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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-11-14

SPANISH BIscUIT.-Mix J a pound of
sugar and ounces of butter together, add
eggs, and when well beaten add /! of a
pint of milk or water in which is dissolved
! of an ounce of saleratus /; work this well
in and flavor with extracts of lemon then
add 12 ounces of flour; work it in well
then drop the dough on creased pans in
small Jumps little Distance part, flat
them slightly, and bake in an oven hot
enough for bread.
YORKSHIRE PUDDING.-Beat up two
eggs in basin, add to them three good
tablespoonful of flour, with a pint of milk
by degrees, and little salt; butter the
pan, bake half an hour, or bake under the
meat cut it in four, turn it, and when set
on both sides it is done. A tin dish, one
inch and a half deep and eight inches wide,
is the most suitable for such proportion.
PLAIN CUsTARD.-Boil pint of milk,
in which place two ounces of sugar, the
thin peel of half lemon break in a ba-
sin four eggs, beat them well with a fork
then pour in the milk by degrees, not too
hot mix it well, pass it through a cullen
der OF seive, fill cups with it, which contain
one inch of water leave them for about
twelve minutes or till set, which is per-
ceived.
COFFEE, Cocoa, or CHOCOLATE Gus
TARD.-Make some very strong coffee, beat
the eggs as above put in pan half pint
of milk and half pint of made coffee with
two ounces of sugar, then add the eggs,
pass through a sieve, and proceed as above.
Chocolate and cocoa the same only ommit-
ting the lemon peal in all three.-Soger.
S1RLoIN.-It is said that Charles the II of
England gave that name to that of beef
called the Srloin. Having dined from q
loin one day, and being particularly pleas
ed with it, he asked what that piece OF
beef was called. On being told that it was
Ioin, he said, jacosely, that it should be
knighted for its merit, and called it Sir
Loin-hence its present name.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-11-14
The Dove FlOwer.-(Peristeria alata)

Within the past few years, this beauti-
full plant has been admired by thousands of
our country-men while passing across the
Isthmus of Panama, ON their way to or
from the gold fields of California. Its
chief beauty consists in the form of the
central portion Of the flower, which resem-
bles white dove, with out-stretched wings,
just settling into its nest of white satin
The little beak of this imaginary dove is
tipped with car1nine, and its wings are
slightly specklcd with purple. The flowers
are produced on stem two or three feet
high, and continue in bloom a long time,
emitting a delightful fragrance. No one,
after seeing this curious plant in bloom,
will wonder at the early Spanish settlers
naming it Espiritu Sancta, Or Holy Spirit.
These fanciful and surerstitious people
were ready to seize upon every object, that
would in any way contribute to strengthen
belief that God manifested himself to
them more than to any other people.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-11-14

rOAL Of superior quality, for sale BY
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-11-14

PUBLIC SALE OF
Valuable Real Estate
In and near Elkton, Nd.
THE undersigned, as Attorney for the owners,
L will offer at Public Sale, at the Court House
in Elkton, Md, on
Tuesday Morning, November 18th,
1865 at II o'clock, the following parcels of REAL
ESTATE, situated i'll and near Elkton, Nd:
No. consists of the valuable improved LOT
IN ELKToN. adjoining the r re- den of Hon;
street, and SO feet on a Back street. and has a
aePthr %t So fsefi There is on 1t
A:ssA Brick Daceliia,g,
&LA with new BRICK BACK BUILD
- ING attached-the whole in good
repair, and containing 10 good rooms, besides
DWELLING n STABLE and other out buildings.
This property will be offered as whole and
Main street, with q depth of 200 feet, and the
third fronting s3 feet on the Back street, with a
depth of 100 feet-and will be sold in whichever
way the undersigned may deem advisable. If
sold in parcels, a right of way 10 feet wide from
the Eack street to the back part of the front
No 2 is LOT fronting s. feet on the south
side of Main street, in Eiston, with depth OF
about So feet he
an attic high, and containing seven good rooms,
besides underground Kitchen and cellar.
No. 8 is n LOrat the west end of Elkton, 'front.'
ing 578 feet ON the Landing Lane, and s66 feet ON
the North East road. and containing 10 ACRES,
3ROODS and 81 PERCIES.
No. adjoins No. ;, and fronts Gl2 feet ON the
North East road. and contains IL ACRES,
ROODS and 81 PERCHES.
No 5 adjoins No, 4, and contains ii ACRES
and 70 PEItCHES.
No. 6 lies on the North East road, opposite
Thomas Drennen's land, and just west Of the
covered bridge, and contains ACRES and l
ROOD.
The soil of Nos. 3, 4, 5 and is of fine natural
quality, is highly improved, and grows large
crops of wheat, corn and hay.
No ! is u WOOD LOT on Red HILL half a mile
east of Elkto and is heavily covered with very
fine WOOD AND TIMBER. 1t contains III
ACRES and 10 PERCHEsS, and no wood has
been cut upon it for many years.
All these Lots have been recently surveyed,
and plots can be seen by applying at the office
of the undersigned, in Ellkton. Title indisputa-
BILE. Possession of Houses given March 18th,
1862 of Lots, immediately.
TERAIS.-One- fourth Cash; the rcmaihder in
equal instalme nts in One, Two and Three \ ears,
with interest annually on the whole amount
unpad-the purchaser receiving deed and
executing n mortgage. These terms may be
somewhat modified to suit purchasers. Costs
of deeds, stamps, &c, to be paid by purchasers
JAMES BLACK GROONE,
Oct IL, 1S6s-ts Attorney for owners
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-11-14
MEETINGS Of County Commissioners.

