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Evening star., 1869-12-09
. ALL'S OPERA HoUS Sc.

Mr.. GEO. L FOX xbegs to acknowledge the re-
Srfpt II Complnse utae Sp0niencr, numerOusly
signed; and announ that arrangements have been
.heCtctl whereby he, IN CunJunCtinn with his Com
pany, including the klRALFY TROUPE. will pro-
long their professional appearance in Washington
THREE NIGHTS LONGER, AMI in accsptati0D of
the COMPLEMENTARY BENEFIT rendered
would name SATU RDiY EVENING. December
u. " hen IL should take place.
THU RSnAY EVENING. Dacerbar q. HI MPTY
DIVINITY. for most positiVely the last time here
fTHlay Evening. December j., will b. presented
With -ceneTy aud marvellous tTir k. transported
frsm Mr.. FvN collection in New York. his original
PantoInlfne If JACh AND THE BEAN STALK
originally prosiuced ia New York c,ty in $50
Saturday MATIN Ell. for Ladies and Children
Saturday Evening. COMPLIMENTARY BENE-
III and last appearance # GE1. L. Fox.
seats may Le secured IN advance, without extra
fhargp IN
Evening star., 1869-12-09

The SENATE, after short executive session
this afternoon, during which no coniirmltions
were made. adjourned until Monday
Evening star., 1869-12-09

~ Mcfarland perpetrates a conundrum for
Beecher. He wants ID know how "Beecher
would like TO have his wife married to some one
elesc who might take fancy to her, while he
was aiiye?o
NrThe Liverpool people are horrified Mt the
prevalence OF drunkenness among the women OF
that city. In year, over 500 have been COM
mjtted to jail there for crimes committed under
the influences of strong drink.
ga South Carolina paper addresses q word.
by which it means a column, ''to the week
kneed and the low souled, and 20 those whose
nerves Of sensitiyeness are located in their pock-
ets.,
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ADJUSTMENTS.
M ALTON Al THEA IT X L .
THIS ENENING

HIS EN ENINfI.
- LAST NIGHT pF EAST LYNNE.
LUCILLE " ESTERN in her grand dual imparSOn-
alton Of Lady Isabel aud Madame Vine, in TayeuTe
celebrated dramatiZatiOn If Mrs. III Wood s thrilling
novel of
EAST LYNNE; Or. THE ELePEMENT.
Lucille Western Matinee on saturday. arranged
especially for the pleasure Of ladies and children
In preparation, Grand Christmas PdntOmime, OF
Evening star., 1869-12-09
Government Securities.

WASHINGTON, Dee. ,, lst9.-Jay Cooke & co .
furnish the following quotations of Governments
securities;
Evening star., 1869-12-09

NAVAL NEws.-Aspin,caH, o. s. c., Nov. 18th,
1S69.-Editor Star: The U. 8. steamer Tuscarora,
Commander Queen, arrived here from Havana,
on the 18th inst, relieving the U. 8. steamer
Seminole, Commander L. X. Owen. The Semi
mole proceeds TO P0rt-au- Prince on the 10Th
inst, to relieve the U. s. steamer Yantic, Com
mander Abbott. The Yantic proceeds to Key
West, Fla. JIM
Evening star., 1869-12-09

1eeberSs I'm the south Atlantic.
1efe9Tophed Exclusively to The Evening Star.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 9.-Vessels arriving her e
icebergs in those waters.
Evening star., 1869-12-09

FUNDING BILL.-Mr. Morrell, of Pennsylya-
MIA, introduced yesterday bill "to fund the
debt of the United States at a lower rate of in
terest, to make the National Banking system
free," &c. It authorizes the Secretary Of the
Treasury to issue irredeemable coupon or regis
tered bonds to the amount'of twenty-five hun
dred million dollars, bearing an annual interest
of three and sixty-tve hundreds per centum,
payable semi-annually in coin. The money
realized from the sale of these bonds shall go to
the purchase or payment of other bonds and
coin interest-be airing Indebtedness.
Evening star., 1869-12-09

