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A ISW SCHOOL. '
rN Moiiihiy t!ie 5tli of October, the subscribei
HJr will oprn in this town, a school for boys,
where the various branches of English and Classical
rtudies will bo taught. The charge for Tuition
will be 810 25, jv r term, for all engaged in Classi
cal studies and tbe li iirlior branches of English, or
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glish studies the charge will be 33 25 per term,
tuition in all eases to be paid in advance, and no
student received ft)r less than a term. The year
will commence on the 5th of Oetober, ancf close
carlv in August, wiih no intervening vacation ex
cept, an occasional recess of a few days. .No deduc
tion will be made for absence unb ss by special
agreement. Having taken a commodious house,
the' subscriber will ai commodate a number of board
ers at -31 10 per annum, inc'e!inr hdiii room,
fuel ami lights. SIMEON COLTON.
Fay tteville, An-ust 13, IS 10. 7G-tf
Favettevil e Observer anil Wilmington Ad
vertiser wi'l pleae copy four weeks.
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rMilK Subscriber navinsr rcccntlv openeo anew
O uuarrv of sunciior rnt, is prepared to furnish
any number of Stones, either at the quarry or at the
ttore ut C. J. Orre!!, Fayetteville. The quality ol
the .Moore county Stones is so well known as not
in noed description, and the Subscriber will war
rant all stones sold by him. If they should not
prove to be good, another pair will be furnished
without charge. The price is lower than hereto
fore. .
Persona wishing to purchase, can applj'in per
on or bv letter addressed to Carthage, .Moore
eountv, I . C. with description ot the size anted
JESSE SOWELL.
Moore County, April 20, 1S30. 8 tf.
Loco IToco
FRICTION MATCHES.
a' GROSS, HOLMES' Improved Fnc
lion Matches, just received, and for
s ,1c bv the Gross or Dozen, a superior artie'e. and
warranted. Apply to JAMES MARTLNE
A constant s ipply of the above kept on band, and
will be sold low. to sell aain.
Faye teville, September 5, 1S40 80 -tt
MOUNTAIN BUTTER.
fgh Firkins (assorted.) Some
CLF ycrV s:,lpcr;or, at prices from
5 to 16 cents per pound !
fortalebv GEO. Mc-NEILL.
Nov. 24, 1S40: .
EXECUTED W I T If DESPATCH
At this Office.
Splendid
LTERIES.
4 prizeTf $25,000" amounting to
bl003OOi)3 for 25th September : and
$50,000830,000625,000,
for 23d OCTOBER.
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ae Tier n-Mk'Mn c -r r rnf fnw nlnoPOTV rw t't'Ks riTi7rvo " '$ -,'
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14, 1841. y
OF ITS CITIZENS. 11
J. Ci. Gregory, Si Co., Managers,
S PLENDID UNION LOTTE R Y,
Glass 8, for 1841.
To be drawn at Alexandria, D. C. on Saturday,
September 25.
GRAND CAPITALS.
1 prizes of 25,GOO dollars,
making 100,000.
1 PRIZE of - -
Gardner and McKetltan,
CARRIAGE MAKERS.
-U--U.
825,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
10,000
8,000
6,000
- 5,153
4,000
2,000
- - 1,000
500
250
- 200, &c.
14 drawn numbers out tff 7S.
Tickets 815 Hlve$ SO-J&uarters 3 To
y'nKightlis 181. S
Cei l ificat eg of packages of 26 whole tickets $200
"2 j)i izes of
4
50
100
Do
Do
do 2G Half do
do 26 QurfV. do
do 6 eighth do
100
50
To
850,000 3U,000,$25,000.
On S ATUR DAY, Oct. 23.
GRAND UNION LOTTERY
- Glass 9, for 1841,
AVill'be drawn ut Alexnndria, D. C.
1 i Itrau n JSallotts.
BIIILLIAJN'T SCHEME :
1 Grand capital ol" $50,000
1 Splendid, prize of S30,000
" " - - - 25,000
" - - 10,000
1 PRIZE of $S,000
" - - - 7,000
" - - 6,000
" - - 5,000
" - - 4,000
" - - 2,500
" - - 2,311
4 " - - - 2,000
5 " - - 1,750
10 " - 1,500
10 " - - 1,250
50 " - - 1,000
50 " - - 500
50 - - 400
100 t; - - - 300
100 " - - 250
170 " - - 200
"AVE now on hand, and for Sale at very Re
duced IJnces,
4 Carriages,
6 Barouches,
4 Buggies,
3 Buggy Gigs,
4 Sulkies,
8 Spring Wagons and
3 Chain Wagons.
Also, a very large assortment of
vrork which we are daily finishing.
