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The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-09-16
For Sale or Rent.

ONE OF THE BEST OPENINGS IN THE CITY
- lor ! arst.sis. Drus Store nay be Ion I'd IN: he
4! eS a,.ises. d 81 .a s1s s' O.
Wishing 70 chsnTe present ,locstioa for thi. eau
t ss.ss ;' s. sppl,ng Ssta.ss .nd ssa
's :sps.li.R =" sssss, rSs .,rs:,.
TEh sIAQIogs LECTURE AND CONCERT
M ss,... fsr ossu Ssst o.
o. before ne ID d october There no Hall % b
sos :srps..sd y any e.y y lie tniop for s.:snss
~ comfort 4 IrIni.hssa Z. gre, eap,;ss;s With
foaI.sa and ss.s sa.sssa Ssfson between
.ss iSs'i s.:$ q & sis f
wSs S az
sspsrin,..a...e o.. Bslldi.s or icini sioeE Co,
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dsg e f.nn,ylv.ni. syssus and MINI ;sr.,,,,
EeR sALl-gRIoK HOUSE, . ROOMS.
- a. Nj. lis''iS ii.' Fl: ..
the hours Of and II .. m. sspii.6t
SEvRNrH:sfRllf 9 T ORE TO LST.-THR
sss su q :fs: .s NS go v SS
rst aSor cellar sna second story. suitable for any
i,p..~u A NJ so I5s .tls:,.
VOTsi LOTsi
TN To rwrrrI:!ifyys DOLLARS DOWN
,.IIv4 TO TWENTY PoLLARs A MONTH.
;'', .,5 si's!s!Ss s q. &c
EoR sALE.A SMALL rARM In HOWARD
SSrSs ~ Apply ais5 Sff
soss La%ssI Dsaisss,; Ohio avenue ss,yssn
A coon OPPORTUNITY.
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.usn SIS Seventh It,, Bel IN and ana s Sofih.
Boorss A tsb s sFSSS 2F c5 bFsF !:
sloss business. Store and dwelling for sale.
' JOHN .ASGERMAg 4 SONS,
sos Seventh ST., op. odd Fellows Hall
Auls-lm
LpoR RENT-RooMs AT No. $40 NORTH \
Il Street, CAPITOL Hill, between Delaware avenut
| and first street. References required.
HOUSE YoR RENT AND FURNITURE foF
II sALB,-Ths brick dpellinR HOUSE, with
Store attached, soiner Of Massaehusstts ivenu,
ahd Third street wost. The house 10 new, viii
| excellent stand for Business. To q good teuas
| the terms will be reasonable, The Furniture IL
qulrs OF the Editor Of the RnPuBLioAs or A. Lloy d.
At his ofnes, No. % LouisiapA avenue.
| VALUABLE HOTEL PROPERTY FOR SALE
| Seminary Building, one square north Of Bri %
| street, fronting $50 feet on washngton street, b,
10 feet on Gay street, three stories high beslde
perty pleasantly situated for nr.t. elias. hotel
| and will be sold with furniture or without II. hp
| ply At the ofnes Of b, b, WILLIAMS, corner o.
i Bridge and Congress streets, Georgetown aui-u
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ao SPH sSSsIs ~ FSAro ~ s OF
sS w: g az si ::s Is =, sal':s
ssS" 5 4 s:S$ one ~ ;
The eSn:pmpt!on q fuel being 50 much ars,isi
modern n'as. psssSd s ca, "a
wSai true OF he cook stove asi :. true
siiss s sis a most say s sssI' s:'l's n sSs
Stove; he Mopppt ystnsp, :, shs ,.Chs:spests, -
lam Pom. e .sS Other q q; SS.. q seea i.t:
top .,Yys., 2, the Coppls,s CSok - BE mOs, pop,
hey viii Ssbssits.saiy tsl you u. ass.,op sieSs.
MI Spra ss l9s,. NY per cent, les; The pin,,
ELY he ans ~ n S Ss a ssa..S H% oven en-
as Y Is IN the eleyate even ranssi and The hilh
g. i0S ssSfssss, hss ' S!ss range
,, euIp q per esn, m9Ts thsn me Rusop Isnfs
lnssi psft.et u opsrs,ion. Ths, SBsianors
Kitchener " has mani, other merits, besides econ.
Nseasisr manaEed.
Il Keeps The fits6ea p sTi ventilated,
Itkeeps the dsning.r room, when over tho kitchen
Il has no smoks Pipe 10 clog up or rus, out.
can be cleaned ~ NE ssI,sn, In S,s minutes
il Is the best nnishsd range.
makes the kitchen more cheerful.
has IA large g, S e \. r. surface h.S ,,,,
i carrie. nS smell q eeOfiss 70 The room heated.
""'a''aa1 HsSewAtksfp:.' fAIRBAsK 4 CO..
hSa''laa avenue P pss. s.s sss. aSs:.
t@"TAYLOR a Co.: .,,. ;,
corner OF seventh and = streets.
cannot be excelled, n cquslsd In the
Ki..,nsen. vIehy. Congress. and
| .REMOVED. IN, nj Miller, Attor-
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New Advertisements.

