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SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1868.
at Iinprarhmriat.
While the impeachment of President
Johnson is pending, it will of course take
precedence of every other topic in tho
public mind. On Monday lsst, at 1
o'clock, the Senate resumed the subject.
The defense of the President was read by
his connscl. The document is volumi
uofis and occupied an hour and a half in
the. reading. It is a thorough aud
pinte vindication of the • President, upon
all tho points upon which he hne been
raigned. Its chief features nre, an ad
mission that he appointed Lorenzo Thomas
Heerelary of War, ad interim, and with
out the'consent of the Senate, but deuies
that he thereby committed any offence -,
that there was a vacancy in the war office,
and, although the Senate was in session,
ha could authorize General Thomas
act ; and in reply to the allegations in ref
erence to his speeches, the President
serti that he is not correctly reported, but
maintains his right as a citizen to form
opinions in reference to the legisiztion of
Congress, and to give expression to them.
At the conclusion of the reading the
sef for the President applied for
tcusion of time of thirty days after
plication to make preparation for defe
This motion was resisted by the managers
of impeachment, and finally refused by a
strict party vote.
On Tuesday, the House managers
ported the replication to the President's
answer to the articles of impeachment,
" reserving to themselves all advan
tage of exception to the insufficiency of
hu answer," roitcrate that he is guilty of
the high crimes and misdemeanors
tinned, Ac.
adopted the replication by a vote of 115
yeas to 36 nays—a strict party vote. The
managers afterwards presented the paper
to the Senate in session as a court, and a
copy was ordered to be furnished to the
President's counsel.
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The House, "after debate,
The question on the previous day's mo
tion of Senator Johnson, of Maryland, to
grant ten days' extension of time to pre
pare for trial then came up, when Mr.
Sumner moved to amend ao as to require
the trial to proceed at once. The Senate
then, by a vote of 20 to 23, retired for
consultation, and having thus spent the
tiiuo from 1 j to 3} o'clock, returned, and
the Chief Justice announced that the Sen
ate had adopted an order to commence the
trial on Monday, tho 30th inst.
trial of Andrew Johnson. President of the
United States, will regularly
Monday next, at 12} o'clock.
The New York World is hopeful of an
acquittai. So is its Washington
pondent. But we have come to a different
' conclusion, and we shall be
BO the
commence on
corros
very agreea
bly disappointed if he is. The follow
ing speculations upon the subject
clip from the World of Tuesday :
The unblushing impudence of General
Butler in standing up as one of the mana
gers and advocating the conviction of the
1 resident "at railroad speed," was a fit
ting prelude to the mock trial which
opened yesterday. There is a foregone
determination that the President shall not
have justice, and it is vain to expect for
him any indulgence. But we must bear
in mind that those who control the pro
eeedings during the trial, will not deter
mine the result. The House impeaches,
but it cannot condemn ; and the managers
appointed to carry out its wishes display,
in their role of prosecuting officers, a for
ward and unrelenting hostility which
wonld be unbecoming in the court. We
are not warranted in inferring the result
from the relentless temper of the raana
gera. It would have been a great mistake
to have inferred the condemnation of War
Bastings from the ncadloug virulence
displayed by Burke and his associates at
the beginning of the trial. It would have
been equally a mistake to have inferred
the condemnation of Judge Chase from
the temper in which John Randolph and
bis associate managers conducted tho pros
ecution. And so. in the present trial,
we thus far sec only the heat and
of the prosecutors, and not the final
of mind in which tho conclusion of the
trial will leave the judges.
It must also be recollected that the issue
dree not depend upon the mujority of the
Senate, but on ite minority. All ques
tions which arise in the course of the trial
are decided by a mere majority ; but on
the final question of innocence or guilt,
one-third of the Senators are sufficient to
If, therefore, there should
we
ren
state
aaquit.
to be
.... . prove
el (?ht fair-minded and conscientious
Benators, the President will be safe in
spite of the partisan fury which is the
moving Impulse of the prosecution. AVith
so just a cause, and the necessity of con
vincing but a little more than one-fifth of
the Republican Senators of its justice,
see no reason why the friends of the Pres
iV ident should lose confidence—at least not
,. I® thin early stage of the proceedings,
- when *0 much has been said by the im
C bers, and so little ns yet by the dc
s. In spite of the infuriate clamor of
the Radical mob and the mail bowling of
the Radical journals. It would ho rash to
* infer that m 4 one Republican Senator iu
fire will be amenable to reaann.
