Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1874, Page 8

EVENING STAR. DOUBLE SHEET. SATURDAY......... January 24, 1974. [ Comtinued from first page.) — the incidents are piously preserved in He dunsd with Captain Lawrence the night before his battle with the Shannon, and ever: drank. He on the Chesapeake was sented law with Richard Rush, who married Mise Murray of Annapolis, and in 1817, em- barked at Annapolis on the Paet me Sow gun ship Franklin, to be Rush’s pri in the English mission. Amongst bis com; ions in were Washington Alston Wash. ‘apy vantage at his coun! ase, ‘Montpelier, than in the Execati Hanston, while Monroe was plain, awkward, and at a loss for conversa- tion, and his wife distant and haughty. . In the original planof Washington, according to tradition, Latayette Square was a part of the President's grounds, but Jefferson thought the President had no basiness to close up streets and occupy so much land. St. John’s church, built just after the British invasion, recelv the principal subscription from John Tayloe, was the Rey. Mr. Wilmer, of Alexandria, who was succeeded by Dr. Hawley, who kept the peered twenty-five years, and wore small clothes “"The first private house on the square was THR DECATUR HOUSE, built in 1819, almost simultaneously with St. Jobns-Rogers and Ridgley, Decatur’s fellow. @f Hanover, where he saw George TV dead | Commissioners, contemplating similar houses he and the massive silver service of old Lunenburg wees oinrinecmee Gintes Gans church, Richmond county, Va. The first rector | Hoause, “while IV, at Carlton iil was still alive but imbecile, and subsequently he en- tertained the Ts of Charles C; ards three beautiful grand te ‘arroil, of Carrollton, who after- ively Marchioness of ‘rmarthen and drunk, as well as Lora Erskine, wuo hada rep- | at the other angles. ‘utation as a liar, and he attended the Congress Mrs. Decatur, says Tayloo, was @ nataral at Aix Ia Chapelle, Brasian Wellington ster, | @aughter of a Norfolk merchant, born at Elk- : Russia, needs n Ragga The thas or | H’ge Landing, where her father had iron works, but where her mother was an obscure t A, woman. rome Bonapare paid his addresses and his wife, snother daughter of Charles Car- | toher and was rejected’ This tal oe eee SSuvet at Seot eed ‘Lan acetpart, Wr | ie ober Harper, proven mie Par Le » vis- Seed Panlina and saw Henry Brougham basting | son (Bonaparte) from slandering the subse- Decatur, and saying that Bonaparte only wanted Miss Wheeler for a mistress. De- catur’s choice was not relished by high society; he declined to take property from his father-in- law, and the latter died bankrupt and in pee pins at her toilette, and was befriended by | Albert Gallatin, who ‘presented him to Louis XVUIL, and told him Talieyrand, wuo stood by the throne, was a humbug. In 1819 Mr. Tayloe revurned to America, and | nury, atter Decatur was killed. Tayloe sa} im 1822 called erm Adams at Quincy, wnom that Mrs. Decatur, for a year or more after the he burlesques. 1 Een d reported the | duel, entertained lavishly on Decatur’ sterling race between ‘Ec ory beat | plate, with the intent to make m “catch” of the GQescended from his father's thoroughbreds; | Britisn minister, Stretford Canning, and be- from this time forward until he died, Fe came a Roman Catholic only to « ge of seventy-one, in the city | s DI Ds 3 o wad & Weluminous saat senile Charles Carroll of Carroilton. i of letters, and one of the most | ardent sporting writers in America. His coun- | rch” the If an or- dinary society reporter were to say as much, he would probably be horsewhipped by somebody on Lafayette Square. 25, Isis, at the try resi was on the Virginia side of the |“ ‘Madsme Bonaparte isequally punctured. The Potom: nearly opposite Nanjemoy, and was day before Decatur fought maree he looked ill, called *Windsor:” there he took his first wife, | abstracted, and outot spirits, Elliott, Barron's Miss Julia M. Digkenson, of Troy, N.Y. In | Second, is ¢! arged with having contrived the 184, fo ctryman of St. Paul's church | duel to get Decatur out of the way. Decatut in the Ca amg and by the death of his | died in the basement-room of h's house, to the brother John, he became the host of the Octa- | left of the hall, and the first man in from the gon House. In 1#23 he finished the present | Heid. at full gallop, was Commodore Mortis, roomy house on who reached Capitol Hill about 11 o'clock. De- catar is represented by Tayloe as brave, chiy- alrous, and patriotic, but so avaricious of fame asto be often unjust. Inthe sequel, Decatur was very generally condemned. After Mra. Decatur left her house for Kalorama, Baron de Neuville, French Minister, lived there, and aboot a year after the duel, the Russian Minis- ter, Baron Tuyl, occupied it, a gouty epicure. Next, Rey! teok it as Secretary of Beate, and furnished it handsomely. Van Buren succeed- ed Co} both in house and office, and entertain- Lafayette square, still oc a by his widow, the executor of this memorial. THE TAYLOE HOUSE, LAFAYETTE SQUARE. The first occupant of the house was Thomas Swann, who had meantime leased his own heuse, now Corcoran’s mansion, to the Russian Minister, Krudener. Here, for nearly forty | years, behind the vine-covered verandahs, in | modest afiuence, a milder hospitality, suitable | to the altered times, was di sed, and in the | . = | = repopvtenll ote notable incidents in ed well, fand Edward Livingston, of Louisiana, - followed at Decatur’s threshold with a tine wife Tayloe was always a whig, Andasan amateur | and dressy daughter. Sir Oharles Vaughan, agriculturalist, loved Mr. ar He was the | British Minister came next, and entertained Garces of Mim Neveces Dulany, of Aloxan-| Chares and Fucny Kentio vee: nae ot Laeedee nares eect es neryiand | Featherstonehaugh. the atkanses’ troceme Pf ponent ar papel ronment | and British consul'to Havre, and then John near Selma. General Harrise wniains | Gadsby, ex-landlord of the Nationat Hotel, oc Jast visit before bis fatal illness, at Mr. Tavioe’s | Rouse. Ho enlarged and improved Willard’s Hotel in 1343-"4. In 1846 his wife died, on the 4th of July, leaving five children, and ‘in 1819 he wedded & friend-of the deceased lady, who was, like her, a resident of Troy. He believed the ‘administrations of Taylor and Fillmore to be the golden era of Wasnington society, and increased his hospitality with his sympathy for Af, and he also supported General Scott