(VOLUME I. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., APRIL 2, 1871. NUMBER 4.

Tor The Capital. One night some week or so after this mourn- out, with Irish enthusiasm, "Be jabers, and light. Here was a real ghost, and instead of Utie looked viciously up, anger and jealousy Not his sweetheart, who was nothing to him THE AMERICAN SHIP. Pierre Soul<5, A. H. Stovens, Robert C. Winthrop, ADVENT OF SPRING. ful affair, the watchman passing by the door there goes a pacock of the Dimocrasy!" From being driven from further investigation, he de- inflaming his heated face, for, although he had now, not his "honor, which had been only (Song iff the Protectionist.) and Emerson Etlicrldgo. Of course I except the Adown the emerald slopes the suu declines, present company in Congress, for tliat would ne- of the committee-room heard the sound of a that out the Honorable Dawson was known as termined to follow it up. It promised to be no engagement with Miss Rideau, lie conceived vain glory and deceit, not anything but this BT OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. K'Mld whose cool shadows Summer loves to stay; the great event of his life. himself her future suitor. But some rash earliest, everlasting faith which is ours for- cessitate a catalogue of more than three hundred Kisses with warm red lips the stately pines, voice within. In that lonely place, late at the Peacock of the Democracy, his friends and Ay, tear her tatter'd ensign down! words that he said against the officer were ever, whether we be steadfast or go astray: the names. It is not claimed that all the orators • As slowly sinks his head beyond the day. niglit as it was, this singular fact filled his admirers giving the Irish pronunciation to the The door was repaired, and privately the Long has it waved on high, named stand on the same footing; but strike their soul with alarm. Could it be that the soul of name of thw bird. Honorable John had ftke y manufactured by scarcely heard by the self-possessed beauty of tie of home, of childhood, and of our mo- And many an eye has danccd to see Mlgjht, like a tender mother, gently steps names out of the public records, and the elo- the American law-maker had returned to its The Honorable John B. was as brave a which he could enter the committee-room, and official society, because just then the young ther's prayer and kiss,—this was the soft re- That banner in the sky; ^Ecross the earth-couch where the blossoms lie; Beneath it rung the battle shout, quence of the country would present a beggarly Her soft dark robes are perfumed by their breaths, haunt, and was finishing the speech that death man as the Lord ever made. He had re- in making his preparations carefully abstained officer and a friend were approaching them. proach which glided between a wasted youth appearance indeed. We might, indeed, add to and the ' 'field of valor " he had tempted. He And buret the cannon's roar;— H As lovingly she closes each bright eye; had so unceremoniously cut off? His hair turned Joshua Giddings I forget how many from communicating what he proposed doing She dropped her eyes when she met Lieuten- The meteor of the ocean air the preceding an equal number of good sound And tenderly infolds their mantles green, fairly stood on end as he listened, for unques- times to Congress by making assaults on to any one. The next night he occupied the ant Dibdo's bold glance of admiration, perhaps wept. He sobbed. He threw himself upon Shall sweep its clouds no more. talkers and talented debaters, or tacticians, but the bed, and pressing his temples into the ^Lcst chilling airs may blight them ere the morn, tionably within the room could be heard the his abolition body. When the venerable room without any disturbance whatever. He in order not, to be privy to the more searching Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, even then It would be difficult to muke out a cata- Or Boreas, like some brigand, come unseen, solemn voice rising and falling in that cadence Joshua found his term drawing to a close, and came out in the morning wearied and disap- look, with which, like a gentleman of the ragged quilt, felt the panorama of childhood Where knelt the vanquish'd foe, logue equal in numbers to the congressional • And these sweet children from their llVes be torn; peculiar to congressional efforts. Satisfied of realized tliat it was necessary to arouse his pointed. The haunted room had been as world, lie ran over the fine points of her plump pass across his mind like something cool, When winds were-hurrylng o'er the flood, authors and journalists of deserved celebrity. All the names hitherto mentioned in this And Spring's crown jewels all be rudely crush'd, the fact he retreated in great disorder, not constituents in one other and further effort in quiet as his own bed-chamber. No Leather- body as he passed. But young Utie,' seeing sorrowful, and compassionate. The sickness And waves were white below, H That April waits impatiently to wear, No more shall feel the victor's tread, letter represent those men who, on the daring to approach that part of the building behalf of the cause of freedom, he would pro- lungs had appeared, no solemn congressional the •oft'ernJjrT of a moment ago taking such ar- she had cured, the bad words she had taken And voices of the opening buds be hush'd, from his undutiful lips, the whipping she had Or know the conquer'd knee;— strength of their own self-sustained ability, have during the night. The next morning he told voke the Honorable John B. Dawson to a voice had been lifted; no demijohn brought dent and leisurely survey of the girl under The harpies of the shore shall pluck • Whose fairy symphonies cnchant the air. saved him from at the cost of licr deceit, the won the attention or applause of the public by his story in confidence-to.a doorkeeper, and personal encounter,»and, getting expelled, out; but, on the contrary, in the morning the his care, turned pale with hate. The officer The eagle of the sea. »Villi radiant fingers now Aurora parts lie she had never told him, the tears ho had their writings or their eloquence. But a much the doorkeeper extended his confidence to would certainly be reelected. This fact at furniture appeared precisely as it had been did not notice him at all, absorbed in the fine Oh! better that her shatter'd hulk larger number of congressmen have become fa- HNight's sable curtains from the eastern skies, found her shedding upon her knees when first And all the tiny fragrant floral hearts some twenty or thirty inquiring friends, and last got in upon the imaginative brain of the placed the night before. This continued for colors, eyes, and proportions of Miss Rideau, Should sink beneath the wave; mous as statesmen and judges, diplomatists and he had been driiking, the money he had • Her genial beauty thrills with sweet surprise. it was soon rumored over the building that Honorable John B., and finding that lie was several nights until the honorable member and this further outraged Utie, who,—to his Her thunders shook the mighty deep. governors—made such in a large proportion by ap- never given her out of his salary but had And there should be her grave;, Then, like the keynote of an anthem grand, the committee-room was haunted by old being made a sort of platform for Joshua, he from Louisiana was about abandoning his la- credit be it said,—had only modest thoughts pointment or election—and a few statistical state- Leatherlungs, who could be heard there every spent with idlers, his ruined soul which to "all to* the mast her holy flag, ments respecting these may be suggestive reading. • Falls on the ear each mellow-waking sound, positively declined any further encounters. borious watcliings, when an event occurred for her. When he saw, however, that she Set every threadbare sail, And nature, totichcd by Spring's carcsBlng hand, night repeating liis speech. that mother's thought was pure as a baby's During the last session of one of this famous that very nearly put an end to his congress- looked after the manly figure and naval gilt And give her to tho god of storms, CONGRESSMEN IN ADMINISTRATIONS. •Feels every pulse leap with a life profound. of liim of the profane eyes, as if to return still, and watched by all the angels of God : The lightning and the gale. The total number of men wlio have formed a Everything about Congress has to be inves- abolitionist's terms in office he actually gave ional career. these were admonitions from the green mead- Till e'en the weary heart turns from Its gloom his admiration, the intoxicated boy dropped part of the several administrations of the Govern- HTO witness this fair advent of the flow'rs, tigated, and a self-constituted committee was up his seat in the House, and when he saw the He was sleeping upon the sofa in the com- ows of childhood. Before was the barren For The Capital. ment since the Declaration of Independence is organized to look into this ghost business. burly man of freedom approach him on the mittee-room— the sleep of innocence and an oath. And dream o'er its lost verdure whose rich bloom field of honor. How short is the struggle THE GREAT M. C'S. one hundred and eighty-two, of whom one hun- Honct' wrcath'd the chalice of youth's golden hours. On the niglit following the watchman was street would dart down a back alley or hide peace—when he felt a cold hand feeling along "I will horsewhip that powder-monkey!" betwixt youth and selfishness, that sum of all dred and thirty-three have served as representa- O blossoms, whether earth or human born! assisted by two or three friends who volun- behind a door, so as to avoid a conflict. One his intellectual countenance. To spring up he said. diseases and crimes ; that selfishness out of Letter from a Congressman. tives or senators in Congress. The total number I O Springtime of the mortal life or year 1 teered to sustain him on the trying occasion, day lie found that the Honorable Joshua had and fling his arms wildly out was more an in- "Robert," said the girl, placidly, "you which wars arise and hell is habitated! I confcss myself to be rather an unfortunate of Supreme Court judges has been forty-four, of Q blessed types of that great vernal mom, and render some help in divining, if possible, the floor, and knowing that the eloquent advo- stinctive impulse than an intellectual move- won't. You have no horse and no liorse-whip, specimen oi humanity. Before my election to a whom just one-half have served their country as B Whose blooming freshness no chill age can sere I what the demonstration meant. Gathered cate of liuman rights would provoke him to ment, but his arms came in contact with noth- but you have been drinking. Go from me, seat in Congress I occupied a respectable posi- congressmen. Out of five hundred and twenty- MRS. A. L. RITTER DUFOUB. A poor, overworked Christian negro, a slave seven foreign ministers ono hundred and seventy- March 24,1871. about the door they waited for hours without such an exasperating extent that he would not ing that he could grasp, and for a moment he sir! I Some one else shall See me home to in the tavern, hearing the sobbing of Robert tion in the community of my rcsldcnce ; now my reputation is equivocal. I have been through the eight were members of Congress either before or the occurrence of any circumstances calcu- be able to control himself, he withdrew to the stood with his blood tingling through his night." Utie and aware that one of the duelists occu- For The Capital. fiery furnace of public life in Washington and after serving as diplomatists; and looking over lated to alarm or even arouse them. The com- library and turned his Southern congressional veins, and his ringleted hair straightening out "I will kill the man who takes my'place! piedthat room, lifted the latch, and wakened the list of seven hundred and sixty-eight State THE HAUNTED COMMITTEE-ROOM. mittee-room back of the closed door was still as Do ypu dare to speak that way to me ?" have not escaped entirely unscorchcd. But as I intellect to a study of Eugene Sue's "Myste- in the actual, terror of the moment. the wretched boy from his remorse. would stand well among those to whom I am per- and Territorial governors, I find that three hun- a tomb, and they were about separating under dred and forty-nine manifested their love of glory BY DONN PIATT. ries of Paris." Before doing this he instructed This did not last, however, for while he Heihad raised his voice, in his rage, so that "Young moss," he said, "doan you fight sonally unknown, it behooves me at once to declare the general impression that the watchman one of the pages to let him know when that stood there a chair was knocked over; and dart- some! others heard it. There was a little pause tliat I was elected to Congress against my wishes by serving as national legislatorfs. I By far the more interesting parts of the had either been drunk or crazy, when a noise no juels! Oh! doan do it, for de bressed "damned old abolitionist" had finished, for he ing through the darkness in the direction of of pressing people, for that was a chivalrous Lord's sake! It's nuffin but pride and sin. and in spite of my love for intellectual pursuits. BIO FAMILIES IN CONGRESS. (Japitol building are those seldom seen by visi- smote upon their startled ears that resembled Of coursj; X do not, by this remark, intend to ex- wished to vote for some measure his friends the sound, the" Honorable John B. came in con- age as to the manner of men to women, and Yo's only a pore, spilt boy, but you got a Whilst it is an undeniable fact that a very large Itors. The columned and vaulted foundations, the falling of some heavy body upon the press any opinion as to the moral or intellectual proportion of those who have occupied seats in ^thc, long Corridors, with the dim vistas ending were stirring up the House to carry. In due tact with a positive substance in the shape of the yj)ung officer, just then returning, availed soul, young moss! Doan you go git kilt in floor. They would have incontinently fled time the lad told the Peacock of the Democ- position before the world of that army of patriots, Congress failed to attain any eminence as states- ubparently far away in mysterious recesses, a man. To throw his arms about it and yell for himself of a pretty girl's dilemma to say: dat ar bloody gully wha* so many gits hurt every one of whom is known to be an "honorable men, it is also true tliat there has been a decided had they not got hold and grasped each other, racy that the, Honorable Joshua was about assistance was the work of an instant, but in re- all cool, quiet, and generally deserted, give and so remained rooted to the floor in the "May I assist you, Miss? I presume you amoss to deff!" member;" but as a lover of unvarnished truth I aristocracy of family and talent in the national closing, and the Honorable John B. solemnly sponse he received a volley of oaths and a one a sensation far deeper than can be gath- most abject terror. This was not lessened arc not in very agreeable company." Utie arose from the dream of home, and propose to submit a few considerations by way of legislature. Our second President, for example, stalked to his seat. blow on his countenance that nearly upset illustrating the phases of character which have ered from the lighted and painted chambers much when a voice was heard within that '"Ihank you, sir," answered Miss Rideau. kicked the poor slave out of the room. He John Adams, not only presided at one time over above. Then again there are old queer-shaped As the fates would have it, he entered hiui. Still