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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-13
Chinese Importation md Isnilroud I.nnd
Grants.


t1.=lI-' % %"n'e. ~"
SENSIBLE LETTER FROM Hon. w1i. D. KELLEY.
The following letter was read, among others,
at the Anti-Coolio meeting, in Philadelphia, OIL
Wednesday evening =
pHILADELrHrA, October L. 1870.
GENTLEMEN Yours of the 30th ultimo, on
behalf of the Trades Unions Anti-Coolie League,
shas been received. In pursuance of the object
of your appointment, You propose the following
questions -
First, Ii elected, will you vote to prohibit the
importation, under the contract system or other
wise of Coolie labor in the United States and
Second Will you vote to preserve the Public
Lands to actual settlers, and prohibit their gift
to corporations, for speculative purposes
To the first question my reply is, that will
and that in doing so l will he but giving express
sion to my long settled and often expressed
convictions.
To the second question l also answer, that !
will. On this point, frankness, and Justice to
the people of the Southern st ates and Territories
requires me to make one reservation. Grants
of lands have been made to aid in the constric-
ton of two railroads. by one of which New
England and the extreme Northern States will
have direct and speedy intercourse with the
Pacific Slope and its seaports and by the other
of which the Middle States already enjoy these
advantages. The people of the South have
equal rights in the public lanls an1 to govern
ment aid in tho opening Of their country to
commercial intercourse by tile construction OF
roads by which the emigrants from the North oi
elsewhere may reach it for settlement. Ii the
grant asked for sncii purpose be moderate in
quantity and 10 restricted that the land shall be
sold only in limited quantities to actual settlers
and at government prices, will vote for it. This
is the only grant will vote VI, and it shall not
have my support unless TIE grant be. u my
Judgment, moderate, and the bill contain the
restrictions above stated.
Imake this exception in Justice to the people
of the Southern States and because by extend-
ing railroad facilities to New Mexico anl Arizon
we will open those rich AMI : !abrious territories
to access and occupation by the surplus laborers
of the cities, and the yonng aud enterprising
men who may desire to avail themselves of the
homestead law in that richly endowed section of
our country. Very respectfully yours,
WILLIAM ID. KELLEY.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-13

A bold adyertiser-IIelmbold.

A bold advertiser -IIembold
"a big whopper"--Joln Whopper. See
cold and New"
-Nox that generally knocks thinss-Equi-
noX.
"A "hisli old city Shanghai,
A boy at Rockford, ILL.,, claims to have been
christenel "Star spangled Banner" Long may
he wave.
/ The Rhine hat is the latest tile. 1t isn't
watered silk
The popular air just now, with the mails in
Paris, is " Up in Balloon"
--Frcncl poetry -Re-yerses. Tic poetry of
notion" you understand
john Allen, Tho Wickedest Man in New
York" died last week. But if some of the pot-
ical papers tell the truth, We are bound to be-
lieve that couple OF wickedester men" still
live there-and they are running for Governor OF
the State
A tre-eater" il not alway ,rarm friend
to his country.
If the German towns are NJ hard to capture
as the names of some Of them are to pronounce,
we can readily understand why the French are
not more successful
A new religious magazine, the Examiner, is
| puDislHifp sofiil btuly Way thiNn6o.
1t is founded ON fact-the author being in that
city when the news was received that the White
Stockings had defeated the Red ditto
| g Turkey alarmed" is the caption of all
article in all exchange. Inasmuch as Thanks
giving Day comes next month, we are not sur
prised that Turkey is alarmed.
"A A"personal" in a N. Y, daily week ago,
stated that .'if John Smith, formerly of Phiadel-
phia will call at No-Dlank street, he will heal
something to his advantage" John called There
was about $50 of him,-and lie has been calling
at the rate of forty-seven per day, ever since thu
"personal" appeared.
We should no longer object to Chinese i'm
portation. George Francis Train is going t.
China, and nothing less til an the immediate ar
; rival OF seven hundred thousand Coolies vii
equaliae the :. '.iuhiction sore. a long time W
bore"
"A friend of ours, wi,h but oaa suit to hi
back (Which is enons'i FOR Wy reasonable man
became an editor recently, and now lie has thre
suits. Two of them arc libel suits
Edwin Booth is in Chicago, playing nigh
and morning, and the Chicagoans seem to lils
it. 1t is Bulwers might and Morning" that h
| ID pioyihb.
The season young ladies' like best-the ba
+ and opera season. ..,-.....a
j, 1t is said the Chinese are slow at maxim
, bargains but rather fast at making shoes.
q According to recent Developments, all til
n sausage-makers in Jersey City are "going
:, the dogs"-for meat with which to mai
bolognas.
james Speed has been nominated for Coz
10 gress by the Republicans in the Fifth kentucl
II District. II there is anything in name, spec
" should run well.
III What is the matter with the poets? He
is week of the tenth month already gone, al
10 we don't remember to have seen more thi
about sixty poems on October"
,ir "A Gable dispatch reiterates the report tll
ns Deauregard is in the French service. We ney
yn doubled it, for in no other way can we accou
IN for ie many French reverses.
TO Although bitter enemies, the French adm
that the Germans are talking" people.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-13
1elalvare Tribnlle
Thursday, October 13, 1870.
THE "wHITE MANS PARTY" FRAUD Ex-
POSED RY SAM TOWNSEND. III

