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THAT PLAGUE SpoT.-A. r. Gardiner,
of New York, writes as follows to the ed.
itor of the Newark Daily Advertiser re-
specting the mysterious disease said tc
have appeared in that city:
II hasten to deny the truth of the report
IN toto. At the meeting of the Academy
of Medicine, this evening, I inquired Of
many present, and nothing of the kin6
exists or has been seen in this city.
"The report arose from the existence
of some half dozen cases of an eruptive
disease called Pustule Maigna. A few
cases existed last year. tits characterized
by the appearance of pimple, rapidly in.
creasing in size, to that of an ordinary
boil, with symptoms resembling those Of {
carbuncle, great fever and very severe
constitutional disturbance. One or two
of the cases have recovered, but they have
generally been fatal in few days. Th,
disease is not new disease, though un
frequent here; and it is well known not t.
be of a contagious character"
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Treaty With Japan.

The articles of treaty negotiated with
japan by Commodore Perry, are published
in extenso by the Washington Union
Briefly stated, they are as follows:
Article 1st recognizes a perfect and
universal peace, and sincere and cordial
amity between the United States and Ja-
pan, and their respective peoples.
Article I'd opens the port of Simoda in
the principally of Idzu, and the port of
Hakodale, in the principality of Natsmai,
to American vessels, where they can be
supplied with wood and water, provisions,
coal, and other articles their necessities
may require, as far as the japanese have
them. The port of Simoda to be opened
Immediately after signing the treaty, and
that of Hakadale on the same day of
the ensuing year. Payment of purchases
to be made in gold and silver, according
to the tariff of prices established by Ja-
panese officers.
! Article Sd provides for the safety of
crews of vessels, from the United States,
wrecked on any part of the coast of ia
pan, and their transmission free of charge,
together with such stores as they may
have saved, to the ports Of Simoda and
Hakodale.
Article 4th asserts the personal freedom
of shipwrecked persons, and other citizens
of the United States, subject only to the
operation of just law.
Article 5th stipulates that shipwrecked
men, and citizens of the United States,
shall not be subjected to the restrictions
imposed upon the Dutch and Chinese of
SNagasakie; but, at Simoda, shall be free
to range wherever they please within a
island in the harbor of Simoda, and al
Hakodale within limits to be subsequently
defined.
Article 9Th provides for deliberate
traffic.
Article 9th gives permission to vessels
from the United States to enter the ports
already mentioned, and exchange gold ane
silver coin and articles of goods, unde
regulations to be established by the Japan
ese government; and that such articles o
, goods from the United States as are no
exchanged may be freely taken away.
| Article Sth provides that wood, waite,
provisions, coal and goods, shall only b
procured through the agency of Japanes
officers appointed for that purpose.
/ Article 9th grants to the United State
the same privileges as may hereafter b
extended to other nations
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Dpftrp.

Mr.. RDrroR: The author of the following
beautiful poem, OrwAY CuRR1,-a native of
ohio,-was sometime associated with William
D. Gallaher in conducting the Hesperian, a
literary magazine of considerable ability pub
lished at Cincinnati. He was afterwards a
member from Union County in the Convention
which framed our present Constitution, and
urged in that body strong provisions in favor
Of 'eolnmon schools and temperance. More
recently Mr.. Curry was editor of the Scioto
Gazette, published at Chillicothe. He died last
year,sa aged about Al years. J.
THE ARMIES OF THE EVE.
Not in the golden morning
Shah faded forms return,
For languidly and dimly then
The lights of memory burn:
Nor when the moon unfoldeth
{ Its sunny light and smile,
For these unto their bright repose
s,s The wondering spirit vile:
But when the stars are vending
-Ga Their radiant way on high,
And gentle winds are whispering back
% The music of the sky:
O, then those starry millions
Their streaming banners weave,
To marshal on their wildering way
The Armies of the Eve:
The dim and shadowy armies
OF our unquiet dreams,
Whose footsteps brush the feathery fern
And print the sleeping streams.
We meet them in the calmness
OF high and holier chimes;
We greet them with the blessed names
OF old and happier times.
And, marching in the starlight
Above the sleeping dust,
They freshen all the fountain-springs
OF our undying trust.
Around our every pathway,
In beauteous ranks they roam,
To guide US to the dreamy rest
OF our eternal home.
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Seleft Storp.
THE VOLUNTEER COUNSEL.
A TALE OF JOHN TAYLOR.

