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Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation Hill. 

 The Washington Union brings lis the Civil and 

 Diplomatic Appropriation Bill. The document 

 is very long, covering over a page of the govern- 

 ment paper. The following are among the 

 items: — 



Compensation and mileage of Congress- 

 men, $338,440 

 Pay of clerks and other officers of Con- 

 gress, 39,557 

 Contingent expenses of the Senate, 75,000 

 " " " House of Reps.,1 17,756 

 For the Jefferson Papers, 20,000 

 Salary of President and Vice President, 30,000 

 Expenses of State Department, 70,590 

 Expenses of the Treasury Department, 385,373 

 Contingent expenses of " 80,028 

 Expenses of War Department, 141,522 

 Contingent expenses of War Depart., 31,000 

 Expenses of Navy Department, 106,800 

 Expenses of Post Office Department, 172,050 

 Contingent expenses of Post Office, 8,700 

 Pay of Surveyors and their Clerks, 38,700 

 Expenses of the U. S. Mint, 84,200 

 Expenses of the Judiciary Department, 580,300 

 For repairs of capitol, &.C., 17,749 

 For lighting Pennsylvania avenue, 6,000 

 For repairs of White House and grounds, 14,368 

 For painting the capitol, 20,000 

 For U. S. Coast Survey, 65,000 

 For surveying Northern and Western 



Lakes, 25,000 



For contingent expenses under Sub- 

 Treasury act, 15,000 

 For bringing to Washington votes for 



President and Vice President, 9,000 



Expenses of Loans and Treasury Notes, 15,000 

 Pay for Congressional Globe for members, 8,208 

 Pay for Documentary History, 24,327 



For Custom House in Savannah, 30,000 



For Custom House in Charleston, 30,000 



For Custom House in New Orleans, 30,758 



For new Custom House, Boston, 12,500 



For gravelling Indiana avenue, 13,500 



For publishing Exploring Expedition, 30,753 

 For Virginia Revolutionary officers and 



soldiers, 81,273 



For supplying Light-houses, 140,394 



For repairs and incidental expenses of 



Light-house establishment, 78.889 



For salaries of Light-house keepers, 132,598 

 For repairs of floating lights, &c, 79,265 



For supplying loss of beacons, &c, 33,466 



For Superintendent's commissions, 11,640 



For completing Light-house, Boston 



harbor, 10.000 



For completing other Light-houses, 133,835 



For surveying Public Lands, 130,000 



For Clerks in Surveyor-General's offices, 22,900 

 For location of Private claims, &.C., 14,230 



For compensation of Geologists, &c, 40,000 

 For salaries of Foreign Ministers, 60,000 



For salaries of Secretaries to Legation, 12,000 

 For marking boundary between the 

 United States and Mexico, not ex- 

 ceeding, 50,000 

 Salaries of Charge d'Affairs, 76,500 

 Contingent expenses of Foreign Missions, 30,000 

 Intercourse with Barbary Powers, 9,000 

 For Relief and Protection of Seamen in 



foreign countries, 75,000 



Balauces due Creek Indians, 141,055 



A Pleasant Surprise. 



A young man, of eighteen or twenty, a student 

 in a university, took a walk one day with a pro- 

 fessor, who was commonly called the student's 

 friend, such was his kindness to the young men 

 whom it was his office to instruct. 



While they were now walking together, and the 

 professor was seeking to lead the conversation 

 to grave subjects, they saw a pair of old shoes 

 lying in the path, which they supposed belonged 

 to a poor man who was at work in the field 

 close by, and who had nearly finished his day's 

 work. 



The young student turned to the professor 

 saying, "let us play the man a trick; we will 

 hide bis shoes and conceal ourselves behind 

 those bushes, and watch to see bis perplexity 

 when he cannot find them." 



"My dear friend," answered the professor, 

 " we must never amuse ourselves at the expense 



of the poor. But you are rich, and you may give 

 yourself a much greater pleasure by means of 

 this poor man. Put a dollar in each shoe, and 

 then we will hide ourselves." 



The student did so, and then placed himself 

 with the professor behind the bushes hard by, 

 through which they could easily watch the la- 

 borer, and see whatever wonder or joy be might 

 express. 



The poor man soon finished his work, and 

 came across the field to the path, where be had 

 left his coat and shoes. While he put on the 

 coat, he slipped one foot into one of bis shoes ; 

 but feeling something hard, he stooped down 

 and found the dollar. Astonishment and won- 

 der were seen upon bis countenance ; he gazed 

 upon the dollar, turned it around and looked 

 again and again ; then he looked around on all 

 sides, but could see no one. Now he put the 

 money in his pocket and proceeded to put on 

 the other shoe; but how great was his astonish- 

 ment when he found the other dollar! His feel- 

 ings overcame him; be feel upon his knees, 

 looked up to heaven, and uttered aloud a fervent 

 thanksgiving, in which he spoke of bis wife, 

 sick and helpless, and his children without 

 bread, whom this timely bounty from some un- 

 known hand would save from perishing. 



The young man stood there deeply affected, 

 and tears filled his eyes. 



" Now," said the professor, " are you not much 

 better pleased than if you had played your in- 

 tended trick ?" 



" O, dearest sir," answered the youth, "you 

 have taught me a lesson now that I will never 

 forget. 1 feel now the truth of the words which 

 I never before understood, ' it is better to give 

 than to receive.' " 



We should never approach the poor but with 

 the wish to do them good. 



Pounds. 

