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Smyrna times., 1875-01-06

~ By virtue OF two wrs Of Levar Facias to directed
w be exposed to Public Auetion Vsndus the Hotel " o.
Fexws in the town OF Smyrna Duck Creek Hundred
county and state Of Delaware THURSDAY the 9At day
Of January 1875 At o'clock NJ the following real estate
to WIt:
Al those two tracts pieces and land parts
of land and premises TilRhman
situated in Kenon Hundred formerly part VI Duck Greek
Hundred State Of Delaware
ComsgJ Es trustee appointed By the Orphans Coari IN
for Kent Aforesaid that
day OF April, A. D. 1863. to the said Franklin W. Grth.
designated plot mpanynK the OF sale AfOre
said by the trustee Aforesaid with the letter H.
feews to ut: letter T. hundred aud thirteen
and psrehss Of land aud letter H.
six acres and square Psehes be the sa@S more
adjoining lands OF Susan Attx and marked
plot With the letters D. L. and lands the Edward
Ax ana the parties hereto fer certainty II deep
en refer TO the plot Aforesaid Oh the
and distances Of the several pAresin wheh the whos
sold by the said trustee together with all
the buildings. improvements. dxtursR &c.
Seized aud taken execution the property Of FRANK
LIN W. GRIFFITH. aud will be sold for cash.
CHARLES WILLIAMSON, late Sheriff.
SHBRIFF's OFFIcE, DOvEa DEL-.
December Tth, 1874
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SHERIFF'S SALE.

~ BY virtue OF writ Of LevsrI Faeiaa TO directed
will be posed TO Public sale at the hste Of O. T. FOxwe
in the town OF smyrna Duck Greek Ha1dsd Kent county
and State OF Delaware. THURSDAY. the alst day Of
Real Estate. to Wit:
certain ot piece parcel Of Land situated the
south side Csmmsrce Street. 10 the town OF smyrnA Kent
county aud State Of Delaware. bounded follows wit
Beginning stake the side OF Commerce Street
for the lands OF and thence
south degrees thirty hundred
6vs feet and inches to stake the northwest side Of
Mulberry street south fortynine degrees and fSrtyHvs
btty feet to stake for Jane Hunters
thence with said Hunters lot north forty degrees and
minutes vest tive hundred and feet and two nehes
the souhea. side OF said Cons Street
sad Hunters lot thence With said Commerce Street north
hy degrees east y feet to the place Of bsgnnng containing
Ten Thousand Three Hundred and sixteen Square
leaE II being the Of land
the WOrden by said Allen By ipdenture bearing
this indsnturs Together with all and singular
buildings. improvemsnts, dc.
Seized and taken in execution the property e WILLIAM
WORDEN and ALICE H. hts wife and will be sold
CHARLES WILLIAMSON. late Sheriff.
SHKRfFF'a OFTICE DovER. DHL,l
Dsc0mbsr g. 1874.
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CHERRIES SALE


~ By virtue ofs writ q Leviri Facas 20 directed will
town Of Wyoming Kent county and State OF Delaware
WEDNESDAY the foth day OF January, 1875 at clock
the following real estate, to wit:
All that certain lot piece and parcel situated In the said
town Of Wyoming IN the couny Of Kent aud State Of Della
Aforesaid adjoining lands Of William F Adrieh and
bounded ssw viz On the north By franklin Of said
the south bV lands Of WiA " Aldrieh the
BY WyominE avenue q sad town. and on the west By
Mechanics Of said town having said
hundred and fifty fse By depth Of hundred
and 6ftysx feet add containing Sixty-FOur Thousand
square Feet be the ess and being the
and premises which the said Jane
Dswoody In Zee In two Rsrcs viz By the deed BeemeT
ana RaDsd and wives bearing date the 9h day ct February
D. 1862 and Of record the Office Of Recorder Of Deeds &c.
and for Kent county Aforesaid In book K, VOL folio 37
&C. and another from 0eOrEs H. Tayer By deed dated the
book NJ vol eo 43S c By reference to said deeds
will fully appsar
alt that certain ether lO piece and Of land
situated in the town OF Wyomng the County and State
Aforesaid adjoining lands Of Charles Ramsds and bounded
foows On the north By land Of William H. Rdgway
the south By lands Of Charles p Rase and the east
Wyoming and the west By Mechanics street
dred and hfty.sx and containing Fifteen Thousa
ThreeaHuBdred and Sixty Square Feet, be the sans
less, and being the lands and premises which
conveyed By Charles p Ramsde and wiie DswoOdy
Aldrch and Esysa q. Ramsde which aubsequ be-
vested In the said David g. Dewoody in fee n ssysry
together with all and singular the budnga improVemsns
&c. -
DEWOODY and JANE S. his wife, aud will be sold for cash.
CHARLES WILLIAMSON, late Sheriff.
SHRRIFYs OBTICg. Dover, DEL,(
December 49, 1874.
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ShersT'S Safes.
SHERIFFS SALE.

