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Dec 1 (New-..)
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i THER BOOTS??The undersigned has
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Dec i (News)
TIIE SONS OF THE SIRES, A His
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the American Party, and its probabje influence
on the next Presidential election, to which is
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A. Wise against the Know-nothings, by an Ame
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The History of Mason and Dixon's Line, con
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Latrobe, of Maryland, before the Historical So
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Mirana Elliot, or the Voice of the Spirit, by S.
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Autobiography of Charles Caldwell, M. D.,wilh
a Preface, Notes, and Appendix, by Harriet W.
Warner. *
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Feb 15
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PREMIUM ROOTS.?Gentlemen are re
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and examine Ihe fine esse of BOOTS that was
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Sc Co., Philadelphia. Please call early, as they
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same establishment; also, of C. Benkert's and P.
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manufacture, comprising the largest and best se
lected stock of Boots that has ever been in the
marked JOHN MILLS,
Fashionable Bootmaker, Browns' Hotel.
March 18?3t
READY MADE CLOTHING
AT REDUCED PRICES Ai the season
is advanced, we have determined to aell off
ihe remaining portion of our winter stock at
greatly reduced prices; therefore gentleman wish
ing to consult economy in purchasing fine Over
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fine quality, will find our present variety to be aa
well assorted as in the beginning ot the season,
with the advantage of much lower prices.
WALL tc STEPHENS,
322 Pa. avenue, next to Iron Hall.
Feb 24
PLATED TEA SET*.?I have Just rt
1 ceived some new styles Allrnta and Silver
Plated Ware that I offer at manufacturer's prices:
also, a large assortment of Spectacles, of every
description; together with a good assortment of
pure Silver Ware, of my own manufacture, which
I will retail at wholesale prices.
H. O. HOOD,
418 Penn. avenue, bet. 4$ and fith sts,
Sign of the Large Spread Eagle.
Feb 25?dl w if
WORK, or Plenty to Do and Honrs to
Do it, by M. M. Brewster, 1st and 2d series
75 cents.
Gratitude, an Exposition of the 103d Psalm, fcy
Rev. Johrt Stevenson, 75 cents.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart, a study for
young men.
The Wife, or a Mirror of Maidenhood, by T
Binney, 50 cents.
The Friendships of the Bible, by Amicus, en
gravings, 55 cents.
GRAY Sc BALLANTYNE.
JTNIOM HALL, HOTEL AND REFEO
O lory, C street, bet ween 8th aafl 7th streets,
Washington. E. J. WILLSON,
W. H. HEY WARD.
Deo. 15?tf
WOOD GAS.?CACJTION*
BE it kuown that I, the subeeriber ob
tained letters patent io December, 1851, for
an apparatus for the destructive distillation' ot
wood, aud the making therefrom of tar or pitch at
pleasure, and gas; and that in the judgment ot
competent persons the invention of an appar
tus recently patented by W. D. Porter cannot be
used by hiin or any other person without infring
ing my said patent. And, further, that what u
patented by said Porter rightfully belongs to m?,
as I expect to prove ere long before the United
States Patent Office ; and, further, that the use of
said Porter's invention involves also a process
which I am now claiming before the United States
Patent Ottice, and which has been adjudged to be
patentable to the first inventor thereof, and which
said W. D. Porter has formally disclaimed, as ap
pears upon the public records of said office, ol
which an official copy is hereto annexed, aud also
a copy of his claims.
In the National Intelligencer ef the 25th instant
Mr. Porter aunounces that he has secured by
patent me "ek?i?u'i>? ri?rht </? ,fus trom
wood," and threatens presecutiu.i to all parties !
infringing bis patent. 1 ask how this statemeut
comports with the fan of my patent of December,
1851, and how far the threat caw intimidate under
such circumstances 1 Mr. Porter's claim is based
upon a movable perforated diaphragm, and was
so understood by the Patent Office, as it appears
from the records of the Patent Office that his
claim was at iirst refused as intt-rfering with a
prior patent to Robert Foulia, of Canada, for an
equivalent contrivance. This claim, as given be
low, and in which the perforated diaphragm is the
?aving clause, is what Mr Porter calls securing
the "exclusive right to making gas from wood.
