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OUR FLAG!
PUBLIC TOWN MEETING.
A General Meeting of the Cit

N Uenera Meeting OF the Cltl-
zens of Portsmouth, without dis
tlnction of party, is called at the
Town Hall, to convene at early
candle light, on MONDAY EVE
MING, 10Th instant. The object
OF those who call the meeting is
to take into consideration the de-
pressed condition of our town, and
to endeavor to devise ways and
means for the resuscitation of bu-
slness, they feeling certain that
with their local and natural adyan-
tages, it is impossible that VIC can,
as a Town, suffer our present pros.
t%ratlon, if proper efforts and spirit
is exhibited by our citizens.
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From the New York Sun.

The conquesls of California and New Mexico
extends the boundary of the United States on the
west coast. from the forty second to the thirty
second parallel of north latitude, and produces a
great alteration in the territorial possessions of the
belligerent powers. The comparative size Of
Mexico and the United States, in 1886 was as
follows:
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INQUEST.

The Richmond Republican contains a full re-
port of the Corroner's Inquest on the body of d.
M. Hoyt, who was shot by VIM. S. Myers. The
verdict of the Inquest is stated TO be William
X. Myers, was found guilty of murder. in the
first degree-and Samuel s.. Myers and William
5. Burr, charged with being aiders and abettors
in said murder"
The Republican says that on the rendition Of
the verdict the Coroner promptly issued his war
rant for the immediate arrest Of the parties. (who
are now under bail in $780, 900 for ,heiI appear.
ance on Monday, the 18th inst. } but we are ma
BILE to say, at this time, whether or no the parties
have been apprehended.
While Hoyt believed he was dying he made
the following declaration, which is altested by a
Magistrate of the county of Henrico:
DYING DECLARATION OF d. MARvIN HoYT.
State Of Virginia. City of Richmond, to witt
This day, d.. Nj. Hoyt being duly sworn. de-
poseth and sayeth, IS While being asleep, between
the hours of six and seven O'Clock this morning.
some one knocked at the door of my room, and I
told them To come in-the office being omen. the
servant having just been in. the person entering
was VIM ). Burr, who handed me a paper, say.
ing he called on very unpleasant business, hand
ing me a paper at the same time, and hoped I
would sign it, as it probably would prevent anv
further difficulty. saying that the public were
against me: While in the act of reading the
paper, Col. S. S. Myers, and his brother William.
entered my room. Col. Myers " ished me to
sign the paper Immediately. | declined signing
it. VIM. r. Myers Immediately presented a
pistol at my head and snapped it. II missed fire.
He pulled the trigger again, but whether il ex.
ploded, am unable to say. Immediately iumn.
ed out of bed, and while in the act of getting ont.
or Immediately after / got ont, the pistol was
fired two or three times. as near as | can recollect.
received one or more balls in my head. and one
in my thigh. | soon fell to the floor, and rolled
down the step in my room. Shortly after | fell
and rolled down the step, the two Myers left my
room. VIM. S. Burr, | have no recollection Of
having seen. after The swapping of the pistol
While lying on the floor, and not expecting to
live many minutes, and in the presence of the
two Myers, | said that | was innocen, of anv
crime. and the lady in question also. and ! now
repeat the same, and shall, to the moment of nv
death. ID. NJ. HOYT.
Witness, E. Fl. CARMICHAEL,
FRED. BOYDEN.
THOMPSON TYLER,
e. b PENDLETON.
M. b. POTTIAUX, Jr.
Sworn and subscribed 10, at 10 minutes before
IL o'clock, by D.. Nj. Hoyt, and in The presence
of E. II. Carmichael, Frederick Boyden, Thomp.
son Tyler, f.. d. PendIeion, and NJ. b. Poitiaux.
Dr., this 2Sth day of September, 1916, as witness
my hand and seal, the day and date above waitlen.
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THE GULF

