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llY d. l.. WELLS CO, Auctioneers
ID n. ". corner 9th st and LC ana ave-

u n. ". corner 9th OF. and DC uisiana ave.
TRUSTEES SALE or IMPRoyEp PROPERTY
IN THE FIRST WARD, No. 200 2OTH ST,
BETWEEN M ANDN
Under and by virtue Of deed OF trust to the
subscriber, bearing date the 3ist day Of August,
A d, lS67, and duly recorded In liber x. @ L,
No. l6, page 400 &c, one of the land records for
Washington comfy and District Of Columbis,
shal offer for sale at public auction. in front of
the premises, on FRIDAY, the Nth day IL March,
at clock D. m, the following piece parcel of
land situate In the City of Warrington, and known
the original lot No. Il, in square No. lls, the
same is designated on the subdi.ision; and re-
ton recorded In liber w r.. folio 5, improved BY
tbree story Brick House; water in the kitchen
Terms One half each; balance 6 and IL months
secured by deed Of trust, with notes bearing in
ferest. All convey ancing and stamps at pur-
chaser q cost. 500 down at sale.
ID. L. WELLS, Trustee.
NH ID. l.. WILLS co Aucfa
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tt Sim Ii Col. Of Eng's., Bvt. Col. 8. A.
ID Il D P 5 AIS

UNITED STATES SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT
ATLANTA, Ga, March 8, I5B
sealed Proposals., 10 tIi plicate, are invited until
= cl.ck m on sATG RDAI. March Il. 1858. for
ipFuishlDs the United States Subsistence Depart
nent with FRESH BEEF, Of a good, marketable
quality IN equal proportions of fore and hind
quarter meat, necks, shank and kidney taiiOw to
=, eNcIudtdrJ In such quantities a. may be from
iIne O. time required, and such days shall he
Ge-iRnateo BY the comm ntfnR OH for the t-I n
81 siS months cmmencing April I, 1853
10 De delivered TO the United states troo Pc at
SagEnL ali. Ga
Payment will be made in Government funds
monthly, UPON deliv ~ and scCep tance.
BIDS to h. directed to the undersigned, and
marked '- Proposals y
THOS G. SULLIVAN
brevet Lieut. Col and G. : u : Army
Chief &. : Thru Military District,
N l4t Room Nc. 4 Willingharn Building
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OF EVERY SHADE AND COLOR
SUPERIOR TO ANY GLOVE
IN THE MARKET.
WALL, ROBINSON 4 CO.,
1922 PENNSYL VANIA AVENUE,
mh6-tf Manufacturers Agents.
RARsAINsI BARaA1Nsn
Just received, . fine assortment of DRY GOODS,
for Spring Trade, which am selling at very low
prices. large stock of Striped and Checked
:sns sss sns
SApkiEs: oSTToNsss pk1IS ,T S And ssasrsi
Call and examine before buying else where.
EMORY BAXTER,
1l5 Pennsylvania avenue,
NH 7.10t' between 18th and 18th streets.
OFFICE VIRGINIA EXPRESS COMPANY.
The dkssTRRsfs ss~
5es.ssyiis, sts1nss%n; TsfIi ; Esstasse.,
Lewisburg, and to all points in the Valley Of Vir-
Money and ysluabIes forwarded with despatch.
Goods called for and delivered in all parts Of the
III ,S s'''r 'p's f VEL co.
81 SEES hss iPfSIgsaha!2s ar.zer
tn. petition York
IsYsn %s &. 81 ds5 e H., q 's
an fnprovemsnt in Hot Water Apparatus, for
vhish takes place on she S.h d.y q Asl 1888
the Patent Office on MONDAY, the nth day of
May ns.t, a. u O'Clock NJ: and all .Psr.on. are
have. why said petition ought not % Be- srar.s4
Gle IN the Pstsnt Once their objections speciaiy
set forth In writing st least ssse.ty days before
p1TT, to 3. used s the i.ia hs:Iins. must $
rpieS Of the once, which wiz b Furnished a.
'Depositions and other papers, relied upon =.
tesrimony, must be h!ei In the once twenty dsyS
before the day Of hearing; the argnmentsM snv
within ten days adtsr Sling the tsstmony.
OFFERED also, that this notice Be- Inbli.hsd in
D. and Int IN the s Iimss, New York y; =, once
EubYesss9gs 70 b It lsaAt sixsy d.ys lrsxieus 70
nh & W3w Acting Commissioner 81 PaSss2a.
COpPER . ,RAQAN,. - : = -
TTokEs P SSfStR Is a ~ tpeffs ran,
WARE, RQVeiId. QuffkSiId.
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WELpISo, EyITATIoS AND CARD M
w GkANING attended to proup tiy ct
FREsCB a Rf0HzRbsoHy.
leu 3A PeAnsyivAaas svs9ns.
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NAVY DEPARTMENT.

