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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17
That IrrepressibIe Fly.

1t has attained the dignity Of q public nuis-
ance. 1t worries us at every street corner.
All the ragged urchins in the city are whist
ling, singing, and shouting ''Shoo, Flyl
Its awful carricature stares us in the face
everywhere like nightmare in the daytime.
In card size it is vended at every picture
stand, in life size it is posted on every avail
able advertising space, and, like other SEN
sations of. the day, it won't stay In its own
sphere, which in all conscience is extensive
enough. 1t hasn't any conscience, and ruth
lessly invades all parts of the social fabric.
1t has entered the furnishing stores, and fur
nishes its detestable name to all manner OF
goods. We have the "Shoo fly hat, and
"Shoo fly cravat, the "Shoo fly shirt" the
"Shoo fly boots," backing, cuffs, collars,
sleeve buttons, suspenders, and what next
the Lord only knows. We venture humby
to suspect, however, that the next adoption
will be as Sunday-school song, psalm
tune, or church voluntary, with brilliant va
rlations by the organist on the 0or hl,aand
stop. And why not, when distinguished
divine quotes it from the pulpit 1t is worse
than the smallpox and bad as the cholera,
and catches more readily than either. 1t is
the !" fraud Of the period, and a satire upon
itself. "Shoo, fly, don't bodder me-" Ex-
acty SO; why doesn't it "shoo,' and stop
bothering us? But with malice prepense anl
aforethonght, this awful "hy' only buzzes
the louder, and the more we hear "don't
bodder me" the more it does bother us.-N
Y Tribune.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17

The ORGAN OF THE DOVER TYRANNY is
mute, as well it may be, upon the subject of
suppressing Free Speech. 1t does not dare
to publish the names Of the Republican citi-
zens who attended the meeting at Frederica
The insolent lash, which 1t once more at
tempted to lay over the backs of the people,
has fallen, helpless, and without effect. Per-
haps the little satraps whom it serves are
putting in operation other enginery to ac-
complish the purpose of suppressing Free
Speech, and preventing independent action.
They have long held the thumb-screws in
their hands, politically, socially, and finan-
cially, by which they could force the people
into submission, and they will be slow to
believe that the time has come when they
can only sit and gnash their teeth in impo-
tent rage.
Whatever means are used, we say again,
the days of the Dover tyrants are over. They
can no longer threaten and abuse tho free
people of Delaware.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17
Gossip for the Ladies'.

The Philadelphia Post, commenting upon the
withdrawal of Miss Susan Galton frsm the stage,
says that " the night she sang at the Academy OF
"Muslc, one of the four great audiences in the
"history Of the building, crowded every available
"foot of space" We regret that the Post omits
to state whose the other three great houses were,
but we imagine one was that drawn by Olive
Logan, during the present season, to hear her
lecture on "Girls." If we are right, the fact
that two out of four of the greatest companies
ever gathered in the spacious Academy came TO
enjoy the intellectual entertainment presented by
women, is no small qualification to their sex.
Especially not, when 1t is remembered that Miss
Galton represents that parity and freedom from
grossness, in her dramatic efforts, which Miss
Logan so gallantly and effectively champions.
Both are good women, and the people who heard
the lecture of the one, or witnessed the acting
and enjoyed the singing of the other, were at
tractcd by its excellence, not drawn to q gratif-
cation of gross and vulgar tastes.
And apropos of Miss Cations withdrawal,
her card as q Teacher OF Music appears In the
Philadelphia papers. We know she has many
good friends among the Philadelphia people, who
will literally sustain her professional efforts.
-luo nubl Iuuutbt Dtuu III tuc Ouiou ilVtb Ill
Lafayette, Indiana. The other day he asked a
young lady II he might "be allowed the privilege
of going home with her," and was Indignantly
refused; whereupon he inquired, very humbly, II
he might be ALLOWED to cit on the fence and see
her go by"
-Congrcve, in one of his comedies, speaks OF
a lady "who has got that everlasting rotation of
tongue that echo hath no chance with her, but
must wait till she dies to catch her last words"
Indianapolis girls are smarter than the boys.
At spelling match In the high school there, re-
Gently, the girls beat the boys three TO one.
The firm of female bankers and brokers on
Wall street, New York, are said to be quite sue
cessful and the Mail has it, on good and reliable
authority, that another banking house of the
same sort will soon be opened on Broad street.
-Necklaces of genuine gold beads are now
very fashionable among young ladies, and heir
looms are called into requlsition by would-be
fashionable demoiselles.
The Empress Of Austria s very young look
ing, appearing to be only twenty. She is also o
very beautiful woman. She was married when
| only seventeen is the mother of three living
children; the oldest, daughter, Ia thrieen hei
| only son is eleven, and her youngest not two
| years old, q baby princess.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17
For Moderate Drinkers.