earnest- = His mother died in 1455 at the Octagon, at t sian Minister, Krudener, son of the female de- age of eighty-three, where she had spent ity seven years of widowhood, and remem- bered Nellie Custis wi The soci ot the | votee who influenced the Emperor Alexander Oldest Inhabitants wit formed in Is55, and B. | to form the Holy Alliance. The second the rooms ont to Jose; jales, the sons of Ru- tus King, &c. Hor m. Appieton preceded | the Gadsbys, and Senator Judah P. Benjamin was the last tenant before the war, using some of the splendid furniture of Louis Philippe from the Tusleries, but entertaining little. ME. CORCORAN’S MANSION, diagonally across the way from the Decatur House, was partly built by Thomas Swann, of Alexandria. Its first tenant was the deaf Rus- t=] ©. Tayloe was elected pr His influence | Aaron Vale, Van Buren’s Assistant Secretary ewerved the Vationai Intelligencer in 18° a of State, and husband of Miss Sales, who is rt Fillmoreas the American candidate. [n snubbed in this book. The third was Daniel ebruary, 1559, Philip Barton Key, a relative of Taylor, was shot on Lafayette Square, and died next door to his kinsman. On tnis event, the murdered mans sister, Mrs. Pendleton. | wrote to his Cousin Ogle “I. who know his heart. believe that God, | who knoweth all things, saw that he was more | sinned against than sinning. * = Either here or hereafter, time will solve the mystery and Vindicate his name.” In 1457 Tayloe hat nearly succeeded in get- ting Reverend Morgan Dix, son of his oki room- mate, as rector of St. John’s church, | Here and there, in this otherwise pleasant | memorial, are small thrusts which show social or party prejudice; as, for example, a dig at the more recent mayors of Washington; the intro- Webster, when Harrison's Secretary of State, and entertainer of Lord Ashburton, and for Webster the house was purchased by his ad- mirers, but the money “diverted.” “Mr. Cor- coran bought the house after Webster leit the cabinet of Tyler, and it was said with his tm- provements to be ‘the most splendid town tablishment in the country.” Mr. Corcoran influence in affairs was at its zenith in P: i adininistration, when his dinners were not les: renowned for their splendor than for the beauty of the ladies bronght together there, THE MADISON MANSION. ‘The old house at the corner of Vermont ave nue, diagonally across from Senator Sumner’s, ae r eke BL = cae. | ae erected prior to the Corcoran house by fraction ofa letter decending General Scott | Richard Cutts, officeholder, who was inthe debt Eaiatgnnsinn oolaste chee iene aan | of President Madiens, apd tharehors Mise. waite and sentence to death of a member of the | Son obtained the property about 1835. She was Sumner family of Boston who had assumed the | ruined by her son, Payne Todd, “an epicure and mame of Plummer.” | & gambler,” and about $150,000 was sunk by of Van Buren: “ He was less hospitable th: this step-son of a President, so that his old any person I have known in the White House, | mother had to go to the country, and next the 3 a Preceding the present incumbent ( Lincoln’ house passed successively to Attorney He says of his neighbors, the Blaire,—probably | Crittenden, William C. Preston, and Con, with more provincialism than knowledge, for | man Roosevelt. Admiral Wilkes bought the his mind was better at social details than broad | house at Mrs. Madison's death, and “it was and strong,—that Lincoln was old Frank Biai: MeClelian’s headquarters in 1% when the man, dirc»vered by him for consanguinity, | Orleans Princes, three in number, often hob- interest and resentment against the democracy, | nobbed there. ete. We had rather take Mr. Tayloe’s word on The Seward House w: ® question of heraldry or trurties. Rogers about 1830, and LATTER Days. THE COLPAX MANSION, In 18 B. ©. Tayloe supported Bell and | on the west side of the square, was built a little Everett, both his personal friends, and he | earjier by Doctor Ewell, of the navy, and was wrote a letter to John U. Breckenridg?, which | probably the birth place of the rebel General jwas unanswered, asking him to retire in Doug- | ewell. In the latter house Generals Meade, jas’ favor, 80 as to prevent Mr. Lincoln's elec- | Pleasanton and Lowell resided in their boyhood, tion. As soon as Lincoln was elected, or in | ana afterwaras Justice hompson and Wood- November, 1s, he sent messages to Mr. Lin- bury and Secretary Southard. William C. Rives coln, through a friend at Springfield, asking | gnaDr, Harris, of the navy; Stockton, a puraer Bim to reamure the slave states of his couserva- | in the navy, an. Damel Sickie oh wide tam. Through Tayloe, Samuel F. Vinton, of | tt was thescene of the Sickles-Key intrigue, Ohio, is said to have got McClellan the Sppoint- | and long the home of Vice President Colfax, jent to command in West Virginia. Governor | who took his second bride there. Beward touk THE SEVENTH HOUSE. ee ee ene DOOR The old house belonging to the Freedman’s Sethe Tayiee’y, which had been bailt by Com-| noosa: the southeamt conse a Lafayette modore Kogers about 1530, and had been occu- i i . . quare, was built about 1836 by Dr. Gunnell, a pied by Roger B. Taney while Secretary of the | nip hex eyes s ‘Treasury, James K. Palding while Secretary | dentist, Van Buren’s City Postmaster. Post. of the Navy, and John ©. Spencer, at the time bis son was executed on board the Soraers. ‘When Seward was stabbed in this house Mr. and Mrs. Tayloe sat up with him all the rest of the night, and Fanny Seward wrote a tender letter of thanks. | Gun samen wanes: In 1866 Mr. Tayloe sent a donation to Robert - esi is ¥. Lee, for ‘suffering Virginians.” In 1856 he | ‘The eighth house in point of time erected on eeneet with his — and son = hee steam- | Lafayette square was that beautifal mansion ship Scotia, saw the Derby, rested at Leaming- | next to St. John’s church begun by Matthew Fiving at Romo tn Janasrs, Goa a eerez ond St. | Bt. Clair Clarke, Clerk of the Houes of Repre. riving at Rome in January, the subject of thix memorial was ecized with peantine 5 and died | fentatives, who considered that he was worth $200,000, but was ruined by speculation and February 16, 1*6#, aged seventy-one. He had | loot considerable money by the Civil War, and | never removed from the marble yard in Balti- more the $5,000 white marble portico pro; d to have died on bad terms with, the | change of things in his native country. This | for the