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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25
THE Ma Rk ETS.
Baltimore Market. Dec FL. 1874.


Extra ............. 20 tt1 %
WHEAT.--Thcre is very limited demand
for Wheat, and the market is dull and heavy
I'll round. The offerings OF Southern amount
ed to about 10000 bushels, and the sales were
800 bushels fancy amber at 1876 cents: !, 800
bushels prime amber at l30Gtl32 cents, and
5000 bushels good to prime red at l25(r l2S
cents.
CORN.-The receipts of Southern Corn a
mount to G3, 900 bushels to-day, and the mar
ket, though firm for dry lots, closed dull, and
anything under very prime was hard to SELL
The sales embrace Is, O0G bushels prime white
at Sc cents; ls, 900 bushels fair TO good do. At
82@S5 cents; 5000 bushels damp do. AT 1890
80 cents; 5000 bushels prime yellow at 81
cents, l6, 900 bushels good do. s5(a8S cents,
and 5000 bushels fair do. at 80 G, 81 cents.
OATS.-The market is dull and weak, the
advantage in prices being with the buying in
terest. Sales to-day were ), 900 bushes South
ern at 5@66 cents; l, 500 bushels mixed West
ern at "a cents, and 800 bushels bright West
| ern at Ga cents.
RiE-A lot of 100 bushels good Rye sold
at 80 cents, and we note the market very quiet.
TOBACC0.-Both the receipts and sales Of
| Leaf have been light this week comparatively,
but for all descriptions the market continues
firm. or Maryland the arrivals continue to be
chiefly of undesirable lots of new ground leaves
ana crop, ana there is consequently out little
selling, but old could be very readily placed at
full rates. OF Ohio there are some lots being
| taken up for export and for home consumption,
though the transactions this week have not
been important, but prices for this description,
as well as for Kentucky and Virginia. in which
we hear Of no movement, are firmly maintain
ed. We note the export this week from this
port of 45l hhds. and 60 cases to Bremen, l.,
242 hhdS. to Genoa, and hhds. to Demerara,
total 1893 hhds., 90 cases, We quote as be-
fore, yix:
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25
Centennial Games.

We have received from the publisher, f. B
Treat, sos Broadway, New York, this set Of
new aud attractive games for IioME AMUSEMENT
and have been greatly interested in the histo-
riCal matter they contain, covering the period
of 100 years. We fully concur in the opinion
Of the Ne,c York OLStrror of Dec. Sd. Our
children have been playing the new Centenni-
al Games and while enjoying pleasant pas
time, have learned more American history in
week than they ever learned at school. The
amount of valuable historical information that
is packed away in these sixty Cards is remark
able.
We recommend them to the special attention
of those seeking holiday presents
Full instructions for playing fifty different
Games mailed with each set on receipt of price,
- cents.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25
PERIODICALS.


The January number of the Eclectic is at hand
and rs it commences IL new year, jthe thirty
first, and new volume, the Publisher has IA
word to say about the claims Of the magazine
upon the intelligent reading public For one
thing, he directs attention to the fact that since
Every Saturday has been discontinued, the
Eclectic is the only publication of its kind which
is comprehensive enough to include all that is
really valuable in foreign current literature, and
at the same time, moderate in price. With its
four Editorial Departments, which enable it to
CLEAN and summarize more thoroughly than if
it confined itself to mere selections, it covers
the field which it has chosen completely and
satisfactorily, as one of the Newly ork papers
says, lit takes the cream from foreign litera-
ture and leaves nothing but the milk and skim
med milk at that
One feature of the Eclectic, which renders it
especially valuable to those readers who desire
something more than mere amusement is the
large amount of space given to scientific papers
Of Il popular character. The Magazine has no
theory of its own to maintal-it is neither
Darwinist nor anti-Darwinist; but no impor-
tant article by Tyndall, or Huxley, or Proctor,
or st. George Mivart, or Max Muller, or any
other authoritative writers on either side of the
great theories of scientific discussion, fails to
find place in its pages.
The present number is embellished with two
beautiful steel engravingS: one a child-picture
entitled ''Blind-Mans Buff and the Other
''Vandyke Parting from Rubens,'' and these
cngravings are alone worth the price of the
January number.
Published by Z. r. Pelton, los Fulton Street
New-lork. Terms s. year; two copies, SO
Single number, 46 cents. Postage prepaid al
these rates.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25
w~The President. in issuing hi,

