THE TIMES. PORT TOBACCO, MD., Friday, Dec. 15, 1871. Illnes* mf the Prince of 'Wale*. The condition of the Prince of Wales, who kfca been at the point of death for the past two weeks, is, by the latest advices, unchang ed. His disease is typhoid fever and its symp toms exhausting from the first. The political consequences of the Prince's death—of which we may bear at any moment—it is impossible fully to foresee. The Queen is old, infirm in health and cannot in the course of nature live many years longer. The Prince's son, now eight years old, is the next heir. In the event of the Prince's death a long Regency will be inevitable. In the meantime repub licanism is making rapid strides throughout tba whole country and it is not improbable that the present generation will witness tbe entire abolition of monarchy and tbe estab lishment upon its ruins of a distinct form ol government, founded upon purely republican principles. Trial of Mr*. Wharts*. The trial ef Mrs. E. O. Wharton for the murder by poison of Geo. Ketchum,still pro gresses slowly at Annapolis. So far, tbe evi dence for tbe State clearly discloses tbe fact that tbe death of tbe unfortunate old gentle man resulted from tbe administration of tartar emetic, bat, ae yet, fails directly to connect tbe prisoner with its administration. The theory, however, that death resulted from an over dose of laudannm was effectually dispos ed of ou Wednesday by tbe testimony of the druggist, Mr. Rogers, whose name was on the label of the vial alleged to have been found in tbe bed occupied by tbe deceased. Great Interest in the proceedings is still manifested, notwithstanding tbe tedious and slow charac ter of the proceedings, especially during the examination of tbe medical and chemical ex perts. Various opinions are expressed as to the result, but it is, we believe, generally con ceded, up to this writing, that tbe State has not yet made out its case strong enough to warrant conviction. However, many wit nesses are yet to be examined, and it is doubt less too soon for the expression of any dear and decided opinion. To-day (Friday) is tbe eleventh day, and it is not unreasonable to expect that tbe trial is not more than half Ibrongh. |MNmn sad Draw Ptlat Mlrsti.) The engineers of tbe Dram Point Railroe l ere pushing their survey through the Second end Eighth Election Districts of Anne Arun del county. In passing through tbe thickly wooded parts of tbe county they experienced •ome difficulty, but they have now reached a more open country, and are advancing rapid ly towards tbe Calvert line. They pronounce (be country through which they have passed advantageous for grading and tbe construction of a cheap road. On the completion of this toad connections will be formed by ferry steamers with several of tbe Eastern Shore railroads, thus making Anne Arundel eoanty. the great thoroughfare of travel fur all tbe lower Eastern Shore counties to Baltimore. 4 Baltimore and Potomac Railroad. We copy the following from tbe Frinee Georgian of last week: As a most substantial evidence of tbe pro gress of tbe railroad, our enterprising friend, John W. Belt, Esq., of Oak Grove, ou Thurs day last, received a cargo of goods from Bal timore per rail. It is true be bad to haui them a few miles but this was a small mat ter compared to the former inconvenience of receiving goods by tbe old routes. We chron icle this evidence of tbe progress of the road and tbe energy of our young friend of Oak Grove with sincere pleasure, and trust the day is not far distant when we shall have tbe pleasure of bearing the snort of tbe iron horse ki our midst. Just now, while this culd-snap lasts, bis presence would be a God-send, as (be river is blocked from shore to shore with Iceland our merchants, we fear, will be com pelled to wagon their Christmas Goods over from Washington. We*have tbe further gra tifying intelligence that the rails on the Wash ington Branch has been laid to tbe Anacostia Bridge. “•A Bachelor Gone Up.” So says the Salisbury (Md.) Bachelor of last week, which comes to us with head up turned and matter displaced, and otherwise exhibiting unmistakeable signs that “some disturbing element bad been at work in tbe office.” On examination we find that one of tbe editors bad taken unto himself a rib—bad himself fallen in the snare “of which he had jn vehemently warned others to beware.”