Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1858, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR Is PUSLISHED EVERY AFTEENOON, (SUNDAY EXCEPTED,) AT THE STARK BUILDINGS, Corner Pennsylwanis Avenise 4 Eleventh St., By W. D. WALLACH, Papers served in paokazes by carriers at @4ayear, OF 3? cents per month. To mail subscribers the sub- scription price is $3.5) a year. in advance; $2 for =x months; $1 for three months; and for lese than three months at the rate of 12 conta a week. Single copies, one cent; in wrappers, two cents. ADVERTis=MENTS (of eight lines to the square) inserted three times for $1; every other day or semi- weekly, 25 per cent. advance; oncea week, 5 per cent. advance, Ebening WASHINGTON VOL. XI. MRS. BADGERY. Is there any law that will protect me from Mrs. Badgery ? I am « bachelor, and Mrs. Badgery is a widow. Let nobody rashly imagine that I am about to relate a common-place grievanee be- cause I have suffered that first sentence to es- cape my pen. My objection to Mrs. Badgery is, not that she is too fond of me, but that she is too fond of the memory of her late ha:band. She has not attempted to marry me; che would pot think of marrying me, even if I asked her. Understand. therefore, if you please, at the outset, that my grievance in relation to this w ri lady is a grievance of an entirely new Let me begin again. I am a bachelor of a certain age. I havea large circle of acquaint- ance; but 1 solemnly declare that the late Mr. Badgery was never numbered on the list of m frieuds. I never heard of him in my life ; never knew that he had a relict; 1 never set eyes on Mrs. Badgery until one fatal morning when I went to see it the fixtures were all right im my new house. My new house is in the suburbs of London. T looked at it, liked it, took it. Three times I visited it before [ sent my furniture in. Once with a friend, once with a surveyor; once by myself, to throw a sharp eye, as [have already intimated, over the fixtures. The third visit marked the fatal oceasion on which I first saw Mrs. Badgery. A deep interest attaches to this event, and I shall go into details in de- seribing it. 1 rang at the bell to the garden-door. The vid woman appointed to keep the house an- ewered it. I directly saw something strange aod confused in her face and manner. Some men would have pordered a little and ques- tioned her. I am by nature impetuous and a rusher at conclusiens “Drunk,” I said to myself. and rushed into the house perfectly satisfied. I looked into the front parlor. Grate all right, eurtain-pole all right, gas chandelier all right. I looked into the back parlor—iitto, ditto, ditto, as we men of business say. mounted the stairs. Blind on back window right? Yes; blind on back window right. I opened the door cf the front drawing-room— and there, sitting in the mild'e of the bare floor, was a large woman on alittle camp-stool ! She was dressed in the deepest mourning, her face was hidden by the thickest crape veil I ever saw, and she was groaning softly to her- self in the desulate solitude of my new unfur- nished house What did Ido? Do! I bounced back into the landing as if L had been shot, uttering the national exclamation of terror and astonish- ment: ‘*iullo!? (And here I particularly beg, in parenthesis, that the printer will follow my spelling of the word, and not put Hillo, or Halloa, instead, both of which are base com- promises which represent no sound that ever et issued from any Englishman’s lips.) I said ~ Hullo!” and then [ turned round fiercely upon the old woman who kept the house, and said “* Hullo!’ again. She understood the irresistible appeal that I had made to her feelings, and curtseyed, and looked towards the drawing-room and humbl: hoped that I was not startled or put out. asked who the crape-covered woman on the camp-stool was, and what she wanted there. Before the old woman could answer, the soft groaning in the drawing room ceased, and a inuffled vi speaking from behind the crape veil, addressed me repronebfally, and said : “* Tam the widow of the late Mr. Badgery.”” What did I say in answer? Exactly the words which, I flatter myself, any other sensi- ble man in my situation would have said. And what words were they’ These two: “Oh, indeed !” “ Mr. Badgery and myself were the last ten- ants who inhabited this house,” continued the muffied voice. ‘Mr. Balgery died here.”’ The voice ceazed and the soft groans began again. it was perhaps not necessary to answer this: but I did answer it. How? “in one word: * Ha!” “‘Qur house has been long empty,”’ resumed the voice, choked +y sobs. “Oar establish- jaent has been breken up. Peing left in re- duced circumstances, [ uow live in a cottage near; but itis not home tome This is home. Mowever long I live. wherever I go, whatever changes may happen to this beloved he nothing can ever prevent me looking at it as my bome. I came here. sir, with Mr. Badgery attor my honeymoon. All the briet happiness of my life was once contained in these four walls. Every dear remembrance that I fondly eberish is shut up in these sacred rooms.’ Again the voice ceased, and agan the soft echoed around my empty walle, and out past me down my uncarpeted stair- ae, case I reflected. Mrs. Badgery’s brief happi- ness and dear remembrances were not incladed in the list of fixtures. Why could she not take them away with her? Why should she Jeave them littered about in the way of my furni- ture? I was just thinking how I could put this view of the case stron ly to Mrs. Badgery, when she suddenly left off groaning. and ad- dressed me once more “While this house has been empty,” she said, ~ [ have been in the habit of looking in from time to time, and renewing my tender associations with this place. I have lied, as it were, in the sacred memories of Mf” Bad- gery and the past, which these dear, these Priceless rooms call up, dismantled and dusty as they are at the present moment. It has been my praciice to give a remuneration to tho at- tendant for any slight trouble that I might oc- casion—"’ Uuly sixpence, sir,” whispered the old wo- man close at my ear. * And to ask nothing in return,”’ continued Mrs. Badgery, * but the permission to bring my camp-stool with me, and to meditate on Mr. Badgery in the empty rooms, with every ene of which some happy thought, or eloquent word, or tender action of his, is 60 sweetly as- sociated 1 camo here on my usual errand to- day 1 am discovered, I presume, by the new Proprietor of the house—discovered, ee quite ready to admit, nm intrader. I am willing to go, if a wish it, after hearing my expla- nation. My beart is full, sir; L am quite in- capable of contending with you. You would hardly think it, but je sitting on the spot ouce occupied by our ottoman. [ am looking towards the window in which my flower-stand once stood. In this very place, Mr. Badgery first sat down and clasped me to his heart, when we came back from our honey-moon trip. “Matilda,” he said. ‘your drawing-room has heen expensively papered, carpeted, and fur- nished for a month; but it has only been alorned, love, since you entered it.’ If you have no sympathy, sir, for such remembrances these; if you see nothing pitiable in my po- sition, trken in connection with my presence here ; if you cannot enter into my feelings, and thorough!y understand that this is not a house, bat a shrine —you have only to say so, and 1 am quite willing to go.’ She spoke with the of a martyr—a mar- tyr te my insensibility. If she had been the proprietor and I bad been the intrader, she could not have been more mournfully magnan- uaous. All this time, too, she never raised her voil—she never has raised it in my presence, trom that time to this. I bave no idea whether she is young or old, dark or fair, handsome or ugly; my impression is, that she is in rt respect a finished and perfect Gorgon, but have no basis of fact on which I can support that dismal idea. A moving mass of crape, 4 mufiled voice—that, if you drive me to isall | know, ina personal point of view, ot Mrs. Badgery “Ever since my irreparable loss this has been the shrine my pilgrimage, and the altar of my ship,’ proceed: the voice. “One man may calt himself a landlord, and eay that he will let it; another man may call himself # tenant, and say that he will take it. | I don’t blame either of those two men; [ don't | wish ro intrude on either of those two men; I only tell them that this is my home; that my heart is still in possession, and that no mortal laws, landlords, or temants can ever turn it out. If you don’t understand thir, sir; if the holiest feelings that do honor to our common nature have no particular sanctity in your es- timation, pray do not seruple to say so; pray tell me to go.” “T don't wish to do anything unoivil, ma’am,” said I. “Bat I am a single man, and I am not sentimental. (Mrs. Badgery groaned.) Nobody told me [ was coming into a shrine when id took this house; nobod. warned me, when I first went over it, that there was a heart in possession. 1 regret to have disturbed your meditations, and I am sorry to hear that Mr. Badgery is dead. That is all I have to say about it; and, now, with your kind permission, [ will do myself the honor of wishing you good morning, and will go up stairs and look after the fixtures on the second floor.’” Could [have spoken more compassionately toa woman whom I sincerely believed to be old and ugly? Where is the man to be found who can lay his hand on his heart, and honest- ly say that he cver really pitied the sorrows of a Gorgon? Search through the whole surface of a globe, and you will discover human phe- nomena of all sorts, but you will not find that man. To resume. I made her a bow, and left her on the camp-stool, in the middle of the draw ing-room floor, cxactly as I had found her. I ascended to the second floor, walked into the back room first, and inspected the