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In Florida there are many lakes which
have holes in the bottom and under
ground communication, SO that they
will sometimes shrink away to mere
cupiul, leaving many square miles of
surface uncovered, and then again fill
up from below and spread out over their
former area. Some of them have out.
lets in the ocean, far from the shore,
throwing up perpetual spring of fresh
water. During long, exhaustive dry
season, men~have gone underground in
one of those subterranean rivers, from
lake to lake, at a distance of eight miles
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American Commerce.

The London Times comments very
disparagingly upon our Congressional
report on the decline Of American COM
merce, which il thinks is pervaded,
every fine Of il, by luminosity toward
England. II is inclined to doubt the
theory Of the committee as to the causes
as well as the remedies, and thinks
there is no difficulty in understanding
how our commerce has declined, aud it
is no wonder that such contest as the
latewar cost us our ocean carrying trade.
The wsr has done all the mischief. Five
years have elapsed since the war was
ended, and we boast that the recovery
OF the national wealth aud power is
complete. Wig, then, asks the Times,
cannot American capitalists, merchants,
shipbnilders and sailors, do now what
they did with such skill and success in
ls5Os The drift Of the report, in the
opinion Of the Times, is to procure a
liberal system of subsidics--in other
words, to pay spectators for doing
what we would not do of our own &C
cord 10 tie absence of probable profit
Such a system, it conceives, could not
be lasting. 1t would only be artificial,
and as suca would fail to produce the
benefit expected from it. Nor would
any amendment of the Tariff suffice
High duties and protective Tariff have
ruined trade, and nothing but Free
Trade viii revive it. So reasons the
Times.
The Times reasons correctly. But
the Radical party in Congress, propose
to try various temporizing expedients,
some Of which arc not in accordance
with the Constitution. The subsidies"
proposed is only another name for fat
job for party favorites. The power to
regulate commerce." conferred upon
Congress by the Constitution, does not
mean to establish commerce; to build
up commercial marine out of the pub
lie treasury. As well might Congress
grant Subsidies" to the farmers to en-.
able them to engage in agriculture, to
buy improved machinery, &c. But no
farmer would think of looking to the
treasury for help iu his private enter.
prise. He would expect to help him
self, aud live out of the profits Of his
labor in tilling the grouad In like
manner, those who engage in commerce,
ought to help themselves AMI support
themselves out of the profits of their
business, and they could do it, but for
the ruinous tariff which makes boat
buildingso costly thatour own mechanics
cannot compete with foreigners in this
branch Of business. What remedy for
this state of things does common sense
dictate? Why repeal of the tariff, of
course. But Congress says no; let US
grant Subsidies" to encourage CON-
MERGE. This is another New England
idea. The people of that section are
never at rest unless they are drawing
their sustenance from the treasury,
directly or indirectly. They arc CON-
mereial and manufacturing people, and
seek to put all the rest of the country
under contribution for their benefit
And they have done it. The New
England States derive all the benefit
from this kind Of special legislation
When will the rest of the country awake
toa misunderstanding of the subject'
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state of MARYLAND.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
ANNAPOLIS, ArRjL 9Th, 1870. J
To all IohOm il may concern:
NOTICES hereby given, that application
~ has been made TO the Governor for
pardon in the case of the State vs.. John
Dulaney, convicted in the Circuit Court Tor
Carroll county, at November Term, 1885,
Of Larceny, and sentenced to the PenItsH'
tiary for five years.
The Governor will take up the said case
for final decision, on or after the 10Th ~
slant, until which time protests against the
SAID application will be heard, and the peili,
ton in the case open to inspection, at the
discretion of the Governor.
BY order Of the Governor,
r. G. H0LLYDAY,
ap lI-3t Secretary Of Stale
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NO. HOB RorrIrv
Circuit Court for Cnrron 3.

