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The MODE on DoIso CERTAIN CORPORATION
wonzs-Ms.- Ms<j sthrsu, In the Board Of Klser-i
tory Of the act providing for the appointment Of
comm ssloners Of Improvements, sci which was
read twice, referred TO the Committee on I'm
proyements, and ordered TO be printed In tho
Journal. II Is as follows;
BE u enacted, Se., That from and after the pas:
sage Of this act, all work, such as grading and
gravellng OF streets, alling Of condemned lots,
the abatement OF nuisances, &C., heretofore done
by special contract, shall be executed BY the day,
under the Immediate direction OF the supefin-
tendsnt aud Inspector OF sewers, earriage-ways,
&C., assisted by the several ward commissioner.,
subject 70 the orders Of the Mayor and upon all
such work eight hours shall constitute legal
days work Provided, however, That nothing In
this act shall be construed rs to prevent the
owners OF condemned lots, or persons charged
with allowing nuisances on their promises, from
having the same allied or absted ~ their own ex:
pehse or BY private contract, sitter due notice OF
the same by the commissioner OF improvement
oil their respective wards,
$50. .. And be u enacted, That the employment
OF men, horses, Elows, harness, &C., manner Of
keeping time.roll, mode and time Of payment,
and such other regulations as may from time to
time be found necessary, in order to carry the
provisions OF this act Into successful operation,
be left subject to the direction Of tho Mayor.
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GEORGETOWN MATTERS.

ORDrns for the NATIONAL RErupLt AN In
Georgetown may be left at the bookstores OF
Messrs 7. NJ. X. Mills b Co., tlate Crandeirs) l2s
Bridge street. or at Messrs. @. T. Getty Il Co.'S,
100 Bridge street, where copies Of the RxrupLI.
CAN may be obtained daily.
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Georgetown Advertisements

GENUINE BUCK GLOVES.
Genuine Buck skin Gloves for and Ladies'
Wholesale and retail. at RAhsBURG 4 SONS, No.
100 High street, Georgetown, d. @. Ladies' and
Gents Gauntlets made to order ja25 3n
The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-02-26

AN AcCIDENT.-Lsst night, about 0 o'clock,
Col Kerr slipped and fell on the Ice, just oppo.
site Wall Co.'s clothing store, on Pennsy lyania
avenue, severely spraining his ankle. Officer
conveyed Hin 10 nv Nationppi Tntei where the
Colonel Is stopping. We noticed many persons
falling upon the slippery payements, but without
m iteriaT injury,
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OPPIog OF A. sAKs 4 Co, D
bl7 SEVENTH srREr,
wAsnISoros, Feb. q, 1865.
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100 FuRNITURBi FURNITUREu 100
J. B. yANDERwERKEN,
los HI0H STREET, GEORGETOWN,
calls the attention OF the public to his extensive
s9rtnsat o. FURNITURE, Consisting in part Of beau
tiful Csttage, Parlor and Chamber sets, Extension
Dining Tables, &c, which he offers to sell on the
most reasonable tesms, and asks call before pur.
Particular attention given to the repairing Of furni
ture. Uphostering In all its branches done In tho
best manner by experienced workmen. jAD-lm
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nSJe A Card.-HavinE Regained my LII
- eense from the Honorable Board Of Police
Commissioners. take this method Of informing my
friends and the public that have again reopened my
Restaurant. at No.. 6s7 Seventh street, between D
street aud Maryland avenue, Island, where | shall
be pleased to serve the public heretofore. kind
Invitation extended to all my friends and uaint
felO-a alias 10.
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PRoP osALs.
Sealed proposals, in duplicate will be received at
the Office Of the Undersigned, ut Cemetery Barracks,
Chattanooga, Team. until u, n, WEDNESDAY,
FRESH AND GoRSED BEEF
during the ensuing six months
The Beef must be Of good marketable quality. iu
equal proportion VI fore and hind quarter meat neck
shAnks, and Kidney tallow TO be excluded In such
quantities may be from time to time required for
issue to the troops who are now or may hereafter be
stationed At this post and at such times as the Post
Commissary shall direct.
The person to whom an award Is made must be pre-
bonds Al once.
bach bid must b accompanied by a good and .auf.
hoient guarantee from two more persons, Whose
loyalty and solNebey Is certified TO by clerk OF n
court Of record setting forth that the bidder WILL in
case the contract Is awarded him, give ample bonds
and security for the faithful Of the same
be given.
The contract awarded under this mu,t
Be me- de spbest % the approval Of the Major General
Commanding the Department
ProposAls Tor Fresh and Corned Beef must be sspa-
rate, and addressed to "Brevet BriKadeT Generai III
u. Small Chief CommiAsary Of Subsistence, Depart.
melt Cuinberiaad, Chattanooga, Teunessee, n o
BY order Of Brevet BriEadier General n 2. Small.
fsat'td First 1t, 18th U. .. hrtY, A, =. 81
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transfers Of property were reported yesterday:
Lots % and 80 square 1926 at tlisi lots Q, 10 and
assssrs is "a GGs g. t .Saafd g 81
part Hsddock Hill, at 1900, part lot j, square
b50 10 ola feet on street north, aoooj subs. o.
~ s-ia feet on FIFTH street west, tl,fsYi p Il,
square bl2, IL t-l2 feet on Firth street west,
H,aooi r u, square $40, north u lol2 feet, at
The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-02-26