TTlHE regular meetings Of the County Commissioners
i will be held the second TUESDAY Of every
month.
Persons having claims against the County, will please
file the In the Commissioner Once, with legal
voucher; account will be allowed not properly
chargeable to the same.
Collectors AMI others having accounts to be stated
settled will apply to the Clerk during the the
Board. By Order
WM. 7. MILLER Clerk
Commissioners Of Cecil County
Dec II, 1S67-y
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-11-14
For Sale,

THE undersigned, Us Attorney for the owner,
L offers at Private Sale q very valuable HOUSE
AND LOT in the east end of Elkton. The House
is large. well built of Brick and in good repair.
The Lot is ample and improved with convenient
Out-buildings. A large and productive garden
is attached to the property. The situation is
excellent. and in every way this property fur
nishes one of the most desirable residences in
the town. Apply to
sep %, 1867 CLINTON MCCULLOUGH.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-11-14
ORPHANS, COuJRT

YTNHE STATED MEETINGS of the ORPHANS co,r, -,
Il Ccil county will be held on the second TUESDAY
IN every month Executors Administrators and Guar.
a., ns, wanting their accounts stated will please bring
Nov 80, 1S67-y REGISTER
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-03
THE FIRE EATERS

The braves and swash-bucklers of the
Democratic party in Louisiana, are ire
p-essibe. They cannot meet in conven-
ton without forthwith proposing sea of
blood and pyramid of bones, and lake
of fire and birthstone.
The shrewder men of the party are dis
gusted with this style of things, and be-
seech the swash-bucklers to hold their
peace, for "a few days, a few days" Thus
the Times ....
The birthstone resolutions introduced
into the Democratic Convention yester Law
will, we hope, be permitted to sleep until
the Democrats of the State and city have
employed and exhausted all peaceful and
lawful measures to obtain justice and Sc
cure their rights. If such resolutions look
to acts, they are premature, if they are
mere etfHsions of patriotic ardor and hero
ism they are Objectionable on the score of
bad taste, and Of baneful tendency in the
use which will be made Of them by our ad.
versaries.
They are premature, because the Demo-
Gratis have not yet placed the opponents in
default in regard to REGISTRATION The de-
fault is rather on the part of the Democra-
tic and conservative citizens who have
failed to turn aside from their business or
other subordinate duties, in order to de-
mand and effect their registration. Those
who are loudest in their clamors for vague
and impracticable resorts, and wordy de-
clarations of impossible and revolutionary
purposes, are the very last and the slowest
to go forward and be registered. Now
these high-sounding resolutions and fiery
speeches are calculated to deter many per-
sons from applying for registration. We
have little doubt that the Democrats of
this State will prove themselves able and
firm in maintaining their rights by all pro-
per and manful modes. But it bevooves
them to profit by the past and do nothing
preeipitately, impetuously and without
proper care, and calculation Of results.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-03
CHEERING INTELLIGENCE. FROM NEW
YORK.

