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A Thil to Xwintarnc. ?. O. Rtr<lm?n, la liaroer'n M* -%rine for Mar. Few will deny that rural En eland, when the Tin really shines, and of a midsummer's day. 1b the loveliest country In the world?all the lovelier be< muse the sun shines so seldom. On such a rare day I went down past Windsor to Henleyon-Thames to visit Mr. Swinburne, to have sight of and a talk with a poet ? hose earhe?t works had excited in me an interest that our correspondence had greatly heightened. It chances that the Henley station is some miles beyond the one at v iiich the guest? of TTolmwood usually stop. So f took a fly, and drove tack over a delightful road, which finally brought me *o the house. I found It a spacion* \> lute tuansi.m of the Ceoi.ian type, with a earden divided from the eaniage-waybya wail.against which peach trees and apricot were trailed to face the sun. In the entrance hall was & qua! it collection of oil! china. heirlooms of the family. The poet wa* work'ng in his bedroom, a chamber plainly flurnisbed, but with a glorious view from the windows?the Swinburne lawn, with line old trees sloping from the foreground. A wooden table was covered with the manuscript sheets of a poem which he had been writing with the speed that is transferred to his galloping anapests. It was the long, melodious, haunting piece, 4-On the Cliffs," consecrate to the memory and muse of aappho. Although I had heard of Mr. Swinburne's ill health, and that he was then In great retirement, it seemed that I met him at an auspicious time. Except for a chronic nerTournevi, or what I should call OTKXPOSSKSRION OF HIS BOUT BT HIS MINT), lie was in health, voice, and spirits, and he read, ine what was then completed of his poem. It grew out of anight in Italy?I think he said In Fiesole?where he was kept awake by the singing of the nightingales, and fu eled their song bore a resemblance to a famous line of Sappho's. He read his lyrical rhapsody with a free chanting cadence, like the poet he Is, and as such verbal music should be read. At lunch, and in our long walk after it, for he Incited on guiding me to the station, we talked of tnu"h that it is not my province to repeat. II is conversation is as noteworthy as his written text? a flood of wit. humor, learning, often enthusiastic, more rich with epigram and pithy comment than the speech of other men. Some tliiiurs that he said may not improperly be given to his many readers. Songs of the Spring Ti-L**?* volume published in 1S80, and containing the nightingale poem?was dedicated to Trelawny, whose dirge he was to write within a rolling year, as if to blend in with this psoan. In the ded.cation he compared his song to "a sea-mew on a sea-king's wrist alighting," for Swinburne's honors, where he gives them, are free-handed as his scorn can be. The book is of the sea throughout, and "Thalassius" is the title of the opening poem. The author spoke to me ot his passion for the sea, beside which much of his youth had been passed, and which is suggested and apostrophized so constantly in all his verse. He declared that Its salt must have been In his blood before lie was born, for he could remember no earlier enjoyment than being held naked in his father's arms, then brandished, and siiot like a stone from a sling through the air bead-foremost into a wave, while he laughed and shouted with delight. He had been afraid of other things, but never of the sea. SWrSRURNR UPON AMERICAN POETS. Our talk was by no means confined to literatlira fthh/tllflrh i# ia Anlw a WU ? V| MICIIVUii,!! IV IC v'lll T VI O J/VI I IUH 171 1119 llUjr* ary comment that I feel willing to make use. I had spoken of Bryant's "elemental" quality as the Important thing from which verse so abso. lutely simple as his derived Its effect, and had referred to JSschylns as the highest exemplar among the Attic " poets of the power to work simply and imaginatively. To this he partly assented. in view of the grandeur with which .AOschvlus depicts the elements of nature, yet thought bis choruses anything but simple, terming one of them "the toughest nut with the sweetest kernel to be found in the Grecian drama." He courteously referred to my strictures upon his estimate of certain American poets. declared that he appreciated the respective excellence of Bryant's "Thanatopsis" and Lowell's "Commemoration Ode," but discovered few "notes of song" hi either of them. It was excellent good speech; but given as song, its hist duty was to sing. The one, he aid. most august meditation, the other a noble expression of deep and grave patriotic feeling on a supreme national occasion, but the thing most necessary, though it may be less noble, was the pulse, the nre, the passion of music?the quality of a sinter, not of a solitary philosopher or a patri ?t! orator. He said that even Whitman, wht no speaking poor prose, sings, and when he oi-'gs at all, sings well, his artistic fault beiug a narrow formalism. Deep as Emerson's thought might be, he found no music in his verse, yet found Browning's always going to a recognizable tune, if not always to a good one. It was a poor thing to have nothing but melody, and be unable to rise above it into harmony, but one or the other, the less if not the greater, you must have. Imagine a man full of great thoughts and emotions, and resolved to express them in painting, who has absolutely no power upon form and color. These remarks are printed iu justice to Mr. Swinburne, as his explanation of the points to which I had publicly objected. My reply was. If I remember aright, that perhaps he too severely tested rhythm by his own brilliant and unprecedented method; that his measures, often anapestic, were swifter nd more buoyant than any heretofore known; that the long-wonted effect of English rhythm was more grave and slow, but had its music mlso, and that it is this restrained and slowermoving melody and harmony, with its suggestive under-tones, which the lovers ot Lowell and Emerson think to be not wanting in their poetry. In common with other writers T have noted the fact that Incessant elevated music is sometimes more wearisome than that which has even tame ami feeble passages. Persistent sweetness Cloys, and verse always fluent and melodioia, full of concordant sounds and alliterations, after a while does not excel that which is less embarrassed by Its own riches. Whether the halting, irregular method of Emerson's verse is due to a wise restraint or to a lack of resource*, the music comes at times, and then. If only by contrast. lias a witching and memorable effect. Those, however, who assert that Mr. Swinburne's f erse aud prose give us little else than exquisite sound are gravely in error. No modern literature is mnrv rhinrwl n-l?h v. .....? .?? 