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Smyrna times., 1869-08-04
Political.

A conservative Republican from Mississippi,
who had an interview with President Grant on
Thursday, in relation to Mississippi politics,
reports the President as saying that he wished
for the success of the party that would carry
out the Reconstruction acts, ratity the Fifteenth
Amendment, and protect life and property In
the State.
Mr.. jenkins, Chairman of the Wells State
Central Committee in Virginia, recently pro-
posed union of the two parties to DIR. Gilmer,
Chairman of the Walker Committee. Gilmer,
in reply said the Walker men left the Wells
party because the latter opposed the Presl-
dents policy, and that the Wells men will be
welcomed when they enforce the principles ''Ot
which President Grant and Congress are the
head and front.
Ex-President Miard Fillmore and Mr.. Thur
low Weed met the other day in Saratoga and
renewed an acquaintance which had been ln-
terrupted by political differences for many
years.
Riqht iSen,tinlents- AT farewell festiva
| given by his friends it st. Louis to Mr.. Blow
the new minister to Brazil, he made an address
in which he urged as the condition OF sole
and enduring reconstruction the cultivation
of good feeling between the sections, and tn,
speedest possible ObliteratiOn Of feelings anC
disabilities arising out of the war. He said
." Let me open my heart to you plainly, to
| have never had but one view in regard to tn
settlement of our difficulties. | had pertec
faith in the high character, the honor and tn
nobility of our people. | had an undyin
faith in the strength of our republican institu
tions, and hence | decided that, justice an
! safety once secured, it was our clear duty I
e forget the past, and live only for the future
Let the world speculate as it will, all homes
: Ninds will agree that brave men are to B
trusted. Let the enemies of democratic inst
tutions hope for new discOrds, but for us "
will boldly proclaim that the men, North {
] South, East or West, in whose veins course
= the pure blood of our revolutionary father
are our brothers. What we want is reuniC
founded on the love of the people for eac
other, and on genuine attachment to free ii
stitutions; and such a result must flow fro
:, impartial justice. Let us reach that point, al
It on the moment the voice of the country W
3 proclaim us the first nation in the world. "
Hon. Horace Greeley addressed the peop
e of Lynchburg, Va, on Thursday night of la
k week. He said that, in his opinion, Walker
; platform embodied the only true grounds of I
it construction; that he was opposed to polite
disabilities, and advocated the protection
- the interests and rights of all classes
{ dwelt upon the material resources of Virgin
especially its unparalleled supplies of &C
- and iron, and its productive soil, and urged
!. young men Of the State to remain in the Stat
7 He was not very sanguine regarding coOe
!, Dor, and said that he thought labor was che
I enough now.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04
STATE AND LOCALS.

SHORT ITEMs.-H. Gerker, who owns the
big peach orchard near this town (the biggest
in the State) is erecting still to convert such
peaches as are two ripe to sell into peach bran
dy.
John G. Clark, a prominent citizen and
wealthy farmer of Delaware City, died on
Thursday last--aged II.
Among the episodes at Camden Camp was
the marriage Of one of the ministers-Rev Mr..
Shilling of Wilmington, to Miss Emma Mas
sey, Of Felton, formerly of this town.
1t is said that the act Incorporating the town
of Wyoming gives unmarried women subject to
tax the right Of Suffrage
| Judge Fisher, of the District Criminal Court
in Washington, LETT there Friday ON visit to
his former home In this State.
Forty-six carloads of peaches passed over the
| Del. railroad on Friday.
| Several parties from Phiad and New York
are, or have been ''rusticating" at the Delaware
House, in this town, the past week or so.
/ Smyrna might be made pleasant summer re-
sort-mOre so than many suburban towns ar
around Phila. that are now extensively visited.
Osceola, the celebrated trotting stallion,
owned by Geo. G. Lobdell, of Wilmington,
died at Marshalton, Chester county, Pa, Tues
day week, of inflammation OF the bowels He
was valued at from So, 600 to $4,000.
The Delaware Gazette says: The stalk ground
of Frank Holcomb, Esq. of New Castle Hun
: dred, yielded twenty nine bushels of wheat tC
the acre, OF excellent quality.
John Barney, formerly of this town, and ;
soldier and officer in the First Del Regiment
is now Postmaster in Augusta, Georgia.
Levi B. Moore, Sheriff of New Castle count,
in 1860 81, died at his residence in Mill Creel
Hundred on Thursday last. He was quite al
elderly man, and has been sick for some time
The Smyrna Loan Association sold its fund
: for 263 per cent last week. The damon
f State sold for 26a284.
t There are number of tramps" strollin
f aboutthe suburbs of this town. They are from
/, the city and have come to pick peaches, it
said. Some of them scratch rather lively.
Mr.. Antrem, contractor for the bricklaying
> commenced work on the town hall this morn
e ing
i Two thousand baskets of peaches were shir
n ped from Clayton Monday. The shipment
= will now fall off till next week when the Trotf
come on. The prices have ranged from 81
$l.75 per basket, which is satisfactory.
Read the adver. of +. l. BOckover & Co.
$ another column. Mr.. Jas. III. Gotten is the
J. agent for peach shipments.
N The lightning killed valuable cow belongir
& to Peter Meredith on A. p. Griffith farm,
10 the Alley, few days since.
" The store of VIM. N. Hastings at Delma
= Sussex, was burned Monday night. Lo
ie 81 $25O0-partially insured.
Supt. Sewall of Del. Railroad went to Mi
t. ngton yesterday to formally open the Kent
s Queen Annes railroad.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