We have received communication from
an intelligent and observing gentleman
residing in Central New York. His letter
conveys the most cheering news. He says:
The Grant tide is setting in strong and
VII sweep out all of the drift in the
eddies. Ireland can hardly save Seymour
even in New Yerk. Southern outrages are
setting Northern feelings on edge, revealing
to the wilfllly blind the observation-disclosures
of white loyalty South. The Democrats
here are losing heart, though desperate.
You can safely assure your readers that
Vermont and Maine only sounded the key
note of the music that is TO be sung in full
chorus by the Northern States in November.
Unless 1 greatly misread the signs of
the times, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana
are each and all forging spikes with which,
in October, the cofHn-lid of secret and open
treason will be eAectually closed. -
Let Southern loyal men take heart, close
up their lines, and stand firm. Deliverance
is at hand. Our great Captain, who never
lost battle, heads the column, and rebels
already know on what conditions they can
surrender.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-03
GRANTS FAREWELL ADDRESS
TO HIS ARMY

The general order of General Grant, ad-
dressed 20 the soldiers of the United States
when the war was over, will now be read
with interest. Here it is:
SOLDIERS OF TIE ARMIES OF THE UNITED
STATRs-By your patriotic devotion 20 your
country in the hour of danger and alarm
your magnificent fighting, bravery and en-
durance, you have maintained the supreme
cy Of the Union and the Constitution
overthrow all armed opposition to the
enforcement of the laws and the proclama.
ton forever sbolishing slavery-the cause
snd preteXt of the rebellion-and opened
the way to the rightful authorities to restore
order and inaugurate peace on permanent
and enduring basis on every foot of Ameri-
can soil. Your marches, sieges and battles
IN distance, duration, resolution and bril-
Hancy of results dim the luster of the
worlds past military achievements, and
will be the patriots precedent in defense of
liberty and right in all time to come. In
obedience to Your country's call, you left
your homes and families, and volunteered
in her defense. Victory has crowned your
valor, and secured the purpose of your
patriotic hearts; and with the gratitude Of
your countrymen, and the highest honors a
great and free nation can accord, you will
soon be permitted to return to your homes
and families, conscious of having discharg-
ed the highest duty of American citizens
To achieve these glorious triumphs, and
secure to yourself, fellow-countrymen, and
posterity, the blessings of free institutions,
tens of thousands of your gallant comrades
lave fallen, and sealed the priceless legacy
with their blood. The graves of these
grateful nation bedews with tears, honors
their memories, and will ever cherish and
support their stricken families
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-03
THE RESULT.

The Democratic press of our city OBJ.
serves a significant silence upon the sub.
ject of the State elections so soon to take
place in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana
1t is trle that the Times published an est,
mate the other day in which it claimed
those States for Seymour, but by their esti,
mate it. appears that if they lose either
ons of the three Grant will be elected
When that great General was nominated
they proposed to let him have New Hamp-
shire and Kansas-possibly, Maine, Yer
mont and Massachusetts,.
Editorially, our cotemporaries lay no
claim to victory in the States to vote this
month. II there is anything in their esti-
mate, then they must have given up the
fight,
Indeed, the intelligent Democrats Of this
city as class, both in and out Of politics,
have no hope LETT that they can defeat
Grant They see tue mistake made in
nominating Seymour and Blair. Seymour's
past and Blairs present suggested to the
country the issues of 1864, aud the contest
has been fought upon those issues.
Grant will be chosen by about the same
vote with which Lincoln was reelected.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-03
Carryias elections BY Arlshms.se.

The World gives a prominent place to a
"congratulatory address" written by VIM.
A. Wallace, chairman of the Democratic
State Committee ofPennsylvania, in which
are the following startling arithmeiical cal
culations, Introduced by a flourish Of
trumpets:
To the Democracy Of Pennsylvania.
The sturdy Democracy OF Maine have
covered themselves with glory.
SIN the very citadel Of radicalism they
have demonstrated that you are upon the
eve of magnificent victory.
"Radicalism will receive in
Pennsylvania an increase Of eight per cent,
or 24,5Sl votes, making total of 331, $50
votes, and Democracy will receive an in
crease of thirty per cent, or STOPS votes,
making total of 377, l24 Democratic votes,
showing that we will have clear Demo
cratic majority Of ,269 votes
There is an old negro melody which
might be appropriately added to the
Worlds table Of figures:
Twice one Is 1--WE,
Garry four makes seven;
Iflce six Is twenty nine,
And eighteenis eleven.
AID between you and me,
It's very plain TO see,
We can carry all the States
BIZ the double rule Of three!-
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-03
STATE ELECTIONS.
UNION MEPUBLTOAN NATIONAL
a COMMITTEE.

