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Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27
The United States Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows,

This body, now in session in New York,
transacted no business of general interest
on Tuesday. There was, however, Il dis
cussiOn on the subj ject of nOn-benefcial
membership, in which representatives GA
rey, of Maryland; Stokes, of Pennsylvania; :;
Monroe, OF Missouri Thompson, of Mis-
souri,, and White, Of New York, participa-
ted. Without coming to a conclusion the
body adjourned.
At the close of the session the Grand
Lodge went on an excursion in forty car
riages to the Central Park. After pleas
ant ride the company proceeded to the He
brew Orphan Asylum, where the board of
directors awaited their arrival. After Il
brief introduction by Z. Grand Sire Ken
nedy and =. G. NJ Meyer Stern, JOS. Fat
man, Esq, president of the institution,
welcomed the guests and was appropriate
ly replied to by the Grand Sire, after which
the company were happily addressed by
Mayor Hoffman The Grand Lodge then
visited the institution, when they express
ed their approval of all that they had seen
and heard. Among those present were Su-
pervisor Hermann, Rev. S. NJ. Isaacs, AL
derman McGinnis, Colonel Jochimsen and
others.
The Grand Lodge then proceeded to the
High Bridge, and subsequently to several
charitable and benevolent institutions,
where they were cordially received. Spe-
cial invitations had previously been receiv-
ed to visit institutions named as well as
others.
The n. Y. Express says:
The Odd Fellows who are meeting at If
wing Hall, at present, are evidently lmDu-
ed by that spirit Of fliendhness ana entire
harmony 50 pleasant 10 behold IN such
large bodies. Thcrc are deputatlons from
all parts of the Union, and yet no quarrels,
no discussions, no open advocacy OF the
most opposite measures betray any dlscord
as existing among these people, whose ex-
ample should be followed by those church
members wIo intend meeting, apparently,
but to tlenounce and decry each other. In
these great lodge meetings the most friend
ly feelings evidently prcdominate. In the
synods aud meetings Of churchmen the re-
verse is the case; and we take notice of the
fact, because it i: 80 evident. Will not the
church people endeaYur tC meet as do the
Odd Fellows and Masons, as it would be SO
much more pleasant to record affairs OF the
kind, instead of witnessing the chickering's,
the wrangiings, the jealousics, and attacks
they generally indulge in. ~
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27
Views OF Gen. Bcnurcgar,l.

The New York Express contains the fol-
lowing
A few evenings ago party Of Southern
gentlemen gave dinner to Gen. Beaure
gard at the New York Hotel. In the course
Of his remarks ON the occasion, the General
stated that lie had received tempting offers
from English capitalists to take up his resi-
dsuce in England as superintendent of ex-
tensive engineering works in that country,
but he>had concluded, upon calmly survey
ing the different governments OF the world,
their status and their inherent strength,
that this country possessed the most stable
government of any existing on the face OF
the earth, and that, for his part, he was de-
tcrmined to spend his life under the flag of
the government that was the mos stable
and the least liable to disorganiZation. 1t
was nothing short of sheer nonsense to talk
of another rebellion. IF they wanted to
raise one they could not. 1t was utterly
impossible and Will be impossible for them
to do SO for the next generation. Before
the war he was in favor of State sovereign
ty, but he had had that dogma essentially
whipped ont of him, and thought that all
should now bend their energies towards
again building up our Union to that mag
niUcent status among the nations of the
world to which its destiny evidently points.
In conclusion, he would urge them to give
the government their support in every man
ner, making it their pride to add lustre to
the common glory of united people.
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27

