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POETRY.
The Long Ago.

The Long Ago.
Oh! a wonderful stream is the river Time,
As it runs through the realms of tears,
With faultleSs rythm aud musical rhyme,
Aud broader sweep, and surge sublime,
And blends with the ocean OF years.
How the winters are drifting like flakes of snow,
And the summers like buds between,
And the year in the sheaf-so they come and they
go,
On the rivers breast, with its ebb and flow,
As it glides in the shadow and sheen.
There is magical isle up the river Time,
Where the soltest of airs are playing;
There's cOudless sky and tropical cline,
Aud a song as sweet as a vesper chime,
And the Junes with the roses are staying.
And the name of this isle is the Long Ago,
And we bury our treasures there;
There are brows OF beauty and blossoms of snow
There are heaps of dust. but we loved them so!
There are trinkets and tresseS Of hair.
There are fragments of songs that nobody sings,
Aud part of an infants prayer;
There's lutte unswept, and harp without
strings
There are broken vows, and pieces Of rings,
And the garments tnat she uSeu to wear.
There are hands that are waved when the fairy
shore
By the mirage is lifted in air;
And we sometimes hear, through the turbulen
roar,
Sweet voices we heard in the days gone before,
When the wind down the river is fair.
T Oh, remembered for aye be the blessed isle,
All the day of life till night
When the evening comes with its beautiful smile
And our eyes are closing to slumber awhile.
May that greenwood" of soul be in sight
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The LAST OF DR.. JoHNSoN's KNOWN CoTEM-
poRARIEs.-Died at Richmond Mrs. Jane Lang
ton, last surviving daughter of Bennett Langton,
of Lang,on. Lincolnshire. and of the Countess
Dowager, of Rothes. Mrs Jane Langton was
the god daughter of Samuel Johnson. I1el birth
is mentioned in Boswell under the year I'LL
..I.angton." says Johnson writing To Boswell.
cha. another wench. Thrale is IN hopes of a
Young brewer" How strange sOeverit may seem,
Miss Jane Langton who died at Richmond on the
18th inst, was the correspondent Of Samuel John
son who died seventy years since. In 'Boswell''
may be seen beautiful letter from Johnson to his
little god daughter, acknowledging pretty letter
he had just received from her. 1t begins "My
dear Miss Jenny y is full of good advice for girl
of her years. conveyed in words eXquisiely sim
pie for the great photographer; and written with
al, as Boswell tells us. in large round hand.
nearly resembling printed characters. that she
might have the satisfaction Of reading it herself.
"When You are little older Git is thus the great
man concludes his lesser tp Miss jenny | hope
you will be very diligent in learning arithmetic.
and above all, through your whole life you will
carefully say your prayers ard read your Bible"
Simple words these, but from how great man
Miss Jenny remembered the injunction of her il
lustrious god father and was proud Of showing the
letter which the great m0ralist had sent her
framed and glazed in her iavorite apartment at
Richmond. If Q"ee'y Thrale, afterwards Baron
eSs Keith. is no longer living. Mrs. Jane Langlnn
MY dear Miss Jenny) was the last survivor of all
the persons mentioned in Boswell's delightful BIZ
o rraphy.
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IRlsH EouvocArIoN.-The Irish peasants
newer answers a question directly. In some dis
tricts, if you ask him where such gentieman'S
house is. he will point and reply
Docs your honor see that large hnnse there,
all among the trees, with agreen field before ii p
Yuu answer, Yes
'We,' says he. 'plaze your honor. that's not 1t.
But do You see he big brick house with the cow
houses by the side Of that same, and pond ofwa
ter p
Yes
well. PLACE your honor, That's not it. But. if
you plaze, look quite to the right Of that same,
and you'll see the top of castle among the trees
there, with road going down to it, betune the
bushes 2
Yes
We'll, PLACE your honor. that's not Il, neither
but if your honor will come down this bit of a
road couple of miles. I'll show you sure enough
and il your honOr's in hurry. can run On hot
Eot. ia 6gurative expression for all possible
speed used by the Irish peaSants-by taking
short cuts and fairly hopping along, young peas
ant would beat any good traveller, and tell the
squire your honor's gai!oping gflcr me- All! who
shall tell the squire, plaze your honor. is com
ing to sec him he's my own landlord, God save
his honor day and night
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M'VElGH 4 CHAMBERLAIN,
wWOLESALE GROCEEsS
1S..s,,oa Ct Wharf, Alexandria,
Mtt SGs ~ HlakS -
crpTENIRER %, 1854,

SEPTEMBER 20, 1894,
HAVE the pleasure to ANNOUNCES !? ,s";, EsII StosI
dealers generally the arrival OF ther Se't seoeN
h;b FAR variety and extent iSnot surpassed IN this mar
~. aud having been purchased with great care IN Dos
hon and New York, they are enabled 70 o'ef Such IN
du<cmcnts as cannot fail to please By utet perhoa
far n ractierbe 10 their Stale great advantages
tcE De Sbained by giving to their stock careful exam
nation as it their determination to sell as cheap as
any Of the NoRrHEsN CIrtEs' The following nS' O'
articles comprises portion OF their stock;
l25 hhds \. o., p. r. and Cuba Sugars,
200 boxes & bbls No. Loaf, Crushed Pulv'd do,
l20 bbls A, b and G Coffee Sugars,
lis hhds & ti,rces Musco P. K. Cardenas MoIasseS'
It's bbls N. o MoaSSes,
75 do Sugar House and Boston syrup
3S5 bags Rio, laguira and Java C9lee' .