The New Orleans Bee contains the extracts If
letters which will be fund below. in relation TO
our friends taken prisoners from the BRIG Truxton.
lheTe must be some mistake in reference to the
officer and seamen belonging to the Princeton. as
this is The first we have heard Of that vessel sus.
tanning any loss on her visit TO Tuspan-vet the
Onion copies it, as a matter of course. witbo,t =
word Of COMMENT
Orr TAMPIco, Sept. Sd, 1917.
have only time 10 saw that we
have just communicated with The shore by 4 Aao
and learn that The officers Of the Truxton are now
probably on their way to Vera Cruz, HAVING some
days since arrived in Puebla. There are also
said to be an officer and eight or ten seamen. he
longing to the Princeton, added to the rtv-
they having been seized in the attempt TO fire the
Truxton.
The Mexican officer who came out with the
Nag, thinks there will be no difficulty in the wax
OF me immediate release Of all The prisoners on the
parole ut the commander IN chief Of The squadron.
Yours. &c.
Orr VERA CRUz, Sept. 13.
a flag Of truce came off to the John Adams, a
lew evenings ago, bearing proposals from Gen.
- TO deliver the Trnxton officers, and crew,
over to Com. Conner on parole. We expect them
every hour, and presume they will return TO the
United States Immediately in the store.ship Re.
lief or slooP John Adams.
We extract the following TENS Of intelligence
from the New Orleans Picayone:-
Captain Webster, the commander =. in. chief of
the revenue vessels in The gnlf,ca ON in the Van
Buren, TO take command Of the cutter Ewing.
which has been here some lime.
The blockading squadron Of Vera Cruz was
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7.626.OOO
4.8S0640ooO

BY the conquest Of New Mexico and Santa Fe.
here has been added TO this Union a population
estimated at 300.00 0 souls. mostly Indians. We
estimate California at 100000, and New Mexico
at 100000. New Mexico contains the best gold
miles on the continent also silver, copper and
iron mines. Agriculture is carried on by exlen
slve irrigation, for which the mountain streams
afford great facilities. California is said to con
tain valuable mines of coal, iron, zinc, gold, and
quicksilver but for agricultural and grazing pur.
poses, its importance has been overrated, the pro-
tracted droughts Of summer having thus far baf
fled the skill Of the American people.
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MAIL FOR EUROPE AT CAPE COL

by soue strange oversight the New York
Letter Bag, destined for the steamer Cambria at
Boston, missed that little village. and travelled
all the way TO Cape Cod, missing the steamer.
and returned to bother the writers. the Post
Office, and all hands. The New York cores
%pondents wrote on TO Col. Cave johnson, to know
all abont it, hut he don't know, without enquir-
ing. which he has promised to do. and it. we
guess when he has, will turn out that nobodu's
TO blame. as is always the case when a boiler
bursts. The following letter to the New York
Merchants is no doubt the best that can be done
in the premises.
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Touch ABOVE THE VULeAR.-A London
correspondent Of the New York Mirror, in a long
letter about nothing. says:
All that Willy Shakespeare was a strange Eel.
low how ! should like to have had an oppor,u-
nifty Of imbibing sherry. cobblers with him Just for
one evening but in gentle WHY'S days sherry
cobblers was not, although a great authority has
told us { that the thing was, is. and that which is
was, and there is nothing new under the sun.
Shakespeare drinking sherry. cOblers with such a
puppy bah boston Eagle.
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Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT.,

CONTRACT UFFICE, OctOber D, 1916.
Messrs. Prime, Ward and King, and others,
New York -Gentlemen-l reply to your mem
orlal relative to the failure of the mail from the
South 10 reach the steamer Cambria, the Post
Master General instructs me 10 say to you that
he deeply regrets so untoward an occurrence
and that the whole matter will be thoroughly in
vesiigaied. not only with a view to ascertain and
suitably TO deal with those who were in fault for
the past, but. if possible, TO apply a suitable and
sufficient preventive for the future.
have the honor to be, gentlemen,
Very respectfully. your ob't serv't,
S. r. HOBBIE, LIST. Asst. p. M. G..
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Left 10 Mexico
57o.363.84O
Total q, 1926. 900 miles)
.SSO.74O.OOO acres.

utdl \ y ,ONO'OOO iIieSI .UUO acres.
Deducting from Mexico and adding to the Uni
ted S les 500 ,236, 100 acres; and dedncring
from the United States and adding to the
British possessions $4,000 900 acres ceded to
Great Britain by the Oregon treaty the possessions
of The various powers on the North American
continent now stand as fulIOws:
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~. Ib. tlO l.
f.. Fl. CARMICHAEL,
FRED. BOYDEN,
THOMPSON TYLER,
f.. b ~PENDLETON.
M II pOITIAITY r,
Witness,