~
~ WAsH1NGTON, 9Th March. 1873.
Scaled Proposals viii be received until the 10th
- APRIL at Y clock nCsn, Cor the purchase Of the
following vessels.
AT TIE BOSTON CMAssD YARD.
The - SHAWNEE and - WASSUC,n
AT LEAGUE ISLAND. PA.
The CANONICUS,' -COHOES." KOKA."
NAUsEIT WAXsAW :" -YAZOO," ~.
mis-" - SAUBUC," "MODOC,T "NAPA,u
-sQUANDO" and " SUNCOOK
AT MOUND CITY. ILL.
The ETLAH. - KLAMATH, -" SHILOH
MPQUA .'YCMA.n EoSHO," MARI
ETA and sANDUsKY.'
The proposals. will state the prices that will be
gwen ioT the vessels IL their present condition,
them
be vessels can De seen. and all necessary infOr-
nation conce rninR them will be given by The com:
EnAndants Of the stations
Inc ri&ht Is Reserved 10 reject any or all Of the
OF the Government
Twenty Per cent of the purchase money will be
TeduiTed within three days after a notifc alton of
the aeceptsBce OF proposal to be forfeited in case
Of non completion OF the purchase, aud the balance
upon the hnsl delivery Of the vessel
he proposals should be endorsed " Proposals
for purchase Of Iron clads.
GIDEON wELLES
NH l0-eo4w Secretary OF the Navy.
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AUCTION SALES.

AUOIION 6ALESs
rms AFTERNOON.
NE. JUODs 05E TAKK{SE RS9K Xdcfl0xFaTs
A an; e:npsyiv.nis sv0.s. ..Ass .sAs nsero.
ssi: :..a, Gss. ris ssis &C. e r US ssA
A uCIISN THIS Ev1FfN6, q o'clock, a
Z = X:w, Ic99 s r. BEE. s = co.
H0-u National Intelisencer Building,
TOMORROW.
B1 wM o5. M.L ia. 4 co, Auesaou.sss.
= .'i W Louisiana avenue.
SALE OF HORSES. MULES, CARRIAGES. &c.
Bazaar, We will cell about -"
o. FORTY HORSES AND mULEs, D..
snitsels TO saddle and harness, OF which full de-
large collection q New and second hand Car
sses' buesfe'' bcckawAys, Express Wagons,
New and Second hand HsSnes, &c.
Regular sales days-rnesdays. Thursdays and
SATURDAYS. without regard to weather :. -
nh -na n'lSs.i l. & VA 90. x i;s
ID Stores Ne; SIS and sII.
southwest corner OF PennsylvAnis ave AID 9th OF.
SALE OF GROCERIES, LIQUORS, CIGARS.
On rHuRsSSHsiY N Mo ASSfEdGN March 70, com
g %en.ips at 10 G'eock We will .n. within
&C, comprising
Bbls. Sugar, boxes Candles,
Chests Of Green and Black Tea,
Boxes Cheese and Pepper,
Boxes Mustard and SOAP
Brooms and Tobacco.
10 GO Cigars, Scrub brushes, &c,
hSs Wis., s assms and Nader. Wine,
Gases Gases Whisky: Brandy and Port Wine,
Also,
Lot of Crockery.
With other articles in the Grocery line, which
NIB ls WI. WALL a Co, Aucts.
llY CO6PER LATIMER, Aoctieneer,.
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PROPOSALS.
A RMY sUBsISTINVs s7O7HV.
Or, Asst. Com. S SUI 1steses, UoStA %
ror Consfifntios, Portsmouth, N. H.,
q 4

