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YOL. I?NO. 214. WASHINGTON: SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 29, 1851. PRICE 2 CENTS. AMERICAN TELEGRAPH POBL1IHHD K VJCHV AFTUENQOH. (ixoarr buhdat,) On Vila at., oppMttc Odd<V?Uowi' HaU, BY COmfOIXY, WOOER ft McGILL, At Ten Cent* a Week, or TWO CENTS A SINGLE OOPY. To subscribers served by the earners, the paper will be furuiahod regularly fur ten cent* per week, payable weekly. 49* To mail subscribers, $6 a fear; 60 for six months; $1 25 for thseu montha; 00 oentu a month. No paper mailed unless paid for in advance, and discon tinued when the term paid for expire*. GASH TEEMS OF ADVERTISING. Half square, (0 lines or less,) four Insertions $1 00 1 square, 1 or 3 ina. . $1 00 1 do 1 week 1 75 1 do 2 week! ... 2 76 1 aqnare, 1 month... 4 00 1 do 3 montha .. 7 00 1 do 8 montha .. 10 00 1 do 6 montha .. 16 00 I do 1 year .... SO 90 Twelve line* (or over six) make a ? guare?longer adver tisements in exact proportion. Abvbrtisbrb will please endeavor to aend In their frrora before 11 o'clock, if poeaiUe. THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Term commence* March 4, 1861, and terminate* March 4, 1858. The First Session opens on Monday, December 1,1861. SENATE. The Senate consists of two Senators from eaob State. Since the admission of California, there are thirty-one States, represented by sixty-two Senators. The Senators who held over from the 4th of last Maroh were forty-one, viz: eighteen Whigs and twenty-three Democrats. Of the twenty-one new Senators, three are yet to be eleoted from the following States: California?Legislature Democratic. Connecticut?Legislature to be ohosen in April, 1862. Tennessee?Legislature Whig. SENATORS HOLDING OVER AND ELECT. Whigs in italic; Democrats in roman?those marked F, S. are Free-soilers or Abolitionists; U., those elected as Union men; S. R., those elected as Southern or State Rights men. Term Term xlabama. Expire*. Michigan. Expire*. Jeremiah Clemens - 1863 Alpheus Feloh - - ? 1863 Win. R. King (3. K.) ? 1865 Lewis Casa .... 1857 ABKANBAS. MISSOURI. Wm. K. Sebastian ? 1863 David R. Atchison ? 1855 Solon Borland - ? - 1866 Henry S. Geyer - - 1867 CONNECTICUT. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Truman Smith ? - 1855 John P. Hale (F.S.) ? 1853 ? ... 1867 Moses Norris, jr. - - 1865 CALIFORNIA. NSW YORK. Wm.M. Gwin- - - 1865 Wm. H. Seward (F.S.) 1855 . 1867 Hamilton Fith - - - 1857 BELAWAR1. NEW JEBSKY. Pretley Spruance - - 1866 Jacob W. Miller - ? 1863 James A. Bayard ? ? 1867 Robert F. Stockton - 1867 FLORIDA. NORTH CAROLINA. Jack ton Morton - - 1855 Willie P. Mangum - 1853 Stephen R. Mallory * 1857 George MkBadyer - - 1866 osoRoiA. oaio. John M. Berrien - ? 1853 Salmon P. Chase(F.S.) 1855 Wm. C. Daujton ? ? 1865 Benjamin F. Wade - 1847 INDIANA. PENNSYLVANIA. James Whltcomb - ? 1855 Jamet Cooper - - - 1863 Jesae D. Bright - ? 1857 Richard Brodhead,Ji. 1867 ILLINOIS. RHODE ISLAND. Stephen A. Douglas - 1853 John IT. Clarke ? ? 1853 James Shields - - - 1856 Charles T. James - ? 1867 IOWA. SOUTH CAROLINA. George W. Jones - ? 1863 R. B. Rbett (8.R.) - ? 1853 Augustus C. Dodge ? 1855 A. P. Butler (S.R.) ? 1866 KENTUCKY. TENNESSEE. Joteph X. Underwood 1863 John Bell - - - - 1863 Henry Clay - - ? 1866 ? 1857 LOUISIANA. TEXAS. Sol. D. Downs (U.) - 1863 Sam Houston - - ? 1853 Pierre Soule(8.R.) - 1856 Thomas J. Rusk - - 1857 MAINS. VERMONT. Jaa. W, Bradbury - 1858 WHUam Cpham - - 1853 Hannibal Uamlin * 1857 Solomon thoU ... 1867 MASSACHUSETTS. VIRGINIA. John Davit - - - - 1853 R. M.T. Hunter (S.R.) 1853 Chas. Sumner (F.S.) ? 1867 Jas. M. Mason (S.R.) - 1807 MARYLAND. WISCONSIN. Jawut A. I)saroe - - 1856 Isaac P. Walker - - 1865 Thomas Q. Pratt - ? 1867 Henry Dodge - ? ? 1867 MiiunsatPM. Henry S. Foots (U.) ? 1853 Jeflbraon Davis (S.R.) 1867 Messrs. Foote and Davis, of Mississippi, have resigned. Of the members elect, and those holding over, thirty-four are Democrats, twenty-one are Whigs, and four Free-soilers. Of the Free soilers, Hale and Seward were elected by a union of Whigs and Free-soilers; Sumner and Chase were elected by Democrats and Free soilers combined. Dodge, (Democrat,) of Wis consin ; Fish, (Whig,) of New York ; Foote, (Whig,) of Vermont; and Wade, (Whig,) of Ohio, are also put down by some as Free-soilers. