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Year: 1879

unable to obtain livelihood. and took passage
for New York in the steamship Kron Prinz Fred
rich Wilhelm which arrived here OH Saturday
last. The immigrants complained that their
passage from Rio to this city cost them much
OF the United States They stated that each family
received from the brazilian $50 OF
land and that they cultivated new and old land,
planting wheat barley and oats. but that when 1t
grew about foot il withered The climate was very
warm. and of . company of l05 souls twenty eight
died. mostly from malarial fever. The
mainder managed to earn living by working on
roads and cutting timber for contractors. but
were nearly completed. They speak in high terms
OF their treatment by their brazilian and Portuguese
neighbors. and state that they received provisions
and seed for year free. In reference to the dele
gates who reported favorably on the country. they
say that some OF them still in Brazil and that
they stoned by their countrymen when the lat
ter found out how they had been dupcd.


The commissioners of Emigration have not yet
decided whether to send the Russians to their
destination or to procure work tor them here sew
eral parties having offered them situations.
Year: 1879

Judge Nelson. OF tho Brooklyn City Court. ron
derod decision yesterday on tho application Of tho
city made Friday last to continue an injunction
restraining tho Fulton Municipal Gas Company
from tearing up the streets and laying
mains. In his decision Judge Nelson says.-
'sThe act provides that such corporations
shall have power to lay conductors for conducting
gas through tho streets of tho city with the consent
OF the municipal authorities and under such
sonablc regulations as they may prescribe.
shall any such corporation acquire that power In
some other mannerg think not. - The IN
junction must be continued"
Year: 1879

We this morning place at the
head of our columns the Democrat
ic State ticket nominated by the
Democratic Convention recently
assembled at Sacramento. OF
the ticket as q whole that sterling
Democratic newspaper, the San
Francisco Examiner, has this to
say:


The Democratic State Conven-
tion concluded its labors and ad.
journed sine die, Thursday after
noon. A full ticket of sound and
answering Democrats, honest,
capable and worthy, was nominat-
ed, The State Executive ticket,
headed by DR.. Glenn, is good all
the way through, as it ought to be
under 80 sterling a head, in so
righteous a cause, in this imI ort-
ant campaign. The Judicial ticket
10 nobly led by Judge Morrison for
Chief Justice and worthily main
tanned in the nominations for As
sociate Justices. The candidates
for Congress in the Second, Third
and Fourth Districts are the best
that could have been selected, and
San Francisco will in due time
complete the list by nomination
equally sagacious aud appropriate.
Tue election of at least two of the
four is confidently anticipated, and
the Triumph may include three.
The candidates for railroad Com
missioners and for the Board OF
EQualization are the choice of theil
respective Districts, and one or two
Of them have, moreover, State and
National reputation. The whole
ticket Is presented at the head OF
the leading column of the Erona-
,iney, to day, and it will receive the
hearty<end0rsement of the Democ-
racy of the State, and many not OF
the party will support it at the
polls. The active campaign will
open on Monday next, AMI from
that day until the last ballot shall
be voted on the day of election,
every Democrat ought to labor to
the best of h ability to assure the
success of the full ticket from top
to bottom.
Year: 1879

Democrats, wherever they may re
side, must share the responsibility Of
the outrages and murders perpetrated
at the South in order to make that sec.
ton solid for the Democratic party
The Democrats of Delaware cannot es-
cape their share of the responsibility
because they act with them in conven-
tion, assist in forming platform Of
principles, unite in the selection of can
didates for President and Vice Presi-
dent, and wish to profit by the electoral
votes obtained through the violence and
outlawry which are well calculated to
make the name of freedom not only a
byword and reproach, but bitter
mockery. Men cannot act with outlaws
and share the fruit of their deeds, with
out sharing their guilt,a the old aphor
ism that the receiver Of stolen goods is
as bad as the thlef, Is as true no" as
when first uttered and will remain so
until the end Of time. Those who wish
to keep clear Of the responsibility of all
criminal acts must have no connection
with criminals. They must not meet
in convention with them, must not prof
it by their acts, nor encourage or up
hold them in any shape or form. They
should denouncs political murder and
ostracism in their platforms and unit
ing in demanding the punishment Of
all criminals, such as the murderer Of
Dixon, the assassiAators Of Judge CHS
olm and his fair daughter and fearless
son, as well as the red handed invinci.
breslwho:dominate the Southern States
and threaten the very existence Of Re-
publican institutions.
Year: 1879