grate. It appeared to be a little out of repair, so I stooped down to look at closer. While I was kneeling over the bars, I was violently startled by the tall of one large drop of warm water, from a great height, exactly in the middle of a bald place, which bas. been widening a great deal of late years on the top of my neat I turned on my knees and looked up. Heavens and earth! the erape-covered woman had ful- lowed me up-stairs— the souree from which the drep of warm water had fallen was no other than Mrs. Badgery’s eye. “I wish you could contrive not to ery over the top of my head, ma’am,”’ said I. y pa- tience was becoming exhausted; and I spoke with considerable asperity. The curly-headed youth of the present age may not be able to sympathize with my feelings on this occasion ; but my bald brethren know, as well as I do, that the most unpardonable of all liberties is a liberty taken with the unguarded top of the human head. Mrs. Badgery did not seem to hear me. When she had dropped the tear she was stand- ing exactly over me, looking down at the grate ; and she never stirred an inch after I had spoken “ Don't ery over my head, ma’am,”’ I repeated, more irritably than before. “This was his dressing-room,” said Mrs. Badgery indulging in a mufiled soliloquy. ‘Ho Was singularly particular about his shaving- walter. He always liked to have it in a little tin pot, and he iuvariabiy desired that it might be placed on this hob.” She groaned again, and tapped one side of the grate with the leg of her camp-stool. If { had been a woman, or if Mra Badgery had,been a man, I should now have proceeded to extremities, and should have vindicated my right to my own house by an appeal to physi- eal force. Under existing circumstances, all that Leould do was to express my indignation by a glance. The glauce produced not the slightest result—and no wonder. Who can look at a woman with any effect, through a erape yeil? 1 retreated into the second floor front room, and instantly shut the door after me. The next moment I heard the rustling of the erape gar- ments outside, and the muffled yuice of Mrs Badgery poured inmentably through the key- Do you mean to make that your bed- room!’ asked the voice on the other side of vor. “Oh, don't, don’t make that your bed-room! I am going away directly-—but ob pray, pray let that one room be sacred! Don’t sleep there! If you can possibly help it, don’t sleep there !”" I opened the window, and looked up and down the road. If I had seen a policeman within hail I should certainly have called him in. Nosuch p m was visible. I shut the window again, and warned Mrs. Hadgery through the door, in my sternost tones, not to interfere with my domestic arrangements. ‘I mean to have iny bedstead put up here,” I said. ‘And what is more, [ mean to sleep here. And what is more, [ mean to snore here'’’ Severe, I think, that last sentence? It completely crushed Mrs. Badgery for the moment. I heard the crape garments rustlin, away from the dour; I heard the muffled groans going siowly and solemnly down the stairs again. In due course of time, I also dezcended to the ground-floor Had Mra. Badgery really left the premises? I looked into the front parlor—empty. Back parlor—empty. Any other room on the ground floor? Yes; a long Toon at the end of the passage. The deor was closed. LT opened it cautiou and peeped in. A faint scream, and a snack of two distract- edly-clnsped hands suted my appearance. there she was, again on the eamp-stool, again sitting exactly in the middle of the floor. “Don’t, don’t look in, in that way!’? eried Mrs. Badgery, wringing her hands. “I could bear it in any other room, but I can’t bear it in this. Every Monday morning I looked out the things for the wash in this room. He waa difficult to please about his linen; the washer- Woman never put starch enough in his collars to satisfy him. Ob, how often and often has he popped his head in here, as you popped Yours just now ; and snid, in his amusing way, “More starch!’ Oh, how droll he always was— how very, very droll in this dear little back room !"? said nothing. The situation had now got beyond words. I stood with the door in iny hand, looking down the passage towards the garden, and waiting doggedly for Mrs. Bad- gery lo goout. My pln succeeded. She rose, sighed, shut up the camp-stool, stalked along the passage, paused on the hall mat, said to herself, “Sweet, sweet spot!’ descended the steps, groaned along the gravel walk, and dis- appeared from view at last through the gar- den-door. ** Let her in again at your peril,’’ said I to the woman who kept the house. She curtseyed and trembled. I left the premises, satisfied with my own conduct under very trying cir- cumstances, delusively convinced, alsv, that I had done with Mrs. Badgery. The next day I sent in the furniture. The most unprotected object on the face of this earth is a house when the furniture is going.in. The doors must be kept