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Y
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into copartnership under the firm name of
llEALY & GILLIS, in the sale of PrOyis'
ions, Flour, Feed, Grains, &C., at the stand
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per, Paper Curtains, Beau
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THE PUBLIC are respectfully in
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to buy or not, for we claim to have one
of the most complete stocks and the
finest STORE in the county and can
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J. GURNEY & SON,
PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTISTS,
7O7- RROAnMAY NY.

TN addition to our Photographic Art Gall
lery, established in 1910, we have for
the last Five years had advantages SUI
perior to any other establishment in OBJ
tanning sittings from life, of all the
Prominent Celebrities of the day in
Card portraits, and are now publishing a
Catalogue of over
$500 SUBJ ECYS,
American and Foreign, also large list
of copies of Works of Art and Engrav-
ings. Catalogues sent on receipt of
Stamp. An order for one dozen pic
lures from our Catalogue will be filed
at 81 80, and sent by mail free. Single
pictures 25 cents each, copies of en-
cravings Is cents each.
N. b. We also desire to call attention
to the advantage we have for reprodue-
ing, or copying, old Daguerreotypos,
Ambrotypes, Card Pictures, &C., of de-
ceased relatives and friends, charging
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Water Colors, or India Ink, with the
aid of ten talented artists.
Parties desiring copies, should there.
fore correspond with us direct
Send for a catalogue. The trade
supplied at a liberal discount. Gallery
open for free inspection, and strangers
visiting the city will find our Gallery
one of the most agreeable places where.
in to while away an hour.
j. GURNEY & SON,
sep-2O 6m. 707, Broadway, N. Y
, 1867-08-13

about $303. fer QEEs;siansted. and Sl37 for
Frederiksteds six years later, 1864. they were
$500 for, sChristiansted and J$I55 for Frederik-
sted, shelving. . reduction fol. the former place
of S13, and ah increase fof the latter of $19.
this partly arising from the necessity for the
Burgher Council preIiminarily to assign several
pensions on the 'p0oFfund which according to
their nature belonged to the Rumfund, the
whole revenue of t~his~fund being absorbed in
ChriStiansted. In 1857 the Burgher Council
in framing the Budget calculated the probable
expenditure for Christiansted monthly to $2SS
and for Frederiksted $14O, which amounts we're
reduced during the following years, and now
We are requested to grant to the former place
monthly 1884 and TO the latter $3.50. If you
look at the population of the towns,-and it is
chiefly the populations that receive the support,
Il do not believe that more than about 5000
will be required for the country the jurisdic-
ton of Christiansted compared with Frederik-
sted ought not to consume more than $2250
annually it consumed last year nearly $4,000
and for this year there is asked for $1,000.
The speaker would ask is poverty and distress
so much greater in this town than in Frederik-
sted, or does the Poor Commission here follow
other rules? He is not able to answer the
question. but feels the difficult position in which
members of this Council are placed when they
are either to vote such an increase without
being convinced Of its necessity or by voting
against it perhaps deprive those that arc actual
ly starving, of the necessaries of life. If the
discussion of the Budget had not taken up so
much time already no would have proposed a
Committee on this matter, hut thinks it prefer
able now to ask His Excellency to reduce the
demand for ChristianSted to $4,000 and then
bring forward a supplementary Bill for the $500
with all necessary calculations, thus enabling
the Council to appoint a Committee.
TO be continued.
, 1867-08-13
ITO be c~ontinucd.l
sum ptrpfratints.
Concluded from No. 63 }

The number Of thefts mentio ned by me COM
prises two classes, viz real thefts in the sense
Of the law, aud cases of petty larceny, such as
illegal appropriation of fruit or other eatables
in small quantities. II these {22 in numbcr)
are deducted, tho number of real thefts was 40
in 1865, and 81 in 1866.
Among the offences of which complaints are
made, the honorable chairman mentions the
F'numbcrlcs3 children" l wonder if any one
could inform US Of the means, by which the
police can control the number of children to be
born, or prevent a certain proportion Of them
from reaching the age, when they will occasion
ally run in the streets, or be sent on errands,
Herod's law for the, massacre of the Innocents
was quite exceptional, and no similar law has TO
my knowledge been(in force any where.
1t is natural that in our sunny cline children
are more frequently in the streets than in cold
countries, but if they commit disorders, such as
fighting among each ether, throwing stones or
the like (of %"riots" created by them | have
never heard) they get a whipping either by their
relatives in tbe-pFeseuce of q police-servant, or
in graver cases, by the proper officer 10 the
Courtyard.
I have now sufficiently answered the aecusa-
tions made against the police, as far as they
appear in the printed records Of the Council,
but | have been Informed of individual cases
brought forward at fhe meeting. which have. not
been published, 10 proof of the general ,charge,
each one Of the two honorable members telling
his own tale. EAs =
That of the honorable Chairman was the case
of a ham, which dropped out of his carriage in
coming from .Fredesiks.ed to Christiansted.
The loss was at once notified by him to the three
police9districts the answer he got from the
police assistant in Ohristiansted was, that the
ham was probably already eaten by the finder,
but the ham was afterwards restored to him
from the Center.disttict. On making enquiries
into the faSsskof Abe casesMr. Idskovdammen,
the police-assistants denies having given the
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-05
From New Orleans

