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THK WILMINGTON JOURNAL WILMINGTON, N. 0.. Kill DAY, OCTOBER 9. 1808. FOR PRESIDENT: HORATIO SEYMOUR, OF NEWYOBK. ro n Vice-President tKW. FRANK P, BLAIR, OF MISSOURI. Pennsylvania. It is impossible to over-estimate with what intense eagerness and anxiety the campaign in this great State and the result which will be declared on the 13th is watched by the i aople of tho whole coun try everywhere. Tho Democrats are san- Tvf qiiprs. and to renuer ii iuoic certain are straining every nerve and en ergy. Tho fears of the Radicals are now thoroughly aroused and they are fighting hard. Their bondholders tremble at the 4 t the, neople. and have greas uiuisiug v - out their millions like water. Offi cial influence has not been withheld, and all manner and species of trickery has been resorted to in order that votes may bo obtained. Efforts have been and are Jeing made constantly to colonize vaga bonds in tho State that the great corrup tion party might reap the benefit of their votes. The Soldiers' and Sailors Conven tion in Philadelphia is but one large trick for this end. We hear reports of foreign ers being constantly robbed of their natu ralization papers that they may be de prived of their vote, which almost to a man they intend casting for Seymour and Blair. Every conceivable means which dishonesty suggests is being tried by the Radicals in their trembling fear to carry tho election. And what are the Democrats doing ? Surely one to look at their operations would think that they are far from idle. The very best men of our party have been pushed for ward in the field. Pennsylvania is swarmed with good and prominent Dem crats, eminent and distinguished men, from almost every Eastern and Western State. Gen. Frank P. Blair, of Missouri, Doolittle, of Wisconsin, noffman, of New York, and dozens of others almost equally distin guished, aro there, with hundreds of good orators and honest politicians scattered throughout every county in this groat State. Gen. Blair carries with him tho greatest enthusiasm wherever ho goes, and with that indomitable will for which ho was ever characterized is resolved to work j with might and main and ho is doing it. He recently expressed a determination to work day and night until tho close of the campaign, and has made appointments to speak every day until tho election, or his lungs fail him. Ho is doing untold good, and will reap victory at last. It is openly confessod by tho Radicals, notwithstanding their fraud and trickery, that tho contest will bo close. Never, perhaps, has tho Keystono State witnessed a campaign so warm and hotly contested. Political cxeitcniont runs high, and is at fever heat. Tho magnitudo of tho issues involved on our sido constrain us to put our best men forward and work with en ergy and determination. Fears of loss of power, and the exposure to tho gaze of a wronged and outraged people of their full enormity, corruption, prodigality, waste, recklessuess and ruin, incites tho Radicals with almost tho dying energies of despair to attempt to hide the mangled carcass of our country under the gaudy mantle of success, while beneath its folds they may continue their work of ruin and finish what they have begun. Pennsylvania possesses a strong foreign element which is greatly in our favor. Tho middlo classes, too, long for the suc cess of that party which so befriended them in the p ast, and promises to relieve them of tho enormous, unjust burden of taxation in tho future. The wiles of tho bondholder are no longer potent to en snare them, and they will assert their rights. And what a result it is that thoy aro striving for. A country saved, a cor rupt party destroyed ; the old ship righted, with a statesman at her helm ; one cur rency for all, and a taxation equal and just ; reconstruction upon the basis of fraternal feeling, lovo and harmony, unbacked by bayonets, hampered by no unconstitutional acts ! Let us pray to God that Pennsyl vania will cry aloud with her chole voice for tho accomplishment of these ends. And then God speed the right victory for the bravo ! Organization. Do our friends everywhere appreciate the necessity of more thorough and com plete organization ? Tho first flush of political excitement has caused the A. formation of Clubs in every quarter of the State and in almost every precinct of every county. This is well and we have rejoiced at the ardor thus exhibited. But their ef forts should by no means rest here ; this is but tho commencement of the work that awaits them. Let them strive assiduously to perfect theso organizations make them more thorough, complete and effective; let their operations carry with them a weight of power and influence make them all potent for good and abounding with the discipline of a well-organized army. Each man should constituto himself a commit tee to secure votes, encourage tho timid, strengthen the weak and advance our cause in every conceivable manner, making his Club tho central power to which he shall report and upon which ho may rely for support and assistance. And let us so arrange tho matter that wo may make theso organizations a3 it were perpetual. North Carolina must and will do her part in tho coming election, and wo aro sanguine that her voice will be raised for Seymour and Blair. In tho event of our success it will bo necessary that theso organizations should continue to receive the converts who will come with a mighty xush to shelter themselves beneath our standard, and knowing them to assign them to the places they merit. In case of defeat, which is a possibility far removed, it is doubly necessary that they should continue, men we will need all their But in tbo campaign before U8 worK, work awaits us, and it must be work 6tren- nous, untiriDg, unceasing, organized ana united action telling of a strength of uni ty and organization which defies defeat and in prospective erects the