Their stock of recently IMPORTED TEAS IS very
large to which they invite particular attention. ana wl
in every instance guarantee the quality OF such as they
recommend. Ii consists IN part OF
225 balfchests Gmpowder, Imperial, Black, Young
Hyson, from medium 10 prime
lis boxes Adamantine aud Sperm Candles,
IFS do Mould do 40 do RoSin Soap,
is do White, Bar and Varegated do,
100 do Pearl Starch,
100 kegs Rifle s Blasting Powder; 1000 lbs Bar Lead
1000 feet Fuse so boxes prime old CASTLE Soap,
500 reams double and single Wrapping Paper,
so do Tea Paper; l15 do Cap and Letter Paper,
25 bales Almonds 25 baskets prime Salad Oil,
100 boxes assorted Candy; $50 do Indigo,
25 bbls Clipped Logw0od; 100 kegs Carbonate Soda
As kegs Birthstone; 50 do Saltpetre,
80 do Alum, EPSON Salts aud Copperas,
$50 do Maddcr Cloves, and Ground Ginger,
100 bags Pepper, ALpice, and Race Ginger,
rs malls Cinnamon so boxes fresh Maccarony,
100 doz. Painted Buckets; 20O boxes Window Glass,
so tierccs prime Cider Fineger,
600 doz. Mason's Backing; 200 bblS No Nlackerel
as casks old Madeira Wine SO do old Port Wine,
SIS do brown & pale Sherry do; 50 do Muscat do,
10 DO sweet Malaga Wine; rs baskets Champagne
most approved brands with large assortment o.
choice Oid BaANDIEs, WHISKIES &c.
Merchants visiting our market will find 1t greatly
their advantage to examine stock before making then
purchases. McNEiGh 4 CHAMBERLAIN
Alexandria, Va, Sept 20, 1854.
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Discovery at Jerusalem.

The following account of an interesting dlScov-
cry recently made at Jerusalem by DR.. Barclay,
an American physician, is given in recent letter
from Rev H. ID. Kitcheli, of Detroit, to the Chi
cago Herald dated at Jerusalem, Aug. l2:-
Not long since as DIR. Barclay was walking
outside of the wall of Jerusalem. his dog pursued
some animal into small hole under the wall, and
was gone SO long as to vakeu his curiosity
With some difficulty he opened the hole, and
pressing in he found it opening out inio spacious
cavern. He closed up the opening then but went
out with his son soon aiterward and suffered him
self to be shut ont Of the gate night: as the
gates are all closed at sunset. They then entered
the cave prepared with lights, and spent the night
in exploring and accurately measuring the vast
cavern which they found within. We formed a
party, and very early one morning visited this
cave, before any people were stlrrlna3beyond the
walls. 1t is on the north side of the city, few
rods eastward from the Damascus gate. For about
ten feet the passage is barely large enough 10 ad-
nit the body and you crowd yourself in feet fore
most Then climbing down some eight feet you
find yourself in passage vaulted over by smooth
rock, which opens out into long succession OF
immense chambers They spread far and wide
under the hill which forms the north, eastern por
ton of the CITY, Ii seems to have been Originally
natural cave in the rock, which has been quar-
ried ou, in every direction, till it now appears as
a series of chambers, vast and deep, hewn in the
solid unstratifed limestone. Stone was perhaps
quarried here in ancient times for building in the
city. The fall length of the excavation is said to
be near 900 feet, directly toward The site Of the
temple Immense galleries lead off on the sides ;
aud the roof, in many parts 80 10 80 feet above,
almost beyond reach of your torch-light, is sup
ported on huge piers of the rock left Tor the pur-
pose. At the end is a fountain and small pool.
the water quite saline and strongly impregnated
with lime. In one deep pit was found, when the
cave was first entered the skeleton of a man,
whose bones still lie piled on a rock near where
they were discovered. Some poor fellow long a
90 found here dark chamber of death, and Sc
pulehre surprising that of the Kings. We spent
several hours in following cut the many apart
ments Of this cave"
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ATTENTION THE CoURT.-A friend ofours has
just been mentioning thai on one occasion he was
addressing '.the court" at the bar OF one of the
middle states upon subject of great moment 10
his client, when his attention was arrested by a
singular circumstance.
