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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-06-08

COMMISSION MERCHANT.-We call atten.
ton to the advertisement of Benz. F. May,
Esq, who has engaged in the General Grain
Commission business in Baltimore. Mr..
Mays position as Inspector General OF
Grain, gave him thorough knowledge OF
the Grain trade. This, together with his
known practical, prompt and systematic
qualifications, recommend him to the patron.
age Of all farmers and others who wish pro-
duce sold in the city. He is also Agent for
the sale OF the Patapsco Co.'S ANN oniated
Soluble Phosphate, which is said to be an
excellent manure.
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In the Democratic Convention at An.
napolis. on Tuesday, Il resolution was adopt.
ed inquiring by whose authority the Revising
Clerk was fitting up room for himself, in
the Capitol building. at an expense of one
thousand dollars. The Declaration of
Rights was ordered to be engrossed for
third reading The article on the Executive
Department was then considered The
Convention decided that an election for
Governor should be held in the event of
the adoption Of its Constitution, in Novem.
ber 1867, and that the successful candidate
should not enter upon his duties until 1869.
In advocating this proposition, Mr. Walsh,
of Allegany, said he wanted the Democracy
to elect Governor while they knew where
they were. They did not know, what might
occur, and they might not be able to elect
the same man in 1868 that they could in
1867. The "negro - was, Of course, lugged
into the debate on the question, Mr. Nelson
gentlemen were looking toward negro suf-
irage and some were already spreading their
sales to catqh this spicy breeze" Another
amendment was agreed to, providing that
the Governor elected in 1867 shall hold
Office until lS72-fve years. A proposition
to divide the State into three districts, the
Governor to be chosen from each district
alternately, was advocated by Mr.. Page, of
Somerset, who INDUCED in hit at Governor
Swami, remarking that IN the last Legisla-
ture injustice was denethe Eastern Shore,
and q law was repealed to give the Western
Shore the United States Senator. This dis.
trct system project was first defeated by o
tie vote--46 to 4G-and after considerable
discussion it was finally rejected by vote
Of SO nays to Do yeas. The fifth seG.;;ccn
which, as reported by the committee, re-
quired that person to be eligible to the
office of Governor should, among other
qualifications, 50 have been for ten years
citizen of the United States and inserting
State Of Maryland. "
In 1865 the income of A. 7. Stewart,
the great dry goods man of New York, was
four million, serenity one thousand, two hun.
dyed and fifty. sir doltarsi This year it is
but seven hundred and thirty six thousand,
eight hundred and sixty two dollars; not
one fourth Of what it was in 1866.
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MADAME REMINGTON, the WOrId-renowncd
astrologiSt and SonnambuliStic Cairvoyant while
m caiffoyanl state, deneatcs the very features Of
me person you are to marry, and 10y the aid Of an
instrument OF intense power, known the tsychu-
inotrope guarantees TO produce perfect aud life.
like picture Of the future husband or Wifi, of tho.
applicant with date of marriage, occupation leading
TRAITS OF character &c. This is hnpositiun ~
testimonials without number can assert. By Stains.
place of birth, age, dispositions color of tyes nmj
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a. 1drease TO yourself, you will receive the picture,
by return mall together with desired information
AS~Address IN confidence. MADAME iiEGTnupE
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DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM OF THE STATE OF
MARYLAND. The Board of Visitors named
in the Act o. the General Assembly passed
March 81 1867, Chap. 247, will meet at
Frederick city, on the first Wednesday of
July next, to organize said Asylum by the
election of the proper officers. We trust
