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VOLUME II. WASHINGTON CITY. D. C., APRIL 14, 1872. NUMBER 6.

For TEX CAPITAL. made my heart achc, and went straight to my desk artistic profu^on of statuary, bronzes, sociables, THE WATCH. and toek out of a pigeon-hole a lot of papers—odes . THE TWISS LIBEL CASE. iujure if believed, and libels which must injure upon your cruelty, Isabel; songs to you; sonnets— lounging chairs, book cases, secretaries, and The reading world is by this time fuuiiliar whether believed or not." BY FRANCES MARIE COLE. wine bouffets, that the roulette table with its the sonnet, a mighty poor one, I'd made the day be- with the above-named case, where an infamous The Saturday Review treating generally of this busy basin and its dancing balls, and the faro Long on the slippery shingles at high tide forehand threw them all Into the grate. Then she scoundrel brought about the ruin of a family— Twlss case says: I watched the coming of your tardy sail— table with its ivory cards glued to the green turned to me again, sighed adieu with mute lips, and a family known to and respected by the most "We arc, as Is well known, an admirable peo- Scanning the world of breakers wild and wide, passed out. I could hear the bottom wire of the poor cloth and its little silver box, and the bac-ca-rat refined circles of England—and then escaped ple ; and, if we have a strong point, it is the Until the sunset Arcs burned low and pale. thing's hoop skirt clicking against each step of the table with no particular feature about it, all punishment. The poor lady, so persecuted, deep respect which we always entertain for that stairway as she went slowly and heavily down to the seem to be mere minor accessories of the rich At last the hoarded sands lost glint and gold fled, while the husband, we now learn, is an great safeguard of public morality which we And Btretched In ghastly pallor far around. street.' furnishing. The pictures upon the walls com- inmate of an insane asylum. We copy part of call decorum, and which our French friends, by And distant on the waters, gleaming cold, *"0 don't—don't, Basil.' said his wife, 'it seems pris» some of the most exquisite engravings to an article on the subject from the London Spec- a slight perversion of the meaning of the word, I heard the drogers singing, shoreward-bouud. like something wrong. You ought to have been be found in America. One oil painting of a a&puñed. tator on account of the suggestions It contains: describe as cant. As it Is undeniable that we woman, probably three by four feet in size, " A-saillng, a-salllng," the song was one £ ' Ashamed 1 I was heart-broken. But it had possess this virtue, by whatever name it may be That told of gracious sea and tender wind, hangs in the supper room, and is the only picture " Very few Englishmen, we imagine, heard of come to that. As I got hopeful about you, the Muse called, we are of course quite right in giving Bow her love's sail was speeding in the sun in the house suggestive of aught but the purest the termination of the Twlss libel case without berumc a sad bore ; and more than once I fouud my- heaven thanks for it as often and as publicly as, With calm before and not a cloud behind. fancies. Amoug the richest engravings are those a sensation of persoual pain. With a vindic self smiling at her when her back was turned. The possible. A man may sometimes be excused Mise doesn't like being laughed at auy more than of Dore'« " Jonah Prophesying the Fall of Nine tiveness quite unusual in our race, they wanted Adown the coast the steady beacon-light for hiding his light under a bushel, because a Burned like a ruby in the light-house spire; another woman would, aud she would have left mo veil," "Scenes at the Deluge," "The WritiDg Chaflers punished. That a man should, out of judicious display of modesty is frequently the Below, the thunderous swoops, vexed shuddering ahivNy. No, I couldn't be a poet like Our Morning- on the Wa.ll," and other Biblical incidents not malice, or greed, or revenge, or any other mo- best mode of extorting praise from our neigh- white, Sti-.et friend. But sec ! the human wave is beginning at all likely to excite in lliu n'hids of those who tive, publicly proclaim that a lady who, for ten to, sprinkle the pavement with cooks aud second- bors ; but if as a uation We do not blow our own Were lit with broken shreds of mocking fire. view them any but the most serious thoughts years at all events, had been the unspotted wife giriB.'" of a respected member of society, had once been trumpet, we may be quits certain that nobody ' With wildest thoughts I filled the weary watch: and the most profound apprehensions. As we semark no resemblance between the a courtesan, should assert in confirmation that will take the trouble to blow it for us. Let U3 I wondered if kind heaven's brightest stars The company that is usually to be found here, recent doubtless authentic portrait of Mr. How- he himself had been her paramour, should tor- therefore rejoice with all due complacency that Had fallen earthward, if the waves would snatch either playing at some of the tables, eating elk in a popular New York illustrated weekly ture her for five days with filthy questions, and we are not as the Americans. Their newspapers A tithe that vanished on the harbor bars. supper, or loungiug about, smoking, chatting, aud the artist's drawing of Basil in this btjok, should then walk out of court unpunished, and pander to the curiosity of the many-headed "He does not come," lamented thus the sea, and laughing, is not so much a gay company as we hardly presume that Basil is to be takeh as but for the 'contempt of all honest men,' with beast by trespassing on the privacies of life, And walled of perils in a mad affright; a substantial one. To be sure nearly every one a shadow meaning the author himself ; and which the magistrate mcnaced him, in words and publishing to all the world details which And when a vessel passed it seemed to be present looks pleasant aud contributes his share surely one who caq give us so vigorous a poem far within the public feeling, apparently un- are rightly excluded from bur admirable press. A phantom floating in the moonless night. to the genera] enjoyment, aud except at the asthat of "Avery," with which the tragic side scathed, is an affront to the instinctive justice It should be our proud boast that our journals, No storms between, and stiH I thought of wreck tables, where bets may be high andfbetters may of Niagara feeling is illustrated, cannot have of mankind and opprobrium to its administra- like our novels, may be read from the top of the And pallid Bloopers on the restless sand. look very serious, there is a general appearance taken very effectual leave of the Muse. tion in this country. It produces that most first column to. the foot of the last—always ex- Until afar I marked a flyingspcck , of club leisure and somewhat restrained jovi- Throughout this poem there is in the verse á demoralizing of all results from legal proceed- cepting certain advertisements—without calling And knew your boat was bearing to the land. ality ; but the prominent feature of the assembly singular suggestion of the never-ceasing, arrowy ings, a desire that Judge Lynch would every up a blush to the cheeks of virgins or boys, and Safe to the shore at last I 0 drogers sing is that air of solidity and established reputation rushing of the rapids—making one feel the hur- now and then assert himself, a wish that mag- without unnecessarily dragging into daylight Again of gracious sa< and tender wind, which in all assemblages bespeaks the wealthy rying, dreadful, dangerous flood during the istrates could be empowered to punish criminals matters which are not of public right. The Of distant ships that love and prayer can bring merchant, the successful politician, the firm- action of the story itself. taken red-lianded, without respect for judicial British press should be, and of course it is, in With calm before and not a cloud behind 1 founded speculator, in fact the conservative and Those who have read his " Venitiau Life," forms, a sense that our boasted institutions are, this as in every other respect, the pride and Laurel, Md., April 5, 1812. old established money holders of the country. '^Italian Journeys," and "SuburbanSketches," after all, worth very little for the protection of envy of the world. But at the same time—for, There is nothing of the opera bouffé air about need not be told what manner of prose writer society against some of the wickedest forms of alas! there arc "buts " to every positive asser- them, nothing Bohemian or vagrant. There are Mr. Howells is; these three volumes have iudi- crime, We have no desire to say much about a tion—it must not be forgotten that even Eng- no men amoug them who say " I owe so much ; catcd and fully demonstrated him. "Their case of the true history of which the public can lishmen are men. Newspapers must be more just score it till I come." They mean imsiness Wedding Journey" has the same graces of knoW nothing, except that, true or false, the or less amusing, and cannot entirely deprive here at cards as they mean it on Wall street in style, the same lightness and airiness of fancy, accusation was, in all its circumstances, an themselves of that great source of amusement railroad stocks. They discuss here the fortune foiling, and thought, with the delicate leaven atrocity such as makes kindly men hunger to which is derived from our criminal jurispru- that might have rested on that ace, or the of humor that have characterized the former punish the accuser; that a strong presumption dence. The publicity of our trials is, we be- chances of Longfellow and Harry Bassett, next volumes. But "Their Wedding Journey" is always exists in favor of any one who fights a lieve, one of the numerous palladiums of our July, at Monmouth park, as they would discuss different from those in one important respeét— charge of the kind ; that the evidence for the liberties; and the more public they are, the the chances of a rise in pork this spring, at it is entirely unique. Other authors may here- prosecutrix seemed at first conclusive against more thoroughly, of course, will our liberties their offices in Broad street, or of the Cincinnati after write readable chapters from Venice, give the main charge, her identity with Marie Gelas, be secured." nomination next May in the committee rooms us pleasing pictures of Italian travels, and make though of course there was something behind, After proceeding at some length, with a cer- of the Senate. A sedate air of the counting- for us charming*" Suburban Sketches," but— and that it revealed from first to last a state of tain Pecksniflian ability, the author Informs us BOOK NOTICES. room settles all about the parlors. A joke and how absurd it would be for anybody, hence- the law, and, we must add, of society, under that this TWISB case " has revealed a state of the a laugh are frequent, but the jokes are delicately | THEIII WEDDING JOUBNEY. By W. L). Howells. forth, to attempt the history of " Their Wed- which no woman is ever safe. law and of the press to which attention may delivered and the laughs are decorous. No Boston : J. R. Osgood & Co. Washington: ding Journey!" properly be called. In the first place, it seems slang, no smut, no disorderly behavior, no low "It is nonsense to say that it the unhappy J. L. Kervaud. that it is possible for a man to go before a magis- For the illustrations of this volume, we like life here. These are the golden men of "the woman so recklessly tortured had proved her trate, and without reference to any proceedings, There is a'pretty German ballad wherein a none so well as that of the cover, where Cupid, country whiling away an hour or two of leisure. case the accusation would have done her«o in- ¡lover, sitting upon a mountain-top, holds up with his wings and a dress-hat, shows himself to make a declaration quite promiscuously to You will see all our higher grades of Ameri- jury. It would have done her the gravest ¡the betrothal ring which his sweetheart has as. porter and carpet-bagger. injury. Her own immediate friends and rela- certain facts which would be destructive of a ¡Riven him, and looks down through it as through can life here, except possibly the President and lady's character. This appears to us to be a Vice President. Neither of them are supposed tives would have adhered to her, but the gene- la telescope upon the world below him. The For THE CAPITAL. ral public, seeing the circumstantiality of the very singular arrangement/^SHhe-swogl^cost SONNET—SHE I to gamble—at cards. But senators homeward ¡ring lends a wonderful charm to the landscape; accusation and its dirtiness, would have remem- of liability to prosecution, which in many cases (woodland and meadows, towns and villages,with Mother of grace, great Nature I deign to say, or Senate bound, whose routes either way pass may be a very remote risk, a man may gratify his Is yonder mincing thing, with studied stoop, bered throughout her life that there was 'a Itheir dwellers, are bound within an atmosphere through New York, (and do not all roads lead malice or his avarice by putting upon record, $esmirchcd with gauds and many a tawdry loop, here ?) they are to be couuted at times by the story' against her, would have been worried by lot sweetness and beauty and peace seen through Tlie crowning work of thy creative day ? the necessity of explaining that story, and would with oijVithout provocation, a solemn declara- Ithe ring of Love. Mr. Howells perhaps had dozen. Representatives can be found there at tion that a woman is unchaste. We are quite This airy nothing," whose love-luring eyes all seasons, and Reform assemblymen are to be have preferred less embarrassing acquaintances. (some such fancy as this in his mind when he Aid gentler voice alone to man reveal unable to see what end can be served by allow- discovered among the guests any night and No position, or character, or unmistakable his- ¡conceived the plan of "Their Wedding Jour- tlis soft Self-opposite, which paradise tory would have protected her against that ing a certain official stamp to be placed upon Iney." A little summer-holiday jaunt through Sdw God withdraw from grosser flesh to feel hour. Assemblymen as a general thing were the gravest accusations which, evcu if true, do not thoroughly the stock that found their social isolation, that liability to insult, that (familiar geographical boundaries, through cities With subtler sense His presence in the world 1 sense of subjection to suspicion which is the not form part of any judicial proceedings. Who there discerns, in flaring rags infurled, heartiest welcome at this jungle. They were land towns that to many people are well known heaviest of .the realties We inflict on extra- There are circumstances under which it may be Dlsuiscd, disfigured, dwindling to a span, apt to be rather low. But the great Refoim negeakary to take a man's evidence op such mat- land. commonplace. ,enough, focciyncitJ to two Afrarrs, all art, the*1 helii-mate"* of allien : " ' jr.l • • H >• " v ^ ;leavv oft^u ¡n InvoJvR ex-, •married lovers (who both may be said, although movement has "so f®aed'{tie'stati¡Tard of assem- ters; but that he should be allowed vo volunteer' ^ Brave ally she to join the tug of life: blymen generally, that now they are welcome treme injustice. Society is too cumbrous and Itheir wedding journey was not begun, accord- too hurried a tribunal to study evidence, or such a statement without rhyme or reason, just No room for motherhood, then whereforo wife ? with the rest. ling to the author, until the newness and un- EUSTACE VKAI. » weigh distinctions, or pass decisions, except by because he likes to make it, is opposed to all Among his guests it would be hard for a ¡accustomedness of their relation had passed a drumhead court-martial. No woman unpro- one's ordinary notions of English justice. So stranger to single out John Cha'mberlin. Most ¡away, to look through the mutual wedding ring THE TIGER AT HOME. tected by the kind of court of honor which a far as appears, we may any of us walk to the of them mistake his lame brother, who, con- lat outside people and things) sufficiently novel few highly-placed families succeed in organiz- nearest police court, and make a solemn ex- A Gilded Palace of Cards in the Metropolis- demned by infirmity to keep himself indoors of ¡for their own delight and entertainment, and, ing can pass unscathed, or ever does pass un- posure of the worst things we choose to say John Chamberlin's Tuileries. evenings on two crutches, is to be seen at all I reflected upon Mr. Howells' pages, to interest scathed, through such an ordeal. Whether it about our neighbors' lives, to which they cau Correspondence of THE CAPITAL. hours, hopping about genially as an ever-smiling land please many readers. The lovers make it would be possible to formulate such a court, as only reply by bringing an action for libel against NEW YORK, April 6,1873. tuberose among his callers, for the great John, I a sufficiently well-bred but sentimental journey, part of our institutions, to empannel a jury of us." If you would view the tiger iu his mildest especially on hearing him called Mr. Chainber- I Mr. Howells keeps close enough to them on the men so trusted that their verdict taken on We are a bad lot, we admit, but not quite so mood, you must go to No. 8 West Twenty-fifth erlin. But the great Bengal is probably seated I way to illustrate it with shrewd observations of secret evidence would be accepted by the world bad as John Bull in this respect. A man who street. It is there that his cruel claws are most in a decorously mirthful group iu a far comer I characters and manners, and to touch it with as final, to supplement the verdict of the law would go into any court, from that of old thoroughly muffled and his hungry jaws are listening to some extravagance from a visitor-^ ¡delicate and subtle humor. The wedding jour- by a verdict of society, we do