Wilmington journal., 1874-07-03
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HnLsBoRo, June 25th, 1874.

dILJSBORO, Juut AOtu, 1O'1
Editors of the Joltlnat::
The hot weather has returned again,
to-day being among the hottest of the
season. It is dry, too, with little sign
of rain, which begins to be needed
again. The dry weather, however, is
favorable to harvesting, which is pro-
crossing, and as regards wheat, nearly
over. The result is not favorable.
Fields which looked well, upon cut
ting have proved to be light. This is
general, and the crop cannot be full
one. 1 have concluded as cause for
this, that the very fierce sun OF the
first of the month dried and ripened
the straw too rapidly, cutting off the
necessary flow of nutriment to the
grain, and making it light and lmper-
feet as it is. This is theory OF my
own, and may not bear the criticism OF
farmers, but in the absence of disease
or blight, [ can find no other solution
for the failure.
and brought before the Mayor, sus-
pected of being the ravisher of Miss
Haley, so brutally outraged near Nor
was no evidence against him, and he
i
prit will soon be caught, which is more
than probable, rs the country is thor
oughly reused.
Yesterday Capt. Joseph J. Davis
and Jas. NJ. Headen met here for dis
of which full notice had not been
given, and besides, it was in the midst
of harvest, so that there was but a
small audience in the Court House.
The time was equally divided between
them, each speaker occupying an hour
at time, and the utmost courtesy was
observed by them, nothing whatever
occurring to produce unpleasant feel
part of Mr.. Headen of the very I'M
favorable impression he made. Not
that he is a bad speaker; on the con-
trary he is sufficiently fluent and self
possessed; but his position, how I'M
, fortunate for his cause, and while he
i did not gain single adherent, he did
and said what ought 10 ALLEVIATE many.
| He is running for the white Men of
! this district. He therefore comes ont
| fat-footed against tie Civil Rights
Bill, denounces it as a bill of aEomin-
| ations, as one not called for, as one
that has not the approval of Grant, as
one the negro had better be without.
Yet while opposing it, he has SO much
! TO say in defence of those who orig
mated it, SO much Of the wrongs of
the negro for whose redress the bill!
was called into being, that the latter
still believes in its necessity, ard feels
wronged in being deprived of its
promised blessings.
To the white man he offered nothing
and presented no effective defence
against the charges which his antago-
mist brought SO freely and SO forciblv
against his party. His personal record
was pitiable one by his own confess
sion. He was a member of the Seces-
sion Convention, with the hope of
saving the Union, signed the Ordi-
nance of Secession with the belief (?)
that his life was endangered, and when
the war came kept out of the strife IN
til he was obliged to take some part,
and then got a position as Quarter
Master in the Home Guards to save
his body from the bullets. And when
the war was over he was prompt to
submit, to accept every thing, recon-
struction i'll anyshape, Howard amend
ments aud all. These are all his own
admissions. And among a white popu-
lation who admire manliness, and at
tach consequence to physical courage,
you can we'll see what a record he
makes against himself.
Captain Davis made marked and
favorable impression He is a ready,
animated speaker, full Of illustration,
but not much abounding in anecdote,
fully informed, and exceedingly ready
in the application of facts, forcible in
reason, and graceful and appropriate
in language. There was no weak
point IN his harness, and if he does
not carry the district by hundreds in
majority, it will be from causes in our
own ranks for which he is no way re-
sponsible. He will DO his duty, and
the Convention has made q good choice
of a standard bearer. He spoke at
Durham to-day.
The Radicals had Judicial Conven-
ton yesterday at Graham but
adjourned without a nomination.
The delegates from here returned
with long faces, evidently charinged
and demoralized. l suppose Judge
Tourgee will be permitted to have the
field to himself. It was probably to
avoid giving offence to some to whom
the nomination had been promised,
and the certainty that udge T. would
be an independent candidate any way,
that none was made.
Yours, C.