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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-21

n no. CERIsrY AND WOODS MINSTpE1s, NO. AKA
N Ei6adsay, between Howard and Grand streets.
Ethiopian Mnstrelsy TO conclude with Buriesluc
Opera Farce. Also at Mechaoies HAIL. 472 Broadway,
above Grard street, where the eli style of Ethiopian
enter ainn ents viii be given. n. B.Goorse Christy
will appear at both houses in entire change Of pro-
gramIDe every evening.
II. WOOD, Business Manager
GEORGE CHRlSrY, Stage Manager.
Doors open 81 Z; to commence at o'clock.
Tickets, rs cents; children 12;S cents.
NIgI0's GARDEN.-B0ORs OPEN AT O'CLOCK;
IN tocommence at s. Tickets to al parts 50 cents;
Private Boxes, IS; Orchestra Seats, 81.
MR. BURTON.
PIIIIC0DDY AMI T0oDIF2,
TEDAY August %,
POOR PILLIC0DDY.
John Peter Pilcoddy ..by..........Nr . Burton
Mrs.. Pllcoidy Mrs. Hough Mrs. 0'Sattie. Mrs Cooke
hr loOules.. AI burtoA
CAS- pisvd by him over four hundred nights
lftner .'rofb Ax mSoSs
Msh loot Rs. smfs M1coe&
TyHEATEE TO IEr--THE HOWARD ATHENEUM
L Boston.--This establishment viii be let by the
month or by the The theatre now in good order
Persons desrous Of negotiating for the OF this est
ishment win make application TO
JOSIAH BEARD, Admir-, Howard street, Boston
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w n. FISH, IRON LONDON, THsAIR .ss1. 49, 49,
w Characteristic wig maker, $50 Fsad ssxesS ~
dosHs from Broadway. Amateur performancee
Wigs lent hire for private parties,
fancy dress taus. N. B.-couatty thcs'r'cs" 'uP
short notice.
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NEGROES FOR A FREE SrATB.-The
Richmond Dispatch gives the following
extract of letter from a correspondent
in Staunton, December 90:
Coming to Staunton in the Rich.
mond train, On Tuesday, We took in at
one Of the Louisa stations large crowd
of negroes, numbering at least seventy,
of all ages, from the old man with his
cane to the infant at the breast. The
parting scene with the negroes they left
behind was quite affecting. Loud lam.
entations filled the air. Tears flowed ip
torrents, and L thought, on the whole, If
an abolitionist had been present, he
would have revelled in the luxury ofwoe.
Inquiring of gentleman what ws the
destination of these negroes, / barned
that they were bound for a free State,
being a portion of the negroes set free
under the Raglan will. The others, I
believe, have already gone to their new
homes. Here is matter ff abolition.
lists to contemplate. The Gill, as your
readers are aware, was contested, and it
was in slave court, in o slave State,
that these negroes Obtained their free
dom. AS l looked st the we'll fed and
comfortably clothed crowd, could only
hope that they my not in year be i'm
poverished and degraded in their new
Ohio home" -.
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GOOD FOoD FOR HARD T1MEs.-The
use of beans, as an article of food, is not
so considerable as it should be. Beans
are among the most nutricious of all
kinds of food used by man. Chemical
analysis, and the experience of those who
make extensive use of them, demonstrate
this. Besides this, they are the most
economical food that can be used for the
support of family. Those who find the
times to be hard, are most respectfully
invited to try the experiment.
To provide an excellent dinner
healthful, palateable, and nutricious-
take pint of beans, with one gallon Of
water, and the beef bones which we are
accustomed to throw in the street. Boil
all together adding a few potatoes il
conveniently until the beans become sof,
add salt and pepper to suit the taste
and dinner is ready. Such dinner will
cost next to nothing; and will Sc,
easier upon the stomach than venison
steaks, quail or partridge, washed down
with champagne.
A piece of fat beef thrown into the poi
will give pretty good flavor to soup
porridge, or such dish as l have named
But if you want the real genuine flavor
then use the bones-such bones as art
usually thrown away. There is flayo,
obtained from the bones which is moi
given by pieces of solid meat. I have
heard purveyors for our aims houses
scolded because they purchased, e.
economy sake, the legs and other pits
Of the animal containing the most Sone.
They should receive praise ineSead Of
cenSure for they were nrocrr;1p the ar.
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RACE FOR A HUSBAND.