not know—we Pumphrcys up, to make such a declaration most daintily satisfied. His traditional attitude seldom talking himself. His full round face, Iney begins and ends at Boston, but extends by fear not—but nothing short of that will ever; in against a woman as was done in this Twiss case, of springing here seems only the graceful relax- black eyes and hair, and nonchalant air do not ¡railway to New York city; thence by night- ^ land where the duel is abolished, make women, we think—well, we believe — such scoundrel ation of a giant, and his thick shaggy hide is generally meet fully the stranger's idea of the Isteamer up the Hudson to Albany; thence particularly well-placed women, safe against would incontinently get kicked out. Our press like unto velvet to the touch. His jungle is as tiger. • There ought to be something crouching ¡westward by railway again through the central gorgeous as the most royal Bengal could invite this abominable mode of torture." is in a bad condition. We have, as our readers ¡part of the State of New York to Niagara Falls; about him. His eyes ought to wander restlessly you to, for No. 8 is the Tuileries of gambling There IB a remedy for this sort of cruel out- well know, over and often deplored that con- ¡thence across into Canada, where the lovers about. He ought to be continually In a state houses, and its tiger is the famous John Cham- rages, and probably the only remedy that Is dition. We deprecate personality and shun the ¡breathe a sort of foreign, Frcnch-and-English of nervous excitement. He is not the ideal of berllu. hinted at in the barbarous practice of dueling. invasion of private life so common in our press. lair of sentiment at Quebec and Montreal; and the chiefs at the spas and the Hombourg at all. This Tuileries is just off Broadway, and, for There are some things more precious than life, But the Thunderer, the London Times, sets us Ithence homeward by the most direct rail. The He is thoroughly an easy-going, contented host that matter, just off Fifth avenue, for these two and recognizing this fact scoundrels such as a bad example. This essayist, in the same ar- ¡book is full of pleasantly quotable pages—of who seems to have satisfied himself in having ticle, says: noble thoroughfares conjoin near its door, satisfied his guests. His assistants all seem mod- this Chaffers grow cautious. We have substi- ¡which the first experience of New York city, " But this evil i3 comparatively small in itself; forming Madison square. The Fifth Avenue eled after the same pattern. None of them,to use tuted assassination for the duel without marked latter the night trip by railway from Boston, in as it does not appear that the declaration so Hotel is just a block from it, and the Hoffman a homely expression, seem to care whether the improvement in that respect. Ithe early and sultry summer morning—the "mid- made would necessarily be known to many peo- House and St. James almost overlook it. The school keeps or not. But how well the school The learned editor continues his remarks on lsummer day's dream," as the author calls it, of ple. We provide any intending extorter of Young Men's Christian Association building keeps may be seen nearly any night after eleven, libel, that are of interest to us where the law Ithe sun-stricken afternoon in the great, lielp- hush-money with a convenient mode of record- rears its lofty head across the square diagonally when the faro table is thoroughly at play, and of libel has become a dead letter. He says: lless, busy city; the sleepy travel through " a ing his calumnies, but we do not give him the from it, and Carieton's j)ublishing house, with the dancing ball in the roulette basin is fully in ¡pleasant land of drowsihead " in Western New "We cannot get such a court, but we can widest possible circulation. That kind office its brownstone front, nestles among thick creep- earnest, when Johnny Bowman's eyes sparkle ¡York, and the enchantment of Rochester (in- modify the law, andv the law Is evidently in a has been on the present occasion undertaken by ing vines, at the distance of a stone's throw with the excitement of heavy stakes on the cluding the exquisite lag'er-beer garden and 8am very bad condition. In the first place, a statu- the Times, which, in the case to which we refer, away. So you see it is not an isolated jungle. " eagle bird," and the Doctor's spectacles fairly ¡Patch episode) are amting the most delightful. tory declaration to the injury of another ought publishes at length the declaration in question. It is not awed by literature, or grandeur, or glitter as he draws in stacks of blue chips off ¡Mr. Howells began his literary career as a writer to involve all the responsibilities of perjury, Surely this, if we put the best constmctiq^ fashion. the "coppered'' ace. Thousands of dollars I of verse, and one of the most pleasing things which it does not now do, and all the respon- upon it, is a very cruel oversight. It may If you wish to visit this jungle you have only pass from one owner to another without a mur- I in this new book is the half-playful, half-regret- sibilities of libel on the journalist who, except gratify the prurient tastes of some readers to to mount the stone steps and ring the door bell. mur. ' Tens upon tens drop decorously into the I ful allusion of his hero Basil to an early poetical as part of the proceedings in a suit, admits it know precisely what is the imputation which The door is opened wide at once, and the Col- little sliding drawer in the tables with no com- I bias in the following passage, wherein Mr. How- to his columns. Indeed, though we defer on has been made upon a lady's character, but ored boy is taking possession of your hat and ment beyond a possible sigh. Men rise up with lells charmingly compliments a brother writer this point to judicial opinion, there would seem meanwhile it is placing her in a most painful coat apparently before he has inspected your their last dollar, gone, and are courteously I (the companion of his earliest venture in lltera- to be no earthly reason why such declarations position without the smallest necessity. It is face. You may be a preacher, or a tract dis- greeted to the doorway. Others rise up with I ture, wo understand ;) the reader may compare Bhould be permitted at all, except as part of giving every possible publicity and currency to tributor, or an old customer, or a detective, for thousands in their pockets, and boisterously I the leave-taking with the Muse here described evidence iu a 6uit, when the witness can be an accusation which may turn out to be en- all he seems to know or care, and if he does make their way out, just as courteously greeted I with that sole remembered poem of Blackstone, cross-examined. There is no perceptible pub- tirely false, but which meanwhile may probably know, you are still apparently made as welcome as the others. "Money may come and money I and we think he will prefer Basil's happy ac- lic good which can be accomplished by the make upon many people an impression hard to if you are one as if you were the other. The may go, but the courtesy holds on forever. And I count of the unhappy affair. The wedding system, and a great deal of very perceptible be removed, even by the clearest refutation. tiger here is a respecter of all persons. Iverily amid it all the rattling of knives and forks and ¡journeyers, after reaching New York, are walk- public evil. Under it, for anything we can see, Of the merits of the particular case we can, of believe If the chief of police were himself to call the popping of champagne corks are still going ling down town for the new sensation in the the archbishop of Canterbury might be sworn, course, say nothing. It matters nothing for our in full uniform with a squad of policemen at his on in the supper room ; the slippered servants | early daylight: by a man who had never seen him, to be guilty ' present purpose who maybe in the right as to back, he would be warmly welcomed, and, if are moving about With cigars and pony brandies of stealing his church plate. Then the law of the facts. But, aceording to the present sysj "As they turned into one;of the numerical streets late enough, would be asked tp sit down and for the guests, and John still holds his genial I to cross into Broadway, and fouud themselves in a libel Is of itself bad, too lenient, and too: de- tem, it seems that a sufficiently unscrupulotj have some supper. That is indeed the only temper, and listens complacently to the ex- ficient in necessary distinctions. It is necessary I yet deeper seclusion, Basil began to utter in a musing man, who sees his way to concocting a tenih ¡tone— invitation that you rifceive at all. You are travagances of his lively callers. A fine place to speak out upon this subject very plainly. coherent story against a woman, may thread 1 never asked to play. You are not even asked to see gilded life is No. 8. Nearly any senator Our ordinary law of libel has been weakened A city of the world's gray Prime, to look on at the play. There seems to be only her with making a declaration before &4nagis- Lost in some desert far from Time, in Washington can tell you how it is himself. and injured by the growth of a new and great one thing the tiger wants of you especially, and trate, which will be published to the whole Where noiseless ages, gliding through, FIG. - power which has reason, just reason, to dread Have only sifted sands and dew- that is to sit down and take supper. One comes its operations. The public is not in the least world and read on half the breakfast-tables of A Checkered Career. Yet a mysterious hand of man to imagine after a while that John has estab- aware of the way in which the written law of the United Kingdom before she has had any The Harrisburg Telegraph tells the following: Lying on all the haunted plan, lished this jungle merely for the philanthropies! libel, and more especially the civil law, presses opportunity of making a defense. In the lower shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad The passions of the human heart pleasure of giving supper to his callers. upon journalists, of the absurd rigidity of some "Without wishing to deprive anybody of a Company at Altoona, is employed an individual, Quickening the marble breast of Art- The supper is indeed a wonder. " Charlie," of its provisions, of the impossibility of avoid- harmless amusement, we may safely say that Were not more strange to one who first a painter by trade, who has experienced as many I believe, is the name of the steward, aud he ing offense, of the absolute reliance we are this is a means of offense which can obviously Upon its ghostly silence burBt, changes in this strange life as generally fall to deserves immortality. He is a round, sleek, compelled to place upon the common sense of! be turned to the worst purposes, and we regret Than this vast quiet where the tide the lot of man, and which we condeuse for pub- full-faced, bald-headed gentleman of color, (it juries, the fair feeling of politicians, the reluc- that a leading newspaper should by any inadver- Of Life, upheaved on either side, lication. He graduated with high honor at Jef- Hangs trembling, ready soon to beat would be impertinence to call him darkey,) and tance of the legal profession to press artificial tence permit its columns to be made in any de- ferson college, and subsequently assisted in the With human waves the Morning Street.' he has devoted the full force of his entire intel- cases. gree subservient to it. We indeed are suffi- building of the first railroads in Illinois and ciently prudish to be very little edified by the "' How lovely 1' said Isabel, swiftly catching at lect to the subject of suppers. Dinners come " We say gravely that the law, if worked as Upper Canada. Six months of his life were completeness with which the evidence iu the I her skirt, and deftly escaping contact with one of a now and then in "Charlie's" way. On New it was worked once, would still make journal- spent with the Huron Iudians on the Monto case has been reported by the press generally. I long row of ash-barrels posted sentinel-like on the Year's day he set a dinner for about a thousand ism impossible, that we doubt if a number of islands, in the Georgian bay. He has been the The declaration seems to be a wanton aggrava- | edge of the pavement. ' Whose is it, Basil 1' visitors, to the wonders of which the town the Times ever comes out upon some sentence editor and proprietor of two weekly papers and tion of the evil; but that is a detail. If a man " Ah 1 a poet's,' answered her husband,' a man of made oath for a month afterwards. But it is to of which a libel suit could not be foundad, I whom we shall one day all of us be glad to Bay that the editor of three others—two of them daily. makes a grievous imputation upon a woman's suppers that he unbends all his giant facul- that our own carefully expurgated columns oc- we liked him before he was famous. What a nebu- He was captain under General William Walker character, it is highly desirable that he should ties—suppers that are " called " at eleven p. m. casionally contain material for a dozen suits at lous sweetness the first lines have, and what a clear, and last Until the rosy tints of daybreak. I in his last fatal expedition to Nicaragua, on be punished if it is false, and a certain amount | cool light of daybreak in the last 1' once. We can point to a number of the Spec- eannot describe these suppers—it takes an art- which occasion he was captured and sentenced of publicity 1B necessary. But surely it is a case "' You could have been as good a poet as that, tator on which eleven suits could be brought, to be shot, but subsequently made his cscape, of all others where, under any circumstances, I Basil,' said the ever-personal and concretely-speaking ist in suppers to convey even a faiut idea of though there was not only no intention to libel, and, after wandering for three months in the the publicity should be restrained within the- Isabel, who could not look at a mountain without their culinary excellence. Variety, quantity, and but no man not specially familiar with the law forests, succeeded in returning safely to this narrowest limits. To give all the details of the thinking what Basil might have done in that way if delicate cookcry are the prominent features, would dream of imagining that a libel had been | he had tried. country. accusation at full length can serve no possible however. There are all kinds of dishes, plenty published. Moreover, these quasi libels appear 1 At the breaking out of the late civil war he purpose that we see, except gratifying a pru- " 0 no I couldn't, dear. It's very difficult being of each, and all "done up" to perfection. in spite of precautions of which the public has I any poet at all, though it's easy to-be like one. But w(as commissioned a lieutenant colonel by Sec- rient curiosity. It is an unmanly action to take Wines flow in profusion, champagne is as water no conception. It has no idea of the extent to I've done with it; I broke with the Muse the day you retary of War Cameron and assigned to the staff away a woman's character without imperative in quantity, and Chateau Margaux is a drug on which the newspapers, sometimes supposed to accepted me. She came into my offlee, looking so the market. The supper that this obliging of Major General McCollum, of the construc- necessity, and those who spread the accusation shabby, not unlike one of those poor shop girls; and be the great libclers, act as the preventive offi- Bengal invites you to is something that restau- tion corps. By this latter officer he was assigned as widely as possible are substantially allies of as I was very well dressed from having just been to to General Sherman's department, where he cers of libeling. A majority of people when see you, why, you know, I felt the difference. ' Well, rateurs can only get up for a show, not to be the man who originated It." gave entire satisfaction both to General Sher- angry have no notion what a libel means, and my dear V said I, not quite liking the look of reproach eaten but to be looked at. Nor is it a supper fire off letters to their favorite papers, which, she was giving me. ' You are going to leave me,' she similar to that to which Hamlet sent Polonius, man and Secretary of War Stanton. At the close \ TECTONIC friend a little profanely says the of the rebellion, iu settling his accounts with if published, would be found to contain as answered sadly. ' Well, yes; I suppose I must. Yon where you do not eat but are eateu. On the many libel? as seuteuces, aud would very soon Republicans can never hope to carry Now York see the insurance business is very absorbing; and the Government for property passing through contrary, from the happy way in which the render a free press the public nuisance it has city, because of the Tam-many Democrats besides, it has a bad appearance, your coming abont mastor Bengal sees you to the door, even after his hands, he was adjudged a defaulter to the there. so in office hours, and in those clotjies.' ' O,' she amount of over $600,000, although he steadfastly ^TWays in confined societies p, tendency to be- you have eaten his supper and perhaps won five come. Naturally, therefore, journalists dread moaned out,' you used to welcome me at all times, or six hundred dollars at his card table, you maintains that he has never wronged the Gov- A YOUNG factory girl recently fell so violently out In the country, and thought me prettily dressed.' ernment out of | solitary copper. any aggravation of a system already oppressive, iu love with a young man that her friends were 'Yes, yes; but this Is Boston; and Boston makes a would feel convinced that nothing could de- and their influence, which when acting together obliged to send her to an asylum forthe insane difference in one's ideas; and I'm going to be mar- light the philanthropic breast of this king of is nearly irresistible, tends to the perpetual the jungle more thoroughly than to stuff your THE revelations of Garvey are so tantalizing to protectrfilffi and t'other girl be liked better. I ried, too. Come, I don't want to seem ungrateful; that many a petty knave is sighing— weakening of a protection indispensable to so- [ We have had many pleasant time» together, I own it; stomach with goodies and your pockcta with ciety. And it will continue to weaken It, unless and I've no objections to your being present at Christ- I want to be a rascal. IT HAS been calculated that the combined greenbacks. we can make some better division between a mas and thanksgiving and birthdays, bnt really I And with the rascals stand, mouths of the twenty-five thousand singers et The parlors at No. 8, where the game is prin- libel with a private object and a libel with a mast draw the line there.' She gave me a look that A price marked on my forehead the Boston JuBllee will form a cavity of over cipally carried on, are furnished with such an And a million in my hand. public one, and also between libel which may seven hundred and thirty-six square feel Vu

