Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1880, Page 2

Ey ea HISTORIC WASHINGTON. THE STORY OF ITS CAPTURE BY THE BRITISH— THE BLADENSBURGH RACES—THE 8aCKING OF TRE CITY—CURIOUS BVENTS AND INCIDENTS. CHAPTER III. ‘The general pacification of Europe which ave England a rest from the Napoleonic wars enabled that country to prosecute the war against America with redoubled vigor. Official advices were recelved of this pacification by the government of the United States on the 2th of June, 1si4, and on the ist of July a Cabinet meeting was held; the increased power of the enemy and the probable dangers to be appre- hhended therefrom were constlered, aad corre- sponding preparations for defence were imme- diately begun. ‘The capture and destruction of Washington had already been determined upon by the Brit- ish authorities. Kear Admiral Sir George Cockburn was the person selected to execute the design, and a fit person he was oe ae and plundering. He treatment of Napoleon while a captive and a prisoner in bis hands. His cruise ou the Chesa- peake was accordingly A SERIES OF OUTRAG His men were allowed the rein toevery ex- cess, Stealing chickens and pigs and suc y the mildest of the u and grave- they plundered vaul wmen in the welry, and ravished presence of their husbands and Cockburn had resided in W. » previous to its pro! & spy, and had made sainted Wita ali Its appro fence and the views of ti and public men. So complete was his di that when, alter the capture 0 calied on bis former landlady si cognte bits. On tae morning of the 10 gust, isi4, he came in fromsea with iwenty two fey tle Brocco od pake to joln the force previous Fee mouth ot the Patuxent. The wiiole then ascended that river, and on the Gisembarked at the old village of Bene: situated about forty miles southeast of Wash: ington. The landing was effected witout op- sition. Perhe land forees, under the command of Ross, an Irishman, who bad served in the Spanish Wars, immediately began thelr marca towards Nottingham, & small town on the Pataxent, About fitter n miles north of Benedict. On the Zist, at noon, they reached lower Marlboro’, Where they halted, that Cockburn, who was yoving up the river In boats, might communt- ‘cate with Koss. Toe army, supported by C ‘Durn’s flotilla, then moved on to No g that_ place, » exchanged force ied at Nottingham the night of 1St, aud the next morning toox the Chape ad for Upper Marlboro’, Barney's fotill During these dings of the British, tad: led there ‘was Presiding brain. when the seutry ¢ o 4 Law, an honored citizen of Washington, referring > the order to retreat before | the bat sald in his 2 Detore the committs hough our mi the retreat xiremely rapld, ye y given t ‘0 the captains y the men, T fore, literally became a run of et the propriety of tnts rapid movement | tested by the fact that, the matn body of the enemy bivouacked that night on the Millwood estate, more than distant irom the y neral Win answer This question we Side of the history AN U EASANT CHAPTER. Gen. Winder was placed in command of the assigned for the protection of Washi On the 15th of July he was advised Secretary of War that the van of Admiral Fane's tieet had arrived inLyna lave and that two 1 hhad passed Po: Gen. Winder was Of War to callon Penns; Sand men, on Virginia for two thousand, on ‘Maryland for six thousand and on the District Of Columbia for two thousand. Way it was that Gen. Winder falled to odey these o ders and neglected to coliect the troops remiss mystery tothisday. The most charitable co: struction 1s Laat the ral foand him many other mea hi @ position for he lacked every nece On the 1 ed by tne Secr ania for live 19 ‘enemy's flect had entezed and Was ascending the Patuxent in force. O the bext day—the 19th—the General reported that he called for “the militia of the Discri:t of Columbia, for West's and William's, aad the Baltimore brigades en vwassr, and for five hun- dred men each, from all the brigades on the Western shore of Maryland, aud the counties which border the Potomac on the Virginia side, and for General Hungertord’s corps trom the Northern Neck of Virginta, On the same day the Secretary 02 War ordered General Winder “to push his cavairy into the neighborhood of the enemy, If their niovemeats Indicated an attack on Washington, for wl purpose of driving off horses and cattle and re Moving all supplies of forage oa their woute.” | And on the 22d, the Secretary advised General | Winder that the Baltimore brigade would oe at Bladensburg on that day, and suggested a de- | Monstration by Barney's corps and other troops, on the right of Nottingham, which should | Inenace the enemies rear and nts communications with his shipping. Col. Tighman and Captain Caldwell made feeble attempt to carry out the former of these | Orders without results, and the latter suggeae | | tion was entirely disregarded. Oa this same Gay—the 22d—the enemy lield a position at and hear Nottingham, his force estimated by Col. Beall at four thousand and by Col. Mon-oe Six thousand, but without cavalry and nearly Gestitute of tleld artillery. A light corps was | now organized, consisting of the 26th and 33th Fegiments of the line, two troops of dragoons, | and the compantes of’ the District of Columbia | militia. This corps was ordered to meet the enemy, while the main body took a postu about one mile in advance of the wood-yard, and on the route which the enemy was expected to move towards Washington. | Our cavalry advanced to meet the enemy who had now put themselves in motion put soun | fell back, Whereupon the advanived corps of our forces were ordered to fa!! back on the main | body. But the enemy tns.ead of taking the | direct route to Washington, turned about and marched to Upper Mariboro. To meet this Movement General Winder fell back with the | bataliton to Old Fields. Here, on the moralag of the 20d, the army was reviewed by the Presi- {| Gent and the Heads of the Departments and its Effective force was found to be three thousand two hundred men and seventeen pleces of ar- Uillery. A second order was now given to the ight troops to advance and attack the enemy. AT THIS CHITICAL JUNCTURE General Winder was nowhere to be found! Fortunately, however, the battle did not take place. After a few volleys at long range, the light troops returned tothe main body of the army. which remained tn line of battle til! san set when the general returned and at o} camped to Washington, and gained the Brareh bridge, as the committee of Congress | Feported, “by an extremly rapid and precip- itate march. The next mornin: says Mr. William little volume,“brougnt enemy who had quietly re- po- ott, in his interesting advices that the posed himself three miles distant trom te sition, from which we had thus hastily escay C4, Was now in full maren for Bladensburg. “Tne contingency on which he was permitted or 01 dered to attack the capital had arisen. Our Gemonstrations had been those not of capacity but of folly; not of force but of Weakness. Wa had deserted and destroyed our own flotilla without fghting, Wehad left him undisturbed Al every potnt, and at alltimes. We had now shamefully abandoned to him all the approaches to ‘he capital by #ight, and had left him nota- ing to fear, with 1 to @ communication With bis feet. He, therefore, could no longer hesitate. He accordingly ratsed