VOLUME IY. WASHINGTON CITY, D. 0., MARCH 29,1874. NUMBER 4.

SENATE, Wednesday, Mar«h 28.—Mr. Hamlin in- out, which were all that the subject Is capable of. that Messrs. E. V. Hermangc and James R. Brewer had THE CAPITAL, troduced a bill to amend the act to incorporate the LOCKWOOD, HUFTY & TAYLOR, «23 Pennsylvania One Is that the effect-of the bill will be to postpone formed a copartnership for conducting It in the future, avenue, have received, and will open to-morrow, many National Union Savings Bank of the District of Co- PUBLISHED WEEKLY the resumption of specie payments and settled values The New» Is daily improving, its circulation Is steadily novelties in fancy goods for ladles and gentlemen's BT THE lumbia. indefinitely; and the other is that the people de- on th« lucrease, and its value as an advertising medium wear. Ladles wishing fancy articles for the coming The first important matter under discussion was thus enhanced. CAPITAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, mand of Congress to perform just such a foolish Easter festivities can purchase them of this firm at very the finance bill, to provide for the redemption and thing, and so it must be done. CAPITAL BITS. reasonable prices. 027 D Street, Washington, D, C. reissue of United States notes, and for free banking. There was no vote had, and the Senate adjourned The Cathedral Is to have a new organ at a cost appro: The novelties just received comprise plain and fancy Mr. Schurz moved to amend the bill by fixing the imating $10,000. DOJiN PIATT Editor. HOUSE.—Mr. Nesmlth of Oregon, from the Com- collars and cuffs, ruffling and plaiting for the neck and maximum of United States notes at $356,000,000. W. A. Butter, Esq., aged thirty-six, one of the firm of mittee on Military Affairs, reported a bill directing sleeves; plain white, black and fancy bordered hand- TERMS.—!$2.50 per year in advance. This drew out a lengthy argument upon the financial Broslus & Co., died at the Maltby House on Monday kerchiefs, linen sleeves, chemlsetts, leather belts, silk the Secretary of War to ascertain the amount of ex- Clubs: Ten copies to one address, $20 in advance, with condition of the country. Mr. Schurz opposed the from paralysis. and velvet belting, belt-buckles, plain, black, fancy penses incurred by Oregon and California, in 187: one copy free. Twenty copies to one address, $33 in legalizing of any part of the $44,000,000 which had The next meeting of the national congress of the stick, and ornamental silk fans. Parasols lu all the and 1873, by reason of Indian disturbances, which Worklugmen's Union will be held in this city In July advance, with one copy free. been issued without authority of law. very latest styles, in colors and handles. They have passed. next. Eight hours a day's work will be the objective also their spring stock of their celebrated kid gloves In Mr. Bayard said that the road to specie payments Mr. Mitchell addressed the Hou.se in opposition to point. two and three buttons. OUR " Social Gossip," with all the latest scan- had to be traveled some time, but It certainly would inflation, and advocated the resumption of specie The " unbiased Judgment of posterity" will be more For gentlemen they have an elegant stock of spring da's, social fictions, facts and fancies, done by never be reached without contraction. payments. favorablq to tile memory of the late Charles Sumner ties and scarfs, and a very large assortment of suspen- Mr. Ferry made his usual declamation in favor of than to that of any member of tliecoramlttccon federal those female frauds known as the "Kit-cats," The discussion of the financial question took the ders. Their stock of fancy Percale and Zephyr cloth expansion. relations of the State legislature. can be found on our second page. remainder of the day, and at half-past four the house shirtings is complete, with all the novel and new de- The ladles' tea party will be held at the Masonic Tem- Mr. Frellnghuysen undertook to show that the took a recess. signs of their own direct importation. They manufac- On our third page will be found a sketch of $44,000,000 was a reserve, and not a cancellation of ple on Friday, April 10. An address by S. Wallls, esq., ture the Palmer patent double yoke shirts, which are Mrs. John B. Eaton, tinder the title of "A 'Won- notes. He was not, however, very conclusive in his music by the "Old Folks," and slnglug by the Lelder celebrated for their perfect lit. derful 'Woman." arguments or positive in his statements. kranz will be prominent features. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. The new building of the Peabody Institute, which the BROWN'S YOUNG MAN says, "Wouldn't the ladles go Mrs. Dahlgren'a beautiful and graceful "South Mr. Scott gave out some of his peculiar financial trustees will csmmence the erection of lu a few weeks, wild over those loves of bonnets at Mills', 425 Ninth Sea Sketches," as continued, are on the sixth views, in which he said he came to the conclusion will cost $300,000. It will contain a library with a ca- street. that the only proper currency was one based on the SPECIALS FROM HAXTIMOHK. page. pacity of fifty thousand volumes, also a reading-room. TEEL.—The man who hails you Torn or Jack, and The Baltimore letter is on the seventh page. national faith. We always supposed that currency The old building will be used as an academy of music proves by clapping on your buck his sense of your was based upon something more tangible than all TltOUBLB AMONG THE " MBTI10DIE8." aud gallery of art. BALTIMORE, March 18—Rev. J. H. Liglitbourn has great merit, Is such a friend as one had need have very that, as, for Instance, gold; but then one mnst live About $262,000 have been so far expended In the build been pastor of the Charles-street Methodist Episcopal much, his friend Indeed, to pardon or to bear it. The and learn; and where can a young man go in search lug of the new Academy of Music, on Howard street. foregoing is, wo believe, a poetical quotation. But If CHRONICLES OP CONGRESS. church fer the past two years. His ministerial efforts For furniture, scenery and interior decoration it will of wisdon with better assurance of finding it than to have not proved as successfnl as they might have done, such a man, no matter whether he halls you Tom or the United States Senate f The discussion of this take $120,000 more. The board of managers have applied Jack or not, proves his sense of your great merit by SENATE, Monday, March S3.—After prayers, me- and he was not much of a favorite to speak of with the to the legislature for a special act authorizing the Issue bill took up the balance of the day. clapping on your buck a garment bought of Teel, why morials and petitions, among which were some from congregation. Accordingly, at the late M. E. eonference of bonds to raise the latter sum. Opinions widely differ It was Intimated that a cliangc would be very accept- then there Is no difficulty about having the aforesaid the leading business men of the country, for and HOUSE—The House continned the discussion of as to the ultimate success of the new cutcrprlse. able. The conference, acting on the suggestion, ap- man very much your friend indeed to pardon or to bear against the inflation of the corrancy, the unfin- the transportation bill. Mr. Dunnell of Maine having it. There is nothing more easy, and you are sure of a pointed a new minister for Charles street, and gave Mr. The Railroad Strike. ished business, which was the bill to equalize the the floor in its advooacy. After the conclusion of his Liglitbourn a charge In Cumberland, Maryland. There- perfect flt and looking every Inch a gentleman. We distribution of the currency, was taken up. * speech the Houso adjourned until 12 o'clock, when it SUSQUEHANNA DEPOT, PENNSYLVANIA, March 28.- would call attention to his excellent stock on hand of upon Light, became very indignant, and said he would An excited meeting has Just been held by the strikers Mr. Morton said that there is only $150,000,000 in was called to order again. sooner go to.tlie " bourne from which no traveler re- gentlemen'« wear of every style and quality. W. S. here. They arc firm and united, and will allow no train Teel, 935 Pennsylvania avenue. •coin, according to the highest estimates, in the On motion of Mr. Dawes, the Committee on Bank- turns" tha ii to Cumberland. He Also made some very to pass, nor any business to be done until all railway country, and thai to resume and maintain specie ing and Currency was directed to Inquire into the unchristian-like remarks about the stewards and other companies aecede to the demands. District Attorney WE HAVE lived so long, and met with so many of the expediency of having United States notes and securi- officers of the church. These gentlemen embrace several payment* there should be at least $400,000,000, and Carmalt of tills county made an address to the strikers, ups and downs in this wicked world, that we arc seldom made an argument in favor of inflation in his usual ties printed in parts and at different places, in order prominent citizens. They appointed a committee to assuring them of his sympathy, and telling the men wait upon Mr. Liglitbourn and request him to give an surprised at anything, but we must confess our great style, and was replied to by Senator Schurz, who to afford greater protection against forgery, 4c. they were not breaking the laws. The company have explanation. When they called at the parsonage the surprise at finding, one day last week, a dry goods store characterized the argument as preposterous and not The mining bill from the Senate came up and pro- but two alternatives—either to accede to all the de- In our city with a stock of goods valued at $400,000, com- man of prayer most positively refused to see them. His mands of the men,*or send for the military. worth the time necessary to answer him. voked some dlscnssion. conduct has been the theme of conversation among his prising the very best of every article known to the dry ' Speeches were made by Senators Wright, Bayard, Mr. Sutro, a gentleman of Hebrew descent, it was Intense excitement prevails, and Sheriff Helene is goods trade, employing eighty clerks, all of whom are late parishioners, and they arc not at all envious of the powerless, his posse all sympathizing with the strikers. Oonkling and Sherman; but no vote was reached. claimed, had vested rights In a tunnel somewhere, polite and attentive. We refer to the enterprising firm good people of Cumberland. One of the stewards re- i/ATin.—The strikers have raised the blockade of the HOUSE.—After prayers and the regular Monday's which'vested rights would be jeopardized by the commended that the following, from the third verse, of Lansburg & Brother, 404 and 400 Seventh street. passenger trains, but still refuse to allow any freight to These gentlemen guarantee every article sold in their -supply of tubs which members throw to their con- passage of the bill. The vested rights of Mr. Sutro sixth chapter of Galatlans, be engrossed on parchment pass. The company will commence paying at once. establishment, and If satisfaction is not given the money In his excavation, be the same more or less, had to be and presented to Mr. Llghtbourn as a parting gift: stituents, in the .shape of petitions and memorials, is refunded. We hope our citizens will not fall to call "For if a man think himself to be something when he New York Items. had been, with all due solemnity, launched into respected. Mr. Negley of Pennsylvania seemed to and examine this stock, and we assure them they cannot Is nothing, he deceivetli himself." NEW YORK, March 28.—John P. Atkinson, a street eternity, the dreadful bill providing for an expansion be the next friend of said Sutro, and was pathetic find a better or more elegant assortment, not even in broker and discharged custom-house officer, has been of the currency came up for a hearing. This, for and indignant by tnrns. He charged that Senator There lias also been a little breeze at the East Balti- New York. arrested on the charge of attempting to rob special agent many a long week, has been the terrible ghost in the Sarg'ent had framed the bill for the express purpose more Methodist Episcopal church, corner Alsqulth and Fayette. Rev. J. T. Murray has had charge of this eon B. G. Jayne. Jayne asserts that tills Is the third attempt •oloset of ambitious congressmen, and we imagine of burying Sutro in his own excavation, and that a THE GREAT bankrupt sale of dry goods by Messrs. gregatlon for four years, and was greatly beloved by his Atkinson has made on his life, and gives In explanation large sum, to wit, $250,000, had been subscribed to Greeu Jk Williams,corner of D and Pennsylvania avenue« that many a one would be glad next fall to say to it: Iflock. By reason of the laws of itineracy prevailing in that he caused Ills dismissal from the custom-house four 41 seems to be the all absorbing topic of the day; the sales Shake not thy gory locks at me; thou canst not defray the funeral expenses of said Sutro. Mr. Neg- the Methodist church, a minister cannot remain at the years ago. Atkinson says he only sought tcfdefend him- during the past week have been immense, the store be- say I did itbut the people's elect, by a vote of 108 ley did not tell us how he got at the precise sum, but same church for a period longer than four years. self from an assault by Jayne, seizing his uplifted cane ing thronged from early morning until late at night. to 77, agreed to legalize the fraudulent issue of the we presume that It Is correctly stated. So, Mr. Murray had to go. Dr. Reese, president of the and threatening to stab if it was used, and that the The goods are all of the finest quality and newest styles. preceding conference, aged about seventy years, was whole affair grew out of a demand by him for the pay- $44,000,000 of currency, which our little Richardson, The bill as amended was passed; so this valuable Consequently all those desirous of purchasing dry goods appointed in his place. The appointment gave the men^cf $35,000 Informers' fees lu the "Weed revenue ease In the goodness of his heart, threw into the breach Hebrew will not have a christian burial for the pres- will do well to call and examine this large stock. Spe- of our financial troubles during onr late panic, and sent, although his grave is dug. greatest dissatisfaction, as the dearly beloved brethren at Boston, which Jayne .has rosolutely refused to pay, denying the validity of the claim. cial accomodation provided for the ladies. without any authority therefor. There has been The transportation bill then came np and oecnpied and sisters of Alsqulth street said Dr. Reese was entirely too old and feeble, and they wanted a younger and more N THESE degenerate days of crusading and temper- quite a number of men under pressure of financial the remainder of the time until the House adjourned. The Social Evil. energetic man. Dr. Reese gave notice that he would ance excitement we never hear anything said against embarrassment, who have performed this same trick SENATE, Thursday, March27,—The Chair Dotifled ST. LOUIS, March S3.—The social evil question, which jpreach his first sermon at Alsqulth street on Sunday the Old Monogram House, corner of Thirteenth and E upon the currency of the country, but in each in- has exslted great Interest In tills city during the past the members that hereafter no remarks would be al- last, and requested to be given possession of the parson- streets, for the simple reason, we suppose, that it is winter, and has been the subject of much contention In stance, when discovered in so doing, have been re- lowed upon the introduction of petitions and me- age. An Indignation meeting was held by members kept in commendable style and the liquors dispensed the legislature, has been finally settled. At a ulglit ses- quested to answer some disagreeable conundrnms morials. of the congregation, and it was determined that Dr. are of the purest, oldest, and best brands, while the sion of the house last night a bill repealing the regulat- to the courts, a failure to do which has 'subjected Mr. Johnston introduced petitions of Charles M. Reese should not be admitted to the parsonage nor table is unsurpassed. ing clause of the city charter was passed, and then the them to various intervals of withdrawal from the Fauntleroy and Fitzhugh Lee for the removal of po- allowed to preach In the church. The opposition was bill which passed the senate Tuesday, which retains the OUR FRIEND and standby, John Markriter, is now re- active business operations of commerce to certain litical disabilities. so determined that Dr. Reese came to the sensible con- present hospital and reformatory, and prevents the ceiving his spring stock of wall-papering, and a more Government resorts, vclept penitentiaries. Mr. West's bill appropriating $30,000 for the im- clusion that It would not be advisable to press his claims, and remained away. The pulpit was filled by a stranger raiding of bawdy-houses, was adopted by a large ma- legant assortment has never been brought to this city. But we think we comprehend fully now the true provement of the mouth of the Mississippi passed. last Sunday, and though the sermon was a very poor jority. ' We hope our citizens will call and examine Mr. M.'s policy of financial relief, which may be brought The bill for the redemption and reissue of green- one, the congregation having gained their point, were stock. They cannot do better or find a greater variety about without further resort to the Government backs and for free banking was then taken np, and happy. It is said a new minister will be given them. in any establishment south of New York. Mr. Markri- Printing Office, and by which our Richardson and Mr. Scott proceeded to enlighten the Senate upon These two little incidents In the religious affairs of LOCAL ITEMS. ter Is a.connoissuer in his business, and has given his his admirable financial compeers may be relieved the different kinds of currency that there is in circu- Baltimore have been the subject of much comment personal attention to the selection of his goods. from their temporary embarrassment. Let Congress lation. during the past few days. Tunco-Russiau Baths, eoi E street. A. T. WHITING, 924 Pennsylvania avenue, is now re- pass an act legalizing the issue of the rest of the Mr. Hamilton of Maryland, in reply, said that he FORD'S GRAND OPERA IIOUSK. finishing hats and bonnets In all the leading styles. counterfeit money in circulation, or reserve. Of hoped that the Senate 'would do something or come Miss Kate Putnam and her talented comedy company BROWNINGS BITTERS will cure dyspepsia, Indi- Mrs. Whiting will have an opening of pattern hats and conrae the Government won't be expected to redeem to some conclusion on the financial question. will be the attractions at Ford's next week, and judging gestion, and constipation. For sale by the druggists. bonnets Friday, April 3. it; but that makes no difference as long as confidence Mr. Morrill of Vermont said that It was ridiculous from the success which has attended them In other HEAL LACES at cost at Mills', 425 Klntli street. NOBBY little dresses at Mills', Ninth street. is thus, by law, restored, and a currency viith an to suppose that the country is too poor to resnme cities they will prove a "big" card for Manager Ford. elastic feature established. specie payments. Several delightful comedies will be produced, among HA VE you seen the largest and finest soda and mineral- DAN. O'BRIEN, opposite the Baltimore and Ohio de- The House refused to allow au amendment to the There was a lengthy discussion upon the proposi- them a dramatization of Dickens' "Old Curiosity Shop."! water fountain In the world at Ebbitt House drug store ? pot, Is in receipt of a large Invoice of Massey's Phila- In the dual character of Little Nell and the Marchioness legislative appropriation bill, that after December 1, tion to fix the amount of currency at $400,000,000, delphia ale. His table is unsurpassed. Miss Putnam is said to be a formidable rival to Lotta. HEADQUARTERS in Washington for corsets at Doug- 1973, senators, representatives and delegates shall and resulted in the passage of Mr. Wright's amend- Dick Sniveller, Quilp, and the other characters will be lass', Ninth and F streets, under St. Cloud Hotel. Fifty GENTLEMEN can get the best "hair cut" in Washing- only be paid actual, traveling expenses In going to ment to that effect. ably sustained by the members of the troupe. The com- styles, and any style made to order. ton at Wilson's, 802 E street. No one who has ever tried and returning from Congress, and that they shall be The dlscnssion of this bill occupied the whole of pany Is a first-class one In every particular, and will, no Wilson will go anywhere else. paid only once for each session. the day until adjournment. doubt, fill the Opera House every evening during the CONSUMERS should use from one-fourth to one-half OUR friend* of the Cottage market, Geo. W. Huntley A resolution regulating the telegraph wires, which HOUSE.—the first thing of importance in the House coming week. less of Dooley's than of other yeast or baking powders. & Co., are excelling all others in their particular branch to-day was the bill for the regulation of transporta- GILBERT VS. DICKENS. It Is put up full weight. have lately manifested a disposition to break, was of business, not only In supplying their customers with passed; after which the House adjourned. tion between the States, which passed by a vote of "When will the self-appointed and self-sufficient Icono- TIIE celebrated Edinburg ale is for sale at W. H. Ott- clasts have done, and let the great novelist rest peace- the best fruits and vegetables that the soil of every SEXATE, Tuesday, March 24.—Mr. West pre- 121 to 116. man's, 1203 Pennsylvania avenue. country produces, but they have made the animal king- sented a memorial from the Grangers of Louisiana, The Senate amendments to the fortification bill fully in his grave ? Rev. Alfred N. Gilbert of the Chris- tian church, this city, delivered a sermon last Sunday, PROF. PROCTOR'S lectures, In pamphlet, revised by dom of every clime subservient to their demands in asking for an increase of the duty on sugar. were also passed. taking for his subject the unfortunate marital relations himself, each containing six lectures, can be had at furnishing the citizens of Washington with all the deli- Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Finance, re- Mr. Butler presented the credentials of P. B. S. of Charles Pickens. No one will deny that the noble Brad. Adams', for 25 cents each. cacies and substantial of the season. Such enterprise, ported adversely to the bill allowing the Citizens' Pinchback, which had the autograph of Governor works of the latter have exerted and still exert a power- we are glad to know, is appreciated and patronized by National Bank of Hagerstown, Maryland, to change Kellogg, certifying that Pinchback is a duly-elected ful Influence for good wherever they are read, Then, LIBRARY AT AUCTION.—Latimer & Cleary, auction- our best citizens. Sec their advertisement in another Its location to Washington. member of Congress. why seek to destroy or diminish that influence by hold- eers, begin their sale of books on Monday (to-morrow) column. evening. It Is a splendid collection, comprising many On motion of Mr. Sherman the currency bill was ing up their author to the gaze of the world as little less The American Bible Society wanted the use of rare and valuable works. (SUMMER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.—We call attention to then taken up. He said there are three propositions the hall of the House to hold their anniversary in on than a monster.? It 16 very hard to see what good all the advertisement of the Medical Department of George- before the Senate, as follows: First, coming from May 17,1874, which was granted. this moralizing and sermonizing will do. Surely it will WILL ACT WISELY.—'They who, on the 1st of April, town College. Its summer course will commence April those who desire specie resumption; second, those Mr. Garfield wanted to fix a time for the settle- not in the least benefit Mrs. Dickens. How would Mr. enter upon the practical course of instruction and 1, at 6 p. m. At that hour an Introductory will be deliv- Gilbert Or Mr. Foster, the biographer of Dickens, like to who want expansion of the currency; and third, ment of the financial question; that the whole busi- training at the Washington Business College, will act ered by Prof. Noble Young, president of the faculty, at see their family affairs thus publicly exposed ? "Would v those who want to do what is best in the interest of wisely and reap the benefit. the college building, corner Tenth and E streets north- ness of the country will remain unsettled until Con- It elevate them any In the estimation of their fellow- business, but at the same time think that steps gress shall take action. west. We understand that a dally quiz, or examination, men ? All these zealous and ardent devotees to icono- ANOTHER WITNESS.