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PATENT NOTICE.
U. S. Patint Office, \
Washington, D. C, March 16th, 1871./
r\N THB PETITION OF tiBOKOK P. PKKIMNI,
\J of Richmond, Va., and James E. Loylo.of New I
York, N. V., praying tor tho extension of a patent j
granted to them on the 23d duy of June, 1857, for an 1
improvement in Hydrants :—
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closel on tbe 23d day of May mxi, that the time for
filing arguments and the Examiner's report he lim
ited to the 2d day of June next, and that said peti
tion be heard on the 7th duy of June next.*
Any person may oppose this extension. j
M.D. IdWOHTT, j
mh 22—law3w Commissioner of Patents.
U. 8. Patkwi Office, )
WABniiratoN, D. 0., March 15th, 1871. / j
f\X THE PETITION OV JOHN HAW, of Hano- '
\j ver county, Virginia, prayiug for tho extension I
of a patent granted to h ! m ou tho 28U day of June,
1857, and additional improvements on toe -2tith day
of July, 1859, for an improvement in Picker Saw log
Haahlnea:
It (s ordered that the tesUinouy ia the case be |
closed on the 23d day of May noxt, that the time for
filing arguments and the Examiner's report be lim
ited to the 2d day of June next,and that said petition
be heard on the 7th day of June next.
Any person may oppone this extension.
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mh 18—B3w Commissioner of Patents.
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KB REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
s print to-day the National Republi
latform, and commend it to tho care
udy of our reariera.
It is tho authorized exposition of the
National party as made by its regularly
constituted convention in 18C8, and which |
General Grant adopted when he accepted
the nomination for the Presidency. By it
we aro to test tho conduct of tho adminis
i
tration and of Congress, and we may justly
demand of both fealty to the faith which
they have professed.
It is well for parties, as for individuals,
to go back now and then to fundamental
principles and take a new departure, as tho
engineer refers to his base, lest the steady
increment of some Blight error should spoil
the result. In the practical working of a
krument, where complicated and op
lg iuteiests are to be harmonized, in
mal and party strifes, great principles
liable to be forgotten. Intent upon
means and measures, tho great ends are
often obscured and sacrificed. In stormy
controversy about tho way of doing it, tho
!ng we set out to do passes out of sight,
the ship drifts on the waters, or is
yen before the gale, and needs a faith
captain to take a new reckoning, and
ng her once more to obey her compass
We ask all candid mou to read our
itform. It will stir up "pum minds by
y of remembrance" to new zeal to the
jd cause. It will recall tho erring to
duty and enable all to be more just iv
their judgments of each other's consistency
and fidelity to the party. Wo think that
I the whole it will appear thst tho
blican party has been faithful to its
ssions, and that it is worthy of tho
lence and support of all loyal men.
has been true to its promises, to pre
tho public credit as well aa to lighten
ins ourden of taxation upon tho people.
It has protected alike foreign and native
born, black and white, and has dealt more
generously oven than its platform required
with the rebel States. It has demanded
from foreign powers just recognition of
our rights, but with diguity and in a spirit
of conciliation. Mistakes it has made,
and much is still to be done to complete its
high mission of good ; but underlying all
the petty strifes, jealousies and differences
of its leaders, its heart is sound and true.
Roused from momentary forgetfulnesa by
tho exultation of its foes, it will gird its
loins for the great struggle which is to
come, and move grandly forward to incar
nate its maxims in laws and institutions,
whose benificent influence shall be felt
through all time.
Let our candid oppoucuts read this plat
form and tell us wherein it is wrong or un
just. Let them show us wherein the Re
publican party has been unfaithful to it.
We will unite earnestly with all good men
to correct party errors, whether of profes
ilqd or practice. We have one common
interest whatever our party affiliations.
The mass of us expect no office, but must
take our chanceß in tbe general weal or
woe. We have no interest in being wrong.
Why can we not, then, accord honesty of
purposo and do justice to each other, dis
cussing calmly all questions which relate
to our common interest as citizeus and as
j THK DEMOCRACY.
The Democratic camp is seriously dis
turbed by the presence of some bondhold
ers, who insist upon the payment of tho
national debt. The Cincinnati Enquirer
says that thoir influence has been disastrous
and has cost the party hundreds of thous
ands of votes. The Albany Argus {insists
that Western disasters we're caused by mal
contents who quarrelled over the candi
dates.
