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Smyrna times., 1869-09-29

On and after MONDAY, SEPT. 18th, the
- STEAMER JERSEY BLUE"
- CAPT. VIM. T. CAMPBELL,
WILL MAKE 3 TRIPS A WEEK,
Betvesu PHILAD'A and SMYRNA CREEK
LANDINGS:
Leave ROTHWELL'S LANDING: Mondays,
Wednesdays FridaVs, at 12 o'clock.
Leave PHILADELPHIA, First Wharf below
Arch Street, Tuesdays. Thursdays, Saturdays. at 9
o'clock A. NJ.
Stopping both ways at BRICK STORE and
EAGLES NEST LANDINGS.
FARE-between Smyrna and Philadelphia, S125
do do Landings 1.nO
ASTAGE will run from Smyrna, in connection
with the Boat, leaving the Hotels about ii o'clock,
and will call for and deliver passengers at their
residences.
Freight delivered in Smyrna at reasonable rates,
a share of which is respectfully solicited.
Information about Freight, &C.. will be furnished
al the Store Of TRUAX & RASH, where Orders
and Commissions for the City will be promptly at
tended to.
& July 2lst, 1862 E. B. TAGGART.
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29
POeI%Y.
"OUR DAILY BREAD"

beggar boy stopped at a rich mans door
II am homeless, and friendless and faint and poor"
Said the beggar boy, as the tear rolled
Down his thin cheek, blanched with want and cold.
20 give me crust from your board to-day,
To help the beggar boy on his way ~
Meta crust nor crumb," the rich man said,
20 Be off and work for your daily bread"
The rich man went to the parish church,
His face grew grave as he trod the porch
And the thronging poor, the untaught mass,
Drew back to let the rich man pass.
The service began; the choral hymn
Arose and swelled through the long aisles dim,
The rich man knelt, and the words he said,
Were, "CTive us this day our daily bread"
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29
SPEECH OF zACmAR1AH spICER.

On the question, (which enjoys the great
est amount Of happiness the bachelor or the
married man p
Mr.. President and Gentlemen, rise to ad-
vocate the cause Of the married man. And
why should | not? | claim to know something
about the institution-I do Will any gentle
man pretend to say do notP Let him accom-
pany me home. Let me comfort him with my
wife and seventeen small children, and decide.
High as the Rocky Mountains tower above
the Mississippi Valley, does. the married man
tower above the bachelor
What was Adam before he got acquainted
with Eve What, but poor, shiftless, help
less creature? No more to be compared with
his after self than mill dam to the roaring
cataract LApplause]
| Gentlemen there was time, blush to say,
when was bachelor; and :, more miserable
creature you could hardly expect to find
Every day l toiled hard, and at night 1 came
home to my comfortless garret-no carpet, no
fire, no nothing. Everything was in a clutter,
and in the words Of the poet: Confusion
was monarch of all | surveyed"
Here lay pair of dirty pants, there dirty
pair of boots, there dirty play-bill and here a
pile of dirty clothes. What wonder that |
took refuge at the gaming table and bar-room
| found it never would do, gentlemen, and in a
lucky moment | vowed to reform. Scarcely
had the promise passed my lips when knock
was heard at my door, and in came Susar
Simpkins after my soiled clothes.
" MIR. Spicer," says she, I've washed fo
you for six months, and haven seen the frs
red cent in the way Of payment! Now I'd like
| to know what you are going to do about it II
felt in my pocket book. There was moth
, ing in it. | haven't got the stamps. wis
for your sake that had"
8 ether" said she, promptly, 81 don't was
f another rag for you'll
"Stopl" said l. "Susan will do tn
t best can for you. Greenbacks have none
but if my heart and hand will do, they are a
F.! your service"
o Are you in earnest?" says she, looking
Il little suspicious
h Never more So" says |.
e Then" says she, as there seems to
b no prospect OF getting my pay any other wa
| guess LII take up with your offer.
m Enough - said l. We were married in
e, week and what's more, we haven't had eau
lr to repent it.
d No more attics for me, gentlemen. live
= good house, and have somebody to mend n
M clothes. When | was poor, miserable bac
er elor, gentlemen, l used to be as thin as we
is sci. Now, l am as plump as poker.
''' In conclusion, gentlemen, if you want to
lie a poor, ragged fellow, without coat to 20
back or shoe to your feet; if you want
grow old before your time, and to be unco
Is Portable generally as 9 hedgehog rolled
the wrong way" l advise you to remain
GU bachelor but if you want to live decently a
respectfully, get married I've got ten daue
nt- ters, gentlemen, Overwhelming applause, a
re you may have your pick
(Mr. Spicer sat down amid loud and cont
ued plaudits. The generous proposal W
ne which he concluded secured him FIVE sons
laW.)
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

