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THE GREAT CENTRAL FAIR.
STATE OF DELAWARE,
ExEcUTIvE DEPARTMENT,
DOVER, March, 1864.


To,THR Loyal CITIzENs OF DELAWARE
tits proposed to hold Great Fair in the
city of Philadelphia, in the First Week in
June next, for the benefit of the Sanitary
Commission. The citizens of Delaware have
been cordially invited to cooperate with the
citizens of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, in
this Patriotic and Humane purpose. The
regulations added hereto have been adopted
with reference to this State, and will exhibit
the details of the plan of management.
1t is not necessary, for me to commend this
great and good work to the Loyal people of
Delaware. You have already given with a
liberality and labored with fidelity worthy
of all praise You have been willing and ac-
tive; and what you haze done is the best in
dication Of what you can and aoiH do. Let
"every clergyman annouce this humane UNI
dertaking to his people; Let tho Press give
it the widest publicity and the most earnest
encouragement; let every factory, workshop
and mill contribute spescimen of the Lest
thing they can turn out; let all loyal men
and woman exercise their taste and industry"
In this way the result may be an honor to our
State, great comfort to our suffering heroes
and an offering well pleasing tothe Almighty,
whose blessing and assistance / humbly in
woke upon this work of christian charity.
WILLIAM CANNON,
By the Governor,
SAMUEL M. HARRINGTON, JR.,
Secretary of State.
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WASHINGTON, March 26, 1864.
By the President Of the United States.


'NSfNfSftN Ofst'SN NStNNSS"
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, 1t has become necessary to de-
fine the cases in which iHsurgent enemies are
entitled to the benefits of the proclamation of
the President of the United States, which
was made on the 9th day of December, 1863,
and the manner in which they shall proceed
to avail themselves of their benefits.
And ohercas, the object of that proclama-
tion were to suppress the insprrection and to
restore the authority of the United States.
Aadwhereas, the amnesty therein proposed
by the President was offered with reference
t. these objects alone.
Now there's re, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
President of the United States, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the said proclama-
ton docs not apply to the cases of persons
who, at the time when they seek to obtain
the benefits thereof, by taking the oath there
by prescribed, are in military. naval or civil
confinement or custody, or under bonds or on
parole of the civil, military or naval authori-
ties or agents of the United States, as pris-
oners of war, or persons detained for offences
Of any kind, either before or after conviction;
and that, on the contrary, it does apply only
to those persons who, being at large and free
from any arrest, confinement or durcss, shall
voluntarily come forward and take the said
oath, with the purpose of rest ring peace aud
establishing the National authority.
Prisoners excluded from the amnesty offer
ed in the said proclamation may apply to the
President for elcmency, like all other offend-
egs, and thea applications will receive due
considerat on.
do ifrther ieclarcand proclaim that tho
oath Prescribed IN rneSaroresaId rrOclamarionf
of the 9th of Decem Der, 1868, may be taken
and subscribed to before any commanding
officer, civil military, or naval, in the sesvice
of the United States, or any civil or military
officer of State or Territory not in insurrec.
ton, who, by the laws thereof may he quail
fed for administering oaths.
All officers who receive such oaths are
hereby authorized to give certificates thereon
to the persons respectively by whom they are
made, and such officers are hereby required
to transmit the original records of such oaths
at as early day as may be convenient, to
the Department of State, where they will be
deposited, and remain in the archives of the
Government.
The Secretary Of State will keep register
thereof, and will, on application in proper
cases, issue certificates of such records in the
customary form of official certificates.
In testimony whereof l have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, the twenty :
sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four,
and of the Independence of the United States
the eighty-eighth.
[L.s.] ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
By the President:
WV. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
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Rsilr nd Transpor atior.
Recs, Curiosities and Autographs.
Ships and Ship Building.
Spinning. Weaving, DC.
Tobacco and Segars.
Umbrellas, Psrasols and Canes
Upholstery.
s. The committee on "Labor, Incomes and
Revenues" will endeayor to obtain The con-
trbution of the proceeds of "one day. labor"
from every person willing to give it, one days
revenue from all corporations; firms, &c.. and
one days income from all persons of fortune
and from professional men.
.. There is no department of industry or
of art that may not be used efficiently for
the purpose of raising funds for the Sanitary
| Commission. There is a not, woman or child
who is willing to cid, who cannot make his
or her ability and willingness yailable.-
| Almost every article of manufacture, amuse-
ment, curiosity or sale, will be acceptable
All varieties of needle work. goods, food, fan
cy wares. old documents, books, pamphlets
engravings, caricatures, ornaments, carvings,
relics, autographs of distinguished persons,
| (single or bound together) official copies of
proclamations, contributions of poetry or
prose for the post Office or for the Fair news
paper, articles fer the soldier or the citizen.
drawings paintings, modelling, leather work,
may be contributed. Every mechanic or
laborer may contribute some article Of his
own manufacture to be marked in his own
name and exhibited and sold at the Fair.
| 10. All contributions from Delawareans
will be made to the appreciate Delaware com
mittees. They will be sent FIRST to the Cen
eral Headquarters at Wilmington, to behere-
after announced, where they will be properly
marked and forwarded
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WORK FOR THE PARTY. !,

