VOLUME VII. WASHINGTON CITY, D. G., SEPTEMBER 30, 1877. NUMBER 31.

tain etchings of the early Great Apprentioes THE CAPITAL, suspicion in his mind was a lowering of the you on the shorter distance with my carri- of the art, and were, I am happy to believe, lÄISSl b"ttérfiy colors or somber black; porte PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY social thermometer of the room so decided age ; it is at the door." on ese v lvst extremely rare. From my unprofessional that poor Carmen looked up innocently, òr t„JÎ ,? ? ? : flacons and chatelaines He accompanied her gravely to the car- SÄÄ1111 Mfel» »od beauty; THE CAPITAL PUBLISHING COMPANY view they were exceedingly bad—showing chilled, and drawing her shawlcloseraround ornamenteSUSPd boxes• ,. ----filled- With hair-pins, needles , Spi i riage. As it' rolled away she buried her and a thousan. d article—s SdBe —.»>luxe , from the «rand 927 I> street, Washington, ». C. the mere genesis of something since per- her shoulders. d ou, r<, hero little figure in its ample cushions and chuck- JSHSMagasinis OI „1^ ' 'my Mr- Willian himself fected, but dear, of course, to the true collec- " I have something more to ask," said Sll »elecniions. There are quaintly-fashioned DONN PIATT, H ...... EDITOR. tor's soul. I don't believe that Carmen led to herself, albeit a little hysterically. C0 n ta Dln Carmen, hanging her head—"it is a great, Marie¡BHPP$3 Lna 5 1 1 ' * «« genuine Jean TEEMS : Per year, (Including postage,) $2.50; six really admired them either. But the minx When she had reached her destination she S S cologne, which, with sweet intentions, O, a very great favor." shon '?h mp0rilii iortho Patrons of this famous months, $1.50; three mohths, 75 cents—in advance. knew that the Senator prided himself on found herself crying, and hastily, and some- P ?ktl 8aro more The Senator had retreated behind his bas- snn '„,Jv ?? ? , tMteful than last sea- - Single eopie", 5 cents. having the only "pot-hooks" of the great what angrily, dried her eyes as she drew up son, and looking, I wondered at tho magic by which OLUBS: Ten copies to one address, $30 in advance, tidn of books again, and was visibly prepar- prettj but shapeless "A" or the first artistic efforts of " B"—I at the door of her lodgiiigs. masses ot ribbon and lace forms so graceful • - with one copy free. Twenty copies to one address, 835 ing for an assault. I-Ie saw it all now. He leave me to be filled in by the "How have you prospered?" asked Mr. Injewelryareatewsoveltles-pensees—forget-me-not in advance, with one copy free. real names had been, in some vague way, deluded. colliers in the finest filagree, the delicacy and beauty Connoisseur—and the Senator became in- Harlowe, of counsel for Royal Thatcher, as of which is marvelous. Ear-rings of polished silvefbaliF. He had given confidential audience to the on which, with qulvoring, sensitive wings, rest bees ana terested. For the last year two or three of he gallantly assisted her from the carriage. niece of one of the Great Claimants before butterflies. Silver porto bonheur bracelets and these abominations had been hanging in his "I have been waiting here for two hours; bangles each more beautiful than the other; an« Congress. The inevitable axe had come to now, could I come from these restlietie things to such study, utterly ignored by the castial visitor. your interview must have been prolonged— nomely articles as monchoirs and lingerie—I think the grindstone. What might not this wo- But here was appreciation! " She was," she that was a good sign." not, and to appreciate this endless variety one must man dare ask of him ? He was the more .see tor herself. Mr. Willian has specially rcmem? added, " only a poor young artist, unable to " Don't ask me now," said Carmen, a little who little people in his purchaSnVfriS implacable that he felt he had already been purchase such treasures, but equally unable savagely, "I'm wornoitt and tired." who has lie tayotten? his kind thought even ei- prepossessed—and honestly prepossessed— BB1 as In showing at great trouble these beauti- to resist the opportunity afforded her, even Mr. Harlowe bowed. " I trust you will be lul articles and giving me every information to aid in WRITTEN FOR THE CAPITAL in her favor. He was angry with her for making up a fashion letter, for which I return thanks. at the risk of seeming bold, or of obtruding better to-morrow, for we expect our friend lhe 1 thls having pleased him. Under the icy polish iHliS ? , *K Pa-Por they are not in the upon a great man's privacy," ¿fee., &c. Mr. Thatcher." regular order ol fashion notes, for the reason that vou BY BRET HARTE. of his manner there were certain Puritan my dear readers, enjoy advantages not possessed by Carmen's brown cheek flushed slightly. others"", Youcan go Monflayand see, as I did, for This flattery, which, if offered in the usual callosities caused by early straight-lacing. yourself. "He should have been here before. Where GIHOPLE. [Copyright, 1877.] legal tender of the country, would have He was not yet quite free from his ances- been looked upon as counterfeit, delivered tor's cheerful ethics, that Nature, as repre- is he? What was he doing?" here in a foreign accent, with a slightly sented by an Impulse, was as much, to be "Ho was snowed up on the plains. He is AT THE CITY HALL. coming as fast as steam can carry him, but PART III.—IN CONGRESS. tropical warmth, was accepted by the Seua- restrained as Order represented by a tor as a genuine, These childreif of the Sun Quaker. he may be too late." —On Friday last the court met and adjourned with- Carmen did not reply. wiu SSV K iPIS next the court, Judge Olin, CHAPTER XIV. are so impulsive! We, of course, feel a lit- will meet for business. Without apparently noticing his manner, The lawyer lingered. "How did you —Bailiff Joshua Parker, the well-known colored There was at this time in the Senate of tie pity for the person who thus transcends man in connection with the safe burglary was dis- 1 Carmen went on, with a certain potential find the great New England Senator?" he the United States an eminent and respected our standard of good taste and violates our charged yesterday by Marshal Douglass on the charge freedom of style, gesture and manner asked, with a slight professional levity. that he had appropriated more wives than his own gentleman, scholarly, orderly, honorable conventional canons—but they are always scarcely to be indicated in her mere words. —the following suits were entered to-day : Devlin and radical—the fit representative of a sincere. The cold New Englander saw " You know, then, I am of Spanish blood, Carmen was tired, Carmen was worried, » , ii E,ic?Ifllor Bank Note Co., «1,000 for rent Carmen was a little self-reproachful, and Annie Maria Orme vs. B. F. Morsell et al, note $600 scholarly, orderly, honorable and radical nothing wrong in one or two direct and ex- and that, in what was my adopted country, U r ttppeal cases were travagant compliments, that would have in- she kindled easily. Consequently she said refeiTed Hed and properly commonwealth. For many years he had our motto was,'God and Liberty.' It was —In the case of F. A. Sawyer, Wm. F. Haines et held his trust with conscious rectitude, and sured his visitor's early dismissal if ten- of yon, sir—the great Emancipator—the icily: al, accused of conspiracy to defraud the Government "I found him a gentleman."' through a cotton claim of over $50,000, there were' a slight depreciation of other forms of dered in the clipped metallic phrases of the apostle of that Liberty—the friend of the a number who testified pro and con, and the areu- merit, and for as many years had been as commonwealth he represented. (To be continued.] mentsot oounsel tended further to mystify the iurv down-trodden and oppressed—that I, as a Suffice It to say, the case was given to the iury after regularly returned to his seat by his con- So that in a few moments the black, curly child, first knew. In the histories of this the argument of District Attorney W ells, at 3 p. m. stituency with equally conscious rectitude head of the little artist and the white, flow great country I have read of you, I have FASHION NOTES. It is quite evident to my mind that in the days in themselves, and an equal skepticism re- ing locks of the Senator were close together learned your orations. I have longed to n lomon the A11 Appeal for Organization. . m? ' sage," wrote with sficti positfve- To the Mechanics of the District of Columbia- garding others. Removed by his nature bending over the rack that contained the en hear you in your own pulpit deliver the ness: 'There is nothing new under the sun," there •beyond the reach of certain temptations, were in existence no Premieres of the modiste world A be undersigned, a committee appointed by Co- gravings.j,It was then that Carmen, listen- creed of my ancestors. To hear you, of no .ouyeleres to send forth each month from their deli lumbia Typographical Union No. 101, respectfully and by circumstances beyond even the ing to a graphic description of the early rise hngere bewildering masses of lace and flowers, trail-1 call your attention to the following preamble and res- yourself, speak, ah! Uadre de dios ! what in olutions and invite your active co-operation in the knowledge of others, his social and politi- ? skirts of sheeny silk, draped by scarfs of heavy of Art in the Netherlands, forgot herself shall I say—speak the oration eloquent—to velvet, finished by cuirass basque or polonnalse or objects therein set torth : cal integrity was spotless. An orator and and put her shawl around her head,holdin make the—what you call—the debate, that carrick-paletot; no manufactories to unroll to an as- Whereas the present deplorable state of a flairs in this tonished world yards of lustrous fabrics with mimes country, brought about by the inordinate grasping of practical debater, his refined tapes kept its folds in herJittle brown hand. In this is what I have for so long hoped. Eh ! Par- changing with tho season, tilleul of one month be- unscrupulous corporations, by partial legislation for the him from personality, and the public re- situation they were, at different times du coming clair de lune the next; bronze, like tho chame- 0 C umulated don—you are thinking me foolish—wild, leon, turning into chartreuse and absinthe, losing its fh^ilV ,'^ ?. Mil "y restrictive laws cognition of the complete unselfishness of ring the next two hours, interrupted by five ehy—a small child—eh ?" Identity in ombre. There was no Virot from her through which associated laborers are deprived ot all throne to turn the heads and bonnets ot the world at rrlght to regulate the prices of their labor, and by the his motives and the magnitude of his dog- Congressmen, three Senators, a Cabinet offi- total alienation ol the Government, and representa- will. No Worth or Plngat to clothe queens in purple n Becoming more and more dialectical as 7™ the legislatures and Congress, from he peo- mas, protected him from scurrility. His or grey, as their capricious fancy dictated. Had their 1 tn sted them cer, and a Judge of the Supreme Bench- H111 " l with their interests ana baen the good old man would have lost Ms reason tlo s principles had never been appealed to by a she went oil, she said suddenly, "I have E,?i?? r, and whereas all efforts having heretofore each of whom were quickly but courteously trom tho confusion of sights and sonnets and that ai d you of myself offended. You are m ul of "there was nothing new under the sun" we should i® ' which had lor their object the emancipat on of bribe; he had rarely been approached by dismissed. Popular sentiment, Iti^h»!» L* classes, owing to the manifold liv sioni however, never have heard. and whcreas ,h an emotion. broke out in the hall. me as a bold, bad child ? It is so ?" X^RiW^' e destruction ot The Senator, as visibly becoming limp At this early day, when the heat of summer yet .^Industries or the country and the pauperizing of A man of polished taste in art and litera- r™ t!j0 meltable consequence of partia " Well, I 'm blanked, but this gets me." and weak again behind his entrenchments, lingers, and before tho leaves have put on their P 0Ur ro ture, and possessing the means to gratify it, gorgeous colors, it seems hardly possible that I should fore l>resentatives: There- (The speaker was a Territorial delegate.) managed to say, "O, no!" then, "really!" be-able to announce with any degree of certainty what his luxurious home was filled with treas- "At his time o' life, too, lookin' over pic- , styles will prevail during the winter months, and yet •/ai'inn'^f^J,1'.11 Hearn«stly recommend tho organi- and finally, "Tha-a-nks!" without even the powers ot clairvoyance or odylism 1 m6n nt • ures he had himself collected, and further thi Muitrv S?h ' ° ^ades-Unions throughout tures with a gal young enough to be his " I am here but for a day. I return to Cali- can, becauso Mr. Willian has shown me what he has S,"?' i0L,lhe pnfpoee of securing the following enhanced by the stamp of his appreciation. grandchild." (This from a venerable offi- brought from Paris, Lyons, Brussels and Vienna- and objects. 1st. The mutual protection of labor 3d fornia in a day, as it were to-morrow. I ol tho good he selected the best, and of the best what 8 ta ou( f ,he His library had not only the elegance of cial, since suspected of various erotic irreg- he considered well adapted to the height, coloring and ^.XnT| S V i irking classes inmuft adornment that his wealth could brin g and shall never—never hear you speak in your general style of his customers. cipai and State legislatures and Congress. 3d The ularities.) place in the Capitol of this great country?" ffl all oppressive laws against labor. 4th! The his taste approve, but a certain refined neg- shapes0"116'3 t,l6re are many modifications of old enactment of just laws for the protection of labor " She don't handsome any." (The honor- The Senator said, hastily, that he feared, iMMiM&M That three members «1 this Union ligence pf habitual use and the easy dis- De elected as delegates for the purpose of organizing able member from Dakotah.) VIROT, 1 order of the artist's workshop. All this he in fact was convinced, that Ms duty iSP!- ','! Trades-Union; that said delegates bl "This accounts for his protracted silence during this session was required more at his ™ Pafent, is one of the most gifted of her pro- authorized to issue a circular to the different trades was quickly noted by a young girl who fession, sends several captivating hats and develop- requesting them to elect delegates to assist in the stood on its threshold at the close of a duul during the session." (A'serious colleague desk, in the committee work, than in speak- S ? m.'i06 and ?0,w,e-rs! Mada""< Virot of whom I organization of said National Trades-Union from the Senator's own State.) ing, &c., Ac. W« make a most delightlul sketch, is an enthusiast • tt Is earnestly hoped by the committee that tho •January day. n]"e*;1business. Sshe is quite past middle age, but her mechanics ol the District will appreciate ihe impor- "O, blank it all!" (Omnes.) Ah," said Carmen sadly, "it is true, maiTelous complexion and exquisite eyes live her a tance ot unity of action—both those in Government The card that hacl been brought to the youthful appearance. Her toilets are alwayl magnifi- and private employment. Capital is combined and Four went home to tell their wives. then, all this that I have heard. It is true invokes the strong arm of the Government to aid in Senator bore the name of " Carmen de cent, and her shapely head is crowned by a prolusion of p sl0n f Iabor 11 There are few things more touching in the that what they have told me—that you have white hair arranged a la Louis Q.uinv.e. She wears no li!5] r?? °, , - is simply suicidal for us to Haro,'?' and modestly, in the riglithand cor- jewelry except solitaires, and in general appearance scanu line and let this oppression go on. Let us matrimonial compact than the superb frank- given up the great party—that your voice is closely resembles tho beautiful Sirs. Cram, whose ad- counsel together. ner, in almost microscopic script, the further a ori ness with which each confide to each the not longer heard in the old—what you call i'.^' ™, .? «s is always hailed with such pleasure. We invite you to organize and send committees to •description of herself as "Artist." Per- Virot thinks she is premiere modiste, or, I might say meet us at Baler's Hall, corner of Eighth and U various irregularities of their friends. It is this—eh—the old issues ?" held marshal, in the millinery line, but sho is not It streets northwest, Monday evoning, October 8 1877 so haps the picturesqueness of the name, and upon these sacred confidences that the firm s true she can tell you with certainty what kind of a tnat we may jointly agree upon some common ground its historic suggestion caught the scholar's If any one has told you that, Miss De lace night-cap the last Stuart king wore, and how of action lor ail the diflerent classes of workmen foundations of marriage rest unshaken. Haro, responded the Senator, sharply, "he tyrannical Louis XIV. was in the matter ot the head- throughout the District. taste, for, when to his request, through his gear of the Parisian ladies; but there are other artistes Kespeetfully, Of course the objects of this comment, at has spoken foolishly. You have been mis- ample 0 ons 1 llko "otter than Virot's : par cx- servant, that she would be kind enough to least one of them, were quite oblivious. WM. K. MCLEAN, .state her business, she replied as frankly informed. May I ask who " .1. H. KALSTON, "I trust," said Carmen, timidly, when they 1TA1UA HAMM, S. H. HALDEMAN, "Ah ¡"said Carmen, "I know not! J. P. HAMILTON, that her business was personal to himself, had for the fourth time regarded in rapt ad- It is A new contestan«"«»^,11/t fo1r ro-vorfavor, uuhaas a divine Cliapeau he directed that she should be admitted. in the air! I am a stranger. Perh Arc hi due, somewhat similar In shape to the Gainsbor- Committee. miration an abominable something by some laps I am ough. I he only objective point on this is a humming [Ail persons desirous of communicating with the Then intrenching himself behind his li- de-ceived. But it is of all. I say to them, bird. Its simplicity and style evince the greatest Dutch wood-chopper, "I trust I am not When shall I hear him speak? I go day after nan Hi sii il ^11E brary table, overlooking a bastion of books, keeping you from your great friends"—her and a glacis of pamphlets and papers, and day to the Capitol, I watch him—the great LK CHEVALIER, pretty eyelids were cast down in tremulous (And who can excel the graeefuf drapings and artistic The Sparrow. throwing into his forehead and eyes an ex Emancipator—but it is of business, oh ?—it blending ot colors that so stamp her work") has f-ih distress—"I should never forgive myself. is the claim of that one, it is the Tax, eh ? loned a dainty nothing of velvet and silk,With a spray To the Editor of THE CAPITAL. pression of utter disqualification for any- Perhaps it is important business of the of hazlenuts for ornaments. p ' The national Republican seems much takm with the thing but the business before him, he it is the impost, it is the Post-office, but it is English sparrow; but, whether its sympathies and State?" TUVEK, calmly awaited the intruder. the great speech of Human Rights—never, (who I may mention enjoys that privilege so precious charitable impulses are greater for those birds than ' O, dear, no! They will come again—it's NEVER. I say,'How arrives all this?' And to the feminine heart, that of being envied bv her •for the hungry of its own kind, who, like them, are She came, and for an instant stood, hesi- their business." some say and shake their heads, 'never iellow-workers.) designed especially for Mr. Willian pilling the streets, .is a question. But it is strange tatingly, framing herself as a picture in the some rarely lovely chapeaus. I had one on. I mar- The Senator meant it kindly. It was as again he speaks.' He is what you call veled greatly whether 1 was made for the bonnet or T^SId0,, ma,n/ Persons have discovered the fact, door. Mrs. Hopkinson was right—she had near the perilous edge of a compliment as ' played—yes, it is so, eh ? ' played - out.' I the bonnet tor me. Tuyee is more beloved than Virot that the Republican has not found out that the sparrows "no style," unless an original and half 1 here is not so much of la grande dama about her i I««» but that they are a nuisance, and your average cultivated Boston man ever know it not—it is a word from Bos-ton per- can t, though, give more space to bonnets or bonnet should be made way with, is a certainty -foreign quaintnesscould be called so. There makers—cannot write ol the carefully and tastelully n w to rs v0 mad0 ventures, and Carmen picked it up, femi- haps? They say he has—eh, I speak not the finished work sent by Keboux, to whose judgment the Prn!«r; L n . .ui , mention of these birds, was a desperate attempt visible to combine ladies of le grande monde refer on all great occasions- to this city among them, and shown ninely, by its sentimental end. "And I English well—tiie party he has 'shaken,' by Mantel & Therese who know from a glance at the that in character they are the opposite of what they an American shawl with the habits of a suppose J shall not trouble you again?" 'shook'—yes—he has the Party 'shaken,' face ot their ciientelo what will look well on Hotten supposed to be. They do not protect .mantilla, and it was always slipping from Kow, the pnnclo Bois de Boulogne, Central Park or trees from insects. On the contrary, they keep away I shall always be proud to place the port- eh? It is right—it is the language of Bos- """ IP grand Avenue. There are blue liats knd birds which to some extent would. Ordlnarv observa one shoulder, that was so supple and viva- ton, eh ?" our owrubn I y and black hats, with garnitures of mop tion should satisfy as to their habits. They are found cious as to betray the deficiencies of an ed- folio at your disposal. Command me at any IgreeDH^^H iw the ground, except when flying to the trees from time," said the Senator, with dignity. and liowers»WfirS,J witwithh birdHil-Hsc anon,d! butterfliesK,, : ., flowers., and. iriglit by passers-by, or to roost at night. They are a ucation in stays. There was a cluster of Permit me to say, Miss De Haro." re- fruits. They are all very small and closo fitting, with disgusting sight on the street by reason of their ' You are kind. You are good," said Car- no inside trimming whatever. Double-laced ribbons homely color and their fly-like gatherings around black curls around her low forehead, fitting turned the Senator, rising with some as- in the diflerent harmonious combinations of colors are their tood, and that such as birds of any refinement her so closely as to seem to be a part of the men, " and I—I am but—look you—only a perity, " that you seem to have been un- exclusive y used, and flowers ol velvet, gorgeous with of taste would not partake of. They are extremely poor girl from California, that you know an embroidery ol clalr de lune and brOnze beads are mthy, os the trees, the fences and tho buildings in- seal-skin cap she wore. Once, from the fortunate in your selection of acquaintances, most popular. cluding the new one going up for the State, War and not." and still more so in your ideas of the deri- INavy depar ments, attest. •force of habit, she attempted to put her CLOAKS Freedom from worms of the trees, since the sparrow shavvl over her head and talk through the ' Pardon me. I know your country well." vations of the English tongue. The—er will be short for young ladies and semi-long for—ri nuisance came, has been owing to the seasons or some- 4-nd indeed he could have told her the ex- !'Tf.nWritt<;?,0l,d ladles)—but women nevergrow thing 111 tho nature of tbe insects, and not to the birds folds gathered under her chin, but an as- the—er—expressions you have quoted are old, and 111 modify it by saying married ladies; silk lhis season, as may be seen, the trees are infested tonished look from the Senator checked act number of bushels of wheat to the acre not common to Boston, but emanate, I be- and matollasse are iort la mode, cut in sacquo shaue With webs, and on those around the White House and where the sparrows are the most numerous, they are n her own county of Monterey, its voting closely fitted to the figure. Very little trimming Is used J her. Nevertheless, he felt relieved, and lieve, from the West." on these rich materials, fringe being rarely seen ex- the plentiest. ' rising, motioned her to a chair with a population, its political bias. Yet of the Carmeu De Haro contritely buried every- cept on the pockets. Mr. Willian has been specially The sparrows do not eat worms or in-ects found on more important product before him, after successful m his selections of this class of gobds and trees. It is not their nature to do so. They are not of heartiness he would have scarcely shown to thing but her black eyes in her shawl. no where except at bon Marche do I remember to have the insectivorous class of birds, but of the herbivorous -a Parisian toilleta. And when, with two or the manner of book-read men, he knew " No one," he continued, more gently, seen so beautiful a variety. ihelr being led on grain in the winter, to say nothing nothing. < 01 seeking for it at all other times, should be hint : three quick, long steps, she reached his side, sitting down again, " has the right to fore- 13F COSTUMES sumclent that they do not "go" for insects. And be- there are many rich novelties, and when I looked at sides, an examination at any time of their crobs will and showed a frank, innocent, but strong Carmen was astonished, but respectful. It cast from my past what I intend to do in them the old saw ran through my mind. "Women reveal the same fact. > and determined little face, feminine only transpired presently th?t she was not aware the future, or designate the means I may want but little here below, but want that little long " Discovery has been made in New Haven that some Veiy long waists, very scant skirts, bridled in front 01 ue elms there are dying, and It lias been suggested in its flash of eye and beauty of lipand chin of the rapid growth of the silk-worm in her choose to serve the principles I hold or the and very long tan trains, are tho distinctive traits of by residents that it is owing to an insect which the curves, he put down the pamphlet he had own district, knew nothing of the Chinese Party I represent. Those are my functions. present modes. These, of course, will be adhered bv English sparrows do not molest, whilo they drive away • taken up somewhat ostentatiouslj-, and all people of good tasto to suit their style and figure native birds which used to destroy it. question, and very littleof the American At the same time, should occasion—or op- Dark shades lor the street are comme il taut. A robe The gentleman alluded to by the Republican, who so kindly fed the sparrows, might have done the same bv gently begged to know her business. mining laws. Upon these questions the portunity—for we are within a day or two of ot Prune de Monsieur faille and gray camel's hair is J senator enlightened her fully. "Your the close of the Session " delicious. The skirt has a pllsse flounce and boull- rots or rattlesnakes. I think I have once before spoken of her Ionnee heading, tabller of grey, with edged by a It has been told that they were first sent to America name is historic, by the way," he said pleas- "Yes," interrupted Carmen, sadly, "I pllsse and piping of faille. Habet of the same mkte- and accompanied by the im-ect story, as a huge ioke' voice—an organ more often cultivated by antly; "there was a Knight of Alcantara, a riah with long ends at the baok. The Iront is a gilet lhere are greater improbabilities. J H J •any fair countrywomen for singing than see—it will be some business, some claim 0t-.?r,u.n,8 de Monsieur with small pockets. To wear 'de Haro,' one of the emigrants with Las something for somebody—ah ! Madre de Tansies " 1 wlth lons l>lume and wreath of • for speaking, which, considering that much Mr Casas." dios—you will not speak, and I " A walking dress of myrtle green cashmere and silk I — ; George 11. Fox left for New York last night of our practical relations with the sex are Carmen nodded her head quickly, " Yes ; trimmed with bands of stamped velvet, one of black to be absent for a brief period. Mr. Fox astonished - carried on without the aid of an opera score, "Whon do you think of returning?" laille and cashmere, one of navy blue, flecked with our natives last week by his brilliant base-ball play, my great-great-great-g-r-e-a-t grandfather!" asked the Senator, with grave politeness yellow, and a slate-grey Bourette lighted with maroon showing that there was life in tho old National yet; seems a mistaken notion of theirs—and of The Senator stared. gll are specially worthy of a lengthy description, One week's practice and Georgo would be foremost in its sweetness, gentle inflexion and musical "when are we to lose you?" which, when 1 write to other cities, I shall give, but for the list ot base-ball athletes. " O, yes. I am the niece of Victor Castro, "I shall stay to the last—to the end of the minyv readers herhie f it woulI,d I kbe„ .a. ,,„,.uselesi s expend'ltur® v.. *e of —Hose Eytinge ployed in San Francisco to «1,131 on emphasis. She had the advantage of hav- who married my father's sister." labor and consumption of time. Each can see for her opening night, 41,093 on Tuesday, $1,14» Wednes- ing been trained in a musical language, Session," said Carmen. " And now I shall herself at the opening on Monday, and I only specify day, $1,035 Thursday, $1,068 Friday. Matineo and "The Victor Castro of the Blue Mass es that sho ln or Saturday night to hear trom. The actress' share was and came of a race with whom catarrhs and go." - She got up and pulled her shawl easy' ' PP g selection may be made over $2,000. Go West, young woman ! Mine ?" asked the Senator abruptly. viciously over her shoulders, with a pretty ,„ „ I i„ • sore throats were rare. So that in a few 'Yes," quietly. Gloves wil l Hb1e k most used in black of undressed kid brief phrases she sang the Senator into pettishness perhaps the most fejinino. e»d«

