The daily gazette., 1876-10-20

neat, 90. .............. 100000
Oats, bushels: ........... 100000
Peaches, 5 millions baskets.
MANUFACTURES.
Capital employed
Powder. ................. $4,000. .0C0
Paper, 1900. 600
Cotton goods. s.............. 2,500,000
Woolen goods, 100000
Railroad cars. 100000
Iron ship building 1,25U,O0O
Machine work. ........... 100000
Morocco and leather 100000
Carriages. ................. S00,00U
Flour, corn meal 100000
Iron. ................ 100000
Foundry work & car wheels, 100000
Tobacco, snuff and parlor
| matCnes,. ............. 0UU,UUe
Sash, blinds, &C., 100000
Bricks. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 25O,G00
Fertilizers, 100000
Boots and shoes. .......... 125,000
Miscellaneous, 100000
Capital, $19,425, 900
Value of products, $30,000,00O
Without stopping to speak of other
manufactures, permit me to do SO of
morocco, cars and iron ship building.
Wilmington is the great centre of
all three. There is but one city where
q larger amount of morocco is manu-
factured; none where more cars are
built; and none where so many iron
ships have been built. In truth Will
mington is the birthplace of Ameri-
can iron ships-the steamer "Bangor,"
built by Harlan 81 Hollingsworth in
1874, being the first iron steamer ever
built in the United States. The two
firms engaged in the business have
constructed, including ferry boats,
about two hundred and fifty iron YES
sells.
Our State is fortunately situated in
reference to railroad communication.
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore road, one of the leading
routes from the South and the West
to the North. and vice versa, passes
through the upper part. The Della.
ware roatl, with its various branches,
and its extension by the connection
| with the Dorchester and Delaware;
the Kent county, the Maryland sand
Delaware, and the Junction and Break
water, lead the whole Peninsula's pro-
ducts and people up and through it
The Wilmington and Reading and Will
mington and Western roads furnish an
inlet and outlet for the northern and
western part of the State. And our
water communication-first by the
Chesapeake and Delaware canal and
then by tie Delaware river and bay,
and the various creeks which, from
the Brandywlne and Christiana TO In
dian rivnr Hnuu NJ fax
miles Of our eastern border, is one of
the most complete, save possibly the
Eastern Shore of Maryland, of any in
the Union.
Such, fellow citizens of Delaware,
has been your history, and such your
progress, and such are your resources
and your industries.
We have q salubrious climate; we
have kind and rich soil; We have an
honest, intelligent and industrious
people; few relatively in numbers, tits
true, but NO other people in any part
of the Union did more or better to
make this nation; none have stood
more firmly by it. and none have coz
trlbuted more to increase its wealth.
What was, less than two hundred years
ago bought for 20 shillings and a
"rose," is now worth its millions, and
what was then an unpeopled forest is
now the home OF happy, thriving.
prosperous people.
When Mayor Whiteley concluded the
band struck up Hail Columbia and
the " Marseilles Hymn" while the Mil
lard Club, in the ladies parlor, sang sew
eral choice selections.
Gov. Cochran took his stand in the
hall, at the foot of the stairway, and for
over an hour gave audience to the throng
of people who greeted him and passed on
through the building.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
Governor Hartranft, of Pennsylvania,
was introduced to Gov. Cochran by Gen.
A. T. A. Torbert.
Gen. Patterson, andabout adozen mem:
bers OF the Society of the Cincinnati, call
ed on the Governor and invited him to at
tend the Society's dinner, in the evening,
at the Reform Club rooms. The Cover
nor was obliged to decline the invitation.
The members of the Society were also
presented to our aged citizen Del Noblet,
and being quite old men themselves took
great pleasure in conversing with him.
AN APPROPRIATE PRESENT.
During the afternoon Gov. Cochran
received from j. III. Caldwell & Co.,
jewellers, of Philadelphia, very appro-
PIRATE present, consisting of a blue por-
celain chicken, about six inches high, and
made in very handsome manner. The
gift was accompanied by letter written
In very kindly manner. The Governor
received this "Blue Hens Chicken"
with evident pleasure.
NOTES OF THE DAY.
After the ceremonies, the Delaware
visitors scattered themselves over the
grounds, and sought for pleasure as their
inclinations led. Many witnessed the