VOLUME I. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., DECEMBER 10,1871. NUMBER 40. For THE CAPITAL. As the stage bowled along over the smooth the crimson foliage of the still trees and bushes. "Tom, these fellows don't understand my LOVE'S LAW, pike, Allerton addressed a few commonplace At the word "cross" Allerton started and the rigid application of Jefferson's maxim, He had twice before gone to the ground on a disorder." gazed eagerly at the girl. as masters in the national schools. The Moscow BT FANNY DOWNINO. remarks to his lovely companion. They were perfect success in appointments to the civil Gazette treats the same subject from a different murderous errand of this sort. But now a "No!" The classical people were certainly queer, responded to timidly, yet pleasantly, and soon " You must forgive me," she said; "you service was not attained; and it may be true point of view. It ridicules the expectation of the strange weight was on his heart; and while "Not they; and the stuff they gijre only And did many a curious tiling; the two were in animated conversation. Our know I am the daughter of a clergyman, and also that in subsequent Administrations un- International Society to find a favorable field for he smoked-his cigar in silence, he felt as if makes me worse. The fact is, Ton), I am der Democratic rale the evil results of a depart- Yet their doing*, If sifted entirely clear. hero knew only too well how to win his way by I wish," she continued after a pause, " I wish its labors in Russia. " Our country," it says, " is Will a moral nndonbtedly bring. Shame and Death were riding in quiet at his troubled by a ghost." so much to help you if I can." ure from Jefferson's tnaxim were increased. so situated that it can afford no scope for those the tongue, and as the moonlight stole in and But the Republican regime is substantially re- A fanciful fancy of theirs I relate, side. His surgeon and second noticed his "A ghost!" "Go on," he cried, "say what you will— social problems which agitate the masses Else- shone steadily upon the pure, innocent face sponsible for the vicious system which now pre- And the truth It encircles display; singular expression of face and absent man- "Well, yes, a lot of ghosts—an assortment what you please. I want to hear you, but it where on the European continent. Each indi- at his side, his hardened, selfish heart warmed vails, and which has been gradually aggravated vidual, ns a rale, finds himself able easily to obtain Endeavoring its innermost meaning to state ner, and exchanged significant glances. They of ghosts." And the sick man related to his is in vain—all in vain—you speak*to a doomed To whoevor will list to the lay. up to its work. He poured out memories of by corrupt practice till all places In the gift of the the means of existence. Conscientious and assid- afterward remarked that Allerton's face and friend all the strange events. When» he had the amusing, of Adventure, of poetry and ro- man. No prayer can restore peace to broken Government have become the rewards of partisan- uous labor is always sought and well paid for in These ancients created a glorious god. conduct gave them ngty forebodings they ended, his friend, after a pause, said hearts; no prayer can bring to life the dead; ship, and the whole subject of patronage has And crowned him with myrtle and rose. mance. To his astonishment and delight his Russia. * * * * Moreover, hired labor docs could not explain. " But you know, Jack, you imagine you see the book is closed, the sentence signed. I reached a point of demoralization than which the Then placed in his beautiful fingers a rod, young companion responded, as never woman not with us constitute the exclusive profession of With which he did just as he chose. Arriving upon the lonely spot selected for these things. They are not there, yotr know, can only go out to punishment." public sale of officcs could hardly be worse. No distinct classes. The immense majority of our had responded to his intellectual efforts be- previous President ever had occasion to utter the the deadly encounter, they found the enemy of course, and you must reason yourself out "The broken hearts have found a peace workers is composed of-villagers with a certain He reigned on the mountains, he ruled on the sea, fore. Her reading had been as deep and ex- significant exclamation which Mr. Schurz ascribes already there. The two principals saluted of it. It's a morbid condition of th£ brain, amonnt of property in land, who work as artisans, And he governed the heavens ¿ihove. tensive as his' own. Her memory was more denied to you, the dead rest, and the hand to Mr. Lincoln, who saw in the crowds of office- And naught might presume to dispute the decree each other courteously. Allertoji looked with arising from extreme weakness." of the Father that protects is reached out &c., in order to increase .their means. " The only perfect, and her keen appreciation took off seekers which besieged his door at the close of people who are attracted by socialism in Russia, Of the powerfnl deity LOVE. pain upon the almost boyish face of his oppo- " Yes, yes, I know all that. I lie htere and to you. He loves you, he pities you, he the tinge of pedantry, and gave all a grace the war, the prognostic of an evil more dangerous adds the Gazette, are the students," as the Netcha- Love loved,and was loved by the loveliest girl nent, that resembled strongly that of his late reason, like a steam-engine, by the hour. But died to save you, and now lives to redeem you, and fascination as intoxicating as it was new. to the country than the rebellion itself. Under yeff trial proved; and it attributes this attraction That the earth at that season had seen; affianced. This was the poor boy, he thought, reason don't chase away the ghosts.! They from sin. Let your burdened heart go out in the present Administration this prognostic has As pure as some snowlly glittering pearl, Then her voice, low and gentle, was matched lo a defective system of education. the unholy law of his social life demanded are too stubborn for that. See hci'4 Tom humble supplication for forgiveness and been fearfully Intensified until, as Mr. Schurz truly In the depth of the ocean serene. by a laugh that rang like '' silver coins dropped should kill or be killed. His resolution was flatten me out again—let me lie downj Now peace. Peace and forgiveness will be granted says, the demoralization resulting from it Is down a many fathomed well."' greater than can be safely endured. In the earlier Concerning tUe Boy with tlie Wings. He loved, and he wooed, and he won, and he made taken. I see the same fair face coming up—BOW the to you. O, my poor friend, y®u do not know This most exquisite maiden his bride, days of the republic frauds and defalcations oc- To a contemporary artist and poet. "Her smile was sunlight, and her laugh The preparations were brief. The two were young Donaldson—now "— how good is our Heavenly Father. Let me But on her a stringent injunction he laid, That sunlight set to tune." cured, -as they always will occur in a state of Of all the great artists we read of, Lest a terrible woe should betide. assigned to their places—twenty paces apart- His friend passed around to the »ost of pray for you." Of ?very sweet poet that sings, The hours went by, indeed, on golden human nature; but they were mere spots on a and the loaded pistols, ready cocked, with the the bed and placed himself where Allerton And kneeling by his bed, the young girj comparatively healthy organization. Some sad little story is told ns When night draped the earth in a soft starry shade, wings. Allerton felt an intoxication he had He would leave his bright throne in the skies, hair-triggers, that a breath would explode, .pointed. lifted up her sweet voice in earnest supplica- Concerning the Boy with the Wings. never experienced before. He seemed to Now, , the corruption which prevails in every All crowned, and in royal apparel arrayed, duly set. " Now," he added, "do you see your ghost?" tion. That voice seemed to thrill the wretched POPULA® TASTE. To the arms of his darling to fly. know true womanhood for the first time. All department of the Government, and the frauds "Are you ready, gentlemen?" demanded "Yes, Tom, the skeleton looks ovir your man with a power never experienced by him Yet of all the bright laurels they gather, his old loves appeared gross or frivolous by and defalcations which are constantly occurring, Yet sot for an Instant that darling might gaze the second to whom fell the duty of giving right shoulder." This was said so earnestly until then. When she ended his thin cheeks Or all that a laurel-wreath brings, the side of this lovely creature. He entered are the result of the pernicious system of removal On the face of her lover divine, word. that ¿lie friend started, and for a little time were bathed in tears, arid she begged to read There is nothing to equal a Btory Savo whin in Its beauty the faintly bright rays the charmed palace of youth for the first time, and appointment which the Administration of Concerning the Boy with the Wings. " Ready," was the response. was disconcerted. Recovering; howejrer, he to him the promise, and to beiis guide. Of flickeringstarbeam s should shine. and his past life seemed stale, flat, weary, and President Grant, through the teaching and exam- "Fire—one, two, three." ple of the President himself, has perfected, as it Them are cannibals, monkeys, and monarch?, unprofitable as he looked back over it; and said: I have no wish to attempt a detail of that Love's law was obeyed, and the moments flew fast At the word two the pistol of the brother were, and the evidences of a disease which re- And Mormons, and other strange things, 'Round the silvery circle of Time, how dreary was the future, made up as that " It's all stuff, Jack. If the thing we$e there conversion. John Allerton himself would Yet we turn from their stories to liatan exploded, and Allerton felt the hair on his I could see it as well as you. Of coilrse it's fail. The subtile influence, the sudden change, quires a radical and thorough renovation of the Till Psyche, too curlons, grew criminal at last— past had been! political organization for its cure. Anything short Concerning^the Boy with the Wings. Disobedience to husbands is crime! left temple cut by the bullet that whistled imagination." * i that peace surpassing wealth which came to Carried away at last by his passionate in- of such a renovation as that which Mr. Schurz "A WELL-ESTABLISHED PACT." One night, Bhe held close to Ills myrtle-wreathed head, past. Without changing his position he de- "O, of course; but nevertheless it id taking him, defy all power of language. But up toxication, he did not pour words of love into suggests will be futile. It will be observed that In reviewing our treasures or baubles, As alloep, he dreamed happily on, liberately lifted his pistol and fired in the air. the marrow from out my bones, and life out from the brink of the grave came that sick Mr. Schurz has no confidence in the attempt the gentle ears of the girl—for the close prox- A voice from another day rings, A lamp. Love awoke in an Instant, and fled, A flush of disappointment and rage passed of my heart. If it were a real thing,!visible man. Slowly once more he gathered strength which is now being made for a civil-sorvlce re- And a kiss or a tear is remembered, And forever and ever was gone. imity of strangers forbade that—but he could over the face of the youth, and this rage be- to your eyes as well as mine, it couldinot be and returned to life. form, an attempt which is little better than trifling Concerning the Boy with the Wings. This moral enwrapped in the fable I find- not resist stealing his arm about her. with the subject, and is in fact a mere pretext for came ungovernable when he learned that the more potent . Go to the next room, Tom, and Some months after the fashionable world PUBLIC OPINION. To be happy, observe it we must— She made no movement whatever at first, perpetuating the more serious evils of the system seconds had decided that all had been done get Shakspeare—now turn to Richnid III about our capital, that had sympathized with Thou sternest and fiercest of rulers 1 "To keep love, one must always be patiently blind. but an expression of pain passed over her that are essential to the perpetuity of the Repub- And take half of his treasures—on trust I" that the code of honor demanded. The poor Read the tent scene where the ghost comes Allerton in his sickness—for that, in its esti- King tyrant I Thou tyrant of kings I face, and then Allerton saw two tears gather lican party. And it is manifest also that he has Ah, that Nature had upset the cradle boy felt that he was being treated like a boy, in." mation, he had acted with heroic generosity no faith in the pretense that either the President, in her large, sweet eyes, and roll down her and that the man who had broken the heart Containing the Boy with the Wings t Written for THE CAPITAL, His friend complie^,-and read on to the and courage in his fatal duel—were startled or Congress, or the Republican party entertains a beautiful face. Then she moved gently, and of his only and dearly loved sister was going by the announcement of the marriage of their MORAL CONCLUSION. TRIED BY FISE. awakening of th§ bfSody tyrant without in- serious purpose of reform.' The selfish,^personal brought from her side a crutch, and held it, from the ground, not only untouched, but terruption, and then paused. hero to an obscure daughter of a poor clergy- policy of the President is vitally in conflict with Sttll artists and poets are lovere, as a devout Catholic would a cross, in the carrying off the honors. He refused to ac- It's not there," the patient remarked sadly. man, who was not only his inferior socially, such a purpose. He has expressed no definite And each draws his lofig or short strings, moonlight before her. And the shortest seems often the longest, There were few people in our neighborhood cept- this as satisfaction, and demanded a con- I thought there was a passage about shadows but a cripple. desire for a reform, has made no positive sugges- unacquainted with John Allerton's early and Allerton withdrew his insulting arm, and tion or recommendation in regard to it, and has Concerning the Boy with the Wings. tinuation of the combat. To this Allerton causing great fear." John Allerton thought little and cared less wild career. We, who fondly called him sank back shamed, shocked, and humiliated. not taken a single earnest, decisive step in that And the poet plays pitch with the artist, and his second acceded. They were again "O, that; well, here it is: after Catesby for the comments made by his late associates. Uncle John, regard it as a strange tradition, lack words to express the pain that shot direction. What he has done, and all he has And both of them have their high flings, put in position, and Allerton received his says He took his dear little wife to Europe, and done, is by his broad example to augment the And the loser is often the winner, while those who knew him only in later life through the young man's heart. It seemed freshly loaded weapon. Before his opponent - 1 Nay, good my lord, be not afraid of shadoofs,' after consulting with the best physicians, and evils of the spoils system to such a degree of de- Concerning the Boy with the Wings. could not realize that the quiet, pious, benev- winged by a memory of his dead mothsp—a had taken his pistol, his second hesitating in Richard replies, a long medical treatment, was happy in see- moralization that it has become, as Mr. Schurz 'Tis said that " burnt children fear Are;" olent old man, so devoted to his invalid wife, memory of his poor little, sister, who had hopes that something yet might be done to says, a matter of wonder, not that the Govern- • 'Tis said that a serpent's fang stings, * Shadows to-night ing her return, unaided by that crutch that so given up to charitable pursuits, had once wasted away in consumption to the grave. terminate the cruel encounter without another had been the first to rebuke him in his evil ment is so badly served, but that it is served at 'Tie said by wise men who have met him, Have struck more terror to the soul of RIcljard, all.—Boston J&st, "Beware of the Boy with the Wings I' allocked a community by his excesses, or, as All that was pure and holy seemed shining in exchange of shots, Allerton said : Than can the substance of ten thousand soliHers, career. he would probably write it, his crimes; but his nature—shining only to torment him. I will keep the ground so long as it is de- Armed in proof, and led by shadowy Richmond.'" I have not the space, nor, indeed, was it my we loved him so tenderly that we shrink from In a few seconds the little girl wiped her manded of me and I am alive; but nothing "Yes, yes," said Allerton in a low-tone, design to follow further the life of my friend. A DISTANCED DUCHT.—An important motion is the truth. eyes and said, " I thought you knew me, Mr. will induce me to attempt the life of this ."it first dawned upon the wicked wretch that It w^s happy, although full of sad events. about to be brought before the German Parlia- In his later days, as a man old at forty, he Allerton. I am the Miss Fletcher you so young man." there was a realm beyond this busy wbrld lie He lost his only child, and soon after his gen- ment by the Liberal members for securing a was eminently handsome. In his youth he kindly helped to a situation in "the Seminary, "I will not accept this," cried the youth in bustled in, from which the awful shades fell tle, loving wife; and childless, homeless, parliamentary government and constitution to was noted as the model of manlybeauty. And firgot^that you liad never seen njp,".^ ungovernable rage, and Jrtnwwrfoaming ftfTfnr to. terrify tlie bravest. They fall on m.^Tom. hopeless, so far as this life goes, he folded his every German State in the Bund. Although Nature, ns if creating him in a fit of great After a time the young man replied, in a mouth; "this shall not save you. I'11 have I am being killed by inches. I try to brave cloak above his grievous wounds and stag- worded in general terms, the motion is Intended more particularly to apply to Mecklenburg, whose generosity, had given the mind and disposi- low, deep voice, "I did not know you, Miss your life, or you shall have mine," and he it out, but my soul is weighed down by sin." gered on. But the same faith that lifted him members in the Reichstag are the original authors tion in keeping with the physical beauty. In Fletcher, and I humbly beg that you may for- reached out for his pistol. "Nonsense, old fellow, you are weakened from death kept with him through life, and his intellect he approached genius, and in his get that you ever knew me." of the proposal. Mecklenburg is the only Ger- "Mr. Donaldson," said his second, with a by long sickness. The surgeon will fetch you he w?ts*not only good, but, in its true sense, man country where the feudal institutions of the ways he was winning to fascination. Born to No more was said until the coach stopped, flush of shame and anger on his face, "I de- out, and you'll live to laugh at these shadows." he was happy. middle ages still flourish almost without modifi- great wealth, he yet, so far as energy and ap- some hours after, to change horses, and the cline, after that extraordinary speech, to act Allerton shook his head sadly. "He can- Fifty years after his conversion he was cation. The members of the ruling dynasties plication went, remained unspoiled; and he crippled girl was gently lifted to the ground as your friend," and he returned the pistol he not minister to a mind diseased. My days are found, one sunny morning, by his servants possess an extent of territory far exceeding that came from his studies with all his intellectual by a dignified, gray-haired gentleman, un- held to the case and deliberately locked it. numbered. I lie here quietly enough; Tjut if and friends, lying upon his hack, in his of the estates of any other German princes ; it faculties trained for use in the busy world of doubtedly a clergyman, who greeted her as you could look in on my brain, you'd wonder covers two-fifths of the whole country, and is in- "I don't want you," screamed the youth;' library, with his spectacles by his. side, and competition in which he was to shine. Un- his daughter in the tenderest way. that I don't writhe and cry out in my agony." the Book of Books upon his breast. His habited by 205,000 people who are entirely at the fortunately his moral and religious nature ' Good night, Mr. Allerton," she cried, with "you are a pack of hounds together. I can mercy of the grand dukes. Another two-fifths is take care of myself—look out, then, you dog," After a pause, he repeated in a low tone to hands were meekly folded,.and a sweet smile remained untouched. the sweetest smile on her face, and added, occupied by the manors of the nobles, and these and drawing a revolver from his pocket he himself, " The head, the horror, and the pun- was settled on his face. He had gone in In other than a slave State John Allerton this is my father." have almost as much power over the'inhabitants advanced toward Allerton, firing as he went, ishment—the crutch, the pistol, and the peace to his last home, where half a century might have sown his wild oats, and then The gentlemen saluted each other courte- of their estates as the grand dukes have over and between each shot uttering an epithet in cross—on and on—night and day, without of good deeds had gone before him, and their tenants. There is, properly speaking, no settled into a sober, steady pursuit of wealth usly, and the coach rolled on. It rolled on suiting and bitter as he could make it. ceasing, forever and forever." where an angel wife and an angel child lin such thing as sovereign right in Mecklenburg, for without gaining for himself the notoriety of with John Allerton's heart weighed down by "Jack," interrupted his friend, "don't go gered lovingly at the gate to welcome him. the sovereignty of the dukes is limited to their Three shots had boen fired in rapid succes- crime. In such natural condition of society remorse that, for the first time, overtook and on that way; it is horrible. I wish I could domains,* and the ruling power is shared botween sion, and three balls had taken effect. Had D. p. the current of public opinion sets so strongly tortured him. All the memories of the past do something for you." them and the nobles. . As for the people, they any one of them been the regulation bullet against excess that none but the vile of nature changed to -bitter memories, and stung him to The sick'man, from out the hollow corners SPIRIT OF THE EUROPEAN AND have no right of suffrage, and consequently there from the dueling pistol, Allerton would have openly defy the higher laws of social exist- the quick. How mean, despicable, cowardly, of his eyes, looked at his friend with an^earn- AMERICAN PRESS. arc no popular representatives as in other coun- fallen from the shock. As it was, he held his ence. But all that we asked of a criminal, to and wicked seemed the deeds that had gone to est, longing expression, and then said, "Well, tries to check taxation and look after popular place unmoved until the last shot from the interests. The nobles alone enjoy political rights, insure forgiveness for him, was that he should make up hjs past career! His better nature Tom, you can do something; you can take SCHUKZ AND MORTON.