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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-09-30

filed by strangers. 1t would be as wise
to pass by the entire bar of the State in
the selection of Judges. or to pass by the
entire body of statesmen in the State il
the selection Of legislators. So far as oul
recollection goes, there was not a single
member of the old Faculty exclusively
identified with the preparatory school in
terest OF the State as distinguished from
the college interest This ought not to
have been the case. We desire to see the
University grand educational institution.
We desire to see its chairs looked forward
10 as the reward of worth and culture, and
success in the teachers profession, mani
tested within the borders of our own State.
We desire no longer for it to be possible
for the teachers of our schools to feel that
they belong 10 an inferior. or at least to
an unrecognized profession, from whose
ranks promotion is impossible. We would
so order it that the humblest and youngest
member Of the profession may, when he
enters it, feel that he has taken the first
step on the road to the high honor of a
Professors chair at grand University.
Do this, and We will have not only bet
ter professors, but better teachers of
schools and more of them. If each part
of the State and each religious denomina-
ton be recorded, as ordinary prudence
dictates, in the selection of its best repre-
sentative men to fill professors chairs, the
succ IS of the University will be both
speedy and certain. Let such men as
Bingham, Colston, Black, benson, Fetter,
Hooper, Horrer, Hughes, Lacy, Lovejoy,
Merritt, Grady, Neal and York be announced
as in charge of the University, and from all
parts of the State boys will come flocking
to an institution whose officers are men of
known worth, capacity and fitness. No
more will our youth be seen seeking edu-
cation in other States. No more Will be
seen that other sight, Of which we have
seen SO much Of late, to wit
Strangers 10 our people and our State,
arrogantly acting as if there was neither
c;viliz alton, nor intelligence, nor refine
ment among is. Instead thereof we shall
see at Chapel Hill an institution that shall
be in deed, as well as in name, the Uniyer-
have been done, it will be time to prepare
for the grat.d jubilee. LIT it be anpoun
ccd that there will boa great "opening
day." to which let everybody, far and
near, be invited, aud when Ihe day comes
let Us be there and having reorganized
oil the old Societies and revived the old
Associations, and having renewed the old
customs, let us inaugurato the old regime
ana bid God speed to the University of
North Carolina
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-09-30

We willingly publish the following cor
respondence, as requested. Whatever
may be our personal or political feelings
towards an occupant of the Bench in
North Carolina, we will not knowingly be
guilty of doing him on injustice or be a
party to prejudice him uniustly in the eyes
OF the public. Respect for the law and
it's officers is one of the most important
duties of the citizen, and when our judges
deserve public confidence We arc among
the foremost to inculcate it by precept
and example.
We have, on several occasions, COM
mended the course of Judge Russell, and
We are glad to learn from him that
he Is not the author of the letter IN the
Standard, for the greatest evils which have
befallen North Carolina have resulted
from judicial interference in political af-
fairs, and political bias on the bench.
SEPTEMBER 26th, 1870.
Editors OF the Journal Wilmington ". c.
GENTLEMEN Il have the honor to request
that you will publish the following correspon-
dence. desire to say to that portion OF the
public who are readers OF the JOURNAL, as well
rs TO yourselves, that I was not the author of
the communication in the Standard over the
siguatEre OF "Blue Springs" that never had
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-09-30
VOLUME TWENTY.

The DAILY JoURNAL enters upon the
twentieth year of its existence to-day. For
nineteen wears. almost without intermis-
sion. il has made its daily visits to its
patrons in this city and throughout the
country. Looking back through its col
umns we have O minute,record of the pro-
gress of Wilmington and the current his
tory of the State and country for nearly
q quarter of a century. It's commercial
and advertising columns give a full and
correct history of the business of our city,
which can be found nowhere else, while
its moral, social. and health statistics are
Invaluable. -
The continued partially for the JOURNAL,
which has sustained it throughout all these
eventful years, and which has ever been
appreciated by its successive proprietors,
has been the means of preserving these
valuable records to our city. To-day there
is no institution, or association. or bust
ness enterprise moro closely identified
with the history and prosperity Of Viii
mington than is the JOURNAL The financial
and commercial public look to its columns
as the indices of the industry and enterprise
and business of the place, and its record
of social reinements and epjoyments
give tone and character to its society
abroad.
Sustained by the confidence and sup
port of our people, the JOURNAL viii con-
tinue to be true to tho great responsible
ties devolving upon it.
Duty Journal 281.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-09-30