—Mr. Curry would like to have will constitute one of the chief features of the session. should be taken in the direction of resnmption of all who are Interested call at his shop, 805 Fourteenth Mr. Maynard got the floor on the bill providing for clasm have one great advantage—Dickens Is dead. Tills system of teaching, united to the ability of the fac- specie payments. That the committee had fixed the street northwest, Monday morning, or as soon thereaf- national currency and free banking. He said that THE ROSE-JAMES TRIAL. ulty, must make the school a great success. amount of currency at $382,000,000, because that Is he had a great deal of hesitation in approaching the The case of Charles Rose, charged with having com- ter as possible, and hear what-he has to say about paint- ing in the spring season. the amount now out, but he hoped that it would be subject, but he thought that the bill now reported mitted a rape upon Miss Sarah E. James on July 24, WE CALL the attention of the public to the advertise- soon convenient to return to the $356,000,000 basis. would furnish the relief the country requires. 1873, occupied the time of the criminal court for four SPRING STYLES.—Those in search of all the latest Im- ment of L. E. Valentine, clothier, corner Seventh aud He said that he thought the United States ought to Mr. Durham of Kentucky said that, as a member days this week, commencing on Monday and conclud- proved and attractive styles of boots and shoes would do E streets. Mr. V. lias just finished repairing his store, receive these notes for customs, which is forbidden of the Committee on Banking and Currency, he had ing on Thursday with a verdict of guilty. The testi- well to examine the stock of H. Burns & Co., 903 Penn- and stocked it with an elegant and superior line of by the act of 1862. agreed to report the bill, but that there were some mony was of the most prurient and sickening character, sylvania avenue, before purchasing elsewhere. They cloths and casslmeres, which he is prepared to make up and was eagerly listened to by the hundreds of morbidly Mr. Thurman referred to a comment in a recent features of it which he should oppose. have a most complete stock of children's shoes, and in the latest styles at short notice and popular prices. curious people .who daily packed the courts-room, ves- Persons desiring handsome and neatly fitting suits speech of Mr. Ferry of Michigan, criticising his Mr. Cox offered an amendment, in which be pro- their prices are reasonable. tibule and corridors to suffocation. No sympathy was should give Mr. V. a call. silence during the financial discussion, and accusing posed that each one dollar greenback shall be a legal expressed for the prisoner, and now that he has been WE TAKE pleasure in calling attention to the charity him of dodging votes. He denied all this, and said tender for three dollars, and the other denominations convicted, it is to be hoped that he will get the full ex- ball for the benefit of the Children's Hospital. It Is to WE HOPE our citizens will bear in mind that the an- that he was too old-fashioned a Democrat to favor in proportion. This proposition, however, did not tent of the law. Some three years ago this same Rose be hoped that this admirable charity will receive a sub- nual ball for the benefit of the Children's Hospital embarking on a career of financial inflation which meet with sufficient encouragement to beeome a law. was arrested on the charge of having deliberately and stantial benefit. The ball Is under the management of takes place at Masonic Temple, Tuesday evening, April meant no resnmption at all. Pending further discussion the House adjourned. without provocation murdered a colored man. The our best people. 7. Se^advertisement. Mr. Ferry, in reply, said that he was glad that he affray occurred in the Marsh market, and the circum- SEJIAT», Friday, March 27.—The joint resolution IT IS a perfectly well-settled fact amongst the best had thus drawn the senator out. of the Wisconsin legislature, in &ivor of the speedy stantial evidenee was so strong and conclusive that no THE Senate House restaurant, 405 Eleventh street, has doubt was entertained of his conviction, A criminal Judges of wines and whiskies that Messrs. Welcker & recently been refitted and refurnished by our enterpris- Pending further discussion the Senate adjourned. completion of the Niagara ship canal, was referred Hagerty, Fifteenth street, opposite the Treasury, are in court jury acquitted, hi jn, however, and hid-acqulttal may ing friend, John O'Leary, and it is now one of the hand- HOUSE.—A number of members of the House to the Committee on Commerce. 1 possession of the oldest and finest brands, not only In the be safely credited to three things—his father's money, somest, as well as the most convenient, restaurants in called attention to the fact that in the pnbiie&tlon of city, but in the country. They are always glad towel- Mr. Gordon called up the bill for the removal of our city. His bar is stocked with the finest liquors, and political influence, and the fact that his victim was a come their friends. the names of the vote on the fonr hundred million political disabilities from Thomas Henderson of negro. Had Charles Rose received simple justice then, the table always supplied with the best the market bill their names had been omitted, and, as they de- Georgia, which passed; as did also the bill for the there would never have arisen any necessity for the J. C. PARKER, bookseller and stationer, No. 527 Sev- affords. sired to go down to posterity with a clear financial same pnrp.se in respect to William L. Cabal of disgusting trial just finished. In his threats to the poor enth street, Is every day in receipt of the latest publica- SAMUEL C. PALMER, of Georgetown, is supplying the record, they wished to get on the roll in the affirma- Texas; alter which the unfinished business, being young lady, when she was resisting him, he said he had tions of books, periodicals, and serials. He also keeps trade with the best mineral water, and also furnishing tive, all of which was done. the bill for the redemption and reissue of United killed a nigger once, and would treat her in the same one of the largest assortments of fancy goods in his line manner if she did not accede to his wishes. The pen- sheet block-tin lined steel fountains. Mr. Palmer's The House then resumed the consideration of the States notes, and for free banking, was taken'np. to be found In the country. Mr. Parker has the custom establishment is the headquarters for mineral waters Georgia contested election—Rawls against Sloan. alty for this last offense is Imprisonment varying from of the best people In the city, which is proof x>f excel- Mr. Morrill's amendment, which provides that no eighteen months to twenty-one years, or death, at the aud malt liquors. See his advertisement. Mr. Blount addressed the House in favor of the re- lence of Ills goods and his commercial popularity. part of the additional issue shall be used In the pur- discretion of the court. port of the committee, and Mr. Pike in opposition; PERSONS desiring comfortable furnished rooms, chase of United States bonds, or for the enrrent ex- GRAND SALE OF VILLA AND GARDENJSITES.—Lati- after which the contestant, Sloan, made a state- IBMPEItAXCE. ' pleasantly situated, should call at 940 E street northwest. penses of the Government, was first considered, and The demonstration made in the hall of the house at mer & Cleary will sell, about the, middle of April, for See advertisement in another oolumn. ment. The majority report was then adopted. Mr. Mr. Logan discovered that it was a dose of cold Annapolis, on Wednesday, by the party of ladles and Alexander Henderson, about three hundred acres of Rawls, the sitting member, was ousted from his poison to the bill, and so opposed it in a manner gentlemen from Baltimore was inopportune, impolitic land lying between Washington and Alexandria, which THE best ale In the world is RobertYounger's, on seat, and Mr. Sloan sworn in. termed by Mr. Schurz as impolite and bullying. and utterly failed In its object. In fact the »embers will be subdivided in lots to suit all parties. A station draught at W. H. Ottman's, 1203 Pennsylvania avenue. will be built on the ground by the railroad company. The consideration of the transportation bill was The discussion became rather personal between were so disgusted at the abrupt and unceremonious man- WE ARE aware that there are many grocery stores In Great Inducements will be offered to purchasers. then resumed. Senators Morrill, Logan and Schurz, with a disposi- ner ia which the business of the house was Interrupted the city of Washington, but that of Mr. John Dowling, Mr. Willard of Vermont argued that it Is impos- tion on the part of Logan to forget the finances of that If, on reassembling, a new local option bill had been HAMBURGS as low as the lowest at Mills', 425 Ninth corner Seventh and I streets, is one of the most popular sible to fix uniform rates of freight. He warned the the country for the time being and start a little prize- presented, it would hardly have received a single favor- Street. • in the city. The reason is patent: first, he is well House that in attempting to pass this bill they were able vote. Why did not these temperance advocates known; second, his stock is complete and of the best fight on the floor of the Senate chamber, but not THE ladies will be pleased and Interested to learn of treading upon dangerous ground and entering upon visit the capital while the liquor dealers were holding quality; third, he sells at the lowest possible living finding any one willing to tread on his coat-tail, he high court at the Maryland House previous to the pas- Mrs. C. King's opening of spring millinery, at 922 Penn- an interminable path. He went out of his way to rates. Our readers will consult their interests in giving finally subsided. sage of the bill ? sylvania avenue. See advertisement. compliment Governor Kemper on his veto of the him a call. " . The discussion continued some time longer, but THE BVEXIXG NEWS. Petersburg charter. His remarks occupied the re- THOSE in need of an excellent quality of whisky will W. H. OTTMAN'S, 1203 Pennsylvania avenue, is the nothing new was elicited; and there seems to have This sprightly and newsy Journal came out in new find It at Dan. O'Brien's, opposite Baltimore and Ohio mainder of the day until adjournment. only place In Washington where Robert Younger'» been but two views, and substantial views, brought type on Monday last, and also with the announcement depot. Edinburg ale can be gotten. 2 THE CAPITAL.—M'ARCHI 29,1874.

For TUB CAPITAL. would have succeeded probably but for two obsta- of the Home have to be clothed ; young ladies be- THE ANCIENT BAGMAN. cles : one was old Catacazy himself, who was furi- FOE SALE OE KENT. longing to the Ladies' Aid Society do this good work DEY GOODS. ETO, ously jealous all the time, and the other was Ban- He Is an ancient negro, which his name, I think, is bravely, meeting weekly, and working with most OB SALE OB KENT. Jones; croft Davis, who represented the English interest. gteadfast industry, making- garments for the oldF His profession Is promiscuous, picking paper, rags and Bancroft Davis succeeded in getting a little French OPENING OF SPRING women and children. But so many to provide for The very desirable residence and grounds adjoining bones. woman into Catacazy's house to watch the Russian needs much money; the ladies give not from their the reservoir on Georgetown Heights, formerly occu- And his voice is bass and solemn, and his cry Is sad to minister. Catacazy employed her to watch his wife. purse alone, but also of their time, and so have pied by President Grant and now by J. Harris Gastrell, hear, General Butler hired her to watch all parties; of the British Legation. nearly paid for the Home; one more payment is For be seems to howl In anguish, this cuff/ chlffonlere. that between acting the spy all around and carrying IMPORTED MILLINERY, nearly due. To-throw aside this last burden'., The house is large, furnished with all the modern Upon his massive shoulders hang two%ery dirty bags, notes and bouquets, the little black-eyed woman had A go-cart goes in front, laden down wltli dirty rags. debt, and so extend their usefulness, they have de- improvements, and is suitable for entertaining; the as mnch as she could do, and made a great deal of Dirt seems bis primest object, and 1 think all skcptlcs termined, after the manner of other cities, to givo a grounds are handsomely ornamented with fine slirub- money. How It would have all ended nobody knows, hery and evergreens; the situation Is unsurpassed by must . . Martha Washington tea party on the evening of the had it not been for a mysterious note that miscar- any in the District, having splendid view of the whole Admit that this one darkey was moulded out of dust. fifteenth and sixteenth of April, at Masonic Hall. ried and fell into the hands of Mrs. Fish. Mrs. city, river and surrounding country. The grounds are I should judge from his exterior he was portioned out Over a hundred young ladles, with the beauty of by fate, Fish felt indignant, and an explanation occurred very large, containing nearly ninety thousand square THFESDAY March 26. youth in their faces, and charity and good will in feet. The property will be sold on easy terms or rented DEAIÎ MADAM: YOU arc respectfully invited to at- A peripatetic sample of colored real estate. that ended in the recall of the Catacazys. their desires, are to preside at thé tea urns, arrayed to a first-class tenant. He begins Ills business early, ever In the self-same strain, B. Y. M. Did this appear in Catacazy's book 1 And throughout be sticks unto It as behooves a son of Mrs. Switchem. Of course not. Oatacazy wrote in the costumej of their great-greaf-great-grand- Possession given May 1. Apply to Cain. mothers. Quaint and odd ; a picture of the eighteenth his verson of the affair, and the consequence was, T. L. HUME, "When the summer moon is golden with the glory of the there was not a word of truth in the book. century; not so long ago; but, mark you, near one FRENCH BONNETS AND IIATS, sun. hundred years, the time when our revered ancestors mar 23 Of Hall & Hume, grocers, 807 Pa. av Mrs. Straws. But you haven't heard of the latest And the city's busy traffic begins to be begun, began to know that *they were making history nnd State complication. I7OK RENT. He pushes on that hand-cart and he modulates Ills founding a race that should lead the van in the free- Mrs. Switchem. What about ? * shouts, dom of the world. In the pretty faces of our mimic Pleasant Furnished Booms, cn suite or^iugle. LATEST NOVELTIES OF THE SEASON IN MILLI- Mrs. Straws. Why the attempt to put that man Starting up the drowsy sleeper from his matutinal grandmamas you shall see again repeated the bright, NERY AND FANCY GOODS, AT Pinchback in the Senate. mar22-2t a« E street northwest. coach. sweet smile that many a brave soldier of freedom When the vesper star of lovers blushes In the Occident, Miss Whifflt. Oh! that negro. carried away enshrined in the dearest memory of his -po E SALE. And the luster of rich Hesper purples all the Orient, Mrs. Straws. Well, my dear, negro or no negro, he heart, even on the field where the battle raged Back the fragrant go-cart cometli, with sweet cargo was not only coming into the Senate, but into society. MRS. A. O, GASTON, fiercest. For the type of life and being are repeated from.lts route; All. Good gracious! and what did Mrs. Fish say ? over and over again. None knows better than Dr. about An odor hangs around It like Sabaen breezes. Just about. Mrs. Switchem. She shook her head, and said " is Wash] Watnins, the zealous, faithful pastor, how much the Washington city. A delightful residence, with the m«rg2-tf NEW STOBE, No. C2? p STREET. "When the roaring lion Winter his frozen visage shows, It possible?" church and state owe to-day to its women, and none modern improvements and conveniences, with from five And the scowling, white-eyed monster wraps the earth Miss Whifflt. But come, tell us about it. to fifty acres of land, as desired. For circular and pho- will consider with greater reverence the noble exam- tograph address. GREAT BARGAINS IN in slushy snows, Mrs. Straws. Why this man Pinchback is not only ! To his precincts hies our hero, nothing daunted by the ple of the women of the Revolution. J. K. TAYLOR, an Impudent fellow, but he is very rich. He stole cold, Hamilton, Loudoun county, Va. BLACK SILKS, barrels of money in Louisiana, and was going to And Ills shrieks are somewhat harsher, and his howls buy the Brlsted house, with all the beautiful furni- Efieots of the $400,000,000 on Brown's INSUEANOE. are still more bold. Young Man. MOHAIRS, Unto him the same all seasons, let It hail, or snow, or ture and exquisite works of art, and was going to We have never known a keener intellect, a more rain, entertain. Charles Sumner was in it, and Downing, INSURE YOUR, accurate observer of causes and effect upon the gen- He rattles on his wagon, and lie shouts the same refrain. with a number of colored wretches, had conspired CASSIMERES, And the "bones, rags, bones, rags," ringing through with all the servants in town, and they were solemnly eral topics of the day than has lately been exhibited the distance falls upon sworn to leave any house in a body when the mistress by Brown's Young Man. PROPERTY, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND ALPACAS, My spirit like theburden of an old memorial song refused to recognize Mrs. Pinchback as her equal. We have always known that inmatters appertain- And I turn mo in the blankets and I shudder at the All. What Impudence. ing to society he was unequaled, but not until to-day thought have we been aware that in matters of finance he is MERCHANDISE Of my toilet in my bed-room and the temperature at o. Mrs. Straws. This was not the worst, for all the a keen observer. leading Republicans said that when the question PARASOLS, AT Springtime comes and winter lingers, but that nigger While occupied in proof-reading, and just before WITH lingers ne'er, was fairly put they would have to submltor lose the negro vote. Mr. Sumnerjpointed to them the signifi- going to press, he entered the office and seemed JOHSISIW A- COLIET, A demon whose sole object is to cross good men to elated beyond his usual spirits, and upon inquiring swear, cant fact that a loss of the negro vote would lose as to the cause of his high glee, we asked him If the •. -, -. . ?ll Market Space. And the little children shouting," What you feed your them a majority in the Senate. You may be sure, "William Dickson, President was sick, (B. Y. M. don't admire Grant.) wife on, Jones V" dears, there was a lively time in senatorial, judicial MERCHANT TAIL0ES. And the dismal darkey answers, " Paper, iron, rags and and diplomatic circles. The ladies flew about night He replied, " No, not that, but I am delighted at the action our Congress has taken upon the financial bones." and day. AGENT FOR THE SPRING OPENING OF condition of the country." So the seasons slip succeeding, and the month swells to Mrs. Ippequack. And what did Mrs. Fish say ? .the year, If we had been struck by lightning, or had we Mrs. Straws. Nothing, my dear; but you should Folks are born, and married, burled, appear and disap- heard from reliable authority that Corcoran and NEW GOODS AT TEEL'S, have seen her face. Well, they appealed to the Presi- pear. Riggs had settled their tax bills, we might have had Fire Association of Philadelphia, dent, and he said nothing Jand didn't look much. But that one perpetual monster all Impervious to decay, some little self-posses6lon left, but to hear B Y. M. They tried Mr. Morton, who was working for the 935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. Hacks our system with fresh tortures and renews them; praising congressional action upon our flnanees, it wretch, and he told them he did not know much ONE OF THE OLDEST AND MOST RELIABLE day by day. did seem to us so very, very strange. However, we about good society, never having seen any, but that I will open to-morrow, Monday, March 23, a complete Of mathematics I know little, but full often havel tried decided upon further inquiry, when he explained INSURANCE COMPANIES IN THE dIreCt To calculate his nuisance by sine, cosine, angle side. the negro vote was necessary to the Republican ^-'tatlonS? that his finances always ran low towards the close Thus every yell a wretched nuisance, and if his yells party, and if the issue was fairly made It would have COUNTRY. of the month, and he had unsuccessfully made an were bricks to be accepted. attempt to borrow, until to-day, when, on meeting a ENGLISH WORSTED COATINGS, fie could pave the streets of London, build a bridge Miss Swlgget. The mean wretch. personal friend, he had been able to procure the loan across the Styx. Mrs. Straws. The thing would have been done but] ENGLISH SUITINGS, of a quarter till the first of the month, and he was Better If his howls were prayers and he was wont to pray, for a dreadful discovery. It was found that the ser- CAPITAI, - 9500,000 00 ENGLISH TROUSERINGS, •convinced that his success was mainly due to the He could give the women ten to one and beat them any vants of the families of senators, Supreme Court and And many choice weaves in Scotch Suitings. day. late congressional action. ASSETS, January, 187-1 3,601,053 43 diplomatic corps were purchasing large quantities So for vears tills colored nuisance rehearsed tills taunting of a "sure shot for rats," and it was found that SURPEUS. 588,405 04 cyy, B. Y. M, Is informed of the following engagements Tore my nervous soul with tortures, and my brain with whenever a family refused to visit Mrs. Pinchback and future weddings, which he hastens to give an agony. they were all to be poisoned. anxious public: MEX'S ri'RSISHISG ni;i>AKT!IE.