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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28

Startling scene In the Court.

HON. THOMAS EWING SUDDENLY FALLS WHILE
PLEADING A CASE IN THE U. s. SUPREME
COURT.
There was scene of much interest and
alarm in the Supreme Court, now at Wash
ington, on Friday.
Mr.. Philips had opened the argument ir
case in which Thomas Ewing, ST., had
had been counsel for twenty five years, and
was followed by Mr. Carlisle. Mr.. Ewing
had listened with more than usual attention
to Mr.. Philips, and seemed to be much ex-
cited by that gentleman's argument. MIR.
Ewing in reply to Mr.. Philips, spoke with
more energy than he had displayed for
years. After speaking for twenty minutes
The complained of indisposition, and asked
permission, which was promptly granted,
to sit while continuing his argument. He
attempted to proceed with ii, but fell from
his chair unconscious. The court was final
ly adjourned, and the court officers and law
yers present, hurried To his side, and the
judges soon approached with marked ankle
ty TO ascertain his condition. Cushions
were quickly brought from the benches, of
which bed was made 70, him on the floor.
In the course OF fifteen minutes his con-
seriousness returned, when he was removed
to the room O: tine clerk Of the court. PLY
sicians were summoned, who pronounced
his ailment to he exhaustion IF the vigUr of
the heart, and two or three hours passed be-
fore that organ fully resumed its functions.
In the meantime the members of his fam
lily and other relatives were apprised of his
critical condilion-among them his two sons
Thomas and Charles, his daughter and Gen.
eral Sherman, his son-in-law. Mr.. Ewing
will he SO years of age in December. His
physician pronounces him out of danger.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28

A PROFESSOR in the Divinity School at
Harvard University has written to the Pro-
prietors of the New York Revolution re-
oues,inc them to send their paper TO the
School rratuitously, or to name the lowest
price for IT. The Reyolution treats the re-
onest as something upprccedented and grants
it with Insulting remarks which show that
ladv.l,ke language is not considered essential
IN the nroner conduct of the Reyolution.
The philadelphia Press takes up the sub.
;ect and makes il the occasion for nearly n
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28
NUMBER 147.

A BOYS OPINION OF NEW York Courts.
In New York on Tuesday, as a lady was
walking down Eight avenue, two young
thieves made grab for her watch chain, a
pieece of jewelry worth $3.50, and succeeded
in getting possession OF it. The lady held
on 10 her watch and seized one of the young
ruffians, but the scamp beat her so severely
that she was forced to let him go. Subse-
quently they were both arrested and on
Wednesday morning arranged before JUS
tice Dodge. The youngest of this brace of
rogues was precocous little william. He
quizzed the clerk of the court, insulted the
witnesses, and endeavcred to bully the
Judge. The chief witness against the boys
was little Jewish girl. The circumstances
was seized upon by the impudent young ras-
cal as point for his defence, which he con-
Quoted as follows, according to the Com
nercidl.
''Look O. here, Judge" said he, s'are you
agoin' to take that girls evidence against us?
Why, she don't know the nature of an oath
she don't. She can't swear-she can't.
Why. il Joe and me was afore Bowling he'd
discharge us in minute-he would. He
knows something-he does, but / knew just
how it would be if they brought us here"
On his companion trying to interfere, the
youngster ''shut him up" with the sage re-
mark, ''You jest keep still-I've been up be-
fore"-a fact not to be doubted. He gave
his age as "Twelve, goin' on thirteen and
when Judge Dodge persisted in committing
them, he sagely remarked. "Never mind,
Joe, we won't be there long; McCunn will
give us writ. That's the way got out
afore!" With which consolatory reflection
he walked cooly off
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28