of such a thing, and when he found after that he riety, as chairman of the Committee of HENRY WARD BEECHES, saver of souls and MR. GREELEY does not want to be an angi— ferred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. the politicians. That Penobscot Indian, the wary^ AMUSEMENTS. The question 01» reference seemed to be whether the Maynard, thought civil service ought to have a show. must starve as a painter, he took the hint and worked Appropriations, by cutting down estimates high custodian of the mercantile conscience, of the political church militant: in oner out jme telegraph. I suppose this is really the his- THEODORE THOMAS.—Everybody who loveB music THE CAPITAL. runs bis religion and politics OB his emotions. word6, an organ. He wants it distinctly un^;r- land proposed to be occupied belongs to the United Mr. Cobnra thought it would be a good reform to and In our city that means nearly the entire popula- in the regular bills before elections, that he have all the offices elective by the people. This pro- tory ipf all great inventions. They are the result of tion, has been anxiously waiting for the sale of tickets If Henry Ward has an; stores of information stood, whatever the issues and whoever jhe States or to the city of Washington: Mr. Morrill had to make up in deficiencies immedi- holding to the former. Mr. Patterson to the latter cess worked so well in the selection of congressmen, long Rental processes, experiments,and accident, and for the two concerts to be given by Mr. Thomas to CITY EDITION". that will improve the mind or benefit the candidates, that the Tribune will not be anbr- generally arc announced in 'three or four quarters at commence. This is proven by the fact that although ately after, and arraigning each department opinion. This is a question upon which it is surpris- that the Hon. Coburn wanted it extended to post- the sale only commenced yesterday morning nearlv morals, the world so far has failed to discover gan. "We shall print no campaign edltiaiB. masters and clerks. For example we make the ex- once. It was so with the steamboat, and probably WASHINGTON CITY: of the Administration ; for frauds and ex- ing to observe a disagreement iu a body so grave and the entire house Is already sold for both nights N,, them. We doubt- whether Henry Ward has We shall not surrender our columns maiulwor learned as the Senate of the United States. Being a ample: Indiana claims so many clerkships in Wash- every other great discovery. And this is becoming troupe visits our city that is more heartily welcomed travagance that he not only swallows now anything of the sort about him. But be is pos- largely to the advocacy of this or that x>latf#m question of fact, it cannot, be very -difficult of de- ington. Let them be elected en general ticket in more cammon every day." than Thomas' Orchestra, and they are always sure tn SUNDAY MORNING - - • APRIL 14, 1872. but seeks every opportunity to sustain. He The colonel then gave us a curious history of the be greeted by an audience that fully appreciates their sessed, of the liveliest emotions, Snd giving-full or ticket. We shall not shout and sweaty and cision; and its settlement might enlighten Congress Indiana. Wouldn't that be beautiful ? Mr. Stough- efforts. Wherever Mr. Thomas and his orchestm lacks the intellect to be a successful charla- play to them is vastly amusing. This may be put forth frantic appeals In behalf of any J>a<,y upon a matter of duty which is not without its im- ton felt for the soldier. It was fun to see how the first st^mboat, invented by Rumsey at Berkley have gone they have been met with overflowing Springsithat General Washington certifies to have STARTLING DISCOVERY OF GOV- tan, and has only the laurels—if they may religion. The world is so turned up—torn to or cause." In short, " vanity of vanities, ¿aiUi portance. cripples were put to the front. It does not seem to houses and the warmest praise. Some critics have seen pawing to and fro in Sir John's Bun. But we even effervesced in poetry, and we have now in our ERNMENT P1ATE-ORDWAI WILL the preacher." What we have been doing for It is more than questionable whether Government strike these legislative noodles that a man might be called such—of a Cheap Jack. What pieces as it were—that one feels unsafe in any lose his leg in battle without thereby qualifying reserve that for another occasion. possession some sonnets to Mr. Thomas, which ari RISE TO EXPLAIN. has the legitimate authority to grant away lands of very meritorious and which we had intended to nub Mr. Speaker Blaine is going to do with, his assertion. But we rather think that if our the last thirty or forty years, we shall do no which it is the trustey: 110 consideration for the same himself for office. A loss of a leg does not neces- One of the most amazing occurrences hap- Savior were to revisit the earth few things longer. With length of days has come wisde^w, \ MRS. MASON. lish, but find that the crowded state of our columns clumsy work remains to be seen. accruing to the constituent body, either directly or sarily strengthen the brain, and considering the im- This mysterious lady, so strangely connected with will not admit of it. We are positive, however that pened last week that it has been our painlul would fill him with more amazement than Henry with experience discretion, and with observa- through the cousequcnt enhancement in the value of mense sums spent to provide for the soldier, it is not the attendance will be very large, notwithstanding There is only one portion of this maladroit the Bale oflarins to the French, has been commented duty to record since occupying the place of Ward's Sunday theatricals. It is one of the tion understanding. its other property. An individual proprietor may. if he precisely the thing to sacrifice the civil service, to upon and inmiired 'about- in the liveliest manner. the absence of the poetry. " business on the part of our friends that we public reporter. It has been noted for years largest congregations In the world, and a very But it may be asked, can this journalistic shall so elect, give away his estate; but Government them. Bishop Potter wanted the officers elected. She gives aeolor of romance to-the dark transaction THE LYDIA THOMPSON Burlesque Troupe, so called He agreed with the Hon. Coburn for once. Mr. Dawes past that from the halls of Congress there regret. To conciliate this cunning Yankee, respectable one. It takes some money to be a Ethiopian change his skin, and this politipd does not stand in the same relation to the public that piqueOTBiitiosity to the furthest extent. Mrs. will commence an engagement at the National Theater this ultimatum of a spinning jenny, they member of Henry's church. The rental of a leopard his spots ? Is there any cautery wbjch domain that the citizen does to his lands and tene- had nothing to say, but being the leader of the HouBe Mason is not now in Washington. Many will re- to-morrow ni"ht.. Miss Thompson has always drawn has been a steady disappearance of public he never loses an opportunity to sail in on any sub- large houses here, and she will probably do BO now™ made their revenue reform exceedingly mild, pew equals that of a respectable bouse. Rich will obliterate the party tattooing itnprinteaiin ments. It is not created If be liberal or generous, member a tall, wll-formcd lady, with a rather hand- property in the shape of movables, such as but to be just. It is not claimedtliat there is any ject, and so he said his nothing. The Hon. Beck people are of course respectable. But- the Infancy and cherished as a sacred stigma all the some face, lit upwith bright black eyes and framed PROFESSOR DONCH, who is well known to all our combs, brushes, penknives, stationery, soap, and took cents from theft when they should consideration, direct or indirect, to pass from the pro- rolled out his despairing wail over the deplorable in with raven: Kick hair. She was quiet, modest, lovers of dancing, will give a grand promenade con- amount of true piety is small—we mean by this way up to maturity and into the post-medieijal towels, and sometimes more valuable arti- have taken dollars. Their-reward is the in- posed grmitcr of these lands to the people. Whero condition of the service, and illustrated on Lewis and graceful in hir ways, but evidently possessed of cert and ball at the Masonic Temple on Wednesday solence of monopoly and the impudence of honest, earnest, religious conviction, that makes period of baldness and spectacles? SudAn then does Government—either that of the United Porter of the Washington postofflce, who, following great forceof chaacter and certain fascinations of evening The programme for the concert will be cles. The record of contingent expenses a full-grown man get on his knees whero no one the example of the Hon: Beck's friend Billy McGar- filled with the choicest gems', while the musi" for shallow cunning. We trust that it will be conversions in the case of aged sinners usually State/or that of the cit/of Washington—acquire the mind and persdmt\ai influenced others. She is one dancing will be such as l)onch only can rive com- has been on this account rather interesting can see him, and beg God to forgive him his point to transitory causes, and indicate ratlier power it is so free to exercise? rahan, went about and tried to buy votes with bonds. at least a lesson. of that sort of peole well known at several periods prising the de icious waltzes of Strauss and the t™ reading. The people who have been enter- sins, with a solemn resolve in his heart to respond a disapproval of old than a capacity to enter The bill now before the Senate is to confirm the And yet while Porter had a fat office Billy had no- of history 011 thelcutinent of Europe, who to the ductions of other eminent composers. The orchestra tained by stump orators detailing congres- to such forgiveness by sinning no more. Of upon new courses. B'or a man to cease to be action of the city authorities, which have designated thing. The Hon. Sargent sustained the self-edu- graces of the womaradd the courage and vigor of a e POBcd of cated man against the scholars not self-educated. *tl?H ™v . '«'»ty-four pieces, and all whS sional extravagance have been amazed at THE TREATY MUDDLE. this sort of thing there is probably not one what he has all his lifetime been ; is it not to a site for the depot In question upon grounds which man. ifttend may expect a most enjoyable time. belong either to the United States or to the city of Were the last-named to prevail, where would be the the unhealthy demand for tools of the toilet The New York Nation calls attention to a scruple to a-thousand pounds of adipose. But be himself ? Mr. Greeley's political creed Slat» Mrs. Mason n-'iirhd-xtensivelvilurlni' the late civil NATIONAL THE'ATER.-The Oatcs Comic Opern and articles necessary to congressional legis- fact stated by us in our issue of February it is entertaining. No stranger leaves New York always been a parly ereed; and his party creedj L'rQupe engagement tH~ 11, immediately after the opening disturb- without seeing the Black Crook and Henry has been a faith—a religion: a tbiug he ca this establishment last night. We said abont all that lation. We have at last a clue to this leal$. could be said in regard to this company last week, ance in England. We said: Ward Beecher. And he goes to both resorts neither depose at will nor will to depose. and can only add that we. shall be glad to see them One day last week the family residing at "Mr. Bancroft Davis, however, finding from the same motive and comes away with the again. We think, however, that Mr. Crane is wasting the corner of Tenth street and Massachusetts same emotions. his very evident talent by remaining with an organi- the tide of public feeling setting in against a zation which mué t necessarily prove of brief duration. avenue was annoyed by a dead kitten that treaty in which we had been overreached, Of couree the polities of such a theological IT IS NOW STATED that the Committee on Bluikfl He should try the legitimate stage, where he would the mother cat had hid away under the floor undertook to help the matter by stating our merry-andrew are in keeping with his religion, lng and Currency have concluded not to procecl certainly make a tirm and secure reputation as a to Inquire Into the private life, domestic habitJ comedian. of one of the bed-rooms. Of course it was case, not under the treaty, but upon the as he preaches salvation to the heaviest bank and personal associations of the late Comptroller THE WAskiNOTON GKENADIEKS, one-of our resident not known what caused the offensive odor, famous senatorial effort of Charles Sumner, accounts, unmindful of the vast sea of corrup- " soger " companies, which, though of comparatively and a carpenter was employed to pull up tion that swelters and stinks all about him. So of the Currency. This, not because they ail recent origin, is already assuming tali proportions in in which that gentleman claimed immense the District militia, will give their first levee at the the floor in search of the offending object. In politics, the dangers that threaten the re- not perfectly aware that such inquiries are | sums for a prolongation of the civil war and the direct line of the duty of a committee ( Masonic Temple on Thursday evening next. This This was done, and the dead kitten dis- public in the hordes of dishonest official agents ; corps comprises in its membership some of our mosfc our wounded feelings. As Mr. Evarts said in the usurpations of powers once held sacred banking and currency, being as it is a geneiJ enterprising citizens, and a most pleasant evening covered. But by the side of this kitten, and after he had read this extraordinary produc- conservator of public and private virtue, and| may be anticipated. hid away between the floor and the ceiling, and precious; in the legalized monopoly of tion, ' the man injected a stump speech into huge corporations and selfish moneyed Inter- branch of the Government invested with un THE OHIO REPUBLICAN ASSOCIATION give the last was a glittering article that astonished one the body of his argument that is not only ests ; in a demoralized people suffering from versol, smelling authority ; but because Hid of their sociables for this season on Monday evening, and all. On lifting it to the light it was have accomplished their ends without a resol April 15, at Masonic Telnple. It is to be calico, and outside the treaty but in antagonism to it.' hard times and heavy taxation—all this and the Dolly Vardens will be there in abundance. found to be a silver salver or waiter,, engraved It is not only in antagonism to the treaty much more failB to touch Henry Ward. This to this laudable and legitimate expedieni in the center, in large letters, "House of THE REASON WHY.