open; and employ as many servants as you inay, nobody can be de- fantled on as a domestic sentry go long as the van isatthe gate. Lheconfusion ef “moving in’’ demoralizes the steadiest disposition, and there is no such thing as a properly-guarded ost from the top of the house to the bottom. How the invasion was managed, how the sur- prise was effected, I know not; but it is eer- tainly the fact, that when my turniture went in, the inevitable Mrs. Badgery went in along with it. I have some very choice engravings, after the old masters; and I was first awakened to a consciousness of Mrs. Badgery’s presence in the house while [ was hanging up my proof- impression of Titan's Venus over the front par- jor fire-pluce. ‘+ Not there!” cried the muffled Yoice, imploringty. ‘Hrs portrait used to havg there. Oh, what a print—what a dreadful, dreadful print to put where his dear portrait used to be!’’ £ turced round in a fury. There she was, still maftied up in erape, still earryin; her abominable camp-stool. Pefore [ coul say a word in remonstrance, six meu in green buize aprous staggered in with my sideboard, and Mrs. eo pe suddenly disappeared. Had they trampled her under foot, or crushed her in the doorway? Though not an inbuman man by nature, L asked myself these questions quite com No very long time elapsed before they were i caneivally answered in the negative by the reappearance of Mrs. Badgety herself, in a Peeeuy unrufiled condition of chrouie grief. n the course of the day I had my toes trodden on, I was kuocked about by my own furniture, the six men in baize aprons dropped all sorts of small articles over me in going up aud down stairs; but Mrs. Badgery esesped unseathed. Every time I thought she bad been iarned out of the house, she proved, on the eontrary to be = close behind me. She wept over Mr. adgery’s inemory in every room, perfectly undisturbed to the last, by the chaotic confu- sion of moving in. I am not sure, but 1 think she brosent a tin box of sandwiches with her, and celebrated a tearful picnic of her own in the groves of my front garden. I say I am not sure of this; but Lam positively certain that I never entirely got rid of her all day: and [ know to my cost that she insisted on making me as well uainted Mr. Badgery’s favorite notions and habits as [am with iny own. It may interest the reader if I report that my taste in carpets is not equal to Mr. Badgery’s; that my ideas on the subject of servants wages are not so gererous a3 Mr. Badgery’s; and that I ignorantly persisted in placing a sofa in the position which Mr. Bad- gery In his time, considered tu be particularly tted for an arm-chair. I could ge nowhere, look nowhere, do nothing, say nothing, all that day, without bringing the widowed incubus in the crape garments down upon me immediate- ly. I tried civil remonstrance, I tried rude speeches, I tried sulky silence—nothing had the least effect on her. The memory of Mr. Badgery was the shield of proof with which she warded off my fiercest attacks. Not until the last article of furniture bad been moved in, did [ lose sight of her; and even then she had not really left the house. One of wy six men in green baize aprons routed her out of the back garden area, where she was telling my servants, with floods of tears of Mr. Bad- gery’s virtuous strictness with his housemaid in the matter of followers. My admirable man in green baize courageously saw her out# and shut the garden door after her. I gave him half a crown on the spot; and if anything hap- pens to him, I am ready to make the future prosperity of his fatherless family my own pe culiar care. The next day was Sunday. I attended morning service at my new parish church. A pone preacher had been announced, and the uilding was crowded. I advanced a little way up the nave, and looked to my right, and saw noroom. Before I could turn to my left, I felt a hand isla persuasively onmyarm. I turned round—and there was Mrs. Badgery, with her pew door open, solemnly beckoning mein. The crowd had closed up behind me; the eyes of a dozen members of the congrega- tion, at least, were fixed on me. I had no choice but to save appearances and accept the dreadful invitation. There was a vacant place next to the door of the pew. I tried to drop into it, but Mrs. Badgery stopped me.