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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-04-12
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Ch'lnn County
April 10th, 1872.

One Fountain, Of whom we only know
that he was "born a Republican and ex-
poets to die one" writes letter to j. II.
Hvman, late cOlored Senator from Warren,
and now an aspirant for Congress in the
Second District, urging him not 10 become
a candidate. He talks about the whites
not being recOnciled to the fact that the
colored race are as competent for citizen
ship as other races; that OF the forty mil
lions population III the United States
tilirty-siX are whites that it is the policy
OF parties to be governed by men of I'M
doubted wisdom and craftsmanship, ''Well
versed in the language of the country, "a
covert lick at the negro lingo and gives
other reasons equally good, why the negro
should not aspire to political position,
which Conservative papers have attempted
in vain to impress upon the colOred people,
but which comes with bad grace from a
white Radical office-holder, and reads very
singularly in Radical newspaper, although
published at the request Of a prominent
Republican," who, no doubt, is also an
Office-hOlder.
No, the North Carolina negro may as
well make up his mind to it. He is not to
be allowed to have the ''fat' offices. If he
wants to be a United States Senator, OF a
Congressman, or a Judge, or Lieutenant
| Governor, he must so to South Car
DINA, or Georgia, or Florida, or Mississippi
OF - i'll fact, anywhere in the
South except North Carolina. The party
here IS too respectable, too white, for such
| a fellowship. Sambo can vote, but if he
aspires to be voted for in North Carolina,
then there is danger not only of sacrificing
his ''iorty acres and mule" but Of incur
ring untold evils, including a loss Of iber-
ty, by bringing about the defeat OF the
party.
This docs very we'll. The negroes will
continue to be the dupes of their miserable
white allies for while longer. The time
will come, however, when they will open
their eyes and claim their own, even ii
Fountain and the prominent Republican
| both lose their offices. Let these fellows
who are growing rich upon the ignorance
and credulity of the negro make haste
while the sun shines. The day will soon
come when these blood-suckers must
loosen their holt. Our "colored fellow
citizens begin to grow weary of waiting.
AS the Second District is hopelessIy Radi-
cal, we care little whether Hyman heeds
the advice of Fountain or not. Lyman
if no better, is surely no worse than
Thomas, or any probable white nominee
Of the party.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-04-12

wheat is cleaned and ground separately,
and deposited by machinery ready for sale
in bins the flour and different kinds of
of1al being properly separated. The wheat
is not touched by hand after leaving the
dray until offered for sale as the flour and
offal
Last but not least, are tie
PEARL HoAnNY MILLS.
These mills are among the most complete
pieces of machinery in theTway of milling,
now in use. The corn is rasped by steel
rasps attached to aporous, upright iron
cylinder, run at the rate of thousand
revolutions a minute. The hominy is kin
dried in tie process of polishing, and will
keep in any climate. 1t has been tested
by being shipped from here to China, and
after being five months in transit, and hav-
ing passed twice through the tropics, was
found to be as good and sweet as when
shipped. Flour from these mills has also
been shipped to the same place with like
result, all being found perfectly sweet and
nice.
The proprietor has used all the economy
possible in the erection of these mills, but
has spared neither pains nor expense in the
direction Of doing away with the necessity
of all manual labor III the operations of the
mills, three men, including an engineer
and fireman, being all that is neces-
sary.
The plans were made by the proprietor
who has also personally superintendent the
works from beginning to end. When al
the windows and doors are closed with
iron shutters, as is the intention, the build
ing will be literally tlre-proot, and an orna
ment and benefit to the CITY.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-04-12

Ii gave us pleasure to see that the Con
servatiyes Of Jones county had recommend
Cd Colonel Poor. for position upon the
Conservative State ticket. The press OF
the State is entitled to such an ackn0W-
lad@meut gifts services, and we know Of
no more orlhy representative than Col
oneI Pool. His brethren Of the quill would
Give him an enthusiastic support. We
regret to learn, however, from the Coloncl,s
own paper and over his own signature,
that he is not eligible, coming under the
restrictions Of the Fourteenth Amend
ment.
The time may come when it win be in
the power Of the people to reward properly
80 faithful laborer in their behall-it is to
be hoped.
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,El,e state oCfne south.

