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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16
NEAJOR ENG ELI A RID
(From the Roanoke NewS.)
MAJ. j. A ENGELHARD.
RALEIGF, n. c., June B, Il

RA LEIGF, N. c., June B, 1876.
FDIToRs NEws:-The name OF Jos.
A. EuSeIhard will be presented to the
State Democratic Convention for the
nomination of Secretary of State.
Although Major Eurelhard has been
laboriously engaged for several years
Oh the leading daily paper in the State.
he has ye, found time to :render the
party efficient service on the stump.
There is no section of the st te that
has not experienced benefits from has
labora in behalf of the party AMI i'll
behalf of the true interest of North
Carolina.
Shall his gremt services to the party
be brought to close ? Or shall We I. =
tain them by transferring him from
the sanctum to position at the capi
ital where he can work still more eff
fectually for the good Of the people of
North Carolina ?-WAKE COUNTY.
(Frcm the WASH eton EchoJ
MAJOR JOSEPH A. ENGELHARD FOR SEC
RETARY OF STATE.
EDTToRs OBSERVER l am glad to
observe in a recent issue of the OBJ
SerUcr the suggestion that Major En-
gelhard deserves some substantial con-
sideration at the hands OF the Demo-
cratic party of the State. This is we'll
known all over the State, and it will
be pleasure to his many friends if
the party will nomin ate him for Secre-
tary of State. OF his entire fitness for
the pc itiOn it is unnecessary 10 speak
l have good reasons for knowing that
he will accept the nomination, and
think it would be but meagre return
for the great services he has always
most cheerfully rendered his party
and State at all times and without re-
ward. The press of the State will sup
port MajoEE enthusiastically, and
am sure the party will sustain him. if
nominated, to a triumphant election.
Let Engelhard be our choice for Sec
rotary of State. Respectfully.
Rowan.
We endorse what Rowan" says of
Major Engelhard. ami hope the con-
vention when it assemblies will nomi-
nate him by reclamation. The Major
deserves it.
(From the Asheville CitiEen.i
The name of Maj. j. A. Engelhard,
late of the Wilmington JOURNAL, is
prominently urged for Secretary of
State On the Democratic ticket. Maj.
Engelhard deserves well of the party,
and possessing as he does, the highest
qualifications and being popular and
able speaker, his nomination would
add strength to the ticket.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16

The Boston Post says Political
suicides are as common, proportion
ally speaking, as those of the person.
Since Democratic House of Repre-
sentatives was chosen by the people
the wayside has been strewn with the
political corpses of public men who
died by their own hand. The Colfaxes
and Pattersons passed on just before,
being rather driven to the fatal act
from which their instructive timidity
held them back. The more recent
instances have been those of men who
invited their own doom. The Third
Term embodiment went under as if a
weight was tied to it's legs. Belknap
actually summoned the witness to
Washington by whom he met his fate.
Robson has defied them to catch him
until he now comes and puts
his own head IN the moose.
Babcock's was an extremely vulgar
case, and is not even capable of carry
ing moral. Shepherd and Harring-
ton did it through Nettleship and the
inmate of the Vermont State Prison.
Gen. Howard, and all that he implies,
went to death through the back door of
the Freedmen's Bank. Blaine dies
hard, preferring the protracted sensa-
tions of strangulntion to the sharp and
decisive neckbreak that ends suffering
at once. Never in this country were
80 many candidates for the Presidency
guilty of suicide, or beset with suicid-
al intentions, as this year in the Re-
publican party. The thing has actual
~ become a rage. Morton has gone
under, with not SO much as a bubble
on the surface. All save Conkling
have disappeared, and him they are
doing their best to kill because he will
not make way with himself. The only
real candidates left are the Unknown,
And the talk is kept up about reform
''within the party" with no known
candidate to explain what it means. It
is the queerest politics live party was
ever engaged in.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16

The Sultan paid the widows of the
Salonica victims $780, 900 a piece.
Isn't it, we earnestly but respectfully
ask, is not it about time to stop pub
fishing that sort of thing? Calmly
and dispassionately We ask our breth-
rem of the press if they have thought
of the consequences of giving the ben
eft of their circulations to such gu
advertisement? Have they thought
for moment of the tide of emigra-
ton that is likely to set in from these
toward the Sultan's shores? Have
they thought of the number of guile
less husbands that may be transformed
into "Salonica victims" at $780, 200 a
piece? How many handsome young
wives are there ready to subject THEN
Christian husbands to the slaughter of
the Turk at '-s20O, 600 Il piece p There
is one consolation however to be found
in the depressed condition of the Sui
tan's financial affairs. TIE price of
Salonica victims must soon fall to more
| reasonable figures.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16
THE ABROGATION OE TIL Il
TWO-THIIe RULE.

