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Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-09-18
GRAND ART ASSOCIATION.
VALUE OF SHARES FIVE DOLLARS.
FIRST PREMIUM.

FIRST PREMIUM.
THRcROsBY OPERA HOUsEIN CHICAGO
The actual ctst and value OF this splendid building
conceded to be ONE OF THE FINEST in THR WORLD
amOuntst 10
SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
In addition to this the rte nlums consist Of than
THREE HUNDRED
sPLRNDID OIL PAINTINGS.
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Supernatural Manifesto
tiOns-A Demon Scratches the
Faces Of q Whole Family.

Alledged supernatural Manifesta-
tiOns-A Demon Scratches the
Faces Of q Whole Family.
The Middletown On. " Mirror
tells q marvellous story-''no other pa.
per has the news'-of n succession OF
wonderful events at Mt. Hope, six
miles from Middleton n. In March
last the residents of II farm house were
awakened at night by the singing 81
funeral dirge, apparently from q mutt
tude of voices, which lasted half an
hour, and was followed by frlghtful
groans pnd shrieks, which scared o
only the human being, but the animals
on the place. Next the darkness OF
the night changed to a brightness like
that of midday. Bright and strange
colored lights were seen. These gave
place to darkness again, when every
door in the house was suddenly II
violently thrown open by Il power un-
seen, and through the main entrance
came stalking, and swaying from SD
to side III frightful contortions an OBJ
iect neither man or beast, but bearing
in huge and distorted proportions, the
shape and form of the upper cNtreml-
ties of the one, and the lower parts ter
rihly elongated and reeking with nire
and filth, and emitting a smell OF phos-
phorus, ofthe other. The single can
die burning upon the mantle went out
and in the darkness which succeeded
forth came from the nostrils and eye
ofthc monoculous monster a volume
of smoke and fame which soon filled
the apartment, and so affected the or
gans Of respiration that sulfocatlon
seemed to be imminent.
With a deep gutteral groan, and still
sending forth his fiery breathings, this
minotaur man, beast or demon, lifted
his disgusting and scaly digits and
slowly and with provoking deIiberation
passed them over the face and person
of each member of the aflrightcd fami-
", with u yell that seemed to shake the
building from foundation to raiters,
leaped through the open door at the
rear of the house, rushed into the FOR
est and was soon lost in its pervading
gloom and darkness.
There was no sleep in that dwelling
on this eventlul night; and the next
morning no traces Of the phenomenon
could be discerned except that along
the track Of the strange visitor were
found some small particles resembling
crushed lava, and the %sulphurous and
phosphoresccnt odor which filled the
house was proofpositive to the inmates
that they had not been dreaming.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-05-19

The political element has become
quite a prominent feature of the rell
gious journalism of the North-cspe
cially of the Northern Methodist pa.
pers. Nor does it seen to have crep1
in covertly hut it is prominently SET
forth with such display and sound OF
trumpet, that we might suppose that
those devout ones up there had not
only formed Il partnership with Radi-
calism, rs chief partner OF the concern.
but had taken the oversight and guar
dianship ofthe entire national welfare
If Congress would but hand the
President over to those reverend SOU
savers they might show him the true
nature Of his divine mission.
In their oldest, and II of theil
leading papers, Of late date, there is 9
full column with such heading as this
"7He President Opposes tie Bcnerole"
purroses Of God." Then follows, with
~oracular wisdom, the sanctimonious
enforcement Of the text; and among
the rest is the following:
"lie Che Trcsidcnt) uses the most
sickening sycophancy, and, at the same
time, goes far out Of his way to Witty
mon of the ~tNircst fame, and indirectly
incitos the despcradoes OF the South to
as.assinatc Of the best men OF this
or any other age .
But a little while ago, to hM much
less to urite, against the Government
was rcckoncd among the things Jorb'd
der but, since it is now the ''Satnts'
who speak, the case is quite altered
UhiOp and ImericoM.
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AN exchange says 50 friend hands
us the following Rules for Measuring
Corn, which will doubtless be very use
full to many of our rcadcrs:'
1st.--Shuckcd Corn.-Mcasurc the
length, width and depth Of the crib in
feet; multiply these three dimensions
together and their product by 8; then
cut off two figures to the right; those
on the left will be so many barrels, and
those on the right so many hundredtls
of 4 barrel.
2d-Cnshuckcd Compatibility as
in rule the first the above example, and
the product obtained by 81; then cut
Off two figures on the right, those on
the left will he barrels, and those on
the right so many hundredths of q bar.
rel.
For grain, fruit, herbs, in house OF
box, find the length, breadth and depth
multiply these together; then annex
two ciphers aud divide the product by
1874. Answer, in bushels, pecks, anc
quarts.
3d-Liquids-Find the length in in
ches from the hung, the under edge o
the head or chime; multiply it into it
| self twice, and divide the products b,
$40. Answer in gallons, quarts, pints
and gills.
Measure 200 feet on each side ant
you have, taking an inch, one square
acre.
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The Paris France publishes a curl,
Gus story, to the effect that the Duke
de Choiseul Praslin, the hero of ter,
rible drama in Louis Phillippe's reign
who was reported to have saved hlln-
self from the hands of the public ex'
ecutioner by committing suicide in pris'
on, has lately been recognized by one
| of his servants in the streets of Lon
don. 1t is now asserted that he wa:
allowed to escape to California, ant
that after having lived there under al
assumed name for twenty years. he ha'
at length ventured to return to Eu
rope.
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N q r S 6 r ! c S.

