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MIDDLETOWN, DEL.
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1868.
VOR PRESIDENT,
H0EATI0 SEYMOUR.
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
tffiff. FRANCIS P. BLAIR,
or Missouri.
ro» democratic electors.
ANDREW C. GRAY, of New Castle.
JAMES P. WILD, of Kent.
WILLIAM A. SCRIBNER, of Sussex.
> rOR CONGRESS.
Maj. BENJAMIN T. BIGGS.
FOR SHERIFF,
JACOB RICHARDSON,
FOR CORONER.
LAWRENCE PENDEGRASS.
Thr Rlrrtlon«.
The great contest in the Slates of Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Nebraska,
came off on Tuesday last, and the issue is
adverse to the hopes and desires ofthcDe
The Republicans have out
but only by meager majori
ties ; to do which, they have strained
themselves at all points, nnd have put forth
their schule strength, leaving nothing in
serve for a future struggle.
mocracy.
numbered up,
re
Nor can they
do any better in November, unless through
the relaxation of their
Will
opponents.
fhe great Democratic army falter in the
face of the enemy on the eve of the great
contest ?
Perish the thought,
us. rather, with renewed effort,
Let
press our
opponents with more determined courage
nnd redoubled zeal.
All is not lost that is
in danger. Our principles are no less
dear to ns than they were at. the outset ;
nor arc they any the less vital to the
tinued existence of the Republic. Close
up your ranks, then, and push forward the
column.
con
Stand in vour groat arrav.
Then onward move, nnd smite
Invincibly."
The A etc J ork World , of Wednesday,
thus alludes to the work before
,4 lt is certain that the do
us :—
,. 'mev of the Nnrlh.
ir they would redeem tile republic, must keep
their armor on. and know no rest or weariness in
their labors till the uight of Xovemtier 3rd. Vic
tory hovers still above the contending hosts, un
certain upon which banner to alight. The de
y have done noblv.
ranks so füll : never was their battle fought more
gallnntlv. Rut tho foe is stubborn, determined,
desperate. Not nn hour is to be lost ; not a
ran he spared."
Never were their
man
The National Intelligencer of Thursday
Bays:—There is reported a positive gain
of four Democratic Congressmen in Ohio,
three in Pennsylvania, and two in Indiana.
The reault in Indiana is still doubtful,
to Pennsylvania, wc understand that the
Democratic Executive Committee in Phil
adelphia claim the State by a small De
cratic majority ; but from our own calcu
lations wc are inclined to believe the Re
publican candidate for Auditor General
has been elected by a small majority. It
is asserted, however, that some of the
tern counties yet to be heard from will
overcome the Republican majority now ap
parent.
The returns from Indiana strongly indi
cate the success of Hendricks, for Gover
The counties yet to be heard from
are chiefly in the southern part of the
State, in which there is reason to believe
*he Democratic majorities have been large
ly increased. Our latest despatch asserts
positively the election of Voorhecs, and
leave* only about five hundred of the Re
publican majority of 1866 to be overcome
by the returns from seventeen counties,
As
wea
uor.
Sevebk Money Pressure :—The last
CKrstertmrn News contains three columns
and » half of Sheriff's Sales, twenty-four
In number.
Has the failure of the peach
crop produced this extraordinary pressure
among our Maryland neighbors? The
loss of that erop has been severely felt in
this State.
Sussex county is ssking for a
atay-law ; and Kent has not money enough
in the hands of her people to pay her tax
es, as we glean from the Sussex Journal
and Smyrna Times.
occasionally. that too much land has been
planted in peaches, to the exclusion of
other crops, and that when the peach crop
fails the consequences nre serious indeed.
If this be so, the farmers know how to
apply the remedy,
them are turniug their attention more to
»mall fruit, while others are trucking, to
some extent, together with the production
of the ordinary cereals.
Wc hear it hinted,
Alrcady many of
''Tights" sud Sailor breeches (small at
the knee and large at tho Instep)
ing into vogue again, among the fnsliionn
Me#, Nothing looks more ridiculous than
* man tricked out iu such a garment,
is a mere caricature of himself. The Gre
cian Bend of the opposite sex is uothing,
when compared to tights.
should close their lip*, and no longer
rail at the vagaries of fashion among the
ladies, when they are led by auch vain
fancies themselves.
The Baltiywie Su//, comes to us enlarg
ed to 82 columns. The Sun is, beyond
question, one of the best Journals iu this
country, and we eoiniuend it to such of
our readers as need a good reliable daily
pewspaper.
are eom
He
The sterner
itex
Iunork* It.—T he Middletown Transrripl atndi
ously tguores the Gazette and draws nil its Wil
mington political news front the Journal and
Statesman. The aristocratic organ of the family
rule seems to have few friends.— Commercial.
On the contrary it prores the sagacity of the
Truneeriut. Its editor knows that such vast nuro
hers of the Gtmtte are redeived at his post-office
and are so generally read in that town and vicin
ity. that it is simply superfluous to copy
and it tbcrefosa takas such stems from papers
V e raretjjmen, and read but very little
Middletown. A larger number of Gazettes l
sent to subscribers at that office than of both the
other pullers named together .— Gazette.