The Denton (Md.) Journal has come out in
favor of 6 accepting the issue;" in other words
it means the Democracy must take hold of
the negro suffrage question. 1t says that the
recent election in Virginia renders it certain
that the fifteenth amendment will be adopted,
and when this result is upon us it will be no
time to :alk about antecedent circumstances
1t says:
"This will be the veriest folly, for it will not
tend to mitigate the evil, if evil there be, nor
will temporary opposition prevent its ultimate
triumph. Looking then upon the certain and
speedy conferment of the right of suffrage upon
this class of people, it is duty, high and holy,
which we owe to ourselves and society, to teach
them how to guard their best interest and
rights, and vote with proper conception OF
where their true interest is centered."
This is the cue of several leading papers
of the party, which we have named in for
mer article, and particularly the sentiments Of
Judge Abbott, Of Massachusetts, who has just
written letter to the Tammany Democrats Of
New York that reconstruction and negro suf
frage are settled, right or wrong Twenty-tw
States have already adopted the amendment
and only five more are required to make thc
necessary three fourths The ancient politi
clans may as well give up the discussion of al
issue hopelessly dead and make some new one
with some vitality in them.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

Our CONTEMPORARIES ON THE RAMPAGE
The Wilmington papers have been throwing
mul at each other for some time, in party
spite about the city council the city basin,
the Third street bridge, etc, but it is now TAX
ing wider range, en- different issue, and not
altogether partisan in its turn. A dispute has
arisen concerning the contract for printing the
journals of the Legislature. The Commercial
says three parties of Wilmington, two of them
Democrats, bid lower for the printing of the
journals than the Delawarean did. 1t says it
offered to do the work for $I.IO per page,
while the Gazette made low bid, and Mr..
Chance bid lower than any of them. Yet the
DeLaUaredn was awarded the job at about 5 3S
per page. 1t further says that the Clerks OF
the Senate and House, who have the awarding
of the contract, desired to send the work tc
Wilmington, they being required by law tC
take the lowest bid, but could not. The DelG
toarean seems very angry at the Commercial
for making these charges, and referes to th'
proprietors of that paper in anything but ;
complimentary manner 1t calls them mean
reflects on their honesty as business men ant
thinks their agent should have been kicked 70
wanting the job. From the tone of its articl
one might infer that it felt "cut." 1t show
so much spite and such little reason that it
very manner looks suspicious. :,
But the funniest part of this controversy
between the Deln0dreon and the Gazette. TIL
Dela,oarean lectures the Gazette for maxim
charge against it similar to that made by th
Commercial, which takes the Gazette entirel
bv surprise. 1t can't see how its Dover coten
norarv could think twas making such charges
The editor read his article over, to see how tn
n.,u,,o,eou could think be was pitching int
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