rs The headquarters of the committee are
COW open at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New
York city, where all business communities
cations should be addressed.
The following Is list of the officers and
members Of the committee;
William Clafiin, Chairman, Boston, Massa,
chusetts; William Z. Chandler, Secretary,
Washington. ID. G. sr
CENTRAL EXECUTIVE CoNAITTEE.--William
Claflin, Boston, Massachusetts; 4. W. Park,
North Bennington, Vermont; William H.
Kemble, 2205 Green street. Philadelphia;
Horace Greeley, New York; H. H. Stark
weather, Norwich, Connecticut; B. r. Cow.
en-, Bellaire, Ohio; Aarsh Giddings, Kala-
mazoo, Michigan. -
WESTERN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Head
quarters, Chicdgo.-J. 4. Jones, Chicago,
Illinois; Cyrus NJ. Allen, Vincennes, In
diana; E, b. Taylor, Omaha.
SOUTHERN Executive Communicable
quarters. Atdntd, Georgfd.-M. A. South
worth, New Orleans, Louisiana; John II.
Caldwell, Lagrange, Georgia; B. T. Rice
Little Rock Arkansas. afle
PACIFIC EXECUTIVE CoNurTEE.--Head
quarters, San francisco. George c. Cor.
ham, San Francisco, California; Charles E.
DeLong, Virginia City. Nevada.
Communications relative to documents
and in relation TO the campaign in the
Southern States, should be addressed 70
Thomas L. Tulloek, Secretary Union Re-
publican Congressional Committee, Wash
JOHN o. JOHNSON,
Acting Secretary,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-03

We copy the following special dispatch
to the Chicago Posi-, dated Washington,
September 2s, which gives an idea Of
the condition of affairs in Texas beyond
Marshall:
Advices through army sources, from an
officer ct Marshall, Texas, say that the
country In his neighborhood and that of
Shreveport is ovsrrun by robbers; that all
the roads are entirely unsafe, except for
considerable armed bodies; that a free
booter roams the country with over
one hundred and City men. well
mounted and armed. About the int
instant they captured q train OF forty
Goyernment wagons, loaded with supplies.
openly. The commanding officer at Sui
phur Springs, Texas, post garrlsoned by
q small company of the 18th infantry, had
sent an express to General Hayden, com
manding AZ Marshall. stating that, It not
reinforced, his garrison, which was sur
rounded, wonld be slaughtered. A com
pzny Of the 18th Infantry and Afly picked
men beside had just started to reinforce
him.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-03
CAN NOT TRUST THBMsELvEs

We find the following in the proceedings
of the Democratic Convention:
A resolution was adopted declaring that
all resolutions should. before being read,
be handed to the Committee on Resolu-
tons. rH155
1t is Characteristic of the party conven-
tions of the Democracy that the leaders
find il necessarily choke off the members
the small fry whose thinking is done by the
great lights Of that patriotic organization.
The difference between Republican and
Democratic assemblages is very marked in
this respect. The reason is obvious. The
Republicans have no secret intentions or
objects which its leaders dare not have
divulged. On the other hand, while the
Democracy as an organization asserts one
thing, It's individual members mean another.
Democratic resolutions, when adopted by
authority, solemnIy asseverate that The
Southern people have accepted the situs-
ton. But how frequently we hear indi-
yidnals proposing to . organize under the
Constitution OF 1861" 4-5a
Be honest, gentlemen, and say at once
that you do not mean what you say. II
you do Eos confess soon, the people will
not believe you when you do.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-03
/ THg HERAID oosBEspouDBEr,

