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EDUCATIONAL.
MRS. R. ABBOTT'S

NKS. X. NBBOTF'S
1N1 < SELECT SCHOOL,
Corner of Pa. arsHNs aad 18th street, south side,
VII re open on Monday. the 9TH of September.
Attention will be paid to all pupils ntrusted 10 her
care. f
A French Glass will be formed at the same place,
under the special charge of Professor Daniel f..
Groux. au 2g-Sts
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DYE AND BARLEY MALT, for sale ~ the
II CITY MALT HOUSE, oorner of West Falls
avenue snd biook street. Baltimore, Nd.
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rULPEPER MILITARY INSTITUTE,
~ NEAR CCLPPPRR CouRT HOUsR Va

rULPEPER MILITARY INSTITUTE,
~ NEAR CCLPRPER COURT HOUSE, Va.
The second session OF this school will commence
on the LIST day Of September 1887. graduate Of the
structlon pursued in that institution, will have
charge OF the departments of Ancient and Modern
Lang guages while graduate of the V. Nj. Institute,
who has had considerable experience IN teaching,
losopEy, Chemistry, and lower English branches.
The course of studies will be as follows:
PREPARAroRY CLASS.
Spelling, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic. Geogrs-
ply, Grammar, History, Algebra, Latin Grammar,
THIRD CLASS.
MATHEMATICS, Engis 6 rammar, Arithmetic, His
tory, Latin, Greek, French.
SECOND CLASS.
- Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry,
History, Latin, Greek, French, Spanish.
FIRST Class.
Mathematics, Natural ard Moral Philosophy,
chemistry: Geology, English Literature, English
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Infantry and Artillery
Tactics. Geography, History, Latin, Greek, French,
Spanish.
Every Student on entering will be subjected to a
CAREFUL examination, and will then be assigned 10
that class TO which his proficiency entities him and
no one Will be allowed to pass tOa higher class un-
less he gives evidence of a thorough know ledg
The discipline will bs necessarily rigid, bur the
comfort and convenience of each member of the
school VIII be duly respected. There will be daily
military exercises but will be ~ an that they AZ
not interfere with the Academic duties.
TERMS:
Board, Tuition. Washing, Fuel, Lights, for ter
months, Sl8. Payments semi annually in advance
For recommendations and further particulars, see
circulars.
CHARLES F.. LIGHTFOOT, V.MI.,
Superintendent and Instructor in Mathematics
and Natural Sciences
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of little girls will be formed, who will re-
ceIve careful instruction in English Reading and
Spelln and the elements of French.
Terms, per session of , months. ----- SIS.
Without FrenelI. lI........-...----. Ia.
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NOW Is THE TINE To DRINK MALT
NIiQUORS.-ARNY & SHINN are the only
ones IN the District who hsve stock PORTER and
Al, r., and always have a supply on hand: 40 give
them trial. Leave yonr orders ith the drivers or
at their Union Bottling Depot, No. 81 Green street
GeOrgetown. ". Y jy2
The Nevada journal., 1857-02-06
S beneath the dignity of an honora ble

is beneath the dignity of an honorable
man.
We shall expect to see an expose in
the Bulletin fully equal to the one cad
in the assembly to-day. A slang fight
IS probably thus to be kept up at the
expense of the state, to crafty two nj en-
who have obtained some not very envi-
able distinction, and seem to be am lbi-
tious of more. More anon.
STATE CoNTRoLLER.-We think the
report of the select committee of the
assembly is unjustly severe upon 4 the
conduct of the state controller, Mr..
Whitman, in relation to the "act for the
better protection of the state treasury"
The most grievous charge made agai4 4st
him is, that he ordered his clerks not to
assist the board of examiners in scruti-
nizing the books and vouchers in his
office. The section Of the act which re-
lates to this matter, is as follows:
at shall be the duty of the Controller
and treasurer to permit the said board of
examiners to eramtne the books and pa
pers in their respective offices and ofihe
! treasurer TO permit the monies in the
tresury to be counted, whenever the
said board may wish to make said ex-
animation or counting, without delay
ing said examination or counting, on
any pretence whatever
Mr. Whitman, it seems, has always
considered the passage Of the act as a
personal insult to him, as it is an act of
somewhat extraordinary character,
and was passed during his term of Office
lie resolved, therefore, to perform no
act under the law, that was not ex-
pressly required of him. The law simp-
ly requires that he shall permit the
board to examine his books and papers.
This he has done; but fault is found
with him because he did not assist them.
Now, this conduct on the part of Mr.
Whitman, may be considered unaccom-
modating, and perhaps eensurable; but
to call it a high misdemeanor, seems to
us like getting up more virtuous indig
nation than the case demands. We
have always looked upon Mr.. Whitman
as thoroughly honest man, and one of
our most efficient state officers, and we
see no reason, yet, to change our opin-
ion.
The Nevada journal., 1857-02-06