The Enquirer asks for a platform as rad
ical cs in 1808, aud candidates who will
carry it out. Between the bondholders who
Pixpected to furnish the finances of war
the.repudiators who are to furnish the
votes, the pi at form-makers will have a
good time of it. The self-interest of the
bondholders, and the self-respect of the
few honest but deluded leaders who still
Ku to tho Democracy, will claim
t dealing with public creditors. On
her hand, the poor and ignorant who
would destroy the national credit in a vain
hope to escape the burdens of debt, will
clamor for repudiation.
These political quacks will waste their •
ingenuity in all attempts to patch up the
dissevered body of Democracy. The De
mocratic party has been slain, diawn and
quartered for its crimes against freedom and
the uationallife. Itsctrcase is a stench in
the nostrils of tho world. Its very name
is a stigma. Here iv the South, where,
whatever faults may be rife, there ia bold
ness of utterance aud contempt for subter- |
fugo, no party dare assume a title bo dis
graced. That sham pretender to the sue- [
ceesion of ita once proud heritage, aud the
glory of its early days, dure not assume its
hated name.
The Democratic party died ten years ago
on the gibbot, black and bloody with
crime. Tho cruel doctors vainly galvanize
its worthless clay and point to its disgust
ing contortions as tho promise of a new
life. Iv vain they set up its image and
stuff the old clothes of Democracy with
tho chaff of Conservatism. The spirit is
gone, it has found a now incarnation and
inspires new men with the glorious truths
of that early Democracy of freedom and
Equality, which Jefferson and Mason
I is, occasionally mistakes the temper of the
jWe think it has done it in tho cose o
San Domingo. If a fair poll were taken
we are confident, as at present informed,
large majority of the peoplo would vot
for annexation. Of course, this opinio
does not affect the merits of .the questio
one way or the other. But an attempt
being made to forestall the consideratio
of the question upon its merits, by urgin
that tho people are opposed to it. Tl
people have not voted, but we can gathc
from many sources indications of their de
uire to annex, not only San Domiugo, hu
the wholo West Indies.
Wo commend the good aaoee of tho peo
ple in this matter. With our present
light, wo think, that if we can obtaiu these
islands, with tho consent of all parties,
and at small cost, it should bo done.—
Right and expedient in itself, we are con- j
vinced that it would be a most popular j
act, and greatly strengthen tho party that I
achieves it. Tho fear of war with If tytl j
is all baseless.
Whatever else wo have done or failed to
do, we have certainly shown no disposi
tion to absorb our weak neighbors
against their will. Wo have a good
record to show to our tropical friends.
Mexico on the South, and the British pro
vinces on tho North, and Cuba herself,
Attest our good behavior. Thoy will soon
learn tbo value of closer connection with
us, in the stabilily which secures lift,
liberty, aud property, and makes civiliza
tion possible. [
When the Commission returns, we shall
get tho full facts. We trust the whole
matter will bo considered without reference
to incidental questions, which have been
dragged into the controversy, aud with the
full light thrown upon it by the report of
tho Commissioners, whatever that report
may be. We are sure that tho names of
Ben Wade, Dr. 8. G. Howe and Prof.
White, will command for it the fullest con
fidence of the American people. I
From Johnston & Selden we have
"Harper's Monthly" for April. A lively
sketch of life among tho Pitcairn Islaud- ;
ers is fully illustrated ; illustrations of the
Bowery on Saturday night is racy ; a
very interesting article ou the Gulf Stream
Kie Winds is given by William
Along the Florida Reef is con-
This number is very meaty. j
ye "Appleton" also, —a steiling
urnal full of good things.
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Immigration.
sxandria Gazette, one of the most
ug and public-spirited of our ex
s laboring zealously to encourage
immigration. We clip tho following from
its last issue :
WORTH DOING.
A meeting to promote immigration has
been recently held in Alexandria, aud one
is called in Fredericksburg for tho samo
purpose. In view of these facts would it
not be a good plan to re-organize our old
society ? Judge Blow mado a masterly
speech, and the scheme then adopted
might bo rovived now with practical re
sults. On this subject we quote from the
State Journal as follows :
Open the way for colonies as the West now
is, and we can compete with the West. Her
advantage now is cheap lands, sub divided,
with titles guaranteed by the government.