portal. Here lived Joseph Gales Toe part of the book is not written with much per- | Asnp rien, Sir Henry Bulwer, George Rigg: spicuity, or perhaps we are & littleobtuse. Here | Secretary ‘Wm. M. Meredith, and finally Col, is what it saye = at Rt by Commodore | fayette Maynard, who saved the shipwrecked passengers of the steamer Atlantic, bought the | proper y for $40,000. In the adjacent quarters Genera! Heintzelman resided when military governor of Washington. Freeman, of Gene t's staf i “He bore his losses without a murmur. | Freeman, of General Scott's stai!, whose widow what he could net bear with complacency, a THE STOCKTON HOUSE which saddened the last days of his life, was - ; cruel and malignant effort of the ‘party in| The yellow house next door to Mr. Corcoran's to carry its resentment beyond the grave; | was ninth in chronology, and was commenced im when there was no peace, | by Thomas Corcoran and bought by Thomas and to allenste from the federal government | 7> Polk's anti- es the ou: 03 those who would, under other | Ritchie. Polk’s anti-Blair editor. After Ritchie's an = a Was the tenant, and next jideon Welles. BBenjamin Ogle Tayloe left two sons and two married daughters. His daughter Estelle, wife SOUTHWEST CORNER, o1 Capt. koger Perry, U.S. N.,died before her father. ‘There are fifty pages of anecdotes and remin- were put up on Lafayette Square, and the next iscences 4m-this book. written by Mr. Tayioe | Were the th fe Set sentiment corner,— | bimeelf, which have been in the main repub- | the corner Dr. Parker, @x-envoy to lished in the daily prints. We have not seen | China; the be ner al i Towmend, and the by reproduction of the agreeable reminiscen- ; third by Mr. ge, of the army. ces of the eld houses around Lafayette Square. LAPAYEITE SQUARE I¥ 1300. ‘When Mr. Tayloe came to Washington in 1801, General Washington had a town house on Capitol bil, still standing as a part of Commo- ore Wilkes’s unrented hotel. The site of the Octagon house had been purchased from Ben- jamin Stoddard, President Adams's Secretary of the Navy who was amerchant of George- town, and who died at Biadensburg at an 1 REST OF THE SQUARE. the house built by Harrison Smith on 15th street, when first editor of the Jntelligencer, the Branch Bank of the United States, now gee . Commodore McAuley's, Jefferson Page’s, Mrs. Kerr's, and Mrs. Hil’ TAYLOE AS A NOHEMTAN. The foreign correspondence of Mr. Tayloe, mainly written in 1567, is not remarkable, even aT ME peTebah'y the only Cabinet minister | when describing horses, although there are Navy, War, and Post Omice deparineuie, 224 | some American references of interest, particu- ‘the city post office, were all at the corner of | Perns;lvania avenue and 17th streets, in one | 2 was sunk to the eaves in ahol- low to —— the street grades. The only larly in one letter from Spain, which describes & rare book, of which only three copies were rinted, by Anthony St. John Baker, who was g of Le m at Washington under building on Pennsylvania avenue between the | Minister A Poster, in 1511. ‘Treasury aud Capitol,—which had t ‘This mi dd ae ote as eae en iding an apothe- | A napolis, and ealled upon William Pinkney, corfuceen it the corner of 9th street, kept by | WhO bad simul Dr. Bullis of the navy. a | = hy lish ase ont 4 an, 5 ined Lafayette Square was & neglected common eon, Ceorgei end Strived at the Union Tav- ‘without trees used for militia musters, and only | attended the race ‘a in eau ates ane One house, a small frame still standing rate ee stand, fOr the Indies, and the ‘de seen between the square and the ‘Seven ” North of Lafayette Square, was ee, Bisdame Joanne, rayon a coach ©e eld house on the site of George ” resi- | and Foster had a curricle and grooms dence, and another on Vermont avenue recent- ‘visited standing. An oval race course ex- ‘fem the MOUNT AIRY, Hie dest and ans | in the Northern Neck, 114 Pennsylvania avenue to 20th streetand the |!» the rp Neck, 114 miles south of Wash- RoR ad was wear the present residence of ington, in the midst of an estate of 8,000 acres. T. Carroll, on F street, on which, in ‘The house was built of dark stone, found in the had rupa j eupied it till hisdeath, when Mrs. Gadsby let | was | 1 | tertaining the Prince devolved on him. master General Hubbard lived there, and La- | It was several years before any other houses | In the half square where Tayloe lived was | ir 5 greatest subordination _ from the people on their estates, and exercise | the greatest hospitality.” TAYLOE ON VARIOUS THINGS. | Mr. Tayloe thought Louis Napoleon the Au- gustus of the age—wise, patriotic, and so forth. In fact, there is no concealment, throughout these pages, of a hearty love for lords, and a good deal of straining to tie up Amerigan rela- tionships with them. A considerable part of the book is called “Randolphiana,” and relates a great many anecdotes, some of which are third-rate and Probably ‘apocryphal. Randolph would ap- | pear to have been just such an exaggeration of many of the points of a Virginia planter as to be a human caricature of that class. He ate tended St. John’s Church, Georgetown, about 1815-16, when he had a devout streak, and sat in the pew ot Frank Key. Tayloe says that he was descended, not only from Pocahontas, but | from Mary, Queen of Scotts. Here is an origi- nal letter of Randolph, dated 1828: Od Pops offer a resolution respecting the Police of this place (Washington) in regard to slaves and free negroes. They have been here | every night; not secretly, but openly and osten. tatiously, in front of this house (Dawson's, on Capitol hill). At feast they did so every night. I took them, such was their array, &c., for the Marine band, but at last I was undeceived, [ sent a servant to order them to disperse. It was abad night. Iwas sick, and coald not go my. self, under pain of being saluted by a volley of bright Bristol shot. * * * ! always disperse unlawful, anti-religious gatherings of negroes, bond or free, manu forti, as I would shoot down the tirst mutineer in an army, or the first das- tard that fled from his quarters in a sea-tight.”” A better instance could not be given of Kan- dolph’s mental and moral confusion, comparing the brutal dispersion of a few household ser- vants, amusing themselves, with gallant bear- ing in battle. Mr. Tayloe remarks as follows same exact on the passage: “Well for Mr. Randolph. What would he think of the City of Washington now, with its