clinging to the ghost he continued "I 'would be obliged to have some one find then drank, speculated upon his chances, hitherto distinguished the celebrated brotherhood the Senate, but his son, John Quincy, and grand- sounded very like hard swearing. In a few to which I belong. With well-nigh one hundred son, Charles Francis, were both in Congress, while •ooms once occupied by committees, when minutes the voice again smote upon their ears, an aisle of the old House of Representa- his cries until the door was again thrown my aunt for me; she is here somewhere." practiced with an imaginary pistol at the tives that led to his seat just as Joshua, open and the watchmen with their lights of my colleagues I have been elected to stay at the former well-nigh eclipscd his fame as President, the old hall of the House served for legislative and they heard the unmistakable sing-song of '' Will you accept a stranger's arm ?" wall, and meditated running away, alter- home from the fourth of the coming March, and I rushed in, and the ghost was found to be old and in the person of the other was perpetuated Swurposes, and since abandoned as inconveni- the congressional orator. This was too much flushed with the success of an eloquent "Iti this misfortune, I will." nately, until Tiltock's business-step rang in must quiet my nerves a little by a plain and socia- the diplomatic ability of the family. The only ent and unpleasant. My attention was called for the nerves of the party, and they hastily effort, had turned up the same passage to Peter Pinckney, excessively enraged and very .Dibl;lo took off the pretty girl, and one of the hall. ble talk with the reading public. Should my views other families which have sent the representatives to one of these, not long since, as having a beat a retreat. seek his own. They met about half way. drunk. The explanation was that the com- his naval companions, looking after him, ex- " Bob," he said, "we've picked you a beau- appear to be a little mixed up and incoherent, the of three generations to Congress are those of spry connected with it, and the same venera- Joshua supposed that John B. was coming mittee-room had been turned into the abode claimed, "What a genius Dib. is with the tiful piece of ground, and the other party's cause must be attributed to the fact that I am one Richard Law, Richard Stockton, and Alexander ble guardian of the crypt that the Honorable It was some days before the facts in con- down to assault him, and so squared his mus- of Peter, he finding it much cheaper to occupy ladies,!»' But'the companion, feeling a trem- waiting. It's the most popular juel of the of the great retired, and that X hardly know whether Ogle; but it is due to Alfred Conkling to state 'Benjamin Butler unearthed and discharged, nection with this extraordinary condition of cular person to receive the assault. The Hon- that apartment than to pay for one at his bling,; unsteady hand upon his arm, turned season." * to feel glad or disgusted, repentant or hopeful, in that he was succeeded in Congress by two sons ; , Who yet hangs about the building from sheer the committee-room reached the ears of old orable John hesitated. Here was this boarding-house, the window in the rear form- about and met young Utie's desperate face. view of the past, the present, and the future of also that Frederick Frclinghuysen was succeeded They walked up the sandy village street, my public life. by a son and a step-grandson ; Philemon Dickin- fTprce of habit, told me that the room was Once Peter Pinckney, commonly called' 'Old Pink." "damned old rascal" going to provoke an en- ing his means of entrance and exit. It is "I want to know the name of that fellow !" under the old hip-roofed houses, crossed the He listened with great attention to the narra- counter, be expelled, and again returned to son by two sons ; Robert R. Livingston by six re- haunted. His story ran in this way: hardly necessary to say that Peter's public said Utie. Branch bridge, and proceeded a quarter of a TOE LITERARY CONGRESSMEN. lations bearing the same family name; John tive, and then said that it was all blasted non- torture the South. His first impulse was to • There was one? an honorable member of career, beginning in the days of Jackson, "That is Charles Dibclo," said the naval mile on the road to Washington. There, According to that very stupid but perhaps use- Breckinridge by at least three kinsmen; John sense; that he would go in that room and sleep retreat, but his fiery Southern heart got the ful book, known as the " Dkiionanj of Com/re**," «Congress sent from some part of the South ended on that occasion. He was ignominiously companion, " lieutenant of the U. S. frigate where a rivulet crossed the road amongst some Heister by a son, a brother, a nephew and a cousin; there all night without being disturbed, lie better of his discretion, and he collided with perpetrated by a personal friend of mine, the race .under a general agreement that he was to live turned out, although he came very near con- 'Ikr,' and iTecommend you, my boy, to ad- bushes, they descended by a path into a copse Arthur Lee by two sons and at least one kinsman; would venture to say, by any ghost. This the abolitionist in spite of all his resolves. of American congressmen, dead and alive, num- land die at his legislative post and be buried at tinuing, through the anxiety of the Peacock dress Mm in a civil tone. For me, I never and on, to a green meadow-space cleared Thomas Morris by two sons; John P. G. Muhlen- was looked upon as a boast, but when at night Joshua looked so exasperating—he was such a bers about five thousand. What proportion of berg by two brothers and two nephews; Csesar ; the public expense. He came here for years, of the Democracy to conceal the transaction mind a drunken man." away by former rain freshets. Farm boys, these have been what we call men of literary cul- Peter made his appearance, and boldly entered detestable object that it was a real comfort to as one likely to raise a laugh at his expense. town boys, and intftulers of all sorts were Rodney by a son and three kinsmen; Charles and got so well acquainted witli his duties at Thoroughly denionized now, young Robert ture, who did not think it worth while to make Pinckney by two members of his family, and Ellihu the room, the doubt was charged to admira- punch him; and so when they met the Hon- lurking near. The field of honor resembled I¡fet that they sat upon liim easily as an old tion. He was' regarded as the bravest man Utie turned blindly about for some implement any mark, it is impossible to conjecture; nor can Waslibume bv two brothers. orable John B. suddenly seized the Honora- For The Capital. "of »revenge. He found it in Tiltock, a fellow algipsy camp, wo arrive at any satisfactory conclusion as to the «coat. Tills W!,» lu a do/wUon >>,JU£Biber J$ a\»mt Capitol; but liow could it be otherwise ble Joshua by the throat and pitched him ofl' to |tli« Senate owned a sideboard and tiiemSni- KING OP THE Kl -jKM X. clerk, a nfodkiate. and it.ninny, wljo was visi- »Lieutenant Dibdo's companion came up to number of those whose miscellaneous speeches HAS CONGRESS DETERIORATED? when lie was a .Jackson man-po- xme'sMe. fSrrrmlrtllTg orTTIi Cl!;tn", {lie Cill'llCSt My own personal recollections of Congress |l>ers of the House kept a jug. This Honora- "Resentful, TieatfRing^ ignorant, ' bic in the tisivd. ifiltock and said that his friend did not wish hayeLlieen published in book or pamphlet form. litical career from the confidence of "Old The Southern Ku-Klux flies by night. Of those, however, wlio hav? takeii the trouble extend back to the year 1848, which was the pe- fblc Lycurgus had his jug until at last his jug representative of the Western Reserve went '' Tiltock, are you a man of honor ?" to fight, and would make any manly apology, Hickory." The watchman with his friends down with considerable noise. There hap- The hideous mask upon his face. to write and publish books, or have acquired a riod when the golden age of our legislative gov- Iliad him. When he first came to Congress he To hide his deeds of fright; " I hope HO, Bob." even though unconscious of offense, if the ernment was beginning to wane, and which soon listened attentively, and for some hours heard pened to be great confusion upon the floor at national reputation as journalists, I have not been I devoted himself to legislation, and during his nothing but the heavy snoring of the clerk. To slay the helpless, rob the rich, " Can you cany a challenge ?" challenge was withdrawn. The crowd was able to count as many as one hundred. Only afterwards came to an end with the passing away the time, some forty or fifty law-makers try- And on his land to bring spare time drank whisky. Towards the last After a time, however, this ceased, and again '' O yes ! I guess so, to 'blige a ole friend." ardent for the fight, and Tiltock, who was think of it! not one in fifty of the men who were of Calhoun, Clay, and Webster. It was my priv- ing that dexterous game so common to the The devastating armies down— 1 punctilious about honor, particularly where called upon to mold the laws of this country ilege to know all those men, and to hear them in i he gave himself up to whisky, and during his the mysterious, solemn sounds of the congress- Such is Ihr Ku-Klux King! ' Can you write it ?" floor, called "catching the eye of the public debate; and in these latter days when I I spare moments to a little legislation. Through ional speaker came ringing through the door. "I'm afraid not." he could cut a safe figure, repelled the com- have ever manifested their acquaintance with or | his long service and thorough acquaintance Speaker," and vociferating at the top of their Resentful, headlong, ignorant, promise, as " unwarranted by the code." He regard for the ennobling pursuits of literature. wish to expatiate upon the brighter character- At this the party pounded upon the panel, The Northern Ku-Klux speeds to tramp "Then take it by word of mouth. That • with congressional ways he came in time to be lungs, so that very few really saw the encoun- scoundrel there, Lieutenant Dibdo, lias in- knew as much about the code as about honor, Among those who have made their mark as his- istics of the American Congress, I invariably con- and in a few minutes they heard the voice of ter. The Senate of his country down torians and biographers may be mentioned John tine my thoughts to the period when those men Ichairman of a committee, and this committee Peter, and upon insisting upon being admit- With his masked hirelings of the camp ; sulted a lady, and me too. I must have his and more about both than about getting a Joshua found this deadly conflict un- Adams, C. F. Adams, Samuel G. Arnold, James were in the forum. From that time to the present •occupied the room to which I refer. It is a ted the door was at last opened. Peter stood To lead the nation from its rest, blood. Follow Mm up, and meet me at Gads- living Armstrong, Jacob Burnet, Henry Lee, David Ram- the intellectual and moral character of Congress And distant evils bring •three-cornered affair, dimly lit, with a smaller in the room alone, wide-awake but evidently noticed, and the first opportunity which by's with his answer." " Then," said the lieutenant, " I am author- say, John Marshall, John G. Palfrey, Josiah Quincy, has not been what it was before. I am tempted •room attached, and not by any means so clieer- occurred next day he rose to a question of Upon the innocent at home— very drunk, and after staring at them for Such is the Ku-Klux King! Full of self-importance at this first and safe ized to say that my principal will take Mr. Robert C. Winthrop, W. H. Seward, C. J. Inger- to assert, alas! that it has greatly deteriorated, I ful as the gayer departments now devoted to privilege, and made the startling assertion Utie's first fire. Let liim improve the gener- soll, William C. Rives, C. W. Upham, Charles but, as I am now fishing for a foreign appointment, some time pronounced the whole party a set On either band rise Southern men opportunity to stand upon what is known as I that business, in the new parts of tilt Capitol. of jackasses, and told them to get out. This that he had been assaulted in a deadly man- " the field of honor," Tiltock kept the lieuten- .ous chance as lie will. The second time we Miner, C. E. A. Gayarre, Edward Everett, Lorenzo I must be silent and nurse m.y independence. ner by a member of the House, and his con- And Northern voters rise! Sabine, Ilenry C. Murphy, Ililand Hall, William I The Honorable Lycurgus Leatherlungs was they did, and the next day he was severely will make business of it." A SPECIMEN CONGRESSMAN. Unmask their midnight caucuses. ant in his eye, and took liim finally aside and D. Williamson, Henry S, Foote, John M. Miles, • Very regular in his attendance upon the gressional life jeopardized by a fearful attack. Unveil their wicked cj-es! The interlopers fell back. The word was examined by a great many people as to what demanded a meeting in the name of .Utie. and J. D. Baldwin. Among those wlio have ren- I have in my eye just now a tolerably fair speci- •committee. To lighten the labors each metn- he had seen; to which he replied to his infe- There wits amazement over the whole house. On no unholy raid for gold, The naval) officer answered that he had simply given: "Ready—Aim—Fire!" Robert Utie, men of the race, and let us glance at his leading Or foreign state we wing, dered the State some service as political writors | ber had a demijohn or a bottle, and from this riors, such as the police and the messengers, Dawson sat looking as innocent as a child, relieved d lady from a drunken boy; but Til- sustained by braggadocio, that, quality which characteristics. He was born on a farm and re- and those of his own class who had really The genius of our noble land arc Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Jaines •Source they drew a great deal of the constitu- with an expression of contempt, but to a con- Shall be no Ku-Klux King ! tock, in tie dramatic way common to halcyon makes murderers die on the scaffold heroically, Madison, John Jay, Fisher Ames, Albert Gallatin, ceived a common-school education. After spend- tional law that goes to make up a strict con- gressman with the assurance that it was all seen the affair got up solemnly and avowed old time/, refused to accept either '' drunken " fired full at the body of Lieutenant Dibdo. Thomas H. Benton, Henry Wilson, Alexander H. ing a few years as clerk in a store, he ran for the ' ;structional idea of government. And some- that the gentleman from Ohio had certainly That officer fired into the air and remained Stephens, Charles Sumner, and Edward McPher- office of county sheriff and was defeated. He bosh—that he had not seen anything. For The Capital. or "b^y" as terms appropriate to "the code," next tinned his attention to merchandising on his . times, when the labors of the committee were been dreaming. In vain Joshua reiterated his and jAessed for an answer. In five minutes unmoved and unharmed. son. The poets of our craft, whom the public statement. Even his own few friends and THE own account, and after flourishing for five years ipvotracted, the constitutional law rather got It does not take long to get a place haunted, FALL OF UTIE. the nival officer replied, through his naval " Is another shot demanded ?" always remember with pleasure, were Joseph Hop- especially if it is some lonesome locality sug- Whig members from the North, who sympa- kinson, William O. Butler, Richard Harris Wilde, on