Also a general assortment of
Coach-Maker's materials kept
constantly on hand and for sale.
Persons wishing to buy, would do well to call
and examine their work, as they feel confidenMhev
can make their work as well, and sell it s toW as
it can be had from any leular Nprtheni Establish
ment. "
All woik made and sold brthem is warranted 12
months, and will be repaired without charge, if
they fail byJrffcTwerkinanship or materials.
Repairing neatly executed at short notice, and on
reasonable terms.
Orders thankfully received, and promptly attend
ed to.
Fayetteville, July 24, 1S41. 56-tf.
FISH!
16 drawn numbers out of 78
Tickets S20-Halvcs 1 O Quarters 5.
Eighths 'i SO.
Certificates of packages of 26 whole tickets $260
Do do 26 Half do 130
Do do 2G Qurl'r. do 65
Do do 26 Eighth do 32 50
-11 Z BARRELS CUT HERRING.
JL' 15 Barrels Whole Herring-
j0 Half Barrels Shad. Being expected by
the Henrietta Line. For sale by 1
GEO. McNEILL.
May 28, 1841. 118-tf
Look at this.
Tho Subscriber will keep con
stantly on band a large supply
of ROMAN CEMENT, PLAS
TER PARIS, WATER LIME,
ROTTEN PLASTER for MANURE, and THO
MASTON LIME, and also a constant supply
of BRICK.
TO SMOKERS. I also keep the best Principe
and Spanish Cigars, Long Stem Pipes, and Smok
ing Tobacco nicely put up in papers.
GROCERIES. In this line I keep lacon, Meal,
Sugar, Coffee, Fish, and almost every artiele ex
cepr Spiritous Liquors.
WORKMEN. I will be able to furnish first
rate Workmen, in the line of Bricklaying and Plas
tering ; either for plain or ornamental Cornicing, or
Stucco Work. Any person wanting work done,
win confer a tavor by giving me a call.
iUJLb. l keep on h ind Bricklayers and Plas
terer's Tools of the best oualitv. which I will sell
low for Cash.
Call on the Subscriber, a few doors South of the
Market House, where persons can be wailed on at
any hour during the day.
JOHN E. TATTERSON.
Fayetteville, August 2, 1841. 12S--tv
fdPOrders for t eUets and shares aod certificates
of p ickages in the a ove sj.Icndid schemes will re
ceive tbe most prompt attention ; and the drawing
of fitch lutiery will be sent immediately after it is
over, to all who order from us. Address
J. G. GREGORY- & Co. Man agers,
Wash'ngtou City, D. (J. 12S-6t.
in ami mil ,
m
NEW GOODS.
HE Subscriber has received his Fall and Win
ter supply of Goods, embracing a general as-
s rtment of
DRY-GOODS,
Shoes and Boots, Hats and Caps, Hard Ware ana
Cutlery, Crockery and Glass Ware, Wines and
Liquors, Groceries of all kinds, Patent Medicines
Paints and Dye StufFs, Hatters materials, &c. fee.
The Stock is very lieuvy, Merchants ure invited ti
call and examine fur themstlves. South Carolina
money tvill be taken at par if paid tchetx tht
(woods are bought.
G. B. ATKINS,
Oct. 26 1839. 35tf. Foot Hay-Mount
JAMBS SMDY,
Trimmer and Harness Maker.
TSTft EGS leave to inform the public, that he is pre
JLPpared to do all kinds of CARRIAGE TRIM
MING and HARNESS MAKING, in short time;
and on the most reasonable terms for those who may
favor him with a call.
