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COUNTY DIRECTORY. -j — -mmm Pnmiidino Judck— Hon. Alfred Iteed. Lat Jddo**— Jos. E. Hughes, Cap* Hay city ; Jesse H. Divert/, Deqpisvilfef tamers C. Oind/; Tuckahoe. > e ♦ - OoMxiMroNsa Surplus Fund — J. B. Huffman, Court House. ixitiFF— William II. Banezet. County Collector— David T. Smith, Court House. County Clkrr — Jonathan Hand. pRPPTr " — Morgan Hand. Probucltos Plbas— James R. Hoagkad, Bridgeton. 00 aiooxta— William Hildroth. Co. Sur'v. Public Instruction— Dr. Maurice Beeslcy, DonnisviUo. BUSINESS DIRECTORY~~ Br. Tlieo. C. Wheatoa. U. S. Pension Examining Surgeon. SOUTH SEAVILLE, H.J.-— Wt%m All Soldiers who aro ruptured t&r**'11- can ho rpppPid with trusses, free of charge. Apply to above. Oct23y I. F.Leamiar, M. D., D. D. 8. \Y. 8. Leazclnr. D. D. 8. /. F. Learning, $ Son . DENTISTS. OFFICE DAYS c CAPS MAY COURT HOUSE, Thursday! and Saturdays. CAPE MAY CITY, Tuesdays, and W ednesdays. SOUTH SEAVILLE, Fridays. ruchOlyr. Physician and Surgeon , CAFB MAY COURT HOUSE. N. J. zachfilyr. J. B. Huffman, COUNSELOR AT LAW, SUPREME COURT COMMISSIONER, AND MASTER IN CHANCERY, Caps MAT C. H., N. J. J»-W!M bsathW office at Cape May City rr#ff £»tard«y. mclifilyr. Jas. H. Nixon, ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR AT LAW, Ornca in Insurlxcd BuJLDiyo, MILLVILLE. N. J. . Mrs. S. R. Conovcr, Fashionable Milliner , Miou Street, Below Pink, MILLVILLE, N. J. xacUOlyr L. B. CAMPBELL, DEALER IN STOVES, HEATERS, RANGES, TINWARE, CUTLERY, GLASSWARE, Ac., Ac. Hian Street, Millyillb, N. J. ■sohClyr j. p. IE Dealor in JMHSRS, CARRIAGES, HARNESS, Ac. MAIN BTRKET, NEAlt THE BRIDGE, MILLVILLE, N. J. ' mchOlyr iral II CJIPE E0AY C. H. LIVERY ATTA6HED. Horses always on hand, For Sale or Exchange. Lu Wiieaton. inch 61. yr CAPE MAY' tTlW, "CAPE MAY O. 11 MARBLE WORKS. MONUMENTS and TOMBSTONES. MSP" Jron and Galvanized Fencing and all kinds of Marble Coverings for graves. All orders will receivo prompt attention by telegraph or letter. Flag for curb. Ing work done at the shortest notice. Cnl! and see. A discount made on all rwk by calling at the yard. L. T. KKxniktN, Proprietor.