— After all, it seems our Bachelor friends are “making much ado about nothing.” One more unfortunate baa joined tbe noble army of martyrs, that’s all. We advise that other Baehdor editor “to go and do likewise.” “A home divided against itself we know “can sot stand,” and when be has “done tbe deed” we suggest tbe name of their valuable journal he changed to Benedict. Cat Through bjr the Ice. The sloop Virginia, Captain Bramell, left Alexandria, on tbe fitb instant, for Bryan’s .Point, Md., but bad proceeded only as far -down tbs river as the mouth of Hunting Creek when she was cut through by tbe ice and was found, to be in a sinking condition. She was kept afloat until she was brought back to the <*(y by which time the water bad gained so fhgt it bad pot oat tbe fire in tbe cabin stove. BQTTbe steamer Fairy, of tbe Farmington Line, when coming out of Piscataway Creek early test week, o bev way to Alexandria, sprang-a leak, and bad to bo ran ashore at Fort Washington to aave her cargo. Her paapiefwi rr.rn..Tilr~tr ttp by the Aqata Creek mat) bast. THE PORT TOBACCO TIMES AND CHARLES COUNTY ADVERTISER. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 15. 1871. The Apportionment Bill. The House of Representatives one day last week considered the Apportionment bill in troduced at tbe last session. This hill makes the total nnmber of Representatives 281, a ratio of one member for every 134,957 of the population. By this arrangement but few of tbe old States lose in the number of their Representatives, while nearly all tbe new and growing ones make large gains. This table exhibits the number allotted each State under the existing apportionment, as well as that under the proposed bill: os;. os; States. S States. P- 33 Maine 5 s,Kentucky 9 10 New Hampshire. 3 2 Tennessee 8 9 Vermont 3 2 Indiana 11 12 Massachusetts... 10 11 Illinois 14 19 Rhode Island.... 2 2 Missouri 9 12 Connecticut 4 4 Arkansas 3 4 New York 31 32|Michigan 6 9 New Jersey 5 7(F10rida..,.. 11 Pennsylvania.... 24 26 Texas 4 G Delaware 11 lowa 6 9 Maryland 5 6 Wisconsin 6 8 Virginia 8 9 California 3 4 North Carolina.. 7 8 Minnesota 4 3 South Carolina.. 4 siOregon 11 Georgia 7 8 Kansas 1 3 Alabama 6 7 West Virginia... 3 3 Mississippi 5 6 Nevada 11 Louisiana 5 5 Nebraska 11 Ohio 19 19l The State making the greatest gain is Illi nois, which has five. Pennsylvania under this apportionment is allotted only two new members, and New York one. The largest proportion of gain is represented in the West. All or nearly all tbe old slave States gain one each, which is mainly attributable to colored suffrage. Under the old apportionment the representation given for the slave or colored population was only about half what it is under suffrage. Inauguration of a Mission. We give in another column an article from a correspondent of the New York World in reference to the missionaries to the negroes in this country. These missionaries have just arrived in Baltimore, and the ceremony o' receiving them took place at St. Francis Xa vier Church, in that city, on last Sunday even ing, A large congregation was assembled, the clergymen present in addition to the missionaries being Most Rev. Archbishop Spalding, Rev. Dr. O’Conner, S. J., formerly Bishop of Pittsburgh, and Rev. Father Miller, S. J., pastor of St. Francis Church. The missionaries are Rev, Cornelius Dowling, Jas. Gore, James Noonan and Charles Wigneont. who are accompanied by Very Rev. Dr. Vaughan, Superior of St. Joseph’s Mission College, Mill Hill, Middlesex. England. Af ter vespers had been sung Archbishop Spald ing ascended tbe platform in front of the altar, and introduced the above mentioned priests, whom he said bad been sent to this country by tbe Pope to labor in the Church among the colored people. The Rev. Dr. Vaughan at the conclusion of tbe Archbishop’s remarks stated that tbe college of which he was supe rior bad only been recently founded, and a number of young men who had completed their studies bad been directed by the Pope to proceed to this country as missionaries a mong the colored people, principally in the Southern States. After some correspondence they had concluded, at the suggestion of Archbishop Spalding, to come to Baltimore, with a view of establishing a mission in the lower part of this State. Eor the present tbe centre of the mission will be at St. Francis Church, and in a short time it is expected to extend it to all parts of the country. The services were concluded with tbe benediction of tbe blessed sacrament. Sire In 'Hagerstown. On Thursday night of last week a fire broke out in Hagerstown, Washington county, des troying the Episcopal Church, Court House, and many valuable business bouses. One man lost bis life by the falling of the Court House dome. All the public records were saved. The origin of the fire is not known. The Court House was not insured and will be a heavy loss to the county. S6T*The downward tendency of gold and tbe resumption of specie payments was talk ed over on Tuesday in Washington by the House Committee on Banks