Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1861-01-08
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

ErIToME OF BUSINESS AND PERSONAL INTEL {
LIcEsoE.-Worrell & Child, have taken the Store !
formerly occupied by Samuel Baby, No. 226 {
Market street. They have completely remodel
led their Store, and laid in large and entirely
new stock of Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods,
Carpets, Oil Cloths, Mattings, and Furnishing
Goods of every description, which they are SELL
ing at low prices. They are worthy young men
and we commend them to public patronage.
Ray The partnership heretofore existing be-
tween John Finn and F. c. Simpson, under the
firm Of Finn & Simpson, has been dissolved
The business will be continued by +. G. Simpson.
Office 2l9 Market Street,
Bely- We direct the especial attention of cur
readers to the advertisement Of Henry Wilson,
Practical Paper Hanger, No. 800 Market street,
in this city. II will be found in another column,
He keeps always on hand an excellent assert
ment Of Fancy and Plain Paper for Walls; also |
good variety of Window Shades, Curtains, |
Fi.e- Boards, &C., which he is selling OF very |
low prices. Paper Hanging promptly attended
to, aud executed in the best manner. Mr.. Will |
son is practical workman, and persons who
favor him with orders may rely upon having full
satisfaction rendered them. Give him a call.
Rsly- Robert Taylor, corner of Fifth and Tat
nall streets, has several fine young Cows for sale
on reasonable terms
ReIss Samuel E. Thomson, 1928 Market street,
Stable and Carriage House, with an acre OF
ground, in Newark, Del, for rent
Ba5- james A. Sanders, No. 2O3 Market St.,
has just received several very large and cheap
lots Of Dry Goods. Look out for bargains.
RAJ We invite the attention of our readers to
the advertisement in another column, of John
McLear Son.
Filbert Sts., Philadelphia, has Carpets, Floor
nil rlnfbs &n far sala nhpaD
RaS- The Farmers Bank OF the State of Della
ware, at Dover, have declared dividend at the
rate of six per cent per annum for the last six
months payable after the 10th inst.
Hss@ Mrs. Postles, of NIispillon Hd, aged
about 70 years, was getting out of a carriage on
Thursday week, when the horse started, and her
dress catching she was dragged some distance
and so badly injured that she died in a few
hours afterwards.
UNION MgETINd.-T Union Meeting on Fri.
= day evening last, to approve the action of the
Legislature, rejecting the propositions Of the
delegates from Mississippi and Alabama, in fa-
, vor of secession, was largely attended, and was
/ addressed by DR.. Grimshaw and others
= An attempt was made in the early part of the
evening to break up the meeting, but quiet was
u finally restored, md the following preamble and
resolutions adopted:
WHEREAS, Certain Commissioners have ar
= rived in this State, purporting to have been
delegated by Mississippi and Alabama, to confer
9 with the authorities of Delaware upon the sub
e ieet Of forming Southern confederacy and
A WHEREAS, One Of said Commissioners did
make, on Thursday last Il speech before our
Legislature in which he took strong ground
in favor of secession and Southern confede-
racy, and
WHEREAS, The said Legislature after mn
a turely considering the propositions contained
ls in said speech, did pass by unanimous vote
ii of the House, and majority of the Senate the
be following resolution;
as ResoiOed BY the Senate and House OF Rep
be resentaiiyes, in General Assembly met, that,
is having extended TO Hon. II. Dickenson Com
Is missioner from Mississippi, the courtesy due
an him as the representative of Il Sovereign State
se, of the Confederacy, well as to the State he
n represents, we deem il proper and due to our
re- selves and to the people of Delaware to express
he our unqualified disapproyal of the remedy fol
IN, the existing difficulties suggested by the reso-
nr lutions OF the Legislature OF Mississippi.
10 Therefore, be it
* Resolpsd, That we fully approve and endorse
Of the wise course pursued by the members o
INT our Legislature, in rejecting the proposition o
ies the Commissioners of Mssissippiand Alabama
,v' and that we will fully sustain them in the nobl
", effort they have inaugurated in defence of thu
IN Union.
''H Resolued, That the assumption OF the RICH
The of State 10 secede from the Union is dan
- gerous political heresy, is in violation and def
ins ance of the teachings of Washington, Madison
tho Jefferson, jackson, and other patriots OF tn
Wy nation.
" ResolDed, That we look upon this Union a
~. Government of the people-each porto
= having certain rights which ought to be re
'nu spected by the whole-knowing no North n
be South, no East, no West but the whole Unio
by -one and indiyisible.
,h Rssolysd, That we full endorse the cours
pursued by Major Robert Anderson, in placin
're himself in proper position in Fort Sumptei
the as to defend the property and dignity of til
Cor Government.
os. ResOieed, That we take pleasure in giving il
80 this public manner an unqualified approval d
rAs the conduct of Senator salisbury, when in III
ted United States Senate, he pledged himself an
inc the State of Delaware TO stand by the Union.
,,i Resolved, That we will use all honorabl
means that lays in our power TO preserve til
: Union in its integrity, and that we return
Of hearty response to the Union sentiments as ex
fer pressedb our patriotic felow-citzens through
,er- out the country; and that we are willing {
unite with them in establishing the institution
ohs of the country upon a firm and unchangeabl
de- basis.
- CoRRRcrIoE.-Th business location of NJ
Daniel Adams & Co., is at the corner of Thi
'ec- and Church streets, and not Third and King
lug we stated in our last.
"' Fine FIRE "A FIRE broke out in Brdgevil
les on Monday night (Christmas) in the siorehou
tied Of Mr.. Marine. 1t is supposed that the fl
originated from neutrality-suspicious. and chase
in the house. The dwelng-house adjoined Il
store aud the family had all retired as well
the the other citizens of the town before the e
tho was discovered, and the stOrehOuse was quit
by before it broke out externally, When the alar
ays was given the citizens generally turned out b
Ody It was too late to save anything in the Btoi
own Most of the goods in the dHeling-house we
etal saved in damaged condition All the goods
was the store were lost besides more than 800
ON money. There was no insurance and the who
ace loss amounts to about $1,000 Mr.. Marine W
and poor man and by this accident has lost ever
thing he possessed,