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By " LoMoND. J"
CHAPTER I.


art decay'd,
Opening amid paradise of sweets"
Many pleasant memories of
gone-by days loom up and
brighten amid the scenes of
this little story still the sweet
dream of fiction is not altogeth-
er lost in the bosom Of reality,
and though the war-path has
been trodden by many of its
characters while the eye of beau
ty shines amid the foliage of
the past, with a soft mellow
light yet Titan with his
brush of colors feels allowable
to give many a rosy tint.
While the vivid light of i'm
agination wings it's way through
the dense forest of beauty !;
gathering the clustering gems
of purity, to set within the
casket of love-the eye Of reali-
ty sees along its borders, flow
erets fading, dropping, and dy-
ing-even while the ieweled
hand Of Hope extends greet
ing welcome.
One bright afternoon, when
witching nature poured her la
Wished beauties into the lap Of
Spring, painting the sky with
a dazzling brightness, I en-
parked on the Packet, then
plying between Richmond and
Lynch burg, to 60 to my new
home, Maravatio,' where l
was to be the governess of two
young girls. In the crowd |
saw young soldier dressed in
a lieutenant's uniform of Con
federate gray, and although the
pencilled lines of beauty were
rather delinquent on his brow !;
yet the intellectual glance of
his eye made one half forget the
plainness of his face. / don't
know why, but somehow / felt
interested enough to ask who
he was !; at first no one could
give the answer, but soon [
heard him called Lonnie.
How long | sat there watch
ing him, / know not, but sud-
denly | was aroused by a
friends arrival, and who should
it be but Annie Leigh. Her
eyes of soft blue, had never
looked SO bewitching as now );
they were like violets, peeping
from a bed of leaves, in which
you could read the worth of
heart and soul in their dreamy
depths--in a word she was
oharmingly fascinating-but I
lack the imagery OF words to
even give a penciled sketch of
so noble a soul.
[ looked at her and thought
if woman can win the love of
man, surely there can be but
little effort on her part in MAX
ing a conquest. I learned that
Lonnie, or as | had since heard
him donned 1t. Neal-was en-
route for the same village, near
which Annie lived-I can't tell
you, but somehow | was sure
an attachment would be form
ed, although no acquaintance
yet existed-but before | had
half wandered through the ma
zy field of imagination, the
boat had struck the wharf,
where l had to leave for a dull
country school. Then l babe
Annie farewell, but how differ
ent our paths She was going
to her mountain home, where
the cooling breeze would fan
her fair brow, where the glad
voice of love would greet her
from the old folks at home. T"
0 ! how l longed for the sweet
hallowed days of lang syne'
again ! But nature, how lavish
of her gifts to some, while
others are denied all the soft,
silken ties which make life the
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-21
TOBACCO,

Received fresh supply of
w L brand Tobacco In boxes 3 to the Id
W Ia caddies to the lb
GENUINE DABNEY,
Sweet Short los is to the lib.
o,ooo IDS Railroad Mills Scotch Snuff,
the trade.
HAMBURGER BROTHERS.,
Wholesale Tobacconists,
Ju5 Wide Water street.
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BALTIMORE LICK HOSPITAL,
BALTIMORE, MD,
AS A REFUGE FROM
QUAOKERY.

Office, 7 South Frederick Street,
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ICEAN VIEW 10 u IL l..
T1oR SALE OR EXCHANGE
For CITY PROPERTY

FUR NHIY FhOFLNI 7.
A FARM situated ON Bay Side! Roa
Princess Anne county, containing abo ut
Norfolk: about 70 acres of this land is
cleared and IN cultivation THE remainder
heavily wooded. The improvements
consist of a Building Of Six Rooms, with
necessary Out Houses, and the land is
well adopted to Trucking and Fruit. APP
ply to
my4slm THIS OF FlUE.
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MI A r. A " A til !;

OR, THE
Doom of WOlnam's VIII.
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Cutlery,
Guns,

Pistols, &c.
NOur stock is very complete and worthy
the atten ton Of enose who desire to buy
on he best terms.
entrance to our store from % West side
Market Square, or n 7 Roanoke Avenue
E. p. TABB CO.,
e West side Market Square,
Je5 and No. Roanoke Avenue,
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A N Il w Il I'll i N g
A N
a Substitute for Tobacco
EALTH SEC U h E d.

