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VOLUME I. NUMBER 22. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., AUGUST 6, 1871. For THE CAPITAL. plier, just the same as ever! neither up nor OTJB MISS GRUNDY LETTER. not but be struck by the contrast here in this SMOKE. down." respect. There the young men devote very little Ihould be in that! Leave go my dress! GREENBRIER WHITE SUUHOR SPRINGS, The day and the flght closed in glory, "Be quick! drinking all the morning has time to the ladies except during the evening. mut go'." ,* . WEST VIRGINIA, August 3,1871. We lie by the camp-flre's.blaze, made me thirsty." During the day they herd together or disappear While the smoke from fragrant brierwoods She broke away from Lizzie and rushed | The Orange and Alexandria railroad runs upon entirely. Here they devote themselves to general "Here it is, sir!" He watched Jack drain its merits. It resorts to no such petty device- as Floats up in a fleecy haze; frantically towards the beach. I Or special society all day long. Ladies have a the cup to the dregs, and then he asked, in a I advertising to attract public attention, or to en- Floats up like a white-robed spirit. "Poor girl!" sighed the young landlady. succession of invitations to walk, to drive, to ride voice trembling with emotion, "Jack, don't ! lighten the public mind. If, being in Washing- Then off on the evening breeze. on horseback, to bowl, to croquet, to sit on the |'Guilty or not guilty, Ned will find but a I ton, you wish to travel on the above-mentioned We list to the flames complaining you know me?" '• piazza and talk for an hour with one, and then to r wreck. Did either of them steal that | I road, you must get out a search-warrant to get And the mnrm'rlng of the trees. "Who are you calling Jack," he inquired, promenade 'for tho same length of time with bup ? Which, I wonder! Not Lucy, I'm sure,: [.possession of the necossary information as to time Now and then on his round incessant surlily, setting the cup down, "and who the another They must divide the round dances at Lnd Ned would hardly have the audacity to | iof departure of trains, &c., wliich some wiseacre We hear the lone sentry's pace, deuce are you?" the bops between several partners, and they liave tome back if he took it. Time only will show. lemployed for tlie purpose carries about with him, Now and then from the cloud above us " I'm waiter at the Angel Inn—just joined." engagements days ahead for the first square dance That Fipps has left all these glasses standing llest mayhap if he liad a local habitation and a at the hops, which privilege, according to the eti- Looks,«11 old familiar face. '' What!" exclaimed Jack, recognition flash- here, when they're wanted in the bar; Never I •name, such as the "Orange and Alexandria rail- quette of the place, entitles the gentleman to And the home-like forms endearing ing upon him, " if it isn't my old friend Fipps! lroad office," some unwary individual who wants Glide slow and dreamily by, [mind, I'll take them in myself. If you want ] take his partner into tho room. Give me your hand, Fipps! Why this mean I to know you know, might stumble across liim and Of the white-haired sire and mother. i thing done, do it yourself; if not, send." Although the hops are of nightly occurrence, disguise ? You've stood many a Jiottle to me." I thus be deprived of the exciting pleasure of the And maid with the lovelit eye. (Conclusion next week.) |pursuit of knowledge. they are as largely attended and the toilettes are The red light caresses the billows " Yes, but I can't stand any more; I'm ru- For THE CATITAL. I as elegant as at' the grandest balls. Nearly all As peer from its upward twirls ined." IMAGINATION. For the benefit of the traveling public I will say the ladies wear full ball dress ; tarletanes elabo- Our little ones' wondering facos "Who ruined you? Only tell me, and I'll Wrapt in soft clouds, and floating through the sky, I that to reach the White Sulphur you start from rately puffed and trimmed, blue, pink, and gold- Mid mazes of tangled curls. wreak vengeance on 'em." Come the fair creatures of our'fantasy; lthc Maryland avenue depot at 6:55 a. m., and you colored silks with court trains and low corsages, Creatures of air to us; jeMEgrms of light, And now, as in fancy capricious I change cars at Gordonsville about noon, taking are more generally worn than the dinner toilettes '' No one in particular—everybody in gen- They picture all the curtains of the night It circles our heads, we see I tlié Chesapeake and Ohio road, and that you reach usually seen at the regular hops at fashionable re- eral; I ruined myself, in fact." To wishes which we never can express Bright visions of laurels entwined, lyouv destination at 10:10 p. m. very much the sorts. I have never seen so much dressing any- " What the devil did you go and ruin your- To thoughts too subtle for mere thoughtfulness. By brides that arc yet to be. 1 worse for a fifteen hours' journey by very slow where as there is here every evening. Diamonds, self for?"' They hold the stars which light us on to good, Seel here are the flower-decked arches. Seen dimly, through a lens of dreamy mood, I stages. The fatigue experienced does not proceed pointe and duchesse lace arc anything else rather '' Don't be angry with me, Jack." When the nation's tears shall cease, Our souls long for their treasures—wish them given : 1 so much from the time consumed in traveling as than rarities. There is also more beauty here than (And the white-robed spirit, benignant, "But I am angry with you. What's the Ah! that would make of earth too much a heiv'n 1 I that consumed in stopping. . On the smallest 'one generally has the good fortune to encounter. Floats North like a soft-winged peace.) use of a fellow like you if you haven't got Yet, through Imagination's fair kaleidoscope I provocation the train pauses, the locomotive takes There are some half dozen young ladies whose We look, and long, and longing ever hope; | a long breath and resigns itself to peace and quiet, And this—but the lire's asleep; the smoke money? You're no use to anybody." claims to bclleship arc .undisputed, and the only And, hoping right, kind death will set us free lias gone with the wind to play, '' You ought to be sorfy for me." | the engineer, conductor, and other officials take a difficulty is to decide which is the belle. These Where all we can imagine is reality. I nap, and when they have bad dreams start up and And we hear but the sentry's challenge "I'm a good deal more sorry for myself. ladies are Miss Margaret Preston and Miss Mary ALMOST BARNES. I set the train in motion. Three times during the We see but the branches sway. What's to become of me?" Dudley, whoso sojourn in Washington last win- | dçy a crowd of belligerent eating-house runners The whip-o-will's wall through the forest For THE CAPITAL. ter is so pleasantly remembered; the Misses Wil- "You're joking, Jack." | lay "siege to the train, fight over the passengers, Comes echoing wierd and low, liams of Baltimore, who spend their winters jn " Joking be hanged! I'm serious. Here am EULE OF THE "COBDEN CLUB." | and each having captured a few of those who are And steals o'er the hoart like a shadow Washington; Miss Jennie Spraguc, of New York; I obliged to drink half a pint of porter at my We are sick of dependence on England, I found in possession of all their limbs after the That omens a coming woe. Miss Ward, already mentioned, Miss Eliza Brand own expense, whereas if you hadn't been a [therefore, in our weak way, we struggle on I 1 fray, the prisoners are marched off to the tune of of Lexington, Kentucky, and Miss Haile of Staun- For we think of the morning's comrades fool and ruined yourself I should have had a [with a view to change. If the "Cobden j | "pies, sandwiches, hard-boiled eggs," and re- ton, Virginia, formerly of Florida. All of these That stiffen on yonder plain. I turned twenty minutes later in a weak, dyspoptic And for whom nevermore the pictures share in a bottle of champagne." IClub" is anything it is a congress of reprc--j ladies, with the exception of the eldor Miss Wil- .".Well, I'm sure I'm sorry." [sentative men, who rally around the ghost of j 1 condition that renders protest impossible. At liams and Miss Brand, are blondes, but all differ Of Bmoke shall arise again. I Covington, where we halted about dusk, we "You ought to be." I the departed free-trader, to carry out his prin- in style and all have other attractions besides And stern eyes grow dim and lips tender Ilearned the wisdom of "laying low," as the chil- their beauty to commend them to the honors -of I ciples. The assemblage has for its leading ] As Bteal through the sighing trees "You won't cut me because I can't treat lliave it, until the danger was passed. We waited belleship, as all are lively, spirited girls, capablc Low prayers that hope's bright begUilings you any longer, will you?" | objects so to direct the industries of the world j (until the first excitement of the attack was over May not end in smoke like these. of maintaining steadily for any number of con- "No, I won't do that; but I'm very angry I as to build up and sustain such compact coun- land the prisoners taken, then we walked boldly WritteFRANn foKr IITH. EGASSAWAY CAPITAL. secutive hours the most animated conversation. with you." lupon the platform, secured the services of an THE ANGEL. " And I'm very angry with you, Mr. Easy," I African citizen who, owing to being captured Themorning " germans " are a feature. Nearly lliimself instead of having seized some one else every day from eleven until one the all-absorbing said Lizzie, appearing at the door where she •after a pitched battle, was in a state of meek sub- "german" reigns in the hall-room. The ball- had been standing listening to the latter part CELIA LOGAN KELLOGG. mission, and obeyed our every behest without a room by-the-by is one of the finest rooms for the of the conversation. Imurmur. He brought us delicious venison and. purpose I ever saw. It is 'large, well ventilated, (Continued.) "What for?" Ifried chicken, well cooked and seasoned, glasses and has a floor as smooth as glass, which is kept CHAPTER VII. "For speaking so unkindly to this unfor- •of rich milk, excellent tea, hot rolls and good but- veiy clean, and well rubbed and polished, so that Itcr ; and we having improvised a table had an im- AB Lizzie disappeared inside the Angel, tunate little man." there is no injury done to the trains which sweep Ipromptu moonlight picnic which was very en- over it every evening. The morning "german" I there crept into the garden and sat down on a '' Unfortunate fiddlestick! He ruined him- self, he says; what business had he to do that, Ijoyable. But the wonder of wonders overwhelmed is a private enterprise. The band, an excellent j garden-seat a little man for whom the wheel lus lat,cr, when we wished to pay for our luxuries. or to be so unfortunate, as you call it?" one from Baltimore, plays on the lawn every day of fortune had spun around and suddenly •Our colored friend positively refused to set a before dinner and every afternoon before tea, and " Perhaps he wouldn't have been so unfor- I stopped just when he was under its tire. lie Iprico at first, and when repeatedly urged to do so cach evening for tho hops. To furnish music for [was thin, ragged, wretched, and these were tunate but for other people." •timidly suggested "fifty cents," and >when he re- 'the "German" is an extra duty, and the young I his thoughts as he gazed at the Inn: "That's a hit at me." ceived it made this strange announcement : men who attend these daylight dances pay the I " Yes, here it is—the dear old Angel! Yes, "Does the cap fit?" fiddler. [ it was a very dear old Angel to me, for I spent "No. If I hadn't shared his champagne "When I brings things out to the ladies and The ladies wear their morning dresses, hats, I a thousand pounds at its bar if I spent a somebody else would, and the end would have I gentlemen, I allers takes what they gibs me. If. and walking shoes, and dance, apparently, with [penny, standing champagne to everybody been just the same. Besides, he had full value I it's only five cents, I puts it in my pocket and says even more energy than in the evening. A new [ like a fool as I was. Everybody thought the for his money in my society. He sought me, 1 nothing about it." figure, entirely original with himself, I believe, [world of me then! I wonder if anybody I didn't seek him. Ain't that true, Fipps?" In view of the fact that the .price of a supper was introduced by the leader a. few days ago. Several gentleman stood in the center of the room I would speak to me now! | " Yes, Jack, quite true," answered the littl I within doors was one dollar per head, this rule of lour friend was passing strange. However, it is and a lady near one end. The lady was given a : In a few minutes Lizzie bustled into the man, busily polishing the pewter mugs in tin Ibut justice to Covington to say that its railroad croquet mallet and ball, and at the proper mo- ' garden, and seeing a beggar, as she thought, hope that he might rub himself into the affec lliotei is a most unusually good one, and a supper ment she struck the ball, the gentleman sprang tions of the young landlady. I or a thief, advanced and told him to take him- lat its neat and well-provided table is worth the to catch it, and the successful one claimed the, "Didn't I always listen