the capital of certain friends in New York, the better of the members, and they first grew comiytnion, that having ascertained Mr. Utie "Yes," said Tiltock, "our honor is not yet went by the board, i. e. failed, and paid five cents thized somewhat with him, only laughed, Representative Bladensburg Duel. and William J. Grayson; our novelists, John P. •Botous and then stupid. Not unfrequently gestive in itself of murder and ghosts. About to ba a gentleman's son, and he as an United satisfied." on a dollar to his creditors; then tried his hand at this dark committee-room, therefore, there and for once he failed in- getting the necessary BY GEORGE ALFRED T0WNSEND. Kennedy, Jeremiah Clemens, (tlie father of the •Rome of these learned Thebans would have to States officer not being able to decline a chal- He waved the crowd back in an imperious school-keeping, next at preserving the peace of a gathered a crowd of strange stories so distorted reelection. Among others who asserted most famous "Mark Twain,") and E. Joy Morris; •be carted out by the messengers and sent to The reception at Secretary Flake's was at lenge the latter was accepted. The weapons way,—they having rushed in after the first our single philosopher, Benjamin Franklin; our small village as a justice and also as a lawyer, from what was the actual fact that the origi- earnestly that nothing of the sort could have • their various boarding-houses. its height. Bland Van, the President of the were to be pistols, the place the usual ground shot,—and he gave the word himself like a scientific and educational authors, Manassali Cut- after which he fell in love with the art of politics, nal watchman, who had heard and yet con- occurred was the Honorable Tom Marshall, of and by drinking a good deal of bad liquor at all I One day the Honorable Lycurgus positively nation, had departed with his boys; the punch- at Blidensburg, and the time the afternoon of dramatic reading. ler, Samuel L. Mitchell, William Darlington, Ben- tinued to hear the disturbances, listened in Kentucky. He declared that he had been sit the groceries, swearing to excess, and spending I leclined being carted out, claiming that he was bowl had been emptied nine times; and still file next day. jamin Rush, William Slade, Horace Mann, and amazement. The sounds were now accompa- ting in the immediate neighborhood of the Robert Utie looked, and this time with a much of his time with the rabble, or rather the • engaged in writing a speech and wanted the the cry from our republican society was, '' Fill livid, sobered face, into the open pistol of the George P. Marsh; our legal writers, Nathan nied by strange lights. The voice could be proposed combat, and had neither seen nor ! There was a good deal of drinking and Dane, William Story, Edward Livingston, John "dear people," as they arc callcd, lie won their i quiet of his conimittee-room when the connnit- up !" recognized as that of the departed Leather- heard anything like a row. Joshua retorted feasting at the hotels that night, Utie and man he had provoked, the professional officer C. Spencer, and R. H. Walworth; our single affections, and was elected to Congress, where, BteC should withdraw, and so he was left there according to the existing theory, lie has served on Tom and set the House in a roar. He said A pair of young men, unacquainted with TJiltock telling everybody, as a particular se- of death. The fine, cool face behind the eminent explorer, John C. Fremont; and our •done, lu the morning following, the clerk of lungs; even parts of his speech made on the Ills country for several years. He came in as-tlic that, as the affair happened late in the day, each other, pressed at the same time to the ciet, that there was to be "an 'fall honali," pistol was concise, grave, and eloquent now more famous journalists have been such men Bliis committee, a slender, consumptive man, occasion were repeated about the building. rankest kind of a Democrat, at which time he he did not wonder that his honorable friend punch-bowl, and Jack, the chief ladler, turn- otherwise a "juel,'' at .'.' Bladensburg, sah !" as a judge's pronouncing the last sentence of as Joseph R. Chandler, Isaac Hill, Matthew Lyon, ^fcttached to a large red nose, of about fifty,wh o would have shot down a Republican with some The effect of these wild stories was to leave from Kentucky had failed to sec what liap ing from the younger, a clerk in civil dress, The giii-drinkiirg, cock-fighting, sporting ele- the law. The next instant the boy was biting Anson Herrick, Henry B. Anthony, John Apple- • had been appointed to some office in the days that part of the building deserted. The com- ton, Horace Greeley, James Brooks, H. J. Ray- gusto; but he is to-day far in advance of Wendell pened. He would venture to say that at that helped the elder, a tall naval officer, to a couple ment oi the town was aroused, and Utie and and clawing at the ground in mortal agony. Phillips as a radical Republican. If there is one I of Andrew Jackson, and lived at the time we mittee itself ceased to have any meetings, and of glasses. The clerk, young Utie, who was Tiltocla were invited on all sides to imbibe to The impatient crowd rushed in. A faint voice mond, William E. Robiifson, and Carl Schurz. very moment the learned gentleman was deep Under tliat department of literature termed mis- quality which he possesses more entirely than any • speak of on his family connection and pojiti- at night the watchman gave the haunted in some novel. Tom responded by admitting somewhat flushed, addressed the chief ladler (the significant toast of "The Field." Very was heard to gasp for what some said was other it is that of consistency. He invariably • cal reputation derived from "Old Hickory," chamber a wide berth. This might have con- "water" and some thought was "mother." cellaneous must appear the names of Theodrick the fact, and said that when his friend from and remarked : noisy, yery insolent, nuisances indeed, these Bland, Hugh Williamson, Elias Boudinot, John remains true to his party until about the close of tinued until to-day but for the Honorable fcrt tempted to enter the committee-room. To Ohio took the floor to repeat, for the fiftieth '' You dam nigger, didn't you see my glass ?" two mere lads—the offspring of a vain and Then a figure with a dissipated face a little Quincy Adams, Francis Hopkinson, Lewis Cass, the third year of the presidential term, and then • tell the truth he generally lived there, arriving John B. Dawson, of Louisiana, who voluntarily "See it, sah? Yes! I 'vc seen it seval times Wnorant social period of which some elements dignified by death and with some of the soft, S. S. Cox, John A. Dix, H. S. Legare, R, D. Owen, he begins to study the prospects with the eye of time, that old speech, he had sent to the li a philosopher; and no matter who becomes Presi- • early and leaving late, subsisting in the mean- made himself a committee of investigation, brary and got one of Paul DeKock's interest- afo, dis evening." TCt riniain—borrowed the money to hire a ness of childhood glimmering in it, like the H. Winter Davis, Joseph' R. Ingersoll, John •tiuie upon the lunch he carried in his hat and for ghost stories and such romances had a bright foot-fall of the good angel whose mis- Witlicrspoon, G. C. Verplanck, Aaron Ward, Ca- dent, that individual is certain to have his support. ing novels, and it was more than probable Black Jack then received the current allow- carnage, and at midnight they set put with To him it Is humiliating to be classed among the • • the whisky lie found in,the cupboard. He had particular charm for this singular gentleman. that he was interested in that pleasing fiction ance of curses for his color and his impudencc, sonic associates by the old, rutty, clay road sion was done and whose flight was taken,— leb Cushing, George Taylor, James H. Hammond, William Irving, Henry W. Hilliard, Levi Lincoln, minority in matters political. He w as present at •been a good deal annoyed at his chairman in- It is very doubtful whether the Congress of at the time this other pleasing fiction was said all of which lie-took meekly, till the officer, for tlit Maryland village of Bladensburg. That this figure lay upon its back amongst the the first battle of Bull Run as a spectator, and was •sisting upon remaining there to so late an hour, Lieutenant Dibdo, interrupted on the negro's night!they caroused until nature, despite her bushes, under the sunshine, peeped at by dis- R. H. Gillet, J. R. Poinsett, and the ex-Catholic the United States was ever honored with the to have come off. priest Gabriel Richard. one of the two congressmen who made the best • and he now was in a state of some irritation presence of a man who had so much imagina- behalf: 'revolt! put them to bed. In the morning, with tant hills, contemplated by idlers as if it were time on record from Centreville to Washington, • while knocking at the door, which he tried to When the Honorable John B. Dawson heard ¡a swollen and sallow face, dry hair, unsteady the body of a slain game-chicken, and the both of them riding one horse; and during the tion and so little ballast as the Honorable John "It's none o' yo affair, I reckon!" cried 1 K open and found locked on the inside. To this B. Dawson. Tall, slender, and middle-aged, of the haunted committee-room he became Utie, sullenly. hands, aching eyes and dim vision, Robert drunken ' surgeon " was idiotically feeling for THE ORATORS OF CONGRESS. whole rebellion he was so terribly In earnest that •there was no response, and old Peter Pinck- he carried in his dress and address the traits exceedingly interested in it, questioned every "The man had no intention of slighting Utie awoke to the recollection of his folly and its heart. But if this list of congressional authors is aston- lie proposed nearly all the "Investigations," and Bney called in the aid of divers acquaintances ishingly meagre in numbers, although highly re- had his name carefully printed in the papers as a for which he was distinguished. His clothes watchman, police officer, and official about you," said Dibdo. "You have been drinking lis rashness, and he realized the critical period " Gentlemen," said Tiltock with a flourish, spectable in character, what will my readers think •among the messengers and clerks, to a consul- member of some military staff. He was never were fashioned after a period long since for- the building, and determined to remain, with too much, boy, and your coarseness is coming which he had provoked. His clerkship lost, '' we are all witnesses that everything has been when I tell them that our poverty on the score of much of a speaker, and his best speech was «the • tation as to what should be done. He had gotten, when men indulged in colors and cut a bottle of choice old wine and three or four out." his self-pride poignant, his pockets nearly honorably conducted." orators is still more limited. By the term orator one written for him by a Washington correspond- Bbeen locked out of his own committee-room, of costume now turned over to the female novels, and spend his nights in the Capitol A fresh crowd of thirsty people pressing empty, his respectable career irretrievably ter- The city had its little talk. The newspapers I mean those who possess the magic power of ent, price one hundred dollars. He has ever been •and the public business would come to a world. With his iron-gray locks carefully until he found out what his old friend Leather- up at this point gave Jack his opportunity to minated, his sweetheart insulted, and his life in those days were models of what is called swaying the masses by their uttered words: In an earnest advocate of economy In the expendi- •standstill unless he was readmitted. A sug- curled, his whiskers trimmed and oiled to the lungs really meant by continuing his congress- cry : " Room around de punch-bowl!" in danger! There was no escape either from high-toned journalism, and printed nothing the earlier days of the republic it was ngt deemed ture of public money, and I do not remember •gestion was made that he should go or send to last extent, he wore an old-fashioned ruffle shirt, ional career after it had ended in death. He And the disputants were separated aiid despair or fate. Tiltock was strutting about on purely personal matters, like duels when the chief end of man to utter political harangues, more than one or two of his male kindred who and the various parties, as they came upon the • the chairman for the key, and the proposition sustaining a tremendous diamond, with a had a sofa conveyed to the corridor, and, un- squeezed by the promenading tides into dif- below stairs with a drunken old doctor, mis- requested to respect the feelings of families. have not held comfortable positions under the variegated neck-tie, and not unfrequently a der an elegant robe, drank and read, by the ttauied a surgeon, who deposited behind the stage, were content to let the representative men Govfcmment. He voted regularly against the bills •would probably have been executed had not ferent rooms. As if "the feelings of families " were not the do their talking ; and, in later times, my beloved green velvet coat, cut in the claNv-hammer dim light of a lantern through the long bar a rusty case of surgical j instruments, and for Increasing the compensation of the depart- Hone party put his eye to the key-hole and an- The officer presently forgot all about it,(but main cause of duels! There was a mother brethren have'had so little time to think, or have ment clerks, but thought it highly proper, and •nounced the startling fact that the key was style, and garnished with gold buttons. His watches of the night. Some two or three of not so young Utie, who was partly dritik, tvho took a deep potation to the toast of "The somewhere, still clinging with her prayers to been so completly absorbed in schemes personally just the thing, to vote for increasing his own •therein and the door locked on the inside. vest would be of that style called in the inte- these nightly vigils passed without any de- entirely vain, not a gentleman by nature, and fawchuns of waw." The Bladensburg people the footstool of God, hoping for the soul of interesting to themselves, that they have nglected 6alary from three to five thousand dollaj-s. Al- I The knocking was redoubled without effect, rior "thunder and lightning," and his panta- monstration, and he was about abandoning outraged that anybody had dubbed hint "a were well aware of the occasion, and the old her boy even after death and wickedness. the art of oratory altogether, and have devoted though a married man, he does not habitually •and after a deal of noise and no end of con- loons, fitting tight to his slender and shapely the affair as a delusion, when one night at boy." He sought the side of a fine y«ung tdvern was surrounded by loafers and gos- This was all, except the revolution of the themselves to the periodical delivery of stupid find it convenient to bring his wife, or his wives, •sultatious that extended from the Speaker of legs, were generally a buff, and ended in the about twelve o'clock he was aroused by the girl, the daughter of the chief of thebtfreau sips, many of whom were boys who had world, and the wedding in due time upon it essays, to be printed in the Congressional Globe. to Washington; of course, he says nothing about •the House down to every page upon the floor, most delicately made boots the honorable excited watchman, who requested him to lis- where he was employed, and with who» he tfalked out from the city as we go to prize of Lieutenant Dibdo and Miss Rideau. It F6r these two reasons the number of genuine the pleasures of having what is callcd a "loose orators who have bad seats In Congress is very •the door was forced open and the Honorable gentleman could seduce the shoemaker into ten. He did so, and sure enough within the was in love. She was attired in the freq cos- fights in our day. To fill up the time a dog was what was called a romantic wedding. foot" while sojourning in the metropolis, but constructing. He was a great man among the haunted chamber could be heard the solemn fight and a chicken fight were improvised by limited, and that same Globe has done very much then, you know, that the charms 6f domestic life • Lycurgus found upon the floor dead as Julius tume of republican receptions,—bare i ms, to exterminate the race. With few exceptions are quite incompatible with those of public duty. •C«sar.. He had died like agenuine law-maker ladies, being gallant to the last extent, and sound, emanating, as they supposed, from a low dress giving ample display t|! the tfie enterprising stable-boys in the back yard, LOSS. they have been men who were statesmen as well •of the old school. In one hand he held the devoted nearly all of his congressional mind the spiritual lungs of the departed congress- whitest shoulders in the room, and fines¿atu - tjn the green slopes of the running Branch. as orators, and no list would be complete which BY HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORI>. WASHINGTON, January, 1871. N. •Constitution while the other rested upon a to a perusal of romances. His favorites were man. The Honorable John B. ran at the ral hair dressed with flowers. Every gentyfman While Tiltock strutted out of town at an im- did not begin with the illustrious names of Daniel of French origin, and lie had mastered the door to find it fastened upon the inside. posing'pace to examine "the Field," Robert Withered and brown, some constant leaves Kdemijolm. who passed her during the evening had Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun. But language for the sole purpose of reading his He and [two or three watchmen immedi- Utie retired to his room, sought with an emetic Still cling about the tree; who are the congressmen that posterity will be THE HOTEL FEVER,.