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y 'UHMOND SODA water AND

IL 'OnmOND BODA A i "a Il AN u
=" BOTTLINH ESTABLISH HENT is now in full
force, with its double set of SELF-ACriNG GEN
TRAITORS The subscriber wishes to return his
sincere thanks to hs friends and customers in tho
city and country Mt large for che patronage receiv
cd tor his tenure in the business and hopes strict
attenti and straightforward dealings with his
customers. To merit continuance of their future
ia-ors FRANCIS DUSCH
N B.--The subscriber would most respectfully
call the attention Of his customers in the city OF
Richmond to the tact that no has in his oyment
all the han d, who have been In tho employment of
Nh Mccormack. some of them for the last seven or
eight years, and y no are now competent to put up
the best article of SODA w AFTER, &c. that cannot
be surpassed which is well known from the fact of
having received Diploma at the late State Fair
held in this city, where those in my employment
had not only TO compete with my ANTAGONISTS in
Richmond, but with other cities. / have also in my
empleynsnt competent and dutifui Drivers, who
will always oudeavor to give Subtraction 20 the Gus
toners in general.
Would also all the attention Of my customers
in the city and country 20 having superior article
Of CREAM ALE, which Am selling on the most
reasonable terms. and will warrant to give salts
NH 4-i2t FDUsCH.
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tSAMILY GROCERY

DOTS, FARLEY u Co,
t3ROCERS. COMMISSION AND
FORWARDING MERCHANTS,
Nearly opposite the Columbian Hotel, Cary street
Richmond, Va.
Special attention given to the sale Of TOBACCO,
WHEAT, and all kinds Of PRODUCE. and liberal
advances made cCnsgnmcnts.
k FKANb q lg PTAyKsLRY Late of petersb's.
HENRY WILLIAMS, Late of Norfolk.
jal JAS MARSHALL, Late of Petersburg.
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| DOTATUEs.-N call the attention of
- love of good Irish Potatoes II large lot Just
arrived by schooner Rough and Ready ss,to o1at.
ity and size they have bes pronounced very supe
rlor; AUSTIN SGEhTnY Com Merch ants,
nh 10 Market Place Frank lin st.
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DONNAN & CO.,
~ COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
RICHMOND Va.
Solicit ccnsgn ents of Tobacco, Grain, and other
Produce, for which the best market prices will be
obtained.
to Once ON Virginia street. near Cary.
Ia 2--d&W6mF
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DENTIST.

= SURGEON DENTS;
ono. "a Main, below Pearl street. nsxs ssa aooss
tlorton Keach's trimming store, sEvn 100 store
Tho subscriber having removed tYh ~ sshen he
house. would be pleased 20 see these w .,ss prrpA
has engagements, aud hss msas s NV All opsrsr
tioas perforned Ia the most apffoyoa AZ srS done
styie known 90 the Profession Ana All vsI-sm
br him " " aate4i - give satasfee.s,a
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STOCKS FUR SALE
~ &le.n00 Virginia State
1860 Virginia and Tennessee Cd mortgage
1890 Virginia aud Tennessee, Sd morfaaes
eight years to run
800 Manassas Dap. lss mortgage
1890 Orange Alexandris, per cts
10 shares Richmond 4 Danyiiie Railroad
SAP Stock
Is shares Richmond Fire Association
loo shares Virginia Fire and Marine
t00ahAros Lynchburg 0as Company
For sale Ia sums to suit purchasers, by
CIV pUkOELL ACO
as9 Exchangs aud Flock brokers
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APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
prizesof $500, approximating to $5o,o0 ~,
prize, are -. 4. ~oo mn lou
prizes of 500. approxiInating to $4,000
prize, are .,ooo. i.ZV
prizes Of $3.50. spproximating to $4,000
prize, are i,Vo
prize, are . sot
prizes of 5000, approxlmeting 10 S4tVW o
prize are GU
me are S,''' "''- 800
prizes Of $780, aprroximsting to 81 800
prize, are aU
5Noo nriges of $50 are 100000
3 1s. rrizes amounting to $4,000
whole Tickets $40: Halves IS; Quarters % 80.
aX- A Circular showing the plan OF the Lotteries
will be sent to any one DESTROYS of receiving It.
Certificates packages will be SOLD a. the following
IsrtiSca.s Of package of 10 whole tickets. $50
W. 10 half 20
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MOOD. EDDY Il CO., Managers. Successors TO
8 SWAN Il CD.
The fo,lovinc scneme will be drawn by WOOD,
EDDY 800. managers Of tho Sparta Academy Lot
terry In each of their Single Number Lotteries ior
the snperintendeuce of Commissioners:
CLASS draws on SATURDAY, February ,, i isao'
CLASS draws on SATURDAY. February ~ 1872 49,
GLASS draws on SATURDAY, February - io's'
ON THE PLAN OFSLNGLE NUMBERA
OO0D TICKETSl
FIVE rHoUsANT FoUR HUNDRED AND
EIGHTY-FIVE PRIEST
Nearly one T1s.s % ereyY Nisse 1tckettf
MAGNIFICENT SCHEME:
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A Horrible and Unnatural Dead,

