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AN EXCITING CHAsE.-Recently, says
the Galveston Gazette, there were Indian
alarms about Fredericksburg. One Ger
man in the vicinity penned his horses at
night for safety. He was aroused g in
the dark hour" by the jinkling of bells |;
bounced up and out, a Ia sans eulotte, dis
covered Messrs. Red Skin were driving
off his cavallado in a hurry; Hans,
greatly excited, mounted his feet bob
tailed poney, without gun, pistol, or
knife-pantless, ceatless, shoeless, and
hatless, and with the rear portion of his
shirt playing in graceful horizontal po-
sition-made pursuit, shouting most
Justify in his mother tongue to Messrs.
Red Skin to stop, or he'd scalp and roast
every mothers son Of them. The In
dians, who were some ten or fifteen in
number, supposing they were pursued by
regiment of Texan Rangers, took to
flight, regardless Of booty, leaving not
enly the horses they had taken, but tws
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DUTIES OF A MAIDEN LApY.-It seems
that the duties Of maiden are as those
OF matron at any asylum of orphans.
Ii she reside in the house of her parents,
she is expected to perform the labor Of
halt dozen young misses. 1t is her
province to replace every thing torn
down by others, and to remember the
exact place where all household articles
have been placed. ANY neglect in point
of apparel is deemed nearly unpardona.
BILE, as she has not children of her own
to Tx; so it must be sheer negligence il
she does not appear every day perfectly
neat In costume. She can, as well as
not, make and mend for half.a dozen
nephews, cut and make dresses, and do
the repairing for as many nieces do the
making and repairing for the neighbors
generally, as she has abundance of time.
DO any of the married fraternity wish to
visit for month or more, Aunt Mary
can, as we'll as not, come and keep house
and take care of the children, which she
is expected to do with her face all the
while wreathed with the sweetest smiles.
Should a shadow fit across her brow,
Aunt Mary is at once branded as a sour.
calculating old maid, who is cross to
children and every one else. Although
the mother may scold them by the hour,
1t is to be expected she has so MANY
cares. If her parents are dead and gone,
all want the honor of taking care of Aunt
Mary, and she is pulled about something
like the prisoner of an Arab or Indian,
though not with quite so much danger to
life and limb. 1t is not expected she
can do much, but it would reflect dis
honor on the family not to proffer her a
home. If she be finally established with
some brother or sister, all envy the priv
ileged one the deed of charity they have
the honor of dispensing. She is fire.
quently reminded of the privilege she
enjoys, which none but the most aaec.
tiOnate relatives would bestow. Every
job, which others dislike doing, she is
to be eminently qualified by1
nature to perform-to possess untiring
filial affection, and true sisterly love-
Sat. Eue. Post.
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BULwER IN PARLIAMENT.-The | iyer.
pool Journal, in giving an account of the
great debate on the Foreign Enlistmenl
Bill, gives the following ungracious sketch
of famous man of England:
Il think Sir Bulwer Lyttoa is the
most ridiculous looking man, with his
horse nose, and his blue saucer ewes, in
her majesty's dominions; aud bis bow
wowy voice drives one into Mysteries oi
hdgetlness; and his gestures-oh his
gestures; conceive Cassandra being dog.
matte in a state of deiirium tremens.
The impression for the first five minutes
of his oratory is awful; you sec members
dusting their faces with their handker-
chiefs, screwing their persons to their
benches, and keeping their eyes off the
door that looks so tempting an escape
from the tremendous baronet. But ge-
MUS asserts itself, and one forgets the
tremendous baronet in the man whose
very grotesqueness but proves his grand
originality; and forgetting the manner in
the matter-when it is good, as on Tues
day-the house cheers. Sir Edward sat
down, on that night, with parliament
tary success, having achieved that, he is
celebrated for his pertinacity, which he
has been twenty years striving for: and
as | watched him passing along the lobby
to dinner, amid unreserved congratula-
tons, | came to the conclusion that was
the happieSt moment of a career which,
though leafy with laurels, has, perhaps,
been melancholy life"
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A BOOK OF GREAT VALUE 4 INTEREST

