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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-27
Notice Of Election.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN to the Judges
IN of Election and to the Voters of Charles
County. that an Election will be held in the
several Election Districts of Charles County, at
the usual places of holding Elections,
On Tuesday after the 1st Monday, being
the 18th day of November, 1871,
for the purpose of electing
One person to be Governor of the State of
Maryland.
One person to be Comptroller of the Treasu-
~ for the State of Maryland.
One person to be Attorney General for the
State of Maryland
Also, at the same time will be elected
Two persons to represent Charles county in
the House of Delegates of Maryland.
One person to be State S Attorney for Charles
county.
Three persons to be Judges of the Orphans
Court for Charles county.
Five persons to be County Commissioners for
Charles county.
One person to be Sheriff for Charles county.
One person to be CountySurveyor for Charles
county.
The polls for said Election will be opened in
seach and every Election District of said county,
at the usual places of holding the polls, at 9
O'Clock a. M, and will close at clock p. M.
when the ballots shall be publicly counted.
JOHN r. MURRAY, Sheriff
of Charles county.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-27

THAT One THINa.-Uncle Peter, who
Hourishes in the mountains of Vermont
as horse dealer, was called upon the
other day by an amateur of ''equine" who
was in search of something fast. The re-
suit is as follows:
There" Uncle, said Peter, pointing
to an animal in the meadow below the
house; ':there, sir, is mare who would
trot her mile in two minutes and seventeen,
seconds were it not for one thing"
''Indeed p cried his companion. q
eyes," continued Uncle Peter. ''she
is four years old this spring; is in good
condition; looks we'll is frst-rate mare:
and she could 60 mile in two-seventeen
were it not for one thing"
"Well, what is that2''
THAT mare," resumed the jockey. sis,
in every way good piece of property
She has heavy name, a switch tail. trots
fair, and yet there is one thing only why
she can't 60 mile in two-seventeen."
"What in the Old Harry is it then :"
cried the amateur, impatiently.
1.-The distance is too great for the time"
was the old wag's reply.
Ryan eminent Judge used to say
that, in his opinion. the very best thing
ever said by witness to counsel Was
the reply given to Missing, the barrister.
at the time leader of bis circuit He was
defending prisoner charged with steal
ing a donkey. The prosecutor had left
the animal tied up to gate. and when
be returned it was gone. Missing was
very severe in his examination of the wit
ness. '.Do you mean to say, witness.
the donkey, was stolen from the gate?"
Il mean to say. sir, giving the Judge
and then the jury sly look. "the ass
was Missing"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-27
70 TOBACCO PLANTERS.

OUR experience in the successful manufac-
~ ture of TOBACCO FERTILIZERS, espe-
cially adapted to the growth of Tobacco, has
induced us to present to Tobacco Planters the
PLANNERS TOBACCO FERTILIZER,
at $50 per ton, 2, 900 u.s., and the PLANTERS
AMMONIATED SOLUBLE PHOSPHATE, at
$50 per ton Of 1000 lbs.
LORENTZ & RITTLER,
Manufacturing Chemists.
DYER, HILL & CO., Grocers and Tobacco
Commission Merchants, 49 Light Street, Balti-
more, Sole Agents. Circulars and full parti-
culars given upon application.
may l2-ly
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-27