The Colored Mechanics of Maryland recent
ly held meeting in Baltimore, for the purpose
of organizing themselves into societies or trade
unions, such as are adopted by white mochan
les throughout the country. Resolutions were
adopted to the effect that the exclusion Of col
ored men from the trade unions, and the
attempt to drive them from the labor markets,
are unjust and degrading, and that the negroes
deem it expedient, under these circumstances,
to organize trade or labor unions of their own,
in order: First, to ascertain the number of ne
gro mechanics and their particular branch Sc
cond, to place such labor in the market as will
be to the best interest of the laborer and capi-
talist. A National (negrol Labor Convention
was also called, to meet in Washington on the
first Monday in December, 1869. 1t may be
mentioned here that six colored caulkers have
been set to work in the Washington Navy
Yard, and are to be employed in repairing the
steamer Nipsc. They are the first colored
wcrkmen in this branch ever employed in the
Washington Navy Yard. The caulkers are from
Baltimore, and are said to be able mechanics,
being considered in that city first class work
men.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

a PLEA FOR TEMPERANCE. Certain per-
sons who claim to be Temperance men, are
getting together in their several States and
making what they call Temperance nomina-
tions tor Governor, &C., &c We have a word
OF counsel for those who do not see the hook
thus balted.
The Liquor Dealers understand their own
interest, so far as it is their interest to remain
Liquor Dealers with impunity. They are main
ly shrewd men; they generally manage to have
snch laws as suit them, or else executive and
judicial officers who insure tn m impunity in
violating the laws that stand in their way {; yet
they never nominate independent candidates.
They know better than to do any such thing.
They understand that every mans vote is con-
trOed by various considerations, whereof his
love of Liquor or of Temperance is at best but
one so to nominate special Liquor candidates
is to insure their own discontinue by segregat
ing those whose interest in Liquor absorbes OF
OvershadOws all their political or other sympa
thies, so far as voting is concerned They
might possibly poll 100 900 votes in this State
for distinctive Free Liquor candidates; bu
these would not suffice to elect half dOzeI
members to both houses, and would leave then
naked to their enemies They know a grea
deal better than to do anything like this. The.
maintain their organization, raise lots of money
, keep keen watch on all that goes on arOunt
thenl, anu at last throw thelr VOteS just Wher
; they will give them most strength in the State
councils. This course insures them at tn
! worst strong minority oftener an ample an
f plastic majority, in each and every Legislature
e They win by directing and floating on the cul
a rent, where they would certainly lose if the
/ attempted to breast it and roll back
e 1.-The children of this world are wiser tha
. the children of light" Wiser, that is, so ia
: as the ways of this world are concerned Blu
is it necessary that the children of ligh, shoul
always act like fools ?-N Y Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

ENTERPRIsING.-A lady died short time
ago, and while she was being buried distant
connection who had not time to attend the fu.
neral and who had refused to take charge of
New Castle, and took out letters of administra-
ton on the estate. There are a few thousand
dollars, and the commissions will reach two
or three hundred. The parties who performed
services for the lady while living, and provided
for her proper burial when dead are thus ig-
nOred, and it is not surprising that they should
think little hard of their adroit and enterpris
ing relative 1t is unfortunate that the law
does not provide for the revocation of letters Of
administration when such unseemy and indie
cent hase is exhibited Wilmington Repub
, ltcGn, JuLy 26.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04
The chinese QueStiOn---A ScnSIOIe
Southern View Of il.

This talk of "importing Chinese, which
was used by that character taiker ana re-
nresentative man of this class OF SOutherh
neonle. Gen. Gideon j. Pillow, 1T the Mem
nhis Convention, has aroused the suspicious OF
MANY at the North, of the Radical party, VINO
have Joined in the protest OF the California
Democracy against importing Cninese' anu
the result of it is an official republication OF
the act of 1862 against the Importation OF
Chinese Coolies. We feel free to say that
if it we're possible to import and keep Chi
nese, or other like peoples, in state oi peon-
age, or bound service, as is imposed by men
who reason like Gen. Pillow, and have desire
to perpetuate the worst features of our old
system of plantation management and culture,
we would oppose the introduction OF them
ourselves. But it will be impossible to effect
this. The Chinaman may be under contract
to labor at some infnitesimally low prices, but
he will soon find he can get more; and If he
profits by what we call our superior civilization,
he will not feel any more bound by contract
made in ignorance Of the value of his work
and by taking advantage of his necessities
} than do those who claim to have purer rell
gion aud the only true one, and whose claims
to political and educational superiority are 81
fiauntingly set forth. Undoubtedly the pric
of labor will be lessened by the Chinamar
coming here; but it will be by competition nm,
, OOC ny cOuITdcC. LII SOtn6 Way TIE ndH VII
q advances the cost Of his coming can be, an
!, will be, secured the reimbursement of it, bu
d he can never secure by this act long perio
y of future labor at Chinese prices. The China
h man, it must be understood, is thorough
n intelligent human being, who is not able to gt
along at first among us, because he is a StraI
e ger. As soon as he becomes familiar with OF
J. language, laws and course of business, whic
r, he may do as readily as German, if not a
r, Irishman he will ask equal privileges and g
Is them. The lazy laborer may fear competitic
i with him. the demagOgue may make him sha
,e with the outsiders his hatred of him as po
Of sible voter, but the Chinaman will, if he do
le his work, earn his wages and deserve to recei'
them; and, unless we get rid Of the banef
idea Of universal suffrage, he may be vote
r; r but we see no reason why in this very capaci
~ he will be less to be relied upon than son
~ u, others. He may be a fair offset to them
~ o. Pcdylme.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