this humane undertaking may receive the
countenance and support of the people of
the whole State, and that our own citizens
Will give IT their earnest cooperation. The
following is correct list of the names of
the gentlemen named in the Act, as visitors.
VIM. ). Ross, Law. j. Brengle Thomas
Sim, 4; Clay NALL, Jas. NJ. Coale, Gray.
son Eichelbarger, Grafton Duvall, Frederick
county; A. Fuller Crane, Enoch Pratt. JOS.
b. Brinkley, VIM. j. Albert, Baltimore
city; Philip +. Thomas, Talbot Richard
3. Carmichael, Queen Anne's; Isaac D.
Jones, Somerset; Albert c. Green, ALE.
gany; VIM. Galloway, Hartford; j. P. r.
Gilliss, Worcester; Daniel Weisel, Wash,
lngton; Oliver Miller, Anne Arundel Jacot
Reese, Carroll Richard Johns Bowie, Mont.
gomery; Geo. Fickers, Kent; John ;, i
Creswell, Cecil James T. Brisco, Calvert
Curtis Davis, Caroline B. Compton. Char.
les; Geo. L. Maddox, st. Mares: Oden
Bowie, Prince Georges; Chas. f. Colds.
borough, Dorchester; VIM. H. Watkins.
Howard.
The Act sets apart the Armory Grounds
~ 'h's Guy Tor The use OF this institution.
appropriat,es $2a,Wn for building purposes,
ana PROVIDES Tor an annuol endowment of
$1,000, until the capital, including dona.
tons, amount to $500, 900. 1t is pronosed
to educate all deaf and dumb persons in the
state whose parents are unable to do so free
| OF charge, and all others at $3.50 pcr an.
mum, -Frederick Republican.
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-, The Philadelphia Inquirer publishes
the following special despatch from Balti.
more - Preparations are making by n
well knowing lawyer OF this city to Law an
injunction upon the State Treasurer at An
napolis,. the Governor, Comptroller and
other officials, to prevent their paying any
money out o! the State Treasury to defray
expenses, in any shape or form, of the Con
sslitational Convention now in session in
Maryland, or any expense for acts it may
order, including printing, holding elections
and all else appcrtaining thereto. This is
to be done on the ground of the existing
CONSTITUTIONAL Convention being unconsti
tutonal and illegal. The case promises to
be OF much interest. The injunction is to
be applied for in few days. The particu
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Gen. Sheridan on Monday issued an
order removing Governor Wells, of Louisi
ana, from office. und appointing Thomas.J
Durant in his stead. Some time ago the
General deposed two rival Boards of Levee
Commissioners, one Of which had been an.
pointed by Governor Wells and the other BY
secession Legislature, and the Governor
has since man9uvred N such manner as
to obtain from President johnson an order
requiring General Sheridan to withhold the
execution of his order regarding the Com
missioners. On the strength of this inter.
ference with the workings of the reconsrruc.
ton law, the instructions having reached
him on Monday, General Sheridan immc.
diately issued his order removing the Gov.
ernor. A Washington despatch say that
Mr.. Durant is now in that city, where he
has been for some time, practicing law. Mr..
Durant was President of the Southern Low.
alists' Convention which met in Philaael.
phia in September last,
INTERESTING TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
Under this caption, the Baltimore .Sun OF
Saturday last contains an Article in regard
to the law passed by the last Legislature,
prohibiting all persons from practising med.
icne unless they have Diploma from some
respectable Medical College, and a permit
from Board Of Medical Examiners ap.
pointed by the Governor in each County to
examine them. 1t appears this monopoly
law, which has created good deal ofindig.
nation throughout the State, is defective a,ld
void for rant Of an enacting clause. Ifsuch
be the case the appointment by the Cover.
nor Of" medical examiners" &C., and all
aetion Under the bill, is without the sane
lion 6t law. However II may be viewed, it
is understood that the legality of the act
will be contested,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-06-08