O'u"H 0o"I' 'or carroll County.
James Roth VS.. Samuel Thomas ana p,
Mickey. NuS'H
FHSHE object Of this suit is 70 oh,.;.
Il cree to sell certain Real Es,,,n = De
III Carroll county; Maryland, 10 nav a,'' %s
purchased money therefor. P'9 The
The bill states that on or nboni Jr,,,
1869, Samuel Thomas and Edwin M; opI'i u
of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania. nnr 'SH'ey,
from the complainant forty acres az ia
more or less, situate in said CarrnlI co 'aau'
for the gross sum Of seven thonsanS ",
hundred dollars; that the snid Tbo,nass i've
Mickey paid the complainant Eve br ,S sai
dollars Of SAID purchase money, and cosM ,sl
residue executed and delivered 10 ,La '' aI NC
plainnnt their two single bills dated II sI
and year aforesaid, one for fonr Lo"uay
dollars payable April /, 1870, with inls saa'
and the other for three thousand doIi'i
payable April !, 1871, with Interest, .' a',
on the day and year first aforesaid ,he Una 'na'
plainant and his wife conveyed said lan ,Sg'
fee to the snid Thomas and M;rLlss " W
have since and now hold possession The wy
subject TO the use and occupation ~ NJ
same by the complainant for ngricnhr ~,
purposes as mentioned in an article of a"-..
ment between the complainant and M
Thomas and Mickey; that said Tboma, , .nS
Mickey ore non.residents ns before g.,.a'
that their said single bill Of four ,bou,,nj
dollars, and the interest thereon. i r.'.
due, and that they have refused and I'M
refuse 10 pay the same to the comulainoD,,
that said sums of money for which All \.
gle bills were given are liens on said n,,.'t
Of land that the complainant is entitIeJ =
have decree to sell said land for The r,s
ment of said sums Of money and The ib N;
es. thereon.
The bill prays that the said Thomas ,,I
Mickey may be required TO answer ii.
same, for q sale of said parcel of land n
pay said sums Of money and interest, a,
general relief and for an order Of public.
ton against said Thomas and Mickey.
1t is therenpou this l2ih day of AMI
1870, adjudged and order that the e uni
plainant by causing copy Of this order IA
be inserted IN some newspaper publishcah
Carroll County, Maryland once week Il,
four successive weeks before the 2lst dnv If
May next, give notice to the said non.rc,i
dent defendants of the object and substance
Of this bill, and warn them to appear in
this Coun in person or by solicitor. on or
before the 9th day Of August next, to an.
swer the premises and show cause, il ans
they have, why dee,ee onght not TO pass
as prayed.
JNo. Il. BOYLE, Clerk.
True copy,-Test:
mp li-ss JSo b. BOYLE, Clerk.
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state of MARYLAND,
OFFICE oY THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
ANNAPOLIS, Aprn 7th, 1870.

OFFICE oY THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
ASSAPoIls, April 9Th, 1870.
TO all ichom il may concern:
NOTICES hereby given, that application
~ has been made 10 the Governor for
pardon in the case Of the State vs. Heay
Cremer, convicted in the Circuit Cour for
Carroll county, at May Term, 1859, Of hose
stealing, and sentenced TO the Peniieniiary
for five years.
The Governor win take up the said
case for final decision, on or after the SOth
instant, until which time protest asainstihe
said application will be heard, and the petl-
ton in the case open to inspection, at the
discretion of the Governor.
by order of the Governor,
Il. c. HoLLYDAY,
ap l4-3t Secretary Of State,
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The scandal Of female gymnastics is exciting
the press and the authorities of London.
German female gymnast has been walking on
wire fifty feet above the pit Of the Holborn
Circus, with her little child on her shoulders.
To look up fifty feet at a woman skipping about
on an invisible wire was a great delight, but
to watch mother and child 10 such peril was
ecstasy, and the house was crowded nightly.
The Police Commissioner wrote to the mana
gers and requested them to leave out the baby.
Bloudin and Leotard, and three hundred imita-
tors, drew well for a time, but people got tired
of them. Then there were female Blondins
and Leotards. and now every music hall in
England has its troupes of female gymnasts and
acrobats, appearing as naked as so many South
Sea Islanders, in the most grotcsque and peril
Gus positions, for a little money and much ap-
piause. One woman, said to be French, car
ries her husband and three we'll grown children
round the stage on her shoulders; another
throws herself from the flying trapeze, and /.
caught in mid-air by man swinging head
downward, holding BY his toes forty feet above
the footlghts. Such performances as these
with crash of music, glare of tinsel, and
n crammed house, filled with the fumes OF gin
beer and tobacco, constitute the nightly amuse
ments of perhaps half million ofthe enlight
fned British public.
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rnE AMpulnNs AnAIu

