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Lines written on hearine FOR the first time shs
distant tones nf Sr. pgTER's CnxPxL BErG.
Leonardfown, Maryland.
Sweet are tie tones Of she village church ben
That echo Ger shese bilIs was down In the deIl
The liiile church that stands by tie wayside
Is humble wc know butats portals are wide.
Halt thou. weary wanderer, thou man Of sin;
Approach is Iowiy pcrfais-enter in
Thou wills he the eAfner. 20 sarry awhile
There's seis for strangers on either sde she aisle
With tunefaI voices The choir ehanis the sacred
Fitting liszius sor this beausifui sabbath mora.
TrnIy, this y The House 81 Ood. 0odss aKi.aInx
place;
We see Bis loving Image IN every smiling face.
The humble Pastor, with trembling li,,s. invites
Gods biessing Epon the peniteBs striving 10 do
right;
With fearful voice hepleads-pleads not IN vain.
To the throncofgracef0 for mercy, again and again
IN accenis fun Of lore, he tells his little fiock
There is no danger when anchor d 10 the rock"
"Let your light 80 shine that others II NAV guide
Along the river Of ;ife where dangers abide.
Years have Ged since that blessed DAY
Stood grouped at lie altar IN humble array
Nr wife, my children. the JOY Of my soni,
Seeking fellowship within lis pious fold.
Then toll the bell, let lie notes rcsonnd
Away down in The deils--these hills around,
while forest afd stream shout back with glee
The joyous notes Of the Holy Trinity.
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NOTICE..

SG land papersand field notes ofnear-
tsry ssae. OF land in tlie county vi9
K p aid Fsarties wishing ms seftires as
IN locating ,heirIines or bounaaries
Found in Lconardton n on Tues,ss,
WM J.. WATHEk.
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BY LENA CHARLTON.

"What shall wear, dear mamma, to
the party to-nighti"
The speaker was a fair girl Of seven
teen, the only child OF her widowed
mother. Mrs. Raymond.
"Wear, my lover Why, your light
blue silk and those pale pink roses, aud
with your golden hair. it will be so be-
coming. All the Village of Ridgley
will be there tonight in honor OF the
young heir coming home. II will be a
grand party, and I want my child to
look her best, as this will be her FIRST
party"
f.Oh dear. mamma. and The fair girl
clasped her beautiful arms around her
asaf,E4nizsseek. You Al says Want ifs
TO look well. Who loves me il this
world like you -
"Many love you. my precious one,
but none like your mother. Remem-
Der this. my child. There is no love
like a mothers love-no love as unsel-
fish or unchanging."
al will, darling mamma. But come
and show me about my dress. ! want
TO look, oh so well. and imprinting
a fond kiss on her mothers gentle brow
and with the elasticity Of youth and
health the fair girl few away to deck
herself for that festive scene.
Oh reader, cannot you look back
upon your FIRST ball and think what plea
sure il gave you thenl How life was
beautiful as a dream-all rose colored--
and contrast II with years TO come,
when youth has flown and hopes are
dead, with only The ashes Of the past
Our FIRST ball There is tsnsic in those
words. music that willlingeriong around
our hearts when everything like plea
sure has passed awsy. Some strain o.
music floating ike the Eolian HarE
upon the midnight air in after years
will bring back that scene. Some lit
tie flower laid away, its leaves with
cred like our hopes, will remind us o.
our first ball, aud we sigh to thinl
that all has passed upon the stream o
time, aud we murmur-"Neyer, nevel
more I"
Near the Village OF Ridgley. upon I
high prominence. stands Ridgley Man
or. A fine old stone house, with Z
beautiful Park attached.
Sir Francis Ridgley has been dear
three years. and the house has beer
shut up. But his only son and heir
Sir Walter, has returned from Oxiort
and gives grand ball. And the beau
tiful, and the hlgh-born and the noble
will be there tonight to welcome ihs
young heir to his ancestral home.
The house is al ablaze-lights fash
ing from every Nindow-servants Aur
rying here aud there.
Standing in the Hall. receiving BIZ
guests With the look and bearing oi
KING. is Sir Walter Ridgley. He i
tall aud slight, with beautifnl dark browI
hair aud eyes. His features are per
feet. but with that certain cast Of hau
leur which belongs to those Of nobll
birth, and only relieved from statue
like beauty by the soft expression o
bis eyes. Such is Walter Ridgley a
four-and-twenty. And does his mode
beauty correspond with bis nature
Time alone can show. He seems nov
al goodness and truth. And such doe
his cousin. Lady Geraldine Mourdani
think, whose dark flashing gbeauty is th'
theme Of every tongue. The gay thronl
has assembled-lhe music commence
land with Lady Geraldine upon hi
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b. HAnRIs CAMALIER. Exocm d. AHELL
HE undcFsigned, Attorneys NJ Law and So
licitors in Chaneery, have, this lst day Of
Janu1y, 1880, formed q eo-pErtnership In the
practice Of their profession. under the name and
style OF Camalier 3 Abel. They will practice
In the county OF st. Mary and the adjoining
eounsies.
Espsniah attention will be paid to ihecollec-
tion OF claims.
Office in the Court House. Address
CAVALIER A ABELL, LeonArdtown,
81. Mary's county, Nd.
B. HARRIS CAMALIER,
EKocH Is. ABELL.
Jan 8, ,Iss0--if.
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Attorney and COunsellOr-at-ld'0.
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Jan Is, 1s73-H
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alt person indebted to Herbert r Moore on
- Hetelaecountare notified that iise,tlement-
are not made with him, by cash or Its eqniva-
lent, on or before January 1st 1880, said In
dehtedness will be placed In the way oflegaleol
lection, without egard 20 persons.
HERBERT r. MOORE
? DecA. 10. Moore Hotel.
, 1880-04-04