The crack Of Indian rides break In
upon the stirring whirlpool Of the po-
litical campaign, and. from Colorado
comes the report that detachment OF
troops on its way to the Utsressrvstion
is surrounded by the Utes themselves
the Major in command and eleven Of
his men are killed and from twenty to
thirty are wounded and At the latest
adyices the remainder Of the brave lit
tie band that marched into the jaws Of
death, were intrenched against their
savage enemies awaiting reinforce
ments. This sudden Indian attack Is
but the repetition of what occurs al
most every year, in revenge for the
wrongs done to the Indians by the gov
ernment, and but illustrates the utter
in suficiency of the little army that
Congress in its niggardliness has starved
down TO q mere skeleton force scattered
in detachmen.s all over vast expanse
of territory and liable to be destroyed
at any time by general uprising OF
the Indians. In the face OF all this
there are still those in Congress and
out OF 1t who are clamorOus for still
farther reduction Of the army, for fear
it might be used on some cases in sup
pressing southern disorders. These
entrenched troops cannot be relieved
until detachments are gathered in from
all the outposts in the Northwestern
territories, and when withdrawn from
one point it is only to expose that point
to attack by the savage Indians If
they should take sudden impulse and
strike for what they believe their unre-
dressed wrongs. The cause Of this at
tack is the old story Of encroachments
upon the vested and reserved rights Of
the Indians.


1t is the old aggressive spirit Of the
Anglo Saxon pushing forward and
pressing itS weaker brother to the wall
until the latter like the trodden worm
turns to strike the oppressor's heel.
The Government always slow to enforce
its treaties with the Indians, is much to
blame for the outbreak, and therefore
it is not entirely guiltless of tue butch
cry of the little detachment that was
powerless in an enemies country and
in the presence of hidden foes. 1t is
hard to account in every respect for not
only this but other Indian outbreaks
upon any other theory than that Of the
failure of assimilating the two races so
dissimilar in their habits and lives.
Right or wrong however, the Anglo
Saxon has the present day and it seems
that not only all America but all other
parts sf the world had to succumb to
the onward march of victorious North
mHI.
Year: 1879

Of their party than they were " ksep
Nsssrs. kvsns and Gswthrop ont Of
trouble. Outside Of Council some Of the
leaders Of the party have been known
to advise the prosecution Of Mr.. Evans.


euarrelling.


Many persons appear to take great
delight in quarrelling. Indeed, 1t
seems that they are only happy whom
they are engaged in . controversy with
some Of their neighbors or acquain-
tances. Even members Of church are
not exempt from the influence Of evil
passions, and the conduct of some Of
them ssvours Of anything but christi
anity. The prscspts Of the divine mas
ter appear to be unheeded, and the old
Mosaic code Of an eye for an eye and .
tooth for a tooth, governs their minds
and influences their conduct. Disgrace
full scenes often occur, and the actors in
some Of them deserve the sternest kind
of rebuke. The term whited sepul-
chre might not be entirely inappropri-
ate. 1t will be we'll when every man
shall see himself as others see him, as
then reformation may be speedily ex-
pected. We may here remark that 1t
takes two persons to make a quarrel.
The choler Of the most contentious will
soon cease II he meets with no opposi'
tion. This every one should remeg-
Der. 1t is wiser not to notice q false
accusation than to enter into contro-
versy with unreasonable persons in re-
gard to it. Opposition begsts opposi-
tion and adds fuel to the passion which
otherwise would soon die out. False
accusations and evil reports will not
injurs good man. His conduct and
daily lie will furnish the best refuta-
ton Of any aspersion Of his character
or Misrepresentation Of his motives.
A lie has not half the influence over
the minds Of intelligent persons as is
generally attributed to 1t, and 1t is
therefore better in nine cases out Of ten
to disregard it than tc attempt to cor
rect 1t by other than p lain state
ment of the facts, as controversy with
It's originators tends TO annoyance
If nothing more. The old adage is as
true to day as when first uttered You
cannot handle pitch without being de-
filed any more than you can enter into
a controversy with the evil minded
without being besmirched in some way.
The truly upright man can also afford
to be magnanimous. He will never
strike fallen foe, or press him to the
wall in such way as to do him Sc
rious injury. He will rather help him
to rise, and leave him to the punish
ment of his own conscience, trusting
that time will lead to that reparation
which is desirable.
Year: 1879

