The Cecil Whig from Elkton, Maryland • 2

or ms GROVK OIL COMPANY. I'njiihd I'ir of rarh Fire SitbscK iiilioit Price Five Duilam. rfMIK --rsIIADY tiUnVF. UIL i auLhnritiy an Act I vlvariia. a Capital of S.V 10,000.

iiiv.il .1 Hatolrod Thousand par Vi wliii-U is hollars lor each Share: a Work inu' r.ipil.d of slo.ooo reserved for boring wells el the territory. has purchased, in fee simple and of iie tnnbraiiee, tract of ehotee land in Oil ek and in that portion thereof known ns 1 Creek s. a short distance above Titusville, of 4s J' most favorably l.wated oil operations. The entire area is flat, and adapted to ring or well-sinking the erode passing i igh a portion of the plot furnishes an ahuudniiee of water: end the Franklin hraneh of the Atlantic rm 1 iii ea? Western Ibdlrond, passing directly through, ha- already eoiistnieted a switch on the premises, up the oil, when barreled, ean fro a jh material eliurge for asrUtge or other expe hi than the railrt.hd charges lor transportation to in irk ft. Prn inc.

other indications of tho existrr and supply of oil. prevail Upon the su fiee: well satisfied is the previous owner. jivodu'-tion of the desired article in abundance that agrees to bore a well or Wells until twenty barr of oil pc day are produced, and free, of charge until Mteb result is attained; Coincam to furnish eiun ie. and essary tools ami structures. In udditio i to ih above assurance he has executed a bond lor km, which is already tiled against him in Venango inly, a a guarantee of the production of such result, numerous wells, both above and below, am being sunk with energy, and sonic are already Vieldiug'a flow of oil at much less than the ordinary depth Wells.

nr class engine has already been ordered, and ex peel to be delivered on the promises in the month of mhor; the lumber for constructing a cleric, engine-house. has ordered; and the tools 1 in ry necessary to conimonee sinking w. ll will he emrippoe by die time that the engine is delivered when the work will be prosecuted with energy by day mid night, to carry out the spirit of it ns ana i lies of the Company. The entire prod notion will belong exclusively to the Company, there being no leases or other upon the promises, wbiefi, tni'l det-mme energy with which the is be carried into elluct, will alibi'd, at an early date, satisfactory return for the eapital invested. ime well, yielding twenty barrels per dav, at present prices in gross realize $75,000 per aniinin and excuses for such production would be coinpamtivcly small.

There are sites for over tihy wells on the land, without probable dungeij of interfering with the product of cither. The undersigned is authorized to dispose of the limited number of the shares of the above Company Two Dollars per share. B. FOARD. Klkton, Mar 4, tf PROSPECTUS or the SHERIDAN OIL COMPANY, OF CHERRY RUN.

Capital Slock, Car Value of Each, Subscript ton Price Two Dollars. I'IIK BHKHIDAN Oil. COMPANY, infiorpomtiid under authority of an Act of the Legislature of tmssed April 12th. 1-SM, with a capital 111 NDHKD AM) FIFTY THOUSAND DOL-1. MIS.

divided into tine hundred and thirty thousand shares, the par value of which is Five Dollars tier share. The Company reserves a cash capital of Fifteen Thousand as a developing or working fund, to purchase Kngines and such other necessary Materials as will enable the Managers to at once fully and render productive the two desirable traors of territory selected and purchased for the Company. No. 1. Is a tract of Imd in fee-simple, clear of all in urnbranec.

containing twenty acres, situate on cherry Run, near post-town of Plainer, in the of Venango, end surrounded by developed and partially developed lands, so favorably known as the Cherry Run Territory in one of the most de.Miubk* localities of such property is the area li longing to the Sheridan. All wells sunk to the ordinary depth on this territory have proved successful thus far, consequently it can hardly be considered a risk to here, on any part of this lands. No. 2, Is a choice tract of forty-five acres, situate on the extension of the same Cherry Run fiats above above described, about three-and-one-half miles from the village of Plnmer, and to which the same characteristics fully apply, both in truthfulness and force; dories, escape steam and smoke from working engines, are to bo seen far above and below this propert for miles on the fiats or low grounds. Tlie oils obtained in this particular district are of a fine character, and well adapted to lighting purposes; they are now in active demand at sl2 per barrel at the wells, for refining, the purchasers furnishing barrels, and carting the oil therefrom as lust as it can be produced.

SV The undersigned is authorized to dispose of a limited number of aharea of the above Company uL Tigp Dollars a shore. B. FOARD. Klkton, Mar. A.

J. WEIDEJNER, 3S South Second Street, between Market and Chestnut Streets, PHILADELPHIA. Manufacturer of Coal Oil Lamp and Wholesale Dealer in Glass Tumblers, Patent Jars and Glassware generally. IYEALERS will find it to tlieir advantage to examine stock and compare prices before purchasing their goods for the spring sales. We would cull the attention of the public particularly to oiir NEW STL YE OF PATENT JAR F''ll PRESERVING FRUIT WITHOUT SUGAR.

Wo can refer to hundreds of respectable persons put up peaches and other fruit in our Jars last season without the use of Syrup, and found upon opening that the Fruit retained its natural flavor, and in taut was just the same as when put into the Jars. A. J. WEI DEN KR, No. 38 South Second Street, April 15, 3m Philadelphia.

