VOLUME I. C., OCTOBER 22, 1871. NUMBER 33.

For THE CAPITAL. contemptible fellow, a weakling, a scamp, a ments he was absent, and I anxiously won- had arranged a stout iron pipe as a sheath, ger from the obstructions, and then to await sick, but I believe she intends trying one of her by October. Good Americans, so the saying run.», TIIE YELLOW LEAF: criminal; the'world does not applaud any, dered whether she would receive a letter from |uid discarded entirely the usual signal-line. my return to the surface before proceeding carriage horses?. are expected to come here when they die ; but IN TUB POET'S BOOK. does not hail any as heroes -who resist great me. Friedrich returned, and a hasty glance "All )>eing in readiness, after personally farther. Miss Julia McCoy is spending this winter in very reasonably and practically they make, the "Whisper, Yellow£eaf, to me . temptations. The world is hard, very hard! showed me that his hands were empty; -petting all of the apparatus, I cautiously "Carefully watching the air-tube leading Georgia. I saw Miss Marie McCoy in the park on most of the opportunity offered them to visit Paris Thy forgotten history." v One's own conscience, a secret sense of hap- Blanche had accepted my note. ¡nade my way to the ladder, and having fixed overboard, the engines were started slowly, horseback. She is now taking her first lessons in while alive, if only to get a slight idea of their that so healthful an accomplishment, and with so ^ One far spring-time, green.and young, piness, is the reward. Oh! God, I feel very jny helmet firmly in its place, and secured my and as the ship gathered headway, and the future quarters when dead in the States'. Of On a sunny bough we hung. capable 4n instructor as her father I have no doubt litfle happiness!" it of tools, hammer, saw, chisels, WASHINGTON CANAWL, layman take such an interest and be,so thoroughly wiorks of the present ftge, and one of the most 1 was very pale,.and her eyes bore traces of re- proved a little shy, by a few .well-timed ques- Book-marks of his life we lie, my unconscious insolence, the -jesting mood the sputtering fuze of an unexploded shell. InBatiate Potomac, posted in church matters as he. He attends Cal- audacious, noble challenges ever thrown by the cent weeping, but at this moment the tears Brother-leaves, the song and I. I liad shown in my intercourse with her now tions, I succeeded in "bringing him out" to Whose waters rise and fall, vary, and is very " high church." genius of man to that sphynx of nature, "Impos- were dried and she looked up with a stern, '' Although an old hand at the diving busi- 1 seemed. Alas, I had felt so sure of my prize, fny entire satisfaction. Thou Sliest with thy ooze and slime Dr. Baxley, as you have probably heard, has sibility." Science has triumphed over the orice Song and leaf% from that far Spring ness, it had never before been my fortune to Dreams of joy and woe we bring. cold glance as I stood before her waiting for As I write the words of the old man I seem Our ancient, grand Canawl. puiehased a handsome farm at Warrenton, and impenetrable mass of stone, and two sister nations I had at last grown so overbearing, that I ven- operate in action, so I was not a little anxious, her'to speak. My letter lay open-on a small Prom thy deposits constant Mrs. Louisa Read has bought one in Maryland. are more firmly united than before, and both*lvill k Let the song again be sung : tured to allude to a game she was trying to to see the earnest ;;l.uice, the erect figure, and table beside her. as you may imagine, as to the effect of a shell We reap our troubles all, But here I am holding forth as to a meeting, derive immense benefit from the completion .of I again am green and young ; play with • me—so childishly overbearing. the almost snowu hite head Shaking and nod- exploding on tl)£ bottom. I was not long And stagnant wealth must languish regardless of the fact that every one is asleep in the gigantic task. But Paris, busy restoring and And now I would have knelt before lier, wor- I had held out my hand, with a feeling of ding as the memory of liis exploits came be- ' And a maiden sings below : waiting, and found out to my entire satisfac- On the shores.of our Canawl. the house but me, -and I so mortally afraid of embellishing her tarnished beauty, even through shipped this high-hearted girl, with her noble, deep emotion, but she did not seem to notice fore his mind. Sun-leaf d shadows wreathe her brow. tion, as I will presently'tell you. With enterprise at variance, ghosts ! Yes, indeed, Ada, ©very now and then I the voice of the press does not trouble herself self-sacrificing heart, her firm, resolute char- the gesture, and I took the chair to which she Taking a fresh attitude in his chair, and * Summer-time and love were brief: "Well, at length I reached bottom, and Thou hinderest shipping tall look over first one shoulder and then the other, about the Mount Cenis railway to any extent, , Love the Poet's Yellow Leaf ! " acter. motioned me. casting his eyes from one to the other of us From, thronging multitudinous slowly trod my way along the * bends of the half expecting to see shadowy forms vanishing in arid would chat and gossip more over a new JOHN JAMES PIATT. » The abbé had remained in the drawing- " boys," as he called the younger members of Our mercantile Canawl. thin air. : And I had not even the consolation of tell- ship to the base of operations, the disabled teiior or a three-act opera bouffe, signed by room. the party, the old diver began: Hugh sand-barges lie stranded Good night, old lady; come up on Saturday. Inervé or Offeribach, than over any sclentifle ing her how I admired her. Was it any satis- screw, oftentimes stepping on rusty shot, and In mud, when the tides fall, "I wished to speak to you," she said, with " Few of our officers on duty off Charleston The races begin next week, and they say that wonder. The evacuation Of the environs of the POWDER AND GOLD. faction to say to myself that at least shfe must once I nearly tripped over the stock of some And dot with helpless hulks the slimy, the singular huskiness -that sometimes per- in 186— will forget when the news came out of some Colonel Dulaney's fine horses from Fau- city by the Prussians has been the great event esteem me; that even if she hated me for old rust-worn anchor. Being but about fif- Odorous Canawl. vaded lier clear, bell-like tones, "because I to the wooden fleet that a monitor had been quier are entered. of the week, and the subject of general con- A STORY OF THE UHLANS, what I had done, she must acknowledge Iliad teen or sixteen feet below the surface, I had Yet once, 'tis said, (we credit it,) Always, with sentiments of affection, must ask you a question. Promise me before- partially disabled, and that until something versation. The detested invaders have re- fulfilled the commands of duty steadfastly and no difficulty i« perceiving the trouble with A heavy dew did fall, • Yours, MILDRED T. turned to "Fatherland," and the "tri-color" hand to tell'the exact truth." could be done her situation was extremely crit- firmly. No, I had not even this consolation, the pYopeller, which was this: a piece of chain And scores of scows came poleing in Ml. Vernon Place. floats not proudly but patiently over the forts Related by a Prussian Officer. " I promise. What is your question? " ical. She lay quite near the rebel batteries, if it was one. Our mutual situations were so attached to the floating obstructions had be- Upon the moist Canawl. surrounding Paris. St. Denis breathes freely "An indiscreet and yet a very natural one. and as though divining her danger, their guns unfortunate that not even this comfort was come so wound about the propeller-shaft, be- Half-naked picaninnies OUR PARIS LETTER. once more, Unci the ancient necropolis of France's Are you very wealSiy? " were plunging their shot and shell against her TUANSLATED FOR THE CAPITAL PROM THE CIERHAN OF left to me. For what was the meaning of the tween the blades and stern-post, as to become Along its fair stores bawl, king's' is no longer sullied by the conqueror's "I, wealthy?" PARIS, September 23, 1871. LEVIN SCHUCKING. with the fiercest energy. Because no wealth to Murder Bay- presence. After an occupation that lasted eight words now uttered by Blanche, except that perfectly rigid. The cold season, is rapidly approaching and the " Why did the question surprise you?" " It was soon known that a diver would be Floats in on the Canawl. months, on the eve of their departure the Prus- CHAPTER VIII—Continued. my acts proved the falsity of my words when bitter September gales are already moaning and " Because it greatly embarrasses me." "My tools being prepared for just such By pastures Presidential sians at St. Denis thought it necessary to cel- 1 I told her of my love. She had often men- called into requisition to do the work under wailing through the leafy alleys of the Champs ' Compulsion will not be necessary. Slie "Embarrasses; yes, I can understand that,1' work, I began operations at once, and soon Big tom-cats caterwaul ebrate their victories and forced sojourn among tioned her opinion of- men; if such was her waiter, while the guns of Sumter bade fair to O'er coronerless kittens Elysées, and the mutilated solitudes of the Bois" herself does not wish it otherwise; she has had two or three of the links, which were the maltreated Inhabitants by a grand orgy on judgment, she could not help thinking that I replied Blanche, in a liarsh, almost angry demolish the whole ship in a few hours. de Boulogne ; but with the first signs of chilly made herself responsible, and will not with- quite! sniall, severed, and as I afterwards Laid stark in the Canawl. tone. You must acknowledge that you are weather Paris arouses lierscli from the dull the public square of the city, and showed their had sought from the first to deceive her in "Being the most experienced of the diving Despairing lovers, wooing death, draw now; the matter concerns her native very, very rich, and also that the step you learned, fiUfenscif lTie strain so suddenly that lethargy oi.the summer months, and prepares her bad taste and utter want of decency by cursing order to win lier confidence, lure" her secret corps on duty at that time, the Admiral sent Who from its bridge» fall, , _ _, country, and France is in no condition to have taken is terribly wanting in tact and ex- the engines gave one quick, short, partial rev- countless surprises, novelties, arid long list' of the citizens with their Teutonic rejoicing;- --Tkey from her, and thus obtain possession of this for me without delay, and laying the difficulty With curses creep back, muddy, sang, caroused, quaffed off countless'fankards at refuse the self-devotion of lier children; this tremely painful to me. You send me a bill olution, " on a vacuum," one of the engineers pleasures and excitement of all kinds, for her an- accursed gold. before me, asked if I would undertake the From the shallow old Canawl. beer, danced, and insulted their fallen foes in is no time for lier children to lightly evade of exchange for a hundred and ninety-five told me afterwards, and one of the blades Now, what can you be good for, nual visitors, who.usually flock to the gay capital job. By a few judiciously put questions I was the flattest, dullest, most Boeotian manner. The their duties." It was enough to drive me mad; the thought thousand francs on a banking-house in Basle— striking my expiration tube, threw me from If one can't die at all at this period of the year, and who will be doubly soon placed in possession of all the facts, iJie anxious and impatient to return after having been ashes of Dagobert and Chilperic must have shiv- I was silent. My brain whirled at the was horrible, I could not bear it; I must do you to me! And you thought I would accept my feet, and for ¡j, moment it seemed that my For want of water in you, work to be done, and the ftsults to be ex- deprived of their accustomed and favorite trip ered with indignation in their iron coffins deep in thought of the misfortune I had brought upon something to remove the idea from Blanche's such a gift from you?"«ft fate was sealed. You slimy, dead Canawl ? for so long a time, I allude to the respectable, the damp crypt of the old cathedral, and sculp- mind. I resolved one plan after another to pected from success. Blanche; I felt irresistibly impelled to rush "I thought," said T, greatly perplexed, "The screw stopped as suddenly as it had And Dr. Antisell affirms, traveling, sight-seeing portion of "perfidious tured gnomes of eaèh massive tower must have attain this object, but before any decision "The propeller of the vessel had been From knowledge chemical, to her side, to implore her—to do what? that "that I had told you in my letter I did not started, and somehow I struggled to my feet' Albion," wfto,.when Paris inaugurates her win- said with their stony grin, "Our turn will come." could be made I was disturbea; the abbe en- fouled by some of the numerous obstructions Your mud's not even good manure, I did not know ; for the abbé had told me intend it as a gift to you.. I should never again. Seeing but a few strokes more were ter's festivities, rarely fails to cross the channel, The Bavarians quartered at St. Denis did not tered with a very pleasant little gentleman, set afloat by the rebels, and not wishing to You pauper, old Canawl I only the simple truth; I myself had but too have dreamed of being so presumptions. The needed to complete my job, I soon had the and indulge rather freely of the dainties and de- have the least regard for the suffering inhabitants, whom lie introduced as the family physician. endanger any Other vessel in the same manner, Aha! Some smooth contractor much reason to believe that Blanche was far good old ship in fighting trim again, so far at lights of Babylon, spending guineas liberally, and and not content with giving a grand Jete prior to abbé informed me that you must indemnify On us may softly call, I was obliged to allow him to examine my the Admiral desired to send me alongside in least as her propeller was concerned. meeting everywhere in their meanderings with their departure, carried off everything they could too generous and noble to adopt any other the government for the sum I have taken, and For a few million shekels . wound and bind it up afresh; he thought it a steam picket boat with my best diving gear, the same cordiality and disinterested politeness lay their hands on. I assisted at the scene, and course of action than the one he mentioned. that you will thereby lose your whole prop- "Being now at liberty Jto return, I cau- " For cleaning the Canawl. and try to make a successful descent. that of late years especially has characterized the can attest that their avidity and brutality was no very serious aflair, but ordered me to keep tiously retraced my steps to where the ladder God knows 'tis foolish deepening it- Yet I rose from my bed, I could not endure erty; since I have been the unfortùnalfe cause Parisians in their actions and intercourse with perfectly quiet, and urged me not to move the " In due time we, that is, myself and four Fill it up, once for all, cóntemptible ; it appears also that the mania for to lie there quietly; the abbé sat with droop- of this necessity I did not hesitate to reim- hung idly swinging to and fro in the water, And stop the shame and taxes their former enemies. Waterloo is forgotten, so clock collecting has not completely died out in arm for at least two days. This prescription more whom I could trust under all peril, ar- and was about to mount to the surface, when ing head, and hands clasped idly on his knee, burse you. You are entirely innocent of the " Vive VAngleterre." The great and all-absorbing the Prussian army, for in eveiy railway station, was very welcome, as I could appeal to it in rived at the place of operations. And now, Of a festering Canawl I gazing steadily at the floor. I begged him to whole affair, and ought not to suffer from it. with a crash and roar of ten thousand shot, a big question with strangers just at present is to know from Pantin, near Paris, to Strasbourg, the clocks case the information given by the officer before going farther with my story, let me Or, while the river runneth, Perhaps I have shown a want of tact; that is shell fell apparently right over' my head, and if Paris will be as brilliant, fascinating, and agree- call Friedrich, who always helped me dress, And sewers empty all have been—annexed. In this case " time is evi- should lead me to be recalled from my post at try to give an idea of the situation, and its after what seemed but the fraction of a second, able this winter as in previous seasons, when the but at that moment he entered and reported very possible. In my present state of mind Their filth into.it, we must pay dently money." However they are gone. Jena Chateau Giron, and I resolved to do so if my cause. A vessel- had been sent in to recon- wildest follies and most frantic orgies succeeded that a detachment from our regiment was ap- I cannot see anything very clearly. I was in settled, as I thought, directly upon me. Pass- . For a dead and damned Canawl. and Auerstadt are avenged. -, commander chanced to be of a different opin- noiter, and if necessary, to fire on the bat- each other in such giddy, vertiginous, unheard of proaching Chateau Giron. I dressed as rap- despair at thé story the abbé told me, and did ing but a few feet distant, it had scarcely Let us confer a title The sentence of Henri Rochefort to transporta- ion from the first lieutenant who had granted teries to ascertain the force and, strength. rapidity—when the sole thought of two million not kflow wlfat elsfe to do."~ reached the bottom when the very earth and On him to whom shall fall tion for life, in a "fortified inclosura," is-es- idly as my wounded arm would allow. In a me permission to remain. heedless, reckless, liappy citizens was to drown " Proceeding cautiously until within a few sea seemed shattered to atoms. Perpetual pay to paddle in teemed pretty severe by the majority of Parisians. short time the detachment wheeled into the "But I will not accept your bill of ex-, the cares of life in the wildest kind of existence The mud of our Canawl. Rochefort did more harm than good, it is true, courtyard; it was a whole train under the After the physician left me Friedrich ap- hundred yards of Sumter, she had uncon- " The shell had exploded almost beside me! within reach of their respective purses, and strain change on any consideration." Count of Cloaca—Earl of Stink- but his offenses were confined to a series of rather command of an officer. I went out to meet peared, and then Glauroth entered to make sciously drifted too close to the line of ob- By some means the hooks provided in the every nerve to enjoy the passing pleasures of the " That would grieve me more than I can Duke of Dead Kittons small— Jacobinical, high-strung articles in his paper, his report. The latter did not wait for me to structions defending the entrance to the har- day, arid prove to tourists, strangers, guests, and him, and made my report. He was naturally I tell you. If you accepted it I might think breast of my armor had become fastened to a Oh, honor to the man who can visitors how a people whose device was "Short Le Mot d' Ordre; besides he was offered his liberty very much surprised to find me wounded, 1 commence a conversation—I could not escape bor, and in turning to come out her propeller, rung of my ladder, else this tale had never Get rich from our Canawl! you would 'forgive me for the unwelcome For he deserves an order life, but a merry one," were able to appreciate at Meaux by a Prussian general, and very nobly him, as I had gone to bed. He had read the as I said before, had become entangled among been told. Stunned and racked as I was, the wished to see the injury, and expressed a very part I have been compelled to play here, and Who binds us, cowards all, and relish the splendor of the luxurious capital, refused it, not desiring to accept his freedom Chevalier von Faublas, and, while smoking ropes and chains. And takes our tribute, year by year, decided opinion that I was not fit to remain no longer harbor such painful suspicions of instinct of self-preservation urged me to at- which by art, science, genius, and inspiration had from an enemy. his cigar, indulged in all manner of nonsensi- Perpetually, because we have not on duty. I employed all my eloquence to in- my motives. It would soothe my sorrow, " All efforts to release the ship from her tempt the ascent of my only road to safety, reached the acme of its power, glory, ^nd cele- It is true lie insulted Thiers in the grossest cal comments upon it. "I shall look into the energy to bury- out of sight and smell duce him not to send me to a hospital, and at and I should be deeply grateful if you would perilous position had failed, hence the call for the ladder, when to my horror the current brity. Assuredly the palmy days of peace and manner, calling him "bloody dwarf," "diminu- French literature a little more," said lie; "it an Unused;, useless, universally offensive, last obtained permission to remain in my pres- restore my peace of mind, "even though it .cost a diver. Immediately on perceiving the state began swaying me back and forth in such a. • by everybody damned and double-damned prosperity, enjoyed under the ex-emperor's lenient tive vampire," "pigmy assassin," and other mild seems to me that very sweet fruits grow but euphonious epithets ; but this is no rare oc- comfortable quarters a fèw days longer, after you a struggle; pray accept it, M'lle Blanche, of affairs, no hard task, the enemy liad-opened manner that I found it impossible to do aught Canawl. MUD LARK. rule, when everything was allowable, from the fact in that garden—a little over-ripe, but, like that the proud city lived only for variety, origi- currence among modern French journalists, and which I was to proceed to Noroy, report to although it may be hard for you to do so; a fearful fire from all guns within range on but hold on and trust to the chapter of acci- CORRESPONDENCE. medlars, all the more pungent on that ac- nality, and excitement, will not bless the Parisians Thiers is too' wise, sagacious, and high-minded to our^eommander, and abide by the staff sur- have mercy upon me. , I am wretched enough the devoted craft, and seemed bent on her dents for relief, count. The polishing influence exerted upon to the same extent for some time to come ; never- trouble himself about such " Lilliputianisms. " geon's decision. " You. will receive a lieu- to be compelled to leave Chateau Giron, and destruction before assistance could reach her. "In an instant after I became aware of the OUR BALTIMORE LETTER. t men by this war with. France is really remark- theless the coming winter promises to be gay Rochefort will probably be sent to Noukahiva in tenant's commission at once," said he; "it shall be ten times more unhappy if you refuse "The shot fell fast and furious against the current, a dull regular beat united to a seem- New Caledonia, unless Thiers acts generously able!" BALTIMORE. . enough to suit the most extravagant desires, and was sent to the commander day before yester- the offer I have made in the hope of securing iron of her turret and side armor, while the ing tremor of the ship convinced me that she MY DARLING ADA : To sing or not to sing, la the as soon as the state of siege is raised, "night and pardons him. But whether in the tropics or day, as lie ordered me to inform you. In ad- " I hope you won't cultivate your taste so at least exemption from your hatred." water on all sides fairly boiled from the fre- was under way and probably steaming out to question which has for the past few weeks been Paris " will exist again, which means an instant in Paris, the author of the "Lanterne" cannot dition, you will be also suitably rewarded for far as to have a fancy for medlars," I replied. quent shot striking its surface. It seemed a the fleet. A glimpse or two at the bottom agitating the^conferential mind, and from present revival of opera balls, masked balls, soirées, sup- last long, for he has a painful disease of the Jungs, " Unhappy," she repeated, with a scornful appearances " not to sing " it will he. I think it pers at the Maison d'Or, and theatrical perform- and is completely broken down by his late chaotic, the prize you have secured; and now we "Who knows? German acorns may be veritable iron hail. assured me of this, for I could plainly see it curl of the lip. "When a man is young and a great pity that the convention has such tedious ances that generally terminate when the working excitable existence ; but should he live another must proceed to tlitf"business for which I have much more nourishing and healthful, but you "As our little picket boat approached the gliding past until the shoals deepened, and a millionaire, like you, grief is generally of discussions on such trite