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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-08-10

THE FUNERAL oF GEN. HALrINE. MITES
O'REILLr.)-The New York Post OF Saturday
says:
The funeral OF the late GeE Charles q. Hal
pine. which took place this morning, was one
OF the most numerously attended that has been
held in tins city IN manv years. AT nine O'Clock
the residence OF the family, No. 5s West Forty
seventh street, was thrown open. and bpt vy,eu
that and the beginning of the funeral service
thousands OF persons passed through the par
lors 10 look at the remains. The BODY was laId
out in 4 military uniform. The cofiu was OF
rosewood, thICkly studded with silver scr.E>.
and al the sides were six heavily plated han
dies. The upper half OF the ctsket was OF glass
Thr features OF Gen. Halpine Wore wonder
fully natural appearance. ON 4 silver plate IN
the centre was the following inscription.
Charles Graham HalpIne.
Died August ,. lsj~.
AGED - wears ana 10 daysr
Below the inscription there was drapal an
American nag. and near II an Officers ~hacko
and sword. The remainder of the space WAS
occupied ~ wreaihs and crosses of immorteIles
On stand at the head of the coffin was a harp
OF InmortelIes. with the words - Ireland
loss, Ingeniously worked an.
IA the street the crowd was very dense. From
hNe 10 SIX thousand persons Were present when
lhe procession moved. The violent ram storm
and the utmost efforts of the large police force
present. combined, did not serve - keep back
ia" cense thronC. SO anxious were ;ney 20 Get q
glimpse OF the Cssket. The services OF the
EpIscoral Church were performed by the Rev.
Dr. t. q. tlagg- Of the Church OF the Resur-
rectIUn. The coffin was then borne 10 the
heaTse. the band playing dIrga aud the MILL
''try presenting arms The following named
gentlemen acted as pall-hrarers Mayor Hoh-
man, Horace Greeley, William NJ Tweed,
Peter IL. Sweeney. Richard h. Connolly. Robert
IL Roosevelt, Nelson J. Waterbury. wm e.
Barrett, General David Hunter. lanes T.
Brady. Richard orc ornan. General J p Hail.
John \. Savage, aud ex-senator Thoma.
Murphy. The procession was then formed IN
reverse order. and marched to the Cypre..
nus Cemetery, where the remains were IN
terrpd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-08-10

JUDGE SARGENT, Commissioner Of Customs
who has been quite Ill for q week past, was at
his of1ice to-day for an hour or two
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-08-10

PUBLIC LANDs.-Returns received by the
Commissioner OF the General Land Office show
disposal of 1921 acres of the public lands
during the month of July last at the following
local offices, viz:-Nebraska City, ls.OsI acres;
NeTmlliiOn, Dakota. i1,2GG acres: Junction
CITY, Kansas, l1,57i acres. The greater port ION
OF the land was taken for actual settlement and
cultivation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-08-10

GENERAL RosECRANs is in the city awaiting
the return OF Secretary Seward to receive in
slrucnons relative 10 the mission to Mexico
Mr. Seward is expected here on Wednesday
next. Mr.. Watts, Minister TO Austria, is ex-
pected TO be here curing the present week to
receive instructions from the State Department
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-08-10
Washington News and Gossip.

IN ADDITION to the question Of the Rev niue
Commissionership, the President has referred
TO Mr.. Eyarts for his opinion the question of
the Congressional recess. 1t is his wish to
treat the recess as an adjournment in its effect
upon nominations, as IN that case he holds he
can make appointments to the Russian, Vene-
zuelar, and Ecuador Missions, and a large
number of other Ofioes, which, as well as the
COmmissionership Of Revenue, are otherw lse
in abeyance. The status Of Commissioner
Rollins will be decided at the Cabinet meeting
tomorrow, when M. Evarts' opinion on the
sub ect will be submitted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-08-10

