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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-10-01

EXAMINE Your TREEs-It is surprising
to see how ready farmers are to pay cash
for trees, and to plant them well, and how
careless they are of their after treatment
They take it for granted that the crop of
fruit is sure, as the tree is set It is not
so. The work is only well begun. Trees
should be treated as personal friends, look
ed to, visited, fattered with particular at
tentions. Inquire after their health, and
response will come from the bark, the twigs.
and the leaves. Is the trunk smooth, indi-
eating that the owner has applied strong
soap-suds recently, and routed the moss, and
the countless progeny of scale bugs? There
is sawdust around the collar perhaps. In
vestigate the hole with wire and smite the
borer with fatal bore in the fifth rib Is
the new wood strong and healthy, and the
foliage luxuriant and glossy? You will find
many curled and dead leaves, perhaps, and
within the folds whole brood of eggs, or
crawling grub. Kill him, as you hope for
fruit next year Turn pigs into your ORCH
ards to eat up the early dropping fruit
Every worm-eaten apple is pest-house-
destroy it, Scrape off the old bark, that
serves as refuge for the moths and their
egg and bear in mind, that all these labors
and appliances will but imperfectly do the
work Of birds.
| A fellow went, few weeks since, into
the store of fashionable milliner.
'.Have you any skirts ?" asked he.
"Plenty Of all kinds"
"What do you ask cord % said the chap.
ga cord % replied the woman.
Eyes, I want about cord. Up in our
diggings the petticoats has gin out. see
you advertise corded skirts, and I thought
while my hand was in I'd take what you
had corded upp'
The milliner tainted.
The following conversation between two
| jolly sons of the Green Isle, one day last
week, in front of our Office, had point to
it. -
'sSay, Jimmy, did you ever see such 8
summer as this?'
s'Faith and I have"
s'When %
"Last winter. be jabers. W P. Star.
The CoMEr.-Prentice, of the Louisville
Journazsays:-' The comet is a gay deceiver!
he promised to jostle the earth, but he has
only Tilted her. The rogue has told q tale.
instead of showing one.
Why is jackass like an Illinois corn
CT L d
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-10-01

Why is jackass like an Illinois corn
field Because he's some on ears.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-10-01
THREE YEARS AFTER MARRIAGE

THREE YEARS AFTER MARRIAGE.
You're going out-why don't you go'
cannot help the rain;
You would mt grieve me nightly,
To ne'er come back again:
Umbrella ! don't know where 'tis,
What'll you want next! wonder!
Don't poster me about your cold,
Good gracious go to thunder.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-10-01
MATRIMONIAL HAPPINESS.

There are few topics discussed in the
home circle department. Of q newspaper that
interest larger circle of readers. or that
more rarely grow tedious, than the various
ct ceter0s connected with the matrimonial
life. The following are the opinions of two
ladies eminent for their literary attainments,
on this subject:
Mrs. =. Montague says: II can define
matrimonial happiness only like wit by neg
atives. 'Tis not kissing-that's too sweet !;
tits not scolding--that's too sour; tbs not rail-
lery-that's too bitter; nor is it the contin-
ual shuttlecock of reply-for that's too tart
In short, hardly knaG how to season it
exactly to my taste; D6t [ would neither
have it tart nor mawkishly sweet. I should
not like to live entirely upon either methe-
glen or verjuice."
Again she says: II fancy in matrimony
one finds variety in the charming vicissi-
tudes Of
"Sometmes my plague, sometimes my darling
Kissing to-day, Tomorrow snarling.
Could that kind of love, remarks Mrs.
Thrale, be kept alive through the marriage
state, which makes the charm of a single
one, the sovereign good would no longer be
sought for. in the union of the two faithful
lovers it would be found but reason shows
us that this is impossible, and experience
informs us that it ever was 80; we must
preserve it as long and supply it as happily
as we car"
A H1r AT HYMEN.-Apropos to the topic
thus discussed, some writer's grabbed,
morose, peevish old bachelor, without doubt
thus hits hard at the vagaries of connu-
bialdom. Probably some pretty girl, who
wishes to link herself to sweeter specimen
of humanity, has 'sgiven him the bag = 20
he turns about and vents his spleen, by say
lac bactheysd 1 f4tcf ef e dspfss:8at BIT
been disappointed in getting. Nine times
out of ten, when you hear an old man thus
railing at wedlock, you'll find out that it is
in some such way that the shoe pinches:
THREE WEEKS AFTER MARRIAGE.
My dearest are you going out,
Indeed. 'ts very cold.
Let me, sweet love, around your neck
This handkerchief eniold.
You know how anxious for your health,
My own dear George, am l,
One loving kiss before we part
Good bye, sweet chuck, Good bye.
THREE YEARS AFTER MARRIAGE.
You're going out-why don't you GO,
cannot help the rain;
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-10-01

