Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10

TIE famous Bellechase place, below
New Orleans, and formerly owped by
Judah p. Benjamin, is now cultivated
by a gentleman nance Stackhouse,
and his cane crops are said to be in
magnificent condition.
BEREsFoRD Hope, NJ. P, has for
warded ex-President Davis number
of photographs of Foley's statue Of
Stonewall Jackson. The statue is
shortly to be placed III the park at
Richmond Va.
THE New York E'rcning Post pithily
remarks that 'the old notion that gov
ernments are instituted to protect
members of society in their rights is
fast yielding to the apprehension that
members of society have no other
duties than to protect themselves from
governmental
A GERMAN chemist says he has made
a compound which, i'll the coEcentra-
ted form of powder, possesses all the
qualities of lager beer. One ounce of
it put into gallon of water will pro-
duce beverage that cannot be dis
tingulshed from ordinary beer.
THE Montgomery papers print the
proclamation of ov. Houston con-
vening the Alabama convention, re-
Gently chosen by the peopie, on the
first Monday in September. The
Governor gives the vote of the state
as follows: Total vote for Convention
T., 7e3; total vote against Conven' ion
59, ,822; total vote of the state 1877 ,691;
total ma iority for Convention II, S53.
The two Democratic dailies OF Nash
vile have been consolidated. Delib.
crate business ecocomy and desire
for political harmony inspired the
change. The new daily will take the
name of The AnaericGla, and be- u nine
column paper. The combined capital,
capacity, energy and circulation of the
two venerable journals will, indeed,
make a strong and profitable team.
ANOTHER laudaulet fraud is liable to
arise. It seems that Delano's bills for
carriages and horses amounts to $4,000
year, much Of which Is clearly illegal.
He keeps one of the government car
riages, a driver and two horses at his
home in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, where he is
confined by rheumatism. The outfit
has been there for months, and tie
drivere wife stays in Washington to
draw his pay.
HENRY A. WISE, of Virginia, is the
latest letter writer on the currency.
He says he has lived through the times
of United States Bank, OF system
of State pet banks, of a sub treasury
system and time of no system what
ever but he ayrrs "thAt The present
| fictitious aud fuctitious affi.iatlon OF
greenback banks with the political
power OF government, In the reign OF
any party whatever, is the worst have
attribute of being legal tender for
debts, and instantly greenbacks would
be no better than 'graybacks.' Having
that attribute, it attacks real value,
regular business, and panders only to
speculation and peculation.
! The merchants of New York, says
the Daily Bulletin, look for An i'm
proved trade from the South this fall.
And also from the West, which will
haye the advantage of full crops and
high prices. While nearly every branch
of manufacturing industry is stagnant.
the agricultural interest, which is the
substratum of the whole trade of the
country, is prosperous. The process.
of decline in prices is neatly finished
and merchants are in a better position
to realize profit on their transactions
The fall business throughout tht
country promises to be satisfactory
and especially so in the South. "Upo,
the WHOLE" says the Bulletin, there
is reason to look to the fall business
with hope, as the beginning of gen
eral recovery of trade. and as pronis
, ing something better than the losse
with which merchants have SO Ioni
been so familiar. OF course, ther
are evils yet to come, and danger
scattered here and there. but we hav
, become so familiar with these thing
by long anticipation, that the wors
that canhappe has been already dis
counted, and therefore need not b
i now yeeoupted.a