subjects. The~~hymns portion of the population arise to set about their year he may have the satisfaction of knowing. must admit they are indigestible." nothing* could be seen underneath me but come here. Where is the ïnoney ? " no long duration. Take back your bill of ex- scene of conflict the firing suddenly ceased, were all right in themselves—why not let them daily labor. The principal railway stations pre- that his sentence for life will dwindle«down to a "Tell me, Glauroth," I interrupted, "to water. Imagine my situation, you youngsters I led the way to the treasure; he counted change." and we were fortunate enough to get below be? Rev. Dr. Mason of North Carolina is very sent a lively appearance at present all over the few month's incarceration, that is to say, till the change the subject—your father is a merchant, who think you have seen danger—towed to sea the little casks, compared the number with " "iS>u are very cruel," said I, my lips quiv- with the apparatus before the storm again intolerant of the third verse of the fifty-sixth city, for the influx of returning citizens and next revolution. Let us hope, however, that the isn't he?" under a monitor ! newly elected president will show some proof of the list I had given Glauroth, took possession ering in spite of myself. ' ' Consider, Blanche, burst over the trembling ship. The cause of hymn, " By thy conflict with despair," because, strangers is enormous. " Yes, he is a merchant, and labors princi- to quote him, " This is simply intolerable; no clemency in returning good for evil, and not as of tliem and ordered them to be placed in the can you not accept from me what I have taken this apparent kindness was made known to us "The motion rapidly grew more violent, pally to provide the Germans with woolen Christian man could admit that the merest shadow General Trochu did towards Rochefort, who, wagon which had followed the little band. from you." the following day by a deserter from Fort and had it not been for the hooks I have The fashionable -watering placcs, such as night-caps, undershirts, and jackets; he makes of despair ever passed.over the soul of our Lord." after having received power, popularity and fame Fifteen minutes later, leaning against the Sumter. spoken of, death would have been inevitable, Dieppe, Fronville, and Havre, are rapidly being "No," she answered, in the same stern He you know is the father of your dear friend through his hands, basely abandoned him to his everything that lies close and warm over one's 1 for my strength would not have enabled me deserted by the rather mixed population that fre- doorway of the "chateau, I saw the treasure tones. ' Even if you suffer from sel f-reprôach, "As the picket steamer approached the Mrs. William T. Mitchell—isn't that her name ? fate the day when Rochefort asked him to act as heart. Why do you ask? Do you intend to to retain my hold on the ladder, and I should quent the baths during the penetrating heat of chests of the Garde Mobile of the Upper or rather, if it annoys you, because you have monitor, the rebels imagined that a message I mean that handsome lady whom I once met at witness in his case ; and Parisians, though blaming give the firm of Glauroth a handsome order— August, while Ems, Spa, Nice, and Baden furnish Saone, surrounded by our Uhlans, pass from the Yankee commander was about to be have drowned, my body weighed down by your house, from Carolina. I think the whole Rochefort for his errors, blunders, and past fool- been forced to bring this misfortune upon their annual contingent of sports, artists, and provide the corps with comfortable, well- armor beyond recovery. through the grated door of the courtyard of me—it would still be a great.piece of extrava- received looking to an armistice or surren- discussion very foolish, because, alter it as they ishness, severely censure the ingratitude and un- woven woolen garments for the coming win- idlers, ready after a two month's practice at "rou- der, so slackened fire. After waiting a few "All of this time, in reality minutes, but may, it will be impossible to please all. kindness of the "man with apian," as Trochu is Chateau Giron, and I could now dismiss the 1 gance to attempt to remove so trifling a cause lette " and " rouge-et-noir," either to live cheaply tet , like a generous patron?" generally styled. two guards whom I had ordered out for the of regret from your conscience by such a gift. moment's and the expected flag of truce not seemingly hours, my faithful men within the I went last night with father and some friends in Paris if fortune has not favored them, or if she '' No, I had no such idea, but thought it turret chamber had not ceased to give me a greater security of the treasure. No sensible man would squander so much making its appearance, the rebels saw that to the fair, of which the picture gallery is the has been propitious, to revel in the many delights The racing season began last Sunday, by a not impossible that you might know the name Fortunately Glauroth relieved me from his money to settle an aflair, which, after' all, is somehow they had been outwitted, and the plentiful supply of air, so my only danger lay most striking feature—being the largest and finest that their city of predilection alone can furnish. spirited hippical contest in the Bois de Boulogne, of some substantial, wealthy banking-house voluble account of his ride, and the events so trivial. Two hundred thousand francs is a shower of shot and shell seemed to increase in being swept away. After what seemed collection, and including pictures never before Italy is sufficiently represented by singers of attended by the élite of what is still the skeleton in Basle or Berne!" exhibited in Baltimore. At -one time the mana- celebrity, and others of no celebrity whatever ; 'that had occurred at headquarters; he went large sum even for a millionaire, and I will in fierceness as they reopened fire. miles of ground passed over, and hours of of former Paris ; but the Becond races promise to " In Basle or Berne," said Glauroth thought- , "In a short time I saw how matters stood, time, the beat of the engines grew gradually ger's feared they would have to omit the gallery, the bronzed exiles of Piedmont and Venitia, who be more brilliant, although the weather, which is to dinner with the soldiers, my meals were not countenance such lavisliness." because so many objected to lending their val- have no musical ability or a voice more or less fully. "Wait a moment—who is in Basle? and succeeded in finding a place on the lee slower, then stopped, and no sooner did I feel very disagreeable, may prevent the exciting pas- served in my room, and I thanked God for She uttered the words in a strangely bitter uable paintings, on account of the number of bass at their disposition, emigrate to France by Ah! the old house of M. Brothers; and in side of the turret where, if the ship could be the pressure of the current relax, than I pre- time which Paris enjoys so much from taking the opportunity of being alone. tone. strangers in the' city whose honesty few could the beginning of October, and for eight long Berne"— pared to make the best of my way to the place. Alone, with the infinitely sorrowful thoughts kept in one position, no shot could reach me. indorse, and the fact that many parties were months bore the population by the most fearful ' ' Listen to me, Blanche, " I replied. ' ' You Besides, May and June are the months for such "That is quite sufficient," I exclaimed, Carefully instructing my men as to their surface. pledged to send their collection to the Art Union; cacophonies their tuneless organs can produce, that occupied my mind, and which I should need this property. A young lady who has sports here, France not being blessed with an "the M. Brothers, their name is well known, duties, I at length got my ladder overboard 1' I remember no more. A deadly faint but Carroll Spence came forward at the eleventh or else enter the chestnut trade, which is exceed- have been ashamed to confess to any human been reared amid surroundings like yours Indian Bummer as in the States, and the racing and perfectly satisfactoiy!" on the safe side, and made it fast in such a hour and lent his paintings. Among them, dear ingly lucrative at times, and remain till the ap- being. A heavy weight lay on my heart; I requires wealth, it is a necessity of life to her. seized me, and for hours I lay without life, season this year will be a short one ; nevertheless Ada, is the "Death of Chlorinda," by Gessi, proach of spring. The English portion of Paris " Do you want to enter into any monetary manner that should the wind change or rise vibrating between this world and the one it is curious to notice with what avidity and delight was almost ready to burst into tears. "When With me the case is very different. If you Guido's wonderfully successful rival; " Ugolino visitors is well known, and has invariably been transaction?" during my absence under water, my means of beyond. Returning sense revealed my four the Parisians seize one of the first opportunities the rough, open wagon containing the money accept this sum I shall still have enough to and his Sons," imprisoned and starving to death the same from time immemorial. Only last week I did not reply, but spoke of other matters, escape should not be entirely cut off. Lead- men around me, on the wardroom table, doing offered to them since the war to enjoy themselves. rolled through the door of the courtyard, it support me in comfort, nay even luxury, for in the tower at Pisa, by Manozzi. The fearful about twenty London5i-s left their smoky, foggy; and at last sent my companion away on pre- ing my air pipes up through the turret and their utmost in my behalf, and only gave way Heedless, careless, and merry aB ever, pleasure of seemed to me as if it were not the wretched one or two years; I need no more, I have no expression of terror in the faces of the sons, and metropolis to visit the ruins, and examine a bar- out through one of the ports, I secured them every kind, nature, and description is their cqp- tense that I wished to sleep. one to provide for, and in a year or two I to the surgeon when a heavy groan and slowly the abject despair on the countenance of the ricade, (?) and in payment for this pleasure had gold, but the coffin of some beloved friend stant aim. They have been dosed with excite- And I did sleep soundly all night long, as to my helmet, and requested that all firing opening eyes told that my life was safe. father, make up what is considered the finest given ten pounds sterling each to a well-known that was borne away. It was probably my shall have a place in the civil service, and the ment for one whole year, but still return to their only a man who thorouglil y wearied in body from the ship be suspended during my ab- painting in the gallery. Mr. Wilkins Glenn loaned arid respectable English agent, who had agreed wound, my exhaustion^ the feverish condition government will support me! " " I speedily recovered, and for the first time old whims mid fancics, and sscro. to fQrgctj wliilo and mind can do, after forming a firm resolu- sence,- for experience had taught me the dan- two of his pictures, from the pencil of Rosa de to show them the beauties and wonders of thé- in which I was, that caused me to feel so She looked at me in the greatest astonish- learned the details of my great peril and mar- admiring some delicately formed Bucephalus or ger of a heavy discharge directly overhead of Tivole. Then Mr. George Williams sent from his capital, board and lodge them in first-class estab- tion which has at last given rest to his soul, velous escape. fleet-footed courier, that the Prussians are still weak, so depressed, so utterly crushed and ment, and asked hastily, "Then you are not gallery one of Manchinelli's happiest efforts, re- lishments for one week, and see them safely back and awoke theiiext morning greatly refreshed a diver. packing up at Chantilly, where the races should spiritless. Yet I could not overcome the a millionaire ? " " Immediately on the strain being taken off presenting all of the painters and poets of Italy on the misty beach of Dover. But "Bus aliter and strengthened. I rose, and after Fried have taken place. mood. In vain I said to myself, " What is it "No, I ain a younger son; my elder brother "The of the propeller by the chains being cut, the on Mount Parnassus. Mr. Pleasants was also visum," at their first grand dinner, after a hard rich had dressed my wounded arm, and placed save«vhat happens in thousands of lives—a inherited a large property from my father, position of the turret favored my engines gave the quick partial revolution generous. I'wish you would come up for a day, day's work, visiting, commenting and admiring, One of the most elegant halls of Paris, the it carefully in a sling, went out to look after conflict between duty and inclination? It is while I received nearly fifty-six thousand request, and placing its back to the enemy which I have mentioned, and the engineer, as and together we'd do the "fair." The managers when the disagreeable moment came to settle the Casino, has opened for the winterunderthe direc- my twelve Paladins of the Arian Uhlan race, consider it one of the most successful they've "little bill," amounting to one hundred and fifty- the universal fate of mankind. Moralists have thalers from my mother. This bill of ex- enabled me to use the gun port as I have in duty bound of course, reported that the tion of the chef d'orchestre and celebrated com- and inspect their horses. When I had given had for years. six francs, their unfortunate cicerone perceived written long books about it, our novels and change Is for about fifty-two thousand—you described. As my life would hang upon a disability to the machinery being removed lie poser, Olivier Métra, who alternates concerts with Glauroth my orders for the day, I returned to that he had been robbed by some expert pick- soii-ées danftnte. This hall ¡3 one of the lew in dramas form their plots upon this conflict, see I can scarcely be called a millionaire." thread at best, I made every arrangement for was prepared to go ahead at any moment. A few nights ago we wont to the grand concert my own room and wrote two letters. The pocket of all the funds of the combined society. Paris where the attendance is, if not select, at She gazed at me with an expression of the safety that experience could suggest, sven "It was but a few minutes after this that for Chicago ; it was exceedingly fine. Mrs. Ber- Md if the lives of men contain events which first was to M'lle Kulin, and it is needless to He endeavored to explain the painful occurrence, least genteel ; consequently is not greatly fre- going myself into the engine-room and en- the tide began to flow, causing the current I nard sang " Angels Ever Bright and Fair," and deeply touch their souls, they all turn around most unconcealed astonishment, then grew but, as the tourists had imbibed rather freely of quented by the foreign or nomadic population of mention that I did not accomplish my task joining upon the engineer of the watchi not to was never in better voice. Pretty Jenny Busk this great point. Life is only one long lesson still paler than before, and taking the bill of have spoken of, and the devoted vessel bade crimson Burgundy and other generous brands, the city. until three or four attempts had been succes- allow the engines to be started upon any con- was warmly encored in both her songs. Alto- of the renunciation of inclination for the sake exchange from the table, began to tear it fair to be again drifted among the dreaded his only answer was the receipt of several empty sively destroyed. The note contained a doc- gether it was a great success. Important novelties are in preparation at the into the tiniest fragments. Her hands trem- sideration until my return from the perilous obstructions and still nearer to Sumter, whose bottles on his bewildered cranium, and he very of duty; the whole effort of moral law is ument which cost me far less trouble, as I Grand Opera and several minor theaters, which so undertaking, the success or failure of which guns never ceased their roar all this time. You don't know how we enjoy our park during prudently disappeared, leaving the travelers to WWftly to compel us to give the victory to bled as she dicl so, her lips quivered; tjiere far, having been in rather an embarrasing financial made use of very few wctfds. this weather. We were out a few evenings ago, settle the moderate (?) chaines „i one of the dear- assured the safety or loss of the vessel. The Captain , to prevent this threatened duty rather tfyari inclination, even if we should was a singular expression upon her counte- and I thought I had never seen it looking more condition, have lived principally on revivals of pump for supplying me with air was fixed in est cafés in Paris. ÎÇt do so from inherent principle.- And, in After the letter was sealed I called Fried- nance whose meaning I totally failed to un- catastrophe, and feeling certain that I was beautiful than then. I saw Miss Lilly Tyson old and favorite works. But in another tetter I derstand. the turret chamber, and as the fragments of clear of danger from the propeller, determined will endeavor to give a correct résume-ol all musi- truth, there is nothing great in this con- rich and sent him to deliver it to M'lle Kuhn. driving out with a friend ; she has not been on The American element is also very large at pres- shot, which still poured in from Sumter, to go ahead a short distance to clear all dan- cal and theatrical matters of interest. quest; he who is unable to make it is only a My heart beat violently during the few mo- (Concluded next week.) horseback very lately, her " favorite " being quite ent, and promises to become still more important might cut the air tube as it crossed the deck, 1 COSMOPOLITE, a * thorizing the President of the United States being drained, and the necessary result is a In tliis same method of reasoning, why may it |nd here cornés in the story of my bosom's hapless entire list of darkies who've been serving you for gene- second beyond absolute necessity. Even tho most rap- THE CAPITAL. to extend to the government and people of lack of moisture in the atmosphere, long not be said that the man himself was the cause, as plight ; rations. However," I at last got a man who would work turous music of St. Cecelia herself could ill compen the republics of Hayti and San Domingo the drouths, and violent storms that carry away he should not have attempted to milk after dark ? 'is wondrous sad and pitiful I (Do see it in that light !) one day, be gone two, come back, stay an hour, off again sate an audience to listen to it in so cold a place, as the 'or what con be more touching than some helpless wild- for six. The front door looks like Joseph's coat, and National Theater; where the first intimation had of Publication Office, 428 Eleventh Street. protection of the United States, for the pur- the soil that soft continuous rains were wont and that no man who milked after a certain hour should live within five miles of any house ? wood thing, is of many colors. The painter has been ten days at it— any flre is a dense smoke which frightens people pose of assisting them to establish permanent to cherish. . and then compels them to sit with open windows If anybody is to be taught lessons from a calam- prairie bird—like me—ensnared, and fluttering on a a little paint here, sand there, and off he goes. I am WASHINGTON CITY • republican institutions. The Mississippi valley, unless this waste is string ? resigned, though. the remainder of the performance. Tlie exterior scene ity which has made the great part of humanity of the Cherry Tree Inn is good ; also the interior where If a scheme ever aroused the virtuous in- •checked, will have, in time, the same record 'on. see, among the nice young men fate and my hand- Now, mama, where do you think I went last Monday? SUNDAY MOBNING, sick, let it not be in such an utterly senseless way. the robbery takes place. In all scenic appointments OCTOBER 22,1871. dignation of Congress, this certainly did. that tells of Greece, Arabia-Petrie, and the some cousin Why, to Willian's opening. There how! I hated to It is bad enough to have such a tremendous fire Save brought me Into contact with, there are some half tell yon, for I knew how the idea would amuse you. I there is a decided improvement over last season at the OI K PRESIDENT. There was a perfect avalanche of denuncia- Holy Land. These were once as rich, fertile, with its concomitant losses, without having it the a dozen not only went but spent all of my six month's allow- National. tion hurled at the head of the unfortunate and inhabitable as our great valley, and our parent of a multitudinous crop of errors with We have been severely censured by some !o gay, so snave, so debonnair—in short, so very " tak- ance 1 It's no use to be annoyed, not a bit. I know introducer of this resolution. Amidst the great valley in a few years will be as those regard to the logic of things. ing," . • . you think I have no taste, but I told Miss Emma my DB. CHAPIN opened the Grand Army Lecture Course very sensible people for what they are pleased on Thursday evening by an able discourse on the tempest of denunciation, and the roar and lands are, a dreary waste. [That each one, in his turn, would sure have set my difficulties, and she sayB if you don't approve of my to call our continuous attacks upon General heart a breaking, purchases she'll exchange them. I saw everybody in "True Orders of Nobility." The audience was of clamor of exasperated patriots, (for there were The destruction of our forests, instead of Grant, and no end of personal friends have FIFTH A EDITOR BARRON takes up a column of |Save as kaleidoscopically they come, one after 'tother, town there. There are two dresses which I wish papa course large. Taken altogether the entertainments patriots in those days,) above all, calm, philo- being checked by our Government, is actually the Daily Republican of Thursday last in a defense provided for the public by the G. A. R. committee give asked us the why, as if they thought some per- Before one's charms can take effect they're "rubbed would give you—one of pointe applique—a court train, sophical, and serene, was heard the eloquent encouraged. The tariff on lumber, framed to of himself. We say that Barron does his own de- more satisfaction and pleasure than any iiiWashIn»ton sonal motive impelled us to the task. They out" by another/ Bretelles sash, and two flounces of the most exquisite voice of the dignified Columbus Delano, then benefit some selfish capitalists of Maine, fense upon the same evidence that satisfied Du- There's Sherman's eyes—those killing eyes—almost an design, and so sheer and delicate that I would not have MR. ALBKRT AIKEN will appear to-morrow evening cannot understand, it seems, that one might gald Dalgetty of the duke's identity. No man ntter smash touched it for the world; then a flounce of pointe de a member of the Lower House, and now a forces our people to use our own material, at Wall's Opera House in his original play, The Witches feel such a pride in the position of Chief Mag- knows Barron in the light taken in this article They made my heart, 'till it revived before Hill's sweet Venice, marvelous in its wondrous beauty, and so JUmy high Cabinet minister. while through the same process other building of New York. He is supported by Miss Alice Logan istrate as to be indignant at its degradation moustache/ that it looked like frost work. This though you can but Barron himself, and certainly no one but tha and several actors of n»te. During the piece, which As on a previous great occasion Daniel material, such as iron, is made as expensive Then Bailey's air, so distingué and yet BO very tender, dispense with, but there is a black thread-lace dress Nor is this feeling lessened by the fact that Fifth Auditor would have the audacity to reduce contains many new and jvell-contrived situations Mr as possible, that Pennsylvania protectionists 'Twasoniy " Schemmie's " curly hair that kept me .which is of exceeding beauty. I hope some one will be scarcely one among the more prominent sup Webster eliminated order out of chaos by call- suoh stuff to writing and then to print. Our"^?)!