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Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10

THE "MERRIMAc'' PATENTEp FoRTY-Elanr
YEARS Aao-Ths Scientific American says; In
the course of our investigations at the Patent
Office we have come across IL patent granted to
Thomas Gregg, on tht 10Th Of March, lsl4-
forty-eight years ago-for an invention of a Ball
proof vessel to be propelled by steam, which, on
examination proves to be an almost ex9ct model
of the iherrimac. The sides were plated with
iron inclined at an angle of lso and the drawings
show sharp, iron PROV, evidently to be used as
ram. This prototype Of the latest triumph in
in navel architecture, it will be observed, was
patented only seven years after the introduction
Of steam navigation.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10

DRY GOODS
AND
CARPETINGS
CHEAP.
We offer the balance of onr Fall and Winter
Stock of Dry Goods, Eurs. &C.. Mt re-
duced prices ior CASH to close before the season
is over. Persons in want may depend on getting
some decidedly CHEAP GOODS, as we prefer
disposing of many kinds of merchandise AT
COST, and EVEN LESS THAN COST, than to
carry them to another season. We invite an
examination
NEW SPRING GOODS
CAR:PETINGS.
We are now receiving NEW GOODS adapted
to the present and approaching season which we
desire to sell as low as the present times and
prices will permit We also offer good AssOrt-
ment of CARPETS, consisting of
Tapestry Brussels,
Imperial Three Phys
Superfine Ingrains,
Common do from 81 cts. up,
Venitian for Entries and Stairs,
Dutch Wool and Hemp,
Coco and Canton Mattings,
Floor and Table Oil Cloths,
RAG CARPETS made to our own order
to which we invite special attention.
window Shades,
Stair Rods,
Floor Druggett,
DCalI Oll ClOCnSj &C.,
We have been appointed sole agents for this
city for the sale of
DOWNS & BASSETT'S
EUREKA SKIRTS.
These are PATENT ARTICLE, and do mo-
rise in front and get entangled behind, whcr
compressed by the woarer in the act of sitting
They are made Of excellent material, and price,
low.
We offer n number of
Long and Square Blanket Shawls
ALSO
French Broche
At reduced prices, and the balance of our
Mems and Boys
SHAWLS,
At very low rates.
JOHN :. kENNARD Il BROTHER,
3O6 MARKET STREET..
Wilmington, February 1s, 1862.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02
Eulegies upon Senator Bingham.


In our paper to-day will be found the
sulogies pronounced upon Senator
Bingham in Congress, upon the formal
announcement Of his death, by Hons.
z. Chandler and Mr.. King. We shall
next week publish those delivered by
Charles Sumner, in the Senate, and by
Hon. F. G. Beaman, in the the House.
: No one can read these speeches and not
feel that the deceased Senator, in his
brief official term, had obtained firm
and deep hold upon the respect and
esteem of men whose good opinion is a
prize worthy any mans ambition. To
be lamented in such sincere and cordial
terms by such men as Preston King of
New York, Charles Sumner of Massa.
shusetts, and Daniel Clark Of New
Hampehre, is the best tribute the peo-
pie Of this State could ask TO the faith
fulness, integrity and zeal of their la:
meuted Senator. $50 I1
In the House, his death was an
nounced by Judge Beaman, who could
speak fittingly from long and intimate
acquaintance, of the character and Ia
bors Of his friend. Other speeches
were made by Messrs. Granger and
Trowbridge of the list and WITH Dis
tricts of this State, and Messrs. j. M.
Ashley of Toledo, and G. b. Sedgwick,
Of Syracuse New York, but owing to
the crowded state of our columns we
are forced to forego the pleasure of Civ
ing them to the public.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02

Quarrel Between Sherman and Dupont.
The quarrel between Commodore
Dupont and Gen. Thos. w. Sherman
has eliminated in breaking up Gen.
visle's expedition at the moment it
was ready to sail. We are not sur
prised. Dupont is an old sea-dog who
wants to conduct the war in an sner-
getis manner, though it may hurt the
rebels. He il more anxious to save
the Union than the "peculiar institu-
sion." Sherman is exactly the reverse.
He entertains a tender regard for the
"rroud and hospitable citizens of the
Sovereign State of South Caroline, in
whose society he spent SO many happy
hours" as he informed them in his
proclamation. Between his devotion
To- slavery and the dyspepsia, he has
converted the great expedition into a
failure, and robbed tire country of re-
suits wIfieh il had right to expect.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02