FAMILIES Cun tlieir claims Cor HOI VTV, PAY AM) PEXBIOX PROMPTLY COLLECTED. Also, PRIZE MONEY' (or Seamen, and arrears of pay due heirs of Ollicers the Alloy and Navy, liy W. 13. 1T11.T., Government Claim Office, 70 West Fayette street. Baltimore, Md.

Full inform.alien given without charge. KT'l, tillers must enclose a stamp. Nov 20, New Millinery Store. fnXHE nndersimed begs leave to call Icntion to her New aud Splendid Assortment of SPRING MILLINERY, Selected from the best houses in Philadelphia, which she will dispose of the most reasonable terms for cash. She respectfully solicits the patronage of her friends and the public, and has no doubt that they will find it lo their advantage to give her a call at her store, on Main street, Elkton, two doors below Church street.

MRS. MARY A. RHODES, april, 10, 1865. THE MISSES HUDSON HATING changed their place of business will he found opposite the P. O.and between the confectionery of Mrs.

Hall and tlie store of Mr. Burton (late where they are prepared to do all kinds of Dress Making, CUTTING, FITTING, STAMPING, tnttilneu and despatch. Klkton. april 15, 1885 Ulinds and Shades. B.

J. WILLIAMS, So. Sixth Street, Philadelphia, manufacturer or VENETIAN HLINDS and WINDOW SHAPES. The largest, and fiufst assortment in the city at the lowest cash prices. NTOKK HHADKB MADE AND LETTERED.

april MRS NOWLANDr FASHIONABLE DRESS MAKER, CHEEKY MILL, I prepared fo do all kinds of Plain aud J. Fancy Sewing in Hie neatest style, and at short notice, ttycharges reasenable. april CNOAI. of Supervior Qualify, for sale by atpl 20. JOHN PARTRIDGE.

Cecil Whig, F.I.KTOV, KU. 22, 1805. if aii. to the. flng of teeny stars; Bencuth thy shall, truo nearM wilt gather, And stilt uplift thee to the brocie, Though dark and stormy be the weather.

To thee our earliest hopes belong To every fold deathless story And still with life weTI hold The starry luster of thy glory. Tbc 1-esaou. Abraham Lincoln is dead but the Nation still lives. Struck down in the prime of his life and the midst of his usefulness by Unhand of a dastardly assassin, his death will intensify the hatred of the American people for that accursed system, which delights in styling itself the Peculiar For that Slavery was the inciting cause of his assassination is as evident as that his death has sealed the fate of Slavery throughout the world. The leaders of tlie rebellion may not have directly instigated the murder of President l.ineoln hut the infamous cause they are fighting to establish begat and cherished the spirit that did it; and they arc therefore responsible for the if not legally.

Hut while holding them to a strict accountability, let ns ask ourselves if we are altogether guiltless? Nations like individuals reap according to what they sow; and the seeds of Slavery that our fathers so carelessly sowed in the infancy, and that their children so carefully guarded through all the after years unto the ripening of a bloody harvest, are now yielding their legitimate fruits Rebellion, Assassination! Abraham Lincoln is sleeping in his bloody victim of Martyr for Freedom and free institutions. Y'et if we heed the axiomatic, but startling truth uttered by him eleven years ago: Union cannot permanently exist half slave and half he will not have died in vain. Each and all of us will in the immediate presence of the horrible crime that has filled our hearts with anguish, realize more fully that our chiefesl duty now is the total extirpation of the giant curse prop and main-stay of tlie Rebellion sum of all villainies iniquitous system of Slavery. Will we fail to perform the duty imposed on us by the murder of our patriot President The Registry Law. Tlie most important bill passed by the Legislature of Maryland last winter, was the Act relating to the registration of the voters of the State.

A good registry law is always necessary as a safe guard to the purity of the ballot-box, and can never work a wrong to any legalized voter but at the present time it is particularly necessary, in order to protect the rights of the loyal, and to prevent those who have been endeavoring to destroy the government, from participating in its future administration. Disfranchisement is but a lenient punishment for treason and if the object of the Registry law was to punish those who had plotted, and sought, and desired the overthrow of the government, by disfranchising them, we would consider it a lamentable failure. But it contemplates no such object. Its primary aim is the security of the loyal citizen and this it seeks to accomplish b) guarding with jealous care the purity of the ballot-box. Under it the Governor is required to appoint fur each election district, from among the citizens of the State most known for loyalty, firmness and three persons who shall register all free white male persons claiming, and entitled to, the right of elective franchise in said district.

And in order that these three loyal, firm and men may ascertain, and be satisfied of, the qualification or disqualification of every person claiming the right of suffrage, they are invested with power to summon witnesses, and collect all the evidence for, and against, the right of such person, before they decide whether or not he is a qualified voter, under Article of the Constitution relating to the elective That such a beneficent enactment should meet with the bitterest opposition, and receive the harshest denunciation, from copperhead editors and orators is nothing but what is expected. It would be unnatural for them to do otherwise than condemn it. These disloyal demagogues see that along with the shoulder-hitters, ballot-box stuffers, and renegade rebels many of themselves will be forever disfranchised by it. They see and know that it wiil prevent the colonizing of thousands, and thus break down that corrupt and pestilent organization mis called the Democratic Hence their abuse of it. that can avail nothing with rightwinking, sensible men, no mutter to what party they may belong.