1'iiu, uu^ysinr int-iiiltng, original thought; the remarkable technique Is superadded, and to uueh a d?vree as often to make us neglect the thought and sentiment beneath It. This poet, it may oe, is at his best when employing thone curiously Intricate stanxaic forms that act as a clog or break upon his fiery wneels. At present he refutes every intimation of mental or physical di?cline by being the moot fertile and Industrious of authors. The volume of his work, as I hare said, to prodigious-. nineteen books of prone and verse, besides Critical letters and brochures, within twenty years. While each man must produce In his own way, and while In Swinburne's most Impetuous outgivings there Is always food for thought, and never a lack of something rich and strange, his constant friends acknowledge that the one fraoe of restraint is the thing which can most add to his authority. They know that in lyric splendor and p<*?Me enthusiasm he has no master, and believe that, as the greater includes the less, the art to limit art Is not beyond his Command. A Tender-Hearted Emperor. Vloni the Parisian. Among the numerous curious trifles that adorn the writing table of the German Emperor Is an old cavalry helmet, the special use of which Is one illustrative of his kindness of heart. Ever since he ascended the throne he has manifested a disinclination to affix his signature to ententes of death, and. indeed, to any penal decrees of unusual severity. Whenever, therelore, such documents are laid before him by his minister of state, he is accustomed to hide them away under the helmet. It has frequently oc* curred that officials, anxious to obtain his majesty's sanction to the pronouncements of the law. but not venturing to remind him of his omission to sign these papers, have availed themselves of his temporary absence from his tody to lift the casque and move the documents in such sort that their edges have slightly C;ruded from under the helmet's brim. In cases out of twelve, however, this hint has proved unavailing, for the Emperor, as soon as oe caught sight of the detested papers peeping oat from the place of tlieir concealment, has quietly pushed them back again and foreborne ever thereafter from making any allusion to the Incident. In such cases the obnoxious documents have been discreetly abstracted and destroyed, It being obvious that his majesty would never be Induced to sigu them. Peter Shlnkle, of Covington. Ky.. though more titan 90, chose a woman of 54 for his second wife. His sons forbade the union, and induced the connty clerk to retaee the license, but did not break off the match, as the couple loped and got married. Mr. Chorion Reads, whese labors Hare for three years been Interrupted by bereavement and lehnMB. will return to fiction in the columns or Ldft on May 4. He promises a series of atortet, Which wfU be Illustrated by severs* artists. Trouble* AbMt Bowinft fl. R. TTawfin In BelgraTta. I have often wondered why Thackeray never wrote a "Boundabout" on "Bowing." It is one of those dreadful social?I bad almost said? "evils," which concern alike every gentleman and every snob. "To bow or not to bow" Is often an absorbing, even agonizing question- To bow Just In the right way to even-body, and do It riirht each time (suppose, for instance, you meet the same person six times a day at Brighton) requires so much presence of mind that absence of body Is almost preferable. I asked Hawfinch, who goes every where, what he did at an "at home" when he met his hostess atHAit a dozen times face to face in the same eveninsr, he said promptly: "I never meet her but once; It I chance to come upon her again. I always say Ta! ta!' after which neither of us need"speak or notice each other, for I'm supposed to be gone." A good hostess is in a better position than her guests; she has her little phrase, which she says to everybody. I have been met three times "in the same evening by a late lamented lady of fashion with the saine beaming smile, and she always said, "Tea in the next room!" This did capitally; It enabled you to hurry off in that direction. Another hostess adopts the phrase, "Oh! Is dying to know you!" and gazes vaguely for . This docs well, for It enables her to hurry off In pursuit of the mythical??. But what are you to do when you meet a friend with whom your wife has had a row? or when you meet a lady who Is not quite sure that you remember her, or worse still, a lady who is not quite snre that she remembers you? and when you are doubtful, Is It better to bow? or when you have taken off your hat to the wrong person, or actually stopped to speak, what on earth are you to do then? If you have a I?ad memory for faces, or are known, like most public men, to a number of people whom you don't know, are you to bow right and left, and be thought Insane; or are you to cut half the people who expect recognition, and be thought churlish? I declare I have lain awake worrying over these affect) nu problems after making some unusually bad mistake. The Philosophy of Dining* Fr^m Nature. The two dinners which stand out In our memory as events In our life were of very different characters. The one consisted of brown bread and lard, washed down with some rongh country wine, and was eaten In the middle of a Tryolese glacier. The other embraced every delicacy the heart could wish. Our appreciation of the first v, as due to compulsory fasting for some time previously. Our appreciation of the second was due to its intrinsic merit. In it the dishes seemed to be so arranged that each one stimulated the palate for the one that succeeded It, and the wines given with each course were so selected as to increase the appetite for. and appreciation of. the solids. We then, for the first time in our life, began to realize that cookery was a fine art. In speaking of the flue arts we generally include only those which appeal to the speacial senses of sight and hearing, such as sculpture, painting, architecture, music, and we rarely think of appealing to the special senses of smell and taste. Yet the latter two are. perhaps, quite as closelv PnnnmrtPil with nnr flmntinna nu tho ? . TV VM* VU1 V? %. 1IU M" V IJ V ?V?& mer, and as capable of exciting keen sensations of pain and pleasure. Smell and taste differ from night and hearing in being much more easily fatigued, and this may partly be the cause of their imperfect cultivation. Another cause is, probably, the closer connection which smell and taste have with the process of nutrition, and the consequent alterations which repeated impressions upon them may have upon the general well being. A man may pass long hours in a picture gallery or concert-room, receiving imprisons good, bad or indifferent, without much effect upon digestion or upon circulation, but a bad odor would quickly excite nausea or sickness. The impressionable natures of Southern Italy object to strong perfumes, even though pleasant. The sense of taste differs In one particular froin th<> other three, viz: that while the agents which excite them may remain outside the body, the substances which excite taste are taken into the body, and thus have an action upon it independently of their mere effect upon the sense ot Itself. In gratifying this sense, therefore, we have to consider not merely what will give the greatest pleasure at the moment, but what will be most satisfactory in its after results. Fortunately, pleasure to the palate usually aids digestion, if obtained in the. proper way; but comparatively few people know the art of dining properly themselves, and still fewer know how to give good dinners to their friends. The Young Irian and His Vest. From tHe Philadelphia Times. There are a seemingly large number of young men in this day and generation who have nothing else to do but contrive new things to wear and hunt up novel ways of passing time awayThey are constantly visible on the streets, ex" hibiting the results of their labor. They are known at once. Not even Oscar Wilde, in all his glory, is arrayed like one of them. Just now they are unusually plentiful. At least half a dozen are encountered or avoided on every block. Their latest device is in the shape of a vest?a many-colored