Fort Consfifntios, Pe,tsn,nrK, ~ r.,
seSsd Proposals wiz be received at this oaics
uhui THURSDAY March Is. 1873 At N O'Clock g.
wwo.tsmonin, N. and Fort McClary, Kittery,
maine, win Fresh Beef Of good and marketable
SKATERS excluding the necks, shanks, and kidney
Sailed Mess Beef or Corned Beef. OF the best
QnsiIty, and the usual corning pieces.
BE uRplies of the said stores to be delivered at
the said foats in such quantities may be from
tine to time required by the commanding officer.
anu 10 continue from pri l. 1858 to September 81,
1905 unless said forts shall cease to be oc-
cup,ed by troops in Government service.
bidders VIII make separate proposals for each
article, and, upon scce ptauce of their bis, will
give such security may be required for the faith
iul performance OF their agreement. Bids must
be endorsed |" Proposals for Subsistence Stores"
and addres to : %
Lieut. CHAS. HUMPHREYS
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Rf COOPER d LATIMER, Auctfeneers,
- Late Clerks with j. q. Mcclure DOL
Southwest corner Penn. avenue and llth stree,
tStar Office Buildng.D
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-28
RUSSIA ON FIRE

Such is the highly sensational an
that might be made with
truth concerning the land of the Car.
if we are to believe the representations
of travellers who have Just arrived in
England coming from the northeast
borders of Prussia. One of them saws
that clear from the Prussian frontier to
ST. Petersburgh, for space of 500 kill
ometers, the whole country is in flames.
The soil, chiefly composed of bed of
turf from 20 to so feet thick. under the
combined influence of drought and
heat, has caught fire in ten thousand
different places. This frightful confia-
grafton, commencing subterraneouslv
in the depths of the turfy deCosit, has
made its way to the surface, and COM
municated its ravages to the forests
The flames escape iii whirling masses,
accompanied by clouds of smoke so in
tense that the atmosphere is, so to
speak, saturated with it, and many
persons fall suffocated. News from
the interior declare that the confiagra-
ton has extended to the farthest
Southern districts, and that there, too
the forests are in flames. At the same
moment we are informed that in many
northern provinces where there are vast
and impenatrable virgin forests, 10000
hectares of woods are in full combust-
ion, and no one can conjecture where
the devastation will stop. Here, assur-
eddy, is a new question for the scientific
world. Vast forests in Canada, also,
are burning. viii this destruct ION of
the dense woods in the north OF both
Continents soften the climate of the up
per ATTITUDES, and throw open a wider
area to settlement and cultivation, and,
on the other hand, will it make the
| I IL
to Invading armies? Let us hope for
the better consequence.
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year, and also gives to thu same object
the proceeds of estrays, sFlarge item in
Kansas, and the moneys arising from
fines and exemption from military du-
ty. These resources go great way in
supporting the schools. To-day Kansas
has better school houses, mostly brick
and stone, than Steuhep county.
never saw people take such deep in
terest in education. They tax them
selves heavily and freely to sustain
their schools, and in going there no one
need expect a deprivation of school
privileges for his children. The COM
mon school is open all over the State to
all alike without distinction of sex or
color. Churches of different denomi-
nations are organized in all parts of the
State and religious advantages are as
accessible there as here
Lands vary in price with location
and quality. They can be had from
the Government price of one dollar and
twenty-five cents per acre up to fifty
dollars per acre. Homesteads of one
the living upon and working them for
five wears and about ten dollars fees at
the land Office.
In summing up the advantages of
Kansas should enumerate,
1st. Cheap priced lands, accessible
to markets in the mountains or mining
districts west, and to the Chicago and
| st. Louis markets east. but in the latter
case the products of the'soil should be
turned into beef or pork or wool or
other condensed form readily trans
portable.
I'd. Railroads are being built in va
rious parts of the State. so that the
! daily news, the means of transportation
of products and the general blessings
of railroads can be easily had. Near
ly six hundred miles of railroad are
built and in operation in the State, and
the next two years bids fair to treble
that amount.
Sd. A mild and temperate climate,
! bestowing upon us short wlnters-a
| heightened time for the farmer to do
his work and very short time to feed
his stock in winter, thereby cutting of
the immense item of expense in this
country. The country enjoys remark
ably good health. 1t has no swamps OF
sloughs and the air is healthful and
pure, being particularly favorable fol
pulmonary diseases.
4th. Plenty of pure water mostly OBJ
tanned by wells, though there are many
running streams upon some of which
NAV be found valuable water powers
as the Cottonwood, the NeOsho, the
Blues and many others. Springs are
not as plenty there as here.
9Th. A good school system already il
: vigorous operation, with promise o.
, much larger influence in the future.
No one should go to Kansas or any
f other country thinking he can gain {
, home and competence without righ
down honest work. Kansas has idler!
enough, but for men with no means OF
but a moderate amount, and who are
: willing to work and economic, no par
of our great country offers such in
. ducements. SoLoN o. TEACHER.
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CoLFAx PHoToGRAPHED.-The follow
ing pen-picture of the Republican can
didate for Vice-President is very well
drawn:
Mr.. Colfax, says our author, is rather
under medium height, with form firm
Iy and completely moulded. His hair
is brown, now slightly sprinkied with
gray, eyes blue, forehead high and arch
ing, Indicating great precepive faculties
and deep penetration. His face is open
and frank, and, as yet, unmarked by
age He possesses great vitality, and
can endure an extraordinary amount OF
labor with but little fatigue. This, coup
led with his temperate habits, has caus-
ed him to wear his age so well that but
few persons would place him, even al
forty He is as buoyant at forty-two az
most people at thirty.
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They have artificial ice works in full
operation near New Orleans, and thous-
and flock to them daily to see the pro-
cess, which bids fair to obviate entirely
the necessity for importing Northern
ice. The artificial ice is sold at three
quarters of cent pound. The man
ufacture is said to be very attractive,
from the pumping of the water from
the turbid river, near at hand, to the
slipping out of the polished, gIistening
slabs of alabaster-looking ice from the
tin moulds, in which they are CONCEALED.
The first works, upon small scale in
this country, were established in Au-
gusta, Ga, during the war.
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The DANGER OF ELEcTING SEYMOUR.
The New York Ecening Post de-
clares that Horatio Seymour has repeat
eddy assured his friends that the insani-
ty which is hereditary in his family
threatens him., and that he can only
hope to escape it by avoiding excite
ment. He therefore has said that it
would be impossible for him to enter
tain the thought Of becoming President.
The Post further declares that Sanford
E. Church and Samuel j. Tilden were
fully informed of these facts by Mr..
Seymour during the session of the
Convention, and that he only accepted
the nomination upon the compulsion of
his friends.
No ordinary motive, the Post con-
tinues, could induce it to "touch upon
the sacred fears and private misfort-
unes of respectable citizen; but when
the American people are asked to mako
that citizen their ruler, his private
infirmaties become public dangers, the
solemn terrors of his closet become the
peril of the Nation" 1t argues that
the Democratic ticket means Frank
Blair as President, and predicts that
if the Democracy should succeed in
November, Seymour would serve but
little of his term.
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FLOR THE EMPoRIA NEws.l
EELET US HAVE PEACE"
How Grant was Nominated.