The statement carries absurdity on its front, and
is a libel on the good sense of the Patent Office
If such a claim or right had been granted, it would
forbid every coal-kiln and charcoal manufactory
in the country.
The following copies of correspondence and
extracts from the records of the Patent Office will
?how the true state of the case:
United Statxs Patent Office,
August 25, 1854.,
St* . In reply to your lstter of this date, asking
" if any patent has been granted to W. D. Porter,
dated 22d August, 1854, or at any other time, or
to any other person or persons, securing to him
or them " the exclusive right of making gas from
wood." and whether any such claim whs made by?
W. D. Porter, under his application for a potent,"
[ which letters patent were issued bearing ilia
| above date, you are informed that W". D. Porter's
| claims are believed to be c ufined to his appara
I tus; and, further, jhi's office is not aware that a
patent lias been granted heretofore for the exclu
sive nght of making gas from wo*d. It would,
however, be unjustifiable to expect me to make
an extended investigation to answer your re
quest.
I am, respectfully, your obedient servant,
C. Mason, Commissioner of Patents.
W. P. McConakll, Esq.,
Care of Prof. C. G. Page, Washington, D. C.
I The United States Patent Office?To all persons to
whom these presents shall come, g re tin g :
This is to certify that the annexed is a true copy
fr?m the files of this office of an extract from a
uaper filed in the matter of the application of W.
D. Porter for letters patent, in accordance with
which application letters patent were issued to the
said W. D. Porter on the 22d day of .August,
eighteen hundred aud fifty-four.
In testimony whereof, I Charles Mason, Com
missioner of Patents, have caused the seal
of the Patent Office to be hereunto affixed
[L. a.] this 2f>th day of August, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
four, and of the independence of the United
States the seventy-ninth. C. Mason.
Copy of disclaimer of W. D. Porter in his apjilica?
tion for " an improved ttiU for making tcuori
? gas "filed A ugust 5, 1854. Letters patent issued
August 22, 1854.
" I do not claim as my invention and discovery
the improvements in making gas from wood, vix:
subjecting the products of destructive distillation
therefrom to a high degree of heat, substantially
as has been described and for the purposes set
forth in the specification of W. P. McConnell."
The United States Patent Office??To all persons to
whom these presents shall come greeting :
This is to certify that the annexed is a true copy
from the records of this office of an extract from
the specification of W. D. Porter's patent, issued
in the twenty second day of August, eighteen
hundred and fifty-four..
j In.testimony whereof, I, Charles Mason, Com
? missioner of Patents, have caused the
seal of the Patent Office to bo hereunto
affixed this twenty-fifth day of August,
'?'in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight huudred and fifty-four, and ol the
independence of the United States the
seventy-ninth. C. Mason.
Ennut from Specification of W. D. Porter on
whuh letters patent were issued August 22, 1854.
Claim.?What I claim as my invention and de
sire to set-ure by letters patent is ;
"The construction of a gas apparatus or still,
consisting ?( a metallic or other cylinder B, the
cones E and D, diaphram plate C, and exit pipe
F, substantially as described in the foregoing spe
cification, aud shown in the accompanying draw
ings."
The truth of the ab?vemay be ascertained from
the reoords of the Patent Office, to which all have
access.
WM. P. McCONNELL,
By his attorney CHAS. O. PAGE.
"T)OOR?S railroad map of the
X UNITED STATES."?This eelebsa
ted Map, recently eulogized by Lieutenant Mau
ry, in his "Virginia Letters," is on sale at
TAYLOR & MAURY'S
Dec 1 Bookstore, near Ninth street. j
KUS8IA AS IT I?, BY COUNT DE GU
rowski.
MEMOIRS, Speeches, and Writings, of Robert
Rantoul. jr., edited by Luther Hamilton.
SACRED POEMS AND HYMNS for public
and private devotion, by James Montgomery.
