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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-03-02

IT'S D'tA DARK ,IKl.77-7T4hh The following
beautiful sentiments are from
Meisteri Karl's y Sketch Book,
eititled the Night Of Heaven
1T is full Of -touching tender
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

The PENNsYLvANiA ELxCTIoN.-T Har.
risburg Telegraph furnishes full official
table of the returns from all the counties Of
Pennsylvania of the election held on the
second Tuesday Of this month. The actual
majority for Sharswood, the Democratic
candidate, is l,202. The total vote of the
State is 5S4, $50, against 597,370 cast at the
election OF 1866, when Governor Geary, Re.
publican, was elected over Clymer, Demo.
crat, by 17,178. OF this falling off of62, 500
votes, the Republicans are short 40, 45O and
the Democrats 22,070. These figures show
that the triumph of the Democrats is not the
result of any political reaction, but Of polit.
zeal apathy. The falling off in the Repub.
lican vote is 1880 in excess of the falling
off Of the Democratic vote. Deducting from
1880 the majority off, l78 given for Geary
last year, we fink the remainder, 1902, the
exact figures of Sharswood's majority this
year. The result is simply that both parties
polled reduced vote, hut that the Demo.
Gratis by more organized effort brought out
larger proportion Of their vote and achiev.
ed the victory. No amount of talk can alter
the conclusions Of these figures. The Re-
publicans, tost the fight simply through apa.
thy and neglect. The polling of their full
vote in the county of Allegheny alone would
have altered the result. An official table
published in the Philadelphia Press of later
date, gives Sharswood's majority 922.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

Two MONTHS FOR NoTHING.--Loog AT
| THIS OFFER. I'VE have received the Amc7i-
| can Agricnltnist for October We wish
that all our friends could see this paper
We know of no way in which so large an
amount of truly valuable, interesting, and
instructive reading matter could be given to
family at so small price as the subscrip.
ton to the Agiculturist. Each number
contains - to 40 large quarto pages, and 80
to 50 fine engravings, many of them very
costly aud beautiful. Here, in this October
number, we find, in addition to the great
amount Of valuable information, hints, sug.
gestions, ETC., more than 30 cngravincs,
several Of which are among the most cxpen,
sivc ever found in an illustrated Journal
This number is Of itsclfrcally worth a wears
subscription. The cost Of tue Aucricau
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fishers offer that valuably Journal tree for
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send IN their subscription during this month
Of October. We advise all our readers to
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and instruct the children. Subscriptions
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

Virginia votes for Convention by 30.
600 majority, the Republicans having a
working majority in the Convention to revise
the Constitution. The Republicans have
carried the city of Richmond. Judge In.
derwood and Hunnicutt are among the del.
egates chosen.
The unauimity with which the colored
people supported the Republican ticket has
astoundcd the Richmond journals. The
Dispatch says on this subject
Every one who has not been made ac.
qua ntcd with the thorough system of organ.
ization through secret societies of the negro
population Of Virginia will be amazed to
see with what unanimity they have voted
everywhere for the Radical nominees
There has been no division amongst them.
Not the slightest respect has been paid to
personalities. & &-* = 4 :; :;
The returns from every county show that
they are completely banded together as one
man in q war--yct only political-sgaiust
their people and their own best interests -
1t is the saddest feature of these nonstrous
times. Our citizens find that they have u
body in their midst which is wholly and
blndiy antagonistic to them. No divisions
amongst thomselvcs-uo appeals to reason
from without--haye made The slightest i'm.
preston upon their solid union II is AS
painful as II is incomprchcnsiblc.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

LOOK Our FOR REBEL LIEs.-Thc gray
back party, finding that DR.. Carter has the
inside track for Clerk of the Circuit Court
and that their candidate Is likely to be left
out in the cold, are putting all manner of
talsehoods in circulation with the object in
view Of injuring the Doctors election
Among these stories is that the Doctor is
pledged to appoint James S. Crawford his
deputy in case of his election: There are
some other parties, whose names we have
forgotten, reported as having been promised
the same situation. All such stories are en-.
tire fabrications. DIR. Carter has never been
approached on the subject at all, and Mr..
Crawford, whom the gray backs hate so cor.
daily, would not accept the position, if
there was even probability of its being
rendered When such stories are repeated
in the hearing Of our readers, they may un.
hesitatingly nail them as Copperhead false.
hoods, got up for electioneering purposes.
Another story the Copperheads are circu,
lating, with the hope of injuring Dir. Carters
election, is, that he being licensed preach.
er. is not eligible as Clerk, under the new
Constitution, The Constitution does not
disqualify ministers of the gospel, except as
members of the Legislature. They may
hold any other Office in the State Govern.
mept
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