—The citizen® of Boston revolver, that was preceded by an insult re- have enjoyed the privilege during the past and administer justice on their properties. The he a gentleman, as the term was defined in struggled to assert its own—struggled gasping, that cUrsed pistol of mine and put an end to flecting on Allerton's dead mother, when he week of listening to the views of two sen- Mecklenburg Gazette accounts for this extra- Virginia and accepted throughout the South. and in pain, under the load of sin his past had my misery; or," he added, after a long pause, suddenly elevated his pistol and fired. The ators of the United States upon matters of ordinary state of things by pointing out that Our hero was, as we understood it, a gentle- accumulated. "you can go to the girls' seminary in my poor boy threw up his arms with an expres- important public concern. Both gentlemen there never was a period in the history of the man. Admiration, therefore, was intense for Sleepless,haggard,and wretched,he reached, town and ask a lame teacher there, one Clara sion of horror, pain, and astonishment, and, are men of mark, and distinguished alike for country when its rulers could have had a personal his great beauty and greater talents. They at daylight, the end of his journey, and sought Fletcher, to come to me." pitching forward, fell upon his face, trembling their ability and influence in thé Republican interest in breaking the power of thé nobles. "In grew to enthusiasm over the fact that he his room in his hotel. His first impulse was to the other German territories this occurred when and gasping in death, at Allerton's feet. He "I can do that last, Jack; and if she does party, although moving in different and dis- drank to excess, spent his nights at the gam- seek in wine a new forgetfulness. The relief tinct spheres of political activity and control. there were new acquisitions of territory, and it had been shot through the heart. not come it won't be my fault." The tastes, temperament, springs of action, and became necessary to amalgamate the new with ing table, and that his pathway was strewn was brief, and the relapse yet more bitter. He One evening, forty-eight hours after the "Gentlemen," said Allerton, as he fell faint- even the political principles of the two are widely the old. When the Hohenzollerns added to the with broken hearts and ruined réputations. turned himself to his books and papers. Never promise given, Allerton heard the sound of ing from loss of blood in the arms of his apart. The lecture of Senator Schurz, which was Margravate of Bradenburg the Duchy of Prussia He was brave as a man could be brave while before had he been so brilliant and persuasive the crutch, and turned eagerly to welcome friend, "I could not help it. God knows I a model in its way, was a practical and states- on the cast and the land of Cleves on the west, it living a criminal and in the pursuit of crime. in argument. But the fever of excitement the kind visitor. Taking his thin, feeble had no wish to harm him." manlike discussion of a subject which deeply became necessary to amalgamate all these parts This constituted the hero in the estimation of over, remorse came back darker than ever. hand, she gazed in silence on his wasted For many weeks our hero lay on the verge concerns the general welfare and the vital inter- into a single State, and this could be only done the chivalry, and his associates were as quick It sat with him at the board. It slept by his face. by breaking the power of the estates, which were of death. His wounds were dangerous, but ests of the Government. Senator Morton's dis- to forgive as they were ready to admire. side at night. It was his companion at all course was an abstruse, theoretical, ambitious the representatives of the provincial land inter- not mortal, and he possessed an iron constitu- "This is very good of you," he said, "I He had continued this sort of life until the hours of the day. The laugh of his boon com- could not die without seeing you again," disquisition upon a topic of speculative import- est. The same process as in Prussia was adopted county side rang with his debauches and panions sounded like the mocking cry of tion; but his convalescence was retarded, as ance mainly, and was tinctured strongly with In Hanover, Hesse, Nassau, Baden, Wurtemberg, "You must not talk of dying," she replied duels, no less than with praise for his elo- devils, and the praise of men beat drearily on said his surgeon, one of the most eminent in partisanship. The one was a patriotic exposition and Bavaria. All these States, at the time of the cheerfully; "we have time enough for that. quence at the bar and great success in the his eaf. All the time, night and day, in all the State, by the great depression Of spirits of and warning against the admitted corrupt Rhenish confederation and the peace of Paris, under which he labored. Tell me why you sent for me, that I may line of his profession. He was the welcome places, that crutch was before him and his practices, and the other was a partisan extenua- obtained new frontiers. It was only in Mecklen- enter upon my duties ? " burg that everything remained as of old. * * * guest at the fireside of the best families, and evil deeds behind. It was after the delirium of pain had passed, tion of the no less obvious evil tendencies of the "I beg your pardon. I had forgotten, in present national rule. Civil-service reform and More than five centuries ago, under Rudolph of at one of these he met a lovely and accom- This sort of life became unendurable, He when his wounds were partially healed, and the excitement of seeing you, what I did centralization were the topics thus discussed by Hapsburg, Mecklenburg already had, with some the patient pronounced out of danger, that a plished girl, the only daughter of wealthy was threatened with insanity. Rallying upon want. I am a little flighty; but will you the two senators. The standpoints from which slight modifications, the same boundaries as she strange phenomenon occurred to him. So parent«, and the belle of the neighborhood. the reserve of his powerful nature, he deter- go to the foot of the bed and look at me? the different subjects were viewed were as differ- has now ; while Prussia did not exist at all, and long as he sat propped by pillows in his bed, j With no other motive, as it proved in the end, mined to cast the past behind him and live a There, that is it; now, nurse, remove these ent as the subjects themselves, or as the motives Hanover, Saxony, Bavaria, and Wurtemberg were he was quiet and at ease; but the moment he than to make an advantageous match, young new life. He saw the enormity of his pro- pillows, I wish to lie down." and aims of the two speakers. Mr. Schurz did only just being formed. If Mecklenburg were not Allerton became her suitor, and, with the ap- posed marriage and determined to break it off. resumed a horizontal position he saw a strange i not overestimate the importance of his subject so small, it might be called the German China. He gazed long and earnestly at the beauti- probation of her parents, brother, and friends, Under this impulse he acted, and the family apparition. At the foot of his bed behind when he pronounced it to be a matter of such * * * This feudal State has now been pene- ful face of the yonng girl. was accepted of his affianced were shocked and humiliated, the post-board there appeared a head. At first serious, vital conccrn that it can no longer be put trated by the modern political and economical "It does not change," he murmured; and ideas of the German Empire. As a German citi- Not long after this event became known, and his friends astonished by his letter ending • he saw rising from behind this post-board the ! aside with safety. Mr. Morton gave undue prom- then said aloud, " Come slowly around to my inence to theoretical speculations which it were zen the Mecklenburger has a vote ; as a citizen of Allerton left his betrothed and traveled to the the engagement. It seejjied so wanton, so loveliest head it had been his fate to encounter. side." better perhaps f jr the public good to leave in Mecklenburg he has none. In the former ca- capital of his State, to argue before the high- uncalled for in the eyes of the community, He saw the wavy light hair, and then the fair brow, and then the large, liquid, luminous She did as directed, and his eyes followed suspense, in the present aspect of public affairs. pacity he may, through his representative, grant est court an important case that had been in- that for the first time the popular tide turned supplies, fix the Imperial budget, and pass laws blue eyes, and then the nose and chin and her until she regained her old position, when Mr. Scliurz'e explanation of the needs and pur- trusted to his care. He left his intended against him. The family of his betrothed was poses of civil-service reform was really and sub- which may alter those of his own country ; but fair round neck. And with this head, at the he directed his gaze to the foot of the bed and bride with the day selected on which she was one of great wealth, high social position, and stantially, although not professedly, an arraign- in Mecklenburg he has no control whatever over side, as if held up, appeared a crutch. As he started. to become his wife. With the ardor of a it demanded, not in vain, the sympathy of the ment of the present Administration, which by the taxes, the budget, or the laws." Mecklen- gazed this fair face changed to that of the "God help me," he cried, "there are two! lover, whether he- felt the passion or not, he public. In the midst of the excitement the necessary inference, as well as by positive state- burg (which consists of two States, Mecklenburg- youth he had killed, and the expression was Lift me up, nurse." had urged an early period, giving his betrothed younger brother of the poor girl, who really ment in some instances, he distinguished above 8chwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz) was given that of horror, pain, and astonishment, and A long silence followed. Allerton breathed a liberal constitution in 1848, which, however, hut scant time for preparatiorf. loving Allerton was nearly heart-broken, came all its predecessors for its corrupt and demoral- the crutch changed to a pistol. And as he quickly, with his eyes closed, while drops of izing abuse of the power of appointment to and was abolished soon after, under the pressure of to the capital, exasperated by the wrong and Railroads had not then revolutionized our gazed this face turned to a grinning skeleton, perspiration gathered on his face. His visitor removal from office. the reaction which spread all over Germany. It insult, to demand satisfaction. mode of transit, and one bright moonlit night and the pistol to a cross, and then both dis- wiped them away with a gentle hand, and Mr. Morton's defense of centralization was an is believed that the Grand Duke at Schwerin the handsome young advocate boarded the Had our hero really accomi>lished the appeared and back came the beautiful face then said in a low, earnest voice, apology for the partisan interference of the Ex- would not object to revive this constitution, but old-fashioned stage-coach and seated himself change of heart for which he was striving, he and crutch, to change as before, and so on " You called then for help, where help only ecutive in the affairs of the States, and the de- that his fellow-ruler at Strelitz is strongly op- on the back seat, as the one most comfortable would have accepted the situation, and taken and on for weary hours, until the exhausted can be obtained. May I pray for you? " sign of the Administration to concentrate the posed to such a course. for a night's ride, when on the smooth pike its punishment as retribution in part for his man would beg to be lifted up. Allerton shook his head. power of the Government in the hands of one pereon, or of a congressional despotism. Mr. a few hours' sleep could be hoped for. But wrongs. But he possessed no such heroism. " Would you like to sleep? " she continued. THE Russian papers are very busy just now in Schurz's argument was faithful and thorough, discussing educational qnestions. According to one passenger occupied the stage with him. The averted looks and cold recognition of his Of course there was no improvement while "No, my sleep is more of a torture than though not exhaustive. If he failed in any re- the Russian World, the sums expended in'educa- He could only make out a female form in the former friends, or warm admirers, unfitted the this continued. His physician, ignorant of my waking. Talk to me." spect, it was in not fully appreciating the tend- tion in the empire are out of all proportion to the ¡loom of the interior of the coach, for in the spoiled child of fortune for a further and a the apparition, saw his patient sinking con- "I will; yes, I will talk to you. I asked ency of the present spoils system of removal and results achieved. In the Imperial Budget 08 - cool autumnal night the curtains were fast- higher struggle. tinuously, and administered tonics and stimu- your physicians, before I saw you, about appointment towards that very centralization 000,000 roubles (£3,500,000) are appropriated for i ened down, and the only light came through It is when we attempt a reform that we first lants in vain. These, while their effects lasted, your condition, and they said that you had which Mr. Morton insidiously strove to defend. this purpose, besides the local contributions from the windows of the doors. He seated him- realize our situation and come to punishment. only made more vivid the apparition that no disease other than nervous prostration— Mr. Schurz, however, did not fail to see that each province ; yet the nnmber of schools is far self carelessly, with a word of apology that While running with the current we swim seemed to be destroying him. His friends that you were suffering from mental depres- under the present system, or through existing too small to meet the edueational requirements elicited only a murmured response, by the easily. It is when we turn that our friends came to his bedside and sought to enliven sion. They told me you had reached that practices, the President holds the control of gov- of the country, and the want of teachers is even | side of the unknown passenger. As the stage become foes, and waves dash in our faces and him by telling how the public regarded his point where tonics aggravate rather than re- ernment virtually in the hollow of his hand, and greater than that of schools. In the nine univer- rolled through his native town the seats filled the tide exhausts our strength. Allerton re- noble conduct on the ground—how popular lieve. In other words, the mind must be that the whole public service is being used as an sities of the,empire 202 professorships out of 632 I U instrument of political or party patronage ; were vacant at the beginning of the present year, P until all were taken, and at last the agent cognized this fact and attempted to compro- sympathy went with him, and the general treated and not the body." while Mr. Morton's vigilance was exhibited in an and in the middle schools there were only 1,908 came with his lantern to compare the way-bill mise. He accepted the challenge, intending hope expressed that he would soon be well "A pretty correct diagnosis," he replied. effort to conceal the dangers which from that instead of 2,103, the number borne on the estab- •with the travelers, and satisfy himself that all by his conduct on the ground to vindicate his again. To this he listened, smiling sadly. "And the torture you suffer is from sins source are threatening the liberties of the people lishment. The St. Petersburg News points out I had been called for. As the light fell upon courage, and at the same time justify his acts But this incense, from the outer world, did you have done. They will not let you have and even the existence of the republic. Nothing that in "the governments of the Vistula," (Po-| Allerton's companion he was startled by the and avoid further sin. not banish the beautiful head and crutch, the the needful rest in which to gather strength." could be more absurd, or wider of the truth, than land,) on the other hand, education is progressing I most beautiful face it had ever been his for- One cold, autumnal morning, accompanied murdered head and pistol, and the grinning "Yes, I suppose so. I have done many the attempt which is so industriously made by in a remarkable degree. Besides the elementary! tune to look upon. by his friend and surgeon, Allerton drove skeleton and cross from his foot-board! cruel things, and now they have me at a dis- Republican presses to represent what Mr. Schurz schools, these governments now possess eight! justly distinguishes as the spoils system as an We, who have long seen and loved that from the city into the quiet country. The One night while the friend, who acted as advantage." special schools for training schoolmasters. Thesel angelic face, can realize how it must have inheritance from former Administrations and special schools contain more than 500 pupils, all! sun had not yet risen, and the mist lay heavy his second, sat watching by his side, and none " You must pray for forgiveness—you must »truck him. from Democratic • practices. It is true that belonging to the peasant class, and they havef on the meadows, or dripped like rain from others were in the room, the patient said; reach out your hand—seize the cross." even in the early day» of the republic under already trained 250 young men who are employed For THE CAPITAL. inony there was a handsome collation. The presents THE Brooklyn Eagle closes a cool, admirably of free trade, or rather, as it is eallcd, revenue Republican party as his constitutional advis- THE Associated Press ageut, one Oscar Sawyer, HIS FOOTSTEP. were numerous, costly, and elegant. On Wednesday THE TREATY at Salt Lake City, telegraphed as follows under written editorial on Tweed and Grant with a sum- reform. This is a controling clomont in the pres- evening the bridal party were delightfully entertained ers, and take their advice, he would not only BY NETTIE POTVER HOUSTON; THE CAPITAL. The Executive provided by the Constitution the date of December 7: ming up that must strike every American pos- ent House, and the Speaker, whatsoever may be at Admiral Radford's. Is it too late for us to make oar for Congress and the people, congratulated heal the fatal divisions in the Republican "Much surprise is caused by the removal of Gen- sessed of common sense ora particle of patriotism his private opinions, was forced to organize in Up the pavement, through the doorway, congratulations to the groom, and to wish for himself the world at large upon the Alabama treaty. party, but even at this late day restore to him- with conviction. The article was written in re- accordance with it. As chairman of the Commit- How it Bounds upon my ear I and bride a full enjoyment of the best of this world's CITY EDITION. eral Maxwell from the land office. The Gentiles, goods, and nothing but sunshine ? Extending the congratulations to so large an self the confidence of the people. universally regret it, and the Mormons rejoice." sponse to a defense of the Administration' in the tee of Ways and Means the feeling of the country Coming nearer, nearer to me, New York Times, and the Times is forced to admit was in favor of the Hon. James A. Garfield, and Ringing ont like mnBlc clear. On the 22d of December, under the auspices of Mrs. WASHINGTON CITY: audience makes it safe to congratulate. As "We say this is the impression made upon If anything -is required to bring the Western that a reply calls for more time and labor than for a time it was thought he would be selected. Boss Bay, a lady whose dearest wish at heart is the en- we have shown in these columns, England has us by the message. It may-be a false impres- Union Telegraph monopoly'to a*n end, and insure I can toll before I see him postal telegraphy, it is the fact that partisan, in- that Administration organ has at its disposal. Into this, however, came another powerful influ- Whether anything is wrong. joyment, happiness, and comfort of those to whom she reason to pride herself upon the shrewdness, sion—we hope not—and yet it is one well gives the name of friends, will come off the long talked BUNDAY MORNING - - DECEMBER 10,1871. terested, and lying sentiments like the above are The whole concern, from President to newspaper, ence. Mr. Dawes as chairman of the Committee By the sound of nearing footsteps tact and courage with which she settled these worth entertaining and acting upon until seems afflicted with a hurry that wg cannot un- of private theatricals. They were to have taken place sent over the wires of the joint -monopolies and on Appropriations had made himself particu- As he threads the path along. vexed questions to her own advantage and to proven false. derstand. Bnt here are the closing paragraphs of at Wall's Opera Douse, but that (fortunately for the THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON IN palmed upon the public as news. Hon. Willis larly offensive to the departments-by his bold For his step Is muffled mustfe, " : our loss. The rest of mankind, saving iand The day" has gone by when a man of ordi- an editorial we regret our space will not permit safety of the public) having been burned to the founda- CONGRESS. Drummond, Commissioner of the- Land Office, denunciation of their extravagance. He cut When there's trouble on his brow, tion, we hope and respectfully suggest that the National excepting the suffering Americans, have no nary intellect can be successfully President republishing at length: down their estimates in the most heartless man- General Banks will to-morrow introduce in Secretary Delano, and President Grant are enti- And I know his face Is shadowed may be secured. It is a good place, and Mr. Saville is especial reason to be dissatisfied, so that the of the United States^ The late war has con- ner, and sustained his cutting down by savage Wheirthe sound is hushed and low. the House of Representatives a bill to carry tled-to, praise for removing the being Maxwell But notwithstanding all this, we conclude a generous fellow, and would go to any lengths to serve constitutional yearly reflector could well em- centrated in his bands a vast power—greater as we began, we do not regard Presider.fr Grant as attnoks. The departments, which means the Ad- the ladies. After this digression we'll return to the play, into effect the provisions of the Treaty of named above, for the causes of interference, loaf- Then I softly fall to thinking brace all the nations of the earth in his con- in fact than that held by any potentate of ing, foul language, neglect of business, and petty having done such things as Tweed has done. But ministration, demanded his removal. The Speaker Of a.by-gone, useles« day. which will be " Caste," with the following well-known Washington relating to questions between the and talented amateurs: Miss Belle Hill, (a charming gratulations. He might, it is true, have Europe. Forty millions of people, spread' tyranny, as witness the following from the corres- even a faint approximation by the President of the met this demand in a dexterous way, by making When his footstep Badly lingered— United States and the British possessions on actress;) Miss Brady, whom we all saw and appre- worded his joyous thanks in more elegant over avast continent, with their diversified pondence of the New York World, a paper whieh Unit ed States to the morals and methods of Tweed a committee of strong revenue reformers, and I wafsending hiin away I our northern frontier. These questions are is a far more serious mischief to the body politic. placing Dawes at the head, and designating Gen- ciated a few weeks since; and Miss Chesney, whose phrase. When, for instance, he say«, "An and conflicting interests, find all concentrated has never excused polygamy : Then my lone hours of repentance. talents are too well known in Washington to need any the fisheries, the transit trade, and the navi- See how the tone of public life and morals has example has thus been set which, if success- in the General Government, and the head of "MAXWELL.—This is the name of Samuel's eral Garfield as chairman of Dawes' former Com- Of the letter sent to him— commendation at our hand. The gentl emen are Messrs. gation of the St. Lawrence and its canals, as been lowered by Grant's example. "Look at the mittee on Appropriations. ful in its final issue, may be followed by other a department is more of a power to-day than land-office registerforUtah, and, by appointment Of his hurried, happy footstep Howe, Peddrick, Hill, and the agreeable Fletcher, U. S.