IMPORTANT DECIsIoN.-At the present term
of the United States District Court at Dubuque
Iowa, an important question was argued and
decided in connection with charge of fraud on
the Government. The facts are the following:
+. III. Doutrich was arrested for fraud OH the
pension Office, whilst the Hon. e. G. Cox was
Commissioner of Pensions. The accused sub
sequently escaped, but was rearrested and COM
mitted TO prison. On bringing the case to trial
it was ascertained the indictments were fatally
defective; whereupon the court directed that a
juror be withdrawn and new indictments be
framed, the prisoner meanwhile being remand
Ell TO prison. The new indictments having been
presented, the counsel for the accused made a
motion, and argued it at length, that the liberty
of party could not be twice put in jeopardy,
and that the proceedings heretofore had should
be considered as acquitting of the charge. At
ter an exhaustive argument the court ruled that
the indictments must be maintained, on several
grounds, but especially because if convicted on
a defective indictment no sentence could be
pronounced, and therefore trial thereon would
be of no effect. The court was then appealed
to and granted a continuance, on the motion of
the prisoners counsel, until the third wednes-
day i'm April next. Hon. w. +. Sapp and James
p. Tustin for the Government, and Messrs. VIII
son and Doud for the accused.
ARTENUs WARD set the fashion Of the incon-
sequential lecture-thatis to say if his .text had
the smallpox his sermon wouldn't catch it"
so far apart were they. When Artemus lectured
at Wizards Hall upon the "Babes I'm the Wood"
and had not word to say about those unfortu-
nate orphans until the close, when he remarked
that "they were the offspring ofrich but respect
able parents, and died young" he greatly mysti-
fed the matter Of fact people i'm his audience.
"Mark Twain's" lecture last night upon the
Sandwich Islands, did deal some what with the
subject, but the lecturers approaches to 1t were
50 elaborate and involved so much mastery
strategy Of the sort displayed by our early Napo-
Icons Of the rebellion, that the audience began to
think they were the victims Of another A. Ward
Joke. Marks fun is of the quaint, close dry order
Of the New Englander, and the slow passionles
manner in which he gets OF a good thing AMI
apparently abandons Il to its fate, as the ostrich
leaves its eggs, reminds one irTesistibly of some
dry Yankee Joker OF cast-iron countenance and
lazy utterancc. We say GppGrsR:, because des-
pite his wooden manner he lalghs q gooi deal
under his bushy eyebrows and sandy must
tache; and after every shot aimed 1t the risibles
OF those in front he takes a business looI from
those keen gray eyes 10 see how his missile
speeds. We shall not undertake 20 repeat any
OF the fine things-fcr Marx can be eloquent
and pathetic as wen a. droli-or the funny
things Of the lecture, for they are his property,
to be used . good many times in the course Of
the winter, and he has suffered already by news
paper deprsdstions.
Evening star., 1869-12-09
E'AREW ELL READING

t'AkENELL EEADING
MISS ELLA a. STOCKTON.
At CARROLL HALL. g Street Between 9th and
u n Streets,
an MONDAY EVENING. December 18th. az :
"'ClaCk.
Tickets so cents; 10 be hal AT Parker'S and at W
; Ihomp-"ns- Druggists, corner 18th street and
New York de
Evening star., 1869-12-09

lvA BOWLING SALOON,
UNDER METROPOLfTAN HALL.
PENNA AVENUE. MAR 11rH STREET Wssr,
GEORGE BAUER, Proprietor

Open from O. m. 20 L D. m The Bar 10 stocked
with the finest Liquors, Wines aud Ales.
segars Of the finest brands.
Call and see. Aly
Evening star., 1869-12-09
wssHssgPggP ESs sgPgPLIcArr LAND

DEPAnrNKSf on TIE IxTxRroR,
PKxsboS OEBcE. July IS, Iss6.S
been made under the act q june =, ls6e, FOR II
issue Of the folIovins dsscribed Land We q -
Notice hsIssy given that at The date ieb ,
rant q hke tenor win be reissued. n % ~ T var
''' '''''' u Il. Van AERsAn. .,o-.,...
NO fSs s 4. rsTs :sss. n ;p' under tn. .e, %
GRANTED Dcceinber s. lss D. .cnael Doyle, and We
Februars ii, isG. in the sssned under the act N
Ton, and was granted arch a. u issS ssps; q H.mii
Evening star., 1869-12-09

A fTENTI0N, CIGAR MASUFACTURERsi
LOT OF CONNECTICUT LEAF, HAVANA
AND YARA TOBACCO
At the lowest market prices.
y.LITTEN,
eOO Pennsylvania avenue,
Doll -eclm near 81 streef.
Evening star., 1869-12-09

vTHE HIGHEST Cash PAID FOR LADIES',
u Cent? and Childrens' Cast on Clothing, Boots.
shoes. etc az Y 8 HARTOGESsIS, 241 7th street.
betNesn n and ". Any order through mail promptly
attended to. de sly
Evening star., 1869-12-09

EAST INDIA CAMELs HAIR sHAwLs.
beautiful assortment both Long and sauare
Just received, and VIII be sold cheap BY
no2-eo4w HOOE BRO
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-03-12
a GOLD CARRIER.

