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Ul OaUii tJicaijime. BY LUMSDEN, KENDALL CO. f.i.tPMiDgU gKO M. HULBROOK. 72 caiJ ojrrice STRSKT.

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No eastern mail was Received here yes terday beyond Charleston, B. 1 The examination ot the boy cused of firing lhe closed yesterday before Alderman Caldwell. There was nothing in the testimony that could jbring the act directly home to the boy; the Alderman however, concluded to submit the testimony; to the -i i IJistnct Attorney, iiiai tie iingm use mo in the matter. The irl Lucy, now in prison on la similar charge, Jvill be examined to-day. -t Ep" Our thanka are due to the attentions of the officers of the Rainbow and Republic for files of river papers.

I3T We saw private betters' received by the Republic, from lhe raotl resectable sourcesCin Galveston, which give a deplorable account of the ravages of thti fever in that cily, winch, However, nua nuiucmmi abated wheu lhe Republic letu It through some families, postrating every swept mem- ber, the children and servants not escaping. In the threatening aspect of Mexico, and the risk of an attack upon Galveston, the inhabitants would naturally have' found cause for hut the more inJiiiediate danger from the pestilence overpowered every feeling the kind. One geuih manln alluding to the apathy manifested in regard to the invasion, said: I suppose the. citizens have come to the conclusion that it is as well to die by the sword, as by disease. I have been residing Jiere pearly seven years, and have heard of the wolf eo often, that 1 feel no sort 'of apprehension on the score of an invasion; but my wifej I believe, is a little alarmed And such, soTar as we can learn, is the feeling pervading the mass of Texans.

East Paseagoula. It will be seen by an advertisement in another column that there is toe a ball at this pleasant watering place this evening. I X3F The steamboat Alexander Scott, after I quite a goodly absence, has returned to our I levee looking "just as good as She has- been thoroughly overhauled at St. Louis, and put in perfect "apple-pie order." She will now take her place in the Bayou Sam trade, and run in connection with the Brilliant, commencing on Sunday morning. I quest.

Coroner Kamos held an inquest yesterday, on the body of a white woman who died at 'her dwelling in Old Levee street. She had been sick several days of a fever, and had taken medicine prescribed by a philanthropic individual in the neighborhood, who gratui tously practices medicine occasionally, without the sanction of the Medico-Chirurgical Society. The physician who examined the body, pro nounced; the disease of which she died, yellow fever. This is a case which, we think, the Board of Health should immediately take cognizance of. The Convention.

To-morrow we (will commence a brief biographical sketch of the memberaof this body, giving1 it in alphabetical order. We will state, the politics of the par ties severally, the parish or district whicb he represents, his vote on the question of adjourn- "menf, In all this the strictest impartiality will be observed, and bo far as those ketches go they will be found faultlesalv correct. Be sides the interest which may attach to them at the present time, they will be found useful if not important as a record for future reference. Years hence an anxietv will exist to know something more of the framers of our organic laws than the mere names;) These sketches have been specially prepnredi for this paper. Hot Weather.

The thermometer at St. Louis on the 19th stood at 102 degrees above zero in the shade, and 115 in the sun. Counterfeits. J. M.

Rav, cashier at In dianapolis, cautions the public against a new batch of five dollar counterfeits of the old notes of the bank of Indiana. They resemble the genuine, but the paper is too light and thin, and the heads misplaced. They are lettered two men cradling grain for a vignette, and the -heads of Washington and Lafayette the genuine has besides two men cradling, the heads of Franklin and Wayne. On the genu ine bills which have Washington and Lafay ette, the vignette is an Indian in the Act rf shooting witha bow. i Health or Natchez.

The health of Nat chez, though usually good, says the Courier of Tuesday, never was better than at the present time. The Sexton's reports for the last month do not number ten death. 1- is rT 1 I 1.1 i i fcy a no neattn oi oreensoorougn, is said never to have been better at this season of the year, than now. Of Montgomery the same is said. The Charleston Patriot denies the re port that any case of yellow fever had ort'gi-naied in that city.

It states, moreover, that the city was never more free from theordinary fevers incident to this season of the year'. Madison County, Mitt. The Mississippi Creole states that there is much sickness in that county at this time. Many of the cotton crops will be very light. The worm's have been very destructive on many of the planta tions, and many have been injured by drought Discontent in Canada.

A. correspondent of the New'York Observer asserts that the feelingaSat gave birth to the late Panada re be II ion are still burning' in lha, breasts of the inhabitants, was surprised, says he, to find deep and general discontent with the govern ment; and during my subsequent intercourse with the people, took pains to 'inquire into the facts. The British Province of Canada is held to Great Britain by a tie as frail as held the American colonies in 1775. 1 tThe woman in Washington, accused of attempting to poison a large family, has been item to oau, nut only in the sum of $1000. tT Tho 'ftzo "ver was falling slowly at tUi.

Editor's Table. Gregg' Commerce of the Prairies. We have beeu turning over Mr. Gregg's new work on the Commerce of the Prairies, ihough we do not yet pretend to have read it through. It turns out to be one so replete with instruction and interesting incident, that before we had got into it more than fifty we bad marked nearly half as many for extract.