COMPLIMENTARY CONCERT TO THE AMPuioNs
Lar, night the Musical Amphion Association
held forth at Odd Fellows Hall In the presence
of large sudienoe, for the purpose OF raising
tertainment ives good In every particular, con-
sisting of minstrelsy, qlios, Sc,l and concluding
with the laughabie BQflesque, "1talian Upror OF
paTts were so well taken that 1t would be cruel
to particuIarize. We hope to soc the Amphions
Out soon Agnin.
The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-02-26

HI35e CAT n II II AND BRONCHITIS
~ sEvER cuRspl RRAsoN WHY These fatal
diseases the parents ofConsGmpton. always
bined with Scrofula The false pretenders with their
snnns. TToshes, and iphalations. impart only ten.
have no remedy for Catarrh and serofulA combined,
and have mover effected one cnre The only positive
remedies arc NATURES REMEDIALS from PLANTS,
which have discovered after sixty years study, and
which eradicate these diseases aud all Scrofuous Az
fictitious forever. Explanatory Circular one stamp.
Treatise Is cents WIN r. PRINCE,
fel1-6ts Flushing, n Y
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A. SANS 4 Co.

To the People;
Stick l!--to
The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-02-26

~ WHY NOTf-SeriOus reflections for Young
Men, in Essay. OF tho Howard Association, on the
Ply sioogleal Errors. Abuses and Diseases induced
by Ignorance OF Natures Laws, In the hrst age OF
man Sent In sealed letter envelopes free Of charge
Address. Dr., J. SKILLIN HOUGHTON, Howard As
ISOLATION. Philadelphia, Pa jaO-3m
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hSJe special Nottec.-Brady 4 Co.'s Ma
~ riosAL PHoToaRAPHIc SALLERr, $50 Penn
eeiyed new and complete set " Instruments for The
production OF the new CABINET CARD PHOTO
GRAPH, we are now prepared to make that popular
card In the best style Of the aI At greatly reduced
prices. tf0-lml JAMES Y. GIBSON.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-14

WnJSIE SUNDAY EXCURSION
CHANGE OF TIME.-The splendid
steamer IWlLIGHT leaves Chestnut street wharf at
Sh A. NJ, and p. M, for Burlington and Bristol,
ouching at Tacony, Riverton, Andalusia, and Be-
Yery. Leaving Bristol at lOkA, NJ, and p. M. Fare
25 cents, ExGnmion, 10 cents, lQlQRu
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residence of Mr.. Megs. Lieutenant-Commau-
der r. w. Meade Immediately in'ormed me that
he had performed melancholy task the pre-
cediDg day-that of placing the Commodore IN
the Bloomingdale Asylum; that for months
past he has been threatening different people;
that he had threatened the lives OF Mr.. B. +.
Cories, MIR. Meigs, Secretary Welles of the
Navy, and his son; that upon his person several
Tevolvers had been found, aud four more revolt
vers in his valise; and that he had gang OF
''roughs" engaged to commit violence upon my
self in crossing the river.
Instead of this being done in order to promote
my marriage il was done only from motives OF
humanity and it was expected that upon such
q terrible occurrence in the family l would
postpone the marriage or break it OIL. The
family was also of this disposition. requested
however, that the marriage should take place.
My aflianced was not responsible for this heart
rending misfortune, and, besides, if she had lost
her beauty, or met with any other misfortune,
or if all the family had suddenly become luna
tics would have been all the more anxious to
have the rIght and the power to protect her. |
married her, thank God and, with His help,
mean to stay married, and shield her all her
life from every evil that may threaten.
My marriage has received the appreciation of
every member Of my wife's family excepting the
Commodore.
Relative TO the Commodore's confinement, |
had no hand in it; nor had my wife; nor did [
know of 1t before the morning of my marriage; (;
but have seen letters from Secretary Weles
of the Navy, and from General George G. Meade
and others, approving OF the confinement of the
Commodore upon the ground OF insanity, and
expressing surprise that it had not been done
long before.
The Commodore was placed in confinement by
his son, Lieutenant Commander Il. w. Meade,
who is now in the Pacific Ocean, in command of
the United States steamer Saginaw, and conse-
quently was not present at the trial In New
York, but was simply Represented by counsel.
If the Commodore has recovered his health
there is no one more joyed at 1t than myself, or
who can wish HIM better health or a longer life
CHARLES K. LANDS.
Vineland, N. j., Dec. 10, 1868.
[From perusal of the above it will be seen
that Mr.. Lands has been a careful student of
the sensational style. His courtship and mar
riage of the Commodores daughter, as narrated
by himself, would not be out of place in the
columns of the New York Ledger.-ED. EVE.
TELL
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STEAMBOAT LINES.

