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ppBuiHiii w nmmoM * co. TERMS. Trk Daily Republic will be famished by earnew to subscribers in Washi?fl?ton and ita vicinity for TWELVE AMD A HAL* CEWT? M* WEEE. To mail subscriber^, per 5 00 Advertisements inserted at the lowest rates. OfVICB OF VHR KBPCBL1C. M1ETH STREET, hear pemms.tl van! a avenue, WASHINGTON, D. C. tmrnammmmmem t immmmmssr?jnrr Bf the President of the Usitoi Metes. ^P . ij^jSf^ if '^^jr ^b ? H ^ w j^B B' V V K ^:^F- >^H ' V V B I -,flh .^k ^^b.- .^h . '^^if: . ^^bj.h?^h ^h. ii .x1 !.'_1 j. ul -- -j- .ljl.ju j '.'_ .11. jul1 'j'w"'^'l "*"l"bwrtbmb^hbmnw8<wwh"bi^wg?wbmb>"sibwibgbhhbbbbbmbbgbhhhbhbmbhbwmib^w,^li!^^l?^?',m^'^*p'***bm^,*^w^ Vol. V. WASHINGTON: SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1853. No. 34. IN pursuance ot law, i, r iun&Lin riBHt;c( President of the United States, do hereby de clare and make known that public -sales of ti)< sections and parts of sections of land, all. be arm* the odd numbert, which reptain to the U qited States, within six miles on each side of the Une of the Mobile and Obty River railroad. In the States of Alabama and MiMnaippi, subject to donble the minimum price of the public lands, as provided by the act of 20th September, 1880, will be bold at the following' land offices, In the States of Alabama and Mississippi, at the periods hereinafter designated, to wff: At the land oAoe at ST. STEPHENS, In Alabe. ma, commencing' on Monday, the fifth day of September next, for the disposal of such sections and parts of sections, being tbe odd Humbert above re* tarred to, as are situated in the undermentioned townships, to wit: North tf the bate line and wut of the principal meridian. Townships One and two, of range one. Townships one, two, thru> ana /our, of range two. Townships one two, three, four and five, Of range three. Townships oar, two, three, four, five, tix, and scam, of range four. Townships thru, four, five, six and teven, of range five. p South of the bau line and wtet of the principal meridian. Townships one, two, three, fover, and five, of range pne. Townships one, two, three, /our, and five, of range two. Townships one, two, and thru, of range three. Township one, of range four. sumii, nf th, hn? line and eaat of the nrincinal meri V dian. Townships three and/our, of range one. At the land office at DEMOPOLI9, in the same State, commencing on Monday, the twelfth day of September neat, for the disposal of such sections and pe rts of sections, being the odd numbers above ref . red to, as are situated in the undermentioned townships, to wit: North ef the base line and west of the principal meridian. Townships eighteen, nineteen, and twenty-, of range four. At the land office at TU8CAL0OSA, in the same State, commencing on Monday, tbeJgftAday of September neat, for the disposal of such sections and1 parts of sections, being the odd numbers above referred to, as are situated in the undermentioned townshipr, to wit: North of the base line and west of the principal meridian in the southern surveying district. Township twenty one, of range four. At the land office at COLUMBUS, in Mississippi, commencing on Monday, the nineteenth day of September neat, for the disposal of such sections and parts of sections, being the odd numbers above referred to, as are situated in the undermentioned townships, to wit: North qf the base line and eael cf the Choctaw meridian. Townships eight, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, and twenty, of range fifteen. Townships eight, nine, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, eiateen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, and twenty, of range sixteen. Townships eitfht, nine, fen, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen, or rang* seventeen. Townships eight, ninet ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,fourteen .fifteen, and sixteen, of range eighteen. Townships eight, nine, ten, eleven, end twelve, of range nineteen. At the land office at AUGUSTA, in the same State, commencing on Monday, the tweitfy eixth day of September next, for the disposal of soeb sections and parte of sections, being the odd nurhbere above referred to, as are situated in the undermentioned townships, to wit: North of the baee line and eaet of the Choctaw meridian. Township four, of range thirteen. Townships one, two, wee, four, five, and six, of range fourteen. Townships one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven, of range fifteen. Townships one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven, of range sixteen. Townships one,^ve, six,and seven,of range seventeen. Township seven, of range eighteen. North of the baee line, we ft <tf the meridian, end eaet qf Pearl river. Townships three,four, five, six, seven, and eight, of range fire. Townships five, fix, seven, eight, nine, and ten, of range six. Townships seven, eight, nine, and ten, of range seven. Townships, eight, nine, and fen, of range eight. The townships herein designated in Roman letters are wholly within the limits of "six sections ! in width on each side of said road," and those in iialice are partly within said limits, as designated on the diagrams, which will be furnished to the respective district land offices by the Commissioner 1 of the General Land Office, J Lands reserved for schools, military, and other J purposes, will be excluded from sale. ' Tbe lauds sold will be tvbject to the right of way I granted by tbe said act of 20th September, I860, to the States aforesaid, for said railroad, not exceeding one hundredfett on each side thereof; and therefore the particular tracts of land which Include the road will be sold as containing the quantities ' respectively shown by the official plats. Each sale will be kept open for a time sufficient < to admit of offering all the lands, but not exceed- 1 ing two weeks, and applications to make private ' entries of the lands ottered under this proclamation will not be received until after the close of the 1 public sale. Given under my hand, at tbe city of Washing- 1 ton, the twenty-third day of May, A. D. 1863. 