When female architects abound,
Who skfully design and plan
When female builders can be found
Whose work will vie with that of man
When female shippers have command
OF female ship and female crew
When female warriors fill our land,
What is there left tor males TO dol
When women shall the gospel preach;
When women clerks infest each store;
When women Giplomates shall reach
High seats within the Write House door;
When tiny hands receive the pence
On city cars and STAGES too
What in the name OF common sense,
Is left for Outcast men to do?
"Why not exchange" says thoughtlcss wight,
Hush! seuseess nsn-you only rant.
We would with pleasure if We might
But God has fixed it 50 We CAN'T
The babies must be born and nursed
BY FEMALE mothers, therefore, lew
or gentler mould can e'er be cursed
With what we dresd-no work to do.
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29
MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Ts.-It is use

MATRIMONIAL, ADVERTISEMENTS. Ts.-It is use
less as we'll as indelicate to insert them. No
respectable Young man would receive as a wife
a Young woman who advertised for husband;
No modestly disposed young woman would
dare look in the face of young man whom
She met as the result of such an dvertisement.
Swindlers and other men of the basest inten-
tions are the only ones who answer matrimo-
NAL advertisements
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29

GovERNMENT.-The eccentric Elder s.,
well known to many as an active and earnest
Baptist preacher, onoe said from the pulpit:
"They say there's no family government now
adays. But there isl tell you there is-just
as much as there ever was but cleaning
over the pulpit, and lowering his voice into !.
this: when grew up the old folks governed
the young ones, butnow the young ones govern
the old ones" "
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29
THE BRIDES DEPARTURE.

The bride of an hour stood smiling;
Her mother in tears was near by;
For the pet Of her life, sSbcguilng."
Wac soon to bid her goodbye
Her friends tried vainly to cheer her,
To stop the tears that fast fell,
And she clasped her daughter still nearer
And in agony uttered farewell!
The groom with his bride has departed;
To journey far off in strange lands.
And the mother cries out broken-hearted,
"Well! I'm glad that gals off my hands"
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29

A strange story is reported from San Fran
cisco that document has been found on the
California coast, cast away in the water by the
crew of Sir John Franklin last expedition to
the North Pole. 1t gives an account of the. de.
sertion of one of the ships, and of the death Of
Sir John Franklin on the l4th of June, lS47
The document indicates that it was cast away
at point over six hundred miles north of Par
nv Island, the northern point Of Greenland.
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29

Rev. DIR. Mckinney, an aged Presbyterian,
one of the prosecutors of Rev. Mr. Linn in the
recent trial at Pittsburg, is reported to have
uttered the following in his argument: " He
knew, from pleasant experience, forty years
ago, that Young ladies' would struggle. even
when they did not object to being kissed.
They struggled that there might be more hug
ging done.
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29

The Richmond Inquirer says that Baltimore
is the Monumental City; ST. Louis is the
Mound City Philadelphia is the Quaker City ;
New York is the Empire City; fredericksburg
is the Finished City; Petersburg is the Big
City; and Richmond is the City of Brass
Bands, consisting principally of drum and
one tune.
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29

The Boston Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals are after a gentleman who
keeps o boa constructor for his own private edi-
ication, and who feeds the snake on living cats.
The owner claims that the serpent will not eat
any but living food, and that to save the
cats he would be compelled to starve the snake,
which would also be an act Of great cruelty.
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29

They have good joke on rising young
lawyer of Troy His eloquenoe had cleared
man charged with issuing counterfeit money;
and the grateful man had given him fifty doll
lars for his services. He tried to use some OF
the money after tho fellow left the town, and
found that every dollar of it was counterfeit.
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29

