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AN INTERESTING LETTER.

We surrender a large portion of our
usual editorial space to give our read
ers the early pleasure of Mr.. W. c,
Sevmours description of the unusual
passage of the L. S. ship "Omaha .
through the comparatively unnavigated
straits of Messier Mr.. Seymour Is
attached to the Ordnance Department
of the Omaha" which, airing the
broad pennant of Admirable George IL.
Preble, has just arrived at Hampton
Roads, after a five years cruise in the
Pacific We publish, perhaps, the first
notice Of the passage Of the g Omaha .
through these almost unnavigated
straits, but which shortens the pas
sage round Cape Horn, and avoids the
tempestuous seas always prevailing off
that dangerous point. An old naval
officer declares it an almost unknown
passage, one very rarely undertaken by
navigators, and that the account we
publish is the first ever read by him OF
the passage of these straits by |. 5.
vessel, the general route pursued by
navigators to avoid Cape Horn being
by the straits of Magellan.
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POSITIVE GOOD OUT OF COMPARE.
TIVE EVIL.

With a singular forgetfulness of their
own personal and pet indulgences, men
are eternally railing at women for their
alleged extravaganza in dress and fash
ionable display. Your well-dressed
benedict fairly shudders at the prospec-
tive expenditures of his wife in a fash
ionable outfit, vet sneers contemptu-
ously at the best specimen of ready
made clothing, and thinks nothing of
ordering fifty or sixty dollar suit of
his own favorite artist tailor. Now
the fact is, if women are extravagant
in the matter of dress and personal
expenditure, their husbands, brothers
and lovers are responsible for it, since
they are wonderfully sensitive as to the
appearance of their wives, sisters, and
sweethearts, and are just as much graft
lied by SEEING them well dressed, as
these same weak sisters are gratifed
by FEELING SO. If men did not ADMIRE
line dresses, you may be sure women
would not wear them, and the former
would never have them to pay for
Something, of course, may be set down
to the general feeling of personal rivalry
among women in the same social cir
Gle, but even then it is the masculine
admiration for which the sisters COM
pete, and which is its inspiring cause
With our ears attuned to this con-
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slant charge against the weaker seX,"
it is at least refreshing to know that
dress, some times at least, effects SOME
moral results. Gov. Emory, of Utah,
declares polygamy TO be on the decline
among the Mormons, and assigns the
extravaganza of women as the novel
cause Of it. Its palpable decline is
attributable neither to missionaries nor
to bibles, but simply to q growth among
Mormon women of taste for eXtrava-
gance and dress. The result is, that
the average Mormon finds it about all
he can do to maintain one wife. And
so it is, if he does it decently. Moral e:
Out of feminine evil, masculine good may
come
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LET THE CALLED JADE VINCE.

1t generally happens when our Demo
cratic Soons at Annapolis blunder into
doing good thing for the tax payers
of the State, like the COW that kicks
over her bucket of milk, that they turn
fools, and commit some act of concur
rent folly. The bill passed at the late
session, giving the County Commits
sioners power to revise assessments,
was needed public measure. There
are very many assessments of property
in Cecil county that are unjust, and
upon which the taxes levied are bur-
densome and oppressive. That the
County Commissioners should he in
vested with the revising power, which
they can exercise intelligently upon
satisfactory evidence afforded them Of
that attaches naturally to the Office, and
should by all means be exercised by
them. This is all we'll enough. and
eminently proper beside. But when,
for the purpose of perpetuating in Office
an old political polypus that for years
has been fattening and battening upon
the body of the State, they create Il
new State Office for Levin Wooltord's
personal and special benefit, dub him
TAX COMMISSIONER, and tiIch from the
almost empty pockets of our people an
additional tax of one and half per
cent to help fatten him on, and make
this most unpopular representative of Il
corrupt political ring in Maryland an
advisory chief over every Board Of
County Commissioners throughout the
State, the thing becomes an abomna-
bic outrage upon the people of Mary
land Additional Offices TO feast the
faithful, increased taxes to furnish the
feast, the ring politicians growing fat
ter and the people growing poorer, are
the ever-present blessings of living in
Maryland under Democratic rule How
many generations this will last, depends
altogether upon the suppy-present
and prospective-of Woolfords, EFT ID
oMNE GENUS" Unfortunately for our
peace and pocket books, they are a
long-lived race Time makes no visi-
bic impression on them. Tenacious of
life, as is the tribe of Blairs, they even
may finally succumb to the pressure of
accommodating years Gears ?)-but never
the WoolfOrds Over the door of every
office in Annapolis is emblazoned their
" family motto, este perpetual, which
literally read meaneth-" We shall
always be with you" Let our Bour-
bon brother vince not, when the tax
gatherer comes round. Democracy per-
sonifed and gloried by We Woolfords
should be cheap to him at any price.
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FRAUD In FLORIDA,