We aro so much nearer market on the sea*
board, with great rivers, penetrating bays,
forests, mines, mountain and valley, grand
scenery, delicious climate, that we only want
a little good management and energy to put
the advantage on our sido. We think this is
the subject which should occupy all men who
really have any stake in the prosperity of Vir
ginia. Individuals who have large tracts are
setting tho example in some portions of the
State. What we need is a law authorizing the
Board of Immigration, or parties under its
inspection, to consolidate and re-survey lands,
put them in the market, and publish tbe same
in this country and Europe. This could be so
used as to become a vast relief to oar own peo
ple, and afford to others an opportunity to
to get cheap and pleasant homes.
With Liverpool touching us on one
shoulder and Memphis laying her hand on
the other, it is time for us to w:tke up to a
full appreciation of the advantages which
will follow in the wake of every immigrant
ship which comes into the waters of Vir
gration, and have appointed agentß to that
end. Will the Logislaturo take the hint,
and aid Mr. Anderson, of Rockbridge, in
reviving tbo bill which he tried to get be-
The Democratic and Conservative Con
a native of Charles county, Maryland ; ho
studied law under his brother, Judge Mer
captain of dragoons under Guueral Tay
from Charlea county, and afterwards prac
ticed his profession iv Baltimore, and be- j
ie,
mouuted natioual guard. Iv 1849 he en
tered tho Legislative Assembly, and sup
ported the Conservative party. He after
lowiug passages:
" I'ovv now living ever witnessed a Pre
sidential content which convulsed tho
country iv every part as will be stirred by j
thecontistof 1872.
" We renewedly urgo, therefore, the Re
publicans of every State to begin at one
their quiet preparations for the momentou
struggle, by severally inducing every ma
whom they cm Influence to tako and roat
isoiiiii Republican newspaper.
"Republicans who aro alive in off years
you must do the work that is now preß3
ingly needed ! Each of you know from
five to fifty persons who will vote in 187
if then living, yet who are taking no polit
ical journal whatever. You can induce
part of them to take a good one if you wi
make tho requisite effort. If you have
good cheap Republican paper issued i
your vicinity, give that tho preference ; i
you must look further to find one of th
right sort, do not hesitate; if one will tak
a certain journal and another another, ac
commodate each ; but do not let a mont
paw without having every one within th
ranae of your influence supplied with some
Republican journal that he will take to bis
fireside and road in the hours of his leisure.
This is the duty of the hour; do not post
pone or neglect it."
Tho Times has a leader headed "Demo
crats and Republicans," in which it says :
Wherever Democracy becomes as pow
erful as it is here, it will inevitably pro- ;
duce tho same fruits which it has produced
here—those, aud no other. There will be
a "Boss" at tho head of affairs, and a
handful of rascals doing all his dirty work
I iv consideration of having their fortunes
mado. It is because wo know this so well,
from painful experience, that wo are more
anxious to see Republicans maintain their
ground than to see Senator Sumner "ro- j
venged" on President Grant, or General
Butler "get even" onJSpeaker Blame. ° •
Ke earnestly hope that our friends in
nnecticut will prepare to silence the
.mature rejoicings of tho Democrats
over their recent victory. On tho first
Monday in April they will have an
opportunity of doing their part to
ward hauding the country over to
the Democrats, or keeping it under' Repub
lican rule—a rule, remember, which has
been the means of reducing the debt about
$204,500,000, and the interest about $11,
--000,000, which has restored public credit
and brought gold down to eleven premium
AH the abusa that can be heaped on Gen
eral Grant's administration —all the cow
ardly slanders leveled at his wife and chil
dren by disappointed office-seekers—can
not get rid of these facts. There they
stand, big enough for the whole world to
see. Under Democratic rulo it is quite
probable that very little of tho debt would
have been paid off, although some of it
might have been wiped off. Let. us not
run any risk of this or similar dangers.