WASTED-yoUCHER AND OBLIGATIONS
osorsstown. Apply to GEO. W. MeGANR.
nol5.St. No Mays BuildipE,
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ITE AND MARBLE MANTELs.

SLATE AND MARBLE MANTELs.
Having purchased the entire interest in the
SLATE AND MARBLE IANTEL BUSI.
NESS
Of II. W. Hamilton, etq,, and removed that bust
ness from No, 2f3 Pennsylvania avenue, between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. to the
YOUNG MEMS G GghhiSTIsAs ASSOCIATION
corner Ninth and d streets, would Tespeetfully
invite all those no have been deal with the old
arm TO call and examine my stock, which guar
antee TO be as good aud complete as can be found
S. p. wRIsLkY,
seI.lm Corner Ninth aud ID streets.
The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-09-16
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

wAsHIroToN, Sept. 10, iseo.-Jay Cooke
h 90. furnish the following quotations OF Gov
eminent securities:
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Lost and Found.

N shares Of the stock Of the New Mexico Mining
Company, issued to General James II, Carleton,
has been lost OF mislaid. II was sent by mall to
General G. Meferran. Application has been
made BY the subscriber for duplicate eerti heate
therefor. JAMEs II. CARLETON,
auls.eolm 10 8 A.
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Tobacco and Cigars.
Builders and Material.

XUAsnIH0ToN, D. O., SEPT. 10, 1860 The I'M.
w d.rsixnsd, having entsrsd into cspaItnsIship
Co. aud purch ased the business heretofore car
riea on By hsssrs. II. W Hamilton 4 Co. will
Seventh street, opposite Centre Market. who're may
Be found at all imes varied assortment Of Doors,
Oils, Builders Hardware, &c, &c.
Asws propose 70 buy aud sell for CASH. con-
our goods and prices. W.s.C,REDMAN.
P.COLMAN.
selS.eo6ts ST @ REDkAN.
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~'PHfs ST coScRkTE PAVEMENT
In any q the Yards q this eity-siasyslk, Curb
por iineai foot than the corporation price. and
all work for the term OF tan yaArs. Pay
me nj 10 three months after the work IL completed
menced. THORNTON SMITH,
once, corner Ninth and streets,
sepl.n Christian Association Building.
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FORMAN,

NJ DRMoNGEoT. NO. 302 PENNSYLVANIA
~. avenue; Lelwsta Einth and Tenth Streets has
very nne selection Of Bonnets, Hats. Feathers,
Flowers, Human Hair, Creole Plats, 49,, and Il.
Washington for ANY Thing In the mil merry bust
ness, or In the liuO OF hair work and hair dress;
be here In few weeks. "
sepl5-6t N, DkMONOkoT.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-09-17
SL.sTE.