- also the freedom of our State canals contigu- thefts of the Southern carpet-bag govern- Poor Kelley, our old friend Pig-iron, is placed Hinging through the twilight dim. civilized nations, and finally be the means of was a President when Andrew Jackson as- fromMcKean, assistant public prosccntor. He is N. The theatricals have for their' object a charity in ous to Canada. The bill will of course be a worthless vagabond, whose neglected appear- ments, compared with which even those of where he can do harm. We actually felt sorry St. John's parish, and we hope eamestly'that Mrs. Ray ing to productive industry millions of sumed the responsibility, and made himself Tweed appeared no longer nnique. Look at the" Bless, ah, bless his welcome footstep, ance would, in a strilnge city, at once arrest him for the forlorn protectionist. While he is bigoted Coining nearer all these years! may be as successful in this as In her other delightful en- ow maintained to settle the disputes of the Government. Woe awaits the man who management of the custom-house, where Murr tertainments. for vagrancy. I met this Government official at through his ignorance, and demands at all hours Sweeter than all earthly music s by the bayonet and the broadside," the labors under the delusion, however honorably pliyv charging two millions and a half for fifteen camp. He was somewhat moved by the "spirit," that the odious monopoly of his State shall .be That my fond Heart ever hears. bayonet and the broadside is too much entertained, that he can manage alone such months' revenue collection, goes out boasting of and informed me that the papers had been ridi- sustained, at the same time refusing to allow, au- AMUSEMEHTS. e. It pricks and thunders the sense un- vast and complicated machinery. his economy and fidelity, and 13 warmly indorsed thors a property in the products of their brain, culing his wooden leg, and wanted to whip the SOCIAL GOSSIP. fitly. There is a little word known as at all points by Grant himself. Seethe navy yard, William D. Kelleyis perhaps the best illustration " Ours " has held the boards at,the National Theater editor of the Omaha Herald. He Is said to have so crowded with sinecures that we pay the ex- during the past week, and has been done as well as the at could have taken the place of five on the,floor of the net purport dnd upshot (if our Society ip now one polished horde, THE ALASKA FUR COMPANY. been a sailor, and is a native of Monroe, Miehl pense of maintaining a navy of the first class in company was capable of performing it. Mr. Saville lounding and unmeaning ones that are gan. His soubriquet is the common one of "Gen- free government. Born poor, he was bound to a' formed of two mighty tribés, the llores and Bored. and Mr. Meatayer were correct and good, but the others The gentleman-who makes selections from fighting condition, while we have not altogether, watchmaker to learn a trade, atid through all —Byron.' tly forced into servioe by the allttesation eral." He says he once sent 'Gath' to-the rear in available shape, enough ships to face the Span- GEORGETOWN AHOUSK». di,dn't amount to much. Hamilton was out of his ele- home and foreign journals for THE CAPITAL sorts of privation worked his way.up until he ment in the character of Hugh Chalcott, and his per- across Harper's Ferry, but would stand him out ish squadron, and are forced to speak with bated It seems that we were the innocent cause of a social |o. The "B's" got into the Executive clipped an article from The Nation reflecting in front if he had hilf» now. He claims that there found himself a journeyman, in the town of Bos- disturbance, an earthqúake so to speak, in the quiet, formances wore careleas and phlegmatic. The scenery breath, or, rather, not to speak at all, in reproba- ton, where the free air so swelled his mighty was-very good and ail the appointments were fine. severely upon the conduct of the Alaska Fur is no power or disposition to stop these proseeu tion of the cruelties and outrages of the oppress- aristocratic burg of Georgetown. We did not mean it. t, and bother us with their noise. lungs and stimulated his, brain that he came out Heaven forbid that we should trouble the cfuiet of that On Friday evening Mrs. May Savilte received a ben- Company towards the natives of St. George, tions.' 'Compel .obedience to the laws' is, he ors of our Cuban neighbors, and our own citizens a s,tump orator and a leader of men. Such lie has ancient place. We would consider such disturbance a efit, and the attendance was a just tribute to a lady who OLD CAT. one of the two islands upon which the com- says, their prime, only ond everlasting instruc among them. We trust and believe that the been ever since, and aside from his hobby, that is misdemeanor of the most serious sort. We would as is always most conscientious in her a.cting and ia highly I were pained by aur constitutional yearly e tion. As I took leave of him at camp he made a President is not consciously wron'g to the ex- esteemed by all who know her, Mra. Dailas-Glyn ren- pany is authorized by law to kill seals.- W a very; unsightly, decayed concern, he deserves soon invade a respectable cemetery and hollow "fire" Ir dragging this soiled linen' into Con- happened to know all about the Alaska com- solemn promise to ' lick ifte like li—11 if I ever tent his conduct indicates, but we have shown as to'go whooping through Georgetown and awaking dered t!he sleep-walking scene from "Macbeth," and said anything about his wooden leg.' I gave him credit for'his fearless defense of freedom in its showed that however faulty kh'e may be as a reader, Mid before the public. It-may be that Mr. pany, and had the article come under our eye that his affiliations and courses are such as cor echoes that hâve slept for lo I these many years.- the number of my residence at Omaha, and this ruptionists in office practice, and such as noliigh- broadest sense, and the earnest, tireless way in certainly In the character of lady Macbeth she is en- |azy made himself disagreeable by speak- it would riot have been republished in Tire But we did. We Incontinently confess that we is why I wish to remark that I presume it is a good minded man, no man either morally or mentally which he lias continued his self-education, nc stirred up, we riled, we shook this beautiful piece of titled to all the honor that has been conferred upon her lisrespectfully of the President, a prac- CAPITAL. leg of its kind. He cautioned me not to say any fit to be President of the United States, wouldha s no claims to statesmanship, and has ao little aristocratic repose in the moBt shameful manner. in England. Now that we have seen her act we wish tomewhat common among the natives; These two islands make a nursery for that thing ^gainst his private character; and when I not recoil from. The reform that is wanted in time left that he will probably never make an ap- Bnt then we didn't mean tt. It was done quite unbe- we had never heard her read. lie being an oid journalist tried his hand strange creature, the fur seal, that has disap- the civil service is wanted most, of all in the head proach to that elevated sphere, hut he is a speci- knownst tû us. And in this wise: This wegb-Sirs. F. W. Lander, who is one of the remarked that I knew nothing against-it, he re- brightest onfthhents of the American stage, will appear correspondent here; that in opposing the peared from, all other parts of the known plied, TWell, I do.' So do I now, for I saw him of the service. General Grant seems utterly in men congressman, and as such we accept and Some wretch with a heart prone to evil and a mind indorse him. lost to the peace and dignity of social life, brought us In a series of those character^ in which she has won BO |ns claim, and exposing the swindle in worjd through indiscriminate slaughter. The in the streets of the city last week-smeared with capable of rising to the dignity of his high'office, justly Celebrated a reputation. To see her In Mary ór of appreciating the need of circumspection and Mr. Speaker Blaine committed the common certain iteiUB claiming to.be social Items of George- Uabama treaty,-lie was not personally Russian Fur Company,. understanding the mud outside and steeped with liquor inside. He town. We did not read them. Heaven forbid that we Stuart, Elizabeth, or Lady Macbeth, is to enjoy a treat disinterestedness which it demands of him. The error of doing precisely what he had to do after lable to the Administration, and the Pres- nature of the seal and giving attention to its liad iwith him pne of the Mormons under indict should do the hardest part connected with the publica- the remembrance of which will never be effaced. Times has distinguished too clearly between right ail attempt to'please all, saving and excepting the through the Secretary of State, had a habits, succeeded in retaining these islands ment for murder, who he insisted was drunk. He tion of a newspaper—that is, read the same. We never On Monday evening Mrs. Isabella Dallas-Glyn gave a seemed to take special deliclit in vomiting forth and wrong in the New York case not to be capa- Hon. Benjamin Btttler. He should have taken the road TSK CAPITAL. We never read any paper save the I to place the facts before the government as a resort, and from them took over a hun- reading of selections from Shakspeare's "Antony and obscene ribaldry mingled with the crudest of ble of discerning, if it will only look, how far list of members, and', without consulting any one New York Independent, that is so charmingly wicked Catacazy represented, and procure if pos- Cleopatra" in Lincoln Hall, under the anspicea bf the • dred thousand skins annually. This had to blasphemy, and boaBtcd a villain's Intimacy with below the high standard it properly exacts of New of the House, made up his committees. This is and lively- Bnt'of course without reading we sent np Grand Army of the Republic. When thia lady first ap- Ills recall. But in a state paper of the be done with great'care. The opeh killing of Mormon girls. Ia it surprising, tliat tili» commu York officials the Chief Magistrate himself grov- seizing the nettle danger and crushing it out of the items for the Social column, and in due coiirse .of peared In thia city last winter and read, or rather at- Stance attached to a President's message, a single seal, the report of a gun, we are as- pity is chafed and galled to the quick when els. It nceds.to use the same candor, and all the ,the power to wound. His treatment of General time tha same, appeared. Didn't'Georgetown waken tempted to read, the "Merchant of Venice," we were and find itself in a bloody row?. Ohl no, pf course vote any space to such a subject is un sured', would frighten the seals from their hissed at and spit upon by such a reptile ? high qualities It has shown in tlie fight against Butler was not creditable. What one or all may of those who were terribly disappointed, and we did , local corruption, in treating of the more wide- not. Didn't Georgetown shriek? Of course George- hot hesitate to express our belief that as a reader phe led, to say the least of it. . favorite resort forever. It was only by prosecution must come, let it be dignified by say of the turbulent member from Massachusetts, spread debauchery of political morals which is town dtdn't shriek. Not much 1 was »signal failure. , That opinion,was not.changedl)y |e manner of doing this is worse than the flowing through decent channels! Then these he is yet a power upon the floor and cannot be driving the male seals to the interior and kill- patterned and licensed by the bad and careless if On the Monday fallowing sundry delicate youths at- her efforts on Monday evening. It Is of course a most people would endure ft with better grace; they suppressed by positive ill treatment. The slight tached to delicate canes, with their hair delicately That the visit of an Imperial fiedg- ing them with sticks, that the annual slaugh- nbt criminal example of the unfit successor'of a difficult undertaking for a single individual to attempt now feei somewhat like the man who was run or insult looks to us, his opponents, as the result parted in the oenter of their intellect, called upon us - ¡should be taken as evidence of friendly ter can safely be accomplished/ To do-this long line of Chief Magistrates, several of whom to interest an audience for a space of two hours by over in the streets, 'lie could stand tlie bruises, but of personal feeling, and creates sympathy that is and seemed.to be afflicted with untold grievances. They kg on the part of the Russian government the company are forced to havte careful, "were illustrious, while not one had lacked a proper reading a play. To do this successfully each character he didn't like to be run over by a d—d swill-cart.'' bettir for him than a prominent position. wanted " to know, yon know, why, by Jove, they were shouldîbe distinctly marked and its individuality pre- Its our American sense and republican sense of personal honor, or an unquestionable sober, trustworthy men, and thus it becomes Of like nettle are the majority of the federal . The Senate went into session with its usual dig- represented aB engaged, by Jove, to gulls all over town. served ¡throughout the entire play. It is not enough - "What is this sprig of Imperial im its interest to treat the natives with kindness personal integrity." nity. Senator Blair made an-attempt, as did Mr. And they weren't—no„by Jove, and they didn't intend that the epeeche8 of the female characters should be officials in Utah; McKean, a camp-meeting to be either, dem it." Ity to us, and what measure of republi and consideration. hypocrite, aijd "Miss Nancy " man; Hpllister, Beck in the House, to get at and relieve their suf- rendered in a low or piano tone of voice and those of Institutions do we give the world in such fering'friends, the Ku-kluxers of the South. Both , We had scarcely quieted down the ydntlis before a the male in a louder and higher key. There must he a . When Alaska became part of our territory rewarded brother-in-law of Colfax; Baskins, deputation of lovely girls came in on ira. " By Jove," 1 were choked off. Senator Sumner made a strike clearness of conception in regard to each particular ¿mission? And if the conduct of the an American company purchased all that could frowsy shyster, mated to a woman divorced by as the delicate youths of the delicate canes and the hair CHRONICLES OF CONGRESS. at our great evil, the vitiated currency, and pro- part, aitd a correct- execution of that conception, BO dan minister was so offensive as to make be sold by the Russian predecessor. And one of the Mormon probate courts which he nojv parted In the centerof their intelleets said, but George-; that thé listener can know who is intended to speak' poscdjthe only remedy known to man, an issue of Intercourse with him Impossible, what a then this company appeared before Congress a-gues'to be without divorce jurisdiction; Patj Congress "met pursuant to adjournment,"as town.has some of the prettiest girls thia Bide of Para- and to whom the remarks are addressed. compound Interest notes at a low rate. dise—Indiana. The prettieat woman we ever saw came Ibf self-respect, or rather respect for our and asked for protection such as ha^d been rick, with his hands carried behind his back lit the minutas of the country debating societies Heretis just where Mrs. Glyn fails. Her conception a Tammany judge keeping "down his coat-tail, In the House the lobby rallied with great force frolh Georgetown. ; Irnment, there was in prompting him to extended to ther Russian company by its gov- express it., and those gentlemen known, irrever- of the character of Cleopatra was complete, and was with one of his brothers,- a sutler at Camp Dou: ently to members as the "Lord's stump orators," over the,proposition to purchase by Government Now, do yon know what these lovely little witches faithfully adhered to. But the other characters were |in an hour because of the Imperial visit. ernment. If every adventurer were permitted wanted to know ? Why if the reports published about las, and' a brother-in-law clerk of the court; < but officially recognized as chaplains, address the net-work of telegraphs ov.er .the country. decidedly mixe^, and if one didn't happen to catch the Tfact is, the proposed toleration was re their being engaged had any foundation in fact. Wasn't to laijd and kill seals the nursery would be course the' sutler brother wants more troops at the Throne of Grace in a powerful manner, call- After a fierce debate the subject was referred to announcement, which the reader always made of the |d in an ill humor, and our Executive not destroyed and a revfenue of a million of dol- the Committee of Appropriations, both parties that funny? .We assured the dear girls that we were commencement of a scene and the characters Intro Camp Douglas; McKean and Strickland,.mean- ing upon the Lord to bless all that they could sorry to Bay there was no'foundation whatever. sulked over the imposition so as to chill lars lost to the Government every three years. time, deep in the contested." Silver Shield " mine. claiming a victory. duced,Sie would have been very much puzzled to know think of, and asking that all they could, not think But we begged off from a husband whose charmfni what it was all about. |r and make the reception, looked at from This revenue pays the coèt of Alaska if con- Polygamy should stop, but also such instru- of might be dismissed without prejudice. And here ends the first chapter of our Chronl- wife had been made a widow. It got to be too much 'cles. The'mills are at work, and the grinding goes Perhaps it may'seem somewhat, harsh to speak of thé uropean view, exceedingly shabby and tinued during the term given this coiripany. mentalities to oppose it.. It Is strangethat what people consider so.sacred of a'good, thing, and we immediately put up on our on, and how the rats swarm. Iri the ant'e-rooms performances of a lady in such severe terms, But'it Is |ditable; but the President of forty mil The, present cry comes from one paper in should be desecrated by a formality that has not door " Small-pox in this honae," and scared away the unjust.to the public and unjust to the performer to and corridors of the Capitol, upon the avenue others with one gas collector and a tailor. pf people hurries-to Congress and scolds San Francisco, and has spread throughout the ODB OLD FRIEND CATACAZT, endearingly known the shadow of earnestness or respect in the per- praise efforts that are devoid of merit. as Old Cat., does not appear well in the published and crowding the hotels and boarding-houses, It was a hoax. It waB a funny hoax; but wo have irritated female dealer in fish. And country. The • Secretary of the Treasury formance. The galleries take no part in the cere- - not laughed yet, and if we could find the author of that On Tuesday evening the Amatenr.Orciiestral Untou, documents from the Orphan Asylum. We fear mony ; that, like the speech-making and voting, .appeal the old familiar faces. Painted faces oo, when the party charged Cannot be gives a ^posit ive contradiction to the charge. hoax, we doubt whether he would laugh much. an organization which has been in existence only about our dear old Cat. has been guilty of some errone- belongs exclusively to the members. Most of the wreathed in smiles seek to woo and win the mem- lin his own defense. The 'natives are well treated, for it is the in- bers. Hardened old lobbyists,withimpudence and two yc^rs, gave a symphony concert, which was not near ous statements. Not to put too fine a.point on members hide from the Lord in the cloak-rooms General Slocnm and Senator Nye are at Mrs. Nichols' so well attended as the merits of the performers dc- • we shall see how jar our President is terest of the company to care for and protect it, this diplomatic old Thomas Cat. has told some and barber-shops, while the few caught in their iniquity fairly enameled on .their countenances, delightful house. . servedi The first public concert of the Orchestral ¡sustained, for he has appealed to the them; and if we had any doubts on 'the sub- whopping lies to the innocent Fish, and about our places look bored—solemnly bored. And this is are vigorously at work. Bings abound, pushing Rumor insista that Secretary Robeson is contem- Union,'which, by the way, is composed entirely of local fhey are dispelled by the significant fact beloved President. We are offended, nay we are official praying, that might be better if members the selfish interests it has been" of late the chief plating the purchase .of a residence. talent, was given, firjt about a year ago, and even thcii three of the leading names on the so- hurt., for this feline representative of all the of Congress were pious people—but they are not duty of Congress to insure. Office-seekers and Sir Edward and Lady Thornton are expccted to re- the members displayed a high degree of proficiency. ' officeholders meet and smile, and drink and slan- The Improvement which was visible in the perform- d petition of complaint are of men dead Btijssias, in his short hair and sturdy ways, took pious peoplo—-and so the religion that is machin- t urn from Europe dnring the preaent week. us in considerably. He imposed on our guileless der in crowds, every one of which is an unanswer- ances qf Tuesday evening Is most marked and calls for three years since. What the enemies of ery is a mockery. Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead, very wealthy and charming the mofet hearty commendation, not only to the mem- nature and awSkened sympathy in his behalf. able argument in favor of civil-service reform. people from New York, are at the'Arlington. ompany want is to have the fishery thrown Popular intirest centers upon the House. The bers, who have evidently stndled and practiced most This was a trifling with ourYender affections that As the impartial reporter it is our task to note Captain and Mrs. Phipps are stationed at Louisville, that the, seals may be disposed of in one S'enate is dignified, but the House is entertaining, diligently, but also to their accomplished conductor, Mr. we cannot forgive. We cast him off. We de- and oh the flirors, In the lobbies, crowding to the their appearance and"rceord. tli'eir acts. Kentucky. They will be greatly missed this winter. George Felix Benkert, to whose ability, energy, and n. nounce him as a most unreliable, deceptive old galleries, camé the crowd, and gazed and chat- On dit that Lieutenant Douglas Potts will soon lead fidelity the present high musical standing of the Union I this connection we- copy from the San; Thomas. Nay, lie was the cause of q.loss in cur- tered as a crowd is wont to do on such occasions. For THE CAPITAL. to the altar one-of our fair debutantes from the West is maiiily due. ' - Lcisco News Letter the following as a rency to us. A gentleman approached our pub- The figure most gazed at and commented upon LOOK AT THE FIGURES. End. • Mr. Benkert showed great discrimination and judg- tmen of fun and Pacific journalism: lisher and offered large sums if he would pub- was that of General Butler. He has not changed General Grant, Tom Murphy, Frank Howe, It is hoped that General Dyer and his accomplished ment in the arrangement of his corps, and their playing IUR SEALS AND IVORY,—For some months lish a certain well-written romance of real life. much if any since we last saw him fighting liis Cameron, and other chums of His Aceideney act wife will resume their delightful "Saturdays," than evinced that each member was thoroughly en f apport | has been published in this city an obscure It was a pleasing novelty to have an author as though they have carried the next Presidential which none were last winter more popular or enjoyable. with the music, and followed closely the batbn of the- way through a host of enemies. The same bald conductor1, Mrs. Droop, always welcome, always* at- , half in bad English and half in excellent offer to pay currency for publication. It is pate, retreating forehead, rotund body, and slen- election. They stmt with an arrogant air and Mr. Beck, M. C. from, the Lexington Kentucky dis- Ichatkan, called (for no obvious reason) the brook no contradiction. Should a man who has trict, has taken a suite of rooms on tlie corner of Eight- tractive, sang in her own sweet way, and her efforts generally otherwise, and very much otherwise. der legs. Ho,was busy as ever trotting from desk were of course well rewarded by the generous applause la Herald. The' editor, who rejoices, m tlie But we put our journalistic hand on our journal- to desk, from group to group, with a ready word battled his whole life for the measures of t he Re- eenth and K streets. Mrs. Beck and Mfss Betty Beck are now occupying the apartments, and we are glad to of the audience. Master Eugene Kieckhoefer, whose |dering appellation of Agapius Honcliarenko, istic heart and said, " Never!" We have the said to each and a'kindly greeting to all. ' publican party dare to question the propriety of remarkable performance upon that most difficult instru- ¡vhose name we therefore suppress,) with a llttj'e romance inour drawer, and perhaps we will reelecting General Grant, (who never gave a Re- say are both enjoying better health than during the "Well, General," cricd one, "how does it go past winter. ment, the violin, have* been the theme of great praise Iness of purpose that would bè creditably in be paid for publication yet. publican vote,) he is denounced as a traitor to his for years, showed that he is still diligent In practice to run for Governor? " Gurriey, of the British Commiaaion for settling the lislied hen camping upon thé trail of a cor- But all this intriguing, lying, and bother is "Don'tknow," was the ready response, "never party and abused as a very drab. and a hard student. There was an increaee of fervor and It grasshopper, has devoted his wealth of Alabama claims, has taken a house on II street, between a greater delicacy of finish in his playing than when in accordance with European diplomacy. The tried ; run for a nomination once, and didn't like In their sober momeuts let them now look over Fifteenth and Vermont avenue, over which MB wife \nd his want of talent solely to the hopeful history of European diplomacy is a history of just the following figures, and see their doom fore- we heard him last. This young musician has a most it." presides In the moat charming manner. Mr. and Mrs. - brilliant future before him if lie continues to persevere. •try of extorting money 'from the Alaska such lying intrigue and bother. The gentlemanly "Isit true that Sumner quoted on you ,tlie words shadowed. Gnrney appear most hospitably inclined, and receive Tiercial Company—whom we hereby apprise and aged gent of the Orphan Asylum says that it is of thé poet, "Suppose the independent, liberal Republicans with marked courtesy all their visitors. The Dolby Ballad Troupe,.comprising Messrs. Sant- i presence and design. His genius has not not in accordance with American diplomacy. hold a conventiop and nominate Horace Greeley On dit that Miss Benjamin of Cold Spring, New ley, Patey, Cummings'and Sloper, and Miss Wynne and been Buitably rewarded, except in a few Of all sad words the most sad is when Well, perhaps it is not. Ye ancient Fish has U6 We'r forced to say in life wo might have Ben ?" for President, and the Democrats would not nom- York, formerly a well-known belle of this city, is about Mrs. Ratey, gave two concerts at Lincoln Hall; on fees when he has been soundly beaten inate a candidate, but say that, although they do to make her debut on the stage under the patronage of Thursday and Friday evenings. To say that we wore at a disadvantage,there, for we do not know; nor "Couldn't have been Sumner. He owes too no apparent pause other than that his not agree with all Mr. Greeley's views, they have Lester. Wallack, Esq. Miss B. is now pursuing her pleased with the efforts of these artists would be but, do we know the man who does know what Ameri- much to liis memory evertq misquote." , knee seems to be regarded by his over- confidence in his honesty, ability, patriotisfn, and 8tudieB, and is at present the guest of the Rev. J. faintly to,express the gratification we experienced from can diplomacy is. But we suspect that the Rus- The new members could be distinguished from listening to their delightful siiigihg. live countrymen as of the nature of an liberality,-and that they will support him, can any Vaugh:Lewis, rector of St. John's^ church. sian government will punish our old Cat., not for the old Soloris by the conscious air of delegated Mi*. Santley possesses a baritone voice ranging over It is probably from these repeated drub- man,'with brains in liis head, doubt about the The class of '69 are en route for Annapolis to undergo lying, but being caught at it. And it will teach a importance each wore. Your new membei- is a two octaves, with a.complete tenor.qualit'yln the upper I that has arisen a rumor that he was about lesson to diplomatic ducks residing near the court following result: their examinations for ensigna and then coming here study. He lias new clothes that fithi m uncom- to be examined for blasters. Thisis good news for our .register, and a uniform smoothness throughout its tndon the newspaper business, and prose- of King Yankee Doodle to avoid Newspaper Bow. ¡SBEEI.ST. GRANT. . entire compass that places its possessor far above any Ihe correlative one of thieving acorns from fortably. He has a new hat that evidently makes New Hampshire 4 Maine .7 fair demoiselles-in whose hearts is a. cosy place for the These journalists are men of honor and sharp fel- middies, for among them are handsome Dick Daven- baritone that we remember to have heard. His culture J pigs ; though, indued, the more congenial his head ache. Every movement is thesubjeçt of Connecticut.... 