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Year: 1869

This morning two very small boys neither of them six
years old both of childish appearance were in
TO he is
ally inflicted upon hardened Grim mails that have reached
the age manhood They were John Clark who was con
victed Il stealing piece Of cloth from store in Eighth
street and Henry Ulough a little bootblack who was
found guilty of the larceny OF goods from second and La
rel streets.


There were larger older bootblacks convicted
with Cough against whom the evidence was stronger and
more pointed but they were sentenced to an mprison
ment Of eighteen months only ClouRh was sent 10 ts
House Of Refuge becsuss OF his sItremo youth bus the
managers Of that returned him TO the court
because beyond their control and his presence
there was detrimental To tho other Inmates and moi bens


fetal to himself thus acknowledging that the House of
Refupe is NOT In fact paca for the of hal
bows mt for The of children Who do not co
under that category Clark who was sent to the same
esablshment was also returned As ungovernable This
ipdeed seems Iudicrous A"'''


The Judge said he would, under the circumstances
them bere they would be confined sepsratsIy And sn
any other person would TO Learn


trade and leisure TO lose their taste for crime and he
eseh 81 them TO So years AnH ten months ia
Year: 1869

work to clear the track TO prevent any avoid lbe in
terruption Of travel and IL was done though It was
found necessary TO throw the expensive locomotive
and two cars overheard into the river and the regu
lar midnight through train from Washington crossed
the bridge in time. The officers Of this company


have got the nerve" TO do whatever is necessary
insure regularity In running without stopping 10
calculate the cost No one was hurtby the accident.
The locomotive thrown overheard is the No 81 a
fine large engine, and measures will immediately
be taken 10 raise her and put her In running order
again-R Rilnlington C0nafaereial Of last epeni1la
Year: 1869

River.


As an extra freight train on the Philadelphia,
Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad was crossing
the long Bush river bridge yesterday afternoon, at
about O'clock coming north, the locomotive ran of
the track and, together with two freight cars went
partly over the bridge The track was being re-
paired, and IL 10 supposed that some timDers may
Year: 1869

ALAw BUSINESS Between
1855 and 1860 one of the leading branah-
es of legal business in this city was the
foreclosure of mortgages. Next after the
attachment business of that period, the
foreclosure line paid as we'll as any other
single speciality. From 1860 to 1869
foreclosures were almost unknown. Real
property steadily appreciated in value and
whenever mortgage debt fell due, the
debtor found no difficulty in either renew
ing it, or borrowing elsewhere the money
to take it up with. An enormous amount
OF money-upwards of s30,000,000-is
now owed in this city on mortgages some
debtors begin to be delinquent with their
payments, and few creditors have exhaus-
ted their patience in waiting. We have
heard the first notes of foreclosure raid
A few suits have been commenced during
the past week or ten days. We have a
single suggestion to make. To offer a
debtors property for sale at present will
result in sheer spoliation. Everyone
knows that real property with us at present
cannot be sold. 1t is no mere question of
price that stands in the way A great deal
OF property could not be sold at any price.
As means of collecting the debt, therefore,
q SUIT In foreclosure, appears to be merely
useless proceeding.-[S F. Times.
Year: 1869

LYING SAM."-We know man who
can tell good yarn. He goes by the name
OF Old Lying Sam. Morrill," He saws
when ne was ayoung man he used to carry
up on the buildings two thousand shingles
lone thousand under each arm. He GOT
up once three stories high with two thou
sand under his arms, and the staging broke
and let him down. As he was going bv
the second staging he caught hold of a
board with his teeth and hung there with
ms shingles till man went two miles and
got ladder and helped him down. He
says again, he and his brother went to a


turk,ey-shooting. They could not get rife,
80 they took an iron bar and bored If ont


and one would hold it while the other
touched it of, and they killed twenty tur-
Keys In shooting nineteen times. The way
tney got the odd one was this: the last
nme they fred the ball hit bone in tbe
turkey and glanced of to another stand and


KILLED that one. He thought that was do
ing very well, considering they had to shoot
hundred rods. -'NN y s''0o'
Year: 1869