—Mrs. Mary A. Livermore de- but it is coarse, illogical, and insulting. humble follower of the lowly Jesus, in a coach Whether the community will forgive them fl livered a lecture with the above title at Lincoln Hall Representatives II. S." lined with satin and drawn by blooded trotters; its consequent disappointment in the matter ( ; on Thursday evening to an audience of moderate "This is all there is of It; ho more, no keyhole scandal, prurient details mamtfacturel size. The lecture was of course an argument, or Of course the present proprietor of the this apostle who practices peace and preaches less. And what we have to do, gracefully to order, and Iblice Gazette literature is anothd ratlier a series of arguments, for granting the ballot house was considerably alarmed. He cer- war; this recipient of a salary that would have to women. Mrs. Livermore is one of the ablest if as we can, is to restate our case, and return affair. Their propensity to patronize Ubel-mon not the most able of the many champions of female tainly never had, nor could any of his family supported all the apostles In ease and luxury; Bancroft Davis's Fourth o' July effort to the- this gentleman who puts his novels in his ser- gers and perjurers in general would doubtlesT suftrage in the field. She is eloquent, witty, and ever have possessed, such a piece of the thoroughly good-tempered, and never fails to interest stump where it belongs'." mons and his sermons in his novels, caDnot see have made their report in. the premises botj her audiences, whether her opinions meet with favor Government property. He remembered, Since then other facts have come to the anything serious in our present condition, or appetizing and instructive. or not. She belongs to the highly respectable Boston however, that Mr. Ordway, present Sergeant- wing of the woman's suffrage party. While she surface in confirmation of the above state- anything serious in our future, and throws oil'a made several good points in her lecture, she scarcely at-Arms of the House, was the tenant im- ment. It seems that when that eminent stump speech in support of Grant in the gayest, OUR OLD FRIEND COLONEL TOM WOKTHINJ equaled the address made by her at the convention held here in December. mediately before he occupied the premises, advocate and statesman, Wm. M. Evarts, lightest, and most graceful manner, and not TON is about to bring out a book, to set right| and with this fact he carried the piece of was appointed as one of the counsels of the only renders unto (Jsesar that which belongs to few things that have gone wrong in the hlstoi Miss ANNIE D. WARE'S reading, which was to have taken place on Tuesday evening, has been postponed plate to the proper authorities to have the United States before the Geneva Congress, Csesar, but, like Dickens' Auctioneer, he throws of the war. Not history precisely has he writteJ in everything else, so as to make the lot more until Wednesday night, at the Assembly Church, cor- matter looked into. This he had to do on which event was subsequent to the making but material for history : pabulum upon whiil ner of Fifth and I streets. Miss Ware,as we have here- desirable. We begin to pity our President. H. the muse of that article Is to be sparinj his own account, as the rumor soon spread up of what is known as our "case " by Ban- tofore said, possesses undoubted talent, andxieserves that valuable plate belonging to the Govern- W.'s support is more damaging than his opposi- fed when 6lic Is about to incubate her iinl to succeed. We trust that she will have a crowded croft Davis, he read the extraordinary doc- house. ment had been found secreted in his house. tion. verdict; which Is expected to reverse her fol ument in utter amazement. He refused mer ones. Colonel Tom was at Shlloh ; Colonf THE NEW YOIIK REPUBLICAN ASSOCIATION will Now, far be it from us to insinuate, let positively to go on unless the preposterous give their final soirée on Wednesday evening, and as IT CANNOT BE SAID that the late General An- Tom behaved well at Shiloh ; which is more tbij alone charge, that Mr. Ordway, holding as document could be suppressed or jnodified. it has become popular to have " calico soirées," this derson was a great man. He happened to do Can be said of some people who might be mef will be a *' calico." Those who desire a good time he does so important a post, and the keeper The Hon. Hamilton Fish being awakened the right thing at the right moment in a sol- tloncd. That Is to say, he Stood his groun| should attend. of so much Government property, is in any- to the absurdity of the case as stated, agreed dierly, modest, sensible way, and then retired fought the enemy, maintained his position, ai ÇHOIR will give their second way connected wrongfully with this trans- with Mr. Evarts to suppress the abortion. not to be heard of until death claimed him, swore gently at headquarters. So they rei 1, on Tuesday action. Some servant of the Sergeant may Supposing that they yet had control of the and the people were reminded that his name him out of the army. And here he comes, lil its are have stolen and hid the plate. This is a paper, it was given out that the '' book " or was significant, and his burial should be a de- Thucydides, to recite the drama in which l| violent supposition, for it is met immedi- "case" had been lost somewhere near the monstration of their respect. Now we believe acted no insignificant part; like Xenopkon ately with the query of what was Sergeant Executive Mansion on Pennsylvania avenue. that the real heart-wrung mourners at the relate the history which he assisted to mak< funeral of General Anderson could have been like .Eneas, to describe events " all of whl< Ordway doing with Government plate in The two conspirators against their own sub- carried iu one, certainly two, hacks. This is he saw, and a part of which he was;" like Tassl his house?_On the other hand, one cannot ordinate were about to suppress the remain- the fate of every man, almost. The immediate to recount with his pen scenes in which believe that a high official stooped to the ing copies in the hands of the Government members of the decedent's family feci that a sword had bean potential; and we crave for li petit larceny, for we are satisfied that the printer, when they learned to their conster- light has gone out to them and an irreparable Btory a hearing in the spirit in which it is writteff man who,stole and hid this plate is the same nation and wrath that this head clerk of the loss come to the little household. So it was refei-reii uH man who had taken, carried away, and ap- State Department had distributed his pre- not expected that General Grant would call for sideration, in which the question had gon^ propriated to his own use all the combs, posterous document over all Europe. Every a relay of handkerchiefs and weep as if his CHRONICLES OF CONGRESS. Secretary to the Attorney General and back agi| brushes, stationery, soap, and napkins that legation abroad had been supplied with a heart were broken. But the same sense of pro- several times, it was'finally decided In favor of 8TRAW LEGISLATION. claimant, and the gun would have been added butl have so systematically disappeared from the c®py. priety that made brother officers and private citizens join in a public demonstration, ex- The Senate on Monday took up the House bill to the troublesome fact that the Indian was dead e longing view of a robbed people. The prohibit and punish straw-bidding on mail contracts, the percussion had come in to rule out the old f In this all remedy passed from the hands tended to the President of the United States. which it amended and passed. It might be inquired thought that this loyal Republican from If, therefore, when the simple cortege marched lock. This show of learning on the part of long J New HamjisJ|ij-e, this builder of gigantic of these gentlemen. The case had been whether there is much use in artificial contrivances emn John so astounded the Senate that fourtl read by Mr. Hamilton Fish and approved by by his hotel he had dispensed with his cigar to make men honest. Does not this plan, like that in market-houses, this eloquent defender of the and the fascinating flattery of Tom Murphy, members repaired to Whitney's to recover on CI the President. There was nothing left us respect to competitive examinations,indicate deficien- gress water. John wanted the remains deposil colored man, this earnest denouncer of cor- and joined in the processiou, the act would cies in a quarter not reached by the law f Would not but-to stand by the " eonsequential dam- with the Committee on Privileges and ElectkT ruption in high places, should steal, take, have commanded respect and won some love. a faithful administration, in the one case as in the where electricity might be applied to Bee if the 111 and carry away a silver salver, and be open ages" that will go down to the latest pos- other, render special regulations—which are always We suppose that it has never struck General innocent could not be resuscitated. No one objl to the suspicion of stealing hair brushes and terity exciting ridicule and laughter through- evaded—unnecessary ? If a proper President were ing, solemn John resolved himself into a fun| out the civilized world. Grant that for four years of his eventful career elected by the people, and able and faithful Cabinet procession and carried out the body amid soap —this thought, we say, threatens in- he is not U. 8. Grant the Individual, but in a officers were chosen by the President, and honest and It is long sincc the American people ceased gloom. No tears were shed, however, nor were ha| sanity. "Wo cannot believe such things. We certain sense the people of the United States, competent assistants by the Cabinet officers—no pri- kerchiefs displayed except a huge ved bandanna t refuse positively to believe, and we there- selecting a statesman to fill the Presidential and in his representative capacity has duties, vate or party interest being admitted to interfere— the Hon. Allen G. Thurman flourished after a pi| fore suspend our judgment and hold open chair. But another practice came in to sometimes irksome, that it is a positive offense would there be much danger of fraud from straw- of snuff, with a noise that resembled the last trun our columns for explanation. remedy the evil, and that was the habit to neglect. Among such were his strange dis- bidders, or of loss by roguish clerks ? These special The Hon. Charles followed with another corJ griefs of which complaint is made; what are they of the second-rate incumbent calling about regard of the decencies of civilized life in the or rather memory, called the French Spolial but natural consequences ? .And is there any legisla- Claims, that was hurriedly laid upon the table,f In the meantime let an investigtrtion be had. hirh the ih'St order funerals of Farragut aud AndLeesou. .Had. thev ting awayiof a natural c,onseq,uencc ! ThesgJj$ys are We suggest that the Committee 011 the Dis- President joined in a mark of respect to the- honorable senators holding their legislative IR| stitutional advisers. Hamscm, Taylor, Fil- applications to the symptomsvnot to the disease : to over the bad smell that came of repudiation. trict in the House, now about closing its la- more, Pierce, and even Johnson had eminent* remains of a brother officer, and then exhibted the eruption that comes to the surface, not to the his lack of political sycophancy by paying no *That pink of propriety, Mr. Frelinghuysen, inl bors on Crane, Green, and Severson,-at once statesmen in their cabinets. It would not poison that rankles iu the vital interior. N<>t only attention to the procession of noisy negroes duced a bill regulating circuit courts, and old p| send for persons, papers, and the piece of do they do no good, they do mischief—turning away de Terre brought lu one establishing a circuit be a bad sort of civil-service reform to return that followed on its heels, we would have found attention from the real cause of the pervading cor- plate. once more to this practice. The idol of the in the Indian territory. The judge of said court i much to admire In our Chief Magistrate. But ruption, and obscuring thè view which otherwise shave his judicial skull and wear an English ho| people, generally a poor sort of idol at best, then it would not have been General Grant. might be obtained of the fountain and source of hair scratch, so as to discourage scalping. The < TROUBLE: WITH DAWES. might strengthen his popularity and insure all official irregularities. If it were not, in this coun- nified Huysen—or Freling—the name is too try, the fashion to disregard experience, or rather Mr. Dawes was made chairman of a Com- success to his administration by the employ- foundedly long for a reporter—then ofl'ered a conJ the fashion not to know any of the lessons which rent resolution to print and distribute two hunq mittee on Ways and Means that was organ- ment of recognized talent at the head of LEET AND STOCKING, those superb tacticians, the past is prepared to impart, a multitude of exam- each department of the Government. We remain masters of the situation. We have such and fifty-five thousand copies of that dreary tn ized to represent the feelings and opinions ples of the unwisdom of such legislation might be called the Agricultural Report, with all the agril of the House upon the great leading ques- know that it is an unforgivable offense to an enthusiastic admiration for talent that we studied with advantage. give in our adhesion frequently without stop- ture extracted, which was referred. But of coif make a suggestion of this sort, and we are Why is it that practical government among us is this will be done. Mr. Carpenter reported that I tions of the day. Mr. Dawes, when he ping to consider the moral aspect. In this way meekly resigned to the punishment that will corrupt from center to circumference? Simply be- conference committees had failed to agree upon | accepted that responsible position, not only we admire Aaron Burr, bow down before the cause the ruling motive of party is to get ¿to or follow. proposed Bayfield and St. Croix railroad steal, f well knew the sentimeht of the House but great Napoleon, and have Jim Fisk, jr., Ben keep itself in power, and the paramount purpose of asked to be discharged. They were accordingly jfl the political status of every member .on the Butler, and Senator Morton in a sort of side- the partisan is to obtain office or to retain that which ofl'. has been secured. There Is, therefore, among politi- committee. In accepting the place, then, show of our mental caravansery of greatness. TUK INDIAN APPROPRIATION S. MINOR NOTES. To those we now add these brilliant young men cal principals, no place for integrity ; and the object This time-honored waste of the public money c he accepted its responsibilities and tacitly of such laws as the one under consideration, simply .admitted that his own convictions so far MB. CHAS. A. DANA, the prosecuting witness whose deeds shook the Senate, disturbed an up and had, of course, Its time-honored discuss! Administration, and gave columns on columns stated, is to fixlimit s to the roguery of inferiors, The old, old story of the million that it costs to 1 coincided with his subordinates as to enable iu the investigation of charges of misconduct in while that of superiors remains unrestrained. the navy, appeared before the committee one to the dally and weekly press, while the people an Indian alive and the million It costs to kill hil him to reflect their wishes and views. To day last week, with carpet-bag in hand and were aroused. What a tremendous row there riUVATE CLAIMS. how the noble reds were wasted, aud how the uRY GOODS. Ceilings Kalsomined (white or tinted) and Repalr- Thomas, 2b.; Goldsmith,8.s.; Williams,.31).; Glenn, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, •** «" ^ DHESSING-SACQUES. ing of all kinds promptly executed. mh 17-tf LOTS on Connecticut avenue, between H and I I. f.; Harley, c. f.; Burroughs, r. f. RUFFLED SKIRTS. ' streets. Comer Seveuth and F streets, Novelties in Fancy and Staple Dry A Day in Paris and The Brigands. TUCKED SKIRTS. RENOVATED " AND MADE NEW."—What made new 1 MARBIEIZED SLATE I Why, Cummins1 grand "Shoe Ranche"—painted, Goods Opened Daily, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, SKIRTS EN TRAINE. BY Ì> We r s i'o v Sale- [ grained, varnished, shelves refitted, &c.—making, A full supply of Plain Black and Fancy Colored WHITE AND FANCY SHIRT WAISTS. AND | with his graud stock of goods, a magnificent and en- Silks, Black Alpacas, Mohairs, Grenadines, Jbc at Grand Benefit of Miss Lydia Thompson, A MAGNIFICENT DOUBLE RESIDENCE, fiut the_oldprices. MERINO UNDER VESTS. Money to loan in sums to su^c. far from the Arlington, on easy terms. $50,000. I chanting appearance. The multitude of customers E^Ope price only, marked in plain figures. KENNILWORTH. SILK UNDERVESTS. Marble Mantels, Grates, and Fenders, urn Sl Latta, ( of this favored establishment seem delighted to see fgr Strangers, sojuuruers, and residents for the BEAUTIFUL AND NEW RESIDENCES on New [ so favorable a change wrought; and many have to Produced with the mo«t magnificent Costumes ever WHITE COTTON HON F. AT BRADLEY'S WAREROOM8, York avenue, at $15,000, and one $18,000. I scan for fear they be in the wrong place. We wish season will Inspect our stock at their pleasure. witnessed upon any stage BROWN COTTON IK.".- I\ Mr. C. extended accessions to his already abounding »16 NINTH STREET, near Pennsylvania avenue, Eeal Estate and Note Brokers, A NEW TWO-STORY FRAME, near comer Fifth 1 SATURDAY, APRIL 20 MATINEE. BALBRIGGAN HOSE. SSls street8' ou Capitol Hill, nice and desirable. patrons. For benefit of strangers, members of Con- Perry & Brother, SATURDAY EVENING, LAST APPEARANCE. WASHINGTON, D. C. jan 14-tf gress, and others, we give his direction—932 Seventh BROWN LISLE-TIIREAIJ HOSE. Corner Fifteenth and G streets. <$o,uUU. Box sheet open from 9 to 4 o'clock, and seats may HARRIS' KID GLOVES. street, next to corner of K and North Market. Pennsylvania avenue and Ninth street. It be secured for any evening or Matinee in advance. WANTED. J ICE FRAME N. B.—Three floors covered to their utmost capa- JOUVIN'S KID GLOVES. It $2 200 HOUSE, on A street, near Fifth. [ city with the finest, and the pick from Lynn down to MILLINEKY GOODS. UNDRESSED KID GLOVES. A GOOD GENERAL AGENT FOR COLUMBIA Baltimore. ______THREE-STORY BASEMENT BRICK, Massachu- Metropolitan Hall. CASTOR GLOVES. SUBURBAN HOUSE FOR SALE setts avenue, near Tenth street. $9,000. SCUI'PEBNONU WINE.—Just received from thevine- DOGSKIN GLOVES. [ yard in North Carolina a large invoice of this de- 801 DAVIS. 801 VARIETY THEATER. AT A SACRIFICE. TWO-STORY BASEMENT BRICK, Tenth street, ; llgbtful wine. We guarantee it strictly pure and LISLE-THREAD GLOVES. Craftsmen Life Insurance Company of near P street». $4,500. recommend it for its gently stimulating effects. Its B. HEHZE ... ; .Sole Proprietor. LISLE-THREAD GAUNTLETS. New York. boquet is exquisite, and we challenge the manufac- DOGSKIN GAUNTLETS. SIX NEW BRICK HOUSES, on New Hampshire Liberal Commissions allowed. A beautiful country seat of 36 acres, of choice FOR SALE. avenue, near Sixteenth street. Each $2,500. turer of any other native wine to produce one more STILL MORE NEW ATTRACTION ! BUCK GAUNTLETS. Address, W. H. RICHARDSON, grounds, highly improved and beautifully laid out fruity and delicious. The low price of this wine THREE NEW STARS, namely: SHORT-STICK PARASOLS. jan 20=tf 17 Smith st., Baltimore. and decorated with ornamental trees. Improvements , THREE-STORY BASEMENT BRICK, new tod places it within the reach of all. For sale in glass or FANNY aud HARRY WOOD, in their vocal and consist of a splendid TWO-STORY MANSION, also large and fine. $15,000. wood by HALL & HUME, comic characters, for which they arc celebrated LONG-STICK PARASOLS. J. tiEOKUES, manufacturer of and dealer At STRAW BONNETS. throughout the country. a very largd and conveniently arranged stable and TWO THREE-STORY BftlCK. BUILDINGS, TIIREE-STORY BRICK ou I street, near the Ar- Extensivo dealers In fine wines and groceries, 807 At SILK UMBRELLAS. J . in BOOTS and SHOES, No. 2118PENNSYLVANIA carriage-house. There is an Immense amount of lington. $10,000. Market Space. At STRAW BONNETS. At HARRY HURDIE, the most celebrated Ariel Gym- LINEN COLLARS AND CUFFS. AVENUE, between Twenty-first and Twenty-second choice fruits, and it is altogether one of the most de- nast in the profession. sts., south side, near the Circle. Repairing neatly sirable suburban houses around Washington, it being TWO-STORY BRICK on S street, near Fourteenth; CATAWBA WINES.