wAThe President, in issuing his Pro
clamation ordering the citizens Of Warren
county. Mississippi, TO "disperse and retire
peaceably to their respective abodes with
in five days." paves the way for Federal
interference in that State; and, as the Bal
timore Sun remarks, lis only another indi-
cation Of how much stronger with him are
the instincts of the Commander in Chief
than those Of the Chief Magistrate
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25
RELIGIOUS Notice.

The fourth Quarterly Meeting for Charles and
ST. Mary's Circuit will be held at Newtown,
Jan. 10th 4 Eth. Preaching on both days at
IL A. NJ by Rev Dr. Rodgers, P. E. Love
feast Sunday, 80 A. NJ. After sermon, the
administration of the Sacrament of the Lord
Supper. Persons will please come prepared to
contribute to the quarterly collection.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25

recourse to the peaceful means of obtain
ing iniunctions from the courts. But this
measure was met by scheme OF violence
and bloodshed, backed by the Governor OF
the State, who all along has been the
steadfast friend of the thieving, usurplng
officials This Federal satrap is now
shouting for bayolsts, and Grant will not
send them becausAthe election is over
Y y IFOrH
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25
MARRIED,

At Trinity Church, Upper Marlboro, at =
O'Clock, NJ, on Thursday, December II, 1874,
by Right Rev WILLIAM PINKNEY, ID. d., Assis-
tant Bishop of Maryland, assisted by Rev. DR..
LEVIN, Rev T. F. BILLopp and Rev. X. ):
GoRpoN. Rev HENRY INGLESBI kERSllAW
(Rector of the Parishl and ADALlNE, daugh-
ter of the late THOMAS CLAGETr, all of Prince
Georges.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25
DIED.

In Nottingham, in Prince Georges county,
on the 18th inst, Mr. HENRY BADEN, aged
about 60 wears. He was an honest man. kind
and generous, and highly esteemed by all who
knew him.
In Washington city, on the goth instant,
Miss MARY o. FRANKLIN, aged So years.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25
ConvOcation: Services.

The Dean will hold Conversational Services
as follows:
St Johns Chapel, Bumpy Oak, Monday af-
ter Christmas, ii a. M.
Christ Church, Accokeek, Tuesday after
Christmas, IL a. m.
The Holy Communion will be administered
both days.
The Dean will be glad to meet the Eestry OF
al
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25

4 LII who intend to have a merry time and
n enjoy the Christmas holidays, should call
at LACEY'S and get supply of good things,
He names in part the following
Flain and French Candies,
Nuts of all kinds,
Lemons and Oranges,
Rasins by the box OF pound,
Brandy Peaches,
Canned Fruits of all kinds,
Cakes of different kinds, Coceanuts,
Fire Crackers and Torpedoes,
Choice Liquors, Fancy Articles, &c.
Call and get your supplies from
J. |. LACEY.
Port Tobacco, Dec. Is, 1874.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25
ORR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec %, 1874.
The debates in Congress the last week
have been so utterly devoid of interest that
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25
The Ale; inc.