but SCeli9 1UuDoe1ded Hllen the
very instruments they hired TO carry out
their hellish schemes, and form breast
vork IN the hour Of battle, turned against
them. I think l am safe in saying that
scarcely paper has been issued north of
Mason and Dixon's line since the close of
the war that has not contained accounts
of murders and other crimes of equal
magnitude committed by those very in
|struments of brutality in the late war
Truly there are desolate houses in the
North since the war, as there were in the
sunny land during its ravages.
Call to mind, if you please, and count
if you can, the thousands of railroad ac-
cidents, steamboat explosions, and terrific
conAagrations that have scourged the
North and West since the war. The
work of setribution is going on slow but
sure. Can any man read the account of
the recent confagration in northern Illi-
nois and disbelieve in retributive justice ?
Before the close Of the year 1868 five
hundred towns in the South had been re-
duced to ashes. The valley of the Mis-
sissippi, Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana,
North Carolina, Texas and Alabama were
enveloped in cloud of smoke, ascending
from the cherished homes of thousands of
once happy families whose only crime was
love of those who, upon the tented field,
were battling for their constitutional
rights. While the fires of Puritanical
persecution were yet burning on the banks
of the Mississippi, the favorite statesman of
Illinois, (Grant was yet clerk in the lea
ther store, Washburn, delivered public
address in Chicago, exhorting the pious
denizens of that city to give men and mo-
ney without stint to carry on the war on
the programme of the government-ec-
termination, fire and sword That pro-
gramme was carried out so far at least as
fire could do it. And now behold the re-
verse Of the picture! Look at Chicago.
Read their cry for help. Three thou
sand square miles reduced to ashes, and
no human hand can stay the flames. -
Well, we should think not. Such things
will occur in the course of human events.
May God have mercy upon them. is the
language OF our hearts-a prayer that we
fear never assembled from Chicago in our
behalf But let all good men believe in
Divine government and retributive JUS
tice, and let those who have suffered all
but death, take heart. for though I'VE are
cast down, we are not deserted though
afflicted, We are not without help" And
while the arm of Providence is thus lifted
on high for the punishment of crime, we
must not forget that we have here amongst
US as bitter enemies of our rights, natural
and political, as those misguided people
of the North were during the late crusade
against the South. We must fight them
here, mow, by every means in our power,
trusting firmly in Omnipotent power
Their punishment may be delayed, but it
will surely come. They may riot in their
ill-gotten power, but the wicked shall
be destroye ed and that without remedy"
Time at last sets all things even"
BELIEVER.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-27

~H Have enough regard for yourself
to treat your greatest enemy with quiet
politeness. All petty sights are more
meannesses. and hurt yourself more than
any one else. :.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-27
wilmer & SLAYMAKER,

rs and " King Street, Corner of Royal,
Alexandria, Va,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
DRY GOODS,
CARPETINGS, OIL CLOTHS, &C.,
Have Just Returned from the Market with a
very large stock of
. FALL GOODS,
And would invite particular attention to their
DRESS GOODS, embracing all desirable styles
in Velours, Poplins, Reps, Serges, Alpacas,
Plaids, &c.
MOURNING DEPARTMENT.
Double Warp Alpacas Reps, Australian
Crepe, Mouslins, Crepe Wells and Collars, Eng
lish Crepes, Shawls and almost everything in
this line that can be called for.
GENTLEMEN'S DEPARTMENT.
Cloths and Cassimeres of every variety. We
are prepared to furnish business and dress suits,
made and trimmed in the best manner, guaran-
teeing satisfaction. Gents and Boys Shirts
furnished by measure, of the bestmaterials, and
fit guaranteed.
CARPET ROOMS.
English and Domestic Carpets of all kinds,
Oil Cloths of all widths, cut to fit any room or
passage without extra charge. Rattan, Cocoa
and Chinese Mating.
AS we buy almost all imported goods direct
of the importers and domestic goods from Fac
tories, or of their agents, we are prepared to
sell all goods in our line as cheap as they can
be bought.
rs Samples sent on application. Orders to
the amount of $40 and over, accompanied with
the cash, or sent G. 0. D., will be forwarded
freight paid.
SALESMEN:
A. H. Slaymaker, H. G. Slaymaker, J. Marion
Hart, W. D. Wood G. G. Wilmer, Alexan-
dria; Eli Janney, R. P. Janney, Loundon, ya.:
A. H. Morehead, Fauquier, Va; W. Ludwell
Speake, Charles county, Nd. [sep %
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-27

@"Have you ever been baptized,
Miohael?' mo. sir, not as l knows on,
but I've been wsxinated."
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-27