We all remember how, OH the 5th Of May, las
past, Mr.. Samuel Townsend, and some twent,
other enthusiastic, but misguided, mon, met a
Dover to form % White Mans Party" They
repaired to Dover, in the anticipation that al
+ the State would send grand delegations, SO thai
multitudes should surround the State House
olamoring for whteess and denouncing color.
Thoy assembled and found themselves silent
and alone, with cold and sepulchral welcome
from those to whom they had looked for syInpa-
thy and aid. It was no wonder that Mr.. Town
send became profane, although, as he states in
a recently issued circular, somewhat of a
Quaker" ".4
But, in this circular, Mr. T. shows up the
falseness and lollowness OF the Dover leaders.
He had had "freouent conversations" with them
They unhesitatingly agreed" that it would be
best to drop the name " Democrat" and join in
tho formation of "White Mans Party" Mr.
Bayar,l spoke at Smyrna OH tho subject, and Col
Jesse sharpe of this city, was highly in favor of
the moyemement, and promised he would at
tend the Dover meeting.
But after all this encouragement, after all these
pretenses that the Dover Dukes and Prince Bayard
and Colonel Jesse, and many others would
DIN with Samuel in tho decent burial of Grip
pied old Democracy, and tho safe delivery of a
perfect white-skinned political infant, all those
gentlemen deceived--basely deceived--thc wor-
thy and impetous Emperor of the Peach Trade
As for the Dover gentlemen, Samuel declares
they were hid, like rats, in their cellars, or
somewhere else.p They did not even venture
forth to take a drink, for fear Samuel would
catch them-as he surely would. A :" more
Sunday-like day" he never saw, iii Dover. The
quiet was SO intense that you could almost have
heard the State taxes dropping dollar by dollar
into the pockets of the Sausburys. AS for the
Prince of the House of Bayard, probably he was
reading French book on miscegenation, or pos
sibly tracing his geneaogy back to the Chevaer
sans pe,r et sans rsproel,e, and Col Sharpe
,nav have heeu so busy copyinr the assessment
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-13

THEIR MANUFACTURE IN THIS CITY.

Messrs. Hayes & Rice have recently added
largely to the manufacturing facilities of their
cigar and tobacco manufactory at the N. E. cor.
of Second and French streets. and it is now the
largest establishment of the kind in the State.
In the basement of their building is the boiler
room, and their store room for leaf tobacco. On
the first floor is their store and also, their
factory, though the floor of the latter is raised
several feet higher than that of the store to give
more room for their store-room below. In this
room is the machinery for manufacturing smo-
king and fine-cut chewing tobacco. The gram
ulated" smoking tobacco is run through ma
chine, which tears it up and sfts it to theproper
fineness, but the process is comparatively slow
one, and would not do for the cheaper qualities
of tobacco. The g out-and-dred" tobacco, for
smoking, and the g fine-cut' chewing tobacco,
are prepared by machine very different, and
which does its work with great rapidity. The
rough tobacco is pressed closely together in a
roll several inches thick which is slowly press
ed forward to meet a rapidly revolving knife,
which shaves it off into stringy strips. The
smoking tobacco is carefully and slowly dried by
a slow fire in machine prepared for the pur-
pose, and is packed by girls ready for shipment
In the second story is the cigar manufacturing
room and rooms for drying cigars and packing
tobacco. The cigars are made by hand in the
room for smoking tobacco and Cigar Box fac
tory conducted by Mr.. ]. NJ. Pennington.
The firm turns out now 25, 900 cigars a week Of
qualities varying from $15. to $50, per thousand
as to be able to turn out 81, 900 week.
In their tobacco factory they. manufacture
fine cut chewing tobacco and granulated
and cut and dried smoking tobacco
their machinery having capacity for turning
out3OO0 lbs. per day. They manufacture smoking
tobacco extensively for jobbers and retailers in
this city and in Philadelphia New York and
other cities and also manufacture largely of
their own brands for sales to all parts of the
country. Their tobacco factory is very complete
with improved machinery driven by steam and
every possible facility for cheap and rapid man
ufacture. They are also centrally located be-
tween the tobacco producing districts Of Connec-
ticut and North Carolina, Pennsylvania and vir-
ginia, and from the large importers Of New York
and Baltimore and these advantages added to
that of cheaper labor here than in the large
cities enable them to sell lower than manu-
featuring establishments in those cities as is
evident by the large number Of orders they are
filling for Philadelphia and New York. Their
building is finely adapted to their business and
is now heated throughout by steam.
The firm is comprised Of young and enter
prising men who unite pluck and energy to other
advantages mentioned above so that we lmay
safely predict rapid increase Of their already
fiOufislinr husuess
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-13

