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1.-THE following Is sud 10 be =
veriiabIe tombstone inscription down
in Maine "sacred to the memory IT
james II. Random, who died August
9th. Ills widow, who mourns ~ cue
who ruin be oomforted, aged only
twenty four, and possessing every
qualification for good wife. lives at---
street. In this village"
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GbeqDepklg Galllpt
Thursday Mefnins. August II, 1859.
The Devoted sisterh0Od.

In day like this, when SO much Is
said about charity and benevolenee
md 80 fmahy new organizations arr
taking place, the object Of which il
avowelly to nfneliorate The condition
u man. II does ia no little pleasure Il
step aside, from the luete afeathi0a
Of The mob, to contemplate The tharae
ter Of Il single individual, who alone
mud nnaidea and without the deaire
Of attracting attention, silently admin
istets that comfort which the tongue
alone can give, when moved by good
heart In the eloquente Of sincerity
When we look down into the dark
pail Of night, and the solnbre robes ol
mourning In which The weeping city.
II at present clothed We imagine we
can see. those ,ninistering angels. 1.-THE
devoted sistahood" ~ they fit to and
fro, lii the sonbre roles Of their order,
administering to The wants Of The
friendless stranger, such comfort and
consolation, AZ robs death Of ita terror.
What picture II more enereating and
enoblipg than this I 10 behold the
devoted sia,er---the sincere follower Of
the precepts Of our holy writ4-sthe
delicate and sensitive female with
''silken nerves. az eontrasted with The
iron muscles Of man who IL not. as 1t
would scent, designed by nature for
stitch service when we find her saeri4
iieing not only The bosom Of her family
but her very name itself, how can
we Withhold our humble NEED Of praise
Here ~ ceurage-4-here Ia bravery that
puts to the blush the vaulting ambition
Of man, who seeks appreciation and
applause, and immortality by riding
through the blood Of Il battle iieldi
Seek where you will, aud none eau
be found TO take the place Of the
"sisters,' In the practice Of those vir-
tues ior which the Saviour Of man.
was cruciIied.
II haa been our painful duty Of late
10 notice the death at two Or three Of
tho fraternity who have fallen n prey
to the terrific mala,1y nj TINT fostering
oauldron Of death-~the Charity Hoepi-
tai, Does this appaI them1 No. still
are they to be found ut the death bed
untiripg in their angelic rniszion.---
The Great Power above us, looks not
down, upon them, with ealous eye
their names are registered in the
brightest page Of life. in the ureat
Record Of Heaven.
4-@easa44. . - . 44esss4-e.44
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7, G. II Smith telegraph contract.
or writes Ia lis rum Alexandria under
date July eth, informing lis that 81
bundles Of wire oama by the 7ttas
Raager TINT The meeting pt thi
p'aea IN the 10Th Of August, to elect
officers for tho Telegraph epnpan,
viii be attended boil, FROM Natchi
tocliaa md Alexandria. He will com.
menee building from Alexandria 10
Nateh''oehea immediately All going
an we'll, heavy and continued raii,a
sud eetton in Il bad way .-.-'sh1etepvtt
GaSetfe 3DNH.
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A STRANGER or NorE. --- Al Arab
Of pure blood, II highly cultivated man
was among the celebrities Ut Faneuil
Hall, Boston, on tho 9Th ut Fills
name IL Murad. lie is II native Of
the renowned city Of Bethlehem, in
Palestine. He eonyerses freely in
seven different languages, including
the Eng is, in which he Ia quite flu
ent. lilo accompanied }. V. G.
Smith as gaide and Interpreter,
throngh Jernselam to the river Jor-
dan and tho Rod Sea. Mnrad mp
paared in the full cottnma Of his
country.
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Major Searle. Of the u. s.
Army, died at the Blue Sulphur
Springs, Va, a few days since.
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During The year ending the Let ult,.
there were 80 375 persons who baths
I'd at the Peoples Bathing and Wash
ing Association in New York. The
charges are three, five. ten. and TWEEN.
ty five cents each---the latter charge
is for vapor baths. The receipts
amounted TO $4393,72, besides sl52-
6 SO received for washing. The
charge for washing is three cent? an
hour, and the articles washed rc-driey
by steam. The building cost s42.-
900. and the annual expose is $500.
It does not yet pay interest to the
stockholders, but it is believed it will
do SO in few years.
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u Douglass Jerrold dramatist,
satirist, an editor Of notoriety in Eng
land, and not unknown here, intends
to visit America on q lecturing tour,
early in the fall Of this year. Mr. Jer-
rold has been associated With "punch"
almost from his infancy.
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A4ts&5f7'--4-.@sa - . -
m ron account Of not heinv alb