^ Aiken engages in what has become known as " the from surrender. found in our midst with minds appreciative and purses ing for the reading of Foote's resolution, so may fatten. respondent, besides photographing the burly Au- Bowie-knife fight," and which is very thrilling porters of this official but holds in his heart Then Mercer's figure caused me grief almost past calcu- capacious enough to keep them among us. Ask papa in this troublous instance the Hon. Delano We have an Agricultural Bureau, generally ditor so that the picture is generally recognized, the same disgust. Said a senator to us one day lating, to give them to you, and then when you get too oldfor THE WASHINGTON S^ENYJEHBUND gives a concert to- preferred certain charges, and both are met by a last summer, and he has been found among struck an oratorical attitude, and in a voice of presided over by that agricultural production ITill Coyle's artistic neckties set my heart to palpitating I such things I'll be just at the "pointo lace age." The night at the National Theater in aid of the Chicago sickening, fulsome eulogy. It is admitted that the more active supporters of the Administra- thunder asked the clerk to read the resolu- called a donkey, that gives itself up to a pro- One, one alone of all the band, was great in every way, most elegant black Bilk suit. I ever Baw is one made of sufferers. The Bund will be assisted by Madame I Barron is president of a certain real estate com- So perfect, none could single out his spécialité ; bonnet silk—deep flounce, polonaise, and the front and tion—"You're right of course. The man is tion in question. Afterthis little preliminary, mulgation of false ideas respecting the tariff Morell, Miss Minnie Holtzman, Mr. H. M. Jungnickel' pany, and has an office for the transaction of its (Young, rich. Intelligent, well-bred, a first-class billiard- all trimmed with a profusion of black thread-lace. The Delano waded in. Said he, after fencing in and the cultivation of mammoth pumpkins Mr. Steinmueller, and a full orchestra. The programme a coarse, brutal, selfish creature, who has no business. What right has this official to such a lst, handkerchiefs are from the useful to the Bimply orna- is made up of choice selections and is well worth list a rhetorical manner with his exordium—said knowledge of our Government, sympathy and the gigantic squash. To this concern a presidency or to an office for the transaction of 'air fortune in her shower of gifts no single one had mental, and the mourning handkerchiefs from the ening to, while the object for which the concert is with us, or respegt for his place. So far as he: gentleman of learning and intellect carried to its business ? • His time is supposed to beloug to missed I deeply solemn, unmitigated, inch and a half deep, which given appeals most strongly to the benevolence of all we, the leading Republicans, are concerned, "I am, sir, therefore opposed to this Gov- the bureau's present head (if we may use such the Government, that pays a hundred per TEtst.; [Then do you wonder, O, my friend, before so many appears in the first days of widowhood, to the delicate Let there be a full house, so that a large sum may be charms, hair-line of black ornamenting those used when the realized. we might as well have a Democrat in the ernment departing from its solid, honest, long- a word in that connection) an essay on more than his services are worth. We give the y unsophisticated heart almost laid down her arms Î name of the dear departed can be mentioned with com- "Waste Lands." The venerable agricultural foUowing tremendous hurst, both as a specimen White House. No one of us can go there standing policy, which is, that it will not in- Almost—for still her woman'B pride kept whispering, posure. product gazed with lack-luster eyes upon the of the Barron style and evidence of the Barron PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. and escape insult. Of course I except a half terfere in the affairs of other governments. "hadn't oughter I" I got myself an elegant fan! There now, you darling authorship: " The moon rolls steadily on al- iper cuffs—.Newspaper attacks, dozen, because they are men who cannot be Especially am I opposed to this Government manuscript, and then, returning it, asked When one exalted virtue more she could not cry for old mama! I know I've got a dozen, but they are P though little puppies will bark at it. The earth insulted. But what can we do? This man departing from that policy at this time. When savagely, "What has this department got to quarter I always so useful. Then, liking everything to match, E lgenle often smokes ten cigarettes a day. still turns upon its axis, though papal bulls for- When all the rest—mere common youths—gave only I bought a sash and gloves of the same shade. I know holds the organization through an official pa- these islands are ready to come to us let us do with that subject?" Certainly, what? T he latest thing out—Cats on the back shed, bid it. The Fifth Auditor will probably survive petty pelf it was dreadful, but they were so lovely—such heavenly take them, not by purchase at forty times the A swell among flowers—A dande-llon.—Punch. tronage, so increased in extent and power this attack, nor will the Treasury Department, in To help tho victims, costing, sure, no sacrifice of self. blues, such greens! No, mama, not cabbage greens at since the war that it is impossible to calculate amount they are worth, with all the evils that our opinion, be seriously annoyed thereby." This generous soul, whose charity no selfish feeling all, but gfcen ribbons. I got a block of each because L ord Dundreary Sethern was educated for the church results. We know, at any rate, that if not may grow out of the policy of paying for MINOR NOTES. daunts, they are new colors, and yon know how papa likes to New Orleans a runaway horse dashed into a And we say let her roll; "roll on, silvermoon," .renominated, this power will be used against land. When we find a people ripe for our Gavo one whole half a dollar and hia father's Sunday see me wearing them. I rcli. OUK VERT RESPECTABLE BOARD OF HEALTH is don't mind the purpies. But whether she rolls pants! I saw Mrs. Wallach and Mrs. Brown; they were glad our party." institutions and ready for our plan of Gov doing its level best to preserve—wo beg pardon— C eneral Kilpatrick isjecturing on "Sherman'sMarch or not, we would adviBe the burly Barron to .re- My hero-loving woman's heart, for once, was fully to see mo, and while I was speaking to Mrs. Brown I ;he Sea." ernment, let us incorporate them aud then to restore the health of our unhappy city. While tire—roll out as it were. He has tried the role of sated, noticed the- lovely Margnerite bows. I don't wonder If it were possible to overlook the many I fewspapers are the first to show life above the black protect them afterward. But to go out as a the Board of Public Works is busy as Satan dig- official, and it has not been a success. The man The fortress could no more hold out, and 80 capitulated I at Faust having been attracted to Margnerite if she questionable acts that indicate a nature far rui us of Chicago. protector of other nations who are struggling ging up the miasma that was buried years ago by who thinks a Fifth Auditor is a,Second Advent, But there I that's quite enough of men ! Bofore I say wore such as those in her "palo golden hair" and at from honest, to say the least, we might put up among themselves for self-government is to the fathers, tho Board of Health is about, mak- and swells and blows over his subordinates like a adieu her " snowy throat." Do you know what Is the latest C larlotta, the unfortunate widow of the ill-fated Maxi- with the coarse brutality of a stupid man and My own delightful sex deserves a word or two. " agony ?" Young ladies must not say bows for the inl ian, is dying. adopt a policy which will end in the over ing fight with a zeal really beautiful. It hears of turkey cock, is not fit to be Fifth Auditor. endure four years more of this degradation. a miasma down a back alley, and away goes the Lot no one ever say again that under Fashion's rule neck-not considered enrigle; they are " bouquets"—. 1 u a South Carolina debate, one of the syndics had throw of our institutions and in ruin to our The gentleman is known in the department as A " woman of the world " is but a synonym for " fool 1" But the fact is no less apparent than appalling Board to attack that miasma. It encounters a not " bontonniers," but bouquets—and never did bits of his goatee knocked off. nation. * * * Mr. Speaker, I pray this "Old Tacks.'' We asked the why, and learned Theso latter days of mighty need have proved each ribbon so entirely merit their name. They are in crim- foul smell and immediately, figuratively speaking, outhey, the fat English tenor, has made a favorable that our Chief Magistrate is nurturing about that he had on one occasion delivered an eloquent reigning belle son, yellow, blue, and lilac; around them is a tiny House to deliberate well before it inaugurates the Board has its back up, and tho smell is de- iression in New York. his high office a system of corruption that in discourso to a poor devil of a messenger on the Has heart to feel, and head to plan, and hands to work border of flowers, so daintily embroidered that you'd this new policy. Let us stand by the old land clared a nuisanci. When the Board declares a time will make the New York Tammany ring subject of dusting. He charged that no dusting as well ; think them painted; they fasten at tho throat with a llliss Jane Coombs, the actress, realized $2,GOO at her marks of the Government. Lot us strengthen bad odor a nuisance the bad odor is abated. The benefit for Chicago in Cincinnati. respectable. This is plain language, but not had been done. The messenger assured him that Can lay without a moment's pause her dainty sceptcr pin and catch sowed te the ribbon. I invested in three. ourselves here at home. Let us pay the debt Board makcB war on all sorts of unclean and un- the duster had been kept flying. Tho great by, The bonnets are of "Adeie Mouchonx" handwork, ive hundred children were born on the prairie out- in the slightest exaggerated to those who have pleasant things. One of the learned body came side of Chicago on Monday night. of honor, burdensome in the extreme, that Barron insisted and the messenger protested. To wield the shears. " run the machine," or make the and very stylish—one of brown silk and velvet, long given the facts an impartial consideration. to a meeting not long since with a headache. needle fly. now rests upon us as tlio price of the life of The debate was adjourned, and immediately the brown feather, cap crown—just do for an old lady like Ifrs. Wilson insinuates that the killing of "Pet" General Grant was scarcely warm in his seat When the Board has a headache there is war, let Just think—you who of "wasted lives" so lave to you. Brown is entirely en regie, but I would not wear our nation. Let us act justly, and show tlie great auditor went to work sticking tacks in the Ha Istead by Botts was accidental. as President before a transaction occured that us tell you. This fraction of the Board, suffering write and speak, it for worlds, it's so snuffy I There is Mrs. Smith; Bhe world that this country of ours is a place £ Ichneider has had a comb presented to; her by an woodwork of his official apartment.- He gave up A thousand garments cut and sewed witltin a siiigle wears all brown, and when she comes in church and would have brought any other President to the from a pain in the bulbous termination to his lerican which cost £8,000 sterling. where human right are protected and secured his gigantic intellect to hours of work in this week! passes me I always want to sneeze, Lafltte, whose bar of the Senate for impeachment. We give back bone, had been deprived of sleep through Mr. W. W. Corcoran has materially improved to all. And then, by this high example, let way. The next morning he entered his office. health, and hopes to sail for Europe nest month. Think, too, how swift one woman's heart sprang at the bonnets are the poetry of millinery, has one of her hap- Miss Plessy Mordaunt, the new leading; lady of Wal- it in the words of the New York Sun, that the noise made by horses in a stable near. The us propagate our institutions; but let us not He hastened to inspect his national work, and homeless call pleBt efforts in a black velvet and rose-colored, sublime lac k's, has made a favorable impression. suffering fraction immediately propounded the Miss Efflc and MUB Carrie Witherspoon, two of our offers it as an example while commenting on lo! the tacks remained intact. He summoned To interpose 'twixt them and want a strong protecting rase, gros grain silk, pink buds so natural that you in- Commodore Ashbury is disgusted with Columbia, attempt to propagate them directly or indi learned query, "Are not stables a nuisance?" most charming belles, have returned from a visit to their Senator Conkling'^ audacious assertion that the mosBenger, and assuming a lofty pose he Wall/ voluntarily stoop to smell, and on tho side is a large anl 1 will soon return to Hold Hengland. rectly by the physical power of the Govern After a heated discussion, stables were pro- friend Miss Beckie Bayle. the President was not to his (Conkling's' pointed to the tacks and thundered out his re- What holy spirit, heaven-sent, gave aid to fill that box, white buckle. Then there was the "Edith," of green he Chicago flames spared General Logan's house ment. Let us not go out and voluntarily, as nounced a nuisance, and a law passed that no Faith, Hope, and chiefest, Charity, (wo knew them by velvet, and black lace, tea rose—altogether a natty af- knowledge a present-taker. It reads : buke. Since then he has been known as " Old Alexander Shepherd, Esq., has rented for the winter which Is crowded with homeless people. we might under this resolution, interfere in a stable hereafter should be erected within sixty theflne residence of his brother, Wilbur Shepherd, Esq., thoir Knox,') \ fair;. If I wasn't afraid, dear old mama, you'd get Tacks." t is said that Fisk's letters to Mrs. Josephine Lawlor " While Mr. Conkling is studying into this conflict for the possession of a government feet of any dwelling. The next move will be to on the corner of Seventeenth and L streets. And'neath their guidance, undismayed, working from scared about my actual sanity, I could write you for remove all the old stables to beyond the limits of hours about the cloaks, the opera hoods and wraps, (I re a curious mixture of love and money. subject, he might also investigate President in one of these islands. Let us wait till the morn till night, our city. THE NEW IDRIA MINING COMPANY, over which Why does our friend Hallet Kllbourn insist on shav- Zevely, Delano, Robeson—a band almost as bright— got one of those,) the lovely flowers which looked as ' 'he Rev. Tilton is about to reenter the lecture arena. Grant's transactions concerning the house now people of those islands desire to come to us such a tremendous fight has been had for years, ing? Only men of extraordinarily handsome features And scores of others. Well may we the right resign though just cut, they were so fresh and natural, and of Su bject: " The pure and gifted Woodhull." occupied by General Sherman in Washington. and then, if we are ready to take them, let us can afford to'take such liberties with their faces. Jones dropped in on the Board the other day dragging a President into a miserable scandal, to man tho hundred and one other things, and of all the nice ' ®e incendiary mania in Chicago has not abated; When he was elected to the Presidency that take them and protect them as a part of our- and informed them that an ague was on tho cor- reorganizing a Cabinet, fetching all the members Marshall and Mrs. Brown expect to obtain possession To vote and fight, since in God's cause we 're ever in messages everybody sent you; but I'm tired out. tw anty marriage licenses were issued last week. house belonged to General Grant. He offered selves. I should greatly regret to see such a ner of Eighteenth and G. Tlieboard immediately of the House, including the bigamous Bowen, of their new house on orabout December 80. It is one the van 1 There's been such a stupid fellow here all evening- A gymnasium has been organized by a number of it for sale, and sold it for $40,000 to Mayor proposition as this, with all its dangerous con- voted the ague a nuisance, and ordered that it who was brought from jail, into their seats for of if not the finest residence over built in Washington Although we fail as financiers, as politicians pall, Came at eight, and stayed until.eleyen. Aunt Jane had tal|kative ladles for the elevation of dumb belles. be abated. As helpers of tho desolate I'm sure we beat you all 1 quite a flirtation with him, there's nothing she enjoys Bo wen of Washington, who paid him $1,000 sequences, entailed upon the incoming Ad tho first time in the history of the country, has, General Heintzelman is making arrangements for the Best" time on record—a mile a minute on the Erie Jones said, "Very well; only the ague, that to use a California phrase, completely "petered And lest I grow too exalted o'er these fair friends of more. And of what do you suppose I was thinking? th relief stores for the sufferers at Chicago.—New ' down, and took his contract to convey the ministration. I should much dislike to trust purchase of one of Michler's row, so that Washington mine, Well, of all the old bachelors, and wonderiug why they was no great shakes, didn't care a cuss for the out." Quicksilver, as its name indicates, is a and Washingtonians will be blessed with tho presence Fori: Herald. property by deed.' After this was done, Grant this power with the present Administration I'll check mo in my " mad career." did not marry. They must have had a " cross in love," order." very uncertain substance, being found in pockets, of his agreeable family. wrote a letter to a rich citizen of New York, during its remaining days. I shall therefore Tours ever, ' ANO'ELINB. as Mary says. There's John Ennis, now—he's been a • ][n Paris the cafés place in their windows the sign, A negro shanty In the suburbs was found ma- rich pockets, but not inexhaustable, and like all bean here for years—and scores of others. Well, I sup- ermansdonot patronize this café." Consequently saying that General Sherman was too poor to move to lay this whole subject on the table.' Vinton Goddard, U. S. A., left on Tuesday evening If young ladies had only " the power the giftie gie larious. The Board ordered the colored proprietor pockets, entirely worthless when empty. Now is pose it is none of my business, but I can't help wonder- French do. to join his regiment in Kansas. We understand that us, to see ourselves as others see us," we don't think keep such an establishment in Washington as to provide himself with forty-two pounds of dia-' the time for Billy McGarrahan to move on their ing. he has carried with him, as a trophy of his successful they'd be quite so prononcé in their manner and loud ' Efie Hon. Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota will mount the General of the Army ought to have, and Has any one heard the eloquent Secretary infectants. As these cost more than the premises, works. As the original grant from the Mexican campaign with cupid, the heart of one of our most pop- in their conversation as two who were in tho cars with Everybody sendslove to you and papa. Oh! I forgot, th e rostrum this winter with a lecture on Congressional of the Interior on San Domingo of late? Has that it would be a very good thing if the the venerable darkey hold an indignation meeting authorities to Gomez set forth the fact that said ular belles. us from Georgetown one evening last week—young, mama, to tell you who all were at the opening. Well, Life in Washington. any such treasured up his utterances and filed and incontinently joined tho Citizens' Associa- Gomez being of an agricultural mind and bent Mrs. Shepherd, (she had her baby, having its head meas- wealthy men of the country wpuld give him Admiral Bailey has returned to his residence on K pretty girls, each carrying bouquets of autumn loaves, l^frs. D. T. Patterson, daughter of ex-President John- upon ending his innocent life in the pleasing pas- ured, and it's just as cunning as can be, not the head (Sherman) such a donation as would enable them away for future reference? If such ex- tion. He said his property hq.d been " cornfls- street. Wo regret that Miss Maggie intends deserting but each oblivious of the presence of any but them- son, took the first premium for the best butter at the but baby ; I had quite a chat with her,) Mrs: Mullet, ist, and of course there must be thousands, let cated." The old ass ! it Was increased twenty per toral pursuit, the grant of forty miles of land us for the winter, which she will spend with her sister, selves. Cleveland county fair. him to live in handsome style. On the receipt whom I don't know; Mrs. S. P. Brown, Mrs. Colonel cent, in value. Only having nothing else, the in- was made him. Billy can now give up the'lobby, Mrs. Jones, who has just moved into her superb house of this letter a meeting of rich men was held such forward the speech to this office. We Tho parlors at the Arlington aré looking vory well ^f there is any truth in the old adage that "Time is creased value did not help him after the confisca- where his Innocent spirit is vexed and corrupted, on Madison square. Magruder, Mrs. Phillips, Miss Phillips, Mrs. Dunn, and here, the President's letter read, a subscrip- are curious to see how so dignified and solemn just sow. Ladies and gentleman gather for sprightly Mrs. McKeo". They were charmed to see me. I men- móney," we know several who ought to be wealthy. tion. and go to farming on that grant. True it is They come to our office. tion started, and money raised. This fund, a man can acrobat himself, turn political som- The marriage of Miss Kitty Lee, the charming young converse, and now and then one overhears some such tion this so that you may know what a talking time The latest exploit of our excellent Board was rather unfavorable to nsricultural pursu its, most sparkling jeu d'esprit as the following : W. C. English, the Indianapolis millionare, gave $1 finally amounting to about $100,000, was taken ersaults, and retain tlie solemn dignitw of his daughter of Colonel A. T. Lee, United States Army, I had, and I had to answer BO many questions that to declare Clephane's stone crusher a nuisance. of it being on end, with a soil that has to be will take place at the Soldiers' Home ou Wednesday "So madame, you consider Kentucky the garden half the time I was like poor Miss Finch " did not know for the benefit of the Chicago sufferers. Bontwell saw deportment. *. to Washington by Mr. A. T. Stewart. Gen- We think it is—to the stone. But of course the mined, and where grasshoppers climbing sage evening next at half-past seven o'clock. The reception State?" whether the talk was inside or outside my head." that and went $29 better. eral Grant managed it so that out of this money Oh, Don Hidalgo Delano, board looks at it from a sanitary and not a geo- bushes look over the entire grant with tears in takes place at eight. "Of course I do; I think everything of Kentucky Then there were Mrs. Paschal, (Mrs. McNeir is going Mr. J. W. Forney considered Shakespeare from an thus collected at Ms own solicitation, $65,000 IIow can you go on so their eyes, and coming down incontinently emi- because it is my home." to live here,) Mrs. Babcock, Mrs. Paul, Mrs. Wyiie, logical point of view. The stone so suddenly Mr. Hutchins of the navy, one of our most fasci- entirely original point of view In a lecture in Philadel- About our Santo Domingo ? grate to Utah. "That does not follow ; Connecticut is my home, yet (Mr. Bryan did not lose much in Chicago, his bonds phia Wednesday evening. went into his own pocket to pay for the house he crushed goes off part of it in a fine impalpable pow- nating beans of last winter, returned from a visit to I think it the nutmegest State in the Union." and notes, or whatever you oall them, were all in had just before sold to Mr. Boicen for $40,000, der that, permeating the atmosphere and entering Adena, near Chillicothe, Ohio, one day last week to find They are beginning to find fault with Charles Math- Let the Hon. Columbus Delano give Billy the " You're right there." the Safe Deposit Company, or in the Deposit Compa- the lungs of the old pumps in the Navy Depart- himself ordered to sea on the 2Sth of this month. Many ews in the metropolis. They say he wants heart, and and thereupon Mr. A. T. Stewart, who had CHANGE OF CUMATE. patent he has longed for these many years, pro- " Yes, but then you can't find a grater." ny's safe—I don't know which; at all events they came ment, already asthmatical,produces colds,coughs, a bright eye will grow dim while reading this. that his plays are behind the times. brought on the money and paid over to Grant There is a significance in the late fires few| vided that Billy leaves at once, taking with him out all right,) Mrs. Bristow, Mrs. Parke, and everybody catarrhs, and consumptions. This is all good, this General and Mrs. Chipman have taken the house A select and fashionable audience collected at the whom we know and a great many whom I did not know. Prince Pnndjeeb of Lahore has recently starved to the part of it which he chose to take for him- take into consideration. These terrible con- his agents, attorneys, the Dent family, and news- is legitimate. But to the remedy. formerly occupied by .Mr. Dick Graham on F street. Epiphany on Thursday at eleven o'clock to witness the Now, mama, pray don't write me a lecture on the death in Paris, whither he went half a century ago. It self, was appointed by Grant to the office of paper people, aud, if possible, the lobby gener- wedding of Mr. Kinsman and Misa Richardson. The flagrations that have destroyed one of our We hope General Chipman will not expect Mrs. Chip- subject of letter-writing, or propriety—two things 1 takes a long time to starve there it seems. Secretary of the Treasury. Poor Bowen, thus The stone crusher being a nuisance from its ally. An appropriation might be made to this bride was very elegantly dressed in the finest Trench noble cities and swept over entire States, man to include visits from his constituents in her re- detest. I expect to shock you this winter, but I'll try The live Prince Alexis > daily expected. 