\T In vain I swore and blustered, in vain I threatened Snell,l All. Horrible ! In vain invoked Ills being to the pleasant pits of hell- Mr. Janln and Miss Blair to bo married sometime OFFICES,I®®® Fifteenth street Vain, until last evening returning from Ills route Mrs. Straws. When this was brought to the know- in April next. ' I2tt§ Four-and-a-half iSt . Has been thoroughly stockcd with full lines of '' And lifting to chaste Dian ills importuning shout; ledge of the President, he sent for Mr. Morton, and Mr. Hooker, U. S. N„ and Miss Stewart of Castle CARTWRIGOT & WARNER'S SUPER MERINO SHIRTS AND DRAWERS, (desirable forearly change.) Two slap-doctors (heaven bless them) fell upon him and told him he must abandon Pinchback. And do you Stewart, camp of the Honest Miners. Mr. Hooker GERMAN AMERiCAlV his spoil, believe that wicked man grinned and said he be- first saw the fair Stewart while -phaetoning on the CARTWRIGHT &' WARNER'S GAUZE MERINO SHIRTS AND DRAWERS, (Shirts with long and He subserved the ends of science, and the call for castor lieved these people were proof against a "sure shot Avenue, and stricken with love at first sight, rode up half sleeves.) oil! for rats;" that he understood that it was only a pre- and down in street-cars for days to gaze in rapture FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY paration of phosphorus that was considered good for on the lovely girl. INDIA GAUZE MENINO SHIRTS, -(long |ind half BEAURY. sleeves.) the brain. He said that good society might l^e Mr. Manly, U. S. A., and Miss Hallle Early, 03^ TIIE on phosphorus, but he knew very well that the Re- GOOD DOMESTIC MERINO SHIRTS AND DRAW- SOCIAL GOSSIP. hus are the animosities of the late civil war. being DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. ERS, publican party could not live without the negro vote. healed over and forgotten. Who'd a thought, when JACONET SHIRTS, LINEN, JEANS, AND JACONET Miss Swlgget. Did you ever? fighting up and down the Shenandoah Valley, that Incorporated June 18, 1873. DRAWERS, The Kit-cats. A11. No, I never. Our club was out in great force last week, although the day would come for such a Manly capture of and other underwear usually kept in standard furnish- Mrs. Straws. The President was about giving way the .weather was not favorable. Come to thinlc of it, the fair Early ? B. Y. M. takes a rest after that. He Capital Stock - - $100,000. ing houses. when the family came to the rescue, and declared the unfavorable weather rather stimulates the Kit- is rested, and goes on to remark that this is the same, Spring colors In that if any attempt was made on their brain they belle so brilliantly written up in a former number of COURVOISUR'S KID GLOVES. cats ; a northeastor full of dust aggravates the female Office, 630 F STREET N. W. would resist to the death. Then the President told The latest styles and makes In nerves. Gossip is never so rife, therefore, as in un- THE CAPITAL by an infatuated youth, who rushed in Mr. Morton that he must abandon Pinchback, and so JOHN HITZ, President.' seasonable weather. A man will get into a corner while our double-cylinder Hoe press was thundering NECK-WEAR. * he did, and good society triumphed. G. F. SCHAEFER, Vice President. Choice assortment of content with a cigar, provided he is within reach of out the issue, with the request to stop the press and B. Y. M. Do you know what the Hon. S. S. Cox takeout the eulogy. "Why do you want it out?" C. G. LEDERER, Treasurer. SILK POCKET-HANDKERCHIEFS, his hat. No son of Adam, properly civilized, ever auga-ly E. L. SCHMIDT, Secretary. or can-be used for the neck. says about that conspiracy against Pinchback? loses sight of his hat. An affection for the tile is the asked our night editor. " Why, cuss it, she has jilted LEATHER, SILK, AND LISLE GLOVES. only genuine, honest sentiment ever felt by a man • Mrs. Switchem. No, something absurd, I'll an- me, that's all." D. F. KAMLINK & CO., FRENCH SLEEVE-BUTTONS, SCARF-RINGS, and swer. he clings to it with the pertinacity of death to a de- STUDS in Coin-silver and Oxydized. parted African. When a man forgets his hat, let a B. Y. M. Not at all. He is dead earnest. He says My line of HOSIERY, in Plain and Fancy Goods, can- not be'equaled. lawyer be sent for to make his will and a clergyman it was in violation of the Constitution and law, which OUE "PARSEE" LETTER. GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE IN- to prepare his soul, for dissolution is near. Although were introduced for the better protection of the col- Owing to our Jätest "Parsee" letter Laving CHOICE STOCK OF CANES, these head-coverings appear alike, there is as much ored clllzen, and as the conspiracy was worked up been mislaid, we have only space .and time to SURANCE AGENTS. in Club and Hook Handles, just opened. in the night time, the actors are liable to indictment difference in them as there is in the character of the All of the above goods have been marked at as Kn-kluxers. No doubt it can be proven that these give the concluding paragraphs. We are very wearers. Tho_ Hon. CrosaV Augustus Dodge, like sorry for our readers, the entire letter being one So. 515 Seventh Si., Washington, I>. c. POPULAR PRICES. young Lochinvar, came out of the West in a blue people plotted their nefarious sohemes in bed, and swallow-tailed coat garnished with brass buttons, a their night clothes and night caps make the Ku-klux of the beet of the series. But our " Parsee Mer- NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF TEEL'S, pair of buff pantaloons, and a thunder-and-Iightning costume exactly. chant Sahib " must not leave his efforts in ob- necktie. He was wont to scare horses on the Avenne. Mrs. Switchem. Well, what could be done to them scure corners, so as to keep us two days finding NEW YORK, ASSETS OVER $25,000,000. 835 Pennsylvania avenue. A friend purposely permitted the Hon. Caesar Augus- if they were tried? the same: SCOTTISH COMMERCIAL FIRE INSURANCE COM- B. Y. M. They could all be consigned to the peni- tus to win a suit of clothes of him. The friend took PANY, ASSETS OVER Sf.ooo,000. REMOVAL,. him to a fashionable tailor, and an entirely new out- tentiary. But then the President might pardon thepi But Is it in reality actual money that is needed for fit was the result. At a dinner party the next day out after they had served a month or two. the prosperity of a country? No. England's stock ATLANTIC INSURANCE COMPANY.OFBHO.PKLYN. Caisar Augustus was not recognized, the change in Mrs. Switchem. How awkward it would be to in trade in money is perhaps only half the amount NEW YORK, ASSETS $400,000. of that fixed by law In the United States. The Bank his appearance was so radical. Old friends had to have all our best society sent to prison. BLACK RIVER INS ÜRANOE COMPANY, OF WATER- be introduced to him, and he was congratulated Mrs. Whifflt. And what would Mrs. Fish say ? of England has cow abont thirty million pounds in KEIL Y & BARK,, TOWN, NEW YORK, ASSETS upon his improved appearance. Leaving the house All. Then we ought not to say a word about it. circulation. The Scotch, Irish and private banks after dinner he put his hat on, and Ctesar was him- B. Y. M. Not a word, on your lives. have about fifteen millions, and the gold nnd silver is MERCHANT TAILORS. ' certainly not more than thirty to thirty-live millions. Firsf-Ci.-iss Solicitors Wanted. novl6-tf self again. He jammed it down on the back of his Mrs. Ippequack. By the bye, dears, what did you OUE NEW PARLOEsi 1312 F STSEET. head, and, going upon the street, scared horses think of that high, yellow, open carriage in the fune- If we say that the total money medium of England began to bolt shy and run off as before. ral procession of poor Judge Dent ? is eighty million pounds, or four hundred million E. P. Kelly, 1300 Cliesnut street, Philadelphia. dollars, it Is as much as any political economist Is Burton, the famous comic aotor, once mado a bet Mrs. Switchem. It was perfectly absurd; I never likely safely to credit; yet we find thatEnglanddoes GEG&GE WILLMER, H. D. Barr, 1312 F street. mar 8-sm that he could play the drunken man without the! saw worse taste. The President actually looked as an export and Import trado amounting, in 1S73 to ordinary symptoms of staggering, thick utterance or if watching the corners to see where he could dash the total enormous sum of six hundred and forty-two CIGAKS, TOBACCO, ETC. other peculiar features of that condition. Taking s off and enjoy a ride. I wonder how It came didn't million, pounds, or three thousand two hundred and hat, he knocked an ugly, crease in the side of it and set they have mourning coaches enough ? jr. ten million dollars. Besides this she was the world's 439 NINTH SKHEKF, BETWEEN Ii ABB WALLACE, It airily on his head. The effect was magical, and he Mrs. Straws. I don't know, but I suspect It was banker, lending money everywhere and to everybodi J went through g Toodles " successfully, with nothing gotten up by the undertaker; they are generally so •Wholesale and Retail dealer in What accounts for this mystery ? Simply because E STREETS, TOBACCO, drunk but his hat. stupid, those undertakers. He wanted to make as she has an honest, sound money policy, and there- SNUFF, much of the President as possible, and who could This discourse on tiles has taken us some distance fore she has the confidence of everybody. But in the have seen him In a close coach ? •CIGARS, from the Kit-cats. Brown's Young Man dropped in United States the more money there is manufactured Mrs. Ippequack. I do think this family is the most PIPES, at Mrs. Ippequack's one day last week and found the more confidence is consumed. In fact, the manu- unfortunate set, when it comes to questions of taste. Dealer In Upholster Goods, Paper-hangmgs, Lace Cur- PAPER, them in full force. They were in the midst of a dish facture of greenbacks seems to require a certain pro- tains, Cornices, Cord, Tusfels, Damasks: Ren Goods of gossip, and as B. Y. M. is considered nobody, the Coutcllne, Hair-Cloth Car, ecs and Oilcloths! ' AND B. Y. M. Well, ladies, I must tear myself away • portion of national confidence to be ground up as an ladies continued without reserve. but, as Sir Peter Teazle says, I leave my character. MATCHES. ingredient. Thus, then, It will most surely turn out S03 Seventh street northwest, Washing- Mrs. Switchem. I tell you It Is scandalous. Any- Mrs. Switchem. What a fortunate fellow you are that the forty-four million new manufactured green- ton, 1). ©, body can come to Washington and be received if he, B.Y.M. Why so? backs will cost the country four hundred and forty MANUFACTURER OF marfinfCh °f53 Hli?h Btroct' Georgetown, D. C. she or ithave impudence and money. Justremember Mrs. Switchem. To be able to have such a bad millions loss In confidence."" thoso Catacazys; they came here, and how that article. woman did dash round, to be sure. If the humble " Parsee's " advice would have been TO THE LOVERS OF A GOOD So much has been said of the idleness and general asked, I should have said: Manufacture confidence, Miss Whifflt. But Mrs. Fish never received her. EOTZ'S PATENT SPRING BED FOLDING Mrs. Straws. I beg your pardon, my dear, Mrs uselessness of American women who are in com- and you will soon find monev so plentiful that even SM0EE Fish received her officially, but never la asocial fortable circumstances, entirely beyond want, and contraction would seem easy. But like Mokama, INTINGE. way. I had a talk with her myself one day about It. so supposed to be incapable of personal exertion, the veiled prophet, wben he lifted the.veil and showed Mrs. Switchem. And what did she say ? that It li tine some just chronicler should-arise and his foul, hell features to his dupes, this veiled prophet WE CHEERFULLY RECOMMEND Mrs. Straws. She said, "Ah! indeed," and that set- proclaim their manifold charitics. Look, for in- of foul features, inflation, will in good time cry out, tled it. stance, at the great work of the Epiphany Church when he lifts his veil, " you want to be deceived; ' Home, an institution that is supported entirely by and you are. Otir Kate Cigar,'» B, Y. M. I beg your pardon, but I am so ignorant voluntary contributions, conducted by a few ladies, I remain yours, ever truly, about these things, will you please tell me what-Ys assisted la counsel and advice by the gentlemen the difference between this official and social treat- _ ADENSKY CUHIOSIPHOY, managers. The charity in this particular field has ment? Parsee Merchant of Bombay. MANUFACTURED BY" been very great, not only to buy and furnish a com- 1111 Switchem. Ah, so you are. Well, ask Miss fortable home, but to provide for helpless old women Whifflt. "WELL, Sambo, what's yer up to nowadays ?" "O, and little children—caring tenderly for a destitute Whlmt I is a, carp'ner and j'iner." "Ho! I guess yer is. F. II. FINLEY, Hi - " very funny you don't know. class who are unable to work, and are,alas, friendless. B. Y. M. I really don't What department do you perform?" "What de- The Home is a haven of rest and a harbor of refuge 432 Seventh s'rect. partment? Why, I does the circular work." "What's Miss Whifflt. Well, official is-why it's official, and for those who are buffeted about by a fate that ever dat?" "Why, I turns de grindstone—g'way." social-why you know .what social is. of Course seems unrelenting. Kindly women make these un- you are not such a goose as not to know ? Testimonials. fortunates their especial and daily care, not only at- AT A Brooklyn wedding, among the presents os- B. Y. M. I can suppose that there are certain oc- Letters from Hon. Judge Wylie, U.S. Supreme Court,B.C. tending to their temporal wants, but going to them tentatiously displayed, was a one hundred dollar casions that are official, such as a state or dip'o- T> „ „ „ WASHINGTON, D. C., June 24, 1871. as friends in deepest sympathy. With far-reaching bill, a present from the doting father to the darling .' -rrol. COOK—Dear Sir : I have given your Balm of Life matic dinner, then the official countenance is put on ror the hair a fair trial, and am much pleased with its charity, they go into the by-ways and waste-places daughter. After the guests had departed, the old and retained during the ceremony. And so Madam effects. It is a healthful wash for both the scalp and and And the industrious poor, who sit with hands man .coolly rolled up the bill and put it in his vest hair, and Its influence to sooth the nerves and revive the Oatacazy never saw Mrs. Fish's social countenance' helplessly folded, lacking employment, and so losing system when exhausted from over-work is most delight- pocket and that was the end of it. ful. I have not used it except as a wash, but on your Miss Whifflt. Yes; that's it. hope. They lift them np, show them that they have recommendation, and from the faith its use thus far has Mrs. Switchem: Nonsense, my dear, he's chaffing secured from me, I should feel great confidence In tak- place in the world, give them work, hope and IT WAS a North Carolina landlord who posted tho you. But did you ever hear the true story of the ing it as a medicine, according to your direction*:. something to live for. notice in his dining-room that members of the legis- Very respectfully, yours, ANDREW WYLIE. Oatacazy and Fish trouble? Forty poor women depend almost entirely for sup- lature would be the first seatedfand afterward the All. No; let'sjiearit! WASHINGTON, Jan 3, 18Ï2. port upon the Epiphany Church Home; the lady gentlemen. Proi". COOK—Dear SIR: I have used your ] of Life for more than a year, both as a wash for the head and Mrs. Switchem. Why, you see Madam Catacazy, patrons prepare and superintend the work given fofnir' promotinnrAmntinrgr digestioniln^ofU,, ; «««.andI 1bee n much pleased with SOME men never lose their presence of mind. In who was on very intimate terms with Gortsachoff, out, pay very liberal wages, and then by personal its effects. As a wash, Its effects are pleasant and re- Milwaukee last week a man threw his mother-in-law treshmg, especially in warm weather, and when one was instructed to defeat the Washington treaty; this exertion dispose of the garments thus made. Any Is weary and exhausted ; and as a drink it relieves from out of a window in the fifth story of a burning build- «he undertook to do by making love to General profit accruing therefrom isputlnto the general fund tne sensation ot indigestion sometimes felt after meals, ing, and carried a feather bed down stairs in his without any of the pernicious effects of Intoxicating Grant, Hamilton FisI., and Mr. Boutwell. She for support Of the instltntion. Then the pensioners liquors. ° arms. Which has been exhibited at several fairs, and In evoi-v Very respectfully, yours, ANDREW WYLIE. Instance received the first premium, marl-tf mar£-4t THE CAPITAL.—MARCH 29, 1874. 3

A WONDERFUL WOMAN. graphically portrayed in "Thackeray's Humorists," shot by a horny-handed granger in a bar-room at BUSINESS 0AKDS. rather than the dignified caste of the nineteenth Memphis, about eighteen months ago, and I hope GAS FIXTUKE8, ETC. cycle of Christianity. Laxity of morals and the cool- sincerely that such is the case; let the granger con- T. KDW. CLAltK. T. li. CROSS, Jit A Glimpse at Old Washington Society. est disregard possible characterized that season of tinue in his good work. But we have Horace's word our existence. Males and females blindly followed for it that no tragedy is complete without five acts. CHANDELIERS, T. EDW. CLARK & CO., There are seasons when the most practical of us, pleasure. Women swore and gambled, men dueled, I have come to the fifth act of this play. I was stroll- DEALERS IX surfeited with the monotony of every-day life, choose and the artificial fabric of aristocracy grew rotten. ing listlessly about the northwestern portion of our LUMBER, WOOD AND COAL, »to close oar eyes to common-place things, and steal Such was the general state. Scandal hovered about city a few days ago, and chance, rather than inclina- DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, back among the dead beings of the past; when in- the drawing-rooms of the best families like a vam- tion, brought me at the portals of a memorial edifice. MOULDINGS, 4c., &c. distinct recollections vibrate the melancholy chords pire. The fair sextau&ht that their sole object in To my right, against the Occident horizon, loomed the Central office, 020 Louisiana avenue. of onr heart, and call up dim visions of days gone life was power and notoriety, and the scheming gaudy pagoda of miner Stewart, the growing, unfin- Wharf, Depot and Planing Mill foot of Fourth street east. long ago j when an unsettled discontent annoys us, dame who caught the political Sampson in her wiles ished walls of the British embassy peered below it Yard—Fourteenth and B streets northwest. 1 and unsubstantial yearnings for a life we have never was admired, after a fashion, and grew popular to the south, while in the distance the white-faced Our stock of Wood and Coal Is large and well selected* known gain possession of our soul. These sensa- Woodsawed and split and In the stick. just as she exercised her authority. With a peculiar mansion of the Administration fronted me. With a Orders given at either yard, or at our office, tions influence us usually in spring-time, and, spirit- satisfaction the notorious ones listened to the sur* spirit akin to reverence I approached the vestibule 826 LOUISIANA AVENUE, ual as they seem, have their wellspring and source mises of their sisters, and gloried in the name and and read above it the touching history—The Louise (under the Beaton House,) will be filled promptly and in the unpoetical, but very practical disorder—bile. fame their bewitched statesmen [brought them. Home. I knew then where I stood. This mansion satisfaction guaranteed. feb32-3m I am, however, naturally of a dreamy disposition,- Owing to the inconveniences of travel, and the scarc- was the noble endowment of W.W.Corcoran, our gen- and at all seasons am accustomed to indulge in my ity of accommodations, congressmen usually re- erous millionaire, erected to the memory of the dead WASHINGTON CITY visionary speculations. Fancy means with me far sided here without the burden of their families; Louise, his only daughter. A gentle act of charity READING LIGHTS, MOULDING AND PLANING MILL, more than fact, and I can engage in no more con- lived fast, and paid a high price for their reckless- toward the reduced females of our aristocratic cir- Corner 13th and B streets Northwest. genial occupation than to push my way through the ness. cles, it supports in a style worthy of their former Ware-rooms 638 Louisiana avenue* dimly-lighted chambers of early times, to clean the This was, I say, the general, if not the universal, affluence those ladies whom the war or other mis- dust and cobwebs from the headstones of the dead, state of that age. A thing to be beautiful must be fortunes have impoverished. My eyes wandering TUCKER & SHERMAN, and from the scanty epitaphs of their local history genera], says Smith, and those beautiful customs over the surroundings, were suddenly chained to one Proprietors. engraved beneath to weave a fabric of dreamy ro- pervaded society pretty thoroughly. Some few spot. At an open window—for the winter day was Mouldings, .' mance. The shadowy wraiths of the beings gone families had the courage to bar their doors during mild—stood an elderly, yet still handsome lady,paring Brackets. forever by rise at my call, and their memories, mel- the " live " months, and paste " not at home " above the waste leaves from a geranium bush. That woman Balusters, lowed by age, wake within me an uncertain sensa- their portals ; but they were few indeed. Their is the subject of our sketch. Newels, tion like regret, but calm, sweet, and satisfied like action, though, was wise ; for a clean shirt, a whole Hand-Rail, hope. I rather like these fanciful wanderings of the coat, and a congressional friend, were the only re- BANKERS AND BROKERS. And all kinds of Scroll Work. mind, and, when leisure permits, indnlge them, by quisites to introduce any one into the best circles ; Also, Frames, Doors, Sashes, and Blinds of all regular sizes. entering into those scenes best suited to my still and thé same beaux who promenaded with our most BRACKETS, gHERMAN & CO., BANKERS, Special orders promptly attended to. soul's grave mood. Our city is rich with the pecu- aristocratic belles this evening, to-morrow morning liar recollections adapted to^satiate such dreamers, might be seen crowding the gambling hells that lay mh!5-4t TUCKER & SHERMAN. 1429 F STREET, for reasons obvious to all. The capital of a fast thick as serpents' scales on our avenues. nation, where each generation is measured by the ad- GENERAL BANKING AND J. F. ELLIS & CO., Th& table \fras coarsely spread. It was not until ministration's term of years, men and things grow SOLE AGENTS FOB THE older here than elsewhere, new lives crowd old ones 1830 that ices were introduced to our city. Mrs. EXCHANGE BUSINESS. out in rapider succession, each strata of so-Alexander Hamilton was the first to bring the deli- CELEBRATED CHICKERING ciety becomes more and more estranged from the cate confections in use, and I have heard how she AND preceding, until the people of to-day look back at related, with rare humor, the delight displayed by the dim beings of thirty years ago as though three President Jackson after feasting on the sweetmeat, United States Bonds, Stocks, Gold, Municipal and Dis- FAMOUS WEBER PIANOS, ANT) LM> centuries and not decades lay above them. When and his' swearing " by the eternal " to have ices at trict of Columbia.Securities bought and sold. every reception. The guests at the next party were Smith American Organ. magnificent distances constituted the major portion Collections made'on all points. Special attention of Washington, those families whose official posi- agreeably surprised with this delicacy, and after tions required their presence and appearances at approaching it suspiciously, melting each spoonful given to the Collection of Interest on Government AND Pianos and Organs Carefully Tuned and Repaired their residence within Its limits located themselves with their breath before consuming it, eat largely, Bonds, and to Claims and Accounts against the various by Skillful Workmen. Satisfaction Guaranteed. " for convenience as far from its theoretical center, and expressed their satisfaction by almost univer- Departments of the Government. mar8-3mo and, for social intercourse, as close to the neighbor- sally making their whole meal of ice cream. Ardent 037 P«nn. Avenue, near Tenth St. ing and larger village of Georgetown, as was possi- spirits Were the accompaniment of every dinner, and BANKING. HOUSE Jan4-ly • ble. Hence, from its beginning, the West End, or every one drank. Hot disputes characterized social OF First Ward of our city, very naturally was the cen- parties, for every one waxed political at that time ; THOMAS M. PLOWMAN, ter of Its limited polite world ; and years, years back gentlemen dashed wine'in each others faces, ladies J. II. Squier Co., society was nurtured there, grew into being, fretted, elapsed their glasses in the palm of their hands to 1416 Pennsylvania avenue, opposite "Willard's Hotel, fumëd, and strutted about its straitened limits, hide the quantity of whisky they drank, and mem- Washington, D. C. ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER, bustled with the same bravado and prodigious air of bers of Congress, who are neither gentlemen nor Eight per cent. Interest paid on deposits. Collections made everywhere. No. 620 E Htrdot.northwcsti one door enat of importance, as the gayest Europdàn court. Home- ladies, resorted to fisticuffs in the gold and lilac The pay of officers of the army cashed in advance. halls, and pistols at the old Bladensburg cross-roads. ly, commodious houses—palaces in those days—lifted Seventh, their four stories ; season by season the atmosphere Of all the notorieties of so heterogeneous and èx- FREEDMAN'S SLATE MANTELS. grew more fashionable, and society, which is a very WASHINGTON; D. C. travagant a congregation of men and women, our feb25-tf good thing in its way, if you can ever find that way, heroine was the most notorious. Settled firmly in waxed wider and richer. Utiie White House, her husband honorably exiled to Savings and Trust Company MRS. A. G. GASTON, But we have the bible proof for it that all things Spain as United States minister, she soon- began change ; and though the aforementioned society is the agreeable operation of settling Jackson, his Banking House, (Late 1223 F street,) too select to be embraced within the vulgar, abstract Cabinet, Congress, and the country at large, in just " thing," yet it changes also, gradually at first, but such a manner as suited her own sweet pleasure. But now, as you may have 'surmised, society grew IMPORTER OF MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS, certainly and distinctly ; not being wound out from 1507 Pennsylvania avenue, opposite the Treasury. its original source into a lengthy succession of jealous of this sole woman's great control ; women hated her because of her superiority over them ; ALL PROFITS paid to depositors, as interest, not ex- 627 D street, between Sixth and Seventh, changes, as the succeeding chapters of a novel ; but ceeding 7 per cent, per annum. complete and isolated, as each dead year is cut off men frowned upon her, through fear of the great JUST RECEIVED, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF hand she played in the political game, and " on," INTEREST ON ONE DOLLAR and upwards, from mar22-tf Washington, D. C. from the others before it— first of each month. that fierce, impertinent, aggregated being, " on," 44 What is gone, is gone forever; and new fashions 4K9*Open from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.; Wednesdays and CONFISERIE PARISIENNE. raised up its voice against her. Great men, intel- Saturdays, (deposits only,) 6j to 8. Jy20-tf But replace old forms, that nothing can restore.'' lects like yours and mine, do not love to be stalked So men and men's ideas are metamorphosed; to the over by the French gaiters of a woman in whom we Q.EBMAN AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK, ALEXANDER GAUTRON, ' take no peculiar interest. However bewildering the architectural eye of modern times—and we, absolute No. 515 SEVENTH STREET. entities, are, among our other infallibilities, perfect blandness of her smile, self-interest causes us Ulys- Opposite the Post Office Department. NEW PATTERNS FROM NEW YORK AND 806 I street northwest, between 8tli and 9th streets, architects—those dull edifices seem plain and dingy seses to close our eyes to admiration and cerement Bank hours, 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. Saturdays, open until Manufacturer of fine French Confections, always fresh 8 p. m., to receive deposits only. and pure. Trade supplied at reasonable terms. enough ; very well in keeping with the shabby, our ears to the honeyed accents of her voice. At any Interest paid on deposits. Collections .made and rate the public men grew tired of Mrs. E.'s power- exchange furnished. mar22-4t* cramped and withered figures we see sometimes flit- JOHN HITZ, President. A. EBERLY, Vice Prcs't. ting about them, and who a couple of score years ful rule. Not being able to strike her officially, they W. F. MATTINGLY, Sec'y. C. E. PRENTISS, Cashier. WILLIAM & ARTHUR A. BIRNEY, back graced their grate-heated, candle-lighted par- sprung the society mine. At the instigation of Tan W. "W. cox,* JOHN F. COX, lors strong in the strength of love and beauty. Buren, the Cabinet ladies cut her. Society grew so Real Esiate and General Stock ATTORNEYS, There is an indefinite kindredship existing between suddenly exclusive as to border on the ridiculous. General Agent. Broker. PHILADELPHIA/ The moral nose was elevated to the danger of dis- man and his home, which increases proportionately 330 Fnur-and-a-Half street, Washington, with time ; and cycles of relationship have allied location. It grew wonderfully chaste, did that de- W. W.COX &SON, mar 8-tf these decayed structures very closely with their in- mure dame yclept society, and simpered, and hera-d, habitants, moulding their histories into one. Could and blushed to think of having been so lax. The Eeal Estate and General Brokerage. ONEY. official and social world rose up in arms against the some literary fairy, from the purple isle, transform M¡In orde r to lay in stock, I am paying full value in each lead-hued brick of these heavy piles into a vol- one heroine. But that woman was game. The pillar Prompt attention given to collections, renting of cash, for all of kinds second-hand clothing. I have Just of opposition half-blinded her with its shadow, but Houses, &c. started this business, therefore, to do business I need the ume, and some other sprightly sprite arrange the goods. By calling on or addressing It. HEItZOG, 917 D type, the story of their lives, of the thrilling life- she never winced a whit. If she must fall her Money invested and loaned upon real estate and street, between Ninth and Tenth northwest prompt at- tention will be given to all orders. febl-ly drama's enacted within their four walls, of the ven- enemies must be buried beneath her. District securities. tures, hopes, fears, triumphs, and failures of their In- Through the President she spoke first, command- Office No. 1513 Pennsylvania avenue, opposite north IIENBY WISE GARNET, ing Calhoun to repair the social breach. The front United States Treasury, Washington, D. C. mates, would fill each fairy tome with a thrilling febl-tf ALSO, HANDSOME ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR-AT-LAW, and connected romance. haughty .Carolinian was compelled to an excuse, and ( Just fancy a house reared of books, and each layer apologized to Jackson that 'the quarrels of women, NO. 1 COLUMBIA LAW BUILDING, FIFTH STREET, np O LOAN". nov30-tf BETWEEN D AND E, WASHINGTON. a continuation of new events. So is the house of like those of the Medes and Persians, admitted of time built, and so might be these still, wise-looking neither inquiry ^nor explanation." The war grew EHGK'S GERMANIA BAND habitations of man. I have tried often, and al- open then; Tan Buren resigned; every Cabinet officer W followed his example; she, Mrs. E., was left a power- FURNISHES ways failed dismally—in looking upon an ancient $15,000 on Real Estate, in sums to suit. less queen, but still a queen. But this chapter of j dame, puckered, pinched and sour—to imagine the MUSIC FOR BALLS, PRIVATE PARTIES, PA- form pliant and the face beautiful. Here I think the her eventful life ended in 1837. With Andrew Jack- ALSO, RADES, EXCURSIONS AND PIC-NICS. poet's far-reaching soul must fail him. Yet when son the light of her greatness died out. Yan Buren, my footfalls echo through those silent streets I can so late her enemy, succeeded him, and his love for CRYSTAL CHASDKI.IERS, Orders left at residence, 725 Seventh street east, be- her did not increase one jot. Her great day was $15,000 on short time on District Securities. tween G and I streets, Navy Yard ; at Metzerott's or people them with the women of the past, and up the Ellis' Music Stores, will receive prompt attention. floors and through the doors of those mute abodes, dead. She then did what others do in like circum- Telegraph office within one square of my residence. WILLIAM L. DAVIS, Broker, Jan 18-tr can see the belles of old Washington rejuvenated by stances—grew very religious—and a purer model the blessed fount of memory. There is one house than Mrs. E., of a christian lady, could not be found. mar8-tf 1511 Pennsylvania avenue. Miss E. A. McCormick, that particularly calls back strange thoughts to me. With a large fortune left by her husband at his pETER CAMPBELL, STOCK AND BOND Through the sober twilight of the present I can peer demise, and a handsome personal property, she was back into its bright past ; and in my mind's eye be- enabled to indulge her charitable and religious tastes BROKER. hold it the temple of gala and festival forty years to an unlimited extent. Society embraced its dar- 005 Pennsylvania Avenue, (up stairs.) ling once again, and the tears of joyful welcome The first Broker dealing exclusively In Stocks and ago. It was the luxurious establishment of Mrs. E., Bonds ever established In this city. AND then the high priestess of fashion. served as Lethe-water for the missteps of the past. Special Taxes paid in Bonds at rates lower than any When one has no cause to fear a great soul, it is I propose to present to you a brief sketch of the yet published. French Millinery, Imported Bonnets and Hats, Flow- natural to admire it, and as their relations were now interesting careef of this wonderful woman, the entirely changed, and Mrs.E. was, as other women 1423 Pennsylvania avenue, adroitest, pluckiest and—I would that grammar as in the political sphere, a quiet figure in the extreme mar 22-tf Between Wlllard's and the Treasury. ers, Feathers, Laces, _&c. well as facts permitted—the daringest female of the background—for as I have said, an eruption, purify- upper-ten that America has ever produced. I am ing in its effect, had shaken the city's immoralities, P. T. BERRY, Jr., afraid, Samivel, that up to this point I have verged Orders for Elegant Dresses, &c., are filled by Miss and women were again taking the back seats—her somewhat on the poetical; if 60, it is the result of an former character appeared under a widely different REAL ESTATE AGE XT A STD BROKER, internal disorder of my stomach, not of malice pre- light to the social world. Her name and fame grew Gedney of New York city. dec 28-tf pense, for I have as intense a horror as you of letting magnificent, and the pure gold of her glory, untar- ROOM 8 PLANT'S BUILDING» myself down to poetry. With my fair lady's career, nished by its dross, shone like an aureole about her. WEBB & BEVERIDGE a chunk of District life at that, era, and a few moral Gives special attention to collection of Rents, sales of reflections thrown in gratis, I will have my hands Honor at home and respectable notoriety abroad Real Estate and investments in all kinds of interest- Are now prepared to furnish full without vexing the poet's mind. Miss O. was a was awarded this famous woman. Book-makers bearing Securities, purchase and sales of Stock and Georgetown demoiselle, descended from the highest moulded her into their literary fabrics ; magazines CHINA, CBOCKERY, GLASS WAKE, CUT- toned families of that ancient cemetery. Beautiful, and reviews related the stories of her life. One local District Securities. CLOCKS. LERY AND PLATED WAKE in girlhood ever chosen to grace, as queen of love and novel, written to perpetuate her name, I remember— P. T. BERRY, Jr., beauty, the civic triumph of the masquerade, and Magdalen, the Enchantress—an ungrammatical,but Real Estate Agent and Broker, In sets or detached pieces, of latest and most beautiful pretty custom of lady's day, in maturer years she decidedly^ interesting story, designed by Mrs. Las- febl5-tf Room 8 Plant's Building. designs and fine quality, at LOW PRICES. held that powerful influence over men that requires selle, once our pet society novelist, embodies the tri- WEBB & BEVERIDGE, a master mind no less than a lovely face. She mar- umphs, troubles, vanities and vexations of this TIS BIGELOW, BACKER, ried young, when passion predominated over ambi- No. looo Pennsylvania avenue, between Tenth and great dame's life, cleverly kneaded into a romance. O Eleventh streets. mar8-4t tion, and a handsome naval officer was honored with But the final episode is not recorded, and pity it is Removed to 605 Seventh street, opposite Patent Office. the hand that subsequently held the reins of this "Victor Sewing Machine that farte ever necessitated or brought about the mis- mar3-4t* great nation. He died. Her second marriage brought fortune of so harsh a conclusion to so brilliant a life. Agency and Branch of her nearer the goal, and as wife of General E., Jack- With the course of her being flowing full-fed with son's war minister, she mounted to the lofty pre- honor, she stooped to the last and dismalest act of DON'T PAY YOUR TAXES DEMOREST'S PATTERN EMPORIUM. eminence that no other American woman has ever folly. Fourteen years ago, a Ninon de L'Enclos Also, DRY GOODS, HOSIERY and NOTIONS, at 409 attained to nor will ever be likely to compass, judg- widow of sixty, she woed and wedded with an FOR;; Pennsylvania avenue, between 4J and 6th streets. ing from the late failure of the shrewdest fair lobby- Italian dancing-master, aa nearly one-third her age T. W. SPICER, Agent. ist of to-day. as you can cipher it down. The abstract heart of SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS OB SEWERAGE Scheming as she was bewitching, is it to be aristocracy stood still when the dreadful news was N. C. FARNUM & CO., wondered that the rugged heart of Andrew made known. The christian female soul rejoiced in UNTIL YOU HAVE CONSULTED Jackson was ensnared- by perdition made so fair? its predictions of a speedy downfall of the stupen- CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS, Fortune facilitated her intentions. Mrs. Jackson dous marriage. The philanthropie matrons rolled the whites of their religious eyes in holy horror and DICKSON & PATTERSON, was not an accomplished lady, and illy suited to do ALEX. R. SHEPHERD & CO., <11 E street northwest, Washington, D. C. the honors of the White House. Old Hickory was calm despair. Their direst prophecies were ful- Jel filled. For a time all went merry as the traditionary Who are enabled to furnish property-owners with Dis- as vain as he was arbitrary, and Mrs. E. was to the trict bonds receivable in payments for tax assessments IV IW". OKX^KH, highest degree ambitious, unscrupulous and en- marriage bèll. A wondrous sight it was to see the at the lowest market rates, saving you a large discount. antique bride promenading the Avenue upon the arm Offices—No. 605 Fifteenth street and 210 Four-and-a- ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, chanting. Though passée, she was beautiful, and the Half street. mar!5-4t of her boyish husband. Hopes« began to be enter- Has removed his office to familiarity begun between heir and the President ROOM NO. 8, BARBOUR'S LAW BUILDING, No. 490 grew shortly into unlimited authority on her side. tained of a happy married life; but, alas ! the bright EVERAL FIRST-CLASS HOUSES, WITH FURNI- decl4-tf LOUISIANA AVENUE. * dream vanished. A few years sufficed the dandy S TURE, and some entirely new, may bp bought very Holding him completely under her influence, she low. virtually became chief officer of the republic—queen jackanapes to squander her landed estates; and Circulating" Library. of the nation, as completely* as she was queen of then, with her entire personal property and her All taxes paid at a satisfactory discount on applica- BOOKS BOUGHT AND SOLD. granddaughter (by adoption,) he eloped. cation at RARE AND ANTIQUE BOOKS ON HAND. society. The Cabinet bowed to Jackson, and he was ! jan25-3m A. K. WILLIAMS, 523 Seventh street. accustomed to ride rough-shod over Congress. Being So darkly fell the curtain on the fourth act of her KENNEDY'S REAL ESTATE OFFICE, utterly in her power, the result is evident. A slight eventful drama. Like George's servants, the recre- 1833. ESTABLISHED 1833. Fifteenth street, peep at the style of things in our best,society of that ant bridegroom has tnrned up in every unantici- JOHN McDERHOrr A BROS., time would not be out of place. pated station and portion of the country. She pur- COACH MAKERS AND CARRIAGE DEALERS, mhl5-3t Rear Rlggs & Co. WO. »10 rEJÍXSYlTASIA AVENTE. NO. 310 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, It was in a very curious condition, was dur upper sued him to New Tork, and. remained there during Near Third street, ten; resembling, in recklessness and extravagance, the war, but he departed for the green pastures of per day at home. Terms free. Address WASHINGTON, D. C. $5 g $20GEO; . STINSOX & Co., Portland, Maine. Carriages and Harness received on Storage and Sold the spirit of the English seventeenth century, so ' Canada. I have reliable information that he was febl-ly on Commission. Carriages Repaired. 4 THE CAPITAL.—MARCH 29,1874.

vance on end, he has been taking part with were asked, as witnesses, not as defendants- But the world will find, after centuries of fail THE CAPITAL. Brother Lawrence of Ohio in the great temper THE APRIL number of Lippincott's Magazine such they should have been—from whom or ure, that a man does not live by the consent of ance crusade. Brother Leggett told the dear contains an article beaded "Among the Me- where they procured the document. Their re- others, and you can never interfere with him to WASHINGTON CITY. sisters in the Lord that he had been a temper- diums," and tailed with the name of John Hay- fusal was based upon the fact that such avowal any good end, so long as he refrains from overt ance advocate, lo these many years, but In all his ward as its author. It Is so manifestly gotten up as would ruin their business—their business being acts to the Injury of another. Legal restraints SUNDAY MOBNING - - MAEOH 29,1874. years of efforfj he had not accomplished as much an American magazine article that we would not the larceny of documents. Of course the Senate and violent interference gotten up to preserve as the dear sisters of Zanesvllle did In tw •notice it but for the fact that our name appears held this reason to be untenable, and the gentle- tho morals of others are as useless as they are im- SOME OF OUR DELINQUENTS. months. "One month since," said Brother men were committed for contempt. And this in one paragraph, .while that of Mrs. Hollis is pertinent. coupled to abuse in another. BAKER. Leggett, " there were two hundred drinking, Is Judge Thurman's precedent. We were somewhat surprised at, not to say shops in the wicked town of Zanesville. T But let us go a step farther, and suppose that An American magazine article generally means embarrassed by, Commissioner Baker's insolent night," he cried, " there is not one." And the In uncovering Mr. Kilbourn's trusteeship It the selection of some popular topic, and giving to OUR BOSOU FRIEND—a friend in need and no -defiance, found in his so-called defense, which he dear sisters lifted up their voices In songs of shoufd be found that Governor Shepherd was it so much space for so much money. It is not ne- hurried into print. That a man so open to as- praise. lighting character — James Comly, continues cessary that the author should have any one of the real estate owners thus concealed. Is troubled In his mind anent the independent cor- sault, so decayed in character, so laden with He did not tell them, however, what was there anything in the Constitution as amended knowledge of the subject, or be able to treat blunders and-misdemeanors that he cannot even probably true,' that he had ridden to the hall In respondents. We wish we could do something It In an instructive manner. The pub- which makes it a crime or misdemeanor for this for James. Were we near him we would try Mrs. pen a defense without an acknowledgment of a Government carriage, drawn by Government gentleman to hold property in this District ? Does lishers and editors of these magazines are com- guilt, should assume such an aggressive attitude, horses and driven by a Government messenger, Wlnslow, whose soothing sirup, as a real bless- mercial people, who seek to grt the best articles he even offend the moral code, or the habits or ing to mothers, James so continuously advertises. puzzled us until we learned the secret of his as- He did not inform them that he had carried his manners of good society, or is it held, as Judge they can for the least money, and being ignorant surance. son's name on the rolls while a student, the son Then we would put his journalistic pedai ex- themselves, have but two objective points .as Black said, with that pith which often puts a tremities in mustard water, a plaster to the back There are two ways in which this organized giving in return no service whatever. whole case In a single sentence, " that a man is guides. One is a popular subject, and the other of his gigantic intellect, and this treatment, aided is a well-known name. If both can be secured, rascality called a party can suppress or pervert an He failed to inform the pious cold-water sister to be tried for doing a lawful act in art unlawful by a hot brick to the small of his editorial back, investigation. One is to bury it out of sight; hood that a regulation of his office that had ter- manner?" Then, after Governor Shepherd had well -and good; but one or the other must be would, we doubt not, serve to relieve him for forthcoming. the other, when the first fails, to apply a liberal minated the services of a female clerk when she been shown to be such property-holder, it would the time being. It would be, of course, a tem- quantity of whitewash, married was annulled in favor of his own daugh have been incumbent on the prosecutors to make porary relief. The real cure would be in tre- We do not complain of this. If an editor or pub- After the charges had been made and pub- ter, who has since been carried on the rolls with- the first step In their case, and that was, that he panning. Our friend's brain is suffering from a lisher had cultivated tastes, or even general in- lished, but before they were presented to Con- out service had used his official position in a corrupt man- pressure. If, therefore, through a surgical formation, such would probably be found in gress, Baker and his friends were busy on the He neglected to throw out the pleasing fact ner to benefit his property. And all this is open operation, delicate or indelicate, this pressure antagonism to the money-getting instincts upon floor of the House protesting an investigation. that his tfwn carpets, and the carpets in the house to them, if it exists, without the books or evi- could be removed, even to the lifting out of a which his enterprise succeeds. If to the neces- The whine since published against permitting a of his son and son-in-law, were all paid for by dence of Mr. Kilbourn. postoffice, Comly would be all right. It is this sary ignorance we add the low moral tone culti- vated by our Government In making American discharged clerk being heard, was repeated until Uncle Samuel, and that even his salads were We are sadly disappointed. We expected to see dead weight resting on his delicate organization it became a dreary sing-song in the ears of mem- dressed, and his washing done, with oils and that so distorts objects and gives him false views publishers thieves we can appreciate the value In Mr. Wilson a prosecutor not ashamed to act of a publisher and his products. bers. " What, permit a high official to be called soap from the Patent Office, as a judge. But of Thurman we thought differ- of life. Black things, such as Grant's adminis- to account by a clerk, a discharged clerk, and a We get these details from a source entitled to ently. We thought him able, and believed him tration, seem white, and white things, such as The writer, then, of this article on mediums, female at that ? Why it's monstrous, and death to credit, and if the cold-water advocate wants an brave and impartial. How are the mighty fallen. the independent press, appear black. Well, this had to make it entertaining regardless of facts, all discipline.'