John Taylor was licensed, when mere
youth of twenty-one, to practice at the
bar of one of the Eastern cities. He was
poor, but well educated, and possessed ex-
traordinary genius. The graces of his
person, combined with the superiority of
his intellect, enabled him to win the hand
of q fashionable beauty. Twelve months
afterwards, the husband was employed by
a wealthy firm of the city to go on mis-
sion as land agent to the West. As a
heavy salary was offered, Taylor bade
farewell to his wife and infant son. He
wrote back every week, but received not a
line in answer. Six months elapsed, when
he received letter from his employers
that explained ALL Shortly after his de-
parture for the West, the wife and her
father removed to the Mississippi There
she immediately obtained divorce by an
act of the Legislature, married again
forthwith, and to complete the climax OF
base cruelty and wrong, had the name OF
Taylor,s son changed to that of Marks
that of her second matrimonial partner.
This per6dy nearly rendered Taylor in
sane His career from that period became
eccentric in the first degree At length a
fever carried him off at comparatively
early age. One incident in his life is thus
given: SN H
At an early hour on the 9th of April,
l840, the court house in Clarksville, Tex.
as, was crowded to overaowing. Save in
the war times passed, there had never been
such gathering in Red River country,
while the strong feeling apparent on every
flushing face viii sufficiently explain the
matter. &
AT the close of 1889, George Hopkins,
one of the wealthiest planters and most
influential men of northern Texas, offered
agross insult to Mary Elliston, the young
wife of the overseer. The husband threat.
ened to ehastise him for the outrage
whereupon the planter loaded his gun
went to Elliston's house, and shot him in
his own door. The murderer was arrested
and bailed to answer the charge. This
produced intense excitement, and Hop
kins, in order to turn the tide of popular
opinion, or at least to mitigate the genera
wrath, which at first was violent agains
him, circulated reports infanlously preju
dicial to the character of the woman who
had suffered such cruel wrong at his hands
She brought suit for slander; and thu
two cases, one criminal and the other civil
and both out. of the same tragedy, were
pending in the April Circuit Court O
1910.
The interest naturally felt by the com
munity as to the issue, became far deeper
when it was known that Ashley and Pike
Of Arkansas, and the celebrated Prentiss
Of New Orleans, each with enormous fees
had been retained by Hopkins for his de
fense.
The trial for the indictment of murder
ended on the 9Th of April, with the &C.
quittal of Hopkins. Such aresult nigh,
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Experiments in Manners.