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House consists of two hundred and thirty-three members and four Territorial dele gates. These delegates, however, have no vote. Annexed are the names of the MEMBERS ELECT. ALABAMA. 1 John Bragg* (8- R-) & George S. Houston 2 Jam*j Abercrombie 6 W. R. W. Cobb 3 Samp. W. Harris, (8. R.) 7 Ales. White 4 William R. Smith ARKANSAS. 1 Robt. W. Johnson, (& K.) CONNECTICUT. 1 Charles Chapman 3 0. V. Cleveland 2 0. M. Ingersoll 4 O. S. Seymour CALIFORNIA. 1 Edward P. Marshall 2 ? MoCorkle DELAWARE. 1 George R. Riddle FLORIDA. 1 Edward C. Cabell OMU, 1 J W. Jackeon, (8. R.) 6 E. W. Chan tain. (U1 2 James Johnson, (U.) 0 Junius Hlllyer, (U.) 3 David J 1U.H ?-jr, (8. R.) 7 A. TT. Stephen, (0.) 4 Charles Murphy, (U.) 8 Robert Toomln, (U.) INDIANA. 1 James Lookhart 6 Willis A. Oorman 2 Cyrus L. Dunham 7 John G. Davis 3 John L. Robinson 8 Daniel Maoe 4 ?Skuaaei W.i\trker V Graham N. Fitch 6 Thomas A. Hendricks 10 Samuel Brtntan nuNoia. 1 William II. Bissell 6 Wm. A. Richardson 2 Willie Allen ? Thomas Campbell .1 Orlando B. Kirklin 7 Hichard Vatei 4 Richard 8. Moloney IOWA. 1 Lincoln L. Clark 2 Bernhardt Hnnn KENTUCKY. 1 Linn Boyd ?) Addison While 2 Benj. Jt Orey 7 Humphrey Marthall 3 Presley Kvin// 8 John C. Breckinridge 4 William T. Wood # J. C. Ma*>n 6 James atone 10 R. C. Stanton LOUISIANA. 1 Louis 8t Martin. (S. R.) 8 Alex. G. Penn, (g. R.) 2 J. ArUMe Ixmdry 4 Isaac E. Moi*(S. R.) MAINE. 1 Moses McDonald 6 Ephralm K. Smart 2 John Apploton ? I'rael Wathburn, jr. 3 Hoberl Goodenow 7 Thomas J. D. Fuller 4 Charles Andrews MAMAdlUSRTTS. 1 William. Apple ton 6 Ge/yrfe T. Damn 1 Robt. Kantoui, Jr., (F.S.) 7 J?hn '/.. Goodrich 3 Jamet H. Duncan 8 Horace Mann, (F. S.) B. Thompson 9 Orin Fbwler Chart** Allen, (F. 8.) 10 Ze.no Scwlder ? MARYLAND. Kiehard J. Bowie 4 Thomas 7. Welsh 2 Wm. T. Hamilton 6 Alexander Evant 5 Edward Hammond A Josephs. thUemiu ? MICHIGAN. 1 Hbeneter J. Pennimon 3 Jamet /. Conger I 0. R- Stuart MISSOURI. 1 John F. Darby 4 Wiilard P. Hall 2 (Mehritt Ptrter 6 John I. Phelps 8 John a. Miller , MISSISSIPPI. 1 D. B. Nabov*, (U.) 3 Wm. MeWlllle, (8. R.) 2 John A. WileoR, (U.) 4 A. B. Dawson, (U.) 1 Amos Tuck, (F. 8.) 2 Charles II. Peaslee MINNSSOTA. * II. II. Sibley, (dill.) NKW UAMFHH1KE. 3 Jartd I\rkint 4 Harry Ilibbard HSW TORX. 18 Fronton King (F. S.) 10 WUlard Ives 20 Timothy Jenkins 21 William W. Snow 22 Henry Bennett 23 Leauder Babcock 24 bauiei T. Jones 26 Thomas Y. Ilow, jr. 26 If. S. Walkridge 27 WMiatn A. Suckett 28 Ab. M. Schermerhorn 20 Jtdediah Hosford 30 Beuben Bobie 31 Frederick S. Martin 32 8. G. Haven 33 Aug. P. HascaU 34 Lortnto Burrows 1 John U. Floyd 2 Obadiah Bovine * Eutanuel B. Un-t 4 J. H. 1 lobar I Haws 6 Ueort/t Brim* 6 J awes Brooks 7 Abraluuh P. Stoveu* 8 Gilbert Dean 0 William Murray 10 Marius Schoonmaker 11 Joaiah Sutherland, jr. 12 David L. Seymour 13 John L. Schoolcraft 14 John H. Boyd 16 Joseph Bujutell 16 John Wrlls 17 Alexander H. Buel N*W JKRSXT. 1 Nathan D. Strattou 4 George II. Brown 2 Charles Skalton 6 Bodinan M. Price 3 Iaaao Wlldriok NORTH CAROLINA IT. L. C'lingtnan, (S. B.) 2 Jot,yA P. OaldwtU 3 Alfred Bookery 4 Joints T. Morehead 6 A. W. Venable, (8. B.) NSW MEXICO. *B. W. Weightman, (del.) OHIO. C John B. J. Daniel 7 W. S. Ashe 8 Edward Stanly 0 David Outlaw 1 David T. Disney 2 L. D. (Umufceli, (F. 8.) 3 Hiram Bell 4 Benjamin Stanton 6 Alfred P. Egerton 6 Frederick Green 7 Nd*on Barrere 8 John t. Taylor 0 Kdsou 11. Old* 10 Charlea Sweetser 11 George II. Buaby 12 John Welsh 13 JameH M. Gavlord 14 Alexander Harper 16 William F. Hunter 16 John Johnson 17 Joseph Cable 18 David K. Cartter 10 Eben Newton, (F. 8.) 20 J. K. Uiddings, (F. 8.) 21 N. 8. Townsond ORMON. * Joseph Lane, (del.) PENNSYLVANIA. 1 Thomas B. Florence 13 James Oamble 2 Joseph R. Chandler 3 Henry D. Moore 4 John Bobbins, jr. 6 John McNair 6 Thomas Boss 7 John A. Morrison 8 Thaddeus Stevens 0 J. Glancy Jones 10 Mile* M. Dimmick 11 Henry II. Fuller 14 T. M. Bibighaus 16 William H. Kurt* 16 J. X. MoLanahau 17 Andrew Parker 18 John L. Dawson 10 Joseph H. Kuhus 20 John AUiton 21 Tlwmas M. Howe 22 John W. Howe (F.8.) 23 John 11. Walker 12 Gaiusha A. Grow (F. S.) 24 Alfred Glllmore RHODE ISLAND. 1 George E. King 2 Benjamin II. Thnrston SOUTH CAROLINA. 1 Daniel Wallace, (S. B.) 6 Armistcad Burt, (8. B.) 2 James L. Orr, (S. K.) 3 J. A. Woodward, (8. B.) a, (8. B.) 6 William Aiken, (8. B.) 7 Wm. F. Colcock, (8. B.) TENNE88EE. 7 Meredith P. Gentry 8 William Oullom 0 Isham G. Harris 10 Fred. P. Stanton 11 Christopher H. Wxlliams 4 James McQueen, 1 Andrew Johnson 2 Alberta. Watkins 3 Wm. M. Churchwell 4 John H. Savage 6 George W. Jones 6 Wm. U. Polk TEXAS. 