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kherl6's Sale.


RY. virtue of a writ of Levari Facas to ME
ID directed, will be exposed to Pub 10 Sale
at the Hotel of James G. Townsend. Towns.
end in Appoauinimink hundred. New Castle
county, Delaware. on
TUESDAY.
THE I'd day OF NOVEMBER. 1875
At O'Clock, Pm.
The following described Real Estate. viz.
All that certain farm. plant alton or tract NJ
land stnsted In Appoquinimink hundred and
larly described as follows that is To ssv. ~
ginning at LARGE stone at the run of n mo-.
OF motifs branch corner for land now az ,hSS
heirs Of Henry Walker. deceased from thence
with the heirs of land Of said heirs sor,h ~;
ty one and one half degrees west rs Aid n..-
ches to 81 one corner as last azores lid thsnn.
no tn 81 degrees west 1874 perches 10 annth.e
stone corner as last aforesaid: from thsncs
soutno5 1 dsegr,es West to the centre Of the pub
Dutch creek; thence with the centre OF saiS
road to the mouth Of a new public road Lad.
ing , the State road; thence with the centra
% tala WGn new wroad TO corner for land formerly
Ehenezer Cloak; ON thence with n lins 81
land formerly Of Cloak south % degrees q. q,
Tvs perches 10 stone on the brow OF n hi hi On
a line Of land formerly Of Bevan Morris land:
thence with the lines of that land north al do
grees east ~ $40 perches TO a oorner IN ~.
Smyrna road; from thence partly with saiS
road south 2Sh degrees east l42 percbes 10 tbs the
aforesaid Morris, branch; from thence down
sala branch and binding Herewith to the
and binding north the same with said brancSS
ana prong about 40O perches to the placs ~
besinn,ng, containing three hundred AZ for r.
q seven acres. & be tse sane more or less with
Kitchen. barn. stabling. large grain bsrraoaIHsu aHu
shedding and corn cribs; one two story fes ran
tenant house. with stAbling and cn., iame aIle
mr. uVRa av.1 NNwn a..
ON erected. 'neTe-
Seized and taken In execution as N.
perty Of Gideon Il, Rothx ell, and to hs 9io-
S,lL MlLLlAM II. LAMBS0N. Sbsr;T'
sherifs Office. New Castle. Snerin.
October u, 1875 o.,,l
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ADJOURNED
SH ERaEE'S SALE.

RY virtue ola writ of Fl. Fa. to me iii ectod.
will be exposed to Public Sale. on .he pre-
mises. in Brandywine hundred. ia New Cas-
tie. Delaware. on
TUESDAY,
THE 26,h day OF 0CTOBERsls5.
At o'clock, p. no..
The following described Person Proper y.
viz
horses, 2 colts, half intercs' i IA cows.
half do. in 4 ca YES. halt do ia IL es. hal 1
do in IL Digs, malt 40. In wheat half dc. in
corn. balf do. in hoy; farm wagon. slop wa
eon Germantown wag N, reaper and mower.
fan, corn shelter. dairy fixtures, plowe, har-
rows. cultiya ors. forks. Takes. shov.ls. co.
Also. household and Kitchen furniture
Seized nni taken in execution as the pro-
pc ty OF u njdmih Atwell. and to be sold nv
Nm. ii. LAMBSON. Sheriff.
Shelt's 0Iice. New Castle,
october Il. 1875. octli ia
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N0TICE-A quarterly meeting of the Trus-
N tees OF the Poor WI he held at the Aims
October 1875. hose who have bills against
the institutio of the Poor wi please present
the N to the trustee OF the Poor OF tatir di =
trict. JOHN W. EVANS, Clerk,
octlY-tm
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Judge Blacks opinions on the curren.
cy, on our first page, will be read with
interest.
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~ OTlCE- / John " Grly in ~
~ ance with tho Requirements of N
OF Ass mbly in such case made and rr,s
do hereby give notice that Shall ANY
Writing to ths Court OF tien,rll ,es.or
the Peice and ia Delivery OF the sSl
Delaware. in and for tle county Of Yss|
tie. upon Monday. III, 18th d y of yOyea
next a. d. 1878, being the frst iay NJ
next Novtm Der term OF toe said Court
license t' keen an Inn or Tavern ksos|
the J II 'rson House. in New Caste yeI
tie Hundred, in School Dis ret 30. g.
castle I, unity, in State OF i'el4wers
the privilege of selling iutox lcaiag IN
IN Tess quantities than one quar-. n
drunk On the premises ari the flO|
Tree holders recommend the said applied
to wit.
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NoTICE.-At the last stated meeting OF
~ the managers OF the W ilmington Sav
ings Fund Society. 1t was on motion resolved
is pay to the Depositors So per cent per an
mum, calculated monthly, no interest being
allowed on fractions OF month, to commence
at the beginning OF the next fiscal year; and
tha' the Treasurer give notice of the Increase
OF the rate of interest at least three months
before the end Of this year.
ALBERT W. SMITH, Treas'r,
W. s. f. Society.
Wilmington, Sept. 20, 1878. TO jal
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HOTELS,
.JEFFERsoN HOUSE.
NEW CASTLE, DELLWARE,