Until within the past ten years, most of
the slate used in this country was brought
from Wales. Homoward bound vessels
without cargo would take aboard load of
roofing slate for ballast. The Welsh quar-
res are the largest in the world, compris-
ing excavations sometimes forty acres in
extent, three hundred feet Deep and Civ
ing employment to small armies of labor
ers, varying from three thousand to seven
thousand in number. Latterly attention
has been turned to American sources of
supply, and the quarrying Of slate and its
application to various useful purposes, are
being gradually developed into an extern
sive industry. Aside from its use as
roofing material, and for the minor pur-
poses of school tablets, it is used for flag
ging, for lining furnaces for tesselated
floors, mantels, billiard and other tables,
door and window sills, collins, cisterns,
etc., to say nothing of the manufacturing
of smaller articles, such as lamps, ink
stands, tobacco pipes, and many other
things.
At the quarries the slate is taken out in
large blocks, weighing, some of them,
three or four tuns. The slater opens the
end of block with chisel, takes hold of
the loosened strip, perhaps a quarter Of an
inch thick, and pecls ii off rs easily as if it
were a piece of bark. The tools used are
very simple-the "splitters" implements
being chisels shaped like spatulas, while
the dresser trims the sheets or pieces to the
desired shape with tool closely resembling
a clumsy butcher knife.
Great care must be exercised in the Sc
lection of slate. A good article will grow
harder by exposure to the weather, while
poor one will soon become rotten. The
| characteristic colors of different kinds of
slate are due to the presence of foreign sub
stances Carbon gives blue tint, and cop
| per a purple one. A greenish hue indi-
Gates magnesia; and a brown, iron. An
excess of iron, as also of lime, renders the
| slate good for nothing. sulphur sinjuri-
Gus, but its presence may be detected by
| subiecting the material to the intense heat
of a forge fire. Capacity for absorbing wa
ter is another feature in worthless slate
This is discovered by weighing sample
placing 1t in water for awhile, and weigh
ing 1t again. Any increase in the weight
of course shows absorption, and indicates
the inferior quality of the stone. Coco
states are found and quarried in Vermont
Virginia and New York but the best and
highest priced is the blue slate from the
peach-bottom region Of Southern Pennsyl
vania.
| Although roofing states form with MS {
superior substitute for the tiles used so ex'
tensively in many parts of Europe, it is
not unlikely that TO some extent they may
be superseded by some new application o.
that universal material, iron; tiles of this
metal, enamelled so as to be perfectly in
corrosive, and so shaped AS to be readily
fitted in place for use, being now mad'
it is claimed-very satisfactory results
| Ameiiedn artisan.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-09-17
II .JT.HPB.TSs .H.ETCH-.E Iy'O.n.f.f
uJ.V,S THE PRIZE.

Several weeks ago number of the young
people who reside in the neighborhood of
Savn Hill, in Dorchester, Mass, came to-
gether on the spur of the moment impro-
vised jumping match for small purse
between Mike Flynn and young man
named Murphy. In this match Murphy
was badly worsted, whereupon his sister
Kate, bright, strong and sprightly girl of
about twenty summers, became very indig-
nant, and gave out to her companions that
she could out-jump Mike Flynn if her
brother could not. Katie became very earn
est in her asseverations, and to satisfy her
a match was made for purse of s75, and
greatly to the surprise of her friends when
the match camo off, she won it.
This greatly shamed the Flynn jumpist
and his friends, so Miss Kate was chalieng-
ed to another contest, for 5000 a side, which
came off at Savin Hill on Tuesday after
noon, Sept. 7th. The affair attracted quite
a crowd to witness the sport, not less than
400 people being present. Kate made her
appearance dressed in flowing red flannel
drawers, a la bloomer, with white merino
shirt and pair of pretty CATERS tightly
laced to her feet. Mr.. Flynn was dressed
nearly in the same manner The arrange
monts being all completed the exercises
began, Flynn leading Off with a leap of 10
feet and inches. Katie then took her po-
sition, cheered on by her friends, and made
the leap, clearing a distance of 10 feet IL
inches. This created great excitement in
the crowd and nerved up Katie for some
thing still better. The second leap was
called for, when Flynn came up to the
scratch and cleared 10 feet and inches.
This was a very long jump, and the Flynn
party felt greatly encouraged. But Katie
was again introduced, her friends cheering
and feeling confident that she would beat.
Carefully she placed her little gaiter boots
on the line, and straining every muscle in
her well knit frame made the leap, clearing
| 10 feet and "a inches. This was too much
for her competitor, and amid the plaudits
of the whole company Katie retired with
| her purse of SiOO. AS this affair has created
| great excitement in the neighborhood, it is
possible that Katie may be started for an
other match-BOSton Herald.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-09-17

THE Power OF PREJuDIcE.-A story IL
Illustrating the effect of prejudice is told of
"Uncle Thad. Smith," who resided many
years in Cavendish. One year his wheat
crop failed, aud as railroads and Western
flour were then unknown, his only alter
native was to use rye -four in its stead. lie
didn't like rye flour, for it was dark colored
and had a bad taste. But at the request of
his family he took bushel of rye to Ord
ways mill and left it with orders to have
it boltcd.
Returning from the village where he
went while his grist was being ground and
bolted, he in the absence of the miller, took
his bag containing the bran. canaillo ana
flour, and went home.
That night his wife said she would try
the new flour and make some rye cake.
The members of the family were all loud
in their praise of the rye cakes, some in
sisting that they were AS white as wheat
and tasted as well. But Uncle Thad would
not agree with this, and insisted that he
could not bear "that confounded rye taste"
The laugh turned upon Uncle Thad the
next morning when one of his neighbors
called to get the bag of wheat flour that by
mistake had been taken, instead Of his own
bag of rye flour.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-09-17

