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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28


ruled quiet all The week, there being
only moderate demand for small lots
to assert stocks: prices unchanged.
COOPERAGE. All kinds in season
are in fair demand and prices are well
sustained; Offering ample but not ex-
cessive. and market firm.
CATTLE-The demand las heen
fair for beef cattle during the week,
but the arrivals were light and the
sales small Prime beeves sell at Sc
8 cents u tb on the hoof.
SHEEP AND LAMB-Thero was a
fair market all the week; receipts
ample and market firm and active at
the close. Quotations are entirely
owing to quality offered.
DRY GOODS-There continues to
be fair demand from the country for
staple articles, and the indications are
favorable for an early beginning OF
the Autumn trade. Prices are pretty
well established for leading cotton fab
RIGS: and there seems to be general
confidence that they will be sustained,
notwithstanding the general heaviness
in the market for the raw material,
and the steadily improving prospect
for a good crop this season. Wooden
goods are not selling very much as
vet, but some jeans and fannels are
taken at satisfactory prices. All re-
ports agree in representing stocks in
the country as unusually small, and the
inference is that there will necessarily
be an increased demand, especially as
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28
WILMINGTON MONEY MARKET

CORRECTED DAILY RY BANK OF NEW HANOVE
/. GKAiSGF2, President.
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AvorupR RIeuNoNn X THE F1ELD.-

ANOTHER RICHMOND IN THE FIELD
Last Saturday night a private confer
ence was held by several gentlemen of
this place, in regard to the propriety OF
recognizing the Democratic party here
The meeting was rather informal. On
Monday it was resumed, and a committee
appointed to approach" certain par
ties, and request them to join and be
present at meeting to be held on We'd
nesday evening, to organize a club.
None but the selected were to be pres
emit. Out of twenty seven invited, about
twenty or twenty-five were present. A
club was organized, and committee APP
pointed to draft bylaws, etc. DR.. Es-
forge was elected president; DR.. Littell
and Judge Bailey vice-presidents; c. ].
Thompson, secretary; and III. L. Gar
land, Joel fl. Sandoz and T. H. Lewis
Esqs., were appointed a committee to
draft bylaws, etc. The club was to
have met again last night.
We understand the organization will
stand on the Liberal Republican plat
form adopted by the Liberal Republican
party at Cincinnati and endorsed and
adopted by the national Democratic par
ty at Baltimore. There is certainly a
wide. difference between this and the
white league platform and as between
the two, we are unhesitatingly on the
Democratic side. The constitutions and
lawso of the Federal govelnmentando of the
State governments guarantee the politi-
cal and civil equality of all men, and
the laws of this State require every Office
holder to take an oath to that effect;
and we will go into no party whose plat
form is in opposition thereto. In prac-
tice we have d much cleaner white re-
cord than some of the white leaguers'
and nothing to conceal by taking white
oaths or pledges. We have seer that
done and violated before, by many who
are doing it now. We will endorse this
Democratic move if it prove a liberal
one ; but rather think we will vote for
independent candidates ofliberal views
without regard to party names.
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ED. P. GOODWIN, T. NJ.

a Brilliant Record OF Cures.-Au Amer
lean hum0rist tells lis that it would have been
money in his pocket if he had been born with
out a stomach, and then proceeds to figure mp
the cost of aiehPonic dyspepsia, to which he is a
martyr. and which he says it is impossible to
cure. On this point, "J0sh Billings flor he is
the party referred to- is mistaken. Unless his
stomach differs from all other d~yspeptic stom-
achs, Hostetter's Bitters will cure him in less
than three months. This it would be safe to
guarantee under any penalty. Tlfere&are b Few,
a very few, actual specifics for disease in exist
ence, and HostetteF's Stomach Bitters may be
set down as one of them. In cases of indiges-
tion it never fails. Persons who had suffered
for many years almost every. conceivable spe-
cies of torture from this agonizing complaint,
have been permanently cured with the Bftters
in six weeks. Hundreds of such instances arc
on record, authenticated by the testimony of
prominent men i'll ever walk Of life, eminent
physicians among the, number. But this eele-
brated vegetable preparation is something more
than IA stofhachic and tonic. 1t is also an alter
atiTe of wonderful virtue. In liver complaint
its effect is as direct and immediate as that of
calGneTe or blle pill and fasmOressalltaIy and
i'll all diseased conditions of the bowels, notably
in cases of CONSTIPATION, it's regulating proper
ties are in the highest degree serviceable. The
new settlements in tho west and all low-lying
tracts of country i1festedwith miasmatic extal-
atiops,, SO frnitful at this season, of the various
types of intermittent fevers, should be always
well stocked with this Incompatible chologue,
which will cure any ease Of fever and ague in a
period varying from three days to- three Or four
weeks, according to the violence of the COM
plant. Nervous disorders which Ore always
aggravated by the adulterated liquors usually
prescribed by physicians, are readily cured by Il
course of this admirable combination medicine,
i'll which the properties of a stimulant, a tonic
and Alternative are happily blended.
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The White League Failure.
From the New Orleans Republican,