The -1iaine for January. 1873, is duly at
hand, and certainly entitled to the credit OF
being the very best number vet issued of that
beautiful publication. In both pictures and
literary matter. this month, there is an infinite
variety and corresponding excellence. Pictori-
ally, the leading attractions are "A Daughter
of Cleopatra, - after Nernet- Lccompte, by John
). Davis-an admirable work of art. and sup
plying one of the highest types of the dusker
Oriental beauty three magnificent views Of the
mountains of the ''Deiaware Water-Gap," il
Illustrating that picturesque region to fine ad-
vantage: an attractive tuLt-page, also by Davis
"Fisherman'S Luck - Loves Offices" by
Segert, and The Appointment, by Otto
Erdmaan. two admirable companion pictures,
telling their stories with lite and vigor n very
striking Silver Full-Moonight," weirdly at
tractive; fine view of the new Western
Union Telegraph Building" New York; and
an deliberately executed portrait of Miss Mar
garetta B. Moore, the popular elocutionst. Such
an array Of pictorial charm is not often given
in one number, even by The 4IdiRe.
The literary contents embrace the following
rare collection: An instructive aud very en-
joyable paper on "Chrlstmas in London by
Henry Morford; one of the most charmingly
miSchicvous short stories of the period by an
other of the new names which The Aidine is
Introducing to the public-eyidently Morse
woman, Emma St)lerue Jaflscn we SnOuiu Ike
to hear somebody pronounce that y an e1-
ccSsyely amusing sketch of Student Life A
broad. By Fenno Douglas; valuable peep at
the growth of The MiStletoe;' continuation
of the popular serial, Lost Lillian Bracy;" a
most touching story of primitive New Eng land
life, in ''One Little Puritan by Annette l..
Noble: pleasant translation, in the Birth
place of Mozart's Zaubertiote,' by Miss E. c.
Gildcmcister; ncsiye articles of Literature,
Music, the Drama, etc. In addition there are
no less than four poems of merit; "A New
Years Wish, by Mrs. NJ. F. Butts; Dead
Days" by Mrs. Margaret J. Preston; abreast
with the Storm" by John Vance Cheney and
Songs of the Months, y by Alice VI. Guernsey.
This makes, We repeat, an Issue of equal excsl-
lence and variety, rare even for The Aldine, and
evidences the fact that under the new editorial
management, while nothing is to be lost in high
artistic reputation. the literary merit of the
publication is to be kept quite abreast with it.
The Aldine Company has determined TO es-
tablish an Art l MON, similar to the well-known
Art Union in England and distributes its works
OF art, both soul pture and paintings which are
constantly collecting, among its subscribers.
Art premiums, valued nj 81, 500. will be dis
trihuted among each series OF j, 900 subscribers.
Subscription tickets. at Sc 90 each, enttle the
holder 10 Tie 1idIne for year, to the new
chrome, and to ticket in the distribution of
art premiums. The Aldine Company publis-
hers, No. 50 Maiden Lane, New York City.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25

sS-Physcians recommend DR. Bulls Cough
Syrup when all other medicines fail, as GER
tain cure for Bronchitis, Sore Throat, and
Coughs or Colds oflong standing. For sale by
all DRUGGISTS
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25
CHRISTMAS.

God bless the master of this house,
Likewise the mistress, too,
And all the little children
That round the table GO;
And to all their kith and kinSfolk
That dwell both far and near,
We wish II naerrie Christmas,
likewise a bright New Year."
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25
Christmas Coming!

MRS. QUENZEL has just arrived from Bal
vi timore with supply of the following:
Fruit, Pound and other Cakes; Can
dies, Nuts, Toys, Fireworks, spe-
cial selection of Dolls, Jewelry, and
other Fancy Goods suitable for
Christmas presents.
And invites an early call.
A. QUENZEL.
Port Tobacco Dec 49, lS74-2t
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25
Alexandria Market, Dec. 2l, 1874.
Divine Service.

Divine Service.
Service may be expected in Port Tobacco
Parish rs follows, commencing II O'Clock a. M:
Dec. IS, Christmas Day, Piney.
Dec. 26, St. Stephen, Newtown.
Dec. 81, ST. John the Evangelist, Port To-
bacco.
Jan. l, (Friday,) Feast of the Circumcision,
Port Tobacco
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25
bort q oborfo Qin1es
Pc RI TO b ACCO:
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Friday Morning, December, 25......1847
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-12-25
Christmas at Lacey's!

Port Tobacco, Dec. IS, l974-2t
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-04
Beauties of Rag Garnet.