Among many excellent bits of expert
ence related in the autobiography of Dr.
Caldwell, is the following lesson in civ
ility:
I'm the year 1921, I made in London,
in spirit of wager, very decisive and
satisfactory experiment as to the effect of
civil and courteous manners on people of
various ranks and descriptions.
"There were often in the place num-
ber of young Americans, who often COM
planned to me of the neglect and rude
ness experienced by them from citizens to
whom they spoke in the streets. They
asserted, in particular that as often as
they requested directions to any point in
the city towards which they were proceed
ing, they either received an uncivil or
evasive answer, or none at all. / told
them that my experience on the same SUBJ
ject had been exceedingly different; that 1
had never failed to receive civil reply to
my questions-often communicating the
information requested; and that could
not help suspecting that their failure to
receive similar replies arose. in part at
least if not entirely, from the plainness,
not to say the bluntness, of their manner
in making their inquiries. The correct
ness of this charge, however, they bluntly
denied, asserting that their manner of ask
ing for information was good enough for
those to whom they addressed themselves.
Unable to convince them by words of the
truth of fmy suspicious, I proposed to them
the following simple and conclusive ex-
pertinent:
T"L Let us take together walk of two
or three hours in some of the public streets
of the city. You shall yourselves desig-
nate to me the persons to whom l shall
propose questions, and the subjects also
to which the questions shall relate, and
the only restriction imposed is, that no
question shall be proposed to any one
who shall appear greatly hurried, agitated
distressed, or in any other way deeply
pre-occupied, in mind or body, and no
one shall speak to the person questioned
but myself
"My proposition being accepted, out
we sailed, and to work We went; and
continued my experiment until my young
| friends surrendered at discretion, frankly
acknowledging that my opinion was right,
and theirs, Of course, wrong; and that, In
our passage through life, courtesy of ad.
dress and department may be made both
pleasant and powerful means to attain
our ends and crafty our wishes.
Al put questions to more than twenty
persons from every rank, from the high
bred gentleman to the servant in livery,
and received, in every instance, a satisfac-
tory reply. If the information asked for
was not impaired, the individual address
sed gave an assurance of his regret at
being unable to communicate it.
| as"What seemed most to surprise my
friends was, that the indivuals accosted
by me almost uniformly initiated my own
| manner. If uncovered, as ! usually
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A NOBLE Aor.-On Tuesday, Harrison

A NOBLE ACT. On Tuesday, Harrison
Peters conductor ON the Reading Rail-
road saw boy in the water near the
track, about to drown, and notwithstand.
ing the train was going, it is said, at the
rate of twenty miles an hour, he leaped
from the car into the pond, and rescued
the youth. Such an instance of presence
of mind, coupled with daring courage and
intrepidity, is rare indeed -.
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did in speaking to a gentleman, or, even
to a man of ordinary appearance and
breeding, he did the same in his reply;
and when touched my hat to liveried
|coachman or waiting man, his hat was
Immediately under his arm. So much
may be done, and such advantages gain
ed, by simply avoiding coarseness and
vulgarity, and being well-bred and agreea-
BILE. Nor can the case be otherwise. For
the foundation of good breeding is good
nature, and good sense-two of the most
useful and indispensable attributes of a
well-constituted mind. Let it not be for
gotten, however, that good breeding is
not to be regarded as identical with po-
liteness-a mistake which is too frequent
ly, if not generally committed. A per-
son may be exceedingly polite without the
much higher and more valuable accom-
plishment of good breeding"
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This is somewhat different from Button,
but he sets it down as fixed rule that.
all the larger animals live about FIVE times
longer than the time required for their
full growth. This question is one of deep
Importance to the whole human family.
1t is one to which the ingenious French
man has brought great amount of knowl-
edge in Investigation, and he holds up
science, as presenting to all men by a life
of sobriety, a very extended fund Of ex-
istenee. ss s7.s4 ses,sfe
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Their features combine the perfect pro-
portion of the Greek model, with the char
acter and expression of the daughters of
Israel; their figures, the united delicacy
and voluptuousness of form which the finest
Grecian statues possess. The costume of
those we saw this evening was well suited
to it's wearers. Their long hair, which
was plated, fell over their shoulders and
was in many instances ornamented with a
great many gold sequins, and some pearls;
in others, flowers of brilliant hues replaced
the pearls and gold, but all wore the full
loose trowsers drawn tight at the ancles,
which not unfrequently was encircled with
silver bracelets. The petticoat reaching
only to the knees, and the upper vest open
at the breast
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RECEIPTS.
hLOEII TO,
By CANAL, RIVER AND RAILRnin