THE PLANTER'S NORTHERN BRIDE, a
Novel, by Caroline Lee Hcntt, with illustrations
frem original designs, in 2 vols.
THE CHURCH- in a series of Discourses, by
Sylvester Judd. Pastor of Christ Church Maine.
HISTORY OK OLIVER CROMWELL and
the English Commwnwealrti, from the execution
of Charles I to the death of Cromwell, by M. G.
Guizot, translated by A. R. Scoble, in 2 vols.
HISTORY OF THE FRENCH PROTEST
ANT Refugees, from the Revocation of the Edict
of Nantes to our own days, by M. Charles Weiss,
Professor of History in the Lycee Bonaparte, in 2
vols.
VOICES OF THE NIGHT, by Rev. John Cam
ming, D. I).
VOICES OF THE DAY, by Rev. John Cum
ming, D. D.
Just published and received at the bookstore ef
R. FARNHAM,
Apr 15 Corner of 11th st. and Penn. av.
SCHOOL HOOKS OF ALL THE KINDS
used in the District, blank books for compo*
sition, pens, ink, slates, and everything requisite
.for the schoolroom, for sale at low prices,*by
GRAY St BALLANTYNE,
Apocalyptic sketches.?Lectures
on the Book of Revelation, by the Rev. John
Cumming, D. D.; 75 cents.
Benedictions, or the Blessed Life, by the Rev.
J. Cumming, D. D.j 7ft cents.
School Books and School Requisites at the low
est price, for sale at the bookstore of
GRAY it BALLANTYNE,
On 7tk street, near Odd Pel lows' Hall.
Apr 12 f
1.1 X AMPLE* OF MACHINERY AND
j MIH-work?Being plans, sections, snd rleva- !
tion of works in several departments of Machine
ry, Mill-work, and General Engineering, with de- i
cript ions of their construction, action, and practical ;
application to various branches of industry.
Just received and for sale at the Bookstore of
R. FARNHAM,
Corner of 11th at. and Psnn. avenue.
May 11
LONG WORTH'S Native Wlii^s and Bran
dies. -I have just received, und keep con
stantly on hand, Sparkling und Dry Catawba, the
Sweet Isabella AVir.es, aud Catawba Brandy.
Thete Wines are made from the pure juice ol the
grape, and pronounced to be the most wholesome
beverage ill use. B. JOST, Agent.
AUo, Importer and Dealer in all kinds of Wine*,
Liquors and Cigars, 181 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Jan. 30?2aw3m*
MRS. A. M. MADDOX'S
BO A RUING HOUSE, No. 43T E Street,
between 6th and 7th streets, uear the corner
of 7th street, Washington. D. C., is prepared to
accommodate BOARDERS by the month, week,
day, o* meal. Residence wiiJiin two or three
minutes' walk of the Patent. General, and City
Post Office#. ' .
Gentlemen can have Board with or without
Rooms. Dec 8?eotf
A LUAI1LE REAL. ESTATE FOR
Sale.?The block of buildiugs known as
" the Union Buildings,'1 and now occupmd by th?
Union newspaper establishment. 'I hey are situ
ated on E street, between 13th aud 14th streets,
and fronting directly on Pennsylvania avenue. The
lot is 70 feel from by 159 fe<t deep. The property is
susceptible of division and re-arrangement, and
its position such as must rank it among the best
business stands on the avefine. and is yearly in
creasing in value. The time of the present lessee
expires on the 1st September next, on which day
possession may had.
Also, that large three-story Brick House on 17th
street west, (opposite the War Office, and three
doors south of G street.)
Also, that three-story House on 17th street west,
next door to the Government Building, at tbe
corner of F and 17th streets>
Should the above property not be sold at private
sale prior to the 15th of May, it will be sold on
that day at public auction.
Terms will be made favorable to the purchaser.
Apply to CH. H. WINDER,
Corner of 17th and G streets.