&C. On account Of not heing able
to find house IN Spanish town suited
t, tho purposes of n Hospital the
committee appointed by The Board
have therefore purchased a lot Of
ground in the East limit Of the town.
whore building will be Mt ouee erec-
ted. Boats will consequently bp re-
guired to land Mt tho foot Of South
Boulevard street, insfead Of landing
near the mouth Of the Bayou.
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IT, From official reports i'll the
pieaynne Of the 9th inst, we find that
for tile week ending Mt @ o'clock Oh
Sunday morning last, that there were
100 interments, Of which $40 were
Of Yellow Fever For the twenty. -four
hours ending Mt u o'clock A. Al. on
Sunday August 7th. there were 2Oa
ihterments. ..--lz- VI
All communication a. far or tossi-
Bile should be cut off from the ill-tated.
and infected city. whose breath bus
become ns the simon Of The desert
Every one, who possibly can, should
eeek ut once The hills and groves alar
oil.
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for rattle4nekea, coppsrheads, or moe
casin snakes The head Of the ser.
pent should be unmashsd. II ap.
peafs that Dr. Taylor end Jeter are
performing d oourse Of experiments
on The virus Of asrpenis. Dr.. deter
was appointed BY the last Medicle
Convention, held 1T 81. Louis, the
chairnitfti Of a committee whose duty
II beoams 10 draw up a paper On the
subject Of snake bites, and therefore
these experiments are instituted =
WIGS AND Wonrs..--The wig mn.
kers Of New York, 1t is said are call.
cd upon occasionally TO make false
rnustaehos for women. There are
women, and some of them married.
TOO. who promenade Broadway, In
open daylight, mems attire, with
with SHIRT hair, nnstaches, and some.
times an imperial. When dressed in
this style, II IL almost impossible to
detect The deception, ~ admirably are
the 1nu4taches and other accessories
initiated
VERy CooL.---A certain deacon la
one Of our Massachusetts towns, who
was very jealous advocate for tho
cause Of temperance, some years since,
one hot summers day, employed 4
carpenter TO make some alterations In
bis parlor. In repairing corner If
the Inop-board, near the fireplace, it
Was found necessary to remove the
fire board when 10 "mare's nest
was brought to light. which as'onished
the worknen most narvellously. A
bruce Of deeanters, suudry junk bottles
---"all containing something to take
---4u pitcher and tumblers, were closely
reposing there IN snug quarters. The
Joiner, with wonder stricken coupten-
ance, ran to the proprietor with the
intelligence. well. / declare" ex-
claimed the deacon, "tbat IL curious
surely. It must be- that old Captain
b., left those things there when he
occupied the premises thirty years
since" Perhaps he did returned
the discoverer "but, deacon, that ice
in the pitcher must have been we'll
eergealed. to have remained solid 40
long time. "--Boston Post.
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u II affords us pleasure to SEQ
that the City Council have at length
resolved to light the streets. A com
mittee from the board has been up
pointed to carry tho ordinance into e.
feet and the parcharo of rs lamps and
posts, ordered. Tho sample lamp ut
the foot Of Laurel street on the levee
il the ono adopted
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u The st. Landry Wing says
that Capt. j. johnson, has nearly conn
pleted new boat, to run down Bayou
Lafourche. Tho boat is being built
at Louisville, and when completed
will be called the Alaee Glaze.
The same paper says the Cotton
and Cane crops in that Parish ara
good, and tn. weather fine. =-~
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KAtt. lsoAp MHnrtut1 Ar DENMAHR.

e
THE first inlilnation we hayn TIM
there Ii my such place ~ Denmark
On the map Of this country, IL Tint
there Is To be II railroad mnetiug"
there. The plaee II In Tennessee
We are mol informed ~ Il, where the
railroad Ia 10 run. this il Of buA small
Importance, since III going out II eans
not getIar, without coming III contact
with su,ne other Railroad. The great
West, Us 1t Is nalled, II n great place
for misunderstanding eqaals tl,em
except rail-roaa meetings. A bouk Ii
before us giving an account otthe pro.
iected rail roads, md the Western pa-
pers talk Of nothing but railroads, and
luukiDg about ns we have no definite
idea Of the exleDl.4-wliere they tom
inenee and terminate, u, where they
run into one other We panse To con
slider, but our brains nttlle with con.
fusion
t1F-tt'be ht,n,huggety Of nevspa.
pers, IA rfovefbial IL il only out
equalled by the audaeity Of quack
medicine makers, The latter are not
satisfied with their own mawkish nd
vertisements, but send their hgen!s
about The country with bucks Of ster.
otYped pntls, that are paid for and in.
serted ~ The spontaneous eiretveseenen
Of the editors own brain
The plan Ia, The editor receives. say
40 different forms Of rnfIs. which h.
In 10 insert at inipfyals----aud he IN h.
place them The first thing on the first
column Of bis paper. and lead them
as he does his own thoughts so TINT
the people moy be completely deeeiv.
ed Cannot va get n combination Of
The press against this =! Or shall the PIT.
ri'y t7) Of the first "three colums he
thus prostittited p Answer us gen.
tlemen
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EE~A circular from the Feliciana
High School, ut Jackson, LII, is be-
fore It's. This institution offers great
inducements to parents to send their
children to Jackson.
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-06-02
RICHMOND ftils ASSOCIATION
Il In.

