Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-09-18

should be carefully studied by those who
intend to make grape culture a business.
And man had better pay thousand dol
lars per acre for suitable land in which to
plant his vines than to take any other as a
gift.
SMALL FRUITS
The strawberry is, perhaps, the onlv
berry that may be said to be universally
successful Among the many hundreds of
varieties, there are those that are adapted
to almost every soil and location. from
Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Conse-
quently, our markets are abundantly sup
pied, and occasionally overstocked. TO
make strawberry culture profitable at the
present time, one needs to produce very
superior fruit, or get it to market early in
the season. l very much doubt if the
strawberry trade of the past season has
been very profitable one to the produ-
GERS.
Raspberries are not so plentiful, and it
will be sometime before they will go be-
low remunerative prices for, just as soon
as they become cheap enough the
grower will commence drying them,
and in that condition they will paw q
handsome profit. I think the black
| raspberries are the safest to plant; not be-
! cause they command the largest price, but
they seldom fail to produce abundantly.-
For the purpose of showing what influence
SOIL and climate have upon the raspberry,
Will state that one of our most prominent
small fruit growers experimental for TWEEN
ty years before he found variety of red
raspberry that was worthy of cultivation.
In another locality and soil he would
probably experience no difficulty in OBJ
tanning dozens that would have yielded as
great profit as this one. Raspberries,
when successful, yield as large, if not a
larger, return per acre than any of the
small fruit; and success depends chiefly
upon selecting varieties adapted to the
SOIL OF course we always expect the
plants will be we'll cared for, and not neg
lected at any period of their growth.
I might enumerate all the different kinds
of fruits in cultivation, and give instances
of great profits as well as losses; but what
[ have already said is sufficient to show
that in fruit culture, as well as in any 9TH
er business, it requires tact, energy, and a
large amount of perseverance to enable any
one to succeed.
I believe that fruit culture is just as safe
business as any other; but no one need
embark in it expecting that wealth will
flow into his hand without seeking it earn
estly and perseveringly.
Weeds will grow and insects will devour
while we sleep, and the rain, which we are
| told, falls upon the just aud the uni just"
will often interfere with our well-arranged
plans; but such things must be expected in
all the walks of life. It may appear to
some of you that I have not put a very
high coloring upon this picture of fruit
culture; still L can offer you no better evil
dence of my faith in its pleasures and pro-
fits than my own devotion to it for the last
| 49,
Club, NeoC York, Aug. 27th, 1868.
From the National Intelligencer.
The Coming October Elections-The Elec-
tfon In Maine.
''It is generally conceded that the coming Oc-
tober elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana
and Iowa will virtually determine the result of
the Presidential election. The hope of the Dem
ocratlc party is In movement of the people of
the Western and Middle States for change in
the policy of the Government extensive enough
to sweep away all past Republican ma orities and
turn the great States over to the Democrats by
overwhelming votes. Such thing as close
contest Is improbable, and hence it is clear that
if this tremendous revolution is to at all it
must show itself IN the State elections we have
named. In view of these facts, glance at the
results IN 1862, when similar reaction to that
predicted set in against the Republican par
ty, account of their mismanagement of the
war and alleged official extravaganza and cor
ruptiOD, will be Of interest at this time.
we find, then, that Vermont, which led off in
the election of 1882, gave twenty six thousand Re-
publican maj rity, being an increase over it's ma
jority for lincoln in 1850. Maine foUOoced acath
thirteen or fourteen thousand Republican majority.
But srhen the October elections came PennSulud-
MIA, 2Ctich had giCen Lincoln Sirty thousand ma
j0rity teUo gears before, turned oUer to the Demo-
cracy by nearly four thousand majority Ohio
changed its tacellty thousand for Lincoln into sir
thousand for The Democratic ticket, and Indiana,
eoI.tch had giUen Lincoln t,oenty.f o'r thousand
oUer Douglass elected Democratic officers by ten
thousand 1eGjordgy. This was the beginning of
the revolution and it was followed by similar re-
suits in other great States, so that had Presi-
dent been elected in 1862. the Democrats would
have been successful by the following electoral
vote, based on the elections Of that year:
DEMOCRATIC. REPUBLICAN.
New York SO Massachusetts. 70
PennsyiVania........2 % Missouri. ........ IL
Ohio. ............... 81 Iowa. .......... 8
Illinois. 16I Michigan ....... 8
Indiana. ............ 13I Wisconsin. ......... 8
Kentucky. .......... IL Maine. .............. Z
New Jersey.......... 7lConnecticut. ......... 6
Maryland. ........... 7INew Hampshire 49,. S