1 FRANKLIN PIERCE. 1 By the President: John Wilson, Commissioner of the General Land Office. Notice to actual settlers on lands of the United State i originally withdrawn from market on ac- 1 count qf the railroad grant. Under act of Congress, approved 3d March, 1863, entitled "An act to extend pre-emption rights to 1 certain lands therein mentioned," the pre-emption 1 laws of the United States as they now exist are 1 extended over the alternate reserved sections of ' public lands along tbe line of tbe railroad hereinbefore mentioned, where the settlement and im- ' provement were made prior to the final allotment of 1 tbe alternate sections to tbe said railroad. Thore 1 fore, all claims by pre-emption to any of the alter- < nate sections of public lands within tbe limits 1 nriirinallv reserved will attach, if predicated upon . settlements made prior to the 4th February, 1853, the date of the final allotment. Claims within the six miles limits must be proven ( up at any time before the day herein fixed for the , commencement of the public sale, and are to be ( paid for at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents , per acre. Claims outside of the six miles, and , within the limits of the original reservation, roust , be proven up prior to the restoration of said lands | to private entry. soldiers' bounty land warrants, at a dollar and , twenty-five cents per acre, rosy be received in ( payment for either class of lands; one warrant only, however, can be located by each pre-emptor. , Immediately after the close of the public sale ( directed by the foregoing proclamation of the Pre . sident, applications will be reoeived for the purchase at private entry, or location by warrants, of the lands reserved to satisfy this grant, outside of the six miles limits, in such order as to prevent confusion and insure accuracy, in accordance with I instructions to be issued to the registers and re- i oeivers. JOHN WILSON, Commissioner of the General Land Offioe. May 26?wltw "I r I" I I f By the President of th? United Ptates. IN pursuance or law, I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, President of tbo United States of America,-do hereby declare and make known that public sale! will pa held at the undermentioned land offices in the State of Wisconsin, at the'periods hereinafter designated, to wit > At the land office At WILLOW RIVER, commencing on. Monday, the third day of Octpber next, for (he disposal of the public lands situated in the following opined townships, viz: North <jf the bate lint and ums( of the fourth principal meridian Townships thirty-two, thirty three, thirty four, i thirty five, and thirty six, of range five. Townships thirty one, thirty two, thirty three, thirty four, thirty five, and thirty six, of range i six. Townships thirty one, thirty two, thirty three, thirty lour, and thirty five, of range seven. Townships thirty one, thirty two, thirty three, and thirty four, or range eight. iDVimiipi luiriy ouo, uiirijr iwu, RUU lull LJ three, of range nine. Townships thirty one, thirty two, thirty three, end thirty Tour, of range fix teen. Township* thirty three end thirty four, of range < seventeen. At the land office at MBNASHA, commencing " on Monday, the tenth day of October next, for the- ' dispoaal of the public lands within the undermentioned townships and part* of townships, to wit: North of the boss line and eatl of the fourth ptincipal meridian. Townships twenty fire and twenty aix, of range twelre. Fractional townahip twenty one, weet of Wolf rirer, and townships twenty four, twenty five, and twenty six, of range thirteen, . Fractional townships twenty one and twenty two, west of Wolf river and Bayou, and townships twenty thrae, twenty four, twenty five, and twenty six. of range fourteen. Fractional township twenty two, west of Wolf river, townships twenty three.and twenty four, aqd fractional townships twenty five and twenty 1 six, west of Wolf river, of range fifteen. Fractional townships twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, and twenty six, west of Wolf river, of range sixteen. At toe land office at LA CROSSE, commencing on Monday, the seventeenth day of October next, for the disposal of the public lands withiu the fol. , 1 i L:? juwiiig uauicu iuwmui|?) vu v?n. North qf the base line and west of the fourth principal meridian, Townships twenty and twenty one, of range one. Townships seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenly, and twenty one, of range two. Townships twenty one and twenty two, of range eleven. Townships twenty one and twenty two, of range twelve. Townships twenty one and twenty two, of range thirteen.' <' . North qf the base line and east of the fourth principal meridian. Townships twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, and twenty four, of range one. Township twenty one, of range two. At the land office at 8TEVEN8'S POINT, commencing on Monday, the twenty fourth day of October next, for the disposal of the public lands situated in the following townships ahd parts of townships, to wit: North of the base line and east'of the fourth prin- 1 cipal meridian. Townsljip twenty six, of range four. , Township twenty six, of range five. Sections three to ten, fifteen to twenty two, and , twenty eix to thirty five, in township twenty Six; , township twenty seven, (except sections thirteen, ; twenty four, twenty five, thirty five, and thirty , six,) and townships twenty eight, twenty nine, and thirty, of range six. j Sections one, two, eleven to fourteen, twenty , three to twenty five, and thirty six, in township twenty