We beg our frienda in Connecticut to be on
their guard against a Democratic surprise,
and to rebuke the cravens and fanatics
who are going about whining that it is all
over with the Republican party, because,
forsooth, a majority of the Republican
Sonators refused to replace Mr. Sumner on
one of their committees.
The Democratic Herald thus warns and
wails over its party prospects. All ia not
so lovely in the "happy family," it seems :
"The Prospect and the Danger to the
Democracy—What Says Tammany Hall 7"
and thus concludes :
Upon Tammany Hall the eyes of the
Democracy throughout the country ore
now fixed as upon the groat central nucleus
and head and front of the party. The ad
ministration of Tammany in New York,
city and State, holds to the Democratic
party a relation analogous to that which
the administration at Washington holds
toward the Republican party.
It is tho embodiment and the financial
centre of the national organization. It
cannot be said, however, that tho Tam
many measures of reform, passed and pend
ing, for this city and State, tax levy
included, aro calculated to shine as Demo
cratic examples for the national govern
ment or unity of tbe party. Upon the
Tammany basis of twenty-five millions of
taxes for thia city, with a population of say
one million, the annual taxes for the forty
would be a thousand of millions of dollars.
This will never do. Compared with this !
Napoleonic taxation Secretary BoutweU's !
assessments and collections are mere trifles. ;
Tammany must show to the country,
from her government of New York,
an example which will bo good fur the
government of tbe United States, or she
must prepare to keep in the background iv
the Democratic National Convention.
Oilier wise, in contrast with the lavish im
perial expenditures of Tammany, the re
trenchments of General Grant will stand
out in luminous and glorious relief be
fore the American people. If Tammany
;ia simply legislating for the spoils of New
York, and upon the old rule of making hay
while tho sun shines, it is one thing; but,
if, for instance, she is looking for the pro
molion of "tho Boss" to .the United States
Treasury, it ia quite another tuno, and
must be played to different music. What
has Tammany to say ? Is she bound up
• I
England and the Confederate
States.—Earl Granville has denied in
the House of Lords that there was any
truth whatever in the statement ascribed
to Barou yon Gerolt that Russian influence
alone prevented the recognition of the
Southern Confederacy during the war in
the United States. He declared, that as
a member of tho Palmerston and Russell
cabinets, he could say the proposition to
recogniz-j the South was never entertained.
' The Duke of Somerset coufirmed Earl
; Granville's atatemeut. j
A BoNAPARTisT MoHBEi).—M. Rouiier,
one of Napoleon's most active friends, and
formerly in the imperial ministry, was ar
rested at Boulogne by order of the Versail
les government and savagely beaten by
the populace, who tore nearly all the hair
from his bead. He narrowly escaped mur
der, ilia wife and daughter were also ar
rtttttd. Other imperialists have mado
their appearance in Boulogne, and their at
test is expected.
— «•» ——
A son of Judge B .yce, of Missouri, aod
a young man named Mania, have been ex
amined at St. Luis, charged with the
murder of Unite! .States Collector Jeu-
Senators who have interviewed tho Presi
dent to-day report that he contemplates
sending in a messago informing Congresß
that he does not think that he has proper
authority under existing laws to suppress
disorders aud crimes in the Statea in
the absence of any call made by the Legis
lature, or requisition by tbo Governor
when the Legislature is not in session.
He proposed to cite the acta of 1795 and
1807 as tho only law bearing on this sub
ject. While the message, it is said, will
not directly appeal for further legislation,
lit will, at the same time, present the ap
parent necessity for it, and thus invite
Congress to remain iv session.
THE ST. DOMINGO REPORT.
President Wado, of tho Santo Domingo
commission, telegraphs that the Tennessee J
will leave Key West for Savannah, where
the commission will take the cars direct
for Washington. Other members tele
graph that the report will favor immediate
-annexation, on tho ground that Baez can
not hold out till Congress re-assembles in
December.
The Senate in executive session con
firm tbe following nominations: John
Bowles, surveyor of customs, Savannah,
Ga.; D. S. Lewis, assessor of internal rev
enue fifth district Virginia; Francis S.
Wells, of Connecticut, lo be third lieuten
ant In the revenue and marine service.
IBeecHer on the Removal
of Sumner.