to your stupid 3to-' Fsclf oft' or she would send for the police; upon Iprice asked. lady as his partner and danced her off. which the man began to cry, and muttered, rics? " I Our waiter, seeing us inclined to hurry through I am writing with a map before inc, called " You didn't use to talk of the police when "You did, Jack, you did," wiping away lour ineal, having due regard for our comfort, told the "birds-eye view of the White Sulphur ! I eamc to the Angel in Mr. Hudson's time." tear in memory of those bright days. lus there was no occasion for haste. Springs " as it appears in the small pamphlet de- I "Who are you?'' inquired Lizzie, looking " And laugh at them when there was nothing " Dey allers gibs you plenty of time on dis road," voted to a dissertation on tho White Sulphur. ave I not, friends? I have waited ana | attentively at him. to laugh at? " llie said. "Dcy say dey stop twènty minutes,'but The map is charming, having cheerful hues of suffered too! Who but myself knows how "You did, Jack, you did!" lits mos genelly half an hour; dey says dat so washed-out green, representing lawns; drab dots " Am I so changed that nobody knows me? much?" simulating trees, rusty brown blocks for buildings, "And when you've been impudent to fel- lyou'll get through soon's you can, you see, but [Oil, Lizzie! Lizzie! don't you know" Lizzie went on reading, and faded pink dashes for roads aad paths, which lows on the strength of your money, haven't ldcy'Il wait for you-, dcy won't leve you, not any [ "Good gracious! Is it—can it lie little Mr. " I would have written bafore, but I had no I way." • divide the lawn up into curious figures resembling I saved you from a hiding many a time?" Fipps?" good news to tell you. Now it is different. V After running the gauntlet of hackinen and nothing so much as the various developments on "Many a time, Jack, many a time." a phrenological chart. L " All that remains of that once brilliant in- I have made a fair start and am getting along J'bus drivers at the depot in Washington, one "And because you liked to have people ( dividual." so well in this country that I have resolved to I surely ought to be prepared for any amount of That map is a comfort to me, for, by means of think you were in the army, didn't I call you " And in this dreadful plight! What have come to England for you; if yon are still of lyelling in one's ears and violent seizures on it, I can, when far away, trace to its conclusion a captain? " romance now in progress, whose course without I you done with your good clothes?" the same mind." lone's person, but experience there foreshadows I "I—pawned them—to buy bread." " You did, you did, Jack—always." Ibut faintly the scene on the platform when the this aid it might not be my privilege to follow. " Mind—mind!" repeated Lucy, pressing her Within the next ten days a lady and gentleman, "What have you done with all your mo "And are you a captain—wore you ever a •train reaches the White Sulphur. The vociferous hands to her head. lentreaties for your cheeks and the demands for who have corresponded for four years, will meet [ ney?" captain?" "I will make you my wife and take you lyour patronage bawled in your ears,-already buzz- for the first time in this inspiring spot. The lady i "Spent it." "No, Jack, I never was in the army at all." to my new home in the United States. In ling from the noise of the cars, suggests to you is a poetess from the sunny South, the gentleman i "All?" "Very well, then. Lizzie, I listened to two days I sail for England in the same ship las the least troublesome mode of settling the a member of tho press. '' E-very—c-opper." him, I bore with him, laughed with him— I came out by, the 'Good Hope,' whose cap- Imatter to throw yourself off the platform and let Since writing the above I have sought the grove "What makes you stutter so?" when there was nothing to laugh at, mind- tain kept his word to me in every particular. lyour tormenters fight it out over your remains. to find out its meandering walks for myself and > "E-motion." fought for him, lied for him, and injured my see how the thing looked in reality. I found So, dearest, you may expect to see me back| I But, the danger over, when you find yourself in a constitution drinking with him; so that now Icomfortable omnibus equal to those in the cities, "Hesitancy" quite overgrown with weeds, evi- "What am I to do with you? " again almost as soon as you receive this letter.' " Marry me." he's gone and amused himself by ruining him- I you gradually gain sufficient strength, mental and dently but little used. "Bejection" is a sweet place, owing probably to its having been watered "Nonsense!" self, I consider myself the injured party." " He's coming home! coming home!" cried I physical, to face, in your travel-soiled attire, the by many tears and fertilized.. " The way to Para- "No, it ain't; I'm eligible now. When "You haven't an atom of heart," said Liz- Lucy, wild with joy—laughing, sobbing, and gay crowd which rushes from the ball-rooiirto the ¡balcony to see the arrivals. dise " is all up hill, reminding one that "Jordan ! you were bar-maid here, and I used to drive zie, " and I don't like you." embracing them all by turns. "Would li Coming to the White Sulphur from Washington am a hard road to travel," and " Paradise " itself, l down here and drink old Hudson's wine, you ' "I never asked you to, and that's what come back here if he wasn't innocent? Lei I at this season is like plunging from some secluded when reached, is found to be a row of small build- 1 wouldn't have me because I was above you in makes you mad. I wasn't going to give you me see the letter, Lizzie. It is dated New] ings, strongly suggestive of that love in a cottage York. How far is that, Jaek?'; I rural retreat into the vortex of city dissipation. station. What do you say to me now ? Have the chance to laugh at me as you did at little I The music, the lights, the crowd of people on which takes an unceremonious departure through "Three thousand miles," said Little Fipps. I brought myself down low enough for you Fipps. Look what he has come down to! I pleasure intent confound and bewilder the new- the window when .poverty enters in the usual " It isn't," said Jack. " It's only two thou| manner. But then I'm so mercenary. now?" scouring pots and pans — base, disgusting I comer from deserted Washington. The instant sand five hundred." " You've gone too far the other way now. work!" I recognition of the fact that you have arrived at In my own case wc entered Paradise through " It's three thousand." That was always the worst, of you, you always "I never saw you work," said Lizzie. I the gayest of watering places, is forced upon you, the President's house, a new idea to me as I had " Bet you a sovereign it isn't even two thoul always supposed that was the fenriiuus of the road ' ran to extremes." "Nor did anybody else—nor ever will." land you are in a state of delightful enthusiasm sand five hundred!" to ruin. The President's house Is one of tho "Then you won't marry me?" "How you live is a puzzle to me." lover the good time coming, or absolute despair lat the overwhelming torrent of dissipation into oldest and most substantial cottages here, and its "No; but I'll tell you what I will do for " How do the sparrows live? " " As far as.that?" Lucy asked. "How Ion I which you have been cast. founder had it specially set apart for the use of f you. I want a waiter, and if. ypu will ac- "By picking up crumbs." will it take the ship to Come?" I At the White Sulphur congregates each season any President of the United States who visited • eept"— "If she's a steamer," said Fipps, "about " And so do I." [ a vast company of pleasure-seekers who have but these springs. Presidents have occupied it, but fortnight." " The situation?" " You have wasted your life just as much lthc one common desire to enjoy themselves I cannot learn that General George W. ever so " Less, I tell you," said Jack. " They conn "Yes." as Fipps lias." I thoroughly and they appear to carry their point. much as surveyed it. " I close with the offer at once." "She stands up for me," thought Fipps. in less than ten days." I From-liine o'clock in tlic morning until near mid- Governor Bandolph of New Jersey is here, and "And you shall have twelve shillings a '' She Juis a sneaking kindness for me after "Bet you a sovereign they don't." Inight there is an unecasing round of amusements I had the pleasure last evening of meeting him and his wife and his fathcr-in-law, Nicholas Cole- week, and your board and lodging." alL " "Done! put up your money!" land the only puzzle is how to find time for all. man of Kentucky. He has all his family with "Oh, Lizzie!" he exclaimed in a transport " Aint got a copper." I There is little of the clique-system prevailing '' If you had a wife and family to keep, you him, and lias taken one of tlie brick cottages iu of gratitude. "Let me kiss you; do let me '' Neither have I—let's go and look at a map | here, nor have I once heard politics discussed, or might be a useful member of society, though Colonadc Row. Governor Bandolph is such a and whoever loses will have to stand a pint o: | heard of any one being snubbed because of ex- kiss you now!" never an ornamental one." courteous, genial gentleman, and possesses such beer at the bar." Itrcme opinions on either side in regard to the state " What! dare to offer to kiss your landlady! remarkable conversational powers that he bids " That's not my opinion. What do I want I of affairs North and South. So far from keeping And mind I don't catch you kissing anybody "All right!" said Fipps, and into the Ange fair to be the most popular man at this watering with a wife and family? I can indulge my 1 in cliques, and every small circle having a distinct else." they went, arm-in-arm place. If the White Sulphur sets up a little natural susceptibilities without incurring the | revolution, everybody seems to do the same things During their little altercation Lucy had been President-making on its own account, Governor "No, mum," he answered demurely, but responsibility." I at the same time. After every meal tlie large o-azing at the letter, and making an effort to Randolph is likely to hold a place on the ticket. thought that she did love him a little, or she " Which shows you are utterly selfish." | parlor fills up and conversation proceeds at a lively collect her senses. wouldn't say thai. " I make love to the bar-maids all round." I rate. That parlor is the most cheerful place ima- We have not a large number of Washingtonians " Does it really mean, Lizzie, that he's com- here as yet. Mr. Corcoran, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. "Here's your apron," she said, tying it " You do, Jack, you do," said Fipps. ginable at such times ; the girls promenade the ing home to marry me and take me to America floor with their heaus, or sit in groups chattcr- Kennedy, Hon. B. T. Merrick and family, Mrs. around him. "None of them make love to you," said with him?" | ing like magpies, or rather like the light-hearted Frank Taylor and her niece, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. "Oh! don't tie me too tight—I've had no Lizzie. "Yes dear." | créatures they are, inspired by youth, health, and Carlisle and family, Dr. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Fitz- dinner." •"Well, if they don't, none of them can I the exhilerating influences of having "such a hugh Coylc and daughter are about all from "Never mind; you shall have a good one She burst into an hysterical laugh, which claim me and make me support them." I charming time ;" the matrons in their groups are Washington now at this place. Mrs. Taylor and presently. There! gather up all those glasses suddenly changed to a moan, and she said, " You'll go to the poorhouse some day." no less animated ; whist and euchre parties take her niece intend going very soouto the Old Sweet and wash them, and the pewter mugs and " Oh! Lizzie! I begin to see what I have done." "And if you should happen to visit that possession of the tables, and the piano is sur- Springs, seventeen miles from here. Mrs. Mosher " You—what?" of Georgetown is.there at present, and Miss Ca- polish them. You'll find sand and scouring cheerful abode then, Lizzie, you will find me rounded as some obliging young girl gives pleas- " I said that—you know I am accused of a pron. Governor Wi8o is also there—I mean the cloths in the outhouse or stable." sitting in the sun, under the poorhouse wall, ure to all by her music. same Wise who used to know John Brown. From " I fly to do your bidding," he replied, can- smoking my pipe, the picture of content- crime!" There is from Newport, Kentucky, a sweet Baltimore Mrs. and Misses Merrefield are here; tering away. Lizzie flitted in and out of the "By yourself only." singer, who has received the tribute of much sin- ment." also Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Williams and daughters. inn, disposing of the remains of the feast she "That makes it worse. I cannot disprove cere admiration because of her beautiful render- " You're a puzzle "— Some of the other prominent guests are Governor ing of very touching ballads. She sings Italian had given her friends, and said to herself, " Say animated conundrum." my own words. I never thought of this Bragg of North Carolina, Hon. A. H. Stuart of | music remarkably well, but her sympathetic voice with a glance over her shoulder, " I