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Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-02-16

This Company Is composed exclusively OF superior
workmen, who have hsld promneat positions in SONS
o. the hest Piano Forte establishments in this country
and in Europe.
This Company, organized in 1850 has now one Of he
largest and most successful manufactures in this e0uf-
Try Every branch Icing under the mmedite sun rvi-
son Of the Company, who's eNreruc- practical Plan
makers enables THEM to produce inatr1leIt which
Tor to6 or, funess Of tone elasticity VI touch and beau
OF finish are heSsnd ubt without composition. ghe,
are sending their instruments H pArt- NJ the Union,
Canadas, esi Indies Sc and pr ud 90 name among
their patrons come vi the flu musical talent a most
distinguished men Of the country
1t hu7t be apparent To ALL nat Whose skin has
bsen approved by the bes iuanuiaetarei- Wil not b
less succesfnl when their owa fortune ami reputation
are inv9yel And the mpany eitiu tna ther iilas
combine all the rNceilsn lies Of the latest mIr we'd aut
most celebrated instruments. They have on hand. an
VIII continue to Keep large stock of thoroughly SEASON
ed lumber.
They challenge the most thorough scrutiny aud arl
willing ID SUBJECT their instruments ans test o, ,uu
plisnn with hUHe Of any other Manufacture go ucD
sweetness and depth Of tone dur,by i;racsulues- 0
proportion, beauty Of tui D., Nc
2HsTing taken the Agency fir The salo OF these
CELEBRATED PIANOS,
And having been congratulated on having it by se7era
persons, VIII have many OF The finest Pianos and
heard many " tue most eeDated pianists OF this an
other couitries, feel confident the wants o
any one who desires 70 purchase tfl class Piano.
Jan2-iy
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-02-16
PAINTS, OILS, DC.

PAINTS, OILS, &c.
1 WORKS, 'Ae
LIBERTY WHITE Lead LIBERTY WHITE LEAD,
lhf lIl TRY lTi
ARhASrRn TO cover more surface for saula weivht
man any other Buy The Beat it is The CAeapesfi
Ihh lTl TRY 1T
Liberty Lead is ichter than any other
Liberty Lead tOvers better than any other
Liberty Lead wears longer than any other
Liberty Lead is more economical than epy other
llberty Lead is more free from inplriesand il wAn
EASffo p 10 more and bitter oorl at gvsa cost than
any other
BuY TnE BEST, IT IS rng CHEAPEST.
Manufactured and warranted by
AE LER NTH.
WHOLESALE
DRUG, PAINT AND GLASS DEALERS
I37 NORTH THIRD STREET,
hoyl-mehl-y PHILADELPHIA
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-02-16
Iotal protection, $4,000
II Is the work VI the Farmers OF DelAwAre and A. eb
they ought to pNironile It,
President-JESSE SHARPE.
Secretary and Treasurer-RoBgHT MoCABE VI. b.
DIRECTORS:

Eli Wilson, Brandywine Hd James DelApain Christi.
ana Hd; James Webb Samuel Barr +. c. stotsenburs
anu Jesse sharpe Wilmington lli Robert McCabe, Mil
Creek Hli John +. Williamson, White CLAY Creek Id
George Janyer' New Castle lld; Curtis -. Ellison, leu.
cader Hs; John .. CLARK, Red Lion lil. VIM Temple.
smyrna; James II. Burnham, St Georges Hi; Charles
4 Fleming, Peter = Causey, Milford; Henry Todd, Dover
Charles Tunnel, de0rgstotn.
AGEAiS-As we'll for receiving applications for usut
auce As Of members;
W Wilson, Bandywiue Ill; Rohert Mccahe, Mil
nresk Hd,' James peApian, Chrisana lid.; John H..
WtllIAmsoni White Clay Creek HI5 Cunts H. Ellison
trncAder lll Rei Lion. St d,urges and APPOINTMENTS
hundreds Ja.epi tiritlth, Smyrua james Crippsn,
New Castle hi Charles Y. Fleming. Milford Charie.
Funnel, g. orsHbwn ll-nry Todd, BOYER
CommunioGnons on general business addressed to the
ion.
~ KoBggr MocABg n D. Secretary
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-02-16
REMOVAL.