The above statement of the Wilmingt
Commercial, that •• the Middletoion Tran
zcrijH studiously ignores the Gazette and
drama all ita Wilnjingtoo political news from
tho -fournil Æ State I man, is simply untrue,
as our files will prove,
cently, we have quoted from the latter
per ; but, arc we not at liberty to do
without invidious remark from the Cçm
merctal T Tho Gazette very properly pub
lishes its local political occurrences in ex
fr»so ; the Journal and Statesman, in the
instances referred to, published the
in a condensed form. The Transcript cop
ied from the columns of the latter
from it
nre
Several times, re
pa
same
paper,
because its item* were brief; brevity being
necessary, for the sake of greater variety,
in a weekly newspaper ; not that the Tran -
neript " studiously ignores the Gazette
as falsely alleged by the Commercial.
From the Commercial of a more recent
date, we clip the following :
Pays it Bace.—T he Gazette takes advantage of
our item concerning the Transcript ignoring it and
quoting entirely from the Journal and Statesman,
to deal these papers, one of which doubtless re
gards ns as a carpet-bagger and the other
poacher on ita own preserves, a most vicious dig.
it says the Gazette is so much read about Middle
town that it is useless for the Transcript to copy
from it nnd it therefore copies from papers rarely
and but little read in Middletown, nnd adds :
A larger nnmlier of Gazettes arc sent to subscrib
ers at that office than of both of the other papers
named together." The Gazstte forgets that Ma
jor Biggs and eleven other people subscribed for
the Journal shortly after it apostatised, probably
nearly doubling its bona fide circulation. We
should also suppose the Transcript has several
subscribers In Middletown. Its claim seems ex
travagant.
When we first cursorily read the Ga
zette's rejoinder to the Commercial, we sup
posed its allusion to • ' both the other pa
pers," referred to the Republican papers
in Wilmington. If it referred to the
Transcript, we beg to assure the Gazette
that it has '■ counted without its host." We
still thiuk the Gazette referred to the Wil
mington papers ; because the editor knows
nothing concerning the number of Tran
scripts which circulate in Middletown
ll
and he would not affirm that which he docs
not kuow. We also assure the editor of
the Gazette that wc
knew nothing of the
number of papers received here from his
office, until his paragraph led us to in
We find enough to do to attend to
quire.
our own business and let the affairs of
our
neighbors alone,
quadrupled, we should be gratified, for
recognise him as a co-worker with us iu a
good cause ; and if his sphere of useful
ness is wider than our own, it is no ground
for envious feeling in us ; because we are
satisfied with our own success, which has
exceeded our highest expectations.
The supposition of the Commercial that
' regard him as a carpet-bagger," is
gratuitous, and hardly creditable to his
sagacity, if he be a specimen of the
uine Yankee; for, in truth, wc have not
regarded him at all. He is an utter stran
ger, and may have dropped down from
Massachusetts or the moon, for aught that
we know, with or without a carpet-bag.
It naught concerns us,)who or what he is.
We therefore dismiss him, as Uncle Toby
did the fly—" go, poor thing ; there is
room enough in the wide world both for
thee and me."
Were his numbers
we
we '
gen
A Question Answebed.— The Commer
cial asks :—
Does anybody suppose that the State of Dela
ware will long remain wedded lo the false De
mocracy of the Bayards, Salisburys, Biggs, the
Gazette and Delawarean, while the 'Delaware Tri
bune enters weekly into half the families in the
Suite, We should think not.
To which the Sussex Journal responds
as follows :—
The Delaware Tribune has so far succeeded in
negroizing Delaware (see returns of late elections)
that it is due the thauks of the Democratic mas
ses. One moreyaukee "Journal" like that would
swell the majority to five thousand. Their dose
of negro has turned the stomachs of many white
men who have acted with the Republican party.
The Election in Philadelphia, on Tues
day, was most actively contested, and the
aggregate vote was the heaviest ever cast
in the city. The whole number of votes
given for Mayor was 118,839.
ing to the returns, the Democratic city
and county ticket has majorities
from 2239 to 901. ^
ici M. Fox for Mayor is 2239.
Accord
ranging
The majority of Dau
The ouly State election to take place be
fore the Presidential election will be held
in West Virginia on Wednesday next, the
22d inst. when State officers and three
Congressmen will be chosen. The Dem
ocrats express themselves confident of the
success of their ticket.
a
A vessel »t San Francisco yesterday
report* the mutiny of sixty ooolies on
board an unknown bark from Callao.
She had 20.000 specie on board, and the
owner and servant. The captain and
crew were murdered and thrown over
board and the money divided; but the
owner and servant were spared, and the
former directed to navigate the vessel to
China, which he was unable to do. The
bark sailed north and passed Kurile ie
lands; in May got into ice and drifted
into Oohotek sea, where the
caped on board a whale ship,
story,
owa«r es
A Etrange
LOCAL A 1KA ms.