We have the pleasure of informing
our readers that "thc Clarksburg Sex
tette" who some months since so very
agreeably entertained our citizens, have
kindly consented to participate 10 the
concert exercises of "the Amphions" on
the 18th. Their presence will be a
decided addition to the already excellent
programme presented For the purpose
Of drawing full house, the Amphions
have done somuch, that we are satisfied
they will not be disappointed
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DEMocRATIo VIcroRY IN CoNNEc-
Tfcur.-The State election in Conusc-
ticut came of on the 4th instant, and
the Democrats elected their candidate
for Governor, English, over the Re-
publican candidate, jewell, By 1900
aajority. Last year Jewell beat English
~ .as,s position BY al majority. In
srenrsd Democratic majorities are 70.
ported itcn I'D sections Of che sfnse
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NEwsPAPERs.-The strong attach.
meut Of subscribers to well conducted
newspaper, given in the following par
oSraph from the New York Journal of
Commerce, is fully confirmed by veteran
publishers. Our experience in pub
fishing bears witness to its truthIulness.
Stop your paper"-words of dread to
new beginners in the business-lose
their force after paper has been estab.
lished for term Of years:
$50 long as paper pursucs Just, honora-
bic, aud JudiciOuS course, meeting the wants VI
its customers in all or most respects the ties
OF friendship between the subscribers and the
paper are as hard to break BY any outside
third party as the links which bind old friends
in business or social life. Occasional defects
and errors, If such there be In newspaper,
are overlooked by those who have become at
tached to 1t through its perusal for years.
They may sometimes become dissatisfied with
II on account Of something which has slipped
into its columns, and may stop taking it; but
the absence Of the familiar sheet at their house
or Office becomes an insuppOrtable deprivation,
and they hasten to take it again, and possibly
apologize for having stopped IT, This we be-
lieve to be common experience in the history
OF all established newspapers. No friendship
on earth is more constant than that contracted
by the reader for a journal which makes an
honest and earnest effort to merit his continued
support"
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The value of Methodist church prop.
erty in New York city is 81 900, 500
an increase during three years of $685.
600.
A Minnesota couple who have been
married eleven years, have % children
nine pairs of twins aud one quartette
Only 240 French soldiers now sur,
vive Waterloo.
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CORPORATION ELECTION,

NOTICE is hereby given that an Election
IN will be held in the City of Westmin.
ster, on the
First Monday, 81 day Of My, 1870,
between the hours of twelve O'Clock, NJ,
and six clock, p. NJ, at the Central
Hotel, for the purpose Of electing one per-
son Tor Mayor and fee persons as members
o.. the Common Council, to serve the en-.
suing year, in accordance with the Act of
Assembly, incorporating the said City of
Westminster.
JACOB KNIPPLE,
up li-3t Mayor.
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1t has often been said that business
man should watch the market, buy close,
aud use printing ink, if he wished to
succeed. This is being done by the
firm Of ]. Yingliug & Son, of this city.
Finding that larger stock was neces
sary to select from to suit this market,
they proceeded to New York, purchased
at gold prices, and are now opening the
greatest variety of dry goods ever
offered here.
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Some Michigan spiritualists called
for the Devil at recent seance, but
when be appeared, "six feet high. cloth
ed 10 black to the ends Of his fingers,
which were armed with cruel claws, =
they cleared the room, and will nraise
The Devil no more.
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Estate Of Jacob Pioomaa, deceased
NOTICE Is hereby givon that the SUBSCRIBE
IN has obtained from the Orphans Courts
Carroll county, letters OF Naturalization on lM
Personal Estate OF
JACOB PL0wMAN,
late of Carroll county, deceased. All perohI
having claims against said Estate, are hefssy
warned to exhibit the same within six mou.ns
from this date, otherwise they may be excludes
from all benefit of said Estate. Those indebiea
are requested to make immediate payment.
NANCY PL0WMAN,
ap l4-4t Administrators
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NEW YORK,
Philadelphia and Baltimore.
A GREAT DECLINED
A GREAT DECLINE :,

A GKEAI DEGLlNEl
a GREAT DECLINE /
yHNHE largest and best selected stock Of
IL DRY GOODS ever offered in West.
minister, has just been received by J.. YISG.
LING 4 Soy, direct from New York, Phila.
delphia and Baltimore, selected with care,
and bought Tor cash, at a time when goods
ofevery kind were at the lowest notch ofthe
great decline. Our stock consists Of all the
latest and best styles Of goods.
LADIES FOREIGN DRESS GOODS,
together with many celebrated makes Of
American Fabrics.
shawIs of every Description,
White Goods, Counterpanes, Cloths, Gas.
simeres, Doeskins, Cottenades, &c. A full
and complete assortment of Notions aud
Trimmings, Boots, Shoes, Hats and Caps.
Do not fail to call and examine our new
and beautiful goods.
apl4 J. YINGLING l. SON.
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INsOLvEyT's NOTICE.

