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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09
..USEFEE,, BLAINE

Now that we are beginning to get at
the bottom facts, it is apparent that
bully Blaine did not act the foolish
part in attempting to squelch the Null
ligan-F Fisher letters. The true in
wardness of those letters presents the
hero of the bloody shirt in an unen-
viable dilemma. IF our kilograms pub
lished in another column this morning
be true, Blaine was either corrupt or he
sought to create upon other parties the
impression that he was corrupt; he
either was ready to use his position
as Speaker of the National House OF
Representatives for personal gain or
he sought personal gain from Messrs.
Fisher and Caldwell by creating the
impression that he would SO use his
high position. He was ready to act
corruptly or he sought to CHEAT Fisher
and Caldwell by creating the i'm
preston that he would be corrupt
and that his corruption would inure to
their benefit. He tells Fisher On the
29th of June, 1869, he would be no
"dead head" in the future. He tells
him on the 4th of October following
that the had been no "dead head" in
the past but had done excellent service.
No doubt s'a man of affairs" as Blaine
describes himself to be and one
OF his experience would indeed
'see various channels in which he
could be useful" No Doubt An
interested and unscruplous Speaker is
one of the most useful" parsons in
the world when the lobby has scheme
to carry through, especially one who
knows when to send his ''page" and to
whom
Blaine's Judgment was good. No
mere surmise or suspicion of the Hnin-
formed public mind as to the contents
of the Muiligan Fisher letters would
have been half as damaging as it the
truth. IL was but natural that he
should resort to any means to get pos
session of them.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09
THE INFAMY.

The latest instance of President
Grants shameless disregard of deem
cy and the commonest proprieties of
the high Office he holds. is his action
in the nomination of Alexander p.
Tuition for the position of Collector of
Customs at Philadelphia.
Tuition will be remembered as the
Revenue officer who wrote that timely
letter to President Grant declaring
that it was owing to his representations
and arguments, and not to Babcock's
interference, that the President re-
voked the celebrated order for the
transfer of Revenue officials OF St.
Louis and elsewhere, and in conse-
quence of which the Whiskey Ring
were for some time saved from detec-
ton and punishment. It will be re-
membered, too, what an important
bearing this man and his statements
had upon the Babcock trial. And now
he has his reward. Mr.. Comfy,
who was turned out of Office to make
room for Tuition, an honest man and a
good officer, it is said, had just been
recommended and confirmed by the
Senate after term of service. But
Tuition had to be paid and so Comfy
lost his place. The country will ever
believe Tutton's appointment to be a
consideration given by the President
for the betrayal of justice in the trial of
his favorite Babcock. Tutton's appoint
ment is simply an outrage and makes
deep and ugly wound upon the Pres
ident's personal honor and tears into
shreds the tattered fragments of his
official reputation.
But what shall be said of Bristow in
this connection ? He knows all the
facts, yet has he kept silent while the
outrage was being perpetrated. AS
the Philadelphia Times well says, that
Secretary Bristow should have toler-
ated such an insult to every citizen
who desires an honest public service,
is impossible of explanation in any
manner consistent with his manly de-
yotion to official duty. That Bristow
believed in and Endorsed Tuition IN the
fall of 1874, before he understood the
real purpose of the administration
movements relative to the Western
whisky thieves, is not be com planned
of but that he should sanction or
even passively yield to the appoint
ment of Tuition to the second Collect
ship of the country. after the noto~
rious and shameless offices performed
by him In the Babcock trial, can mean
nothing more nor less than that Bris-
tow is either coward or pretender
The one name that should have quick
ened the enthusiasm of the best ele-
nents of the Cincinnati convention
mas been clouded by the surrender, in
an evil moment, to one wrong that
sanctions every wrong of the admins
tration in shielding the guilty from
Justice: and when the work of Gin
cinnati shall have been done. Bristow
can be turned from the Cabinet, as he
will be. without so much as protests
or regrets from those who but week
AGO would have mourned his overthrow
for the country's sake.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09
COTTON UEACTUEkESIN the
SOUTH