During the last five years they have fully
shared with the rugged fortunes of the
southern people. and this Spring they are
only able to offer
Apple Trees
for sale. Next Spring they hope to add
other fruits.
Fully convinced that Apple orchards. to
be profitable at the South. must be chiefly
composed Of Southern roriefieS. they lave
been engaged for more than eight years
past in collecting from all parts of the
South, the most
Favorite Kinds,
and they have now on hand over ONE
HUNDRED AND FIFTY VARIETIES.
which they can offer with the utmost con-
iidrncc. b
We are favorahly situated for shipping;
and packing will bcdonc with the greatest
care. We have not raised Gun prices. We
still sell at
20 dollars per hundred, and
175 " thousand.
All we ask is that our friends will pay us
CASH. or its equivalent.
We have been twenty years in the bust
ness and desire to sustain and increase our
reputation. Planters may therefore rely
| upon having the trees true to Hdme.. Or
derS respectfully solicited.
Mar. 3. 1866. If CHERRY Il co.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.,
Washington, May 9th, 1866. {

Washington, May 9th, 1860
To Gov. j. Madison Wells:
The paroles heretofore granted G.
+. Beauregard and Writ Adams have
this day been extended by me as re-
quested in your telegram of the Sd in.
slant, and the orders Of extension will
be forwarded to your address by mail
or elsewhere, or retained here sub.
ject to their call as you or they may
designate. Answer by telegraph.
ANDREW JOHNSON,
President United States.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-05-19

In Carrotto, Louisiana. recently, a
negro church applied for incorporation.
The State Attorney opposed it with a
law of the State prohibiting such incor-
poration. Judge Carrabat decided that
the Civil Rights bill, "sO-called," over
rode all State laws, and granted the
application.
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Scut,iern Editors in Cincinnati.

One of the signs of the times is the
number of visits we have from South
ern editors. W. hear of half a dozen
of them per week in the city. They
come from Chattanooga, Atlanta, Ma
con, Mobile, Jackson, Misr, and in.
deed from all important points in the
Southwest. One of the latest appear
ances is that of Mr.. +. o. Halle of the
Mobile Times, who has been prospect
ing the city for several days. The
Southern editors are all in favor of the
short.line Railroad to Cincinnati.-Cin
einnaG Commercial, 12M.
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On Hand Again
%InSOlyent Notice.

HAVING suggested the Insolvency oi
the estate of HeZekiah Faris. deceased. no
tice il hereby given to all who have claims
against said estate to file the same with tic
Clerk of the County Court of franklin
County. Tennessee. on ar before the lst day
Of October next or the same will be barred,
JOHN G.. ENDCIiS, '
mayl2 3m Administrator.
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The Council Bluffs Nonpariel has
the following:
OrrICIAL.-Married at the residence
of Mr.. Ben. Jarvis. in Marshalltown,
Iowa, by the Rev. Mr.. Wiley, Joe
Baugh CHATS us) and Miss Mary T.
Swanson that's more of U.S.
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wlSCGHILSTE;ls

ga gE -. III .T T. O N :
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Generals Bea,lregard and Writ
Adams to go to Europe.