"CHINAMEN RoBBED--Information was
received in Grass Valley on Saturday
that some Cinnamon had been robbed by
three men of about $500, on Bear river.
One of the Cinnamon came to Grass
Valley and identified one of the men,
who was arrested. A dispatch was inn
medlately sent to Marshal Plumer of
TINS place, and he arrested one of the
others' named Sullivan, in the Theatre,
on Saturday evening. The other ac
compliee is supposed to have been in the
Theatre at the same time but he was
not found. The two were lodged in iail
but on Monday were set at liberty. by
the advice, we are informed, of the Dis
trict Attorney, without even an exami-
nation. "-Democrat.
Sullivan was arrested on Saturday
night without warrant, was taken before
no magistrate, and kept in jail three
days with no commitment The officer
who arrested him, and the ones who de-
tanned him were liable for false impris-
onment. The one arrested at Grass
Valley was brought here to be jugged
with no commitment, and though he had
been in custody three days, without any
examination.
The magistrate, Spoford, came up to
the Court of Sessions on Monday, and
informed the District Attorney of the
nature Of the testimony. There vas no
evidence that any robbery had been com
mitted except that of Cinnamon. No
property of theirs that could be identi-
fed, even by the Cinnamon, was found
on their persons. The only fact that
could be proved by white men was that
they were seen about the Chinese camp
The testimony Of Chinese against white
men was ruled out by the Supreme
Court in People VS.. Hall. Much less
would any court admit their hearsay
declarations. As there was no legal
testimony, the District Attorney, as was
his duty, advised the magistrate to dis
charge them, and save the county fur
ther expense, which the latter said he
would do. Before the magistrate re-
turned to Grass Valley, the constable,
without authority orcommitment,b brought
up the prisoner to be lodged in jail, when
both prisoners were discharged. If the
Democrat can find any authority in TIE
Statute for any proceedings taken in
this matter except those by advice of
the District Attorney, we should like to
see it.
The Nevada journal., 1857-02-06

% The Louisville Journal learns
from the Washington letter writers that
Judge Douglas Will be in the field as
the next democratic candidate for Pres
ident, and that neitherhe nor his friends
will be content to postpone his claims
for preferment any longer. We know
not what new humbug will be concocted
for hobby for the 81 little giant" of
Illinois democracy. He was the jockey
who trained the Squatter-Sovereignty-
Kansas Nebraska nag, but he was
thrown from its back before the race
commenced, and Buchanan has ridden
it to death. Douglass claims have
been already too long deferred. In
1856, the democracy were afraid he
would be too heavy for them to carry
through the canvass, and in 1860, there
will not be enough of the democracy
left to carry its own weight.
The Nevada journal., 1857-02-06