This large and beautifully situated house
shas been put in the very best repair for the
reception OF visitors, who will find at 1t all tue
accommodations OF FIRST-CLASS HOTEL
II commands fine view OF the Delaware Bay,
and is one Of the most pleasant and delightful
places in the State for excursions or pic-ncs.
The house is kept in the best style, the bal
hlled with the choicest wines. liquors and
stantlals and luxuries obthe market. Excm
sionIsts can arrive by boat or rail. Parties
who wish TO 90 fishing or boat riding on the
noble Delaware, can be accommodated with
10 respectfully solicited.
ty22 J. W. GRAY.
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w Inc mortality of colored persons in
" Mashlngtoh during last week, nearly
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ssEERIFF,s kAStS.

ylY virtue OF a writ Of Pins. Levari Focins
ID TO ne directed, Will be exposed 10 Pubic
S 10 at tue
DELAWARE HOUSE No 5l3 MARKET TT
kept ) Ge. 7ge W O-tl T. In tbs city Of will
m tgt II. New c C,s'ie coun ). De aware, on
SATURDAY.
TIE 3Gtn Day of OCTOBER. Is 8.
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OTICE-J Job. u,

" Z E. ]. John w. a..
~ pliance with the requirowUs'a U'ay, in
OF Assembly in such ise el.'n mad" a., Of y
do hereby give notice thai 'I' ,bi ana pr91
writing to the Court of (isrs,sadi sdAil au
the Peace and Jail DeIiServvs Iivs,sI ~ ~ tsegid
Delaware: in and for the coar,u ", s9e W
tie upon Monday. the i n bJiuyy Jayy ~ 2, Neg
A. l.. 1875, being the irst dav way Sf u Move
VEN Der term Of the said Ian, !" sue hst
to keep an Ion or Tavern Dui ,. iOf
binsville House. in New Css.Ia % Ih"IEn u, as
school Districts No. 45 New NG Caa.ql nqalr
Stste of Delaware. with He 'rsus n,-su
sel!lng intoxic Iting lilnor, IN ~. rnneS Su
than one quart, to be dlunt Nn ,S Sua
ses. and the following lreehoderS ,aUsl ,@
the said Application, to VII, ''N'u
4. c. Gray. JOHNNY p,.u..
VIM. Hunter, b EoadsDV nVua''
c. B. Wegg l. NJ Ibeas,
WIN. H0lschumlker, | {. ClearS,
John keegan. re'' b,s
James Wilmot. Dennis = ri,,,.
j, II V. Plat. mai "se'
A, Q holland, wit-,;is.
oo'lo u JUuAW W GA
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g n UMBRELLAs.. New apa as.a..
M order. inst received. handsome
W. B. SHARP
asoW0AndnNarfet streets
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NOTICE The Citizens Loan Association
~ now offers Its 9TH series OF 3 o shai es
for sale. FIRST payment due October 7th, 1878.
seplS-tf GEO Z. MAR s, Secretary
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BEATTY
RI A N vi