with myself, if Wilmington. our only pure
" commercial town, should have no re-
representatives. In this Company, and no
voice, or hand. y in sdirecting its manage
ment, or building it up. Let it not be
said of her, she passes by on the other
side, repeating the past history of the
State in letting strangers find out the
value of her resources.
You know, of course that the Charlotte
and Rutherford Road will connect with
the Charlotte and StatesviIle Railroad,
bringing these Springs within IL hours
ride of Wilmington.
I do hope this will meet with your kind
and generous attention.
Yours very truly. w.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-09-30
-CoNsTANTINoPL

Among alI the cities Of earth wha
others awaken such memories as these
three
History is studded with their names,
flashing like stars from its most brilliant
pages. nIustrious in past ages, their des
TIMES again astonish the world i'll cur
day, and the mind pauses in ACCOMPLISHMENT
at their wonderful careers.
Paris, the focus of human civilization,
containing within herself the concentra-
ton of all that science, art, learning have
notwithstanding within her bosom the
elements of all that is best and worst on
earth-herself a complete micrOcosm, Is
for the third time in sixty years surround
ed by hostile armies, and while the Teu-
tonic shells threaten destruction to her pal
aces and monuments, her sons arc turning
against each other the weapons which
should present united front against the
invader. Whether she fall ANONYMOUSLY
through treachery and dissonsion. or come
out triumphantly from the fiery ordeal,
woe and tribulation must be her share be-
fore the camp-fres of foreign foes faue
away from the sight of her inhabitants.
While Paris is trembling with fury, with
terror, almost with madness, Rome, still
vigorous, Notwithstanding her twonty-six
centuries, is preparing to renew her youth
in the atmosphere of liberty. There all is
Joy and hope. The effete yoke of the old
theocracy is forever broken, and the blood
of young Italy circulates freely and exult-
ingly in the veins of the ancient capital.
A new era is opening before her, and she
may yet astonish the world by achieve
raents worthy of her antique fame.
Imperial Byzantium, the Queen of the
Levant-seated on tho BosphoruF, is lis
tening from afar to the murmurs Of the
North wind. For moro than four hun
dred years the Turk has been encamped
upon her shores, but never moro than en-
camped. What is four hundred years IN the
life Of the world? The IIoors held Spain
for eight hundred and were driven from it
by the Spaniards as the Tark will now be
driven out by the MuscoYite. The ''sick
man may make a last spasmodic effort,
but it will be of no avail. The hand wrl-
ting is on the wall. Already the armies of
the Gear are in motion, aud resistance will
be vain. In this war, at least,
we can all sympathize. Away with
the Turk! He has never done any
thing for the progress. of humanity. Let
MIN go back to Asia and let Christian
empire arise over those fair regions which
he has too long polluted with his presence.
The Christians of European Turkey have
always outnumbered the Turks, and to
them belong of right the regions in which
they dwell.
What wonderful landmark Of History |
will be this year of grace 1870 if it witness
ca the downfall of the French Empire, the |
rise of the French Republic and the Ger
man Empire, or perhaps the German Re
public, the end of the temporal power of
the Popes, and the expulsion Of the Turks
from Europe!
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-09-30

in fact, what he officially is, the Senator
from North Carolina
Can we find such o man, who is qualified
otherwise and not banned by the Consti-
tuition OF the United States ? IF go, let the
Legislature elecG him, whether he comes
from the Mountains, the Hills or the Sea-
shore. We have started North Carolina
upon new read to prosperity. We must
not, at the outset, revive prejndices which
died amidst the associations OF the camp.
Upon the field OF baltic North Carolinians
from the North and South, East and West,
stood shoulder to shoulder, and shared in
the trials and dangers, the glory and de-
feat OF one another. Their common sui
ferings and triumphs then, and their com
mon suffcrings and triumphs since, have
welded the people OF North Carolina to-
gether. Let as do nothing tending to
sever union so facred, SO happy and so
advantageous.
In behalf of the people of the entire
State We ask that selection for United
States Senator be made with q view to the
general good, without considerations of old
party associations or present residence
Il the best man be found in this or that
part of North Carolina. let him be elected.
He must go to the Senate with the unani-
nous approval OF the entire Conservative
portion of our people, and he must labor
for the good OF the entire State.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-09-30

the slightest intimation that such an article
would be published; that am totally ignorant
of having inspired the publication of If, and that
nv first knoWiedge of il was derived from o Gag
ual reading of the paper which contained it.
Yours &c.,
DAN. L. RUSSELL, JR.
The Portland daily press., 1870-12-10
A Wrong Statement.

