Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-12-10
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her rapid publications of new works are re
ceived by the reading public with iccreas
led favor. : female writer in the world
surely none in America of the present day
possesses more power Of thought or more
fertility of resources. She never wearies
her readers with reptitions of plot and &C
ton, nor permits her story to drag with
uninteresting detail.
"The Prince of Darkness" is spark
ling creation of this favorite authors i'm
agination. Fully up to her standard it will
necessarily find favor with her admirers.
POPPING THE QUESTION; or the Bell of the Bal
Room, by Mrs Gordon Smythers, Phlladei
phia. T. 3. Peterson Brothers.
Mrs. Smythers has won great reputation
by her lively and fascinating portraitures Of
fashionable life. Faithful and spirited in
her representations and deeply interesting
in her plots, she has contributed some Of
the most popular pictures of English
fashionable society.
"Popping the Question" is one OF the
very best novels of the kind with which
we have met. Brilliant and vivacious,i it pre-.
sents faithful and pleasing picture of the
social circle. A student of the female heart,
the author finds in its faults, its foiblea
and its excellencies, interviewer with ex-
citing and brilliant fiction, the material of
the present most beautiful story.
LINDA; or the Young Pilot of the Belle Creole
and Rens or, The Snow Bird-by Mrs. Caro-
line Lee Hentz -Phiadelphia. T. B. Peterson
u Brothers.
The "Petersons are now publishing q
new and beautiful edition of the complete
works of Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz, to be
issued complete in twelve large duodecimo
volumes. of which these two are numbers
one and three of the series.
We are glad to know that standard edi-
ton of the works of Mrs. Hentz is to be pub.
lished. There is a naturalness and morality
about her novels of Southern life which
render them both useful and pleasant.
We predict that this series will prove to
be the most popular ever issued in this
country. Mrs. Hentz has thousands OF
admirers, especially in the South, who
will doubtless avail themselves of this op
portunity to add this uniform edition OF
her works to their family libraries.
Mr.. 2. Heinsberger has all the new pub
!ications Of the "Petersons for sale.
No publishers in this country are more
awake to meet the demands of the public
They ore adding every day to their list of
publications, and keep fully up with the
novelties Of the season.
Few Troubles are Kept UP in the
| south.
The following extract from the Colum-
bia Is. g. Phoenix will afford those ct the
North, who are disposed to do us justice.
some idea of the difficulties Southern
planters have to contend with in their
efforts to preserve friendly relations with
the blacks:
In many portions of the State a state of
affairs exists that does not promise much
for next year Governor Scott's incendiary
proclamations and the speeches of Radical
demagogues are doing their work, and we
shall deem the State fortunate if it escapes
scenes of violence that go beyond mere in
dividual ARRAYS. 1t becomes our duty to
caution the mischief-makeI official and
unofficial-against their mad suggestions.
We learn that in Abbeville especially, ex-
element exists. Ga last Saturday we
are told that Mr. Hoge addressed large
crowd of colored men in Abbevile, and
advised them not to work for the whites
unless they received as wages half they
made and their weekly rations. This, it
is said made them wild. They over-ran
Abbeville Court House for two days, and
on Monday over one hundred of these ex-
cited colored persons accompanied Hoge
and Guf1in to Hodges depot, where they
met quite a reinforcement, and called on
Guffin for speech. He gave them few
words, and in conclusion said .'Within
three feet Of where [ stand, the noble
Randolph was killed, and his death should
now be avenged by you" Much other
ineendiary language was used, bat this
was enough. Gnf1iu then came to this
city. and the negroes returned to the
Court House, where they held o meeting,
and it is said, arranged a programme OF
violence.
This is the Information which comes to
us from a reliable source.
! Now, we would ask this question of the
people % the North: Suppose Il South
CaroIinian shouid go to Massachusetts and
mako it his business to collect together
the factory operatives in public meetings
and harrangue them after this fashion,
how long would the people of Massachu-
sets stand it? Ii they rose in rebellion
against SUCH q mlSch1evOuS InterlOpef and
drive him from the State, how many Mas
sachusetts Radicals would complain of his
treatment?
Legfsla tive UsmrpatIOn Premeditated.
| W. FL. 8. Sweet, the Senator from the
10th District, and was also member of
the Convention, offered resolution in
the Senate, proposing to refer the matter
of the tenure ofoffice of the present Legis-
lature to the Supreme Court for their de-
cision. In his remarks when presenting
the esolution, that when framing that Sec
ton he thought it intended only for the
Legislature to hold over from April, the
time they were elected, until August 1868,
at which time their regular session would
commence
This was all very pretty talk, but Judge
Tourgee, who was Chairman of the Com
mittee which framed the Legislative ar
ticle, stated on the train as he was going
from Raleigh TO Greensboro, on Thursday
evening, Nov. 25th, that Sweet knowing
ly misrepresented the whole affair before
the Legislature. He stated that he had q
section drawn up expressly stating that