MISUNDERSTANDING is woman's one
career, let women rebel against the edict as
they may and though there may be word
rebellion here and there, women learn the
truth early in their lives. And women know
II later In life when they think of their girls;
nd men know II, to, when they have to deal
Gith their daughters. Girls, too, now &C.
knowledge aloud that they have learned the
lesson ,and Saturday RevieWers and others
blame them for their lack of modesty in do
ing so-most unreasonably, most uselessly,
and, as far as the influence of such censors
may 20, most pcrniciously. Nature prompts
NE desire, the world acknowledges its ubi-
qniiy, circumstances show that it is reascna-
BILE, the whole theory Of creation requires it;
but il is required that the person most con-
cerned should falsely repudiate it, in order
that q mock modesty may be main
tanned in which the human being
can believe Such is the theory Of
the censors who deal heavily with
our English women of the present day. Our
daughters should be educated to be wives,
but, forsooth they should never wish to be
wooed The very idea is but a remnant of
the tawdry sentimentality of an age in which
the mawkish insipidity Of the women was
the reaction from the vice of that preceding
it. That our girls are in quest of husbands,
and know what way their lines in life should
be laid, is a fact which none can dispute.
Let men be taught to recognize the same
truth as regards themselves, and we shall
cease to hear of the necessity of new Ca
reer for women.-FrOnl The VICAR OF Bull
HAMPTON, in the November number of
Lippiacotfs Magazine.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28

Some of the Democratic papers of Missls-
sippi are hard on Dent. A writer in the
Canton Citizen, says "Louis Dent stands
to-day, as rightfully as any man ever did, a
legitimate object of the disgust with which
all true men regard the adventurer from the
North, who seeks TO earn his bread at the
South, as trading politician. That Califor-
mia Justice of the Peace had but one pur-
pose in following Butler, under the pretence
of growing sugar in Louisiana-had but the
same purpose when following Grant, under
the pretence of planting cotton in Mississip-
pl-that simply of speculation in public
offices. That adventurer-claim agent of
Washington city, whether technically resi-
dent or nonresident of this State-though
he be annointed with all the oil of the
Jackson hierarchy, is neither more nor less
than the best example that has yet been pre-
sented to the Southern people of all that is
Justly execrable in the profession of the
arpet-bagger
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28

NEWSPAPER ENTERPRIsE AMONG THE CoLoREp
PKoPLE.-An enterprise Is now on foot among
the leading colored mea of the country to start a
newspaper as tho organ of the people, to be pub
lished in Washington, under the management of
the best colored talent of the country
The paper will be devoted to the labor educa-
tlonal and political interests Of the colored people
Three well-kuown and energetic colored men
are now canvasslng in the interest Of the paper.
Having received this impetus the enterprise bids
fair tn supcepd
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28
TILE DEEEA T0F IL

We hail with hearty satisfaction the de-
feat of Andrew johnson, as candidate for
the United States Senate from Tennessee.
Did we view 1t merely from partisan stand
point, we would have desired Mr.. johnson s
election, because we believe he would have
could have done nothing more than annoy
our own; but believing now, as we did
during the trial, that Andrew johnson was
guilty of the crimes of which he stood i'm
peachcd, and knowing him to be a STAINLESS
corrupt bargainer, violent demagogue, and
q political trickster we feel that his election
would have been shame and disgrace to
the Republic, our rejoicing.
But while we rejoice in his defeat we are
unable to account for it, If all the agencies
of corruption he brought to bear to secure
his election failed without any counterbal-
ancing efforts of similar character on the
other side, and so much virtue, of for the love
Of virtue,is found in the present Legislature
of Tennessee, then is human nature much
slandered in these latter days and men are
better than they seem. We have more hope
9f Tennessee than we have had since the
late reactionary revolution set in.
Henry Cooper, Johnsons successful COM
petitor, is said to be man of ability, and to
have been union man during the war. We
do not know anything of him, but as lie was
elected by a coalition ofthe Republicans and
the Conservatives, we are led to hope he is
better man than Emerson Etheridge. Be
he who he may, he is better than Johnson,
for the latter is the worst man politically in
this country and has incurred in the politi-
cal world what the Catholics call in church
matters, "the note of infamy." We hope,
now that he has been condemned in the
tribunal of his own choosing and slaughtered
in the house of his friends, that we shall heal
no more of him, and that he will never
again draw the slime cf his presence across
the page of our history.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28
ANOTHER REASON FOR PENN
SULAR UNION