The 6elagars Ere ln.grtnto Company have remoyei
opposite the Bank Of Delaware
Sc9RfoRArRD ny rHR LsaislArrRg oY sTATg or DFl
AWARE WITH A CAPITAL or
One Hundred Thousand Dolla rs
INHE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY ARE RPCFIv
Il Ing applications for Insurance their office in vii
mingion against loHses by Fine every description f
buildings IN general mercandiEe ships port aud their
eargoes household furniture and other personal pr,y nv
also against loss damage by inland trausparaton il
goods, Wares, nereh andre and country rntnee
Terms Of Insurance will he favorable A. any Of bc
Companies IN the cities OF lhiladtph or New YORK -
Parties insured repass tine fullest c0nHlepre In he
solidity Of It's capital and ;da All losses VIII be proutIy
adjusted w the company.
DIRECTORS.
At the annutl election held the Gth dtv Of March
sb5, the following directors eertei /, serve to
ensuing year, yi2t
George Jones, Samuel tloyl, EIE.rd ueTnsu
D. c Misoa, ssn,1 b. Neylin ti4of, n sr'rp
Jos, Mendinhall, john u. Porter George " Btsb
Insurance may be made or any time got le than three
months
10 adiiiion to the above mode Of usdrug prenffty .
Delaware tre Insurance tpnpAuy twhu4 eharte- Il psr
petnal lsfecl perpetual Insurance ie estate tho n.Ts
eeomins insured, ,dsf7.in tile CERTAIN Per centase
tnore or less according To the risk upon he
amount 10 he tusured-but whrh eau ha Withdrawn a.
Aay time ny leaving per cont the slnuuu drpslta
hs method il believed To he tueh alvautage-usi 10
the Insured than tho formerne expeu H. ono ii
me.
Property that would Insured per annuu,. MI 40 enl
- eenls the lOUO will be insured ri aud yr dsposit
"hd lu IKE pr1pnriIn a. the rex iarreises
fera2HS wishing d nsur their npsrtf ~ wating in
formation en tho 81 J-'t o ia ufanc5, wiz aIy ID ho
agents as ahevsi arti
JouS MCLEAN. 3 aretan
Maryland free press., 1866-07-19
A Comparison.

The venerable Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky,
thus aludes to the doctrine of the social equality
of whites and negroes:
Other candidates may do as they please, but so
far as am concerned will do nothing to weak
en- or divide those opposed to the monstrous and
unnatural doctrine rampant at Washington, oil
negro social and political equality. Gods curse
has stamped the negro with an incffaceable black
skin and woody head and in His providence has
kept him for six thousand years in close proxim-
ity to other races but always sabordinate-in
mind and body as well as civilization and refine
ment-and yet we have the spectacle now before
us of q deliberate conspiracy in the North, to
bring down our favored race to the negro level,
in violation of Gods law and all written history
The idea of elevating the odorous sons of Africa
to the Caucasian status is about as absurd as thy
ing to perfume a dog fennel by tying it up in a
boquet with pinks and roses.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-19
The Meanest kind Of a Thief.

1t has generally been supposed that the party
who would take the cents from the eyes of a
corpse had got about as low in the scale of hu-
manity as it was possible to descend but there is
degree beyond that. For six or eight weeks past
just as sure as a Grape was put ON door in East
Baltimore to indicate that death was there just so
surely was it stolen during the night following.
So general had the thing become that the police
were constantly on the alert but somehow or
other they were bafied until last night. deth
occurred in the family of Mr. Lawrence Stafford
at the corner of Caroline and Fayaite street, and
yesterday Grape was put on the door. AT night
the police kept watch, and at late hour saw a
party approach and remove it. He was imme-
diately arrested and taken TO the Eastern Dis
trict police station where he gave his name as
Edmond Iseral. Whether he alone, or assisted
by others has committed the outrages heretofore
perpetrated in this regard, is not known, but
certainly there is no punishment in the statute
books adequate to the offeuce. He was commit
ted to Jail to await the action of the grand jury
-BdltO. Transcript.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-19

