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the have of of ings a all and of MIDDLETOWN, DEL. % SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1869. VO READERS AMD CORRESPONDENTS. It is a fastidious taste that will not be pleased with the contents of onr outer fcnn to-day. The pootry on the first page —" Tue Beide's Farewell" —is quite appropriate and well timed, as there are *0 many young brides, actual and ex pectant, in this neighborhood, to whom the " parting hour" is corns, or is soon to come, and who are soon to bid farewell to the homes of their childhood and the loved ones they hold so dear. The sad story of the dael between Com modores Barron and Decatur, though told ao often before, will be new to many of our readers, and is even yet full of pain ful interest, at the sudden " taking off" of one of the most gallant spirits of our Navy, who aided ao much in achieving for it its unperishable renown. * " Tho deep; deep ictr, M gives us a glimpse of the wonders of tho fathomless oeean, deep down in its mysterious abyss, which fills the spirit of man with awe as he contemplates it. " The Cold Summer" of 1816, will he new to many of onr young readers. Noth ing like it has occurred since. The near est approach to it was that of 1836, when there was frost every month in the year, and 178 days of v cast wind and rain, ac cording to a diary kept by a lady and fur nished to us for publication at the close of the year. Onr column of Wit and Humor gen erally affords the appreciative reader a good laugh. We endeavor to keep it free fro an all that is gross, immoral, or that would offend good taste, The Farmer's department aims to im part useful information and valuable hints on all subjects relating to the farm. Would that we oould enlist the pens of our most successful farmers in detailing the results of their valuable experience for the bene fit of their class. That experience, if concentred in our pages, would bo inval uable, especially to the young. Would that we eould induce them, also, to form • Farmer's Club, for monthly intercourse with each other, and for a mutual inter change of opinions and experiences upon all aubjecta relating to their general in terests as agriculturists. Wbat profit, as well as pleasure, would enure to them, from such a stated association with each other. On the fourth page, the poetry entitled *• Indian Snmmer" is appropriate, as the season is"bow near at hand. "Sunset" it a piece of gorgeous word-painting, •rhWk, beautiful as it is, fails to do justice to the subject, which never yet has been adequately portrayed in prose or verse. Sauset, sunrise, the starry heavens,— favorite themes of the poets and pen puinters of all ages,—only servo to show the poverty of human language, the in adequacy of human conception, when at tempting to deal with the grandeur, the beanty, the sublimity of Nature. Finite (•telfigeaee cannot grasp or comprehend them ; they fill the soul with wonder and admiration, and kindle within us yearn ings for the infinite, and these emotions bound onr eapabilitics. " Ancient Lore" will be found to be not tbe least readable article on our outer If it does not increase the stock of knowledge of the practical horticul turist, it will probably excite a smile, and thus compensate for its perusal. We will try and find space, in onr next, for a description of Northern Neck, Va. sent ui by a correspondent. pages. PSNINBULAR FRUIT GROWERS' ASSOCIA TION. —This association will hold its third annual meeting in the State House, Dover, on Tuesday, October 19th. 1869, at 2 o'clock, P. M. In view of the immense interest the people of the peninsula have in fruit, but especially in peaches, it is to be hoped there will be a large attendance. This year's crop has been very large in deed, for beyond any heretofore, yet it is not half what will be grown hereafter when the young orchards come in. It ia, there fore, wise to look ahead, and provide for what is before ns. Packages, consign ments, commissions, but especially trans portation, will claim the attention of the fruit growers. By united, harmonious, prompt and efficient action in regard to these matters, they can greatly benefit tUeosehres individually, as well as the cit tsens of the State at large. The Dcasaerate of Kent county, Md. have BM B twatod the following ticket :— For (he House of Delegates, Horatio Beek, Wm. B. Wilmer ; for Sheriff, Rob ert W. Calder ; for Co*nty Commission era. Wm. T. Hepbrota, Thomas P, Dixon, Stevenson Constable ; for County Sur veyor, F. Hyland Taylor; tor School Commissioners, 1st District— Joseph P. Ireland ; 2d. G. ff. Covington ; 3d. Isaac Panama ; dtb, Thomas Baker ; 5th. I. C. Taylor. Amo* Kendall, ex-President Franklin Fierce, and Wm- G. ByojroJojr, are all said to be extremely ill. CARROLL CO. AGRICULTURAL FAIR. We attended this exhibition, at West minster, last week, the first ever held in the county, and it was ouc of which its substantial and thrifty farmers might well have been proud. It was a success in all of its departments. The grounds are conveniently located at the eastern limits of the town, and well adapted to the pur poses of the- Society. They consist of thirty acres, and together with the build ings and enclosures cost about $30,000, which sum was raised by stock subscrip tions, chiefly among