multitude of Ia: 8 and profligate negroes, needs ilosopher to divine.” bn 1851 Mr. Tayloe contributed a series of pa- pers to the Spirif of the Times, called “ American Gentlemen of the Olden Time, especially in Maryland and Virginia,” which are reprinted in Mr. Watson’s book. They are chiefly taken bs 3 with notes on the high lineage of some of the | angered amongst them Samuel Galloway or est river, and the Lloyd house at Annapolis, whose former proprietor, Edward — raised nearly 40,000 bushels of wheat annually. MR. TAYLOR'S REMINISCENCES OF THE PRESI- DENTS is closely a partisan one. He may be said to disparage John Adams, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Tyler, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan and coln, and to admire ‘inly Fillmore, Taylor, Harrison, and, ina moditied way,J.Q. Adams. He was a whig apparently because his father | had been a federalist, but his conclusions near the close of life, as to political development, were not very different from the ultra demo- cratic planters. With a few illustrations, we may dismies the subject. He says ot Tyler : “« By virtue Of his office, but for no other vir- tue or qualification, Vice President Tyler suc- ceeded to the Presidency. Delicacy on the part of Leigh and other Virginians inthe Harrisburg Convention, prevented their opposition to his nomination. ‘They knew his political tergiver~ | sations, and distrusted him. False once to the | democracy, he was also false to the whigs. He was intoxicated by vanity, success, and power. | In needy circumstances, with @ large family, | and a poor prospect betore him, Tyler sought | office, if only tor itsemoluments. He was not sordid or dishonest in pecuniary affairs, but a | man of generous impulses, With great con dence in himself, and great loquacity, he want- | ed refinement. In electioneering for himself | | his boldness was unblushing. © * When | | President he was civil to me, but trom self-re- spect I ceased to visit him, as I did Mr. B chanan in the last winter of his term, from a feeling that both were doing all the injary in their power to the country, by their course and example.” Of Mr. Polk Mr. Tayloe says: ‘He was & man of medigcrity in every re- | | spect, of ignoble appearance and manners, but civil.” I knew but little of him personal | Mr. Tayloe’s remarks about Buchanan's re- ception of the Prince of Wales can scarcely be read without a smile, when we consider that | young fetiow in his love of the London slums, and the difficuity of making almost anything sober reasonable to him abroad or at home. It | | Sems that Buchanan, having no appropriation | | to entertain the Prince, sent him in a r. enue | | cutter to Acquia, and thence by raii to Vir- | ginia | o'For the sake of Virginia, and the honor of the country,” says Mr. Tayloe, ‘I took the lhb- | erty of Iny different programme before the | Presiden * * 8 the Dake of Clarence, | afterward William LV, in that way did honor to the crown visitors of Napoleon when they | visited England, we should, to the best of our | ability, 1m like manner do honor to the Prince | of Wales.” And Mr. Tayloe thus dismisses President Bu- | chanan | “It wae unfortunate that the honor be = the | had desired to disgust the Prince and his suite, | he could not have succeeded more entirely | than he did by throwing open his doors at the | literally public reception and admitting the oa pollo, even the hackmen, whips in hand! who were seen in close contact with the Prince and his party.”” Yet surely one of the main points of genteel civilization was represented in the hackmen; the turf which we established. Of Mr. Lincoln, his rich neighbor says: of that history “Tleave him for the reco which he has said was being prepared for him. ~ # Let it speak for itself hereafter. Socially, | if not otherwise, ignors.” it must have been a defect in Lincoln's his- | tory to have been ‘socially iynoro;” but per- haps he couldn’t help it. Of John Adams, Tayloe says: “He is said to have been tntluenced by his vanity, his passions, and his prejudices. It would seem he was not indifferent to his son's | interest, as for it he abandoned the principles of his own administration, and embraced those of Jefferson when his son adopted them. The elder Adams was wont to say: ‘I and General | bag onl and ‘I made General Washington’! Mr. Adams was chagiined that Washington | should have been the first President.” As Mr. Tavloe was born in 176, and could | have been only eight years old when Adams eft the White House, we may take, with great allowance, this confident and derogatory esti- mate upon a man, whose blood was blue at the fource instead of at the tap. Mir. Tayloe thought patronizingly of General Jackson, because he collected some rent for his (Mr, Tayloe’s) housekeeper from a derelict Clerk, and also, it appears, because ‘at the earnest entreaty of some ladies and of Mr. Van Buren, who escorted them. to be presented to the President,” he went to the White House | and Jackson immediately dropped the other company and began to talk horse to Mr. Tayloe. ‘The latter says, however, of Andrew Jackson that he was influenced by bis passions and b flattery; that his political views were pereonal, his information limited, his boldness. derivative, and his manners not Chesterfieldian. | Of President Buchanan, Mr. ‘Tayloe says: | “Without intending it, he was our political Judas, He was ambitious for another term of the Presidency, nnd with that object in view, was willing that divisions should exist m his Pay, in the lope of its reunion for his enefit.”” Ot President Pierce Mr. Tayloe says : ‘‘He was elected over General Scott to be the tool of the nullifiers, and the greatest credit he | Seems to deserve is his fidelity to his party. He was always well dressed and polite and cour- teous. But politics were, with him, always the first consideration. On liis receiving at alevee President Duer, ot Columbia College, a gentle- man by birth’ and education and of distin- ulshed appearance and dignified manners, President Perce contented himself with pre- senting Judge Duer to Mrs. Pierce and then re- tired to the embrasure of a window with one of the Unwashed Democracy, a newspaper reporter perhaps.” | TAT. Mr. Pierce had probably been bored suffi- | ciently by that peculiar class of people, who conceive that from generation te generation | they are the seneschals and dowagers of all in- coming administrations. But