No OrHfR PLAN 1aEoRrE has attained IN.
PC pularitY, A1 send stamp TOR circnIsr M M
FEHEATTxIW ashington, N. J. msrisdsm
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TOTICE In comphnce with the reqq
~ ments of the act OF Assembly IN
case male and PROVIDED, We, smith Ny
ter, do hereby give notice tn&twe shall "
in W iiing to the Court Of General sessU
the Peace and Jail Delivery OF the sIaN
Delaware, in and for the county Of new
next, A. u 1878 belng The first da; o.
next Novombcr term OF sad C0ut, iot
cense to sell intoxicating liquors Tor neS X
nal purpo o., at No. 70 ma. Act street, "a \
Ward. in the city of Wilmington sna
following freeholders reccmnena 'He
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NOTICE., David Boulder, n anply w to [
the Peace aHi jail Delivery o. II IN New d
Delaware DnGsI In and ri the ehs ist6 day SeSs
5oe general msrchaadiss9. "a and iasn sa' one
gallon, in schcol District ~: Co.tIs' S new Cgy
Street, in the city Of NeW NseN,,oWinS % freehold
county, Del. ana tneanIicstion, tne to wit
recomme"" 'A' Giles Lambson,
!. b. Fols. George whitfield
James wilmot.. IA Wegeennarp
W. aolscnaA' Geo. Gray,
John 7. Blount, "" ,rs|
L. NJ. Chase. DAyIp BQVLP~t
octl5-St'
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LICENSE ;APPLrca,,or

NOTICE I, Alexander N,,J
~ give notice that / sha,,A ,Awell doh
~ suuges OF the Court of Coa Coa.l Apply N
me me- reace and Jail Dellverrr Sessi,
.einWare, |. In and for the o.: OF the NJ
We on Monday, the Ism %Haty Of NED
next, being the first dau uay Of NJ
Aerm, a. ID 1873, for A lico,ol vi The NovJ
or tavern at the house kne,nse to keen \
Town Hotel III school dis,uwn diwn as the M
Georges hundrcd, New ws.rlct ,at No o.
state OF Delaware, and tastle 10 cou u
liquors In less a,lanti,iaao W sell iutonl
10 De drunk on the prem,so,t than one
Ing fIeeholders recommansS, and tns n
ton. to wit: e'ia The said Az
r. A. Cochran. Tn
Nathaniel Williams John M walker,
7. q. Anderson, I ''." y, =, Vande,l
y. X. Cochran. g 4, FL asOn
George Echenholer sor,h ", heynolds
Lewis Miller. IIeweil JOne,
William a. Wilson 0''n Ii. Kinsle,
oO' 9-e1 ALExiNDE& NAx,J
NOTICE Il. Mary Mcco-
4, In hhs,emoly hssn in such case maso mats Of
u',i,se N" neie y give no ice thai aye ! 'dprd
Wilting to the Court of 90 CO.. | shall AZ
Dela usre vace and Jail Delivery "a sess
,,Ieiaware, ,'e In and for the conn.,, Vl The s.
no ,o, On monday the ljtp dav o. Ne
n, ny, "A. D., ls1j, being the a.. o. Nov
next term OF sail Cou.t. for r If'l Day
an Inn or Tavern at No, ass % "a a license
III the First Ward of tho "ovItrOnt
ION. ION. COUNTY OF New Castle IN! q vi
delaware. with the privilege ~ a, it tes ii
ealing liquors in les scoi onsn,i.e selling
quart, to be di INK ON n Quantities tbs
following frceholdors rec ac Ilremi,es au
plication to WIT: 0O"nendth.s
Joseph Fout, ,u-.