MONEY SAWED
Those who wish to abandon or diminish
its use. ara reminded that the Substitute
is Just the thing, 1t Is q
VEGETABLE AROMATIC TONIC,
and acts most beneficially on the stomach
and nerves, long enervated by the poison
OF I opacco.
OLD MAN or young man, trembling I'M
der the powerful narcotic influence OF Inc
quid or pipe, now is your chance. Try
one box and be convinced.
For sale at our new store In Atlantic
Block
m4yl NJ. A. ~ q. A. SANTOS,
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WEATHER

"ARM WEATHER
Suggests the purchase of one of
Torrey's 8 Minute Ice-Crealn Freezers
Water Coolers,
Wire Dish and Plate Covers.
To which we call the attention of those
very low.
Notice is also called to our general
stock of
Hardware,
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who have Injured themselves by certain
practice, INDUCED in wheA alone, habit
frequently learned frora evil com panions,
or at school, the effects OF which are nigl< :
ed, renders marriage impossible, and dc.
stroys both mind and body, should apply
The New York herald., 1869-05-12

Many have been the reports circulated by
the European press in reference to the magni-
tude of the warlike preparations at present
being carried out by Prussia, or virtually by
Count Bismarck. Hundreds of men are en-
ployed in removing trees around the fortnca-
tions and preparing everything for case of
emergency. Moreover, the King Of Prussia Is
to 20 on tour of inspection to the northern
seaports about the middle of the present month,
from whence he will probably visit the fortified
towns along the Rhine. All these precautions
cannot have escaped the watchful eyes OF
interested neIghbors, especially after the publi-
cation of Count Bismarck's ideas respecting
the future form to be adopted by the map Of
Europe. The city of Mayence is a strong
point and lately has been particularly favored
with the Premiers attention in fact, from re-
ports current we are led to presume that it is
at present occupied on scale equal to that Of
q war footing by Prussian soldiers, and the
consequence Is that France and Austria are
determined TO nnd out what this means.
The New York herald., 1869-05-12

Basing their demand upon the cession of the
principally of Hesse to the North German
Confederation, they ask by what right Prussia
occupies the fortress of Mayence Should this
question be enforced we may anticipate that
stronger arguments than diplomacy will be
brought forward by Bismarck, which may tend
to kindle the firebrand of war now evidently
pending in Europe. Such is the dread Of an
early struggle that merchants in Europe re-
fuse to close forward contracts for the purchase
and delivery of goods, which must necessarily
be very detrimental to the general interests,
causing prejudical effect, both to the labor
ing classes and to the capitalists. Couut
Bismarck has proved himself an able states
man and has doubtless given the matter due
consideration before entering upon his pro-
gramme; but in his endeavors to aggrandize
his fatherland he must not forget the difference
existing between the kingdom of Prussia and
the North German Confederation.
The New York herald., 1869-05-12

a DAsoTucc ~ INC City anu COumtTys
The rotten, dirty, spasmodic- looking build
ing called the Barge Once" situated at the
junction of East and North rivers, is a shame
and disgrace both to the city and nation. It
belongs to the general government, is used
for the customs service, and we believe an
appropriation has been made by Congress to
pull it down and erect a more suitable structure
in it's stead. But it seems that either red tape
or some jobbing ring has control of the matter,
and the Improvement so much demanded has
been from time to time neglected, if it be not
entirely abandoned. The site is the most con-
spicuous in the harbor from vessels COM
ing up the bay, and it must give our foreign
visitors a strange idea of the Importance of the
city and country to behold such an unsightly
fgurehead to the metropolis as this dismal and
gingerly pagoda; and the interior is great
deal worse than the exterior. Our new Col
lector could not inaugurate better reform
than by promptly blotting out this nuisance,
and, if there be an appropriation for the pur-
pose, having respectable edifice at once
erected in its place.
The New York herald., 1869-05-12

THE PACIFIC RAILROAD AND THE News
PAPERs.-Mayor Hall did no more than justice
to the newspapers when he said in his reply
on Monday to President Ames' telegram an
nouncing the completion of the Pacific Railroad
that the newspapers of this metropolis shave
largely contributed to this days result" The
grand idea of commercially welding together
two extremities and coasts of an immense con-
tnent had been agitated by the newspapers
for many years before they succeeded in max
ing it popular and practicable. They will con-
tinue to uphold the enterprise, and at the same
time they will vigilantly guard the interests of
the public against all possible abuses on the
part of those directly or indirectly charged
with the management Of the road which con-
meets New York, on the Atlantic, with San
Francisco, on the Pacific.
The New York herald., 1869-05-12
Judge Bcncdict's Charge to the Grand
Jury.

