Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-05-19

or the rise IN the price OF SOid One Ihngs nOWtV-
err nearly all other things have kept pace with the de-
precation and some of them gone far beyond it. Thus
bacon has gone to 40 prices, beef to so; chickens
about the same, and indeed nearly all the necessaries
of life tar above even specie basis. Things don't
work exactly rght.-DoHy Journal, 18Th instant.
We hear it frequently asserted that there is profit
upon cargCes brought in aud sold here, and that the
o1Iy pr2f is the outward cargo. Let US look at
few things where we have chance of comparing the
Nassau prices with those obtained here yesterday at
auction We take the Nassau quotations from the
Bahama Herald of the 4th:
ALo0HoL-Nassau. 81 90 per gallon; Wilmington, SO
q $3.50 to SO for 81.
BI-lAEB EoDA.-Nassau 4c. 43c. per Id Wilmington,
81 s. a $3-$66 30 373 for 81.
CcFFEE-<Nssgau. 18c. zoe. per lb Wilmington, $40
par lb.-S50 to $50 for 81.
COTTON CAaDs Nassau, Whittemore, No. TO- sl3 TO
$'4 per doz English, No. 10, sll sl2; Wilmington,
$50 to $50 per pair-s36 to $50 for 81.
CALF SAINs French Nassau, $50 10 $50; Wilmington,
s:O50-$3) to SO tuT 81.
sUaAa-Nasssu crushed Il l5c., brown s3c.; VIII
mDSon crushed $40 25 brown s86s to s73 for 81 she
Cru, he'd ard so to 500 for s. on the brown.
sULPH QUIN1NE.-Nassau. So Is per oz Wilmington
500 $50 per OF 3 SIS to s354 for 81.
BLACK iPPkK.-hassau IA l5c. per pound Whining
tor, g 6O-S5O to S533 for 81.
New here is an average of Sc for l. that is to say
two hu1dred per cent profit Nassau prices, allowing
exchange the full current rates. and all the articles
have quoted are pretty sure incIaded among
The articles rot prohibited 1t will not do to say that
tntse prices goods will not be brought In, Or that
tie PIE Its not sufficiently remunerative to tempt
capitalists to take the risk. The venture is paying
both ways and would be prices lowered one
half
N1g.T-
NAssAU.--We have been kindly favored with copy
OF the following letter, written in Nassau the 9th
instant 1t confirms former reports brought through
ohr chaDpels. The writer, Major HEYL1GER, is Con
Tolerate agent at Nassau -
C.Pr CARTER. STsAMEa CcoUsTTR,
Dear SIR: h4sren 10 communicate to you the latest
from the Trans Mississippi Department.
The Harriet. Lane and Isabel arrived Havana the
9th, from xss bringing 900 bales of cotton. The
counts abs ,lHtey glorious. SMITH and PRICE have
demolished BA and STEELE; they have had
eugageme hts troops successful In every action The
aggregate number of prisoners taken less than TO- G00
Al pieces Of 1000 wagons horses and mules in
Vulnerable have fallen into hands.
Capt SC0Tr, who has just arrived the Harriet Lane
says probable both the Federal armies will be cap
We have taken three gunboats destroyed several
and LICK TAYLoR says he will yet take them all! Cur loss
! in one two engagements heavy.
Wishing you, my dear sir, prosperous voyage and
| speedy return, remain
Very faithfully yours,
Mosr positively in the absence of mails from any
quarter hard put to work for acceptable matter
with which to fill the columns of the Journal In this
emergency copy chapter from one of the Northern
pamphlets got off upon ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 1t is
called The Book of the Prophecy of STEPHEN, the
Of DOUGLAS" We give the first chapter of the
sec end book thus:
CHAPTER l.
/. The Prophet sho'0s that War shall destroy the Land.
4 The Kings conscience an hcn- Glad Monitor. IL.
de hng nG9e Deq 1r H. Se%ord drnke
t2iul Abraham
that knew it and lcVed it, shall fee from it and know no
IL Fut remnant shall be left, the Democracy
which scended fom the mighty Chiefs o. the Revolution,
who aioretme had fashioned the laws and made the
Of their country to be feared to the uermUst ends of the
III But these shall great trbuation by reasoa of
the violence OF the folio of the Wooy Headed ORA
Ki Of he ~oo shall Tgn f for he Space o Of
thousand AID four hundred days. and all The days of
rue al be counts as scourge upon their people for
their slnss
monitor shall re an ron-cad 80 that shall be impene
trae ard stall be proof against the camors of III who
The CONSTITUTION which The King taken an oath to
support but which he worshipers Of the black Idol shall
swear he shall not keep, for they vi" have him to tEsmpe
V. Ard tie wrath of Abraham the King shall be knded
against the people because they love the Constitution and
Vi And he sha Cali i'm his purse bearer who is call
ed Salmon becauat he sScdy fish and shall com
An & IFS, 60 thou council with the chief rulers in
the temple OF Inc Dragon, how worry and punish
tie people because they will worship the comey black
Idol
VII. Ard they said with another Behold will
fiji tie land u OF ireeD5ack Locusts, which
the substance o. the people, and shall every little
ting to he OF an Xceedng great price, that but
will iced from tbs the temple Dragon
shall have the wheTewihsl Of lite.
Will All things shall delight King so that he
shall embrsce his scay bearer he that called
Salmon; and the wOlsIppers OF the black Idol sha sme
themselves for joy, because OF the suerngs of the wor
shipuers of the White dsltss.
* Lo in the midst of these reVelres sound shall be
h7a from aar, cunug up from the North and from the
ASE, ard from the WsE like tue noise OF many waters,
ana abraham the XII shall be seized with wonder
fear aId Snail send orth his ahfH trumpeters to search
CUT the caUse OF SO great a commotlon.
~ And they shall return quickly to tell the King how
Inc "orshIppers OF the White deities gathering the
mountains and in The vaies like of
crying aloud that the affairs buided by fathers shall
remain To- the and for their children
Lo lhese tangs shall rOuse the heart of the King,
mas MS nce shall change, and his looks shall be
cILne Tx unto That OF buzz ard that sick The hair Of
his flesh shall stand On end His ana his drinks
noush him, eVon his jokes shall become dry and
husky.
II. But when the eventide cometh sstha government
hoi Sleep and IN dream the shall appesr INTO him.
the King The constitution ia not enual to
the exegences o. the oase Z" dogmss of the quiet
pant not sufficient for the stormy present. the su-
auon piled high with difficulties, and therefore we must
rise With the OCCASION,