If wisdom and justice were ever combined in one law, Wiey ore combined in the law for the registration of the voters of the State of Maryland. It is in every way wise, beneficent and just. There is not a provision in it 1 that can lessen or dimish a single privilege 1 of the loyal citizen nor a section of it that can be excepted to by an honest man with the good of his country at heart. Let us see to it that we have the right men appointed as Registers, so that the law will be enforced without fear or favor. Installation of President On Saturday, the loth Hon.

Andrew Johnson was installed as President. At II o'clock, the oath of office w-as administered, by the Chief Justice of the United States, in his usual solemn and impressive manner. Mr. Johnson received the kind expressions of the gentlemen by whom he was surrounded in a manner which showed his earnest sense of tbc great responsibility so suddenly devolved upon him, and made a brief speech in which he said duties of the office are mine I will perform them. The consequences are with God.

Gentlemen, I shall lean upon I am deeply impressed with the solemnity pf the occasion, and the responsibility of I the am I official bulletin from Secretary Stanj ton confirms the unofficial accounts published on Tuesday of tho capture of Fort Spanish and Fort Blakely, (leu. Cunby says that in the two forts he captured prisoners and fifty-five guns. On tho i2jh inst. our troops look possession of the city. The Loss I ASSASSINATION OF President Full Details of ISie Ask ass I nation IWhlcul Lincoln was assassinated nt Theatre, in Washington, on Friday night, the I fth by J.

Wilkes Booth. Wo select the following Account of the horrible tragedy and movements of the a-ssissin on the night preceding the commission of tlie crime, from the correspondence of the New York World. Without exception, it is the best and most circumstantial account, if the whole of it be based unon fact, of any we have hitherto seen ana, if we dare say so, is one of the most dramatically detailed accounts of an appalling incident in national history which has ever been utfered to any nation Some very deliberate, but not at all extraordinary, movements were made by a handsome and extremely well dressed young man in the city of Washington last Friday. At about a. m.

this person, whose name is J. Wilkes Booth, by profession an actor, and recently engaged in oil speculations, sauntered into Ford's Theatre, on Tenth, between E. and F. streets, exchanged greetings with the man nt tlie box office. In the conversation which ensued the ticket agent informed Booth that a box was taken for Mr, Lincoln and Gen.

Grant, who were expected to visit the theatre, and contribute to the benefit of Miss Laura Keene and satisfy the curiosity of a large audience. Mr. Booth went away with a jest, and a lightly spoken Strolling down lo Humphrey's stable, on U. street, in tbc rear of the National Hotel, he engaged a saddle horse, a high strung, fast, beautiful bay marc, telling Mr. Pumnhreys that he should call for her in the middle of the afternoon.

VISITS MR. From here he went to the Kirkwood Hotel, on the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Twelfth street, where, calling for a card and a sheet of note-paper, he sat down and wrote upon the first as follows For Mr. Andrew Johnson I wish to disturb you are you at home? J. W. Booth.

To this message, which was sent up by the obliging clerk, Mr. Johnson that he was very busily engaged. Mr. Booth smiled; and turning to his sheet of note-paper, wrote on it. The fact, if fact it is, taut he hud been disappointed in not obtaining an examination ox the Vice apartment and a knowledge of the Vice probable whereabouts the ensuing evening no way affected bis composure.

The note, the contents of which are unknown, was signed and sealed within a few moments. Booth arose, bowed to an acquaintance, and passed into the street. His elegant person was seen on the avenue a few minutes, aud was withdrawn into the Metropolitan Hotel. UL VISITS HIS STABLK. At 4 r.

m. he again appeared at livery stable, mounted the mare he had engaged, rode leisurely up F. street, turned into an alloy between Ninth and Tenth streets, and thence into an alley reloading to the rear of Theatre, which fronts on Tenth street, between E. and F. streets.

Here he alighted and deposited the mare in a small stable off the alley, which he had hired some time before for the accommodation of a saddle-horse which ho had recently sold. Mr. Booth soon afterward retired from the stable, and is supposed to have refreshed himself at a neighboring bar-room. THE SCENE AT THE THEATRE. At 8 the same evening, President l.ineoln and Speaker Colfax sat together in a private room at the White House, pleasantly conversing.

Gen. Grant, with whom tho President bud engaged to attend Theatre that evening, had left with his wife for Burlington, New Jersey, in the six train. After this departure Mr. Lincoln rather reluctantly determined to keep his part of the engagement, rather than to disappoint liis friends and the audience. Mrs.

Lincoln, entering the room and turning to Mr. Colfax, said, in a half laughing, half serious way, Mr. Lincoln, are you going to the theatre with me or suppose 1 shall have to go, Colfax, ririd the President, and the Speaker took his leave in company with Major Ilathbone, of the Provost Afa vu h.l office, who escorted Miss Harris, daughter of Senator Harris, of New York. Mr. and Mrs.

1 incoln reached Theatre at twenty minutes before 9 o'clock. The house was filled in every part with a large and brilliantly attired audience. As the Presidential party ascended the stairs, and passed behind the dress circle to the entrance of tlie private box reserved for them, the whole assemblage, having in mind the recent Union victories, arose, cheered, waving hats and handkerchiefs, and manifesting every other accustomed sign of enthusiasm. The President, lust to enter the box, turned before doing so, and bowed courteous acknowledgment of his reception. THE BOX.