ROYAL VISITORS United States will
be visited this year by two of the Representa-.
tives Of Europe's royalty, being no less person.
ages than Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburg
and second son of Queen Victoria, and the
Empress Eugene, of France The latter viii
travel IN cog. as Eugene Moutijo, her maiden
name before she became the wife of the Neph.
ew of his Uncle We hope for the good name
of our country that it will not be called upon
to witness such exhibitions of fmkyi>m as il
did on the occasion of the Prince Of Wales Wis,
it to this country some years ago But Of
course shoddy will throw open its doors to
Eugene, aristocracy whmper and smile, and
the whole fashionable world bow down and pay
her homage.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

From OCEAN TO OCEAN IN SIX DAYs.-A
palace car, full of passengers, that lett San
Francisco less than a week ago, arrived at New
York on Saturday morning, thus traverSing the
whole continent in the short space of six days
Some of the passengers who came in it en-
barked on Saturday afternoon for Europe and
may arrivein Liverpool in nine days more, thus
traversing the whole distance from the shores
Of California to the shores of England III it-
teen days. All this vast journey Of nearly
seven thousand miles will have been made
without difficulty or fatigue, first in a luxurionS
railroad car, and then in an equally luxurious
! ship.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

THE RITUALIsTIC CONTROVERSY IN CHICA-
Go.-Bishop CumminS. we give on our first
page synopsis Of the controversy now going on
in Chicago between Bishop Whitehouse, of IL
linois, and Bishop Cummins, of Kentucky.
The subject is interesting to our citizens because
Bishop G. is a native of this town. He is an
extreme Low Churchman. 1t will be remem-
bered that on Thanksgiving Day, 1857, he de-
livered an address here in which he advocated
a union of all Protestant denominations uni
ty of organism as a greater power against the
Romish Church and infdelity.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

A few weeks since, young lady of Hartford
who had for some time enjoyed the Reputation
of being, in the fullest sense Of the term
coquette, incurred the disp!easure of an a5.
mirer by the apparent favor with which sba
received the attentions OF rival. Torn bv
the pangs Of jealousy" he hurried home. AMI
through many tears penned hasty and rather
harsh note, with which he enclosed one or two
letters he had received in happier days, ask.
ing a similar return and discontinuance for.
ever of further communication. The yonnp
lady wrote a reply, thanking him for his kind
consideration in sending back her letters and
regretting her inability to return his immejj.
ately, as she had lent them to young gentle.
man to read, and he had not returned them
yet. Such refreshing GOODNESS during the heat.
ed term deserves admiration.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

How TO OEsEEiys ~uE EcMpsE-A scier:.
ti6c correspondent Of the New Ycrk Past sus
rests the foIIovi,.r method to observe a.,
eclipse of the sun on The 7th Of August With.
out injury to the eyes:
Take large card with small round ho,o :
the ccutrc, and hold it against the sun, ~. "
so that the shadow will fall on the aa,. a,.
pavement, wall, or other dark and sm'',.' '''I'
surface. In the middle of the shadow tb.r,
will be true image of the sun, aud the ecc,o
can be studied in its progress without Strainn.
the eyes, and without shutting face or hanI,
with smoked glass.
This simple process was suggested by tLo
familiar circumstance, that the light spots N
the shadows, during a solar eclipse, take tLI
shape of the luminous portions Of the Sun
disc; and the perforated card has been USE,
with perfect success.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

