Blue hen's chicken and commonwealth. (Wilmington, Del.) 18??-186?, 1862-05-28

to hurt him but wanted him to acknowledge;
saw Karsuer get his pistol, and heard him
tell Watkins he would shoot him, Watkins
turned himself around and told him to shoot;
Mr.. Karsner then left.
Daniel Corbit sworn--Mr. Karsner was al
my house, at Odessa, on the day Of the af
fray: he said he had had a difficulty with
Watkins; Did not observe whether he was
injured any or not, but he complained about
his throae being hurt.
The defence here closed, W. G. Spruance,
for the plaintiff addressed ths Jury at com
siderable length. He was followed by 7. Il.
Bayard and q. B. Rodney for the defence,
GeJ. C. Gordon then closed the argument in
speech for the plaintiff.
The Jury returned verdict for the plaintiff
laying the damage at 800.
State vs.. Williamson. -Defendant was ar
raigned for passing counterfeit money on
Brooke T. Turner and Il. R. Robinson, Har-
rington for State aud Booth for defence. The
Jury returned verdict Of guilty in both
cares. and the prisoner were remanded for
sentence.
THg DARK DAYS OF WILMINGTON IN 1851
The Christian (Baptist) Chronicle edited by
Rev. Mr.. Dickerson, of this city,, says:
We fluid 10 the N. Y. Evangelist a letter
FROM Wilmington correspondent, which de-
scrbes with much vividness the dark days
Of April 1861. The sketch, we Judge to be
from the graceful pen of the Rev. William
Aikman, of the Hanover Street Preshy terrain
church. We are sorry that we have room
for only few extracts. Little Delaware,
thanks to the God of Nations, was rescued
front the vortex of Secession, and, while We
would not overrate their instrumentality, we
believe that under God, il was done chiefly
by the influence Of loyal ministers in all the
pulpi.s OF the city, MIR. Altman says:
You and will never forget that night, or
the next Sabbath which saw you return from
your fruilless journey, stopped by the broad
Susquehanna, with bridges all charred and
blackened, and the reports of blood-thirsty
rebels on the other side. We certainly here
will not forget it. 1t was a night OF trouble
here the telegraph was down. a Thousand ru-
mors were ahoat. We knew that all the
bridges between us and Washington we're de
stroyed, that the men OF Massachusetts, had
been murdered in the streets OF Baltimore
that the enemy were said TO be adv ancng and
pushing on toward this city to get possession
OF our powder works., that there would pro
baby be an attempt to burn the bridges on
either side of our city We knew that there
were hundreds of armed rebels among us
only waiting for an opportunity to exhibit
their power, aud that our only safety was in
activity and watchfulness. Rvery man who
had arms in his possession looked carefully
to them, and hundreds enrolled themselves
in voluntary companies. 1t was an unuuiet
Saturday night, and ushered in tronhled
Sabbath.
We shall never forget that Sabbath. We
came to The church as to the sanctuary of
God, and It was good to go there, to the place
whsre God was. My choir, as the bell ceased
began softly, after the plaintive prelude to the
organ, to sing, "My country, It's of thee. -
Ron Ia. /,
the singers sang with all the deep Inspiration
ofthe hour, and you need not wonder that
our hearts rose and fell responsibility to every
note. We had sung and heard the song a
hundred times before, bat we never knew its
meaning till now. That week was the long
est OF my life. 1t was a week of years.
1t seems half dreamy now 10 have consulted
whether, while others were sending their
children away, 1t would not be well to box up
a valued picture or two and put them where
they would be safer or to sac quiet and peace
iul men handling their rifles, or to go with
them as they practised at the target, with
many deep-toned complaint that they should
by traitors be compelled to prepare to defend
their homes with such weapons; to wonder
whether after all il were not duty for you,
minister as you were, TO have some means OF
defence in your house, aud whether il might
not be that yet the skill which had been only
a pastime before, might not in defence OF
home and country, be called into play in some
trench or behind some earlhworlis on one OF
these roads that look southwark.
But 1t Is passed now, thank God, II has
gone. We talk OF it as something long gone.
1t seems unreal, the anxiety must have bee q
UNNECESSARY; it may seem even foolish to you
that were farther away, but it was all real to
us l.ere and then.
We some of us, in those dark days when
all was uncertain, whsn we did not know but
that Washington was in the hands of the in
surgents, and the tide of rebellion had swept
over the Susquchanna, when Baltimore was
In the hands OF the demouiac mob, and the
man who had headed the band that burned
the bridges, renegade of Wilmington, was
threatening next to fire this city-we had a
wholly new set of emotions at familiar sounds
For months together the shrill whistle of the
locomotive suggested only troops, troops
AT first, and before we became accustomed Ia
1t, the long trains of cars with windows and
platforms llled, roofs alive with men, waving
their adieus or greetings, would call us out il
wewere near, and we would give ne luke
warm replies. But il was good to see them
60; each thousand was new assurance thai
the country was safe, and we hailed oul
brethren from the north with unutterabl,
joy, we welcomed them with pride; and ole
HON feeling-ior We are of the north, birth,
anu home, and loved ones, and heart arr
there-hAd its sway and we bid them farewell
with prayers"
Til KENT County DEMOCRATIC MEETING
The Democratic Central Committee OF Ken
Co., Messrs. q. salisbury, Jonathan Brown
Thorn as Ii. Denny, s. O. FRAZIER II. Is. Fid.
dema and Alexander Johnson) have Gale,
meeting OF their party at Dover, on Tues
day the 18th of June, at 10 o'clock, A. NJ, Ii
rheir call thsy say it is to renew their pledge
OF attachment and devotion to the Constitu
ito nal Union of our fathers, which, in tn
language of Jefferson, We regard "as the shee
anchor OF our peace at home and safet,
abroad"
1--WE cordially invite all persons, whethe
they have heretofore eo-operated with us il
party organization or not, who are in favor Q
the maintenance of the Constitution as it Is
and of the restoration OF the Union as it was
and who are opposed to the wild schemes, o
emancipation and negro equality of the Sec
! tlQnal and Abolition party now in power, Il
meet with us on the occasion.
Come out friends, and let us reason to
gether. Come, give us your countenance AM
your counsel.
The perilous condition of our country de
niands that every lover of Liberty and Ere
Government should be up and doing.
"The restoration of the Union dema nd
IT," 49,
1.-THE preservation of the Constitution de
mands it."
f ''The maintenance of Liberty aud Foo Gov,
eminent demands it,"
Economy and honesty in the public ex.
penditures now at the rate Of four millions 81
dollars day, demand" that the party il
power should be displaced through the con
} sutu'lonai and peaceful means of the ballot