The box in which the President sat consisted of two boxes turned into one, the middle partition being removed, as on all occasions when a state party visited the theatre. The box was on a level with the dress circle, about twelve feet above the stage. There were two entrances door nearest to the wall having been closed and locked the door nearest tlie balustrades of the dress circle, and at right angles with it, being open and left open after the visitors had entered. The interior was carpeted, lined with crimson paper, aud furnished with a sofa covered with crimson velvet, three arm chairs similarly covered, and six canebottomed chairs. Festoons of Hags hung before the front of the box against background of lace.

THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE PARTY'. President Lincoln took one of the armchairs aud seated himself in the front of the box, in the angle nearest the audience, where, partially screened from observation, he had the best view of what was transpiring on tho stage. Mrs. J.incoln sat next him, and Miss Harris in the opposite angle nearest the stage. Major RathboUC sat just behind Mrs.

Lincoln and Miss Harris. These four were the only persons in the box. THE PLAY. The play proceeded. The audience at including Mrs.

Lincoln, seemed to enjoy it very much. The worthy wife of the President leaned forward, her hand upon her knee, watching every scene in tho drama with amused attention. Even across the face at intervals swept' a smile, robbing it of its habitual sadness. THE PRELIMINARIES TO FLIGHT. About the beginning of the second act, the mare, standing in the stable in the rear of the theatre, was disturbed in the midst of her meal by the entrance of the young man who quitted her in the afternoon.

It is presumed she was saddled and bridled with exquisite care. BOOTH ENTERS THE THEATRE. Having completed these preparations, Mr. Booth entered the theatre by the door: summoned one of the scene-shifters, Mr. John Spangler, emerged through the same door with that individual, leaving the open, and left the mare in his hands to be held until he (Booth) should Booth, who was even more fashionably and richly dressed than usual, walked thence around to the front of the theatre and went in.

Ascending to the dress circle, he stood for a little time gazing around upon the audience, and occasionally upon the stage, in his usual graceful manner. He was subsequently observed by Mr. Ford, the proprietor of the theatre, to ho slowly elbowing his way through the crowd that packed the rear of the dress circle, toward the right side, at the extremity of which was the box where Mr, and Mrs. Lincoln and their companions were scntcyl. Mr.

Fonl casually noticed this as slightly extraordinary symptom of interest on Iflp part of an actor so familiar with the routine of the theatre -and play. The curiam had anslli on the third act, and Mrs, MoUnirhessinffton and Am were exchanging vivacious stupidities, when a young man, nreciselv resemldihg the one described as .1. Wilkes Hooth, appeared before the open door of the box and prepared to enter. THE ASSASSIN AT THE IIOX DOOR. The servant who attended Mr.

Lincoln said politely is the President's box, sir: no one is permitted to am a responded the person, Lincoln has sent for The attendant gave way, and the young man passed into the box. the nox. As he appeared at the door, taking a quirk, comprehensive glance at the interior. Major liathbonc arose. you aware, he said eortoously, whom you are intruding? This is the President's box, and no one is The intruder answered not a word.

Fastening his eyes upon Mr. Lincoln, who had half turned his head to ascertain what caused the disturbance, he stepped quickly back without the door, tuf, shot. Drawing a derringer pistol, and taking, by means of some almost miraculous calculation. a deadly aim, he fired through the closed door, on his right, the hall passing through the door, and entering the brain of the President. THE FLIGHT.

The movTments of the assassin were from henceforth quick as the lightning. Springing into box through the door of which he had retreated, he dropped his pistol on the Hoor. and drawing a oowie- knife, struck Major Hathbonc, who opposed him, ripping through his coat from the shoulder down, and inflicting a severe flesh wound in his arm. He leaped then upon the velvet covered balustrade at the front of the box, between Mrs. Lincoln and Miss Harris, and, parting with both hands the flags that drooped on either side, dropped to the stage beneath.

Arising and turning full upon the audience, with the knife lifted in his right hand above his head, he shouted: semper tyraviris is avenged Another instant and he had fled across the stage and behind the scones. Colonel .1. H. Stewart, the only person in the audience who seemed to com pr" hen 3 the committed, eiimbed from his seat near the orchestra to the stage, and followed close behind. The assissan was too fleet and too Meeting Mr.

Withers, the leader of the orchestra, just behind the scenes, he struck him aside with a blow that fortunately was not a wound overturning Miss Jenny (jourlay, an actress, who came next in his path, he gained, without further hindrance, the hack door previously left open at the rear of the theatre rushed through it leaped upon the horse held by Mr. Spangler, and without vouchsafing that person a word of information, rode out through the alloy leading into F. street, and thence rapidly away. His hoofs might almost have been heard amid the silence that for a few seconds dwelt in the interior of the theatre. THE SCENE AT THE THEATRE.

Then Mrs. Lincoln screamed, Miss Harris cried for water, and the full ghastly (ruth broke upon The President is murdered The scene that ensued was as tumultuous and terrible as one of Dante's pictures of hell. Some women fainted, others uttered piercing shrieks, and cries for vengeance ana unmeaning shouts for help burst from the mouths of men. Miss Laura Keene, the actress, proved herself in this awful time as equal to sustain a part in real tragedy as to interpret that of the stage. Pausing one moment before the footlights to entreat audience to he calm, she ascended the stairs in the rrr of Mr.