It is one of the annoyances ofjndict-ing a notice of a really good book, that you must content yourself with the expression of general commendation, or rush at once into such amplitude of detail and quotation as to fill a double Jonathan' let alone a modest "Picayune" We feel this particularly in Mr. Gregg's book, which abounds so in incidenta. not to be abridged with safety. Still we must write something of it. We are sorry to say that the first man, so far as is known, who crossed the prairies and penetrated to Santa Fe, with a view to trade, was but an indifferently honest one, and a French Creole at that.

He was in the employ of a merchant of Kaskasia, whose merchandise he turned to such account in Santa F6, that he could not resist the temptation to appropriate the proceeds, and so he set up in business for himself, deeming the prairies in their broad expanse, a tolerable security against pursuit. This rogue died rich. Expeditions followed one after another, occompaniedj by hardships which approached often the direst extremities which humanity can endure, till jat last in 1822 the trade is said to have fairly commenced. Two years after, wagons were introduced, which was found a matter of much less difficulty than had been anticipated! In the out set, the Indians-gave little or no molestation to the (rajer8t but when they began! to find them profitable victims, they made unceasing preda tory attacks upon tbeni Our author insists, with great justice, upon the sanatory effects of trips across the prairie, and from bis own experience. The idea is not a new one, and we can bear testimony to its correctness, and if any unhappy! dyspeptic or lean subject pre-disposed to consumption, will take our advice, he will give over! visits to me dicinal springs, sea beaches, West India inlands, and the like, and repair inMay next to Independence, and there join his fortunes to some caravan bound for Santa Fe, and if he be lucky enough to have to rough Sit pretty well, to get terribly frightened by a foray of In dians, or more than all, to run down and slaugh ter a buffalo, we will guarantee a cure, should he reach hid journey's end; (a sight of that white horse" will answer all the purpose of a smart skrimmage" with the Indians.) As we do not wish to frighten any invalid, we may as well say here that many ladies of respectability bave crossed the prairies in perfect security.

The thing which strikes us very impressively jn readmg prairie narrations, is the infinite gusto with which all the authors enlarge upon their first repast upon buffalo. We recollect that Mr. Murray, in his first work, spoke of portions of the animal devoured in tbe raw state, with an eagerness which would put to shame a Marylander of the Eastern dis cussing the first canvass-back of the season Mr. Gregg follows in the footsteps of his pre decessors in this particular, and enters largely into the dear delights of cooking your own steaks, and then, supine upon the grass, of de vouring the savory viands clutched in your greasy hands. The most shocking thing we have come across so far as we have gone, is a surgica operation penormeu on the prairie.

It is no less than the ainputation-of the arm by means of a huge butcher knife, and a saw constructed ex tempore, and staunching the blood by the application of a red hot iron bolt to the stump. It is cruel to talk or write of such things, but so well do patients thrive under such treat ment, that perhaps a city surgeon might derive a hint therefrom. The author's encounter with Indians, though not very frequent or disastrous, are not uninte resting, and fully confirm our estimate of the accuracy of Mr. Murray's picture of Indian and prairie life, as delineated in his admirable novel, the Prairie Bird. And by the way, in a con versation lately with an officer of our army who has seen much service on our extreme western frontier, he expressed himself moBt unreserv edly in favour of Mr.

Murray's truthfulness in detail, pronouncing the work quite the best he had seen on the subject of prairie life. But our limits warn us to stay our gossip ing over the eminently suggestive volumes of Mr. Gregg. The variety of incident in them is so great, that there would be no end to our writing, were we to follow him through. His style is plain and unambitious he seeks to con vey instruction in an agreeable manner; -he avails himself of a thousand anecdotes picked up in his extended intercourse with traders, and has evidently imbued bis mind with the writings of all who have treated of kindred subjects.

We may recur to the work, again, and shall be happy, if by anything we have said, or may say, that attention may be drawn to the work it so abundantly deserves. It would be inexcusable to omit making men tion of the style of elegance in which the work is published. Tbe engravings are very appro- pnate and spirited, and a valuable map is pre- fixed to the whole, in which the courses of rivers, Sec, are laid down, in most cases, we think, with adaiiratde judgment. U. 8.

Aavy of the Revolution. In 1776 the Americau Navy was composed of the following named vessels 32's, Hancock, Randolph, Ra- leifrli. WAfdiincfrtn. Warron iruniouil, mngnani, Congress, Providence, Aiirea iveprisai, Lexington, Vabot, 14 I Andrew Dona; 12's, Hamnden. Providence- lft, 10 Sachem, Independence; 4's, ty ana moscnito in an ao.

I The Sea Serpent Sure Enough The pa- pers (good authority) say that the sea serpent m.d. many Been on Boothbay a fortnight since, by uie skipper and crew of the schooner Temper- ance aiary. He has grown a good deal in size since tie was seen last, being bigger around 1 than a hogshead, and two hundred feet lone. uc vrew oi me scnooner fired a swivel loaded with musket balls into the snake, fthen miA at least twenty feet out of the water,) and lhe b.iui cviiicuiiy iook enect, as he reared his enormous tail, made tremendous splash in uie, water, ana aove towards the vessel. The crew were very much frightened, as ihy supposed he was about to make fierce battle, but he did not rise in sigbtagain.