than you went for, and that you'll get a d 1 sight recorded will of the American people would not have SOCIAL GOSSIP. been repudiated ; Mr. Hayes would not now be Presi- MISCELLANEOUS. LADIES' GOODS. more than you went for, you cuss." dent, nor would there have been either, bloodshed or "Maybe 1 will, and maybe 1 won't; but what've revolution. Therefore the historian will be com- Our Boarding-House. you got yer back up on now?" pelled to „record the. fact—stripped of all technicali- MRS. M. J. HUNT, ' (No. 10.") " Oh ! it's none of my business." ties—that, at the second session of the Forty-fourth MOHOT BROTHERS Congress, Anno Domini, 1877,a Democratic Speaker, by Will exhibit on We left the enterprising Podauger in durance, and " Well, that is cool. Didn't you set me to work up the exercise of arbitrary power, based upon the formu- are pleased to record the fact that he accepted the that case ?" las of an illegal statute, caused a Republican who Offer the following Books WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3<1 and 4th,. situation with, a philosophical serenity really beauti- was not elected to be declared President over a Dem- " But 1 didn't set you up to work your way into the ocrat who was elected by a majority of one million of ful. The prison he found warmed comfortably, and, penitentiary, as you've done, you cussed old fool." the white voters of the country ! on Art, &c,, &c.: FRENCH PATTERN HfiTS although the diet was rather simple, he remembered "When I get into the penitentiary I'll send you Under the rule of the Republican party the doc- u History of Art, by N. D' Anver? $4, 00 AND THE that rich food, suck as he bad been given at the Tee- some affidavits settin' forth that fact. Don't you trine, To the victors belong thé spoils," has been "most rigidly enforced. It is doubtless a correct rule, tum house, would inflame his many wounds and alarm yourself. I tell you I got what I went for, and fbr a departure therefrom Is virtually a confession of Falgraves' Essays on Art 1 76 thereby retard their cure. He read the morning pa- you've no right to go back on me." incapacity to administer the Government. Conse- LITEST PARISIAN NOVELTIES A Glimpse at the Art in Japan, by Jarves 2 50 pers, and was much interested in the detailed account " Why, where the h.—1 is it?" quently "civil-service reform," as it is termed, is simply specious and hypocritical when formulated by To which the Ladies are respectfully invited. of the attempted robbery of Mrs. Tectum's house, in There was an expression of astonishment came a waning party. He that is true to his friend will al- Schools and Masters of Painting, by Badcllfle.. 3 00 octl-lyS Jios. 631 and 623 1> (Street. which the Hon. Lycurgus Leatherlungs figured as into Podauger's dull countenance. He stared at Mr. ways have friends. The correct doctrine being to fill a brave man, who had grasped and grappled with the Rogueman with a face that resembled a hollowed at least the prominent positions of the party with Qrammar of Painting and Engraving, by C. citizens of Democratic States; as it is hazardous at Blanc 4 60 deadly burglar, notwithstanding he was cut and shot pumpkin when suddenly illumined with a candle. all times to select" an officer from a hostile camp. JOHN H. KENNY, at in the most terrible manner. " You got the box, didn't you?" he asked at last. Mr. Randall represents an anti-Democratic State, Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art, Mr. Podauger made no comment on this statement, " What box?" and particularly Philadelphia, the most thoroughly anti-Democratic community in the American Union. by Clement 3 25 in which he so conspicuously figured. On the con- Mr. Podauger then gave a brief account of his He Is handicapped with high protective tariffs and the Late Lace Buyer for A. T. Stewart & Co., N.Y- trary, he conversed in an afiable manner with the night's adventure. subsidy interests of Tom Scott, and the extension of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers and their Works 3 25 other prisoners and the watchful guardians, as if there " And you loaned that box to Ned Whippier ?" the Pennsylvania railroad around the South to the Pacific ocean. He has voted in every instance aerainst was nothing in the circumstance of his being there " Uv course 1 did, and when I found myself jugged every proposition granting material aid to the South, Michael Angelo 12 00 IS PLEASED 1 O INFORM THE LADIES THAT that should cause any excitement in his own mind or I writ him a note tellin' him where to take it." regardless of its general or specific character. His that of any other man. He was told that he could record being identical with that of the eminent and Antonio Allegri Da Oorreggio, Mrs. Heaton.... 12 00 IN CONNECTION WITH THE OTHER " And he's made off with it, I suppose, and got a retired economist, Mr. Holman, who opposed all ex- take any excercise he might need in the rotunda of cool million." penditures, unless it was for the benefit of Indiana; Leonardo De Vinci, Mrs. Heaton 12 OO BRANCHES OF HIS BUSINESS HE the prison, that, he was informed, had been construc- And Mr. Rogueman rose to leave. hence his opposition to the passage of the bill ap- The Eighteenth Century, France, 1700—1789, ted expressly for executions and exercise. He did so "But I say," cried Podauger, "you ain't going propriating a million and a half of dollars to the Cen- IS NOW PREPARED TO tennial Exhibition. Per contra, Mr. Randall ably Paul Lacroix 15 00 exercise, shuffling along in company with a gentleman back on me?" and most ardently favored the passage of the bill (op- who was called Pegtop Peter, who informed Podauger " You've guessed it the first time, fool as you are. posing all others,) because it benefited Philadelphia Canova's Works, in three volumes, by Count that he was an author, and engaged with another and increased the profits of the Pennsylvania rail- That's exactly what I'm going to do. You're a road. Clcognara : 30 00 Receive Orders for the Re- brilliant young man, also a prisoner, in the writing of load, Pod., at any time, but when you put burglary on As further evidence of Mr. Randall's illiberality to- Art Education Applied to Industry, Nichols 4 00 a novel. Pegtop kindly proceeded to give Mr. Pod- that I shake you. Pod., you're shook." wards the South, Mr. McKee of Mississippi oflered a pairing, Altering and auger an account of the plot, which was of a thrilling resolution instructing the Committee on Ways and And Mr. Rogueman withdrew, coolly tapping his Means to fix a day whereby the question of refund- Pottery and Porcelain, by Bohn, (library) 2 80 sort, and seemed principally devoted to the habits, right leg with his slender cane as he walked away. ing the cotton tax might be discussed. The motion of Pottery and Porcelain Marks, by Hooper Phil- Cleansing of Real \ customs and love-making of pirates. Podauger was For a moment Mr. Podauger stared after the re- McKee to suspend the rules did not prevail—yeas, lips 1 76 not of a literary turn, and had read but few works of treating form of his chief, and then he soliloquized : 77 ; nays, 105—Mr. Randall voting in the negative, he fiction; so that his opinion is not of much value. But not being even willing to have the matter debated. " You onary cuss: you expect to. put me in the (See Congressional Globe, January 27, 1873.) Majolica and Fayence, by Beckwitb., 1 50 Laces. it struck him, at the rate people were being killed penitentiary while you make off with the plunder— The present tariff is the real incubus of the existing and seduced in Pegtop's novel, that it could quite as ihowed yer hand too soon, old pal; just a little too distress throughout the country. It is a bounty of over Marks and Monograms of Pottery and Porcelain, well be called "Murder Made Easy, or Every Man eight hundred millions annually exacted by certain Chaffers 3 00 915 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., bet. 9th and 10th sts, soon." interests to the great detriment and impoverishment his own Seducer." oct8-lyS Accompanied by the guard, he had regained the <-f the agricultural constituencies of the South and History of Ceramic Art, Jacquemont, (splen- The turn our American mind—we mean the ave- West. Mr. Randall represents this tariff monoply, rotunda, where that eminent author of bloody fiction, and if elected Speaker could not organize the House didly illustrated with 1,000 designs) 10 50 rage intellect, taught to read through our common- Mr. Pegtop Peter, lay in wait for him, when he was on any basis hostile to the protectionists. If Demo- school system—has for light literature, in which se- again summoned to the office. This time a lady crats representing the farming and planting in- New Books Received as Soon as Issued. MISS i. 1. M'CORMM, ductions and killing abound, does not tend to give a awaited him, and the guard volunteered the state- terests want no repeal or modification ot the tariff, they should by all means support Mr. Randall for New Stock of FASHIONABLE STATIONERY, cheerful view of our moral condition. Had Mr. Pod. ment that she was a stunner. It was Mrs. Dawn in Speaker. all the latest shades and sizes just opened, previous to 533 NINTH STREET, auger been a man of any moral Impulses he would her plainest attire; but plain as it was, it could not Mr. S. S. Cox of New York is a representative of opening our IMPORTED PORTE-MONNAIES, have remonstrated with this author, Mr. Pegtop take from her the " high, gamy look," to use some large experience in American politics,and a gentleman WALLETS and LETTER CASES. of rare accomplishments. He is now, and has ever been, We have decided to close out the old stock at 26 per (St. Cloud Building,) Peter, for thus catering to the vitiated tastes of our fashionable slang, that belonged to her by right of a free-trade Democrat ; liberal and magnanimous to- cent, discount lrom the usual price. Also, a special people. But Mr. Podauger was not a man of moral birth. She motioned Podauger to a chair as if he wards his uerring" brothers of the South. He hails lot of Books at 40 cents per volume. impulses, we are grieved to say, and so he lost this had been a servant. Pod. accepted the situation and from the headquarters of national banks, brokers and money-changers generally. FINE MILLINERY, FLOW- noble opportunity of benefiting the human race. the chair. Mr. W. R. Morrison of Illinois is an incorruptible MOHUN BROTHERS, The imprisoned creator of fascinating pirates spoke "I am sorry," she said, " that you were so terribly old-fashioned Democrat, very conservative about using 1015 Pennsylvania Ayemie, with much fluency and in rather a shrill voice. He the public moneys—unless it be to bounty the soldiers beaten. But of course if you follow such a life you and pay the interests due the bondholders—he is sep23-4t8 Corner Eleventh street, Washington City. ERS, FEATHERS, &c. developed his plot with much dexterity, and, as he must expect such results." phlegmatic, and rarely looks beyond the limits of'his continued so doing, he threw in slight accounts of and " That's true, Bess; and God's my witness, but I own State. criticisms upon the characters. He had never before Mr. Milton Sayler of Cincinnati represents a DRESSMAKING IN ALL ITS want to get out of it." bondholding and commercial constituency ; makes a GEO. T. KEEN, found so patient a listener, and this was a great re. "That desire comes over you, I suppose, whenever clever presiding officer, but dislikes to assume re- BRANCHES. lief to Mr. Pegtop. The prisoners generally treated you find yourself in trouble, which means in jail." sponsibilities. He is by nature liberal-minded and ap29-tf5 him with much discourtesy, being rough, uneducated catholic in his views; the reverse of his constituents, " Now, Bess, don't you be hard on a feller that's who have forced him to commit himself against Merchant Tailor, and rather bad men, mostly colored. They used ex- down ; you jest help me out of this and you'll see." rendering any material aid to the South. EDUCATIONAL, tremely vulgar language, telling him "to dry up," " Well, we will begin now. First, you must drop When Mr. Sayler was a candidate fer a seat in the 414 NINTH STREET N. W., "shake that" and "to shoot his chin," with a Forty-fifth Congress, in reply to an open letter ad- that name." dressed to him by W. W. Ampt, he made the follow- WASHINGTON, D. C. frequent request to elongate an inner garment "What name?" ing reply : THE UNIVERSITY that the poor author did not possess. " Bess. I know nothing—nothing, mind, of what * * * "CINCINNATI* *, Octobe* r 2,1876* . Our Stock for Autumn and Winter The author of " Fitzherbert Fitzgerald, or the Black you have been pleased to refer to. I am not Bess, "1. Asa represenative in Congress 1 am not in Avenger of the Spanish Main," had reached the Will be fully open by August 21. It will be the Of Gleorgetown. and I never was your wife." This last came out with favor of, but am opposed to, and will vote against, re- choicest we have ever offered, and the largest variety thrilling passage where the beautiful and chaste a gulp. funding to the rebel States out of the United States to be found in the city. Almerce stabs the Count, when Mr. Podauger was in- Treasury the $2,492,110 direct taxes paid by them. Our styles will be, as they always are, the latest and "All right, all right; I see your lay—go on." " 2. 1 am not in favor of, but am opposed to, and DEPARTMENT OF LAW, formed that a gentleman wished to see him in the freshest; our goods reliable in every way. "I will get you out of this on certain conditions." will vote against, refunding the cotton tax, in whole or The prices we name will be the value of the goods ; waiting-room of the jail. The summoned prisoner " Name 'em." in part, levied and collected from 1863 to 1868, and no more, no less. Those goods are cheapest which sell 1877-1878. broke from the author well as he could, for the gentle- amounting to $68,672,338. quickest, which best attract and satisly consumers. " That you go to Europe and stay there. I will pur- " 3. I am not in favor of, but am opposed to, and man followed Podauger to the door, hurrying the Taking that fact into consideration our old customers chase you a passage to Liverpool; and as long as you will vote against, the payment of stores and supplies, know and our new ones will learn that from us they bloody death of the vile nobleman in a very un- go in person to my agent in London he will pay you taken or furnished to the United States army, or of buy the best goods not only but the cheapest. FACULTY: seemly manner, and even shouted to him through the rent for the use and occupation of property, Including at the rate of two thousand a year; and I do this be- vessels, where the claim is in favor of a citizen who THE KEV. P. S. HEALY, S. J., grate: . ^ cause I feel sorry for you." was disloyal during the war," &c. GEO. T. KEEN. President of the University. " Hurry up, old bloody nose, and I'll tell you the " 4. I would cheertully supporta bill properly drawn . a»ug20-3mosl- Mr. Podauger reflected. At least his slow, cunning CHARLES W. HOFFMAN, LL. D., rest." against the recognition orpayment of these classes of brain went through a process that brought him to a claims, and will go further, and say that 1 think such Dean of the Faculty and President of the Moot Court. Mr. Podauger found a man somewhere near forty conclusion. He said: a bill ought to preclude the perpetual introduction into each Congress, not only of these, but of maniiold 415. SEVENTH STREET. 117. I ¡THE HON. RICHARD T. MERRICK, LL. D., year« of age, tall, slender, with light hair, sunken "All right, Bess—I beg your pardon, Mrs. Dawn. other claims," &c. (See- Cincinnati Enquirer, Octo- cheeks and cold gray eyes, whom he saluted as an old You get me out o' this, and pretty damned quick. ber 3, 1876.) Lecturer on Constitutional Law and the Law of Na- acquaintance. This was Mr. Stephen Rogueman, For 'fore I go to Europe you'll want me to get that With such a record, deliberately made against the FURNITURE, tions. chief of the secret service. The secret service is so iron box back again, and there's some mighty sharp people of the South and their interests, no member from that section could or would be sustained for one THE HON. HALBERT E. PAINE, LL. D., little known to the public that a close observer of hu- men after that box, and one in particular. I want to moment who, in any manner, contributed to his elec- FURNITURE, Lecturer on Evidence, Pleading and Practice at Law" man nature would be puzzled in his attempt to guess get even with that feller. But we've got to shutdown tion to the speakership. The idea is indeed mon- and Equity Pleading and Jurisprudence. et we do." strous, in the face of the declarations of his reply to at Mr., or rather, as he was known, Colonel Rogue- Ampt, for Mr. Sayler to expect to receive a single MARTIN F. MORRIS, LL. D., man's mode of making a living. Once, however, say " You are entirely mistaken," said Mrs. Dawn. " I . Southern vote. In his third and fourth statements FURNITURE, Lecturer on the Common Law, Real and Personal secret service, and the fact was written all over him. care nothing for that box, nor who has it. Old as- he takes particular pains, and with much emphasis, to Property, Crimes and Misdemeanors repudate all indebtedness due the Southern people. and the History ot Law. He was snaky in his expression of face, snaky in his sociation makes me feel sorry for you, and I'll aid you The Supreme Court has decided that the war ended motions, snaky in the low hiss of his hollow voice. He if you live up to your promise." on the 20th of August, 1866, and between April, 1865, Fall Styles Just Received. CHARLES W.HOFFMAN, LL. D., was the confidence man of an administration that, ' Mr. PodaUger gave his hand on that, and Mrs. the date of General Lee's surrender, and that date, the South was stripped of everything convertible into TALLMADGE A. LAMBERT, ESQ., professing to uncover crime, cherished criminals such Dawn withdrew. Mr. Podauger, returning to hi3 money; yet Mr. Sayler, representing a Cincinnati THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT, W. H. DENNIS, as this. He was the chief of a vile organization, and friend Pegtop, author, said to himself: constituency and seeking trade with the " rebel Judges of the Moot Court. exhibited in bis vulgar self all the duplieity, greed States," is not willing, according to his letter, to re- "So, my lady, you think yourself smart enough for fund, without interest, one dollar's worth of the stolen THE LOWEST PRICES, Term Opens WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER S, 1877, and insolence of nis subordinates. This man was ad- all uv us. Well, maybe you are and maybe you 1 under. The Democrats of the South owe nothing to THE LATEST DESIGNS. At 6 o'clock p. m., in the Lecture Hall, 915 F street vised with and trusted by members of the Cabinet, aren't. Don't care for the box. Oh, that's too thin; Ë northwest, in Washington city. For circulars address although the Almighty had written upon his forehead, and when I go to London—whew!" and Mr. Pod- •emocrats of other States, who can only get to Con- 1VM. HENRY DENNIS, Secretary, "Endorsed without recourse," as if his very maker gress by denying to them justice and equality in the auger broke into a profuse perspiration. Government. The people of the South only ask the EXAMINE OUR STOCK. sepia 4t8 Court House, Washington, D. C. would not be responsible for his subsequent existence. He left the jail that day, and Mr. Pegtop Peter lost return to them of the proceeds of their own property paid into the Treasury, and for no appropriation that ATIONAL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THE- Our U-ovemment suffered more at the hands of its his first and last auditor. they have not previously supplied by an onerous N friends than from the arms of its enemies during the Groods Received Daily COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY. taxation. The Fifty-sixth course of Lectures will begin on Oct. late civil war. While the Confederates were in the In the Forty-fourth Congress Mr. Marton C. Hunter AT, AT, AT of Indiana, on three different occasions, proposed to 1st at 8 p. m., with an introductory by Prof. E. T. Fristoe. field threatening the Union, our more dangerous FAOBLTY: THE SPEAKERSHIP VIEWED FROM suspend the rules and instruct the Committee on the JOHN Ci RILEY, A. M., M. D., Professor of Mate- friends were sapping the foundations under our Con- Judiciary to report an amendment to the Constitution GEO. BREITBARTH'S ria Medica and Therapeutics. stitution. There was no right guaranteed by that forever prohibiting the payment of any claim due the A SOUTHERN STANDPOINT. South accruing during the war, the solid vote of the J. FORD THOMPSON, M. D., Professor of Surgery. instrument that was respected. The armed enemy FURNITURE ROOMS, W. W. JOHNSON, M. D., Professor of the Theory South only preventing the consummation of this and Practice of Medicine. attempted disunion; our friends gave us a taste of monstrous proposition. Mr. Hunter, the mover of 415 and 417 Seventh street northwest. A. F. A. KING, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and To the Editor of THE CAPITAL. this resolution, is a large stockholder and patron of despotism. Arbitrary arrests, imprisonments without Mr. Tom Scott's Texas Pacific railroad, and the aug26-4t5 the Diseases of Women and Children. trial, punishments without hearings, shook the confi- The speakership of the Forty-fifth Congress is the scheme of Mr. Hunter and his allies was evidently to EDWARD T. FRISTOE, A. M., LL. D., Professor much coveted prize of the hour. There are already ihLIX DESFOSSE'S of Chemistry and Toxicology. dence in a self-government more at the North than confiscate the moneys due the South for cotton and several entries; of whom some are not unknown in illegal taxation, and hand it over to Mr. Scott, in the F FRENCH BAKERY. WM. LEE, M. D., Professor of Physiologv. did the roar of artillery at the South. the annals of the political turf. Philadelphia enters (Established 1859.) ELLIOTT COUES, M. D., Ph. D., Lecturer on form of a subsidy to build a road in no sense a South- Anatomv. Of the two most active in this work were Messrs. Samuel J. Randall; New York city, Samuel S. Cox; ern measure, and from which the South would re- 18 YEARS OF INCREASING SUCCESS. Cincinnati, Milton Sayler; Illinois, William R. Mor- ceive no benefits. Both Mr. Randall and Mr. Sayler Z. T. SOWERS, A, M.j M. D , Demonstrator of Seward and Stanton. They were eminent men, dis- FELIX DESFOSSE, Anatomy and Curator of Museum. rison ; Kentucky, Joseph C. S. Blackburn. Each are favor Mr. Tom Scott's subsidy railroad scheme, but The well known and only real French Baker in Wash- eased through and through with the fever of ambition. supposed to have the heels and inside track of the C. A. HOOVER, M. D., Assistant to Chair of Phy- oppose the refunding of any moneys due the Southern ington, No. 2012 H street N. W., where he has greater siology. ' They fed on and gloated over their greatness. They ether. To one at all familiar with the American people for property ^Jused or sold. facilities than before for the manufacture of the be&t turf, the coming contest over the great national A.C.ADAMS, M. D„ Preseetorto Chair of Anatomy. could not afford to spare the slightest proof of their The agriculturists of the Union are usually Demo- French and Amerioan bread. JOHN C. RILEY, M. D., Dean, course is of easy solution. And as it is a matter of crats, and it is this class and this interest which have FRENCH BREAD A SPECIALTY. sepl6-4t 1407 New York aye., Washington, D. C. personal power. The Secretary of War bullying men much public concern, it may be of some interest to at elected a majority of the representatives of the Forty- N. B.—French Bread is recommended for persons of who tendered their lives in defense of their country, least outline the contestants. Omitting the pedigree fifth Congress. This interest has for the last sixteen delicate health, especially for those suffering lrom of each for the present, it is only necessary to recur to years been subordinated to tariffs and monopolies dyspepsia. Beware of imitations. se2-ly3 GEORGETOWN FEMALE SEMINARY, and Seward sending men unheard t© prison on the what each has done in similar contests. generally, and it is but just and proper that some one, touch of his little bell, were but specimens of the representing the basis of all American industry, 81 Stoddard street, corner Green, Georgetown, 1). C. egotism and vanity of men who had yet the brains to should be elected Speaker. Almost every Southern Md'me De Courcey White, In a contest for the Speaker's gavel in December, and Western delegation have elected representatives devise and force of character to command at the most 1875, the entries were Michael C. Kerr, S. J. Randall capable and well qualified to fill that responsible and (LATE OF LORD & TAYLOR'S, NEW YORK.) BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL. trying period of a people's history. and S. S. Cox; the former winning easily in three exalted position. Goode of Virginia ; Waddell of straight heats. But at the iollowing December meet- North Carolina ; Cook of Georgia ; Forney of Session opens September 17 with full corps of assist- They passed away with the liberties they betrayed Begs leave to inform the ladies of Washington that ants. Circulars at Ballantyne's, 428 Seventh street,- ing, Mr. Randall, S. S. Cox, Mr. Morrison and Mr. Alabama; Hooker of Mississippi; Gibson of she has opened her dress-making establishment at and the men they persecuted, and when impartial Sayler were the entries. Mr. Morrison and Mr. Louisana: Regan of Texas; Gunter of Arkansas ; and at Gilman's Drug Store, Pennsylvania avenue. Buckner of Missouri ; Morrison, Sparks and Springer No. 1229 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, where she is sepl6-4t MISS LIPSCOMB, Principal. judgment comes to sum up their virtues and their Sayler being in bad condition, paid forfeit and were prepared to fill all orders promptly and in the best withdrawn. Messrs. Randall and Cox made the of Illinois ; Whitthorne of Tennessee ; Blackburn of weaknesses it will be difficult to tell whether they Kentucky ; Wilson of West Virginia and Henkle of manner. Ladifes' own material cut, fit and basted. race a dash of a single mile, which was won by the Entire satisfaction guaranteed. sepl6-lyl were a blessing or a curse to the country they former, the contest being close and spirited. Time, Maryland. The agricultural interests of the country GEORGE 1 OWN COLLEGE, served. would not suffer by the election of any of the foregoing not remarkable. gentlemen to the Speakership. WHITING'S Among the legacies left us by these statesmen was Mr. Blackburn, being a scion of the famed Blue FIRST TERM. Grass region, and although never before competing Of all the gentlemen named, none are better quali- the secret service. Made up of spies during the war, for the Speaker's gavel, yet from a recent trial run- fied for the position than Mr. Blackburn of Kentucky. STRAW HAT BLEACHERY, CLASSICAL DEPARTMENT, SEPTEMBER 4- it continued as an infamous body of reformers in the four mile heat—over the Ashland course, his many During the illness of Speaker Kerr, in the first session MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, OCTOBER 1. time of peace. In Europe, where this arm of the friends feel assured of victory. Time, 7.1(%. of the Forty-fourth Congress, Mr. Blackburn, for 934 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, LAW DEPARTMENT, OCTOBER 3. Therefore, from a Southern standpoint, what are the several months, discharged the onerous duties of police is better understood, the first requisite deman- real facts surrounding the coming race for the Speak- presiding officer of the House with dignity and en- South Side, between Ninth and Tenth streets. P. F. HEALY, S. J., Preside»«. ded of a detective is integrity. He has so much un- ership ? Hon. George M. Adams, clerk of the House, tire satisfaction. His rulings were prompt, impartial restrained power in his hands that to trust other than has placed on the rolls the names of 152 Democrats, to and in strict accord with parliamentary law. And READY TOR REFINISHING ALL THE SPRIN» wit: Delaware, 1; Maryland, 6 ; West Virginia, 3; Mr. Kerr often declared that he never knew a more mart5-tf5 STYLES. VENING AND NIGHT "FRENCH SCHOOL," an honest man would be paying a premium on vice. Virginia, 8; North Carolina, 7; South Caro- competent and accomplished presiding officer. E We, to the contrary, acting on the lying maxim of lina, 2; Georgip, 9; Alabama, 8; Mississippi, 6; James L. Orr of South Carolina was the last (AND PRIVATE LESSONS,) setting a thief to catch a thief, have two thieves to Louisana, 3; Arkansas, 4; Texas, 6; Missouri, 10 ; Speaker elected from the South, and simple justice ! Five grades of classes; opens September 15, 1877. See- Tennessee, 8; Kentucky, 10. Total Democrats from demands that this section should have at least a JOHN BARRY, Star "Educational column " Prof. LUOIEN E. C. contend with. Our detectives are convicts escaping the Southern States privileged to vote for a Speaker of Speaker once in twenty years. And if the ninety-one COLLIERE, A. M., 12341 street northwest, (south- punishment and criminals escaping conviction. All the Forty-fifth Congress, 91; leaving 61 Democrats Southern representatives in the next House are united east corner of I and Thirteenth streets.) sep9-4t8 that could be expected to result from such an organi- from all other States. All things being equal and and true to the interests of their constituents, they Plumber, Gas& Steam Fitter ASHINGTON FEMALE SEMINARY—A will elect Mr. Blackburn or some one representing the Boarding and Day School—will be reopened on zation followed as night follows day. The wrong-doers, policy," the siren cry of the demagogue and the W political dastard, being forever dead in the minds of all cultivators of the soil. DIXIE GRKY. 1319 Seventh Street, bet. N and O N. W. Monday, September 10, 1877. Circulars can be ob- the men who defrauded our Government, were hunted nonest representatives, should it be expected that tained from the principals, Mrs. Z. D. Butcher and ninety-one Democrats representing the Southern «3-ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Miss M. C. Douglas, 1027 Twelfth street northwest. down, and, the chase stopped when the thieves divi- aug26-3mos6 ded. From this they passed to the work of stool- States will fail to elect the Speaker irom one of their mye-tre number, or will they accept the advice of a minority Improved Farms Wanted. pigeons, and laid traps for weak men in crimes they of sixty-one, and ignobly confess their incapacity to designed for them. To this business they added that fill the first position in the House? It the South PARTIES DESIRING W. N. ROWE, J. F. ELLIS & CO. 9 of private detectives, and, did a prominent politician should be again cozened out of the Speakership it BOLE AGENTS FOR will be the fault of her own representatives, and it REAL ESTATE BROKER, wish to ruin his rival, he put these hounds upon his will be only parallel in history to the surrender of Loans at a Low Valuation track. Did an official suspect his wife, or wish to the impregnaule fortress of Metz by Bazaine, with 80,- No. 512 F street N. W., one square east of Post Office, THE CELEBRATED CHICKERING build upon circumstances through which he could get 000 veteran French soldiers. And the fate of Bazaine, Washington, D. C. AND now a wanderer and outcast, should be a warning to on Improved Farms clear of her, these vulgar villains found employment the weak-kneed and the time-server. HOUSES, LOTS, AND FARMS ON SALE. There is no recorded time in the history of licentious The Speaker of the House, in the organization of B-«J> It Houses Rented. Rents colleoted. Money Loaned f AM0US WEBER PIANOS, AND courts of Europe in the past that surpassed our na-, committees and in the exercise of a supervisory con- and carefully Invested. nov26-ly2 trol over legislation, possesses and necessarily wields Apply to tional capital, while reckless extravagance prevailed autocratic power. He can procrastinate, defeat or REAI. ESTATE I.OA X AND TRUST CO., THE SMITH AMERICAN ORGAN! and these instruments were on hand for us. perfect legislation almost at will. As an illustration No. 631 F street northwest, 1304 H Street N. W. The criminal and the convict, both in the employ of this fact it is only necessary to recur to the " dead jyi-iys Washington, D. O., P. O. Box 74. Pianos and Organs Carelully Tuned and Repaired • lock" in the Forty-third Congress, pending action on Window Cornices, Walnut, Oak, Gilt and Fancy Pio- by skillful workmen. Satisfaction guaranteed. of our precious Government, eyed each other. There the " force bill." Speaker Blaine thought this bill put ture Frames, Passe-Partouts, Bronzing and Regilding. was a sneer in the eye of the chief that fell on the dull too much power in the hands of the President, a rival HARYEY SPALDING, je3-ly S. B. CASTLE. 