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Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18

PROMISES PR OssaSES4 = 90 If
RUPTEON! COR KUPTION!
The certificate of principles issued
by the Fifth Avenue Conference. in
May last, declared that "the country
must now have a President whose
name is already a watchword of re-
form-whose capacity and courage for
work are matters of record rather
than of promise. What have we
from the candidate on the Radical
ticket but promises ? What did we
have from the present incumbent
when he was renominated ? All
Or Imises. And what has been the re-
suit !? Corruption in almost evofy
branch of the public service, The
| Presidents Private Secretary impli-
Gated in the whiskey frauds. Belknap
a confessed receiver of bribes, and a
Secretary of the Navy. who hes abused
his official position in favor of con-
tractors What are we to expect from
HAYES, who has endorsed the Grant
administration, accepts the services OF
Chandler to direct his campaign,
and is supported by Morton, Car
penter, Orth, Casey, and those
of the whiskey ring who escaped con-
viction, &C? Mr.. Hayes is praised
for his out-spoken words on the cur
rency question during his campaign
against William Allen, but he conld
Mt muster up a sufficient amount of
courage to condemn the removal OF
Bristow and Yaryan, who were kicked
ont of Office before his letter of accept
ance was written. The $4,000 office
holders were troubling his mind while
he was penning that document. They
are valuable in working the machine,
and he relies upon them for his main
support. Will the man with so little
, stamina be able to withstand the
claims that shall be made upon him by
the manager of the Radical party
Will the man who indorses the admin
istration be able to resist the corrupt
, influences that are sure to be brought
against him by the present party lead
ers? Undoubtedly not. Even if he
had the strength of character necessa
nv for the task he would not
because he has signified his satisfac
t tion with the policy of Grant. and be
lives that Grantism should be perret
, uated. The only way out of this mirs
, is to have complete change. W.
, must vote for q man whose record vii
: insure Reform-whose watch-word Ii
r Reform and whose courage will neve
. fail him.
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18
sS as Soothing. EDPAX aFE EEfE
NA3EDNAE. HEHkEp
The New York Nts1a says

Ille NEW IOfh 4NHR says.
That Gov. Tilden is an able, prac
ticli tinancier, there can be no ques-
ton. In his letter of acceptance he
shows the people how the whole Ma
tinn0l debt can he paid off in the COM
par:ttively short period of tfirty-eight
yea,s, simply by the adoption of a
financial policy which should secure to
the country tile highest credit. By
wisely awaiting ourselves of this, he
estimates that n reduction of one per
cent on the interest OF The loans could
he effected, and this saving, invested
at the low rate OF fOur -and-a-half per
cent. interest, would cancel our entire
national debt III the course of thirty
eight years.
This is no chimera. 1t is no wild,
visionary scheme. 1t is the careful
calculation of a practical business man,
who knows how to put it III operation,
and who will carry it into effect if an
opportunity is afforded him.
we pun IL tp Ihc NotefS Vi bHe codh-
Try, the sensible men, whether this
payment of the national debt is not a
consunlmation devoutly to be wished :?
The heavy burden OF taxation which
rests upon us would at least be re-
moved from the shoulders of our chill
dren.
Tifden, Economy, and the Reduction
of the National Debt-Iet this be the
war cry!
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18
The largest Democratic Convention

The largest Democratic Convention
held in Tennessee for years adjourned
on Thursday last. Gov. Porter was
renominated by exclamation, and ex-
Gov. Isham G. Harris and VIM. B.
Bate were chosen as presidential elec-
tors for the State at large. The plat
form ratifies the action of the st. Louis
Convention, opposes the repudiation
of any obligation justly due the credi>
tors of the State or national govern
ment, and for the present, because
of the business depression, the shrink
age of values and impoverishment of
the people, opposes any increase of
taxation and favors rigid economy.
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18
RADIUCK FOft THEM