There lived in Gloucester county, New
Jersey, an old widower, named Peter,
who was an odd compound of whim and
caprice his circumstances were not Of:
fluent; nor yet INDECENT, but was consid-
cred comfortable. At no great dis.
tancc from his farm resided q buxom
widow, about four feet in height, and it
was said that her attitude was nearly the
true guage of the circumference of her
waist. In the same direction, thosgh
further from the residence of Peter, lived
another widow, named Amey. These
ladies were competitors for the favorable
regard of the widower. Peters mind
was long undecided which of the two
widows should have the preference; Amey
was beyond doubt the most beautiful,
but then Christina was corpulent, and
of course was s'more of her." !"
He at last hit upon an expedient to
bring the affair to conclusion-hew wrote
billet to each, purporting that he had
also sent for her competitor, and was re.
solved to marry the one who should first
arrive at his house; lad was dispatched
with the pair of billets, and first deliy.
cred the one addressed to Amey, whose
residence was most remote from that of
the lovesick swain. She Immediately Or
dered her feetest horse to be saddled,
while she arrayed herself in her best at
tire. By lucky chance a horse stood
saddled at the gate of Christina, who was
ready dressed to pay visit to neigh.
Dor when the messenger delivered Peter s
billet; she quickly mounted her courser,
but no sooner had she got into the road
that lead to Peters house, and cast her
eyes in direction towards Amey's resi-
dence, than she saw her rival rushing
after her with the swiftness of the wind !:
and away went Christina and Amey
whipping for dear life, with their bonnets
gracefully hanging on their backs. Both
ladies being equally well mounted, Chris.
tina preserved the lead, and after q race
of quarter Of = mile, she bounced into
Peters door, e1claiming-"W Well, here
am, Peter-I got here frst!" The old
gentleman expressed his happiness by q
phlegmatic "alas day."
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MORMON OPINION OF Gov. SrkpToE.-
Elder Orson Hyde, one of the big guns of
the Mormon church, and second only to
Brigham himself in regulating the affairs
of Utah and Great Salt Lake City, in.
dorses Col. Steptoe in the following man.
date:
Col. Steptoe, of the United States
Army, with his command, is now in our
Territory, and expects to winter with
us. This gentlemanly officer and his as.
sociates, have the good will of our society,
and have thus far acted in manner be.
coming officers of their rank. The Colo
mel wishes his men to conform to the
best principles and rules of moral society,
and, if we mistake not, has given orders
to this effect.
Will the trading citizens of this town
sell to the soldiers liquor, by which
their own peace and that of their families
may be disturbed If they will, do not
attach the blame to the officers, but 70
our own citizens, who for paltry gain
will corrupt the soldiers, and themselves
also, by traffic that worketh death
instead of life. So far as am witness,
the officers and the men, with few excep-
tions, of the United States army now in
our midst, take extra pains to have all
things move on happily and amicably,
and it affords me pleasure to be able to
bear this testimony in their behalf. 1t
is hoped that all the citizens in the south
ern country will receive Col. Steptoe and
his command with cordiality and kind
ness, for highminded and gentlemanly
bearing merit this testimonial of OUT re.
spect and esteem.
Respectfully, ORsoN HYDE.
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EVENING STAR.
sELDEN, WtTHKRs & co.

