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Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30
From the b ltimore Gazette

The Cross and the Crescent,
The Eastern question seems to be
solving itself. While the great powers
of Europe are d1plomatizing over the
situation, the christian provinces are
making ready for the battle with the
fierce enthusiasm of religious war.
The latest news from the seat of
trouble informs us that Servia and
Montenegro, no longer to be restrained,
have taken the field against the T lrk.
The soldiers of Montenegro are splen-
didly equipped and disciplined, and
burning with zeal for the fight. Their
entrance upon the campaign will pro-
duce decisive results almost immedi-
ately.
Several things have happened re-
Gently to ALLEVIATE all Europe from
sympathy with the Turk. One was
the Salonica outrage; the second was
the inhuman butchering in Bulgaria;
third the assassination of the de-
throned Sultan. The recent assassi-
diplomatists have still further weak
ened the Turk at home, Murad Effendi
is beset with thousandfold difficulties
The following prophecy, which went
the rounds at the time of the Crimean
var, has reappeared. For its antiquity
we do not veuch, but on the contrary
greatly suspect:
In l455, more than four hundred
years ago, the following prophecy was
made:
In twice two hundred years the Bear
The Crescent STALL sssal;
But if the Cock and Bull unite,
The Bear shall not pre-. all.
But look, In twice ten y ars again
Let Islam know and fear
The Gross shall wax, the Crescent wane,
Grow pale and disa pear.
This Cock and Bull story predicted
the Crimean war pretty accurately, if
''Bull' be taken TO mean England. 1t
IS ordinarily represented by the Lion
john Bull is q nickname. The twice
ten years have passed, and the signs
are strong that the Cross shall wax
and the Crescent wane.
The situation is now very much like
that of the Greek revolution half
century ago, except that tie Christian
world is NOW strangely Indifferent to
Christian suffering and heroic strug-
yles fer freedom. It seems strange |
that Christians fighting for religious |
liberty should excite so little interest |
n Christendom. When Greece re-
7olted, FALL the world was with them |
The young patrician poet of England
vent there to strike q blow in behalf
If the Greeks, and he died there in the
wamps of Missolonghi. All the world,
90. was delighted when the Greeks
Won their freedom. Now, almost the
anne races are revolving against the
Turk, and Christian diplomacy is en-
'loyed to prop up his crumbling
hrone, and save his mosques and
eraglios.
But the fires of fanaticism and en-
husiasm outrun the deliberations and
'lottings of diplomacy. The christian
'owers are scheming for worldly ad-
antages; the christian provinces are
n dead earnest, smarting under de
.rading expressions and prosecutions,
nd all afiame with zeal, daring and
The best thing to do
ow is for the great powers TO form a
ing around the battle, and let the
christians ge at the Turks with q viii;
nd let the one that wins have Con-
tantinople.
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30
Haye. GcarS-4p Editors ak
With the warrior During the ar,

General Hayes, We hear, IL an old
acquaintance Of ours. When lie was
taken pr:souer during the battle OF
ChuacellorSviiie, on land of winch We
are par: owner; he WAS sent with the
rest to Guinev's station. We happened
to be hear Guiueys when StonewalI
Jackson was brought to the Louse Ia
which he died, and the officer il
charge OF the prisoners asked us to be
introduced TO General Hayes" who
seemed TO be dreadfally depressed at
his capture-broke down entirely
sometimes, ard, in fact, SIZED tears.
Accordingly We We're pre~ented, and
had considerable talk with him and
his staff in his tent, which may have
served to divert his mind from the s..E-
rowful personal situation. OF course
we could not offer him "the ht spitali-
ties of the occasion" The hospitalities
of the occasion were lithat poor bonn
barded Fredericksburg, itself i'll ruins,
could afford. We tried to talk. On
general topics and partook OF rea-
sonabie refreshn ents presented. We
cannot remember whether he did so
or not.
Our recollection of the Impression
he mnde is that he was d very moder-
ate, commonplace man. aud we ex-
pressed surprise that lie was general.
Ne heard afterwards that he was only
acting brigadier. He IL acting caudl-
date now, but will be defeated, if not
again in November.-Er
crickSJttry Netcs.
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30
JUDO f. FOWLE AND GOVERNOR
VANCE