thought "I give you up." moment! But Lizzie, what will Ned say when Staunton, Virginia, formerly Secretary of the In- appeal's to greater advantage in tender or pathetic lie'd come to this! I've seen so many of those Fipps had by this time finished cleaning he hears it? Will he believe me innocent as I terior, aud Mr. and Mrs. Van Buren of New York. I ballads. She is a Miss Ward, and is here with her fast fellows travel the same road. A little three mugs, and, holding them up, asked if believe him innocent?" I cousin, Mrs. Taylor, also of Newport. Miss Ward The National Dental Association meets here this work will do him good." "I don't know dear. Men are different they weren't bright. [ is mentioned as one of the belles, and she g as- week, and creates some stir. Miss GRUNDY. from us—they are suspicious." Back bounced Fipps laden with pint pots, "Pshaw! there's nothing in them!" Jack I cordially admired by ladies as by gentlemen. "He suspicious! Had I no suspicions? But POLITICS in Ohio are beginning to be quite Noysey, scouring rags, and sand, and set to his work said;'"what does the outside matter?" There is no cry of despair going up from this and the Republicans are up and doing. They have the with a will. Jack Easy came lounging in, "Fipps, come here!" said Lizzie. "Take he must believe me when I tell him I am inno- | place for lack of beaus. It is the one watering inside track, although it is necessary that they should and seeing him, said to himself: off that apron!" cent. If he were guilty he would not dare re- I place where there are fully as many young gen- work. : turn. No! I have no longer any doubt of his "Is that a beggar or a waiter? By his "Oh, mum! you're not going to discharge ltlemen as young ladies. This is why the girls ONE of the candidates lately before a California county clothes I should say the first, by his occupa- me!" he whined. innocence or of his love." ! think that tlie White Sulphur is the most superla- board of examination gave the following definition of tion the second. If he's a beggar I'll advise "Take off that apron!" "Come in doors with me and calm yourself, tively delightful spot in creation. Even West the word '.'phlebotomy:" "Phlebotomy—pertaining Point cannot compare with it, for there the at- Lizzie t6 send him to the chain-gang; if he's "I'll try and-rub 'em up brighter next time." Lucy." * to the bottom of a phlee." tendant swains are subject to rude interpositions, a waiter I'll order a pint of beer. Ili! waiter!" She pulled off the apron and threw a nap- A YOUNO lady was entertaining some frieiids tho other "No—no—don't keep me!" she said, her such as calls to drill or some other duty, which "Coming, sir—coming!" kin over his shoulder, saying, "As a reward wild mood returning. '' Ned's coming home! ¡evening, when one said, "Miss —, your braid is com- calls cannot be disregarded under severe penal- ing off." She clapped her hands to her head and found "Bring me half a pint of porter at my own for your disposition to work, I promote you I must go to the shore and see if there are ties, while here the young gentlemen apparently nothing unslippcd. The gentleman quietly pointed to expense, d'ye hear? " to be head waiter on the spot." any tidings of the ' Good Hope.' My Ned's have no other business on earth but the very "de the braid of her dress, about half a yard of which had "Yes, sir—directly, sir," he answered, run- " "I've gone too far," growled Jack to him- coming back in her! Look, Lizzie! there's a lightful one of making the ladies enjoy themselves. been torn off and was lying on the floor. There was an ning into the bar, "It's Jack, the philoso- self; "but women always like fools best." ship in sight now! Oh merciful heaven! if he I After visiting Northern watering places one can- au(}ible smile. I
13 Miss May Potts, a sweet little blonde not three years there with hundreds of tall, graceful spires, the houses I old, appeared as a marquise. with their tin roofs all glittering in the sun, with just are left to regulate themselves. Tliis is held up Hendricks or Groesbeek we will have a gal- army is the roughest experience the Lords fortunate men, or draw his percentage from the Miss Lizzie Webb, as a shepherdess, looked very in- before us that triumph of engineering skill, the Vlctorii as another sign of the degeneracy of the times, bridge, was a scene to be rememberod. We landed at lant fight, with statesmanship in the lead, and have yet encountered. Without any control damaged credit of a poor city with impunity, and | teresting. THE CAPITAL. the quay at the foot of Jacques Oartier's square, whets anil as another reason why well-fed officials should all the time his vast possessions will increase in Lieutenant Goddard of Washington in full uniform, victory or defeat will be alike dignified, if not over the expenditures of the public purse, we took a carriage and were soon landed at this house be retired and their lean and hungry neighbors be value through the enterprise of others. But in I appeared in the trying character of Lieutenant Goddard Publication Office, 428 Eleventh Street, glorious. ^^^^^^^^^ without thè power to stand in the way of any As we came up we passed the Bonsecours market house substituted in their btead. the role of guardian to the public, that he has so I of Washington, and was as handsome as he is popular. act of the House of Commons, with even the I wish our company, or ring, or swindlers, or whatever Well, this isthe narrow and one-sided view to General Simpson outgeneraled the whole party in HEREDITARY PRIVILEGE AND suddenly volunteered, he is neither graceful nor they are called, could see it, and seeing, do likewise WASHINGTON CITTÌ' "prerogatives of the crown" used against full-dress uniform, and did much to add to the enter- POPULAR RIGHTS. take of things. If we were not of thut peculiar imposing. It is of stone, three steries high, architecture quasi them, the pèerage of England has reached its tainment of the assembled hundreds. It was a fieldda y cast of mind which can grasp the whole of a sub- doric, basement and firBt floor market, upper stories SUNDAY MORNING, - - AUGUST 6,1871 The triumph of the House of Lords in Eng- THE enemies to public improvement in Wash- was that night, as an Irishman would say, to General S. level; and the representatives of the "illustri- ject as well as a part, we might he of tha same city offices and city council hall, which seats four thou- land, in rejecting the army bill, was of short ington city are enjoying a brief triumph. Judge Among the brave appeared conspicuously the gallant ous houses " are of no more real account in method of thiDking. But we scorn to evince sand people. It cost $375,000. What would the In. duration. Finding the Peers« like the old Wiley, much to the astonishment of his friends, ¡ warworn vet.; Genéral Heintzelman, Messrs. Ross Page THE OHIO AND PENNSYLVANIA the aflairs of Gre'at Britain than so many such limited capacity. We can look beyond the junctionists say to that » • After breakfast we saw three ELECTIONS. Bourbons, "learned nothing andfofgot noth- granted the injunction prayed-for by a few heavy of Hagorstówn, Vaik^ensSiáíMa* of Albany, N. Y., Pom- mere existence of a fact, and gase delightfully w K thousand of the volunteer militia reviewed by Sir mummers at a theater. eroy of ^lihiore, ®® we»» - - Wehrhmann, W. The political canvass now being gotten up ing," the British ministry solved the difficulty property-holders. Wo have a kind feeling for Charles Somebody—I've forgotten who. I didn't thhlk . Undoubtedly the example of the United ahd bewllderingly upon its consequences. Where M,. Orom y. Dc Ford, Dr. Smith of Philadelphia, Senor this judge, and must not be understood as im- v much of them ; they looked to me as if at the battle of in tlie two States above named promises a crisis by ignoring the right of the aristocracy to stop there aro no, consequences, as a mere matter of l Gewillom, a wealthy Cuban, Mr. J^tewart, Captain A. States, imperfect as we know it practically to puting any improper motive to hinj. . But it is Dorking—they'd only leave home in case of invasion in the affairs of the Dation. After due reflec- the wheels of progress. The sequel is told- in history, our imagination can supply the deficiency. ñát'?of York, Captain Balch., G. iM. Gill, G. Nevitt •be, has stimulated and encouraged the people much to be regretted that he did not accompany Wo then went to the cathedral. It holds ten thousand I Steele^ Judge Wright, Dr. Pendleton, Alex. Clayton, tion we consider oursjelf safe in asserting that the debate on the subject on Monday last, when Supposing the President, and his Cabinet, and people. It has lovely pictures—one, they say, a genuine of England to assert their manhood. It is no his decision with an opinion. The rambling, f Edward Pendleton, Dr. Hunter, Dr. Ohr of Cumberland, the impending crisis is a real crisis. "We say a vote of censure,on the ministry was rejected, a host of subordinates are absent from the seat Vandyke. The Jesuits church is very beautiful. There wonder that during-our civil war the English' disconnected talk his Honor gave us, in place 1 Colonel'stróther, the famous Porte-Crayon, Mr. Peyton this to distinguish the event from a common the Lords thus submitting to their defeat! of Government. What of it ? Is there anything I courtly clergyman, seeing we were strangers, took ui nobility were our bitterest foes, for the suc- of an opinion, is simply disgraceful. He seeme I Harrison, l\fr. Kirkendall, and many others. Our space in-the Constitution ¡is'amended or laws of Con- in charge and showed us everything, Including some of crisis that happens every year when certain The abolishment of the "purchase system" to feel the absurdity of this, for he throws out I will not permit a further mention. cess of the United States is, to a great extent, gress to compel a man-to stay in Washington for- their jeweled robes. The interior of the church is oov. patriots appeal to the ballot-box on an issue strikes a blow at - one of the greatest social the strange assertion, after a column of loose The.mn6ic was superb, the refreshments choice, the the realization of the fact that the people are ever? We think not. Indeed we hope not. ered with fine frescoes of scenes in the life of our Sa- that invariably involves the safety of the ré talk, contained in these words : " I have probably I dancing graceful; and the baila thing of beauty to be props of the English nobility, and as such capable of self-government. Already the gov- Perish the Constitution as amended and the laws vior and his apostles. The Methodist church is mas. public, to say nothing of the constitution and said more than is necessary in this case. I have I remembered forever. marks an important era in the progress of ernment of Great Britain is based upon the that Would seek to. arbitrarily control individual niflcent. The Metropolitan is not a circumstance to it by-laws of the same. . not pretended to givo tlic reasons which have and they have the finest organ in the city, What'U the democracy: we of course mean democracy in will of the Cot action ! Perish as well the man who has 'such _ _ OUR ANNA. LETTER, its legitimate sense, as opposed to the preroga- controlled my decision, but I hâve "merely an- • MONTREAL. Newmans say to that ? I wonder, with all these modern We can see in this political contest grave innovations, the old Methodists rest in their graves. I tives of the few in favor Of the rights of the lounced the decision with"some general yleWi: I MY DEAR NELLIE : Such a charming budget of letters results affecting the welfare of the people, and ould not take the time or undergo the labor of know, if the dead could rise, some of 'em would. The many. The English army, outside of the as we received from home and Europe the morning on therefore call the attention of citizens of these Ivriting out an opinion upon a case like this at which we left Niagara! I entirely lost the beautiful world moves, don't it ? The stores here are very hand- some, and some odd. That of Messrs. Prouse has the States and all thoughtful minds of the rest of Scientific corps, the engineers, and the artillery, his season of the year." Now here is a ease in- views in crossing Lake Ontario, so absorbed was I in the Union, that tli»fir$t may vote advisedly, is a singular conglomeration. The soldiers home and foreign gossip. How in the world, darling, entire front covered with zinc, and is highly orna- volving the actual progress of a great city, with mented. Motson's bank is the most pretentious. Its and the last may unite in a tender of aid and are the meanest riff-raff, the most degraded of pillions of money and our prosperity depending do you manage to write me such newsy-letters, for Washington must be very quiet now, though you knp w, two façades are faced with Ohio sandstone, and the thè poorer classes of England and Scotland, fipon a decision that is based on general views. comfort in the way of advice and prayers. Nell, I don't by any means share in the popular fallacy, shafts of the columns arejof highly polished Peterhead The crisis aforesaid amounts to this. Should and the most improvident of the chronically 4. long, slow hearing had been granted, eminent which is that when Congress and the Administration granite. In St. Paul street are all of the principal dry those two States return Republican majorities improvident Irish peasantry. To 'list