Judge Benedicrs Charge to the Grand
Judge Benedict admirably accomplished on
Monday his task of defining the powers and
the duties of the Grand Jury. He demon
strated the special Importance at the present
time of a full and vigorous exercise of those
powers and careful, conscientious discharge
of those duties. He directed attention to GER
tain provisions of law and certain questions OF
fact which the Grand Jury will be required
particularly to consider. After stating that the
war, which decided the question whether
government framed like ours had the ability to
quell by force Of arms great rebellion, raised
another question, which is now in process of
solution-namely, whether such government
can surely provide for the payment of the in
terest upon great debt-Judge Benedict
exposed the fraudulent evasions of legal taxes
on the part of those willing thus to grow rich
at the expense of their fellow citizens. This
latter class-numerous and powerful both
socially and politically-has, he said, from the
beginning confronted the government in its
effort to collect the revenue. He especially
exposed among these various fraudulent eva
sions what have been designated as the customs
drawback cases. The total amount of these
frauds within space of six months time pro-
badly exceeds seven hundred thousand dollars.
Similar frauds have been committed in other
departments. In the warehouse department,
for instance dutiable goods have been with
drawn without payment Of any duty, until the
loss from single warehouse has equalled four
hundred thousand dollars, according to the
estimate of an official. The Judge denounced
in unmeasured terms the official corruption
which such facts disclose, and eloquently urged
upon the Grand Jury their duty diligently to
inquire and presentment make of every offence
arising under the laws of the United States
which shall be made to appear by reasonable
prima facie proof. Let US hope that the
action of the Grand Jury may be such as to
check the rising tide of official corruption and
general Generalization. In that case Judge
Benedict's charge will have sounded the knell
of the whiskey rings.
The New York herald., 1869-05-12

ALL RArL.-In sending goods TO New York
from Western city the sender contracted with
his Western road that the transportation should
be ''all rail-" and In a suit that subsequently
arose on the destruction of the goods he
claimed that this stipulation had not been kept,
as the goods were brought into this city by the
boats of the Camden and Amboy road. The
Court decided against him on the ground that
the ''all rail" clause did not exclude necessary
ferries. Certainly the North river cannot be
crossed by rail. But is there not another point
In the case' Did not the contract with the
Western road require the sending Of the goods
by some other route7 Thera are rortas into
this city that are all rail-"
The New York herald., 1869-05-12

RAPED ON THE KNUoKLKs. Master Under
wood, the exuberant but rather empty headed
parsonage who is United States Judge in q
district of Virginia, some time ago discovered
mares nest. He found that certain Virginia
judges were ineligible under the fourteenth
amendment, and though they were left alone
by the appropriate legislation, he, on his own
account, proceeded to set free from the vir-
ginia jals all persons condemned by those
judges. His judgments have just been re-
viewed by Chief Justice Chase, who tells
Underwood that the appropriate legsla-
ton" should have been his guide, and that the
decisions Of de facto judges are always en-
titled to respect. Underwood had better take
the advice of his lawyer before he renders
any more decisions.
The New York herald., 1869-05-12

BAGoAGE.-It has just been decided in the
Supreme Court that travellers must withdraw
their baggage from the keeping Of railroad
companies upon arrival; that the companies
are under no obligation to store the baggage,
and are not liable for its loss If mot removed
within reasonable time" As this is very
different from the system in Europe European
travellers should especially take notice Of 1t.
Our railroads, Of course, are run on too hifa-
lutin scale for the managers to think of such
tri6e as accommo dating the public on the
trunk question
The New York herald., 1869-05-12

ANOTHER LITTLE BELL IN WASHINGTON -
On Monday the tinkling of a little bell was
heard at the national capital, but how different
from Stewards little bell It's notes sounded
no danger to any mans freedom or rights, an
nounced no arbitrary will to trample out oppo-
sition to political programmes but pealed q
little lyric Of the progress, growth and glory
of the American people and Of free thought,
and hymned such q triumph Of intellect over
matter as must be conceived before thirty
million minds can be concentrated on a single
point.
The New York herald., 1869-05-12
THE LAST LINK" IN THE PACIFIC BAH
ROADWAY it never be broken!