1 Bichardson Scurry, (U.) 2 Volney E. Howard, (U.) UTAH. * John M. Bernhisel, (D.) VIRGINIA. 1 John B. Millson, (8. B.) 9 James F. Slrother 2 B. Kidder Meade, (8. B.) 3 Thos. H. Aven.ll, (8. B.) 4 Thos. S. Boooek, (S.B.) 6 Paulus Powell, (8. K.) ~ ~ ' "a, (8. P ? *y'y. (W-) 8 A. B. llolladay, (8. B.) 6 John 8. Caakia, (8. B.) 7 Thomas H. Bayly, (U.) 10 Charles J. fitulkner 11 John Letcher, (U.) 12 H. Edmondson, (U.) 13 F. B. McMullen, (U.) 14 J.M. H. Beale, (U.) 16 Geo. W. Thompson, (0.) VERMONT. 3 George B. Meackam 4 Th. Bartlett, jr., (F. 8.) 1 Ahiram L. Miner 2 WUliam HeOard WISCONSIN. 1 Charles Durkee, (F. 8.) 3 James D. Doty, (F. 8.) 2 Benj- C. Kastman ?Delegates from the Territories. BECAP1TULATION BY FTOUBE8 Alabama Arkansas - Connecticut Delaware ? Florida 1 iidiana ? ? Illinois Iowa - Kentucky ? Louisiana ? Maine Massachusetts ? Maryland - - California ? Georgia Michigan ? Missouri ? Mississippi - New Hampshire New York ? New Jersey North Carolina ? Ohio - 1'ennsylvania ? Bhode Island South Carolina ? Tennessee ? ? Texas Vermont ? Virginia Wisconsin ? Total thos far -1860-'61. Whig. D^m. 1 2 1 6 1 2 0 4 2 2 3 2 17 1 B 10 0 1 ?1848. Whig. Bern. 1 ? 1 ? 10 ? 17 11 ? 7 3 2 ? 3 13 13 90 143 116 118 Democratic majority thus far Democratic majority in 1*40 Democratic gain A majority of the House is ? Democrats elected ...... Southern rights men (21 Democrats and 1 Whig) Free sotler* - ... 63 _3| 60 | 117 143 22 13 THE PRESIDENTIAL ASFKCT OF THE II0U8K OF BEPBE3ENTATIVES. With regard to the rote by States, which only occurs in cose the Presidential election is re ferred to the House of Representatives, the fol lowing is the result thus far: Democratic SlaUs?20. Arkansas, (Secession.) Alabama, (Union.) California, do Connecticut, do Delaware, do Georgia, do Illinois, do Indiana, do Iowa, <lo Uiuislana, do Maine, do Mississippi, do New Jersey, do Ohio, do Pennsylvania do South Carolina, (Seooision.) Texas, (Union.) Tennessee, do Virginia, do Wisconsin, do Whig States Florida, Missouri, Massachusetts, Michigan, Maryland, North Carolina, Vermont. Divided?4. Kentucky, New Hampshire, New York, Bhode Island. STIMSON & CO.'S New York, New Orleans, and Mobile Express, | (^lONNIOCTING with the swiftest and most responsible j expresses between the principal towns In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con necticut, Lower Canada, New York Mate, Delaware, Penn sylvania, Maryland, District of Columbia, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, the Western States generally, the Mississippi and Alabama river towns, and the prominent place* In Geor gia and the Carotlnas. . 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Colonization Rooms, Washington, June 11,1851. r>ainUie^Ungo:ftho Executive Committee of the Ameri can Colonization 8oclety, held on the 10th instant, the Secretary laid before the Committee the Prospectus of a newspaper to be called the-t'Aruton Statesman, andto bs devoted "to sound morality in Politics, to the Union oi the States, to the cause of African Colonization and Civili fh?irD' , *0*11 topics of a high and general interest to their country ?to be published in this city, by the Rev whifh.Swi^ Goodloe; after the reading o! tkfpiV Tb"t ,we cordially and earnestly recommend Patron?K? of the friends ol African Colonization throughout the United States. June 16? W. McLAIN. Seo. Am. Col. 8oo. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, AND THI O BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEWS. 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Remittances and communications should be always addressed, post paid or franked, to the Publishers. LEONARD SCOTT A CO., 79 Fulton street, New York. mar u? Entrance 54 Gold st. PARKEVILLE HYDROPATHIC INSTITUTE AT a meeting of the Board of Managers of the I'arke ville Hydropathic Institute, held fifth month 15th, 1SJ0, Joseph A. Weder, M. D., was unanimously elected Rrtvl/nl I hytieian In th? place of Dr. Dexter, resigned. Having made various Improvement#, this institute 1* now prepared to receive an additional number of patients ? and from Dr. Weder's wall-known skill and practical ex perienct In Europe, (acquired undw Vincenx PreissniU, me founder of the Hydropathic system,) and for several yeap past in this country, and particularly In the city of Philadelphia, (where he has had mahy patients,) the Man agers believe the afflicted will And him an able and an attentive physician. The domestic department being under the charge of a Steward and Matron, will enable the Doctor to devoU to the patients whatever time may be necessary. Application for admission to !