We are surprised to find the follow
ing paragraph in the New York San :
The st. Louis Convention should
refuse to adopt the two-thirds rule.
This rule was imposed upon the Ma
tlonal Convention of 1914 by the
slavery propagandlsts of the South for
the purpose of defeating the ,nomina-
tion of Mr.. VanBuren, who was not
sufficiently ardent for the annexation
of Texas to satisfy the disciples of
John c. Calhoun. A majority of the
delegates to the Convention were in
structed to support Mr.. Van Buren,;
but Just enough of them proved treach-
erous to enable his rivals to slaughter
him with this novel weapon. From
that day till now this unwise rule has
been regularly adopted in Democratic
nominatic conventions.
The two-thirds rule was adopted by
the first National Democratic Conven
ton ever held in America. that is to
say, by the convention that nominated
Andrew Jackson in 1892 In that cen
vHution however it WAS applied only
to the ballot for Vice President, there
being no opposition to General Jack
son in the convention. LII 1885 the
convention applied the two-thirds rule
to the ballots for both President and
Vice President. In 1910 the Conven.
ton failed to adopt the two-thirds
rule. In 1874 the Convention returned
to the rule and elected the candidate
nominated under it's provisions.
1t is little singular that up to 1915
the only Democratic candidate fol
President that was defeated was the
one nominated by Convention that
failed to adopt the two-thirds rule.
We have as yet seen 10 good reas IL
assigned for abrogating a rule that viii
keep the st. Louis CONVEX ton from
being at the mercy of delegates from
States that will not cast a single Dem
ocratic vote i'll the electoral college.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16
TIE EFFECTS OF A EUROPEAN
WAR.

The North is also considering the
conundrum; will European war ben
eft or injure the United States? The
Bost on Bulletin, one of the ablest
commercial journals in the country,
thinks that such war would benefit
the West in that it would cause an in
creased demand for Western produce,
and consequently bring about an adj
vance in prices. A large proportion
of the grain imported into Western
Europe is raised in Russia and North
ern Turkey, and if war cuts off or
diminishes the supply from those
countries, France and England must
to that extent rely for their food upon
the farmers of our Western States.
Already the prospects of war have
materially gu ckened the demand
wheat and corn. Other, raw products,
such as tallow, would also go out III
increased quantities. The Bulletin
does not think that the South has much
to gain by hostilities because it says
there would be d diminished demand
for English cottons from tie countries
at war, which wonld react upon the
price of raw cotton in the United
States. On the other hand, however,
it may be asserted, and with some
show of reason, that while there might
be a diminished demand for English
cottcns there would be an increased
demand for American cottons which
would more than counterbalance the
falling off in Great Britain.
Financially, the Bulletin thinks the
effect upon the United States of war
in the east would be beneficial. For
u while there might be an increased
demand for money in Europe, which
would possibly call for specie ship
ments from this side, but the great
banks of London, Paris and Vienna
are clogged with gold. business is get
ting duller and duller, and it is diff
cult to see how the rates of discount
could be kept at high figure except
for very short time. The unloading
of the securities of eastern countries,
as we'll as, to q smaller extent, those
of France and England, would GER
tainly cause an enlarged demand for
American bonds, and it must be evident
to every one that the United States
could not, oy the remotest possibility,
become involved in the Turkish diff
culties. This effect of prospective
Eastern war is shown by this weeks
quotations in London. At first our
bonds sympathized with the fall in all
other securities; when the Sultan was
deposed they rose in price even more
rapidly than other bonds; and towards
the close, when the old feeling of I'm
easiness set in again, and consols
dropped, American bonds continued
to advance. A brisk demand in Eu-
rope for our securities during the next
year or two. united to larger exports
of grain and other products would call
for only gold shipments, if any at all,
and might even necessitate importa-
tons of gold in the immediate future,
thus doing much to help along the
great desideratum-a return to specie
payments.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16
AS the Candy Constitution now