vest. So conspicuous is this portion of their raiment that the remainder of their make-up is only given a casual glance, and that which without the vest would afford unbounded amusement, with the vest is scarcely noticed. The vest is blue, green or saffron, as best suits the ideas of the dearly sweet and sweetly dear wearer. It is covered with polka dots, small dots or a mixture of dots and diagonals. It can be seen a long distance off, which is a matter to be thankful for. as the pedestrian can cross the street in time or look in a store window until it has passed by. The vest is probably expensive. If it isn't it ought to be, for the thought of their becoming common is enough to drive decent folk crazy. No free trade in them should be allowed. They should be protected and very largely protected, or else taxed out of existence. How long this vesture will last It more than even Vennor can predict. It may survive the summer, but it is to be hoped that the first warm wave will sweep the vests away. If It Is otherwise decreed, however, and the country must needs bear the burden and endure the sight, there is but one expedient left for sensible people and those troubled with weak eyes. They must remain In the city, for it la certain that the wearers of these combinations will seek the resorts. The resorts are to be pitied, for only the color-blind can meet with fortitude the young man and his vest. From the Phils. Ledger. Philadelphia has enough of good English stock to make Its pronunciation authentic, but invidious persons occasionally let fall a remonstrance against the flat "a" and the guttural *rM of the natives, as distinguished from the nation that says brossis, instead of brayisis, when It wants to describe an anlron. Des Brasses street, the New York ferry, without the " Des," is the nearest guide and tuning-fork to this Imported pronunciation of the good old word brass and the broad "A." The French B is either a rolling rataplan or no B at all, witness the travelled Individuals who can only say " wug " when they want to talk about a Persian trifle for the floor. The English B used to be a clear and clean trill on the tongue-tip, beautiful to hear, and differing from the American B, which comes from farther back in the throat. A certain manner of Englishmen, it is true, said ' vew-y" when you asked him how he liked terrapin. lor Instance, or Walnut street, on a Sunday noon; "vew-y much"; and the drawling, languid style bad its abundant imitators on this side of the water. But the pattern Is changing. Instead of the crisp English B, the German guttural has come into fashion In London. The Queen's English, or at least that of her children, Is. of course, much affected by the German, femiliar tongue In which Prince Albert and Victoria did their wooing; and so it is hardly surprising that the Prince of Wale# and his brothers now ?ay "good mohrning," " to-mohrow" and "vehry good." If the English of England changes where shall we look for thefrare tongue? Scarcely In Boston, when still the " idear" Is called for and still the Anal "g" to dropped out of a seekin' and a meeti'i' world. It was related In this column a few days ago how James Brackmann, a guest at the Planters' house, St. Louis, came to the sudden conclusion that he ought to get married, and how, acting on the Impulse, he proposed to the first woman he saw, who chanced to be a chambermaid, and was accepted. The sequel to equally interesting. Brackmann bought a thousand dollars' worth of clothes and adornments for his bride, and the wedding was held in the parlor of the hotel. Mrs. Brackmann was then Installed In a suite of rooms she had formerly swept, and her late companions in the service of the house became her servitors. The husband seemed charmed with his wife, and speht two days baying furniture for a house In which he proposed to live. But Hhe was not pleased, except by the finery. She found him exceedingly ecoentrie, If not an absolute lunatic. While he went out to hire a carriage for a drive she hastily packed all his gifts lu a trunk and departed ta a hack, aided by a porter who had been her sweetheart. At last accounts toflfc?l was wildly Itektaf for her ia vain. - An Attractive Region. From the May Atlantic. The northern zone of the south, embracing Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee, with the northern portions of Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas, is a region of rast extent, and has great interest for northern people accustomed to farming who may desire to emigrate to a country suited to this Industry, There is much excellent land here, with soils adapted to the cultivation of most of the important farm products of the region lying between New York and Pennsylvania on the east and Iowa aud Kansas on the west, as well as to those of the south. The climate is favorable, not being so different from that of the states north of it as to cause immigrants from them any considerable inconvenience or discomfort. In the hilly portions of this zone there is cold enough for northern people, while the mildness of the winter and its brief duration render farming and stock-raising more profits able than they are farther north, as the shelter and fe<*ding of domestic animals require comparatively small expenditure. The summers are of course much longer than In New York or Iowa, but the heat is not usually so great as it Is in New Hampshire. With proper attention t o sanitary conditions and requirements, this Is a very healthy region, the proportion of malarious diseases for the uplands being less than in some of the finest portions of New England. There is much beautiful country, with pleasant scenery. In northern Alabama I observed a closc resemblance to the appearance of the hill regions of southern and central New Hampshire. By attention to the selection of seed of the most suitable varieties, and to methods of cultivation, some of the vegetable products of regions farther north, which are supposed to be unsuited to the south, can probably be made profitable throughout the zone now under consideration. Such acclimation of esculents from other portions of the country would be a great benefit, and is especially desirable for immigrants from the north, who are apt to be impressed by the lack of variety in the bill of fare at the tables of the planters as well as at southern hotels. But many vegetables and fruits which belong to the south are rarely found on the table, or are in use but for a very brief port ion of the year, simply because people do not care to take the pains to produce them. "It's too much trouble to raise 'em," is the usual answer, when I inquire about them. Little attention is given to gardening on most southern plantations. It is regarded as a trivial employment for the time ami lubor of men; entirely unimportant in comparison with "the crop," which is usually cotton, tobacco, sugar or rice. "We like a few messes of green things in the'Sprlng," the people say, "but for summer work we need something more substantial. Give us the old stand-bys." These are commonly bread, bacon and greens, as the ordinary fare for laborers. ? The Tnlpehocken Town Clock* Max Adeler in Onr Continent. The Tulpehccken town clock Is interesting to study as a piece of rather phenomenal machinery. One of its characteristics is its va riety. It has four faces?a face upon each side of the tower?and persons who are not satisfied with the alleged record of time upon one face can obtain another