“ [His seat,’ she Ruispered. and signed to me to place myself on the other side of her. It is unnecessary to say that L had toclimb over a hassock, and that I knocked down all Mrs. Badgery’s devotional books before 1 succeeded in passing between her and the front of the pew. She cried uninterruptedly through she service ; composed herself when it was over ; and began to tell me what Mr. Badgery’s opinions had been in points of abstract the ology. Fortunately there was great confusion and crowding at the door of the church; and I eseaped. at the hazard of my Ife by running round the back of the carriages. I passed the interval between the serviees alone in the fields, Leing deterred from going home by the feur that Mrs. Badgery might have gol there before me. Mouday came. I positively ordered my ser- vants tu let no lady in deep mourning pats in- side the garden-door, without first consulti me. After that, feeling tulerably secure, occupied myself im arranging my books and prints. I bad not pursued this employment much more than an Lour, when one of the ser- vauts burst excitably into the room. and in- formed me that a lady in deep mourning had been taken faint, just outside my door, and arrived just in tune to see it y open by an o4i ‘They drew away y sa we. There she was, leaning on the grocer’s shoulder, with the butcher's boy in attendance carrying her camp-stool ! | ing my servants to do whut they iiked with her, [ ran back and locked myself up in my bed-room. When she evacuated the premises, some hours aft wards, I received a mescage in ap l gy, in- forming me that this particular Monday was the sad anniversary of her wedding-aay, and that she had been taken faint, in consequence, at the sight of her lost husband's house Tuesday forenoon d away happily, without any new invasion. Afier Inuch, 1 thought I would go out and take a walk. My garden-door has a sort of peep-hole in it, cov- ered with a wire grating. As I got close to the grating, I thought I saw something mysteri- ously dark on the outer side of it. 4 bent my head down to look through, and instantly fuund myself face to face with the erape veil. “Sweet, sweet spot!’’ satd the mufiled voice, speaking straight into my eyes through the grating. The usual groans followed, and the name of Mr. Badgery was plaint v pronounced be- fure I could recover myself sutticiently to re- treat to the house. Wednesday is the day on which I am writing this narrative. It is not twelve o'clock yet, and there is every probability that some new forin of sentimental persecution is in store for me before the evening. Thus far these lines contain a perfectly true statement of Mrs. Bad- gery’s conduct towards me since I entered on the possession of my house and her shrine? Whaut am I to do?—that is the point I wish to insist on—what am I todo’ How am I to get away from the memory of Mr. Badgery, and the unappeasable grief of his disconsolate widow? Any other species of invasion it is possible to resist ; but how is a man placed in my unhappy and unparalleled circumstances to defend himself? 1 can’t keep adog ready to fy at Mrs. Badgery. Ican’t charge her at a police court with being oppressively fond of the house in which her husband died. I can’t setmantraps fur a woman, or prosecute a weep- ing widow as a trespasser and a nuisance. I am helplessly involved in the unrelaxing folds of Mrs. Badgery’s crape veil. Surely there was no exaggeration in my language when 1 said that I was a sufferer under a perfectly new grievance! Can anybody advise me? Has anybody even the faintest and remotest expe- rience of the peculiar form of persecution un- der which [ am now suffering? If nobody has, is there any legal gentleman in the united kingdom who ean answer the all-important question which appears at the head of this narrative? I began by asking that question because it was uppermost in my mind. It is uppermost in my mind still, and I therefore beg leave to conclude appropriately by asking it again: " Is there any law in England which will pro- tect me from Mrs. Badgery ? 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Give me a call, and ALLISON NAILOR Jn- URTRAITS FOR THE MILLION.—A per > fect Portrait of yourself for 25 cents. warranted nobto fade. 2,0 of these beautiful pictures made by W: odley in nine weeks. sitter is perfectly satisfied. 50 cents, which can be sent by mail without extra variety of cases sy on hand. Sun Cc, WOODIL fine assortment of nm, connot be aur- and chores lwt harge unless the Pictures on pxper for charge. Every fight not required t Photographer, No. 312 K street, near Willards’. YOOR EYES. assist them, by the Paris re 0: & good many SPECTACLES and which are warranted to mproveany EYE atfected cataract or tend! led to use gingsen, Toon nil besahtedas Breeient POLISHED VENFZUELL DOUBLE TONSEAL ROCK a one Res ae ecomim: lasaussen ok clstee Racetonte lew ot OPERA, SPY, and MAGNI- Li otete caer ot Eighth street and ighth street No, 491. be- tare ae WONDER OF WASHINGTON IS GJBBS’S VEGETABLE BALSAM racies in covering up Bald Heade and curing all Scalp Diseases. i EW BOOKS JUST RECEIVED AT SHEP N HER D’S. corner 7th and stn bs A complete assortment of the publi: Carlton and Porter, S . Hymns, Tracts, &c.; W bt, Biblical Diction- ust i e ler, st rake’s History of In estern Scenes, 80, Agent for Publications! of the “Child's Fronds ae maé ANCROFT’S SEVENTH VOLUME evolution, uniform ONT FORGET TR E LARGE STOCK OF Pianos, at all prices, at | entific or otherwise, relating to tho Teeth. own experience ———— the opimon of many men @niner:: in the profession, and especially Drs. Hernia and J. and L. Parmiy, has led him. long since, todis- ard all mercurial preparations for filling Teeth, Line ail Enameis, Gutta Perch, india Rubber, and Ce- ments for the constraction of Continuous Gum ‘eeth, and that Poresiian, mounted op uold Plata, is the only reliable substance that can bs Worn in the Star. D. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1858. NO. 1,695. Dentistry, &o. ‘wit vorkren BY operations belonging to his grofeseion at hit old established office, an above, (cSHEOPLASTIC PROCESS Cc Fay TM RoveMeNT IN MECHANICAL D T.O. NTISTRY. informs the public artial anc, advan others is ite perfeet eLhod of iteel! insures a most 1 48 entirety free from al! me- poy taste and none ofthe commtions can have any effect upon it. 4 exitm most prominent citizens of Baltimore, confirming its great superiority. can be seen, Ali those per- sons who sre suffering with ilt-adapted plates will please give mea cail, pd 1 wilj t-ke great plensure in explaining and exhibiting to them specimens of the work. "kit inquiries should be made at my or fice, as I am the only suthorized agent for thie pro perfect fit. The m ce, Office, No. 250"Penn, avenus, between 12th and ASty sergots, next house above AOr'Be ap 13-3 IN’ hh as TIS . STEPHEN BAILY, Ormicy No. 19% PENNSTLVANIA AVERUB, Three doors from 16th Sirsst, Dx. BAILY joave to inform the publiothathe ‘gan be seen at ali hours, at his office, located nanbove, f perience of fifteen years’ Bractio®, with the large number of patients, and creat gariety of difficult cages that he has treated sucoeer- fi wo! enable him to surmount an citoviey. is mouth, os 3 Most conciusively skown Ly the last Amorican Dental Convention, . Aithongh he fiatters himaclf from h dence eid practice in Washington, h: lopg resi- rovably known to his numerous friends and patrons, hs >ege leave to refer them to the feliowine TESTIMONIALS: , From the iate stig Sy rch of Epipharro os city. Dr. Stxrurw Bait: Doar Sir—i desire to express my estenm for you personall ‘OU ASR SUPer.cr dentist, Tor me have heen highly sat: 5 ¥ recsive the patronng my frie: pablic that your sxiil av well deserves. Washisston, Aug. 26,1050. We. F RENO, and my confidence iz Frem one of the oldest firm + eee Messrs, 2. Heving ompio: rT. Stephen Baily, Surzeon Den- tist, of Washington city, to execute fer me an im- portam and difficult piece of work, which he did to my entiro satisfaction, and in viow of the fact thar one of the mort distinguished mombers of tie Dental Coltogs of Baltimore, Tuled, alter repeated trinis, te perform the same work sAatisingtoriiy, it gives me eat pleasure to express niy entice conidence ape h estimation of his professional skill. jaitimore, Jan. 12,1857. HARMANN BUGES, TY ed frora the inte Hoa, John Extract from notemers heres ie Cia uv. 3 Stmare, Aug, 18, 186, ‘Whe tooth you made for me work sduiratis ; noik—- ing could be better. ven LAYTON, those that seek rsief from the mriadies of the: sesth, I can cheerfeliy recommend iy. S. larly an mupcrior Dentist; he mse a cet of porcetman teeth for one of my family, au = pager, soxsenl testa for if Work bas a! #i well for more thas Fonte ne WOE MOSER ET, NICO. of the Va. Conf, of the M. E. Church South, vay: ten April 15. 1268, — Wo, the undergignad. eurssives of the prof ving had oocesion to avait nei skill of ir. 8. Baily. Of having been cognis- plensure In axXpresein aki!!, on weil as of the uniformly eatisia in which ho parforras the moxt delicate and dif Operations in Dental Surgery,and w> open | re- commend him to the confidence aud px) the public. of which wa consider h Tuomas U. WaLrex, Ts OnE t Offices, cubceses Academy, TPHE SOUTHERN ereat variety the m Prose, Poetry and Dir wx them sf Rul vy. Cal + er Southera Fifth s and elerant extracts d Voetry, with a Trent se on Rhe i the principles of Elocution, | Publish: embracing copie beth im Prose torical Figures ¥ rae shen a.iverted to,as y are found in tise facture “own Are Manufacture Po" itrave, Vannel, a ¢ Plain and Faney Btack ts. aed ail other work in connection with House Fein, cheaper than acy other estab~ lishment south of Boston. 4 ‘Terms cash. JENKINS & LAMBDIN, ma 25-3m a +. Adexapd Box CRACKER? F ot Lansin celebrated CRACKE br machwery of t are more extensi kind in the Unite: the sams rate ast rik. © the peepts of ‘. Y., for selimhg their . They arc made entirely choicest Ge Flour. and used than a Cracker of the ates. We can furniah them at aze sold in New York city. KING & BURCHELL, corner Vermont ave. and 15th st. = & GAEHLE, A CHICKERING er, nyse & Co. sae egy 5 sale at greatbargains. AIS, cong orem. between Sth and loth ate, RICES REDUCED. EVY’S BILLIARD SALOON, No.4 Penn. ORL 43_ and 6th streets, now in complete order, having recentis adopted the latest improved Cu) During the summer the p ico of ° a5 cents. ANKING HOUSE oF CHUBB BROTHERS, Depositors ——— Notes will please mark their Checks payable