He.is the noblest man of whom our Ii n
can boast: whether in the workshop or at
the plow, you find the same noble hearte !
free and independent being AND II t1ere
Is a man in society upon whom we can 1908
with admiration and esteem, it Is the lnde-
nendent. sober working man. we care
not whether he be farmer, mechanic or
common, laborer-whether his tolls are en-
dured iu the workshop, the field or the
coal mine; whether his house is In the pack
woods O: the neat cottage-our admiration
is the same. What happy picture he
presents; what reward for his labor, who'
by his unaided exertions, establishes
for himself position in society; who, com,
mencing in poverty, by his skill and
assiduity surmounts every obstacle, over
comes every prejudice, and finally forming
a character whose value is enhanced by
those who come after him. Such a man
we prize as the noblest work OF which
human nature is capable-the highest
production she can boast. And let 1t be
borne in mind by the young working man
just entering upon the stage OF active llfe
let it ever lay at the foundation and
be the main spring of his efforts-that this
situation he must strain every nerve to
attain. It-can be obtained by all I'm
tiring industry and virtuous ambition never
fail to find their reward They never yet
were exerteG in vain, and never will while
honesty and justice find home in the hu-
man breast. 1t was remarked by an
eloquent writer, that the working man who
had no inheritance but virtue, is the sole
king among men, and the only man among
kings.


He enyies not the sons of ease,


Nor lerd in princely hall;


But bows before the wise DEGREES,
Year: 1869

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and effectual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
HAIR as soon restored
to its original color
acith the gloss and
freshness Of yo,tth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1869

The CAPITAL RENIovAL.-The
project of removing the capital
out West would seem to have
more strength than Washingtoni-
ans believe. The Western mem
bers are pretty we'll united ON the
subject, and in it's favor.


1T is very likely that n trial of
strength between the removers
and anti-removers will come up
at the / rvt session of Congress.
An appropriation Of $500, 900 is
to be asked for TO put up a new
building for the State and War
Departments, and Western men
are determined, it is said, to fight
the proposition at every stage.


The Western men assert that
every additional dollar expended
on Federal works in Washington
will be made an argument against
removing the capital, and they
are determined to furnish no more
arguments ON that side.


Ben. Butler said to night that
sensible men would govern them
selves as to holding or selling out
property here by the test vote on
the appropriation bill for the new
War and State Departments.
Year: 1869

Soon after the Virginia election
Gen. Candy instituted investiga-
tions in the different counties of
the State where it was complain
ed that the election was not con-
Quoted fairly, for the purpose Of
ascertaining whether fraud had
been committed or intimidation
used. The work was assigned
to what is known. as the dis
trlct commanders, and they
were furnished with a form Of
questions TO be put to parties
making complaints. The district
commanders met at the county
seats Of those counties where the
alleged frauds were committed
and heard testimony on both
sides, after which they reported to
Gen. Candy. In this way nearly
every complaint has been inves-
tigated, and it is understood Gen.
Candy will embody the whole
matter in a report to the President
through the Secretary of War.
This report will probably be trans
1nitted to Congress for its infor-
nation. Military officers who
have been engaged in this duty
say Canby's report will show that
the election was one Of the fairest
ever held, and that there was less
fraud and fewer attempts at in
timidation than is common at al
most every election in the North
ern States. The charges of fraud
were preferred chiefly by the
Wells men Or Radicals; but when
put upon oath and closely ques-
toned they were unable to sub
stantiate them. AS the only hope
of the Radicals in having the elec-
ton set aside by Congress and the
State kept out was their ability to
prove immense frauds and intim-
idation it is thought that the
report of Gen. Candy will com
pletely defeat their scheme.


To escape trouble from noisy
children, send them to your neigh
bor's, visiting.
Year: 1869

The SECRETARY OF WAR has communicated
to the President of the New Orleans Chamber
of Commerce the perfect harmony OF the Gov.
ernment with the wishes of the Commercial
Convention respecting the improvement Of the
Mississippi
Year: 1869

A MOANING CONTEMPORARY seems unhappy
over its news defeats. A paper that didn't
find out that so prominent citizen as Ex-
Mayor Magruder was dead until three days
after it happened shouldn't talk about earliest
and most reliable intelligence and when il is
obliged to steal bodily from our repors of the
funeral, it shouldn't indulge its spleen over the
fact by fUssy fault-findng.
Year: 1869