fNH1S ASSOCIATION is now prepared To issue Fail
Il GEES OF Insurance On the lives Of all persons enyns
good health and of sound constitutions for the whole du
ration ofe or for limited PERIOD and upon as reasona-
Bile terms as similar company As this is the only in.
sttutlon ofthe kind in this State claims fairly the pat
ronage Of our citizens especially when ii is renem
bered that is at home and its profits distributed here
while the premiums of other companies literally encour
aged by the public carried out the State The ad
yantages OF Life assurances too universally ac
knowedged to require minute detail of the benefits
sung heretrom 1t enough ossy that all persons who
derive Their incomes or support from pubhcor private
uations mechanical, professional mercantile pursuits
should avail themselves gifts advantages order
liberal support those who dependant on their ex
eons The ofinsurance are as favorable as those
OF any similar institution in the United States and general
information relating Life assurances, together with the
rates of premiums, will be cheeruly given those who
call at the Office, No. 1898, Main and 9th SITS.
Slaves will be insured as usual ON reasonable terms
JAMES BOSHER, Pres't.
a.HN II RnSaER nr2
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-06-02
SIMON BONAVITA,

Confectione and Fruif Dealer,
Wholesale and Retail, No. 16S Main Street, opposite
the Banks,
GRATEFUL for patronage heretofore received, soil
" cts continuance of the same and would respect
fully call the attention of his friends and the public in
city and country the varied assortment he has in store
and is now receiving among which may be found the
following
SO boxes Oranges and Lemons, in fine order
200 do bunch Rasins, whole half and quarter
so do layer Raisins, superior quality
25 do Naples Maccaroni
Is cases preserved and dried Ginger
eases Prunes, in glass jars fine quality
90 boxes Ctron
90 boxes Muscat Wine, imported
200 boxes Sardines, celebrated brand
200 drums best Smyrna Figs
Is dozen Olives and Capers
10 dozen assorted Preserves, Pine Apples, Lines,
&c.
10 do assorted Pickles
20 drums Sutana Raisins, without seed
90 bags soft shell Almonds
10 bags Palm Nuts
10 bags Filberts
S bags Pecan Nuts
bags English Wanuts
$4,000 Cigars. various brands and qualities.
Together, with fine assortment of French Candy
Toys, Fancy Goods, &C. &c
Domestic Candy, of every description manufactured
under my supervision daily of the best materials
and in the best manner; all of which prepared
sell on the most accommodating terms, at
I6S Main Street,
Opposite the Banks.
NH Is SIMON BONAVITA.
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-06-02
Purcell, Ladd d Co,

DR. II II SITS,
AND DEALERS IN PAINTS, OILS, DYES, VARNIsH-
Es, WINDOW GLASS, &c.
No. % Main ST., corner l4th, Richmond, Va.
nFFER for sale at low prices for cash the usu.
~ credit to punctual Dealers large and well Sc.
ected stock, embracing the following in part quanti-
ties to suit purchasers
1900 lbs Indigo
hhds Madder
300 kegs super Carb. Soda
l2 casks washing Soda
500 ounces Sulphate Quinne
10 bbls. Spirits Turpentne
300 lbs Nutmegs
800 lbs Mace
Isl gallons Linseed Oil
500 kegs White Lead
$500 lbs Extrac tLogwood
20 bbs Castor Oil
1000 gallons Lamp Oil
$50 baskets and boxes Sweet Oil
Is cases chrome green and yellow
25 cases Cooper's Isinglass
25 bbls Burning Fluid
do roll Birthstone
25 do Veni tian Red and Spanish Brown
25 do EPSON Salts
1000 lbs Cream Tartar
1000 boxes French and Anne rcan Window Glass
Bulls, Sands and Townsend's Sarsaparia, Ayers
Cherry PICTORIAL and all other popular patent medicines
Ginger. Pepper, Allspiee, Cloves, &c.
n b. Particular attention to packing and orwarding
orders PURCELL, LADD & CO.,
Druggists, 90 Main street, corner l4th
fe 20 Richmond.
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-06-02

