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m- x ' " ALD ra 3 THU MOVING IfgRAXjD is published every morning, ^Sunday oep ed) and delivered in the city of Wil mit gton and aurrounding plaoee for six week payable toaaiwese. - Maif prions, postage, free, fyto® dollars ex sens BUI per annum. Gao. O'Byrkb A Co. Proprietor* and Publisher* < )eorge Troup Maxwkll, Editor, ltomaat A. O'Byrne, As'i Editor. b.> < v. i Office No, 509 Shipley; attest, Wilmington Del. Notice to subscribers— Those of onr uscribere who are Indebted to the Morn ing Herald, will oblige by an early re m'ttance ..s.rniMwgoH.mei.. Pee ai','i»7». BU — Vmb Musas. Cexxew art bousing flne, cl< ir tee, over eight Inches thick. This fu' uishes a fair criterion by which to judge of the Intensity of the weather experienced du Dg the Inst week of ten day*. To ou r knowledge, but once In eight years has.tce fanned In.this vicinity so thick as It now is and that was the .winter before last, wh n It reached 18 to 18 lnchee ie tblck nt>s. There haa been so little snow, that th, tee low being housed Is-of unusually fine quality. /ti \s Was Expected fiow the very be* gi ning, O'Leary succeeded in outwalking Ca apana, the record of the n» itch stand inO'Leary four hundred miles and C..mpnna three hundred and fifty seven— vei y slow time all rouhd. By the articles of agreement the defeated pedestrian was to receive a portion of the gate money, provided he made four hundred and fifty —f-y'ea; but as neither made that distance the question arises. To whom will it go? Perhaps the lawyers will walk off with it. -N. T. Herald. ,-x We ere pleased to learn from Washing' tOD that Miss Mattie D. Todd, of this city nominated by President R. B. Hayea wa^ am! unanimously confirmed for Post Mi» tre s of Cynthiana. The people of this county were delighted at this appoint m?nt. The President indicates a proper spirit in conferring the poet office upon with whom the people here are well pleased, and one whe is well qualified and efficient.—Cynthiena (Ky.) one every way News/ The above announeement give* us pecu liar pleasure, and we extend to Mies Mattie our heartiest congratulations. if nsARTKEWouia as the reports of the ,ges of that loathesom* disease, small pox, sre, In Ceara, Brazil, where It Is said that out of a population of'30,000, there ar e 5o0 to 600 death*, dally, aad exaggerated a e they seem, they are not Incredible. It is said that when Creenland *uffltered rav a Its first attack of small-pox'(lT34), nearly two thirds of its population were awept In Iceland, at Ite 18th visitation away, (1797), It destroyed 18,10# people out of a population of about 5#,000; and amongst the Mandans, a tribe of Indians of North America, about forty years ago, out of 1,50q thers were only SO left by It. To the .protecting lnluence of that Inval uable discovery of the Immortal .Jenner, vaccination,Jare the more civilized countries ird. bted for their partial Immunity from the devastations of that horrible scourge. —A prominent Democratic 8enator, in Spt iking of the chances of Senator Bayard foi the next Presidential nomination, said th t the statement had keen made that he would go into th# convention with the support of a s olid South. Though, he was admirer of Senator Bayard, yet, of his knowledge, he could say that the tu.rd-money views of the Senator would fiud no sysmpathy in the South, and un* le>s a great and complete change of feel ing on financial questions was had, he greatly doubted, whether Mr. ; Bayard would receive the support of a delegation ft m even a single Southern State Iw a lengthy lutervlew^I^'a reporter c the Waahlugton Post, Mr. Alexander B Stephens, ot Georgia, " whose efforts to Southern trans-continental line an ova »( ure a r ike him peculiarly the exponent ol 8 uthern opinion," expressed himsslf very X. irmly and decidedly In favor of the Teia, r ctfic Road. Expressing the highest respect for the < iIntone and character of Hon. Thos, N*r v >od, late a Senator from Georgia, who r .poses the Texas Pacific, as of Tom Scott's PeansyUanta Central," *n* favors the tCalff*rnia Southern Paclie an exten t on -.i ute, he says: s n from San Diego over this Texas Pacific , ute to New York is nearly two hundred / tiles shorter than the present route from an Francisco over the Central Pacific ' -ad^continent^°read oT toe sboTtolt prac & i cable route between the Paelic and At mtlcoceans. I want this,not *n|y because of the utmost Importance, but because, .king into consideration the dtfference of ruzth of tbe resDCCtlv routes, It becomes matter of groat Importance to the people I all tbe Stater bordering oa the Ohle, ,nd eastward, embracing 8Vea those of N "lathis view, I consider, a* I hay# often said, a rotd on the lino proposed in t,*® of the »ge.'