The first chapter in Western novel has the
following; "All of sudden the fair girl con-
tinued to sit on the sand, gazing upon the bri-
ny deep, on whose beaving bosom the tall ships
went merrily by, freighted-ah who can tell
with how much of joy and sorrow, and pine
lumber and em;grants, and hopes and salt
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29

The Rev. Dr. Stowe, husband of Mrs Ii. b.
Stowe, being in Canada, was introduced to an
English gentleman, who expressed himself very
glad to see him, and added, " should be
much more pleased to see your wife. 4" YES"
said Dr. Stowe, $50 should l.
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29

There is a couple living in Lynn, Mass. who.
in sixteen years Of married life, have resided in
no less than sixteen different towns and cities,
and taken up their quarters in twenty eight
different houses. During this =" moving" PEI
riod the lady has become the mother Of eleven
children
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29

An old miner at Avondale proposes that
hereafter all the miners give one days pay to-
ward the fund for the benefit of the widows
and orphans. BY this means, he says, they
can raise $4,000. He has given his first days
wages, since the disaster, to the cause.
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29

An Irish paper says: DR. Hayes wishes to
go North again, No Arctic explorer is really
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29

Tt is said that under the new system OF ex-
tracing alcohol from garbage, palatable artl-
Gle Of beer may be obtained from old boots.
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29

"Bob, how is your sweetheart getting
along?" f.4
Pretty we'll she says 1 needn't call any
mora
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29

The gas is reported to be SO bad in Erie, Pa,
that the boy who puts it out has to take o
lantern to find the posts.
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29

"What ails your eye. Joe?' q"
Il told a man he lied," replied Joe, 8.
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29
.+.- The
DELAWARE HOUSE
HOTEL,
SMYRNA, DELAWARE,
THOS. L. SUTLIFF, Proprietor.

The we'll knswn brlck Hotel: g 6elng now under
ne desires express 10 the public his thanks for the
liberal patronage heretofore gwen the house. during
h, connection with it, and TO ask its continuance
which he hopes merit by we'll directed efforts to
provide for the comfort and enjoyment Of his guests,
and 70 eaye nothing undone that the most fasIdious
could desire.
The rooms have been placed in the most thorough
order The Table is we'll provided with all the
staples and LUXURIES the market affords Those
living in the town or in the city. when minus Of help
Al hOme can always find my table ready to meet the
wish Of those who wish board by the meal, day week
month or year, at the lowest possible rates.
THE BAR
I, we'll stocked with fine assortment of the Choicest
Liquors.
Eyoerienced Cooks. attentive servants, and all de-
nrmined to give complete satisfaction,
August llth. 1869. Il. L. SUTLTFF.
Smyrna times., 1869-09-29
SMYRNA AND PHILADELPHIA
STEAMBOAT LINE.
CHANGE OF HOURS.

On and after MONDAY, SEPT. 18th, the
- STEAMER ''JERSEY BLUE"
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-17
OBITUARY.
Lord Stnnley Of AIderIeY.

The death of Lord Stanley of Alderley,
British statesman of considerable eminence, is
announced by cable telegram. Edward John
Stanley, second Baron of the name, was born in
1902 at Alderley, in the county of Chester, being
descended from one of the cadet branches of the
great house of Stanley, of which the Earl of
Derby is the distinguished head. After having
graduated at the University of Oxford, Lord
Stanley entered the House of Commons in 1881,
as member for the county of his birth. He acted
with the Wing party, and became Secretary
of the Colonies, and afterward of the Home
Department. under Lord Grey's administration.
Upon the formation of Lord Melbourne's Cabi
net Lord Stanley became Secretary of the
Treasury; and afterward when Lord John
Russell became Premier, Lord Stanley was
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
By the influence of Lord John Russell he was
Eddisbury; bat in 1850 he succeeded to the
hereditary peerage of Alderley by the demise of
his father, the first Baron. In 1853 the cele-
brated coalition Ministry was formed, with Lord
Aberdeen and Lord John Russell as the lead
ing spirits; and under this Ministry Lord STAN
ley accepted the Office of Vice-Presdent of the
Board of Trade, to which he sui sequently added
the duties of Paymaster-General of the Forces.
These offices he retained until the fall of the
Aberdeen Ministry and the assumption by Lord
Paimerston of the Office of Premier in 1855 In
this Cabinet he held the Vice-Presidency of the
Board of Trade only, but became also member
of the Privy Council. The advent of Lord
Derby to power relieved Lord Stanley of the
cares of office, and he has not figured very con-
spicuOusly in politics since, although his
speeches in the House of Lords always COM
manded attention. Lord Stanley married in 1926
a daughter of Viscount Dillon, by whom he had
eight children; the eldest, Henry, was formerly
Secretary of Legation at Athens. Baron Stan
ley, of Alderley, was in the sixty-seventh year
OF his age at the time OF his death.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-17
National Banks Asking for Coupon
BOndS-The Great Boston Noise
President Grants Plea
sure 1'rip-The Depar-
ture of Minister
Curtin from
New York.
Affairs in the Mining Regions
-Vacillating Course of the
Laborers - The Mines
Now Being Worked.
FROM THE STATE.