—We take pleasure in notifying At I STRAW BONNETS. At First representation of the new Burlesque entitled LINEN AND LACE SLEEVES. and promptly executed. All orders executed with only two miles from the Navy Yard, and in full view on Pennsylvania avenue,. Admirably adapted to busi- very nice. $1,500.. our friends and patrons that we are prepared to fill the RUFFLING FOR COLLARS. neatness and dispatch, and on reasonable terms. of Washington, Georgetown, Alexandria, the Poto- nesB in every particular. orders for t'he above delightful wine, either in glass Davis', STRAW HATS. Davis', STUFFED CLUB OF WASHINGTON ; BASE BALL N. B. A large stock of Boots and Shoes ofl'ered at mac river, and surrounding country. There is a FINE FRENCH-ROOF DOUBLE DWELLING'ou LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, with Initials. I Btreet, near the Arlington. $30,000. or wood. The purity of this Catawba Is guaranteed, DaviB', STRAW HATS. Davis', OR FOOT BALL. cost for the next thirty days, being determined to re- stream of pure spring water running through the en- and is highly recommended for medicinal purposes, The Champion Stuffed Club of Burs-ton and the Not- LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, with Colored Borders. •luco stock. feb 4-sm tire length of the property. There arc also about especially for lnvullds requiring a gentle stlmulaut. Davis', STRAW 11ATS. Davis', ional, Oylm-piades, at the Coffee Gronuds. Red LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS,' witlr Black Borders. eight acres of beautfrul woods, ice-honBe, corn-honse, VINE FRENCH-ROOF RESIDENCE, large yard, Nocklngs vs. Green Söckings, introducing a Lovely D. M. FURLONG, and every necessary improvement. This property is ONE LARGE FOUR-STORY BRICK, Howard University grounds. $8,000. HALL & HUME, 801 FLOWERS. 601 Female Nine. WINDSOR SCARFS, all colors. offered for the low sum of $18,000, on easy terms. Extensive dealers In fine wines, family groceries, WINDSOR SCARFS, with Tassels. TWO-STORY FRAME, seven rooms, cellar, stable, 801 FLOWERS. ' 801 Fashionable Boot and Shoe Maker, City property will be taken in part exchange. For on Twelfth street, near K. $4,000. teas, and imported liquors, 807 Pennsylvania READING SHADED SCARFS, with Tassels, and many other further information, and for conveyance to the place, avenue. 801 inquire of in every way suitable for a bon ton hotel. NEW BRICK on Eleventh street, French roof, v.erv ' FLOWERS. 801 ' CHOICE NOVELTIES. 216 THIRD STREET, one door North of the Washing handsome. $6,000. FOR CORRECT LIKENESSES, either photographic or Market RIBBONS. Market ton House. HUYCK & ADDISON, crayon, visit the gallery of Messrs. Rcichmann & Sie- MISS ANNIE JD . WARE, Real Estate Agents, THREE-STORY BASEMENT BRICK twenty Market RIBBONS. Market Office 819 Market Space, roornB, stable, and big lot, C street, near Four-and-a- bert, 459 and 461 Pennsylvania avenue. AT THE Special attention given to FITTING DEFORMED FEET. aP M-tf Board of Trade Rooms. TWO NICE HOUSES. Half. $15,000. Market RIBBONS. Market ASSEMBLY CHURCH, corner of Fifth and I streets, Repairing neatly executed. jan 14-3m ,"Oil SALE. TWO-STORY FRAME, nine rooms, hall, bath, Space, LACES. Space, WEDNESDAY EVENING, April 17,1872, at 8 o'clock. UREKA EMPLOYMENT OFFICE, No. 507 •Sc., on Fifth street, near I. $3,600. CITYJTTEMS. Misses', Boys' and Ghildrens' I A THREE-STORY-BRlCK HOUSE, on Virginia avenue southwest ; cheap, aud terms Space, LACES. Space, Admission 50 cents. Tickets for sale at Philp & E ELEVENTfTHH STREET, near E street. Families very easy. Justice to Whom It Belongs. Solomons'. it supplied with flrst-clasB Servants, of every descrip- having ten rooms, bath, gas, water, &c., situated on THREE-STORY BASEMENT BRICK, nine rooms, In justice to one of our most enterprising citizens, Space, LACES. Space, Department. tion. male and female. Eleventh street, near P. Price $5,200—cheap bath, &c., D street, near Third. $5,500. jan 14-tf MRS. LOUISE C. BUTLER. , v „. „ R. M. HALL, whose energy and activity have secured for himself Corner KID GLOVES. Corner feb ¿o-tf Corner Seventh and F streets. THREE-STORY BRICK, nine rooms, with very fair share or public patronage, we publish the follow Odd Fellows' Hall, "VTATIONAL CAPITOL LIFE INSÜR- large lot, on M street, near Fifth. $10,000. lug curd, which explains itself; Corner KID GLOVES. Corner WE SHALL OPEN TO-MORROW, ONE FINE LOT, To TBE PUBLIC.—As there are certain merchants The I. O. O. F. Choir will give their Second Annual J-l ANCE COMPANY. FOR SALE CORNER LOT on N and Twenty-third streets, Corner KID GLOVES. Corner Concert in the above hall on about 4,087 square feet.. [ who ridicule the idea of advertising, and say that it is "THE PET OR - I only intended to make newspaper inch rich, aud who 8th LISLE GLOVES. 8th TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, MONDAY, APRIL lotli, on corner of Eleventh and W street northwest. LOT fronting on Rhode Island avenue and M street. | at the same time claim that they never donate a do]. under the direction of Prof. JOS. H. DANIEL, first Five and Ten Cent Cigars, I lar to such a purpose, and yet resort to incun expe 8th LISLE GLOVES. 8th leader. The programme is replete with now, choice, Exchange for Smaller Property LOT on I street south, near Sixth street west, 50x80 Copyrighted and for sale only by feet, alley in rear. I dlents to reap the benefits of those who do advertise, 8th LISLE GLOVES. tfth aud pleasing gems for mixed aud unmixed voices. A SPLENDID LINE OF I 1 feel it due to myself and to my patrons to state that Tickets 50 cents; for sale at Parker's, Kidder & A. I. HUID», (ONE LARGE BRICK DWELLING, 75x145 FEET on I street, near Twentieth Btreet, II have no brauch store in Washington, and none savi Street. TRIMMINGS, Street. McLean's, and at the door. at paved alley in rear. I that of my Hoop-skirt aud Corset Factory, at 408 Sev Doors open at 7. Coucert commences at 8. It BOYS' FANCY PERCALE WAISTS. "THE PET' That fine, large, desirable, Three-story Pressed- I with street. Intelligencer Building. Ladies In search Streut. TRIMMINGS. Street. CIGAR STORE, 20x125 FEET on K street, near " Circle." BOYS' WHITE LINEN WAISTS. Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. brick Front DWELLING, No. 724 Ninth Bt., owned on Thirteenth street, between E and F. Fourteen [of my establishment will please remember the name Street. TRIMMINGS. I and the number, Charles Bauin, 408 Seventh street. Street. The First Grand Military Ball BOYS' WHITE PIQUE BLOUSES. A Fine Assortment of Cigars and Tobacco, and occupied by B. F. Morsell, Esq. House contains rooms, gas and water. LOT on Third street west side, near H street, 21x66 I Thankful for past favors, I Ijejj leave to iufonn the ap 7-tf 16 rooms, as follows: First floor, large saloon parlor, feet. (public that I have lust received my new spring BOYS' BROWN LINEN BLOUSES. t slock, including all the novelties in hoop-skirts, cor- BOYS' TWEED BLOUSES. hall, front and back stairway, dining-room with La- TWO LOTS on L street, one corner lot. E Bets, kid gloves, human hair, trimmings, the most BOYS' WHITE PIQUE SUITS, and an ENTIRE The New Store. trobe Btove, butler's pantry, kitchen with range, hot WASHINGTON GRENADIERS ONE HOUSE ON H STREET, 37,000 square feet on Slst street, nearN street. {.complete stock of fancy and plain hosiery, and NEW LINE OF and cold water. Second floor, five large bed-rooms, 20,000 " on M street, near 22d street. - • ladles' furnishings, all of which are specialties, and 18,500 " on G Btreet, near 21st street. PIQUE, BROWN-LINEN, AND FANCY SUITS, A Fine Assortment of Trench Confectionery, with stationary marble-top washstands, dressing- •that I will endeavor in the future, as in the past, so Will be held at MASONIC TEMPLE, oil THURS- 9,000 " on C street, near 21st street E. •to conduct my business as to continue to secure the For all the above goods, and everythin; else in FOR room, bath-room, water-closets, &c.; clothes-press, between Seventh and Eighth streets east. Very 5,500 " on N street, near 25th Btreet. Havana Oranges, Bananas, and Foreign FruitB of all 3 •confidence of the ladies of Washington, the efforts of Fancy and Millinery Goods and Notions, MISSES AND CHILDREN. and etore-rooin. Third floor, three large bed-rooms, cheap. J.POO " on T street, near Georgia ave. I enemies and malicious persons to the contrary not o to DAY, April 18. 1872. kinds; Italian Macaroni, and Prodnce, as well as a 4 I withstanding. Charles Baum, 408 Sevonth street, be- BOYS' BROWN COTTON SOCKS. full assortment of Nuts, Raisins, and Jellies, always with marble-top washstands, and three small bed- wp on K street, near 25th street. Bwecn D and E. Visiting members frpm other Military Organizations BOYS' FANCY COTTON SOCKS. on hand. p. JORIO, rooms, servant's room, water-closet, &c.; cellar under LOT on Third street, near I street, 20x100. are respectfully requested to appear in full uniform. mh 34-4t 502 Ninth' street. entire house, with brick furnace, stationary wash- • WIZARD OIL euros Fever and Ague in one day. DAVIS', The Governor and his stafi; also several distinguished BOYS' MERINO UNDERWEAR. ONE NEW BEAUTIFUL RESIDENCE, THREE FINE LOTS on K street, near Sixteenth: members of the Japauese Embassy, will be preseut. BOYS' WHITE DRESS SHIRTS. FRANKLIN & CO., tubs, gas_, hot and cold water. cheap. • REMBRANDT PHOTOGRAPHS at Reichmann & Sle Tickets, admitting a gentleman and ladies, $2. MISSES' MERINO UNDERWEAR. CHEAP LOTS on Howard University grounds, •leu's, 45!) and 461 Pennsylvania avenue. rickets for sale at J. C. Parker's bookstore, corner on south A street, between Second and Third east. an of Seventh and F streets; William H. Dawes, corner MISSES' WHITE COTTON HOSE. OPTICIANS, .... d 801 market Space, Cor. Elghtk Street. MISSES BALBRIGGAN HOSE. Entire Lot is 49x101 feet. South front, gas and water. Location unsurpassed CHEAP LOTS on easy terms on Meridian Hill, • A GOOD MILLINER WANTED—Apply immediately to apl4-3t of Tenth and L streets; Metzerott's music store, and No. 1227 Pennsylvania Avenue. •Henry King, Importer of French Millinery and Fancy by the membe rs of the company. it MISSES' LISLE-THREAD HOSE. on Capitol Hill. Will sell the entire property, or house separate, WITH PERFECT TITLE. Roods, 926 Seventh street between I and K. MISS GEDNEY, MISSES' FANCY LISLE-THREAD HOSE. Brazilian Pebble and Periscopic Spectacles and with the privilege of UBO of side lot for a term of Eye-Glasses, Microscopes, Opera Glasses, Thermome- i You ARE NOT URGED to buy against your will at SIXTH AND LAST RECEPTION MISSES' FANCY COTTON HOSE. ters,"Mathematical Instruments, Electrical Machines, years. THREE-STORY FRAME, dwelling and storeroom, ROMAN & Cox's, 715 Fourteenth street northwest, MISSES' PLAIN ÄND FANCY PARASOLS. Magnifiers, Stereoscopes and Views. Pebbles in- For further particulars, apply to TWO BEAUTIFUL BUILDING SITES, on New York avenue, near Fourth. $5,000. 507 Seventh street, May Building. . OP THE gerletj in Frames. jan 21-3m Calls the atttention of the ladles to FINE THREE-STORY BRICK on Massachusetts • WIZARD OIL cures headache and earache in three »ÍER & IÍAVIWSOJV, avenue, near Tenth street, 16 rooms, $11,000. I minutes. « . THE DANGEROUS IDEA! on I Btreet, between Twelfth and Thirteenth, one Spring Hats aud Bonnets New York Republican Association, N. E. cor. 7th st. and Louisiana avenue. north and one south front, on very easy terms. BEAUTIFUL DWELLING on Meridian Hill, cis- ^JREICBMANN & SIEBERT, Artists and Photographers, B « N tern, stable, fine young fruit trees, about an acre of H 45'J and 401 Pennsylvania avenue. •mitable for Receptions and Traveling, just received AT - B,—This is a desirable property. IB offered at a ground, $9,500. from Vivot and others in Paris. Fancy Goods Department LOOKING-GLASSES, PICTURES, reasonable figure, and on easy terms. ap 14-tf I'OuR CUSTOM DEPARTMENT is stocked with a large Masonic Temple, s® THREE-STORY AND BASEMENT BRICK on flection of light Pantaloons, embracing all the latest M® SOLD ON CREDIT. I 1E ONE SPLENDID LOT, Third street, near D street, $7,000. AIBO, to a new and large assortment of Samples In , S il-i; irn£, i'.T. X C H A NGE FOR IM- Emporta tions. EISEMAN & Bno., TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 16. Contains Large and Choice Selections a** £ PROVED CITY PROPERTY.-A desirable and FINE THREE-STORY BRICK on M street, near . 503 Seventh street, May Building. SILKS, PONGEES, CHALLIES, GRENADINES, aud SMITH, GRADY & CO., beautiful Country Residence, situated at " Sunny- Seventh, desirable, $12.000. DOLLY VARDEN " GOJJDS, from whigh miittcaffl Ladies are requested to appear in Calico, or •020 Tenth »Ireet-N. W„ side, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, within pn.XWrtegnth strçct^ietwccn J£ and F; very easy ^•TUE WIZAIUJ OIL COMBINATION will be in George- Thirty minnteaVWo of Washington-; containing Tett TWO-STORY BRICK HOUSE on' FourthStreet, town and Alexandria next woek. This remedy is no be made. The material and trimmings furnished in FINE WHITE WOOD FANS. terms. iums from ¿40 to $800. [Chròn., Rep., Pat, and Star, April 15 and IS.] h nih 17-tf Washington, D. C'. acres of land, with excellent improvements and a near New York avenue, $3,200. •humbug; it has been iu this city for months, and has FINE BLACK WOOD FANS, great variety of choice fruit trees and shrubbery •cured thousands, of as many different diseases, and Orders filled within six days after reception, "VTATIONAL CAPITOL LIFE INSUIÍ- immediate possession could be given. FINE RESIDENCE AND LARGE QROUNDS on • will undoubtedly do all that is claimed for it. mh 24 tf GRAND PROMENADE CARVED IVORY FANS. For termB and other particulars apply on the prem Pennsylvania avenue east, $14,000. CARVED TORTOISE-SHELL FANS. -Ll ANCE COMPANY. y I FOR CORRECT LIKENESSES, either Photographic or ices, or to ONE BEAUTIFUL SITE, yTHREE-STORY BRICK on I street, 8 rooms, near I Crayon, visit the gallery of Messrs. Reichmann & Sie- CARVED PEARL FANS. OT. MASSEY & CO.'S XX ALE, 2t EDWIN J. McLAIN, IEbert, 459 and 461 Pennsylvania avenue. CARRIAGES. "P 7' ; Room 18, Patent Office. on north side of O street, .between Ninth and Tenth. Concert and Ball GOLD AND FANCY FANS. W WM. MASSEY & CO.'S BROWN STOUT, SMALL HOUSE AND LOT on Fourth street east, IVORY AND PEARL COLLAR STUDS. At $1.50 per dozen Pints. QHEAP REAL ESTATE. near K street, $400. E MESSRS. WILLETT & Ruorr yesterday received a Q ARRI AGES! CARRIAGES!! Barge and varied assortment of Spring Hats. All the IVORY AND PEARL SHIRT STUDS. PHILADELPHIA ALE, Beading styles and colors can be found at their estab- PHILADELPHIA PORTER, TEN LOTS 0« Meridian Hill (50 feet front, 150 feet TWO SMALL HOUSES on F streot south, and CARRIAGES 111 GOLD SHIRT AND COLLAR STUDS. deep) at only TEN CENTS per foot. One-fourth cash- ONE OF THE MOST MAGNIFICENT BUILD- good lots, $600. lishment, No. 905 Pennsylvania avenue. PEARL AND IVORY SLEEVE-BUTTONS. At $1.20 per dozen Pints. balance $15 per month. ".".oil, A HOME can thus be had on easy terms. Sixteenth ING SITES IN THE CITY, NEW FRAME HOUS E on Connecticut avenue1, 8 FANCY OXIDIZED SLEEVE-BUTTONS. T^-DLSCOONT TO THE TRADE. rooms, closets, $2,300. ^B CUSTOMERS waited upon by young men educated to On hand the largest assortment of First-class Car- Masonic Temple, PALMER & GREEN, street is now being extended and graded through this Hllic business at ROMAN Cox's, PLAIN AND FANCY GOLD SLEEVE-BUTTONS. 57 Greene Street, Georgetown, D. c. fine property. Will take part in trade if desired 507 Seventh street, May Building riages ever ofl'ered in this city. „,. R.M.HALL, I NEW FRAME HOUSE 0n R street, near Niue- WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17TH. POCKET-BOOKS, NOTE-BOOKS. jan SI -3m within half a square of the Fourteenth Street Circle. teenth street, $2,500. LUBIN'S EXTRACTS. feb 2o-tf Real Estate Broker. r Do YOU WANT an elegant Crayon Picture of vour- Pony Pliaetous, THREE-STORY BRICK on I street, between [ self? Call on Reichmann & Siebert, 459 and 461 RIMMEL'S EXTRACTS. MADAME ESTERN, Ninth and Tenth, $7,500. •¡Pennsylvania avenue. of every descripton, on hand. •VTATIONAL CAPITOL LIFE IN8UR- FRENCH, GERMAN, and ENGLISH COLOGNES MANUFACTURE!! AND DEALER IN ll ANCE COMPANY. TWO NEW BRICK HOUSES oil Defrees street, FRENCH AND ENGLISH SOAPS. , ONE BEAUTIFUL LOT, • • CHEVIOT SHIRTS, low cut, for $2.50. llOBERT H, C HAH A HI, Ladies' Ornamental Hair Work, IFine Percale Shirts, for $2.50. This Concert and Ball will be given under the au- POMADES AND COSMETIQUE. SADDLES, HARNESS, &c. i Dress Shirts, perfectly fitting, $2.50. New Repository and Factory 410, 414, Eighth street, spices of Professor DONCH, the well-known Band- ENGLISH NAIL AND TOOTH-BRUSHES. 