the farmers. A beautiful half-mile track for the trial of speed ; a large two-story Hall, for the exhibition of domestic manufactures, fruits, vegetables, &c. ; a pavillion large enough to accommodate 3000 people ; a beautiful octagonal music stand, sur mounted by a handsome flag-staff from which floated the stars and stripes ; a stand for the Judges ; and sheds and en closures for the accommodation of stock of all kinds, comprise the improvements which have beca lttid out and erected -with great taste and skill, by the intelligent and publio spirited gentlemen who com pose the board of officers of the Society. The display of machinery was exten sive, much of it manufactured in the county. Among the stock there were some very superior horses, and we noticed some fine Devon, Durham, Alderney, Ayrshire, Teeswatcr and native cattle. There were also some very superior White Chester and Berkshire hogs, and fair specimens of Cotswold and Southdown sheep/, also jacks and mules. A stallion of the St. Lawrence Btock, belonging to Mr. Haines, of Westminster, is deserving of special mention. Although very fat, and hav ing just closed a very successful season, he trotted his mile in 2.50. If in pro per condition and well trained, it is be lieved he would be able to make it in the 20's. A horse of finer form and action is rarely seen. The best trotting over the course was 2.33. In the vegetable de partment we noticed many prodigies—the largest egg-plants wo ever saw ; five pumpkins grown upon one vine, the ag gregate weight, of which was 450 lbs. : fifty-six potatoes which weighed 56 lbs. : and we heard mention of one Harrison potato which weighed over two lbs. We never saw finer apples, and the display of pears, grapes, and other fruits, was highly creditable. But, a noticeable feature of the exhibition was tbo handiwork of the ladies, of whom, we were pleased to learn, there were over one hundred exhibitors. There were many articles of vertu in this department, highly creditable to their taste and skill. A raccoon robe and a muskrat robe were much admired. Hand somer articles could hardly be found at the furrier's. A quilt with over 15,000 stitches ; and as pretty a piece of yard wide home made Yenitian carpet as we ever beheld. There was a beautiful dis play of handsome paintings, rich em broidery, elegant and ingeniously wrought hair-boquets, wax fruits and flowers, &c. &c. which we have rarely seen surpassed. The weather was fine, fully five thousand people were in attendance, and the grounds presented an animated scene, enlivened throughout by the music of no less than six brass bands, which gener ously volunteered their services for the occasion. Altogether, the exhibition was one which reflected high honor upon the people of Carroll. and P. a ty. ed ern per to no it EFFECT OP PROTECTION. No subject has been more befogged and mystified than that of the tariff. That specious, adcaptandum phrase of " pro tection" to home industry has misled its thousands. When the subject is stripped of its mystery and simplified, it is seen that the * ' protection" afforded to Ameri can industry by the tariff, is only that of the vulture towards the lamb. Facts arc often better than arguments to illustrate the trnth of any proposition, and one of these facts illustrating the hurtful nature of a high destructive ( we will not call it a protective) tariff, is furnished to us by the Neu> York Herald, in relation to the duty on coal. That journal says :—"Sid ney coal, we are assured by a correspon dent, can be delivered in this city now in quantities of one hundred tons at seven dollars per ton. Let the people reflect that one dollar and seventy cents of this price is paid for duty. Thus the price of the same coal, if it were relieved of the duty imposed to " protect" Pennsylvania, would be five dollarB and thirty cents." Thus it will be be seen that tbe article of coal, now almost one of prime necessity, is kept at an exorbitant price to ' ' pro tect" a few wealthy miners who need protection, and who, Dot content with the profits afforded them by this unwise legis lation of Congress, actually conspire to gether to get up " strikes" among their operatives to enhance the price of coal still more. The poor, as well as tho rich, have to use this fuel, and for every ton they buy they have to pay $1.70 than they would otherwise have to pay on aceount of the Tariff. The humblest in tellect can readily comprehend such "pro tection" to industry as is afforded by this ■exorbitant duty on coal. 2 to in is for to :— P. 3d. 5th. DO more all Ciiatswobtk Hill Select Boarding and Day School for Yodnu Ladies.