'When he unhealthy results, called for treatment. Why did end, and we have no question but that it would organdy, with pipings of white satin and Valenciennes deprived of the property he had bought, at ceptions, but will do as Mayor Wallach did—have a and sober down. You know, mama, I'm like bad ale, arrives quite a number of young people, and others not leaving utter desolation in their tracks, are not Doctor Verdi try his homoeopathy ? One grain pass by a large majority, since it is known that lace—her veil of illusion. There were two bridesmaids. first threatened to sue for it; but he was per- room down town where he received hie constituents, all froth; can't help it, it's in me, and will bubble to the quite so young, will make fools of themselves. the result of a drouth. Throughout the Mis- of common sense triturated to the one hun- the mines in question have "petered." What a Miss Richardson and Miss Ramsey. After the cere- suaded to give up his contract on the repay- while Mrs. Wallach received her friends at her resi- surface. Kiss papa. All send love, Forgive my non- The Rev. Wm. Bartlett of Chicago will describe the sissippi valley for weeks past intelligence has dredth tenth of medicated Impalpability, and charming lot for agricultural purposes! What mony the bridal party were entertained at. the residence dence. sense. great fire, at Cooper Institute, on Saturday. The pro- ment of his money, with the promise that the administered once every thirty days, would have farmers on the Panoche Grande the Dents, for of the bride at a superb dejeuner. Among the hosts of reached us of the intense and protracted dry x Your daughter. ceeds to be given for the relief of the sufferers. President would make it all right with him in played the devil with the crusher. example, would make! Prose won't do the sub- Mrs. Worthington Smith, wife of the member from distinguished persons present we noticed General Dunn, ANNA. weather that was wilting vegetation in advance Genoral Townsend, General Shiras, Captain and Mrs. distributing the patronage of the District of Or why did not Doctor Bli;s go in on cundu- ject justice. Vermont, has rented for the season the cosy house be- Mrs. General Lander, the actress, was stopping at the of frost. In the issue of the Chicago Tribune Beardsley, Marquis and Madame de Chambrun with Columbia, and this promise has not been kept." rango ? Would not the crusher have wished itself longing to Mrs. Randolph, (who with her accomplished AMUSEMENTS. Tremont House, Chicago, during the great fire, and lost of the day before the fire, the editor called " Go ye Dents, and till your mother earth; daughters will pass the winter at "Norboume Hall," their lovely children, Mrs. Richardson, tho piqnant and one of the most valuable wardrobes in the country. dead ? • graceful widow of General Richardson, with many offi- From Swift, who withered "at tho top," down to This is the story, but it is not the whole attention to the dried condition of the city, Subsoil, top-dress, and with the richest muck Virginia, the residence of her son.) Mrs. Smith's Or why did not the rest of the board administer That, scooped from out the lobhy, with manure vies, daughter, Miss Kitty, who has endeared herself to all cers of distinction in the army and navy. Dickens there comoB a time when the mental powers of Cjlara Louise Kellogg has gone to San Francisco almost every prolific writer deteriorate, and he begins story. We of Washington know that up to a and said with prophetic power not intended, Cook's Balm of Life ? Cook's Balm would have Bring forth huge pumpkins, squashes, turnips, beets, during the several winters she has passed in our midst, wh?re she is engaged for a season of twenty nights of the pitiable task of "writing himself down." ^Thii Italian opera, at the moderate salary of $500 in g'old a certain time the contract with Bowen waskept. that a spark would be sufficient to bring on a been as effective as Gov. Cooke, Attorney Cook, To bless earth's hungry children. is, we regret to say, in Europe, where' she will remain Several of our prominent young ladies and gentlemen process was begun some years ago by the most famous night. We know that previous to tlis disgraceful Then will ye ancient Greeley bless your several heads, for another year. are interested in preparing an amateur theatrical per- sweeping fire. or any other cook. of modem playwright*, Dion Bonclcault. From the formance, to take place at Wall's Opera House™ the <¡>n a tombstone- in Hamilton, Massachusetts, can he transaction nearly all the offices of the Dis- The fact seems to cscapf public attention Not a bit of it. With an iusanity for which we Empty though they be, and call them great. production of Colleen Ilawn, the first of the Bensation Miss Agnes and Miss Nannie Otls'have arrived home 10th of November, for the benefit of the Epiplfeny found the following inscription: trict of Columbia were distributed among that these drouths have become periodical, cannot account, the board ordered the crusher after an absence of two months. Miss Otis—so rumor plays, notwithstanding his- audacious but skillful Church Home for indigent women and children. The Here lies the body of Thomas Brown, to be.removed. What's the good of that? Won't tells UB—has in press a book, its title "Sandford. adaptation of the ideas of others, he haB steadily pro- certain friends of the President. Doctor Rob- and that instead of the steady rains that once THE OKLY ITEM OF INFORMATION that is at all two plays selected are The Hunchback and the farce of Washington's literary world is on the qui vive to Bee it. duced pieces each one less meritorious than the pre Lost at sea, and never found. bins, for example, and we write advisedly; it nuisance as much in one quarter as another? The Irish Tutor. Miss Mary Steele and MÍBB Serena jptered the earth and moistened the atmos- of national importance iji connection with the Several years ago society here had a volume, " Brisie, ceding, and it seems almost Incredible that the same And where will they take it? That's the question Brady are the leading ladies, the former taking the rile The clergymen of Wheeling, West Virginia, are try- was selected to fill the place of postmaster. phere, we have violent and. sudden storms Civil-service Reform Board, now in session here, from three of our most brilliant society people—Miss brain could have conceived the fine old comedy of ing to persuade their parishioners that funerals could We suppose to that Nazareth called Capitol Hill of "Julia." Mr, Saville has kindly given the amateurs But in retuin for the mojiey realized in the made of water that falls in a deluge, or hur- is that it is engaged In discussing the Attorney Loring, a Miss Irving, and Daisy Ramsey-and we have London Assurance, and the domestic drama wMch has be made quite as pleasant with much simpler prepara- Take it to the premises of Captain Grant, and, if the use of the Opera House rent free for the evening of 1 v compliance of Bowen, the slate was broken ricanes of wind quite as horrible as the fire. General's late opinion upon their legal 6tatus. no doubt but that Miss Otis will be quite as successful been performed at the National during the past week, tions. ^ possible, get Captain Grant in it. It wouldn't be the performance. Mr. Blanchard has generously printed entitled EIJU ; or, the Cherry Tree Inn. The fredh and the places filled at Bowen's dictation. This conduct is very presumptuous upon the part in her efforts as were they. In a word, the fact is pressing itself upon the a bad idea to have the Citizens' Association turned their programmes and tickets without charge. We wish ness and quickness of dialogue alone flash out to A New Yorker who was charged outrageously by a of the commissioners, and their audacity needs a hackman since the flre, did a bit "of justice by reengag- This infamous business continued until the more thoughtful of the scientific world that in and made into sausage meat to poison dogs The death of Mrs. Riggs was very sudden indeed. the young people the success they so richly deserve. mind the spectator of Boucicault. There is not one little rebuking. The Attorney General has de- ing the man to drive him to a police station and giving She had been in Paris, and from there wrote to her son Tickets can be procured at ElUs' music store, ¡^'Penn- new character, incident, or situation in Elfle, although people of the city rose in their wrath at the the-climate of the Mississippi valley is under- with. But what is the use or sense of its removal ? him into custody. cided that they could not oblige their reccomend- telling him of her improved health. This letter was sylvania avenue, near Tenth street. Price one dollar. Bowen ring that, like Tammany in New going and has undergone a marked change It will only afflict a fresh lot. The venerable there iB a new commingling of old events, but no sur- ations to be carried into effect if they had the received several days after the cable dispatch had an prises Buch as once made him the master of "sensa- York, was sucking the life blood of our city, pumps are now quite as bad as they can get, and Making hay while the fire burns—Colonel Chambers that is not favorable to either vegetable or power; that they have not the power, and that nonnced the death of the devoted wife and loving On Wednesday evening the Church of the Ascension tion." " Sadlove, tlie Wax Figure Man," is a character it would not be worse any way to have them gath was crowded to its utmost capacity by the wealth and of Chicago, who witnessed the conflagration of that and not only threw these greedy, unprincipled animal life. The area of cultivation recedes under the Constitution there is nobody or noth- mother. Mrs. Riggs and her daughter had secured unworthy the fine talentB of Mr. Charles Wheatleigh city on Sunday and Monday nights, and lectured about ered to their fathers, if any of them can recollect fashion of our city, assembled to witness the marriage men out of power, but did it with such de- year after year further and further west, while ing who or which could delegate or give them the their state-rooms for their return home, intending to With such an example as he presents of care and atten- it in Cincinnati on Tuesday. where their fathers are. This will make room for start on the 28th. The young ladies will return at the ceremony between Mies Thompson and Mr. Bell of monstrations of indgnation that Grant him- violent extremes from heat to cold and from power. To ordinary comprehensions this would tion to the most minute details of dress, voice, and others, and rotation in office is not bad sometimes. time mentioned. Mrs. Riggs' remains have been sent Prince George's county. The lovely bride wore a rich manner, it is absolutely astonishing that Miv A^D. It is said Anna Dickinson's new lecture given in Bos- . self foorsook his pal, and from that out repu- seem to settle the whole question. The Civil- cold to heat make it almost impossible to by steamer to Baltimore, and will reach here about the white silk en train, with full veil falling over her face. Billings could have personated an English village ton last week on "Demagagues^and Workingmen," We humbly submit that this action of the Board service Reform Commissioners are not satisfied. diated his contract. preserve the health, and have already short- same time her daughters arrive. The family have the There were eight bridesmaids, whose dresses of tarleton photographer in a handsome suit of broadcloth contained more sense than -ever lias been said on the is not wise. It is otherwise. They know that they are political cyphers, and were made very full and bouffant. Where the young ened the average duration of life. sincere sympathy of all our citizens in their severe Photographers in their dress are proverbially careless, question of Labor vs. Capital. Now there is no response to this in assert- legal nobodies, but that U not enough. They are affliction. ladies were each and all so exceedingly handsome it and Englishmen never wear broadcloth except at dinner would be very bad taste in us to individualize. Among ing" that its appearance in the Sun indicates This fatal change is attributed by scientific determined to get at the exact weight which parties or on other occasions requiring full dress. The A gay matron in Indiana recently captured and mar- the motive and origin of the attack. There is THE CHICAGO CALAMITY, great as it was, sinks they are supposed to have in the governmental General Sherman invited Colonel McCoy, his senior the guests we noticed Mrs. McCeney and her two bright, incongruity of Mr. Billings' attire was rendered still ried her daughter's intended, whereat the young lady men to the wanton destruction 'of our forests. into insignificance in comparison with another pretty daughters, Miss Ilattie and Miss Mary ; Miss w«xed wroth, and by way of complete revenge, stufftfi not an intelligent citizen in Washington but economy. staff officer, to accompany him in his European tour of more striking and absurd, by his wearing a costly There is a popular belief abroad that our con- evil of which it promises to be the prolific cause— "fort inspecting," but we are happy to state that Col- Welch, Admiral and Mrs. Lee, Montgomery Blair, Mr. watch chain while raving about his need of money, a dozen bunches of fire-crackers under the bridal conch. recognizes the truth of every assertion in the and Mrs John Clagett, Mr. and Mrs. Everett, Mr. Wm. tinent is densely wooded. We hear it told in the productions of the poets. Already there have To discuss this question at all, after the Attor- onel McCoydeclJned with thanks. To lose the General which becomes BO pressing as to drive him to rob and Had he not fired his little shot gun with the muzzle- article. But this is not all. These facts were II. Clagett and his handsome wife, Miss Randolph, story, and orated upon, and so sung in song, appeared several inflictions of this character ney General lias so plainly decided it, savors a •for even a few months is an event sorely trying to those attempt murder. Since the opening of the National a pointing the wrong way, an.aged colored man of Mar- first unearthed by the accomplished, impartial little of contempt for the great legal learning of of us who have heen in the habit of daily seeing hi Mrs. Turner, Captain and Mrs. Young, Miss Harrison, few weeks since there have been so many bad acces- that we have come to believe a positive false- which it is to be hoped will never meet the eyes Miss Clare and Mrs. Clare, Mr. Philip Mohun with" his shallville Georgia, wonld not have been placed under correspondent of that loyal paper the Cincin- of the too heavily chastened people of Chicago. Georgia. Perhaps it is now the only way left by genial, pleasant face, but to give up both Sherman and sions to the " star company " that by the side of them' the disagreeable necessity of attending his own funeral. hood. Our continent is singularly bare of McCoy would be asking too much. Then Sherman re- beautiful wife, Mrs. and MÍBB Mohun, and many other/ Mr. Billings loses his unpleasant prominence of being nati Gaeette, General Boynton, and to this It is said that after the flre comes the plague, and which the commissioners can earn their salaries, trees. Comparatively speaking, the continent quested Andenreid and Tourtelotte to draw lots. It whose names we can't recall. the worst actor in the company. Probably for this rea- The Washington CAVITAI., Donñ Piatt's lively and this must be it. and which will justify them in drawing for another day they remain uncontradicted, for the very of North America is treeless. These trackless has fallen to Audenreid, and while Sherman does the son we liked his peformance of " Deepcar " better than instructive journal, is now published on Saturday for cool $500 when they have argued and arranged agreeable Audenreid will do the handsome, for is he not circulation in the country. We commend it to all per- good reason that they cannot be denied. woods, these vast forests, spoken of in poetry, The pent-up philosophy of the wiseacres is also OOR ANNA LETTER. any of his we have yet witnessed. Another absurdity themselves into the proper category. It is to be Bons who desire a readable newspaper from Washing- spread out in inexhaustible quantities through dubbed the handsome Audenreid ? WASHINGTON. was the payment of greenbacks for Bank of England General Grant, for and in consideration of are to the continent what the moustache on hoped tills board ¡6 provided with a stenographic ton.—^. r. Sun. the newspapers, and common is the common MY DEAR MAMA : Thank you for your letter so filled notes. Mr. A. W. Lawrence as " Bob Evans " was as sixty-five thousand dollars, lawful money, the upper lip of a boy is to his face. After reporter, and that we will have the discussions The fair Prairie Flower favors us again: usual hard, cold and stilted. This gentleman lacks the place twaddle which meets the eye in every publi with good advice. I will try and be prudent, and ap- Mrs. Connolly, whose husband killed their two child- the receipt whereof is a matter of record, did going over the older States from which the preserved in book form for future use. They MY DEAREST MR. CAPITAL— divine afflatus to make an actor. cation in the land. The following are several preciate to the highest degree the weight of responsi- ren and himself, has been declared insane. When at would be of invaluable service in time to come So kindly did you meet me, bilities which rest upon me. What I to do when bargain, sell, and convey all the official pa- forest trees have nearly all disappeared, let us heads, selected at random, prefacing articles of am the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, she said she would for vagrants to learn the art of making a living With such a fiowsry compliment most graciously did young gentlemen call ? jCan't say I am out I and as to tronage of this District, with the honors and take up the West. In Illinois, for example, this present order: greet me, Mr. W. H. Collins as "Dr. Aircastle" was satisfac- not stay in the house where there were so many false respectably without having any visible means of gettin g up at ten o'clock and making them a curtsy, tory and agreeable, as he always is, whatever the rSle. and painted beauties. emoluments thereof, to Sayles J. Bowen, a nine-tenths of its surface is without trees. " The philosophy of the Chicago flre." That as " he fears his fate too much, who is afraid of and bid 'em good night, the idea is simply -prepos- subsistence. The same holds good of Mr. Mestayer; he was excel- " What the fire at Chicago teaches." climbing," man his fellow-citizens pronounced through Southern Wisconsin, Southern Minnesota, terous, An exchange says, " A Jacksonville, Indiana) lad had I really think I ought to try another bit of rhyming. lent in the first two acts as "Filey;" in the third the the ballot-box to be unworthy any office of Iowa, Northern Missouri, and Eastern Kansas, " A word of warning from Chicago." I sent, as you asked me to, for Aunt Jane, and she his neck broken by a fail of two feet." Wonder whose Although I haven't spirits, now, for anything like jest- part deepens into sentiment, and does not admit of the "The Chicago calamity a lesson to all great THE GIFT BUSINESS SO largely indulged in by re- here now "on guard" and watching with her dragon trust or honor. and Nebraska have even a less proportion of ing, . style of acting which characterizes him. two feet fell on his neck. They must have been mas- cities." eyes to see that your precious " Nan " don't elope with timber. To appreciate the extent of country tiring heads of bureaus, is a subject the Civil- Octavia Alien threw more spirit into her personation sive ofies, and tho owner should keep his feet where This was the beginning of a man's adminis-1 Or social gossip such as makes some letters interesting. any of our fascinating and eligible beans I I did as "Shall we have another Chicago disaster?" service Reform Commission might well take under of "Rose Aircastle," and was therefore more pleasing they will not fall on boys' necks. tration who startles the country by demon- thus bereft of trees, we must recollect that it My heart has had a dreadful shock, nor yet has done you requested me, and went to see Mr. Corcoran. He consideration. As a general thing heads of bu- with aching, than she is generally. May Saville as " Elfio " was the When Mrs. WilBon testified that she did not intend is larger than all New England and the Middle It seems plain that the philosophy of the Chicago seemed very glad to have me amuse him with my sense- strating the fact that their Chief Magistrate reaus are detested by their subordinates. Clad same as usual, respectable and mediocre. Her perform- to meet Botts in Paterson, though she had written a flre is that flre will burn, and where it gets a cer The ebbing tide of feeling still npon its shores is less chatter and odd accounts of our travels during ances always resemble each other in their lack of can grow enormously rich through the sale of States together, and yet this is but a beginning. breaking, note to ask him to meet her there, Botts wept and tain headway, nothing will stop it but a lack of with a little brief authority, these gentlemen the summer. He looks remarkably well, and was as his official patronage. The plains themselves, once called the Great originality and distinctive characterization. wiped his eyes with a dirty handkerchief." He ought fuel to feed on or a deluge of rain. But the make the most of it by being personally offensive My hopes are lying "high and dry," where fate mali- cheerful as possible—asked ever sq many questions Theodore Hamilton made the most of "Joe Chirrup to be tried by Olln, and they could mingle their tears The case above is only one out of many we American Desert, reaching to the Rocky philosophers will have it otherwise. Chicago to those beneath them. There is no better evi- cious sets 'em, about you all. Do you know, mama, I think candidly Nor have I strength to gather up the fioUam and the the blind sailor," which is at best a painful character' together. could cite why an honest man, having a true Mountains, extending an average distance of burned because it had a number of frame build- dence of an intellect mean and barren (we mean no that he grows younger every day. I hope he will live jetsam. We were glad to finrf shortly after his appearance that love of country and pride in her institutions, five hundred miles from east to west, and ings. The fact of the matter is, they were not pun) than the disposition evinced by an official to "an hundred yearB and his shadow never grow less." though stone blind, he could make his way about in There is a pathetic illustration of the constancy, of trample upon the feelings and insult the man- Of course it was no common swell this blow disastrous By his bedside was a table, and on It several pieces of cannot support General Grant for a second something like fifteen hundred miles from the frame buildings that burned In Chicago. It perfect security without aid. Tho blind ought to be love in ona of our Western States, in the shape of an gave, poetry sent him by gushing writers; and you'll scarcely north to south are plains of grass, absolutely was the solid, substantial, and presumably fire- hood, to say nothing of the womanhood, of those taken to the'National to see (?) how easily one of their aged couple who have been engaged to be married term. The wave that put me " all abroad " was sure a tidal credit me, mama, when I tell you they were nearly all thirty years, and during that time have never been out proof portion that was destroyed. The frame filling subordinate positions, And yet when one wave I kind can get about without a cane or dog. Have we no without trees, nor is this ghanged on reach- premature obituarlesj—positive fact-penned by people Of jail together long enough to have the ceremony buildings undoubtedly would have burned had of those pot-metal stupids is forced to retire Mr. Bergh to organize a society for the prevention