A NOTED HORSE THIEF Jerry Storms, the
horse thief recently arrested in Wilmington and
sent to Bergen county, N. j., for trial, is rap
idly becoming famous. His name has now
appeared in all the papers, in one of them in
connection with a remarkable attempt to ford
the Delaware at place where it is four miles
wide and many fathoms deep. Itremained for
the New York San, however, to tell yarn
name Immortal. The SIN says that Jerry has
stolen fifteen horses, and that as Jersey law
sentences a man ten years for each horse stolen,
Jerry is to be sent to Jail for $50 years. This
is most fitting end to his stormy career.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

THE NATIONAL DEBT The country is again
gratifed and its enemies, domestic and for
eign, afflicted with an official statement that
the National Debt was reduced Seren Millions
-Four Hundred Thousand Dollars during the last
month, and would have been reduced by more
than Nine Millions but for the necessity of pay
ing over One Million and Half of interest on
bonds advanced to the Pacific Road Tor roads,
which they are under obligation, but not yet
able, to pay. The total reduction of the Debt
since Gen. Grant assumed the Presidency five
months) falls little short of Forty four Mil
lions of Dollars.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

ROBBED.-A young man naped William L.
Butler, from Dover, was knocked down and
robbed of ST, while walking near Third street
bridge, Wilmington, at an early hour on Thurs
day morning, by James Hazel and James Ham
iton. The thieves were arrested and commit
ted to New Castle in default of $500 bail, t.
answer at the next term of Court.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

A very melancholy affair took place at the
Southampton Long Island) beach on Friday
evening. Mr.. Charles Meyen, of New York
wife and young lady, who had acted in the
capacity of governess. While in the water,
Mrs. Meyen ventured too far out, and on feel
ing the tide drag her under, she called for as
sistance, and the young lady who was quite
near, Immediately went to her aid, but finding
she was herself in danger, called out to Mr..
Meyen, who was at this time making frantic
efforts to save his wife. All his efforts proved
unavailing, however, for, do what he would
the whole party still continued to drift out tc
sea, and at last being no longer able to with
stand the force Of the water, sank one after an
other, and were drowned.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

A Rare Opportunity to Inu' stors.-For 1000,
January and July $40 Bonds and $9l in cash.
we will give $500 Wilmington & Reading r.
r. per cent. First Mortgage Sinking Fund
Bonds, Clear of ALL Taxes, interest payable
October and April Of each year; larger or
SIN 'ller amounts in the same proportion. APP
ply soon to John McLear & Son, Bankers, No.
6O7 Market street. Wilmington. Del.
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

The Newark IN. J.,) Courier has the follow
ing Railroad gossip, some of which concerns our
readers:
As has already been stated the Raritan
and Delaware Bay Railroad is about to be sold
under foreclosure of mortgage. 1t Is under
stood that at the sale, to be held al Manchester
on the l4th of September, the road will be
bought by company of Eastern capitalists !;
although it is limited that the indomtable
James Fisk, jr., will be on hand to outbid them
Should the Eastern men buy it, they intend to
establish line of propelors to connect the ter
minus of the road at Port Monmouth with
Eastern cities, besides keeping up the steam
boat connection with New York. They will
boat their cars across the Delaware and con-
meet with roads running SOUTH and, if reports
are true, will control the Vineland road, which
connects with the Maryland and Delaware at
Oxford, and the Pennsgrove road connecting
at Wilmington, Del, with the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore, thus opening com
munication with the whole South
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

The President, with numerous party made
the little village of Bricksburg' n; J.' peTIec!.
ly gay with their presence Monday: yetEar iIelr
visit was paid to Robert Camppei,, s'eplalnel
of Mrs. C. A. Stetson, Jr. The villagers were a
fully prepared for the distinguished arrivals
and welcomed them with cannon flowers ana
poem delivered by a little girl OF tlyye. The par
ty returned to Long Branch in the afternoon;
and ALL the President especially, expressed Se.
themselves delighted with the day 5 enjoyment
Smyrna times., 1869-08-04

The water of Salt Lake is so dense that a
man cannot sink in it. The editor of the Co.
rinne Reporter demonstrated this by standing
upright in the water, and without the least
motion could not sink to the chin He could
lie on the water, stand in it, take almost any
position, and still he would float and could not
sink. 1t is necessary after swimming in this
briny water to rense off with fresh, for the salt
of the water condenses on ones person, and
leaves one, when dry, looking as if he had been
powdered all over with white chalk.