— 188 Franklin Street, Baltimore Md. Mrs. P. L. Eichelberger and Miss. A. E. Has son, principal. This school is located in high, healthy and retired part of the ci ty. The building is furnished with all the modern improvements, Buch as water, gas, baths, &c. and having a large and well shaded yard attached, is admirably adapt ed to the purposes of this institution. The School Room is fitted up in the most mod ern style, and every arrangement made to secure the comfort and advancement of the pupils. Board and tuition in English and Latin, including fuel, lights, and washing, per session, $175: Music, French and Ger man at Professors' prices. If any of our readers have daughters whom they wish to send abroad to be educated, wc know of no school wo can recommend more highly than this. the ed we so to to was one not sy and one A comet is said to be approaching, the appearance of which was foretold by as tronomers ien years ago. It may be seen with the naked eye on any clear night, in the Northern part of the heavens, after 11 or 12 o'clock, and from that time till day light. It will grow brighter as it approaches the earth. no 1 in it, The New York Herald, after mention ing the probable election of Andrew John son to the U. S. Senate, says:—"Let the inipeachcrs of tho Senate look out for him ; for should he come among them he will he sure to call them to a settlement. Senators Saulsbury and Bayard will ac cept our thanks for public documents. Gunpowder. —The time of the origin of this valuable composition seems to be involved in hopeless obscurity. It doubt less was known to the Chinese and Hin doos at a very early period. History speaks of a people whom Alexander the Great declined to attack because they "o verthrew their enemies with tempests and thunderbolts shot from their walls." It is said that Hercules was repulsed by these people "with storms of thunderbolts and lightnings hurled from above, guage would seem to imply the use of an agency similar to gunpowder. However, its invention hus been attributed to a German monk and alchemist of the four teenth century, named Schwartz ; but there are works which allude to gunpowder as a composition in use previous to his day. Gunpowder is composed of nitre, charcoal, and sulphur. The charcoal for this pur pose is made from the twigs of the black dogwood, black alder, or the willow. It is charred in closed retorts of cast iron at a low temperture. The sulphur and nitre are refined to a point of almost absolute purity ; and all the ingredients arc ground into a fine powder and bolted. The dif ferent sorts arc then weighed in propor tions, moistened with water, dml taken to a mill and ground between immensely heavy rollers of cast-iron, which revolve on a circular cast-iron bed having wooden sides. It is in this grinding process that those fearful accidents occur. Should a particle of grit get into tho mill, the re sult is likely to be an explosion. When taken out of the mill, it is put in a press and subjected to immense pressure, ter this, it is broken and granulated by be ing passed between fluted rollers, over seives which have a shaking motion. The corners of tho grains are next worn off, to prevent loss from dust wliilo in transportation. This is done by revolviug a quantity in a tumbling-barrel, in which it is also glazed by having the barrels lin ed with woolen. Drying on sheets com pletes the process. This lan J. $ to Af Land Sales in Kent County. Md.— R. Hyson, Esq. sold at trustee's sale, at Voshcll House, in Cbestertown, on the Tuesday last, the Hiram Brown home farm, situated in Quaker Neck, and containing of two hundred and eighty three acres, to Mrs. E. T. Brown, for $9,197 50, sub ject to dower. The same gentlemen, as attorney for the owner, sold at Kennedy ville, on Wednesday last, the farm of Jes se Wilson, situated about two miles from Chcstervillo, and containing one hundred and fifty-five amj£g*4n Mr. JohD Wilson, of Still Pond,Tor$l6.425, being a frac, tion over $106 per acre. Mr. John Wil son has sold his farm in Still Pond, con taining one hundred and eighty-three acres, to Mr. Jesse Wilson, for $9,000, — Ches terlown News. James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, is not In bo preoarious health as the papers have stated. Advancing years and the intense mental activity of almost half a oentury of journalism have doubtless produced some effect upon him, but he still supervises the Herald. Mr. Bennett commeneed his career in Charles ton, South Carolina, in 1822. Afterward he came to New York and became oonnec ted with the Courier and Enquirer. On the 9th of May, 1835, he issued the first number of the New York Herald. A negro, named Quinn, was taken from the Sheriff and lynched, in Harford coun ty, Md, last Saturday. He bad felonious ly assaulted a Miss. Rcip, sixty-five years of age. In Texas, the Provisional Governor, Pease, has resigned, and will enter the canvass in support of Hamilton, the Con servative Republican candidate for Gov ernor. ' I' The Radicals in Mississippi have nomi nated for Governor, General Alcorn, who took a leading and active part in the Con federate army. Twenty-seven persons were killed and fifty-six injured by the boiler explosion at the State Fair, iu Indianapolis, on Fri daj. LOCAL AFFAIRS. of tial the of ers On of in to to Tub Case or Wesley Loyd.