Now these men (says the N. Y. Courier) must all have told the grossest and most egregious falsehood, or there is reality, after all, in the existence of tbe eastern sea serpent for there is no chance for mistake in the case. The facts, it is well to add, have all been sworn in hefnrn mafM.A tho ro Interest Without Principle. A person I The Factory uirls.

aii wno visit low-this ciiy, who was hard up," some two ell ppeak.in terms of high praise of the factory months ago, borrowed twenty dollars front an cquaintance. The lender called yesterday on the lendee. for hia loaned money. The latter counted him out $18. The former counted it after him, and then looked at it, and then at the endee.

Lender." I have but eighteen dollars here." Lendee." I know it." Lender. I twenty don't you mean to pay me the other two?" Lendee." The other two why, certainly not and if you were a man of any conscience I you would not ask, them, snouia iiKe ie 11 A know if two dollars are not interest little enough for the time I had your twenty." The lender could not conceive whence his friend derived his absurd ideas of obligation attaching to a man who lent money. He con however, that the lendee was devoid of principle and ignorant of the laws of interest. According to Major Noah, the Mayor of New York is doing a good business in making two persons one; converting the singular into the plural in other words, marrying loving I men and women. His Honor's terms are very reasonable three shillings invariably paid in advance all sorts of money taken except red dog and bogus.

It is thought by many, that when the Convention meet they will be as puzzled to know where to go as once on a time -was Daniel Webster. We have heard the Armory Hall of the Washington Battalion, nearly op posite our office, suggested as a suitable place, and we think it would be but on the score of political economy, our preferenes are for the State House. Let the Legislature adiourn after its first week's silting, to give room to the Convention." Thin can be well done, for there is in fact no material for legislation. Should, however, the united wisdom of the State overrule us in this opinion, and then and in that case, as lawyers say in their briefs, we will advocate the Armory Hall being made the hall of the Convention. We.

are told by the political papers that the Green Mountain State is a-fire. Won't it take considerable of an engine to extinguish the blaze I What constitutes a Gentleman? In the requisites of a gentleman, as in most other things, form different opinions.1 Some ii i i will have it that to be a gentleman you must have had a coroneted ancestry others that to 1 have been on the field" is indispensable and others again that the tailor has a say" in the making up of a gentleman that unless you are mier in the fashion you are never a gentle- man. An Irish gentleman's" opinion of a gentleman differs from all thec, and is of course somewhat more Irish. Some persons, speaking before one of these, whose debts more than doubled his estates, of a man who had the reputation of being a gentleman, he indig- nantly replied He a gentleman! he! Why he is no gentleman. Do you know that the fellow never oved a hundred lifer' dollars in his The Way they Marry Out West.

A Western paper says (Thorpe is our authority) that the arrival of 41 ladies, all atone time, in Iowa, has caused a sensation." We think it should. But of the manner of paying addresses" and getting hitched," is what wej want to come at. It is said to be done in a business-like wav. rAn.nrk: Something 1.1 this Wise: When a Steamboat I load Ot ladies in e.ominir in nt lhA nhnrl lha gentlemen on shore make proposals to the la dies through speaking-trumpets, something like the following: Miss with blue ribbon on your bonnet, will you take me Hallo thar, gal with a cinnamon colored shawl! if agreeable we will jine." Tbe ladies in the meantime get ashore and are married at the hotel," the par- ties arranging tnemseives as the squire sings out, Sort yourselves! sort yourselves!" A great country, that Far Fires. On last Friday evening, at Vicks burg, a fire broke out in the steam flour mill of Meaara.

Fnlaom A It woa have been caused by friction, The entire building with all its contents were consumed, together with two other buildings, a dwelling house and the frame building known as Washington's Cotton Press. The wood yard of Mr. O'Neill, adjoining, in which there were several hundred cords of wood, was also destroyed. Estimated damage about 216.000. The mill was insured for S4UUU; At Yazoo City, on the 19th inst the building known as the Phoenix House, was discovered to be on fire.

It was fortunately extinguished with but little damage to the building. The fire originated by the carelessness of a party of boys playing about a pile of shavings with lighted matches. Another. On the morning of the 23d about 1 o'clock, a fire broke out at Memphis, in tne am street. upon Tbe amount of property destroyed is not men Painful Incident.

Oa the 16th inst. a little girl about three years of age, the daughter of Mrs. Emily Tod, fell overboard from the steam- boat Maine, just above North Bend, on the Ohio river. Tod immediately jumped into the river to rescue her child. No one on the boat observed tfhese occurrences, and she kept on her course leaving mother and child in tue woter u.

tuuuiciy uieacciuent uappenea I uu. mv diivii IIJC1I IICIIIUUH Ml Ii Lll III WHB 8een bv man i sQu; jtiose oy. i ne motuer succeeded in reaching thfl annt ia I --w. viiiiu caun. aiiu HB IE CH ITIR i f.