Surely the very best course to be pursued is
to educate the pubic 10 the understanding that in beng
Ded rcspUnshe for The cOmnlssioH OF crime Or O
social errors, should hc difference bcwPeu the
Archbishop and ire meIbest citizen except in this the
higher aud the moro Influential offender tie moro
serious the breach OF trust and the the pun
ishmCut.
Year: 1879

Four days have passed since the elec-
ton, and it still remains doubtful which
party has carried the State To be sure
there is no doubt as to who is elected Gov
ernor. Mr. Cornell has succeeded by
handsome plurality because there were
two democratic candidates running
against him. If the votes given to these
two opposing candidates had been
concentrated on one democratic cam
beaten by an adverse majority of at
least thirty thousand. Mr.. Cornell appears
to have run behind every other republican
candidate. He owes his election to the
democratic split. Had the democrats run
but one candidate for Governor, instead of
two, Mr.. Cornell. instead of winning a sue
cess which his associates on the republican
ticket do not share, would have run be-
hind them all, inasmuch as he has received
smaller number Of votes.


1t looks at present as if Mr.. Potter is
elected Lieutenant Governor by slender
majority; but if there had been another
democratic candidate in the field to divide
the QemOCfaClc vote MI. HOCtef WOulQ nave
shared the fate of Governor Robinson
Horatio Seymour, Jr., is also probably
elected by slight majority result which
shows, as the election OF Mr.. Potter shows,
the value OF high personal character in an
appeal for the suffrages Of the people when
parties are pretty equally divided.


The election of Mr.. Cornell proves
nothing as to the relative strength of
parties in the State, since it is evident that
he did not receive the full vote of his own
party. The vote for minor State officers is
a truer test of the strength Of parties in
New York. This vote is so evenly divided
that we must probably await the official
returns before we can determine which
party has really carried the State. This
doubtful result affords but little encourage
ment to the republicans. They had the
advantage of the republican victories in
Maine and Ohio; the full advantage of
whatever political capital could be made Of
the recent democratic follies in Congress
and of the splendid success of the resump-
ton of specie payments. And yet all these
issues, with the gloss of novelty still upon
them, have not enabled the republicans to
carry New York by clear and decisive
majority. New York still remains the de-
batable ground of the Presidential canvass,
with nearly equal chances to both political
parties.
Year: 1879




BY electing more than three-fourths of
the Senators and nearly two-thirds of the
Assemblymen, together with the Governor,
the republicans of New York assume a
trust touching the management of public
affairs which must not be left out of calcu-
lation in computing the influences to affect
the vote of the State next year. For the
first time since Governor Dix went out of
Office the responsibility for giving the peo-
pie good State government rests undivid-
edly upon the shoulders of one political
party. The democratic Governors Tilden
lures republican in one or both branches.
For any thing good done or bad prevented,
or the reverse, praise and blame often were
divided. Thus the republicans were able
to claim with some show Of justice a share
of the credit for canal reforms and financial
economies effected in Governor 1ilden's
time, and with equal justice both Governor
Tilden and his successor were able to claim
that but for republican resistance in the
Legislature more reforms and economies
might have been accomplished. 1t is need
less to follow this vacillating distribution
of credit and censure into details. 1t has
been the chief political characteristic of the
State administration for the last five years.
Instances of it in respect to almost
everything requiring Legislative and ex-
ecutive concurrence will occur to every
mind without suggestion. Now it ceases.
For whatever good and evil Governor Cor
nell and his absolute Legislative majority do
the republican party, which has voted them
into their places, must bear undivided re-
sponsibility. The situation at last fully
corresponds with the common sense reso-
luton which has been reiterated in the
democratic State platforms for many
years 1.-THE party in power responsible
for all Legislation while in power"


