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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-10-03
Peace or War-HOnesty or Rob-
berry.

Such are the issues presented in the ensu.
ing campaign.
General Grant says, Let us have peace. y
Francis p Blair says, " Let us have war, !"
and the Democratic party, or rather the
convention of rebels and regulators which
lately met in New York, have adopted him
as their candidate for Vice President; their
candidate for President, not having lately
had the courage to avow his intention to
promote anarchy, must rest his claim to the
so called Democratic nomination upon his
attempts to incite riot and arson in New
York on the i4th of July 1868.
The Republican party says, Let peace and
safety for every man under the protection of
law be the condition of this fair land; let
equal rights and representation be the lot of
all its people; let even rebels again share
the duties and the privileges of citizenship
when they have purgcd themselves of their
rebelious spirit.
The Democratic party says, Let the laws
of Congress be overruled by force under
lead of President chosen by us, and by
means Of an army controlled by US. Let
loyal State governments be dispersed by the
army of the United States led by the rebel
leaders whom they lately conquered. Let
loyalty be disgrace and treason an honor.
Give cheers to the butcher Forrest, and
shake hands with the slave master Wade
Hampton, not because they have repented
their misdecds, bat because they glory in
them. Give them once more the control,
and let them again Cypress the loyal men by
whose aid the Union was maintained.
The Republican party, by the declarations
of its platform, says, Let US have honesty
and let US maintain our credit and promote
economy by meeting our contracts as soon
as we can do so. Let US not ignore the
promise Of the legal tender notes to pay dol
lars to the bearer on demand, but meet that
promise in real dollars as soon as we can,
and then let us provide for the payment Of
our other bonds when they are due.
The Democratic party says, Let us refuse
to recognize the promise of the legal tender
notes, and let us force the creditors of the
Government, who hold bonds bearing in
terest, to take in place Of them these notes
which bear no interest, and which we never
intend to pay.
The Democratic party says, These five
twenty bonds were given to men who furn
ished the United States army with shot and
she'll and powder with which some Of our
brethern who else would have been here in
convention with us, were murdered. Shall
we pay such obligations? NJ. let us tax
them let US ignore the fact that the income
Of these bonds is now taxed in the same
manner as all other income! let US deceive
the people by the false statement that they
are not taxed, and then, under the guise Of
taxation, let US confscate them. We care
not for widows and orphans or savings
banks which hold these bonds; we appeal
not to reason or to principal; our power has
always been in the ignorance of our follow
crs and is so still.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-10-03
SeymOlIr's "Friends.o

1t is falsely asserted that Seymour address
ed the peace loving citizens of New York,
and not the rioters, when he called his au-
dience of black-guards, incendiaries, and
murderers, his " friends Well, here is
the speech that he made on Tuesday, July
Nth, 1868:
"My friends, l have come down here
from the quiet of the country to see what
was the difficulty, to learn what all this
trouble was concerning the draft. Let me
assure you that am your friend. (Uproar-
ious cheerng.) You have been my friends
ferries of Yes, yes!' That's sol! we
are, and will be again!' land now Iassure
you, my fellow citizens that | am here to
show you test ofmy friendship. Cheers.
l wish to inform you that have sent my ad-
jutant general to Washington to confer with
the authorities there and have this draft sus-
pended and stopped. (Vociferous cheers. }
| ask you as good citizens to wait for his re-
turn and | assure you that l will do all
that can to see that there is no inequality
to take good care of all property as good
citizens, and see that every person is safe.
The safe keeping Of property and persons
rests with you, and | charge you to disturb
neither. 1t is your duty to maintain the
good order of the city, and | know you will
do it. | wish you now to separate as good
citizens, and you can assemble again wher'
ever you wish to do so. l ask you to leave
all to me now, and | will see to your rights.
Wait until my adjutant returns from Wash
ington, and you will be satisfied. Listen tc
me, and sec that there is no harm done tc
persons or property, but retire peaceably."
The riot was got up on account Of the
draft, and Seymour, it will be seen, promis
: ed his friends that the draft should be {" sus
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-10-03
For The Cecil WI
TO A STAR.