—Hotel building has received I due time the departed had his congress- looked his homage freely,—old beaux,iiigni- But all the glory of the year— the last notable accession, according, to the tele- favorite authors in the original text. ately put their strength to the panel and to relieve his stomach, and then sat down to compelled toclassify with the foregoing ae genuine ional honors. The House adjourned over taries, officers, foreign deputies, roueti-and The fleeting luster of the sea, graphic dispatches, in a Central Park House on forced an entrance. When they entered with as she had been two or three winters Si/ that write some letters and an'epitapli. The paper The tenderness of summer eyes,' orators? They, would not equal in number the •one day, and the day selected was that on An Irishman gave him the name by which he several States'ljf the Union; but those whose Fifth avenue, New York, to cost one million of their lantern the room was found vacant, and kind of society, nothing discomposed Ifer. was thin, and the pen. and ink matched it, but The haze that made the distance dear--- dollars. We observe by an exchange that the •which the Maryland race came off, and the was most generally known. Treating a friend a chill ran through the officials' veins to find the drunken boy's eyes marred more than all; Has vanished utterly. claims are probably undisputed are as follows, •honorable members wanted an excuse for at- one day, he threw down a silver dollar upon the "Robert," she said, with part of arjance, namely: Patrick Henry, Fislier Ames, Harrison H. J. Kimball House at Atlanta, Georgia, contains upon the floor, precisely in the position that (or suddenly the secret fountains of his lost A dreary cloud the whole day long ' >•' 817 rooms and is the finest hotel edifleo in the counter, and when the Irish barkeeper handed as Utie rejoined lver, "you go to the ¡punch- Gray Otis, William Pinckney, Robert T. Haync, •tending them. His remains in the meantime it occupied when the sad event occurred, the youth were touched as by the prick of his pen, SobMo itself unblest, South, counting out the Gait House at Louisville bowl too much. You reflect upon JOB, sir. John Randolph, Felix Gitindy, Ogdcn Hoffman, •luid been sent out to his bereaved constituents, liim back the change, in which figured some demijohn of the late Honorable Mr. Leather- and the drops gushed out upon the two words, And bittorly the night winds blow and the Planters' at St. Louis. JW contra, the ai Besides, I heard you quarreling wtli that into the frozen west; William C.'Preston, Rufus Choate, John J. Crit- • >d a stone monument, that resembled a store- base copper, ho said, with a contemptuous lungs. The watchmen were frightened, but lie had written: Lelands, popular but shiftless hosts, have g with a cheese upon it, erected to his air, " Keep that vile stuff for your marketing, handsome officer. I am dying to kn«\f him. And flooded late with happy song, tenden, Thomas Corwin, George MacDufiie, S. Si the Honorable John was in a high state of de- '' Dear mother —• Prentiss. Edwprd Everett, Thomas F. Marshall, to pieces, and the Metropolitan Hotel is le Who is he?" Now, cold and cruelly the show B memory. "»trick." As he stalked away Patrick sang Lies deep in last year's nest. by Tammany Hall. fino rendering of " For Unto ns a Child is Bom," "Glory Hon. JNO. PITCHER, of Virginia. and saw Butler he was at first amazed beyond Professor White is in such a state of irrita- Rome is used to that sort of thing; but Baltimore's Debt to Washington. because they made original mistakes, either In Baltimore flags in the race with the North, to God in tho Highest," and the "Hallelujah." Hon. J. R. WEST, senator from Louisiana, and THE CAPITAL. expression. He could scarcely credit his aged tion that he cannot properly classify his bugs. artistic souls would be filled with anguish. choosing wrong places, or iu holding their land partly for want of means, mainly for want of mag- too high. Tho performance of the orchestra did not come up to family. eyes. For the first time In the history of his The venerable Howe is in a worse condition It is now well known that the monu- nanimity. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad in- public expectation, although strengthened by fine mu- Col. FINLET ANDERSON,—the celebrated London cor DONN PIATT, ) ment originated in a desire to have an THE BAKE OF CAPITOL HILL. sicians. It showed a wavering hesitancy that was not EDITORS. senatorial career he had a listener. Ho was than any one of the honorable body. His terest is to make a railroad between Lynchburg respondent of the New York Berald. GEO. ALFRED TOWN8END, J No part of Washington kas suffered so much pleasant to the audience, and that must have been very sorely puzzled to know what it meant, and dyspepsia, owing to his mental condition, American order of architecture, and the happy and Danville,the Pennsylvania road having carried Vice-Admiral STEPHEN C. How AN,—a' plain gentle PUBLISHER, .... ELIBHA J. JENKINS. from the inordinate expectation of its property- annoying to Miss Kellogg. Sheer necessity compelled then he jumped at the conclusion that it meant has returned much aggravated. He suffers thought came to an ingenious fellow that a the Virginia legislature so as to insure control of holders as Capitol Hill. The Carroll family owned her once or twice to correct members of it. Yet, in man, with a commanding appearance, always seems in insult. There was Benjamin with his off eye from an obstinate constipation of both brain stick stuck in a pumpkin would make a beau- the present through-line t'/oAlexandria and Fred- a good, happy mood. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION OF THE CAPITAL—No. 428 large tracts of ground up there, and were so con- justice to its members, we must say that, by drill and at large, with a devilish sarcastic expression in and bowels. tiful monument. It certainly would make a ericksburg to Richmond and Wilmington, N. C. careful rehearsal, the defects of Thursday evening may Col. J. B. KINSMAN,—rather a tall gent, but straight ELEVENTH STREET, between Pennsylvania Avenue fident of the superiority of the site, that they in a it, while the near one glared at Old Constitu- All this comes of the President failing, very original one, far in advance of the old This latter makes Philadelphia king of the cotton measure drove the city away from its true posi- not be repeated. As a whole, however, the "Messiah " as an arrow, generally accomplishes what he mjdc&takes. and E Street, Waehington, I). C. region, but Baltimore seems inert about subscrib- was rendered in the most brilliant manner. The inter- and pursues a regular course undaunted. tional Law with the fierceness of a belated through some cause, to exercise his usual dis- classical world whose models we have been fol- tion. Capitol Hill, while it possesses many quaint ing any more jnoney, as a city, to railroad ex- est of the evening, of course, centered in Miss Kellogg, Hon. GEO. A. HALSEY, of New Jersey,—one of the tom-cat. Kentucky's animated-watm-hole of crimination in selecting the members of the lowing so many centuries. We are assured, nooks and has good air, is yet defective in the Rat«* of Subscription. tensions. Mr. Barbour, however, has secured and we have to record for her a distinct success. good-looking members of the House, very reserved iu time put his senatorial hands on each side his conditions of a city, having few .shops, no large For mall subscribers. THREE DOLLARS per year. coQHnission. We all know from experience however, thai-it is not intended to build the $800,000 for the Danville extension of his road, of Throughout her solos she showed the remarkable con- his manners. desk, and, leaning over, rolled hi# eloquence hotels, no bustle, and not a gi;eat deal of society. ception of Handel's sublime composition that charac- Five subscriptions to one address. THIRTEEN DOL- what a wonderful power of discrimination the temple at the base that represents the pumpkin, which $300,000 ¿al given by the small town of Hon. Mr. BUTFINTON, of Massachusetts, with fam- It is a fine part of the city, by day, but by night terizes her usual fine interpretations. LARS, into a personal channel, and gave his one audi- Presideniexercises when he comes to the ap- but to complete the shaft. Lynchburg, and he hopes to fill up the gap of ily,—stands about six foot high and weighs about two very lonesome. Ä superstition continues to exist Miss Sterling appeared for the first time before a Kate* or Advertising. ence particular fits. His audience declined; pointment of official agents.. He can discrim- We hope that this will be done. It is a about sixty miles before 1873. All these compe- hundred pounds. Appreciates good living. that it will yet be the proudest part of the city, Washington audience on this occasion, and created, Prices for Advertising as follows, without deviation dispersing, but, on the contrary!¿pred likeya inate between a relative and a stranger with titions benefit Washington, which, having no road Hon. J. A. SMITH, of Ohio,—a tall, slender gentleman, burning shame, a national disgrace, to have but if there be any truth in the statement that all most decidedly, a fine impression. 'The lack of expres- In any case: cross-eyed tom-cad more than ever. This so wonderful quickness and accuracy. And in at our capital this unfinished monument to of its own, will be discriminated against by "nono, sion and feeling which characterized her first solos and with quiet habits, attends ehnrch regularly every Sun- For the space of one inch, $1.50 for the first,an d and is jet the best point of travel south of Mason large cities develop towards tho west end, day at the Metropolitan M. E. church. exasperated .the tenerable believer in the this connection—a Grant connection—we may the man whose name makes the better part of Capitol Hill may yet havo many years to wait for recitation gave way to the finest rendering of "He was 75 cents for each subsequent Insertion. and DixBfi'S'nnc. Despised" ft has ever been oitr pleasure to listen to. Hon. J. A. SAWYER, of South Carolina,—one of the Constitution as it was and the States as they say, as a matter of news, that, having ex- our histoiy. its career. Almost eveiybody who comes to the The same rates per space for short or long advertise- The depth and richness of voice, so artistically man- best looking- gentlemen at the Ebbitt, very temperate ought to be, that he shook his senatorial fist hausted the family in the United States, he Our proposed new depot on Pennsylvania avenue, ments. No space let less than half an inch. It is suggested that it would be well to build city, and walks up and down before the Capitol, aged, called forth the most enthusiastic applause of the in his habits, aud earnest in his work. SPECIAL NOTICES (Nonpareil) 30 cents a line each in the face of his audience and then sat down has written to the Grants of Scotland to come the shaft some fifty or a hundred feet higher, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel, the site for which feels an original impulse to abide in its vicinity; audience, which could only be appeased by an encore, Insertion. , • . , , • > / exhausted. will cost $200,000, will give a busy, whittling guise Gen. ST. JOHN B. L. SKINNER, ex-Assistant Postmas- over and take the offices yet unfilled by rela- and then finish it with a colossal bronze but as soon as there is the least talk of making which was given in a faultless manner. CITY ITEMS (Minion) 50 cents a line each inser- ter General, and family,—one .of the oldest guests of tives. When we give the statistical fact that to that still, wide street. If the Pennsylvania rail- any improvements iu that region the capitoliue tion. _ • _Sfl_saea^as_ the. venerable expounder could statue. This would make a beautiful ending As a basso soloist Mr. Whitney possesses a remarka- the house, a good-natured old gent, with flowing locks way operates this Baltimore and Potomac road, property holder allows his brains to leave his bly gifted voice, of compass and distinct vocalization. All other reading notices per line. regain his breath he hitched his chair over to the tribe of Grants in Scotland numbers eight- out of a bad beginning. of floor white. as" we hope, we may be sure that it will erect a head. It would be difficult to conceive of a voice more per- een thousand five hundred and eighty-two, Captain JOHN FAUNCK, (Admiral,) U. S. II: M., com- the side of ' Butler'^aria, in'a comfdential The unfinished monument is a peculiar fea- depot worthy architecturally of that great corpo- fectly suited for oratorio. Mr. Whitney's singing of we can appreciate all that is in store for us. THE HOTEL ON THE HILL. manded Harriet* Lane at Fort Snmter In 1860. A jolly To Contributors, way, began telling him, at the top of his ture to America. Our land is covered with ration and of the national Broadway. The Penn- " Why do the Nations'' showed indications of a mas- Every article submitted by mail to "The Editors of Two or three weeks ago, some public spirited old marine with luxuriant whiskers. He carries In his lungs, that he was the "damnedest rascal Each canny Scotchman is to bring with him sylvania road, if it be a monopoly, is a benignant terly comprehension, and deserved the decided