standard of suc cess upon the height of a people's joy. CARPET-BAGGER DEFIWKD. He has an apathy for all morality ; a ken relish for all indecency ; dreams destruc tion of all law and order. He is crael, tumultuous, loves hatred, and runs at you like a bristled hog. lie is aDnorrea as a pilfering, wakeful midnight foe. tie is a subtle dog, and snuffs office and money from afar, from his shanty home in the North. He is the caviler ol all decency, the fellest of the fell, a speckled beast, a vpJninc cur. a catamount in wait for ms J X o - - victim. The meanest of the mean and vilest of the vile. Misery slowly walks be- hind him, for he steals everything before him. He is contamination, base, and it gives us a nc 01 nausea io sptju. ui uim. Ho is a trashy, cankered, skulking boor. He will receive his meed in hisses. Ho is a mongrel by day, by night a screech-owl. He has no shame. He has no hope ; no friends but those of Darkness. He stands on tho high platform of scorn and con tempt. He loves nothing pure or sacred. He is cunning and accurst. He is all-devouring, a leech, a tartar, malignant, as the adder he distils his deadly veuom. Ho belies, is dishonest, a villain shunned, ob- 1- TT. 1 " . senre, malicious, ne uiues ms rtiveuu. Ho takes it with- a smile. He gives the amen to an trutu. ijove ana cunriiy ny from him. A coward, fame spurns him. Money lends him insolence and puts him in the Senate. Ho is a cheat, a tittle-tat tle fellow. He is a serpent amid flowers. Vicious, false, vain, degrading. His lust for plunder is rabid. He knows no chasti ty, an outcast of all virtue, ne came here to suck tho life-blood of tho people ; to op press them ; to overturn society and plant npon its ruins the Moloch-flag of his party. Memory finds no pleasure that ho has not clouded and rendered painful. An up start in greatness ; an iinp in vice. Tuned with no conscience ; thrilled with no noble impulse ; incapable of an honorable deed. Audacious in ignorance, he puts himself up for tho first offices of State. An ugly oad that hops out from its dirty haunt to i bestrew the public walks of honest men. A drain on tho exchequer, for ho steals every dollar ho lays his hand upon. A direful hantom, for ho is ubiquitous. Ho is des perate, but ho stings not. Ho barks, but ho bites not. Ho haDgs his head and looks liko a thief, " Ailccta the fool, and is what he ailccta," when he passes the decent, honest and ro fined. Dirty and greasy in shape. An unwieldy foul pollution. A buzzard foul, but no fowl. Churlish puppet ; a flambeau among tho low ; quick to revolution, slow to peace. Desolation watches his beck. Crime awaits his command. Murder sits falcon-like upon his hand. His breath gangrenes tho cheek it touches. Tho dirt of his shoes is a germ for tho direst epi demic. Innocenco flies from him. A man shakes at him a clenched hand, scowls upon him, and makes him take another road. Ho sneaks in at the window to danco with the Ethiop-cook. Tho rose withers when he is near virtue pales. Born vulgar, he has como here, assisted by Federal bayonets, to set himself up as our master, to govern peers. Ho was a copper head at home, a Democrat, a Republican ; hero a Radical, a base, debasing carpet- Rocked in the cradlo of filth ; schooled in the dogmas of the Enemy ; ex perienced in the bar-room, the brothel, and the gambling den, ho comes here to insult the holy innocence of our women, to make gentlemen feel, if he could, the degradation set over them. He challenges the corrupt of earth to beat him in tho chase of fleeing Mercy Mercy saw him Mercy screamed and fled. Ho is a physic the wretched feel, and feel when it is too late. Trembling, and in agony, they writhe beneath his weight. The poor man is made poorer ; the sick sicker ; the lowly lower. On the liberal bounty of charity he pours tho oil of vitriol. He is ginger bread to tho tcoolt few who peck, and cat, and die. Ho is tho counterfeit of human ity, a fraud upon society. He is a fox, and it is hard to find him out. Ho kept a low gin-shop and stew-house in Ohio in New Jersey ho was a clerk for an embezzling auction-gang in New Hampshire a travel ing mendicant, extortioner and driveller in Massachusetts an impostor, a mounte bank, and a preacher of the iniquity of the Father of Lies in the West an itinerant peddler of obscene books and papers of the blackest impudicity in the East a foot-pad everywhere the scruff and the scab of the lowest of the race of Adam. Nature made one monster, and then broke the mould that monster is the CARPET BAGGER. Grand Mass Meet ins in Anaon. The citizens of Anson county will hold a Grand Mass Meeting at Lilesville on Wed nesday and Thursday, the 28th and 29th instant. Preparations have been and are being made for a grand affair, and there is no doubt but that it will be an occasion long to be remembered. A number of speakers aro invited. Gov. Vance has promised to bo there, and invitations have been extended to Judge Meares, Cols. Cow an, Waddell, Strange and Maj. Engelhard of this city. Some of these gentlemen have already expressed a determination to Tlie Public Debt. The lato disclosures of the debt of tho country by Mr. Delmar has created no lit tle flutter amongst the Radicals, and they aro squirming to no littlo extent, through out tho Union, on account of them. We propose to keep our readers posted in these matters, and consequently publish to-day, from tho National Intelligencer, a startling article on this subject. Tho TAX PAYERS, the Toilers, the Laborers, the Hard-Working Man, the millions of CON SUMERS, who PAY the TAXES of the country, should read and ponder veil these developments. They are truly astounding. Ztenc ' tmem FAYETTE VILLI! CORRESPONDENCE. Fayette ville, Oct. 5, 18GS. Editors Journal : A comparison of the present days of Fayetteville with its past of real thrift and solid prosperity, cannot fail to fill with serious and even mournful reflec tions the mind of him who