az The New York World, which
is in possession, to great extent, of
the feelings and sentiments of the Ad-
ministration, says:
Z" 1t cannot be disguised that the
Cabinet is very sorely chargined and
disappointed at the inaction of Gener.
Sherman. 1t was expected that he
would at once push for the interior, &C.
cupy Beaufort, seize the Charleston and
Savannah Railroad, burn the bridges,
and fortify himself between the two
rivers before the enemy could recover
from their panic and concentrate. In
stead of this he had settled down apa-
thetically at Hilton Head. The regu-
larity with which our Generals topple
over as fast as Government sets them
up, is melancholy to reflect upon"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02

DEATH OF AN OLD STATE OFFICER.
The St. Johns Republican brings us
intelligence of the death of ex- Auditor
General Sweegles, one of the founders
of the village of st. Johns, and one of
its leading business men. Mr.. Swee-
giles was born in Hector, now Schuyler
county N. Y, Is, 1919. AT the age
of eighteen he commenced the study
of medicine, but finding it uncongeniaI
to his nature, he obtained position i'm
the United States service as Purser's
clerk, on the brig Porpoise, then en-
gagged in the Atlantic coast survey. He
held this post one year, when he OBJ
tanned a discharge. He was subse-
quently engaged in teaching in his ma
tive State and Michigan, for some
years. He removed to JonesvilIe, in
this State, in 1910. He was elected to,
and held the Office of Clerk of Hills
dale county, for several successive
terms. He was editor and proprietor
of the Hillsdale Gazette for a series of
years; and, on retiring from that posi-.
ton, in 1850, the Democratic party of
this State elected him to the place of
Auditor General, in which capacity he
served for four years. Tribune.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02
The Question Stated by the New York
Tribune.
(From the n. Y. Tribune, Dec. 25.)

(From the n. Y. Tribune, Dec 25.) .
"Shall the War for the Union be per-
verted into War for the Abolition of
Slavery ?" Such is the question hour
ly asked by the Rip Van Wrinkles of
our day, and by secret sympathizers
with the slave holding rebels. To this
question We must explicitly answer
No, NEVER! The War on the Nation
al side has one single, all absorbing
pnrpose-the restoration of the author
ity and vindication of the integrity of
the Union. For this purpose the Ma
ton has taken up arms; this it should
pursue unfinchingly to the end.
Those who think with us in this mat
ter-being a vast majority of those
who voted for Lincoln and Hamlin,
along with tens of thousands who did
not-do not want the War for the I'm
ion perverted into War against slave
ry. What we do want, and insist on,
IS tthhat the Union cause shall not be sur
rendered, nor compromised, nor in any
manner weakened, out of Difference for
or tenderness towards slavery.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02
From Missouri.

The operations of Gen. Halleck for
two weeks are telegraphed. In that
time he has captured $500 rebels, LOO
stand of arms, 800 horses and mules ;
has defeated the plans of the rebels in
several instances; has shot ten bridge
burners and Gagged fifty others, and ex-
poets, within ten days, to put down this
sort of marauding in Northern Mis-
souri,. Sixteen slaves, confined in Jail
and expecting to be sold under State
law, have been released by Gen. Hal
lsck's order, and set to work for the
Government, they having been used by
their masters for insurrectionary pur-
poses.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02
The Wan TARrrr.-Tbe war tart

The WAR TARfFF.-The war tariff
On sugar, coffee, ;ea, and molasses was
introduced into the House on Monday,
run through that body, passed by the
Senate, taken to the President and
signed by him, and is now law. In
addition to this revenue measure, which
was fastened by the expected arrival
Of large consignments of each of the
above commodities, the Committee will
immediately on the reassembling of
Congress, submit an excise bill which
will be operative in all the States, and
largely productive of income. This
new tariff lays duty of twenty cents
per pound on tea, FIVE cents per pound
on coffee of all kinds, and on sugars a
varying duty of from two and half to
eight cents per pound, according to the
quality, and six cents per gallon on
molasses-
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02
A Righteous Order.