six; sections thirteen, twenty four, twenty five, thirty five, and thirty six, in township twenty seven; sections five to eight, seventeen to twen- ' ty, thirty, and thirty one, in tovmihip twenty < eight; township twenty nine, (except sections twen ty five to twenty eight, and thirty three to thirty [ six.) and township thirty, of range seven. Sections one to five, eight to fifteen, twenty two ! to twenty seven, thirty five and thirty six, in ] township twenty four; township iwenty five, (ex ! cept sections six, seven, eighteen, nineteen, thir- 1 ty, and thirty one;) township twenty eix; town. j snipe twenty seven, (except section six,) twenty ' eight, (except sections six, seven, eighteen, nineteen, thirty, and thirty one;) and townshipBtwcn- ' ty nine and thirty, of range eight. < Townships twenty five and twenty six, of range 1 nine. I Township twenty six, of range eleveni At the land office at MINERAL POINT, com- 1 mencingon Monday, the second day of January 1 next, for the disposal of the following,.being ro I tiduary tracts of tbe reserved lead mineral lands, which were not included in tbe proclamations of * the 20th November, 1846, and 28th April, 1851, to 1 be sold under tbe act of Congress entitled "An act to authorise tbe President of (be United States to ' isll tbe reserved mineral lands in the States of J Illinois and Arkansas, and Territories of Wiscon- ' lin and Iowa, supposed to contain lead ore," approved July 11,1846, to wit: | North of the base line and east of the fourth prtn- 1 ? ?i i The west half and northeast quarter of the south- 1 weft quarter, the northeast quarter of the north- * ipest quarter, and the southeast quarter of the 8 lout beast quarter of section one; the east half of 1 the northwest quarter, the southeast quarter, the west half of the southwest quarter, and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of twelve; ' ind the northeast quarter, and north half of south- I west quarter of twenty nine, in township one; the * northeast quarter of section thirteen, in township 11 (too; the west half of the northwest quarter of 8 ection eleven, in township three; the east half of * the southeast quarter of section twenty five, and ' the east half ot the southwest quarter of thirty six, ' In township Jive, of range one. ' The weetbalf and northeast quarter of the north- ' west quarter, the east half of the northeast quarter, * and the east half of the southeastquarter of section 8 two, in township two, of range two. 1 The east half of the northeast quarter, and the 1 northeast quarter of tbs southeast quarter of sec- c tion four, in township two, and the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section five, in c township three, of ran{f? three. f The east half of the north west quarter, the north- e west quarter of the northeast quarter, and the east a lalf of the.southwcst quarter of section thirty, in 1 township four; and the west half of the northwest 8 quarter of section thirty five, in township five, of 4 range four. ' North of the base line arid west of the fourth prith- ! cipal meridian. The west half of the northwest quarter of sec- s tion three, in township two; the oast half of the h northwest quarter, and the eoutheast quarter of t Lhe northeast quarter of four; the west half of the ? southeast quarter of sis; the southeast quarter of j the southeast quarter of twenty seven, and the t southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of thirty four, in township three, of range one. ] am? nuarter of section ten. and the west halt of the southeast quarter of thirty, in 5 township three, of range two. t At theSAl^E PLACE,commencing on Monday, c the third day of October neat, for the disposal of the public lands within the following sections, and parts of sections, to wit: North of the bote line and rottl of thr fourth principal meridian. Section one, the east half and southwest quarter, t the west half of the northwest quarter, and the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of ten, I in townthip nine; and the east half of the south west quarter of section twenty sia; the west half \ of twenty-seven; the east baK of twenty eight, ' ' p and (he north half Of thirty Are, in towntkip ten, of range five. Lands appropriated by law for the uae of schools, military and other purposes, together-with "those swamp and overflowed lands, made unfit thereby for cultivation," if any, granted to the State by the act entitled "An act to enable the State ot Arkansas and other States to reclaim the 'swamp lands' within their limits," approved September 28,1850, will be excluded from the talet. In accordance with the previsions of the act of Utb July, 1846, hereinbefore referred to, preemption claims will not be allowed to any of the above-mentioned lead mineral tracts to be offered ( at Mineral Point, until after tbey bave been offered at publip sale, and become subject to private en try. And these tracts will be sold in such legal subdivisions as will include the mine or mines at not less than two dollort and fifty cent* per acre; and if not sold at the public sale at such pries, nor shall be entered at private sale within twelve months thereafter, the same shall be subject to sale as other lands. i no umriur ui vuv tauu* win ve ew*u- | tueoctd oa the days appointed, and will proceed , in the order la which they ere advertised until tbe whole shall have bsen offered, and the amies thus , closed) but no sale shall be kept open longer than . two weeks, and no private entry ofany of the lands will he admitted until after the expiration of the ' two weeks. Given under my hand, at the eity of Washing" ton, this twenty-first day of June, Anno Domini ' one thousand eight hundred and'fifty-three. 