In another part Of this issue will be
found an article under the above caption,
reproduced from the New York Nation,
Republican, to which we invite atten-
ton. It shows " l!ai lao honest journal,
whether Democratic CT Republican, that
speaks the truth, can help showing-the
depl0rable condition CT the South. CAN
| accounts agree, says the Nation, 'as to
the widespread misery and penury." And
why? Because 'Ethe carpet-baggers have
had it pretty much their own way. If they
chose to rob, there was nothing to prevent
them.'' The hands of those classes in the
South who alone had anything that could
be stolen were tied, and the spoilers let
! loose upon their possessions, such as had
/ survived the destruction of the war. There
is no protect ION for property. Everything,
| tar and wide, is at the mercy of scamps,
and all the powers of government are in
/ their hands. The carpet-baggers have an
! immense extent of country TO rifle; they
do not buy the Legislatures, they con-
+ stitutc them: they enact their own regis
(
And why is this? Because 1.-The persons
they Iob-'-lhat is, the bona tide citizens
OF the South; they who have, or have ever
had, anything 10 lose; they who are in
tercsted in good government, and suffer
most by bad-havc no shield against the
thieves, having no voice in the conduct of
their own affairs, being DISTINGUISHED
"who could no. go to the polls if they
would.
The infamies perpetrated in the South,
a system of spoliation and wrong, are
without parallel. When the locusts came
down from Egypt and devoured the sub
stance Of the land. they did not devOur
every green thing down to the roots more
thoroughly than the spelling carpet-baggers
have done, or are doing, throughout the
South. Their depredations shock the
minds OF civilized men. They fasten a
stigma on the American name. Had the
/ dominant party dealt anything like justly
! towards the South, or wisely towards the
/ American people; had they been guided
! by reason instead of passion, by patriotism
/ instead of prejudice; had they recognized,
instead of defying, the binding obligations
! of law and the sacredness of vested rights !;
had an honest and lawful purpose for the
welfare Of the South, and hence of the
whole people, and not vengeance, con-
trolled them had they committed, as they
were in law and common justice bound to
do, the interests of the Southern States
into the hands of their own people, instead
of into the hands of men who have become
had they, finally, been capable of rising
above party and schemes for party perpe-
tuity and aggrandizement, and of contem
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-04-12

John Quincy Adams has twice run as
the Democratic candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts,. "My son." said once his
father, Charles Francis Adams, edo you
think you know enough to be Governor of
Massachusetts ," II probably shall by the
time I am elected replied the witty son.
A gentleman in Augusta, Ga, purchased
some two years ago shaving brush from
a druggist in that city, and after constant
use from that timetu it over to his little
son. While the child was playing with it
the top became unscrewed, and in the hol-
low handle a valuable diamond was dis
covered set in the wood and carefully COW
cred with pink cotton.
The journeymen horse shoers of St.
Louis struck Thursday against all machine
made shoes.
The society for the increase of the Mir
istry (EpiscOpal) has during the past year
granted aid To one hundred and seventy
students. Their average is twenty four
More than one hundred applications had to
be refused for want of funds.
The Raleigh Sentinel says Yesterday
Gov. I. K. Caldwell backed down in his
dispute with the Legislative Board of Di-
rectors of the Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb and Blind, and consented that the
Public Treasurer should pay over to the
Board money for the support of the Insti-
tuition, and accordingly $12, 800 was paid to
L. ID. Heartt, ESQ, the Treasurer of the
Board.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-04-12
County Convention.

The Democrats and Conservatives of
New Hanover county are requested to
assemble at the Court House in Whining
ton, on Tuesday, April 23d, (being the first
week of Superior Court,) at = O'Clock p.
m, for the purpose of electlng delegates 10
represent the county in the State Conyen-
ton, to be held at Greensboro, on the first
day of May next, and also, in the Con-
gressional District Convention, to be held
when and where the Executive Committee
of the District shall appoint
1t is desired that every township in thc
county shall be represented.
JOSEPH A. ExGELHARD,
ChInn County Executive COmtce.
April 10th, 1872.
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Q0(ilmtuqtolr cJollrl2l
WILMINGTON. n. C.:
FRIDAY. APRIL -, 1872.