6 Vermont : '4 Is complete, and the most difficult passages are executed lows, look you, and it is not every diplomate who study and result of a resolution. He says "good New York 34 Massachusetts...... '.. 13 port, agreeable Dix Bolles, and the eminently fascinat- jeter of that employment may have given can pull wool over their eyes. We dismiss Cat.; New Jersey 9 Rhode Island 4 ing Perkins. with a facility and finish that is really remarkable. |to the report that he intended to turn his morning " in a solemn and impressive manner, as Pennsylvania S8 Ohio 21 Mra. Patey completely captivated our music-loving we tend er him passports—a dozen if one woift do. if announcing a grave proposition, and tells you Delaware 3 Illinois 21 After the ball by Mrs. Smith to Alexis, he in making people- by the ^richness, the melody, and the wonder- upon journalism. At any rate it is untrue ; Go Cat.; take no order other than what we give ; Maryland 8 Michigdn 11 his party call presented pretty MISB Srtiith, the niece of Is so seldom turned his back upon anything of the weather in a measured way as if commit Virginia tl Wisconsin 10 fully sympathetic qnality of her magnificent contraltq but go at once. Wc are hurt and offended. Scat! ting himself to a platform. If he could bp "caught North Carolina 10 Califdftiia.... f 8 the Admiral, with a petite RuBBian flag, on It, in hie voice, which is néhrer In sound to d clarionet than any- lut getting it kicked that he feels discour- South Carolina 7 Minnesota ' 5 own writing, his naiûe and the two mottoes, " H&ine du and searched1; a written speech would -be found Georgia 11 Kansas S thing else that we can think of, so perfcct*are its; tones 1 and will probably continue to sin in the di- bal " and " Toujours fidèle." Happy Miss Smith, who throughout its entire range. Her execution of HaUah's Or THE REPORTS madeto Congress by the heads in his coat-tail pocket, that sooner or later he ie Alabama 9 Iowai 11 In in which his toes are now pointed until Mississippi 8 Nevada 3 was so prettily and deservedly complimented by His " Storm," on Thursday evening, was given with a dra- of departments those of Secretaries Belknap and bent upon delivering, unless he has leave to print, Louisiana 7 Nebraska 3 Highness. [time as the good devil shall claim his Own." Kentucky 12 — matic intensity that held her auditors spell-bound only Bobeson are the more noteworthy for their digni- A pickpocket once saw a new member put a pack Tennessee '... 11 Electoral votes 124 Three new beans have arrived in town—at least that to electrify them by the grand climax of the last stanza. fied yet simple and clear statement of affairs. age carefully away in his breast. Believing this Indiana 14 Missonrl 11 is the latest ôn dit—young Dr. Smith, and Drs. Tilgh= MissWynue possesses a pleasing mezzo soprano voice, They are documents of which these gentlemen to be money, the thief followed him for days, and Arkansas 6 man and May. They served during the late war aa sur- and sings with exceedingly-good taste and correctness, MINOR NOTES. have reason to be proud. Secretary Bobeson is a at last cutting the coat he secured the precious Florida 3 " geons in the Ambulance Corps, and were several times as does also Mr. Patey, though both of these fall far Texas 8 ITLE EMMA makes her first appearance and a growing man, while General Belknap lias from the parcel, and hurrying away to an alley opéned it Oregon 3 mentioned with distinctiqn for valuable services. Sup- belpw either Santley or Mrs. Patey in point of artistic start won the hearts of,all by his patient attention with eagerness, and found a package of congres- West Virginia 5 posing they dance well, what an acquisition they*ll be excellence. The programme for each night was badly Ition. She coines, like Joaquin Miller and to the 1'german 1" arranged, and not near so pleasing as one to which we lllartè, from the far West, and it is' said has to business and courteous treatment of all. sional envelopes. The pickpocket committed Electoral votes 281 . it is to be regretted that these two gentlemen suicide, and before dying left as a "legacy to his At a party several winters since, Judge ¡Chase, Mr. listened some wcoks ago in Baltimore, ajid we hope led by her Winning ways all sorts of public "Neeessary to a choice, one hnndred and seventy-eight that thia.excellent troupe will visit us again shortly do not feel justified in suggesting and carrying brother thieve» the words "ware tongressmen.' ; Blow, (of Missouri,) and Mrs. General Gaines were Icters. But, as in all such cases, the pensive votes. and give lis one evening's entertainment of purely out in tljeir departments the reforms they must The principal topic of conversation was th.e or Btánding chatting, when Mrs. Gaines announced that c, full of curiosity and- wrath, makes a bad Tlio contest in 1840 was between the officehold- she intended "living one hundred and fifty years." English music. recognize. The American army for example, ganization. As all the legislat ion of the-Hous.e, .crs ami''the people. It will be the same in 1872. Two,of the songs which were given'on Friday evening • it in getting at the truth, and. just now the 11 Turuiilj; to Blow, Judge Chase said, " Blow, hear that ; |Bobert C. Scheiick seems to be the only founded on the English system, modified by the is done by about thirty members through the " Tax-payers to the front, officeholders to the rear/ only think, she has still one hundred and twenty-five deserve especial mention, not only for the charming and suffers from general denunciation. French, and nearly ruined by Senator Wilson, is committees, [sustained by rules so complicated •That will be tlie battle-cry of the victorious peo- years to live." Was there ever, paid Mrs. Gaines a melody of the compositions, hut because there flrecon - I said to be a stockholder and director in tlie in direct antagonism to our republican Govern- that a man of any sense invariably becomes in- ple. • , A REPUBLICAN. more delicious bit of flattery than this ? nected with them certain associations which may be^ ment; and inefficient when compared to the im- sane if he attempts to comprehend tliem, there Interesting to some of our readers. "Once I Loved a 1 Emma, and no end of abuse follows the an- Miss Chandler'B marriage is announced for the 27th— provements that, as illustrated by Prussia in the is a desperate struggle to obtain leaàing positions. PERSONAL ANDOTHERWISE. Maiden Fair," so delicately sung by Mr. Cummings, (;ement. It is said to'be a shame and a di-s- ceremony at her father's jreaidence on H street. Mr. was composed by -King James I In the early days of the that he, a minister plenipotentiary and late conflict, give us the real meaning of war. . Our The most important is that of the Ways and Francis C., Bowen, formerly of this city, has com- Hale is said to be the youngest, handsomest, and witti- system makes an army of officers and leaves the seventeenth century ; and " Lillie's Good-night " is the r extraordinary residing near the Court of Means. Next is that of Appropriations. After mtenced the practice of law in New York city. est man in the House, excepting always our old (and production of Mrs. Elizabeth Philp, a celebrated Eng- limes,- should be interested in stocks of any private where he was three centuries ago—an in- the more important are half a dozen, depending in The son of the great novelist has dropped the "jr." yet'ever yonng) friend S. Su Cox, from New York, who lish composer, and the Bis'ter of our well-known and ferior creature, to be treated as a dog.. great measure for importance upon the legislation from his name, and is now " Charles Dickens." has par excellence the genius of the House. He is at enterprising citizen, Franklin Philp, Esq. We are glad Our navy calls for internal bureaus that will that happens to be up. In four years' observation Hepworth Dixon is endeavoring to increase his bank the Aldington, where his accomplished and agreeable to announce that the excellent artists bf this troiipe nay be stupidity on our.part,. but we cannot wife isj expected every day. Ha enjoya the soubriquet It tnay be that we have not, that delieatc continue the navy through all times, regardless the most important measure we saw before the account by Suing tlie Saturday Eevleio for $80,000 for have been secured by the Philharmonic Society, and of political changeB that givo a new head and House was in a proposition to give Billy McGar libel. ' of Sun-Set, but we. hope that during our lifetime his that they will sing in the oratorios of "Elijah" and liveness that distinguishes an American offi- sun may never set. the "Messiah." but for the life of us we cannot see why general confusion every four years. The speech rahan a rich quicksilver mine that belonged to The difficulty in trying Tweed before a New York u Our society^ people will miss greatly during this win- We almost forgot to make mention of Mr. Lindsay ral Bchcncic may not hold stoek in a mine as of the late Hon. Henry Winter Davis, made dur- some other people. Billy ingeniously turned his jury is said to be They cannot find a jury worthy of ing the last session that lie served in Congress, claim into stock, and issued ten millions on it. his steal," . ) ter the; lavish hospitality which has in preceding win- Sloper, whose playing upon the piano was really most, lis own his house or any other property he ders been dispensed from several of our leading hóuBes, meritorious, loans, or sells, as profit or necessity die-. would make aa admirable report. Ten millions of stock on a claim brought every •The Grand Duke Alexishas presented to the proprie- Into which during the past few months the angel of High sounding as his title is, he is after We are glad to recognize in. Messrs. Belknap member to his seat, and one of the most exciting tors of the Clarendon Hotel tin; sumptuous furniture death has entered all unhidden, and taken therefrom Wd want to make one Suggestion to the proprietors' and Bobeson able men, and should the Cabinet and eloquent debates we tver heard. 'We never and fittings of the apartments inhabited by him. the losing and the loved.. .Mrs. Riggs, in whose genial of Lincoln Hall in regard to the heating thereof. When |hen we get down to naked facts, nothing Valued at $20,080. a person attends a concert,,a reading, qr a lectflpe, ¡is - : our form of government but a clerk of tlie be remodeled as we suggest elsewhere, these are heard such a torching appeal as that made by presence all felt welcome and at home, has gone to the only two incumbents we would care to retain. the Honorable Mr. Bcek of Kentucky on the Mr. 12. D. Tracy, an accomplished musician, who enjoy (he reward meted out by the generous God to usually goes to enjoy himself, but when liis attention Department, with nothing to do at the is distracted during the entire evening by cold feet, woes of a love-lorn Irishman kept wrongfully out leads the choir at Dr. Butler's church, was' presented, those who do His work on earth, and a loving family ; of St. James but to vise passports and in- on Friday evening with a rosewood baton heavily tipped mourn; in close seclusion their great loss. Mrs. Zellin's cold hands, cold ears, and in fact a most terribly frigid Ice the American Muggins to her Gracious TifE Courier-Jourial, the double-headed literary of the property of Other people, A)1 the carpet- atmosphere all about the hall, he don't enjoy worth a baggers gathered around the H0T}.Qral)}e Beck and with silver, the gift of tlie members of his choir. house, where was found so much enjoyment, Is closed Jety the Queen. While the pay afforded .this baby of Kentucky, indulges ip the fpllowing: by reason of the death several months since of her cent. Come, Mr. Janitor, put on more çoaf. , General Noyesl Governor-elect of Ohio, has been for |matie agent is quite sufficient to sustain a "The Piatts of Ohio are a prolific set. Donn, wept. The bigamist Butler, brought from jail mother and on' Sunday of her father, Mr. Freeman. to vote for Billy's claim, sobbed when he re- some days at the Arlington. General Noyes is quite- Ite citizen, it makes no approach to enough (or Isaac Dunn,) whose strong point seems to lie young for a governor, not adding over forty-five years Mrs. Sherman is in deep morning for her distinguished A jpincinnatiau married the divorced wife of his own |he so-called minister if he is expected to in addressing an Imaginary person as " My Chris- sponded. This in way of illustration. to his earthly experience. • His round full head looks father; Hon. Thomas Ewing, and of course her " Wed- son., lup the show his pretentious title calls for. tian friend," gets a good salary for writing un- Poor Mr, Speaker Blaine, who had to make up out upon the world f ringed.by hair and beard black aB nesdays" are stricken from the list. Mrs. Porter, we' fear, will he debarred from entertaining on account of Victoria Woodhnll's parents formerly kept a tavern lie private business then, if it is honest, is told yards of racy slang for the independent Bc- and announee these committees, was sorely beset the raven's wing. He 1B a pleasant, man to know, and in Pennsylvania. and perplexed. He had an able-bodied man easily-known. General NoyeS, a native of Ohio, was the ill health of the Admiral, who is still confined to fable. pubiican press, and at the same time edits a Two paper mills are said to be run night and day to great journal of his own in Washington. One armed with a club and a revolvor- to keep mem- educated for the bar, served with distinction during the houae ; BO that, with these sorrows o'ershadowing • here comes the point. It it honest | We the onfe brightest of our bright homes, we fear rather keep A. H, S. in copy paper. John J. Piatt, yet more depraved than Donn, has bers from breaking into his house. He has been the late war, coming out with laurels find one leg; was Le thai it is. A correspondent of the New a quiet winter. Young men who are wearing feathers on their hats written several books of original poetry, and is known to dodge down back alleys and run speedily elected judge of the probate court In Hamilton county, I Sun, who seems to know all about it, says Ohio, and when nominated as a candidate for governor this season tHll probably wear tassels-on their boots [Little Emma is the richest silver mine about to inflict upon the country another collec- with a loss pf wind and dignity. On one occa- On Tuesday at three o'clock, at the residence of Ad- quite astonished' and won the natives by his eloquence. miral Thornton Jenkins, U. S. N., a small number of next year. ne world. This correspondent makes an tion of his ravishing verses. There are several sion he bolted through a back window to try and He carried the State by twenty thousand majority, in escape the eye of the Hon. Benjamin Butler, but relatives and moat intimate personal friends gathered An Indiana editor Btartled his readers by announcing, Criminate attack on everybody and every- other Piatts in the writjng business, and at pres- a canvass run on the merits of this Administration, " We leave to-morrow for the county hog show, and failed, for the fton. Butler can look two way^, at to wlt»os8 the marriage ceremony between hiá charm- bjut the fact is admitted that the mine ent there are no indications of a literary famine." that left the legislature a tie and Hon. John Sherman ing daiighter, Misa Elise, and Lieutenant Parker, U. S. expect tp take the prize." once, so he ran after tlie Speaker crying, "Ah ! I've unhappy. ¡valuable as represented, and why under the Now tljaf js not qnjy unkin,d but rather impu- N. The bride, always pretty, never appeared to better The former "Belle of New Haven" Is Bald to have Instances should not General Sehenck give dent. The double-ender literary administrator caught, I've caught you, " which was very aggrava- At the same time and place comes General Thomas advantage than in her daihty bridal robes. The full, been committed as an habitual drunkard id New Jer- ¡Bull an opportunity to invest ? de bonis itfm of the lap aiiil now so deeply la- ting, and created a coolness between the two Bs. L. Young, senator elect from Hamilton county, Ohio, dress bf white gros grain silk was m trains and trimmed sey. Perhaps she took to drink because when she was not in good taste. It is indelicate* for a mented George D. Prentice, is- a gei)t)e!san re- What Speaker Blaine had .to find and. apt upon to the doubtful legislature. Before General Young with rich point d'Angleterre ; her tulle veil was held in a belle her feelings were wrung. ' u s Jliplomatlc agent to be dealing in such bnsi- joicing in the name -of Watersop. There is a is what eyery Speaker Piust, consult, and that is accumulated so much adipose be was eminently hand- place !>y sprays of orange blossoms and tea roses. The Flirtation corners are an essential at parties in L° ' " tradition extant that when tips extraordinary the feeling of the Hquse. If a Speaker is in accord some. He retains, however, his genial nature and clear, groom Is pronounced handsome by the ladies, and he vflle, Kentucky. If the BpaCo under the stalreases is level head. He retains an abiding confidence in the |have no paticnce with such flummery. Thegeniu s was born it took a search wan-ant to find with this he has an easy time. His rapid and half looked very distingué ip his uniform and with his face not provided with sofas, and the house possesses no the tim£ erroneous rulings are accepted and sus- Republican party, but has not, we fear, the proper ad- all lighted by his new happiness. There were four bay windows, the young couples will seek a paradise • we have done with it tlie better it will be it, and its paternal, adjusting his spectacles, miration for our financial senator. We cannot under- brldesjnaids—Miss Parker, Miss Jeffers, piquant, pretty exclaimed with some astonishment, pot uijmin- tained ; and with tb» majority at his back he pon- off their own in ahy convenient corner. Recently at S stand this. There ia something so mysterious and fas Mies Maxwell, and Misa Radford. They all looked party a couple were discovered in the bath-room. At |have known Bobert Schenck nearly a lifp- gled with disgust, "Good Lord, what-a-son!" trols the most turbulent legislative body in exis- cinating in a great financier. We never go to a bank and lovely! in their tarletan dresses, made en traîne, very tence. Now Mr. Speaker Blaine knew that there the Gait House german, given a few weeks since,'a We have known him as a gentleman whose This was repeated so frequently by all who were look at a cashier that we ijo not feel as if we ought to bouffant, front width in pleats frpm waist to hem, couple penetrated to the fifth storyIn search of happi1 Itism, integrity, and honor are above re- able to see the infant phenomenon that it came was one question that brought th.e Democracy go out and buy some new clothe9 and study finance. round;the skirt four narrow rufilea^ the oversklrts ness. The attic is frequently the'resort In private He can; carry Little Emma without to be his name, and now he is known :ns Water- into a majority through a number of Republicans Senator Tom believes in General Schenek, the Emma looped with ëxqnlsitè japónicas' tinged with ciiinBon ; houses, and thoughtful hostesses turn off the gas and son—the real name being Solfkins. holding the same views, an4 that is the queetlpn mi««, |9 tfie Qontfary npt^ittiBtanding. same powers u'estllng ia tlielr cilirlB, After the cere- light this retreat with a solitary candle, | THE LION'S MOUTH. LOCAL ITEMS. More Defalcations. GENTLEMEN'S robes de chambre, from-$5 to $30. Aiken was sworn and testified : Resides in Baltimore, Linen hemmed handkerchiefs in handsome half-dozen SPECIAL NOTICES. The community was startled on Wednesday by the and has been professor of analytical chemistry in the AMUSEMENTS. DRY GOODS, &c. ! column ia set apart for the public, la which to THOSE in need of house-furnishing articles should announcement that one of tfee trusted disbursing clerks boxes, from $1.50 to $6 per box. tbolr views on all subjects, in their own language, read the advertisements of J. W; Boteler & Bro. Elegant neckweaY in purple, plain, blue, lucifer, University of Maryland since1837 ; was called up by „ MASONIC MEMBERS OF LEBANON of the Treasury Department had been arrested for d& drabs, ashes of rose, pearl, lavender, garnet, crimson, Doctor Williams to make an analysis of a stomach said EU LODGE No. 7, F. A. A. M., are requested to '""do not hold ourselves responsible for opinions lilac, and other shades and mixtures, at lower prices New National Theatre. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, TQE MAHSTON HOUSE furnishes superior table board. frauding the Government of a large amount of money, to be that of General Ketchnm ; was called upon as meet at Masonic Temple, on MONDAY AFTERNOON used by our correspondents. On account of the than usual for similarly fine articles. at one o'clock, to attend the funeral of our late Brother SOJOURNERS, RESIDENTS FOR THE WINTER Give a trial and you will not regret it. and the following day another clerk was jugged for a Gentlemen's fine shirts in the greatest variety of chemical expert ; to satisfy himself whether anything FOR SIX NIGHTS ONLY AND ONE MATINEE. «PJU increasing pressure on our columns, lengthy W. COOPER. M. M. of Sister Lodges cordially invited. AND STRANGERS. " similar offense. As to'the first defaulter, the shock to kinds and sizes, for $15 per half dozen. injurious was in the stomach it was his duty to use all Punctual attendance requested. The Distinguished Tragedienne, Jnunlcatlons cannot bepnblished. GENTS' kid gloves, a good article at $150, at C. Gentlemen's fine gloves of kid, dogskin, cloth, &c. Per order W.M. those who knew him was very great, because he had appropriate tests that would attain certainty ; before Who may need any kind Of European or American Baum's kid glove depot, 408 Seventh street. always been a quiet, serious man, unostentatious in hit One price only: GEO. C. HENNINO, JAMES WILLIAMS, Mrs. F. W. Lander, Fancy or Staple Dry Goods, are.solicited to inspect our J oil ii Davis" NO. 410 Seventh street northwest. beginning a chemical expert seeks for something to It : * Secretary. manner of living and dress, and had acquired a very high supported by Mr. J. II. TAYLOR, Mr. GEO. BECK, stock at their pleasure. 