We copy the following from an Occasional
Portland correspondents of the BOSTON ADDER
tiser:
Steps are now being taken, we observe, Il
develop the Portland & Rutland Railroad
corporation, formerly the Portland & Roches
ter, late York & Cumberland, once puny
little affair of some twelve miles length, anC
about twice as many separate mortgages, into
the Portland, Rutland, Oswego & Chicago
the future grand thoroughfare of this half O
the continent, which of course is to degener
ate some half-dozen lines of American steam
ships, unsubsidized and prosperous! May the
day be not far distant.
This statement is in keeping with the gen
eral ignorance which often shows itself wher
railroad matters of the State of Maine art
spoken Of in the Boston papers! But we are
at a loss to know how person, who is in any
way familiar with railroad matters in and
about Portland, should have made so ridicu
lous and false an assertion, unless he is influ.
enced by wrong considerations.
The Portland daily press., 1870-12-10
Political,


The Troy Times says that the Message
shows that the President is in intimate SYM
pathy with the ideas and wishes of the PEG.
pie.
Congressman Armstrong, of the Pennsyl
yania Eighteenth District, declines TO confess
the seat of his Democratic successor.
The new party movement in New lamp.
shire, which has been kept alive with great
difficulty by few disafected Democrats, is
dead at last.
The Hartford Courant says that the Admin
istration, in its position relative to the I'M
friendly conduct of Canada, will be sustained
unanimously by the country.
The Hartford Post, while admitting that
some of the recommendations of the Message
are open to criticism, thinks the document, as
whole, is sensible, calm, reasonable and just
The Pittsburg Commercial believes that the
Message will strengthen the President and
his Administration with the country, and il
trusts it will have a similar effect on Congress
The Democratic papers in Illinois are say
ing of Gen. John A. Logan as bitter things
as they can invent, thinking apparently that
thus they can prevent his election to the
United States Senate by the Republican Leg
icloturo
The Portland daily press., 1870-12-10
DR.. II. TT Nch1ncH

OF Philadelphia, the proprietor of Schenck's pnlmo
mic Syrup, Schenek's Mandrake Pills. ana SchnncE's
Seaweed Tonic, will be professionally at his Old
rooms No. 81 Hanover street, Boston, on the 18th of
December. All who desire to consult DR., Schenck.
or of having thorough examination of their lungs
by the aid OF his Respirometer, should avail them,
selves OF this opportunity, the Doctors stav ia
necessarily limited to one day.
Those who eel DESTROYS OF ascertaining the precse
condition of their lungs-whether they are affected
merely by disease OF the bronchial tubes Resulting
from torpid liver whether the disease is pumo-
nary pleuratic, or tubercuculous censumption-cau
have their desires grated by calling Dr. Scbepck
His large and extended experience in the treatment
OF pulmonary complaints, together with the invalu-
able Aid derived from the OF his Respironometer
enables him to confidently determine the precise 10.
cation and character OF diseases OF this nature and
| to prescribe the proper remedies.
Dr. Schenck does not purpose making regular pro-
fessiona visits to Boston in FUTURE his home prac-
| tice being so extensive as to demand his entire time
and attention. He will however, when requested
to do So make professional visits to parties at dis
lance. He would state that bad cases of diseased
lungs can be cured by the proper use of his mcdi-
cnes, and by the patients carefully avoiding the
| taking of cold by remaining in the house until a
thorough is affected. He also desires to state
| that when he advises patients to remain in the
house, it is not because the effect OF his medicines is
to open the pores and thereby induce colds but be-
| cause, when lungs are diseased, exposure to the
| open air necessarily produces Inflammation and. as
| natural result the patient must die.
The Doctors charge for a thorough examination
with the RespiIonometer is five dollars, but all ad-
/ vice free. d. 1Osn4t
The Portland daily press., 1870-12-10
war otea.