Are you Union man and in favor of
the Government suppressing the rebellion?
Ifgou answer yes, then of course you be-
-iisSe that at the election. next fall the
Union Party ought to succeed IN order
that we have an administra.74 al the
head of our national affairs favorable to
the extinction of slavery and treason. is
it not the duty therefore of evsry earnest
man whorgoes with his Government in this
war to commence Immediately to work for
his party's success? If your party sue
ceeds your Government succeeds; if the
democratic party triumphs then your gov
ernment fails and the nation is dismem-
bered. Go to work then at once. for your
party. Stop your neighbor along the
road, in the field or on the street, and
urge upon him the great duty of every
American citizen to vote the Union ticket
this fall, in order that this war may be
ended triAmphantly for our cause and the
Union preserved; plead with him for the
salvation Of our whole country as it was,
and tell him that the copperheads if they
should gain the ascendanoy, will be in
favor Of dividing our great nation, and
pareoling out this country into petty con-
federacies from which nothing can result
but eternal warfare.
Show to the lukewarm that your whole
soul is in this struggle, because you be-
lieve your party to be right. Do not sit
down and fold your arms and say aWsa
l know 1 ought to do SO, but others will
work, and am certain we shall beat them
this time so easy there is no use in. my
trying" Many an election has been lost
by the laziness Of one or two men. NJ
man knows what he can do until he tries
Try therefore continuously, without ceas
ing and without firing. There are man,
of your neighbors that no man can ap
proach as well, or talk to with as mucl
effect as you; they will listen to youwher
perhaps they would to no other person
because they have confidence in you
Make convenient opportunity-do no
qcoit for it---and see this or that neighbol
and tell him the reason of the faith tina
is in you, tell him how good it is to be il
: favor of your government and against Sc
cession; tell him how the democrats o
this State have never had the courage t
say whether they were in favor of sur
pressing the rebellion or not, and tell hir
also that while the patent democracy
full of treason and rottenness, that you
party is in favor Of Union and Liberty
that while the copperheads are in favor Z
slavery, you are in favor of freedom, an
that while SHE rerdigris" favors the star
aud bars, you still leve that good old fla
under which ''The Blue Hens Chickens
fought in 1875.
You reader, between now and the ele
tion, can if you try, make enc, two, tire
FIVE or ten votes. Will you do itf
you 60 not, and the election should be
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owen LOvejOy.

OWEN LovEJoY is dead, and we note the
fact with reverence, for the country has lost
sterling patriot, and the grave will close
over brave and honest man. Such men
we must deeply regret, because they are
precious as they are few, and though we
have brighter names than that Of Owen Love-
ioy,- l,e,- az Ieass, in his sphere, did his duty
eh:valrously. Brother to the first martyr to
Northern or anti-slavery liberty, he was one
of the first, if not the first, popular represen-
tative of the North who threw down the
gauntlet to the tyrants of slavery. The
world will not can him fanatic now
Press.
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ARRANGEMENTS.