The democratic party of Maryland is now
almost split In two by conflicting railroad in
terests. We, Of course, do not regard any
mishap to that party organization matter
for regret, but we presume its members
would deem division in Its ranks public
calamity. What then must be the feelings
of the Eastern Shore democrats in view of
the present crisis. Their beloved party is
threatened with division and defeat through
a conflict of interest between people, inter-
ests and corporations of the Western Shore
exclusively and the Eastern Shore people
are unwillingly dragged into contest in
which they have not the shadow of a per-
sonal or political interest.
Could better illustration be offered of the
absurdity of the present political union Of
the eastern and western shores We can
not too often impress it on our readers of
both political parties that there is no real
identity of interests between any portion of
this peninsula and that portion of Maryland
west of the Chesapeake bay, and the sooner
the present unnatural alliance between such
widely sundered territory is broken, and the
Peninsula made one State, the better it will
be for all interested.
1t would be better for Western Maryland,
as its people would not then be made to feel
The calling interference of Eastern Shore
politicians in affairs which do not concern
them, and in regard to which they are there
fore untitled to judge wisely, while it would
be infinitely better for the Peninsula to be
one State with homogeneous people, whose
interests are identical than to be divided up
as at present under three Jurisdictions. We
believe the people of the peninsula are in
avor Of Peninsuar Union, and we hope that
after the present exciting political campaign
shall have ended that practical measures
will be taken to give this feeling definite
form and expression.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28

Comparative txpeUses Of Sepu blIc cenism
and DemOcE acy,

The Chicago Tribune gives some appo-
site illustrations of the comparative expen-
siveness of Republican and Democratic
State Governments. Maryland. a Demo-
cratic State, and Iowa, Republican State,
are the opposing examples selected. The
first spends two and half millions year
and has debt of nearly twelve millions.
The second spends considerably less than q
million, and has no debt. There is nothing
surprising in this exhibit, nor in the fact
stated that the public institutions of Iowa
are infinitely better than those of Maryland.
But these things are stern comment upon
inetficiency aud corruption which seem to be
nseparable from Democratic rule in these
days. That rule means corrupt neglect of
public duty and the public interests. The
party exercising it deliberately adopts repu-
diation as one Of its war cries, and would If
possible, reopen old issues on the side of
slavery and national disruption. What
wonder that the example Of the Democratic
party, as afforded by its avowed leaders,
should be initiated by individual States
where it is in the ascendant.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28
n NEW BLOW AT POPULAR
RIGHTS

There are already indications that should
the democrats gain the ascendency in any of
the southern States they will attempt to
evade the intended operation of the Fifteenth
Amendment by making educational and pro-
perty tests us conditions to the exercise of
the right of suffrage. We called attention
to the lameness of the Constitutional amend
ment in this respect while it was pending,
and many Congressman also saw the defect
and attempted to remedy it, but their efforts
in this direction were defeated by northern
republicans who themselves favor such tests.
There is lamentable lack of right under
standing of the character of this right in our
own party as well as amongst our oppo-
nents. Men will, like our Delaware Demo-
Gratis, insist on considering it privilege
which it is within the power of the State to
withhold or extend; never pausing to ask
What is the State? That question alone,
pushed to its legitimate answer, will show
absurdity of their proposition, and demon
strate that if they deny the right of every
mature sane and law-abiding citizen to q
voice in the government which claims his
obedience and support, they knock the bot
tom out of government by the people and
allow their mythical State" TO be anything
between a so-called democratic republic
and an unlimited monarchy. II ten thous-
and men may arrogate to themselves supe-
rior wisdom, and on account OF their as
sumption claim to be "the state" and have
i .t. u:..l,t a., anptrol tho =, nd nprsnua
of even one thousand, whom they deem too
ignorant to be consulted, without that minori-
ty's consent, then one thousand have right
on account of their assumed or real supe-
Iiority to the ten thousand TO treat them in
the same manner, and so on, until the wisest
man has right to rule alone. The same
principle will hold good all the way through
the only difference between the claim by
] 10, 900 of the right to rule 1000 and by 1O0C
! of the right to govern 10000 being that the
former have the power and the latter have
aot. So our boastcd government Of justice
; becomes after all one merely Of brute force
Republicans may pooh pooh! this idea
as much as they choose, 1t is the reasonable
! and logical result of regarding suffrage as
' privileges instead of right and there is nj
G escaping it. That suffrage is ndturo
e right IS true, or else there is no wrong il
It monarchy, aristocracy, or oligarchy. Mei
d have this right because they are men, o
G else they have 1t not at all, and there i
# nothing more stable as basis ofgovernmen
@ than caprice, accident, and brute force, OF
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28
SHALL NEW YORK R0UGHS RULE THIS
REPUBLiCf