in o' Deposites of G ts will be of With depositors allowing them to deposit Geld eps raced gel the ¢ difference. ae Bett = CHUBB BROTHERS. AGGAGE Be ES ESS OFFICE 34D StRext, Adjoining The States Printing Office. ‘The subscriber, Baggage Agent for Baltimore and Ohro and Waslungton Siknoh Retlrosd, has opened an office, at the above pince, for the accom- modation of the public, whore orders onn be left for the use of Wagons to convey Bagxage or on to and from Railroad Depot, Sterimboats, &c., or for apy toany point int . City ~ a oe spinel Office open from 7 o’clock a. m. daily, except Sundar, 7 to 10 o’cicok 8. m.,2 "clock , p.m. JOHN M. McCLINTOCK, we! Bocrace Agent Baltimore snd Oho Rauroad. ‘ersons coming to Washington or. te pile Pome baving wade up their mit where they will by g:ving up their checks to my cars, willl have {he baggage taken care of at office, or at Baltimore ioe, No. Sharp atreat, and noaztra charea. aw poek-BinniINe AND PAPER-RULING BY GOFF & THOMAS, Southeast ovrner of #ichth and 1) streets, moh Ser Bit 1 ee IES’ RRAIDS. PLAITS, CURLS, HALF JAVIER, and PUFFS at GIBBS’S, near corner of 13th street and Pa ave. jeS-6m ———————— 0 im thCOND-HAND PIANOS for sale at from 215 Ss to $150, and for rent upon very easy terms. JOHN F, ELLIS, _ iss between th and oth sts. A VERY FANE HALL Ae & BRROWN'S PLANO, im bent order, willbe sold fo, Rie08 monthly payments, at the Must mie We. METZER OTT. ADIES’ HAIR WORK REPAIRED, or taken oleung if War, B:aid, and Curl Miaguinctory, pow — ween 9th and 10th sts. ie : EVERAL NEW PIANOS, ured onl, a few pers of Congress, for sale at 150 oy cea ee ‘Come and see them JOHN F. ELLIS, mee CORN F, ELLIS.” D'S MACCASSAR OIL at GIBBS’ RGnat adie near isth street, jesGa jews at 3% Pa, aven ma 24 = mare suitable Glasses. They are clear, chrystal T~ fine ‘Teas, Sucar, Coffee. Ficur, Sonp, Oliver, R: ins, Figa, Sardines, Approved brands a: Prod: try Produca, of a! THE WEEKLY STAR. This excellent Family and News journat—eon- ‘Ruung & croater variety of interesting reading thaa @2n be found im any other—is publiahed on Seturday =8 enty 00; meee sen os Cosh tne iably in advance. By subseribing in Clubs rused among neighhers Wilnout the para a =a agent, ike erozived, 2° per cent. of Tue Werexty Stak Will Roreesl.: Itinearmbiy pontams the “ Washingian News” that has made TAR Evksine Stan ciron- iste so renerally ta the country. afl Single copier (in Wrappers) cam be proon: at at satel: rr the issue of the paper. PricesTHRER CENTS. 1G Postmasters who act as agents w li be al- lowed & commuseion of % cents. Boots, Shoes, &c. LADIES OF WASH been engaged in mani nd Chridren fely say that we do; which you Prove by giving our work atrial. You can hnd (tail times? the articles &t the principal Shoe Stores in W - ington og Shoes so wei!-known as J. W, MoUurdy & So: ‘biiadelphia make. apii-ly rpRENas: TRUNKS ~~ TRUNKS: lil my I enape poe a Suns: r- sortment , Soie-1 cat! - eyes zie LN _ VELVEEPAPESTRG cad CANVAS I bE VEUING BAGS » TCHELS; fine SADDLES, HARNESS, WHIPS be 1 gm groparcd to compete with the post, sn faeturers, of of which, rend the followme & of the Uormittes at the Fair of the Metropols deere wtitute for 1857: 7 4 ited Sole-leather Fy = that 1s, foe tovudasy amd guadity af mate? vale + on exhibition. ee gy Saddler. . S. Kinsey, Currier. N. B.—Tranks Covered and every description of th ud di le Repairing — “ik zero A i (Late Torna 0. 7 eet, oppo. Odd Pellvws? Hal, en e6t, Oppo. bate bbe Dc SEVENTH STREET FOBIAS, OPTICIAN, Office Zecond Story, three doors from Opp 'xiitows’ Hatt. * Bpeotacies 1 ‘ted to every Fy Opt Reading, sad, Watchimaker’s Gleeson: ‘Telescopes, Microscopes m’ Sf'caponor aod shoves piotureron tame. Boe adver tisement in National lutelligeacer. N Ks Sin: The Spectnoion you male tor me yore thom ar ctherl bevetueiy tele sar other "Litt. W. Tizewers. of Speotabies obtamed from Mr. Tot ag yy ‘of gteat OT sight,and er ae focus. 1 recommen a Oe es Mrs. Purensevne, Vetober 2 les. About five years ago, | ol-tai irom Mr. ¥ in Washington, 9 pair of Gietree the . which I used. and found teem of great assistance te my decaying vieion; ami my opimonof bim is, thet he is skillful mone preparation of Glasses for eyes not too far gone to be hensatted by oe % way, Lrncrnrre, November 7, 1854. From an examination of Mr. Touins’ ap | from hie ago ew peed fud remarks, am cony: that he oe & Skill OF GT BLACKFORD, M. D. Lyxcusvre, November 10, 1854. Ma. John Tobins, baving furnished with Gias- sen, hy which Abave — greatly rere And having entte eatiy from read corket ‘ 7 aflords me the lughest pleasure to io ihave eee fore —— . es of the proper - tances. Itaords me pleasure to state. that by aid of your optometer this —— has been happ: obviated, so that the Glasses you furnished , 4 decidedly the best adapted to my eyes of any I ever vet used. etfall ure, RK. B. DRA! Vor? reapeottally precsorot Bt. Seamer? Having been induced by a