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Inrep.y Mr. wood aid, Those whose duty IL
Is 10 protect the puhhc Interest nave not
thrcnled tue avenues To this hal. They have
no, tuuunnolcd members of the two commit
Il s. of bofh Houses OF Congress. Gentlemen con
necfed with the Committee Of Way, and Means
on the orc hand and with the Finance Com
uitteo ou the other hand have not been bu tom
holed by those VINO desire To protect the public
iutt.o-t ur the public Treasury but by those
who are t.. king to tho protection Of their IN
Clvldual interests to The exclusion OF the public
Interest. Aud IL ~ from this quarter, MI.
Speaker, that the gentlam Rets his iniorma-
tiou whlcn ne has just presented To the House
lie s.ys that fHcte are Onli -uo'uUO barrels 70 he
Affected by my amendment Mhv, SIR, can
name three mon 10 the city Of New York VINO
ON aluost half that quantity themselVes,
nA.'ser " whom n y n,STcuanL Or le1itlmats
tIai-r IN any article II nj merchandise or produc'
ton whatever. As | said on a previous occa-
recommendation II the Commlssinner OF inter
nal H;Nehue; ~ advance Of any Official puollca
ton OF the d. Act Of the revenue arlsing from
this article la advance OF any conclusion on
the part o. the Secretary Of the Treasury, ana IN
advance OF tho ssemhlng Of Congress, p-rsOns,
not distillers, not traders. not merchants, but
politicians, VINO haYo no other trade or occupa'
tion, were III pOgscssiOu Of Information that en-
abled them 10 purchase whiskey at fortY-six
cents gallon which went mp In November o.
sixty-ono cents "A gallon, and In the month oil
December To ninety two cents a gallon"
Mr.. Wsshhurne said I: " anl aware Of the gre AZ
Efforts which have been made-tbe lueeessiu
, 1876-05-10
DROUGHT IN NEW SOUTH WALES.
from tic EaP. Mai.)

The long stretch Of dry weather seems,
says a contemporary writing recently on
this subject, to be greatly exercising the
attention Of people in New South Wales,
and some of their leading scientific men,
such as the Government Astronomer
and Mr.. Tcbbutt, &c, are making re-
searches juto the records kept by Profess
sor Jevous, in days gone by, and appear
to be e~ndeayouring to construct upon
them some wave diagrams or fixed theories
as to tue exact or approximate periodicity
oil these %droughts, and their attenuation
with foods. But what will it still teach
Us but tha necessity for storing the surplus
in order to make use of it in the time of
scarcity. This is the direction in which
the brains of the scientific men of New
South Wales and Queensland, as we'll as
other spots of earth, should be exercised.
This is the problem for them to solve, q
harder one than, and nearly as long a one,
no doubt, as the f%anciful construction
OF weather waves, but one which they
must inevitably come face to face with at
the close Of their theorising, and which
they may as well save time in by begin
ming at it at once, in place of waiting
another thirty years or so over it, to say
nothing OF the superior benefit which q
successful termination to their labours
in this direction would confer on the
world for it need hardly be pointed out
that al elaborate paper about weather
epOchs read before a scientific meeting,
scarcely outweighs in Importance the
redoubled production of meat, fruit,
cereals, &C., which would ensue on a
successful storage and distribution, during
droughts, of the surplus waters of food
years.
, 1876-05-10
THE UNIFIED STATES ARMY.
(Fro,n the Wardsr.)

The Army Register Of the United
States for 1876 has Just been issued. The
aggregate strength OF the army, counting
every one connected with the military
service, except contract or acting assistant
surgeons and teamsters in the employ of
the quarter-master's department, and in
Guiding the p~rofessors.and cadets at West
Point, is 28,346. Eleven and one-quarter
per cent, of the officers OF the army are of
foreign birth, Irishmen take the lead,
there being more than twice as many
officers credited to Ireland as to any other
country. The details are Ireland 100,
Germany SO, England Al, Canada 81,
Scotland II, France 10, Sweden 6,
Switzerland 1, South America 3, Italy 3,
Nova Scotia ?, East India 3, Austria,
Poland, Hungary. Malta, Corfu, Madeira,
the Netherlands, New Brunswick, Asia,
ana the Sandwich Islands, l each. Two
hundred ana c~ighty-four officers rose from
the ranks, one Of whom is Professor of
Civil and Military Engineering and Sci
cace Of War at West Point. Forty-two
and a half per cent Of the appointees from
the army are of foreign nationality, of
whom 50 are credited to Ireland, 90 to
Germany, IL to England, 6 to Scotland,
2 10 Switzerland, and / each to Canada
aud Sweden. No alteration is reported in
the numbers of the militia force. The
aggregate number of omen available for
military duty (unorganized)' is stated to
be 3,70I, 81.
, 1876-05-10

the falling fortunes of a rival, Escobedo was
a General who might have been employed
with advantage against Portirio Diaz, but
for the miscLance that he has been recent
Iy shot by his own soldiers 1t may be rea-
sonabjy inferred from these premises that
the prospect Of q termination to the Mexi-
can anarchy is neither very close nor very
certain.
, 1876-05-10
T "AVIs"