937 PENNSYLVANIA AVENCE, NEAB TENTH STREET gaze of Podauger without apparently any effect. candidate at that time for the Presidency. Hence he entertained dilatory motions made by his political op- OW IS THE TIME TO SELL "Well," said Mr. Rogueman, shaping his sneer ponents until the measure was lost. Had Speaker SHBURY G. APPLEMAN & MUMPER Attorney At-Law, Brokers, office 1339 F street, opposite the Ebbitt into words, "you have been doing a pretty lively Blaine favored the passage of that bill it would to-day N LADIES, GENT'S AND CHILDREN'S- have been on the statute book. Furthermore, had AHouse, have funds to loan on good collateral at reason- land-office business on your beat—you have." able rates. They anticipate Congressmen's and Sena- CAST OFF WEARING APPAREL, Speaker Randall opposed the inauguration of Ruther- Office rooms 4 and 6, 1429 New York avenue, Wash- BOOTS, SHOES. &.C., "Fortunes of war, boss; but 1 got what I went for." ford B. Hayes as President of the United States^ after ington, JD. C., solicits correspondence of parties hav- tor's pay, monthly or otherwise. Will discount good ing just claims against the Government, the payment commercial notes daily. Good approved vouchers At extraordinary high cash prices, at JUSTH'S old* " And it looks to me as if you got something more the illegal action of the electoral commission, simply cashed. je3-4m8sl stand, No. 619 D street n. w. All notes by mail will., by recognizing motions of a dilatory character, the of which is resisted. my6-6mo be promptly attended to. mar21-tf THE CAPITAL.—SEPTEMBER 30, 1877 3 FROM NEW YORK. stars that differ very essentially from him in glory all am glad these luxuries are not denied him. My ami- were, and the "professional matinee" was accordingly able informant also stated that the moment O. K. MEDICAL. MEDICAL. i6 a great success. Mr. and Mrs. Williamson (Maggie shaved oft his mustache, preparatory to appearing in ~ Jamie " Will na Come Hame—Distinguished Départ- Moore) occupied a box in company with Mr. McCul- The Crucible, he saw by its expression that the downy is res for the Other! ide—Foreign Official Society in lough, and the lady's infectious laugh resounded all Hall was a bold, bad man; or, as that dear Swin- PROPRIETÄR? the Metropolis — 31 r. Sotliern's Luncheon' î'arîv— over the house. There were any number of actors and burne says In his most recent poem : " Villon, "(vil- U Mashed " on the Count Johannes—A Keview of the actresses in the stalls, including Miss Duncan and lain,) our sad, bad, glad, mad brother's name !" Miss Chapman, in nautical, but nice white suits, and m Theaters—Oakey Well Fixed. SAPHIB. Rosa St. Clair, now Mrs. Leland, the wife of one of [New York Correspondence of THK CAPITAL.] the hotel proprietors. Sothern was called out seven MEDICAL. NEW YORK, September 27. times alter one act—(alter the scene which is nightly Fates and Paris have ordained that James Gordon followed by four or five demands for his reappear- DR. CHANDLER, F.R.S.A., " Bennett is not to bloom upon his native heath for ance)—and at the close he made a feeling appeal on Late Physician to St. George's and St. Bartholo- some time to come. The passenger list of the Russia behalf of "poor Ned Adams," who is dying in Chicago, FIRST DOSE mew's Hospitals, London, Curator to showed but one editor — Mr. George Jones of the and for whose self and family a benefit is proposed. THE ONLY KNOWN SURE St. Elizabeth's, etc. Times—and a popular captain of a popular Cunarder On going out ot the Park Theater one's eye is caught After years of the most laborious re- declares that he has it from the very best authority by a poster representating "the Crushed," which has ON A BOSTON POLICE OFFICER. search and investigation, and after the that Mr. Bennett has exercised the by-no-means ex- been pasted upside down, so that that serio-comic in- practical (triplication in treatment to thou- sands of patients, Geo. Chandler, A.M., clusively feminine privilege of changing his mind, dividual is represented standing on his head. '.Tls «1 „ , BOSTON; Nov. 15,1871. M.D., now presents to the American pub- and will not return to this country this winter. We thus that Johannes would see him In reality I H. R. STEVENS: lic the following remedies, his sole dis- had better resign all hopes of seeing him oome back CURB covery and property, the efficacy of which It is quite probable that many people outside of Dear Sir—In the spring of 1869 1 was stricken down is attested in the voluminous quantity of to be "cut" (such is the avowed intention) by some ot New York do not understand who the Count Johannes with fever which had a long and almost hopeless run. testimonials, the unsolicited offerings of The best medical advice being In attendance, I was his formerly dear iriends. It is to be doubted if such really is and why he is given such prominence in the suffering and discouraged patients, who taken through the fever; but it left me terribly re- have not only received relief and benefit - a course oi treatment would really be pursued ; the public prints, but they would cease to wonder why and duced and weak, with excruciating pains in my side bark of society is much worse than its bite, as a gen- back and hips. I was completely prostrated with from their continued, use, but have been wherefore the Sun shines for him and the World does radically cured of ailments and chronic eral thing, and Mr. Bennett is too indispensable a Kidney Complaint, and no medicine seemed to reach him honor If they could only look at him ; no nobility my case. complaints, which have been adjudged by the most eminent physicians as hopeless. feature in New York life to be thrown over the dear like his exists; from the curls of his raven hair to the In this condition I was persuaded to try VEGETINK, creature's shoulders. They would sail in his yacht, toes of his shining boots he is pur sang. The decora- by a friend whom it cured of the same disease, and it and view his polo, and, If he willed It, follow his seemed as though I could feel the effect of the first tion on his red necktie is the only insignia which he dose through my whole system ; and from that mo- THE WONDERFUL chiens courants, I'll be bound, with as little compunc- permits himself to wear, and, although his black suit ment I began to mend, gradually growing better from DR. CHANDLER'S tion as though he had never been hogged by the strong is carefully brushed and his gloves show little or no day to day; and I followed on with the VEGETINE right arm of an indignant brother for an unpardona- until it completely restored me to health, since which EGYPTIAN BLOOD-PURIFIER. holes, one would not possibly accuse him of any undue time I have been able to perform my duties as a po- ble slight. , affectation of gentility. He uses an eye-glass, and lice officer, enjoying good health; and there is no MJEMXU. doubt about the great value of VEGETUTE in Kidney The departures for Europe of notable people have- when he rises during an entr' aote at the theater and Complaint and similar diseases. This incomparable DEP URATIVE is ol late far outnumbered our acquisitions. The Count surveys the house with a careless grace, more than one a powerful ALTERATIVE, TONIC, DI- 1 am sir. respectfully. PILON URETIC, J) I A PHOHETIC, and APERI- de Choiseul, who has been a great addition to society fair observer sighs and exclaims: "And did they LAFAYETTE FORD, 584 Broadway. ENT, combining virtues which render for nearly a yeai past, sailed for France on Saturday, really throw footstools down upon him the night he it invaluable and never-failing, and by much to the regret of a large circle of friends. A enacted Hamlet at the Academy of Music? How its continued use will thoroughly eradi- shameful!" The incident I am about to relate may cate all diseases of the blood. Its ingre- member of the distinguished Legitimist, Choiseuls, dients are of a purely harmless extrac- (and the Count is a son of the Bue de Choiseul,) this seem Slightly overdrawn, but 1 assuro the reader that All Diseases of the Blood. tion, the products gathered from remote it truly occurred as—as the Count Johannes' patent Egyptian Provinces, and where there is gentleman combined with extreme affability a dis- If VEGETUTE will relieve pain, cleanse, purify and of nobility exists—I can not possibly think of any the slightest taint of disease in the sys- tinction of manner and a range of attainments which cure such diseases, restoring the patient to perfect tem, it never fails in ejecting that disease • are not often to be found in our foreign visitors, how- higher comparison. The other evening one of the health after trying different physicians, many reme- through the medium of the shin, or ex- ever titled. During the latter part of the season in most beautiful young ladies in New York was found dies, suffering for years, is it not conclusive proof, if pelling it through the many and various you are a sufferer, you can be cured? Why is this weeping bitterly. In her hand she held a newspaper channels of the body, thereby allowing, town he had apartments in the Stevens building, be- medicine performing such great cures ? It works In THOUSANDS OF CASES CURED EFFECT- and, indeed, forcing all the organs into tween Broadway and Fifth avenue, on Twenty-sev- which she endeavored to conceal, as her fatber (one the blood, in the circulating fluid. It can truly be their proper normal and functional con- enth street, (true to instinct, the Faran Stevens main- of the most respected of our Fifth avenue and Broad called the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER. The great dition. A very brief space of time trill source of disease originates In the blood ; and no med- UALLY BY THIS street citizens,) entered the luxurious apartment. convince any patient using it, of its un- tains something that approaches as nearly to a hotel as icine that does not act directly upon it, to purify and doubted reliability and wonderful cura- Is consistent with " flats V) and the summer he passed " What ails you, child ?" inquired the parent. For a renovate, has any just claim upon public attention. tive properties, it being, most unquestion- in Newport. It would be scarcely interesting to the long time he could obtain no reply, but at last he ably, the very acme of medical triumphs, wrung from the tortured girl something like the and the greatest discovery of the present general reader to dissect the character of this scion of WONDERFUL REMEDY. age, in the treatment of every .disease one of the most noble houses of France, but It may following: " Father, I fear for Johannes. He threat- where the blood, itself is primarily the not be inappropriate to say that It resembles to a ens to chastise Mr. Sothern. Oh! dissuade him! Seventy-one Years of Age. seat of the lesion or disorder, such as striking, degree that of the Count Valentin as drawn Does he not know, rash man! that he on whom he S C It OF TIL A and the thousand and one EAST MARSHFIELD, Aug. 2II. 1870. causes that lead, to this terrible affliction, in Henry James'novel of "The American"—that ad- would inflict his righteous anger with a horsewhip is MR. STEVENS : of which all civilized communities are mirable picture of French manners and keen Illustra- one ol the best pistol shots in the land ? See Johan- Dear Sir—1 am seventy-one years of age ; have suf- cognizant, for Biblical Truth has assert- fered many years with Kidney Complaint, weakness tion ot the utter impotency ol democracy—even shrewd nes ; tell him this, and say that we shall meet again ed that the "Sins of the fathers shall in my back and stomach. I was induced by friends visit even unto the third, and fourth gen- American democracy, backed by brains and money- in heaven!" Alas! the poor girl had betrayed to try your VEGETINE, and I think it the best medi- erationsand to BROKEN-1)OWN AND bags—in struggling with the exclueiveness, the iron herself in her anxiety; her i'jther dislikes the cine for weakness of the kidneys 1 ever used. I have ENFEEBLED CONSTITUTIONS it is a tried many remedies for this complaint, and never powerful rejuvenator, causing the wreck wall, of the almost royal dwellers in the Faubourg St. theater and all attached to it. " So, ho!" said he, found so much relief as from the VEGETINE. It strengthens and invigorates the whole system. Many of man once more to assume the God-like Germain. The Count de Choiseul, who is not likely "last year it was Montague; now it is Johannes! form of manhood. Where will this end? Go to your room, I command of my acquaintances have taken it, and' 1 believe it to to revisit our shores, presented the same traits as this be good for all the complaints for which it is recom- PILES. HEMORRHOIDS. For CUTANEOUS DISEASES, URIN- most winning of all the exquisite "types" presented by you !" Since then the poor girl has been imprisoned mended. ARY 1)1 SOUT)ERS, CONSTIPATION OR In her apartment, but doubtless some little bird has CO ST IVEN ESS, LIVER AND KIDNEY Mr. James in a book which is like some perfect photo- Yours truly, JOSIAH H.SHERMAN. COMPLAINTS, GENERAL AND NERV- graph. whispered to Johannes what a dead shot Ned OUS DEBILITY, RHEUMATISM, Sothern is. PILON. GLANDULAR ENLARGEMENTS, EPI- In New York what may be called foreign officiai THELIOMA TO US CANCER, S C UR VY, society is regarded with perhaps more interest than in The Count is insensible, I may as well remark, to Would Give a Dollar lor a Dose. AFFECTIONS OF THE BONES, INDO- Washington, where it is doubtless better known. Be- the attentions of the fair sex; he lavishes strictly pa- BOSTON, May 30,1871. LENT ULCERS, FEMALE COM- PLAINTS (and to the gentler sex it is a sides Aristarchi Bey, whose predilection is strongly ternal care on a young actress and authoress, Miss H. R. STEVENS, Esq.: Many causes tend to produce this Dear Sir—I have been badly afflicted with Kidney boon long sought for by sensitive, suscep- in favor of the metropolis, and who divides his leisure Lydia (now called Avonia) Fairbanks, whose debut (in Complaint for ten years ; have suffered great pain in tible, and, delicate females, as it takes moments between the opera bouffe, the Garden, a a page's costume that disclosed charms which nature my back, hips and side, with great difficulty in pass- direct action upon their ailments) AND painful and distressing state. The ALL FORMS OF CHRONIC DISEASE game of cards, Delmonico'a and writing letters to the surely never duplicated,) in therepresentation of Ham- ing urine, which was often and in very small quanti- ties, frequently accompanied with blood and excruciat- IN WHICH THE BLOOD IS THE SEAT Times, Senor Mantilla and Madame Mantilla are let at the Academy of Music, was so extraordinary an ing pain. I iiHve faithfully tried most of the popular OF THE TItO XTii 1. TJ. ft is it,valuable. A now in town, at their residence near Stuyvesant affair. An editor of a leading journal describes the remedies recommended for my complaint; I h.ive blood is retarded in its return; the perseverance, with tins remedy wll prove a positive, am! jterntu near cure for Square, where Hamilton Fish's house is. They were been under tin treatment of some of the most skillful young authoress'visit to his sanctum as one of the physicians in Boston, all oi whom pronounced my case CHILLS and F¡1I Kits and all MALA- at Wallack's the other evening, Madame Mantilla be- most delightful incidents of his career; she was at- incurable. Tills was my condition when I was ad- too frequent use of drastic purgatives RIA I POISO NS. ing rather dazzling to the eye, in a black dress with tired in a light silk dress, and on her carelessly-ar- vised by a friend to try the VEGETINE, and I could Thousands of Testimonial: attest the see the good effects from the first dose I took, and transparent sleeves, closely fitting the arm, and tropi- truth of these claims. ranged tresses was a bonnet that the Bowery could from that moment I kept on- improving until I was Price, One, Dollar, in large bottle, or cal red and yellow dowers crowning her dark hair. never have produced unaided. She swept him a low entirely cured, taking m ail, 1 should think, about six tends to produce congestion of the six bottles, $5, _____ As the Baroness de Busslere has not yet returned courtesy, first advancing and then retreating a few bottles. from Europe, it is safe to say that Madame Mantill a steps, the whole performed with the utmost distinc- It is indeed a valuable medicine, and if 1 should be afflicted again in the same way I would give a dollar bowels, torpid action of theliver and has no formidable disputants for the title of reigning tion. He afterwards remarked that he saw in that for a dose, if 1 could not get it without. DYSPEPSIA. belle in this brilliant foreign colony which is prized perfectly natural performance—so careless and un- Respectfully, ,T. M. G1LE, GASTRON. so highly by fashionables. studied—the true sacred fire. 361 Third St., South Boston. numerous other causes are the sowrce GASTRON is a safe, speedy, and posi- The autumnal hues are beginning to appear in the The theaters have been In abeyance, as it were, this tive cure for that most depressing of ail- foliage in the park, and the late atternoon drive is ments, and a brief course of treatment wilt week, pending a grand outburst on Monday, when of this complaint, and hitherto noth- restore the digestive organs to their pris- therefore rendered all the more attractive. The soft the regular season will Indubitably begin. The Life a Burden. tine strength, and promote the healthy i haze of Indian summer is " over it all, too," and if Florences have been filling up time by appearing in BOSTON, Nov. 2, 1873. action of the stomach and intestines. The nervous irritability of literary and all there is a promenade en voiture more delightful than That Wife of Mine. Mrs. Florence's costumes as the H. R. STEVENS, Esq.: ing effectual has been presented to the Dear Sir—From a poor, emaciated sufferer, the persons pursuing a sedentary life, is that to be enjoyed just before sunset, as one returns strong minded wom&n of this farce are exceedingly VEGETINE has restored me to perfect health. speedily removed by this agent. The from the road, past the lake, on the way to Mount St. tasteful. In the last act she wears one of those I have for years been a terrible sufferer from Can- stomacu is restored to health and the key- public which would rapidly alleviate note of the. system will once more respond Vincent, I have yet to see it. There are no new dresses which cannot be constructed out of Paris; ker and Dyspepsia, at times rendering life almost a burden to me. I am now fifteen (15) pounds heavier in the. performance of labor. -Ojuipages of note to be seen, although all the world Worth would call it simple, I suppose, but it is so de- than when I commenced the use of VEGETINE. Price, One Dollar, in large bottle, or Is back in town resuming the regular routine. The licious in its color and crispness as to cause a strong I will make mention that I was also a great suf- symptoms and ultimately prove an six bottles, $5, most striking personages I noticed the other day, was desire to eat it. It is white, with shimmering depths ferer from Kidney Complaint, causing excruciating pain through the small of the back nearly all of the John Kelly, quite alone, and looking, with his bull- in which pale blue and pink are suggested, and is time. This, too, VEGETINE has cured, and I am now effective cure. In PII ON we hwve a dog face, fully equal to managing Tweed or any other liberally decorated with ribbon bows of the same a perfect picture of health, and I will add, happi- BRONCHITIS AND LUNG " boss," and—such a contrast—Miss Lydia Thompson, faint colors. The robe is so etherlal that, when the ness—all caused from the use of a few bottles of VEG- ETINE. leaning against an embroidered cushion in her open wearer takes out a slung-shot, which she carries at Respectfully, H. G. HUGHES, remedy which not only acts almostin- AFFECTIONS. barouche, and looking exceedingly well in a robe oi her zone, a la chatelaine, one feels as though she were 1 Union place, Boston, Mass. TRACHEOX. ^ dark green, and a round hat that seemed a mass of orushing her butterfly of a robe on an iron wheel. At VEGETINE is composed of Roots, Barks and Herbs. It is very pleasant to take ; every child likes it. stantly, but will remove the largest A slight so-called cold will ofttimes minute and glossy black feathers. Wallack's the regular season begins on Monday, lead to a. serious cough, which, uncared Sothern has been shining as a host of late. He has and the premiere promises to be exceedingly brilliant. for or badly treated, must have but one The fact is that it makes little difference what is an- result.— it must eventuate in a settled' case quarters in the Gramercy Park Hotel, looking out on Vegetine is sold by all Druggists, tumors of the parts (Piles) by absorp- of BRONCHITIS, or what is worse, the nounced to be played, the opening of the theater is one of the best-tended and most thoroughly aristo- sep2-4 deadly CONSUMPTION. To all suffering cratic squares in New York—one would almost in itself an event, and is suretoattract a distinguished from harassing cough and expectoration, tion, and many who have received TRACHEON offers a sound, reliable, and say London—so English in appearance is the iron- gathering. Mr. Boucicault's comedy of Marriage permanent relief. It augments expecto- railed park that forms a center to the quarter where is, however, loudly praised in advance. At the new THE PERFECT TEÄ STEEPER. ration, and. enables the patient to expel Broadway theater the old pbiy of Oliver Twist is that terribly seutic deposit, which, if left Mr. Tilden has his abiding place " when he is at not only benefit, but have been radi- without judicious treatment, must com- home." A very attractive place the Sothern menage being acted with a fresh cast. McICee Rankin, who municate its poison to the vesicular sub- was the other afternoon when the " Crushed Treage- made so excellent a Matthew Elmore at the Union stance of the lung, degenerating and de- Square Theater, does not rival James Wallack so cally cured, have been assured (prior stroying that most essential of organs, -dian" and his guests sat down to a luncheon. Of and ultimates only in an early and un- course, on these occasions, the feast of reason and closely as Fagln. His make-up would do tor a bur- timely death. TRACHEON has no equal, the flow of soul is of far more account than any sub- lesque, and his acting, while even, is by no means re- much less a superior, and. its use trill not to using this treatment) by eminent only remove the deposit, thereby affording stantial provender for the perishable body; neverthe- markable. Miss Kitty Blanchard ("Kitty"—ye gods ! great relief, but heals the membrane and less, the " chere" was excellent, and the favorite viand what an undignified name for a grown woman,) is, leaves the patient, in possession of healthy lung tissue. of the host—lobster—"Will you have a wing with a however, a most excellent Nancy, and perhaps one surgeons that the only relief they ever dash of brain in it?" inquired the host, as he served should not complain of Mr. Louis Aldrich's Bill Price, Fifty Cents per bottle, or six t he animal—was a piece de resistance that could not be Sykes, even If it docs strike one occasionally as un- could expect in life would be by an bottles, $2.50. resisted. Mr. Sothern was surrounded on this occa- necessarily coarse-grained. This Dickens represen- sion by several ladies, theatrical and ton-profes- tation is only a diversion; Mile. Aimee, whose ap- sional, and by many men of many minds. At his right pearance at the new Broadway was only delayed by operation, and removing it, or them, PILES. Hemorrhoids. sat Mr. J. O. Williamson, whose handsome, rosy face the promise shown by The Danites' run in its first IMI.OV. is the personification of good humor ; near by was stages, will come up higher (she is now at Booth's,) from the body by a procedure which Many causes tend to prodn ce this poin- Captain Thompson, whose fast trans-Atlantic voy- on Monday, when La Marjolalne will be produced. tful and distressing state. The blood is Lecocq's inuslo is said to be extremely pretty, " tak- retarded in its return; the too frequent ages have gained him testimonial plate-on testimo- use of drastic purgatives tends to produce nial during the past few months; Miss Emily Dun- ihg" at points, and the libretto—well, the libretto—in necessitated the knife. This remedy congestion of the bowels, torpid action of short, the libretto is of a nature which the genuine the liver, and numerous other causes are can, the svelte beauty of the Thompson coterie, a the source of this complaint, and hitherto thoroughly representative type of English beauty, sat and unadultered opera-boulier is supposed to revel This valuable improvement consists in the combina- has been huiled with delight, and is nothing effectual has been presi nted to in. 1 can only say that if " the cheek of a young per- tion of Lamp, Boiler, &c., with tho Teapot; the steam the public, which would rapidly alleviate near by ; Miss Ella Chapman, of the same organiza- passing around and through the center of the not son" is about to be exposed to the rude gaze of the symptoms and ultimate I y prove an effect- tion, one of the two sisters whom Prentice ot Louis- steeping the tea without boiling, thus securing ive cure. In PILON we have a remedy ville termed " the violet of the stage," and who has populace when this work is interpreted it had best now prescribed, by many practising \whiih not only acts almost instantly, but made a very great popular success at Wallack's, was be kalsomined. will remove the largest tumors of the parts A PERFECT CUP (PilesJ by absorption, and many who near her. Mr. Henry, one of the most active men on "A dismal failure" is the way in which Mr. OF TEA.. physicians, who are cognisant of its have received not only benefit, but have the Herald, sat opposite, and among others of the been radically cured, have been assured Charles R. Thome's season at the Lyceum Theater is (prior to tising this treatment; by emi- company was Mr. Henry French, the power behind characterized. The fact is that turgid melo-drama nent surgeons that the only relief they the managerial thrones, the present great manipula- I will not "do" anywhere, and, above all, at the Ly- PIK^HONS FOR USE.-Make the tea as usual merits, as the only known sure cure ever could expect in life, would be by tin tor of theatricals In the metropolis, the promulgator with boiling water, and till the boiler about half full oi operation, and removing it or them from ceum Theater, which is a most unfortunate house. the body by a procedure which necessitat- - of Pink Dominos and Struck Oil, and plays and peo- hot water; set the pot on the boiler and let it stand on Beautiful as the place is, it had best be turned over to the stove, and the water boiling in the boiler will steen for PILES. ed the kn.ife. This remedy has been hailed ple without number. some shopkeeper and made into another Macyrs. the tea without boiling in the pot, it being a well- with delight, and is now prescribed by known fact among experts in tea that many practising physicians, who a re cog- To this genial company, which was keptsteadil, A daughter of the beautful actress, Mrs. Emily nizant of its merits, as the only knotvn sure cure for PILES, amused by Mr. Sotliern's sprightly wit, quite apart Thorne Jordan, (now the wife of John Camberiln, Tea Boiled. Is Tea Spoiled. Price, Fifty Cents per package, or from the individual converse that followed the speedy "the sporting man,") is now acting at the Lyceum, Price, Fifty Cents per package, or six breaking of the very slight coating of ico that may sustaining the role of the heroine of Michael Strogoff. for $2.50. have existed, came, later, Mr. Florence and Mr. Mc- She has the personal loveliness that is her's by right For sale at wholesale by six for $2.50. Cuiiough. The beaming smiles of "Billy" were veiled of inheritance. With handsome George Jordan for a THE ABOVE REMEDIES ARE father and Emily Thorne for a mother, it would be a thorough in the eradication of the differ- in doubt as to the prospects of the play which he had ent and various maladies denominated, acted In the night previous, That Wife of Mine, being pity if she were not beautiful; but her efforts as an Sent, by mail on receipt of price. and are the result of patient, searching, a "go;" every one present certainly wished it might actress are as yet lu their infancy, which, being inter- ELASTIC LAMP CO, laborious, and scientific investigation, preted, means she cannot "act out on to the stage." embracing a period of many years, in be. The original of this play is used in the great Sold by all I>ruf/gists and Dealers Europe and America, London success of Nemesis, and Miss Eila Chapman Besides the marriage of a cousin of the yellow little 5H Murray Street, New York. If the specific directions are complied stated that she had purchased that vivacious work king of Spain, Prince Louis Maria Franoiscode Bour- with, thousands of patients will bear wit- ness to their relative merits, and corrob- some little time ago on behalf of her brother-in-law, bon, brigadier geneaal of the Spanish army in Cuba, At retail al all Crockery and llouse-Furnishing in Medicine throughout the World. Stores. orate every assertion. Where there are Mr. Harry Ford of Washington. Mr. McCullough which took place very quietly at the church of St. my20-tl8 many complications of disease, and pa- said he was about to depart for the national capital. tients so desire, DR. CHANDLER will Vincent do Paul the other day, we have the record of PATENTS. Prepared solely by This tragedian was perusing a copy of THE CAPITAL PENSIONS. be pleased to give all information, and a "swell" wedding at Grace church of some interest treat by letter if necessary. in a way that was the reverse of tragic, "light comedy' ' in Washington-that of Lieutenant Aulick Palmer, H. S.&R. P. EVANS, Descriptive and Explanatory Circti- laughs frequently testifying to his merriment over son of Dr. James Palmer of your city. This inaugu- la r of the above remedies sent on receipt certain witticisms of the bright particular star of the Attorneys and Counsellors-at-Law, of stamp. If the PROPRIETARY: rates the season of weddings—the result of wooing in DR. CHANDLER, MEDICINES are not on sale at your sheet, the Inimitable D. P. The time was passed very held and grove and ball, the prime consummation of Corner Fifth and I> sta. ir. TT., opp. City Hall, particular druggist's, send orders to pleasantly in conversation until the early hour at tea-fights and germans. Ft' Pä , Washington, D. O. which the professional guests had to depart so as to Tweed's recent disclosures seem to have placed it DR. CHANDLER, prepare for their evening duties. On the following beyond question that Oakey Hall's nest was extremely 1479 Broadway, New-York City. day Mr. Sothern entertained a much larger company, well feathered, and a gentleman who knew him quite 1479 Broadway, New York, For sale by J. W. Drew, 9th st. and Pa. ave. janT-ly (as many people as the Park Theater would hold,) well in business says that not the slightest doubt ex- I l7smithmeyer & cor with his performance of the Crushed Tragedian—one ists in his mind that O. K. is in the present enjoyment JOS. T. K. PLANT ARCHITECTS, Where Orders can be addressed. which nobody, save the Count Johannes, can be seri- of an ample income. 'Tis well; he was always iond ous over. That individual was not present, but the NO. 703 FIFTEENTH STREET. BETWEEN G FOR SALE BY J. W. DREW, COR. NINTH UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER, r livers en brochette and hearts (en brochure,) and AND NEW YORK AVENUE. STREET AND PENNSYLVANIA AVENTtE. 915 F STKV.I:T KOKTHWKST ' febl8-tf8 mail8-ly3 Business promptly attended to. U. S. Commissioner and Examiner in Chancery. jel7-tf

V 4 THE CAPITAL ----SEPTEMBER 30, 1877.

