Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-06-09

! grateful rest in this quiet place Though
that unfortunate and doubtless much
maligred individual, tie Wandering Jew,
has for a long time commanded our SINGER
est sym pathy in his terrible, never ending
unre t, it has occurred 20 us that if he
were TO publish, from time to time, an ac-
count of his travels, he would be about
"even with his readers. In like spirit
of revenge We propose to say fsw words
this morning
THE CROPS.
Tue best corn and cotton along out route
was IN South C1rolioa where the prospt ct
was il deed encoura. ing, though occasional
fields stOWtd d a very decided " neutrality "
on the part OF the freedme II in the s'rug-
gle between the grass and the crop TOR the
life giving nutri1Gent Of their common
mother earth.
In northern Georgia there is ve.y little
cotton comparatively to he seen along
tue line Cf the railway. The corn is back
ward. The wheat shows u poor ssaod,
aud IL addition has been very much in
jured by the rus. which has attacked b 9TH
stalk and blade. 1t is estImated taat no.
more than half cr two-thlrds Of a crop
vii! be sved in the harvest inss beginning.
The cat crop, it IS to be feared, is also in
jQred, though t to the same ex .eut.
In north Alab4m1 the rims and colo
spring have kept buck to.h cotton and
corn. The staud of cotton, hove Fer, is
said to ho good an6 the t4nI Of ''grass "
very coed, but this does not create au ap-
preheusion in th mn IS Of uur c3lored
fellowcitzeLs.
The planters here work differently from
US in North CAROLINA and IN some respect.
much moro adFantageousy. The plan
here is to crop ''on eharts" with the labor
er, with this addition, t!.at the merchant
cUmes in with advances to the laboTec.
The merchant takes a lien on the negro's
part Of the crop and seeks profit in hand
ling the cotton rs vel rs In his percentage
on goods sold. In many respects this sys-
TEN is better, especially in bad years for
the land owner than TO pay mOaey wages
or to crop on shares. making or being
res pyIslble for advances, as pfaoicei with
u.s. How long the merchants viii find
profit in the plan Is II doubtful problem
yet to be solved.
There being 20 can paig0s in progress the
political atmosphere . pat4fuiiy und15
turhed.
have convers. With 20 gentleman,
however, who does not COncnr III the Opln
ion that it is the true p2licy Tor tho SOnts
TO let our Nor hern brtturen cOoducC th.
coming presidential campaign upon their
own ground and their o&n plan, withou,
the complications that must arise from an
cntapgiiag alliance with Southern peOp-e.
THE TRIP.
H.
fitted to provoke calm reflection and pious
meditation than the Wilmington and
Manchester Railroad. The speed of
the train is SO gentle, the passengers 50
few and the face of the country so un-
brokenly monotonous that both road and
country seem to be parts of some bene-
fcent plan of Nature to afford man an Op-
portunity to retire from the busy scenes
of selfish world md reflect .undisturbed
upon the changes and chances of this NOR
| tai life.
| KINGSvILLE.
Under these soothing Influences our
| fellow traveller and ourself reached Kings
| Vile, ''sweet Kingsvile, loveliest village of
| the plain, and l.. meditatlve mood kept our
seats, ponde ring in our hearts the inscruta
| bility Of the wisdom that could devise and
| keep in existence such road In such
| country. We waited and still waited, but
| DOluR SO lulfJ pIStSSA Will lAaG A4Oo1
unequitable of equity doc rines, that ''tlmo
was not of the essence of the Contract,
| we became not uneasy. In the course OF
al hour or two, however, our worthy Con-
ductCr came in with wO5 painted on his
countenanca and asked what We were doing
| there. W. responded that having IN
abiding faith II the blessed hope Of i'm
mortality. we were waiting to go TO Au-
gusta. Heleul on he gave US the graft
| fylnp intelligence shat
We WERE LEFT AT KINGsvILLE;
that we ought to have changed cars that
our car had gone that he had just eaten
the only dinner in the place. and that the
next train would not leave until 10 p. N !
Not a word was sald-we colld O4ly look
reproachfully at each other and at the Con
ductor. language was utterly inadequate.
Now, my dear JOURNAL, We know tull well
it is pretty hard thing. indeed. an 10
sutiug thing for man to tell another, ex-
pecting him to believe 1T, that he was LETT
at Klngsville for near ten hours without
saving "dsmn" single time. Yet 50 Ii
was-so much for calm h-ction aud Pions
meditation. Is Mr.. Br,dgers really a
secret em,ssar, Of tue Youn6 Mems Chr.s
tian- Association, AID i, his road ruu 70
the Interest of lhat useful institution ?
Ten O'Clock cana at last and with IL Ous
train, and we bid au atfectiODate farewell
, experienced Lew sensation, tOl, upon
going to the water Estand we fonnd ace
w4ter. Now every body knows tha: ice
wafer in summer time does not conduce
to meditation, hence we presume It's nOu-
appearance on the ". d III. Il. r. JUS
here we wish TO cOrrecta popular de,u-lOu.
1t is generally supposed that these letters.
w E NJ. r. e., stand for the Whining ton
and Man chester Railroad. This is al
error, doubtless, the true description being
the Waiting and Meditative Il. r. But on
we sped until We reached
ATLANTA,
> wheae We had to wait several hours TO take
t the train for Chattanooga. The change;
g here since our last visit were very marked
Q a splendid sned has been erected over the
r railroad depot, within o stones throw Of
which looms up the Kimbaii House, a mag
v nihcent building of six stories, covered
y with that handsOmest of all coverings, the