l. An Executive Committee f1r Delaware
in Philadelphia, has been appointed, as fol-
lows :-Hon. Chas. Gibbons, Chairman, Dan
iel B. Cummins, Esq, DR.. G. Emerson, D. B
Comegys, Esq, Lindley smyth, Esq, and F.
A. Goodwin, Esq,
2. An executive Committee of Ladies and
Gentlemen from Delaware will be appointed,
to whom will be entrusted the General Man
agement of the Delaware Department.
8. Sub-comm ittees of Ladies and Gentle
men will be appointed for each put neat,
of industry and art, whose business it will be
to solicit contributions for the fair and to
work under the general direction of the Exc
cutive Committee each in its own special
branch.
t. All Committees for the management of
the Delaware Department, will be appointed
by and from this State.
S. The Delaware Department will be d.
rected, and conducted by Delawareans. 1t
will keep its own accounts, and at the close
of the fair, pay over to the general fund its
profits which will be credited to the State of
Delaware.
6. Arrangements win be made by which
rffs AiakaA--@r .-l.sIisaion suld h.
Delawareans will be duly credited to this
State. These tickets will de sold near each
entrance to the Fair, and in Philadelphia,
and Wilmington, and other places, to be.
announced. 1t is earnestly requested that
all persons from this State will purchase their
tickets at such places as may hereafter be
announc I'd by the Delaware Executive Com
mittee, so that the State may have the credit
to which it will fairly be entitled
7. The following viii be the sub-commit-
tees hereafter to be appointed. 1t is earest-
ly requested that all persons throughout the
State who desire to cooperate in this work,
will Immediately and until April l, cores
pond with the Secretary of State, at Whining
ton, and will indicate the committee or COM
mittees upon which they can be most efficient
AS far as practicable their preferences will
be recognized.
| suB-coMHITTEEs.
Agriculture and Agricultural Implements.
Arms and Trophies.
Arrangements (Interdal)
Books and Booksellers.
Boots, Shoes and Leather.
Brewers and Masters.
| Buildings, Dissertations and Builders.
Cabinet Ware.
Carpets.
Carriages.
| Charities.
| Clothing.
Coal.
Confectionery.
Correspondence.
Dentistry.
Dry Goods
Drovers.
Drugs and Chemicals.
Donations of Money.
Entertainments and Exhibitions,
Fancy Goods, Jewelry, Silver and Pla.ei
Ware.
Fine Arts.
Furs, Hats and Caps.
Gas Fixtures, Plumbing, &c.
Gentlemen's Furnished Goods.
Glass and China Ware.
Groceries.
Hardware.
Harness.
Hollow-ware and Stoves.
! Horticulture.
: House Furniture.
Iron-wrought and cast.
Labor, Incomes and Revenues
Local Transportation.
3 Liquers-foreign and domestic.
Lumber.
0 Neutrality-suspicious. and cotton.
/. Mechanic Arts and Machinery.
s Medals and Badges.
!, Millers, and Farinaceour Products.
4 Miscellaneous.
4 Orations, Lectures and Newspapers.
8 Paper Manufacture.
% Paper Hangings.
e Photographic.
a Powder Manufacture.
a Printing.
i
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STRENGTH OF OUR >ARMIEs.-There are inn
mense differences in tn estimates of the NUM-
Der of men now in our armies. Some (says
Washington letter. make out that we have
less m en- than we had year ago, and some
that we have more. The figures at the office
of the Provost Marshal General show an in
crease of 4o6, 600 to the armies since the LIST
Of January. 1868, thers having been added
53I, 900 and lost $4,000. The official figures
are as follows:
Enlistments from Jan. l to Nov. l, 1868, $1,000
From Nov. l, 1863 to Jan. ID, 1864, 100000
From Jan. 81 to Feb. %, 1864, 10000
Product of the draft of 1868, 10000
Deserters returned, 26,ooo
Invalid Corps, 2o,ooo
Re-enlisted veterans. 100000
Black troops, TV'Voo
Total, ooi,VVo
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c.dentally lostby few votes, you will
ever hereafter blame yosrself Work.
work |! worklll
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General Agsnt or ..Ihs. HMM. :

Mr.. ISAAC 7: DUSana has this day been an
peiuted GENERAL ADVERTISING and SUR
scRIPTI0N AGENT fsr eTHe UNION" He viii
also collect oil mcHcy due this cfioe.
ueorgetown, Del. J. 2. MICHIGAN,
Jan. 70, '64. Editor ff5nisn."
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gpfaI Sffairs.