7 I 5--pcu vj nuiB handkerchief that was around it, but the knot untied and it again sank to rise no more. In m. who 013 eRin UP 10 m.e to save the woman from ame was taken ashore a good aeal exuausled, but in a short time she was entirely restored. rATAL accident. We learn from the Charleston papers, that on the night of the a .1 22d whilst the steamboat Cinderella, one toe ouiuvan island packets, was returning 1 irom Moms Island to the city; Laving been cuipioyea on a party oi pleasure, and when near Drunken Dirk SK.i 1 4 4 1 IUCJ tacking, lhe boom of the boat swinging rou gave Sweegarr, one of the passeneers.

severe hlnor nn tt lion A K. i nuitiintciueniBnei was knocked over anAdrowned, allhough the greatest etertions were made to save Her uu iue isianu. mrs. dweegan was both industrious and res- peetable, leaving a large and young family to i i 4ameui over ner uoaen death. tailoring shop of Mr.

Peb ow. on Adam eternal scoiuinn ne went out, slamming tne TTTi.r aoTp Vto rr i doorinafurv. If I can't have eomfortahle I XI xvaj ri rixior ouxw-, by which the entire block cornerin? "T' i can i nave a comioriaoie i nv.fi'r ammitai. sTiTnirTn. Main and Adam.

oonmed! M'rft LrL'Z lJZ girls. Their cleanliness, their comeliness, their industry and intelligence, have extorted commendation from even the Buckinghams and Dkkenses cf. England. The chaste style, moral tone, and sound literary character of the Lowell Offering, a periodical to the columns of which these girls are the exclusive contributors, have attracted, it seems, the attention of Knight the London -publishers. They have printed a selection of essays from its under the.

title, of Times among the Spindles." Referring to this publication the Economist, an influential journal, says: It is the production of factory girls in Lowell the American Manchester and we much doubt if all the duchesses in England could write as much and so seldom offend against good taste. The secret of these girls' success in writing arises from their writing only about what they know common life and their own anairs. This is certainly complimentary to the Yan- kee cotton-spinners, but not more compliment- ary Man just. Inese girls, we believe, are blessed with as good an education for all pur poses of moral and mental improvement as are those nchly-downed duchesses; and their faculties are neither clouded nor clogged from the effects of luxury, indolence and fashion- able dissipation, as those of the latter are. The editor of the Economist, at the same time, is deserving of our thanks for his candor and independence in making the admission.

Anti-Dickens Opinion." If I were an American," says Murray, in his work on this country, I confess I should be nroud of mv country oi us commercial enterprise of its l2antiC resources ol Ms map-nifippnr wri nd aavvcw UIIU forest and scenery still more proud should I be of its widely diffused education and inde pendence, and of the imperishable memory of us neroic lamer ana tounaer. i Let Mr. Geologist Featherstonhaugh put that in his pipe and smoke it. Shaving the Ladies. No bad auxiliary in the labor of enlightening the age is the poliee office.

Its records are nothing less than a book of revelations lifting the curtain from plot, act and intrigue, and exposing to the world deeds of darkening artful device, or impending danger. The last startling developement brought forth by police scrutiny is no less strange than it is Btartling. It is, that the practice prevails In London, and to a great extent, too, of thaving the ladies Did we feel certain that the practice was confined to the ladies of London, it might give us but comparatively little concern, but when we reflect that our own more effeminate and fair country-women may be, nay are, subjected to the same jonsonal operation, it cannot be matter of wonderment that we should sound the alarm, Neither in England or here afe the ladies shaved by the ordinary barber. There and here the operators are dry-goods clerks, who have heretofore been more accredited for their dexterity in the use of the scissors than the razor. But we will give the story as we find it, cautioning the ladies of our city to beware of shavers, and being shaved in New Orleans Shaving the Ijadies.

A linendraper's shopman being brought up by his master, charged with obtaining money on false pretences, Mr. Edward Lloyd, the managing shopman of the prosecutor, a Mr. a tier, of Shoreditch, was asked 1 "If there was not a practice amone persons in his business known by the appellation of shaving the ladies "The witness, with evident annoyance and great reluctance, admitted that there was; and, -ion oeillE caliea uuun iu t-xmaiu earn, iubi a hnn .1 nhL 1 I .1 I nilCU O. fUT i i -I, a scarf or a shawl, it was the shopman's PRAC- T1CE to use all his arts of persuasion upon the lady to induce her to give a higher price than lhe artinle was marked: it he succeeded, tie was entitled to a fourth of whatever he could obtain above the value of the article; if he did not, he got nothing. Thus, if a scarf had on it the pri- vate shop-marK oi ana ne couia taw tne lady into giving is.

tor it, ne was enuuea to i 1 1 1 1 IS. lor mmseii, ana was consioereu iu nave 4 shaved the One part of the offence of the prisoner consisted in having "added a figure to this shave," and in having thus claimed, on account of it, more than was due. ilhis, then, is "shaving the ladies!" An ingenious device truly, and not inaptly named London tjCOnomtSt. Cellar Doors. What, in the name of every thing what ft the reason that cellar doors bother the editors of the St.