618 THIRTEENTH STREET, between F and G, on Twelfth street, between K and L, terraced front. AND OTHERS. New assortments just opened. ENGLISH HAIR BRUSHES. GEORGE C. HENNING, between D and E streets. master, and the music will be furnished by his Brass WASHINGTON, D. C. • on L l cet near AND MANY OTHER TOILET ARTICLES. WIGS TO RENT. Orders for all descriptions of K. KftSEESSI, o . ? !' ' Nineteenth street. About No. 410 Seventh street northwest.' Repairing promptly attended to. Band and Orchestra of Hair Work promptly filled in the best manner, 2,000 square feet in each lot. ap 14-4t jan 14-tf (Successor to Knccssi & Norflett,) ONE SPLENDID CORNER LOT, o ?n£0TS on.L HHlnear Eighteenth street. About ¡ ALL GOODS bought at Roman & Cox's, 507 Seventh 2,70 1 0 square feet in each. (street, May Building, not satisfactory, are exchanged TWENTY-FOUR PIECES. MANUFACTURER OP ¡with pleasure. MISCELLANEOUS. . J"street, near Twentieth, 20ft. 0iu. front C OJ< E. by 100 fee» deep. J FOR ELEGANT PHOTOGRAPHS go to Reichmann & Sle- SADDLES, HARNESS, AND TRUNKS, on F and Third streets. Wood pavement, &c. pel t's 459 and 461 Pennsylvania avenue, 0HEAPER THAN AUCTION ! Tickets, admitting Gentleman and Ladies, $1 ; to Men's Department. Orders loft at the Gas-light Office, No. 413 Tenth Bt. LOT on H, near Twentieth streot, 45x145 feet, paved be obtained at all the Music Stores and at the hall. at711 First street; or at 110 Bridge street, George- OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, alley on side and rear. [ALL GOODS are warranted as represented at town, will be promptly filled. mar 19-tf ROMAN & Cox's, q It NO. 423 SEVENTH STREET, S RE near 507 Seventh street, May Building. OUR GOODS EOR MEN'S WEAR OTHER BUILDING SITES I SIL Twenty-first, 50 ft. 9 in. by \ LARGE LOT OF * Opposite Odd Fellows' HaH, 143 ft. 9X in. to thirty-foot alley. RICHARD W. BARKER, 00 0i ground on •HAVING made arrangements with the National BASE BALL. Surpasses any Heretofore Ofl'ered, and WASHINGTON, ». C. terms Sixteenth street, ou easy ¡Jews Company for the sale of our paper on Sundays, striped MOHAIR LUSTRE, % wide, spring colors, Embrace all tlie Finest makes of— unsurpassed; situated in different parts of tho city; our patrons will always find them there during the cents to import. Cabinet Makerand Undertaker, The attention of the public is especially called to which can be botight with a very small cash payment morning. The proprietors are energetic, wide awake, '5 to SI; BLACK SILK, from BROWN COTTON SOCKS. my elegant and extensive assortment of aud popular, and having moved to the new and hand- FANCY. COTTON SOCKS. by any one desiring to build. [some store 359 Pennsylvania avenue, will make the A full line of CASSIMERES, cheap. O i-si in l Opoiiiiiir Game. 612 ELEVENTH STREET, near F. old fogies in their line of business start. Don't for- 100 doz. TOWELS at $1; sell at ¿1.20 at auctiou. BROWN LISLE-THREAD SOCKS. Trunks, Traveling Bags, Ladies' Satch- get—359 Pennsylvania avenue- 100 doz. TOWELS, at $2.25—very cheap. FANCY SILK SOCKS. - FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS MADE els, &c„ -b arms. JOHNSON & COLLEY, ! MERINO AND SILK UNDERSHIRTS. AND REPAIRED. QUARTER, HALF, AND WHOLE SQUARES • FOR CORRECT LIKENESSES, either Photographic or It 711 Market Space.j LINEN AND JEAN DRAWERS. my 7-ly* Of my own Manufacture, at Reasonable Prices. f0 r ¡Crayon, visit the gallery of Messrs. Reichmann & BALTIMORE Ill ^P^i V Me? from Rockville and the rail- plebert, 459 and 461 Pennsylvania avenue. 359 REMOVAL! 359 WHITE AND FANCY HANDKERCHIEFS. ßACOK & HUNT, A large assortment of road; 300 acres in timber; large dwelling in good FANCY AND PLAIN SCARFS. rooms,) brick kitchen, large brick I THE best place in the city to produre choice fruits, Whips, Blankets, Sheets, and Fly «Nets. ^ FOR SALE on easy terms, Splendid chances for stable, (will bold twenty horses,) bam, corn-house NATIONAL NEWS COMPANY FANCY AND PLAIN TIES. Commission Merchants, speculation. four tenement houses, and all necessary out build- at wholesale or retail, is at No. 481 Pennsylvania ave- FANCY PERCALE SHIRTINGS. ings; fruit of all kinds in abundance; spring and nue, and the name of the enterprising proprietor is Have removed from 32a to 359 Pennsylvania avenue OLYMPIC. Fine Hariiess SK!?3"hoaee; ^»-watered by streams, all under [Albert Lauck. Call and see him. two doors cast of Four-and-a Half afreet'. FANCY DOVER CLOTH SHIRTINGS. And Wholesale Dealers in Butter and Foreign and good fence; public school near by. Very cheap. Especial attention will be paid to Printing of all Domestic Fruits and Produce, A specialty in Stock, and manufactured to order. 1 THOSE who desire to have a perfect fita s well as kinds. Fine Dress Shirts Our old firm for six successive years has taken the JlPf^P Pill Bladensburg road, near Hyatts- the latest style should cull on Roman & Cox. Their Having at a great expense fitted up a Job Printiu" 204 NINTH STREET, opposite Center Market, Silver Modal for best Trunks, Harness, Ac., on ex- ville, under cultivation: small oak grove- eood [Custom Department is nnequaied in variety and qual- Office in connection with our Store, we are able to do ON OLYMPIC GROUNDS, THURSDAY, APRIL 18. MADE TO ORDER WITH PALMER S PATENT jan 21-tf hibition at Baltimore, Md. ity. If youask any of our stylish young gents where orchard; 200 grape vines in bearing; l,(M0new viae, all kinds of work in this line at the lowest prices I DOUBLE YOKE. And as none but the most, skillful workmen are SlSlSii 0f house o'f six iooma; they buy their goods, the answer is sure to be at 507 apll-tf II. COYLE & CO.i JyJARINI & BATES' DANCING ACADEMY, employed in every "branch of my business, I can Most all of the above property can be bought on b frait' demand than any other man iu the city, and we can FOR BOTH LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. THURSDAY EVENING, April 18, FRIDAY EVEN- MINERAL WATERS only say we are glad of it, for he is an enterprising, AUCTION SALES. L0CKW00D, HUFTY & TAYLOR, ON VR'AUGHT, 385 1ACRE S on theWa sBaltimore and Ohio railroad wide-awake as well as popular, merchant. Remem- ING, April 19, IMPORTED DIRECT. s^nn "twn ^Ston and near the Center Which will positively be the AT ber the number, 618 Ninth street. We have some of the very finest Farm land in the LaFel! 300 acres in cnltiva 3 Y LATIMER & CLEARY, Auctioneers M. W. GALT, BRO. & CO., Jewelers., adjoining country . J ' and Real Estate Brokers, LAST OF THE SEASON. 623 Pennsylvania Avenue, Milburns' Drug Store, tlon; balance In timber, oak, maple, 100 will be required at time of sale. this invention. the line of improvement. Between Ninth and Tenth streets, ap Mt Washington, D. C.! COLDWELL & KING, It has a hOBt of advantages over every other In the The Board reserves the right to reject any or all THE FINEST STORE AND LARGEST STOCK Comestibles. It Auctioneers. market. It is emMrely metallic, and cannpt get out of order. It afl'ora» So harbor for vermin, and can be bids. IMPORTANT TO ARCHITECTS. NOURSE & MIDDLETON, Truffles. Capers. Y GUILD & LOCKIE, Auctioneers, thoroughly cleansed in a minute. It is perfectly Successful bidders will be required to give a satis- SOUTH OF PHILADELPHIA.!9 1 BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS. Mushrooms. Boneless Sardines. level, and uniformly elastic, as well on the edges as factory bond as security for the faithful perform- «cuchPt*8. Anchovies, B 1014 Pennsylvania avenue. in the center. It requires only a very light mattress ap 7-tf gancotes Verts. Terrines de Foie Gras. It-can be easily raised at the ends, and curved in any ance of the contract, in the full amount of the con- The Cape Ann Granite Company Heal Estate Brokers fl ageolets. Game Pates. EXTENSIVE SALE OF IMPORTED AND NATIVE desired shape, so as to make it a perfect couch for the trast. Mrs. HATTIE J. FRENCH, 1ST O W Olives. Pickles. PLANTS AN» FLOWERS OF ALL KINDS, being sick. It will sustain 1,000 lbs.; yet it is easy and yield- the entile Stock of one of the most Scientific Flor- ing, alike to the heaviest and lightest person. It can BidB must be directed to tbe Vice President of the Having established an Agency in this city, arc pre- Spiced Meats aud Game, ists in the Country, containing the choicest and be rolled Into small compass for storage or shipping. Board, and indorsed " Proposals for Completing Sev- pared to furnish, at tbe shortest notice, all kinds of fs the Season to Buy and Sell, 1 CUT GRANITE WORK which may be required by AND Just the thing for Excursionists, Travelers, and best selection of bedding-out and indoor Plants and It will last a life-time, and never be returned witii enth-street Road. ' Clairvoyant and Test Nyium, Architects, Builders, or Contractors, at the lowest oportemen. Flowers ever offered at auction in this city. complaints of any kind. This is the best best Bed in ANI) - We will sell the above rare collection of Plants and the world, and was awarded the Prize Medal, at the ALEX. R. SHEPHERD, 522 TENTH STREET northwest, between II and F, market rates. We have constantly on hand a large B. TV. REED & SONS, Flowers, In lota to suit, at our Auction Rooms, on Fair of the American Institute, November, 1870, and assortment of Granite Cnrbing, Belgian Pavement Ins ti ranee Agent THURSDAY, April 18, commencing at 10 o'clock, the First Premium at every Fair at which it has been HVice President. WASHINGTON, D. C. Blocks, Window Sills, Caps, Door Sills, Steps Water FINE GROCERS,. and continuing until all are disposed of. exhibited, Table, Base Courses, Coping, &c. ' We Want ; ap 11 It (3UILD & LOCKIE, Aucts. "Private Seances, $2 and $3. Public Seances, Thurs- JAS. F. RUSSELL & CO., Agents 1211F street northwest. It, BUCHLY & TOWLES, Agents. IliliBS S H day Evenings, $1. Receptions, Tuesday Evenings, Plant's Building, No. 717 Fifteenth st.. C13 PIFTKENtlJ STREET, On Our Books all kinds of Property. free. Circle, Monday Evening, ¿5 ccet?. fe!H-t? ma 17-Jy Bctwesa N, Y, svo, end Wetckcf'e, ap if it ftp ICtIt 5 WHISKY. WHISKY. WHISKY. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. DRY GOODS. BOOKS, STATIONERY, &c. AUCTION SALES. NEW STORE! NEW GOODS!! FOU SAIE Office of S. T. SUIT & CO., [THE CAPITAL. Y WM. L. WALL & CO., Auctioneers, NEW SPRING B New Marble Building, 816 F street. 816 F street. Louisville, Keutuolty. APRIL 14, 1872. 900 and 902 Pennsylvania avenue. A BARGAIN, •UNSAY MORNING DRY GOODS. TRUSTEES' SALE CAPITAL GRINS. J. BRADLEY ADAMS ^ nt u,i thp „id Kentucky Whiskies in the world-we mean of goods older than distillation of or THE Fine House and Lot on M street. For THE CAPITAL. FURNITURE IN THE ST. JAMES HOTEL, Respectfully announces to his friends and patrons CORNER OF PENNSYLVANIA. AVENUE AND that having enlarged and refitted his store, he has THE CHILD'S INQUIRY. 1807. The stock of this el ig the price, for we oiler them to the trade at the same pj'ices • SIXTH STREET, AT AUCTION. largely Increased his stock, and will constantly keep XVhat is that, mother? BURDETTE on nand an assortment of all kinds of to supply the wants of oar own trade, and not with the view of increasing By virtue of two deeds of trust, recorded respect- A widow lady declining housekeeping offers to sell " The Chimes," my child 1 ively in Liber No. 7, folio 197, one of the chattel STATIONERY, NEWSPAPERS, &c., a BEAUTIFUL LOT, «U feet front by depth of 147 li | , M , ,, Wfi have E00da 0f the distillation of 1855, and every year from that to this date 1'he evening star has risen, and smiled Has just received the largest and most beautiful feet, with elde and rear alley, situated on north Bide they have been heretofore held. W e nave goouu ui On the weary six-days' work all done, records for Washington county, and in Liber No. 006, of M street, together with the improvements, consist- anted. We eell every package ijnçl« stock of equal to any in the city. Especial attention paid to Fine old Sour Mash Whiskies ; finest grades of .«M* |J WMskies, of real a| g And the hovering Sabbath most begun, folio 48, one of the land records for said county, the PRINTING, ENGRAVINO, and BOOKBINDING. ing of a When a horrible ¡angle—a brain-splitting roar undersigned will sell, at public auction, in said hotel, Real Estate, Claim, Insurance, and Patent Agents commencing on MONDAY, April 15,1872, at 10 o'clock Japanese Silks and Poplins will find it to their advantage to remember the fol- New Three-Story Brick House absolute and unqualified guarantee of satisfaction, J,lke the shrieks of the damned—begins to poor lowing scale of prices: J'rom yon bell-cursed steeple over the way, a. m., and continuing from day to dayuntil sufficient I Letter Heads $5 50 per ream. T, SUIT i CO. is realized to pay the debts for which the undersigned Note Heads 4 00 with two-story Back Building, containing about •To murder the quiet of parting day 1 that has ever been offered for sale in Washington. twelve rooms, including bath-room and water closet. are authorized to sell, the Goods and Chattels, Fur Official Envelopes 5 00 per ¿,000. Ever, my child, be thine eve's firstac t Envelopes $.50 The house is built whole width of the lot, and has a niture and Fixtures contained In said hotel, compris- Also, an immense stock of splendid collar underneath main building,' shade To pray that those blasphemous bells may be cracked 1 of the best quality. fplMt J B t1l8 toaegt and moflt prominent House in thl. city, who will make a specialty, of our Goods. The ^ ing in part- trees In front of the house, street paved with wood. Location is the highest on M street, and wilLbe sold We have completed our arrangements with ^ ^ BOTJRBON and RYB fro» twa,Rd,-h*lf to ^ m What is that mother? Parlor Suits, French Plate Mirrors, Pianos,* BEN. F. FRENCH, for the low sum of $li000; one-third caBh, balance WHITE GCXODS, will be notified in a few days where they can secure " The Chimes" my girl 1 Brussels, Tapestry and Ingrain Carpets, in one, two, and thre^ears. Inquire of Midst rain, hall, or storm-wind—desperate whirl Black Walnut Sets, Marble-top Tables, STATIONER, HUYCK & ADDISON, l)f fierce driving snow 'neath the black lowering sky— such as Real Estate Agents and Brokers, Lace Curtains and Cornices, Hair Mattresses, In sunlight, in moonlight, in starlight they sigh Blank Book Maker, Engraver, Litho- No. 819 Market Space, bet. 8th ani 9th sts. Walnut and other Wardrobes, mh 24-tf ETJGEKE BÈOOKE, In dull, doleful dirges, or thunder in tones VICTORIA LAWNS, PIQUES, FRENCH II. Bedsteads and Bureaus, Washstands, Cottage Sets, grapher, Pit to jingle the marrow all out of one's bones, MUSLINS, NAINSOOKS, LINENS, FOR gALE Wholesale Agent for Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia, North Carolina, and Delaware, Buch soulless, fiat, timeless, uncivilized ditties Dining Tables and Chairs, Sideboards, CARD PLATE PRINTER, TYPE PRINTING, BINDING, Plated Ware, Glassware, Crockery, &c., As Macks sing in rice-fields and heathen in cities! &C., &C., &€. and all classes of STATIONERY made to order. A SPLENDID 0ITY RESIDENCE, OH ice, 308 Eightli street, Washington, P. O. Impatient, my child, we will wait for the joy Blankets, Linen, Beds and Bedding, Safe, BLANKS OF ALL KINDS as cheap as any other Also, a great stock of When Fate shall this devilish nuisance destroy! Office and Bar Furnitnre, &c„ House in the city. Situated on Lafayette Square. It is built in the most substantial manner, with TO TRAVELERS. Chandeliers, &c. (Under National Metropolitan Bank,) HOTELS. BANKS AND BANKERS. What is that, mother ? Terms: All sums under $250 cash, and over that Gre il ji ti i il <; w. No. 613 Fifteenth Street, CONNECTICUT BROWN-STONE FRONT,, "The Chimes," my dear! amount a credit of one and two months, with inter- NITED STATES MAIL ROUTE TO The most outrageous humbug distant or near! est and approved indorsements. Sale positive. WASHINGTON, D. C. ap 7-4t three stories high, and three-story back building, "AY COOKE & CO., BANKERS, NORFOLK. with a splendid basement underneath the whole METROPOLITAN HOTEL, U All the noise-breeding kennels under the moon E. E. WHITE, from 25 cents per yard np to $1.50. PHI LP & SOLOMONS' building, which is subdivided into kitchen, wash- Buy and sell at current rates WASHINGTON, D. C. Steamer Lady of the Lake, connecting at Norfolk witb Are raked, Bcraped, and filtered to furnish a " chnne!" SAM'L PHILLIPS, room, furnace-room, coal cellar, vaults, closets, 4c., the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad for all part« ot We have songB from the beer-garden, Harmony Hall— Trustees. all fitted up with modern conveniences. In the upper GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, GOLD ÄND SIL- the South, and with the Steamers of the M. and M. rooms there are two bath-rooms, with water-clo6ets, Whisky-shops, gambling-boards, theaters—all W. L. WALL & CO., W. W, Burdette, BOOKS VER, LAND WARRANTS, SCRIP, &c. . REFURNISHED AND PASSENGER ELEVATOR Transportation Company for Boston, and the Old NEW hot and cold water, 4c. The rooms arc all high ceil- Execute orders at New York Stock Board. ominion aud Virginia Line of Steamers fromiiew The places where rhymes set to tunes do appear mh 31-3t Auctioneers. ings, well arranged and well vuutilated; seven sleep- INTRODUCED. ork. 928 Seventh street, ing apartments, cedar closet And other convenient Sell Exchange on New York, San Francisco, Great ? To recall joy or Bin and insult Music's ear I closets. In the parlor tliore is an elegant new piano Britain, and the Continent. J. F. CAKE, Proprietor, On and after MONDAY, May 1, the Steamer Y W. L. WALL & CO., Auctioneers, MARK TWAIN'S NEW BOOK. Girl, your day's duty is never done well Between I and K. and some choice and desirable pieces of furniture, Furnish Revenue Stamps of all denommatums no 19-ly Also of Congress Hall, Cape May, N. J. LADY OF THE LAKH, B New Marble Building, which will be sold with the house. There is also a IS^E CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT BEARING Till you've wished the first lightning may strike every Roughing It. By Mark Twain. Uniform with mar 19-tf Carrying the United States Mail, will leave her wharf 900 aid 902, S. W. cor. Penna. ave. and Ninth street. vacant lot adjoining, 22),' feet wide, but the house INTEREST. foot of Seventh street, every belli "Innocents Abroad." Fully Illustrated—.-$Illustrated -l' 3 50 and the lot it occupies will be sold separate if de A Thief in the Night. Harriett Prescott Spof- C. C. WILLARD, MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY, at 4 p. m \Vhat is that, mother ? 1 25 sired; both lots run back to a wide, paved alley FOR NORFOLK. ' TRUSTEE'S SALE OF THE FURNITURE IN THE ford The Square upon which this residence fronts is one "The Chimes" my.love! Our Mr. Brodhead A Shadow of Dante. Maria Francesca Rosetti. 2 50 Washington City Savings Bank, Returning, leave Norfolk TUESDAY, THURSDAY of the most beautiful in Washington. The street is and SATURDAY, at 5 p. m.