The Présidant is not only fortunate In
the strength and solidity of bis cause, and
the fewness of the voices necessary for an
aenuittal, but he ha* been eminently wise
in hi* selection of his eouNsel. We mean
this remark to apply less to Messrs. Black
and Nelson Allan to Messrs. Btnnbery,
fnrtis, and Evzrts. My. Black's great
we
ability and acumen will no doubt bo of
service ; and if the President chooses to
plead his unflinching loyalty during the
rebellion, perhaps no man in the country
could depict it with such persuasive effect
as Mr. Nelson, who was in a position to
witness the course of Mr. Johnson in the
perilous forefront of danger as the first
military Governor of the first State
covered from the rebel*. But, ou the
strict merits of the defence, the three law
yer* who were prominent in the procccd
inga yeaterday, *ro peculiarly qualified to
reach the few Republican Senators who
will determine the final result.* None of
the three having been members of the
Democratic party, they can easily place
themselves in the points of view which
will secure for their arguments the most
ready access tjp Republican minds. Judge
Curtis has loDg been celebrated as the
author of an able dissenting opinion in the
famous Dred Scott case, an opinion which
ha* always ranked, especially in Republi
can estimation, among the clearest, ablest,
and fairest specimens of judicial reasoning
ever delivered from the bench of the Su
preme Court. Mr. Stanbcry is almost
equally well remembered for his powerful
and luminous argument last spring on the
injunction cases, in which he expressed
views which thé Republican party warmly
indorsed, and supported them with
minous force of reasoning seldom equalled,
and of late year* never surpassed, at the
bar of our highest tribunal,
has never acquired so much distinction
any particular occasion, but he stands in
the formost rauk of American lawyers,
and probably excells both Mr. Curtis and
Mr. Stanbery in the amount and variety
of his professional experience, lie has
always beeq an eminent member of the
Republican party, ami can address Re
publican judges without obstructing the
impression of his arguments by running
counter to the habitual current of their
sentiments.
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Mr. Kvarts
A strong defence presented
by counsel so well fitted to conduct it
without hazard of foundering on parti
prejudices, ought to (fccurc tlie eight Rc"
publiean votes needed for
We should be loth to believe that
acquittal.
every
Republican Senator has made up his mind
to convict, without regard to anything
which may be offered in the President's
defence ; and if there are barely eight who
hold their minds open to argument, tlie
chances for an acquittal are good, in spite
of the tumult and uproar of party passions
which, for the present, drown all other
sounds.
The attempt to hurry the trial through
"at railroad speed" is certainly unfavor
able to the President ; but, at the same
time, it is a symptom of conscious weak
ness on the part of the prosecutors. They
act on the maxim of strikiug while the
iron is hot, fearing that if time is allowed
for the passions of the hour to subside,
the impeachment will fall flat. In this
they judge correctly, for nothing but the
exaggerations of impassioned excitement
could magnify the attempted removal of
Stanton into an impeachable offence.
Senate evidently did not consider it
impeachable when it was committed, for
they would not have visited it with an im
mediate expression of censure if they had
had any expectation of being called ou to
try it as judges.
The New York Herald's Washington
dispatch reported several weeks ago that
impeachment could not pass the Senate
because Senators Trumbull, Fessenden,
Anthony, Sprague, Tipton, Van Winkle,
Willey and Sherman, with others not
The
named, will vote against it because there
is really uo charge on which to base a
conviction ; aud because of jealousy of
Wade, and general fears that the
will be unpopular with the people.
measure
Délai
Iti Darden State of tlie Union.
We clip the following from the April
number of the Journal of the Farm, pub
lished by Baugh k Sons, Philadelphia.
This is the tile of a Pamphlet, written
and published by Henry T. Williams,
Agricultural Editor N. l r . Independent,
giving a full and impartial description of
the lands, agriculture and resources ofDel
From the position of the State, its
early seasons, (two to three weeks earlier
than Now Jersey), mild healthy climate,
advantages for convenient and rapid trans
portation to excellent markets, with soi'l
adapted to the cultivation of all kinds of
fruit or vegetable products, it will be seen
Delaware enjoys advantages of a character
not excelled by any State south of New
York. To a gardener or a fruit
aware.
grower,
the ripening and gathering of a crop a week
or ten days earlier than New Jersey, is an
advantage worth thousands of dollars— in
some seasons suffieent almost to pay tlie
entire cost of a farm. There promises to be
a great immigration to that .State, and
this is the first and only pamphlet publish
ed on the subject, it will doubtless be the
standard authority for all persons going
thither. The book contains information
valuable for any general reader to know,
is printed very tastefully and contains a
handsomely colored map.