Louis Reveil so? If you don't stop grumbling about them, gentlemen, your neighbors will not let you "slide on their cellar doors" any more, you may be assured. Now, mind what we tell you. Up' The editor of the Knickerbocker Magazine is touching up the morals of his readers with occasional extracts from the famed Yel- 1 I. I i lowpiusu v.orresponuence. nere is a remarK or two about domestic dissensions, right to the ,1 fuiui.

a anc iitjcu iucicuuiu, aii Jro wiiu read the family difficulties of Mr. and Mrs. Shum. Finally, they had reg'lar quirrels. Werry different, I can tell you.

from all the hammer- oua- billing and kewing wich had proceeded their nupshums ai aster couiun stand tuis I It" I that evening beesly intawsicated. Wen high words begins in a family, drink ginrally! folos on the gen'iman's side and then farewel to all conjubial happyniss." Here is a description of an Honorable Cheva- tier Industrie, as personified in the younger eon of the "Earl of Crabs," Hon. Algernon Percy Deauceace, Esq. There are sitters," by the by, for the likeness everywhere. "The young gnlmn teas a gnlmn, and no mistake.

He got his allowents of nothink a vear. ana Bpeni in me most nonoraoie ana 1 i ru 'ki I4 k.n k. I I nOU liauii' IIIUIl iji a wiu uu nvjlli MJ Thn fBbnhl nt. 1 1. T.

a mnvod in tha mna s. money wicu tuuimuu pippie uouui un- Seratand. he had only a third-floor I apartmint, ne irvea as 11 ne naa tne weaitn 01 1 I 1 i -I cjreashus. i ne ten pun-notes Dew about as common as haynence: clarit and Bhampang waa with him as vulgar as gin and very glad 1 tat r.zr: nobility. He had in his sittin-room a Jarge jriiui vii oiici wi j.pv-a aw uujoo yt ma A ohAAt narll I ha mOQ Af 1 family was wrote on it: it was wrote in the shape of a tree, a-groin out of a man-in-armer's stomick, and the names was on little plates among the bows.

My master called it his podygree. I do bleev it was because he had this pictur.und because he was the Honrabble Deuceace, that he munnitched to live as he did. 1 HO If he had been a common man, you have said he was no better than a etrocious swinler. For its no use disgysing ithe was a gambler. wirC or a man oi wuig I trade that can be fc or a man 01 wuigar lamiiy, that's theiwust v.

ii0 voune A fRP Sted'Xdl ffr twentyight yea? and SK i n.uiuoi. ono turnea out to be a i i virago, but died in less than two I i muauii ouimayiur ucii odiuruav uuiiiiCHLiori win ir a man ofremmon fool; V. eico. iron illustrations impossible This -'ToffiSt In tbe ne easiest rw lorsaie at tne 1 -uu lane, weddin? No 7 e-J 7 lcr arr 1 iroe 10 name and kind, ami is determined to sell weaaing. flow, said our fiiend, in self- kwer terms than any in the trade, congratulating tone, "see what I escaned hv long courtship." Noah' Messenger, i b5reJa.ki?P.V1Sir Purc-; I F17 tf WM.

D1NN, 11 Common st. Sons of the Potato. Somebody wants to know if anything more than the following, wns ever written exquisite by Moore Our readers may decide-we don't. I'm a careless potato, and heed not a pin How into existence I came i If they planted me drill-ways, or dibbled ine In, To me 'tis exactly the same. v' The peas andjleans may more loftily tower, I But why should 1 bend me to them i Defiance I nod, with my beauuful flower, hen the earth is hoed up to my Cotton.

The papers from the interior ot Alabama state that the cotton crop there must be cut short one-half by the effects of the drought and the ravages of the worm. Tho nan Ontknlii rVl 11 rptl fmw ID I course of construction at Natchez, was struck I by lightning on Friday afternoon last, ine damage done was trifling. CF Professor Maffitt is still lecturing at Raleigh, N. C. He appears to have taken the good people of that goodly city by storm." At a meeting of the Delegates from the several Fire Companies of this city, the following resolutions I.

fcsoU'Tbat the several Fire Companies of citymeeto-Monday, thezusep a nn Canal street, in their ire wnn Engines, Hose Carriages and Tracks the line to be formed on north side, opposite the State House, and proceed tiience under the command of the Grand Marshal, preceded by a Band of Music, to the ground designated, viz the west of the Bayou St John, one quarter of a mile below the bridge. ORDER OF EXERCISES. I 1. On arriving at th ground, the companies to form -r i Eirtwi. in iiif ir it wr rjuuiiniiciiia ilii aline in canonical order, for a general washing Uie first company to take suction and force throng! one open.ne into the next number.

Should the first num- her not lie ah to sudcIv the second, sae will tall out of the line, and let the next number come up. and so on throughout me wnoie line, umu aiioi umn unu nave nan ikml The victor shall be considered the best engine, and shall be entitled to wear a blue ribbon from her goose-neck for one year, i The trial to be made under tbe supervinion of the Grand Marshal, who decide the capacities of the different ma- chines, and which company shall be entitled to the Luiiirs, ouu wuiv. ruiuon. I 9 a nminiil formed of three ladders, and a pan of combustibles to be placed on lhe top of them and set on tire: the engines to form around them and throw water over and under without puuing it out. 3.