TOBACCO-A prime lot Of Smoking and
i Chewing Tobacco, and also a choice ar.
iicle of Cigars, for sale at LACEY'S.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-27


of debt decrease or meaningless pancgy-
ric upon pretended civil service reform.
Point to single usurpation of lawless
power. single invasion Of the rights of
State or the liberties of the citizen, and
at once cry of dis}oyalty and "Ku-
Klux" is the response. And call popular
attention to the glaring fact that the ma
chinery of government has been and is
prostituted to the vilest purposes Of parti
sanship and subordiuated to the aggran-
dizement and ambition of one unscrupu-
lous and grasping man. and at once whole
packs of paid parasites fall to abusing the
Democratic party and predicting horrible
things as the sequence Of its success.
1t is about time that the people of this
country were using their eyes and brains.
These pieces of partisan deceit have been
played so often and have become so thread
bare that the most short-sighted can see
through them the lurking villainy they
are intended to conceal. The time has
come when the people of this country must
look stern facts in the face; with their in
telligence analyze the issues befjre them,
and with true courage strip them to their
naked deformity When they do this they
will see that questions of finance. and tar
ifs and internal taxation. important as
they are, are but secondary and almost
Insignificant beside the greater and graver
issue the party now in power at Washing
ton SO industriously seek to conceal.
That issue simply and plainly stated is,
shall the future fnd US republic or
despotism? We know there are many
who will shrink from believing that we
have reached such a serious pass. But
in the declining days of republics that
have existed before US. there were thous-
ands who INDUCED in the same delusive
hopes, and suffered themselves to be de-
ceived into fatal apathy. When man
notoriously unscrupulous and corrupt, who
has had the mean crime of falsehood,
treachery and deceit proven upon him F;
who clutches money, no matter how, from
whom or for what purpose it is offered
who has disgraced his Office and his coun-
try by figuring in speculations that would
have damned far less conspicuous felon
to social and moral infamy; who has besi-
tated at no resort however despicable, no
means however disreputable, no instru-
mentality however shameful to gain an
end or increase his store; whose cupidity
obscures if it does not obliterate conscience;
and whose record shows him to have been
as citizen nuisance, as soldier freak
of fortune and as President fraud. is per-
mitted to usurp unlimited powers. surely
it is time to hesitate and consider. Greeks
and Roman. as free and prosperous as we
have been. believed liberty imperishable
and learned to their sorrow the weight of
tyrant's heel. They rocked themselves
in fancied security as we are doing. They
saw encroachment and usurpation squeez-
ing one artery of liberty after another,
and as the progress was gradual they be-
came accustomed and Indifferent to ID,
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-27

until at last they awoke from their apathy
to find themselves the slaves of few am
bilious favorites and the helpless victims
of tyrant's rod.
We, too, have been gradually led into
the labyrinth of political decay. Had any
man twelve years ago predicted that a
Secretary Of State could ring his little bell
in Washington and arrest citizen of New
York without warrant or process of law,
convict him without trial and punish him
without even informing him of the charge
against him !; that the press could be muz-
zled or suppressed with inpunity; that no
privacy of the citizen was exempted from
forcible search that citizens could be pun
ished anywhere without trial by jury; that
the mails we're not sacred from the prying
eyes of Government detectives, and that
every right guaranteed to the State or ci-
tizen by the Constitution could be openly
and repeatedly violated, such prophet
would have been set down for a>fanatic or
a fool. Yet all these things have come to
pass, and the people who would have look
ed upon their prediction as something pre-
posterous and absurd quietly and abjectly
submitted to their infliction. But that
was during terrible war, a struggle for
the nations life? Suppose the same pro-
phet bad predicted that in time of peace a
reckless faction would turn State out of
the Union for partisan purpose, restore
it to the Union when patch was to be put
upon the organic law to make it more of a
party platform. and then legislated out Of
the Union again for mere party purposes;
that military satraps should rule with the
bayonet original States; that hordes Of
disreputable demagogues should be sent to
rule communities in which they we're
strangers, and plunder and Cypress dis
francHiscd people; that a President noto-
rious for the taking of bribes,. compli-
city iu the foulest schemes that persistent
avarice and perverted ambition could sug
gest. would be armed with absolute pow
ers to perpetuate his power; that the Su-
preme Court be packed to do Presidents
pleasure; that Congress could legislate
without restraint, and the Constitution
could be ignored, or robbed Of the judicial
strength by which alone it could be. prot
pcrly asserted; that the bayonet should
overshadow the ballot box, and minions of
power could invade any section of the
oo,,tru onl =. :>,:Jot,>1S/n n1aGna
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-27
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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-27
1lnlitlral.
From the Sunday.Telegram.
THE TRUE ISSUE.