New ORLEANS, September 4.-The deaths from
yellow fever yesterday we're twenty The
Board of Health last night declared the fever an
epidemic, but describes it as being OF mild type
A communication was sent to the Boaid OF
Health yesterday announcing the reorganization
of the Howard Association but that it was entire
iy without funds.
The streets were flooded this morning by tre-
mendous rain.
The school imbroglio is coming to focus. The
schools opened ON Monday, the day specified by
law, under the auspices Of the old Board Of Direc-
tors. The appointees Of Council are restrained
from action by writ Of co-carrdntr'e, returnapif
on the 9Th before Judge DU PLA1NT1ERE- Councl
last night adopted a resolution suspendmg th'
schools until October l, on the ground OF an cpl
demic The resolution amounts to nothing legal.
as the Board of School Directors exercise authorl
ty under the State laws. The Republican, suggest
ed the cutti:g off the supplies from the schools a
as means of overcoming the difficulty.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-05

In SPEAKING of the "clumsy and obscure style
which Mr.. BANCROFT again exempifes in his last
volume, writer in Western paper remarks: BE
fore putting this history into final shape MIR. BAN
CROFT would have done we'll had he got place on
some first-class newspaper where he might have
learned to write. There is not reporter connect
ed with any OF the leading journals who is not his
superior for there is no school OF writing 30
thorough as that afforded by the daily press. The
easiest and most popular authors OF England and
America-D1oKENs and IRvINa-commencet as
journalists and it is because they are journalists
that"-certain editors whom the writer mentions
have achieved great success as the authors Of
popular books. So far as we can analyze Journalism
and the journalistic style, We suppose the peculiar
ity about them is the drecness with which the mat
ter in hand is always approached The heating
round the bush" the digressions, the padding"
the exploitation of one's personality, which are 30
common among common hook-makers, have no
place with the journalist. To have something
to say, to say it forcbly and clearly, and, above
ALL to say it directly and pointedly, are the points
that we observe in the best newspaper writer's
As q rule, the questions Of the hour require very
prompt and decisive treatment, and each requires
to be treated specially end by itself There may,
among authors, be great intelects and charming
genuises, like MoNTAaNE, whom you permit to
talk about everything whenever they wish to talk
about epything; but such cases are eYcep-
tional in literature, and cannot be tolerated at all
in journalism. We ce1ainly think that FIVE years
drill on the New York Press would have made
Mr., BANCROFT far moro concise, valuable and
readable historian than he now is
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-05
The Strength othe Rebel Army.

To the Edator of the Ne York Tribune:
| SIR : Your issue OF Je 26th, containing an ar
tlole from your Washinpn correspondent on the
strength Of the rebel aries in the field, has only
recently come into my hds, and have examin-
ed it with great deal onterest. It's details cor
respond in general withly own information and
belief, except where anttempt is made to sup
| ply the mlssing muster,lls OF Lees army at the
most important and intesting period of the war.
Why are those rolls msing Who mutilated
the record in abstraotinahem !? Unit! it is satis-
factorily shown to the ctt1ary, shall never be-
lieve that the Army OF Nthern Virginia at any
time exceeded 10, 900 effeive men; and at several
important periods knoNt was about 3O, 900, to
wit, as near as am able say First Bull Run,
28, 900; Antietam $4,000 fredericksburg 81, 900.
AS these are candidly- -eteitained impressions,
on the best data have, iyou or any Of your COZ
respondents know more aout it, on irrefragible
data, would gladly andleferentislly accept the
information.
venture to correct yur correspondent in a
small, perhaps unimportat, matter, to wit. the
Confederate force at Mohe, at the close OF the
war, which he estimates at20 900. I was the in
spector-general Of that Strict, and can inform
you that the force defendg Mobile when it was
attacked by General Canb,waB about 1000 strong
this included q city battabn and three regiments
ofreserves, robbed from he cradle and the grave;
Of the seasoned and q,l0i regular troops there
were about 5000, including some dismounted cav
airy and several batteries 'hich had lost their guns
at Nashville.
would add that whenTaylor surrendered to
Candy he had as far as an informed, about 5000
troops in the field, Of whm 1000 were infantry,
dismounted cavalry and artillery, under Maury,
and about the same numbe Of cavalry under For
rest The other 1000 believe liberal allowance
for pickets and other outlying squads In the south
ern and western part Of this department.
As you perceive, I make ID pretence Of superior
information except within nv own specialty and
write more in the spirit Of one desiring nforma-
tion than Offering to school others.
Very respectfully,
Ell. CUMMINs,
Lieutenant Colonel late C. S. A.
Washington, August 26, 1857.
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WASHINGTON News.