r AsIEA FOR NEW YORK-SWIFT-SURR
z Transp portstion Company Despatch
Riu bwiitsure Lines via Delaware and Rartan
Canal and amer the 18th of March, leaving daily
u ID and p, NJ, connecting with Al Northern and
Eastern lines,
For freight which win be taken on accommodating
terms, apply to WILLIAM M. BAIRD 4 CO.,
III No. 1872 B. DELAWARE AVenTia,
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French Naval Expenditure.

A very interesting table has just been pub
iished in the ReUue Maritime ct ColOniaie. 1t
contains the statistics of the French naval and
colonial estimates for period of 10 years,
ending in 1868. The actual expenditure is
added from 1920, and the running commen-
tary maintained in the column for ''remarks"
explains the causes of augmentation or de-
crease from year to year. The earliest years
in which the naval accounts are shown sepa-
rately from those for the colonies are 1868
and 1863, when the reckoning was still kept
in tiUreS tOTHoiS, the franc not making its ap-
pearance until 1880; but 1000 livres being of
equal value with 9S7 francs, the conversion
into sterling presents no difficulty. The annual
average of expenditure for the naval service
in the two years mentioned was f690 900,
which had only increased by Ell, 500 in l775;
but at the end of the American war, in 1888,
the year of the peace of Versailles, the
ordinary and extraordinary expenditure
reached the large sum of GA 737, 600. From
this date until 1920 the naval expenditure is not
distinguished from the colonial, and it is note
worthy that from the years | to VIII of the
Republic there is blank in the table, "as it
was not found possible to effect the application
in accordance with the votes (par erercice) of
the provisional credits placed at the disposal
of the Minister" The budget of the year X IL
(lS03-4), in consequence Of the armaments
which followed the rupture OF the peace of
Amiens, was exceedingly heavy, and we must
look onwards to 1855 before finding an equal
expenditure. The navy and the colonies in
that year QS03-4) cost no less than G9, 055,-
600; it was the period of the BOulogne army
and fotilla. Next year there was a consider
able falling of, and the expenditure for both
departments for the nine years to 1913 ave-
ragged f5, ,435, 400 annually. In 1915 the ex-
penditure was only FL, ,5S4, 700. Gradual in
crements again took place until 1923, when
in consequence of the Spanish war the naval
disbursements were f2, 666, 800. In the fol-
lowing year there was a considerable fall, and
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verge from every direction to the capital You
would see troops Of forlorn, crippled, blind,
ragged creatures vending their difficult way to
the city, which they almost think to be made
Of gold. The Jour de pAn is the only day of
all the year when they may beg, dance, aud
with all sorts Of misfortunes, visible aud
invisible; there are merry beggars, inn
pudent beggars, melancholy beggars,
young beggars and Old, organ
grinders and something can {"
singers, dancing beggars and monkey-show
beggars. Here they are, lining the long
streets as far as eye can reach, raising the
veriest hubbub of pandemonium with their
harps and their cracked voices, their cater
wauling and drumming. They have mighty
harvest, poor souls for the people are all
kindly on this day, and centime pieces rattle
down generously from the windows of every
story. And there are not few contrasts on
this day, which bear romantic tinge and show
in glaring colors how wonderful are the vioissi-
tudes of life. That stout, gaudily-dressed old
dame you saw dashing down the Rue de Riyoh
in a coach and livery, on her way to call on
the Countess de la Potfeuille, was twenty
years ago chesnut-woman on the corner of
Rue Vivienne, and has made goodly fortune
out Of that plebeian but paying trade. But
here, under your window, as you gaze out
upon the human New Years kaleidoscope,
lOIL6Gb an Olu, DIph6u-uOWuS budLJ6T6u-LO-
pieces, utterly wretched-looking woman, her
grey hair streaming disordered about her yell
low and wrinkled face, her miserable bonnet
awry, and her ragged garments covered with
dust. She, too, once rode in her carriage and
livery and made fashionable calls on coun-
tesses, and had her lofty house in Faubourg st.
Germain; nay, it was said she had even been
presented at the court of the patriarchal
Louis Philippe, and could show descent from
some of the bluest blood in France. The poor
shattered creature mumbles as she looks up
to you, and stretches out her feeble hand
shaking with paralysis, eagerly clutching the
two-sous pieces which you throw down. She
is victim of Paris vice-deserted her hus-
band, ran away with a soldier, hurried back
to Paris when she was deserted in turn, went
on the stage and grew crack voiced there, and
then was thrown upon resources far more
horrible-the old, old story, yet new and
touching with every heroine. Place these two
women side by side-what a startling picture
of human change There is intelligence, de-
scent in rags-vulgarity and coarseness in
prosperous panoply
Jane S. Austin contributes a story entitled
"Nor Dead nor Living" and Karl Blind dis
cusses the question, "Will Spain be Re-
public ?" A Christmas story entitled Golden
Dreams" by Albert Fabre, and "Our Monthly
Gossip" and "Litersture of the Day." con-
clude number that has a sufficient variety to
suit all tastes.
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Sl,647,367 50
s29l,5S5'OO