Some women much prefer to use bit
of rag carpet in place of regular made
mat at their doors. 1t is good idea.
If there is anything better calculated
to attract mans attention than rag
carpet mt door, we don't know OF 1t.
1t causes more hard feeling and is pro
ductivc of more hard and unforgivlng
words than any article about the house
excepting always the family hammer.
Three pieces of rag carpet thus stu
ated will bankrupt an upright man IN
side of fortnight, and turn happy
home into an appearing and outrage
Gus bedlam Not one man i'll one hun
dred can go through a door thus pro-
tected withour catching his foot in that
carpet to the great danger of tlnging
himself violently to the door and flat
tening his nose. And it not only twists
his legs, but it drags over the sill, and
catches the door as he shuts it, and
starts his temper afresh. 1t being too
degrading and unmanly to stoop down
and remove the obstacle with his hand,
he gives it kick, and is surprised to
see how easy it is to miss it. He fetches
another and more vicious kick at 1t, and
succeeds i'll removing about an inch of
it. Then he swings the door to, aud
setting bis teeth together, attempts to
shut it over the obstacle. The more
the obstruction resists him the more
desperately he pushes. This is on the
generally received and very agreeable
theory that inanimate things are human
in so far as it is human to be vicious and
obstinate. 1t is the principle which IN
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-04

The following story of the achieve
ment in respect of speed III an lce-boat
on the Hudst in the vicinity of Stats
burg is toldby the Poughkeepsie Eagle:
Thursday last the wind blew very
fresh from the south, and the owner of
the new ice boat Cyclone determined to
take advantage of the favorable oppor-
tunity for timing his yacht. The Hud-
son ut this point is very wide, and at
the course selected its breadth is one
mile. Having made every preparation
for the feat to be accomplished, the reef
points were shaken out of the sails, and
every stitch of canvass spread to the
gale. With two men on the wIndwaru
runner to keep the boat down to the ice.
the helm WAS turned, the sails filled,
and in a moment, with every inch of
canvas, drawing, she was under full
Roadway. Like an arrow from bow,
she darted away on the course, clouds of
pulverized ice following in the track of
her runners as they hummed over the
surface of the river, and in what seemed
but an instant the river had been cross
ed and the mile accomplished i'll the
almost incredible time of thlrty-one
seconds, being Mt rate of two miles in
a minute and two seconds. Persons on
shore compared the speed of the flying
racer to that of meteor flashing
through the sky, and watched her
movements with eager interest. The
owner afterward put the boat through
some movements on the ice, and aston
isled, as well as paralyzed, the lockers
on by sailing all the way across the
river on one runner, the force of the
wind throwing her over on her beam
ends, and raising the wiudward runner
from ten to twelve feet above the ice.
Although but few were found willing
to partake of the amusement, all seemed
disposed to coincide in the opinion that
ice yachting is the most celebrating of
sports, and the evolutions of which one
of these yachts is capable, the most
graceful of anything they had ever
witnessed"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-04

Mr.. Fulton, writing to the Baltimore
Amcrican, says Zone of the greatest
curiosities to the stranger i'll visiting
New Orleans is the cotton-press, or
rather the immense masses of cotton
deposited at these establishments. The
perss itself is merely to compress the
bulk they occupy when they come from
the plantations, and one minute is about
the time required to pass bale through
and rehoop it, thus enabling a ship to
carry twice as much cotton as it could
in former times. But what astonishes
the stranger most is the extent of these
establishments, some of them covering
as much as twenty acres of ground, sur
rounded by broad, deep sheds, which
are not only piled up with cotton, but
immense piles are everywhere exposed,
which are covered with sailcloth when
it rains. For about two miles along the
river front above New Orleans these
press establishments occupy every spot
of ground, and many thousands of bales
are even piled outside, along the road.
Trains of cotton wagons are constantly
bringing loads from the steamers to the
presses, and other wagons are hauling
the compressed bales off to the foreign
shipping, which lines the river front for
about four miles 1t was but the other
day that the steamer Robert Lee ar
rived at New Orleans with $500 bales
of cotton, and the whole receipts at this
season of the year are about 10000
bales per day. All of this cotton must
go to these presses to be inspected and
compressed.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-04
A California Episode.

