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Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-02-19

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WHEREAS, There heen thorough examination OF tho
Accounts o The City hIrk Ia Tho Ordinance Of January 9t
10 requiring. nOHg uier lies. estimates anu appoprla
TONS to authorize expenditures, and u is tund that there
ls been great rreglny in expenditures exceeding Hnpro
prntun aud Council ddnfng The principle established by
tins san ordnalcc 70 he oyita concern for conducting ts
in tile mnttnr Dt PeNi ne, aud having Determined upon
stem If ACgpis ~ order To carry out this principle
think eXPehnnt, BY OrdinTco to se the City ccohntS
lbr the period rom the date OF said Ordinance to the
iuenCCirnt of the new - STEM therefore
SEC BIZ it ordained by the City Council If Whining.
ton, that Of the pas Funds OF the city tcru shall Ice deemed
aud HhuN tie appropriations made by Ordinances during the
period aforesaid, 70 tho payment of interest of the funded
debt. the sum 81 nc Thousand four hundred and ninety
dulas aul twenty -slN cents, 20 tile Bfadywlu WATER
Wurksn eXtensiu Of Water Pipes, Thirteen Thousand nle
hundred and de lars aud seventy CENTS to tue repair
nr and cgnihs oi streets, TF ytwu Thousand hree hun
buildings. Two Thousand four hundred and twenty
dollars and iileen cpis to fuel and stationary. -Four
hundred mud three dollars and seye teen cents to 'alnres
Four hundred mud twenty six tols and Roven CENTS
Courts: Five hundred aud nuriy two dollars and cents
aud Miscellaneous and incidental Xprnses, TwelVs thnu
sand hre aH'i une dollars and ninety -nlue CENTS
Tho actual expenditures uirr Slid heads respectively
dns aforesaid rrtint. hereby appropriated not To
atnuFilr rer tNprn. ure, warrant the d'nwlnE anS
iOuI the Treasury but 10 cover, by appropriation o.
pendreS TINT have been rilr NJ dleret years Otthe st
peliHl bpN and apWnpf4tns by Otdnmnfes M a 10
Hl 80 thu the Accounts lll M deemed legally settled.
uf die tniu CntngriG with these seemchts,l Il
SHALL Tie uty u the N frcHsrCrt open upon ms books
lurtlt year If, account WI. each nnd every app!opiln
l!c Hr' The passage 81 Tie saiH ordnance ol Inh-
AIRS A 1910 taking tho tables at appropriations and cN
puuIils Is submitted by the Fmuuc Cunniltee hudn
pinVUdhy the ClN Council, lAuhry i1l' 1871 lur nus Eue
rNpenlrps, and their credit NIL The appropriations ~
tirm shown welR9 Tie appropriations MADE ny tMa
| Ordinance. -
|
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IIREsE a..

With Scarlet Fever, on Sunday morning, the
18th inst, LAURA, daughter of A. Poulson,
and Catherine his wife, in the third year other
age.
Nipped in the bud, by death,
And taken to Paradise to blooia.
In this city, on the 10th inst, LILLY daugh-
ter Of John G. Cole, aged four weeks.
Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-02-19

The Hon. JOSHUA Il. GEDDNGs, since his re-
cent attack Of sudden illness, in the House of
Representatives, is at home in Jefferson, Ohio.
The Ashtabua Sentinel, in speaking Of him,
says
.sMr u. states that, when he first recovered
consciousness, the pastwas perfect blank; but
his memory improved with every hour ofsuund
sleep, until il is now nearly restored. His her.
yous system was OF course greatly affected, and
has not yet recovered His first and principal
means of restoration was TO turn his mind IRON
business, particularly from subjects ON which he
was accustomed to reflect with unusual intcnsi
~.
His physical health lie regards as rapidly
improvingi and his memory appears to have
improved in manner nearly corresponding
with his physical system. lie seeks exercise
i'll the open air, reads but little, sees company
and cultiyates cheeriulness and ease OF mind
His physicians encourage the hope that he may
have years before him, fhe abstains from tx
citement and severe mental labor; while 1t
himselfappears conscious that recurrence o
the attack must prove fatal, and that the tint
Of such recurrence is entirely uncertain. Iii
complaint is styled satrophy Of the heart
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CIR A ROOM nuihe THIRD floor Of tho fubsoTIners
nrR N new building for rent amt would make very
EEL pleasant alice; fpr further parti culurs apply to the
subscriber, No. 4 IN safua BHildcg. ~ - *.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Il ........ 4