 Tennessee, 36,000,000 

 Kentucky, 2,200,000 

 Arkansas, 25.000,000 

 Florida, 18.000,000 

 Texas, 12,000,000 



Estimated Cotton Crop of the United States. 



We glean the following facts in relation to the 

 cotton crop of last year, from the Report of the 

 Commissioner of Patents, submitted to Congress, 

 January, 1849 :— 



Pounds. 

 Virginia, 2,800,000 



N. Carolina, 45.000,000 

 S. Carolina, 105,000,000 

 Georgia, 220,000,000 

 Alabama, 165,000,000 

 Mississippi, 245,000,000 

 Louisiana, 190,000,000 1,066,000,000 



or 2,665,000 bales of 400 pounds each, which, it 

 is said, is very near what the actual crop will 

 turn out. It will be seen by this statement that 

 Louisiana is the third largest cotton-growing 

 State, Mississippi and Georgia only surpassing 

 her. Of the twelve cotton-growing States, the 

 crops in part — and mostly entire — of eight of 

 them, find their way to New Orleans for expor- 

 tation. Alabama sends us a portion of her crop; 

 so do Florida and Texas. — .V. O. paper. 



New mode of Building. — A small house may 

 be built in the following manner, with a saving 

 of expense, where lumber is as plenty and as 

 cheap as in this city, and where planing can be 

 done by machinery : Take two-inch plank, plane 

 them on one side, and tongue and groove them. 

 Provide good sills, and erect the building by set- 

 ting the planks upright; and battening the joints 

 with strips of half an inch stuff, the strips two 

 inches wide. — This forms the outside wall. Furr 

 out on the inside with half inch stuff, and lath to 

 that. The half-inch furring gives sufficient 

 room for the plastering to clinch, yet leaves the 

 space too narrow for mice. For small one-story 

 houses, this is a very pretty mode of building, 

 cheaper than by studs and clapboards, and in 

 many respects better. Several such houses have 

 been built in this city, and give good satisfac- 

 tion. — Burlington (Iotea) Gaz. 



The editor of the Providence Star has seen 

 the man who minds his own business. 

 We wonder if he has seen the woman. 



Railroads and the Press. 



" Railroad companies must get rid of this ex- 

 pensive newspaper advertising," said a railroad 

 director to us the other day. And we hear on 

 every hand a good deal of muttering about free 

 passes occasionally granted by some railroad to 

 editors, newspaper reporters, &c. We like 

 economy in the management of railroads, but to 

 our judgment, this is beginning reform at alto- 

 gether the wrong place. Foot up the accounts 

 between the newspapers and the railroads of the 

 land, and upon which will fall the balance due? 

 There are not a half dozen railroads in the coun- 

 try that could ever have been built, had it not 

 been for the aid of the press. For example, 

 take our own paper and our railroad. Is the 

 Belknap Gazette under obligations to the Mon- 

 treal Railroad corporation, for its few dollars of 

 annual advertising? Had it not been for the 

 early, the unwearied, the constant advocacy of 

 the Gazette, we doubt if there had ever been the 

 first rail laid upon that road. The mere cost of set- 

 ling the type of articles in this paper, in behalf 

 of that enterprise, has been hundreds of dollars 

 — and it has secured them thousands of dollars 

 of subscriptions, and above all, kept the stock- 

 holders in good heart and courage. In the early 

 days of the Montreal, when friends were of value 

 in that enterprise, and the Gazette was under 

 the care of Col. Lane, where did the road find so 

 active and faithful a friend as in these columns? 

 And what is true of the Gazette and the Mon- 

 treal, is true of nearly every railroad and its 

 neighbor presses, throughout the country. If 

 every editor in the land, had a free ticket for life, 

 for himself and family, these corporations would 

 be but beginning to pay their honest debts to 

 this class of their friends. 



Gentlemen directors, you had better commence 

 your retrenchment elsewhere, than with the 

 press. Both justice and self-interest so dic- 

 tate. — Meredith Bridge Gazelle. 



A Wife in Trouble. 



" Pray tell me, my dear, what is the cause of 

 those tears." 



" Oh ! such a disgrace!" 



"What — what is the matter, my dear? Do 

 not keep me in suspense." 



" Why, I opened one of your letters, supposing 

 it addressed to myself. Certainly it looked more 

 like Mrs. than Mr." 



"Is that all? What harm can there be in a 

 wife's opening her husband's letters?" 



"No harm in the thing itself. But the con- 

 tents! Such a disgrace !" 



" What ! has any one dared to write me a let- 

 ter unfit to be read by my wife?" 



"Oh, no. It is couched in the most chaste and 

 gentlemanly language. But the contents, the 

 contents !" 



Here the wife buried her face in her handker- 

 chief, sobbing aloud, while the husband caught 

 up the letter and commenced reading the epistle 

 that had been the means of nearly breaking the 

 wife's heart. It was a bill from the pi inter, for 

 seven years' subscription. — Sandy Hill Herald. 



Early Rising. 



Every young man, then, who desires to be in- 

 telligent, good, and happy, should learn to rise 

 early in the morning. He should do this for va- 

 rious and strong reasons ; among which are the 

 following: — 



1. It is healthy lo rise early. — It is scarcely pos- 

 sible to find a healthy person, very old, who has 

 not been habitually an early riser. Sickly and 

 infirm old people 1 know there may he, who 

 have been in the habit, through life, of late ris- 

 ing, but not many healthy ones. The following 

 are the names and ages of several men, most of 

 whom were eminent and remarkably healthy, 

 who were distinguished lor early rising. Some 