HYCLOPEDrh OF MISSIONS, by Rev. Harvey
" Newcomb, l vol, large octave, double columns,
1o4 pages price g. Embracing comprehensive
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with geographical descriptions condition of the un-
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Newcomb, I regard work of great permanent
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HUMAN NArURE.-In the story of the
boy and the Bricks" it is related that
q boy, hearing his father say, "Tis q
poor rule that wont work both ways"
said:
"Iffather applies this rule to his work
1 will test it in my play"
80, setting up row of bricks, three
or four inches apart, he tipped over the
first, which striking against the second,
caused it to fall on the third and so on
throughout the whole row, until the
bricks all lay PROSTATE. Well, said the
boy, each brick has KNOCKED down its
neighbor, and yet l only tipped one.
Now, / will raise one and see If it will
raise its neighbors. / will see If this
rule will work both ways"
He looked in vain to see them rise.
"Here, father, said the boy, ''it is .
poor rule that wont work both ways.
They knock each other down, but are
not disposed to help each other up."
"My son." said the father, "bricks and
man are just alike-made Of clay-active
in knocking each other down, but not
disposed to help each other up. When
men fall they love company; but when
they rise they prefer to stand alone, like
yonder bricks, and see others prostrate
and below them" '-
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s. Mott BodelPs Line. <Gt

NEW YORK, ALEXANDRIA,, WASHINGTON
CITY, and DISTRICT OF COL UMBIA
PACKETS.
TTNHIS LINE OF PACKETS SAILS WEEKLY
i from pier IA East River, New York, and oftenei
if necessary, and are composed Of the following first
class vessels:
new schr. a. '. Bedeli, Bedell, master.
New schr. Mott Bcdell, A. v. Tredwell.
Schr. .9nn D., VIM. Oliver, master.
Schr. T'olant, l.. A. Smith, master.
Schr CommGnder in Ch,ef, WogiIm master.
Schr Greenwav, Wilson, master.
These vessels are all fast saIers, and the master
men of experience In the trade, and the only regu
lar line Of Washington City packets.
MOTT BEUEI.L,
Wall street, N. Y.
8. g. MASTERS & SONS,
Alexandria, Va.
THOMAS RILEY,
feb l-6m Washington and ID. e..
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The THUGS.-The Thugs of Hindostan
are an association who believe that it is
their duty to exterminate all who do not
belong to their own Order. They meet
in secret lodges, and are sworn with sol.
emn oaths. They lie in wait for unsus.
pecting passers-by, and attacking them
suddenly and without warning, strangle
them. The higher the position and char.
acter of the victim, the greater is sup.
posed to be the merit of the act. The
Thug who strangles the largest number
of victims in the course of a year is re
warded with the title of Grand Thug o.
the Council, and invested with despotie
power. If any Thug refuses to yield un.
questioning and implicit confidence tc
the commands of the Grand Thug, they
make an image or etfigy of him, which
they burn, at the same time stoning and
cursing it. This is supposed to visit him
with all manner of misfortunes. After
this, any Thug who meets him is bound
to stab him to the heart, provided he car
do so without risk of detection. Every
member of the Order is sworn to deny
his connection with it, and when interrO
gated, to say he knows nothing about it
When apprehended and brought to jus
tice, they claim to be persons of th'
greatest morality and virtue, and justify
their acts by saying that they only wisl
to establish the true religion, wiz: thei
own. and to prevent foreigners, wiz: al
who are not Thugs from getting contro
of the country.
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fGHE LAST SovEL-VIoLErTA AND Az
LANDoRF-BY JAMEs.-Violetta started
convuIsiveIy and turned her tear drencked
eyes wildly upon the speaker; for 10 her
there seemed something strangely ia
miliar in those low rich tones Their
eyes met, his beaming with love and ten
derness, hers cleaning with uncertainty.
"Violetta -
Auandorfr'
And the beautiful girl sank, from er-
cess Of joy, upon his noble heart, throH-
bing with the pure, holy, delicious love
of other days. Allandorf bent tenderiy
over her, and bathed her pure, white
temples with the gushing tears of deep
though sudden Joy. While doing this.
Violetta's father, Rip Van Snort. WAS
seen approaching the lovers with Q fail.
Allandorf saw the aged patriarch, and
with one leap cleared the bslusters and
rushed down stairs. But Van Snort was
not to be thus done" He put after the
flying Allandorf, and just as he was
turning the corner Of the red barn. gave
him hit with the fail that placed him
on the "tother side of Jordan"
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ALL ABOUT MILLINERY.-An iuQm =.
knowledge Of millinery, we should take
to be an indispensable qualification In
gentlemen employed as Washington cor
respondents to our New York journals.
Last week, accompanying rumors of the
most awful character, we were treated
by the details of ladies' dresses. The
scribe an improvement on the court
newsman of London-was deeply versed
in the mysteries of laces, satins. silks
and founces, and described them most
minutely. He said a little about the
beauty of the wearers. And there IL is
we are inclined to take him seriously to
task. In an assembly, where one fair
creature had the look of q goddess and
the walk of a queen" where another
g outshons all rivals" and q third WAS
"more lovely still" where " diamonds
were bright. but eyes brighter" and
where the houris of Mohammed's 8 para
disc would have been "no longer beauti-
full ;" in place like this, we say, even a
Washington correspondent might have
been more diffuse on the angelic beings
themselves than on the mere exteriors
which fashion had furnished for the oc-
casion. Dull fellows, Blue eyes PLAYED
second fiddle to brocade; and lips and
cheeks Of vermillion were hurried over
for the sake of velvet
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OHEAPEsT BOOK EVER
PUBLISHED, and containing
nearly double the quantity OF
res1ing matter in that Of the
FIFTY CENTS Oh DOLLAR
PUBLICATIONS
1t treats on the PHYS .OLO-
GY OF MARRIAGES, and the
Secret isfrmities and disorder
Of youth and maturity, re-
sulting from excesses, which
destroy the physical and men
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TO INVENTORS.

