Wilmington journal., 1866-10-11
Commerce of Whining gton.

| bular Statements of the Exports OF our
Port for the Quarter ending September
30th, 1866, to which is also appended a
statement of the exports for the correspon-
| ding months of 1860.
1t may be well to add, that the months
embraced in the table are the dullest of the
year, the business of the Spring having
closed and that of the Fall hardly begun.
1t gives us pleasure to notice a very gen
eral revival of business III every depart
ment of trade Within the past few days,
Messrs. Williams IL Murchison, and Harriss
4 Howell have each added steamer to
their New York lines, and we have no doubt
Mr.. H. NJ Barry will soon put upon his
line another in place of the Starlight, which
was lost on her last outward trip. All OF
these lines, with Messrs. Worth Il Daniels
New York and Philadelphia lines, and
Messrs. Atkinson Il Shepperson's Baltl-
more line go and return with full cargoes.
The numerous sailing packets appear to be
doing a thriving business, and our Rail
road depots and wharves indicate the re-
newal of business.
The dry goods houses are busily engaged
in opening and disposing of their very
large stocks, and we are glad to see, from
the many boxes, packages, &c, marked to
merchants of neighboring towns i'll this
State and South Carolina, that the jobblng
business is" opening with fattering pros
poets. The stocks of our jobbing houses
are very complete, and merchants will find
by reference to our advertising columns
where fresh supply of all lines or goods
may be found, which are being disposed of
at such small advance upon Northern rates,
rs to make it the interest of small! buyers to
do their purchasing here.
We see nothing in the Tabular statement
we give to discourage us in regard to the
commerce Of our port, but on the contrary,
much to congratulate ourselves The com
parison is made with the year 1860, when
all our commercial affairs were in the full
tide of success and prosperity. The crop
Just made was the largest in most of the
valuable staples of Southern agriculture
ever known, money was abundant, and the
clouds of war which burst upon us during
the middle and last part of the succeeding
year, had not then affected our trade. There
seems to be Il general falling off in Naval
Stores, but in the articles of Lumber, Cot
ton and Il few others, there is gratifying
increase, while there seems to be Il new and
extensive business springing up in the ar
ticle of Juniper Slaves.
The present year our farmers are only re-
covering from the terrible devastation and
plumber their property was subject to at the
hands of Sherman's army, and on many of
the plantations the new system of labor did
not work we'll, while many of our best lands
remained uncultivated for want of means
or labor. With the new year. we trust
many of these difficulties will be overcome.
Our railroads are rapidly recovering, and
great line from here to Rutherford, which
is now paralyzed for the want of funds, and
we are glad to see that great efforts are
about to be inaugurated to complete the
Western Railroad from Egypt to some point
on the North Carolina Railroad. The COM
accomplished ct no distant day, and with
these works finished and in successful ope-
ration, Wilmington will not only continue
to bethe principal city of the State, but will
become the commercial emporium of the en-
tire inland country whose properpo we are,
but most of whose commerce now finds it's
way to market through Norfolk on the North
and Charleston on the South.
Farmers Club.
We are informed that the September
meeting of the Spring Garden and Rocky
Point Farmers Club was we'll attended at
the residence of DR.. Satchwell The Club
would be glad to see a County Agricultural
Society established, and view with pleas
ure the desire to re-organize the Agricul-
tural Society of the State. The gentlemen
comprising the Spring Garden and Rocky
Point Farmers Club, are imbued with the
right spirit, and are ready to unite with
progressive farmers i'll all parts of the coun-
ty and State in advancing the down -trod-
den cause of agriculture.
At this last meeting, that chivalrous SOL
dier, and gifted editor of the Wilmington
Dispoach, Capt. Benz. Robinson, was pres
ent by invitation, and at the request of the
Club delivered an address of an hour in
length. It is highly spoken of as an elo-
quent and admirable address. suited to the
occasion, aud showing his deep interest in
the welfare and prosperity of the farming
classes. Though not practical farmer,
he spoke knowingly and to the point on
questions of vital Importance TO the far
mers.
A committee was appointed to report
hereafter on the subject of labor, and by
correspondence abroad, as well as at home,
to ascertain, as far as is practicable, what
mode of employing the negro seems best,
that is, best for the negro as well as his
white employer. The indications are, that
it is better for the employer and employed,
that the negro should work on farms by
the year at stipulated wages, and express
terms,