AS the Candy Constitution now
stands, the Legislature by a two-thirds
vote can call an. open Constitutional
Convention and that Convention can
change all the laws ia any way without
the consent of the people. If the
amendments shall be ratified no Con-
vention can be called in North Caro-
lima without first getting the consent
of the people and no change of any
sort in the Constitution can be made
without first getting the consent of
the people. If therefore the people
wish to rnle in North Carolina, let
them ratify the amendments at the
election in November next. Their
welfare and the welfare of generations
yet unborn depend upon the vote cast
upon the ratification of the amend
ments NOW pending.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16
FY-Minister Orth ia undar

Ex-Minister Orth is under ire from
his own ranks. The Evansville Journal
insists, in view of his failure to eek
plain" in his recent speech, that his
name ''be removed from the head of
the Republican State ticket, and that
of some man substituted in his place
of whom it cannot be said that he has
ever used a position conferred upon
him by the people to put money in his
purse" Mr.. Ortiz came home at the
wrong time.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16

4:seANTsS


Asj>Essll.
Out on tbs P.ciflc coast they do mol
y: EN- TO have the highest Opiuion IL TIE
world of Lieut.. Beale, whom President
Grant nominal. q the other day for
Minister to Austria. The San Fran
cisco bulletin says that ''if his memo-
ry is not fragrant, it is at least strong
in the minds of old citizens, ''and gives
this summary of his career:
After distinguishing himself in the
Mexican war, he was appointed Indian
Agent at Tejon, where he managed to
ment money, the defense being that he
government that the latter was
the gamer, although subsequent
facts indicated that Beale had pro-
actions He ''held the appointment
from 1861 to 1868" and was removed
for ..'havipg made an official report
abounding i'll gross errors and in wild
and mlschlev1us suggestions. "Never
before or since has there been so
scandalous an administration of the
affairs of that office" "Beale, with
out capital of his own, having the key
to the situation by virtue of his Office,
was enabled to acquire" ranches con-
tanning in all more than two hundred
thousand acres. "He determined the
locations and quality of his own land. y
| The bulletin concludes: "We do not
care to fill up this outline. A Minister
to one of the most enlightened courts
in Europe onght to be different mar
from Beale, whose nomination, to say
the least, was not fit to, be made. Thai
| is the conviction of the best citizen;
here, ana that would be the genera
judgment of the country were Beale's
official antecedents thoroughly laid
| open to public scrutiny"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16
THE MAN FOR GOVERNOR.


The Raleigh Net0s thinks the sue
cessful man in the coming race for
Governor will be "the Great Unknown. :"
It says:
say who he will be; no one who can
place his hand on the distinguished il
dividual who is destined to step into
the shoes of his ExcelIeucy, Governor
Curtis Il. Brogden.
But there are many who think they
know. Some say it will be Vance,
others Settle; some are sure that Reid
is the man, others that it will certainly
be Dockery. There are others who
point the prophetic finger towards
Cox; others at Clark; Others in the
direction of McGehee; and others point
to the Blue Ridge, and home of Rob-
inson. And there are still others who
say it will be Scales, or FoWle, or
Davis, or Ashe, or Turner, or r. 3.
Vance.
We have no prophetic vision. strong
enough to enable us to foresee the
lucky parsonage whom the gods have
fated to wear the crown the people
have this year to bestow upon one of
their favorites. But we feed that we
can see far enough and clearly enough
into the future to discover the outlines
of the fortunate figure.
lie will be named by the Democrat
ic party of North Carolina. He will
be an honest man, one upon whose
pure name the breath of calumny has
never blown; whose record is stainless;
who has undoubted patriotism; who is
in every respect worthy the people OF
North Carolina.
He will be q popular man; one whom
the people admire and esteem; whose
voice is potent among them for good;
whom they can feel confident they can
trust with the standard of COnservar
tism, and the fortunes of the State.
He will be strong man; bold, able,
skillful-one whose voice will call IN
trumpet tones to the white men OF
North Carolina to arouse in their might
against the negro domination; who can
gather around him oil the Democratic
clans, and lead them on to victory.
And that's the man for Governor. y
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16
From the Blue Ridge Blade