The telegraph informs us that Gen.
sral Halleck, in command of the De-
partment of Missouri, has issued an or
der which says any one caught in the
set of burning bridges, destroying rail-
roads or telegraph, will be Immediately
shot, and any one caught and accused
of this cpHns will be examined by mil
itary commission, and if found guilty
shall suffer death where the injuries
were done, to railroads or telegraph
lines; and that any pretended union
men having information of intended
attempts to destroy such roads and
lines, or of the guilty parties, who do
not communicate such intention to the
proper authorities and give aid and
assistance in arresting and Furnishing
them, will be regarded as participators
and treated accordingly. The slaves
of disloyal persons are to be pressed
into the services of repairing roads,
and if necessary the secessionists them
selves. That is lick in the right
quarter, General.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.
From Quincy.
Quincy. Dec,

QUINCY, Dec. %, 1861.
The bridges over the Fubius and
North rivers, situated between this city
and Palmyra, were both burned last
night. The telegraph connection was
also destroyed. Tracks in the snow
near the bridges show that but few per-
sons were concerned, and this gives
color. to apprehensions that most Of the
bridges on the route to st. Joe were
also, destroyed. -. 81, -,s.s,
+ A courtmartial convened at Palmyra
last night, for the trial of some bridge
burning prisoners confined there. On
the previous night four of this class of
prisoners escaped. There is now no
connection with Palmyra except by
leaving the cars at the Fubius river, and
walking to the North river. Repairs
will be made as soon az possible.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02

dered for any purpose, into keeping OF
foreign States. Only the captured per-
sons, however, or others who are inter
ested in them, could justly,raise ques.
ton on that ground. 1t would tell lit.
tie for our. own claims to the character
we possess of a just and magnanilnous
people, IF we should SO far consent to
be guided by the law of retaliation as
to lift up buried injuries against nation
al conscience. Putting beyond rae all
suggestions of this kind, prefer to
express my satisfaction that by the ad.
justment of the present case upon prin-
ciples confessed by America, yet as
trust, mutually satisfactory to both ma
tons concerned, question is finally
and rightly settled between them,
which, heretofore, exhausting not only
all forms of peaceful discussion, but al
so the arbitrament of war itself, has for
more than half century alienated the
two countries from each other, and per-
picked with fears and apprehensions
all other nations.
The four persons in question are now
held in military custody at f ort War
rem, in the State of Massachusetts.
They will be cheerfully liberated if
your Lordship will please indicate a
time and place for receiving them. /
renew my assurances of my very high
consideration. (Signed)
Aa1 =" aA k.9 VIM. II. SEWARD.
Dispatches from M. Thouvenal to M.
Mercier, French Minister to, our Gov
eminent are also contained in CORES
pondence; in which Thouvenal argues
that a neutral flag from one neutral
port to another, covers persons and
merchandise. 1t carries and adopts
principler laid down in the dispatch of
Earl Russell, to which Seward appro-
,priately replies.
The following is from Lyons to Sew
ard: t 1890.
WASHINGTON, Dec 27, 1861
To Hon. VIM A. Seward:
SIR:--I have this morning read a
note which you did me the honor to
address to me yesterday, in answer to
Earl Russell's dispatch of Nov. Goth,
relative to the removal of Mason, Sill
dell, Mcfarland and Eustiss, from the
British mail packet Trent. .,.- tos
/ will without loss of time forward to
Her Majesty's Government copy of
the important communication which
you have made to me. l. will also do
myself the honor to confer with you
personally on the arrangements to be
made for delivering the four gentlemen
to me in order that they may again. be
placed under the protection of the Brit
ish flag. lii ..4.a.
| have the honor to be, &C.,
(Signed LYONS.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02