WAsHINGToN ELEcTIoN.-The election in
Washington city, on Monday last, resulted
m the success Of the Republicans, electing
twenty one members Of the lower Board of
the City Councils, and five of the eight
members OF the upper Board. The result
proves conclusively which way the colored
man will vote. Every effort was made by
the Democracy, first to prevent their regis
tration, and then to delude and deceive
them. But they were not to be defrauded
out OF their votes or ticket The colored
men of Washington have done much to
show that their race was worthy of freedom,
to strengthen the hands Of their friends, and
to dlsprove and contnte the malice of their
enemies.
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President johnson started on "swing
ing round the Southern half of a circle on
Saturday evening and arrived at Richmond
ON Sunday morning. Secretary Seward,
Postmaster General Randall, and quite a
numerous following of political dependents
accompanied him. He commented his
speech making at Fredericksburg, but so
lar has been brief and totally uninteresting.
AT Richmond he was received by the Rebel
Mayor and members Of the City Council,
and conducted to the Spo.tswood Hotel,
where he occupied the rooms formerly ten
anted by Jefferson Davis. Sunday he at
tended jeff Davis Church, and in the af.
ternooon received visitors, and dined with
the Mayor and City Council. Monday
morning thsparty started for Raleigh, North
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EDITOR WIG 1T may not be uninterest,
ing to the readers Of The Wig to know
| that there are in the Fourth District of Ce-
Gil county quite a large number of the de.
scendants Of one OF the Pilgrim Fathers,
who came over to this country in the May.
Hover, and settled the Plymouth Colony, in
Massachusetts.
About the year 1893, Ebenczer Alden. n
| lineal descendant of John Alden, one OF
the Plymouth colonists, settled in this Dis.
! irict, and shortly after purchased the farm
now owned by his son of the same name
The old gentleman and his amialle consort
resided here for more than half a century.
enjoying the confidence and good will of ali
who knew them. Their descendants now
number, according to the most authentic
information within my reach, one hundred
and fifty-three souls, the greater part of
whom live in this District-some OF them
live in the Third District-some in the State
Of Delaware: n considerable number OF
them, Elijah Alden and his descendants. are
living in Massachusetts, and, believe. on
property which formerly belonged to their
ancestors: few Of them are in Ohio, and
one is in California.
1t is singular and instructive to notice, in
all the mutations and notifications which
the numerous progeny of this pious and ex.
emplary old couple have undergone, in what
a remarkable degree the prominent ancesto.
rial puritanical characteristics are transmit.
ted: There is the same earnest, honest de.
votion to whatever creed or platform they
espouse, or whatever sect or party they may
attach themselves to: there is scarcely one
Eof the breed who would not 90 to the stake.
rather than recant any principle, good or
bad, which he had avowed, or change an
opinion he had ever entertained, until con.
WINGED by his own reasoning of its incorrect.
ness.
Their willingness to suffer for their own
convictions may dispose them to persecutc
those whom they cannot convert to their
way of thinking. On the whole, however,
they are generally amiable and benevolent.
and among the most respectable citizens OF
tine District. With less bigotry in matters
of religion, and more lberaityy in politics.
they would be a desirable element in any
community. BIC Elk.
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That CONCERT.-The Concert which was
advertised to take place in room capable
OF holding thousand persons, in thistown,
on Thursday last, for the benefit Of the
suffering people Of the South, and at which
grand distribution of valuable gifts was to
be made, did not take place at least we
have not been able to find any one who was
in attendance, Messrs. Raymond, Crookcr
q Co., the managers of this swindle, have
come or sent to the Postollice here and rot
their letters, and yet no effort was made to
stop their operations. We called attention
to the matter several weeks ago; but the
Wilmington papers, as Car as we have no.
ticed, made no mention Of it; although the
advertisement appeared regularly in the
Gazette of that city. The scoundrels Ell.
gagged in the affair have no doubt lined their
pockets well with greenbacks by it. We do
not think that many, if any, of our citizens
have invested in the concern.
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CHILLs AND FEvER.-There have been
several cases of this disease this spring. pro,
dnced by the unusual amount of wet. cold
weather which we have had. Strangers
coming here generally suppose that we have
large amount OF chlls and fever in the
spring and fall, owing to our proximity TO
the marsh. But such is not the case. that
malady being among the rare ones that afflict
our community. This marsh is q source OF
health to the town, rather than one Of dis.
easei as, when many years ago, banks were
made which confined the water to the head
OF the creek, the town. il is said, became
very sickly. The muskrats, however, so cut
the enbankments that the idea of making
the marsh source of profit was abandoned.
Portions of these embankments are still
visible. If, sometime in the future, Gala
mus should become in demand, we will be
able to supply considerable quantity, as
the marsh contains an immense amount OF
it. The marsh has been the burden of many
items in The Wing, and here is another.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-06-08