and wholly different record by looking at another face. The four sets of hands never, excepting by accident, tell the same story, tt will be quarter past 3 on the north dial'when it is twenty minutes of 9 on the south dial, and at the same moment the east and west dials will range from half-past 0 to five minutes of 11. This would be perplexing to a stranger who wished to catch a train at the station; but the town folks are used to it. Generally, they regai-d the clock simply as an original kind of curiosity, not depending upon it in any manner for accuracy; but It has been discovered that a reasonable approximation to the correct time may be obtained usually by adding together the records of the four dials and striking a general average. The clock has what may be called Idiosyncrasies. On the Bouth dial the minute hand every now and then changes off with the hour hand, and each performs for a time the lunctions of the other, with the effect to fill with complete bewilderment the mind of the oldest Inhabitant who has made a practice of looking at that dial alone. The east dial works differently. Now and then the hands will come to a complete stop, say at eight minutes past twelve. After a few moments of repose, apparently to gather strength for a forward movement, both hands will suddenly whizz around and will slow up and begin regularly again at. quarter to four. One who looks at the east dial just before and immediately after the operation gains an impressive notion of the rapidity of the tlight of time. Now and then the hands on the north dial decome interlocked, and for a day or two they revolve together, so that the meaning of their record is not very distinct,and it Is difficult to make a fair average of the four dials. The hands on the west dial went backward every day for three weeks last summer, adding much to "the interest with which the clock is regarded, and suggesting entertaining reflections as tothe possibility of a machine which might take up the spent moments and wind us gradually back into the eighteenth century. The clock has a striking apparatus, but. like the rest of the machinery, it is peculiar. It has rarely been known to strike the hour when any of the minute hands touched the twelve spot. Thus far no one has been able to detect any exact system In the striking, but some careful observers hold that when twelve is struck it Is fair to presume that one or the other of the dials marks ten minutes after two. This, however, is not yet verified. Occasionally the clock will not strike at all for several days, and then it will suddenly start up and strike two hundred and thirty-seven with such rapidity that the strokes can hardly be counted. The proposition is that it gets in at one time or another the proper number of strikes for each year, so that nothing is really lost. It is held by some that it would be better to have the clock begin on the 1st of January and strike up ahead for the whole ensuing year, so as to get that much work out of the way; but the clock will never be prevailed upon to do anything so systematic and regular as that. The name of the maker Is not known. It is thought he Is dead, and there are those who urged that he overstrained and killed himself inventing and putting together such an extraordinary piece of mechanism. I often feel when I hear his clock strike thirty-four at a quarter to seven that I should like to have known that man; I should like to have a competent phrenologist examine bis cranial development. Permanent Result of the Sltobeleff Incident* From the Pall Mall Gazette. No one indeed who has watched with any care the effect produced by the "Skobeleff incident" throughout Germany can possibly doubt 4U.4 41. l-A- ?? i.1 A- i- ? - tutu more uaisws m tuat country a ieeunpr rar more profound and serious than that excited by one of those every day "war scares" with which the electric telegraph has made mankind so familiar. Correspondents mar see everything in a rosy light to-day, as yesterday they painted the European outlook In the blackest colors. It is their business to be always In extremes. What strikes the onlooker is that, though the immediate effects of the latest scare are passing away, as they always do, amid elaborate assurances of mutual good will, the normal attitude of German feeling toward Russia has undergone a change for the worse. There Is less of the passionate declamation which has characterized journalistic wars between the two countries In the past, but there is fur more of quiet hatred. The feeling that Russia was to be feared as a mortal enemy has been silently growing in Germany for some years, but men were hardly willing to confess it, even to themselves. What General Skobeleff has done is to convert this half-suppressed suspicion into a widely acknowledged oonvlctton. Were It not for the profound confidence felt by the majority of his countrymen In the foreign policy of Prince Bismarck their alarm might become uncontrollable. It is his life, even more than that of the Emperor William, which Is under present circumstances, the best security for peace. Newspaper "Ideation." Apphia Howard in Providenee Pre?. There Is an affectation of indifference or disgust at newspaper mention among those who are most anxious to secure it. The people who are most severe In denouncing the alleged misrepresentation and exaggeration of the publio press are those who are not satisfied unless their most trivial acts and unimportant movements are recorded In a style only befitting the description of a arreat conflagration. Mr. Longfellow was free from this weakness, while both he and Charles 8umner did not hesitate to say that they were always gratified by friendly newspaper notices of themselves. They both said that no man could afford to be ungrateful for such notices, for they were positive advantages. Mr. Longfellow always seemed to me to be on such a lofty plane of thought that It never occurred to me that he oould be affected by adverse criticism until he onoe wrote me, "I am about to send out another volume, which is the same as potting one's head under the guillotine. * . , Several poisoned dogs were thrown Into the Oconee river at HtliedgevlUe, Ga.. the other day, and the citizens are now refusing to buy ] fish caught oat uf the river. ] How m Mississippi Crersme Is Closed. Correspondence of Boston Henid. The crevasse at Lire Oak plantation broke through the night before we went down the river, and two days later, on our return, we stopped to examine the manner of closing it. A large supply of material, 8x4 and 4x4 joints, inch boards, bales of ha y, and empty bass havrog been collected, two men having a reputation for judgment, experience, and skill are chosen captains with dictatorial powers. These divide the forces Into two gangs, one for each side of the break. First, the broken ends of the levee are protected from farther denudation by bracings of lumber and coverings of tarpaulin, and, when the nature of the ground will permit it, a row of stakes is driven outside the levee to prevent driftwood from washing through and hindering the work. Then, starting from points twenty or thirty feet from the break, so as to allow for accidents, four rows of piles made from the joists are driven firmly tnto the soil. These rows do not project directly across the crevasse, but at an angle of 45 deg. from the inner side of the levee. Between the first and second row, and between the third and fourth, the distance is about