and Currency, and a sub-committee will be appointed to take into consideration specie payments, but it is not probable that action in the premises will be taken by tbe entire committee until after tbe holidays. It matters but little, how ever, how fast gold tumbles, as the price of living is kept up as high as during war times, and it will be a long while before the middle men come down to tbe prices of 1859. •fly The New York Internationalists fret ted somewhat over the furbiddal of their pro posed funeral parade and demonstration on Sunday in memory of the Communists exe cuted by tbe French Government, but sub mitted to the orders of the authorities. A number of them assembled at tbe Cooper In stitute, but made no attempt to parade.— They claim that many of their members can not make an appearance in tbe lines on any day bat Sunday, and consequently protest a gainstffce interference with their plans. fIQTRev. John F. W. Ware preached a sermon last Sunday night, at Ford’s Opera Honse, in Baltimore, to a very large and re spectable audience, on “Swindlers and Swin dling.” In the course of his address he said: “Our whole political system has degenerated into a swindle. They say men must get de filed if any touch it. Frauds everywhere, from primary elections all tbe way through. We talk about tbe ballot, tbe trial by jury, tbe safeguards of tbe people, and we tickle ourselves with our fancied liberties. Why, dear friends, nothing is free. We have been swindled out of our liberties.” Supreme Court Decision. The U. 3. Supreme Court ia.- rendered aj decision in the case of Ward vs. State of Ma ryland. Error to the Court of Appeals of Maryland. In this case the plaintiff in error was indicted iu the State Court for violating the statute against sales by sample by non residents without license, and the Court af firmed the right of the State to exact the license. This Court hold that the statute of Maryland is a violation of that clause of the Constitution which guarantees to the citizens of each State all the rights, privileges, &c. f ol oitizens in the several States, and is therefore j void. But the view is taken that it is not a violation of the commercial clause of the Con stitution if the tax on residents and nonresi dents is equally laid. Mr. Justic# Clifford I delivered the opinion of the Court. Mr. Jus- I lice Bradley concurred in the opinion as to the fir>t branch of the decision, but dissented as to the second, holding that the statute is a violation of the commercial clause of the Con stitution because it is a regulation of com merce between the States, and that it is re pugnant to this clause of the Constitution, without regard to the equality of the tax. Jt@*The defalcation in the Treasury De partment, in the case of Marden, has develop ed other frauds of heavy sums of money, and tbe books show that by means of abstraction at different periods, within about two years, an amount of over $50,000 has been stolen from the government In the cash room of the Treasury, the offenders being Marden and Seth Johnson, interest teller. The discovery of Marden’s guilt led the way to the discove ry of Johnson's crime. The latter, it is said, has been dealing in gold and stuck tions, and has been losing for sometime. There does not seem to have been any""coll u sion between the two, and it appears that neither knew of the crime of the other. Mar den and Johnson have both been arrested. &®*The bill introduced by Senator Ed munds provides that all appointments of civil officers except Postmasters and such officers as are by law required to be appointed by the President, shall be made from those persons who shall have been found best qualified for the performance of the duties of the offices to which such appointments are to be made in an open and competitive examination. BST’Senator Trumbull, it is expected, will introduce in the Senate a resolution proposing to raise a joint committee of the two houses, with power to investigate all public offices, to see what can be abolished, what expenditures reduced, what steps can be.taken to prevent tiie use of federal patronage for political pur poses, and, iu a word, to inaugurate reform in every branch of the service. We hope some good may come out of this. ftSTlu reference to a suggestion in the President’s Message, the Washington Patriot says: “In a criminal prosecution against an American citizen for owning an estate with slaves in Cuba, where is the jury to come from 7 He is entitled, sys the Constitution, to a trial by an impartial jury of the Stale and district where the crime shall have been committed.” ar H on. Alex. H. Stephens has purchas ed the Atlanta (Ga.) Sun newspaper, out and out, and