Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-23
WASHINGTON Cry, July IA, 1856!

Theories, etc.
WASHINGTON CRY, July IA, 1869.
AS an evidence Of the Wanted economy
OF the Grant administration, even in the
trifiing affair Of departmental economy
of which, however, they have made sc
much Wanting, as specimen bricks " OF
retrenchment-th following exhibits the
state of affairs The civil appropriation
bill passed by the last Congress, dispensed
with one manager in the third Auditors
Office of the Treasury Department, and
made q few changes. Tn consequence
! thereof, hro messengers have been dis.
missed, and four appointed. This is the
retrenchment promised, and this the rate
at which it is carried. They save two dol
lars, and while proclaiming it to the coun
| try, spend four At this rate how long
will it take tc mortgage the whole coun-
| try
The celebrated cotton case of the Uni
ted States VS.. /, 500 bales of cotton, seized
us liable to forfeiture under the non inter-
course act Of July ID, 1861, and which has
been on trial for the past four weeks in
Memphis, Tenn, has been decided in ia
vor Of the owner, Mr.. Geo. III. Gill. Upon
receipt of this news, the Treasury Depart
ment telegraphed instructions to the Uni
ted States counsel in the case to carry it
up to the Supreme Court of the United
States. or to the United States Circuit
Court on appeal or writ of error. The case
was decided Justly, but the Treasury thieves
concluded ] 500 bales of cotton were worth
fighting for. and they are too anxious to
divide the spells not to make a longer
fight,
The Virginia election, in view of the
''muddle'' it is likely to cause in Federal
politics, is exciting more interest now, out
side of the State. than it did ere the result
was known. The extreme Radical journals
boast of it's being Radical victory. On
the 9TH of July Governor Walker made
speech in Norfolk, which President Grant
says he read attentively and thoroughly
approved. Walker said Yesterday was
the day of Viginia's GoLirerdnce from 2CrOnq
and outrage. The great mass of those who
they did, but the 0ile c7e1o Wh0 Led them on
0eseTre the e2ecrdtion and condemnation of
tie ciUilized sCo1'ld, and let them sink into the
insignifcance 1Chich God Almighty intended
they should occupy.
Now, according to this. Grant thinks his
Cabinet, and every leading Radical who
urged the Wells party on, are "vile
wretches, deserving the execration and
condemnation of the civilized world. -
General Grant, [ suspect, has good opin-
ion only of himself and good Bourbon
whiskey-with few brick houses thrown
in. But the shrewd Radical leaders, be-
holding the split in the Radical ranks and
knowing its inevitable fate, are anxious to
gracefully wheel into the Democratic ranks
Our time has come. I would advise the
Democratic party to accept the rank and
file Of the deluded masses who desire to
enlist under the banner of Free Trade,
State Rights, Specie Currency, Abolition
of the Debt and of the Internal Revenue,
White Mems Government and the restora-
ton OF negro to his proper place but for
the ''vlle wretches who led them On, !" ''let
them sink into the insignifcance which
God Almighty intended they should occu-
py." Let the justice that Radicalism has
melted unto us be measured back again to |
them ten fold. In this fight would give
no quarter. If ever the time was when ono |
great party should endorse the sentiment
of the Filibuster Walker, that Justice is
the part of wise men, and mercy the act of
FOOLS" now is the time, and the Radical
party the one that should be made to feel |
the very fullest extent of the sentiment by
the Democratic party. The justice of God |
will not be satisfied until the North, and
New England, shall be made to
drink to it's very dregs the bitter cup so
long held to the mouth of the South.
A dispatch from the "Great Eastern"
dated Brest, July II, and published yester-
day, announces her arrival off Miquelon,
but in consequence of a dense fog which
prevailed, she had cut the cable and buoy
ed it. 1t is rather curious that we should /
be able to get news from our own shores
after it has gone to France, sooner than by
our own means of communication
By the time the women have turned
themselves into men, the negro made white
and civilized, and New England morality
be adopted by Christians, then we shall
realize the last grand speculation which
IS to dig hole to the subterraneous fires.
and thereby warm and light the Polar re-
slons. Perhaps the time is not very far
distant when we shall send for oranges and
bananas to Washington Land and Spitzber-
gen. A German philosopher has announced
hat we shall shortly have two moons. The
earth, however, is little too small for its
inhabitants nowadays.
The trial of Mile Gaines, q negro wo-
nan, for the killing of a young white man
named Ingle, in this city last March, is
low in progress. She alleges he seduced
Ter, and she killed him because he intend
ID to take walk with a white lady. It
appears from the evidence that if Mile
vas seduced by Ingle, she had been in the
habit of getting seduced.
New York has 10000 thieves, exclusive
# city officials. t-t-a {
An American school has been established