PHILADELPHIA, November IL, 1868.
The Board OF Directors have this day declared q
CASH DIVIDEND of TEN PER CENT on the
CAPITAL STOCK, and SIX PER GENT Interest on
the SCRIP ofthe Company, payable on and after the
LIST December proximo free Of National and State
Taxes.
They have a.so decsared q SCRIP DIVIDEND of
THIRTY PER CENT. on the EARNED PREMIUMS
for the year ending october 81 1868, certificates of
which will be issued the parties entitled to the
same, on and after the lst December proxImo, free
of National and State Taxes.
They have ordered, also, that the SCRIP CERTIFI.
GATES OF PROFITS of the Company, for the year
ending October 81, 1864, be redeemed in CASH AT the
Office Of the Company, on and after lst December
proximo, all interest thereon to on that date
E- By provision OF the Charter all Certificates OF
Scrip not presented for redemption within ive years
after public notice that they will be redeemed shall
be forfeited and cancelled the Books Of tRe COnpanu
RS- No certfcdte of PROFITS issued under s25. By
he Act Of Incorporation, mo certificate shall issue t-
eSs claimed Witl tUo gears aer The declaration OF
he dtUtdead l0hereoj IL is eUidetce."
Thomas O. Hand, Edmund A. SOuder
John T.. Davis, samuel ID. Stoke es
James 4. Hand, 1enry sloan,
IheopL Illus PauldnE, William q. Ludwig,
Joseph Ii. Seal, George Il Lelper,
Hugh CIalg, Henry o. DaIiett, Jr,
John X. Penrose, John ID. Taylor.
Jacob p JONES' George w. Bernardou,
James TTaquair, William q BoulGon,
Edwa Darlington, Jacob Riegel,
II. Jones Brooke, ISpencer MIiVaine,
James b. Mcfarland, John B. Semple, Pitts.
Edward LA1UurCRoe, A. u, Berger, do
Joshua p Ey re, .o... . u. Il. AlOTgan, do.
THOMAS u. HAND, President.
HENRY LYLBURN, Seer etary,
HENRY BALL Assistant Secretary. ul2 I'm
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the next increase 1S28-f3 247, 2O0) is due
to the introduction of steam, the expedi-
tion to the Morea, and blockade of the
Algerian ports. Reductions and fluctuations
again occur, and the next years worthy of
notice are 1S40 184l, and 1912, in the last OF
which, consequent on the expedition to Buenos
Ayres, works at Cherbourg, the building of
barracks, etc., the naval expenditure reached
GA $50, 300. 1S47 and 1S49 were very heavy
years in consequence Of the great increase in
men and ornaments which commenced in
lS46. The expense in 1S47 was G5, ,O79, 900.
considerable decrease at once followed the
revolution, but the war in the Bast raised the
expenditure to G7, 10, 500 in 1854, and from
that to fS, ,6s4, 200 and fS, $50, 700 in 1855 and
1856. In 1858 commenced the conversion of
the fleet, which, together with the Italian war,
the expeditions to China, Mexico, and Cochin
China, and "the purchase of two ships in
America, f560, 000," appear as the causes Of
the increase of expense during the following
ten years, for which we subjoin the fgures:-
1859 es, ,SO7 800 1872 200
lS60........... l50 700 lS66....,....... 67427O0
1861 S270 600 1867 (Gstimated) 6.536400
1862 .......... 78t5OO 1868 (Estimated) 8,2l0700
lbb5 ''..'..' IiJl5UUU IobJ (EstlnnateuJO oVf,IUV
lobl ,........... Ii1blOOVI
It is a remarkable fact that the actual ex-
penditure for the eight years from 1858 to 1853
and 1865 and 1866 exceeded the votes by the
imperial sum of Els, 543, $40; in other words
it was very nearly 80 per cent. higher than
the estimates. 1860 is the first year in which
both estimates and expenditures are shown in
these tables, and on looking back 1t is found
that in thirteen out of the thirty-eight years,
from 1920 to 1857 inclusive, the expenditure
also exceeded the amounts voted by the Cham
bers, but only Gf the excesses unavoidably
due to the Spanish war in 1S23-24 be deducted)
by the comparatively insignificant annual
average of ELS, $780, The French nation is said
to have the best system of public accounts in
existence, and the French Admiralty the best
system in France, but, however that may be,
it is an unavoidable conclusion that these ex-
cellent accounts do not succeed in checking
lavish expenditure. Mall Gazette.
Texas papers inveigh against the crime Of
cattle skinning.
The hitch in the marriage of the Cars
daughter and King Louis of Bavaria is that
the latter is of the Catholic faith.
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Another Version of the Meade-Landis
Case-Lunncy Of the eCOmmOdOre-Wha
Drove the Gallant Tar to Madness
Why and HOW He was COnIined-Per-
sOnaI Explanation OF Mr.. Charles K.
&c
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-08-15
THE ORANGEBURG NEWS.
SATURDAY, AUGUST is, 1868.
FOR PRESIDENT,
HORATIO SEYMOUR.
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICErPRESIDENT.
FRANCIS p. BLAIR.
OF MISSOURI.
Forwarned, Fore-armed.

