Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-08-16

said Chairman their determi alton t. support
I Messrs. Breckenridge and Lane for President
and Nicc-Prcsident Of the United States, tho
places of such Of them as shall fail or refuse s
to do shall be flied by the Chairman Of the said
State Central Democratic Committee
:. Mr. Hanson, of Frederick, offered a substitute
for the resolution, when both were laid on the
table.
Mr. g. +. Maddox offered the followed reso
tuition, which was unanimously adopted:
"Resolred, That this Convention most heartily
endorses the administration of James Buchanan
President of the United States, believing the
same to have effcctually conduced to the pros
perity and happiness Of these States, and the
consummatiOn of all constitutional rights"
The thanks of the Convention were rendered
to the President and other officers of the Conven-
ton, after which the body adjourned.
DISASTROUS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES H1.es
! C0nsumed.-We learn that the town of Sails
bury, in Somerset county, Md, was neary con-
sumed by fire on Wednesday, the 9Th inst. :; 1t
originated 10 some unoccupied dwellings on
Front street, and consumed forty houses, among
which was the Episcopal Church, one ofthe
oldest structures in the State also Bush's Hotel
the stores of Mr.. William Burkchead, Rider &
Toadvine, G. f. Dashiell, J. A. Wood, jeweler
| Newman's clothing store, owned by II. Parsons
DR.. Riders office and dwelling. Mr. Purkett'>
store G.. c. Seahage & Co.'S dry goods store
Mrs Fish's boarding house, and H. J. Brewing
toms hat store Bush's hotel was owned by
John Bird, and occupied by j. O. Bush All
the houses on the main street, back and front,
and on both sides, are destroyed. A large num-
Der Of dwellings on Church street wcro also en-
tirely destroyed,
Considerable quantity of personal property
sundry goods, groceries, &c., were saved from
the ruins, but the total loss is variolsly estima-
ted at from 900 to 100000.
Mr.. Dashiell was insured for 81 800, but not
sufficient to cover his loss. A few of the suf-
ferers were insured in Baltimore offices, and
others in the Mutual Insurance Company Of
| Delaware.
aSS- As an evidence of resuming animation in
United States and the various countries of Eu-
rope recently received official statistics show the
state of the trade between Great Britain 1.-THE
great emporium of European commerce) and
the latter for the first five months of the present
|
ported into England from January to May 8 1
1894, 131 were from the United States, while in
1859, for the corresponding period, the amount
was only 3,73S,512 cwts., of which were from
the United States 3, 1919 COG. Tobacco entered
for home consumption, from January to May
81, 1860, was 4.64S, 119 lbs, while during the
corresponding period of the year previous, the
amount was a third of a million of pounds less
|
4sg@ We are authorized to say, that the state.
ment in the Baltimore Daily Sun of Saturday
last, which represents that personal difficulty
had occurred at a late public meeting in this
county, between Col. John F. Dent and Hon
Oscar Miles, is entirely destitute of truth, there
being not the slightest foundation for the report
Our Baltimore contemporary has evidently been
hoaxed.-ia. Mary's Beacon.
The INCENDIARY OUTRAGEs IN TEXAs.-1he
Houston Z4e-SnaiAAxa1- of the aa4 -,,l4
following paragraph on this subject: ~
'Just as we are going to press news has ar
rived here from reliable source that twenty
two negroes have been arrested and are to be
hung in WaxSahatchie to-day"
In all the counties visited lately by fires com
mittees to investigate the subject have been APP
pointed, and the most efficient citizen patrols
have been established. In Grimes county a
meeting of the citizens resolved:
''That there is among the negroes in county
a disposition to revolt and be nsubordinate; that
this feeling is produced 10y the influence of GER
tain white persons in the county that it is time
steps be taken to rid the community of these
men that preaching to the negroes in the coun-
ty be stopped at least for one year that north
erners coming into the county under pretense Of
being ministers, teachers, drummers, &C., are to
be regarded with suspicion and received with
caution that vigilance committee be appoint
ed, patrols organized, and other measures fol
safety be taken" (
GEN. Houston AND THE PREs1DENcY-Gen.
Sam Houston is out in letter contradicting a
report that he had withdrawn as Presidential
candidate in favor of Bell and Everett, or any
body else. He adds, however, s#
| l regard this contest one in which the per-
manency of the Union is involved. desire to
see Texas present an united front against the
effort to maintain here sectional party and to
this end I desire to say it is my wish that the
electors associated with my name shall be per-
ecty free to cast the electoral vote of Texas for
any national man, most likely to defeat either
sectionalism or disunion.
DOUGLAS STATE CONVENTION IN KENTUCKY
Louisville, August 12.-The Douglas Democra-
tic State Convention met here yesterday Eighty
seven counties were represented. Archy Dixon
and John c.. Mason were nominated electors at
large. and full electoral Douglas ticket was
formed Resolutions repudiating any coalition
with the Breckenridge wing. and reaf1irming the
Cincinnati platform, were passed amidst i'm
mense applause.
REg= A man named Gray, formerly a consta-
BILE in Baltimore, has given himself up to the
police of that city, on his own confession of hav
ing killed his wife, on Monday the 9th inst, in
Anne Arundel county. He had been absent ir
Richmond, returned home, traced his wife to ar
unoccupied house, and finding her there in com
pany with man named McIlvaine (who made
his escape,) struck her several blows on the head
which caused her heath.
ag@The crew of the Great Eastern got a taste