1 FRANKLIN PIERCE. By the President.' John Wilson, j Commissioner of tbe General Land Office. , NOTICE TO PRE-EMPTION CLAIMANTS. j Every person entitled to the right of pre-emp- , tion to any of the lands within the townships and parts of townships above enumerated, is required j to establish the same to the satisfaction of tbe register and receiver of the proper l&nd office, and make payment therefor as soon as practicable after teeing this notice, and before the day appointed for g the commencement of the public sale of the lands embracing the tract claimed, otherwise such claim j will be forfeited. JOHN WILSON. Commissioner of the General Land Office. June 23?lawl3w ' RED. RIVER RAFT. THE PERSON to whom the contract was awarded under former advertisements for proposals having failed to give the bond with sureties as required, proposals for the work are a sain invited as folloWsi Proposals will be received until the 20th day of next September for the removal of obstructions to the navigationb> Red river (Louisiana) occasioned by the" raft, and for keeping the said navigation free from the same for the longest period. The amount of these proposal* united is not to exceed the sum of $100,000. Each bidder will propose to remove said raft, (thoroughly,) and to keep the navigation free from obstruction thereby for a specified period; specifying in his bid the time in which he proposes to complete the removal of the raft, the said time not to be later thata the 1st day of June, 1866; and also the number of years, counting from said removal, during which time he binds himself to < keep the said navigation free from raft obstruction, i The contractor will be required to give his bbnd i for $20,000, with two gocd sureties, each for the < sum of $ 10,000, conditioned for the faithful execu- , tion of the contract. Each bidder will transmit, at ] the same time with his proposals, the names of the persons whotn he offers as sureties, and a declaration signed by them that they will sign his bond as sucetiea as above mentioned; and also the ccrtifi- " sate of a district judge of the United States for the 1 State in which he resides, that said securities are t respectable citizens, and that he considers them J worth $10,000 over and above ail their debts and t liabilities. No bid will be examined unless these s conditions shall be complied with. f Terms of payment. f Of the sum of $100,000 appropriated for the f ibove object, $50,000 shall be paid as the work t >f removing the raft advances, as follows?to wit: t Whenever the contractor shall report that a por- t ion of the raft has been removed, the same shall <; >e inspected by an officer appointed by the War Department; and if it shall appear that such s the fact, the Department will pay such a propor- . .ion of the said sum of $50,000 as the portion re- 11 noved shall bear to the entire raft, provided no 11 cartial payment-shall be made for less than one- ? enth part of the whole work. The remaining ii $50,000 will be paid in equal annual instalments a corresponding in number with tbe number of yeara i luring which the contractor aball bind himaelf to c keep the navigation open, of which fact the Department ia to be tbesole judge. t Each bid must be for tbe Whole work?that is, , Tor the removal of the raft, and for keeping the river open for a specified period. No separate pro- ' posals lor portions of it will be considered. ( The proposals will be addressed to the under- * ligned, marked on the envelope, "Proposals for ? -emoving Red River Raft." I The War Department reserves to itself the right g >f awarding the contract according to its own s udgment of the most favorable bid and the most ( esponsible bidder. p To be inserted in the Union, Republic, and Na-. ional Intelligencer, Washington, D. C.; Cincin- lati Gazette, Cincinnati, Ohio; Louisville Journal, u jouisville, Kentucky; St. Louis Republican, St. a jouis, Missouri; Sbreveport Herald, Shreveport, Louisiana: New Orleans Commercial Bulletin; New P Jrleans Bee; New Orleans Republican; Gazette D nd Democrat, LittleRock, Arkansas; Telegraph, p EVashington, Arkansas. J. J ABERT, ti Colonel Corps Topographical Engineers. ti July 14? d'20t&tawt'20Sep j, PROFESSOR ALEXANDER O. BARRY'S a TRICOPHEROUSyOr Medicated Compound, for leautifying, curling, preserving, restoring and ? trengthening the Hair, relieving diseases of the c kin, curing rheumatic pains ana healing external * rounds. Bounded by no geographical lines,, the eputation of Barry's Tricopherous pervades the Jnion. The sales ofthe article of late years have p ncreased in a ratio that almost exceeds belief. ( 'rofeBsor Barry, after a careful examination of bis ? ales-book, finds that the number of bottles deivered to order, in quantities of from half a gross ' ipward, during the year 1852, was within a trifle ? if 960,000. ~ 81 It is unnecessary to present at length the evilences of the wonderful properties of the Tricotherous when the public have furnished such an u indorsement as this. The cheapness ofthe article, p nd the explanations given of its chemical action a ipon the hair, the scalp, and in all cases of t! uperficial irritation, first recommended it to c he attention Of the people. This was all that ? he inventor desired. Every bottle advertised { (self. The effects of the fluid exceeded expec j ation. It noted like a charm. The ladies would lot bo without it Country dealers in every ection of the United Skates found they must tave it; and thus was built up a wholesale 11 radc of an extent hitherto unheard of as regards c irtiolesof this kind. Ths highest point has not n ret been reached, and it is believed that the sales si his year will be a million and a half of bottles. h Depot and manufactory, No. 137 Broadway, New & fork. Retail price, 26 cents a large bottle. tl Liberal discount to purchasers by the quantity jj lold by all the principal merohants and druggists hroughout the United States and Canada, Mexio, West Indies, Great Britain, France, tic., by S. PARKER. Penn. avenue, r' And A. LAMMOND, 7th street, c June 4?d&triw6m* Washington. tl HOME PICTURES, by Mrs. 0. W. Denison. " The Boyhood of Great Men, with illustra ions. * Uncle Robin in his Cabin in Virginia, by J. W. 