March 20?SawtlOMay
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steps, necessary to secure a patent, can be ar
ranged by letter, just as well as if the party were
present. AU consultations and business strictly
confidential. Patents promptly secured in Eng
land, France, and other foreign countries. For
patents in th^United States, a model of the inven
tion ia alwmft necessary. In sice it should not
exceed one cubic foot.
ALFRED E. BEACH.
Editor of the People's Journal. Patent Agent, Ato.,
No. Srt Nassau stroet- New York.
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Periodicals and Music nestly half bound.
Mr. Lyoktt respectfully suggests to his friends
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PAGE as follows, vix.:
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and 42, p. in.
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and f>J. p. in.
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p. m.
Nov 7?tf. GEORGE PAGE
SXfllRTH! Shirts I?A flue ainortment of
5 Gentlemen's Dress Shirts ol superior quality,
for sale cheap by WALL Ac STEPHENS,
Dec 13 Pa. nv.. next door to Iros Hall
tfcrpm. in,I i BOOK"~-Ofltelal Regls
I ter of the United States, giving the
names of all Officeholders under the Government,
with their Salaries, Location, and time of appoint
ment. A few copies of the last edition still for
sale in Washington by
TAYLOR te MAURY,
Booksellers, near Ninth street.
Pries f3 50. Sent, postage free, to any part of
the United Stftles excepting the Pacific coast.
Feb 22
VALENTINES, VALENTINES.-A
large assortment just received and for sale
by. W. C ZANTZlNOER,
F
THIS In to give notice that the toliowlng
original Virginia Military Kevolutionury Laud
Warrants, viz:
No. 662 lor 10(i acres, issued in tho uame of Danie.
Thomas;
No. 533 for 100 acres, issued in the name ot Thus
Cole;
No. 2,779 for 100 acres, issued in the name of Duo
can Brown;
No. C46 for 100 acres, issued in the name of Thoa
Edwards,
have been accidentally lost or destroyed, and I
hereby notify all parties that I shall make applica
tion to the Land Office for the issue of scrip on
duplicates of said warrant*, under the provisions
*>f the act of the 31st August, l?5u.
A. NICOL,
Attorney for the Claimant.
Jan 10?3inlaw
IOK THkiSPKlNG TRAOK, tieut'd Ho.
? alery and Under-Garweuts.?STEVENS,
Brown's Hotel, is now opemug a fresh and large
variety of Geut'a Undercbirts and Drawers. Also,
a large assurtuieui of silk and cotton H&lf-Hose,
plain and fancy. STEVENo'S
Feb 24?''lit Sales Room, Brown's Ilotol.
-J
LATER YEAIW, by the Author ot *? the
Old^House bv the ltiver."
Mr. Rutherford's Children, t>ecoud volume.
Pebbles from the Lake Shore, or Miscellaneous
Poems, by Charles Lelund Potter, A. M.
Geueral Notions of Chemistry, translated from
the French, by Edmund C. Evans. M. D.
The Land of the Saracens, by Bayard Taylor.
Brushwood picked up on the Continent; or
Last Summer's Trip to the Old World, by Orville
Horwitz.
Discovery of the Sources of the Mississippi
River, by Henry R. Schoolcraft.
Dana's Minrealogy, 4th edition.
The above are selected from a large arrival of
new books at TAYLOR & MAURY'S
Dec 9 1 Bookstore, near 9th st.
The New York and Liverpool United States
Mall Steamers.
The nhips comprising this line are :
The Atlantic Captain West.
The Paciiic Captain Nye.
The Baltic Captain Comstock.
w These ships having been built by
R contract, expressly for government
nervice, every care has been taken
iu their construction, aw also in their engines, to
insure strength and speed, and their accommo
dations for passengers are unequalled for ele
gance and comfort.
Price of passage from New York to Liverpool
in first cabin $130
In second cabin, $75. Exclusive use of extra sized
slate rooms $325
From Liverpool to New York 30 and 20guineas.
An experienced Surgeou attached to euch ftiip.
No berth secured until paid for.
PROPOSED DATES OF SAILING.