- -Ex- Queen Isabella sent her formal protest
frdm Geneva against the election Of the Duke
of5Aosta as King of Spain. She states that
she has no intention of appealing to force.
All the political factions in Spain are vie
lently attacking Prim and his party for sup,
porting the Duke of Aosta
1t is said that Bismarck will treat the ac
ceptance or rejection of the South German
treaties as cabinet question.
Bismarck considers that the delay in voting
for new constitution is working mischief.
A Berlin despatch says King William ha
accepted the title of the Emperor of Germany
which creates much enthusiasm at Berlin.
| The London Times believes that certain rec
concentrations made in President Grant
message will fail still-born like those of Gen
Grants prede ces sors. The document mark
another stage of the Presidents downward ca
reef, and teaches how far the highest authori
ties will 60 when the balance of parties is nm
g able
The Portland daily press., 1870-12-10


THE latest instrument of torture for the
horse, just discovered and seized by the Socie-
ty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in
New York and Washington, is a stiff piece of
sole leather, mad round, of about four inches
in diameter. Into this are fastened from
twenty to thirty steel needles, projecting one
inch from the surface of the leather. The 9TH
er side is covered with highly vanished jap
PANIED leather, sewed and ornamented with
fanciful figures to make them attractive. This
peculiar ornament is attached to the bit, with
the sharp needles next to the thin skin of the
horses cheeks and when a brutal driver de-
sires to show his high-mettled charger he pulls
up his reins, the needles penetrate the skin,
and the animal rears and Frances in pain. At
least half bushel of these machines were
seized in Washington few days ago.
The Portland daily press., 1870-12-10


The railroad depot at Gowanus, Brooklyn,
a loss of 100000 OH G. Godfrey -Gunther.-
Other parties lose $4,000.
A bitter quarrel is reported between the Gu
ban leaders in New York.
Several carloads Of petroleum were destroy
ed by fire at Oil City ON Friday.
Gov. Lindsay of Alabama has taken posses
sion of the Office to which he was elected
There was no demonstration, but feeling of
thankfulness that the conflict was ended.
The breaks in the cable have not yet been
repaired and the prospect is SO poor that tie
company have raised the rate of single des-
patches of ten words to $15 in gold, saying the
accumulation of business renders it necessary.
Several failures are reported in New York
in the produce and provision trade.
In Chicago dry goods firm has failed for
5000 900 and clothing house for 100000.
A man wanted to find where gas leak was
in the basement of the Tombs prison in New
York and struck match to see. An explo-
| sion followed which shook the whole building
| and nearly killed the careless fellow.
Secretary Belknap has ordered Smith, the
colored cadet, to be confined to the barracks
till February, and also reprimands him.
DR.. II. G. McIntire at Concord has been
bound over in $500 to answer for his partici-
patton in the "baby farming case.
Charles Fl. Merrill, captain Of a canal boat,
is in custody in New York for stealing the boat
and cargo, valued at SIS 900, after he had been
| discharged from employ.
Five horse-car conductors have been arrest
ed in New York for knocking down. fares.
In the case of the Concord Railroad vs.. the
| Northern Railroad the court, three to one, de-
cided that the famous contract between these
roads is illegal and void. On the question OF
surrendering the Concord Railroad to the pos
session of the present board of directors the
judges being equally divided no decision was
made and the road remains in the hands of the
receivers.
The Superior Court in Baltimore yesterday
decided that the act of 1882 requiring the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad to pay to the State
Treasurer o2e-tifth of the passenger receipts
on the branch from Baltimore to Washington
is unconstitutional and in conflict with the
constitution of the United States. The amount
involved is 100000, the company having re-
fused the payment of it since june 30, 1861
The court intimated that each passenger could
recover one fifth of the fare exacted by the
copnnanv slialtF F
The Portland daily press., 1870-12-10
WASHINGTON coUl