He observed that when he dwelt upon the par
ticuar point of his argument which he wished es-
pecialy to enforce, ''the courts" head went
down behind his elevated desk and presently rose
again.
Changing his position slightly, he saw the mys-
terry of this singular occurrence and when. soon
after, it was repeated, he paused in his remarks,
and said:
"When the court has finished ''ealing its wa
termelon" shall proceed with my argument, not
without the hope of being al least partially
heard !"
And this reminds us of the reply of certain
"cour' at the west TO question of the counsel -
"Does the counsel understand the court to saw
that its last ruling was according to .law?"
To which the court answered thus :"
"lf the court understand" hersef-and I
think she ''do"-it ''arl''
There is much talent and ''some" ignorance on
the western ''bench."
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SPEED ON RAILwAYs.-In 1916, thirty eigh
years ago, Mr.. Meigs often predicted in the news
papers. and two years after in the Legislature O
New York, that the time would come when ralI'
vays would be travelled at an average speed Of
fifteen miles an hour! Few believed him. lie
has recently published book, in which he states
tina. the Emperor Nicholas, of Russia, has taken
the first great step in the construction OF railways
which looks to the attainment OF the highest prac-
tical speed in travelling on them. Instead OF o.
pening narrow cuts and going round every oos'a-
Gle, the ruad from St. Petersburgh to Moscow,
five hundred miles, is made on straight line
and opened two hundred feet wide, so that the
running engineer can see everything ON the way
The guage Of the track is broad aud the locomo-
tive is on wheels of large diameter, and the sig
nails and time are perfectly fixed, and the ROADS
crossing the track are shut of by gates as the
trains approach. In this way speed ui one hun
dred miles an hour is attained, and Mr.. MeigS
thinks this may be increased to three hundred
miles On seme straight runs sixty mIlesan hour
has been made in the United States and one hun
dred IN England.
A line Of road is now in progress OF reconstruction
from Savannah, Georgia, to the Gulf OF Mexico
on perfectly straight line, and is TO be opened
one hundred and fifty feet wide. lfopen way Is
secured, curves avoided, and proper machiaery
provided, we see no reason why one hundred
miles an hour cannot be as safely run as thirty is
on our common roads.
Railroads will only have attained their perfec-
tion when perfectly straight lines, level tracks,
and substantial machinery shall have taken the
place of inclined grades and short curves. Real
economy will be found in the Russian plan, and
the Emperor Nicholas has indeed taken the first
great step. Like all he does, there is a substan-
tal and practical magnifcence about it.
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EFFECTS OF TEA UPON THE SYsTEM.-The
author of Chemistry of Common Life" ssys
that in the lite of most persons, period arrives
when the stomach no longer digests enongII Of the
ordinary elements of food to make up for the nat
ural daily waste of bodily substance. and the sze
and weight of The body begin to diminish more or
less pefceptibly. At this period Tea operates as
medicine to arrest the wastes. to keep the body
from falling away FAST and to enable the less en-
ergetc power of digestion still 10 SUPP ly as much
is needed to repair the wear and tear Cf the sol,
id issues
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NEW RnoKS.

FREAKS OF FORTUNE; Katharine Ashton, by
i Miss Sewell; The Pilgrims Of Waisiagham, oy As-
mes Strickland Leather Stockings and Silk Story Of
the Valley OF Virginia; Ten Nights in Bar Room,
temperance tale BY T. 5. Arthur; Hard Times by Dick
ems Ticonderoga, by G.. p r. James; Sir Jasper Ca
rev, BY C. Lever; Fashion and Famine, by Mrs. Ste
phcns /; Now DAYS; Chambers Repository; Chambers
Papers for the People Chambers Miscellany The Sc
lect Writings of Robert Chambers Fifty Years in both
Hemspheres, by Vincent Nolte; Lectures on Romanisin
by Dr. Cumming; Uncle Jcrrys Letters to oung Moth
ers This That aud the Other Struggles for Life; The
Parish Side; The Forrestcrs, BY Dumas; The Barclay
of B.sson; The Lamp Lighter; The American Cottas'
Builder by John Bullock Albums; Portfolios haHd
sonleiy bound Poetca Works; Capt Capot, or Iwen'y
Years of an African SLAYER edited by Braatz Mayer
Journl to Central Africa, by Baya~d Taylor; Virsni;
Comedians or Old Days in the Old Dominion; Party
Leaders by JOS Baldwin; SaNe's Poems just recs'-
ed end for sale by ROB l. CONa An
Stalnton, Sept. 20, 1854.