* lC WU to * nterpr K -Tt - a- . , — Claimin''- TO Biowto express onr own opliitoni, we ere elweye glad to *xte*d the line privilege to others. Hence we cheer folly give pi »oe to Mr. Deen'e criticism. Mr. Dean evidently forget* that the *hort and hard road to resumption by legislation wie begun, though by Indirection, a* far back a* '08. In compliance with a retom - mendatlon of Mr. McCulloch, then Secre taiy ol the Treasury, Congress In the early part of M6 passed a hill to contract the circulating medium, with but Six dissent, log votes, In the House, such was the evil effect ef that legislation, that Congress, composed chiefly of tne same members, repealed the law, without a dis senting vote. Since then, almost all the legislation of Congress has been In fever of the creditor class and against tne debtors --as, for Instance, the law to p»y Interest principal of bonds In gold, that did not so specify on their face, the law, aur - reptltlously passed, to demonltlse silver, Ac., Ac. It will be remembered that Mr. Bayar^ Resumption'' bill as a In two yeere, and denounced the piece of political charlatanism, done for partisan effect. Iu direct contrast with the action of the Ueited States is that of France since the Franeo*German war. As the result O f that war, France net only had her territory devastated by the horde* of Invaders, and jOit thousands of men treasure, but two of tasr largest and most fertile provinces were wrested from, and a most onerous pecuniary Indemnity was im posed upon Jier. Instead of following, a® we did, the Peel, she steadily and rapidly increaeed her circulating medium, enterprise revived, Industry was sttmulated ) and In an Incredibly short time her war debt was paid ; and, to*day, In less than eight years, she is the me*t prosperou g country In Europe. Mr. Dtnn says that "resumption being a fixed fact onr troubles should b» over. But are they? Are times easier? Ie business reviving? If so, where? Has there been a tendency to revival of prosperity in sntlcl* petlen of forced resumption? Mr. Deans' closing sentence brings to ■led one ef Rochefaucaulte' maxims, 1 every man has phllosephy enough to bear other peoples misfortunes,'' Mr. Dean, we sus pect, Is In easy and even prosperous circum stances; bat we do not doubt that his ser ene courage would forsake him, were kim self and family experiencing the plncblngs of hunger, and standing face to face with the horrors ol homelessness. and millions of example of England under The result was that It Is not an uncommon thing for govern ments to legislate In behalf of "the an fort unate," see, itay laws, bankrupts acts At In this case, all legislation upon the subject was hurtful sad wrong; for the evils If any existed, would have bean easier if less quickly remedied ander the opera tlons of the law of demand and sapply. Wwo shall bb the mt Presiden tial candidate of tb* Democratic Party, is quMtien the answer to which gives us hut little concern. Prom the list of as pirants—"thick as the leaves that strew the brooks in Tallambrosa"—we have no doubt that a candidate will be selected who will preve satisfactory to us and to the Party. But, iu view of reesnt event, which have impressed themselves inde libly on the minds of th9 mass of the party the question, whether this or that candi date (hall become the standard bearer, is ete of secondary, and indeed, of cempara tively trifling importance. In 1876 the Democrats had a candidate who, besides being a statesman of th e highest order of ability and acquirements, was regarded as the embodiment of the spirit of Reform in Muncipal and State administration. Hence. Reform" was the inspiriting motto that emblazoned the guidons which the deme* cratic hosts bare into battle. It is simple truth to say that Mr. Til den's was the directing and controlling mind, to which all others yielded impli cit obedience in that memorable campaign and, if it was not faultlessly conducted, it was certainly successful. What honest man, with the light subsequently shed upon the dark practices of the Southern Returning Boards, tod their ooadjators in Washington and elsewhere, can qaeetion the truth fulness of that assertion ? Tildsn and For the first time in twenty years the Democratic Party, triumphed, electing its candidate by a clear majority of the elec toral vote, and by a majority of a quarter efamillien of the popular vote. "The thing that has been shall bs again ; " anil there is abundant evidence that the elec tion of tha Democratic Candidate is within the easy range ef possibility, at least. But the question i,of overshadowing impertauce.Jand