J the following sensible re
y Ward Beecher. Wo aro
hat we aro sustained in
if this caso by a large share
;ul men of the party. We
ber second thought of our
gree with us:
o committee on foreign re
est, learned and patriotic,
he gift of working harmo
ther men. By his know
guide his fellow-Senators,
ice he is to aid the Presi
iia disposition be of a cast
lelastic that he can conform
preaches to one and dictates
his good qualities will fail
)int on which everything
whose conacience is in su
hy with itself, may bo an I
under of morals ; but to be
iffairs ope must be in sym
i as well as with ideas.
f the United Slates baa de
11c good required another I
ke Mr. Sumner's place aa
he Committee on Foreign
presume thia step was
y administrative grounds,
that at a critical period iv
of affairs important to a
surpassed iv tho life-fime
ie administration and the
io better served by another
igh he would not surpass
i noble integrity, nor ap
learning, might have the
ig a better counsellor, and
should not offend the self
who were obliged to main
-1 relations with bim.
ruth, we suppose, lies in
all his eminent excellences,
sa not know how to yield
hers. He does not know
i conscience supreme over
t making it supreme over
io news that the eminent
n of singular purity of life,
iterestedness, of irreproach
great kiuduess of heart, of
ustry, aud great learning,
dely known that he makes
ions the imperious law of
it he is apt to regard as I
11 who do not accept his I
t he is a poor loader and a
jretted that this action of
place, and still more that
to have it take place. But
1 hold the President respon
ttlement of the difficulties
g threatened to embroil two
iat ought to bo helpful to
1 whose falling out would
delight by every despotic
endom. The Anglo-Saxon
id togother, over the whole
otiating tin honorable and
nt of the threatening diffi
iidont has the right to do
kall havo tho friendly help
iiv the government, and no
per will not permit him to
President should consider
mother is put in his place
v to treat the President as
ion that Mr. Sumner iv his
i was constantly liable to
jeace of the two countries,
baidence into the body of
be favorable to a just and
sment. It is feared by
3d by othera, that a deadly
in given to the Republican
party has so slender a hold
itry that the change of a
Senate committee can de
fine that it bo destroyed.
iO such belief, and have no
mger. Mr. Wilson spoke
geration of excited feeling
ed that ninety in a hun
rty will be offended by this
Limner ia not a man to win
ice among the common puo
-6 popular enthusiasm to-
The men who will regret
the moral and thoughtful
y, aud such men will revise
ation* Thoy will not, at
on the party on such sleu
le dispoasessionof a truated
m from a place of influence.
aoso political whirlwinds to
lica are subject, whose very
ike it of short duration.
•Robert Chambers, tho ccle
er, who has juat died in
tb, it is said, some .COOO,
as a poor boy, entirely de
own exertions, laying the
his fortune by opening a
g library with a little bor- !
wo may see the different national hmiliar..,
particularly the 4th of July and 22d of
February, celebrated again here with the
wonted zest of the paßt, when both civil and I
military rites aided in giving eclat to day.
that should ever be sacred to all true Ameri
c.ns. Let the militia bill pass, and let all
who have the time, money or disposition
whether while or blaok, play aoldiers to their
hearts' content. I
We want "the natal day of freedom" to be
greeted again as it usrd to be with sound of
cannon and beat of drum, merry-making, and
invocations to tbe American eagle. We want I
to see the birth-day of Washington recognized
again »a it once was in this the metropolis of
his native State. What a.' man ho was I Take
him for all in all, we shall not look upon his
like again. How well in him appeared the
constant aervice of the antique world, when
service sweat for duty, not for meed. j
Aa a hacker of choice fruit treea, as one that
scorned the " condensed lye " business, aa a
rider of untamed colts, aa a land surveyor,
always doing his level best, as a bold fox bant
er, staying not for cnek and atopping not for
atone, as general of the army, as receiver of
surrendered swords, as first President of the
United States of America, aa first in the rotun
da of tbe Capitol and first on the square—in
each and all of these positions he was a diatin
guiihed success. Or, as was remarked of him
i oneeor twice before with equal force and feli
j c.tr, "George Washington—first in war; first
I in peace; first in the hearts of his countrymen."