horse' MS, of course, not q proper femi-
hlho employment, but it is thing quite
easily learned, and the knowledge of which
may come in play in oxigencies.
we think it would be an advantage for
women to learn to use the more ordinary
tools Of carpenter-the plane, the gimlet,
the screw, and the sorewdriver-in which
case theL might stop many of the little do
mestic leaks we have indicated.
IT should bo an object in educating chill
dren of both sexes, to encourage a versatile
hardness. If there is child who is pecu-
liarly unhandy, the parents should stimu-
late that child to endeavor to rectify this
defect, to become skilful and dexterous.
Children should be encouraged and guided
in my Inclination that they may have to
co struct and to make and to mend. Moth
CT should train boys, while they are little,
to lo'lh5 work of women, by way of Civ
il g versatility and dexterousness to the use
o heir hands.
And we think girls might, with advan-
t4l learn to do some of the work of boys,
with the view to strengthen their hands.
Each sex.vould be the better for acquiring
li,ls ny hing from the other.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-09-17
- L.EDI"S OE'I.NIO.N' or STOCH
BRREDE.NGi.

Lady Pigot of Branches Park, NewmarlS-
ct, is one of the most noted breeders of
short-horn cattle in England. In tho pre-
face TO a catalogue of her herd, she makes
some very common-sense remarks, and we
quote an extract or two to show what lady
can say as well as do in reference TO stock
breeding. She says:
know that some breeders have laughed
at my making such point of the milking
properties of COW, but am certain that
we shall eventually have to consider this as
the next step in which we must improve
our cattle. That a propensity to milk well
is traceable through n whole family, no one
can doubt who has ever been at the trouble
of noticing, even IN one limited herd, what
differences there are as to one tribe being
good for tho pail, the other Just the reverse;
and when we SEQ farmers prefer the great,
coarse, half-bred bull for their herds of
dairy stock, rather than to give a trifle more
for a smaller, but purer bred beast, can we
wonder at the scores of slow-goiug mon
grels that frequent our fairs and markets
But to go a step further-do our farmers, as
a general rule, ask what sort of mixers the
dam, grand-dam, ETC., were of the bull they
are about to buy2 Seldom, if ever. At the
auction of the late Mr.. Cloun's herd, last
year, two miles distant, friend of mine
heard n farmer say when a non-pedigreed
COW was brought into the ring, "Ah, thems
the sort none o. your high-iashioned stock
for me; likes 'em with constitutions and
black noses, and crumpled up horns;' and
he actually bid for and got the ugly thing,
though the pedigreed cow, just before sold,
was a neat compact little COW and great
mixer, and both went with pound OF the
otherl So much for the ordinary farmers
sagacity! But we have men Of great intel
ligcnce and powers of appreciation, though
certainly, in my humble judgment, not
many of them are to be found in Suffolk.
In reference to paying extravagantly high
prices for choice animals, her ladyship gives
| a bit of her own experience, as follows:
Victoria Regia is marvellous breeders
500 guineas were given for her dam, Nicto-
ria, in 1860, and when Ward brought home
| my new, unseen purchase, he gravely shook
his head. "She's just neat little COW, bu1
500 guineas and the journey-well, well
to be sure, her ladyship knows best!' Ward
evidently begrudged the money. Victoria
bred Victoria Regia, Victoria Rubra, ano
Prince Victor, and died of inflammation o
the lungs week after the latters birth
Victoria Rubra also died; and the non-lov'
ers of short-horns were delighted! How
they twitted me with their remarks as tC
the "rsll," "unprofitableness," and lab
surdity' of giving such "wicked prices
Their coincidence savored more of sarcasm
than sympathy, but 1 went on my way
And 1 now affirm that Victoria was thu
cheapest purchase l ever made.
Lady Pigot has sold of the produce Of th
remarkable COW about S14, 000worth ofstock
One of many illustration of the proverh
applicable to stock-breeding rs well as Il
other matters, the best is the cheapest
tdliO Farmer.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-09-17