—T he statement of the conduct of the colored man, J. cl. towards Mrs. Benston and her daughtor, publish ed in the Transcript of Satur. last, having been pronounced "a gross misrepresentation of facts," we called upon the ladieson Thursday last, to hear their own version of the affair, and to ascertain whether the statement, ns published, would be roborated by them or not. They both averred that Loyd's conduct was even worse than it was rep resented to be in the account given of it, and ex pressed. their surprise that the circumstances were so partially related. The particulars were com municated to this office by a gentleman who deemed it prudent to do so, within bounds, in order to avoid any undue excitement in relation to the affair, the public mind being already in a state of irritation on account of negro outrages, chronicled almost daily in the public press. As to his surety, wo are confident that Mr. Biggs was imposed upon by the negroe's statement. Besides, the man lias lived with Mr. Biggs and one of his brothers for fifteen years, and is now engaged as a laborer upon his farm, nnd lie did not want to lie deprived of his servicesat this bu sy season of the year. AVo have been asked to putdlsh the substance of the negroe's statement, made before Esquiro Black, and we do so, in the following words, which have been written out and handed to us fur publication : "On Saturday the 25th of September last, 1 lmd drawn, on a check, from the Middletown Bank, one hundred dollars; this, with two dollars and some cents, was lost by me in tbe road between Mount Pleasant and Summit Bridge. Somewhere about Mr. Lewis Cavender's peach orchard the money was missed by me: I immediately turned and west back as fax as Mount Pleasant On my way back I met two ladies in a carriage. I did not find the money and concluded that the ladies might hnve found it, as no other persons had passed along the road after the money had been lost, consequently l hurried on to overtake the ladies, which I did betw and Mr. Price's store. COD' Mr. Ciirnngy's house I drove past them and hailed them to know if they had found a pocket book, they made no reply, but drove faster. I then drove on before them to Mr. Price's store, got out of my wagon, went hack to them and asked if they had found a pocket-book. At this time the ladies had stopped in the road, having overtaken two gentlemen in a carriage, one of whom was out talking to the ladies. They paid no attention to my question, but wanted me ar rested. I tried to explain to the ladies that I meant no. harm, had lost my pocket-book and wanted to know if they had found it. I left them and went back to Mr. Price's store. The ladies drove up to Mr. James Nicholson's house and got out of their carriage. 1 went over again, and tried to explain that I lmd lost my pocket book and did not mean any harm, but ull in vain, the ladies refusing to say whether they had found one or not. This is a true statement ac cording to my recollection of the facts. I did not intend to say one saucy word, nor do any thing that would give the least insult to the ladies. I may have said something through excitement that 1 ought not to have said; if so I am truly sorry for it, ns my intention was to do no wrong." Loyd found his pocket-book, with the money in it, ou Sunday afternoon, where he had dropped it, on the side of the road nearly under the hedge, the edges of the notes pretty well saturated with water, having laid out in all the heavy rain of Sunday week. " Rail Road Meeting.— Another meeting took place at Elkton, on Tuesday last, to further the project of constructing a Rail Road from that point to Massey's. Hamilton Morton, Esq. made Chairman, and Geo. W. Cruikshank, Esq. Secretary. The latter stated* the object of the meeting. Sara'l. B. Foard, Esq. stated that $58, 000 would have to be subscribed by individuals before the same amount could be had from the State. The meeting appointed temporary direc tors as follows :—Jacob Tome, Hamilton Morton, Wm. Lindsey, Sewell Green, Roberts. Griffith, J. Black Groome, John Peach, Alexander Wil son, Wm. T. Weldon. The meeting then ad journed, and the directors held a meeting imme diately after. Jacob Tome, Esq. was elected President, und J. Black Groome, Esq. Secretary and Treasurer. It was resolved that each Direc tor be a committee to solicit subscriptions. About $ 8,000 were subscribed, and a lurge number of persons pledged themselves to take stock for dam age, or right of way. The next meeting will be held at Warwick, on the second Wednesday bf November. It is computed that $300,000 will build the road. The distance is not over twenty miles, the grading light, und the cost per mile will hardly exceed $13,000 as the road was once grad ed to near Murphy's Mill. The project seems to have started in earnest. A charter will be had next winter, and liberal subscriptions will be made all along the line, both in Md. and Del. Baltimore capitalists will certainly lend their aid to the work, now that it is in a fair way of I icing constructed. The gentleman at the head of the work knows no such word as fail, and would build the road him self, if lie took it into his head, sooner than it should not lie constructed. Let Baltimore awake now to her interest. Our old friends Rockhill & Wilson are as hard at work as ever, furnishing every dcscripti men's attractions in the way of elegant and lux urious masculine apparel. Their splendid Brown Stone Hall is better furnished than ever with eve rything that man or boy can want, for warmth, health, and comfort. All that our friends need to do, is just to call and examine for themselves and compare the prices of this splendid clothing with that of any other in Philadelphia or else where. * Sale of Virginia Lands. —Win. H. Newton & Co. land agents, Baltimore, have recently sold the following farms : 500 acres in Richmond county, Va. to O. M. Duncan, of New York, $10 per aero. 500 acres in the same county, to Dr. Veazey of Pennsylvania, at $12 