Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-04
TIE OUTLOOK.

| The Indications are that for. some
time to come public journalists viii
not be called upon to record many
startling events at least of q political
nature. The next national CT rather
general federal contest will not take
shape for ut least two years yet, and
: the State elections promise for the
!, present year to excite no interest save
at home and but little there.
| The people of Connecticut on Mon
! day next vote for Governor and other
| State officers and for members of Con-
gross as we'll, and yet it seems impos-
! sihle to enthuse the hearts of that peo-
| pie, TO matter to what politics they in
cline. to proper appreciation Of the
dignity of the occasion. Indeed their
appetite for political excitement seems
to he entirely satisfied.
We are to have an election in North
Carolina in August, it Is true, but it
will doubtless be very quiet one, not
W thstanding it's importance. The con-
stitutional amendments to be voted
upon. having received the sanction of
the representatives OF both parties in
the last Legislature. we presume. will
meet with 10 opposition at the polls.
President Grant, toe busy to inform
himself by personal inspection of the
condition Of the Southern States, has
found time to make the first of his &C
customed summer toursStoA tho. north
ward. We confess that to US it seems
matter of small moment whether
Grant spends his summes at Wishing
ton or at Long Branch or New York
city The Government machine has
been brought to such = condition that
it runs about as well by itself as with
its constitutional engineers.
Tile postal car difficulty has been
a:nicably adjusted, and for some
months at least there is promise of
receiving the mails with their acaus-
toned irregularity.
1t IS true that in the State of Louis
lana there are two governments,
one palpable usurpation, having no
other authority than Grants bayonets
and telegrams, and the other the gov
ernnent de jure representing the
people of that unfortunate State. But
even this state of things gives. no
promise of trouble Grants kilograms,
backed UP by his bayonets, are too
powerful to be resisted by SO insight
can't a power az one of those mstitu-
tons known in former times ss
sovereign States" In the language
Of the President, "the rapid transit of
thought and matter by telegraph and
steam have changed all that" and
State sovereignty is no longer match
for Federal kilograms.
Captain Jack, the dusky hero of the
lava beds, and his Modoc warriors
are giving onr friend, General Candy,
some trouble, but there does not seem
to bo much promise of any great dam
az t., either side. General Candy, it
i; SAID, proposes to surround the
Indian chief and, by cutting short his
supplies, induce him to listen to rea-
SON. This is, doubtless, . prudent
course On the part of the Federal Gen.
eral, for it happens that in the conflicts
heretofore, when actual fighting vas
done, the Federal troops lost much
more heavily than did the Indians;
possibly because the nunaher of
Indians was 50 much smaller than that !
of the whites. But even If they do |
fight out there, it will not disturb us
here, because We are SO far Of !
His E1cellency, Governor Caldwell,
has, with the assistance Of His Honor, !