Party Meetings.—Wc received from
the Secretary, the following notice of the
Democrat* meeting held in this town
Saturday evening, the 3rd inst. which
crowded oig of our last issue.
Pursuantto a call the Democrats of St.
Georges and the adjoining hundreds
in large numbers at the hotel of L. R.
Davis, Ksq. iu Middletown, Del. on the
■id inst. ^delegations were present from
St. Georges, Odessa, Armstrong's Corner,
and other towns. The Odessa Cornet
Band drove through the streets in their
handsome Band wagon and enlivened, the
occasion with music, and created a great
deal of enthusiasm. At eight o'clock the
meeting was organized by Mr. R. C.
Flays of Odessa, being called to the chair,
and Mr. Wm. R. Cochran was appointed
Vico President and Mr. E. Reynolds Sec
retary. Hon. Wm. G. Whitely was then
introduced nnd proceeded to address the
meeting in an earnest and forcible
ncr for about one and a half hours,
was
, Oil
was
met
mnn
He
followed by II. A. Nowland, Ksq. in
a very able address of an hour.
Congressman, Maj. B. T. Riggs,
then called for, hut excused himself
the ground of weariness from his exertion
in Wilmington, on the previous evening.
Calls were made for several other gentle
men, but all excused themselves, as it was
growing late, nnd about eleven o'clock the
assemblage adjourned, highly pleased with
the result of the meeting.
The Republicans held a public
here, on Monday night last, which
addressed by Anthony Higgins, Esq. and
Col. Brown, of Kentucky.
The Democrats held a mass meeting at
Delaware City, yesterday. Messrs. T. F.
Bayard, Richard Vaux, of Philadelphia,
and Maj. B. T. Biggs, were announced
as the speakers. Tho Odessa Saxe-IIorn
Band was engaged.
The Democrats of St. George's Hun
dred will hold a mass meeting at Odessa,
on Tuesday evening next, at 7 o'clock, to
which the Democrats nnd Conservatives of
the adjacent Hundreds arc invited,
meeting will he addressed by Thomas F
Bayard, Charles B. Lore, nnd Charles
Beasten, Jr. Esqrs. The Odessa Saxo
Ilorn Band will enliven the occasion with
its inspiring airs. The Middletown Dem
ocratic Club will attend in force.
Our next
was
m
meeting
was
The
The Republicans will hold a county
meeting in Middletown, on Thursday next
the 22d inst. It is expected that the
meeting will be addressed by Gen. 1). E.
Sickles, ITon. A. G. Curtin, Senator A.
G. Cattell, of N. J. and Hon. Jas. II.
Campbell, of Penn. An excursion train
will run from Wilmington to Middletown,
to return the same evening.
Rail Road Affairs.— The work
the Queen Anne's and Kent county
Railroad is still progressing rapidly,
and the whole road graded, except
about eight miles. As soon ns the
Delaware branch is built from Townsend
to Masseys Cross Roads, the contractor,
Mr. Stearns, will commence laying the
track. We understand Mr. G. A. Par
ker will commence to deliver iron at
Townsend, this week, for the Branch
Road. One hundred tons will be sent
down in a few days. The temporary
pension on the Kent Road will not
on
SU8
pre
vent the Queen Annes Company building
the Delaware Branch up to Masseys.
We understand the directors of the
Kent Railroad have passed a resolution to
put in suit all those subscriptions to the
stock obtained in the vicinity of Middle
town and Warwick, which are or may he
withcld. These subscriptions, it is alleged,
were obtained under the belief that thé
road would be constructed from Massey's
via Sassafras and Warwick to Middletown.
But, ns Townsend hus been mudo the up.
per terminus of that road, the subscribers
residing in Cecil and in this part of New
Castle county, if compelled by law to pay
said subscriptions, look upon the
one of peculiar hardship. They
regard these subscriptions as a dead loss
to themselves, under the circumstances,
and as a gratuity to the said road. They'
allege that the company will he unable,
for many years, to pay any dividend,
while the local benefit which they hoped
to secure by making said subscriptions,
has has been wrested from them by the
company in fixing the terminus at Tow
end. However tightly these subscribers
may be legally bound, in an equitable
view of the case there is some force in the
argumente on their side,
tion of the Board, published in our ad
vertising columns.
case as
su 'in to
ns
Sre the rcsolu
Stove and Tin Ware. —We dropped
in at the Stove and Tin house of Mr. S. W.
Roberts, a few days ago, and found his
extensive establishment literally crammed,
upstairs and down, with a large stock of
Stoves, Tin Ware, and house furnishing
articles, of the latest styles and patterns.
He has on hand a large stock of Cook and
Parlor Stoves, of various sizes and pat
terns, calculated to please the taste of the
most fastidious.
We noticed among many
others, some very handsome Sextons nnd
Orientals. Give him a call. Cold
ther is fast approaching, and he is pre
pared to fill all orders in his line to tho
satisfaction of his customers.
wca
Arrest of a Baoraoe Master.— For
some time past several robberies have
been committed on the P. W. & B. R. R.