encore THE CAPITAL" will receive consideration, but we will unfinished monuments. A grateful people gentlemen, believing that land could be purchased pocket a watch presented by Prince Albert. a pot of ointment to present His Excellency, and noble despotism. Its trunk line of rail is a that followed. Of Mr. George Simpson it is hardly ne- be unable to write letters to our contributors or to be unhung." start out with intense enthusiasm, lay a cor- cheaply on the Hill, set about devising a huge who will immediately open a huge apothecary, veritable king's highway, every rustic station look- cessary to speak. Wo know of no oratorio tenor that Captain GEORUE SLICER, U. S. R. M.,—a prince of responsible for manuscripts. As a rule we do not pur- We might have had the funniest old fight ner-stone with imposing ceremonies and a hotel there. As soon as the proposition got out good-fellows, has a mania for the fair sex, takes great and realize heavily by selling to the sick Amer- ing like a gateway in civilization. Its workshops equals him in any degreo, and doubt if he has a rival in chase articles, those only excepted which we order upon ever witnessed had not the Hon. Heel-taps bore of an oration, and then disperse; the 'everybody on the Hill lost his wits, aid. imitated Enrope, certainly not in America. pride in his beautiful blonde whiskers, "and yet he is particular themes from professional journalists. We ican people a cure for the itching palms that and principal stations are practical palaces, and from Massachusetts intervened. Henry got the example of Daniel Carroll. The probabilities Our citizens owe much to the " Philharmonics " for not happy." do not care whether suggestions from our friends are monument thus begun may get a foundation, its rolling stock is made to carry men and women so trouble office-holders and afflict the people. are, therefore, tliatthe patience of the hotel build- the fine music presented during the season about to Hon. 11. L. DAWKS, of Massachusetts, chairman of anonymous or authenticated by. signature; for in either between the exasperated old congressional but that is all. Sometimes this foundation is as if they w ere guests and not cargo. Every day ers has boen exhausted. One gentleman who close. Their financial success it really deserved. In the Committe on Appropriations in the Houso, and one case we shall examine into the subjects for ourselves. turkey cocks, and, by much persuasion and built into view, but most generally not. This of the year it is projecting some new thing of The statement of this important piece of nothing have they failed; the leadership of I)r. Caul- of few hard-working members, always at home, con- We dosire items from sculptors, architects, artists, pub- had property in a square near the Capitol, raised soothing talk, got tliem to separate. The news has taken us from a sympathetic consid- monument to the Father of his Country ought beauty out of Its earnings, and seeking to display field and the judicious management of Mr. Ewer have fines himself closely to business, and cares but little for lishers, and friends at state capitals or near municipal the price of it from three dollars a foot to the venerable Davis retreated to the cloak-room, some gratitude toward the democratic country in been mainly instrumental in producing the fine results outside show. governments. eration of the Low Commission. It came, as to make an exception, and we trust that it ridiculous figure of nine dollars. Others hurried where two American citizens of African de- whose large carcer it has been so well inwoven. that have attended the season. We hope and expect we were about to Say, from the unhappy se- will. dow n to the real-ostate agents and took their lots Hon. ALBERT C. HARMER,—newly elected member scent fanned him vigorously with wisk brooms; All the cities to which it reaches its Briarcan arms our citizens will cncouragc them next season as they from tho Old Keystone State, whose ufl'ability and lection of its members. Professor White la- shake hands with it for joy. How excellent is it out of the market, supposing that the great hotel WASHINGTON CITY, APRIL 2, 1871. while Ben, the terror of the Ku-kluxes, hurried . Chlpman and Merrick. have this. It would be gross lnjnstlce were we not to. frankness of manner commands the respect and wins bored under the delusion that he had been - We have already expressed our sense of respect thus to be at once powerful and beloved, to rule was being ciphered to their private premises. For mention Mr. George Walters, whose skill a» a pianist, to the House to narrate another Southern out- the admiration of every one. In physique a'perfect THE PRICKING OF mORTON. sent to enrich his cabinet by a further collec- for Mr. Merrick, the Democratic candidate for but not to oppress, and to elevate the mind of the present, therefore, the big hotel project has has been Btich an unfailing source of enjoyment during Hercules. rage. tion of specimens, especially in the way of great regions of country by the spectacle of a been laid aside, and.another site in a less exacting the entire season. One of the biggest bubbles in public life delegate. He lias talent, fire, appearance, a sense Paymaster E. C. DUNN, U. S. N.,—upon whom lias What a shame these little scenes are not bugs. He devoted his gigantic intellect to of homestead, strong friends, confidence, and all magnanimous and princely utility. quarter of the city is under consideration. It is lately been conferred til» highest office in his branch of •was pricked last week. In the Arab story, a PERSONAL NOTES. advertised in advance, so that we might all this end; and we are assured that this feeble those tilings which make one grateful and proud the opinion of one of thejlargest real-estate firms the department. A very unostentatious personage and cloud of sooty smoke encompassing what Wc appreciate the exceptional difficulties w ith here that tliere is no lot of land on Capitol Hill, truly deserving the promotion. witness them. effort of our Government , in the way of a man- in his nomination. MURAT H ALSTEAD, of the Cincinnati Commercial, has was supposed to be a mighty genius, was which Baltimore has had to contend in making, east of North Capitol street which is worth above of-war and a heavy outfit, has resulted in one General Cliipman, the Republican candidate, is not interviewed any one for some weeks past. Murat lion. J. M. HAWKS,—newly elected member from Ar- cloven one day by a bright spirit, and lo! only upon small capital and over a difficult and sparse one dollar or oiie dollar and a-Kiilf a square foot, IMPEACHMENT AN» CONVICTION OF of the most charming collections ever studied. the peer of Mr. Mcrrick in every way—-"high- iu such interviews Impresses his journalistic imperson- kansas, whose debating qualities are strongly percepti- a chameleon leaped forth. Just so the dark GOVERNOR HOLDEN. region, her leading railway. But it is surely time and yet the people up there are talking about toned," up to the full demands of a scmi-southcrn ality upon the Interviewed with great success. ble, and who, no doubt, will legislate pretty frrclv for superstitious guiso of Oliver P. Morton, which The venerable Howe firmly believes that he for that now prosperous road to enlarge its sym- four, five; six ami even ten dollars. They have the Interest of his constituents. It is the misfortune of North Carolina that she population, brave in the field, methodical ana re- pathies beyond the local atmosphere of Baltimore, MURAT HALSTEAD studied the art of war under the was thought to inclose vast reservations of was sent to the island to cure his dyspepsia, wounded the spirit that loved thorn. great Moltke. Such art consists In bringing a superior Hon. LIONEI. A. SHELIION, M. C., from Louisiana,— has no large city, and therefore no journal with sponsible in business, tall and pleasant to the eye, and be generous to its aseoclato towns." To drain that lias so broken up his domestic comfort weight to bear on the weaker point of the enemy. who enjoys life regardless of expense, enters into his power, has been tested by the rapier of Carl a circulation beyond the limits of the State. a man of affairs and government; and as to the THE HIGHEST I'RICE FOR WASHINGTON LOTS. a mighty belt of country for the supposed benefit Wbon the enemy Is weaker at all points the victory Is Scliurz, and a political chameleon, impotent to and thrown an obstacle in the way of his use- Pennsylvania avenue affords premium sites for duties with perfect vim and vigor, and possesses all the The consequence is, .that her., reputation is at cheap imput ation that he is a " carpct-bagger " in Of a town at one end of it is not to use power like overwhelming. fulness. We are somewhat at a loss to know attributes of an accomplished statesman. annoy anybody, tumbles to our feet. the mercy of any demagogue who chooses to this District, the question is, who is not a carpet- a wise ruler, who does not merely adorn his capi- improvements, and there is wonderful difference MURAT HALSTEAD eri ticiscs a paragraph that appears Hon. JOHN RITCHIE,—newly elected member from in what direction the said usefulnesslies. But bagger here ? All the newspapers in this city, of on that head between the nortli side and tho south There was never anything of Morton but a asperse it. : The unprincipled carpet-baggers tal city and tax tliewliolc length of his empire for it. In a late fiction by one of our editors. We acknowledge Maryland; a very prepossessing gentleman, and whoso be it more or less, no man can demonstrate it side. On the south side three dollars a square self-willed third-rate man, of a burly frame and their co-conspirators of native birth, hav- every persuasion, are the enterprises of men born Every spot which his scepter touches is the equal the justice of the criticism and, procuring those two firmness of purpose and a disposition to overcome ob- when suffering from dyspepsia. This insidi- in other States. All the floating capital of this subject of his beneficencc, and he knows that if foot is a fair price for front lots; and the largest and swarthy complexion, who got reputation ing been repudiated by the people whom they famous romances, "The Fair Maids of the Blue MI- stacles are strongly developed. ous disease affects the brain, depresses the Districtwas supplied by "foreigners" and by the the capital outgrow the empire both are declining. sum ever obtained for a lot on the north or prom- amis," and "The Rod Hoadod Family," we will strive on the name of " The Great War Governor!" have robbed and ruined, come to Washington inent side was at the comer of Eleventh street Gov. W. W. HOLDEN, of North Carolina,—who seem- spirits, closes the pores, and subjects its victim Federal Government. The brains and character This is Baltimore's trouble. Tlic country all along to improve our style. ingly takes the impeachment proceedings rather indif- We had several fine State magistrates in the and malign their victims, in order to gain the and the avenue,, where, If we mistake not, up- to headache and cold feet, with chills running of this District are largely importations. There the line of the Baltimore and Ohio road is barren MURAT HALSTEAD began his career as a great writer ferently, an earnest supporter of the party, withal a war, like Andrew, Tod, Buckingham, and confidence Of the administration. The com- of flourishing Inland towns. That road cares no- wards of twelve dollars were paid for cacli foot. up and down the back. Fluctuating chills, is no "citizen" element here with more rights, of fiction. The probabilities are that he will end as he very popular and esteemed gemtlcman. Blair, who worked subordinate to the national ments of the press upon the result of the im- thing for branches, and long demurred about In the west end, one dollar and a half, two dol- more education, or more respectability than the began. Judge ALLEN A. BURTON,—secretary of the San Do- magistracy with eye-single sacrifice, but there one may call them, as they rise and fall like lars, and three dollars per foot are considered tol- peachment of Holden furnish an illustration "naturalized" element. If General Chlpman is building even the Hagcrstown branch. It is little MUBAT HALSTEAD la said to be one of the most labor- mingo Commission, and formerly United States consul.a quotations in gold. The venerable Howe erable, good, and high' prices respectively. If were a few, and of these Morton was the head, of the prevalent ignorance in regard to affairs to be arraigned on this miserable head alone, tne concerned about local freight and travel. Its de- ious men in tho United States. He is In labor every thorough and ablo lawyer, a well-read gentleman, and stated these facts, at a cabinet meeting, to the Pennsylvania avenue west of Seventeenth street is who used their lords lieutenantcy to make a in that Slate. The Chronicle announced that sooner the District of Columbia relapses to Its votion to Baltimore would be admirable if it liad twenty-four hours. But whether It Is worth while'to converses freely in at least a dozen languages. administration since he returned. The old to be paved with Nicholson, and the property hold- go to so much for so little, is a question of taste and noise and halloo themselves to the Presidency. the conviction was carried by a strict party primary condition and its crude elements the bet- also some liberality to neighboring towns which Judge WM. G. IIALE, of New Orleans,—A very uncom- sardine of the State Department said that it lie at its mercy. Washington city has grown up ers there do not lose their heads like those on parturition. Your demagogue must have a pass name to vote, and, so far as we have seen, not even the ter. Mr. Merrick is also a man of experience and municative person, small in stature, but possessing n and given the Baltimore railroad millions of rev- Capitol Hill, improvements ought to be looked be identified: "The Stormy Petrel," or "The was "a devil of a complication," and he travel, and wc arc sure he will disdain to be en- MUBAT HALSTEAB.—That's all. gigantic intellect, has achieved a well-merited success at conservative or democratic papers have con- for gradually. Connecticut, avenue north of L the bar, and may be considered a walking encyclopedia thought might be relieved by an ultimatum. dorsed by any sucli " Bourbon " party as can see enue, and we have cost Baltimore nothing. We A DISCOVERY.