ESCAPE OF GEHR.-This individual,
imprisoned to answer at the Court of
Sessions for robbery, made his escape
from Jail on Thursday evening last
The prisoner was locked into cell by
two locks. and was heavily ironed. Be-
ing blacksmith, he succeeded by the
ingenious use Of string in getting off
his fetters, dug through the brick parti-
ton into the next cell, where there was
common paddock on the door. and a
bar of iron outside of the door, which
was insecurely fixed into the wall The
deputy jailor went in as usual to feed
the prisoners, passing the food in
through wicket in the iron door, and
then went to the other end of the jail to
feed other prisoners. The fastenings
of the cell doors were all in place, and
looked firm. After taking his food at
the wicket Gehr passed through the
hole he had made IN the wall into the
next cell, and when the officers back
was turned burst out of the cell, and
with the occupant of the other cell, es-
capped.
Luddington, the other prisoner, ran
up through the sheriff's office. Mr.
Wood was in that office, and i'm medi-
ately pursued him, and by the aid of
Mr.. Bostwick, succeeded in capturing
him, and brought him back to the jail
He then learned that Gehr also had
escaped, and Immediately offered a
large reward for his re-capture, and
made all the exertion in his power to
discover him. Gehr burst the glass
door below the sheriff's office, and did
not, as the Democrat says, pass through
the sheriff's Office and Mr.. Wood could
know nothing of his escape. And fur
ther, he has nothing to do with the af-
fairs of the Jail, in any particular, more
than any other citizen. The assertion
of the Democrat that "nothing was
known of the escape of Gehr by our cit
izens until Mr.. Smith had returned from
his chase after him" is false. Gehr ran
close to many of them near the court
house, and Mr. Smith called to them for
help, and not one of them would or did
assist him.
The Nevada jail is not Gas secure as
any place in the state" Had the bars
to the Jail doors been properly fastened,
Gehr could not have burst the one at his
door; and common padlocks are totally
unfit to be used about Jail.
The account of the Democrat of this
matter, is colored with the malignity it
always evinces when it can get chance
by misrepresentation, to decry public
officer that differs from it politically 1t
is small souled, envious course, char
acteristic of the proprietors of that
cboo+
The Nevada journal., 1857-02-06
RED Doc, FEB. I'd, 1857.

Eds. Of .Jouraal Among the variou!
mining localities in Nevada county
there are few of more interest and i'm
portance than Red Dog. There are
some five or six bitches carrying water
to this place, and vicinity, all of whicl
do not supply the miners with one hal
the amount required. The Chalk Bluff
Ditch furnishes from fouI to five hun
dred inches per day, and III. Star.
ditch from three hundred to three hun
dred and fifty. If the " South Yubs
Ditch Co." would favor us with brancl
from their ditch, they would find per
mancnt sale here, for eight or ten hun
dred inches of water daily for number
of years. The route in conveying &
branch of their ditch to Red Dog is de
cidedly practicable, and could be exc
cuted with but slight expense. 4
large number of the miners of Red Dog
and Walloupa, would work on it three
or four months in order to procure water
from that source, and take their pay il
water. There are hundreds of acres O.
mining country lying above all the pres
ent bitches, that will pay largely, as
soon as water can be procured to ope
rate with
The following is, in part, list of the
mining companies here, who are now
doing well. On independence Hill, the
noted Jenkins claims, which are being
worked under the management of G.. A
Hammons, are paying from 20 to 80 ozs
per week, the work of four hands, ant
only washing off top dirt. The Brandy
Point claims, Oh the same hill, are pay
ing from six to ten dollars per day, ex
elusive of all expenses. On Red Dos
Hill, the Wolverine claims, Begole
Cranes claims are paying largely
The miners on Yankee Hill are, also
doing well. Mahood & Co., Barker
Co, Avery & Co., Brown & Co., ant
Geiger, Herbert & Co., have nearly
completed their cut, which is, probably
one of the most extensive undertaking
in the county, AMI will soon begin t,
take out large sums of money. Already
Coined Buckman & en-, Martin & Co.
and Cetrew & Co., are making gooc
wages. 1t is currently reported tha
Burgess & Co., have struck good dig
gings, but | am not able to testify tt
the truth of the report. Suffice it II
say, that, with ten or twelve hundred
inches more Of water, this would be on,
of the best mining localities in the state
With this short notice of the mines o
Red Dog, will close for the present.
M +.
The Nevada journal., 1857-02-06

A STRAY EDIToR.-Marcus d. Bo-
ruck, of the Fircmaa's Journal, had the
good luck to strike Nevada last week, in
his wanderings among the upper coun-
ties. We can confidently recommend
Mr.. Boruck to all whom it may concern,
as very excellent institution indeed =
for San Francisco editor
The Nevada journal., 1857-02-06