Lincoln's box, entered it, took the dying President's head in her lap, bathed it with the water she had brought, and endeavored to force some of the liquid through the insensible lips. The locality of the wound was at first supposed to be in thr breast. Jt was not until after the neck and shoulders had been bared and no mark discovered, that the dress of Miss Keene, stained with blood, revealed where the ball had penetrated. THE INSENSIBLE PRESIDENT CARRIED OCT. As soon as the cotlfusion and crowd were partially overcome, the form of the President was conveyed from the theatre tv the residence of Mr.

Peterson, on the opposite tide of Tenth street. Here upon a bed, in a little hastily prepared chamber, it was laid and attended by Surgeon General Panics and other physicians, speedily summoned. ATTEMPT ON SECRETARY SEWARD'S LIFE. The attempt on the life of Secretary Seward was, perhaps, as daring, if not so dramatic. as the assassination of the President.

At 9.20 a man, tall, athletic, and dressed in light colored clothes, alighted from a horse in front of Mr. Seward's residence, in Madison place, where the Secretary was lying very feeble from his recent injuries. Leaving his horse standing, the stranger rang at the door, and informed the servant who admitted him that he desired to sec Mr. Seward, The servant responded that Mr. Seward was very ill, and that no visitors were admitted.

lam a messenger from Dr. Verdi, Mr. Seward's physician I have a prescription which I must deliver to him The servant still demurring, the stranger, without further parley, pushed him aside and ascended the stairs. Moving to the right, he proceeded towards Mr. Seward's room, and was about to enter it, when Mr.

Frederick Seward appeared from an opposite doorway and de manded his business. He responded in the same manner as to the servant below, hut being met with a refusal, suddenly closed the controversy by striking Mr. Seward a severe and perhaps mortal blow across the forehead with the butt of a pistol. As the first vie tim fell, Major Seward, another and younger son of the Secretary, emerged from his father's room. Without a word the man drew a knife and struck the Major several blows with it, rushing into the chamber as he did so then, after dealing Mr.

Hansell, the nurse, a horrible wound across the bowels, he sprang to the bed upon which the Secretary lay, stabbing him two or three limes in the face and neck. Mr. Seward arose convulsively and fell from the bed to the floor. Turning and brandishing his knife anew, the assassin tied from the room, clearing the prostrate form of Frederick Seward in the hall, descended the stairs in three leaps, and was out of the door and upon his horse in an instant. It is stated by a person who saw him mount, that although he leaped upon his horse with the most unseemly haste, he trotted away around the corner of the block with circumspect deliberation.

AT THE BEDSIDE. Secretary Stanton, just arrived from the bedside of Mr. Seward, asked Surgeon General Barnes what was Mr. Lincoln's condition. fear, Mr.

Stanton, that there is no no, General; no, and tno man, of all others, apparently strange to tears, sank down beside the bed, the hot, bitter evidences of an awful sorrow trickling through his fingers to the floor. Senator Sumner sat on the opposite side of the bed, holding one of the hands in his own, and sobbing with kindred grief. Secretary Welles stood at the foot of the bed, his face hidden, his frame shaken with emotion. General Hallcck, Attorney General Speed, Postmaster-General Dennison, B. Field, Assistant Scgretary of the Treasury, Judge Otto, General Meigs, and others, visited the chamber at times, and then retired.

Mrs. there is no need to speak of her. Mrs. Senator Dixon soon arrived and remained with her through the night. All through the night, while the horror-stricken crowds outside swept and gathered along the streets, while the military and police were patrolling and weaving a cordon around tlie city while men were arming and asking each other, What victim while the telegraph I was sending the news from city to city over the contffiont, and while the two assassins were speeding unharmed upon fleet horses far away, his chosen friends watched about.

the death bed of the highest of the nation; Occasionally, Dr. Gurley, pastor of the. church where Mr. Lincoln habitually attend cd, knelt down in prayer. Occasionally 1 Mrs.

Lincoln ami her sons entered, to find no hope ami to go back to ceaseless weeping. Members of the Cabinet, senators, representatives, generals, and others, took turns at the bedside. Not a gleam of consciousness shone across the visage of the President up to his quiet, peaceful death at last came at twenty-two minutes past seven a. m. Rev.

Dr. Gurley, after the event, knelt with all around in prayer, and then, entering the adjoining room where were gathered Mrs. Lincoln, Captain Robert Lincoln, Mr. lohn Hay and ethers, prayed again. Sqpn after 9 the remains were placed in a temporary fin ami conveyed to the White House under a small escort.

FUNERAL OBSEQUIES. The funeral obsequies in Washington, on Wednesday, were marked by the ceremonies and observances through which the Nation feebly yet earnestly seeks to express a sense of its great loss and detestation of the crime which cruelly and ruthlessly slaughtered its honored head. The assemblage of people at Washington was immense, and the funeral procession the most impresr sive demonstration which has ever occurred in Washington. After religious services at Executive Mansion the remains were removed to the Capitol and placed in the Ltotunda, where they laid in state until yesterday morning, when their progress to the residence of the laic President, ut Spring field, Illinois, commenced. A special train, witli a lunerul car, was prepared for the occasion, in winch, the remains and their escort arc convened.

The remains were to arrive in Baltimore at ten yesterday morn 1 ing, and lie in state five hours, in charge of the State and city authorities. From Baltimore they went to Harrisburg, thence to Philadelphia, New-York, AlUuny, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis and Chicago, reaching Springfield on Wednesday next. Senators Johnson and Creswell, and Hons. H. Winter Davis and Phelps, and Lieut.