A merchant prince" of New York, a
portly six-footer, of great manly beauty,
who never dined without his brandy and
water, nor went to bed without terrapin
or oyster supper, and who was never
known to be drunk, died Of chronic diar-
rhea, a common end of those who are never
intoxicated and never out of liquor. Halls
Journal Of Health gives this account OF
his death )
Months before he died-he was year in
dying-he could cat nothing without distress,
and at his death the whole alimentary canal
was mass Of disease in the midst of his
millions he died Of inanition. That Is not
the half, reader. He had been steady
drinker, a daily drlnker, for twenty eigh.
years. Scrofula had been eating up one
daughter for fifteen years another is in the
mad-house; the third and fourth were of un-
earthly beauty but they blighted, paled aud
faded-intO heaven we trust-in their sweet
teens another is totterng on the verge Of
the grave, and only one is left with all the
senses, and each of them is as weak as
water.
The same periodical instances another case
that should supplement the one just given
A gentleman of thirty-flve was sitting in q
chair with Dp specially critical symptoms
present; stilk he was known to be dissi
pated youngVman. He rose. ran fifty feet,
fell down and died. The whole covering o
the brain was thickened, its cavities were
filled with fluid that did not belong to it
enough to kill half-a-dszen with apoplexy-
a greater portion of one lung was in state
Of gangrene, and nearly all the other wal
hardened and useless; blood and yellow
matter plastered the inner covering OF thu
lungs, while angry patches of destructive in
a.. a..
alimentary canal. Why, there was enough
of death in that one mans body to hav,
killed forty. The doctor who talks abou
guzzing liquor every day being ''healthy" il
perfect disgrace to the medical name, ant
| ought to be turned out to break stone for tn,
term of his natural life at a shilling day
| and find himself.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17

Wine is made from native grapes at Smyrna
Landing.
Squire Herring is to start land speculation
on the lottery principle at FELTON,.
The Times talks of a new passenger car on the
Smyrna Branch road.
Edward W. Houston has been appointed Treas
urer Of Sussex county.
There is trouble amongst bipeds at Georgetown.
The children have the scarlet fever and the chick
ems the cholera.
The Smyrna Tunes thinks Middletown will find
that local lecturers will not draw large houses.
Just so,-"a prophet is never, &C."
The Republican states that the tallcst man in
the United States, ii not in the world, will make
his appearance in Wilmington next Saturday. He
only lacks an inch Of being eight feet high.
H. F. Kenney, Superintendent of the p W. &
B. Il. r., E. Q. Sewal, Supt. of the Delaware r.
R.. and Geo. w. Perry, Master of Machinery,
have recently inspected the stations, &C., ali
along the Delaware Railroad.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17
lFrom Thursdays Daily Commercially


The Deadlock in the Levy Court.
The Democratic members of the Levy Court of
this county arc delaying the public busines to no
purpose, and doubtless the really intelligent men
of their party are dsgusted with their childish
conduct. Their effort to take advantage of the
fact that one of the Republican members has the
misfortune to be detained at home by broken
leg, Is of course strictly honorable from Demo-
cratic standpoint and we expect nothing else Of
them, but they have certainly had opportunity
by this time TO learn that they will not be allowed
to take advantage of 1t. so they had as well stop
trying.
Their assertions that Mr.. Ingram is not free
holder, are unfounded, as gentlemen whose vera
city even the Gdzette will not presume to call in
question, have examined the deeds and pronounce
ground for their suspicion, their action can be Of
no use to them, as Mr.. Ingram is a member of
the Court, and has been for seven years, and
they cannot reasonably expect that he will cease
10 act as such until he has been declared disqua-
ifed by somo higher authority than the member
from New Castle or party newspaper. We are
pleased to learn that he is likely to make his ap-
pearance in the body, in the course of o
few days, when the elections will be proceed
ed with. To accuse the Republicans of want of
magnanimity, in refusing to share the offices with
the minority, is silly. They displayed their mag
nanimity sometime ago in observing an old rule,
which, by its operations gave the rebuilding of
Market street bridge Into the hands OF a unani-
mously Democratic committee, and as result
from $4,000 to $4,000 of the peoples money
has been absolutely thrown away. The county
cannot afford any more magnanimlty at such a
price. II our opponents want control of the
Levy Court let them elect their candidates next
fall not seek TO obtain such control by trickery and
accidents. We know that the Fifteenth Amend
ment throws some obstacles in the way of their
success. by the means VIC suggest, but 1t is the
only way open TO them, nevertheless
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17