—stopping at Alexandria As sure as there're angels and harpists above, ST. JAMES HOTEL, CORNER OF PENNSYLVA- Pre-Historic Times. Sir John Lubbock 9 00 well sewered, and paved with Concrete. Price of the Corner of Seventh Street and Louisiana Avenue, EBBITT HOUSE, NIA AVENUE AND SIXTH STREET, AT AUC- Has just returned from New York city, where he sue The Art of Teaching School. J. R. Syplier.. . 1 50 whole property cheaper than any similarly located in Fort Washington, Glymont, Piney Point, Point look- And on earth sacred music for humans to sing, ceeded in securing many bargains in A Crown from the Spear. Author of " Woven the city, and terms advantageous. THIS IS A RA K.K PAYS INTEREST ON ALL DEPOSITS. WASHINGTON, ». C. out, and Fortress Monroe. ¡For good folk to praise with, for church bells to ring— TION. of Many Threads " 76 CHANCE. Inquire of : For freight or passage apply on board, or to V. D. 1 00 Open daily from 9.30 a. m. to 8 p. m., and on SAT- Groner, Norfolk, Va.; Eldridge & Co., Alexandria, Bo sure will the wild, silly, savage, insane, Dress Goods, Righted at Last ap a-tf . jj I I By virtue of deed of trust, recorded in Liber E. C. Dictionary of American Biography. Francis UUYCK 4 ADDISON, URDAY EVENING, from 6.30 to 7.30 p. m. Va.: J. G. Waters, Georgetown, D. C., or to I'antaatic, weird, heathenish, barbarous, vain, E. No. 1, folios 82 and -85, of the chattel records for S. Drake 6 00 Real Estate Agents, No. 819 Market Space, or address J. A. RUFF, DORSEY CLAGETT, General Agent, Hosiery, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, &c., &c., which will i 00 Corner of Fifteenth street and New York ave. Inappropriate ding-dongs that ring in our ears Washington county, D. C., the undersigned win sell Around the World. By E. D. G. Prime, D. D.. P.O. Box 120. Treasurer. be offered to our customerB at a slight advance during Twenty Years Ago. By the author of John N. B.—The key is at our office, and we invite an in- mar 12-tf ST. CLOUD HOTEL. All freight shipped by the Old Dominion and Virgi. Regardless of season and without—it appears— at public auction, in said hotel, commencing MON- 90 niaLineof Steamers will be addressed to V. D. Qro- this week. Halifax spection of the premises. | mh 24-tf This admirable house, architecturally one of the Either civilized limits or wholesome restraints, DAY, 15th day of April, 1872, at 10 o'clock a. m., and The Dessert Book. A complete manual from FIRST NATIONAL BANK ner, Norfolk, Virginia, this connection forming a tri- JBe brought to an end by " the prayers of the Saints I" continuing from day to day until all are sold, the fol- Prints, Percales, French Calicos, Cretonnes, &c„ the best American and foreign authorities, handsomest in New York, on weekly freight for New York. myl4-ly live so my love, that of you 'twill be said, i "Dolly Varden" style, very cheap. with original economical recipes. By a Corner of 42d Street and Broadway, lowing goodsjmd chattels, viz: Boston Lady 1 50 OF WASHINGTON. ¿She ne'er ceased to pray till those bells were struck FOR SALE. Is now open on the EUROPEAN SYSTEM with flrst- ALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Walnut, Mahogany, and Cottage Bedsteads, Black Silks at $2, worth $2.50. Harpers' New Edition of Dickens' Novels, dead I EAR-ACHE I Bureaus, Washstands, Tables, Oliver Twist 50 Government Depositary and Financial Agent of the class RESTAURANT, by B WASHINSTON, Dec. 25,1870. Parlor-Suites, Lace Curtains, Cotton Cloths and Linen Goods at old prices. Hawthorne's French and Italian Journals. 2 United States, ap 2-tf RAN» BROTHERS. Trains between WASHINGTON AND BAITI- I vols 4 00 MORE, and WASHINGTON AND THE WEST, are I ALADDIN; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP. Walnut Wardrobes, Chairs, Cornices, Call and examine. _ ,„ 2 00 BRODHEAD & CO., igei now run as follows, viz : Holland's Recollections 2 00 A Beautiful Coantry Residence FIFTEENTH STREET, BY THE "FAT CONTRIBUTOR." Walnut Chamber Suites, Marble-top Tables, 50 ABOUT FOUR MILES FROM WASHINGTON, COLUMBIA HOTEL FOR BALTIMORE. Cottage Sets, Hair and Shuck Mattresses, 1205 F street, between Twelfth and Thirteenth. A Guide to Florida Opposite the Treasury. Leave daily (except Sunday) at 6:45,8,8:15 and 10:30 I Aladdin was an Arabian knight, who reached a mh 24-tf And all the new books, at In the neighborhood of Mr. Riggs' and Mr. Wm. J. " AN1> RESTAURANT, a. m., and 12:45, 3, 4:10, 5:40, and 7:45 p. m. French Plate Mirrors, Chandeliers, H. D. COOKE, ,, , liigh degree, although nothing but the son of a poor FH1LP & SOLOMONS' Sibley's and the fete Wm. H. Dundas' and Robert FOÉ ALL WAY STAUIONS. Blankets, Sheets, Spreads, Comforts, Patterson's farms, on the BWdenshurg road. The ((O f Ja3v Cooke 4 Co.,) President. 325 Pennsylvania Avenue, Leave daily (except Sunday) at 6:45, 8:15, and 10:30 • tailor originally. Now, a man may carry on the JOHN T. MITCHELL, BOOK & STATIONERY ESTABLISHMENT, WM. S. HUNTINGTON, Feather Beds, Pillows, &c., place contains 22 ACRES, fenced in, nearly all in ap 16-tf Cashier. a. M., and 4:10 and 7:45 p. m. For principal way eta. 1 tailoring business and get rich, and yet be a mighty Brussels, Three-ply and Ingrain Carpets, mh 24-tf ' 911 Pennsylvania avenue, Clover, with several hundred Fruit Trees. The im- Having been entirely refitted, offers superior accom- tions—Bladensburg, Beltsville, Laurel, Annapolij provements consist of modations to the public. L Junction and Relay—leave at 6:45, 8:15, and 10:30 a. I j>oor tailor ; but we are assured that Aladdin's family Dining TableB, Chairs, SldeboardB, 931 Pennsylvania Avenue. H. G. FANT. L. WASHINGTON The Table fully supplied with all the delicacies of m., and 12:45 3, and 7:45 p. m.; 3 p. M. stops at Jee- I •were really in reduced circumstances. Plated Ware, Glassware, Crockery, "IN". M. A.-G. P. A Large Frame House, sop's. The 5:40 p. m. stops at Annapolis Junction I Aladdin was one of the most careless, good-for- Kitchen Ware and Utensils, ^Headquarters for STEAMED OYSTERS and OLD and Relay only. The 7:45 p. m. on Sunday stops«« • FANT, WASHINGTON & CO., STOCK ALE. no 5-tf during week nothing boys I ever knew. He wouldn't learn a Office and Bar Furniture, Safe, &c. 40 feet square, and back building and cellar, in all 14 the . We invite attention to our .second opening of rooms, with a large verandah facing South, and the BANKERS, FOR ANNAPOLIS. trade, unless it was to trade jack-knives, but loitered Terms: All sums under $250 cash, and over that ground immediately about is laid out as a flowergar - Successors to Rittenhouse, Fowler 4 Co., Leave at 8:15 a. m. and 4:10 p. m. No train to or from I away the most of his time on the streets. His father amount a credit of one and two months; notes bear- Spring Dry Goods. NATIONAL METROPOLITAN den ; a cistern at the kitchen door in complete order; No. 625 Pennsylvania Avenue, THE ARLINGTON. Annapolis on Sunday. worlsgd himself np so because he couldn't make his corn crib, hen house, cow house, carriage house, and Receive deposits and loan money to depositors at ON SUNDAY. ing interest and approved indorsements. stabling for four horses, all in good order. There is FOR BALTIMORE. eon work, that he died in a fit—the only fit, as his Sale poeitive. New and beautiful Goods, selected with great care Anti-Corrosive Pen! also a small house with three rooms, suitable for ser- let:al interest. , ., , . . . , Leave at 8 a. m., and 8, 5:40, and 7:45 p. m. customers said, that over came out of his shop. Then ORESTES B. DODGE, Truatee. vants. Also, two large never fidling springs; over FOR WAY STATIONS. from the beBt importations of the season. one of them is built a small dairy house, through ' We issue certificates of deposit hearing interest Leave at 8 a. m„ and 8 and 7:45 p. M. Aladdin became more indolent than ever. Yet, as mh 31-3t w. L. WALL & Co., Aucts. Put up in Gross and Quarter-Gross Boxes. which the water runs. The residence stands on quite and payable on demand. This beautiful Hotel has not only been FOR ALL PARTS OF THE WEST. showing the enduring love of a mother, although he Large stock of Ladies', Misses' and Childreus' an eminence, and commands a very tine view of the MAKE COLLECTIONS ON ALL POINTS IN THE Leave dally (except Saturday and Sunday) at M • nearly bored the life out of her, she continued to Y WM. L. WALL & CO., Auctioneers surrounding country, and the situation cannot be UNITED STATES. a. m., and 3 and 7:45 p. m. On Saturday at 6:45 a. m. and I Lawn and Linen Suits. surpassed for healthfulness. 7:45 p. m. , . board him. B Negotiate Railroad, Municipal Loans, and Mort- THOROUGHLY REFITTED New Marble Building, This Pen is being used by a majority of the BANKS Terms made known on application to On Sunday at 3 and 7:45 p. m.. only connecting at I One day a traveling magician came along and mil 31-3t S, and BUSINESS HOUSES of Washington, and is espe- RICHARD B. MOHUN, Juy apd Sell Government Securities and other Relay Station with trains from Baltimore to Wheel- I 900 and 902 Penna. avenue and 9th street. lng Parkersburg, Pittsbmg, &c. "showed" in their town. He saw Aladdin, took a cially adapted to Book-keeping. It will not corrode, mh 17-tf Cor. 11th st. and Penna. avenue. Stocks, Bonds, and Qold on Commission. Pay the during the summer vacation, but in view of the ap- liking to him as suited to his purpose, and offered to highest prices for City Scrip. J, For Strasburg and points between Relay House and I NEW SPRING DRY GOODS. and will out-last any Pen made. It is made of the proaching season, when an unusual crowd may be Strasburg, leave at 3 p. m., connecting at Belay I take him traveling with him, and if he wanted to be- TRUSTEE'S SALE OF THE FURNITURE OF NEW OFFICE. Domestic and Foreign Exchange bought and sold best material, and great care is exercised In manu- on all the principal cities in this country and Europe. expected, and several of the old hotels closod, ar- House WFYB Strasburg and Winchester accommoda- I come a magician, ho would learn him to " magish." THE ST. JAMES HOTEL CORNER OF PENN tiou train. facturing, each being a selected pen. We especially invite accounts of merchants and rangements have been made to accommodate all who This just suited Aladdin, who always wanted to go SYLVANIA AVENUE AND 6TH STREET, AT business men. Sight Drafts furnished to depositors Through tickets to the West canbe had at the | We will open from day to day the coming week a may apply. Washington Station Ticket Office at all hours in the I with a circus ; so ho went. AUCTION. without charge. oc8-Gm beautiful assortment of SEASONABLE GOODS, day. They left town that night, on foot, (as magicians By virtue of a deed at trust, recorded in Liber No, For New York, Philadelphia and Boston, see adw- I which we offer at our usual low prices. JUAN BOVLE t CO., FREE OMAN'S are often compelled to do when business is bad,) and 6, folios 317 to 319, of the chattel records for Wash IN ADDITION tisement of "Through Line." M. TAILOR & CO., Croquet, Croquet, Croquet! J. L. WILSON, proceededln the direction of the next town, where, ington county, D. C., the undersigned will sell at REAL ESTATE BROKETTS, mh 31-tf No. 705 Center Market Space. Master of Transportation. I as the magician said, they were holding the county public auction, in said hotel, commencing on MON- 100 sets Just received. Prices, from $5 to $15. Savings and Trust Company, to the rooms of the Hotel the proprietors have at L. M. COLE, General Ticket Agent. fair, and a show would pay. He had "worked " the DAY, 15th April,. 1872, at 10 o'clock, a, m., and con- No. 713 FIFTEENTH STREET, PLANTS' BUILDING. GEO. S. KOONTZ, General Agent, Washington. I JAPAN TEAS, &e. their control some of the most ap 30-tf fairs, and knew. tinue from day to day until all are Bold, comprising 1507 Pennsylvania Avenue, But, instead of going there, he led Aladdin into all the goods and chattels contained in said hotel, HROUGH LINE BETWEEN WASH- I a deep valley. Arrived at a certain rock, the magi- viz: AT HOME, Elegantly Furnished Apartments = Japan Tea. (BANKIHG HOUSE OPPOSITE THE TKEABUKY,) TINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK I cian, by Bomo magic spell (for he was a capital Parlor suites, marble-top tables, WASHINGTON, June 3, 1869—Noon. I speller) opened a great hole in the ground as readily Walnut chamber suites, chandeliers, EDOINC, in Washington within reasonable reach. Trains between Washington and New York are now I French-plate mirrors, lace curtains, Pays Six per Cent. Interest I run as follows, viz : as though ho had been an earthquake, much to the We have on hand a large supply of the best JAPAN FOR NEW YORK, without change of cars. surprise and alarm of Aladdin. Then the magician, Walnut and other wardrobes, bedsteads. TEA ever brought to this city. (Several of our Orien- Reception, and Visiting Cards. on deposits of Five Dollars or more. THE ARLINGTON has all the Leave daily (except Sunday) at 8 a. m., 12:45 and I facetiously remarking that it was a fine opening for a Bureaus, washstands, cottage sets, blankets, I 9 p. M. I tal visitors pronounce this Tea to be the best they A Handsomely Furnished House INTEREST BEGINS first of each month, payable 1 young man, ordered Aladdin to descend, and bring Hair and other mattresses, feathers, bedding, FOR PHILADELPHIA. have had since their arrival in this country.) In July and January of each year. Leave daily (oxcept Sunday) at 8 a. m., 12:45 and 5:10 I him a certain lamp he would find there, threatening Dining tables, chairs, sideboards, safe, We have also Beveral chests of a good quality in 1, on South A street, between Second and Third Streets, MODERN CONVENIENCES, | p. m. the direst penalties if he failed to comply. Plated ware, glass ware, crockery, PRAYER BOOKS of all siiies, and in every style with all the modern Improvements. Small cash pay- ISSUES CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT 1 ON SUNDAY. >i, and X ft packages, which we are Belling low. ments and long time on balance. "Now, soe hero, old man," said Aladdin, "fun ÌB Office and bar furniture, &c., &c. Leave for New York at 9 p. m. and Philadelphia I of binding. bearing six and four per cent, interest, available any- the best trained servants in America, the most accom- I at 5:40 p. m. fun, and I like fun as well as anybody, but ain't this Terms: All sums under $250 cash, and over that Xo MaUe Teu p m NO CHARGE for Designs for College and Society SEVERAL FARMS, where. plished French cooks; in a word the proprietors, Sleeping cars for New York on 9 . . train only. I running it into the ground?" amount a credit of one and two months; notes bear- Through tickets to Philadelphia, New York, or BOB- I Celebrations. ALL DEPOSITS payable on demand, with interest ton canbe had at the Station Office at all hours ot I There being no help for it, lie debutmUd, firstre -ing interest and approved indorsements. Sale posi- Is BO simple and easy that many persons suppose it Is small and large, on the line of the Point of Rocks ! the day. I ceiving the magician's magic ring, together with in- tive. Impossible to spoil good tea, This is a mistake. railroad, within a few minutea' walk of the depot, due. T. ROESSLE & SON, Lithographing', Printing and Binding. within thirty minutes of Washington. Terms easy. . See Baltimore and Ohio Railroad advertisement tei | structions. But wasn't it cruel to take A-ladd-In BO? SAMUEL S. PHILLIPS, Trustee, Great care Bhould be taken, and the following rule Special arrangements for BUBIKEBS ACCOUNTS, schedule between Washington, Baltimore, Aunapolii, I strictly observed. The tea-pot, with the Tea in It, bearing four per cent, interest. are determined to maintain the natioaal reputation of | and the West. J. L. WILSON, It was a màgic cavern, of course, and filled with mh 31-3t VV. L. WALL & CO., Aucts. Checks, Drafts, Charts, Maps, Letter-heads, Bill- ALSO, ONE OF TWO HUNDRED ACRES, Master of Transportation. I should be placed on the fire until it becomes well Call or send for a copy of the rules. The Arlington. no 26-tf L. M. COLE, General Ticket Agent. fruits and vegetables of the finest gold, as they always heads, Certificates of Deposit, &c., Engraved, Litho- are. Ho saw moro gold " turnips " than a watch fac- Y W. L. WALL & CO., Auctioneers, heated, then pour In fresh boiling water. Let it stand on the same road and same distance from depot, im- Everybody should have an Account in this Bank, GEO. S. KOONTZ. Agent, Washington, ap 30-IJ I graphed, or Printed. LIVERY STABLES. tory could turn out in ten years ; carrots two hundred B Néw Marble Building, about four minutes. proved by House, &c. feb 11-tf ERCHANTS' LINE OF STEAMSHIPS I NOB, 900 and 902 Pennsylvania avenue. • and fifty carats fine; gold cdbbages equal to any cab- M BETWEEN bages that have been made on the National Treasury; B. W. REED & SONS, SIX LOTS AUCTIONEERS. FASHIONABLE CARRIAGES WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. I and diamond squashes worth money enough to squash. TRUSTEE'S SALE OF THE FURNITURE IN THE Fine Family Grocers, SUCH AS 1214 F street northwest. W. LENOX TOWERS, near Capitol, fronting on New Jersey avenue, One of JA3CES GUILD. JOHN LOCK J K. Hips E. C. KNIGHT, I all the indictments found by our united grand juries. ST. JAMES HOTEL, CORNER OF PENNSYLVA- the finest situations in the city. I JOHN GIBSON, and VALLEY CITY, will make! When he saw an orchard hanging full of golden apples, NIA AVENUE AND SIXTH STREET, AT AUC- Teas of China and Japan, Coffees, Chocolates, Bookseller, Stationer, Engraver, and Printer, Clarences, Landaus, Phaetons, &c., regular weekly trips between New York, Alexandria, • Bromas, Cocoa, 4c.; 4c. mh 10-tf GUILD & LOCKIE, Washington, and Georgetown, as follows : he exclaimed, "Here's just old fruit!" and filledhi s TION. mh 17-tf 929 Pennsylvania avenue. for Leave New York from Pier 39. East river, CVCTJB pockets with them. A HOUSE ON NORTH A STREET. Auctioneers ani Commission Merchants, SATURDAY, at 4 p. m.; leave Georgetown cverjl By virtue of a deed of trust, recorded on the 20th PAPER-HANGINGS, &c. Finding the lamp, he returned to the entrance of FRIDAY, at 7 a. m., and Alexandria the same day Ml of June, 1871, in Liber No. 630, folio 114, one of the $400 cash, balance on long time. 1014 Pennsylvania Avenue. Shopping, Visiting, Weddings, Eeceptions, &c. the cavern, and asked the magician to help him out. New Rare Books! 