flight of stone steps passing the Capitol the other~ pose of protecting themselves against the that is fatal to any development of that Hence they were bold and defiant; so that morning. Stick to your bloody shirt, gentlemen. THE CAPITAL. governed. The rich men of our country, energy tiiat stimulates the brain ; the last is when the time came to vacate they saw that, Don't go to ravin' about crows. —Whitelaw Reid has filed an application to Mr. called capitalists, look with envy and ad- the product of political favoritism. The mem- instead of stepping down and out, the stairs Corcoran for admittance to the Louhe Home when he WASHINGTON CITY. led into the penitentiary. From this fact shall have reached the requisite age and poverty. One miraiiou on such arrangement, and ask pite- ber of the House gives the place to the son of grows rapidly old and poor in the service of Jay ousiy that such may be created here for their the man who has shown the most influence comes the desperate attempts at burglary, Gould. better protection. | How can we sleep in in securing the member's return to Congress. murder and arson. —It was Lord John Manners, the P. M. G-. of Eng- SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 80, 1SJT. 1 land, who wrote to London Punch., when an Eton boy, peace," they cry, "above our hoarded gains, This is of course the gentleman who has The interior of the Patent Office afforded "What is mind ? No matter. What is matter ? Never fine material for such attempt. It was filled mind." It is doubtful whether our P. M. Cf., jocose, Now that the Business Season Is about to open, while millions are out of employ and thou- dealt out the largest quantity of stimulating blundering, old Davekey, could have evolved that in the most absurd manner by light, inflam- even in the ripeness of his senatorial intellect. ire simply remind advertisers that wo circulate more sands actually starving? At any moment the beverages that do not intoxicate but render dread commune may be upon us, and where mable stuff, in the shape of rejected models. —Miss 1). L. Hilton, niece of the distinguished papers, both local and by mail, than all the othor insane. philanthropist and earliest anti-slavery agitator and are the bayonets necessary to our protection ?" What in the name of old Moses the Govern- journalist, Benjamin Lundy, will deliver a series of Sunday papers of Washington combined. If, through the accident pertaining to a lectures on history and literature to a graduating class General McClellan's plea is neither original wide system, a boy is selected possessed of ment wanted with this rot 110 man can of young ladies this fall, at her school in Washington, answer. We suggested once that these old D. C. , — ._ Our contributors and communicants nor of force. We were first treated to it by any of the spirit of genius, he does not grad- —Attorney General Devens said to an interviewer General Vincent, in his report to the Secre- uate—he is expelled. Learning, in the models should be returned to the States from that he hadn't had time to read the reports of the are requested to get their matter in the New York Convention, but he thought Senator Conk- office by or before Thursday. This -will be tary of War, and we can say in behalf of the mind of the pedagogue selected to instruct, whence they emanated. But our suggestion ling had made a mistake. General Devens made a. greater mistake in not keeping himself posted on the apt to insure its publication in the succeed- accomplished adjutant general, what cannot means the net result of memory. Now, was unheeded. Under the old arrangement most important political event since the nomination ing issue. _____ be urged for McClellan, that tie penned his mental philosophy teaches us of late that an the fire must be considered a blessing; for of Hayes and the election of Tilden. argument before the late revolution in labor, otherwise the city would have been covered —The presidential party have made speeches ami ex cess of memory is a pretty sure indication eaten hog and hominy in '-five of the greatest States TO THE PUBI.IC. and he was not, therefore, moved to urge his of a weak intellect. And so dullness gradu- with rejected models of American ingenuity. of the Union." This flying trip was better than a long residence to learn that the bull-dozers are fra- Duriiisc the first session of the late Con- military views in the face of the toiling mil- ates, and so dullness comes to command our ternal, kind-hearted fellows, and all is peace, har- lions, whose sufferings provoke the rich men, mony and prosperity. Sick transit, the goose hangs, gress I was summoned, much against my armies. high! such as Tom Scott, and military men, such MINOR NOTES. will, to give testimony before the committee There is one feature in the system we most —Blanche Howard, author of "One Summer," is a as George B. McClellan. heartily commend, as pointing the way to a Bangor, Maine, girl. She is a majestic, Juno-like of investigation concerningtlie alleged frauds THE ENEMIES of our financial John of tlie blonde, with liquid blue eyes, peacues and cream The sum anil substance of the argument is civil-service reform. The graduates of West Treasury are promulgating the slander that John has complexion, the neck and arms of Fannie Davenport, in the moth contracts of Messrs. Cowles & and a mind brimming over with intellect. Miss How- that, had we possessed a standing army of Point are, as a general tiling, good fellows, failed. When John fails, financially, we want a few ard is not in Stuttgart stud sing music, but is living at affidavits to that effect. Financially he is the greatest Brega. I had no evidence to offer as to well-drilled and well-disciplined men when trained to an esprit du corps that lifts them her home in Maine, studying German. success we ever encountered. John began his political —A correspondent, who is known to us only by a such frauds. I knew of none, and so stated the Mexican war threatened us, we would above mean things of a mercenary sort. They career in Washington as a member of the House, so coat-ot'-arms, consisting of a lion with his mouth wide poor in purse that Henry IX Cooke carried about a open, standing on his hind legs, pawing the air, with to the committee. I had been employed by have been saved that war. for such a force may get drunk—and we believe they gene- a gold B under the rampant beast, and the legend, could have protected our border; and had rally do—but they do not beat their wives or subscription paper for the benefit of John, to enable "Dum Vivo Vereo,"-calls attention to a supposed error Cowles & Brega to procure the contracts, him to pay his board-bill and get a new pair of second- in the last CAPITAL., He says Edward House, the we been able to throw into the field fifteen or steal the money intrusted to their keeping. hank pantaloons. In return for kindness on the part former dramatic and musical critic of the New York and so far as I knew there was no part of twenty thousand efficient men at the begin- Herald, Times and Tribune, is not a school teacher, This has come to be so precious that we of Henry D., he was subsequently made Congressional but is the editor of the Tokio Times, in Japan. That the transaction that was not fair and honest. ning of the late civil strife the Government thank God for West Point and the Naval binder, and, until Jay Cooke & Co. failed, the firm is correct, but House went out as one of the instructors would have conquered at Bull Run and dic- acted as his financial agent. This arrangement in the Government college. We got him the place Pressed by the committee, however, I gave Academy, and wish we had more of them. worked so well—how, in detail, the devil alone knows— from his fondness for tea. tated peace in Richmond. If they who honestly differ from us in our —General James W. Husted is a prominent caadi- my suspicions. I said at the time such suspi- that John is a millionaire on a salary of about five dated for surveyor of the port in New York. Gen- How completely a few words of common estimate of West Point, intellectually con- thousand a year. How can a man such as that be eral Husted was for many years speaker of the as- cions were not evidence ; and had Messrs. counted a failure? Go to—go a million. It is said sembly, and is regarded as one of the solid men of sense disposes of this talk. The Mexican sidered, will only look closer, they will be the Republican party. He is strongly urged for the Cowles & Brega and Colonel Ingalls contented that his syndicate, with their four per cents, have position by the chamber of commerce and the presi- war was provoked by our own Government, amazed to find so large a body of educated failed; but what of that? John has his eye on a man dents of twenty-eight banks, who have affixed their themselves with a simple denial, I should— stimulated to war by the morbid thirst of the men so little engaged in brain-work. They, who is willing to Invest three dollars and thirty-three signatures to a letter recommending him to the Sec- retary of the Treasury. It will be a move in the di- in accordance with Justice Dogberry's ad- Southern people; and had we possessed an the officers, read less, with more time on and a third cents in his loans, and all Newspaper Row rection of a respectable civil service to select the sur- is watching eagerly for that man to put in an appear- veyor out of New York city. vice to the watch—have let them go, and army of any sort when the civil war broke their hands, and of course produce less brain- on 'us, one half at least would have been ance, so as to telegraph the important event to all —Senator Spencer, when training down for hi presently, calling m3rself together, thanked work, than any other body in proportion to anxious people. And it is rumored among financial matrimonial match with Miss Nunez, said, "Water is against the Government. In proof of this fattening, beer is fattening, potatoes are fattening, their numbers the world over. circles that John is going to organize a syndicate sugar-is'fattening, hot biscuits are fattening—what's a God I was rid of some knaves. we have only to look at West Point, whose It will be seen, then, that AVest Point can- among the gutter-snipes of Washington, who loan hungry senator got to do?" Then, by a happy hygienic money to clerks and officers in distress at five dollars inspiration, he shook his (U. S.) mail-clad hand at But such course did not suit these gentle- cadets were not only well-drilled and disci- not give us the army prayed for by the rich the White House and cried, "There's one thing, plined, but so drilled and disciplined at the a month for every hundred loaned. This syndicate is though, I won't eat, Mr. President; that is, my own men, and turning upon me, they heaped on men and the commissioned officers. And we to be organized under the head of a certain banking words. May, dear, pack my carpet-bag and your own. cost of the Government. And yet a majority company on the south side of the Avenue, whose won- smallest 'Saratoga;' we'll go to the Black Hills." my head the vilest abuse possible. thank the Lord—for we do not want one. There, during the honeymoon', he diets on apples and1 of these creatures of the Government turned Were these gentlemen to succeed and call derful financial career we are preparing for publica- cigars, while the bride tucks in venison and pan-cakes. Under these circumstances I took up the tion. Now is the time for all the half-starved, sick Few husbands get the deadwood on their wives so against it and fought on the side of the into existence a standing force of half a mil- soon after marriage. investigation where it was dropped by the insurgents. and unfortunate clerks and army and navy officers to lion, that force would not protect the rich subscribe. Make up your clubs, gentlemen. committee, and quietly following the few Everything is taught an army save patriot- men nor the Government, for it would be clues offered, I how find myself possessed of ism, and in this West Point makes no excep- kept busy in protecting itself. Its presence GREEN-ROOM GOSSIP. WE WOULD respectfully call the attention tion. There is no professorship there which THE DANICHEFFS.—As far as this season is con- the evidence I did not have as a witness. would be odious, as its support would be a of the Administration to the rather disorganized con- instructs in the duty of the citizen or en- burden, and the first shotted gun fired into cerned, and judging from the results of the season^ I now know, and hold myself ready to dition of the light-house bo ard. There is an ugly thus far, we are frank to confess that our sympathy is courages the noble impulses of patriotic self- an unarmed mob would be a signal for an story afloat to the effect that the board cannot have a with the manager of the National Theater as opposed- prove, that Colonel Rufus Ingalls was in the sacrifice. uprising before which the army would disap- meeting for this reason: At the latest, and it looks as to the patronage of the Washington public. if it were the last meeting, Commodore Baleh, then Last week at the National Theater was presented, pay of Messrs. Cowles & Brega, receiving If any of our readers think this too severe pear like snow under April rains or an April one of the finest dramas oi this era by one of the a member, moved that no moneys hereafter shall be strongest companies ever witnessed in Washington. from them a cash valuation for his services.. let them count up the West Pointers who sun. paid out by the one gentleman who runs the concern, The stage appointments and effects were carefully without such payment being submitted to a full board and very perfectly arranged and preserved through- went South and the West Pointers who re- out. That he was in such employ when he sat at a regular meeting.. This gave rise to a discussion mained true to the Government. A SIGNIFICANT FIRE. The audiences, though of a fine and appreciative upon the commission in 1872, at Philadelphia, that ended in referring the matter to a committee to class, were small in numbers until the extreme latter However, for the sake of testing the sound- The first proof we have yet had of our Ger- report to the next meeting. That meeting has never portion of the week, and the verdict arrived at is that when that commission reported in favor of certainly at this season of the year the appreciation ot ness of the assertion, let us suppose that un- man-silver gentleman, Carl Schurz, making been called, and it looks as if it never would be; and fine plays is not sufficiently extensive to be of practi- Cowles & Brega's process. der our form of government an army may be himself disagreeable to the interior rings of to Kive the matter significance, the troublesome Balch cal service to the proprietors. used as a police, and yet the fact remains the Interior, broke out in the shape of smoke has since been relieved. • "We must not be understood The Danichelfs is a sternly characteristic drama of That lie was so employed when, as a mem- to intimate that any of the military and naval officers Russian life, well conceived, determinately finished that under the Sherman and McClellan and flames from the roof of the Patent Office. and skillfully delineated. It was produced with most ber of the second commission, he again comprising this absurd board are guilty of designs .on excellent effect. scheme such armed force is. not possible. We have ere this been sneered at and the public Treasury. We think the motive may be Mr. Louis James never appeared in a better light, joined in a report favorable to their process. and for once was nearly as handsome in stage appear- The present system is so false that it cannot abused forcalling the attention of the pensive found in the intense American ambition to "boss" ance as in the street. Mr. Levick was stronger in That he was their paid agent when, as act- be built upon. The foundation of an army is public to the efficacy of fire and water in everything, so common to commissions and boards. facial power than in acting; he has added an orna- But, let it be what it may, it is mischievous, and is ment to his upper lip that is an injustice to his face, however. ing quartermaster general, lie violated the in the rank and file. We discard this grave burning up or washing out disagreeable rec- already productive of a crop of underlings who have Mr. George Denham made of his rather second- law in allowing these men, his clients, thirty fact and devote ourselves to the creation of ords. There were the old Navy Department more influence than brain and more dishonesty than rate character the feature of the piece. His imper- an officer. The war powers of Europe have buildings, under the Rotund Robeson, that both. When common draftsmen get so far as to charge sonation of Zaoharoff was unexceptionably complete thousand dollars. and perfect. The remainder of the company—Messrs. for a thousand years been steadily engaged had three several atttempts made at destruc- the eminent and learned Professor Henry with being Burton et al.—worked in perfect harmony with the - I have the proof—and hold myself pre- "a damned tool," it is well to reorganize, so as to put more important cast. in perfecting the man who carries the musket. tion, not counting the effort made in Win- that much skilled labor among the unemployed. And One very pleasant and interesting character oi the pared to produce the same^-that Messrs. They say, with truth, that if this is well done der buildings, across the street; and what when another subordinate steals an invention, and Daiiicheffs was the debut of Miss Annie Story on the» professional stage. Young, beautiful and gifted. Miss Cowles & Brega, with corrupt intent to in- the officer will come of himself. Drill and gives point to this is the fact that we foretold cxn so manage the board as to have his costs, includ- Story has won the admiration and esteem of all who • discipline make the men—so far war is a the insidious attempt, as the files of THE ing attorney's fees, paid from the Treasury of the know her in amateur and social circles, and her re- fluence Gen. Randolph B. Marcy, contracted United States, it is well to try a little civil-service re- markably fine acting of the past week fully guaran- • science. God creates an officer, and so far CAPITAL will show. We came by this—as teed the highest anticipation of her friends. There with that officer of the Government to pay form. Let us see now what Congress can do. was but one flaw in Miss Story's impersonation, and. war is an art. We devote our gigantic ener- it afterwards proved—fact through an anony- that so common to the profession that it is shared in the beginning in now houses by all. We refer to General Marcy, General McClellan's father- gies to the making of an officer, and having mous letter of that shower said to have been the proper pitch of the voice proportionate to the di- IN ANOTHER column will be found a well- mensions of the theater. There can be no advice in-law, a percentage upon the contracts pro- created a poor imitation, we say in great made from the pen of a Cabinet lady who given in this respect, as practice and association alone-- considered communication endorsing Mr. J. H. cured from the Government—General Marcy pride, Behold our army ! Said a distin- subsequently came to grief. accustoms the actor to the edifice. guished West Pointer, " What an agreeable Blackburn of Kentucky for the Speakership of the being chairman of the committee that ap- It was said that the fire in the Navy De- House of the Forty-fifth Congress. BELLE LAMAR.—This drama, which will be pre- profession would the army be but for these We are pleased to see the strong popular sentiment proved of Cowles & Brega'« process at Phila- partment building originated with rats or sented at the National during the ensuing week, is damned privates." The army, meaning the spontaneous combustion. Perhaps the rats, in iavor of Mr. Blackburn, and believe that its influ- one of rare interest to this city and section. delphia. officers, laughed,; but the epauletted gentle- ence may effect much, and yet we apprehend that It is of general interest, as coming from the pen of wishing to light themselves to bed, snapped rare Dion Boucicault, but here its power can be more man had uttered a truth. there is too much of the statesman and too little of thoroughly appreciated in tnis, a Southern city, and so - I have the proof that books were altered or off lucifers, and then, finding, as the minister the politician in Mr. Blackburn to make the trip suc- much demi-semi-centralized metropolis of cosmopolitan cessfully. character that both sides can be taken in and under- destroyed for the purpose of concealing these We modeled our army on the English sys- did when he sent word to his little congrega- stood. tem, modified it on the French and ruined it tion in the Lord, engaged in praying for Belle Lamar is a war drama of the blue and the fraudulent transactions'; that witnesses were THE New York Dramatic Netvs kindly grey species. The scenes are laid in Old Virginia,, through Henry Wilson of sainted memory, rain, " to stop the damned thing, for tliey and the sentiment is typical of true manhood and' run away to Canada to escape appearand says that one of our editors is "not d ead yet." We'll womanhood of both sides. While the great majority when chairman of the Committee on Military were over-doing it," they scampered oft", bet a bottle of wine with the Dramatic News editor that oi the true womanhood—considering the location of before the committee of investigation, and leaving the Rotund to try the efficacy of wa- he outlives him, the wine to be drank at the Dramatic the scenes—must be given to the old State, true Affairs of the Senate. In England the aris- manhood shone brilliantly and definitely alike on both* that the testimony of Messrs. Brega, Cowles tocracy, in right of birth, command the ter instead of wine. And we know so little News editor's death-bed when the physician has given sides. of spontaneous combustion, that certain old up his body, and the priest has given up his. soul. In The cast ol characters is well conceived, but we and Ingalls is a tissue of falsehoods from be- army. Having no aristocracy of birth, wo the meanwhile, Where's that exchange? apprehend one mistake in not giving Stonewall Jack- sought to create one by graduating the son documents full of inflammable matter, likely, son to Mr. James. Mr. Kingston will fare badly if he ginning to end. fails to uphold the name he impersonates. of a corner grocer into the command of if exposed, to burn up and destroy, might go Messrs. Denham, Barton, Mitchell and others sup- All of which is respectfully submitted to WE REGRET very much that an unpleas- men who, being privates, are looked on as off spontaneously and smoke out all sorts of port the piece. ant allusion to Mr. Albert Khodes, editor of the Na- Especially interesting is the fact that Miss Annie- the War Department and the grand jury for dogs. We did not elevate the favored son so officials. But we know that the rat and Story impersonates the leading lady and title char- tion, appeared in our last Issue: As a graceful writer acter of the drama, Belle Lamar. their judicial consideration. much as he degraded the private. spontaneous theories are not applicable to and a pleasant gentleman Mr. Rhodes is universally the attempt upon the Winder buildings. We BUFFALO BILL and his troupe held the boards at Dokn Piait. West Point, looked at from any point of popular and esteemed. were on the premises shortly after the fire the Opera House to an enlightened multitude last view, is of necessity a failure. The art of week. Buffalo Bill is a clever gentleman and good had been extinguished, and found evidences OUR readers will find a CAPITAL letter from enough actor, and May Cody ditto, while his Irish- AN INCREASE OF THE ARMY. war cannot be taught any more than the art of an incendiary not to be mistaken. There our all-over-the-world correspondent, G. H. B., on man is very clever, but the remainder of the troupe The officers of the army, cooperating with of painting, poetry or sculpture. The Gov- are about the poorest specimens of dramatic literature was the unmistakable odor of petroleum, another page. ever suffered by an allwise and merciful God to make- the rich men of the country, are urging upon ernment could as well establish a school to an audience marvel at the poverty of the dramatic in- While a room had been selected in the base- the Government an increase of our military create Shakspeares, Bacons and Quincy tellect. ment, well filled with inflammable matter, PERSONAL. If those Mountain Meadow massacrers had have force. Wards as to have a school from which would scalped that gang, a grateful public would long and to give the highest draft all the windows General Tecumseh Sherman, who has not emanate Cajsars and Napoleons. Brain may —Hon. Gilbert Walker, M. C., is at Willard's. ere this have given to Brigham Young monument- on the same side were left open. The flames and maybe a horse. enjoyed a sane interval since his promotion be improved by cultivation, but it cannot be —Judge Kelley of pig-iron fame, was in the city were so fierce that they penetrated the open- hunting quarters for tlie session. Stage Whispers. to the place created for General Grant, said ereated save by the hand of the Almighty, —So was Mr. O'Neill, another riot-State representa- ings of the halls, that are grated, to the tive. —Chanfrau has netted $30,000 by Kit, the Arkansas that without a military organization we and that hand has not been perceptible at Traveler. third story. —Sam Cox arrives on the 6th prox., and opens the wouKl be no better than a mob ; while " our our little school on the Hudson since it was ball from the Biggs House. —George Fox, the pantomimist, is given up by his physicians. young Napoleon," General McClellan, is out founded. But one man has appeared there —King Alfonzo, son of ex-Q,ueen Isabella, is down The fellowseinployed to do this work, how- on that satellite of Mars, Marfori. —Whatever Lydia Thompson's specialty may beT her line is not the clothes-line. in an elaborate argument favoring a standing of the sort the Lord seemed to have had a ever, mistook the room in which they kindled —Blanche Howard, author of One Summer, is pre- paring another book for the press—One Year Abroad. —Theodore Tilton is preparing a lecture entitled army of not less than fifty thousand men, care in his creation. He answered to the their fire. The one adjoining, which Colonel " The Old World and the New." —G-eneral McClellan, who iought the battle of the with a staff that would allow a force of a name of George H. Thomas, and he, as we Townsend had selected for the storage of im- Nihil, has been nominated .for governor of New Jer- —Madame Ridenti, the soprano singer, now in New York, is Mrs. Reed, a sister of Mrs. Senator Spencer. million. shall show directly, was a West Point cas- portant documents—because the Winder sey. nihil Jit ! ualty. —The Nation gets badly mixed lately. Senator —The Fraulein Stamwitz, a fine-looking young lady,, This comes in support of Tom Scott's de- buildings are fire-proof, while the old War Spencer is not a Catholic. Senator Jones of Florida inspired by Janauscliek's success, will make her first- is one. He is also a "broth oi a boy." appearance in English at the National next Monday mand of enough bayonets to enforce divi- What would be said of a system that would Department is not—was evidently the place evening. —Assistant Secretary McCormick, by the repeated dends for railroad officials and fifty cents a limit all the lawyers of the land to theaime d at. The only doubt that troubles us is caressings of lady applicants for office, has become so —Patti cries for a convent, and won't be comforted' without pious retirement. day for laborers. graduates of Yale, or the doctors to some that the late Secretary of W ar, Mr. Belknap, tame a child can play with him. —James R. Young has cut off his side-whiskers for "The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be. Oil the other side we have the fact that we little school on the Potomac, or the mer- procured the passage of a law authorizing the winter. It was well. They looked like horses' The devil got well, the devil a monk was he." do not need an army for defense against alien chants to- Spencer's Commercial Academy ? him to destroy such accumulations in Mis de- tails in fly time, which were the first side whiskers. —It would be grateful to the ear of the diplomatic —A number of yachts belonging to the New York editor of THE CAPITAL if the young Muscovite who- enemies, while there is" no provision made in The country would laugh; and yet law, partment, in the way of papers, as he might yacht squadron are lying oft Newport. A number of played the valet in Les Danicheffs would remember our self-government for bayonets to be used consider of not enough importance to keep congressional crait will be lying—off'the Potomac in in future that legation attaches are not called " ex- medicine and merchandizing are sciences in two weeks. cellency." as a police. which a dull man may be made somewhat on file. Under a liberal construction of this —Secretary of the Senate Gorham says the "rays —As an actor of difficult and exacting roles Mc- The teachings, traditious and principles of law it was quite easy for implicated villains of the sun is the money a boy gets lrom his father." Cullough already far outranks Edwin Booth. He. useful. War is an art, where dullness is dis- And this political punning JP1 XJte is listened to by could not play Romeo very acceptably, though, for the the'republic are hostile to a standing army to feed, in a quiet, safe manner, a stove, in- such men as Roscoe Conkling and the Chief Justice., same reason he could not fill Whitelaw Reid's boudoir tinguished through its failures. For one in the Tribune—too much of a man. large enough ta m of use in either respect. ^Thomas, West Point has given us no end of stead of making a furnace of the department —Senator Conover says he is for Florida first and Conover next. That mean? another Democratic vote —Mr. John McCullough opens in Richmond, Mon- The fathers carefully guarded against such a McClellans. building. in the Senate. Between two stools, Mr. Hayes is likely day night, as Richelieu, with Levick and the gentle to bump the ground hard before next summer. Carey as support. Mr. McCullough's national repu- dangerous power, and General Washington, A little thought based on a few facts satis- tation as an actor of force, fire and genius will draw The late Republican party held power so —It is rumored that the Marquis o! Lome is to suc- him crowded houses among the art-loving, intel- in his farewell address, warned us against fies one of this. The selection of cadets is long that its leaders came to regard the ceed Lord Dutt'erin as governor general of Canada. lectual "Virginians. To choke off thé P. I. man of the Herald we here such armed mischief. faulty in itself. It is founded on the helpless places, and all that they could make in them, publicly state that there will be another duifer in. —Among the American opera singers in London, as we learn from our correspondent, G. H. B., now on The despotisms of Europe are not, of sons of old military families in favor with the as their own property. They laughed to —Mark Twain's story of the "Mysterious Schooner, his way home, are Madame Ricci, (nee Rice,) wife of course, governments of the people, by the the Jonas Smith," being an ooean tramp, won't wash. Edward Knox, the hatter; Antoinette Sterling of Administration at Washington, and the po- scorrt the opinion that an adverse political Mark has a sort of dry, juiceless humor, but has no New York, M'lle Beatrice Amore, Miss Mary Trimble people and for the people ; hence they keep litical selection of members of Congress. The organization would hustle them from their more imagination than Barnum's tatooed Greek. of Newark, New Jersey, Blanche Rosavelly, otherwise —Indiana papers report a flight of crows passing Blanche Tucker of Chicago; Genevieve Reynolds of. under arms great legions for the avowed pur- first are torn and bred to a dependence stools and take possession of their offices. from, east to west. ïnat's nothing. We observed a Chicago and Helen Freeman of Philadelphia. 5 THE CAPITAL ----SEPTEMBER 30, 1877.