b. virtue Of writ 81 vsudton ETpsnss. 70 directed.
will be Public Sale the County
n the Dover Dover Hundred Kent county
and State Of Delaware TUESDAY the 2eth
1875 at scock the following described Real Estate
TO wit:
No. A that certain piece. salt marsh
spand situated lying and bsng In ST. Jones Meek Dover
Hunsed Kent county and stats Delaware
Hammock property owned bT John K.No hv
the Delaware Bay By No. sntions by lands
John Dickinson Logan. containing Humid red and
NInetyThree Acres, mere or Less being marked J. p O.
and T. A. NJ No on the plot Of ths division OF Sally NJ Dick
nson land Of record In the Recorder Oee 0t Kent
G-Ah thai certain piees parcel or tract o. salt aars
County and state Aforesaid bsundsd By Ne above
bY and BY marsh and upland Of the
Dickinson Logan. containing Two Hundred and Forty.
Seven and-a-half Acres more or less II being marked
Y. y. l.. No. n the Aforesaid plot
SsEed taken n sxecutOn a the property OF 9USrAVUk
9 LOGAN, and wi be sold for cash. - -
sHKRIFFs OFYTCE, D0VER DELaf
Dacawbar 4
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FOR SALE. Z. .

A STEAM ENGINE OF FORTY.HORsE
POWER. in good order. Said engine 10 located in
the Heffecker Mills and was used in dry seasons as
the motive power TO ran the MILL but since the
Turbine water wheels have been put in (hey requir-
ing 80 much less water than the wood wheels) we
have sufficient water TO run the mill all the year.
therefore we will sell the engine, with boiler very
Law and on reasonable terms. Address
HOFFECKER e. HUNTINGTON.
sxYRNA, Dxl-, Oct. 2eth, l674.-tf
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SALE

by virtue of . writ OF Vsnditioni Exponas to me
directed will be exposed to Public Sale. the Hotel ef
GhArisS b. Foxwell In the Of Smyrna. Duck Creek
hundred Kent county and State Of Delaware THURSDAY
tns In gay OF January, 1875, at O'Clock, NJ the following
All that certain piece parcel lot Of ground situated
DUCK Greek Hundred Kent County and State of Delaware
ands OF John Bishop Samuel QriiR and shers
and said to esnain TEN ACRES. less No
ments.
Seized taken in execution the property of JACOB
WILLIAMS, and will be sold for cash.
CHARLES WILLIAMSON, late Sheriff.
ShERIBFs OPgICE, DOvER DBL.
her 18th
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SHERIFF'S SALE

SHERIFF's OPFTcK, Dover, DEL., Z
December a8. 1874.
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FOR RENT.

THREE STORY BRICK DWELLING AND
STORE HOUSE, ON Commerce Street. near Main
excellent business stand-OccuPied at present by
the Messrs. Johnson -
A LARGE ROOM 1890 feet on the second floor
Of the Brick Store House, corner Of Main and Com
merce Streets; now Office fos the Messrs. Tygeft.
TWO SMALL TENANT HOUSES, in good
repair, near the town. -
SMYRNA Dee. lst lS7A.3m
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Is THEIRS TnUTH IN history ,