If it shall turn out that one of the
results of the war WI be the transfer
to the South of one of the most impor-
tant industries of the North, we sns-
pect that some of our brethren of the
colder cllmes in America will begin to
think the price paid for the preserya-
ton of the glorious Union was trife
high. 1t is just possible when it shall
be seen that the surrender of the cot
ton factories by the North is a sure
consequence of the surrender of slaves
| by the South that the beauties of
emancipation will not be so apparent.
| So far as we Of the South are concern,
ed, we say what we have always said,
and that is that We accept the situation.
Ii the factories must come, We say let
them come! The Philadelphia AHae3i-
can, in an editorial calling the atten-
ton of it's readers to this subject, says:
industrial progress at the South
seems at length to be taking definite
and propitious shape in the develop
ment Of cotton manufactures. Florida
stands alone as the only purely South
ern State that has not yet gone into
the business. From 1860 to 1870 the
number of spindles in the Southern
cotton mills had increased Al, $50, and
from 1860 to 1875 the total increase
was ITS, 500. All the damage done by
the civil war to this great industry
at the South has been more than
made up, and even through the
crash and stagnation of 1873,
1874 and 1875, the number of
spindles st the South increased
136. 1S9, an exhibition OF vitality Who'll
ly unlocked for. The entire cotton
region and all the States bordering it
have entered upon this progress, and
the profits of the mills have been 80
large and regular as to encourage
further Investments. But these APP
pear to be the heaviest in the purely
cotton growing States, Sc that the
cotton planters are finding on aug
mented home market for their crops |
in their own States. This movement |
is more permanently developed and
widely diffused at the South than the |
corresponding British movement is in
India. So much money is saved in the
cost of transit between the plantation
and the mill that there can be no doubt
of the ability of the Southern manu-
facturers to compete with the English
mills. The Importance of this enter
prise to the whole future of the Re-
public cannot be exaggerated, as may
be seen by the subjoined statement
of the European cotton supply for the
year ending October /.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09
Ba.AEN E.

That in the midst of most vigorous
political life men are in greatest danger
of political death MIR. Blaine's sud
den downfall affords the most striking
proof. just at the moment when the
goal of his life's highest ambition
seemed in easy reach the end has come,
sudden, complete, disgraceful. 1t is
not to be expected that he will find
any sympathy in this section of the
country. The means by which he
sought to crafty his ambition have
been such as to make his disappoint-
ment seem one of those measures OF po-
etc Justice of which we have heard SO
much of late and upon which all men
will look with grim satisfaction as a
rightful punishment upon man who for
personal, selfish ends would wantonly
stir up strifes and passions that the
good of the country demands should
forever be buried.
MIR. Blaine can not possibly escape
from the consequences of the position
in which he has placed himself. When
he pocketed the Fisher uiligan LETT
ters and thereby shut out the world
from knowledge of their contents he
gave incontestible proof that in his
opinion the contents of those letters ii
published would be far more damag-
ing to himself than any possible at
tempt at their concealment would be.
Knowing how damaging to his presi-
Dental prospects his questionable
conduct in getting possession of those
letters must be and what damaging
suspicious his attempt to conceal their
contents must engender, he can not
dismiss from the minds of men the
belief that in Mr.. Blaine's opinion at
least the real truth is far worse than
any mere suspicion the uniformed
mind of the public can originate.
Mr.. Blaine is no fool and he knows
full well that the purpose of Mulligan
in producing these letters was to des-
troy his chances for the nomination at
Cincinnati. If they would not ac-
COAnPA4cA eAop PuA POSCs WY uOCS A1s
Blaine object to the publication when
he knows SO well how damaging to his
reputation and prospects his refusal to
give them to the public must be ? If
these letters be innocent, why does he |
seek to hide them from the public |
gaze, even though they do not relate |
to the particular charge now being in
vestigated !?
Blaine's fate is fixed, and he Joins
the long caravan of deed ducks-un-
honored, unwept and unsung. IF he
had sacrificed his high ambition to
save from public seorn the name of
some confding woman who had pnt
her honor in his keeping, good men
and bad men everywhere would APP
plaud the deed and feel sincerest
sympathy for him in a contingency
rendering such sacrifice necessary.
But there is 'tno lady in the case,'
only gross, grovelling corruption that
he would rather not be President than,
have exposed. Next
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09
From the NLwacTn Nut SDcli.