danger, that while VIC may not come short
in any real duty Of father and mother, we
may yet cast no healing and sacramonial
shadow over she child. Believe me, my
friends, IL was not in tho Words lre said. in
the pressure Of the hand, in the kiss, that
the blessing lay jesus gave TO the, little
ones, when he took them in his arms. So
il is not in these, but in the shadow Of my
innermost self; in that which is to us what
the perfume is TO the flower, or soul within
n soul, 1T is that which, to the child, and
in the home, is more than the tongue of
mon or angels, or prophecy or knowledge,
or faith that will move mountains, or de-
votion that will give the body to be burned.
/ look back with wonder on that old time
and ask myself how il is that the'thines
which / suppose my father and uothor
built on. n.especially to mould me 10 right
manhood are forgotten and lost out of nv
life. But the thing they hardly ever
thought of-the shadow of blessing cast by
the home; the tender, unspoken love; the
sacrifices made and never thought Of it
was so natural to make them ten thou
sand little things, so simple as to attract no
notice, and yet so sublime as 1 look back
al them, they till my heart still, and al
ways with tenderness, when / remember
them, and my eyes with tears. All these
things, and all that belong to them. still
come over me, and cast tho shadow that
forty years, many Of them lived in new
world, can not destroy.
fear iow persons know what a sunrerne
and holy thing is this shadow cast NV tho
home over especially tho irst seven wears of
this life of the child. / think the influence
that comes in this way is the very breath
and bread oil life. l may do other things
for duty or principle or religious training {:
they are all, by comparison, as when I cut
and trim and train vine, and, when let
the sunshine and the rain fall on it; the
one may aid the life, the other is the life.
Steel and string are each good in their
place; but what are they to sunshine?
1t is said that child, hearing onco of
heaven, and that his father would be there,
replied, "Oh, then, dinna want to gang"
| He did but express the holy instinct of 4
child, to whom the father may be all that is
good, except just goodness, be all any
| child can want, except what is indiSponsa-
ble,-that gracious atmosphere of blessing
| in the healing shadow it casts, without
which even heaven would be intolcrablc.-
"Ndture and Life.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-09-17
S0CJ.IL LIFE Nv CHI.,.r.

In China, man and wife never walk to-
gother arm in arm in public, nor even side
by sido but the wife always follows her
lord at respectable distance, as the women
do among the American Indians. At social
parties the sexes sit at different tables, oc-
cupy separate rooms, and visit only among
themselves. Strangers of opposite sexes
are never introduced, nor do the women
ever speak to the men, unless relatives or
very intimate associates of the family.
There is no such thing as social life, in our
sense of the word, among the Chinese. And
oil thair social and domestic theories and
practises are based on the idea of woman's
inleriority and insigniicance. She is re-
garded only as servant and underling, and
In no sense fit to be a companion and equal
Of man. She feels her inferiority, and in
the main submits cheerfully to her fate.
The idea of "woman's rights has never
entered her mind. SO thoroughly Is this
feeling of inferiority ingrained in her ma
ture that, in the only book ever produced
in China by female author, the PROPOSE
ton is gravely stated and elaborately ar
gued and illustrated, that "woman was
made for the same purpose that tiles arc
for men to tread upon" They are aston
ished at the freedom and equality between
the sexes among Europeans, and argue
strenuously against it; and, when van
quished in the argument, they reply with
their usual stubbornness and pertinacity,
"May be good for Mclean man; for China
man no good" Since the coming of Euro
pean ladies into China, some of their own
women have begun to entertain some litle
idea of their rights, and it has now become
a proverb among the men, that the most
dangerous things that can be imported in
to China are foreign women and foreign
gunpowder." Yet on the whole, the weak
er sex are rather kindly treated, and in gen
eral are not much abused.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-09-17

Parents should watch how the children
spend their pennies. A single immature
apple may cost dozen visits of the doctor,
and as many sleepless nights, says Wes-
tern editor.
The Hon. Henry Wilson is preparing
for publication complete history of the
rise and fall of slavery in the United States.
Mr.. Wilson will show that the late war was
ayowedly undertaken to perpetuate slav-
cry. The first volume 1--WE understand
there will be three) is expected to be ready
before the meeting of Congress.
-Messrs A. T. Stewart & Co. say they
have never done as large business at this
time of the year before. They attribute
this fact to their having advertised more
this season than ever before. They are un-
douDtedly right.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-09-17

4 BUG SroRY.-The other evening, in our
'privato crib there was a learned disser-
tation on the subject Of "bedbugs and their
remarkable tenacity Of life." one asserted
of his own knowledge that they could be
boiled and then come to life, Some had
soaked them for hours in turpentine with
out any fatal consequences. Old Hanks,
who had been listening as an outsider, here
gave his experience in corroboration Of the
facts. Says he, "Some years ago took n
bedbug to an iron foundry and dropped It
into the ladle where the melted iron was
and had it run into a skillet. Well, my old
woman used that skillet for the last six
years, and here the other day she broke it
all to smash; and what do you think, gem
tlomen? that ere insect just walked out of
his hole, where he'd been laying like Il frog
in a rock, and made tracks for his old roost
up stairs! But" added he, by way Of pa
renthesis, "by George, gentlemen, he look
ed mighty pale"