John Ahrens, phtiIeu walton,
Jacob KienIe, Ia,np n,lp Z plunks
Hugh Sweeney, lanes Lame CI0ragon,
Jos. iedamaier John Tun M ~ ley,
Daniel Mccusker NM. Na,,,r rrlIhrn,
Patrick Lahy IT, J'n iD!oortsl
James Mckenna PAL pau, harn. .aa.
Dennis Bra Hey, HonIC H@,'lCk HOLLAND,
Patrick Gready, PATTI. Patty ward
Francis Kelly, Hanrc,.k Hrck nCuslck,
William Price. W;anry WG;nry Bradley,
octl5-3t 'Saael HesslOn,
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NOTICE i, Henry b Paulln, IN c9i
IN ance with the act Of Assembly III I
cases made and provided, do hereby glyd
tlce tnat l shall apply IN writing 10 the O
OF General Sessions OF the Peace and jail
livery of the State of Delaware iu and
the County OF New Castle, upon MONDAY,
10Th day OF November, A, d., ls1i being
first day of the next November Term Of
said court, for License To keep an lni
Tavern at Odessa, in >ch 'ol Dls,rct N
It. Georges Hundred, New Caste eO1
Delaware, and to sell intoxicating lqllrI
less quantities than one quart 10
drunk on the premises, and the iOllOwingl
holders reeomm end the said applicl:oa.
wit:
VIM. Folk, JOs. L. Gibson,
K c. Mailley, {. Watkins
Charles Beasten. K. L. MailleA
Joel A. Lord "A. Hyett,
Leonard Giich. 5 NJ. Enos.
X. w Cochran, Wm. A. Cochran.
Michael GrumminSrr
octl5..t HEAEl D. fAoLl
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NJoTICE.-I George W. hl;se.l, e.,,u " IA
IN by give notice that shslI "Pps Ppas!.lsD,
Judges OF the Court OF Grners ~ Ieo MI
he Peace and Jail Delivery OH o, nv ii
Delaware, IN and for tn, ,,,S tOGsW dav n so}
Castle, upon Monday, the S l1'a abs usi srs, n d,y
Der next A D. 1878, being inc . His. i'ssa,,
the next November Term, i4r a,.ss,d
keep a store for general merenana''s. ~, ~, i
sale of liquors IN quantities o., o. NJ. Frost M IN
half q gallon, at No. lls Wes. ,,,nSiau. , D)
First Ward. Ia the city OF WlLnliIn Ils.onuS
and the following freeholuecs i''
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1Wuu, HnI IMlH fHuu Ii..fruI .'rrI.
NUII .wu Mn. HT. u. iNU ..furIH
.U.IluuOI. .N nu u'r.. IYuN"'. Al.
'UUuIIU uHT wU.II H.u WHIu.
|... II.N hoo fU..U.f III .H #. unI
.uw Um .I.u wIy H UU.wNu
uu Nmuy Ifu.fy iu nIU uU.
ONO ml future, Nuu Wlv HWIu tH.H
moot N. H ,rH WruII Wuuu .rH.NU.
10, ur u| .WHUWuIF W' mmu.
nily nj material imourlH Whatever
promote daourd, an Vpukou our rom-
man government, threatens dnnPcrnnd
disaster ~ all alike md Whatever
gives strength aud purpulully Ia our
nee Institutions, promises blessings tn
the people IN every part Of the country
md ~ tlulr pustcily.
God speed the day when the men Of
the north and uf the south shall vie
with each other In their riloits 10 re-
build the waste pluccs, 10 promote the
general welfare, aud to advance, by
all proper means, the greatness and
prosperity Of our common country.
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DIR CESAR.