season. The bale was delivered at the
depot on yesterday, and this morning was
forwarded to his commission merchant, in
Petersburg. Good for Wake We believe
this is the second or third bale raised in
the State and carried to market this sea-
son.-Raleigh Sentinel, 18Th.
| NORTH CAROLINA CoTToN-The first bale
of the new cotton crop of North Carolina
was received in this city on Sunday, by
Cyrus P. Mendenhall & Co. The sample
was forwarded by rail from Goldsboro', N.
| c.. It's grade is low middling, and sold for
% cents-Baltimor San, 17th.
BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION OF NORTH
CARoLINA.-The Thirty Seventh Session of
the Baptist State Convention will be held
with the Church at Goldsboro', on We'd
nesday before the third Sunday in Oc-
| tober
No EDrToR FOR HER-If our readers
| (says the Raleigh Progress do not think
that it requires nerve to edit newspaper,
let them read this, the experience of GO one
of them fellows >:
cone evening, it was moonlight in the
summer time-we sat alone on the porch
by the cottage door, holding that little
white hand in gentle pressure one arm
had stolen round her waist, and silent
song of Joy, like the music of the night,
was on our soul. Our lips met in sweet
delicious kiss, and in bending softly to her
ear we whispered tale of passionate de-
votion-we proposed. In a moment she
tore her hand from ours, and with look
of ineffa BILE scorn said what, marry an
editor ?-You git out We slid
Probably the Progress editor speaks from
experience.
STATE TAX-Our Sheriff started to the
capital yesterday to settle the State tax for
! this county In the depressed condition of
the country, It is gratifying to observe the
promptness with which our people have
met the demand of our State government.
Charlotte Ne,Cs.
CATAWBA RIVER BRIDGE.--The Iron
Bridge of the W. G. & r. r., over the Ca
tawba River, is now in the course of con-
struction, under the superintendent of
Capt. Smith. Its completion will relieve
the public OF apprehensions which have
been felt on account of the shaky trestle-
work upon which the cars now cross.
Charlotte Neacs.
CRIMINAL Court OF CRAVEN COUNTY,
The regular fall session of this Court will
commence next Monday. The docket is
full, and this term will be the most inter
esting one held since the Court was Gre
ated. -Newberne JOumaIf Commerce. 1911.
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27
The Mont Gents Tunnel,

Late European papers announce the
opening of the Mont Gents railway. This
should not be confounded with the Mont
Gents tunnel, which will not be finished in
less than four or five years, according to
the estimate of the French and Italian COM
missioners, made in July last. The rail
way referred to lies outside of the Mont
Cenis pass, and is intended only for tenn
porary use though it may be kept in oper-
alton after the completion of the tunnel, if
business should support the two routes.--
Many passengers would probably prefer
the outside line, commanding some of the
most magnificent scenery in tue world, to
the gloomy seclusion of the tunnel. The
length of the latter gigantic work is seven
miles and ,115 yards. Up to the Both of
June, 1867, the excavation on the italian
side of the Alps amounted to two miles
and 1,155 yards, and on the French side
to one mile and $50 yards. From the COM
laencement of the undertaking, the pro-
gress has been slower on the French side
than On the italian. Nearly as fast as COM
pleted, the tunnel is lined with stone quar-.
ried in the vicinity of the entrance, impair
ting to it the finish of piece of masonry.
The cost per yard, up to the last report,
had been 10, 923 francs, the expense steadi-
II increasing as the work goes on. The
railway, exclusive of the portion passing
through the tunnel, will be about thirty
TOUR and half miles long, and will be
throughout very difficult and costly of con-
strucuon. As whole, it will be the most
expensive piece of railway in the world,
and a greater triumph of engineering
science than any hitherto attempted.
Lyman, n. H., is reveling in the discov-
arv of oyolJ
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27

A Kentucky paper says it is a fact not
generally known, that Mr.. Merrick, one of
the counsel for John II. Srrratt, who so
severely handled Holt in his speech before
the jury, is a brotheri law of that gentle
man. Merrick, Holt. and enator Yulee,
of Florida married sisters, and during the
Administration of Buchanan, the ladies
occupied pews in tho New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, of which the Rev.
DR.. Gurley was pastor. Mrs. Holt was in
feeble health at the time, and shortly after
ward died.-JounM.
At the commencement of the war, Holt
was q bitter and malignant secessionist,
and, unfortunately for him, he put his
opinion on record by writing secesh
letter. Finding that change of opinion
might be to his advantage, he became sud
denly opposed to the doctrine, and got
Office for SO doing.
The mother of Mrs. Holt, on her death
bed, asked to see her children before she
died. The wife Of Senator Yulee wrote to
Holt to get permit for her to pass the
Federal lines that she might be with her
mother at the time of her death The
cold -blooded Holt, as if to show that one
renegade is worse than ten thousand Turks,
refused the request, and insulted the sister
of his own wife by adding that he could
hold no communication with any one who
held the political sentiments of herself or
her husband. The recollection of this
episode in the life of the friend of the per-
iured Conover no doubt aided Merrick in
the well-deserved castigation he gave Holt.
The ends of justice might in part be salts
fed if it had been in Merrick's power to
place in every honest hand a whip to lash
the renegade Holt naked through the
world. His conduct shows him to be among
the basest, meanest of mankind.
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27
Advertising.