Is PUBLISHED
EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY.
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-11
'EsEsi PEyEaSSBUEsG ENDEXAP
saEnE AND ROIkT1E CAsOLzNA
HsSysOGR as.

The following paragraph which We
take from an editorial III tue Peters
burg Lnder-Ap1oeai. it seems TO US,
with all due respect to our Virginia
cotemporary, contains Il reflection
upon North Carolina Democrats
that ought to have been made moro
explicitly or ought not to have been
made at all !:
We have. no liking whatever foI
Swepson, who, we think, was party to
the grand robbery of North Carolina,
i'll which Littlefieid, and perhaps 9th
ers since high il the favor of the
Democratic Conservative party, were
also participants.
Does the Lade,c-Ap2oeal seriously
mean to charge that accomplices of
Swepson and LittIefeld have since
their grand robbery been high in the
favor OF the Democratic party in the
State, ana if so, does it imeA1 to
charge that the Democratic party thus
had these men in high favor ignorantly
or knowingly?
With the kindest feeling possible
for our esteemed Virginia cotempora-
~, we earnestly protest against such
loose language as. Injurious in the high
est degree to the cause and to the
party whose su cess We both have so
deeply at heart.
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-11
LEE US HAVE PEACE!

Our friends the enemy do not seem
just now to be enjoying IN very full
measure that peace and harmony and
unity it IS SO pleasant to see among
brethren dwelling together in pei soma.
or political affiliation. The presidential
plum is now almost ripe and ready to
fall, and many Radical mouths there be
gaping wide to catch it. Indeed-but
that itwould be. as Mr.. Beecher would
phrase it, slight "mixing meta
phors one might well say that this
tempting presidential plum is proving:
veritable apple of discord among
Radical aspirants. Messrs. Blaine and
Conkling are not at one but are at
open variance. Nor can they be
brought to be of one mind-at least SO
reports a delegation of peace makers
that went from New York to Washing
ton to earn the blessing belonging to
all engaged in the laudable occupation
of putting an end to strife. Nor was
this result matter for surprise, for
there is only one presidency and both
Blaine and Conkling are longing for it.
How. then, can they agree? But the
most serious unpleasantaess is that re-
ported to exist between Mr.. Bristow
and President Grant. Concerning the
latest development in this difficulty
kilograms to the Western press repre-
sent that at an interview, on the I'd
inst, with Secretaries Bristow and
Pierrepoint, ''the President declared his
purpose to go to St. Louis and give his
testimony in Babcock's s favor. The
interview assumed a stormy aspect,
and the President took occasion to re-
fer to Bristow's prosecution of the
whisky ring in strong terms of disap-
proyal, concluding with the remark
that he CGrant) understood DcyfectLy
that certain parties near to him, aOhiIe
they acere pretending to be his friends.
acere really has enemies, seeking to
build themselves up at his etDense.
The Presidents manner was unmistak-
ably pointed, and Secretary Bris-
tow, in astonishment and dismay,
turned about and walked to O
window, where he stood looking
out for some moments. An interval
of silence ensued, which was broken
by Pierrepoint, who suggested in a
subdued tone that he thought the
President was inclined to be hasty and
severe in his judgment, to which
Grant responded in loud and angry
tone that when he wished advice from
his Cabinet counselors as to his per
sonaI affairs he would notify them,
The President has lost his calm imper
turbability and has fallen into an irri-
table state in which he becomes violent
and abusive, especially with reference
to the parties concerned in the prose
cution of the whiskey ring. The story
has some raarks of improbability, but
it is so excellently vouched for that it
seems unwise to entirely discredit it
The effort to induce the President to
put his testimony in the shape of an
affidavit will not be abandoned"
Whether this statement be true we
know not, for as soon as it was pub
lished it was denied, even by Mr..
Bristow himself. In spite of the de-
nial, however, it is said to be proba-
BILE that both MIR. Bristow and MIR,
Pierrepoint villa ave the Cabinet.
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-11
:HE NEXE DEM nC1ATIC STATE
COsV ENTsDS