BLESSED world above, so bright and clear,
Stretch out your arms with welcome;
Take US away from this earthly sphere
Away from its cares and continual hum,
Where balmy and invigorating breezes blow,
Among fowery groves, where crystal rivers
flow.
Oft in midnight hours, when you were gaz-
ing down
On this our home so earthly,
I've thought how fitting for the Maker s
crown
You for gem set in his diadem would be
Then stretch out your arms, and guide our
feet
To your vallies fair and mountains steep.
Could we but soar away with angel wings
To your bless'd home above,
And there behold most wonderous things,
And bask in beatitudes of love
Where living waters flow and ne'er cease,
And infinite pleasure comes with gratitude
and peace.
Who laid your foundation stone,
And built on it world so grand?
Was it Jehovah, and Him alone,
That made your seas and land?
He. too, made our orb, and set it on chaos
to rest
He calrd it out of nothing, yet it came by
His request.
Perchance ours form so bright gem in
space
As you and millions do;
Why then do we lament, or seek another
place,
If we have SO bright a home as you?
Oh We cry, discontinued mortals we,
Father, Creator of worlds, take US from our
captivity.
Perchance, too, yours is the heritage Of
death, disease, decay
A wilderness like this we wander in,
Where all things fairest soonest pass away ;
If so, let each 10 his own orb cling, though
full of sin,
Till mother open her arms to receive US,
And give US our birthright-the grave! the
dust! It's.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-10-03

the spot then, as though inspired by heaven
itself, the child also stretched out its little arms
heard by all, the single word:
Papa"
And then as though dcsparing of success, hud-
died into its mothers bosom, and burst into
sobbing cry.
1t was more than the Rangers could stand,
and after short consultation, the rope was
taken from the criminals neck, and the band
left the spot; and Burt became reformed man
though the powerful effects of his " Infants
anpoal ~
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-10-03

-Artcmus Ward once had an adventure
in Boston which resulted as follows:
returned in the boss cart part way. A
pooty girl in spactacles sot near me, and
was tellin' young man how much he re-
minded her OF a young man she used to
know in Waltham. Poorly soon the young
man got ont, and smiling in seductive
manner, | said to the girl in spectacles:
''Don't remind you Of some one you
used to know?H'
YES" she said, "you do remind me of
one man, but he was sent to the pententiary
for stealth a barrel of mackeral; he died
there so conclsod you amt him."
l didn't pursoo the conversation.
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The Two Copperheads.
TCNE-" Three Blind Nice.

Two Copperheads two Copperheads!
See how they gaze! see how they gaze!
They look to the North and they look to the
South,
They look everywhere to see the White
House;
But they will find it is nix cum arouse,
To two Copperheads! to two Copperheads !!
Two Copperhcads two Copperheads!
See how they run! see how they run!
They run to get into the President chair
But they will find a great General there,
One who will make them stop and stare
These two Copperheads! these two Copper
heads
Two Copperheads! two Copperheads!
Hear how they hiss! hear how they hiss
They hiss at the niger, but want his aid
While they are making another big raid,
But Sambo is still little afraid
OF two Copperheads! two Copperheads
Two Copperheads two Copperheads!
See how they coil see how they coil!
They coil to destroy our nation again,
But they will find their heads full of pain,
For they shall be bruised and both CT them
slain
Two dead Copperheads two dead Copper
heads,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-10-03

GoDEY's LADY's Book presents splendid
colored fashion-plate for October, of six
figures, while the double sheet presents every
article of dress from lady's walking boot
to chignon. The music for the October
number is arranged for the guitar, and is
very pretty, entitled "The Silver Moon. -
' hear the morn with her silver horn
Arousing the valleys fair:
l see the light on her forehead white,
With dew on her cleaning hair:
Her rosy hand on the mountains grand,
Her feet on the sleeping seas,
The islands wake on the misty lake,
From their deep and dresmful ease"
The Book in all its departments is up to its
usual standard of beauty and merit. Price
of single copy, $500 year. Published by
l.. A. Cooley, Philadelphia.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-10-03

pended and stopped.' The audience was
so peace loving that it was necessary to as
sure them that New York would nullify
law ofthe United States o dear friends
Seymour says, stop your miscellaneous burn
ing and killing, and all you require shall be
given unto you boston Transcript.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-10-03
GOODS
AT LESS THAN CITY PRICES,
MEETINGS OF
County commissioners.

nNlIE regular meetings of the County Com
l. missioncrs will be held on the second Tues
DAY of every month.
Persons having claims against the County,
will please file the same in the Commissioners
Office, with a legal voucher; as no account will
be allowed not properly chargeabc to the same.
Collectors and others having accounts to be
the recess of til. Board BY Order
VIM. r. MILLER Clerk
Commissioners of Cecil county.
Dee II, lSG7-y
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-10-03
Correspondence of The Cecil WI
Letter from Tennessee.

