Wilmington journal., 1869-07-16

! ltion shall be second to none. They have
shoRn this in the election of the Principal,
Mr.. A. r. BLACK, whose ripe scholarship,
1 skill, and success i'm teaching have given
/ him a reputation of which he has just
cause to be proud. Thore is no better
teacher than Mr.. BLACK. Here the pu-
pills are free from the snares and tempta-
| tions to vice of towns and cities. No
liquor can be sold, according to law within
three miles of the Academy, and all the
surroundings and inducements are to lnclte
the pupils to temperance, morality and
uprightness. The1e is no idolatrous de-
votion in this Institution to old forms and
fashions The great truth is recognized
that The result of the late war and the times
in which we live demand such improve
ment and reform in our educational Insti-
tutions as are best adapted to the condition
of society and the wants of the rising gen
Grafton. There is too much prominence
given to the dead languages and too little
attention bestowed upon mathematics, the
physical sciences, and those every day
matters of interest and practice that SO in
timately concern those who are coming to
maturity.
But our main purpose in noticing this
Institution, whose high claims are steadily
coming into appreciation, is to state that
the closing exercises of the present session
will take place on the 10th instant a
place, and from them may be expected
essays, dialogues, defamation, original
speeches, &c. Rev. s G. Alexander, of
this county, will, by request of the Trus-
tses, deliver an address on the OCCASION
Those, therefore, who desire to enjoy
themselves and to partake of an intellec-
tual treat are advised to repair to Rocky
Point on the 10th of this month.
The Chinese are Coming.
The movement in favor OF bringing large
numbers Of Chinese into the United
States, says the Louisville Courier Journal,
is fast increasing in momentum. The
Chinese, we have no doubt, would come
in vast multitudes at no distant day, even
without any active agency on the part of
our people in their introduction, just as
they have been and are now coming in
large numbers into California, but mea-
sures are extensively on foot to hasten the
great advent General Forrest has made
arrangements to secure, within the next
two months, thousand Chinese as labor
ers upon Southern railroad which he has
contracted to make. An agency has been
established in st. Louis for supplying, at
the shortest notice, whatever number of
Chinese may be called for from any part
of the country, and that agency has al
ready ordered $4,000. A grand enterprise
for the introduction of Chinese to be EN-.
ployed upon the plantations of the South
has been vigorously inaugurated at Mem
phis. We published yesterday \ dispatch
in regard to the proceedings of d meeting
at Memphis last Wednesday for the en-
couragement of Chinese immigration
The meeting, composed of leading men,
was preliminary to a convention to meet
at that place on the 18th of this month
and to consist of whatever delegates may
be sent from any of the Southern States.
The following dispatch was read to the
meeting by the Secretary:
San Francisco. June 30.
g. w. CIT Docs the meeting at Memphis
take place ON the 18th OF July? Ksapmsnshapp,
principal Chinese importer. will attend if the
answer is favorable. j. G. EAsTLAND.
The meeting authorized a favorable
answer which was Immediately made by
telegraph. The resolutions, which were
adopted by the meeting and which we
published yesterday, evinced earnestness
and energy of purpose. The Convention
of the 18th will be numerously attended,
and it will be an important link in an i'm
portant chain of events in the history of
the South and of the United States. We
have not q doubt, that, after a very short
time, the Pacific railroad will be taxed to
its utmost capacity. and continue For an
indefinite period to be so taxed, in the
transportation of Chinese. The Southern
people realize that, if they would secure
Chinese labor for their next crops, they
must lose no time, for, by the middle of
November, the great railroad may be OBJ
structed by snow.
A new era opens. The projectors of the
Pacific railroad did not dream of half it's
consequences. Unquestionably the Chi
nese, having found their way in large mum.
bers into California and thrived there as
| they had never thriven in their own coun-
try, would slowly and after the lapse of
years penetrate to our Southern States and
also to the Northern even in the absence
of a railroad, but this great work precipi-
tates the inevitable. The labor problem
is partially though by no means entirely
solved. Our Southern people can have as
much labor as they want, and have it at
less than one-half what they paid for slave
labor before the war and are paying for free
labor now, and the people of the North
can have it on equally good terms. The
people of the South, suffering as they are
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