For the toeek ending September Ia,
By THE CANAL.-I6S hhds. and 405 box,, T,.,...
1880 bbls and bags Flour; "a, 5s5 bu,h,l, We
1873 tons Coal. aud sundries Down ~,
24O0,c4l lbs. Up Freight S.SS 1,sl6 TO-. '''!'
BY The RICHMOND AND PETERSBURG RaILs,IO..
2l3 hhds Tobacco; 81 bales Cotter X ~.
Waste; 16 packages Merchaadise; 1 lot Frr,6S,a'
2 bbls Flour; 81 bags " heat, 4gl tons Goa, '
BY THE CENTRAL RAILRoAD-I8 e46 bo,b.,vh.,
1895 bbis Flour; ga bushels Corr; 2.!9 buS i
Rye; 1898 Bushels Oats, 452 bushels Meal San,
ana 2 boxes Tobacco; 1880 lbs Bscor: n I ~,
Iron; IL bsgs Wool; rolls Leather: ba,.,, NJ,
hid shoes; e5 bbls Lime; I Dbl ana bsI,gr,,
dress b6 Empty Barrels; bundle D.sr Slim
Chickens; 46 Lambs; IL Vsals; Bssv.r I'M,
Apples; bbl, l box and 10 bash cts Pssch.,
BY THE RICHMOND ANB DANvILLE RAN an,,
HOO bushels Wheat; 278 hhds Of Tobacco;sg l
boxes manufactured Tobacco; 5 cars Lambs; a
bushels oats; 5 firkins butter; a bcrusudb,
Fruit; Is bbls Flour; 5 vsals and sheer h
kegs Nails
By Tbs RICHMOND AND FsEDERIcKsBuse Ban,
koAp-leo bushels Whe.ti 1904 DO. Con, s
Meal; 5000 feet Plank; bbds and 3 SOI.. r.
bseco; Is bags Lime; pigs butter; bore
Fowls; do Eggs; vealsi 2 kegs Lard; Ei
Applss 1 RonhawaY.
LANDED IN THE Dock Ill Sz4 bushels Wh.sf So
tons Guano; 743 bsles Hay; 81 Dbl. Vinss. Il
bills Brandy; SO 600 fe ct Lumber; I26 toss Ic.
XPOkTs-COASTWisE
FRoH THE DocK-8z90 bbls Flour: l6 2ss bu,hs.
Feed; l57 hhds Tobacco; and 1897 packsse, mas.
ufsctuIed Tobacco; 258 bushels Whest; "a tbs
Lime; 2i.4Sa bbls Copper Ore; tons Gun
5000 Brick; c5 hbls mdze; &C boxes Cartsr',Sp
ian Mix ure; 80 bales Domesliss; Is bags A.,l
S cases Steel; 81 si,bs Lead.
FOREI0N
To LoSDeN-by Bark Lotus -49l hhds and 81 t.cH
Tobacco; and so half tierces manufactured T.
bscco.
To LIvERPooL--by Ship Musconsus-798 hht'Md
28S tierces To5acsc, and bbls Gold and Coppsf
Ore.
70 SIDNEY N. s. Why Ship n. Hower,-fE?' A'
and 400 half bills Flour.
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SANTA ANNA.

II would not be at all surprising to see tht
fugitive Dictator once more at the head OF
the Mexican Empire. His fortunes have
been often before at as low an ebb as now;
but they have never completely failed him.
To day an exile tomorrow an Emperor
such have been the vicissitudes of his past
history,-who can predict his future? Santa
Anna can live very comfortably without
Mexico-for he has taken care this time
to feather his nest thoroughly; but how can
Mexico exist without Santa Anna? His is the
only master spirit" capable of conducting
the affairs of that country. If she would have
permanent peace and quiet, she must either
restore Santa Anna again. or apply for an
nexation to the United States.
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NAVAL REFORM.