—The Cincinnati Commercial and New Little Giant," or "The Man of Destiny," or tradicted the statement. We have before us street also appears to be a promising street, but for the profession. Secretary Boutwell, who has one idea, and nothing in his competitor except alicuship. are the gratuitous contributions of the nation to York World say that if we had less sense THE CAPITAL lastly, " The Great War Governor." Reduced the Raleigh Sentinel, which contains a list of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, which,under thé as yet few fine improvements have been made that not a healthy one, asked in way of quota- We hail Mr. Chipman as a soldier of the North. would be more successful. We never before so clearly to his buff, tire time war governor fa a politi- the- senators, conservative and radical, in sep- exclusive license of doing the carrying of the there. The square which stands across this ave- Understood the mysterious success of the Commercial SOCIAl NEWS. tion as to the state of the commissioner's We lament that Mr. Merrick lias no better back- cian across whose term a current of violence arate columns, together with the yeas and whole country to the capital, has added to its nue, between I and Ü streets, has been graded and World. Brown, of tho lllnstrious firm of Brown, Jones & Rob- bowels, and the venerable Howe responded ing, none more worthy of his talent than what! is strikes, and if ho be of a loyal nature he will l^ays on each article of the impeachment. The wealth enormously. Since the.opening of the within a few weeks, and planted with ornamental THE Cincinnati Chronicle continues to mourn for inson, comes to onr assistance this week, and gives a fair promptly,, "bowels firm." called the "chivalric element;" that class \of trees, and laid out with walks. record of fashionable events. Brown can bo relied on. merge his personal reputation into that of his result is briefly told. Washington branch oil the 25th of August, 1835, Jenkins. Jenkins weakens. The bear once fell into bare-kneed and barc-rumped folks who claim to He Is a society man. Indeed we don't know what would President, and set his officers an example of this road has been almost the solitary medliuih be- the ditch. He bore with philosophical indifference The old wheel-horse believed that he had own this District. God help this District if it i>e NEW OPEKA HOUSE. There are fifty senators, of whom thirty-six tween the United States and the city of Wash- the sneers and abuse of his brother beasts; bnt when become of society were Brown to be suddenly re- modest abnegation. Not so with our " Great been sent to San Domingo because the Presi- represented by no other than the "bummini" 1 . The new opera houso, so long talked of, is also moved. are conservatives and fourteen radicals. Forty- ington, the eye of tho needle for all those gorgeous tho jackass, looking over, said that he monmed, the War Governor." dent had failed to invite liiin to a seat in the element which constitutes the preponderating sought to be carted about, and talked up, or writ- bear wept for very humiliation. Caisar Augustus Browu is the son of old John Browu, nine members were present when the vote was caravans and patriotic pilgrimages which a flour not the Brown whose soul continues marching on, but He kept a tool at his elbow to surfeit the cabinet. This was a very sensible conclusion, public life south of the Potomac ! ten up, so that it may pitch upou somebody's pet ANOTHER NOTICE.-4There Is a nondescript after-din- taken on the articles, the absent member being ishlng empire scuds up to its shrine. But Balti J. B., former tobacconist, who, accumulating a vast As to who will be electcd, that is a gamester's lot. If we are to have an opera house, it will not ner creation In Cincinnati called the Evening Chronicle, press with duily telegrams of his personal because his hard, common, horse-sense taught more and its great road, while williug to take] fortune, left it, like a kind father, to his only son and Mr. Flythe, a radical. Every vote present tlieme. We arc sure that the Republican " ring " probably be a big, ornamental structure, covered that is dying slowly of a consumption of its stock- exploits. He retarded and discouraged the him that there was nothing to be learned in those tolls, have yet looked all the while askant heir, C. A. aforesaid. Possessed of those vast riches, was cast on each article, with the following is dissatisfied with General Chipuian's nomination. outside with decorations, but a practical build- holders. promotion of Indianiaris of force, lest they San Domingo that could not have been got in upon our separate public life and growth. w| young Brown devoted himself to diamonds, laces, dress, results: We doubt that the Democratic " ring " is pftiised ing, plain and neat on the exterior, and not built MOBK NOTICE.—The Cincinnati Chroniclers & journal might become his rivals, and selected the the Congressional Library; he believing the have not received equitable treatment. and the ladles. In this line he is accomplished, and we Article first charges that the governor, with- with Mr. Men' . k's. Either selection will be hon- upon a dear piece of ground. Two hundred thou- devoted to General Grant and the early rose. Small have procured his services at vast expense of time, pa- subservient for his chief dignities. He tol- other members of the commission were ap- orable to the District. In the sacrifice of the sand dollars is more than the Whole sum which potatoes all round. tience, and temper. But we have him now, and here- out càuse, raised armed bodies of troops, de- Baltimore forgot that we were a neighbor erated no peer in his State, and for years pointed to swell the importance and give dig- the gentlemen who devised this opera house re- THE BoBton Traveller Is the only Hub paper which after our fair readers may coimt on an accurate, vivid, clared Alamance in a state of insurrection, lunch-room brigade of both parties we rejoice. and the federal capital ; the road steadily discrim scowled at Mr. Colfax, while he endeavored nity to the mission. One can well understand, The vote will probably be close. If we see grave solved to layout upon it, and it is no part of their clings to the Santo Domingo scheme. detailed acconnt of all that occurs in society. and arrested citizens, when the civil officers inated against us in freights; and out of alltiie rev] intention to spend fifty thoueaud dollars in a more also to pack the committee on resolutions in therefore, his rage to find those subordinates public reasons to pronounce one way or tho other MAJOR DE FOREST.—This talented pen-driver is in BROWN'S REPORT.—On dit, that Miss Maggie Zeilen. were in full exercise of their functions. On enues obtained by-tie accident of Washington'! site. The opera house need not be in a dense lo- the Republican State convention of February, setting up for themselves. we shall do it next week. , But wc prefer to have Washington on a visit, the guest of Judge Charles P. daughter of General Zeilen, of the-Marine Corps, has this article the yeas were thirty and the nays contiguity, it lias spent no money here and made cality ; for, when once built, there will be no James. paid good heed to Cupid's whispers, and that Captain 1804, so that Indiana should not pronounce Of the correspondents, some have returned nothing to say about a nominating-convention no adornments. Foreign dignitaries as well as] nineteen, showing that six conservatives voted other opera houso set up in competition to it,the TUE Pennsylvania legislature, under the directory of Adams of the army is tile man who owes the little god for Mr. Lincoln's second term. It was his strife. our public men have ridden for years ill third against conviction, and defeated it. and some have not, for quite a number found city not being able to support more than one. If tho great raider, McClure, is trying to saddle the gene- such a debt of gratitude. Her pretty sister, MissAnnie, object k> slip in between Lincoln and Chase, rate rolling stock from Baltimore southward, and has been a belle during the past season, and we are sure The second article makes a precisely similar the climate so agreeable, and the natives so Speeches or the Week* built this season it will be a plain building, on ral Government with the cost of the Gettysburg and as " The Great War Governor," and crowd notwithstanding the mighty revenues derived an inexpensive plan, but carefully arranged within Chambersburg invasions. she is not without admirers; but she is too young t<> charge as to the county and citizens of Cas- enticing, that they determined to remain and For the stranger in'Washington this h» been a both to the wall. The resolution was written through the Washington branch by the war, tliel | give herself away just yet. pursue their journalistic career under more j field weel The speeches and debates at the to give comfortable and numerous sittings, and N. G. OKDWAY, who meditated going to Congress as well. The vote was, yeas thirty-two, nays depot at the foot of the capitollne hill is il sliam in the executive chamber of the White House, Capitol have been of thrilling interest,'"'and at« to show the bulk of expenditure in its stage, its delegate from the District of Columbia, has disappeared I Tuesday Madame de Bill.e entertained her frienfls. seventeen, showing that four conservatives favorable auspices. The climate is so mild Me. On other roads, which qprv'e no.sucbjçoue- in Mr. Lincoln's presence, which did pass the tracted large crowds to the galleries. < scenery, and its Appointments. Stores under the from tho streets with his old bnggy. New Hampshire 1 Hiss Ellpo JuukinS,- ytrangefcf "tlaugh'ter of Admiral voted against conviction, and defeated it. that no wearing apparel is necessary, and by -ml publtv purpos^, tlic visU^uuluiwut., • congratulates us on our escape. convention, cien coce, when offered by Colonel ' Mr. Sumner, by lift speech of Monji/-scofiP opera u m uui ijcip. ni u, fvr JUjaow h«h Jenkins, is engaged to Mr. Parkor of the navy. The third article cbaTges the unlawful ar- bathing tTie Body in crude petroleum the mus- forts, architectures, and operating organization T!H; SEWAIIU' party »ucn loot JHWSSI, from were at, C. 31. Alien, of Vincennes, and Morton swore ing party liii.es which narrowed his convictions of pay the expense of its shops Instead of getting Mrs. Seuator Sherman leaves the city next woyK to rest of Josiali Turner, jr., in the county of quitoes and other obnoxious insects give the have kept pace with our rapid civilization; but support from them. The time has not come, on Madras, und were all well and being entertained in the pass the summer at her residence in Ohio. vengeance upon the abottors of it. duty—lias thrilled the popular heart of the coun- pen-wipers a wide berth. At first the petro- this road has watched the pilgrim coming to his most princely and delightful manner by Lord and Lady Orange. The vote was, for conviction, thirty- try ; and if it prove the culmination of his politi- the contrary it has passed, for wild speculation in Miss Poor, youngest daughter of Admiral Poor, it This is another bubble quality : his terrible- capital asthe Mohammedan Arabs watcliiheChris Napier. to be married, iu June, to Lieutenant Commander Jew- seven; for acquittal, twelve, showing that one leum business is a little disagreeable, but one cal career, as some of tile prophets (?) augur, Washington lots ; the town will grow up best ness. It may scaresmall office-seekers in local tiane going to Jerusalem, with avarice only groatJ JOHN HAY.—This young gentleman of decided genius ell of the navy. radical, Moore, of Craven, voted witli the ma- soons gets accustomed to the odor. There surely the martyr's death will be his sublimcst where the property holders arc least greedy, and quarters, but we arc thrusting it through with than envy. are satisfied with fair prices. aud agriculture cognomen, has the satisfaction of see- Last Sunday Epiphany Sunday school was visited by jority. are few restáurants and other places of re act! ing his poems in dialect copied as widely in England as five Japanese, each of whom were presented with H our rapier, as Scliurz pricked his intellectual The Baltimore newspapers may deny all this; "but freshment, and the demand for literary work We have never been admirers of Mr. Sumner or During the coming season the Centre-market they were at home. handsome prayer-book. The fourth article charges the unlawful ar- we care nothing for the Baltimore papers. No liollownpss. There is nothing terrible in our is not great. But then living is reasonable, his.peculiar views; but we honor any man who, wings, on Seventh and Ninth streets will be begun, rest and detention of John Kerr and others, body that we kuow of does. The Baltimore press! Hon. TOMEWINU.—This venerable remnant of the old Why is it that our young ladles COVBI- their faces su| day except one's reminiscences of his worst consisting of no charge whatever for a cot from the lofty stand-point of duty, dares speak and probably completed ; but the front building, Whig party appeared upon the floor of tho Senate dur- completely with such thick veils ? One of our beaux in the county of Caswell. The vote was, for is a good deal narrower than its railway. We arc self, his abandonment tor ambition, revenge, from conviction and fearless of which is to bo the expensive and ornamental por- tho San Domingo debate, hale, hearty, and hand- addressed a lady of. color the other day, supposing It to conviction, thirty-three; for acquittal sixteen; slung under the trees in the dry season, and a arraigning this railway in no spirit of mischief, indulgence, intrigue, and the other forms of tion, will lie over for at least another year. some as ever. be one of his lady friends, and walked the distance of a showing that three conservatives voted with water-proof cape for the rainy part of the "Opinion, an omnipotence but in the hope that something w e may say will WHITELAW RE ID, the capable manager of the New- square before he discovered his mistake. As he was ruinous selfishness. The melodramatic age year. Think of a correspondent going round Whose veil mantles the earth with darkneto." excite the pride of its very successful dbcctory the minority. Suburban Homes. York Trtbune, proposed last week to Miss Sasan B. parting from a friend the day after tho last words were exists only in theaters now, and Morton's with his house on his shoulders, and no bills The fifth article charges that the governor Not in a spirit of faction coincs this protect from The city of Washington will soon be Independent ALEXANDRIA Co., VA., March ¡39,1871. Anthony. Susan is holding the proposition under ad- " that nigger." power to harm is mere illusion. A few ob- to pay; for one-half the year he can live on Mr. Sunnier against the Executive; notifrom a of Baltimore,—not only by possessing a competing refused to obey the writ of habeas corpus in the To the Editors of THE CAPITAL: visement, while Whitelaw is sustained hi his suspense It may be justly laid to the parking, as well as t* the scure newspapers in the West abuse his critics, ripe fruit, and the other half he can exercise retaliatory impulse, or any dream of ambition ; it line, controlled by a great and liberal road which Iu your first issue your admirable article on society of K street, that Charles Astor Bristed, better case of Adolphus Moore. The vote was, guilty, by cheerful articles on the tariff from H. G. but they can say nothing worse or truer than his journalistic abilities in swindling the ne- is consonant with the whole carcer of tiic mail. will delay neither our civil visitors nor expose the Washington railroads impliod that the only sites ABOUT BEAR».