in the attorneys had been heard at length, and yet his leave, Washingtonians fall into a Rip Van Winkleish goods and hardware stores., We went to the Geological Museum and McGill University. Tell Professor Gill the probability is that the presént Presidential army is regarded in England as a refuge only |Honor renders a decision On general views that sleep, from which they can only be aroused by the vere not suggested by the argument or tli£ au- august presenee of the one or the profound eloquence we thought of him. Their museum is beautiful, and incumbent or incumbrance will be renomi- a step above the poor-house, and consequently under the care of Sir Win. Logan. Then we wont, by thorities, and were probably entertained before of the other. Au contraeré, when they leave, I think the botter class of the working people are permit, to "Victoria bridgé—which is one and a quarter nated and some compromise candidate noini [tlic case was taken up. we begin to enjoy each other, and appreciate our sum- natcd by the Democrats. If, on the contrary, never found in its ranks. To officer this mass mer resources. mile long, and perfectly wonderful. Its cost was seven We have not the space or the patience to take millions of dollars ; but it gives Montreal an unbroken a system prevailed by which any one with I am so glad you have a phaeton. Of course you go the good people of those two States give ma- ip and dissect the miserable twaddle about a cor- railway communication of i ,400 miles ! Then the water money could purchase a commission; and in every evening to the Soldiers'Home, which Elise writes jorities for the Democratic ticket, General poration that can sue and be sued. It is an insult works, which are as perfect as they are wonderful. me ia being brought by Colonel Lee, our poet soldier, Grant will be dropped, a new man selected, order to confiné the officers to the wealthy o a man of ordinary intelligence to assert that classes, the pay of the subalterns was placed as near perfection as possible. He with his fine artistic After dinner we took the cars and went eighteen while the Democrats, strengthened by the ^,he Territory of Columbia, as now organized, is taste has done winders in a year, and I do hope that miles to Belœil mountain. Wo did not go to the sum- result, will nominate one of their own sort so low that no person without private means hot, as its name indicates, a Territory. Where, Colonel Pitcher will, in improvements, have ne'er a mit, but only as far as the lake, which Is in a maple to try conclusions in the national contest could live upon it. Added to this it is incum- then, the court finds its jurisdiction, is the ques- contrary word to say. grove, and formed in a llollow-of the mountain. Here of '72. bent upon all the officers to bear their propor- tion we would like to have answered. The gro- . Jennie wrote yóu a long letter giving all that we saw are always caught an abundance of fino fish. On top of tion of the "mess".or regimental club ex- tesque absurdity of the position came out when on the " Canadian side," so it will not be worth while the mountain is a small oratory, on which is a cross If we arc right in these conclusions, thé penses, and also to pay their quota of the |his Honor, in this same discourse, kindly informed for me to inflict it on you for a second reading. We thirty feet high, covered' with tin,, and Been, our guide more patriotic Republicans of Ohio and Penn- were so glad that those two unfortunate men did not said, for twenty miles. We got home tired out. band expenses. And as the commissions were the Legislature what its duties were. He cou}d 14 sylvania will permit the elections to .go by go over the Falls " while We were there, for it would Early this morning, after a seven-o'clock: breakfast held by wealthy men the mess and band ex- Ijust as well have written out the bill and sent it default, reserving their strength for the great have filled us with greater horror than now. On Satur- we took carriages to driye around the mountain. It was penses were made as large as possible, so as to to the Legislature for passage, with the informa- day morning we took the train at Suspension Bridge contest to follow, while the earnest, thought one of those delicions mornings,, atmosphere crisp and effectually exclude mere men of education and tion that, if any other were passed, it would re- for Lewiston. As I Jooked from the car window it clear, making one feel it a privilege to live. The drive ful Republicans throughout the country will talent. The consequence is that the officers ceive the quietus of his judicial veto. Why not made my head reel to see along the edge of what an im- is perfect and over a road as smooth as a " wooden pray fervently without ceasing, save for neces- transfer at once the powers of the executive and mense precipice we Were running. At the station we are a body of "swells," representing the pavement," and lined on either side'with grand old sary repose and refreshments, that the Demo- legislative branches to the Court, and have Judge found an omnibus intended for twenty, but into which trees. We stopped at Mt. Royal Cemetery, which next younger sons of the ljobility and of the wealthy crats may be successful in those otherwise Wiley and his learned brethren on the bench the thirty-six and a dog crowdcd. The dust I My dear, you, to Oak Hill is one of the most exquisite I ever saw,, ex. gentry; none of them specially educated entire government. This is the meaning Of his Washingtonian that you are, never saw its equal. I am cept that the graves are all raised two feet from the unimportant State elections. confident the original soil of Lewiston, like that of for the profession of arms, but nearly all " general views " and the injunction, if any mean- ground, and all in the exact shape of coffins. Wc passed A few facts and thé Reasons for them will Jerusalem, lies many feet below the present surface. superb country places, but I can't tell you any more. being well-educated "society men." The ex- ing can be attached. satisfy our readers that in this we are upon à At thi6 place we all got an item from the driver. Gen- The porter has taken our trunks, and l'in sitting with ception is, as we have remarked, in the artil- The motive that animates the court in this case solid foundation. Gerieraï Grant relies upon eral Van Rensselaer here had his militia headquarters in my hat on finishing this note (f) to you: When we lery and engineers, about one-fifth of the whole is found in the one sentence, when 'he says, ¡1812. Opposite Lewiston is Queens town—a little vil- came back papa went to the reading-room while wc the enthusiastic devotion of the people to force, whose officers are educated at the mili- " WhcneVer property wishes to be protected it lage possessing, like Lewiston, every advantage for a "packed." In an hour he came in laughing and saying, secure liim the succession. His immediate tary college, and who receive their commis- lias a right to protection. " The "wishos," then; great city, but both ruined by the Erie and Wélland "Well, Nan, you've been provoked with me foryears backers and managers very properly consider sions and promotions according to merit and not tlic recognized rights of property, are wliat ctnals. They pointed out to us in the distance Brock's about the time I take to read the papers, but I'm curcd." this " allTot," to use their own elegant Eng- his Honor regards as a guide. The Tax-payers' monument: and though it looked to me like the tall (You know he reads 'em.front, back, up and down, over seniority, there being no purchasing of com- chimney of a farm house, I.guess they were right. We lish, and look to the fact that the opposition Association wishes to bo protected from taxation, and over, no matter w/w is waiting.) " Why, papa, missions in these corps. The English artillery took the fine steamer "City of Toronto" for Torpnto. what's happened ?" "Well, in the reading-room I got and its wishes must be regarded and satisfied. in the party have aS yet no one man to rally and engineer officers are far superior in at- We had on board a splendid band, and they played de- the Tribune, and I, suppose kept it some time, for a What an extraordinary doctrine for a judge to around, while Grant has a huge army of office tainments to the other officers of the amy, lightfully; but all the way across the lake T scarcely man came up and said 'Sir, I presume you have not read holders ready and willing to do all that can hold at this day ! And yet this is all : the heavy raised my eyes from the ravishing letters, of which I that notice over there.' No, sir ; what notice.' ' Oblige and compare favorably with the officers of property-holders dislike taxation, and the court had a goodly pile: Once we stopped at Niagara City, me by stepping over and looking at it.' I went over ; a be done to secure a reelection, thereby insur- any of the European countries. Their pay is ing their own hold upon the treasuiy. If the says they shall not be taxed. I and the girls soon after made me look up at the forts, huge placard was hanging there with these words: higher than the ' ' line " and their mess ex- Niagara and Massasai^ga—the former garrisoned by ' Gentlemen who aie learning to spell will please take situation rumains as it is, the probabilities arc penses are much less extravagant. There is American, the latter by her Majesty's troops. Arriving for their reading a yesterday's paper.' I owned up, and that Grant will secure his nomination, al though but one artillery regiment in the English army, at Toronto we went aboard the Royal mail steamer handed over the Tribune." Wasn't it a good joke! it will be the first time in our political history "•Montreal." After getting our state-rooms, &c., nearly I hear Mrs. McCalla has .the phaeton of the season- divided into batteries; and although tliel all of our party went ashore, rather than stay aboard that official patronage has proven a source of artillery is several thousand strong, but one it being the handsomest in town. Aren't she and the for two hours. Dr. going away ? I am glad Kate and Mrs. Wise will be strength to the incumbent. When I fill an headquarters exists, that at Woolrich, and thus office," said a French king, " I make fiftyen - If you see Gassaway before leaving, tell him one of at Narragansett. Where are the Chews and the Craigs ? the regiment expenses are greatly reduced. my letters speaks of an Oxford regatta. ' I can't give yon don't give me half the news. " Who is John Dim- emies and one ingrate." Office-holders are 'him the extract, for it id too long, but I'll show it to him mock?" I don't know, only he is -a cousin of Patsey proverbially selfish and treacherous. But as To the English aristocracy and their younger when I come ! She (my friend) says: " At the regatta Dimmock, now on the " Saco." You know we used to yet those creatures can see no prominent Re- sons but three careers are considered respect- or procession of boats to-night, about forty 'Eights,' hear the girls speak of him. When did Mrs. Barnes go publican likely to dispute the succession with the racing boat and the ' Torpids,' were out in full dress. to Berkeley ? Where are the two doctors ? having a able. They cannot engage in trade or in thel It seemed to me that not only all of Oxford but half of their patron, and so remain loyal. good time, ain't they » How are Dr. and Mrs. Maxwell ? professions. The church, the army, and the the United Kingdom turned out to see it. After the ex- Has Cenie come home yet ? Where is Ada Hobbie, and This will continue, in all human probability, diplomatic career are alone fitfo r the exercise citing races this regatta was rather tame, but the tout where the Sands ? Is Rosa at the farm ?. Has Julia unless the elections in the two States pbove of the gigantic intellects of the "blue " bloods] ensemble was beautiful." McBlair come in yet from Colonel Brown's, or is sue of England. It can readily be understood, You don't know, Nellie, what a funny phrase they use spending the summer? Where did Stella Johnso^go! named indicate à lac]f of confidence in the to denote deficiency at Oxford—instead of saying, as to Berkeley ?