Maryland held s14:s5o,ooo in interest. Payta3I 3
securities Of corporations, besides $3 1MGN d
unproductiVe securities
Massachusetts has sinkfng-f fund Of ST. raek-
Forty years ago the various states Of fths
Union owed S1s8, ,610, 600; to-day they owe ssbaT
6SS,000. At the first sound OF alarm, In 1857
tho Southern States begun to talk repudatboo'
and, according to recent estimate made oT fae
New York 1rib1t',e, the losses sustained By Tug
creditors under the various forms OF repud'ar
ton adopted In these States amount In foono
numbers to about so7e, 0o0, 600, the repudation3
,past-due interest and the forced reductions
the rate Of interest under certain Reaa1ffss
ment - acts being included In 1870, according
the census returns, tho Stute debts Of the Union
were s3s2, 500, ,698, and the decrease since then
almost wholly owing to the wholesale wiping oal
OF lawful debts which has been going on in ~ re-
no1s, Indiana. and, indeed, nearly all tha W.
ern and Eastern States, ignored the A1sss5 sssE
against the further creation Of deo. t.
eommereal com @ % osiIsaons. a'eett 81 'sfrtct were t6ss
provisions, that Illinois Ind to secure m amefF
ment 70 its Constitution to "xtop The povaStt q 9
to pay tho debt WIS made CoustitutionM pr1 ~
vision, and utter the debt was all paid The =. u
bad to be collected until tho constitution :eI1 an
speaking, out Of debt: Iowa never had 1oe ssa'e
debt worth speaking: Michigan only owes ~
o0o: Ohio only 81 ooG 0o0 and, Indeed: Ntssoasn, s, =
the only Western State that has State oens o!a.s.
any size The State debts of the Western 4 80 s
were S31, 30UO in 1910, and only sd TO-.
With an indebtedness so insignificant, a. a94 ~
sources so Vast. it Is deeply to be regrettea "a
the word reputation should have tainiea ~
credit uf the Western States. and both Mlnnsa asssa
ia and Missouri should. while there = ye1 trs
honorabiy announce the doctr inc taa1
law which neither Kings nor people enacted ca ::
repeal" ~ ~
, 1880-04-04

10 ihe Editor % The Chicago Tri6un1.
CHICAGO, April 3.-BelieVtng that the Ameri-
can people are beginning to feel dissatisfied with
their present form of aoyernment ara MT .ya.-
nr -, oa.+,,.a,,. ~ a1o Aoe WISH
4ne " o'efeneo" us principles Dur 70 SO Alter 1t
tnat IL may prove better system of economy,
Justice, and government, 1t seems best to create
,no,ta 80 ..haan,.- -. ~ ,-, n., A @no
peoplo " onoosll'e 1fes'oent ana VICE frcsluent
anu leave 1t to congress and the various State
Legislatures The two new offices would create
gre those that SO skilltully man4gctl the Roman
nepuDc,-fhosc OF censor and Vice -Ceusor,-but
, 1880-04-04
Who Can Tell?