The late election in Alabama his
sadly disappointed Radical calcula-
tions. Throughout the State on the
day of election there was not single
fight at the polls. The Montgomery
State Journal, the only organ OF Rad
icalism in that place says the election
there "was as quiet as Sabbath
gathering" and so it was everywhere,
and vet Alabama gave forty thousand
anti Radical majority. It is suscepti~
BILE of proof, We learn from our ex-
changes, that the Louisiana Radical
leaders had digested plan to get up a
fuss in Mobile On election day, an in
tegral part of which was the exporta
ton of two Thousand ruffians from New
Orleans under cover of an Excursion. "
The New Orleans Democrats. however,
gave timely notification of the scheme
to the Mobilians, who ut once prepared
the most complete and prudent ar
rangements to frustrate the bloody
shirt schedule, and so it was given up
as likely to be an Improbable invest
mont.
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18
GRANT AND HIS PATTY.

Ihe Radical party comes before the
country with great flourish of trump
cts, and demands the confidence of the
Ct nfidence of the people becauseit says
it has repudiated Grant. AS a matter of
the statement is the reverse of the
truth. That there is a GOODNESS exist
ing between the Presi lent and the
party which elected him is a fact, The
leaders are desirous that the people
should un 1erstand that the party have
thrown overheard the burden which
was endangering the safety of their
craft. The movement of separation
which they wish rs to believe in. has,
however, been initiated on the other
side. The Radical leaders are as ever
the AFFECT slaves of the President.
The President has kicked them again
and again with ali the vigor which he
conid command They. however. keep
close to HIM. clean his dirty boots, for
which service even he does not thank
them. receive his contemptuOus re-
count. Y to believe that they have cut
loose from him and his transactions.
Actions speak louder than words.
And by what actions have the Radi.
Gals made good their assertions of
having at last released themselves
| from the dominion of Grant ? He has
| insnlted the party aud its leaders by
every means which he could devise.
Every man in office who has been in
strumental in unearthing the frauds
| and yillianies of the administ ration he
has snubbed and sent about his Dusi-
ness. Bristow is out, and his trusted
| agent Yaryan. Custer was first de-
graded and then massacred. Jewell
and New are sent home in disgrace.
Babcock is acquitted through frauds
connived at by the President. Belknap's
resignation is accepted with regret
af er he had confessed himself thief
and a swindler; Packard is sent into
the South to manipulate the election
with the soldiers and bayonets. Out
RACES innumerable not only have been,
but are now being perpetrated by the
President and with his authority.
And where do we find Radical pro-
test? La and out of Congress the rep
resentatives OF the party, by their
silence, acquiesce in all this wanton
abuse of trust. They dare not censure
the agent of the mischief, and the deeds
themselves they cannot denounce. In
the presence of an aroused and indig-
nant people, they now indeed make q
pretense of discarding the author, but
this is done only in order that they
may supply his pla ;e with one who
will be more pliable instrument il
their hands. With Hayes in the place
of Grant, they hope to bs able to carry
on to greater extent, and with more
personal profit and advantage, the
system which Grant has inaugurated
!, Grantism, with all it's deplorable an6
base accessories, is with Hayes to bt
preserved and extended, with moat o.
the present Presidents personal in
terest made over to the party leaders
The great consolation, existing under
these lamentable Gil cumstances. il
that the people are now thoroughly
l alive to the nature of the iniquitou'
, compact that has been made, and art
determined to frustrate it's cOnsumma
J tion by the election of Samuel }
r Tilden.
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18
A KIch MAN of the olden Time

Mr.. T. B. Kingsbury, in an address at
Oxford, N. c., on the 4th of July,
gives the history of Granville county,
and from it we extract what he says
about rich man of that county 115
years ago: a.' ...
81 think it probable that Colonel
William Eaton. who died in 1869 or
176O, was the richest man in the county
at that time. His real estate was
large, and he owned considerable
number of slaves. The number of
horses, hogs and cattle that was ap-
praised and divided would astonish
one of our cotton planters or tobacco
raisers of 1S76-this centennial period.
He had also an immense supply of
household furniture and plantation
implements. But after all, he did not
have any buggy and steam ploighs,
reapers and mowers, Simmons axes,
Ames' spades, Elewell's hoes and sewing
machines. He was behind our timea
by matter of 115 years, but he could
not help it. He was at least up to his
own times, which is something, as may
be seen from the inventory of his
large effects, to be found in the clerks
Office. He bequeathed to his wife 80
slaves, valued at e1 1926 or some 81 $50
of our currency. He made similar be-
quests to his children. This shows
that at that time the average value of
slaves was about $178. Horses were
valued at $40 each. A pair of cart
wheels were worth $16. 4 beds with
furniture brought 936 or some $12O in
currency-an average of $50. Leather
chairs were cheap; ~ of them were
valued at e1. 16s. or Sc in currency
Rum fetched about ST. 35 gallon. II
head of cattle were valued at e5S, or
some $194 in currency-an average of
about So 05 a head. 235 hogs, with
some pigs, number not stated, were
appraised at G45 or some $3.50 in ours
rency, an average of less than 70 cents
a head
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18