In State whose popular vote is almost
evenly divided this responsibility easily
may turn the tide Of success between
parties even in Presidential election. The
subjects to which it attaches are of enor-
nous Importance. They touch every citi-
zen at an infinite number Of sensitive
points. Questions of railroad and canal
transportation, of the revision and equali-
cation of taxes and of the regulation of the
sale and use of Intoxicating liquors, not to
speak Of multitude relating to municipal
Year: 1879

reform, await the action of Governor Cornell
and his republican Legislature and cannot
be shirked. Instead of poring over the
figures of the election of 1879 in
a fatuous endeavor to make worthless
representations from them concerning the
election of 1880, the republican press and
politicians of New York had better be facing
the new responsibilities of their party and
discussing how to deal with them. Has
the republican party here any settled
policy concerning the discrimination of
railroad managers in freights and fares,
concerning revision of the present sys-
tenn of assessment and taxation, concerning
the liquor excise law, or concerning the
municipal muddle in this city? None cer-
tainly that the public yet knows of. Yet a
policy must be framed in respect to every
one of these questions at Albany this win
ter, and the future of the party largely de-
pends on what that policy shall be.
Year: 1879

THE WEATHER.--Th area of high barometer
dominates the weather throughout all the At
lantc coast districts from the Western Gulf of
Mexico to the Gulf of the st. Lawrence. In the
West and Northwest the pressure is very low
and centre of disturbance is developing in the
Northern Mississippi Valley. Rain has fallen
IN tho lake and central valley districts and snow
in the Northeast. Elsewhere the weather has
been partly cloudy fair. The temperature
has risen throughout all the districts east of the
Rocky Mountains, particularly in the North
west The winds have been brisk in the North
west, fresh in the lake regions and generally


light elsewhere. The weather in New York aud
Its vicinity to-day will be warm and partly
cloudy or fair. Tomorrow 1t will be cool and
fair.
Year: 1879

Perhaps the story of the impression of
boot heel to serve as part of the evidence
in the Hayden murder trial will not help
the prosecution. 1t has the appearance of
drawing things somewhat too finely for the
common sense of jurymen to be pleased
with it, and it may never be produced in
the trial This story is that on the cheek
of the dead woman there has been found
the trace Of boot heel, with the marks of
seventeen nails SO placed that they corre-
sponded exactly with that number of nails in
the heel of Hayden's boot. If the nails in
that boot heel were the large, stout nails
sometimes used by shoemakers they would
have made marks that would have been
seen Immediately; but if they are the small
nails that are driven in SO that the heads
form q fiat surface level with the leather
they would make impressions too faint to
remain on the skin after death.
Year: 1879

MILITARY MEN will be astonshed to learn that
the Supreme Court has reinstated National
Guard corporal who had been dismissed by the
Major General. 1t may be good law, but these
rcinstatcments are decidedly prejudicial to
proper discipline in the State service
Year: 1879

So THERE Is To BE struggle for the chair
manship of the Republican National Com
mttee, rendered vacant by the death Of Senator
Chandler Governor Cornell wants it and 80
do several others The position is an important
one, for on the chairman dcvolvcs much of the
labor Of the next Presidential campaign.
Year: 1879

iT Is QUITE EVIDENT that the Ninth avenue
elevated railroad station platform ut Fittieth
street is too small The company should profit
by experience and take measures to prevent any
more accidents mt that point in the line.
Year: 1879

The RELIGIOUS PROGRESS of tho world is
shown by the proposed exchange of pulpits by
Jewish rabbes aud Unitarian ministers. Both
stand, of course on the same platform regard
ing the divinity of the Saviour, but for all that
the movement is n remarkable one.
Year: 1879

WILLARD HALL.-We have received
a pamphlet with the title, "Papers of the
Historical Society Of Delaware-Life
and Character of WILLARD HALL. BY
Hon. Daniel NJ. Bates" 1t is finely
printed and contains an elegant steel ell
craving OF the late JUDGE HALL, with
his autograph. Purity Of character and
ability as jurist were distinguishing
traits in this good mans life, but that
which, perhaps, elevated and endeared
him most among his neighbors was the
deep interest he took in our local affairs.
He was leader In the church as he was
also in the cause OF public education,
meeting with and instructing and coun-
selling the people in the best and purest
interests in life. This memorial Of so
excellent character is for sale at e. F.
Thomas * Cos. Every friend of the
late Judge should have copy of it.
Year: 1879