'age. (' Helen and Arthur, or Miss Thusa's Spinning J' IVheel, by Caroline Lee Hentx. p July 12 FRANCE TAYLOR. n TIIE REPUBLIC. Railroads. Thf. Savannah and Pensacola Railroad.? We are indebted to Dr. J. P. Screven for the following extracts of a letter addressed to him by F. P. Holcomb, esq., chief engineer, from which the reader will learn something of the progress of the survey now going on, on this contemplated line of improvement, as well as something of the nature and advantages of the country through which the road will pass. Under date of August 1st, inst., Mr. Holcomb says: "I address you from the encampment on the Withlacooche river, south of the Ocean Pond, and near where yoi) may see on Bonner's large map j the letter E in the word Withlacoochee. The inrvey will cross the river a short distance below i this point, which it will reach to-day. The line | of Florida it is expected will bo reached to-mor- i row. I ne line trora the Alatauiaha to the line 01 1 Florida will, 1 think I may say, prove quite rb fa- i vprable aa was expected. From the Alatam&ha to < the Alopahu the route for the greater part of the | distance is highly favorable. After crossing the | latter river the country is slightly more undulating, .but not so mucn so as to require any de- < viation from the straight line which has been 1 brought from the Alatamaha. < "Tho distance from Savannah to the line of < Florida by this survey will prove to be about one j hundred and seventy-six milos. It will be a novel 1 md interesting feature in this part of the World? j i line of this extent with only about three degrees 1 of curvature, and this at one point near the Alata- i m&ha. i "Bvery thing, so far as this line is concerned, .< has a favorable look."?Savannah (Ga.) paper. 1 The Alvarado Route.?Captain Jonas P. Le vy, who has a grant to open a communication ' icross Mexico through the Alvarado river to the 1 Pacific, has arrived in the city with his engineers, 1 intending to proceed immediately to Vera Cruz to | enter upon the execution of his project. This ' route starts at Vera Cruz, runs thence to Alvara- 4 do, and up the river of that name as far aa navi- * gable, and thence it is contemplated to construct j i railroad to a port on the Pacific, midway be- ' tween Acapulco and Tehuantepec, which is pro- 4 aouncod one of the finest harbors on the whole ' eoast. 1 Captain Levy enters upon this grand design en- ' tirely on his own responsibility, and appears to be 1 sanguine of success. 1 Last year he offered to contract to take the mail A :o San Francises from Now Orleans in twelve ' lays for $250,000. This proposition caused the * failure of Ramsev's contract, which demanded * 1400,000 for a lite service. We hope Captain Levy may succeed in his design. The more routes ' we have the better for the country; and the near- 1 it they are to Vera Cruz the better for the com- E merce and prospects of Now Orleans. 1 [JVeu? Orleans Picayune. 1 The Cairo and Fulton Railroad.?This road < laily assumes greater importance as the prospects s ncrease of itis being built, and of its western ter- ( nination, Fulton, being the locality whence not >nly the great Pacific railroad will start, but where j io many roads from Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, j Mississippi, &c., will connect with it and eacli r >ther. t The President ot the United States has ordered l reservation of the lands along the line of the oad until the 6th October next. A letter from he Commissioner of the General Land Office to v loswell Pee be, president of the company, states j hat a tract of land, fifteen miles wide on each p ide of the route surveyed by Captain Barney, E rom Chalk Bluff to Fulton, has been withdrawn i, rom sale or entry, also a tract, thirty miles wide, a rom Chalk Bluft to the Mississippi river, opposite / he mouth of the Ohio, in Missouri; and further- ? nore, two tracts for the branches of the road from ( he Mississippi river through Littlo Rock to Fort p Smith. a A recent Little Rock paper speaks in the most v ncouraging manner of tlie prospects of the road n Arkansas. Though long inert, from sluggish- 0 iess,. poverty, prejudice, they are at length arous- j d to the necessity of improving the old and open- a ng the new resources of their State by railroads, n nd this particular road appears to have central- 0 zed and united their efforts, at least so far as we b :an learn. 8 The counties, it is believed, without an excep- p ion, where application has been made, are sub- ; ,o>.;n;,,rT <V,r i?? stork to tlie amount of the internal i mprovement fund which each possesses. Clarke j :ounty has subscribed for over $10,000, and its inornal improvement commissioner has been order- ( id to hand over to the company tho sum in his j lands, $3,500. Pulaski county has subscribed for (5,000 worth of stock, and paid down the sum of t) ,3,800. Whito county will follow this example; a 'ike county has subscribed $5,000, and ordered d ts commissioner to pay over the whole amount of a nternal improvement funds to which the county j i entitled; Johnson county has subscribed $5,000, ? nd given the sum on hand to tho commissioner, u The subscriptions were intended to pay the ex- j, enscs of having the line of tho road and its ranches surveyed and marked out. The pros- r; acts wOTe so favorable that the company ordered t] heir president to procure enginoers and sot them j, 0 work immediately on the surveys, and they are a 1 the hope to be able to lay full and correct maps nd accurate information beforo the Legislature r t its next session, concerning the value of the ?