GoDEY's LADY's BooK.-Godey, in the
November number of his celebrated maya,
zine, gives sketch of the cost of the work
and the labor required to get out such n
magazine as his, from which, re,ders mot
conversant with the enormous exnense q,
publishing, may derive some facts worth
knowing:
The paper upon which the reading matter
OF the BOOK IN printed costs about SIS, 600.
In addition to this is the paper for steel and
iashlcn plates, extra tinted cut, tissue and
cover paper which amounts to about 81, 900
more. The engraving of steel and fashion.
plates. printing and coloring, wood cuts,
and printing of the Book about $4,000
Editors and correspondents, $4,000. To
all this is to be added the large amount ex.
pended for paper and Irvine used in mailing,
rent, and hundred other matters that no
one but publisher can know. The amount
that is paid TOR salaries we do not give, as
we would hardly be believed, and if believ.
ed considered extravagant. five were to
say that each number costs about $50. 900
we should be near the mark.
The services of four editors are required
in the different departments: one of whom
is almost constantly employed in reading
poetry, the reception of which for publica.
ton is about one piece in twenty. Then
the reading of the prose matter requires
great deal of time. Few persons are aware
of the vast number of articles, both of prose
and poetry, we receive. The department
OF fashions requires tho constant attention
of the fashion editor, whose time is devoted
entirely to keeping up with the changes of
the tickle goddess,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

DEcLENsloN OF .CANDIDATEs.-The Dem.
Ocrat announced, in its issue Of Saturday
last, the declension of Mr., w. T. Miller as
candidate for State Senator and Mr.. James
McCauley as County Surveyor, while affect
ing to make merry over declining candidates
on the Republican ticket. A desperate cf
fort was made to retain Mr.. Miller on the
ticket, and the attempt grayely made to in
duce him to believe that the plain provisions
of the Constitution did not mean what the
words Enthusiastically express; but 10 his
everlasting credit he spurned the temptation
to commit perjury, holding it to be crime,
although under the legal teaching of Rev.
erdy johnson, it has long ceased to be con,
sidered any offence, whatever, against good
morals by the grayback party, to take q
false oath. Mr.. c. c. Brokaw was nomi.
mated for County Surveyor, in place of Mr..
McCauley, declined.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26
A Word to Tax.Payers.

In 1858 the Democratic party were driven
from power in this county, on account of
their wholesale robbery of the county treas.
ury.
1t will be remembered that the Demo.
cratic Board of County Commissioners that
year compromised with the Railroad Com
pany, giving them $ll,827 which belonged
$4,000 for effecting this compromise, max.
ing total of SIS, 127 of the people money.
This grand, and other minor larcenies, and
reckless squandering of the peoples money
having been exposed through The Wing,
the Taxpayers arose in indignation and
hurled the party from power in this county,
which it has never been able since to.regain.
Unpopularity through its plundering pro-
pensities lost it the control Of the State also
| which it had not been able to regain till
Swann's treachery, aided by Andy johnson,
| once more placed that party in possession
of the government.
Their accession to power speedily proved
that the old passion for plnnder had not d.
minished, but rather increased during their
| long probation. They no sooner found
themselves in possession of affairs, last
winter, than Annapolis presented such a
scene as is supposed to follow great gift
concert The treasury of the State was
speedily bankrupted by system of dona-
tons to private institutions, and fat contracts
to favorics, the like OF which never before
was witnessed in Maryland. Four millions
of the States money were thus squandered,
which will have to be replaced out of the
hard earnings of the tax payers.
! With these fearful warnings before their
eyes, are the tax payer ready to place the
control Of this county's finances in the hands
of such Board Of Commissioners as the
| Copperhcad party have nominated? Do
they wish the same rule OF extravaganza and
!avorteism rc.enactcd. which the tax payers
indignantly put down in 1858, aud which
! they are admonishcd by the actions of the
rebel Legislature, awaits them again, if ever
| they are so blind to their interests as to en-.
trust the control of the county funds in Gus.
tody OF the same IGNORANT party? Reflect,
men Of Cecil, before You vote for this Cop
| perhcad selection, that no squaudcring of
| the county money has ever been allowed by
| the party which has so long controlled its
| affairs.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26
- District Committees Of Orgauizatio