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0o- The annexed paragraph informs MS of the
origin Of the Immortal Punch, the great recepia-
Gle of English wit and hulnor
PUNCH the paper, not the bererage-began
lis existence in little tavern al the back part OF
Drury Lane Theatre. London. The bar room Of
said tavern was irequented by wits and templars,
possessed of more brains than money. who i'm
bbed the landlords punch, aud in return therefor
cracked Jokes and talked aS only Punch can make
mortal do. The landlord, thrifty IF his wit
thought it a pty that 50 much humor should be
lost 10 the world. and suggested the idea Of 4 pa
per- ''What snail we name il ?" was the Ques-
ton. The landlord settled that by pointing to the
punch bowl, saving, The child should have its
fathers name" 80 was horn immortal Punch.
For year. it had 4 ..ard line. and then the bant-
ling was sold ior .fl0O, to Bradbury s. Evans
Since then lis career has been prosperous-states
men aud mounlebanks fearing its slingS. and the
best writers IN Engla contributing 10 its col
umns.
A MoDGL CLERH.--Y Young mani called 10
see ab0nt ;he clerkSnip You advertised rs vacant.
Old Gent -Rem! Have you gold watch
and cham, fast horse, u diamond ring, six suits
Of clothes, bull dog, Thousand cigars, cask Of
brandy, and an assortment of caurs?"
Young man.-"les sir. got 'em ALL"
Old Gont.-.rhen you suit. Ny other
clerk furnished himself with all those ont ot the
llI, SO as your supplied III saVe the rxpcus,."
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A HINT TO HUSBANDS AND WIvEs.-A BRIDE
groom requested his wife to accompany him into
the garden day or two after the wedding He
then threw line over the roof of their cottage
Giving his wife one end of it, retreated to the
other Side. and exclaimed, "Pull the line !" She
pulled it, at his request, as far as she could: He
cried, "Pul it over!"-'i can't" she replied
..Pull with all your might" shouted the whim-
sical husband But in vain were all the efforts
of the bride to pull over the line, 81 long as the
husband held on to the opposite end. But when
he came round. and they both pulled at one end,
it came over with great ease. There, said he,
..you see how hard and Intellectual was our labor
when we pulled in opposition to each other; but
how easy and pleasant it is when we both pull To-
gether. If we oppose each other it will be hard
work if we act together, il will be pleasant to
live. Let us therefore always pull together"
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FINDING THE LINcH. couutfym

FINDING THE LNcH-PY.--A countfyinsn
was passing along one Of The STREETS Of Baltimore,
a few days since, when one of his wheels came
off, and he discovered that linch-pin was gone.
After searching for il some time he offered the
boys who congregated, shilling TO find it,
They then joined in the search, and in a few min
utes one of them brought him what he supposed
to be the pin Having adjusted the wheel he
paid the shilling and started of, but had not got
more than half block before wheel un the 9TH
er side came off, when he discovered that the
young rascal had stolen the pin from Que of the
of the "Yohng America" buys.
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A NEGRO EMPEROR, SENSIBLE MAN.-Some
years ago, Faus'in |, who now wields the impe-
rial scep,re over the Island of San Domingo,
worked in the sugar and coffee fields for his own
er under the unpretendiug name of Souloque.-
II may not be unncresilng 10 know that The for
mer master OF the present emperor is an old and
highly respected citizen OF This place, and that
from time 10 time he receives friendly messages
from his old slave. A week or two since. he was
pleasantly surprised with The receipt of several
bays of coIle and a package Of sugar. accompanied
by quite afiectionale cuer from his imperial
majesty. 1t would appear that the parvenus of
San Domingo differ from the parvenus of Amer
"a. SUuloques guod fortune las neither obltera.
ted the remembrance If his former condition, NOR
checked nor diminished his Old atfoclions.-St
Louis Democrat.
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o. Eighteen thousand people in the city Of
New York live under ground that is TO say, in
cellars, vaults and holes. So Rev. Mr.. Cuyel
tells Us, and his information is derived from actu.
al investigation. He tells of one neglected quar-.
ter-a single lodging room or denim which one
hundred outcasis Of both sexes herd together, in.
discriminatory, every night. That may be called
lite in New York under ground.
