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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-04-12
Large and Desirable Stock of
DRY GOODS.

TAYLOR & HUTCHINSON are now re-
ce!ving their Spring supply of FANCY And
DOMESTIC DRY GOODS which have been Sc
,ected with much care as regards quality and will
De sold upon the most accommodating terms. We
name in part:
spices blk Gro de Rhrine Silks of very rich lus-
ire and very low
Is rich plaid and striped do do
Is plain do do
10 sc Brocade do do
blk figured and mourning do do
10 6 French Mouslains
Is Rich ChaIe
10 & plain do
SO Berage DeLaines
30 &c Mouslainc do
80 Lawns, very cheap
SO &c French do and Jaconetts
10 French Cambrics and Chintz
SO Plain and figured Berages
20 s blk Alpaccas and Canton Cloth
10 J" Bombazine and Talmese do
200 new style Prints
Plaid and striped Bonnet Ribbons
French Worked Collars, very rich
Cambria, Swiss and Dimity Bands
Thread, Bobbin, Swiss, Cambria and Lsles
Edgn
Green, blue and brown Berage and Tissue
20 Plain and Dotted Swiss Muslin
Plain, Book, Cambria and Jaconet do
Black Gin and Lace, and Silk Fringes
t '' Dotted Veils Love Wells
Ladies' French Corsets, SC
Cold Kid Gloves, blk Silk NIitts, SC, SC.
For Gentlemen
Black and brown French Cloths
- do and Fancy &c Cassners
& Silk, Satin and Marseilles Vesting
Blk and Fancy Cravats, Silk, s Linen Hdkfs
Kid, Buck, Silk and Thread Gloves
Collars, Silk and Bingham Umbrellas, &c.
~1as For Farmers and Planters:
Plain and striped Nankeen Osnaburgs
ho1o NJ
6 /" 3-4, 10 and A Brown Cotton
s6 pieces heavy Duck
blue Domestics, Ginghams, Apron Checks
Blue Jeans and Denims, Mariners stripes
Linen Duck and Farmers Drilling, SIC.
= @ For :Housekeppers:
s1O-4, LID and 1914 Cotton and Linen Sheetings
A, 9-S, ga Pillow Case, Cotton and Linen
200 pieces Bleached Long Cloth
Cd, Sd and 1914 Damask Table Linen
8, 10, l2 and 1914 do Cloths
IS pieces best Irish Linens
Russian and Bird Eye Diaper
Linen and Huckabuok Towelling
1914, I'D and l2-4 Marseilles Counterpanes
Gauze and Summer Flannels
Tamboured Curtain Musns in great variety
10 pieces Brussels 8 ply and Ingram Carpetings
IS pieces Cotton, List and part Wool do
90 pieces A, GA and 1874 Floor Oil Cloths
Table and Stair do
Linen Booking, Stair Linen, sc. together with all
the small wares usually kept in our line, all of
which will be sold at prices to suit the times.
Prompt attention g ven to orders from the coun-
try. No. LOT. King street, Alexandria, Va.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-04-12
SHERIFFALTY.

Mr.. WELLS: You will please present the name
of HEZEKlAH WILLIAMS, of Bryantown dis
trict, suitable candidate for the next Sheriff
atty of Charles county. He will be cheerfully
supported by large number of friends through
out the county. BRYANTowN.
NH eft
FELLOW Citizens Of Charles County:
At the solicitation of friends, most respect
fully announce myself to you Candidate for
the next Sherifalty, and most respectfully ask
your suffrages. NATHANIEL HALEY.
jan 4-tf
Mr.. WELLS:
Candidate for the next Sheriffalty of this county
dec 2S-te MANY VOTERS.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-04-12
REMOVAL.

CAMUEL M. PADGETT s. co. has removed
- to the store-room formerly occupied by MIR. L..
Weeks, in front of the Court House. The room
has been enlarged and very much improved, and
being now ready to display their large stock of
Goods they invite their customers and the public
generally to give them a CALL Their terms are
cash. or credit ofsix months to punctual custom
ers. Jan
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-04-12

