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NEW BOOKS RECEIVED At sHII

m INV 1BOONS NEC EEN EO M SUEE~
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The Dodd Family, by Charles Lever, author of
Charles O'Malley.
Behind the Scenes, by Lady Bnlwer Ly,ion
The Lamplighter, ofthe most fascinating
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Everything in the Book Newspaper, and Sta
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PROSPECTUS OF DIE BOWS RE-
i VIEW, volumes XIV and XIV. adapted pri
marly to the southern and western States OF the
Union, including statistics OF foreign and domestic
industry and enterprise. Published monthly in
New Orleans, at s. per annum, in advance.
Iss- A few complete sets of the work, tbir IN
volumes, bound handsomely, 1900 to $50 pages,
are for sale al the Office New Orleans, deliverable
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HNION HALL, HOTEL AND kisifEC
tory, C street. between 9th and Hh streets,
Washington +. J. WILSON,
w. ii. HEYWARD.
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To NJ T. NIB ERS UF UNUKESS AND
STRA NGERS
Members of Congress and
w others in want OF perfect timekeepers would
do well to make their selections at once, in order
10 test their quality before leaving the city.
Our assortment for both Ladies and Gentlemen
Vas never complete at present. embracing
every description, which we offer unusually low.
M. w GAIT " BROTHER.
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nON'T FAIL TO CALL AT HOODS
IL If you wish 10 purchase anything in the way
ui hne American, London, Geneva watches,
phat be relied for the true time,) rich gold
jewery, pure silver ware, &c, &c., and save from
IS 10 IS per cent, he is now receiving his
Fall supply, which will be sold al the lowest
wholesale rates
Fine watches and jewelry repaired, and war.
rantcd TO give satisfaction.
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CONSERVE and Preserved Ginger and
~ Chow-Chow, Attea and Choong Loong, Can
ton, fresh importation. For sale by
SHEKELL BROTHERS,
No 40 opposite the Centre Market
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TNHE HEALING or THE NATIONS. by
i Charles Linton; with an Introduction and
Appendix by N. p. Talmadge Published by the
Society for the Diffusion of Spiritual knowledge.
New York, large octave volume, price 81 80.
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CTRAW HATS.-We have now opened
- our Spring supply Of Straw Goods, and are
prepared TO show full assortment. All our
goods being bought for cash, we are prepared TO
sell at the lowest prices. STEVENS'S
MAY 3-3tif Sales Room, Browns Hotel.
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HI magnificent number, filed with superior
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tember is one of the best that has been issued.
Leslie's Ladies' Gazette for September contains
all the new Fall fashions. uaN
The Knickerbocler Magazine for September
Godey's Lady's Book, Graham's Magazine and
Pnlnan,'s Magazine, all tor September, received
and for sale at aasa
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III HE FAILURE Of Free Society.-Soci-
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COPY of disclaimer of w. ID. Porter IN has applica'
fion for " an Improved still for making aoooa
gas, filed August 5, 1854. Letters patent issuea
August22, 1854.
81 do not claim as my invention and discovery
the improvements in making gas from wood, viz
subjectng the products of destructive distaton
therefrom TO high degree Of heat, substantially
as has been described and for the purposes sci
forth in the specification Of w. p Mcconnell"
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OF fHE
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r PROPOSE TO publish in the city OF Washln.
| ton, in September, a political newspaper, un-
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ISTONE QUARRY am prepared to fur
, nish from my quarry, opposite the Little Falls
and adjoining the quarry of the late Timothy
FNeale, any quantity OF stone that may be needed
Tor building purposes. Apply to the undersigned
al his house on II, between 18th and Goth streets,
IN the First ward or 10 Mr.. Paine, at the quarry.
July 81 WILLIAM Il. SCOTT.
COMMENTARIES on the Jurisdiction
~ Practice, and Peculiar Jurisprudence OF the
Courts of the United States, vol. /, by George
Ticknor Curtis.