RICHMOND. Sept 4, 1869.
The Richmond Enquirer OF this morning, speak.
ing OF George Peabody and his recent donation to
the college over which General Lee presldes, says:-
His latest gift TO this great interest is peculiarly
gratifying to the southern people. The South has
watched with most appreciative interest the labors
or General Lee to establish for her benefit first
class college, Nothing IN the grand career OF her
favorte son has endeared him more TO his coun-
trymen than the selfsac rifcng zeal In their behalf
with which he has prosecuted this object since the
war Mr.. Peabody, following the promptngs OF a
hch.mInded libefaity has donated 100000 TO Wash
n9ton College TO be applied by General Lee In car
rynp out mis- plans for the extension OF that institu
tion The generous donor could not have applied
the gift In any way In which it would
have conduced more to the object IN view,
nor could he have done an act more grateful to the
whole SOUTH Even his prncey donations TO
Southern common school education have not
awakened such feeling Us will the comparatively
small one to washington College. The former were
placed mainly In the hands OF men not OF our Sec
ton strangers to us and TO our needs. and conse-
queny 1t required time for us 10 be made to rea-
lie the high purposes OF the giver The latter has
been bestowed upon one OF the leading institutions
OF the South and placed In the hands OF Sanerai
Year: 1869

A SrRREr-CAR SCENE. "Lesbia," who
dishes up San Francisco gossip for q mountain
paper, describes a ludicrous scene in a street
car:


Saturday afternoon last was riding 10 one of
the Folsom street cars Directly opposite me
sat a young lady dressed in the height of fash
ion, with light-colored kids, navy hat, and dress
la Pompadour. had been in the car but a
few minutes when the young lady held up her
dainty little index finger as sign for the car to
stop. The conductor tapped the bell; the car
stopped the young lady rose from her seat !;
everybody heard something snap the young
lady Immediately sat down again, her face Grim
son red, and trembling all over like leaf
"D Did you not wish to get out, madam p asked
the polite conductor. Her answer was q shake
of the head, and the car started again. There
being only one gentleman in the car and he, Of
course was looking the other way, so the young
lady started to repair damages. After ten or
twelve minutes the index finger was again eleva-
ted. The car stopped and the fair one started
for the door. But, oh, horrors dreadful to re-
late another snap was heard, and 10 and be-
hold, on the straw-covered floor Of the car Jay
something white-a pair of hoops-duPlex EMP,
tic, and 80 springs at that. The young lady d,d
not stay to recover her lost property, but mace
up side street, and was soon "iost 70 s'ewi
"though in memory dear. pniian'nfop'S
gentleman hooked up the duplex e'iiPtc WIN
his cane and hung it on the oraKe o' 'ne eaf'
where it was when last saw It.
Year: 1869

WHITE PIsE.-The San Francisco Mining and
Scientific Press says:


The shady side of this weeks White Pine his
tory, as it develops itself, may be summed up in
a growing distrust of wildcat, and in doubts of
continued very rich yields from the renowned
deposits of the district. wildcat is very inno-
cent as yet, SO little work having been done that
the evil nature of the beast has not become ap-
parent. Two hundred millions of capital stock
to several hundred of actual working miners in
our " mountain of solid silver - the weekly and
monthly bullion product as stated in another
column noted in comparison and the fact that
companies consider themselves dealing in mill
iocs when the workings are but very shallow,
and the ground nnexplored in the regular
mining sense, are facts not to be overlooked by
the excitable. Where the ore occurs in seams
or pockets and is so liable to run out, it is not
strange that there should be disposition to sell
out, with fine imaginative colorings thrown in
gratis to accompany beautifully executed stock
certificates, rather than to strike the pick at one
blow through a promising vision into hard reali-
ties and underground sterility. One rorres-
pondent H understands " that the Eberhardt is
getting poorer every day. The fact, if it prove q
fact characteristic of that region (as is quite
possible), that silver quartz does not run very
definitely in lodges, but that the laws of veins
are so modified by the Intangible and broken-up
character OF limestone as to prevent all syste-
matte pursuit Of the ore, will decide merely that
we shall have to expect White Pine to be a field
for "luck," rather than for solid work for some
little time to come, until White Piners shall
have more thoroughly learned to read the
method and manner of the distribution Of the
vein matter which is interesting to them
quartz, spar and chloride, or the sulphide min.
eraIizees of silver which take the form Of car-
Donates at the surface.


nWhat bothefs me, !" writes White Piner
81 is to know what one-tenth part Of the people
who are coming here will do. When you come
to speak seriously with those Who are deeply in-
terested here. they will generally admit that
they are going to make somebody pay for their
time, and they say it will last one or two
years.