(From the Blue Ridge Blade,)
Watts says Hampton, deserves no
belief,
Hampton, says Watts g both liar and
thief;
On only one point their agreement is
hearty
Both own they belong to the Radical
party.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16

At the celebration of the Fourth of
July in New Haven, Conn, there will
be gathering of two thousand chill
dren carrying flags and singing nation
al songs. The girls are to be dressed
in frocks representing the three ma
tional colors, and will be so grouped
on large platform as to present the
appearance of an immense national flag,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16

'"The Harmanic Telegraphic Com
pany'' is the name of a new telegraph
corporation that has Just been charter
ed in New York. The capital stock of
the company is 100000, in 5000
shares. The company is formed for
the purpose of running lines of tele-
graph from New York to the principal
Eastern, Western and Southern cities,
including Baltimore, Washington,
Richmond, Charleston, Mobile and all
intermediate points. 1t is proposed
to increase the capital stock from time
to time, "a occasion may demand,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16

In vindicating himself before Con
gress, Mr.. Blaine said "Whenever
concealment is desirable, avoidance is
advisable; and I do not know any bet
ter test to apply to the honor and FAIR
ness of q business transaction" In
his letter to Fisher about the Northern
Pacific interest, Mr.. Blaine said: "Of
course, in comforting with others keep
any name quiet, mentioning it to any
one unless to MIR. Caldwell
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16
MISCELLANEOUS.
VALUABLE
INFORMATION.
For Bilious, RelHittant
land .Intermittant Fever,
Or What is More Commonly Termed
FEVER AND AGUE

Or What is More Commonly Termed
FEVER AND AGUE.
with pain in the oins and through the Back an
understandable chilly sensation down the spine, an
irresistible 'lispoEition 70 yawn, pam IN the
Eyes, which is increased by moving them, u
blue tinge in the skin, and great lstlensness and
debility, VEGETINB is 4 SAFE and positive reme-
dy. 1t is compounded exc usivciy from the juices
of car fuliy selected barks and hen BIS, and 80
strongly concentrated that it is of the
greatest cleansers of the blood that is be
put together. VEGErIN does not stop with
breaking chills and fever, but it extends its
wonderful influence into every part the hui
man system, and entirely eradicates every faint
of disease. VEG ETINE does root act a. poweriui
csthartic, to debilitGte the bowels and cause
the patieDt to dread other serious complaints
which must inevitably follow, but it ,trik es at
the root of the disease by purifying the blood.
restores the liver and kidneys to healthy ae-
ton, regulates the bowels and assists nature in
performing ell ST the duties which devolVe
upon her.
Thousands of inva ids suffering to day
from the effect OF powerful purg AtiTe nOstruIns,
Frightful quantities of quinine and poison doses
of arsenic, neither of which ever have or ever
could reach the true cause of their complaint.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16

Good work SO far. Baboock, Schenck,
Belknap, Blaine, Robson. The Wash +,
ington ring exposed, the whiskey
rings broken up, and public thieves
generally trembling in their shoes.
But there is yet work left honest men
in dragging knaves to the light. So
says the New York Sun.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16
VEGETINE

works in the human system III perfect harmony
with natures laws, and while it is pleasant tn
the taste, genial to the stomach, and mild in it,
influence on the bowels, it is absolute in its a
ton on disease, and is not vie, nauseuS Bit =
tera, purging the invalid il TO false hepe that
they are being cured. VEGKTINM Is 2 purely
vegetable medicin- com poHnded upon scien-
titic principles. Il i endorsed by the best ply
sicians where its virtues have bcer tested, is
recommended Onl- vi here medicine needed
ami is not a mixture of cheap shiskey sold I'M
der the cloak of Bittcrs.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16

The fend of the blue pencil has put
in his appearance. He marks around
presidential articles in the prominent
papers and s4nanders postage in send
ing them around promiscnously.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16
Unqualified Appreciation
BOSTON, Nov. is, 1915.