may ponder upon the history of the good old town, cherishing her with love and affection. Never, in Yankee parlance, a " go-a-head " place, she was formerly full of comfort and substance, and, like some old brown stone homestead, while surrounded by i.n air of quiet and tranquility, was strong ani sturdy in her foundations, and "of many years of usefulness. Now, while her streets yet re sound with noise and din, and her business places are open and astir, I much fear that it is rather the bustle of anxiety and un rest than the impetus given by money making and the advancement of a proiitable business. The great inland trade, which, counting its transports by scores and hun dreds of oanvass-topped wagons, used to wear deep the great high road over Hay mount into Fayetteville, from the counties of Moore, Richmond, Montgomery, Ran dolph, Guilford, Davidson, Stokes, Surrey and all the Valley of the Yadkin, which brought to us the great stores of the earth, and carried from our market the commodi ties of our commerce, which came with the crack of whips and the music of bells, has been drawn from us by the lines of railroad which do so encompass us about. All save one of tho factories which did their ap pointed task day by day, with the hum of looms, the whir of machinery, and the in dustrious hands of hundreds of operative?, were offending tho sight of the invader in his march of ruin and devastation, and buried their life and activity and energy in ashes and crumbling walls. But while I am not unwilling, as a citi zen, to look fairly and squarely at the changed condition of Fayetteville, I by no means desire to dampen hope and cheer for the future. With the settlement of politi cal difficulties we have much that ii en couraging to anticipate ; with our unsur passed water power there is no reason why well applied capital may not rebuild upon those charred sites even more useful and extensive factories and foundries ; by the untiring and well directed energy of the people, there is no reason why one or two great lines of railroad, through tho most fertile and productive portion of the State, with Fayetteville as the depot, may not bo planned aud rapidly built ; and, certainly, with this start, which our natural advantages may well claim, this town may aspire to be four times what it ever was. True, alas ! very many of our old and venerated citizens, who participated in the bygone palmy days of tho place, will not be here to share in tho mellow hours cf its ripo and peaceful old age. Sinco the storm of war first camo upon us, and tho gloom of a people's great calamity shrouded in darkness the light of home happiness on its. thresholds, and placed tho stamp of ruin on its counting houses and ware-rooms, many whose names were names of integrity and honor, "Cracked their noblo hearts" over this great trouble not less surely than their brave sons who fell under tho cannon, and they rest in their tombs even in the roach of those who toll after them, whose voices aro not yet hushed. What reck they now of mart, or mammon, or any mortal thing? Our Superior Court Clerk (not to out rage the very manes of the dead by too sud den a transition from the cherished and revered to the villainous and contemptible) remains about whero ho was when I left him on your hands last week. (Is that a " bull " or not ?) Although he has not yet been qualified, he is still unaccountably al lowed to fill tho office and to receivo the moneys appertaining thereto by what pro cess cf legal reasoning on tho part of the Judge of this District, I confess I do not know. However, he may well say of the indulgent shaper of hi3 present destinies, A Daniel come to Judgment," by whose decision I " put money in my pursfe." O. H. Dockery put his uamo to Callahan's bond and made affidavit that he was worth so much property. Tho Board of Commis sioners summoned witnesses on this point, and here's the "sum" worked out on either side. Dockery's statement : Plus $10,000. Testimony of Witnesses : Minus 820,000. And there are some gentlemen here, who, if examined, would show tho Colonel's in solvency to be still greater, but the Commis sioners refuse to issue subpoenas I In dropping this dirty subject, I venture to express the hcje, but by no means the be lief, that this Clerk 'elect ' (Oh Lord !) will hereafter bo grateful for the benevolence and charitable zeal with which certain of our own people have leaped to his aid, and, thrusting him into tho coveted office, have closed the door and held him there. One of the heaviest rains has fallen here since Saturday evening that has been ex perienced in this section for a long time. I am certain that it has been pretty gener al, and as it has continued to come down pretty steadily for about thirty-six hours, I am anxious about the fate of your people at the other end of the river. It could not affect the Atlantic ocean much, except to improvo the taste of the water, but its sudden onslaught upon a email place like Wilmington might be very destructive. I suppose this freshet will not do much in jury to the crops, owing to the lateness of the season, and I think it will preclude the danger of low water in Cape Fear until the Fall rains come on. I am glad to see that merchants hero evi dently anticipate considerable Fail trade in dry goods especially. Large stocks have been brought out, and several of our stores will compare favorably even with those of your showy little city, such as those of the Messrs. Lilly, Kyle and J. A. Pember ton. Tho last named has fitted up and stocked a handsome staple and fancy dry goods store on Person street, and as ho is a skillful and experienced business man, having carried on the same branch of trade for many years here, and is unanimously voted by tho ladies to have faultless taste in his selections, and is, moreover, known to be a "clever fellow," full of affability and bonliommie, I predict that this estab lishment will