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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-11-22

SUPERINTENDENT OF THE STATE PENITEN
TIAgY.-The Richmond correspondent of the
Petersburg Index says "Col. Strother's i'll
ness has assumed perfectly ncurable form,
and be will resign his position as Superlnten-
dent of the State PsDitentiar5 when the Legls.
lature meets. His successor will have to be
chosen. already hear named as candidates
Mr.. Cross, he Assistant Superintendent, COL
s. A. Swami, member Of the House from Caro-
line. and Gen. R. Lindsey Walker, of Rich
mond. Next to Governor regard the office
as good as any within the gift OF the people,
State or Legislature, excepting. OF course, y.
s. Senators.
The latest model furnished 10 ady's toilet
is sn entire costume 10 one piece. designed to
be worn without cg:aoline. This is the bo!dest
move yet made toward the utter Punishment OF
crinoline. Equally strong efforts are being put
forth to do away with ali drapery by the ultra
eIepantes OF Paris who:ars wearing the back
Of their over. dresses as plain as the front; but
this style is by no means general and Will De
stouty opposed By figures inclined 10 enSon
poi6t,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-11-22
Il. IL l5.3ls 1883 "A. 1t
sra.aie, Is, 61l $3.50 1924 8 =.

RIA I'll III ALTON.
Total ,y.e III lno State fer I'llden 10
Total qota in tie Stats for hay oz........ =, o.
'fi!Iel'a majority in the Stste.. As, iOt
frntnl vote for Tilaen in the citiea ..... l5 A.
Total vol3 for Hayes in the cites....... l3.3lS
Tillen= maIoriy IL the cities .............. 40
Total vote in the state I5r conSrl amend 10 ia
Total vote in State against con- amend. t.. ~
Total vote in counties for con. AMEND ia, L.
'I',t.I ,ot - cite: for cor amend ...... l3,O7J
Msioritv ia STATE Iol ca. amend ...... 81 ,0lJ
Ns;oriir II, counties for con. amend ... q.
Naioii:r IN cities for con. amend 8
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-11-22

IS.
E,r prpsilau,

';';e f,iowir, Is tbs official v"ir 81 Virginia
VI The istt election.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-11-22

The FUTURE Or The BLACE:. :. ~u''thcru
correspondent Of the CiueiDuali Gazette, dis
cussing this topic. says:
Here is an ominous fact From 1850 10 1850
their increase in Carolina was - per cent;
from 1860 to 1870, it was per cent; since
1910 there has been 20 increase. In iour OF
the Southern States there has been decrease
since 1860, and nowhere ha. lie increase been
50 great as before. The statstcslu all tho Cite.
CHOW their mortality to be greater than that OF
the whites: aud ,strangest Of a,ln certain local
tiles where they are 10 40 overwhelming maJor.
ity their death-rate is 60 per cent. greater. In
other words, the American negro, 10 favor
able cline, on fertile soil, in bis natural hab.
itat, is dying faster than the poor in the alleys
of New York-fastcr than the unaccIimated
Englishman dies amid the fever breeding jun.
slea Of Hinduism or on the hot mud-banks OF
Guiana The 1easons are summed up In two
s-improvideuec sn9 9nchastity. Their
development in slavery was completely enc
sided.
EVERY MAN FOR HIS CoUNrRY.-On the
evening Of the day that the news was az
pounced that Tiden was to be our neyt Presi
dent, snd before suy contradictory reports had
come to disturb the peace OF laind Of those who
supposed they belonged to the successful party,
an lrishman, who had either been treated or
treated himself to an overdose Of liquor, was
seen staggering along evidently trying to &C:
compsh the feat of walking on both sides OF
The street at once, much TO the annoyance OF
disappointed Yankee who was makiog uasuc-
cessfnl attempts to pass him. Just as Pat
gave a urch end came near falling on the irri-
lated politician, be sang out at yhe top ef bis
voice, "Hooray for OuId Ireland - "Hooray
for OuId Ireland p "Hurrah for h-ll -
said the disguised Yankee, attempting to dodge
him. "Al right" said Pat, livery man for
his owu country IN y Express.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