his camp early Gn the gith, and by a@ forced ma ravairy and Nyerae artillery small ft to the defence of Gon. last of Stricker’s Baltimore Stansbury =nd the Brigades. These corps had arrived there in Succession asd much wearied by their march on the 2d and 2d On the night of the latter, Col. Monroe reached this Corps trom Gen. Winder’s camp at the Old Fields, and ad- ‘ised Stansbury to take the western route to ‘Marlboro, and throw himself on the rear of the ‘enemy. Gen. Winder had ordered Stansbury to Stand fast at Bladensburg, and to defend that sivenue to the elty. Monroe did what he could to throw it open by ig @ circuitous march abd bight attack On the enemy's rear, without consent of the commanding general or without even ki where the enemy was! | acer has escaped public censure! But } conduct, | ing | ly cut up. | Mortifying and humiliating circumstances of | sail | Davidson's companies and Capt. Caldwell, with | Panles under Captains Doughty and Stall, ritle- | Soldier was so sudden he bad received trom Gen. Winder. until hear- log that the main army had retired to the Kast- «rn Branch bridge, leaving his corps u icoverad, he retreated towards the city. Anoths- an rositive order carried him back to the neighbor- hood of Bladensburg. where Wind2r, pushing forward Smith’s brigade, Dut lea Birney’s and Minor’s cory @ one at the navy yard and the other at the capitol—arrived in time to Nght a battle on tions not made by him- self, but by Stansbury and Smith and their as- sist! Colonels “Monroe and Mr. F. S. | Bey. ot these tions we will say the tlemen to whom nothing, as they have been princi; imputed—Stans- bury and Monroe—were th asnamed of them; and the enemy despised them too much | to employ any maneuvering against them. ‘They even threw themselves forward tn open | order, advanced singly, passed the bridge and | thecreek, and gained both flanks of our ad- vanced corps. The ee now ordered this to besupported; but his own words can bast de- sertbe what foliowed: “Our advanced riile- men”—Pinkney’s corps—says the general, “now began to fire, and continued It for half a dozen rounds, when J observed them to run back to anorchard. They halted there and seemed for & moment about returning to their origina! po- sition, but in a few moments entirely broke and retired to the left of Stansbury’s line. The ad- vanced artillery Immediately followed the rifle- men, aud retired on the ieft of the flftu Batti. mnore regiment, Which had Deen pushed forward to sustain them. The first three or four rockets fired by the enemy being much above the heads of Sians- bury’ they stood them very mnfully; but the rockets having taken a sore hovtzmial direction, & Uulversal flight of the center and left of Siansbury’s brigade was the conse- quence. Tue Sth regiment and tue artillery still rematued, and [I hoped would prevent the enemy's approach, but they (cae epeny) advanced singly; therefore anuoyed the 3 considerably, when I ordered tt (0 retire for Purpose of puting it Out ot the reach of enemy. The order was, howeve~. !mmediately countermauded, from an aversion to retire before the necessity becaine sirouger, and from ahope that the enemy would issue in & body and enable us to act upon him on terms of equality.” So far General Winder; whereupon Mr. Eillott remarks: “This narrative ha3 no parallel in military writing. The general, according to this, first ordered the retreat to’ put she corps out of the reach of the enemy; whlch no doubt would have kept them out of’ harin’s way, out he countermanded this order from an aversion to retire before it was necessary, and trom a hope that the enemy, "instead of advancing singly and popping at him like cowards, would come cut ia a body and fight him on equal terms; that is a mark ag he did. he 5 is, by showing as large Well, to indulge the generat In thls particular, they did atlength so come out, and began to deploy on his left. When, instead of accepting the equal terms for which he had paated, he again ordered a geueral retreat, which b. & tight of total’and absolute disorder!” Winder proceeds to say, “But his tire beginning to annoy th's corps—the fith regiment—sulll more by Wounding several of them, and a strong column passing Up the road and deploying on lig lett, I ordered them to retire: their retre: became a Hight of total aad ab: THD SKEDADDLE. ent Was poste on ahelght to the road, which commanded the whole ground occupted by Stansbury’s brig’ The story o1t regiment ts soon told. It gave one or two tneffectual fires and ied. Tats retreat completes the fortunes aud the fate of the froat Hue, which could not be rallied, and which displayed all its activity in making its way hone. So far the account ts taken from the report of General Winder himself. ‘Tue secoud line was not under the observation of the general, and we must look here for an account of tis The second line was cy:nposed of Smith's brigade, the 3och regular regiment, one battalion of t ch,a detachment of the izth, Barney’s corps of seamon aud marinos, and the whole of our cavalry. BARNEY'S FIGHT, with the letter of Commodore Bar- “Wecame up,” says the commodore, “with ‘ot. We took our position on the rising ground between Smith’s militia and Beail’s— posted our marines and seamen, and waited the ach Of the enemy. During thts period wement continued, tte euc: our army retreating. appai mich disorder. At len before us au Tordered our ef y in Ube enemy inade bis halted. Atier a few der to fre ated the road. mpt of the same kind to come forward, bui aii were de- then crossed over into an open apied to flank us. ‘There he was r3, the mariges and ud Was again total- hot a veslage of the pia body of ive on ny right, and from whic { expected great support. ‘Tad eue- y ‘saad be rright. Ourguas w dup the hiti to , and aite maet by three ty seamen acting as infantr: that Way, wh ine American c« who, to Iny great morttticatton, mate no ance, giving a tire or two, and ret I he enemy ni | Geueral ispersion of the front line is opening on our lect, of whch ling himselt, when L ordered with the second regiment, to take a more to our left, ihe was pre- rders came > of the tory of a battle tt. whieh the ian forecs, DUMDering 5.049 men with proportionate cavairy and artillery, were d2- jeated by the fight brigade without cavairy and with only thrce small feld pisces, and coustst- hg Of not more than 1,500 mon, all told! THE LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES. The British loss was put down in Ross’ official dispatch at 56 men killed and 185 wounded; but it was certainly much more. The American jogs was 26 killed and 51 wounded. ‘That criminal negligence and {nefticlency ex- isted somewhere is beyond all question. The st the battle of Bladensburg and the sulll more disgracetal result of the capture of Washington could have been prevented by the most ordinary prudence and firmness. But where ts the censure to fall? Winder was whitewashed by the court of inquiry and tt would have never done to have latd any of the blame of tnis folly on the dis- Uoguished statesmen who were aspiring to the high oftice of the Presidency. So the poor sol- diers were made the scape-goats, and all the Shame was packed off on thelr snoulders. “Without doubt,” says Col. Armstrong, of the investigating committee, “the deterialning cause Of our dis+sters is to be found fa that