The National Intelligencer truthfully
says:
Publishers of newspapers should unite to
fasten the conviction upon the public mind
to discountenance certain system of pro-
fessed advertising that is hurtful to them,
and of no real service to business men. Let
us give instances A dealer is approached
by some ly-gammon person, who descants
upon the advantage of having his business
card presented, with that of others, upon
some sort of sheet, with frame about it
and an Outre picture in the centre. 1t is
represented that great numbers of people
look at these sightless sheets attentively
and constantly, and straightway go off and
purchase of the dealers whose names are
on the sheet in question. The latter are
often fattered into the belief that their
names, thus so conspicuously posted, really
attract great attention, and bring marvel
Gus remuneration in the augmentation of
their trade If such one will take the
trouble of going to some leading hotel to
ascertain how many persons look at the
advertising sheet in question he will
find that scarce man in a day does So
Yet twenty or thirty or fifty Or hundred
dollars are sometimes thrown away yearly
in this worthless style of advertising. The
same amount paid to established newspa-
thousands of dollars in additional sales.
The same drift of remark is applicable
to advertising in little weekly or monthly
sheets. A dozen or so, or perchance a hun
dred, are circulated, when it is promised
that thousands are to be freely distributed
among the people. The righteousness and
absurdity of the thing are apparent Much
more may be said as to wasting money by
advertising on bills of fare at hotels, just
as if business people who resort to this city
idle away valuable time by long sittings at
breakfasts and dinners at hotels. So OF
advertising on theatre or concert bills.
People go to such places for pleasure.
They, for the time, throw off thoughts of
business. Besides, in the dim light between
acts the advert isements cannot be read.
There are many other like forms of spu-
rious advertising upon which, in the aggre-
gate, a vast sum is cast to the winds or the
waters by the business community yearly.
We maintain that regular newspapers in
city, whose character is equal to the wants
of citizens of one class or another, deserve
in return that advertising patronage that
for every dollar expended there comes ten
fold in return.
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27

Forty emigrants from East Tennessee
End North Carolina, including men, women
and children, passed through Kansas City
on the 18th instant, en- route for Colorado.
Rev. Newman Hall, Rev. Charles King
sley aud another famous English writer are
in New York. Dickens writes that he will
be here by Christmas ut the farthest. Spur
geon's coming is also talked of.
The Memphis Avalanche tells of Ger
man who settled in West Tennessee in
1868, upon II capital of 5000 and good
health, hired q farm at 5000 rent, cleared
81, 900 the first year, bought the farm at
$1O,O and has now become wealthy
landed proprietor.
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27
THE TWO SUNSETS.

No bird-song foated down the hill,
The tangled bank below was still;
Nc rustic from the birchen stem,
NJ ripple from the waters hem.
The dusk of twilight round us grew,
We felt the falling of the dew
For, from US, ere the day was done,
The wooded hills shut out the SUM-
But, on the rivers farther side,
We saw the hiil-tOps glorlted;
tender glow, exceeding fair,
dream of day, without its glare.
With us the damp, the chill, the gloom:
With them the sunsets rosy bloom;
While dark, through willowy vistas seem,
The river rolled Ill shade between.
From out the darkness where we trod,
We gazed upon those hills Of God,
Whose light seemed not of moon or sun;
We scake not, but our thought was one
We paused, as if from that bright shore
BeckOned cur dear ones gone before;
And stilled our beating hearts to hear
The voices lost 10 mortal ear!
Sudden our pathway turned from night;
The hills swung open to the light;
Thro' their green gates the sunshine showed ;
A long, slant splendor downward flowed.
Down glade, and glen, and bank it rolled;
It bfidgeI the shaded stream with geld,
And, borne on piers of mist, allied
The shadoTy with the sunlit side!
$50" prayed we, ''when our feet draw near
The river dark with mortal fear,
''And the night cometh, chill with dew,
O Father! let Thy light break Though!
$50 let the hills of doubt divide,
So bridge with faith the sunless tide
$50 let the eyes that fall on earth
On Thy eternal hills look forth;
"And in Thy beckoning angels, know
The dear ones whom we loved below :!
JOHN G.. WHITTIER.
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27
TRUSTEES SALE.

DY virtue of IA deed of trust to me exc
d cuted by John G. Sutton, for purposes
therein set FORTH 1 will, Monday of October
Superior Court of Law, 1867, of Bladen county, at
the Court House door, in ELizabethtown in said
county, expose to public sale, to the highest bid
per, on 4 credit of twelve months, ter b md and
good security, sundry Tracts of Land lying in
Bladen county, Zone on the river,) amounting in
all, TO about 400 acres, more or less. A more
full description will be given on the day Of sale.
Title with full covenants OF warranty will be
made.
HERBERT r. FRANCIS
Trustee.
aug. % 26-6t
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27

A HEARTY WELCOME Cairo Demo
crat says that seventeen men and boys and
two colored .s female ladies " turned out to
do honor to Sheridan when he passed
through that city en- route North, after be-
ing relieved by the President.
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
square, of 10 lines or less, for each and

square, of 10 lines or less, for each and
insertion, 81.
Special Notices will be charged 50 Or per square
for oreachard every insertion.
All Obituaries and private publications of every
charac tor, are charged as advertisements.
a8-No advertisement, rejecting upon private
Character, can, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, le
admitted.
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27
NOTICE..