Trunks were
opened nnd pilfered in the
baggage car. A Philadelphia Detecti
was employed to " work up" the case, and
a few days ago he succeeded in detecting n
named Younger, a baggage master, in
the very act of rifling a trunk between here
and Philadelphia. Younger was arrested
on his arrival at Philadelphia, and has
made disclosures as to the whereabouts of
the missing property He has been in the
employ of the compnnv a number of years
and seems to have only commenced his
depredations recently.— Commercial.
ve
There was a lnrger concourse of people
in attendance nt the Circus and Menage
rie, on Wednesday last, than we ever be
fore saw present at a similar exhibition.
selling their goods
For bargains look
into the advertising eolumns of the Trans
cript.
Our merchants are
very low for cash.
House Burned. —A new three story
dwelling being erected by Mr. Samuel A.
Armstrong, in Appoquinimink Hd.
Smyrna, was burned to the ground
Thursday night of last week,
was no lights or fires about the building,
it is supposed to have been the work of an
incendiary. Tho building was nearly
completed ; loss supposed to bo from
$5,000 to $0,000.
Five thousand si* hundred baskets of
peaches, were sent from Appoquinimink
Creek, this seasou, all the product of
orehard, (Mr. K. C. Fenimore's) except
about one thousand baskets. These peaches
averaged, in market, $4.19 per basket,
which makes the aggregate of $'23,464.
The Republicans of Middletown impro
vised a salute, on Thursday evening, in
honor of Tuesday's elections. Their ar
tillery consisted of a couple of anvils,
which gave forth, however, some tolerable
mimic thunder.
R.
C.
near
Oil
Oil
As there
Commei'cial.
oue
in
A find Policy.
According to the New York Herald, a
gentleman from Alabama, now ill Wash
ington city, states that great numbers of
the more respectable people in Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana, Rnd he doubts
not in tho other Southern States
long bad under consideration, and have
made preparations for moving, some into
California, some to the Northern States,
and others to the Territories, in the event
of Gen. Grant's election. He .says they
are fully convinced that if the ropiibli
are successful it will be utterly impossible
for them to live iu the States where they
now reside.
We have heard intimations before of a
similiar purpose entertained in another im
portant State of the South ; but it is not
at all likely that such an idea is generally
entertained. There has been already a
considerable emigration from some South
ern localities, where the white population
is small and defenseless, to the northern
tier of Southern States, and even to the
North and West. The selling out of pro
perty and removal to great distance are
not often accomplished in the best of times
without sacrifice, but at the present prices
of property in the South, to sell out is ve
ry near to giving away. When to this is
added the surrender of old associations,
and the passing of the remainder of life in
exile from the scenes and friends of early
years, it must be confessed that it may
well be a question with Southern land own
ers whether it is not "better to bear the
ills they have than to flv to others that
they know not of," by emigration.
m
have
■
especi
ally to a distant region like California,
where, as appears from a lato number of
the leading porodioal of that State, tho
professions aro all over crowded. nnd tlioro
is no prospect of any man improving h
condition unloss ho either has oanital,
by his labor tn mechanical and nSrionltur
al employments can add to the productive
wealth of the State.
Whilst
or
no one can refuse to sympathize
with tho apprehensions which arc said to
be prompting some persons in the South to
think of emigration, it is probable that
those who will most, profit bv such a
ment will he (he shrewd nnd unscrupulous
adventurers whose vocation it has he
to speculate upon the miseries and neces
sities of the Southern people,
caution cannot be exercised in such a step
as this, so comnarstivelv easy, perhaps to
take, hut so difficult, if not impossible, to
retrace.
ninvo
POIDP
Too much
Affairs in Kent County.
. . Wo clip the
following items from the Kent News of
Saturday :
Kent County Railroad.—A meeting
of tho Directors of the Kent County Raif
road Company was held on Wednesday
last when an arrangement was made for an
amicable settlement with the contractors,
who abandoned work on the road some two
weeks ago. The terms of settlement pro
posed, wo learn, will make the work done
the road, including the wharf at Chcstcr
town, cost the Company from $14,000 to
$15,000, to bo paid principally in county
honds. A oommittee was also appointed
on Wednesday to receive proposals and
range a new contract for the completion of
the road.
on
Rkcovkry of Mrs. Guillemaut.—W c
arc pleased to state that Mrs. Guillemart
has almost entirely recovered from the i
juries received on the occasion of the
der of her husband.
mur
The facts concerning
the murder are still involved in mystery,
the contradictory statements of the
woman
negro
first arrested being the only infor
mation so far obtained in regard to the
perpetration of the horrible deed.
Land Sale.— R. Hynson, Ksq. as attor
ney for Barney DeCorse, sold ou Tuesday
a farm containing 113 acres, situate in
Quaker Neck, to Joshua Siinmonds,
$40 per acre.