UNION / HOTEL, Cape May C. H. This long established Hotel is still open for the reception of permanent and transient guests, where all attention will be given to their comfort. William Eldridge. mchGlyr. A. YOURISON, mm mm, AND DEALER IN READY-MADE HARNESS, CAPE MAY C. H., S. J. PleaBe Call and Examine Our Stock! We have on hand a good assortment of Ready-made Harness, Collars , Bridles , Saddles, Whips, Robes, Nets, Blankets, Valises, Trunks , Etc., ALL OF WHICH WE ARE SELLING AT LOW CASH PRICES. o Open Wagon Harness a* low as $ 8 00 Carriage Harness as low as 10 00 AND MANY OTHERS OF DIFFERENT STYLES AND PRICKS. Gall and ace before purchasing elacwhcre, «oMiyr. A. YouHson. & L. STEEL, MANUFACTURER OF LAMES' m mw FASHIONABLE ' ■MS a! SIDES, GENTSf BUTTON CALF GAITERS ONLY $3.50, NEXT TO THE "GAZETTE" OFFICE. CAPE MAY C. H. Repairing neatly and carefully done. mehGlyr, GILM0RE A CO., LAW AND COLLECTION HOUSE, F Street, Washington, 1). C. Make Colleclions, Negotiate Loans and attend to all business confided to them. Lanu SoRir, Soldier's Additional Homestead Rights, and Land Wahicants bought and sold. It. L. Howei.1., SURVEYOR AND Civil Engineer, MILLVILLE, N. .T, Special Attention paid to leveling', establishing the overflow lines of pronosed ponds for mill sites, cranberry nogs etc ^ drainage works etc. Plan's undo, estimates furnished and snerifb cations drawn for Mills, Bridges ; Waterworks and All similar constructions or works at short notice, nxdifllyr

Effect of Population on Real Estate. The following paper was road by Win. Roberts, of South Vineland, at their Eighth of August Celebration : Fjuknds and Fellow Citizens : It is pleasant to meet and renew our acquaintance again on this the anniversary of the settlement of our town. And , there* is no theme so appropriate to thi< occasion, as that which bears directly, or indirectly, upon our prosperity, and the enhancement of the value of otii* property. I do not expect to present to you today anything new or startling, but by researching post history, and considering the population of some of the largest cities on the globe, and the causes of such a concentration of people, and then comparing them with our own large cities, it will enable us to look into the future of our own ; for "History repeats itself." It is the density of population that makes land valuable. Our Government sells wild land for §1.25 per acre, while, in many of our cities land is worth $1.25 per square foot ; and yet it is comparatively but a lew years ago that their sites were sold for $1.25 per acre. The vast fortunes of many of the millionaires of our nation, have been mad«i by the rise in value of real estate, And that increased value is caused by the rapid increase in population. We read with wonder of the immense population of London, Pekin, Yeddo, and- other large cities of the o]cl world. But did it ever occur to you that we have cities building close to us that will eventually rival those vast cities in population ? The population of New York in 1870, was 942.292, Brooklyn 396,099, Jersey City 92,546 ; total of three 1.420,937, and to day they contain more than one and one-lialf millions. There nre but three cities on the globe which exceed New York in population, taking the three as one city, and that is the only fair way to make the comparison, fo." j they arb suburbs of New York. London contains two cities, London Westminster, with a dozen other villages and burroughs ; but thev aro all called London, and it is probably the same with PeKin and Yeddo. The Parliament Houses, the Horse Guards or 1 Army Headquarters, the British Museum, the Palace, all the Government Departments, and the most aristocratic part of London aro outside of the city of London. Brooklyn and Jersey City are just as much a part of Now York, as they are of London. The city of Philadelphia and Camden, contain to day three-fourths of a million of inhabitants ; Newark, 105,000; Patterson, in 1870, 33,579; Elizabeth, 20,S32; 22,874, and the other parts of this .State, aro filling up more rapidly than any other State in tho Union. We have four large cities in or on tho borders of New Jersey, and several small cities that are increasing in population faster than any other cities on tho globe within tho same distance of each other. And the probabilities are that thev will continue to increase until they surpfiss " tfat>v lb os tMe i\s ejy populated parts "bf theglobe in tliis, or any other age; for "they have the commerce of a continent to impel thorn; yes, and I might say three continents — calling South America r continent — fqr tho commerce of South America will fall to us more, than to any other nation. Tho vast fcrtilo valley of the Amazon ; and the La Plata will bo rapidly opened up by tho steam navigation, nnd no nation is so favorably situated to control it a commerce as our own, and wo