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Year: 1860

WILMINGTON, Del, June 30.


DEAR IR:-In order to give our Firm
reputation and TO create an excitement in
your town, we wish TO sell some well-known
and influential person the Capital Prize of
S37 800 in the Lottery 10 be drawn in this
city on the 25th of July, one who would use
his influence in advancing our interest pro-
vided he drew the highest prize in the Lot
terry Of which we enclose the State Official
Scheme. To accomplish this purpose we
offer you the refusal of finely arranged
Package of 20 shares of tickets for the small
sum of Sl0-every package having chance
to draw the four Highest Prizes amounting
to $50, 600, and our packages are so arranged
that they contain every number that goes in
the Wheel and must therefore have every
number drawn thus. Your package is Ger
tain 90 contain the numbers that will draw
the highest prize; the only chances you
being to have the three numbers contained
on the same ticket. As proof OF our SINGER
ity we pledge ourselves that should we fail
to sell you prize of $2 900 or over, we wills
after the drawing send you another Package
in one Of our Extra Lotteries free of cost
The prizes are paid on demand by draft pay
able to your order on your nearest Bank.


You can send the $40 by note on any SOlV-
ent Bank or draft, and trusting you may
avail yourself of our liberal offer and re-
questing you to order early with the above
amount enclosed.


We remain, respectfully and confidential
ly, D. E. BISHOP Co.


As every ticket will be sold. the prizes are
sure TO be distributed.


As will readily be seen, the recipient of
such letter supposes he is the only one in
his town to whom is awarded the great hon
or and profit, while in fact copies OF tins
have been received by perhaps a score or
hundred persons in the same town, and
each one, in his desire to secure the prize,
all his townsmen, sends on his $40 and gets
most egregiously sold. One simple Dutch
man took to the Post Office in this city day
or two ago, letter containing the amount
and wanted to have it registered. The clerk
astonished him by telling him that half
dozen others had gone to the same house
when he Indignantly took back his $40 and
secured it. The whole thing is a swindle
and nothing else.
Year: 1860

RAILROAD ACCIDENT.-As the mail train
on the Lake Shore Road, due here at 500
last evening, was leaving Dunkirk, the axle
of one of the driving wheels of the locomo-
tive broke, by which the train was delayed
about two hours. The engine was badly
disabled, but the train was proceeding so
slowly that the rest of the train was not
thrown from the track, and no one was in
iured.
Year: 1860

WHOLESALE ESwINDLE.--Lotteriesh have come
into such general disrepute that they do not
now appeal boldly for the sale of tickets to
the massesj but have conceived a much
more taking system, whereby they succeed
in quilting many. During a few weeks past
there have been a large number of letters
received here and throughout the country
similar TO the following:
Year: 1860

Hon. J. S. Black, the Attorney General of
the United States, has furnished the President


with his official opinion upon the questions of


law involved in the present state of affairs in
the South, and the course of action to be pur-
sued by the President in the event of colli-
sion on the part of the Central Government
with the authorities of South Carolina or any
other State. The opinion is elaborate. The
Attorney General does not think that the will
of State can absolve its people from allie
glance to the just and constitutional require
ments OF a Central Government, nor can any
act of the Central Government displace the
jurisdiction OF State. Its laws are supreme
and binding only so far as they are passed in
pursuance of the Constitution. The duty of
the President is only to execute the law to the
letter as it is written. We have no common
law TO fall back upon when the written law is
defective. In the collection of customs or
revenues, he has particular method pointed
out for him to adopt, and if the machinery far
nished by Congress for the collection of duties
should become SO deranged or broken up that
it could not be used, there would be no legal
reason for substituting different kind of ma
chinery in its place. The Government is the
owner Of the public lands and national proper
ty, and the Attorney General thinks the Pres
dent will be justified in taking such measures
as he may deem to be necessary for their pro-
lection. 1t had the right of keeping excIu-
sive possession and repelling intrusion, and
could retake its property from any power by
force, as was the case at Harper's Ferry, in
1859, when the United States forces took the
arsenal from John Brown. BY the act of 1907
the President is empowered to employ such
parts of the land and naval force as he shall
judge necessary for the purpose of causing the
laws to be duly executed. On>the President
alone devolves the responsibility of deciding
whether the exigency demands the use of mil
itary force, and in the exercise of his power
he should be careful not to overstep his au-
thority. A military force can only be called
into the field when other means are found to
be useless. Even then its operations must be
purely defensive, and can only be- used to re-
pei an assault on the public property, and aid
the courts in the performance of their duty.
Year: 1860