—and the boys ? masses. In that case there will be a panic. therefore, why the House of Lords have stood we at West Point, "found," or you at the Academy, When you see Glovcr-tell him I've heard all abouttìs The Republican party is panicy. It is influ- aghast at the step Which has been taken to "bilged," one fellow writes her: "I am sorry to tell little affaire du cœur. What do you think Tom Vat- enced by all that survived of the late Whig throw open the army to mere men of educa- j'ou that I'm among the lazy loiterers in the paths of num Baid, and thought it so smart ? " Miss Anna,/did organization—a party remarkable for its timid tion, and thus elevate brains to the level of learning. The examiners seem to think me ^falloio " you know that George Paschal was eccentric ?" "No," the nobility or the owners of plethoric money- i and to require "ploughing." Our fellows have been said I. "Mercy! what does he dò?" all the feminine conservatism and respectability—and gréedy ploughed in the proportion of 11 to 18." she says they curiosity being aroused. " Well, yon know he timer adventurers who regard office only as a source bags. devour the evidence in the Tichborne case, and enjoy goes out, except to those monthly suppers of the Mis- of income, and pass from one to the other But it was : evident to observing men for a t, for he " chaffs " the judges so. All the " swells," anthropes, but lives in a " Black-stone " cavern, trying with a steady persistency really wonderful. long time that the purchase system of England I ven the Prince and Princess of Wales, go to hear it.. otwarm np his genius by " Coke " on Little-ton, of All these are subject to wild rights, and when was on its last legs, and that the first great You don't know, dear Nellie, how the Canadians which he always ke»ps on hand; and that he actually speak of the Queen's terrible neglect of the duties of lives on Bacon." I could not understand the joke; assembled in convention remind us of a col- European war would knock it on the head (as Hospitality, to say nothing of her want of maternal at- either my head is getting thicker or our party more, lection of undertakers about the dead body being the weakest part of the organization.) tention. An Englishman told us that the royal guests, stupid: Try anil find out, will yon, fronrAgnespasc&a!, of a millionaire, afraid to speak out lest their The recent display made by the Prussians liasl ;he Emperor and Empress of Brazil, the Grand Duke what he. meant ? I did know her brother was a miser- words might hurt the feelings of some sur- thoroughly frightened our old friend Johnl ad the Prinbc,and Princess of Prussia, conld. not be re- able recinse, but I thought lie lived'at home. vived at " Buckingham "—simply because the state Bull, and he has at length opened his eyes tof Have Colonel and Mrs. Forney cóme from Cape May! viving heir, or disturb the repose of the defunct partments were unjit for their occupation. Can you I am so glâd Mré. Cutts has gone out to'Leavenworth money-bag. the disgusting fact that blue blood is no better anCy a queen not having a decent spare room, and that FBOJSL FIROWN'£ TOTJNO MAN ^A^BEKKESKY? to. join Mrs. Williams. : She must be quite limesome General Grant's nomination in the first than red, and.that "not all the blood of all with two London palaces ? I think they had better join without her. Have the Babcocks come from Saratoga ! • The grand fancy ball at Berkeley'Springs that came their royal mama at Windsor., Only one more letter until we meet, then I'll try and instance was the result, of a panic. It is no the Howards " can make a great man of a ani off Friday night, July 28, was a great success. This is We arrived on Monday (yesterday) at the St. Law- answer some of Elise's nice letters. Don't tell lier imbecile. Undoubtedly the British,nation| the correct phrase to be used on such occasions. A : exaggeration to say that the leading politicians rence, where we are pretty comfortable. Our firstim - though, for she'd not feel at all complimented. great deal of fait put down in the bills proved very dull of the Republican party detested Grant. Ig- possesses pluck—fe\y men or nations are lack- pressions, which, you know, are always lasting, were Isn't it delightful to think of having the Strongs ing in this prerequisite; but mere pluck with- Indeed, and the fniithati did
J i " Let us draw a vail over the horrid picture." But the more healthful and manly enjoyments DRUGGISTS. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. BANKS AND BANKERS. MEDICAL. TO TRAVELERS, THE CAPITAL. # * * # * * # of aquatic and field sports, with the tournaments I was very much interested in this story, very and Icy plays, have supplanted the pit, and now W. S. THOMPSON, "VTATIONAL SAVINGS BANK, NITED STATES MAIL ROUTE TO 8UNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6,1871. much indeed, and so I jostled the long-haired prevail—affording entertainment for both ladles FOR SALE. Cor. of Fifteenth Btreet and New York ave., ADDRESS U NORFOLK. man—who was about falling asleep—and asked and gentlemen. INTEREST ON DEPOSITS COMPUTED PROM THE FIRST OF PHARMACIST, EACH MONTH. Steamer Lady of the Lake, connecting at Norfolk with For THE CAPITAL. him if anything was done to this wicked Sluker. In his younger days Mr. Eslln was a carpenter Elegant Residences Office honrs 9 to 4. TO THE the Seaboard and Boanoke Railroad for all parts of He looked at me reproachfully, "What's the Tnjs Trustees of the Bank are—Hon. Andrew Wylle. the South, and with the Steamers of the M. and M TIHITHFVLJTALK WITH BKKT and briek maker, having learned his trade with a 703 FIFTEENTH STREET, in the "CAPITOL BLOCK' of fourteen three-story William Sticknev; Lewis Clephane, S. P. Brown, Mat Transportation Company for Boston. HARTE, matter with you, my friend ?" lie said in the same Mr. Douglass in Georgetown, and was a volunteer Homes on thew G. Emery, Zenos C. Robbius, Wm. H. Philip, B. On and after MONDAY, May 1, the Steamer melancholy voice. " Don't you know who I am ? WASHINGTON, D. C. P. Snyder, Hon. Joseph Casey, W. S. Huntington Geo. NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED LADY OF THE ï. A K IS BY FANNII DOWN Dili. soldier at the time Washington was captured, EAST CAPITOL, BETWEEN SECOND AND H. Plant, A. L. Sturtevantj Alex. R. Shepherd, James Carrying the United States Mail, will leave lier wharf I write for the Ledger, and whenever ' I draw a August 1814. His father made the brick of which THIRD STREETS, M. Latta, J. H. Lathrop, H. A. Willard. ap 16-tf foot of Seventh street, every 1« yoiir head firm in its placc, Bret ? WHOSE SUFFERINGS HAVE BEEN MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and PItXDAY, at 4 u m vail, etc.,' that ends it, that does!". the President's house is constructed. Next to v If not, it is apt to be. twjrled FOB NORFOLK. ' . As we stopped from the steamer to the land- "now being erected, and to be ready for occupaucy on Eight round with a permanent twist, his veneration for General Jackson he has the November 1. WASHINGTON CITY SAVINGS BANK, Returning, leave Norfolk TUESDAY, THOB8DAY ing, on our return to Washington, I observed a most kindly remembrance for old Johnny Magru- SODA. WATER These houses contain and SATURDAY, at 6 p. m.—stopping at Alexandria' By the praise of the civilised world. Comer of Seventh Btreet and Louisiana Avenne, Protracted from Hidden Causes, Fort Washington, Glymont, Piney Point, Point Look- youth, of about six summers dressed in the dcr, who was his teacher in the training and FREEZING COLD, out, and Fortress Monroe. The nations applaud-you afar; SIXTEEN ROOMS EACH, mostdaborately agonizing manner. He had fighting'of chickens, and a mosl¡ famous "cocker" PAYS INTEREST ON ALL DEPOSITS. AND WHOSE CASES For freight or passage apply on board, or to V D Your country exults in your fame, VICHY WATER, Groner, Norfolk, Va.; Eldridge & Co., Alexandria Va' twqf,$yiutzenfest targets In his' cuffs; in one three-quarters of a century ago,, and leaving to his WITH GAS, WATER, and all modern conveniences. Open daily from 9.30 a. m. to 8 p. m., and on SATUR- J. G. Waters, Georgetown, D. C.. or to And never wore bays better won, They are superior to, and can be sold cheaper, than hanek lie "held, an enormous cane, in the other a pupil Jimmy many of his best "game birds." DAY EVENING, from 6.30 to 7.30 p. m. S. P. BROWN & SON, General Agents Than those which emblazon your name. KISSINOEN WATER, any of the same class in the city. REQUIRE PROMPT TREATMENT Corner of Fifteenth Btreet and New York ave cigar,' and:,through an eyeglass he gazed, at the And he reports Colonel Crowcll of Georgia one Also, THREE FINE HOUSES on south A street, J. A. RUFF, No freight received at Seventh' street wharf after 3'30 Your genius resembles a stream, (same square,) now finished.. mar 12-tf Treasurer. ankles on gang-plank with an air of patient of the celebrated cockers of the early days. p. m. First-class fare to Norfolk, $4; round trip is A crystaline stream, when we view SELTZER WATER, ' All of the above are peculiarly suited for Congress- TO RENDER EXISTENCE DESIRABLE. Second-class fare to Norfolk, $3; round trip, |S. weariness with this slow old world that was Very Their best imported birds were from Ireland and men, and two have already been purchased by members my 14-ly The reflex of nature and man, 1 of the House of Representatives. FIRST NATIONAL BANK Perennially sparkling and new. touching. England. • SARATOGA WATER, For particulars apply to HROUGH LINE BETWEEN WASHI " Where," I exclaimed as I surveyed this show- ' But perhaps the greatest contrast in any por- A. GRANT, OF WASHINGTON. Whatever of coarseness will cling on draught. Architect and Builder, No. 826 East Capitol, between INGTON, PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK card of a fast generation, "O! where have our WASHINGTON, June 3, 1869—Noon tion of Washington and its surroundings to be Second and Third streets east. my 21-tf Government Depositary and Financial Agent of the To themes that you touch on, your hand children vanished ? Take from childhood the my il-tf Trains between Washington and New York are now Transmutes by its magical power remarked between their appearance in Jefferson's run as follows, viz ; sparkling water of its purity—the sugar of its QLIFTON. United States, If you are suffering, or have suffered, from involun- To something ennobling and grand: time and the present, is in the transformation of tary discharges, what effect does it produce upon your FOR NEW YORK, without change of cars. innocent affections—its ardent but refreshing what is known as the " mall," south of the Presi- J. P. MILBURN & CO., FIFTEENTH STREET, Leave daily (except Sunday) at 8 a. m., 12:45 and 9 You speak from the heart to the heart; FOR~SALE general health ? Do you feel weak, debilitated, easily p. m. spirits—and what, ah! what have we left ?" dent's house—the locality whore the hand of art FOR PHILADELPHIA. Hearts throb to you back with a thrill; Opposite the Treasury. tired ? Does a little extra exertion produce palpitation "Nothing," said the thin man at my elbow. and labor lias done the most to obliterate the of the heart ? Does your liver, or urinary organs, or Leave daily (except Sunday) at 8 a. m., 12:45 and 5;4< You move men to laughter or tears, DRUGGISTS, AN ELEGANT COUNTRY RESIDENCE. H. D. COOKE, p. m. "Absolutely nothing save the mint and the original face of nature ; the then impassable and ON GEORGETOWN HEIGHTS, (Of Jay Cooke & Co.,) President. your kidneys, frequently get out of order? Is your And sway every mind at your will. Two miles from the President's House. ON SUNDAY. straw!" flooded marsh and tangled brush are now cleaned WM. S. HUNTINGTON, urine sonietimes thick, milky or flocky, or is it ropy on Leave for New York at 9 p. m. and Philadelnhia ni An author evolves from hfS work * » • ap 16-tf Cashier. settling ? Or does a thick scum rise to the top ? Or is 5:40 p. m. And he was right, my dear CAPITAL, lie was away and filled up, graded and laid down to hand- £31 FIFTEENTH STREET, This beautiful placc contains 45 acres, highly Im- Sleeping cars for New York on 9 p. m. train only The closer your writings we scan, proved; large Dwelling-House; hot and cold water, a sediment at the bottom after it has stood awhile ? right. DERRICK DODD. some lawns, while a beautiful stone and iron feuce Through tickets to Philadelphia1 , Ne w Yor1 k or] The clearer your image appears, bath-room, gas and all conveniences; commodionf REEDMAN'S SAYINGS AND TRUST Do you have spells of short breathing or dyspepsia ? ton can be had at the Station Offficèatall—* hours òf?the incloses a large portion of the space, amid which barns, stables, carriage-houses, tool-house, ice-house, True artlsj, true poet, trjie man I •:» Opposite U. S. Treasury, gardeners' eottages; 200 bearing fruit trees, 100 bearing F COMPANY, Are your bowels constipated ? Do you have spells of day. SURROUNDINGS OF OUR CAPITAL-No. 3. sparkling fountains jet up their cooling sprays. grape vines, &c., &c. No. 507 Seventh Street. Selete Baltimore and Ohio Railroad advertisement for Yon live in your soui-sHrrlrig works fainting, or rushes of blood to the head ? Is your mem- schedule between Washington, Baltimore. AnnannU. No longer ago than Mr. Madison's time—1816— Proprietors and Manafacturers of Commands a splendid view of Washington, Alexan ory impaired? Is your mind constantly dwelling on Through the length and the breadth of ttie land, Chan'Jes bf wt war—Mount Pleasànt—Jimmy Eslin— dria, Georgetown, and the surrounding country. Ten and the West. a J.L.WILSOt r of N ' Race-course, cock-pit—Randolph, Clay, Davy Crock- Mr, J. K. Paulding, the distinguished novelist, acres of it has been cultivated as a market garden, and this subject? Do you feel dull, listless, moping, tired n , rm ¥ ! ? Transportation. Great sagos and children delight there is none better in the District. DEPOSITS $2,500,000. L. M. COLE, General Ticket^••I Agent. H , In him,who seemed " childlike and bland. ett, Oen. Jackson—Columbia College—Col. Pearce's and at one time a navy officer, wrote in this wise: of company, of life ? Do you wish to be left alone, to GEO. S. KOÓNTZ, Agent, Wasffington. ap 30-tf To a person of means it presents more attractions get away from everybody ? Does any little thing make nursery—The "mall"—Susquehanna and Potomac "Washington, though beautifully situated, is MILBURN'S UNRIVALLED than any other suburban residence in the county. The Company pays SIX PER CENT, interest on all While over Virginia's expanse, rivers—Harrisburg and our capital. rather a dull place at this lime of year (autumn) Inquire of T. T. CRITTENDEN, Attorney, No. 319 deposits of $5 