The CoMEr.-Prentice, of the Louisville
Journazsays:-.'Th The comet Isl a gay deceiver!
he promised to jostle the earth, but he has
only Tilted her. The rogue has told a. tale,
instead of showing one.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-10-01

love, but now all hope died out of her heart
and she would surely have sunk down be-
meath this accumulation of sorrow, had moi
her Heavenly Father been near with His all.
sustaining arm. =. (
Two more sad, dreary years rolled by,
and then there came one who had been the
playmate of her childhood, and offered her
his protection and the heart that had been
her'sseyer since those juvenile years, though
he had judiciously Stunned her presence du-
ring all her welded life But no, she had
no love to bestow it was all, all buried be-
meath the green sea wave, never, never a
gain to be awakened to new life.
Had her husband died a natural death,
at home, where she would have had the con-
ISOLATION of administering to his dying wants,
and smoothing the dark passage with words
and Offices of love, time might have healed
the wound, and she might have eventually
bestowed upon her childhood's friend Sc
cond love-
But aaoao the attempt to win her would be
worse than useless, and so, with the assur-
ance of her friendship, he left her, feeling
that never here could he be permitted to en-
Joy the companionship of her whom he had
$50 longSloved.
A few weeks after this event, Adela Ray
mond sat one evening in her little, neat and
comfortable, but scantily furnished room,
with her.children around her. It was Sa-
turday night, and the labor and toll of the
week had been laid aside for the higher du-
ties of preparing the mind for the coming
day of rest-the God-appointed Sabbath
which He requires all His children to de-
vote to His service.
A little table stood beside her, upon
which lay the well-worn family Bible, that
her mother had bequeathed to her upon her
deatt-bed with the, solemn injunction to Pc
ruse its sacred pages often, that from them
she might derive consolation in any of the
various trials Or affections that beset life's
changeful pathway.
Adela had just finished a chapter upon
the suferings and death of our Saviour, and
was enforcing upon the minds of her chill
dren the great duties we owe to God for
thus giving His Son ransom for US, when
% lf,sfs1----4-A1--1
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-10-20
From Washington.

WASHINGTON. October 17.-Somer
vile, one of the robbers of the Richmond
custom house, was arrested at Richmond
to-day, and portion of the deposits were
recovered. Wheeler. his accomplice, was
committed to Jail here yesterday on the
same charge. The latter when arrested
gave up three hundred dollars in gold,
set of diamond studs, splendid gold
watch and bunch of skeleton keys. He
is known to be the son of u celebrated
English thief, and has doubtless commit
ted heavy thefts in various parts OF the
Union. Somervile was concerned in the
robbery Of the jewels in the Patent Office
q few years ago.
Samuel Archibald, chief engineer in
the navy, was to-day appointed engineer
-in-chief.
The amount of government stocks re-
deemed at the Treasury yesterday and to-
day was $37 800. The amount ofmoncy
in the Treasury subject to draft is $l2,-
S06 1871, a reduction from last week of
upwards of $2,500,000. The receipts OF
the week amount to about S706 900.
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Pretty SoUAws.-Those who have
read the Indian tales of Cooper Simms,
Bennett, &C., and have never seen an In
dian squaw doubtless imagine that among
the duslly tribes there are hundreds of
tall graceful maidens, with regular
features, and pretty forms. We have
recently visited different tribes of Indians,
and seen many hundreds of their females
and as yet We have not found one who
approaches to grace or beauty. Asa gen.
eral thing they are slovenly, slovenly,
and lousy-tit subjects for a soap factory.
We venture the assertion that the author
Of the, 'Last of the Mochicans' or of eli
awatha never saw an Indian girl If there
is such thing as Min-ne-ha-ha, we
should be pleased to see her; she would
bs a fortune for Il Snowman. Ed
gle
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The News.

The steamer North America, with Liv-
erpool dates to tie 7th inst, arrived at
Quebec yesterday morning All qualities
of Cotton had advanced in Liverpool
Declining tendency in breadstuffs. Pro-
vision market dull. The Spanish Minis
try had resigned. A Russian man-ol-war
had been lost in the Gulf of Finland with
400 lives.
The steamer Black Warrior arrived at
New York, yesterday from Havana, With
dates to the 18th inst. Sugars in active
demand for Europe.
On Saturday night an ARRAY took place
In Boston, and a murder was committed
in New York.
In Richmond on Saturday, Somcrvi!le,
one Of the robbers of the Richmond Gus
tom House, was arrested, in. consequence
Of certain revelations made by his accom-
plice Wheeler, who was caught in Wash
ington on Friday, 1t is thought the
trail is is now struck.
In Iowa, the Democrats have made
large gains over the November election of
1856. The Republicans appear to have
carried Minnesota.
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A Chapter of Horrors.