Horace Greeley has written letter to
Samuel j. Tilden, Chairman of the New
York Democratic State Committce,in in which
he lays on that gentleman's shoulders the
responsibility of the frauds committed by
his party, if he allows their further con-
tinuance. To show the character and ex-
tent of the frauds, he compares the vote OF
the four lower Wards of New York in lS4o,
in the exciting Presidential contest between
Van Buren, and Harrison, and in 1865, In
the gubernatorial contest between Grlswold
and Hoffman. He contends that these
Wards are now so fully given up to busi-
ness purposes that their actual resident pop
ulation is very little, if any, larger now
than it was thirty years ago, and yet, In
1910, the vote of the four Wards named
was as follows: Harrison, 4,7s3; Van Bu-
rem. 5,52l. In 1868, 1t wss Griswo'd, 2,sio'
Hoffman, 20, 2s3-Hoffman's majority H.
443.
Mr.. Greeley continues as follows:
Mr.. Tilden, you know what this contrast
attests. Right well do you comprehenh the
means whereby the vote Of 1868 was thus
swelled out of all proportions. There are
not Twelve Thousand legal voters living In
those Wards to day. though they gave Hoff-
man l7.443 majority Had the day been OF
average length, it would doubtless have
been sweled to at least Twenty Thousand.
There was nothing but time needed TO make
il One Hundred Thousand, if 50 many had
been wanted and paid for.
Such an exhibit of wholesale fraud as
this should startle the whole nation. 1t is
not merely question whether such frauds
shall be allowed to defeat the popular will SO
far as the city and State of New York are
concerned, but whether they shall be allow
ed to reverse the decision of the people OF the
whole Republic. The frauds in these -four
wards could, and doubtless did, change the
electoral vote of the State, and in any closely
contested Presidential election the thirty
three electoral votes of New York State
would decide the contest. The question
then is shall New York roughs rule thi'
nation? We cannot afford to hold off q
disinterested spectators, with the feeling tina
"n's none OF our funeral" for it Is the pre-
liminary to the funeral of popular govern
mept If 1t 90 on unchecked. If New Yoil
is to cheat President into office, what is U
prevent Chicago from attempting to max
the thing even by cheating him out, an
where would the corruption enda The cit
of New York is a political and financial sor
on the national body polite, and if th
"decent" people, like Mr.. Tilden, will nj
purify it themselves, the Republic shoul
adopt means to preserve itself from u
effects and contagon of such corruption.
the power to do this does not reside in Il
National Government, then one of the O
iects for which the Union was formed HI
failed of accomplishment, and the people
the nation should put it there.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28
The PhiIadelpI,ia Post

Speaks with on air of much certainty in regard
to the claim of the heirs of John Ross, the
Cherokee Chief, for indennifcation for losses
during the war. We were once quite familiar
with this whole subject, but have so far forgotten
Its details that we would not attempt any positive
statements now, though we have very firm I'M
preston that John Ross was an l-used man and
that the Post Is mistaken in several respects. We
doubt very much il the Chiefs family was left as
well off as the Post intimates; but whether they
were or not docs not affect the justice of their
claima
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28

The silly story that the General Post Of
fee would pay certain sum generally
stated vt $4,000 to any person who would
produce in one lot a milton Of cancelled
post Office stamps, has be-l afoat for the
past eight or ten years, and contradiction
does not seem to put a quietus to it, ridicu-
lous as it is. The department receives re-
peated inquiries respecting the subject, and
it is not n great while siuce lady applied
with $4,000 cancelled stamps, desiring to
obtain pro rata amount of the $500.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28
1elalvare Tribnlte
Thursday, october as, 1869.