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Hood on Duolling.

Tom Hood describes an intended duel whil
was prevented by an amicable arrangement mat
upon the ground. The parties-Mr. Brady ar
Mr.. Clay rivals for the affections of Miss Lnt
Bell, find it necessary to appeal to arms:
But first they found friend apiece,
This pleasant thought to give
That when they both were dead, they'd have
Two seconds yet to live.
To measure out the ground, not long
The seconds next forebore;
And having taken one rash step,
They took dozen more.
They next prepared each pistol pan,
Against the deadly strife,
By pntting In the prime of death
Against the prime Of life.
Now all was ready for the foes:
But when they took their stands.
Fear made them tremble so, they found
They both were shaking iauds X
Said Mr.. C. to Mr.. b.,
..Here one of us must fall,
And, like St. Pau's Cathedral now,
Be doomed to have ball.
do confess did attach.
Misconduct to your name!
If withdraw the charge, will then
Your ramrod do the same :"
Said Mr.. B., 81 do agrce;- l~.
But think of Honor's cuurts,--
If we be off without a shot,
There will be strange reports.
But look! the morning now is bright,
Though cloudy it begun:
Why can't we aim above, as if
We had called out the sun ;"
So up into the harmless air
Their bullets they did send;
And may all other duels have
An upshot in the end.
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ToNGUE MALFoRMATIoN.- is stated in the
Transactions of the Philosophical Society, that
the Rev. Henry Wharton chaplain to Archbish-
op Sancroft, was born with two tongues of the
same size and shape. The midwife and the
woman in attendance at his birth urged the cut
ting oat of The under one, but the nother would
not consent. BY degrees it withered away of it
self, and shrunk to the bigness ofa pea. and re,
manned ever after. The upper tongue grew to its
proper size, only marked with two long and deep
furrows, which grew with the tongue, and never
clnsaJ
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MISCELLA Y ,
The Power Of u Pence---A True Manchest
story.


The Power OF n Pence---A True Manchester
story.
The Rev. J. B. Owen, NJ. A., of Bliston, in
the course of lecture delivered in the Liverpool
Concert Hall, in conneXion with the Church OF
Enrland institution upon Popular Insurance"
related an anecdute strlkingy illustrative OF the
power which lies in the hand of the working men
10 promote their own social comfort and ndepen-
dence if they would only exert il. Manches-
ter calico printer was, on his wedding day, per
suaded by his wife to allow her two haltpins OF
ale day as her share. He rather WINGED under
the bargain; for, though a drinker himself, he
would have preferred a perfectly sober wife
They both worked hard, and he, poor man, was
seldom out of the publchoaSe as soon as the fac-
tory closed The wife and husband saw little OF
each other except at breakfast; but, as she kept
thinrs tidy about her and made her stlnted and
even selfish allowance for housekeeping meet tue
demands upon her. he never complained. She
had her daily pint, and he perhaps had his two OF
three quarts and neither intertered with The 9TH
or except when at odd times she succeeded, by
dint of Que little gentle artifce or anoiher, TO WIN
| him home an hour or two earlier at n9ht, ana
now aud tneu to spend an entire evening IN his
own house. But these were rare occaslons.-
They had been married year; aud, on the morn.
iug of their wedding anniversary, the husband
Looked askance at her neat and comey person
with sone shade of remorse as he Observed
"Niary, we'n had no holyday sim we were
wed and only that haven't a penny i tn world
we'd take jaunt TO tn village to see thee mo-
ther."
..Would'st like 70 90. John 2" asked she softly.
between 4 smile and a tear, To hear him speak
kindly as in old times. '.ltthee'd like to 90, John,
! I'll stand treat"
"Thon stand treat" said he, with halfa sneer /;
''has rot a fortune. wench Z"
Nay" said she, but In gotten the pint O.
ale"
Gotten what o. said he.
''Phe pint o alp," was the reply.
John still did not understand her. till the faith
ful creature reached down a loose stocking from
under loose brick up the chimney, and counting
out her daily pint of ale in the shape OF three
hundred and Sixty-ive three pences, G. e., "a
lis. 3d. put it into his hand, exclamng-"
Thee shall have the holyday. john"
John was ashamed, asiouiShed, conscience -smit-
ten, charmed lie wouldn't touch it,
"Hasnt thee had Thy share9 Then 'll ha'
no more" said he.
They kept their wedding day with the old
dame and the wite'S little capital was the neucleuS
of series of investments that ultimately sweIled
into shop. factory, warehouse, country seat, car
riage and. for aught Mr.. Owcn knew, John was
mayor of his native borough al last