house type, and of which the Syracuse
Courier pertinently asks: Is not Horatio
Seymour's position more honorable one
than the position of man, who, to adj
vance his personal interests, stoops to the
level of a bar-room politician in his tricky
and dishOnorable tactics to secure the NOM
ination:" So far then as the merely per-
sonal opinions of either of these two lead
ing aspirants for the Democratic nomina
ton are concerned, they will not be in the
way when the Western intlationists make
up the platform, as the Ohio result indi-
Gates they will. If the platform will not
come to the man, he will go to it. There
breathes not prominent Democratic poll
tician to-day, with "party" soul so
dead, who would .ieopardize success this
Fall for the chimera of "principle. ="
Let us get possession of the Government
first, and adjust principles afterwards, is
the "party" maxim. Imbued with the
notion of the popularity of the initiation
heresy throughout the great West and
Northwest, the Democratic managers of
those sections will not yield to the party
dictation Of the East. They will take a
candidate on their own terms, and on no
other, and no man is foolish enough to
doubt that they will get the best the Demo
cratic market affords.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03
OHIO POLITICAL STRAWS.

So far as it is indicative of the prevail
ing sentiment among Western Democrats
upon the subject of Presidential prefer
ences, the recent action of the Ohio Demo-
cratic Convention is probably the most sig
nificant political event of the year. The
overwhelming defeat of Mr.. Thurman, not
withstanding mis- obiging endeavors to sat
isfy all parties by the most accommodating
financial views, shows beyond a peradven-
ture that the Western inflationsts and soft
money men have not recovered from the
bitterness and disappointment of their last
Falls defeat, and that, in all probability,
they will dictate the party platform at St.
Louis. In fact, the Southern Democrats
being willing to accept any candidate upon
whatever platform may promise success,
the direct party issue remains to be settled
between the Eastern and Western Demo
Gratis. Ordinary sagacity, however, will
suffice to detect in the personel of the
Democratic aspirants for Presidential hon
ors, ample evidence of the fact that merely
individual views and opinions can readily
be adjusted to "party" demands. 1t GER
tainly does not require any stretch of the
or Mr.. Bayard's "views," hard money men
though they profess to be- to any platform
either compromise or square that the West
ern inflationists may set up, should the
names of either of them head the ticket
Both gentlemen have, in the not very re.
mote past, indicated their willingness to
sacrifice individual notions to ''party good !"
Whose protests louder rang against the
inquity of Mr.. Greeley's Endorsement in
1872 than Mr.. Bayard, and yet after "the
party had committed the unrighteous act
of placing their lifelong political enemy
at the head of their Presidential ticket,
who submitted more gracefully to the inev-
table than the Delaware chevaliero The
independence of the man succumbed to the
selfish interests of the partisan, and the
eloquence of protest was lost in the ardor
of the party champion. Nor is Mr.. Tilden
less inconsistent. Professedly opposed to
the Ohio Democrats in their rag money
schemes. Predicting fatal injury to the
credit and business of the country as the
necessary result of the financial theories
and fallae;ous ideas entertained by his
Ohio brethren, he nevertheless wished til EN-
"God speed" in the party name, and en-
couraged by every means in his power,
except by personal participation in their
canvass, the success of financial theories
he professed to consider SO dangerous to
the general interests of the nation. And
SO either or both of them will do again.
Put Mr.. Bayard's name at the head of the
Democratic ticket at St. Louis, upon the
most offensive platform, the most vindic-
tive followers of " Billallen" can invent,
and nauseous as the dose may be, this
"chevalier without reproach," who never
refused to go one better when confronted
by one of those combinations known in
Kentucky politics as "blind," and who
was never known to go down before the
"blutf" Of an adversary, will greedily
swallow it all. OF Mr.. Tilden's party tao
tics, all newspaper readers are informed.
They are strictly Of the New York pot
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03
THE NEW HANNIBAL.