signalizes his resumption of editorial duty by a clamorous rejection of the Missouri passive policy. The mission to the Blacks. From the London correspondent of the World we learn that the four missionaries who. are en route for Maryland, to labor for the mental and moral elevation of the black race iu our midst, are Fathers Dowling, 1 G-re, Noonan and Vigneront. The World’s cor respondent speaks of these Kev. Fathers as priests of “high culture, great learning and personal refinement,” and he goes on to say. that they are of “the metal out of which martyrs and saints are made.” “They'are tbe the vanguard," the writer continues, “of a body of Roman Catholic priests who have received from the propagan da at Rome the special and-exclusive missi n of converting to the Roman Catholic lairh the whole black popnlaiion of the United States —who have bound themselves by a solemn and irrevocable vow to make themselves until death ‘the fathers and servants of the blacks’ —who will be followed ere long by forty other priests who are now preparing themselves for the same work, and who have already been given, by the Archbishop of Baltimore, a house and grounds for the headquarters of the mission. Great streams from little fountains flow large oaks from little acorns grow we are admonished by high authority, not to des pise the day of small things. The four priests who sail to-day will sown be followed by for ty; the forty perhaps ere long will be rein forced by four hundred, and the four hundred may finally be swelled to four thousand.— Every one knows that when the Roman Cath olic Church once gets a foothold anywhere she never loses it; and those who have studied the matter also know that tbe peculiar machinery with which that church works enables her to accomplish very great works with a very small expenditure of money. The four mis sionaries, for instance, who will soen begin their work in Maryland, take with them neith er wives nor children, and scarcely two cats. It won’t cost much to keep them—their wants will be of the fewest and tbe simplest, and, without exaggeration, they will have nothing to do or think of but the work in which they will engage. It there are those in America who are unwilling to look forward to the prospect of seeing the black population con verted to Catholicism within the next quarter of a century, I warn them that they must be up and doing. Fmau Catholic Church in England has-sent out an organized foreign j mission. It was most appropriately the first, because it was a special mission to five mil lions of blacks in the United States, who had been but a short time ago released from the yoke of slavery which England bad imposed on their forefathers. Of all the nations on the earth England had been the moat guilty in regard to slavery, and it was most fitting that the reparation to the now liberated slaves should proceed from England, The Mission ary College of SI. Joseph iiad been founded not for the education of priests for ordinary work, but for the special work of conducting a mission to America. This was an excep tional work—for in the heart of a Christian nation there were to-day five millions ot peo ple without pastors and without instruction. This was a mission to a people who were in deed within the warmth of civilization, but at the same time left out in the Cold of neglect. These missioners go wholly and exclusively to labor for the blacks, and they were about to Idiid themselves by a solemn vow to G>>d to work for the blacks alone, and to suffer noth ing to call them away, even for a moment from this work. They went in the spirit of the prophet who said: ‘The spirit of the L >rd is upon me, wherefore he hath amiointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to preach deliverance to the captives and sight to the blind; to set at liberty them that are bruised to preach the acceptable year of tiie Lord, and the day of reward.’ They go to the most downtrodden, humble and humil iated of all races—a race always despised and rejected of men. They are no longer physi cally enslaved, But the galling marks-of bon dage are still upon their souls as well as on their limbs, and they are still imprisoned iu the walls of prejudice and pride. These priests .go as the vanguard of otheis who will follow you, inflamed with the love of souls— souls not loveable for their intelligence and virtue, but souls black with ignorance, lovea ble only because your master died for them. ‘You gave yourselves forever,’ saili the Arch bishop, eddressing the priests, ‘to be the lath ers and servants of the blacks, and to labor exclusively for them until your death, in the spirit of Peter Claver, who had inscribed upon his