Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-03-25
PHILADELPHIA.
OUR sATuR DAY LETTER.

OUR 9ATUR DAY LGTTE r.
THE ATTkMPr TO PAKJUpIok THE CENTENNIAL
ADRoAD-THE LANDIB TRAaEDY-THE vINkLAND
skTTLEMENT-J PRooToR KNOTS LKCTURK-
soUNDNRss OF POPULAR JUDuNENT-coIONKL
M'cLuRRa pAPER-PRo's AND CONSIST PAT
RrCKB DAY CELKBRATIoN-THE IlIsH-AMERI-
CAN KLKMENT IN THE CITY, DO.
Special Correspondence afths Commercial
PHILADELPHIA, March 10.
A blow was aimed at Centennial interests this
week in the attempt to convey the impression
that the people of Europe believed goods sent
to the Exposition liable TO seizure for debt.
Mystery yet attaches to the manner in which this
notification was made abroad, but there can be
no doubt but that it was concoctod by some de-
| signing persons with intent to injure the pros
poets OF the Centennial. It was cabled, Of
course, and although some Of the papers sup
pressed the news - false and malicious, others
published 1t, and uneasiness prevailed for .
time. This feeling has not YET died entirely
away, although all reason is upon our side. A
more perfectly clear and satisfactory legal opin-
ion was never dsliyered than that OF the Attor-
ney General of the United States covering this
question. There was no shadow Of foundation
for the false report and IL s not possible that it
abroad. 1t was cruel thing to do and the par
ties concerned mi will surely be exposed to re-
buke. Naturally enough some Of the New York
influences which have been persistently opposed
to PhiladelphiA's share in the Centennial Cello.
bration refer dubisusly to the German candrd
They cannot endorse it directly, but they give it
= sort OF equivocal support. They pity us |;
hope ali may be we'll. &c. But an easy con-
science fears-or should fear-po evil.
There is excitement to-day over the news that
n Ta,,dia tI,a - ho V,no1an1 Got-
tlement in New Jersey, committed \ murder this
morning In the town Of which he was termed the
Father" Lands has been for years one Of
our local characters, for although Vneland is
some thirty miles distant this IL its business
emporium and all the plans for its future great
ness were laid here. From here, too, went most
Of its settlers, although good number Of New
England people are among the inhabitants. The
career of Vineland offers . curious chapter in
American social history. 1t presents the rather
curious picture Of . success won in the face OF
deceit aud misrepresentation Of all kinds, and,
more than that, against great natural odds.
The soil ut vinelxnd is Of the same char
acter as all that along the Camden and
Is nothing % but sand. The location has s NO sdvan.
tsges Whatever, and yet by advertising and sharp
management township Of nearly 10000 people
has been collected in less than 16 years. A man
who can do that has some claim to be called =
character. The news Ii that Landis has brought
his career to close by shooting sn editor who
had asserted in his paper that the Father
Of Vineland" desired to put his wife
in an Insane Asylum. II this proves
the fact, it is . curious coincidence that
Landis married his wife after placing her fa-
ther in an asylum SO as to secure entire freedom
for his matrimonial designs. Mrs. Landis is
the daughter Of Commodore Meade, and the Gu
rioua CASE hero referred to must be fresh in the
memory Of your readers.
Tragedies and scandals gather their interest
not % much from the central fact rs from the
| connections and d,surroundings. Luckless wretch
es have been murdered by the score to-day but
their fates will attract NO notice, while this one
| case will be picked out and become the talk Of 3
the reasons for this, and snother-and perhaps
| the strongest-iB that Vineland has managed to
get no little reputation rs headquarters of
| social reform. 1t is there that the advanced
womAn's rights people are largely found there
that spirituAlism greatly flourlshes there that
the "Bloomerites" (slthough started IN Indiana,
l believe) insist on wearing pAntaloons, or what
ever other article Of male dress they choose.