Dr. White, opposite I>IEI>. CORNS, Diseased Nails, etc. MISCELLANEOUS. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. X)CAL ITEMS. Willard's. augld-tf MOSHER.—In Georgetown, D. Ü., Saturday, Sep- Great Medical Discovery. tember 29, at half past twelve p. in., Eliza M. Mosher, THE "Princess" knit woolen skirt for Indie.«, the relict of James Mosher, jr., formerly of Baltimore, in FOREIGN NEWS. J. liury's Pipsissewa. It cures gravel, dropsical the 81st year of her age. latest novelty of tlie season, at Douglas«?', Ninth and swellings, ulceration of the kidneys, bladder, paintul THE NEW DAILY LONDON September 29.—The Times' St. Petersburg F streets. Friends of the family are invited to attend her fu- letter states that Verestcbagir. the well-known war- menstruation, &c. Sold by all druggists. sep30-tf8 neral from her late residence, No. 30 First street, rior painter, who was severely wounded in a monitor Georgetown, on Monday, October 1, at half past ten fight on the Danube, recovered and joined the army Of Interest to the Public. If agerty. a. m. * before Plevna, and was there killed. This is probably We still lead in new styles of ladles stationery, We have tried the mixed concoctions of every pro- (Wash. Republican and Balto. Sun please copy.) NEWSPAPER OF WASHINGTON. a mistake for VerestchaKir's brother, who was killed books and stationery generally. We have no oppo- fessor in the bu.-ine^s. We have never tound fauLt at Plevna. CHILDS.—-On the afternoon af September 29th, of sition, as our goods and prices defy competition. Fix with any, but if there is one who can cause a fellow to diphtheria, Rose Gage, daughter of William E. and Thte Times Paris dispatch says: "The list of official the location. MILANS & WILKINS, forget the pust ami look hopefully to the future, it is Rhoda L. Childs, aged five years and one month. candidates for election to the Chamber of Deputies is 603 Seventh street, second door above % Dave Hagerty, who is the authority on all matters re- Notice ot funeral in Monday's Republican. now all but complete, and placards are being issued by lating te fancy drinks, and who can be found at all the prefects,for posting in the various arrondisse- ROMAN & Cox, 507 Seventh street, are making the hours of the day at his place of business, corner of MARTIN.—September 29th, Katie C.. beloved wi fe THE NATIONAL UNION. ments. The placards are headed, 'Candidate of tile best $25 suits to order ever offered in this city. of A. I. Martin, altera long and severe illness, aged 40 Seventh and E streets. years, 3 months and 14 days. * government ot Marshal MacMahon, president of the 'One Country: One Constitution: One republic.' " • y WK DESIRE to call attention to the medical depart- O'Brien's. An analysis of these lists show that the marshal's Destiny." ment of the University of Georgetown, which can be We are in favor ot everything that the world can candidates are divided in 131 Legitimists,83 Orleanists, l'ound in another column. and 293 Bonapartiste. The remaining twenty arron- produce, either in liquids or solids. Therefore we R. F . H A. It "V E Y , dissements being in and around Paris are without any vote for Dan. O'Brien, whose restaurant is the wonder official candidate. There may, ot course, be some MRS. J. P. PALMER, 1107 F street, will have her of the age as well as a curiosity, for the reason that the The first number of THE NATIONAL TACTION, a new slight errors in this classification, but there can be no grand opening of fall and winter millinery on Thurs- finest the market n fiords can always he found at any daily morning newspaper, will be Issued from the old question as to the general result, namely, that the day next, October 4. All the latest novelties of Paris, time and upon any occasion if one will call at Globe Office. October 3,1877. London and Brussels. President of the Republic has been made to ask the O'Brien's, opposite the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 933 F Street Northwest. It will be the aim of the publishers to make this electors to return a Chamber composed of three-fittbs Depot. Journal in all respects a first-class newspaper, con- Bohapartists and two-fifths Iloyalists. AUCTION sale of unredeemed pledges at K. Fulton's taining all the latest reliable Telegraphic, Depart- 314 Ninth street, on Tuesday and Wednesday, Octobe BROWNING'S BITTERS will cure dyspepsia, indiges- decl9-tfl LONDON, September 29.—A. dispatch to Router's mental, Congressional, Local and Miscellaneous 2 and 3, at 10 o'cloco'clock in the morning and 7 in tb tion and constipation. For sale by the druggists, tl News in a comprehensive form, and to this end an telegram company Irom Pest, and referring to tho evening. SPE0IAL NÖTIGES. seizure of breech-loaders and cartridges in Transyl- able and experienced Editorial and Keportorial force Oysters. has been engaged. vania, says : " It is said that the design of the Turkish THE only restaurant which excites universal atten- MASONIC.—A SPECIAL (OMMl- sympathizers in Transylvania was the formation ot a The trade and the public are invited to tne whole- Special attention will be given to Telegraphic News Hungarian legion numbering 5,000 men who. acting tion is Miller's, formerly John's, corner of Seventh sale oyster depot, which our friend Matthew DeAtley NIDATION OF WASHINGTON CEN- and Special Correspondence from all parts of the in coniunction with Turkish corps, were to destroy the and D streets, where everything can be found in the has opened to the inspection of the community at 413 TENNIAL. LODGE, No. 14, F. A. A. M., will be held world, and nothing will be spared to obtain and pre- Roumanian railway. It is rumored that the Hungar- way of luxuries of the season. Thirteenth street northwest, where oysters can be pro- at Musonie Temple, at 2 o'clock, MONDAY AFTER- sent fully each morning the latest local and general ian general, Klopke, was one of the leaders. The cured by the gallon, peck, or bushel, and will be de- NOON, to attend the luneral of Brother CLARK E. news of the National Capital, the District of Columbia whole affair lias, however, been nipped in the bud.'fg THB steamer Mary Washington has become a livered to any part of the city. Hotels and restaurants CURTIS. Member» of Sister Lodges cordially Invited and Alexandria. familiar word in every household, and none will regret to attend. By order of the BUCHAREST, ..September 29.—The Czar has had a furnished at the lowest prices. THE NATIONAL UNION will be non-partisan in poli- the excursions which they have enjoyed on this elegant W. M.. E. C. ELMOKE. tics, but will heartily support all measures of the Ad- slight f ever. He is now better. and commodious steamer. Our friends should not fail Attest: T. A. GADDESS, Sec'y. [Hep.J lt8* CONSTANTINOPLE, September 23.—Snow has ceased BRACELETS, chain* bands and silver; Roman gold, ministration calculated to allay sectional animosities, to take advantage of the last excursions of the season, Lake George diamond ; coral, onyx and jet jowelry, obliterate sectional prejudices and reunite the coun- falling in the Balkans, but heavy rains have flooded and should secure a ticket on the Mary Washington. the plains of Sophia and Orkan. from $1 to $20; the best 50 cent eyeglass in the city, at ATTENTION DEMOCRATS.—Ail, try. It will aim to deal fairly by all public men, ot Prigg's jewelry store, No. 457 Pennsylvania avenue, Democrats who wish to go home to Ohio to whatever political party, and criticize public men and LONDON, September 29.—A Keuter telegram irom WE ADVISE the public and strangers generally to vote at tho October .election can avail themselves of Serajero, capital of the province of Bosnia, says: "A near Four-and-a-half street. measures in a spirit of candor and impartiality. Some- portion of the Turkish troops in Bosnia have been call on John M. Keeler, Yernon Row. This gentle- the reduced railroad lares by applying to the under- of the ablest political writers of the day will contrib- man has not only made a reputation for himself, but Goods. signed. Ticket on sale to and including October 7, ute to its columns. It will urge upon Congress and ordered to proceed in the direction of Mostar, the has caused several of our merchant tailors tb make the good to return until and including October 30, 1877. capital. Of Herzegovina, and the remainder to the Take the advice of W. M. Brown, 314 Eighth street the citizens of the District the importance of making Servian frontier.'- assertion that a Democratic Congress has brought DORSEY CLAGETT, the National Capital worthy of our country, and will ruin on the country. northwest, and see his stock before making your pur- lt2 810 Market Space, Box 579. VIENNA, September 29.—A special dispatch to the chases for the fall and winter. His advertisement will constantly endeavor to promote its Industrial and com- Political Correspondence contains tho following intel- be found in another column. mercial development. ligence : The minister of war has concluded a con- • Oroceries. MISS ZAIDEE .TONES WILL RE- THE NATIONAL UNION will be of the size of the old us» turn from New York the 1st of October, and tract with some large Servian firms for victualing four The finest groceries can be found at A. W, Davis', Goods. daily Globe, four pages, printed on good, clear white army corps which Servia intends to form. 820 Seventh street. When we make the assertion we receive pupils in Vocal and Instrumental music. Cir- paper, and nothing will be admitted to its columns that Take the advice of W. M. Brown, 314 Eighth street LONDON, September 29.—A dispatch from Athens to do it for the purpose of informing our friends that if culars may be lound at Ellis' and Metzerott's music is not suitable to bo read in the most refined family the Keuter Telegraph Company says: Greece has there is anything in the way of the luxuries and northwest, and see his stock before making your pur- stores. sep23-2t*3 circle. Arrangements will be made to supply every sent a fresh dispatch to her representative at London staples of life, they can be iound at 820 Seventh street. chases for the fall and winter. His advertisement will subscriber in the District (however remote from the relative to her attitude. M. Tricoupis, the Greek be found in another column. 'FOR RENT—A handsome house, splen- center) with the paper promptly at an early hour. It minister for foreign aflairs, in the dispatch points out Madame Washington. Pl didly furnished, fronting on Farragut Square, will also be delivered at Alexandria before 7 o'clock that neither intimidation nor a coup ie main against G-REAT REDUCTION in prices of Slate and Marble by Eugene Jacob, who will reside in the house and a. m. This celebrated modiste's parlors are crowded by Mantels. For the purpose of reducing my stock in furnish the family renting with meals In the highest Greece can suppress Hellenism. An unjust attack the elite of our city, and large numbers of our belles Ten thousand copies of the paper will be issued each against Greece by the Porte would infallibly cause on the above branch, which is the largest and most style of French cooking. For terms, apply on the morning (except Sunday) during the month of Octo- are taking advantage of the low prices to secure their varied ever exhibited in this city, 1 propose to sell at premises, No. 920 Seventeenth street northwest. insurrection of the entire Hellenie people. bridal trosseaus. Those who desire the latest Parisian ber, and it is hoped and believed that this number cost lor cash for the next thirty days. sep30-2tl* will continue to be issued daily through the year. styles, as well as the finest fabrics at the lowest price?, H. W. HAMILTON, . Osman I'astia. stio uld not fail to call at her parlors, over Willian's, Y. M. C. A. Building, Ninth and D streets. FOR REN T—PRIVATE FAMILY The advantages presented by THE NATIONAL UNION on Pennsylvania avenufe. ONLY.—The ELEGANT FURNISHED as an advertising medium at the opening of the Ses- NEW YOIIK, September 29.—The Turkish Minister sion of Congress can be readily appreciated. to the United States furnishes the following about Coffee. RESIDENCE, northwest corner IC and Thirteenth Coleman. streets. Franklin Square. Stable attached. scp23-2t6 Price per year, $6 in advance. Delivered to sub- • Osman Pasha, the Turkish commander at Plevna: The cheapest and best coffees in the city can always scribers per mouth, 50 cents. Single copy at counter, Osman Pasha began his studies under the care of his When President Hayes arrived in our city he ex- be found at our friend Dowling's, cornerland Seventh ART LESSONS.—LESSONS IN 3 cents. brother, the late Hassur Ettendi, "Tokalli" profes- claimed, "Carry me to Coleman's, corner Eighth and streets. All coffees roasted fresh every day and in WASHINGTON, September 29, 1877. It7 sor of Arabic in the preparatory school at Constanti- D streets, and" give me a shave and a bath." This DRAWING and OIL FAINTING given by quantities to suit purchasers. All coffees ground in T. SEATON DONOHO, at studio, No. 904, Penn- nople, where Osman Pasha came from Tokat, at his only proves what we have always asserted—that Cole- the presence ol the customer, and our friends can be brother's suggestion, anil who shortly after had him man was the recognized court barber. sylvania avenue, or residences of pupils. Drawing, assured that they will procure the finest and purest $3; Painting, $5 per month. ju8-6mosl admitted in the same school. Sufficiently prepared qualities of coffee at the lowest prices at the well- NEW CARPETS! by his relative, young Osman entered the military Fall Opening'. school, whence, after a brilliant examination, he left known establishment, corner Seventh and 1 streets. HILBURN'S POLAR SODA with the rank of lieutenant. The fall opening of French hats from Madame FOR fine upholstery work, feather renovating and Cheaper Than They Ever Were Sold. Intelligent and laborious he was always foremost in Josse Leclialier, Caroline Coutot and the leading —AK])— French modistes, will take place to-morrow at Mrs. M. moth exterminating from furniture, at the lowest his class while in the militia school. His commission prices, go to Chace's, 614 Louisiana avenue. as lieutenant states hecameout first in the final ex-J. Hunt's. This lady, who is so well known to our ICE-COLD TEA, BEAUTIFUL TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, patrons as the authority on millinery, &c., will be amination. Osman's entrance in.the army took place MR. GEORGE T. KEEN invites the special attention THE BEST SUMMER DRINKS. At $1, $1.10 and $1.15 per yard. in 1853, and coincided with the beginning of the pleased to see the public at her place of business, 621 and 623 D street. of the gentlemen of Washington to the most fashiona- 1429 Pennsylvania avenue. Crimean war. He had scarcely donned his uniform ble coat of the season: A double-breasted, three-but- when, with some of his schoolmates, he was appointed CONGRESS WATER, Original and Genuine, 15c. on the staff and sent to Shumla. On tho battle field, Welelter. ton cutaway, long in the waist, broad in back, pockets at side with flaps and left breast pocket. It is entirely a bottle. je3-tf8 90 as well as at his school desk, Osman Effendi was re- We advise the public to visit the headquarters of At 35, 40, 45, 50, 60, 75, 87K> and $1 per yard. marked by his chiefs for his coolness and military ca- new and novel, and the style is original with. Mr. politicians and merchants on Fifteenth street, which Keen. It will only be cut by the first-class merchant WANTED. pacities, which began to prove so eminent that the ALSO, rank of captain, and soon after adjutant, was con- the illustrious name of Welcker is made,famous, and tailors of the country. 414 Ninth street. sep23-4t3 ferred upon him. where everything in the way, shape and manner of Every one to know that the luxuries of the season can be found. We refer to THE reason why all housekeepers and others use the Rugs, Mats, Oil-cloths, Lace Cur- The campaign over, Osman Pasha,on his return to Welcker's, opposite the Treasury Department, where Aladdin Security Oil is, that no accident has ever MAR ICR ITER HAS REMOVED tains, Window Shadings, &c.. Constantinople, entered with his rank of captain in everything in the way of the finest liquors and cigars occurred from its use. It is the best in the world. All HIS Very Cheap. the imperial guard. At all times and in every cir- can be found at the lowest price. storekeepers sell it. Try it, and you will have no PAPERHANGING, WINDOW SHADE AND PIC- cumstance he constantly succeeded in obtaining the other. Take nothing but Aladdin. TURE-FRAME ESTABLISHMENT esteem and approval of his superiors, who could not Baltimore and Ohio Railroad In connection with the above, which are on our fail to notice him. Without waiting long he obtained The above oil can bo had at Geo. Ryneal's, jr., 639 To No. 626 E street, just around the first corner above second and third floors, we have on our first floorth e will sell round-trip tickets at their depot, 485 Penn- D street. his former location. Free Art Gallery. ap22-tf largest and best stock of DRY GOODS ever exhibited the rank of commandant of a battalion of the im- sylvania avenue and 613 Fifteenth street, to Ohio perial guard, with which he was sent to Crete during Cleaning. in Washington. the insurrection on that island. From the first to tho voters and their families at reduced rates, to all prin- AMUSEMENTS. last moment he was present at every movement of the cipal points in Ohio, from this date, to and including The novelty of appearing in a new suit ot fall "campaign against the insurgents. Peace being re- the 7th of October. Certificates ior tickets can be had clothes has passed away since our friend A. Fisher, stored in Crete he came back to Constantinople, this sit room No. 56, second floor, post-office, and at room 906 G street, has astonished his patrons and the public INCOLN HALL. W. W, BUROETTE & CO., time with the epaulets of a colonel, won alter two No. 17, third floor, Treasury. generally by his new method of cleaning clothes, L No. 928 Seventh street and So. JOG K street northwest. years of constant fighting. we have yet to hear of a man who ever tried Fisher ONLY ONE GRAND MATINEE CONCERT. and was not satisfied. In these days of economy it During his stay at the capital Osman Pasha was The Red Store. behooves all to save their money by having their old Saturday, October 6, at 2 o'clock. connected with various military duties, and intrusted At Wixom's red store, 504 Ninth street, between E clothes cleaned, and Fisher is the best man in the with several missions, which obtained for him a pro- and F, you can buy a choice article of roasted llio at 20 world to see for any such purpose. Let every one call motion to the grade of brigadier general, and lastly cents per pound, new leaf Japan tea 40 cents; also, a at 906 G street. BLACK SILKS! an appointment on the staff of the fifth army corps as full line of foreign fruits, Malaga grapes, bananas, MAX MARETZEK Conductor general of a division. In this position, as in previous New York apples, New York butter, potatoes, with a VICHY, Kissingen, Seltzer, Bethesda and all mineral ones, Osman Pasha's activity did not relay, and his full line of selected family groceries. Prices not to be waters at Koss' Pharmacy. ap29-tf The splendid Orchestra that for the last three weeks BLACK SILKS ! service becomes daily more important and valuable. beat in the city. has played nightly to large and fashionable audiences It was at the timewheu he was the chief of staff of the FROM what we learn McEvoy's Hibernicon special at the Baltimore Academy of Music will, on this oc- Our buyer having just returned from the East, where fourth army corps that he was placed in command of Change of Finn. casion, (previous to their joining the Wagner-Meyer- he purchased an unusually largo stock of the justly the division at Widdin. matinee for Wednesday next, October 3, promises to Mr. Henry P. Howard having purchased Mr. John be an immense success, as it deserves to be. This beer Opera Fest,) render a varied programme of their celebrated Guinet black silks, at prices far below any H. Magruder's entire interest in the late firm of gentleman has been catering for the public's amuse- choicest pieces. prices that these goods have ever been sold at, we are Senator Conbling. Magruder & Howard, choice family grocers, at ment for many years, and apparently with unparal- Vocal selections will be rendered by the noted Bal- prepared to otter them on MONDAY MORNING- to leled success. The various notices in the public press timore Soprano, every lady interested in the purchase of a handsome NEW YORK, September 29.—The lost says the gen- Seventh and L streets northwest, will continue the black silk at such low prices that we defy competition. businees in the same enterprising manner as hereto- of his entertainments aro very flattering. At the MISS ANNIS MONTAGUE. eral dissatisfaction with the course of Senator Conk- opening performance here he, with his characteristic Guinet silks have stood the test for years for good wear, ling and his followers in the Rochester convention iore, and his patrons can rely upon finding at his es- The Washington Favorite, and are warranted to excel all other makes in beauty has resulted in a proposal to call a Republican mass tablishment the choicest articles in his line at the lioerality, gives a benefit to the St. Peter's parochial schools. It is but necessary to state that these schools MISS EVA MILLS, of finish and coloring. Also, a full line of COLORED meeting in this city for the purpose of expressing the very lowest prices. SILKS and FRENCH CASHMERES to match at true sentiment of the party. The project originated are under the supervision of the Rev. Father Boyle to And the Popular Baritone of the Kellogg English very attractive prices. among members of the Union League Club, who, Koch's Hotel. insure full houses. Opera, while wishing to support the Republican State ticket, MR. W. T. CARLETON. We advise the public to call on Koch. We do not Merchants' Lunch. are anxious to disclaim any approval of the attack know anything in regard to his hotel, but we do assert made in the convention upon the Administration and that he has the finest liquors and the best lunch-bar We met our friend Sam Ward yesterday and, as Admission, 50cents. Reserved seats, 75cents. W. W. BURDETTE I CO., its supporters. The meeting will probably be held usual, he was overflowing with the milk of human Box-sheet opens at Metzerott's, Wednesday, Octo- «Ither in Cooper Institute or at Steinway Hall. in the city, and presume he has the best hotel. If any ber 3. It5 No. 92S Seventh street and No. 70G K street northwests one doubts our word about the bar, we refer them to kindness as well as politics. We suggested to our sep30-l our hearty appearance and the bright prospects of THE venerable friend that he was a little ahead of time, "J^ATIONAL THEATER. LAMAR. Frank Leslie's Assignment. CAPITAL. We eat and drink at Koch's, but we are that Congress would not meet until next month. He compelled by a stress of business to sleep at home, assured us that he was not on a busiuess but a pleas- OCTOBER 1—ONE WEEK ONLY, NEW YORK, September 29.— The assignment of therefore we can say nothing in regard to the accom- ure trip ; that he was always in Washington during Frank Leslie for the benefit ot his creditors, with the modations of the hotel. the bird season, and do you know, he exclaimed, that DION BOUCICAULT'S schedule annexed, was filed to-day. The total liabili- Welkenning, the proprietor of the Merchants' Lunch, ties are set down at $336,134.52; nominal assets, $230,- Ifonse Furnish inn . can serve reed birds in better shape than any man in Great American Drama, 308.65 ; actual assets, $75,166.93. The assets are prin- the country. In fact, says this old authority on the cipally composed of periodical publications. The per- We dislike to say a word in favor or against anyone E ARE NOW RECEIVING ELEGANT" who desires to be a philanthropist, but we can't help luxuries of life, the Merchants'Lunch is the best place BelleLamar! lines of ALL THE NOVELTIES IN MILLI- sonal assets are estimated at $3,300, and the real estate in the District for the luxuries as well as the solid s of NERY GOODS, FRINGES, TRIMMINGS, NECK at $27,817.18. finding fault with our friend A. E. Williams, 829 Sev- W enth street, who is ruining his competitors by offering the season; and we agree with Uncle Sam. LOUIS L. JAMES as COL. BL1GH. WEAR, &c., to which we invite special attention. house furnishing goods at such low prices that board- 13. G. DAVIS, Base Ball. Koss, at Seventh and Boundary streets, keeps the ing-house keepers have become panic-stricken, and E. F. Kingston as STONEWALL JACKSON. 710 Market Space. BOSTON, September 29.—Bostons 8, Hartfords 4. those innocent people who have been starved for years best Soda Water and Root Beer. ap29-ti Eight innings were played. MISS ANNIE STORY... .as... .BELLE LAMAR. by widows, who assert they have seen better days, are Ladies' BUFFALO,~N. Y., September 29.—Syracuse Stars 3, rushing to our friend and securing the necessary ar- First appearanoe of Miss Laura Joyce. Other charac- Buttalos 1. ticles for a happy home, and then gathering their fam- Dresses of all kinds, wool, silk, satin, velvet, &c., &c., ters by the Company. LL THE NEW STYLES FANCY PLUSHES, LOUISVILLE, KY., September 29.—Louisrilles 4, St. ily under their wings, and asserting that Williams, handsomely cleaned without being ripped apart, and The play is founded upon incidents of the late civil Xouis 2. 829 Seventh street, is a blessing to every one. spots of grease, ice cream, &c., effectually removed A CINCINNATI, September 29.—Clncinnatis 11, Chi- without cleaning the whole. Superior kid glove war, scenes laid in Virginia, and the sentiment typi- FANCY and OSTRICH FEATHERS, HAND- SOME FLOWERS, just received at cagos 10. Six innings. THE PATENT OFFICE has been reduced to ruins and cleansing, 12% cents per pair; kid gloves dyed, equal cal of the manhood ana womanhood of both sides. the country at large has been astonished that a so- to new, 30 cents per pair. All-wool dresses dyed with- MATINEE SATURDAY AT 2. DAVIS'. General Caster's Funeral. called fire-proof building has for all intents and pur- out being ripped apart. Crape veils dyed, cleansed Oct. 8, VON STAMMWITZ LADY JANE GREY. poses been destroyed. We advise our patrons to place and refinished equal to new. Feathers cleansed and Its [Repub. and Nation copy.l POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., September 29.—The luneral less confidence in bricks and mortar and more in the curled in a superior manner, and dyed black, brown, ELT HATS In all the new Fall Shapes, at of Major General Ouster will take place at "West Point old-fashioned theory of insurance. We cannot blame blue, crimson, cardinal or any desired shade. PERA HOUSE. F next Wednesday afternoon at2p. m. The remains will our friends for being skeptical in regard to fire insur- Office of R. C. Douglas, under National Theater, tf DAVIS'. be accompanied from tills city to the military post by ance, considering the fact that many companies have O KERNAN BROTHERS, Proprietors. a guard of honor selected by the West Point cadets. become bankrupt. Therefore we assert that the Ar- A FINE assortment of perfumes j ust received at Koss' MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, lington is one ot the safest deposits in the country, Pharmacy. ap29-tt Opening of tho Novelty Season and Great Reduction Arcbblsbop Bayley. and all can lie down at night with the satisfaction that in the Prices of Admissfon, 15,25 and 50 cents. AMBURG EDGES AND INSERTINGS, NEWARK, N. J., September 29.—The condition of if all is destroyed, that if one is insured in the Arling- Wright's Sample Room. 'The greatest Gymnasts in the world, H Archbishop Bayley to-day shows a slight improve- ton the fight has been fought and won; that nothing The prestige so long enjoyed by Wright Brothers, Mlle^ JUTAN «fc G. B. BROWN. LACES, HDKFS., TRIMMINGS, FRINGES,. ment. Coadjutor Bishop Gibbons of Baltimore, Bishop save an earthquake can prevent him from getting his corner of Seventh and F streets northwest, is still The Irish Team, COLLY ER and GORMAN. BUTTONS and all kinds of FANCY GOODS and Wood of Philadelphia and Bishop Corrigan of New- money. maintained by Mr. John H. Wright, tho senior mem- The beautiful Operatic Vocalist, NOTIONS, at lowest market prices, at ark are in attendance at his bedside. ber of the late firm, who has assumed complete man- MLLE. AMENIA CASSINIA. se30-3t2 719 Market Space, Cor. Eighth St. Mere we are Again! agement of the premises. The old patrons of the The Triple Cloglsts, house can rest assured that in the future, as in tho GOLD1E, STEEL and SALLIE ST. CLAIR. The Weather To-Day, Exclaimed a thousand friends of John Kussell, as they EDICAL DEPARTMENT, dropped into the Irving House and discovered the old past, neither attention or money will be spared in con- The American Shooting Team, For New England light, variable winds, mostly from tributing to their comfort. To those desiring the finest BAUGHMAN and HUHN. M UNIVERSITY OF GEORGETOWN, the south, warmer, clear or partly cloudy weather, veteran behind the bar. We regret to make the an- nouncement that John Russell, lately of Itussell & grades of liquors and the choicest brands of cigars we Hob. V. Fergerson, Sallle Mason, Little Llllie Lee, Corner of Tenth and E streets northwest. with stationary or lower pressure. For the Middle can give the assurance that their wants will be more Maud Sheppard. Tom Warfleld, Den Howe, Amelia The twenty-ninth annual session oi the Medical Col- States northeasterly winds, possibly shifting to south- Leonard, has purchased the interest of John Ross, satisfactorily supplied at this popular resort than at and henceforth will be found at the Irving Housed Gorenfio, D. A. Kelley and a full Dramatic Co. Con- lege will begin MONDAY, October 1, at 8 o'clock p. erly, warmer, clear or partly cloudy weather, with any other establishment this side of New York. Mr. cluding every evening and the matinees with the beau- m. Introductory by Prof. JOSEPH TABER JOHN- stationary or lower pressure. We matcef-the above Statement, and we stand by the Wright is himself a connoisseur, and his long experi- consequences. We have joined the temperance organ- tiful d rama, entitled "The Italian Padrone; or The SON. ence in business is a guarantee that nothing will be Slave of the Harp." Matinoss, Wednesdays and Sat- FACULTY: ization : and if there is any one living: who could offered to the public but that which is first-class. With NOBLE YOUNG, M. D., Emeritus, Professor of the Chinese Culinary Mysteries. cause us to forget our obligations it is John Russell, urdays. A great Spectacular attraction for next week. commendable foresight Mr. Wright has called to his WANTED — LOO HANDSOME YOCHG LADIES for Principles and Practice of Medicine and President Americans who dine with the Chinese are suprised who has such an enticing way in the concoction of assistance Mr. Charley Penn. Charley needs no com- of the Faculty. mixed drinks that it causes one to think that the tem- MARCHES in a new Spectacle. Apply at Stage Door at the perfection to which they have carried their mendation from us. His popularity is universal and Monday and Tuesday mornings, between 9 and 10 FLODOARDO HOWARD, M. D., Emeritus, Pro- cooking. During a recent Chinese banquet at San perance movement is. a failure, if our old friend Rus- deserved, and, aside from other attractions, Charley's fessor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women an® Francisco an orange was laid at the plate of eaeh sell presides over the destiny of the Irving House. o'clock. It5 pleasant greeting and happy smile are an inducement rTIHEATEtt COMIQUE. Children. guest. The orange itself seemed like any other to call again. At all times can be found Scotch ale JOHNSON ELIOT, M. D., Emeritus, Professor of range, but on being cut open was found to contain on draught and .old Baker whisky. The lovers of Surgery and Professor of Clinical Surgery. within the rine five kinds of delicate jellies. One was ALL LOVERS of the artistic and the beautiful will be these beverages will find an article of "pure Baker," MONDAY, OCTOBER 1—NIGHTLY AND WED- JAMES E. MORGAN, M. D., Emeritus, Professor of at first puzzled to know how the jellies got in, and, well repaid by paying: a visit to the monumental works five years old, that is unexcelled in Washington, and NESDAY AND SATURDAY MATINEES. Materia Medica and Therapeutics and Medical Ju- giving up the chain of reflection, was in a worse of McMenamin & Co. ot' this city. Among other Scotch ale on draught that will please the palates of Grand Reopening and Commencement of the Sixth risprudence. quanuary to know how the pulpy part of the orange things we noticed a large, handsome and highly the most fastidious. A call at Seventh and F streets Season. Everything New. Theater Reno- SAMUEL C. BUSEY, M. D., got out. Colored eggs were also served, in the inside polisned granite monument to be erected to the will convince the public of our assertions. vated and Refitted. memory of Anna M. Richardson, wife of Judge Wil- Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine. of which was found nuts, jellies, meats and confection- 1 THE REFINED NOVELTY SHOW OF THE CITY. FRANCIS A. ASHFORD, M. D., ery. When onej of the Americans asked the inter- liam A. Richardson of Washington. This is a' monu- First appearance in Washington of the young ment of larger proportion, chaste design and fineexe - Professor ot Surgery. preter to explain this legerdemain of cookerv, he ex- J The Patent Office Fire. American actor, MR. HARRY GWION, who will in- JOSEPH TABER JOHNSON, A. M. M. D., panded his mouth in a hearty laugh and shook his cution, and dbes credit to the parties by whom it was troduce the thrilling sensational drama in two acts, Washingtonians are proud of the fact that we have Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and head and said: "Melican man heap smart—why he designed. We are glad to note the progress of this entitled THE BRIGAND CHIEF; OB, THE IDIOT'S Infants. not findee out?" enterprising and reliable firm, and we point with pride at last succeeded in having a fire that attracted uni- REVENGE. The prince of Ethiopian comedians, Mr. to the superior quality of work displayed by them as versal attention and gave our foreign Secretary of the C. H. A. KLEINSCHM1DT, M. D., Interior, as well as the fire commissioners, an oppor- Jake Budd. Messrs. Morris and Fields, Miss Lottie Professor of Physiology, one of the best evidences in support of our theory of Brown, Maggie Barnes, Mr. Frank White, Charles WILLIAM H. ROSS, M, D., Duliant's. "Home Dealing." We advise all who are interested tunity to apply to Baltimore and Alexandria for nelp. in such matters to call and examine for themseives. A good story is told on our Secretary Schurz, who was Campbell, Mr. Al. Henderson, James Green, E. F. Professor Materia Medica and Therapeutics. We seldom say a word in favor of frfed oysters. We running around like the wild man of the woods whom Barnes, Miss Josephine;West, W. Williams and Marie DANIEL J. KELLEY, A. M., M. D., believed that fried oysters were bred in the imagina- Barnum has made famous, giving orders and making Rogers, making the most complete vaudeville com- Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology. tion of the devil until we tried a half a dozen, and Theatre Comique* himself generally conspicuous. Our popular chief, pany in the United States. lt*3 CHARLES E. HAGNER, M. D., which Dubant.sçryed ..to lis. We are convinced that We take pleasure in calling attention to the adver- Cronin, approached our German friend and said: PENING NIGHT. Professor of Clinical Medicine. with good cookery ifio devil can be beat; in other tisement of this popular resort in another column. " Mr. Secretary. 1 have telegraphed to Baltimore and WILLIAM H. TRIPLETT, M. D.r words, we "assert "that if a fellow wants to "cast the Tho grand reopening of the sixth foil and winter Alexandria for help." " Great God," exclaimed the o Professor of Anatomy. Benefit for ST. PETER'S PAROCHIAL SCHOOL, devil out of his system he should call at Dubant's, season commences to-morrow evening under the mostl immortal Schurz, " why doyou send to Egypt?" After CHARLES V. BUABMAN, M, D., corner Seventh and N street's, and try his fried ; they a proper explanation that there was a place in Vir- under the auspices of the Rev. Father Boyle; Pastor. Demonstrator of Anatomy. auspicious circumstances. During the summer the ODD FELLOWS' HALL, are, without exception, the finest and best in the city. theater has been newly painted, decorated and up- ginia by that name, the Hon. Secretary retired to JOHN WALTER, M. D., We make this assertion Without fear, for we have been the Bon-Ton and interviewed Billy Wright, and then For five nights, commencing TUESDAY, October 2. Prosector to Chair of Anatomy. holstered, with a view to the comfort of its numerous First visit in three years of CHARLES MACEVOY'S there, as thé boy said when he digested a bushel, patrons. For the opening a galaxy of stars have been gave orders for the Baltimore Fire Department to call For additional information apply to F. A. ASH- at the Bon-Ton and enjoy the luxuries of the season. HIBEltNICON, Illustrating the beautiful and be- FORD, M. D., Dean of Faculty, 1330 New York engaged, to give eclat to the occasion. Mr. Harry witching scenerv of Ireland, accompanied by the Marble Saloon. Guion, who has gained fame elsewhere, produces the After Mr. Schurz made his speech, the B. F. D., mean- avenue. ing the Baltimore Fire Department, gave three cheers choicest flowers of Irish poetry and melody; a melange lt3 The finest oysters in the city, as well as the luxuries interesting two act drama, "The Brigand Chief," as- of mirth, music, pathos and mimicry. The highly suming the three different roles. Jake Budd, the for Billy Wright and marched to the depot, carrying of the season, can be found at the Marble Saloon. a large transparency, on which the following could bo artistic HIBERNICON COMEDY COMPANY, In D. M'MENAMIN. J. R. FREEMAN. Messrs. Lewis & Callahan are the right men in the right people's favorite, returns to the scenes of his former read: eluding the original BARNEY, will enact the favorite place, and certainly know how to run a hotel. triumphs. Amona: the new specialty artists appear- comedy of IRISH HEARTS, OR LOVE IN THE MoMENAMIN & CO., ing are: Miss Lottie Brown, the operatic and serio- " Billy Wright will be pleased to see his friends and OULD SOD. A SCRUPULOUS Boston lady, who abhors dang, comic vocalist, Morris and Fields, the celebrated Ger- the pu blic at his new place of business, the Bon-Ton, For particulars see programme. Doors open at 7 Marble, Granite and Brown Stone Monumen- when asked at the boarding-house table why her hus- man duo, and others, which, in addition to the excel- corner Ninth and F streets." commence at 8. Admission 26 cents, reserved seats band was not down to breakfast, replied, bashfully : lent stock, form a rare attraction. The orchestra has 50 cents. tal and Building Works, " O, dear, William was upon a—a neck last night." been augmented and will discourse the dulcet strains LLOYD'S WASHINGTON MATTRESS FACTORY, 905 D MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. Corner First street Fast and Penn. ave., A what ?" said her interlocutor. " A b-bosom," she which gained for them such applause last season. street northwest, is still prepared to sell the best goods Prices of adamissiori—children, 15 cents, adults, 25 WA6HIM«T05I, D. C. explained, coloring to the roots of her hair. "A The popular prices of admission will be adhered to. at lowest prices. Hair, husk and corn-top mattresses cents. which ?" said he. " A-a-a b-bust!" she whispered be- We advise all who wish to pass an enjoyable evening wholesale and retail. Feather-beds and mattresses COLONEL J. HENNESSY, Business Agent. Washington and Georgetown Cars and Chariots- hind hec napkin. during the week to visit this bijou thespian temple. steamed and renovated. M. P. McTAVISH, Assistant Agent. It6 pass by the Establishment. sep30-SM8 6 THE CAPITAL ----SEPTEMBER 30, 1877.