Sworn and subscribed TO, at 10 minutes before
o'clock, by D.. Nj. Hoyt, and in The presence
OF f.: IL. Carmichael, Frederick Boyden, Thomp.
son Tyler, H.. -. Pendleton, and NJ. b. Poitiaux
Dr., this 18th day of September, 1916, as witness
my hand and seal, the day and date above waitlen.
JAMES EVANS. J.. p. Tseal.1
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Square acres.
United States territories

Square acTeS.
United States territories I.40S 900. 600
Mexican territories 1881 500, 900
We have now to deduct from Mex
leo and add to the United States:
Upper California 240. 1860, I6O
New Mexico 137,472.0 900
Texas 123. 904 900
- 500 36. I6O
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The "Ohio Statesman" the State Pa
per, and the leading Loco Foco Journal
in Ohio, says all these hard things of Capt.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST rs, 1916,

South, as to form a living wall between
the spirit OF the age and them-it has
turned them against the ruthless invaders
Of their firesides. 1t has cooled the
friends and heated the enemies of the
South. In 1896, the young men of
Philadelphia assembled by thousands and
pledged themselves, to the death, to main
tain inyioIate the constitutional rights of
the South. They would not now invade
them nor sanction their invasion; but
where is the glow of that Spirit! The
South is the foe Of Pennsylvania; Penn
sylvania is no longer the friend of the
South. Nor shall the war be passive
one. Whenever, and wherever we can
requite upon her the injuries that she
has done TO us, we will, as policy of
iusti6able selfdelence, make the measure
of resentment a generous one. She has
invited the contest; made it, and avowed
it. as an issue between her slaves and our
freemen and left the laborer of the North
whether farmer, miner, manufacturer or
mechanic, no means of sell-defence and
self vendcation but by paralyzing the
power that avows its determination to de-
grade him to the position of It's negro
slaves. The white laborer against the
negro STAKEHOLDER, is the issue which the
South has made, it is an issue that they
will yet bitterly repent.
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A Sample of the war Expenses

GovERNME Mt SToREs.-The steamer
Archer will leave here to-day (the 3lsD
for Fort Leavenworth, with 800 barrels
of pork, and 200 sacks of -four, for the
use of the army in the expedition against
Santa Fe. The pork was purchased at
SO per barrel, and the -four at 81 80 per
sack, each sack containing 100 pounds
The pork is carried to Fort Leavenworth
for 81 per barrel, and the flour at 81 cts.
per sack. The transportation OF barrel
of pork from Fort Leavenworth to Bent's
Fort will be about $5, and the prime cost
and transportation to Santa Fe will make
each and every barrel cost the Govern
ment $50; at this rate the three hundred
will cost $4,000. At this same rate of
transportation, sack Of flour will cost IN
Santa Fe $l8 20, the twelve hundred
S22, ,440: making the total cost of about
eighty Eve tons of provisions S3s, $40
about enough TO ration an army Of 1000
men 20 days. And by the same rule, II
it will cost near 81 800 per day to furnish
900 men in meat and bread alone, what
will it cost to furnish all the necessaries
which soldiers use and are obliged to have
during the time of war-and what viii
10000 consume and destroy? At the
same rate the sum would be enormous
St. Louis New Era.
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A GOOD ONE.

Some time since, two or three Young
gentlemen Of, called upon Mr.. ID.
who prepared an Egg Nog for his friends
and they all drank pretty freely. Mrs.
d., very amiable lady, becoming some
what displeased retired.
At length Mr.. D. lighted his friends TO
bed-he was, however, unwilling to go
to bed himself for he felt a little unsteady,
and recollecting that some one had said,
..to drink sweet milk will destroy the ef-
feet of spirits, he stepped to the room
door, and inquired of his wife If there
was any milk in the house.
"There is some on the table" she re-
piled. =
turning to the door. he said,
..Mary, oh, Mary, didn't you say these
was some milk here7"
4Yes, there is some on the table"
After second unsuccessful search be
went to the room door and said,
"Mary. my dear, is that milk in any
thing, or is it just lying loose!'
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From The Ohio CGsket.
Gmlllaht.