love of life which in many of the corps predominated over a love of country and of honor”’—in other words, the disasters Of the day were due to the cowardice of the troops. Tne Washington and Georgetown levies have been most unjustly as- ‘They were the first troops that met the enemy under the command of Major Peter, an experienced, abie officer, and 1t was from Major Peter's battery that the last shot was Hired. His | command consisted of the artillery, Stuil’s and | some city cavalry. THE ENTIRE- FORCE OF THE DISTRICT TROOPS consisted of one regiment from Washington, ommanded by Col. Magruder, and one trom Jcorgetown, commanded by Col. Wm. Brent. The brigade s commanded by Col. Walter Smith, of Georgetown, tncluding two compantes of light artillery, each having six six-pounders and Commanded, respectively, oy Major Gaorge Peter and Capt. Benjamin Burch, a veteran revolutionary soidier. It inciuded two com- nen, but armed with common muskets. ‘Capt. Stuil’s company at first peremptorily refused to larch uutil furnished with thelr proper arms, ‘These troops co. ed many of the best cltt- zens of the District. They marched out across the Eastern Branch bridge oa the 20th of Au- gust aed numbered 1,070 men. MR, EDWARD SIIMS, an octogenarian now living in the city, and hale In body and in mind, writes as follows in Deve pr, 1 “Tne militia of the District Was enrolled, and I found myself in August a merber of a company commanded by C. aptain Johns. The transition from a carpenter to a that I did not realize the change uatll my company was marched to the ever-lo-be-remembered, though not particu- larly glorious, battle-ground at Bladensburg. ‘The battle on the 24th of August, 1S14, wag one about the incidents of which the citizen soldiers of that day who were engaged In the fight have been very sensitive, and tn the general unwill, iugness to have theim referred to, I, tor a long Ume, participated. But, upon a ‘review of the circumstances, 1 do not think there Was anything in the y militia which wil 2 antmeateriee ct the a Si which ples nimadverstons Mmands of those gi t Officers, and as the Brit- ish column approached our line of battle thoy Were staggering under its terrible execution, and I felt certain, and do now, tha: three of four volleys from our line would have brought them to a dead halt. That opinion prevailed roughout the whole body, and when the der to retreat was given, and passed along the line, the men looked at each other in aston- ishment, evidently Delleving that 1t must be a mmistake; and when the order was repeated, murmurs were heard on all sides. Retreat ¢or What? was the question I heard all around me. Shall we abandon our homes, and the capital clty of the country, to the enemy, without a struggle for its defence? And for’some mo- Ments the order was ded. Peated in louder and we had to obey. ‘The best disciplined soldiers are liable to panic when commanded by incapable pepo and that the general in command at the battle Of Bladensburg teas incapable has never peen successfully denied; but whilst repelling with indignation the charge that we were dei- lent in , candor compels me "0 were turned upon had fairly begun. ted, stop until they reached the Alleghany mountains.” A CHARCOAI. SKETCH. The following tines were found, written with charcoal on the four mile-stone leading to Bla- densburg, near to the place where Commodore Barney made his gallant defence : (The hands potnt tn the direction where Me men Sought or fled.) te Here fought Commodore Barney, So nobly and so gallantly; Apis Britain’s sons and slavery, For a fighting man was he. “ea There did General Winder flee, His infantry and cavalry, Disgracing the cause of liberty, Fora writing man was he! THE BRITISH IN WASHINGTON. What was left of the army under General Winder made no halt in Washington, but con- Ubued the retreat under his orier across Kock Creek and behind Georgetown. On the night of the 24th, the British camped on Capitol Hull. The next day Cockburn spent tn riding round the city on a mare, followed by her colt, and Superintending the work of firing the public bulidings. Mir. Gales, one of the editors of the National Intelligencer, was an Eugiishman by birth, and this circumstance, with his loyalty tohis adopted country, aroused the wrath of Cockburn. So he gratified himself by destroy- ing the presses, type, furniture aod fixtures of (he office and throwing them out of the win- dows, and in burning the Mbrary. Among the private houses burned was the house of Mr. Robert Sewali; the houses built by General Washington on Capitol Hill; Dantel Carrotl’s large hotel, and Mr. Frost’s hovse on Capitol Hill, and the rope walks of Tench King- gold, Heath & Co. aud John Chalmers. Assisted by negroes they plundered the houses of Mr. A. McCormick, Mr. D. Rapine and Mr. W. Eliot. They also defaced the monumeat which stood west of the Capitol, erected to commemorate the heroes who fell in the war with Tripoll, They burned down the Senate House and the House of the Representatives, the President’s House, the War and Treasury departments, and the Post Oflice. The Patent Office alone escaped destruction, through the intercession of Mr. Wm. F. Thornton, an Eag- lishman by birth and superintendent of patents, who by the way seems to have found moro favor in Cockburn's eyes than his brother Eng- iishman Gales. Tne lorary of Congress was destroyed in the conflagration. The destrac- ton “of the workshops at the navy yard, the public stores, Fort — Washini ton and a_ sloop of war was jusil- fiable under the laws of war. The destruc- Uon of the public bulldings was an act worthy only of barbarians, but was sanctioned by the British government. The estimated value of roperty destroyed Was over one million of dol- ars. The British boasted that a collation had been spread at the President's house to eater- tain the victorious Americans returning from the battle, and that the President and nis peo- ple decamped so precipitately that they left the Viands on the table and Wine in the coolers. Iv is a fact that President Madison, Mr. Jones, Secretary of the Navy; Gen. Mason, of Analos- tan Island; Charles Carroll, of Bellevue; Tench Ringgold and Benjamin Rush had crossed the Potomac to the Virginia side, whence they wit- nesssd the grand spectacle of the conflagration; but the story of the British eating the bang which these gentlemen were to grace Is a1: aggeration. They found some cold victuals for tue servants, ‘The following anecdote wili serve to show the complete sudjugation of the city:—The frst body of the enemy that entered Washington was 20) men. ‘These retired to their camp that night two miles distant, anda sentry who had been posted on Capliol hill, near the Zatelligen cer office, Was, through accident, not relleved, ud hadto remain, He held undisturbed pos- sion of the city until next morning. Tae ritish silently and stealthily evacuated the ty on the evening of the 26th, and reached their shipping in safety. A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION. The following from Mr. Simms, the gentle- man before alluded to, is a graphic description: “With several of my comrades I remained tn the city all night, hiding in the woods, north of the President's house, and we witnessed from our place of concealment, with powerless in- aignation, the vandalism which the enemy