Congressman from Chester and Della
ware.
There appears ripple of dissatisfaction among
the Republicans of the Seventh Pennsylvania
Congressional District-Chester and Delaware
counties-with the representation of Hon. WASH
ington Townsend, their present member. Sev-
eral other names are being eanvassed, although
Mr.. Townsend is only enjoying his first term,
and by usage is entitled 10 considerably longer
tenure. 1t remains to be seen, Of course, whether
1t is really popular movement OF the solid
yeomanrv, who roll up the four thousand Re-
publican majority of the Seventh District or only
a little cbulltion caused by ambitious individuals
who want the place. 1n region of such intel
lectual activity, there are always plenty of pri-
vate interests, 'wheels within Wheels" SC, &C.,
to keep tho pot actively boiling, to say nothing
of the clash of arms that rcsounds when Cameron
sets his forces in array against the Curtin squad
ron. The Chester Republican, which can smell o
shad or discern reed-bird, as far of as any
body, says Mr.. Townsond's cake is really baked,
and that "the coming man. will soon be devel-
oped. But who can he be?
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17

JUDGE SooFIELD of Pennsylvania has intro
duced bill in the House, at Washington, to
permit the free circulation of weekly news
papers in their own county, and he will also
include in it, when it comes up for consid-
GRAFTON, provision permitting the present
system of free carriage for exchange papers,
The Judge comprehends the fact that no
means of disseminating popular intelligence
is more important than the free exchange of
newspapers. They carry the liberal and
active thought of the great centres directly
to the most remote localities, and enlighten
the whole country upon every question of
public importance. The few dollars TO be
saved to the Postal Service would be poor
compensation for the immense loss popular
instruction would sustain, by wiping out the
present concession.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17
~, II,

GOVERNMENT AND RAILROAD Bonds Hold
ers of Government Bonds are improving
the time while the premium is high, to make
exchanges for other forms of interest paying
securities, well secured railroad bonds being
generally preferred to any other. Among
Others, we notice that the First Mortgage
per cent. gold Bonds of the Central Rail-
road of Iowa are in active demand. These
Bonds are based upon railroad line which is
likely to be for Iowa "a magnificent State,
wonderfully rich agriculturally and miner
orally. and having no State debt what the
New York Central has been to New York
the Pennsylvania Central to that State, and
the Illinois Central to Illinois. This road
will be $40 miles long, between the north
and south State lines, traversing, in its
course tier of counties so populous and
fertile as to furnish large local traffic as far
as the road is built. Its bonds are to the
amount of $4,000 per mile only, and are
said to be amply secured. As they pay Z
per cent. gold for 80 years, and are sold at
95, the advantage obeained in the exchange
Of Governments at present premium upon
the latter, is evident.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17
NUMBER 1853.


MEssRs. EDITORS Your editorial Of last week
-"Free Speech In Delaware, &c."-has the ring
of the true metal in Il. trust you will infuse
such spirit as animates that article into the
hearts of every Republican in the State. With
such spirit we can thrash the saulsburyites out
of their boots. All the Republicans need Is this.
With the four thousand additional voters which
the 18th Amendment gives them, Union and
Pluck, are synonymous with Victory! Ihope the
''alave drivers old whip" will crack often over
our heads. 1t warns our blood. It brings freshly
to mind the wrongs and outrage we have endured.
It nerves our arms and steels our hearts for the
fray. It brings newly to mind the great truth that
this is now the land of the Free! 1t makes Us
burn to meet the foe that would crush the God
dess of Liberty, blot out equality of rights, and
erect the standard of aristocracy and caste again
upon our free soil. Welcome the contest For
God and Liberty we can fight right valinntly.
URAnt,
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17