! One would suppose the gentle- investigation, we will try and accommodate him It may be that the men connected with this is all "big-god damned nonsense," of course, in and was forced to have It popular, whatever man was conducting a penitentiary, to hear him with the evidence. These seem small things jl District government have been guilty of frauds. Comly, and very distressing to his friends. maybe his own, opinions or convictions. The talk of his bureau. " Discipline, sir, discipline— but after that tremendous blow about pens, pen If so, no one will be more prompt or savage in entertainment is found in a flippant treatment of we must have discipline among convicts, or the ells and pen-knives, In which the commissioner denouncing them than ourself. But if our coun- The latest manifestation came out in an inco- a grave subject, aud the popularity in doubting bureaus will go to eternal smash J" exhibited such a high regard for the pockets of try is to be debauched by such rulings, if rights herent, rumbling attack on our Jack Hinton. or openly expressing a disbelief in the truthful- Failing to arrest inquiry, the next move was the Government and the law thereof, they grow are to be invaded by such usurpations, to gain Comly calls Jack an Independent press. Now, ness of the manifestations. One discovers before to refer the charges to a tomb, where they would in importance. this information, we will have paid very dearly Jack has been called everything in the world but reading two pages that he not only cannot get " sleep the sleep that knows no waking." This for our knowledge. that. When Jack read this cruel accusation he away from the facte, but that he has really no PUBLIC PRINTER CLAP! opened his visual organs and cried, "My heyes," inclination to make such departure. In admit- was accomplished. The grave indictment of a While on this subject of perq's, we must not in utter amazement and some disgust. Was this ting that an occult power is possessed by the man In whose hands arc placed the pay of crip- forget the facts lately brought us concerning the his reward for two years' hard labor in the medium, through which intelligent answers to pled soldiers,.orphans and widows was sent to a domestic economy of this gorgeous type-setter MINOR NOTES. cause—Comly's cause—the cause of the Admin- mental questions are written in broad daylight, committee with the understanding that it was of a gorgeous Administration. It seems that the tratlon ? with a pencil so small no man could " handle it, there to be buried out of sight forever. And so old gentleman's coachman is in receipt of the it is. Clerks may come and clerks may go, but THE FEMALE cyclone, or tidal wave, or mud and on a slate touched by no seen hand, he ad- handsome sum of sixty dollars a month. This is Republicans, like republics—and herein Is their it sleeps on forever. volcano—and our readers, for and in considera- mits away Ills entire case, and makes his attacks on not too much for so admirable a whip, only be tion of five cents, can take his or her choice- only resemblance—are ungrateful. Jack had given poor Mrs. Hollis gratuitous abuse. It Is as diffi- Had a genuine investigation been had, it could is paid by our gorgeous Uncle Samuel. This threatens Wash'ngton, Tho three "W's"are two years of his valuable existence for and in cult to understand, and far more trying to be- have been proven by the records in the 'frar domestic economy extends to another messen- to have another " W " in the name of the national consideration of the pitiful sum of twenty-four lieve, that these answers emanate from the con- Department that the penitentiary has a lien on ger, who acts as footman at the gentleman's capital. It is lo be the Washington Women's hundred dollars out of the Treasury, not other- sciousness of the medium as from the source the commissioner. That pink of military pro- house, salary unknown, and a page} all paid for War on Whisky. wise appropriated, to franking documents with they claim. If the mind of the medium can priety, General Townsend, testifies that no such by our liberal Government. Harlan's frank—probably distributing thousands read that of the visitor, and hold and use the record exists. The p. m. p. has not read—or, Doctor Di-oh Lewis is here, Mrs. Lawrence is Would it not be well to have in the Senate and on thousands of the. Ohio Slate Journal—and impossible pencil so as to write intelligible re- reading, has not understood—the record. It is, here, meetings are being held and the female House standing committees, to be called commit- tills is his reward. If Jack don't do better at sponses, we may as well put .behind us all doubt then, all the same; and if Commissioner Baker heart is being fired. At any moment an explo- tees, on vehicles, messengers-and perq's, gene- the great day, when he comes up for judgment, as to the unseen power elaimcd by the spirit- denies this, let him sue us for libel and we will sion may occur, blowing up sample-rooms and rally ? and cries out in mitigation of damages, "Oh ualists. One fact, however, is Sufficient to set undertake to prove all we say—and we won't estaurants in the most violent manner. The Lord,I have suffered much on earth; for two aside this theory, and every honest and earnest •object to the venerable Pumphries for judge. proprietors of some are pale but resolute. Welcker says he will receive the ladies politely years did I labor in the house of bondage in dis- inquirer is possessed of hundreds. It is curious He asserts that the charges of fraud and incom- A PUBLIC MISFORTUNE. and give them pi ay ing room, so long as they gust and humiliation, writing the name of Har- that while the heart is baffled generally in its petency against him originate in the fact that he " I have lost confidence in marine human na- wish to indulge in devotional exercises, but if a lan ; yea verily to the sickness of my soul; there- longings for the familiar words of one gone from discharged Helen M. Barnard, for being carried ture," said our simple-minded President when man makes his appearance he, Welcker, will fore take from my doomed head at least a peck of us forever, startling facte, unknown to either on the rolls with pay and without service, at the confronted with the Porter letter, and he said it kick him out, if he has to mount a chair for that coals!" we fear if he fares no better in that world medium or searcher, are thrown in our face as end of two years. Virtuous Baker 1 He could sadly, for such discovery Is one of the most un- purpose. Herlzog's mind is all tore up—he docs than in this, Jack is in a "parlous" condition. evidence of a power lying outside our experi- stand with Roman firmness two years, but when happy that is given to suffering humanity. nothing but wander to and fro, exclaiming, But the most unreasonable, the most incohe- ence and quite beyond our comprehension. it came to the third his chaste soul rose up and "Mine Gotts vot a dam rascalities." Our Ganter rent part of Comly's discourse, is where he de- rebelled. This great and good man could not We have to record another such depressed of the Rhine wine "Capital Hall," has five hun- nounces Jack for being carried on the rolls, with- It is not to be wondered at that such potent submit to the third year; and the Republican condition of spirits. We have lost confidence in dred feet of hose with which to wash the females out a word of censure for the officials who carried agency should be seized upon by charlatans for papers cry out, " Well done, thou good and faith- our Thurman. He was one of the. gods of out. "I gives 'em cold water, Got dam, Jack, and to many others, names to us unknown. mean purposes of gain. When the recognized ful servant; smite 'em in the third year; smite our admiration. Knowing him nearly all our enough," he cries with vehemence. All sorts of Here is an unmistakable symptom of the pressure. church of God—and the reader may designate 'em hip and thigh, so that none survive tlje sec- life, serving with him for a short time upon the defenses are suggested, and every mail fetches to Let us remove the postmaster or our Comly dies. his own as such—frees itself of that class that has ond year; but let the yearlings and the tender- bench, we had come to regard this friend as an able jurist and a brave man. We thought his the poor dealer in liquid insanity -great quanti- through all ages been largely in the majority, it lings of two years be spared." Sweet Baker 1 ties of letters and postal cards, threatening and will be time for spiritualists to purify their me- Pure and holy Baker! Shall he be cannonaded patriotism would lift him above all prejudice, while his pride of profession would make him warning in turns. MR. SUTROSTUNT^EL is a gentleman engaged in diums. In fact the success of truth, If not truth by the independent press when thus canonized Itself, may be gauged by the number and activity impartial under all circumstances. Such was our Doctor Di-oh Lewis, the head-center, is what the laudable enterprise of "erecting a hole in by the party press ? Go to—go to the devil! 6f its dishonest teachers. The camp-followers confidence In his high-toned integrity, his know- the boys call a very unanimous man. He is the the ground" somewhere in the wilds of Nevada. Then again, that other co-conspirator, the increase just In proportion to the victorious suc- ledge of law and love for the same, that we ad greatest stimulator of the female heart known to Mr. Sutrostunnel is not so much at his hole In dreadful communist, Jack Hinton, was he not cess of the army, as spoils are to be found only vocated his appointment to the chairmanship of the country. His life has been devoted generally Nevada as he once was, because he Is at the na- -carried for two years In a fraudulent conveyance, in the track of conquest. the investigating committee. We said to our to lighting up female apparel. One day he lectures tional capital proposing and purposing to have so to speak ? But Jack comes back armed with Congress pay for his extravagant excavation. In friends, "It makes no odds what his prejudices on bustles, the next day he lectures on bottles, It is much to be regretted that men of scientific an affidavit, and confesses and avoids, to the con- other words, Mr. Sutrostunnel seeks to be sub- may be, he will look at this thing through that and from both the " b's," like the busy little bee, research and thoughtful impartiality do not take fusion of his enemies. " True it was," swears sidized. Jack, " I did draw pay as clerk, but my labor, In grand result of human wisdom called the law of he gathers honey in the shape of cash, that the up the facts of spiritualism and give them a pa- common with that nestor of the press, Ben. Per- evidence, and decide accordingly." But alack, prudent Di-oh stows avray in his capacious What there Is about Mr. Sutrostunnel's enter- tient investigation. The trouble with us, how- ley Poore, friend of Sumner and of man—and our. god is thrown from its pedestal and lies pockets. He has a hysterical brain, a shrill, clear prise of benefit to the public quite bothers our ever, Is to be found in the fact that the world's many others—but my duty vías to write the shattered at the base. voice, a saintly manner, and the way he can stir up gigantic intellect. Why a private hole should learned men are the world's fools. The sum autograph, the frank of the great and good Har- One of the most terrible consequences of the the pious female mind is miraculous. Since his ar- receive public support is the question that total of all knowledge is that we know nothing lan, whereby the prospectus and specimens of late war to the American people is the wanton rival he has given us some information concern- agitates the country. Calhoun, in striving to and can know nothing, and the further the the Daily Harlan were spread over the land disregard of all laws, constitutional or otherwise ing his efficacy of prayer. He has Informed the make river and harbor appropriates square thoughtful mind progresses in the search of through the burdened mails." And the answer that go to the protection of the citizen. We have sisters that they must pray without ceasing, and with the Constitution, pronounced the great truth the more modest it becomes. " Can you to Jack's affidavit Is a silent one, more eloquent seen them torn from their homes without legal much of it in private. He says the Lord Is not rivers and lakes of the United States Inland seas, tell me, sir, what Is light?" asked a learned pro- deaf, and therefore a loud voice or a speaking and as such within the province of the General fessor of his pupil. " I—I cannot, sir," was the than words. process, and condemned to punishment without trial. We have seen houses invaded, papers trumpet Is not necessary. We are glad to hear Government. On the same principle a railroad response. " I did know, but I have quite for- It is charged that ten thousand dollars was seized, and a privacy regarded as a sacred right this, and hope it may be taken as a great theo- running through two or more States becomes a gotten." "It Is to be regretted," said the pro- expended in one year for mileage, in traveling even under despotisms, violently disregarded. logical auricular fact, and so acted on. Generally national highway and within the control of Con- fessor, sadly, "for In that case you are the only between the District of Columbia and the State Legislative bodies, -through committees, have when a deep-lunged reverend brother gets on his gress. The question then is, does Mr. Sutros- man who ever did know." We are all staring of Minnesota. And Baker responds that he usurped powers never even claimed by the Par- marrow-bones he seems to labor under the Im- tunnel's hole or excavation extend through two eagerly over the rim of the world—the ignorant found it good for the service to send Doctor liament of England, while loyalty to the Govern, pression that the Lord, like the milk sickness, is States? with the naked eye and the philosopher through Hood over the land to instruct the local examln-J ment is measured by abuse of the Constitution. always ten mile3 off, and has therefore to be telescopes. The difference between the two is ing physicians. As under the law the medll We have had a great deal of literature pub- It was the mission of the Democratic party shouted at. that the ignorant believe all they see and the cated Hood has no official existence out of Wash lished on this subject. We are under the im- to remedy this wrong, that deprived us of a free philosopher believes nothing. ington, this was good of Baker. But as Hood By the bye, the unhappy gentlemen of the pression that if the money expended in the government. And our Thurman was looming has not yet got beyond the State of Minnesota! sample-rooms would be willing to compromise literature, added to that paid to support Mr. up in the distance as that party's leader. But we fear a general system of instruction will prove] with this old cold-water pump on his proposi- Sutrostunnel at Washington and in Europe, had that hope goes from us. In fact it is gone for- rather expensive. If the thing could be investi- tion. Let all the praying be in private, and they been devoted to the excavation, a tremendous JUDGE LOUIS DENT, after a protracted and pain- ever. Our Thurman vies with our Butler in gated it could be proven that the sum saved the will submit without a murmur to the decrees of hole in the ground could have been constructed. ful illness, died upon List Sunday at his residence violating the rights of the citizen. And It hap- Government by this locomotive inspection and Divine Providence. But for the purpose of finding how the Govern- in this city. We had no reason to feel kindly pened in this wise: Instruction, supposing all the pensions examined Jesting aside, we hope our city inay be ment can be got constitutionally into the hole— towards Louis Dent or to mourn with much were wiped out, would amount to the reasonable Mr. llallett Iiilbourn was on the stand as a spared the scandal of this violence. While we or getting into the hole, how it may be got out sorrow his departure. But the grave cancels all sum of three thousand dollars, for which ten witness, called by the memorialists, and was, regard intemperance as a fearful curse, we can alive—we have consulted some of this literature. animosity, and we willingly accord the Judge all thousand was expended in mileage alone. But asked to lay open his private business, and he see no good in these hysterical and unwomanly We have before us a huge volume of four hun- the good qualities for which his afflicted family then virtue Is promoted, intelligence promul- declined. " Why is this extraordinary demand demonstrations. And there is no field that is so dred and fifty pages, elegantly bound, with gilt and many friends remember and mourn him. gated, and integrity encouraged—so a fouter for made ?" asked Judge Black of counsel; " has barren of results to such labor as Washington edges and costly maps. It is Illustrated with a He was amiable, generous a.nd impulsive—a lov- the.base coin. there been even an attempt to lay a foundation city. There is more drinking here, with less picture of Mr. Sutrostunnel on the back, in gilt. ing husband, indulgent father ard good citizen. for such a question? It is charged that a cor- Another fact comes in to qualify any ill-feeling It is charged that this great and good man did drunkenness, than any place, in proportion to The enterprising gentleman is represented, with rupt combination exists between a ring of citi- we may have cherished. The disease of which purchase out of Government funds certain arti- ts population, in tho United States. This comes uplifted pick, going with a-will Into a ledge of zens and the Board of Public Works, wherein he died was one that for years before made his cles of furniture for his private use. He re- of the fact that few men indulge for the sake of pure gold. Whether this is meant to represent the money of the Government was to be used for life a misery. The cancer of the liver that gradu- sponds by saying, true it is, he did purchase the indulgence. The drinking has generally the interior of a mine or of the lobby, we are at their benefit. This has not been proven—no ally carried him to his grave must have been a furniture, but such furniture was for the public ahead of it eomo purpose that calls for a clear a loss to know. But we have dug Into this part of it has been proven." "No," said the source of continual pain and irritation; so that good, being used in his, Baker's house, for that head; and as a circus-rider is the most temperate book, that proposes Government shall loan Mr. attorneys, in response, " but we expect to prove one looking back now finds it difficult to hold purpose ; and hath he not good precedent in the of men—because if he were not he would cease to Sutrostunnel a large sum of money to complete it by opening up Mr. Kilbourn's private busi- him responsible for the infirmities of temper to postmaster at Lake George, who, keeping a be a circus-rider—so a member of Congress, or of his private hole in the ground. Why Govern- ness.". "So you are throwing out a drag-net, which he was sometimes subject. The press of the tavern and an Arabian thorough-bred, to say the lobby, or an official, cannot afford—Indeed he ment should thus resolve itself Into a loan office While violating the plainest right of a citizen." city is In error In saying that the appearance of the nothing of being town-crler-and constable, found has no temptation to be a drunkard. He lives for private holes remains unanswered. The Judge even went so far as to put the attor- caneer laid bare in the post mortem examination It Impossible to be in his office during the hours the open air, with the eyes of the public neys on their professional honor, and said that Why not loan Jones, say, enough money to dig waa the first knowledge had of its existence. prescribed by law, and so compromised by carry- upon him. As for our resident population, it is if they would assert that they had in reserve the his cellar? True, Jones' cellar does not extend Months before the death of Judge Dent, Doctor ing the postoffice in his hat ? And so the great made up of the most sober, quiet, go-to-meeting necessary proof he would recall his objection. under two or more States—not being In either Garnett correctly diagnosed his disease; and on and good Baker, by a pleasing legal fiction, people ever collected in one community. They declined. And the committee decided that Delaware or Rhode Island. But the principle the day of the autopsy this admirable physician turns his house into the pension office, and fur- the witness should answer or be punished for If the dear sisters, headed by this oratorical and, we may add, the Interest to Jones, are all told the gentlemen present, before the body was nishes the same at the contempt. Mr. Thurman, closing his ears to the fraud Di-oh, must demonstrate, let them devote the same. All Jones has to do is to organize a ope.ned—as he had in the case of James Brooks— Samuel. expense of Uncle appeal for violated right, held that the witness themselves to the low doggeries, where poison is company and issue stock. Out of this will grow precisely what they would find. And so his beautiful defense is full of plums. must answer, and quoted the celebrated case of dealt out to laborers, robbing them of their hard a lobby. Then let Jones take rooms» assess his But we must reserve some for other and future Ramsdell and White, who put up a plea in be- earnings, in return for beggary, degradation and stock for board, wines and cigars—and trips to occasions. We cannot give all the good things crime. Let them set sharp-nosed lawyers to Europe. Government being possessed of a huge half of their private business. THERE IS general satisfaction expressed at once.. We have a column at least on that work to find how many of these breathing-holes printing-house, hungry for work, will print all throughout the country over the delusive hope, order forcing all the clerks to do their work It is difficult to believe, but this is what our of hell are kept open without license, and the literature Jones may need, and the thing's started by the Cincinnati Enquirer, that George not in any room made part of the bureau by a great jurist, our Democratic advocate of the bill through the^connivance of corrupt officials and done. It will be necessary, however, to name his Francis Train would offer himself as that Ameri- little legal fiction, but in the bureau proper, the of rights and constitutional guarantees, actually subsidized police. cellar " The Grand National Subterranean Exca- private house being the bureau improper. Like said. can body to be deposited in Westminster Abbey. We believe that in this we find the only aristo- vation for the better protection of Fur Moles." It George will do no such sensible thing. We yet all general rules, this had its exceptions. They Now what was the case he held to be a prece- cratic trait In our democratic character. We is not likely that Congress will.ever make an are beautiful exceptions ; yea verily, they are dent? It was charged that some senator had cling to our offer of the Hon. Plg-lron, and hold would let the wealthy people alone. If a man of appropriation for this laudable enterprise. It In reserve Private Dalzell and Sergeant Bates. fair to look upen. violated his trust in the publication of a treaty means sees fit to drink he Is apt to drink pure may. The Lord only knows what Congress may then pending in executive session before the We might compromise on Whitelaw Reid. What liquor, and if injury results it is to himself alone. do. But If H fails, Jones will have lived five or a sweet party Whitelaw would make in a becom- LEGGLITT. Senate. The stolen property was traced to the And so what may be folly at AVelcker's is un- ten years like a gentleman, and he can run on Since our late notice of this patented contri- hands of Messrs. Ramsdell and White, and they ing sarcophagus. Fetch on the mourners—if doubtedly crime in a low doggery. this the rest of his life. you can find anv. 5 AJJLXJ uai. *—>/-.: — MISCELLANEOUS, ASHISKMM'W- AMÜSEMENTS. A CORBBSPOXDENT from the South, where the THEWS is a solemn young man in the House Mil AS-D MRS. C. M. WAI.COT AT FORD'S Ol'BRA schools have not yet driven out the owls, wishes ,,ot«xÌ%eck we arc to have >ORD'S OPERA HOUSE. of Representatives—a product o£ Montgomery 11 N to know what is. meant by the Sanborn con- World, an exqjrisIt* play written by Mr. W • S. Gilbert, county, Ohio-who answers to the pleasing name and played with Immense success at tboUnIon BqU.ro E T tracts, over which such a row is being made. Proprietor. •of Gunckel. We have studied this youth with Theater, New York. »Ir. and Mrs. Waleot Having pur- JonxT. FonD So far as we can find, it means the legal employ- chased-^, will present It to the Washington public, as- Business Manager. ..II. CLAY FORD. •considerable interest. We have felt it in our sisted by a selected cast of characters. The New York ment of men, not otherwise engaged in peniten- N •editorial bones that this solemn youth had a ca- Journal thus speaks of the play: tiary stone-breaking, In hunting down, as spies, To nlant a company of modern actors in fairy lnnd,to ...... OVER AT 10:10. reer before him, on account of his intense seri- BEGINS AT 8. Corner Neventh and E. E, pimps and informers, merchants and others hav- a^ thè uwSk 'talk'.lid act In the clouds aw«-above ousness. If Gunckel don't "career" we shall l?u immdane .oliere, àud to make them reallae to an ing business with the Government., They, said IUI« IIUU1UHIIC Buinwsi"»« 'ÏÏ „,,.1, „ —I«ort he feel disappointed. He is solemn as a gate-post- audience the spirit and WW* such ap ceo employed,are the Michael Pheenys of theUnlted Wicked world," It will be_ admitted, is ft t.BK wnicu nay, he moves along like a hearse on end—and might ierrify'tlie most skillful "t'drnnjatists. A hauler MR. AMD MRS. CHARLES M. WALCOT, . have Improved my late Store, so as to admit of > much larger aud fine assorted stock of meeting him, one is reminded of the story told States. , , , tXstll Is to «nil .« audience willing and faudra The revenues of the Government having been SECTS' WEAKIMO APPAREL. of Pat. Ryan, who, when the cholera was raging charming Fairy Comedy, in three perverted 'from their legitimate use to a protec- In W. G. Gilbert's in Dayton, Ohio, was very active in nursing the .cts, eut!tied Consisting of tion of private interests, the entire system has sick and helping to bury the dead. One day Pat. SUITINGS" OF ENGLISH AND DOMESTIC CAS8I- been so demoralized that the importer findsliim- ^^ÄSS of ^utyln .coB.m^loa was observed, by some half-intoxicated friends, MERES, READY-MADE. self in the hands of thieves, informers, black- THE WICKED WORLD. moving down the middle of the street with a thlï^itHrêfort. The artist, Mr. Mnrstou, was called THE WICKED WOR[ >- Also mailers and bribe-takers, all acting under the Äre ihe curtain and .deíervcdly applauded to the THE WICKED WORLD. little coffin uWler his arm. echo. THE WICKED WORLD. sanction of law. These so-called revenue laws SEE1lf.it S . enthusiasti„ c plaudits, though jtaM&CljggS THE WICKED WORLD. FURNISHING GOODS « Halloo, Pat., come oyer here," roared one or nd spasinod° ' - l beanlpäjgSUH»».