was uacting tn the city. The President’s house S fired, and, almost simultaneously, the navy Fard, the Capitol and all the other public bulid- ings, with the exception of the Patent Office. ‘The glare from the burniug bulidings ughted | up nearly the whole expanse of the city, and, fearing the light would penetrate our ntdin; » We laid on the ground, face downward, {a which uncomfortable position we remained aatil near the next morning. While we were looking with sad feeling upon hat we apprehended was the forerunner of destruciton of the whole city, ourattention ap arrested by the explosion oi powder at the al, Which shook the ground upon which re lying, and turning our eyes in the di- rection of the sound, we beheld the most awfal, ind yet the most brilliant spectacle which the lnayikalion can concelve. ‘The heavens were Niiled with living fire, while the kegs of powder which had beeu thrown out of tne well by the explosion of the loose powder at the depot which had been with the kegs hastily thrown tuto il, upon the evacuation of the post, and which the British had not discovered and care- lessly Ignited, as they reached an altituie of tvo or three’ huedred feet, exploded with a concussion that seemed loud enough to vibrate tnrough the whole state of Maryland. We remained for hours motiomless and almost breathless under the Infiaence of the scene, but knowing if we were caught having arms 1a our hands we would be held as prisoners of war. AS the dawn was beginning to appear we got, up, and gilding silently through tae wood3on Kalo- Tama Heights, passed through Georgetown to Tennallytown, where we were joined by several members of our company, and, proceeding on to Kockville, were Gaea united with our com- mand. We remained at Rockville about ten days, walting orders, and white there our cap- tain was relieved from duty, and we elected Captain Moulton to fill the vacancy. We re- elved orders to march to Baltimore early in tember, and upon reaching Ellicott’s MIs we heard the news of the battle of North Point and the repulse of the British. Then we were ordered back to Washington and encamped on ihe hill now occupied by the National Odserva- tory, where we remained until late in the fall, and then were disc! from service, and thus ended my active military life. Whatever taunts and jeers have heretofore been leveled at the citizén soldiers at the battle of Bladensburg, they are now silenced by the action of Congress, which, after sixty years of Injustice, has recognized thelr services by granting pensions to the suivivors. I receive ulne every three months, and just in time for uaiket money.” History of Zero. “Zero” on the common thermometer, like the fanciful names of the coustellations,ts a curious instance of the way wise men’s errors are made iramortal by becoming popular. It may be worth while to say that the word Itself (zer0) comes to us through the Spanish from the -\rablc, and means empty, hence nothing. In expressions like “90 degrees Far.” the abbre- viation, Fahr. stands for Fahrenheit, a Prus- sian merchant of Dantz His full hame was Gabriel Fahrenhelt. From a boy he was a close observer of nature, ard when only nineteen years old, in the re- markable cold winter of 1709, he experimented by putting snow and salt together and noticed tbat it P cipegrt a degree of cold equal to the coldest day of the year. And that day was the coldest day that the oldest inhabitant could remetober, Gabriel Was the more struck with the coincidence of his little sclentilic discovery, and hastily concluded that he had found the jowest degree of temperature known in the world, either natural or artificlal. He called the degree zero, and constructed a thermometer, or rude weather glass, with a scale graduating up trom zero to boiling point, which he numbered 212, and the freezing potnt thirty-two—because, as he thought, mercury contracted the thirty- second of {ts volume on being cooled down from tue temperature of freezing water to zero; and expended 1s0th on being heated from the freez~ ing to the boiling point. ‘Time showed that this arrangement, instead of betng truly seteniific, was as arbitrary as the division of the Bible into verses and chapters, and that these two points no more represented the realextremes of temperature than “from Dan to Beersheeba” expressed the exact ex- tWwemes of Palestine. Lut Fabrenheit’s thermometer had been wide- ly adopted with its inconvenient scale; gnd none thought of any better until his name” be- caine an authority, for Fahrenheit finally aban- doned trade and gave himself up to science. ‘The three countries which use Fahrenheit are England, Holland and America. Russia and Germany use R¢aumur’s thermometer, in which the bo! point is counted 3) a above the freezing point. France use3 the Centigrade thermometer, 80 called because it rks the bolling point 100 degrees from freez- € polnt. On many accounts the centigrade System 18 the best, and the triumph of con- Ventence will be attained when zero is made the freezing Paint and when the boiling point 1s put 105 or 1,000 degrees from {t, and all the Sub-divisions are fixed decimally. It Fahrenheit had done this at first, or even if he had made it one of his many improvements after the public adopted his error, the luck of Opportunity, which was really his, would have Secured to his invention the mn of thi world. Pee i LYNCHING PREVENTED. —The colored man Hicks, accused of the murder of ung Heory Ww near Ludlow, Ky., is in Covington jail. Last night acrowd’'trom ‘Ludlow attempted cotfecvd'a peace and Serena Gunane at ve en- tering the jail. = | among cities as to LETTERS FROM THE PLOPLE. Need fora First-Class Theater. Editor Star:—Your esteemed paper a few days ago contained these words:—“There 13 no more delightful amusement than a good play well acted. 1t stimulates both the intellectual and emotional nature; it excites the fancy, en- livens the i lon, stirs the sympathies, ratifies: tne love of humor and the bense ot beauty, and enl the ideas of life.” So fully am I convil of the truth of this asser- tion Uhat I would consider the existence of a first-class theater and opera in this city as a boon and blessing tethe community. Is it not about time, Mr. Editor, that we shouid have such a theater, and cannot ways and means be | found to erect a temple to the Muses, worthy of the national capital? There are many people who think such an estabiishment’ wouid not pay here, but there are more who belleve that it would pay and that it would stimulate thea- ler-golng to a remarkable degree. A large class of residents, among them. for instance, the di- plomatic corps, but rarely visit our so-called theaters, simply because they are accustomed to more elegant surroundings, a superior «nsemble and ton public a good ptay or opera, weil per- formed in an elegant biiiding, and see whether they will not patronize the stage! ‘The puritanical notion that ail pablic amase- ments are frivolous and sinful las had,or at Jeast ought to have nad its day. On tne conti- nent of Europe, thege now seoms to be a rivairy hich can erect the flaest theater. Paris and Vienna take the lead, but at this moment Rome 1s building the “Theater Costanzi,” a grand structure, which will be jarge enough to hold five thousaad people. When the munictpality of Frankfort opened its magnificent new opera house a