Mr.. bod Grille (Ambrose Blerce) has
published book, from which tho fol
lowing California anecdote is taken
One day in 40 an honest miner up in
Calaveras county bit himself with a
small snake of the garter variety, and
either as a possible antidote, or with
determination to enjoy the chief rem
nant of wasted life, applied brim-
ming jug of whisky to his lips, and kept
it there until, like repleted leech, it
fell off. The man fell off likewise The
next day, while the body lay in state
upon u pine slab, and the bereaved
partner of the deceased was unbending
in a game of sevcnup with friendly
Chinaman. The game was inter
rupted by familiar noise, which
seemed to proceed from the jaws of the
corpse:
81 say-Jim! p
Bereayed partner played the king of
spades, claimed high, and then look
ing over his shoulder at the melancholy
remains, replied
"Well, what is it, Dave? I'm busy. ;"
81 say, Jim," repeated the corpse III
the same measured tone.
With n look of intense annoyance,
and muttering something about "people
that could never keep dead more'I a
minute" the bereaved partner arose
and stood over the body with his cards
in his hand.
"Jim," continued the mighty dead,
how fur's this thing gone
GIVE paid the Chinaman - ITO dig
the grave, responded the bereaved.
"Did he strike anything %
The Chinaman looked up.
"Me strikee pay dirt me no bury
dead Mclean man in 'em grave; me
keep m claim"
The corpse sat up erect.
Jim, get my revolver and chase that
pigtail off. Jump his damn sepulchre
and tax his camp s. each for prospect
ing on the public domain. These Mon
golyun hordes has got to be put under.
And 1 say, Jim, if any more serpents
come foolin' round here, drive 'em off.
'Taint right to be bitin' a fellow when
whisky's 80 a gallon. Dern all foreign
ers, anyhow"
And the mortal pulled on its boots.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-04

When Charles Sumner was elected a
Senator, in 1851, George S. Boutwell,
was Governor of Massachusetts Henry
Wilson, President of the Massachusetts
Senate, and Nathaniel p. Banks, Jr.
Speaker of the House in the Massachu-
sets Legislature. Sumner and Wilson
represented ~, 3 Free Soil votes, and
Boutwell, and Banks represented SO, 1863
against 57,364 Wings. The "coali-
ton" shocked the established order in
Massachusetts in more ways than one.
1t was raid by young and aggressive
men, of whom the current inquiry was,
Who are they?" 1t was a trick in
politics SO shrewd that subsequently, by
common consent, the way to its repeti-
ton was barred by constitutional
amendment, introducing the plurality
system in all elections with fixed num-
Der of seats in the Legislature. 70 ex-
plain how it was done: The "Coali-
tionists' voted separate party-tickets
for Governor, and united on candidates
for the Legislature, electing, in the
House, 210 members against ia Wings.
The majority in the House filed the
vacancies in the Senate, which was
made to consist Of ~ Coalitionists and
13 Wings Then the two bodies, in
concurrence, elected the Governor and
other State officers. 1t was compare
lively easy to carry ont that part of the
programme which involved BoutwelPs
election as Governor, and it was also
easy to elect Rantoul (DemocraD to the
unexpired six weeks of the Senatorial
term; but to elect Sumner, an Adolf
t.onist, to the full Senatorial term, there
was the rub. The contest was protract-
ed Mt the State House from January
into May, large number of Democrats
scattering their votes, fearing to go on
the record as voting for an Abolitionist,
but fearing more that by absenting
themselves a Wing (Robert G. Win
throp) should be chosen. In that Leg
islature were, we believe, Ben Butler
and Caleb Gushing, Democrats, not
openly voting for Sumner; and Samuel
Hooper and Henry l. Dawes, Wings,
voting for Winthrop. Finally the Leg
islature framed what was famously
known in Massachusetts for some years
until abolished), the "Sealed Ballot
act for all elections and, on the first
count of votes under the "scaled bal
lot, Charles Sumner was found to be
chosen. When, subsequently, Caleb
Gushing was i'll Pierce Cabinet, and
Ben Butler was the Democratic candi-
date against Banks, Republican, for
Governor of Massachusetts, and when
Democrats had patronage and South
ern constituency, responsibility for
Charles Sumner in the Senate was read
lily shirked by an appeal to the record
of Uiua uOce votes, and the secrets of
the "sealed ballot" were ever sealed. -
ChicagO Tribune.