Re for Refreshments. i 4. Private trials among the companies, such as getting to work in the shortest time, and throwing the frratpct distance. I ieave the o. cacti company to oe pruioru wuu tuiuin WwJiZXfiX be dismissed by the Grand Marshal grou turch-litrht.

and nn rearliinc t.anal street. H. L. BRENAN, Chairman. W.

F.Biscoe, Secretary. i ty More than three hundred years have now elapsed since Uie medicinal value of Sarsaparilla has beeu known, and from that period until tbe present, various plans have been devised to make a perfect extraction of all its valuable properties, but to our knowledge no tion as Ut of the Messrs. Sands. Their valuable Sar- sapanlla is now celebrated throughout the length and breadth of the land, and is held in the highest estima- preparation has come so near tue sianuara oi pence- lion by the medical profession generally. Various in we would advie all afflicted with impurity of the blood, scrofulous or chronic affections to make a trial fflf thj gfnt corporeal manlN.

York teresting ana reuiamauie cures aursi lis iuc, uiu Sunday Mercury, June 16, 1844. For further particulars and conclusive evidence of its superior value and efficacy, see pamphlets, which may lie naa oi me agents grans. Prepared and sold by A. B. SANDS fe Co, Druggists, iew York.

Sold also in New Orleans by SICKLES Co. 40 Canal street, and by A. OLIVER Co, 64 Chartres street and by druggists and merchants throughout uie United Males. EST Trice. SI ner bottle; Six bottles for $5.

Caution. Be particular to ask tor Sdnds's Sarsapa- nua, and take no other. i Tashant's Effervescent Seltzer Aperient is tbe ne plus ultra of pleasant driuks, possessing medicinal virtues of a high character. We would from experience recommend it as one of the most desirable and highly beneficial preparations ever offered to the to the taste, sparkling as, and possessing all the effervencence of soda water. Its active operation upon Uie system (mild and effectual) renders it one of the most agreeable and useful medicines in tbe cure of diseases natural to a warm climate.

The waters of Germany, and more particularly the Seltzer, are celebrated through the world for their ef I r-i evident from the hhrhlv distinnished nhvsici I raj.tr. anjl Ihic nrnarat inn i. wnrthv ff it nt ficacy; and this preparation is worthy of its name, as is icians who I have certified to iu virtue in many complaints. I i.A I We do think the proprietor deserves the gratitude I of all inhabiting warm climates, for enabling them to I narticmate in the healih-restonn? virtues of the Seltzer spring I The fountain this of health" witboat the hitherto unavoidable expense of a tour tir0Ugh Germany, but enabling all, at their own fire- Mes nn1 at a trifling cost, to I Draw from hence the pearl of price untold, Renewed health!" We would, therefore, recommend our readers to a careful perusal of the advertisement in the paper of this day also to lhe pamphlet which accompanies the medicine. a24 2w EEast Pascagoula.There will be a BALLattliisdelightful retreat on FRIDAY NIGHT.

30lh instant. A fine Band of Music, from this city, is engaged. Persons leaving here by the morning Ixiais, will be in time. a29 2t TO RENT The store No. 73 Camp street, now occupied bv Messrs Si Whitney, a 29 lw Possession given 1st November.

Apply to MORGAN iL CO, 17 Canal st. JUST received by the subscribers and for sale a lartre sunnlv of VPIlirtPirniru tWh.nEnt1 the handsomest patterns, which they offer low for cash DiYii rit a dkuthkr, a28-4t- Corner of Customhouse ami Chartres sts fRASS CLOTH FOR LADIES' SKIRTSJust received at C. M. SIMPSON'S, I 4 Chartres street, a few fine Grass Cloth Skirts, to which the attention of the Indies is tnvited. a27-6teod MRS.

SUSAN NE WELL'S National mnd Fancy Flag Store, No 166 William street tner Beekman street. New York. TE AND LINE SIGNALS MADE TO ORDER. Names, Numbers and Devices of various descriptions neatly inserted Old nags repaired. aug27-lm be deferred until Monday, when they will issue their Annual Statement of the Commerce of Aero Orleans.

Those who may wish any considerable number of extra copies, are respectfully solicited to send in their orders. a27-5t BOARDING. Mrs. McCullaeh informs her friends and the public generally, has leased the NORTH AMERICAN HOTEL, corner Bienville and Old Leve streets New Orleans The bouse has undergone a thorough repair; and she is now prepared to accommodate boarders as well and on as liberal terms as any other establishment in this city. aug24 Sin TO RENT The two story brick Stores No 21 and 23 Gravier street.

Possession given 1st November. ALSO Tbe two story brick Store No 55 Commerce street. Possession given at once. ALSO The two Lots of Ground on Tcboupttoulas, near the corner of St Joseph street, suitable for a lam ber or coal yard. ALSO Tw Lots of Ground in Delord street, near the Levee, suitable for a coal or lumber yard.

For terms, apply to a22 eodSw D. R. CARROLL. 98 Cumn st. -rvp O'RFliAlV nfTera lTartwZy a I I 1 V.

iC.3SC i uiuru uu vnuaren: sypnuu ind the other mala dies, of that nature. Reference to Oe first med ir al the city. Fee very moderate. Office, No. 99 Julia street; open from 6 in the morning till 7 in the even- a3m Texan Santa Expedition.