^«g«^!^Jj ara so complicated, co»fused and contradictory SIKRW to »Achieved a triumph. We CHARACTERS BY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. -the crowd. Pat. paid no attention to the invita- are constrained to say, however, that a comedy wnlchhas that the Importer lain continual danger of a tech- JSK iMCh upon literary excellence and wro* MISS ALICE BROOKS. tion. .111,'» VISS JENNIE CLIFFORD, Boys' & Children's Clothing a Speciality. nical violation, that will enable these detectives MISS 3£1HS EMM A STOOltMAN, "I say, Pat., ye dlvil, conje take a drink, and thieves to seize his books, arrest his business STUART, •shouted another. , FANCY SUITS. ;J and ruin his reputation. To escape these evils on Monday, April«, Miss Charlotte Cusliman will ap- " Shet yer dtrthy mouths, ye blaggards, re- the merchant will pay, and has paid enormous peir at .Ford's Opera House In tar world-falROUs AND THE REGULAR COMPANY. piled Pat., turning his head as he inarched sol- sums. Character of Meg MerrMe,. Miss CnBhman's MERCHANT TAILOR. emnly on, " don't ye see it's a funeral I am 1 •: universally known and acknowledged by all, that co n- The poor merchants of New York had scarcely 1 We knew it—we were prepared to mate affi- mcnt from us Would be snpertlBOOS. We predict for licr An elegant assorted stock of escaped from the oppression of Leet & Stocking a brilliant engagement. SATURDAY, APR.Lk^YkMATLNEE OF THE davit that the solemn Guhckel would g<{an!l-do lMore they fell into the hands of Sanborn &.Co. French, English, and Scotch Cloths and NATIONAL THUATER.-^IIUO writing, tlic graceful it, and he has. He has introduced a bill for the EASTER MONDAY, Agf^ CUSHMAN The feet Is gradually getting through said mer- and charming May Saville,ls;playlng fjtmggZSSSt IAMj(jpWi BOX-BOOK OPEN WEDNESDAY, Al'ltH, 1. Cassimeres, "Exploration of Palestine," and from the Dayton chants' somewhat thick skulls that the head of mcnt to liot only a crowded house, but one that liol UaU Herald we get the details, as follows.- The Under the control or J. W. LAVENDER, Cutter, N. Y. the Treasury Is an imbecile, that the head of the that We have of intellect .ami fashion at the natlnna! ATIOXAL THEATER. editor says-: capital. Wc are glad to put tlie fact to record, for Mrs. Administration is an imbecile, and the whole ALL GOODS WAIU1ANTED AS REPRESENTED. we are gratified with farther particulars Savllle has won all hearts, not. only In her profession, N policy of the Government has resolved itself into ,,.-...,:... .Lessee and Manager. upon the interesting subject of Mr. Gunckel', recent where her Industry and talent have secured for her a Mit. J. G. SAVILLK, fcili by an editorial in Thursday morning's Journal, the conjugation of the verb to steal. "I steal, high position, but among the best pcop» of our city L. E. VALENTINE, Clothier. thou stealest, he, she or It steals," and so on she l»s made the warmest friends. She carries with her : ( MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, mar29-4t . ' . \ __ ••:-'-. . V . Oo«idêring the deep interest which is «It by Mr. down, through all the moods and tenses, to the to her new fields of trl uraph our heartfelt wishes. This week, at Ibe National, we have Edwin Adams,a SIX NIGHTS ONLY AND SATURDAY MATINEE, Gunckel'. constituents in this "^chœologioal. cartc- potential of " 8tcal thou, or let him steal." graphical and botanical survey," iti. otüy kind in mosAnt* successfuc<111 be found a moA.cnJoyabIe treat. A carel'allen in peril, did not breathe, BKtnem • mVj»*ei leaders, and for the general advantage of the rest For leagues along that breaker-beaten i gratified by the " identification of biblical sites at These conccrts have, so far, won such popular favor TliaU Enoch. fn outlay so trifling. Just ihink of It! only one of mankind; including Dr. Mary Walker. But that wc need only mention time and place to insure a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to bring ruined there is no use of the lessons of books and closet full house. Thi s play will Be. presented with IN ' .cities" to light, and to discover " ancient inscrip- theories when we have such glaring examples of MRS. AMES, the lovely, and Grace Greenwood, the NEW SCENERY, tion.," some of them In "unknown characters, to comical, give their second and last recherche «><« '' »- APPROPRIATE Al'l'OINTMEN'ls, perverse ignorance and criminal error as are fur- , CAST. SHEET BLOCK-TIM MNED STEEL FOUN- say nothing of the " biblical sites." inent at Lincoln Hall to-morrow evening. Tickets lux c AND I'OWEItFUI nished by the legislation and non-legislation of If these inscription, were in known character, sold briskly, and another lull house may be anticipated. 25 cents the Republican party. A lawyer of marked ability Many will go the second tunc, and tt«»*^ Admission 25, 60 and >5 cents. Reserved scats TAINS. they would not «Mainly be worth half the money- It hut the mystery that hang, around the old ruined bnce said to us that he thought the official report going last time will secure their seats at Ellis 4 Co. s to- in. to 10 p. ni. morrow morning, as no seats will be sold at the door. Cities" and those hieroglyphics of the dim past are of the trial of John Surratt the best work oil evi- Mrs Ames, stately and beautiful as a Roinnn matron cheap at any price—which no one oan deny. THIHD ANNUAL BALL dence extant, because the rulings of the presid- will thrill the house, as before, with her tragic utter- The Journal farther inform, us that the expedition ¡.'OH T1IK JIKNEVIT OF ing judge were each and every one erroneous, ances Willie Grace will convulse people with laughter ha. reported as among the important result, accom- and showed to the student all the possible, proba- over her wonderful double personatlolv In a dialogue plished. "thé triangulation of over six hundred between an old soldier who "lit " In the Revolution and THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, sctanre miles." Is it not wonderful that so great alt ble, and Improbable mistakes'and blunders which MADE AND StflTLlED BY a venerable Yankee lady. MASONIC TEMPLE, extent of country-embracing as much territory even by Weakness, ignorance or accident could be ••In Bai timor Grace Greenwood and Mrs. Ames appeal- as the largest county in Mr. Gunckel's district- TUESDAY EVENING, APBI1 7,1874. made in the trial of a cause. The same may be Wednesday evening, April 1. Palmer, should have been "triangulated" in so short a time said of the financial policy of the Republican Samuel C Can it not be "crapulated" in an equally short pe party; and the profitable lesson it teaches is to A VBRY TINE brand of the purest wines can. IjaJiad at SSHIp^i Depot: .7 Greene Street, rlod and .brought under cultivation-? We stocerel; Dan.O'Brien's, opposite Baltimore and Ohio depot. tlie Institution to be benefited, the need such a furnishing their customers with the newest goods anr. V. A. Ashford, Miss Lorlng, Bad company, untimely hours, evil dances, may Mrs. Gen. ltlckcjts, ft* WMfej siSflffilSlS&c t 'l»allty, ali at make the exercise evil; good company, whole- to say it, but Ell's humor, so called, is defective order.... . Mrs. M. Itobeson, Mi s. A 'drew Co} le, COME AND SEE!!! New York prices MIssErclinghuyscn, Mrs. W. B. M ebb. in title. • • ANSIEK. mrJlPHKiiY, Agent, some hours and home influences may make it a 431) Tettili street, between D anil h. FLOOlt MANACKUS. very great benefit." Our frisky old General Col. Jos. C. Audenrled, . New Books. < DIED. r Tecumseh Sherman says of the above, " I'oob annah, \\ r Ä Ä' AiiHc'k Palmer, Narrative of Military Operations," by General Joseph DiwcA.N80N.-0n pooh, Bir, it's good anywhere. It opens the i M. Duncan.011, aged thirty-one years. W. wiïlaydeif'Edwards, Mr. Dwlght T Heed, E. Johnson. Appietou & Co., New York, publishers; Ga.. John ! . the Mr. G. G.lrrellugliuysen, Mr. Geo. M. Totten, His funeSerar i will take phice from the < hnreli odl s of Mr. Maxwell Woodhull. DR. ELIZA FOSTER ST1LLMAN, HOM1 pores, clears the brain, stimulates the digestion sold at room No; 4, Intelligencer Building, corner AscensionÄ; <.....Sunday— , file 2MB , at 3:30 p. m. Friend Mr. Frank tec, and strengthens the muscles, to say nothing of Seventh and D streets. Tills work, so anxiously ex- tlie family arc Invited to attend. A ihixkrt will be placed near the door of the ball-room pected by the more thoughtful students of tlie late civil for tho receTpt of such contributions as visitors may be PATHIC AND MAGNETIC PHYSICIAN, increasing the circulation by the sight of the war, Is ou our table, and wc purpose ere long to give RELIGIOUS HOTIOES. dispoid to offer for the benefit of the Inmateinai-29-ss of tht e pretty girls floating about like Yenuses, sir, in a our readers a sample of Its contents. hospital. _____ SPIRITUALISM.—MISS JENNIE LEYS, one FROM 108 WEST FORTY-FOU^ - sea of white satin. Look at me, sir; look at XILSSON. The Martyrdom of Man," by Wlnwood Itcade, from of the most Eloquent Sensational Speakers on \TIONATj theateb. Asa K. Butts & Co., New York, through William Bal. me." And the venerable military rooster went Ibis planet, will conclude her lectures In Washington m STREET, NEW YORK CITY. lantyue, 510 Seventh street, Washington. This Is a curi- .... -Lessee and Manager. off in a pigeon-wing that would liaYe astonished ror the present on Sunday, March ».MM, at Lyceum Ma, J. G. SAV1LLE. ous hook, giving the rcsidts of study In negro-land dur- and frightened Elsler. Senators Hamlin lind ing two years'travel in Africa. Hall No. 1108 E strcot northwest. Lectures to coin, meuce at 11 o'clock a. iff. and 7:30 p. in. Subject for the THREE NIGHTS AND ONE MATINEE OF THE Chandler are of the same opinion. Both of these "The Safest Creed," by O. B. i'rothittgham, by same I. spending a few weeks In Washington, at 0« G street morntng'aud evening.- " The Logic of History as to So- STBAKOSC1I OHANDrrAI.I V> OPERA northwest, bet ween tiintll and Tenth. Cures both Acute elderly statesmen begin each morning with a publishers, and through same bookseller as above. The Itev. Mr, Frothlngliam la too well known for us to call elal Beforin." Admission in the morning, ton cents, and Chronic disease, by tho laying on of hands, and bath and a dance, in which their ancient bones attention to more than the title of this work. In the evening, fifteen cents, at tlie door, Commencing WEDNESDAY, April 8. at: 8 p. m. The offers her service» to tlie public In the above capacity. Company Comprises the following Artists . can be heard snapping like Chinese characters. We regard The Nation as the best Journal of Its class in marl-lmo . • ' — M A C<1 Magnetic remedies also prescribed, and a .yrup as a cure the world, and take pleasure in telling our readers that Madame iS« '" " for liver and kidney difficulties Invaluable to suffering It can bo subscribed for at 5M> Ninth street, where Mr. SPECIAL NOTICES. humanity. ., , , THB LATE BOW of a brother pen-driver has caused George Herbert acts as agent. B Tlie following certificate, given by a gentleman resid- jg»"H«t SODA," Banfl, Boy, &c. ing In Philadelphia to Mrs. S., will give an Idea of tli« no end of lively items connected therewith, some n nunvna ftiul Orchestra. Musical Director and Bleeding from Lungs, Catarrh, Bronchitis, Con- wonderful power possessed by licr: of which we cull from our exchanges—as, for ® AT MILHURN'S DRUG STORE, suinptiou. A Wonderful Cure. 1429 Pennsylvania avenue. DH. E. F. 8TIL1.MANV example— ItooiiEKTEit, N. Y., January 13,18M- DEAit MADAMB: I present you this tctimonlal In tho Tira Evening Star of Washington oontradlcts the 1!. V. 1MKIICH, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y.: Thnrsdav Anril i, it s a. m., and the sale for either per- hope that It Will give conlklimcc to many suffering per- DEPOT FOR minehai-.WAeTKRS,d on di1AU0„t, d report which says that after Townsend rammed hi. 1)KAlt Sin : I had .ufTercd from Catarrh In an aggra- Se wiil>Sii'ettce Friday, April 3, at Me «croft * son. who have neither faltli nor experience In; the pow- vated form for about twelve years, ami for several years mt umbrella down the throat of Walker he attempted to Co.'. Music Store. erful effects of magnittsin. My daughter, now thirteen from Bronchial trouble. Tried many doctors aud years of age, has been suffering ror, eighteen months spread it.—Loutnllle Courier Journal, things with no lasting benefit. In May, 'M, becoming T[>OB SAtE OR EXCHANGE— pRAND SACREB CONCERT, nearly worn out with excessive editorial labors on a REAL ESTATE from an Injury In licr left lilp caused by a fall from a GBOBOB ALFKED TOWMSHND says hi. fame may paper lu New York city, I was attacked with Bron- In different parts of the city, Including Flrst-clas. Resi- ^ 10 BK OIVBS 11T . horse. For some time no medical treatment, beside ap- not have .pread like a green bay tree, but It certainly dence.; likewise Farms, In Maryland and Virginia, chitis In a severe form, suffering almost a total loss of PROFESSOR SCHNEIDER, of tho Marine Band, ot the plication, of cold water and different, liniments, wire has like a green gingham umbrella,—Boston Pott. voice. I returned home here, but ll.d been home only some oí which are highly Unproved, and arc now being resorted to, with tho hope that she would outgrow the two weeks when I wa. completely prostrated with Washington SCliuctzen Park, TowKiiKD pounded Mr. Walker with an umbrella prepared for spring planting. injury ; within the last eight months tlie pain Increased; IIcmorrhMeftSm the Lungs, having four severe bleed- her night, wore sleepless aud the lajured parts stopped In JTncl « wltlilu two weeks, aud l&St three Inside of J. C. HAVILAND, SUNDAY, March 20, at 3 o'clock p. in. not only, but Btepped on him. And that'. George', growing. Physicians of various schools were consulted; way of putting hi. foot down. We don't know how nine d.ys. In "lie September, follow ng, I '»prove, ."ri!?. . •.. _.,•,, ... iu u),i,i,t.. though In.a very luarao-tf Real Estate Agent, 505 Ninth street. Positively no admittance except to members. It» and she was treated by some without any heneflclal re- Walker managed to pull hlm.elf together again, sults. Some promised to effect a cure lu from one to however; and Indeed the .taUment that h. still •VTEDICAL DEPARTMENT UNIVER- IT ATI 0 NIL THEATER. three years. When Dr. E. F. StlUmau came to thl. city live. Is probably one of thosa Chicago Timet Hee.- ffilTT continued Itt this fTeble .t.te, rilslng" blOod I went with my daughter to «¡0 her, (more from curi- ifmort dally until about the first of March.'73, when I SITY OF GEORGETOWH. osity,) .h1 and April 1st. aiidLiIngDlicnres. I have recommended them to very uortllwest. JOHNSON ELIOT, M. 1).. following from a Cincinnati paper: "A favorite Srapr speak In their praise. g amtuement at Laramie is slashing off strangers' Sirs. Gratefully yours, . „ " H. SI K> it iK-au of Faculty. • One blow is enough for all except Louisville ears." 1*. O. Box 607, Rochester, V i. rHE CAPITAL.—M ARCH 29,1874. 6 - perfect gem. We drive upon tho Canada, and wit- EEAL ESTATE AGENTS, ETO. GROCERIES, ETO, , Por Tu» CAriTAL. " we are sure to be cheated." As we quite suspect nes. a sunset of burnished gold, fiery crimson and' FILS DE LOUIS.* he is right, we thank him for his courtesy and be- come an amused spectator. prismatic glory, reflected from the snow-clAd pinna- NEW OFFICE a. Ö. COENWELL & SONS, cles of the near mountains—a subilme spectacle, BY K.VTR Mi SlIEUWOOD.: The native always begins witij a high price, ex- pecting to fall. So the bargain is contacted in thi. which can never be effaced from the memory. Chilli of tragic history,. . wise, and is a good specimen of its kind : Our amiffo, . [To be continued.] Flirt de Lini Is : for friend we must consider one who assumes to Full-of face liuti ipuiliit of guise, AUOTION BALES. FINE GROCERIES, 1 guard our interests, begins by carelessly taking hold v,, h i ii let nSp $ of a remarkably fine baAt.and inquiring, '> Quanta ! Bom of nameless mysteries ;.. WILLIAM TYLER, : tlertnlnlal of souls that sec, para estas !" How mut^Hf these > , "tiesenta senta- BANKRUPTCY. 1'h'WnK« and conspiracies. vos"—seventy cents, repllra 'the Indian. The judge, Fils ile i.ouïs ! with a glance of disdain, cries out, "Anda, anda, no IMPORTED TABLE LUXURIES OF EVERY DE- quiero.'"—go, go away ; I will have none. " Centavo «BEEN A WILLIAMS, AUCTIONEERS. REAL ESTATE AND MONET BROKER. Kjiigìltìiris hulled your infancy. eacta una"—a cent apiece, very deliberately answer, SCRIPTION. Fils eie tonis i the Indian, in his unmoved way. 11 Anda, anda te . At your fri t triuiiipliiint iiii'l. diga"—Ro, go away I tell you, cries our friend with a Gifts-Hull adulations paid,. THE STOCK OF A WINES, BRANDIES, OLIVE OIL, vehement gesture, as if about to kick- the fellow. 715 Fifteenth Street, ... itoli anil cymbal ami grenade, HOUSE SARDINES, MUSHROOMS, PEAS, Clanged niirt clainored merrily, " Henie centavos"—twenty cents, is the stolid answer NEW YORK WHOLESALE CAPERS, TRUFFLES, MUSTARDS, Fete il mi Imlland serenade., of the Indian, who never atlrs. "Aqni tiene"—here AT AUCTION. PATE DE FOIS GRAS, ANCHOVIES, "ïHsde Louis! it is—mildly answers the judge, and pleasantly gives (Formerly of the offl«e of C. N. Thorn.)' POTTED MEATS, SAUCES, , him the money, while he .ays to us, as wo take the g. your feet llcw daintily, FRENCH FRUIT In tin and glass, basket, " That is about what they are worth." The BRANDY" PEACHES, ' Filli de Louis ! IMPORTANT TO THE TRADE AM) PUBLIC scene lis inimitable, and with difference of actors and SCOTCH OAT MEAL, PRUNES, Awl your tinkling laughter rtin Over »178,000 Worth of FIGS, MALAGA GRAPES, Tlll'OUiili tiie heart of m ilil and man, subjects, is conetantly.recurring in the country ; and we really enjoy to see à part so well " played qnt," OLIVE STUFFED, PRESERVES, Did It shield you when began, JAMS, JELLIES. War of hate and bigotry.? where every one knows from the first what It all FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY 600DS Renting of Houses a special ty. Or to iiumfe tlie fury fan, means. AT AUCTION. Houses, large and small, for Ilent, furnished or un- '••'•-.• Fi!» do Louis: .'; We had left the railroad depot at Valparaiso at 8 TABLE SAUCES, 1 Mauy far lesa fair tòsco, a,m,, and at 4 p.m. of the same day we reach the furnished. Some of the rnoBt desirable Residences and Fils du I,mils ! • station at Santiago. Having forwarded our luggage GREAT BANKRUPT SALE OF DRY GQODS, Building Lots for sale In tlic city, upon the easiest terms. In their cyes.uo tender lilue, by express, we make no delay, ner our hackman BY GREEN i WILLIAMS, AUCTIONEERS, In llrelrhalrno summer line ; either, for: hé cornés near killing us In a foolish at- All business intrusted to. me will receive prompt atten- Worcestershire, quart, Pint and half pint.bottles. Hearts less tond 'and souls less triie» tempt to dash across the track in face of the engine, At their Auction-rooms, corner'Tenth street and Penn- tion. jann-am Mushroom, quart and pint bottles. Hearts less proud mill souls less free, which Is driving out at good speed. Perceiving the sylvania avenue, commencing Walnut Catsup, quart and pint bottles. , \V '. Vauic lie's kissed with worlds III view. Harvey, Anchovy aud Joh n Bull, Sauces. danger, he rises in his.seat, reins in his animals with Fils de i.mils': MONDAY, MARCH 23, 18JJ. MOULTON & JOHNSON, - Yorksklre Relish. a loud cry and a firm clutch ; they rear and snort as Solio, Harvey and Cliutha Sauces. Could your royal mother see, the iron horse just grazes past their heads, and the ex- FUsde Louts! citing moment safely past, plunge off, almost beyond A Large Consignment of Foreign and Domestic Dry REAL, ESTATE AND INSURANCE Iu tlie storm of paiig and throe, . ; control, in a fast run through the city. And this is Ootids, consisting of West of England, French and Ger- i'i Ushering a soul belo outiflrst near view of Santiago, and one which but man Broad and Narrow Woolen Cloths, all shades alid G. «. CORNWELiE & SONS, Moments fraught with déólier'wiJiî Ï for the mercy of Ood, must have been our last of colors; French, English and ScotçluFailcy Tweeds and AGENTS, Had she clasped pain eagerly, earth. We soon reach the hotel Oddo, but the past Cassimercs; Fur-bàck, Moscow aud Esquimaux Beavers, While iter life-blood eddied slow, 1418 Pennsylvania avenue, twenty minutes, with the narrow escape, is exhaust- Chinchillas, Vestlngs, Cloaklngs, &e. Also, Scotch, 128 F STREET, WASHINGTON, ». C.,- FlisdC Lotti» ing. The distance to the hotel is a mile and a half, French and German Palely, Cashmere, Queensland, Ot- for'which we are only asked sixty cents. So we toman, Laccand and other fashionable and desirable ari-nino Opposite WlUard's Hotel.- Child of France and Austria, Shawls. Fils de Louis ! must commend the prices of the Jehu, if not his Tay Special Improvement-unit General Sewerage Taxes 'Dress Goods in great variety, suçli as Heavy Illack at a discount of from tWcnty^to thirty per cent. Heir Of royal .name and line, driving. Our landlord is a busy little Frenchman and Colored Silks, Satins, Irish and Lyons Poplins, All- BAEBOUR & HAMILTON, Like a chased bird did.you pine ! Who reoeives u. with great respect ; conducts us to wool Merinoes, Delaines, Sateen Cloths, Serges, elegant Buy and sell all classes of District Securities, and Or, asleep, did rude hands twine, a pleasant suite of rooms on the aUa or second floor, imported Plaids, Alpacas, Empress Clotlis, etc. loan money on Bonds and Auditor's Certificates. Also, . Established M50. Ilound your soft throat cruelly ? Or, was sweet drug in your wine, which open onto along corridor, Here a good din- A very rich and rare assortment of Lyons Silk Vel- have for sale a large number of House and Building ner and an excellent bottle of, the wine of the coun- vets, Velveteens, and Fine Slush Suitings, 1'rlnts. Lots In alLsectlous of the city. Money loaned on Real Wholesale Groceries, Fil» de Louis? Bleached and Unbleached Cotton* from one to three Estate Security. marl-lmo try are well served. It is really strange. In Lima, in porters and Jobbers of "Wines, Brandies, Ac. "Nos. - By suòli Bipoli was France made free, Valparaiso, even here in the outskirts of the habita- yards wide; a large line of English aud American Blan- 037 and 038 Louisiana avenue/ Fils ile L.ouis 1 ble world, the French nation has sent its hotel-keep- kets, Flauueft, Ladies'Gents' and Children's Hosiery rpO LOAX. Witness history with pen, ers, hair-dressers and cooks. They seem to herald Gloves, »fee», together with à very choice and well-select- A Large Stock of ed stock of Velvets, Brussels, Axmlnstcr, Tiipestry and MONEY TO LEND Bed with blood of migliti men ! the social redemption of the universe ! Witness s'woriluud guillotine !' Ingrain Carpeting^, Rugs, Ac.; Damask anil Nottingham on - T. A J. W. GAFF A CO.'S Bold vldette of tyranny, Presently our luggage arrives, with an expedition Lace Curtains, Table and otter. Linens, Napkins, Tur- Justice holds thé judge »lure then. we would even commend to New Yorkers. Our good key Bed,' Ac., from medium to flnest Imported ; Mar- BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS SECURITIES, CELEBRATED RYE WHISKIES seilles '¡¡lid other Quilts, ahd'a variety of other goods too Fila de Louis I dinner has rested us, and with fresh toilet we are at ady to drive to the American minister's, where FI*-eiieei • George H. Robinson S Son, Alexandria; American -women are not so sensible] where " the We are told that its interior is good, but we did not JaiU-tf T SSi?Sirt.'.',,??, XlcMiidrla: Thomas I'erry, Alexan- Real Estate, Insurance and Taxes. dollar " is concerned. We occupy a coach in which enter it, and cannot speak of the effect of its decora- S shlim & Com Alexandria; Washington A lro., Alexandria; Charles A. James, (3»sliier Bank of f asli- happen, to be only one other passenger. He is a tions. Bradley's Patent Enameled marl-« 729 Seventh Street Northwest. dapper little gentleman of affable manners, who The sad spot is pointed out to us, .till a heap of Paint, 1U&n"ignments solicited. mara-tt soon let. us know that he has a judicial position in ashes, where three thousand of the best citizens, of TURNER & CO., Mixed ready for use is the best, most durable,' and the country, At Llaillai we stop some fifteen min- Chili perished in the flames of a burning church. cheapest paint In till market. One gallon will cover H. L. PELOUZE & CO.. utes for luncheon, and get nice sandwiches, which We had read terrible accounts of this catastrophe In 20 square yards, two —.... • „ , It Is easily applied, dries quickly, and has a polish like Pennsylvania avenue, opposite Willard'» we prefer to take in our coach, also fruits anil Ice the papers at home, aud substantially the same nar- ™ruls"' JAMES GUILD.. cream, quite similar to some of our better railway rative as is given as here. It was on a day of high 1014 Pennsylvania avenue. Hotel. TYPE-FOUNDERS AND PRINTERS' FURNISHERS, station lunches at home. Our companion Is very festival, and the church was crowded to excess. It Sole agent for the District of Columbia. busy making purchases, which he Informs us will Was lighted with innumerable lamps of coal-oil, FRESH FISH FOR LENT. 402-412 SEVENTH STREET, enrich the home dinner in the evening. He buys which were suspended from the ceiling. Oho of HATS. HATS. HATS. Best Baltimore Rib Roast. ..20 cents. some baskets of a small silvery white fisli, and says thèse breaks and falls upon the light drapery of a 432. KEEN'S, 424. Sirloin Steak -..¿0 cents; narfrtl WASHINGTON, P. CI ., that they are highly esteemed, and best procured Woman's dress. The flame, spread from lamp to ..25 cents. here They leok to us somewhat-like the New Eng- lamp, and down-dropping sheets of liquid fire weld NINTH STREET. Porter House Steak lahd mountain trout, Wliich we have enjoyed in the the multitude in one burning mass. The men are SPRING STYLE IIATS NOW READY. Choice Bams, &c., Ac. valley of the Connecticut. He also buys some doz- separated from thé women by an iron grating, which S, All articles In DUI- line guaranteed. W M. 8. KELLY ens of rolls, v-hieh are sb sweet and white and can neither be broken down nor surmounted. En- HAT EMPORIUM. inarl-tf fine that we cannot question his taste. Tempting Where horses are shod according to art and agreeable cased in this fiery furnaco; miserably perished the- • Cheapest place to buy the latest, styles Of Hats. to nature, preventlngiall litìhon'ess and diseases of feet apricots are offered us in small llat baskets, about fairest of Chill's daughters. COKE. such as.contraction;quarter cracks, sand cracks, thrush, three dozen being laid upon fresh leaVes in each. Broadway Silk Hats now ready at overreaching, interfering! Ac. Assisted by Charles Len- We visit the' markets-, which are cleaner, but not man, the weil-Khown practical furrier of Washington. They are very inviting, and we are about to buy a so interesting as those of Lima. There is- no place 423, KEEN'S, 434. Orders left lit the Óas-llght.omc'c, Nn.113 Tenth street, Establishment, Fourteenth street, lietwcen, N street atTil First street, or at 11« Bridge street,.Georgetown, nmiatliodc. island avenue. - . mttr8-lt basket, when the little judge kindly proposes to ar- so (Juaint as Lima, for it presents a vivid picture of will Me promptly Mied. range the purchase for us, quietly remarking that the past, framed in a setting of the present. It is a hinrlG-lt Ninth street northwes THE CAPITAL.—MARCH 29,1874, 7