'i IS A ~ day ofApriI, 1870,
His Creditors. that James airing give
notice to his creditors, endorsers aud sure
ties that the I'd Monday of November neA
is fixed for the said James airing to appear
in the Circuit Court for Carroll county "a
answer such heterogeneous as his creditors
endorsers and sureties may propose OF ~
lege against him; aud that copy oil ms
order be published in some newspaper Prln
ted in Carroll county. once week Tor i ,9.
successive months prior 10 the said ID MOE
day of November next, as such notice,
Test: JNo. b. BOYLE, Clerk
APP l3--3m
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The success of the Piedmont and Ar
lington Life Insurance Company is one
Of the grea: Business achievements of
the day, and with characteristic energy
and enterprise il has determined to es-
tablish general agency in California,
as it has already successfully done in
Louisiana and other Southern States. -
This company have issued II 900 poll.
cics, and ranks ia regard to business
third or fourth among the life insurance
companies Of the United States. Tlos.
Parramore, Agent, Westminster.
See the advertisement Of j. Yingling
& Son in another column. q
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Double Pipe Greek hcms.-The let.
ter of our correspondent at this place
did u It reach us in time for our last
issue aa3 We give it to day:
The store house in Ladlesburg, situa.
ted on the York road, / 4 miles south
east OF this place, owned by Mr.. Samuel
l}ireley, aud occupied by the Messrs.
Mains, Of Washington county, together
with the shoemaker shop attached, was
destroyed by fire, with all their contents
on Tuesday morning about l O'Clock.
The store house being large substan.
tial stone building, the charred walls
we're left standing, and as there were
several fence rails found against the
east gable under the window when the
fire was first discovered, it is evident
the store was robbed, aud afterwards
fred, Goods, account books, mails,
with leather, shoes, and ixings in the
shop we're entirely destroyed, leaving
the Mcssrs. Mains unmarried men, }
only what clothing they had with them
at their boarding house. Another nc.
count Of the fire says that two attempts
had been made previously to bu,u the
insured V' oN
The heavy fall of rain on Sunday,
Donble Pine Creot as 10 w,sb ,war
the counties ! Ifnot bench br;J,,ev bn;i,
by the neonle So there Is no,b;na rnr
pedestrians 70 cross on and ladics and
yentlemen stand w,iting Tho orr;y.I nr
: be,vv lo,dnd wn~nn e ,ato nas.,sa
n, II NAV no nIe,s,n, 10 sowd - s9o
ladies pcrcIed an ton of aorr harroIs
Will ,bov arc ;os,f,J oror. o,hoss
bowcvcr tIink il nntof Mace Rom Of
tho last ion d,vs tho w,icr WA. Zoo L;ah
far evan ,bosc conroy,noos 90 oross
ana Zach ono rom,;noi nn III om,,
side A vonng gnntlem,n sont r,on,
the peirbLorbood If WaLe6eld 10 !"
form Rev Mr. S,ylsr of rho dea,L or =
lady. was compelled 10 nav % cents IN
n man for toking him ncross rho stro m
" neu Will d p''uSe NC punt
c,,ny r.o,,;,1 ~ n C,.,,
co,n,I do,;,,Jn-a,J '', c ~ "'J III, TS
S,rroiI CoHn,r Tna,,;,o OK -, ~
cnrmod L.ro Io,asr' N'ns :" III 80. ~!
fret meot;nS on thn ahoro " nr "V'a s"s on
WaanosJare .nd 1'Gn~sSan r. ' ISL .e u
Iothos NV nrax;n,o ;iIbo Wv tos1 Sno
in tbe sb,ne of pro,ri,ms sSon c,r,l,.
fastest trot, open TO the world; S5OO
lot hoFses 'hat nave never beaten
m'au'es' open 10 the world: sZoo Tor
horses pUna nde ana exclusively owned
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DIED.