WE have been informed that the case OF
the Sampson county prisoners, remanded
10 Brunswick county, has been dismissed,
he defendants having been indicted in the
United States Circuit Court at Raleigh.
CALDWELL has certainly made faith
fIl Administrator on the estate of Holden.
How, then, is it that the Holdens, pere ct fills,
are so hostile to Tod's nomination by the
approaching Radical Convention? It can
only be attributable to that mean envy
which hates to be outdone, even in works
Of evil, Caldwell has improved On Holden
in malignity and meanness, and, naturally,
Holden don't like that.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-04-12

WENDELL PHILLIPS has been inter
viewed" and expresses lis opinion Of
Grant very freely. Among other things lie
says:
" Recently, while Oh a visit to The West,
in the vicinity Of Grants former home, l
asked friend Of mine, at whose house
was stopping, what the people there
thought of the President, and he replied
that they had a very poor opinion OF him ;
they did not think lie was an honest man.
My friend asked ne to ride around within
the neighbolhood and he would show me
ut least five grOg shops where the now
President of the United States has yet
whiskey bills standing against him. the
score not having been wiped out
A mans own neighbors are always the
best judges Of his character. And when
q mans own neighbors put an estimate on
him, it doesn't behoove outsiders to dispute
their judgment. Grant, however, owes 1t
TO the party Of great moral ideas to pay
those whiskeY bills.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-04-12

WE have received several complaints
from our subscribers at Whiteville. Our
Daily missed four times last week. The
far, is not with us, but with the Postoflice
de- IrtInent. We have asked Colonel
b. nix, our Postmaster, to inquire into the
matter, as he will do SO, we are sure.
1t is little singular that our entire mail
could miscarry SO frequently directed to an
office so near.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-04-12
POETRY RUN NJ AID.

I stood upon the oceans briny shore,
And with a fragile reed wrote
Upon the sand
Agnes, love thee!"
The mad ware rolled by and blotted out
The fair impressions:
Frail reed Cruel wave TreacherOus sand .
I'll trust We no more;
But with giant hand I'll pluck
From NoTway's frozen shore,
Her tallest pine and dip its top
Into the crater OF Vesu7ius, ....
And npOn the high and FURNISHED heavens.
I'll write
"Agnes, love thee!''
And would like to see any
Dog goned wave wash that out.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-04-12
county Convention.

We publish to-day call for 4 County
Convention, to be held in this city on Tues
day, 23d instant.
We hope our friends ia all portions Of
the county will be represented in this Con-
vention. We are on the eve Of most i'm
portant campaign, and we must not be
lagpards in the fight.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-04-12
A Request.

Editors will please insert, as a matter of
general interest, the announcement of the
third session of the Agricultural Congress,
to convene at st. Louis, Mo-, Monday, May
y, 1872. The meeting is under the auspices
of the st. Louis Fair Association, and cor
respondence from every section Of the
country indicates full attendance. All
Agricultural and horticultural Societies
are entitled to representation by one dele
gate for each fifty of its members, and are
earnestly requested to cooperate.
CHAs. w. GREENE,
Secretary.
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EEiStOriCaE.

We desire to call attention to TIIE
AMERICAN HISTORICAL RECORD, AND
REPORTeEY OF NOTES AID QUERIES,
CONCERNING TIE IIIsToi,Y AND An
rIQUITIEs OF AMERICA, AND BIoGRA-
ply OF AMERICANS, published III Pitjla-
dclphia by BENSON J. LossINC.
We find this one Of the most interesting
and valuable publications of the day. Its
name fully indicates its object and scope
TO the student Of American history it will
prove invaluable, while tic searcher after
The quaint records Of the past will find in it
4 welcome friend.
TIE RECORD is issued il monthly
numbers at three dollars per year.
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Columbus County.

The Conservatives and Democrats of
Columbus county will meet in Convention
at Whiteville on Saturday, April goth, to
appoint delegates to the State and Congress
sional Convention. A full meeting is re-
quested.
Whiteville, April 9th, 1872.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-04-12
SACRED
TO TIE MEMORY OF
GENERAL HENRY LEE.
OF VIRGINIA.
Obiit-25 March, 1918,
Fiat Sc.
Obiit-2J MAJ
Fiat Sc.