General Beaulegard and Gen. Writ
Adams having made arrangements to
go to Europe on business for the stock
holders of the New Orleans, Jackson
and Great Northern Railroad, and
their paroles requiring them to remain
within the jurisdiction Of the United
States, Gov. Wells telegraped Prcsi.
dent Johnson for permission for them
to carry ont the arrangement, and re.
ceived the following reply the same
Jo,.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-07-06
Governor Swami and the Registry Law,

Governor Swami has been making a
speech to a"Grand Union Mass Meeting"
in Monument Square at Baltimore. His
position, in regard to the Registry Law,
he lays down as follows:
In regard to the Registry Law, about
which so much has been said, | am now
where | stood in my annual message to
the Legislature in January last. [Cheers I
AS the Executive of the State, | shall do
my duty in executing that as well as all
other laws upon your statute book ; but |
shall take care, as far as my influence ex-
tends, that the Registration Act is not
made the instrument of degradation to
our people, in the hands of vindictive and
radical agents, [applause] to force negro
suffrage and negro equality upon U.S.
Loud cheering.] | shall see it is fairly,
impartialIy and justly administered, by the
appointment of men of undoubted Union
antecedents and unquestioned loyalty, in
the spirit in which it was enacted by the
Legislature, and not Of int, lerance and
oppression, of which | regret to say, there
has been too much in the past. Loud
checring.]
The law being bad law, it is only
right in the Governor not to try to make
it any worse by bad and corrupt admins
tration. lie is quite right, too, in the
suggestion that heretofore the law has
been "made all instrument of degradation
to our people, of intolerance and oppres-
sion in the hands of vindctive aud radi-
cal agents" His determination to ad-
minister the law hereafter ''fairly and im-
partially would be all very well, if the
law were capable of such administration.
But that is just what it is not. 1t is in
no respects fair and impartial law. 1t
is dishonest continuance of a minority fac
ton to exclude the majority of the people
from the elective franchise. Gov. Swami
knows, too, that it is null and void that
it is no law; that it is in violation of
the Constitution Of the United States :;
and that the decision of the partisan
Judges of Maryland in favor of the law,
must give way to the decision of the Su-
preme Court OF the United States, which
annuls it as ec post .tacto, and forbidden
by the Constitution of the United States.
Prince Georgian.
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pected by those who carefully read the as
sassination trials, that the principal wit,
nesses for the Government were perjured
scouudrols Perhaps none of the con.
victions procured by their testimony
were uudescrved, but if the culplils were
allowed legal trial, instead of trial by
court martial, the country would not have
been troubled by the unpleasant suspicion
that wrong may have been done in the
name of justice. Better the escape of
some of the guilty, even than a suspicion
like this.
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PRACTICAL "REPUBLICANIsM" IN
NoRRIsTowN.-We are informed that a
white girl and black man were married
in this place last week, the interesting
ceremony being performed by Rev. NJ.
Halsey. 1t is stated the parties first pre-
sented themselves before the colored
preacher of this town, who refused to unite
them, after which Mr.. Halsey wac called
upon. Thus we have an example in our
midst of the baeful influences of the per-
nicious doctrines taught by the "Liberty
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." party. We have
not the space to-day to say anything fur
Their about this disgraccful affair.-De-
fender.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-07-06

A New VOLUME Tile chronological Journal
for July, No, /, Vol. 44-Contains Forty Illus
trations, Portraits of distinguished Statesmen,
Clergymen, Soldiers, Criminals, ETC., as follows:
Character and Biography--Great Statesmen,
Webster, Talleyrand, Clinton, Metternich, JEFF
ferson, Cavour, Peel, O'Conne and Russell !;
ALSO Buckle the historian, Antoine Probst,
Thomas Rafaes D. D. LII. D., Lieut.-General
Scott with excellent Portraits Eminent Amer
lean Clergymen.-Albert Barnes, Isaac Ferris,
Chas. Hodge, Andrew l.. Stone, Thomas E.
Vermilye, Leonard Bacon, Horace Bushnell, D..
D., Robert j. Breckenridge, D. D., Ii. D..
Henry Ward Beechcr, Theodore L. Cuyler,
Richard S. Storrs, Rev. Joseph T. Duryea, with
medallion Portraits. Our Special Relations
The Servant Question Our Model Society !;
Manhood and Womanhood A Little Office of
Trust; How TO punish Child. Physiology
Feeding Children; To Young Mothers. Signs
of Character.-Physiognomy of Statesmen The
New Dictionary, with Engravings; National
characteristics; The Tonga Islanders Esops
Fables; The Law of Quality Buckles History
of Civilizations Intellect, North and South To-
Day, poem; the Great Mystery Fruit Gull
ture; Another Prophecy; Female Suffrage /;
Teach Children to Think Millions Last Poem !;
Learned Nonsense; Soldering and Crime. A
rich Number, 20 cents, or So a year. Address,
Fowler & Wells, New York.
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Judge Underwood.