leave to call the attention of Merchants, Farmers,
and others, feeling satisfied that all who may favor
them with a call will find it to their interest to
deal, and in all cases where the goods do not open
satisfactorily, they may be returned. They would
enumerate in part of which they always have on
hand:
SUGARS, viz.-Porto Rico, New Orleans and
Cuba of all grades, Loaf Crushed, Pulverized and
Clarified, of different makes.
MOLASSES-Porto Rico, New Orleans and
Cuba.
SYRUP-New Orleans and Sugar House for
Table use.
COFFEE-Old Govt Java, Rio, White and
Green anC Laguayra.
TEAs-Imperial, Gunpowler, Young Hyson
and Black, of all grades.
Spices of every desert ption, ground & unground.
Starch, Indigo, Brown and CASTLE Soaps, Sperm,
Adamantine and Taow Candles, Manufactured
Tobacco of superior quality, Fine and Ground
Alum Salt. Cocoa and Chocolate, (best and COM
mon,) Family, Extra and Superfne Flour, Bacon
Hams, Sides, Shoulders and Jowls, Tar and Resin,
Sperm and Common Lamp Oil. Backing, CARROTS
Snuff, Cigars, Mackrell and Herring, Cod Fish,
Cotton Yarn, L. L. Rope and Rope Traces.
LIQUORS-Superor French and Domestic
Brandies, Peach and Apple Brandes Jamaica and
New England Rum, Holland and Domestic Gin,
PORT Madeira and Burgundy Wines in bottles,
demijohns and quarter casks, Champagne, Held
seick, Crown and Anchor Brands Champagne.
Pale and Brown Sherry Wines, Sweet Malaga and
Lisbon Wines, Pure Old Rye Whiskey, superior
article in demijohns and barrels Rectifed Whiskey
in barrels, together with very superior Scotch and
Irish Whiskey.
They would also beg leave to say that they give
their strict and personal attention to all Produce
consigned to them, and being in the immediate
vicinity of the Tobacco Warehouses, give their at
enton to the inspection of all Tobacco entrusted
to their care, and will sell any other Produce the
Farmers may send to market for sale.
Baltimore June 20, ls54-ly.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-04-12
UNDERTAKEN.

TTHE subscriber takes this method to inform
i the public that he will attend Funerals and
furnish COFFINS at the shortest notice, at either
of his workshops, one of which is at his own re-
sidence near Middetown, and the other at his
fathers George S. Willetts residence, at which
last named place he will be assisted by Mr.. VIM.
l.. Robey. He has on hand an ample supply of
materials of almost every description necessary.
HIS charges will be moderate.
an 1O0tf HEZEkfAH E. WILLETT.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-04-12
GROUND PLASTER.

THE undersigned are prepared to fill orders for
Il PURE GROUND PLASTER at their Mill
in ALEXANDRIA,, Va at the lowest prices.
2240 lbs. to the ton.
Orders respectfully solicited.
Jan ll-3m G.. j. WISE s. co.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-04-12
NEW GOODS.

71NHE subscriber has just finished opening large
Il and beautiful assortment of
DRY GOODS,
comprised of every variety of Ladies' and Gentle
mems wear, also Servants wear, also very large
assortment of SHOES and BOOTS and GROCE-
RlES, which he guarantees to offer as low as can
be bought in Alexandria, Va, or the District Of
Columbia. S. w. H. MCPHERSON.
Pomonky, Nov. 9, ls54-tf
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-04-12

400 ACRES,
and is in high state of improvement and cultiva-
ton. There are three hundred and fifty acres of
arabic land, portion of which is in timothy and
clover, and portion in wheat, and another por-
ton in course of preparation for corn. 1t is well
inclosed, with good and new external and internal
fences, and has on it all necessary BUILDINGS
for convenience and comfort, all new and in good
order The supply of good water is abundant and
the healthiness Of the situation remarkable if not
unequalled in the county. There are about fifty
acres in beautiful growth of OAK WOOD
within quorter Of mile of the dwelling. The
regular steamboat landing at Pope's Creek is dis
tant only about two miles, affording every desira-
bic facility for shipping and travel Possession
can be had Immediately.
WIN. D. MERRICK.
March Is 1S55-5t
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-04-12
$50 REWARD; or FOR SALE.
ID ANYWAY from the subscriber, in Nanjemoy
III about the 3rd week in September last, Negro
Woman Priss, calling herself
PPTSCTIT.A ROWIE

about IS years DID, of dark chestnut colour; shews,
when talking, fine set of teeth in 'front.' and
good deal of the white of her eyes, vssage oval and
rather thin; very erect when standing, or walking
at moderate gait; stout and about feet or I
inches high Unprecedented out of the county and
delivered to me, at home, near Port Tobacco, free
of all other expense charge, will give the above
reward. If taken in the county and delivered to
me as above, will give $50. lfcommitted to Jail
will give the legal reward prescribed by the last
act of the General Assembly of Maryland in rela-
ton to runaway slaves. | believe the above Ne
gress is quite sound; she is more than usually ca
pable; an experienced cook and dairy wonan-also
pretty good laundress and needle woman.
FRED. S. BROWN,
Port Tobacco, Charles Co.. Md.
Jan 4, 1S55-tf
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-04-12
NOTICE..