BosToN. Oct. 19.-On Saturday night
an atfray occurred here, in which Henry
L. Sutton killed John Hilton, and also
stabbed John Donovan, supposed mortal
ly. Souton was captured after desper-
ate resistance, in which he stabbed Jacob
Todd seriously. The same night police
man Hodgden was killed by pistol shot
while arresting a suspended burglar.
New YoRK, Oct. ia man named
John Shenson, was kill on Saturday night
last by three rowdies, whilst walking TIE
street accompanied by his wife. The
mudercrs escaped.
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= ADVANTAGE OF PUNcTUATIoN.-Pu
tuation, that's the putting the stops in
the right places, cannot be too sedulous,y
studied. We lately read, in a country
paper, the following startling account of
Lord Palmerston's appearance in the
House of Commons: "Lord Palmerston
then entered on his head, white hat up
on his feet, large but well polished boots
upon his brow, dark cloud in his hand,
his faithful walkingstick in his eye, a me-
nacing glare saying nothing. He sat
down. "-Punch.
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New York Markets.

New YORK Oct 19.-rlour-Them mar
llet to-day closed dull with sales of $500
barrels Common to good State 81, S5a4 IS;
Ohio S.. 15a5,7 rs; Southern IS, SOFAS. So
a decline Of 5a10c.
Wheat--The market is firm with sales
Of 5000 bushels-Southern white 13Oa
$40 cents red 120a130 c. Western white
at ll0a122 C. red 10Oa116c.
Corn-The market is dull; sales mixed
at 73a75 cents with dropping tendency.
Provisions.-Are dull at former rates.
Whisky-Is unchanged--sales of Ohio
at 81 cts.
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Money Matters.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct 14-Two of our
prominent dry goods jobbers suspended
this morning, one being Messrs Ralgnee
& Co., the heaviest in the city. Their
assets are large.
Mr.. Allelone, the President ofthe Penn
sylvania Bank, has resigned in conse-
qucnea of i'll health. His resignation has
been accepted.
Joseph Jones has been elected Presi-
dent.of the Commercial Bank to fill the
vacancy caused by VIM. Wainwright,
resigned.
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DEATHS.

Died suddenly last EVENING" at 7 o'clock.
of Apoplexy, Mrs. FRANCES PEEr. con-
sort of VIM. Peet, Esq, leaving an at1ec-
tionate husband and three sons to mourn
their irreparable loss
The funeral will take place this (Tnes-
day. evening at Al O'clock, at the Cum
berland st. Baptist Church. The friends
and acquaintance of the family are invi--
ted 10 attend without further notice.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-10-20

James p. Donnelly, convicted of the
murder of Albert s. Moses, at the Sea
View House, Highlands of Navesink, in
August last, yesterday was sentenced to be
hanged on the 18th of January next.
The Galena, H., mines want ten thou
sand worlmen, the Pacific and Minnesota
railroad also advertise for hands. a call
comes from the West for female help.
DREADFUL. CAsUALITY.-Th Malbo-
ro, (Ml.) Advocate reports the death of
Miss Margaret Coflren, a daughter of Mr.
Francis Colfren, of Nottingham district,
from her dress accidentally taking fire.
She was in the 20th year of her age.
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WRECKED GOODS.

T HAVE on hand lot of damaged "a
l. Clothing, saved from the steamer Ma
Norfolk; amongst them are some fine LII.
Beaver Cloth Over Goats,
Fancy Cashmere Pants;
Ger tlemen's Shawls.
Lined Kidd, heavy lined Silk and Cloth
Gloves, just the thing for driving or any hard
service,
Boys Jackets and Frock Coats,
Many of the above goods are but little in
jured, yet they will all be sold at great sa-
critice. Persons wishing bargains will re-
member to call at the NORFOLK HALL OF
FASHION,
r. D. CLIFTON,
oc 10 No. l6, Main street.
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Loss of the Propeller Cromwell.