A writer from Hcrkimor, New York,
to the World, gives an interesting biog-
raphy of this person. He was born in
Herkimer, and lived there until about
1850. He began by setting up law
office. In due time, by force of his
learning and his natural talents, he
achieved such reputation as lawyer, that
the boys of the village bore their testimo-
ny in that behalf, by driving donkey
into his Office at night, and leaving it
there to represent him to any client that
might call next morning. His reputation
for integrity was no better. He got to be
school Trustee, and embezzled the money
His successor had to sue him and make
the money out of him on execution. He
collected money for a client, and denied
the receipt of it, and was with difficulty
made to pay it by instalments. He took
money from an old man to buy land with
for him, and took the deed to himself
After such performances at law, he had
to try some other business. He bought
some standing wood and undertook to get
out ties for railroad, but the business
was soon stopped by his cheating. Being
then played out and starved out in Her
kimer, he moved to Virginia, and mar
ried women of some property, cousin
of Gen. Stonewall Jackson's. He lived
on her land until be turned up as self
made delegate from Virginia to the FIRE.
mont National Convention. This per-
Torrance excited the displeasure of his
Virginia neighbors. They held a meet
ing and passed resolutions denying that
he represented anybody but himself in
that convention. He was offended or
alarmed, and left Virginia, and declared
himself to be an exile and martyr in the
cause of freedom. The neighbors put out
another denial-of any harm done him,
or intended to be done to him. Being
tired, however, of working on his wife's
farm, he refused to be comforted, aud
preferred the vagaboud life Of exile and
martyr. He was an agent for the Helper
book, and went on his own hook as dele.
gate from Virginia to the Chicago Con.
vention that nominated Lincoln. After
Lincoln's election he got some office in
the Treasury department, and, in due
tine, for the honor of the bench and the
cause Of justice, was made United States
District Judge for Virginia. He claims
to be at the same time, Senator of the
United States from Virginia. He will
insist on representing that State-and
frank letters in that capacity from the
Alexandria post Office with the consent of
the loyal postmaster Of that village. In
this hasty summary of his public perform
ances, the most admirable of all ought not
to be omitted. His late charge to the
Grand Jury at Richmond, in which he
instructed them, as matter of law, that the
city and people Of Richmond were some
what less guilty and infamous than an.
cient Sodom and Gomorrah, but decided
ly more SO than all the slave-trade towns
on the Coast of Atrica-which he emu.
merated-to make his ruling in that par
ticular, exact and specific Transcript.
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From the Springfield Republican (Rep. J
The Assassination Witnesses.

The judiciary Committee of the House
are said to be embarrassed by the bad way
in which the witnesses as to Davis con
nection with the assassination plot behave
themselves. We do not see the reason
for embarrassment at all. Certainly the
Committee can have no desire to Tx SO
monstrous crime upon the chief traitor
On the contrary, they must feel relieved
to know that there is no evidence of any
such crime, and that Judge Hollis contra.
ry opinion rested upon wholly unreliable
testimony.
The case appears much worse now for
the witnesses than it did when first brought
before the committee. Campbell, who
swore hardest to statements duplicating
Davis, has since taken back and denied all
that he first asserted, and now says that
the entire testimony was deliberately got,
ten up in order to secure a share of the
rewards for the arrest of Davis and the
other conspirators, Connover, one of
Bakers detectives, who was an important
witness in the assassination trials, finding
that Campbell's confessions were putting
him in bad position, obtained permis-
sion from the committee, about three
weeks ago, to proceed to New York aud
hunt up other witnesses, who, as he said,
would sustain his testimony and disprove
the final testimony of Campbell.
A deputy marshal went to New York
with Connover, to keep watch of him, but
Connover soon gave him the slip, and he
has not since been seen. 1t is not likely
that he will ever appear again voluntari-
ly, and his escape goes to confirm Camp
BELLS disclosures. There is no little
room to doubt, what has always been sus-
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-07-06

