations of my telegraphs as fast as received,can be simultaneously recorded by any number of reporters that may be required. And where piivale or secret intelligence is to lie sent, (and moat of the intelligence will be of that character,) the common letter is rather a disadvantage?or, at least, of no advantage over mine, which is, in itself, a secret alphabet to the many. I have been long of the opinion, that much ingenuity has been wasted in endeuvoring to print the common, or Reman letter of the alphabet; and I am not surprised, therefore, to learn that both Whealstone's and Bain's printing telegraphs arc laid aside. The former, 1 understand, shows the printing telegraph at one of his stations merely as a curiosity, but does not find it compete even with his needle telegraph. 1 feel confident that none has yet been invented which can successfully compete with mine in siniplicity of construction, and in rapidity of jrriniitig. I ought, perhaps, to say, that neither Bain's nor Wheatatone'a printing telegraphs could be introduced into the United States, without encroaching on my patent?both of them using the clectro-magnetfor telegraphic purposes, which is covered by my patent. With great respect, sir, Your obedient servant, SAM'L F. B. MORSE. By A- Green, Auctioneer. SPLENDID HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN FURNITURE AT AUCTION.?On Tuesday, the 23d instant. I shall sell, at the residence of Major G. W. Camblosa, on 4 j street, near Pennsylvania avenue, at 10 o'clock a- m., his entire household and kitchen furniture, all of the latest pattern, and of the best quality. 1 numerate, in partFine mahogany hair-seat sofas, lounges, and ottomans Fine mahogany hair-seat parlor and rocking chairs Fine mahogany Egyptian marble-top sideboard, pier and centre tables; washstands Fine mahogany workstand; dressing and other bureaus Fine mahogany dining, breakfast, and card tables Fine mahogany damask and hair-covered Boston rocking chairs and ottomans Fine mahogany hat-rack, with glass; French bedsteads, ?c. Fine gilt pier glasses, mantel vases, and flowers Fine gilt girandoles and plated candelabras Fine gilt mantel clock?a first rate timepiece Fine gilt-frams engravings and paintings Fine feather beds, bedding, and mattresses Fine scarlot, moreen, and other window curtaios, with ornaments complete Fine high and low-post bedsteads, Venetian window blinds, dtc. Fine brass andirons and fenders, shovels, tongs China, glass and crockery ware Parlor, chamber, passage, and step carpets Cooking and other stoves, grates, &c. A hrst<-rate patent refrigerator A large lot of kitchen utensils, not necessary to enumerate Also a splendid toned rosewood piano-forte, made Un riiixlrnrinrr nvfrn finish u/ilh PYtm kftVH. "J ...... selected by Dielmnn, and entirely new. Term* of sale: All lumi of and under |25, caah; over 425, a credit of four and six month*, for notes satisfactorily endorsed, bearing interest. The house is for rent. A. GREEN, July 9?eod&ds Auctioneer. BALTIMORE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, INCORPORATED IN 1830, JVo. 1/5 South ttreet. CHARTER PERPETUAL. fpHIS company makes insurances on lives for X one or more years, or for life, at the following rates per annum, per one hundred dollars. -If One yntr. Brum yrari. lift. 26 (I on $1 14 (4 03 SO 1 31) I 63 2 76 46 1 01 1 ! ? 3 76 00 4 86 4 PI 7 00 and intermediate age* nt proportionate rales; and the premiums payable semi-annually or quarterly, if preferred. itiwya una jcim annxnnffl?gnmw _/?? children?make* all con tracts in which lift or the interest of money it involved. The policies of insurance may be made payable lo a wife, child, or any other person designated hv the assured. By an act of the State of Maryland, 1840, chapter 212, insurances made by married women on the lives of their husbands are ftilly protected from all claims of creditors. The proposals and rates, as well as blank forma of application, may be obtained at the office of the company, or its agents. JOHN I. DONALDSON, President. Richard B. Dorset, Secretary. J ask H. CarsTtN, Agent for Washington. June 3?dly ItHE ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT at . Georgetown College will take place on Thursday, 24th inet., at 91 o'clock, a.m. On the pre ce- , ding Tuesday, (22d inst.,t at 31 o'clock, p. m., the j class of Natural Philosophy will exhibit a series of , experiments in chemistry. The public are respectfully invited to attend on