A statement in yesterday's Whig, from I
j an aggrieved party, arraigns Messrs. ilix and
! Barefoot, of the Richmond police, for arresting
. m Monday night a couple of citizena while on
their way home from a festive gathering aing- j
iog—"not to the disturbance of any one"—a
little song, on ISroad street. These citizena
were carried to the second station-house, aßd I
after a brief detention were tried and fined by '
a justice of the peace, whether for their oon
duct on the atreet, or that after arriving at
the atation-houae, wo don't know. The state
ment desirea information as to whether citizens
of a grade such as those allnded to above are
"to be allowed the same privileges as col
ored citizens?" Uero, again, we most plead
want of knowledge. The presumption ii in
the affirmative.
It ia somewhat to be regretted that people
with diverse intorests cannot agree in regard
to the substantial relatione of the same state of
facts—an occurrence which affects both. In
regard to the present one, as the two citizens
understand it, they were gently warbling,
"with an accentthat was mild," a refrain of
Fatherland. Aa the policemen understand it,
they wore raising enough noise for a dozen
men, and disturbing the public peace between
1 and 2 o'clock at night. They say that their
admonitions to keep quiet were unheeded, and
when tho law was put in force abuse and re
sistance was offered. Finally, that the parties
were arrested for drunkenness and disorderly
conduct on the order of a superior officer.
The justico at the station-house must have
thought there was something in the complaint
for he fined them $2.40 each. Itia apity these
Policemen did not understand the language in
which the song waa warbled. Then tho result
might have been different.
Briefs. —The trees on the islands in
James river will soon clothe themselves in a
toggery of living green. The buds are bud
ding fast and the leaves are following.
The march or the Public Guard—the stand
ing army of Virginia—through the House of
Delegates last night, was arrested for want of
a quorum.
The paper mill at Forrestville, N. C, owned
in part by Wm. 11. AHegre, of this city, was
burned Sunday night. Loss $20,000. *
Hon. D. C. Dejarnette, of Caroline, is to be
aent to London to recopy tho famous McDon
anl papers to he used in settling the boundary
line between Maryland and Virginia.
Betty F. Frayzer has obtained from the
Chancery Court a divorce from her husband
Duvid A. Frayzer, for unfaithfulness The
parties are colored.
The weather still continues of tho moat de
lightful sort. Early spring vegetables have
begun to make their appearance in tho mar
kets.
The sheriff of Culpepor paid $C 000 into the'
State treasury to.-day.
Peachy B. Grattan, Esq., has been confirm
ed aa reporter for the Supreme Court of Ap
peals, and allowed $900 for back work.
Copies of the acts of tho Virginia General
Assembly have been sent to tho Executive De
partments of evory Stato, Territory, &c., of
the United States, including Utah, the place
ruled by Brigham Young, ihe man of many
wives.
The whole number of deaths in the city for
| the week ending March IStfi waa 1)2.
Police Court. —Tho following cases were
disposed of by l'olico Justice White this
Alexander Gates, colored, far assaulting Ann
Knight, and pulling her year in a rude manner,
waa required to pay a fine of $5.
Jim White, colored, charged with beiug the
father of an illegitimate child, was sent on for
Randolph Heath, charged with beating
Thomas Randolph, the adopted son of Charity
Gardner, was fined $2, warned and discharged.
The Great Thomas Concerts. —No mu
sical event has heretofore created at this season,
within our recollection, more interest in mu
sical circles than the grand concerts to be
given on Friday and Saturday nighta, at As
sembly Hall, by Theodore Thomas and his cele
brated orchestra. There has been a great rush
to West <& Johnston's for reserved seats, bat as
all tbe seats in the hall are more or less
desirable for hearing instrumental music, even
the eleyonthbour puoplo will be able to get
The Case of General Mahone and Captain
Lyon. —The case of Gen. Mahone and Capt.
John Lyon waa disposed of this morning by
ths Poiice Justice. The parties wete charged
with fighting and shooting in the public street!.
Ne witnesses were examined, both parties
pleading guilty to tbe charge and threw their
case upon the mercy of the court. The Jus
tice deoided that the peace and dignity of this
metropolis'had been injured about $40 worth,
and accordingly fined each $20. It is rumored
that coffee will be ordered before the next
Qodey's Magazine. —This popular mag
azine, together wi-h the latest illustrated
weekly papers—"Chimney Corner," Harper*.
and Frank Leslie's, "Days' Doings," &c.
have just been received at O'Bell Dyer's, on
Main street, three doors above Eighth. He can
supply a thousand or two with papers.