\ rant of lands by Congress, their quantity, and b haractcr, and the probable cost of the construcion of tho road and its branches.?A". O. Delta. f( Finances op Virginia.?A paragraph has beon J ublished in several of our papers, stating that Mr. p .. P. Bayne, of the firm of Selden, Withers &. j] k>., has recently gono to Europe "for tho pur- ti ose of trying to dispose of several millions of Vir- ^ inia State stock to enable the State to pay her e ubscriptions to the various railroads." C( While tho fact stated in the paragraph may be rj rue, the manner in which it is put might lead the ninformed to draw an inference, respecting the ^ resent ability of tho State, that is not true; and m notice it now simply to say by authority | uat the Board of Public Works have not export- n, need, and do not apprehend, any difficulty in y romptly meeting- all demands against the State jj >r the works of internal improvement in which j1( ho has so liberally and judiciously embarked. o) While on this subject, wo will state further, a, )r the information of the public, that tho paylents of the State's subscription toall the railroad M ompanies savo two nre required by law to be gA itidh pari passu with the payments of private sub- << eriptions", and that tho lloard of Public Works tc avo, since their contract with Solden, Withers jj, . Co. in 1851, invariably been prepared to honor w he drafts of tho various railroad companies for ho State's proportion upon presentation. Tho loncy expended upon the construction of tho ai tine Ridge and the Covington and Ohio Rail- A aads is limited by law, and the contractors never T xperience delay or embarrassment in receiving ci heir money the moment, the estimates end drafts b< f the engineer are presented. Both of these State mrks, as well as the other railroads in the State, re progressing with as much rapidity as ia pracicable; and if there be "slow progress" in the ir rosccution of any of them, it is certainly not h istly attributable to the lack of ability on tho b art of the State to meet, her engagements fully r< nd promptly.?Richmond Enquirer, 12</i. ci Of tli? Woman that didn't say a Word for Seven Years. The Scalpel tells a droll story' of a girl that held her tongue for seven years, yet was perfectly able to talk as well as the best. Waal red of the blood that always flows freely about the Scalpel, and which very often obecUrea a clear sight of the thing laid bare by its edge, the story runs thus: Mary, when fourteen years old, ran away from a Canadian convent, ana was found asking alms in the western part of this State?not pleadii^g with piteous sentences, hut mutely, in the natural language of signs. A benevolent individual had Mary properly cared for, and at length entered in our excellent deaf and dumb asylum, where for four years she remained, making all laudable ini .4 4 U.. 1 I at a 1.4 fflk . pruvuuieui iu uxu urauuiiuw uicru mugui. i no Scalpel makes a sale for its next number by promising to furnish, at a future day, the process pursued in attempting to teach this interesting creature the practice of articulate language by the teachers at the asylum. She left the asylum when her term for remaining had expired, without having created a suspicion that she was capable of uttering words or sentences, much less of talking glibly, and as a woman is expected to do. Well, honorably graduated, she wished, of course, to earn a living. To do it she went where thousands had gone before her?"to the great litsrary Alsatia of Cliff street, under the supervision of the generous and benevolent brothers Harper." She obtained work at book-folding, and worked faithfully, we presume, for three years; for during all tnat time site said not a word to anybody. Tired at last,she eloped,and was not to be found anywhere until some two years afterward, when that member of the firm who is reputed the world over dike for his enjoyment of a good joke and for his benevolence, received a call from a veiled lady. The lady announced herself as the Mary, and told ler story; how she had been a very wicked wonan for two years, and why for the seven years jrevious she nad been a very strange, dumb wonan, when she might have talked as well as anybody; how she feigned dumbness at first because ihe found that mute appeals were more effective han wordy, tearful ones; and then being taken to he asylum, she felt committed, and very naturaly did not like to be inconsistent and talk when iverybody thought she couldn't talk. She would ike to go to work again in the folding-room, but .hat wouldn't do. So Mr. Harper gave her tweny dollars and some advice, which, if followed, vould have been worth a mint of money to her; ind straightway, we may suppose, went up to risit th^ asylum, of which Mr; Harper is said to to a director. Harper talked, probably, of indif erent things?of the modes ol teaching aoroaa? >f the possibility of a person's feigning to be deaf md dumb. The topic is an interesting one, and t doubtless draws out the statement from thq au-> lerintendent that "such a thing would be imposible; that there would be a thousand opportuniies for detection daily; that no person fit for the irofession could be so hoaxed." Then the direct>r makes his statement, and Mary is credited as me who can talk as fast as any of us?unless we ire among our cronies, and have a very strong lish of Young Hyson before us. This is very curious, certainly, and worthy the nvestigation of some of our academies of sciences, f true, cpuldn't a special meeting be called-M>r nust we wait for the next annual report ? If not rue, why should the Scalpel say it? [.Veto York Times. Science roit Every-Day Lite,.?It has been veil said that the distinguishing characteristic of nodern science is its practical applicability for urposes of every-day life. In other words, our aen of scienco, instead of .wasting their energies n mere abstruse speculations, constantly