Gov. Cox, of Maryland, were in the funeral procession. THE ASSASSINATORS. J. Wilkes Booth, the assassinator of Mr.

Lincoln, is a native of Maryland, having been born in the neighborhood, near the birthplace of the infamous Major Harry Gilmour. He is a son of the celebrated Lucius Junius Booth, the tragedian, and a brother to Edwin Booth, a prominent actor at the present time. He is about 27 years old, and until recently followed the profession of an actor. Some months ago he went into the oil business, and is reported to have made considerable. His character is that of a drinking and revengeful man.

His hatred for the President was well known by those acquainted with him, and he had long ago thrown out vague hints about murdering the President. He is still at large, but a despatch from W'auhington states twat the authorities are on his track and confident of his escape being cut otf. The would-be murderer of Secretary Seward and Ins sons, was arrested on Tuesday, in Washington, and identified beyond doubt by the servants of Secretary Seward, who were present on the night of the attempted assassination. He has been secretly confined in order to prevent his faking his life himself, and to prevent the people from taking the law in their own hands and wreaking summary vengeance upon the scoundrel. Other arrests have been made, but as it is thought best for the cause of justice, and assist in ferreting out others of the conspirators, names and particulars are not given.

The ablest detectives in the country are employed, and every effort is being made by the Government to thoroughly sift the whole plot. CONDITION OF THE-SEWARDS. Secretary Seward is much belter, as also Frederick Seward, and it is now confidently hoped and expected that both will recover. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MR. LINCOLN.

Mr. Lincoln was our sixteenth President, and is taken otf now in the fifith year of his age. He was born on the 12th February, 1809, in that part of Hardin county, Kentucky. now' included in Larne. Both his grandfather and father were, however, native's of i 'giiiia.

their ancestors having n.iTin from I.crka county, to Rock- Ingham, Virginia. They were farmers, ami Mr. father having removed to Indiana in 1816, the son there engaged with him in hard labor, goin" svhool at intervals. In 1830 the family removed to where, in Mueon county, Abraham Lincoln helped to roar the roof that shelter cd them, and fence the lands from which they derived sustenance. He also, for wages, engaged in boat building and trailing to New Orleans.

On the breaking out of the Rlackhuwk war in 1832, he was elected captain of a volunteer company. His lirst appearance in a political character was ia the following year, when he was nominated as a whig candidate for the Legislature, but was defeated. Having been made postmaster at New Salem, be improved his opportunity for studying law, and also surveying, in which latter he engaged as deputy for Sangamon county fur a time. In 1830 he was admitted to the practice of law, hut had, in the meantime, been chosen to the Legislature, in which he served by re-elections till 1840. It was in 1837 that he settled in Springfield, and thence rose rapidly in his profession.

He was several times a candidate for Presidential elector, and in 1844 canvassed the State in behalf of Henry Clay. In 1847 he came to Congress from the central district of Illinois, and as a Representative opposed the annexation of Texas, and though inimical to the war with Mexico, voted for the loan hill to enable the Government to defray its expenses. He favored the prohibition of slavery in the newly qnired territory, and at one time offered to I the House a scheme for abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia by compensating owners, provided a majority of the citizens should vote for the acceptance of the pro' posed net. In 1840 he was a candidate for the United States Senate, hut the Legishij tnre being democratic, Gen. Shields was chosen.

It was not till the repeal of the Missouri compromise that Mr. Lincoln again appeared in public, when he entered enrnest' ly into the canvass which was to decide the choice of a United States Senator in place I of General Shields, and the result was the I triumph of the republicans, and the election of judge Trumbull. In June, 1858, the Republican State Convention at Springfield I unanimously nominated Mr. Lincoln as a candidate for United Slates Senator, in op-1 position to Mr. Douglas.

The two candidates canvassed the Slate together, and the great issues so ably diseas ed between them, with the result that ensued, arc well known. It was on May Kith, IBtio, that the Republican Convention met at Chicago, which subi scqnently, on the 18th, after three ballotings, nominated Mr. Lincoln for President, he received votes out of 233 being necessary to a choice. In the election which ensued, although the popular majority was not in Mr. favor, in tho elec- I toral college he received 180 votes, an excess i of 57 over tho combined votes of his three I rivals.

As soon as the result of the election I was known, various movements indicated i the Southern purpose of resistance. With the progress and results of these movements and Mr. Lincoln's acts and course since his inauguration, on the 4th of March, 1861 in I view of them and the revolution they created, 1 and the general administration of the guvi erhment, under the new and trying eironini stances of civil war, the public mind is chi' tirely familiar. Therefore a particular reci, tal is not necessary at this time. 2 On the 15th of April, 1865, Abraham Lin-' coin, he whose marked history ami charac-1 ter, developed under tho icjjis of our repubs lican institutions, is thus briefly noted, pass, ed from earth, in a manner most untoward, i and mourned by a whole peqjdc.

Co cal Affairs. 4 A Week op news of the assassination of President Lincoln' reached Eikton about OJ o'clock on Satur- I day morning last The whole community was shocked at the announcement; it was hard for many to realize that such a horrid crime had been committed in the capital of the nation. Almost every countenance wore 1 the impress of sadness. The loyal portion of the community in addition to their great respect for him as President, loved the to an unusual degree while many of those I in sympathy with the Rebels and their cause, I had, since the fall of Richmond and the surrender of Lee, become satisfied that their friends would fare better at the hands of Mr. Lincoln than any other loyal man.