Estate of Noses Griffin. IseGea sesi.
70 the Court Craven Superior Court.
The undersigned, in pursuance OF
an order of reference made in this case,
beg to report and submit tie within
account of the receipts and disburseN
ments for the years 1872, 1873, 1874
and 1876. which they find duly aud
fully sustained by proper vouchers.
They further report that they find IN
the hands of Mr.. William H. Oliver
(the agent of the executors) the lden-
teal bank stocks and bonds the
par value of which was $50. 200 AS
were placed Ill his hands by order of
the Court of Equity III 1860. The
interest on the same up to the time
interest ceased being paid was proper
ly reported on. We also find all the
real estate still in his hands except two
pieces which were sold in 1860 by
order Of the Court of Equity. We
also fnd the proceeds OF the
sale of this property was prop
erly reported to Court. We have
also examined the report OF the
teacher who has charge of the school
and find the names of forty-nine schol-
ars who attended the Griffin Free
School the past year. Your commits
sioners would respe ctfully recommend
the Trustees to eject some persons who
are occupying some houses belonging
to the estate because of their failure
to pay rent, and to replace III them
good paying tenants If possible, all of
which is respectfully submitted.
JOHN A. GUIoN,
Commissioner.
I. E. WEST,
Clerk Superior Court and Com'r.
certify [ have examined the &C.
count of William II. Oliver, agent OF
the executors of the estate of Moses
Griffin, deceased, and find the same
supported by proper vouchers, and
report same correct.
L. J. MOORE, Solicitor
Third judicial District.
Report confirmed by A. S. Seymour,
Judge Third Judicial District.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09
MAJOR ENGELHARD.

JUDGE FowLE, one of the ablest men
in the State, was also one of the most
outspoken in opposition to the Cons
yention movement last year. Now he
is equally outspokeh and determined
in favor of the ratification of the
amendments. He says, and he says
truly, that the very reasons that made
him fear evil results from Convention
induce him to favor the amendments
proposed by that Convention for the
simple reason that in the future there
can be no Convention called without
the consent of the people and that
the mode for the changing of
the constitution provided by the
amendments is so plain and easy and
at the same time SO perfectly in the
control OF the people as to do away
with all necessity for any convention,
If the amendments shall be ratified, the
people will always have it in their
power to have the Constitution amend
ed in any respect they may wish, with
out calling a convention that may do
more than they wish.
Men who are honestly afraid to trust
conventions have e dou-
BILE reason for favoring the ratification
Cf the amendments,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09

when it will afford to the youth of oui
State that i'struciiin ia ali useful
learning that our forefathcrs centem-
plated when, in 1776. they provided
for the establishment Of one or more.
Universities.
The Faculty stated in their report
that no one tad beeu compelled TO
leave the University of his inability
to pay his taitiou fees. In every III
stanc" where young men stated they
We're unable to pay, the tuition /, es
had been renlitted altogether, excepJ
in one case where the party preferred
I'd give his note for the amount. Hi.
door is open to all deserving young
men, who are unable to pay, to enter
free of charge.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09

The Democratic County Convention
of Rowan declared for Robbins fol
reelection to Congress, Vance fol
Governor and J. s. Henderson for At
torney General. The following reso-
luton was adopted;
Resolved, That whereas serious
charges have been brought against s.
d. Pool, Superintendent of Public In
struction, which haVe not been salts
factorily explained by him, in the opin-
ion Of this meeting the State Conven-
ton fhould investigate the matter and
take such action as the facts may JUS
tify.
Davie county also expresses pre-
ference for Mr.. Robbins. In fact, every
county in the district seems to be for
hin
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09