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We learn from the Chcstcrtown
that Mr. Joseph AY. Edwards, living
Haneaville, Kent county, Md. was knock
ed down by a negro man with a fence-stake,
on Friday the 15th inst. and remained in
sensible until the following Monday. The
blow fell upon the back part of his head
and neck.
committed to jail to await his trial at the
April term. Mr. Edwards had attempted
to correct him for cruelty to his steers,
having thrust a pitchfork into one of them.
papers
near
The npgro was arrested and
A grand demonstration took place in
Baltimore, on Thursday, in honor of the
arrival of the Bremen steamship Baltimore.
A procession and a banquet, were includ
ed in the programme!
A .Grant Club was organized in this
town, on the 16th inst. Samuel Pcnington
President; J. M. Cox, Vice President; E.
R, Rice. Secretary: A. G. Cox, Treasurer.
PraMeatlal Klee tor,.
The folkwing shows the number of
Suites represented in Congress, the number
not represented, and the electoral vote to
which each State is entitled. It should be
preserved by our readers who take an in
terest in keeping themselves thoroughly
posted :
nr atm KramrKTKD in conorem
California,....
Connecticut..
Deluware.
Illinois.
Indiana.
lown.
Kansas.
Kentucky..
Maine.
Maryland.
Massachusetts
Michigan.
Minnesota.
Missouri.
Nebraska..
Nevada.
New Hampshire.
New Jersey.
New York*.
Ohio.
Oregon.
Pennsylvania....
Rhode island....,
Tennessee.
Vermont.
West Virginia...
Wisconsin.
5
.3
.6
.3
3
.16
13
.33
.8
3
.3
11
.20
V
.4
.10
.12
.5
8
4
....Il
247
BTATM NOT REFRK8RNTCD IN CONURKHN
9j Mississippi.
4|North Carolina...
3 South Carolina...
9; Texas..
61 Virginia.
Alabama.
Arkansas
Florida...
Georgia..,
Louisiana
10
.«
4
10
70
Whole number....
Necewary to elect
If Colorado should be admitted into the
Union previoua to the election, the
gate number of electors will be increased
to 320.
3 1 -,
159
aggre
It will then require 161 to elect.
A Backward Spbino.— Before the last
heavy snow storm, which set in ou tile
20th, many of our farmers had made their
preparations for Spring plowing, and
had commenced, but the snow suddenly
suspended their labors.* Here is the last
of March, and from present
the ground will not be dry enough to throw
into furrows for a week.
Romo
appearances
Farm-work will
be very much behind hand, and the hus
bandman will have to toil hard to catch
up with the advancing season.
The Journal of the Farm, published iu
Philadelphia, contrasts the present
with that of last
season
year. It says :
The present prospects of the coming spring
worthy of a brief consideration. It is nt
it unin
teresting to compare th« season with that of last
year, and note the difference. In February, 18(J7.
we hud some warm sunny days, with the ground
free from frost. Those on the alert for eorlv op
erations had commenced to remove and trans
plant trees, and were suddenly arrested i
untimely haste. The truck gardener had a good
opportunity to prepare his hot beds for enrlv
salad, and cauliflower, and
week in March the first crop of peas was sown.
How different is the present season ! Our Feb
ruary just passed, has been unusually severe for
this section. No open weather. Not n sight to
be had of naked mother earth ! And now March
comes with unrelenting severity, and ties up the
hands of those who had prepared for spring op
erations.
their
rly as the first
And, it might have added, it is going
with Unrelenting severity. But, it is no
use to complain of the weather ; it will
have its own way, in spite of all our ill
natured animadversions. Let us make
the best we can of it, and console ourselves
with the reflection that it might have been
worse.
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Spring Faiklons.
Wednesday, the 25th, was "opening
day" in New York, for modistes and
milliners, who on that day bring out the
Spring Fashions. Crinoline is discarded;
but, in lieu of it, something like the old
"bustle," ora modification of it, called
more delicately, a "gathered puff,"
better still, a " panier," is worn,
nets are — smaller/ while their price is en
hanced. " Mask" veils, the latest Paris
ian novelty, are also in vogue,
haven't space to enlarge, on this topic,
to-day. We will treat our lady readers
to a full description of the Spring Styles,
in our next issue.