few weeks ago, the Emperor of Germany and his family did not consider it beneath theif digaity vo come on tor the purpose of adding by their presence to the general rejoicing. Will you not, Mr. Editor, lend 5 ald and furtner agitate this matt ur valuable RIPIDES, Sporting Life. (N. ¥. Sun.) Mr. Mackey, the Cullforaia milllonatre, is ready to match bis two-year-old filly Sweet- heart agatnst ex-Governor Stanford's two-year- old coli Fred Crocker, for $10,000 a side. Mr. Leonard Jerome, under the managem2nt of the skiliful trainer, Mr. Lee Paul, 1s getting a large and strong stabic of race horses tugether at Jerome Park for next year’s contests, Turf sports are reviving tn South Carolina, Scores of first-class race horses met in Charles- ton at the meeting which opened on December 9. Several New York and Brooklyn turftmen, among them Philip Dwyer, were present. Mr. H. 8. Bloodgood, of Providence, offers to match little Nat or Smut agatast either Giad- ‘tone or Sensation, separately or as a brace, to bunt quail for two consecutive days, from day- ight unul dark, on Robio’s Island, for $1,000, or a plece of plate of that value. Mr. John Splan, on the part of Wedgewood, has declared his readiness to go into a great eepstakes, free for all stallions, of $2,000 or so each, to be trotted for next Seazon. AS there are several rattilag stallions now tn train. ing, John will no doubt be accommodated. William Gale, of Cardiff, Wales, who has waiked 4,000 quarter mics Im as miny quarter hours, Is ROW On a journey of 2,500 mules in 1,40 hours, walking a mule anda half at the beginning of each halfhour. This performance 13 laking place in tke open air, near London, Barrett, one of the most promising sons of Bonnie Scotland, has beca sent to Eagiand. It i3 to be hoped that he will prove an exception fo the many great horses tuat have been wrecked On and alter crossing the oceaa, such aisetto, Lord Murphy, Spendtarift, sly . Mistake, and otuers, Robert Watson Boyd of Middiesborough, prob- ably the best of the Eaylisa oarsmen, who taude a fullure when he rowed In this country, 13 Said to be anxious to meet Hani: lucked up his spirits during the last three weeks, as he did not > partin the Inver- national regatta for the American prizes, Hane jan offers to row B. a fortnight after bis match with Laycock, for $2,500 a’side, so that nobody can complain of not having had a chance to defeat the chan Whistler and Bibby, and then Muldoon and Whistler, are to wriche in the Uresome contor- tous called Greco-Roman wrestling about ioll- day times. It hardly Seems possible that the old sport-loving and bicod-tetuing Greeks and Romans were patient enough to sit six hours jooking at two wel athietes in their vain altempts to toss each other by grasping perspiring neck: Shouiders, backs, and S. Some modera changes should be made In the rules that would insure something be- sides a draw in half a nights work. ‘These WS are Decuming deci u of the most u He mast story and thankless Sto act 93 judge tna Held trial of dogs. Pious Jeems and Dr. Young came all the way from Mississippt to jadye th dogs ou Robin’s Island. “Gentlemen,” said Tous Jeems, when the dogs were first sent Jato the field, “we are strangers to all ot you ind your dogs, so there Is one thing you can lest assured Of, and that 1s than the best dogs will get the prizes.” Tuis made each man with adog in the lists happy, for he felt that the judges must see that his doz was the best. When the trials ended forty- men out of the fifty swore that southern sportsmen were not the men to judge eastern do, Billiard experts are confintng thelr skill to practice games at present. Edward McLauzh. tun, one of the youngest of Philadelphia's pliy- ers, did the last tne work to public, wiantng | tbe arnponahlp ot the Keystone state trom Nelths, Estephe, Dodds, Bullock and Hvnter, in a tournament In Philadetphia, which closed De- cember 4. Jacob Shaefer declares that tne pres- ent champlon’s game {s too short. He is eager for another chance at Champion Slosson. ‘The champion expresses a willingness to meet Jacob on his return from France for a restricted rall match at $2,500 aside. The postponement of ihe match between Vinaux and Slosson to De- cember 20 has disappointed the blillard men here, The match 1s 5,000 points, 6 be played in five nights, 600 points each game. Play was to have begun on the evening of December 7, in the dining room of the Grand Hotel, after din- ner. Stosson 1s reported to have made a run verging on 1,000 points in a recent practice ame. The wordy war which Carver and Bogardus used to wage on this side of the ocean will per- haps be transferred to the other, a8 the doctor has challenged the captain to’a match, near London, at a hundred pigeons, for $2,500 a side and the championship of the world. "The med. ical man used to be thought the better at the rite, and the military man at the shotgun, but they found extreme difliculty in coming to- getherin amatch. A challenge would be met by @ counter challenge, not to shoot that match, but another and’ much better match, consisting of about fifteen sections; tis again would be met by a replication proposing to shoot with one hand, or blindfolded, or on horseback, or In some other extraordinary way; then Carver would suggest, shooting at glass bails with rifles, and Bogardus woul Propose a match with “ boy Eugene.” Whetier the new transatlantic negotiations will go on in this familiar way to an end as fruitless remains fo beseen. At all events, itis noticeable that it 1s proposed to settle the championship of the world at pigeon shooting in Eagland between two foreigners, 4 championship at ust a8 the sculling 1s rowed there between foreigners. Everybedy remembers hearing of the myste- rious invention which Courtney was to bring out for the defeat of Hanlan on the Potomac course, but which he concluded to forego. ‘The fnability of the British seullers to compete with the best Canadians, Australlans ‘and Ticans has In like manner led them to de- es for making up by gas, windsalls and other contrivances the required diflerence of skill in ee ee operated with one of sé contri 3, & Win. on the fore; of his boat, in his race with Laycock, Riso in a later race; but it was Hanlan’s opinion that 1 cost him four lengths, A Newcastle man named Marks has a device somewhat more | promising. He introduces bags of hydrogen gasfore and aft in tae shells, io the empty spaces ordinarily covered with canvas, ‘This, he holds, will make them more buoyant. El. liott_ has rowed one of these gasbag boats in Tast time; possibly Boyd may be thinking ubout one, in talking of rowing agamst Han!an. ‘The tnstinct of lovers of square matches Is gen- erally against mechanical devices of which on! one side takes advantage. Still, whenever suc! things are mooted, the oarsmen from the Amer- ican side of the ocean are likely to get all the qaluanle poluts about them as soon as any- u ‘Boston has just organized a new cricket club, to be known by the name of the cliy, Phila- delphia’s club prizes for the past season have been substantially settled, though the official presentations may not have occurred. Tae Jee Greg long the champion ciub of the United States and Canada, takes the Halifax Cup, 01 won by Philadelphia in 1876 from All Canada and from the British officers of Halifax and Bermuda, and now