Twilight serene, / love thy hour
Ofcalm repose, of Tranquil rest
When no dark clouds seen 10 lower
Around the bright horizons crest.
] love TO watch the first faint gleam
Ofother stars, although less bright,
As one by one they fain would seem
To eclipse that one, with lesser light.
| love the hour when Nature seems
So sweetly to embrace repose,
When Life with sunny brightness beams,
And nought reminds me Of its woes.
/ love 10 sit alone and gaze
Til the last ray of lights extinct,
Till long have fled the Suns bright ray;
1t is the hour love TO THINK.
'Tis then, on other days and wears,
On scenes and visions long since flown,
Fond Memory lingers-e'en though tears
Burst forth al thought Of hopes o,er-
throw. HELEN
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Vol. 4.--No. Al.

If old Father Richie will visit the
Counties of Berks, Schuylkill, North
ampton, Columbia, Perry Northumber-
land and number of other counties in
the interior of this State, he will find an
answer to the above interrogatories. Has
the Union" ever heard Of noble old
Berks, who, when occasion requires it.
rolls up her 1900 of democratic major
ity! There are no ''bank-parlor" Demo-
Gratis in old Berks-nor are there any
Democrats there feeding on Government
to the tune of 100000 per annum. Her
citizens, as well as the citizens of the 9TH
er counties named above-and indeed Of
all the counties where there exists the
greatest feeling 'on the subject Of Walk
er's British Tariff Blll-are hard work.
ing, honest-hearted yeomanry, who feel
mortified to find themselves struck down
by the persons they so materially assisted
in placing in power.
If there are no Senators just at this
particular time starting in the cars and who
require TO have THEIR COAT TAIL PULLED
OFF IN ORDER TO KEEP THEM IN WASH
INGToN, we do hope that Mr.. Richie
and Mr.. Dallas too, if he should like to-
hear the lamentations Of his former friends
may pay visit to the Democracy Of the
interior of this State. Such visit would
prove interesting just at this time.
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Extract from speech delivered by
George NJ. Dallas, from the door Of his
house TO the Democratic procession, on
the evening after the Presidential election.
in favor of the tariff of 40:
Conference.-The Tariff of 40 is a
Democratic measure; it was passed by tho
Democrats, and it will be safe in tho
hands of James K. Polk. If the TARIFF
is not HIGH ENOUGH, t0e lOiH Wake it
STILL HIGHER
Extract from speech delivered before
the Senate, on the 2Sth of July, 1916
previous to giving the casting vote to de-
stroy the Tariff Of 40:
"The responsibility is great, and | feel
it deeply, but whatever may be the conse-
quences, it must be met"
Extract from the Democratic "Yaller
Kiver," used pretty extensively during
the last Presidential campaign:
AIR" Lucy Neal"
Oh poor Coony Wings,
What makes you look SO blue
We will have Polk and Dallas,
And the TARIFF of AZ.
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A young lady in Bosson has fallen des-
perately in love with the wax figure Of .
vonng gentleman, exhihssd IN the shop
window Of hair dressing establishment,
and has asked the consent other Psso her
nuptials!
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Assumes the God,
Affects TO nod,
And seems to sha3e


She has been intoxicated by serious
of triumphs, resulting from the skill of
her professional politicians, leaders who
make che duties of patriotism a game of
brag, and subject the rights and interests
Of the people to the hazard of de-
They have wagered against the masses of
the North as they wagered upon Eclipse
and Henry, in the very spirit of the race
course. They do not, understand the
North, or they would not have hazarded
the game; but, whether for good or evil, it
has, for the present, been won. They
have, (trampling upon the Constitution
which is their only dyke against an ocean
storlnier than the Baltic. obtained Texas,
with her own representatives and two
Senators. without constituents, even If
eked ont by slaves. They have secured
a Southern President by a Noriheru lie.
They have secured war with Mexico,
the sppanage to that of Texas, and hold
''a glass that shows US many more
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From the Nat. hfeihgencer.
THE MEXICAN WAR.