The Richmond Examiner says: We
have deferred expressing ourselves fully
and freely, as we intend to do, in regard
to this bankrupt concern. We might get
OFT some valuable reflections upon public
virtue and public honesty in the act; but
might also embarrass the authorities of
the State in securing the amount due
from the broken firm to the Board of Pub
lie Works-in which duty the proper
public officers are now engaged. In the
meantime, we shall refrain from vocifer-
Gus and malaprop calls for light on o
subject which we shall hear all about in
time to prevent any disastrous explosion
from irrepressible curiosity.
We understand, informally, that the
amount of State funds unaccounted for by
the bankrupts is between $500, 900 and
and $4,000. Although the published
schedule of their affairs presents most
beggarly exhibit, yet the individual for
tunes of the original, retired members of
the firm, upon the responsibility of which
the agency Of the State was given the
broken house, are believed to be ample to
cover any margin of debt which the as
sets Of the present house may fail to
meet.
Those who talk about the contracts of
1872, and the resplendent wisdom of
MIR. Conway Robinson, Compiler Of the
Code, in regard thereto, seem TO enjoy a
blessed ignorance of the facts of the case.
The contracts of 1872 covered five mil
lions of bonds; and have long been exc.
cuted and settled up. So far from the
State losing upon them, she realized a
clear profit in premiums of $4,000.
The then officers of the Board of Public
Works, Wings as we'll as Den ocrats,
have retired from public life. Tie then
members of the firm of Selden, Withers
q Go. have retired from the house, and
been succeeded by new set ofmen The
new contracts on which the present ar.
rearage arises have been subsequently,
entered into between new officers of the
State and new members of the agency.
We cannot, therefore, discover the moral
justice or the logical propriety of laying
the present loss, if it be a loGs, from new
contracts between new parties upon the
old officers, the old agents, and the old
contracts of 1872.
We have little expectation that a loss
will result to the State even now; but,
whether there be loss now or not, we can
not see why old contracts, which have
been executed, which have passed the
ordeal of two Legislatures filled with
Wings, should be now made the subject
OF personal elimination; and why men
gone into private life and covered with its
sanctity, should be dragged before the
public about new affairs to which they
are not parties.
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UNDERTAKEN.

] WOULD respectfully return my thanks to the
citizens Of Wellington and its vicinity for their
past patronage AID ssy that owing to the frequent
calls IN the Undertaking branch OF my besiusss, /
have been Induced to discontinus ths manufacture
OF Furnitrrs, and turn my sttsntion fully 70 tie
UNDERTAKING. have spared no pains to haze
every thing that Is requisite to my business. and
an therefore tay prepared to Eest any order afsoI
Ass~ moments notice, and assure thoss who lay
give me call that viii spare NO pains :s carry ont
thsir ordsfs to tn ssr entrc s,t,sfactiou.
JAMES Z. HARVEY,
30. 40, .th st.. betgccn and Il.
". S.-Csiis attended 70 at al hours Of the right
mar 2-lv
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BADLY BUILT HOUSES.-The frequency
of fires in Philadelphia of late, has excited
inquiry into the manner in which houses
are built nowadays. The following,
from the Philadelphia North American,
applies equally well to this meridian:
We build high walls with the very
poorest excuse for mortar which can be
found, and the consequence is, that when
there is fire burning through the inte-
rior, the walls crumble away and topple
over on to smaller edifices adjacent. car
rying the flames along with them. Then,
too, we have got to putting up large edi-
fees with no brick walls save those out.
side; and so, when the rafters which bind
them together burn, the shell proves to
be a miserable tottering affair. But even
if these things were remedied, we have
no means for the detection and punish.
ment of incendiarism, and our fire de-.
partments are disorganized, destitute of
system or efficient direction, and while a
fire is fiercely spreading through build
ing, the fremen sometimes stand upon
the stairway quarrelling about the water.
Unless property owners make up their
minds to build in a more durable style,
they ought not to expect fremen to risk
their lives in endeavoring to save houses
from destruction. And unless we have a
jury of inquiry into all the fires which
occur, we shall not be able to check in.
cendiarism. And while our fire depart.
ments are collections of independent and
insubordinate companies, whose members
acknowledge no control, it is mere moon.
shine to talk of stopping the spread O.
confagrations.
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MUSIC FOB BALLS, PARTIES, &c.
L. +. w. WEBER.