both occasions. July 14?3t | EDITOR'S CORRESPONDENCE. (Krwm our r*f uUr correspondent J Sault Ste. Marie, Near Lake Superior, July 2, 1845. We left Mackinaw yesterday, thejst July, about , quarter-past eight, a. m.j our course for forty miles o the "ihtuur" lying through the open and upler part of Lake Huron, which exposed our little iont to a very heavy rolling sea?the result of he previous day or two's severe blow ou the lakes riuny of the passengers, as usual on such occaions, became severely sea-sick. At half-past 13, p. n., we rounded into St. Mary's river, where we had moolher water. The river at first appeared very wide, with a low .nd sandy beach on each side, and a rial swampy ouqtry running back into the interior, As we irogressed, however, the stream grew more nsrrow, .nd again expanded into two smart lakes?the first ailed Great George, and the latter Little George's ike. Leaving these lakes, the river fifteen ortwen Lmiles below the Sault again contracted, and turned >ut among high hills a Tittle distance off, while its nargin was skirted with low, flat, gravelly ground, overed with while cedar and other rather dwarfed brest trees. These highlands showed steep hills or cnobs of old red sandstone. It was not long after passing the hills, before we love in sight of the white and frothy rapids, at the oot of which stands the small village of the Sault, it the principal pier of which we landed?it being it) miles from the lake, fi- . ?oiu~>;nn ?r w_ t louses, roofed and weather-boarded with birch bark, ' rathered along the river at the foot of the falls, here 1 nid there showing small framed painted houses, one 1 >f which is an hotel, at present overflowing with peo- 1 >le bound for the mineral lands of Lake Superior.1 j The Sault contains, besides the houses noticed, i small United States garrison; the slender wooden ( itockade defences of which, with officers' quarters, ire almost in a state of dilapidation. There is also 1 i small missionary station and school-house belong- 1 ngto the Methodists, and a U. S. Indian agency. 1 There is a collector of the nort on each side of the 1 iver, which is here About a mile wide, between us and ' Danada. I imagine there is very little business to ' lo by either functionary. The American Fur Com- ! >any have a station at the Sault. The I{udson 1 Bay Company have a factory, or station, on the op- ' aosite side of the river. I paid a visit to the latter 1 yesterday, having a note of introduction to a Mr. Bleneden, their agent, whom I found butty in packng up for a voyage up the Canada aide of Lake 1 Superior, He is bound on a tour among the posts owards Hudson's Bay to the north. Mr. B. re-Jj reived me very politely. He informed me that he ntended to carry his children with him, whom he rxpecled to send in the care of friends across to Hudson's Bay, where they would embark on one of :he company's ships for London, and be from thence :onveyed to Edinburgh, to be placed at school. He told me Sir George Simpson, the governor of the company, had passed up the lakp not long since, ac- ] compamcd by ilia boats, &c. He was bound for i the vatley of the Red river of the North, where he , expected to meet a kind of convention of the author- ] ities of the company's terrileries in that quarter? | imong whom would be the representatives of Scl- , kirk's colony, the population of which is about 1 5,000. They produce more grain, &c., than they j can find means of having conveyed to market: ( hence there is some emigration from their colony lo J the valley of the Mississippi, within the States. Mr. B. states that the Hudson Bay Company employ about seven ships in their trade?two or three of which, every summer, visit Hudson's Bay; three double Cape Horn, and ascend the Columbia river; and one or two others are employed at other points. He states that their charter gives them am pie territorial jurisdiction over all the lunds, mines, i on the high lands to the north and west of Lake Superior, but not over the lands immediately along i the shore. He states that a geologist, Dr. Logan, ( is engaged in surveying the country of Upper Can- | ada, and is now employed between Lake Ontario , and Luke Huron, or the inlet of the latter lake, | called Lake Georgina Bay. He is expected up this , summer, to examine the northern shore of Lake Superior, which is supposed to be as rich in copper ] ore, at certain points, as the southern shore. , The two fur companies (American and Hudson | Bay) are on the best possible understanding; which has a very favorable influence on the northwestern | tribes of Indians. I In 1830, they mutually agreed to exclude all in- < toxicating drinks, in their traffic and intercourse, ( from them. The Indians, in consequence of this , wise and humane compact, are everywhere, within | their bounds, more ihoflensive and peaceable. It is , just as safe, if not more so, to travel among them, i than among the whites. They have a considerable | number of birch-bark lodges at the Sault, employ- , ing their time in catching flsh at the foot of the falls, in their gill-nets. They belong almost exclusively to the Chippewa tribe. The Sault is the greatest place for catching fish I ever saw. They can take ten times as many white fish, salmon-trout, brooktrout, bass, Ac., as can be disposed of. The In- 1 dians push their canoes up into the foam of the falls, ' cast forward their nets, and draw it as the current ' carries the boat down again. Our staple article of | food at the Sault is fresh fish. i The falls here, or rapids, have only a descent of j about 18 to 21 feet in a mile; while the ground is very favorable to the construction of a ship-canal? 1 the length of which need only be a mile. On the j Canada side, the length of the rapids is only about three-quarters of a mile long. It is very likely, if our government reftises to conatruot a canal on our | side, that the English may, ere long, moke one on their side; which will be only three-quarters of a ! mile long. The fort at this place, in time of war, should be 1 erected on a considerable hill, about three-quarters of a mile in the rear of the Sault;-called Coal-pit hill; which commands a fine view of the falls, river, &e. j There are several schooners (say three or four) on ' Lake Superior, plying between the head of the falls and La|>ointe, Copper Harbor, &c. They have 1 been drawn around the falls on rollers. There is ' some talk of having a steamer carried around by the same means. A fine new vessel iBon the stocks at the head of the falls, which is about half done. It will be launched about the 1st of August. She is building hy Newbury & Co.; to be rigged as a foreand-aft schooner. At the Sault, a Catholic station was founded from one to two centuries ago, being fixed upon as a 1 missionary station. Next to Quebec and Montreal, it is said to be the oldest point settled upon by Europeans in Canada. It has alwayj been an important point for the Indian trade. Here goods are carried round the falls, and sent up Lake Superior to , be distributed to various Indian trading-posts, far in the northwestern region of the continent. The early Catholic Jesuits, or priests, who first explored the far distant, cold, and dreary regions bordering the shores and streams of the upper lakes, must nave been animated with a deal of perseverance, and influenced by the dictates (to them) of an all-powerful religion. They at every prominent point throughout this vast country erected the cross among the savage tribes, and impressed their minds with the solemn and imposing ceremonies of the religion they professed. Their success among the savage tribes of JNorlh America lias never been surpassed, if equalled, by more modern and persevering denominations. They acquired an influence over the Indians, which nearly a century of British and American domination has not been sufficient to efface. Even at this day, the frail wooden cross seen standing in the humble grave-yards of tha Indians, sufficiently attests the remaining influence of the Catholic religion. French and Indian have also intermarried more than the Anglo-Saxon and Indian. The latter also more commonly speak French. Indians never, in early times, fought Frenchmen. Our earliest accounts of the vast interior western and northwestern regions of this continent were derived from Catholic prieits, such as Father Hennepin, Ac. The first Englishmen who explored the upper lakes after the fall of Canada, were Henry and Carver, between the years 1766 and 1775-'76. Their works contain many interesting details relative to the country. In alluding, in a former letter, to our loss of Hunters' island by the treaty of Washington, I underrated its size. It is greater in area than the vaunted Isle Royale; lieing about 50 miles long, instead of 40, and about 40 wide. A gross error prevails with regard to Isle Royale. It is supposed by some that we acquired it by the late Washington treaty, when