DELAVAN, EDWARD C. 



DELAWARE. 



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equestrian statue in her honor. He continued 

 to preach in Paris from 1830 to 1840, and in 

 the latter year visited Rome. On his return 

 he became a canon of Notre-Dame; was 

 appointed arch-priest in 1844, Priest of St.- 

 Eustache in 1845, and Priest of the Madeleine 

 in 1849. The latter post he retained till his 

 death. He was appointed Bishop of Marseilles 

 in 1861, but declined to accept the honor. In 

 1868 he was selected to superintend the 

 religious education of the Prince Imperial. He 

 held the rank of Commander of the Legion of 

 Honor. He was seized, at the same time with 

 Archbishop Darboy, as a hostage by the lead- 

 ers of the Commune (April 5th), and brought 

 out at the same time with him and shot ; neither 

 his age, his learning, nor his well-known phi- 

 lanthropy, availing him any thing with the mad- 

 men of the Commune. The Abb? Deguerry had 

 published two orations on Jeanne d'Arc (1828 

 and 1856) ; " La Trappe better known " (1844) ; 

 "History of the Old and New Testament" 

 (1846); "Lives of the Saints" (1845); "Biog- 

 raphy of the Count de Clocheville" (1853); 

 " Retreat, preached at the Conferences of St.- 

 Vincent de Paul" (1859) ; " I? Orahon Domi- 

 nicale, Sermons preached at the Chapel of the 

 Tuileries" (1866). 



DEL A VAN, EDWARD C., an American phi- 

 lanthropist and temperance reformer, born, we 

 believe, in Schenectady County, N. Y., in 1793; 

 died in Schenectady, January 15, 1871. He ac- 

 quired by his enterprise and industry a consid- 

 erable fortune, and at one time owned a large 

 amount of real estate in Albany, including the 

 Delavan House, which he erected. In the prime 

 of manhood, more than forty years ago, he en- 

 tered with great zeal and energy into the 

 cause of temperance reform, devoting his am- 

 ple means to its promotion, and exerting vig- 

 orous personal effort in speaking, lecturing, 

 and writing on the subject, and employing 

 others in all these ways to further the cause. 

 He met with great opposition in this work, 

 and was more than once prosecuted by brew- 

 ers and distillers, whose manufactures of ale 

 and spirits he had denounced as " rat-soup." 

 He procured, about 1840, several drawings of 

 the human stomach when diseased by the use 

 of alcoholic drinks, from post-mortem exami- 

 nations made by Prof. Sewall, of Washington, 

 D. C. These he had engraved and printed in 

 colors, and made very effective use of them. 

 He also published for years, at his own ex- 

 pense, a periodical advocating, often with illus- 

 trations, the temperance cause ; this was sub- 

 sequently merged in the Journal of the Amer- 

 ican Temperance Union, to wbose funds he 

 was a most liberal contributor. He had trained 

 himself to public speaking, and became a very 

 efficient advocate of the cause he had so much 

 at heart. He had, within a few years past, 

 lost a large portion of his property. 



DELAWARE. The Legislature of this State 

 meets biennially ; the Governor holds office for 

 four years, and other officers shorter terms. 



The last (1871) was a legislative year. The 

 session opened early in January and closed in 

 April, having continued for thirteen weeks. 

 The body was unanimously Democratic in both 

 branches. The new Governor, James Ponder, 

 Democrat, elected in 1870 by a majority of 

 2,517 over Thomas B. Coursey, the Republican 

 candidate, was inaugurated on the 17th of 

 January. His inaugural address was entirely 

 devoted to a discussion of State rights, and de- 

 nunciation of Congress for extending the suf- 

 frage to uneducated negroes, which he consid- 

 ered "unwise in policy, unsound in principle," 

 and said would " be found to be in practice 

 greatly detrimental to the public interest." He 

 declared the measures adopted to secure its es- 

 tablishment "the most fatal assaults which have 

 been made upon our complex systems of gov- 

 ernment, Federal and State, since their organi- 

 zation. They were the unwarranted enlarge- 

 ment of the powers of the former, and the 

 practical destruction of the inherent and es- 

 sential powers of the latter." On the same 

 day, Eli Saulsbury was elected to the United 

 States Senate, for a term of six years, begin- 

 ning March 4th, to succeed the Hon. Willard 

 Saulsbury, his brother, whose term expired at 

 that time. The contest was between the friends 

 of the three brothers, Willard, Eli, and Gove 

 Saulsbury (the latter the ex-Governor), and it 

 culminated in the nominating caucus the night 

 preceding the election. Four ballots were 

 taken before a nomination was effected. The 

 first two showed only three ballots for Eli, 

 against 14 for Gove, and 13 for Willard Sauls- 

 bury; the next, one for Eli, 15 for Gove, and 

 14 for Willard Saulsbury; but the fourth, by 

 the union of the supporters of Willard and Eli 

 Saulsbury, showed 16 for the latter against 14 

 for Gove Saulsbury, and secured him the nom- 

 ination and consequently the election. 



In February Robert H. Davis was elected 

 State Treasurer by the Legislature, and Dr. 

 R. G. Ellegood, State Auditor ; and John H. 

 Paynter, of Georgetown, was made Secretary 

 of State by appointment of the Governor. 



There were but few notable acts of the 

 Legislature of 1871. One of the most impor- 

 tant related to the fisheries. Its chief pro- 

 visions are as follows: No person not a citi- 

 zen of the State shall fish within its boun- 

 daries without a license; such license shall 

 cost $20, and be limited to one year; the 

 penalty for the violation of this provision 

 shall be $50, and forfeiture of the vessel, nets, 

 and other tackle engaged, which, if condemned, 

 shall be sold, and the proceeds, after paying 

 costs, be divided among the captors. Any sher- 

 iff or constable shall have power to seize and 

 detain any vessel violating the oyster-law with- 

 out warrant, and, in the performance of his 

 said duty, may, if necessary, summon a posse 

 comUatus, armed with fire-arms and ammuni- 

 tion, and use the same, if forced to do so, in 

 execution of the law, and if maiming or death 

 follows it shall be considered justifiable, and 