ARRATIVE OF THE TEXN SANTA EXPEDITION, comprising ad e-a TSZ throug'1 Tex acroTtbl gre SffSjfJ" ibe Camanche and Caygui Hunting-Grounds. with an account of tbe Sufferings from want of Food. Imu. r. Anmv-w iiuiu liiiMiir rsf ii ani ni MmL'S Al best Book-stores 11 1.

a at the Literary Depot of Bravo fc Morgan. m29 dkW 2, CHEAP 1 PLANTS SHRUBBERY .21 The of Flowers, Plants I Shrubbery, is on Common street. ODDosite tbe Bath r.m St Chuies Hotel. He warrant every ysuyx I DIED: Yesterday, the 29th instant, at 1 o'clock. fcff Hampson, aged it months.

UNC I Carrollton, John igeti Ji months. ftSff SS ronne street, a few doors from Jnlia.at 10 o'clock a M. this day. A A Anctlon Sales This pay. Hewlett Cenaa sell, at 5 o'clock, at the Orleans Cotton Press, damaged cotton.

44 Julia Chouteau," for St. Lnnio This splendid passenger steamer, Capt. Biikinbine will leave at footlock A. M. at wbicb hour pasvnl I will ieye i uul -n lgen wUj pease De reaay a30 DOAXEi Co, Agnt Packet Paul Jones," (in place of the Yaioo.) For Vicksburg, Grand Gulf, Rodney and Natchez.

This swift running wssenger steamer will leave as above THIS EVENING, Fridayui. 30th instant, at a o'clock, punctually at which hour pasengrs will please be on board, at the wharf OD- Znsiie Canal street innu lr irvni? la a30 JOHN E. HYDE, 12 Poydras st BLACK FISH. Th MibscrilxT has jiwt n-ceived another mot i 1 fresh lot of BLACK FISH, and is now ready to serve them in eoicurean stvie. an i C.

Xj. auingion Hotel. a30-lt Lake Pontchartrain. "TOTIC The subscriber respect- respect- I lies of New II ceiveUiem, III i hf-avy tim- tuny iniorms ine Military companies Orleans, mat ne is now prepared lo recej' naring maoe a soosianiiai nanery wnn n-avy ttm- gi 1. large fn MAaftL PAULEx" aao at UoteL STRAYED On Tuesday last, from the subscriber at Carrollton, a stout BAY PONY, branded on the hip M.

Any person returning him to me, or givini? intbr. mation where he cau be found, will be liberally rewarded. 830-31 WENDELIN HKHKLK. "T( )TI T.nst nr mislairl frnm tViA nTTu. a a i'SVi SS1! JOHN BEAVER and B.

SAB ELLS WOLFF, in tbe case of R. MEANS vs. JOHN BEAVER, which was pending before Judge Morgan said Bond isjn favor of C. CLAIBORNE, Marshal of the city of New Orleans, in which said WouT was to pay the amount of judgment in case said Beaver left tbe State within ninety days. 30-3l R.

MEANS. I RON IRON' I RON 1 Rerpivinnr I V- a 7 from shins Saratoga and StMarV. and ih.uRin.au.Mii io n.i tbe 1 toulas street, a large assortment of English. S- ed and American BOILl -ER AND HOOP IRON. assorted sizes; together with a general msortment ot HARD-WARE, BOAT AND SHIP CHANDLERY, which is offered at reduced prices.

CxT Don't forget i the Blue Stores. aju at PRIESTLEY BEIN. 900 BBLS' and bbls' Mackerel, "VVJ Nos 300 hairs Rio Coffee 300 boxes New Bedford Sperm Candles; kegs p. uii soap 50 coils Manilla laniila Cordsge. In store and for sale by CLIFFORD a28 3t 47 Poyilras st, corner of Magazine.

TAKE NOTICE that the Power of Attorney, for such purposes therein stated, from Lhe undersigned to JOSEPH BARTHET. dated fith day of September, isot, paMd before Edward Hum. Notary Public, of Philadelphia, anneied loan act pas- sed before L. T. Caire, Notary Public, dated 25ib day of August, 1838, was revoked by an act passed before ine same Notary on tne wn oay ot juiv, ist.

i MADAME V. POULTNEY. ALSO The Power of Attorney, for such purposes, therein stated, from the undersigned to' JOSEPH BARTHET, passed before C. Boudousquie, Notary Public, on the 22d day of June, 1812, was revoked on the 3d day of August. 1844, by ait act passed before the same Notary.

MATIIILDE POULTNEY. New Orleans, August 26th, 1844. a29-3t i AUCTION. Navy Agent's Office, Pknsacola, August 23d. 1844.

WIL be sold at auction, at the Nav Yard, on THURSDAY. llNVil AnTIIITRSniV, tne lam September, 1844, at iz o'clock, Ai, lor -aii- Tlie Hulls of the steamers BALIZE and PILOT. The steamer Pilot is built in the most substantial, manner, out of live oak, copper bolted, and coppered with heavy sheet copper, and was built for the Exploring Expedition, and will make an excellent freight vessel. JACKSON MORTON, Navy Yard. ty The Mobile Herald and Tribune, and' New Orleans Picayune, will publish the alnwe until the day of sale, and forward their bills for collection.