bo a popular and flourishing one. A new banking houso has been es tablished here, which will divide the bal ance of commercial and monetary power with that already successfully in operation, P. A. Wiley & Co., good business men and high-toned gentlemen. The new house bears tho name of A. W. Steel (one of our prominent merchants) Sc Co., and has for its Cashier a man whose name (liko that of W.G. Broadfoot, Esq., in Wiley's house), is familiar in the annals of Fayetteville banking John W. Sandford, Esq. I doubt not that plenty of business will be found for both firms. Delta. The Hexdeeson Index has commenced its semi-weekly issue. It is a spirited and true paper, and wo wish our excellent friend Furnan all imaginable success. " Gov. " nolden has notified tho Sheriff of this county to cause an election to be held in New Hanover on the 3d of November next, for the purpose of choosing a member of the House of Representatives of North Carolina, to fill the place of Joseph C. Abbott, resigned. Mr. Abbott, as is well known, is the carpet-bag Senator from this Stato in the United States Senate, having been elected to that position by the late " Loil " Legislature. From the National Intelligencer, 5th inst. PUBLIC DEBT RAPIDLY INCREAS1N(J--IF RADICAL RULE CONTINUES NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY IS INEVITABLE ! The table which we publish to-day is a transcript from the books of the Treasury. It is authentic and accurate. It contains no conjectures or estimates, but only re corded facts. From this table it appears that the debt on the 31st of August last was greater, by over one hundred and sixty-eight millions, $108,659,236, than on the 1st of April, 1865, a few days before the close of the war, the subsequent rate of increase exceeding four millions of dollars "a month, or nearly fifty millions of dollars a year. But there are results still more alarmiog. Tho debt is greater by over thirty-five millions of dollars than it was on the 1st of May last, $35,085,4S6. On this basis the yearly rate of increase of the debt would be over one hundred and five millions of dollars, $105,256,458. If to this annual rate of increase we add interest at the rate of six per cent, a year, compounded annually for twenty years, me debt, instead of being paid, would be more than doubled and would largely exceed five thousand millions of dollars. Now, let us look at the monthly in crease of the debt for the last four months. This increase was at a rate largely exceed ing eight millions of dollars a month, ($8,- r"7i oti l i. i.i : ii ii. i u,'ju,) uut tut? jiiurtjasti m me moniu oi August last over twelve millions of dollars, ($12,079,832,) being a rate of increase largely exceeding one hundred and forty four millions a year. $111,958,981. It must bo remembered, also, that this last increase of debt is daring the great ' quarter when tho average rate of revenue from imports exceeds about one-third the rate for the fiscal year. Suppose the debt to increase at the rate of one hundred and j forty-five millions of dollars, adding to this interest compounded at the rate of six per cent, per annum, and tho debt would be doubled in about fourteen years, long before which wo would havo passed into bankruptcy. Indeed, from the intolerable burden of taxation, arising from such an annual increase of the debt, we should reach national bankruptcy in tho Congres sional elections of 1870. And yet it is the lladieal party which accuses its opponents of repudiation, whilst its own course of enormous war expenditures in time of peace makes national bankruptcy inevitable. ludeed, it is ouly a vast decrease of taxa tion and expenditures which can save us from tho disaster. But this reduction can never come from tho Badical party, which insists ou tho continuance of a large stand ing army, to subject tho whites of tho South, by force, to negro governments and negro supremacy. Wo havo seen the rapid increase of the public debt, not only since the peace, but within tho last four months. But this ta ble exhibits a still more alarming fact. It is, that while the debt bearing interest in currencv had decreased on the 31st August last $021), 040, 728 from the 31st March, 1805 the debt bearing interest in coin hud nearly doubled, having iuc.vused on the 31st' August last uoarly ouo thousand millions of i nonars $998,130,508 siuce the 31st March, 18G5. Thus, on tho 30th April, 18G5, the annual interest paya ble in coin was only $G3,978,412, whilston the 31st August last this annual coin inter est had reached $123,573,621, the increase of annual coin interest being nearly sixty millions of dollars. $59,595,209; or, converting this sum into currency of that date, $87,009,006, Now, the total annual interest in coin and currency, a3 shown by the table, was $102,836,531, on 31st March, 1SG5, aud 127,948,011 on tho 31st of August last, showing an in crease in the annual interest, payable in coin and currency, on the 31st of August last, of $25,H2,0SO. But this, as shown by the table, is not the only real increase. Thus we have seen that, whilst on the 30th of April, 1SG5, tho annual currency interest was $55,127,930 it had fallen on the 31sS of August last to $4,374,990, whilst the annual coin interest had increased nearly sixty millions of dol lars. The account would then stand thus : On tbo 30th April, 18G5 Coin interest converted into currency. $0.J,408,4S1 Currency interest at tiiat dato 45,127,1136 Total annual interest in enrrrency. $133,730,417 On tbo 31st August, 18C8 Coin interest converted into currency. $180,417,980 Actual currency interest 4,374,9'JO Currency interest 31st August, 1808. .$184,792,970 Currency interest after tho close of the war, 30th April. 