three feet, while from the second to the third row is six feet. The piles themselves are ' driven three feet apart, and as fast as driven are firmly braced together by boards spiked on laterally and diagonally so as to strengthen them as much as possible, while loose boards laid upon these braces serve as platforms on which the men stand while at work. In this manner they feel their way along until the outer ends of the two cribs are within ten feet of each other, when the line is driven straight $cross and the two are connected together. All this time great care is taken to allow free passage for the water between the stakes, and to disturb the bottom as little as possible; nevertheless, It ofteo happens that the treacherous soil gives way and a big section of the crib goes sailing off into the field. In time, however, the circumvallation is completed and holds firm, and the process of filling in begins. First, the space between the first and second row of stakes is filled with armfuls of loose hay that is carefully matted together and weighted down with bags of earth. Through this the water leaks as through a sieve, but the rush of the current is stopped. Next, the broader space between the second and third row is packed solid with bags filled with earth, and rammed down till not a drop of water can ooze through. Finally, loose earth is shovelled and rammed upon the rear, until not only is the third compartment filled, but the bank*slopes back fully ten feet beyond the inner row of piles; and not until then is the work declared safe and the crevasse conquered. It is now ten days since the Live Oak crevasse broke. It is not over thirty feet wide, and the surface of the river was not more than four feet above the ground level inside of the levee, yet already more than 60,000 feet of lumber have been*expended, and this morning 2(5.000 more feet were ordered, while nearly 100 men have been working at it daily trorn dawn to dark. In the meantime the water lias covered not only Live Oak plantation and the rice fields adjoining, but is spreading over the corn tields beyond, both up and down the river, carrying destruction wherever it goes. ?~4h? ? Reckless Use off Hypodermic Injections* The Lancet says: "A recent painful case of death caused by a hypodermic injection of morphia directs attention afresh to the dangers of restoring to this most perilous mode of administering drugs designed to relieve pain. The public should be warned against the practice of employing remedies hypodermically. So foinl. dable a ''remedy" should on no account be used except under medical advice, and when deein d necessary itousht to be given by practitioners. We have repeatedly urged the profession to discountenance the recourse to injections uuder the skin, which is becoming general. It is a practice of extreme hazard, and we are of opinion that surgical instrument makers should refuse to sell the requisite apparatus to lay persons, and that medical men should forbid their use." *?? Baccarat?The latest Fashion in Card Gambling From the Hour. In certain circles in New York baccarat has to some extent taken the place of our great national trame, poker. Baccarat Is the fairest game that can be played ayrainst a bank. There is no zero and double zero as in roulette, nor is there the "splits" of faro. The banker has absolutely nothiug in his favor except the '-guessing" wificn his antagonist has to constantly perform. There Is a general belief that it is impossible to cheat at baccarat, but this is quite a mistake, although inclubs and gambling places the possibility of cheating is reduced to a minimum by the use of cards with monotrram3 upon them. Baccarat is played in New York clubs with four packs of cards, and before dealing these packs arty carefully shuffled by the dealer. Whcu the play begins the banker gives one card to the right, one to the left, and cine to himself, and then" he repeats the operation; court cards and tens count as zero, and it iiis two cards he can get nine lie wins all the stakes placed upon the cards given to the players oa the right and left. The cheating banker puts all the packs before him, with their backs to himself and their faces to the players. Suppose that there is a three facing the players; the confederate notices this as the "banker" moves it to the top ot the packs, and so soon as a six appears at the bottom of the pack the confederate makes a sign to the "banker," who at once moves It to the top of the packs, taking care to place two cards between it and the three and two cards above it. When he deals his own two cards are consequently six and tiiree, making nine. He thus arranges a series of consecutive coups which he is certain to win. The cards are then handed to be cut, and by a trick, which consists of pinching some cards and slipping others, which, although imnncaihla ?r\ avnlain la nnf WV VA J/IMI 11| AO Ul/t U I lliV Ult 111 IH/blV/t/} he annals the cut, leaving his series at the top of the pack, where he haa placed it. An adroit cheat can arrange a series without any very lengthy shuffling. The player cheats the banker In this way: He puts a nine up his sleeve; when he is given two cards he takes the cliance of one of them being a ten or a court card. Supposing that he gets a ten and a three, he takes the cards up, throws the three up his sleeve and brings from it the nine; then he exhibits a ten and a nine and thus wins. Any one with a very small practice as a conjurer can do this without fear ot detection. Quite recently an officer of the British array was detected In cheating at baccarat at the Boast club. He was In the habit of putting a fivepound note just outside the line on which the stakes were placed. If his cari lost he withdrew the note; it It won he puahed the note within the line. The club expelled him, as did another club of which he was a member, and be "killed himself. His previous losses at baccarat had been considerable. , Son Spot*. From the N. Y. Suu. A remarkable swarm of sun spots of all sizes, which give the impression of being entangled in the huge veil-like penumbra surrounding them, is now advancing upon the sun's disk from the eastern edge. The motion of revolution will in a few days carry them nearer the center of the disk, where It is not Improbable that they will be visible as a black dot without the aid of a telescope. This group is not less than 60,000 miles In diameter. It Is a wonderful-looking object in the telescope, and every Increase of magnifying power brings to view spots not seen before, and complicated details of structure. Besides the large group there is a belt of smaller spots extending completely across the central portion of the sun. ? ? High Opinion of General Butler. Mrs. Mary A. Llvermore. who has been a distinguished woman among her sex and class for many years, speaks enthusiastically of the private character of Gen. Ben. Butler. She says: "I regard him as Immaculate. In 11 different cases he has helped poor, oppressed women, whose cases I have brought to his notice, and, In one Instance, where he gained a patent right for a poor woman who wa? justly entitled to it. he refused all payment, satfng that he coula make his rich clients pay for his services to her. He is the friend of the poor, and they know it, and be may be governor of the state yet. When he is," she adds with emphasft, "the law will be enforced." ???. . That parents are beginning to find out the evils or the cast-irou system of the graded