He has now on hand ami fjr sale at reduced
prices;
Klegant Brass and Silver-mounted
Carriage Harness,
Gig and Sulkey ditto, ditto,
Buggy . ditto, ditto,
Japan Gig and Carry-all ditto,
Ivory-mounted Trotting Whips,
Gig and Wagon Whips,
Wagon Bridles and Collars,
Riding Whips and Spurs,
Saddle Bap,
Bridles and Martingales,
Coach Lace and 3Iorocco,
Knobs and Tacks,
nrr- Gip; and Barouche Tops, and second
hand carriages, &c, Repaired on the most reasona
ble terms, and at short notice.
Orders thankfully received and promptly attended !
to.
All work done by me repaired without charge
if it fail by fair lusae in a reasonable length of
time. I
Fayateville, April 27, 1S4I. 114-U
Political.
SPEECH Mil. WATTEKSOX,
Of Tennessee, on the Loan Bill, Ho. Reps;
Mr Chairman : The gentleman from Mas
sachusetts Mr Saltonstall says those ; who
are now in power inherited a debt of twelve
millions from those who have just gone out
of power. This I deny. The Secretary of
the Treasury himself, with all his disposition
to humbug and impose upon the country, only
makes a deficit at the end of this year of
$6,000,941 14; after including near three
millions of new appropriations that we are
called upon to make at this extraordinary ses
sion of Congress. But, sir, the report of the
Secretary of the Treasury has been so ably
and triumphantly exposed by others, that I
will content myself with giving it a passing
kick, and then go on in the statement of some
plain, stubborn facts, in reply to many false
charges that have been made against the par
ty wiih which it is my pride and my pleasure
to act; and perhaps, before I conclude I may
carry the war into the enemy's camp :
The Secretary of the Treasury proposes to
expend from the 4th of March, 1S41, to
1st of January
the
He states the expenditure
from the 1st of January to
the 4th of March, 1S41,
to be
Making the expenditure for
the whole year
$26,7315S36 9S
4,627,166 64
$31,358,503 62
Making an
month
average
per
$2,673,133 69
The expenditure for the last
year, including the re
demption of Treasury
notes - " .
Monthly average
$27,863,475 41
$2,321,789 61
$351,344 18
Making the monthly aver
age of 1S41 over the
monthly average of the
extravagant year of Mr
Van Buren, 1840
But this statement is evidently unjust to
the last Administration. The Secretary in
his report states the expenditures from the
1st of January to tbe 4th of March, and the
monthly expenditure, as above stated, in
cludes the three first days of March, in which
large payments were made in completing the
pay to members of Congress, and other ex
penditures at the close of Congress ; as well
as large sums of money sent to different pen
sion agent?, to meet the semi annual pay-
f
ment of pensions due on the 4th of March,
and in addition to this, the sum of fire hun
dred thousand dollars, received in Treasury
notes at the customs, between the 1st of Jan.
and the 4th of March, are put down as a paA
of the expenditure of those months, althowgh
they do not appear in the books of the Tea
sury until after that period, and ought of course
to be deducted from the alleged expenditure.
see House uoc. Jo. 2, p. 2. note.
This sum deducted from the .
alleged expenditure leaves
the actual expenditure,
from the 1st of January to
the 4th of March
And would average per,
month, including thai
three first days in Majch,
And according to this aver
age the expenditure of the
year 1841, should be
And makes the average
monthly jexpenditure of
the terymonths proposed
by ttjfe becretary, exceed
thp monthly expenditure
of the two first months
4,127,166 64
2,063,883 32
24,762,999 S4
609,550 37
This curtailing expenses this is " re
trenchment and reform" with a vengeance.
Instead of diminishing, they aro increasing
the public expenditures, as I have shown.
But my object is not so much to comment
upon them as to state naked truths, and let
them go out to the country, where the people
will make their own comments.
The Secretary of the Treasury says, and
the same thing has been asserted and reas
serted iu this committee, that ' there has been
an excess of expenditure over the current re
venue, within the past four years, (from the
1st day of January, 183S, to the 4th day of
March, 1S41,) amounting to $31,310,014
20! Now, for the sake of argument, sup
pose this to be true ; who are responsible?
Those who make the appropriations, or the
President, who is bound to apply them to the
object specified? Assuredly the former.
Well, then, let us take up the journals of
Congress, and see if it is very modest, or
fair, or just, in the friends of this Administra
tion to taunt and upbraid the past with ex
pending too much money.
