ADVERTISEMENTS. 
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POPULAR WORKS ON MEXICO, SANTA FE 8c o, 
PUBLISHED BY 
MESSRS. HARPER <fc BROTHERS, N. Y. 
CAMPAIGN SKETCHES OF THE WAR WITH MEXICO. 
By Capt. W. S. Henry, U. S. Army. With Engravings. 12mo, 
Muslin, $1; Paper, 75 cents. 
Of this book we are happy to speak with the highest praise. 
Apart from its authenticity, which is unquestionable, it is modest, 
spirited, graphic, and picturesque ; and although the author, in 
his manly and high-toned preface, “ disavows any claim to lite¬ 
rary merit,” we can assure him that others will allow to him the 
palm which he is too modest to grasp at, for he, indeed, possesses 
great claims to it. His style is clear, concise, and lucid ; his lan¬ 
guage perfectly correct; and his narrative rapid and well con 
nected. The campaign sketches are evidently the work of a gen¬ 
tleman, a scholar, and a soldier.— Literary World. 
HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO, With the 
Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortez, and a View of the An¬ 
cient Mexican Civilization. By William H. Prescott, Author of 
'‘History of the Conquest of Peru,” “ History of Ferdinand and 
Isabella,” “ Biographical and Critical Miscellanies.” Portrait 
and Maps. 3 vols. 8vo, Sheep extra, $(i.75 ; Muslin, $6. 
In every page we have been reminded of that untiring patience 
and careful discrimination which have given celebrity to the 
great, though not always impartial, historian of the Decline and 
Fall of the Roman Empire.—JV*. Y. Review. 
NARRATIVE OF THE TEXAN SANTA FE EXPEDI¬ 
TION. Comprising a Description of a Tour through Texas, and 
across the great South-western Prairies, the Camanche and Cayu¬ 
ga Hunting Grounds, &c. By George W. Kendall. With a Map 
and Illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo, Muslin. $2. 
It has seldom fallen to our lot to read so interesting and touch¬ 
ing a narrative of travel as abounds in these volumes ; we were 
not prepared to find in them reading so very attractive, nor could 
we form any idea that such a narrative of toils and sutferings as 
are here detailed by the sufFerer himself, would probably present 
so many points of instruction to the general reader.— Methodist 
Quarterly Review. 
THE RAMBLER IN MEXICO By Charles J. Latrobe, Au¬ 
thor of “The Rambler in North America.” 12mo, Muslin, 65 
cents ; Paper, 35 cents. 
A work of deep interest and walv*,.—Eclectic Review. 
Of recent tourists, no one has given a more gorgeous pictuse of 
the impressions made on his senses by these sunny regions than 
Latrobe.— William H. Prescott. 
JOURNAL OF THE TEXAN EXPEDITION AGAINST 
MIER; Subsequent Imprisonment of the Author : his Sufferings 
and final escape from the Castle of Perote. With Reflections 
Upon the present political and probable future Relations of Texas, 
Mexico, and the United States. By Gen. Thomas J. Green. 
Drawings taken from Life by C. M’Laughlin, a Fellow 
P«ae, >.» , 8vo. Muslin, $2. 
A work of startling interest; graphic in description, it gives ex¬ 
amples of personal daring such as to bring back the remembrance 
of the fields of Cressy and Agincourt, for odds in the encount¬ 
ers.— Anglo-American. 
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miles from the city of New York. It contains 160 acres, 90 of 
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Terms. —$7,000, one half to be paid down, and the balance to 
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STATIONERY, BLANK-BOOKS, AND WRITING 
PAPER 
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MANUFACTURE all kinds of Blank-Books and Stationery 
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lewis FRANCIS, > FRANCIS & LOUTREL, 
CYRUS h. LOUTREL, j Stationers, 77 MaidenLane, N. Y. 
January 1, 1847. Sept, lyr* 
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE. 
THE Subscriber keeps constantly on hand in his Agricultural 
Warehouse at New Orleans, a very general assortment of plows 
suitable for the Southern planter, together with harrows, rollers, 
cultivators, horse powers, grain threshers, rice threshers and 
hulling machines, fanning mills, burr stone and cast iron grain 
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Among his plows are those from the celebrated factory of Rug- 
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York ; R. Sinclair, Jr., & Co. of Baltimore; also, the Cary and 
Western plows 
Castings of ail kinds of patterns extra for the above. Also 
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A large assortment of Fruit Trees. 
Agricultural books, a complete assortment. 
Orders will be received for horses, cattle, sheep, and swine, fruit 
trees and shrubbery ; and any other articles planters may wish 
to order from the north. R L. ALLEN. 
New Orleans , January, 1848. 
AMERICAN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COM¬ 
PANY. 
Office No 40 Wall Street, N. Y. 
LIFE INSURANCE upon the plan adopted by this Company, 
is founded upon the principle of contribution in the shape of an¬ 
nual premiums to a common fund, proportioned to the amount 
insured, out of which the Company pay a stipulated sum on the 
death of the assured to the person for whose benefit the insur¬ 
ance is effected. 
After a thorough investigation of the different systems adopted 
in Europe and America, and of the rates of premium charged, 
this company have reduced the premium 25 per cent, payable 
in cash, annually, semi-annually, or quarterly, as may be pre¬ 
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of unusual sickness and death among its members—preferring to 
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2. A reduction in the rates of premiums—payable annually, 
semi-annually, or quarterly, as may be preferred. 
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4. Insurance may be effected by any married woman upon the 
life of her husband, for her sole use and benefit, free from any 
claims of the representatives of her husband, or any of his credi¬ 
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5. No personal liability of the members beyond the amount of 
their annual premium of insurance. 
6. Creditors may insure the lives of their debtors, or debtor* 
themselves may insure for the protection of their creditors. 
A prospectus has been issued (which can be had at the office 
of the Company, or any of its agents), explanatory of the terms 
and conditions of insurance. 
TRUSTEES. 
Ambrose L. Jordan, Samuel Leeds, Norris Wilcox, 
Cyrus P. Smith, Fredericlc T. Peef, John W. Fitch, 
George Hall, Caleb Mix, John Durrie, 
David Banks, Sherman W. Kneolas, Lewis B. Judson, 
G. S. Silliman, Henry Peck, James Panderford, 
George D. Phelps, Eli W. Blake, James E. English. 
Willis Bristol, Lucius R. Finch, 
BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, President 
NORRIS WILCOX, Vice President. 
CALEB MIX, Treasurer. 
BENJAMIN NOYES, Secretary. 
AMBROSE L. JORDAN, Chairman of Local Board. 
LEWIS BENTON, Actuary. 
Medical Examiners. 
WILLIAM N. BLAKEMAN, M. D., 193 Bleecker street. 
ALEXANDER B. WHITING. M. D., 848 Broadway. jtf 
POUDRETTE. 
THE Lodi Manufacturing Company offer for sale a large quan¬ 
tity of their New and Improved Poudrette, freshly manufactured 
at the following rates, viz.—one barrel $2 ; two barrels $3.50; 
three barrels $5 ; seven barrels and upwards at $1.50 per barrel. 
At the Factory, on the Hackensack River, near New York, where 
vessels drawing 7 feet of water can come, it will he put on board 
of boats or wagons for 25 cents per bushel in bulk—$1.50 per 
barrel. No charge for cartage or barrels. Two barrels per acre 
suffice for one application in the hill on com. Office of the Com¬ 
pany, 56 Liberty street, New York, and for sale by 
f A. B. ALLEN, Agent, 137 Water street. 