VANCE.
The Burke Blade says:
I'm marked contrast with the little
emuIations of petty jealousy evinced
Dy s~---o ssf-e- x--l;k;I.:Ana Wa would
commend, if We dare attempt to re-
produce them. the eloquent and mag
nanimous uttersnoes of Judge Fowle
in his speech at the National Hotel in
Raleigh. Judge Fowls said, "diffsr-
ences and coolness had existed between
Governor Vance and himself about
matters of no concern to the public;
but that it was due to the truth of his
tory and but just to Governor Vance
that he should call attention to o
most important event in his admins
tration." Judge Fowle said that when
in early life he read of that guarantee
of personal liberty the writ of habeas
corpus he registered q vow that he
would sustain no ruler who should
suffer that bulwark of freedom TO be
destroyed, and when in time of pro-
found peace Tin the year 1870 he had
seen the chief executive of the State
using armed militia under hireling
commanders to drag our best citizens
from their homes and place them in
foul dungeons, and. when he heard
the humiliating declaration of our
highest court, that its power was
exhausted and it had proven i'm
potent to protect the citizen in
his rights. his mind travelled back
to the stormy days of the war and he
recalled q picture that he would ask
his hearers to look at in happy con-
trast with the other. He said large
number of our citizens had been ar
rested by Confederate officers and dis.
charged from custody under writs of
Aabeas corpus by our judges; and Or
ders had been issued by army officers
to re arrest the same men and compel |
them to do military service. He said
that in that time, when might mads
right and armed men dictated law |
North and South. there was one man |
in power who, even amid the angry
clash of arms. remembered the lessons
of liberty learned from the lips of the
lamented Swain, and knowing the
rights of the people had dared main.
tain them. That man was Zebulon
Baird Vance. In defiance of power,
Gov. Vance published an order COM.
the whole militia force of the
State to resist the arrest or detention
IF any citizen ~ho had been discharg-
ID by the courts. Remembering this,
he speaker thought such q man might
'gain be trusted. We do not pretend
% quote the language or reprodu.se
he sentiments of q speech that would
ave done the author credit in the
United States Senate in its palmiest
lays"
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30

The method of voting in the Demo
cratic National Convention, which
meets at st. Louis to-day, will differ
materially from that of the Republi-
cans at Cincinnati. The Democratic
Convention has fewer members than
that of the Republicans, for tie reason
that the Democrats do not admit dele
gates from the Territories, as was done
at Cincinnati. The only exception to
this rule regarding the Territories will
be Colorado. which will be repre-
sentej at st. Louis, and the reason for
this distinction is that it may be ad-
mitted as a State in time to vote
at the election. Thus the Democratic
Convention will consist of 1913 mem
bers. Its votes, however, will be cast
by States, each State being entitled to
the same number of votes as it has
representatives. and Senators in Con-
gress, instead of double the number.
Thus, while there are 738 members,
the total number of votes that may be
cast in the Convention is only 369,
each delegate having but half vote.
This is the reason why in the reports
of the Democratic Convention we
shall see half votes cast for different
Twothirds of the whole
of votes will be necces essary to
nominate q candidate for President if
the two-thirds rule is not suspended,
and the candidate who gets 246 votes
will he nominated
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30
CIVIL RIGHTS IN EARNEST.
An Episode OF the late Cincinnati
Convention
LFroin The SLLou!s Republican,


[E'rorn The St-Louis Republican,
A tolerably good story OF the late
Cincinnati convention is told at the ex
peuse of Hon: Ben. Loan, the gentle
MIN who was expected to address the
mixed audience assembled at Lncas
market on Monday nigi-t, but who
somehow failed TO appear. 1t appears
that the Missouri delegation to the
convention in which Ben. Loan figured
as. enc of the delegates at large, made
arrangements by telegraph for hotel
accommodations a Cincinnati, engag-
ing rooms at the Keppler house. The
proprietor of the hotel, being a man of
tact and discretion, thought proper to
assign rooms with regard to the emi-
nence Of his expected guests.
d decided that as delegates-at-
large wonld probably be the most
prominent they should be best plo-
viled for. Accordingly. the four
delegates at large from Missouri were
given one large room with two beds IN
1t, one of the beds being apport1Oned
out for Messrs. Van Horn and Fink
ienburg, and the other to Ben Loan
and a Mr.: Smith. When the party
arrived in Cincinnati, however, tie
landlord awoke TO the fact that he had
committed tremendous bluuder.
The distinguished Mr.. Smith who was
to occupy the bed with the distin-
guished Ben. Loan was doubtless a
nice man enough, but he was not of
| the race as his bed-fellow. He was.
in fact. an African. Ben Loan,
though, as proper i'll q republican
Orator, an eloquent advocate of freed
| mems rights, was never in more of a
quandary in his life., He had run up
against the civil rights bill. in all its
| completeness, and the shock was too
| much for him. How the matter was
| compromised is not precisely known,
but nobody in the delegation is ready
| to swear that Hon. Ben Loan aud Mr..
Smith slept together in Cincinnati.
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30
THE FLOOD.