courage and perseverance met a just reward by having company are to be found here nightly." Thanking first three Mondays in November, when he will de- 00RSETS AND SHIRTS. G. H. B. IN LONDON. maimed, mutilated or driven out all dangerous oppo- Mr. Labouchere on behalf of Manager Stuart, Bouci- liver three lectures on his foreign travels. The tickets nents, leaving him master of the district. John cault, Delmonico and myself, for his compliment to will be fifty cents each, and admission will be granted [By Cable to THE CAPITAL.] Reilly, his brother, is now an alderman. He had not the company, we left Charley to respond for the wine, to gentlemen only. The Marine band will be in at- Taylor & KDufty, [ Kerer Flag—on the Ocean Wave—Music by the been in this country three years before he was elected the cigars and the menu. tendance. Mr. Forney, with characteristic prompti- to the board of aldermen. He keeps a low rum-shop The Thunderer, as the London Times is known here, tude, 1 learn, has addressed a complimentary letter to 933 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, Band—A Warning to Servants—Comments on Tam- in what is called 41 Mackerelville," up near Harlem. will soon change its editor. Mr. Stephens retired, Colonel Copeland, asking him to deliver three DEALERS IN many- Leaders by One of Them — A Famous Irish One Ned Kearney, now worth a half million of dol- broken down, a few years ago, to give place to Mr. Dc- lectures. Already,' Colonel C. informs me, Mr. Forney PERRI8' ADJUSTABLE, Celebrity» the Cove of Cork—An; Irish Bain—God is lars, made his fortune by furnishing provisions, wines, laney, who, in turn, unable to stand the tremendous has obtained the signatures of many of your most (iood to the Irish !—The Magic Carpet of " Capital" liquors and cigars to Tweed for the Americus Club tax on his physical and mental energies, has an- prominent citizens to the letter inviting him to lecture. saturnalias and Tammany Hall's frequent feasts. nounced his resignation. Ho will be succeeded by a Among the names, a list of which Colonel Copeland Enterprise — John McCullough's Birth-Place — Banquets which the tax-payer paid for, but was seldom Mr. Craycraft, (don't get that Calcraft, the public ex- placed at my disposal, I notice those of Rusttm •Oakey Hall's Explanation—Laboucliere's " London allowed to even so much as hear of. ecutioner,) who is secretary of the corn exchange or Eflendi, Austine Snead, Bret Harte, Sandy Balcom, Truth "—Thackeray's Pall Mall Gazette —Madame The inquisitorial system of reporters instituted by chamber of commerce, or something of the sort. Mr. E. P. Boooks, Ben. Beveridge, Samuel Kinsley, Greenwood, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, the conserva- Anna Bishop's Decadence — English Horsewomen, an "enterprising" press broke up those bacchanalian Eleanor Carey, Miss Ris Story, Dr. Mary Walker, orgies. It was dirty work for even the average re- tive journal founded by Thackeray, who mottoed it41A R. S. Spofford, John Berrett, Carl Hertzog, Harry Lady Cardigan and the Countess Dudley—The Prince porter, but those self-sacrificing young graduates of paper written by gentlemen for gentlemen," came in Weaver, Calvin Sayre, R. K. Evans, Joseph Ander- of Wales' Oath in a Divorce Suit—William Plantage- Maynooth probably consoled themselves by the re- as Young and your correspondent were talking over son, Randolph Keim, Paul Geddes, Colonel Lubey, net Copeland in England!!! — His Views on the flection that it was nasty but necessary. The notori- Newspaper Row and how the "boys'? were ploughing Simon Wolf, Major McBlair, Dr. Snodgrass, Brad. their furrows in that part of this dusty vale we called Adams, Mr. Cruit, Customs James, Mr. Parrish, Argyle, Cremorne and the Jardin Mabille—Recollec- ous Billy Cook, who is now nere in London but resid- ing in Belgium, was a gallery doorkeeper at the old 'at home." Your correspondent had been a special General Averlll, Radcliffe Baldwin and Commis- tions and Bosaries for his Friends. Bowery. Smart, bold and a good penman, he at. for the P. M. G. with the Carlists in 1873. Greenwood sioner Bryan. A brilliant audience, worthy of the tracted the attention and won the favor of the famous proposed to me that I should go to the front again for gifted lecturer. When he stands before them on the * The waves were white and red the moon, police justice, Judge Dowling, now dead. Dowling his journal, with the Turks, but I had had enough of familiar rostrum of Willard's Hall, with his finely-cut In the noisy liour when I was born; pushed the young Bowery boy ahead until he eventu- Vie Bashi Bazouks of the Black Hills, working for the features sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, a The whale it whistled, the porpoise rolled, The dolphin bared his back of gold, ally came under the notice of " the old man "—Tweed. Washington P. M. G. I explained to the English ed- rare intellectual treat may be expected. And never was heard such an outcrv wild, It was Cook who was used to forge the signatures to itor the enormous influence a newspaper man wields While in Rome the Colonel purchased one As welcomed to earth the ocean child." vouchers, when tradesmen were not complaisant to the in Washington, and the never-falling streams of reve- hundred pairs of beads for six dollars, and had ring-master. Cook ran away from New York by night nue which pour into his pockets during the session. them blessed by the Holy Father. He intends to pre- LIANGHAM HOTEL, with over $100,000 in bonds, stowed in a hand-bag. Young described Painter and John Carson to him as sent tokens to his numerous friends, thus combining LONDON, September 25, 1877. Thompson's Glove-Fitting, Tom Coman was an alderman and controlled many the highest types of a congressional journalist. Green- economy with benevolence. He has a special pair To the Editor of THE CAPITAL. votes. He was among those who received $05,000 each wood urged me no further. "Exactly, my dear fellow; blessed for General Piatt, Caidinal Maccaroni observ- SIR : Once more on the deck 1 stand, a creature of for their vot.es in passing the charter for the Brooklyn of course you couldn't think of going with such pros- ing during the solemn ceremony that from what he had heroic blood ; a proud, though child-like form. In bridge. Coman kept an* oyster house, and won his pects before you. That form of journalism, doubtless heard of the civil life of this renowned chief, a little other words, my respected chief, my beacon-light first popularity as a wise and beneficent citizen by very admirable and useful in a new, expanding coun- extra blessing might be the means of rescuing a pitch- on the sea of peiipatetic journalism^ by the time selling the "rounders" "shilling stews," the value of try, would scarcely^it the effete civilization and musty turpentine brand from the burning. this letter is yet damp from the press and laid on the a York shilling being twelve and a half cents. The decencies of the old world." groaning boards, and before the groaning boarders of only man who ever successfully resisted Tweed's al- Madame Anna Bishop, whom your readers will Washington breakfast tables, I will be comfortably PAPEfiHANGINGS. most omnipotent power was Mike Norton, a State remember as a sweet songstress in her day, attempted •quartered on the Cunard steamship Scythia, home- senator, known to the "boys" as the Thunderbolt. to sing the other night at the Agricultural Hall. Her ward-bound. In compliance with your instructions to Norton had been a coal-passer on a European steamer. ; youth, freshness and beauty were long since gone; 44 run over to London for a few days before Congress When an alderman Norton wanted his private clerk, now her voice has left her, and she was mercilessly and 4 do I the blarsted Britishers," 1 embarked on Cox, to be police justice in place ot Dodge, who had j hissed down. John Bull won't be beguiled out of his the Russia the following day with only a been on the bench nine years. Tweed favored Dodge, j shillings without a protest. Anna Bishop's eareer on NEW STORE ! carpet-bag, (borrowed from Ex Governor Chamber- Norton was insubordinate, told the "old man" that i the concert stage has been a long one. For a time a lain, who has no further use lor his, as the roads Dodge was "only good to fine drunken bummers and brilliant one. She was married to Sir Henry Bishop are,) a brier-woed pipe and a CAPITAL draft for prostitutes and collar the sugar." Cox was elected in the reign of William l'V., and sang in public first at expenses. The outward-bound trip was unmarked by Norton's energy, liberality and popularity, and the age of twenty-three. by incident, save the usual literary turn passengers became police justice of one of the most populous In Hyde Park, as Young and myself drove down take the first few days at sea, when they almost with- districts in the city. Cox had been indicted before to Richmond to dinner, two ladies who are called out exception become contributors to the Atlantic for for burglary. In answer to my query, the envoy from the best horsewomen in England cantered by. One want of better employment; the regulation cry of Governor Robinson to Dick Connolly informed me 44 was the beautiful Countess of Dudley, wife of Whale! whale!" or a subdued interest in a school of that to "collar the sugar' means, in thieve's slang, to , AND THE the rich Earl Dudley, whose rent roll runs way up porpoises, plunging through and cutting the surlace get the money. 44 The root ot Tammany," he said, ; Celebrated .Jacqueline, fèl.OO. in the thousands. The lady by her side, who sat her ot the water with their arched backs. Occasional "is repeating. Stop repeating and Tammany dies." horse so gracefully and with such a perfectly-at-home pools on the ship's jun, announced at noon, supplied a look and air, was Lady Cardigan, widow of the fa- small party of us veteran sea-dogs with excitement Our staunch ship brought us in safety, on the morn- mous Lord Cardigan, who cut his name eternally on and Bass' ale during the voyage. By renewing my ing of the seventh day, into the beautiful Cove of the rock of ages at Balaklava. Lady Cardigan is now J. MARKEITER, •acquaintance with the chief engineer, with whom 1 Cork, upon whose green and graceful shores are situ- about fifty years of age, but the tide of color in her had crossed before, and a judicious intimation that 1 ated Q,ueenstown and the fine old city of Cork. I cheeks, translucent, dancing eyes, crown of sheeny, • hours will give pretty accurately the day's run. Of PICTURE FRAMES, 2 S H course the regular readers of THE CAPITAL know this, the weather was against me. I was compelled to macy had ever existed between himself and Lady -for the Marine corps and that superb secret society forego that pleasure and the duty, so grateful to every Mordaunt ?" the Prince looked the judge straight in 41 -I s.. ©• £ commonly called the Marine band, haven't much else traveler of Irish descent, of kissing the Blarneystone. the eyes and answered, On the oath 1 have sworn, O C ir P»- a All the way to Dublin on the Irish mail train, and and on my word of honor as a gentleman, there never 2 jpï to do than to disseminate useful nautical information WINDOW SHADES, c| across the Irish ehannel on the famous channel pack- «^GGO ja society circles, while whirling in the giddy mazes of did.'* The spectators, composed of Guards' officers, ce 5E» a £ S a ST • ets to Holyhead, the dismal, dreary rain poured down the diplomatic corps and the nobility of England, the waltz and scattering on the air Hail Columbia and 3 = ••d the Blue Danube through two or three yards of coiled like the cataract of Lodore in cascades and torrents, burst into applause. Yet nearly every man present F a a >-j ö ¿8* E-S and twisted brass. There is probably not an official, threatening us imprisoned wretches in the railway knew or was convinced that Albert Edward had told Q © PICTURE CORDS and TASSELS, « —rf o diplomatic or fashionable person in all Washington carriages with cataract in the eye and water on the j an untruth. 1-3 not fairly conversant with a ship-ot'-war from fore- brain. 1 am frank to admit all that the poets and j In accordance with your instructions I will cable farmers claim, that it is a 44 silver" thing, and a I PAINTINGS, KNGKA VINGS, W H O castle to gun-deck, ward-room and captain's cabin, this over to-morrow. The night rates for private let- £ O save the Secretary ot the Navy. "blessed" thing, and a good thing for the country, i ters are one-half the day tariff. This will make the SJ It brings the green grass from under the sod, we could expense a comparative trifle for such a letter and such CHHOMOS, Etc. The urbane agent in New York, to whom G-overnor see flying past us from the car windows, to carpet the *< •Shepherd was kind enough to give me an introduction, a journal as THE CAPITAL. bare earth ; made the lambs and little colts in the j The result of the rifle-shooting caused much sur- cordially shook my hand, inquired after my health, meadows frisk up their heels and prance about in said he always liked to carry Washington people, they prise and discomfiture here. They have beaten us at 0IGARS Atl'D TuBAOOO. idiotic rejoicing ; clothed the trees in sparkling drops horse-racing and boat-pulling with so much ease that IV©. oae E ¡STREET, were so lofty in tone and expenditure, and coralled that gleamed like diamonds set in emeralds my $120 all in a breath. He then handed me a beau- the victory of the English team was thought to be a One iloor east of 7th St., (late 439 7th St.) tifully executed chart of the cabins of the Russia, j That was an Irish rain. 1, for one. was willing to j pretty sure thing. W S. BOOSE. telling me to choose my room. Catching a glimpse j let the farmers, the poets, the lambs anJ the colts j At the Langham I found a Government finan- v of a large quadrangle about midships, on the star- j have it all. My agricultural efforts in town have been I cial agent lavishing bonds on the obsequious liackeys çai'S! & Tobacco. Wholesale board side of the main deck, I said, modestly, "I heretofore confined to the occasional culture of wild- and setting up the beer to a mob of thirsty and de- 44 oats. Everybody" knows they thrive better under a lighted Britons. They said he was " so awfully jolly, HAYING REMOVED IgV dealer In lm- thought that would be airy and cool." Yes," re- T ported and sponded the smiling agent, 41 decidedly cool; but I more generous liquor than rain-drops. The town- you know." This distinguished American traveler, 1283 manufacturer of don't think that would suit you, Mr. B.—too much lambs, too, prefer Moselle. The "silver, shining journalist and statesman—I mean Colonel William the Cactus, La dianola, La Roose, noise in the morning—in fact that's the pantry." Of rain " spoils their bonnets and plays the very- mis- Plantagenet Copeland, the aforesaid financial agent— TO THE NEW BUILDING, NO. «2« E STREET, Pennsylvania and Stockton Cigars. -course I didn't insist, and noticing a smaller room chief with the rouge {et noir on the eyebrows.) The is in high spirits. He has authorized his. friend G. ONE DOOK E VST OF SEVENTH STREET, Agent for the Ambro- similarly located on the port side, I guessed I would guard on the train, to whom 1 had given a half crown, A. Town send to deny the rumor that he has sent a .TUST ARHTJND THE FIRST i.'.ORNEK „„ Fine Out. The trade u a staunch Irishman, of course, asked me insin- cartel to Senor Don Miguel-Antonio-Concepcion- ABOVE MY FORMER LOUA I'lON, Supplied direct from the take that. Well," said the still smiling agent, Avenue- ..ictury at the very lowest New 44 uatingly, with a merry twinkle in his dark, Irish eyes, Dolores-Alphonso-Soteldo, the Marquis of Carajo, I HAVE OPENED IN that's the barber-shop; but suit yourself." Eventu- 44 (irk and Baltimore prices. ally I found myself in letter H, and domiciled with a if his honor didn't think it nice, soft weather?" now editing the Republican. On the contrary, he has CONNEXION WITH TH E ABl IV E BUSINESS A leading New York official who came over to confer London is pretty much as it was when 1 left it three purchased a beautiful black thorn stick, which he in- •with Dick Connolly, the run-a-way ex-comptroller, for years ago—vast, busy, bewildering and foggy. 1 put tends to present to the Marquis. Colonel Copeland „-Retail branches at Willard's, Metro- up at the Langham of course, where Americans most has been making many interesting discoveries in his politan, Arlington and Imperial Hotels. - a part restitution of plunder, with permission to re- 1 ' octS-tfl turn to his family. do congregate. One can walk through its halls with- travels. In a letter addressed to the Reverend H. J. Ramsdell he says nothing suprised him more in An unfortunate affair occurred on the trip out stumbling over the h's, and the two pretty bar- Calais than the proficiency with which even, the little DANIEL LOUGHRAN, out. As a warning to pilfering servants, and maids, with their bright, fresh faces and fluttering FREE ART children spoke French. He attributes it to the cli- those pickers-up. of unconsidered trifles, chamber- red ribbons, hand the new arrivals a champagne cock- .10BBER OF mate. Colonel Copeland visited Windsor, but as the maids, I'll briefly call attention to it. A blue-eyed tail, a cobbler or other Yankee eccentricity, with an Queen was not at home he was not invited to re- black boy, who waited on my cabin, mistook a demi- arch smile and a seductive grace which would tempt L'ITTAKS ANI» TOBACCO, main. The freedom of the city was presented to him, john of double-proof Panama bay-rum for old rye, and Father Matthew or even Mrs. Hayes, if she were a A CORDIAL INVITATION EXTENDED TO in a glass vessel chastely decorated, of an oval shape NO. 1408 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, OPPO- improving the golden moments as they flew, hastily man. Scrolling down Regent street after breakfast, T THE PUBLIC. projecting to a funnel and emblazoned with a crimson swallowed nearly a tumbler full while I was at break- towards my banker's, who should 1 run against but my SITE W1LLABDS' HOTEL. red coat-of-arms formed like a diamond and bearing fast. The elfect was instantaneous, wholesome and old friend, and pitcher, Oakey Hall. Mr. Hall was CALL \'r THE NEW STORE inar25-ly6 the legend, " Bass' Entire XXX." The Colonel has corrective. He plunged down the gangway with both looking in excellent health, and seemed in fine sent this to the Smithsonian Institute*as another hands clasped convulsively over his stomach, shrieked spirits. There was the old bonhommie and ready smile— COAL AHD WOOD, evidence of the good feeling between the two- coun- for the stomach-pump and its attachment, a passen- the old familiar flow of puns and epigrams, and that u tries. H. A. CLABKE. .ÌOHK T. GIVEN. ger steamer's surgeon; gave the steward his watch i nde8cribable je ne saw quoi" which makes the ex- mayor one of the most delightful of men. He laughed The Colonel wrote to Brigadier General Piatt, giv- Returning my warm acknowledgments for past and stealings for the trip to send to his mother; coiled fa-vors. A continuance solicited at the new store. up on the main hawser and waited for death. It was heartily at the story of the woman with a wart, and ing an account of his visit to the Argyle. The Duke, Coal and Wood. a healthy example, as the waiters alter that subjected said the newspapers might at least have given him he said, was not at home, but, with that fine sense of every doubtful liquid to a chemical analysis before credit for good taste. He said his departure was in Scottish hospitality characterizing the illustrious they stole it. no way connected with official matters. The reason was house of Campbell, he had left several estimable lady J. MABKRITER? one which solely concerned himself and one or two My New York bunk comrade was at first disposed friends to entertain his guests. The Colonel says CLARKE & GIVEN, other parties, and was strictly of*a private nature, No. 620 E Street, between Sixth and MSO AS« CÒRD WOOD. similar absurditities, might be set at rest forever. The was frivolous and without soul. He noted here, also, Pacing the promenade deck in' the soft moon- card, which I enclose to you, Mr. Editor, reads: that same generous, self-denying hospitality which COAL STANDARD—TON 2,240 lbs. light, blowing clouds of sublime tobacco that marked his reception at the home of Argyle. The THE PARKER GUN. from east to west cheers the Saxon and soothes "Mr. O. K. Hall, No. 13 Morden Road, Black- Best equality, Fair Prices and Fair Dealing. Colonel made a scientific and conscientious study of the Turkman's rest, he told me much of the heath." Paris, and writes to his friend A. R. Spolford, the No. 424 TENTH STREET WEST, inner arcana of Tammany's workings. The hum- At 46 Fleet street, in the Strand, I found Mr. John Between D and E streets north. Congressional Librarian, that he has amassed a world ble and ofien disreputable beginnings of Tammany's Russell Young, the Richelieu of the young king of BRANCH YARD, cornor Twelfth and C streets of facts, going to controvert Darwin's work on the northwest. chieftains are yet an unwritten book, but if such a vol- the Herald. Mr. Young has grown a redundant pair of origin of the human race, and what he calls the ex- ume ever sees the light, the handwriting on the wall/ side- whiskers, wears a stout tweed suit, very|thick soled DEPOT at Potomac Bridge, corner Maryland ave- ploded theories of Malthus on the Increase of Popula- nue and Thirteen-and-a-half street. sep5tt3 (probably put there with phosphorous by some politi- Alpine club shoes, carries a serviceable Alpenstock, tion. Tne Colonel is preparing a monogram on this sub- cal priest of the time,) did not more startle the feast- cut off for a cane, and takes his meridional chop and ject for the American Philosophical Society, and nas ing king than would the records of Tammany's vul- mug of half and-half as naturally as though he were SEND STAMP FOR CIRCULAR U. M. MILLER & written to his friend J. Pernambuco Foley, D. C. L., garity,villainy and corruptions. My new acquaintance, descended irom Hereward, the Saxon Wake. Mr. now the leading editor of a great New York daily, to DEALERS IN ANTHRACITE AND BITUMIN- who has retired from active politics, with a modest and Bennett, he states, does not intend to return to have a meeting called for the purpose of receiving it. PARKER BROS OUS COAL. an honest competence, gave me brief biographies of America for some time, and the report that he in PINE WOOD, $3.50 to some of the selectmen chosen by the people of New tended to start a newspaper in London was an idle The Colonel was deeply impressed with the wonders WEST MERIDEN.CT. OAK WOOD, $4 to *S. of the Jardin Mabille in Paris. "There is no such a Branch office, 920 Pennsylvania avenue. York to handle and guard the revenues of almost an canard, so far as he knew. Labouchere's paper, Office and wholesale depot and railroad yard, lour- empire. John Kelly had been a prize-fighter. Fought 'lYuth, filled all the requirements of such a paper as school in the world for the study of natural history," sep23-t!7 and-a-halt street and Virginia avenue southwest, a notable battle back of Hoboken, about thirty Mr. Bennett would-establish, and is backed by nearly he writes to the Rev. Dr. Newman, "and no one can Washington, D. C, auo-3ml years ago, with a rival rough in his ward. By the as much money, as its proprietor and editor is a very wander through its arches and paths without seeini THE BEST AND HATl prestige of his victory, having pummeled the rich man. Mr. Labouchere is a son of the great that France is a truly paternal government. And STEPHEN F. GILL, how sad to think that these people are benighted and other embryo alderman to a jelly, was elected the banker of that name, a i rencn emigre, who estab- CHEAPEST HATS, Plain and ornamental foreman of a hose lire company. He afterwards em- lished a bank in London many years ago, and died not in the true faith." The Colonel proposes to Dr. barked in business, keeping a grate and fender shop Newman that a missionary fund be raised to convert leaving a vast fortune. UMBRELLAS PLASTERER, in the Fourteenth ward, on Prince street. The Hon. Paris, and he adds that if a modest salary of from fif- The son was about ten years ago a member of Par- John Kelly is now Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall. teen to twenty thousand dollars a year can only be UMBRELLAS, 406 Eighth street EorthW-'S*, Washington, t. O. liament from Middlesex on the Liberal tide. He has Center-pieces, Caps. Brae sets. Statuary, &c., always Lives on Murray Hill among the guaranteed he will take charge of the woik. AND CANES IN creme de la creme,travele d a great deal, speaks three or four languages on hand. Repairing and Oal:oaiiming promptly ex- owns Dlocks of buildings in that aristocratic locality, and is a perfect type of the educated, cultivated, ac- As your readers will observe,*the studies of your emi- ecuted. apr22-tf8 goes to high mass on Sunday with a Bible as big as a complished man of the world. Visiting New York in nent townsman have taken the widest range. Instead CANES, THECITY, watermelon under his arm and adorned with a mas- haw and 1'atent Offices of 1869, he had his rooms at De'.monico's, and conceived of loafing around the Langham and brooding over the sive silver crucifix. 'Rah for Kelly ! Barney Reilly, a great esteem and liking for that admirable restau- tombs in Westminster Abbey, the Colonel has gone to C. S. BUNDY, Another statesman, is the high sheriff of '-New York, rateur, Charles Delmonico of the up-town house. He the very io:>t of the manners, customs and institutions AT No. 456 L(«. Ave,, Washington, D. C., opp. City Hall. lie set cut on his ioad to fame and fortune by stand- RBFERS BY PERMISSION TO : Hon'. Ricn'd Vatlaoh, said one day, after an unusually satisfactory dinner, of the old land. He saw things as they were, and ing in the dark alleys of his ward, when but a youth, Bank of Washington, Middieton & Co., L. C. Camp- as a knot of us were smoking imperial Cabanas of the when he returns he will become, as an exponent of bell, W. B. Webb, Enoch Totten, Washington. D. C.; inspired by ambition and high purposes. From these WALTEE KEE'S, best Vuelt a Abajo tobacco, such as Delmonica Keeps the opportunities and temptations of European life, B. Q-. Jayne, Ithlca, N. Y.; Hon. T. O. Howe.U. S.S., coign3 of vantage, a gang of loughs at his back, Wis.; ex-Gov. G. O. Walker, Rich'd.Va.; Hon. H.C. only lor very honest men, that "with Delmonico s an ornament to society. Keilly would pelt his political rivals as they passed Burchard, H. of R., Ills.; Hon. Solomon Bundy, Ox- one does not need to belong to a club in New York. The Colonel has requested his friend and kinsman 1419 Pennsylvania Avenue, ford, N. Y.: M. H. Beach, Dubuque, Iowa.: C. K. with paving stsnes and empty bottles. Finally his Better wine, a better cuisine, better cigars and better D. Carpenter Forney, to hire Willard's Hall forth« octZWy Pier, Fond du Lao, Wis. my27-6m2* a