We might quote great deal of matter un-
favorable to White Piue, but it is generally ex-
pressed in style Of conclusion evidently prema-
tnre. The Reno Crescent points signi6cantly-to to
the actual bullion product of the Eberhardt, and
candidly expresses the belief that " White Pine


is not region tha: will ever exhibit extensive
m;ning operations
Year: 1869

We have touched already on his deep affection
for Ada. Madame Guicc;oli tells US that the
days in which he received lock of her hair or
her miniature were kept as days of solemnity
and hallowed with inexpressible sadness. Even


when in Greece, news of an illness of Ada af-
fected him so deeply that he was not able to
continue his journal. "The mother of Ada"
he would say to Nine Guiccioli, has had the
smiles of her childhood and her youth, but the
tears of her womanhood will be for me-" He
felt them springing for him warm and fast, afar,
across the dark valleys of time and through the
frozen vapors of death


Years after, Colonel Wildman, the successor
of Byron in the proprietorship of Newstead Alb
hey, met Byron's daughter in the round of Lon
don society, and invited her to come and visit
the seat of her ancestors. Sixteen months before
her death Lady Lovelace made visit to New
stead Abbey. In the great library of the Abbey
Colonel Wldman read one of the finest passages
of Byron to Byron's daughter. Touched with
the beauty of the verse, she asked scho was the
author. 1.-The author !" said Colonel Wildman.


There is his portrait" (pointing to the picture
of Byron by Phillips on the wall of the library
and be recited yet more of Byron's poetry to
her. Lady Lovelace was mute with astonish-
ment; a new revelation burst upon her. "Do
not think this is affectation," she said, " when
tell you that | have been brought up in COM
plete ignorance of all that regards my father"
From that moment passionate enthusiasm
for all that recalled the memory of Byron took
possession of her. She loved to shut herself up
for long hours in the apartments he had lived in
and which still retained much of the furniture
whch Byron had touched and used. She gave
herself up to lonely medtations on his exiled


fate and his premature end, and endeavored,


with intense yearning, out of the association of
scenes over which his memory fingered, to ex-
tract some of that tenderness of which she had


been deprived-some participation in the glory
of great existence. From that time all other
charms of lite became insipid and colorless be-
fore her.


This child of Byron was inconsolable. She
had been cruelty disinherited and robbed of the
most priceless treasure which it was in the
power of Heaven to bestow upon her-the pa
rental affection of the noblest, most generous,
truest and most loving heart which ever beat in
the bosom of man. She waned and fell so i'll
that she knew she must die and then she wrote
to Colonel Wildman letter, begging him as a
favor to let her be buried by the side of her
father. ayes, will be buried there-not where
my mother can join me, but by the side Of him
who so loved me, and whom was not taught to
love and this reunion of our bodies in the grave
shall be an emblem of the union of our spirits in
the bosom of the Eternal" Byron was more
than avenged. The father and daughter lie side
by side in the village church of Hucknall
Year: 1869

Self-tsovernuent Granted To the Colony


Withdrawal OF Troops and subsidies-Thc


Work ON the Honduras Railroad.


BELIZE Feb. 3, 1862


On the 2sth nit. his Excellency Lieutenant Cover
Longdon opened the yearly OF the Legis-
tive Assembly. 1t was done with great pomp and
show, which brought ont an Immense concourse OF
people, with whom the streets and grounds around
the Court House and Assembly Rooms were crowded.
The gallery OF the Assembly Rooms was crowded
with ladies' while the whole space in the Assembly
ha was filled with the officials, military officers and
the various foreign Consus. The speech, which
was not lengthy. was delivered by his Excelency
nom the speakers chair In distinct and
clear voice. and was, on the whole, received
as the thing needed at this Juncture OF the colony.
HIS Excelency informed the House that the imperial
government had consented at the urgent request OF
the Assembly, TO give the management OF crown
lands IN the colony to the Legislature; TO suspend
the Steam Barge bill, and TO allow the colony to-
select ITS own route for the conveyance Of Its mails
but that IL would give no subsidy TO enable the
colony to open another route via Kingston, jamaica


lie also informed them tnat after the 3lst OF March
pany, would be withdrawn from Honduras, except
such al the colony would be willing to pay forty
pounds man per annum ior The rest OF his speech
was taken up IN local matters OF interest out Of
the colony.


the colony has had granted nearly all it asked OF
the home government and more than IL expected.