The transfer of the telegraph lines OF
Great Britain to the Government, was made
the occasion of an attempt to deceive the
American public by certain parties. Not a
day was suffered to elapse after the transfer
was made, before these parties denounced
the government management as a total fall
urc. Much stress was laid upon the fact
that crowds of people were beseiging the
telegraph offices in England, and these
crowds were reported as moved by indigna-
tion. The fact turns out quite otherwise.
There are many people about the telegraph
offices, but these people represent an Increase
of business without precedent. In the long
run, we suspect that that sort of news will
"bear wide and kick its owners over"
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17
OPINIONS CHANGE.

The spectacle of having Chief Justice
Chase sit in judgment upon his own green
backs is an extraordinary one, and his re-
cent decision derives additional interest,
from the reading of what he said about the
legal tenders, when he issued them. In his
report to Congress in December, 1861, he
says =" If the Secretary has omitted the
discussion Of the constitutional power Of
"Congress to put this plan" (of issuing pa
per money! Gin operation, it is because no
"argument is necessary to establish the
proposition that the power to regulate
commerce and the value of coin Includes
" "the power to regulate the currency of the
" country, or the collateral proposition that
"the power to effect the end includes the
"power TO adopt the necessary and expe-
"dient Means" His report of December,
1862, is largely taken up with laudations of
are in excess or that they are deprecated,
and while deprecating excessive issues sug-
gests that under cerrain circumstances more
may be needed.
In December, 1868, when the greenbacks
had reached 400 millions, and gold had
touched I72, he says -" In former reports
"the Secretary has stated his convictions
"and the grounds of them respecting the
necessity and utility of putting large par
''of the debt in the form of United States
"netes, without interest and adapted ts
"circuation rs money. These convictions
"remain unchanged, and seem now to b.
"shared by the people. 1t is qualification
"to know that trlbunal.so distinguished b.
"the learning and virtues of Its members a
"the Supreme Court of the State of Nes
"York has given the sanction Of its judl
"ment to the constitutionalty and validit
"of the law"
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17
CORN SAL We F'OP NEGROPHO-
RIA

The pretty little town Of Cambridge,
(Maryland has an enterprising little news
paper, published by an cratic individual re
joicing in the title of "Dr. r. D'Unger." He
has been, rumor saith, by turns vender of
corn salve, druggist, grocer, and editor, and
having manifested an ability in the latter
capacity something like the success of
George Francis Tram among American
Statesmen, he proposes now new specula-
tion, to which corn salve shall be but a shall
low trifle, aid groceries no comparison.
The Doc 'or's idea is to make his paper the
organ of new movement, to corn salve
the negrophobia of Dorchester County, to
lead off in the most prodigious political
effort that ever astonished his neighbors.
Referring to the adoption of the Fifteenth
Amendment, he cries out in louder
tones, and shriller voice, than ever he
used on the street corner, when curing
corns or removing bunions, that
"On Wednesday last, Georgia-poor,
crushed, bleeding Georgia-voted upon and
passed it. She made the twenty eight State
that gave in her adhesion-and it is now q
| law of the Union that every male negro OF
nula,aU, ~ ;, .nI ase , "a ,wensy- years u
4 right to cast his ballot.
''This monstrous outrage, (for it is as dam.
nable one as ever was perpetrated upon any
nasiSh o. c,yi,izeu oeings,l ~ .ne woLH oi .ns
full control of the country since the day Abe
Lincoln was elected President 1t isnethei
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17

LABOR CoNTRAcTs.-At the last term OIL
the Edgefield Court, in South Carolina, the
case of Grice VS.. Mobly was tried, in which
the defendant was accused of enticing away
four laborers, hired by the plaintiff, in 1867.
the jury gave verdict for the plaintiff for
$500. The Edgefield correspondent of the
Augusta Constitutionalst says that similar
case was begun there in 1868, but the defend
nt'compromised by paying damages before
the ensuing term of court. In Barnwel q
jury gave verdict for $3.50 damages, in
1868, for the same offence,
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17