of ing the Rocky Mountains, The trees thereon And thus, Bir, did it chance: Last week, when such a who like to dwell on horrors, and when, horror^ won't solemnized. DELANO ON SAN DOmiNGO. tlie wind been in the right direction. But it from the place he disgraces an order goes out sad embargo cruelty to children, and remove the Infant which 1B cannot be abundant, and afford only sufficient come to them, they go to horrors; spoke of him " laid made to appear in Elfie from the stage where it is Tfiere are numerous predictions to the effect wasn't, and so the wooden tinder-boxes were for an oration and a gift. The poor clerks know In ChicagOjthe houses of the poor, which are neces- Was laid on all our pleasure plans by grief for poor ont, with field flowers on his breaBt," and all that sort not indispensable to the action ot the piece ? its evi- timber for the actual settlers. Tlie larger part and feel this to be an order, with certain conse- Chicago, sarily the flimsiest and most inflammable, are almost all that the San Domingo scheme will be again saved, while the iron and stone buildings went of nonsense. Just as if a man cared how he looked dent weariness and yawns make the audience feel that of these woods may serve as fuel, but are of left. The relief committee are feeding 75,000 people a down in rain. quences if not complied with. And so their When every heart was full of pain and thrilling with after he was dead, or as if it could be a cheerful picture they too would like to be in bed. Mfie is a short revived this winter, and that His Excellency emotion, day. They calculate that it will cost a million dollars such stunted growth as to be practically of no 'It appears to us that philosophically and logi- miserable pay is taxed to meet the,demand. We for him Jo contemplate I He gave me a copy of " Bub- play, and the spectators could be easily released from President Grant, as usual, will allow himself every twenty days to do It. Among private buildings other use. Passing further westward; we find cally the most important jtera in this fire has been remember when Clark of Ohio left a subordinate And outstretched hands, through all the lands, from bles and Ballast," Mrs. Bonligny's book, which he the theater by ten o'clock were it not for Mr. Withers. to be used as the figure-head of the move- the building of the Chicago Tribunenewspaper retains position in the Treasury, he gave orders for the ocean unto ocean. pronounced " very clever." He goes to Europe in No- The curtain is kept down for him to play his bagpipe— thousands of miles of prairies, barrens, and overlooked, and that is—the cow. It is well au- its outlines, and a new building not finished when the ment. We hope that these predictions grow Gave of their plenty or their need—just as it chanced "Coming Through tlie Rye" violin solo,"which, though re sage-bush deserts of the Sierra Nevada Moun- thenticated that a cow kicked over a lamp which presentation of a teapot, (he has sjqoe been known vember to remain until March. broke out is so little injured that even the plaster to fce, so early in the season, the play-gbers know almost as out of unfounded rumors, and that Baez and a man had taken to see to milk the animal with. as Teapot Clark.) The pot was purchased and Of course you've heard of Mrs. Riggs death. Wasn't with its fresh finish is untarnished. tains. Taking these statements Into consid- Tet with unstinted, lavish warmth, still gave right well as Mr. Withers. It is undoubtedly a fine piece of his tatterdemalions will be left to work out If it hadn't been for this cow there would really duly presented. We happened to know some of t sad ? It always appears to me a mistaken Providence eration one is prepared for the amazing fact - royally— executive skill, but it always.reminds us of the man their own destiny. have been no flre. Why should not the moral be the donors, and the private expression of admira- that takes from us a woman like her, so full of social One upon a time there was a Yankee topsail Schooftr that ninety-five per cent, of all the public Our little coterie of friends in conclave, day by day, accomplishments and with a heart and hands that who went into a restaurant and ordered some roast on its way to Leghorn, which encountered an English drawn not to ftllow cows within the flre limits ot tion for the retiring official, in words, to wit, as For fear that there may be more or less Discussed the matter o'er and o'er in every form and always responded munificientlyto "beggar knocks" lamb and potatoes. The waiter darted to the speaking- nobleman's yacht on a pleasure cruise In the Mediter- domain of the United States is absolutely with- follows, " Cussed old Skeesick! Wish-we could way, truth in this threatened evil, we beg^o refer a city as & precaution against future conflagra- and leaves so many idle, useless, helpless women in- tpbeandhawledout, "One roast lamb and onepotato." ranean. John Bull bantered the Yankee for a trial of out trees. tions? Or why should this moral be drawn and bile him in the pot," Made conntless plans, then gave them up for others The prospective diner, alarmed, added In a loud to the past, and to recommend to the powers cumbering the'earth. Her body will reach Baltimore speed, and the Yankee "sailed" John Bull almost applied to cows generally ? perhaps another cow better still. next week, and her daughters come via New York on voice, "A little.leBs lamb and a little more potato." out of sight." Miior was greatly astonished at this that be what the great, wise, and good of our The forest trees, few in number, compara- would not haye kicked, but would have submitted While »11 the time our busy hands were working with the | Java " on the 28th. She is now in a home made So we would cry, "A little less tours deforce and a lit- result, and Invited the victorious skipper to come on land have had to say upon San Domingo in tively speaking, have served as reservoirs of to the milking process quietly. Here would be Mr, John Tyson, a Baltimore Cbicagoan, is a will." by no earthly hands, into which sorrow and trouble tle more music." board and join him in a bottle of wine. Tho invitation the other and better days of the republic. moisture, and would of themselves have absolute injustice to cows, and an injustice, too, sending earnest messages to Baltimore for assist- Each lady turned her wardj-obe o'er, nor stayed to co ant never come, receiving her reward from Him who has bid was accepted, and as they sat opposite to each other, the cost, In conclusion we would add that the orchestra is the Englishman generously proposed Brother Jona- When His Accidency, Andy Johnson, was proved insufficient but for the wide swamps based upon an illogical method of reasoning. ance for the sufferers ; and sensible man (all of us " Feed the hungry and clothe the naked." merely an adjunct to the performance. One does not Questioned not what " could best be spared," but what May and Jennie keep quite well, and the house is en- than's health, adding: President of the United States, General Banks, and inland seas from which the sun drew a the Tysons are remarkably sensible) that he go to the theater as to the opera for the sake of the Why may not the moral be drawn that the lamp " they needed most I" tirely in order. I declare I've never had such difficulty "I say, captain, MB ¡B the first time my yacht was sufficient supply to irrigate the land. The he wants them Bent to him personally so that music. A theatrical orchestra is introduced merely for on behalf of the Foreign Affairs Committee was the cause of the accident, and-thus exclude And every man who shared our friendship or regard. in my life in getting people to do " little things." I'd ever beaten, you know I" he can give to those whom he knows deserv« Came down with liberal portions of the "verdant" or the purpose of entertaining the people during the time of the House, submitted a joint resolution au- trees have been destroyed and the swamps are lamps from a well-regulated city ? askforJohn; "He's in de Pickaxe Bureau." "Where's them, the "hard." that the curtain is down, and the music should be of I "Wall!" said the Yankee captain,'"that's kinder Tom? in de Sewer Bureau "—and so on through the character to answer that end, and not ba prqlonged one singler, for I vow this Is the first tune my craft ever beat anything.'" FOR RENT. LOCALJTEMS. A Hotel " Beat.» Female Camboliers. WHILST we are grieving over the destruction of a THERE IS NOTHING SO PLEASING as to witness the is thicklf covered with frame buildings, and it is evi- GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS. There are so many " dead-beats " in this city that it It is 15ad enough to contemplate the gambler of the great city and the losa of life and devastation in the financial success of our merchants. It proves beyond dent that the object was to burn the city. The police question that our citizens fully appreciate live men. A T70II RENT ON MARYLAND AVENUE, The Banquet to Huntington. seems as if Washington was the honey-cask around male persuasion, who exists by the weaknesses of Northwest, we are pleased to record the progress of notable instance of this class of our community is Ben- are working up the case. E DESIRE TO CALL ATTENTION When our distinguished financial friend left the quiet JF between Tenth and Eleventh sts., a POUR-STORY which the drones of society congregated. There is one others for the practice of gaming; but when we think that important enterprise, the Northern Pacific railroad.' jamin DeWolf, who has recently moved to 495 Pennsyl- NEW BEDFORD, MASS., October 21.—Intelligence has W to the VERY SUPERIOR FIT, QUALITY, BRICK HOUSE, latrobes, water, gas, dry cellars. Ap- (the National Capital to brave the dangers of the briny vania avenue, where our citizens will find one of the been received here from St. Catharine, Brazil, of the plv, 921 D etreet, between Ninth and Tenth. It* of these specimens of the genus homo who has lived of women, who are supposed to be the embodiments The road is advancing at the rate of'three miles per largest and finest stocks of .Watches, Diamonds, and and FINISH of our and the vicissitudes of troubled Europe, he left be- here for years, swindling hotels and boardlng-honBes, of every tender emotion and sentiment sitting down to day ; has nearly reached the Red river, and regular Jewelry in the city, at prices which will enable all to total loss by fire and scuttling of the ship Arcadian DRESS SHIRTS, hind a regret, an aching void, an anxiety that cannot be whose history is so checkered and peculiar that we pro- a.table and coolly staking their money npon the turning trains are running oyer the completed sections. enjoy the luxury of appearing in the presence of the of Bath, Maine, from Scotland for California, with a Russian Prince in a manner worthy of their country. WITH COLLARS ATTACHED, FURNISHED HOTEL FOR RENT. ensured. It never could be measured. Deep-sea pose to give a portion thereof as a warning to all pro- of a card or the spinning of a roulette ball, the idea is Within the coming year nearly one-half of thé road cargo of 1,400 tons of iron and merchandise. The crew escaped to the shores of Brazil. nndinga are nothing to it. We thought at one time of prietors of such establishments. painful in the extreme. Still games of chance are in- will be completed, reaching one-third of the route over A MAGNIFICENT STOCK of Field, Marine, and Opera which are unequalled; and while aiming to maintain Hilling upon the mighty Mullett to bring to bear his Some years ago this venerable old chap resided in dulged in by the fair sex, and few persons have any the continent, and opening communication with one of QlaeseB for sale at great bargains at M. H. Prince's Ba- our concedcd reputation for FINE .WORK, we offer zaar, 1006 Pennsylvania avenue. The Iflormon Difficulty. greater inducements in price than any other house in architectural machinery and give us a front elevation one of the Western States, and by resorting to all jaorts conception of the extent to which this mischievous tlie richest regions of the United States, in fertile soil the business. THE HAMILTON HOUSE, of business dodges, managed to gain an existence at SALT LAKE CITY, October 21.—The jury in the Haw- f the emotions caused by the absence of our banker— practice has spread among the fashionable ladies of this and mineral resources. Settlers are occupying the lands BEAVER OVERCOATS— Blanks for self-measurement mailed to parties living Franklin Square, corner of K and Fourteenth streets, oar financial friend. But recognizing the utter hope- the cost of the commnnlty. He Is of a very uncertain city. There are many establishments where on any with surprising rapidity, and by the first of January Brown, Blue and Dahlia, kins case has returned a verdict of "guilty." The out of the city, on application. Our stock of haa recently been enlarged and handsomely refitted. It will be rented only to a responsible parity; and on a Mdien of such an attempt we desisted. age, exceedingly pompons in bis manner, dresses in the night may be seen ladies who perhaps but a few hours nearly two million acres of the finest lands in Minne- $15 to $30. court-room was crowded, and the announcement created An immense variety at much excitement. The counsel for the people moved Under-wear, Hosiery, and Gloves, lease of five years or more. oc 15-2t* Under these circumstances, when our Huntington re- style of a retired clergyman, has a voice as soft as a previous had exerted themselves to their utmost to sota will be placed in the market by the Northern Paci- A. SAKS & Co.'s, 316 Seventh street. - that the defendant be taken into custody, which motion turned to us safe and, comparatively speaking, sound; cooing dove, and starts with holy horror whenever an fascinate some gallant son of man, now bending with fic Railroad Company. The sales of these lands will is replete with the productions of the best English, was strongly resisted by the defendant's attorneys. MILLINERY GOODS, &c. hen we saw upon his youthful face the European ejaculatory expression of a profane character escapes atony gaze over the green table, their checks stacked up more than pay the cost of construction of the road GLENGART'S OR WING COATS— French and Domestic manufacturers. $12 to $25. The prosecution, however, were firm in their demand •'Our department for oiistache, we, the people, determined to manifest our from the mouth of any one, as it's perfectly natural he in front of them, "coppering," "betting open," or through that State. It is found that the cost of equip- A. SAKS & Co., 316 Seventh street. that the case should take the ordinary course, and the FOR ALL KINDS OF retard by a banquet—yes we did. A meeting was held, should, for he is a member of the Episcopal church and "calling," as the case may be. ment and construction is much less per mile than was Men's Neck-Wear never uses naughty words. An ex-member of Congress An amusing incident occurred the other evening at at first estimated. These facts must have a favorable EVERY DEPARTMENT of our house received immense United States marshal was accordingly directed to hold a committee was appointed, and a programme prepared. additions during the past, few days. holding a prominent position in one-of the depart- one of these female gaming tables. A well-known bearing upon the seven-thirty gold loan of the company, Hawkins as a prisoner. Time was allowed to prepare comprises a select and varied assortment, to which we Hcre.ltIs: ' A. SAKS & Co., 316 Seventh street. are adding, with the arrival of every steamer, novelties ments, happening to visit the city in which this pious fashionable dame, whose stately bearing and comely the sales of which -have thus far supplied ample means a motion for a new trial and arrest of judgment. NEW AND ATTRACTIVE. The penalty prescribed by the Utah statutes for the from the French and English markets. COMPLIMENTARY BANQUET old fraud resided, became acquainted with his wife, proportions are highly admired, had been in bad luck for the construction of the road and for the extraordi- ECONOMY is the road to wealth, and thousands of our Witt. S. TEFL, which acquaintance resulted In a great deal of scandal and had lost all the money she had. She seemed down- nary progress of the enterprise. Before January of citizens are following It, by having their gloves and crime of adultery is imprisonment for not over twenty oc 22-3t 935 Penna. avenue. garments of all descriptions dyed or cleaned at the well- years or less than three years, or a fine of not less than and the appointment of the Injured husband to a re- cast for a moment, but a brilliant idea struck her. She 1873 we shall probably bo able to pass over nearly the known establishment of An thon y Fisher, 618 Ninth sponsible position under the Government. fortnnately possessed a caput covered by the most lux- whole line of this road, from Lake Superior to Puget etreet, and astonish their friends by appearing in new $1,000, or both fine and imprisonment at the discretion BOTELER & BRO'S, FANCY AND MILLINERY GOODS, suits every few days. Ladies are taking advantage of of the court. This is. a test case, and virtually plaees Time passed on, and the hand of death was laid upon uriant blonde tresses-r-not purchased from the hair- Sound. the facilities offered by this house, by appearing in re- the maligned lady, but ere the funeral ceremony had dresser, but fastened to her head by nature's mucilage— splendent colors, fresh and bright as though just from polygamists at the mercy of the first wife, who, under % S. HUNTINGTON, ESQ., THERE IS A GENT, walking about the streets of Wash- nousefurnishing Establishment been solemnized the bereaved husband, ever anxious and she proposed to wager her beautiful locks against the dressmaker's hands. the act, is the only party who can institute proceedings AT LOWEST PRICES, ington city, and a good-looking duck he is, who carries to turn an honest penny, offered her clothes for sale, one hundred dollars in governmental currency. against the husband. ON RETURNING PROM HIS VISIT TO a million of money in a bottle. His name is Cook—not Is replete with every article requisite for furnishing a and consented with many tears to part with a diamond A SPECIALTY. The case was conducted on both sides with great de- Go to The wager was accepted and the game went on, a Henry D. my gay Cooke, nor Colonel Cook, but the Ladies' and Misses' Underwear house. ring belonging to his late wife at half its value. Shortly number of ladies watching its progress with great inter- made to order at termination, and the charge of Judge McKean to the THE DOMAINS OP Professor, and his bottle Is labeled THE BALM OP LIFE. after this, by some strange shuffle of the political cards, S U T H E R LA N D' S , jury is spoken of as being eminently able. Parties about going to est. Finally, as the last turn was made, our blonde The balm will cure anything from a toe-ache to an itch- (late Mrs. McLean's,) the poor lone widower was left out in the cold ; in hairoine found that she had again lost. She endeav- ing for the Presidency or a heavy defalcation. Yes it Shirt Factory, DAVIS', ofh' i words, he was discharged .from his position. 814 F s tr eet, FOREIGN NEWS BY GABLE. II ousekeeping- HIS MAJESTY ALEXANDER II, ored to compromise with the winner, and promised to will. We called the other day upon a distinguished ffiijjE T nature lîmT nevef~d<5Bpirirsdrho-win'er he between Eighth and Ninth. ; obt,8iu from her husband the value that she had placed citizen in whose health the entire community is inter- PARIS, October 21.—A dispatch from Metz reports should not fail to examine their large and well-assorted * axUinished his friends by becoming a regular boardor that serious trouble has arisen between the North and EMPEROR OF ALL THE RUSSIAS, upon her hair, but jt was no go. »There are feminine ested. We found the dear old gentleman—and we would M ERINO UNDERCLOTHING.—A fine * assortment just SOI Marlcet Space, at bne of our most ancient and noted hotels. The pro- opened. South-German soldiery in garrison there. Several en- stock before making purchases.. as well as male Shylocks, and in this case the forfeiture give his name but for fear of his physician—suffering counters and pugilistic affrays had occurred between prietors assert that he was regular in his habits—at Flannel Underclothing—scarlet and white, in desir- AT of the bond was exacted. Bitterly repenting her rash from an eruption of the skin. The regulars had failed members of the Bavarian and Prussian regiments. Jj W. BOTELER & BRO., oc 22-3t Corner of Eighth street. rif® times, while the waiters declare him to be an ex- able qualities. wager the unfortunate woman resigned herself to a to help him. He could not rest, he could not sleep All wool Knit Underclothing—scarlet and white. LONDON, October 21.—Henry Howard, the agent of culftnt judge of all trhe little delicacies which graced the British government at Washington in the matter of Importers of China, Gl&ss, Crockery, Table Cutlery,&c., "THE ARLINGTON," hairdresser, and was shorn of one of the greatest orna- well. "Why don't you get the balm?" we asked, One price only. GEO. C. HENNING, ^lie-table. The proprietors after waiting in vain for a 410 Seventh street N. W. the reception of claims of British subjects upon the It 923 Pennsylvania avenue. 110 SEVENTH STREET. ments she possessed. Her husband,.when he learned would it help me?" he demanded. "Cure you in two United States, has been instructed not to present any settlement, and becoming wearied beyond control with of the transaction, swore and raged like an incensed of those claims until the claimant has filed at the office ,! applications,'"'we said. " I'll get my man to sneak out WE WERE SURPRISED to see the enormous amount of Saturday Evening, October 21,1871- pet^i tually dunning him, at length Informed our intel- tiger; declared he had rather paid a thousand' dollars business which the house of George B. Wilson & Co., of the commissioners appointed under the Treaty of ^'YO SAVE TIME IS TO LENGHTEN and buy a bottle." He did éo, and now that precious Washington, the formal statement of the claim required 11 !e«*;i ! il gentleman that if he would only depart in peace than that it should have happened, and registered an 423 Seventh street, under Odd Fellows' Hall, transacts. JL LIFE. and in order to do this employ a good old gentleman BO dear to this city is recovering rapidly. by the first of the rules adopted by the commission. STENOGRAPHER OR SHORT-HAND WRITER by th i would forgive him the amount of his Indebtedness, We were shown some of the handsomest Ladies Kid oath that he will never furnish his wife another cent ' A friend, opening abottle^f champagne, cut his fingers Shoes we have ever seen, and for durability and finish addressing " WHETSTONE .VALLEY," this office. Bu I our honorable and upright Christian, rolling his It* Committee on Invitations—John O. Evans, Judge J. for gaming purposes, and that if he ever finds out that terribly. Ho poured out a glass of balm and held his thev cannot be surpassed. There is no excuse for our FALL AJD WINTER STYLES ey5OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT Millinery, Lace, Jet and Fancy Goods, DESSERT. courtesy was extended them, and as the lady was PS" OF ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES, aristocratic swindler was arrested and brought to grief. táinly demands attention on the part of the distin- I Fruits, Cttfé, Liqueurs, Cigares, &c.,&c. ver,! good-looking and the gentleman of distingue ap- A message was received from the House of Bishops WASHINGTON, D. C., September 5,1871. F5F~0NE PRICE ONLY. MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES. 1223 F Street, On an examination he acknowledged his guilt and was guished head of this branch of departmental industry. pea ¡(¡knee, the attaches of the establishment were espe- announcing the appointment of the bishops of Mary- Notice is hereby given that blank forms, in accord- committed to jail without bail. It seems that a certain ex-chief of the fire department, land, Pennsylvania, and Central New York, and the as- ance with the amendment to the "assessment act," are PERRY & BROTHER, WASHINGTON, B. C. I And Mr. Prescott Smith was very liappy. Ho was so cial ly polite. After an elapse of two weeks it was now in the hands of the assessors of the several legis- mar 12-tf The disreputable conduct of this young man has who is employed in the book-binding bureau, is un- sistant bishop of Ohio as a committee on the part of Penna. avenue and Ninth street, I happy that he laughed frequently, as did the guests. the j£lit advisable by the proprietors to send the gen- lative districts. Persons who have made returns of brought deep shame and mortification to his friends and necessarily attentive to a certain young lady employed the House of Bishops on the subject of Religious Re- bonds, promissory notes, and other securities bearing I Mr. PrcsgoLL Smith said he was called upon to respond tie/» n a bill. On receiving it the guest politely re- It ESTABLISHED 1840. ATIONAL CAPITOL LIFE INSUR- relatives here, and it is understood that efforts will be in the samo department, although blessed with a wife form in Italy. interest, can now correct the same so as to show the ANCE COMPANY. I to the toast of the President of the United States. He qu- ' fill a short delay, and-at once sent for two wash- income from such securities, which is alone taxable. N made to prevent him from suffering the full penalty due and several children. The order of the day being the consideration of the • wufl proud of this opportunity to testify his admiration er\v! uen, who came with their baskets to remove the All those who have negleoted to make return of per- PETS bis offense. -v The Superintendent, who by the way spends more proposed canon on ritual uniformity, it was taken up. BUILDERS' MATERIAL. E of the President of the United States. He did not say, >d linen." But the shrewd couple managed to sonal property, as required by law, are warned to do so time out of than in the office, has been appealed to to in- Mr. McCrady of South Carolina resumed and concluded immediately; otherwise it will become the duty of the I nor didthe toast,what President. He supposed that any sqiiJ '¿e their entire, joint Wardrobe into the capacious Sad Case of Seduction. terfere in the matter and break up this intimacy, but has his argument begun yesterday. A long, interesting, assessors to make assessments " according to the best I President would do, provided he was duly elected and bf/5kets of these genuine Washing-tonians, and simply A very sad case of man's villainy and woman's weak- information they can obtain," from which assessments declined to do so; and our correspondent asks if some- and very animated discussion followed, in which Just landed from Steamer "Minnesota" another LUMBER, I inaugurated. He feared that if he touched on any one sayjng they were going to take a quiet walk, left the ness has been developed within the past week, the facts there can be no appeal. Section seven of the act of thing cannot be done to force the neglectful official to Messrs. Andrews of Ohio and Fogg of Tennossee, and August 9 provides that in all cases of refusal to make I President he might excite political animosity. He hotdl and have not been seen since. The proprietors of which are briefly these: A young girl only just past large invoice of take some cognizance of this outrageous conanct on Dr. Dekover of Wisconsin took part. return as required bylaw, "the said person, corpora- | could not even Bay our gifted Chief Magistrate. Here examining the trunks which remained behind, for the fourteen years of age, residing on the Island, made the tion, association, company or firm shall, for every such VELVET, BRUSSELS AND TAPESTRY the part of one of his emploj'és. Rev. Dr. Mead of Connecticut then took the floor and SHINaLES,&c. I Mr. Prescott Smith was interrupted by mingled hisses, pdM were not elephants and consequently could not acquaintance of a man whose five feet ten inches of offense, forfeit and pay a fine of not less than fivedol - said he was satisfied that some alterations should be lars nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered I howls, cheers, and groans that culminated in an active always carry their trunks with them, found them empty, pliyeiquo are always encased in the choicest broadcloth, REFORMED.