it has always been ours, since the treaty of peace after the revolution. We have, therefore, given away important territory on Pigeon river, without receiving any equivalent, that 1 know of. We have been wind-bound at the Sault for two or three days, by reason of a strong norlhwetltr, blowing directly down the river. It has been blowing about a half a gait on the upper lakes for nearly two months past; and, from all indications, the gale may last all summer. The weather in this latitude (46 degrees 30 minutes) is very cold. We have to wear thick woollens and sleep under blankets?it being difficult, on Ihe 2d day of July, 1845, to keep warm at that' The soil produces fine Irish potatoes?better than I have tasted any where else??bme oats, bsrlev, turnips, rye, and wheat, drc. The soil i is miserably bad, back in the interior. The pop- i ulation depends chiefly upon fishing, for a support; i which, to all appearance, is a never-failing resource. *- iwmi ?. jnjini, i e*peci w roam mc aoumem | lake shore in an open boat, with five or six "soy-1 yturi;" or send tliern on, and go up to Copper Haror in the schooner Swallow. ! shall pass to where mail facilities cease, and vhere the reduction of postage affords no benefit; md it may be some days before you can get another ettrr from me. During the late war, the Americans, under comnand of Major Holmes, burnt down the Hudson Jay Company's fur agency, or factory, on the oppolite side of the river. Almost the only tribe of Indians visiting or living ibout the Suult, belong to the Chippewa tribe? vhich, on the average, are good-looking Indians, ind apparently comfortably clad, &c. Many of the islf-breeds are really beautiful; aud, in regularity of eatures, figure, and size of hands and feet, would do :redit to more civilized life. They seem to ne to be more industrious than mure south :ni iriucts ui iinunim among wnoiu i nny? irav lied, and far more inoffensive and civil to the whiles. Some of the men are exceedingly tall and ine-looking fellows. I saw yeaierdav tne son of a :hief from the Canada side, who stood between six tnd seven feet high, and was as straight as an ar ow. He could not speak a syllable of English. 1 iuw him examining, with much attention, the new ichooner building at the head of the falls. The names of Indians ure often very curious, ind, in a measure, put at detiance the power of the English language to express them. I saw a tall nan of the Chippewas at Mackinac, as he stood razing at the United States sleatnship Michigan. Mr. Biddle, an old resident trader of the place, who ipoke Chippewa, was standing near nim. He wished to know of Mr. Biddle what sort of a vessel ihe was; who explained to him that she belonged o "hi# great father, the President, who, if neceslary, would use it against his enemies." This Iniian's name, translated into English, was nothing ess than "A Corpse," or "A Dead Man"?an unurnal name, 1 should think, even for an Indian I The Indiana always keep an abundant supply of logs, which, about the Sault, seem uniformly to be > cross of the common cur with the wolf, ami seem >f little use, except to keep up an eternal barking at light about their bark lodges. This is a remarkibly fine climate for ihe Newfoundland dog, some ine specimens of which I have seen in the possesion of the whites about the Sault. At Mackinac, ind other places in the northwest, the half-breeds tspecially make draught animals of dogs, in drawing water on trucks, and in performing other labor. The dogs used by the Indians about Hudson's Bay are said to be larger and more savage, and used o a greater extent ns animals of labor. The Chippewas, it is said, make no scruple of sating dogs, which they often esteem as a delicacy. This, however, I cannot vouch for. Yours, very respectfully, MORGAN. Galveston, July 3, 1845. 