CRossvILLE, Cumberland Co., Tenn,
Sept. %, 1868. !
Mr.. EDIroR Il thought perhaps few
lines from our place would be interesting to
you and your many readers, so will try
briefly to give you an outline of our where
abouts. Our county belongs to East Ten
nessee, on the table lands or plateau OF the
Cumberland Mountains, lis miles east Of
Nashville, IS miles west of Knoxville, 200
miles south of Cincinnati, IS miles north of
Chattanooga, and about 3, 200 feet above the
level of the sea. Our county is mostly pop
ulated now by northern and eastern people.
We have a very pleasant climate to live in,
and undoubtedly one OF the heal.hiest In
the known world. The thermometer seldom
raises above $50 in summer, and never below
l6o above zero in winter. The county is
filling up with intelligent and industrious
people, all enterchangng ideas, and the re-
suit is that we have good farmers, mechan-
les, &c.
We are strictly loyal, and hail the name
of the nations chief, for President, General
Grant, and the great statesman. Colfax, for
Vice President. This county will pole about
seven votes for Seymour. 1 will give you
the returns of the election when it comes
off.
We have with US several from old Cecil,
among whom are several of our most prac-
teal farmers.
We have good crops this year, (oats only
excepted,) and plenty of good fruit Of most
all kinds We can raise here from 800 to
500 bushels of Irish potatoes per acre. Our
land produces sorghum excellent in quality
and great in quantity. We will have in Oc-
tober our first annual agricultural fair. Land
sells from 50 to $l2 per acre.
1t is one of the best countries for raising
stock. Cattle, sheep and hogs go through
the winter with little or no feed, and get fat
enough for the drover by the first of August.
We want more mechanics and good farm
ers among us. Forty families are on their
way here from Pennsylvania and New York,
to arrive by the last of this month. A. L. s.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-10-03

General Dix, the American Minister to
Paris, has sent the following letter to
friend in New York. 1t was not written for
publication, but the gentleman to whom it
was addressed has consented to give it to
the public
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-10-03

A Frenchman, who had purchased a coun-
try seat, was complaining of the want of birds
in his garden. Set some traps" replied an
old officer, land they'll come. l was once in
Africa, ard there wasn't supposed to dc a wo-
man within two hundred miles. l hung a pair
of earrings and collar upon tree, and the
next morning I found two women uuler the
branches
Rufus Choa.e used to say that the three most
troublesome clients he ever had were a young
lady that wanted to get married, II married
woman that wanted divorce, and an old maid
that didn't know what she wanted
The millennium has begun overin Jersey
A large number of single women, near Vineand
have turned Farmers. They gain health and
strength by the work, and make their farms
perfect models.
-" was stranger, and they took mo ill.,"
said man at one of the police stations. GLOW
much did they take you in?" asked a by stand
er. " All the money in my pockets, and all my
brains for about ten hours" was the reply.
Why is the bridegroom worth more than
the bride? Because she is given away and
he is sold. What shocking bad conun-
drum that is.
We should suit circumstances to ourselves
when we can. The next best thing is to suit
ourselves to circumstances. This ia the secret
of getting along.
A shipload of Indian scalps has arrived
in Paris, to appear on fashionable heads
next season.
When u man rants, it is sign he wants
brains when lie cants he wants heart
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-10-03

Open communion has strong hold on
the Baptists OF California. Several of their
churches there invite 70 tls sacrament table
all who love our Lord Jesus,
We begin to die when we tegn 10 lisa,
and live by dying as we die by living.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-10-03

This letter Of General Dix is valuable
contribution to the good cause. He was
chairman of the celebrated Bread and But
ter Convention, which met in Philadelphia
on the 14th Of August, 1866, and was, per.
haps, the most formidable attempt ever
made to overthrow the Republican party.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-10-03