>e made to BAMUKL WKUB, Secretary. Offlce No. 58 South Fourth street, residence No. 1# Lo ?n square, Philadelphia. General Description n/the I\irkevHU Hydropathic Institute. The main building is three stories high, standing lurk from the street about one hundred feet, with a semicircu lar grass plot In front, and contains thirty to forty rooms The grounds around the house are tastefully laid out with walks and planted with trees, shrubs, Ac.. On the left of the entrance to these grounds is a cottage containing four rooms, used by male patients as a bathing house, with every oonvenienoe for "packing," bathing, Ac.; on the right of the entrance, about two hundred feet distant, stands a similar oottage, used by the ladies for similar purposes. In the rear of the Institute, at the distance of one hun dred feet, are three other cottages, some eighty feet apart. T'?L ihei" the with a hydrant at the door; the other two are occupied by the servants. The hydrant water In Introduced into these cottages as well as Into the main building, and all the waste water oarriwi off bj drain a under ground. TUB WATER WORKS Consist of a circular atone building, standing on the brow of a hill, surmounted by a large cedar reservoir containing live hundred barrels, brought from a never fulling spring of pure cold water in the side of the hill, by "a hydrirttlic ram, a self-acting machine of cast Iron, that is kept con stantly going. night and day, by the descent of the water from the spring. The surplus water Is carried from the reservoir to ft fountain In the water-work* yard, aurroiind ?1 by weeping willows. In the first story of the water works Is a circular room, containing the douche bath, which is a stream falling from a height of about thirty feet, and can be varied In sise from half an inch to %n Inch and a half In diameter. A<ljoining the douche room is a dressing room, with marble tables, Ac.; the rising mnuche (for the-cure of plies, Ac.) is one of the most com plete contrivance* of the kind, being entirely under the control of the patient using the same. There are many other appliances, which can be better understood by a personal examination. mar 24 S~ jj M "Am-iN<y?N, N^rch^it street, above Tenth, Philadelphia, have Just received JET'L. o!"!'! Table and Piano Covers, Damask Table Cloths, Napkins, Moreens, and Worsted Damasks mar 24? / AMERICAN TELEGRAPH ConUu.nltl UumiU. 1 lie following correspondence will doubtlesa be read with interest: I tfler (? w- p- m Sir J he "Continental Guards of '76" a tfsaar rentiy orgn,,izej in th? Of J? , 8- : ve c&arged ?8 with the duty of communicating their desire that you will consent to be regarded as an honorary (and honored) member of the company. 7 ( The Continentals, in adopting the venerable name, design also to revive some of the peculiar associations of the Revolutionary era The times seem to require that by every means in SSI"" 7 ^ ourse,ves "ON closely *i5h'2m?dw,of thought and action, To this end even its minutest observances may be not unworthy of resuscitation. As no on. in an 2E&Sff* uith/.1?U?elf has cherished the spirit-ated cultivated the recollcotions of *'76 tfc? corps would gratefully receive uny sugKea I t!Z !?' miguht bc your Pleasure to give them respecting tho practices and the costiime |Of that heroic period. We have the honor to be, Very respectfully, &o. C. A. Alexander, James E. Morgan, m n ... _ John L. Smith. To George W. P. Custis, esq., &c. \t t\' A*LINaT0N House, Nov. 18, 1851. Mr Dear Sirs: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your esteemed letter of tho 14th in stant in which you inform me that the Conti nental Guards of '76 have done me the honor to corps mC anllonorary member of their respected I feel much flattered by this compliment, paid me In my old age?having, through all the vi cissitudes of a long life, steadfastly adhered to the principles of the "brave old days of '76." 