History Of the Crusades, their Rise, Progress,
and Results, by Major Proctor, of the Royal
Military Academy. @ 1 G
Cummings Lectures on the Seven Churches.
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POETRY.


GThe following beautiful lines, by the author OF
the ''Pleasures of Hope" were taken from an ola
British Review, published twenty-five or thirty
years ago, and are not to be found in any addition
of his works
Beats there heart that does not boued
With trembling thrill at the holy sound
Ola name beloved-which does not swell
AS it drinks note which it loves so well.
Though years may have pass'd since last we have
heard
From stranger lips that we'll known word;
Yet pronounced by chance. it awakens the ear,
And the soul delegated tarns to hear
That name is pronoaseed in softer tone,
And possesses music net its own;
And the letters which speak tiat Rame to the eye
Seem to combine more gracefully.
When we utter their name the absent are near
And the beloved themselves becoEae more dear;
Aad the ear at that heart-dwelling sound, will be
In more instant and vivid memory.
Oh name beloved becomes part
OF the dearest feelings of every heart,
Aud until the heart itself shall decay,
Those feelings will never pass away.
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M'VEIGH & CHAMBERLAIN,
WHOLESALE GROCER
Princa 81. Wharf. Alexandria,
20, 1854,

SEP 1904,
TTAVE the pleasure to TO their customers and
Ill dealers generally the arrival OF their Fail STOCK
which for yaiety and extent is not surpassed IN this
kct and having been purchased with great care IN DOS
ton and New York. they are enabled TO Ser sgca i
the Yrgina trade disposed 10 coRtpe met, oeat"S 90
far as practicable 70 their STATE great
ycu be o6ta ac by giving TO their stock careiui exam
nation as it is their determination TO sell as cheaP as
any of the NORTHERN Cries. The following list oi
articles comprises portion of their stock;
l25 hhds n. o., p. Il. and Cuba Sugars,
900 boxes s. bbls No. Loaf Crushed * PuiY' q ae'
l20 bbls A, B asd G Coffee Sugars,
lis hhds tierces Musco, p. r. Cardenas Molasses
IT'S bbls N D. Nolasses,
rs do Sugar House and Boston syrup,
3S5 bags Rio, Laguira and Java Cotee =, -
Tbcir stock of recently IMPORTED TEAS is very
sarge TO which they invite particular attcntion and wh
IN every instance guarantee the quality oi sucn d. 'Aey
s,rcommend 1t consists in part OF
225 halEchcsts Gunpowder, Imperial, Black q oaag
Hyson, from medium to prime
us boxes Adamantine and Sperm Canaies'
IFS do Mould do; ll0 do RoSin Soap,
rs do White, Bar aad YareSatcd do,
100 do Pearl Starch,
$50 kegs pure Lead 500 bags Shot, assorted Nos,
100 kegs Rifle Blasting Powders 1000 lbs Bar Lead,
1000 feet Fuse; so boxes prime old Castle Soap,
500 resms double and single Wrapping Paper,
so do Tea Paper; It's do Cap and Letter Paper,
25 bales Almonds 25 baskets prime Salad Oil,
400 boxes assorted Candy; $50 do Indigo,
25 bbls Clipped Logwood; 100 kegs Csrsers.ssssa
As kegs Birthstone 80 do Saltpetre,
so do Alun, EPSON Salts, and Copperas,
$50 do Madder, Cloves, and Ground Ginger,
100 bags Pepper, Alspice, and Race Ginger,
rs malls Cinnainci,; so boxes fresh Glaccarony,
100 doz Painted Buckets 200 boxes Window Glass,
so ticrces prime Cider Yineger,
GOO doz Mason's Backing; 200 bbls No. Mackerel
as casks old Madeira Wine; sc DO old Port Wine,
55 do brown & pale Sherry dc; 80 do Muscat do,
rs do sweet Malaga Wine; 20 baskets ChanpaSne
most approved brands with large assortment c
choice old BRANDIEs, WHIsSlEs Re.