BALTIMORE MARKETS.
[FRoM THE REPORT OF THE BALTIMORE sun

FROM THE REPORT OF THE BALTIMORE SUN
FLoUR.-We have to notice very quiet market:
holders firm for good descriptions, and at full
prices, but the common grades, of which the stock
chiefly consists, very dull Wequote as before:
Howard street Super and cut Extra 975aSlO 25, do.
Extra shipping ,6oa$l2 ,5O do. high grades retail
ing Il, 3,OOas4,2 rs, do. Family l4,5oasl5,6o; Ohio
lO,50aSll,5O, do. retailing l2,5Oasl3,5O do. Fam
lily l5a$l5,5O: Northwestern Super s,00aS9, ,50 do.
Extra 10,50aS12,0 90: City Mills Super 9,75aS10,50
do. shippin5 brands Extra 14aSl4,50, Baltimore,
Welch's and Greenfield Family Rye Flour, new, g.
az, 6,25 per Dbl. Corn Meal-City Mills and Brandy
wine 5,20aS5,75 per Dbl.
GRAIN.-Wheat-Re Receipts 1900 bushs white and
300 do, red; market active and again higher, with
sales of $40 bushs prime red at 305aS3lO 1870 bushs
white only reported at S3, Is per bushcl. The de
mand if confined to city millers who working
on contracts which to be filed at specified pc
riod, land the competition for the limited receipts
causes the advance in prices. Corn-43OO bushs
white and $3.50 bushs yellow offered; market not so
firm yesterday, but yellow sold at an advance Of
&c. Oats-l650 bushs received sale of Maryland
light reported at 20 cts per bushel; Western is quiet
quote nominal at 5Sa60 cts in bags
Maryland free press., 1866-07-19
Latter News From europe.

By the steamer Africa, at New York, we have
dates from Southampton to the 9th instant.
new British ministry has beeu formed, with Lord
Derby as premier; Dissraeli as chalcellor of tn,
exchequer, and Lord Stanley as foreign secretary
The war news is important showing that the
Prussians had gained great victory in Bohe-
mia, having stormed the walled town of Gitschin
by which the Prussian armies under the Grown
Prince Charles were enabled to form junction,
and giving turn in the tide of war favorable to
their arms.
The Austrian loss in this engagement is sci
down at 1000 killed and wounded and 8, ,00O
prisoners. The Prussian loss, though consiaera-
Bile, is not stated. The Austrian army had fallen
back in the direction of Koniggratz, a royal for
tilted town Of Austria, in Bohemia on the Elbe.
The Prussian headquarters were near Gitchen.-
The Austrian loss since the 26th is stated at 10,
900 prisoners and 20, 900 killed and wounded in
the series of engagements fought in Bohemia.
Great satisfaction is expressed in Kansas
over the passage and singing by the President OF
the bill allowing the Kansas branch of Pacific
Railroad to go up the Smoky Hill Valley. This
gives the State four hundred and seventy miles OF
continuous railway
Maryland free press., 1866-07-19