TINHE SUBSCRIBER HAVING QUALIFIED at
l. the present September Term, 1867, Of New
Hanover County Court, Administrator de bOnis
of William Keith, deceased, gives notice to all
persons indebted to said estate, to make immedi-
ate payment: and to those having demands against
the same to present them duly authenticated
within the time prescribed by law, this notice
will he pleaded in bar of their recovery.
II. F. MURPHY, Admir-.
Wilmington, N. c., Sept. II, 1867. 3l-3t*
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27
Confederate Bonds In Market.

We learn, from reliable authority, that
within the past day or two Mr.. Bernard
Avegno. one of our largest brokers, has
purchased two hundred and sixty five thou
sand dollars Of per cent. Confederate
bonds of the issue of 1861, and three hun
dred thousand of the issue of 1868, to fill
an order either from the North or from
Europe. The prices paid we have not been
able to learn but should not be surprised
if this were part of the sum of a million
in Confederate per cents advertised for
in the National Intelligencer OF recent date.
1t might ensue that in the settlement of
the Alabama and other claims between the
United States and the Governments of
England and France, the two latter should
take the ground which ours has repeatedly
assumed, viz that the rebellious States
were never out of the Union and, as a
corollary, that the parent Government is
responsible for the damages which they
have committed. 0. Crescent, Sept. Il.
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27
SPECIAL NOTICE.
ERRORS OF YOUTH.

A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years from
all the effects of youthful indiscretion, will, for
the cake of suffering humanity. send free to all
who need it, the receipt and directions for making
the simple remedy by which he cured. Suf-
ferers wishing to profit by the advertisers expe-
rience can do so by addressing, in perfect conf
dence, JOHN u. OGDEN,,
No. 40 Cedar st.. New York.
april 10 1o-ly
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27

A man recently swain across Niagara
river, starting from the ferry on tins side
and landing on the Canada side nearly op-
posite the towers of the new suspension
bridge. gs#. -..
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27
$4,000 PEACH TREES !!

A PPLEs' PEARS
CHERRIES,
BEST MARKET VARIETIES.
EI- Send for Catalogue.
WM. PARRY, Cinnaminson, N J.
sept 13 31-4t
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27

As elections will soon be held in Penn
sylvania and Ohio, the following table will
be useful for reference, as we'll as interest
ing from the reflections it is calculated to
call forth:
How A RADICAL CONGRESS IS COMPOSED.
The following was the vote iu round num-
bers of Pennsylvania Ohio and Kentucky,
at tho elections in these States
Democratic. Republican.
PENNSYLVANIA. .............. .290 00G. 305 COG
Ohio ..................-.. .215. .000.. ....- 252,0o0
Kentucky. 90,C0J.. $4,000
$4,000 $40, 900
In three States it will be seen that there
are 595, 900 Democrats to 500, 900 Republi-
cans. Now let us see how they are actually
represented in Compress.
595, coo Democrats have. ........-.-- members
100000 Republicans have. 81 members
Did anybody ever hear of a government,
calling itself popular one, founded upon
the will of the people, that presented
such an anomoly? Was there ever rotten
burrough system in England equal to it !?
Can such state of things be submitted to?
PiAs6aay Post.
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27
Registration in Wayne County.

GoLDsEoRo', Sept. Is, 1867.
Herewith please find complete official re-
turns of registration in Wayne County:
Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27

Lyman, n. H., is reveling in the discov-
cry Of gold.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-11-02
FINANCEAt AND CorfbIERoIAL.

