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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-09-26

--Ihe Cheapest Printing establishment for
Sale Bills in Wilmington, is the Delaware
Tribune Office. The Tribune is the Farmers
paper of Delaware.
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NOTICE..

All persons are forbid respassing on the premises
of the subscriber, with Dog and Gun and any fouud
thus trcspassing after the publication this notice
will have the law enforced against them.
Sept 90 lSfS-3w CIAS. BUCKWITH
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sos. EXCELSIOR sos.
Fur Emporium,
No. sos ARCH Street, I'D door ab Sth, North sidc)
PUILA ELPEIA.
LADIES, MISSES AND CHILpRENHS
FANCY FURS,
OF every description, and at all prices
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
Genuine MINK Sable Sets. at % and upwards
Genuine Siberian Squirrel Sets at $40 and upwards
Squirrel Mutfs, at s. and upwards and all kinds of
fine Furs ut reasonable prices.
Persons wishing to purchase, will do well to give
US call s9-Furs Altered and Repaired.
Highest cash price paid for Shipping Furs.
Sept D. lSGS-ms
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WORCESTER COUNTY,

The Commissioners of Newtown have
passed an ordinance, giving authority to the
bailiff to fasten either by ropes or hand cuffs
any person or persons found drunk or riot
Gus within the Corporation. 1t is having
salutatory effect in preserving the peace.
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What is this Marvellous AntjdOte
to Disease

Which, for TWENTY YEARS, has been winning golden
opinions from all sorts of people" under the name
of HOSTEL TIERS STOMACH BITTERS?
1t is an infusion of the most excellent tonic, anti
bilious, anti-scorbutic and Alternative herbs, roots
and barks in the purified spin itucus of Rye.
HOW DOES IT OPERATE?
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FAIR AND FEsTIvAL.-The Ladies of the
NJ. L. Church, at Perryville, will hold a
Fair and Feitival for the benefit of the
Church at that place, on the 18th of Octo-
Der
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hartford COUNTY,


During the week ending on the 10Th
inst, there were towed from the outlet Iocl,
at Havre de Grace, 81 boats. Arrivals 1O4
and departures 81 boats.
On Saturday night, 18th inst, a barrack
containing wheat and oats, belonging to Jas
Farnandis, Esq, near Bel Air, was burned.
Loss estimated at $1,000; no insurance, Il
is supposed the barrack was strack by light.
ening.
The Havre de Grace correspondent of
the Bel Air Egis says: On the 18th inst.
between q and clock, storm arose here.
accompanied by thunder and lightning, the
ram tell in torrents for an hour. During the
the Point, near the turnpike, was struck bv
lightning, and the wall ripped open from
the roofto the ground. The family were
stunned by the shock, but none seriously in.
lnred. A little boy living in house near
by, a son Of Mr.. Washington Rogers. was
eating his supper when the clap Of thunder
came, which lifted him out of his seat and
threw HIM ten feet away from the table
All the lights were pnt out by the shock !,
the house of Mr. Poplar, and the house sot
on fire. The neighbors soon, however. mt
the fire out. p"'
-lhe lower part of the town was all OK.
citement on Sunday morning last. It an.
pears that Wesley Cornish, colored. was
splitting wood, when Charles Henry Hay.
cock came behind Cornish and split his
head open with stone. SO Charles Henry
goes to court to answer.
The workmen are busy putting in the
engine and boiler at the Marine RAILWAY
which will soon be ready for business
DELAWARE
Irregular in its visits-the Wilmington
Commercial '"
y he girls; mill owned by H. Todd, ESQ.
lately known as Allaband's Hills, in Kent
county, was destroyed by fire on Friday at: .
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rational Republican Nominees.

asg Subscribers acW please notice their
accounts acith THE WING on the Pr7ated
Label, and remit subscriptions ,ohen due'
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Tribute of Respect.

At meeting of the Young Mems Bene-
VIOLENT Association, held ct Gregg's Hall,
on the evening Of the Goth instant, the
following preamble and resolutions were
unanimously adopted:
Whereas, God, in his wisdom, kas taken
away, suddenly, from our midst, our
highly esteemed and worthy associate,
DALLAS P. SMITH; therefore, be it
Resolued, That the members of this AS
sociation tender to his bereaved family
(his mother and sisters) their sincere CON.
dolence in this their hour of trial.
ResolUed, That we inscribe a'blank page
on our record to his memory, and that a
copy Of these resolutions be presented to
his mother and sisters, and that they be
printed in the Columbia Pheni1.
A. G. MOORE, Secretary.
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Affairs In Washington.