it was unprofessional for Mr. Tayloe to have guessed that the great unwashed was a newspaper reporter; for, as far as we can learn, nothing remains ot'a durable sort of five gen- erations of this, the richest family in Virginia, | but this memorial book of society and turf re: quaint, partial, Opinionated. Perhaps we see these Presidente better under the strong light of intense neighborly prejudice, and the near cf human "suture ie pemseeek by the fran atic manhood toh consciously sacirizing whose claims it asserted when putting down these ana. Mr. Tayloe lived in the vestibale merely of the morejconsummate American character and more Perfect soctal life which is to be, when the vanity of caste and the average misery against which it is relieved are of both eliminated yy the instita- tions and the modes of thought which have made such men as John Tayloe, of Mount Airy, already imposeible, and made this book already mediaeval and agreeablo as Froissart, G.A.T. Pepys, or Jobn Fox. onc ne es {Written for The Star. O’KELLY’s DOG. On Caleb's Rejection. Bow-ow wow! Tareanages, where are ye, O'Kelly? It’s with yowling I’m kilt, and I tell ye, I'll kick up the juce If ye don’t let me loose! Ye’re somewhere about, for I smell y Bow wow wow—ach! Why don't ye come hether, O'Kelly? Bow-ow Wirristhro! 1s this a time to be chained in a stable, When Caleb the Crusty is taken And shaken Clane out of his wig be the Sinnit? I feel 80 galorious this minnit ‘That I'd break the Great Easthern’s cable, Let alone this thraneen of a chain, I'm so bould with the exquisite pain That is biling me blood! Be ail that is good, If ye don’t come this instant, O’Kelly, I tell ye, Ill go rayin’ mad with the rabies, And bite Misther Wood and his babies! Great, big bow-ow wow !!! ‘That’s his step at the dure, I'm sure;— Och! I’ve ate half the old barn flure With the joy and the rage! Bow-wow-wow! Bluranage, Why don’t ye come fasther, Ye pitiless masther? ‘Take this neckcloth of steel off me throttle! What is that in yer pocket? A bottle! ee yee bin on a spree! That Fegan can see, Celebratin’ the victhry of Caleb’s defate ith gant whisky and lashings to ate. Och! ‘tis little I blame ye for gittin’ uproarious; Sure, the solemnest dog in the town wud git glorious On such an occasion! But, yerra, what raison Did ye lave me alone here? With divil a bone here To crunch up for joy, And just thinkin’, me boy, it was Caleb's ould shin! Tho’ I don’t care a pin About my lost breakfast and dinner, For 'tis littie | care about dhrinkin’ or atin’ Since I beard of the illigant ratin’ and batin’ ‘They gave the ould Dogmatic sinner. Bow! wow! ow! Take yer thumb off me throttle, I tell ye! Tis the grate day for me and yourself, Misther elly! R-r-r-r— wow! ugh! ow!! When | think how the ancient cur-muadgeon, Without raison, got up his high dadgeon And made us the sport Of O’Snelligan’s court, Smacked us bot on tue snoota with his biud- eon— nis legal-manity bludgeon— I can tear up the tlure with me paws, As I'd tear his wig and his laws! If 1 only could fasten me jaws On the sate of his breeches, I'd map out the site of some iiligant stitches! Low wow wow! Yerra thorrman, yow! I've often heard say “ Ivery dog bas his day”— Sure if Caleb had his whin he sint us to jail, He cun cut off me tail And make it a flail | To thrash us and smash as if we hayen’t ours, With your hearty bow-wow'rs. But the real dog’s day is the night, And the dark is his natharel light; Yet because some ‘ould lady” of quality, Whore brains are bejumbled be jollity, Lies awake in the dark, Her mind like a spark Of her youthful bontires, Buried deep in the ashes of burned out desires, A poor dog cannot bark, ‘To let other dogs know ‘That he lives in the row, But he’s up ‘fore the judge, Muen’t snuitle nor budge Til he’s bound to the pace— When he hurrahs and my yawping pin’ down Neath Dogberry’s frown; And he’s down in the mouth, (Like a slave in the south In the old days, trom which the Lord save us, When Caleb made love to Jeff Davis!) ‘With his tail ’twixt his legs, As he whimpers and begs His life and his freedom from Cushing ! Ough! the blood in me body is rushing Sough, into me head— Let me go! 1’m in dhread 1M run mad if you hould me much longer, For the madness Feige er and sthronger. 1 must sniff the fresh air, Give one Uivil-may-care Of a bark, which shall burst thro’ the wool in sear, Howl, “This is the dog which you muzzled last year. O'Bow, wow, wow, Things have changed since you fined us last year!” There you've loosed me at last! Did you ever By your own or some other’s endeavor Feel the looseness of throwing off chains, How the blood galavants thro’ the veins ‘When you tind yourself free? Congratulate me With freedom thus sweetened with Caleb's re- jection! y mercury risin’ at Caleb’s dejection! ow I'l] how! till the alleys shallecho his shame, Till the dogs of the city shall growl at bis name. At the deal of the night we shail meet ’neath his windy, And thin all at once we'll begin such a shindy With howling and yowling And barking and snarling, And singing i chorus, “Oh, Caleb, me darling, dust lind us a lock of yer hair ‘To wear and tear. Bow! wow! wow! Bow! wow! wow !’° Faith the hair on his wig will grow white With tright this night Bow, wow, wor Faith, me voice is in utifal tune! Sure I’m thinking the man in the moon Will think all the dogs of the town Have gone stark staring mad, As they roam up and down Yelling like Maherafad! Don't bother yourself wid the gate, Js this a time to split hairs, Or go for to puttin’ on airs Wid opening a gate For a dog that can’t wait, But can fly over fences or bars? Bloody wars, Watch me go. Ow, ow! Faith, I tell ye, Ye've o to be proud of yer dog, Misther ely. (Clears the fence at a bound.) os Tar DearH oF THR SIAMESE TwrNs—What Dr. Hollingsworth Says About It,—James Hol- Lngsworth, of Mount Airy, at one time family pe ae to the Siamese twins, has arrived in ‘hiladelphia. His object in coming is to con- sult with Dr. Wm. H. Pancoast, demonstrator of anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, rela- tive toa post mortem examination of tire bodies of the twins. Dr. Hollinsworth over two years ago attended the twins, but since that time has given them no medical advice. ‘They lived in 4p out-of-the-way bebe he was net present when either died. His brother, also a physician, was there atter Engdied. Chang for some time had been suffering from some pulmonary dis- ease, and the Thursday before he died he rode some distance in the cold, and suffered Pog ok That night they got up =e fire. in f 5 E ci i ft LOCAL NEWS Amuscments, &c., To-night. National Theater. The Shak«pearian spectacle, ‘+A Midsummer Night's Dream.” Ford's Opera House.