The First.-The first shad of the season
sold in this town on Tuesday, the 22d ult., at
81 per pair.
7os0n Meeting.--At stated meeting held
in this town on Saturday, the 10Th ult., at
two o'clock, the following persons were
elected as Town Commissioners for the term
of one year: John W. Scribner, ESQ, Col.
G. H. Wright, James A. Wolfe, Joseph H.
Marvel, and Thomas Pepper.
R3-The Superior Court and Court of Gene
raj Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery
in and for this County will be held at this
place on Monday the 1lth day of April
There will also be an adjourned session Of
the Orphans Court held on Wednesday tbs
18th day Of April. All persons having any
business therein will take due notice thereof
a%The following statement will show th'
quantity of produce raised by the Almi
1 uonoa form, in the vear 1892
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We solicit contributions and correspondence from
all quarters, and when worthy viii be appropriately
published Our friends must write briefly, legibly
ans on one side of the paper only. The real name
of the author must accompany each communication
as guaranty Of good faith.
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The following persons have been authorized to
act as advertising and subscription agents for 'TnE
gNiaH, oil money collected by them will be duly
credited on tho books.
THOMAS TITUS, Wiin;no,on. Bel
SAMUEL MCDOWELL, Ch,.istiana' nj
Coz. JOHN G. CLARK, JR, Red Zion, mi
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You are like the Chinese story-teller, yea say
ii tam tiy, tiiiy II tam Il. when you can think
of nothing else. am, &C.,
ScRIBLERUS, SR.
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The SUM of S., 042 32, is the whole amount
of accounts passed by the Trustees for the
relief Of the poor of Sussex county for the
year 1861 Messenger.
THROAT DIsEAEs. I" We would call atten-
ton to Browns Bronchial Troches.' We
have found them efieacious in allaying lrri-
tation in the Throat and Bronchia, andwould
commend them to the attention of Public
Speakers, and others troubled with affections
of the Throat. They are also an excellent
remedy for Hoarseness resulting from coId.'
-consregatienalist, Boston
Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-07-30
DRU POSALs FOR FUEL
DEPARTMENT OF THE IETER on,

"AGHIE01OR, July 10, 1854 !
Scaled PrHpos%ls viii be received at the office uf
the Secretary at the In'e until NDAS,
August !, at 70 m for furnishing TO the use Of
N" build occupied By the department,
800 tons Fur Aes Coal, e 40 pounds to the toni
Of tns kiud aud equal To tna best gu ,lity OF the
BeltImOTs Coal Com TAby's C"Alj Aul
bO tons hest quality ked Asn Coal for stoves and
grktes.
samples OF tho Furnaee Coal must bs exhibited
to the engineer In oh Nrge OF the furnaces and any
not deemed by him equal to thAt above mentioned
Will bs rejected. Tue toAl may he delivered at
the building at the convenience OF the co tractor
81 any time, an that one half 10 delivered by the
hrst day Of October, m the entire rntty before
the rIt day OF November, 1884, TR- Department
ieseTyFs he right, up 20 the lst Ocinb 2 to In
crease the order Tor Red Ash COSl, not exceeding
eO tons additional, TO be delivered on thirty days
notice.
Proposals will in like manner he received for
furnishing 100 cords best seasoned oak wOndi 10
cords best bikerS' pine wo d, to he delivered In
loo ono to " cords as required from time TO time
during the tai and Winter
sAtBfActnr' F~ra EementT muGt be made for a..
eeT tanning tue quantity OF all fuel delivered.
Bidaer. ma Aid % heir pro- osala, II they
choose, ifsrS for stNwisE away the coal In 0
furnace rooms, and Tor saving and putting away
the wood.
bids III be rec lived for the coal add the VOID
Evidence Of tho ability OF the party to fuIni .
contract should Aooompa y each proposal.
The proposal should be 81 dOrsed, " Proposals
for Full, for the Department OF the Interior" and
addressed to the secretary. JylS.mwt2w,
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MEDICAL.
SPKoIAL TITO E.