THE RHODE ISLAND ELEOTIoN.-The politi-
cal agitation which exists in Rhode Island
relative to the issue of the municipal election
in Providence will be quieted this evening after
the close of the polls. The local ENHANCEMENT
Of the different parties has been simplified
considerably, and the bitterness of the canvass
neutralized to great extent by the withdrawal,
yesterday, of Mr.. Thomas A. Doyle, the
Sprague candidate for Mayor. This leaves
the contest between the Brown and Ives nomi-
nee, and the democratic candidate, Mr.. Van
Slyck. 1t is considered not unlikely that the
latter may be victorious. A strange result,
should it happen so, of the division Of the
prominent interests in little Rhody.
The New York herald., 1869-05-12

SOCIAL JOURNALISM OUT WEsT.-A West
ern paper has established department of
''Betrothals," whereupon the Leavenworth
Bulletin suggests that department Of ''Flirta-
tions" should be introduced, the publication of
which has heretofore been monopolized by
sewing societies, quilting parties, love feasts,
picnics and clambakes. In another Western
paper, in the department usually devoted to
"Births," a fine boy was introduced under the
heading Of "Fire!" That boy is bound to
make blaze in the world.
The New York herald., 1869-05-12

SPAIN AND GIBRALTAR. There is no better
evidence that the revolution in Spain has re-
vived real national feeling than the demand
for the possession Of Gibraltar. Gibraltar is
likely to lose some of,its value to England, be-
cause IL will be aanked by the canal that is to
be built through France from the mouth Of
the Gsronne to the Mediterranean. This fact
makes IL more probable that Spain may &c,
the fortress.
The New York herald., 1869-05-12

THE DRAMATIC FUND ASSOCIATE oN.-The
reports Of the secretary and trustees of the
American Dramatic Fund Association, pre-
sented at the annual meeting on Monday, en-
courage us to believe that after a long struggle
for existence this association has fairly en- =
tered upon hopeful career. Since its incor-
poration in 1s4S it has divided among claim
ants sixty thousand five hundred and thirty
seven dollars. The project Of raising the too
limited fund which it now has under invest
ment to the full sum of one hundred and
twenty-f thousand dollars their charter
allows it to hold might easily be accomplished
by concerted action on the part of managers
and actors. Our theatre-going population is
too large and appreciates too gratefully the
claims Of profession that ministers so directly
and constantly and powerfully to their amuse-
ment not to cooperate gladly in carrying out
this project
The New York herald., 1869-05-12
The Quarantine Trouble.

In taking care of the sanitary interests of
the city the Board Of Health finds that there
is trouble in the Quarantine management.
''The trouble is that we do not seem to have
a Health Officer who will inform the Board, or
who has the capacity to inform it, whether
vessel coming up to this city has ship fever on
board or not" This succinct statement of the
trouble is by DR.. Stone, one of the Health
Commissioners, an able physician and re-
spectacle gentleman. His declaration that the
Quarantine doctor ''has not the capacity" to
perform the duties of his station, or fails to
perform them perhaps for some worse reason,
is sustained by the facts, Notwithstanding the
Health Officers success in browbeating those
members of the commission whose motto seems
to be Anything for quiet life." That the
Health Officer does not know what ship fever
is Is shown by a statement he made in the same
discussion from which we have quoted the
above sentence. He said in regard to infected
ships that he had passed, ''There has never
been an instance where case developed itself
afterwards" Now the James Foster, Jr., that
he sent up to the city, is an instance which
exposes at once the impudence or ignorance
of this statement Her captain died of ship
fever in Brooklyn. The mate also died Of
ship fever in Brooklyn, and several other cases
are reported from the same infection. Justly
alarmed by these facts the Board of Health
sought to supplement this inefficient Quaran-
tine officer by establishing regulation to com
pei him to notify the city health authorities Of
the coming up of any ship that he had found il
necessary to disinfect. AS it does not suit
him to have any supervision of his acts the
Health Officer flew in great rage at this, bull
lied the whole Board of Health, and proposed
an amendment that leaves things just where
they were before-that is, in his discretion
and this amendment was carried by the votes
of the non-medical members, all the doctors
voting against the Health Officer.
The New York herald., 1869-05-12