seek fter useful discoveries. The proceedings of the tmerican Association for the Advancement of Icience, which body lias lately been in session at Cleveland, Ohio, furnish an example in point, fearly all the papers road at this convention have practical end; and conspicuous among them rere sonic on the indications of rainy weather. Mr. Wm. II. Thomas, of Cincinnati, was one f the persons who read such a paper. His essay iscussed the indications of weather, as shown by nimals, insects, and plants; and was full of facts, lany of them now, and of scientific explanations f themselves. Birds, it asserts, invariably show, y the way they build their nests, whether a soaon is to ho windy, or otherwise. If the former, hey thatch the nest between the twigs and linng. If the latter, they omit these precautions, if a dry season is in prospect, they build in open daces. If a wet one, they choose sheltered spots. \ careful observation of these peculiarities will j ifFord, Mr. Thomas says, a certain cntorion, earty n the spring', of the coming weather. Snails also reveal by their habits whether rain lay be expected or not. Several species of those nimals invariably ascend tho stems of plants two ays before a rain, in order to place themselves on leaf, there to imbibe the water, for they never rink. Other species have tubercles that rise rom their bodies generally ten days before a rain, acre being a pore at the end of each tubercle to nbibe the water. Others grow yellowish white ist before a rain, returning to a darker color after lin. Locusts also foretell rain, by sheltering tamselves under the leaves of trees, and in hol>ws and trunks, as soon as by the changes in the tmosphere they discover that rain is impending, lost leaves of trees are also barometers, for if a fcin is to be light, they turn up so as to receive heir fill of water, while for a long rain they doule so as to conduct the water away. AYiother member, Professor Brooklesby.of Hartmi, read a paper, describing a spring near his roidence, whoso waters rose invariably before a rain, le suggested that the diminished atmospheric ressure which precedes a rain was tho cause of io phenomenon, and recommended that observe ons should be made over the whole country, to ^certain if tho phenomenon was general, or only xceptional. It would be curious if the former 1 Dula bo established, and not less useful than cu- 1 ous, for if Nature has made every spring a na- ' iral baromotcr, the fact will be of vast benefit to ' now.?Philadelphia Bulletin. Old Fouies.?Some years ago two agod men oar Marshaltown traded, or, according to the ' irginia parlance, swapped horses on this condi- ' on: That on that day week the one who thought 3 had the best of tho bargain should pay to the [.her two bushels of wheat. The day catnc, and ?it happened they mot about half-way between icir respective homes. "Where art thou going?" * lid one. "To thy house with the wheat," anverod the other. "And whither art thou riding?" 1 Truly,"replied the first, "I was taking the wheat i thy house." Each ploascd with his bargain ' 1 A' <l>*n *? liio nnireKKnr o n/l I la UlOUjjTIIl UIU Klicai UIIV tu mo ? as going to pay it. Relief for New Orleans.?The committee ipointed to solicit donations for the citizens of ew' Orleans have been very successful so far. hey had ^5,000 this morning; and were very jnndant that it would reach $10,000, which will e immediately sent to the mayor of that city. [Baltimore Patriot of yesterday. j What more touching commentary upon the I lisfortuncs of Marie Antoinette, remarks the ( tome Journal, than the simple cash entry innde i y the sexton, and yet to bo seen, in the parish jcordsofthe Madeleine?"Paid seven francs for ' r>ffin for the Widow ("apef ." 1 THE WEEKLY &EEUBJL1C. p. 9??r This journal hssbesn enln*ied,andlipHnt|Kion paper of a superior ouality. It is not a mm compilation from tbs Daily Rxppslic, but a well conducted literary, political, ana miscellaneous periodical, embracing in its contents a summary of the New* of the Week, oareAUly condensed; Reviews of Pawing Events; Tales, Sketches, Essays, Poetry, &*., fcc. It is our determination to render it an agreeable and instructive newspaper, alike worthy the patronage of every fhraily, and p propria to lor the perusalof every reader. TERMS: Two Doutai per annum, payable invariably in advance. GIDEON fc CO. Washington, D. C A Modern Sin fend. The New York papers come to as with columns setting forth the singular adventures, and imprisonments, and escapes, of a Captain Gibson. Tlio New York Day Book thus speaks of it: "Mukciiausknism.?The Tribune publishes this mornihg a long account of the voyage, arrest, trial, and imprisonment of one Walter M. Gibson, the firmous water-filter Scotchman, who used to keep a store at the corner of Broadway and Leonard street?the amount of which is that Mr. Gibson bought the United States schooner Flirt?for some purpose 'not necessary to mention'?he wont ofl' cruising in iter as captain; sailed, according to the account, up and down, over, across and back, and all around the Atlantic ocean; touched here, there, and everywhere for purposes 'not necessary to mention,' and finally brought up away ofi in the Dutch East Indies, where he was feted and feasted and made a groat man of, and then betrayed, arrested, imprisoned, tried, and condemned to death, but managed?by the aid of a damsel 01 sixteen, who nau uecome enamoreu with our young and handsome hero?to make his escape. "Mr. Gibson, according to his story, got into trouble, in the first place, on account of a very beautiful young woman (daughter of a Prince) who had fallen desperately in love with him, and he was helped out of trouble by another who disguised herself in breeches, came to his prison, and aided him to escape. The story is well got up, is written in the best style of modern puffery, and will no doubt be read with considerable interest, and we hope will give Mr. Gibson the notoriety lie seeks and enable nim to sell more filters this year than ever before. As for the truth of the romance, we hope he is not green enough to expect anybody, but Horace Greeley aud a few half-blina grannies, to believe one line of it. Greeley, it will be seen by a paragraph in the editorial columns of the Tribune, has swallowed tbo whole goose, foathers and all. Of course Greeley is sold. That's all." "The Boy is Father to the Man."