"CAscA-I can rs well be hanged,
rs tell the manner of it. 1t was mere
fooling. ! saw Mark Anthony offer
him the crown; yet it was not a crown,
either, twas one of these carronets,
and rs / told you, he put it by once,
but for all that, to my thinking, he
would fain have had it. Then he offered
it to him again then he put it by again;
but to my thinking, he aDds rc'y toM
to PIT his fingers 1T. - And still,
rs he refused, the rabblement hooted,
and clapped their chopped hands, and
uttered deal of sinking BREATH"
With the blunt Casca,we might well
say of Grants letter "declining" n
third term that we'll be hanged if we
can tell the manner of it, Most plain
people, however, will say, with theold
Roman that, to "my thinking, he
would fain have had it,"
The last part of the quotation is APP
posite to the fulsome utterings of
"stinking BREATH" in n late number
of the Chicago Inte-Ocean Oh this sub
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Tho pnpe TINT Kills.

at is the pace that kills" People who
live fast get old rapidly. Nothing wears out
the constitution like dissipation and late
hours. Hygeia, goddess OF health, bitterly
revenges herself upon all who break her
laws, not alone those who do so wantonly,
but even those who are compelled by hard
necessity. Constant overwork saps the
physical structure with no less certainty, II
less rapidly, than dissipatcd habits. There
is, however, an antiseptic which, so far as II
is i'm the power Of medicine 10 retard the
wear aud tear of the system thus accelerated
achieves that object most successfully. This
preservative is Hostetters stomach Bitters,
a WALKING agent without n peer. Prema-
ture decay, whether 1t be the result Of inner
ent weakness hard work, continuous anx-
iety, dissipation or disease, is stayed In its
whitening career, and the exhausted and
shattered system powerfully reinforced by
this genial restorative.
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/ iuNstr0fn,J mtH llByy uim
'.. u"Ni WH.N.lrWny .uIhU|N.
HM Nh. m.U' IuIW Nu. H.lyUl Il
IU... '".H.n f.In li0.' Iu0.Uu. um
SION. ..... HN"uI INH wnHH.'uI
....I UuI Uumu W.r ImuuHl
II. Nh. .f. "u.I.I
p.. HmI lmn& Ilu Union lu.
. uIi.u "'rNI Declared uw WI one.
uu.IIrcnid,yiIUlmuthcgurrr
ending June aulbtl,
NAuuyUIuN, juno B,-'lhp Ala
uuWu cInims commission has been cX-
tended HiE month";.
Is telegram was received at the in
lorull revenue Office to-day from COT
lucior Latham, at huntsville, Alabama,
announcing that deputy collector llul-
man lcuihcrwuod was to-day shot aud
killed by an Illicit dislilpr.
The mail service between Washing
ton aud New York has been given to
the Baltimore and POtUmas railroad.
For the present the Baltimore and
Ohio road retains the service of the
west.
The forty-sevcn thousand dollar rob
berry from the treasury department Is
confirmed.
LEBANON, Pa, June 3.--rhe Eighth
regiment has been called out to protect
the men who have gone to work. The
authorities are determined they shall
not be molested. The mob is one thous-
and strong.
louisville, Pa, June 3.-An ar
rested raider was rescued to-day 10y the
mob, which is rapidly increasing. THE
militia are in uniform and ready for
action. The shcrill's posse was fired
upon and three of them wounded.
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~ oIma lo ianloInlunf hHnd No mug
H.U muimr 1NDr .pum veto
r0Hy u.prH, nt f.u t0mu 1000.
uIfuofrUl rnIi..' no Vu l.rn
ll.l, rllr .nI Uln.n. n#l mm. .u.
rIIdm.ly Um 1000, y UNw HuuO.
NJ iumua. luUfu nn nn duu. 600
hHml.d tpl.u ntHonu l.ull
lis tate srrdo, mud II shn should ~.
cumtly remain iu thcuuiun he should
disuNu her DETERMINATIONS NJ Nir-
pluiu, for her turdincas IN following
the more southern -tnlCs, was expressed
Ia the hilcrcN terms Lieutenant
Colonel Robert T., Lee, nj that time In
command VI his regiment, was also at
Fort Mason, hut he was never heard to
express M opinion which would indi-
cate his future course. In CONVERSE
ton with his southern subOrduntes
on this subject, he always counselcd
caution and delibcratiOn In all they
did, aud particularly impressed upon
them their supreme duty to the federal
government, rs long rs they wore It's
uniform and drew it, pay. This advice
was more frequently given To Major
Thomas, perhaps, than to any other ON
account Of the greater intimacy ofthcir
official and social relations.
In the latter part of the winter of
lSGO.Gl, Thomas obtained II leave of
abscnccand left Texas to join his family
in the north. Before leaving San An
tonic, he declared his fixed purpose of
leaving the service, whether Virginia
seeded or not, rs he could not con-
scicntiously serve in the war against
the south. Even after his arrival IN
Washington, he wrote to an old army
friend in Virginia, and the letter Is
now in the possession of Ex-Governor
Lctchcr, n copy of which has been
seen by the writer of this, requesting
his friend to see the governor and try
and obtain for him (Thomas) the posi-
ton Of ordnance officer of the state,
giving his reason for this request in
about these words, "For / see plainly
that shall have very soon to find
some other occupation" Virginia, at
that time, hal not seeded, or Fort
Sumpter been fired upon, and more
than all, Colonel Albert Sidney John
son and Lleutenant-Colon Robert
T.. Lee had then not resigned. These
events followed soon after, and Thomas
found himself 10y regular promotion,
the colonel of the elite cavalry regiment
of the army. This seems to have COM
plctcly changed his views on the con-
sttutional right of secession and of fed
eral coercion, and he remained in the
service.
AS we said in the beginning Of this
article, we have no desire to detract
from the military reputation of the
dead union general. We believe he
served its cause with fidelity and cour-
age, but In view of the facts connected
with the espousal of that cause,
which is known to dozens of people
now living, besides the writer of
this, we must be permitted to doubt
the purity of character and the unself-
ishncss of his "devotion to the union."
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TIE LATE GENERAL GEORGE ii
THOMAS.