WASHINGTON POLITICIANS INTERESTED
IN THE NEW SENSATION, BUT ONLY
BLAIR EXCITED ABOUT IT.
A decided sensation has been created
IN W ashlngton by report from Florida
published on Wednesday, that McLin
and Dennis, the first member Of the
Returning board, and the second init
mately connected with the counting of
the vote of that State for the HAYES
electors, have confessed that they were
guilty of participation in classifying the
returns of the presidential election.
Mr.. William +. Chandler who visited
Florida during the canvass of the vote.
and who is probably more familiar with
what took place on the Republican side
than any one else in Washington, does
not look upon these alleged confessions
as at all important He thinks that
whatever McLin may have written will
turn out to be more in the nature of an
indignant denunciation Of the President
than a confession Of any wrong which
he did III connection with the returning
of the vote If McLin confesses any
thing, Mr.. Chandler thinks his assertions
Will be found in a great degree cond-
tlonal and to be based on a great many
ifs " and butts" in other words he
will say that if such things were done,
then such and such actions were fraudu-
lent Mr. Chandler thinks that McIIin
has been very unjustiy treated by the
Administration while deserving great
consideration at the hands of President
Hayes. He has lost two children; and
he has suffered ostracism and persecu-
ton at the hands of the people of
Florida. He is now, Mr.. Chandler
says, in a really suffering condition.
MIR. Chandler was not disposed to say
very much about his own knowledge of
the Electoral count in Florida, but did
assert that the President knows every
thing that he knows, for the latter has
told it to Mr. Hayes in person
Mr. Chandler scouts the idea that
Mr.. Dennis has confessed anything
This man, he says, is SO shrewd and
sharp that if he ever lied about any
thing he would ever afterward stick to
it.
Ex-Attorney-General Williams, who
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visited the State in behalf Of the Re
publicans subsequent to The counting
Of the votes, said that he knew nothing
of the reported confession except what
he had learned from the newspapers,
and that be knew of no wrongs 10 be
confessed by ANYBODY. He went to
Florida for the purpose of obtaining
certain decisions by the court in the
/ Electoral mandamus case, and failed.
BLAIR HAPPY OF COURSE.
Mr.. Montgomery Blair admits that
he has known Of these alleged conles-
sions of McLin and Dennis for some
time, and regards them as Of the very
highest Importance The effect Of their
confessions, he saws. will he to force the
House to pass the Quo Warranto Bill
framed by David Dudley Field. When
it goes to the Senate, MIR. Blair SAYS,
not single Democrat in that body will
dare to vote against it. Mr.. Blair has
a very exalted idea of his own faculty
ofreading public sentiment, and declares
as the result Of his observation that the
American people will not remain silent
and allow such fraud as has been
perpetrated to he successful. The hon
est Indignation Of the people, he asserts,
will compel Congress 10 take official
notice of the matter, and he has the
most implicit faith that Mr.. Hayes will
be driven in disgrace from the White
House The movement with which
his name is connected is not, be declares.
his movement, but it is movement of
the people. His resolutions We're not
passed by the Maryland Legislature
because he drew or presented them, but
because the sentiment of the people
was behind them
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THERE seems to be an increasing
Democratic apprehension that the party
may lose its majority in the next House
at the same time that it gains control
of the Senate. The Southern brethren
are the most anxious on the subject.
They are very solemn in their warn
lngs against seating any more Con
gressmen who were never elected, be-
cause that way of gaining votes is
short-lived, and full of reactonary force.
They see that the date for securing
Southern claims will be indefinitely
postponed with a Republican House ;
hence this sensitiveness on the subject.
The Northern brother is by no means
calm over the outlook He swears IN
der his breath every time anybody SAYS
Southern claims - to him, and sits in
his chair uneasly, as one who would
only have his worst fears realized if
another extract from those Confederate
archives were to burst under him at
any moment These are indications of
sufficient Importance to show the posi-
billties within the grasp of united
Republican party.
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IT is quite plain that most of the
pretended supporters of the President 5
Southern policy and Civil Service bur
lesques care not fig for him. They
are soreheads and malcontents, who
only want an excuse for making war
on the trusted leaders of the Republi.
can party. One excuse with them is
as good as another, and if they had
not the present excuse, they would find
another. Jealousy, envy and hatred of
the best men Of the party, and not love
for the President or any thing he has
done, is the cause of their present atti,
tude.
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CONGRESSMAN Cook, of Georgia,
grows profanely eloquent on Blair's
hobby: a think the author Of the
measure is a id fool" If Cook
don't stop swearing, Glover won't catch
any Republican fish.
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A CORRESPONDENT of " The Herald )"
has canvassed the Senate and House
on the question of Blair's fraud bill,
and found 256 members against it, only
Il in favor of it, and 81 non-committal.
Even Mr. Blair will have hard work to
be cheerful over that showing.
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THE editor of 1.-The Cecil Democrat "
predicted that James Alfred Pearce,
and not James B. Groome, would be
U. S. Senator. His hindsight" was
clearer than his " foresight " that time.
Blair now predicts that Samuel j. Til
den, and not Rutherford B. Hayes, will
be President within the next sixty days.
Let us see which is the truer prophet,
Gomerv or Georgy.
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"a General +. &. Tyler, Postmaster at
baltimore, Md, says: u have been using
keller's Roman Eminent for Rheumatic
pains and it has acted like a charm. Sew.
eral of the employees of this office have also
been using it with remarkable success, and
do lot hesitate to recommend it in strong
terms as a pain killer"
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u "To do as folks of fashion do" in
oue respect at least, you must use Glenn S
Sulphur Soap, which is immensely popular
among the elite of society, and deservedly
so, for 1t is the most salutary of beautitiers
and purifiers. Sold by all Druggists
HILLS HAIR & WHISPER DYE, Black or
Brown, 50c. 40
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Public Local Law.
OPERATIVE IN CECIL COUNTY.