I hold in mj hand, Mr Chairman, the jour
nals of the House of Representatives, for the
years '3S-'9, '40-'4l, including the 25th and
26th Congresses. I find' that in l&37-'9,
there were" appropriated $75,265,028 02.
Of this cum- $66,085,459 54, were passed
unanimously, both parties voting for the. ap
propriations, with the exception of six votes,
(Messrs Wise, Cranston, Giddings, J. Da
vis, Maxwell, and Stratton,) against the con
tingent war appropriation of $10,000,000 !
The remaining $9,127,727 30, were passed
upon the yeas and nays ; nearly two Demo
crats to oue Whig voting in the negative.
Bill Suppression of. Indian hostilities,
$6,739,401 41. Against it two Democrals
and thirty-five Whigs.
Bill Harbors, $1,535,008 53. Against
it fifty-two Democrats and twenty-nine
Whigs.
Bill Light-Houses, $307,010 36. A
gainst it forty Democrats, and sixteen Whigs.
Bill Cumberland road, $540,300. A
gainst it fifty-four Democrats and twenty-six
W7higs.
I turn now, sir, to the journals of the last
Congress. There were appropriated for the
years 1840 '41, the sum of 46,889,449 51,
of which $34,790,592 were passed without a
dissenting voice ; leaving $12,098,857, on
which the yeas and nays were taken. I give
the titles of these bills, their respective a
mouuts, and the number of Whigs and De
mocrats voting against each.
Nays.
Dem. Whigs.
Army bill, amendment sup
pressing Indiau hostili
ties in Florida $300,000 1
Engrossment of army bill 5,282,000
Navy bill, amendment 670,C00 31
Navy bill amend't, steam
vessel of war 60,000 56
Navy bill, passage of 5,000,000 9
Claim of Alabama, emigrat
ing Co. 38,946 10
Removal Winnebagoes 45,000 4
Treaty with Stockbridge
and Munsee Indians 32,265
Lithographing and publish
ing two thousadd five
hundred copies of chart
of survey of harbors, &c.
cus-
Military Academy bill
Completing N. York
tom-house
Furnishing President's
Hause
Repairs of President's
House, &c.
Completing court-house in
Alexandria
Payment of laborers on
public buildings
Survey of coast of Gulf of
Mexico
Distribution of books to
Members
Payment of Georgia mili
tia Fort Macon, preservation
of
Temporary provision for
lunatics in the District
of Columbia
Building war steamer
Removing Red River raft
9,423
132,051
70
33
19
15
15
16
1
57
47
57
12
8
34,321
6,000
2,62S
3,000
12,903
20,000
40,000
208,618
25,000
3,000
400,000
75,000
67 19
70 16
39
61
45 15
57 30
39 12
42 26
48
57
79
41
2
11
25
S12,098,S57
Thus it appears that, out of the oue hun
dred and twenty-one millions, in round num
bers, appropriated by the twenty-fifth rfiid
twenfy-sixth Congresses, upwards of a hun
dred millions were voted unanimously not
the first solitary Whig raising his voice a
gainst it and as to the twenty-oiie millions
which were passed by yeas and nays, I re
peat again, and have proved it from the Jour
nals, there were two Democrats to one Whig
in the negative. Yet gentlemen have the
audacity to rise -here and charge the last Ad
ministration with a profligate expenditure of
public money, when their own votes are star
ing them in the face ; and when, too, they
propose to swell the expenditures this year
more thau three millions over those o(j the
last !
You will recollect, Mr Chaifman-tvhat
was said previous to the last Presidential elec
tion about the " gorgeous magnificence " of
tbe furniture in the White House ! It was
charged by a member upon this floor, that the
President's House was a " palace ns splendid
as that of the Caesars, and as richly adorned
as the proudest Asiatic mansion." Yes, sir,
and his speech was published and re-published
in every Whig uewspaper in the United
States. And that is not all : it was printed
here in pamphleU. form, and circulated over
the country by thousands and tens of thou
sands, by the Whig Executive Committee and
Whig members of Congress. Now, I would
ask, js there a man here who will risk his re
putation by endorsing that speech?
Mr Morgan said he endorsed it.
