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of his oath, and enter upon crusade
against gamblers and gambling which
will drive the first from the city, and put
an end to the other. Would it not be
advisable to follow the example of Co.
lumbus, and hold a public meeting to
concert measures for the suppression of
gambling? We think it would; and
have no doubt that a suitable popular
demonstration would drive gamblers from
Cincinnati as it has done from Columbus.
Let us have meeting bv all means, and
get rid Of the blacklegs somehow
1t is not now in our power to state how
far this vice is carried on in our national
metropolis. We shall look into the sta
tistics of the subject at the proper time.
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CHARTER oak LIFE INSURANCE COM
PANV

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.
Capital 100000
Securely invested under the official appro-
val of the Comptroller of Public Accounts Of
this State
Office, corner of Ulu1n amt ASylUm street.
FTNHIS Company will issue Policies on the
l. Joint Stock principle. and upon the Mu-
tual plan thus combining the benefits of both
systems at the option Of the insured; and
make contracts upon any and all conditions ap-
ertaining to, or connected with life risks of
whatever name or nature.
Policies will be issued at the lowest rates of
premium that can be adopted and afford re-
quisite security to the insured and perpetuity
to the institution.
On the surrender of Life Policy. the hold
er will receive its equitable value in cash
This Company continues to effect insurance
on the lives of persons going to California, at
fair rates of premium; and a grant permits
for travelling, sea and foreign residence at
equitable rates.
Policies issued for the benefit of n married
woman, on the life of her husband. or any
other person, will insure to her separate use,
independently of her husband and of the
claims Of his creditors
The Company is managed and controlled by
Board of Directors. who are personally in
terested. as stockholders and policy holders
in its success
Pamphlets. containing rates of premium
and Information in relation to the plan of OPP
erations, and all papers necessary to effect in
surance. may be obtained at the Office of the
Company, or of any one of the Agents.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
ALFRED GILL. President,
JOHN L. BUNCE Vice President
JAMES C. WALKLEY, Secretary
DIRECTORS.
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RE 4 UNA DE CLOTHING
And Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods,

WE would respectfully invite the attention
w of purchasers to our large and fashion.
able assortment of READY-MADE CLOTH.
ING and FURNISHING GOODS. which VIC
have just received for Spring and Summe,
trade, feeling satisfied that we can offer nc
inducements in prices, styles. and qualities
not to be met with in this city
OUR CUSTOM DEPARTMENT.
under the management Of practical and ex-
perienced cutters, of acknowledged ability
and taste, is now supplied with an extensive
assortment of new styles of CLOTHS. CASSI-
MERES, and VEsTINGS, which we will make
to order at the shortest notice in superior
style of workmanship and finish, at very mod
crate prices, and guarantee entire satisfaction
IN all cases. WALL 4 STEPHENS.
Penn. avenue between 9th and 10th
APP 3 streets. next to Iron Hall
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PASTE Is JEwEbs.-The Belgian o.
serrer says that Napoleon has had all the
paraphernalia used at the coronation of
Louis XVI. brought out to be in readi-
ness for his own browning. Some of the
robes are ornamented with the royal
Bourbon insignia of the .feur de lis or lily.
1t is proposed to replace them with bees,
which has led to the following witticism.
C'est arec les lis que les abeiltes font leur
me,lleur miel2 1t is from the lilly that
the bees make their honey! The crown
is also of gold, ornamented with precious
stones, and is so heavy that Louis XVI.
could not keep it on his head, and during
the browning two Lords of the Court held
it there for him. The Emperor is stronger
than Louis XVI, he has tried on the
crown and is sure he can wear it, that is,
if he is careful to balance it properly! 1t
will only have to be held on by others
when he kneels, otherwise it would fall
in front of him. An Interesting cere-
mony that. Pity the crowd did not
smash the crown at the revolution, when
they burned the throne. By the bye, if
the crown requires so much balancing, it
may perchance fall off some day.
Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-05-26