schools Is the opinion of The Courier, of Buffalo. "They see," it says, "the health of their children jeoparded in exertions to achieve results which, so far as the true objects of education are concerned, mean nothing.. By and by they will perceive that live and uatflMnmeled men and women are what Is needed in.our school-rooms, rather than an iron-bound ^ machinery of which both teacher and pupil are tihe slaves. And ty will be admitted, too, in that no common council yet elected, or likely to be. has either the brains or the special knowledge required to lift our schools out of the rut In which?as the opponents of reform are wont to boast?they almost -run themselves.'" >?? ?i? Southern papers are complimenting Senator Wade Hampton for paying for his telegraphic dispatches, when he "could hare the franks for the asking, if he doesn't have to decline them i with tkaaks." JJOSTETTER'S CELEBRATED . -1 cSRHq TTTT OO MM MM A COO H H 2 * T OOMMMM AA OOH H hSSSs T OOMMMM AA O HUH c.5 TOOMMM AAA | O 0 H H bSSSs X OO M M M A A OOO H H BBB n TTTT ITTT F.KB RRR RSSSB B II T T K HRZ BBB II T T KK RRR sSSSB B II T T R R R * 2 .. BBB n T T EBB R R *SSS8 For a quarter of a century or more IIOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS has been the reigning Fj*ciftc for Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Fever and Ague, a Low o Phymcal Stamina, Liver Complaint md other disorders, and has been mof-t emphatica'ly indorsed by medical men as a health and strength restorative. It counteracts a tendency to premature, decay, and sustains and comforts tne aged and infirm. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally, apl ASTER WEEK OPENING. KING'S PALACE, 814 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST. OUB EASTER WEEK OPENING OF NEW AND LOVELY PATTTERN HATS AND BONNETS COMMENCES ON MONDAY, APRIL THE 10TH, AND WILL BE CONTINUED UNTIL OTHERWISE NOTIFIED. We offer the following goods: 500 FRENCH ana ENGLISH PATTERN HATS and BONNETS, of tho latest importation; &,uuu SCHOOL and DRESS HATS, in every style and 1 quality, at manufacturers' prices; 5,000 LADIES' HATS, comprising the handsomest and cbe3|>est assortment ever offered in styles and quality?in Canton, Milan, Porcupine, Straw, Manilla. Sutin, Braid, Tuscan, Fancy Straw, Real Chip, in all ehades; in following shapes?Putti. Mary Bell, Caviller, Hustle, Soarboro', Antflo. Tyrol, Patience, Marchesi, Obelisk, Idlewild, Jo vita, Vausar, Imi>orial, Esmeralda, and hundred* of other nhajtee too numerous to mention, at prices that will make them cell. BEADED LACES, FLOWERS. PLUMES, RIBBONS, SILKS, SUN UMBRELLAS; KID GLOVES?Real Chamoise Musquetaire Kids, at 75 cents; three and four-button Kids, the frreatest banrains, at 75 cents: elegant Lisle Thread Gloves, from 25 to 40 cents. Don't fail, before purchasing, to call at KING'S PALACE, 814 SEVENTH STREET, THE GREAT HEADQUARTERS FORMILU NERY GOODS. >10 h U U MM MM BBB F.EK RRR L UU MMMMBBE RR L U U M MM M BBB KK RRR L UUMMMBBK R R m CLLL UU II M M BBB EKE R R M NO ADVANCE IN LUMBER * AT WILLET & LIB BEY'S. SAME PRICES AS LAST YEAR. We have C-, 000,000 feet of Lumber, carried over from last year, and we will sell every foot of it at old prices WILLET & LIBBEY, COR. 6TH AND NEW YORK AVENTTR. m'29 JJ ADAMB WASHINGTON, Mo. 1211 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. A NEW DEPARTURE. ft DRESSES MADS AND MATERIAL FURNISHED AT LESS THAN NEW YORK PRICES. * ELEGANT GOODS NOW IN STOCIL Ladies ehould oal at once and leave their orders before the assortment of elegant fabrics is broken. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. m!6-3m MADAME WASHINGTON. g ROBINSON & CO., BOYS' CLOTHING HOU8& OlS 909 PKjrWWTT-TAKIA A*RHU?. AGES BEER, THE BEST IN THE DISTRICT. JOS. SCHLITZ BREWING CO.*S MILWAUKEE LAGER BEER, FOB SALE BY DEALERS AND THE AGENT. BA1TL 0. PALMER, i DEPOT. ISM TWENTY-NINTH STREET N.W. CTTslaphonio ooonectkm. apS C tOBnshels CnubedCoke. O UBwheli Crashed Coin. <0 Bushels Ordtosry Ootoa... J&. W. Fc* sales* office at the WiMutato> a hrht Company, or s*G. W. GROPLKTt Drugstore. Wee> Waahfcarttm. Bf p HjjT o raroo rux&pmat. . . j iti EDUCATIONAL. MWL LEPBIMCkT FROM PARIS. VOL fltTE Conversational l#wo;i? in French at 1m* own and pupils rwUdoncos. Even in* arid morninr ? !*??*?. Price moderate. Boat cttjr tcftnuoM. Call at *05 H street northwest. al:i-6t* KTNMNCITON ART NEEDLEWORK AND D> CO-. rati re Embroideries t.?U(rht after Royal School. S. ;ith Kensimrton, faifrland. 8i<erial e!e*?* for sch <ol ptris. Room 16, Yarn on Row, Pennsylvania awnm and iOtnatmt- arfl-.'w* 1 FRENCH LESSONS.-N.B.-M'I.LV V. PRUD'1 HOVMK'S Resldeaoe removed to 13*1 K street ncrthv.est. New cmm for Ixviuners Oral *y-tem April lVLh. at 10 a.m. and 6.H }\m. Pupil* f* other ciaFFe? can >>:n now. Lesson* will continue dunny ths summer mouths. aft IKSSuXS IS KEN SI N <4 It: N ART NEEiVLKJ ivork and Embroidery by Mr*. V. RUt HSAM at her residence, 2113 B <uudary street, at private r*"?idcrrf-ca, and at Mrs. Sclms Rupert's, 60-t ?t'j street iiorUiwcet. Mondays and Thursdays, at 10 oV.ock a. m. a5- lin wASTTINGTON CONSERVATORY OF MI SIC- AT " TIMMtf NEW HALLS, o r. 7th u<lba.?. Entrance on D street. Thirteenth year. llano, Omn. Voice, Sui^riUK, Violin, ftc. Twelve teachcs. Free idvanUrw. O. B. BUl.LARD, Director. Ja4-4m* SCHOOL OP ELOCUTION AND DRAMATIC ART? M1AKKSFEARK CLASS WEDNESDAY F.VF.XIN(4S AT 8 O'CLtXJK. MRS. ADELINE DUVAL M \CK (of New York'. 7*? 13th stmt n.w. uvJ4 lm PROFESSOR ALEX. DE WOLOWSKPS NEW method for Sinjrinfr and P1->aa, short.-t and l>e*t; savin* year* of priu-tice for ojvra?, concert* snd parlor, at 807 11th street north ?t?t, between H ana I. m21-lm >V. I'LYNN*, A.M.. ?7* S. W. corner 8th end K streets northwest. Privately or in Class?Mathematics, Latin. Gr*?ek, French. Uermin and English. Kjvcial attention to pn*t>aratiou for CoHea*. Went Point, Aunai>olis and all competitive e&arainaaona. Tcrtus in advance. mil MUSICAL ACADEMY, 1721 Db Sai.ks St., bet. Cnn?. ate. and 17th Street Northwest. Principal. 3. P. CAULFIELD, Mas. Doo. Studies resumed September "ivtli. f2-6m M~~ ADAME MTCHEVREMONT (FRENCH TF.ACHer). Diplomee de l'A -adi iuie de Paiin. Ijeswui* i?rivste and In classes, at reasonable terms. Best of reference*. Address residence 7uU liiih street northwest. Jll-6m MISS AMY LEAVITT, OF BOST()N. TEACH Kit of Vocal and Instrumental Music. Address 944 K street northwest. dl3 JE. SCHEELs ORGANIST. TEACHER OF PI ANO and VOCAL MUSIC. Particular attention to benmrtners, as well as those wis!tin* to be qualified for Performers or Teachers. 734 12Ui street noitnwest. dl-eo5m* PENCERI AN BUSINESS COLLEGE, CORN ER Ninth and D street* northwest, occupies its new and attractive hall in the handsome edifice known throughout the United State*asLINCOLN HALL BUILDING, Day and Kveninsr Session* for I.arties and Oentlemen. Sons ' ana aaiurliters educated for real life. Students re ceived throughout the year. A pamphlet. eontsiaimr an eloquent address to the students on Elements or Success," by James A. Garfield; also full information concemine- the Ccllcjre. will be sent free ui>on application by mail, or may be obtained at the OoUe?e ofhoe. , HENRY C. SPENOEIi, Prineiiwd. MRS. SARA A. SPENCER, Vice Principal. <t27 MRS.S.L. CADY*S BOARDING SCHOOL FOB Yonn* Ladies. West End Instituie, New Have'?. j Conn. Eleventh year. Superior facilities. Send for circular. o3 I AT IN, GREEK. MATHEMATICS. NATURAL SCiT J ence and Emriish. privately or in class. Stu<tenU Dreiart'd for (Villetre and eriiivtiiive pvumfnuti ^?i? ' Address *A. J A N US. A.M.. o4-8?n Columbian Coders. Vvr ASHING TON COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE.?A Y? Boarding and Day School for Youn* Ladies aud . Children. re-opens September 19. 