We publish in another place succinct par
sgraphs from Massachusetts newspaper
Que hundred years and one month old. We
do not know that another copy of the Wor-
cester Spy, as old as this, now exists. 1t
is peculiarly valuable for a little curious
Development which may lessen very materi-
ally the fame of an old hero whose name is
household word from "Down East" to
the Gulf of Mexico. Either this result en-
sues, or, soldiers, in those good old days,
were quite as magnificent liars as we were
wont to deem Pope and Howard and others
whom it might be unpleasant, yet awhile,
to mention in this invidious way. Within
the month as intelligent publication as
HuPers' NosstAly said that
.'One hundred years ago on the tenth Of
May, Ethan Allen, with the assurance
Characteristic of the first class Yankee, de-
nanded OF the British officer 10 command
Of Fort Ticonderega the surrender Of the
garrison and al iss sangninary parapher-
MALTA BE was polite enough 70 say that
the request vas made 'on the authority OF
tie Great Jehovah and the ContiRental
Congress, and upon these papers he took
possession
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The partial details of terrible incidents
of the earthquake come from Mar. .caibo.
The city of San Jose de Cucata was utter
ly destroyed. The sun rose on the eigh-
teenth ult. brightly and the day was beau
tiful. At II o'clock the terrific earthquake
shock struck the city. The whole popula-
ton rushed into the streets, and the move
ment of the earth was like that of
the waves of the sea and continued
for fifteen seconds. Every house, almost,
was leveled with the ground and thousands
of people were suffocated by an impalpable
dust that escaped from crevices in the
earth. All was over in two minutes, when
the wind bore away the dust. The surviv-
ors fled to the country and the fearful
day was followed by the still more
terrible night. They had moved to an
open plain where encampments were
established. Rain commenced to fall in
torrents, and amid the impenetrable dark
ness the groans of the wounded filed the
air, varied only by the sharp detona-
tions proceeding from explosive materials
amid the ruins. The coming of the next
day showed that not more than 1000 re-
mained alive. Beneath the fallen houses
lay from 5000 to 10000 dead. The letter
also reports the destruction of other places,
as mentioned in the account of the earth
quake by way of Panama some two weeks
ago.
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IT Is somewhat remarkable that q sudden
stroke of epileptic economy struck Radical
ism and Democracy amidships just at the
very moment that the South asked the first
and only concession yet demanded at the
hands of Federal power. mo more appro-
priations Of public lands or of public credit,
say the Democracy Of Ohio. No, no, we
have been paying steamship subsidies, fish
ing bounties, high tariffs, aud plundered by
navigation acts and by credit mobiIiers and
by Central and Union Pacific lobbying and
bribe-mongers for half century, and now
when the South. with one voice, asking
some compensation for the lawless cotton
tax and share Of fairness in distributing
federal benefactions, comes before the
country petitioning for loan OF Federal
credit that the Southern Pacific road may
be built, the pious Ohio Democracy must
'.rise up" and inveigh against sfdrther aP-
propriations TO railways by Fedeial power.
This may be very proper stage thunder in
Ohio, but win hardly have the '.ring OF the
true metaln in Texas and the South.
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But the Worcester Spy printed May "a,
I775, tells very different story. Il says:
Yesterday Col. ,Easto4 arrived a, the Pro
vincisl Congress in Watertown from Ticon.
deroga, and brings the glorious news of the
taking of that place by the American forces,
teresung event we have collected the fol-
lowing particulars. viz Last Tuesday
se'nnight about 24o men from Connecticut
and this province, under Col Allen and
Col. Easton, arrived st the lake near Ticon-
derogs. Eighty of them crossed and came
to the fort about the dawn of day. The
sentry, surprised, snapped his piece, and
our men Immediately seized him and pushed
through the covered way and got in safely
while the garrison were in bed. They
formed hollow square and gave three
huzzas which brought out the garrison:
an inconsiderable skirmsh ensued The
commanding officer came forth: Col Eiston
clapped him upon the shoulder, told him
he was his prisoner md demanded N THE
N,NE-o OF AarEhaeA we follow copy exactly,
'caps, and all-EDs. STATEsNfANl, an in
slant surrender of the fort, with all its con-
teuts, to the Amencan forces. The officer
was in great confusion and expressed him
self to this effect-damn you, sohat-achat
does all this mean' Col. Easton mot Ethan
Allen, mark you-EDs. STATESMAN, again
told him that he and his garrison were
prisoners. The officer said he hoped he
should be treated with honour. Col. Easton
replied he should be treated with much
more honour than our people had met with
from British troops. The officer then or
dered his soldiers to deliver up their arms,
about 100 stands" ss s.- .s.-t .-s,,r,,,r..
Then follows description of the place.
Crown Point was taken by detachment
and Col Easton having accomplished the
purpose for which he left home returned
to his town and gave the above recital of
facts. IF somebody cannot discredit Col
Easton, Ethan Allen, the late admirable
chairman of the Greeley Committee in New
York City, will be divested of hereditary
change his name and forget his pedigree
and people will no longer know what
names, giided by history and consecrated
in our memories, deserve veneration. Must
we substitute Easton for Allen in the proud
est niche in the temple of American his
tory? Will the Worcester Spy, which still
lives, through its antediluvian editor tell !
Read the curious extracts from the ancient
Spy in another place. 55eao ayss q. a
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erty, were not warth the life-bloOd of any
single Northern or sunihern hero who fell
on any Southern battlefield. II the war
were waged to save slavery the owners of
slaves would not have been exempted from
| soldierly service, and it is true that no in
| telligent ex-slayehol6er, however terrible
his poverty, has been heard to say that he
would have 1.-The institution . restored.
He may be forced by unaccustomed want
to say he would gladly have the whilom
moneyed value of his slaves, but he wOuld
have no more of negro slavery There was
higher, nobler sentiment and purpose ami
mating the masses of those who fought in
Southern armies. They believed, as shown
in the discussions affecting Kansas, that
their local rights and personal independence
| were violated. The war, in its spirit and
purpose. was one thing; the war, as waged,
was quite different thing, and was ac-
tually fought for very different purpose.
As We were governed We absolutely fought
to set up a consolidated empire at Rich
nfond and, 10 oyeIthFew. this Southern
union, another assailed- it, that the
first and older might not per force
cease to have any desirable existence
As the existence of two Unions was infinite :
ly worse than that of one, and would have
been, from what we see of this one that
survives, doubly intolerable, there were
few tears shed when the weaker was no
more and its death was collapse, and with
the frightful lesson of frightful horrors in
cident to consolidation, the only legacy
left us, it is not strange that, North and
South, tie pendulum of popular opinion
moves steadily backward from Richmond
and from Washington, as embodiments of the
idea of central despotism, towards Texas
and local independence. 1t is surely need
less to suggest that while States are integers
and of themselves distinct republics con-
Tossing the full force of every compact of
union, that counties and cities are most
wisely governed when freest. But this as
sertion is only applicable to communities
capable of self-government. 1t has been
demonstrated, times without number, that
legislative and executive powers of corpor-
ations cannot be wisely or decently admin
istered when suffrage in mixed white and
African districts is universal Therefore,
to perfect the idea of local freedom, suf
frage in local elections must be restricted to
those interested in the maintenance of hon
est government and capable of selecting
men to shape it.
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PERHAPS the grandest and most imposing
military and civic pageant ever seen in
America was witnessed by the countless
thousands of spectators in Boston, who
crowded every balcony, window, tree and
standing place along route of eight miles.
The Veteran Division, among the military,
was the object of universal attraction,
headed by the Ancient and Honorable Artil-
lery, in whose ranks the first gentlemen in
Boston paraded as full privates; judges,
doctors, lawyers, mechanics and manufac-
turers- ''the solid men of Boston''-Gen
n. p. Banks in command. Old Virginia
and the Palmetto State were bonored with
assignments in this creme de Ia creme divis-
ion. The Artillery Blues, from Norfolk,
and the Washington Light Infantry, from
Charleston, were specially honored with
continuous rounds of cheers and compli-
nients throughout the grand march. The
Eutaw flag, as soon as recognized, brought
tremendous outbursts of patriotic feeling.
Every man in the line wore palmetto cock
ades and bannerets of palmetto leaves in the
muzzles of their rifles. Col. Andrews and
Col. Simmons were with Governor CASTOR,
on the grand stand, while the Southern
column passed In review. Their welcome
was hearty, and was honored by the pres
ence of large number OF the most prom
inent and influential Boston merchants.
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People down South, especially Louis
ianians, had learned, even before the war,
that golden syrups were golden delusions,
and that no description of molasses, except
that drawn directly from sugar houses, is
either safe or palatable. Golden syrups,
sugar drips, etc., are delusions and snares.
A professor of chemistry has examined a
dozen varieties of syrups sold at the gro
ceries, and says that all of them are "doc-
tored, made by the "sulphunc acid pro-
cess as follows: "a warm uS1 degrees
Fah.) mixture of starch and water, of
about the consistency of cream, slowly
poured into boiling solution of one per
cent. sulphuric acid (oil of vitrioD, the
whole boiled for some time; then the acid
is neutralized by chalk, and the mixture set
aside. When the sediment has settled in
the bottom the liquid is dipped off aid
boiled down to a syrup. Thissyrup may be
boiled down to sugar, forming what is
known as grape sugar or glucose" Instead
of starch, however, old rags can be and are
used very largely-rags collected from the
streets, or wherever they can be found.
1t is also true that half the yellow, greasy
looking sugar in the market contains pc
culiar clay, found in Georgia, and shipped
in large quantities to New York and Bos-
ton, where it goes into the manufacture of
cheap sugar, and its weight is clear profit,
and of course constitutes fourth of the
original saccharine matter. This peculiar
clay is almost perfectly soluble in water,
and therefore most frequenters of most
boarding houses have sandbars within, even
like the venerable father of floods"
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PHYSICAL FACrs.


