Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-10-27


Tho fall term of Superior Court of New Hanover
oonntz convened at the Court House in this town on
Mo,d,v morning at halfpast eleven O'Clock. His
Honor Judge Gillian, presiding. For, reasons best
Known to his Honor, the Court was adjourned, ard all
parties discharged for The present term
In al swer TO a communication slgned u, reiatlVe
to the adjournment of Court on Monoay IaS', lmneol
ateIy after converting the same, We have only to say
that we see no reason for publishing everything we
know. Judge GILLIAN, no doubt, acted according to
his hest iudgmept, from information obtained from Off
GERS Of the Court. In announcing the fact that For
reasons best known to his Honor, the Court was ad
iourned" Sc, We certainly meant dsrespect to the
Ludce rredi; e. and had intention of misleading the
pubc, or ipugring Judge GILL1AMs right to adjourn
the Court vi ich be id in consequence of reasons pre-
scented to his Hocor by others II open Court. Judge
Gu11.,,. no doubt, acted as any prudent man would
have done uL1er similar circumstances.
ALong Vtar.
Monday forenoon we picked up accidentally, in
store. an almanac for 1864 1t was but advertis-
ing affair sent cut to proclaim The virtues of Hosetter's
Btters or some such thing and it was in German at
that which vas pretty much The Greek 10 US,
only little more 50.
was for the year of cur Lord 1864 which year has 366
day. Evidently long year. The extra day CONES to
it as being leap year. Who has thought of leap year
Who has laughed over leap yeas? Nobody that we
know of.
But the year has been long Cne-lcnger than the
single extra day could make t-than twenty, thirty,
sixty, ninety, one hundred days could make it. The
eye-the thought-tbe mind has been fixed upon mat
iers of the deepest and most painful Importance We
have seced to see the bloody battle fields of Virginia
and Georgia. We have seemed to hear the groans and
sbrieks CT the wounded md the dying. We have
seemed TO stand by The heroic Lee and could imagine
him. in moments Of into,erable PRESSURE exclaiming
Ike Wellington, Oh, for winter OF reinorcements!-
Watching The ubolo cuEr;nt OF the fight day by day,
and almost hour by hour. free to confess that
this year Of our Locd 1864 has been the longest year
In our whole If. Il soes as thethree years OF the
war had put space ba@ean our present and our past
life that memory itself can hardly epan. We cannot
tell whether it is so with Others but suppo8s it is
When THE cruel war is ovsr," and we have achieved
our independence az, with Gods help SHALL the next
generation will owe deep debt TO this, which surely has
sacrificed and is daily sacrificing itsf to the in
which it is engaged The specuator the adyenturer
may fatten ana feel good in the midst of public suffer
ing and uncer,Uls nut every true citzn must suffer
deeply, and realize IN months TIE eject CT years.
SoRGHUM-I':rhe2s o crop il ancient modern
times has obtained SO rapid diffusion, met with so
decided G SUCCESS IS that o. tie plant which forms
the caption ii this article. Cat Of from the markets
of the wcrIG, deprived OF the use oil our own semi,
tropical IegiOuG, Tie SouthCn STATES have this year
made an amount Of n.olaas-s, more than enough TO
supply all lis wants, and b7 tie next season will
have learned and adopted he Tc0e Of making its own
sugar. for experiment has plainly shown thai tue juice
Of the sugar INLET, gsown il the South, can be made
10 grauulate with N.te more difficulty than that Of
the gugar,cune. GIcwO farther rorh, we think the
experiment is orc Of doubtful success.
Sorghum seems almost to have taken The PLACE Of
cotton. It is grown everywhere and by everybody,
and seems to be everywhere productive and remunera-
tive. Introduced originally by the North with the
view of rendering that section independent ct slave
grown sugar. las tuEutd out eventually to be one OF
the most useful saud sys OF the block ded South aud If
the war continuoa vii ha.Caec be established as one of
her most remucerativ2 crops.
We had the ilcosuro Monday OF a visit from Mr..
E. E. OVERALL Of the ArI1y Argus md Crisis paper
devoted mainly TO army news Mr.. OVERALL wishes to
publish The deaths aD0og tie soldiers for tie informa-
ton Of Surviving rcltig5g and requests Surgeons 10
charge Of hospitals in this State to rward to Army
Argus and Crisis Mobile, lis5 OF the deaths in their
several hospitals either weekly monthly, stating name
regiment and COMPANY to be published for the infor-
maticn of relatives.
DI-GRACEFUL Tie Western n. {. Sentinel, pub
ished at Winston, Fo~sytde County, =. @, says we
blush to announce that report has reached Us, too
well authenticated TO admit CT disbelief that c0rsdera
BILE number Of the Home Guards, Militia officers and
ne,0 stripe Magistrates from the eastern part of this
county with numbeI Of others from other counties,
since the call for CUehird so TO Goldboro TO defend
the State have banded Themselves together and gone in
q different direction The obscondIs, the Sentinel
says are composed mailIy Of detailed men, dessrters
and some Home Guards, and Militia officers.
Der of horses too have been stolen and taken of
a few weeks ago there wGs lear and just grounds for
fear in regard TO Richmond Now, IS We learn from
gentleman just come cIn there, there is no aPprehe2-
sion and 10 grounds 5r apprehension. II Grant gets
a thousand ren q Gay, Lee receives acc2ssiong more
than sufficient to counrbaI4nce a that Grant has got
or caa.get, and Of better material They say now, and
they say it with perfect confidence st Richmond,
Grant bas got here, and be can't get here, and
never WILL AS for victua's, Lees army has plenty
and fer any reasonable length OF time.
WILMINGTON. n. c., Oct. 24th 1854.
Messrz. FDITORs:
An Act TO provide tobacco for the army eracts
shall ba f4rI he'd everg enlisted in the
the Confederate States ration OF tobacco.
The BoldeIs 10 and around Wilmington would like to know
If they enlisted and III the service OF the Coined
crate states ard they are 50 considered, Why ID that