If you wish to drive cut nail into
seasoned oak timber, and not to have it
break or bend, just have small quantity
of oil near by. and dip the nail before
driving, and it will never fail to 60. In
mending carts and ploughs this is of great
advantage, for they are generally made
most of oak wood. In Strengthening old
nails before using, let it be done on wood,
and with easy blows. If done on iron,
they will be sure to break.
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SINGULAR.-The Cincinnati Gazette
says that ga few days since, while a
young man on Walnut, near Fifth street,
was employed in kindeling a charcoal
fire, he was seen to give sudden leap
and then fall forward as if dead He was
Immediately picked up by some men who
were passing at the time. He soon re-
covered, and when asked what was the
matter with him, he replied that his head
and face felt badly, and he supposed
somebody had knocked him down.
While kindling the fire, he had been in
haling the fumes of the charcoal, which,
Notwithstanding the fire was out of doors,
produced this unusual and powerful ef-
feet.
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BlackmauitY,

The Paris correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Register gives the following:
A morning paper relates funny little
anecdote about an old man in Paris who
lived very happy until Mrs. Stoves novel
lodged in his head all sorts of colored
manias. The old man, rich as Southern
planter, had from that time but one fixed
ldea-to make black man happy. There
! fore. he dismissed his white domestic,
and went to an Intelligence Office to OBJ
tain black one. They gave him groom
as dark as Erebus. The old man received
him with all the affability of an American
Senator, and introduced him into his
house rather On the footing of friend
than a servant. This state Of things
lasted week, when the old man received
an anonymous letter.
Sir" it said, you have in your service
a dyed negro. Your servant is white of
the lowest species. You are the dupe of
pot of backing" Indignant at this
revelation, the old man conducted his man
into closet.
Wretch" said he, II know all. There
is soap and water, and towel; [ give
you an hour to wash yourself and pack
up your Clothes"
At the end of an hour, he returned and
found his man as black as ever. "What!"
he cried, ''you are not yet washed. y
"But | am black" replied the other; 81
can't wash myself white" Il tell YOU,
rascal, that | know all. Wash your
self"
At the end Of two hours there was a
new visit to the closet; the black was
still black, and there were reasons for it,
which belonged to the coast of Guinea.
lrritated by what he took to be obstinacy,
the old man conducted his domestic to
the commissary of police; the magistrate
having proved the servants fast color, his
master took him back and redoubled his
kindness towards him.
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The Hippodrome.

The New York Day Book thus speaks
about Franconi's exhibition. We can
hardly imagine that the people of New
York could be so easily gulled as that
paper would have us believe:
cit never was farther from this city
than Williamsburg, 1t is nothing more
nor less than the Bowery Amphitheatre
transferred to Twenty-third street. The
horses are American, the men are Amer
lean and the women are American
nothing more and nothing less. The girls
are just such eases as we can find any
where about the city, at any time, and
such as can be seen any Sunday in the
month, on the Third avenue, with fast
men and fast horses, driving at the rate of
two forty The pretension of the Hip
pOdrome to having come from France is
sheer humbug. We do not believe a soul
in the whole concern ever saw France.
The whole thing is complete sell,
and any one who was there last night
will so pronounce it. 1t is not only a
dead failure, but a complete fizzle, and
deserves to be hooted and drove from the
respectable location it has taken in the
upper part of the city. 1t is the resort
of the women of the town, Bowery boys
with their 'g'hals. gamblers and loafers,
and no respectable person can 60 there
without disgracing himself: and as for
respectable females being seen there since
its character is known. why the very idea
is absurd. No lady will 60 to see sick
monkeys, poor ostritches, lazy horses,
fast women and common jockies, driven
round ring for the sport of boys.
"The first go off of this concern was
very good but it has fizzled out and
ends in the commonest kind of country
circus, differing from it only in having
fast women from Mercer and Church
streets for an audience"
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A valuable vein of iron and silver ores
combined, has recently been discovered
on the farm of Capt. Samuel Uran, in
Sullivan, Hancock county Me-, which
has been so far examined as to excite
high expectation.
Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-05-26