We may talk as eloquently and write as
charmingly of the physical attractions of
Texas as if inspired. 1t is easy enough to
tell the world how redundant are the riches
and boundless the resources and matchless
the grain crops of Texas, each bushel of
wheat weighing and worth twenty per cent.
more than an equal quantity of the same
product of Eastern States. Strangers ira
yersing 6oundless plains of living verdure
cannot be mistaken as to the productive
value of Texan farms. There is no
country, in all its incidents Of soil and eli
mate, under the sun. There il no
country whose very diversity of products
constitutes such perfect unity and begets
all the incidents Of mighty commonwealth.
The breezes that blow perennially from the
sea bear upon their wings ever refreshing
draughts, drunk by vegetation and exhaled
as the perfumes of matchless flowers in the
sweetest breath of spring time. There are
boundless forests of pine in eastern coun-
ties, like those of the East, to supply houses
and fences for the empire, and people of
western districts will be blest with every
accessory Of comfort and civilization begot-
ten of railways. One harbor after another
will be opened and its channels deepened
and railways built, until live oak as well as
pine forests viii enrich the people Of Texas
as no people have been enriched from such
sources of incalculable riches. The native
home of the bison, succeeded by cattle oi
civilization as the narrow gauge railway
suPplants the mustang of the plains, be.
comes the boundless pasture for counties.
herds that feed the nations. In fact, be
who prophesies most wildly and extrava.
gantly of the future magnifcence of this
mighty commonwealth is the most rational
of thinkers and capable and accurate ol
statesmen. =
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CIry ATTORNEY HANSON, of Memphis,
states that the city's indebtedness is six and
half million dollars, and the annual in
terest account $500, 600. It has been stated
officially and constantly tina. the cityss total
debt is only FIVE and a half million, and
the annual interest $s4o, ,0oa. But when
city officials differ thus widely there is no
knowing what may be the extent of munic-
ipal liabilities. Property, except on the
business thoroughfares, does not pay insu-
rance and taxes, and if the statement of
the city attorney be well founded, the place
Is practically confiscated by its wretchcd
system of government.
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NOW AND THENe--BLUNDER OF
GONFEDERATISM.

