Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-12-01

/ The reass em bling OF the State LeSlSl2
ture, it is said, will be the signal for active
manUave'iug, on the part of sundry and
divers Of the faithful, for the Radical
Gubernatcrial nomina ion in the ensuing
spring. Already the competition is active
and acrimonious. This Contest for the
poor honor Of bein3 badly beaten promises
rich Developments
| The present little accidental incumbent
"tLey say" takes it in high dudgeon that
his professions should bs at all questioned.
Ia the first place, he loves place and the
Fictitious consideration it gives him,-A
consideration which, personally, he could
never attain. La the second place he is
intensely greedy Of the perquisies of office,
and ks talent of sdring has enabled him,
thus far, to make an uncommon good
thing Of it. And. then, his Claims Has
he not followed, faithfully, the example of
the law of the land and setting up his o~n
will in defiance of the Constitution and Of
solemn Legislative epactmeuts Did he
not advertise for L:ttlefe!d and there
alphabetically combining an exhibition
of virtuous indignation with a mastery
inactivity that left undisturbed q shining
Radical light And has be not originated
new order of Executive literature, by a
wonderful facility Of writing "ctrds" for
the papers, adorned with all the graces Of
Irish.malket rhetoric
But Carrow, the United States Marshal,
"they say does not see the force Of
these extraordinary qualifications, or
counts them as dust in the balance COM
pared with his superior merits. Does he
not spend his moner more freely than the
Governor, and was he net a ,rt of FiduS
AchateS to Holden ? Can be not talk
faster, louder and longer than Tod, or. in.
deed, any other man IN the whole ldio4l
army q? Did he not endeavor to frighten
aoit1aeSses, by ino4rce ration, il order to Co
cree them into Kuklux developments Is
there not balm in the Radical Giiead for
his sensitive and wounded spirit, in that
he has been actually accused of forgery by
that ex-reverend reprobate, Parson Sin
clair These are strong points. Besides,
the Marshal is looked upon by the SOILS
and daughters of Africa with Mingled
feeling of pride and wonder They re
gard his marvellous volatility with some
thing of that admiration with which tue
gaping rustics obst rived Goldsmith S pcda
gogue :
And .tiI this wonder grew
That one small head could carry ali he knew"
Olympus! what Governor Carrow
,Co,3d make /! His messages would be such
god send to the fortune man, who might
be Public Printer Aud then what models
of nervous Anglo -Saxon-the pure we'll
Of English undefled," as was said of
CHANGER Nothing like it since the days
| of the Texas Governor, who ascribed ''Now
is tue winter of our discomfort, &C - to
the Bib!el
But another scrub is trotted out-per-
| haps we should say trots himself out-in
the person of youth unknown to fame,
by the name Of Clinton l.. Cobb, Of the
Albemarle District. The name, we are
assured. is both significant and illustrative
there being but little of grdin about the
ifedgeling. How it comes about We know
n OF, unless it be attributable to the some
what pardonable vanity and conceit of as
piring youth, but the embryo statesman in
question, it is said, thinks that he has only
to reach forward and pluck the laurel.
Whereat, Oald we'll and Carrow snlile
Yet others are entering for the heat, but
these three are thought to bs the premi-
nent favorites OF their respective friends.
We shall watch the jockeying with rare in
hot Al.
promise q perfec. neutrality-not
-" Caring toss up
Whether Mossup be It's Barr, or Barry beats Mos.
sup"
In discussing the fioancial affairs of
South Carolina. the Nation gives the case
of the State Treasurer. Niles G. Parker