Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-31

lHt NillliliOlt VIII piObdDiN W iil1hNi thS
assessment for county purposes. After the whole
valuation is made the rate per cent. of tax will
be fixed upon by the Board of Assessors.
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OUR LETTER BOX.
THE AVENUE AND PIER.-The following COIN
nunication argues against the construction OF the
proposed Avenue to the river:
Your correspondent improvement pays
very poor compliment to the intelligence OF the
citizens of Wilmington when he wished them to
build pier and open road to the Delaware
river, for the purpose of receiving goods at
cheaper rate of freight through the winter. Your
paper, as also all the Philadelphia papers, have
been publishing the fact that vessels could neither
get up nor down the river on account of ice; If
this is So of what use is the Pier in winter time il
vessels cannot get to it Vessels have been lying
at New Castle for several weeks, some bound to
sea- some to Philadelphia, and they have been
unable to get either way on account of this OBJ
struction, yet New Castle is n more open Road-
stead than the Pier would be. Any person con-
versant with our navigation will tell you that
whenever steamers or sailing vessels can reach
Philadelphia without serious delay or expense,
any Tug of moderate power can break up the ice
in the Christiana Greek, and enable merchants
and manufacturers to receive and ship their goods
at much lower cost of freight and speedicr time,
than If landed or shipped from Pier on the Del
aware river.
The City Of Wilmington is beautifully located
on high and healthy ground, with room on high
l., f,, tpI,o ann II m nnssiI,a
that any prudent man will live on Cherry Island
Marsh and subject his family to the aguc and the
various fevers incident to such low and wet local
tiles, when such beautiful building sites can
readily be obtained? In this age Of universal
suffrage, it cannot be long until the bull frogs
and mud turtles of Cherry Island Marsh will have
the right to vote, and there is no doubt, they will
be unanimously opposed to human habitatons
being built over their old homes, though If " I'M
provement - is very fond of frog concert" or
a mosquito ''soiree musicale" they may perhaps
nuke mn exception in his favor.
COMMON SENSE.
.'INpRovEMENr' writes us in favor of the pro-
posed extension of the city to the Delaware. We
extract as follows -
1.-THE city has for years felt the necessity of
communication with the Delaware river, especial
ly in the winter, when the Christiana river is
frozen over. Our business men have the only one
line for shipping and rneoiving ficight-thc rail-
road. Now the opening of the street asked for
will not only have the effect of lowering the price
of freghts but il will have other good results in
respect to our railroad connexions.
''The city boundaries were extended to the
r.,rt 10 Tho
Improvement asked for will cause the rapid growth
of the city in that direction. The march of I'M
provement is onward the effort to prevent it by
the cry of taxation " is the work usually of u
very few persons who have not the prosperity of
the city ut heart. People from abroad, viewing
our advantages, always express surprise that the
growth of Wilmington has not been more rapid y
Is "FAcroRY GIRL" myth or reality ?
Does she romance plagiarlze or write the page
of real life?
Dear Commercial Il had hoped by this time
10 have been able to subscribe for our own Daily,
but alas our employer has taken ten per cent of
of our already scanty wages. This heavy rcduc-
ton must be met in the only way We can meet it,
by starving both mind and body. We begged
Father to seek another situation but he says it is
winter; there would be the expense of moving
Mother not WE'LL We must wait till spring, and
little Nelly must leave school and put her young
shoulder to the wheel.
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A correspondent thus writes us;-"The editor
of the Delaware PcpaJiicaa has volunteered to
defend the Coppcrllead appointees in this State
The editor of the Delaware gazette, now U. y
Marshal, does not thank George Tor his graluitoni
patronage, nor Tor his ADVICE TO draw his traitor
Gus beer MS mild as possible, else George VIII dc
sert him. johnson replies that he does not cart
for Vernon nor his advice, and that he will i'll
dnge N iraltorols priiclcs MS often as he please'
A fAEMgn's yIrM ~ WuMls.loN.--Th,
following has been lying in our box several day
but the cHti9ue on our city Is by no means olll o
uhf'
wish to give few impressions received hy'
Pennsylvania farmer on recent visit to your city
To one accustomed 10 Philadelphia there Is moth
ing new or novel to be seen, for ii seems but ~
epiiome Of the Quaker city, Kind OF outsrowtll
made up of precisely the same elements Of soce
ty. In passing up yollr principal street, one can
not fully realize that he is in a strange town. Al
looks familiar; the buildings of the same design
fashioned by the same taste, and apparently bull