DETROIT, October 16.-The propeller
Cromwell, Of Kingston, G. W.. came in
collision with an unknown vessel, and was
sunk in the Straits of Mackinac last Sat-
urday night. No lives were lost. The
officers and crew Of the propeller arrived
here to-day. The propeller and cargo are
4 total loss.
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DEATH OF SANTA Annals DAUGHTER.
Sonora Cannon Lopez de Santana de
Mayard, daughter Of General Santa Anna,
cx-President of Mexico, died recently at
Turbaco, the residence of Gen. Santa
Anna, near Carthagena.
FATAL AFFRAY-In a recent ARRAY in
Terrell comfy. Ga, between Andrew
Gore and John Sullivan. brothers in-law,
the former was killed and the latter badly
wounded.
The cholera now extends over nearly
the whole northern continent of Europe.
At Gluckstadt, four per cent of the pop
ulation have died.
Hon George S. Houston has purchased
plantation, comprising 1920 acres, in
Limestone county, Ala, for $69,696.
The Key West papers of October 10th
say that the yellow fever has entirely dis
appeared from that place.
The dwelling house, Kitchen and meat
house of Wade d. Strother, in Smyth
county, Va, were consumed by fire on
the 18th inst.
SUICIDE FROM RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENT.
Mrs. Ruff, the wife of respectable citi-
izen of Mount Pleasant township, West
moreland county, Pa, committed suicide
on the morning of the 5th inst, by han
ging herself in a room adjoining her bed
room. Cause, said to be insanity, from
religious excitement.
SUICIDE IN JA1L.-A man named John
Britton who was confined in the Chester
field (Va.) Jail on the charge of arson.
committed suicide on Saturday night by
hanging himself with the bed-cord.
The NEW OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ry Toucey has determined to have the
new steam sloops-of-war divided into four
compartments each, by water-tight bulk
heads. -4ryus ofthis morning.
SpEcIE.-Specie in the Boston banks,
according to the last statement, amoun-
ted to $2,601, 500. The circulation amoun-
ted to $6,366, 900, and the deposits to
$13,4S9, 900.
Mr. Milburn, the blind American
preacher, was announced to deliver a
lecture at Chester, England, early in
October.
Col. Nathaniel Wilson, an old and
highly respected citizen of Pittsylvania
county, Va, died on the 18th inst.
The majority of Harris, DEM for Gov
ernor OF Tennessee, as officially announced,
is 1852.
Byrd Young, the original "Simon
Suggs," is candidate for doorkeeper of
the Alabama Senate.
The steam saw-mil in Fetterman, Va,
has been sold to VIM. McConkey, for
$4,000.
Rev. Mr. Savelli, a Catholic priest, was
murdered recently near Point-a- la ache,
La.
The number ofstudents at the Univer-
sity of Virginia is now upwards of 500.
Alexander Brander, an old merchant of
Petersburg, Va, died on Tuesday after
noon.
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quick Sales and Small Profits.

HAVING received another lot of Fall
l. and Winter wear for Ladies and Cen
tlcmen, would respectfully solicita call from
them as my motto is quick sales and small
profits | am determined to sell cheap for
cash, for that is quite an object now.
Ladies if you wan some really nice goods
fer the money. you can very easily get them
by calling at No. 60, Main st.
| have received very choice LIT of
Bleached and Brown Cottons, all widths,
White Red and Yellow fannes, all wool, as
cheap as can be bought in the city for tho
same quality and widths, homcspun checks,
Shifting, Stripes, DENNIS, Blue Drills and
many other articles in that line have re-
ceived, and will sell them low for the cash.
Now ladies if you want a beautiful silk
Dress either in Fancy or Plain can please
you certainly, for | have very nice assort-
ment of these Goods, and bought of one of
the first houses in Philadelphia, and the styles
are really beautiful and the price is exceed
ingly cheap, so therefore, you must come
down and look at them, for am determined
they shall go. Gentlemen give me call when
you want anything in your line, from stand
ing collar to pair Of socks, and think
can suit you.
J. ID. CANNON, go East Main st.
oc 20 Successor to j. II. Dawson.
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A DISTINCTION. Napoleon was one
day searching for book in a library of
Malmaison, and at last discovered it on a
shelf somewhat above his reach. Mar
shall Money, who was present, one of the
tallest men in the army, stepped forward,
saying: "Permit me, sire: l am higher
than your Majesty" "You are longer,
Marshal" said the Emperor, with a
troWn.
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Hotel Arrivals.
NATIONAL HOTEL, NORFOLK,
WIN. WALTERS, PROPRIETOR.