TO JESSY. MEDICAL, ETO. BOOKS AND STATIONERY. HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, ETC. TO TRAVELERS. You are so fair, that from your eyes A single passing gleam, JOHN WELCKER, ALTIMORE AND POTOMAC R. R. A mocking look of coy surprise, RICHARD B. MOHUN & CO., B DEPOT, "CORNER SIXTH AND B STREETS N. W. • Would raise a poet to the 6kies PAIN-KILLER ! ! I On and after March 22, 1874, trains will leave Wash- In some romantic dream. Begs announce that Ill's well known ington as follows: Washington time: With simple dainty wiles that speak The great BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS, 5:35 a. m., Northern Express, dally except Monday. A fpirit sweetly maiden, 8:03 a. m., for Philadelphia, New York and Boston, And little dimpled smiles that seek Family Medicine of the Age. daily, except Sunday. 8:38 a. m., for Baltimore and local stations, daily. A haven on your lips and cheek TAKEN INTERNALLY, IT CURES DYSENTERY. Restaurant is How Open. 11:35 a. m., Fast Line for the West and North, dally, With rosy blushes laden; CHOLERA. DIARRHEA, CRAMP AND PAIN 1015 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, except Sunday. IN THE STOMACH, BOWEL COMP- 1:13 p. in., for Philadelphia, New York and Boston, A tiny foot, a hand snow-wliite, - LAINTS, PAINTERS' COLIC, LIVER dally, except Sunday. COMPLAINT, DYSPEPSIA, INDI- 3:35 p. in., for Baltimore, dally, except Sunday. With slender, tapering fingers; GESTION, SORE THROAT, 5:50 p. m., for Baltimore, Pittsburg and the West,daily, Curls black and balmy as the night, SUDDEN COLDS, Corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh St. Mr. Welcker lias made large additions to ills former except Sunday. A breath like kay time's fresh delight, COUGHS, Ac. 9^)8p.m., for Philadelphia, New York and Boston, USED EXTERNALLY, IT CURES BOILS, FELONS, establishment, and now confidently asserts that he pos- daily. A voice where muslclingers; CUTS, BRUISES, BURNS, SCALDS, OLD SORES, sesses the 9:88 p. m., for the West and North, daily. SPRAINS, TOOTHACHE, PAIN IN THE FACE, Trains for POPE CREEK LINE leave at 8:38 a. in. on .Yon have all earthly charms, again NEURALGIA, RHEUMATISM, FROSTED Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and 3:35 p. in. daily I swear't by all above, FEET, &c., Ac. except Sunday. Trains for ANNAPOLIS leave at 8:38 a. m., and 3:35 And yet your mind, dear, is so vain, p. m. Your little pate so void of brain, PAIN-KILLER, FINEST SUITE OF ROOMS A PULLMAN PARLOR CAR is run to Harrlsburg on One would not dare to love. after a thorough trial by innumerable living witnesses, the train leaving at 11:35 a. m. has proved itself THE MEDICINE OF THE AGE. It ALL THE • Pullman Palace Sleeping Car to Buffulo is run on the is an internal and external remedy. One positive proof train leaving? at 11:35 a. m. BALTIMORE LETTER. Pullman Palace Sleeping Car to Pittsburg Is run on the oljUs efficacy is that Its sales have constantly increased, HarjES^W BOOKH train leaving at 5:50 p. in. aim wholly upon its own merits. The effect of the Pullman Palace Sleeping Car to Chicago Is run on the Charles Street—Literary—Musical—Legal—Po- train leaving at 9:38 PMU. PAIN-KILLER Pullman Palace Sleeping Car to Elmlra is run on the litical—Art Exhibition. train leaving at 9:38 p. m. Private or Public Dinner Partiei Tickets and Information can be procured at the offlces upon the patient when taken internally, m case of Cold, RECEIVED AS SOON AS ISSUED, AND ON OUR of the Company. BALTIMORE, March 26, 1874, Cough, Bowel Complaint. Cholera, Dysentery, and other Baggage called for and checked at Hotels and private Of all our social institutions, Charles street alone afflictions of the system, has been truly wonderful, and residences on orders left at the Offices of the Company, has won for it a name among medical preparations that TABLES FOR EXAMINATION. northeast corner Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania manages to hold its own, and continues to shine can never be forgotten. Its success in removing pain, That can be found in the country. avenue, and on the northeast corner of Sixth street and forth in its pristine grandeur, and an occasional as an external remedy, in cases of Bums, Bruises, Sores. Pennsylvania avenue. Sprains, Cuts, Stings of Insects, and other cases of suf- Depot BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD, saunter down or up that thoroughfare after 12 meri- fering. has secured for it such a host of testimony, as corner Sixth and B streets. dian serves to shake off "the griffe of the fatal Deli- an infallible remedy, that it will be handed down to His cuisine will be superintended by the ED. S. YOUNG, General Passenger Agent, Baltimore, posterity as one of the greatest medical discoveries of I Maryland. lah," and inspire one with new life, as the score of the nineteenth century. EDMUND L. DuBAItRY, Superintendent, Washington, fresh, pretty, smiling faces trip by. The features of BEST FRENCH COOK •D. C. febi-ly this promenade are indeed interesting to even a cas- THE PAIN-KILLER DEALERS IN ual observer, and its study shall one day be the sub- derives much of its popularity from the simplicity at- obtainable, and his guests may rest assured that they ALTIMORE AI*D OHIO RAILROAD*. ject of my letter. tending its use, which gives it a peculiar value in a B family. The various diseases which may be reached by "will be furnished with every WINTER SCHEDULE, FEBRUARY 1,1874, FROM To dispel to.: a degree the ennui of the season, it, ana in their incipient stages eradicated, are among WASHINGTON CITY. which has even infected the staid, sober and emi- those which are peculiarly fatal If suffered to run ; but 5:00 a. m., Baltimore and all Way Stations. the curative magic of this preparation at once disarms 8:20 a. m., Point of Rocks, Piedmont, Hagerstown, nently respectable portion of our community, ancient them of their terrors. In all respects it fulfills the con- DELICACY OF THE SEASON. Winchester and all Way Stations. ll ditions of a popular medicine. par"-tis, bearing as many scars as a " vieux de la Be sure you call for and get the genuine Pain-Killer, 6:45 a. m., Baltimore, Annapolis, Piedmont and all yielle," they, the aforesaid " staid, sober and emi- as many worthless nostrums are attempted to be sold on Way Stations. the great reputation of this valuable medicine. 8:oo a. in.. New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, nently respectable," have induced that distinguished ENGLISH AND AMERICAN, Laurel and Relay. Directions accompany each bottle. Price 25 cents, 50 8:15 a. m« Pittsburg, Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, astronomer and lecturer, Hon. Richard A. Proctor, cents and $1 per bottle. Sold by all Medicine Dealers. St. Louis, Columbus, Sandusky, Wheeling and the West. F. R. S., London, to visit our city, and he nightly en- marl-Ira Rockvllle, Frederick and all Stations on the Washing- ton County and Valley Branches. Pullman cars. Din- livens our drooping spirits with appropriate criti- MEDICAL AND LAW BOOKS. ner at Cumberland. Supper at Grafton. cisms on the aconstic arrangements of the hall of THE CHOICEST WINES 8:80 a. m., Baltimore, Annapolis and all Way Stations. io:oo a. m., Baltimore and Relay only. the Masonic Temple and "Comets." Not to make 12:00 a. in., Baltimore, Elllcott City and all Way Sta- too fine a point of it, in observing the heads of the LIVE ~R PILLS! tions. l:oo p. m., New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Balti- male portion of the audience from the gallery, over ni Hh© more. Dinner at Relay. which (the heads of course,) he is charged with talk- BOOKS IMPORTED DIRECT, HAVING A DIRECT 3:30 p. m., Baltimore, Laurel, Relay. Frederick, Hagers- town, Winchester and all intermediate Way Stations ing, a conundrum suggested itself that they were west of Relay. like the nucleus of the comets in this—to use our lec- 3:45 p. m., Baltimore, Frederick and all Way Stations. An old physician once said that nearly all diseases CORRESPONDENCE WITH LONDON AND FINEST BRANDS OF CIGARS 3:50 p. m., Point of Rocks, Frederick and all Way Sta- turer's words—that they are generally distinguished originate from a diseased condition of the liver, and this tions. by its forming a bright (bald) part on the center of statement is true, although it may at first seem like an 4:45 p. m., Baltimore, Annapolis and all Way Stations. exaggeration, When the liver is out of order the whole PARIS. 5:40 p. in., Philadelphia aud Baltimore. Supper at the head, conveying an idea of a solid (?) or at least system and every organ and function suffer more or less "Will also be found constantly on hand. Relay. a very dense portion of matter. Dempsey of the in consequence. In the incipient stages of the disease a 7:45 p. m., Pittsburg. Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, man DOES NOT KNOW WHAT AILS HIM. He is St. Louis, Columbus, Sandusky, Wheeling and the West. Record office mildly suggests that my conundrum is moody, restless and despondent; and that is the time to Pullman cars. Breakfast at Grafton. like Halley's comet, "it is too high flown " A truce take a simple remedy that will restore him to health •7:50 p. m., Baltimore and all Way Stations. 9:oo p. m., New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore to conundrums. and Relay. The soul of Jenkins was jocund with hope at the JOT A SDs'GLE DAY, —Ill:3Q p. m"., Baltimore and all Way Stations. Parties desiring SUNDAY TRAILS: prospect of the wedding at " St. Paul's " this even- 8:15 and 8:80 a. m. ing, but which, to his (in particular) disappointment, and prevent a whole train of diseases that may follow. 1:00,4:45,5:40, 7:45, 7:50, 9:00 and 11:30 p. m. WE TAKE SPECIAL PAINS IN DINNERS OR SUPPERs' All trains stop at Viaduct Hotel, Relay House Station. and others generally, has been unexpectedly post- For further information apply at the Baltimore and poned. The " fair women and brave men" who MOTT'S LIVER PILLS oure torpidity of the Liver. Ohio ticket offices, Washington Station, and 485 Pennsyl- furnished at their residence will be accommo ted on vania avenue, where orders will be taken for baggage to were to honor the ceremony submit with good grace, MOTT'S LIVER PILLS give tone to the stomach. PROCURING BOOKS TO ORDER, be checked and received at any point in the city. and I dismiss the subject without further comment, THOS. R. SHARP, Master of Transportation. for I hold that there are certain limits which the MOTT'S LIVER PILLS cleanse the system of bile. the ¡Shortest Notice. L. M. COLE, General Ticket Agent. correspondent, like the historian, dares not trans- iGEO. S. KOONTZ, General Agent. fob 1-tf MOTT'S LIVER PILLS drive out febrile affections. gress. AND GUARANTEE rpiIROUGH LINE BE WEEN WASHING- The "Peabody," on last Saturday night, presented MOTT'S LIVER PILLS strcWgtheirthc whole system. JL TON, PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK. the eighth students' concert to a limited, and, I may truly say, patient audience. The orchestrial per- MOTT'S LIVER PILLS regulate the Liver, and are Thankful for the generous patronage which has here- WASHINGTON', December 25, 1873. more reliable as a Liver medicine than any of the min- Trains between Washington and -New York are now formance was decidedly heavy, and the beauties of tofore been extended to him, he respectfully solicits a run as follows, viz: eral preparations that do more harm than good. A PROMPT REPLY TO ORDERS FOR NEW YORK without change of cars- Schubert's (ninth) symphony were lost when its continuance of public.favor. Leave dally, except Sunday, at 8 a. in., and 1 and 9 lengthy rendition imposed a weariness which Beeth- For sale by all druggists. Price 25 cents per box. [p. m. oven's "Leonora," given] with "its brazen thunder," FOR PHILADELPHIA. JOHN F. HENRY, CUB RAN li i t « 'H EC O '«M ist O yTERCHANTS' LINE OF STEAMSHIPS been unfortunate, but I've always been respectable." .•JL BETWEEN However various may be the opinions of the case, FANCY AND STAPLE STATIONERY. WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. the result is beneficial to our community in this, that Hereafter the fine steamslii ps E. C. KNIGHT and J OHN WASHINGTON, D. C. GIBSON will make regular weekly trips between New outlaws, innocent (?) or guilty, need not look for York, Alexandria, Washington, and Georgetown as fol- much consideration here, for our judiciary and police SPECIAL ATTENTION TO ORDEES lows: NATIONAL HOTEL, Leave New York from Pier 39, East river, every SAT- department are determined that the Monumental URDAY, at 4 p. ni.; leave Georgetown every FRIDAY, City shall not be a refugiitmpeccatorum. at 7 a. in.., and Alexandria the same day at 12 m. •pon COB.NEÊ SIXTH ST. AND FENN'A. AVENUE, For Information apply to R. P. A. DEN1IAM, Agent, Matters political are progressing. Our patres con- office and wharf foot of High street, Georgetown, or at scripti and senatus coneultl at Annapolis are just Dooley's Yeast Ponder the corner of Seventeenth street and New York avenue. "WASHINGTON. D. C. J. W. THOMPSON, manufacturing laws for us by the wholesale, and Is perfectly Pure and Wholesome. President. will shortly terminate their arduous, labors. The FANCY STATIONERY, Dooley's Yeast Powder F. TENNEY CO., PROPRIETORS. gods be praised. marl-lm LIVERY STABLES. The women's temperance crusaders, on Wednesday Ts put up-in Full Weight Cans. rg^HE CONGRESSIONAL, morning, with combined forces, took up the line of Dooley's Yeast Powder march for-ihe capital, and invading the a acred prep- VISITING AND WEDDING WASH AILOR'S Makes Elegant Biscuits and Rolli ' Corner of New Jersey Avenue and B street Southeast, rints, routed our representatives, " horse, foot and ' Capitol II111. dragoons," and leaving their memorial behind them, Dooley's Yeast Powder CARDS AND PLATES. retired to a neighboring church and sent forth their ¥1, SANDERSON, Prop. Makes Delicious Muffins, Griddle Cakes, Corn Bread, &c. This new, elegantly-furnished", and thoroughly ap- hosannas for victory gained. Thus progresses the ointed Hotel is now open for the reception or guests, good work in Maryland. fts location near,tlie Capitol makes it desirable during Dooley's Yeast Powder the session of Congress, while its elevation will make it, Now that the long-existing Whyte-Swann feud has Makes all kinds of Dumplings, Pot-pies, Cakes and dusing the summer, the most delightful of Washington been summarily disposed of, by permitting Mr. Pastry, nice, light and healthy. Hotels. mar22-4t Swann to remain in the House of Representatives CHARLES T. GANTER, and authorizing Mr. Whyte to present his creden- Dooley's Yeast Powder Is the best, because perfectly pure. Also, a full line of STABLES, tials to the Senate, the "workefs" are looking around 1326 E ST., OPPOSITE NATIONAL THEATER. for composition for the coming ring, and "Honest IMPORTER OP Particular attention paid to BOARDING HORSES. Dooley's Yeast Powder Latest style CARRIAGES with responsible drivers. Joshua," I think—now mind I only say I think—has Is the cheapest, because full weight. JE& EB. 4 nma. e a am ® 9 SADDLE HORSES, BUGGIES AND PHAETONS for an eye to the congressional chair occupied at the COMMERCIAL STATIONERY, hire. HORSES always for Sale and Exchange. present time by O'Brien. Dooley's Yeast Powder Capital Sample Room, No. 027 I> Street, In art matters, Myers & Kertian present an excel- Is guaranteed to give satisfaction. A. B. KEYES. J. L. SMITH. between Ninth aud TcntU Streets, lent exhibition, which has a rival at Fryer & Ben- Including every style and variety of . darm's art gallery. At these places I met daily a re- Be sure to ask for * (Under Capital Office,) KEYES & CO. fined and critical audience,who show an appreciation Dooley's Yeast Powder WASHINGTON., D. C., BLANK BOOKS, COACHES, OPEN BRETT8, LIGHT WAGONS, SAD- for art in a manner satisfactory to the most despon- and do not be put off with any othor kind. The wines are directly imported by me in person. dent artist. At the former place I found "Mount Families can be assured to obtain the pure and un- DLE HORSES, DOUBLE AND SINGLE Dooley's Yeast Powder adultered article as needed in' case of sickness. Desert," by Bricher, the object of critical admiration, feb!5-ly BUGGIES AND ALL OTHER Is put up in Tin Cans of various sizes, suitable for Fam- GOLD PENS AND CASES, &c. and the "English coast-fishing scene," by DeHass; ilies, Boarding Houses, Restaurants, and VEHICLES PROMPTLY and Moran's "New York Harbor "came in for a River, Lake and Ocean Vessels on MARBLE. SALOON. FURNISHED. goodly share. At the latter place I had but a few short or long voyages. spare moments to look in, and found there a sketch The Market Is flooded with Cheap, Inferior Baking The best quality of Orders left at the Arlington Hotel or at the Stable, by Longley, entitled " English Gardens-;" "A Bava- \east Powders of light or Short Weight. DOOLEY'S day or night, will receive prompt attention. YEAST,POWDER is Warranted full strength and full rian scene,*' by Winchler, and a " Marine," by weight. Close Carriages for Wedding Calls and Receptions. Quartley. Here also was Pietro Yiani's great picture Soldi at wholesale and retail, generally throughout the United States, by dealers in Groceries and Family Pocket Penknives. from the New York Academy of Design, a tragico- Supplies. domestic sketch, from a chapter of Florentine his- tory of the fourteenth century. I regret that limited The finest and best BOARDING AND LIVERY STABLES, time prevents a more-detailed account of these pictures and the various criticisms made within my Wlllard's Hotel Stables, corner Fourtccnt.il and D streets, hearing; and if you will only indulge me this time, POCKETBOOKS AND "WALLETS, you shall have more anon, from youis, dee 21-tf Washington. D. C. . , . t D'ORSAY. ARRIAGES ! CARRIAGES ! ! marl-ly c CARRIAGES! I! • A HARTFORD gentleman who had been out late at Arc a Specialty witb Us. a wine supper, found his wife ¿waiting his return in The Artificial Stone Company On hand, a very superior stock of Carriages, suitable a high state of nervousness. Said /she, "Here I've for the STREET, PARK OR ROAD. been waiting and rocking in a chair till my head Of tlie District of Columbia Are prepared to supply, at short notice, swims round like a top." ' Jess so where I've been," TILING FOR VESTIBULES, SIDEWALKS, FOOT- All of the best make and finish, and will be sold at greatly responded he: "it's in the atmosphere," WAYS. AND CURBING IN DIFFERENT COLORS. reduced prices. Also one second-hand Landau, one FOUNTAINS. LAWN ORNAMENTS, HOUSE AND LAWN STEPS, AND PLATFORMS. DIAKIES FOR1874 CORNER PENNA. AVE. - AND NINTH STS. Brewster Claranco, one Wood Brother Coupe, very NOT long ago a clergyman in a country church not HOUSES FRONTED; CELLAR WALLS AND FLOOR- dec7-tf cheap. Repairing promptly attended to. a thousand miles from Augusta, Gra.,~ after finishing ING CEMENTED TO EXCLUDE DAMPNESS: KITCHENS AND AREAS CEMENTED AND MADE ROBERT IS. GEAHA9I, his soimon and announcing a temperance meeting, PERFECTLY DRY, Columbian Banknote Company, said he had some cotton-seed for sale, of a new vari-. And assure preventative against the intrusion of rats, mar8 4t 419 & 414 Eighth St., trot. I> A E. insects, &c., and all other work executed * ecy, which could be had at—at only one dollar per * for which Portland Cement 90S WiuiH.rlvim 1» «venue, bag. is adapted. FISHING TACKLE. OUR PORTLAND. CEMENT WASHINGTON, D. C. " WELL, neighbor, what is the most christian Becomes in a few days superior to any of the marbles or RICHARD B. MOHUN & CO., news this morning ?'-' said a gentleman to a friend. natural stone in common use, and is an admirable imi- We are prepared, with every'facility, for tation of either marble or stone; 13 giore durable, and THE ONLY HOUSE IN TIIE CITY "I have just bought a barrel of flour for a poor increases its crushing existence with age. Its beauty is woman."' "Just like you! Who is it you have made unquestionable. ENGRAVING AND PRINTING That makes a specialty of happy with your charity this time ?" "My wife." FISHING TACKLE, Co p. ROBERTS, Manager, BOOKSELLERS, 486 LOUISIANA AVENIT33. fehl-tf BANK NOTES, BONDSiAND COMMERCIAL WORK GINS. "FAREWELL, SUSAN—you have driven me to the AMD SPORTING GOODS, IS grave," wrote John Larch of Alabama four years A LL KINDS OP CAST-OFF WEARING APPABEL » OF EVERY KIND, 4C. xL can be sold to the very best advantage by address- PEA BODY'S, ago, and left the note on the river bank. tIIe was ar- ing or calling on JUSTH, JOHN G. WELLSTOOD, President. rested the other day in Cincinnati, living with G19 D street, bet. Sixth and Seventh streets N. W. No. 1015 Pennsylvania Aveune. No. 625 Louisiana avenue, >B5f'Notes by mail promptly attended to. Cash paid, GEO. T. JONES, Vice President and Treasurer. another woman. inars-ly Jcl5-tf JOHN W. WATERS, Secretary. marl5-»t SIGN OF THE BIG GUN. 8 THE CAPITAL.—MARCH 29,1874