7o the Editor of the Union : The steamer M'Kim leaves this port to-day, for New Orleans. I send you some items of news. Our Congress adjourned on Saturday Inst, (29th June;) very little business of a local nature was transacted. Resolutions annexing Texas to the United States, passed unanimously. Hon D. Kaufman, it was generally supposed, would be sent as charge to the United States. General Thomas J. Rusk will most probably be elected president of the convention ibout to assemble at Austin, without opposition. He is one among the most popular men in the :ountry, and deservedly so. It was generally thought at Washington, that President Jones and the cabinet would, in a short time, remove to Austin. Resolutions had passed Congress, restoring Post Captain C. W. Moore to his former station, Src. in our navv; which were vetoed bv the Pres ident, and laid on the table, without further action. Commodore R. F. Stockton had, through Dr. Wright, surgeon of the Princeton, made propositions to the government, asking that the major general might be authorized to call out the militia to take possession of the country between the Nueces and Rio Grande, &c. &c. [His own spontaneous and generous propositions were finally dedined.] Information of the death of General Jackson not having been received at Washington at the time, n preamble and resolutions in honor of him were unanimously passed on the 18th of June. To-morrow (the 4th of July) has been set apart by the citizens of Galveston for celebrating the funeral obsequies of General Jackson. As a people, we should be among the first to pay respect to the memory of that great man who has filled the measure of his country's glory, and who, at the same time, has not been unmindful of the interest of the people sf Texas, nor ceased to regard them, and especially ihe hero of San Jacinto, who has led us safely and triumphantly through nil our troubles, with a paternal affection. Very respectfully, R. D. J. Works or Art.?Mr. Lester, U. S. consul at Glenoa, has brought with him two works of art, which have afforded us a great deal of pleasure. One is an original portrait of Araericus Vespucius, the only one in Italy,and which was presented to Mr. L. by the family. It was taken by Brongino, and has been preserved by the lineal descendants of the Vespucci family with the greatest care. ' It represents Vespucius with a chart in his hand, and apparentlycontemplating the distant ocean he is to traverse. The head seems to have been shaven like that of a monk, but the whole face presents nothing particularly prepossessing. The picture is accompanied wiui undoubtod testimonials of its originality; among others, a letter from the Grand Duke of Tuscany. It shows the state of art at that time, and, by its freshness, preserved through so long a period, exhibits the great skill of the artist. The Vesnucei fnmilv are noor. Two daughters are en gaged in teaching school; while the son, th* only lineal male descendant, is employed in the Treasury Department of the government, at a salary less than a hundred dollars. The Duke of Tuscany, however, supplies the wants of the family from his own pocket, Mr. Lc was the first American that had ever called on the family, and they were deeply affected by the compliment, as they had been before mortified at the nsgleot of our countrymen. They are deeply chagrined at the conduct or their sister, who, after having been the mistress of some dozen of men, had the impudence to ask our government for a grant of land to herself, as the only descendant of the Vespuoci family. We hope this portrait will adorn the capitol, for it certainly should be a national picture. The other gem of art we referred to, is a modern work executed by a monk belonging to a convent in Gieuoa. It is a crucifix scene. Our Saviour is represented 011 the cross, in all the agony of his painful death. The body is wrought of one solid piece of ivory, the largest we hsve ever seen, and which is of itself a curiosity. The anatomical truth of every part of the form, the perfect representation of nature in every detail, astonishes the anatomist; while the character of the face?nay, the expression of agony in every muscle, and in the whole attitude, fills the artist with admiration. Even Mr. Powers looked on it with wonder. The intellectual and majestic brow is knit in the extremest agony, while around the glorious mouth plavs the smile of res ignalion. The brow is the hitter pravcr in the garden, while the mouth is the embodied exclamation, ''Thy will ba done." We have never seen anything equal to this, of its kind. Even the distended veins are seen coursing under the skin, and the exquisite finish ofevery part is equalled only by the perfect harmony and wonderful expression of the whole. It is a gem of art, and, what renders it stronger still, it is the only work the artist has ever executed. [Afao York Evening Mirror. Office or TaANifoaTATiow, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Washington Branch, July 13, 1845. Reduction of Fare. THE PUBLIC are respectfully informed that, on and after Monday next, the 14th inst., the fnre in cither direction between Washington and Baltimore will be $3, until otherwise ordered. Tickets for the round hip can be procured on ajvplication at this office for |3, which will be good for twenty-four hours. If not procured before the departure of the cars, the regular ftre will be charged. Tickets for the round trip will also he issued to the intermediate points of the road, at the following reduced rates, viz: To Bladensburg and returning .'XIrents, Belleville...." " CO.." "Laurel " " 90.." Savage....." " 1 00.." Annapolis junction.." 