THE lNTIRNAL REVENUE COMMISSIONERS
sHIP-THK QUESTION SUBMITTED TO THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL--On Saturday morning
the Attorney General was, for the first time,
requested in writing by the Secretary OF the
Treasury TO give his official opinion on the
questions in the case of the Csmmissionership
of Internal Revenue. The questions asked
are merely whether the Office is now vacant
and whether the President may fill it if va.
cant. The Attorney General feels the legal and
political importance of these questions, and i'm
fact, OF all the questions now before him re-
hting TO vacancies in Offices filled by the CON-
sent OF the Senate. He will probably give no
opinion ia any one until the entire ground
covered by the subject is thoroughly studied
They will be considered not merely as legal
questions, but in the light of sound statesmau-
ship. In the latter respect Mr.. Evarts has
character to make and he will not forego the
opportunity.
THE PRESIDENTS TRIP.-The President has
not determined upon the time when he will
leave here on his summer trip, though he rs
desirous of getting off by the latter part of this
week or first OF next, and will be absent about
ten days. He will not leave until the Internal
Revenue Commissionership question is settled.
GEN. BUCHANAN ASSUMES COMMAND OF
THE DEPARTMENT OF LoUIsIANA.-General
Buchanan. commander OF the late Fifth Mil
itary District, but now commander of the De-
partment Of Louisiana, has issued the follow
ing order mitigating the change
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF LOUIsI.
ANA, Nelc Orleans La, Aug. 4, ls6S.-[ieneral
Orders No. IL. In obedien ce to paragraph 3,
OF General Orders No. 55, Headq uartars of the
Army, AdJutant Generals Office, Washington,
July y, le6e, the command of the Fifth Mill
tary District-to consist of the State OF Texas
is transferred TO Brevet Major General ]. j.
Reynolds, com mmandng the District of Texas.
The records pertaining 10 the District of
Texas will be transferred 10 the Headquarters
OF the new Fifth Military District.
III. Pursuant to paragraph 4. of the above
mentioned order, the States of louisiana and
Arkansas are organized into the Department of
Louisiana, Headq uarters st New Orleans
The Sub District Of Arkansas. until further
orders, will be known as the District OF Arkan-
sas, and Will be commanded by the senior off,
Ger serving therein, Headquarters at Little
Rock.
The commanding officer OF the District of
Arkansas, will Immediately make the neces-
sary returns OF troops serving in his District,
TO these headq uaTters. The Chiefs of the Staff
TO the Chiefs OF Staff of the Department of
Louisiana, the amount and condition OF sup
plies on hand.
All stated reports and returns of the Districts
Of Louisiana and Arkansas, called for by the
Revised Army Regulations, will hereafter be
made to Headquarters Department of Louis
lana.
By Command of Brevet Major General X. G.
Buchanan. THOs. II. NKILL,
Acting Assistant ACjutant General.
Official: NATHANIEL BURBANK,
Acting Assistant Adiutant General
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-07-18
The Hop Mania,

[ A strange and contagious fever has prevailed
xlately in the rural districts of Iowa, Wisconsin
and illinois, and isolated cases are reported
East and in various other parts of the country
This is the hop culture fever. 1t is of the same
nature as those known as the hen fever, the sheer
fever, the sorghum fever, and the mulberry fever,
and is of such a nature that it cannot be reached
by the most skillful physicians, or the most sub
tile drugs. Every now and then we meet with
man who, knowing somebody who knows
somebody who has made his fortune in hops, is
about to venture upon the same sea ofspeculatlon
hoping to meet with like success.
The reason that the fever or mania prevails sc
largely at the West is that great demand has
been created BY the repeated failures of the CROP
in the East, as we'll as by the increased conslmp
ton of beer, owing to the high tax on spirits
The price of hops has thus been brought up tc
four times the cost of production The price haE
been kept up for several years and the produc
tion is constantly increasing. 1t is thought thai
the area of land devoted to this crop in the coun
try at large must be at least so per cent. greater
than it was two years ago. while in the Wes
where only the hop has produced well lately, th'
area will be twice as great this year as last
A Chicago paper states that the great center o
the hop-raising business in the United States, il
Sauk county, Wisconsin. In that county alone
where three thousand acres were cultivated III hop
last year, six thousand acres are to be cultivated
the present year.
A correspondent of the Railroad Gazette ofChl
| cago SAYS that he counted lately at the depot o
Kilbourn City, Columbia Co., (adjoining Sauk
| one hundred and sixty-two barrels of hop-roots
for nearly every state in the Union, north ant
south. This, he says, is about the daily ship
meut during the root season. He predicts tha
the great glut in the market provided no bligh
or worm destroys the crop, will inevitably brinl
the price down to much less profitable figure
even if it does not bring ruin to those who en-
gage in at all extensively: TO quote this CORES
nondent's own words ''In two years from now
more than nine-tenths of the ten millions of hop
poles, now within a range of twenty miles fror
here will be used for fire-wood, fencing, and tn
| Ike
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-07-18
The Man Who Could not Commit
Suicide.

