Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-06-25


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THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 25. 1857.
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CELEBRArIos The Fourth of July will
be celebrated~b by the Everett Literary Socie-
ty of St. Johns College, at Annapolis, by
the reading of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence by Mr.. John W. Dorsey, of Howard
county, to be followed by an Grafton from
Mr.. Andrew G, Chapman of Charles county.
We learn from the Beacon that the 18th
is to be appropriately celebrated in Leonard
town, Charlotte Hall and Blackistones Pa
wilton. At Leonardtown the grafton will
be delivered by T. K. Preuss, and the De-
claration of Independence will be read by
Geo. Fred. Maddox, to be followed by a
dinner and a ball at night. At Charlotte
Hall, Josias Hawkins will be the reader and
James F. Thompson the orator, and at
Blakistone's the reader will be Robert c..
Coombs and the orator Edward T. Briscoe.
In Port Tobacco the usual observance of
this great national holyday will take place
at the court house. DR.. Peter W. Haw-
kins will read the Declaration, and Barnes
Compton, Esq, deliver the grafton.
REsIGNATIoN.-W understand that F.
B. F. BURGESS, Esq, resigned his seat, as
one of the Judges of our Orphans Court,
on Tuesday. The vacancy, we presume,
will be filled, for the balance of the term,
by the Governor s,
damage has been done to the growing crops
of tobacco and corn by the violent storms
that have visited portions of our county with
in the last two weeks. One gentleman in
Pomonkey had an entire field of tobacco
swept off by the floods ofrain on Sunday last
In the same neighborhood barn was blown
down on Wednesday week. Near Piscata-
way, we understand, the hail on Sunday
greatly injured the crops Of wheat and corn.
This has been truly season of violent storms;
but as yet our immediate vicinity has not
been visited by any that has caused COM
plant.
LITTLE DoRR1r." The story of Little
Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, has just been
issued from the press of 7. B. Peterson,
300 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from the
advance sheets received from the Author
per last steamer from England, for which
the sum of $4,000 was paid by Peterson.
As everybody who has read the writings of
Dickens will want this work, we advise them
to send and get it from this publisher, who
can furnish no less than eighteen different
editions, at prices ranging from SO cts. to
S., and will send either edition per mail,
free of postage, on the receipt of the price
of the book. ,....
The attention of our readers is directed
to the new advertisements from Alexandria,
which appear in our columns this week
Messrs Bowen, BERLIN & PEAK, Carriage
Makers, we are assured, are gentlemen who
do their work faithfully. They are natives
of Virginia and Maryland, and every article
in their establishment is manufactured by
themselves. Mr. JAMES A. PETERSON,
offers something new in the way of Horse
Powers, Threshers and Cleaners, which our
Farmers will do well to examine, and test
their merits before purchasing other ma
chimes. His articles are all manufactured
in Alexandria. J. VIM BowLING has OPEN
ed new Drug Store in that place, and pre-
sents inducements to purchasers which we
doubt not will secure for him liberal share
of the trade from this section.
We hope our readers will also take a look
over the old advertisements, and, when they
make purchases, that they will always seek
those who advertise in their county paper.
GoDEY's LADY's Book. We have before
us the July number of "Godey's," which
begins the 55th volume and 9th year of
publishing the Book. The merits Of this
magazine are too well known to need any
thing we can say to recommend it. This
number contains 100 pages, Sc engravings,
and so contributors. The Fashion Plate
contains figures, and is one that comes in
suitable season for all mothers, as it con-
tains children's fashions, beautifully color