Court. —The October term of the Cir
cuit Court for Kent county will commence
on Monday the 19th It is supposed the
session will be quite lengthy.
at
ed
in
of
au
for
did
for
Sudden Death of Hon. Howell Conn,
of Geoboia. —By a despatch from New
York we learn that the Hon. Howell Cobb,
of Georgia, dropped dead in the corridor
of the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Friday
ing, 9th inst. at half-past ten o'clock,
where he had been staying since Friday of
last week. He was fifty-three years of
age. He served four terms in Congress,
from 1842 to 1856, and was Speaker of
the House in his last term ; then Govern
of Georgia, Secretary of the Treasury
under Mr. Buchanan, a Senator of the
Confederate Congress, and brigadier
eral in the Confederate army,
that some Southern friends called on Mr.
Cobh and wife at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
and Mr. Cobb entered Into semi-religious
conversation with one of them, and in half
hour they rose and passed to the head
of the stairs. Suddenly Gen. Cobb expe
rienced a contraction of the muscles, and
sat down on the steps and died immediate
ly afterward. He was a man of full hab
it, stout and compactly built, and subject
to vertigo.
ntorn
gen
It is stated
an
• John Quincy Adams has accepted an in
vitation from the Democratic party to visit
Charleston and address them.
an
of
in
ar
Our Taxes.
If the annual expenses of the Govern
ment, including the interest on the public
debt, were to be paid by direct taxation
the actual aiiiount of tax which
man
Oil
every
is obliged to pay into the Treasury
annually would be so palpable, that the
Radical party would be swept out of
istence by a popular uprising. Four hun
dred and fifty million* of dollars were
drawn from the pockets of the people last
year, and five hundred and thirty-six mil
lions the year before, and
warned that it, will require four hundred
and seventy-five millions for the present
year : nnd that fresh tuxes must bo im
posed, as the estimated reoeipts will not
be sufficient t(> meet the current expenses.
Just think of it—four hundred and sev
enty-six millions of dollars, and this not
for one year alone, but just so long as the
enormous public debt remains unpaid 1
Nearly every dollar of this the
have to pay. In addition to this they
burthened with State, and county, and
munieiple taxes, which have been
mously increased since the war, and for
the liquidation of which their property,
both real and personal
'The United States is now the most tax
ridden country on the face of the Globe.
Seven years ago it was taxed the lightest
of any—now it requires an army of six
teen thousand office-holders to collect the
Internal Revenue tax alone,
not a shred of clothing that the working
man has to wdnr which has not been taxed
over nnd over again—taxed on the wool,
taxed on the dye. taxed on the manufac
ture, taxed oil tho sale,
are added to the price of the article,
whatever it may be, and ninke a up the
difference between what u similar one sold
for seven years ago and what it sells for
It is the same with house rent.
The owner pays the taxes and reimburses
himself from the rent.
IX
now we are
consumers
enor
a
of
a
a
, is held liable.
There is
All these taxes
now.
Every commodity
in use ; every partiule of food that is con
sumed is shingled over with taxes. Kvety
pound of coffee is taxed in currency
cents ; every pound of tea thirty-seven
cents, every pound of sugar five cents.
From these tierce articles alone—articles
that enter into tho
seven
consumption of every
house-hold anil have become of prime ne
cessity—the Government draws an annual
revenue iu currency of seventy-two mil
lions of tlollarit.
If the wages of labor were brought up
to the same standard, the condition of the
gr at bulk of the people would l>e iust the
same that it Wus before the war. N
ter, no worse,
o bet
Sueh however, is not the
Mr. David A. Wells, whom the
Government rbeognizos as an authority in
such matters, and whose access to the
necessary statistics renders his
case.
opinion of
value, declarck that an exteuded investiga
tion respecting tho advance iu prices of
the leading articles of consumption, and
also nt rents, indicates an increase of
ninety percent, in the year 1866 as
pared with the average price of the same
articles during the four years from 1859
It necessarily follows that for
tlio workingman to have lived as
1 St it i as he did liefere the war, his wages
should also have risen ninety per cent.
Mr. Wells, however, states that the
erage increase ot the wages of labor si ncr
I860 lias been only sixty per cent; so
that the workingmen, taking one class
"till another, are absolutely worse off by
thirty cents on each dollar than they
Were before tile Radicals got possession ot
•he Government. In other words, whilst
the cost ot living has beeu nearly doubled,
the average wages of labor fall short by
thirty per cent, of what they were before.
The great Government contractors, the
shoddyites, the bondholders and the
lecturers to the eastward, ha
■ : I M
to 1862.
well iu
av
man ii
ve grown
rich by tho wjir ; but the laboring classes
have grown poorer, because they constitute
the great bulk of the consumers, and as a
necessary consequence have to bear the
great bulk (if the taxes
wages in proportion to the price of
modifies. They may not be troubled with
tax bills, but they pay them, nevertheless.