THE NEW York HERALD states that expec-
tations are entertained In some quarters OF
rupture between General Grant and Con-
gress, and says, s'he who builds on this foun-
"dation is, we think, building upon the
''sand." Just SO. The Republican party
was never more firmly united, nor more tho
roughly disciplined than now. The recent
elections demonstrated this more fully than
we had dared hope.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28

Governor Baldwin, of Michigan, has ap-
pointed November 18th as day of thanks
giving.
A deficiency of over $4,000 is reported
in the accounts of the late City Treasurer of
New Brunswick, N. J.
Additional Japanese advices state that a
railroad is to be built from Kabe to Osaca,
and u telegraph from Yeddo to Yokahama.
1t is said that Mr.. Johnston, one of the
Senators elect from Virginia, and Mr.. Glib
son, one of the Representatives elect, are
politically disabled by the Fourteenth
Amendment.
The schooner Mary" of Jonesport, Me-,
has been found abandoned and water
logged, on Nantucket Shoals. A dead sailor
was lashed to the rigging, and the rest of the
crew were doubtless lost.
The safe in the Eastern Railroad depot, at
Manchester, Mass, was taken from the
building on Thursday night, and robbed of
$500. A large quantity OF railroad tickets
were taken, and scattered along the railroad.
Exports of the United States during the
last fiscal year aggregated $4l3, ,954,6 ,625. OF
this amount $l3s, 20i .636 went In American
vessels. and $275, 752, $50 in foreign vessels.
The re-exports amounted to $25, l73,4l4.
The bones of six men and forty y-six horses,
supposed to be the remains of party lost
from Fremonts exploring expedition, twen-
ty years ago, were discovered in South-wes-
tern Colorado, by mountaineers, few days
since.
Two negroes were found hidden on board
the brig Kennebec, which arrived at Port
land, Me-, from Cardenas. 1t was thought
they were escaped slaves, and they were
taken from the captain and set at large by
order of the Court.
An armed mob is endeayoring to prevent
the collection of taxes In jackson and
Washington Counties, Florida. The State
tax collector and his wife have been muir
dered in Washington county, and seven muir
ders are reported in Jackson county.
An Omaha despatch confirms the report
that twelve surveyors, under Nelson Bush,
were murdered by Indians recently, ON the
Republican river. A mail coach was at
tackled by Indians in New Mexico, or Octo-
Der 9th, and the driver, Col Stone, and four
| soldiers acting as escort were killed. News
| of the massacre having been sent to Apache
the savages and killed twelve of them.
The Dorchester Ne,Os, one of the Demo-
cratic organs of Dorchester county, says in
its issue Of last week:
g A gentleman from Caroline county in
formed us few days ago that the farmers
there had pettioned their County Commits
sioners to buy their fertilizers. The petit
tion stated that the lands would not grow
wheat without guano, and the Collectors
took all their wheat to pay their taxes and
they thought the county ought to buy the
manure to raise the wheat with"
Such is the effect OF Democratic rule in
the counties. There is not Republican
office holder IN Caroline, and the taxes have
been SO increased that the taxpayers are
impoverished
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28

Mr. A. Morton, the well-known gold
pen manufacturer, died October 18th, in
New York, aged 80.
"A man recently bought music stool at
an auction, but brought it back shortly af-
tcrward saying that it would not play sim
gle toon.
The Republicans of one of the New
York Senatorial Districts balloted two hun
dred and six times for candidate before q
choice was effected. There were four can
didaies.
A writer in Macmllan's Magazine states
it as fact that the master of a certain Sun
day Ragged School in London has to let the
children cut in time to pick the pockets Of
the people leaving the church, or else lose
his pupils.
After the recent food in Hartford a large
pumpkin field in that city presented singu-
lar appearance. The treshet covered the
field with six feet of water, and the pump.
kins were anchored by their stems and bob
bing costly up and down. The surface Of
two acres Of water was completely covered
with them.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28

Writes from this city to the Delawarean about
the contested election case In Council. and re-
ports the stale falsehood that giving all the votes
in dispute to Mr.. Pluuket T. the 10 missing
onesl Mr.. Dillon would still have had majority
of two. We have explained that exactly the
contrary Is the case often enough to make 1t un-
derstood, and the correspondent OF our Dover
neighber simply hes.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-28

Colored voters likely TO be added to tho Republi-
can party In this State, by the adoption of the
Fifteenth Amendment, arc already beginning to
exercise the minds Of one of the democratic semi
weeklies. The republicans contemplate the
change with Herene aaiisfactlnn