Wilmington journal., 1875-08-20
EDITORIAL NOTES


assembly.
LoUIsANA's last orange crop amounted
to Is, $50, 900, and realized a net profit
of $4,000. The custom there is to
sell the fruit on the trees at ten dollars
a thousand, and let the shipper do the
pickin
WHILE Gov. Chamberlain, OF south
Carolina, was absent from the state,
tho negro lieutenant gov arnOr Gleaves,
commuted the death sentence Of JO-
seph Gibbs to imprisonment for twen-
ty years. Chamberlain holds that this
action is null and void, and asks
Judge Reed OF the Charleston circuit
to enforce the sentence of his court.
This raises n very interesting question.
If lieutenaut-gove cannot grant
pardons what is to become of the
eignty-four criminals that Lieutenant
Governor Davis, of Mississippi, set
free for 81 200 head ? Ii they are 20
be recaptured how are they to get their
moneys worth ?
A correspondent of the New York
| World, writing from Augusta, Maine,
says all the political chan ge going on
in shat State is in the right direction.
Not a single case can be found of a
Democrat going over to Republican,
ism, but scores and hundreds are re-
ported the other way. If the major
| ty to be overcome were smaller, the
! State could be ovc; oome were smaller,
! the State could bo safely set down for
General Roberts should the tide con-
! ii ue sweeping Oh tor the next SIX
weeks as it has for the last two. A re-
cent aud hasty tour Of the S are found
hundreds OF prominent Democrats
sanguine of success. They say Maine
eau do as well as Massachusetts, her
old mother, did last Year. But
wouldn't that astOnisn the natives
It has been given ont qaito general
j. tlat Il formidable telegraph comps
ny IS organizing III San Francisco
The new ccmpany say 1t is their lAtou-
ton to extend wires between all the
leading cities OF The cortatry, and 10
make ii reduction i,om tie present
rates, The capital stock Il said u Dr
| So, ,000, 600, Of which 81, 500, 600 has
been subscribed and ten per cent.
, paid in. The first board OF dlrectOt>
aIe reported OF be wealthy men, Wlt:I
All aggregate capital cf some forty mil
lions The tariff rates of the new com
pany are stated as twenty five cents
per ten words within 30 miles, fifty
cents within SEQ, seventy-tive within
LOCO, aud Que dollar hey nd, A sAs
tenn OF second class rates Is also pro
posed, ut IL material reduction from
those just given. Work viii soon be
gin at ChicsgO, New York and Omaha
aud the new company Will probaly bt
fully at work before another yea
closes.
If the Cherokees are not entitled &c
rank as American citizens, it is Ger
tainly not because of their inability
to comprehend our political system
In their knOwledCo of "practicai Dp
liticS, We venture TO say that THEN
leaders are equaled py few and exceiie(
by none among our party managers
nd there Is nrthlhg connected witt
She conduct OF an election, from iIIy
Ing votes TO dOctoring returns, tba
Loss or Downing need to be taught
| The returns of the recent election il
the Indian Territory are all III, Eek
c"pt from one precinct. Ross ma
jority is 60, but the official count, it is
,aid, will increase it. The solemnit,
with which all this is announced
would befit the most important State
election ever held, aud it Is rather
disappointing to learn that the whole
number of votes is but ,32l.
IHE Chicago Post and -N0W (Rep.
speaking o4 the invitation to jefferson
Davis to speak at the innebago com
ty fair, says: "The ew-Vlco Presiden
of the Confederate States and a bali
hundred or more e1-COufederata gen
erals have already taken seats III Con
gress, and no serious results 20 tht
country have followed, lad if poor OLD
Jefferson Davis is willing to discours,
ON agriculture TO a community vii,
vigorously aided in causing his humiI
iatlon and downfall, they can afford t.
be magnanimous and give him
courteous hearing. Let the DIV,
branch wave III the Dreezes of Whine
bago county, and mark another step il
the progress of peace and forgiveness.
! NEGOTIATIONS have been ior SOM
time going on between England ant
France for an exchange of territory o:
the west coast of Africa, and have JUS
been concluded. England is to cedt
Gambia to France III exchange for DL
bon, Great Bassam. ASSUME and tl,
river Melacoree The object of th,
exchange is to bring the possessions o.
each country into closer cOutiguity
with each other. Iu the treaty made
the respective rights of British ant
French subjects III the territory cedeC
have been guaranteed. The ratifica
ions have not yet been made, that Of
France being required by law to be
made by the General Assembly.
The Chicago Courier recommends
that the tailor shop OF Andrew J Johnson
which is still ,tanding in Greenville
Ten essee. with its original signboar {
hanging out, bearing the words "a
Johnson. Tailor" be removed to the
Centennial grounds in Philadelphia foI
exhibition next year. 'Letit stand" says
that Journal, "on the most prominen
spot on the grounds, and there let il
tell to the countless visitors from al
nations Of the globe its wonderful
story in behalf Of the equality of man.
A MOVEMENT has been started the
Federal Capital ''having for its pue-
pose to petition Congress at its next
session to appropriate a sufficient sun
to di5inter the l,nlains OF ALI the de
ceased Presidents Of the United States,
remove them to Mount Vernon and
r.:inter them III mauaoleumo for eacl
one in "A circle round the tomb OF
Washington. Tie reason given fo1
this movement IS that some Of the Pres
ldents are laid now i'll nuobscuIe, uu-
adorned and neg ected graves. ," We
would suggest. ~ all amendment, that
ali dead Presidents. Since Buchanan s
time, should have a separate burial
place. G.. w. might not feel comfort
able i'll company with some Of his lat
ter day successors.
SOUTHERN plaDtpr has fioured ont