n Koung Woaidn Is dsiibsrsd of Child on
board the Cars, and filings it out the Window -
A young woman elegantly dressed and of
prepossessing appearance, got aboard the
Cleveland and Erie cars at the depot, Tues
day noon, just before they started, having
TO baggage with the exception of satchel,
which she placed upon the seat by her side.
After the cars started she went into the la
dies saloon several times, and was in there
when Mr.. Murry, conductor on board the
train, came around to collect the tickets
She appeared TO be suffering with pain, and
told him he would find her tickets in her
satchel, which lay in the sea, she had occu-
pied. He went to the seat and found them
as she represented. Mr.. Murry was sue
ceeded by Conductor Haight, who proceed
ed with the train TO Dunkirk, the woman
remaining in the saloon of the cat most of
the way. At Dunkirk Mr.. Haight received
telegram from Erie stating that new born
babe had been found by the side of the
track about two miles east of Erie, and de
scribing the woman Conductor Murry found
in the saloon, whom it was conjectured, was
the unnatural mother, and who to hide her
shame, had attempted the destruction of het
offspring by hurting it from the cars. He
returned reply that the woman had de-
parted on the ". Y. & Erie road.
The child was found by woman who
was passing, and although the train was
going at the rate Of twenty-five miles an
hour, the child soas alipe Uhsn found 1t was
cared for in proper manner, and was alive
yesterday. No clue was obtained in regard
to the name of the mother, and it is not
known where she caiae from.
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Names of the Months.

The nafhes of the months were given by
the Romans.
January, the first mouth, was so called
from Janus, an ancient King of Italy, who
was deified afier his death, and derived
from the Latin word Januarius.
February, the second month, is derived
from the Latin word Feburo, to purify, hence
Februarius: for this month the ancient Ro
mans offered up expiatory sacrifices for the
purifying OF the people.
March, the third month, anci emily the
first months derived from the words Mars,
the God Of waf.
April is so called from the Latin Aprilus,
i. e., opening because in this month the
vegetable world opens and buds-fotth.
May, the fifth month, is derived from the
Lain word Majores, SO called by Romans,
in respect toward the Senators hence Mains
OF May.
June, the sixth month, from the Latin
word Junius, or the youngest of people.
July, the seventh month, is derived from
the Latin word Julins, and 30 named in
honor of Julius Caesar.
August, the eight month, was SO called
in honor of Augustus, by decree of the
Roman Senate, A. d. g.
September, the ninth month, from the
Latin word Septem, or seven, being the sew.
enth from March.
October, the tenth month, from the Latin
word 0cto, the eighth, hence October.
November, the eleventh month, from the
Latin word Novem, nine being the ninth
from March.
December, the twelfth month, from the
Latin of Decem, ten; so called because il
was the tenth month from March, which
was anciently the manner Of beginning the
year.
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Waltzing.