1 was taught to consider them as the true prin ciples of liberty in my boyhood at Mount Ver TJ If* Vve grovvn with ?y growth and strengthened with my strength during the whole of my better days, and will be the pride of my gray hairs, even to the grave. . While we cherish in our hearts the high and holy memories of the "times that tried men's souls, let us perpetuate the costume of our gallaut forefathers, as worn in the heroic age of our country's independence. The Highlander delights in the "garb of the bael: it reminds him of the fame of his fa thers and the glories of the Tartan in a hun re oughtcn fields. Let the American soldier of the present age preserve the costume of his forefathers, and show to rising generations a portrait of the soldier of the Revolution, in the brave old days of '76. THE uniform of the staff. R ue and buff, the ancient whig colors of Lngknd. This was adopted and worn by Washington when captain of the old Blue and Bulls, a volunteor company organized at Alex andria in the commencement of the troubles with the mother country?John Fitzgerald, first lieutenant. Captain Terrett the elder was said n <r ? I*?1 8urTivor of the old Blue and biiffs. W ashington continued his first uniform in the cause of liberty as the uniform of the general staff of the American army at Cam bridge Buff undorclothes, blaek boots, coat lined with buff silk or shalloon, and the ta.il flnps hooked together with hooks and eyes plumesg?1Dg ?n parade' cocked hats, white THE infantry. Blue coat with red facings and cuffs, collar lined with white, white buttons; white under clothes; black cloth half gaiters; caps, with white and red plume. Officers, cocked hats, black ribbon cockade; after the alliance with trance in 1778, a small ^hite cockade was worn in the centre of the black one. Officers crimson sashes of silk, cotton, or worsted, worn around the waist, under the coat; coat flaps hooked together with hooks and eyes, so as to show tho white lining. If light infantry, then short coatces; epaulets white. artillery. Blue, red facings ; collar and cuffs lined with red ; blue and red plume; red waistcoat; un derclothes and gaiters same as infantry. Lone coats; buttons and epaulets yellow h?vnry, T"\?raa- Lee'" Lceion> and buff, Baylor s Horse, called Lady Washington's Dragooas, white, with blue facings, &c. LIFE GUARD. Blue, white facings, collar and cuffs; blue and white plume; underclothes and waiters same as infantry. This, my dear sirs, is a detail of the costumes of the glorious old times! Choose as you may, you cannot go wrong. Permit me to repeat my sinccre acknowledgments for your very great kindness to an old American, who had the honor of bear ing a commission in the lust army commanded by the beloved Chief, fifty-two years ago ; and with warmest wishes for the success of the Con tinental Guards of '76, I have the honor to be gentlemen, faithfully, ' \ our obliged humble servant, George W. P. Custis, Honorary Member Cont'l Guards of '76. Col. C. A. Alexander, .Dr. J. E. Morgan, and John L. Smith, esq , committee, &c. &c. We learn that tho commissions of the officers of this company have been duly received, and that their first parade will be made with full numbers in complete costume. Pauperism.?The society for improving the condition of the poor In New York have made a report of their operations the present year. According to the county official returns, the number of paupers chargeable to the State during the past year was 104,399; and during the same period, the alien emigrants in the hUte, chargeable to the Emigration Depart ment, were officially reported to ho 60,000, making the whole number relieved 154,39'J. Of the State paupers, but 46,116 were 'natives, wliilo 69,283 were foreigners; to which add the before-mentioned .r?(),000 recent emigrants, and tho result shows that 118,283 foreigners, or more than 70 per cent, of the whole number relieved or supported, wore from foreign conn tries, and 4'), 116, or less than 30 percent., were natives. The report says that "during the year jnst closed, although tho cases of pauperism have not abated in activity, the number requi ring aid has not only fallen far below the ratio of the increase of population, but was numeri cally less, by three hundred and twenty-five families, containing twelve hundred and sixty persons, than in 1850." A silver penny of Hardicanute, A. D. 1040 has been found at Edington, Yorkshire, and is in possession of Mr. Julian. [Comm u okcat ? J. | The Power of the Kwentlre to Com mute the Death Pinalty. Messhs. Editors : Upon the trial of John Day for murder, at the last term of the Crimi nal Court for the District, (if I ?m right in the recollectiou of facta,) after the caae had been given to the jury, that body requested the Court to inform them whether the President had the power to commute the death penalty. 