and upward, beginning July 1,1871. you start or jump ? Is your sleep broken or restless ? ALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. The hearts of her people you win, Four-and-a-half street, or FANT, WASHINGTON & Co Is the lustre of your eye as brilliant ? The bloom on The recent war, together with the natural march except for sportsmen, who find excellent shooting Any one can begin an account by a deposit of FIVE B And knit them apiece with your own, Bankers. my 21-tf ' your check as bright ? Do you enjoy yourself in society WASHINGTON, Dec. 25,1870 of time, has greatly changed the aspect of mat- about the center of the city. I have seen great CENTS or upward. Trains between WASHINGTON AND BALTfMomr By all, you embody in "FLYNN !" POLAR SODA. as well ? Do you pursue your business with the same and WASHINGTON AND THE WEST, are now runas ters about Washington—as well of the inhabitants numbers of quail, plover, rail, and snipe within a Every man and woman should make a beginning follows, viz : The man must be callons and cold, WE energy? Do you feel as much confidence in yourself ? as of material things ; so that the old distinguish- couple of hundred yards of the President's man- without delay. mar 26-ly FOR BALTIMORE. Whose eyes do not droop and grow dim, Are your spirits dull and flagging, given to fits of mel- Leave daily (except Sunday) at 6:45, 8, and 9 25 a m ing landmarks and customs arc fast passing away ; sion ; and they do say that deer abound In the Ktssingeii, Vichy, Seltzer and Sara- Till cleared by the glorious smile ancholy ? If so, do not lay it to your liver or dyspepsia. and 12:45, 3, 4:10, 5:40. and 7:45 p. m. ' and the people of to-day scarcely know the capi- " slashes," about half a mile north of that build- ARE BUILDING JAY COOKE & CO., Have you restless nights ? Your back weak, your knees FOR ALL WAY STATIONS. Which greets the revival of " JIM !" toga Waters on draught. Leave daily (except Sunday) at 6:45 and 9:25 a. m and tal as it was a score or more of years ago. ing ; I can't answer as to that fact, but I have ap 16-tf DESIRABLE weak, and have but little appetite, and you attribute 4:10 and 7:45 p. m. For principal way stations—Bladens- Infinities cannot compare, BANKERS, r Hence, it is not uninteresting, yea, it is desirable, seen plenty of rabbits theré." this to dj spepsia or liver complaint? burg, Beltsville, Laurel, Annapolis "Junction, and Belay Yet u JIM,'1 in perfection-exceeds; Relay—leave at 12:45, 3, and 7:45 p. m.; 3 p. m. stops at both for present benefit and for those to succeed HOTELS Buy and Sell at CURRENT RATES Now, reader, self-abuse, venereal diseases badly One sees every phase of the scene To visitors who never saw Washington until SIX-ROOM HOUSES Jessop's. The 5:40 p. m. stops at Annapolis Junction us, that those who have the facilities should point about the time of the recent war Mr. Paulding's cured, and sexual excesses, are all capable of producing and Relay only. The 7:45 p. m. on Sunday stops as (lin- And hears the glass crash as he reads! TRVING HOUSE, BROADWAY AND IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE CITY, WITH Government Securities, Gold and Silver, ing the week. out and preSçyve at least some of the more prom- picture will seem strange enough. There was a weakness of the generative organs. The organs of X TWELFTH STREET, NEW YORK.—A first-class ALL generation, when in perfect health, make the man. FOR ANNAPOLIS. Although you arc so ungallant inent features that have passed or are passing then no canal, no Smithsonian Institute, no Wash- Hotel, on tlie European plan; location unsurpassed; in Land Warrants, Scrip, &c. Leave at 6:45 a. in. and 4:10 p. m. No train to or from To the sex, in " PENELOPE'S" WOO, the immediate vicinity of A. T. Stewart's Retail Store, Did you ever think that those bold, defiant, energetic, Annapolis on Sunday. away of what existed, in previous years, of men ington monument, no Agricultural Department, For "MIOOLKS' " true-woman sake, Wallack's Theater, and Union Square. THE MODERN IMPROVEMENTS, Execute orders at New York Stock Board. persevering, successful business-men are always those ON SUNDAY. and things. ' or a hundred other smaller buildings—only the GEORGE P. HARLOW, FOR BALTIMORE. Wo pledge you: "Bret Harte, God bless you!" ,marl2-tf Proprietor. AND VERY DESIRABLE. Sell Exchange on New York, San Francisco, Great whose generative organs are in perfect health ? You Leave at 8 a. m., and 3, 5:40, and 7:45 p. m Changes in sports and pastimes-are as marked Bums farm. But since that time the material im- never hear such men complain of being melancholy, of Pursue, in your eagle-like flight, Britain, and the Continent. FOR WAY STATIONS/ as the'changes in style of streets and architecture provements have been rushed ahead with such nervousness, of palpitation of the heart. Leave at 8 a. in., and 3 and 7:45 p. m. The course you've so grandly begun; Furnish Revenue Stamps of all denominations. FOR ALL PARTS OF THE WEST in the city and District Base ball clubs and vigor as to make men—some of the old settlers, ST. JAMES HOTEL. How many men, from the effects of excesses, have Soar up with the wiuus,of your wit, ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT BEARING Leave daily (except Saturday and Sunday) at 6-45 a skating rinks have taken the place, to a great ex- who have daily watched this progress—open their INTEREST. mar 19-tf brought about that state of weakness in Sexual Organs m., and 8 and 7:45 p. m. On Saturday at 6:45 a. m. and Nor stop till till you perch by the sun I 7:45 p. m. tent, of the cock-pit and race-track, by day and eyes in astonishment; while those who have been Pennsylvania ave. and Sixth street, PARTIES WHO PURCHASE that has reduced the general system so much as to in- H. G. FANT. L. WASHINGTON dnce almost every other disease—idiocy, lunacy, paraly- On Sunday at 3 and 7:45 p. mfe only connecting at Be- by night. visitors here only at intervals of a year or two AT THIS STAGE OF THEIR ERECTION CAN, BY lay Station with trains from Baltimore to Wheeling Wasliiiifrton, 1). O. sis, spinal affections, suicide, and almost every other Parkersburg, Pittsburg, &c. GRADUATED GRINS. Mount Pleasant, beyond Columbia College, note the advance with real wonder and admiration. CALLING AT OUR OFFICE AND MAKING For Strasbnrg and points between Relay House and FANT, WASHINGTON & CO.•J form of disease which humanity is heir to, and the real years ago was the scene, almost daily and nightly, And were all the official and social changes that my 21-ly JOHN SPICER, Proprietor. ARRANGEMENTS. HAVE THEM cause of the trouble scarcely ever suspected, and have Strasburg, leave at 3 p. m., connecting at Relay House THE NOBFOLK BOAT-RACE. of exciting sports on the "track" and iu the BANKERS, with Strasburg and Winchester accommodation train have taken place in the same period of as useful used remedies for all but the right one. Through tickets to the West can be had at the When the kind-hearted and appreciative public " pit." Nearly a half century since Jimmy Eslin and unobjectionable a nature, it would be not an C. C. WILLARD, Finished to Suit Themselves. Successors to Rittenhouse, Fowler & Co., Diseases of these organs require the use of a Diuretic. Washington Station Ticket Oflice at all hours in tho peruses the annexed vividly written account of was a famous grower and fighter of game fowls day. unpleasant task to note and dwell upon them; No. 625 Pennsylvania Avenue, For New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, see adver- the above exciting contest, the kind-liearted and 011 the place where he now lives, occupying the though tlicy have been equally marked and exten- tisement of u Through Line." appreciative public aforesaid will understand the first house lie built, now some forty years, a short EBBITT HOUSE, Receive deposits and loan money to depositors at legal J. L. WILSON, sive. Extravagant and reckless expenditures of interest. HELMBOLD'S T it -r, , Master of Transportation. pardonable complacency with which THE CAPITAL distance beyond the old college, which institution the public money by Government officials, and WASHINGTON, D. C. PLANS, &c., WILL BE SHOWN WITH PLEASURE We issue certificates of deposit bearing interest and L. M. COLE, General Ticket Agent. points to the enterprise and outlay that enables he has seen grow up to its present popular char- payable on demand. GEO. 8. KOONTZ, General Agent, Washington flashy, ostentatious displays by professional poli- ap 2-tf MAKE COLLECTIONS ON ALL POINTS IN THE FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU ap 30-tf o . s, • it to lay before its readers our ''Special GOITCS- acter ; and near by him was the old race-course, ticians in social life now-a-days, present 6carccly UNITED STATES. pondent's " minute and circumstantial report of where such worthies as John Randolph, Henry less glaring contrasts to the plain simplicity of Negotiate Railroad, Municipal Loans, and Mortgages. TITERCHANTS' LINE OF STEAMSHIPS the Potomac's notable victory of Thurday last : Clay, General Jackson, Davy Crockett, Governor ST. CLOUD HOTEL. Buy and Sell Government Securities and other Stocks, Is the great Diuretic, and is a certain cure for diseases life and scrupulous integrity in Government ex- Bonds, and Gold on Commission. Pay the highest of the Bladder, Kidneys, Gravel, Dropsy, Organic Weak- JLTJL BETWEEN EDITOBS CAPITAL : In accordance with instruc- Spriggs, and many other statesmen of the time This admirable house, architecturally one of the hand- PROPER penditures which characterized the times of Jef- T Y prices for City Scrip. ness, Female Complaints, General Debility, and all dis- WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. tions I embarkSa upon the Lady of the Lake on frequently resorted for an afternoon or evening's somest in New York, on ferson and his immediate Successors,'than do tlie IN ANY PORTION OF THE Domestic and Foreign Exchange bought and sold on eases of the Sexual Organs, whether existing in Male AVednesday last, and soon the city sank in the recreation ; and Jimmy being a famous Jackson Corner of" 42d Street and Broadway, all the principal cities m this country and Europe. Hereafter the fine steamships E. C. KNIGHT JOHN changcd physical appearances of the two periods. or Female, from whatever cause originating, and no GIBSON,-and VALLEY CITY, will make regular dim distance as the noble boot, freighted with the man, the generous old General would take liis Is now open on the EUROPEAN SYSTEM with flrst- UNITED STATES, We especially invite accounts of merchants and busi- weekly trips between New York, Alexandria, Washing With our gorgeous, romantic writers,-who "do" ness men. Sight Drafts furnished to depositors with- matter of how long standing. manly bëauty and womanly strength—or some- boys on his knc.es aud tell them if they were true class RESTAURANT, by out charge. . ap 23-6m ton, and Georgetown, as follows : our splendid rivers and towns, it seems to bo a OF LIKE VALUE, TAKEN IN PART OR WHOLE If no treatment is submitted to, Consumption or In- Leave New York from Pier 39, East river, every SAT- thing of that kind—of Georgetown and vicinity, and loyal they might some day grow up to be men ap 2-tf RAND BROTHERS. sanity may ensue. Our flesh and blood are supported URDAY, at 4 p.m.; leave Georgetown every FRIDAY favorite drift to compare the Potomac, Hudson, PAYMENT. sped down the broad Potomac on its way to con- of note. Randolph and Clay took great interest ti MBDICAL. from these sources, and the health and happiness, and at 7 a, m., and Alexandria the same day at 12 m. &c., with the Danube or Volga, or the Rhine, and For information apply to R. P. A. DENHAM, Agent, quest. Everybody was_ on deck enjoying the re- in horses and the races, and frequeutly, particu- THE ARLINGTON,' that of posterity, depends upon prompt use of a relia- office and wharf foot of High street, Georgetown, or at freshing breeze. A few miles below Alexandria the larly the latter, would take a pleased interest in to give our famous capítol a respectable " setting A GREAT REMEDY! ble remedy. the corner of Seventeenth street and New York avenne up " by comparison with the time-mellowed capi- J. W. THOMPSON, boat passed a quiet little village just as the sun thepugnacious chicken-fights. But Crockctt took aP9-tf President. tinted river. The bell in the little church in the special delight in the cock-fight, much preferring tals Of the Old world. Now, having ndver vis- WASHINGTON, D. C. E.K. ALLEN & CO., ited any of them, orsailed up the Rhine, orfloatcd was flinging back a last good-night smile upon the it to the track. Ofteu after witnessing a severely s or. I r> Street, ¿il IONEER LINE. emerald village was being tolled for evening ser- contested battle, and when he was merry and mel- down the Seine, of course I can flippantly write " how much the Potomac and its borderin&cstates Opposite Police Headquarters. HELMBOLD'S STEAMER ARROW leaves EVERY MORNING, at vice, and as the mellow music floated across the low with a few glasses, he. had a zest for telling 10 o'clock, from her wharf, foot of Seventh street, to listening water a tall -man with long lialr and a the story of "how he beat the old hen and gained resemble." all that is most glorious on the " other ap 16-tf INFALLIBLE ALTERATIVE \ yellow duster, who had been contemplatively his wife." He said the " mother of the gal hated side of the waters." EL UID EXTRA CT SARSAPARILLA, MOUNT VERNON AND MARSHALL HALL, This New and WARRANTED A SURE CURE FOR sucking his umbrella handle ever since we startpd, him worse than pisen, " and forbade him the house ; This much, though, I can consistently say- stopping at all the intermediate landings, going and NEW SAVINGS BANK!f coming.. 