We are told that at the Democratic Con-
vention, in Baltimore, last Wednesday,
Senator Whyte, although not delegate,
passed in upon the floor, took his seat be-
side his son, W. II. Whyte, and remained
there manipulating the Convention. That
Mr.. Whyte could keep his corrupting hand
out of this Convention no person expected;
the Ethiopian does not change his skin nor
the leopard his spots,-but that father,
however low he may have fallen himself,
should be willing to school his son, young
man just entering life, in the base prac-
tees, the dishonest trickery, the vile fraud
which characterize the Ring management
in Maryland, is past comprehension. The
worst men are usually unwilling that their
children should participate in their crimes
to keep their offspring pure is a desire
often manifested by the most Abandoned
but here is father, claiming to occupy
respectable position in society, who takes
his own son, fresh from the schools, "and
in the morn and liquid dew of youth, :"
introduces him to the companionship of
the cunning, INSCRIPTIONS German, the
vulgar, beastly Bannon, and the host of
smaller scamps who 60 to make up the
Whyte Ring in Maryland. Hamilcar car
ried his son Hannibal to the altar that he
might swear eternal enmity to Roman ag.
gression, Virginius slew his daughter to
save her from the lustful Claudius, but it
remained for Maryland Senator to reverse
all the instincts of paternity and consign
his son to association with venal placemen,
and initiate him into the unclean mysteries
of corrupt politicians.
The commonest laws of commonest de-
cency require that parents shall guard their
children from all cohtaminating and cor
rupting influences.
"And he that b,e,ks them In the Icast degree
Stands in attaInder Of eternal shame"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

MORE for his own personal qualification,
than for any necessary vindication of his
management of his department while a
member of Gen. Grants Cabinet, Mr.. Cres-
well appeared voluntarily last week before
the House committee on post offices and
postroads to explain certain transac-
tions of the Post-office Department, while
under his charge, and which had been re-
ferred to by certain witnesses heretofore
before the committee. A special dispatch
to the New York Tines, states that Mr.
Creswell showed, by reference to the law
and the records of the department, that
the mail service, whether temporary or
permanent, was in every case without ex-
ceptions placed in charge of contractors
who, in the language of the law, were
"the lowest of the bidders who would
enter into contract for the performance of
the service" This explanation was thor
ough and complete. The charges were
substantially the same which were investi
gated in 1872 and 1874, and which in the
last year were disposed, of by a unanimous
report in his favor as to all material facts.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03
Nervous Debility.-VITA,

Nervous Debility.-VITAL WEAKNESS OR
DEPRESSION: A weak exhausted feeling,
no energy or courage; the result of MENTAL
ovER-woRK, INDEsCRETIoNs OR ExCEssEs,
or some drain upon the system, is always
cured by Humphreys Homeopathic Specific
No. %. 1t tones up and invigorates the
system, dispels the gloom and dependency,
imparts strength and energy,-stops the
drain and re}uvenates the entire man.
Been used twenty years with perfect sue
cess by thousands. Sold by dealers. Price,
$1.00 per single vial, Or $500 per package
of five walls and $500 vial of powder
Sent by mail on receipt of price. Address,
Humphreys' Homeopathic Medicine Conn.,
panp. 562 Broadway, New York.
az See large advertisement.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

BELkNAP AND IMPEACHMENT.-The SEN
ate has decided, by vote of 81 yeas to 90
nays, that it can exercise jurisdiction in
the impeachment of Belknap. The deci-
sion is an important one, since it is the
first time the question has arisen before
the Senate, whether impeachment could be
avoided by resignation. This action of the
Senate will also establish a precedent in
similar cases, since the question was fully
and exhaustively argued by number of
the ablest constitutional lawyers of the
Senate, and was untrammelled by any side
or political issue.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03
Notice to CredifOrs.

This is to give notice. the subscriber of Cecil
county hath obtained from the Orphans Court said
county, letters Testamentary the personal stale
of NATHANIEL JAQUETT,
late of said county deceased IL persons having claims
against the said deceased hereby warned To exhibit
the same. with the vouchers thereof duly authenticated
On or before the 22ud day of February 1877:
they may Otherwise by law. lie excluded from all benefit
of said estate All persons indebted said are
Requested" |" make imn"at" payment 10 the subscriber.
Given under my hand. this ;ird day of June Is.G.
JAS. T. MCCULLOUGH.
Executor of Nathaniel .IaIu IT. deed.
Test-REUGEN d. lamar, Register
June =. lS16-6v
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