1 10.." By order SAM'L 8TETT1NIUS, July 11?6t Agent. lu tlr.I>ll.?A houxe in Franklin row, well finished, and in good repnir, ffiffl " I H? w't*> a w>n,n>o4i??i finished baxeBD^W ment, a lar^e briek atable and coar.hhouxe, and a pump of the finest water ,l *e. kitchen door. The rent low, to a good tenant, especially if taken for a term of years. Apply to J. B. H. SMITH, , , ? F street, near 14th street. July 9?w3l* THE ROYAL WEST INDIA MAIL STE^i PACKETS ^ Leave Southampton for Madeira, the [f(( Indies, ifc., direct, on the 11d and 17^, each month, returning twice a month ? due course. 1'HE public it* respectfully informed, ihu* 1. British Royal Mail Steam-packet Compear steam veaacla offer commodioun accommodation L passengers, and ply regularly between the ^ mentioned placet, vis. : From Encland to Harbadoks, (via Madeira), the 2d and 17th of each month. m Prom bar?ADOsa, about the 9ih and S44, h Ghbnaoai thence along the northern i.uWj. . . Thomas and Pobto Rico, and back by the route to BiUtDoii, ^ From Babbadoei, about the 9th and 24ih, t0T bago and Demerara; thence, about the 5th ^ 20tn, to Tobago and Grenada. * From Grenada, about the 11th and life), Trinidad and back. * From Grenada, about the 11th and 26ih,e?Hu? at Jacmel in Hayti, to Jamaica, St. Jagod'eCida and thence back to Jamaica and Jacmtl, and ov Poaro Rico and St. Thomas; from whence ih steamer proceeds towards England, via Bti? da and Fayah alternately. From St.' Thomas, about the lGth, to Bnatj thence about the 21st, to Nassau and Havana; im ing the last-mentioned place about the 29th, for J MA1CA. From Jamaica, about the Itiih, to 8anla Meifc Carlhagena, Chaures, and Sun Juan de NicArwv, and back by the tame route; leaving Chagaii abas the 25th, and reaching Jamaica about the 3d. From Jamaica, about the 3d, to Havana, Vm, Cruz, Tampico, and back by the same route'to Hi. vana; thence, about the lUth, to Nassau, Bcssm, and England. ^ Alto, by sailing vessels. ' From GaENADA, about the 26th, to La Get,hl and Porto Cabello, and liack to La Giutra, ih?* to St. Thomas; arriving there about the 15th'. From Havana, about the 6th, to Hondcsai taf bark to Havana. The farca (which include the use of beddinguf linen, steward's fees, and all other charges, extra for wines, spirits, malt liquors, and mineral wtten,| are moderate. For example: that between Hatar and Jamaica, in fifty dollars; and between otbe places, nearly proportionate, having reference tod#, lance and time. By this continuous chain of steam communicstioe, an opportunity offers (to persons remaining ? board) of evading the rigor of climate during wintn, without incurring the risk of residing for any length of time in a West India colony. The steam-packets carry an experienced stirtm E. CHAPPELL, Secretary! 55 Moorgate street, London. July 16?lam3tn EARTHENWARE, CHINA, AND GLAi THOMAS PURSELL has just imported, pa ship Devenshire and other vessels from Line pool direct, 87 crates and hogsheads of the tbott articles, of the latest patterns and shapes; which, with his former stock, makes his assortment extend sive and complete; amongst which are? English, French, India, white ironstone,rich Woe stone china, pearl white, blue Liverpool, and whin granite Dinner, Tea, Coffee, and Toilet Sets,ul pieces detached. Also, rich china crimson and gold, salmon ud gold, green and gold, flowers and gold, blue tid gold, white and gold, figured, white and enamelM Tea Sets, or pieces separate. Crimson and white and gold Toilet Sets, Ac. Cut, pressed, and plain Glass of every description. Astral, solar, stand, side. Liverpool, and cut ut plain Hall Lamps, and Lamp Glasses and Wicfa, of almost every size. Candelabrus and Lard Lamps, Waiters, Lookigglasses. Shovel and Tongs, Ivory-handled and other Knives and Porks, in sets of 51 pieces, or separw. English and American Britannia Coffee andTa Seta, and Coffee Biggins and Urns. German