Ii. Il. STEW EMS, ESQ -
DEAR SLa-uur!lA the pat tive years l have
had Tie opp jrtu'f5Y to adge Of the Gicrit o,
VEGETINK. Ny wife has used it Tor complaint
attending lady III delicate health, with more
belrEcIai results ia al ANYTHING else which she
ever tried have sivrnit 20 nv children I'M
der alucst every circumstanc. attending Il lar c
family aud aiw VS. with mark ienert have
ia ken il Inys self with such rest bon=tif that
cannot find words 10 eXpr. So my UNI uated APP
probation OF its goodness.
While performing my duties Police
Officer in this city 1t has ieei. my lot To All il
with gre4t DIAL Of Sickn ess. Inhesttat'n giy
reCoLlmen NEGETiNE, A ID | EPvor knew OF Il
case whore it dad not prove all that was claimed
for it. Pa t:cul iri' in rf : debilit;ited d
Impoverished state OF the blood its effects
really wG..d iful AMI for all uants atisll.z
from an cure state OF tn" bio 81 i app, to
work ike Il charm. ard d. not believe there
are any clrcumsJanC cs unGGr which, Y EGErfNE
be used with injurious results, AID it will
alwavs afford me pleasu to give any further
informal ion TO what know about VICE.
TINE. VIM Il. HILL,
Police Station 4.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16

The iron ore lands about Chatta-
nooga. Tennessee, have been purchased
by an English company, with capital
Of s.. 500, 900, who will soon commence
tensiva scale.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16

In his address on decoration day
Rev. Robert Collyer. of Chicago, said:
81 count every attempt to rake up
the old trouble violent, bitter thing,
unworthy of our nation and our great
Anglo-Saxon family, and / am ashamed
of the men of my own State who could
say.the thing that has just been said
in our own State Capital that they
might add worm-wood to gall. We
are one family North and South. We
can only work out that destiny through
peace and good will. On this sum-
mer morning, as we stand together,
the dust of these dead men are rising
The sun cannot tell which is rebel
dust and which is loyal. 1t is all one
to the sum-"
Such sentiments as these, says the
st. Louis Republican, are worthy of
Christian and patriot, and we are
glad to see such a severe rebuke from
such source administered to the fam
atlcs who built the Republican plat
form at Springfield. It is only cow
ards who exult over venquished foe;
it is only vultures and hyenas who
feed upon the bodies of the slain.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16

The treasury statements of the ma
tional debt are pronounced incorrect
by "Banker," in the New York Bal-
leti'a, to the tune Of forty millions less
then the debt really is
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16

MEETING OF THE TGStIS FEES an
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 M. on Tuesday,
18th June, 1875, when and where an
election for President of the Universe.
ty will take place.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16
The Baltimore Anaerica,a saws

The courage which inspired Mr..
Blaine to take ''forty-four million. of
American people" into his confidence
has achieved for him not only a great
political victory, but also triumph
oyer the insidiCus arts o. scandal
that will hereafter make his repnta-
ton proof against mere detraction and
SANDER.
If there was nothing in the Multi
gan-Fisher letters that Blaine was
ashamed OF afraid for the ''forty-foul
million of American people" to know
where does the courage" come in?
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16
$50 IREWARD'

rHE ABOVE REWARD will be paiu ~
apprehension and delivery either 10 IN OF The
the Sheriff of New Hanover couHt, Snow,
prisoner ". T. jackson, alias q. aIIas Jack
charged with the murder Of one , Gms Ths
son, coioreri, in the city of Wlmin aiaw count,
prisoner escaped from the Jail OF n Wa is about
ON Sunday evening, the itih MS lar and com
FIVE fact HIGH. thick set. light nan so ,ounds
nIexirn: fuiI faee-and weighs bout i'o
well dressed and clean looking MURRILL;;.
my 16-d&w I'm she''h Va
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16

tory not only in this State, but in the
United States at the ensuing election.
Respectfully,
r. Y. MaADFN