pr. n vELLNYs Private Hospital, 10 the sed.
sra HOAX, cornsr ofssvsntA and > ssrssss, oppo.
si,e thu Pos, and Patton, ofrecs. Rooms ., and -,
up s,sirs, Washington, q. c.
All diseases Of privs,s nature treated In the
host scientific manner, and radical cures effected
IN all essea. sYPBILITIC AFFECTION, CON-
oRRHGA, oLEET, STRUCTURES, SEMINAL
WEAKNESS, or the result Of ToLuPTroUS
DREAMS, or any weakness, OF the GEESRATIVE
ORGANS, from any cause whatever, or how long
standing, thoroughly and radically esred also
GOVT, RHEUsATTSn, NEURALGIA, and otnst
CHRONIC DISEASES OF the NERVES, MUSCLES,
BONES, and JOINTS; SCRoFULA, BLoTcsES
OF the FACE, ERUPTIoESOn the Limb, md body
and all other ERuPTIvE DIsEAsEssnd DIsEAsE
or THE BLOOD. from whatever 'auSc they may
have Arisen.
AFFLICTED AND UNFORTUNATE
No matter vhs, your disease, 10, no false dali
saesy proven, you hon applying Immediately TO
Or. vsllny, who Is acknowledged to Be By far Tho
most SUCCESSFUL PHYSICIAN In the treatment
Of private diseases. Fear no, 70 come and make
Known your u,i.fortunss, and hs will speedily sem
you on your way rejoicing.
sELF-ABusE
That droadsul ssourge ID the young, Saddlsod II
whom alone, destroys the sensrsuve orsarS, unit
them for married life, producing weakness Of th'
back and limbs, loss Of animation and massulN
power, psipitaton OF tho hear, nervous irritsbii
~, ioss Of memory, msl.nsholy habits, Insanity
consumption, and death
guinness OF DELAY, do not fail 70 make your cas-
known immediately 70 Dr.. veilny. Your secret
With him are sacred, and you may confidently relI
u,op his medical sktll.
Thousands whose systems were shattered LI
Who were on the brink of the crave, h,vs bee
brought back 70 vigorous health Oy his sSillfi
treatment
MARRIAGE.
Married persons, or those contemplating nAtri
nony, who ssppoe, themselves Of inpotensy semi
sal weakness, or any disease arising RON n
ssed state OF the genital orsAns, whether the q
suit of disease, injury, youthful indisSrstions,
indulgence OF the psssisns In ripper years, are osl
uostly entr,ated 70 place themselves under Ii
care Of Dr.. v. They may rely with oertsin'
upon . speedy cure, and beins restored to fu
health and visor.
He treats with entirs success all diseases {
Females such a. LEUCoRRHEA or WHITE
LAPsUs uTERI, ts., hs., and IN every saso qua
sntees . perfect CURE.
FEES moderate, and VISITS and CoMMuNiCI
TIoNs strictly PRIVATE and CONFIDENTIAL
PrpsoHs ssllins see no one butths pocTos-
j Those at distance may be TREATED BY Nal
BY sendilr . statement OF CASE, he.. &c;
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NJ h IN v Il N Il | Y n
ARTIFIc4t CHEoPLAsTIc
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Drs 4. h n. calls the attention OF the uuhlIo IN
the following advantages Of their mpFov Ell Vy1tgm:
lIt The teeth oil their manufacture will never
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ID. No teeth or ruotS Deed he extracted, A. the
aFtiheial ones can DO Inserted over them.
81. The roots viii DO mAde inOnenGive and never
" ache,
9Th. No Temporary teeth arc needed, As pegmA-
nent ones can Do made Immediately, thereby pre-
serving the natITal expression Of the face which,
under the old system, IL frequently dishgurel.
sch This work has been fully teB Ell for over
ave years by many Of the hFst chem sLI nd phyIi-
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Dire T. II. have also invented 4 white indr.
StTuotIbls metal blllns, with which the most sem
GittVs teeth Gao be Oiled without pAin, and can
build up perfect sound tooth 90 40, si:e rtotL,
which will last through . lifetime.
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with InnOxiouB VApOT, by Drs. SgesmOni bay.
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LaaEhiak Gas, aOF ChlOrOform or Ether but
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inssnItbllity 10 pain.
ma best Of rslsrenees given n required.
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