WASHINGTON, September 4.-GEoRGE E. WHIT
ING, Grand Master of the Masons of the District
and prominent officer OF the Interior Depart
ment, is dead
The Amnesty Proclamation is expected to-mor-
row. The list of exceptions will be quite short.
The Cabinet, GRANT and BROWNING absent, ac-
corded with the President, except SEWARD, who
feared the list of those excepted by the President
from the amnesty list was imprudenty exclusive
The Radicals have elected the Mayor Of Will
mington, Delaware, by 200 majority
The Committee appointed to investigate the
malfeasance in cotton and other abandoned prop
erty state that many of the largest operators are
dead, while the majority lost their gains by sub
sequent operations, and by the decline in cotton.
The payment Of loyalists cotton claims, recent
ly decreed by the Court of Claims, has oeen sus-
pended by the Secretary Of the Treasury at the
quest of the Committee.
Hon. THos. n. STILLwELL, Of Indiana, has been
appointed Minister to Venezuela. F. W. SCOTT, of
Tennessee, has been appointed Consul at Mata-
moras.
The Radicals carried Vermont by $4,000.
The debt bearing coin interest has increased
S36, ,7S1 ,0C0; bearing currency interest decreased
SCI, ,326 0OO matured, but not presented, increas-
ed $3,s03, 900; bearing no interest, s7,157OOO.
Coin decreased s1,6420OO; currency decreased
s25 4O1 OOO Total decrease of deposit s32 1893 OOO
Captain W. II. HALE, Of the Marine Corps died
at Pensacola OF Yellow Fever.
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SECOND PRECINCT
THIRD PRECINCT.

Coon FOB P1us IX.-Pope Plus X is said to be
in favor of early marriages, and the following
anecdote, which We find in q foreign paper indi-
Gates that whatever he may think Of the matter in
regard to the clergy, he does not favor celibacy
among the laity. From the incidents mentioned,
We presume it refers to Maurice the brother Of
Eugenie de Guerin:
A young professor OF the Sorbonne, an ardent
and pious Catholic, died after short llness eav-
ing widow and young family, and little for their
support, except some unpublished manuscripts.
The friends Of the family had these revised and
sent to press, and the celebrated Father Lacor-
daire consented to write preface to the work.
In this, while paying the highest compli-
ments to the literary abilities OF the brilliant
young writer, he also made warm eulogium Of
his private oharacter stating that during his life
he had avoided most Of the anares and pitfalls of
this wicked world, with one exception-matrl-
mony. The book came out, anu the widow Of the
pious author made journey to Rome to lay a
copy at the feet OF Plus *, and to beg of him to
give it his official sanction, The kind-hearted old
man ran his eye over the preface OF Father Lacor-
daire, and said to the lady, putting his finger on
the passage referring to matrimony Madame,
to approve of book containing this paragraph
would be extremely unconplmentary toward
YOU, and, besides the head Of the church cannot
acknowledge that church to have only six sacra-
ments, and one snare or pitSall u"
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The War ta AbNssiQia.

few days ago it was reported by telegraph
that the English prisoners in Abyssinia, whose
been been liberated from the hand Of King Theodore
by land Of native rebels, who would probably
release them G4 moderate terms. later arrival,
however, brings the information that Theodore
still holds many Of his prisoners. Consequently,
the preparations which had been begun at Bom-
bav for an invasion of Abyssnia, with an army
Composed partly of sepoys, are still going for
ward. and Will not be held back longer than
necessary. 1t is stated that the army OF lnva-
sion will comprise about ten thousand men,
Much doubt is felt in England as to the prac-
ticability of successful invasion by an English
army. on account OF the difficult nature OF the
country, and the want OF influential and assal-
able centres The whole country, nearly three
hundred thousand square miles in extent, Is
somewhat like New Granaoa. The principal range
runs North and South, within from thirty 10 ona
hundred miles Of the Red Sea, the streams on the
West side flowing into the Nile. he principal
ulation is chiefly in the South Should the troops
land anywhere in Somali, the savage and little
known region lying South Of Abyssinia, a vast de-
sert EiQ have to be passed by the army before 1t
can reach its object.
at fonr millions and halR Some travellers put it
ri million less They are said to be little con
trolled b3 morality, and very feebly united under
one government. The nominal rulers claim de-
scent from King Solomon end tho Queen of sheba
Thcy rnle arbitrarily until their eEemies become
strong, @ and then give place to some rival fgoQd-
enough son Of solomon, OF which there are always a
nlcnty. The three great provinces, Ilgre IN the
p North Ambara in the middle, and Shoa in the
south' bear little more than nominal allegiance tt
the titular king, whose greatness has for long
time depended more upon the Difference paid him
bv England, than upon any inherent strength Oh
power. The soldiers are said to be desperate
fighters, according to the means at their disposal
bit under the present good understanding between
England, France, Turkey and Egypt, there is nc
country to which they can look for help, On ths
other hand, the impossible mountains and sTamps
the facilities for defence or escape, the difficulty
which the invading army viii experience In reach
fen fence ca and will make tue wal tedious and costly
and its success doubtful.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-05