From Nmo York From Liverpool.
Saturday. .Dec 16,1854
Saturday. .Dec ^0,1854
Saturday??Jan 13.1855
Saturday..Jan. 27, 1855
Saturday.. Feb.1", 1855
Saturday..Feb 24,1855
Wed'ilay.. l)?-e?'il, 1854
WeJ'day..Jan. 10, 1855
Wed'c ay. .Jan. V4, 1855
Wed'd.v ..Feb. 7,1855
Wed'da/. .Feb. 21, 1855
Wedday..Mar. 7, 1855
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BROWN, SHIPLEY dt Co.,
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13 King's Arms Yard, London!
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Paris.
GEO. II. DRAPER, Harre._
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ble tor gold, silver, bullion, specie, jowelry, pre
cioun stones, or metals, unless bills of lading are
signed therefor, and the value thereof -therein ex
pressed. Jan 3?dtf
SCOTT'S WEEKLY PAPER?The pub
lisher of this large and popular family journa
otters for the coming year (1854) a combination ot
literary attractions heretofore unattemped by any
of the Philadelphia weeklies. Among the new
features will be a new and brilliant series of origi
nal romances by George Lippard, entitled Legends
of the Last Century. All who have read Mr. Up
fiard's celebrated " Legends of the American Revo
ution," published for fifty-six consecutive weeks
in the " Saturday Courier,''' will find these pictures
of French and American history endowed with all
the power and brilliancy of his previous produc
tion.-*. The first of a series of original noveMettes.
called Morris Hartley. ?r the Knights of the Mystic
Valley, by Harrison W. Ainsworth, is about to b?
commenced. It will he handsomely illustrated by
twelve fine engravings, and its startling incidents
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Viola, etc., etc., is also engaged to furnish a bril
liant novellette to follow the above. Mrs. Mary
Andrews Demson, author of Home Pictures, Pa
tieoce Worthington and her Grandmother, etc.,
will continue a splendid domestic novellette, en
titled the Old" Ivy Grove, and H. C. Watson an
illustrated story called the Two Edged Knife?a
graphic picture of early life in Old Kentucky. To
these will be added original contributions and se
lections from Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz, Clara
Clairville, Lille Lilberne, M rs. Stowe. Grace Green
wood, and other distinguished writers; the news
of the day, graphic editorials, full reports ot the
provisiou, money, and stock markets, letters from
travelers at home and abroad, etc., etc.
Terms?One copy one year $2 ; two copies one
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twenty copies one year and one to the getter up
of the club, $20.
Address A. SCOTT, Ptiblisher,
No. Ill Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
GREAT EXCITEMENT IN NEW YORK
Pianos and Melodeons for Cash.
H?GRACE WATERS, the grest Music and
Piano Forte dealer. 333 Broadway, New
York, preleriiig to share a large per cent, with his
customers, rather than pay it to the sharpers ol
Wall street, to ruise available means to enable him
to stem the present tight times,offers his immense
assortment of elegant and warranted Pianos and
Melodeons at a Isrge discount from factory prices,
for cssb. His assortment comprises Pianos front
three of the largest and most celebrated Boston
manufactories; also those of several ol the best
New York makers, including the beautiful and
much admired Horace Waters Pianos from hi*
own factory, and Melodeons of the best Boston.1
New Haven, New York, and Buffalo niaken ; af
fording an opportunity for selectious not to be had
elsewhere Each instrument warranted. Second
hand Pianos at great bargains?prices from $60 to
to $160. Music and musical instruments of all
kinds. Dealers, teachers, and heads of schools
supplied on the best terms. Music sent by insil,
1 po*t pmd. General and select catalogues of mil
sic and schedule of factory prices of Pianos, Melo
deons and murucal instruments forwarded to any
address, free of postage.
S?ept 21?d3m
SBHIKT* MADE TO ORDER.?STEVENS
Brown's Hotel, is prepared to make Shirts to
measure, and warrants them in all cases to fit.
Gents troubled with bad fitting Shirts can be
suited at STEVENS'S
Dec 7?3tif Salesroom, Brown's Hotel.