employed to signalize the status of the local clubs, as there 43 ho prospect of its ever belong recovered by the Bri and Canadian Riavers. ‘The other 13 order: of America, with T. Hargrat ond, and Sutherland Law of the Merion third. It had been su by many that Law would prize, jus trom his take the bow! m his re- markable execution against visiting clubs; but 3 another Merion bowler, W. C. Lot him in iL tches, thus} the local mai powtes pr with R third, Taw fourt , Law fifth ana wath OF twenty games six Philadetphia clubs played clubs of Canada, New York er scenery. Gi¥e the Wa3hing- | | $100,000 to the northwestern Tneologic RELIGIOUS NOTES. —The Rev, Mr. Dobson of Muncie, Ind., was & Univesalist, but now says that Universalism isonly 4 pretext for atheism. and that tc is Jac in christianity. Therefore he leaves his old rats and becomes a Congregationallst. —An exchange complains that the Associated | Press telegraphs slang when It says a ceriain | thief “skipped out.” There ts no slang aboat | that. Take your Bible. if it has the Apocrypha | in it, and turn to Ecclesiasticus, 36th chapter 26th versa. It reads, “Who will trust a thief, Gan ,2ppointed, that skippeth from city to =h conference on the Sunday question held recently in Edinburgh took rather yleomy views of the subject. A London secretary re- ferred to the alarming growth of the Influence of the Sunday Society and the increasing favor with which propositions to open museums and picture galleries were received both in England and Scotland. i —Mr. Gough, in a late lecture, took occasion to discountenance the practice now uy in vogue of giving out notices of entertainments, etc., from the pulpit, the holding of dramatic performances in church parlors, aud (he omit— Ung of prayer meetings in order that tiey should not interfere with the attendance? at a certain play to be preseatedt at the theatre. —The Episcopalians of St. Louts are committed to the theatre. Their churches clubbed together lately, hired a theatre for a week, paid the manager the salary of the pl ers, selecting of course, a moral play, stirred up their frends to patron'z> the play, and at | ibe close turned over the profits to the local | charity for thesake of which this new d2yar- ture was made. — The Eari of Shaftesbury recoatly remarked ‘that the religious horizoa was ark, and mea’s hearts and minds were so little suite’ to the exigencies of the times that he veziaty fear the final close of the established caurca vas near at) band. The great daager to thts | country lay, not in the activity of those op | posed to religion generally, bat to the vast | indifference and apathy Shown by the great | inasses of the people. i — Cyrus H. McCormick has given another LSemt- nary, andin a few days this money wiil be | placed In the hands of thetreasurer. Tht3 will place the seminary in a position to oer a | Strong inducement to Professor Patton to re- | main, as they can offer him achair similar to | that which he goes to fill at Princeton. He has fully decided, however, to leave Chicago and mo efforts to Induce him to remain willbe fu- ule. —The ungodly in Indianapolls are now to be afforded an opportunity of turaing frou thelr wicked ways. It 1s announced that Evan- | Gelist Harrison will make thafeity th? scea of his next wresiie with Satan. The attac! will commence on the 2d of January, and con tinue probably for several weeks. “Instead of solbg into the slums of the sinfml city, Mr. {arrison operates in the most stylish Metho. dist church, where people of all grades are ex- pected to gather. | —The English revisers of the New-Testa- ment held their closing session on N. ber 12, There were present during the sess! Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, wh: sidea; the Deans of Westmlaster, Rochesver, Lincoln, and iitclifleld; the Master of the ‘Temple, Canon Westcott, Principals Angus and Newth, Professors Hort an Prebendaries Humphry and Mr. ‘Troutbeck, the secretat has sat 407 days, and the rage attendance: has been sixteen on cach day of meeting. — Prot. Swing at least has not gst all hope | t ofthe theater. Many of the plays now oa boards he says, are creating a very good k! of laughter and tears and must be confessed to be dolng not a littie toward educating the com mon people at least. There is an evident ten dency in the plays of to-day to be classic, or else to be didactic, teaching some good lesson in lite. Ifthere be a swindler in the piot, ue 13 most Certainly brought to grier; if there bea “false friend,” he will surely w he had been a true friend before he is done with the busi. ness in baud. —Dr. Prime discourses in the O%ser the sin and folly of ridiculing other peo: j Teligious views. He tells how one evening in this he was at a public meeting fn a; Bapust church, with ministers of several dit- Terent denominati whex one of ff story, the point of which was to m: the tite of ae by immersio: taste, the bad manners, the atrocity of the bing must have been patnful to every rigut- | minded person in the house. And no one is more frequently made a matter of feeble witticism than the baptism of infants on by sprinkling and the baptism of adulis by im- uersion. When a baptist speaks of ‘baby— spnuklers” or a Pedo-Baptist speaks of tramer- flonists as “dippers.” they are both offeuders | against Christian decor. In Uke mauner the amens Of the Metuvdists and the forms and vestments of Episcopaitans are often marie fun of by those who do not stop to reilec’ that | pecullarities are the most sensitive plu in| one’s system, and whoever laughs at them wounds to the quick. | TEE DRAMA OF THE PRESENT | With Advertising Attachment—Ex- tract from *‘Camille.”> (Pack.} CAMILLE.—[orerirhelmed irith shane, Yes, ses—I am all that yousay! Moncey has been | ly object throughout lite—money—money to | purchase these gorgeous robes of Mad. Tizht- tit—money to buy these gems of Biffany « Co.— money to have my hair dressed by Crimpen the colifeur. I can live only in this giddy whirl of | excitement and luxury—in richly furnished apartments like this—so beautifully pictured by Mr. Dauber, the renowned scenic artist. I can walk only on carpets from Kougan’s—sit only in Stuffers nt double-cushioned chairs—waltz only to -a-ling’s giddy tunes, played on aVebor plano. A curtain hangs Over my true life more rich, more deeply tinted than even one of Hangem’s manufacture. I | am a whited sepulcher, with walls covered, as it were, with wall paper from Levi's Bazaar. Do not risk your life forme. Fly! ARMAND.—[lerribly afecied,) — Rise Camille, rise, I will fy—on one condition. CAaMILLE.—[same,] What 1s that? | even eat That you fly with moe! Listen to me, Camille! I am mad with a raging fire, hot as that kindled py Lush’s Genuine Old Tom Gin. Beneath the breast of this coat, | s0 elegantly made by Nickle. the famous tailor, | beats a heart whose agony 13 not to be ex- pressed in words. Whatis this man tome? He is but the shade and shadow of a rival, as unreal as Ochre’s picture there upon the wall— Uhat size $1.00. Say that you love me still! CaMILLE.—An abyss scparates us, Armand. | We can no longer love each other. I have Sworn it. The chasm that parts us Is wide as Park avenue, on which fashionable street Permit & Co. are now offering for sale very eligible corner lots. Go-—forget me! I have sworn it. ARMAND.—To whom? CAMILLE.