per acre. 55G acres in Spotsylvania county, to Thomas Wilson of Michigan, for $6000 cash. 100 acres in Lan caster county, to Thomas Martin of Delaware for $800. A striking feature of the landscape in this part 'Tew Castle county is its beautiful neatly trimm ed hedges. They are now receiving their third and last trimming. It is customary to trim them three timea a year, In Juno, Allgust, and October. The trimming is easily and expeditiously done, one hand with a sharp knife will go over a long 8 trtech of hedge iq a day. It is not near so troublesome as righting up a post aqd rail fence. The heavy showers of Sunday and Sunday night lost, extended over a great part of the coun try, and produced destructive freshets in many places, brief mention of which appears in our news summary. The surplus water had to be let out of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, to prevent an overflow of its banks. MilLdams were preserved ip like manner, and we have heard of no damage by the flood in this region. Tho Cruraptonian mentions a secoqd crop of { >eaches, about three dozcq, upon a tree iq Sud ersville, Queen Anne's County, Md. this season. The first crop was a large yellow free-stone peach, natural growth, gathered about five weeks since. The second crop appear to have attained maturi ty, though they are not larger than a medium hickory-nut, perfectly formed and qot as juicy as the first crop. 0 f'jj of Tableaux Vivants, —An interesting exhibition will be given at tho Town Hall, on Wednesday and Thursday evenings next. From the prepar ations in progress we cun promise tlte public a most agreeable entertainment. The proceeds to aid iu the liquidation of tho Hall debt. Artec ftttrac mas Ward's wax-figures, which formed tive a feature in a former exhibition here, will be repeated. In walking through the fields ope is struck with the immense number of grasshoppers which arc skipping before him on every hand. Tlte dry season, we are told, was favorable to these in sects, which are more numerous than we ever saw them before. Let qs hope they iqayjjot become a "burdenj" as of old, and us they are at the pres sent time, in many parts of the West. Is Mrs. Stowe to become a Delawarean ? The Milford paper says she arrived there last week, and spent a day or two in looking at the farm of Mr. A. B. Morrisop, near tpwn. Mr- Morrison received q letter from Mrs. Stowe a few days ago, stating that if tlje farm was as represented she would purchase it. Wp have not been informed as to the result of her visit. We are indebted to Col. Joshua Clayton for a basket of fine Concord Grapes, and also some ve ry fine pears, for which We are also indebted to Mr. Zacharias Roberts ' for a basket of very fine apples embracing four I' teen varieties, for which he has our thank*. at we tender our thanks. Hyhknial. —Cupid has held high carnival in midst for some time past, and the votaries of Hymen are thronging the court of the nup tial god. Two weddings were celebrated in this vicinity on Thursday last, one of which within the sacred precincls of good old St. Ann's. The concourse in attendance was very lurge. Three clergymen graced the occasion by their presence, two of whom officiated in the ceremonial. The altar, desk, Ac. were decorated with beautiful festoons and hoquets of flowers, and the avenue of entrance to the church was strewn with flow ers by the hands of the children of the Snblmth School, of which the groom was superintendent. There were ushers in white gloves and vests, who seated the audience, fitting the venerable pile from floor to galleries. Tile organ was ex pected to peal out a joyful anthem, but through Borne mishap this part of the arrangement On tlte right of the altar, in the front pew, were seated the father and grand-father, and tile mother and grand-mother of the groom, left, the mother, the younger sister, and friends of the bride. The ucme of the pleasurable ex citement was readied as the bridât party' en tered preceded by fivegruomsmen aud five brides maids, elegantly and tastefully dressed, the ladies in white with long trails, the groom leuding the wife of a brother of the bride, and llie bride leaning upon the arm of her ninrried brother, w'ho gave her away. A white silk ottoman was provided for the bride to kneel upon at the altar. When the solemn and imposing ceremony was ended, the Rector and his assistant, conforming to the good old custom of other days, saluted the bride and tendered their congratulations to the groom. In the afternoon both bridal parties assembled at the depot, attended by many triends, to take the cars. The omens were all favorable ; the day was clear, bright and beautiful as ever dawned on Eden, and every face was w with smites. In the spirit of the occasion an uncle of one of the brides procured an old shoe and hung it up in the bridal car ns a talisman of good luck, and it was specially noted that the car which was to convey the parly w'hich brought to mind the Irish ballad—"There's luck in odd numbers, says Rory O'More.'' The bell tapped, the whis tle sounded, and tile happy company were spiri ted nway, bearing with th.m the best wishes of all present. Dnnte Rumor lias it that other hap py couples are to tread speedily in their foot steps. " So mote it be." in neathed | No. 11, : 1 1 - Oil the •ords of the old