TO COUNTRY MERCHANTS
II recent arrivals from Boston, New York and Pha.
- delpha, am in receipt of entirely fresh and
tensve stock of articles in my line snd beg to call your
attention to the fact that you select from large
an assortment and buy asow you North and save
both your time and expenses. Among my assortment
have
100 boxes Oranges, in prime order
lO0 do Lemons do do
500 do Raisins, bunch, nice fruit
100 do do LAYER, very nice
25 trails Ivca softslell Almonds
bales Moler do do
10 do Sicily do do
do Bordeaux and Marselles Almonds
20 bags new crop Texas Pecan Mats
10 do do Palm do
10 do do Fi,berts
10 do Grenoble. Naples and Sicily Wanuts
20 cases preserved Canton Ginger
1000 boxes Sardines, WHOLE half ne.third and
quarter
$50 drums Smyrna Figs
10 cases Prunes in glass Jars aid boxes
90 half kegs Malaga Grapes, fresh
10 trails new crop Dates, yellow and bright
20 drums Sultan Raisins, also in trails
100 boxes brandy Peaches Pickles. Preserves &c:
100000 Cigars, assorted imported and domestic from
s5per M to $50.
Also-Any quantity OF my superior Steam Candy rea
dy packed for transportation and warranted nce-wil
stand in any climate.
Please give call am anxious to sell and will
offer great inducements.
LOUIS J BOSSIEUX.
Steam Candy Manufacturer,
mn No LOT Main st.
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10 GssnaOND 4 DANVILLE RAILROA m
sss s - Ha=.l


open 10 EAeysvIiIG, 53 miles.
AN and after MONDAY, November etb 1882 a re.
- gpar passenger train will daily, Sundays ex-
The train will stop for passenger only at the following
points:
Manchester Robou's, Coal Fields, Tomahawk, Pow.
hatan, Mattoax, SCOTS Shop, Amelia Court House,
Wyanoke, Jennings Ordinary, Haytokat and Liberty
Church.
Leave Richmond at o'clock, A. NJ Returning, leave
keysvie at l.2S P. NJ
Children under 10 years ofage free, provided seat
not occupiedby them From 10 and under Is years of
age half price Servants travelling by themselves must
be furnished with two passe that be retained
in the office audit must be expressly stated on the pass
that they are permitted to go on the cars.
N. B-Passengers for Lynchburg will take the South.
side train at Haytokah for ices Station thence by Fagg
X Cos stages to Lynchburg Passengers for Halifax
Court House and Danville, Va meet Messrs Flagg
q Cos four horse coaches Keysvlc And passengers
for Danvllle Va, Greensborough, Salisbury and Char.
lotte, ~ c., Messrs Flagg Co.'S four horse
coaches on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturday $, at
Keysville. "
Passengers for GAINESVILLE Boydton Milton, N c. and
nanceyviile can meet Messrs Moss Il Co.'S coaches at
Keysvllle on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays and
Tor Milton and fanceyvlle by Fagg & Co.'s line Mon
days Wednesdays and Fridays.
fe 25 JOHN IT, OSBORNE surt
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For children under twelve and over tthree years of
age halt rates will be charged. person taken up at
point not designated will be required pay the charge
from the last designated point and person desiring to
leave the train ats point not designated will pay the
charge to the point next designated, with this proyso
thas no person shall less than s5 cents for any dis
tance both the points be regular stopping places 9TH
erwse the charge will not be less than SO cents
No charge being made in the above rates for baggage
the Company will not be responsible it, unless case
ofgross negligence the part of their agents, and will
IN no case be responsible specie bills jewell
ry or anything but the passengers necessary bag
gage.
Passengers ION the way wishing to be taken on the
cars should make signal if in the day with handker-
Chief and if in the night with light from the time the
is BEST however, for passengers practicable to get in
atdepots orreguar stopping places in the othe
mail being too late the conductors sometimes unable
to stop at other points the road.
Passengers wishing to be set down between depots
should notify the train Captain ofther wish after
leaving the previous depot.
Passengers are prohibited from standing the plat
form OF the cars, getting in out of the when in
motion.
By order of the Board of Directors.
ja6 c. w. MACMURDO Treasurer
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By order of the Board of Directors
ja6 G. W. MACMURDO Trea
TI1HROUGM 70 LEXfNGT

