Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-08-12
POLITICAL CHIT-CIG4r.
HfH"iaI and Otherutsc

Judge Watts will go permanently into
the boud businesd it is thought
1t is currently reported that the next
Senate will not present Speaker Caldwell
with watch.
It is thought that Jndge Jones will join
the temperance society or Ieavc the
Bench.
It is understood among his moro intimate
friends, that Mr.. French, Of Now Hanover,
has abandoned his aspirations of being
Speaker Of the next House Of Repreeartta-
tives.
We are advised that French, Of New
Hanover. will not be Chairman of tho FL
nance Committee N the next Legislature.
Scntfietown in Robeeon, endorses Eol-
den, Pearson and Kirk by majority Of
one hundred and sixty seven. This is the
homo Of the murdefers and outlaws. Work
for Kirk.
Ii Is rnm Ored on the stteets that ex- Bre-
vet Brigadier General Joeeph c. Abbott, a
member Of the Senate OF the United States,
haillnR from North Carolina, and whose
tenn OF Office will expire on 4.h March
next, will nos be a candidate for re cleo
tion, having resigned his claims in favor
OF his parsonal aud political friend, W. W.
| Holden. Wonderful exhibition Of diein-
terested nffecsion--ecipsing the world re,
moved friendship Of Damon and Py!hias,
or the more happy conjunction Of Castor
and Pollux.
| Never have we Witnessed q more apt IL
| lustra8i0n that vaultiDg ambition OF
! o'orleaps itself aud falls on tho other side
than the Epeoimen OF ground and lofty
tumbling exhibited By Samuel Z. Phillips
in his brilliant leap into the aims OF tho
| Radical party. What must he thought o1
his astntenees as politician, or his ability
as party leader, when instead Of taking
the tide at che food, he pitches in whom @
rushing ebb is sweeping himself and party
10 inevitable destruction. There is dea
| Of pith in the old axiom that whom the
Gods wish TO destroy, they first make
mad" and Phillips is @ most brilliant ex.
enpliAcetion of it's truth and applicability
Speech OF rur. Davis IN Chattanooga.
Mr.. Davis paid @ visit lest week to Look.
ont Mountain, his first visit since, as Pres
ideDt Of the Oonfoderaoy, he went up with
Bragg to look at General Rosecrans' army
in the plain below. On returning to
Chattanooga he was serenaded. When he
appeared he spoke as follows
my friends, it affects me- from the bot
tom of my heart to receive this denaonstra-
ton of your kindly feeling towards me- I
had retired in O double sense. for the night
and from public life. In view of the past
no man can blame me for my detormina-
tion to let those. who have power dictate
how the country shall be governed. But,
standing here tonight upon tho sacred
soil of Tennessee, will say to you that I
wish you all the prosperity that is possible
Looking back upon the past and forward
TO the future can SEQ nothing that should
faint your honor. It is not the part Of
brave pen to brood over the sorrowa of
the past, but rather to look forward with
bright hopes for tho future. You have as
brave end high-minded q people as can
be found, and as noble women as live on
earth, and I wish you ali the happiness
and prosperity that is in human life to en-
jog. Again ] ihank you for this manifes-
tatiOn OF YOnr kindness"