must exert a powerful influence over it, both politically and commercially. Largo citioa to bo continuously prosporous, must bo favorably situated to manufacture and supply a largo tract of country, or countries ; and are usually very favorably located for commercial operations. London is the. great commercial emporium of tho world. It controls the commerce of 234,000,000 of its own Empire, and has tho lion's share of the comtnoreo of othor nations. And it« population of 3,250,000 tell that its commercial arms must encircle the globe to maintain such an enormous population in one place, China and Japan, we have been taught, are the most densely populated countries in the world, taken as nations. But their vast enpi* 1 tals can only be maintained by manufactures and commerce in proportion to their populations* Royalty alone,

could not sustain them. Pekin has 2,000,000 and Yoddo 1,600,000. Paris has 1,825,000, and as most of you know,, is very largely engaged in manufactures of a profitable nature ; and its monarch* bare lavished the wealth of the nation upon it to make it the centre of civilization, and have a population to it which many doubt its ability to maintain. The only three cities on the globe outnumbering New York to-day, are London, Pekin and Paris. The prospects for maintaining large and prosperous cities on our sea coasts is greater than It is in any other nations in this or any other age. We are comparatively in our infancy as a nation ; not having reached our first centennial, and with a population of only 40,000,000, wo arc building cities rivaling in population many of tho oldost cities of the most favored nations. Wo have but merely scratched tho surface of our continent in our efforts to obtain some of its rjddbx wealth, which only needs capital and labor to dovolop it, and place us in tho front rank of nations, as producers of everything that the highest civilized nations require. A olokioi's future js before i*s ! Numerous railroads will be laid across our continent to the Pacific, and the trade of the East, which has enriched the comxncrcial'nalions of all ages, will pour a fair share of its wealth into our lap. All of those commercial cities and nations of tho Mediterranean, Trey, Tayre, Carthagenia, Venice, and others of whose splendor wc read, drew tjif.ir wealth from those densely populated Eastern nations. But with the discovery and use of the Mariner's Compass, the commercial sceptre left the Mediterranean. It passed from Venice to Holland; fiom Holland to England, and with tho expansion of commerce, we are becoming the centre of the commercial world. Tho commerce of the Western nations of South America is coming, nnd will surely com o under tho control %of our Pacific States. The Pacific Ocean will bo traversed bylines of iron steamships, and other vessels, and very much of tho light, valuI able merchandise, the products from j ; the millions of Asia, will flow into, and ' across our continent by rail, to its European and South American markets. The iron and coal of Groat Britain lias boon the means — more than any- | thing else — of placing her where she is, ] as the leading naval nnd commercial j nation in the world. And with a failure I of her coal mines she would cease to bo tho chief manufacturing nation, and first navul power. Yet we have 140,000 ! square, miles more coal than the entire | surface of the British Isles, and iron 1 enough to supply the world for ages to i come. Pennsylvania alone, lias more j coal and iron than Great Britain, and ' the easy grade of its railroads from the mines to the seaboard will make ukr a ' formidable rival in the iron markets of , the world. The most profitable part of the commerce of the world will be carried on in j iron steamships very much more in tho : future. The quick nnd more regular | transit will better conform to the age j we live in. And the Delaware River , will bo a formidable rival to England in j thnf profitable branch of the iron bu«i- ' noss, tho building of iron steamships. Tho Clyde may well look to her laurels when the Delaware launches such iron steamships as may bo scon floating on j her waters, and carrying the United States flag. The largest iron steamship afloat (except the Great Eastern) was ( built on the Delaware, at Chester. Pa. . And the Pacific Mail Steamship Company have just closed a contract with j John Roach, of Chester, for three more | iron steamers for their line at a cost of , §700,000 each — and have proclaimed to tho worn! thai they cannot be built cheaper or bettor at any other place in | tho world. The Reading Railroad Company are'l preparing largely for building iron j steamers in Philadelphia. They have extended their road to Chester. PaM j with tin eve to its future importance j in heavy iron manufacturer and ship ; building, Choafrr has waked from its j "Rip Van Winkle sleep." and will soon%J number It* 100,1X10 inhabitants, and it j U* only separated from us the Delaware river. Tho United States Government is building one of the fined navy yartb in the world at League Island, below Philadelphia, where the facilities for j building iron war steamers is equal to ; any point In the world. In Wilmiiuj ton, alone, two hundred and twenty-five iron ships hive been constructed. The ; iron ship building of tha Del* war* {