From the New Orleans Republican,
IT now transnires that tbora ia Same
thing akin to q serious hreacb IN The
camn of fine onnosifinn The 9 Tndanen
dentn element Of the DEMOCRACY III not
svmnathize with the ntbai. tyinG TnInsa
lively vOune men insist mon raisin D +
white mans flag. and Waping a noIificai
financial, social and business war mon
the whole col0red racean1 fheir friaI,is
| Hence. the nrosnect for swaanin1 fbis
State IN fhe interest If diSfBnt pfaJ
cIinne Is not at ali bTighf f9&' HSo
We are glad to see This This n,io{vvaa
ment wonid. nd douht end in foil1,ro IN
any case. but. we regard II as = bonefr
sign that the wiser and hetter nort;on oF
the Damnrracv yrithhold fboir sano+;a5
of anV snch narrow. seIisL nnnL,;sf;sn
scheme rs. fbe disfranehis;nn IF ssit1n++
half tha vnfnrs IF fhis Sfata " ~
Ms In he Witbonf 4 aanstS 1a+ap ,ipnS;sst Ia !
All file white naonia and 11nIa Al ,1,.a II
fices Al flie noIIs And n con- m ifTsa
votes, If wo1id he fntiIa IL saf II 3oi;f
ical 1aTtv nTnded On 4 6;afn oP;o,s
IF rata. And since he Dann craev =.
self heinz In minority "a Mani an,,a !
II Divided nnnn fha on1v viraI nr;Aasy'Ia
fhey have vef anno1nced va nav 81 =
down ~ rRaftv s,I,a That tba s4+ : -
will nat no made TtIic frpyo f1,of III
of these facfions ebaracte, zoe The tbe o JbShs
rs being eomnosed IF Int . fnw ou man
amhitiG1s For Mac md na,va, ~ H,,t thn
truth Is tbav are brattv dn3fsiIy d 1u;y =
The I~ndenendepts Wish fdu a,,; ~, oe ~ tl,a
same uoinfI as fbeir rivals Int :" IT, sn ..
different nTocess This WING - COM, "
messed mostly Of hl,siness1 mon o,1d
i,ronertvowner villa the statrss Of tI,a
BfVhifhS II aag,,nrs 81 ae@ ~ i.s.,n,. -
have etfi,or fa;iaa ti,e 2h hu.G n silaf onsmeo Imo
fed ava,v1 nnnrtanitn FL f;nJ i 49,
,nanf are sapnpe,saTr fos,,n ~ IN III , y
Of tha WI5ita I'aasnes Narer ,bap;ns
Ind any onnortmnites Of festinn the
services .ofI HE calored man" fhsv are
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NEW