WASHINGTON, August 21.-A circu-
lar letter, issued from the War De-
partment, includes the following
extract from the army appropriation
bill, passed at the last session of
Congress: Be ii enacted, That all
militia forces now organized, or in
service, in either of the States of
Virginia, North Carolina, South Ca
rolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi and Texas, be forthwith
disbanded, and that the further orga-
nlzation, arming or calling into
service the paid militia forces, or any
part thereof, is hereby prohibited,
under any circumstances whatever,
until the same shall be authorized by
Congress. The publication of this
extract is intended as an explanation
OF the refusal, of Secretary Schofield
to furnish arms to the militia of the
Southern States, on the applications
of their Governors, and for the in.
formation Of the officers of the army
now on duty in the South.
81 Abiding to the militia in the
Southern States, the New York Times
says, editorially, the case is made q
good deal palmer by the extract from
the law, which the Secretary of War
introduces into his order. BY one
of those unfortunate blunders which
have marred the progress of recon
struction at almost every stage, the
South is literally without militia.
Not only have the local governments
no arms for their use, but the SD D.
plying of arms by the War Depart
ment is forbidden by q clause which,
passed under different circumstances,
is yet unrepealed. Congress, there
fore, in its haste to adjourn, did more
than neglect the distribution
OF arms, which o measure brought
forward at late day 'rightfully con-
templated. It left on the statute
book provision which restrains the
War Department from arming the
militia, whatever the emergency. To
this extent, the reconstructed States
are powerless. Their authorities are
paralyzed by an order which nothing
less than the action of Congress can
set aside.
There are over 1000 vacant Offices
under the new tax BILL.
Customs receipts from the 10th to
the 18th August, over So, 500, 900.
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BURIED IN THE GRAY.--Augustus
Carson, respectable colored man.
died at Franklin, Tenn, last Monday
night. Early in the war, he attached
himself to the cause of the Confed-
eracy, and steadily followed its ban
ners till the last of the struggle.
Through good and evil report, whe
ther the sun of victory shed light
and hope upon the cause he served,
or whether clouds of defeat lowered
upon him and his associates in arms.
he was ever brave, hopeful and daunt-
less. When the cause was finally lost.
he returned to his old home, and has
since acted only with the Democratic
party. During the illness which
terminated in his deu,h, Carson re-
peatedly expressed tha wish that his
body should be attired in O suit of
Confederate gray, and that some of his
old friends should attend his remains
to their last resting-place. His desire
in both respects was fully carried
out. His funeral was largely attend
ed by the people of Franklin and its
vicinity. .-NashuiNe Gazette.
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"TIGHT BREEoHEs. AN ATTACK
FROM THE OTHER SIDE. Some fe-
male, in an apparently revengeful
spirit, thus holds forth on prevail
ing gentlemen's fashion:
The press has never been remiss in
deprecating the follies of the female
sex upon the occasion of each change
In style of female apparel, but it is a
noticeable fact that the popin-iay
style of breeches now in vogue, more
ridiculous than anything the women
ever wore, is unnoticed Female
loveliness is such that it can make
charming any extreme fashion; but
what length of familiarity, pray Hea-
ven, can ever make tolerable much
less comely-the dexter appendages
of human crane wound about with
cloth so tightly as to stop the circu-
lation?
The present style of pantaloons is
neither comfortable, comely nor eco
nomical. The "swell' that adopts it
can neither stoop nor sit down with
out positive danger of an exposure
OF his person from rupture caused by
COhoioh. w acIt We S00 LuGS6 1QSnlOQ-
ables of the male persuasion, on the
street, we are reminded of the exhor-
tation of the raw-boned, Informed
preacher when illustrating the Won
ders of creation. Raising his long,
skinny arms high above his head, he
exclaimed, sGod made this frame"
A voice in the congregation replied,
"then his tools were mighty dull"
Here comes a six-foot gallant, with
number ten boot, and figure like
pair OF tongs. There is not enough
OF his legs to make shadow, and he
walks as if each boot was double
bass viol. By his side, perhaps, is
another devotee of the style, half his
length. whose makeup reminds one
of q plum pudding, perched on the
handle of a pair OF pinchers. There
they go, the extremes of folly, and
the very essence of ludicrousness.
Nothing a woman ever wore, will
compare in folly with tight brecchos
on bandy-legged human biped.
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SENSIBLE ADVICE. Charlotte
IN. C.) Times publishes the follow
ing card, written by freedman, and
addressed "to the colored people of
Mecklenburg::"
am one of your number. From
sense of duty, became Demo
crat. L wish to appeal to you, not
because wish you to join my party,
but because see that you are in dan
ger. Wicked white men-mean
white men, that are skiuning you
every day, and intend to take the
whole hide off, have already made
you believe Il hundred lies, and they
are making you believe them now.
They will get all they can out OF yon,
and then turn you over to the mercy
of the white people that you are now
turning your backs upon. You are
freemcn, indeed, when you dare not
think, or speak, or act, except just
as your white radical masters order
you to do. You are obliged to vote
for them. and not even for your own
color. They say conservatives and
Democrats want to make you slaves
again. If they did, these men could
not, and would not if they could,
prevent it. They did not make you
free. and can't keep you free. You
just know the respectable white peo-
pie of the South don't want to make
us slaves again, and could not, if
they wanted to. L was slave-am
now free. [ expect to die free; but
1 want to be respected by the decent
white people. AS it is clear they in
tend to rule, say what we may, it
would be well to make them our
friends. The colored people had bet
ter take warning in time, and show
that they have some sense.
L write this Of my own accord, as
of my own accord 1 joined the De-
mocratic party, and intend to con-
tinue in it. HENRY MILLER.
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THt Value OF -ADvERr1s1Na.-A
gentleman OF New York, who has
taken up his summer quarters with
his family in one of the outlying
suburbs, recently purchased seven
pounds Of sugar from his village
grocer, aud found it sadly adulte-
rated wifi sand. The next day he
inserted the following paragraph in
the village paper: "Notice.-I
bought of grocer, in this village,
seven pounds of sugar, from which
I 7. nave extracted one pound of sand.
LII the rascal who cheated me will
send to my address seven pounds of
sugar (the scriptural measure of res
tltution) I will be satisfied; if not,
l will expose him." The next day.
nine seven pound packages of sugar
were lett at the advertisers house,
there being nine grocers in the vii
lage, and each supposing himself to
have been detected.
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The bullion in the vaults of the
Bank of France, which on August
9th, was stated to amount TO $3.50
600, 900 in gold, still continues to in
crease. The latest official statement.
dated August 18th, reports that the
deposits had been augmented by the
sum of $6,SOO,OOO.
A private letter from California,
mentions remarkable horseback
race against time ut the Bay View
Course, near San Francisco. The
rider made 300 miles in fourteen
hours and won his bet. He had
thirty horses for relays, and got
through without killing any of them.
els your father at home?" inquired
man of little girl who admitted
him. els your name Bill?" s'Some
people call me so," he replied.
'"Then he is not home; for I heard
him tell John, if any bill came, to
say he is not at home" -asA, .: ~
One of the citizens of Mystic
Bridge, Conn, recently, in his zeal
to enforce local bylaw against stray
animals, unconsciously drove his own
hogs to pound, and was obliged to
pay the fee before he could get them
released.
At the election on Thursday last,
John A. Boswell was elected Repre-
sentative without opposition. Very
little interest was manifested by the
negroes, but little over SOC votes
being cast Camden Journal.
The Mercury makes the startling
assertion that two ladies of the high
est position were brick-batted by
radical negroes on the streets Of
Charleston, on Monday night last.
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r A CARPET-BAGaER CONE TO GRIEF.
VIM. l.. Webb, of Rocky Hill, Con.
necticut, brother of Henry w.
Webb, who figured as q member of
the Charleston Negro Convention,
and is now member of the Legisla-
ture, so-called, from this District,
was arrested yesterday by Sheriff
Carr, for bigamy, on complaint
made by his wife in Connecticut.
MIR. Webb, the accused, is O carpet
Dagger, who came to these parts soon
after the close of the war, to seek his
fortune. He was made Register of
voters, and acted in that capacity as
long as there was anything to do in
that line. In default of sufficient
bail, he now occupies apartments in
the Georgetown jail III
GeoryetoUn Times.
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iaplEsaaANoIA IAEpl leol1aI!IEEslsosIlEAI. lIe.oll