The CURE FOR DYsPEps1A.-Close al
the outer doors of four story house,
open the inner doors, and take a long
switch and chase a cat up and down
stairs till you steam. Follow this pre-
scription closely for reasonable length
of time, and you will be as certain of a
cure as it is possible for you to be of your
own existence.
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Would inform
the public that
they are prepar-
ed to fill any
orders in their
line. BLINDS.
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I. o. Of Rechabites.

;, Mount Vernon Tent, Thursday, Rechabite
all, corner D and It'll streets.
Geo: Washington, Monday Rechabite Hall.
Eagle, Tuesday. Odd Fellows Hall, Navy
Yard
Arlington, Friday, Rechabite Hall.
Heber, Thursday, Society Hall, Georgetown.
Eagle, Jr.; Masonic Hal, Navy Yard
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EVENING ST AR.
now 70 wTITE POETRY,

HOW TO WT1TE fOET ny.
We published on our fourth page, last
week, lsays the Piedmont Wing, various
solutions of the problem-How to write
poetry! This week we purpose to ex-
plain:
How We Write Poetry.
We gather some handfuls of pit,
And, washing it perfectly clean,
We take it as soon as it's dry,
And clap it in sour Machine.
And then we take hold Of the winch,
And turn it about and about:
And, ere We have moved it an inch,
The verses begin to run out
A stickful comes out at time,
As nicely as ever was seen;
The sense and the rythm and rhyme
All fashioned in sOur Machine"
Long metre or short it's no odds,
No difference what is the theme
Words follow the "spaces" and 'quads,'
As buttermilk follows the cream.
The slower you work at the crank,
The slower and graver the measure;
And thus you may reel off your hank,
Or else rice Uersa-at pleasure.
r. thea. your H,otionS are slow,
Without much emotion passion,
You'll find that your verses will flow
Somewhat in the following fashion:
Slow and steady, Jim-to the tune of
"Old Hundred"
While night and solitude enwrapped the town,
Some rascal went and burned the Court House
down.
A little faster, Jim.
While all was quiet in the town,
Some rascal burned the Court House down.
Faster still.
While upon tramp
Through the quiet town,
Some internal scamp
Burned the Court House down.
Now let her rip, at ninety turns min
ute.
On tramp,
In the night,
Came scamp,
With light;
And before
Any one
Could say Jack
Robinson,
Accomplished
Ills desire,
Set the Court House
All a-fre,
And then
Went away,
Long before
Break of day,
So that no
One in town
Knows who
Burned it down.
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either wide or marrow Stats, and plain or
fancy trimmings furnished to order Painted
and other WINDOW SHADES put up in the
best style. Hair, Cotton. and Shuck MA
TRESSES. Pew and other CUSHIONS to
order. CORDS, TASSEI.S, SPLIT BLINDS,
&C.. on hand LOUNGES made to order
All orders thankfully received and promptly
attended to-
Old work repaired may lift
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CARD FOR LADIES

Van ~ run I/1DILbS.
HENRY WEIRMAN'S celebrated Ladies'
i i Misses, and Children's FRENCH SHOES,
are sold by the undersigned, on 18th street,
just above Corcoran & Riggs Banking House.
in his new building with the high marble
steps, where he will receive Ladies' orders,
and keep constantly on hand very superior
assortment of Ladies'. Misses and Children s
French Cater WALKING SHOES, White and
Black Satin CATERS. SLIPPERS. &c made
to order by II. Weirman, of Philadelphia, of
the best French Cater materials and in the
latest Partisan styles. These CATERS are en-
tirely different from what are commonly term
ed ''slop shop Shoes" being all custom work,
Of superior workmanship, and warranted to
give perfect satisfaction.
Ladies, therefore, who value beauty COM
fort, and economy, will be gratifed in the op-
portunity to consult their best interest and
taste, in SO essential a part Of female dress.
The ladies of Washington, Georgetown,
Alexandria. and vicinity, are respectfully in
vited to call and judge for themselves.
APP 26-5w c. WIERMAN.
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Letter from the Hon. Thomas H BeDfou