—We leafti incidentally that the pioiis made in the proposed canon. He proposed an amend- in the name of the District of Columbia in the Police CARPETS, [ circulation of the china. At this point Mr. Roessle ami came to the quiet conclusion that they had been who wears immaculate linen, with a solitaire glittering lawyer, wliOBe peccadillos have formed the theme of Court" of said District." H.A.HALL, ment to strike out the clause providing that the canons Intervened, assisted by Mr. Shackles and a stout porter, swindled. A well-known tailor was also taken in and therefrom, whose Mt. Auburn hair is always curled and several articles, has returned to hie doctrinal allegiance, se 10-tf Sup't of Assessments and Taxes. of the justly celebrated manufacture of of the Church of England in force in 1789 be part of I and quieted the uproar by suggesting that somebody ; done for by the gentlemanly beat on a forged order, to oiled with faultless nicety, and with a countenance fair that his wife has gone back to him, and that they oc- the laws of ritual of the church, and to insert in place BUILDING LUMBER [ would have to pay for the dishes. When order was the tune of forty dollars. to view when looked at casually, his blonde moustache cupy their pew together on Sundays. This looks like AMUSEMENTS. John Crossley «fc Sons. thereof the recommendation made by the five bishops | finally restored, Mr. Prescott Smith was found in a sit- iffip little incident reminds us of a gay and festive and goatee tending to give an expression of openness reform, and the return of the prodigal is welcomed by of every description. In their report to the House of Bishops prohibiting cer- These are the ~ ~ I ting position with a soup tureen inverted over his : cue,« who boarded for some time at the Astor House in and caudor thereto. no one more heartily than by us. All the advice we have tain acts in the administration of the holy communion New National Theatre. I gigantic intellect. On being relieved of this utensil, New York city, and after giving various excuses for The acquaintance grew rapidly, and the girl, believing to give is that which the stern Sumner gave to the Walnut, A§h, Oak, and Poplar, all the vows and protestations made by the smoothly and on occasions of public worship: Very best Goods I and Bet on end, he proceeded by saying that when he tho non-payment of his bills, the suspicions of the old iron-willed late Secretary of War, viz: " Stick." of the best quality. I was interrupted by that beastly row he was about to veteran, Colonel Stetson, were awakened, who pro- spoken villain, at length submitted herself entirely to The acts proposed to be prohibited and embraced in MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1871, made, and are offered at NORTHERN PRICES. The I refer to James Monroe as the President of the toast. ceed^ to his boarder's room during the absence of that his desires. The heartless reprobate, not content with MARK TWAIN.—This inimitable humorist will lecture till amendment of Dr. Mead are those in order from patterns of many of thè above are White Pine Fencing, ruining the victim of his artifices, took her at once to a to-morrow night at Lincoln Hall under the auspices of No. 1 to No. 11, both inclusive, in the report of the I Ho did this because his first vote was cast for Monroe, worthy, and after breaking into his trunk discovered Engagement of the Peerless and Beautiful Comedienne I and he was a firm believer in the Monroe doctrine. He only about fifty cents worth of bricks. The colonel noted house of ill-fame and there left her. It is stated the Grand Army of the Republic. Those who have committee of five bishops, telegraphed in the proceed- PRIVATE WITS U 8, 1x6—16 feet long. ever listened to M. Twain, Esq., will require no urging ings of the committee on October 7. I didn't exactly know what that doctrine was, but he sjip- on meeting his guest was quite Indignant; but he had that this monster actually received from the proprietor and cannot be obtained elsewhere. to again attend a lecture by him, while those who have Mr. Gordon of Alabama in a spirited speech-opposed Mrs. F. S. CHANFRAU. I posed that it was orthodox or old Monroe would not an old hand to deal with, who replied to all his oaths, of this den of infamy the sum of three hundred dollars Our friends will find it to their advantage to give us . Dressed Lumber of all kinds, never yet enjoyed an hour of his sparkling wit have a the amendment. I have anything to do with it. At this point Mr. Pres- &c.V in the words of Mayor Hall on a recent occasion, for furnishing a new and " fresh " boarder. Further it This admirable actress, who enjoys a shining and an EARLY CALL while our stock is full and complete. decided treat in store for them. His subject, " Remi- Mr. Carter of Maryland moved the indefinite post- kept under cover.' I cott Smith ceased to be happy. Indeed he was very by Asking what he was going to do about it. At last is said that this rascal has received other sums for simi- honorable repute throughout the United States, will niscences of some Uncommonplace Characters I have ponement of the entire subject. He said the House of I unhappy, shedding copious tears over a theological thr 'cplonel seeing he was badly "beat," proposed the lar 8«'.rvices during the past year, and that other inno- make her first appearance before a Washington audi- Chanced to Meet," is sufficient to excite curiosity, and Bishops, by its own action on the report of its com- W. S. MITCHELL & CO., Cypress Shingles of various Brands, I treatise on second marriage and infant baptism, which following compromise: "Sir," the colonel blandly cent girls have fallen prey to his vile machinations. ence TO-MOREOW EVENING in Mr. C. W. Tayleure's u This heinous specimen of humanity, a gambler by pro- the hall will without doubt be filled. mittee, Indicated that it did not deem this a proper Importers of Carpeting, (including Simmons, Davis & Co.'a.) the asserted was the Monroe doctrine. lie got BO pathe- salfl[ you are a d—d scoundrel; but if you will go up play of fession, is well known to the police, and may be seen subject of legislation. He argued at length the pro- N. E. cor. Penna. ave. and Ninth street, I tic and proey at last that Sterne Chittenden, Esq., moved to I, land of the Metropolitan, and play the same »win ALL THE NOVELTIES in English, Ffcnch, and Scotch prity of postponement, and was followed by Mr. Judd W. S. MITCHELL, 1 Perry Building. Laths and Pickets, Cedar Posts, &c., &c, I that Mr. Prescott Smith have leave to retire and shed a die ! pon him. I will cancel your debt to me." Judge of on any bright day standing in the vicinity of Sixth suitings and fine French cassimeres of his own importa- of Illinois, pending whose remarks the House, at 4 CHRISTIE JOHNSTONE, SAML. KER. J OC 8-tf K tear. This, being amended to the extent that Mr. Smith that noble old Roman's feelings when his insolvent street on Pennsylvania avenue, and will probably be tion, have boen received for the fall and winter.season FOR SALE LOW BY krreplied, "Sorry, colonel, that I can't accomo- permitted to continue in his endeavors to ruin confiding o'clock p. m., adjourned until Monday. E have leave to print, was carried nnanimonsl'y, and Mr. boai by Mr. W. S. Teel, 935 Pennsylvania avenue, who is adapted from Charles Reade's well-known and very de- jyKW STORE, I Prescott Smith retired and shed a tear. .. date ypu, but the fact Is, Leland let me off by playing young girls, until some outraged father takes the law now prepared to furnish suits tQ order of the latest lightful story of that name. M CHICAGO. * In response to the toast, " Our Honored Guest, Mr. this ittle dodge on you." into his own hands and ends his worthless existence styles. He Is also in receijpt of gentlemen's FurniBhing Mrs. Chanfrau will be supported by the full strength NEW GOODS, WM. B. REDGRAVE, I Huntington responded in the happiest vein. In the by administering to him an ounce of lead. CHICAGO, October 21.—An unfortunate tragedy oc- Goods of the newest designs in ecarfs, cravats, and of the company. . It NEW PRICES. 1 course of his remarks he gave the company interesting Corner Seventh and <1 Streets North- Tlie Freedman's Savings Bank. Yacht Race. neckties, and hosiery and underwear of the fineet de- curred at midnight near Chicago University, on Grove I accounts of his interviews with the Czar, and the per- se 17-tf west. TI; i following Item from the New York Times of the Our citizens now have the satisfaction of knowing scription ; full assortment of Courvoisier'e kid gloves, avenue, resulting in the death of Thos. W. Grosvenor, ALL'S OPERA HOUSE. BRODHEAD & CO. I sonal characteristics of that personage. His kn o wledge 20th, disposes of a false rumor therein alluded to: that they are to be treated with a grand regatta, which driving, and other gloves. city prosecuting attorney. Mr. Grosvenor, somewhat w I of, and interest in, American,affairs was really wonder- Have opened a new and elegant stock of "A MALICIOUS REPORT.—Some malicious person will come off next Thursday, between the yachts Fannie under the influence of liquor, was challenged by the SIX NIGHTS ONLY. LOAN OFFICES. Ifnl. "I shall never forget,*' said Mr. Huntington, WE CALL the especial attention of our readers to University police while passing along the street. Jle standi a report, which was telegraphed from this city Bell, Emma Latham, Fannie, and Spray. The meeting Monday Evening, October 23, 1871, FALL AND WINTER DRY GOODS, I 11 how deeply it used to affect the old man whenever he yesterday, to the effect that there was a run on the Cummins' large shoe establishment, 932 Seventh street, replied in an offensive manner and was Bhot dead. of tl e dwners of the boats, which was held at the St. The colloqiyal factor and popular author, at their new store, 1S05 F STREET, between Twelfth I spoke about Washington. One night we we're going Natirinal Freedman's Savings Bank of this city. It now filled with choice goods from the finest manufacto- Jam« s Hotel on Thursday last, was singularly unani- Judge Blodgett of the United States district court, and Thirteenth streets, at PRINCE'S, was . holly devoid of truth, as nothing of the kind ries north of our city. The reputation of Mr. C.'s shoes • home from Just snch*a dinner (only better soup) as mou i . and a close and exciting contest will undoubtedly leaves Chicago for Washington on Monday to confer PRICES LOWER THAN EVER. occii f d. The bank is in a perfectly sound condition, of every description for quantity, quality, and styles, MR. ALBERT W. AIKEN, Wamsutta Cotton, 21c.; Androscoggin, 16c.; Elegant »this, gentlemen—Aleck said to me when he recovered be hi &. The conditions that apply to this race are that with the Judicial Department of the Government re- and srt on hand always over a m\YUoi) in cash assets. , has always stood A No. 1. Supported by his splendid New York Company, in his Paris Kids, $1; Coats & Sterling Spool Cotton, 7c.; • his breath, (you see we had just been chased about two nein -?r boat shall carry outriggers, and that the boats garding the restoration of the records of the federal Therv Is not a safer banking institution in the couutry." N. B. To avoid the crowd of Saturday night trade, famous realistic play of city life, as played by him over Plaids, Cashmeres, Alpacas, Satines, and all kinds of I miles for ringing door-bells as we came along,) 'Give courts in this district. Dress Goods, at a' bargain. Call and examine our stock. shall oave no sail excepting jib and main sail. Upon we would advise those who can conveniently to pur- I my love to all the boys when you go back, especially We háve taken some pains to look into the reports the yachts getting into position, the shortest yacht takes Mayor Mason has issued a proclamation appointing TWO HUNDRED NIGHTS TO CROWDED HOUSES BRODIIEAD & CO., chase through the week, which would be much morè oc l-4t 1205 E St., between 12th and 13th. OFFICE. rto the Board of Public Works, ole fel, all of 'em mind; of the condition of the company against which this Sunday, October 29, as a day of fasting, humiliation, in all the principal cities of America, entitled the the windward position. The sailing regulations of the satisfactory and greatly to their advantage. land, Billy, don't you think you could see THE CAPITAL evil report was circulated. It appears that the deposits New York yacht club were adopted. The owners of and prayer. | fellows and get 'em to stick in a little something or the single branch in this city during the ten days "WITCHES OF NEW YORK." ATIONAL CAPÍTOL LIFE INSUR- other boats of this class can make their entries to H. O, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.—Ten subordinate lodges of The rumor that A. C. Badger, the private banker, had N ANCE COMPANY. ».other about me in 'Social Gossip' some Sunday? ending on the 17th, during which this " run " is said Iloyt at the St. James Hotel. There will be no time this jurisdiction haVe subscribed $905.50 for the relief suspended is confirmed. He claims, however, that he Popular prices, 75, 50, and 35 cents. Reserved seats 1006 Pennsylvania Avenue, for sale at Box Office. •Don't care so much about it myself, but it would to have occurred, amounted to $163,010.34. The cash allowance. The course will be from Eleventh street of their brother Knights I-n Chicago, with nine lodges will resume as soon as he can get his matters into assets, i. f W ,:nWon. by the [ is made for appointment or promotion ? Can success, as he is one of our most enterprising and gen- Why, 14 tools for 50 cents, all combined in one, for FRANKLIN PUBLlyiiUw COMPANY, GIVE HIM A CALL, m one tell ? with credit alike to the city and himself. gale aiM. H. Prince's Bazaar, 1006 Pennsylvania avenue. Attempt« were discovered and frustrated, The locality oc 15-tf 121 Pennsylvania avenue. erous citizens. it* JAS. F. RUSSELL, my 31-6m OFFICIAI.. " Will jump ? " HOTELS. BANKS AND BANKERS. DRUGGISTS. TO TRAVELERS. OFFICIAL,. Now I am no coward, but to leap on a dark Hie people of said District for their approval or disap- held as in the Bald act provided. Said act is here« THE CAPITAL. H. G. FANT. proval, in connection with the question of issuing foin subjoined and publication thereof is herewith madn. night into one of the fearful abysses dug by the PHE JENNESS HOUSE, L. WASHINGTON NITED STATES MAIL ROUTE TO millions of bonds for special improvement and repairs WASHINGTON. H. D. COOKE, Board of Public Works, with an old iron railing MILBURNS' U NORFOLK. as mentioned in said act. Said election will be the first Governor of the District of Columbia SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22,1871. genoral election after the passage of said act. Said act spiked up somewhere in its depths, was not jfleas- FANT, WASHINGTON & CO., EDWIN L. STANTON This new and splendid hotel, which is closed during Steamer Lady of the Lake, connecting at Norfolk*with & hereto subjoined and publication thereof is made Secretary of the District of Columbia. ant. the summer months every year, will be REOPENED BANKERS, JDTZUCx STORE, the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad for all parts of herewith. II. DTCOOKE, AN ACT levying a tax for the payment of the iuterert NOVEMBER 20. Itis now being refitted. Noexpense Governor of the District of Columbia. 531 FIFTEENTH STREET, the South, and with the Steamer! of the M. and M as it shall annually accrue on four million dollars rf GRADUATED GRINS. "Will you let me take hold of one end of your will be spared to make this one of the best houses In Successors to Rittenhonse. Fowler & Co., * Transportation Company for Boston, and the Old EDWIN L. STANTON, bonds, authorized to be issued by the District of Cu the city. Secretary of the District of Columbia. shawl, fair being, while you hold the other? " Opposite U. S. Treasury, Dominion and Virginia Line of Steamers from New lumbiaby an act entitled "An act authorizing the A STARTLING CATASTBOPHE. oc l-8m JOB JENNESS & SON. - No. 625 Pennsylvania Avenue, York. District of Columbia to create a debt lor spécial im " And have my best shawl torn ? Not if I'm On and after MONDAY, May 1, the Steamer 4N ACT authorizing the District of Columbia to create provements and repairs In said District by the issuino MR. EDITOR : I am a poor young man of a lofty Receive deposits and loan money to depositors at legal ^"Dcpot for MINERAL WATERS, a debt for special improvements and repairs in said ruined." s LADY OF THE LAKE of four millions of bonds and levying a tax^For tlip ambition, upon .whose natural genius two fond ST. JAMES HOTEL. Interest. se 24-3m CaiTying the United States Mail, will leave her wliarf District by the issuing of four million of bonds, and payment of the interest as it Bhall annually accrnn Good Lord ! Here was a young lady who put We issue certificates of deposit bearing interest and foot of Seventh street, every levying a tax for the payment of the Interest as it thereon, and submitting the act, with the question of parents exhausted their time, attention, and payable on demand.' shall annually accrue thereon, and submitting the act her reputation on a parwith a shawl and myneck. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY, at 4 p. m.. the issuing of four millions of improvement bonrl« money In giving it an extra cultivation. This was Pennsylvania ave. and Sixth street, MAKE COLLECTIONS ON ALL POINTS IN THE FOR NORFOLK. with the question of the issuing of the four million to a vote of the people at a general election in t .„ " You pusillanimous wretch!" she cried, and W. S. THOMPSON, of improvement bonds to a vote of the people at a i said District." " so successful that I astonished my class at col- UNITED STATES. Returning, loave Norfolk TUESDAY, THURSDAY, general election In said District. she burst into tears. Then changing suddenly Washington, 1). C. and SATURDAY, at 5 p. m.—stopping at Alexandria, lege by readltfg Bancroft's History of the United 6 Negotiate Railroad, Municipal Loana, and Mortgages. PHARMACIST, Fort Washington, GTymont, .Plney Point, Point Look- Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Dis-, Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Dis. she threw her white arms about my nock, and • Buy and Sell Government Securities and other Stocks, out, and Fortress Monroe. trict of Columbia, That in order that special improve- trict of Columbia, That for the purpose of payin» tin States. Several Btudents made the attempt at my 21-ly JOHN SPICEB, Proprietor. Bonds, and Gold on Commission. Pay the highest ments and repairs of the streets, avenues, alleys, and interest annually, as It may accrue on the four million fell softbing upon my breast. For freight or passage apply on board, or toV. D. roads of tho District of Columbia may be commenced dollars of bonds authorized to be issued by theDistriri the time I did, and failed miserably. Three went prices for City Scrip. 