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Bon
But, we
In France the question of literary credit is reg
ulated by law. Not only must a paper state from
which of its contemporaries it quoits, l ut must
give tlie original signature of ihc author of the par
agraph taken. It is quite different in Oils emiii
try, greatly to the ad van tage of the reputation of
some country editors.
AVc clip the foregoing from a city
temporary, whose columns arc remarkable
for nothing so mach as a paucity of ideas,
and the intellectual poverty of its editori
als. " Country editors," forsooth ! Why
the stock in trade of some seven-by-tiinc
city dailies wewot of, is little more than
their gleanings from their country
changes, and their stolen telegrams.
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Map or Delaware. —AVo have received
from Messrs. Bough man, Thomas k Co.
Book .Sellers and Stationers. No. 421,
Market street Wilmington, Del. a copy of
their very neat and conveniently arranged
Pocket Map of Delaware. The Map is
handsomely colored, and is the only
plete map of the State published in pocket
form. Everybody should have one, price
only 75 cents.
The Connecticut Democracy have
cured the services of James R. Doolittle,
Montgomery Blair, Henry Clay Dean, D.
A oorhees, C. Chauncey Burr, and
other distinguished speakers, in the pres
ent campaign. Messrs. Creswcll and J.
L. Thomas, of Maryland, arc going up to
aid the other side. There will be
spirited contest as to who shall have the
nutmeg State.
A State Convention of the Union party
is to be held at Dover,
23d of April, to select delegates to the
National Republican Convention, which is
to meet in Chicago on the 20th of May.
corn
w.
en
a most
in
by
Thursday, the
on
They must have very bad roads i
The Whig says there are "many quick
ssnds whose treacherous sinks swiillow up
horses and vehicles that chance to get into
the-i."
in Cecil.
tOe A I, AFP IIHS.
Houses fire in great demand here.
Two
or three fainilies have been compelled to
go to boarding, for the want of dwellings.
Several business men are without places
in which to conduct their business. The
photograph wagon formerly occupied by
Mr. J. M. Horning, has been brought into
requisition and removed to the east end of
tho town, and is now used as a shoe shop.
Houses and business stands are in great
request here, and property is paying 12,
15 and 20 per cent, on the original in
vestment.
It is strange that our capital
ists do not invest more extensively in hou
Fifty additional buildings could be
rented here in a very brief time. Only
last week a gentleman wrote to us from
Jlavre-de-Gracc, inquiring whether hç
could procure a business-stand and a
dwelling, and three weeks previously
got a letter from a gentleman in Chester
town, making a similar inquiry. True,
our carpenters ami builders are all /busy,
but they could enlarge their operations and
increase the number of their workmen, if
ses.
we
capital was more extensively employed in
building.
We publish elsewhere the proceedings
of a meeting held at Sassafras, Kent coun
ty, Md. on Tuesday last, for the purpose
of concerting measures to build the Kent
Rail Road from Massey's, via Sassafras
and Warwick, to Middletown. Forty
thousand dollars had previonslv been sub
scribed for that purpose, and a committee
was appointed to raise $16,000 more, ma
king a total subscription of $56,000, with
which sum, one of the contractors assured
the meeting the road would be built, the
contractors themselves, Messrs. Sears,
Harrison and Stratton, agreeing to supply
the remainder, about $24,000. Major
Sears further proposed to build the entire
road, without, a dollar of subscription
ney, or any guarantee of three or six per
cent, provided the Directors of the Kent
County Rail Road will execute to him a
tense for ninety-nine years,
was appointed to lay the first proposition
before the board of Directors, at their
meeting in Chester town, on Thursday last.
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A coro mit tee
The snow storm of Friday aud Saturday
last, was the greatest of the season, and
extended over a large portion of the
try.
coun
It commenced in Baltimore on Fri
day morning, anil in Boston not before 3
o'clock, ou Saturday morning, tho
drifts blocking up the Rail Roads and im
peding travel in every direction,
menced snowing here about 4 o'clock, P.
M. on Friday, and continued until i) or 10
o'clock
snow
It coni
on Saturday morning, the
falling to the dep4h »f eighteen, inches on
a level.
snow
In many places it banked up to
the tops of the fences and hedge-rows,
rendering travel impracticable for two
three days,
ly, however, on Monday. On Wednes
day last we had a fresh instalment, which
fell to the depth of three inches. But it
has melted, leaving the roads and the fields
thoroughly saturated with water.
or
if commenced melting rapid
Brick making would be a highly
nerative business to engage in here in
Middletown. The demand for brick for
remu
building purposes, would be very brisk,
if they were* maimfaetnrcd Imre,
streets have been laid out, and
.Vow
more pave
ment will have to be laid shortly. The
Town Hall will require two or three hun
dred thousand. Who will be the first to
engage in this business, and thereby in
sure to himself a fortune.