A curious story is told by Trueba a modern
writer of reputation. The hero of the story was
feeble minded man prone to suicide The
priest in an argument with him upon the sub
ject, asserted that no man could take his own
life if God wiled that he should not do it, The
man whose faith in God was none of the strong
est denied the truth of the theory. Having care
lessly expended his patrimony, he became defect
ed, and resolved TO prove his own side of theargu
ment by putting an end TO bis existence. He ac-
cordingly procured strong rope and suspended
himself from tie beam of the house. But the
timber though apparently sound, was iDwardly
decayed. His weight brought it down, and with
it shower of doubloons, which some Of his an
cestorS had concealed under the garret floor
This good luck reconciled him to life. But,
having fallen in love with stout lassie, who
frowned upon him. be again undertook to dis
prove the priests assertion, by blowing out
his brains. In his earnestness TO make sure of
it, he pressed the pistol so close against his fore
bead that it burst and the explosion frightened
away robbers, who were entering the house in
search Of his doubloons. He began to query
whether the priest might not be in the right.
But when the handsome Amazon he was wooing
set the mastif upon him, while be was serenad
ing her. he again resolved to destroy himsf.
" This time will make sure of H. - thought he.
81 will show the priest that man can kill hm-
self, if he is determined upon it," Being thus
resolved to accomplish his object beyond a pre-
adventure, he fastened new rope to large bow
OF tree ; he then swallowed quantity of phos>
phorus matches, and put loaded pistol in his
belt. Having adjusted the rope round his neck
he swung himself off and fired The pistol at the
same instant. But the bali, instead Of entering
his head, cut the rope in two and he fell into
the river. The lass who had driven him to
this dire extremity, happened to witness the
plunge. She succeeded in drawing him out.
with her strong arms, and pity at last moved
her hard heart to love. Her efforts to resuscitate
him caused deluge of wafer 10 pour from his
mouth, and with il came the phosphorus match
es. Finding that the combined process OF shoot
ing, hanging, drowning and poisoning, all fall
ed to couneract the DEGREES of Providence, he re-
solved that he would never again try to resist
the will ofGod. So he married his lass, and
thenceforth behaved more like Christian.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-07-18
Life ia Bed.

We all know that sleep is as necessary as food
ia The support OF animal life Our vital ma
chinery would soon wear out without it, and if
il were not for the intervals of healthfu insensi
hlity that it affords to the BRAIN we should al, 90
mad with too much thinking. Even plants sleep
and the cold lymph that flows through their We
nous systems would cease to circulate if the ac-
tive principles Of their existence were not recruit
led hy repose. Children are believed to grow
faster during their slumber than when awake :;
and although some very smart modern philoso-
pliers have advanced the theory that it is posi-
Die for man to live and enjoy life without sleep,
the doctrine, like the equally absurd dogma that
IT is possible 10 live without sustenance, is 80
manifestly absurd that common sense laughs il
TO scorn. But bed is not for sleep solely We
lie down TO slumber, but we pass many an hour
in bed calculating, planning, hoping, imagining
The course OF our lives is shaped, to some extent,
as we lie between sheets and blankets. OF the
still night and early morn are born mighty
schemes that are carried out in the stirring day
The mind awakes from a profound and dream
less slumber with all its faculties invigorated
and emboldened. Difficulties that appalled, US
when fatigued and overworn, lose half their ter
rors in the presence Of an intellect strengthened
by perfect rest Sleep is to the brain what pros
tration on the bosom of mother Earth was to the
Titans we arise from it ''giants refreshed" :"
Perhaps the myth which represents the flooring"
of those rebellions demi gods as having such a
genial effect on their muscular power, was in
tended to typify the uses of "tired Nature s
sweet restorer." There are both strength and
wisdom in the pillow, else why should the pro-
priety of consulting it have grown into proverb
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-07-18
Miscellaneous.
IO3 CLEA VEL AND'S No.:
POPULAR
CASH DRY GOODS HOUSE.
1():3
Storekeepers! We can Compete with any
House in the City. Call and see us!
ms-wHoLEsALE ROOMS DOWN STAIRS
Consumers !. We can Make IL TO Tour Advantage
to call and us !
FIRST FLOOR ENTIRE FOR RETALlN,
E. r. CLEAVELAND e. CO.,
No. lO3 North Cav Street,
One Door From Front st.