NOTRGE.-IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
- powers in me vested by the act of the Leg.
islatlIre OF the State of Louisiana. aDnrovcd
March 10th. 1857; and an ordinance of the Board
OF Pollcc OF the town Of OpelOusas, ordained
May 9th, 1867, and the amendment thereto Hf
June 5th, 1867, all keepers of coffec-houscs with.
IN IN, me hac cGHrporate limits OF the town of Opelousas,
ness 10y, sunrise on Saturday next, July 4tb. 1s74.
ana TO Keep the same closed until u O'Clock OF
Tue nl9nt OF SAD day. All grocery keepers and
merchants within the corporate limits of said
toW are also notified that on said day and with
III sald hours. they must neither sell. dispose of
or give way III any quantity to any person, any
Iln9us, malt or spirituous liquors Of any kind.
Al Keepers OF drug stores, within the corporate
limits, are also notified that on said day and
within said hours, they must neither sell. or dis.
pose OF amy malt, spirituous or vinous LIQUORS,
IN any quantity to any person except for medic,
maj purposes as may he ordered by a physician,
All persons interested are further notified that
IN case OF refusal of any person or persons to
comply with the provisions of this notification,
the provisions of the law Willie rigidly enforced
JAMES RAY, President
Board of Police, Town of OpelOusas.
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THESoUTHERN CLAIMsCoMMIssIoN,-
The bill relative to the Southern Claims
Commission, which was debated last
ever, been stripped Of the Objectionable
features which have excited opposition.
The bill as passed authorizes five agents
instead of three and increases thetnum-
Der OF commissioners to five. The
time for filing claims is extended to
July 4, 1875, and very strict regulations
are provided against perjury. One pur-
pose OF urging an increase in the num-
Der of the commission has no doubt
been to secure a change in the position
of the commission and infuse into it
more i~iberality in the allowance OF
claims, by placing in the commission
two new members of liberal views in
this respect. The future usefulness of
the commission depends upon the seiec-
ton made for the two new commission
ers, If the Senate shall agree to the bill.
New York Times, June IL.
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Last week, in the House of Represent
Eatives, permission was given by q unan-
EinaOus vote, to the presumption and home
stead settlers in ten counties of MINI
nesOta and Iowa, to be absent from their
settlements until May list, 1876, without
forfefting the rights they have acquired
presented the resolution, Mr.. Dunnell,
stated that last year these ten counties
were visited by hosts of grasshOppers,
whose Tayages were SC widespread and
ID severe, that the settlers were rendered
extremely poor and hundreds of them
were driven from their homes aud farms
Several hundred thousand dollars were
contributed by the State governments
of Iowa and Minnesota, and by citizens
Of those States, to procure fresh seed for
the settlers and also the necessaries of
life, until they should be able to gather
in fresh harvests. Bat the gTassh0ppeps,
ii appears, having devOured everything
they could find in the ten counties that
was digestibie, left souvenir of their
visit i'm the shape of myriads OF eggs,
with which they filled the soil. These
eggs arenoW Matching; the earth swarms
with young grasshOppers who are eat-
ing up all vegetation and the unhappy
settlers have made mp their minds to
abandon the country for q years not to
ulan6ia grain Dr. blade meantime; and
thus, possibly, next year, starYe ont the
third grasshopper crop.
There is plenty OF land and q warm
welcome awaiting these s0ge-tried farm
ers4u the S0uth.-IN. @. Times,
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From the Rossier Ranner.I

MIR. EDIToR.-In your last issue you
have mapped out a general plan of pOllt-
ical action for yourself. With it / find
no fault. The ends that the Shreveport
Times would have brought about are
also proper enough, but the methods it
advises for the attainment of those ends
are reprehensible. That there has been
great corruption in u State govern
ment ever since the Notwithstanding.
Einety-nine hundredths of the thinking
people of the State would have the
State rid of that corruption. How shall
that great end be attained? Shall re-
sort be had to revolutionary proceed
ingsq Shall the people take law into
their own hands, and punish corrupt
officials, refuse to pay taxes, GUST the
tor, Treasurer, &C., and establish in
not waste ink. to prove the utter i'm
practicability of such a scheme. But
could this thing be done it would be
like cutting off ones toe to cure the corn
on it. We see the terrible evils that
have followed the last great revolution ;
let us notattempt another.
But there is a way to bring the State
out of the great slough of debt and cor
ruption. A way that is slow, it is true,
- - ~ SE - -EH As @s8
but nevertheless sure. lt is to take adj
vantage OF and further tae movement
ID the KepgElbfcan party that has been
gong on Q UWo years AGAINST eorrup-
ton. mat party ~ IN power ana must
continue In power IN the State unless !t
be thrown Y Dy revolution. Inns
must pc SO Q ems plain reason: Inc
c0lored people nave peeh Ireed Dy, tle
Republlcan party. Inat party Is
attacked they reasonably Tear that IT'S
cardlnai principles are dlfectiy on moi
Tectly ~ stake. Ana hence JL1ey JOIN
themselves 70 u the stronger. Inc col
0red people are put iittle If q more
numerous tnan eng whites m the hIate,
but sixty thousand OF the WHITES are Tor
eIgners, many OF whom are nor natt1f-
ailzed. 2 more IMAM thls, 10 enc par
ishes ana Districts Gne coloIed nave ma
JOfltIes Wnlcn Wouid eergaliiy giVe then
Q majority or twenty-five or thirty i'll
the Legislature:
Then, ~ the kepnRflean party some
thing may Ds effected out OF 1t moth
ing. Wonld b counsel that this
policy pc pefst1ed:
Let the moderate men who have not
been violent ln nlelr. Oppogsitlon TO the
Republican party silently cooperate
With ~ IN , present JuncSufe. ZEE
them not put themselves forWarltffo
#Aa& ~ tlIN% In& IN G3THn ~ ~ - Il "
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GRops.-Sugar cane is doing finely,
the late rains having helped it very
much. The came on the Luling place is
tile finest in the parish.
The river has gone down rather sud
denly; and the rice farmers were afraid
OF an insuficieney DE water; but the re-
cent rainseame to their aid, and no fears
are now entertained. The rice crop of
this parish, from present appearances,
will be enormous.
Corn also is doing well, although it
was very late in putting on a good app
pearanee.-ESt. Charles Herald,
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CoEELlcrINGThe Orleans Grange
III this State propose To do away with
taxation on al real estate, outside of
cities and towns. This il intended to
pleasetlle agricultural class. The Hives
propose to do away with the license sys-
TEN, and raise all taxes on real estate.
This il intended I'd please or benefit the
mercantile or trading class. Il takes
but iittle penetration to fathom the mo-
tiyes Of these platform makers and paafty
builders.
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Estate Of k. H. B0deIanlIer.-NO. $3.50
STATE OF LOUISIANA.-PARIsH COURT,
~ st. LandTy.-Whereas, Rudolph Bodcmuller,
of the Parish of 81. Landry, Testamentary Ex-
executor of the estate of K. II. BOdemuller. de
ceased, having filed a final tahleau Of distribu-
ton of the funds of said estate, accompanied by
his petition praying for the homologatlon OF the
same;
And whereas the prayer of said petition has
been granted by an order of court, bearing date
July sd, 1874.
Now, therefore notice IL hereby given 10 all
nersons interested to make opposition to said
tableau in writing at my office IN the town Of
Opetonsas, within the time required by law:
why the said tableau should not be homologated
and confirmed,
tuly3
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Cure for Charlton.