As our readers know, meeting OF
the Democratic Executive Committee
for the State viii be held at Raleigh on
the 18th of March, for the purpose of
choosing the time and place of holding
ihe next State Convention of the party.
Various suggestions have been made
in reference to the place at which the
convention shall meet. though. if we
remember Alright. no particular time
has been suggested.
In fixing the time we presume the
committee will be guided somewhatby
the action of the National Executive
Committee 10 selecting the day for the
assembling Of The National Democratic
Convention, as it will be necessary for
ehe State Convention to meet in time to
appoint delegates to the National Con-
vention. Any day that will answer
for that purpose will answer for all
others for winch the State Convention
is to be held. 1t may not be out of
place to remark here, however, that
Il. the signs of the times Indicate that
the coming campasgn in North Caro-
Ina will be one of the most laborious
and hotly con ested ever witnessed IN
oar State, and that every consideration
of good Judgment and sound policy
points out the expediency of the Dem
ucI attic party beng early IN the field
with known leaders and disciplined
forces. The enemy is already at work
and the man who thinks the struggle
in this State will be child's play will
find himself grievously mistaken.
Nor have we any suggestion 60 make
ass to the place in whic'. tn" Con
veutiou shall be held. But while we
are willing to leave that matter entire
ly in the hands of the Committee, we
cannot assent to the position taken
by some that Wilmington is not
suitaOle place for the prr-
pose. Indeed we know of no place
in the State that is more suitable
either as respects the welcome her
citizens will extend to the Convention.
the comfortable accommodation of its
members or their easy access to the
place. From tIe counties on the Tar
the Roanoke a!d the Neuse rivers
there is easy railway communication.
From the AlbemarIe region it is GER
| tainly Us easy to come to Wilmington
| as to go to any Otnc- point III the State
at which the Convention eau be held.
The Carolina Central Railway with its
| StatesviIle connection with the West
ern North Carolina Road opens up to
US the entire west as well as TIE tier
of counties on the southern border of
| the State. The Cape Fear river and
the railroad from Fayetteville to Raj
eigh open up that portion of the state.
Aud so far as Greensboro is concerned
all we have to say is that it is not more
difficult to come from Greensboro to
| Wi mington than to go from Whining
| ton to Greensboro.
Let the committee consider the mat
ter we'll and decide for the best inter
est of the party and we shall be
satisfied.
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-11
TesE Svs4sl' POINT BILL

The st. Louis Republican says the
West Point appropriation bill as passed
by the House fixed the pay of the ca
diets at $40, without rations. At
present the cadets~receive in money
and ratlons what amounts to $60S. The
bill therefore reduces the pay $b8 for
each cadet, and this computed on 3O4
cadets amounts to a saving of 500, ,672
The pay of the superintendent of the
Military Academy amounts now 10
about 1000 year; the bill fixes it at
So, 500 for pay, together with a furnish
ed residence, fuel, lights and other
things equivalent to 81, 500, SO that his
pay under the bill will be virtually
S., 900 The commaudunt of cadets
now receives the equivalent Of sc, 900,
including forage allowances; under the
bill he will get So, 900 salary, with a
furnished house aud incidentals, equal
TO total of 81, 500. The professors
now receive So, 500 year salary; but
this is not all; although not army Off
GERS, they have allowances for forage
snd other things amounting to
800 year besides. Under
the bill, these allowances are cut
off, and the professors will get-four
of them-$3, 500, and five of them s3,-
600, These reductions are extended
to ali of the items of expenditures in
the bill till the total amount appro-
priated is decreased from $437, ,47O,
last year, to $243, ola saving of
$193, ,S29.
The Republicans oppose the reduc-
ti0ns in the bill and dwell with much
fervor upon the hardship to cadets of
being forced to live on $54O year, and
the difficulty that the superinten-
dent, the commandant and the
professors would have in making
both ends meet on $4,000, 81, 500 So
500 and $1,000, respectively, a year.
But 1t is plain, as the Augusta Csroni.
Gle and Sentinel says, that the reduced
pay is very liberal. The cadets used
to receive only 1886; under the bill
they will receive $40. The pay of the
superintendent is larger than the salary
OF the Governor of North Carolina. and
80 Is that OF the commandant, and the
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-11