"''''' Bridges and Whole F..,a. .,
wheat Swept Away-Pres.h-
eiO0.dO0 Damages I'm Rurk.
ty-LiVcs saved I'm Canoe.
French Broad.
Never within the memory of ma, h..
tins country been visited bv sn"t
destruction to crops aud prone,t. ~
was caused by the storm and freeho. -
last week, which reached its beioht =.
noon on Saturday. y
From every quarter of the cor,.
comes the same gloomy news of MY
destruction on the low lands of vhas,
corn, oats and rye, and also of bri5oss'
mills and machiD cry on the -,
courses swept away. The nev f,aa
bridge across the Catavbs- At NJ
Dowelrs ford. went off on Fr,,lsx =.
did the one between Icard and I.e..'-
Wilson's mill dam broke On Satn,S"
morning, sweeping down eservtb;ny
before it, including the dam ana IA
house of Charles Sudderth. In e..
the inquiry Eow is "~here can Ne 1..
| meal or four?" s''
A gentleman informed us that h.
saw y. The Catawba river at one point
three mills and two bridges fostns
do"n the stream. At the rsilro.S
bridge, near Catawba Station tha
rlver was two feet higher than evsr
known. So il VAS as far mn "A OIi
Fort. o'o
The weight of the rain storm "a.
west and south of this along the NOM.
| tains- The damage to the Wests,n
Railroad was not SO great as Vas =.
first feared. All the breaks hsv;nc
been repaired already so that trains
run through now as usual.
| Beyond the mountains We hear that
the French Broad was fiye feet higher
than ever before, causing great das-
truction.. No stage has crossed the
mountains for a week, but q lsroa
| force Is working to open the vay. 40
that vehicles will probably pass
through by the tine we 20 TO press
The damage to crops on Lower
creek, Irish creek, LinvIlle. Catavba
south Muddy creek, Silver creek.
Hunting creek, and, indeed, all our
water courses, has been verv serions-
probably exceeding one hundred thou.
sand dollars including mills and other
property.
We have receive no mail from owe,
the ridge, but 1t is reported that
dwelling houses were swept away along
the French Broad, and several lives
would have been lost but for canoes
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30

T From the Golisbono Messenger !

rom lie messenger
We wish to warn our friends in time
that they may give neither aid nor
comfort to the enemy III the spproach-
ing election. The conservative or white
vote of Wayne county last year vss
tie largest ever given IL the county.
while the negro vote hsi :-creased
far beyond reasonable proportions.
considering that the whites are in
majority in the county. Importation
and colonization of negroes did the
work, and defeated Our candidates.
This is the trump card of the
Republican party in all close
couutie.. Colonization defeated US
in the late town election, and the
same fraud will be practiced next No
vember, unless the white people mp
this radical programme in the bud be.
fore it Is too late. Our friends haveH
in their power to do this by refusing
work or shelter TO all negro squstters
who may be imported by these radical
manipu iators, solely for election pur-
poses. Keep a sharp eye on all strange
negroes, and in hiring hands to p'ca
your cotton this fall, hire only such
as you know to be bona Tfde citizens OF
the county. This will in great meaA.
urc upset the present calculations OF
the radical ring. We hope also thai
examples will be made of few OF toe
spurious voters whose names are IN
the hands of the town executive COM
mittee. The July term of the Wsyno
Court is drawing near and the purhy
of the ballot box demands that no len
lao shown fn Illanal ynt4Fs, \
leading republican once high III 'ho
good graces of the party, but. We are
glad to see. now somewhat disgus:ed,
says that colonization of negroes Is
the only hope of the republicans 10.
r.ying this county He says 'hS.
in the last election Taylor EVshs
boarded FIVE of these spurious voters
and that Mai. Grant footed the BILL
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30
LETTER FROM THE CENTENNIAL.
Fro oue Regular Correspondent.

