Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-01
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red INK.
BALTIMORE as cotton market is in
crrasirp III ITS Importance. Yesterday
500 bales were sold for export and
364 bales TO city spinners.
EDGAR SNowDEN, Sr. editor Of the
Alexandria (Ta.) Gasatte, is dead.
He was the oldest editor, and editor of
the oldest newspaper in the State of
Virginia.
The Hon. George Bancroft, if his
health permits. will live during the
winter in Washington, otherwise he
will spend the months of January and
February in Florida.
THE Jackson, Miss, Clarion, says
'sThe testimony in the Clinton riot
shows that it was fiandish and pre-
meditated plot to massacre every white
Democrat and Conservative on the
ground"
The same paper adds, "The true in.
depreciation of the answer Ames re-
ceived from Washington to his appii
cation for troops, is that he neither
had cause nor authority to call for
them He has made nothing by his
call but to write himself down don
key"
THE attempt of Ames to invoke Fed
! eral interference in tie Mississippi
! State canvass was thwart"d by the COM
bined frowns of the good men of both
| political parties, and now the canvass
is progressing smoothly, nobody being
frightened.
! THE Hon. Carl Schurz has entered
the Ohio campaign and spoke at Gin
cinnati on the Goth inst. He is tower
of stl ength in the West, and especially
with the intelligent Germans ; and
viii prove Il powerful support to the
election of Gov. Allen.
APRoPOs of a recent personal col
lision between deputy sheriff aud a
district-attorney in Rochester. the
Democrat of that city says ''When
men whose duty it is to enforce the
law get into row and break things, it
is the duty of the private citizen to
step in and preserve the pieces
The steamer City of Berlin arrived
at Sandy Hook early on Saturday NOR
ming, making the passage in seven
days, eighteen hours and two minutes
actual time from Queenstown, being
the fastest time ever made across the
Atlantic, either eastward or westward
The largest library in the United
States is the Congress library. which
contains 26l 900 volumes. The public
library of Boston contains nearly he
same number, and increases at the rate
of $4,000 volumes a year. Harvard
College has 100000. There are only
nine that possess more than 100, 900.
The public will scarcely share the
regret avowed by the President at the
departure of Secretary Delano from
the department of the Interior. Hav-
ing done a good thing in accepting his
resignation, the President has now an
opportunity to do another good thing
in appointing better man in his
place.
Gov. ALLEN replies to an invitation
to attend the Johnson memorial exer-
cises in Nashville that duties and en-
gagements in his own State compel
him to decline, and says: "Andrew
Johnson Was an honest man and an
incorruptible statesman, whose sudden
and unexpected death is lamented
throughout the Republic. and your
commemorative ceremonies will be an
appropriate manifestation of the pro-
found sorrow Of a great people, who
loved and trusted him when living and
who honor his memory when dead -
THE syndicate of the Bank of Cali
fornia on Saturday organized by elect
ing William Sharon President, and a
number of prominent bankers of Cali
fornia, among them d. y. Mills, as an
executive committee. An assessment
of twenty per cent was levied on the
subscription to the Guaranty Fund,
amounting to 91,5OO,OO0. This, with
the coin now on hand, will give be-
tween S2,000,000 and $3,OO0.00O as a
fund for reopening the bank. The
bank will reopen either on Saturday,
October 2, or early in the following
week.