The Hyde Park Miners Determined not TO
WOrk-ResumptiOn of Labor in Several
bIinCs-The Basis.
Special Despatch to The EUenilg Telegraph.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, June 17.-About seven
hundred miners attended the meeting at Hyde
Park yesterday. The question of resumption
was discussed at great length, and the miners,
by almost a unanimous vote, decided to stay out
until they got the basis rate if it took them ten
years to accomplish it..
At meeting of all the Luzerne county dele
gates, held at Pttstown on Tuesday, it was voted
that all the miners who can get the basis will 90
to work at once, and that those who cannot get
the basis must stay out until they do. A resolu-
ton was adopted, providing that wherever work
is resumed, three men shall be put in each
chamber instead of two, so that the men out on
suspension may have partial work, or enough to
support them for the time being.
Work commesced this morning at the works
of Messrs. Swoyer & Hillman.
At the mines of Messrs. Harvey near Ply
mouth, the men turned out yesterday to go to
work, but they had no sooner entered the mines
than they left again in a body. They were
asked to resume work at the old rate. They
were under the impression that they would be
allowed the basis and upon ascertaining the
mistake, threw down their tools.
The basis in force in and about Wilkesbarre is
S719 cents per car, with coal at $5 at Hoboken.
and 1875 per cent. increase for all labor as coal
advances in price.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-17
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.

Court of Quarter SessiOns-Judge Ludlow.
In the case of the three colOred persons charged
with assault and battery upon Police Onicer
Mclaughlin, No. 115 the jury convicted Alexander
Martin, who was sent to prison for fifteen days. and
the other defendants were acquitted.
Prison cases were before the Court to-day.
Henry Herbert, rusty looking old gent, was con-
vcted Of habitual assaults and batteries upon his
wife, being moved to such abuses 10y an excessive
use of liquor.
William Allen and Amos Harvey were tried for
assault and battery upon coOred man. 1t was
testified that as the prosecutor was evening re-
Gently walking past Seventh and Bedford streets, he
was attacked by two men and cruelty beaten. He
recognized and identified Allen, but was not posi-
tive as to Harvey, and therefore the jnry acquitted
the latter and convicted the former
William Williams pleaded guilty to charge OF
larceny.
George Bryant pleaded guilty to charge OF
larceny.
John Benson pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny
Peter Jackson pleaded guilty to a charge OF
larceny.
Christian Brown pleaded guilty to a charge OF
assault and battery.
This disposed of all the prisoners, and the remain
der of the day taken up with case the details
of which are unfit for publication.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-17
OUR DEBT.
A Sensible Comment by a London Journal.