Monday, February Ii.
The ilsuse met pursuant 10 adjournment
Prayer offered, roll called, and proceedings of
former day read. All the members present.
The Speaker laid before the House the credentials
of Mr.. Richard Ferguson, member elect from Apo
quinimiul Hundred New Castle county, in place
of Baymtn Deakyne, Esq. deceased, which were
read.
On motion Of Mr.. GOoding, Mr. rergusOs vas luly
sworn, and took his seat
The petition of suLlry citizens of New Castle Co..
praying for the tepeal Of the net taxing dogs was
read and referred.
The petition of sunlry ctizons Of BrAudywine
hundred, praying for the repeal Of sail law were
The act 10 create an additional school district in
New Castle county, was read u second time.
The peitinn of sundry citizets Of Hmyrna, for an
net Incorporating loan end deposit association was,
Oh motion, read and referred to Messrs. Pennington,
Martin and DuEnp.
The ac.to amend chapter 10 oil the Revised Code,
was rend Il third time and passed.
Toe act to create an additional school district il
New Castle county out of Nos. 80 AMI 81, was read
third time and passed.
Ihe ACT authorizing the Levy Court Of New Castle
county to purchase and hold certain real estate was
read a third time and passed.
The act to survey and lay out certain lands in Sus
sex county, belonging to David M Reynolds, was
read third time and passed
he bill for the relief of school district No 49, in
New Castle county, WAS read third tine, and upon
the yeas ard mas being called, there being IA tie
vote, the bill was lost
The bill to divorce SlrIh L Layton ftam her hus
band Henry A. Layton, was read Il third time and
passed.
The act to divide school district No. 30 in Suss *
county, was read third time and passed.
Tie act to divorce jane NJ Ma,oney from lor hu7.
band, Abraham D. Maloney, was read third time
and passed.
The bill to incorporate the Mi4pilliou. and Chop
tank Railroad Company read econd time
The act to repeal 40 act therein mentioned was
road third time and pGssed.
Mr.. Lodge offered tho following:
Resolved, That President ". Newlin be invited
to lecture in this Ia to morrow evening on the sub.
ect OF N srmal Schools.
Adonted
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FRgsmET At PoRT DEposIT.--In another col
unn will be found IL letter from our former
townsman, Mr.. Robertson, giving an account
of the recent destruction Mt Port Deposit. We
have also been shown a letter from gentle
man TO IL friend in this city, under date Of the
nth inst, who graphically remarks: Sc We arc
VII alive. No one was hurt that hazard off
but the way that the Sick and delicate took to
the hills, was q caution to sinners" Women
who were always afraid to walk wheHthc pave
ments were damp, We're obliged to wIls
through water two or three feet deep, A great
many persons have returned to their houses,
but we counted etghty-lUur families yesterday
afternoon who had not Some indeed have
no house to go to, and we arc among that NUM-
beT--Nlr. Shows house having the front all
knocked out. The principal part of the old
Susquehana Bridge that was, is lying on the
flats ten miles below Havrc dc Grace, and
spans of it arc scattered about in different
places on the river; some houses are standing
on the roof bottom upwards, Others are laying
on their sides, while others have been merely
turned around. You can see nothing but lum-
| Der, ice, houses, stables, wagons, boats, &c.,
where the streets ought to be. There are not
more than two or three persons on the shore
| who have not met with more or less loss. The
| ice first commenced running on Monday at
noon, whilst the people We're eating dinner,
and very few had time to finish. 1t did not
run more than 90 or 30 minutes, but did a
great deal of damage. 1t commenced again
about 0 o'clock at night, and again at O'Clock
on Tuesday morning, when it continued to run
until about O'Clock in the morning when the
greatest rise took place. l got in Il boat and
| went into Shows house to get out some things,
the water being about two inches deep on the
floor, dust after the end Oft was knocked out
and before got out, although in there but q
| few moments, the water was over the tops oil
my boots. | was wading all day, some per-
sons had to be let down with ropes, some witt
ladders, and some had to be cut out the
roof of the houses. Say to John Wilson, lit
escaped in good time. The water in his heust
was about . feet deep, and the same in Orr's
when MIR. Shows house was knocked ont, Or
with his family took the hill side, which was
alive with people. Mr.. Trimble had about u
or 90 persons in his house. 1t was one of the
most terrible sights ever witnessed here. Thu
water was over the wall OF Andrew Orr's yard
This will give you some idea of the height o
the water. 1t would be impossible to give yol
any thing like a description you could only
know by having seen it. There are, suppose
twenty houses either removed upset or entire
" broken up. Old Donly is entirely demolisl
ed. j. II.
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nrrInr.sTERING