Every man that transcends natures laws In
youth is taking beforehand those treasures that
are stored mp for his old age; it is taking the food
that should have been his sustensnce in old age
and exhausiiDg it in riotous living in his youth
Betcher.
The Montana post., 1868-10-09
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Governor General of India gets
SIC. 0.400 per month.
The National Government of Mexico
is about TO establish military academy
on the plan of West Point.
Locomotives in Mexico are named
from the saints
Prussia can count one hundred and
forty four millionaires
The Government of Hayti has tempo-
rarily monopOlized coffee, to meet the
expenses of the war.
Two storied cars have been put on
the railroad from Copenhagen to klom-
penburg. that can accommodate one
hundred passengers each.
The peninsula on which Mount Sinai
rests is 10 be surveyed to determine the
true line of march of the Jews from
Egypt, and the true mountain of the
law.
Three stock or exchange brokers on
the Paris Exchange have recently sold
out their business, realizing the re-
spective sums of S4S0,0O0, $30O,0OO and
$270.0O0.
The income of the Prince OF Wales,
which amounts to S500.C00 per annum,
is too small for his expenses, and he
proposes TO ask for an increase from
Parliament.
AS high as thirty francs, or about six
dollars in gold, was paid for single
copy of NJ. ROchefort's last effort in the
cause of equal rights in the suppressed
LdHterRe.
band of brigands recently made a
raid On a sheep farm at Fenza, South
Italy, and killed 900 sheep, stating at
the time that il would serve as lesson
to the proprietor, who previously had
taken active steps against them.
In 1865 the consumption of cigars in
France amounted to 200 000,0 900 in num-
ber. The Government price is one cent
each. Chewing tobacco is increasing in
demand. In 1861, the consumption was
534 tons. which rose to 634 tons in 1865.
Honolulu advices of Sept. 5th have
been received at San Francisco. The
reported sinking of the south eastern
shore of Hawaii is confirmed. The same
occurrence was observed at Port Hilo.
The subsistence at Hawaii in some places
was from three to four feet; at others
from six to seven feet; while at Hilo the
greatest subsistence was noticed, being
eight feet and eight inches. In Hilo,
Puma and Kan, from one to FIVE EARTH
quakes occur daily. Considerable smoke
was arising from Kilana, but little fire
was visible. The oscillations OF the
were remarkable. For three days the
sea rose and fell from three TO four feet
once every ten minutes.
The Montana post., 1868-10-09
POLITICAL.

The New York Herald says "All the
facts before us and all the signs OF the
times, indicate overwhelming triumph
to Grant and Colfax."
n. Wheeler, o: sewing machine fame,
is said to be a candidate for the next
Democratic nomination for Governor of
Connecticut.
Horatio Seymour's speeches, messa-
ges. proclamations. etc, since 1866, are
published and advertised as a Republi-
can campaign document.
The Hartford Post says the only luck
the Democrats ever had in Vermont was
when they carried st. Albans, during
the war. That time they came in from
Canada.
A Democrat in the interior of Ohio,
says the Government is in debt 81 800,
the most of which was expended in bu
renus and other useless furniture for the
negroes, and id if I'll vote with a
party that lays out money in that way"
The Albany Journal cautions Frank
Blair To remember when ne threatens
violent resistance, that the majority of
his supporters are under parole not TO
bear arms against Gen. Grant.
In the procession a. the immense Re
publican mass meeting in Bangor, Me-,
there was a battalion of returned SOL
diers and sailors, who bore their tattered
old battle flags, and this significant
legend, 1--WE go for Seymour as we went
for Lee"
The World wants Republican orators
to "learn n lesson of candor from the
speakers on the Democratic side" High
old teachers of "candor" they are
They'd better open a school for that pur-
pose, with John Morrissey to teach
morality. Fernando Wood honesty, Hora-
ito Seymour Statesmanship, and Wade
Hampton patriotism, in the same build
ing.
Regan, the late rebel Postmaster Gen1
a few days ago in a speech at Galveston,
said The duty of the Southerners is
TO obey the laws, accept the situation
with regard to suffrage as IL now stands,
and like true and honest men, TO labor
for the restoration of peace and harmony
between the sections" That is the
right doctrine. Those who advocate IL
will find their wrongs rapidly vanishing.
The Carlinville Qll) Democrat says
that at late Democratic rally in that
neighborhood, just three hundred ban
ners were carried, each one of which
bore the inscription, do you want to
marry a niggerf" The procession was
twelve hours passing given point, said
point being a grocery.
IL was disgust at the affiliation OF
white Democrats that drove Albert Pike
out of the editorial chair of the Menu
phis appeal lie said in his valedictory /:
I'VE shall not speak upon stand or
platform where q negro sits swelling in
the bloom of his majestic self-import-
ance. expecting his speech 20 be reported
in the AUalanche, and be declared an
orator superior TO many of another
color. When a negro is sandwiched be.
tween two white ones, 10 teach white
men and white women political truths,
IL will not be the entertainment TO
which we have been invited"
The Montana post., 1868-10-09
INKLINGS.