When treason, armed, sat on her bloody throne,
And sent her cruel minions to the fray,
And all wrongs conferred in that hideous one
Growing more fierce and rampant every day
When loyalty arose, with armor bright,
And stood between the Union and her foes,
And in the long and desperate deadly fight
The victor seemed, piteOus cry arose,
''Let us have Peace"
Whence came the cry?
From captives prisoned, doomed to die,
Within some horrid prison pen,
Andersonville or Libby's den?
MOL only words of bravest cheer
Came thence for loyal heart or ear.
Whence came the cry?
Was it where death was waiting nigh,
The bloody spoils from battle-ground,
That there arose the wailing sound?
No! many a hero falling, cried,
"Saye the dear cause for which died."
Whence came the cry?
Was it despair's last agony
OF pain, as fathers, brothers, sons
Dropped dead before the rebel guns?
No! hearts that break give forth no cry
When loved ones for their country die.
Whence came the cry?
From traitors that from danger fly,
Yet seek to ruin Freedoms cause,
And yet evade her sterner laws?
Yes! thence the rallying cry arose
OF Peace for all our country's foes.
When Liberty and Union, hand in hand,
And Justice, had once more resumed thei
sway,
Though mercy evermore besought the band
OF stern, fair sisters for her gentler way;
When treason, wounded. in the dust lay prone
And her deluded votaries left her side;
Then the great people met, and said as one,
And their great leader, Grant, repeated an
replied,
''Let us have peace"
VAYLE VERNON.
Council Grove, August, 1868.
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The election of Gen. Grant will be
Hnllnmad hu reSults like the fnllnWinn