1865 138,730,417 Increased interest, 81st August,18G3. $40,050,559 Thus we see that since the close of the war 30th April, 18G5, the annual interest of the public debt has increased upwards of forty-six millions of dollars. This in creased annual interest would represent a principal sum exceeding seven hundred and fifty millions of dollars. We repeat, then, it is clear that the Rad ical policy renders national bankruptcy in evitable. That policy regards the rebellion as unsubdued, the States as conquered pro vinces, still ready for war, and the whites to be kept in subjection by negro govern ments, sustained by standing armies cost ing moro every year than that of France or England, and with much heavier taxa tion. Tho Democratic party propose a different policy. It regards secession and slavery as forever settled by the war, and by tho subsequent action of the Southern States in Constitutional Convention as sembled. It would repeal tho Freedmen's Bureau, disband the standing army, re duce it to a peace establishment, and leave the Southern States to govern themselves in subordination to tho Federal Constitu tion. It is clear, then, that the expenditures can only be reduced by a change of men and measures, and that chango can only come from tho overthrow of tho Radical party and policy. For throe years and a half not a Confederate soldier has been in the field, nor an arm raised against the Federal Government, yet the Radical party during all this period has given us war measures and war expenditures. They have given us standing armies, military governments, and war expenditures ; they are rapidly increasing the public debt, and if continued in power must choose between augmented taxation or national bank ruptcy. Tho people may still savo the country by a change of rulers and policy, bat after the election it will be too late. JE? Attention is called to an article on this page, from the National Intelligen cer ; relative to the Bankruptcy of the'Gov ernment, &c, based upon the report of Mr. Delmar, who has lately exposed the oper ations and financial condition of the Government, or more properly speak ing, the rascality of Congress.' Mr. D.'s report created no little excitement amongst the Radicals, and a counter state ment was endeavored to be procured from the Treasury department, in order to do away with the effect the report of Mr. Del mar had produced, but it will be seen from the following article, which we copy from the Intelligencer of the 3rd instant, that Mr. Delmar's statements have been fully sus tained. Truly are we plunging deeper and deeper into ruin, day by day. Read and Ponder. From the National Intelligencer, 3d inst. $39,500,000 Figures do not Lie Mr Del mar Suj.ta.ined Expenditure in. Septem ber. Twenty-eigHt and a. limir Millions, Kxcluslve of Interest on Public Debt. Wo are enabled to state, upon reliable official authority, that the expenditures last month were $28,485,000. There was' no interest to pay last month on-the public debt. Nothing for "Alaska." Army transportation, of course, formed a large part, but it will be much heavier when tho winter season sets in. Tho average monthly interest upon the national debt is about $11,000,000. Add this to the above sum of current expendi tures 28,500,000 and wo have near $40. 000,000 as the expenditure that falls upon September. This sum, multiplied by the number of months in the year, gives 480, 000,000, about the sum estimated by Mr. Delmar. The average for the last three years has been $400,000,000. And yet Congress denies payment to public credi tors, and refuses to make proper appro priations for many of the ordinary objects of legislation. Principal and interest on the public debt are thus forcibly kept be low their natural figures. From the National Intelligencer, 1st inst. BANKRUPTCY OF THE GOVERNMENT. A DEFICIT OF $154,000,000. I'l'BMC CUKMTOKS NOT IAIO. $8,000,000 Given to Manufacturers. HIE PUBLIC DEBT INCREASING! Average Vcarly Kxpetialturcs SI 60,000.000. A man, bo he in official position or out of it, must be nearly demented who counts upon such stupidity on the part of the poe pleas that they can be matleto believe that the public debt v. ill not necessarily increase rhen Congress, upon menace of tho man ufacturers, exempted their products and property 80,000,000 from the working of the internal tax law. It ia true, Congress, to keep down the public debt, in hopo to hide its corrupt atrocities, has denied jnstico for years to public creditors, and has persistently ro fused appropriations for necessary public purposes. Yet tho debt has steadily in creased, and must continue to augment when Congress shall manfully do its whole duty to the country, and when, also, the Ireasuvy Department shall pretermit its policy of withholding every dollar in pub lic or private expendituro that it possibly can. A Mr. A Veils, who.s. duly is simply to go about tho country and observe practically tho working of the excise acts, and report to the Secretary ot tho Treasury what ar ticles may bear greater or less taxation, aud at the eamu time enhanca revenue, has adventured into waters beyond his depth, and utterly unknown to him, when treating of the great subject matter of Mr. Delmar'a report. This simply because he has neither the ability to treat upon sub jects that engaged such master minds as a Hamilton, a Woodbury, a AValker, and a Chase ; nor do his duties lie in that direc tion, lie has no authority to examine the records. It is otherwise with Mr. Delmar, who, as the head of the Bureau of Statis tics, hci3 full access to tho records of all the proper offices of tho Treasury, or other departments of the Government. As to hi3 capability for the discharge of tho proper duties of his office, we have the fact of his incumbency of tho position upon tho best possible credentials ; and upon the fact of the application to him for the infor mation given in his late report, by men of the highest commercial repute in the great central city of the continent. AVo have also the fact of his capability in the report itself, which, however it may vary imma terially in form from the manner which other