We have. in our last paper, placed be-
fore our readers the Confidential Message
of the President of the United States to
the Senate, and the Documents accompa-
nying it, showing the grounds taken by
the President in his intercourse with the
Executive Council (thc Senate) in rela-
ton to the Mexican war: from which our
readers will have learnt that the Presi-
dent is in communication with the Gov
ernment of Mexico, Of which Paredcs is
the head, with reference to a Negotiation
for Peace and for an adjustment Of Boun-
dary.
We now lay before them, in another
ago by Gen. Taylor, at the head of the
Army ofinvasion; which, though bearing
the signature of the gallant General, is,
upon the face Of it, an elaborate manifes-
to, prepared for him, and undoubtedly is
sued, by Executive authority. II is for
the reader to reconcile, in whatever way
he can, the Inconsistency between this
annunciation to the People of the objects
of the Executive, and that very different
annunciation of its purposes and designs
which the President has SO recently made
TO the Senate.
In the message to the Senate the Pre-
sident is not only anxious to make Peace
with Mexico, but announces that he has
entered into negotiations with President
Paredcs to that end. In the Proclama-
ton to the People of Mexico, the object
of the war is declared, and reiterated, to
be to ''overthrow the tyrants meaning
the actual Government with whom, since
the publication Of that Manifesto, the Ex-
ecutive has invited negotiations for Peace!
How are these extraordinary contradic-
tions to be reconciled!
Agaih the oBJECT Of the War IS de-
clared. in the Proclamation, to be TO OBJ
tain indemnity for claims, &c., and to O.
verthrow the existing Government of
Mexico. In the Message of the Presl-
dent of the United States of May Ilth, so
promptly responded to, in which he ask
ed Congress to shoulder lhe War. and ap-
propriate men and money to carry 1t on,
the prosecution of the War was demand
ed. not to obtain indemnity for claims DC.
and much less to overthrow the Gov
eminent of Mexico-but because of Mex
leo having ''passed the boundary of the
United States ''invaded our Territory
and shed American blood upon the Amer
lcan SOIL" Il was 10 repet inUnsiOn ot
our ferrifory-to defend our territory
that the President called upon Congress
TO appropriate men and money. and not
to .'liberate the people of Mexico from
despots," or ''to overthrow tyrants, who
are declared 10 have usurped power over
! them.
| Who can possibly determine the real
objects or intentions of the Government
in prosecuting this War, when the high
est official authority gives such different
contradictory, and opposite versions ol
them?
Is there vet some other purpose, no.
revealed or limited at in any of the Execu-
tive communications TO Congress or to
the People, nor even to the people Of
Mexico, the disclosure of which, when il
comes, will furnish the key to these appa,
rently irreconciIable inconsistencies!
1
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The following ARTICLES are from
the Philadelphia Esprit of the times, a
Locoloco paper Of extensive circulation:
CoMpL1MENTARYL-The following ar
ticle which we take from the Charleston
Is. C.) Mercury, is full of meaning:
"Itis indeed a notable pretension to
setup that because the Pennsylvanians
were too ignorant and stupid to know
what were the issues involved in the Pre-
sidental election, it is therefore dishonest
and treacherous for Congress TO adopt a.
nv measures but such as their ignorance
and stupidity may now dictate orapProve.
Alas! poor, despised, betrayed, down
trodden and insulted Pennsylvania What
even South Carolina making game OF us!
And has it been for this that she has la
bored so long and and successfully in the
ranks of the Democracy! What taunt-
ed by South Carolina, the land of Buz-
yards and Bowie Knives-of notification
and ignorance-the abode of cotton lords
and slavery-where white men are sold
for debt, and slaves hung for defending
themselves against the unprovoked and
deadly assaults Of their masters! Must
we submit any longer to the dictation of
such monsters! As free men-as Ameri-
cans-as producers and not drones upon
society, we say no! no.! We are a.
bic to govern ourselves, and we shall for
the future do it. We will not allow the
Southern Lord, with Bowie Knife in hand
and dagger drawn, to first inJure and then
insult us. Forbearance any longer VIII
cease to be virtue, and for the future we
shall so act as TO he able to protect our
selves from aggression and INJURY no
matter from what source il may come'