So delicate is the manufacture of the short
staple Of the Dacca cotton il can only be woven
ing is generally SO employed before the dew has
left the grass. II spinning be carried on after
that time, the spinner, who is always woman
under thirty years Of age, spins the yarn over. @
pan Of water, the evaporation of which affords
becoming too brittle to handle Delicate as the
muslin is it Will wash, which European muslins
will not. The durability Of the Dacca muslin
notwithstanding fnenesss-a piece of "evenlne
dew" one yard wide and four yards long. only
weig hing $50 grains..is said to be owing to the
as % conpsred with the ansst y muslin si Ssy Yarns
England or France. The time taken to spin ant
weave the threads in o piece of "woyen air" is
very great; the reader will not, therefore, be SUI.
prised to hear that it ses at the rate of guinea
! ward
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-05
General Candy.

To die Editor Of the Neo York Tribune l.. ..,us
SIR 1t is Just and generous In you to "sus'
rond ;ndement" in regard to the recent appoint
ment Of General Candy served with him. under
the most intimate oficinl and personal reatons, ms
in this city, in the War Department. and IN me
military m division Of West Mississippi, and, while nile
the people do not know it, know that in ms own
quiet unpreteuding way, he assumed many
responsibilities, which satisfied me Of ms m sI1 sI1l
swervng and uncompromisng loyalty IN the ledicI 1a
application Of the word and enable me to predl1ESt
that Mr. johnson will find himself 6eautiiuHlH llil
mistaken whcr he thinks that General Canoy VIII
be a tool to his ''polcy any more than Henerai
Sicklcs.
It was my fate during the war oatoers to serve oi
note, but 1 don't know OF any who
50 early and heartily cndorsoi the csab G%ancpad and
althoul have no doubt that he would lntenseiy
dislike to be called "a political general yet am
sure he is at heart true Republican, and that DIE
acts will very soou show HIM to be such.
Yours truly, c. 7. CHRISTENSEN.
Late Assistant Adjutant- General United states
Volunteers, Brevet Brigader General.
No. 125 Front street, New York, August 27, 1867
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

FOURTH PRECINCT. WARDS No. SAND 7AND AND
s.-The Boari Of Registration for the above nAmet
Wards In order to complete the registration OF the ssms
by the 18th inst registration win be held at the Wash.
ington Engine House. yanderhorst street. for Wess Nc
6 and 8. Tuesday W.dnesday and Thursday aext, tho
1Oth 11th and 18th days Of September from 9to o'clock
each day
And at the Eagle Engine House, Meeting street, the
following week, for wArde No. and z, on Tussday.
Weinssddy and Taursday the 17th 18th and 18th Sep
tember. from to O'Clock each day. altar which tha
books win positively be closed
The registration lists win be exposed for public e1aui-
nation VIZ: At the Eagle Engine House Monday and
Tassddy the Esd and Oath ins and at tho Warrington
Engine House On Wedne,day, TaIrsday and Friday. the
2sth 2eth and 9th Septamber, from II to O'Clock each
day after which time for two days, VIZ Saturday. tho
2sth and Monday. s0th septsmbsr tbs Board VIII rsvse
and correct the hsts and register any psrson who may
have been before prevented from registration The said
revision will take place ct the Washington Engine House.
from II to O'Clock each day. f,.,- er 20 b.
NATHL TYLEE, ssnr.
Chairman Board Registration 9Th Precinct
September sept s. 9, 10. IL, II, 1s. 36 26
~FINAL NOTlCE.-ALL PERSONS HAy-
ING demands against the Estste Of the late JONAH n.
vENNNG are requested to render the same, and those
indebted thereto will please make payment to
vKNNING,
septsmbers tuthms' Executor.