THERE is a large faction of the defunct


(so-called, for if a party will not vote it
is dead 10 politics,] Republican party in
Delaware that are trying to culminate
in one sentiment the whole opposition ele-
ment for new party, the chief feature
of which will be advocacy of "representa-
ton according to population" This
new departure is to emanate especially
in the two lower counties. There is a
hitch in the matter just here. The lead
ers in Kent and Sussex feel deeply that
in any convention called on the old basis
that those Of New Castle county will
come down with crowd and take every
thing out of their hands, as they did be-
fore. There is also faction of the dead
party that is hostile 10 the movement and
claims that Kent and Sussex should hold
on to the power they now have over leg
islation as long as they can. There is no
room in the new party for this element
and of course they will prove dead
weight or perhaps vote the Democrat
ticket. In addition to representation ac-
cording to population the new party men
propose to favor the election of all coun-
ty officers by the people while,
some of the bolder leaders propose to
elect the judges the same way. They ar
que that they will gain in New Castle
more votes than they will lose in Kent
aud Sussex, and although they may not
succeed at the first attempt they will be
sure Of success in the end as New Castle
county and the city Of Wilmington will
soon be able to carry the elections as they
please. In order to enable the leaders in
Kent and Sussex, to hold their own in the
party, it will be proposed to call the party
together in county conventions and thus
to avoid State assemblage. This will


be more agreeable to some eccentric lead
ers, such as DR.. Prettyman, Lofiand and
Year: 1879

il comparatively better off than the
owner. Take the average house Of a
mechanic at $144. Now say he has three
children at school. Their tuition should
be deducted out of the rent. Say they
are eight to fourteen years Of age. At
private schools the annual tuition would
be 81, S. and $40 term, and three terms
in the year, making 500. II this is de-
Quoted it will be seen that the renter gets
better house for $3.50 month than he
did thirty or forty years ago. Viewing
the times in this way we find that our
people are much better provided for and
are enabled 10 secure greater advantages,
although the times are considered very
hard. We cannot say for ce:tain, but
We think the people are both better fed
and clothed than they were even thirty
years ago, and wages, although low, are
on all average higher than they were from
1854 to 1860. Boss carpenters then asked
Sl.75 day; now they charge s2.50.-
Living, it is said, was higher then than
now.


We have diverged somewhat from the
heading Of this article, but if it can be
established that it is cheaper to build
than to buy, the mechanic and the labo-
rer may find ample work to do the COM
ing summer, because there is no doubt OF
the fact of there being plenty of money
for improvement if it will pay thus to
invest il.
Year: 1879

The sudden death of Father Pelleties at
the foot of the altar while in the act of ad.
ministering the sacrament Of marriage at ST.
Francis Xavier's church on last Wednesday
evening was very sad event. The wed
ding was one which had been postponed for
week in consequence of the death of a
near relative Of the bridegroom; but the
delay had only served to add interest to the
ceremony and to increase the attendance of
the friends of the happy couple. The church
was brilliantly lighted and lavishly orna-
mented with flowers, and as the organ peal-
ed forth it's welcome no one dreamed that
cloud of sorrow would so soon overshadow
the scence. The heart of the officiating
minister was in his work, for he had been
the: groom's preceptor, and etfection as we'll
as duty prompted the words Of exhortation
and advice which he addressed to the young
couple as preliminary TO the sacrament.
Scarcely had his utterances ceased, when, as
he stretched forth his hand to pronounce
benediction, death arrested the act and,
sinking down at the ratings of the sanctual Y,
he passed away without a struggle and ap-
parently without pain. The fatal result
was kept from the knowledge of the we'd
ding party until the completion of the SER
vices by another clergyman, the belief be.
ing that Father Pelletier had simply been
attacked by fainting fit The deceased
clergyman was apprehensve of sudden
death, and his wish, expressedto his friends
was that, should his fears be well founded,
his last breath might be drawn at The affairs
foot.