The Conundrum that Mr.. Speaker Kerr
is called upon to answer is why, when so
many hundreds of volunteer officers in his
own district wanted to get into the regular
army, he gave the preference to New
York man that he didn't know, and Re-
publican at that.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

SAYS Mr.. Weed: 81 presume Tilden will
be nominated at St. Louis. l certainly
hope SO, fol- the sake of the Republican
party. If were partisan would do what
could to secure his nomination. He would
certainly lose New York, and be weak,
very weak before the people at large" He
seems to be tolerably weak among large
section of his own party.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

DYSPEPSIA. are particularly
subject to this disease and its effects: such
as Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Habitual
Costiveness, Heart burn, Water brash, and
coming up of the food, coated tongue, dis
agreeable taste in the mouth, psipitation of
the Heart and all diseases of the Stomach
and Liver. Two doses of GREENS AUGUST
FLOWER will relieve you at once, and there
positively is not a case in the United States
it will not cure. If you doubt this, 90 to
your Druggists-H. H. Mitchell, Ekton;
E. B. Frazer, Port Deposit; or DR.. l.. r.
Kirk, Rising Sun; and get Sample Bot
tie for 10 cents and try it. Regular size rs
cents
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

AT THE Democratic primary elections,
held in Baltimore, on Monday last, the
same lawlessness, rowdyism and disorder
that characterized the State election last
Fall, and by virtue of which the ring con-
tinued in power in the State, was observa-
BILE. In the first nine wards, comprising
the Third Congressional District, where the
contest was between James Bond and Rob
ert j. Slater-better known as Doc Slater,
the noted faro bank keeper-for district
delegate. 1t is charged by the friends Of
Bond that 400 Democrats were, by force
and violence, deprived of the privilege of
voting. The Slater mob had entire con-
troll in nearly all these nine wards, and it
was, at the risk of life, that a Bond man
offered his vote. Who can doubt now as
to the means used by the ring rulers to roll
up their heavy majorities in Baltimore last
Fall? But let them alone, like the Kill
kenny cats, and there will soon be nothing
left of them but the tails and few broken
claws.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

THE newly appointed Secretary of War,
Mr.. Don Cameron, took charge of that
Office on Thursday last. Judge Taft also
took charge of the Department Of Justice
the same day,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.

SEMlNOLE LODGE, No. Al, KNIGHTS
~ OF ~ rHIis, OF CHERRi HUI, Cecil county Nd
hereby gives notice Ia all persons that two certain
SINGLE BILLS held by Col. l. y. Davis each tnr
$50 payable respectively and three ears after date
At the National Bank Of Elkton tn Robert Tong or
bearer each dated May lth 1874 ard signed by officers
{" said Lodge, given for usurou, interest and
said Lodge does not hold itself responsible the ia,
I"nt thereof, and will refuse pay the SAM.
ALEXANDER ALBERT c. C.
June .; lS-6-3w of Seminole Lode
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03
PORT DEPOSIT NEWS AGENCY,

For all current publications as soon as
issued, Books aud Stationery, Fancy Goods.
&c, go to ID. NJ. MCCLENAHAN's All
publications, either of Books or Music, if
not on hand, furnished on order at pub
lisher's prices.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

Tyrone of the very best of the new
hotels in Philadelphia is the Grand Expo
sition Hotel, corner Lancaster and Girard
avenues, location very near the Centennial
grounds, and yet in a very pleasant and
quiet neighborhood. 1t is supplied with
all improved appliances, such for instance,
as those admirable earth commodes made
by the Wakefield Co., of N. Y. Hence
danger from malaria, from sewer gas, etc. !,
is much reduced. During the hot months,
such points are of great note. The Hotel
also has most efficient manager in NJ
Riley, late of the Continental Hotel, Phila
The buildings are entirely of brick, and at
the close of the Exhibition they can be
arranged into private dwellings, This
hotel is the largest in the world, is con-
Quoted on the European plan, and is cheaper
than any other first, class hotel. 1t is only
Is minutes drive from the celebrated Bel
mont Driving Park and Race Course.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