010s turned to your correspondent and said reflectively: but the " old man took to him more kindly," and that iu the prospects and scenery, as viewed from DYSENTERY, DIARRHEA, For frek'lit or passage apply on board to Capt. THOS. " That reminds me of Sluker, did lever tell you told him to "8» ahead," and so he " always liked the dome of the State-house at Harrisburg—up The Great Blood Purifier and Beautifier BEAUTIFUL HOTEL, CHOLERA, CHOLERA MORBUS, STACKPOLE, or to JAMES SYKES, about him ?" that word." The old woman saw the thing must and down "the classic old Susquehanna, on both of the Complexion. jy 2-tf General Superintendent, Willard's Hotel. I replied that he certainly had not. go, and that "them chickens would fight,"bu tsides , taking in tlie valley of the deep Swatara AND ALL SUMMER, COMPLAINTS, " Sluker," continued the thin man, in an absent- she vowed she " wouldn't make them no wedding and the busy little Paxon creek—we have a varied Since the adjournment of Congress, has been REFIT- SECURE AND PROFITABLE!! KNOX'S EXPRESS IN USE TWENTY-FIVE YEARS! minded manner, " was a corker; there Is no mistake supper." The old man, however,told David "to picture that much resembles the one seen from TED arid REDECORATED. More rooms have been IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN about that. keep a stiff coipb agin the time'of battle." the Capitol dome here, embracing the Potomac added and and Anacostia rivers and Rock creck, only " not Never Known to Fail I " Like the ghost at Booth's, he was a terror to BILLIARD TABLES INTRODUCED. Check Baggage from Residences He said the old woman was going to have a quite so much BO," that being rather tamer and HELMBOLD'S the peaceful Hamlet. He was always getting up One Dollar a Month! gland " quilting " before long, and he would let less grand, but not iess beautiful than this; and sliindys without the slightest provocation, and T. ROESSLE & SON, Persons leaving the city should provide themselves him knowWhen; and besides David's father Bald for all of which compliment doubtless the polite PAID IN UNTIL $35 HAS BEEN PAID (WITH NO EXTRACT SARSAPARIL LA VIRGINIA SPRINGS OR POINTS ON THE GREAT was evidently possessed of the unplensanUambi- INTEREST) with it. he'd give 'em a "wedding supper." The time progeny of Penn will duly make their best bow to SOUTHERN MAIL ROUTE, WASHINGTON AND tlon, as well as ability, to whale the entire town- The Proprietors are determined it shall be the most OHIO RAILROAD, NORFOLK, and all points on the for the "quilting" drew nigh, aud the old woman our CAPITAL. RETROSPECT. FIFTY CENTS PER BOTTLE. WILL RADICALLY EXTERMINATE FROM THE Potomac River via the Lady of the Lake. ship in detachments of one.' made grejit preparations in baking cakes, pies, beautiful Hotel in the country. mar 12-tf Passengers called for by leaving orders at 603 Penn- " Things got to be so bad after a while that the FLIRTING AT THE WHITE SULPHUR. Wholesale and Retail Depot, SYSTEM SCROFULA, SYPHILIS, FEVER SORES, sylvania avenne. G. W. KNOX, chickens, and all sorts; so it was arranged that ^Will Secixre • jy 16-4t* Proprietor. bark was rubbed off every tree iu town on account David and his chosen should be married that same "Our Miss Grundy," writing from White Sul- LAKE GEORGE. ULCERS, SORE EYES, SORE LEGS, SORE MOUTH, of the people incontinently shinning up them phur Springs, gives us the following on this sub- ONE OF THOSE 521 NINTH STREET, NEAR F. SORE HEAD, BRONCHITIS, SKIN DISEASES, night at his father's ; but at a late hour, so that MISCELLANEOUS. whenever Sluker came in sight; the girl 'inight take part in the quilting and not ject : FORT WILLIAM HENRY HOTEL. je 25-3m SALT RHEUM, CANKERS, RUNNINGS FROM THE "It was no unusual thing to see business en- excite suspicion ; then a few of the more trusty Naturally there is no end of flirtation here, the EAR, WHITE SWELLINGS, TUMORS, CANCER- ATIONAL CAPÍTOL LIFE INSUR- tirely suspended for hours, while Sluker marched servants were let into the secret, and detailed for Innumerable piazzas, cosy reception-rooms, ex- DESIRABLE BUILDING LOTS SUMMER RESÖRTS." N ANCE COMPANY. This favorite OUS AFFECTIONS, NODES, RICKETS, GLANDU- up and down the main street, whistling, with.his skirmish and "foraging" duty; at the proper tensive l»wn and grove with 110 end of socludcd AT LAR SWELLINGS, NIGHT SWEATS, RASH, TET- RIYATE MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS liauds in his pockets, and every soul in the place, time aiid signal the mother's attention was to be paths and seats affording such excellent opportu- BERKLEY SPRINGS, TER, HUMORS OF ALL KINDS, CHRONIC RHEU- P at OLD DR. DARBY'S Private Dispensary, 108 from the minister down, roosting as^high as they earnestly diverted to some interesting matter in nities for indulgence in the pleasant pastime. Fonr-and-a-Half street, a few doors South of Pennsyl- Summer [Resort, MATISM. DYSPEPSIA, AND ALL DISEASES THAT could get, six on a branch sometimes. the upper part of the house, while the " foragers " The j grove is so arranged indeed that a bashful Bath, Morgan County, West Virginia. vania avenue. Separate rooms for Ladies, thai can go through with every stage of courtship HU^TS^GTOSy, IIE HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED IN THE SYSTEM mar 19-tf "Matters went on iu this'way until one day were to make an attack on a good portion of the At the head of T UNDERSIGNED HAS LEASED without the least trouble. In fact, if he has X this well-known RESORT, which will be FOR YEARS. a little incident occurred that somewhat dis- cake, pie, puddings, aud chicken fixens, and spi- at the Junction of the Main Stem and Lateral Branches COKE couraged this gentle youth. He had just returned rit it away to old Cockett's; this being done, studied the map of the grove and learned the THE LIVELIEST LAKE of the OPENED FOR THE RECEPTION OF VISITORS Bein; prepared expressly for the above complaints. from a discussion with a butcher, (from the effec.ts "one went up stairs and invited the old woman over names of the various walks and benches, lie need On tlie 15 th of" June next, its Orders left at the Gas-light Office, No. 418 Tenth et. of which the latter now sleeps in the valley,) when to the wedding ; but she would noue of it ; and not say a word. All he lias to do is to lead his Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, 1 Cr Accomi at 711 First street; or at 110 Bridge street, Georgetown, on our Continent, and standing; amidst the Historic FIVE HUNDRED GUE8T^ ' »^ations for BL Q OB-PURIFYING PROPERTIES will be promptly filled. mar 19-tf a party of hlsicllow-townsmcn entered the store in her wrath that the affair was really going to chosen one through the various mazes, squeeze Associations of the French and Indian Revolutionary These Springs are situated two-and-a-half miles from 20 minutes ride from the center of the city, and Sir John's Run, a station on the Baltimore and Ohio in which he was loafing-, and ordered a coil of come off she forgot her supper preparations till her hand if lie can get hold of it, and tidget sig- Wars, wUl but fifty minutes from Baltimore. are greater than any other preparation of Sarsaparilla. ERSONS nificantly. It will add to the effect If lié can man- Railroad, oee hundred and twenty-five miles west of DESIROUS OF HAVING half-inch rope fromJWasliington by the morning's she was ready to set the table for her quitters, Baltimore. It gives the complexion it clear and healthy color, and P SOUND WHITE TEETH AND HEALTHY age to change color at the critical points. At the REGULAR TRAINS will be running August 1st. GUMS should use boat. when she found both Sally and the supper were BE OPENED The BATHS are unrivalled in point of luxury or restores the patient to a spot where the paths on the lawn branch out in This important thoroughfare is nearly completed, medicinal properties, there being every variety of V It was the overland route that Sluker took for really missing ; then, David said, "her dander and SPOUT, SHOWER, PLUNGE, AND SWIM- different directions lie should endeavor to look large forces being engaged with construction cars and California, and when his aged mother heard that fury were up, and the effect might be imagined, engines laying the rails within a few miles of Hunting- MING BATHS, public and private. Shafer's Celebrated Tooth Powder, but he couldn't tell it." Ile got his wife, and tender, or the lady might prefer to go over the ton, and toward Washington, hence the present is the The Gentlemen's Pool is sixty by twenty-five feet; State of Health and Purity. three eyes had been gouged out in one day in the the best dentifrice in the world. Sold by all Druggists stile to Dry Creek instead of turning lierfootsteps BEST POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY for securing, at a that of the Ladies nearly the same size, all supplied Golden City, she wept tears of joy. Her fond sliç was worthy the fight. very low figure, from the MOUNTAIN with an UNINTERRUPTED and the agent, T. S. BURR into Lovers' Walk. He slipuld, not to seem to lc heart told her that the perilous journey was over, First of June. JfLOW ot 'lie pure8t water, which is an ABSOLUTE For purifying the blood, removing all chronic consti- Jy tf 910 F St., opposite Masonic Temple. Tlie race-track was first owned by old Mr. Hol- máke too sure of his conquest, lead her first up SPECIFIC for the cure of all Rheumatic Affections tutional diseases arising from an impure state of the mid her darling boy was safe. A Site for a Fine Country Residence. Diseases of the Kidneys, Dyspepsia, Nervous and Gen^ mead, and afterwards, by his soil. Most oï tlïè the winding way of "Hesitancy," and thence, if blood, and the only reliable and effectual known remedy RICHARD W. BARKER, "After ten years of a brilliant earcer he be- The Air is of the purest character, and the Lake full eral Debility. fast horses aud fast men of the time, from all parts she seem disposed to linger there, go hastily to A writing is given securing the lot or lots to the pur- for the cure of thought liim again of the place of his birth. His of Fisn. chaser upon the first payment being made. Large additions have been made since last season by of the nation, were found here at the sporting the dangerous "Lovers' Leap," where he should which the capacity for the accommodation and conve- Cabinet Maker and Undertaker, heart yearned for the gentle delights—the heavy nience of guests has been greatly increased, includin» Pains and Swellings of the Bones, Ulcerations of the seasons—Congress being well represented. stand upon the yerge of the rock and gaze upon TROUT STREAMS TAXES ON ALL LOTS PAID TO INCLUDE THE 612 ELEVENTH STREET, near F. laden trees—of his boyhood's home. He said lie new and commodious Dining and Ball-rooms, Ten-pin At a later period Colonel Pearce established a the "Race to the Water-wheel" below, signify- YEAR 1873. Alloys Billiard-room, Quoit and «roquet Grounds. Throat and Legs, Blotches, Pimples on the Face, must go. Good Dancing and Park Music, &c. very fine nursery and garden near that part of ing thus, if she doubted longer, how swift would are adjacent, and the Plank Road Drives to ted in a and Enjsipelas, and all Scaly Eruptions of the FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS MADE " His friends Isaiji lia- must go, too. Iu fact m£Ti?m , ., healthy MOUNTAIN DIS- Mount Pleasant, one of the best iu the country, be his course to destruction, as he wouldn't care TRICT, only five hours from Baltimore, six from Wash- Skin, and Beautifying the Complexion. AND REPAIRED. they had already appointed a select and vigilant ington, and ten from Wheeling, trains passing three with some vines and small fruits, portions of The Adirondacks and to Glen Falls, times daily each way, and connected with all the prin- my 7-ly* committee to sco him safely on his way. which are still growing, but it has been mostly a what became of him. The admirable plan cipal cities North, South, East, and West, by " In some respects Sluker came back an altered laid out in lots, and buildings erectad 011 them. of attack is here exemplified to the fullest extent BRICK HOUSES, BUY YOI U afford easy and Uninterrupted Through Lines of Eailroad, man. The stamp of change was on liis noble In the winter of 1857-8, during Mr. Buchanan's when even a young fellow's swearing Is done for MOULDINGS, STAIR WORK. face, indeed it had been stamped on itself, until him by implication. A saunter along the remainder and being in direct telegraphic communication with all administration, the agricultural committees in Of four, six, and eight rooms, with modern improve parts of the United States, it is believed that Berkley And everything in the domain of it looked like a wax doll under a hot stove. But Congress and the Agricultural Bureau of the of "Lovers' Walk" might follow, a lingering at ments, will be built to order on accommodating terms. Springs presents attractions to those in search of health HELMBOLD'S WOOD TRIMMINGS for BUILDINGS, INTERESTING EXCURSIONS. or pleasure not surpassed by any lie still retained his warlike spirit. Patent