..u..4Erom the New Orleans Rake
saturate the swelling,with a mixture
u ISit Ghatpentlne lay a oole rag saturated
/" "l ha+ V ~, p oat ~ On ns sai = ~ IIaln i ptess NUN
q o. ii ~ th 10y lIon ellfs iiiust oe lone
VI - III gme f LIZ pp : IN IS oa y u nesa e.
! ne Tn,Ma 81 Wl fs ZIP drohlsne
dim n.ia 81, Z Jts i y ceIIlLni tyl
etltpie oush', -. AWAY haHdy 'a4o
CURE Fos@eHARBoN. .ttsz
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SEPARATE, Bur TO BE MIxED.-At a
n1ass-meetiHg in Red River parish, two
pafties were organized, a white one and
d cOlored one. The lcolored people Of
the parish, are largely in the majority.
The white party resolved, athat in any
honorable effort the coIored men may
undertake to throw off the burdensome
white officers they have had to carry,
We will recognize tile justice of their
race having a fair representation in tile
government and propose to meet them
half way ON equal grou4d.p
The coiored party resolved,
That, as the white mans party new
organized ntle parish, proposes to meet
us half way, for the good Of the whole
people, III is our interest to meet them,
knowing thab they own nearly all the
taxes, and, control the very roofs pro-
tecting OHr families ; and that Weliye as
neiglbors under the same fences, and
ret orr bread outtof the same cribs and
are bound to live on good ter9s, resery-
ing To ourselves an independence as q
e0lpred party, III
Tas simplytumounts 20 u proposition
toiHivide the Offices on the basis of color,
which win make Il mixture.
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NOTICES.

A CARD
To the Democracy of Calcsfsieu, Cameron, La
fayette and st. Landry:
I hereby pledge myself to publicly demon
strate, to u positive certainty, in advance of the
November election, that the action of the Cal
easieu Parish Democratic Convention, held at
Lake Charles, June 25th, 1874, is not politically
nor morally binding upon the Democracy of
Caicasieu parish, much less upon the Democracy
of st. Landry, Lafayette and Cameron.
GEO, II. WELLS
Lake Charles, June &c, 1874.
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N white league dispatch from Frank
lin, to the New Orleans Times. says:
!" Two prominent white Republicans are
tle backbone ofthe party. Wonder if
Ehey II carpet-baggen
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THE JOURNAL AND THE WHITE
LEAGUE CLUB.