Amongst the numerous newspaper
.criticisms, called out by the appear
ance of General Sherman's memoirs OF
the war, is one from the st. Louis Re
publican of a recent date, defending
General George III. Thomas memory
from the "scant credit" to use the Re-
publican's phrase, given him in Gen
eral Sherman's book. After giving n
sketch of its heros early life and ca
reer, the Republican goes on to say:
"The moral stuff of the man was des-
tined to undergo the sharpest test be-
| fore single hostile gun had been fired
on either side. The Second regiment
of regular cavalry had for its colonel,
Albert Sidney Johnson; lieutenant
colonel, Robert Il. Lee; majors, Earl
Van Dorm and George ii. Thomas. All
these were southerners by birth, FAM
lily connection and sectional feeling.
All resigned their commissions in
the service of the United
States and accepted commissions in the
service of the cOnfederacy-all, except
Thomas. He twas faithful among the
faithless found" but at what amount
of personal sacrifice no one can under
stand who has not passed through
similar orderal and emerged rs pure
and mistaken from its fires. Born in
Virginia, bred in that noble old state,
cherishing the strong affection for her
soil and institutions, which is the most
marked characteristic of Nirginians,
bound TO the south by those home ties
which knit themselves with the very
heart-strings had all the JUS
LITIGATION for deserving the federal flag
and cause that his companions could
offer"
Far belt from us the desire to pluck
one laurel leaf from the grave Of the
Republicans model soldier and patriot,
but when he is heldup to the world
as a second Bayard, sans pew ct sans
rcproche, we must he permitted to
doubt either the Republicans infor-
nation in regard To certain well known
facts, connected with General Thomas
career, or strange obliquity Of moral
vision.
AS the Republican states, at the
breaking out of the war, Thomas was
major of the second cavalry, and sta
toned at Fort Mason, in this state.
During that long and anxious winter
preceding the outbreak, nowhere was
there such gloomy forebodings of the fu-
ture rs amongst the officers of the regu-
lar army of southern birth. Amongst no
class of Americans was there 50 fierce
a mental and moral conflict between
the allegiance due from them to the |
whose pay they were re-
and the Unborn love of their
native states. On the one hand was
the government, to whose service they |
had given so many years Of their man.
hood, demanding the use Of their
swords to coerce their own kith and
kin back into a union which they de-
,pised and on the other, an earnest
appeal from their brethren, to-
come to their help against threat
sned invasion and ruin. Besides,
amongst the older officers, there was a
lear conviction that there was no
authority, under the constitution, in
he federal government to force
tate back into the union by fire and
word. To such, it would have seemed !
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LAWLEssNESS IN OUR MIDST.

at is unnecessary to enter into dis.
sertation on the cause that has made
this, the greatest of crimes (murder)
so frequent."- Commercial of Tues
day.
1t may be and is, as our contemporary
says, unnecessary to enter into dis
sertation" on the causes of the frequent
murders and murderous assaults, which
| are becoming the disgrace to the civil
ization of our state, because they are
too apparent to render that necessa-
nv. Ask the first intelligent man you
happen to meet and he will. without
hesitation, tell you it is because the
laws are not executed because juries
will not do their duty because judges
upon the bench, either out of greater
regard for the technicalities of the
law than for its spirit, or from a
blunted sense of the Nervousness of
murder, have a most pernicious lean
ing towards the criminal. 1t is from
these causes, as we all know, that muir
der, the most unprovoked, goes unpun-
ished, or is so inadequately punished
as TO fatally weaken respect for hu-
man life, and makes us regard murder
as a trivial misdemeanor, bailable at
the price of one or two thousand dol
lars in county warrants.
1t is fearful to feel that we are living
in community where the courts and
juries set no higher value upon human
life; to feel that you may, any day, be
shot down without cause, and that to-
morrow your murderer may he walk
ing abroad i'm search of other victims.
But is this not true of the people of
Dallas to-day? Are we not living in
just such a community? 1t is with a
blush of shame that every law-abiding
citizen of Dallas must answer these
questions afllrmatively.
But it would be waste of time to
dwell upon these disgraceful truths,
were there no remedy. But there is a
ltlutu1J anu "A SURF OuOs ~ % of btS
stern and utdltering execution Of The |
ldl0s Of the land. Let the reckless and
inclined, in our midst,
clearly understand that the swift pun |
of crime will infallibly over
take its commission, and that he who
takes life, except in clearly established
cases of self-defense shall forfeit his
own; that the bubbles of ingenious
or the mistaken sympathies of
court and jury, will not save him from
the penalty of his crime, and very soon
human life in Dallas would be as Sc
cure as it is in other Christian commu-
mites. But should few more cases Of
unpublished murder occur in this COM
the people will be forced to
The conviction that the law no longer
Affords them protection, and may pro- !