The place 10 in fact % On shS dayaaK &Hs snd hid
socialism. have been assured by some that
life there is poem, . long breath OF blissful
ease, and by others that it is excessively dry,
hard and barren. Que thing is certain, Lands
lived only to advertise his novel community, and
IN this latest act manages to give it renewed
publicity.
| WOlMblCAl1ebS VI puUuc OplkllOu WhS klFeu uIit
week. Mr.. J. Proctor Knott gave lecture which
he called "Ths Model Statesman" Mr.. Knott
had previously been known. only been known il
may be said, by speech delivered in Congress-
ridiculng the Duluth and st. Croix Land Grant
That speech made q hit, but 1t would have beer
poor taste and judgment to have attempted tt
repeat it in any form in q popular lecture. New
ertheless, people were disappointed because the
lecturer did essay something else The address
was Al admirable piece Of humorous invective
| I,ut tho and ,a6 hna nc
something quite out OF the question Was no
done. II that something had been done it woult
have exclaimed, ''look at this; it is q mere repe
titior the man has no originality"
The new paper, The Ttnes, has made very
favorable impression, despite some not uhres
sonAble prejudice excited against it at the start
There is All evident intimate relationship be
tween the Times and the N. Y. Sun, and tn
fact is not calculated to do the new paper an
good in the estimation Of respectable readers
fhe arrangement between the papers gives tn
! Times rather the inside track OF morning jour
nails in matters relative to New York, and thor
! il chance, Of course, that what the Sun say
may be true, but there ia = greater chance ths
it is not. Its Washington news has been lon
notorious for its exhibition of the most pronount
ed Of Mr.. Dana's peculiarities, and this very col
! respondence-o Of the most Objectionable
things in the whole journalism OF tn
Py.as0h, Times f.pssts espsas S e auR0is S
"edlted 70 ~ to leave out the hbellous and Of
, fensive pal IT, but there is only one method {
! uccessfuliy editing such matter. Having sal
: this to the dispsragement Of the new paper
Q must be said on tho other hand that the Tim.
r showed itself an original aud able journal frol
ita first ISSUE 1t is novelty In our Journalist
aud very welcome one. 1t is decidedly out {
tho routine in such csses made and provide.
a and shows in every part evidences OF thougl
:. and power. 1t is especially strong, editorial
y and has the true idea-the idea that nearly q
:, our papers disregArd-thst paper to have II
: huence must be very full and vigorous in til
direction. No man is better informed in PEN
!, sylvania politics than COL Mcclure, Al
:, perience for the Times with good G
!. feet. He has only himself to blame /
4 ~ yet, people are uncertain about hill
y His knowledge Of affairs is prodigious, but whet
= or his facts and deductions, are many of the
!; !" snakes or are what they simply appear
= be, is the puzzling question. The Times q
Il serves credit for attempting to substitute u
10 plain, non-sensa atonal, manner OF presentli
y news and advertisements in place Of the di
% play mode, which grove more violent and u
- reasonable every day, The papers are fast
coming so many bll-boards, and it is.time for
protest. Taken altogether aud despite su
drawbacks are as above mentioned, l belle
IL The Times more than answers the expectatio
However the "Native Americans may
plofe the fact it il not to be denied that the Ir
., Catholic element gains steadily in strength he
I'D II is admirably held in hand, and evidences
is this organization are only seen at intervals I'll
IL come when they are made public with peculi
to force. The celebration Of st. PatIck's Day v
n, the latest and most surprising OF these oc
nd slops. Talk Of this being the Quaker City
ed was more like Dublin or any other Irish city
lid that day. The entire town seemed given oN
or to st. Patrick's fellow countrymen. Apart fr
er- the thousands OF men in the parade there VI
Of many other tAsusands Of sympsthisers on
ess side walks. At night, celebrations Of one 9
or another were held in every quarter OF
city. Every hall and place Of assembly was
gagged. It seems extraordinary that such
I'M impulse and following should have nttai
in these proportions in 30 limited time. And
i'd in one community. In New York tho dem
,eiu stration was many times greater, and all 0
liz the land the same story, with more or less
,ed phasis, WAS told People who regret
nswn state of Affairs. whe find fault with
NJ inevtable-would be better employed i'll i'm
ma ting some Of the Irish American citizens. Pr
iDent among these virtues Of late has been
splendid temperance movement in the Cath
church. Can any other sect or any other .
,.r. sion Of the people, make such showing?
'oI. is q citizenship Of the best sort it has n
tnr t%r promise in 1t than oil the protestAtions OF
~: III thodoxy" and ali the Native American fulm
sire tiops that could be spouted from now till the
MIS- ~ IL, M. TaatotsiIars uare in the procar
ling .. o,S sus, ,ior;ons S;"ht tbev made. They
'ne "Paddys Day" new meaning for many '
disposed but ignorant people, who have |
able to see nothing in priestly influence but
the il slavish and degrading. Would there was .
,tal- snch slavery in our churches INpE
. Of
CoxMuNIoATIoN NSEvERED.-Beginning witt
for 0QJ tho Rx,afiup r. r. Co.. will abandon