4 LII persons are hereby notified, not to trespass
n with or without dog or gun, or in any other
manner whatsoever, upon my Farm, as the law
will be strictly enforced against all who disregard
this notice. ELIZABETH FORD.
Jan. IS, lS55-1y
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-04-12
FILLIBUSTER.

~ This thoroughbred race Stallion
4lTlT "a (sired by Wilton Brown, dam Mar
grave mare, better known as Jen-
sn2seeSge kins' colt,) will stand at the subscri-
ber's stables midway between Newport and
Chaptico) the ensuing season at the following
prices $50 for blooded mares-s3O insurance
SO for common mares-Sl5 insurance. Twenty
per cent. off, if paid by the 1st day of August,
and 50 cents to the groom.
L. w. B. IIUTCHINS,
Near Chaptico.
P. S-Mares from distance taken care of at
fair price, at the risk though of their owners.
NH 29-3m
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-04-12

DLANKETS, CLOTHS, DOMESTICS.
ID 200 pair servants Blankets
so pair Bed do
SO pieces Sd & GA Full Cloths and Sleeps Gray
40 pieces ga, rs, A Linseys, all grades
$50 pieces bleached Cottons
40 pieces bid Sheetngs and Pillow case Cottons
80 pieces Canton Flannels
Is pieces white and coored Flannels, all qualities
"a Twilled country Flannels, with many other
Goods, 10 which we invite special attention.
oct IS G.. X. WILMER g. BRO.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-04-12
A CARD.

DR VIM. J. BOARMAN respectfully ten
- ders his professional services to the citizens
of Bryantown and its vicinity.
March 90, 1S55-3t
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-04-12
PUBLIC SALE.

pY virtue of an order Of the Orphans Court of
ID Charles County, the undersigned will sell at
public sale, at his residence, on MONDAY the
30th Of the present month. f fair if not, the next
fair day thereafter,) all the personal property of
Catharine A. Keech, deceased, consisting of
One likely young Negro Man, and No.
man about 81 gears of age, acho is a good
Cook; also, some seful articles of House.
hold Furniture
Sale to commence at IL o'clock, A. NJ
TERMS OF SALE: For all sums of five dollars
and under cash; and for all sums over five dollars
credit of six months will be given, the purcha-
ser or purchasers giving bond with approved Sc
curity, bearing interest from the day of SALE
.- VIM. S. KEECII, Admir-
APPS of Catharine A. Keech, deceased
IPAt the same time and place, will be offer
ed at public sale likely NEGRO MAN, about
% years of age belonging to the estate of the late
James Keech, deceased. Terms, a credit of six
months with approved security, bearing interest
from the day of sale.
VIM. S. KEECH, Admir-
ap 5-ts of James Keech, deceased.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-04-12
r. i. MURDOCH.
A FARM FOR SALE.

INTENDING to change my residence. offer
L for sale the Farm on which now reside, near
Aliens Fresh. This Farm contains about
400 ACRES.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-06-30
Deal Gently with tine ErrInI.