FTNHn ofoe Of "The Inventors Protection National
Union" lie on 7th street. opposite the East Por.
Hoo Of tbs Patent Once, and Is now ready to attend
TO ths business of Its r,embsrs namely: In making
examinations and soliciting patents, 10.
Inventors are invited to call and get copy Of the
Constitution and Bylaws, and where epy inIorma
lion will b given respecting the Union.
All letters on business must Be directed TO this Of
model chop Ii In connection with the osnca,
xhers models be Issds to order at the shortsst
notice. 7. g. CLAYTON,
so lo1y President I. p. n. q.
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ABSENCE OF MIND-ANp CLOTHES.
The following anecdote of an innocent
French Canadian, is from Mrs. Noodles
recent work:
A couple ofyoung ladies were walking
one tine summer evening along the west
bank Of the Moirs, and the narrator, in
STOPPING over the water to gather some
wild flowers that grew in crevice of the
rocks, dropped her parasol in the river.
A cry ofveXation at the loss Of the arti-
Gle OF dress, which is expensive, and al
most indispensable beneath the rays of q
Canadian sun, burst from her lips, and
attracted the attention of q young man
whom she had not before observed, who
was swimming at some distance down
the river. He Immediately turned, and
dexterously catching the parasol as it
swiftly glided past him, swan towards
the ladies with the rescued article, car
ried dog-fashion, between his teeth.
In his zeal to render this little service,
the poor fellow forgot that be was not in
condition to appear before ladies, who,
startled at such an extraordinary sppa-
rition, made the best of their time to fly
precipitately from the spot.
Il have no doubt" said Miss -,
laughing, "that the good-natured fellow
meant well, but / never was so frighteu-
ed and coufounded in my LIFE" The
next morning the psrasol was returned
ut the street door with "Jean Baptiste's
compliments to the young ladies'" So
much for French Canadian gallantry
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U Our whole territory east of the
Mississippi is not equal to that vest OF
the Rocky Mountains, the latter being
SIC, 0,209 square miles, and the difference
in its favor 1858. But the vast country
between these two natural bounds, the
Mississippi r,yer and the Rocky noun
tains, is nearly one-half larger than either
of the divisions named, and two-thirds Of
hoth together. ....
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METROPOLITAN FAIR.
NOTICE TO CIfIZENS AND sTRANGERS

i Magruder Calvert will be closed out at yery
reduced prices. We name in part
Rich striped and plaid Silks
BTocade Silks, cost 81, for 626 cents
Changeabie Silks, s71<, for SOC.
White Grape Shawls at half price
COlored do do
Linen Sheeung, wort 81 for 75c.
Pillow Linen, worth 75c for SO
Pillow case Cotton, worth l5c, for II \
Ia cotton Sheeting, worth soc, fer IS
Fine French Gioghams, worth IS, for l6Z
White and colOred Brilliants, very cheap
Also, large lot Of Domestics Of the best class
which will he sold very low.
Gail early and secure great bargains, at No. I 6
opp. Centre Market, between 9Th and 9Th sts. o.,
feb 9eo2w
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DENTISTRY,

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nR. MUNS0N respectfully calls public attention
IL to his new, patent, and GREATLY desxnFA
IMPROVED method Of setting Artificial
Teeth, With Continuous Gum-ths very VkkI
PkRfHCTION OF TIE ART. Thisstyis 80
Of Teeth has the follow advsntas 0vsf all others
va: 0HHAT STRENGTH, ct4EANLiNEsS, OOM-
FORT, and BEAUTY, vieins With nature In these
respects, and some others excelliHg Public inspso
don is respectfully solicited. Plssss call and sss
ypecimens.
oAUTI0N.-No other Dentist IN ths District OF
COLUMBIA has q right to make this stsls Of Fss,n.
F. N. B. Teeth conatitutionsIiy bssIthy, FIucgei
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