Delaware State journal and statesman., 1861-05-10
local AFFAIRS.

SOME AT THE DEroT-The Philadelphia Press
narraies the following affecting scene which oc
cured at the Broad md Prime street Depot OH
Wednesday during the departure of some Of the
troops for the South.
red bearded man, with rough sandy locks
sat at an open window, looking wiatlully out
upon the swaying people oOnfusedly mingled
with the volunteers. His great hand rested upon
the sill, and it was very rough md SCARED. lie
had unslrappe1 his knapsack aud hayersack, aud
sat very still and quietly, MS if full of some
weighiy care that would not let him smile, aud
that kept him peeping into the crowd llav-
ing regarded the people several times very close
", he turned his head with u disappointed ex-
preston, and leaned steadIasty upon his hand.
Directly, through the jostliug, pushing, gazing
crowd, very diminutive woman, bearing o
sickly faced child in her arms, urged herself
She Ind n pale, nervous face. and likewise peer
cd expectantly among the soldiers as if wishing
to meet some one gaze from the ranks The
child looked quietly down from her shoulder,
and held fast to hernco by ont arm, while with
the other he pointed hither and ththcr, at gilded
caps and blue ttowsers aud cleaning bayonets
| All at once the eyes Of the little woman and the
eyes of the child and the eyes Of the rough
soldier who sat at the window, seemed 10 meet
Mt the same time. The child relaxed its grasp
of the mothers neck, and thrust out both hands
towards the man, while its Ackly face became
oscrspread with very happy expression The
The little woman very nearly dropped the rhild
in the excess OF her delight, mud calculated
"WillyunlP as if tho word had no other in
habitant At that time, and the depot had become
dGpopulated of every body else The man "Will
yum appeared to say Eizur," md in a momen
he had placed his feet upon the sill and let him
self out of the car window with wondrous agility
lie took the sckly child out Of its IAother'
arms, and kissed it several times, ut which III,
diminntive woman burst into grent lamentations
and the child, partially smothered with TIL
. violence of the paterDal embrace, improved tn
i intervals to sob, in u manner altogether mex
4 plicabe- The people fell hack for there wa
s something unusual in the family scene bcrur
5 them md not few were moved to tears by tn
r agony Oft the mother and wife, and the feeling q
y the man-too great for tears of grief IN u mo
ment the locomotive whistled shrlly The ma
r replaced his child, gave his wife single ks.
Q and vanished over the threshold of the car door
while the woman went on sobbing.
EXCITEMENT IN Cuunom. A great excit,
# mcht was caused in Asbury NJ. H. Chucl q
/, Sunday evening last by youth being seize
=, with a spasmodic iii during the services. Il
y WINS sitting ia the congregation, and the mini
n ter was delivering his sermon when the info
= tunale affair occurred. He was taken in charl
u, by his friends, Nud the proper antidotes applig
HI
=, recovered as to be out of dunger. Alucl, e
4 citement was oceasoncd in the church for
in short time by this unfortunate event
t, "FArnrR lIgRsEY."-Iohn Jersey, an oil
IN fashioned Methodist Preacher preached in Il
&c Ashnry NJ. Church twice on sabbath last,
ct large and attentive congregations.
:, Aloun secEssioN-T newspapers stnte til
81 Tennessee and Arkansas have secedad Che
- John, No AZ King Street, is u true-blue Uni
al man aud the poor mans friend aud may alwa
~ bu found ready to show tho people who visit
u, store, his extensive assortment of househc
,e goods, and sell them ut amazingly low prices
ID scARclrY or PRovIsIoNs.--1hc reports fir,
10 the South are to the effect that there is IL prt
le scarcity Of provisions in that section. Any y,
" SON who doubts that there is plenty in this l
of giou have only TO call at the store Of /. S. Fiji
Up No. 14s Market Street to be convinced to
= contrary, You will there find everything suit
= to the wants Of man in the shape of edbles
= great abundance, which are being disposed of
i'd prices 10 suit the hard times