THE PRUssIAN "NEEDLE" GUN-As this weap-
| on, which was referred to few days since in the
German war news, will in all probability be fre-
quenty mentioned during the course of the pres
| ent European war, few words in description of
its plan and principles will not not be out of
place.
The cartridge used in the f'Needle' gun is made
of stiff cardboard, the ball, powder, and explo-
sive composition being contained in one and the
same cylinder. Its great peculiarity is that the
dectonating powder is placed Immediately iu rear
of the base of the ball, aud between it and the
powder. The advantage of this is that, when
the powder is ignited, that portion next the ball.
in which combustion is first perfected exerts its
ull force upon the projectile, the powder in rear
also exerting its influence, as it becomes almost
simultaneously ignited. Under the present sys-
TEN, in which that part of the powder next to the
brecch of the gun is first ignied, portion of the
powder is frequently expelled from the gun with
the ball in condition of only partial combustion,
the explosive force Of the powder first consumed
being adequate to expel the ball and the powder
in its front before the whole charge has to be-
come entirely ignited. Thus in the nNeedle''
gun oil the powder is consumed, and applied to
thcbcst effect, and as to obtain its fullest force
at the same instant and in the same direction.
The 'Needle" gun is a breech-loader; and
when the trigger is pulled, stout '.ncedle' or
wire is thrust through the base of the cartridge
parallel with its axis, into the detonating charge
by the ball causing its explosion and the igni-
ton of the cartridge. in accuracy the ''Necdle''
gun cannot be surpassed and its effective range
is said to be about fifteen hundred yards. 1t is
however, doubtful whether it will be found to
bear with impunity the necessarily rough treat
ment of an active campaign. The Prussian Jag
gers, and sharpshooters generally, are armed
with this formidable weapon and upon skirmish
line, when it can be used with care and delibera
tion it must prove highly effective.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-19
Washington Itemy.

@ From the Washington correspon-
eence of the Bait. Sun, and other sources,
we select the following interesting items OF
news and gossip at the seat of Govern
ment:-
It is settled by the radical caucus that
Congress shall adjourn on the Odd in
slant, to morrow week. No measures
have been adopted, though severel schemes
have been suggested, for depriving the
President of his powers of removal and
appointment, though it is expected, on all
sides, that Immediately after the adjourn
.ment sweeping reform in public Office
will be commenced. The schemes for re-
straining the President by law was inge-
:nious, but failed. like the plan which the
rats had for belling the cat. Who is to
bell the cat in this case? It would require
;atwo thirds vote of each House, and that
oapnot be obtained. The President has
two cabinet nominations to make and be-
fore the end of the week will probably have
two more. Besides this he has q number
OF very important nominations of civil and
diplomatic officers TO send to the Senate.
1t u therefore, aquestion for considera-
ton whether ,heHill call the Senate to
meet at II NJ. on the 23d, to consider
these nominations. Ifhe calls the Senate
in special session for that purpose, thai
body may hold on nominally till the next
regular session, and thus prevent the
President from making any appointments.
The President may call the Senate, and
shrow upon them the responsibility of oby
structing the wheels Of the government. b
rsjeeing Al nominations, OF he may de-
Maryland free press., 1866-07-19
"yengeance is Mine, saith the Lord !,

The ways of Providence are inscrutable. The
way of the transgressor is hard. There seems to
be an Unsuitable and remorseless Nemesis on the
track of those architects of ruin who led the peo-
pie astray, who divided the Union, provoked civil
war, and piled noun tain of debt upon the shoul-
ders of the sweating, toiling million. Violent
deaths by suicide or by accident among promi-
nent Abolitionists, have become proverbial-so
much SO, that they have become startling. Not
long ago, Preston King, Collector of the Port OF
New York, tied bag of shot around his body as
makeweight to keep him down, and jumped off
of a steamboat into the Hudson river; and now
the notorious Jim Lane, U. S. Senator from Kan
sass has blown his brains out with pistol
Preston King kept watch and word over the
President the day poor Mrs. Surratt was hung ;
and when her weeping and anguished and brok-
en-hearted daughter came TO make last and f.
nal appeal to the executive clemency to save her
mother from the gallows, denied her admission.
The stricken girl threw herself prone upon the
stairs and almost shrieked and sobbed hep life a.
way, many persons were moved to tears by the
agonizing spectacle; but it did not soften the
stony heart OF the Janitor. Jim Lane was bor-
der ruffian--a free State border rufian-in the
early troubles of Kansas, during the administra-
tion of Presidents Pierce and Buchanan, and won
just such notoriety and popularity by his bold
and daring defiance of the law as made him an
acceptable leader and representative man of the
Black Republican party He belonged TO school
Of men-of which we, alas have too many in
these degenerated days-whose cry, like the bit
tern, is heard only in the storm and the tempest
and whose ominous croakings are stilled in the
reign Of tranquility and of peace.
These men have both gone to their long ac-
counts by death inflicted through their own a.
gency. The goadings of a guilty and coward"
conscience drove them to selfdestruction. They
could not live and be happy, and rushed into the
presence oftheir Maker with all their 'mperfec-
tons on their heads" How suggestive-and
what admonition to colleagues to turn from the
erroes of their ways, lest their end shall be like
theirs
Maryland free press., 1866-07-19
JACOB A. WRIGHT, North Potomac

