Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-11-07
The Prospect Political.

SO tar as may now be judged, from general ind.
cations throughout the country, Buchanan and
Breckenridge will be elected President and Vice Pres.
ident of the United States for the next four years
Their cabinet will of course be Democratic to the
core and then administration signazed by the main.
tenance of their partys creed viii all the means
available for that end. The next Congress, too tits
now sufficiently ascertained, will be Democratic By
considerable ma GRITTY
If these things be thus, disunion would seem to be
at present not on y impracticable but undesirable
Little as many OF US may seem to hope for in the
successful career of strong Democratic Admnistra
ton, yet al at least willing to await it's results
and TO profit by its riumphs if possibly the Confed
eracy may be rescued from disruption thereby
Another week will tell the result of the furious
contest now raging around US, and perhaps fore
shadow the final destiny of our country. ii is time
for patriots to reflect deeply and to act wisely. Be-
cause IN this issue is involved not only the conn'
uance of the American Union, but the further and
higher problem as TO whether man is capable of self
government.
We confess to being among those who look with
hope, aye, with conf 1ence, to the Buchanan term
We do so, because is the Democracy of the coun.
try that will guide the measures of that term and be-
cause it is the South that will direct with potent
voice the councils of that dominant party 1t vii be
a term of open war between Conservatism and ReVo
luton, the former necessarily carrying in it's wake
the rights and equality of our section. We believe
that the term will be a triumphant one for we
not realize that, in this 10Th century, and under our
free institution, great political struggle like this
can terminate otherwise than favorabIy for the causs
of truth and justice. -Edgefeld advertiser,
THE MYSTERIOUS ORaAN-About an hours jour
| ney from Albersweiler, and in a beautiful valley,
lies The village of Euserthal, which takes its name
! from convent that once celebrated, but has now
completely disappeared. The choir of the convent
church is however, still left, and is used as place
of worship. All sorts of things are said in the vii
Iage about the enormous wealth of the convent, es
pecally about certain golden organ that once stood
in the church and played during divine service
When the onvent, one occasi on was attacked Oy
enemies, the first of the monks was to secure
this treasure. They dragged il to marsh that was
formerly in the valley, and sank it deep as they
could However, they had saved their treasure to no
purpose, inasmuch as they were compelled to n.y.
and died in distant paris while the convent fell 10 rl'
in. Every one is perfectly aware that the organ IL
still somewhere in the mel ghborhood of the church.
but the precise spot where it lies is utterly unknown
Nevertheless, every years it rises out OF tos
depths at midnight and its sublime tones are heard
in the far distance. Nothing is at all comparable "
the gentle breathngs of the golden pipes in the open
air during the solemn stiffness of the night. SooT
the soft tones swell into mighty pillows Of SOUND
which rush through the narrow valley until the nol'
again subsidies, and ends with light echo in the Ioi
est. But no one has ventured to obtain sgnt u
the organst who holds the music in his power anu
thus the discovery of the treasure is reserved Tor '
tuture.-Germdn Legend.