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oil CLOTHING which they now Rave on exhibit
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The WEArHER.-The following report of the
weatherfor this morning is made from the Morse
Telegraph line to the Smithsonian Institution.
The time of observation is about O. clock a. M
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NOTlCE.-Our customers hereby notified
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delivery and settlement on the ist January. prox.
We earnestly beg that there may be delay in
closing bills, the usual model as we will REQUIRE
every dollar due us to enable us TO meet press
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OF those who, although willing. have been unable
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BASKETS, DOLLS, DOLL ARMS, DOLL
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The PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF THE
NAVY AND THE ATLANTIC TELEGRApH.-The
following Is the so-acceptable reply of President
Buchanan and Secretary Toucey to the request
of the Atlantic Telegraph Company for the ser
vices OF the L. 5. steam frigate Niagara a sec
Ond time to assist in laying the international
telegraph cable, and for the services of Mr..
Everett, u. 5. Naval Engineer, in the same en-
terprize.
We are sure it will give great joy to all
fr ends of the enterprise on both sides of the
Atlantic ~. '.F"
NAVY DEPARTMExT, Dec. 30, 1857
btHHtn1sH: Your communication Of the Ord
instant, has been received -"e
have TO inform Jon, In reply that, NV direc-
ton OF the President of the United states the
steam frigate Niagara will be- again detailed for
the purpose of assisting in LAYING the telepTa ami
cable next summer
The Department will, agreeably to your re-
quest, give Chief Engineer Everett leave Of alb
sence, with permission To leave the United States
that the Telegraph Company may avail itself of
his services in connection with the work
am respectfully, your obedi-nt servant,
ISAAC TOUcEY
To Peter Cooper, Esq. President, and Cyrus w
Field Esq, Vice President, Atlantic Telegraph
Company.
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the General Land Office, embracing townships
Nos and 3, north Of range west of the Will
lemette meridian; through which townships
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courses, and disembogues itself into the Colum-
bia river The Cowlitz bottoms extend from
hall mile to two miles in width on both sides
Of the river, and are occupied by claimants
under the Donation law, Astounding in fine
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NEW YEARS DAY AT THE Executive MAN.
sIox.-It is already apparent that the throns
at the Executive Mansion tomorrow is destined
to be very great, there being larger number
Of strangers in the Federal Metropolis than
usual while our immediate fellow citize ns con
tinue to be impressed with the belief that a
call Oh The President on New Years Day is
the great privilege OF life in Washington city,
as a. were. The weather bids fair to be remark
ably fine; for at noon to-day the sun shines as
brightly, and the atmosphere feels as genial. as
at noon in the middle of May, .,-..a.., .
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ernment-is controlled by needy speculators,
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We fear we should transcend the limits allowed
to gentlemen in the employment of language.
We know Gen. Irisarri, and We are familiar
with his history. Now sixty eighty of age,
his integrity is for the FIRST time assailed, al
though his life has been spent in the fields of
war and diplomacy-more than thirty years of
it in the latter. A man, whose distinguishing
characteristics have been and are an obstinate
adherence to his convictions, his utter iudepen-
dence of control by other men, and an unwav-
ering self-reliance-isi in leading strings to Lord
Napier The information will be new to his
Lordship, and amusing to the whole diplomatic
corps. ..-
We shall have occasion to refer to this famous
epistle again, and in the meantime, we advise
this Mr.. Goicuria not to permit himself here
after to he employed to soil the characters of
gentlemen with whom he is unacquainted, or
to write letters on subjects Of which he knows
nothing and by all means not to claim such
an overwhelming intimacy with the President
of the United States
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The DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION The Pres
ident's reception of tomorrow for the FOREIGN
Ministers, the members of their respective
Legations, ami the ladies of their families, will
take place at II 4. m, we are authorized to say.
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GENERAL. WALKER TAKEN PRISONER
IMPORTANT To THE PUBLIC,

S'oW WORTH OF BOOTS AND SHOES TO BE SOLD
Itsvr determined to run of NV entire stock of
BOOTS AND SHOES at greatly redu ceO -Sar
prices Ny object In so doing is 10 close
Out my stock rs near as poss bic by the IstV
al March, IN order to make extensive i'm
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cents. cheap at 81
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d3l-2w corner 9TH ard streets, No. H9.
Mr.. GEORGE FELIX BENKERT informs
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vii alter the ist of January, commence n W.
course OF Instruction ON The PIANO,SIOiINt-,E
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HE New YEARS RECEPTION AT THE EXEC
UrIyE MANsIoS.-We are authorized to state
that the public reception of the President, of
the United States on New Years day will com.
mence at Il O'Clock, at which hour, in confor-
NIFTY with police arrangements. the gates of
the enclosure will be opened. The reception
Will terminate at o'clock precisely.
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HE NATIONAL ERA: WASHINGTON D. C, NOVEMBER g. 1887