Therefore, they were particularly despondent at the event. On Sunday morning the pulpit and altar of the M. E. Church appeared tastefully I' draped in mourning. The services were particularly solemn and when Rev.

Mr. Kurtz referred, in his prayers, to the murder of the President there were few dry eyes in the I house, while many persons sobbed aloud. In the Episcopal church, also, the event was feelingly referred to by the Rev. Mr. Mitchell.

1 uesday afternoon the Town Commissioners held a special mcelir.g, and passed resolutions of respect to the memory of the late President, and recommended the cilizens to display some budge of mourning from their houses for thirty days, close their places of business between 11 and 3 o'clock, and that the bells of the town be tolled between those hours, ou Wednesday, the day of the obsequies of the President. Those recommendations wore followed by tbe citizens very genr ernlly. The courthouse and offices, banking house, depot, high school, public school and depot buildings were draped in. mourning, while a large majority of the private houses displayed some sign of respect and sorrow. All places of business were closed during the hours named the hells wore tolled and in the silence that reigned the boom- of the heavy minute gnus of Port Delaware could be distintly heard.

The town presented the appearance of a Sabbath day. The heart of 1 the people was deeply touched; all classes and conditions felt that the nation had lost noble man. Services appropriate to the occasion were held in the Methodist, Pres! byterian and Episcopal churches, and very generally attended by the citizens of the town and surrounding country, i The groat mass of the loyal people, while 1 they bewail the calamity, true to the character of the American freemen, immediately received relief through their faith that it will turn out for our good that by the bloody act the lieinousness of treason is more ly shown, nnd that the blond of this martyr to liberty will heal all differences between i loyal men, and cement more firmly the bond of a common union against all foes to American liberty. The fact, that the curse has i eouc forth against and rests upon tlie people who have for so many years committed the sin of keeping a race in bondage, producing the long list of evils that necessarily follow in the train of slavery; and that the crime has to bo properly atoned for, is slowly hut surely taking hold on the popular Each event in our history ns a nation impresses it deeper on the hearts of the people. Therefore, while they mourn the loss of their President, they do not despond of the welfare ot the Republic but bracing themselves under the heavy load, on all sides is heard expressed the determination to assist in performing the work which is becoming clearer every day.

They feel the rod and will obey its teachings. The Death 9v James W. Maxwell, W. Maxwell, son of Mr. J.

L. Maxwell, at Port Deposit, died, after a short illness, at the Howard House, in this (own, oii Tuesday afternoon last. Mr. Maxwell was by profession a lawyer, and had been a resident of Eikton many years. deceased left a large circle of relatives and friends in this county to mourn his cnrly and unexpected death.

He inherited by nature those rare social qualities which win their possessor many personal friends, none of whom received the sad intelligence of his sudden and unlocked for demise, without a feeling of sadness or a tear to the memory of the deceased. He was subject to erysipelas, an attack of which is believed to have 1 caused his death. His remains were laid in the family burying ground, at West Nottingham Presbyterian Church. the midst of life we are in A Horrible road from Eikton to Cherry the plank now in a horrible condition. It is almost worth a life to drive over it.

The old planking has been taken up, and the large teams traveling over it this I spring have cut it up in a shocking condition. The road is out of the hands of the county, i nnd a late session of the legislature, we believe gave the company who have control of I it, two years in which to turnpike it. Run small child, son of Mrs. Rhoads, was run over on Main street, on Wednesday last, and for a time supposed to be, badly hurt, but soon recovered, having only been stunned. We do not know that the team was moving raipdly at the time but we have noticed frequently lately fast i driving through the streets with horses not noted for gentleness.

The town is certainly 1 not the place to exhibit the speed and ties of such animals, and the town authority had better enforce tbe ordnance against fast driving before some child is killed, or crip, pled for life. Land Jos. P. Jordan has purchase of Mr. William Meredith a small farm, near Providence paper mills, i for $1,200.

i Lahy's Rook for May is rich and beautiful as the month of flowers, in designs and patterns for the toilet and work table. The colored double fashion-plate for the month is in keeping the season, nnd will not fail to please and attract every one who examines it. The fiook has its usual i variety of literary, domestic, and neons reading, ail of which is furnished by L. A. Godov, Philadelphia, for the low price of $3,00 per year.

N. 0.. was captured last Thurs day, with very little lighting, by Sherman's army. After Sherman left Goldsborough, he at once struck out for Johnston's army, hoping to induce him ro give bailie. The Rebels, however, kept retreating, and Sherman has met with very little resistance.

Notice. Haying been prevented from attending at the Rising Sun and Brick Meeting House on the days previously fixed upon, the present week, for receiving assessment lists, 1 will attend at. the following places on next week for the'purpose of making assessments of Income, etc. At Cherry Hill. Monday, Otbo near Gilpin's Falls, I uesday, 25th, (but not on Wednesday as heretofore advertised); at B.

M. House, on Wednesday and Thursday, 20th and 27th'; at Rising Sun, Friday and Saturday, 28ih and 29th. Persons liable to assessment will please make written detailed statements of their receipts from all sources daring the year 1804, nnd also of their expenditures, other than personal, for the same These statements may be made either on blanks they have received from the Asses sor, or on separate sheets. All persons arc also requested to have with them their tax receipts and bills nnd receipts of all other expenses and sales of produce for the year 1884; and persons neglecting to produce such written statements will not be attended to, as the Assessor has not lime to spend while they study and guess over what can be so easily and accurately ascertained by slight effort on their part. Parties who appear with lists made up will be attended to, and none others.