We cannot believe that the vast body
of the American people are so utterly in
different to their liberties as the lethargy
which pervades them would seem at a cas-
ual glance to indicate. The reign of
military necessity" may have made them
forget for season their duty and their
manhood, and their very love for republi-
can institutions may have been perverted
by the persuasion of demagogues that the
nation in her extremity demanded tenn
porary sacrifice. The misrepresentation
and SANDERS of unscrupulous politicians
may have blinded and deceived them into
believing that the usurpations and en-
croachments of the past five years were
necessary for the protection of free gov
ernments, the establishment of the
Union and the assurance of perpetual
peace. And a sense of security growing
out of the idea that republican institutions
are so valuable, and the results of their
experience so bencfcient, that they are
absolutely invulnerable. and that no heart
could he found base enough and no hand
strong enough to attempt their overthrow,
may have led them to abate for season
that vigilance which is the price Of liber-
ty, and permit themselves to- be so absorb
ed with the active duties of domestic life
as to fail in proper appreciation and con-
sideration of their duties as freemen.
Whatever may be the cause Of popular
Indifference or patience, however, the
stern and inevitable result is apparent to
every thinking and earnest mah. The
very existence of free government is me-
naced. and if the sovereign and heroic
remedy is not speedily applied. its eternal
downfall is imminent. Demagogues are
Disgusting the issues Of the hour; foul
slanders of one section are exciting and
alarming the other; false pretences of e.
economy are being made to cover the hide
Gus corruption that testers in every branch
Of the public service, and popular atten-
ton is purposely misdireeted to questions,
subjects and issues which are of but Sec
condary consideration. ASuch have been
the tactics Of IL R w. uia the past,
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-02-24
Library Intelligence,

Colonel John Esten Cookies Life
of General Lee" which will soon ap-
pear from the press of ID. Appleton &
Co., New York, is not merely q brief
and bald sketch of the great general
but full and elaborate biography, in
Guiding an accurate but dramatic and
picturesque history of those military
transactions in Virginia of which he
was the distinguished leader. This
Life of General Lee is not written, as
it is asserted in some quarters without
full authority and sanction. 1t was
commenced five years ago, in 1866, and
Colonel Cooke then informed General
Lee of his purpose. The General, in
reply, assured him that the work
" would not interfere with any that he
might have in contemplation he had
not written a line of any work as yet,
and might never do so, but, should he
write a history of the campaigns If the
Army of Northern Virginia, the pro-
Posed work would be rather an assist
ancc than a hinderance." AS Colonel
Cooke. in his letter, mad offered to dis
cont ME the work, if not ayr .eable to
General Lee, this reply is an obvious
sanction of the authors design. Ii
may be safely assumed that 10 biOgra-
phy of General Lee more comprehel-
sive or trustworthy than that of c.
Cooke will appear. 1t is prepared b,
a man OF large literary experience, If
fine genius, who served in the Virginia
campaigns, and saw much of what he
describes; and General Lees sanction
of his design arose from his knowledge
of Colonel Cookies peculiar fitness for
his task. The General has departed
this life without executing his at one
time contemplated task and Colonel
Cookies biography must, in certain
sense, fill the place, as regards the his
tory of the Virginia campaigns, that
Lees own history would have done,
had he lived To write il.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-02-24
san DOMINGO.
News Of the Commission.
All QuIet on the Island.