pELrnEnArE MURDER IN EAsroN, MI

DEllBERATE MURDER IN EASrOSt NIL.
At about o'clock on Sunday morning, End
inst, colored woman named Emeline Handy
was murdered in the kitchen Of Franklin g.
Wright's residence, in Easton, where she was
employed as a servant
The alarm was given by colored woman who
heard screaming in the kitchen. Several people
Immediately rushed to the place, and found the
woman lying on the kitchen floor, in pool Of
her own blood with her skull fractured in two
places, and life almost extinct. A hatchet and
posed the wounds had been inflicted The
woman died before the arrival Of physician,
who was asimmediately sent for.
The woman who gave the first alarm stated
that a few minutes before she heard the screams
she saw colored man, named Frederick
Lawrence, enter the kitchen with covered bas-
ket on his arm, and shortly afterwards leave 1t.
He had formerly lived with the deceased as
her husband, bnt had been separated from her
for some time, and was believed to be the muir
derer. Two colored men, named Robert Stanton
and Daniel Valley, Immediately started In pur-
suit of the supposed murderer, arrested him,
and delivered him to the authorities, by whom
he was at once committed to Jail to await the
exhamination.
A coroners jury was at once summoned, and
heard considerable testimony, which appeared
to point very positively to Lawrence as the
murderer, and they rendered the following
verdict
sThat the said Emeline Handy, colored came
to her death from a blow or blows by deadly
instrument, believed to be an ak or hatchet, in
the hands of a certain Frederick Lawrence, col
ored man. on the morning of Sunday, October
End, 1870, in the kitchen of Mr.. F. G.. Wright, in
the town of Easton."
The Easton Star, from which we take the above
particulars thus describes the prisoner -
Lawrence is about forty-fve years old, dark
chestnut color, five feet six inches tall, short
hair wrnhled face, and has not a very bad coun-
tenance is represented as having bad temper;
was raised by the late Stephen Harrison, of
Long Point st. Michaes district. and belonged
to the late VIM. Henry Harrison, before he was
emancpated by the constitution of 1864, and
has been living in and about Easton for the last
five years, part of the time with Thomas j.
(larl, Esn
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-13
THERUIN OF OUR RsTATK-DEM0CRATs TEs
THY TO DEMOCRATIC CORRUPTION.