Good clay, we
are told, can be had within js convenient
distance of town, and the amount of
capi
tal required is not so great as to put the
enterprise beyond tlie reach of men of
moderate means.
Let us have a brick
It will pay —aud
yard, by all means,
pay well.
On Tuesday last the property belonging
to the heirs of the late Garrett Cox, of this
town, consisting of a farm, and several
houses in Middletown, was sold at publie
sale at the National Hotel. The farm at
Armstrong's Corner, containing 117 aores,
was sold to Martin E. Walker, Esq. of
this town, for $118 per acre, $13,806.
The dwelling house occupied by Mr. A.
G. Cox and family, and the house adjoin
ing, were sold te J. M. Cox, Esq. tlif first
named for $2,500, the second for $1,600.
The Carriage Factory was bought by J.
M. Cox k Bro. for $3,600; total amount
of sales $21,506.
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Thomas Eliasou, a little boy about sev
en yours of age, fell out of a wagon at the
Rail Road Depot, oil Monday last, and
the wheels passed over his abdomen, bruis
ing him considerably, inflicting internal
injury. Dr. Barr was called to bis relief.
Moving-day, the 25th, was ushered in
The roads were
in a perfect loblolly Btate, and travelling
cxtrcipcly disagreeable., AVe could but
sympathize with those who hod to change
their residences in sueh inclement weather.
t
by rain, hail and snow.
The Delaware and Maryland Fruit
Growers' Association, which has held its
meetings at Odessa, now numbers,
told,
we are
upwards of sixty members.
To Correspondents.— "Inquirer," in
reply to "Building Loan," is unavoida
bly deferred' until our next. The subject
is one possessing considerable iuterest for
our readers generally, and no doubt will
be properly elucidated in the progress of
the discussion.
The lucubrations of "A Tormented
Man," shall have place next week.
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of
Mrr Thomas Lane, keeper of a Livory
Stable, in this town, had four of his car
riages crushed to pieces by the falling of a
shed under the heavy pressure of the snow
on Friday night of last week. Another
of his carriages had been broken the day
before, and sent to the factory of J. M.
Cox Bro. for repairs, thus escaping the
fate of those beneath the shed.
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St. Auii'm is yet without a Rector, tho'
the Vestry are exerting themselves to sup
ply the vacancy. Rev. W. D. Mitchell,
of Elk ton, lias occasionally officiated du
ring the winter, with much acceptability.
He will occupy the desk to-morrow, it is
understood, for the last time.
If you want a good likeness, call on J.
M. Horning, one door west of Roberts'
Tin and Stove House. #Ir. Horning's
photographs arc unsurpassed by any that
we have seen from the best artists of the
cities.
We are gratified to learn that Mr. Ne
hemiuh Davis lias found the roll of notes
containing one thousand dollars, which he
lost last week.
The money was found in
his stable, where it had dropped from his
vest pocket.
The Peninsular Fruit Growers' Associ
ation will meet at the State House in Do
ver on the 7th of April, at 2, P. M. A
largo attendance is desired, and all Fruit
Growers on the Peninsula nre invited to
become members.
The Wimingtnn Commercial says the
indication» arc
Peach crop iu this »State, this
that there will be a good
year.
The Maryland Legislature will close its
session on Monday next.
The Si'preme Court and the Mc
Ahdle Case. —-The intelligent Washing
ton correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga
" Agate," who is a republican,
says that * ' it appears probable that, what
may become of the bill taking away
the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court iu habeas corpus proceedings, (which
the President has just vetoed,) the Mc
Arcllc case will be decided.
The court is expected to insist that a
case already under consideration
move on to a judgment, and that an at
tempt to apply the bill to such a case
would be a clear instance of ex post facto
legislation. The same correspondent says
that it seems probable that one half the
judges, if not (by the aid of Mr. Justice
Davis) an actual majority, will pronounce
the reconstruction laws unconstitutional.