In a late number of HoTper's Nogosine
We fnd The following descripiion ola Wall
street character and a Wall street ioad
All the bullion and coin of Wall street is
carried about the streets IN common open
carts precisely as are used 10 carr, ing ofdi-
nary merchandise. For iwentytwo years
past one cartlan, John c. Barkley, best
known in the street as Honest john"
whose three carts stand al the busy corner
OF Wal auG Broad streets, has done the
carting for the bullion dealers and bankers
Of The CRY, who would trust him in
their vaults with ,rea ure uneounted. Tall,
robust and rujdy, Honest John has in his
! counieuance precisely the expression
which We should expect to see in the face
1T one who for SO many years has borne so
honorable name. He began 10 be street
twenty seven years ago, after his fifth year,
( lie became the established cartman Of the
4 coin and bullion men. il Is his carts that
20 TO the California steamers and convey
heir kegs Of gold TO the vaults to which
hey are consigned. His carts assist to
restore the financial balance hetwoen the
two continents by conveying gold 10 and
from the Cunard steamers IN Jersey City.
He has occasionally csrricd for short dis
ances, down bill, million dollars in gold,
which weighs two tons bur his opinion is
chat seven hundred Thousand dollars is
about as much as humane man will ever
permit his horse to draw over these rough
pavemeuts for any considerable distance.
On busy dag he viii have as many. as
twenty loads Of precious metals. A load Of
gold, when it goes across the town, is usually
accompanied by clerk OF the house to
which it belongs John is quite alone
when he has as much gold on hiS cart as
horse can draw. For such service he gets
higher compensation than when he carries
an Office desk OF load Of printing paper;
aud, indeed, be has the air of man who
could show little gold aud silver of his
own if there were occasion.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-03-12
A SENATOR THAT HAS GOT RICH.

From the Cincinnati CommerciaLl
l look across the street aud see in front of
a Senator'S house the carriage of another
Senator The pair of bloodrd horses cost
some thousand dollars The glded harness
Is in keeping. The close, handsome, shining
c,ach Is one Of Brenton's best, lined with
.ilk ye;yet, aud graced with the choicest and
,hicke,t of plate glass On the co4ehman's
seat sit two Of fGud's creatures, called men;
que bright muIatto, The other white man
and both in livery They SIT in solemn ST.
ience under their gay robe of furs and white
cloves Directly, the door Of the house
opens, and two ladies, carrying poor mans
'or,une on their backs, descend the steps
The footman swings down aud opens the
door, with an easy grace the master cannot
initiate The door closes with a bang, the
Eaotman mounts, and he coach rolls away.
Wei, it seems but yesterday that the owner
Of al this came here poor man.
We remember the fairy tale where the old
witch touched the pumpkin and turned it
INTO coach, and SO the ugly witch of the
obby touched the poor man, and out of
fraud came the coach, and out of theft came
he house, and svindlcs, drives, and steal
ing~, oil and burnish. Like that witch 1
could touch that man with this delicate lit
tie pen Of mine, and carriage, horses and all
would disappear. For honor and honesty
would claim their own, and the very clothes
yauld fs!l from the backs of wifi ami daugh
DONN PiATF.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-03-12
THE yIcE-PREsIDENr ELECT.
4 GIIMPsE OF MS HOME.

GIIMPsE OF HIS HOME
A Washington letter to the Mail contain.
these paragraphs:
The house in Lafay cite place has NOTHING
emavkable about it. Ia New Yolk. wher,
everybody of a certain rank 10 society i
doomed 10 live in brown-stone frpn
with high stoop, a, the Gorhamite.
cailit, and on the face Of it precisely Iik
thousands Of other houses, this plain two
story brick house. with its steps going ~
he side, would be considered very plrhian.
Inside it is comfortably furni,htd-bu,
not spacious. There is good sized ves,i.
hule from which you PASS up to the bed
rooms, two Of which are used for cloak
rooms when there are receptions. When
you come down you pass into the first draw
NJ room-snd there, near the door, stand
Mr.. and Mrs Colfax
She very often dresses in white, coming
up high about the throat, with rose in hen
corsage and no ornaments in her dark hair,
but looking so pleasant and good that you
could not help thinking she was better with
out them. Il certainly must be somerhing
Of an ordeal to stand on one figure in the
carpet from eight to twelve O'Clock, and
smile at every new conner as II you had a
special interest iu them
There is a second drawing room into
which the promenaders pass, and this Is the
whole suite Of rooms, Back Of them run,
a long gallery, eztemporized into couscrvs
tory, and into which the rooms open. Such
l. the r, sideuce Of the Vice Pr esideut elect.
\ motley stream of visitors pours in cven
Friday evening. Military men, members of
Congress, newspaper men. the lady adyo-
Gates Of woman rights and woman suffrage
authors and suthoresses.
? enty Of handsome women 10 haud-omc
lres>es-but the most of them little over
Ires>ed-for that Is the failing of American
women generally. You know it was the
fashion this winter for ladies' to so about
very decollete. Well, Mrs. Coliax adopted
he style which is just the reverse OF thai
md many ladies who had no scrupla~ wei.
-hamsd by her example into putting on a
d Gently high dress in which to attend ",
CoLax' evening receptions.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-03-12
POETS IN BUSINESS.