7 THE CAPITAL ----SEPTEMBER 30, 1877.

do occur; notably, in Assistant Secretary McCormick. people, which manifested itself a century ago at the of mental resources that might otherwise remain dor- HOTELS AND BE8TAU.RANTS GOSSIP BY ROBERTS. He always met every one kindly, and even the hum- Boston tea riot, and now again at the Pittsburg rail- mant. and by holding out to him the rewards of vir- road riot, is an interfering power that will be certain tue, the paths of vice and dissipation may be shunned. blest with politeness ; and when he leaves the Treas- greatly to modify the result. The wisest political "These annual festivals of agricultural and mechani- IVfciW HOTEL. That the "ruling passion is strong in death" is Illus- ury he will do so with the best wi3hes of many a poor work for the coming legislative season, both In the cal industry are working a powerful, though imper- soul he has made happy, even without influence, - tates and in Congress, will be the enactment of ceptible moral influence in this respect. For the time trated in the fact that I can sit down calmly and gos- measures to counteract the operation of the dangerous being they break down all the artificial barriers with sip, notwithstanding the torn-up state of my Interior simply on the merits of the. case. The crowd that economic principles above explained. The problem of which man has hedged in his lordly self. Our honors RICCS HOUSE, rushed on him were always met in a sympathetic the hour is how best to abolish the law of least wages and rewards are to the most worthy. Honor digniori and the shock it has sustained during the past week. or nullify its mischievous tendencies, Now this is a manner, and shown a courtesy that lew officials take should be our motto. We have no use for drones in When 1 was first told that my internal orgaiv matter of so-iie diffi 'ulty, since in actual experience our hire. Industry and labor are the elements of our PLCHMER * SPOFFOR», trouble tdcultivate. Except "Old Spinner," I don't zation was in a state of cremation, iearing that there are many collateral principles and interfering success. Ifweareto effect anything for the good of Proprietor^. know of any one t hat goes out of office more respected circumstances which obscure the operations of the law our country or the welfare of our fellow-men, It must the Michigan dip, my tallow Chandler, had of least wages, or retard, or accelerate, or otherwise be through the agency of these great sources of human Fifteen! Ii and G Streets, Washington, D. V. or with a better record than he does. modify its workiogs, so that the problem becomes one wandered to the scenes of former glory, and was good." 00t29-8 O. P. Morton, the Sitting Bull of Indiana, has, like of exceeding complexity. Among these interfering being prematurely scorched, and not wishing to heap agencies may be enumerated the introduction of time- coals of tire on his demoralized head, I rushed down a true chunk of national wisdom and orthodox mem- saving machinery, the establishment of a work-day of TO TSAVELEB8. EBBITT HOUSE, prepared to act the part pi a christian, and snatch him ber of the Fog-Bank, reconsidered his determination certain length, the regulation of the prices of work by the trades' unions, strikes, lockouts, etc. like a brand from the burning! But he had gotten to become a first-class angel and ride on a damp jgALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. out all right; the fire department turned the hose on cloud swinging his palm-leaf; and he will live to Q,uite a number of suggestions, however, are already HEADQUARTERS ARMY AND NAVY, "have it out" with Blaine yet. O. P., otherwise known at disposal, some of which seem to be worthy of dis- The great double track. him, and not liking such a dampening practical joke, cussion and experiment. It may be that the appro- NATIONAL ROUTE AND SHORT LINE he gently glided out. In the olden time, we are told, as Old Possum, found people were too willing. A priation or purchase by the General Government of TO THB WASHINGTON, I). C. there was a city where the people were so irritated passer-by observed preparations for a funeral in a the entire machinery of production arid commerce Northwest, West and South. would solve the problem. If this could be brought JUNE 24, 1877. that, after every means of reform was tried with no country church-yard, and asked the sexton if it was about all competition (the chief disease of private cap- C. C. WILLARD, Proprietor. good result, ittwas burned up. one of the villagers, and receiving an affirmative reply» ital) would be annihilated, and the industrial affairs A. M. Leave "Washington: asked "whatwas the complaint?" "No complaint at of the country would be under direct control of the 4:60 a. m.—Baltimore and Way Stations. Now that the modern Sodom and Gomorrah has people, and would, if the civil and political service all," was the answer, "every one was willing and 6:50 a. m.—Baltimore, Annapolis and Way Stations. been purified by fire and cleansed out by water, let us could be sufficiently purified, be managed in the best 7:50 a. m.—White Sulphur and Valley Springs Ex- METROPOLITAN HOTEL, hope the old "reform" brooms are destroyed, and that satisfied." interest of the whole people. press. Make no stops between Washington and Har- WASHINGTON, D. O.; the profound Carl will take warning by the fiery Last week I spoke of the inconvenience the hour of Perhaps a law establishing standard wages would per's Ferry. closing the money-order office caused citizens. 1 did best accomplish the purpose, as it would prevent all +7:56 a. m.—St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago and furnace he has passed through, and try to conduct ruinous competition between laborer and laborer. Pittsburg Express. Hagerstown, except Sunday. CAEROLIJTON HOTEL his Interior on a better basis. If the fire had occurred not know then how great the inconvenience was or its Perhaps the compulsory shortening of the work-day, t8:00—Baltimore Express. a lew years ago, when Delano was chief, the revela- extent. I have received some dozen letters since then so as to distribute the work among a greater number, 8:10 a. m.—Piedmont, Strasburg, Winchester, BALTIMORE, MD., which would as effectually prevent ruinous competi- Hagerstown, Point of Rocks and Way Stations. tions of handsome furniture, carpets, &c., stored in the relative to it, and if Mr. Key can be persuaded to stop tion among laborers, would be most satisfactory. Per- 8:30 a. m.—NEW YOHK, PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON AND Both under the management of, the undersigned. lower vaults—bought with Government money, "sun- making speeches lor a short time and remain at home haps such restrictions on over-productions as would BALTIMORE EXPRESS. It. B. COLEMAN A CO. dries," "miscellaneous," &.C.—would have made a long enough, he is requested to turn his postal eye on check competition among capitalists will be found the f9:00—Baltimore and way stations; on Sunday con- best and most satisfactory plan. As to the respective nov26-6m8 confiding public turn away and weep. The rumor this matter, and so arrange it that the money-order nects for Annapolis. merits of these suggestions there is not room here for 10:00 a. m.—Baltimore Express. that the fire was not accidental has much more truth office remains open until the closing of the city post- a discussion. That can best be done during the winter P. M. in our legislatures. It is likely that a ventilation of than poetry in it. There is a strict, searching investi- office. KOBERTS. 12:10 p. m.—Baltimore, Annapolis, EUicott City Ac- IMPERIAL HOTEL, the subject in political circles will bring to light still commodation. gation going on in the Indian bureau, and there is other and more expedient measures. But, whatever is ti':30 p. m —NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA EX- WASHUiGTON, X>, C. testimony of the most damaging kind against persons done, there should be no mincing and no trifling with [ Com m unicated. J the problem ; there should be no half-way work ; there PRESS. On Sunday to Baltimore and Way Stations of "high degree," and it is known that during the should be no mere temporary relief. There should be only. Connects for Frederick. FIRST-CLASS AND LOW RATES. BOARD progress of the fire parties tried to take certain papers THE COMIXG STORM AM) HOW TO MEET IT—THE no misconception of the real question at issue. All 3:30—Baltimore and way stations. REDUCED to $40, $50 and $60 per month, according 4:30 p. ru.—Baltimore and Laurel Express. to location of rooms. TABLE BOARD $26 per month. from the Indian bureau, and force had to be used to LABOR QUESTION. dallying is dangerous, and pernicious in its after effects. There is no way to satisfy the people but by a 4:35 p. in.—Frederick, Point ot Rocks, Hagerstown, Transient rates $3 per day. recover them. Of course an excuse was ready, but To the Editor of THE CAPITAL. radical cure, and that can only be effected by a radical Winchester and Way Stations. f4:40—Baltimore, Annapolis and Way Stations. je8-tl8 JAS. S. PEIRCE, Prop'r. the coincidence was singular. " CHARLESTOWN, YA., December 2,1859. remedy, striking direct at the root of the disease, and inaugurating an.important revolution in the relations f5:30 p. m.—Philadelphia, Norfolk and Baltimore In order to assist my friend Schurz in reforming "I, .lohn Brown, am now quite certain that the WEST END HOTEL, crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away between capital and labor. MEDITATOR. Express. PASSENGERS FOR NORFOLK TAKEN IN THE his Interior, I will mention a few fact?. It may not but with blood. 1 had, as 1 now think, vainly flat- CARS DIRECT TO BOAT. GEORGETOWN, D. C. fo:45—CHICAGO AND COLUMBUS EXPRESS. Win- be generally known—I don't think the resources of tered myself that without very much bloodshed it V. SHI NX Proprietor. might be done." chester and Hagerstown, except Sunday, this country are—that the interior of the Government f7:30 p. m.—Baltimore Express •This hotel is conveniently located, being situated on This awful prophecy, uttered while the death-sweat [Communicated.] the line of the Washington and Georgetown City Pas- ship contains a Marble quarry—there's Millions in f7:35—Baltimore and way stations. trickled from its author's brow, was fulfilled to the last HON. KENNETH RAYNEBON THE LABOR (¿UESTIOX 8:00 p. m.—Pointof Rocks and Way Stations, Metro- senger Railroad, the cars of which, from the Railroad it "—or, at any rate, there is quite a revenue drawn letter. Not two years elapsed ere a billow of blood We hear much nowadays of the importance and politan Branch. and Steamer Depots, pass the door every two or three from the Government pocket to support one whole arose and surged over the country, and strewed every dignity of labor, and of the rights and the power of minutes. The guests of this house can reach any of- hamlet with its ghastly debris. It came "to purge f9:25—St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville and Pitts- family, while two struggling women, on small pay, can- laboring men. This question bids fair to become a burg Express. the Public Buildings of the National Capital, or any the crimes of this guilty land away." Its work was mighty factor in shaping our destiny as a people, and place of amusement, &c., by a pleasant ride of a few not both be kept—" no two of a family"—or a man done, and when the nation breathed a^ain the air of t10:00 p. m.—NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA AND BAL- in making a lasting impress upon American civiliza- TIMORE EXPRESS. tDaily. minutes. Board per day, $2. By the month at re- who fought for his country cannot obtain employment, peace, North and South were alike rejoiceful that the duced rates. sep26-tf8 monster who had so long held his dark thrall over tion. Its serious agitation is somewhat new in point All other trains daily except Sunday. because there is "no money," "appropriation has this blessed land was slain, and the people, the whole of time; but it is a subject which has long been re- All trains stop at Relay Station. ceiving attention and reflection from the thinking given out." people, were free at last. But now, scarce that we For further information apply at Ticket Offices at have recovered breath from that mighty struggle, the minds of the country. The organization of labor Depot, corner New J ersey avenue and C streets, 486, AMERICAN HOUSE, The list stands something like this: nation, to its horror, beholds again the monster, left leagues for concentrated effort, and the consideration 601 and 603 Pennsylvania avenue, and 613 Fifteenth E. M. Marble, assistant attorney general. for dead, coiling its huge and loathsome form through which labor must now extort from those in power, are street northwest, where tickets can be procured and Corner Pennsylvania Ave. and Seventh St» 9 only the objective results of wrongs long and patient- our fertile valleys and busy streets, devouring every- - orders will be taken for baggage to be checked and re- S. J. Mills, (his brother-in-law,) passed no examina- thing, and spreading ruin and starvation in its path. ly borne by labor, and which results were foreshadow. d ceived at any point in the city. tion, acts as assistant superintendent. It is the same that sapped the nation before the civil by philosophic thought. The following extract from THOS. R. SHARP, Master of Transportation. J. H. Mills, Indian bureau. war, though now it appears in a change of dress. an address delivered by Hon. Kenneth Rayner before L. M. COLE, General Ticket Agent, TABLE BOARD, $20 PER MONTH. Slavery is no more, as such, to be sure; but the war the Agricultural Society of North Carolina, at their febl-tfo GEO. S. KOONTZ. General Agent. S. O. Mills, pension bureau. has merely stripped it of its outward grossness—the annual State fair, some years since, presents the ques- Miss Mary Mills, patent bureau. essence still lives, and constitutes the primary cause tion of the rights and dignity of labor in as graphic 1GREAT 017/7 my28-tfl SCHOFIELD & DUFFY., Proprietors. 1 also would like to ask how it is that all the names of the manifold misery that haunts us so persistently; and incisive language as we recollect ever to nave lor what is slavery, after all, but the coercing of one seeh or heard. The man whose head could conceive, -LO II. PENNSYLVANIA JLO I » • of the appointees are not on the list of the printed man to yield his faculties to the use of another with- whose heart could feel, and whose lips could utter such ROUTE MORTON HOUSE. register ? There are a number of appointments at out the freedom or power to exact an equivalent re- just and noble sentiments, deserves the respect and TO THE NORTH, WEST AND SOUTHWEST. turn ? Is not the laborer worthy of his hire? Is it 983 AN» 034 F STREET NORTHWEST. good salaries whose names do not appear. The col- admiration of every man in the nation: Double Track, Steel Kalis, Splendid not right that the wealth he creates be his own ? Alas, Scenery, Magnificent Equipment. ored population could be recognized, but it does not he receives, under a faulty system of industrial com- OCTOBER 1, 1877. PRICES FOR BOARD. seem right or just to supply three in one family with petition, but a tithe of his just reward, and that is the "One of the happiest results to be produced by these reason for his dissatisfaction, and the grand cause of associations (fairs) is the social revolution to be Trains leave Washington, from Depot, Corner of Per month - $16.00' positions under the Government, while widows and the present deplorable stagnation in our industries. effected by the high position to which labor is to be Sixth and B streets, as follows: Per month, if paid in advance 16.00 sisters of dead officers are begging for employment. A elevated; by investing it in the public mind with that For Pittsburg and the West, 10:10 a. m. daily, with Per week 4.00 Parlor Car to Pittsburg, and Sleeping Cars to Pitts- case in point is a family by the name of Simmons—boy That dreadful prophecy stands to-day before us dignity to which it is justly entitled. So stubborn is Breakfast or dinner 25 with all the threatening vividness of the hour when the prejudice of habit,. so hard is it to efface the asso- burg, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago; 7:40 in pension office, father in White House, mother in Lunch 10 first it was uttered. It was proclaimed anew at Mar- ciations of past history, that for centuries manual p. m. daily, with Palace Car to Chicago. 21 meal tickets 5.00 State Department under Morgan—all of these draw tinsburg last July, and the clanger of its tones spread labor has been identified with degradation and vul- BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD. 44 «10 do 10.00 through the country—North, South, East, West—and For Canandaigua, Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara good, fair salaries, and it all goes into one family. garity. In the military governments that were estab- MORTON HOUSE was the first one in the city to everywhere they found an echo that woke the droop- lished, from the very necessities of the times, on the Falls and the North. 5:25 a. m., daily, except Sun- There are too many persons, educated and competent, ing lethargy of despair into desperation. No one can day, 7:40 p. m. daily, except Saturday, with lower the prices for board, and thus save the people ruins of the Roman Empire, and out of which orig- from $4 to $5 per month. who are almost starving, eager to work, but unable to fail to read aright the terrible meaning of the great inated the feudal system, war was the great occupa- Palace Car to Watkins. For Williamsport, Lock Haven, Elmira and Watkins, 10:10 a. m. daily, obtain it, for any one family to scoop in so much. railroad strike last summer. It was the sounding of tion of Christendom. Out of the Church, mind was BEST BOARD IN THE CITY. the war trumpet. It was the premonitory gust of the directed to its successful pursuit, either for conquest except Sunday. Eggs, hominy and oat meal for breakfast every day It is enough to make one's heart ache to see the hell-blast, giving us a foretaste of the terrific tornado For New York and the East, 9:56 p. m. daily, with or defense. It was the only passport to honor and at MORTON HOUSE, , cases of destitution and dire distress among the better in piospect. It means that war is inevitable—inevi- power, the only road to respectability. For several Palace Cars attached; Limited Express of Pulman table unless by immediate, intelligent, radical action, 1 Parlor Cars, 9:20 a. m. daily, except Sunday. 922 and 924 F street northwest. classes, and it does not seem just to see two and three centuries what are now known as the learned pro- a revolution be effected, such that the many wrongs fessions- occupied an humble position in the social For New York and the East, 5:25 a. m. and 1:30 p. m. N. B.—No beer, liquors or tobacco of any kind sold. of one family drawing each good salaries and using of slaving labor shall be set right, and its just de- scale. Law, medicine, and divinity were the targets daily, except Sunday, with Sleeping Cars from sepl6-ly.6 their money for dress and pleasure. mands be satisfied. There is no longer any postponing Washington to Boston. of the labor question. It is a mighty tide that is at which literary humor and baronial merriment vented their jibes and sarcasms. The leech, the attor- For Philadelphia, 5:25 a. m. and 1:30 p. m. daily, ex- I know of a man with a sick wife and three children, coming, coming on. There is no dodgina: the issue. cept Sunday, and 5:30 and 9:55 p. m. daily. It must be squarely met. ney and the priest were associated with conceit, cun- who graduated with the highest honors at a well- ning, penuriousness and the gratification of sensual Limited Express, 9:20 a. m. daily, except Sunday. IRVING HOUSE RESTAURANT. known college, who applied, with good recommenda- What is the most needed now is a thorough investi- appetites in well-stored larders and well-filled cellars. Accommodation for Baltimore, 6:55 a. m. and 4:20 p. m. daily, except Sunday. tions, lor a position, but there was no vacancy, " no gation and full discussion, of the whole problem, Merchandise was regarded as the calling of the igno- which, though much talked about, has never yet ble and avaricious. And, although in process of time, For Pope's Creek Line, 6:55 a. m. and 4:20 p. m. daily, JLO CENT LUNCHES. thoroughfare" for him, while a sweet youth with curly really been deeply searched by the people. If the these pursuits rose in dignity and importance, when except Sunday. hair and dashing manners, son of a prominent rail- ultimate cause of the present derangement in the re- violence yielded to law; when, owing to a progressive For Annapolis, 6:55 a, m. and 4:20 p. m. daily, except BEST IN THE CITY. road man, was appointed the same day the other was lations of labor and capital can be discovered, and the civilization, the saving of life was regarded as more Sunday. discovery can be promulgated among the people, there useful than destroying it; when the dissemination of ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG Corner Eighth and D Streets H. W. refused; while a young lady, whose gigantic intellect is not very much doubt that a revolution wnich will a purer faith extorted the tribute of respect for its RAILWAY AND ALEXANDRIA AND WASH- was chiefly devoted to her personal appearance and restore happiness and prosperity to the country can teachers, when the acquisition of wealth placed the INGTON RAILROAD. febl8-ly BUTTS & BOSS, Proprietors. committing to memory sentimental pieces of poetry to be inaugurated without serious resistance from any means of luxury and enjoyment within the reach of For Alexandria, 6, 7, 8, 9:10, 10,11a.m.; 1, 3, 4:20, 5, class, since the capitalist, as well as the workingman, its possessors—still, mere manual labor, honest, un- 6:00 and 7 p. m. On Sunday at 9:10 a. m. and 1 and 7 "gush" with, and who was too high-toned to copy much finds himself, in our present condition, a sufferer. It pretending labor, agricultural and mechanical labor, p. m. MARBLE SALOON, for a canaille Government, was promoted to one hun- will not do to experiment with partial measures, or has continued to languish in obscurity, the by-wora For the South, via Richmond, 1:65 a. m. daily and exhaust the nation with wild and reasonless conjec- dred dollars a month. So runs the world away. of the fashionable and the idle, the scorn of the purse- 5:30 p. m. daily, except Sunday. Corner Ninth street and Pennsylvania avenue, tures as to cause and remedy. The root of the evil proud and pretentious. But in this respect a new era Trains leave Alexandria for Washington, 6,7,8:10,9:10, 1 would like to say a word of advice to a certain must be struck. All else will be but little else than 10,11 a. m., 1,3,4:20, 5, 6:00 and 7 p.m. On Sunday at The Bar is stocked with the purest Wines, Cigars, and misspent effort. i s beginning to dawn upon the world. class of employees, particularly the female ones. "To "The last quarter of acsntury has done more to revo- 8:10 and 10 a. m. and 6:00 p. m. our Old Hickory Whisky we claim to be the best in- Tickets, Information, Sleeping and Parlor Car ac- America. Our Ten-Cent Lunch from 11 to 2 is supe- make hay while the sun shines" is good, but to "la-y The West is clamorous for inflation, and more lately lutionize public sentiment on this subject than the for silver, as the panacea fOr our qualms. The East eighteen centuries preceding, since the commence- commodations can be procured at the offices: North- rior to any in the city. up for a rainy day" is better. There are too many out cries for resumption. California persecute« the Chi na- ment of the Christian era. The diffusion of intelli- east corner Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania ave- LEWIS & CALL AH AN., of employment, too many thin, eager hands stretching man, and the South threateningly demands home rule. gence, the operations of commerce, and the utilitarian nue, northeast eorner Sixth street and Pennsylvania aug!9-3mos5 Proprietors. avenue, and at the Depot, where orders can be left for out for food and work, lor people to hold positions they Some suggest repudiation, others a temporary cessa- tendency of the age, are beginning to teach mankind tion in the payment of the national debt. But none that labor Is the source of all wealth and prosperity, the checking of baggage to destination from hotels do not deserve and draw money they do not earn. No stands ready, so far, to show us clearly just where the the means of individual comfort and luxury, the basis and residences. matter how strong their influence may be, or how ultimate cause of the evil lies, and that his remedy of national strength and greatness. When we reflect L. P. FARMER. METROPOLITAN WINE ROOMS. will eftect its certain removal. All is mere guess- secure a foothold they may have, there is no one, from that the object of our association is to enlarge the GenH Passenger Agent. work. If contraction is not that ultimate cause, and field of operation for labor, to secure to labor the re- FRANK THOMPSON, Finest Liquors and Cigars the highest down, that the Government cannot do it does not seem to be, then inflation will not make us wards of its toil, to stimulate it to still greater exer- GenU Manager. without or replace, and some day it will wake up to happy, or at most, will effect but a temporary relief. tions, and to enable it to accomplish the greatest If the rather rapid payment of the national debt is not In the City. that fact, and then there will be grief and sorrow in results by economizing its powers, it is evident that the great mistake, then a cessation for the time in its the effect must be to dignify, honor and elevate labor. LIVEET STABLES. the ranks of the Governmental Royal Dressers. payment will produce but little alleviation in the peo- CORNER SIXTH AN» V STREETS N. W. ple's condition. It is the laborer, especially, that we invite and wel- Every one who works for a position under Govern- come to our brotherhood. In our own country, above all A. B. KTSYES. J. L. SMITH. JOHNNIE CLARK, Proprietor. We must search deeper for the remedy if we would my6-6mos3 ment is supposed to need it, and some day our national others, labor must be destined soonest to reach its find the true one. There is enough, it is evident, for proper position. Our institutions recognize no dis- pride will rouse up to the fa ct that if parties really - every one, and to spare, in this broad and beautiful tinctions m industrial pursuits. The roads to honor, to needed the place, and desired to keep it, they would land of ours. Why, then, is it that the fields lie fal- wealth, and to power, are open to all alike. The WEBER'S JACKSON LAGER low when there are so many hungry stomachs ? Why spend less time and money on dress, more attention framers of our institutions were true to the teachings IS.ETFE1S cfc OO. are the mills idle while the whole nation goes clad in of a past history. Not only the soldiers who fought BEER BREWERY, to their duties, and less flirtation in the halls, and rags? Why do famine and destitution ravage the our revolutionary battles, but many of their heroic under cover of "comparing," with the masculine por- people when the whole country is a perfect Eden of leaders, were laboring men, artisans and mechanics. CINCINNATI. such limitless expanse that millions more could lux- tion of the Government. Washington was a land surveyor, Greene was a black- This celebrated Beer is shipped from Cincinnati in uriate in its abundance ? Why do not the idle, now smith, Wayne was a laboring farmer, Morgan was a COACHES, refrigerator cars, and alter arrival is kept in ice-boxes One lady in a bureau of the Interior Department, tramping in thousands through the land, willing to to preserve it cool and fresh. work, cultivate the fallow fields and feed themselves wagon driver. whose brother is one of the prominent members of the and clothe themselves, and live like human (beings "Our Government, then, in its organic structure, has PRICES; Columbian Bank Note Company, has not hesitated to ought to live ? Ask the laborer about his grievances, done for labor all it could. It is for voluntary associa- In kegs, $11 per barrel; in pint bottles, (with patent tion, then, to elevate labor in the social scale. 1 am OTEN BRETTS, lightning stoppers,) $1 per. dozen. (Kegs, boxes and say she spent half her salary in lunches for herself and he answers: " Enforced idleness and a wage, while at work, too small for the proper maintenance pandering to no spirit of political socialism when I bottles to be returned. and friends ; another has monthly bills of thirty dol- of life." If we call the capitalist to account on these say that 1 have long thought society needed a radical Orders by postal card or in person left at my place lars for perfumeries, toilet articles, &c., and so on points he will plead, and in most cases with justice, reformation in regard to the estimate placed on labor. will be promptly delivered free of charge. Why should the laboring man be excluded from the CHARLES MADES, Sole Agent, through a number of cases. I know some who pay too, that he cannot furnish work, as there is no de- LIGHT WAGONS, mand lor his manufactures, and that he cannot pay saloons of fashion, the hospitable board of the sep2-tf3 Third and Penn'a. avenue. nearly all their salary for room and board, don't lay better wages for what work he has, because he cannot wealthy, the companionship of the great—I mean by a cent, and no one to support. Of course this is, in get a sufficient price for the products of the work to merely" because he is a laboring man ? Why is it warrant the payment of better wages. Where, then, that the young man who returns home from college SADDLE HORSES, 521 7th St. 8. BAETH, 521 7th St, the abstract, none of my business, or any one else's is the spell hidden that keeps the producer and con- with an education secured by the economical savings personally, but in a public view it is. sumer apart ? How did we get into the gulch from of an industrious father, thinks it beneath his dignity WHOLESALE DEALER IN which we find it now so difficult to escape ? We once When 1 see women dismissed who have tried to do to assist that father in the routine of his domestic oc- were all happy ; there was work enough and wages cupations ? or the young lady, whose ' accomplish- DOUBLEand SINGLE B TJG G IE 8 WINES AND LIQUORS, their duty, and who have other mouths to feed besides enough to satisfy every reasonable man. ments' have been paid for by the self-denial of an their own, who go home penniless, with nothing before indulgent mother, thinks it a reproach to aid that BOTTLED LIUUORS A SPECIALTY. If we take an earnest look at our industrial system them but starvation or something worse, and those mother in the discharge of the duties of a diligent we find chief among its prominent features is thehousewif e ? It is because public opinion is all wrong and all other vehicles promptly furnished. Liquors of all kinds by the gallon or barrel. others kept who throw away in luxuries what would principle of competition. There is competition be- in associating labor with degradation. Why is this ? i myl3-6mos3 feed a small family, 1 cannot help gossipping about it. tween capital, and capital and competition between Labor is the first great law of nature. Nature her- j labor and labor. The immediate outgrowth of this The chiefs of bureaus are to blame in a measure lor self is a great workshop where change, renovation MISCELLANEOUS. competitive system is the economic law of least wages, and development are constantly going on. JK3~ Orders left at the Arlington Hotel or at the this. The Secretary is not thrown among the mass of that is, that capital will not voluntarily pay a higher "Inspiration tells us that the great Author of all wage than is necessary for the proper execution of the things 'rested from his labors' on the seventh day. The employees, and is obliged to rely on the heads of work. If, therefore, two workmen of the same skill Stable, day or night, will receive prompt attention. COLUMBIA rooms lor information. The chief likes to have it Redeemer of the world was known as 'the carpenter's offer their services at different prices, always the one son,' and it is thought by most biblical critics that he made pleasant for him, and consequently those who • who asks the least, or is satisfied with the least, stands the best chance of acceptance. Now let us j worked at the same trade until he entered on his contribute the most to his pleasure and comfort have ; trace the influence of this pernicious principle. Sup- j great ministerial mission. The great apostle of the Close Carriages for wedding calls and receptions. the inside track. These men are generally moralists i pose the country at a hightof prosperity; every one in Gentiles was a tent-maker ; and all the wisdom re- ceived at the feet of Gamaliel did not make him as far as speech and precept goes. I have two of them I employment, and wages good. Then suppose, as al- BANK NOTE COMPANY,, ways happens, through little local causes, the burn- ashamed of his calling. And yet, strange to say, how in my mind now who are intense sticklers for morality j ing of a mill, the loss of a cargo of raw material, many there are who profess the religion of the Savior in every one but themselves. They have deliberately small numbers of workmen are here and there thrown and his apostles, who think it degrading to associate, Boarding and Livery Stables out of employment. Immediately these become vic- even around the altar, with artisans and laborers, retained those who were almost worthless as Govern- I tims of the operation of the principle of least wages, whose very hands may have reared the temple in ment clerks, and dismissed women they knew were a tendency being developed to their re-employment which they worship. How little do the sons and ©OS Pennsylvania Avenue, helplessly dependent on their salary for support. One at wages the least, perhaps, below the customary daughters of extravagance; of luxury and of ease re- AT WILLARD'S HOTEL STABLES, standard. This decrease, though an infinitely small flect that after all it is to the mechanic, the artisan, of them said to a lady, who begged to be retained at amount in comparison to the aggregate wage paid the the laborer, that they are indebted for the means of even less salary, as her dismissal meant starvation, whole working community, produces the most far their enjoyment—and on the poor pittance of wages Corner Fourteenth and D streets, Washington, D. C. "Oh, no; you are young'enough yet and well enough reaching results, results that affect the entire nation. received, and the pangs of penury and want endured It decreases, in proportion to the decrease of wages, by those to whose toil, ingenuity and skill they are in- looking not to starve." This is a fact. These men the consuming power of the workmen concerned. Bi/t debted for the sumptuous viands with which they re- THI PALACE BOARDING AND SALE STABLE, WASHINGTON, D.