Pmtacala gazette. a29-ts. MANDEVILLE COLLEGE The first Quarterly Examination in this Institution will take place on THURSDAY and FRIDAY nexl, the 29th and 30th instant. The premiums will be distributed on SATURDAY EVENING, th 3tst at 7 o'clock- The parents of the pupils and the pub lie are invited to attend. In tbe course of the quarter now ending, there have been attached to the College i John Delap, Professor of Ancient Languages and English Literature.

Dr. Albert W. Ely, (late from the University of I Virginia.) Piofessor oi English Language and English I "teraiure. an-4i N. O.

STATIONERS' WAREHOUSE, Io. 14 Camp street. STEEL, (successor to Norman, Steel fc. Co.) Stationer, Publisher, Importer of London Stationery, Boot, ifo, tfc, wholesale and retail. ACCOUNT BOOKS of the first class, manufactured the neat materials and warranted superior.

SUPERFINE STATIONERY Governments, Public Offices, Banks and Counting Rooms Minplied. DRAWING it ARCHITECTURAL MATERIALS. CARDS Playing, Printers' (colored and plain), En- nmelled Visiting Cards, kc SCHOOL BOOKS A full assortment of all kinds. CHEAP PUBLICATIONS and MAGAZINES. LONDON STANDARD BOOKS and ANNUALS.

The articles of Stationery, fcc, from this establishment are warranted to be superior, and prices tt give satisfaction. IV Printing and Bookbinding, in all their various styles, executed in the best manner ami at the lowest prk-ps. ang23 6mdfcW tPORTV THOUSAND DOLLARS I SAVED. The subscrilier has constantly for sale a ia2iTn L'a MPaVED pat ALAMANDER SAFKS, comprihtng twelve A PT'. The r.peViority of this un sizes natterns.

Tbe s-meriontv of this article will be established by reference to lhe purchasers of ninety hafes, one of whom saved upwards of forty tliousand dollars in one which was qnsuccessfully operated nnnn hv Ijnrcrlars hfturn -wpn unit i hours. The fire-proof qualities of'these Safes cao also be proved to the satisfaction of purchasers. aI7 lmdfcW ISAAC BRIDGE, 76 Magaiinest PrT.TPST? ST1 A RT.VQ Circus and Phillippa lit, near Grairicr.u2ZL From and after March Istprox. will keep on Livery SadiUe Horses, $12 per month. Horses and Buggies or ..15 Horses, per day, 50 c.

each. Also, offers to the public, for Hire Saddle Horses, for Gentlemen and Ladies; Horses and Buggies, Gigs and Barouches, Parade Horses, Public Carriages and 1 1 1 uorsta luruisnea wuo careiui men to any pari of tbe Coast with express. Horse bonyht and sold on commission. Blacksmith's Coach Trimmer's and Pain- work ib die- tine will be attended to in Uie best manner. Prices reasonnWe to suit the limes.

r2t ly uSim WILLIAM J. WHITING. NEW CANAL. The public respectfully informed that Ih naiKens'er Barer lately built at Cinciitnaii twve arrived, ami wilt corn- New Caaal THIS DAV (Sunday) 21st, 1844, to st art from the toll-gate, at the New Basin, at tbe fol-' lowing hours, vis SUNDAYS. i From City to the Lake, From Lake to the Ctiy, 2 M.

1 WEEK From the City, at 8 A. 12 and 4 P. M. Do Lake, 10 A. 2 P.lVLand 7 P.

M. 1 Passage, each way, 20 cnts. Children and servants half price. 2l tf SUMMER ARRANGEMENT. Fart Reduced to 25 cents.

Children 10 cent, from 1 Mmrck, 1844 MILNEBURQ AND LAKE PONTCHAB TRAIN. ginft PONTCHARTRAIN RAIL ROAD COMPANY. The Cars leave inriicr ruuiinuf 10 uii'i irHii ine ciiy me lake, On uw HEW ORLEANS. At 6 o'clock, A. M.

Half-past 5 o'clock, A.M. nit I IKK. At 7 WW Halt-past a Half-past 7 At i 9 Half-pnst 10 At i 12 Half-past 1 Hall-past i Half-past Half-past 4 Half-pact 5 Half-past 6 Half-past 7 Half-past 8 Half-past 9 At 8 Half-pust 9 At 11 Half-past 12 M. P.M. 1, M.

At At At At At At At At At 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 Cars oa Sunday eave every hour. At, rininilknti 1a vfi mmtr nf and Cbaltref streets every quarter of an hour for the Depot The WASHINGTON HOTEL Ls now open, under Ar U. r. I. VI I m91 ti zr LEECHES.

The subscriber infornn the public that be will receive four times a year, his regular assortment of European LEECHES, and orter tbe same at reduced prices, at bis general de-pdt, No 187 Chartres street. 1 aug6-ly J. B. RUSCONI..