officials may treat tho subject, bears that internal evidence as to its verity which the best intelligence on the subject, official or otherwise, must and does recognize. Moreover, Mr. Delmar has not done all this work with his own hand. Liko all other offices in the Government, there is in his bureau a large number of superior clerks, of approximate ability to tho Com missioner himself. The report is tho work of all these hands. Nor docs it lio in the power of Secretary McCulloch himself, nor any other official, to deny the general ao enracy of this report, without long and ex hausting labor to test its statements. The tedious work for months of a body of su perior clerks cannot be upset in a day by tho ipse dixit of any inflated Spinner, cr any other official or officials, whether their duties lio in the same direction of those of Mr. Delmar and his corps of clerks, or not. Moreover, it is of little use for the lladi cal demagogues and tricksters to insult the public with the idea that the debt can be long kept down by Congressional or de partment artifice and wrong, when such a really great mind as that of Thaddeus Ste vens has always admitted that it, whether acknowledged or not as yet, is really $5, 000,000,000. Especially is it at tho extreme of insolence for persons to thrust into tho faco of tho people the idea that tho debt does not necessarily increase when the means of the Government are taken away to the tune of $100,000,000, more or less, for tho benefit of manufacturers, as estimated by Secretary McCulloch. As well may a robber insist that you have money after ho has stealthily purloined your purse. As to Mr. Wells, whoso work on tho sub ject of tho finances was largely made up with extracts, without credit, from writings of Hon. Robert J. Walker, he has neither tho ability nor means to write with sense on the subject. In the regard of accuracy or ability to treat the subject with intelli gence, ho is an utter impostor. It should be remembered, too, that there aro capablo men connected with journals in the large cities, who give tho subject of finances tho devoted days of tho best por tions of their lives. These agree in sub stance with Mr. Delmar, as follows : From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce. "It ia curiong to aee tho equirming of the par tisan papers at the expose mado by Mr. Delmar of the condition of the Treasury. The director of this bureau was appointed as an ardent Republi can. IIo has been quoted approvingly by all tho party papers as long as hia figures met the wishes of the party leaders. But tne condition of the Treasury is now uninviting. When Congress, for partisan purposes, loofc off the tax which had been leviod upon certain domestic manufactures, thus reducing the revenue in that item nearly one hundred millions per annum, we showed plainly that this legislation began entirely at the wrong end. To reduce the revenue without cutting down expenses was to render tho Treasury Lank rapt. Besides, it these many millions could bo spared annually, the burden might better havo been lifted from other shoulders. 4 "In spite of our remonstrances, and in face of reason and common sense, the majority persisted and the measure was adopted. We then sought to have a corresponding reduction made in the disbursements; and here, too, wo failed. The dominant party were determined to tako advan tage of the game they were playing. The reduc tion of taxeB would be a popular plea. If they should be elected they would have profitted by the movement, and could again increase the bur den. If they should be defeated, they would still profit by it, as they could throw on the new ad ministration tho odium of such increase, and thus improve their own chances for a return to power. The Democrats ft-ll into the trap, and made a feeble and irregular opposition to the pro ject. "It is not Mr. Delmar who now first points out the prospective deficiency resulting from this reckless legislation. We bav? kept it constantly before our readers. Mr. Delmar is to leave his post in January. Whether he has made his fig ures, as the party papers assert, in revenge for being legislated out of his office, or because lie can now afford to speak tho whole truth, we do not undertake to eay. But tho fact that there is staring us directly iu tho face a great deficiency in the national revenue, bo that no total of esti mated receipts can bo made sufficient to meet es timated expenses for the current year, is undeni able, and cannot be set aeido with a sneer. It may be unpleasant to those in power to heer much about it before election, but if it is the truth why should it be kept back from tho people? " Special Dispatch to tho New York World. PENNSYLVANIA AND OHIO, SENATOR DOOLITTLE ADDRESSES A MONSTEK MASS MEETING AT READING. Reading, Penn., October 1. Probably i.u no State of the Union aro the Republi cans so extremely dissatisfied with both the Radical nominations and platform as in the "Old Keystone. In our city we can count converts to Democracy by scores, and at the meeting this evening, Senator Doolittle spoke to an audience, fully one half of whom were Republicans up to a few months since. Tho able speaker made an effectivo address, fully convincing every one present of tho extreme danger tho Re public is in, and the necessity of Giant's defeat in .November. MAYOR HOFFMAN ADDRESSES THE I'EOrLE OF riTTSDURG. Pittsburg, Penn., October, 1. Mayor ! Hofi'man airived this morning, and was escorted to the St. Charles Hotel by an en thusiastic crowd. He was called on during tho day by prominent men of both parties. He made a speech to-night from the foot of Fifth avenue to an assemblage estimated to number 10,000. He said he once felt doubts of Pennsylvania, but since he crossed the borders of the State he was as sured it would go Democratic by an im mense majority. He spoke an hour and a half in the rain. He said ho had no objec tion to any rain