THE LApY's FRIEND FOR JULY.-The July No.
opens with an unusually handsome and suggest
i've engraving called "The Distressed Bachelor"
In the Fashion Plate, tasteful and attractive as
usual, is a charming bridal dress. There is a
wood cut Of many piquant faces illustrating
1.-THE Hair" "The Polntalide Veil, and plate
consisting of seven figures Of ladies and children
showing the newest and prettiest of the Summer
Fashions, music, Stories biographical sketches,
poetry, &c. The Toilet Novelties aud Work
Table are as usual profusely illustrated and in
the Editors Department are Book Notices, Re-
ceipts, description of Fashions, &c.
Price $3.50 year; copies $4OO 8 copies
land one gratis) SIG. Specimen numbers viii
be sent for fften cents.
Address Deacon & Peterson, PIC Walnut St.,
Philadelphia.
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The Baltimore, Halls Springs and Har
ford Passenger Railway Company.


At the session of the Legislature of
Maryland in 1864, charter was granted
to a Company bearing the above named
title, which gave the most favorable privl-
leges, but up to the present time they
have not been availed of. This is surpri-
sing, in view of the densely populated and
highly fertile district through which the
route is authorized to run, and the abso-
lutte certainty of its becoming paying
enterprise. The terminus of the road was
Fixed at Bel Air, % miles from Bal
timore, and the Company was authorized
to use the bed Of the pike if the Hartford
Turnpike Company would grant the priv
ilege, or otherwise to condemn property
contiguous thereto. The Turnpike Com
pany bave since refused to grant the right
of way, which is probably fortunate for
the Passenger Railway Company, for off
the bed of the pike the charter authorizes
them to employ dummy engines for the
conveyance both of freight and passengers,
privilege which cannot fail to secure
largely increased receipts and consequent
profits. A connection with the Balti-
more City Passenger Railway Company is
authorized to take place at the corner of
Central avenue and Chew street, thus af-
fording passengers from the interior IN
interrupted communication with any por.
ton CT the city. The rate of fare it is
expressed shall not exceed five cents per
passenger per mile. Lateral roads are
sanctioned with the consent of property
holders through whose lands they may
run. Bonds of a sum not exceeding 800
may be issued, and the capital stock is
limited to 10000 shares at $40 EACH
An additional act extended the time for
the commencement of the work two years
and its completion to a point four miles
from Baltimore four years. A more IA
vorable charter never was granted, and
movements are now on foot to give it vi.
tally. Some of the most wealthy and re-
spectacle property holders in Baltimore
and along the line of the road are named
as Commissioners, and as the enterprise
is one which Interests the people of Bslti-
more and the adjacent county, we have
felt justified in thus calling public atten-
ton to the matter. Eoening Trans.
cript.
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GEN. GRANT AND THE FENIANs. The
Chicago Republican says that whilst Al
Fenian regiment was waiting in that city
for transportation Oh Monday, Lieutenant
General Grant drove to the spot in an
open carriage and halted for few mo-
ments. He was soon recognized by the
crowd, and ore excited Irishman shouted
out to him : General, you ought to be q
friend to Irishmen.' The General
smiled, and laconically replied : eyes, I
think | ought to be, l believe | y
No better proof of his friendship could be
given than his orders to General Meade
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THE CIRCUIT CoURT.-This court adjourned on
Saturday, after a session Of five days, and the
disposal of some half dozen cases, all of which
have been on the docket for number of years
The case of Aliens executor against the Mutual
Fire Insurance Company of Hartford county, was
the most important case of the term, and occu-
pied the attention of the court for two days
The jury, however, could not agree, and after
being out for several hours, were discharged
The case, we understand, will be removed to an
adjoining county for trial. 1t has been on hand
about twenty years, and was brought to recover
eight hundred and fifty dollars, and with the
accumulation of interest, has become matter
of importance to both parties.