PHILADELPHIA, June 9th.
Extensive preparations for the cele-
ebration on the Fourth of July are
being made throug ghout the city, and
from present prospects, the crowd,
dust and heat will be unparalleled. 1t
has beeL suggested that the President
of the United States shall on that day
fire a Rodman gun with electricity,
and that the gun shall be connected
by wires with all the cannon that will
on that day be fired in the different
cities and town throughout the coun-
try; in this way the same touch will
send the electric fluid to thousand
or fifteen hundred cannon and there
will be one grand simultaneous report.
Another unique suggestion is to have
the initiatory discharge effected
through solar agency. If the day
should be clear, lenses might be ar
ranged 81 as TO ignite the primiug at
noon precisely, and thus the mysteri
Gus force of nature which the last CEN
tury has utilized, would convey to the
nation, Ill al instant, the Intelligence
that the country as represented in
this city Is celebrating the completion
of the first century of American Iude-
pendence.
There has been large-increase in
the numb r of visitors during the past
week, and many think that the long
longed for centennial rush. has at
last set in. The number of paying
visitors that has entered the gates
since May 10th is ABOUT one million,
and the receipts have been nearly
$500, 900. The expenses, however, are
still very heavy. perhaps not less
than ten thousand per day. They will
soon be reduced by the discharge of a
large number Of laborers who are still
in construction aud repairs
within the grounds.
On last Thursday the Singer sewing
machine works at Elizabeth, New
Jersey had a novel advertisement in
the attendance of three Thousand six
hundred and thirfS one G. .63D of their
employees; they came to the exhibition
on four trains; all of them landed from
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30
Keep tho Liver Active.

The above is a sound health maxim la '''
that the functions of digestion, evarusi'h So
secretion shall be discharged with that degree =,
regularity and vigor which is essential TO the ""
being of both body and mind, the h'ef, "
whose activity they are dependent for 'i'''i'
performance, must be kept in good WotAiNs
der. Calomei and blue pills, besides oe'hs ~ -,
fnl mineral drugs, only partially and ten
rectify disorders slugg'shness OF the
bilklry gland. Hos1etfer's Stomach Blu 49,
th,. contrary, accomplish thoroughly "ha'
above. medicines fail i'll doing, and are rns the
SAFE. as we'll ~ potent remedy f"r cisoiu ci .. we'll
stomach boIrls and organs of urlha ~ are,
a. an uuequalled general tnVigorant.
moreover sterling antidOte to maiafIa'
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30
Tie Burke BLGde says:

"We met that distinguished divine,
DIR. Pritchard. OF Raleigh, on the train
last week, and asked his candid opin.-
ion of Mr.. j. @. Scarborough, our can
didate for Superintendent of Public
Instruction. The Doctor says what
ever may have led to his nomination.
a more worthy man could hardly have
been selected by the Democrats. He
says MIR. 8. is graduate of Wake For
est, is a very pious man, a member of
the Baptist church, is O native of
Wake county and educated himself By
his own exertions. He thinks he will
make o most excellent Officer
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30

An order has been issued by Gen
Sherman. providing that the Centen'
nial anniversary of the independence
of the United States will be observed
by the army as follows: At each mill
tary post or camp provided with artil-
cry and ammunition a salute of thirteen
gus will be fired at tue dawI, and
also at the close of the day, and q
national salute will be fired at merid
ian. Post commanders will prescribe
such additional inexpensive observ-
ances, such as parades. DC, as they
may consider appropriate to the occa-
sion. They may also, at their discre-
ton, participate with their commands
in any civic or military ceremonies
taking place in the vicinity of their
posts TO which they may be invited.
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30
/ For President
SAMUEL J. TLDEN
OF NEW YORK
OF NEW YORK.

Aa will be seen by our telegrsphie
columns this morning Governor
Tilden was nominated by the Conven-
ton at ct. Louis yesterday evening on
the second ballot.
That we accept the nomination cor
daily and heartily as eminentiy
| worthy to l,e made in this great crisis
| in American affairs we need not say.
| Like our brethren of the South
generally we had no personal prefer
| ence to crafty, but sought only to
know who was the strongest mar.
The Convention after mature deliber>
alton has spoken and ills verdict is
unmistakable that MIR. I,nDKN is the
/ man for the crisis. This is all We
desired to know.
But in the nomination Of Mr.. TIL
DEN beyond that of any other man who
could be named, there is q significance
that is we'll worthy of note. It means
fight, means business. from the mo-
ment it was made until the sun shall
set on election day. Such campaign
as the candidacy of Mr.. TILDEN
guarantees has never been witnessed
in this or perhaps in any other eoun-
try. We may rely upon it. that all that
skilfui generalsLip. all that thorough
! knowledge of when and how and
where to strike the enemy can accom-
plish. will be done. In the campaign
in which T1LDRN leads the Democracy,
. neither rest nor respite for either
| friend or foe may be exp cted until
our banner shaD be planted on ihe
White House in triumph and acid
the shouts OF victory. A13 that is the
. sort Of man we Ike TO fent under.
3 Especially do We like it when we
70 before the country under a leader
who, of all men in the country, ID the
champion of retrenclment, reform
|, and an economical expenditure OF th'
3 peoples money; under leader whos'
q record defies investigation, every join
in whose personal and political armo
has been often already tried and founl
r perfect. It will be the grandest polit
Q ical campaign ever fought in this coun
try, and that is what we want
Through hard fighting and plenty o
it we shall certainly win the victory
- A bold, vigorous, aggressive campaign
8 is what we nced, aud what We will
have under IILDKN.
We congratulate ourselves and tn
!. party that we have for leader a mai
d who inspires 80 much confidence. TIL
DEN and Victory shall be our watch
word and reply until. the ides of No
vember have come and gone.
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30
The San Francisco m