friend to visit the estad- lishment of Mr. Tohas for the purpose of frving =| ingsex 4 furursbed with ® pair slightly co! Pre pies bev e niforded me tuore relief aud gratrhi t . My tapht, origin- ally very good, injared by writing snk sendonces night, frequently ton very late hour: but with the aid of ihexe ginsses i fay eg A Fencat as mons and thal too without th ee ve 10uB- ipsutiereds SEE SOHN WILSON, Late Comm:rsioneer Gen’! Land Office, Seasa need Sis: vbusss Spesastin tar Gove h d Mr. ‘Dotone’s 5 or segs the. at a inke crest pleagure th saying, thet lene: Wrta them. ave n piuch hea. “SEP. SCARBURGB. Sa. Nay Sth. L was reocsmmended to Mr. John Tobias asa nkilfal optiomn; aedas i have -— of remarkable peoulinri- ty, twas ermtiher find that Mr. Tobras seomed to compresend tem A] a and some elight peneurem. ana be bis mace me a pair o = Ges twat suite mesduurshy. Ac BUPLER: eiy Li, 1386, —_ Wasuineton, Ang.t, 108. Havirz been for years nuder the sity of hav- two sets of giaseca—oue fer nes in and one for lamp-light—! procured one set fri tr. Tobias which answered both p —_—- T have ured his for & ponths, q lant. several months, and fi! Ae OTUBRS, Of Department of State, Sir: The pair of Speotacies you cterday are pectionisriy eatisinelory to me. y Aro YD! aooide ly the bert [ possess, end Lam the owner of eight or nne paire, carefully eclected in diferent pi ead rom opticians rec- ommented tome cn sccoant of their professional standing in fF rapoe, Eugiand, and the United Ihave deen alzo pidased with your remarks and di- rections on the treatment of the |, for the pur- pose of preserving and imy ‘hi vu it. peotiuly yours, CHS. CALD WEL: si 7 Professor of M. C., Loweysit Ke. BuooxlLrn Ortrorarnic SeEreee, After mozt careful examination of Mr. J. Tobias’s Giaszes, | am cnsdied to testify that their hardness, Giearness, polishing, and exact optics shape render them particularity recommendabic to those whose merels optional impairment of the eyes are in want of such auxilisries. 1 consider, moreuver, Mr. Tobias faliy quaivfied to determine the focus of the eye,both by tis »piical knowiedge and experience, means of his optometer. Jn addiuen, | can further etate that we pag Le sapolcs some of ony We 8 with Gissces, oir my antisfaction. at! oe eed ES BALERS. P: bytic'an and Surzecu, Berlin, Member o PHosal Collose of Surgeons, Eugisnd: Member of the Medical Soceiy of Loudon, and of the athological Society of New York; late Sur io Institution of urgeon of the B, moithe Royel Ort! chester, Kog'and, and &1 “inetitution. en Via. July 27, 186. ORFOLE, Van > In the experience of oven two yearn, Tinve found grost difficulty in obtaiming 8 es that were ex- Actiy alapted to the weakness of my sight. This in- convenrence Mr. Tobine seems to have removed fc the present by th bstutution for me of better fortabie to my eyes. I world to those who jrom age or other iniirmuty require ar- tifcia! aid in this way. Ae aging Wimineron, N.C., June 16, 184. sone Who have had the ht of their oyes smneten as hapdovad tho use of Giazees, I youa recommend Mr, John Tobias as & suitable person from whom to obtain such Glasses as ey may re- mire, 28 he har suited me octesion fora far and near sight. My sizht hns been imipa Yery much by & service of years in the Post i. ment, Which berth required me tobe on =4 Il o’clock at mght till after $y; daring whi time | used but ons light. W. A. WALKER, eee ee ‘rom natural defects a: e ra for neve. , | have been competied to use cinsses Tiiyeare. | have tried differeut optiamne obtaining glasses perfectly fitted to my eyes. Sonn whaek d hewre Teo serve me ly. i ve found to 4 for me, whi e perfect made two pairs especial Ry the uee of his optometer he ix enabl theses most minutely tothe eye. I most cheerful- 5 recommend 7 Se - yo ir: to wee cinsses, An) a4 estimony as to his skill ag aD. HENRY EF. BALDWI “ote Ane't r GROCERY. WINE AND LIQUOR New STORE, = The subscriber begs leave to say that he hie Ran'y to opened n New Store, corner of 7th and E streets where ne intends to Kegnanaqnsorumens of WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, and fine GROCERIE nOnoVIES, £6. BU Of Lae Ine union. ilies and members of Congress are particulars ly iny ited te-ent: nnd examine the stock before pur- chasing el: ‘A general assortment of fine Havana Cigars, m- * porga direct by the subsoriber, at wholesale a4 Canal Boats supplied on reasonable terms, and juce tnken in exchinee. Levy's Cid Whisky of 1840 constantly on hand. Country Cy ep end ntter oder and C {I desoription. received on. IONAS P. LEV New 48d, 7th Of = mm Ww ment. Succerror to Brereton & Br athe Pate, RIAGESB,. n Cae Par Sabseriber tavmg made miditions to his e shetbitaat wnery te see a etriot, wi oe 8 Ladies vd Ana | ail kinds gi CAR- 3B A WAGONS oer not be eur- passed and irom hus {ong experience "a the besi- -/ new fe ART L, AND BANDOLINE Teer edi bss Hair aN ad ima ieee his Sales Room, under _—