New YORK, August 21-Noon. =
Stocks strong. Money easy. Gold
443s. North Carolina's, old, 72J5 /;
new, 72 asked. Virginia's, ex-cou-
pons, 721S. Tennessee's, ex-cou-
99s. Flour 10@15c. lower. Wheat
quiet and steady for spring: winter
heavy and declining. Corn 1c. bet
ter.. Mess pork $3.50. Lard dull-a
steem 18A@1SN. Cotton quiet and
steady, at 291%03O. o.. ss.ssGfls
7 P. M.-Cotton firm; sales 500
bales, at 100000. Flour dull
State 7@9.75; Western 7012.60;
Southern common to fair extra 8.75
@9.8J. Wheat heavy--white Ten
nessee new $50. Corn dull-mixed
Western 1.15@1.24. Oats lower and
more active-new 75@7S. Mess
pork 29.60. Whiskey 70. Freights
dull and declining. Money easier,
at 4@5. Sterling little stronger.
Gold weak, at 4334(043z6. Govern
ments closed dull and generally
lower.
BALTIMORE, August 21.-Cotton
quiet. Wheat active. but prices un-
changed-prime to choice 2.6O6
2.70. Corn active-prime white 1.25.
Oats 7097S. Rye 40@45.
CINCINNATI, August 21.-Flour and
corn dull. Whiskey 65. Mess pork
2S.75. Shoulders 1871; clear sides
III.
CHARLESTON, August 21.-Cotton
firmer and more active; sales 1875
bales-middlings 2S; receipts for the
week 16S bales; sales 24O; stock 2, 526.
AUGUSTA, August 21.-Cotton mar
ket closed dull-middlings 271&; sales
35 bales. The first bale of new cot
ton was receive d to-day from Bush
County.
New ORLEANS, August 21.-Cotton
quiet and steady-middlings 80; sales
80 bales; receipts 21S.
MOBILE, August 21.--Cotton-no
sales; middlings nominally %.
No improvement to notice in the
crops. Accounts from the country
continue bad.
LIVERPOOL, August 2O-Evening.
Cotton closed steady and unchanged; :;
sales $4,000 bales.
LIVERPOOL, August 21-3 P. NJ
Cotton. frmer, more active and prices
tending upward; sales of the week
100, 900 bales; exports %, 900; specu-
lation $4,000; stock $40, 600, whereof
215, 600 are American-uplands 1O56;
Orleans 1917. Yarns and fabrics at
Manchester firmer and better prices
realized. Cotton at sea 722,OOO
whereof only 5000 are American.
LONDON. August 21-3 p. NJ
Consols 93A. Bonds 7156.
LIVERPOOL, August 21-Evening.
Cotton buoyant; sales 20, 600 bales, at
an advance of fraction-uplands
10A; Orleans IL.
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THE DEAD AIIvE-Wo WONDERFUL
EFFEcT OF JyLEPs.-7The Norfolk