—The literary editor of the Cincinnati known to the literary world as "Carl Benson," has forty; not guilty, nine, showing that four national soldiery in the streets of that city, as lias purchased the fine residence of Mrs. Stanton, and that has been printed of himself. groes out of their stores, as the proud Caucas- For one who has been recognized as n leader to for surburbau residences were to be found north of Enquirer copies our article in Hie Galaxy "About radicals, namely, Hawkins, Lehman, McCot- strike boldly forth, independent of party Influ- too often happened,—but by the more liberal the. eity. Allow me to call your attention to the Boars," and attributes it to Scribner^s Monthly, without Judge Swaync, following his good example, is prepar- When the war was done Morton hastened ian race, in the person of a quill-driver, is ing to build on tho same square, having purchased a ter, and Moore, voted with the conservatives ence, marks ail era in political circles I and the growth and admixture of sentiment here, by the fact that immediately across the Potomac, iu this a word touching the brilliant author. We don't know to ingratiate himself with Andrew Johnson, wont to do. • • large lot next to the corner of Thirteenth street north- forcpnyiction. Republicans view Mr. Sumner to-day asi a siirt of independence of our improved local newspapers, county, is a plateau of land unsurpassed for nat- whether to attribute this to ignorance or intoxication, and in a speech delivered at Richmond, in his or both. It is highly reprehensible. west. Article six charges the same as the last, with What are tlie comforts and luxuries even of Napoleon or Caesar, bursting his limits \nd over- by the rise of a class of men of public spirit ural beauty by any section in the vicinity of Wash- native county, September 20, 1865, lie pro- amongst us, and by the universal recognition in JUDGE additional circumstances. The yeas were Newspaper Row to such a life as this? flowing his bounds, to scatter devastation Vnd ruin ington. You can hardly go amiss to find building OTTO.—The gentlemen connected with the late PRIVATE THEATRICALS.—Private theatricals are under office of the above named, called in a body yesterday nounced for the Johnson plan and against From the few who did return we learn that through tlnjir ranks. Can they not rise Hi) his all parts of the land of the charms of life, climate, sites susceptible of improvement with compara- way for the entertainment of one of our more refilled forty-one and the nays were eight, showing to express their regrets and tender their regards. The negro suffrage. He declared at the same time lofty position, and recognize him as a party i+gen- and intercourse here* We are growing faster than tively small expense, which for liealthfulness, fino circles. The plays selected are " Meg's Diversion" and that fire radicals, namely, Barrett, Hawkins, the trouble among the_ commissioners really judge responded in a few happy remarks. Few officials a lively farce. Among those who take part are Miss for rebel amnesty, and said:" Is it desirable to erator, purging and purifying from the moral Baltimore. ' Real estate here ié Abetter invest- views, fertility, and all the essentials of true coun- Lehman, MeCotter, and Moore, voted with first originated in an excursion in the interior; retire carrying with them more friendship and respect Annie Jeffers, who did so well in last winter's perform- ment than Baltimore real estate. try homes, would equal any on the north bank of have colored State government« ? I say it is this was done on the backs of bulls. The dangers which threaten our republic ? Meri.rlsc, than Judge Otto. ance, and Miss E. Sherman, daughter of Judge Shcrmnn. the conservatives for conviction. thePotomac. Slowiyyourcitizcnsare purchasing not. Such States would continually consti- flourish, and decay, but principles a re et\nal. Men of wealth from the North and West aré Mrs. IVES, ex-Minister Motley's daughter, is to marry Messrs. Willie Hill, Hooker, Howe, and Sherman will The seventh article charges unlawful re- bulls of Santo Domingo are a quiet, inoffen- our farms and improving thein, and we trust many tute a balance of power. As three hundred When we sacrifice one sacTed right, inherent in taking hold of this District, and the dry bones in Vernon Harcourt, M. P., otherwise "Historicus," the personate the male characters. This choicc entertain- cruiting of soldiers in Tennessee as well as sive set of animals, and the one ridden by the more will follow. Hon. Caleb Cushing has bought thousand slaveholders, by a common tie, were tho Constitution, to mere hcro-worsliip, we slake it do not happily propose to live. We have liad English Vatol. Anglo-Saxon peace is now complete; ment will be under the management of Mrs. Aulick, Un- North Carolina, making arrests without au- chairman, sturdy, old Ben Wade, was a speci- a farm back from Arlington a mile or two, and is accomplished and beautiful wife of the Colonel. able to govern this nation for a long time, so the keystone in the glorious arch of our tempi! of a more cheerful proportion of flrst-class funerals the American State Department run by a London Times thority of law, and drawing upon the State men animal of great power. The three rode than Baltimore. We think wc see the way to be rapidly turning the purchase Into a beautiful res- correspondent, and the Fish-Motley feud compromised LUNCHES are. the fashion, and the absence of meu four millions of black people would constantly liberty. treasurer unlawfully. On this article the yeas off, surrounded by natives and followed by Seuator Schurz's terse and vigorous spceeli in rich without being proud or mean. We ask of idence ; several clerks iu the departments have by a marriage with tho Times' law critic. makes them especially delightful. It is a sort of decla- vote and act together. I would give them ten, also purchased. With good bridges the mere ration of independence from the women just now. were thirty-six and the nays were thirteen, correspondents, some walking and some car- advocacy of the position taken by Mr. Sumner the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, as the recognized BARON VON GEROLT and his wife are to leave this fifteen, or twonty .years of probation, or until existence of the river should not certainly debar country some time this month. The two daughters will " Yes," said Mrs. Jones, "there is one thing -we can which corresponds with the respective num- ried on the backs of negroes, so that the cav- was incontrovertible. ¡ I exponent of that citv's higher intelligence, to tear immigration can make them a permanent our county from becoming as much a, place for do without the assistance of men—eat a lunch. Wo alcade presented a very imposing appearance. We would like to extend our eouiuieijt, ilut down their old depot and come" out on the Avenue not accompany them. Miss Dorothea, the elder one, is bers of the two parties in the senate; but, in country homes as any portion of Maryland. to be married (rumor says) on the 17th of this month to are all the better for not having the lords of creation minority." Instantly on the heels of this have not the space in the columns of this ^veeK's like a prince and do something in the monumental fact, one radical, MeCotter, voted with the The venerable Howe expressed himself very Mr. RangabS, and Bertha will soon become a nun. bowing to us and making believe they are waiting upon fulsome speech, Morton's runners—of whom CAPITAL. way. Sçt up a hotel station, like Charing Cross, Under the rcceut railroad bills of our legislature ls " the largest oysters and the conservatives for conviction, and one conserv- much pleased with his beast. He said that There being no convents in Europe she will take the I > when they are takin, he has a herd, some of them his police detect- high and imposing, with elegant pavilions and we will have soon, doubtless, as many railroad fnllest spoons of salad for themselves. ative, Flemming, voted for acquittal. the slow-, undulating motion promoted digest- veil in this country. ' i ives whom he maintained in the war—came Tlic Donkey and the Ordnance 'Select! caned arches and window s. Put up this Inscrip- facilities as on your side of the river. And in ion and stimulated poetic reflections, and he WALT. WHITMAN.—This sweet poet of the beasts is i Last Tuesday the High Commission was entertained The eighth article charges the use of im- Committee. * consideration of our advantages given by them to Washington to get Johnson to make him tion in a conspicuous place, where human nature, about,J/ioking quite as well as he did before the New at M. Catacazy's, the Russian minister. Among those sang aloud our national anthem, as written by We understand there is some idea of flirmiug aid by the true natural beauty of location, wc Secretary of War in Stanton's place. John- proper means for influencing the State treas- wiping the tears from its eyes, may read : • York World killed him off in two leaded columns, and present, besides tho commission, were General SchenckI ... . his accomplished lady, to the tune of John mitraillcusc camel-batteries in India. Tluigun is think we can offer to your citizens as many induce- son refusing, and partial paralysis occurring urer to pay out money for the troops. On this " Tlic Baltimore and Ohio Mailroad, fur thirty-Jim burled him under Leaves of Grass. Itwould he difficult Bnron Gerolt, Sir Edward Thornton and lady, ex-Sena Brown. Whether it was this singing to which to be mounted oil and fired from the camel'j back, years ungenerous to the United BtUtès and to the ments. to come among us to make their country tor wilIiam8 to Morton about this time, or at the early age article alone there was a strict party vote of to conceive of any thing being done to Walter that "'id wife. Admiral and Mrs. Porter, and the beast was unaccustomed, never having the latter kneeling down at the word "action." capital city, repenting of its long illiberality, provin- residences as anywhere else w ithin twenty miles would make him appear worse than he usually docs. Mr. Montague. of forty-two, he visited Europe, and returned thirty-six to thirteen. „ heard of our great martyr, alarmed it or not, At present this idea is not even in an experimen- 1 cialisin, and leant.of pride, devotes out ofthc twenty of the city. Sometimes, when in apatriotic mood, Having escaped tho World he can now defy the small- I Madame Catacazy wore a white dress with low neck, to the United States Senate a stern impeach The chief justice then announced the result, and very.tastefully arranged with blue flowers. Mrs. the specimen bull under sturdy Ben Wade took tal state ; but in all probability sueli trials will millions it has. made upon the Washington Bratich and you visit Arlington to look at the last resting pox. ment radical. that Governor Holden had been convicted on be made. This reminds us of an amusing rtory place of our patriotic dead, as well as to congrat- drC8S0d fright and suddenly ran away. A bull's running one million of dollars to build this depot." Senator WM. A. BUCKINOUAM says that in Connection! II PIS!Vll*H. WllllnmS n nr.. 81 °™gnili«m.....t pink. and. black silk six of the eight articles of impeachment, where- connccted with the Ordnance Select Comniittee ulate yourself that you are not one .of the num- Mrs. Williams was dressed very tastefully in red MtiJP In the vindictive and costly episode of is not much as to speed, but it is strong and very "everybody seems to be opposed to annexation," and trimmed with gorgeous lace. upon the managers demanded the judgment of England. It was one time proposed t(i fire The Real Estate Fever—Points ol" Im- ber—owing, however, I know, to no fault of he adds this serious charge: "Mr. Barnum (Democrat) impeachment he was the chief inquisitor, jolting. Our venerable ex-senator had to hold of the court. The judgment was entered in mountain guns off the backs of mules that carried provements. yours—take a sweep around through our small is spending his money freely, and is determined to buy Mrs. Olin, the accomplished wife of the judge, on and well he looked the role. He found on to the horns and saddle to retain his seat, them. It was urged that this would obvia^u tho There is, perhaps, no description of news so ac- county. I feci assured you will concur iu opiuion his way through to Washington again." This would Thursday and Friday gave choice entertainments. form. It removed Mr. Holden from the office Every thing that is good may be found with Mrs. Olin. in Grant a boy to be wheedled, and estab- and disappeared from the eyes of his friends necessity of dismounting the gun from the u)ule's ceptable to the bettor classes of Washington as with me, that it can easily be improved into numer- have been what is called a " licentious " statement in a of governor, and forever excludes him from newspaper correspondent, unless it moans that Barnum Kind and interesting in every wuy, one enjoys everv lished congeniality with that prince of ne- and followers in the deep forests that abound back and mounting it on its carriage ; a mountain information about real estate. While our city ous beautiful country homes aud places, equal to the privilege of holding office in the State. will pay his fare to Washington and not accept a free moment of time spent ill her preseuco. Her sister, Mrs. potism by asking the favor of a couple of battery could thus eome into action in far less in that island. When again seen he was found has a political history of note to all the world, it any as near Washington on the Maryland side of ticket. White, shows in herself all of Mrs. Olln's attractive brothers-in-law to be put in office. In alliance The trial was conducted throughout with sitting ttpon some rocks scraping the mud from time. This proposal was warmly taken up by the is to us, who reside here permanently, a history the river. | B. NAILOK. qualities. Every thing nice to cat, nothing wanting Senator HOWE, of Wisconsin,—who looks like a sil- with Butler, his superior in ability but in dignity and fairness. Mr. Holden was de- committee, who forthwith proceeded to test its of buying, building, and selling house«, acquiring but the judge, who stayed away no doubt because he his sturdy person. He swore terribly at the ver poplar dusteii with chalk, and whose elocution and wa8 6 1T for fended by three of his partisans and by two feasibility. A mule or donkey was procured, and or getting rid of lots, and seeing men who have AMOSEMENTS. I ° y friends who could not assist on these many respects his counterpart, Morton as- event, and ended by ordering one of the other rhetoric appears to have boon derived from the exhort- a small gun strapped firmly to a cradle resting oil made wealth in other cities settle amongst us for occasions, being of the wrong sex. In short, to he fash- sumed the lord lieutenantcy of the South, distinguished conservatives, all able lawyers, commissioners to dismount, so that the chair- WALL'S OPERA HOUSE.—This popular resort has been ation end of revival sermons, made hi6 great humor- the pack-saddle, so that the muzzle of the weapon their own comfort's sako, thereby showing their closed for tho last week ou account of the sickness of I ionable, one must give a lunch, and invite no one but whose scalawag politicians resembled his The managers were aided by ex-Governors man of the commission could continue his ous effort to detain Mr. Sumner's audicnce last Monday. ladies. pointed over the donkey's tail. The animal, so confidence in our material prosperity. Every such Miss Hawthorne, one of Janauschek's principal support- Graham and Briggs, by ex-Judge Merriman, Tho difference between the men and the speeches was chums and runners in Indiana. Assuming, important excursion. This the other commis- the story goes, was then let into the marshes at citizen added becomes ten times more notable to This is greatly to be regretted, as Madame Janau- the difference between the caucus and the nation. Some and perhaps by another. The ladiesand gentlemen of Epiphany have been verv also, to defend the Santo Domingo folly, he sioner flatly refused to do. In this way the Woolwich, accompanied by tho committee, and the notion than if he settled anywhere else in the schek is very popular In Washington, and justly re- parts of Howe's speech reminded one of the late Mul- busy during the past week endeavoring to start a blew himself afoul of Carl Schurz's nimble quarrel began; it culminated in the bug busi- several " big wigs " who were attracted by such a garded as the best Lady Macbeth upon the stage. lins of Tennessee, but In its general treatment it was THE LOW COMMISSION. land, 'ticcause his accidcntal relations, as a citi- charity. This charity is to consist of a home for desti- foil, and presto! the bubble of his ability burst ness, to wliich we called the attention of our novel experiment. On arrival at the butt the zen,.to public men and public occurrences give At the NATIONAL THEATRE we have had a Mr. Stetson pitched between the scriptural reminiscences of Lorenzo tute children as well as orphans. We understand that This remarkable body, unparalleled in re- iu a tremendously sensational piece called "Neck and Dow and the classical learning of David Crockett. to the soap with which he rubbed down Grant readers last week. gun was loaded, the donkey turned with his tail him it certain fraction of national importance, the Chnrch Home, carried on by Miss Margaret Wash- Neck." Tho less said touching " Neck and Neck" tho ington and other ladles of the church, has consented to markability (to coin an unnecessary word) towards the earthen mound, and the usual pre- j EARLY WASHINGTON CONVEYANCING. THE GREAT DIPLOMATIC MYSTERY SOLVED.