flag was borne by brother of Colonel
Robinson, who's was in command of the
rebels, and soon he reappearsd with
Colonel Alexander, and an uneondi-
tional surrender agreed upon. The
whole force thus taken was $40 men.
including three Colonies and seventeen
Captains. In addition to the prisoners
of war, the glorious little army under
Col. Davis also captured over thous.
and stand of arms, near four hundred
head OF horses. sixty-6ve wagons, and
"a large amount of baggage, tents, pro-
visions etc.
In conversation with COL Magoffin,
/ learned the rebels were terribly fright
ened, from the moment of the first at
tack. A picket, it is said, came into
camp under whip and spur, having run
his horse for two miles at the limit of his
speed, and reported the federals were
coming down upon them 5000 strong.
Col. Magoffin asked him how he knew
there were 5000. Why" he replied,
I" haven't / been watching them pass
by for the last three hours ?" and with
this evidence of the faithful discharge
OF his duty, the picket again mounted
his horse and put out in search Of
4" some vast Wilderness" where, doubt
less, he is tonight housed in hollow
log. / learn from some of the prison
ers that large number of cavalry fed
precipitately at the first alarm, and
made good their escape. So alarmed
were they that they imagined the un-
armed recruits who were sent to the
rear to be the enemy. 81 ~
The prisoners present a most mourn
FIJI appearance. They are are motley
beyond description in appearance, and
and in every way poorly prepared to
endure the hardsphips of winter
camp life. A very few have oyercoata,
and the remainder have only blankets
or comforts. Their capture is to them.
selves an act of humanity. i notice
among the prisoners abont sixty con-
trabands, who seem to take the capture
of themselves and masters as remark
able piece of good luck. .-.s7
Gen. Pope has gone to Otterville,
where understand the work of build
ing houses for winter quarters for the
army has already commenced.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02
Latest from Beaufort and Port ROyal..-
Wreck and Capture of a Rebel Gun boat
near Savannah. -- r..-.i-..-4T
New YORK. Dec. 90.

New YORK, Dec. %.
The Empire City has arrived from
Beaufort and Port Royal, with dates
to the 25th inst. 5., sei
The 10th regiment made areconnois-
ance fifteen miles from Beaufort, cap
turing several rebels. Our troops
were still building entertainments on
Tybee Island, while Fort Pulaski kept
continual fire on them without doing
any damage.
A rebel gunboat came down the
Warsaw channel from Savannah to see
if the way was clear for the English
steamer Fingal to get out with her CAR
go of cotton. She was chased by one
of our guuboats and was run ashore,
her crew escaping to the woods, except
two who were captured and put aboard
the w Wabash. -. ss..f 7-I zlE- ~ sv
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02

The CASE OF Col. KERRIGAN.-In
the examination of Col. Kerrigan be.
fore the Court Martial on Friday last,
Capt. Henry Savage of the 25th New
York Regiment, testified that be had
known Kerrigan to be ont of camp till
2 A. NJ, scouting, as he said, some
times in citizens dress and alone. The
camp was then at Arlington Mills, two
miles from the enemy's outside pickets.
Kerrigan also used to say that he went
out to Bailey's house, then on our out
posts, to get his meals. sau
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02

as Ayers American Almanac has
now arrived and is now ready for de.
livery, gratis, by the agents to all who
call for it. Our readers may be sur
prised to know that this little pamphlet
which has become so much favorite
in our section has quite the largest cir
culation of any one book in the world,
except the Bible. 1t is printed in many
Languages and scattered through many
nations as well as supplied to almost
the entire population of our own vast
domain. Every family should keep it.,
for it contains information which all are
liable to require, when sickness over
takes them and which may prove in
valuable from being at hand in season.
If you take our advice, you viii call
and get an Ayers Almanac, and when
got, keep it.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02

p GEN. MCCLELLAN's PLANs.-Gen.
Mcclellan is careful to give no public
information of his plans. but has i'm
parted them in confidence to certain
Senators and prominent members of
the General and State Governments.
These gentlemen appreciate them too
well to join in the cry for a forward
movement, knowing that the suppress
sion of this Southern rebellion is only
a question of time. NJ sis H.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02
Special Notices.
posrHUMoUs HoNoRs.

Whose memory SO honored as that Of the cele-'
brated Prussian physician and philosopher, Chris
TOPPER Wilhelm Hoofaud? Throughout the whole
extent of Europe, especially Gernssgy,- his name
has for wears been familiar household word, and
there are but few in our own continent who nave
not experienced the benefits Of his great medical
and scientific attainments. His celebrated dis
covery for the cure of Liver Complaint. Dyspepsia,
Nervous Debility, &C., is preparation Of the
greatest merit, and gives the utmost satisfaction
in all cases It is prepared, in this country, by
Dr. C. NJ Jackson, Philadelphia, under the name
of Hoofsa,afs German Bittes, and can be had OF
any druggist or dealer in medicines. SIw2
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02

PROMOTED. : The people of this
State have every reason to feel proud
of the Second Michigan Regiment. 1t
has been promoted in body to the
regular army, and is now the "Twenty-
First Regiment q. S. A." This we be.
lieve, is the first promotion of the kind
during the war, and is high and de-
served honor. aalay t4..r..,
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02