IHE DEAD, AIIvE-Wo WONDERFUL
EFFECr OF JULEPs. Norfolk
Journal says: = ...t 4.''da '' ~ TT
Rather 9 ludicrous event occurred
on Saturday last. 1t having been
reported that o certain gentleman
had died, and was to have been
buried on Saturday evening, quite n
number of his old friends and ac-
quaintances repaired to his house to
pay the last sad tribute of respect
by following his remains to the grave.
AS the death had been sudden, the
coroner had been summoned; and
when his duties had been performed,
the remains were placed on an i'm
pro7ised hearse, and the procession
formed.
Before moving, the hospitalities of
the deceased's house was extended to
those present, in the shape of good
stiff brandy julep to each. so as the
better to enable them to undergo the
fatigue of the long march to the new
burying ground.
While the pall-bearers, who we're
standing by the hearse, were slowly
slipping their iuleps, and now and
again giving the goblets slight
shake to settle the ice in them, q
noise was heard in the coffin, which
turned some faces winter than they
had been for years before. Finally,
the undertaken for the occasion mus
tered courage enough to unscrew the
coffin lid, when, horrible to be told,
up sat the supposed corpse, and
coolly asked for his julep. Having
quenched his thirst, he got down,
and stated to the gaping crowd that
he had been in sort of trance, and
knew all that was going on around
him, but was unable to rouse himself
until his ears were greeted with the
familiar jingle of the ice, and his
nose with the delicious smell of the
brandy and mint in the gobless
round the hearse; the thoughts called
forth by which infused new life into
his system, and the desire to partake
became SO strong that he was able to
break the trance, which had come
near consigning him to a premature
grave.
His friends were too much asto-
nished at what they had Witnessed,
and too glad to see him among them
again, to investigate the philosophy
of the thing, 80 they all adjourned to
his house, where juleps passed
around long enough to almost ac-
complish for the whole party that
fate from which the first one had so
miraculously delivered their host.
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A RADICAL DODGE. E.-The so-called
Legislature of Alabama finding it
impracticable to pass, over the Go
vernor's veto, the Act authorizing
that body to appoint Presidential
electors, took @ recess until Novem-
Der, without enacting registration
law as provided for in the "Consti-
tuition" OF the State. According to
the Montgomery Advertiser, this was
done for the deliberate purpose of
defeating popular election, that the
Legislature, upon re-nssembling,
may then appoint electors. on the
plea that it will be absolutely neces-
sary to do this in order that the State
shall not, be altogether deprived of
its vote in the choice of the next
President of the United States.
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AL ~
aHarE-Knri,D
The following is the letter of Com