Under the spreading Linden tree


We sat in the twilight still,
While the dim brown shadows glidsd on


Stealthily up the hill.
Oh. grand was the stately hall that rose


In its turreted pride near by;
And the master there-I envied him not,


For happier man was |.
All, happy, trow was l, as sat


Under the Linden tree,
For golden head lay close to my heart


As / told my love to thee.
Under the Linden tree sit


Tonight, in the darkness still,
And the dim brown shadows have glided on
Silently up the hill.
oh, grand does the stately mansion stand,
In its turreted pride near by;
And the master thereon, / envy him not,
Though a sorrowful man am
For his gold has stolen the tickle heart
That plighted its faith to me;
And alone with a memory sad sit
Under the Linden tree.
Year: 1860

The New York papers contain accounts of
a horrible and appalling murder which was
committed in that city on Friday morning,
Dec. 7th, At No. 22 East Twelfth street. The
victim was Sarah Shancks. She was an old
widow lady, and kept fancy goods and mill
linery store at the place mentioned. On Fri
day morning she was found dead in her bed
room, at the rear OF her store, with her throat
cut, her head bruised, and her body otherwise
injured. The apartment was ransacked, and
the motive for the murder appears to have
been robbery. The murderer obtained about
hundred dollars as the result of his fiendish
act. The police have not been able to arrest
the perpetrator, although they are vigilantly
searching after him.
Year: 1860

A FEMALE PIcK-PocKEr.- The other day,
u lady with s35 in her pocket sat in San
Francisco omnibus. When she left, the s35
was gone. The only person who could
have stolen it was q respectable looking
woman who had been sitting along side of
her, but got out before she did.
Year: 1860




Guar. CXX.--An act to dissolve the Washing
tons Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asy-
lam Society Of the District Of Columbia" and to
authorize the Transfer Of its Effects to Che "COlum-
bin Institute for the Instruction of the Deaf and


Dumb and the Blind,


BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States Of America in
Congress assembled That the trustees of Wash
ingtons Mammal Labor School and Male Orphan
Asylum Society Of the District Of Columbia" in
corporated by an act of Congress approved on the
thirteen day of June, eighteen hundred and forty.
two, be and they are hereby authorized and EN-
powered, by deed or other instrument in writing
TO transfer oil their funds and property of every
description to the Columbia Institute for the in
struction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind y
Incorporated by an act of Congress approved Feb
ruary sixteen, eighteen hundred and liItyseven on
such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon
by said corporate bodies and incorporated in such
deed or instrument Of writing.


SEC 2.-And be 1t further enacted That the said
deed OF transfer or instrument Of writing shall be
recorded in the recorders Office for land titles, in
the county of Washington in the District Of Co
umbia, and the terms and conditions of said deed
shall be as obligatory upon said Columbia Institu-
ton as if they formed part Of its charter; and
from the date of the record thereof as aforesaid
the trustees of " Washingtons Manual Labor
School and Male Orphan Asylum Society" shall
be forever thereafter absoved from their trust, and
the act of June thirteen, eighteen hundred and
forty-two. comforting upon them corporate powers
and privileges, shall he thenceIoward repealed
Provided That all the debts and pecuniary labil-
tiles of the said ",WashingtOn's Manual Labor
School and Male Orphan Asylum shall be trans
ferred to assumed by and be debts of the said
Columbia Institution for the instruction of the
Deaf and Dumb and the Blind" which shall be
responsible therefor and suits at law or in equity
may be commenced against said last mentioned
corporation the same as il said debts had been or
iginaly incurred by it,


Approved June 10, 1860,
Year: 1860

Inc GehIus OF Napoleon in Sergeant


We have been informed by an office,
Of the United States army Of most re-
marka5le instance Of ingenuity aud pres
ence Of mind in sergeant of the army,
which occurred few weeks ago, by
which he saved his own life and that OF
his party.