but Radical reign. He was followed by Mr. Eldridge, of AViscon sin, in an eloquent address of an hour's du ration, which was enthusiastically received by the crowd standing in tho rain. Great preparations are being mado to receive Pendleton. There will be a great conven tion on Monday next, judging from the demonstrations made this week. Tho Re publican voto in Alleghany county will be wonderfully decreased at tho November election. A MONSTER DEMONSTRATION. Eastox, September 30. Without excep tion, tho largest aud most imposing politi cal demonstration that ever was held in Eastern Pennsylvania took place in this town last evening, under tho auspices of the Central Democratic Club, and crowds of Democratic people camo from all parts of the surrounding country. There were at least ten thousand men on horseback in procession, and five thousand on foot, with a dozen bands and drum corps, hundreds of banners and transparencies, a cannon and a huge bell on a platform, ringing out tho death knell of Radicalism. Thero was also a Freedmen's Bureau erected on wheels, with a dozen lazy negroes lounging around, followed by a delegation of carpet baggers dressed in true Yankee style. Part of tho procession, which was at least two miles in length, consisted of thirty-seven young ladies, each with a flag in her hand. Hon. Montgomery ,Blair and Gen. W.W. H. Davis addressed at least two thousand peo ple while the procession was moving. The parade did not end until twelve o'clock at night. Tho meeting had a fine effect, and will show its good results in October and November in tho largest Democratic ma jority this old county has ever given. AVo shall give three thousand five hundred ma jority in Northampton a gain of five hun dred on last year. In the adjoining county cf Carbon eeven hundred Democrats havo been naturalized more than our entire majority last year. The Democrats aro satisfied that they will carry the Stato by from fifteen to twenty thousand majority. IMMENSE MEETING AT ZANESVILIiE, OHIO. Zanesvtlee, September 28. The largest hall meeting ever held in this city has just adjourned. The meeting was called by the Democratic Central committee, to bo ad dressed by Gen. Morgan. At an early hour the crowd began to assemble in the hall. By 7 o'clock the hall was filled to overflowing. The meeting was opened by calling Col. AVilliam Ball to tho chair, after which a capital song was sung by Mr. Streets, a prominent Democrat of this city. Tho general was then introduced and mado a telling and effectivo speech of over two hours in length. Ho was frequently in terrupted by the wildest enthusiasm during tho delivery of his speech. Hon. Henry Stanbery, who had unex pectedly arrived in the city, entered the hall, when the entire audience arose to their feet, and gave vent to the most un bounded enthusiasm. The cheering con tinued full ten minutes, every man endeav oring to cheer louder than his neighbor. After the conclusion of the general's speech, Mr. Stanbery was introduced, and delivered a speech some twenty or thirty minutes in length, during which he was frequently interrupted by tremendous cheering. Put another feather in the Dem ocratic cap for Muskingum, and mark it six hundred majority for Seymour, Blair and General Morgan. Col. A. A. McKoy. A subscriber desires to know who Col. A. A. McKoy, the Democratio Congres sional nominee in tho Second District, is. It is hardly necessary to inform tho read ers of tho Plaindealer that our corres pondent is a " tural " rural individual, for every North Carolinian out of the icoodshas heard of tho gallant Colonel. I Wo will tell him : He is a well-known lawyer of Clinton. Sampson connty, who has won as many laurels in tho lino of his profession as any man of his ago in tho State, ne is thick-set and well put together about forty years of age, and married ; stands 5:0 in his boots, and pulls down 180 pounds avoirdupois. Tho map of Scotland and Ireland is on his face a similo designed to show that hia physiognomical traits un mistakably stamp him as a Scotch-Irishman that is to say, about one-half of him is Celt, tho balance Covenanter, and the latter half not the least fallen from grace. Ho is, politically, an uncompromising Democrat of the Jefferson- Jackson-Calhoun school ; but being genial and generous to a fault, and, withal, a Good Samaritan, his heart is ever open to the needy and distressed among all parties. Popular feeling always pointing to him as the leader of his party in his county, he has been chosen time and again to represent Sampson in the General Assembly ; he was a member of the State Convention of 1805, and will figure conspicuously in tho next Congress. Wilson Flaindeater. COMMUNICATED.) The C atholic Council ol 1MV. The European papers havo latoly been rii, speculations as to the character ana pun,'"1 tho General Council of the Catholic Church T 'f assembled next year in Kme. From cxj.iau' ' ' by authority it would appear that the Coiinp not convokad for tho Bame purpoao as itrt ' 1,1 ceesora, viz: the deciding of dogmas, or v, nation of falae doctrines. Its object iH) iQ first place, to concentrato tho immense r ' power of the Church in ono solemn iro' ' against the unchristian legielation of ma,,v 1 ernmenta of tho civilized and Chrilig,u v, '. '" iiveu m okaiua mat proictss 10 uo Catholic law not unlrequently overrides and aCf, -I only the discipline but tho doctrin e.-). t. 0. c.t ., Church. Thus, for cxamnk li l.,f. , , .VlJiUJT j the holy, indissoluble naturo of tho marria-o is ignored or explicitly disavowed in tho c0?l, ' ", all Catholic European government!, except ia n Papal States. Perhaps all our read: rs may ti," awaro that South Carolina, while h!.o w-L o ereign Commonwealth, alone amongst her States, maintained in her laws, and ( nforcc-d ' pains and penalties, this same pri.i:h,;u Uf (1 unity and perpetuity ot the marriage Um. It is not unlikely that, in view of tin.) riVj,.. stato of modern society, tho expediency of tn. vL ing all connexion between Church and stit will bo maturely weighed in tho Council. T,': ing men begin to say, that tho Church teorna ", lose everything and gain nothing, by her 'lo, dence on the State. It pensions her Blmp.