manner in which Christians have dealt with the
subject of Slavery, there is too much reasoe to
believe. Are we authorized to seek the SAL
walton of some men, by means which prust
ruin the souls of other men and, especially,
are we authorized to do this, by the suppreasion
OF that which we believe to be important truth
3. To bear our testimony on this subject is
duty which we owe to our Christian brethren at
the South. The Quakers have always done
this, and with great moral effect. Thousands
of our Southern brethren mourn over q con-
dition from which they see no way of escape.
Their voice is drowned by the outcry of wicked
men and interested politicians, and they find
no sympathy among their Christian brethren at
the North. They find us aplogizing for, and
palliating system which they feel to be wrong,
and which they would do anything to remove,
if they could do so with the least prospect of
success. Our testimony would embolden them
to action, and they would with more confidence
labor for the abolition of laws which arc a dis.
grace to humanity.
1t is needless to add, that whatever is pub
hshed on this subject, should be written in the
spirit of Christian love. We should be careful
to take up no railing accusation, and yet we
should speak the truth in all godly sincerity,
commencing ourselves to every mans con-
science in the sight of God. We shall thus
accomplish the object of the Society - by the
circulation of Tracts designed TO promote the
interests of vital goodness and sound morality"
1t is not easy to discover how we shall accom-
plish it in any other manner.
E, WAYLAND.
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s U ICIDE z.

The suicide of Hugh Miller on the other
side of the water, and of Senator Rusk on this
side-both men of strong minds and great self
control-have drawn public attention to the
conditions which usually accompany this sad
result of mingled folly, crime, and despair.
Formerly it was considered mainly as crime,
and the denial to the body of the victim of the
ordinary rites of Christian sepulture instances
the degree of enormity attached to it. But this
idea has softened with the advance of knowl.
edge, and there are those who maintain that
suicide is the highest expression of folly capable
of being prevented in every case by the exercise
of reason and reflection. Others, again, regard
it as the suddenly-opened gate upon the victim
of overwhelming despair, closed generally upon
all others. But there are many, perhaps the
majority of cases. to which neither of these hy-
potheses will apply exclusively. Such were the
cases of Hugh Miller and Senator Rusk. But,
still, if we look carefully at the subject, we
shall, as a general thing, find something of all
three elements present in every instance-the
crime of disobedience against the Creator, the
folly of not exercising the utmost control over
the passions and imagination, and the despair
too feebly braved, if not actually nourished.
A work has recently been published in Paris
on the subject of suicide, which has received
the prize offered by the French Imperial Acade-
my of Medicine. We should Judge its theories
and method of treatment of little value; but its
statistics are worthy of note. Thus we find that
in France, in the year 1851
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If any one wishes to know what Slavery has
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let them read this mastery work. Let him study
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the hands of every voter, and, our word for it,
Republicanism will sweep the entire North in
1860, as clean as it has swept New England in
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The able editor of the Evening Transcript Bos-
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:" This little book contains a vast amount of
information respecting the comparative condition
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nature We need hardly say that these figures
are necessarily very fsliacious, as nothing is
more difficult than to get at the precise motive
which leads to suicide. The victim is usually
shy of observation and Interrogation before the
crisis, and beyond them afterwards. Still we
may look upon the above as fairly approxima-
ting to correctness, and no more likely to err In
favor of one item than another. The first thing
that strikes us on perusal of the figures is
leaving ont of view the cases of sickness aud
mental derangement-the fewness of suicides
under the influence of sudden and overwhelm
ing emotions, such as grief for loss of children
and thwarted love- When we read the novel
ists we are inclined to think that suicide belongs
only to the ecstacy of distress-for it is chiefly
the disappointed lover, the bsff1sd schemer, the
overwhelmed villain who in the third volume
seizes this method to take himself out of the
way, in order that those who ought to marry
may marry, and make everybody happy with
a good winding up" But in actual life, we
find the great majority of cases gradually ripen-
ed, in whose process the element of deliberate
ness is apparent, end which, of course, to the
same extent might have been hindered or pre-
vented by elaboration more wisely directed.
As to the bodily Influences aud conditions
which permit the passions of the mind to lead
to suicide, many speculations have been made.
Nothing, however, seems to be arrived at, further
than this-that i'll health is by far the most
general, if not an invariable condition. Every
one knows by his own experience how much
the very same troubles are Eghtened or aggra-
waited, removed or brought close upon US, by
varying states of health. Thus, probably,
Hugh Miller had overstrained his nerves and
whole bodily system by his excessive labors,
thereby making him prey to intolerable fore
bodings. Thus also, it is possible, Gen. Rusk
was made incapable at particular period of
sustaining a grief which he had undergone
when it was more unwonted and pungent. At
any rate, some popularity assigned provocstives
of suicide have been dsproved. Among these
is the influence of chilly, foggy, dreary climate.
There are fewer suicides in cloudy England than
in sunny France and in the latter, during the
year of l843, they stood during the four quar-
tiers as follows:
January, 225; Feb, 23O; March, 28O; in all, 1876
April, 258; May, 3l8; June, 1874 A" 90
July, 1856; Aug, 267; Sept, POI; $40
October, 1874; Nov, 1873; Dec, 10; " 562
Here it is curious to observe the ratio in
creasing as the months become less foggy and
more bright; descending from June till it
reaches its minimum in the gloom of Decem-
ber-BOStOn Journal.