cincture tbe words. ‘Forever the slave of the slave,'" Commenting npon the above mission, the Philadelphia Press says that “the mission of these priests is apparently but little under stood in England or Rome. The colored people of the South, although unrefined, un lettered and untutored, are not uncivilized or idolaters. Probably they are the most devout people on the face of tbe globe, witli a larger proportion of church members, and practic ing as well as professing Christians, than many that boast of more culture I u: p ssess less faith.” To which the Baltimore Sun t adds: “This undesigned testimony to the Christian culture which the colored people ol the South received in former days from the white people of the South is somewhat in consistent with the accounts of Southern character which are generally found in the columns of the Press. The truth is that, be fore the carpet-taggers took them in hand, the colored mqffibgrs of Southern churches amounted to a larger number than all th heathen converted to Christianity by the combined missionary societies of Great Bri tain and America, It may be, however, that the worthy missionaries who have arrived among us are fearful of serious backsliding in those sections where the colored people have been subjected to a new and demoralizing political companionship. In this view of tin case, it is possible that the enterprise mat happy results, though it is to be re gretted, for the sake of complete efficiency, that it should be confined entirely to the col ored people, and should not include also the carpet-bag emissaries, whose influence is s demoralizing.” BSfThe I ast ship built at Boston cost it.-1 patriotic builder a dead loss of $30,000. The last steamer built in New York cost its build er a loss of $65,000 So much for Protection 1 Life and Character of General R. E. Lee. We have received from Messrs. Murphy Co,, Publishers and Booksellers, 182 Balti more street, a Copy, elegantly printed on tinted paper, of the Address on the Life and Character of Gen. R E. Lee. delivered in Baltimore on the 12th of October iast by Gen. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina. The Address will be forwarded by mail on receipt of 20 cts, The American Farmer. We refer our readers to the advertisement of Messrs. Samuel Sands Son, of Baltimore, who have resumed the publication of this pio neer of agricultural journalism in the United States. Mr.Jno. S. Skinner founded this work in 1819, and when he gave it up, its existence was temporarily suspended until resuscitated by Mr. Sands, the Senior of the present firm, who conducted it for twenty-five years, and raised it to eminence and a high degree of pros perity. Some years ago he disposed of the Farmer, and afterwards commenced the publi cation of the Rural Register. Both papers are now combined, and the old editor, assisted by his Son, who was specially educated for this profession, again takes the helm. Of the ser vices of Mr. Sands in behalf of agriculture, David Dickson, Esq., of Hancock county, Ga., one of the most eminent and successful agri culturalists of the South, some years ago said; “It is a great pity that every planter in Georgia did not take your paper, for you have saved the wheat growers in the United States millions of dollars in the last fifteen years and the con sumers of guano owe but little less;” and on another occasion the same distinguished gen tleman, speaking of the Rural Register remark ed “If the Georgia planters understood their interests they would double the price of your paper and have it come once a week and take thirty or forty thousand copies.” The long experience’of the Senior in the management of an agricultural paper, with the fresh aid he will from his Junior, will no doubt render their paper popular with those/br whom they labor, and again give it a forepaost place among its compeers of the day. WBfcvish all success to this veteran of Agricultural Litera ture, and commend it to our farming friends. Periodical*. The American Odd Fellow for December is a splendid nnmber. It has beautifully illua-j trated articles on Chicago and the Indians; first-class stories; various sketches; pithy paragraphs on scientific subjects; humorous and general miscellany; letters from under a lamp-post; choice poetry news from the Order everywhere, &c., &c. With the next number commences the thirteenth volume of this widely circulated magazine. It is the oldest and acknowledged to bo the best pub lication of the Order of Odd Follows, and is at the same time a superior family magazine. Send on your subscriptions to the A. O. F. Association, No. 96 Nassau street, New York. $1.25 per volume; $2.50 a year. Try the American Odd Fellow