A sergeant with about twenty-five
soldiers had been sent out some miles
from Fort Defiance, New Mexico, to
guard some stock which were sent to
Craze, when Unexpectedly they found
that the party were surrounded by about
four hundred hostile Navajoe Indians
The brave and skilful sergeant took posi-
ton on an eminence. and By volley flom
the long shooting rifles Of his party at
first drove off the savages, who however
soon rallied, and were preparing to storm
the small party on all sides. The SERGE
ant, in taxing his brain for an expedent
by which to convey intelligence of the
desperate peril in which bis party
was placed, took single dog which had
accompanied tho party, fastening to bis
collar note written with pencil, in
forming the commander at the fort Of his
situation, took tin cup in which he put
some pebbles. which were confined with
piece of cloth over the top. fastened
it with string to the dogs tail, and star
ted The dog loose, knowing that he would
in his alright, run to the fort. He dash.
ed with his greatest speed to Fort De-
fance; the note was discovered and read.
Straightway a party was sent to the res
cue, and arrivedjust in time to save the
lives Of the whole party. This sergeant
justly merits a commission, which we
hope will be awarded him by the Presi-
dent.-Rentucky F1dg.
Year: 1860

wA lady at her marriage requested
the clergyman to announce to be sung
by the choir the hymn commencing:


"This is the way | loug have sought,


And mourned because l found it not"
Year: 1860

The people Of Cincinnati were dissatisfied
With tho result Of the cc:,sus Of that city IS
taken by the United States Marshal, and tic
Common Council had the work done over ct
tho expense Of the city. The return has just
been made, showing q total population ot
17l,2os. which is ubunt ten thousand moro
Year: 1860

A man in LeClaire, Iowa, has bean bound
over in $3.50 bonds to keep the peace for
one year for disturbing the rest Of newly
married couple The disturbance was
caused by bell which the culprit hung
under the bed occupied by the happy
couple. and about the 'small hours he
set it to ringing by pulling cord attached
to it and hanging out of the window
The trial created great excitement
Year: 1860


DO forth to the contest.


With confidence strong,
And dare to encounter,


And battle the wrong;
Though fierce be the warfare
Sustained by the right,
Stand up in thy manhood, .
Be first in the fightl
Oh! make no concessions,
Be true to the trust,
And never abandon,


The cause Of the just!
Though hope may be mantled,
In darkness forlorn,
The future hath brightness,
TO smile back the storm.
What matter though errors,
Adherents oppose,
Perform well thy duties
Care not for thy foes;
But strong in thy purpose,
The right to defend,
With cheerfulness labor,
And toll to the end.
Year: 1860

Now AND THEN Living was cheap enough
in the oiden time. Socrates is supposed TO
have lived upon an income OF seveRty-hve
dollars but he lived worse than beggar.-
His coat was shabby, and he wore the same
garment both winter and summer he went
bareiooled; his chief food was bread and water;
and as he entered in no business TO mend his
estate or income it is not wonderful that his
wife scolded. Demost themes, his sister, aud
their mother paid Tor their board SITS year,
aud provided the house into the bargain.
Year: 1860

better preeen shape Of book and for
and spirited boy could be desired than Dr. Sness
volume and its illustrations il Of the PEN rather than Of the
pencil undying and evernerssns kind yielded by
the biography of whose lives have been distinguished by
the display ofevery quality which makes human nature great
II London Critic
Year: 1860

When the vessel has settled down III a
sandy bottom, it is preserved many months
from breaking up; and its position may be
much the same as when floating in cam
water, if it be not tilted over 10y any under
current drifts The light, of course, de-
pends a good deal upon the depth and upon
the nature of the bottom; but where there is
no chalk to give milky thickness to the
water, the diver pursues his work in kind
Of gloomy twilight. BY the aid Of this he
can see and feel his way round the ship, but
when he ascends to the deck and winds
down into the principal cabins he finds every
thing pitch dark, and has nothing to guide
but his hands. This is the most difficult,
and yet the most frequent labor he has to
encounter; the danger being that in large
vessel, where the cabin stairs are deep and
the cabins are long and broad, he may get
his air tube twisted round some unfamiliar
projections, and SO squeeze off his supply of


life above In positions such as this, he re-
quires all his nerve aud self. possession, all
his power Of feeling his way back in the ex-
act road that he came. He may have got
the precious casket to which he has been di-
rected in his arms; but what of that, if he
die before he reach the stairs!