would astonUh the world, if i U statistics And progress was minutely rendered. These things All show the new role the Delaware is to plAy in coznmcroe, and in war. Other mineral resource* are adding to the wealth of our nation which there is not time to review here. Gold, silver, quicksilver, copper, lead, in fact every week is bringing to our view national resource# before unknown to **#, With the settlement of our vast territory and the development of our resources, new States will be. added to our "Union ; manufactories uwl tntauu commerce will follow, cities will be built throughout the whole continent. Commercial cities and ports of entry will be built on the Pacific coast frpm Puget Sound to the Gulf of California as our nation advances from infancy to man- , hoed. But with the development of the : West, and the building of inland cities I the eastern porta of entry will surely j keep pace, as we can see by the com- j parative growth of each. The three most noted" cities of the west and the three most advantageously situated for inland commerce, and the eclat of whose remarkable growth has spread over the civilized world, are St. Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati. Their | increase in population from I860 to 1870 ' was as follows : St. Louis, 100*645; Chi- • cago, 129,723 ; Cincinnati, 66,175, total 1 increase of tho three cities in ten years, 345,459. The ixicreuBe of our three ports ! of entry close to our home in the same ' time were as follows. New York, 112,- \ 703 ; Brooklyn, 129,639 ; Philadelphia, | 108,293. Total, 350,473. Then Jersey City and Newark, which nre close to | New York, increased in the same time : 85,000, making an excess of increase in : favor of our ports of entry, and close j proximity, of 90.000 more than the j three great comtne.-ciul centres of the j west ; nnd this ratio of increase in cur ports of entry w ill continue as our commerce both foreign and domestic exfund*. Philadelphia statistician* tell us that more houses were built there in 1872 j , than were built in Chicago, notwithstanding their great efforts to rebuild 1 the burnt district. We overlook our own vicinity while admiring the rapid : growth of the Great West. It does not require a prophet to fore- i tell the future of South Jersey. Let j I any one look into the history of other j j nations. And then note the rapid do- \ : velopmcnt of our own country, with ita 70,000 miles of rail roads, 40,000 miles j of navigable rivers and canals, and in- | land seas whose commerco rivals our : foreign com merer, and a Tory large pro- . j portion of this vast trade converging on \ i New York and Philadelphia, and thru j J add to this the part wc shall surely take | in the commerco of tho world, you can ' see that our ability to build and mainI tain immense citias iv greater than that j of any nation. We have 2J millions of people to-day j in Now Jersey and tho cities that are only Separated from us by steam ferries. ; ! and that population will surely be j I doubled in time. The demands of foreign and domestic j commerce upon New York and Phiia- j ! delpliia will force them to extend their . ' limits into New Jersey. Brooklyn was. I the out-growth of New York, and now j sho is spreading rapidly on this side of j • tho Hudson : Jersey City, Newark and j j Elizabeth are- building up rapidly. New , 1 York must have more wharfage, the must have more docks, and thoso things ; I she must seek on the Jersey side of the I . river. A ship eanal will surely be cut j from Newark Bay to Newark, in time i j making twelve miles of wharfage, and | even Newark will yet be n part of New | York City, for she i< nearer | centre of that city now thr.n* the upper part of the city itself. Excursion tickets to New York and back cost the chums ! of Newark fifteen cents, nnd trains run *■ * i every few minutes. Philadelphia is spreading itself on ' this side of thf Delaware, nnd Cauulen i will number 100,003 inhabitant* before i many veers have passed. Permits for building 1,600 homes were u*ued in ■ Ou in den last year. The cities of Camden and Gloucester will soon join each other, j The c fleets of those cities are felt all over the State* The average value of our farm lands i* over twenty dollars per acre more than the average value in any ' other States. j Our market garden product exceeds in value over 1,000,000 dollars more than that of any other State except j New York, The manufacturer* in those great cities are seeking cheaper sites for < their manufacturing cutablithmtnta, and '