WASHINGTON CRY, April 90. 1919.
SIR owe you many thanks for the oppor-
tunities L have had to read the Merchants
Magazine. and have found it in reality tie be a
Magazine, and that well replenished of all
the useful mattOr which the title would imply
and presented with fullness and clcarnecs
which delights while it instructs. II is. in
fact, merchants magazine i'm the large ac
ceptiOn of the term-merchants who 90 he
tween nations. whose Jorge operations bring
many departments of knowledge. and a view
OF the state of the world into daily reGuisition
But 1t is not the great merchant only, but the
one OF more modest. but. nevertheless. of most
useful operations-who will find this macazin
to abound with the information. the pursuit
OF his business and the elevation of the mer
camille character requires. Nor is its utility
at all confined to merchants but extends to
the legislator and diplomatsts. and TO all who
are charged with managing the affairs of the
nation. For myself. have found it most use
ful to me in my senatorial labors. and have
been in the habit for many years of carefully
consulting it. Very respectfully. sir. your
obedIent servant TH0S. H. BENTON
FREEMAN Hunt. ESQ.
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NOELL y BOYD,
Elind-Makers and Upholsterers,

SoHM ssae Pa. az, betqcrem 9th and 10TH SITS
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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW

By FREEMAN HUNT. EDITOR AND ppopp1rrop
A FEW complete sets of this Magazine msv
"A be obtained at the publishers Office. Ia3
Fulton street, New York, neatly and substan.
tally bound. for two dollars and half per
volume. The following are a few of the com.
mandatory letters received by the editor from
distinguished statesmen:
Letter from Hon. Henry Clan.
ASHLAND, Goth July, Is49.
DEAR SIR I wish to express to YOU the rrst.
lfcation derived on receiving the July nun
Der OF the Merchants Magazine and CONNER
elal Review, from viewing your portrait in the
beginning. and from reading your address 10
your friends at the end of it. When We feel
under obligations to those who have contrib.
uted to our information and amusement wa
are naturally DESTROYS to possess knowle5re
OF them, OF their appearance of the features
OF their countenance, and of the character and
habits OF their mind. which we can acouire
lou nave placed your numerous readers fat
ieast You have me, If | may not speak for them
under those obligations; and the number Of
your valuable work now before me. i'm some
degree, satisfies the desire TO which / have al.
luded. L have become quite familiar with tbs
Magazine and Review. and have no hcsitatio,
In expressing my humble opinion that il is en-
lnently entitled to the public regard and sup
port. LII collects and arranges in good order
large amount of valuable statistical an,
other information, highly useful, not only
the merchant, but to the statesman to the cul
tirator of the earth, to the manufacturer. {
the mariner, in short. to all classes of the Lr
siness and reading community.
Entertaining this opinion. am glad that,
has been, and hope that ii may continue to be.
literally patronized. Offering you cordial as
suranceS OF my esteem and regard. am truly
your friend and obedicnt servant
Freeman Hunt, esq. H CLAY.
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Eafract Of a Letter from lEIiara Fillmore.
q" have read it (Merchants' Magazine) with
a good deal of attention. and have no bes;ta-
ton in saying that l think it one of the most
valuable periodicals that was ever published
10 the merchant it seems quite indispensable.
and to the statesman and man of general in
formation almost equally desirable 1t is a
grand repository of useful facts and informa-
ton, which can be found nowhere so well di-
gested and so accessible as in these numbers
only regret that do not own the work
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WASHINGTON CITY DIRECTORY.