1 he bills are «kdroitly bidden in every pur
chase they make. On every pound of
coffee they buv, they pay the tax gathe
seven cents ; on every pound of tea, they
pay him thirty-seven cents, on every pound
of sugar they pay him five
does not indeed appear in bodily preset
before them ; but lie is there in the sugar,
and the coffee and the tea, just
tuinly as if lie made a demand for the
tax on these Oommocities every time the
consumer bought them,
in all things else.
on diminished
COIIl
*rer
He
cents.
as cer
It is the
The importer or the
manufacturer pays the tux in the first in
stance, and charges it to the wholesale
dealer, who in return charges it to the
tail doalcr, und the latter puts it on the
price of the article he sells to the
suiner .—Baltimore Gazette.
of
in
re
cun
William Gates.— The death of Gene
ral William Gates took place in this city
on Wednesday last, at the ripe old age of
eighty years. Deceased entered the Mil
itary Academy iu 1861 and graduated in
1866, when he was promoted to a second
lieutenancy in an artillery regiment, and
did garrison duty until the hostilities be
tween the United States and Great Britain
took place, in 1812, when he was advanc
ed to a first li<|:utenauey, and was engaged
in the capture of Toronto, (then York),
Upper Canada, and in the bombardment of
Fort George, After the settlement of the
then existing difficulties he served in gar
rison and frontier duty and rose through
various grades of his profession. During
the troubles of South Carolina in 1882, 33,
when nullification was threatened in the
Palmetto State. General Gates, then Major
of Frst artillery, was stationed at Fort
Moultrie in Charleston harbor. He took
au active part in nearly all the Indian
troubles, and when the wur with Mexico
broke out ho accompanied the Third artil
lery as lieutenant colonel. In 1846, and
for two years (subsequent, he acted as Gov
ernor of Tampico, Mexico. Since then he
did many years' service in garrison. He
retired from akive service in 1863 and
was brevetted brigadier general in 1865
for long nud faithful services.— N. 1'.
Herald, Oct. 0 th.
are
of
dile
A
wpre
Denver, Colorado, had a smart snow
storm the last of September, but is pow
enjoying Juno weather.
Urina of Newt.
One of the young sports of Paris recent
ly lost every sou at cards, borrowed a small
sum Of his sister, and won it all back
again, with a wide margiu. To provide
against accidents, ho paid all his hotel, tai
lor. and shoemaker bills, and made arrange
ments to be clothed, fed and shod for ten
yeurs. Now he can play without fear of
destitution.
The Captain General of Cuba has not
proclaimed for the Provisional Government
of Spain, but declares he will maintain
der and luws. Two Biuall meetings of per
sons of ill-repute, whose object was not
known, were broken up by the troops.
The city and island are tranquil.
We notice in the Cecil Whig that a
number of fanners residing in Cecil coun
ty, Md. quite near the Lancaster county
line, have lost a number of cattle by di
Tliese farmers reside principally
along the road from Lancaster to C
wingo Bridge.
home of the German papers report that
the widow of Abraham Lincoln, is going
to take up her residence at Frankfort-on
llie-Main, where her income will enable
her to live in much better style than in
the United states, She will be received
in a very flattering manner in Germany.
Frauk Rounds, a colored man, supposed
to be one of murderers of Capt. Benjamin
Johnson, of the Schooner Brave. in'Som
erset county, in March last, was arrested
in Baltimore on Thursday,
the policeman down who arrested him, and
jn turn was shot by the officer but secured.
Two of the crew are now in prisou under
sentonce of death.
Advices frem Mexico report the capture
of Santa Ana's agent, with documents
his person showing that he intended to
cite revolution. Public works in thee
try are to be pushed forward, especially
the railroads.
Rev. Thos. II. Stockton, for several
terms chaplain to the House of Represen
tatives, in Congress, and a well-known
minister of the
Church, died iu Philadelphia, on the 9th
list.
1
or
ll
He knocked
oil
cx
oun
Methodist Protestant
There arc two grandsons of Benedict
Arnold still living, one named Benedict,
residing in England, and the other, named
George Washington, an inhabitant of Can
ad ft.
The Descendants of John J. Audubon,
the celebrated naturalist, who reside i
Charlestou, S. C are said to be :
n great
distress, and an effort is being made to re
lieve them.
At a fishery at Huckrow, near Old
Poiut, 500 bushels of fish, embracing al
most every variety caught at this season in
those waters,
day's hauling.
We learn,
the proceeds of
were
one
says the f'rnlt ■riekslmry
( I«.) A eus, from different farmers that
fhe present crop of corn will he the largest
that has been gathered for some years
past.
The revival in tho Methodist Church a
Danville, Va. still continues.
Up to this
rime the total number who have made
fession is it little
pro
over one hundred and fifty.
The apple speculators are active in th
counties on the lludsou river, buying by
tho load. They are offering five dollars
per barrel for Newtown pippins.
Rev. Bishop McGill confirmed sixty in
St. Paul's Church, Portsmouth, V
Sunday. 1
numbers over 3,000
nil
Thu imMiiljcrsliip of St.
nil's
persons.
Immunst« flocks ot wild pigeons arc d»i
ly passing over the neighborhood of J\
tersburg, \a. They arc also passing over
the Western part of MarylauJ.