Published in compliance with an act of
the General Assembly of Maryland, which
requires that ali Public Local Laws shall
be published for three successive weeks in
all the newspapers Published in the county
wherein the law is made to take effect.
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EVEN Senator Grover, of Oregon,
goes against Blair's Maryland resolu-
tons. He smells their real odor through
Cronin's nose.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-04-27

Is THERE a cremationist in Cecil who
can calculate the probable weight of
Montgomery ashes?
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-04-27

McLIN, of the Florida Returning
Board, is the Mrs. TiIton of the Fraud
scandal He has a fresh confession
every day or two. At first he confessed
that Manton Marble tried to bride him,
and when Mr. Marble said it was lie,
everybody believed it was. Now Mr..
McLin says General Noyes tried to
bride him for the other side, and every
body will believe that is lie, without
q word from General Moves.
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EaHTON, APRIL ~, 1875.

IT was Hayes-y in Philadelphia on
Wednesday.
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THERE was a quickened pulse re-
Gently all The country over at the bare
suggestion of the early adjournment Of
Congress- When will it give the coun-
try rest? When will our palsied in,
dustries, and our PROSTATE commerce,
be rid of its tinkering touch? Ger
tainly nothing could hasten more rap
idly the business results all now Sc
anxiously expect, than that consumma,
ton so devoutly to be wished-the early
adjournment of Congress.
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IN THE
HOSIERY DEPARTMENT.
IN THE
LAWN DEPARTMENT.
LADIES
MI slim UNDERWEAR.