—E. A. Sothern as “Lord Dundreary.” Theater Comique.—The sensation drama, “Marked for Life,” and other attractions. Lincoln Hall.—Callender’s Original Georgia Minstrels. zs . eee Condensed Locals. The Sunday Morning Ga. prom'ses to be an unusually lively issue to-morrow, and will doubtless attract, hecause of its interesting columns, new hosts of editied readers Tn the case of E. A. Williams and.J. K. Moore, charged with robbing the internal revenge ofice of some $12,000 of warrants, no bail being sixen yesterday they were committed to jail. cok the 2th and oth imstant, the department or pe — jation will meet at the office of Gen. Joha caton, ceed to the hallof the House of Delegates, where the convention will be held. Daring the session of the convention a variety of educa- tional topics will be discussed. The Southern Evangelist, Rey. T. ©. Teas- dale, D: D., professor elect of rhetoric and oratory in Fast Tennessee University, and the Popular pastor for several years of oue of the churches in this city, will preach in Lincoln hall,on Sunday at 3o’clock p. m., under the auspices of the Y. M. Christian Association, Subject—The Unpardonable Sin; or The Sin sper the Hoty Ghost. What is it? And who are in iminent danger of committing it. o sidleatisis Tue SANITARIANS aT Governor Saker HERD’s.—Yesterday the members of the tional Council of Health Boards met a’ e residence of Dr. C. C. Cox, at 2 o'clock, and which had been provided for P? led to the residence of Governor Shepher Atter all had been introduced, Mr. Boardman, the president, addressed the Govw- enor, saying that though they came as asmall body of sanitarians their purposes were great. He wished the Governor, as he had alreadydone | the President, long life and good health. In concluding, he said Washington might view with pride the magniticent improvements lately completed in the city of which he was the Gor- ernor and the principal instrument. Governor Shepherd said the subjects of sct- ence and health were of great importance to all citizens, and he hoped this convention would reap the deserved fruits of their efforts. He extended to them, on behalf of the city, a hearty and general welcome. Social conversation followed for some time, after which all were invited to partake of a sumptuons dinner. Dr. Cox then proposed the health of the Governor, to which an appropri- ate response was made by him. Speeches were also made by Dr. Cox, Secretary Harrington, A. K. Browne, Dr. Blake, A. Cluss, Col. Ma. gruder, Dr. Ford, Dr. Nichols, Prof. Langston, Dr. Bliss and otbers, and after an eloquent reci- tation on the “Death of General Harrison,” by Dr. Cox, and the singing by allot “Old Lang Syne,” the company dispersed, the visitors aeeming much pleased with the attention shown them. Hurried visits were then made tothe Smithsovian Institution, Patent Office, and other places of interest. By invitation of Man- agers Saville, Ford, and Kernan, the members made visits to the theaters at night. Tue THEATERS.—Sothern will appear at Ford's Theater for the last time to-night in his great role of “Lord Dundreary” that has so much delighted large audiences during the week. On Monday evening next he will appear in Sam,” as written for himself; and daring the week in his wonderful personation of “David Garrick.” ‘The last chances of witnessing the beautifal scenery and fine acting of “A Midsummer Night's Dream” is presented to the patrous of the National Theater to-night. Next week «S foga”’ willbe brought out with the fall strength of the company, and with Mr. Saville in his pleasing role of Bob Sackett,” in which be won such plaudits last year. The startling scenes in the sensation drama of “Marked for Life” should attract a large audience to the Theater Gomijue to-night. The amusing ventriloquial feats of Davis 1s another prominent feature of the entertainment this evening. —————— ‘Tue InTRRNAL Revenve Ry Case.— The witnesses who were before Commissioner J.J. dohuson yesterday in the case of E. A. Williams and James K. Moore, charged with stealing warrants trom the internal revenue bureau, were before the grand jury to day, as also others, whose testimony was not taken yesterday. It is not known yet under what particular statute the accused will be prose. cuted, as among the papers stolen and recov- ered there were powers of attorney, some of which have been identitied, 1 such papers are included inthe act of February 5th, 1307, which makes “the taking of any paper | * * intended to be used in order to procare the payment of money,” a crime punishable by imprisonment for not more than two years or fine pot exceeding $5,000, and possibly they may be indicted under this section. From the fact thatthe drafts negotiated had been in- dorsed, the authorities there is but little Joubt that forgery was committed as well as robbery. A Prize Ficnt.—Yesterday Lieut. Noonan's men were kept busy following crowds of young men and boys to Gales’ woo is, Meridian hill, and other localities, it being reported that two young men, represemting Crow hill and Swam- poodle, respectively were to meet inthe sab- urbs and decide, according to the rules of the ize-ring, which was the best man. The po- e succeeded in preventing the meeting for a time, but it is said the men met in the afternoon near the corner of 2ist and Boundary streets, where 18 rounds were fonght, in the course of which the Crow bill man lad his ear bitten. He had his revenge, however, as the tight was de- cided in his favor because of a foul, (a kick be- low the belt by the Swampoodler,) and Crow hill carried off the stakes, $20. ° Tae Wasuixncron Nay ¢ YarD—More Work- men Discharged —For some time past a large lathe, belonging to the ordnance department of the army, has been undergoing extensive re- pairs and alterations at the ordnance machine shop of the navy yard. The work on it is fin- ished and it is being shipped in pieces by rail to the Frankford arsenal, where it will be used in turning the Woodbridge wire gun. This lathe weighs about forty tons. A force of workmen are now engaged in putting in the boilers of the United States steamer Shawmut, which is bein, repaired at the yard. One hundred and eigh' men (nearly halt the force) were discharged from the machiue and boilor shops and foundry in the department of steam engineering yester- day afternoon. ——+ Tue ALLEGED LBon AnorTion Case.