JACOB A. WRIGHT, North Potomac
q Street, Hagerstown.
|. A LwAYS KEEPS on hand large and well Sc
"A lected stock of ~
VITOOLEN, GOTTEN and LINEN GOODS Of
W. the best manufacture at iA a..
ID EASONABLE PRICES considering the tight
III ness of the times.
INDEED it would be hard to find elsewhers any
Il thing to compare with his
HOODS in price or quality. This fact can be
VI demonstrated to the satisfaction of all
LIS friends If they will but call and give him
IL an opportunity to do a .fi
rINHAT this is not mere boasting but stern facts,
i those who call and examine his goods and pri-
ces will not hesitate to endorse. Then "a
"Come along, come along, como along, / say
Come from every Nation, come without delay"
to Wrights establishment where you can always
procure bargains in Dry Goods. f.3.
Hagerstown June Ia 1866.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-19

THE WAY THE MONEY Co.'s. The Jacobin
Congress spends more money, in one way or 9TH
er, to assist in carrying out their designs, than
would pay all that the soldiers and sailors ask of
them. The Investigating committee use up
more money than any one has an idea of. There
is now bill before the House for $52 900 for the
contingent fund. The nation is bleeding at
every pore, and these sharpers will not leave
enough life in it, if they are not stopped, to make
even an appearance among the nations of the
earth. It, is continual drain on the treasury
for the benefit of the negro. Will the people let
the opportunity slip them this fall Of sending the
patch to Coventry2
Maryland free press., 1866-07-19

cline to call them. and proceed to max,
vacancies and fill them. {. ..ao.3 3
Congress has made, at the closs Of tn,
session, a joint committee on nretrenchment
The committee will have to persue the sub.
lect during the recess, and will report al
the next session, after the fall elections are
over. Meanwhile, the idea will be held
out that the Radicals are, as q party. in
favor of economy and retrenchment. No
one supposes that the committee will bave
power to stop any of the great leaks of the
treasury-the eleven millions for the freed
mems bureau, &c. There was once a
great whig retrenchment committee that
ended in picking up the waters scattered
under members seats.-Another one was
previously got up by Jackson men, and it
proposed nothing but the stoppage of the
salary Of draughtsman, which was soon
after restored. The radical retrenchment
committee will probably propose an equally
efficient plan Of economy. aur
The republicans of the Senate and the
House of Representatives had an adjourn
ed caucus meeting to night at the Capitol,
General Banks in the chair, to hear the
report of the committee heretofore ap-
pointed with reference to the condition of
the public business and adjournment.
They stated their views at some length,
but recommended no particular day to be
fixed for the adjournment
After several gentlemen had spoken on
the subject, Representative Washburn, of
Illinois, offered resolution expressing the
opinion that the State of business was
such that Congress can adjourn sine die
on next Monday week. This was the i'm
preston of the majority, the resolution
being agreed to by vote of 60 yeas to 40
nays.
Mr.. Speed, as was anticipated, has for
mally rendered to the President his resig-
nation as Attorney General. According
to the report of that gentleman's afriends
his letter is even more emphatic in his
disapproval Of the Presidents policy than
that of Mr.. Denison. The resignation of
Secretary Harlan is now an event to be
daily expected.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-19