And now-after years of conceament beneatl
exterior questions-the people Of the State car
view the condition of their own affairs. From
this time till the 9Th of November the issues OF
the campaign in Delaware are on their proper
basis. We have the situation stripped of con-
cealment, and the oorruptions and extravagances
of Ring Itule lie exposed before the people.
Ruin stdres the State in gte Face
We say this, not alone on our own authority,
| for we now have the testimony Of witnesses
naturally unwilling. Democrats-men of high
position in their party-are testifying, to-day, to
| the corruptions and extravagances Of those who
rule their party, and who for years have gathered
into the clutch of a narrow circle the control of
| the State. The Democratic Party, Of Delaware,
| says John A. Nicholson, of Dover, (who for four
years preceding the 4t of March 1866, represented
| his party in Gongress) !" is disgraced and dis
honored" Tho leaders " have deftly concealed
their own wrong-doing from the masses" till at
last like the Yelled Prophet of Khorassan, the
mask has been torn from those leaders faces
and they stand revealed In all their hideous
deformity.
These arc the statements of Mr.. Nicholson.
Read his speech, made at the Democratic meet
ing at Dover, for more testimony. Men have
been elected to office from his party, he de-
clares who are totally unfit and incapable to
discharge their duties. 1t is no wonder, then,
that Mr.. Ridgley, another lifelong Democrat,
who stands in the front rank Of his party, should
have to tell the results of this fatal policy. The
affairs OF the State, he cries, $50 on, from bad TO
norse." Minor expenses of the Legislature, that
in 1868, reached but $4,000, are in 1862 increas-
ed to ocer eight thousand four hundred dollars.
The expenses of whole session Of the Legisla-
ture were, a few years ago, but $4,000. To-day,
under these corruptions and extravagances,
Hty are orer thirty thousand dollars!
But, further, says this witness from out of the
fore front Of the Democratic party, the Treasury
of the State is empty, or nearly 30. How then,
he pertinently asks, must it become when the
drain upon it, forthe expenses OF the Legislature,
begins? II it is bare OF funds, now, with no
demands upon it, how shall it be supplied when
demands come?
And where, too, have the revenues gone that
should have filled it? The Railroad Company,
for five years, paid into it $1,000 a month, or
$4,000 more per annum tlan the interest on the
public debt. Where did that surplus go? asks
Mr.. Ridgley. Let the Democrats of the State,
as well as the Republicans, echo that question.
Still, again, another Democrat testfes, in the
person of Mr.. Watson, of Milford. Ho calls on
his party to shake OF The oppression and degra-
iation which for years have weighed it down.
The county taxes of Kent county have
increased from thirty cents per 300, OIL
a valuation of 80 900 900 to d8 cents on a yalua-
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-13

oun AMERICAN MECHANICS AGAINST THE wonlr

oUp AMERICAN MECHANICS AGAINST THE WORLD
[From the Philada. North American, Oct. ST.
So far from being protected out of existence,
American shipbuilding has taken to the very line
in which English skill has achieved its triumphs
over us-ron vessels--and is making rapid and
gratifying progress therein. 1t was the want
Of protection against the depredations of rebel
cruisers that caused the greatest decline in our
marine, and it was the want of protection against
British lines of subsidized steamers that trans
ferred to them the monopoly of the carrying
trade. But 30 far from our having lost the the
ory Of shipbuilding, the Wyanoke, one of the
many nf,r iron steamers built ON the Delaware.
proves the contrary. The Wyanoke is ship OF
206S tons burdens, seaworthy in all respects,
Another rDelaware-builtir iron steamer, the Georgia
is of 1913 tons and 800 horse power first class
seagoing steamer. If the Bulletin knows any
| New York shipping merchants who want iron
steamers built, and have the means to pay for
| them, or whose credit is good, it should send
| them along in this direction. We have the iron,
| the coal, the machinery, the skilled labor, and
| the naval architects requisite for the work. And
| as the proof of the pudding is in the eating, we
| refer to the Wyanoke and Georgia to satisfy all
| doubts on the subject. The Delaware river is
the place for iron sliipbuilding. Practical tests
| prove our American iron vessels to be built OF
far better iron than the British, but the lesson
of the railroads is ignored, and there is sort oil
| general craze here now in favor of cheap iron
no matter whether it be durable or not. The
terrible railroad accidents, caused by poor Eng
lish rails, would then be paralleled by steamer
accidents, resulting from the Use of refuse iror
in lsteamship building. And this goes by thu
name of reform "
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-13
MORE EVIDENCE THAT THE DEMOCRATS
ARE SEEKING THE Col.0RED VOTE.