The gingerbread and peanut venders of
New Orleans all congregate before th.
Capitol and do a big busiuess
colored legislators
1 he census of ISI50 showed the popula
tion of the United States to have consisted
of 20,1)73,843 whites
blacks.
among tin
and 4,441,730
Minnesota expects a crop of about fif
teen million bushels of wheat ibis
worth twenty million doll:
is ten years old.
Mr. II. T. Ileinbold, of New York city,
has given a check for $4O,0tttl, to aid in
carrying on tho campaign for Seymour and
Blair. Judge Picrpont has given $20,000 :
for Grant and Colfax.
Bethel, Ct. has in operation twelve hat ]
factories, employing about six hundred
hands, and turning out 301 dozen hats per
day.
casou.
The State
ars.
I'he report that the Government is "in
teresting itself about the purchase of Cu
ba ' is denied in a despatch from Washing
ton.
Eighty-eight cucumbers were gathered
from a single vine grown by Mrs. Basil
Haines, near Rising Suu, Md.
The Bishop of Tarragona, at the head
of 2,000 men, has pronounced agaiust the
Provisional Junta of Spain.
Schenck's majority over Vallandigham,
in the Third district, Ohio, is about five
hundred.
Napoleou has called upon the poets and
composers of the empire to get him
new national hj'mn.
The fashion in New York this
.
,
a
ed
up a
season is
said to hie to have no groomsmen at the
weddings.
In England 270 acres are devoted to
the cultivation of lavender, from which
17,000 gallons of lavender water are made.
A couple of silly men in San Francisco
nave made a political bet, the loser to ride
backwards on a jackass through the streets.
At their last interview, it i* said that
Eugenia and Isabella had a good erv to
gether. J ;
A young lady recently flogged a man
who insulted her in a New York street ear.
Genera] Grant was serenaded on Wed
nesday,in Galena, Illinois, at Mr. Wash
burne's.
on
of
to
the
and
Among the wealthy resident* of Paris
are said to be fifty colored families.
A Lenox, Mass, sportsman bagged twen
ty-seven woodcocks one day recently.
Ihe President has appointed November
25th as a day of thanksgiving.
Wijd honey is being gathered in large
quantities in Arkansas.
Fights about land titles are the burthen
of our news from Alaska.
Kansas has discovered a petrified
dile 126 feet fong.
< »
PftOftQ.
Gabezze has beep crowned Emperor of
A bysima.
The receipts of Congress Hall, Saratoga
wpre qgpr $360,000 this season,• i ;
Oct.
Charge Resigned. —Advnncin
years
and failing health have compelled Rev. H.
11. B. Mitchell to give up active duty as
Rector of Trinity Church, iu this town.
Tho Reverend gentleman will retain his
connection with the charge as nominal
Rector, but the active duties will devolve
on his son, Rev. W. D. Mitchell, who
was, on Monday last, called to the position
of assistant Rector by the vestry. The abil
ity and energy of the young gentleman
cannot fail to be productive of good to the
interests of the cliuroh.
Crcil Democrat.
Meeting or the O. S. P k es a y ter y .—■
Union Repudiated.— Tho Ndw Castle
Presbytery (Old School) met in the West
Nottingham Church this week. The ques
tion of a union betwedfl the.Old M# Ktfw
Schools, on the basis recommended by the
General Synod, was discussed, and reject
ed by an unanimous vote .—Cecil Dem.
General Lee and family have returned
home to Lexington, Va.
HARRIED.
On the 7th inst. by the Her. Mr. Stephens, Mr.,
n McWhorter nnd Mi«*s Annie McCruekiu,
both of New Castle county, Delaware.
Joh
DIED.
Wilmintfton, on th'* 14th inst. John It:.
Porter, in the Gist year of his ufre.
To the memory of KIlie, infant duupht
Janies and KIlie Neowdriek, who died Aupus»,
18G8, und whose little grave was beautifully te*-.
tooued with flowers.
Ii
of
Pi
•nts. you shall meet hor,
Where (lieftulcil flowers shall freshen,
Freshen never more lo fade :
W here the shaded sky shall brighten,
Brighten never
\N here the bond is never severed,
Partings, clasping, sobs and moan,
Midnight waking, twilight weeping,
y noon-tide, all are done ;
the child has found its mother,
Where the mother finds the child,
Where dear families are gathered.
That
more to shade ;
llc:
•altered o'er the wild,
I rents you shall invet your KIlie
Mid the holy and the blest.
eic
r.
THE MARKER,
MI DIU.KTOW.V M AUK ET.
Wheat, prime red
•ru yellow.
" white.
.$2 ?0
( '
1 ro.
1;
Or
4< (.i r.s
.. 4 25
.. i* 00.
lil
th» Sued
Seed..
K«» .
• Uttrr.
Chickens ( I
Lard.
• ••Is V dozen
•45(* 50 i ts. V lb»
14(n.16 11 ••
.l!'V«:o 41 44
.I0(aj5 44 44
. 18(fi 2ft " "
Spring ),
lb
Bref ,
Ilm
■
Sill...