703 FIFTEENTH STREET, Groner Norfolk, Va.; El ¿triage & Co., Alexandria, Va.; j" Forgive me, Augustus," (my name is Augus- Domectlc and Foreign Exchange bought and sold on and completed, and sewers and bridges be constructed of Columbia in accordance with the provisions of the J. G. Waters, Georgetown, D, C., or to therein, and other necessary public works be executed, act entitled " An act authorizing the District of Coliim into a decline and filled early graves, two were tus,) "forgive me. But what can I do? Ruin all the principal cities in this eountry and Europe. WASHINGTON, D. C. DORSEY CLAGETT, Geaeral Agent, C. C. WILLARD, We especially invite accounts of merchants and busi- the Governor of said District is authorized and em- bla to create a debt for special Improvements and re! committed to the insane asylum, while eighteen Corner of Fifteenth street and New York ave. powered, for and in behalf of said District, to,issue, or pairs in said District'by the issuing of four millions ni stares me in the face^inless you save me. Oh ! ness men. eight Drafts furnished to depositors with- All freight shipped by the Old Dominion and Virgi- took to drink and are now confirmed drunkards. out charge. oc 8-6m .cause to be issued, as hereinafter directed, registered bonds, and the levying a tax for the payment of the Augustus, Bave me, save me! " nia Line of Steamers will be addressed to V. D. Groner, or coupon bonds to the amount of four million dollars, Interest as it shall annuallyaccrue thereon, and submit- EBBITT HOUSE, Norfolk, Virginia, this connection forming a tri-weekly It Is needless to say, after this,""that I graduated Under the impulse of the moment I clasped her in denominations of fifty, one hundred, five hundred, ting the act, with the question of the issuing of foi» WASHINGTON, ». C. JAY COOKE & CO., BANKERS, freight for New York. myl4-ly and one thousand dollars", to be payable within twenty millions of Improvement bonds, to a vote of the neonu with hoitors. My preceptors Joined in a hearty in my arms. I imprinted a wild kiss upon^her SODA WATER years from the date.of their issue, and to bear interest at a general election In said District," a special tax ot Buy and sell at current rates nt the rate of seven per centum annually. two nundred and eighty thousand dollars is herebï •and unanimous expression of belief that I was burning cheek and said, "Save you—save you, ap 2-tf FREEZING COLD, HROUGH LINE BETWEEN WASH- GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, GOLD AND SILVER, INGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK levied upon thé taxable property In Bald District for tht the most extraordinary youth It had ever been fair being? Yes, if I die for it;" and tearing my- T Sso. 2. And be It further enacted. That a special tax LAND WARRANTS, SCRIP, &c. WASHINGTON, June 3, 1869—NoOn. Is hereby levied on the taxable property çf the District period of twenty years, to an amount sufficient to Da« their misfortune to encounter. self from her embrace I leaped from the window. ST. CLOUD HOTEL. Execute orders at New York Stock Board. VICHT WATER, Trains between Washington and New York are now of Columbia, for the period of twenty years, to an the interest which may accrue on flaid bonds durini run as follows, viz ; said period, which tax shall be collected in sums of tS Since I left college I have mastered Pollock's I felt two hand's grasp at my coat-tails; but, alas ! Sell Exchange on New York, San Franclsoo, Great Amount sufficient to pay the Interest which may accrue hundred and eighty thousand dollars during each | This admirable house, architecturally one of the hand- Britain, and the Continent. FOR NEW YORK, without change of cars. on tho said bonds during said period, which tax shall 0 Course of Timé, Holland's Katrjna, Tupper's they were so short—the tails, I mean—I fell; KISSINGEN WATER, Leave daily (except Sunday) at 8 a. m., 12:45 and 9 said years, agreeably to the provisions of the act oi somest In New York, on Furnish Revenue Stamps of all denominations. be collected in sums of two hundred and eighty thou- Congress entitled "An act to provide a government for Proverbial Philosophy, Walt. Whitman's Barbaric I fell, it seemed to me, a great distance. I p. m. sand dollars, during eaoh of said years, agreeably to Corner of 42d Street and Broadway, ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT BEARING SELTZER WATER, FOR PHILADELPHIA. the^provlslons of the act of the Congress of the United the District of Columbia," approved February twentv Yawps, and now I am hard at work, with every was brought up with a jerk that nearly took the INTEREST. mar 19-tf first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and in the Is now open on the EUROPEAN SYSTEM with first- Leave dally (except Sunday) at 8 a. m., 12:45 and 6:4( States, entitled, " An act to provide for a government same manner that the general taxes of said District prospect of success, reading The Constitution breath from my body. I was fixed in an upright p. m. for the DUtrlct of Col^ibia,'' approved ^February shall be collected, and be applied and used exclusively class RESTAURANT, by SARATOGA WATER, ON SUNDAY. position. An Iron spike had entered at the seat for the payment of the interest annually accruing 0n and the War Power. Soon as this is done I Ufo- ap 2-tf BAND BROTHERS. FIRST NATIONAL BANK Leave for New York at 9 p. m. and Philadelphia at the same manner that the general taxes of said bl'strlc^] said bonds; that this act Bhall be submitted to the pose attacking the Congressional Globe. of my best Tcel's pantaloons, just touched my on draught. 5:40 p. m. -, . shall be collected, and be applied and used exclusively people, with the Bald act of said District, entitled "An OF WASHINGTON. Sleeping cars for New York on 9 p. m. train only. body, and came out at'the back of my neck. I for the payment of the interest annually accruing on act authorizing the District of Columbia to create a Well, sir, to make a long story short, I arrived "THE ARLINGTON, » my 21-tf Through tickets to Philadelphia, New York, or Bos. said bonds. debt fbr special improvements and repairs in said Dis- at a matrimonial age well versed in book lore, but heard the voice of Miss Julia above. She asked, Government Depositary and Financial Agent of the ton can be had at the Station Office at all hours of the SKO. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Governor trict by the issuing of four millions or bonds and lew" day. " Are you hurt, you goose ?" ^ shall, in connection with the Secretary and the Comp- lng a tax for the payment of the Interest as it shall an strangely ignorant of the female sex. I need WASHINGTON, D. C. United States, REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. See Baltimore and Ohio Railroad advertisement for troller, prepare said bonds for issue and sale. On their nually accrue thereon, and submitting the act with the hardly write that this was strange, for my parents But before I could answer a couple of nocturnal schedule between Washington. Baltimore, Annapolis, face they shall be designated "special, improvement qnestieHl of issuing of four millions of improvement luminaries, coming around the corner, caused her FIFTEENTH STREET, and the West. J. L. WILSON, bonds," and shall be signed by the Governor, counter- bonds, to a vote of the people at a general election in through some prejudice, or perhaps correct diag- C. H, HOLDEN & CO., Master of Transportation. signed by the Secretary and Comptroller, and have the said District," at the first general election which noses of psychological pathology of pubescence, to close the window, and I was left to my fate. Opposite the Treasury. L. M. COLE, Genoral Ticket Agent. affixed to them the seal of the District. may be held after the passage of this act, which said Thls Now and GEO. S. KOONTZ, Agent, Washington. ap 30-tf SBO. 4. And be it further enacted. That the bonds election as respects this act shall be held as hereinaftei considered It proper to rear me to manhood in [We consider this a capital point to break off II. D. COOKE, REAL ESTATE AGENTS, (Of Jay Cooke & Co.,) President. which may be prepared for issue and sale as aforesaid, provided. utter ignorance of what philosophers have called this thrilling narrative. The next chapter of this • BEAUTIFUL HOTEL, ALTIMORE AND OHIO RAII/ROAD. nntil required for said purposes, shall be deposited WM. S. HUNTINGTON 633 Louisiana ^venne, with the Comptroller of said District, and he shall not First. Upon the approval of the act it shall be nub one of nature's most agreeable blunders. Now I do exciting and original story may be found in a fu- ap 16-tf Cashier. B iished in the Daily Chronicle, Daily Republican and WASHINGTON, Dec. 25, 1870. permit any one or more of them to go out of his posses- everything after mature deliberation and from a ture number of THE CAPITAL—the most original, Since the adjournment of Congress, has been REFIT- Offer for sale a large variety of HOU8E8 sitaated In Trains between WASHINGTON AND BALTIMORE, sion, except for the purposes of this act ; and he shall Evening Star, newspapers in said District, and in' such REEDMAN'S SAVINGS AND TRUST the most desirable locations in this District, as well as and WASHINGTON AND THE WEST, aro now run as glvo such security for their safe keeping as may be re] -other papers as the Governor may direct, and the nub high sense of duty. Last summer I reached the entertaining journal published at our National TED and REDECORATED. More rooms have beon some of the most quired by the Governor ; and he shall ke a register or lication thereof be continued for three months prior to F follows, viz: said election. matrimonial age of twenty-four and began to cast Capital. This hero we will say was not " burned added and FOR BALTIMORE. account of all bonds which may be prepared and issued COMPANY, under' this act, and make a full report, from time to Second. The ballots used at said election shall bi at the stake," and our readers may rest assured VALUABLE REAL ESTATE. Leave dally (except Sunday) at 6:45, 8, and 9:25 a. m., about me for a companion to soothe, comfort, BILLIARD ¿TABLES INTRODUCED. No. 507 Seventh Street. and 12:45, 3, 4:10. 6:40, and 7:45 p. m. time, to the Legislative Assembly of the amount of printed, and those in favor of this act shall be in thi that he survived, for he had on a pair of Teel's sales, as well as of the amount of interest that may words following, to wit : and bless my life hereafter. DEPOSITS $2,500,000. FARMS In Maryland and Virginia can be purchased FOR ALL WAY STATIONS. have accrued or to be paid on said bonds. You may be sure, sir, that reared and educated best, that for wear and tear beat the world. For T. ROESSLE & SO TV. cheap or exchanged for Leave daily (except Sunday) at 6:45 and 9:25 a. m., and FOR 4:10 and 7:45 p. m. For principal way statfons—Bladens- SEO. 5. And be it further enacted, That two millions as I had been, thiB was no easy task. I had In the further particulars see prospectus and Tcel's and one-half of said bonds may bo prepared for the issue Levying a tax for the period of twenty years for tht The Proprietors are determined it shall be the most The Company pays SIX PER CENT, interest on all buxg, Beltsvillo, Laurel, Annapolis Junction, and Relay card.—ED. CAPITAL ] — City Property. Relay—leave at 12:45, 3, and 7:45 p. m.; 3 p. m. stems at during the year one thousand eight hundred and sev- payment of the interest as it shall annually accrue or first place to make the acquaintance of some fair beautiful Hotel In the country. oc 8-t.f deposits of $6 and upward, beginning July 1,1871. Jessop's. The 5:40 p. m. stops at Annapolis Jtufbtlon enty-two, and until the expiration of the first fiscal quar- the four millions of. bonds to be issued by the District ladies from whom to select my wife. I consulted Any one can begin-an account by a deposit of FIVE Also, a large number of and Relay only. The 7:45 p. m. on Sunday stops as duj- ter after the adiopi'nment of the next regular session of of Columbia, agreeably to the provisions of an act en ing the week. the Legislative Assembly, and one million and a half titled "An act authorizing the District of Columbia to with my friend Doctor Tucker Blake, and learned CENTS or upward. ATIONAL CAPÍTOL LIFE INSUR- FOR ANNAPOLIS. during tho year one thousand eight hundred and sev- create a debt for special improvements and repairs in from that experienced man of the world that I THE CAPITAL. N ANCE COMPANY. ' Every man and woman should make a beginning LOW-PRICED HOUSES Leave at 6:45 a. m. and 4:10 p. m. No train to or from enty-tliree, and be sold by the Governor within said said District by the issuing of four millions of bond, ——• without delay. mar 26-ly Annapolis on Sunday. periods to the extent to which the issue thereof Is air and levying a tax for the payment of the interest as It would first have to go to Teel, as he called the will be sold for a small cash advance. thorized as aforesaid, and upon snch issue and sale said shall annually accrue, thereon, and submitting the act ON SUNDAY. bonds shall become and constitute a debt against said with the question of the issuing of four millions oi gentleman, and get an outfit. He said to me PUBLISHED BY THE CAPITAL PUBLISHING BOOKS, STATIONERY, &C. Property insured in any of the FIKST-CLASS COMPA- FOR BALTIMORE. NIES. oc 8-tf District. improvement bonds, to a vote of the people at a general "Softmore, me boy, put yourself In the hands of COMPANY. WASHINGTON CITY SAVINGS BANK, Leave at 8 a. m., and 3, 6:40, and 7:45 p. m. election in the said District." And those a»ainst thi- OTICE. FOR WAY STATIONS. Sue. 6. And be it further enacted, That upon the sale act shall be in the words following, to wit : ° Teel, and half the work's done." Comer of Seventh Street and Louisiana Avenue, Leave at &a. m., and 3 and 7:45 p. m. of any or all of said bjpids the proceeds thereof shall be N doposltèd In the treasury of the District, and shall be I followed this excellent advice. I found my- Opening of a NEW STATIONERY STORE and " FOR ALL PARTS OF THE WESfT. AGAINST DONN PIATT, Editor. PAYS INTEREST ON ALL DEPOSITS. FOB SALE. Leave daily (except Saturday and Sunday) at 6:45 a drawn out upon warrants of the Board of Public Works, self clad in new and strange garments; my coat, BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY. m„ and 3 and 7:45 p. m. On Saturday at 6:46 a. m. and and shall be disbursed by said Board for the payment The act for the levying a tax for the period of twenK » Open dally from 9.30 a. m. to 3 p. m., and on SATUR- of tho cost of Bpeclal improvements and repairs in said years for the payment of the interest as it shall aunii large and full about the chest, terminated abruptly. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION OF TUB CAPITAL—NO. 428 7:46 p. m. FIRST CLASS GOODS at fair prices, for cash. DAY EVENING, from 6.30 to 7.30 p. m. Elegant Residences On Sunday at 3 and 7:45 p. UL, only connecting at Re- District, including the necessary incidental expenses ally accrue on the four millions of bonds to be issued just below the hips, and my pantaloons followed ELEVENTH STREET, between Pennsylvania Avenue lay Station with trains from Baltimore to Wheeling, thereof, and for no other purposes; but no payments by the District of Columbia, agreeably to the provision) J. A. RUFF, in,the "CAPITOL BLOCK" of fourtoen three-story shall be made under any contract for Improvements, oi of an act entitled "An act authorizing the District tr my legs with considerable accuracy until near the and E Street, Washington, D. C. Lithographing, Engraving, Printing and Houses on Parkersburg, Pittsburg, &c. mar 12-tf Treasurer. For Strasburg and points between Relay House and ' for auy work done in relation thereto, unless tho work create a.debt for special improvements and repairs jr calves, and then each leg suddenly expanded and Bates of Subscription. Binding, done to order. . Strasbnrg, leave at3p. in.', connecting at Relay House done shall be ten per centum in excess of such pay- said District, by the issuing of four million of bond." Two DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS A YEAR, in advance, EAST CAPITOL, BETWEEN SECOND AND with Strasburg and Winchester accommodation train. ments, except lu the case of the final execution of any and levying a tax for the payment of the interest as II ended by fairly concealing my pedal extremity. PRINTERS. contract or completion of any work and settlement shall annually accrue thereon and submitting the act for local subscribers. The public are invited to call and examine our new THIRD STREETS, Through tickets to the West can be had at the Then my friend conducted me to Wlllett & stock. BEN F. FRENCH, Washington Station Ticket Office at all hours in the thbfefpr. with the question of the issuing of four militons of iu> THREE DOLLARS A YEAR when sent by mall. 1 Under National Metropolitan Bank and next door to now being erected, and to be ready for occupancy on SEO. 7. And be il further enacted, That the improve provement bonds, to a vote of the people at a eaiioni Ruoff's", where a head covering was procured. day. s ueul CLUBS.—Ten copies to one address, TWENTT-FIVE Jay Cooke & Co.'s, Washington, D. C. se 10-Sm JUDD & DETWEILER, November 1. For New York, Philadelphia and Boston, see adver- nieiits which wily be made by virtue of this act shall 1 >• election In tie said District." The doctor Belected a white beaver on account : Those houses contain tisement of uThrongh Line." commenced and çarried ou according to the provisions * Third. That the tickets for and against this act Wll DOLLARS. Twenty copios to one address, FORTY DOL of the aforesaid act of Congress of the twenry-ilrst day be deposited in the ballot boxes which the Gàvernor ' of my complexion, he Baid, and on this he put a Steam Book and Job Printers, J. L. WILSON, LABS. PHILP & SOLOMONS' SIXTEEN ROOMS EACH, Master of Transportation. of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. and required to providejor the deposit of the ballots which weed. I assured him that 1 was not in mourning Bates of Advertising;. L. M. COLE, General Ticket Agent. excluslvoly for the promotion of the public Interests. may be cast for the act entitled " An act authorizing 0or. Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh st. SBO. 8. And be it further enacted, That if any officei the District of Columbia to create a debt for special inv lor any one, but- he said that It was nobby. In Prices for Advertising as follows, without deviation WITH GAS, WATER, and all modern conveniences. GEO. 8. KOONTZ, General Agent, Washington. NEW BOOK LIST! ap 30-tf or employé of the said District shall use, or consent to provements and repairs in said District by the issnin- in any case: They are superior to, and can be sold cheaper, than of four millions of bonds and levying a tax fontiio uav the same way I was induced to part my hair in any of the same class in the city. the use, of Any of the money authorized to be raised For the space of one Inch, $1.50 for the first,an d Special attention given to PRINTING BEFORE by this act, contrary to Its provisions, he shall, on con- ment of the Interest as it shall tinuually accrue thereon the middle and wear an eye-glass. I am not In Also, THREE FINE HOUSES on south A street, ERCHANTS' LINE OF STEAMSHIPS viction thereof in the Criminal Court of the District oJ and submitting the act with the questiou of tho issuim! 75 cents for each subsequent Insertion. (same square,) now finished. M BETWEEN the least near-sighted ; on the contrary my vision Castilian Days, by John Hay, $2. Atlantic 'Essays, THE UNITED STATES AND DISTRICT COURTS. Columbia, be punished by imprisonment in the jail oi of the four millions of improvement bonds to a vote oi The same rates per space for short or long advertise- by T. W. Higgmson, $2. Songs of the Sierras, by Joa- All of the above are peculiarly suited for Congress- WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. this District for a.term or not less than three nor morq the people at a general election in said District," and in men, and two have already been purchased by members is very perfect, and the glasses or the hair parted ments. No space let less than balf an inch. quin Miller, $1.50. New England Legends, by Harriet than twelve months, and by a fine of not less than five relation to the question of the issuing of four millions Prescott SpoiFord, $1. Bryant's Translation of the Lawyers and claimants residing out of the city can of the House of Representatives. Hereafter the fine steamships 1'. C. KNIGHT, JOHN hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars. of improvement bonds, and the election in reference to I don't know which, made my head ache. For particulars apply to CITY ITEMS (Nonpareil) 25 cents a line each in- Odyssey, Vol. 1, $5. Bryant's Iliad, new edition, $5. have their GIBSON, and VALLEY cfli", will make regular SEO. 9. And be it further enacted. That this act shall this act, shall be conducted in all respects, as regards' After all this, my guide, philosopher, and friend sertion. Palaces and Prisons; a Domestic Story, by Mrs. Ann 8. A. GRANT, weekly trips between New York, Alexandria, Washing- be submitted to the people or electors of said District the persons entitled to vote and otherwise' in accRrd. Architect and Builder, No. 226 East Capitol, between ance with the laws and regulations which maybe anon, said I must have a horse—that the old style of SPECIAL NOTICES 50 cents a line each insertion. Stephens, $1.75. Sword and Garmentby the author of PETITIONS AND EVIDENCE PRINTED ton, and Georgetown, as follows: it tho first general election which may be held after Its "Credo." $1.50. Behind the Bars ; a Romantic Narra- Second and Third streets east. my 21-tf Leave New York from Pier 39, East river, evervSAT- passage, together with the questions'of tho issuing ol cable to the holding of general elections in saidDialrM walking into a woman's affections had gone out, MARRIAGE and DEATH NOTICES, 50 cents. tive of Life in an Insane Asylum, $1.50. A Treatise on URDAY, at 4 p. m.; leave Georgetown every FRIDAY, the four millions of bonds aforesaid, in the modo here- Fourth. Upon closing the polls, the ballots for ami Ventilation, by L. W. Leeds, $2. Four, and What they and filed by us, according to court rules, without per- against, this law shallbecounted by the election officers, and the only way now Is to ride into their hearts. All other reading noticcs $ 1 per line. POR SALE. at 7 a. m., and Alexandria the same day at 12 m. inafter provided, namely : Did, by Helen C. Weeks $1.50. Student's Ancient His- sonally superintending the same. an 20-tf For information apply to R. P. A. DENHAM, Agont, and a tally list thereof be made out, and upon thecora First. Upon the approval of the act It shall be pub- pleting of the counting of said ballots and duplicata I did procure an animal. My friend helped me To Contributors. tory of the East, by Philip Smith, B. A., $2. King Ar- SEVERAL BEAUTIFUL BRICK HOUSES, office and wharf foot of High street Georgetown, or at lished in such papers as the Governor may direct, hoi thur, a Poem, by Lord Lytton, $1.75. Falle-Farine, by the corner of Seventeenth streetand New York avenue. returns of the votes cast in eaoh election district fot to it. He said it was an excellent frame of a Every article submitted by mail to "The Editor of CARRIAGES. less than three, and the publication thereof bo contin this act, together with statements of the aggregate Ouiaa, $2. Art, its Laws, and the Reasons for Them, two stories and back building, eight rooms, water, gas J. W. THOMPSON, ued for three months prior to said election. horse, and so it was. It resembled a clothes- THE CAPITAL" will receive consideration, but we will by Samuel P. Long. $3. Thoughts about Art, by Philip ap 9-tf • President. number of votes cast thereat formeribersof the Legis- Hammerton, $1. Recent Discussions in Science, by and bath, front yard with Iron railings. Near Four- Second. The ballots used at said election shall be lative Assembly, shall, within forty-eight ¿ours in b(i unable to write letters to our contributors or to be printed, and those in favor of Baid act, and of the horse in its lean condition, and felt like a walking- Herbert Spencer. $1.50. A Daughter of Heth, by Wm. teenth street cars. Terms—very small cash payments made out and signed by the officers of the several elec- responsible for manuscripts. As a rule we not pur- Black, 50c. Beautiful Butterflies, described and illus- CARRIAGES. CARRIAGES. issuing of said bonds, or of the contraction of saic tion precincts or districts, which returns shall désignât» beam of a steamer in its motion. and $40 per month. MISCELLANEOUS. debt, snail be in the words following, to wit : chase articles, those only excepted which we order upon trated, with the History of a Buttorfly through all its the number of voteB cast for this loan, ono of which Thus fitted out and mounted, I procured an changes and transformations; illustrated, by H. Q. CARRiAQES. By MoNEIR & RUSSELL, returns shall be placed in the election-box of each el» particular themes from professional journalists. We FOR SPECIAL IMPROVEMENTS. introduction to some charming ladies and com- Adams, $1.75. oc l-4t 619 Seventh St., bet. E and F. ATATIONAL CAPIT OL LIFE INSUR- For tho act of the District of Columbia entitled "AT tion district with the other papers of said election, »nil do not ..care whether suggestions from our friends are -L> ANCE COMPANY. the others shall be placed in a sealed envelope and be menced the study so necessary to my future hap- PHILP & SOLOMONS, act authorizing the District-of Columbia to create a directed to the Secretary of the District, and be plmvd anbnymous or authenticated by signature; for in eithor debt for special improvements and repairs in said Dis} Booksellers and Stationers, On hand a large number of WELL MADE E. It. ALLEN & CO., in his hands by one or more of said election officers piness. I wanted of all things to have ariintel- case we. Shall examine into the subjects for ourselves. RIYATE MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS trict, by tne issuing of four million of bonds, and levy! se 17-tf 911 Penna, avenue. Ingatax for the payment of the interest, as it shall lectual companion, one who could read Pollock We desire items from sculptors, architects, artists, pub- P Fifth. On receiving the said envelopes caubUni»» CARRIAGES, at OLD DR. DARBY'S Private Dispensary, 108 annually accrue thereon, and submitting the act, witnl the returns as aforesaid, the Secretary shall examine and Bancroft with me. I was astonished to find lishers, and friends at state capitals or near municipal Real Estate Brokers and Builders, Four-and-a-Half street, a few doors South of Peunsyl-i the question of the issuing of the four millions of im} the same, apd add together the aggregate votes QR cast how very difficult this study was. The ladies governments. WEDDING DEPOT, both NEW and SECOND-HAND, vania avenue. Separate rooms for Ladles, provoment bonds, to a vote of the people, at a general In each district; and after doing so shall certify the re 507 » Street, mar 19-tf election in said District." Bult to the Governor and file a copy of such certificat« would listen to me very attentively, and for some No. 929 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. which will be sold at reduced prices. And for the issuing of four millions of improvemenl among the records of his offlct time I thought understanding^. I made, how- J^EGISTRATION.NOTICE. WASHINGTON, D. C. JAMES H. McGILL, bonds as provided in said act. Sixth. If it shall appear from said returns As certified "All work warranted to be as represented. And the ballots against said act and the issuing of the to by the Secretary that a majority of votes cast fot ever, at last the painful discovery that such was Repairing promptly attended to. bonds shall be as follows : members of »Id Legislative Assembly shall have been TO THE VOTKRS OF.THE DISTRICT OF CO- not the fact. I put a volume of Professor Lodo- AGAINST SPECIAL IMPROVEMENTS. cast in favor of this law, it shall be In full force anil LUMBIA"' ROBERT II. GRAHAITR, 632 F Street, near Seventh, effect, and the Governor shall proclaim the same in tho whisky's learned work on Comparative Caloric in MEDICAL. Against the act of the District of Columbia entitled, papers of the District in which this law uiay be pub- The Board Of Registration for the District of Colum- WEDDING Corner Ninth and D streets. au 20-ly " An act authorizing the District of Columbia to create my pocket, and requesting the most intelligent of lished. If a majority of votes shall be cast against bia will hold sessions from 18 o'clock m. nntil 7 o'clock oc 16-3t Factory, 410 Eighth street, a debt for special Improvements and repairs in said Dis- this act it Bhall be void and of no effect, these young ladies'to hear me read a passage, I AND 1)14. GARDNER, trict, by the issuing of four millions of bonds, and lay- p. m. of each day hereinafter* mentioned, tor the pur- Formerly of Ricord Hospital, United States Army, can COKE. ing a tax for the payment of the interest as it shall an SEO. 2. And be it further enacted, That with the pntv began. I must confess that I got so interested pose of registering the voters residing In the District anally accrue thereon, and submitting the act, with the lication of this act in the newspapers as aforesaid foi RECEPTION CARDS, . be consulted privately anils office, question of the issuing of the four millions of improve- the period of three months, there shall be a notice over in this learned work that It was three o'clock in of Columbia, at the following-named places : The Carriage of the Period," Orders left at the Gas-light Office, No. 413 Tenth St. the signature of the Governor and of the Secretary ol Corner of Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue, at 711 First street; or at 110 Bridge street, Georgetown, ment bondB, to a vote of the people at a general elec- the morning before I came to a pause, and look- FIFTEENTH DISTRICT. OUR SPECIALTIES. northwest, second'story, tion in said District." the District that it will he submitted to the people at will be promptly filled. mar 19-tf the first general election after its passage for their ap- ing I found my companion fast asleep in her ' All that part of thè city of Washington lying within or at his residence, 1002 MASSAOHUSBTTS AVENUE, be- And against the issuing of four millions of improve- proval or disapproval, and a copy of such notlco shall , 1POIVY PHAETON, tween Tenth and Eleventh streets west. From Ills chair. I was disgusted. I put the book in my the following bounds : Commencing at D street .north ment bonds, as provided for in said act. be filed and recorded in tho office of the Secretary ol great success during thirty years' practice in his par- Third. That a ballot-box for each election district the District, pocket, and proposed leaving without saying a and running up North Capitol street to Massachusetts With or without RUVBLE, and TIGER in full livery ticular branch he warrants a cure. 