The gentleman from New York says he
endorses it. I am astonished to hear that, as
he voted at the late session for au additional
appropriation of six thousand dollars to furn
ish iliis same House, which he and his party
declared, before the late canvass, was so
" richly adorned " as to be fit only for the re
sidence of a monarch. 'Nay, sir, but sixteen
of his Wrhig friends upon this floor, at the
last session, were found voting against the
appropriation of six thousand dollars, not
withstanding all they had said all they had
done.
Some short time since, in glancing over
the Richmond Whig, one of the leadiug Whig
papers in Virginia, and, I might add, iujihe
whole Unien, I found a letter written from
this city by a Whig, and I will ask the in
dulgence of the committee whilst I read it:
Washington Correspondence of the Richmond
- Whig. .
IjENTLEMEit r or tne nrst time in my
life I visited the President's Mansion.
'Thinks I to myself this day, my eyes,
splendor will dazzle ye, and the hidden se
crets of extravagance will be made manifest.
The gorgeous castles of the Arabian tales
passed across my memory but alas ! alas !
the ten thousand lies that have been written
about that same White House.
" O ! Ogle, where art thou, my lusty son of
fiction? If thy spirit is as far away from the
bright regions of truth as were thy word,
when thou didst utter thy hyperbolical oration,
then do I pity thee.
"The plain ijnvanished truth is the chairs
are old, and one I kywio is ragged, and that
the only oue from which I lifted the plain
linen case - which covered it. And cs all
were covered in the same way, I guess that
same chair has many tattered compeers in the
East Room- It was in that room I saw the
ragged (yes, ragged) chair.' Now, $6000 is
a paltry sum to spend upon such ah house ;
it would take 30,000 to put it in proper or
der. '
" We are a great and free nation, and
should endeavor to avoid luxury on the one
hand, and niggardly conduct on the other.
Our President should have such furniture and
fixtures as comport'with the dignity of our na
tion. I care not iu such things for party.
I am a free American, a plain Virginia plan
ter never desired, and consequently, never
asked for any office, except such as the peo
ple confer by their free suffrages ; but I felt
ashamed for my country when I saW ragged
finery in the Nation's House. Besides, the
curtains in the green room are miserably fa
ded things, such as no private gentleman
would keep in his parlor, unless he should be
too poor to get new ones. It is true that the
chandaliers in the east room are very hand
some, and to my country eyes, seemed suita
ble ; but that ragged chair is there. Con
found a ragged chair, I detest them every
where ; but a ragged chair in the President's
House is positively shocking. Out with the
miserable tattered things, and let us have
whole chairs, and if the nation is too poor, or
too stingy to get a new set to suit the roomj
just let us have a set of white oak split bottoms
Any thing rather than ragged finery. A com
mittee ought to be sent there to ransack the
house, and take out all that is worn out and
uufit for use. Moreover nothing should be
in that house that had not been fabricated in
the United States, aud by the proper hands of
a native born citizen. Well, I saw the ta
bourettes they are nothing extra. In our
vernacular, they are cros3-legged crickets,
with silk cusion seats.
"Your obedient servant,
"TOBACCO PLANT."
Here, Mr Chairman, is the unvarnished
truth, and every member here, be he Whig or
Democrat, knows it to be so provided he
has ever visited the Presidential mansion.
But I will dismiss this topic ; 1 have only in
troduced it to show what miserable humbugs,
to use no stronger expression, were restored
to by the Whigs, in order to upset the late
Democratic Administration.
It will be remembeied that about the close
Of the late session of Congress, when the
civil and diplomatic bill was before the house
volume 3. Number 1 2"
a colleague of mine F.If Cave Jha.on"l of
feree; au amendment to it, limiting theVees
and emoluments of the district attorneys and
marshals of the United States to six thousand
dollars per aijnum, and the clerks to four thuu
saud five ; hupdred dollars per annum. Un
der the old law, their fees were enormous :
in a sin!,s:jrear a district attorney received
in fees CQQO and the marshal of Mis
sissippi S7,0U0 ! ! From the incessant
crieutf ieform," "reform," which- we have
so often heard from the Whigs here, it would
seem absolutely certain that my colleague's
proposition met with their unanimous appro
bation. But no, sir, no ! Filly Whigs, good
and true, voted against it. What glorious
"reformers !" How admirably they are car
lying out their pledges !
