Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-06-28
Wilmington.

We paid short visit to this noble little city Friday
aG we're Bne wc bee rhrr pt
the Spring and early Summer pleased to state is
ness and business hustle OF former days.
1t has always been matter OF surprise to us that the
many advantages which wilmington presents as a,seaport
town. and trust that the inauguration of order
so s nF et Of SHn first
There several lines of steamers plying between
for the future that they have been well
tanned during the dull season.
The commission and forwarding merchants of Whining
ton display the requisite business energy and quatca
tions, and with determination SO manifest we predict
better business element exists than to be found among
those merchants
The other classes of business in the city, with
few exceptions we regret to say appear not to possess
to such degree that energy and talent which constitutes
successful merchants and we regard as natural conse
quence that they experience i'll its fullest sense the dull
of the times of which they much complain Very
few of them have shown the proper desire to extend their
business beyond the limits of the city, and long they
continue in this state OF merton they viii
secure poor measure OF success We look for improve
ment however this direction, and with that encourage
all means give them, may soon expect to see Whining
ton assume her due proportions, as commercial mart
We for the most part acquainted with the business
there and as prompt reliable merchants we recon-
wilson Ca,oLaian
We have on several occasions recently, referred
to the continued commercial prosperity of our
city, and we clip the above from very enter
prising contemporary, the Wilson Ctuolinian, to
show that our many advantages a shipping
point is being appreciated by people of the int
rior. The fact that our lines OF Steamers are not
only sustained, but their number is being in
creased, gives the most substantial proof of this
fact. Other ports, North and South of us, are
complaining of dullness, and we notice the with
drawal of steamers which have been plying be-
tween those ports and the Northern cities, ON ae-
count of want of patronage. At the same time,
in the midst of the duh season, the seven steam
ers which have been running between New York
and Baltimore and our city, not only filed
with valuable cargees, but during the last few
weeks, Messrs. Worth & Daniel have made an adj
dition to their New York line of one steamer, and
the same enterprising firm, announce in our adj
vertising columns, a line between this city and
which we believe and hope will be
as we'll supported those to bother Northern ports
With this new line in operation we will have
nine steamers plying between our port and the
Northern Cities of class superior to those for
merly coming to Wilmington. In addition, We
have several regular lines of sailing packets to the
same ports, all well sustained and of a superior
class e. -rs1l ST. RI Il
We refer to these matters with no little degree
Of satisfaction as evidence of the permanent foot
ing upon which the commercial prosperity of our
,ity rests. It must be remembered that the sur
rounding country had been overrun and impover-
shed by destructive marches of large and hostile
armies, and the agricultural industry was not only
ramped last year by the universal want of money
md the radical change in the system of labor,
'ut the farms of most of leading planters were
AIKEN charge of by the Freedmans Bureau and
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The past business has, therefore, depended inl
he most part upon the crops accumulated upon
he plantations during the war and which escaped
and brought to our city by railroads
luch crippled for want of rolling stock, and the
llapidated condition of their tracks ..s Ia
But now from most of the country, which either ,