We learn from the Raleigh NetCs
that a party by the name of Smith,
none of our American Smiths, but one
of their English cousins. has written
to Governor Brogden to buy land in
North Carolinr at 121 cents per acre.
Our English cousin writes from York
shire and prefers land near "the sea
navigable water or a railway" He
proposes to pay for it in old North
Carolina per cent. bonds and in re-
turn for any kindly offices the Gov
ernor may afford him in the purchase
he offers to vote as the Governor may
desire. What a nice republican our
ENGLISH cousin would make
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-11
At Indianapolis the workof sente

At Indianapolis the workof senten-
cling the whiskey conv:cts has begun.
The DEPUTY Collector was sentenced
to three years imprisonment aud one
thousand dollars fine. Eight govern
ment officers and a distiiler were sen>
fenced TO two years imprisonment and
lines of one thousand dol ars. Th"
laborers and employees in dist ileries
We're sent up for six months each aud
lin, d five huLdred dollars. The
Judge exercised Il wise discretion in
his sliding scale, aud punished the
parties in strict accordance with the
degree of confidence reposed in them.
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-11

The great Boston forger was a ras-
cal to the last. The latest develop
1nent is this: ga gentleman interested
in Christian object recently went to
Winslow and asked him to contribute
something. In the course of the con-
versation the gentleman remarked that
, he had check for $50, which he pro-
posed to hand in for the object named.
''I am glad to have an opportunity to
give what I can to it. said Winslow.
s.Here is note for 500, but you must
give me that $50 check, as I cannot
afford to contribute more than $50.'
Tt is needless to say that the note was
forged, and that Winslow received a
check for $50 for worthless piece of
paper"
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-11

The Boston AdUertiser, radica
sheet, speaking of PiLchback's claim
to a seat in the United States Senate,
says it is perfectly well understood
That the arguments in favor of the
claimant would not be regarded but
for a supposed partisan necessity, and
hopes there will be enough republicans
who will refuse to be controlled by
such considerations to insure the ex-
clusion of an un Sorthy per Oh, the
legality o. whose election is not estab-
lshed. Vain hope!
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-11
GENERAL I0OnEs'~ srEEnsEs.

g. siN 5iEeAa1 OUNE ES'% SPEEEst rs.
We concur heartily with our Sa7an-
nah contemporary, the Morning NeaOs,
in regard to the impolicy OF furnishing
weapons to our enemy to fight III
with. The publication of such insane
ulteruuces as those of General TDombs
can result in nothing save harm to the
South. 1t rarely happens that man
puts the gift Of speech to worse use
than does General Toombs, and yet
possibly his speeches ould be power
less for evil but for their publication.
The Nca0s says:
The speech of General Toombs, as
reported by The Atlanta Constitution,
is obtaining d wide circulation In Bad
icdl ,,ai,ers at the North. The Chlca-
20 Tribune, one of the most rnbid of
the bloody shirt organs, rolls this
speech under its editorial tongue as o
sweet mOrsel, ard our enterprislng
ltianta contemporary may congratu-
late itself on the fact that 1t has made
:. valuable contribution to the CAM
pagn literature of the Radical malig-
nants. General Toomb's "wild and
malignant bombast and hoYing
denunc:atiOu Of the people of The
North" could have done no harm
North or South, had it been
D rmitted to die away in TIE
echoes of the Opera House but when
given the dignity of type in respecta
ole ioucnal It ia received in the North
rs ''retircting the feelings and senti-
ment5 OF tens of thousand of Confed
er ties who warmly sympathise with
al lie says" Thus Southern senti
ment is misrepresented, while the peo
OF the Nortt ftre grossly deceived
aud imposed '.pou. Our ideas may
be "Silurian. but to our mind it is
not the off ce of Southern journalism
to play ito the hands of on: f,urtherI
enemies lay Furnishing them with laist
weapons foe the discontinue of CUl
Nc heTn friends.
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-11