S. CLEVELAND thanks his many friends
in the counties for the liberal patronage they
have bestowed on on him since he has been in
business, and would respectfully ask contin-
uance of the same. He thinks he can sell the
cheapest and most durable Goods that can be
had in the city. He has bought the largest lots
of Cassimers and Dress Goods that has been in
the Store for year and irtends selling them
at prices to suit the times.
We have a very fine assortment Of Bleached
Muslns such as the Wamsutta. Androscoggin,
Hope and all the best wearing Muslins that
can be had heavy Brown Muslins suitable for
farmers, and also finer fabrics to suit any pur-
pose the Laurel D. we sell very low the best
assortment of Calicoes that can be had any
where; Delaines and beautiful assortment of
SPRING GOODS remarkably low; very fine
line of Pant Stutfs, bought for cash and will be
sold cheap for the same; pretty and neat styles
of Mems and Boys Wear cheap Stockings, &c.
Our Wholesale Department
Embraces heavy stock of Prints-such as the
Wamsutta Arnolds, Mallroy, Sprague, Amer-
can and lower makes also of Bleached Mus
lins-such a. the 4 Coventry, A Boot, S A
Golden Rule, James Steam Mills, A Ions
dale, 4-4Androscoggin Al New York Mills, A
Peperal also of Brown Musins-such as tie
rs Warren Xxx, A Warren G, Oregon D,
A Laurel d, Cohassett and lower makes /;
colored Cambrics, Sattenetts, ,.Jeanes, Drills and
Crash, black and brown; Job Lots from Auc-
ton of Black Alpacas, fine Black Cloth, Mozam-
biques, Cottonades, Whalebones, Corsets, Stock
ings Thread, Spool Cotton, Shirt Bosoms, Pins,
Needles, Collars, Gloves, Shirts and Drawers,
Suspenders, Writing Paper, Envelopes, and o
great variety too numerous to mention.
We have clerks who know their business and
you will always find willing to show you
goods and give any information in our line.
Ass~ Bundles will be conveyed to ali Depot
Stations, Hotels, or wherever those purchasing
may desre-free of charge.
-Remen,5er the Name and NumJer-
E. R. CLEAVELAND CO.,
lO3 n. Gay st one door from FrontSt.,
Baltimore, Nd.
lzss- Name on the windows and on the
signs on the awning ut the sides of the store.
ADril Is. 1S6S-ly.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-07-18
The Coils of Fashion.

Fashion, after exhausting all the world of ma
ture and art, has now called science to supply
her with new charms For ornament, electricity
is coming into use You may see, at a fashion
able ball in Paris, lady, on the top of whose
head sits butterfly or humming bird. The
fly and the bird hutter their wings in tho most
natural way possible. How Is it managed ?
Why, within the chignon are concealed small
battery and minute Rhumkorff coil. On the
bosom of another lady may be brooch with a
head upon it, the eyes of which turn in all direc-
tons. This, too, is accomplished by the use of
q battery and coil so minute as to be concealed
within the brooch itself These small batteries,
easily carried about the person, are of zinc excl
ted by a solution of sulphate of mercury, which
is enclosed in vulcanite cells so that the exciting
solution cannot escape TO the damage of the
wearer. A little more, and the toilet-table OF
Beauty will be like a laboratory, with chemicals
in place of washes and sweet waters, and induc-
ton-coils supplanting hair-pins. What next
and next ?-Shal we not have electric telegraph
wires for confidential messages, and gentle
schocks administered in place of Natures telegra-
ply of a tender pressure of hands? The electric
light as an ornament place of jewels will OF
course follow and the phrase 81 am positively
electrified will be but an exact scientific descrlp'
ton of the condition of the fair speaker.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-07-18
Premature Burial.