Precisely what will be the results of such
a declaration none can predict ; that they
will he far reaching, none can doubt.
zette,
ever
must
Thc Legislature of Pennsylvania lias
passed, and the Governor lias approved
net popularly known as
law," ivhieli permits any number of citi
zens of that State, not less than nine in
number, to form a company to construct
and operate a new railroad, or to maintain
and operate any incorporated railroad.nl
ready constructed. Certain conditions are
prescribed, such as the capital stock shall
not bo less than at the rate of $10,000 for
eve I y mile constructed, and the companies
shall be subjected to all the restrictions
and liabilities of the acte that now regulate
railway incorporations. The design of the
law is to do away with special charters.
, an
tho "Free Railroad
to
is
ble
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ral
in
the
-Mr. Selnvalie, a German astromoiner,
has discovered greenish belts which ap
pear and disappear periodically, in the
These bolts he thinks, indicate
vegetables. If this be established, it will
afford presumptive evidence of the moon's
habitability. Or that it is made of green
Ihecse.
moon.
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A gang of highway robbers nfest the
neighborhood of Annamessex, i,Somerset
county. They
led by one Henry John
son, who has served out a term iu the pen
itentiary.
I lie New Jersey House of Delegates has
jassed over the veto of the Governor the
bill withdrawing the consent of New Jer
sey to the ratification of the 14th article of
the (,'onHtitution.
A package containing fifty thousand dol
lars was stolen from the couuter of the
Canal Bank at New Orleans yesterday.
No clue to the thief has been obtained.
Canada is
again meditating an attack
upon the American fishermen who venture
iu Can adian waters.
The mother of P. T. Barnuin, aged 84
years, died at Bethel, Ct.
Saturday
last.
AVestern papers profess to believe that
bloodiest ludiau war on record will
commence about the middle of April.
t hi
Returns from Arkansas come in slowly,
both parties claiming a victory ; the o
cial returns alone can decide the result.
Tho President has votoed the bill deny
ing the right of appeal to the Supreme
Court in habeas corpus cases.
The trial of Jefferson Davis has bo
furtjier postponed to the 4th of May.
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of
Item, of New,.
Advices from Ilayti represent that Pres
ident Saluaveand his army have been sur
prised and defeated some thirty miles from
Capo llavtien. The Huytien forces
pursued by the armed peasantry i
whelming nuitibers, and sustained great
loss. Conscriptions are active, especially
among what are termed wealthy families.
A Sonor Carvalho had to pay two hundred
thousand dollars to avoid being impressed
into the service. He was subsequently,
it is supposed either killed or kidnapped,
and the Government officials arc looking
after his property-. The feud appears to
he between the mulattocs and the blacks,
the latter now being again in the aseend
To add to the complications the
l' t-eneli admiral has demanded payment of
the Ilaticn arrears to France,
want of an unsatisfactory reply, is under
nstuctious to seize the Custom House, and
olloct the payment himself.
A bold robbery took place at Scituate,
Rhode Island, on Thursday night. Four
tuen went to the house of the cashier of the
Scituate National Bank, entered the bed
chamber, and utter binding the cashier and
his wife, took the keys of the bank and
went away. Finding they could not open
the vault they returned and forced the
cashier to go back.with them to the bank
and open the vault, which they robbed of
twenty-five thousand dollars and valuable
papers, and returning to Providence took
thc train for Boston.
Capt. K. !.. F. Ilardcastle visited Car
oline county last week and received sub
scriptions amounting in
$ 2 , 40(10 towards raising the
ry to complete the Railroad to Hillsbor
ough.
were
in over
ant.
ï
in the
un
the aggregate to
suni necesHa
The subscribers to this amount
were Win. B. Mi
-y, IV in. A. Foard,
James H. Holmes, and Hubert J. J
, . _ ump.
Hus leaves $7,60(1 yet to be subscribed to
insure the completion of this road to Hills
borough, when the Talbot people will
speedily complete it to F
Tito guard of soldiers
bouse in Richmond hav<
sabres in keeping order among the crowd
of negroes who would not obey regula
tions. The liegros were demonstrative,
but the guard charged them with drawn
swords, aud used the flat side promiscu
ously in dispersing the hungry malcon
tents. About 1,400 family rations
week are issued from the soup-luiuse.
The Richmond Dispatch of Wednesday
contains a letter from John IlawXlmrst,
of Alexandria, charging Judge Underwood
with an attempt to bribe and control the
radical vote of Virginia for Judge Chase
for President. The matter, we are inform
ed by telegraph, was prominently before
the convention on Wednesday, based prob
ably upon Ilawxhurst's letter.
Major-General Howard, Commissioner
of the Breed
have the
ii
at the publie goup
- bad to use their
per
ill's Bureau, is about to
Arlington farm (General Lee's j
surveyed, dividing it into five and ten ac:_
lots, which will be let out to freedmen to
cultivate.