'S shall be provided by tho Governor, In which the ballots when desired, KAUFMANN for and against the said law, and for and against said SBO. S. And be it further enacted, That whereas an word, when I found the parlor door locked. I avenue ; thence along Massachusetts.avenue to First For WEDDING AND RECEPTION CARDS, ARMS, CRESTS N. B. Upon the receipt of $10 medicines and advice emergency exists for the Immediate taking eflect of this street west thence up. First street west to K street AND MONOGRAMS in pure GOLD and SILVER, CIPHERS FOR LADIES DRIVING ALONE. sent by eipress. Particular attention paid to the indis- Improvement bonds, shall be deposited, and the elec- act m the event of its approval by the people, it shall lia thought this to be a! trick at first. I learned sub- lion in relation thereto Bhall be conducted in all re- and SINGLE INITIALS, stamped both plain and in deli- cretions of youth. au 20-ly STUDIO AND ART SCHOOL, in force from and after the proclamation thereof by the north ; thence along K street to New Jersey avenue ; Together with all kinds of Vehicles FOR HIRE at the spects, as regards the persons entitled to vote, and Governor. sequently that the husband of the lady who kept thence up New Jersey avenue to L street north ; thence cate colors, wc claim superiority. The perfection of STABLES of pil K GREAT DISCOVERY. otherwise, in accordance with the laws and regulations which maj; be applicable to the holding of general elec- j CHARLES L. HULSE, the boarding-house, assisted by his wife, locked along L street north to Seventh street west ; thence all our work cannot be equalled. LHTT3R FROM CBNKKAI, HOWARD. Y. M. C. A. Building, corner Ninth and tions in said District. Speaker of the House of Delegates. up the establishment every night, and being half down Seventh street west to Q street north ; thence ALLISON NAILOR, Jr., Fourth. Upon closing the polls, the ballot-boxes con-1 WILLIAM STICKNEY? WASHINGTON, D. C., July 21,1871. D streets. blind and entirely stupid, had closed and locked along G street north to Sixth street west ; along Sixth talmng said tickets (hall be opened, and the ballots , , . ¡President of the Council. 1330,1332and 1334 E street northwest, PROP. T. A. COOK:—Dear Sir: I have for some time oc 8-lm* shall be Immediately counted, and a tally list thereof be ] Approved August 19, 1871. the parlor door without observing our intellectual street west to D street north, and along D street north next to. the corner of Fourteenth street. used the BALM OF LIFE in my family as a wash, and made, and upon the completion of the counting of said H. D. COQKK, Governor. on 27:3m to North Capitol street, on MONDAY, October S3, have found it all you recommend. I am glad to join pursuit. Lithographing, Printing and Binding. BRANCH OFFICE AT "THB ARLINGTON." others in commending an article that is evidently doing RICHARD W. DARKER, ballots; duplicate returns of the voteB cast in each elec- 1871, at the southwest corner of Fourth and H streets, tion district, together with statements of the aggregate Finding the door fastened I touched Miss Julia au 20-tf so much good. number of votes cast thereat fbr the members of the l\TOTIciä AND PROCLAMATION BY Washington. Yours, truly, O. O. HOWARD, on the shoulder. She was half reclining, with her Cabinet Maker and Undertaker, Legislative Assembly, shall, within forty-eight hour», the Governor publishing an act entitled " An act SIXTEENTH DISTRICT. 1833. ESTABLISHED 1833. Brig. General U. 8. A. be made out and signed by the officers of the several elec- to authorize a subscription to the stock of the Piedmont head back and little mouth open, while through BLANK BOOKS tion precincts or districts, which returns shall designate and Potomac Railroad Company upon certain condi- All that part of the city of Washington lying within LETTER FROM JUDGR WYLIE, OF TJ. S. SUI'UHMH COURT, 612 ELEVENTH STREET, near F. tions, and submitting the same' to the people of said her feminine nose came a series of little snores JOHN McDERMOTT & BROS., £he number of votes cast for said law and for issuln» the the following bounds : Commencing at D street, and DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. said bonds, one of which returns shall be placed In the District, and prescribing the form In which itshall bo made to order after any style of ruling. COACH MAKERS AND CARRIAGE. DEALERS, voted upon. more loud than musical. But for this embarrass- running down Sixth street west to the canal ; thence WASHINGTON, D. C., June S4,1871. FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS MADE ilection box of each election district, with the otheï No. 310 Pennsylvania Avenue, papers of said election, and the other shall be placed M ing situation in which I found myself—locked in along the Une of the canal to Four-and-a-Half street ; Near Third street, Dear Sir: I have given your BALM OF LIFE for the EXECUTIVE Opriou, "'I hair a fair trial, and am much pleased with its effects. AND REPAIRED. i sealed envelope, and be directed to the Secretary of DISTRICT op COLUMBIA, a room with a lovely woman—I should have thence down Four-and-a-Half street to Maryland ave- WASHINGTON, 1>. C. It is a healthful wash for both the scalp and hair; and my 7-ly* the District of Columbia, and be placçd in his hands by _ ¥< August 21,1871. paused to admire the singularly beautiful pose nue ; thence along Maryland avenue eastwardly to the We are now having made, in France, a supply of Carriages and Harness received on Storage and Sold on its influence to sooth the nerves and revive the BTStem 3ne or more of said election officers. NOTICE is hereby given and proclamation made that when exhausted from overworjc is most delightful. I Fifth. On receiving the said envelopes, containing the act of the Legislative Assembly of the Dlstrict'of that, barring the snores, was really fascinating. canal; thence along the line of the canal to South Commission. Carriagos Repaired. je 11-tf have not used it except as a wash, but on your recom- IVORCES the returns as aforesaid, the Secretary shall open anS Columbia, approved August 19th, 1871, entitled "An But I realized in a moment that such feelings on Qapitol street; thence up South and North .Capitol NEW TINTED PAPERS, mendation, and from the faith Its use, thus far, has se- sxamlue the same, and add together the returns or stati »et to authorize a subscription to the stock of the Pied- streets'to D street north, and along D street north to cured from me, I should feel great confidence in taking lient, of votes as made to him, from each election dis- mont and Potomac Railroad Company lipon certain my part were improper, and when I came to it as a medicine, according to yoifr directions. trict, and after doing so, shall certify the result to thfe conditions," will be submitted to the people of said Sixth street west, on TUESDAY, October 24, 1871, at and will shortly be enabled to offer many styles HARDWARE, &c. think of it, alarming. I shook the fair Julia, Very respectfully, yours. Sovernor, and file a copy of sncK certificates among thé District at the next general election therein, which will Justice D. R. Smith's office, 306 Four-and-a-Half street, PROF. COOK. ANDREW WYLIE. •ecords of his office. be held on the fourth Wednesday of November, 1871, and she started up with a snort. And then she United States Divorce Agency, .Sixth. If It shall appear from said returns, as cerli- (being the twenty-second day of that month,) and thai Washington. That Cannot be Procured Elsewhere. A. R. SHEPHERD & BRO., the voting for and against the act shall be by printed uttered a little scream. SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT. WASHINGTON, July 1 1871. led to by the Secretary, that a majority of tho votes 910 Pennsylvania Avenne, (sontli side,) DEAR PROFESSOR : After using your BALM OF LIFE Established 1S55. »st for members of the Legislative Assembly shall haie tickets; and the tickets for said act shall contain the , "Reassure yourself, Miss Julia," I said hur- All that part of the city of Washington lying "within • bet. Ninth and. Tenth Streets, In many instances of disorders in my family, I am glad seen cast In favor of said law, and of the iBSuing df words— to say it affords the relief sought. For diarrh<£a, colic, Divorces legally obtained in every State whore the r disapproval, of an act of tho Legislative Assembly of must be obtained of the Governor or Secretary of the OFFJCIAI,. Bhall receive the approval and sanction of the Congress We ran to a window, lifted the sash, and looked ton. sewing Machine! District. said District, approved August 19th, 1871, entitled "An of the United States, the Governor shall be, and lie is WAR HISTORY. ict levying a tax for the payment of the Interest as it hereby, authorized to subscribe, in the mime of tho out. Alas ! there had been an area of old, eight TWENTIETH DISTRICT. Visiting dayB, TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS, from 10 shall annually accrue on four million dollars of bonds, RECOLLECTIONS OF FIELD, MARCH/BIVOUAC, to 2. _ ' FFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE District of Columbia, tp the capital stock of the Pied- feet in depth. The Board of Public Works in All that part of the city of Washington lying south of • , A.ct°'tlie Legislative Assembly approved AuguBt luthorized to be Issued by the District of Columbia, by mont and Potomac Railroad Company man amount not AND PRISON PEN. MEDICAL STAFF: O0 th in act entitled 'An act authorizing the District of Colum- grading the streets had added at leait ten more. E street north, between North and South Capitol streets It Is the most Complete and Perfect Sew- ?tiine for holding Genoral Elections exceeding six hundred thaqssnu dollars: J'rovided, bia to create a debt for special improvements and repairs That, before such subscription shall be made, satisfac- and Fourth street east, on MONDAY, October 30, 1871, BATTLE PICTURES. J. H. THOMPSON, M. D„ Surgoon-in-Chief, in the District of Columbia. n said District by the issuing of four millions of bonds "You must jump," cried Julia. ing; machine ever Invented. Office and residence, 132? Massachusetts avenue. tory evidence shall be furnished to the Board of Public at No. 41 South A street, near First street east, Washing- CAMP-FIRE STORIES, (a unique feature.) ind levying a tax for the payment of the Interest as It WorkB that eqch subscription will be adequate for tho " And break my neck ? " F. A. ASHFORD, M. D.. Assistant Surgeon, AN ACT fixing the time for holding the Geinerai l Elec- ihall annually accrue thereon, and submitting the act, ton. Office and residence, 1330 New York avenue. purpose of completing the grading of said road, and " Better that than compromise me. Jump, sir." MILITARY AND PERSONAL GOSSIP. tions in the District of Columbia. •villi the question of the Issuing of four million of im- satisfactory guarantees shall be given til said Hoard TWENl'Y-FIRST DISTRICT. CONSULTING BOARD: Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Dis- provement bonds, to a vote of the people at a general that the amount so subscribed shall be faithfully ap- "I can't." All that part of the city of Washington lying within ORIGINAL AND THRILLING STORIES OF THE PPI ?/ CWumMa That the general elections therein ¡lection In said District.'" It will do every kind of Sewing that can be done on Noble^Young, M. D., F. Howard, M. D., shall be held on the fourth Wednesday of November of plied to said work, and that said work will be com- "You must." the following bounds : Commencing at South Carolina WAR. D. A. Ritchie, M. D. Johnson Eliot, M. D., pleted within the timo necessary tu avail of said guar any Sewing Machine. J. W. Bliss, M. D., W. G. H. Newman, M. D., eacn ycftr. ESECUSPIVE OFFICE, antee of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company: "But, Miss Julia"— aveuug, and running up Fourth street east to E street BIOGRAPHY, POETRY, EDITORIALS, CORRES- It works beautiful Button-holes. It does Overseam- Lewis Mackall, Jr., M. D. SBO. 2. And be it further enacted. That whereas an DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, lng as by hand. J. E. Morgan, M. D. emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this And provided furtlw, That said road shall bo con- north ; theaee along E street north to Fifteenth street PONDENCE, NOTES AND QUERIES, Ac. se 24-ly August 21, 1871. structed from some point on the Potomac river at. ' j No buts, sir; with your stupid book you got It has the largest cloth plate; uses a straight needle; •act, it is hereby declared to be in force from and afte? Notice is hereby given that at the next general election east; thence dowq. Fifteenth street eastttoC street Georgetown which shall be ästisfactory to said Board me into this fix,yo u ridiculous man; and you GRAND ARMY OPERATIONS. and for durability, beauty of finish, and ease with which its approval by the Governor. " ii the District of Columbia, which wilfbe held on the of Public Works, north thence along e affect north to the Eastern it runs, has not its equal. STONE QUARRIES. CHARLES L. HÜLSE lourtlr Wednesday of November, 1871, (being the twenty- must save me if you have a particle of the gentle- FULL AND ACCURATE INFORMATION CON- Call and see them in operation at No. 820 Four-and-a- Speaker of the House of Delegates SEO. 2. And be it further enacted. That hi order to braoeli j thence along the line of tjje Eastern branch to second day of that month,) the act of the Legislative man in your composition." CERNING BOUNTIES, PENSIONS, LAND GRANTS, Half street, three doors from the Metropolitan Church. WILLIAM STICKNE-ff ' Assembly of the District aforesaid, approved August provide for the payment of said subscription IheGev- B street sooth j (hence along B street south to Fifteenth GEORGE BOYDEN, Agent. . . . President of the Council 19th, 1871, entitled "An act levying a tax for the pay- ernor is hereby authorized to issue- tho registered bv " If I only had a rope—if I only had some in- &c., &c. street east; then.ee down Fifteenth street east toD STONE! STONE! Approved August 19. 1871. ment of the interest as it shall annually accrue on four coupon bonds of tho District of Columbia, whioh shall strument to pick the lock. I have nothing but a IL D. COOKE, Governor. au 27-3m Inllllon dollars of bonds authorized to be iSBued by the express the object of their issue on their facc, shall be street south; thence .along D street sonth to South TERMS. P. S.—No begging bummers are sent from this office signedpy »he Governor and Secretary of the District, to annoy the citizens, or force the sale of this machine. District of Columbia, by an act entitled 'An act au- toothpick. Can I not -do something with a tooth- Carolina avenue, and jfowp Soefli Carolina avenue to One copy one year... $3 00 thorizing the District of Columbia to create a debt for and shall be redeemable twenty years after date: and This business Is left entirely to agents who can sell LYOTICE BY THE GOVERNOR. AND special improvements and repairs in said District by bear six per centum interest, payable half yearly, io au pick?" Fourth street east, on TUESPAY, Qc/fibgr 31,1871, at One copy six months 1 50 their machines in no other way. oc 8-6m -LT Secretary of the District of Columbia of tho sub- amount nocessary to provide said sum of six hundred Two copies one year 5 00 Ine issuing of four millions of bonds, and levying a tax "You're a fool." the southwest corner of East .Capitol and ^gtytft streets SENECA -QUARRIES! iffigmtfP? People of the District of Columbia, for for the payment of the interest as it shall annually ac- thousand dollars, anil to sell said bonds ami pay uvei Five copies one year 11 00 their approval or disapproval, of an act of the Legisla- the proceeds thereof to said Piedmont and Potomac " Thank you, Miss Julia." east, Washington. true thereon, and submitting the act with tfie question Eight copies one year 16 00 WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. tive assembly of said iWict entitled " An act auffi of the issuing of four millions of improvement bmuls, Railroad Company, at such times and in such amounts " Oh ! you aggravate me to death! Why don't TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT. Ten copies one year :. 18 00 izmg the District of Columbia to create a debt for spe- to a vote of the people at a general election in the said as may be required by the progress of the work afore All that part of the city of Washington lying within To one ADIREBS—Twenty copies 30 00 cial improvements and repairs in said District bv the said: Provided, That said bonds Bhall not be sold at u you do something, you fool?" " » "; Fjfty,cop,ii>s 60 00 PALMER GREEN, . District,' " will be submitted to the people of saldDls- the following bonnds: Commencing at the Eastern The Maryland Freestone*!®, and issuing of four mUlions of Lnds, and levyfng a tax lor irict for their approval or disapproval, with the said act lower rate than ninety per ceutnm of the par value " What would you have me do ?" fviri. T. COLLINS) Successors to iin.KY A. SHIUW, he payment of the interest as it shall annually acoml sntltled "An act authorizing the District of Columbia thereof. s branch at the foot of Woutth street east, and running au 27-3m Publisher, (Lock-Box 24.) thereon, and submitting the act with the question of to ci'eato adebtfor special improvements and repairs in SEO. 8. And be it further enacted. That in order to "Do? Why I'll tell you what—you've got 57 Greene Street, Georgetown, D. C., M. Company, l n g 0 tl e 0 r lli0M up Fourth street east to Sortii Carolina avenue ; thence Manufacturers of MINERAL WATERS, If SI „ f ,L L i ? ™ improvement bonds said District by the issuing of four million of bonds, meet the intorest to accrue on said bonds, there shall either to jump out at this window or go with me Have on hand and Baw to order Platforms. Steps, Win- 0 16 el ind levying a tax for the payment of the interest as it be levied annually a tax of six per cent., or such lowet along South Carolina avenue to D btreat south ; thence Agents for WILLIAM MASSET & Co.'s ATIONAL CAPÍTOL LIFE INSUR- dow Caps and Sills, Door Sills, Ashler, Water Table, i?i?ttrict.™ ApproveA nnVnvS?d Augus? »111t 19,18711 . <*tion in said Dis- shall annually accrue thereon, and submitting the act, rate as may suffice, on every bundled dollars of tin t;aid election will be tho first general election after row, he'll kill you." Eastern branoh to tfee foot of Fourth street cast, on Rubble Work, Churches, Warehouses, and other heavy P H the passage of said act entitled "An act levying a tax J? hereby requested to cause this act to bo duly pub W. I). GLENN, ap 16-ly buildings, walls, and all jobs where strength and dura- ™ 1 Columbia, which willte held Iished before the next general election, as required bj Here was an unpleasant predicament for a poor WEDNESDAY, November 1, *t the northwest igSS fourth Wednesday of November, 1871, (being the far the payment of the interest as it shall annually ac- bility are required. COn day f that crue on four million dollars of bonds, authorized to be the fourteenth section of the charter of the District ol corner of Ninth and K streets, opposite Agsepstia en- Practical Jeweler and Watchmaker, Office and Yard, corner K and Twenty-eighth streets 5. /> month,) the act oI the Legis- Columbia, (act of Congress qf February twenty-one youth. I had been to the theater once to see tb^ GENTS WANTED FOR THE BEST lative Assembly of the District of Columbia, entitled Issued by the District of Columbia by au act entitled gine-house, Washington. No. 1203 F st., near corner of Twelfth, northwest. C. W. HV YD UN, antllor izi An act authorizing tho District of Columbia to create eighteen hundred and seventy-one,) and by sultabli "Romance of a Poor Young Man." I saw him .jvl'V . pg the District of Columbia to create proclamation to submit the same to the people. . . GEORGE S. GIDEON, WASHING TON, D. C. A Subscription Books published. Transmission of je H-tf Secretary. a aept for special Improvements and repairs in said Dis- i debt for special improvements and repairs in said take a fearful leap like this. A spirit of heroism District by the iss;iing~of four million of bonds, and' proscribe the form in which it shall be voted upo.-i. WILLIAM SYPHAX, Lile, Naphey's last and best. The Year of Battles, trict by the issuing of four million of bonds and levy- • ' • • CHARLES L. HÜLSE. ing a tax for the payment of the interest as It shall' .evyiu» a tax for the payment of the interest as it shall seized on me. P. il. DUBANT, Clocks, Watches, «Jewelry. Opera Fans, Parasols, &c., (France and Germany.) Warren's Family Physician. EW HEADQUARTERS FOR SCHOOL, innually accrue thereon, and submitting the act, with repaired. All kinds of Jewelry made to order. Hair Physical Life of Woman, ,9o.th edition. Beecher's Life annually accrue thereon, and submitting the act with Speakerof tho House of Delegate*. " I wiU I I will t" I cried. ROBERT GRIFFIN, N the question of the issuing of the four million of im- •he question of tlielssuingof four millions of linprove- Jewelry of the latest styles made to order. of Christ, &c., &c. All highly popular, and selling Law, Medical, and Miscellaneous Books, Sta- nent bonds, to a vote or the people at a general elec- - WILLIAM STlCÜNliV, " Will what?" she demanded sharply. MATTHIAS H. HUNTER. Steel Spectacles to suit all ages. fast by the tionery,

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