SAN DoMINGO CITY, Feb. I3.-
The Commission arrived here from
SANTANA Bay, yesterday. Every one
connected with the party is in excel
lent health. The want of coaling
facilities detained the ship six days
at SANTANA. The Commission found
that the inhabitants of that Penilsu-
"a generally favor annexation. \ full
investigation was made into the OWL
ership of the land around the harbOr
which showed that no United States
official is involved in any private
transaction there whatsoever. Fabens
and associates and OSullivan have a
perpetual lease, at nominal price,
of nearly all the available water front
for large vessels around the harbor of
SANTANA.
There is no valuable minerals in
that section.
The Commission landed here this
morning, and were favorably received
by Bacz. Wade expressed the charac-
ter OF their OBJECT.
Baez and Cabinet gave them
cordial welcome. Baez said that
peace and a stable government would
follow the union with the United
States. The people were all anxious
for the union. Cabral had no Domini.
cans with him. The force he was
supposed to command were Haytians,
and lIayti was the real mover i'll the
whole matter
He had information that incursion
was to be made while the coHmiss-
was here, to influence them. From
his agents he had learned the whole
movement. He expressed the hope
that the Commissioners would exam
inc all classes. and promised to allow
every facility
A party of five came across the is
land from SANTANA to this place. The
Commission find no appearance of
public disturbances or discussions
The season is very healthy.
The officers and crews of the Uni
ted States steamers Tennessee, Nam
tucket, and Yantic, now in this har
Dor. are all well.
The commission will be here a week
longer and will probably visit Axua
next week. The stories of trouble
there are untrue. The Commission
intend to start home in about four
weeks.
Baez agreed to give a safe con-
duct to Cabral or any of his officers
to come here and meet the Commits
sioners.
Messengers will be dispatched at
once.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-02-24
RESCUED.

The brave and patriotic Senate Ct
Virginia has rescued the Common
wealth from her great peril. The bill
giving Southern connections to the
bloated and powerful Pennsylvania
Central Railroad Company, and which
was passed by the House was on Tues
day last defeated in the Senate by a
vote of 24 to13. We do not wish
TO eensnre those delegates who hon.
estly favored the measure, but the
arts and intrigues of this company
have been 80 glaring and monstrous
In design, and their ends so perniciOus
and apparent that we have trembled
while tie General Assembly paused
to give them audience. The bare
fact that our fate was a subject of
discussion has made us shudder. But
. true to the injunction of the great
Lee our virtue has proven equal to
our emergency. And this has been
despite the Shenandoah Valley bait
and the Norfolk & G.. W. bait, and
the Fayerman money and all of those
moan enmitics which are borne to-
wards Gen. Malone and his great en-
terprise for the development and re
building Of Virginia. The f. T. Va
4 Ga. r. r. Company have awaked
TO the awful nature of that delusion
which promised our enemies a con-
nection with RuSselville. For if the
route from Alexandria to Richmond
had been given this Company of Si2.-
600. 900 surplus and Sl7. 900. 600 an
hual net earnings, we very well know
that it would have built the line ON
Charlotte to Atlanta and thus have
perpetually drained and ruined the
"Air Line" which passes through
Bri,Ol and terminates at Norfolk.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-02-24
DEATH OF GEN. MAGRUDER.

GALVESTON, Feb. 20.-General Ma
gruder had been sick at his hotel here
for Il week. On Friday night, at eight
O'Clock, he became delirious. He lay
in. that condition until three O'Clock
in the morning, when he was taken
with a CONFUSION. Before physician
araived, Magruder became unconscious
and i'll a few moments breathed his
last.
The burial took place OH Saturday.
The body was dressed in plain black
suit. The services took place at the
Episcopal church, and were largely at
tended. The remains were inferred in
the cemetery attached to the Episco-
pal church. There YVES no display
about the funeral obsequies.