-' '''. claims the right to appoint them; it denW t;.. expenses of her solemn pngant-, but trim,:, . on her laws and discipline. A?y motion t lr, , the Church from State trammels Mill, .iml.l,J. receive tho warmest support from the Ui-ho, this country, and of Canada, Great J'.iitah ;it,J her dependencies. Another practical question may bo raised :is ; the election, nationality and real. nice (' i;f Pope ia future. As his independence is e.-.( :,t, r iu order that his laws or decisions may i,, ,, spected by thoso who acknowledge hi jmi.-,,! . tion, the best means of eecuringit will prjbil.;-, come up for discussion. The I'opo raiut in; op of Home; but it is not nccearv that i, should bo an Italian by birth, nor a r .'di.h nt Italy. There havo been already held eighteen c, ::oi.i: Councils of tho Catholic Church. Tho lir-, -1 , t. of Nice, in tho year 323; tho lS:h at'lVo.jt, h r,;-, The lirst eight Council- assembled in .!!. i; cities ; but since then thoy havo been held in th, West, mostly in Italy, but soma in Frar.-! h:; : Switzerland, as those of Ly;m, Vionne and (' . ,. stance. The authority of CoutciJa is not dtermined i the number of Eishops rho may Le prt-si-nt. Sometimes they aro lew, sometimes muny, v,L , take part in the deliberations. Tho lir.-t cil (Nice) had only 318 ; tho second (t'oiit-ta&tin... pie) only 150, and tho last of Trent abjut 2lK Perhaps tho most numerously attended Cour.e,:,. wcro the fourth of Chalcodon, aud tho iemtevh!!. of Lyons, held in 1271. The Council cf Im.i -a !: far outnumber all thosa which have prccedid v.. Over a thousand prelates, including Cardiiu.-. Patriarchs, Archbishops and Liahops, lVe ni tl -centres of civilization aud from tho ( nds of tl.i earth, will as3ist at its deliberations, of t !..,. more than one hundred will como i'mn the !;., World, and lifty-iivo of that mmi'jer horn tlu n gion that lies between Maine and California. From tho above it will bo Keen that tL Council to bo held ia lloiao, iu lSC.t, far surpass in grandeur those that Imvo jiv ceded it. Tho questions that, in nil jro bability, will be agitated will excite tL deepest interest in America, as well u; Europe, and the grand cavalcado of Cardi nals, Bishops and other dignitaries of th. Church, will distinguish this, the ninctecnlh (19) Council, by that profound erudition ever found among her prelate-;. 1'ven country will bo represented, for in ever, clime the gospel of Christ has been prea eljcl. and tho American Catholic Church will be ably represented by tho learned and ile. Dr. James A. Cokookan, who. formerly from Charleston, has been for more than four years pastor of tho Catholic Church in Wilmington. Tho choice mado is a proof of the conservative spirit of tho American Catholic Church in selecting its theologian from the South, while tho immense ma jority of tho Bishops aro from the Noitl. and West, where abound flourishing con gregations and institutions of leaning, talented professors and divine;', A c. Few other denominations, if any, under Mieli circumstances, would havo chosen a South ern man, but the Catholic Church ignores politics and sectional differences a.-; Iih' whole conduct before, during and ai'iei the war, has plainly shown. In conclusion, v;o would stafo that the Rev. Doctor is now on his way to Koi::e, having sailed from Baltimoro ou tho lir-t instant, on board tho steamer Baltimore, for Bremen. His absence will be felt hv all his friends North and South, but hi late congregation will feel deeply their lo; of a kind Pastor and devoted Father, h' has identified himself with their existence for moro than four years, and to them iv mains tho sorrow of his ab.sence, and hi memory will bo cherished by them v.h" know so well how to appreciate his worth, j Cotton Crop of tlie United tffate for I'm Year Knclfng Sept. 1st, lsr.M. The total crop reaches 2,4!)S,8'J." bih ", while exports havo been 1,057,015 bih , and the home consumption 885,017 hales leaving a stock on hand at tho close of th" year of 38,13'J bales. Tho stock of cotton at tho interior towns, Sept. 1st, lsds, not included in the receipts, is :j,y7 bales, against 5,703 bales last season. Tho total receipts at tho Gulf and Atlan tic shipping ports this year has been 240,282 bales, against 1JG5.775 bales hi t year. From tho details of tLo production 1 each State wo find that 100,587 bales were made in Virginia this year, against 127, ' T bales last year. Exported from Virginia to foreign port3, 8,283 bales : in doruesdic ports, 158,893 bales. Stock ou haud at tho end of the year at Petersburg and Nor folk, 1,000 bales. Stock on hand at the beginning of tho year, 1,5S'J bales. The total amount of cotton manufactur ed south during tho year has been boai 00,000 bales. Tho highest prices for middling upland has baen as follows: May 1st, in New York 32jc.;in Liverpool 12$d. La.t year ia New York the highest price wa.j l-o. ; i;i Liverpool 15 Id. Tho consumption in the southern States was 81,050 bales, (500 pounds each) ia 1800. In the northern States during the same period there wcro 703, 1 '50 bales. N. Y. Commercial and Chronh k. Bisnoi" AxKUfso-v. It has not been our pleasuro to listen to a moro ablo nor a thoroughly practical sermon than was de livered by this venerable divino on last Sabbath. ., The text, "Gather up tho fragments, so peculiarly applicablo to our present con dition, was most ably discussed and applied to tho temporal as well as tho spiritual dug of the church. Warrenton Courier. Wakk Summon Counx. This tribunal is in session the present week" Judgo Watts presiding.
Wilmington Journal [1844-1895] (Wilmington, N.C.)
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