uPHoLSTERInG
urrSsRS THOMAS BARRY AND R, T. CHAD
VlK have entered into COpArtuership for the purpose
~ carving un Gpholstering business IN all ~ various
brnnches, under the rn OF Barry Chadwck AT thet r.
corner Of Fourth and King Street ~, -. ,,,,
jan. 22-tt. bzAlel ! q SIi.Ai- y y N
w salehy Il. BASSErT, MeCarys Baidins'
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DR.. KANE, who it is feared is dead by this
time had been previously four times in the
same critical condition, viz once in Egypt,
from an attack Of plague once in Africa, pros
trated by the African fever; once in the Med
lterTanean, with lock jaw, and he was danger
ously wounded in the Mexican war, while car
rying dispatches Tor General Scott between
Vera Cruz and Mexico. The last and tata! at
tack was Of u scrololuus nature, arising from
ssnryey and exposure during his northern err SX
having been born In Philadelphia in the year
1922. He received his classical education at
the University of Virginia, and his medical ed
ucation he graduated as a doctor Of medicine
in 1913. Soon after his receiving his degree
he was appointed surgeon to the first Amer-
cab mission to China. He travelled extensively
in China, the East Indian archipelago, British
India, and Egypt. After his return to the
United States from these adventures he next
sailed for the West Coast of Africa, and visited
the slave factories from Cape Mount To the
river Bonny. During the was with Mexico, in
l947 he visited that country, and performed a
perilous service in bearing President Polk's
dispatches to General Scott. On the return
Of peace he was assigned to the coast survey
under Professor Bache, and was at work in the
Gulf Of Mexico when the first American e&pe-
dtiOn was organized to search Sir John Frank
lin. DR.. Kane went out as senior surgeon; on
his return he published narrative of the
cruise, and it was scarcely ready before ht
started on the second expedition to the Artie
regions, from which he returned with his
health fatally injured. .America.
--see+--
REPORTED CABINET APPoINTMEXTs.-W WASH
INGToN, Feb. l7,--It is believed tonight, by
members of Congress and others, both iron
letters and verbal reports from Wheatland
that the new Cabinet will be composed as fol
lows:- Secretary of State, Hon. Lewis Cass
of Mich; Secretary of the Treasury, lion
Howell Cobb, OF Ga; Secretary of War, ex
Governor Floyd, of Va; Secretary of the Ma
Wy, Ex-Governor Brown, of Tenn Attorney
General, Hon. Isaac Toucey, of Connecticut
Postmaster-General,H Hon. j. Clancy Jones, o
Pal Secretary of the Interior, Hon. Jacol
Thompson, of Miss.
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ned till 10 o'clocl, to morrow morning
SENATE.

4'IVII'INII TV1 TUI o 0 OI'TUh n M
The Senate met pursuant to adjournment.
Prayer offered, roll called, and proceedings Of
former day read.
The bill authorizing the widening OF Water
street in Wilmington was read second time.
The bill to incorporate the New Castle Gas
company was read n second time.
Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-02-19

SENTENCE or WoREAL FOR MuRpER.-We
have already mentioned that Worrall, one of
the Gordon murdererS in Missouri had been
convicted. A letter says:
He behaved himself with great monchalance
until the next morning, when he was brought
in to receive his sentence. On being told to
rise, his parents both rose with him, each with
an arm around his neck. A most solemn and
short address was then made to him by Judge
Stone, conjuring him to make his peace with
God, as in his case all earthly hopes were en-
ded, and concluded by sentencing him to be
hung on March II, 1857. The prisoner then
went. Mai. Wright, his counsel, took an APP
peal to the Supreme Court, and obtained,
therefore, stay OF execution accordingly,
FLouR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Causey has
appointed Joshua n. It. Rice Flour Inspector,
vice Mr.. Lackan whose term of office had ex-
PRED. Mr. X. has been an active and ardent
opponent OF Locotocoism in all its shapes and
forms and his appointment may be a bitter bill
to some of them. We should wonder if itwere
| otherwise.
Cry SOLICITOR. AT special meeting of the
| City Council held on the 10th inst, VIM. S
| McCaulley, Esq, was elected City Solicitor
vice Hon. John A. Allderdice, resigned. Mr..
| McCauey is young man Of moro than ordi
nary ability and will worthily fill the position
| for which he has been selected.
APoLoGErIo.-In our notice of the bachelor!
/ and widowers in the present Legislature, We
overlooked our friend Thos. J. Foard, Esq, o
| St. Georges Hundred, who is Il widower and
for the information ofthe fair sex we Will state
that he is an excellent farmer, and possessed
! of line estate.
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LYONS PURE CaTAwBA OHIO BKa .
NV ar n edclnai pu poses; can be procured at BkAD
ID FoRD's 1 STEFilEN's, SD and Market Streets.
feb. l6-tf,
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SELLING OFF AT cnsT