GREAT Loss TO THE HEALTH OFFICER
The steamship The Queen, of the National
line, from Liverpool and Queenstown, arrived
off Staten Island on Monday evening, with
one thousand two hundred and eighty seven
steerage passengers, all in good health
except two cases of measles. The surgeons
belonging to the ship, having had charge of
the cases from the FIRST symptoms, pronounced
them measles. The Health Officers man did his
level best to make the sick have the smallpox.
Could he have possibly called 1t smallpox the
entire ships company, from the captain to the
cook, would have had to undergo course of
sprouts similar to that inflicted on the passen-
gers by the Ariel last week, and at the same
reasonable charge ''per capita" Unfortu-
nately for the quarantine fees the case was SO
clear that there was no good pretext for vacci-
mating these twelve hundred and eighty seven.
The New York herald., 1869-05-12

tween the ship and the railway train will still
divert this traffic around Capes Horn and Good
Hope. An American isthmus ship canal is
needed for this business. Give us this canal
and the mass of the trade of Eastern Asia and
the neighboring islands will find its way to
New York through the Gulf of Mexico, the
gulf which manifest destiny" says is soon
to become the great naval and commercial
salt water basin of the United States. In this
view Columbus was correct in his original idea
of western sailing route to Asia from Europe;
for a ship from Spain direct for the ship canal
suggested, at any isthmus passage, will sail
the original western course of the great
captain.
In regard to our Southern States we had
expected that with the settlement of this
troublesome matter of reconstruction they
would have sufficient attractions in their cheap
and fertile soil, genial climate and profitable
products to divert the great gulf stream Of
emigration from the West to the South. But
this Pacific Railroad spoils this calculation
and the people of the Southern States must
proceed more earnestly and systematically
than they are now doing in presenting their
superior inducements to Northern and Euro
pean men in search of fortune, or the great
tide, but little broken, will still drift to the
fabulous gold and silver mountains of our new
States and Territories in the West. To the
emigrant, with family, Virginia, for instance,
is thousand times more desirable than those
wild Western Asiatic regions; and it is to
emigrants with families that the South must
look for the rebuilding Of her waste places.
Unencumbered young men will drift to the
gold and silver mines, and two-thirds of those
who make their pile out there will return to the
old States to marry, settle down and enjoy the
reward of their exile to the diggings. So the
whole country will share in the golden and
silver harvest from the Pacific Railroad, and
still greater things will be seen by the present
generation. The building of this road removes
mountains of doubt in regard to other enter
prises, and shows that a ship canal at Darien,
Panama or Nicaragua may be commenced and
finished in the short interval of two or three
years. 1t is simply the concentration of capi-
tai and labor by millions where only thousands
heretofore could be commanded.
The New York herald., 1869-05-12

GLOWING REPORTS continue to come to us
from the West and South in regard to the
coming crops. In Wisconsin there is some
talk about grasshoppers, but the editors out
there are getting up rivalry about the size of
the young ladies' feet in their respective local-
ties, the championship to be given to the one
who can "crush out the greatest number of
grasshoppers within specified time.
The New York herald., 1869-05-12

Two LITTLE GIRLS were arrested, locked
up all night and taken before justice in the
morning on charge of robbery-not that
they had robbed any one, but merely because
they were "fooling around Fulton Market"
gambling case of the two babies pitching
huttOns
The New York herald., 1869-05-12
NAVAL iNrELalcExgE.

Lieutenant Commander +. P. Lull was detached
from the Naval Academy on the sth inst. and or
dered TO be ready for duty on the Lancaster. First
Assistant Engineer Henry L. snyder and Second
Assistant Engineer John Boothwick are ordered to
duty at the Naval Academy. Paymaster j. n. Kitten
house viii relieve Paymasier watmouRh from duty
az Inspector OF Provisions and Coal at the Philadel
phia Navy Yard on the list OF July Lieutenant Ms
b. Buiord has been placed on waiting orders.