District Committees Of Organization
should at ouce provide for preventing the
registering OF persons who are. not citizens
of the State and county, by selecting some
person OF persons to attend the session Of
the Registers of Voters in each district, who
will see that persons who have not lived in
the State year, in the county six months,
or who are not of full age and otherwise
qualified are kept off the list Of qualified
voters. Remember that the list of voters
furnished the Judge Of Election by the Re.
gisters is conclusive as to the right of the
person to vote. Examine the lists and see
that all persons who have lost their residence
are stricken of, and all doubtful cases in.
quired into.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

. B b ELEsgIo'. The election held
in BALTIMORE, OH Wv dnesday last, was for
Mayor and City Co uncil, and for a Judge Of
,he court o. Apr calls, Chief Judge Of the
Supreme hehv of Baltimore City, and four
As n9 .V 4ges of the Supreme Bench.
ihe tth" rtcan says: 1t was the first cleo.
ION oilu' r the new Constitution, and the
pen'o" rats polled full vote, the result
she",ng that 23,5l3 votes were cast, of
Ne W. oh 1850 were for Judge Bartol, on the
democratic ticket, and 1888 for General
Fenly, on the Republican ticket. The vote
cast is about one. fourth short of the number
OF registered voters in the city.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

Coon News FOR THE REBEls." When
Intelligence of the Pennsylvania and Ohio
elections reached Montgomery, Alabama,
the old Irish newsagept there ran along the
streets with the morning papers, singing
out, "Good news for the rebels good news
for the rebels the best have had since the
time they defeated the Yankees during the
war; and in Montgomery, as in all the
other cities, the men who had been fighting
the Union were as exultant over the vic.
tories ofthe Copperheads of Ohio and Penn.
sylvania as if these victories had been ef
tected by their own ballots.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

MISTAKES. Cecil Democrat is a ter.
rible paper TO make mistakes. We could
pardon its vexation at the nomination oil
DR.. Carter by the Republican Convention
for the office of Clerk, when chilling defeat
Of its Wanted ticket stares it in the face, but
when Tile Democrat publishes that the Doc.
tor "was nominated in the face Of letter
repudiating Radical tenets,' we must con.
tradict promptly the SANDER both upon the
party and the Doctor. No letter from the
Doctor was in possession of the Convention !;
and no letter of the kind has ever been
written by him. The Radical party is as
prompt to repudiate men who repudiate its
tenets, as the Copperhead party is prompt
to spread its nets for any and all sorts Of
Il sh
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

The DEMOCRAT on RADICAL VERAcITy,-
7he Democrat, last week, attempts to excuse
one and all of the many outrages that are
constantly being perpetrated by its party on
the colored people of this and other States,
and takes up the case published in The
Wig of the week before, in which one
Whitfield, Of Chesapeake City, was reported
as having broken colorcd boys head
Whitfield, it seems, waited on the editor of
The Democrat and gave him his version of
the story. He also waited on us this week
and told the same story. His blossom.
ed face reminded MS that we had once seen
the same individual abusing Sheriff Price.
till forbearance ceased to be IA virtue, and
Mr. Price kicked him out of his porch
The sheriff, during his term of Office, having
confined Whitfield with some other coves.
in Jail, under the charge of passing counter.
felt money, was the cause of his abuse.
We made it our business to make further
inquiries OF some respectable gentlemen of
Chesapeake City, who were disintcrested
witnesses, and who substantially confirmed
the statement published. in The lFhio of
the 18th inst. Whitfield threw the club that
struck tho hnv. who vas SO st.A.Alu ;";.-~a
as to cause fit. To use The Democrats
own language, " The people Of the second
district will know how to estimate the char.
acter of journal that rests it's reputation
for vcracity upon such witnesses as the
na,kx, nt1o
are the kind of men that fill up the demo.
cratic ranks and wage unceaspg war upon
the colored people.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

