Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-08-10
The Crops Mt Home and Abroad.

honest intentions of the Masses and has not carried
them ont and it cannot.
The Crops n Home and Abroad.
With some local exception-some even in our own
neighborhood which have suffered from excessive
drouth has been the case on parts of the Sound
some again have suffered from excessive wet but
with such local exceptions these the prospects of
the various crops throughout the country, are very
good-nay, abundant. They tell great stories about
them IN the western States One man stopped al j
depot in Illinois, and asked farmer who had all his
barns full and five big stacks round them, why he
didn' harvest thirty five Of fine wheat
still Standing Law said the man. what's the
use Law, got enough.
The prospects i'll Europe are equally good, although
less certain, the harvest is much later there than
here. In the British Islands, the crop bids fair to be
abundant, and the potato crop of Ireland shows
not the slightest appearance of disease
Out of much evil good has at length to that
Country, and the social prospects of lis people are
really better now than those of England herself.
| The act for the sale Of encountered estates has
caused the landed property to pass into new and en-
ergec hands, while it has tended to break up that
monopoly in the soil which is eating into The very vi
tails of Great Britain. There are, this day great
many more owners Of land in Ireland than in Eng
land and Scotland combined.
HAY-The quantity of Northern and Eastern Hay
sold in this market is immense, and the amount of
money thus taken away for article that we can
and ought to raise at home, is very serious drain
f upon the resources of our people. We have time
and again drawn the attention OF cur farming COM
muny to this subject. 1t really makes us feel bad
every time a lot of inferior stuff landed
wharves from away somewhere about sunrise, and
our own lowlands ready to afford supply Of good
hay, and at a profit 10 the careful cu!tivator.
!. As an example of this, we would state that NJ.
Cronly, Esq Auctioneer sold at auction yesterday,
some 81 bales, raised by H. w. Beatty, Esq in
Baden county, which brought 81 35 per 100 pounds
and was superior to North River Hay, and fully
equal to the best Eastern, it entirely free of
briars and trash of every kind. In fact prime lot
We understand that Mr. Geo Prigge has also
grown his farm, or miles from town
which is OF good quality. Mr.. Prigge says that he
=, feels confident of making it much better next year
Il by paying proper attention to it.
All this domestic hay is cleaner and sweeter than
that brought here; and if we continue longer tribu.
tary to the North for so important article we are
q ourselves to blame. We have every chance to dc
y better, and we ought to do better.
Our Table.
e We have had before us for some time Harper anC
s. Putnam for August. for which we are endebted Il
MIR. Whitaker Harper is par excellence the popular
> magazine 1t is beautifully gotten up. profusely il
ustraed has plenty of readable matter, and It's choice
of subjects is generally good--seldom very common
I'd place and never too abstruse.
y Putnam has no illustrations-is not quite popu
3. lar in it's tone-s articles more original ant
te parake of the critical and scholastic characte
than Harper it is properly the representative
10 of the educated mind of the country than It's compet
= tor. 1t might require some leisure to follow the dis
Of QUESTIONS of Putnam-Herper you take relaxa
S. ton in the short intervals OF business afordng
Is elief from serious thought, not making fresl
&c demand upon the mind.
Backwood to, July we have from the publisher
Leonard, Scott & Co., New York. 1t is good mum
a ber " The Imperial policy of Russia, Zaidie,
q The story of the Campaign" ETC., are among tn
q leading papers.
70 0= The North Carolina University Magazine, 70
40 August 1855 is also on our table, The Magazin
"a is edited by committee of six students. The new
u committee lust commencing It's labors consists
81 Messrs. H. R. Bryan Clement Dowd ]. 8. Killebrew
II James A, Mcqueen, A. SolCNIn o0s
ST sion who come before the readers OF the MagaZn
y in a handsome saluatory.
ssNor A WING CoNcERN."-The result in SamI
son County has been referred TO as proving the as
serton that the K. n movement is not Wing in chal
81 acter. Let us see The strong Wing precincts
4. Mingo, Dismal and Westbrooks voted follows
49, Mngo, SIS for Winslow TO lis for Reid Dismal #
-, Winslow to 81 for Reid; Westbrooks, % for Wins
low to 80 for Reid. Some few Wing gentlemen
Sampson did vote for MIR. Winslow, as indeed som
vsry few here. They were the very limited exceI
tions The rule stands proved that every stron
tic Wing precinct in Sampson went strongly for Rel
land against Winslow, and Uice rersG.