18S1. For ciro'ilars apply to Mrs. Z. D. BUTCHER aud MissM. C. DOUGLAS, Principals, 10*23 and 10^7 12tli street northwest. aS SAFE DEPOSIT CO. CBCDBRT FROM LOSS BY BdlOLABT. o bobbery. fire or accident. THE NATIONAL SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY. Corner 15th Street ani> New York Avk. Pen-etual Charter Act of Congress January -'"2d. 1867. Capital $200.000. R'ytw Safes for |5 to ff*0 per year. and takes all kin da of Securities and Valuables on Special Deixjsit at lowest rates. BENJAMIN P. SNYDER. President. CH ARLES C. GLOVER, of RiggB * Co.. Vice President JOHN CASSELS, Treasurer. ALBERT L. 8TURTEVANT, Secretarr. C. E. Nyman, Asst. Secy. Directors: Benjamin P. Snyder, Charles C. Glover, Jf hu Casals, Henry' A, WiUard, Albert L. hturtevant, Thomas Evans, John G. Parke. nl? MEDICAL, Arc, t&'Wi REWARD IF DP.. BROTHERS FAILS TO cure any case of Suppressed or Painful Menstruation. Lencoi-rhom (or \Vhites), and all Interruptions or Irregularities of the MenHtrual Periods; 35 years experience. 90C B street southwest. al8-lm* Diseases of the ukinogenitae organs^ Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Women, Catarrh. Bronchitis, Dyspepsia. etc.. si>eedily and permanently cured. Writefoi advice. Book tree. Dr. 8. T. BAKER, Box 104, Buffalo. N. Y. alS-d&k CPERMATORRIKEA. IMPOTENCY, AND ALl7PRIO vate Diseases quickly cured; also Lucorrhoea and all Female Weaknesses,&c. No calonM or mercury used. Office,514 9th st.n.w.,bet.E and Fata. iu23-lm* BOTTLE OR TWO OF DR. BROTHERS' INvikroratiiijr Cordia! will cure any case of Nervous Debility, Seminal Emissions and Imnoter.rv. does of sexual power. It imparts vigor to the whole system. ' ao.'5 B street southwest. in28-lin* Madame de forest has remedy for la : dies. All female complaints quickly cured. Can be ' consulted daily at 924 7 th street northwest. Office hour* from 1 to 9 o'clock p.m., with ladies only, mll-'iin* Dli7 LEON, THE OLDEST ESTABLISHED AND most reliable Indies' Physician iu the city. cau be consulted daily at 237 Pennsylvania avenue, from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8. All Female Complaints and Irregularities quickly cured. Prompt treatment. Separate rooms for Ladies. m21 -lm Gentlemen can have scientific treatment and a speedy Cure of all Venereal Diseases, by consulting Dr. LEON. 237 Pennsylvania avenue. Proscriptions and advice free of auy char?re whatever. m21-lm DR. MOffT'S FRENCH POWDERS?CERTAIN CORK for Kidney Diseases, Gravel and all Urinary Diseases, Nervous Debility, Seminal Weakness, lmpotency. Gleet Scrofula, Syphilis and all Blood and Skin Diseasea speedily cured. Gonorrhoea cured in 48 hoora. For wile by WM. B. ENTW1SLE, Druggist, corner 12th street and Pennsylvania avenue. Prioe $3 per box. sent by mail under seal on reoeu* of price. m6 "^"positive-CUBE Without Medicines. ALLAN'S SOLUBLE MEDICATED BOUGIES, Patented October 16, 1876. One box No. 1 will cure any case in four days or less. No. 2 will cure the most obstinate case, no matter of bow long standingNo nauseous doses of cubebs. oonabia or oU of sandal wood, that are certain to produce dyspepsia by destroying the coatings of the stomach. Price fil.50. Sold by all druKviat*. or mailed on receipt of price. For further particulars ttend for carcuiar. P. O. Box 1.533. J. C. ALLAN CO.. 83 John street. Mew Torit. J17-tu.th.b-6m STARTLING DISCOVERY! Lost Manhood Restored. A victim of youthful imprudence ?u?iog Premature Decay, Nervous Debility, Lost Manhood, etc., having tried in vain every known remedy, haodiscovered a aimpie self cure, which he will send nu to his fellow-sufferers. Address J. H RKKVES, 43 Chatham street New York, slO-colyAfc Health is wealth !-db. e. c. wests NERVE AND BRAIN TREATMENT; A Specific for HyHtorla, Dizziness, Convulsions, Nervous Headache, Mental Depression, Loss of Memory, Spermatorrhea, Lmpotency. Involuntary Emissions; Premature Old Age, caused by over-exertion, self-abuse or over indulgence, whioh leads to misery, decay and death. One box will cure recent cases. Each box oontains one month's treatment. One dollar a box, or six boxes far fire dollars; sent by mail prepaid cm receipt of price. We guarantee six boxes to cure any case. With each order received by us for six boxes, accompanied with fire dollars, we will send the purchaser our written guarantee to return the money if the treatment does not effect a oure. Guarantees issued by STOTT k CROMWELL, 480 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington. D. 0.. Who'.eealeand Retail Agents, to whom all orders should be addressed. oclf OUNG MEN. If you have failed to receive proper treatment in cases or Chronic Diseases, such ss Heart Disease, Kidney Cemplaint, Nervous Debility, Impotency or Premature Decay, 8eminal Weakness. Dyspepsia, Nervous exoitibUity, Ac., send two stamps for our questions far self-examination and our new book " Tn Laws or Lm and Health." Address Secretary. Medical and Snrgiaal Institute, Ja4 147 East iSth street. New Vork. DR. ROBERTSON CAN BE CONSULTED CONFIdentially by gentlemen and ladies who need medical advice, every Wednesday and Saturday, at 456 O street northwest. Twenty years' experience. Main office. 30 N. Liberty street. Baltimore. mt-to TAR. ROBERTSON. THE MOST RELIABLE AND JLF longest established specialist in this city, with 18 Sirs experience, will guarantee ecu re in all diseases of Urinary Organs, Nervous and Seminal Weakness Nocturnal Kmiwrtona, Impotencj (kiss of sexual power), etc. Gonorrhoea and Syphilis positively cured in S to 10 days. Consultations strictly Can be S?SS?tro?S?,?3s T)B. BlCOBD'8 TIT All KTSTOaATIT*. Approved by Ota Academy of Medicine, of Paris, recommended by the Mediae! Celebrities of the World as a specific far nervous end physlcel debility, lossaf manly vigor. Jn.; of Lnamr, 1> bis. me JUehUitm. fans: or of Seth. S. Hanoe, Baltimore, and cTchrietiani, 484 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington. D. C.. where descriptive drcnlara with symptoms and testimonials can be had. The genuine ikttebearsprivwte 5p^??,V"!oitt'rs. -sirsns: HO- mit Q.BT THE BEST. Tin COh'OOBP HI1WTM AMD OOU.IM LUTS * BIO., m ronrsylvaiu avbxux. iil?gggg#i STEAMERS. At, 1WE bTKAMKK MATTANO" il.AVm 7T? ?fcre?* *turf evarr fimlT, TtEHDil a?Z THVBsDAY. nl 7 rVm a.m., fnr h4>??? nw lunrtuv*. at landman In Ntanlai 0111 nm' taf and 1 bunjtri, MtUm Crank on KuuiUv* and T*mredayw, ChsN Point and hnitt'a ? art Nun da TV "down' *tid *f li.(*'ay? and Mattaworaaa Creek on Suudaya ""down." and Monday* ' *iU' retiinun* tp M ?>-h.iyrtan every Muudaj. * i tnrrday Ml Friday iflcniKsm. 1 or i&lormatsou apply to _ O. T. JONF*. A*eat. ?n? tin wtnwt wfcart. Y^OYAOEKH TO EUROPE J. W. BOTFI.F.U k ROW Are the Ktrrnl* for the **!< of Ticket* in thia Di^rWof Um IN MAN STKAMSHTPOO. rartl<w profxirtiiir to vtait Europe can obtain all laotii.utjviu by app>i am to J. W. BOTKLKft k HON. pOTOMAC TUANS1H)KTAT10N LIKE. On and afW MARCH 19lh the STEAMER SUE, Cnrw tail! W. C. t?KcKiHK< i A N. mi 1 leave STEl'HUMaOVt WHARF. foot of 7UiKtre.t. F.YMiY SUNDAY, at fo?f O'clock p.in., f.