Smyrna times., 1861-12-12
Delaware q Affairs.

lieensed as minister OF the Gospel, aad aiken
chsfgs of @ church in Philadelphia.
On Tuesday, December 81, Mr.. Joseph, N.
Mnford was o:dained Deacon by Bishop Lee,
in ST. Andrews Church.
| When the resolution expelliIg Breckinridge
passed the Senate last Wednesday, the Sena-
tors from this State, James A Bayard and Viii.
lard Salisbury, did not vote.
Lieut.. McKnig has received i letter from
captain in the lower part OF this State, which
states that eight companies arc nearly full for
! the Third Delaware Ecgiment.
Wilmington has been selected by the War
Department as the depot for the collection aud
| Instruction of recruits under command of the
will be Issued to them.
The protracted meeting at As5ury Church
! Wilmington, has been blessed with happy
results. 1t has been continued two or three
weeks, and many have professed change OF
heart.
Sheriff Moore has advertised for sale, on the
25th Of December, the valuable farm of the
late James S. Martin, al Newark. 1t is BcId
under a mortgage
CoLoRED DELAwAREANs Cong 10 LIBshIA.
lit is supposed that between one and two
hundred cOlored people from the neighborhond
OF Wilmington will leave for Liberia in the
bark Mary Caroline Stephens, on the lst OF
April.
TROOPS FROM DELAwARE.-The Secretary Of
War in his report mentions that Delaware has
furnished two thousand troops AT least two
thousand have gone from from Wilmington
says the Commonwealth. There are more ths n
fifty Delawarean's in Baxter's Fire Zouaves; /;
every Philadelphia Regiment contains 4 num-
Der. When the three months men were called
for ,one hundred men in body under the com
mand of Ctpt. Smith (now Major in the lst
Delaware RegimenO left Wilmington and join
ed Pennsy lvania Regiment
The Secretary of War, in his report, rec
omends that the portion OF Maryland and Viz
ginio OH this Peninsula, be incorporated in this
State; and that in lieu Of this deprvati on of
territery, that portion Virginia cast of the Blue
Ride be annexed to Maryland. This would
be wise and beneficial measure. The inter-
ests of this State, the Eastern shore Of Mary
land, and the two counties of Virginia. are
identical. Whilst the two sections Of Mary
land separated by wide bay, have little or nc
interests in each others affairs. For years
, the Eastern shore has been taxed tor the inter-
, Aal improvement on the Western shore, and
received no benefit in return. Their interest
thus being separate, the soonor they divide,
: and unite with us the better for all conce rued
: THE ENLARGEMENT OF OUR STATE On this
Z subject the Del Republican says: We are
O decidedly in favor of tbs proposed enlargement
4 of car State if any satisfactory arrangement
can be made iE regard 70 tie debts Of Marylsnt
aud Virginia. The proposed annexation wcu.c
give US a territory three times large a We
now have, and would make our pVpu alto,
i about 3C0,0OJ, including about $1,000 g.oye
IS whereas our population is new only lis. 900
4 of which number LOO ara slaves. W. chou q
, thus be entitled 10 three RepTeSeota lives /!
Congress The people should speak out il
; regard to the matter.
A volunteer writing to the Sussex Messeng er
from the lst Delaware Regiment thus describe
sunday in Camp Hamilton ; be says:
20 Some Of your readers " oUd like 20 know h"V
ID we spend our sundays. We do not drill on thi
/. day. In the morning we have a company IN
, spection at which tIna every man mdst ha "
his brassess and gun rubbed up, his boots black
II ed and clothes perfectly cleaned. In the after
noon at three o'clock the regiment is marche
. 20 the parade ground, and formed into q square
t. The Chaplain stands in the centre, and, atIe
music by the band, the clergyman breaches
sermon. His sermons are short but noHe III
ri ess interesting. Immediately after preuchin
ne we have dressparade.
IN A MEMORABLE INCIDENT the following il
= cident has been related to Us, 10 show the Grcr
change which public opinion has undergone
our State 10 regard to slavery. About III
- year 1908, a methodist (we believe the Re-
's. Mr.. EverIt,) preached a sermon in the hou'
belonging to the grandmother Of V. Moor
-. ESQ, at Odessa, in which he took the brou
ground that man could not be democratnH
hold slaves, and 80 conclusive was his argumen
IN. that on his concluding Col. Dale. the father
. John Dale of Wilmington, exclaimed: " NanC
- is fire Q and her children toe" aud he according
m ly executed deeds manumitiing them. Abo
the same period The father ofJames A Bayar
t- and the father Of DR.. Merritt were active ab
-, litionists, and there existed an association
aid colored persons who were entitled to the
''' freedom. The whole tendency ofpubllc op
u ion was against slavery. and it vas the IL
is preston that the system would soon die oil
be Republican.
FoR "OLD ARE."-Mr. James II. Bell,
ler chief clerk in the Interior Department
- Washington, who has been on visit of aor
"e three week TO his home and friends OfIhis tow
Ieu left for Washington on Monday last, iaki'
Id with him a fine string Of nearly cne hundr
ng pertridges for the President.
- MIR. Benson, OF PhiIadel phia, returned hor
on the same day. taking with him about
per geese and so ducks, which he had shot on
he hoboth Bay about the Same number were Sc
The home by him two or three weeks since. MIR.
,L has built a boat.house on the beach, furnish
with stove, &c, at RehobOih, and every f
'Fu spends q few weeks in the vicinity, and as
the is 50 id to be :" crack shot," usually retur
IN waII aunnllpd with pame.- PeninSuLdr Nel