An order of discharge-"FIre /"
The olive is doing well in Australia.
Bismarck eats opium by advice OF
physicians.
A Brooklynite killed himself TO escape
a mother-in law.
Basle. in Switzerland, boasts of a
newspaper nearly 200 years old.
That spot on the sun is nearly $4,000
miles long.
Banana trees in Florida are bending
to the earth with fruit.
The Davenport brothers have returned
to Buffalo, wealthy.
The Government cemeteries have cost
S3.570000.
The latest Kentucky wonder is dog
that has Matched aud is rearing a brood
of chickens.
Paris has no steam fire engines, and
the hand engines are old fashioned and
stupidity managed.
An autograph letter of Washington
TO Henry Laurens sold for about $50 in
London recently.
The introduction of startling French
dances is making the fortune of the
London music halls.
Timber, il as stated. rendered fre>
proof by impregnating it with silicates,
is used extensively in Germa any for floor
ing planks, doors, and staircases.
Forty-two miles of board fence en-
closes farm of 1900 acres in Illinois.
which is subdivided by 90 miles of
hedge.
AT Memphis, a forger was recently
released because the note he forged did
not bear the requisite Government
stamp.
Fashions latest novelty is a necklace
of black velvet, fitting tightly To the
throat. and on which are seen small gold
or gilt bells.
The residents at the foot of Look out
Mountain, Tennessee, have left, as the
mountain is cTumbling and falling down.
A 800 ton clod fell off the other day, aud
gravel stones as large as churches roll
down.
Prussia is exercised about the number
of French ARTISTS" whose devotion to
the picturesque leads them to sketch
about the Rhine towns and Notifications.
Miss Shoddy-" Lor', I'm so dull %
What-"Nothinga at all. Pm eaauied to
death J" Mrs. Shoddy-"Well,r ring the
bell tor John. Well have the cook up
and scold her-just to kill time.
A ballet girl in the Notre Dame thea
tire, at Milan, caught her clothes on fire
at the footlights. one recent evening,
and ran against the curtain, set it, and
by it the theatre on fire. Actors and
audience all escaped, but the building
was in ashes in twenty minutes, and the
manager, losing everything by the fire,
cut his throat the next morning
The business men of Great Britain
have organized mutual protective socie-
ties throughout the United Kingdom for
supplying commercial information, col
lecting debts, and other matters. These
societies now possess 2 800 branches, aud
number about 20,300 members, for
whom, during the last year, 77,O06 in
quiries have been made. "a, 700 applied
for, and $1,15000O collected, besides
other assistance rendered.
The Montana post., 1868-10-09

Gen. j. B. Magruder recently lectIIred
at Saratoga Springs on Maximilian. He
declared that il was Napoleon's desire
10 encourage the Confederate cause and
to break up the Union If possible and
the invasion of Mexico was made To
accomplish those ends, and at the same
time 10 get a foothold on the continent.
Macmillan. he said on the contrary.
favored the Union and sympathized
with the North and hoped to obtain
recognition of tho North to introduce
American ideas and enterprise into Mex
leo TO develop its resources. Ur
The Montana post., 1868-10-09
M. G. FUGAT.

UT TANTED-Informaiion Of the above person
wv Important interests ~ stake. Aadrsss
q. HARRISON. Silver Bow, N.
The Montana post., 1868-10-09

There are IL .353 manufactures of Re
publican votes in Ohio We mean school
The Montana post., 1868-10-09
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