The Lsraeiue, the organ of the Hebrew race in
America, thus discourses upon the interesting
question Of premature burial
The present practice of our people-to bury
their dead within some twenty-four or thirty-six
hours of their Gecease-seems reprehensiOle in
many respects. The peril of premature burial is
obvious. We know so little Of the theory and
condition of death, even in our present state of
medical Heioneo, ,hat we cannot even be sure that
life has actually fed when the ordinary signs or
life have ceased We cannot be sure that the
spirit has passed irrevocably, materially speak
ing, from the mortal clay. even when the heart
ceases to beat the lips to breathe, the pulse to
throb. We know that persons apparently dead
by drowning have been brought back to life a
long time after the ordinary signs OF life have
ceased to be apparent We know that skillful
treatment has, under Providence, restored res
piration and animation some time after all ap-
parent action had left the respiratory organs and
the animated organism Hence it is clear that
death does not Immediately succeed the apparent
cessation of life. A man may be drowned and
yet not Immediately die. If this be the case in
this cause of death, may it not be true in other
causes producing death May not the vital power
be only suspended and not absolutely extinct
when it appears to those around patients pill
low that the signs of life have departed ?
| Is it possible that we can, in the name OF reli-
| gion, consigu our loved ones 10 condition in
! which--if one spark Of life remain or could he
terminated in them it must be extinguished nj
! terly rretrievably | believe that decomposi-
| ton, or the beginning of decomposition, is the
only really re1iably sign of death When ply
sical change of this character commences to affect
the inert frame, it is probably papable that the
mystery which we call life has left it--eft it un-
til it be recalled in the unknown hour when, as
we believe, the dead shall wake again.
Strange to say, we do not give to our supposed
dead the last chance which would be afforded by
our ancient customs, and probably prescribed
rites. We do not, as | believe, our forefather;
did, reopen the coffin at the burial ground, be-
fore finally parting with it in the cold sods. Why
have we abandoned this practice-possibly a
wise precaution
The objection to burial, on the ground of the
desire to remove the dead rapidly from the house
of mourning, so that the latter may be purified
from its presence, may be met by the establish
ment of mortuary house in our cemetries, il
which for some days the supposed dead might b'
deposited and watched, till death be physically
certain.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-07-18

SIDEWALK ErIoUETrE.-Only villagers, or per-
sons with rural ideas, any longer contend that
ladies should always be given the inside OF the
pavement in passing. The rule adopted in all
cities is to turn to the right, whether the right
leads to the wall or gutter and an observance
of this common-sense rule, would obviate much
unpleasant 'scrouging" by over-gallant gentle
men, who persistently crowd for the oUside Of the
walk
Another common custom, not required by
fashionable etiquette, and one which is nearly
as inexplicaby absurd, is the practice OF men fill
ing out of church pew, making themselves ri
diculous as an awkward squad" practicing a
catch step, in order to give woman the wrong
end ofa pew,
Another is that of a man, when at promenade
or walk with lady, to keep himself on the
outside of the pavement. little exercise OF
Judgment will convince any person of the per-
feet useegsness of this bobbing back and forth
at every corner The common rule Is this:
If men and women are walking together she
should always be at his right arm, whether it be
toward the inside or outside of the walk then
the woman will not be showed against the pasaers
Those who gggle at persons who follow this rule
are themselves tho ''greenies, and should read
the book of manners, before they indulge in the
laugh of fashionable fools.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-07-18
p O e L R Y.
THE TWO VILLAGES.

Over the river on the hill,
Lieth village white and still
All around it the forest trees
Shiver and whisper in the breeze,
Over it sailing shadows go,
OF soaring hawk and screaming crow;
And mountain grasses, low and sweet,
Grow in the middle of every street.
Over the river under the hill,
Another village lieth still;
There / see in the cooling night,
Twinklng stars of household light.
Fires that CLEAN from the smithy door,
Mists that curl on the rivers shore;
And in the road no grasses grow,
For the wheels that hasten to and fro.
In that village on the hill,
Never is sound of smithy or mill,
The houses are thatched with grass and flowers,
Never clock to tell the hours:
The marble doors are always shut;
You may not enter at hall or hut,
All the village lie asleep,
Never grain to sow reap;
Never in dreams to moan or sigh
Sient--and ide-and low-they lie.
In that village under the hill,
When the night is starry and still,
Many weary soul in prayer
Looks to the other village there,
And weeping and signing, longs to go
Upto that home from this below -
Longs to sleep by the forest wild,
Whittier have vanished wife and child,
And heareth, praying, the answer fall
Patience! That village shall hold ye all -
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-07-18
ms- The value of the dog for watch purI

@s- The value Of the dog for watch purposes
was recently presented in new light. Accord
ing to the Richmond Dispatch, Jim Patterson, q
venerable mullatto, in discussing the important
question, 'which is most dangerous dogs or guns?
before negro debating society at White Sulphur
spoke as follows:
Mr President-Dose gentlemen what has spok
en- differs from me on dis subject. i thinks dog
is much more dangerous dan guns. Spos' yol
SET loaded guns all round Dry Greek, der AIM
gwue off sep'n somebody pull de trigger bu
dars Mars Ed. Caldwell's Cesar, he gwine of
wheder you pull him or not and no nigge
amt gwine dar while he's dar. Dat, in N,
mind, settles de queshun.'