■I r
There are about four hundred
acres of land in this farm well suited for
agricultural purposes.
The Centreville Observer says, a little
child of Samuel Seeney, of that town, was
so badly sc
cause its death.
■aided on tho 8th instant, as to
The mother had set a
pan of boiling water on a table, and left
When she returned, her child,
but a year old, had upset the pan
itself, and was terribly scalded.
Louis Napoleon seems to have forgotten
the lesson which Mexico taught him, and
to be desirous to embark in another Amer
ican intervention. This time it is Hayti
which has excited ambition, on the pre
text that she has not paid her debt to
France.
the room.
upon
A Baltimore merchant, whose son Inst
$1,370 at a faro bank in Cincinnati, has
recovered a verdict in the common Pleas
Court for the full amoum-t, with interest,
against the propriété» of the gambling
house.
The Eastern Shoreman, published at
Salisbury, states that the Poeomoke and
Wicomico Rail Rond, passing through
portions of Wieomie
.orcester coun
ties, will ho completed and ready for
freight and travel about the first of May.
Bogus lawyers of New York are, it is
said, taking advantage of the general in
dignation against gift enterprise swindlers
to scatter circulars offering to collect claims
against these lottery in
respond are twice giillcd.
The banking house of N. Long k Co.
Russolville, Ky., lias been robbed of $'.(,!
000, and an unknown amount of private
deposits. Mr. Long and Mr. Owens, of
the establishment, were shot.
The steamer Alexandria, from Phila
delphia, with a cargo of assorted merchan
dize for Richmond, was burned at City
Point, on the James River, on Wednes
day, tho vessel and cargo a total loss.
One ot the on dits afloat in Washington
is thgt the President's counsel will sum
mons one hundred prominent lawyers, of
both parties, to testify upon the legality of
the tenure-of-offiee li
Darke county-, Ohio, has recently been
visited by a tornado which did considera
ble damegè in the way- of blowing down
barns, unroofing houses, killing cattle, Ac.
No loss of human life is reported.
. Mr. Bridgman's trout ponds at Bellows
balls, Vermont, are u complete success.
The eggs or spawns are now rapidly hatch
ing and Mr. Bridgman can show his thou
sands of trout.
At a recent county election at Memphis,
the negroes assaulted a Catholic priest
who was passing the polls and hunted him
about the streets.
Eleven hundred bunches of fine rock fish
were caught at Rock Hall, Kent county,
Md. on the 18tli inst. by L. W. Ashley!
The Assembly of California has rejected
the Fourteenth Amendment to the Fede
ral Constitution by n vote of 46 to 24.
The Hon. John Bell is still alive, though
in a very weak state of health. Ho is now
over 76 years of age.
Mr. George Peabody lias been spending
the winter in Rome, and has enjoyed
usually good health.
A fire oceurcd at Port Deposit, Md., on
Friday night, which destroyed five buil
dings.
In Colorado female servants command a
salary of ten to fifteen dollars a week.
A female physician in New York city
returns an income of $50,000.
The fruit
the State of
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prospects are good throughout
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of
Delaware AfTnlra.
Lost Child Found imbedded in Ior._
A small child, sou of Kobbort Ilarrop, at
Davis' paper mill, on the Brandywine,
ncar.Chudd's Ford, was missed on Satur
day, the 12th of December last,
vorv cold morning, and since that time the
child has not been beard of, until Tuesday
morning* the 10th instant, when it was
found in the Brandywine creek, imbedded
in a cake of ice, near Rockland, about
throe miles lower down tho stream,
w®, 1S ? th "I December the mother came to
" ibmngton, in company with Mr. Davis,
and the child wanted to come along ; this
was not allowed, but it was directed to go
to Mr. Davis house, about a hundred yards
distant, where it was in the habit of stay,
ing m the absence of its mother. The
clnld and his dog were noticed together
about that time, and it is supposed lie at
tempted to follow his mother and
down to the creek,
edge of the creek.
It was a
On
. went
There was iee on the
An hour or two after,
the dog went to the house of Mr. Davis,
but beifig unaccompanied by the boy, one
of the family immediately wont to the mill
and elsewhere in search of him.
traces were found. Nearly the whole
neighborhood turned out, and ransacked
the fields and woods and examined the
creek. The mill race was drained off. The
day was very inclement and it snowed hard.»
The pursuit was continued for several days.
Bills were posted,and a reward offered.