about a satisfactory an te which we confess to feeling extrem e . solicitude, is ; after the election is effected — w f,en the people shall have rendered their verdict-what will be the conduct 0 f the Party leaders in Congrees ? There i 8 w fi ere the tost will he made. t*.. -t-w T i*tory were caused to be turned t* ashes „ f the peop i,. There is where uu r . , . once before, the rights of the party and of ,h e Country were shamefully betrayed. ^ question, then, of transcendent I interest, we repeat, is, what will the lea I der* of the Democratic Par ty, in Coagrere "Jd#? aa upon their action, again aa before, * the desUntse, not only ef*he Party, but of the Country, may binge. That there was any fair, just or reason* able ground for th* claims set up by the bold, breve leaders of the Republican Party, no game man beliavaa. Upon a bald, flimsy fraudulent pretext they an nounced their audacious purpose to re* tain tha powar they had so long held, and s# often abused, end their determination not to yield to the demands of a majority ef the people, or the requirements of the Constitution and the Laws. And they succeeded to their eitire satisfaction, by a mere threat of violence. Emboldened by success so easily won by appeals to the fears of Democrats, is there any ene 10 simple as to doubt that they will iavent other pretexts and assert them effrontery—the bill "to with the same provide fer counting the vote* for Presi* dent and Vice-President," to the contrary. Is it the history of aetwilhstending ? criminals that they stop short in fheir infamous career, whilst revelling andis turbid in the enjoyment of their ill-gotten evidence that Repub spoils ? Have we lican nature has been changed by Grace ? reasonable and In our judgment it is right to expect, and to be prepared for the "O'™ 1, . What guaranty have the party and the that there will not be the Bame to Ihe un'awful and country timid concession igbteous demands of the unscrupulous leaders of the Republican Party ? Indeed if be true that 'this whole country gave a a sigh ef relief" when the uacenstiiutien nl Electoral Commi*sion, was appointed, and fraud was made to triumph tw > years age, may it not be felt to be the duty o^ all the abettors of that "relief' measure, whose consciences are mollified by this to go on in their am eint men! of "sighs, noble work, and, regardless of the diet of the voters, whenever a Republican President shall Ihreated unlawful inter ference by force,and Messers Edmunds and Conkling shall concoct ingredients for another soothing plaster, to give the coun s other chances to heave ''sighs of re* lief,'' until it shall have become reconciled usurpation and unlimited, unrestrained Republieaa rule? But we do not believe that the country experienced any sach sensation of relief two has been described, either at vers try to years ago, as the resalt of the counting of votes, or aj the method of reaching it; but rather, that, then and now they thought and think ot it as a shameful concession, without one redeeming element of manliness in the whole transaction. How else will (he de* feat of Hertridge and so many of the advocates of his and lurchards resolutions which essayed to condone if not to sanctify the fraud, be accounted for ? That the Democratic party was stagger* ed by the fierce blow given by ite own leaders, was shown in the last election, when its majority in the House of Repre sentatives was almort lost. Recovery of coaldence and enthusiasm can be effiected not by the nomination of any particular candidate, but by assurances not to be misunderstood that the rights of the Preei* dent elect and of the party will never again be betrayed. W* xue inbubtbb to the TaUshsssa Floridian for the interesting items which follow: Some time since a gentleman of West Florida seut to a Northern glass manufac turing company two or three tens of beach sand, In order that tta quality might be tested. Tha test w»s made and a report returned that the result was all that could be desired—the sand containing every ele ment necessary to make tine glass ware. Not (long since, when the workingmen employed in tearing .down an old wall In 8t. Augustine, had come to the foundation stone, there was found two images hewn outef coquina rock. One seined to have been Intended to represent a human head and bust, while the conclusion In reference to the other Image was that It waa a rude representation oj a horse. They will pro bably be sent to tbe Snaf hsonlan Institute. OUR RBBU3T TREASURER. Tbe Philadelphia Tlmea, of Sunday, thus talks ;of City Treasurer, Francis Vincent, Esq.: " Wilmington's City Treasurer, ex Aider man Vincent, the historian of Delaware, member of the Cobden Club, antagonist of Sam Townsend, whilom editor of the "Blue Hen's Chickens," maintains his attitude of dignified opposition to what he considers tbe cneroaehteg demands ef City Connell. He won't let that body overdraw Its appro priations, and he won't furalsh li a list of the {interest accounts due loan holders on the 1st Instant. The City Council is not much bigger—round—than Vincent, and the fight Is about an even thing so far." WANTED-An agent In every city and " town to Lnt oduce our Stationary pack ages, $8.1)1 a day sure. Write for 8am pi and Terms, CHARLEB T. EDWARDS. 