The New York Herald states that.
in order to arrive at an adequate con-
ception of the actual extent of the dis
tress now prevailing among the work
ing classes of that city, its reporters
during the past few days made care
full survey of the labor field-both
skilled and unskilled-and by diligent
inquiry among foremen of shops, fac
tories and all places where hands are
employed, and also taking the esti>
mates of the leaders among the work
ing men and women, they have ascer-
tained that full forty thousand persons
are now idle out of the one hundred
thousand persons who are depending
on their daily labor for bread.
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18

1t is rumored that Carl Schurz in,
tends to make bold and vigorous at
tack on President Grant in his first
campaign speech. and that he will be
sustained by leading Republicans who
perceive that Grant is sinking their
ship so rapidly that unloading is i'm
perative. 1t is entirely too late for
Carl Schurz to throw Grant over
board. He can do it with all his elo,
1uence and his party can not do it.
They failed to do it at Cincinnati. and
they will have to carry the burden
they applauded there. The same
forces which worked successfully at
Cincinnati to have Grant endorsed.
hold the fort of Grantism to-day, and
if Schurz attempts to kick against the
pricks he will be pitched overheard
himself. In the meantime Grant
continues vigorously to reform the
party from within"
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18
The Baltimore Gazette SAYS Grant!

The Baltimore Gazette says Grant g
ill-temper since the reading of Tildens'
letter is worse than ever. After Hayes
letter he got on such fearful attack
of nervous depression that Mr.. Fish
had to carry him off to Deer Park for
a change of scene. He had hardly
gotten over those neuralgia when Mr..
Tilden's letter appeared, which is de-
cidedly trough" on him. Now Cover
nor Chamberlain aggravates the case,
and he is furious. Mr.. Hamilton Fish
speaks with bated breath, and the
shins of dear old Judge Taft are black
and blue from the knee pan down.
Even mighty Logan dares not venture
into the august presence. .ae .s...
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18

Washington dispatch says: A
Democratic Senator has received let
ter from a prominent gentleman of
New England, whose reputation is
national, and who is not Democrat,
in which he says that the feeling of
discomfort in the country, and the
pressure of the times is bound to elect
Tilden. One of the smartest Republi-
can politicians of Pennsylvania says
that the miners and the laboring
classes in that STATE are very much
dissatisfied with their condition, which
they Justly attribute to the policy of
the party in power, and for this reason
he feels compelled to put Pennsylvania
in his list of doubtful States. Late
intelligence from Ohio says that the
Germans in that State are rapidly
coming over to the Tilden side, and
that it is confidently believed that
Ohio will be by the side of Indiana in
giving a Democratic victory in Oc-
tober.
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18
THE CROPS.