their unlawful acts" he said. sand e..
local authorities not oLIy wink at
them, but actually share in the nrofts
OF these depredations: Cortina, whose
reputation you we'll kno ". is b.
der General IN the Mexican army 90
is also chief magistrate of the a.
trict of MatamOras, an office corros'
ponding to that of district iudoo =,
this country. The federal government
of Mexico, if it We're disposed to \"
SO. Is unable to protect our front;oS
and SO long as the local autbor;tiaa
share ia the profits of the depredatinns
and the citizens generally are benef,'
ed by them, We can expect no meas
ures to be taken on the other side ~
stop them.
'Hhe Navy Department recen,lr
sent to the Bio Grande a gunboat anS
some steam launches to patrol ~
river" l remarked, 'have thev sno
ceeded III giving you any protection >"
''Not III the least. The lilo Rraro
lies just above Brownsville. unahla ~
move any further up the river. Sbe
can not even turn around. This boat
as yOu may know, was an AIahomo
river steamboat with very wide puards
wholly unfit for service on the ~,
'frande, because she draws altnoatha.
too much water, and cannot be inrnsJ
quickly enough. But even if a hoo
which could navigate the Rio Granae
we're be sent there she would be nf
80 use AT all. II a leader o. u band os
Nexlcana was TO inform the comman.
Ter IF such boat that he Was abont
to cross the river with herd of cattla
at a point mile distant IN IA straiobr
line, it won d generally be necessary
for the boat, on account of the crooked
character of the river, to go seven or
| eight miles in order TO reach that
point, aud the time that would ha
consumed IN getting up steam and
9UiAg there would be sufficient to al.
low the Mexlcans to cross with all
the.r cattle. The only use to which
boats could possibly be put would be
in transferring troop across the river
provided authority was given to pur
sue the raiders into Mexico"
How do you think these depreda.
tionS can be stopped ?" [ asked.
"Only by sending to the Rio Grande
frontier an effective force of cavalry.
with orders to follow the Mexican
raiders across the river and punish
them Oh their own territory" was the
reply. eve must make the risk at
tending these raids very great, or else
they Lev will be checked. As long
as young men in the Mexican cities
along the border, by few days work,
and easy work at that, and wish very
little risk Qor they are not intercepted
} once in TIVE. ty times can make from
$10O to $500 apiece by stealing Texas
, cattle, these raids will continue but
if our troops could f)llow them into
their own territory, take the cattle
: away Fl pm them, and punish them
} severely, and if such punishment was
, reasonably sure to follow one half Of
these lawless exped tions. this prac-
tice would be stopped. I do not think
t that large force of cavalry, stationed
! on the American side OF the river,
j would be able to give the required
I | protection"
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-11
THE TEXAN BORDEx,

Questions growing out of the Texan
and Mexican border troubles promise
to play an impos tant part in the not
very far distant future. The Texans
are naturally very indignant at the
many outrages that have been COM
mitted by Mexican cattle stealers and
committed with impunity and in de-
ference to their demand most urgently
made by their representatives i'll Con-
gress, a special committee has been
appointed to investigate and report the
facts in the case It is alleged by
Texans that more efficient defence of
their border by the Federal Govern>
ment is absolutely essential to either
the peaceful or profitable occupatio:
of the country for many miles east Of
the Rio Grande river. The troops
there hitherto have in great part been
negro cav ilry troops. 1t is thought
too that the Adm nistration and the
Ra ical party is not ayerse TO foment-
ing the Texan border troubles just
now as an excuse for opposition to the
proposed cutting down of the army
To view of this state of things the des-
crirtion of the border land in question
given by Captain McNally and pub
lished on the third page of this morn
ing's JOURNAL will be read with inter-
est. Captain McNally is said to be q
very intelligent gentleman and al ac-
comp!ished soldier, who served III the
Confederate army during the whole
war, and the greater part of the time
al the front where there was plenty of
fighting to do.
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-11

Like Dickens, and Thackeray, and
Bulwer, John Forster, the English
author who died last week, died while
he was engaged in writing the work
which was intended to be his master
piece. Mr.. Forster's last work was a
life Of Dean Swift, of which the first
volume has just appeared. 1t is to
be hoped that the remaining ones are
in such a state of forwardness that
they can be published, notwitEstand-
ing the sudden death of their author.
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-11

A most valuable manuscript, says
the London Athe,edeune, has been dis
covered in the Azores. It refers to the
colonization, in the year 1900, of the
northern part of America by emigrants
from Oporto, Aveiro and the Island of
Terceira. 1t was written by Francisco
de Souza in 1870. Barboza Machado
states that il was lost during the great
earthquake of Lisbon in 1855. This
most important document is about to
be published by an erudite Azorian
gentleman, and will throw great light
on the disputed question of the early
discovery of America.
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-11

salaries of the professors are large
than the average salaries OF professors
in our colleges.
Such salaries as the West Point Pro-
fessors will get under the bill woutd
make gla the hearts of their brethren
at the University.a at Davidson, at Trim
,ty aud at Wake Forest. There can b.
no reason why government officials,
the servants of the people, should IIo'
feel the poverty of the people.