for a year and you will never regret it. Ballou’s Magazine for January. —We find in tbe January number of Ballou's Magazine, which is just issued, such a complete collec tion of stories, romances, poems, engravings, and real useful information, that we do n->t wonder it is so popular with all classes of so ciety. Here we see a New Year’s story, and there a sea yarn, and so we read through the wfode publication and wish for more. The magazine is only $1.50 per year, ar 15 cts. per copy, and is for sale at all the news depots in the country. Thornes Talbot, Publish ers, 03 Congress Street. Boston. The Phrenological Journal for December is at hand. Among the Magazines we receive each month, none are more carefully perused than the Phrenological, on account of its sound views ou everything related to the times. It is progressive and reformatory, but never deals in vague and illusory, schemes, like most of the so-called progressive publi cati >ns. The December number contains among other good things. Judge Duly, of New York, with a fine portrait; An Old Bone of Contention An able Review of Mr. Beecher’s Life of Christ; The Bridge of Mo tion, or Recent Scientific Developments; Laura’s Experience, a Strange, but True Love Story; Gen. Robt. A. Cameron, the Colorado Colonist; Chicago; Chronic Catarrh, its Cause and Cure; Thought, in Sound and Motion; The Geological History of Man The Faculty of Order and its Culture; Working at Night; The Deserted Village. Single Nos. 30 cts. $3 00 a year. A new vol. begins with the next number. S. R. Wells, Publisher, 389 Broadway, New York. The American Stock Journal for Decem ber, contains engravings of Sacred Cattle, Hotidan and Game Fowls, also, Pig and Poul try Houses, with plans and elevation, besides some twenty Well written articles-that should be read by every Farmer. Specimen cepies will be sent free, by tbe Publishers, N. P. B yer Sc Co., Parkesburg, Pa. Price, $1 per year. American Sunday School Worker, St. Louis. The November number of this magazine is a good one. An effort was made to get all the different denominations and Sunday Scho. 1 Journals to follow one course of lessons; but we learn that Schools will have the choice ot five or six courses of lessons next year, instead of being restricted to one. The number be fore us contains "The Worker'’ List, with an able Editorial article thereon, which we com mend to the attention of all who are asking the question, What course of study shall w, adopt next year iu our Sunday School The (Publisher is J. W. Mclntyre, St. Louis, Vl■> We Know that for cleaning paint, windows, china and glassware; for polishing knives, tin, iron, brass and copper wares, and for remov ing stains from marble and porcelain, and rust from machinery, Enoch Morgan’s Son’s Sapo lio is the best thing in use. The Great Pictorial Annual. Hostetter’s United States Almanac for 1872, for distribution, gratis, throughout the United States, and all civilized countries of the West ern Hemisphere, will be published about the Ist of January, in the English, German, French, Norwegian, Welsh, Swedish, Holland, Bohe mian and Spanish languages, and all who wish to understand the true philosophy of health should read and ponder the valuable sugges tions it contains. In addition to an admirable medical treatise on tbe causes, prevention and cure of a great variety of diseases, it embraces a large amount of information interesting to the merchant, the mechanic, the miner, the farmer, the planter and professional man; and the Calculations have been made for such meri dians and latitudes as are most suitable for a correct and comprehensive National Calendar. The nature, uses, and extraordinary sanitary effects ot Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters, the staple tonic and alterative of more than half the Chris tian world, are fully set forth in its pages, which are also interspersed with pictorial illustrations, valuable recipes for the household and farm, humorous anecdotes, and other instructive and amusing reading matter, original and selected. Among the Annuals to appear with the open ing of the year, this will be one of the most useful, and may be had for the asking. The pro prietors, Messrs. Hostetler Smith, Pittsburg, Pa., on receipt of a tw o cent stamp, will for ward a copy by mail to any person who canno procure one in his neighborhood. The Bitters are sold in every city, town and village, and are extensively used throughout the entire civ ilized world. A Card. To Misses Lizzie Huntt, Hattie Wbllb, Marx Huntt and Lydia Jenkins. Young Ladies; You have to-day manifested your respect to me by the presentation of a beautiful hat, and let me assure you that I the