TfNIIE UNDEKsIGNED would respectfully inform
J. their Friends and the Public generally that
they selling off their stock of Cabinet.ware at
So Rins street, between Fourth and Fifth streets
Persons would DO we'll to call, they have on hand
a large assortment of Bureaus, Tables, Dedsteads,
and other articles which they will Sell at Cost, as
they naud to close up business by the 25th day of
March HICKMAN l. CoUDON.
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most mud ai ienrc The Farm al W. II. D. g. Wright,
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feb, a. WILLIAM SAVERS,
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The first shad of the season have made their
appearance in New Haven, CT.
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The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-25
Proposals for Erecting the Post once and
Courthouse at springfield, Illinois

Washington, December ~, 1856.
PROPOSALS will until the nth day
Office authorized erected Spring
field Illinois, according the plans and specifications prepared
departments either the whole building
bills parcels
accompany bid kind of
the department the right
proposals hereby thereof
right exclude the bids Of
peuons believe will faithfully
form the which they have attempted obtain by ind
recon shall be interest who do
the bids and all bids a investigations below
price WORT,
gross, will
bidder furnished department the
the different kinds work materials which shall subject
revision of the Department. that adopt the whole
part of the bid interest of the United States
Ninety the done materials dev
Of agent department appointed pnf-
pose) will be lime the work and
until the completion OF the
afoesaid and be forfeited
of fufmenl OF contract h5ssi
will awarded and mechanics,
and thereof the Secretary
the Treasury, will be forfeiture OF the sahe.
written
persons,
district iadge OF the said dsrctD In the
Cor the whole work. OF proporonae amount for
into and bond with proper and sufficient securities
faithful performance. +.
Form certificate required win appca-
department.
Plans, specifications working drawings will be ready after
thirty days. when they application
No Did iR be considered unless fully complies details
uith The require ,nents Of this advertisement.
The proposals must be sent this department.
Secretary Of the Treasury and plainly far he
Springfield Post Office aud Court opened AZ 10
o'clock, A. % Of the last day named for resying the
JAMES GUTHRIE,
Dec l5-aaw7Fcb fJn,SsarI -
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-25
proposals for Erecting the Post ONCE and
Court-n0u e at indianapolis, Indiana.
TREASURY DKrANrhxNT,

Washnsion December II, 1856.
poPo5As viii be received sns department until the i7h
day Of February A. D. 1851 a O'Clock, noon
rstHclon OF the Office
ed III ndilnDpol Indiana
prepared nj this department said
whole bulldog, separate bills of
parcels mu Va every bid
each Kind OF work,
csefpng tue reject tue proposals. hereby
requires ats me department
BIDS OF any who there
WIN Eoi faithfully perform the which they
eBPed To obtain by adlrecoa
parcs in interest who jon bis all bids that
upoE Investigation, mrs below mir pfce work.
ds wiz moi be received in and will be
prices OF the daseL kinda OF Materials which shall be
subject to the revision OF the department. may adopt The
whole or part OF the bid, the Interests OF States may
require. - -
Ninety OF the done and materials
aehveed according to contract ad
famed by the estimate Of Of the department appointed
thar purpose will be paid from
and ten per cent retained until contract
acceptance OIL the work. sc by the
feitsd in The event nor-iulfment of contract -
awarded
ha e assahue MeTee by
uie Treasury, viii be forfeiture OF the same.
aaa p,oposa must be accompanied by written guarantee
dsct Judge " at,oney of the said distc OF
Sooo, o ns We work, ~ proporonae amount, il for
accepted enter into bond proper sufficient
SECURITIES, for its faithful performance.
CORN OF bond and cerdcae required will be furnished app-
cation 70 the department.. -
eaus specifications working drawings will be rendy after
thirty days, when they be had application depart
aaent. -
No bid n be considered uniess fy complies in all lis details
rita Che requirements Of This advertisement.
Inc proposals must be department, the
eeeoy ne reasuy and plainly endorsed "Popesa
III o'clock OF The last day receiving the same
s.s ta JAMES GUTHRIE,
ne o..,-u Secretary Of the Treasury.