The naval service, and all Interested IN
that chief arm of the national defence are
looking forward with great solicit'lde to the
report of the Board Of Naval Officers VINO
have been charged with the painful duty OF
salectinQ from the navy such officers as oy
reason of age, or incompetency from any
cause, are unfit for service, and placing them
IN A retired list The duties of the Board
have been completed, and report has been
prepared; but it will not be made publc un-
I'll submitted to the President, who has the
power of approving or rejecting IT, In who're
or In part. We are fearful that not much
practical good viii be effected by this mea-
sure. The condemned officers, condemned
too without trial, or an opportunity tor de-
fence, will naturally raise great outcry, per
haps in some cases with reason, and enlist
much sympathy in their behalf. Yet the
service ought to be thoroughly weeded OF
all old fogies and young tops; OF idle' dissl,
psted, lazy loafers; and the meritorious s AZ
skilful promoted to the highest stations W.
have now in our eye a gallant heutenai u
who has been thirty years in the naVai 81
vice, only six of which have been spent ~
home, and the service he has SEEM mas DC.
that which is regarded in the navy, OF Ihe
luoat lau.rlous and dangerous kind. de Is
man who, with an opportunity, would write
his name at once upon the scroll of fame. o9
the side of Decatur, Perry, Porter, and hull
There are other men who have not been &c
sea for twenty years, and never will co. eA-
cept upon absolute compulsion. Ought not
these drones to be driven from the hive, and
the working bees, like our gallant and faith
full lieutenant, to be rewarded? Hence it is
most desirable, though we fear scarcely to
be expected, that the report of the Board of
Naval Reform should be such as to secure
the concurrence OF the Executive.
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LAns- kossurH vIcronor. W sous.xn {,
osec manifested 10 this civ ,so nls M, .as.
ing LIST, TO learn The re.uI, ~ suee svard.. Nv
tween Mr. n. J. smth,. zoe mssrk .r's.
snd NJ. Felton's black bs,.asy horse ~ 5.
gtuV, two mile heats, h Iscohd.ss,.s
Union course, N Y, on n. '9ms C. s,s. 1.
iore tne race sny amount a, m. La.a
Ter TneTe that kossuth vo,',I asy "a. 80.
y oscsuse be 10 one OF tha VIA, ne
ornusns norses that ever stsn,.a ''oaes ~
sol, but because Mr.. Smith hpsd upos y. Aes
our own citizens, and =. owner, |, ga
hearted fellow as ever troa . s' li5er,l y
match, our readers will renernn., 'ea,h.r -
november last, at tbs State Asr;en,. vas n..@a
kossush took the first pren,n,, ss"arsl Psi, :.
s.aiiions; and from that time 10 ,bn nzs,a,r's
who knew bis speed and endu,.as prsssns ~. 80
me result - fxsd fact For lootst
entertained doubt that be vo,.aa Wa
~ We did that he had the hee. ~ via. b...,.l
and could outwind him ut anv A.. ~ ms eonser
iears were. that he was taken m ss Oa,o.
then seal tat, and that Mr.. Whsy,'oo leo ~
would be unable to season him f., he ira
Even now we feel assured thai he asosr ~,
perfect when the match cam. az nosha, d
Mr.. Smith may find Il conysnis,, soo sOya a.
work few weeks longer. 90 A ~ y. ~ kesp tis :
porfunafy OF showing what be rs,l, 's oa IA =.
iuiiy up TO the mark. We clio the ,. .sn DO ~,
New York Herald OF Sunday r,or,;eaa i'Oa !.
Match Trof for 81 900, too mil b,ae:
WIN wheian. named Oh. J, smi,S'.h". ssar's.
hossutn,. .---...--.-. "a
II. Woodruff, named IN. Felton'.I ts','....ll
Itcondarogs, D.
Itme: ,. as Az -'.'...2
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THE DANVILLE RAILROAD.