The White League clnbof Washington,
alta 4 called meeting," gave expression
to its indignation against the JOURNAL
and its editor, in a series of resolutions,
which we find published in the last issue
of the 0pelOusas Courier. a.
The following are some of the choice
epithets with which the representatives
of the White League have seen proper
to season their resolutions: a .
"+The editor of said scurrilous sheet y
"He knows to be false; y
"His statement is false !"
"As false in spirit as the lie direct"
'c1The a~ssinine character of his pereep-
ti0ns;H
"Hisl low flung and scurrilOus attacks
"Such gttter-snipes as the editor of
the Opelousas JOURNAL"
These missiyes can do US no harm,
and we are not aware that they can, in
any manner, advance the interests,of the
White League. They remind us of what
Junius said to Sir William Draper,
who had ventilated similar explosives
"'Flfese, Sir William, are the gloomy
companions Of d disturbed Imagination,
the melancholy madness ofpoetry, with
out it's inspiration"
Without intending to be offensive, we
have, it seems, wounded the sensibilities
of the White League Club. The Club,
asia Club, has become excited. The
world has been made wiser by the pub
LEGATION of this fact; but how far it ex-
tended, the world is still In ignorance
for it is not yet known whether this ex-
citement pervaded the entire body, or
included only those present attle "caH-
ed Indignation meeting. But there is
no doubt that the cauldrOn of the Club
did boil and bubble more actively than
usual. This settled, the world breatlles
free. .ss.
The resolutions of the Club, i~nnocuous
against all persons, excepttheir authors,
might be permitted to pass without any
formal notice but their publication in
the organ, and their having come out OF
the club cauldron, at the moment of its
~intensest "boil and bubble may entitle
them to the brief notice we give them.
But we are not disposed to retort in
kind, The extreme heat of the weather
disinclines us from emulating the dis
temperature of our censors, and we find
nothing in our lexicon Of choice phrases
which can compete with the vocabulary
of the Washington Club. We think we
can survive these resolutions and not
withstanding the diatribes OF political
opponents who may prefer denunciation
to argument, the JOURNAL will continue
To iiafrate truthfully passing events, and
to discuss eandidly the merits of polit
ical parties and public measures, within
the limits assigned TO the freedom Of
The. press, u
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VIC publish an article from the New
Orleans Times, headed Y Peace or War;
which expresses oar IDEAS and senti-
ments thoroughly and exactly.
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CURE FOR CHARBoE.-A correspond
ent yolleIles for the following treatment
In Charlton One spoonful of charcoal
mixed with d pint Of whisky, giving enc
gill every five minutes-a plaster of
charcoal mixed with half pint alcohol
applied to the affected part.-GPicayune.
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&AA 4 EFF II
The editor of the Courier is respect
fully Informed that we have not sought
any discussion with him. We have
been On the defensive, and discussed in
replya 4Ef he found his positions unten-
able in his Journalistic tilt with us, lie
may Hi excused for withdrawing on his
dignity. He is also informed that the
white people hefeabouts not only know
that the JoURNAI is the choice of the
Police jury, aud Town Council of 0pe-
ionaas, for doing the printing of those
bodies respectively, and that it is the
appOintee Of the State Board, through
Ekite influence, to do the paroehial print
ing but thut The Courier made strenu-
GUS efforts, through 9 Niger influence,
40 obtain this same printing.
H24E
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The Beard OF Health of New Orleans
has officially informed Gov. Kellogg,
that all ports IN the islands of Cuba.
Porto Rico and Jamaica, and the port OF
Denararain South America, are infected
with disease yellow feyer.9 and he has
irsued aquarantine proclamation against
them.
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Mr, KRTanagh, d member of the
British parliament, has neither legs n0r
arms. He holds his peu in his mouth
when he signs bis name.
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ANDEDATE
Ror stnfe seminar.

MIR. EDITOR Please announce that, at the
s~olicitationiOf many Democrats and Conserva-
tives of the parish OF st. Landry, DR.. w. II.
KfRKMAN, of the parish of Calcasieu, has con-
scented to become a candidate for the State SEN
ate, lit the election of November next
In e0needing to our sister parish the right of
presenting q candidate for the said Office, we
vorable consideration OF the Democrats and
Conservatives of ST. Landry.
MANY VOTERS OF ST. LANDRY.
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Tie superau0as blossoms on d fruit
tree are meant to symbolic the large
Way iii which God toves to do pleasant
things.
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tits needfulto trust as well asto pray
reach out the hand of faith to reeeiyeit.
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AND BYLAWS
OF Ii THIRD WARD
WOKKlNGMEN'S REPUBLICAN club
Of Washington, La,

We, the undersigned, being appointed A =
committee to draft Il Constitution and Bylaw
for the "Workingmen's Republican Mother
aInbIe and Constitution. "
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I respectfully announce myself a candidate
for the office of State Senator of the Tenth Sem
atorial District, comprising the, parishes OF st.
Landry, LAFAYETTE. Cameron and CaIcasieu.
GEORGE II. WELLS.