NEW York, November Moon.
Flour 100000. lower. Wheat 203c.
lewsr. Mess pork 21.Oo@2I.25.
Cotton dull, at 191S. Gold 405S.
Up. M.-Cotton declined 90
sales /, 800 bales, at 10. Flour dull
State so. 2091O.50; Southern 1000
1925. Wheat active and firm
amber State 2.71. Mess pork 21(0
90. Stocks closed steady. Gold 4O79.
BALTIMORE, November Flour
dull and declined 1ac. Wheat dull
and 10c. lower-prime to choice
Southern red 2. 6OC92.67. Corn steady
new white 1@1.23. Oats TOOTH.
Cotton heavy and lower-middlings
1S@1S%. Coffee in fair demand and
firm.
CINc1NNAT1, November 1.-Flour
dull. Corn dull and unchanged.
Mess pork 19.7502O.OO. Bacon
nominal. Lard 12%.
CHAR-ESSrrcH!, November 1.-Cotton
quiet and easier, with partial decline
of 14c.-sales 260 bales; middling
171ac.
MOBILE, November 1.-Cotton
market firm-middling 16h@16A;
sales 1850 bales; receipts to-day S26 !;
receipt for the week 1894; sales
1900.
New ORLEANS, November 1.-Loui-
siana sugar 111a; Muscovado 121S.
Primo Louisiana molasses 65(0S0.
Flour-superfne 1925. Corn dull,
at 1.50. Oats so. Mess pork %. rs.
Bacon dull-shoulders 143I; clear
sides 1874. Lard declined 14c. Mid
ding cotton 199194.
SAVANNAH, November 1.-Cotton
dull and .declining-sales to-day 786
bales; middling IT; receipts 5000.
AUGUSTA, November Cotton
dnll-sales 346 bales; middling 16.
HAVANA, November 1.-Sugar un-
changed-No. II a. s. Is rials.
LONDON, November 1.-This being
All Saints day, no business transact
ed here or in Liverpool.
Bullion in the Bank of England
has decreased GS9,OOO.
LIVERPOOL, November 1-2 o'clock.
Trade report unfavorable. Manches-
ter market dull. Sales of cotton for
the week 69,0 9,000-6,O0O for specula-
ton and $4,000 exports; stock 672,-
OOO-whereof ISL, 900 are American.
LONDON, November 1-2 o'clock.
Consols 947s. Bonds 70.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-11-02


California yarnists tell of lake in
which raw hides may be tanned in
six days, and a dirty shirt made
snowy white by wetting and twice
wringing out.
The man who first offered anthra-
cite coal for sale rs fuel was put into
an asylum for the insane, and died
there.
A Boston paper intimates that
whatever may be thought of Beast
Butler as n lawyer, he is at least o
good conveyancer.
The City of Mexico has sixty-fiye
journals. One is in French and two
in English-the rest Spanish, of
course.
The italian population is about
%, 600, 600. 100000 cannot read
and write.
There is one thing that will never
get hurt from fall, and that is flour
it falls SO slow.
The London Telegraph styles Ad-
miral Farragut the "Nelson of Ame-
rica."
Wendell Phillips says Ohio is too
selfish to be just, and Pennsylvania
is always for sale.
British soldiers now carry ninety
rounds of ammunition, as result of
the breech leaders.
A German, near Fort Wayne, Law
down upon the railroad in peace, and
awoke in pieces.
Anna Dickinson classifies humanity
as women and idiots. Anna is both
"a sort OF hermaphrodite.
If you have a cough, don't 90 to
church to disturb the rest of the con-
gregation.
Great eaters never live long-all
centenarians have been remarkable
for abstemiousness in diet.
A storm in the conscience will
always dodge clouds in the counte-
| nance.
a pretty female artist can draw the
men equally with brush and blush.
Steam omnibuscs are used in
Lyons.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-11-02
COMMISSIONER'S SALE.
BY JACOB LEVIN, Auor1oNEER.

BY JACOB LEVIN, AUCTIoNEER.
Mrs. Mary Quigley, Adm'1, VS.. Mrs. June
Scott, William Adger, ct dt.-BM fo,.
Partition.
DURSUANT to the order of the Court.
II in the above stated case, will sell,
before the Court House, on the FIRST
MONDAY in November next, at IL o'clock,
all that Lot of Land in the city of Colum-
bia, bounded on the North by lot of II. C =.
Erahoa. deceased, East Dy lot OF II. E.
Nichols, South by Laurel street, West by
Main street; fronting on Main street 150
feet and running back on Laurel street 282
feet, moro or less, containing one acre,
more or less.
That lot of LAND, just above Upper
boundary street, fronting on that street
G9i feet, and running back 115 feet.
This tract will be divided into six lots
No. on corner Of Richardson and Boun-
diary, fronting 119 feet on Boundary and
l!5 on Richardson; the other five in squares
OF lis feet each.
Terms of sale-So much cash as will pay
all the cost and charges of suit Of sale
Balance on credit of three years, from
day OF sale, with interest payable annually
from day of sale, to be secured by bond
with good security and mortgage OF pre-
misses Sold d. b. DESAJjSSIJRE.
OctH13 mthG G. E. RID.