WE ARE in receipt of tho following com- AFTBR TWO unsatisfactory bouts the National and Creighton came together tor the third time on Wednes- "WATOHES. THE CAPITAL munication, which we publish withqut changes, day, and the result was a humiliating defeat for the that, if we have done an injustice to the legal officials disciples of the once famous Creighton, the phenome- We have the host Imitation Gold Watch in the Market for frtldlflg of Alexandria, or caused fear and apprehension or nal pitcher of his day. These clubs have carried their Purposes. The metal is a composition of other metals, so closely reserab- SUNDAY JIOItNING .. SEPTEMBER SO, 1877. rivalry to fever heat. The partisans of eacn were will- * liug gold that the best Judges find it dlffi« bodily harm to the State ol "Virginia, we may be ing to stake their all oh the result, and it has proved v cult to detect the difference, except by a chemical test, and it has the virtues re-' squared with the Old Dominion and its inhabitants. that the Nationals excel in all points of the game. The Oreightons have good material, but they lack in quislte to make it the best substitute There is enough law in this communication to guar- for gold known. ©GENUINE AMERI- FORGERY IX THE INTERIOR DEPART- discipline on the field, are weak at the bat and run CAN MOVEMENT. EXPANSION BAL- MENT. antee a careful reading before the law colleges that bases miserably. This is not written to discourage ANCE. BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVE9 D OR them, but to impress upon them the fact that disci- ENGINE TURNED HUNTING CASES, A somewhat startling discovery was made yester- op en this week: and equal in appearance to a COLD pline and hard practice is necessary to success. The WATCH THAT COSTS from day afternoon In ^he affairs of tlie Patent Offloe. A ARLINGTON, ALEXANDRIA CO., Virginia, ability is in them, but without practice at the bat, and $ I 50 to .$200. It sells and trades eonfldentlal clerk to the commissioner of patents, September 29,1877. a captain who is competent, and in whom they have readily, for from wo to $10.0, and if you Residents of Virginia, in tho vicinity of Washing- conhdence, they can't win. They lost courage after wish a watch for your own use or to make named B. F. Goodrldge, addressed a letter to Dr. Jo- ton, have been Bubject to raids on Sundays by parties the first inning, and were held by a vice, as it were, in money on, try this. Owing to our largo sales, we are enabled to reduce the pris» seph, disbursing officer of that department, confess- who cross the Potomac and indulge in sports and cre- the grasp of the well-disciplined nine of the Nationals. of them to $12 each with an e!e« ing that he had forged the names of twenty ol his ate disturbances which are prohibited in the District Charley witherow's pitching is good if backed up crantChaln attached! They are used on properly; but the game in question was no proper Railroads, Steamers, and in Manufactories, ana follow clerks for advanco pay on the 15th of the of Columbia. For instance, parties have been in the habit of crossing the long bridge for the purpose of test of the abilities ot the nine, and comment on their other places where accurate time is required, month, and was unable to refund the money. The individual play is useless. and ayes general satisfaction. We send them playing base ball on the Sabbath, near and on the by Mflft or Express, on receipt of $12, to any guilty official said that he had been "untrue to his direct road to and from the city, to the great annoy- part OT*th e Country, or it will be sent C.O.D, The National nine played tlie game for all it was when the customer desires and remits $3 on ac- marriage vows," and that, under the spell of the fas- ance of the church-going people. And furthermore it worth. Hardly a point was missed. The pitching of has been the practice of gangs of boys and, 1 am count. These Elegant CHAINS weigh about cinations of (i beautiful bad woman, had been led into Bannon was fatal to the Creighton batters. Barron, Fifty Pennyweights, and the same pattern in sorry to say, men, to cross tho river for the ostensible Kenny, Lake, Ilarley and Stearns tended to all that pure gold would cost Sioo. Wo sell these Chains the commission of crime to gratify her passion for purpose of hunting, and by shooting and firing near came in their way : but the feature of the game was at $3 each. But we sell tho Watch and Chain for private residences and places of religious worship, $12, sent by Mail in a Registered Package, post- dress and amusements. We have been furnished with the playing of Houck at short, Dallas at first and paid, to any Post Office in the United States. greatly disturb and annoy religiously-inclined peo- Lusk at third. Such playing has never been excelled the name of the woman, but as it rests at present ple and others. in Washington. If the Nationals are wise they will .only on the word of a self-convicted forger, we refrain The article in last Sunday's CAPITAL giving an ac- keep the latter three in their present positions. WE SELL THE WATCH WITHOUT THE CHAIN FOE $10. from publishing it. Saturday being pay-day, the count and commenting upon the affair of Sunday, the " Holly" should be on the nine, as the old stand-by, J. BRIDE & CO., Clinton Place & No. 11 Eighth Street, N. Y. 16th Inst., was erroneous in several particulars. We, but it should be at second base or In the field. Cer- -clerks presented themselves in line for their pay. To the authorities of Alexandria county, do not wish tho tainly Ilouck is at homo a t short. their surprise, Goodrldge stood at the door-way as they Intimation to go uncontradicted that gentlemen from The score at the end of the game, seven innings, entered and, to as many of them as he could stop be- Washington or elsewhere, who cross the river on the was as follows: FALL SAMPLES NOW READY Sabbath for the purpose of a quiet stroll in the coun- 1 2 8 4 5 6 7 iore they reached the desk where their forged ac- try, are in any danger of molestation so long as they —A.T— counts already laid, made a confession and a passion- behave In a quiet and gentlemanly manner. The National 6 1 0 0 0 2 4—13 ate entreaty that they would wait a few days and not party referred to, who were arrested on the 16th inst., crossed the river with riotous1 intent, as admitted by Creighton 0 0 0 0 u 0 0— 0 -JESL BELER'S, •expose him; that he had telegraphed to his sister for one or moro of the participants on their examination $800, and all would be right in a few days. THERE arc several gentlemen in the northeastern before tho magistrate. The leader of the party, John section of the city—out towards Kendall Green—who Ilay, did, on the Sunday before, assault and beat a No. 5 Nortli Calvert Street, Opposite Barnum's Hotel. The disbursing officer had, however, already re- claim that the Astorias have an invincible—invisible special policeman in the discharge of his duty, and would be better—nine, that the other clubs of the city Largest Line of Samples ever shown in this city, and increased facilities, presenting more advantages for ported the forgery to the Secretary ol the Interior. It came here on tho 16th with a party in a boat with the are afraid of, consisting of Say, Smiley, Blogg, Strat- producing fine work than can be obtained elsewhere, in price, quality, tit, style and promptness. was then ascertained that Goodrldge had obtained a avowed purpose of "beating the damned niggers" and ton, a celebrated sawed-off pea, who appeared in their of defying the authorities of Alexandria county. Cutting, Making and Trimming Pants, ,-.--- $2.50. leave of absence for thirty days, to take eltect Mon- later games, named Clarke, and others. Come, gen- The penalty for trespass, according to section r, OTHER GARMENTS IK PROPORTION. day, with the intention of leranting to avoid punish- tlemen of the Nationals, Creightons and Eagles, shake chapter 99, code of Virginia of 1873, shall be So anu them up, just for the fun of the thing. Returning Cash for any misfit without debate. Call early for choice styles, and thereby save one-third in ment. Mr. Bell, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, costs if committed on a week day, "tne fine to be dou- ble in every instance if the offense be committed in THERE will be a complimentar y ball given at Wash- cash. ; ' je3-ly2 immediately swore out a warrant against him before the night or on Sunday." This party plead guilty to ington Hall, Pennsylvania avenue east, Thursday, Major Richards. When Secretary Schurz read the tho charge of crossing the river with riotous intent, October 4, for the benefit of the active members of the MISCELLANEOUS. MISUELLANEOUS. report of Dr. Joseph he folded up the paper with a and on the plea of ignorance of the law, and the pen- Eagle Club. They are good fellows, and deserve a alties, &c., the magistrate reduced their lines to $5 r bumper." sigh and, with the wisdom of an Eastern Cadi, re- and costs, except in the case of the leader, Hay, who NATIONAL VS. BALTIMORE.—On next Saturday marked, "Ah! a woman at the bottom of it, of course." was committed for trial by'tho county court. afternoon, at 3:80 o'clock sharp, there will be played NEW GOODS! Mr. Goodridge was quite a favorite in society circles, The case of Hay came before the county court on one of the most interesting games of the season, be- and his lapse from the path of duty will cause a flutter Monday, the 24th instant, when Hay entered the plea tween the above-named organizations. The Lord of guilty to the charges in the indictment; "where- Baltimore is the crack club of our sister city, Balti- in fashionable bosoms. upon the said John Hay was fined by tho court ten more, and the prowess o,f our own " Keels " is too well NEW GOODS dollars for tho use of the commonwealth, and costs." known to need mention. This game will possess a The parties who made the arrest, instead of being feature which should cause it to be well attended, both a "mob of eighty semf-civilizod negroes," consisted by the friends of the game and all charitably disposed We can now show a handsome line of Goods for the RECORD OF THE WEEK. of a constable and six special policemen. These men persons, as the net proceeds are to be donated to that Fall and Winter, which we are determined to sell at have been in the force several years, and In the per- most worthy institution, the Labor Exchange, which prices Very much below their 8dual cash value. 1» j formance of their duty they used due discretion, has already done so much for the welfare of the work- order to do an active business this fall and winter we \ shall oiier every inducement possible to cash purchas- j IT IS astonishing how hard a man will and did not fire upon the mob of rioters until after ing portion ot our community. Tickets for seats to they had been fired upon and one of their number ers. An inspection of our assortment of work to support a tailor, a hackman and a bar-keeper, witness the game have been placed at the very reasou- wounded. From the facts ascertained at the exami- able sum of twenty-five cents, and will be for sale the while he lets his wife run a sewing machine to sup- nation and since, 1 believo the officers are deserving coming week at all the hotels and bookstores. BLACK AND COL( >EED SILKS; port the children. of especial credit in this particular instance. J. P. CAKTLETT, Arlington, Va. THE National and Patriot played the first game of BLACK AND COLORED CASHMERES; their series yesteiday afternoon on the grounds of the ONE SWALLOW, it is said, does not make a former, and, after a spirited contest of eight innings, _BLACK SILK VELVETS, (from 18 to 28 inches | summer; so the visitors to Washington and its inhabi- OUR MOCK AUCTIONEERS.—While pass- the "Red3" were victorious by a score of 18 to 1. This tants are endeavoring to bring about winter by an in- ing up Seventh street yesterday we were astonished was the first game in which Babe Trott, an old Wash- wide:) creased number of swallows. No bell-punches here. to see the Peter Funks, who have disgusted the public ington boy, has played since his return from Minne- and disgraced our mercantile friends by their disgust- sota, where he has been catching the past season. He ALL-WOOL DRESS GOODS IN ALL THE j " THE GRAND CENTRAL" Book and News ing exhibition ol broken-down clerks, who formerly will play with the National the remainder of the MOST DESIRABLE SHADES ; Depot by Brad. Adams, on Seventh street, is a great were interested in some more respectable business, season. and who are used now for the purpose of giving a BLANKETS, COMFORTS. TABLE DAMASK, j success. Every day crowds of people are thronging semi-respectability to the nefarious proceedings of our into this store lor all of the latest novelties in the sta- NAPKINS, TOWELS, MARSEILLES QJJILTS, ; Peter Funks. It is with pleasure that we announce Civil Service Reform. tionery line, and it's the remark ol every one that it that, owing to the energy and activity of such ster- and an almost endless variety of staples and notions, j We met an enthusiastic friend of the Administra- is the finest and most eligible place in this city for the ling merchants as John Dowling and A. R. Williams, Will satisfy all. We intend to make our prices to j book and news business. Step in and be waited on an injunction has been served upon these public tion, who assured us that the return of President. by the most polite clerks in this city. festering sores, who are a disgrace to themselves and Hayes and the Cabinet was not owing to tlie speech suit the times. I the community at large. Wo are firmly convinced made by Conkling, but that our most popular mer- DR. J. LIVERPOOL, that there is neither any law nor authority which al- chant lias adTertised the fact that the finest carpets PROFESSOR H. MASSON'S evening classes of and oilcloths and lace curtains at unusually low WE ARE DETERMINED TO SELL CHEAPER | conversation in French will begin on the first of Oc- lows a set of brawlers to make the day hideous with their yells. If there is, we propose to test it. If there prices, as well as black silks of a quality and variety THE GREAT INDIAN HERB DOCTOR OF tober at his residence, 2113 Pennsylvania avenue, and that astonishes the public, could be purchased at the THAN EVER, AND IT WILL PAY TO will continue during the whole season. His French is any privilege existing in the city of Washington which allows these hungry buzzards the privilege of lowest prices. 1 do not mind, said his Excellency the classes at Miss Hilton's graduating class, on Vermont blocking the sidewalks ol the street, and feeding President, about the political matters of the country, SEE OUR STOCK. BALTIMORE, avenue, as also at Miss Ross' French seminary, New upon tho credulity of our country cousins, why is it but when Mrs. Hayes discovers an advertisement of York avenue, and at Miss Stephenson's female insti- that our merchants on tho Avenue and in the busi- W. W. Burdette & Co., we are compelled to hasten to 928 Seventh street, and allay the natural excitement Will be in his office, 711 SEVENTH STREET, every tute, Georgetown, will begin on the same day. ness circles of our city are compelled to keep their W. M. BROWN, WEDNESDAY, where he is prepared to treat all sidewalks clear? II our merch ants have no rights, we which is caused by the announcement that genuine bargains can be secured in Washington at unusually Chronic Diseases with roots, herbs and barks. Con- THE HILLMAN HOUSE, one square north advise them to get a broken down clerk and an auc- 814 Eighth street northwest, sultation free. tioneer's license, and then there will be no trouble. low prices. of the Capitol, formerly the residenoeof Washington, its Terras : Payable monthly as you take treatment. In our next issue we will give these P. F.'s another Main Office, 132 North Eutaw street, Haiti mure. having been enlarged, refitted and completely re- free advertisement. furnished throughout, and opened to the public, is WANTED. sep30-ly7 one of the most desirable locations for members of TEAS AND COFFEE Congress and all others having business at the capital. ANTED — A KOOM - MATE, hv a YOUNG As THE Baltimore fire department left MAN. Object—ECONOM < AND CONPAN- WILSON & CO., With a first-class table and splendid suites of rooms, it the Patent Officereach member was presented withja has become a great favorite with all. WIONSHIP. Address suit of winter clothes by our enterprising friend lt*5 HORACE, CAPITAL Office. Katzenstein. As we remonstrated with Sam. and told A WELL-KNOWN CHARACTER has gone to him that there were hungry reporters and naked ANTED—Old AMERICAN CENTS or HALF TEAS AND COFFEE ! that bourne whence no traveler returns—Cornelius printers, he replied : "I have on hand over a thousand CENTS. Persons having any of the above can Jankers & Brokers, Leonard was buried in Mt. Olivet on Thursday last suits of winter clothes lor fifteen dollars a suit, and If Wget the HIGHEST CASH PRICE by calling or ad- The deceased was well known to many ol the resi- there is a reporter, printer or editor who can't raise dressing THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, dents of Washington and respected as an honest, that amount of money I will cease to advertise." It sep30-ly5 D street, near 6th N. W. Dealers in Stock Privileges, U, S. faithful and industrious man. unfortunately he had is useless for us to remark that TBK CAPITAL office Bonds, Cotton arid Miscellan- the misfortune to misdirect his labors for many parties paid over three hundred dollars yesterday for those TEAS AND COFFEE ! who failed to reciprocate by paying for his work. The fifteen dollar suits. f OB SALI; OK KENT. eous St cavities9 <('c. result was that he died in such a financial condition that it was necessary for his friends to arrange for tlie Fi>R KENT, expenses of his funeral. His life was such that he IT IS about time that the summer should The jiveatm op} ortmiity erer before offered for has gone to a land where labor is unknown and tran- slide. invest men i. quil rest abounds. À Handsomely Furnished House of 13 Rooms, £1,000 made 17om investment ot $200 in £0 days. Smaller ¡tmounts invested will pay in proportion. in Fine Location, Investments, large or small, can be trebled in 30 BY THE contradictory character of the SPORTING MATTERS. MODERN IMPROVEMENTS, days. statements concerning the descent upon a party of Or will rent suites of rooms on first and second floors, We sell or purchase, as desired, five shares ot stocks Wasbingtonians by an Alexandria county posse, we and upward on margins of from one to two per cent. Base Ball. suitable tor members of Congress. were led to give a somewhat mistaken account of the ^-Letters of credit and drafts payable in any part affair. The posse consisted of but seven men, and the As WK predicted in the month of April, the Bostons Apply at 817 12th street, near New York ave. Iti of Europe and America, issued tor tlie convenience of partv captured are said to have been of a riotous char- have secured the championship, and the only thing JSTJOAIFl., travelers. acter. liiey were all fined and discharged at the time l'-ft on the part of the speculative clubs of the country OR KENT—A five-room and summer kitchen Full iii!orm;ition m 'on ;Vp) ;n-;tii >n. of their arrest, except one, who afterwards pleaded is to save their backers' money by securing the second Cottage, in a semi-rural and healthy location, guilty, and was released on a small fine. place. We have nothing but iriendly feelings for the Flilteen minutes walk from the Capitol. Water at the gentlemen who placed their money on the Hartfords, door, plenty of fruit and flowers and poultry yard. WILSON & CO., In making this correction, we still repeat that the Louisvilles and St. Louis, but we cannot refrain from Apply to MR. SHEL.TON, corner Twelith and E FLOUR, style of the arrest was much afterthe guerrillafashion issuing a triumphant chuckle over the result. If our streets southeast. Rent, $16. lt*3 So >i n Street 3V. W., H. Magruder and Henry P. Howard, under the firm stood some discipline would get to work on the fiery The juniors won by a score of 21 to 12. The ancients business. of Business, name of Magruder & Howard, is this day dissolved by couldn't get on to Bannon's charmers, and he gave Between Ninth and Tenth streets, Washington, D. C. mutual consent, John H. Magruder retiring. The tire department, had it been rightly managed, them the old-time drops, which they "corked" heavily, could have cut the conflagration in half. Instead, H. P. Howard is alone authorized to receipt for all and gave plenty of leg exercise to Dallas in left field. debts due the late firm, and has assumed the pay- however, of preventing the extension of the flames, it Fox showed that he had lost little in fielding, and Corner F and. 9th sts. followed them up. ment of all outstanding indebtedness against the with but little practice would be as good as the best. The house and furniture are new. Rooms aro ele- same. When the companies from the neighboring cities Alter "Billy" Williams weakened on the pitch Fox gant. Refreshments and eatables first class, at fair JOHN 11. MASltUDEK. arrived and tho marines got'to work, the destruction took his place and did effective work, and would do prices. HENRY P. HOWARD. began to pause. well to come out as a modern "curver." Coughlin did sep30-4t8 AUGUST KOCH, Proprietor. WASHISGTOIT, D. O., September 24,1S77. About three o'clock a large livery stable near by well, and the way he took the ball front and rear was was discovered to be in active process of conflagration. a caution. But the manner in which Joyce "cov- CARD. It Was entirely destroyed. This second fire wears the ered" first base and Williams second was the cream FOE l'AKTICULAKS SEE OUR NEXT. unmistakable ear-marks of incendiarism. It could by Mine. L. P. Jeanneret sêp30-tfl The undersigned begs leave to inform his friends of the game. TalK about your models for statu- and the customers of the late firm that he will continue no means have been induced by proximity to the ary in the way of athletes, Miller and Heugys- Of Baltimore wishes to let her Washington customers Patent Office. The tire therein was too busily en- know she the Grocery Business at the old stand, corner L and ter are nowhere. Whenever -you see a man Gloves! Gloves! Gloves! Seventh streets northwest, and respectlully solicits a gaged in making it pleasant for the Government to with suspenders around his waist to keep his WILL OPEN A CHOICE ASSORTMENT OF •bother about outsiders. share of their patronage. 11. P. HOWARD, breeches up, you may bet he means business. That its There was as much amusement in watching the was the business part ot "Billy's" get-up. Harry Mc- Tlie Best in tlie 'World tor Gentlemen's notables about the scene as there was interest in view- Lain took a hot liner very gracefully with his eyes French Bonnets and Round Hats ing the lire. shut—a feat never before performed on tho ball WEDNESDAY, OtTOBGR 3, 1877. Wear are tlie l>!t. LEON, Carl Schurz lost his head—see advertisement in ground. Cherry took a flyscientifically , with one 83 N. Charles street. sep30-tfS local papers—3Wore in German, wanted tho mounted knee on tho ground and the other ukimbo. Immedi- rpolicp to rido the crowds down, and said, "Gott for ately on the ball leaving the bat he took the above CITY MADE GLOVES The Oldest Established Spe- damn!" position in center field, and by some magic, similar to COKE DOWN TO 4 CENTS- Governor Shepherd climbed on the roof of the build- a black snake charming a bird, drew the ball into his —OF— cialist in the City, ing and watched the progress of the flames, as Marius hand and held it, as he said, "I have clutched thee; looked on the Carthagenian ruins. He thought of thou art mine!" amid cheers all along tho line. The