are cheaper* ^ And nowhere can ing up ibis Stale. Cheap and rapid traaaii virtual*/ annihilate space, fifty mile# by railroad is not ao much apparently as ten by turnpike, and every improvement thai lessen* the cost of transportation, vixOur transportation will be cheapened will be made to economize steam, and other forces of nature will be better understood and controlled by sub, and will be applied to mechanical and propulsive uses. A gentleman living fn this town, who i does business in Philadelphia, told me : this week, that be west to his office in Philadelphia, and arranged the business j for tbe day and was back again td his I home a few minutes after ten o'clock, a. in., and at the cost of only sixteen cents each way, by buying a yearly ticket. We are apt to complain of railroad companies ; but I think we should not be willing to go back to tbe old stage coach mode of j traveling again. And I believe tbe raill road managers will give us more trains and cheaper fare as our business requires it. and it will fat, and we canj not in justice ask more, j In all our cities and manufacturing I towns thera are workmen who have laid up money enough to buy a small, > cheap borne, who retires for tbs reason j of from poor health, old age, or a deterj minstion to stop working for others and | c unmence for themselves . Such men will find such hemes in New Jersey ^ I cheapet and better than anywhere this j side of the W estern States. For in the i States of New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut, and aoine other seaboard State#, it L impossible for a man of small means to buy a home, for the land is all in large farms costing from seven to twenty thousand dollar#, and the » r ! owners will not divide tbem. This will send thousands of men into New Jersey to make homes. Market gardeners and fruit growers will occupy more and more of this land ; as population increases in the cities. 1 Man is naturally nrone to complain of his situation and circumstances. But ! whan a man, a town, or a nation."1 work with determination for an object, and | work iti harmony, they accomplish wonders. I ^ Venice was built on clusters of smsli I islands, end could not spar* land enough | for street*, and yef#he ruled the eomj mercial world and dictated to kingdoms. \ Holland would be submerged but for ? the dykes she has built to keep back : the sea . and yet her flag was carried to, ! respected, and feared in every sea. I And she carrier 1 her cannon to the gates I of Loudon itself. Great Britain situated on three small ; island*, who** w hole surface is not half as large as the state of Texas, but the j susi never goe* dowr. on her possessions, ( and her empire numbers, according to | ike la>i census just taken, 234.0lki.000 I in habitants. Boston, with tnore disadvantages than j any other of our s^a-pori#. is leveling j down historic hill*, and filling up the ; *ea to spread herself Boriug tun- : nels, rivaling in magnitude that of ; Mount Cennis through the Alps; exi tending her railroad*, and influence I over States with an energy tliai com- : mYikdt ti»c ... wvrld ; ! ami make* herself a formidable rival of | her more favorably situated commercial | Motors. With such examples before us, what may we not predict for our nation, niiu our own especial josition in the nation, for the lessons applies to us as a city, the name in proportion as it does to nation*. We must encourage the development of (Mir surrounding country ; for a eitv could not expand if surrounded by n wilderness Let us be trjie to ourselves ; let biek- ! ering* and needless strife cease, and let ' there be ft n honorable rivalry among us ; to excel in (A^rything rtrarrt^reditable, and will add W^M^fuoapentys and the development of South Jersey A Let us make Yhudnnd a centre of iradMorthe surrounding country . To do this vr* must tnake it an object for them to come hero and buy our merchandise and manufactured article. Fot people will m buy where they can buy cheapest, and you cannot get up a patriotism that will over-ride that principle, We must foMcr our school*. No one thing will attract more and better people to eettL among as thun a good and cheap system of education. In fact, the tn;m who i# retiring from bwsiuow, and who might bo attracted by the twauty of cur city would not *ettl# her# without Ihi* great privilege for bis family. And let us lend our influence, and give our auppori to our churches ; lor who i# there among von to-day who would settle with bis family where there are 110 churches., For religion i* the cement which binds nation* and communities together; it underlies our biws ; justice is lM»aed up on it, Ix lifts us in tbs ami# of morality ami brotherly love, ami makes us better neighbor*, aud bsttav friend*.