1 he Judge replied in the negative; and the District Attorney, by his silence, acquiesced in the de cision of the Court. The inference was, had the Court decided the other way, that the jury would have at once returned a verdict of guilty, (instead of being locked up in their room for several days thereafter,) with a recommendation to the Executive to commute the punishment of death to some punishment of a milder charac ter. This decision of the Court Btruok mo as a very strange ono at the time. My object now, howover, is not to comment upon it, but to call attention to an extract from the opinion of Attorney General Ceittkndbn furnished the President, upon the application for a pardon for See-see-sah-ma, an Indian sentenced to be hung for murder in the District Court of the United States for Missouri. The President acted upon the opinion of the Attorney General, and oommu 1 ted the punishment of death to that of impris onment in the Missouri penitentiary for life ; and will act upon it again, I presume, whenever, in his opinion, a case may arise which may warrant such an intyforcnce of Executive au thority. .. ... The next term of the Criminal Court for this District will commence on the 1st December; and as there are at least two murder trials to take place then, it may not bo uninteresting or un important to our citizens to know the extent of the power which the Executive has upon the subject. I therefore enclose you the extract referred to, which will bo found in the fourth column of the Opinions of the Attorneys Gen eral, pago SCO, now in the oourse of publica tion in this city. It is dated May 10, 1851, and is as follows: . , " The general power of pardoning, conferred by the constitution upon the President, includes the power of pardoning conditionally, or of commuting to a milder punishment that which has been adjudged against the offender. The commutation of the punishment is but a condi tional pardon; and that tbe President may Krant such a conditional pardon has been al ways recognised and decided.?(United Statu vs. Wilton, 7 Pet. 168.) Where the condition is such that the Government has no power to carry it into effect, the pardon will operate as a general and unconditional pardon; and it is therefore necessary to consider the means of carrying into effect the prescribed condition or commutation. There can be no doubt, I think, as to the power of carrying into effect a pardon commuting the sentence of death into confine ment or imprisonment in any State prison or penitentiary within the district where the con viction took place, ?the use of which may have been allowed or granted by the legislature of the State,' &c.?(See the act of 1826, author izing such confinement, section 15 ; 4 Statutes at Large, 118 and 739; and the Revised Statutes o] Missouri, p. 442.") The City of Wuhlagton. In quoting the following article from the Union, we omit some passages designed for the reading of those who are not familiar with this city. We take only such parts of it as our citi zens will read with iiWfRtst. * * * I have had time to become com pletely fascinated with the place, and have made up my mind to "pull up stakes" in the Queen City of the West, and locate myself on the left bank of the noble Potomac river, within the cor porate limits of the metropolis of this mighty republic. * * * Washington is certainly the most lovely and refined city on this conti nent that I have resided in. It is worthy of be ing the capital of the United States. Ml ashing tou is separated from Georgetown by Rock creek, over which there are several bridges, one of which is composed wholly of iron; and from Alexandria by the Potomac river, over which is a bridge upwards of a mile in length, of poor construction, and a miserable substitute for the granite bridge proposed by Gen. Jackson during his glorious administration, and defeated by Col. Mercer of Virginia, who is the father of the present perishable.structure. * * * The city is well supplied