On the 9th of April, near Uniontown,
Michael Wagner, aged II years. months
and 2 days. Frederick and Gettysburg pa.
pers please copy.
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A bearded woman died the other day
at Toulouse, aged 104 years. She hat
a beard two feet loug.
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Thirty thousand natives are said to
have persisted from cholera 10 Zanzibar,
during six weeks, last year,
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District Court Of the United States for Ne
District Of Maryland in Bdakr1ptcy, II
the matter Of Robert r. Smith, BdRkrupi.
DrsrEIcr or MARrLASp, SIS:
UNHlS is to give notice, that on the 9Th div
of April 1870, warrant Of Bankrup,er
was issued out Of the District Court Of the
United States for the District Of MARYLAND,
against the estate of Robert 7, Smith, Of War,
tcldsburg, in the county Of Carroll, 10 saii
District, adiudged Bankrupt on his own pstl.
tion; That the payment Of any debts and lhe
delivery OF any properly belonging 10 said
Bankrupt, TO hin OF Tor his use, and the transfer
Of any property by bin, are lorbidded By Law;
and that meeting Of the creditors Of said Bank.
rupt, to prove their debts, and to choose zoe or
more Assig nees Of said estate, will be held ai
Court OF bankruptcy, to be holden at Westmin,
stcr Court House, before Is. y. u. iluriey,
Esq, Register in Bankruptcy for said District,
on the 26th day OF April, A. d., lSIQ, no
o'clock, A. NJ.
EDWARD Y. GoLsB0RoUGH,
ap H-2l U. g, Marshal for said District
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PLASTER MILL.

YyHE subscribers, baging rebuilt their
IL Plaster Mill at Hoods Mills, b. & o.
X. R., are prepared to furnish to farmers
and the trade pure article of fine ground
Soft Blue Windsor Plaster, in quantities to
suit, at reduced prices.
McC0MAS & BRO.
ap 14--6t Hoods Mills.
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There are said to be 100000 French
Canadians in the United States
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WESTERN MARYLAND.
sroSEwALL.

: :, y u IUtHI II Ol
Umpire, Mr. Heiss of Western Maryland
Club.
Scorers, Mcssrs. Murphy and Grouse.
Time OF game, three and half hours.
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Business Locals.

Notices under his head TEN CENTS
per line for each Insertion.
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WEsTMINsTER MARKETS,
Reported Expressly foe the ADVOCATE by Is o.
Grimes.
WHOLESALE PRICES.
BALTIMORE MARKETS.

TUESDAY, April IL, 1870,
Flour Howard Street Super. 75aS5 90
Howard Street Shipping Extra,,.5 l2aS5 9!
Howard Street High Grades. .....5 50aS5 10
Howard Street Family ........... 6O0asI W
City Mills uper."..................O OJaAo 10
City Mills Standard Extra. .......0 00aSb so
Wcyerton Family. 90 OOaS00 90
Ashland Family ...... .............0O OOaSOO 90
Rye FIour..,..... .......-. .......... VOaSA on
Corn Meal--City Mills. 75aS5 90
Grain. - wheat - sales of 100 bushels
red at ] 40aSl As 100 bushs width at
81 G5. Corn-sales of 8 to 10000 bushs
white ut 05aSl &C; II 200 bushs prime
yellow at 07aSl O3. 0ats--about 20O0
bushels sold ut G0a62 cents, $50 do at Ga
cents Rye-no receipts or sales.
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, |
April II, 1870. !
Beef Cattle. The offerings ut the Scales
during the past week amounted to sos head.
The prices ranged as follows Old Cows and
Scalawags, Mt 3 0OaSj 80; ordinary thin
Steers, Oxen and Cows j0aS6 90; fair quail.
ity Beeves 7 OJaSS 00 aud the very best
Bccyes at 8 00aS9 90 per 100 lbs. the aver.
age price being about 81 90 gross.
Sieep.-Fair to good fat Sheep at 5la
81 cts. per pound gross.
Hogs.-Prices ranged as follows: fair to
good tat Hogs II 0OaSl8 80 per 100 lbs
net.
Wool -Unwashed, nj so to 80 cents, tub.
washed ~ to ~ cts, and pulled at 80 to SO
cents per pound.
Leather. City Slaughter 40 to ~ cents;
Rough Skirting 80 to 80 cents; Spanish Sole
35 to SO cents; Country Slaughtered 81 to
80 cents.
Hides.-City Steer ut IL to l2l cts; Cow
II to III cents.
Hdy.-Pennsylyania baled Timothy at
22aS25 per ton.
feathers Quote at 40 to 80 cepts per h.
for common to prime live geese.
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A fresh supply of goods just from
New York, Philadelphia aud Baltimore,
at j. Yingling & Sons.
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Estate Of ReJecea Tmney, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Subscri.
~ Der has obtained from the Orphans
Court of Carroll county, letters Testamen.
tary on the Personal Estate Of
REBECCA TANNEY,
late of Carroll county, deceased. All
persons having claims against said Estate are
hereby warned to exhibit the same within
six months from this date, otherwise they
may be excluded from all benefit of said
Estate. Those indebted are requested to
make immediate payment.
THOMAS ID. TANNEY,
Executor.
ap LIT JOSIAH SHILLING. AGENT.