The Shreveport Times adverts to sub
iect of which the STATESMAN has to say
that they who sought to establish and prac-
tice theories of State rights, or of local
independence, adopted the very policy to
rende- the achievement of their purpose i'm
possible. The capital blunder of the Con-
federacy was the creation of its so-called
permanent government aud perpetual Con-
stitution. This scheme was deemed fatal
to local freedom, and opponents of the
movement asserted the necessary speedy
overthrow of this Southern Union. One
or two newspapers at intervals, even when
the unthinking multitude shouted "trea-
son !" asserted persistently that the blum
der committed was fatal, and that two
Unions could not coexist on this continent.
To establish and uphold them for a time
by means OF great standing armies OF blacks
was possible; but since such conditions
were not desirable among people who had
once known in what freedom consisted,
these duplicated burdens and duplicated
practical armed despotisms would be redis-
solved into free States, and these would re-
produce a proper Union, in which absolute
local freedom would be coincident with an
indestructible Union. These results. which
should have been achieved by secession,
will be attained by reason and evolved
from the very physical facts that define
boundaries for States and fix climatic laws
and those OF Industry and production. In
fact, the most desout adherent of Wendell
Phillips can never devise scheme con
templasing the unity of the States whicf
does not confess and maintain separat'
State integrity. The obliteration Of STATE
boundary lines substitutes the more dan
gerous consolidation OF sections 70
the supposed dangerous force Of indi
vidual State sovereignty. The destruction
Of slavery Was a mere incident Of this va
between systems of philosophy in govern
ment. Four millions of negroes as prop