WEEK after week the newspapers have
announced that England was receding from
the position she had taken with reference
to the surrender of Winslow. Now comes
the report that the contamination of the
Bostonian wish is soon to be realized
Public opinion in England is adverse to the
position taken by the British ministry, and
common sense very probably will, in the
end, triumph over diplomacy. 1t is really
difficult to imagine the reason that inspired
so absurd violation of international obi
cations, since both law and precedent are
so plainly against the Interpretation put
upon existing treaties by the British minis
try.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

Is TIE greatest success of the Season in
Centennial matters, is acknowledged by the
thousands who have seen them, to be the
Splendid Stock of Superfine Clothing, we
have especially prepared to meet the present
demand. Unusual care has been exercised
in selecting material and making up, and
as our prices are decidedly lorer hdn others
asked elsewhere for inferior goods, we con-
fdently say, that every garment sold is a
genuine bargain, and as we guarantee every
article, satisfaction must be given. BEN
NETT & Co., Tower Hall, 51s Market Street,
Philadelphia. Notice the Large clock over
the door,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

Now let the music OF the pack barking
at Mr.: Blaine's heels be stopped while
Speaker Kerr is investigated.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03
ELkTON. JUNE 3, 1876.

The Methodist General Conference ad-
journed finally, on Wednesday.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

THERE may be nothing in it Mr.. Speaker
Kerr, but don't let it "a Kerr again.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

THE Democratic State Convention met
in Raine's Hall, Baltimore, on Wednesday
last, and selected delegates to represent the
State at St. Louis. The delegates at large
are: Hon. r. NJ. McLane; Hon. E. X. Will
son, of Wicomico county; Hon. r. B. Car
michael, of Queen Anne's county; and
Hon. Outerbridge Horsey, of Frederick
county. The delegates for the Second
(this) Congressional District are: Hon.
Stephenson Archer, of Hartford county, and
]. L. C. Talbot, Esq, of Baltimore county.
Much dissatisfaction was expressed by some
of the county delegates at the manner in
which the district delegates were chosen,
claiming that large number of the county
delegations were not consulted in the mat
ter. The delegation is unpledged, but go
to St. Louis, meaning to count, if possible,
for the winning candidate. Doc Slater,
the notorious Baltimore gambler, is one Of
the delegates.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03
Grand Exposition Hotel.
rmILApELPHlA, May Is, 1876.
Wakefield Earth Closet Company,
81 Deg Street, \. Y.

GENTLEMEN:
The fifty Cabinet Closets that you set rs give
general satisfaction To guests. We will send You
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Yours Respectfully,
NJ. RILEY. Manager.
MR c. 4. WAKEFIELD placed the First Baptist
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JAMES FRANCIS,
DANIEL STEARNS. Trustees
a. ID. FRANCIS,
PITTSfIELp. March ; ,. 1876.
SPENCER Mass. March II. lS16.
We have used in our factory for nearly year.
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Boot Manufacturers.
WARREN. VI ASS, March -, 1876
Your Vault Commodt, placed in Congrega-
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mend its Yours, W. IL. SHEPARD,
Chairman Building Committee.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

ToNIC.-Every one, at times, feels the
necessity of some restorative of the vital
powers, depressed by mental or bodily
exhaustion. In such conditions let every
one, instead of flying to the alcoholic or
medicinal stimnlants, which must be fol
lowed by depression equal to their excite
ment, reinvigorate his deranged system by
the natural tonic elements of the PERUvIAN
SYRUP.
Poughkeepsie, N. y, October IS.
Gentlemen-Since taking the PERUVIAN
SYRUP ! feel better, my strength is i'm
proved, my bowels are regular, my appetite
is first rate. | have recommended it to my
friends, and they are using it.
There is an old physician in this city
colder than | am who has been i'll the drug
business for forty years, who has used the
SYRUP for three months, and gives it as
his decided opinion that it is the best Alter
alive Tonic Medicine he ever knew
Yours truly, w. G. STERLING.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03

sB Ladies who have not received Nine.
Demorests catalogue of Paper Patterns are
requested to send us their address and re-
ceive one by return mail.
MCCRERY & BoULDEN.