The following daguerreotype, which, we
find in an exchange, is executed Untrue col.
ors:
"Look look" said a half dozen lady
voices, one pretty night, we sat leaning
agains, the outside OF the ball room. We
did look-alas for our modesty ought not
to have done 30. "lf my children were
among them, I'd whip them for it Yes, if
they were full grown, I'd give them the hick.
oryw So said the wife Of Dur princes, as
she turned away in utter disgust Let me
describe a little-if the public may look Ger
tainly it may read, though It run. A group
of splendid ones is on the floor, and loving.
ly mated. The gents encircle their partners
waist with one arm. The ladies and gentle.
men stand close, face to face. The gents
are very erect, and lean a little back. The
ladies lean little forward. iMusic.) Now
all wheel, whirl, circle and curl. Feet and
heels of gents go rip, rap p,tippity,tip. Ladies'
feet go tippity, tip, tippity,tip. Then all go
rippity, clippity, slippity, tippily, bippity,
hoppity, jumppity, thumb. Ladies' fly off by
centrifugal momentum. Gents, pull ladies'
hard and close. They reel, swing, slide
sling, look tender, look silly, look dizzy -
Feet fly, hoops ay, dresses fly, all fly. II
looks tuggity, pnlllty, squeezity, rubbiiy rip
The men look like cross between STEEL
yards and climber jacks" bottles, Xes. The
maidens tuck down their chins very low, or
raise them exceedingly high. Some smile,
grin, some giggle, some pout, some sneer,
and all sweat freely. The ladies' faces are
brought against those of the men, or into
their bosoms, breast against breast, nose a.
gainst nose land toes against Toes. Now they
go in again, making sound, like georgy,
porgey, ,derey, perry, ridley, coachy, poachey
This dance Is not much, but the extras are
glorious. If men were women, there would
be no such dancing. But they are only men,
and the thing goes on by woman's love OF
it. 4 secular writer says: "There is nc
established standard of propriety about this
matter. If were lady, might object to
these dances, but being man, do not We
certainly ought to be satisfied, if they are
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"MoHAwK DUTCH "-The following story
is good because it is tue. We had it from
the lips of goad woman--was told it by
the principal actor herself:
"Ven first come to Filadefy to serve,
was very much uncivilized," said Katriue,
now tidy, intelligent servant in respect
able family; 81 laugh mooch, and | feel
mooch ashamed to remember how behave
ven know SO little. Shon, that was my
beau then-Shon he took me to the iheater
one night, when been in Fidelity but three
weeks. We sit IN the gallery; and we not
see good, and Shon said he would get pet
ter seat. So he puts his leg round de post,
and shlides down mid de pit, and he looks
up aud calls out, "Katrine Katrine COON
down tish good view here P' and lean
ed over, and said |; 'How can ! COON,
Shon 2" And he said: "Just shlide down."
So Iput my legs round de pillar, and | shlides
down, too. Donder! how de peoples laugh!
Dey laugh so dey play no more dat night
upon the stage. Every body laugh land yell,
and whistle all over de house Twas much
ashamed, den, though knew not any harm!
But now, pushes red every time dinks
of it."
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Self-C0Dtr0l.

A merchant had dispute with Quaker,
respecting the settlement of an account.
The merchant was determined 10 bring the
account into court-a proceeding which the
Quaker earnestly deprecated, using every
argument in his power TO convince the mer.
chant of his error; but the latter was in.
flexible. Desirous 10 make last effort. the
Quaker called at the honse one morning.
and inquired OF the servant if his master
was at home. The merchant hearing the
inquiry, and knowing his voice, called out
from the top of the stairs, "Tell the rascal
| am not at home" The Quaker, looking
up to him, calmly said, "Well friend. God
put thee in better mind" The merchant,
struck afterwards with the meekness of the
reply, and having more deliberately inves-
tigated the matter, became convinced tba,
the Quaker was right, and that he was
wrong. He requested to see him after ack-
nowedging his error, he said, sI have one
question 10 ask you. How were Won able
with such patience, on various OCCASIONS.
to bear my abuse 2" "Friend,n repIied
the Quaker, ''l will tell thee. | was natural.
ly as hot and violent as thou art. | knew
that to indulge this temper was sinful and
found 1t was imprudent. observed that
men in a passion always spoke aloud and
! thought if l could control nv voice I
should repress my passion. have, there
lore, made IT a rule never 10 let nv voice
rise above certain key; and by a careful
observance of this rule, have by the bles-
sing OF God entirely mastered my natural
temper" The Quaker reasoned philosophi-
cally, and the merchant, as every one else
may be, bene6led.by his example.
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Prospect OF Trade In the Far East.