Z-u~ and Europa, or penned an ode to Ur>a
Major, has warrant for dealing with bull
and bears. and compromise, nothing in turn
ing from hexameters TO six per cents.
Iegiacs Ia E ie from Donae Tower TO the
fall Of gold. The notion that poet keep
his eyes Away, rolling and hi~ elbows ragse.
is going out of date. Even the painters
care no longer 10 b. oute and shocking in
dress, In modern England, according 20
Emerson, it is the man with no mark,d
manners or features that rxpecte5ly
discloses wit and learning un'il you think
vou have fallen on some illu~triouS person
age. Let Lowell and Longfyluw walk
Trough Wall street, or Tennyson. with
Dicken~ and Beade on either side, uavers-
Lombard street, and The, would be though
hale and hearty men, in the mellow age Of
lfe; and should the first two encounter
Vanderbilt and Drew, or the other three a
trio of great London ockilbber-, they
would all take each other to be well clad
gell-mannered gentlemen, men Of genius
Invention, power Of concentrating thought
far sighr, aud profound knowledge OF human
natnre. A procession Of poets from every
country, in every costume, would, to Q
-ure, be brdsm so would a procession Of
-hoemakers but in poets, as poets, We pre-
-ume that Wall street would ind nothing to
draw it from keeping lis averted eyes, like
the man in Bunyan, on its muck heap OF
stocks and It's literally filthy lucre" #
greasy greenbacks.
4 better day has dawued for the imam Of
letters than when he was q dependant on
the bounty of the rich and the patronage Of
be powertul-when be was retainer, to
whom the great lord or knight might call
at his good pleasure, come hither, minstrel
aud SO forth, The modern poet doe
not wait to be come bithered' al
anybody beck, and, accordingly, wears a
whole coat,leeve as you or l.-PHILip
QUlLIBET in Hgrch Gallry.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-03-12
FHE BENEFIT OF BEING KNOCKED
ABOUT IN THE WORLD.

1t isa good thing for young man to be
Knocked about in the world, though his
soft hearted parents may not think 70. All
youths, or if not all certainly nineteen
rwen'ieths of the sum total, enter life with
a surplu>age Of self fconceit. The sooner
hey are relieved oft the better. IT, in
measuring themselve, with wiser and older
men, they discover that it is unwarranted,
and get rid OF It gracefully, OF their own
accord, well and good if not, it is desirable,
for their own sakes, that it be knocked out
Of them
4 boy who is sent to a large school soon
finds his level HIS will may have been
paramount at home, but >choolboys are
democratic 10 their ideas and if arrogant,
he i sure to BE- thra>hed into a recognition
of the golden rule The world is a great
auhic school, AMI it snon teaches new
pupil his proper place. IF he has the at
installed in the position Of a leader if not
hatevtr his opinion OF his abb tiles may be
ne viii be compelled to .aIl in with the rank
ind file If not destired to greatness. the
next best thing 10 which he can aspire is
rs,reclablity; but 10 man can ever be
truly good or truly respectable who IS
ain, pampou- aud overhearing.
By the time the novice has found his
legitimate social position, be the same high
n low, the probability Is that the disagree
atle uairs Of his character will BE- softtRed
lowa or worn away. Mos, likely the pro-
cess of abrasion will be rough, bu, when it
$ oil over and be begius to see himself as
others see him, and NOT as ref c.ed in the
mirror ofself conceit, he will be thankful
hat be has run the eaunilet, and arrived,
though by rough roaG, at seli-kaowledge.
Upon the whole, whatever loving mothers
may think TO the contrary it is "a good thing
for youths to be knocked about in the
worlj-it makes men of them.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-03-12
RESOURCES OF PENNSYLVANIA.

