Middletown transcript., 1874-04-18
SATURDAY MORNING, April ls, 1874.
The Court House at New Castle.

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The recent action Of the Levy Court of
this county in making an appropriation for
rebuilding the Court House at New Cas-
tls. has had strange effect.
Our readers will remember how. lit
tie more than year ago. when desper-
ste effort was made BY the inhabitants Of
s.ths city to have the county seat remov-
ID thither from New Castle. that old Court
House was most terribly denounced as be-
ing too little to accommodate the people
Who rssostsd thither to attend the settings
sfshe courts, and too mean building for
the great and populous county Of New Cas-
sas, having W-i-l-m-i-n-g-t-o-n in it. Oh,
uhat an awful old pile that Court House
vss then. Il wasn't fit for the people to
50 inside Of or to look at 1t was dis
grace, and all that But the Legislature
vas stubborn. and refused 10 grant tho re-
guest Of t'the eity's" delegation, but lis
tened to the remonstrances of the outsid-
era and New Castle kept ths county seat
AT its last sitting the Levy Court, how
ever, thinking perhaps that therc was some
ERE where there was so much smoke, and
that perhaps the Court House acas too
small. decided to make it bigger. That
vas tsrrihle mistake. They ought to
have known better. The old Court House
was too lille Shen it was wanted at Will
Rlington, but since it couldn't be carried
.'ovcr there" it has suddenly become big
enough. It has been discovered that
Philadelphia has no bigger nor better ones
Hear what ''city" daily said last Mon
day :-"Cemparatively few citizens are
accommodated by the Court House. Of the
mass Of the people very few 60 into it once
year and such buildings ore neuer erect
etito accommodate large numbers of people.
II has been remarked that the court room
- as good as most of those in Philadel-
phia, and we believe this is true while it
is quite as large as either of them, unless
it be enc of recent erection. Recently
yooms have been added to our court heusc
for the accommodation of tho lawyers and
judges, and the ventilation of the house
much improved, so that we think it will
answer quite we'll for year or two longer
ut least"
The same paper wants to go to the
Court and get out an injunction to treal
this court house like Samuel Townsend
wanted to do to Wilmington bridge, and
not let it be built.
The Republican. in commenting on thi.
subject, closes its article with these words
..We have NO doubt but tho time will com,
when the county will be divided as it il
not to be expected, when Wilmington shall
contain population of 100000, that tn
people will continue to travel to New Cas-
tie to transact their legal business. Tn
county will eventually be divided or tn
Court House will be transferred from Ne,
Castle to Wilmington"
Friend Vernon's "head is level" there
The division of the county must eventual
take place. The citizens ,f Wilmingto
will grow tired Of going over to New Gas
tie to transact their law business, and q
the people of the other Hundreds will ney
er consent to transfer of the county Sc,
Of the county as it now is to Wilmington
the people of that city will. in self defence
yield to division, and all quarrelings an
disputings about the location of the count
seat will be at an end. This is the onl
way in which Wilmington ever will, {
ever ought to, get court honse.
We regret that any move for rebuildin
the Court Heuse at New Castle shoul
have been made at this time. A ne
Court House at New Castle will not sett
the vexed question Of its removal, nor sa
isfy Wilmington, and if the county is
b. divided the present Court House will
commodious enough. as it is, for the nc
county. Besides, the time is ertainly i
epportune. With business scarcely r
vived from the disastrous effects Of Ia
yesr's panic. money scarce and hard to
had. sheriff sales filling the columns
The papers. u is hardly ct time to spel
tts public funds for unnecessary improv
ments. Hence We cay with Mr.. Tow
ssnd. let both the building Of tho W
mington bridge and the New Castle Cor
Mouse be postponed while longer.
The general tendency Of the times
wards retrenchment and economy is sho'
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