with good spring water for I drinking purposes ; but 1 have a well-matured plan for furnishing the whole city?and, if re quired, tbe whole District?with an inexiiausti , blc supply of excellent water from the Potomac, and discharging the samo in jets upwards of ninety to one hundred feet above tho highest part of the Capitol, which I intend to lay before Congress at it* approaching session. * * Trains of cars run to and from Baltimore three times a day, and sometimes oftener; but the fare ($1.80) is entirely'too high. * * * Ibe public buildings are not yet very numerous, but such as are already finished surpass in architec tural beauty tho#e of any city in the United States which I have visited. * * ? The President's House is a small freestone building," of two stories, elevated on a rusticated basement, embellished with the Roman-Ionic style of architecture. It is about 186 feet in length, by a width of 85 feet, badly arranged interiorly, and entirely too small for the Chief Magistrate of this republic. It is about large enough for the Secretary of State. Soon tho nation must provide a more suita ble mansion for its President, to enable him to receive the people on public occasions as they expect him to do. ***** The south front of the City llall is a chaste specimen of Grecian-Ionic architecture, whose parts are simple, bold, and harmonious-pro ducing a fine effect at a distance of about 200 yards The whole front is about 250 feet by a I height of 40 feet. In viewing this beautiful specimen of architecture, the beholder, if he i have the least soul for the fine arts, cannot but be delighted. Whoever designed this facade ^ certainly was a master in architecture. * * * * * . * The Washington Monument is a plain obelisk ! of about fifty feet base, and now over one bun | dred feet high, and intended to be t0. a height of five hundred, feet. It i* built or blue rock, covered on the outside by white mar ble from the Baltimore county quarries. W hen finished, 1 think it will be M .mjwsmg M th? Bunker Hill Monument, provided the roUtoet does not surround the b?e with the small Gre , oian columns represented in the which will spoil the ahnpl# <"^Ue ?well the plain Egypt'*" obelisk The site is wen I chosen, in the centre of ft spftce formed by the intersection of several avenues, on the bank of the Potomac river. The National Observatory is placed 0n the summit of a hill, in the centre of University Square, on the left bank of the Potomac river, nc-ur Georgetown, about one hundred feet above tide-water. It is a poor-looking building. The instruments, however, are very fine, and kept in good order. 1 he Smithsonian Institute Budding is a strange looking structure. 1 know not what style of architecture to call it. Some oall it the Nor man, but the Normans never built such a con glomeration of absurdities, as singularly as they sometimes made their buildings. In the centre we see a kind of Norman tower, on the east baronial battlements, and on the west mo nastic roofs and low doorways. The interior is badly arranged for the purpose for which it was intended. The apartments are entirely too small. The public lecture-room, instead of being capable of accommodating five thousand per sons, will not comfortably seat five hundred. The picture gallery contains scarcely a single suitable spot to place a picture, and instead of introducing the light through the roof, it is ad mitted through the walls, against which the pictures ought to be suspended. The library room is very small and badly arranged. The room designed for the musoum is not yet re constructed. I am told it fell in when half finished, a few seconds after a number of persons had left it. I consider this build ing a miserable abortion, and only worthy of the dark ages, from whose architecture it is pretended to have been borrowed.?? Instead of being fire-proof, the interior is mostly of wood. It is badly located on the great Mall, which will be thus broken up by it, and the adjacent walks and fences. The Mall should not have been cut up and subdi vided into small sections as we see it, but Bliould have been left, as General Washington had it laid down on the original map, iq one grand park, extending from the Capitol to the Potomac, I for the benefit of the people; and the primeval oaks and other forest trees should have been preserved in groupB to protect the people from the rays of