For New York. —The fine steamer Wm.
P. Clyde, commanded by that gallant officer,
j Captain John H. t'arkcr, will leave her wharf
I on Friday, 24th instant, at 5 o'clock for New
i York. This is a fine opportunity for those
| who would like a sea trip and to visit the
j great commercial metropolis. Captain P. has
j the happy faculty of making his passengers
perfectly at home in his floating palace.
The water of the little pump near the
Law Building, Franklin atreet, haa been di
j verted from its usual course for quite a length
jof time, and permitted to run waste. The
| water came from inside the Capitol Square,
and when flowing from the pump, was ot great
use to the people. It ia hoped that General
Newberiy will direct it to be fixed up again.
morning, arrested a man by tho name of Owen
Sweeney, charged with being a lunatic Swee
ney was before the police justice some time
ago on the same charge, but was dismissed, bo
having been declared to be of sound mind by I
the police surgeon. Dr. Brock. Justice White
haa ordered another commission in his case
which will meet to-day.
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"In tho .cuflle, a Derringer pi.t.l in the haads of
General Mahone, went off."
Perhaps the Dispatch can tell us where it
went, and how It went—whether it took a back
and started for the depot, and went by the Pe
tersburg or Danville route! Of course it went
n the direction of tbe A., M. A 0. R. R. Bo
much we lake for granted. Bat for the rest,
do tell us, eb, ye sticklers for propriety, y»
wise men of the Dispatch, tell as—where did
hat pistol ge? Is it still journeying on? Do
gclieve our anxiety, or we shall "go nil'," per
apa, in search of the missing pistol.
Manchester Items. —Work on the Coun
' court-house ia progressing with great rapid
y. Mr. Clatter informed us that the July
ourt will be held in the new building.
A large and well attended meeting ia in
irogresa at tbe Baptist church, as well as at
he M. E. Church. Many have found the
lord, and many more asking the way of sal
vation.
The Friends of Temperance are holding reg
ular meetings on Tuesday evenings. Large
umbers are being initiated every meeting
ight. Eight months back their number waa
me; now it is over eighty. So goes the good
work.
11. M. Belcher, who 'has been for the last
ighteen yeara day watchman at the Danville
epot, ia very low, with no hopea of recovery.
Ie ia seventy yeara of age.
Unfair —That the peoplo who live on
Jliurcli Hill should be forced to pay a water
ax and not receire a quid pro quo.
The fact is, private hydrants do not respond
| to tbe demand for that much wanted culinary
fluid (water) in that locality, except before tbe
bewitching hour of 5 A. M. and after 0 P.M.
In the more bumble and lowly portion of tlni
! city we can readily understand how the want
of water would not be considered a grievance,
baton Church Hill where "lightning whis
key" ia unknown to tbe oldest inhabitant, the
sparse supply at such unseasonable hours ia a
; serious matter, aod should demand the atten-
I lion of our liberal Council, who are ever ready
to spend thousands of the public money in ful
filment of their political whims, or even less
worthy ones, while they neglect to secure the
aforesaid people a legal right. Let this long
neglected matter receive attention, in order,
not only that justice may be done, but that the
city be spared the expense ef an expensive suit,
for the Hill meana to have water, if it paya for
it; if no water, then no pay.
Our citizens are complaining very much
of the neglect by the City Council of the pub
■rks on Libby's and Gamble's Hill. Both
>ok the James and the beautiful country
d, and aa public promenades deserve
attention than they have yet received.
« Ohahoon trial progressed to-day iv
he Hustings Court to the reception of all the
estiuiony. Mr. Wise for tho prosecution be
an his argument, and would be followed sue«
esaively by Messrs. Wells & Crump, for tho
ccusad.
.
Voluntary Manslaughter. —Armlstead
'odd, white, waa received at the State's prison
o-day for two yeara, from Grayson county,
or voluntary manslaughter.
Notaries. —The Governor appointed two
otaries to-day: Joseph S. Baldwin, for
tockbridge, and John li. Crowder, lorCu.ni
erland.