—To- Gay, the grand jury of the Criminal Court had belére them the case of Dr. E. T. Leon, alias G. L. Thompson, who (together with Catharine 4A. Babcock and Mary Koss) was arrested on the 10th instant on the chargeot producing an abortion on the person of one Susan McLaugh- lin. Drs. Thompson and Ashford, Detectives McElfresh and Sar, other witnesses, were examined, and it likely that trae bills of indictment will be found in afew days. The principal witness, Susan McLaughlin, sabse- queptly was taken before Judge Snell at the Police Court, who fixed the bonds for her ap- pearance as witness before the Criminal Court at $1 “ue in defaulc of which she was committed to jail a Tar CORCORAN Zovaves.—Last evening, Lieutenant Colonel Robert I. Fleming and the staff of the Ist Regiment National Guard visit- ed the armory of the Corcoran Zouaves for the urpose of inspection. ‘There were present a large number of friends of the corps. The company was headed by their recently organ- ized brass band, which ‘embraces in its mem- bership some of the best talent in the District. The inspection was entirely satisfactory, and at its conclusion the comes officered by Capt. Enoch and Lieuts. Fry, Miler, and Kel- ley, proceeded to lence of Gov. Shep- herd, where, after the band had played several airs, they were hospitably entertained, ——————— ASSIGNMENT OF JUDGES ¥ Covrts.—The Snowing was made by the Court hai A apie pe assignment a in General Term i ircuit Court, January term, by Chief ur: day:—C' Tustice Cartter; May term, Justice Mac. October term, Chief Justice 3 October, when J: om) willhave the bench; Probate Court, Justice Ulin. —_s—— Suir AGarnst THR OpoRLEss Comrany.— — Stilson and Enewe —— <4 jamin R. Nickerson a suit agai jerom radtey Lewie R. Keizer, Painter ndence of the National Educational | Commissioner of Education, and pro- | Six Menths’ Receip's of the District Government. The aaeg = statement of the receipts in the office the Cellector of Taxes for the first six months of the fiscal year 1<3-4, vic from July tst to Dec. 31,1 Taxes for 18 city... Gem | Washington Geor zetown County Taxes for 1573-4. General taxes for 125 Do. do. ist2 Redemption of tax liens | Licenses. 2... 7 Special, (pavements, sewers... oid corporation) Water mains, (advertised) Eastern Market | Northern do Western do Georgetown do Total markets Aggregate amount collected... 4S.) 4 A discount of 44 per cent. is allowed th: month only on all general taxes due for 1873.1 ‘Tax- payers should bear this in mind, ana settle their bills betore the mou! : MEAT. —Beef (px {sirloins) 28.5 de. (re WEB .2 do. ton, Math lame ic 5 died bed, BMRB. lige 5 ings. Me ent, 1b t ns ta h: Tard. lo@idss SH — Beck, @@S0e. B bunch: perch, Mave, B mnch; cattish, 25¢® bunch; latwtnre. ts, Te enim: + 186, ke! snp , white fish, 1Siame.® M. large bite koh : ton stielt 24015 Mh, trem deck. 12615 6 Shad Do., (toe). $2. Tortie ¢ Ducks, cw my 4@5c.% banch 5. ® bunch; celery .8 ts — Apples, a S0e.; leme r # juart cB qnart; poachas + We.; biack berries, ¥ lo elphia. print, Bic. ® York creamy, Sc.; choice roll, 40 Eeae, $00. PW dozen. Che PovLTRY.—Chickens, dressed, 31.2 B pair; Ducks, 75c.@1 25 # pair; Turkeys, laa. # WHOLESALE MARKET FLovr AND FreD.—Beavans & Shaw, commission Merchants and wholesale dealers in flonr, feod, 1 quote, and groceries, c. of lkh and B stroots northwest. furnish the following qnotations of fr feed: Flour— Family SW 00 P bd! Welch's family, $10.75 xtra—southora, @8.50G$900; super, $6.50@ST: rye $6 Corn — White, sS(qwe. B bushel; do. y B0@85C. Core Base. Brown Shalt, gsuaea & ron. Shi wat, Soc, F bushel. ' Middlings, s0aisse mabel. Prices at the wh as furnished by Luttrell & Sedwick 925 Lonisi northwest “d cherries, 16@18 $175 Push 1 ; peanuts, $18) geese, hens, 6 doz 4 Ww. ducks, $295 0; 140; wool, washel, B fb, Suoh), 4, 2@30; butter , 3043); common, weet ai; cabbage, $3@5 B hundred: sie, 2.08 pork $178 ry $1.0@ cures, ‘and straw week, hay ranging fi = We.@§1 F bundred Wroer Torkers anp Waose Eoas?—La night (Officers Scott and Lawler noticed a co! akere | The following were the prices hid and asked at | stock, 125 | Wheat we . Pouitrs—prime, rewly | ored man enter Allen's restaurant (Pennsylya- | nia avenue near i} street) with three turkeys, and thinking something was wrong they fol lowed himin, bat as soon as he got a kight of the officers he left and made his escape, leaving the turkeys. About two hours afterwards the same party entered Alien’s again with a basket of eggs, but as soon as he saw the officera he dropped the basket and again escaped. seca = Dr WALIALEA FRIKELE, the most scientitic pre: will appearat Lincoln i He visited, during his stay in who claims to be ator now living. Monday evening. England, all the principal cities, and held alone in London over three hundred /+ ti with wonde saccess. Prof. ell has studied the scien: of chemistry and physics and made these < ences subservient to the art of magic, and has, on that account, attained high proficiency. ARRESTED ON A 8 CHARGE.—James T. Castleman, a clerk in the employment of Mr. George. B Wilson, proprietor of the Wash- ington brewery on K street, near Kock creek, was arrested to-day charged by his employer with embezziement of various sums daring the st two years. He was held at polics head- quarters for a bearit ——e THE COURTS. Pouce Court—Judge 8 ‘To-day, Kobert Johnson, profanity: €3. John Whiteside, do.; forfeited $5 collateral. Jonn | F. Brown, do.; $3. James Forsyth, do. € Sidney Jones,” playing “shindy” or “tag,” propelling a ball by striking it with a stick;) A LICENSE CASE. Charles Parker was charged with unlawfully carrying on the business of peddier. The evi- dence was to the effect that defendant was fone from house to house showing a ‘luting ron, and having a circular stating where it could be purchased and on what terms. The defendant submitted that the article was a patented one, and under decisions of the Su- preme Court of the United States he had the right to sell. Judgment was suspended. The cbarge against Keuben Thorp ofa aging in business as a commercial agent was disalssed Charles Stelyard and Charles Dickson, larceny; reform school. Abraham Wheeler, assault and battery by striking boy with a stoue; reform School. Julia Hall, assault and battery on Mary Smith, pleaded guilty and was fined =) and costs. Celia Solomons, assault and battery on Eleanora Hines, a little girl; $5. George Gerhold, assault and battery on Mary Vernon; $10 and costs. Maria Gant. assault and bat- tery on Anna Wells; $3 and costs. GEORGETOWN. Sarer KILtine Dogs Again ar Work.