TO TIE FRulr GROWERS rrHE PENINSULA.
lille Peninsula Fruit Grorcr's Associu
hon' will hold an adjourned meeting in the
State House, at Dover, Delaware, on Tues.
dap, November 9TH, 1867, at halfpast
o'clock, 2. NJ. At this meeting it is con.
tempatcd to fully organize a permanent
Society, to elect officers and appoint com.
mittecs; TO transact general business, if ad.
vlsable. Every peach grower between the
Chesapeake and Delaware, and Capc Charles
and the Brandywine, is cordially and earn.
estly invited to be present and assist in or.
ganizing the Society,
JOHN p. COCHRAN, President
}. ALEXANDER Fulton, Secretary,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

let the Dead Past Bury the Dead, :"
says The Democrat, in a sentimental, lacka.
daisiacal strain that would do credit to u
miss of sixteen.
1t would be q fortunate thing for its rebel
party it the dead past were buried from
sight and memory, but it is the duty of the
press of the Republican party to keep its
crimes before the eyes of the people.
In publishing the leaves from history
which drew The Democrat into this scnti
mental mood, we had nothing to do with
personal quarrels of the day that Mr. Rick
cts or Mr.. Scott might have been engaged
in, neither does the public care anything
about such matters. We left out, as far as
possible, all personal reflections, and took
the history of the time and of the Demo.
cratic manner Of taking care Of the county
finances. This the public has as much right
to, as it has to any other piece of history,
and with the writer of that history it has no
more to do than ii has with Gibbon or Rol.
lin.
The following from The Democrat is wor.
thy the pen Of the most romantic school girl.
after having been wrought un 70 an ethereal
state by the perusal of one of Sylyanus
Cobb's novels;
"When the body Of the departed was low
cred in the tomb, and the hand that once
was raised to strike, now trcmblinely seized
the spade, and gently dropped over perish.
ing earth its kindred dust. there was a burial
OF hostility and o final interment, it was
tondly believed, of all memories of q bitter
past. There they would have remained un.
touched till the sound of the final TRUMP, if
the wishes Of family or friends had been re,
garded. Political purposes cannot Justify
grave yard Dissertations, nor smooth the
rnffies on the brow of rebuking humanity
Even wild beasts pass untouched the mani.
mate FORM Only the hyena or the iackal
will disturb the cemetery or banquet on the
dead
While a homespun public will be at a loss
to discover anything in the article published
in The Hhig, at which this sentimental
bombshell is thrown, to remind it Of hyenas
or Jackals,-except perhaps the thieving
which went on under the last Democratic
Board Of Commissioners that served in this
county,--the grave countenance OF iackass
may be conjured up, while reading The Dem.
ocrats comments on the subject,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26
NOTICE.
GEORGE EARLE
ELI CosGRoVE AND WJrE.

Ell Ct5uHUVE AND T..
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county. Ia Chanccry
ORDERED, This eth day of October, 1867, that the
sale OF the Real Estate of FIJI Cosr grove and wifa
made by George Earle Trustee, under the Decree
in the above entitled cause, he ratified and confirm.
ed unless cause to the contrary thereof be- shown
on or before the thirtieth day OF December nehl:
provided copy Of this order be inserted In some
said, once a week for one month before The IrtIatl
day of November, next
The Report states the arnonni OF sales TO he s. 200
HENRY X. TORRENT Clerk
True copy; test, HENRY X TURHEKT
oct %, lS67--lm IInik
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