AS the campaign progresses, the evidence accii-
mulates on oil hands proving the fasity of the
"Wlite Mans Party" cry A dispatch from
Annapolis mentions that Jonathan Waters, tile
Baltimore Democrat Ga colored man, spoke
there on Wednesday, the 9Th inst, and sought
to organize colorel Democratic Club. He is
tho same man whose similar labors in Baltimore
and at various points on the Eastern Shore, have
already been noticed.
Now Waters is doing this, under The control
ald direction Of the Democratic lenders. In II e
Congressional District, (5th) of which Annaro-
lis is part, they are seriously and reasonably
alarmed, at the prospect Of Republican success
They seek Rts co'orel role, for far IF dttnt
The Democratic newspaper of Calvert County,
the journal, having sail that the registered
colored citizens are about II 500 in number,adls
this expression of the purpose of its party
friends
" With proper efforts, ne Democrats can ~
cure a thousand Of Hlese coters and they can
certainly bring out as full white vote as they
did in 1867"
!" With proper effort" you see, the Democrats
of the 9TH Maryland District hope to secure one
thousand colored votes. whys Simply because,
an this newspaper says in this same articlc
II is useless to deny the fact that there is er-
cry probability of the Republicans eecting Mr..
:. Gary their candidate for Congress, unless
:" the Democratic party goes into the contest
:" with all its might, and brings to the polls its
" full strength"
They fear defeat, You see, and hence, will beg,
buy, or debaucli, every colored vote possible II
they thought they could succeed without them
as last Spring the Saulsburys thought mca
could in Delaware, they would probably have
bawled White Mans Party" but as they were
in danger Of defeat without the aid Of the black
man, they are now ready to humbly beg every
colorcd man in the District to join the Demo
cratic Party, support a Democratic candidate
and poll Democratic ballot
Thus does that contemplate fraud and impos
ture melt away before the logic of events, AM
appear in its nakedness, as Lie. 1t is show
that the assertion that the Democratic party
consistently "White Mans Party is altogethe
false, and that, in all directions, it seeks the al
of colorsd men, rather than run the risk G
defeat. The possession of office carries il
leaders father than any profession of attacl
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-13
NUMBER 1913.
Annual Conference.

AMERICAN UNION FIRST coLoRED METHODIST
PROTESTANT CHURCH.
Tenth day, Wednesday, October 5th-The Con-
ference met as per adjournment Rev.iB. Scott
in the chair.
Religious services were conducted by the Rev,
William Bowen. after which the minutes were
to business for the day. The Committee on
Temperance made their report to the Conference,
and several rules were adopted, when the Daugh-
ters of Charity presented to the Conference ~,
for which vote of thanks was returned.
Conference met at o'clock, the Rev. VIM.
Bowen in the chair.
The religious services were conducted by the
Rev. ]. H. Walker, after which the Conference
proceeded to business for the day. Conference
adjourned to meet at o'clock.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-13

Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington City, is
about to be paved with wood pavement, -Four
different kinds will be laid down, one of the four
being known as the "NIiller patent" the owners
of which, two gentlemen of Philadelphia, have
just contracted to lay $4,000 square yards of il
in pittsburg. This should be looked ut, with
reference to orr own wants,
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-13

THEY ARE LESS, NOW. THAN UNDER VAN IUREN
POLK, PIERCE OR BUCHANAN.


The Democratic managers everywhere betray
a iidgetty anxiety to hurry out of sight the party
record of recent years. but the footprints are
indeble. The Republican party, on the other
hand Graves scrutiny of its career. Its record of
10 years has been brief yet bright. 1t has estab-
lished political and religious liberty for all men
everywhere within its reach 1t has added the
Pacific Railroad and opening up new fields OF
enterprise. During all its good work it has been
constantly hindered and assailed by its opponent;
during the great war for the Union it was never
for an hour free from CALLING fire from behind.
Since the war the party has gone quietly to work
to reduce the debt and the taxes In this con-
nection Mr.. Conkng said; ''The present Adj
ministration has reduced the expenses of the
Government until they are less, per capita, than
they have been since Gen. Jackson's time. For
the year ending June 30, 1870, the last fiscal
year, the cost of the Government was Il 81 -
for every person in the nation, and this is less
by 13 cents than the average cost for "a years
preceding the Rebellion. This assertion may
surprise You, and so give you data:
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-13

A statement published elsewhere concerning
the peach shipments from Clayton, on the Della
ware Railroad, indicates that growers are begin-
ing to realize more fully the advantage of canning
the fruit, at home. More peaches have been put
up at Smyrna, this year, than last, and large
quantity were sold direct to the canning ostab-
lishments in New Jersey. This is the best policy
for the growers, and in our Delaware towns, it
the place for the canning works to locate.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-13

Sam. Townsend says the posters for the
Dover White Mans " meeting cost him ten
dollars, and he paid it ''ont Of hia "own
pocket" That shows the difference between
his management, and that of the Dover Ring
asey would have paid it out of the peoples
pockets