.,& Reports, founded on facts too patent to be
4 disputed, come to us from various sections of
che State, that certain class Of our population
iisengaged in holding secret midnight meet
ings for the purpose of drilling, and armed or
! Bsnixation. In connection with this, Daddy
] cain's paper in Charleston, the. organ of the
extreme Radicals in this Stato, boldly asserts
Ithat the freedmen are preparing for an appeal
ITO force, and says, "Every plantation has it's
], captain, aud the men and ,con,cn are prepared
TO stand by their liberties
/, We presume that the allusion so bombasti-
t4cally made, is to the coast settlements of the
State, aud to the sea-isauds, whore the numcr-
sical strength Of the freedmen is SO very appa-
rent. In our section nothing of that kind
should have any tendency to lessen the feeling
of security among the white people of tho
, country; for our united strength is amply suf-
fcient, in any part of the middle country, to
keep the peace, and not only to act on the de-
fensiye, but to visit stern retribution to any
mob, which might attempt to inauguratc a
reign of terror in the community.
!, Nevertheless, whilefeeling secure, we should
: not be Indifferent and careless, Organizations
ihostileto law and order call for counter-organ.
ixations, of all good citizens; and while We arc
not disposed to magnify tho assemblagcs of
ri violent dcsperadoes into anything more than
they really amount to, we contend also, that
,sthereshould always be, in every secure CON-
munity, apower which can, in any emergency,
| assist in Sindicatng successfully the majesty
of the law Such organization we recommend
among all the honest, and w,abiding in tho
.. land.
sz1kndsih tnis conncctioii, <ao nos spon,s ut
tEAli of party organization. We belieye that the
ovil complained of is confined only to sot of
extremists; aud in an organization such as We
speak of, we would welcome good men of any
political sentiments, as we consider it matter
outsiaeof politicsscntircly. It is measure of
seolfprotection; nothing moro, and nothing
Hess.