—Our joc- and the choler of his impatient ambition. better all round. There Is a mau hanged in it, and if unite its efforts with those of the proposed charity^ so since that composed of the three wise men of The administration is bringing all its intel- parations were made for firing by means of a lan- ular remarks about the diplomatic coffin in the wash- There was nothing left, not even the potency teffi inside history of Washington city, consid- it wore only the author intense satisfaction would he with their assistance, and the amount iu their treasury, room of the Arling ton had a double-barreled effect. Gotham who went to sea in a bowl and didn't lect and influence to bear to fetch about a yard and friction-tubc. One of the committee, the result. This week w-e have Chanfrau. we may hope soon to see the Home In operation. of his dark and wrathful face, which had ered inercly as a municipality, is for the main The funereal concern has been removed, and the con- get back, more comfort to the power that reconciliation, so as to get these infuriated old however, remarked that this mode of firing might MENASIRIE AND CIRCUS.—We are to have this week given the bubble its tint. Crude, flat, unin- part tne history of its real estate. Wlicn the town tents are revealed. It didn't contain either the " dead Among the gentlemen chosen as managers are Gene- shipped it—the body we mean—this shifting possibly derange the aim by the jerk on pulling Adam Forepangh's combined menagerie and circus. rals E. D. Townsend and Parko, Surgeon General formed, ungracious, a mere frontier politician pumps to sign a report. was phnncd its illustrious founder had an. ever- issue " reciprocity or the dry bones of annexation, but the lanyard. A discussion followed, and it was Forepaugh is good. Wo learn that the attraction is all Barnes, Mr. Skinner, Mr. Lewis Darts, Mr. John M from impersonal to personal is very embarrass- lasting contest with the proprietors of the land only a model of the semi-independent Dominion of Can- with a blacksmith's face, he perished like a finally arranged to fire the gun by a piece of slow- that ime in a natural state, and children generally, dc- Eastman, and Professor Coffin. At a subsequent meet- ing—well, where are Wc? Oh! this remarka- THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. here. ¡The earliest settlers in Washington from ada, intended for presentation to the President. The bat upon the point of a scholar's blade; and ht in. The war elephant, Romeo, weighing ten ing of the board of managers a committee was appointed match tied to the veut. This was done, and the model was sent to the Patent Officc, and -the shell has ble commission has returned to civilization, We have been called upon to give our great other states were people who laid out their money thousand pounds, and the baby, Anuie, weighing only to select a suitable houso, so we may soon cxpect to seo so goes down the man who was maneuv match ignited. Hitherto the donkey had taken gone back north to receive the whole Dominion, cod- vering and we are pained to learn that the reports influence in behalf ot the movement now being in rc41; property, and those who sought to get four hundred, arc, lu themselves, worth the entrance tho end for which they arc working. to ruin Grant and then to succeed him! rather a sleepy interest in the proceedings ; but fish and all, for delivery at the State Department when- their |iooks, so to speak, in the great eity of We warn our readers not to give Romeo huttons we published of its internal dissensions and made to complete the Washington Monument. somehow the fizzing of the match on his back ever the High Commission on Joints shall conclude to By reference to our amusementcolunmltwillbe soon the republic. Anybody who likes to read the or bits of tobacco when he solicits cake, as it Is apt to unhappy condition have been fully confirmed. We do not know whether we are in favor caused him first to prick up his ears, then to lay hand over that little strip of semi-independent country that the ball season is to be ushered in on Thursday earlie» newspaper letters written to New York, liffie his temper and create a distnrbanco. THE dull, prosy quiet of the senatorial fog- them back, and finally to begin to turn round. in liquidation of claims against Mother Britain. When next, when the two new Nines of the Olympic club will The commission is not harmonious. We of a completion or not. We would like to do Bostoi, and Philadelphia from this town, will Thursday evening last the sublime oratorio of the it arrives, Mr. Roessle, please keep it in the ice-box make their debut before the public. bank was agreeably broken on last Friday in may say, without fear of being charged with something. The comniittee was thunderstruck and skedadr Messiah," with Miss Clara Louise Kellogg in the lead- hear li w the notes of hand of the Carrolls and awhile, or tho hot weuther just coining on won't leave Wc are told that the new uniforms in which the Nines a queer sort of way. died in all directions ; the secretary threw himself, ing role, under the auspice's of the Philharmonic So- exaggeration, that the commission is inter- The unfinished work as it now stands is other I lading proprietors were flying about, while enough of its icy aud snowy area for our big Fish to will appear have been made at considerable expense. The Hon. Garrett Davis was delivering one flat On bis face ; there was a moment of agonizing! ciety, attracted one of the largest and most elegant nally disordered. very depressing. It is worse than a debate in their s ;ticrs were putting up houses for future swim in if the commission gets on no faster than at and are claimed to be the finest suspense—then bang ; the shot ricochetting away audiences ever assembled within Lincoln Hall. A chorus ever seen upon a ball .of his brief constitutional arguments when The great Ohio centaur, the wheel-horse, or the House or a discussion in the Senate. It genera ions. Many of these houses were, alas ! present. Is it tho dinners or the subjects that arc so field. in one direction, while the wretched donkey turned ! composed of one hundred and fifty members of the the Hon. B. B., known as Old Strabismus, put on ipeculative sites, or as catch-baits for im- hard to digest ? The Olympics have greatly improved their accommo- war-horse, of the Republican party, lies pros- has more, of the blue devils in it than an Agri- a complété somersault in the other. Philharmonic Society, a flueorchestra , with Mr. George entered the Senate chamber. Wishing to hear proved idjacent real estate, and to this day they dations for spectators, and with two first-class Nines are trate at the house of his <}istinguished connec- oultural report. Waltors presiding at a " Chickering Grand," furnished QUESTS AT THE EBBITT HOUSE. fully prepared for the coming compaigu. the Hon. Garrett he sat down in a chair next We have had this Sort of thing tried on in stand i early in ruins.. Whoever goes down to- excellent background. The soloists were Miss When Wlllard's Hotel, once a fashionable headquar- tion, the Hon. Schuyler. He asserts that he We. never look at it without feeling a For the information of our readers wo furnish tho ^Washington. When the Hon. John A ¿Ingham ward tic foot of New Jersey avenue, or out the Kellogg, soprano, Miss Antionettc Sterling, contralto, ters for strangers in Washington, went into a decline, the great everlasting expounder of the Consti- is yet suffering from sea-sickness, and is nau- strong disposition to take a turn through the names, positions and batting order of the; Mo Wines : Navy Tird way, or around the mouth of Roek Mr. Qoorge Simpson, tenor, and Mr. M. W. Whitney, tho Ebbitt House came in to take Its place. Its popu- tution, who happened at the moment to have of Ohio was made chairman of the Committee of Blue Stockings—Watchman, 8d b.: Forou,» s.; Mills, seated to such an extent that he cannot get Congressional buryIng'-gro.und to recover our basso. The improvement in tho chorus was at once larity yet continues, and some of tho most distin- his back turned to his audience, by which we the Judiciary, the mitrailleuse was strapped on creek, ot la the region of the steamboat wharf, lstb.; Allison, c.; Sweaay,2db.< Leonard, 1. i.:'Braln- even an oath to lie upon his stomach; While spirits. And yet it might be worse, if it were manifest throughout; tho firmness, spirit, andaccnracy guished people visiting Washington make it their tho back of a ery uncertain animal, and In his | will see|ne old brick piles, some of them nearly ard, p.; Glenn, r. f., and Berthrong, c. f. Am.-.tenrs- mean the Hon. Benjamin B. aforesaid. the smiling countenance of the Vice-President completed as originally designed. We don't which distinguished tho rendering of the choruses headquarters. Below we give a list of a few of these: eccentricities lie is fatal alike to friends and foea. roofless,fend others half gutted. The town never Yonng, | f.; Norton, s. ec; Reach, c.; Robinson, 1. f. j When Kentucky's antique dust-hole turned throws hiin into the most violent convulsions. brought forth the wannest manifestations of approval Judge STRONH and family, of Pennsylvania, pretend to say that Rome would howl, for Will Mr. Speaker Blaine repeat the experiment? caught lip to the enterprise of the builders there, Hurley, Sd b.s Stearns, p.: Barron, ci f.: White. 1st b. from the audience, This was particularly true of the non. W. G. LANNIHO, of New York. and Knlp, 3d b. For The Capital. OUR L0UD0UN_C0UNTY LOITER Time would fall me to more than mention ths NEW YORK ITEMS. THE GERKAN CITIZENS of the District, in common NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. [ THE JWLAN AND THE BROTHER. The lower mountain terrace of Virginia—Lcesburg— elegant country seats of Col. Fairfax, Wm. Beverly, with others throughout the country, will celebrate the AMUSEMENTS. f Ob I thou Saint Francis of our freer faith: George W. Ball, and many others, which like a IVIethodlst Book Concern. restoration of peace In Europe by a grand jubilee on Monroe's country seat qf Oak Hall—New northern Easter Monday. The exercises will consist of a grand " Let us Have a Menagerie." r John Wesley—name in statesmanship to go settlers'—Pi-tee qf land— The quarries—List qf large pretty girl must be seen to be appreciated. A NEW YORK, April 1.—The following is a correct AT POSITIVE COST ; With Calvin, Cobden, Jefferson, Rousseau— Mr. Paxton, of Pennsylvania, has recently pur- account of tho proceedings on Friday In the sub- procession during the day, and at night a grand mass R. M. HALL, estates, etc., etc. committee of the Methodist Book Concern: Three meeting ^11 be held at the Schnotzen Park, Seventh- e How to these later Methodists thy wraith chased a fine estate of seven hundred and sixty- accountants were chosen to make an examination Al)AM FOREPAUGH'S Real Estate Brokei', TO CLOSE BUSINESS! Fully sympathizing with your desire to make street road. Entire stock of OOODS, consisting of Should rise and preach, who do their country sell, five acres adjoining the town of Lecsburg, and Is of the affairs of the concern. Their names were Unabridged aud Unapproachablo Wild Beast No. 503 may Building, corner of Seventh I And man's delight in worship sour and scath, THE CAPITAL the medium of information to the erecting thereon a splendid stone mansion of submitted to Judge Reynolds, the counsel for Dr. Lanahan, and Mr. Fancher, counsel for Dr. Carl- CHARLES ULLRICH, jr., 933 Pennsylvania avenue, is and E ntrceta. TRIMMINGS, NOTIONS, HOSIERY, CLOVES, And make thy fame a bishoprick in hell; world "and the rest of mankind" in regard to modern style, with a view to a permanent resi- offering his entire stock of Frcnch China, Crockery, &c„ and REAL AND IMITATION LACES. COLLARS, ton. Judge Reynolds approved of all the names, MENAGERIE, HANDKERCHIEFS, Ac., &c„ at POSITIVE.COST to I Who use thy church their party to seduce the attractions of Washington and the surround- dence. And the writer, after having "knocked and was anxious for the investigation to proceed, Glassware, Housekeepers' Goods, Fancy Articles, And Mammon to outwit, the Indian bind CLOSE BUSINESS. ing country, I crave space for a communication up and down" the western world considerably, but Mr. Fancher objected to the names, when the Lamps, &c., at a great sacrifice iu order to close busi- ORNITHLOGICAL MUSEUM, TWENT Y FINE L 0 1'S, HISS E. m. FORMAN, I In bargains hard, so that he breaks his truce, on the subject of Loudoun county, Virginia—a committee, without making any arrangement for ness. Housekeepers will find this a most desirable AND It* Ladles' Row, 622 Ninth street, comer G. j And u shut the gates of mercy on mankind from Niagara to the Gulf, and from ocean to ocean, the investigation, adjourned sine die. on Meridian Hill, for sale on long time, MONTHLY 11 county which, I fear, is but little known even to has purchased a small farm in the vicinity of Lces- opportunity to obtain good articles at very low prices. PAYMENTS. I Who see " God's acre to the rich consigned, We would advise all those in want of artieles in his line EQUESTRIAN AGGREGATION, 'T'O RESTORE WORN-OUT LANDS. I On freedom's plea our senate halls defile, the oldest inhabitants of Washington. burg, from a conviction that, taking into con- After Pharo>8 Banks. The second district police raided the faro es- to give Mr. Ullrich an early call. Ho will also sell the UNDER TWO BIG TENTS, THE BEAUTIFUL SITE Having given, in the New York Tribune, the outline 1 And freedom's honored champions revile. THE COUNTY OUTLINED. sideration Its accessibility to tide-water and the tablishments of Black and of Hughes and Funk, fixtnres and rent store-room. This is one of the most of a plan to accomplish this important object. I here- This ignorance of one of the most beautiful capital, the character of the soil, the beauty of its Nos. 13 and 17 Ann street, and arrested about Will exhibit at WASHINGTON, on the lot located on known as the MERIDIAN niLL MANSION, at the with invite Agricultural Societies or Clubs desirous of desirable business locations on tho avenue. head of Sixteenth street, 85,000 feet of ground, lawn, For The Capital. regions of the United States is attributable, scenery, the equability of its climate, and its un- thirty gamblers engaged, and captured the cards, SIXTH STREET, South Side, near the Canal, shade, magniflcent, view,