?It is by no means.an uncommon opinion in those days to maintain that the men who distinguished themselves most in the competition of the world, wore not the men who were most successful in*academical competition when they were young. This assumption derives a good deal of plausibility in this country from the fact that some of our most, illustrious statesmen, soldiers,orators, clergymen, physicians, lawyers, &c., are self-made men, and owe little or nothing to scholastic training. Wo observe fVom the Parliamentary reports that a question was incidentally raised on this subject in the British House of Commons lately, during a debate on the bill relating to the government of India; and that it called forth a speech from tlio eminent historian and critic, Macaulay. He eloquently maintained that men who distinguish tnemseives in uieir youui a novo uieir cuuieui|>urarics at college and schools, almost invariably keep to the end of their lives the start they gained in tne earlier part of their career, and appealed to the lists of honors in the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford for a "hundred years in confirmation of this fact. It was particularly true of the Church, Parliament, and liar. Some of his references are curious and highly interesting. He careered over the whole field of Parliamentary history, from the days of Montagu and Bolingbroke to those of Canning and Peel, and the later period of Lord Derby and Gladstone, all of whom had taken high collegiate honors. The ablest Governors of India were Hastings, Metcalfe, Wellesley, and Ellenborough, each of whom had been eminent at Westminster, or Eton, or Oxford, or Cambridge. Then on tho bench and at the bar there was a splendid assemblage of men, no less distinguished for scholarship than for the strength and acuteness of their practical faculties. He enumerated Mansfield, Eldon, Stowell, Gibbs, Ten,tcrden, Lyndhurst, Baron Alderaon, Justice Maule, Baron Parka, Justico Coleridge, and many others who had obtained high positions; and who had kept the start which they gained in youth . We commend the whole of Mr. Macaulay's admirable speech to all our young friends who are conscious of manly faculties ana great ambition. The general rule must be admitted to bo as the illustrious historian has statod it; and there is nothing to show that the self-made great men of our ago and nation would not have also taken the lead of their contemporaries at college had they enjoyed the privileges of academic training.?Cincinnati Coinmercial. I Gacit Feat in Pegging Shoes.?A correspondent informs us that two young men in North I Danvers, on Thursday of this week, pegged one. hundred and sixty pairs of women's spring-heeled shoes?working only ten hours. This is probably the greatest performance over recorded in this line. The names of the parties are Alexander Steele and John J. Hunker. A wager of twentyfive dollars was depending on the result ofthc day's work, Bunker being the challenger. Bunker pegged seventy-eight pairs; Steele pegged eighty-two pairs. Steelo averaged a pair in seven minutes nineteen seconds. 1 here were about one hundred and twenty-five pegs in each shoe, or two hundred and fifty in a pair. This would amount to twenty thousand five hundred pegs in the eighty-two pairs, and would be at the rate of about thirty-five pegs driven in each and every minute of the ten hours. The work we were informed was done well. Can anybody boat it??Boston Journal. "Nobody but a Printer."?Such was the sneering remark of a person residing not a thousand miles from the door of our sanctum, referring to the profession we follow in pride. "Nobody but a printer," in sooth! It makes our blood run rampant through our veins to hear such expressions fall from the lips of those nursed on republican soil. " Nobody but a printer, any flow!" Wlio was Benjamin Franklin? "Nobody but a printer." Who was William Caxtorf, one of the fathers of literature? "Nobody but a printer." Who was Earl Stanhope? "Nobody irat a printer." Who was Samuel Woodworth? "Nobody but a printer." Who was Governor Bigler, of Pennsylvania' "Nobody hut a printor." Geo. P. Morris, James Harper, Thurlow Wood, Horace Grcely, Robert Sears, and Senators Dix, Cameron, and Niles? "Nobody but printers, any low." One thing is evident, every person that ihooses can't be a printer. Brains are necessary. [Exchange paper. Orrice?seeking,?" No n-now Ciesar, why loos you always dance oft' on de heel ob fancy ? Dis child nebber tear himself away from Undo Sam. Now dis is the oftis I ply for, an* Use rroat influence wid Massa Campbell's waiter, so I guess I get it. I'sr gwine to ply for the post ob sexton in de Pose Otfis Apartment." "Sexton in the Pose Oftis Apartment, Sambo?" "Yes, sah, 1 berry de dead letters. Somotime# dev hab money in 'em, an' den 1 ritle de corpusrs You see, sah? ' Insect Fecundity.?French insectivorous mathematicians furnish some extraordinary figureupon the rapidity with which certain species of bugs multiply, and the services rendered to mankind by the swallows, which feed upon them. A bug he is acquainted with produces nine generations in a season, and he remembers a pair that in mo summer were the happy ancestors of 554, 89,000,000,000 descendants! What, he asks, would become of us were it not for swallows, each one of which consumes 900 bugs a day