* Baltimore and Kim Landuuica. All River ErcUrtit luuwt he lVcpald. LKuruiuc, arn\e in W adiuuixu rrrrj Saturday nlirMi STEPHENSON * BRO.. Aakht* mlfi 6m ativet Wharf and Cor. titti and Iv m J^OTICE. FOR POTOMAC KIVER LANDINO*. Or and after NOVEMBER Sn. 1K81. the atnamor All HOW SMITH aHI leave her wharf, foot of 7th atmwt. at 7 a. m. arery MONDAY. THURSDAY and SATl RDAV for all nrrr Un<lin**. On MONDAY an Iw a* Nouiuii Ferry. On THUHSDAY. N nnuu, Ourn -titan. 1 *?>ii?rdt< v n and St. Cfcm.tm' lt?v. ft "*'" Wharf. < o' Howard'a. On SATURDAY. Curnomaa and Leonardtown. .. ... mH JOHN R. WHlQP. Aynat. |j AM B U H0~ LIS E. WEEKLY LINK~OF STEAMERS LEANING NEW YORK BTERY THURSDAY AT 3 P. M. FOR ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANT. For Paaaa^e apply to C. B. RICHARD * CO.. General Paaarnr^r AtrenU. 61 Broadway, New York. Or to PFRCY O. SMITH. 1351 and 61H ivnii.-ylvania avenue. apl T^OKFOLK AND NEW YORK STEAM Kits. " THE STEAM Pit LADY OF THK LAKH wiJUoave her wharf, foot of 6th atrect, every MONDAY. W^ftNKSDAYand FRiDA I. at 4 oYi.wk touch ii (r ?t l*ine> PoiuLfiml t^v.Vout and Kixtnw CONNECTING AT NORFOLK VI I M I MK BOSTON AND Pho\Ii?EM K STEAMERS. Flrrt-olaaa Fare to Fortre* Monroe and Norfolk...13. M Second-da** Fare to l'ortiv*? M.iuroe and Norfolk.$1-M Firtt-cla* Fare to Piney Point and Point Lookout. .1.8? be^'iid-riaKa Fare to Putejr hiiul and I' >iut Look<-tit. 75 Returmn*. leavee Norfolk TUEM>AY8. TULK4DA\S and SATURDAY S. ?t fotirn'cicvi p.m. THE NEW YORK STEAMERS JOHN GIBSON and E. C. KNIGHT -tU r aoroe Uirt* tin*. *tv i ir Pier 41. Fort River, New Tor*, every BAWKPAY. at fonr o'clock p.m., and rterniretowa ev?-iy FRIDAY. at 7 o'H.?* *.m. For paftioulaca DM) to atreiit. <?1 Water utreet. < Je.?nretown. Ticket* and rtateroom* can be eeoured at rami Office, CIS IStli street National Mt<tro|H,hfaui Bank Building. II. ,v O. '1 ii-Kot olfc.i. i :>i iiun>)n?uia avenge; st. Marc Hotel. "n" at b t. oc22 ALFRED W<X>D. Secretary. J^EW YORK ROTTERDAM. The flrrf-daen Steamer* of thla T/n*. "AMSTERDAM, " **K<?TTERD AM." *'SCHIEDAM.' "W. A. STHOLTEN." "P. OAIaAND." and *MAAB" CarrTimr the U. S. Mall a to the Netherlands leave Waft. Kn< Store*, Brooklyn, rerularly, on WKDNESDAT. Find Cabin. ?<>0 f7U. 2d Cabin, $50. tSt?<en*ra, $3$. H. CAZAUX. General Ajont, 27 S<nith William HfeeL New Y ork. For patwatre apply to W. G. METZEROTT k CO.. 925 Pennsylvania avenue, Wa^hintrton., or F. H. JOHNSON, Accent, National Safe I>'|??at Building, corner New York avenue uid IMti etrvet northwest. JalT QUNARD LINK. """ NOTICE! LANE BOUTE. TBF CTNAJtD STEAMSHIP (X) MP A NT LIMITED^ BETWEEN NEW \ORK AND LIVERPOOL. CALLING AT CORK HARBOR. ? .. . FROM Pi LB 40. M. B.. NEW YORK. Scythla.... Wed.. 1J Ai?l. hvi tia..... W??d.. lJMay. j at.< :??>\ml., 2<> Ap . 8rythi? Wed 7) M .jr. Catalonia.. Wed.. 8 May. Bothnia .... \%?M..31 May. Onuiu W?d.,10M"v. ' "tjilmif" ..W?4., 7 J una. AND EVERY WF.D* E8 AY ITOM NEW YOBS. bate or riMiM fiTl?i $10(? h< t?? m ^ i "tlfit. Steerare at very low rate*. Steerage ticket* from Ua. moot and Oueenatown and ?il oilier parte of Europe Ml jowfwt ntei. I hrouKh biDa of laoen given for Balfart. (Haarow. Havre, Antwerp and other portaon the Continent ant for Mediterranean i?orta. For freight and i?twage apply at the Company** ofltaa No. 4 BowliUK Green, or both ataeratre and oabtn to OTIS B1GELOW k 6o.. ?06 7th treat. Waahingtoa. I,1 *' VERNON H. BROWS k CO. .New York; Or to Masoa. Oils BIGEUJW * CO.. )anl2 06 7th firw t. Washington. North German l'loyd? Steamhhip Like between New Ton, Hatm Lou wok, Sot'thamptoh ami> bremen. The rteamer* of this company will aail EVERY SATURDAY from Bremen Pier, foot of 3d rtret< Bobokeu. Rataeof paMage.?From Now York to Harrv Loudon. Southampton and Bremen, ftn>t caUn. $100. aroonc cabin. $00; Bteera**, $30; prepata rteerajre oertmralea. $27. For freiKliPor i?iea? &pt>lv to OELRH 'HH k CO.. 2 Bow 11 uk Green. NewTorS. W. G. MET/JiROTT k CO., 925 Pennaylrania avenue northweflt. AirauU for W aahiuirton .'anl2 . RAILROADS. THE GREAT ? PENNSYLVANIA BOTTTE TO THE NORTH. WENT AND SOI THWTST. DOUBLE TRACK. SPLENDID SCENERY. bl'EEL RAILS. MAGNIFICENT EQUIPMENT. , IN EFFCT JANUARY 22n, DWB. Tiunta Leave Wakutnotoh, fbom Statioh. Ooana _ or 6th A*n B Streets, am Fonnowa: xorPittrbupK and tlia Wert, Chica?t> Limited ripiaw of Pullnmn Hotel and sieeiin* Cara at n?.. daily; Fart Line, t:S0 a. m. daily, with Skeoptnff Cara from Hxrrlabaty to Cincinnati. WeAara txprmw, 7 30 p. m. daily, with Palace Cara to Pittwbui* and Cincinnati. Mail F.xprea^ $:M p. m. daily for llttebunr and the W ert. BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC BA1LBOAD. For Canandaitrua, Rochenter. Buffaloj^ Niagara, 8^.50 p. u. <uuj, oiwjn na-uruaj, wiui man vmih Canandaunia. For W' iUianiMKort. Look Haven and Ebnir* at 9:39 a. m. daily, except Suudajr. For New YocV andtl*' Eaat, 8:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m.. 1:30. 9:50 and 10:20 p.m. On Suiiday. 130. 9 50 and 10:20 p.m. Limited Eipraw of Pullmu Parlor <'-ars, 9.30 a.m. daily, except 8unrtay. For Brooklyn, N. Y., ail through train* connect at Jersey City with boat* of Brooklyn Am*-*. affording direct transfer to Fulton utreet, aroutnc double ferriage aero** New York City. For Philadelphia. 8:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m.. 1:30, 6:40 9 60 ana 10:20 p.m. On Holiday, 130. 6.40, 9 St and 10:'iO p.m. Limited Expraaa. IJI a.aa. daily, except Huuday. For Baltimore, 6:40, d Wl, 9:30, 10:30 a.m. aad 1:38. 4:20, 4:40. 6:40. 7:30, 9:60 and 10 JOi .m. On Sunday 6:00, 9:30 e.m.. 130, 6 40. * 36, 9 M and 10:30 p.m. For Pope'a Creek Line. 6:40 a. m. and 4:40p.m., daily, _ except Sunday. For Annai>olia, 6:<0 a.m. and 4 40 p.m., dally, ecoapt ALEXA^D&IA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAILWAY. AND ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON RAILROAD. For Alexandria, 6:30, 7:20, 9:30. 11:00 and 11:36 a. at.; 4:20. 6:00. 6:30. 8:00 and 11:30 p.m. On Sunday, at 6:30, 9:30, 11:00 and 11:25 a.m., and p.m. For Richmond and the South. 6:30 and 11:36 a. m., _ dally, and 6.00 q. in., daily, except Sunday. Train* leave Alexandria for Waahincttm, 6:00, IMl 8:63 and 10:00 a.m.; 12:40. 3:flo. 6:00. 7:00 and 9:36 p.m.. and 13:00 midnijrtat. On Sunday, al 8:06, 8:53 and 10 00 a.m.; 7 KM) and 9.30 p.m. Ticketa and information at the offioa north Beat not? of 13th etreet and 1'ennaylvanla avenue, and at tha elation, where ordera can be left for the cbeokiur of basCMgm to daatlnatioa from hotola and tendmoea. . I- H WOOD. General Fmnhv AfMt FRANK THOMPSON. General Manaaer. W JJALTIMORE * OHIO RAILROAD. THE MODEL FAST. *AND THE ONLY LOT THE EAST AND THE WEST, VIA WASHINOTOE. DOUBLE TRACK! JANNKY O0UPLER1 STEEL SCHEDULE TO TAKE EFFECT MO ED AX, JAM. __ LAKY 2Sd 1*8.'. A. M- LEAVE WASHINGTON. n=?^ICAoo. C1NC1NNATL AND ST. LOUIE JeAST EXpRKtu*. 8iecpu? Can to -inati St IxTuia end Chicago. 6:00? ttaltunore. Ellioott OJty. and Way Slattona ^er^sss%stJg3SStk fT :46?BAxIMORE EXPRESS. 8:10?Point of hooka and War stations. S:16?PHILADELPHIA. NEW YORK AND BOETOB EXPRESS. Parlor Can to New York. S40?STAUNTON AND VALLEY EXPRESS (?a?. ne^Mfor^ Hagawtowa and at Point of hooka tm t9:00?Baltimore, HyattavlDa and Lanid Fxptaaa Stone at Beltanlie, AnnapaUa Junction, t laiaupa and 1 vtrw y'? On Htindaya atom at all aUtlooa. 10:00?BALTIMORE EXPRESS taMpa ?t F| illiillli tl0;4^KTT8BURG, CHICAOa CINCINNATI AMD ST. LOUIS EXPRESS. Puck* ana n*ai>u* p )f 1'S'1StattmOT% Em?otk *miapolM and Was w"ta.O^^TIMOKE^ PHILADELPHIA AND NEW 1*0- Baltimore ana Way WtoHtma. (Wloctaeatar. IMLATTRJCL 5S?g33gKESSfivJs htfmfiil* axd uran TELE TIUJ>E8~~