Nearest to Gen. Lees tomb IS that of
Charles Jackson, a Revolutionary officer,
who died il 1901; and the next is that of
Mrs. Miller.
The tomb of Gen. Greene's daughter,
Mrs. Louisa g. Shaw, who died in 1881,
and Of her husband, Mr.. James Shaw,
who died in 1920, are beside Mrs. Miller's.
Many persons are under the impression
that General Greene was buried here, but
at the time of his death (17S6) he resided
at Mulberry Grove, near Savannah, and
his remains were deposited in vault in
the old cemetery in Savannah. The man;
sion Of DuugenesS was erected after his
death. When his descendants in after
years sought his remains with the purpose
Of removing them to Dungeness, they
could not be identified. It is certain that
they%are not at Dungeness. Even our own
General Robert f. Lee was under the i'm
preston that General Greene was inferred
at Dungeness, and so states by necessary
implication in his biographical sketch pre-
fixed to his fathers historical work on
Revolutionary History, in the edition
of the latter that appeared in 1860. The
writer hereof ventured to call General
Robert f. Lees attention to this mistake in
March, 1870; and in the next month
April, 1S7O-he made pilgrimage to his
fathers tomb, and ascertained for himself
that General Greene's remains were not at
Dungeness. Alas, he very soon sank into
his own grave, i'll his own loving and be-
loved Virginia.
Near this spot the celebrated pirate
Gibbes is said to have hidden an immense
treasure of golden coin. Prior to his exc
cution-as goes the story-touched by the
kindness of his jailor, he described to him
the spot on the southern end of Cumber-
land Island, stating that he (Gibbes) had
taken ten men ashore to bury the treasure;
and to preserve his secret, he had muir
dered these ten men and thrown them
overheard so soon as he got to sea. The
treasure has often been searched for. We
did not take time to search for so small a
sum-only $4,000 in gold!
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-04-12

Believing that it is matter of Gerry great
Importance to all classes of our fellow
citizens to have full appreciation of the
great difference in the power of capital to
increase at low and high rates of interest.
(not forgetting that our national wealth
has only increased the past fifty years at
the rate of about 3 per cent. per annurn),
we again present the following statement ::
If one dollar be invested, and the interest
added to the principal annually, at the rates
named, shall have the following result as the
accumulation of one hundred wears
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-04-12

Internal Reveuue-RascaIIy officials
During the debate IN the United States
Senate on Thursday last, upon the tariff,
Senator Alcorn, from Mississippi, gave
free expression to his opinion about the
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-04-12

In the light of the foregoing figures we
ask the thoughtful consideration of the
fact that the rates of interest paid in this
country are arrays erOrbitdnt and some
times, as at the present, terribly oppressive.
And also that all this can only be rene
died by the issue of National Paper Money
made stable in value and of proper volume,
by its interchangeability, at the option of
the holder in sums of one thousand dol
lars or its multiple with bonds of the Gov
eminent bearing fixed equitable rate of
interest=GrOcer,s Prize Current
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The stable and ground upon which built
must have cost at least one hundred thou
sand dollars, making All aggregate of the
handsome amount of a quarter Of n million
of dollars.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-04-12

The Iowa Legislature has passed liquor
bill imposing restrictions and penalties on
the seller even more stringent than the
Ohio laws. " f','+-
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-03-28
THINGS WISE AND OTAERYISE.

What takes the mos, pains: 4 win
dow.
Some one wants to know If ioa;h's door
is opened with skeleton key.
A gunsmith's shop is like q chicken
pie, because it contains fowlin' pieces
The proyerb says: Hunger swcetens
beans, but a venerable housckeepcr
savs she slways found molasses best to
use.
4 Chicago merchan; advertised for u
clerk who could bear confinement lie
received an answer from one who had boon
seven years in jail.
4 man has no more right to say an I'M
civil thing, than to act one; no more right
TO say rude thing to another, than to
knock him down.-JohnSon.
4 Dutchman while crossing the Ale
gany mountains during the winter says,
" Ven going up de mountain his foot slipp-
cd him ON the ice, and he COON down ON
the broad of his back NIT his face sticking
in de mud, and dare he stood"
\ married lady complained that her
husband hai ill-used her. Her father
hearing it, boxed her ears. Tell him."
said the father, that II he beats my
daughter, will beat his wife" Rather a
pleasant prospect for lady.
A San Francisco street car conductor
just beginning to collect his fares placed
his hand in the side pocket of his coat to
draw forth his nippers, when out came
formidable five shooter from miners hip
pocket, accompanied with the exclamation,
" Lock hear, stranger, | kim from tho
mountains, but yer can't get the drop on
me-"
The following is the way they call out
the figure of "reel" in Georgia:
Dance to the gal with the yellow shawl;
now down outside and up the middle; turn
TO your partner, Isaac Small, and now To
that entire stranger; sachez to the right
and left; ri de tan, da du de; now to
Peter SchwifchnFs daughter: turn to your
partner, every one; set to the gal with the
tiaring frill; balance one and spin about to
the girl with the hole in the heel of her
stockinr -
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-03-28