All sales, of produce in the year 1884 must be accounted for whether raised in that or the previous year, and none others. E. E. EWING, Assistant Assessor. Hollowing Before On of i.iie Woods.

paragraph of Baltimore news went the rounds of the p'ress on Monday last, caded, I lie Last Official Act of President which stated that an entire change had been made in the Federal olficea of that city, with the names of the newly commissioned officers appended. It turned however, that the statement was premature, no such removals ami appointments having been effected by the late Chief Magistrate as his last official act illanicb. WISWELL New London, Chester on Thursday, 13th by Rev. Robert Dubois, Mr. Robert A.

of Eikton, and Miss Sauaii, M. Greenwood, of Chester county. Tuesday evening last, in Eikton Trinity Church, by Rev. R. H.

B. Mitchell, Mr. E. W. Staples and Miss K.VR Sharp, daughter of Dr.

S. Sharp. I'. S. both of Eikton.

Dics. the residence of his father, on Friday, 14th James Alfred, fourth son of Mm. M. nnd Lucinda A. Rccd, in the 20tn your of his age.

HA Thursday morning, lira 20th Margarkt, wife of H. B. (ioodyear, in file 33d year of her age. Eikton, on Tuesday, Iftth. W.

Maxwki.l, aged 32 years. Union Lodge, No. 4N, A. F. F.

A. 9V: Whereas. We have learned with unfeigned death of our late Brother, James W. Ma.xw.ll the Warden of this Lodge, nnd this smt event have lost a worthy friend and Brother, ami the ehajn, by which we are united man to man lias tli ere by been weakened therefore lie it Resolved. That we submit with deep humility the dispensations of ami dc-.

plore the loss of our departed Brother, so amidenlv called away from our midst. Resolved, That we tenderly sympathize with the family and friends of our deceased Brother in their allliction, and hope they may (hid solace and comfort from that rower, who alone enn alleviate their sorrows, and give resignatian when death summons those we love. Resolved. That ns a slight testimonial of our love ami respect for our departed Brother, the Lodge room bed raped in mourning, and that we wear the badge of mourning for thirty days. Resolved.

'I hat the above preamble and be published in the Cecil Democrat and Cecil Whig, ami a copy ot the same be sent to the family of the deceased. By order uf the Lodge. Wm. C. Hasson, a jrii 2J, Secretary pro.

i-m O. I. A. M. At the Quarterly Session of the Plate Council of Maryland, Orter or United American Mechanics, held at Cherry Hill, Cecil county, on Tuesday evening.

April 18th. IHtifl, the following Preamble and Resolutions were reported nnd unanimously adopted We have heard with feelings of sadness and error of the death of the chief of this nation, Abhaham Lincoln, by the foul hand of assassin therefore he it Resolved. That we deeply feel the loss which the nation has sustained in the death of this noble man, who has endeared himself to the American people by so many acts of greatness ami magnanimity. Resolved, Tluuias American Mechanics and working men of the State of Maryland, wo tender our heartiest sympathies to the bereaved family of the late President, and hope they may find abundant, consolation from that Source whence flows all Good. n.p.ewA.V-1;, Tout we hereby tender to President Johnson our best wishes for lus.welfare, ami hope that he may always to and elrer find in Ui Great Councillor all help to assist him in the peidorniauee of the arduous duties of his Resolved.

That wo recognize in President elevation by the people to his present exalted position the true working of the genius of American institutions; anti pledge him our hearty support in all his efforts to crush the Rebellion, amt to advance the interests of American Mechanics and Working Men. Resolved. That these resolutions be entered on the minutes of the State Council, and published on-e in the Baltimore American, Clipper, and CeeJl Whig. W. K.

WRIGHT, SAMUEL OLIVER, JOHN WEBB. HAS. PEACOCK, W. HOLDEN, April Committee. LOOK HERE.

TME undersigned is prepared to furnish or make to order CASTINGS for all tlio Plows in general use in the neighborhood. ODD CASTINGS for Stoves and Machinery. And having a good Blacksmith, is also prepared to do Horse-Shoeing and connliy smithing generally. A good assortment of PLOWS and CASTINGS alway on hand, at the Eikton Foundry, corner of Main and Bridge streets. THOS.

J. JONES. Eikton, april 22, A STILL GREATER TUMBLE! DOWN! DOWN I DOWN PRINTS, 121 cents. MUSLINS, 12 cents. SUGAR, 12 cents.

STEPHEN B. FORD, At Pivot Bridge, Md. April 22, 1866. PliOMphatesi. RAW BONE and Moro Super Phosphates, which have obtained a high reputation.

For sale at Pivot Bridge. STEPHEN B. FORD. Mar 25, 1866 FOR SALE, at Pivot Bridge, by apr 15. STEPHEN B.

FORD. IVJacl-cerel. THE first lot ever offered in Barrels, Quarters, and Halves, Kitts. STEPHEN B. FORD.

Pivot Bridge, Mar 25, 1860 ASTRAY. CAME to the premises of the subserilter, (on J. Tome's farm,) ou Monday, tho loth a pale red COW, with wide horns. The owner is requested to come forward, prove properly, pay charges and take her away. J.J.

SMITH, april 16, 18Cj -3w.