10 Lae EdA0f o. Inc thttd90 IFfbunk-
CHICAGO, March 30.-1n the spring of 1859
there died in Chicago Revolutionary soldier by
the name Of David Kennison, who was born in
old Kingston, Province of New Hampshire, Nov.
II, 17a6, and was lis years months and days
old ut the time Of his death. He was one of
seventeen who went from Lebanon to Boston,
where they we're joined by others, making their
number twenty-four, who, disguised rs Indians,
nnd twelve Of them armed with muskets and
bayonets the rest with tommahawks and clubs,
mutually agreed that If any one Of them fall
tered he should be knocked in the head and
thrown overheard. Thus equipped they boarded
the English ship in the harbor and destroyed
her cargo of tea by throwing it overheard, and
escaped. He participated in the battles OF Lex
1ngton and Bunker Hill, standing within few
feet Of Gen. Warren when that officer fell.
He served his country faithfully during the stir
ring events Of tho Revolution, and was In the
army during the whole war, being in the battles
of Long Island, White Plains, Fort Montgomery,
the skirmish on Staten Island, the battles Of
Saltwater, Red Bank, and Germantown. Lastly,
in the skfrmish at Sarntoga Springs, he with his
company {scouts} was captured by about 80 In-
dians, By whom he was detained q prisoner
about q year and seven months, After his re-.
lease he settled In Danyi:le, Vt. and enRaged in
farming. He WAS cared for In his Last days By
family BY the name ct Mack, with whom he
came to Chicago in 1S45. They resided some
where on the West Side. His funeral was at
, 1880-04-04
BIRD ARRIVALS,


Being Part III. Of The Tribuness Fourth
Annual Report of Feb. IA.
To The Editor Of The Chicano Tribune.
EVANSTON, ILL.,, April 2.-The arrivals Of birds
or the spring of 1880 present the most extfnor-
Gnary freaks of migration. The alternate days
If high and low temperature have had much, If
.ot all, to do with the depressing and singular
Influences exercised. Birds that for years have
,ecn known to appear simultaneously have ar
lived at intervals remote from each other. The
month of March, in fact. was characterized in
archaeological history by the almost silent ap-
proach, one at a time, of various species OF mi
rrntors. The result has been, however, that
paturaltsts have enjoyed a most fruitful season
Of investigation Of the causes and theories of
mi9rations Of birds,-an account Of which, so far
as the writer is concerned, would hardly have
place here. The following table will show the
arrivals:
Robin Ihrt1als migruto9tus. IL
Ges assso: srsoW sag.a Peosste: oais,s
tAbout this date, Feb. SG, few species Of
ducks arpeared, notably the Mallard and Sad
Tree suarrow, SpizeNa taorticoa. ;. -. March
Uiack SnOWbfrd, .Jutlc0 hyerdls... March
g.lrdcd by many ornitl1ologists as winter resi-
dents, Of a non -migratory character. 4 careful
notation by the writer, extending back some ten
other time than early spring, with the exception
OF the year of 1875, when q pair OF each were
seen in midwifery
Red-wing B1ackbird 6E1cla74sp sphnntcez1s March II
Grow BEtckbIrd, Quiscd1us 1u1purcus.. March II
Meadow Lark, Stus71cIld magma. .-,.... March II
Purple Finch Cn13,oldcus ptsaorea1s. March Is
Fox Sparrow, PdaeTc1ld Iicd March -
Phoeba, SnuOr1aix flkscu8. March 30
Ruby-crowned kingct, Reoztl,ls ca1en-
duld Observation-Disclosures. March 81
Brown Creeper. Ce13hfd fumiliaris. March II
Icllow-bilfed Woodpecker, SpAHuptcas
rd,ius ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. March 81
Ground Robin, Pp1o crythrol' t1alnus, -.Murch IL
This closes the record up to April ], which is
noted for the absence of many species usually on
hand. and for the presence of some which nre
usually later visitors The observations are for
Il strip Of land lying SIX miles north of the lin
its OF Chicago, In the lake region, and four
miles west from the Northwestern University.
WILLIAM n. BALLOU.
, 1880-04-04
Inconsistency of the Thing.