THEATRICAL.-The theatre has been
well attended during TIE past week
The interest which our citizens have
taken in, the representations of Mrs.
Hayne continues unabated
This lady's remarkable powers are
not confined to any one branch of the
drama. Those who sat entranced, while
she pictured the terrible, contending
passions Of Lucretia Borgia,' or the love,
and struggles, and rescue of Pauline,
can bear witness with what fidelity she
can express the fearfulest and deepest
emotions of woman's nature. Those
who witnessed the love Chase" know
how perfectly she can exhibit the little
perpleSities, and pretty passions of a
wilful girl. She is an universal queen of
the drama = tragedy queen, and CO me
dy que en-; and it is difficult to say in
which realm she sways the sceptre
most gracefully. This versatility is
proof that she does not owe her success
to external advantages alone. a beau
tiful face, a fine voice, and mobile fea-
lures might be trained to represent a
character or two, or to express a single
set of passions, with considerable effect.
But to represent all characters to con-
troll voice, and form, and features to the
perfect expression of every passion,
from the most complex to the simplest,
requires the intellect to conceive. as
well as the power to execute. With
this hlghtest gift, Mrs. Hayne is amply
endowed
Mr.. Charles Pope is fitting supporter
of Mrs. Haync. He is a worthy disci-
pie of the worthiest school of actors, and
gives fair promise of winning the high
est honors of his profession. 1t is
pleasure to witness such characters as
Romeo, and Claude Melnotte, relieved
of the mawkishness that is thrown a.
round them, by the rant and fustian of
most actors. Pope has won an enviable
reputation in a community which we
may say without vanity, is always able
and ready co appreciate talent.
Mrs. Judah has been favorite with
our citizens from the first. The charac-
ters she assumes, could not be better
represented, or the satisfaction of the
audience more warmly expressed,
Mersrs. Rand and Dumphries deserve
as they have Universally received, the
highest encomiums for their truthful
presentations, and correct acting
Dumphries has but few equals in come
dy.
We have no space to mention other
members of this company, whose talent
we recognise. We regret that to-mor-
row evening closes their engagement.
lur ovabunoo Il. IL
The Nevada journal., 1857-02-06

Daguerreotypes! Daguerreotypes Those
wanting pictures in the highest style of the art should
call at the Gallery of Mrs j. +. RUDOLPH, No. 10 Com
merealstreet Glass Pictures AMBRoTYPEs also made
for those who desire them. f6-tf
The Nevada journal., 1857-02-06

Our exchange papers say, that, altho'
the last year was leap year, the number
of marriages in the course of it was less
than in ordinary years. This seems to
prove either that the women are not SO
good at courting as the men, or that the
men are harder to court than the women.
Which is it l-LouisriHe Journal.
The Nevada journal., 1857-02-06

The WEATHER-This useful COM
modify has been variable for the last
week-cloudy part of the time--then
clear again--a little rainy-and some
snow yesterday morning. 1t ought to
rain more.
The Nevada journal., 1857-02-06

PERsoNAL-Hon. Philip Moore Wis
tied Nevada on Monday, and left for
the capital on yesterday morning.
The Nevada journal., 1857-02-06
M A R R IE d .

In this city, the 22d ut by John Anderson Esq Mr.
Joseph Bath to Charlotte Mau, all of Nevada
In Plymouth, Mass. Jan lst- by Rev. John Scribner
Joseph L. Brown, Esq Nevada, to Miss Carrie Stephens
of Plymouth, Mass.
The Nevada journal., 1857-02-06

- McRoberts & Funston have re-
moved their store to DIR. Hunts new
brick on Broad street, above the Post
Office.
The Nevada journal., 1857-02-06

THANKS = To Wells, Fargo & Co.,
Hamlin, and to Welch, for favors.
The Nevada journal., 1857-02-06

fensive, is liable to ruin every day of
his life, at the caprice of his smallest
creditor. To be sne2, is to become at
once bankrupt. Oppre ssion itself
could not be more ingeniously oppress-
i've.
But we have not the slightest fear
that this bill will pass our Legislature.
Its absurdities are too numerous and
palpable. We hope our attachment law
will be left as it is, for almost any al
teration would be more likely to do
harm than good
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-11
From the Ogdcnsburg (N. " Sentinel
Doomed ViIlaEc.