12 m. „ • land records for Washington county, D. C., the un- with handsome horses, fine harness, and drivers in For information apply to R. P. A. DENHA1!, • " Not till you give me the lamp," was the reply. TO-DAY'S EXPRESS I dersigned will sell, at public auction, in Baid hotel, Old No. 486 New NO. 439 Agent, office and wharf foot of High street, George • " Then you won't get it," retorted Aladdin, who THREE HANDSOME HOUSES livery, for hire by the hour, day or month, on reason- town, or at the corner of Seventeenth street and Nevi commencing on MONDAY, April 15,1872, at 10 o'clock We refer by permission to J. C. McGuire, J. W feared some trick, which BO enraged the man of magic HOPKINS' able terms, the STABLES of York avenue. m., and continuing from day to day until sufficient in the West End. Thompson, Fred. B. McGuire, Thomas L. Hume, Ro J. W. THOMPSON, that he threw down the stone which closed the cavern, 7th Street. 7th Street. 1 is realized to pay the debts for which the undersigned FRANKLIN PUBLISHING COMPANY, bert H. Graham, Gen. Albert Pike, Dr. A. G. Mackey ALLISON NAILOR, Jr., ap 9-tf I ~ --^BWP President. | shutting the poor boy in. He took on, of course, as 121 Pennsylvania avenue. ALSO, is authorized to Bell, the Goods and Chattels, Furni- Dr. C. F. Stanbury, Hon. R. T. Merrick, Hon. N. any boy naturally would under the circumstances, Sphinx; or, Striving with Destiny. i330, 1332aiiü 1334 E st. northwest^ T HAVE A NUMBER OF FINE FABMsl ture and Fixtures contained in said hotel. SviJhef's Art of Teaching School—just out. Chipman, Hon. M. G. Emery,.Dr. R. B. Donaldson. nearly opposite National Theater and Willarde' Ho- weeping and rubbing his hands, but in doing BO he Houses and Lots J. for Bale, or will trade for city property. White's Students' Mythology. Fred. D. Stuart, Wm. Struthers, Philadelphia. tel. dec 10-4m feb 25-tf R. M. HALL. rubbed the magic ring, when an immense Genie ap- Terms : AH sums under $250 cash, and over that Brown's Heart Throbs of Great Authors. in all parts of the city. All sales at our Auction House will be held inside. peared. amount a credit of one and two months, with inter- Abominations of Society. Talmadge. : est and approved indorsements. Orange Blossoms. T. S. Arthur. / Satan in Society. Furniture Sales regular on Thursdays. "WASHINGTON BAILOR'S HARDWARE, &c. " Who are you ?." said Aladdin. , "Sharp." Woman's Profession—C. E. Beecher. The H. D. COOKE, Trustee, Furniture, &c., taken on storage. feb 25-tf " I am Slave of the Ring," replied the Genie. Hoosier Schoolmaster. State Prison Life. Hit—Dr. Two Handsome Houses mh 31-3t W. L. WALL & CO., Aucts. Walker's latest. Stirne on Representative Govern- STABLES, A. R. SHEPHERD & BROS., "Whatring? Whiskyring?" ment Quinn on Gardening, and Henderson's ditto, on Ninth street. This rather offended the Genie, who was a prohibi- for Profit. Jewett's Forty Years' Fi»ht with Rum. WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. 1326 E st,, opposite National Theater. tionist, and one of the most reputable Genii under MEDICAL. English Lessons for English People, &c. mh 3-tf Money to Loan No. 910 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, ground. But he explained that he was compelled to The Laa-gest Stoeli t - • BENSON'S BARGrAINS DEMPSEY & OTOOLE, in sums of from $1,000 to $10,000 on real estate, do whatever the possessor of the ring required, sub- Particular attention paid to Have just received a large and elegant assortmentol I ject only to the Constitution of the United States. GENERAL STATIONERS* mh 10-tf " Then get me out of this," said Aladdin, " and OF BOARDING HORSES. Salai em Broth, CHANDELIERS/ take me home," which the Genite did in less time Visiting and Invitation Oard Engravers, C. H. H0LDEN & CO., Latest style CARRIAGES with responsible drivers. than it takes to write these lines, set up the type, VOR THE SADDLE HORSES, BUGGIES AND PHAETONS IN print the paper, and put np the mails. He was hun- PRINTERS AND LITHOGRAPHERS, REAL ESTATE AGENTS, for hire. PENDANTS, gry, and hiB mother had nothing in the house to eat. dealers in every variety of Wi n es, Liquors, Large and Small OMNIBUSES for Picnics and Par- "But here is the lamp you brought home," said she. CURE OF ALL SKIN DISEASES, 633 Louisiana Avenue, ties. BRACKETS, and HORSES always for Sale and Exchange, " I will clean it, and perhaps it will bring some- COMMERCIAL. STATIONER r, AT AND jan 7-tf s B thing." It did. It brought another member of the Offer for sale a large variety of HOUSES situated in 917 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, between Ninth and the most desirable locations in this District, as well as READING ILIQHTB, Genii family, aB she rubbed it, who announced him- H ICK L I NG'S, some of the most PROVISIONS. Belf as "Slave of the Lamp," and said he followed Paperhangings, Tenth streets. dec 24-tf the business of waiting on anybody who possessed VALUABLE REAL ESTATE. IMPORTED HAVANA CIÛARS, WHEATLEY & R0HRER IN GILT, BRONZE, AND VERDE ; it. What did they wish ? Corner of Third street and Pennsyl- MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. " Dinners for twoV'Bhouted Aladdin, as though FARMS in Maryland and Virginia can he purchased Having completed their arrangements in the Nortjh, vania avenue. cheap or exchanged for he was in a cheap restaurant, with unbounded credit. West, aud South, are now in daily receipt of all the ! ap 7-4t s Ellis' Musical Warerooms, " And, mind you, give us plenty of fresh vegetables- City Prope rt y . CHOICE GRADES OF BUTTER, I FINE BRONZES AND FRENCH FMC71 green corn, If you have it." 937 Pennsylvania ave., near Tentli St., PERSONAL, PICTURE FRAMES, Sole Ageifts for the Celebrated In an instant a banquet was spread before them of Also, a large number of such as Fresh New York Old State, and all the Uno | FOR UELAIN SHADES AND OLORES. the richest description, and on plates of gold. From Chickoriiifi Pianos, SH00MAKER & HERTZOG'S. brands of Roll. Also, receiving daily fresh that time they boarded entirely in this manner, Alad- LOW-PRICED HOUSES oc 29-tf 0R. II E O N , which have been awarded eighty-one firs>-classPBE - EGGS, APPLES, ONIONS, Ac. din diBposlngof the gold plate at a pawnbroker's and HIUMS over all competitors. A written guarantee will will be Bold for a small cash advance. playing in the money at keno. On hand*and to arrive a large lot of Evans' Indian- j STONE QUARRIED No. 7111 Street, between 7th and 8th. accompany every Cliickering Piano sold by us. Property insured in any of the FIBST-CLASS COMPA- He just kept that Genie humping. Probably no Window Shades, Also, Agents for NIES. OC 8-tf apolis Genie that ever lived was so overworked as this one DR. LEON, The Smith American Organ, EXTRA SUGAR-CURED HAMS." was. He wouldn't be home in his cavern an hour Just received per steamer, STONE! STONE! The.oldest established Specialist in the city. the'best now manufactured. jan 28-tf FOR S-AIJE. A call from the trade is respectfully solicited at 1 any time a day before Aladdin would rub the lamp their WHOLESALE HOUSE, SOUTHWEST COHNEB | for something, when Mr. Genie had to git, muttering DR. LEON NINTH AND D STREETS. mh 24-3m* as he did so, " Ay, there's the rub 1 " Besides bring- Ellis' Musical Warerooms, Speedily Cures all Female Complaints. ing his meals to his room (for which he couldn't even PICTURE CORD AND TASSELS, 937 Pennsylvania ave., near Tentli st», A Block of Ten Elegant Houses AppoMinaris and Seltzer Waters, ^O THE PUBLIC. SENECA QUARRIES! have the' privilege of charging him extra) he had to DR. LEON Agency for the sale of for sale on Eleventh Btreet, between O and P, and on Increase of business has compelled us to Bell our I fetch his morning cocktail and black his boots. very easy terms; a rare chance to buyers. These Branch Store, Massachusetts avenue and Thirteenth j What a degradation for a born Genie-us ! Thoroughly Cures all Female Irregularities. Houses are first-class dwellings, f our stories in eleva- | of this year's PILLING, of excellent quality. street, BO we will give our undivided attention to the THE FAMOUS WEBER PIANOS. tion, with presBed brick fronts, stone steps, Iron fenc- OLD STAND, comer of Massachusetts avenue and 1 ! The Maryland Freestone M. and At length Aladdin aspired to marry the Sultan's ing, and terraced in front. They contain each We sell all Goods at street northwest, where we will be happy to wait on 1 daughter, who was very beautiful. His mother en- DR. LEON These Pianos are recognized as the leading Pianos our customers and furnish them with the BEST qual- Picture Nails, ELEVEN FINE ROOMS, M. Company, deavored to dissuade him from it. .. She reminded Cures all Organic and Skin Diseases, of the day by all the best artists. They are fully in- ity of MEATS, VEGETABLES, and FRESH OYS- Havo on hand and saw to order Platfonps, Step". dorsed and exclusively used by M'lle Parepa Rosa, TERS, all AT MAT1KET PEICES. ' him that he was only the son of a poor tailor,.and with the adornment of modern improvement, the ad New York Wholesale Prices, Window Caps and Sills, Door Sills« Ashler, W«w dec 3-6m Miss Kellogg, Mill, Wehli, and others. denda of ranges, hot and cold Water, bath rooms, Ac. Sole agents for Yates' Worcestershire Sauce, Table, Coping, Flagging, Trap Stuff, Curbing;* advised him to be content with some respectable Also, SMITH AMERICAN ORGANS, which excel These houses will be finished about the 1st of January, oc 22-tf MAGRATH & BELL, Rough Blocks of all dimensions: good, sound MM« seamstress. But he insisted, and actually induced CUNDURANGO. all others in heaut-y of tone and durability of work- and give the same discount as the different Sole manship. ian 28-tf proximo, and five of them will be sold on a credit of for Bridges, Railroad Work, Wharves, and all heavy the old lady to go to the Sultan and demand his nine years, with interest at b per cent. The location is ETROPOLITAN MARKET, Cor. sixth masonry wqrk; Rubble, suitable for Cellar most desirable, being contiguous to important ave- Agents in New York. M Flange Hubble Work,Churches. Warehouses,and otlo daughter's hand in marriage for her son, which was Supply of Bark Assured; Prices Eeduced, l^AIIsTTT^QS, CARRIAGES. nues, and also a large circle. Eleventh street is -now and H streets. Messrs. S. T. Luckett & Co., heavy buildings, walls, and all jobs where 8ti*ngtn very insulting to the Sultan. under contract to be fenced and parked. proprietors of the above centrally located and popular and durability are required. . Gold and diamonds did thè business, however, as The terms upon which we offer these houses will se- market Btand, have now in store an extensive and di- Office and Yard, corner K and Twenty-eigM" Bliss, Keene & Co's Fluid Extract ARRIAGES! CARRIAGES!! cure a first-classreBidence to the purchaser almost free versified assortment of Produce, Canned Fruits, Veg- streets northweBt. C. W. HAYDEKi they do yet and always will until there is a radical etables, Butter, Eggs, &c„ all.of which are sold at very Cures Cancer, Scrofula, Syphilis, Rheumatism, Ul- C CARRIAGES 1 ! ! of expense after the first payment be made, as ordinary jen-tf '.-'•itTcZ,Secretary. change in valuations; and Aladdin married the cers, Skin Diseases, all Blood Diseases. rental would almost meet ileferredpayments. low prices, ana delivered free of charge throughout princess. He built her a magnificent palace in one The best known Blood Purifier. Sold by all drug- no 19-tf C. H. IIOLDEN & CO. the city. jan 14-tf night—or his Genie did—on a vacant lot owned by gists. Price, $3 per bottle. Office, No. B0 Cedar St., MASQUERADERS ATTENTION!!! New York. mh 23-tf Engravings, Chromos, &c., $20,000's worth new CARRIAGES, of every Shoomaker & Hertzog, ^hcr father, that had a frontage of 100 feet on the variety of style aud finish, now on exhibition at the FOR8ALE. OTHERS principal Btreet, and was 150 feet deep. (The Sultan OROBALSAMTNE newly fitted Carriage Repository of JOHN P. BRID- Sole Importers, HICKLING S. GET, 1308 Pennsylvania avenue; also a large stock had refused $200 a front foot for the lot, repeatedly.) B° At of Second-hand Carriages of modern style. Repair- NESTLE'S LACTEOUS FARINA. And then they proceeded to live happily. LYONS' TOOTH TABLETS, ing promptly attended to. mh 31 -4t Elegant Residences 1331 and 1333 E street, S Y MR. HARRY DONEHUE, Comer Penna. ave. and Third street. But one day a circus came to town, and, connected in the "CAPITOL BLOCK" of fourteen three-story ap 7-tf Near the Imperial Hotel. audi New stock of ENGLISH AND FRENCH PERFUM- 1833. ESTABLISHED 1833. 1111 aDd vrM Co8tumcr with one of the side-shows, was the wicked magician. ERIES, AT Rouses on A THE MOTHER'S MILK SUBSTITUTE! O It^TAÌsT ' He saw the palace, heard that it was put up in one At HICKLING'S. JOHN McDERMOTT, & BROS. EAST CAPITOL, BETWEEN SECOND AND Extensively used and.rocommcnded by SOT SEVENTH STREET, near Penna. avenue, I night by Aladdin, and divined the truth at ouoe, FRENCH AND ENGLISH TOOTH BRUSHES, CO A CM MAKERS AND CARRIA GE DEALERS, THIRD STREETS, Krug Champagne. y the most Eminent Physicians. u The Genie, Slave of the Lamp, must have been a jan 14-tf Corner Penna. ave. and Third Btreet. No. 310 Pennsylvania Avenue, will f urnish Ladies and Gentlemen wishing to-attend • boss carpenter Ì He devised a plan for obtaining the Near Third street, now being erected, and to be ready for occupancy on Sold by Druggists and Fine Grocers. the Bookbinders' and Illinois Masquerades, with DR. GARDNER, lamp. He got some bran new ones and went to the WASHINGTON, D. V. November 1. E RI Formerly of Ricord Hospital, United States Army, These houses contain Having completed arrangements by which we will B, TV. REEp Si SONS, FINER COSTUMES palace when Aladdin was away, crying, "Old lamps Carriages and Harness received on Storage and Sold can bo consulted privately at hiiresidence, ITER'S. on Commission. Carriages Repaired, control the above Wine in this market, we take pleas- AGENTS FOR THE SOUTH, for new," when one of the kind girls traded off the SIXTEEN ROOMS EACH,, ure in recommending it as the 1214 F STREET N. W, Washington, 1). C. | and at lower rates than can be had in Washington- I magic lamp, Ignorant of its value as of everything 1002 Massachusetts Avenue, je 11-tf Call early. WITH GAS, WATER, and all modern conveniences. 307 SEVENTH STREET, else. Having thus made Aladdin a lamp-lighter between Tenth and Eleventh streetB west. From hiB ATTORNEYS. They are superior to. and can be sold cheaper, than Finest Champagne • feb 4-tf near Pennsylvania avenue- • (than he was) the magician assisted by the Genie great success during thirty years' practice in his par- any of the same class in the city. INFANTS! Also. THREE FINE HOUSES on south A street, Imported. transported the palace, together with the princess, ticular branch he warrants a cure. Indorsed as "The.best article yet offered to the | N. B. Upon the receipt of $10 medicines and advice (same Bquare,) now finished. XOIRSK & JIIWDLETOX, to the heart of Africa—one of the most remarkable CHARLES E. WEAVER, All of the above are peculiarly suited for Congress- The trade supplied at agent's price in New York, profession as a sent by express. Particular attention paid to the in- Fresh supply received by every steamer. (Late with First National Bank,) examples of riches taking wings that has ever fallen discretions of youth. au 20-ly men, and two have already been purchased by mem- C01ÄSELL0R AT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, bers of the House of Representatives. under my observation. HALL & HUME, WASHINGTON, D. C. For particulars apply to Substitute for Mother's Milk, Real Estate and Insurance Agents, I RIVATE MEDICAL CONSULTA A. GRANT, Extensive Dealers in Fine Groceries, Wines, &c., Aladdin searched high and low (to say nothing of TIONS at OLD DR. DARBY'S Private Dis- New Iron Building, 807 Market Space. P Office with R. W. Do unman, Esq., Real Estate Broker, Architect and Builder, No.226 East Capitol,between by J. J. Hull, Attending Physician Nursery and | Under National Metropolitan Bank. Jack and the game) for his missing wife and real es- pensary, 108 Four-and-a-Half street, a few doors Second and Third Btrects east. myiil-tf mh 24-4t tate, and in sheer desperation he at length joined an South of Pennsylvania avenue. Separate rooms for No. 2 INTELLIGENCES BUILDING, Childs' Hospital, New York; MONEY TO LOAN IN SUMS TO SUIT. I Ladies. mar 19-tf HOUSES AND LOTS FOR SA1» • expedition about to penetrate to the interior of Africa Seventh Btreet, between D and E streets. POR SAIIE—A CHEAP HOME. JOSEPH SIFES, Wm. -H. Maxwell, M. D., New York; The above at REDUCED PRICES until March 1st, J. Lewis Smith, M. D., Physician to Infants' Hospi- I in search of Dr. Livingstone. He didn't findth e Residence, 406 Sixth Btreet northwest, jan 14-tf Cigar M a it il ±"a cturer, We offer to the public the following Fire Insurant 1 "VICTOR." SIX NEW BRICK HOUSES, having six rooms, hall, tal, New York; doctor, but he did find his palace. He communicated to make room for vestibule, front and back yard, situated on New llarap No. 209 Pennsylvania Avenue, Companies: HOME, New York; PH' • All lived happily after that, except the wicked magi 469 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, BET. 4% AND 6TH STS. erty at a fair price. R. M. HALL, tect and Engineer. Office, 908M Pennsylvania ave®» • clan, who, as a punishment for his eccentricities, was jan 14-3m fob 25-tf Corner Seventh and F streets. ing, Marbling, Gliding on Glass, &c. jas 14-tf mil 17-tf compelled to be confined at hard labor all his life as felifell T. W. SPICER, AOT. jaa21-3s> feb 4-tf «V comic wrifir.