G j Bruno, Matthews, CO., Mr. John
son, Virginia; Charles Fitz, Gloucester,
Mass; W Smith, ship R B Sumner; N
Nash, Norfolk; j r Fitchett, Snrry; Hon.
John Tyler, Charles City; R Eppers, City
Point; John Campbell, James Gamble,
Baltimore; II Brown, Brunswick; r
Bagby, Petersburg; G 5 Gregory, Hall
fax; J B Leake, Hampton; Thos. James,
Bowden, N. c.; Jas w Renal. Robes
Vile, n. c.; } W Spratley, Suffolk.
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Rss- Hardly any modern novelist pos
sesses, to an equal degree, that rare fas-
cination of iption-coming at once
from an accuracy Of insight into the nicer
and deeper springs of feeling, and from
an industrious and exact study of human
nature-along with an artistic skill pain
ting delicate lights and shades Of thought
and sentiment in aptly-chosen words
which marks so strikingly the INNER
tai, world-read writings of CHARLES Dc
KESs. BULwER excels him in strength
and impetuosity of passion, in grandeur
of diction and in occasional majesty of
events and characters. THACKERAY sur
passes him in profoundness of philosophic
teaching, and in a smooth felicity of style;
ibist, for genuine depth of emotion, thin
1y masked indeed sometimes under
tlppancy Of phrase-for real pathos, of
ten speaking from uncouth lips-for rich
and grotesque humor, give us the versa
tile, genial, Incompatible Boz.
Dickens has no high horse--or, if he
has, he keeps him we'll housed in the sta
BILE. to be let out, now and then, for the
penny-a-liners who are said to write
many of the "Christmas Stories" and of
the short tales and sketches, which come
to light in the pages Of Household Words.
Sometimes, what may be called vulgar
and cockueysh by literary snobs, he
has nothing of the opposite and worse
failing-he never affects the grand and
highhying He never attempts, like
many of the romance-writcrs, to mount
skyward on waxen wings, which might
dissolve, as in the instance of unlucky
IoARUs, under the persuasion of the So
lar blaze, and suffer him to tumble igno-
bly, to the ground. He walks as a man
amongst his fellows, finding something
precious in the commonplace, revealing
to us dignity in suffering. weakness and
want, glory in humble and unseen strug-
giles with temptation, divincst beauty in
deformity. His studies are from that tru-
est nature which is found in humanity
in man as he is--not as some make him,
a being either all virtues or all crimes-an
angel or demon. His characters are,
every soul of them, veritable men and
women, not myths and dreams, whether
he picks them up-and he does it Won
drously at random--in the workhouse the
counting room, the street, the school-room
or the prison.
Dickens descriptive power seems to
lie largely in his minute explicitnoss Of
detail. See how Enthusiastically he
TO work in the passage from the op.ning
chapter of Little DorrH:
"In Marseillcs that day there was a
yilainous prison. In one of its chambers,
sorepulsive place that even the obtru-
sive stare blinkel at it, and left it to such
refuse Of reflected light as it could find
fer itself, were two men. Besides the
two men, notched and diSfgured bench,
immmbvable from the wall with
araught-board rudely hacked upon it with
a kuife, set of draughts, mado of old
buttons and soup bones, a set of dornin
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Railroad Accident,

HARTFORD, Oct. 1.-Two deaf mutes,
aged II years, were instantly killed this
afternoon, whilst walking on the trake of
the Hartford and New Haven Railroad
They were horribly mangled.
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A MOUNTAIN OF CorPER.-A cores

A MOUNTAIN OF CopPER-A cores
pendent of the Richmond Enquirer, writ
ting from Floyd county, Va, says:
MIR. Toucrey, Of Floyd, has recently
opened a copper mine on his plantation,
which, in my opinion, contains the richest
mineral in the world-it is a mountain of
copper. We passed through the mines in
the morning, and, though wo felt some
what fearful in thus passing under the
mountain.we were astonished st the sight
of such an immense quantity of rich ores
all around US, There are Sc vcral tunnels
penetrating the mountain which pass
through various veins of different kinds Of
ores. There is a vein of red oxide about
eighteen feet wide, the are of which yields
about seventy per cent. There are veisn
OF the black and brown ores, about one hun
dred feet in width. The black ores weld
sixty and the brown thirty to thirty-lve
per cent. He has recently struck on vein
of yellow sulphate, which yields from
twenty-five to thirty per cent, This
vein is about twenty-five feet wide, 60 ng
down nearly perpcndicularly. To all APP
poaraNces it is ineXhaustible.
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New Orleans Money Market.

New ORLEANS, Oct. 1G.-The run on
the banks has subsidized and confidence re-
stored. No further failure are announced.
The suspended free banks anticipate an
early resumption. Money is easier, and
business affairs more cheerful.
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Iowa Election.

DUBUQUE, Oct. 17.-Returns from 81
counties show gains for Samuels, dem, of
$500 over the Fremont vote. There are
yet 10 counties to hear from. The dems,
have gained fourteen members of the Lc-
gislature.