Au u1E EAAOF " lHE CA9C4go 1f4DHHE.
| CHICAGO, April 3--How very strange
that THE TRIBUNE should be day after
day writing powerful articles advocating
resumption and the reconciliation of
silver, that resumption might be practical and
stay, and yet ut the same time its responsible
editor, Mr.. Medl, should be in Washington
bantering with tho Presidents Chief Clerk In
the Treasury Department to not carry out the
provisions of the law passed by Congress to
that effect!
Il very funny and most curious muddIe this,
that Mr.. Medill must have been in, if Mr.. John
Shermans statement be true.
That an old editor like blr. Medill should do
this would be about as likely MS that he should
issue an address ..'dcferring resumption for
as against q law Of Congress, as to storm at John
Sherman because he would not do it.
The fact is, the very circumstances Of the case
are nll against bfr. shcrman's present statement
and memory.
All through the controversy and discussion OF
this question was daily reader of THE TRIu-
owed as much to Its very ublc and persistent ad-
vocacy OF silver reconciliation, the restoration
Of that law and resumption, as to any other half
dozen journals of the country.
There stood John Sherman, the Executive
Clerk Of this Department Of the Government,
with the joker in his hand and the right bower,
yet most unwisely determined to dispose Of the
joker and play the game with the right bower
alone.
70 this THE TRIBUNE did object most 1,o,uer-
J,tuU. as its files Of that date will show. And
Shcrman's boom for the Presidency is so feeble
The common sense Of tho American people will
never elevate to the Presidency, at least for
unwise as he in two respects, namely: his oppo-
stion to silver and his willingness to cater ex-
clusively to the money power Of this country by
backs their legA-tcnder quality in our present
emergencies EGG.
, 1880-04-04

ended BY the military Of Chicago. It is thought
t9at the Chicago Battery, Capt. Smith. and the
Montgomery Guards, Capt. Gleason formed the
escort, firing the usual salnte at the grave.
Now: here Is one Of the members Of the fa-
nous " Hoston tea party" who is OF was in
Ea terrea ~ the CID cemetery. and the question IS
where e &c rs Is buried? or are there any records or
1nAps OF the old cemetery still in existence, so that
the grave Gun be found? The writer has in m
old scrapbook biographical notice Of bis life
published at the tt,ne which is at the service Of
any member of our Historical Society if it is
wished, and who will render all of the assistance
l IN hls power to identify the spot where he is
buried Here is Il hero who, though humble
" !tfe did as much, according to hts abilities for
hfs country as my one wh0 participated in the
Revolution, and it Is certaIny wrong for pco-
PIE as patriotic rs the citizens Of Chicago eer
Is bur1cu III some suitable manner.
i! IN looking oysr: the ground recently the
changes thnI have been wrought in the locality
makes it difficult to precisely fix tho spot where
ne IS buried. but it is believed that the west
curb line Of In Sallc street, which would cross
Clark street diagonally and intersect the old
cemetery fence line, is within few yards of
the spot Xxx
, 1880-04-04

| at the Royal Aquarium Which formerly con-
tanned the hapless Beluga and the famous
Sensational natatian. It is forty feet long,
twenty feet wide, and six feet deep. Tho water
was Of the same specific gravity as the sea- aud
was kept at a uniform temperature of SO deg.
With the exception M ct Ct one rest Of twenty-omne m
mersed. During the last hours he frequent
| " indulged in t1oating on his back, OCCASION
| ally remaining notionless for twelve or tlir-
teen minutes, with his hands behind his
head. As the completion OF the sixtiAth hour
creased and, when the Hero of the Channel y
| left the water, his self-imposed task success
| fully accomplished he received an enthusi-
| asdc ovation from the audience.
DALooN1NG TO THE NORTH ro14E.
Tom Hood once remarked that the most
successful expedition to the North Pole could
only hope to come to a stick III the ice: Capt
Cheyne, retired commander in the Royal
Navy, notwithstanding this warning, is pcrse-
vering with lis scheme for reaching the Pole
by balloon. The London Central Arctic COM
1nittee, OF which he is the head, have Just
appointed the month of May, 1881, as the
time of smiling Of the new British Arctic ex-
pedition. This decision has been taken in
consequence of the general election, owing
to which it would be impossible to collect the
necessary funds in time for a departure
during this spring. Two or three months ago
Capt. Cheyne first astonislled us with the
news that it was his intention to dispatch a
>balloon~t1cct to the frozen sea III search Of
been the object of so many explorers am
billions. LIE did not propose to use his
balloons for travelling purposes, he said, ex-
ccpt III the last resort. He required q we'll
equipped ship for the conveyance OF the ex-
plorers and their balloons to within 500 or 400
miles of the Pole. Sailing with, the current
which would carry hiiii the longest way
round what Sir George Mares has named the
, 1880-04-04
THEVIGILANTS OF 1856.
How San francisco Was Purged Of Its
Lawiess Elements a Quarter or Cents