On Monday morning oflast week the
village of Brasher Iron Works, in this
county, contained a thriving and busy
population. The sound of industry was
on every side, the mechanics and laborers
of which class the people of the little
community principally consisted, were
surrounded by families in the enjoyment
of all the necessaries and many of the
luxuries of life, and the future was tin
ted with hopeful colors. The population
of the place embraced about forty fami-
lies, the head of which were mostly in the
firm of Messrs. Alexander & Skinner, en-.
gagged abouttheir extensive foundcry and
machine-shops, which had built up the
place and given it all the Importance it
had attained. Before night the whole
village, the foundry, machine-shops,
saw-mills, and every dwelling in tic
| place except six, were consumed as witt
the bosom of Observation-Disclosures
had previously ragged in the woods, was
driven by a wind from a point or two
South or West, like a hail-storm, upor
the doomed village. Women at thu
wash-tub were compelled to drop their
work, or tumble the wet clothes into thu
%cistern to gather together their children
and fly to the fields for their lives.
In one hour forty-thrce buildings, anC
from $751; 900 to 800, 600 worth of prop
erty were reduced to ashes, and forty
families made houselcss and homeless
without food or clothing, and without
the means of employment. The place
was surrounded by flames an all sides
and it seems miraculous thrt none per-
ished in the sudden and overwhelming
calamity. The men who went to the
woods to contend with the flames there,
and that was the case with most of them,
returned to find their houses a heap of
smoking ruins. But two or three men
saved even a coat, and a few of the peo-
pie of the village anything except what
was on their persons. Every building
connected with the iron works was con
sumed-the clerk in the store having
merely time to put the books and pa
pers in the safe before he was compelled
to hy.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-11
Senator Butler.

Even the Black Republican journals,
which applauded Sumner for his scanda-
lous assaults on this aged and honorable
patriot, now that the grave has closed over
him, yield their tributes to his many noble
qualities. The EUcning Post says ofhim
ale was entirely free from malice or
unkindness, and a few moments reflection
never failed to insure a return to his US
ually mild and companionable temper.
Indeed, he had been so long INDUCED
in his habit of garrulous interruption
that he did not fully appreciate the an
noyance which is sometimes occasioned,
and would express surprise at the offense
taken by men against whom he had said
things that, from others, would have
been intolcrable. lie was, naturally,
one of the kindest and most whimsical
of men, and one whose character has
been more misrepresented by his own
conduct and words than by any outside
enmity.
although he was a man of excellent
sense and Judgment in matters not in
v~olving the peculiar institution, he was
not always happy in his speeches. His
HllIu Was SO SACCCulhSIJ SlCAAO III SUP
g~estion that his mouth was actually clog
gcd in delivery. Hence he would pour
forth a disconnected ALA podrida OF
sound argument, brilliant fancics and
n~onsensical colloquialisms, frequently
bringing up at a point where he least
expected. His impeduosity interfered
with his logic.
eat times, however, when he was
strongly excited, and could hold his at
t~ention to one train of thought, he was
truly eloquent, and his address would
be one entire and perfect chrystolite,
without a flaw. Few of the frequenters
of the Senate can have missed his APP
pearance when some remark, derogatory
to this State, would cause him to start
from his seat, with his white shaggy locks
shaking over a face as read as the har-
vest moon, and utter his protest against
the degeneracy of modern politics in a
strain of poetic eloquence, which was
even heightened its effect by his hurried
articulation and the faulty Latin quota
tons with which it would be interspers-
ed"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-11
L. G. GOULD, Editor.
EATON, O., JUNE IL, 1857.
FOR
HENRY B. PAYNE,
OF Cleveland
nm-We do not intend to perpetrato a

p@@We do not intend to perpetratc a
dun, but those who know themselves in
debted to us for subscription, advertis-
ing and Job Work, will confer an cspe-
cial favor by settling up the account.
1t is now two years since we took charge
of the Democrat" and many have re-
ceived it up to the present time, with
out paying one copper, and to those We
would say, come and let us have what
is justly due us-we need money and
must have it. Let us see how many of
our subscribers will respond to this po-
lite yet earnest appeal to their justice.
Money may be sent by mail at our risk.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-11
Virriuia Still Democratic,

The Democracy of the Old Dominion
covered themselves all over with glory.
at their late election. The returns
arc not all received as yet at Richmond,
but enough is known to warrant the
belief that the entire delegation to Con-
gress, as also an overwhelming majority
in both branches of the Legislature
will be Democratic. The Democrats
also elected the Attorney General by
large majority. 1t is a great triumph
in the Mother of States and of States
men," but nothing more than might
have been anticipated from her indomi'
table Democracy.