Mayor-John W. Maury.
Register.-Wm. j. Mccormick.
CozLector.-Robert J. Roche.
Su1reyor.-Henry ". Ball.
assistant Surueyor.-Wm. W. DeMaine.
TAG Cterk.-Thos. Hutchingson.
Bo0k-Keeper. flames T. Clark.
Attorney.-James M. Carlisle.
Messenger. Kleirer.
Commissioner of First Dastrict.-John F
Hardness.
Commissioner Of Second District. -Franci
B. Lord.
Commissioner Of Third District-Thomp
son Van Riswick.
Commissioner Of Fourth District Herr,
D. Gunnell.
Commissioners of the Asylum. A
Davis, Theodore Wheeler, and George Ii. Full
mer.
luteuaem Of Asylum.-Benjamin E. Git
tings.
Physician of Asylmm.-George NJ. Dove
Secretary to tie Board of Commissioner
Of Asylum.-John II. Noyes.
Commissioner Of tile Eastern Section O.
tie Canal.-Joseph Gross.
Inspector Of Tobacco. Henry Martin
Seaier Of Weights and Measures NJ
McCauly.
Inspector Of Fire Apparatus.-Caleb Buck
ingham.
Inspector Of Flour and Sailed Provisions
Jacob Klciver.
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NUMBER so.
RICHMOND WHIG.

r. ,L Ooinet' now visible every evening IN ,h
- -, hNes'ern part Of the heavens Soma 90 eye.
zoe norizon, begins attract unv.,..i sroes
occasionally IL has been visible !, - s'isnton-.
va park even. On Monday evening oe,ore rs
the n OF BLACK clouds across coarse which
:, 80 TOT hiteen or twenty minutes AZ !. a.. ~
u e'Herged, a IL were from betwesn ,L "e, W When
III ; 70 great advantage. The nucleu. 4 - III
80, as ~ Pnase may be easily detected WITH -,
re sun and thar !, , think the comet approaching
",rouSn telescope its body appe,rs ,oaa , -. ,
WSre the tail seem te Kicker or assb 'ou"a aud solid
ms "Hlustrious stranper :. -. a. H..
Griss ~, Uncovered on the 10th Of June nv SI,nl."
!, IN neeu DE under no particular apnrsh.nsi 49,
Of tho Chit Ionlaet @ with our dirty planet as DR. Rond
from the cay,b observatory tells that il. dssanc.
IT, e'h y some sixty or seventy million. az nil,
.She authority assures us that IA IL soms b;, " mest
oil miles distant from the sun ue 'nHy mil'ons
several voaa Ine most imposing that has g,
no, tii ana those who have good ~ ps
nov ia 70 notice the interesting visiter o.. should
oT ,5e vas marked change noted IN ths ese-
while the ppclens ,i was mucn thinner and longer
'' tne general aspect OF the Who'll uense ana
I,5 star, enveloped and followed hv h ~ "
er' IL Is thought that th. come IN ~ snoNer OF
helion on the eth inst "s' VIII reach its peri
49, oo9ies oS used to be looked upon AZ thu oo,,.;
i,v bn, a. eslhehce famine, some other dr.; .si
look mon ,b taer days the world has e.rrsa -
fear. ave aAu admiration, and not w ith
apnearanaa IT iaey who first proved that manv oe a.
the same bodi Osts we're hut the periodical re,rp -
ton ia about - ieS comet performs Its revolu.
and c,o., se 'eny-siH years. IL appearsd i 10
= eAe 10 It's perihelion on the IAN ~ ~ IA l'Sss
appearance was made in SAG ~ VI Aarch. It's Issi
That which is known as EncL, -
eIfI by NJ Pons Nov e6h ISIS but Is was nrst discOv.
ss. ouolheTs alter Professor Eneke i y''S named
the three comet, ho IGs and perturbao It i one Of
en was. ITS revolutions made in ree 70 pre
Austrian oSu tcaled after lis discoverer Ris,,
It il sI,o ono e. vas discovered February esth 1899
predced one o the three whose reippearsnce
hrry egt sEo'n2n beirg performed n six years and
,bi,I e time of its peribelon passage wss Nov N IN
'nTI m appearance was in lsse "'A NV ~ It's
bodies I. we're frequently visited by these erra,ic
,wo i ustn tell Us of the simultaneous snnasr,r. S
wbnss we're seen for seventy-two days topetber and
cnnict ecipsed that Of the mid ay sun. and az.
This was ISk or the fourth part OF the heavens
T,cbo p"snonena we're first nationally explained nv
about the year 1877. The orbits OF comet
! Express. ~ HeN'ou' IN liOl.-N Y,
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FALL TRADE.