LONGEVITY, TEMPERANCE AND PATRIOTISM.
In my travels in different portions of the
State it is my province to come in contact
with men OF character, talent and education,
and particularly men of years. Delaware
contains many persons at this time who have
passed the "rubicon.' These reflection fit
through the writer's Imagination when, per-
sonally, talking to them. 1t is indeed graft.
tying to know that they possess the same
yigor, the same intellect, and possess the
faculty of understanding the great funda-
mental principles OF the party to which they
have long been ardently and devotedly at
tached. Middletown at this time, from what
can learn, contains four old men. Ispeak
of them as those who have been frequently
seen reading the news of the morning papers
aoithout spectacles, at Mr.. Charles Tatman' s
store, and whose united ages sum up 800
years. MIR. DeShane, a native OF St. Georges
is aged SO years. Richard Lockwood isnow
in his 80th year. Cyrus Tatman will enter
his 80th year On the 9th of November next,
and Major John Jones has passed his 18th
summer. The three first named have lived
IN and near Middletown for nearly fifty years
past. They are all Union men to the core
Two of them served in the war of 1872
Three of them have been members of the
Masonic fraternity nearly fifty years, one of
theu siuce lclf. Inc three nrSt named
are about in as good health as men of their
ages generally. One of them, (the fourth, J
Major Jones, has made three through trips
from his home in Middletown to Washing
ton within the past three weeks, each trip
Ivy the night line, leaving his home on one
occasion at halfpast ten in the evening, ar.
irving next morning at 5 o'clock in Wash
lngton, and on one or two occasions leaving
Washington at o clock in the evening, and
arriving at his home in Middletown a little
after O'Clock the next morning, by the
Annamcssic line. Mr.. Jones amuses him.
self at times looking up valuable statistics
OF the country. and now threatens to show
Governor Seymour in his true colors. He
exhibited to me one of his unanswerablc
statistics from his powerful and prolific pen ,
which he will shortly forward to your iourn
al for publication. 1t is really n treat to
come in contact with men who possess a
fund Of political information, and we hope
Major Jones may yet be rewarded, and
placed in Il position by the great Republican
party, for his ndcfatigable cxcrtions in cx
posing the fallacy and duplicity of the cop.
perhead party. hope he will be rcmem
bered by the Republican party Of our State
by nominating him as our next Representa-.
tive to Congress. - Wilmington Republican,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26
MYATT's LINNEUs
Wine Plant.
WARRANTED TO BE GENJrINC

American Sherry Wine is made from ihi. Plant
equal to the best imported Sherry Wines and which
will doubtless soon supersede most kinds If th.
grape, ordrngged limitations now in use
we refer the reader to MIR. Joseph Booth residing
near Eikton, who has cultivated 5ll plants Tie psst
season, from which he has manufactured 500 gallons
OF Wine. The plants from which this wine WAS man.
months of October and November is the nromrr
tme 10 plant out the Wine Plant, the yield IRON,
when the following season being much create tan
when planted In the Spring. Persons desiro,,- Of
procuring Plants, or pamphlets giving a history of
'he plant and mode of treatment, will address
ROSWELL WAKEMAN Agent
oct g. l887-tf Pom nvpoys,rt nin
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

Our majority in Louisiana turns out to
be, in round numbers, seventy thousand,
Instead Of forty thousand, as at first report
ed. 1t must be borne in mind that the con.
vcntion question is the Grst line on which
the Republican party in the South is fight.
ing. That once secured, they will push
forward to other issues.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

A DISTRESSING Couch, causes the friends
Of the sufferer almost as much pain as the
sufferer himself, and should receive imme.
diate attention. DIR. WIsTAR's BALsAM OF
WILD CHERRY speedily cures coughs, colds,
influenza, sore throat, &c. It will always
relieve consumption, and in many we'll
attested cases II has effected perfect cure.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

ARTBuR's HOME MAGAzlNE.-We have
received the November number ofthis maya.
zine. The best magazine TO-. the domestic
fireside that we receive. Published at s11
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, by T. S.
Arthur,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26
DUBLIC SALE

I SH
~ VALUABLE FARM in Sassafras Neck, Ce,i,
county, Maryland, well known as s.Roec Iiill IA.
sala m,m Will be sold on TUESDAY, the a6ih day Of
M"remner A. D. 1867 at II O'Clock, the public house
~ Necilt"n, Iecil County Nd and contains seven hn.
uren su eishy acres more or less Will be te,iel
INTO thEes parts; one division has on it fftywo acr
81 Young peach trees. WV " -
Ikhss OF SME-One third cash, with liberal credit
on mortgage. Apply on the premises to N'''''
"'. % ioo'--s THOS. NJ FORMAS
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26

MOORE & BROS Brown Rosin Soap is
not only equal to any in the market for
sscrubbing, but it is pure enough to wash the
finest fabric, and sold at very low figure
by all Grocers. Factory corner 3rd and
Orange streets, Wilmington, Del.