,teighon, United States navy, de-
, ,cribing the hari-kari execution wit
messed by him at Hiogo, Japan:
II. s. STRAsIER ONEIDA, (third rate,)
HIoGo, JAPAN, March ID, 1868 :,
Hon. Gideon WeHes, THashingto1.
SIR: i have the honor to communi-
cate the particulars of the execution
Of the Japanese official, Fati zanzu-
taro, retainer of Matsdaira Bizen no
Kami, who ordered his troops to fire
on the foreigners at this place, on the
4th ultimo. This execution was wit
messed by me, at the request of our
Minister, Gen. r. B. Van Valken-
burgh, and is as follows:
LEFT the legation at about 9 p. NJ,
in company with the officers at
tached to the foreign legation, and
proceeded to Hiogo, where we were
met by n guard, who escorted us to
the temple where the execution was
to take place.
There was large number of peo-
pie on each side of the street leading
to the temple, and quite number Of
soldiers drawn up inside about the
temple. We were shown into room
adjoining the japanese officials,
where we were asked if we wished to
question the person about to be exc
cuted, to which we answered in the
negative. They also took the names
of every official present.
After waiting about half an hour,
we were conducted by the japanese
officials into what appeared to be the
principal room of the temple, which
was lighted with candles, and ir
front of the altar was raised plat
form foot in height, which extended
across the room, and we were placed
on the right of the altar, within q
few feet of where the execution was
to take place, with the Japanese
officials on the left. In front of the
altar, was green cloth, and in front
of that, red one; we were informed
that the execution would take place
on the red cloth. Seating ourselves
on the mats on the platform, we
watched the execution.
In few momeats, the prisoner
came in, dressed in the usual Japan
ese dress of O person of rank, accom-
panied by the executioner, who was
his pupil and most intimate friend.
He walked with a steady, firm step,
in front of the altar, where he knelt
IN prayer. He then arose and went
to the red cloth, where he knelt and
made the confession that he was the
officer that ordered his troops to fire
upon the foreigners, and also to fire
upon them when they were trying to
escape, and that he was sorry for
what he had done.
He then disrobed himself to his
waist and reached out for knife that
was near him, which he thrust into
his bowels, and drawing it towards
his right side, and leaning forward at
the same time, the executioner, with
one blow from his swold, severed his
head from his body. This occurred
at about 1870 p. m.
The japanese then bowed to the
floor, on which we all did the same.
We were then asked if we were salts
fed with what we had witnessed,
when we replied in the affirmative.
After the lapse of few moments
we were informed that all was over,
when we arose and took our depar-
ture. The whole scene was one of
great solemnity and very impressive.
Very respectfully, your obedient
servant,
j. BLAKELY CREIGHTON,
Commander.
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Z CoLUSHrA BfARKET.
Reporl for Week ending Nridav Auo,,s

ReporIfor Week ending Friday, Aug,sss.
PHoSIx OFFICE, COLUMBIA, August %
Nothing doing in cotton.
All other articles Of country produce are
in good demand, with fair supply.
The following buying rates OF South Ca
rolina Bank Notes, is prepared BY Gregg.
Palmer & Co., Brokers': sN9'. 9'.
Bank Of Camden; ~ . fs7,os
Bank of Charleston :. 4. III, V. !, -. Oh
Bank OF Chester :. WI ~, 8 : =
Bank OF Georgetown, g.. &. !,
Bank OF Newberry . y. - q >, : OF,
Bank of South Carolina. /. 4 ~ : q
Bank OF State of South Carolina. fold I. 10
Bank OF State of South Carolina, tnew,]. ]
Commercial Bank.
Exchange Bank. 9
Planters' Bank a
FARMERS FARMERS and Exchange Bank. /
State Bank -
Union Bank an
South, Western Railroad Dank, [old, .25
n, ............., .dO
Planters and Mechanics. .............1S
'':''... -.................
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A lady, who was looking at the
procession of the soldiers and sailors
of New York, was heard to say that
she saw the soldiers and sailors
procession at Chicago, and she
thought the Republicans made al
together the better show, for. al
though the Chicago procession was
much smaller, it presented q deal
better appearance, because the New
York procession chad so many one
legged and one-armed fellows in it.
that it was perfectly disgusting"