We are glad to announce that the invoice
of enough iron has been received to finish
the Danville railroad, and it is expected the
iron itself will be here by the last of this
month. 1t will be Immediately laid down,
and We may expect to ride in the cars to
DAnville by the first, or, at all events, by the
middle of November.
1t is gratifying also to learn that other re.
ceipts of the roads have been steadily in
creasiug. The aggregate revenue for the
last month. though not fully ascertained,
amounts to at least $4,000. This is admira-
bic.
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mn PORTSMOUTH

HOBEUIk AND -.
] r.s,sh,e and heart rending are the 90
go. i ne rav,gss Of disease among our
s syl-.. q Norfolk and Portsmouth
~ 800 or readers to the distressing de
III. q or paper this morning. With q pop
.l.f,ou reduced in Norfolk, to from 3,oeoto
1000. and in Portsmouth to 1900, say some
oeherv Q, oo0-the mortality in the former on
sunday was 50, soms accounts say %; the
latter SCI
Yesterday We learned that there we're MOI
collins to bury the dead; and some 10 were
collected by of this city. and are SEM
down this morning on the Curtis Peck. we
hope our undertakefs viii put hands to work
.,d make up others as rapidly as possible
god forbid that any of the dead in our BIS
ter cities should be buried without collins.
A correspondent informs US that the peo'
ple of Norfolk and Portsmouth. intend to ap-
pe.l to the General and State Governments
10 grant the means of removal for their en-
tire populations to Old Point and elsewhere
If Il be practicable, we trust it may be done
Auv thing that can save their lives or mill
o.ta th.ir affiictions-in Gods name, let 1t
he done.
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COMMERCIAL
RICHMOND MARKETS s.,, .,

WHEAT'-Ths market, aithough thar. I,
change in quotations IL heavier. Wa quot. a., %
prime red 81 750 81 3d. good to prime Viii. ; TO- :
81 IS The millers are little more risid ~. ~ q
quality commanding the best ptIces It's
FLOUR.-There were 30 transaction. Ii,
were not wilIns to sell st the concession dsu.Si.
By buyers. The gap betwesn thsm wa, A. vs.
that NO advances were made from either o,r,, vi"
CORNING quote s50s7.c. per bu,heI s,,.
nniat olte
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RAILROAD ACCIDENTS On the Madison and In
dlsnspols Qnd.) Railroad, last week, four cars
we're precipitated down an embankment of 30 feet
Hiram Chase. the engineer. badly Injured
As the up train on the Concord Railroad was
passing the Amoskeag counting room at Manches-
ter, a deaf man named Charles w. Kendall In tba
employ of the Land and Water Power Company.
went upon the track. was hit by the engine. and
Instantly killed. Kendall was 26 years old. q ma
tive OF Fitchburg, and has wife and one child in
Bristol, VT.
Several baggage cars were Knocked to pieces by
q collision on the Lowell Railroad at Lowell on
Thursday. The Salem train the same morning
was delayed by an accident 10 the boiler.
The scconnod alton train from Albany to Pitts
field came 10 collision on the 18th near Chatham
Nth train on the Hudson and Boston Railroad
Several cars were broken, and the conductor of
ihe H and B road and passenger were consider
ably bruised.
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Tn thia SOFA of stan, O.

in this sge OF steam, CARrgRs s,
MIXTURE 10 filling large space ia n. or Nka
The astonishing cures daily performed ~ pGois n
and prompt action 10 the worst cas-, y !nhns,,
ease, Neuralsis, Rheums;isn, Msrsuyi,,L ~; o.
s Blood ~ !. .ssIas tor o an
ing world wide" 1t is certa nly tn. ori o:sss,
yet known which does posses, positiv. ~, ssss's,
aston over the blood. Try it at ono.e,S. 'ps's'
the better. '1-'os 20 u
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The MARKETS are to be closed on Thurs
day next, that being the day apart by the May.
for ksgiving and prayer, but In order to en-
able persons to supply their wants In meats veg
etables, fruits etcetera, they will be opened on
Wednesday afternoon at o'clock This arrange.
ment, we feel assured, will meet with the bearsy
concurrence of our people, all of whom will no
doubt be grst6ed to see the day observed by all
classes, as It should be.