more highly esteem the present, because I be lieve it to be an expression of your appreciation of my efforts to advance you in your literary course, to render your labors easy and to add as much as possible to your happiness during that part of your scholastic life in which we have been associated together. Be assured that I shall ever hold you in fond remembrance, ever ready to make any sacrifice to secure your welfare in the future. With affectionate regard, I remain, most tru ly, your friend, F. PENNINGTON. Dec. 15, 1871. MARRIED. At the residence of the bride's father, on tbe 6th instant, by the Rev. Wm. J. Chiles, Mr. THOMAS EDWIN SANDY and Miss ALICE VIRGINIA MILSTEAD, all of this county. On the 30th ult., in St, Paul's Churfch, Pat terson, N. J,, by the Rev. Geo. Hofferman, CHARLES F. HOLLAND, of the Salisbury Bachelor and Miss BELLE WELSH, daughter ofN. I). Welsh. Esq., of Milton Del. DIED, At Middleburg, London county, Va., the re sidence of her son-in-law, Rev. Wm. S. Baird, I on the 3d inst., Mrs. JOANNA C. EVERETT, formerly a resident of Newtown, in Ibis coun ty, in the 73d year of her age. She had been a worthy member of the Meth odist Church for more than fifty years, and her end was peaceful and triumphant. Her lust •words were, “There will be no parting there.” For Hale, A NO. 1 BUGGY, SINGLE and DOUBLE HARNESS. WM. B. MATTHEWS. Dec. 15, 187 l-3t For Rent, r J'HE ensuing j r ear, a DWELLING 1 HOUSE and BLACKSMITH SHOP at Gallant Green, both new and in good order. Attached to the Shop is a new Bellows, Anvil and Vice. For a sober and industrious Srißth, an excellent business can be done. i For terms apply to J. T. MUDD. Dec. 15, 1871-31 Gallant Green, Md. Christmas! Christmas I Christman I THE undersigned has in store a fine assort ment of CHRISTMAS GOODS, such as Cakes, Candies, Apples, Figs, Raisins, (by the pound or in small boxes), Almonds, Canned Fruits of all kinds. Brandy Peaches, Ac.; also, Firecrackers, all of which have been selected with care, and will be sold low for cash. J. 1. LACEY. Port Tobacco, Dec. 15, 1871. For the Holidays I THOSE in want of CHRISTMAS GOODS should not fail to go to QUENZEL’S and supply themselves with Fruit and Pound Cakes, Apples, Nuts, Raisins, Toys, and a good many other arti cles suitable for Christmas. Also, Cone River OYSTERS, by the barrel, bushel, gallon, or served by the plate to ladies or gentlemen. Port Tobacco, Dec. 15, 1871-3 t BITTERS. —American Regenerative Bitters, a sure cure for all dyspeptics, for sale by dec 15 J. I. LACEY. HORSE SHOES and NAILS, for sale by dec 15 J. I. LACEY. LOWER POTOMAC LINE. For Washington, Alexandria, George town and Potomac River Landings; Also, For Fredericksburg and Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. The Iron Steamer GEORGE ANN A Will, on and after MONDAY, Dec. 4th, 1871, leave Baltimore, from Pier 9, Light Street Wharf, every MONDAY and THURSDAY at 5 p. m. for Acquia Creek, and the following Landings on-the Potomac River: Leave Acquia Creek at 5 a. m. on SATUR DAY for Chapel Point, Stone’s Wharf, Fox well’s Wharf, Leonardtown Wharf, Lodge Landing, Kinsale, and Jones’ Wharf; leave Ba’timoie at 5 p. m. on Monday for the above Landings. Leave Acquia Creek at 5 a. m. on WED NESDAY for Chapel Point, Ghaptico, Fox well’s Wharf, Leonardtown VVh’f, Coan Wh’f, and Jones’ Wharf; leave Baltimore at 5 p. m. on Thursday for the above Landings. Will also stop at Gough s Wharf, Stewart’s Wharf, Cedar Point, Longwood’s Wharf. Pi ney Point, and Bacon’s Wharf, when signalled, or to land Freight or Passengers. For further information apply to C. P. IRVINE, Agent, Office, 138 Light Street, Baltimore, dec 15-tf gT. COLUMBA LODGE, J* No. 150, A. F. A. M. Port Tobacco, Dec. 8, A. L., 5871. A Special Communication will be held on St. John the Evangelist’s Day, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27th, 3 o’clock p. m. It is important that every member should be present at this meeting as the installation of officers will take place. Visiting brethren in good standing are fra ternally invited. By order of tbe W. M. John S. Button, Sec’y. READ THIS: SOMETHING NEW AND USEFUL. GEORGE TAYLOR is prepared to execute orders for STENCIL WORK with neatness and despatch. Will cut Plates for marling hogsheads, sacks, farming implements, &c. A bottle of Indelible Ink and-Brush furnish ed with each Name Plate. Port Tobacco, Dec. 1,1871-6 ms. NOTICE TO OUT-PENSIONEES. ORDERED, by the Board of Trustees of the Alms House of Charles County, that all Out-Penaioners be required to renew their pe titions to said Board, on or before the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, 1872. 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