The entire community sympathizes with
the afflicted parents. 'A Gipsy party had
been in the neighborhood. iSome time af
ter, news came from Ohio that the child
wA.s with the Gipsy party. Similar infor
mation was conveyed to ong of the parents
by a fortune teller who was consulted. ~
was only last week that money was auh
scribed, and the father went to the Gipsy
camp in the western part of Pennsylvania,
in pursuit. \\ hen lie got there, it was of
course found to be a mistake.
The body of the child was found by
sonic boys who wore bunting for muskrats.
They observed it lying on the top of a
cake of ice. which had floated to tho shore.
I licy secured the iee to the shore, and
then went and gave notice at Du Pout's
powder mil) below.
But up
It
The neighbors as
sembled, hut the body was not recognized.
Some one thought of the lost boy at Da
vis' paper mill and word
was dispatefied
tu his parents, ami at the first sight of the
child the mother fainted.
Its appearance
was quite life-like—every lineament and
feature perfect--it8 clothes nil the Name as
the day it disappeared—striped stock
ings, shoe« and little gum» over them._
Del. Gazette.
Tlie Delaware Gazette, of Tuesday last
says: Walter F. Southgate, a well-known
and highly respectable merchant of CKriit
tiana. in attempting to go from this city
to New Castle on Friday- afternoon, upset
Ins wagon near the gate' of Theodore Ro
gers, Ksq. where he remained all night
and was found next morning by Mr. Thomas
V bite under his wagon, covered up in snow,
in a state of insensibility.. Mr. White
wrapped him up in a buffalo robe lie found
"! urn carriage, and went to the house of
.Mrs. Moore and informed her of the facts
who immediately sent sonic men and had
him conveyed to her residence, and u phy
sician sent for, but the effects of tine pet
trneted exposure to the cold and pelting
storm could not be counteracted, and dcatiii
terminated his sufferings on .Sunday after
noon.
William Haiti
, residing on the farnv
of Mr. Wood, New Castle Hundred, while
coming to market on Saturday morning,
was caught in the storm near the gate of
the late James Rogers, this side of N
< astlc, and was unable to proceed any fur
Wlien found lie was sitting in hi*
wagon, unable to speak, and was taken to
the house of Mrs.. Russell, where by kind
and skilful treatment he iv
to his usual health.
tlur.
soon restored
f UNCTION
The Delaware!
and Breakwater 1{. R._
in says it is understood that
an arrangement lias been made with
tain New York capitalists which will re
sult in the speedy completion of the Junc
tion and Breakwater Railroad to Lewes.
The expectation is indulged that these
.New lorkorH will control tho road and
tablish a direct connection therewith
New York ; and. to secure the whole val
uable trade of the lower part of tlie peni»
sulu, will build a branch 1-Kid from Geor
getown to Seaford, and an airline road
from Leivistmvn, via Millsboro, Berlin,
and Snow Hill, Md., and Drummondtown
and Kastvillc, Va., to Capo Ch-.-rles. It
is to be hoped that such pleasant specula
tions will be realized to some extent.
Lewistown, in that event, would soon be
come a citjr of much importance, «nd tho
strip of const between Cape Henlopen and
Cape Charles resolve itself into a thickly
settled and highly productive region, capa
ble of supplying vast quantities of fruits,
vegetables, fish, oysters and game.
ccr
CK
tie
Fioht.no the Tioer.—A gentleman
from the lower part of this county was
cleaned out of three thousand dollars, wo
are informed, who ventured to play with
some of our expert AVihnington card play
crs. He was warned by somo friends of
the risks he was undergoing, but told
them lie considered himself equai to any
one in handling the cards. He is now a
wiser if not a better man — Del. Repub
lican. 1
Ephraim Sterling, who carries on wheel
righting at Bed Lion, in New Caatle
county, Del. on Friday morning last, gave
a boy named John Hultz Bixty-two dollars
whom he sent with a horse and wagon and'
bufialo robe, to Newark, to procure some
eastings of the Messrs. Blandy.
tliut time nothing lias beon hoard
him.— Dd. Republican.
A negro man
found dead in
Sine*
from
named Perry Jones, was
M near Shaw's Factory,
at New Castle, „n Thursday morning.
Eight or ten chickens were lying near him
with their heads wrung off. It is supposed
lie hud been shot— Gazette
The Delaware Gazette says The steam
Revenue Cutter, Miani, Lieut. F. Barr,
came into port on Tuesday morning for »
supply of coal.
a run