The most cumpet" stock ever shown in philadelphia
comprising every variety of plain and handsomely
trimmed undergarments, at very moderate prices.
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b l. A C X II ERN ANIES AND
GRENADINES.

Special attention is invited to our own importation
OF these goods comprising a large line of beautiful
and exclusive styles be found elsewhere in this
country. Also about
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There was an old man from Missouri,
Who hated corruption like fury;
He howled about Fraud ~
Till his friends cried 'sGood Lord
We must muzzle this man from Missouri
Twas contrite old sinner from Florida,
Who said there could be nothing horrider
Than the fraudulent ways
For counting in Hayes
They'd resorted to down there in Florida.
There was Reformer named Glover,
Who, when trying some thieves to discover,
Caught his friends by the collar
And made them all "holler,'
sob, quit this blank foolishness, Clover
Tribune.
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Lately purchased for cash at far less cost and
among which will he found many bargains.
Prices of the latter range from 25c. to 81 rs.
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STRAWBRIDGE& CLOTHIER,
N. w. Corner EIGHTH and MARKET STREETS,
PHILADELPHIA.
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t by mai Distant
hmIeiints
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BLACK GRENADINES,

500 PIECES
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-12-19
Congressional.

MIR. Beck submitted resolution
in the Senate that the Secretary of
the Treasury appear in person Wed
nesday next, and inform the Sen
ate what reason, if any, he has for
failing to answer the resolution of
the Sd of December, 1873, in regard
to the amount of silver coin receiv
ed from custom dues. or whether
he has applied 1t or any part o: it
to the payment of interest on bonds
or notes of the United States, and
if not so applied, to State the rea-
son why. Mr.. Beck said that the
Secretary of the treasury had in
creased the bonded debt $1O4, 49,
45O by selling bonds and boarding
gold. After brief debate, the res
olution was laid over.
Mr.. Beck introduced a bill to re-
peal sections $40 aad 821 of the
Revised Statutes of the United
States, providing that jurors in the
United States coarts, who have
borne arms against the Govern
ment, may be challenged, and also
requiring the iron-clad oath of ju
rors in the United States courts.
Laid on the table to be called up
hereafter for reference.
In the House Mr.. Chalmers
moved to suspend the rules and
pass bill making it a penal offense
for any officer, agent or contrac tor
of the United States to intermeddle
with the election of members of
Congress or of President by contri-
button of money or by the use or
abuse of official privilege or by
brides, threats, influence, ETC., and
also making it a penal offense to
solicit or receive contributions for
election purposes from persons in
the employ of the Government
Rejected-yeas, 1872; nays, 1O3; not
the necessary two-thirds in the af
firmative. The Republicans voted
no; the Democrats aye. Mr.. KEEL
ley, of Pennsylvania, voted with
the Democrats.
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Blains's Absurd Figuring.

New York Herald: The substance
of his reasoning is that the Republl-
can representation in Congress
from the Southern States is not IN
proportion to the colored popula-
ton. He supports this position by
elaborate statistics, thrice repeated
with three different groups of
States; but his attempt to substi
tute reasoning for the usual bloody
shirt defamation, though common
dable in intention, is an utter fail
ure in logic. His contention is
that inasmuch as the Southern Re-
publicans have not representation
in Congress proportIoned 20 the
comparative white and negro popu
latiOn, the Southern whites have po-
litical power than the same number
of Northern white citizens, whereas
every citizen should have precisely
the same representation in Con-
gress. This specious absurdity
can easily be refuted. Let us apply
Mr.. BlaIne's method Of reasoning
to Pennsylvania, his native State
In 1876 the Republican vote In
Pennsylvania was 384,122, and the
Democratic vote $685. 1853. In that
year Pennsy lvania elected eighteen
Republican and only nine Demo
cratic Representatives to Congress.
By strict application of Blaine's
political arithmetic it will be found
that it required only 81, $40 Repub-
lican citizens of Pennsylvania to
elect one member of Congress, but
40, 684 Democratic citizens to elect
one member. That is according to
Mr.. Blaine's reasoning, political
equality is subverted in Pennsylva-
MIA. because one Republican citizen
had as much representation as two
Democrats. This line of reasoning
is preposterous. 1t overlooks or
ignores the fact that In all elections
the vote of the beaten minority are
of no more account than il they
had never been cast. 1t is a fla
grant absurdity to reason as if,
when votes prove to be inefficient,
the voters are deprived of their
rights
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-12-19

A Reverend Rascal Who Has Figur-
ed in Tennessee and Several
Other States.