WITH feelings of dejection we Inform our readers that • SHOCKING.—;Upon Friday evening last, at about 8:80 the financial cloud which has hung so long over the THE CAPITAL. o'clock, two frame buildings, located on the corner of legislative halls has extended its dismal Influences to a DEY GOODS. Thirteenth and R streets, caught fire and were burned DEY GOODS. branch of the executive department. It appears that to the ground before the flames could be checked by the SUNDAY I OENING, - - MABOH 29,1874. there Is a clerk in the General Post Office who has been engines. But the shocking feature of the affair Is that SILKS. more generously tinted liy the hand of nature than a three colored children were burned to death. The houses majority of tills great and glorious people, and Matthews were occupied by Matilda Campbell and Gregory Tay- BLACK, all qualities. Panic! Panic! Panic! RECORD OF THE WEEK. Is his name. Now, although Matthews for a long time lor, colored. Two of the little ones were those of Mrs. « i drew his sjilary like a white man, and laid It up as care- Campbell, and the third that of Mrs. Taylor. Every COLORED, in all the new shades. fully as brother Harlan does his treasures In heaven, he effort was made to rescue them. The women were ab- GEOIIOE ALFKED TOWNSEXD Is writing the life of became dissatisfied with the slownoss of his progress to sent at the time making purchases, and the children STRIPED, In black and white and colors. the late Charles Sumner. the ungodly state of moneyed independence; so, like his were left alone In onaof the houses with a coal-oll lamp, great exemplar and chief, the Hon. J. A. J. C., lie turned THE WOBK of laying the second track of the Boundary which it is supposed was overturned or otherwise ex- from the highway of virtue to pursue certain dark, hid- and Silver Springs railroad has been commenced. ' ploded, and caused the fire. The loss Is about »300; fully WOOLEN DRESS GOODS. den and forbidden paths. In brief, Matthews has for Insured, DRY GOODS BANKRUPT.—Joseph L. Savasro was adjudged a bank- some time been cultivating his financial talents by lend- CYNLAR MOHAIRS, rupt by his honor Judge Humphreys on Thursday. ' ing his salary and other moneys furnished, It is said, by the Freedmen's bank, at the modest figure of twenty-five A SOAP ARTIST.—There's a soap artist In our midst. ARROSE MOHAIRS, Oun SPARROWS, these beautiful mornings, act as If per cent, a month. It Is well known that the provisions of Yes, indeed. By a soap artist we menp one who draws JACOUARD POPLINS, they were tipsy on the new wine of spring. the civil rights bill, although liiienacted, arc written, as signs, pictures and ornamentations upon the plates of GRISELLE POPLINS, mirrors or the panes of sliow-wlndows. The tracings DOWN LOWER THAN EVER. LIEUTENANT KELLY of the seventh precinct, who St. Paul would say, In the hearts of many; among the SERGES, BAREGES, 4c., many are a few clerks In the General Post Office who that produce the picture resemble frosted silver or pearl was severely Injured by a fall from a Are wagon a few sheen, so that the effect Is most artistic and beautiful. Representing all the different shades In gray, with other days since, we are glad to state. Is recovering. have so far practically recognized the doctrine of fashionable colors. equality as to borrow, in necessitous moments, various Mr. C. B. Gavltt, of New York, Is the artist, and Ills work Is budding and flowering forth on all the saloon POST NO BILLS—Inasmuch as the circus and patent small sums from their colored brother, Matthews, at the classic rate aforesaid. mirrors and show-windows In the city. Any one wish- medicine season approaches, the authorities should stick ing work done in Ills line can leave their orders at John the notice, " Post no bills," on the monumental lioss that Among others who gave this graceful proof of adhe- O'Leary's, No. 406 Eleventh street. PERCALES. Scott rides. . sion to the late Mr. Sumner's views is a "white gcin- FRENCH AND AMERICAN, in plain striped and fi- an" who revels In the phosphorescent name of Span- gured. DEAD FOUNDLINGS.—UP to the hour of going to gler. THE Corcoran Zouaves, Captain Enoch, are making press only one dead baby (that a colored one picked up extensive preparations to give a grand military ball in Immense Auctions in New York. 5-8 PRINTED LINEN LAWNS, on Wednesday night) has been found tills week. We Last week Matthews called on him to settle his little Washington Hall, upon Thursday evening, April o. It are Improving. outstanding account of money loaned as aforesaid. We promises to be a most excellent entertainment, the full 4-4 PRINTED LINEN LAWNS, may be pardoned for saying, parenthetically, that the J brass band of the company playing for the opening 4-4 PRINTED LINENS. PHYSICAL OULTURB.—The corporators of the "Insti- color of the creditor has nothing to do with the melan- march, after which the orchestra of sixteen pieces will tute for Physical Culture" have elected the following choly fact that all men who borrow are liable to be discourse music for the dance. LACES AND LACE GOODS. board of officers: James M. Latta, Adolf Cluss, John called on at some time or other for a settlement. How- ever, Spangler, cither In a state of virtuous lndigna- LINEN LACES, IN ECRU COLOR, for trimming polo- Marbury, jr., T. S"Verdi, J. W/McGill, W. P. Dunwoody A RECEPTION.—Upon Wednesday evening the Ladles' and Henry Semken. tlon—which was pardonable, even praiseworthy, or of nalser impecunlostty—which was sad, exclaimed to the man Mite Society and the membership of the congregation Tremendous Losses to Importers. A LECTURE.—Bishop Haven of the SI. E. church will and brother, In language used by Sheridan on a some- gave their new pastor, the Hev. T. E. Amos, East Wash- Ladles' English Walking Jackets, Ladies Sleeveless Em- deliver a lecture entitled " Mexico," at Ilamllne church, what similar occasion, "It Is against my principles to ington M. E. church, a reception coupled with an ele-I broidered Jackets, Fine French Cloths for upon Wednesday evening next. The Bishop is an elo- pay the Interest and against my Interest to pay the prin- gaut supper and donations fitted for the practical uses Ladies' and Children's Wear. quent man, and since the subject Is one of interest, the cipal." of the reverend gentleman and his family. occasion should not fall of success. STRIPED HOSIERY, Whereupon Matthews, moving around like one of A TRIANGLE of our colored brethren published a card New Styles for Ladles and Children. THE USUAL defunct African will be marched off to those " devil-chasers " the boys set fire to on the 4th of during the week, which characterized as "untruthful his final quarters this afternoon to the rub-a-dub, jlg-a- July, referred the coruscatlug Spangler to his promises and malicious" the accusations of George T. Downing BLACK FRENCH GRENADINES, ree, rlck-a-sha music of a brass band, which will play to pay, and, in that unbecoming excitement which the against J. Sella Martin, that the latter was badly ine- LADIES' EMBROIDERED GRENADINE POLONAISE LAN8BÜRGH & BRO. " 'Way down upon de Swanee river," agwine out, and love and loss of lucre can alone awaken, said In the briated at the Sumner monument meeting Thursday In Ecru and Black. "Git out ob de wilderness" acomln' back. words of Congreve: " Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but night. a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude," or THE] D. C. VOLUNTEERS.—This association lield a words to that effect. THE PUNERAL of the late John M. Duncansou, who meeting on. Thursday night, and resolved to have a JOHN T. MITCHELL, The other clerks standing around and hearing these died recently at Savannah, Georgia, will take place this dinner on the occasion of the anniversary of the organ- afternoon, at 8:80 o'clock, from the Church of the Ascen- ization and of the muster of the first troops for defense dramatic wits thus quoted, waited for further entertain- sion. ÍÍ Ml PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. of the Union In 1861. Captains McGraw, 0'Hagan and ment. This was furnished tliem by Spangler's ¡striking Fisher were appolntod a committee to make the arrange- Matthews a blow under the chin, which, after sending ments. him, contrary to postal regulations for the transporta- ADMIRAL PORTER is very sick, and last Friday great, 817 MARKET SPACE. 817 anxiety was expressed by his friends for his recovery, tion of males, over various piles of papers, books, Ac., but last night his condition was much easier. MRS. JOHN O'HOUKE, who was batted over the cran- finally deposited him in a remote corner of the room, . lnm wlth a two-pound weight, during a rough and where he lay suffering from temporary lock-jaw, until tumble fracas, In the early part of the week, whereby he was relieved by tho still enraged Spangler, who MISCELLANEOUS, We have Just returned from New York with a new, the said Mrs. O'Eouke was quite seriously Injured, Is seized him by the back of the neck and guided him to NEW STRIPED SILKS, now being treated at Providence Hospital, and It will the door, out of which he hastenod his exit by the appll- fresh and desirable stock of GOODS, amounting to over only be through the Interposition of Divine Providence cation of a number twelve, In a manner very satisfac- if she recovers. tory to him, Spangler, but about which the delicacy of THE COTTAGE MARKET, our pen refuses to particularize. The only contempo- Y. M. C. A.—The board of directors of the joint stock raneous consolation Matthews had was the reflection BLACK SILKS, company of this organization met upon Thursday and that, at the time of his unceremonious departure there elected the following officers to fill vacancies: Levi was a bunch of Spangler's I, O, U's in his coat-tall ESTABLISHED IX 1863. Davis, vice president; William Ballantyne, treasuftr, pocket. By the bye, we cannot, with so favorable an op- vice Hon. H. D. Cooke, resigned; A. S. Pratt, secretary, portunity, refrain from again referring our readers and PLAIN AND FANCY DRESS vice William M. Tenney, resigned. L. L. Crounse was reformers to tho fact that another man and brother, Which we will sell at once without regard to value. clected a member of tlys board. who is named Black, in accordance with "the eternal fitness of things," holds a position of messenger in the LECTURE.—Dr. John Lord, said to be well and favora- Post Office Department, puts In an appearance only on GOODS. bly known in New York and other citiesTor his eminent The proprietors of the Cottage Market desire to an- abilities as an historical lecturer, has been engaged by pay-day; draws ills salary, and then retires to the resi- dence of the Postmaster General, where he fills the posi- nounce that they have on hand and are constantly re- the parish of St. John's Episcopal church, In George- ceiving all tiie delicacies in their line, such as town, to deliver a course of lectures on'the lives of tion of a domestic servant or caterer in the family of Madames de Maintenon and Hlldcbrand, at Lincoln the Hon. J. A. J. C. Hall, on the 7 th and 8th of April. SPECIAL OFFERINGS, THE NAME of Dio Lewis has long been familiar to our PHILADELPHIA CAPONS, ONE CASE GREY POPLINS A CORRESPONDENT, who seems to be very much dis- readers in connection with steam baths, Graham bread, TURKEYS AND ALL KINDS OF POULTRY; pleased about something he, she or It read In THE and disordered stomachs, not to mention a thousand SALMON, BROOK TROUT, AND CAPITAL last week, writes that no editor would print and one original suggestions on hygiene which have such things unless he had a heart of oak. Well, how- not met with the approval of common sense or the Na- ALL KINDS OF FISH, At FIFTY CENTS, Comprising ever that may be, It is much better to have a heart of tional Medical Association. On Wednesday night he WITH THE oak than a wooden head. Does our displeased corres- appeared at Lincoln Hail In Ills new role as leader of the pondent see the heart of the Joke ? FINEST BEEF, MUTTON, VEAL AND PORK, hen-crusade against whisky. Poor, misguided women, AND A FULL ASSORTMENT OF VEGETABLES, WORTH SEVENTY.FIVE. they do not know, as Burns so truthfully says— BLACK AND COLORED SILKS. STREET-SWEEPING.—The mode of sprinkling and cleansing our streets at present Is certainly very effi- " That freedom and whisky gang tliegither." All of which we shall sell at as LOW PRICES as the cient, and gives, wo believe, universal satisfaction. It Like all such reformers, Dio makes Ills philanthropy same class of goods can be bought In the city. YATES & MITCHELL, is decidedly a great deal better than the old practice of pay; for, as he remarked to the Young Men's Christian DRESS GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. puttering and tinkering away with a brigade of rag-tag- Association, philanthropy that don't pay isn't worth a 817 Market Space. and-bobtailed niggers, armed with hoes and brooms. —we do not attempt to quote hiin literally. So the other We suppose tho memorialists regard the machinos night, with profits in view, he charged his audience fifty O PENI1VG OF SPRING MILLINERY, »,000 11-1 MARSEILLES SPREADS at l cheap as emissaries of fraud. cents a head; there were only two hundred made of GOODS DELIVERED FREE OF CHARGE. at $4. block In tho city.' Washington has always discounte- THE INVESTIGATION.—This farcc is still dragging Its nanced humbugs and sham; all cosmopolitan commu-1 slow length along, and has at last grown too ridiculous nitics do. The gathering being small, was not pleasing to be funny. At first everybody, except the relicts of 60 pieces TABLE LINEN at 50 and 00 cents, worth to Dio, who >rent back In the coolest manner on his iximrcr'm, double. the old brown cobble-stone period, laughed; but now •contract to lecture, and substituted what he called a the thing has become too painfully farcical to even GEO. HUNTLEY & CO. r"conversation." Dr. Snodgrass, who joins In all public 022 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. provoke a smile, but pity and disgust rather. It's a sad meetings and "conversations" that don't cost over fifty mar29-tP thing to see men heretofore sensible and honored, com- 1,000 LONG AND SQUARE PAISLEY SHAWLS at cents>piece, was on hand and took part in the talk, butr ing before the public and deliberately making asses of $10 and $15. not in the proceeds. He asked Dio to explain Bishop themselves. The love of money will do anything. Purcell's, objections to the crusade. Dio said he didn't GEO. FELIX BENKERT'S Pattern Bonnets and Hats, French Flowers, Ribbons, know what would be the effect of the Bishop's letter, THE JIM-JAMS—One Tom Downs went Into a barber Sashes, Laces, Kid Gloves, Ornaments, 8oaps, Fhncy but "he (Dio) would lovingly put Ills arms around the Ï 1,800 LLAMA LACE POINTS AND JACKETS. These shop under the Washington House, upon Thursday, and Goods, and all the latest novelties of the season. Catholics," which offer very satisfactorily explains the goods we guarantee to sell much less than cost of Im- sat down in a vacant chair to be shaved, but the barber Opening of Bishop's opposition; in fact, such a threat is enough to portation, having bought them during the panic In No- being engaged upon another customer at the time, did drive the "Young Men's Total Abstinence Society" into a vember last. not notice him until his attention was attracted by PATTERN BONNETS AND HATS state of beastly intoxication—indeed, we think we would blood, which was flowing copiously from the poor fel- THIRD CLASSICAL CONCERT, ourselves prefer a first-class case of "jlm-jaiUB " to the on the 2d and Id of April. lt low's throat. He had deliberately reached over, taken a affectionate embraces of Dio. A Judge Lawrence was 1,500 dozen LINEN NAPKINS, $1 per dozen. razor from the slielf and cut a gash across his windpipe, next Invited by Dio on the stand. He stood and said and was In the act of whacking away at It again, when A' BAKER of Philadelphia will be at the that he believed In God, in woman, in prayer and in Ebbit8tto Housck of e on March 51 and April 1 and 2 with an the barber seized and stopped him. He was a victim of SiSfShi , . latest French boSuet^ eearfi vaui law. We arc afraid that the Judge either don't know the jim-jams, and is now in Providence hospital. and other fasionable novelties. it 60 pieces full width BARNSLEY ALL LINEN SHEET- himself what he docs believe, or that the mischievous ING ot 75 and 85 cents, worth $1.35. teachings of Tyndall have crept into his crced, for he AUCTION SALES. EPIPIIANY CHURCH HOME.—For the establishing of a afterwards said that if the prayers of the women would charitable association for the support of a home for not bring about the desired result, the law would do It. T>Y LATIMER & CLEARY, 300 pieces IRISH LINEN, 30 cents and upward. aged or inflrm women who have Insufficient means of TUESDAY NIGHT, MARCH 30. JJ livelihood, to supply poor women with work, and for The most graceful and affecting part of the lecture or Auctioneers and Real Estate Brokers, the maintenance of a home for orphan and destitute Southwest corner Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh "conversation"was Dio's confidential disclosures to street, Star Office Buildings. children, and to supply temporary shelter for young the audience about Ills father. He said that Lewis, sr., children while their mothers are out at work, and also was, like " Captain Costlgan," the friend and almost POR SALE IN GEORGETOWN. for the purpose of genera; church work, an organization father-in-law of "Pendennls," always a little "liow- under the above title has been Incorporated. The names come-you-so." He Insinuated that, having lived drunk CATALOGUE SALE or A 6S0 pieces magnificent SPRING REPS for wrappers, of the managers are: W. F. Watklns, rector; J. K. and died drunk, his disrespectful progenitor had finally at 18 cents per yard. Barnes, J. H. C. Coffin, R. D. Cutts, Lewis J. Davis, J. departed to the spirit land, but whether the old gentle- ONE BROWN-STONE, THREE-STORY, DOUBLE LARGE AND VALUABLE COLLECTION OF MIS- H. Eaton, J. L. Edwards, E. W. Hall, R.Joseph, S. E. man's quarters were north or south of its equator Ills HOUSE, CELLANEOUS BOOKS, Middleton, 8. V. Nlles, H. B. Noble, J. G. Parke, W. T. respectful and affectionate son did not say. Perhaps among which are on Frederick street, between First and Second streets, Ramsey and Nat. Wilson. we ought not to speak of any dead person In tills way, MANY RARE WORKS ON AMERICAN HISTORY, with modern improvements. even of the father of such a man as Dio, Willi hls.son INDIANS, EXPLORATIONS, &c., ARTS, THE CRUSADERS are getting a good ready, and the setting us the example; but we do think that one most ALSO, SCIENCES, MECHANICS, MATHE- alarm is being sounded all along the line. The diluted serious reflection on the new movement, and tho women A LOT on Bridge street, with foundation for brick MATICS, ENGINEERING, &c. 10-4 BLEACHED UTICA SHEETING at 40 cents. house already laid, which will be Included in sale. Dr. Dio from Ohio Is troubling tho waters and stirring who are unsexlng themselves in the so-called crusade, up the women, hence we are to have a season of prayer, To be sold at our auction-rooms, Pennsylvania avenue, is the fact that the leader Is a man who makes his own FOR RENT. corner Eleventh street, on MONDAY", TUESDAY', and pathos and poppycock in the drug stores and about the father's weaknesses or vices the subject of a public lec- saloons. It will afford an excellent opportunity for a A STOREROOM on High street, suitable for any kind WEDNESDAY, March 30 and 31, and April 1, commenc- 8-4 BLEACHED SHEETING at 23 cants. ture. We are opposed to drunkenness; we don't know ing each evening at 7J o'clock. lot of bold, selflsli, ambitious women to cut unmitigated of business, with Dwelling attached, which can be rented anything more disagreeable than the company of a with or without store, as tenant may desire. Terms cash. splurges, and render themselves ridiculous. That drunken man, and as for that, of a drunken friend whom Apply to P. T. BERRY, jr., Real Estate Broker, Room LATIMER & CLEARY, women are the greater sufferers from drunkenness Is you can'tinsult and drive off;, it Is insufferable, unless patent, and as painful as self-evident, but tills spasm at you adopt the only remedy, i.«., go and get drunk your- No. 8, Plant's Building, corner Fifteenth street and New " Auctioneers. reform will accomplish nothtng, for tho dealers In self, which we never do. We could moralize further on 111 mar29-tf T>Y LATIMER & CLEARY, whisky will "set up In business" again, and just so this subject, but we are not going to. 1,000 pieces BEST BLACK AND WHITE PRINTS at long as men have appetites and desires, just so long will J-> Auctioneers and Real Estate Brokers, 1 cents. they satisfy the cravings thereof. It's sad, but true. Southwest corner Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh ANOTHER BATCH or RED MEN.-It glv.es us pleasure PURE SODA WATER. street, Star Office Building. THE ELECTION OF DELEGATES to the annual session to announce to the readers of THE CAPITAL that an- 1,500 pieces BEST COLORED PRINTS at 9 cents. of the International Typograplilcal;Unlon, which con- other batch of our senil-civlliied ciUzcn savages ar- venes in St. Louis, Missouri, In June next, Is exciting rived In the city upon Wednesday last. They belong to EXECUTOR'S SALE OF THE LUMBER YARD OF considerable Interest among the printers of this city. the Osage Orange tribe, and are here on business. Any THE LATE J. B. WARD, CORNER OF TWELFTH Columbia Union No. 101 has always had the reputation one wishing to call upon them can do so—at the risk of STREET AND OHIO AVENUE, AT AUCTION. 20 cases 4-4 ANDROSCOGGIN COTTON at 13 cents of sending good representative men as delegates, as was being scalped—at the Ebbitt. They are a tip-top set of On MONDAY MORNING, March 30, 1874, commencing per yard. amply demonstrated, more particularly at the last ses- high-toned, good fellows, as the reader will observe by at 10 o'clock, we Bhall sell at our yard the following sion by tho election of one of their members, Mr. Mc- glancing over the list of familiar names, as follows: effects.: Lean, as president. Among the names we hear men- Joseph Paw-nee-no-josh-she, governor of Osage; Ohe- About 30,000 feet of Lumber, (different kinds.) tioned as candidates this year Is tha>t of John W. sha-lium-kah, head chief; No-pah-avah-bali, first chief Frame Office, Office Furniture. Thomas, of tho proofroom of the Government Printing Little Osage; Strike Ax, second chief; Black Dog, first Sole agents for the District of Columbia for Fcnclng and Stabling. Office. Thomas Is a young man of very fair ability and chief Black Dog band; White Hair, first chief White Work Horse, Lumber Wagon, Harness, 4c. always alive to theW interests of his fellow crafts- Hair band; Chetopali, head councillor, and Hope Rope We guarantee every article as represented, and are • Terms cash. vain enough to say that we arc selling great men, which, together with his professional popularity and Wah-ti-ank-kah, councillors. With the delegation among the typos, should make " his calling and electlr.i are Augustus Captain, Alexander Beyette and Samuel HANBURY SMITH'S JAMES WARD, sure." Bevcnne, United States interpreters. Executor of estate of J. B. Ward. LATIMER &. CLEARY, 1* Auctioneers. BUTTER. The price of this article just now is out- A FRIGHTFUL accident occurred yesterday afternoon A Be «ñ- • nrs _ rageous; there's no use talking, it's almighty dear, it's In a runaway of a horse attached to a basket phaeton PREMIUM MINERAL SPRING WATER. high, and the article's not good either. Fifty cents belonging to Mr. Brelsford, in which were two young N for a pound of butter Is a big thing, to say the least of ladies and a child of about four years old. One of the it, yet one could make out to stand It if they got butter, young ladles was severely injured, while the child, it Is E Call at once, and convince yourselves tliat we are not feared, cannot recover from the wounds upon its head. bankrupt, but we will undersell any so-called but you see yon don't do it, and the fact isyou don't know The trade supplied at short notice. really what you do get. It may look like butter, and it We have wondered before this why we have not had may smell like butter, and it may act like butter, but it more of this sort of thing, with the number of phaetons A N alnt butter, not the genuine, old-fashioned, sweet, firm, driven by ladles on streets where infernally fast driving THE BANKRUPT TRAVELING CONCERN. SODA WATER APPARATUSES ycllow.butter that the female progenitors of the Gran- Is the rule and not the exception. There are a number gers used to make. It's too ring-streaked and tough of sporting characters permitted to exercise their horses A like, and If it is not "worked over" every few days it on the Avenue In a way that would not be allowed in MERCHANT TAILOR, lias a disagreeable habit of working itself over. It has any other city in the world. of all kinds for sale oijrent at manufacturers" rates. Corner Seventh and E, too much hair in it for plaster, and not enough for a waterfall, while at the same time it is too expensive for SCARLET FEVER is quite prevalent in the city just J. W.'LITESSEE, E üstnslbiavj Í» «i SE] wagon grease, and not fit for table use. Oh for the re- now; therefore parents should keep close guard over nr. Y., N turn of grass and tho lowing of fresh cows and fresh their children, since the disease Is contagious. calves thereof, the tripping of milk maidens, the clatter M. M. WHITNEY & CO., L CUTTER, TIIE TURF.—A new trotting association has«recently of pasture bars, the clinking of tin buckets, and the been organized In the city by a number of our most E T 404 and 406 Seventh St. whip-pe-ta-whap of churn-dashes. prominent gentlemen. 208 7th street southwest. N mar 29-it