E1~ Here is the whole story of the European
war briefly told. Those who have not time to
post up should remember these points for their
satisfaction in future as the plot thickcns:
Prussia coveted two Duchies, Schleswig and
Holstein, belonging to Denmark, and secretly
persuaded the Dnke of Augustenburg to claim as
hcreditarily his own. Prussia next induced Aus
tria to CO. operate with her in insisting upon this
German claim. The two made war upon Den
marx, and possessed themselves by force of the
Duches. This done, Prussia, Mt the secret IN
stigation of France, which desired to see Austria
involved in war in order that its new portege,
Italy, might re-annex, if possible, the province
of Venitia, ignored both the Duke of Augusten-
berg and Austria resolving to keep the Duchies
herself. Austria of course, prepared for war
with her faithless and cunning associate, and had
the address to bring over TO her side nearly all
the smaller powers which, with Austria and
Prussia compose the German Confederation
Italy prepared to march into Venitia, as soon as
Austria might be engaged with Prussia
And thus stands the prescnt" situation" France,
who adroitly brought on the whole trouble bile
affecting to be the friend of peace, is supposed to
have promised Franch for such timely inter-
ference against Austria, the German provinces
which now keep France from extending, as under
the old Napoleon, her frontiers to the river Rhine.
In the meantime Russia is supposed to have prom
ised to assist Austria should France thus inter
fere-the reward of Russia to be the Moldo-Wal-
lachian provinces now belonging to ''that sick
man" Turkey.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-19

An old lady once triumphantly pointed to
the "Epistle to the Romans" and asked where
This was equalled by an old negro Baptist at the
South who said to his master Ia Methodist):-
"You've read the Bible, Is'pose?" eyes" "Well,
you never saw nothing about John the Methodist,
did your" "No." s'Well, den, you see dere's Bap-
fists in de Bible, but dere amt no Methodists,
and de Bibles on my side"
Maryland free press., 1866-07-19

~ " II " e.
The beautiful Piano Fortcs If GRovEsrRES 4 Co
are deemed by all good judges 90 be the ULTIMA
THULE of instruments of the kind.
We cannot suggest what is wanting to make q
musical instrument more perfect, although we are
slow to admitting the limit of Improvement can
ever be attained, .. Hef
Before they had brought their Pianos to their
present excellence, they had submitted them to
competition with instruments of the best makers OF
this country and Europe, and received the reward
of merit over all Others at the celebrated Worlds
Fair. 1t is but justice to say that the judgement
thus pronounced has not been overruled by the mu-
steal world.
Still, by the Improvements lately applied by
them to their Pianos, II is admitted that more
perfect instrument has been made. They have ac-
cordingly achieved the paradox of making excel
lence more excellent. Surely, after this, they are
entitled to the motto excelsior
Empire Shuttle Sewing Machines.
Are Superior to all others for
FAMILY and MANUFACTURING PURPOSES.
Contain all the latest improvements; are speedy;
noiseless; durable; and easy to work. .. - ...'
Illustrated Circulars free. Agents wanted Lib
eral discount allowed. No consignments made.
=, Address, EMPIRE S. NJ. CO., $50 broadway
New York.
May 81, 1s6G.-1y.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-19

Not long since two old line Whigs in this
tounty met an unconditional Union man-the
other a warm adherent to the cause of Virginia
in the late wa, and now an Andy johnson man.
Unconditional Union md,,-"Well, my friend,
you have left the old w Whig flag and party"
Andy johnson man-"Well, that may be, but
l have stuck to my color"
Maryland free press., 1866-07-19

GRAVE DEsECRATED.-The Richmond Examiner
states that the footsone at the grave of little Jo
seph Davis, son of Jefferson Davis, has been stolen
apd carried off by some vandal.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-19
M A

In Williamsport, on the 18th inst, by Rev. s. J.
Berlin, Mr.. JOHN w. Y0NTZ and Miss ANNIE
M. NEWCOMER; both of Williamsport Washing
ton county Maryland.