Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-09-10

Latterly cotton from CharlOtte anal beyond
has. gone North through our port. after
having made almost the circuit Of the
State ria Greensboro'. Raleigh and Colds
boro' We should take advantagesof these
circumstances and make Wilmington a
cotton market, as it now is Il naval store
market. Not merely ahipping port,
where agents of New York houses receive
and forward, but purchasing market,
where the producer sells his cotton and
buys his supplies .....- ....
We regard the enterprise abont to be
inaugurated under the auspices of the
Cape Fear Agricultural Association as
most timely and fortunate, looking to an
increase of our business from these de-
sirable sections. Some of our merchants
have shown their appreciation of the fact
by liberal donations to the funds of the
Association, without which tue enterprise
must have been abandoned. We trust as
we believe, their generosity will not be
misplaced, but that they will be repaid a
thousand fold personally, and their hber
atty and enterprise will rebound to the
lasting welfare of Wilmington sr
The Late Gen Ua~nn-,
The telegraph of Monday night reported
the death of Gen. Rawlins, late Secretary
of War. Chosen by the President from
his intimate acquaintance for years in the
field to this responsible position, it is PIE
sumed he possessed the entire confidence
of the Executive. To us South, he was
hardly known, but from report we had
learned to look upon him in the light OF a
liberal and enlightened statesman, who
could comprehend the duties of states
man to his whole country. If We of the
South have not been miainformed, we may
join with the grief stricken in lamenting
his untmely death, for it is said he stood
an immovable barrier to the proscriptive
measures of number of the Cabinet to
wards us. When war had ceased. he was
generous and chiyalric enough to bury the
bitterness OF feeling it had engendered,
and looked only to the best interest of all
his fellow citizens. We shall ever be ready
to accord to merit it's just need Of praise,
and we will trust that the President may
be as fortunate in selecting his successor,
as he was in choosing his faithful friend.
whose loss the country now monrns.
The &andnrd il persistent in keeping
what it styles its principles before the peo-
pie. Qnite recently that paper has gone
into new editorial hands. Suspicion is
not a characteristic which either the pri-
vate individual or he who holds more
conspicuous position should envy or desire,
but it is qnite impossible for us to divest
ourselves of the impression that the Stan
tiard is yet more or less under til? in
faence of Holden. This being so. and
the Standards bolstering of Holden make
it impossible to reconcile the positions of
Holden and the Standard upon universal am
nesty. Holden believes that all shonld vote,
but not that all should be able tn hold
office The .Guedn7H is for all voting and
for auy to hold office who can get it on the
StmdUFs side. lie who would be q CAPT
tai selection If made ty the Standards
party. would be very improper and by
no means admissible ono if made by it's OPP
ponents. Is tho &ttn'tar.l sincere in it's az
seriions, or does it hold itself ready to
back Holden? The positions Of the two
are wide apart. and the Stuslurd, if frank
and independent. ought not to find IN
answer difficult.
Il is hard ~ teach old stagers. The
Standard has so long been in the habit of
shifting position that the present editor
may not find it an easy matter to make it
firm anywhere If Holden is to be its
guiding star it will ''box tho compass -
with every change Of the political ba
rOmeter, ....