Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-04-17
From LippincOtts Magazine for May.
WILMINGTON AND ITS INDUSTRIES.
cOxDLuDrNO PAPER.

regulated by the most liberal traditions Of !.
Penn, but placed under the legal conditions Of I
q slave state, u has held position perfectly Y
where the contrasts OF North and South came
to so sharp an edge and there are few where {
skilled pen could set down 90 many curiosi- |
ties OF folklore and c0nfnsl0ns Of race The |
Dutch, the Swedes and the English Quakers
formed the substRatum, upon which were
poured the en5QFes OF the French Revolution
and the fuglves from Santo Domingo. The
latter sometimes brought slaves who had con-
tinued faithful, and who retained thelE seft-
dom under the laws Of Delaware. The Frgnch
/ bOH5lss stood on washing benches In the Bran
dyWine, and taught the amazed Quaker wives
that laundry-wOrk cOnld be done In cold wat
er. The names Of grand old French families.
prefaced by the prOpFietar1al forms of 10 and |
dK, became mixed by marriage with such |
/ Swedish names as Svenss0n and such Dutch |
names as StaeIkappe. (The Arst Staelkappe |
was ships cook, nicknameed from his oily |
and glossy b0nnet) As for the refugees
from Santo Domingo, they absolutely invaded |
Wilmington, so that the price OF butter ana
eggs was just doubled in 1701, and house |
rents rose in proportion. They found them
selves with rapture where the hills were rosy
with peach blossoms, and where every sum-
mer was simply an extract from Paradise.
We cannot Ilnger, as we fain would do,
over the quaint and amusing Paris en- An1er1-
: que which feigned here for Q period following
, the events Of '93. At Sixth and French streets
lived marchiOness In q cot, which she ad0Fn.
II eU WITH TIE manners OF eISallleS, Jn0 temper
. of the Faubourg St-Germain and the pride OF
Lucifer. This Marquise de SOuFci was main
! tained by her son, who made pretty boxes Of
: gourds, and afterwards boats, In one Ofwhich
\ he was subsequently wrecked on the Della
ware, before tho young marquis was OF ageto
: claim his title. In farmhouse, whose rooms
y he lined with painted canvass, lived Colonel
u de Tousard. On Long Hook Farm resided,
y In honor and comforh Major Pierre Jaqnetss,
3 son OF Huguenot refugee who married a
]. Swedish girl, and became Methodist after
y one Of Whiteield's OratiOns as for the son,
- he served in thirry-twO pitched battles during
~ our Revolution. Good Joseph lsamDTle, the
. blacksmith, used TO tell In provincial French
y the story OF his service with Bonapagto ID
Y Egypt while his wife blew the forge bellows.
De 70 DOctetT Bayard q rich physician, cured his
y c0mpatriOts for nothing, and Doctor CaRele
- - one Of Louis XVI.s army-sergeons, aeb eheli
u poor hOmesick old bones for them when ne
u cessary. Monsieur Bergerac, afterwards pro
lla fessor in St. Mary's College, Baltimore, was
n teacher; another preeeptor, M Michel Mar
tel, an enl3gr6 OF 1fe0, was proficient in htteel
ISL languages, five Of which he had impaired
the lovely and talented TheOdOSa Burr. Aa
ron Burr happened to visit Wilmington wnel
the man who had trained his daughter intel
sed lect was lying in the almahouSe, wrecked AM
for paralytic, with the memory of all his man
thv tongues gone, except the French. Some b(
nevolent Wilmingtonians approached Burr
his behalf, showing the cOlOnel's own iette
which had introduced him TO the town.
a az 81 wrote that letter when kneac him. " sal
not the diplomatic Colonel Burr, ''but know hiI
H nst The day quickly came when Bur's speeC
and Of denial was reflected upon himself, andthO.
y IN who then honoEad him slknew him no more.
cron y, Another French teacher, by the by, was n
ntly Of Gallo race, but that or Albion k Pe.Hd:
-tiII this was none other than William Cobbel
0ns with his reputation all before him. known On
tnas to the Wilmington milleTs for the Fren'
lessons he gave their daughters and the Fren'
fter grammar he had Published. BE lived
Ines "Quaker Hill" from 1874 to 1876. he tn
and went to Philadelphla, and began to publ
'nsl %t Peter PoTeupSas ) Gdzstts q fmeah 10 shO
Aim my qulls," said CODbett. wherever g
the catch game" With the sIneWs &C ANilMinat
oae money he soon madahi way back to EnGlar
b6Ve became philosopher, and say IN tne s,! hoV
Archibald Hamilton Rowan, an nis1 patrI
-, and one Of the United Irishmen : OF ~
~ ss Escaping from q Dublin lan in womnl
= clothes, he found ms way 20 " linin kton 81
= atI adventures like those OF Boucicaults hero'
little tiIyed here several yearS In gaRe9 and Q
y are taQes carving fascination and laughter Wh
heads ever he went among his stald nelghbOrs; Q
q the after some years few back 70 Ireland, gle
n the Gus as phoenix, resnmlng the HABITS pfe!
Issks to his income Of thirty thousand pounds
ave, year: :. "a
mington vas the gigantic 0ne OF OApsMn
|. Cuffoe, looking like character IN masqy
Tetch ade. His athletic limbs forced Int the naxi
each, garments Of the ouakara, and brin 81 SUI
hose ior deVelOphent shading his dark negro Il
leFiee. he talked lingo among the trading capita
mind mixed with phrases from Robert Barclay
noeda gutturala picked up on the coast o. ~
.-siap Leone. Captain Cnfee owned several Vess
'o;ns manned bg sailors as black as shOsmak
.o1o. WAX, and be conducted one o his ships han
no.tS NS ally 70 the African ports. Coming back
4 Yil isd Ms crew 81 shadows Into port at
.f tBrandyWina mouth, passing mUdestly amO
the vhaleEs and NheatshalloRa DIN I! es J.
made ling. 1t Il possible that fE0m some visit Of
n A. arose the legend that Blackboard the teTl
go. pirate who always hid his booty on the
80 gins Of streams, Ind t3ed the BEandyWinl
I, -S this purpose. AZ any rata, some elalrvoyi
HAN IN their dreams saw ID 1912 the lttqring
pes q Of Blackheardss 3 cold lying beneath the /
% was az HaRVay's Wastailnnd, next 70 Vincent
N Ma- pin's mill. They paid forty thousand do
lnnaEal Tor small tf6e9 and searched and 4
! took nothing but job Harvey huggod hls
~ chase ass1asS money: *: Asra in The
quarter Of the, eontnEy, midway bet
=. W Philadelphia )whero 10 was building "
q q. ete Wsrke aud bankel and. Wa4hlng,ql q
:, ~ halls Of rs GEealnelh3 Using WllmIE
soAesl Ineanwhila a. = nioasank retirement, wis
-. y. could wear his thinking cap, educate his
" EBts ltiful yoanQ daughter and hilKWith the u
49, and 6theE cultured society q the place.
tno, ahonk hfty years go rrctsy n
.o,A A. nIFf usen Ia piay and eat peaches naalnt
81 viii / kv fund.- mvsieriouely supplied non -
"a ana iRioImns 0f an e0nneetl0ns oxS
a.. n IN vn1 tlie n Ig ! e Az o AIRS. Gel
16sfa WHO woke Up ono OAg = ma herself ~