Marriage in Delaware. —The following para graph is being published all over the country. " Delaware requires a man about to be married to give bonds to the amount of $ 200 , for good behavior, and for the proper ninintenance of his wife and family, and parties are trying to get the law repealed." It is the fato cf Delaware to be misrepresented in all her institutions, from the whipping-post to the marital bond. This bond is not for "good behavior," or for the proper maintenaoce of his wife and family, ns frequently alleged, but to guard ngninst fraud ulent practices and to assure the authorities that the applicant intends in good faith to use the marriage license for the purpose for which it is issued. The obligation is void after the mar riage has been consummated. Tbe following is the form of the bond in question :—Know nil Men by these Presents, That we,-are held and firmly bound to the State of Delaware, in the sum of two hundred dollurs, lawful money of the said State, to be paid to the said State o I Delaware; to which payment well and truly to be mndc, we bind ourselves, and each of us, jointly and severally, our and enclt of heirs, executors and administrators, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals, Ac. The condi tion of the above written obligation is such, that if- aforesaid and —— may lawfully unite themselves in marriage, and if there be no legal objection to celebrating the rites of marriage be tween them, then this obligation to be void; oth ise to be aud remain in full force. The Horse Company will meet at Walker's Ho tel, this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The following gentlemen have become members : N. Williams, Pres't. James Kanely, R. A. Cochran, Jr. Treas. Jas. F. Shallcross, Chas. Derrickson, Sec. Benjamin Armstrong, H. A. Novvland, John Cochran, Wm. Parker, A. H. Hushcbcck, Wm. Simkins, L. G. Messlor, B. F. Hanson, F. Eliason, George Derrickson, Jr. John Morrison, Chas. P. Cochran, Henry Jones, Benjamin Crawford, R. T. Lockwood, J. P. Cochran, Wm. Kanely, Samuel W. Roberts, Wm. E. Riley, Martin E. Walker, Jucub F. Shallcross, A. Stoops, J. Henry Hanson, E. R. Cochran, B. F. Kanely, George Jones, B. P. Hanson, For a long time we have noticed a gradual in the number of good-looking men i neighborhood, especially among The change has been so marked as to be subject for general conversation. People ask " Why is this thus?" We find the general answer to he, that almost all our fellow-citizens are wearing the celebrated " Rockhill & Wilson " clothes, well known that the (»eople who w of this make command tho esteem of their fellow creatures. All our readers know where Rockhill & Wilson's is. The mammoth Brow subscribers. t is tlte clothes Stone Clothing Hall, 803 and 605 Chestnut st. Phila. It is a pleasure to tell the same story over and over again, if it is a good story. Our story now is, of the satisfaction we enjoy in wearing the clothes which they make nt the great Brow n Hall, Philadelphia. Tlte fact is, there arc er clothes, made elsewhere, that look half as well, or wear half as long us tlte Rockhill a Wilson clothes. Tlte immense and varied assortment of fine clothes for Full which Rockhill A Wilson now displuy is worthy the attention of all who go to the city. Sec their advertisement i other column. oth The horse and buggy of Mr. G. E. Hukiil were taken from the front of his mother's residence in Odessa, Wednesday night last, and driven to the vicinity of this town. from the carriage, and being turned loose, came home with the harness on him, and the carriage was subsequently found in the road a few rods north of town. Mr. Hukiil thinks he will join the Horse Company this afternoon. . Lieut. Frank Rarr, who recently commanded the U. S. Steam Revenue Cutter "Miami," on this station, is at present engaged, by order of the ecretary of the Treasury, inspecting the United States Life Saving Stations on the Atlan tic coast. The horse was taken Excursion,— A company of forty, ladies and gentlemen, left Wiltpington on Wednesday, for excursion by rail to San Francisco. They will also visit varions other points on the Pacific coast expect to be absent a before they return, month, Attorney General Lore has appointed Geo. II. Bates, Esq. Deputy Attorney General for this county. Mr. Bates is a young man of acknow ledged ability, and his appointment will doubt let» give satisfaction to the bar and the phUIic. The Superior Court will convene at George town, on Monday, the 14th cf Opoher ; at Dover, on Monday, the 28th of October; at New Castle, on Monday, tlte 15th of November. Five rape cases by negroes, are to bp tried in this county. Alexander Warren, died suddenly at Town send, on the 1st inst. He was taken ill in the morning and expired between 3 and 4 o'clock. The nature of his malady was not ascertained. a A passing train ran over a mule belonging Mr. Fredqs Vanhikle.op Monday, breaking both hind legs. Mr. V. has heretofore lost several horses and cattle in like manner. Sal* of Town Puopebtv.