TAYLOR * MAURY have the honor to
announce the completion of preparations for
the festive season. In addition to their ordinary
stock, (which has alwnys been characterized by
elegance and variety,) they have received?
A choice selection of beautifully illustrated and
tastefully bound Books.
Articles of" venu," in Porcelain, Bronze, snd
other manufacture.
Writing Desks, in papier mache and rosewood.
Card Baskets, Ink?:ands, Ladies' Cabas.
Cigar Stands and Cases, Portemonnaies.
Taper Stands, fee.
Together with a general assortment of novelties
remarkable for a combination of the useful with
the ornamental, at prices suitable to the artisan or
millionaire.
Book and Stationery store, near 9th street.
I Deo 21 '
pafljrittgtai Urattiul.
NEW YOHK. CORKEUPONOENCE.
HI?cclUueoui-Exp?cttd European News
-Later from California?Hard Tlmea
Continued?lllll Poole?The Cuba Q,ue?
llon?Starlllng Abolition Movements,
4tc.
New York, March 25, 1855.
Fifteen days out, and still no tidings of the
Atlantic. After the long passage of the Pa
cific, however, there ia no anxiety for the ahi^
and only some impatience for the confirma
tion or denial of the death of the Czar. If
dead. Wall street gays stocks will go up; and
Peck Slip says, that cuttou will go up and
breadstuff* down.
We expect here that his death will be con
firmed J that we shall bavf> new?, in COnsS1
quence, of some moment in a diplomatic view;
while, from the Crimea, wholly independent and
ignorant of the great national disaster at St.
Petersburg, we also look for very important
military intelligence. But as the steamer may
be signalled at any moment, let ua wait her
budget of news.
The George Law, from California, brings us
three days later advices from the Pacific coast.
The financial panic was not much improved.
Adams 4 Co. turned over to a court of insol
vency. Three hundred thousand dollars gold
dust shipped where there should have been a
million. Miners distrustful?holding back.
Very extraordinary, prima facie, that there
should be a financial depression in the gold
mines, without any diminution of their returns.
Such are some of the mysterious things at
tached to the simple and consistent laws of
trade. The worst of this slantptde ia, perhaps,
over.
We ought now to be in the midst of our
usually tremendous spring business. But there
is no rush and crush this season?no blocking
up the streets, in every direction, with boxes,
casks and bales, according to past usages.
The amount of mercantile business doing ia
slim; perhaps in the aggregate of the city not
one-third of the sales of last March to country
dealers. The pressure upon merchants, ship
builders, ship owners, manufacturers, mechanics,
and laborers, still continues, while, at the same
time, money is increasing in the banks, stocks
are gradually going up, and discounts are be
coming a little easier. Rents aud provisions
still remain high.
A sudden peace in Europe would instantly
relieve us of this tension and restriction,
which, in ^pite of a plentiful supply of money,
weighs down all our industrial interests like
an incubus. A audden peace, we repeat, would
relievo us of this uight-niaic of apprehension,
suspicion, distrust and contraction; but it
would be apt to hurry ua again into reckless
speculations, extravagances and wil^-goose
adventures, winding up at last in a general ex
plosion. Wall street, however, like Bucking
ham, "has become circumspect." Wall street,
from the experience of 1836?'7, has learned
aud is profiting from a good lesson. * Give ua
peace, and we shall, perhaps, weather through,
our prosperity without abusing it.
The Bill Poole excitement has subsided.
1
The parties implicated, except the escaped
principal, Baker, are held over upon a charge
of murder from the grand jury; but, in the
end they will, you may safely conjecture, slip
through the fingers of justice. The ruffians
and pugilists are too intimately identified with
the business of our political scene-shifters and
managers, to be sacrificed upon a charge of
murder. They have formed too long the con
trolling political institutions of New York to
be disposed of as other vagabonds aud crimi
nals are. They are too useful in driving in
offensive men from the polls, and in destroying
obnoxious ballot boxes, to be dispensed with,
either by Tammany Hall or the Whig party of
the Broadway House.