ssa.IMESG 'Ho I-ssE STUDENTS.
A di>hnguisiltd e nticrnan Iii 'ur
State VIM va, present at the late COM
| IN 4 cement concludes private letter
| to us with the following high compli-
| mei.t To the stnd. nts of the University,
| which we take the liberty of publish
| ing. tits due to the students to say
| that their conduct was marked in the
| highest degree by sense of duty and
! dtcorum. so much SO indeed that the
| Trustees. just before the adjournment
OF that body. late on Thursday even
| ing, passed formal resolution expresst
| Ire of their qualification at the highly
decorous department they witness
ed during the euE-re commencement
services. III the hurry of preparing
the account of the proceedings of the
| occasion we failed to award the
praise that in this particular was 80
eminently due, and We are glad of the
| opportunity afforded by the letter of
our correspondent to make the proper
amend. He says:
81 am very much pleased to find
the commencement has produced a
good effect upon the people of the
STATE It was certainly decided sue
cess. I hope you will not forget to
bestow your commendation on the
students of the University. The
| speeches delivered on Wednesday
night, in substance and in style we're
above the average of college speeches.
The elocution of the young speak
ers was very fine. [ can say in sin
cerity and truth that the department of
the students was more decorous, cour-
teous and refined than 1 ever saw at
any college commencement. They are
worthy of public communication and |
hope you will bestow it in full measure.
am with you in heart and soul III
your forts to resuscitate the Univer-
| sity,"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09
Clerk Superior Court.

| To Whom it may Concern In ref
erence to the remarks made by me in
| this city on the 10th instant, IL res
| ponding to the request of the Memo
| rial Association, to say something in
behalf of their enterprise to erect a
| monument over the Confederate dead,
l beg leave to say that [ have nothing
to modify and nothing to retract. In
asmuch, however, as a sla1tderons re~
port has been circulated by the New
York Times, the Philadelphia Bulletin,
the Index-Appeal of Virginia, and 9TH
er papers, I do hereby pronounce the
articles in question unquaiifedly false,
and further affirm that not only did
not utter but do no enter tain the sem
timent therein attributed to me. The
complete refutation of these ISLANDERS
is found in the speech which has been
published, and in the testimony of
hundreds of reliable citizens who heard
the address as delivered.
S. TAYLOR MARTIN.
Charlotte, N. c., May %, 1876.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09
M EETgN NC OF THE TRUSTEES OF
THE UNIVERSITY.

A meeting of the Board of Trustees
Of the University of North Carolina
will be held in Raleigh at the Execu-
tive Chamber, at IL nj. ON Tuesday,
18th June. 1878, when and where an
election for President Of the Universal
ty will take place.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09

The Boston AdUertiser says that
admitting every thing to be true that
Mulligan tells about Blaine's business
transactions no court of honor would
convict him of any ofense that any
business man in Boston would be
ashamed of ! Bad for the business men
of Boston J. =
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09

Some half dozen cadets at the An
napohs naval school have been expelled
from that institution for stealing. It
is gratifying. though not specially sur.
pris1ng that none of these young
rogues were from the South. Doubt
less MIR. Robeson, the Secretary of the
Navy. was quite severe in approving
the sentence of the court Diminishing
the cadets from service. The value
of the property stolen was small and
the rascals were caught. and of course
Robson thought they ought to be
punished.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09
Klle DITferaNea

The Salt Lake Herald says: 4 young
boy who had been fishing in Jurdan
all day was slowly vending his way
through the city last evening when he
was heard to complain: IF I was a
horse now, I'd be rubbed down and
we'll fed; but I'm boy, and I've got to
go home, milk the cows, bring in wood,
tote water and rock the baby for an
hour and half"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09

The S ate democratic executive COM
mittee of Georgia met at Atlanta yes
terday and called for a State convens
ton to be held August I'd at Atlanta to
nominate a candidate for Gov ernor
and to choose Presidential electors,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09

The steamer Coleman from Austra~
lie, which arrived at San Francisco,
reports that an American whaler res
cned gang of Fenians from Western
Australia. The colonial steamer Ora
gette has been armed and ordered in
pursuit.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09
~ Office.
$50 REWARD.