A school book for Pennsylvania has re
Gently been published, which properly de-
votes attention to the present condition Of
his great commonwealth From it The New
York Tribune makes the following extract
A large portion Of this volume Is wisely
given to the Industrial progress OF Penn
>yIvapia. Not merely are the successive
stage, in the progress of settlement and
population westward aud norlhward from
De aware Bay clearly marked, but he IN
fancy and growth Of I:or-m mskinp: the dl~
,,..sy of An macft Cua., v.th th, s.eis
whereby the ess Of hat lue, for eais deeu'
ed impracticabIe, was introduced AMI Ken
aed. uztII 365 tuus mined in 1870 had swell
ed to l.. .650,67l tuns in 1867. 30 with the
Bytuminious Coal of her Western Counue'
she having l. sos square miles Of the latter
to barely 470 OF the former. Her produc-
lion of PIG Iron, begun in 1920 10 Che-tef
county. has been increased and dd'ffused until
it amounted last year to $50, 400 uns. Penn
>ylyauia is first among cur States IN tn
PRODUCTION OF both Coal aud Iron, and seconi
onk to Massachusetts in the range ond ex
tent Of her manufacturing Industry. Sac
has 972 miles ofcan4s, which cost $3S66O,
397, aud 3,097 miles of completed railroad,
which cost about $3.50 900, ,0O0-belng fore
most Of all the States except possibly Illinois
in railroads, and before all but New Yori
in canals.-The general sobriety aud din
gcnce of her people, her central position
the extent aud value Of her internal Iesou'
ces, her substantial wealth and great faeil'
ties for ntereommunication, assure her
steady growth and commanding position
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-03-12
VOL. ~: NO. 10

fame language, viii be found. They would
anywhere take the palm for boisterous and
undignifcd demeanor. As each one ar
rlyes, the usual question which be pro
pounds shows that be is simply the tool Of
his masters, the agent" and the ring
master. sach brief iuterrogatories A.
these are put and promptly answered. de-
naded, however, ofthe impious inlrrcca-
tions which always rarni-hes them Well
whats up to-day?' How shout that
opening Of Park place p Have you seen
those parties?" Ye.; tha,'s oil right :"
We've gof thar fixed. Wen shove t
Though today &c.
These are the men who take care Of the
interests off the city. When shall We have
a change?
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-03-12
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

All advertisements for less than months 10
cents per line for each insertion. specia nutices
one-haf additional. All resolutions Of Assoeia-
tons, Communications Of limited or indiVidaI
interest and notice. Of marriages and deaths, ex-
eeeding five lines, cts per line All legal noti-
ces Of every kind and all Orphans Court and
other Judicial sales are required by law to be pub.
lshed IN both papers. Editorial Notices IS cents
per line. All Advertising due after rst insertion.
liberal discount made 70 yearly advertisers.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-03-12
TWO KISSES FOR A DIME.

Asa weary Traveller was weudrng his way
through the mud in a Ear west region Of the
country, he discovered a young maiden
seated 10 front of the door Of small log
house. He rode up in front of the cabin,
aud asked the girl for q drink of water
He drank it, and she being the first woman
h. had seen Tor several days, offered her a
dime tor kiss. The young maiden ac-
eepted the Offer and received both the kiss
aud the dime The traveller was about to
resume his journey, bat the girl never hav-
my seen a dime, asked: "Wnat am to do
with the dime, r. You may use it as you
wish, he replied, ''it is yours. If
that's the case, said she, I'm give you
back the dime and take another kiss.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-03-12

THOSE who have lost ti1e have need to
redeem it and the longer We have Uttered
10 that which j. good he more la t. we
should make--H Henry.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-03-12

NEWSPAPER LAWs.-We would call the special
attention Of Post Masters and subscribers to the
INQUIRER to the following synopsis Of The News
paper laws:
l. Postmaster is required to give notice by
,cftsr, returning paper does not answer the law
hen q subscriber does not take bis paper out of
the Office, AID state the tor its NOT being
taken; and neglect 10 do SO makes the Postlaas-
ter yeysoHsi5is T. the publishers tor the payment.
>. Any person who takes paper from the Post
Office, whether directed 70 his name or another. ur
whether he has subscribed OF not is responsible
tor the pay.
:. ifa person orders his paper discontinued, be
must pay all srresragts, or the publisher NAV
continue TO send it until payment rs made, and
Dect the Whole amount. tchetber Il be take. from
ste G5ios or not There esn be no legal discontin-
ueuee until the payment IS made.
3. If the Subscriber orders his paper to be
stopped al certain time. and tie publisher con
tIuHe@ 70 send, the subscriber Is bound 10 pay for
il, y he tg6ss 4, oBt ~ ass P.-t Office The law
proceeds upon he ground that a man must pay
for what he uses.
.. The courts have decided that refusing 10 takr
newspapers and periodicals. from the POST office.
or removing aud having them uucaIIed f0g is
Erir1a faota evidence OF Intentional fraud