How San Francisco Was Purged Of Ita
Lasviess Elements a Quarter or q Cent
| ury Ago.
Nt,u York Herald.
The famous episode in the early history ot
| California, which excited the attention OF the
civilized world in 1856, has become dimmcd In
general recollection by stupendous Intervening
events, although perfectly well remembered in
| California itself. The only precise knowledge of
| it possessed by the new generation is derived
from Gen. Sherman, who, in his 'Memoirs, .
| gives lively, but one-sided and hostile sketch
| Of its history.
Gen. Sherman was at the time banker in San
| Francisco. Some tine before the creation Of the
Vigilance Committee he had been appointed
| Mnjor-General of the State militia, but had not
accepted and qualified. On the outbreak of the
disturbances he was persuaded by the Governor
to tuke the office. and he entered with charac-
suppressns I'ps A the % vsants @ As sn the nn moyo
meiit was outside the law, 1t was the duty
Of the sfate to suppress II
the militia, to devise the plans. But be had no
success, and threw up bis commission in disgust.
to- IT an for shP but Tas
mandlng The tnlted States Troops n Salifolqia,
were promised, and that Gen. Wool afterward
denied his promise. and he Is pretty severely
Mhen tba 1a fh ae nrs Nm, IN hc9
mun found TINT he was powerless, since all the
arms on the coast were in possession either Of
1n,n resigned his commission and went back to
his bank. An application was afterwards made
by the Governor to President Pierce for Federal
assistance, which was refused. The best public
opinion was 50 strongly on the side of the Vigi-
lants that 1t wns deemed luwise to Interfere.
The state Of affairs wis much worse then than
had been exposed in the Bulletin as q graduate
Of Sing Sing Prison. On the same day he shot
King, the editor, IN the street before the hitter
Of IN excitcment which had been growing for
weeks. Casey, after the shooting, went and sur
rendered himself to the Sheriff, member OF the
ne4f dy aef aRR wG }ne1 tho sanfs
went to the prison, seized Casey, tried him by
their secret tribunal, convicted and sentenced
him, and on the following day hanged him and
headquarters. These swift measures struck
terror into the corrupt ring, and the Vigilants
control for the snsns three mouths
creants and banished about twenty. The
most remarkable, Instance of their de-
arrest Of the Chief Justice Of the State. for |
stabbing one of their Constables. and they |
q hdXs Ss as him # the G pk hd
Judge fora habe;is corpus, which he found a |
pretext fer refusing. They afterwards procured |
ilants in u dilcma. But their wits were equal
to the OCCASION Before the officer could ape
enc a sne u
and told the officer to satisfy himself that they
were OBTAINING nobody In custody. When they |
tivo tive celebration. Although tGey we're technical
nlurderers, no attempt was made to punish
them, for no jury could have been found to
bring in q verdict Of guilty For the ensuing
twenty years San Francisco was one Of the best
governed cities III tho United States.
, 1880-04-04
FORGOTTEN.

Il scene from the buried Summcr-tide
/ sec In the eMbers' ttful cleaning,
While alone L sit by the warm 1reside,
And long for the truth Of my idle dreaming.
l can almost hear the whisper Of ferns,
As they nod to the kiss OF passing breeze;
And my willfu1 heart still tcnderly Yeafns
For the sweet dead days 'neath tho signing
trees
For the tender love, half felt, half told,
While we sat mid the clover pure and white,
And watched the CLEAN Of the sunsets gold
Fade into the darker shadows Of night.
You wondered then if our love could dfel
Yes Death can enter the heart Of the living,
And, howsoeyer You struggle and try,
You cannot resist, nor die in the giving;
And, cen ,ls the embcrs will die OF, the hearth,
know that your heart will forget all at last,
The flowers, and the stream, and the sunlighted
earth,
And even our love, as a thing Of the past
And the shadow, pursuing me over the Earth,
Grows dark and more dense as fife IS descend
ing;
And, cen as fts shade was above me at birth,
1t will not desert me when Life's day Is ending.
So yield up the love that you offered to me,
And send you no world of reproach nor Of
sorrow,
And never by word or act shall you see
II my heart shall be glad, or brcak on the
morrow. AVIS GRAY.
HURRICANE HALL, March Is, 1880.
, 1880-04-04

AutI-Tea.

In 174t3 there was quite AN anti-tea agitation In
Scotland where it was pronounced BY the fu-
mot.s Duncan Forbes to be - In many respects
md calculated to render the population weakly
and efTcminate." During that tl1ne there was q
Vigorous movement oil over Scotland for ubo1-
W Town Councils and the inhabitants of villages
condemniug 1t, and advocating beer. Sir Will
lam Fullertons tenants in Ayrshire entered into
profession, think it needless to restrain ourselves
formally from indulging In that foreign and con
sumptive luxury called tea; for when VIC con-
RINK among whom it is used, we conclude that it
would be hut an improper diet to qualify US for
the more robust aud manly part Of our business;
against it, and leave the enjoyment of It alto
gether to those who Gun afford to be weak, indo-
lent. and useless