Merchants visiting our market will find 1t greatly
their adv antage &c examine stock before makss eei
purchases. McN ElGA . C-A1OLI'La1-''
Alexandria Va, Sept. %, 1854.
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Sunday i'm the Camp.

We find the following picturesque and
striking passage in recent letter from the
Crimea:
Yesterday, being Sunday. the routine was
broken by the impressive ceremony of an
open-air church parade. Each division, on
these occasions, has divine service perform
ed by its own chaplain. Ours was drawn
up on the rising ground, just beyond the
tents, in dense hollow square. The cler-
gymen and the officers occupied the centre.
Evey one was covered. Some Of the men
wore forage-caps, for the lack Of Shakos; and
on dit that the loss of these stiff and ugly
varieties Of head gear is submitted to with
great resignation by the line generally
The chaplain with his dark velvet skull cap
and black moustache and beard, reminded
me of a foreign padre in canonicals.
We were scarcely placed in position, be-
fore the loud rush of round.shot from the
fort was heard again and again in our ears,
causing sundry dislocations of the square
the men grinnng and swaylng about at each
whirr in kind af jocular disorder. No
thing was left for it but TO move off. So
we took up ground few hundred yards
lower down; and here--though Aeecy
little cloudlet, which announced its birth in
thunder-cap, showed that shell had burst
above us, not very far offto our rear-the
service was conducted to close. Every
body of course, stands on these OCCASIONS
throughout the ceremony. To obvate fa-
tigue. therefore, the Litany and Communion
are omitted. The chaplain preached, ex-
temporaneously and with so excellent
voice, that though the wind was blowing
mis- surpllce about, it did not drown his tones.
| was amused by his British sang froid.-
Half his congregation might perish round
the walls OF Sevastopol before next church
parade-a theme which the threatening
missiles exploding about him would have
served sufficiently we'll 10 enfolce-but he
utterly disdained such obvious rhetoric.-
Perhaps, indeed, it is considered undesira-
BILE to make allusions of the kind and GER
tainly they are too potent to need much in
sisting on. AT any rate, the reverend gentle
man neither noticed the pyrotechnics in his
sound practical sermon, nor in his own per-
son; but stood with his back to the fort, and
preached on some everyday text, and new
er changed his voice or turned his head IN
compliment to shot or she'll.
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The RUSSIAN SECRET PoLIcE.-The Sc

The RUSSIAN SECRET PoLIcE.-The Sc
crst police Of Russia is apparently organic
ed to detect plots against the sovereign,
but through its agency most terrific sys-
tenn of espionage is established in ell circles.
A sub-delegate of the grand master, without
any other mark than the livery Of the secret
police, if he presents himself on the dark
est night before fortress of the frontier, or
the palace of prince, governor or noble,
must be admitted-the nuptial chamber or
the bed of death are not exempt from his
visits. He can arrest any one without as
signing the least reason. The family and
friends of the delinquent are obliged to keep
strict silence on the subject, and when he
returns, if he does return they say, "he has
been absent on business in the country"
Often he is himself ignorant Of the cause OF
his banishment, as the following case will
illustrate "A lady, still living, was step
ming out of her carriage in her ball dress
when she was arrested her destination was
Siberia. When she arrived there, she was
LODGED in hut which contained two sepa-
rate rooms, each leading to court some
feet square, surrounded by wall which ad-
mitted only the light from the sky. A sen-
tinel stood always on guard without; her
iailor laid down her food without speaking.
when she had been two years thus immur-
ed. the court door opened, and second
prisoner was thrust in. He was noble
looking Pole, who had loEg inhabited .
neighboring cell, and whom they displaced
70 make room for another. In this cham
her or rather den, she remained twelve
wears with her unhappy companion. One
morning her door was opened, and voice
called her number, which was the usual
mode of accosting her On the few occasions
when she was spoken to. She went out;
the door was skut before she could take
leave of her companion. She was Led to
vessel which was in readiness, made again
pilgrimage of many months, and ono night
found herself at St. Petershuigh, in the bu.
