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F,VENINC4 Wednesday, May 4,18'70: TIIE DIMMER r While there is much reason for honest regret at the result of the contest for the District, At torneyshiP, the - unanimous decision of the . court of Common Pleas will be accepted as law, by the law-loving people of this commu nip% The regret is two-fold : first, that the in ' vestigations into the frandS of--the election of 1568 were not pressed a little further, so that tbe'will of -the - majority of the legal voters of Philadelphia Night have been executed; and seciind, that, whatever Mr: Sheppard's per sonal' merits and professional fitness may be, we lose, for the time, an officer who, during the short time of his office, has accomplished more for Philadelphia, in breaking :up the - gambling-houses_and_lottery-offices and other Iniquities which curse this community, than any officer who has preceded him. Mr: Gibbons has adorned/his official station by a career of integrity, courage and ability which we .can ill aflord to lose from any de partment of public service, and .we tiust that his supersedure, by Mr. Sheppard or by any, one else, will he beta temporary one. The Repub lican party owes it. to itself to take Mr. Gibbons up, and re : elect him by such a majority as will leave all contest out of the question. The past contest hag been a most protracted, comp:heated _and laborions --- business. - Time, money, and talent have been freely. expended upon the difficult task of USearthing the rascally plot to defeat the will of the people of - Philadelphia, and after all, it'is shown that, the laborers stopped short of success, whether un able to go farther, or believing_ that' they had gone-far 'enough, we know not. Mr. Sheppard will undoubtedly endeavor to . _ discharge the arduous duties of the office thus asssigned him, honestly and conscientiously. If he shall 'succeed in carrying out the good work of reform which Mr. Gibbons has so _ well' begun, it will be - a fortunate - circum stance for Philadelphia, and will go far to temper . the disappointment which the un avoidable conclusions of the Court have necessarily caused among a large body of our best citizens; THE DELAWARE RE VOLIITION. The certainty that the negroes will vote next fall has caused a greater Commotion in Dela ware than in any other of tbe Northern and Riddle States. The noble soul of the model Senator Saulsbury not only is filled with rage and•anguish at the thought that black men will attain to the dignity of citizenship, but he is in. keen distress because hp, foresees that such an accession to the Republican vote will destroy Lis power in the State. The Saulsburys and the Bayards for years have divided Delaware between them ; and each family has ruled in its own section with imperial power over sub missive and unquestioning vassals. While voters could' be openly botight in the lower counties, as they are bought at every eleetion, and While Delaware was filled with a race of Democrats so bigoted and ignorant that the proverbial Berks county Dutchman seemed a miracle of iiberality_and intelligence compared with them, there was nohope for Delaware. She was bound band and foot in the thrall of her rulers, and her respectable people were doomed to the constant humiliation of being represented in the Senate of the United States by a hopeless .41ebauchee._The_negro vote will change all this; itwill kick Saulsbury out, and give the State into the hands of Republicans who will wake the people from their lethargy.and recon struct the government. __lf the better men of the State get into power they will abolish the whipping post - and pillory; - they will organize a common school system,— for Delaware never had one, under State direction; they will send decent men to Con greMand overthrow the authority of the Sauls bury-Bayard clique ; they will have a Legisla ture which will encourage every enterprise that will develop the resources of the State and add to its wealth, and will take some measures to bring the benighted people of the lower counties into cont r act with that outside world with which , they are at present in little sympathy. In all that makcs a:State rich and powerful and entitled to respect, Delaware is fifty years behind — her sisters; and the fault is chai•geable entirely to the Democratic party; and its miserable bigotry - and•conservat4m. We believe that in future years rum will' date the beginning of a new era for the. State from the day the. first negro vote is cast. The blacks themselves may not possess gr9ter enliglionient than the mass of the white people; but they will vote with the Republican party, and the success of that party is Delaware's direst need at this moment. CIVIL SEILVICIL Mr, Jenekes has at last got his Civil Service bill up, .irtthe Rouse. The subject of the re; - form•proposed in this bill has been exten sively discussed, for a year past, and the essen tial principle_ of competitive examination for the twenty 7 odd,thousand offices comprised in the bill, is generally Understood. The Civil Service' reform, has been : very deliberately matured, 'and will be fully discussed in Con gress before it is put upomits,passage. It is, in some aspects, one of the most important.mea sures ever presented to that body, revolatior kcing, as it doeS, the - whole,sy,stem' P of American office-holding. Faithfullysarried oat; it cannot fail to introduce a great element of strength , into the whOle political fabric_ of the country. Our present system', under , which ignorant, vulgar, and incompe tent persons fill thousands of important offices; is as demoralizing as • it-can well be; and the constant fluctuation in almost all offices. does . 2 an incalculable amount of mischief both to the public service and to those tho zeek its air pointments. We trust that Llr. jimeketi . B bill will 'be thoroughly and dispassionatoty and that the experiment which it po,- I- of I —r Tr '