silver, plated, and Britannia Castors. Albetta, plated, and Britannia Table, Tea, ml Dessert Spoons and Forks, &c. Plated, Britannia, and brass Candlesticks, sai Snuffers and Trays. Britannia Teapots, Sugars, Creams, and Bovli end covered Pitchers and Mugs, Ac. Also, many other articles in the house-fumishitf line, too numerous to mention, all of which will ts sold, wholesale and retail, at the very lowest prices, and on the very best terms, at his store opposite Brown's Hotel, Pennsylvania avenue. ' P. S. A good assortment of common goods suitable for retailing. First quality Stoneware at factory prices. Thankful for phat favors, he still solicits a all from his friends and the public generally at is store, opposite Brown's Hotel, Pennsylvania m nue. THOMAS PUR8ELL. June 17?TuThu&Satif lm RESH DRUGS AND CHEMICALS?F.W FULLER has taken the store recently occupied by E. F. Buckingham, at the corner of Penosylvania avenue and 12th street, and procured Iron the northern cities a full and complete assortment of fresh drugs and chemicals of the best quality. ' Having had an experience of nine veara ia tit drug business, more titan three of which were spent in one nf the h*?t Mtnklinhmnntn in PhiUdslnhL where he enjoyed the benefit of the lecture* of lb Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, he ie proper^ to dispense medicines in the best manner. H? whole personal attention will be given to (he compounding of physicians' prescriptions by night s well as by day, and all medicines will be put up with the greatest care and accuracy. All the new preparations procured as soon ?s they appear. June 30?3weo PIANOS?Just received, two extra fine Views instruments, six and three-quartera octaves,with patent leather hammers. A rare chance is no* offered to purchasers who wnnt a genuine articlejse the importer (who is, by-the-by, considered as* rate judge) is now on the spot?to wit, Vienna, lb emporium of music?to select, and, when selects with care, to send them over. This manufactory is now entirely renewed a? remodelled, and in such high repute, that their instruments meet with rapid sales, not alone in (tomany, but also in France and Italy, and are not ah ways easily procured. As for lasting, tliey wihb as good in twenty years as now. Good violins, with bows, in cases; and violins* guitar strings, always on heund. F. A. WAULER, Piano wnreroom, on H M***P. S. Good second-hand pianos for sale or hut sonic very low. July JO? 3tif rpo WOOD CUTTERST?Se^d^r^M*1''.? X dorsed "Proposals for wood," will he Tce"', until the first day of September, for the furnishing' delivery on the wharf nt the Penitentiary, utjj* District of Columbia, between the first day o( Stytember and fifteenth of October next, free of u'J pense to the United States, of one hundred s* eighty-three cords of sound, well seasoned, ?* i ? t i T _.j. vimuiauio rcu una woou, anu sixteen coruo ~ V well seasoned, merchantable spruce pine wood;tw payment for which will be made on the delivery * the whole. JOHN B. DADE, Ward* July 15?lawtlatSep . UNI O N COPPER COMPANY.?NoticM hereby given, that an assessment of two dor lars per share has been laid on the stork of this ro? P?ny, payable on or before the 5th of August ne? ensuing, at the office of the secretary and treasure, F street, near the Treasury Department, WasluT ton, or to Jos. H. Adams, esq., president of t* New England Mutual Marine Insurance Compff' State street, Boston. THOS. L. SMITH, July 14?3tw3w Sec'y and Treasure^ FANCY GOODS, PERFUMERY. FANCY Goods, perfumery, combs and bin*" We are just opening a beautiful i,w"rtnK^ of fresh fancy goods, suitable for the Spnop and watering places; consisting of beautiful tjivf and plain fans, net gloves and mitts. Also stock of real German Cologne (Farina), Bay ' pomatums and oils for beautifying and promo uy the growth of the hair, dressing combs, hair bn" tooth and nail brushes; in fact, a genfral variety fancy gooda. t DiDirroia r..._ rrv start' * fiinvtiiii Kf inm y miu prj?i/ Penn. Avenue, between 9th and 10th ?tre?<*July 14?3t SWEEPING BRUSHES, whitewash bru?k* scrubbing brushes, shoe brushes, a great rue ty, and Blake's celebrated blacking, JulyS?St By A. Green, Auctioneer. SAILBOAT AT AUCTION ?On Saturday,' kJJ 19th instant, I ahull sell, at 6 o'clocK, p- JU the canal at the 14ih atreet bridge, the fine ,n j sailboat Nnutilna, 'linker built and copper ft'1"1 nad in fine tailing order, schooner rigged. u Terme, caah. A. GREE* July 15?soR? Aucuo**