Il BUCHANAN IN TWO DAYS, IN OUR MAIL
PACKET BOATS, BY ESCOTTSVILLE & LYNCH
BURG-On and after the 10TH boats will leave Rich
mond daily Sunday excepted the usual hour P. NJ,
and arrived in Lynchburg "a hours and in Buchanan
AZ hours.
Returning leave Buchanan at II, A. NJ, every day ex
cept Sundays; arrive in Lynchburg at 81 p NJ: leave
Lynchburg at P NJ and arrive in Richmondin 80
NJ and the Southern and Northern Railroad cars eav
ing at A. M.
Passengers for Lexington with daily line o.
stages at North rver returning leave Lexington every
day except Sunday and arrive in Richmond in "A hours
Passengers for Farmville fare 49, Buckingham c. H.
fare So 25 Charlottesville fare 49, and Staunon fare 3d.
will leave Richmond in Monday NV ednesday and Fri
day'sb boats
Below card of time arrival at intermediate dis
tances
Leave Richmond day Sundavs excentel at6 p M
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PANEK POINT LINE TO RALTIMORE
s ssssss ass El % zzzs1@Sss asslA@=aE

On Monday of each week-Fare IS only.
IuNHE public are hereby informed that the comfortable
= Il and expeditions steamer POWHATAN, Captain
Charles E. Mitchell, having been entirely reftted, en-
arged, and improved in every respect is now ON the
route between Richmond and Baltimore, weekly.
Passengers by this agreeable and economical ne will
leave Richmond by the morning train on Monday of
f week at O'clock. A M and reach Baltimore in
ring connection with the different lines out of Bat-
more the following morning in any direction Return
Ing passengers will leave Baltimore the afternoon of
Wednesday of each week. at 81 o'clock P. NJ and con-
meet the creek on the following morning with the train
ofthe Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
Company, which arrives in Richmond on Thursday alta
O'Clock, p. M.
Fare in either direction, S. forward cabin passen.
gers, Including meals. 81 so.
Fare for first class passengers between Baltimore and
Philadelphia by the New Castle and Frenchtown line
g 50. For secoud class dosl so. Making the whole
fare from Richmond to Philadelphia by this agreeable
line 81 so only for first class passengers and Sc for SCI
cond class do
For further particulars through tickets apply at the
office of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad Company ] WINSTON,
Ticket Agent.
Office r, F C P II r Company
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WINTER AssKANGENlEN
Change of s7our Of Surfing.

rENERE steamboat CURFlS PECK, Captain John Da
d WIS., will on and after Thursday next 18th nst leave
the wharf Rockets regularly every Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday mornings, alto O'Clock precisely for Ports
mouth and Notwithstanding, the will leave the
wharfn Norfolk every Monday Wednesday and Friday
mornings at the hour 81 o'clock, and touch at all
OF the regular landings the river going and return
nS.
Passage to Cokes Grove wharf. ...........S 81 so
Passage to Portsmouth and Norfolk. --..... Q 90
Children under II years of age, half price.
Servants TO any point On the River above Grove
Through 70 Portsmouth and Norfolk / so
Meals, 80 cents each.
"a HASKINS Il IIBBYj
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.sx q 9 ~ EAMtNsssfo f;i,tlistFisl.
VIA NopseiK-eStea'ers PENNSYLVANIA. Captain
Bsymcre, vlHGINlA, Capt. Teal, and CITY OF
RICHMOND. Capt Mitchell.
One OF these splendid steamships will leave Richmond
for Philadelphia alternately Mondays and Fridays at
high water Returning, leave Philadelphia for Richmond
Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10 O'Clock, M, until
further notice.
These steamers have been built expressly for this line,
ana every care has been taken in their construction
strength and speed and their accommodations for
passengers and attention of their captains are unequaed
Passengers for Netc York.-We lave inferred into ar.
engagements with several companies in Philadelphia
forward passengers through New York. either by rail-
road or steamers thereby Offering the travelling COM
nlonty to that city such Inducements the following
VIZ short trip at sea- thereby avoiding much of that
great objection IN travelling by sea- "sea sickness"
trip up the beautiful Delaware river aud sufficient time
City " WIZ N'"Ae
Passage throughto New York and found in LIST cabin 50
Passagein firstcabin and found to Philadelphia
Do second do do do ~
For freight or passage apply to
ROBERT RANKIN, Agent,
Corner goth and Water sts Richmond
LEVI ELDRIDGE. Gen. Ag't
No z, North Wharves Philadelphia.
Notice to ShlpperSDue notice will always be given
when the steamers will be ready receive freight and
the hour OF their sailing.
ape r. RANKIN AGENT