Speaking of Tammany Hall, I am informed
that another re-union meeting ia projected
for the purpose of bringing the administration
to high-water mark on the Cuba question.
Certainly the Soule correspondence is creating
a very perceptible sensation among all classes
of politicians, and a very general impression
that the crisis for some definite action ia now
upon us.
Meantime, I would call your attention to the
bill introduced in the legislature of this State
for the repeal of the fugitive slave law. There
never has been anything from the Abolitionists
proposed in any northern legislature looking so
brazenly to an overthrow of the Constitution
and the disruption of the Uuion as this
bill. It would be useful, to your southern
readers, to re-publish it. You will find it in the
Albany Evening Journal, March 23. Men may
cry 44 peace, pcace, but there is no peace.''
The weather is cold, cloudy, windy, stormy?in
other words, it is March in full costume, from
top to toe. UNCLE SAM.
A Visit to thk Battle Fields.?A cor
respondent of the New Orleans Picayune, at
Brownsville, writes:
" I have just returned from a visit to the bat
tle grounds of Pi>lo Alto and Resaca de la
Palina, but scarcely a vestige remains to de
note these fields which'redound so much to the
gallantry of our regular armj. On the former
field a cannon ball is occasionally picked up,
which is the only indication that it was ever
used except for the peaceful purpose of grazing
the large herds which at present roam over it.
"At the Resaca de la ralma the faint out
lines of the redoubt which the Mexicans occu
pied on the west bank of the Resaca are still
visible, but so overgrown with brush and under
growth that they can scarcely be followed. One
or two trees still show marks of the strife, and
a few shreds of old shoes and an occasional
battered canteen are also to be found in the
chnpparel; but there is nought else to show
that here was the scene of one of the most
closely contested fights of the war, where bayo
net* were often crossed, and where hand-to
hand fights were frequent, as the scattered com
batants met beneath the shades of sweet
scented minora or amidst the tangled brush
wood."
Tlie Operatives Strike at Manchester,
N. II.
This strike still continues, the owners of the
mills showing no disposition to give way. The
Manchester Mirror of Friday evening saya:
"This is the fourth day of the strike, and
from first to now the excitement has been on
tho increase. This morning a procession of
from 3,000 to ?.,700 operatives, by count,
mat ched at 5 o'ei ok to the manic of the cornet
band, to the mill , and through the principal
streets. In the afternoon there was anotner
and a still larger piocession, and a town meet
ing at night.
"The Manchester mills stopped running last
night for the present, and the Stark mills to
day noon. The only mills running are the
Amoskeag, and those only one-thira of their
uiacbiuery.
"Girls are leaving every train for their homes,
and it is thought that between now and next
Tuesday at least 2,000 will leave. Business is
left undone, and nothing but the 'strike' is
talked about Places of amusement are deserted
and the chief question is, 'what will be the re
sult?'
"None but those who mingle with the ccowd
can tell how deep-seated and unconquerable is
the feeling among the operatives and among
the mass of our people against the addition of
47 minutes to the hours of labor, and the com
pelling them to breakfast at 5$ o'clock.
"In the Police Court yesterday Geo. W. Han
cock, overseer in the Stark Mill, was fined $10
and costs, and ordered to give bonds in $100 to
keep the peace for kicking one of the female
operatives, who asked for a bill of her time."
From the Albany Argus of March 20.
Happy and Unexpected Meeting of Two
Revolutionary Heroes.
A pleasing incident occasionally occurs at
the Police Office, as was evinced yesterday
morning. Two men?both bowed with age,
and with venerable white hair?entered the
court a few minu^fe apart, but both on the
same business as it subsequently appeared, as
each had called for the purpose of obtaining
from Colonel Cole, the police magisrate, at
certificate of their names occurring in the mus
ter roll of the regiment which lertthis city for
Brooklyn?being ordered out en masse by the
governor in 1812?to suppress any attempt on
the part of the British to take New York, ap
prehensions of such proceeding being enter
tained at the time.