A bill passed the House of Delegates
esterday for making the First National,
Planters' and Union Banks, and the Ricnniond
banking and insurance companies depositories
of the public money.
The dog-catchers continue their praise
worthy endeavors to thin out the canine set
tlers. Judging from tho quantity bagged
every few days they must settle a good many
The debris of nearly an hundred houses
ion prominent streets of the city, burned in
! 1865, are being cleared away, preparatory to
: rebuilding this summer.
very lino tipple WINS BEKII, «»ld to be the favorite
drink of the renowned Count Yon Bismarck. It is
a truly agreeable bovorage. Call and try It.
I TUB KKKT— Judgo Kerr say. : "Or. SCfIULTZ la
I a benefactor. His painless mode of treating Corns,
I Bunions, and Nails, is certainly admirable." Stran-
I gers, remember the office on Nineteenth street, rear
Main. Ladies aud children attended
| THOMPSON'S POMADK OPTIMK. a. a dressing
I for tho Hair is all that, is required ; purely vegetable
aud highly perfumed, it softens, improve, and beau-
J UQos the Hair, strengthen* the roots, and gives ita
rich, glossy appearance. For sale by all druggist.
Prico, n aud 76 cents per botlle.
' THURSTON'S IVORY PKAKL, TOOTH POWDKIi
11. strongly recommended aa the boat dentifrice
I kuowu. It cloau.es and preserves the teeth, hardens
j the gums, sweet.ns tho breath ; and, containing no
I acid or gritty substauco, is perfectly harmless, and
I can bo usod daily with great advantage. Sold by all
I druggists. Price, 26 and 60 cents per bottle.
JOUVEN'S INODOROUS KID GLOVE CLEAN
ER.—By ifcj aid gloves cau be quickly and repoated
ly cleaved and made equal to new ; even when badly
soiled they can lie readily restored. It is easy of ap
plication and is perle-Hly froo from any odor. For
salo by druggists ami fancy goods dealers. Price, 2S
cents a bottle.
WOMAN AND IIRB CHARMS.—Does your wife or
daughter ever call on you for money to buy a new
dress or bonnet? You supply their wants wila
pleasure, of course. But now they aro sickly—lee
ble and emaciated, aud are always grunting and com
plaining when you go home. Now gladden their
hearts by sending to the drug store and procuring a
bottle of English Feuialo Bittora, which will soon
.L\ I". OOH Kit uiy true aud lawrul Ageut to cou
duct the business of FAMILY GROJKR, at 506 Mar
shall street, between Fifth and Sixth, to buy and
sell lor cash oniy.
iuh23-2w P. M. TAYLOR.
>TMIE SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.—RAr-tfLK
JL lor tho Benefit of tho Widow, aud Orphans i-f
iho South.m States.
DISTRIBUTION Mo. 233. Evemhu Msa.'.--'
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Witness in v baud, at Richmond, Va., this 23d day
of March, 1871.
SIMMONS * CO., C. Q. TOMPKINB,
Mauagers. Commissioner.
CKRIII'ICATKa OK HAKVI.K, can be purchased
j fr..in fi.ii.l. W. I. DABNKY, at the Branch offlco, No
3, Kleventb street, one door from Main.
! 2306
TN THB DISTRICT COURT OP THK TJNITKD
I. States, for the Kasteru District of Virginia.
Iv the matter of Henry O. Wootuu baukrupt
in bankruptcy.
I Mhall, a. Bpecial CommisHiouer appointed la
above case, under a decre ■ of said court, at my ill •*
at Henry Uourt-llouse, oa the 22d day of ApiMl.H.'l
proceed to take au account of all tho lieon, andtll.tr
priority, against the real Mint, of said bankrupt
at which time the parties interested are herebyre
quired 10 attend.
JAS M. SMITO,
Sp-.iui Commi.iooer.
Martin.fiUs, Ya., March 20 1871. nili—Th.lw
1 QOf> USISTUIi"VIiOK'rABI.K 1 07/k
I 104 U. PULMONARY BALSAM," i-OIV.
Tbe .hi .taa.lard remedy for Cough., C 01.1., Ccn-
I anuiption. ".Nothing better."