The San Francisco papers lately
printed q wonderful story, calculated
to illustrate the ubiquity of the live
Yankee. According to this account, q
quondam California. broker. named
Davis, in at the bottom Of all the pre-
sent troubles in Europe. They say he
went to England and formed pool of
"a, ,2OO, 600 worth OF Turkish bonds.
then hied him away to the derze-
govinia and stirred up the insurrection
with o portion of the reserve money.
Bonds fell, and the Californian, who
understood his little game, pockstsd
$35, 600. 600.
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30
Change from Radical TO Deme-
craIIc RuIc-What IL Dad for Ar
kansas.
I From the Timmousvilie News.

From the Eimmonsyille News.
Iwrote not long since to a friend in
Arkansas, asking certain questions con-
cern;ng the change of that State from
republican to democratic rule, aud
received in reply the following: ''In
regard to the clarge IN State govern
ment / am not very well posted.
have paid veiy little attention to poll
ties III Arkansas, but do know few
things. Taxes are not much lower than
they were. The radicals, during their
administration. ran tne State so heavily
in debt that it Will require some time
to get on level again. The expenses
of the government, both State and
C unity, have been greatly reduced 10y
discontinuing "a swarm mf Useless fl
GERS that were stealing tie peoples
money.
The most hraithy feature 1 have no
ticed is the Increase IL I'll" value 0f
State and county scrip This l. d kind
OF money VT have E-Ea fnf paying
taxes, or rstflar i is mainly nse1 for
that purpose. L has been 80 worth
less that no one Uoui / have more :nan
was sufficient to pay his taxes. Uu,ler
rsidic.t, rule it W=at IawB = fifteen
c-ttS for la.sar. L i ioE worth
xiv five CENTS and l. Silt rising !
good GIat-v useless and oT5nres -}y, avs
La e bee. rcpe-:ied. aud good ONES
passed IN theit stead. IiI-rr- HAS betU
no law passed .ppr' S-lv=- To the negro.
or that tends To diminish hi liberty II
the si!gh e-t degree. | iiav" MT herd
OF the least dissatisfaction uu ih.. part
OF th,. negro, AID am snre tnat they
have no rsgtit To comp ali. y chang
OF parties was the ouiy salvation tpr
til. State, AMI don't i.os snch will
BE- the stqreI III South Carolina.
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30

From the Democratic State Platform I
Resolved, That ne earnestly and
cordially recommend the adoption by
the people Of the an,endnl snts to the
Constitution proposed by the conUen-
ton of 1875 and thus largely reduce
the expenditures of oar State and
county governments and simplify their
administration, so that aUe may be
enabled to establish thorough and
enlarged systena of public schools for
the benefit of all the citizens ot the
,(frfe
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30

While the army bill was under dis
cussion on. Monday, MIR. Thurman re-
ferred tOan instance in which o ieuten-
ant was made Q heutenant-colonel and
drew pay for the higher grade, and
there were people in that Senate cham.
ber Who were suspicious enough to
think that Mr.. Thurman referred 10
Fred. Grant. But the Baltimore Ga
zette thinks he could not have had ssthe
colonel" in his mind, for Grsnt would
have drawn pay for both positions.
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30

The total vote in Ohio last fall was
695, 25S. Hayes received 297, ,sl7. AL
len 292, ,273. Odell 2. .593, scattering 16:
votes not cast for Governor ,553; ma
jority OF Hayes over all 381. The vote
OF Perrysburg, which gives q Demo-
cratic majority of about $50, was
thrown out, so that the clear majority
OF Hayes in the State was about $50
votes.
Wilmington journal., 1876-06-30

Capt. T. N. Britton of Georgetown,
8. O., has IN his possession Gen. Ma
rion's sword, on whicn are the initials,
"F. NJ, 1776." It was found on
Shows Island, which is said to have
been Gen. Marion's headquarters dur
ing the revolution.