The tenacity with which our English
cousins adhere to ancient customs, says the
Washington Star, is exempliGed by the
failure of all attempts hitherto to effect the
repeal Of an absurd law which prohibits
marriages any day after ~ o'clock noon.
l he statute has long survived the reasons,
if any, which prompted its enactment, and
yet there are conservative Britons who
look upon attempts to abolish it as little
short Of sacrilege. There is talk in Eng
land of amending their burial laws, and the
PdU N0tt Gdzette thinks they had better
revise the marriage laws also, in which
opinion We concur, if this morning regnla-
ton is a fair sample of the code.
Russian women are especially well edu-
Gated, and nearly every governess Possesses
Il diploma. The schools are under the di-
rect patronage Of the Crown, the mistresses
have recognized position in society, and
the post of head mistress is frequently held
by widows of generals and Of personages
well known to the Imperial family. In
many things the Russians are semi-barba-
rians, but in the education Of women they
certainly surpass US.
Az Irish counselor having lost his cause.
which had been tried by three judges, one
Of whom was esteemed very able lawyer,
though the other two were indifferent, some
of the other barristers were merry on the
occasion. "Well, now" said he, "who
could help it, when there are hundred
Judges on the bench:" 4" A hundred."
said by-stander I" there were bnt three"
/" BY st. Patr;ck!' replied he, "thero
were one and two c;phcrs." ~
IL France, the manufacturing Of matches
sustains %, eco workmea, and seven millions
Of francs are invested in the business. IhA
Government proposes to tax it; the manu-
facturers say if it does the consumption Of
matches will fall off three fourths, and that
FIVE million dollars worth Of property viii
be rendered valueless, and over twenty
thousand lahorers thrown cut q employ
Inent-
THAT the English are beer-drinking
people is well known, but the following
statistics are surprising, even in the face OF
that knowledge: The last annual report
shows a total of 80, 623 licensed brewries.
Some of these brew 5000, eco and 7,o00,-
900 barrels e year. an i they paw a iioenss
fee sil ch foot5 up nearly s., CO., OO0- The
ya.Ea q the beer exported from Eng.aa1 to
tn Gas. Indies. China, Australia, United
States, aud elsewhere is nearly Sla,btOs-
900
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-03-28
Potash fer Potatoes.

In q recent address, DR.. Nichols Of The
Journal o. CAemi2'ry, alluded to the "de-
terioration in our potato crop during the
past % years, AMI male the following ex-
PLANTATION regarding the causes of this fall
ing of:
/ have field Of potatoes upon nv farm
which | expect will yield 800 bushels to
the acre, which may be regarded as an old
fashioned crop. | know that this crop
will remove from the soil in tubers and
tops at least 400 pounds of potash. | am
also certain it VIII remove $50 pounds of
pho,phoric acid. Now these amounts are
very large, and serve To show that the po-
tat0 plant is great consumer of the two
substances; and also, il shows that in or
Ger to restore our potato fields to their
former productive condition, we must sup
ply phosphate compounds, and substances
holding potash in large quantities. =
Oar farmers have found that new
land gives the best crops, and this is due
to the fact that such fields ai1url the most
potash. But 80 long a. we crop our pas
lures so unreasonabiy, we cannot resort to
new land, as land is not new that has had
its potash and phosphate elements removed
bv grazing animals Remember that a po-
tato iicId which gives but 100 bushels to
the acre requires at least 100 pounds of
potash, but BY allowing the tops to decay
upon the field, CO pounds Of this is restored
to the soil again, as that amount is cou-
tame in them. A medium crop Of pota
toes requires twice as much phosphoric
acid as a N eIiuIn crop Of wheat, so that In
two years, with wheat, the land
is deprived Of no more Of the agent than it
loses in one year with potatoes.-N T.
ILlANne