ID ESPECTFULLY INFORMS HIS FRIENDS and
IL former patrens that he continues to attend
BALLS, PARTIES, &C., with his we'll organized
BAND Of scientific Musicians
He will introduce all the new and fashionable
Music
An accomplished Pianist furnished if desired.
~ Orders left at Hiibus Il Hitz' Music Depot,
Gautier's, Miller's Confectionery Stores, or st my
residence. near Gen Hend.rson's, Navy Yard, will
meet with prompt attention. nov 2S-2m
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SUPERIOR HARPS.

WE have this day received very superior toned
w HARP, from the celebrated Partisan manu-;
faetursrs Domsry, who received the highest pre-:
MUM for Hsrps at the great exhibition in Lc cndon,
1851.
Persons desirous of purchasing, by giving us q
call have the opportunity to obtain one Of the above
unrivaled instruments. HILBUS 4 HITZ,
Music Depot, cor. Pa. avenue, 11th and D sts
dec 10
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VETERAN TUNER.

'sME undersigned iuform ms the musical public IL at
4 he is spow prepared to tune Pianofor les, Organs
and Me!odeons with aispat,h. Fsrty years expert.
eaee In the business affords him qualif.a for
acsurstsness which few can attain. having 20 far
given entire satisfaction to h correct sicans and
tie exclusive tuner of Pianos at the Presidents
Mansion at the time of Madi.cn.
Orters left st HILBUS HITZ' Music Depot. or
MI. VIM. Z.ntzingers Music Store, will meet with
prompt attention; but if left other establishments
do not ach him and fall into the hands of minor
tuners. JACOB HILBUS
II st., between 18th and 18th south side.
dec 12-tf
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A PERTINRNr QUEsroN.-The Putnam
lind. Banner wants to know what there
is in name, when George Washington
Fleetwood, Thomas Jefferson Fleetwood,
Andrew jackson Fleetwood, and Napo-
leon Benaparte fleetwood, were all whip
ped in Menros county, short time since,
for house. surning, counterfeiting, sheep
steal;no etc I?
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GAYARRE's HISTORY OF LOUISIANA, French
" Domination, 2 vols
asyarre's History Of Louisiana, Spanish Domino
ton, l vol
Parish Pencillin, 9. by Kirwan, vol
Dickens Household Words, Dec number
Bruno by Abbot, tale for the young
Almanach Frsncai des Etats Unis, pour 1866
Jeffsrson's Complete Works, in vols
The Positive Philosophy Of Auguste Comfe in Eng.
Esh, 1 vol FRANCK TAYLOR.
dor IA
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S0PPING THE CREDIT SYsrEN.-The
4Fspaper publishers of Connecticut hav-
Ing bscCme tired Of the credit system,
have determined, that after the lst of
February next, they will demandt the cash
from all the subscribers out Of the place
in which the paper subscribed for is pub
ished. -- -,--
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HOLIDAY PRESENTS.

MRS. G. ANDERSON has this day received q
has selected suitable for holiday presents consist
ing Of various articles Of Fancy Stationery Fancy
Letter and Note Paper, Geld and Silver Pens And
Pencil Cases, Work Boxes. Writing Desks, Back.
CANNON Boards and Chess, Psper Weights, Ink
stands, &c
Also, selection of Miscellaneous Books, consist.
ing of Poems and Juvenile Books, which will be
sold at reduced prices.
aye Pa. av., ID door from Kirkwood House
dec 21-Qw
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COFFIN WAREROOM, &c.