8 .,„,1 soya that, while he did not inspire the guide his researches ; the symptoms of a case are all- THE STEAMER ARROW has resumed her trips to Mount OFFICE OF THE MOUNT VERNON STEAMER and the National Star Company.' |S|~In addition to the stock in store, our Northern «Christopher" editorial in THE CAPITAL of November reputation in the quiet old burg of Georgetown where THE good old times are slowly returning. Each day Monday, December 11 —MARIE ANTOINETTE. andEastern correspondents send us new supplies daily. Vernon, stopping at Alexandria and other points on the we notice some standard article reduced to anti-war important to determine what he shall searcti for, with ~ ^A-T- " ARROW," WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8,1871. 0 PRIC he resided. It appears that his operations date back The Steamer "ARROW" will leave Stephenson's Tuesday, December 12—HENRY VIII. J^SS -E ONLY, MARKED S PLAIN Its statements are, nevertheless, essentially true; river. UgJ| - prices. The latest tidings, which will gladden the that view he made inquiries, and was governed by infor- Wednesday; December 13—QUEEN ELIZABETH I evasive apd inane drivel of " W," intended to several years, and that he has systematically and delib- hearts of hundreds, is the announcement that at the Wharf, foot of Seventh street, DAILY at 10 o'clock a. FLUULUIS. llie THE ninth private party of the A. A. P. Debating So- mation, received from them, (alluding to Dr. Williams m., for Mount Vernon, stopping at Alexandria and Thursday, December 14—MARIE ANTOINETTE |^-A11 orders.receive prompt and careful attention, ¡co reply 0) thereto, is but a tissue or willful and ma- erately swindled the Government for a'long time. In 01d"Rye House, 706 E street, the best of Rye Whisky Friday, December 15—BENEFIT OP Mrs F W LAN- ciety, to have been given on the 18th, has been post- can be had for ten cents a' glass, and a superior assort- and Professors Chew and Milqp ;) from some circum- Forts Foote and Washington, each way, returning to and parcels properly packed for Shipment by Express ilniant falsehoods, designed to divert attention from the second case the accused was decidedly " loud " in ment of Liquors and Cigars at proportionately low stances presented the idea of strychnine was suggested, the city at 4:30 p. m. DER—SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL' ' or other conveyance, free-of charge. poned until the 37th Inst. his movements, making his wife presents of diamonds, Saturday, December 16—MACBETH. the ineffable baseness for which he found himself pil- prices may here be found. To crown all, the enterpris- and from others the idea of arsenic ; both of these were Sf • „ THOS. ST4.CKPOLE, Captain. GRAND LANDER MATINEE, Saturday, at % p. m. costly jewelry, and other trifles of that kind, amount ing proprietor serves a free lunch of Baked Beans and JAMES SYKES, General Srp't. dec 10-tf loried by TUN CAPITAI.. THE ATTENTION of the ladies is directed to the an- Boston Brown Bread from 12 to 2 o'clock each day. suggested, and nothing else made a matter of conversa- [Republican aid Star.] Perry & Brother, John Davis, perceiving his name rendered " Cliristo- nouncement of Miss Qedney, a modiste of very ex- ing in value sometimes to a thousand dollars. Call and try it. tion at the time ; the jar containing the stomach was MONDAY, December 18, WALLACE and RICHINGS NOTICE. COMBINATION.. It . „ jn certain proof-sheets, did correct the same; alted reputation, who has just made her advent in this Of course Government clerks are not usually in the handed him by one of the three gentlemen; the sto- Pennsylvania-avenue and Ninth street. AN ELEGANT GARMENT.—We habit of making such expensive presents, and his yesterday saw at the R lilch was no sooner discovered by "W." than that city. establishment of Messrs. A. Saks & Co., 310 Seventh mach was unopened when taken from the jar ; it was ESTABLISHED 1840. . Bortby betook himself to probably the most zealous friends were frequently curious as to the secret which stieet, the handsomest overcoat of the season. The laid on a clean plate and opened by Professor Miles, In accordance with the following directions of the THE NEXT LECTURE in the Grand Army course will enabledhimtobesolavish in his expenditures. But ' coat was made from Australian blue Chinchilla, and cut Metropolitan Hall. ..official" laborof his life, and, bless yon I poor John's be delivered on Monday evening, the 18th instant, by who poured out the' contents in a glass beaker, which Governor of the District of-Columbia, viz: he always asserted that he was lucky; that he knew a in double-breasted surtout (or frock) style, the skirt be- correction was speedily "rubbed out," and his name B. F. Taylor. There will he no lecture to-morrow ing a trifle longer than that worn last season, the lining witness held ; plate and beaker were clean and fur- EXECUTIVE OFFICE, VARIETY THEATER. ISP",Carpets, Curtains, OHclotlis. Rugs, Mattings, thing or two about the stock market ; that'he was „„t "where the woodbine twineth ". The classic night. of the finest English silk, serge'binding, collar, cuffs, nished by witness ; the fluid was within a few drops of WASHINGTON, November 25, 1871. &c.', upper floors. IE always kept well posted, and knew just when to buy lappel, and pockets, and entire facings being of the " To the Auditing Commission: Ktonday Evening;, December 11, 1871, brow of " W." pnekored ominously, meanwhile; and finest LyonB silk velvet. This garment was made for a four fluid ounces ; then proceeded to examine the fluid, " You are hereby authorized and directed to resume - THE METROPOLITAN HALL offere great attractions to and when to sell, so that he was nearly always success- gentleman in Philadelphia, at a cost of one hundred which was a tnrbid, brownish fluid ; examined firstfo r the examination of claims and evidence not heretofore ENGAGEMENT EXTRAORDINARY. ., . AUCTION SALES. 11« attractive countenance became corrugated with a amusement seekers, and all lovers of light amusements of rage. Davis (nee John, now Christo- ful in making'a " hit;'» This explanation seemed sat dollars, and many gentlemen who saw the garment pro- the presence of strychnia, and failed to find any traces submitted for your action, and to give public notice wild spasm will find the entertainment equal to that of any variety nounced it~to be the most artistically cut and hand- that you will continue to receive such applications or I—her) ventured to protest, and mildly suggested that isfactory, and it was generally understood by his friends at all ; witness ïhen detailed the process of the exami- IMMENSE AND STUPENDOUS ATTRACTION. ' theater in the country. somely trimmed coat in the county.-. ; vouchers, until the 11th day of December next, and ¥• GREEN. & WILLIAMS,. Auctioneers, I Je probably knew his own name. In vain. The fates that he dabbled in stocks to a considerable extent, and nation and tests used to discover strychnia, which were embrace the same in your final report," - First appearance of the World Famed G. W-. JESTER, B Southeast córner of Sefenth and D streets. were inexorable. " I'll harenobody meddling with my that his money was made In that way. WE ARE'informed of the fact of the continued arrival commonly used by all analytical chemists; the exam-' • (Signed) H. D. COOKE, THE MAN WITH THE TALKING HAND, together with PROFESSOR MASSON, one of the most accomplished Governor, his THREE HEADLESS MEN electrifying and aston: I nroof-sheetsi " (He had been made a sort, of factotum The expose wliich has now been made shows that the of splendid "dress and walking boots" for ladies dur- ¡nation or analyzatlon resulted in obtaining no visible teachers of French, and a highly cultured gentleman, ing the present and continuing next week, at Mr. C. F. All creditors of the late Corporations of Washington, ishing all beholders with his Marvelous Feats of Ven- I to rim to the printing office.) ""Here, Mayduke, off Treasury was where he operated, and that he was con- residue except a few points that appeared to be fatty has been appointed to the chair of Modern Language's CumininsT Wonders in quantity find quality, embrac- Georgetown, and the Levy Court, who have not, aB yet, triloquism, engaged at a salary of TRUSTEE'S SALE. I «litó them!" John ((. e. Christopher) hereupon, and tinually putting his fingers into Uncle Sam's strong ing all the new styles, "narrow" widths especially matter* The hour of three had arrived, and Jhe court in the Columbian College. presented their claims before the Commission ap- Under and by virtue pf a deed of trust to me, dated I with considerable ¡repressiveness, admonished May- box. also the medium, the Full and the wide. An exceed- adjourned toMonday . TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS PER WElSK. ing large and fresh assortment of the celebrated Buffs pointed to receive and. audit them, are hereby requested May 1st,.1871, and recorded in Liber Nor. 643, folio 314, I dnkc not to venture on a " new departure " in the di- A HANDSOMELY PURNISHED PARLOR and chamber, Rumor says that there are other festive clerks whose of New York, (and we say just here that Mr. C. boasts Notice was given that all witnesses for defense ex- to present them on or before the 11th day of December The large and talented Variety Company in a Fresh one of-theland records for the county of Washington, rectlonofCiapp.buttoawalt fnrtheradvices. Mavdnke (communicating, front second story,) suitable for a baoks do not properly balance, and that one of the offi- of carrying the finest and latest collection of this un- Olio of Songs, Dances, Farces, Negro Interludes, &c. equaled and unsurpassed of makers,) will be forthcom- cept medical and ehemiral are excused to Tuesday next. next, that the same may be acted upon and embodied D. C-, and at the request of the holder of the promis- tarried; the chief appeared, and promptly restoring member of Congress, for rent at the Marston House, cial European tourists is suspectedof taking more than ing this week and next. Ladies, remember the above| in their final report, otherwise, serious delay and other sory noter thereby secured, I will proceed to sell on I John'« erasure, saved him from being christened Chris- 705 Fifteenth street, corner of New York avenue. his salary from the Government. and we will be thanked. Direction, 932 Seventh street, Tlie Grand Bukc at the "Hub." disadvantages may result to parties neglecting to avail MONDAY, December 11,1871, at 3 p. m., on the premi- topher, in spite of himself, in the official report.. Now that the officials have their eyes open they shonld " Extensive Shoe Storey Lincoln Hail. ATTENTION is called to the advertisement of J. C. BOSTON, December 9.—This afternoon the Grand themselves of this privilege, as their claims could not ses, the following described property, situated at the How, who is this " W.y" (known among his unwill- thoroughly investigate the account's of every clerk Who Parker,who has on hand one of the largest stocks of HOME AGAIN.—After a long and "thorough search Duke Alexis aiffi suite attended a concert by twelve be embraced in the recommendation of the Commis- corner of D street north and Delaware avenue, in rear ing associates by the playful name of " Wool-cat," by is intrusted with money. It is a duty they owe to stationery to he found in the city. Those in search of among the dealers and manufacturers of the North, hundred school schildren in Music Hall. The decora- sion, nor Bhare in the provisions to be made for pay- of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot, to wit: All reason of certain salient feline characteristics,) that he themselves and to those honest and upright clerks who Messrs. George B. Wilson & Company, the popular TUESDAY EVENING, December 12, holiday goods should make a note In regard to Parker. tions of the hall were profuse and elegant, and the ment of claims audited and allowed. the SHOPS AND BUILDINGS now upon the west ihoald "play such fantistlc tricks?" He is a post if er- have been perfectly faithful to the trnst'Teposed in proprietors of the fashionable shoe establishment under Odd Fellows' Hall? Seventh street,; have returned, hav- singing of the-children created great enthnsiam. At The Commission will meet EVERY DAY, (Sundays sixty feet of Lot No. 9, in Square No. 683, together witi I oils fellow, whose boorishness and bad manners cause WE HAD the pleasure of looking through the finely them. GRAND CONCE R T. ing purchased a large Utock of goods, whrcli,-for price the close of the entertainment tho Grand Duke re- excepted,) from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m., AT THE OFFICE all the benefits of a lease on tho ground, being for the I him to be hated and despised by every human being, of assorted stock of jewelry, silver ware, diamonds, &c., and quality, we are assured is unequaledin the District. Welcker's Banquet to tlie Press. marked that it was the most charming and interesting OP A. S. PRATT & SON, FIRST FLOOR Y. M. C. term of five years, from June 7,1870, with the privilege either sex, with whom he comes in contact. If there at onr friend Hood's, and can justly say it cannot be We wonld call especial attention to a new style of Eng- Choir of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Mr. John Welcker, who lias just completed the en- lish walking shoe, made on patent-lasts. Also their exhibition that it had ever been his good fortune to A. BUILDING, corner of Ninth and D. streets. of purchasing. I be one "so poor to do him reverence," except from surpassed, and would advise overy one in search of large assortment of men's buttoned, laced, and Congress witness. A. S. PRATT. Assisted by Excellent AMATEUR TAIENT, Said j buildings were erected expressly for Refrige- motives of pure selfishness, deponent knows liim not. holiday presents to visit his neio store, 933 Pennsylvania largement and refitting of his' elegant restauranf for shoes. Ask them to show you theArctic/'a new style of overshoe, -(not rubber,) decidedly the best and The banquet to tlie Grand Duke took place at the E. F. M. FAEHTZ. rating purposes by the Somes Refrigerating Company HIB arduous duties consist in dispensing stationery, (in avenue. ladies and gentlemen, entertained last evening the CHORUS OF FORTY VOICES, cheapest article in that line we have yet seen. Nor Revere House this morning. Robert C. Winthrop pre- dec 3-2t W. DIXON. • of Baltimore, Md., haying walls abonc twenty-eight extremely costive quantities except to himself,) keep- members of the city press and the Washington corres-< have the ladies been forgotten by Messrs. Wilson & WE REORET to learn that Senator West of Louisiana pondents of journals published In the principal cities of Company, as is evinced by the lar^e^nd varied assort- sided, and madé an address of welcome to the Grand EFFICIENT ORCHESTRA. inches I thick, with double windows and doors, and to ing " time-record," (for which his mean and mousing ANDSOMELY FURNISHED ROOMS has been confined to his house several days by an acci- ment of the celebrated "Burt's" gaiters, shoes, and Duke, concluding with a toast to the health ot thé Em; butchers, and dealerft. the place presents superior ad- nature peculiarly fits him,) and fumbling and sputter- the Union. He invited them to a table loaded with H BAKER'S MAGNIFICENT CANTATA, dental injury, inflicted through the recklessness of a slippers, as well as many of their own hand-made goods, peror of Russia; which' was drank while the band vantages. ing over a few small routine letters .which any school every rare and delicate luxury, adorned with tempt- which they always giiftrantee. . * . WITH BOARD. too fast driver on Pennsylvania avenue. It is noticeable ing fruits and perfnmcfl with the choicest {lowers. played the Russian National Hymn. The Grand Duke "The Burning Ship," Terms of sale : One' thousand dollars cash ; balance b y might very soon learn to dispose of satisfactorily. N.' B.—Prices reduced to suit the times. Also, TABLE BOARD, at 233 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 0 that life ia constantly in peril from a similar cause. Theveherable Gobright presided with .all his. happy proposed a toast-to General Grant, which was heartily' in equal payments, in three, six, nine, and twelve And even this " little brief anthority "Is confined to a The police should be on the alert. and other. Selections. AT LAST we have a genuine sensation. The Board of given. The chairman then proposed the.health o| the EAST. it* months from day of sale, secured by notes and deed of Dingle room. He is not the " head of a bureau," as yon tact bn occasions of this kind. At his right sat-the host, Mr. Welcker, and Messrs. Worden, McFarland, Public Works, Government defalcations, the Prince of Grand Duke Alexis. The Grand Dnke in response said ; Proceeds tot the Relief Fund of Lincoln tost No. 3, trust on property sold. All conveyancing and revenue supposed—only an ordinary clerk—very. Yet he Ima- THE THIRD LECTURE of (he course, under the auspices Wales' illness, are all forgotten in the-grand furore of HOLIDAY PRESENTS. "Gentlemen: I thank you for the very kind manner and Farragut Post No. 4, GK A. R. stamps at tho cost of the purchaser. A deposit of $100 gines himself the head of the department. of the Washington Temperance League, will he deliv- Adams, Shepherd, Copland, Irwin, Cliff Worden," excitement into which our city has been thrown by the rand opening of the Great One Dollar Sale at Hood's in which you have drunk to me, and feel very happy to ^"Tickets, 50 cents, for sale at Parser's, SevtSnth ered by Samuel R. James, Esq., in the "Assembly Ramsdeli, and Aiken; and on his left Messrs. Poore, will he'reqûired when the 'property is knocked down ; But, to reiterate his own question, " Who is he f" Townsend, White, Shaw, Towers, Brooks, Fox, and f nil ding, corner of Eleventh street and Pennsylvania be in the old city of Boston, tho child of that infant street. "... . ^ *lt and if the terms of sale are not complied vpth within Briefly, (quoting him again,) "he Is a pompous and Church," corner of T and Fifth streets, at seven o'clock avenue, L^st. night this spacious and elegant establish- which was laid in the cradle of liberty and which .so this evening. Subject: "Total Abstinence, a Reli- Kauffman. After the good things had been disposed ment was visited by- thousands of our citizens, who five days from the .day of sale, the trustee reserves the conceited piece of humanity," whose whole mind, of, the health and prosperity of Mr>Welcker was' took advantage of the opportunity offered to purchase soon became a giant, whom all regarding and whom right ti resell at the; risk and cost, of the, defaulting I (which is not much) seems to be given to the ono un- gions, Physical, and Social Necessity." some of the beautiful articles with which this store is every nation is happy to term its'friend. In the pres- LECTURE. proposed by Mr. Gobright. In response Mr. Welcker filled. The purchaser buys a photograph for* twenty- TJitfse of our customers in search of purchaser.- • • • ' *" javory thought of "how not to" be agreeable to his THE YOUNG CATHOLICS' FRIEND SOCIETY of George- said that it was his aim. and ambition as a pitizen to five cents, and receives also a card, on which is a num- ence of those illustrious men whose works mark one of .. i . . . : F. N, CARVER, Trustee. fellow-clerks—-that is to Bay, when not meditating some town are to have a series of lectures at tho Old Trinity contribute to the- material progress of Washington. ber that entitles the holdgr to purchase any article in the best pages of American liberty and show that the 1 ... GREENS; WILLIAMS, the department represented by the aforesaid nnmber. mind of the giant is here.. Gentlemen, a long cheer of ! small roguery or bearing false witness—(in the vernacu- Church, the first, of which is to be delivered by Lieut. He had been kindly dealt, with, and* now h£ offered a These articles consist of magnificent Chromos, Gen- PRESENTS ROT. J. J. K'E A. ]V E. It ; ' ' ' Auctioneers. lar moat familiar to his ears)—lying and stealing. II. Webster, U. S. N., on the subject "St. Peter's at uine Silver Ware, Gold Watches, and Jewelry. The prospects of Boston." will flnd it much to their advantage to make an generous hospitality and well-ordered accommodations- will Lecture at If "WV' desires explication and proof upon this in- proprietors are energetic and enterprising gentlemen, •Speeches followed by Governor Claflin," Mayor .Gas- y;LATIMER & CLEARY, Auctioneers, Ropie." Lieut. Webster is a talented young man, and to all his friends. Mr. Welcker's remarks"were received and their business worthy of patronage. It is not a EARLY SELECTION. teresting point, let him, " over his own signature," the lecture will no doubt be highly interesting. with clieers. Toasts and songs rapidly followed, par-' ton, President Elliott of Harvard College, Admiral ODD FELLOWS' HALL, ON SUNDAY, December .17, B• i.(Successors to Cooper 4s Latimer, lottery, but a strict mercantile transaction, and every This Insures a large and Southwest corner of Penna. avenue and Eleventh sti state what were the net proceeds of the waste paper ticipated in by Mr. Townsend, Mr. Oopeland, Poore, one desirous of obtaining a suitable holiday present Poissef, Hon. G. T. Fox, Oliver Wendell Holmes, who at 8 o'clock p. m. surreptitiously carried by him from the department.to THE SONS or JONADAB givo their third annual mas- at a moderate sum should call and invest here. Among recited a poem, General S. Hillyard, James Russell UNBROKEN ASSORTMENT Mr. Ramsdeli, Mr. Fox, Shepherd, and'in fact all who the thousand articles purchased yesterday for one dol- Subject: "TRUE SCIENCE AND FAI,SE." the Junk-shop up to the time tito little game was de- querade civic ball on Wednesday evening^ December enjoyed the entertainment. The pferty did not fcreak lar was^a handsome gold watch. This house will un- Lowell, Cataeazy, and others. The banquet-broke up to select from, and an avoidance of the rush usual just 13,1871. This will undoubtedly be one of the pleas- tected; and how much ho has saved to himself by up until a late hour, and then only after singing^Anld doubtedly be largely patronized, as it. richly deserves just before midnight The company comprised promi- BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS, . Tickets, 50 cents, to be obtained at Brosnan's, Par- IMMENSE SALE ullng the office frank for his private letters—which he antest, "affairs of the season, and we would advise all the warmest recognition. ker's, andJ3hillington's. , ... '". f i Lang Syne, and each one personally thanking" Mr. nent literary and mercantile men of Boston and vicinity. WATCHES, JEWELRY, Is In the habit of hiding and watching until after " of- who desire to pass a pleasant evening to take advan- The proceeds to be devoted to the CLOTHING and Welcker, not only for the great improvement he has SILVER and FINE PLATED WARE, tage of the opportunity offered. EDUCATION of POOR flOYS under'the auspices of fice hours "and then clandestinely slipping them into made, but for his most generous recognition of friends.. THE culuvatiojvof the grape is carried on so success- LONDON, PARIS, and VIENNA :;•" IMSIIDEIIJIEI) PLEDGES, the departing mall Bag—let him set distracting rumors fully by thè Urbana Wine Company of New York, and the AT A MEETING of the Analostan Boat Club, held last they have brought the system of manufacturing cham FOREIGN NEWS BY GABLE. at rest by a concise statement (he enjoys the reputa- FANCY GOODS, By order of Mr. M..H. PRINCE, to be sold at our Auc- night, the following gentlemen were appointed a com- Tlie Women's SuiTrage Convention,. pagne to such perfection, that the moat critical and ex- Condition of tlie Prince of Wales.. Young Catholics' Friend Society. tion of being very " close ") anent the rapid disappear- perienced connoiseurs don't hesitate to pronounce their CLOCKS, BÖONZES, tion Rooms, on THURSDAY, FRIDAY, and SATUR- mittee to make arrangements for the third annual re- The Jadies (God bless 'em!) piust*ha\'e their little LONDON, December 9.—11 p. m.—The following is tlie dec 10-lt ' * • JoSqK't ' ance of stationery In his exclusive charge; let him Gold Seal equal to the finest brands of imported wine, OPERA GLASSES, DAY, December 14,15, and 16, at 10 o'clock a. m. aad 7 ception of the clnb, to he given some time during this amusements occasionally, and the paqt two days have and many consider the flavor even superior to the for- latest official bulletin: promise gentlemen that he will himself expend a trifle eign vantage. This is a strong recommendation of EVENING FANS, &'!;;.