and was imbeded about foot in the earth.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The name of the postefice at Narraguagus
is changed to Cherryfie1d, and j. II. Small APP
pointed Postmaster.
Some five or six hundred Houlton people
made an excursion to Calais last Tuesday, over
the railroad. They were kindly received, and
entertained with an excellent dinner in the
Baptist vestry, by the citizens of Calais.
YORK COUNTY.
Hon. James r. Clark, recently Mayor of
Biddeford, is about to take up his residence in
Boston. Fgs~
A movement is on foot to establish shoe
manufacturing company in Biddeford, with a
capital of $4,000.
The Pepperell and Laconia corporations at
biddeiord, are rnnning their mills till 9PM. at
presehl, as the demand for cottons is ahead of
the supply.
A man IN York county recently sold off his
hay and stock and some land far Sseo noorlv
all he possessed IN the world, went down to
Biddeford for glorious drunk, fell AMONG the
rum sharpers, and in one week souandered
every cent OF 1t.
The owners of the Rice estate in Kitterv
have presented to the inhabitants of School
District No. / of that town, q fine building lot i,
cor tainlng one half an acre OF land.
A Young man in Kennebupkport, who had
circulated ISLANDERS about respectable young Ia
dies was brought to;his knees by letter from
a lawyer. He fastened 10 sign paper saying
that he was liar and slanderer, and by pay
ing costs further proceedings were stayed.
The Portland daily press., 1870-12-10

RUsSIA'S MEANS OF DEFENCE.-COl. Gowen,
an American engineer recently returned from
a long residence in Russia, gives the following
facts in regard to the armament of that coun-
try:
The Black Sea is defended at the entrance of
the sea OF Azof by fort Nicoa, one of the strong
est forts in the world 1t can bring 100 fifteen
inch steel Krupp guns to bear upon vessels ap-
preaching from any point. A long artificial
bar built of stone at cost of $4,000, 900 virtu-
ally closes up the entrance of the sea of Azol.
The Notifications on the northern side of Sc
bastopol are intact, but those on the southern
side have never been rebuilt.
On the Baltic Sea Cronstadt, Helsngfors
and Revel commanding the entrance to the
Neva are considered improbable.
The Heet OF the Gar in the Black Sea num-
Ders ninety small steamers of the gunboa +
class, intended for transportation into IRON
clads. The Prussian Steam Navigation Com
pany, chiefly owned by the royal family, has
eighty fast steamers in the Black Sea. These
fleets can transport 100000 men at one time.
The country is well provided with all the facil-
tiles for manufacturing munitions of war
Large stores OF powder are held in different
parts
The Russian army consists of $4,000 avala-
BILE men, and there are J. 200 900 available re-
serves in Russia.
Col. Gowen regards the popular misunder-
standing of the question at issue as marvel
lous. Russian merchant ships pass through
the Dardenelles and no one fears for the Sui
tan's tenure of authority but when it is pro-
posed that Russian gunboats shall exercise the
same privilege, this is Immediately assumed to
imply. the disposition of the Ottoman sovereign.
His long residence both in Russia and Eng
land, and intimate acquaintance with the opin-
ions of both people convince Col. Gowen that
a conference can only delay the final catastro.
phe. The Russian people are strenuous in their
demands, and England is emphatic in her re-
fusal There can be, he claims, but one result
namely, war.
The Portland daily press., 1870-12-10

THE Maine Jour nal of Education for De-
cember contains a valuable article on Educa-
tional Retrospect, being comparison of State
statistics and progress between 1869 and 20;
and full report of the last session of the
State Educational Association, also several 9TH
er papers of value to teachers. Warren johnson
Esq, the State Superintendent, was the editor
for the month
The Portland daily press., 1870-12-10

ODD FELLOWSHIP IN GERMANY.-The insti-
tuition of a lodge of Odd Fellows at Stuttgart,
under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of
the United States, by an officer specially depu-
tied by the Grand Sire of the American Order
becomes noteworthy circumstance that a
people engaged in deadly conflict with for
eign power should, in the midst of wars tn.
mutt and excitement, turn its attention to an
organization having for its purpose the promo
ton of peace and universal goodwill. The
American Order of Odd Fellows has the in
dorsement of the Prussian government, secur-
ed through the influence of Minister Bancroft,
and it is believed that the Order will spread
rapidly through the German confederation.
The Portland daily press., 1870-12-10

GREAT FALLS & CONWAY ExTENsIoN.-The
extension of the Great Falls & Conway road is
progressing very rapidly, gangs of workmen
oeing engaged all along the line to Ossipee.
line road crosses the highway four times be-
tween Union and Wakefield corner, a distance
of five miles, and for nearly the whole distance
runs near the highway.