The cold, he pless masses that bump
against his helmet, as they float along the
low roof over his head, are decomposed
corpses Of those who were huddled together
in the cabin when the ship went down. A
few of these may be on the floor under his
feet | ut only when pinned down by an over
turned table or il fallen chest. Their tend
ency is ever upward, and the remorseless sea
washes away the dead infant from its dead
mothers arms, the dea! wife from her dead
husbands embrace. If the wreck be in the
channel, the small cra are already begin
ming to fatten on their prey. The diver dis
entangIes himself from this silent crowd, and
ascends the stairs to the deck. The trea' ure
he has rescued is hauled up into the attend
ant diving boat, and he returns again to re-
new his work He seldom meets with an
accident under water; never, perhaps, with
dea h. but the chief risk he runs is from get
ting some heavy piece of ship lumber over
turned on his long train of air pipe. Even
in this he feels the sudden check and the
want Of air, gropes his way back to the OBJ
struction, removes it, signals to his compan.
ions to be raised, and reaches the boat eX-
hausted and alarmed, but not so much as to
give up his place in the trade.
Year: 1860

The death of Senator Broderick was an
nounced in the Senate and House of Repre-
senatives, and, in accordance with custom,
Senators and Representatives delivered adj
dresses commendatory of the deceased. The
eulogies delivered upon the character of
Senator Frederick transcended every limit
of Just and admirable eulogy; truth and
reasonable estimate of virtue, intellect, pub
Tic service private motives and means of sue
cess were SO far avoided as to make a scene
which should have been briefly and sincerely
solemn, a protracted occasion of absurditv
Living, the Senator was demi God like
Unto none; dead, he WAS the mourned idol
like unto which none had ever been
lost to an adorng and dsconsoate people


He was great above greatness; he was virtuous
above virtue; he was powerful above power;
he was the Arch-angel Of political sef-made
manisn, sitting alone upon an immeasurable
tower indomitably scorning demagogueism
and easily upholdng the sun of partisan
honesty and the stars Of pure principles that
they might shine for the preservation of
people whose welfare and intelligence were
vastly impered 10y the black shadows of
political and mercenary trickery. One Of
the excessive eulogists said that Senator
Brodericl was the finest of Gods works.
This was not more eXtravagant than many
of the remarks of many of the far spreading
and singularly impressed orators. True
greatness never received such praise; no
Senator-Clay, Webster, Calhoun and Others
who We're superior men, noble statesmen,
and who acquired public station through
merit acknowledged and tostered by the peo


pe-ever had turned toward his tomb such
flood of Iaudaory harangue. 1t was right
to formally and solemnlv annou zee the death
of Senator Broderck; it was right to speak
of his virtues and to depIore his DEATH
We would not have had his whole demeanor
sketched nor anything adveried to which
would have been inappropriate in general
discourse; but we would have had Il scene
less prolonged, more truthful, more sincere,
more worthy of the man and Of the Con-
gress of the United States. We believe
that most of the eulogy pronounced was
prompted not 10y admiration and friendship
for tie late Mr.. Broderck, but by the desire
to gain the approval of the people of this
State in d political sense, the opinion having
been formed from the circumstances OF his
death and the continued wall of the anti
democratic press, that he really was the
chief popular leader in California; and, that
all the citizens so beheld him in life rs to
still 90 about mourning for his presence and
would forever refuse to be comforted. What
peculiar weakness. what remarkable de-


usi ,n. Cukaperas Chronicle.
Year: 1860

CEMENT TO REPAIR BRoKEN CnINA.-Take
very thick solution of gum arabic dissolved
in water, and stir it into a plaster of Paris
until the mixture becomes viscous paste.
Apply it with brush to the fractured
edges, and stick them together. In three
davs the article cannot be broken in the
same place. The whiteness of the cement
makes it doubly valuable,
Year: 1860