BuVkS, STATIONERY AND PiANO FORTFS
AMtS MoObHOEsE ,L,Ts N,sa 4 wo0uuoys sfl Richmond
virginia odsrr for sale at Wholesale retail an rNttnsv,
hooks AND STATIONERY
Adapted 20 the wants % the Yrna North Croip,
'n tr N"ert' ~ prices a. low De- obtained Northern
us 10 ;onnrcion with his Box aud sstouery business. B..
Has ware rooms appropriated TO the sale of
PIANO FOETES
fi'd with an assortment extensive can be seen AZ any
H1ishmrnt ~ the LIuI iu the Union.
ne has lsrtptitd iu the sale 90 Ud Pima
Fories In the state ct Virginia. North Carolina and gn,s.
Nh nave gwen entire Atsfsc0n. Ta,y warranted
Pgror ~ every rsi, offered Tor se prise
% WI o. rt'1f securely 90 distance without injury
Ne hiss also attached Co his hmsnt ROuH PyVIEgl
AND EiiAh b"oh HINJFAtYOEI. where ali l. "a 1
A- eiini'ai- Hanss, Nusic, &c, lssud and BLANK
k ~ every dc.urtion, suitable o. Merchants Dlul. Pub
Ouces, Crs Of Cults fscilrtss, Manufactured
hsNo'- t:uiic a. Nhsiafatr- New Eihi.n
. '" publishes May1's Guide o. Nlrstrars ne, ,lan it
tI' tr' iyt the pscharge Of their Duties Court win
lr,nliA, 'innf foTms Co.. Drawing Boui', Notes
C'rtra'is, &c, adapted to the New Cole of Nre MIA
- Pcrs1aE ss distance .u.te b. visit monl can
'"-'s f'NtN''f
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y G.n.G3AnT, n,a, nSRG&INs cAN nE oHrs.Ntp EITHER

= - - Al MiioLASALE OR RETAIL N WATCHES JEW.
Sal<s LIZ AND FANCY GOODS, AT ELIAS HALES No.
MAIN slhfEIOn hand and receiving
and Express large assortment silver Matches from
e most celebrated manufacturers,
TO Perform well Gold FOB Breast Chain.
uolu hr and ringer Rngs,
rhs bracelets Breast Pins, Pens and Pencils Tmbr Keys
&S Also large assortment Of low priced Jewery suitable r
me country trade The
Is more extensive than country comprising
sockiro upwards Of thirty different FOR
AZ tLe Ireesi SILVER Ware large atsortmen Also
ware consisting Of Tea SETS Mustard Pots Cups SPOON
for Ladies, sugar longs &c. Also, OF Hair
uth Tooth and Nail Brushes; Fancy Boxes oils Cologne
KNIVES scssors Raz1Ts, Combs, Buttons Pins
With anexirnsivr assortment OF small line too nu
merou 10 tuo FOR sale ia quantities
as can be bought In Of the Northern from Tie ran
UIae'uteTs' diTvct ELIAS HALE,
ma3O iGf NJ 80.