We publish below an extract from the
New Orleans correspondence of the New
York Herald of date of September %.
Evidently this. correspondent knewvery
lit lie Of what he was writing.
As to the statements in regard to the RE-
PUBLICAN Office, they are Utterly false, and
without the slightest foundation.
It is also reserved for this correspondent
to inform the people of this city that Mr..
Sambola prevented the sounding of tls
fire alarm. r,.
While this was going on an address was
being read 10 St. Louis delegation at the
St. Charles Hotel, inst round the corner,
and the Steedman Guards-a Democratic
club named after "Old Chickamauga''-
were drawn up in line about two hundred
strong, serenading the st. Louis delegates.
A horseman dashing up apprised them that
there was niger hght on Canal street.
Instantaneously the young men in the rear
of the procession dashed their lamps
down on the sidewalks, to the immi-
nent danger of the surrounding prop
erty, and clubbing the sticks on which
their lamps had been mounted, charged
round the corner with terrible yell. Their
comrads prepared to follow them. but the
marshals interposed, and after scene of
indeserbable turmoil, in which men tossed
their arms about stamped and screamed
with uncomfortable excitement, order was
restored, and the remnant Of the club was
drawn up in double line in front of the
Republican newspaper Office to await the
issue of events. 1t is said delegation was
sent into the Republican staff to inform
them that riot. it 1t occurred, must be of
their bringing about and they would be
held responsible. Certain it is that not
one of the employees of the organ Of the
black and tan Legislature was allowed to
leave the office till the city had quieted
down. Under the influence of a less
panic strong men have jumped from the
galleries of theaters into the parouet
and have nearly trampled each other to
death in narrow doorways. 1t was wonder
full to see with what stern selfcontrol
these young men restrained themselves,
and stood calmly by while unknown hor-
rors were being enacted half block away.
The carriages which had formed part Of
the radical procession came rushing past
with reckless speed; the dusky inmates
(most Of them oetoroon and quadroon cirD
crouching in AFFECT terror under the seats
Still the Steedman Guards moved not
though the whole line swayed and quivered
with suspense. A cry was raised Strike
the fire alarm = and then indeed the dan
ger was threatening. The fire alarm tele-
graph is the preconcerted signal in New
Orleans that negro rising has taken place.
One touch of that magic bell and thou
sands of armed men would have rushed
for the scene of conflict. Mr.. Sambola.
one Of the expelled Democratic Senators.
happily prevented this alarm from being
given, otherwise a general massacre would
have been the result.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-03
NATURALIZATION.

There is no law of Congress more ire
quentIy abused than the act Of lso2, vest
ing State courts with jurisdiction to natu-
ralize aliens. At that early day it was
wisely deemed expedient to extend every
convenience to foreigners who desired to
become citizens OF the Republic. Congress
therefore, vested courts of record in the
several States with federal jurisdiction il
this matter The law, however, aimed to
guard against abuse. 1t provided thai
the testimony OF citizens should be
taken, and that the applicant
should prove, to The satisfaction
of the Court, that during the period of five
years next preceding his application "he
has behaved as man of good moral char
acter, attached to the principles of the Con-
stitution of the United States, and well dis
posed to the happiness and good order Of
the same"
Here the Court is expected to render a
solemn judgment upon an ca parte showing,
but the law charges that the Court be
satisfied.
Now what is the practice? A printed
affidavit is filed up, and, in the presence of
the two witnesses who have signed, it is
presented to the Court. No question
is made as to whether the witnesses are
worthy of belief; never does the court
question them as to the means Of their
knowledge of the facts to which they have
sworn. 1t is an absolute farce, soiling
Of ermine.
For instance, a foreigner is required to
prove that for the past five years he has
been rel disposed 10 The Happiness Of the Uni
ted States. But men are daily admitted to
citizenship who have spent two or three Of
the past five years in arms, seeking to
destroy the Government whose pro-
lection they had sought from the
tyranny of Europe. And again: The
foreigner is required to show that
be has, since his arrival in this country, de-
meaned himself as a man of good moral
character. We ask any fair minded man
who may have been present at one of these
er parte trials, for so they are held to be,
whether the testimony, which has so
readily satisfied the Judge, would be sufi-
cient to convince him.
We are not opposed to naturalizing for
eigners, but we protest against the abuse
Of law which was intended to benefit
different class of men from these who daily
satisfy our Courts of their qualifications to
participate in the Government.
We may have something further to say
upon this subject.