—To de Varville! AKMAND.—What, to that man, who gets ils clothes from the opposition house to Nickle’s— the house that refused to advertise with us at the low rate of #10 a mention? CAMILLE.—[again overvohelmed irtth shame,) Nawann—But he smokes Cigarettes not from Skinney Brothers’ celebrated manutactor; CAMILLE.—(1ilerly abased,] He does! ARMAND.—And you love Unis man, this man whose shoemaker—base creature—I can not mention his name, for he has not pald his ad- veriising-bill—you love him? CAMILLE.—(clean gone,} I do. ARMAND.—[rushing to the door.) Come tn, all! [Enter omnes, 0. D. F.) You all see this woman? Owngs.—Camille! ARMAND.—Do you know what she has done? She sold her diamonds from Sparkie’s—ner car- riage from Jewster’s—her horses from Batter- Salle—that we might livein one of S. U. Bur- ban’s commodious Villas. She is a pale, scent- Jess flower, pale as one of Bebus’s Camellias in the tasteful Hower-stand and jardiniere yonder, from Bentwood & Co.'s. But you ar ail wit: nesses that I pay my debt [showers golu upon her). Now I owe her not on a VARVILLE.—([rushing upon him,)] Yes, you do! ‘ARMAND.—Don't!_ You muss my collar—Curl & Billson’s patent duplex hemstitched. Villain, unband me. (Music; Curtain, ornamented with adv. of Gab~ bolas bits Soap, sas.) ‘The Legend of the Horseshoe. sign of paganism to eat horse flesh and ey foroidden in Christendom; thence Tecové Winen Jesus spoke to him. in Berlin is a of shoes left by the Jew, and ali throug! seventeenth and elghteenth centuries supposed themselves to be the W: Jew.—Moncure D. Conway, Fire anp Loss or Lirg.—A fire inthe wall- Tactory of Bridge & Sons, at ‘Butralo, N. the leas Of & Beinber of fivest and the. many persons employed in the building. of JEWEL RosuERy.—The residence of Mrs. Gov. Todd, in Ye wn, Ohio, was entered by robbers yt rf, Who stole $3,000 worth of fome ana it'is'8 grext mystery bow the rob: ‘bery occurred. | pencit'watie the land 15" rocking under Lits feet | knew me. | Of the kinship to evil some peopie tolerate about | teud tt, aud so not only frustrate tieir labors, } ard strike the public eyes, 1s also naturai, because Journalism, ATTRIBUTE TO ITS ENTERPRISs, POWER AND UBR- PULNESS (Condensed from Rev. Bebert Collyer's late dis- course.) Do the hidden forces break out in an earth- Quck~, a man springs up with a note book and dna begins 10 write and to flash” his words over the first wire he can lay his handson. Is the tire Lurning upacity? Taere he ts among the | 3 fame scratching at his paper—the coolest maa )ou sha!! find. “How did you come to write that account of | That fearful Morutey in our cltyt” [sald to 4 woman who had given a wonderful picture of | F ‘all In one Of your great papers. “I wasrash- | log out with all the rest of you,” she sill when I met a reporter for that paper, woo | He said, ‘You are the very person [ | Wes looking for; come right along, you must vsrite me the story of this morning for oar reper, and it must go over the wires to-tay. ‘They Will pay you more than you ask.” “Write 200 the story?’ Lerted Unrough my tears; “hy, imy heart is Dreaking—and | have lost my folk: and, just look alme with the grime” ‘3 right," be answered, ‘put the heart break Into the story, leave your face to care of itself aud Jet the folks seck you. Come along.’ Andeome i did. across the Tiver fo a house, where he found a table, put paper and pencli down; and so 1 did it, blotting the (hing all over wita my | tears.” e newspaper is glorious and coo at its best and best; Meauer as you reach down- . and when 'you get c down to the Lowest line, as mean as dirt. It ts the old dream in this respect also, Loat these ele. | ats stand for something outside the tmaze {iseif; for the power on the throne and the poser bebind the throne; for the actors and ice audience; for those who fasion this marvel of our modern time, and thos: for whom It 13 fa bicned. ‘The gold and stiver, the brass and iv and mud are ail found first in Uae paoy: ho make the form and substance of the ne wer possible; and then Uiey are tn thos who » tbe press to please those they work for, and from whom they expect a due reward. Powerful and wonderful as this creation of our | Pew day 18, It 1s the Image of the people wc are looking at, 1 in hope und fear, or adaira- ton or hate. It s lke the church, the dram: Congress, the Senate and the administration an outcome first and then au income. Or lik: the water which rvus clear to the upper storie; of our houses and great butidings jouly It does not 50 run in New York)—a proof that we have those among #s Who work and pian and pay for clearness, and at its worst 1013 Uke Un nant pools and marshes that turn to sI ‘Ube stn to bree pestilence and malaria—proot pay r ad them cr create outof the slush and sitme of their own nature, Now that the American press—for I s) j ibis _especially—should distance the world tn enterprise 13 a8 natural as it is that we should doa hundred Unings beside that spring from our wide and free life, Tbat tt should be gen- erally keen, bright, trenchant. quick avd hu- morous In spots ts also natural, because t are all qualities that Me within our free Ute ‘That the leading articles in our papers id contrive to pack all the sense into walt space of the leaders in a paper like the London Ties ts also pavaral, because We {i hasiy, flery and impatient life, different. trom the stow and sure proces of life {un Engiaad, and dilons know very Well Unat if they sioud eus a plece of thelr mind in their columns | shculd look at the loag chapter, refuse to the ul stop our subscriptions. for we will no more abide long sermons in 20 We Billim the pulpit. Taat we hundreds of personal and imper wus about everything of any Interest, every Ian and woman who happens to pr should have it thete fs no Such curious and iaqut ibe planet as Uns of ours, It ts true, no doubt, ne respect we have atuended our ways p days Of Mr. Dickens. ‘aud for the perfect frecdom of the p and forever, and want to see it fr less about men and Ubtngs, bo: no sympathy mishuess w! among the reserve The press can do, and has done, a peer! io grappling with pubile a lon within the past years. pepers, and we have them. And Low what hope is there that this great power for good and evil will crow better not Worse: that the goid and stiver of it will grada- ihe brass, the fron and the inud. frst of all, 18'to me the gr —that the best of our journals are all the | srowing better and wining thelr way into areas of power and the noblest use. 1 int tua sign aitogether for good that the vast majority of our great papers are perfectly free, and, as I believe, perfectly honest. Th- ng office or plunder, and will have none. stand Clear of ail taint. and trust themselves utterly to the honest instincts of the clean The best of them see from afar, mountain tops, the dawn of a uew aud better day, when the patriot will persuady the men: iticilan, or rather, when the politician will 4 patriot in the purest sense. Aud so they stand as heralds to encourage us to rise au take our place and begin wich the new oppor- as men on ; i Almerican cluzen. ja | tuulty. Journals like these are the true leade: of the people, as Mr. Lincoln was the true leader wnen he waited to hear the tramp of his tellow citizens behind him, and then marched cn with their heart and mind and hand to maintain him. It is also true that