rHHE ABOVE REWARD will be paid for the
apprehension and delivery either TO me OF to
the Sheriff of New Hanover county, OF the
prisoner W. Il. jackson, alias q. Z. Snow
charged with the murder of one Charles jack
son, colored, in the city of Wilmington. The
prisoner escaped from thu Jail OF Onsiow count,
on sunday evening, the IA h inst. He is about
five feet high, thick set. light hair and com
plexiHn; tull face and weighs bout $50 pounds
well dressed and C can looking.
e. MURRiIL.
nay 16-d&w Inn Sheriff OF Onslow Co.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09

The exercises were commenced with
a prayer by the Rev. DIR. Pritchard.
Paul @. Cameron, Esq, Chairman
of the Board of Trustees, then made
an address of welcome to all present
after which he introduced the orator
of the day
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09

OFFICE OF TIE SUPERIOR COuRP
CLERK FOR MECKLENBURG COUNTY,
Charlotte, N. c., May -, 81 Ger
tlfy under the seal of this Court that
the gentlemen whose signatures are
hereunto annexed are men of probity,
intelligence, character and standing III
this community. anG that their state
ments may be relied on as true. Given
under my hand and seal of office.
J. r. ERWIN,
Clerk SInPrinr Court
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09
SECRETARY OF STATE.

We are gls4 to note that many of
the leading papers in North Carolina
are advocating the claims Of Major
Engelhard, of New Hanover, for the
Office of Secretary of State.
This gentleman has devoted the last
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09
From the Philadelphia Is Il let.n, ]
4 CARD.
The Rev. =. Taylor Martin BIsa-
vows the HaMprussenG speech az
IribUged to Him.

IrlDutcd 10 AhtAhs
CHARLOTTE, n. c., May %.
Whereas, Rev. S. Taylor Martin did
deliver an Grafton on Memorial Day,
the 10th inst, III the city of Charlotte,
n. c., and
Whereas, A correspondent of the
New York Times, 10y telegraph to that
paper, did attribute to Mr.. Murtit: seu-
timents which he did not utter and
which We fee! called on 70 deny, in the
cause of truth and justice; that having
heard the address IL question, VIC do
pronounce the report of the same, as
contained III the New York Times, the
Philadelphia Bulletin, and reproduced
in the Index Appeal of Petersburg,
Va and perhaps other papers, tissue
of faIsohoods from beginning to end
and utterly devoid of truth.
William Johnston, Mayor of the city.
Charles Il. Jones, F. 3. Mcdowell,
editors of the Observer.
+. 81. Harding, pastor ID Presbytc~
rian church.
A. W. Miller, pastor lst Presbyte-
rian church.
james f. Johnson.
A. q. Brenizer, cashier Commercial
National Bank of Charlotte, n. Z.
Z. Whitfield. pastor Charlotte Bap-
fist church.
John A. Young, ex-Mayor.
Ja'. FL. Orr, chief of city Fire De
partment.
Il. L. Drayton, chief marshal on
Decoration Day.
J. Graham, NJ. d.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09
CASTOR county.
(From the Hend erson Trihune.N

The writer is delegate to the Bal
eigh State Convention. IF we can get
the other delegates to vote as we do,
Joseph A. Engelhard. former editor of
the Wilmington Journal, will be the
nominee. Major Engelhard has done
eleven years hard labor for the party.
and now the party should show its ap-
probation by putting him in Office.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27
Mistaken.

Many man lives with a woman
half a lifetime without inspecting
that the wife of his bosom has real
ly forgotten more than he ever
knew. Many carpet-knight who
plumes himself upon his wonderful
skill in smashing hearts is being
mentally measured and intellectu-
ally turned inside out by the smil-
ing girl whom he thinks he is capt.
waiting. Many q veteran beau who
pulls on his gloves to depart feeling
proudly conscious of having made 6
profound impression upon the sus
ceptible soul OF the belle who has
endured him for an evening would
be wonderfully enlightened, if NO
edited, could he hear the sigh of re.
lief which escapes her lips when the
clang of the door announces his de
parture.