The election of Gen. Grant will be
followed by results like the following.
The repair of the Mississippi levees.
The voting of subsidies to a South
ern branch of the Pacific railroad,
through Texas to the Pacific, thus vi
talizing all the established lines of
Southern railroads, direct and lateral.
The restoration of the alternate sec
tions of the public lands to such COM
panies as lost them by participating in
the rebellion, on the assurance of sub
mission to the laws.
The encouragement of domestic
manufactures of every description, and
of foreign emigration to the alluvial
but deserted lands of Virginia, Tennes-
see, Alabama, Texas and other States.
The renewed industry of the labor
that is to till the soil and enrich the
owners of the great sugar, tobacco,
rice and cotton fields. There is not a
Radical Republican who does not
stand ready to aid in one and all of
| these great objects.
And yet a future so full of happiness
and peace is to be blighted to please a
| few reckless politicians.
1t requires no gift of prophecy to
foreteH that the Southern people will
soon rise upon their would-be betray-
ers and adjust themselves to the inev-
! liable.
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OMAHA correspondent of the st.
Joseph Herald writes as follows con-
corning this lively city:
Omaha is a very fine place when
viewed through Western spectacles, but
I consider it the biggest humbug of the
nineteenth century. Why, it would pass
for a third rate village down East. Om-
aha city! Oh, what a suck in. And
the price of lots Phew! just think of
ten and twenty thousand dollars for a
lot in the outs<irtsi And rents! Ny
gracious! imagine paying thirty dollars
per month for shanty you wouldn't
put your horse in down at Boston. It's
my opinion Omaha is on her last legs.
Sixty houses for rent; innumerable
houses ditto; merchants busting up and
everything at panic prices, looks to me
like the Second Chicago" has overdone
matters, grown very bilious, taken a
puke, and was severely troubled with
chronic dysentery. If exorbitant rates
for real estate, and everything you eat,
drink and wear, constitutes thriving
city, why then Omaha bears the palm.
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The Post Office Department for the
year ending 30th June, will show an
alarming deficit. In 1865, it will be re-
membered that there was a surplus of
1863, 400. In 1866 there was a deficit,
the first for seven years, of 1855, O93. In
In 1867 this deficit amounted to $3,99S, :
355. In 1868 it will prove to be in round
numbers SS,00O,00O. This annual in
creased deficit is owing to several
causes among them are the restoration
of the mail service in the Southern
States, and the subsidies for oceanic
service, but the causes which wholly or
in part were not IN operation in 1867,
do not fully account for the alarmiii
deficiency in 1868, which must be looa-
ed for in other directions. AS there -
being much said by Democrats aboiiS
Republican extravaganza, perhaps tie
Democratic Post Master General CT :
throw some light upon the above emo. :
nous deficit.
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SUPERSTITIOUS,

Some days since Judge Graham pass
ed sentence of death upon convicted
murderer in Nemaha county. In fixing
the day for this mans release from
earth, his honor, bearing it would seem
devoted allegiance to that exploded
dogma that ''unlucky" Friday is sort
of benefit day to the hangman, accom-
modated this case to the pressure of this
| traditional humbug, and so this culprit's
last day on earth will be Friday, Sep
tenn Der 4.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania at
their last session, enacted that no pub
lie execution should take place on Fri
day, and for this act of self-emancipa-
ton from the tyranny of barbarous
custom that had made sailors and ig-
nOrant fishermen recoil from commence
ing any undertaking on that day be-
cause it was set apart as sacred to the
gallows, all due praise should 90. 1t
would seem at first blush that the State
of Kansas should not be one step be-
hind her sisters in the grand work of
reform now going on.
The weight of fears of i'll luck attend
ing it had made Friday so evil omened
day in the calendar that as by COM
mon consent, with large proportion
of people who will hardly acknowledge
it even to themselves, no voyage was
undertaken and no important work be-
gun, sometimes to the serious detriment
of general affairs, while if some slayer
of his kind was to be hurried out of
the world by authority of law the oppor-
tunity of doing the job on this same
: day was nailed with rapture. Until
people learn that in the beneficent wis
dom of Gods ways all days are alike
: for prosecution of proper secular en-
ployment-save the day of Rest alone,
and that no one day in the calendar is
oppressed with the burden of bearing
the stigma of every judicial sacrifice
that the law chooses to make, we shall
continue to see ''to the last syllable OF
recorded time' veritable +thangman's
day" in the land.-I0peb0 Record.
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In America, and also abroad, the ten
dency years past has been towards con-
densation. The New York CONNER
ciai Advertiser says this is notably the
case in the newspaper press, daily and
weekly, and it is also displaying itself
in magazine literature. The average
length of articles has been materially re-
duced. The newspaper with short,
pungent paragraphs, in which the in
telligence to be given is boiled down
into the fewest possible words, is always
to be preferred to the one which stretchs
its articles out into columns of useless
adjectives. People who want to find
out what is going on, prefer to do it in
short a time as possible, and from q
sheet filed with condensed paragraphs
they can learn more than if it devoted
the same space to q small number of
lengthy articles.