as the ' people go, the journals—which do not lead, but iollow—will go. They wilt do just as tuey have done—wheel swiftly into line to save their ctr- culation. So tt is no great wonder, as you wilisee, that the newspaper should be about the most povent power we know of among visible things, or that iair-minded men should be art tor this power aud proud of it, wherever it is held sacred to truth and virtue in a wide and true sense. I will venture to say also that we, of allmen, | should be glad and proud of this power for good, because among newspapers of the first Fapk there are very tew Indeed that are not conducted in a bi and liberal spirit when- ever they touch the great qi ions which | belong especially to the pulpit. Indeed, I saw | @ paragraph not very long ago which professed to give the bias, or the belongings, of the most | eminent editors in this country, and it was Something of a wonder to find what numbers of them were what we should call itberal, until iremembered how hard tt must be to find a man of aby other mind who can conduct a great paper, or conducting one, should not catch Unis spirit through his work. ‘There 1s one more word. You arein the habit of saying that ministers are only men after all, and we must say the same of editors, and make | a large allowance for them. They do not chime in with our ideas, but we know they are men and true in their vocation. I Know of no Position so full of difficulty as that of the con- ductor of a great journal, His congregation is counted by tens of thousands, and every man of them wants the paper run his way, frets and fumes if it 1s not so, and writes a scolding letter or gives up his T. This is all wrong, anda perpetual threat to one of the finest treasures We possess—tte freedom of the press. Now,we have free ‘h in the pulpit, and cherish it; We should love it also in the press, so it be clean and sturdy speech, and say with good John dames Taylor:.I love the truth, even when it goes against myself.” Maud S. and Katie Middicton, {New York Turf, Ficld and Farm. | Mr, Bair, the trainer of Maud S., dropped in upon us Friday last. He had been spending a few days at Harrisburg with old friends, and came to New York for the purpose of secing Mr. Vanderbilt. His first thought of bullding a pad- dock in Chester Park fer Maud S. was aban- dened. He reasoned that she would be better contented with company, and so she was given ‘the run of the fleld with Katie Middleton. “The first time she was let out she made straight for a small pond, waded in and laid down. She seemed to yee delight inthe bath. She and — Middleton are ay, srt ot — other ani along very well together. y re the treedom ‘of the tle id at eleven Th Maud S. wears Ups. She ts kept strong with Tain, and is In best of health. Mr. Batr a8 ordered a light wagon for her, and ne Says that he will easily beat next year the ‘wagon record of Hopeful. He thinks he can drive ber, rigged to four wheels, in 2:13. He also says he would like to see her matched against St Julien, He argues that she has as much speed as she has, is a8 good a rater ana will stay better. On the ist of January he will take the young queen and commence’ jogging : secon the half-mile would than 1:04, —Gen. Neal, POLYGaMy IN IDAHO.- umes his message to from Ut legislature j Having borne thi Of me Wh | nie; Rest THE riRa OF THE SHOT GIRE. (From Punch.) Reat’ Leuppose there js some such thing E’en in this our world, though the preacher's jay warned us that Hope's tired wing For final folding mast w the next. - Seg bey ep ining Cites in their pad eknOwn Feet’ micaulng, they looked eo a Nay, their ata horses, in well-statled mows, weir burden of fe wf From the crowded church at the eermon's close, vatde'en Man masters wast fain Pefroak A dumb brute’s labor wial alight repose. but I* Fora dozen By Lo the sore-strained ®! Aud the sick bear: «irk Te Geah and biood in a womsn's #! hen that woman ia poor and nist r cy that ts hh alaves as nenta of tall surcease “a victim try rack-turne afd dream of ter all? ae wrete «the thra war wit k ed day health, vastied, WO sine. > late Win. whose sud orth Beach, mbcred by the year 1567 up tt ot Was a general partner with Win. numerous business enterpriacs of Magnitude and rtanor, and the ot “the properly by the par ship during this peri (imated at Untrty T do! ton was the sole 1, Dat she now on the day he with the settle- airs in suca a w uch wart . Bank of Califor tt rer us uf y wite at suit a York refuge 19 kU her- au Lasage asy a iT OF LETTERS REMAINING IN TLE WASHINGTON CITY PUST OFFICE, Saturday, December 1S, E890. FR-vo obtain any of these Letters the sprifcant ADVERTISED Lea Tens,” and «ive st bryan Ausie Mrs. Barr ‘arrie, Butler Mery A; Braymaa Luckey Missouri. Browu Winae a. Cavrieana Fannie £ Obesney Male Mare Merc sret c + Coldman Such; Clarke S Mise Colbert Far Dutin Gely V; Dorsey Harriet: Dillon J hart a: Davis Jane; Derby Lucy. — Eisanbaver nna; Barly Machel. -Fither Annie E; Foster Eliza; Poller Mary; er Mary. Graham Ellen; Gyy Mary; Grant baral B—Hundran Enma: Horter Kate: Hi Handley Margaret. Host 3 Baney Sadie? Harris Virgin: J—James Carciine: Joburon Emma: Jubneon B Mre; Jackson Georgia : Jeflerson Harriet; Johnsou Mar, A; Johnson Luvinuie; Jones Mary J, Joh. son Mas A. Ki Kate; Kane Mary. iL Sheapley OG Mrs, Lederer Katie: Lewis Lan- nie; Lucking Lizzie; Lewis Nancy; Lucas Nelli ‘sunte. M—Mullen Annie: Miser F Mrs; Middicton An- Mercer Charlotte; Mills Lucy: Mevard E M Mrs; Mablay Julia, Mathss Jno Mrs. Morris Lucy ; mM Mc Moore Mrs; M en Mary ©. Mat tern ML; Murray M Mrs; Mason Mar Mrs, AL ell Naunie; Merwir Sarah F ; Morgan Susie; Miller ice Martha: Powell 84 tk al ; Pcoc‘er Ceterine, Patter- son Fammmat Varker Barrist, Pain Jauios Mey. acken Dore Alto SStosch avd Mire; Russell Julia, 4; Redman Jane: Kollinws Kate Rowe Meude , tay Ella; kubin- son 8. s. ith Jali Ann; Sulden Annie ;Sheman J Kien: Tasker Elia; Thomas A; Terpey Helena; ‘I nuston Ids H, Thompson J Mrs; Tutun Miiss;’ Thomas Maria, Lennisun Mary Wilson A D: Warren Annie ks KE Mrs: Woolburch © Mra: t Martha; Wiliams Harriet ; Willis Lille: Weston Maria, Wu Haus Nancy Mrs: Ward Kachel ; Wauser Susan. GENTLEMEN'S LIST. A-Ausley Geo. B_Buckner a; Bernardini A G; Bagne Alfred Brown B A; Bradiey Chas ®: Brown gH. Balard Chane; Broughton David; Boone Bart Frank Bryson Geo E; unis Guy : Grown H Ma): Best Haywood; Berkey John. Brown James, 2 Blake JQ; Burton JE; Benjawin 8C.Barbaun A. Baldwin Wm; Brett WH, Blackford W &; Bohrer Win B. <Crawiord Albert; Garter O; Corson DT Ohristian B Nay, Copke Garter (in Major ZI isG bb lutior Joun OMe! c. Clap. frau eum, i * bn; Cook Jno G; Oarl dF. OD. Deruiver August: Davis Obarics; Duncan D T: Digees Henry. Dosucr J-remiait. Davis dW: Donant WL: Davis Wi H; Dowsiass Wr. ae Elliott AH; Eusor Geo; Kmmersonu Julian; ¥F—Falles A S; Frier Ed; Flemus J; Frost Jas E; sher Wm J “Green; Gant Goo W; Green :Gordou Thos: Golden Jessie vey = Gilt \— Hudson Chas ; Bali Geo W , Harvey Gen ; Hen ances Hi Hooe HM; Bagenbuxa J R; Harman & FTE A 3; Jonnecn Edward: Jolson BH; Jsckeon Ireep A; Jchuson Thos A; Johusoa Thomas; Johnsen Thos J; Johnson WL; Johason William. ‘K—King Frank H: Kerker GA: Kent Henry 0; fer and Hal; Reith F Judge: Kaapps P. Si ewis Jou BS; Lctoe ‘Tasman, Lancaster dng W. 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