Our correspondent returned last
night from an extended tour among
the crops, and we make a synopsis of
the result of his observations:
HALIFAX The early planted corn
was somewhat retarded in it's develop
ment by dry spell in ths last half of
July, but the late showers have brought
it out and it is growing and filling
finely. The yonng corn is in splendid
condition. Cotton is not uncommonly
large but growing and boiling we'll
with splendid color, and nothing but
some unlocked for change of the sea-
son can prevent very full crop.
NASH is very much like Halifax
Fruit plentiful, trees loaded with
| apples, and for the first time in three
years there is a promise of plenty of
''Old Nash brandy" Distillation is
about beginning. Peaches in fair
supply.
W1LsoN-The same as Halifax and
Nash; some small sections have been
too dry for corn, but the cotton has
not been retarded in growth. Plenty
Of fruit.
EDGECoMBE-Crop above all average
and looking we'll. Fruit rlenty.
GREENE Fruit plentiful, crop OF
cotton and corn as in the other coun-
ties, and stock of hogs fair.
LENoIR-This county which, accord
ing to the census of 1870, produced
more corn than any other in the State,
bids fair to beat itself. It is an ocean
of corn. Cotton good and growing
| fast.
JoHNsToN-The best cotton crop on
the land which has been grown since
| the war. Corn fine and abundant
| Fruit plentiful. Look out for some
"Old Johnston trandy," too. Rather
short supply of hogs.
WAYNE-Crop in all parts of this
| county fine. The sandhill corn is very
fine. Stock of hogs large. Fruit and
| melons abundant. Cotton growing
nicely and we'll boiled.
Wayne is the only county which we
! saw any signs of rust. It has not taken
hold of the crops but appeared in two
or three localities.
Duplin and Sampson have both fine
crops. Thus in ten counties we have
the promise of the best crop since the
war. And there are many more hogs
in each than at this time last year.
The acorn mast is good, the peas are
good and corn abundant, SO that we
look for much heavier yield of pork
than last season.
Incidentally we may mention that
the farmers are very little in debt for
making the crop. They have econo-
mized ''per force" as the merchants
generally have been unable to credit
them and at the same time maintain
their own credit, owing to the exit eme
scarcity of circulating medium and
the consequent loss of all cash trade
during the summer.
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18
BAD FOR BOUTWELL,.

BOutwell's twisting and writhine
and Davis concerning the Treasury
bookkeeping may be good for Bout
wellism, says the Boston Post, but it
gives no very general satisfaction. He
is personally Interested in keeping
things covered up. That was why,
when the Secretary of the Treasury in
1872, he went down to North Carolina
and over into Ohio and talked viru-
lent party politics from the stump. He
knew that his political life and all the
reputation he had depended on the
successful suppression of the investi-
cation which would follow a party de-
feat. He proceeds in the same wsy
now. Seeing that as surely as Gov.
Tilden is elected President by the
people he will trace fraud through
ever ledger that remains in the
Treasury Department. he gets up
his Mississippi Commission, hires a
professional fire. eater to write up it's
false findings in flaming red ink, and
hurries to publish his dreadful report
to the Senate and the country before
the minority con even have the use of
the body of the eviderce Boutwell,
OF course is in haste, for Tilden is the
sleuth- hound on his track as the keep
er of the peoples accounts. He knows
with what patience and skill and faith
fulness Tilden followed Tweed through
all his windings and doublings by the
bank accounts he kept, after all vouch-
ers had been destroyed, and he has
the best of reasons to fear q similar
result in his own case that shall show
him up as a public book-keeper and
noney-adder in it's true light. There
are good many other bladdery repu-
tations that are to be punctured by
the point of Tilden pen before this
thing is over, Boutwell's case is des
tined to furnish the greatest collapse
for one based on such small capital.
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18

Efficacy ln Pfayer-An 1hSldenL.
On the 10Th instant it was announc-
ed that Eugene III. Crowdus, a student
from Dallas, Texas, was dying. Young
Crowdus had pneumonia, and had
suddenly, after being convalescent,
taken a relapse. He was breathing
with difficulty, in comatose state
his extremities were cold and dark,
Indicating that circulation was di-
minishing. His condition was tele-
graphed to his parents. Young
Crowdus is All Only son of the family,
gentlemanly student, but not a mem
ber of any church. At O'Clock nr.
Bittle called the students of the col
lege to the chapel, announced the con-
diti On of MIR. Crowdus. and asked all
to unite in a prayer meeting for his
restoration to health and to his pa
rents. The Doctor read the first
seven verses of the Goth chapter OF
the Second Book of Kings. The ex-
ercisec we're continued in prayer and
singing for about forty minutes, in
the assembly of the faculty and stu
dents. It was a solemn meeting; all
engaged in the exercises. After the
close of the meeting the JOY full news
was brought to the college that young
Drowdus was getting better; that his
disease took a decided change at the
time of the prayer meeting. The
young man boards in town IN the FAM
lily of one of his physicians, DIR. James
". Shuey. He is now in a hopeful
condition. His parents have just
| arrived, having been on their way
three days and nights, from Dallas,
Texas. On Wednesday evening in the
| chapel service, DIR. Bittle announced
that they would now return thanks to
the Lord fol his mercy in hearing their
prayer. All the students united in
singing the hymn commencing ''There
is fountain filed with blood" and in
a prayer of Thanksgiving to God
RO0nOGke- COlIegid7a.
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18