THE HAY FORK SwINDLE.-One of the
most extensive swindles ever perpetrated in
this country is that recently practiced upon
some forty or fifty Of our farmers by cou.
pie of scoundrels calling themselves Dick.
erson and Sherman.
Some three weeks ago these fellows stop.
ped at the Howard House, in this town, and
commenced operations by informing farmers
and others that they were agents for paten,
hay fork, dung.fork and potato digger com
bined. which was to be fastened to the tail
Of cart, and to perform various wonderful
feats, in an incredible short space of time
and with an incredible saving of labor.
This wonderful combination machine.
among its other good qualities, had the ad.
vantage of selling much cheaper when i,
could be sold to a combination of five o,
six men from each district in the county,
And our sharpers soon managed under
their favorable terms, to find forty or fifty
men in the county simple enough to give a
note of fifty dollars each, payable in one
year, with interest from date. These notes
were made payable to bearer, and R. Sin
clair 4 Co., Of Baltimore, according to the
agreement of Dickerson and Sherman, were
to furnish the machines. We do not know
what private or verbal arrangement was
made between the sharpers and their vic.
TINS but as soon as they had obtained a
sufficient number Of notes, they sold them
for 1926 each to some Of the Elkton captal.
lists ,swho gobbled up good paper, readily, a,
such a liberal discount. But Dickerson and
Sherman had hardly left town, carrying with
them some $1,000 or $500, before the pur.
chasers of the patent combination machine
discovered that Sinclair l. Co., had never
heard Of such men, and were consequently
not responsible for any of their contracts,
and that they had been badly sold. DECKER.
son had dashing locking woman with him,
that passed as his wife, and who was greatly
admired by some of our young men.
We do not know whether the makers Of
the notes VII be able to escape their pay.
ment, but presume some law suits will arise
out of them.
The swindle, in its different features,
strongly resembles one practiced in the inte-
rier OF New York, short time since, called
"the hay rake swindle," and exposed at the
time in the New York Tribune, and we pre-.
sume Dickerson and Sherman are part OF
the same gang that operated so extensively
With the bay rake.
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FAIR AND FESTIVAL Change Of Days
The Fair and Festival for the benefit of
Trinity PIE. Church, of this town, will he
held in the new room, under the Howard
House, commencing Wednesday ecening
next, and continuing on Thursday and Fri.
day, day and evening. The ladies have
taken great pains to make the display at the
Fair varied and beautiful; and there will be
a full supply Of all the fruits and yiands of
the season.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-06-08