WHAT TO no WITH THE MoRMoNs, is one
of the latest and most serious questions.
Some of our newspapers object to the Cul-
lom Bill, as too severe, and likely to involve
lis in war. They seem to think, too, that
Mormonsm, if let alone, will rend itself.
But the spectacle of having the laws defed,
and decency, as well as morality, publicly
and avowedly outraged,by the Utah people,
Is not only bad in itself, but terrible MS an
example. Because it is Brigham Young
who delies the law against Polygamy, and
secretly directs outragcs.and murders, is that
a reason why we should " let them alone ~
Because they cloak vice with pretense of
religious belief, and degrade one half the
population to the level of Turkish slaves,
under the excise that they think it right,
are those reasons why we should look on
calmly, and hope for some quarrel to break
up their organization The Hindoos honest
ly believe in the Suffice, as religious prac-
tlce, but would we let them burn widows in
the United States +?
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17

THE PRESIDENT recently withdrew from
the Senate four treaties with Indian tribes,
which were before that body for confirma-
ton. Among them was one, the terms of
which includedthe sale of the reservation In
Southeastern Nebraska, on which the Iowa,
and Sac and Fox tribes are located. This
valuable tract the chiefs had been persuaded,
while in Washington, and under various
evil influences,to sell to railroad company,
for not over half its value, they to receive
as the treaty expressly stipulates-a liberal
present of land for each, in the Indian Ter
ritory. The treaty was perfect outrage on
the bulk of their tribes, and under the direc-
ton of their new agent, Thomas Lightfoot,
of Pennsylvania, they so represented to the
President and Senate. We are therefore
glad to see that the President, on this infor-
nation, has withdrawn the treaty.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17

GOVERNOR WALKER, of Virginia, COM
plans that none of the men whom he de-
sires to appoint Judges can take the test
oath. They were all rebels. This.indicates
either bad rule of selection, or a thorough
decentralization in the Virginia Judge mater
ial. The appointment of Judges who were
in the rebel army, or thoroughly iden-
tilted with its efforts, to decide on claims for
damages against men who served under
Sheridan, or on prosecutions for murder
against Union soldiers, is scarcely proper,
IT, sppma tn us
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17

In the Maryland Legislature, Wednesday, COM
munication from Governor Bowie was presented
In regard to the Importance of the cultivation Of
nsh and oysters, and suggesting that Horatio
Seymour, R. B. Roosevelt and Seth Grcen,or any
one of them, be requested to address the Legisla-
ture upon the subject of piscicuture. CON-
mitteo was appointed and steps taken to extend
such invitation. This is a good move, but
though Seth Green knows all about fish; Mr..
Roosevelt about gamc birds and Mr.. Seymour
about butter and cheese is it certain that they
are well informed on the oyster question Un-
questionably, the preservation of the oysters, and
more intelligent system of protecting their
production, are badly needed.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17

AMONG oTRER DECISIONS of unsound law
which Chief Justice Chase has been unfor-.
tunate enough to make, was one delivered
on the Circuit Bench, at Richmond, some
months ago. The learned Judge there ex
pressed the astonishing opinion that no
amendment to The Constitution enforces
itse!f-i. c. it is dead, until supplemented
by congressional legislation! 1t follows, of
course, that If Congress should be Of an un
friendly political composition, the Constitu-
iion would remain dead Under this ruling,
Congress is at least as high as, if not above
the Constitution.
The House Reconstruction Committee
have reported bill, introduced by Judge
Lawrence, of Ohio, covering the point, SO
long as Justice Chaser ideas have their
present value. 1t provides for the enforce
ment of all Constitutional amendments
made, or to be made, and applies not only
to the l4th but to the 18th Amendment.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-17

TIE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, ignorant or
Indifferent as to the meaning of its words,
plumply says "The new Indian Policy is a
failure" and proceeds with complaints of
the Kansas Indians. What is the ''new
Indian Policy2" Has it proved failure in
the hands of the Friends? Have any tribes,
under their control, committed any unpro-
voked outrage2 Have they MOTTO the con-
trary, wrought wonderful improvement in
the condition of those tribes whom they have
had in charge? If so, what injustice to
fatty say the policy of appointing them ''is
n failure"