Could we but for moment draw aside the
veil from the human heart, what awful myS
teries would be revealed Could we but
read the secrets engraven there, how very
much that we have looked upon with indiG-
nation and contempt, would we be led to
look upon with pity and with kindness.-4
Many, very many may have fallen; yes.
from the very pinnacle Of fame and homer
to the unparalleled depths of vice and wretch
edness. Did we but know. the many temp;
tations which have crowded themselves upl
on their path; did we but know the Astter-
ing inducements held to their view by loved
and professed loving ones, thoughtless Of the
fearful consequences which might ensue.
and above all, did we but realize the 1nal-
terable anguish which oft times take posses
sion of thier sensitive soul, conscience and
duty would demand our pity and sympathy!
and instead of awakening painful recollec-
tions, do all in our power to mitigate thsif
woes. Thus would we be led to avoid in
look, thought or deed, everything that wepld
give offence or cause thrill Of pain. We
are surrounded by sensitive hearts. which
one careless word might fill with corroding
grief. @ - ia
A kind word is indeed small thing; yet
to the bleeding heart what relief 1t buoys
the sinking heart, and nerves it against des.
pair, Sunny smiles may oft times conceal
heart that is even now breaking, and wears
but the semblance of joy, the more effectn-
ally to conceal its wretchedness. A kind
word may dispel the gloom and heal the
wounded spirit. =, =. j,
Mark that sad and lonely one, In whose
eye the tear drops often tremble. ListeNlto
the low sigh thai struggles to hide the souls
emotion, yet speaks more plainly than worda
can tell of the agony that reaches Within .,
There is indeed bitterness there; the world
may not heed it-may look with scornful
gaze, or pass by in utter coldness. Is itnet
then. our duty to act as angels Of mercy o
that benighted, Responding heart! to soothe
its dependency, and point to brighter
hope. There is music in kindly word
that can soften the hardest heart; and when
once the better feelings are reused there 10
hope. a.
A harsh or unfeeling word may fall like .
wthering curse, and urge US on. to ruin os
dispair thousands who otherwise might be
reclaimed. Therefore it is our duty to be
kind to all, to the lowest and meanest OF
Gods creatures. 1t will cost US nothing,
and may be the messenger of peace, COM
fort, and happiness to the responding des-
pairing one. Words of love and tenderness
are sweeter, dearer, and of far more value
than aught else this cold, self world can
Weld to miserable, fallen man. 81
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"StOOp n Little. I"

Tie anecdote iii the life of Frank lin is
we'll known, where, when entering house
by the basement door, he struck his head
against the top, and heard his father say,
"Benny, if you expect to go easy through the
world, you must stocp little" No class of
persons need to ponder and apply this hint
more than those who are looking out for a
business and who make long delays in choos-
ing. They want something that suits
them" To every thing that TURNS up they
have an objection, and they wander like the
man who tries to find a picture that viii be
perfect portrait Of himself and which he
can purchase much cheaper than to have q
portrait painted. The great trouble is, they
will not "stoop little,' but oftentimes, al
last. they have to bend their pride consider.
ably! The best rule is, to embrace nea,
opportunities for the security Of the remote
Some one has said, "Fortune does not stooE
often to take any one up;" but just as true
it is, that where men stoop to Fortune she
will raise them Up. A man is far more like
ly to find better opportunities by doing some
thing, than by being idle. He is at leas
exercising his abilities; he is testing his busi
ness qualities, he is brought into contac
with the busy, and he may find. as man,
have found, that Fortune turns up the bes
thing just when he least expected her fa
vors.
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GbrilIinp Wmratioe.
THE SHOT In THE EYE.
A True Story OF Texas Border
Life.
BY c. WILKINS EIMI.

NV word for it, reader, should never
have ventured to construct professed 70
nance out of incidents so wild and strange
as those of this narration. 1t is only with
the hope that you will accept in good faith
the assurance given in the same spirit,
that those things really did occur while was
in the country, and most Of them within
my personal knowledge-that I venture to
relate them at all. Remember the scene
is laid in frontier county of Texas, and if
YOU have even remote conception of the
history of that Republic and the general
character of its social elements. you will
be prepared for good deal. But, though
you might even have visited their cities and
older settlements, you would still find it diff
cult to realize all that is true Of frontier
life, unless by extended travel and expert
ence your faith should be fortified. When
you can have to say, as l can, "what mine
ewes have seen and ears heard" on that
ground alone you will be eft audience
though few" to receive as matter of course,
relations which would doubtless, for the
moment shock others as monstrous in i'm
probability, if not impossbility. The man
of high civilization will find great difficulty
in understanding how such deed as am
about to relate, requiring months to consul
mate, would have been carried through in
the open face of law and the local autbori-
ties-but the man who knows this frontier
will tell him that the rifle and bowie knife
hre all The law and local authority recog-
hized. Witness the answer President
Houston gave when application was made
to him for his interposition with the civil
ibfeezto quell the bloody Regulator Wars"
which afterwards sprang up in this very
same county-4aFight it out among your
selves and be daz-z<=-d to you!" Aspeech
entirely characteristic Of the man and the
country, as 1t then was. 1t was in the ear
lier stages Of the organization Of this same
"Regulatbr'' association that our story com.
mencee:
ssv, Shelby county, lying III western Iexas
on the border of the "Red Lands" was ra
thcr ttinly settled in the latter part of 80
what population it had was generally th'
very worst caste of border life. The ba'
and desperate men who had been driver
over our frontier formed rallying groun'
and headquarters here-seemingly with tn
determination to hold the county good a
q against the intrusion Of all honest persons
afislIaaort of "Alsatia" of the West, for tn
protection of outlaws and villains Of ever,
grade. Aaaindeed to such an extent ha
this prescription been carried that it had be
come notoriously as much as mans lif
Or conscience was worth who settled anon
them with any worthy purpose in view; TO
be must either fall into Their confederacy
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Garden FrtAits.

