The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-15
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DoVSRy Del, Aug. Ia.
Turning from the daily study Of your own
huge Commonwealth. with Its haEny officers
large enterprises, frequent corrupi0ns, and Ger.
tain expenses, behold for three minutes the
smallest OF all the Common wealths, Delaware
1t Is below Rhode Isand in population, and
below Florida In territory. Compositely, there
fore, 1t is the least of the States.
vhs Governor.
Tho Governor recently had his salary raised
after hard 6gh'. 1t ia now two thousand dol
lars. He practisss medicine in all the country
round about Dover, and the gig of this high
Executive may be seen at all hours Of the night
going in the solitary way of country doctor 10
farm houses and cross roads. The Governor is a
Methodist, attends the revivals, pitches his tent
at camp.meeting, and is democratic from prn-
ciples 10 prescriptions. He is Cove Sauls.
bury, brother to Willard, the Senator. Aud it
your printers should think that Cove is an
abbreviation of Governor, aud so set it, may
they speedily come to the pillory.
Secretary of state.
To be live Secretary of State is within the
province OF the honest young man in this great
Commonwealth. The officer, owing to the soft.
ening influence Of Democratic institutions, does
not grow proud on The princely salary of $lOO
a year. This salary is purposeIy set high to
distinguish him in rank above the schoo
teachers of Kent county, the average of whom
receive $76 quarter of three MONTHS and so
away from school the rest of the year.
State Librarian.
The custodian of the vast and antique library
collection of the State, very valuable in old
parchments and the letters and speeches of John
dickinson and Caesar Rodney, receives some
NH Lace ha nf CI.fn
because it is thought that if he is overpaid he
will oVereat himself, and relax his vigilance over
the library. His salary is 5000 year, enough in
all conscience when we consider that three spar
rows are sCid for farthing.
Supreme Court.
The Supreme bench OF the State is set as high
or higher than the Governor in salary. There
are four or five judges, all gorged and pleo-
thoric men, who are busted to find means to
spend their incomes. Indigestion follows, of
course, aud bouRdless profigacy. 1t was owing,
no doubt, to the popular feeling against the
extravagant salaries of the judges, that the
Legislature refused to send Judge Wotten to
the United States Senate, and despatched there
willard Salisbury, the standing advertisement
TO the melloWne OF Delaware rye.
The Revenue.
The revenue Of the State Is chiefly derived from
the per capita tax imposed upon all stranger!
who pass over the two rail ways of Della ware.
This per capita is not charged to people buying
tickets for any station within the limits Of the
State; but to folks who are compelled 10 tax. in
DelsAEare and its course on q long journey. New
Jersey has been pretty soundly treated for
sweating the foreigner; but Delaware, in a less
degree Is her accompllce. Every time You buy
ticket from New York or Philadelphia to Bal
timore or Washington, you pay the vast Com
monwealth OF Delaware one dime. The reVenuo
thus received amounts to seven thousand dollars
a mon'h, the larger part OF the revenue OF Della
ware. This way of paying your expenses by
erecting toll-gate for your neigsbors, must
commend itself to every ingenious and selfish
mind. If we all adopt it, we shall all be even
and the bad business of going from home will
be stopped. i have been about fifty times to
Warrington, so that must have paid the State
of Delaware enough money to whip at least
four men. Thus do we assist justice, "as we
sail, as we SAIL"
State Legislature.
There are nine State Senators IN Delaware
who meet iu the comfortable bed chamber Of
the State Capitol building. The Assembymen
are situated within easy ear-shot of the whip
ping. post, which is, in fact, just under their
windows. These latter are twenty-one in mum
Ter, and, In common with the Senators, they
receive five dollars day.
News.
The peach crop is total failure over the
whole Peninsula. This fact is gilmore detriment
to the State than you imagine. 1t will prevent
the BUILDING of the Delaware Bay, Dover and
State Line Railroad, which is to connect poin;
In the bay opposite Dover with the Chesapeake
bay, at the small expense of 100000. AT the
point named (Mahon's ditch) there is the making
OF a port for vessels drawing twelve feet OF
water at low tide. Delaware bay has no port of
consequence at present, and the port contem-
| plated would be of great value to her interests
Tom Bayard is to be run for United States
Senator. If elected we shall very nearly see the
| spectacle OF father and son Senators at the same
time, and similar event will happen If Simon
| Cameron succeeds in putting his son Dan INTO