il we take Singapore as an index OF the
progress of Eastern trade, We shall perceive
how much may be done in a brief period,
especially with the enlarged area opened
to US, the increasing civilization, and the
extended movements Of shipping in the
Eastern aDd China Seas. In a quarter oil
a century the Strai,s settlements have doub.
led their po pulation and trade; and Singa-
pore, the great commercial emrepo: of the
East, increases its commerce at the rate oil
nearly million sterling year. One thous.
and square-rigged vessels, and from two to
three thousand native craft, now annually
enter at Singapore, and the entire native
and other tonnage employed in the trade Of
the Straits settlements is from 800, 900 to
100000 tons. The prospects of future
trade are dazzling in tRe extreme. Japan.
Siam, Cochin China, the Chinese Empire,
and the Eastern Islands, are the countries
that will furnish the elements of this new
commerce. China has population of a
million and half on sea coast alone bot
we are nb& also admitted through her riv.
ers TO the interior. Japan, with her popu.
lation of 50,0O0, ,OOU, has recently, by treaty
permitted free intercourse with her people,
highly advanced in civilization. Siam is
progressing favorably in the development,
of extended commerce. We have, also, to
take into the calculation the vast and un.
developed resources of Polynesia and the
Eastern Archipelago, connected as they
now are also with our Australian settlements
which contain present population exceed.
ing one million, and continually increasing
The exports of the Australian settlements
now exceed eco, 600, 900 annually, and thei:
imports are OF proportionate value. They
draw largely already upon China, the
Straits, Java, and the Philippines, for much
OF their supplies, and will do so more still,
as communication becomes more facile.-
The Chinese have now spread themselves
over India, and all our Eastern and South
ern Colonies. We meet with them in the
West Indies, in California, at the Chinchas,
and at Panama. They have no longer that
fear of travel which formerly de:ered them
from facing ocean voyages, but with the
money getting desire oflhe Europeans, they
now make their way 10 any field which OF.
fers good food, wages, and brighter pros
pects of return for industry, than their own
over.crowded and disturbed land-Chino
Telegraph.
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Great Outrage by a Negro upon a white Girl.

Prospect Of Lynch LaW.-A day or Two
ago, young girl, barely fourteen years OF
age, the daughter of a respectable carpen-
ter, named Collins, residing in Xenia, bel
came the mother of an African child, great.
ly TO the amazement and horror of her rela-
tives and friends, who had never doubted
her purity for moment. The poor girl.
forced to make some explanation, then
told, with the deepest sense of shame, and
in perfect agony of mind, that, ten months
before, she had gone, about dusk one even.
ing, 10 cooper's shop 10 obtain some shaw
inss, and was approached by by stalwan
negro, named Booker, who seized her, and
choking her so that she could not scream.
most brutally violated her person! No one
was near, and in his hands the poor child
was compelled TO yield TO the monster, and
TO endure what she would have died 10
avoid.
So greatly was she Mortified when she OBJ.
tanned her freedom, that she dreaded to ex.
pose the negro, who had threatened 10 kill
her if she revealed what had happened,
knowing ,ha: by SO doing she would pub
ish her own intamy. Believing that no one
would ever know the dreadful secret except
| through her, she resolved to hide it in her
own bosom, and even after she knew that
would be impossible, she preserved the
most complete silence concerning the great
wrong she had suffered. Not indeed until
the child was born did she reveal the horrid
fact that had crushed out her hope and peace
| and clouded her life forever.
The negro, it appears, had left Xenia a
few days before his crime became known,
or the people of that vicinity, with all their
morbid sympathy with the colored race,
would have lynched him on the spot. A
number of persons are now in pursuit oi
Booker, and will if they capture him, hang
the black villain, as he richly deserves.
The infant, very fortunately, lived but sin
gle hour.
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Uboife pn trp.
WHITTIER ON BuRNS.

At the Burns Festival in Boston; the fol
lowing poem, enclosed in letter, was re-
ceived from John G. Whittier:
How sweetly come the holy psalms
From saints and martyrs down,
The waving of ,riumphal palms
Above the thorny crown!
The choral praise, the chanted prayers,
From harps by angles slrung,
The haunted Cameron's mountain airs,
The hymns that Luther sung!
Yet barring not tie heavenly notes,
The sounds of earth are heard,
As through the open minister floats
The song oil breeze and bird.
Not less the wonder OF the sky,
That daisies bloom below;
The brook sings on though loud and high
The cloudy organs below.
And if the tender ear be Jared
That haply hears by turns
Tha; sanity harp of Olney's bard,
That pastoral pipe OF Burns,
No discord mars his perfect plan
Who gave them both tongue,
For he who sings the love of man,
The love of God hath sung!
To-day be every fault forgiven
OF him in whom we Joy;
We take, with thanks, the gold OF Heaven,
And leave the earth's alloy.
Be ours his music as OF spring,
His sweetness as of flowers,
The songs the bard himself might sing
In holier ears than ours.
Sweet airs of love and home, the hum
OF household melodies,
Come singing, as The robbins come
To sing in door-yard trees.
And heart 10 heart two nations lean,
No rival wrealhs 10 t&ne,
But blending, in eternal green,
a The holly and the pine
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NUMBER 10.
Tobacco Convention.