Moore's Rural Nep Yorker of the 24th Of
March, in an article on fruits for the garden,
says:
"fn the garden should be planted straw
berries, currents, black, white and red, rasps
berries, asparagus and pie.plant. 1t does
not take large plot Of ground to supply FAM
lily with all the asparagus and pie-plant they
can possibly use. A plot Of ground twelve
feet BY eighteen, would make as large an as
paragus or pie-plant bed qs would beProht.
able; and one twenty feet square, well cul-
tivated, would furnish all the strawberries.
But garden should never be ploughed...-..
1t should have plenty ofwell rotted manure,
and always be cultivated with spade, and
kept clean: quarter or an eighth Of an acre
would rnake garden plenty large for any
common-sized family, and furnish il with an
abundance OF comforts and luxuries, and be
really more paoftable than any two or three
acres in wheat or corn, for garden vegsta-
bles save a great deal of meat and -four in
making up the living Of the family. :.
"Rheubarb, or pie-plant, as it is commoA-
| Iy called, is so easy of cultivation, and such
capital institution in the way of pies and
sauce that It should be found in every gar
den. For family, make a bed twelve by
twenty feet, dig it we'll, and put in or dig
in plenty of well rotted manure. Get plants
of the Common Fairly, Giant, and the Vic
toria, say one row of the Victoria. and about
three rows of the Common. Set the plan!ts.
two feet and half each way, keep the
ground clean, keep down the seed stock,
and do not gather much the first year. Ia
the fall put shovelfhll Of good manafs
over tile root and spade it as early in the
spring a possible, or as soon as the leaves
show themselves, !,
The great secret in raising the. fie-Pllain!s. !.
in Perfection is to keep the ground clean
and rich, and hot allow the seedstalk to grow,
In gathering for use, select the leaf that has
fully opened, and slip it off from the stem
by running your finger down between the
leaf:stock and the stem; never cut the leaf:
always pull it off as described. II proper
! II attended, dozen plants OF each kind
will furnish all that any family can well
consume. The Giant is late. and hoth that
and the Victoria should be planted at least
|, three and half feet each way.
j We have found the flavor Of pie-plant.
much improved BY using maple sugar hi
prefer ence to cane sugar"
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OF SHIPMENT OF DEAD CHINAMEN The
ship Sunny South cleard yesterday for China
having on board the dead bodies Of seventy
Cinnamon. 1t appears there is.a company
of Cinnamon in this city doing quite an ex-
tensive business in disinterring and shipping
the dead bodies of their counttylieli to the
order Of the relatives of the deceased in
China. The cost of the operation is about
ffty dollars--a sum willingly expended by
the weather class Of Chinese, who consider
tia duty, as we'll as a privilege, to pay tri-
butte OF respect to the remains of deceased
Erelatiysb. SAT- Frcncisco Herald, ei L
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and, as 1t was said, returned with his family
to Arkansas, where his wife's father lived.
The incident was soon forgotten in Shelby
county amidst the constant recurrence Of
similar scenes.
TCoacludsd nsrt Weeks
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~ ne We LoNNiAA1O"N
Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life Is but an empty dream!
For the soul Is dead that slumbers
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! life is earnestl
ss And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken Of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way,
But 70 act, that each tomorrow,
Find us farther than to-day,
Art is long, and time is heeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffiod drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the worlds broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be hero in the strife!
Trust no Future howe'er pleasant
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act!--act In the living Present,
Heart within, and God o'cr head.
Lives of great men all remind US
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er lifes solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother
Seeing, shall take heart again,
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still lpursuing,
Iearnto labor and to wait.