— Dogs attacked a flock of sheep left in charge of Mr. Tavenner at Drovers Rest by Mr. Hinckle, of Virginia on Thursday night, and eighteen of the sheep were killed and as many more shock- ingly torn. Isn’t itabout time this thing was stopped. Let the sheep owners organize a cru- le against the worthless curs keep up the war until none are left IMP ROVEMENTS.—Mr. James A. Reiley, who has recently erected for himself a new dwelling with a fine storeroom below on High street, near Bridge, has removed his stock into the new store, which presents a handsome appearance. This building was built under the cry esp a dance of Mr. T. J. Collins, who is mak’ fine reputation for his taste in architecture. Messrs. W. I. Dyers & Sons have ander way two brick houses on Ist street, between Frederick and Fayette streets. SINCE THE INPROVEMENT OF OUR STREETS and the renovation of many old houses there is an increased inquiry for Georgetown property. Judge Niblack, a M. C. from Indiana, has settled here; also, General J. B. Gordon, U. S. Senator from Georgia. General Gordon de- sires to purchase once here ,and so do others if the name Georgetown is changed during this session ot Congress to Washington. a ALEXANDRIA. East ALEXANDRIA KalLRoap. — Material trains on the East Alexandria railroad are now running from Bladensburg to the house of Mrs. Grimes, buta short distance from Marbury’s Point, opposite this city, the western terminus of the road, to which latter point it it expected they will rin by to-morrow night, provided the weatber continues favorable. The connecting FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, the meeting of the Washington Stack Exchange ‘aye 1, Ny bid. U.S. bonds. , bid. Bank Stocl Kepublie, 125 bid, Second 1024 asked, 50 shares sold. City lroads—Columbia stock, 184 bit, = Metropolitan bonds, “5 bid. Sandry List— Nation: ds, J. & J, 7 per cent., 70 asked, Masonic ~~ bonds, F. & A. 7 percent., gold, & bid: Washington eit BAS stock, 4) bid, Great Falls lee Co. stock, if asked. Mariposa | and Mining Oo.,8. mon. ? bid; do., preferred, 1S bb & Ohio Canal preferred., 10° Fire Insurance Co. stock, 101 asked. New York, Alexandria, Washington & 8. Co. ’ asked District of Columtia J.84., 1 —5 year certisieat 3 10 year t bid a8, Ti bid asked bit 40. sts, ¢ ew York cle says since have be ul loans the rates have be: Foreign exchang terday. Mon stock exchan, state bonds at the ve ne in North nesree, and sc ang South Carolinas, at prices auita for, and are go ° influ ences as fancy opened steady, becam id has contin t prices ot | t ty. 1 ke Shore an Telegraph there ia a story that the the Londen patty or clique controlling Erie are buying for contre! Baltimore Jar 8. Flour © ty uel . excep! hits, che 1 beat ered a fair to prime do,. 1 cboice muber, 19301 foed to prime red, inal), oon lege 1 Pennsylvania, beavy—white southern, 7 mixed western, S3p ore, 871668. rib sides, 9 ar-cared Coffer unchanged.” Whisky, shade estern butter, moderate de and higher Exchange, long, 486%, short, ron 24. —Biour quiet, Wheat firmer, Lonpon, Jan. $4, 1230 p The ope announcing the dissolution li-b securities, Commels cont, $2@92,. 10-40 0, 16s ON, Jan. 2,1 p m.—Erie, sty crus THE WEATHER. Hours the northwest 4 Thewee southward to the It hax sieo risen tn the ¢ter the T len in al tricts, aud very Clear weather ported from the north: a 1 prevail in the widols Atlantic and New weather and light #t inured bigh baron fies sont hwestert: he lake ree iy an weet € ther, with north CITY ITEMS. Fine Jer Jewarey, Fine Piated Jewelry Fine Gilt Jewelry, Fine Oxtdized Jewel Alaska Diamond Jewe: received at Prigg’s Dollar Jewelry Store, No 407 Penn. avenue, near 4\ > = New Cupar UTE TO Texas.—The “Iron Meuntain Koute” is now finished from St Louis, through Missouri and Arkansas, to Tex arkaua,in Texas, where it connects with the Texas and Pacific and International railroads for all points in Texas. This line is 140 miles shorter than any from St. Louis,and has re duced the passenger rates very materially. The time through is much quicker, and altogether it isthe best route to Arkansas and Texas. 22, = ~ mm. “TIME TRIES ALL TatNos,” and bas proved that Dr. Wistar’s Baleam of Wad Cherry is the remedy par excellence tor the cure of coughs, colds, croup, whooping cough, bronehiti asthma, phthysic,sore throat, It cures coughs and colds in . Tt soothes the irritated parts; it heals the inflammation: and even consumption itself yields to its magic influence. 6 (currency prices.) George Goulet & Co., © St. Marceaux, © Krag & 62 All leading brands of champagne St lower prices than they can be bought else- where. Txomas Reeser, 14,10 1213 Pennsylvania avenge. DR. Hetwnor, the originator of Bucha, bas the satisfaction of knowing that all his imita- tors have fatied ts produce the benefits hia pre- aration insures. Helmbold’s Ext. Buchicures. Kidney Complaint, Gravel, Premature Decap, Laren Vigor, or any souvenir of indiscretion, cannot apply the remedy too soon. The great point is to get the genuine Buchu Extracg, Which te Heimboid’s and no other. For sale by all druggists. ‘203 Get TRE Gexcine popularity of “Wilbor's Compound of Cod Oil and Lime” bas induced some un) ee Persons to attempt to palm off a simple article of their own manutacture; but any person who is —— from Coughs, Colds, or a tion should be careful where they purchase thi article. It requires no puffing; the results fol- lowing its use are its best recommendations, and the proprietor has ample evidence on of its extraordinary succes in pulmonary com- plaints. The phosphate of lime pos ‘& most, marvelous heali wer, as combined with the pure Cod Liver Oil by Dr. Wilbor. This medi. cine is regularly prescribed by the medical feculty. For sale by 4. B. Wilbor, Chemist, Boston. & €03 Porp’s Extract cures rneumatism, barns, piles, ulcers, toothache, sore throet, sprains, known to be a cure for inemace. To Prevent Fever and there is uc Tonle. €1 — _o _—__ THE SINGER SEWING MACHINE sales ofisT2 Were $219,600. wet ‘TWENTY PEE CENT. will be from all Wool, or Wool and Worsted Goods of ‘kind, whore the price ie now above. a ‘TEN PER nee