reau Of the grand master OF police. From
n little closet was now taken the ball dress
of which tho functionaries had dismsntled
her on the night of her exile. The orna-
ments were gone, but except these nothing
was misslng-not ribbon dor fower.-
They even restored her withered bouquet,
in which successive generations of spiders
had lived and died. She was then set d
liberty; but never learned the cause Of her
punishment or her pardon. When asked
If she had not sought to enlighten herself on
the subject, she replied, II have not been
so long in Siberia without having learned
discretion" "And what said they to your
appearance;'' = Nothing"
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BEAUTIFUL ExTRAcT.-The following
beautiful paragraph we extract from the ad.
dress delivered before the graduating class
of Rutgers College by the Hon. Theodore
Freling ghuysen, and commend it to the Pc
rusal of the young:
"Resolve to do something useful. honor
able, dutiful, and do it heartily. Repel the
thought that you can, and therefore you
NAV live above work and without it. A.
mong the most pitiable objects in society is
the man whose mind has not been trained
by the discipline of education; who has
learned how to think, and the value of his
immortal powers, and with all these noble
faculties cultivated and prepared for an hon.
orable activity, ignobly sits down to do no.
thing: with no influence over the public
mind: with no interest in the concerns oi
his country, or even his neighborhood to
be regarded as drone, without object or
character, with no hand to lift and no effort
to put forth to help the right or defeat the
wrong. Who car think with any calmness
of such miserable career? And. howev-
er it NAV be with you in active enterprise,
never permit your influence to go into hos.
tilitv 70 the cause of truth and virtue. Sc
live that with the Christian poet, you may
truthfully say that
".If your country stand not by your skill,
At least your folies have not wrought her fall -
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MISCELLANY Y.
Dancing Mem Furnished to Order

The following is part Of letter from
the Paris correspondent Of the Courier des
Etats Unis:
There is at Joubert ST., No. 238, an In
stitute where they furnish to order young
men to dance at parties and private balls.
The hard times, the war, the exchange, the
industrial enterprises, the rage for gain, and
for preferment, everything, in 6ne, for the
last ten years, has chased the young men
Of worth from the pleasures of the polka and
quadrille, SO that the balls are supplied on
" with female dancers, and families giving
dancing parties are obliged to invite school
boys, which explains why SO many are Civ
ell on Thursday, the day on which the ly-
ceuIns and colleges are closed. You can
hear on all sides ladies' demanding with
anxiety of their friends, who wish to miro
duce to them a gentleman---"Does he
dance" That is of more importance than
name, rank or anything else. When this
deplorabe situation was once ascertained,
there was formed, under the direction of a
famous dancing master, special Institute,
which furnishes, by the hour or by the
night, young men from 90 TO % years of
age, of fine shape, we'll dressed, and of de-
cided dancing tendencies. They are gem
orally young dry goods clerks, whose awk-
wardnes, has been removed by intercourse
with ladies at the counter. They simply
know how to compliment them CA their toi-
lettes,-which causes them to be consider
ed, by the ladies', very amiable and quite
witty. They are clothed, gloved, ruffied,
booted and presented, stomach empty =
They cost louis head, and with dozen
YOU can have quite an animated dance
Wednesday last, the Institute of JoubeH
street furnished one hundred and twenty
SIX to the divers hops of the Chaasse-d' An
tin, As it appears, that comprised its whole
number. They are now hurrying up re-
cruits, Madame Ra-- having engaged
for herself alone thirty for the Goth of this
month, twelve faxen-h haired, twelve with
black hair, and six bald headed gentlemen.
The bald headed ones cost 25 francs a
head. They are taught digniied air, and
are expected to represent young magis-
trates, lawyers and young men of promise
worn oct by midnight toll. There is fine
looking old soldier, who has been decorated
with the ribbon of the LEGION Of Honor
who will not furnish himself for less than
thirty francs, aud besides he requires Sc
cond pair of gloves of his hostess at two O.
clock in the morHing.