1080 Market street Pblla, Fa le E. S. R. BUTLER, : 420 Market St. Has for / ale a large assortment of Useful and Ornamental ARTICLES, SUITABLE FOR HOLIDAY PRESENTS, CLOTHING. SPECIAL SALE FOB THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS, -AT THE BOSTON ONE-PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE 213 MARKET and 212 SHIPLEY Sts OVERCOATS FOB MEN, YOUTHS, BOYS AND CHILDREN. jin order to clear our stook of a line of EAVY OVERCOATS, we will, allow om 20 1 er cent, count from our present! ow prioes marked plain figures. Come early and make your selection. in We will allow this same discount on Odd Suite," ready made rom eitlie r department, YOUTHS' BOYS' OR CHIL DREN. Those il some MEN'S are and demand attention of|all in'want ol CLOTHING. I, AL80 IN OU$ CUSTOM DEPARTMENT we have a large Invoice of SELECT PAT TERNS, and will extend the discount, To them, Now is Is your time for a CUSTOM SUIT. Fit, Style and Workmanship guar anteed. V ,E. HOLMES, PROPRIETOR. hfve some splendid CLOAKINGS Air you, at very low prices, wii. cut audjmake'the um -— «£— • five dollars, H g. N. BMELTZ. W. T, STRACGHAS WM. CARR. CASK. SMEITZ & CO. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERS, Produce Commission Merchants AND DEALERS IN Limits of all kinds. OONSiaPtMBMTS SOLICITED, AND RETURNS PROMPTLY MADE. N. W. CORNER FOURTH AND KING STS. WILMINGTON DEL Our Retail Department Is stooked with the choicest, groceries of all kinds, which w« sell ae low as can be obtained many Eastern City. Our stock of Teas, i-ugars, Coffee and Sploe* is fresn ana pure, and lower than ever so.djiu Wilmington, CARR; 8MELTZ f O. FUN FOR I THE MILLION! 5,000 PIPES GIVEN AWAY ! Come andget a pound of Good light, or (lurk NAVY CHEWING TOBACCO in, , Cants ner pound a* l a present of a 25 Cent pipe. Ora pound of good Hmokm* ROUGH <t READY and a 10 Cent Pipe, TEN THHOU8 AND POUNDS OF TOB1000 AND 100,000 CIGARS THAT MUST BE CLOSED OUT BEFORE THE FIRST OF JANUARY. FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS OP ODDS AND ENDS AT MO IT ANY PRICK' Hard times and no work calls for Low Prioes. And you And taem at The Great Tobaooo Mart, S.W.OOR irHASHIPLY srs., WILMINGTON DEL, A. A. CHAPMAN. ORIGINATOR OP LOW PRICES. P.S. Remain Ter this offer holds good until January 1st,1879. NOW ON HANL ) A FULL LINE OF THE LATEST IMPROVED stoves, Heaters and Ranges, ESPECIAL ATTENTION IS CALLED TO.THE LARD L STOCK OF SECON I-HAND OFFICE AND PARLOR ST07ES. In good condition which is being sold CHEAP. House Furnishing Goods. AT THE STOVE AND HEATER EMPORIUM 0 H. F. PICKELS, 7 & 9 E. FOURTH STE5 jt'l sep2k 'in 19. Old I'ovss taken In exchange. H YOU CAN'T STOP US! M WE ARE BOUND TO 3 P ti HALL'S CO *• for; Cn o BOTTOM PRI ES -j Just received a Full Line of Gentlemen's, Women's and and CU11 clren's slioeR which I shall sell at the Lowest Possible Prices, whlcn x r ■ have marked down to meet the times. I am bound to take the lead fall. Call and be convinced as to oheapness. We will not be underso il. 4 Men's Boots, Men's.Gslters, •T* Hoy's Boots, CD Also a Full Line of Ladles', Misses, and Children's full dregs Bhors a '■ 1 the Lowest Puss'ble Price for Cash. Remember the Place 507 M W* 8 Blrbet, Wilmington, Del., nearly opposite the Clayton House. Misses' Shoes, $1.00 and up. Women's shoes 1.00 " Children's $2.00 aud up. 1.25 40 1.50 GO J. Hall, Jr. CD CD e+ ENOCH MOORE, JK toy FOURTH STREET WHARF—DEALER IN LEHIGH, SCHUYLKILL & CUMBERLAND CO A! ELMWOOD for STRONG DRAFT/ INDIAN RID3E FOR FREE BURNING. Put in Oellars Free of oh.auS°' The best coal sold in the city, 2240 lbs. to the ton. Oak and Pine Kindling Wood BRANCH OFFICE, 618 STREET. JJR. CLANCY, 504 1VE3T SFCOND STREET. Boot and shoe maker. Tbe cheapest plane In the city to get the best hand mad ihoes. Either made ty order, or already nude JOHN Attornevand ConseIl®i* at La 814 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA ■ O'BYRNE, OitUnnsoi Delaware having 18 ® count)** ■ Philadelphia, or the adjoium* 0 »pS Pennsylvania, will ^ av L„ 0 niiJi« 1 ' 1 ? 1 properly attendod to,by® ism with him. lu and ( fp g