EDITORIAL DUNs.-We Democrat fre.
quently reminds its patrons that the ma.
rhlncry cant be run very readily without
money intimating that they don pay over
as fast as they might. You have heard OF
calling spirits from the vastly deep, neigh.
Dor, or the anecdote OF the Indian, who
said a lock on leather made his knife laugh
Albeit, this, reminds us that The Whig's
friends don't all come to time but we think
they are just a.sons 10, and we haven't
dun Il them
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-06-08
DIED..

kANE.--ln North East, May 9th, JOHN
FLETCHER, eldest son OF {. W. and NJ.
A. Kane, aged IL years.
bROW N:-On Monday, the Sd inst, near
Bay View, WESLEY BRowN. in the 3Oth
year Of his age.
HAssON.-ln Baltimore on Monday after.
noon, I'd inst, at the residence of his
iather-in law, James Miller, JoHN A. Has.
son, in the oath year of his age.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-06-08

EXTENSIVE SALE OF REAL AND PERSONAL
PROPERrY.-James T. Mccullough, Esq,
Assignee, will sell all the real and personal
property Of Parke, Smith & Co., at public
sale, on Tuesday next. The real estate is
very valuable, and worthy the attention Of
capitalists; as is also the personal property.
For particulars, see advertisement, else
where.
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Deafness, Blindness and Catarrh

T ISAACS, NJ. D., Oculst aad Aurist,
y. Professor of the Ely C and Ear, formerly
of Ileyden, Holland, located at No. $40 Pine
sire ct, Philadelphia, where persons atiiicted
with diseases of the EYE, EAR or CArARnu
will be scientifically treated md cured, if
cura'ble. The Medical faculty is invited, as
he has no secrets in his mode Of treatment,
O.. Artificial Eyes inserted without balm
No charges made for examination.
Jan p, lS66-ly
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CHANGE OF TME.-By reference to the
timetable elsewhere, it will be seen that a
change of time took place in the running Of
the trains on the P.W. l. B.R.R. on Monday
last. The afternoon train north now arrives
at Elkton at 4.32; the evening train south
5.39; and the freight with passenger car
attached (Perryville Accommodation s.45.
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POCKET PIcKED.-Mr. w. P. Morgan,
while standing in the crowd gathered about
Mr.. Burdict engaged in selling backing, on
Saturday night last had his pocket picked of
$3.50. The money was in an inside pocket
OF his coat; and the thief obtained it by cut.
ting hole through in the coat several inches
IN length. We believe this is The first known
case OF pocket picking that ever occurred in
our town. Mr.. Morgan will give 500 re,
ward for the recovery of the money.
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DENTIsTRY.-It will be seen by our ad.
vertising columns that DR.. j. L. Register,
Dentist, who has been practising his pro.
fession at Havre de Grace, for sometime
past, has located in Elkton, and opened an
office in the second story of the old Cecil
Wing building on North street.
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THE ORDlNANCEs.-Since Monday morn,
ing last there has been marked improve.
ment in the observance of the town srd.
nances. We have seen neither geese nor
hogs on the street; while the boys have been
noticeably quiet. We have Bailfl now
who will do his duty.
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RI. Rev. j. B. KERFooT, DID,, Bishop
of Pittsbnrg, will visit St. Mary's Church,
North East, Wednesday next, the 18th inst,
for the purpose of Confirmation. Hour OF
service clock Pm. The public are cor.
daily invited to attend.
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TO CITIZENS OF ELKTON,
DEAR EDITOR

J. 7. WELLS begs leave to inform
ms friends and the public through the columns OF
your invaluable sheet that he has lust received a
fresh stock of SPRING GOODS consistingof tLorns
CAssiMEREs and MELONS of the finest fabric and Is
now prepared to execute all orders in his lin. OF
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the place, No. ljG North NINTH St. Philadelphia
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Gotels, luiues & liql1urs.
TEMPERANCE HOTEL,

RHRS. CAROLINE JOHNSON having taken the
III Union Hotel Elkton, formerly occupied by j..
II. Wells,) will keep Temperance House for the
accommodation of the Travelling public and perlna-
nen Boarders Strangers and others visiting Elk
ION are invited to stop at the new Temperance
House where they will find the Table supplied with
the best the market will afford; and the Stables
attended by cbliging and careful huStlcrS.
The Chambers WlIl he kept airy clean and pleas
nnt, supplied with good beds, bedding, and all other
necessary iixtures. In = word, every comfort and
convenience will be supplied to guests.
ET-'fry the new Temperance House when yon
Nis EIktOn. lAnrll y, lShl-lN
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