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CHANGES OF CLIMATE.-The following.
from the Scientific American, contains some
interesting facts, and treats of very feel
ing SUBJECT, worthy Of careful investig gation :
History informs us that many of the coun-
tries Europe which now possess very mild
winters, at one time experienced severe
cold during this season Of the year. The Ii
Der at Rome, was often frozen over, and snow
at one time lay for forty days IN that city.
The Euxine Sea was frozen over every
winter during the time OF Ovid, and the riv-
ers Rhine and Rhone used to be frozen sc
deep that the ice sustained loaded wagons
The waters of the Tiber, Rhine and Rhone
now fow freely every winter; ice is unknown
in Rome, and the waves of the Euxine dash
their wintry foam uncrystalized upon the
rocks. Some have ascribed these climate
changes to agriculture the cutting down ol
dense forests, the exposure of the upturnec
soil to the summers sun, and the draining
of great marshes. We do not believe thai
such great changes could have been pro-
duced on the climate Of any country by agri'
culture, and we are certain that no such
theory can account for the contrary change
of climate-from warm to cold winters
which history tells us has taken place in
other countries than those named. Green
land received ITS name from the emerald
-herbage which once clothed its valleys and
mountains; and ITS east coast which is now
inaccessible, on account of perpetual ice
heaped upon its shores, was, in the elev-
enth century the seat Of Aourishing Scandl-
navian colonies all trace of which IS now
lost Cold Labrador was named Vinland
bv the Northnen who visited it A. ID. L.
600 and were charmed with lis then mild
climate.
The cause of these changes is an important
inquiry. A pamphlet, by John Murray,
civil engineer has recently been published
in London, in which he endeavors to attrib-
ute these changes, of climate to the change
able position of the magnetic poles. The
magnetic variation or decllnation of the nee
die is well known. At the present time it
amounts in London to % degrees west north,
while IN 1868, the line Of variation passed
through England land then moved gradually
west until 1916. In that year great remov-
al Of ice took place on the coast Of Green
land; hence it is inferred, the cold meridian,
which now passed through Canada and ST.
IBERIA, may at one time have passed through
Italy, and that if the magnetic meridian re-
turns, as it is now doing, to its old lines in
Europe, Rene may once more see her II
Der frozen over, and the merry Rhineland-
er drive his team on the ice of his classic
river. Whether the changes of climate
mentioned have been caused by the change
of the magnetic meridian or not, we have
too few facts before US at present 10 decide
concusively but the idea, once spread a.
broad, will soon lead to such Investigations
as will no doubt remove every obscurity
and settle the question.
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&s> Good breeding is the art of showing
men by external signs the internal regard
which we have for them. 1t arises from
good sense, improved by conyersing with
good company.
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STAUNTON SPECTATOR.
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TIE II MS.

M TIE "SPECTATOR'' is published once ,vsek
1t Tso Dollars gear, paid in Advance, or Iico Dol!
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option Of the Editors, until all GrreerGges are paid
atj- Al COMMUNICATIONS 10 ths Editors by mail must
be post paid. or they tcl not be attended 70.
IDVER TISEMENTS of thirteen ihes (or less,)
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Fer each subsequent Continuance. Larger advertisements
Snsoted in the same prOporton. :,
iisersl discount made TO those ,oho advertise By The
gear.
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Hope.

The night is mother of the day,
The winter of the spring;
And ever upon old decay
The greenest nosses cling;
Behind the cloud the starlight turks;
Through showers the sunbeams fall
For God, who loveth all his works,
Has left his HOPE with all.
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@5- Cowles. in his excellent History of
Plants, notices the virtues of hemp thus la
conically:
"By this cordage, ships are guided, bells
are rung, beds are corded, and Iogues kept
in ave."
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o. Girls don't accept the hand of any
body who tells you that he is going to mar
ry and settle. Make him settle first and
marry afterwards.
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@s- A witness named Washman was call
ed to the stand to give his testimony
Having taken his place, he turned to the
bar, before testlfying, and earnestly in
ouired, (Which side am on "a