Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-10-18
OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE
New YORK, Oct. 6, 1867.

DEAR JOURNAL Your correspondent
has been silent for some time, not because
there has been any lack of matters of in
terest about which to write, but because
engagements of an imperative character
have forbidden the enjoyment from Tong
taaO talk with the readers of the Journal.
Recently the political world has been in
a stir, the greatest excitement being pro-
duced by the uncertainty of the result of
the approaching elections, and the hopes
and apprehensions of both parties. From
what can learn the Radical doom is at
hand. I think there is not a shadow of
doubt but what Pennsylvania will give the
Democratic candidates overwhelming rla-
jorities, and feel confident that even
Ohio will wheel into the ranks and
lend her assistance in maintaining the
Constitution. Indeed, general sur
vey induces the belief that succor to
the South is close at hand, and that the
end of persecution and military insolence
is nigh. The Empire State, at the election
in November, will certainly give twenty
thousand majority for the Democratic
party, and if the Pennsylvania and Ohio
elections 60 las l hope and believe they will
fifteen thousand more votes, cast by men
who are now sitting on the fence to see
which way to jump, will be added to the
regular force of the party. If the Southern
States can keep Radical representation
out of Congress for twelve or eighteen
months, they will soon regain their former
honorable places as cO-equal sovereigntes
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American Union. All depends upon the
action of the Southern people themselves.
If they will manipulate the wires so as to
assert their power and control their States,
and prevent admission under Radical Con-
situations, they will soon be out of the
woods Otherwise the Democrats of the
North may be in the moment of victory
checkmated by their friends and allies Of
the South.
Your readers doubtless remember that
Messrs. e. J. Hale g. Son, formerly of the
" Fayetteville Observer" are in New York,
engaged in the publishing business. Not
very many days ago they brought out a
very entertaining Southern book written
by lady of Virginia, called "THE DIARY
OF SOUTHERN REFUGEE" a faithful chroni-
Gle of events that will ever be remembered
affectionately. This book will be read by all
VINO I6lC INTEREST III CIlo OF lllt
Confederacy and those who do themselves
the pleasure, will have revived, in a series
of panoramic views, commencing in the
early part of 1861, and ending after the
surrender of Gen. Lee, memories of Rich
mond and recollections of the military life
in Virginia, to which all the soldiery revert
with sad delight. Not assuming to be a
history, this book gives pungent and
running record of the life of one of the
female participators in the hopes, fears,
perils and anxieties of the struggle, and will
serve especially to arouse the slumbering
faculties and awaken afresh the remem-
brances of those bright, happy, but trying,
days when the immaculate flag of our sec
ton foated triumphantly and led us on to
glory and to honor, and, we thought, to
freedom. Alas that We should have been
disappointed The book is well worthy Of
perusal, and is one of the few publications
from the pen of any Virginian that does
full justice to the old North State.
One of the favorites of the Wilmington
public is in this city. refer to Capt. Jno
B. Brown, who is here with Atwood, Rick
etts & Co., in the hat business. His place
is the headquarters of Wilmington people
in the city, and, as he is ever genial and
afable, and makes all who come within
range of his hospitable destinations feel
perfectly at home, he is great and de-
serving favorite. GossIPPER.