The geutleman from Massachusetts Mr
Saltonstall deems it ruther unfortunate thai
the national debt was paid off so soor.. He
may rest perfectly contented. If the Whig
measures are carried out, our public debt will
shortly be large enough in all conscumce.
They have already proposed a funded public
debt of twenty-eight, millions ! ! Why. sir,
the very principles of a majority of the W hig
pauy ieaa to extravagance.. 1 ney are in ta
vor of a protective tariff" (I mean the North
ern Whigs) and internal improvements by
the General Government. The Higher the
tariff the greater the profits to Northern manu
facturers, and the more money will flow into
the Treasury, at the expense of Southern la
bor, to be squandered upon harbors, light
houses, and internal improvements within the
Mates. In 1S28, there were applications be
fore Congress, iu some shape or other, for
appropriations for internal improvements with
in the States for more than three hundred
millions of dollars ! But the people hurled
from power those who controlled tbe Admin
istration at that time, aud shortly afterwards
this wild and extravagant system was blown
' sky high " by the Presidential veto ! Docs
this " reform inu " Administration intend to
revive it, together with a high tariff. It
would appear so from the course they aro pur
suing.
Mr Chairman, the gentleman from Massa
chusetts says it is true that the Whigs came
into power under the cry of " reform." What
" reform " have they proposed? What have
they affected? I will tell you. A Whig
Speaker of this House has been elected, who,
amongst the first things, has stocked the com
mittees completel stocked them! He has
put a majority of Democrats upon but three
Committees, and the amongst the niost un
important. Upon the committees on the ex
penditures in the various Departments the
Navy and Post Office Departments the De
partments of State, Treasury, and- War he
has appointed a large majority of Whigs.
This is unusual unprecedented, if I mistttkc
not. During the laat Co'ngress, the Whigs
had a majority on all these committees !
They had an opportunity of examining into
all abuses that might exist in any of them.
Now, sir, the doors are closed against tho
Democrats, and no matter what extravagaucc
is going on, what frauds are being perpetrated,
there is no way of getting at them. We can-"
not even move to suspend tho rules, under a'
resolution which was passed the other day,
in order to make culls for information from
any of the Departments! Here we are,
bound hand and foot, aud not even permitted
to say aught against ihe powers that be " iu
order!" A beautiful state of things truly !
Worse, if possible, than thv alien aud sedi
tion' times of 1798! In addition to all this,
sir, without intending, iu the slightest degree,
any persona! disrespect to the Speaker, there
he sits ready and willing to "go it blind "
for his" party on" all occasions. Yes,' sir, he
goe the " whole hog, tail, bristles, and nil."
The other day he came very near deciding,
if he did not do it, that if a Democrat and
Whig were endeavoring to get the floor at the
same time, and the Democrat should prove
too fast for the Whig, h5 should sit down and
take a new start ! ! !
Here the Chairman,. Mr Briggs of Massa
chusetts, called Mr W atterson to order.
( Mr N atterson coniinted. 1 presume, sir,
that I am not strictly in order, or the Chair
man would not have so decided. I have
great confidence in the impartiality of tho
Chairman, aud have only to regret, as wo
could not elect a democrat, that he is not
Speaker of ihis House. We could then ex
pect s6rnethiug like fair play.
, Remark by a Whig. Why did you not
Vote fix him then?
I certaiuly should have voted for him if I
had had ah opportunity.
Cries of "Order Order."
Wei', Mr. Chairman, I will go on, or rather
go back, to this "reforming" Administration.
I want to bring to tho notice of thi commit
tee, and the country, a very grave matter of
"refoTm,,, that the becretary of the Navy is
now engaged in a reform that I am pleased
with that I sanction with all my heart. I
would say to him "go ahead," you're certain
ly right. Here it is in a circular letter which
he recently issued. -
"The hair of all persons Irk the Navy is to
be kept short, no part of the beard to be worn
long except the whiskers, which . shall not de
scend more than one inch below fbejip of the
ear, and then in a line towards the mcajtfi."
Do not suppose, sir, that this is not a genu
ine, bona fide letter. It assuredly issued from
the Navy Department. It is a sort of procla
mation to all tbe soap locks and terriers, (us
my friend from Missouri, Gov Miller, win
the habit of calling the mastached dandies,
and th whole whiskered tribe! iNo man in
the Nary cau be allowed to wsar long hair,