pur burning summer sun, and for giving it the appearance of a beautiful land scape, instead of cutting down the " old oak tree" for fire-jvood. One of the trees cut down was said to have existed several centuries, and to have produced twenty cords of wood. Had I teen present at the cutting of its venerable trunk, I should htfre exclaimed in the language of Morris, "Woodman, spare that tree!" I intended to have given a brief description of other public buildings and places iu Wash ington?of the Arsenal, Navy Yard, Congres sional Burial Ground, Almshouse, Peniten tiary?of several beautiful private residences? of the public schools, churches, and the public parks, and to have said something about the natural advantages Washington possesses for successful prosecution of manufactures and commerce; but, as this article is already ex tended to a tiresome length, I must defer to another day what I have to say upon these sub jects. ' Salomon. New Torch ask fok Librbla.?The New Jer sey Colonization Society has recently made a new and valuable purchase of land in Africa for colonization purposes. It lies beyond tho previous bounds of the colony, interior, in a northeasterly direction from Cape Mesurado, between the St. John's and St. Paul's rivers, ? and contains about two hundred and fifty square miles, or one hundred and sixty thousand acres. Its nearest point is about twenty miles from the coast. It is represented as having a beautiful elevation, an abundance of sweet, cool water, in running brooks from the mountains, over white pebbly bottoms, excellent timbered forests, a plenty of brick clay, and, what is more note worthy, a good supply of granite stone suitable for building purposes. Some of the brooks have elevated banks from five to sixty feet high, and offer excellent mill sites. The whole tract was purchased of tho natives for a small sum; and what is specially gratifying is, that a strong desire was expressed by the native kings and their people to have the colony established within their borders, that they might enjoy the protection and advantages of instruction which it would afford them. The site of a town bad been selected, and twenty-five families of old settlers had volunteered to commence tho settle ment. Mh. Thrasher.?A letter has been received at Boston from Mr. Thrasher, the late editor of the Faro Industrial, who was convicted at lia vana on the charge of participating in the late Cuban invasion, giving an account of his trial. Among the chasges preferred against him were the following: First, receiving letters iu cipher ; second, receiving a loaf of bread, wrapped in a piccc of paper, containing the arrival of the United States ship Cynne; third, that his mother sent him cakes in a newspaper which had an account of the Lopez expedition. The court met on the 12th, and consisted of a presi dent and six military officers. A captain in the army made a lame defence for the government. Mr. Thrasher read a pow I erful protest against the proceedings. He was roughly checked whenever he referred to the treaty with the United States and Cuba. Tho sentence of Mr. Thrasher, as previously announced, is confirmed. He is allowed two hours each day to see his friends, through the bars of tho prison. lie says the whole affair was a ridiculous mockery. In a family residing not more than one thou sand miles from the city of Erie, Pa., there are five daughters unmarried, each of whom ap peared in public, on a recent occasion, clad in a beautiful and warm woollen frook, of their own manufacture! The father of that family has money to loan. Rev. C. Brooks, of Boston, says?"The threo best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merry man." It has been suggested that the names of streets should bo painted on the glass of the street lamps?the latter to occupy the corners. The plan appears to bo practicable, and a very good one. How much we dreaded, in our scheol-boy days, to be punished by sitting between two girls. Ah ! the force of education. In after years we learned to submit to such things with out shedding a tear. According to Galignatii, the Emperor of Rus sia has just ordered six thousand carriages to be built for the different railways in his empire, in order to facilitate the conveyance of troops. The Prince of Wales completed his tenth year on the 9th instant. The event was celebrated at Windsor by the usual rejoicings.