Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-10-14
TIE srEAn GOLFERS A SUCCESS.


The experiment Of the Reading Railroad Co
il earring coal 70 Eastern ports, u steamer
instead Of calling vessels. aud returning in bAl-
last inztezd Of freight, l. a success The Com
pAny are nov about TO add number o. ye-=ei-
to their present feet. The engines vii be b14h
in their shops at Reading. and the boiierz and
hulls in the zhip-yAri= on ule-Eater. IT.
Messrs. Bette, Of this city, are nos construct
ing planning machine, Of very large proportion.
70 be sen, to Reading, for work on the engines
Whether any Of the golfers are 20 be bull; in
oar yards, We are not enabled to state
The success Of steam GOLFERS i great p Re
in wlmingtons wheel. There iz nothing. nJw
to hinder our becoming an important place fOr
the shipment Of coal So long as il was tlaus-
ported in schooners, which needed a Iet1In
cargo Of merchandise to make their voyage pa,
Wilmington was at disadvantage, for she haz
not sufficient general trade with the New
England ports, but as the steamers come bach
in ballast, they can load here just as well as al
Port Richmond.
=" Wilmington" said a Director Of tie Phila-
delphia and Heading road, in conversation, the
other day, Z" is rapidly improving, and il sure to
ito become one Of our great cities
In Chester county, the Democracy confess
themselves disappointed with the size OF the
Liberal vote, or rather its want Of size The
JeBers0nidH charges moral cowsrdice' On those
whom it expected to be Liberal" enough to vote
for Buckalew, but who proved unequal to that
effort. On the ether hand, however, the tabular
statement Of the vote shows that a good many
a. ffg,-
gress. The vote for Buckalew is g. $40, and for
Taylor 6 1856. The majority Of Townsend, Rep.
candidate for Congress- is over three hundred
greater than that Of Hartrauft
Our neghbor, tie Reading Eqye, earnestly
appeals to its Democratic readers to initiate
Robert Bruce'z spider, and come 70 the scratch,
again, for Greeley. 1t declares that He
is our candidate. He las become the exponent
and champion Of Democratic principles. Those
principles he il pledged to carry out" 1t is all
in vain, gallant Eagle your brethren vote well
but this time they are not going to leap into the
grave with Mr.. Greeley. They prefer to remain
buried in the Buckalew Cemetery,
The Advertiser, Of Saturday, plainly intimate.
that recent statement in the CoMIERCIlL tC
the effect that one Of the Democratic candidate,
for the Legislature, in the upper end Of t. i
County, repudiated Greeley was inspired by 7
William Silver, Chairman Of the Espubli al
County Committee. This il not the c1Ae. Mr
Silver was in not the slightest degree the autho
Of the statement, to the best Of our knowledge
by the unfortunate and ill-adyi=cd election [
he Do
strong Republican district lat year. that bod
was put into his control, the Democra= and lie
publicans having each 10 voter without countin
him on either eide. It will now, however, stan
Is Republicans to Is Democrats, com'iu
Mcclure az one Of the latter number.
California seems very apt to get the under
ground ague, in the Autumn season. On las
Saturday morning, at a quarter past four clock
two shocks Of earthquake, with oscillations iron
East to West lasting several seconds, were fel
in San Francisco. No damage was done.
Weli-informed and influential Democrats. i
Pennsylvania readily admit that great propo
ton Of their party will not go near the election
in November Grants majority il spoken Of a
10000, but it il quite az likely to be 100, OJ'
The Democratic vote will not be polled
The new Academy Of Music, at Reading is t
opened, tonight, by John f. McDonough, til
Philadelphia actor and Company The pre-
granme this evening includes the Comedy
Marrted Life, with h1Jer Macaire al the afte
piece.
The Erie, New York Central and Peunaylyan
Railroads. have increased their ratea for wester
bound freights, the new schedule to 20 into ope
Aation to-day. The rates to Chicago are rs p
cent. higher, and to other places in proportio
James Anthony Froude, the Englizh historic
is being cordially received in New York city. {
Saturday. evening, the Lotos Club Of litera
men and artists, gave brilliant en.ertanme
In his honOr.
The funeral or EK-Secretary Seward will ia
place at Auburn to-day. It will be very qui
in accordance with the wishes Of the family, b
will be largely attended by distinguished ci
ZenB.