Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-11-03

The Richmond Examiner stiEs ambition Tha
print goes back century in It's orthosrapny, and ia k
OF honour and tGU0ur and Publack aud democrottck
Now we have q half mind to anre-date Ii is hun-
dred years or more. We are suddenly ee'z.d with d
desire be truly venerable and antique, this is The
result:
Ye recente news from Kennecticatto indicates thai
ye pemccranq1e partye hav played belle with y
B'acque Repuocanne leaders. We boDour theil
spunke. Ye Southcrne Repubjque will consydre the,
gn0minie with due reioy yciDgea.
We think VIZ have seen the Examiners one century
and gone tw' b"tter- Macon Telegraph
CAPTAIN -Yes,rlny lulIo p ug receivr d
at Lhyds ag-nt al scbed to me sVage ASS ei4
,on who had jnst aT:ved from emerhsven :-' Friday
eept "a large teamer is repo te3 to have put int
Nleuiiep Saturday. With F,ench colcuts Dg fol a
plot boat put ou:. and cut ou-hoHrG Ths steam
then cut P-ussan colours and on reach,n
Brene ain ged colours and hosted The con
federate g. TIE pilot who to- her 10 B.nme be
liz SIZE sti here. She steamed 10 knots st ba
speed, and is reported to he under tie na"d of Cap
ts,n -eGmes Usfe II the .lebaaaa with 800 Oh
board, and is pierced for 40 shs l. said to haye
beeu bait at Bordea"x whore thers thrc: similar in
the OF hui ding The agent of Lol ds Assccie-
adds that the above information voueteered by
the pilot VIII, tcoG her Bremerhav Times
September lth
And still we do not believe a.word of is.-Journal.
Mnj.r Gen Hpke,
1nsiuuations derogaOry 10 this OH have been put
in circulation, cOm'ug from well Known source, and
We ud them repeated this morning in tieorgia paper
The charge is, that Gen. Hoke refused TO lead his
troops into action in charge lately orderd upon the
DnrbytOwn road. We have reilabe authority for say
lu! That the facts of the case these:
The attack upon the enemy was ordered TO be CON-
menced certain hour and Gen. Hoke hsd CEuers to
his division in POSITION aDd form portion OF the
attacking force at the hour named He did 80 but
the other oIce which to have actsu with him, Lad
anticipated the t,mshad goLe in and suffered repuse
70 lave put his division in under the circumstances,
would not nave been n obedience to ORDERS and would
have subjected it to like fate We have reason to be-
leve thai Gen. Hoke was approved for his caution-
H at tue right place at the right time prepared
10 obey The orders. 1t was not bis auls that circum
stances made this obedience impossible.
The effort to stir envy between Gen. Ransom and
Hoke, Is petty attemp' OF mailcs which will fail
la North Carolina both of these officers are duly
cberished-both will obtain in bissory the just allow
snce of their respective claims. They ale both too
wise and too pat oc to be drawn into anagonsm for
the qualification Of others Neither of them owes any
thing to the Virginia press for the distinction they
earned, and both OF them have to be
tent that their people hold in sacred esteem their
service and their character.-Raingh Confederate.
A SrArEexANs VlEw OF 7Hs Axxa1cAx QUESTION
The following extract from private letter, from one
of the most distinguished continental statesmen has
been communicated 10 US, and only regret that
not at liberty to give the of the writer
lave read great number of publications brought
out by the war in America, and among others Mr..
Williams Rise and Fall of the Model Republic" 1
was fsvolably impressed with its profound exposition
of OF this disa struggle, the good sense
and especially the adm iable moderation with which 80
sal and painful subject is treated 1t is assuredly m-
possible, after reading this book to be deceived BY the
language of aemagogues who conceal their subversive
passions under the of absurd and lying phi
The chapters which treat of slavery are
and crush that revolving modern hypocrisy
wicn is unfortunately the result Of the caous ego.ism
of cur age end civ alton. In my opinion the strug
gle beweea South and North is the natural and inev
liable const quence of error IN the Conssituton-a
noble error out still an error. The author to
suppose that the sovereignty of the individual States
could maintain itself But this supposition dsprov-
ed by the facts. 1t is not intelligence which guides the
masses it is passion which s1ays and DIRECTS thtm-
Every dereton tends to The centraEatlOn of power,
and the respect for the letter Of Constitution wheh
er asblpgt0u be its author no., will always suc-
c ,mb to t.. principle Of unity in the ate. ID uo!-
less toe var has the North today OojecI
than mai OF reduc ng the South to The coudion Ut
province. Every otuer motive Or object Is stmpy
pretex That the presldenual eieci bave been
great arena ia when the Co.'s tutor was first aoder
ined and then rttGOWn-that passions the
olent the most infamous IN the cuolce OF eaus, and
the most tenacious the hold have upOn
arena-a this is Gear, but st the bottom Of all this
the lust of power the desue of dominion, qaeny
the wish TO subugae those who are thought '.eaker,
and tbe s2lc guaran e. OF whose Independence is par
agraph in a. iea'y q Constitution. what is now
taxing place IN Germany infinitely smaller thea
tre Tue union the sovereign Stases Is llces
sanity attacked by public opinion, which wants tie
uul.y of Germany and not tie federation. therefor
see for the South NO alternative than bend ts
nead to toe central power OF Tic United States 10
s.paraIe tr0m them completely In oim,ug neu iede-
ration. ln the former case tne >u0tn wodd rhare tOe
OF tie Northern S ates IN tne second, the same
evil aua lhe s.cao teud 0cS siil toImont eouIedc
ratons uns Ill unlty ia the ons or the formally
established -LoAd0n lndsx.