TW J. WILLIAM PLANT 4 co, UlY-
SAs1sU1y DERTAKER6--residencs 41S Sew.
enth street, between G aud Il streets. Ipernents
procured In any ground or esmstery. Collins, Caps,
Shrouds, Carriages, HearIe, and every article for
internents Of the best quality furnished at short
notice, on the most reasonable terms, and at all
hours Of the night. Having the exclusive right of
Crumps Patent Corpse Preserver, we guarantee to
keep the dead for any length Of time oc lift
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

WE shall have ready for delivery on the q th In
w slant, all accounts due us and the late firm o.
Maxwell, Sears Colley. All these that are not
called or will be rendtIed, and We earnestly hope
and most respectfully insist upon their being closed
In fu 70 the ist o. the new year; as 1t Is very In
portant that the business of the hate fr should be
settled IS soon as possible.
,t -.- C0LLEY SEARS,
No. 623 Seventh st., doors above
dec 22-6t Avenue House,
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D EN- TIST RY

Z L =
nR. MUNS0N respectfully cal public attention
H. to his new. patent, and GREATLY Assa@..a
IMPROVED method OF setting Artificial! - HsS3
Teeth, With Continuous Gum-tns very GSsSIIT
PERFECTION OFT 7E ART. This styIs
Of Teeth hss the follow atgsntaseB over all others
viz: GREAT STRENGTH, CI.EaNLINESs, CON-
FORT, and BEAUTY, vising with Nature in these
rsspsct5 and some others sxcslli5g. Public inspso
ton IL respectfully solicited. Please call and see
specimens.
CAUT1ON.-No othec Dentist In the District of
CouEabia has right to llaks this style of Teeth.
N. B.-Teeth constitnii0naliy healthy, plugged
and war ranted for life.
Ofics aud house ct No 20s street, near the cor.
ner OF PepnsyiFssia avenue aCd 1i.h street.
nov l1--tf
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DRUG STORE FOR SALE.

4 DRUG STORE, eligibly Aituated, doing an ex.
n tensive business and with an ample stock of
the best Medicines, Fancy Articles, 4c, with all the
fixtures, (Which are new ani in the most perfect
order, is offe. ed for sale, great bargain.
The price Is 81 500, which 700 less than cest
by person desiring to purchase, can learn partic-
'6lars by addressing letter to "Drugeist," Wash
ington city. dssc l2-dn
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II REMEMBER, JOHN +. ELLIS HAS AN I'M
menss assortment Of Fancy Goods suitable for
ho'iasy Gifts which he is selling cheap.
No. $50 Pa. av., bet. 9th and 10th sts.
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CHEAPEST BOOK EVER
PUBLISHED, snd containing
nearly d ubie the quantity Of
Tea1fng matter in that Of the
FIFTY CENTS OR DOLLAR
PUBLICATIONS.
1T treats On the PHYSIOLO-
GY or MARRIAGE, and the
secret Ia firDities and disorder
OF youth and maturity, re-
suiting frcm excstsas, which
destroy the physical and men.
tal uOTars with nh-aruaf;on,
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NEW STORE, NEW STORE.

4NHV OIO1GU, NEW OIO1CE.
Louisiana orenue, opposite the Bank Of Wdshin ga a
MIR. THOMAS DELEANY respectfully invites
Vl the attention OF the public to examine bis
stock Of GOODS, which he las op@nsd on Lousisra
the Bank Of Washington, consisting of ali descrp
tons Of Teas, &c. Imperial, Gunpo wder, and Black
Tea; Winss and Liquors, of all eorts, which he can
sell at the lowest prices for eash approved psper
Besides all the nscsssaries for Grocery Business
viz: Brooms, Buckets, Cedsr Tubs, Matches, SC.
&c. Please call AID ses for yourselves.
nov 22-3m
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ticle most useful. And the old saying.
{" The closer the bone, the sweeter the
meat" is literally true, as many aged
persons can testify.-Jounal of Com
Dlerce.