Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30

tickets can be had on election day for
small Price," and a steamer inscribed
s'Barry's LYNN, for Salt River direct, Capt.
All! Pea Barry" And these, Our Eagle
eats Rice" very small Rice" lprlnted on
what appeared to be rice cask. "Rice IS
barreled up" HE got his Prlce-so dld
Judas" Little Rice brings d poor
Price," The Eagle Scars" Duncan Roars
On one of the banners was hit
at Miller, a figure appearing IN
bag on which was written, A bag
of wind ~ and above, "Mr. President,
l rise to Pint of Order" and beneath,
ga Miller takes too much Rye" car
feature on Geo. r. French appeared in
the form of human head emerging from
a large boot, represented as saying Scion
I'm afraid my boots can't help you to
Raleigh ON the opposite side was writ
ten, "The Price of French boots is very
low" On another banner was seen grave
and tombstone, on which was inscribed,
" Here lies poor Larkins, who died August
9Th, 1869, of eating too much Rice ;" and
still another contained large carpet bag,
marked Eagles, Raleigh, N. Co." crush
ing upon the backs of two figures, one of
which was represented as saying, "Oh !!
George, take this awful load off of me, !"
and tho other responding 81 can't do it,
Scion, it is too much for us.
But to the interior of the big free show.
I s,a,l ~ h
tied itaelf somewhat around the streets, it
marched mp to the building with little un-
washed negroes, prompted by the craven
spirit and malignant hatred Of some COW
artfiy carpet baggers. singing Hang Je1f
Davis Oh "a sour-apple tree" When once
the crowd of actors and adherents were
fully in the building, G. Z. Ronrke (col-
ored) was made President, who introduced
" New Hampshire's third Senator . as the
first speaker. With q calm air Of assumed
dignity this great hero and chief OF
carpet bnggers marched forward, de-
posted about At pages of a written speech
on the table, poured out glass OF wa
ter, and coolly faced tho aaaemblage. -
He was powerful on challenging dtsc"s-
sions from decent men, but We notice he
forgot to challenge Mr. Sprhgna. On the
At pages the biggest point contained Wta9
this Mr." Eagles had been II first SCI :
gennt in the u $. army, and he thought
| that any one who was II first sergeant
would make n good Legislator probably
80, now that ability Isl much below pnr-but
if tli, be 40, what, then, aB a natural con
srcuence, ran hr said of IL Brigaaier Gen
.rtl II He said that LarkinH' friends had
been CRYING againht II cllqne a " damnable
clique as they called it bat hH the re-
! donbtabe hero of the carpet baggera) had
never been able to tind it wonder IT he
ever looked for it in &. 4. French''s back
room, among the old whiakey bottles =
; The 4Gth page of the Senator's speech
was devoted to written defense to carpet
bancer4 here he raised himself on
tin toe. and exercised the muscles of his
arm. and shouted in valiant tones. lie
would tcinporizn no farther in the Eepnb-
lican party did lie temporl@o when
Sprauge was after him ? and would ask
no quarter did he ask any then?l but
would mete ont political death, and pohti
cal damnation after death, any man who
will heref fter attack Northern man aF
such. He wanted this toni distinction oh
liberated from the Republican party, and
raised tho War-cry then ana there, which
he would sound over every mountain and
valley in the State and if he does We
will have to get Sprange after him. Jnst
here as the valiant Senator was prononncine
himself clothed with oil the dignity of an
American citizen, the lights were all sud
denly extinguished and darkness and cor
fusion reigned. Uproar, noise and confu
sion was the consequence. lizard French
with his glasses rendering the darkness
moro appalling to his vision, flew around
the stage like ono mad, tore candles from
the transparcncies and eagerly sought fo'
linhts Rnurke roared order-Abbott criCG
ont for three cheers for Eagles-part OF the
crowd stampeded-the drums beat and tho
hons footed Finally, Ivy the light Of {
few dim Pickering candies, tho valiant Sen
ator concluded his speech. but was unable
again to refer to his notes
1t was ascertained that tho sudden fail
IRE of the gas was due to the want O
water in the meter, which want was sup
piled and light obtained for Galloway tt
speak. His disgusting reflections upol
the manner of his birth, and upon his feth
err and eve the mother that bore him, al
too familiar to those of our readers VIII
ever heard the "1ndian Senator" talk t.
, bear repetition here. MADISON FOLLOWED
Galloway, and others may have FOLLOWED
:. Mabson-but we had seon enough fun an
closed our minutes of tho free show RICH
;, there.
;, From tho Raleigh Stan lard
GFDRENgT EAETRT