@ The fire at Charleston proves
to have been very serious affair. Six
hundred and seventy-six houses wero
burned and seven million dollars worth
of property destroyed. All the bust
ness part of the city, together with the
principal churches and public buildings,
fell prey to the flames.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02

News Items.
Capt. Bretschneider, Of the Miehi-
gan I'd Regiment, has resigned his po-
sition, and is at home seriously ill OF
ihAamatory rheumatism.
A man named Hawley has been ar
rested in Cincinnati for selling seces-
sion envelopes, and was to be sent to
Fort Lafayette on Tuesday.
A great negro instruction is rported
in Mississippi, and an immense amount
of property has been destroyed, $780,
900 on the Quitman estate alone.
Aspecial from Washington says it is
believed Gen. Scott brings important
dispatches from the Government, Offer
ing assistance in case of war with Eng
land. ~ad
Hon. Solomon G. Haven, ex- member
of Congress, and leading member of
the Buffalo bar, died from paralytic
stroke on the 18th ult. He was form
erly law-partner of ex-President Fill
more. a.lfe
1t appears that Ben. McCulloch is at
Richmond, having been summoned to
answer some charges preferred against
him for needlessly burning property of
Southern men, and for refusing to rein.
force Price when the latter was pur-
sued by national troops.
The rebel General Price is still NOV
ing Southwark, and was, at last ac-
counts, between Humansville and War
saw. His soldiers believe, notwith-
standing he tells them his retreat is by
order of the President of the Confed.
crate States" that he is trying to pre-.
vent being cut off by Gen. Pope.
Gen. Mcclellan has ordered that q
sufficient guard be placed around every
telegraphic station pertaining to the
army, who are directed not to allow
any persons except the regular tele-
graghic corps, general officers, and
such staff officers as may be authorized
by their chiefs, to enter or loiter around
such station, within hearing sound of
the telegraphic instruments.
Capt. Hackstaf, writing to the Cold
water Gazette, from Louisville, Dec.
10th, says that an attempt was made to
poison some of the men Of Col. Mays
regiment few days since, by placing
strychnine in apples and selling them to
the troops. The perpetrators were out
of the way before the poison was dis
covered, otherwise they would have
been summarily dealt with.
The charge against George w.
Jones, ex- Senator and ex-Minister, is
that while acting as q. S. Minister, he
wrote to President" Davis, whom he
calls his dear friend, to provide some Of
fee for Augustus, his brother, either in
Texas, or at the seat of Government of
the new Confederacy, or somewhere
else; and in another letter he says his
sons have gone down South to fight for
the rights of the South, as he intends
to do himself, if obliged to fight any
where, and if possible, to leave his
family.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02
Federal Victory at Mount Zion, Mo-
More Train Burning on the North Mis-
souri, Railroad. ,...fl
PALMYRA. Mo. Dec. o.

Yesterday, Gen. Prentiss with four
hundred and fifty troops, encountered
and dispersed body %. rebels nine
hundred strong, under Col. Dorsey, at
Mount Zion, Boone county, killing and
wounding one. hundred and fifty of
them, and capturing 80 prisoners, SO
horses and los guns. Our loss was
only 3 killed and IL wounded. asg
The rebels burned another train on
the North Missouri Railroad on Satur-
day, and say they intend to destroy all
the cars on the road, and prevent the
road being used during the winter.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02

~ A report says that the state
msnt of Mr.. Hurd, who represented
himself to be q returned Federal pris-
onsr, relative to the csc ape of Col. Cor
ooran from Charleston, is probably a
Gotion.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02

W Senator Wilmot writes to the
New York Times denying the current
newspaper report that he is afflicted
with cancer in the stomache. He
expects to return to Washington in a
few days. ea aa a7iioistra
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02

A SAD FACT OF WAR.-No person
is living IN the town of Belmot, where
battle was fought some time since,
the stencil from dead horses preventing
people living within two miles of the
town.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02

DEATH OF Col. WEBB.-Wm. A.
Webb, Colonel of the Add Illinois Reg
lment, douglas Brigade and Captain
IN the Regular Army, died suddenly at
Smithton, Mo-, of typhoid, fever on tho
cath inst. He was about thirty-fv
years of age, a thorough military man,
and highly esteemed in the private
walks of life by all who knew him.