AsensIbIe Comment by n London Journal.
The following extract from the London Times
s of unusual interest to 1--WE Americans
Apparently the Americans are never tired Of
looking into their affairs" We ourselves have
accounts of very similar character to keep,
but we put them out of sight, If not out of mind.
Perhaps not one Englishman out of fifty can
say within ten millions or so what is the amount
of our national debt, whether it is rising or fall
ing; indeed we hardly know how the Information
is to be acquired except from the statements
annually made by the Chancellor of the EX-
chequer. But the Americans won't keep their
skeleton in the cupboard. They take II out
on the first OF every month ana put the
bones together, and count the joints, and
90 through the whole articulation with extra
ordinary precision and relish. dozen times n
year, at the very least, our own kilograms report
the exact dimensions, weight, and tendency of
the American debt as just certified by authority
with its increase or decrease, as the case may
be- since the last stock-taking q week or two
before. Sometimes the figures seem to go up,
sometimes down; but they are displayed to the
whole nation in black and white and with an
official certificate ofaccuracy The meaning of
all this is that the Americans do not look upon
their debt as we look on ours. They are deter
mined not to regard it as n permanent burden.
We having learned patience under our load,
are content to provide the interest annually
required, and leave the principal to take care
of itself In point of fact, some our
most liberal statesmen have been distinctly
opposed to any reduction of the debt when op-
portunities were offered. Mr.. Golden, for in
stance, maintained that it would be far better
to reduce taxation, or simply revenue, than to
bring the amount of debt down by million or
two; and the opposite school, represented by
Mr.. Gladstone can hardly be said to have pre-
vailed to much purpose in giving effect to their
views. But Americans of all schools appear to
concur in doctrine exactly the contrary. How
ever much they may differ on other questions
of financial policy, they are all one in
assuming that the public debt cannot be left rs
it is. 1t must be gradually reduced and uti-
mately extinguished. The citizens of the Union
are not going to carry this clog about them for
ever.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-17
STRUCK DEAD.
Fatal Result of n Prize-Fight.

A terrible affair happened on the banks of
Cayuga Lake, New York. on Saturday. Two
men named Donnelly and Mcclure had some
dispute with regard to their physical strength.
Donnely, who is a large, heavily built man, of
no particular pugilistic skill, had frequently
boasted that he could lick MCGUIRE who wasYa
stout, wiry man, weighing some thirty pounds
less than Donnelly. Mcclure had a local repu-
tation as boxer. Each man had q crowd of
friends, who angrily canvassed the strength of
their favorites, and did everything in their
power to bring about fight. At last the pre-
liminarles were arranged, and small sums of
money were steked upon the result. The fight
took place on Saturday afternoon, at Ogden's
dock, on the west side of Cayuga Lake. Several
hundred persons were present. Seconds referee,
and an umpire were chosen and the fight began.
The first round was long and bloody one
but Donnelly was finally sent to grass. In the
second round Mcclure gave Donnelly q terrific
upper cut, and Donnelly returned it by knock
ing McGulre into his corner. In the third round
Donnelly forced the fighting. Mcclure sprang
away from him, but was finally knocked through
the ropes. The fourth round opened with signs
OF fatigue on the part of Mcclure. Donnelly
punished him severely. The fifth round opened
with the closing of one of Donnelly's ewes
Mcclure closed in with him and threw him
heavily. The sixth, seventh, and eighth rounds
were marked by similar results At the be-
ginning OF the ninth round Donnelly, who had
been considerably blown, appeared to catch his
second WIND. After some fibbng he struck
Mcclure a powerful blow on the left temple.
Mcclure dropped to the ground like bar of
lead, gasped twice and died Donnelly gazed
at the corpse with bloody eyes and cried ''Mv
God, I've killed hin! o Jimmy speak TO me -
Ills friends urged him to fly. An alarm was
raised. 1t was said that the Sheriff's officers
were approaching. Donnelly drew on his coat,
broke through the ring, and fled like deer.
lie mas not since been seen, and it is said that he
is now in Canada.
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FROM NEW ENGLAND.
President Grant M Worces,er.

WORCESTER, Mass, June 17.-President Grant
will visit this place to-day, and will review the
public schools, and will be escorted through the
streets by the Highland Cadets and the Grand
Army of the Republic.
Anniversary of the Battle OF Bunker Hill.
BosToN, June 17.-To-day the 9th anniver-
sary of the Battle of Bunker Hill is being cele-
brated in the adjoining city of Charlestown with
much brilliancy. The celebration opened with
procession of antiques and horribes. This
was followed by mock peace jubilee. The
procession of the military and fire companies of
the city of Charestown, and off visiting company
from Maine, has just passed in review before
the city authorities. Crowds of people passed
over from Boston to witness the Charlestown cele-
bration. Tonight there will be grand outdoor
promenade concert