A committee of the Kentucky State Agri.
cultural Society recommends Convention
Of the producers and buyers of tobacco, To
be held in Louisville, KY, on the 25th Of
May next, which is the day fixed for award
ing premiums to the growers of the best
tobacco, under the auspices of the State
Agricultural Society. The design is TO
bring the producers and purchasers togeth-
er. in order to an interchange of opinions.
The agricul uralsts may learn what glades
are best suited to the market, ard will
meet the most ready sale. The Louisville
Journat, speaking Of the great commercial
importance of the staple, says that the value
of the raw tobacco exported from the United
States 10 Great Britain, was over three and
half million OF dollars in 1855, and during
the first half of the present century that
countray collected import duties on it to
the enormous aggregate of over $3.50, o,o0o,-
900; The tota! value of our exports of to-
bacco in 1857 was $21, $685. and in 1853
amounted 10 $i9,4O9,ss2. During the FIRST
nine months of 1857 the import revenue
derived by France from it was over $685.
OOO, OO.four-ffihs of which were exported
from the United States. The Cyelopedis of
Commerce says that tobacco, next to salt, il
probably the article most consumed by men.
In one form or another, but most generally
IN the form of fume or smoke, there is no
climate in which it is not consumed, and no
nationality that has not adopted it. To put
down its use has equally baffled legislators
and moralists, and in the words of Pope;
on higher subject. it may be said 10 be
partaken of "by saints, by savage, and by
sage" The average consumption, per
head of male population over eighteen years
of age, in some counties, seems almost
fabulous. In the German States, included
in the operations Of the zollverein and the
Stenerverein, it reaches from 81 to l2j
pounds; in Holland and Belgium and:Den.
mark 10 or pounds. The advanced cos,
of tobacco is shown from the fact that i'm
ls42 we exported l5O,7lO hhds. at an aver
age cost of $60.iI, and in 1857 only 1861
S+s at the average value per hid. of sla2..
40.
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HAVE PATIEh CE.

youth and maid, one winter night,
Were sitting in the corner;
His name, we're told, was Joshua White,
And hers was Patience Warner.
Not much the pretty maiden said,
Beside the young man sitting;
Her cheeks were flushed a rosy red,
Her eyes bent on her knitting.
Nor could he guess what thoughts OF him
Were TO her bosom focking,
As her fair fiugers, swift and slim,
Flew round and round the stocking.
While as for Joshua, bashful youth,
His words grew few and fewer;
Though all the time, 10 tell the truth,
His chair edged nearer TO her.
Meantime her ball of yarn gave out,
She knit so fast and steady;
And he must give his aid: no doubt,
To get another ready.
He held the skein of course the thread
Got tangled, snarled, and twisted;
Have Patience , cried the artless maid,
To him who her assited.
Good chance was this for tongue and churl
To shorten all palaver;
Have Patience :" cried he, "dearest girl
And may really have her I"
The deed was done no more, that night,
Clinked needles in The corner:--
And she is Mrs. Joshua White
That once was Patience Warner.
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How to KEEP HIS BABIES QuiEr.-An old
bachelor having been seduced against his
will into the commitment of matrimony,
and being troubled alter a certain length OF
time with prosperity of young bachelors,
contrived the following plan to keep them
quiet: GAS soon as the sweet little creature
awakes, and begins to squall, set it up In
bed, propped up by pillow if it can't sit
alone, and smear its fingers with molasses
then get half dozen feathers into his hand
and it will commence picking the feathers
from one hand TO the other, till it drops
asleed. AS soon as 1t awakes again more
molasses and feathers should be applied
Immediately, and instead of the nerve as
founding yells Of the dear, there will be a
sweet and calm silence, producing the most
profound enjoyment and rapturous domestic
felicity. A cup with molasses can be KEEP,
at the head OF the bed, in a stand drawer
for use. Syrup is preferable to common
molasses."