Shoulders
t'otatues...
!!>(«, 20 " "•
16(8118 " "
i5<S>0 VI hnshe»'
.$2 10(82 20
. 1 30»
.. "2(? 75
'nit ADM.rim
i'. itne red whr
I 'orn, ne
Hats....
r yellow
wm
TO
\Vlinit ret'.
1
Gat»..
F lour.
DO
ÎH otifa.H no
DKA IXKSS. BUM MISS,
treated with the ut
M. I), nnd Prof'c
md CAVA U It it i
F, » V J.
oi the f
Isaac.«*. .
or of Di.se:»}
I College of iVtuisylYMutA, 12
xi*rinu e. (formerly of Lrvdcn, Hollnnd.)
5 Arch .Street. Pliiln. Ti««tinioniuls e.-.n
at hi.«« ufli
-1
Kar, in the Med
ru
No. so:
Tliu iiitiliral faculty nre in
i' their I'Atif-nts, m 8 he hns no,
lice. Artificial eyes inserted,
• liurge for examination.
»ited to a «
Morel* in hi.*i pr:
without pi.iu. N
NOTION
To Non-Resident Stockholders
OF TIIK
KENT COUNTY RAIL ROAD..
T IIK following
pas.-nd l»y t
i* a copy of a BK^UlXTlCN
the Board of Di
•tort of th*.
ty Bail Bond Company, OcIoImt 7lh,
Kent Co
I HGd :
v ^ * r,,al ** IC Treasurer notify the
Non-hcsnjent 8 look holders «f the Kent Cuunly
Bail Bo.-.(I, through the Middi.ktow
thaï liiere have Leen Kul'K CAl.I.a
» 1 H.TS on Kadi Share of Sleek,
» ho have not I'AIL). «I least Two
:
]
N Trawju*
amounting to
and all those
» . of the CALI.8
before the HU ST OF \0 \ HMlipH su it
i* brought ngain.Ht them.
Kll HARD 11 Y N.SON. Treas.
C. T.NVKhTCOTT, .
lurv.
T,
ill he
True copy—Test,
hi. 17, 1SGH—3t.
TRUSTEE S SALE.
Ii
Y virtue« of
Cecil ce
as Trustee, (
premises, on
Saturday, the Uth day of Norembrr, nejrf tt
All that very valuable mid highly improved
FARM AND TRACT OF LAND.,
ly.ngm Cecil county, Maryland, whereof Charles
lilies died seized. It contains
decree of the Circuit Court fur
mty, in Chancery, the undersigned,
vill otter at Public Auction, on the
160 Acres, More or Less..
About 135 acres are Arable Land, in a high state
of cultivation, anil the balance Wood nnd Timber
Und, covered with Chestnut. Oak, and Hickory.
The arable land is divided into fields having
regard to size, water, and oilier ------
and all under good Fencing,
This Farm lies
conveniences,.
n il . .1 „ . . . ,hc roa<1 leading from Fair
Hill lo Hie Brick Meeting Bouse, and three miles
west of Fair Hill.
The natural quality of the land is of the very
"on. Kl ',? lnn<1 is highly improved.
The Buildings and improvements upon this
farm consist of a good Stone Dwelling
26 by 35 test, covered with Slate, with a Frame
hit! hen attached, 16 by 20 feet, and a 1 'utnn of.
excellent water under cover. The dwelling is
papered, painted, nnd well fiuishcd.
. T h<; re , i "» FARM HOrSK on the premises, 18 ,
, y * l fee 'i. ,wo stories high, with an excellent
am» »Hin good repair. Also,
a TEN ANT HOUSE, 16 by 24 feet, two stories
high, recently repaired, with a Stahle to he rent
ed with it. Each of the lust named houses has a
well of good water at the door.
There is a Double-Decker Barq
on the farm, nearly new, 40 by 52 feet witk
Straw Hoiine attached, 20 by 30 feet, and a pump
of good water ; Wagon-House, with Gr»n*rr
above, and Corn Houses at the side? ; a Carriage
House with Stable for driving horse, convenient
to the dwelling ; Hog House uud Smoke House
There is a Young Apple Orchard on
the premises, now in full bearing ; a Peach
Orchard and a variety of other Fruit Trees
A further description is deemed unnecessary
and any one desiring to purchase can see the
»remises and obtain further information bv vali
ses U * >tm 4 * r8 ' *• residing on the prem
The Tebns of Salk prescribed by the Decree,
fo lJ OW5 Une-tourth of Hie purchase mon
< » Iu cash on the day of sale, one-fourth in Four
Months, one-fourth in Eight Months, and the «.S'
"LT 1 Ä Twelve Mon,hs
from the d:
Itoyniqnt« to hear ihierest
D._A t v of ahd to be secured! Uf the
murity * 0fthe P ur >Wr, WlthSppîoved
to
commence at 2 o'clock r. m.
h. McCullough,
Trnstec.
Oct. 17, 1868—ts