Is THE WORLD A MIs1AKE?- of the
saddest mistakes which good people have
made is in supposing the world to be mis-
take. TO these peop!e-aud their number
is not SmalI--the earth is but theatre of
pain and sickness, sorrow and death. Joy IS
iIusiv-, pleasure cheat, laughter mocke-
ry, and happiness a thing impossible, and
not even to be looked for ON this side of the
grave. They are actually afraid to be hap
rv, under an overshadowing impression that
they have no right to be happy in this life
They believe there is something inrnsraly
had in the world that they inhabi', and all
the joy that proceeds from it. They have an
idea that the moral evel which af1licts the
human race las struck in TO them life is a
trial--severe, unrelenting, perpetual. All
that seems good and graceful and glorious in
the world is Il hollow sham, for the decept
ion of the unwary and the ruin of the un
wise
Year: 1860

A Coon APPoINTMENT.-We are exceed
ingly well pleased to learn that Gen. THToN
has appointed Capt. W. W. De LACY tc
run the southern boundary between this
Territory and the State of Oregon. Capt
De LACY is well known to the people ol
our Territory, and be is favorite with
them all. As o civil engineer he has no
superior on the coast No man did more
valuable service than be during our late
Indian war, or underwent more hardships,
for oil which he has not received one cent.
Gen. TILroN has shown sound judgment
and taste in bestowing this position upon
gentleman whe is so admirably qualified
to discharge its duties, and the emOluments
Of which will in some small degree compen-
safe him for his lily requited services during
the war. We rejoice that there is one man,
at least, in power who is willing to stand
up for our noble, though much abused vol
unteers.
Year: 1860

par 1t is stated that twenty thousand
Swedes and Norwegians are about em-
barking for the United States, aud it is
believed that no less than that number will
reach the United States before the close of
the present year.
Year: 1860

BY the Carie Ladd last night we receiv-
ed the following interesting letter. from a
former resident Of this city at present loca-
ted iu the mining region at Rock Creek,
and whose statements relative to the region
he writes from may be implicitly relied on:
Year: 1860

hers? His love, he said, was cooled
indeed it was below freezing point; and
he was willing to let the affair rest
just where it was, and that each party
should return. to their own quarters,


with their arms in their hands. 1t was
agreed that nothing should be said
,aboutit, but; some hints having leaked
out, we have the substance of the
above from one of the actors and be-
lieve it to be true. Young ladies
should not get quite SO romantic.
Year: 1860

ELECTION OF PREsIDENT.-The following is the
clause of the United States Constitution pre-
vidng for the election of President. 1t is of in-
terest at the present time


ARTICLE XTI-The electors shall meet in thor
respective States, and vote by ballot for Presi-
dent, and Vice President, one of whom, at least,
shall not be an inhabitant Of the same state with
themselves; they shall name, in their ballots, the
person voted for as President, ana IN distinct
ballots, the person voted for as Vice President
and they shall make distinct lists of all persons
voted for as Vice President, and of all tho num-
Der of votes for each, which lists they shall sign
and certify and transmit sealed to the seat of Tn
Government OF the United States, directed to tho
President of the Senate. The President of tho
Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate aud
House of Representatives,, open all tho certlll'
Gates, and the vote shall then be counted. Tho
person having the greatest number Of votes for
President shall be the President, If such number
be o ajority OF the whole number OF electors
appointed and IL no person have such maJori-
ty, then from the pensons having tho highest
numbers. not exceeding three, on the list OF
those voted for as President, the House or Rep
resentatives shall choose Immediately, by ballot.
the President. But In choosing the President
the votes shall be taken by States, the repre-
sentation from each State having one vote
quorum for this purpose shall consist OF men,
Der or members from two-thirds OF the States.
and majority of all the States shall be necessary
to choice And if the House of Representa-
tives shall not choose President. whenever the
right choice shall devolve upon them, before the
fourth day of March next following, then tho
Vice President shall act as President, as In the
case of the death or other constitutional disabi-
ity of the President.


The person having the greatest number OF
votes as Vice President shall be the Vice Presi-
dent, If such number be majority OF the whole
number of electors appointed and II no person
have majority, then from the two highest num-
bers on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice
Presdent-a quorum for the purpose shall con-
sist of two-thirds of the whole number OF Sena-
tors, and majority of the whole number shall
be necessary to choice