• C< W. HAVENNER.vti CO., Auctioneers. read, " We hear ducks, regular canvas-back fellows, so v " Spirit and Letter In Religion." tively, honorable man I Oh, no. Doubtless he stands John Critcher, Virginia; Eli Sanlsbnry, Delaware; The direct examination ended, and in reply to the A SPLENDID STOCK OF delicate and rich to the palate, and are to be had at Mr. Clarke will also preach in the Unitarian Church FREIIND'S kthe head of all titular rank, and is the very soul of Messrs. Harvey & Holden's restaurant, comer of Penn- A. C. Harmar, Philadelphia; Samuel Hambleton, questiops he said instances of deaths have occurred at 11 a. m. it* THE GREAT SALE bf honor " in propria jiersona." Tint. I should like to from the administration of chloroform; they have F. sylvania avenue and Eleventh street." Gentlemanly Stevenson Archer, Jno. Ritchie, Maryland ; General CHRISTMAS GOODS! CONFECTIONERY AND LADIES NATIONAL DIN- op have him distinguished as such, aud to establish his George Harvey, his whole appearance bearing evidence O. B. Xamar, Georgia; Dr. W. Gricr, U. • S. N.; been quite frequent; some cases have been reported of ggSp^ NEW JERUSALEM TEMPLE, We have all the novelties in our line. Toy Books, ING SAXOON, IS^ffia North Capitol street, between B and C. claim so modestly put forth to be the censor of our of good living, ia the most urbane of proprietors, and' G. W. Sensner, U. 8. N.; Judge J. W. Locke, Florida; death apparently resulting from chloral, but the latter Gamps, Libraries, Bibles, Chromos, Frames, Writing No. 521 Seventh street. VVatclies, Jewelry, «&c., Seats all free. Service every Sunday at 11 a. m. Sub- Defiles, Work-boxes, &c. A splendid assortment pf manners and the gauger of our civic distinctions. Of has the most correct jndgment as to what is good for Lieutenant W. H. Emory, U. 8, N.; General B. D. Daw- is esteemed safer; Professor Smith has expressed the ject to-day, " The Life in Heaven—its Permanence and The proprietor has perfected his arrangements for Gold Pens, with holders. Also Pencil Cases of a new furnishing complete Dinners and Suppers,'Wines in- . ! AT WALL'S AUCTION ROOMS, course I do not suppose him. to have ascended from the " feed." His canvas-backs are served in the most supe- son, Illinois; Captain W. H. King, U. 8. • N.; G. F. opinion that the nse of chloral is dangerous; its use as the Fulness of its Delights." It* pattern, for sale at no other store in Washington. comn^p sewer of society, or aggrandized himself by a medicine is as recent as within five or six years; cluded, for Balls and Weddings, and hopes to merit your will continue rior manner, while as for oysters he can't be beaten. Richards, England; L. H. Frayser, president Tobacco We beg to announce that ENGRAVING has just patronage by unremitting attention to and constant lm- the plunder of the public chest; although such persons thinks it was first used in Germany in 186", and soon A COURSE OF LECTURES in been made a Bpecialty with us. We have in our em- Association; Judge 8. II. Wiley, North Carolina: ploy the best artistB, who neatly execute all the novel- provement in every branch of his business, EVERY EVENING DURING THE WEEK (lave not up frequently been observed to be keenly sns- after in this country; as before stated, has never no- aid of the YOUNG CATHOLIC FRIENDS' dec 10-tf THE YOUNO CATHOLICS' FRIEND SOCIETY commence Thomas S. Morgan, Georgia; M. L. Poland, U. 8. A.; ties in onr line. , Our Wedding Cards cannot be ex- at 6 o'clock. [It] R. FULTON & CO. peptible pf the application of public compliments or one week from to-day a series of Sunday evening lec- E. W. Bridges, IT. 8. N.; George Dolby, London; Col- ticed any metallic taste in tartar emetic; it operates by SOCIETY OF GEOrRGETOWN during this winter will celled anywhere. the attribution of "honor" to other than themselves. tures, which should certainly be very successful. onel George R./lenty, Wisconsin ; W. F. Wesen, pro- absorption and local irritation; sometimes in both ways; be delivered in OLD TRINITY' CHURCH, Georgetown. We have on our counters PAPERS from all the prin- H. WEBSTER, U. S. N., has consented-to deliver the cipal cities on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and from UPERIOR Honor I I trust I shall not transgress the -limits of Rev. J. J. Keane, assistant pastor of St. Patrick's prietor ¡Palmer House, Chicago; Captain J. E. Morse, sometimes more in one way than another; after ab- Europe. OSCAR VORLANDER'S S the "Lion's Mouth," if Igently roaraliltlo story there- church, will deliver the first leQture at Odd Fellows' U. S. N;; General R. Saxton and Captain C. Cusick, sorption the liver would probably contain a larger por- Introductory on next WEDNESDAY EVENING, De- decl0-3m H. COYLE & CO. cember ¿3, at 8 o'clock. RESTAURANT, PLATED TEA SETS', CASTORS, CAKE men t. Hall, Seventh street,next Snnday evening, upon the sub- U. S. A.; Rev. James Hegerty, Cork, Ireland; Anthony tion than any other organ wher§ it would be found, OMINOES, CHECKERS, CRIBBAGE BOARDS, BASKETS, URNS, PICKLE CASTORS, ICE PITCH- Back in tho times gone by a " right honorable "—Lord ject " True Science and False," and from the ability and Higgins, James Lewis, Joseph S. Heald, and Professor unless it had been eliminated by the kidneys; the elimi- Subject, "ST. PETER'S AT ROME." D nNo . 5-tEf . corner of Tenth and E streets. Francis Thynrie, son of the Marquis of Bath—(I give eloquence of this gentleman it is safe to predict that Porter, Delaware. nation is said by Orfeld to be very rapid; it has been Admission 25 cents. j It* PLAYING CARDS, and other GAMES, at dec 10-4t BRAD. ADAMS', 816 F street. • ERS, WAITERS, FORKS, SPOONS, &c„ fou name and lineage to show that T am not squeamish the hall will be filled. The proceeds of the lecture are fonnd in the fiver, also in the kidneys; tartar emetic TO ibout titular appropriations)—having overrun ¡his sti- THE following is the amount realized at the late fair fonnd in a stomach after death does not cause death, , UNI VERSA LIST SERVICES.— INNER, TEA, AND TOILET SETS, of superior quality and new designs, at to be devoted to the charitable purposes of the Young The Rev. MARY A. LIVRRMORE, one of the D RICHARD B. MOHUN & CO.'S pend, and perhaps all he could borrow from waiters and Catholics' Friend Society. for the benefit of the orphan boys at the asylum under as it is not absorbed; in the process of absorption it most eloquent female preachers in the United States, Decorated, Band, and Plain. J. W. BOTELER & BROTHER'S passed into the blood and might be found there; au- will preach in Masonic Hall, corner Ninth and F streets, New and beautiful, just opened at Por Elegant Bluminated BOOKS for the Holidays, Housefnrnishing Store, narkersattho tables, aud being for the last time sent the charge of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, on H street, J. W. BOTELER & BROTHER'S, thorities state that it is found mostly jti the liver; TO-DAY at 11 a. m. In the evening she wilT deliver a dec 10-2t It 923 Pennsylvania avenue. idriftby his noble parent—had recourse, as many bet- WE HAVE BEFORE called the attention of our citizens between Ninth and Tenth: Mrs. Kearon and Rielly, Leetnre at the same, place. Subject: "What shall We It ri Importers of China, Glass, &c. ter men than he have done, to ore of his accompllsli- to the fine establishment of H. F. Zimmerman & Sons, $3,026.15; Mrse Murray and Smith, $632.&1; Mrs. Ste- probably in next greater proportion in the kidneys; do with our Daughters." Admittance for the evening ANCY NOTE PAPER UY YOUR TOY BOOKS, GAMES, and CHESS- VTATIONAL CAPITOL LIFE INSUR- nents for the redintegration of his resources, and be- on Seventh street, and the superiority of the furniture vens and McLaughlin, $515; Mrs. Ellis and Ware, $513; judging from the symptoms alone of General K„ apart 25 cents. Doors open at 6:30; leeture to commence F -L> ANCE COMPANY. at 7. It* and ENVELOPES^ with Monograms, MEN at? BRAD. ADAMS', came the driver of a stage then running on the great Mrs. Roach and McQuillan, $509; Mrs. —-, $370.9? • from the post mortem examination, he would not say B Which, is sent out from their bouse, and we would now in large variety, fit dec 10-4t ' , • 816 P street. lorth road. Being aware of these facts, and having to Mrs. Hume, $384.70; Mrs. Dawson, §333; Mrs. Brown that de^th did not result from natural causes, from the just hint that if there are any young people proposing RICHARD B. MOHUN & CO.'S, REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. ravel by that conveyance, I looked out for the noble and Renshaw, $318 ;'at door, $309.50. The Sisters and fact that in no organ could be found sneh changes as to set up housekeeping they should certainly proenre SPECIAL NOTICES. dec 10-2t 1015 Pennsylvania avenue. "VTATIONAL CAPITOL LIFE INSUR- ¿oachee with some curiosity, expecting to note either their furniture of the Messrs. Zimmerman. Parlor sets ladies at the fair'express themselves" as very grateful would have produced death. His opinion that death -!> ANCE COMPANY. MISCELLANEOUS. the boldness with which he met his fate, or the deep of most elaborate finish and upholstery, chamber sets to the friends who so cheerfully and generously aided was not produced from natural causes was founded on NOTICE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE, lumlliation which he must feel that it entailed upon in every variety of wood and pattern, and in fact every them in their undertaking, and especially to the ladies bQth the symptons and post mortem examination; PANCINO ACADEMIES. aim. But I was not allowed to witness either. 'When article necessary for ease, comfort, or lnxury may be and gentlemen in the. Government Printing Office,, there was no analysis of the liver or kidneys.as far he MODISTE. jyjARINI & BATES' DANCING ACADEMY, < BY the time came that he had to hand over the ribbons to here fonnd. * whose liberality was very marked. knows. his successor, and to gather up his fees, he was himself The witness was, on the stand for some time as a TO E street, between NINTH and TENTH streets, KILBOURN & LATTA, THE MOST BALMY compound that was ever invented "nonest, but a "boots" came round to each passenger THE weather clerk, at one o'clock this morning, re- medical expert, testifying as to the symptoms and Corner Fifteenth and G Streets. with'the intimation, "niB lordship stops here!" re- is the Balm of I.ife. Its healing properties are fully re- ports the followingr effects of poison. IS NOW OPEN. cognized by all the regular faculty, who prescribe it for ceiving for him as proxy the shillings of-the passen- . The barometer will probably continne to fall on Sun- Professor P. P. Miles was sworn: Has been a prac- OF TENTH STREET, BREVOORT PLACE, Days rand Hours of Tuition—Misses and Masters, gers. their patients. Professor Cook is entitled to be con- day, with cloudy and threatening weather and increas- ticing physician for twenty years; is now professor of TAXPAYERS. TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY^from 3 to sidered a public benefactor by virtue of the eflicacy of NEW YORK, 5 p. m.; Ladies and Gentlemen. MONDAY, WEDNES- Here is a specimen of an •" honorable driver" which ing southwesterly winds, from Vermont to Minnesota; anatomy and clinical professor of diseases of the nerv- his great, discovery, and the old boy takes a great and DAY, and SATURDAY, from 7 to 9. dec 10-tf would perhaps satisfy the wishes of the thrice honor- the highest pressure continues in the Ohio Valley; ous system in the University of Maryland; was eight Haute Nouyeaute, FINE RESIDENCE, just pride in being the priginator and proprietor of so able X. V. northeasterly winds, with increasing cloudiness in the years professor of anatomy in the Medical College of Corner K and Fourteenth Btreets; basement, two-story valuable an article. The Balm of Life certainly pos- USSIA LEATHER CIGAR CASES and LETTER I trust our honorable delegates will not be prompt at Southern and Gulf States; clear weather from Virginia • South Carolina. Witness stated that he was requested CONFECTIONS ET E0BES DE BAL, WALLETS, at and Mansard roof:. thirteen rooms; bath-room and sesses no injurious qualities, so no one need fear to R w(iter-closet; marble mantels; closets,and store-rooms; the invitation of this resurrected fossil to relegate the to Pennsylvania during tjie day. to be present at the post mortem examination of the use it, and when it is once introduced into a family the Will OPEN at her RECEPTÏON PARLORS, RICHARD B. MOHUN & CO.'S, good brick stable, with coachman's room. Lot 24x135 title which has been justly applied to them. If the re- Dangerous winds are not anticipated foronrcoaBt to- body of General Ketchnm, and described the appear- to alley. This house was built about eighteen months ladies sigh for it, the children cry for it, and paterfa- dec 10-2t ' 1015 Pennsylvania avenue. presentative of the Capital city of the United States night. ance of the organs with professional minuteness and No. 715 FOUBTEENTH STREET NORTHWEST, " ago by ex-Secretary McCulloch; has every modern im- milias is bound to invest, and ever afterwards to keep • COLLECTOR'S OFFICE, provement! and convenience requisite to a first-class m^y not accept this honor, as well as those of the technicality. His statement differed from that of WASHINGTON CITY, UBSCRIBE for NEW MAGAZINES and BUY 1872 private residence. Price $30,000. Liberal terms. States, we would go in for consistency and say, abolish it in the house. Drs. Chew and Williams only in its greater minute- I DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, S CITY JtTEMS. WASHINGTON, D. C., December 9,1871. ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1871. DIARIES at ' BRAD. ADAMS', tiiose complimentary modes of addresses altogether. PERSONS who have witnessed a series of experiments ness of the appearance of the several organs exam- dec 10-4t 816 F street. Till then let it be recollected that the position they fill FOUR PER CENT™ it I in preserving organic substances, among which were JUST IN STOCK, a new supply of Blue Beaver Glen- ined, particularly the brain, which he examined Aii abatement of will be made on OLIDAY GOODS, enUUeB them to the distinction, and that It is a reflec- garys. . EISEMAN & BRO., with a microscope. The stomach was placed in a all oysters, milk, and meat, by meaijs of Professor Old- 505 Seventh street,' May's Building. TANDARD WORKS H tion from ourselves. Without canvassing again the berg's Borobalsamine, are led to believe that this strik- jar; when he took it out of the jar at the laboratory It S In every department of Literature, in plain and Now open for Inspection, at LARGE BRICK HOUSE, personal merits of those who have been just now elected TAXES LEVIED UPON REAL AND PERSONAL ingly powerful antiseptic would be a more rational SATCHELS, chromos, vases, brackets, workboxes, writ- appeared identically in the same condition as when finfe bindings, at RICHARD B. MOHUN & CO.'S, On F street, between Eleventh and Twelfth; four-storyi [Upon their merits, let us accord to them every title remedy for cancer than the ill-fated cundnrango. It ing desks, for holiday presents, received at Prigg's Dol- put in; Professor Aiken and Drs. Chew and Williams PROPERTY RICHARD B. MOHUN & CO.'S, decl0-2t 1015 Pennsylvania avenue. fifteen rooms; gas, hot and cojd water, and stationary and every title of the respect they have won. "Thus lar Store, No. 457 Pennsylvania avenue, between Four- wash-stands throughout; marble mantels,closets, store- is, however, not claimed to cure cancer sores, though were present; he opened the stomach and poured in dec 10-2t, 1015 Pennsylvania aventae. "VTATIONAL CAPITOL LIFE INSUR- [letlt be done to the men whom the District delighteth and-a-Half and Sixth streets. rooms, -butter pantry. House' in complete order and we are assured by a well-known surgeon of this city two wiae glassfuls of opaque, turbid fluid; the interior ANCE COMPANY. repair. . Lot 25x96. Price $19,000. ' It to honor." PLKB. IK T$E that it relieves the pain to a great extent, and is an ex- presented nothing very marked; there was a dark red- JOHN N. OLIVER, EVER THOUGHTFUL of the wants of his numerous UVENILE BOOKS. UAN BOYLE & CO., cellent disinfectant. The principal uses of this new patrons, our friend Markriter of Seventh street has dish color in the most dependent portion; there was A Bplendid assortment, suitable for children of all added to his immense stock of picture frames, chromos, nothing on the rest of the surface presenting any pecu- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, J J There is a nest of corruption, brim-full of decayed remedy are modestly sot forth in the advertisement &c., a magnificent assortment of goods suitable for the Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, ages, at REAL ESTATE BROKERS, «Sge of a Stokes sort, in the appropriation of a large liarity; the post mortem examination developed no elsewhere, and it is very highly praised by those who holidays, and we would advise all to call and examine For the year ending JUNE 30th, 1872, RICHARD B. MOHUN & CO.'S,' No. 513 Seventh street, opposite Postoffice Dept. «um by Congress, of which two hundred and seventy- have tried it. them before the assortment is broken. natmal cause of death. Witneg^'s opinion, based on Has REMOVED his OFFICE to dec 10-2t 1015 Pennsylvania avenue. O« SAIiE.—A handsomely finished house on live thousand dollars were drawn, aud only seventy-five the symptoms as detailed by Williams, and of the post F South A street, between Second and Third streets, THE LADIES' BAZAAR for the benefit of the Church IF PAID ON OR BEFORE DECEMBER 20, 1871. No. 509 Seventh St., between E and F. with .all the modern Improvements; Price, $9,500; thousand have been paid. Whore is that odd §300,000. CHILDREN'S Derby "Velveteen Suits at $8. mortem examination, is that Ketchijm died of an unnat- IARIES FOR 1872, from 10 cents to $5. TOY $4,500 cash, balance in yearly payments to suit the Home of Epiphany parish will begin on Tuesday even- EISEMAN &BRO., ural cause; the symptoms and examination did not in- BOOKS cheap, at « BRAD. ADAMS', Ddec 10-4t 816 F street. purchaser. ing next, and continue until Friday evening. It will 505 Seventh street, May's Building. dicate an overdose of laudanum. dec l(Mt» A FARM on the line of the Point of Rocks railroad, MESSBS. LATIMER & CLEART, the most enterprising within a few minutes walk of the depot, within thirty auctioneers we have, will to-morrow advertise for sale be held in the room adjoining the Freedmen's Bank, THE greatest success in the hotel line is the Tremont, The witness was turned over to the defense ind SUPERB ASSORTMENT ROF. L. CORRADI COLLIERE'S minutes of Washington; about 200 acres, improved by opposite the Treasury, on the first floor. The Bazaar on Indiana avenue. Having been recently enlarged, it cross-examined by Mr. Steele as to the symptoms and A OF WRITING DESKS, SINGING ACADEMY, for Ladies and Gentle- house, &c. • toe Wlllards' Hotel property. is now one of the very best in the city. ' Its central Russiilaana and MMorocc o Leather, and Turkish and other will be open day and evening, and refreshments will effects of an overdose of tartar emetic; from the symp- Pmen, every SIX LOTS near Capitol, fronting on New Jersey location and its close proximity to the Oapitol, as well On all taxes remaining unpaid aftev January 1,1872, fine woods, at avenue. One of the finest situations in the city. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.—J. C. Parker sends us Har- always be ready. It will he a convenient place to take as its fine table and superior accomodations, makes it toms alone as described by Dr. Williams witness could RICHARD B. MOHUN & CO.'S, pm> a penalty of three per centum for each month after said MONDAY AND THURSDAY EVENING, A HOUSE on North A street—$400 cash, balance on Weekly, Frank Leslie's, Hearth and Home, Apple- lunch at noon, and as the ladies who are to have charge a great favorite with the traveling public. not say whether d^ath resulted from natural or un- dec 10*2t. 1015 Pennsylvania avenue. long time. date ship bo adciod until the same shall be paid or ad- Three handsome HOUSES in the West End. Also ts' Journal, Illustrated Christian Weekly, Budget of of the refreshment table know well how to provide natural causps; could not express an opinjon based on in May Building, Pennsylvania avenue, between Ninth THERE is nothing so absolutely necessary as a pair.of vertised'for sale for taxes, and Baid penalty shall be OTICE, and Tenth streets. All those who wish to avoid sore houses and lots in all parts of the city. f^n, and Qodey's for January. From the Washington good things, it will be judicions to patronize them. the negative evidence of the post mortsm examination We expect during the coming week to be able to fur- thick shoes or boots to secure one's comfort. The added to the amount due in TAX SALE LIST. throat and IOBS of voice must call on Prof. L. C. He ®ewB Company, 715 Fifteenth street, we have received The following are some of the ladies and gentlemen finest stock in the city is to be found at Burns & Co.'s, as to the cause of death ; nqt£ef alone would have N teaches not only the cultivation and improvement of nish about $100,000 oh good city property, to be divided in sums to. suit. JUAN BOYLE & CO., ">e following English papers: Illustrated London News, who will have tables, and preside at the postoffice, fish- 903 Pennsylvania avenue. Old men, young men, ladies, been sufficient to fo^fld an opinion upon; witness had All property on which the taxes shall remain, due and n, Q, HOOD the voice, but alsd the art of preserving it unimpaired boys, and misses will find there a complete assortment and safe for an indefinite period. dec 3-4t It 513 Seventh street. wtwriay Review, London Times, Spectator, and Pall pond, &c.: Miss Washington, Mre. Calvert, Mrs. Har- of boots or shoes, that will secure for them warm and stated that when he said the post mortem examination unpaid for ninety days after the 13th day of, November, Has REMOVED his stock of FINE WATCHES, GOLD JEWELRX, SILVER and SILVER PLATED WARE ¿mBudoet: From the National News Company,which vey, Mrs. Rogers, Mrs. Shriver, Miss Delafield, Mrs. dry feet throughout the winter. did not discJose cause of death he meant that it did 1871, I shall proceed to advertise for salp, tp.satysfer the. ACKGAMMON, CHESS, ATIONAL CAPITOL LIFE INSUR- by the way, last week sent us tho papers credited General Dyer, Dr. Cook and Mr. Sargent, Mrs. Atkin- from the corner of Elev'enth street to 933 PENNSYLVA- ANCE COMPANY, i rt not disclose any cause of death from disease. ' taxes levied thereon, and to sell st^idl property aa. pro- NIA AVENUE, iere he will continue to sell the B DOMINOES, CRIBBAGE, N "the Washington News Company, we have Harpers' son, Misses Wadsworth and Fletcher, Mr. Poster, Dr. CHARLES GAXTTIER'S -Native "Wine Bitters should find a place in every household at this particular sea- Dr. Miles was further questioned as to the symptoms, vided by law. V*.„", .'', '. and CHECKERS, JJUSSIA LEATHER ¿"My and Every Saturday. From Bishop we have MeCalla. The children of the Sunday-school will have BEST QUAUTV OF GOODS, it . son when so m^py people are complaining of severe &c., of poisons. Several medical authorities bearing on RICHARD B. MOHUN & CO.'S, Durutou Abbey," by Thomas Adolphus Trollope, a a table under the charge of Mrs. Kennedy and General colds, and when the system needs something to prepare WM. H. SLATER, POCKET INKSTANDS, the case were read, and the witness askei as to the and at »s low rates as Goods of like quality can be dec 1015 Pennsylvania avenue. °'el which is said to be very interesting. Shillington Townsend. We hope the Bazaar will be largely at- it for the frequent and sudden changes of our climate. CpHector of Taxes for the District of Columbia, For sale by all our druggists and grocers, and at 1217 standing of the authority si?ong the medical faculty. Office Columbia Buildings, Four-and-a-Half street N. bought for ai any other establishment in America. at . «Mi ns Godey's for January, tended. New Jewelry mad« to order. Watches and Jewelry ATIONAL CAPÍTOL LIFE INSUR- and 1319 Pennsylvania avenue. About half past two p'clock Profeisor William E. W., Washington, D. C, dsclQ-St RICHARD B. MOHUN & CO.'S, repaired. dec I0-4t N ANCE COMPANY, flee lÒ-2t 1015 Pennsylvania avenue. dl