The first of the two who applied, was Colonel
Richard Waring, of Rensselaer county, and
Well known to Justice Cole, who proceeded to
make out.the necessary papers. While doing
so, the other person, Abraham Martin, of this
city, stepped up and proceeded to make his
business known. Squire Cole knowing them
both, having himself been in the same regi
ment with them, and noticing that there watt
no sign of recognitiou between them sa d :
Why, Lieutenant Waring, don't you remember
private Mariin ? Martin, don't yoh remember
Lieuten^it Waring? Neither knew at first
each other, h?d it was not until Squire Cole
made an c.xp'" lation, that they were aware
that they were old-fellow companions?that
both had served their country together?so
long bad they been separated. When memory
did revert to the past, and called up the re
collection of their boyhood, the fervid grasp of
t^e hand, and unbidden tear which followed,
attested stronger tban words can depict, the
happiness of the moment. Mutual interchanges
of a very natural character passed, and atter
the completing of their certificates, both left
together. It was, indeed, a happy meeting.
The Sad Fate of Genlu.
The Parisian journals and our own foreign
letters have recently been filled with notices of
the sad and untimely death of that brilliant
French feuilletonist, Si. Gerard de Nerval.
Here is a most striking and melancholy illus
tration of the truth, that the heritage of genius
is often a life of sorrow, and frequently a death
of Relf-inflicted violence.
This writer possessed a most brilliant imagi
nation, a beautiful and forcible diction, sharp
powers of analyzation, and these qualities were
all crowned with the beautiful flowers of fancy
and the mature fruits of study. Occupying an
nndisputed rank among the most gifted of that
bright galaxy of intellects, the living authors
of France, he was recently found in the dawn
of the day, hanging lifeless from a beam in a
hall' demolished house, in one of the most ob
scure quarters of Paris. The event was so
horrible, and thsubject of it so distinguished,
that for a moment all Paris stood aghast!
While yet a mere boy of eighteen, be had
made a translation of the celebrated Faust
of Goethe, which elicited from the great rival
and friend of Schiller the complimeut, that be
comprehended more perfectly his ideas in the
paraphrase of M. de Nerval, than he had him
self expressed them in the original. His lite
rary career was a brilliant triumph. He was
courted and caressed by the reviews, the thea
tre, and the press of Paris. After enjoying for
a period these triumphs of the intellect?and
no triumphs arc more intoxicating and grate
ful?that indefinable longing and unrest, which
characterizes great parts, led his steps to Ger
many. There, where the brilliant Madam de
Stael had preceded him when banished from
France by Napoleoif I., and had for the first
time opened to the world the rich mines of
German genius and learning, De Nerval spent
several years. In the study of the wonderful
monuments which that nation has created in
the dominions of art, and which are equaled in
their grandeur only by the remoteness and va
riety of the fields from which their materials
have been collected, ho gradually forgot that
quick practical style and wit, that delicate
consciouness of the ideas and requirements of
general society, which smile at sentiment and
ideality, and mark the French school.
There he became infected with the mysticisms
of the Rosicrucian philosophers, well known in
Germany two centuries ago as the pretended
discoverers of the philosopher's stone. After
the example of those dreamers, he himself be
came a dreamer, and left the cold skies of Ger
many to lnxurate beneath the gorgeous sun of
the East, in the occult sciences and in cabalis
tic lore.
The life of De Nerval, in the East, became a
continual waking dream. The indolent imagi
native atmosphere of the Orient, tho study of
magic with its attendants of socery, enchant
ment, devils and departed spirits, and the su
peradded passion of love, which at this time
seized upon his soul, proved too much for his
intellect, and he became temporarily deranged.
Recovering soon from this shock, his imagi
nation still displayed that magnificent profu
sion of riches which had txyfore characterized
it. But the course of his former studies had
unfitted him forever for the practical and real .
things of life. Whether goaded by poverty, or
in a moment of temporary insanity, or from
that sad and dreadful conviction which soumj