Oflice invited an advisory board of the "Lovers' Rest," and then on to "Acceptance," the of I. A. HANCE, $18,-000 WORTH OF THESE LOTS Mountain Resort In this Country. "There was not so much chance of indulging offlccrs of the United States Agricultural Society, " Way to Paradise " via "Courtship Maze," or else Pleasant Steamboats lie at the pier of the Hotel. Passengers from the North, South, and East pass 376 Third ave., cor Twenty-seventh St., N. Y. it now, however. The firecompan y had disbanded, and fanners fromdiffelent States of the Union, to a dash through the thicket and a plunge into the have recently been sold to builders, who are making through Harper's Ferry, in full view of MARYLAND CATAWBA 0 RAPE PILLS, They are the best and cheapest in market, my 28-8m C and nearly every one had grown rich enough to narrow retreat of "Despair" styled "Rejection." - The Hotel has accommodations for extensive preparations to build there this summer. and BOLIVAR HEIGHTS. The scenefy in thisloctlit? meet iu Washington for consultation iu regard to is unsurpassed for beauty and grandeur • own a shot-gun. There was only one chance left. [N. B. Don't stay longer than you can help in thf a bill before Congress for donating public lands ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE, _ There are fine SULPHUR AND IRON SPRINGS The Most Reliable Purgative and Cathartic PALMER & GREEN, ' ' He joined the Presbyterian clioir. to the different States for building agricultural last; remember there are other girls who like in close proximity to the hotel. Persons fond of fish- walking, at the hotel.] Is of superb appointments, and is built.to harmonize in mg will find Trout in the smaller streams, aud an Known—Superseding Salts, Magnesia, etc., Successors to RILEY A. SHINN, " Not that ho had much of a voice, though he colleges. At that meeting the writer of this rep- tone and outline with the mountain landscape. The TWO LARGE PUBLIC PARKS abundance of Black Bass in the Potomac used to play ' Comiu' thro the Rye ' on the fiddle resented one of the Western States, and well re- Table has all the advantages of the markets of New Excellent hunting in August and September ST Greene Street, Georgetown, D. C., York, Boston, and Montreal. have been donated by the proprietor, which add greatly Visitors arriving at the station will fiud good coaches in Sick or Nervous Headache, Jaundice, Indigestion, sometimes, until he got it going throwjh him so members a very pleasant afternoon and evening INSURANCE COMPANIES. Constipation, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Liver Com- »„ . , ^"""¿«cturers of MINERAL WATERS, to the value of the lots and the beauty of the place. t°c°2vey them (two-and-a-half miles) to the Springs. Agents for WILLIAM MASSEY & Co's much he couldn't draw a note. at the residence of Colonel Pearce, being one of ^•Baggage checked through from Baltimore aud plaints, General Debility, etc. No nausea, no griping For. tlie month of June. Washington direct. . I DRAUGHT ALE AND PORTEB, "Nobody would have taken them If he had. THE EQUITABLE CAR FARE TO AND FROM HUNTINGTON, by pains, but mild, pleasant, and safe ill operation. the members invited to dine with him ; he placed Transient Guests at $4 per dtfy; Weekly Guests at $3 |S^rcrms-$8 per day, $20 per week, $75 per Bottlers of GINGER ALE, CIDER, WEISS BEER, &c! " Well, Sluker Hiid a pretty warm time of it iu several specimens of fine wines of his own manu- commutation, but month. Nurses, and children under 10 years of aee 1'ine qualities of ALE and PORTER for family use, per day; Monthly Guests at $2.50 per day. J constantly on hand, the choir, and enjoyed himself very much, until facture before the guests, which none of them LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY half-price. ' ELEVEN CENTS PER DAY. FRESH BEDFORD WATER received direct from aplin delivered free of rge for delivery.^ they got a new organist who pitched everything seemed to think was very bad to take or taste. OF THE UNITED STATES, For tlie Month of July. the Springs and furnished without cost to guests. cha in ' high C,' which was this young man's strong Grape growing and wine making have grown to be Transient Guests at $5 per day; Weekly Guests at $4 A. R. POTTS, Proprietor. lead. No. 120 BROADWAY, NEW YORK per day; Monthly Guests at $3.60 per day. Until June loth address Washington, D. C,; after & HERTZOG, much more extensive in this District since that June loth address Berkley Springs, West Vircmia THE CATAWBA GRAPE PILLS " As the choir always sang in G, ol course there time, and are found by some to be profitable» Assets, .... $15,000,000 For the month of August. my 21 ® IMPORTERS OF Income, - 7,500,000 BEFORE A LOT ON THE NOVEL TERMS HERE was a row the first Sunday, and it was generally Sum Assured (new bueiness) »70, 40,295,799 Transient Guests at $5 per day; Weekly Guests at As in other portions of the city and District, OFFERED IS ONE-HALF PAID "FOR THEY WILL Are purely vegetable, being composed of understood that Sluker was going to fixMiddleri b great changes have taken place on Mount Pleasant $4.50 per day; Monthly Guests at $4 per day. BE SELLING AND VALUED AT GROCERIES, ETC. WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, &c., that.night. All cash. Purely mutual Annual Dividends, since those days ; much of the space has been cut For the month of September. ^YTE.?EÎÎ^YEI? from their establishment under the National Theater, to the new and spacious store "Wheii the evening sorvlce commenced,,'and up by streets into lots, and oleasant residences The new business of the Equitable is larger than that Transient Guests at $4 per day; Weekly Guests at $3 One Hundred Dollars Each! CHAS. A. APPEL, CATAWBA GRAPE JUICE the choir was about to begin, the congregation of any other Life Insurance Company in America or built upon them ; the cock-pit has disappeared, Europe. per day; Monthly Guests at $2.50 per day. 1331 and 1333 E street, were startled by an ominous click in the gallery, GROCER, and scarcely a vestige remains of the once popu- The average annual growth of the Society's perma- To parties or families desirous of taking rooms for AND near thc.Jenness House, Washington, D. C. and looking up, they beheld Sluker covering the nent business—risks in forcc—since its organization, lar race-track, where the most famous horses in has been greater than that of any other leading Ameri- the summer, satisfactory prices will be made. Corner Thirteenth and F. je 25-tf organist's second shirt-stud with his revolver. can Company. the nation, at one time or another, exhibited their A full Orchestra has been engaged for the season. ALSO, FLUID EXTRACT RHUBARB. '"Giv c us G, Mr. Middlerib, iÇyouJplease ! ' " speed ; and where, sometimes, almost entire for- Its average percentage of "Losses" to "Amount in For rooms aud plans of the Hotel, apply to Force," during the last five years, is les» than that of BEST* WHISKIES STlaciTolnyToIrlartetiuE CÖH he said blandly. tunes of gentlemen changed hands in wagers on any other of the older and larger Companies of the T. ROESSLE Sc SON, Lots still selling at $25 cash, -Keller, Baker, Grey, Gall United States. and Moore's. " But the pirate on the high C'a refused.toGee thei, r performance. Even on'thé results of cliick- Owners and Proprietors " The Arlington," Or $30, PAYABLE $5 MONTHLY. Its "Expenses" compared with "Income" is much, mar 12-tf Washington, D. C. and Whoa was the natural result. en-fjghts, Jimmy says he has known as high as less than the average of all other New York Companies. BRANDIES—Vintage of 1860. ES~The title is perfectly clear and unincumbered. " The confusion that followed was terrible : COLUMBIA MARKET, $1,700, and even $2,000, to be staked ; very fre- ATIONAL CAPÍTOL LIFE INSUR- Certificate of title to every lot under seal of clerk of WINES and GINS. Beware of those cheap Patent Pills, carelessly pre- Sluker fired at ovcrbody. Middlerib hit him with WASHINGTON BRANCH OFFICE, quently, as a common thing, two, five, and ten N ANCE COMPANY. court, may be seen at the office. pared by ineiperieuced persons—vended in wooden Corner Massachusetts ave. and I st. N. W, the music stool. The soprano was thrown over hundred would be bet on these contests. 505 . Seventh street. GENERAL ASSORTMENT FINE GROCERIES. F. HEYER, JS^-Call at the office and Cet pamphlets and full in- the railing, and somebody turned off thé gas. • je 18- tf STONE QUARRIES. MASON'S IMPROVED FRUIT JARS. boxes—most of which contain either calomel, mercury But these things have nearly passed away from General Agent. formation. or other deleterious drugs. " In the ensuing darkness everyone skirmished this section of our country. He says "the d—d ,^!™cason Eta we sell cheap is we kill our own stock tVTIONAL CAPITOL LIFE INSUR- ALL CHEAP FOIl CASH. for themselves. Sluker took off his boots and reporters killed them off by publishing names of T W 2-tf of BEEF, PORK, VEAL, MUTTON, LAMB, and there- N- ANCE COMPANY. No. 517 Seventh Street, fore can sell at SMALL PROFITS, with a corresponding hunted for Middlerib in his stocking feet. gentlemen found engaged in these sports, and advantage to the public. We have set apart a portion " Suddenly lie heu 1-4 a single note on the ' high thus brought it into such disrepute that gentle- PAPER-HANGINGS, &c. OPPOSITE POST OFFICE. CARRIAGES. | of our ice-house where onr customers can stow their C. ' Ho groped his way to the keyboard, but there baskets, and call or have them delivered up to 9 a. m. men kept away from the pit, and it went down 1&33. ESTABLISHED 1333 on Sunday morning during the heated season. was no one there. I my 21-tf MAGRATQ & BELL. so that ' only the lowest classes and niggers went SENEGA QUARRIES! JOHN McDERMOTT & BROS HELMBOLD'S "The solution rushed upon him — Middlerib into it any more.' " He sàys a great many clerks COACH MAKERS AND CARRIAGE DEALERS, I OUTSTANDING CLAIMS AGAINST must bo in the organ. and other officials were in the constant habit of 486 Seventh Street, between D and E, PROPRIETOR. No.'310 Pennsylvania Avenue, Genuine Preparation«, CORPORATIONS OF WASHINGTON " He crept around to the handle and bore his visiting his placc to engage in the sports of the The Maryland Freestone M. and my 14-tf Near Third street, I AND GEORGETOWN, AND THE LEVY COURT. weight on it. pit ; but most of them were very shy about it, for Dealer in choice Stock of WASHINGTON, D. c. Established upwards of twenty years, prepared by ALDERMEN'S CHAMBER, CITY HALL, " It was too true ; the unhappy wretch had cut fear, if it were known, they might be removed M. Company, LIYERY STABLES. Carriages and Harness received on Storage and Sold on „ ft . , WASHINGTON, D. C., July 21,1871. a hole iu the bellows and crawled in. But for his and lose their places on account of reporters pub- "c 11 tf Comml8slon- Carriages Repaired. Notice is hereby given that the Commission appointed Have on hand and saw to order Platforms, Steps, Win- A. NAILOB, JB. W. T. NAILOR. under an act of the Legislative Assembly of the District ruling passion he would have escapcd. He had lishing their names; but if reporters never do PAPER-HANGINGS, dow Caps and Sills, Door Sills, Ashler, Water Table H. T. HELMBOLD, J,?1,1, ' approved June 16, 1871, to receive and triedJ,o breathe through the ' high C ' hole. anything worse they will not soon test the visions Coping, Flagging, Trap Stuff, Curbing; also, Rough NAIL0R BROTHERS' STABLES, audit all outstanding claims against the Corporations Window Shades and Oval Frames Blocks of all dimensions; good, sound Stone for - ATTORNEYS. of Washington and Georgetown, and the Levy Court, " There were a few muffled groans as the handle of Dante. Jimmy said there was one fellow so Bridges, Railroad Work, Wharves, and all heavy ma- 1330 and 1332 E St., N. TV., PRACTICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMIST, and for other purposes, will be iu session daily, in the slowly descended upon the doomed man, and as incensed for being exposed, that he swore eternal sonry work; Rubble, suitable for Cellar Walls, Itan<*e M. J. MCKENNA, 0. N. PAYNE, Aldermen's Chamber; City Hall, from 10 a. m. to 3 p. Rnbble Work, Churches, Warehouses, and other heavy Nearly opposite the National Theater and Wlliards' Formerly of Washington. m Where all persons having claims against the aforu- the breath rushed out of his body into his favorite vengeance against the reporter, swearing he Would Picture Cord Tassels, Paintings, buildings, walls, and all jobs where strength and dura- Hotel. Branch Office at " The Arlington." Of New York. s»ul Corporations and the Levy Court urn requested to Fine Carriages for Shopping, Levees, Receptions, Crystal Palace Pharmacy, 594 Broadway, New York, pipe, the wild ' high C ' of agony that ran through make him a "dead cock in the pit if he should bility are required. M. J. McKENNA, SC O. N. PAYNE'S tile the snfne, together with all evidence relating thereto, See., See., See. Office and Yard, corner K and Twenty-eighth streets Operas, Weddings, &c. Law and Collection Offices, and 104 South Tenth street, Philadelphia, Pa. on or before the first day of September, eighteen hun- the sacrcd edifice told them that all was over, ever catch him. " northwest. C. W. HAYBEN, dred and seventy-one. TERMS CASH. jy je 11-tf Secretary. WASHINGTON, D. C. 7 WARREN STREET, NEW YORK Sold by Druggists Everywhere. mar 12-1; jy 30-2m* A. S. PRATT, Jy 23-eowtf E. F. M. FAEHTZ, jy 23-et WM. DIXON.