Des Moines, December l1.--It
transpires that the so-called Rev.
John Williams, arrested in Charles
ton, Ill, by Canadian officers, for
embezzlement at st. Catharines, is
the vertible Rev. A. e Copeland OF
noble fame in Iowa.
He began his life as a sadler in
Iowa City, but soon drifted into the
ministry and preached in several
cities of this State, but always left
under a cloud. At Cedar Rapids
he vas mixed up in a woman scan
dial. He then took an insurance
agency at Milwaukee and cheated
the Company out of $4,000. He
was next heard of as a pastor at
indianapolis, but his identity being
disclosed he left in a hurry. In
Tennessee and other States he sub
seqnently figured in a church and
woman scandal. He could change
his name oftener and obtain pas
toral charge OF church quicker
and work his way into womea's
graces more readily than any other
man living. Having stopped only
a-few days at Terre Haute, he gain
ed the confidence of widow and
nearly got possession of her prop
erty, at the same time preaching ac-
ceptably. Leaving there he had
about accomplished the same thing
at Charleston, ILL.,, where he was
apprehended.
Is it possible that this is our pi-
Gus friend, the Rev. S. j. West2 of
precious memory!
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Only Self Preservation.

Memphis Appeal; The South has
no war upon the North-proposes
no aggressions. 1t is only solid in
it's own defense. The triumph of
the republican party means political
death for the Southern people, and,
hence they are fighting for life
itself. When the South was solid
ly republican, her people were un-
der the rule OF the negroes led by
political adventures, whose rule
made the South a pandemonium.-
Under democratic rule the South is
tranquilized, looking to the restora-
ton of her material prosperity.
She has no idea Of repudiating the
intellect and the wealth of the
South and restoring the rule of the
ignorant blacks and political adj
venturers, who formerly ruled and
ruined, for the sole purpose of
showing TO the North that she has
ceased 10 vote solid for her friends
and become reconciled 70 her
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Local Option.

Morristown Gazette: Local OPP
ton" is beginning to excite a good
deal of interest in the State of Ten
nessee just now. The meaning of
the term "local option" is that the
Legislature shall pass an act per
hitting the qualified voters of a
civil district to say at the ballot
box whether Intoxicating liquors
shall be sold within the district or
not. Such an act was passed in
this State while John c. Brown
was Governor and he vetoed 1t on
the ground of it's unconstitutional
ity. If another law similar to that
one should be enacted by the in
coming General Assembly, it will
be apt to meet the same fate at the
hands of Governor Marks. We
doubt whether such law would re
suit in any good even if it was con-
stitutional. When men want liquor
they will have it law or no law, and
the attempt to enforce a local act
would create strife and hard feeling
in 7eighborhoods, thus resulting.
perhaps, in more harm than is
wrought by the sale of liquor.
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The Case of Ex-Secretary Robson.

The Democrats of the Naval
Committee were disappointed in
getting the Yieys of the minority oil
the committee on the report hold
ing Robson responsible for the ir.
regularities during his reign. and
charging directly that he profted
from the award CT unlawful and ex-
travagant contracts. The Repuhli-
cans of the committee, headed by
Hams. Of Indiana, are disposed TO
send in some sort of q compromise
The nature of this compromise is
that, while the Republicans believe
that the management of his office
was scandalous, yet he did not
profit by it. 1t is not improbable
that the Democrats will accept this,
as impeachment has been abandon
ed, and unanimous report of the
kind intimated would be the more
severe, because of it's unanimous
character.-[ Telegram.