The withdrawal Of the troops has been contem-
plated for some wears and il being gradually carried
into effect IN all the colonies more especially In the
West Indies.


The Assembly adjourned until this day. when IL
will answer his Exceency's speech and proceed TO
business. Local matters may keep Il employed for
some two or three months. but all desire a short
session.


Engineers and contractors are arriving here TO
commence the railroad from 0moa TO the Pacific.
They are all certain the road Will now be built. This
may be so, but cannot see II and fear never shall,
rs the cost OF building railroad through such
country will be enormous, while It's earnings must
be limited.
Year: 1869

The press and the public seem to be unani-
nous in the opinion that the present exhibition
of the National Academy of Design, although
confessedly an Improvement upon the last ex-
hibition, indicates by no means a flourishing
condition of American art. The galleries of
the Academy are less crowded with visitors
than several picture galleries on Broadway
and Fifth avenue. Many of the older and
most distinguished academicians have failed to
exhibit any of their own works this year. A
large number of them are abroad and may be
charitably supposed to be busy upon works
which will sustain il not advance their reputa-
ton. Moreover, not few of our best and
most popular artists are not academicians.
Whatever may be the cause of the apparent
decline of American art, so far as it is repre-
sented by the National Academy, let us hope
that this decline is apparent rather than real.
The American eye is yearly becoming better
educated to see and appreciate what is excel
lent in art. Let our painters and sculptors
and architects be stimulated and not discour-
aged by the higher standard of public taste.
The growing demand for art must eventually
meet with corresponding satisfactory supply.
The summer tours for which our New York
artists are now preparing will doubtless
enable them to bring back portfolios full of
studies on which they may base works supe-
rior to any which they have hitherto pro-
duced.
Year: 1869

Here we find that, although, as compared
with our first plan, we fall eight hundred
millions behind at the end Of twenty years in
the reduction of the debt itself, we gain at the
end of ten years say thirty-one millions, and
in the twentieth year over sixty-two millions in
the reduction of the interest. In other words,
these sums are so much gained in the reduc-
ton of our annual taxes But this is too slow,
much too slow, for the age we live in. If Mr..
Boutwell, could afford to invest two millions of
gold weekly for the purchase of the bonds he
could wipe out the whole debt, principal and
interest, inside of twenty years but as IL ap


pears he cannot do this, what else can be do
Year: 1869

To-day one of the grandest of human under
takings will be completed. Upwards of three
thousand miles Of rail, carried across and
through every conceivable kind of obstacle,
will connect San Francisco with the great
cities of the Atlantic coast. Rejoicings have
already taken place in several centres in pros
pect of its completion. To-day, however, will
be day Of general rejoicing in every city of
the Union. Since the successful laying of the
Atlantic cable no such event has happened.
Two such events are sufficient to give undying
fame TO the later years of the nineteenth GEN.
tury. Looking to what has been accomplished
by the steamboat, by the railroad, by the cleo
trio telegraph, we are certainly warranted in
saying we live in an age of progress. What is,
however, is but an earnest of what is TO be.
Greater things than these are in store for us.


The Suez Canal will soon add another to the
many triumphs which mind has won over mat
ter. The Darien Canal will follow. Sea will
no longer be divided from sea. The great
pathways Of commerce will be multiplied and
made easy. Commercial interests will bind
the nations together, will hurry forward the
work Of civilization, and, by identifying the
interest OF the one with the interest of the
many, will beget feeling of universal brother
hood. The age of knights, kings, emperors
and petty republics is rapidly passing away,
and the finger of progress points to one grand
federation, which will embrace all man kind.
VIII not this be the millennium AT