— M. E. Walker sold on Saturday, October 2d, 1 building lot,, con taining about one acre on Catherine and Ander son Btreets, for $986,24. Of Bower's Complete Manpre, the Agent in formed us, a few days sir) ce, pint he had sold in Kent county, Md, alone, np to the 2 d instant, 283 toqs. Tr* Races. —Warwick is opr Point Breeze, opr Suffolk jflaric, or Long Island There were two days racing there, 00 Tuesday and Wednesday last. to of a Familie* aqd others wantiag prime oysters, should call upoa Charley Adams, who is always ready to fill order* for these savory mollusks. Col. Joshna Clayton, of Thomas, has sold to M. E. Walker, of this town, 7 acres of Woodland for $ 1200 . Our merchants have got a prime stock of new goods and arc selling bargains. ITERE OF NEWE. The Phila. Ledger, of Tuesday says: —The heavy rains of Sunday caused a rise in the Schuylkill river yesterday, the flood being one of the heaviest ever known. The whole Schuylkill front of the city was sub merged, and the destruction of railroad, factory aud other property is great. At Manayunk, Norristown and othci places up the river, there was also great loss. The storm prevailed over country, and despatches from Washington, Baltimore and New York State give ac counts of the devastation. In Maryland, the Northern Central, Baltimore and Ohio and Elk Ridge railroads suffered, track of the Philadelphia, W'ilmington and Baltimore railroad was flooded at several points, and travel interrupted ; in New York, the Hudson River. Harlem und Erie railroads were damaged, et on the upper Delaware was severe, damage in Baltimore, though considera ble, is not as serious as was expected. Four persons were drowned up the Schuyl kill, and one at Washington, and was crushed to death by the falling of factory near Port Chester, N. Y. The revenue from manufactured tobac co in Virginia from March to September of this year amounted to $1,846,678, a against an amount for the corresponding period of last year of $280,247. The man ufactured tobaeeo shipped from tho State in bond during the six mouths amounted 10 9,091,088 pounds, an excess of 2,091, 088 pounds over the corresponding period of 1868. The revenue from tobacco in Virginia for tho year beginning March 1st, 1869, is estimated at six timea that of the preceding year. Reports concerning the progress of the Republican movement in Spaiu have been confirmed. Ferdinand, ex-King of Portu gal, is said to have accepted the throne, Mit it is asserted that if this combiuutiun does not succeed within eight days, Spaiu will be a Republic. The Cortes, mean time, has passed stringent laws, in cluding a suspension of the rights of indi viduals, looking to the speedy and effectu al suppression of the insurrection. The New York llerald has a special despatch from Key West, announcing the departure of a couple of privateers from the Florida coast, with arms & ammunition for Cuba. large extent of The The fresh The a man a Five thousand men aud large quan tities of rifles, cannon and umniuiition, are said to be awaiting transportation. While four persons were descending the Gardner coal mine, tit Gardner, 111 . on Friday evening, the hoisting rope broke, and they fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of ISO feet. All were badly in jured. One of them, a boy, has died, and two others are not expected to Win. II. Botnie mysteriously disappear ed from Central City, Colorado, a few days since, having on bis person a large amount of gold and currency. Believing him to have been made away with, a citizens' meeting has offered a reward for his recov ery. recover. In the Superior Court, at Baltimore, Tuesday, George Snyder, a newsboy, ob tained a verdict for $250 damages against the proprietors of tbe Baltimore American, for libel. He claimed $ 10 , 000 . will probably go to a higher court. Tbo whole number of persons iu Char leston, S. C. as appears by a census just taken, is 44,952. There are 4620 blacks than whites, and 4000 more females than males. Tbe population of tbe city in 1860 was 40,525. In Boston, considerable excitement has been created by tbe sudden deaths of Mrs. Ilartington, her child and her brother. Ilartiugton and Mrs. Humphry, wife of tbe brother, ba. r e been arrested on suspi cion of having poisoned tbe deceased. Jersey City, Hudson and Burg New Jersey, voted Tuesday, by 3000 jority, to consolidate. Hoboken, Green ville and other places voted against a union. Tbe first three cities will unite under one municipal government. Mr. Dairy tuple, the great Minnesota farmer, has completed bis harvest of 2000 acres of wheat. He has reaped 50,000 bushels, using fifteen reapers, and employ ing 125 men, who performed the work in nine days. The cost of the Suez canal and the im provements connected with it will be about Tbe canal is ninety miles long, 328 feet, wide at tbe surfuce, ty-four feet wide at the bottom, aud twen ty-six feet deep throughout. A suit has been commenced against General J. B. Steedham, in New Orleaus, for alleged failure to account for $600,000, in bis charge while Internal Revenue Collector in that city. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is still at Frank fort, Germany, living in great retirement and in very unpretending quarters. She sees but few persons, and those generally American ladies. John S. Andrews, who has been doing a heavy business in the lower grades of wheat, in Chicago, has suddenly disap eared with about seven thousand dollars elonging to cfher parties. James Brown & Co. bankers of New York, have commenced an action against Fisk & Gould for the recovery of two mil lions and a half of gold, lost by them, as alleged, in the seven million sale. A camp meeting commenced at the Mis sion Chapel, near Salisbury, on Friday, 18th inst. They will probably have a cold time of it. The ease more n, in Ilia* $85,000,000. soveu over A man named Davis was shot at Omaha on Monday, by another man named Rabit, whose little daughter ko had feloniously as suited. A jealous husband, named Hoppeneack, fatally stabbed Jacob Schneider in New York, on Monduy night. Iloppensack arrested. Erasmus J. McGee, Internal Reven Colloctor for the Sixth Tennessee District, has mysteriously disappeared, and it is feared be has been assassinated. Thirteen women haye been arrested at tho Washington Pension office for draw ing fraudulent salaries, and po Congress men there to bail tfiem 04 t. Great preparations huve been made for the success of tbe Valley Agricultural Fair, which will commence on Tuesday next at Staunton, Virginia. In view of the complications between the United States and Spain, the Prussian government has dispatched vessels of to the Antilles. was war The Tax on Farmers as "Proddor BROK uns."—Deputy Commissioner of In ternal Revenue J. H. Douglass on Satur day addressed a letter to Assessor Wood hall, at Wilmington, Del. relative to lia bility to special tax of farmers who Bell the roducts of their farm from the steam out wharf, or along the market wherever* they can find a place to unload the same, but having no particular stand. Acting Commissioner soys: "That far mers whose occupation it is to sell the pro ducts of their farms away from the place of production, and at a store or stand, liable to a special tax as produce brokers. Persons selling in the way described in competition with deulcrs and brokers who The ■I - oome pay the special tax, and to exempt the farmer from the tax, when doing the same business, would be manifestly unjust. The farmer who actually makes it a busi ness to sell should be held as a produoe broker. Occassional acts, however, da not create a liability to the special tax, and as it is believed t to be the policy of tho law to place as few restrictions sistent upon agricultural producers, the statute should be construed liberally ."' Yes, this is unheardof liberality, that a farmer is not allowed to sell his produoe in market, without being taxed for the privilege! Unbounded liberality!! as is con-. MARRIED. On Thursday last, by Rev. John Collins Mc Cabe, Mr. Richard R. Cochran, and Miss Fan nie R. daughter of Mr. Wm. A. Cochran, Middletown. On the 7th inst. at St. Ann's church, Middletown, Del. by the Rev. J. Collins Mc Cabe, assisted by the* Rev. J. W. Brown, Mer ritt N. Willits and Lnura Eugenie, daughter of the lute Elios S. Naudain, both of New Castle county, Del. near near THE MARKETS, MIDDLETOWN MARKET. CoaaECTED WEEKLY by a. T. BRADLEY. Wheat, prime.. Corn yellow,... " white. Oats, new. Timothy Seed.. Clover Seed.... Eggs. Butter. Lard. Hants. Sides. Shutridcrs. Potatoes. Potatoes, New. $1 35 ..1 O '. 1 00 5 50 . 10 00 .25 cts doz 38@40 cts. $ ItR 24(o,25 " " 25(0)28 " " @25 " « @22 « *' 45@ 50 $ bushel, •50@60^ " 24 l< PHILADELPHIA, Prime new red wheat. Corn, new yellow Oats (Pcnnsylvi Oloverseed........ Timothy. $1 40(?,i 45 ..61 $7 75 ,3d ÖQ WILMINGTON. Wheat, prime New..., 1 35®. 1 45 c 15 Oats.., Flour. .85 ,.,$G so®io oa SPECIAL NOTICES, INGRAM & GIBSON'S PRICE CURRENT. Eggs Butter 20cts. Lard 40. jHogs Hogs, alive 'Potatoes, round 45. 20 . j Feathers I Honey 2Outs, 16. Chickens, dressed 7. 13. Ducks 10 . Turkios Geese 05. 15. 20 , Beans $ 3 . 00 . The above prices will he paid in cash for pro« duee delivered in good order ; and we wish to say that wc keep constantly on hand a good as sortment of Groceries and Provisions which will sell reasonably for cash, at the Corner of Broad and Anderson Streets, Middletown, Del. ÆÎ 1 * Fresh Meat every day. March 20 —tf we INGRAM & GIBSON. FINE READY MADE CLOTHING. 228 MARKET STREET, 2ml Door below THIRD WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, rjrilE LARGEST ASSORTMENT OK Ready Made Clothing in Delaware, Our Own Make, now on liant], and will be sold at less than Philadelphia Prices. Ail our Clothing is made in Superior manner by PRACTICAL TAILORS. The Proprietor having an experience of oven thirty years in this littsiness, will guarantee satis, faction to any purchaser. A full line cf FINE CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, and VESTINGS Constantly on hand for ORDER WORK, which will be made la the pa~ LATEST STYLE AND BEST MANNER, At No. 228 Market Street, #®~Tke Oldest Established Clothing Emporium in Delaware. ~ March 16— y Edward Moore. GRAND TABLEAUX VIVANTS ! AT THE TOWN hall, Middletown, Pel. ON WEpNESDAY 4 THURSDAY EyENINGS October 13th and 14 th, 1809. For the benefit of the Town Hall, -as, T HE Ladies and Gentlemen of Middletown wiU give an Exhibition, on the above named evenings, consisting of TABLEAUX, Comic, Ac. interspersed with SHADOW PANTOMIMES. ARTemas ward Will appear with his celebrated Wax ?HJä 4.MPHION BAND Will enliven the pecasiop yyith their choicest musio Admission 60 cents-Chlldren half price Doors open at J o'clock—Performance at ÎI Oct. 9—,Jw . 1 Figures. OYßTERS ! O YSTERS ! ! PRIME CRISFIELD PYSTERS will be served J- throughout thé season, In quantities to suit purchasers. Apply to Oct. 0—3m* Charles Adaing.