The New York Tribune, in an arti
Gle on the general reduction of wages
in that city, states that any builder
can employ IS many first-class carpen-
ters as he wants at $l5 per week, and
find them grateful for the chance. The
same may be said of most of the other
trades connected with building. It
adds that there has been no time in
the past fifteen years when building
could he done in New York at so cheap
a rate. and scarcely time in that in
terval when there has been so little of
il doing 'ftf -s '
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18
[FIom the Greensboro Patriot
Obituary Rhymes.

[Touchingly dedicated to Messrs:
Settle and Company by the Tilden and
Vance Club.
''Old Zeb'k'' the cry whereer You 60,
The boy of grit and mettle,
TO spoil the Radio Al parJy's dough,
And settle the hash for Settle. f..
Next Jarvis comes alOng TO fan
Yes. fan him nicely will he
The dust out of tn at other man,
The staggering Major Billy
When Honest Worth walks IN the ring
To meet I'll at Salem squcaer
The kads NAV just begin TO sing
.s. Their faf eWeil song to Wheeler.
Joe En glehard will do the work
In jam up style for tother one
And IN a twinkling he will JERK
The stills from under AlbtrtsOn
Sam Love. one of the mountain tahs,
VIII make them Sc, Hnakts while 10 .4
Shows up the record of the RAIDS
And lays out J0hrIny Reilly ,ss"
When Kenan makes the forward move
The RAIDS may then Just as well
Shut up lhe shop tor Taz Harsrove,
1.Owry-lOVing TaZwell t-s
And Scar borough will close the day
by tiaXing out the pars N,
And h gh upon the shelf will lay
Tho llIOus rantcr, CarFOn-
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18
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Why not fix in the Constitution :

/. The pay of the Legislature.
2. A prohibition of mixed schools.
8. A prohibition of intermarriage
between the races. .t
4. A prohibition of Convention, ex-
cept by vote of the people.
Think of these things, gentlemen,
says the Davidson Record, when you
come to vote on the amendments,
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18

The troops sent from Egypt to the
Sultan have proved almost worthless,
and we're routed in their first conflict
with the Servians. The Egyptian army
is of little account, thongh the Khedive
has spent much money on it, and has
procured American and European Off
GERS to take command of it. A very
large force of it has been engaged
during the past year in Abyssinia, but
it was utterly overthrown there, and
compelled to retreat from the country,
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18
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Miss Melissa Elder was a poor clerk
in hotel dining room in Atchison,
Kansas, and here is the account from
journal of the city of her wonderful
luck: :. .saCa as esz .tsts.e rsss. sss.
A short time ago Melissa Elder fell
heir to e112, 900, 900 sterling, amount
ing to about $500, 600, 600. It seems
that her great-great grandfather on her
mothers side, who was Roman Sem
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18
The Washington correspondents =.

Inc washington correspondent of
the Chicago Times says:
"No one need be surprised 70 hoo,
that Belknap Is appointed To so,"'a
office, as he is received in most f,;ana
iy terms at the White House Th.
other day a gentleman from KeoInl
was here and had some business w;tn
Belknap. After it was copcluded ba
expressed desire to see the Pres;o
dent. 'You do, do you ? said Belknan.
then L will take you up and Introduce
you Beiknap added pleasantly and
with swagger of seeming ieyitv
However, if you so out on the streets
with mo you must expect to be stared
at. L don't mind it, as / am used to
it. The Keokuk man says that the
President received them very cordially
and chatted with Belknap as if with a
tried and trusted friend"