there for refreshments and the escort of two hun- these articles flowered by German hands. To us LADIES' GOODS, &c. INSURANCE COMPANIES. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. HOTELE TO TRAVELERS. dred armed cavaliers under Lord S'eton, who was is left the dull task of " fillingin. " gQj HOLIDAY GOODS! gAJ THE CAPITAL. advised of her coming. Then, too, the letter she Yet, embroidery Is a good thing. What girl is C. H. HOLDEN & CO., THE ARLINGTON. JgALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAS ' wrote with her own hand, fierce, dauntless, and not grateful for the recollection of the pleasure Stock of all kinds of FANCY and MILLINERY INSURANCE. SUNDAY MORNIHG - - DECEMBER 10,1871 GOODS, embracing many useful articles suitable for WASHINGTON, Dec. SB ism haughty,' to Elizabeth and which Mr. FrSude so her first samples afforded ? L never see one of REAL ESTATE AGENTS Trains between WASHINGTON ANf) BAITMOWB HOLIDAT PRESENTS, is now complete, at and WASHINGTON AND THE WEST, are now minutely describes—' The strokes thick, and those absurd old-time "frame-pieces" or screens n8 DAVIS'. AGENCY OF ' 633 Louisiana Avenue, follows, viz: NEW BOOKS. slightly uneven from excitement, but strong, firm, without a feeling of sadness. It makes me re: FOR BALTIMORE. and irtthout sign of trembling !' This insanity- member that our grandmothers were once young ULL LIME OF HEMSTITCHED. INITIAL, EM- This beautiful Hotel has not only been Leave daily (except Sunday) at 6:45, 8, 8:1 5 and NM30n "MAHT QUEEN OF SCOTS AND HER LATEST ENGLISH BROIDERED and LACE HANDKERCHIEFS, at T. M. Hanson & Lewis Blackford, Offer for sale a large variety of HOUSES situated In a. m., and 12:45, 3, 4:10, 5:40, and 7:45 p. m. for the picturesque and romantic would wreck a and self-important as ourselves, and that In turn F the most desirable locations in this District, as well as FOR ALL WAY STATIONS. HISTORIAN," by Jas. F. Mellnc. Hurd & Hough- DAVIS'. some of the most Leave daily (except Sunday) at 6:45, 8:15, and lo-ar, „ ton, publishers. From Philp „ it. It was written by an amanuensis, the saluta- task, Intended as a pr^ent and surprise to some DAVIS'. The JEtna Insurance Company of Hart- cheap or exchanged for proaching season, when an unusual crowd may be m. stops at Annapolis Junction and Relay 6nlv X tell the truth and is called history. The beautiful ford 7:45 p. m. on Sunday stops as during the week tion and signature alone being lu her hand." loved one at home! How tender and beautiful 9 lost three millions one hundred thousand expected, and several of the old hotels closed, arrange- FOR ANNAPOLIS. little work before us is an illustration of this. ROVER & BAKER'S CELEBRATED ELASTIC dollars in the Chicago flre; has paid foliar for dol- ments have been made to accommodate all who may We have given these extracts more as a speci- grows the face of the young mother, as with busy STITCH SEWING MACHINE, with or without City Property. Leave at 6:45 a. m. and 4:10 p. m. No train to or from James Anthony Froude broke upon the literary fingers she flowers the soft wrap for her pretty one I thGe new Patent Trays, at lar, without oflfect, compromise, or red tape, and apply. Annapolis on Sunday. world as another Gibbon, and in his history of men ol the critic's style of treatment than as has $4,600,000 left, without counting the million Also, a large number of ON SUNDAY. How it brightens the hoursrfor the lonely or neg- DAVIS». FOR BALTIMORE. England was greeted as the latest and brightest illustration of the scope and power of the work. dollars of premiums received since the flre. lected woman ! In fact, embroidery is a good I ST ADDITION Leave at 8 a. m., and 3, 5:40, and 7:45 n m chronicler of past events. Colonel Meline, a ripe To appreciate these one must read from cover to HE BEST TWENTY-FIVE CENT LINEN HEM- LOW-PRICED BOUSES FOR WAY STATIONS; ' ' thing for us all. It is a powerful weapon in the STITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS in the market, at The Franklin Flre Insurance Company scholar and fascinating author, takes up Mr. cover the entire volume. And there is no danger T -Leave at 8 a. m., and 3 and 7:45 p. m hands of wise ones to keep us out of mischief. DAVIS'. of Philadelphia lost half a million In Chicago; will be sold for a small cash advance. FOR ALL PARTS OF THE WEST Froude, and devoting himself to that one part of but that will be the result to any who open the Property insured in any of the FIBST-CLASS COMPA- to the rooms of tho Hotel tho proprietors have at their Leave daily (except ¡Saturday and Sunday) at 6-4S» book. As wo have said, It is as fascinating to the Minerva and the muses, they tcM us, were never paid it out of their loose cash, without having to HIES. oc 8-tf control some of the the history relating to the unhappy Mary, beauti- 1 ROVER & BAKER'S SHUTTLE MACHINES m., and 3 and 7:45 p. m. On Saturday at 6:45 a m'»m111i educated and thoughtful as any historical study In love because they were never idle. GI make same stitch on both sides fabric. At disturb a single investment of the Company; re- 7:45 p.m. ' ful Queen of the Scots, convinces an impartial ducing cash surplus to something less than three On Sunday at 3 and 7:45 p. mu only connoctine at Sp- ever put In print. FOE 8ALE. lay Station with trains from Baltimore to WheeUnT • world that Its petted Froude is á miserable fraud, DAVIS», millions, and running down stock to about 480, (par Most Elegantly Furnished Apartments Parkersburg, Pittsburg, &c. "aeeung, We ¡must not forget, however, that, much as and his so-called history of England a tissue of 801 MARKET SPACE, 100.) For Strasbnrg and points between Relay House and falsehoods made Interesting by a fascinating style they may be guarded against, the learned and GRADUATED GRINS. Elegant Residences in Washington within reasonable reach. Strasbnrg, leave at 3 p. m., connecting at Relay Honaa dec 3-3t Comer 8th street. The North British and mercantile In- with Strasbnrg and w inchester accommodation train and a lively imagination. ingenious critic has bis own feelings and preju- in the "CAPITOL BLOCK" of fourteen three-story Through tickets to the WeBt can be had at the surance Company lost a couple of millions Houses on This is only one more instance to be added to the dices to color In some measure his conscientious THE OLD NATIONAL HOTEL. THE ARLINGTON has all the Washington Station Ticket Office at all hours in the work. And we have ours. We part with Mary Some gifted quill-driver ought to take up the LATEST IMPORTATIONS ! In the Chicago flre, for which the United States day. many we now know. The critics attacking the Branch was ordered to draw on Home Office at three EAST CAPITOL, BETWEEN SECOND AND For New York, Philadelphia and Boston, see adver. chroniclers leave us little or nothing of history. Queen of Romance with regret. She has come annals of the National Hotel, that abounds In days sight, and pay dollar for dollar without delay THIRD STREETS, tisement of "Through Line." down to us, the center figure of wild days of comic pnd serious events. For many, many years MODERN CONVENIENCES, J. L. WILS9N, Carsar's Commentaries have come to be a wild or offset. $14,000,000 left. now being erected, and to be ready for occupancy'on Master of Transportation romance. Bacon appears an honest man. Rich- poetry.and adventure, lovely as an angel and frail it was the headquarters and grand rendezvous of November 1. L. M. COLE, General Ticket Agent. ' as a woman. Brave men loved her to adoration political pumps, journalists, and prominent serial Fine French Goods The Old "Hartford Insurance Compa- These houses contain the best trained'servants in America, the most accom GEO. S. KO@NTZ, General Agent, Washington ard III was at heart opposed to capital punish- ap 30-tf and she had tho heart to return the love. She actors and actresses of pa6t generation. The vol- JUST OPENED AT ny »» lost a million and a half in the Chicago flre, plished French cooks; in a word the proprietors, ment, and even Judas Iscariot looms up the most paid it dollar for dollar, and has plenty left. SIXTEEN ROOMS EACH, earnest follower of Christ, who, believing that as lived in our admiration the greatest heroine of a umes of register alone that must be extant would NITED STATES MAIL ROUTE~TO romantic life, and died with the pious dignity of a MADAME DELAEUE'S, WITH OAS, WATER, and all modern conveniences. NORFOLK. the Son of God his Master could baffle his enemies be as Valuable as Patent Office reports, and as in- The Springfield Fire Insurance Com- T. ROESSLE & SON, U great queen. They are superior to, and can be sold cheaper, than under all circumstances, took the thirty pieces to teresting as those of the Agricultural Bureau. 1235 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, pany lost half a million In Chicago flre; has $900,- any of the same class in the city. Steamer Lady of the Lake, connecting at, Norfolk with But let our own feelings be what they may, we There was a time when Presidents elect went from 000 left, and a reputation second to none In the Also, THREE FINE HOUSES on sonth A street, are determined to maintain the national reputation of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad for all parts of replenish the larder of the mess, and discovering • between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. (same square,) now finished. the South, and with the Steamers of the M. and M his horrible mistake went out and hanged himself have to thank Colonel Meline for- adding another the National to be Inaugurated, and lovely belles country. All of the above are peculiarly suited for Congress- The Arlington. no 26-tf Transportation Company for Boston, and tho'Old work to the small library of American books that swept, through the parlors captivating beaux men, and two have already been purchased by members Dominion and Virginia Line of Steamers from New in sad ¿morse, about the time that Peter the The Potomac Insurance Company ot of the House of Representatives. York. i Rock, frightened by the howling mob, denied his one can point to with pride and read with pleas- known to the Union. The thought brings up one Georgetown, D. C., well and favorably For particulars apply to METROPOLITAN HOTEL, On and after MONDAY, May 1, the Steamer ure. Of the last-named sort, whose entrance to a ball- A large assortment of the choicest FLOWERS for A. GRANT, LADY OF THE LAKE Savior. Bonnets, Coiffure and Corsage: FEATHERS in all known here for forty years; one of our best home Architect and Builder, No. 386 East, Capitol, between WASHINGTON, ». C. Carrying the United States Mail, will leave her wharf With those instances before us all in the dim room was the ovation to a queen—a fair girl from colors and of all descriptions: all of the new shades in companies. Second and Third streets east. my 21-tf foot of Seventh street, every ' wnsrr JAPANI IN Oüii DAT. Compiled and arranged by the West, and at whose feet the so-called states- RIBBONS ; latest French styles in NECK-TIES, Lace MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY, at 4 n m past grows yet more shadowy and indistinct. Goods in Jackets, Flounces, and for Trimmings, from REFURNISHED AND PASSENGER ELEYATOR P Bayard Taylor. New York: Charles Scrlbner the lowest-priced imitation to the most delicate Point The Mntual Life Insurance Company of FOR NORFOLK. ' '' One has, however, only to appeal to his own men of the day bowed In love that approached FOR SALE OR RENT. INTRODUCED. ' Returning, leave Norfolk TUESDAY, THURSDAY & Co. Washington: Wm. Ballantlne. da Venice; Chemisettes, Collars, Sleeves, and Handker- New York, with one hundred hundred thousand observation to shake into a perfect quicksand the adoration. She married one of these statesmen, cYlefs, from the plainest Linen to the most superb Lace. JT. F. CAKE, Proprietor, and SATURDAY, at 5 p. m.—stopping at Alexandria' TARLETANS for Evening Dresses ; Organdie, Muslin policies and fifty million dollars cash assets. Fort Washington, Glymont, Piney Point, Point Look- apparent rocks of history. Who, for example, This; Is the Inltlal volume of an illustrated li- and a rival belle her superior in wit, but not equal FCXR SALE. no 19-ly Also of Congress Hall, Cape May, N. J. out, and Fortress Monroe. brary of travel, exploration, and adventure, which in beauty, said, commenting upon the event, and Gaze de Chamberry; Inserting*», Edgings, Bands, These aro our Companies. Take your choice. For freight or passage apply on board, or toV D can turn to the afterthoughts of generals, callcd Veil Laces and Tissues: French Corsets, genuine Jon- Groner, Norfolk, Va.; ijdridgc & Co., Alexandria Va • Scrlbner & Co. design Issuing. The compiler's " You wonder at the match because you do vin's GLOVES, for Ladles and Gentlemen; au excel- •^HE JENNES8 HOUSE, reports of campaigns, and recognize any part of lent make of Glove for &reet and evening wear in all of HANSON & BLACKFORD. WASHINGTON. J. G. Waters, Georgetown, D. C., or to object] has been to select all that Is newest and not understand It." the choice shades, at $1.85 per pair. A complete stock DORSEY CLAGETT, General Agent , what he saw and took part in ? Shameful disas- no lt)-6t A Block of Ten Elegant Houses most Interesting In the works of recent visitors to " What do you mean ? " of FANS, from those in Point Lace, and of superb This new and splendid hotel, which is closed during Corner of Fifteenth street and New York ave. ters are great victories—and military operations Russia Leather to the cheapest Linen. Also, a full for sale on Eleventh street, between O and P, and on the summer monthB every year, will be REOPENED based on no good sense, and stumbled blindly Japan as well as to embrace a sketch of the his- " I mean that she married .one t erm In the Sen stock of beautiful - BOOKS, STATIONERY, &c. very easy terms: a rare chance to buyers. These NOVEMBER 80. It is now being refitted. No expense tory of that empire and the successive steps by Houses are first-class dwellings, four stories in eleva through, become wisely planned campaigns, and ate.!' tlon, with pressed briek fronts, stone steps, iron fenc- will be spared to make this one of the best houses in freight for New York, 'eekly which it has entered Into relations with other ing, and terraced in front. They contain each the city. myl4-ly as such go down to admiring generations. The '.'What a small ambition—only six years out FRENCH ORNAMENTS. oc l-8m JOB JENNESS & SON. nations of the world. The superintendence of Mr. WEDDING DEPOT, HROUGH LINE BETWEEN WASH- panic at the first Bull Bun is perhaps the most of a lifetime !" ELEVEN FINE ROOMS, Bayard Taylor will secure forthls scries a confident In Silver Filagree, as Lockets, Chains, Crosses, and T INGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK striking illustration. A few correspondents and "Six years make up a woman's social life Setts, Including BRACELETS, at prices less than else- No. 929 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. with the adornment of modern improvement, the ad ST. JAMES HOTEL. WASHINGTON, June 3, 1869—Noon congressmen who fled in dismay during the early Welcome. After It Is a living tomb in a nursery; and then where ; Blue and Gold Enamel Crosses in exquisite de- denda of ranges, hot and cold water, bath rooms, &c, Trains between Washington and New York are now signs for the neck, from $2 up. PINS, for the hair, iU These houses will be finished about the 1st of January run aB follows, viz : part of the fight made the only panic of an army she has her chances." Tnrqolse and Gold, Coral and Gold, with other beauti- proximo, and five of them will be sold on a credit of FOR NEW YORK, without change of cars that went in as a mob, and coming out as a* mob " What do you mean ? " ful things, which must be seen to be appreciated, and nine years, with interest at 6 per cent. The location is Pennsylvania ave. and Sixth street, Leave daily (except Sunday) at 8 a. m., 12:45 and 9 For THE CAPITAI» which are peculiarly suitable for most desirable, beinsy contiguous to important avenues, p. m. did not know that it liad been frightened Into a EMBROIDERY. . " Did you never read the story of the philoso- WEDDING and also a large circle. Eleventh street is now under Washington, D. C. FOR PHILADELPHIA. wild retreat until told of it by the newspapers and pher who undertook the difficult task of making Bridal and Holiday Gifts. contract to be fenced and parked. Leave daily (except Sunday) at 8 a. m., 12:45 and 6-40 speeches in Congress. • BT NANNIE. * AND The terms upon which we offer these houses will se my Sl-ly JOHN SPICER, Proprietor. p. m. the Pasha's donkey read the written words of the The patronage of the ladles Is respectfully solicited, cure a first-class residence to the purchaser almost free ON SUNDAY. Among women, perhaps, no art has been so prophet? " dec 3-3t of expense after the first payment be made, as ordinary Leave for New Ybrk at 9 p. m. and Philadelphia at We are driven to regard history as only a duller RECEPTION CARDS, rental would almost meet deferred payments, 5:40 p. m. sort of fiction containing less truth than the works generally practiced and given such pure delight " Ndvcr did ; tell me." C. C. WILLARD, M. WILLIAN'S OUR SPECIALTIES. no 19-ti C. H. HOLDEN & CO, Sleeping cars for New York on 9 p. m. train only of Seott, Dickens, and Thackeray. as embroidery. Its existence Is coeval with the "The philosopher, like all philosophers, was Through tickets to Philadelphia, New York or Bos. ton can be had at the Station Office at all hours of ths Let us then thank Messieurs Froude & Com- earliest introduction of silk and woolen fabrics. poor. At times he was hungry, at all hours he House in Paris, No. 7, Cite Trevis, MEDICAL. EBBITT HOUSE, day. pany for their entertaining stories. But let us re- It was first wrought in Olympus by celestial fin- was ragged. He ottered the Pasha to teach Ills See Baltimore and Ohio Railroad advertisement for WASHINGTON, D, C. schedule between Washington, Baltimore, Annapolis tain our self-respect, lookyou, and carefully guard gers, and had for Its patroness the August Mi- donkey to read In five years. But during the dif- Has been reestablished, and he will be able to show, For WEDDINO AND RECEPTION CARDS, ARMS, CRESTS RIVATE MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS from this day, the finest assortment of ap 2-tf and the West. J. L. WILSON, ' ourselves against a belief in a solitary statement as nerva. Who could not grow poetic picturing ficult task he was tobe clothed In purple and fine REAL LACE GOODS, AND MONOGRAMS In pure QOI.D and SILVER, CIPHERS P at, OLD DR. DARBY'S Private Dispensary, 108 „ ' „ , Master of Transportation. those :lovely divinities, sitting upon "damp BONNETS AND ROUND nATS, and SINGLE INITIALS, stamped both plain and in deli- Fonr-and-a-Half street, a few doors South of Pennsyl- L. M. COLE, General Ticket Agent. a fact. Against this, so far as the historian Froude linen, fed on the best, and lodged in a palace. If FLOWERS AND FEATHERS, vania avenue. Separate rooms for Ladles, GEO. S. KOONTZ, Agent, Washington. ap 30-tf is concerned, Colonel Meline has protected us. As clouds," wreathing " ring-tailed dogs In sky-blue he failed the penalty was death. One day an old GROS GRAIN RIBBONS, cate colors, we claim superiority. The perfection of mar 19-tf ST. CLOUD HOTEL. SILKS, VELVETS, DRESS TRIMMINGS, all our work cannot be equalled. a study, a historical study; as a searching criti- convulsions!" Aurora, we arc told, was out every friend met him leading forth the royal donkey to CLOAKS, SUITS, LADIES' UNDERGARMENTS, DR. GARDNER, This admirable house, architecturally one of the hand- TVTERCHANTS' LINE OF STEAMSHIPS cism upon the errors, falsehoods, and prejudices morning In a robe of " rosy hue spangled with the grove, where the lessons were supposed to be THE J, B. P. CORSET, HAIR BRAIDS, made to his Formerly of Ricord Hospital, United States Army, can somest in New York, on -I-V-JL BETWEEN own order, &c., &c. DRESSES and CLOAKS made to be consulted privately at his residence, WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. of another, Colonel Meline's book is unique In dew." Whether this gown was wrought by the given, and he said, ' Surely you do not expect to Corner of 42d Street and Broadway, : order. One prlcc only. American literature. Having asserted and fairly poet's fancy or the heavenly modiste, tradition teach that ass to read ?' The philosopher, put HI. WILLUN, Lithographing, Printing and Binding. 10©2 Massachusetts Avenue, Is now open on the EUROPEAN SYSTEM with first- Hereafter the fine steamships 1'. C. KNIGHT JOHN proved that nearly all English history is built doth not say. When the precocious Phebus un- ting his thumb to his nose, winked one of his se 17-12t 907 Pennsylvania avenue. class RESTAURANT, by GIBSON, and VALLEY CITY, will make 'regalsr between Tenth and Eleventh streets west. From his weekly trips between 'New York, Alexandria, Washing- upon misrepresentation to sustain religious pre dertook to establish a " Probability Bureau " In learned eyes and said nothing. 'But,' contin great success during thirty years' practice in bis par- ap 2-tf HAND BROTHERS. ton, and Georgetown, as follows : judicc, Colonel Meline says of Froude: the spheres, and to regulate |the sun by his own Mrs. A. G. GASTON, Agent, ticular branch he warrants a cure. Leave New York from Pier 39, East river, every SAT- ued the friend, 'if you fail at the end' of five N. B: Upon the receipt of $10 medicines and advioe URDAY, at 4 p. m.j leave Georgetown every FRIDAY, " Under a thin veil of sentimental tinsel, fringed aclenc$, old romancers tell us he was a youth of years you will surely be strangled.' ' My friend, ncpoRTEB or BLANK BOOKS sent by express. Particular attention paid to the indis- COLUMBIA HOTEL at 7 a. m., and Alexandria the same day at 12 m. 1 exceeding beauty, that his robe shone and was responded the philosopher, ' you forget that In cretions or youth. an 20-ly For information apply to R. P. A. DENHAM, Agent with rhetorical shreds about pleasant mountain Millinery, Lace, Jet and Fancy Goods, made to order after any style of ruling. AND RESTAURANT, office and wharf foot of High street, Georgetown, or at wrought with the color of flame. This embroid- that time the ass may die.' These arc her breezes' and 'blue skies smiling cheerily,' our PERSONAL. the corner of Seventeenth street and New York avenue ery was doubtless the result of the flre in which 1233 F Street, 325 Pennsylvania Avenue, J. W. THOMPSON, historian always has his own little device; and, chances. The senator may die." ap 9-t-f President. he perished, and not of his fond mother's hands. by innuendo and by every artifice of rhetorical WASHINGTON, D. 0. We are now having made, lu France, a supply of Having been entirely refitted, offers superior accommo- When the festive Orestes had his picture taken, Turning over an old note-book I stumbled on mar 18-tf dations to the public. exaggeration, never loses the opportunity of a the following J)». LEON, The Table fully supplied with all the delicacies of the DRUGGISTS. deadly thrust at those he dislikes. It is unfor- sporting 'mid the celestial fast ones, he wore a NEW TINTED PAPERS, season. REMINISCENCE OF GENERAL CASS. MONEY TO LOAN. Headquarters for STEAMED OYSTERS and OLD tunate for any claim that might be made in favor robe of great luster 'broidered with gold, pearls, No. 711 I Street, between 7th and 8th, STOCK ALE. no 5-tf of his impartiality, that in his pages to hold cer- and precious stones. Even the mighty Jove (If Among the more noted in Washington is the and will shortly be enabled to offer many styles National—a mammoth establishment. It Is, I be DR. LEON, tain religious tenets is to insure his enmity. With the blondes dress him to life) wore, on the C. W. HAVENNER & CO., BANKS AND BANKERS. lleve, the largest, accommodating four or five DllUG STOEE, more or less vehemence of language, in stronger malilng-tliundcr occasions, a robe of vivid hue Real Estate and Note Brokers, and Auc- That Cannot be Procured Elsewhere. The-oldest established Specialist in the city. or milder tone of condemnation, this is the one worked with many shiny things. hundred guests. Its present proprietor, Mr. JAY OOOKE & CO., BANKERS, 531 FIFTEENTH STREET, thing that surely brings out this writer's best Guy, has expended liberally in refitting and fur- tioneers, DR. LEON To descend to earth. Embroidery was one of Bny and sell at current rates Opposite U. S. Treasury, efforts in detraction, from muttered insinuation the most important of early arts in oriental coun- nishing the old concern/This gentleman's striking No. 043 Louisiana Avenue, Tliird Door We also have in preparation a number of Spoedily Cures all Female Complaints. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, GOLD AND SILVER, to the joyous exuberance of a jubilant measure resemblance to General Cass, and the senator's East of Seventh Street. ^"Bepot for miNERAL WATERS, tries, where It is still practiced with great skill and LAND WARRANTS, SCRIP, &c. se 24-3m in which, occasionally forgetting himself, he, like diligence. The Hindoos, Persians, and Turks ex- residence at the hotel, have given rise to numer- NOVELTIES, DR. LEON Execute orders at New York Stock Board. Hugh in ' Barnaby Budge,' astounds his auditory ous misadventm-os and good stories'; for. the Sell Exchange on New York, San Francisco, Great celled In embroidery. They used, silk, gold nnd, to be introduced during the season. Thoroughly Cures all Female Irregnlarities. Britain, and the Continent. with an extemporaneous No-Popery dance. silver thread, pearls, beads, and precious stones. truth of which last, however, I will not vouch We have the following'sums to lend on real estate: Furnish Revenue Stamps of all denominations. W. S. THOMPSON, For Instance, It is told with much gusto that a DR. LEON ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT BEARING " The insidious suggestion is found in such The coins so used as ornaments for the lialr of $15,000, $12,000, INTEREST. • mar 19-tf gentleman from down East, full of complaint and TOWERS & MUDD, Cures all Organic and Skin Diseases, PHARMACIST, cases as those of Sir Thomas More and Katherine unmarried women of the East are sometimes $9,500, $«,000, In search of the landlord, unhappily ran against Booksellers, Stationers and Printers, of Aragón. Henry's outrages on this noble worked into their dresses by embroidery. The $6,000, $4,506, dec 3-6m 703 FIFTEENTH STREET, our dignified senator, and exclaimed : woman, we are assured, were eitlipr caused by dress slippers of the Turkish women are always $3,000, $2,000. oc l-8m 929 Pennsylvania avenue. WASHINGTON CITY SAVINGS BANK, herself or were the result of that omnipresent elaborately embroidered. Listlessly scanning the " I say, old fellow, sorry ta trouble you, but do THE GREAT DISCOVERY. Corner of Seventh Street and Louisiana Avenue, WASHINGTON, D. C. Eligible real estate, improved and unimproved, at WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. ' inevitable' which, according to our historian, varied patterns of their costly robes and jeweled you know where tliey have put me ?" private sale. PAYS INTEREST ON ALL DEPOSITS. my 21-tf feet must be a grateful diversion to the lazy beau- General Cass, thinking this some unsatisfied Special attention to sales at auction. produced all the wicke dness of Henry's reign UNITED STATES PATENT, LAW AND AGENCY OFFICE, Open daily from 9.30 a. m. to 3 p. m., and on SATUR- tics of the harem. This art is common among office-seeker, responded good naturedly, " Indeed hampagne. ' Her injuries, inevitable as they were, and forced LIBERAL ADVANCES PENDING NEGOTIA- WIEDEBSHEIM & NOBRIS, 400 Chestnut street. DAY EVENING, from 6.30 to 7.80 p. m. MISCELLANEOUS. upon her in great measure by her own willful- all savage tribes that wear any kind of clothing. I do not, sir." Corner of Fourth, Philadelphia, Dcc. 15, 1870. J. A. RUFF, ness.'* (i. 445.) For Reginald Pole, there Is la- " Lo the poor Indian's " wives discovera rude but "Why, in the most infernal place I ever saw TIONS. IVTATIONAL CAPITOL LIFE INSUR- Received per last steamer, via Baltimore, FRIEND PROFESSOR: I took with me as I left Wash- mar 12-tf Treasurer. Xl ANCE COMPANY. bored effort of invidious depreciation; for Black remarkable and beautiful skill in this finger craft. Now my letters ought to put me through, old ington, a couple of weeks since, another bottle of the and Cardinal Beaton, the reassertion of exploded Feathers of all kinds are extensively used. They cock—such letters—" BALM, using it merely for dandruff and thin hair. T?REEDMAN'S SAVINGS AND TRUST STONE QUARRIES. On Saturday of last week I caught cold, resulting in 1 1 COMPANY, calumnies to palliate their assassination; and for Insert .the skins of Insects, the nails, teeth, and " My dear sir, I am very sorry, but you must 100 CASES MONOPOLE sore throat, and so severe was the latter that I conld COKE. Mary Stuart, a scream of hatred with which he claws Of various animals; the skins of serpents be aware that my influence Is very limited—" AND scarcely breathe by Monday night of this week. STONE! STONE! On Tuesday morning about two o'clock, I was In so -No. 507 Seventh Street. Orders loft at the Gas-light Office, No. 418 Tenth st. accompanies her from her mother's nursing arms and bits of fir bark and nuts. The Chinese are, "Very limited? Oh! come now, that's too much pain and fever that I was quite alarmed, and in at 711 First street; or at 110 Bridge street,, Georgetown, to the scaffold of Fothcringay, where, grinning 30 Cases Roderer Carte Blanche, this state I happened to think of the BALM. Almost will be promptly filled. mar 19-tf perhaps, the most elaborate and laborious hand- good. Why, General Duck, of the Bald Eagle, helpless as I was I gargled quite freely, and in a few DEPOSITS #2,500,000. with exultant delight at the scars of disease and embroiderers of the present time. The-unfortu- Middleburg, told me you were head cook and in cases of three dozen each. moments relieved tho throat of thick black matter, and the contortions of death, the scream deepens into experienced, of course, all that I needed. I did not The Company pays SIX PER CENT, interest on all NEW IMPORTS. nate Catherine of Aragon was a patroness of em- bottle washer." SENECA QUARRIES! The \^ine is very fine, dry, and of a high ilavor. expect to be cured instanter, but again used the BALM deposits of $5 and upward, beginning July 1, 1871. a savage scalp-howl worthy of a Camanche on his broidery. She compelled her maids to devote to " General Duck is very complimentary, but during yesterday, and believe that I have killed the „Any one can begin an account by a deposit of FIVE . bloodiest war-patli." it the hours intervening between breakfast and mistaken, I assure you, sir. I would advise you SHOOMAKEIt & HBRTZOG, sore by a final gargle this morning. CENTS or upward. 1331 and 1333 R street, We are an old family here, and generally known. I KID and all other kinds of GLOVES. the midday meal. To encourage emulation, the to go to General Pierce." Everj man and woman should make a beginning EAU DE COLOGNE, the only genuine. Again: oc 29-tf • near Jenness Hotel. am willing to give my testimony. LUBIN'S and ATKINSON'S PERFUMES, etc. "Mr. Froude's insanity for the romantic and queen allowed each maid to adorn herself with " Go to General Pierce—well, you arc creamy— The Maryland Freestone M. and Very truly yours, without; delay. mar 26-ly JAPANESE GOODS, picturesque would, as we have already remarked, the work of her own handB. Anne Boleyn, we are what, and ask him for a corner of the White M. Company, Appollinaris Spring. JOHN A. WIEDERSHE1M no 19-3m S. E. corner F and Eleventh sts. . wreck a far better historian ; and the imaginative told, made showy but careless patterns. Costly House? Come now, Old Duck said you would Have on hand and saw to order Platforms, Steps. Win- FIRST NATIONAL BANK TERRITORIAL HOUSE, embroidery was so lavishly used In the court of dow Caps and Sills, Door Sills, Ashler, Water Table, Letter from Colonel GEOHOE F. STEVENS, late Assist- power and talent for pictorial embellisment which give mc a shake-down in your own room if ne- Coping, Flawing, Trap Stuff, Curbing; also, Rough OF WASHINGTON. X 468 Penna. avenue, between 4% and 6th streets. make his work so attractive to the young and in Elizabeth, that Chaucer made It the subject of cessary." Blocks of all dimensions; good, sound Stone for We received, per steamer Leipsig, ant Postmaster, United States House of Representa Bridges, Railroad Work Wharves, and all heavy ma- tives. Government Depositary and Financial Agent of the EVERY EVENING. experienced inevitably Involve him in serious diffi- biting satire. This ruinous luxury continued dur- "I fear, sir, you arc laboring under some eiror," sonry work: Rubble, suitable for Cellar Walls, Range CONCERT AND FRUECKE'S VARIETIES. culty the moment a true historic test is applied ing the reigns of James the First and Charles the' exclaimed Genera] Cass, about this time coming Rubble Work Churches, Warehouses, and other heavy 50 Casks Appollinaris Water, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., October 3, 1871. United States, Humorous, Comical, and Satirical Performances, Coup- buildings, walls, and all jobs where strength and dura- PBOF, COOK, Dear Sir: AS I will not be in Washing lets, Scenes, Duets, Farces, Vaudevilles. to any of his flowery pages. Will Mr. Froude First. to the concluslou that the man was mad ; "I bid bility are required. (100 large jugs in a cask,) and 50 cases each 60 glass toil this winter, and BB I find your BALM OF LIFE FIFTEENTH STREET, To, commence at half-past 7 o'clock. Conclusion at good for so many ills, and useful in so many ways, I seriously apply such a test, and explain to us, for Who has not read of Raleigh's brown doublet, you good day, sir—my time is very much ocCu Offlcc and Yard, corner K and Twenty-eighth streets bottles. Opposite the Treasury. 12 o'clock. instance, his manipulation of Mary Stuart's letter northwest. . C. W. HA YUEN, will be glad if you will send to me by freight line one A call respectfully solicited by finely flowered and embroidered with pearls, and pied at present. Good day, sir—good day," The same is of superior quality. dozen bottles more, to be collected on delivery. of April 4,1566, and give us the original language je 11-tf Secretary. Very truly yours, H. D. COOKE, no 19-4t H. SCHWARZENBERG. the gorgeous shoes wrought with precious stones, The disappointed complainant was about selz (Of Jay Cooke & Co.,) President. of the passages which we have denounced as un SIIOOin A KF.It & HERTZOG, dec 10 « G. F. STEVENS. exceeding in value six thousand six hundred ing the great expounder of international law by CARRIAGES. WM. S. HUNTINGTON, DOUGLASS' authorized: ? Will he explain his remarkable poundp ? The magnificent Buckingham, In the the arm, when a grinniug servant informed him Sole Importers, ap 16-tf CaBhier. arrangement of the members of the phrase at his embroidering of his apparel, caused the dla- of his mistake. He was somewhat dismayed, BOROBALSAMINE ! SKIRT AND CORSET ROOMS, 1331 and 1333 E street, H. G. FANT. page 261, vol. viii., 'It will be known hereafter,' mondd to be tacked 6o loosely that when he chose but, unfortunately meeting General C. the next CARRIAGES. CARRIAGES. L. WASHINGTON 408 Ninth street. etc.? Will he throw some light on the peine forte oe 29-tf near Jenhess Hotel. to shake a few off on the ground he obtained all day, and certain of his man, he shouted, "I say, Seventeen styles of Corsets; 27 styles of Bustles, 50e. et dure—but no, we will not ask that. Will he the fame he desired from the plckers-up, who CARRIAGES. FANT, WASHINGTON & CO., - Guy, hang me, i£ I didn't take old Cass for you HARDWARE, &c. to $6.50; new Ribbon Steel and Apron Front Skirts; clear up the misleading paucity of dates in the were generally la dames de la eour. The firstpai r yesterday, and dry square toes looked heat light Pi'ofessor Oldberg, BANKERS, new styles Scarfs, Ties, Bows, &c. Large line of Ho- Jedburgh story? Will he find some authority siery, including Misses' Mixed, Striped, and Merino, of embroidered gloves brought into England nlng at me, I tell you." As I Shall on or about the FIRST OF JANUARY Successors to Rittenhonse, Fowler & Co., extra length ; Ladies'.and Misses' Merino Vests, Pants, less untrustworthy than Buchanan for the poison- were a present to Elizabeth from the Right Hon "Sir," responded the grave senator, with In move In my NEW REPOSITORY, 410 and 412 Eighth A. R. SHEPHERD & BRO.S, of the Pharmaceutical Department of Howard Univer- •fee. ONE PRICE. no 5-tf street, between D and E, I offer my large stock of new No. 625 Pennsylvania Avenue, ing story, and for a hundred other statements re- orable Edmund de Vere, who brought them from tense solemnity, "you are now laboring under and second-hand sity, has succeeded in obtaining an Aqueous Solution pudiated by all respectable historians ? Will he Receive deposits and loan money to depositors at legal 'pO THE PUBLIC. Italy. ; So pleased was the Queen that phe caused the same extraordinary infatuation. I must beg, No. 91» PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, of the costly and healing show us how it is that' he feared for his life,' is the interest. her picture to be painted in them. sir, that you will not repeat It. Good morning, CARRIAGES We issue certificates of deposit bearing interest and Increase of business has compelled .us to sell our English translation of ' II prend une peur de rece- payablo on demand. Branc< th Store wil, Massachusett1 s avenue and Thirteenth Embroidering has at all times been exccssTveiy sir." at reduced prices. Have just received a large and elegant assortment of ?ii 5? t.£? Sive our nndivided attention to the voir une honte,' and how it is that the meanings Balsamic Ghims MAKE; COLLECTIONS ON ALL POINTS IN THE OLD STAND, corner of Massachusetts avenue and 1 given in his text of numerous Spanish and French used by the Catholic church for the ornamenting It is said that the unhappy friend of General All work sold warranted of the best quality. UNITED STATES. street northwest, where we will be happy to wait on of priestly robes and altar decorations. Duck seized his valise, and has not been heard of CHANDELIERS, by the use of a peculiar preparation of Borax—process Negotiate Railroad, Municipal Loans, and Mortgages. our customers and furnish them with the BEST quality passages, which lie avoids translating, ate so often of MEATS, VEGETABLES, and FRESH OYSTERS, since. Repairing promptly attended to. patented 1871. The solvent in itself is a powerful An- Buy and Sell Government Securities and ether Stocks, at daggers drawn with the language of the origi- Tapestry may be considered the highest piece tiseptic, and in combination with these reBinons bal- Bonds, ;and Gold on Commission. Pay the highest all AT MAHKET PRICES. of embroidery, as in old times the embroldress ROBERT H. GRAHAM, PENDANTS, prices fbr City Scrip. Sole agents for Yates' Worcestershire Sauce, nals ? How it is that he describes a letter from sams tta healing, preserving, and antiseptic properties oc 22-tf MAGRATH & BELL. drew tjha design in outline upon her fabric, and Corner Ninth and D streets, are TRULY WONDERFUL. Domestic and Foreign Exchange bought and sold on Mary to Elizabeth as one ' she wrote with her own ON A CURVE. all the principal cities in this country and Europe. worked her colors and her needle by the guid- dec 3 3t Factory, 410 Eighth st.tbet. D and E. BRACKETS, and 7iand, fierce, dauntless, and haughty,' when, in the The following from a noted contributor to our We especially invite accounts of merchants and busi- RICHARD W. BARKER, ance of her own taste. Embroidery was then an Four distinct preparations are now manufactured ness men. Sight Drafts furnished to depositors with- letter, Mary expressly excuses herself to Eliza- " Grins " will be read with intense feeling by the 1833. ESTABLISHED . 1833. art that might have ranked with water-color READING (LIGHTS, under the immediate and careful supervision of Prof. out «haj-ge. oc 8-.6m beth for not writing with her own hand ? How it more refined and tender-hearted. The pathos JOHN McDERMOTT & BROS., Oldberg, viz: Cabinet Maker and Undertaker, drawing or oil painting. Tapestry is extremely is that he coolly substitutes ' fled from' for de- that Is condensed into the few Hues 16 really won- COACH MAKERS AND CARRIAGE DEALERS, SEWING MACHINES. 612 ELEVENTH STREET, near F. parted, ' lords' for ladies,1 four thousand ruffians,' ancient, but we have very little Information of it No. Pennsylvania Avenue, IN GILT, BRONZE, AND VERDE; derful. It is no end of sentiment to the square 310 CLINICAL BOROBALSAMINE, for four thousand gentlemen? How it is that—but before'the time of the Saracens. The Saracenic Near Third street, inch. But read and weep— FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS MADE space fails. tapestries were only ornamented by flowersan d WASHINGTON, D. c. ALSO, THE AMERICAN BUTTON-HOLE, Carriages and Harness received on Storage and Sold on which ifl the preparation prescribed and usad by phy- AND REPAIRED. geometric figures. The Flemmlngs aimed higher Young and lively William Walt sicians for sores, ulcers, skin diseases, erysipelas, &c., my 7-ly* Worked up steady from the freight Commission. Carriages Repaired. OVEE-SEAMIIÏG, AND " In these cases we wish to be distinctly un- and sought to make them pictorial histories. So je 11-tf FINE BRONZES AND FRENCH FANCY POR- aud for the PALM ER GREEN, derstood that we do not charge Mr. Froude with important did this art become that the greatest Till he drove the night express. Number eight. CELAIN SHADES AND GLOBES. Successors to RILEY A. SHINN, forgery. Heaven forbid ! We readily, and with masters of painting, from Raphael downwards, COTTAGE MARKET, Prevention of Contagion in Epidemics. Sewing Machine! 57 Greene Street, Georgetown, I). C., reason, find a more charitable explanation. bestowed their greatest efforts upon cartoons to Blue-eyed, light-haired Fanny Farr, oc 89- tf Manufacturers of MINERAL WATERS, "There are persons whose sense of sound, or serve as copies for the tapestry workers. Lovelier than a palace car 1 15S4 I Street. (Se^circular, whero simple tests are given, by means Agents for WILLIAM MASSET & Co.'s She and William would be coupled It Is the most Complete and Perfect Sew- PHILADELPHIA DRAUGHT ALE AND PORTJsw, color, or light, or integrity, or morality, is either The oldest piece in existence is the Baycux of which its wonderful properties may be demonstrated Bottlers of GINGER ALE, CIDER. WEISS BEER, <&c. obtuse or totally absent. We have known people Ere a year. BECK WITH & HUNTLEY, CARPETS! to the satisfaction of any one.) Fine qualities of ALE and PORTER for family use, tapestry, believed to have been worked by Ma- ing Machine ever Invented. at low prices, constantly on hand, who could not distinguish ' Mary in heaven' from tilda of Flanders and her maids, and presented Happy William 1 Ah, but what'11 Celebrated throughout the United States for their t^"1 Goods delivered free of charge for delivery..^ ' Boyne Water;' we have heard of others to whom, by her to Bishop Odo of the cathedral of Bayeux. Grow out of a whisky bottle Just landed from Steamer "Minnesota" another BOROBALSAMINE COSMETIC, ap 16-ly And a switchman ? Woe to the hand that's "MEDICATED TURKEY," from color blindness, white and scarlet were iden- This wonderful needle painting was wrought on large invoice of It will do every kind of Sewing that can be done on W. r>. GLENN, tical ; of others who, in lying, believed they spoke At the throttle I , Caterers to the Hon. Bancroft Davis, a son Excellence M. containing t,he-costly and fragrant Balsams Benzoin, any Sewing Machine. a web of canvas or linen with woolen threads of Catacazy, Hon. Sam Ward, and all the high officials, VELVET, BRUSSELS AND TAPESTRY Peru, and Tolu, exceedingly pleasant, and positively Practical Jeweler and Watchmaker, the truth; and others who, like Mr. Froude, could Whistles two, they plnnging, crashed— who know a good dinner when they see It—have on It works beautiful Button-boles. It does Overseam- various colors, and represented the invasion and efficacious in removing pimples, eruptions, chaps, Ing as by hand. No. 1203 F St., near corner of Twelfth, not, for their lives, repeat or correctly quote the Forty ton of engine smashed— hand the conquest of England by the Normans. It con- ringworm, &c., &c., from the face and hands. It has the largest cloth plate; uses a straight needle; WASHINGTON, V. C. words of third persons ; whose minds, in short, tained, according to Bruce, 505 quadrupeds, birds, William's skull and ribs, of course, were FRESHEST AND TENDEREST MEATS,. C K P E T S , and for durability, beauty of finish,an d case with which Simply mashed. it runs, has not Its equal. ' had hot yet succeeded in grasping the nature of etc., 633 men, 203 horses, 55 dogs, 87 buildings, CHOICEST GAME, of the justly celebrated manufacture of BOROBALSAMINE PHILOCOME, Call and see them in operation at No. 220 Four-and-a- Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Opera Fans, Parasols, &CL, Half street, three doors from the Metropolitan Church repaired. All kinds of Jewelry made to order. Hair inverted commas.' 41 ships, and 49 trees—1,512 figures in all. Fanny pined away and died, MOST DELICATE BUTTER, Jewelry of the latest styles made to order. John Crossley & Sons. GEORGE BOYDEN, Agent. ' Steel Spectacles to suit all ages. " And now when Mary escapes from the hands The Gobolln tapestry comes next in order. GrasB creeps o'er them, side by side— BEST VEGETABLES, delightfully fragrant and cleansing, superior to any- William, who had done his duty. Engraving neatly executed. oc 8-llt of her assassins, leaving Mr. Froude utterly in- This work was commenced by two brothers, In a and all else that go-to make up a first-class Green Gro- These are the thing heretofore discovered for dressing the hair and P. 8.—No begging bummers are sent from this office And his bride. cery, at keeping the scalp healthy. to annoy the citizens, or force the -sale of this machine consolable, but for the fact that her midnight ride small house that had been used by one Gobolln, This business is left entirely to agents who can sell PROF. SHELDON'S gives him (viii. 370) the opportunity of executing But, they say, through mist and rain, Very best Goods a woolen dyer. It was afterwards carried on by Reasonable JPviees. their machines in no other way. oc 8.6m Fashionable Dancing Academy, (tempo a/jtt'ato) a spirited fantasia on his historic a Dutchman named Gluck. The work in time at- Rushes by a phantom train; made, and are offered at NORTHERN PRICES. The Borobalsamine Dentifrice and Mouth lyre in the description of the gallop of the fleeing tracted the attention of Colbert, minister of Louis Forms are shining, through the darkness, dec 3-4t* patterns of many-of the above are New Medical Building, 1004 P sfc, near 10th. Of them twain. Wash HOLIDAY PRESENTS. cavalcade. It sounds like a faint echo of Burger's the Fourteenth, who advised that monarch to DAYS ANT» HOURS OF TUITION. ' Lenore.' Then he gives credit without stint to SABSFIELD YOUNG. FASHIONABLE CARRIAGES PRIVATE WITH US, JUVENILE CLASS, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Satur- take it under royal patronage. The works are contains Borax, Peru, Tolu, Myrrh, and Catechu. It M. W. GALT, BROTHER & CO., days, 3:80 to 6 p. m. Mary's iron fortitude and intellectual address. now exceedingly rare and of immense value de- SUCH AS and cannot be obtained elsewhere. LADIES' CLASS, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, SPECIAL NOTICES. prevents the formation of organic acids, which render He is entirely too liberal in this regard. Instead signed principally as presents, to crowned heads Our friends will find it to their advantage to give us 1107 Pennsylvania Avenue, 5 to 6 p. m. of riding 'away, away, past Seton,' she stopped Clarences, Landaus, Phaetons, &c., an EARLY CALL while our stock is full and complete. the teeth sensitive and cause decay, cures unhealthy GENTLEMEN'S CLASS, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, 7:30 With us embroidery has become a domestic CARD, gums, and keeps the breath parp and fragrant. OFFER FOR TIfE to 9 p. m. se 24-tf art, aud It has also become a purely mechanical for W. S. MITCHELL & CO., "*In this connection, we must do Mr. Froude the I beg leave to announce to my patrons and the public Recommended by all the prominent Dentists. (See J^"OTICE. one. Our patterns are so designed and' stamped in general that I have obtained a new selection of Danc- Shopping, Visiting, Weddings, Eeceptions, &c. circular.) holidays justice to mention that he does not entirely approve that nothing is left to the artistic skill of the ing Music, and that I will use in connection with the Importers of Carpeting, Opening of a NEW STATIONERY STORE and Henry's conduct in keeping Anne Boleyn under the same a set of Harmonic Bolls, recently imported by me. N. E. cor. Penna. ave. and Ninth street, a large variety of worker. We confine oursefcres principally to Having under my charge a first-class Brass Band, I am with handsome horses, fine harness, and drivers in All the BOROBALSAMINE preparations are for sale BLANK BOOB; MANUFACTORY. same roof with his lawful wife, and finds in It a ' sin- W. S. MITCHELL, I Perry Bnildlng. by Druggists generally. muslin embroidery and to such woolen work as also prepared to furnish MUSIC for military, use, pa- livery, for hire by the hour, day or month, on reasona- SAML. KER. f oc8-tf Diamond, Stone, Cameo, and Gold Sets. FIRST CLASS GOODS at fair prices, for cash. gular blemish.* Strictly speaking, it must be admitted rades, serenades, or for any other purpose required, at ble terms, at the STABLES of that the performance was not ' nice.' And yet, In the serves for covers for chairs, sofa-cushions, and short notice. ' other light articles of household furniture. In This being the only CITIZEN BAND in the District, I JAMES H. McGILL, Wholesale Depot and Laboratory, Also, E complete assortment of Lithographing, Engraving, Printing and face of this utterly indefensible abomination, our his- solicit the kind patronage of the public. ALLISON NAILOR, Jr., torian, sensible to the last, seeks to imagine circum- this latter department we have been deprived of Orders left at the Music Stores or my residence wll No. 300 I Street, Washington, D. C. DRESS AfND BAND BRACELETS, Binding, done to order. 1 the pleasure of seeing the " flowers grow under be promptly attended to. 1330,1332 and 1334 E street northwest, ARCHITECT, stances which might perhaps partially palliate it. The Pendants, Lockets, Ac. ; Clocks, Bronzes, Evening The public are invited to call and examine our new passage is characteristic, (i. 313.) HENRY DONCH, nearly opposite National Theater and Willards' Hotel, 032 F Street, near Seventh, our fingers," for our shop window» display oil no S64t* No. 537 Eighth street 8. E, dec 10-4m OLDBERO & CO. Fans, Opera Glasses, London, Paris, and Vienna Fancy stock. • BEN F. FRENCH, an SO-ly dec 3-6m Under National Metropolitan Bank and next door to Goods, &c,, at VERY LOW PRICES. dec 3-3t Jay Cooke & Co.'s, Washington, D. 0! se 10-Sm