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THE WILMINGTON I POST. I WILMINGTON, N. C, OCTOBER 7, 1869. WILMINGTON MARKET. WiLMnraTOW, N. C, Oc 6, 1869.12 TURPENTINE Sales of 90 bblsi at S3 50 for Virgin and Yellow Dip, and $1 50 for fcard. S PIRITS TURFEN TINE. -Sales ef 150 casks at 41 cents. I ; ROSIN. C50 bbls. changed bands at $1 65 for Good Strained f 1 80 for No; 2, and f 2 50 for Low No, 1. ". -' f'- TAR. 32 bbls. changed bands at 1 2 50 per ' bbl. ;;s .' K .: i : COTTON. 162 bales were sold at 211, 24l25 cts. for mixed lots. . DOMESTIC MARKET. Beef, S16 cents $ ft. ' Mutton choice, 18&20 cents $ lb; Veal choice, -20, cents $ H. Fresh Pork 20 cehts $ lb. Sausages, 33 cents $ H. Fresh Tripe ,20 cents stick. Docks, very few, at $1 50 paii ; Eggs, 35 cents $ dozen. Rice Birds. 1 50 cents 39 dozen. i Choice freshwater nsn ouncn, oo cenw 1 00. r -' ; Oysters New River, gallon II 20 ; Sea Side 1 U0 gallon, .i Shrimps, 33 quart, 1015 cents. ! i . MulletsSalt, at 60 cent $ dozen ; Fresh, at 2530 ? bunch. . j Sea Side trout, 50 cents per bunch. I Potatoes Sweet, $ bushel, $1 25; Irish pota toes; bushel, $1 00. i Peaches, very few, at$l 00 $ peck. ' Scuppernong Grapes, bushel, fl 30. Tomatoes, quart, 810 cents, j . Turnips, $ bushel, $1 50; $ bunch, 10 cents. Apples; choice 7530 cents peck. ! ! Poultry, 60. 80 cents$t 00 $ pair. ! Cabbages, loXzo cents neaa. Parsnips, supply falling off, at 20 bunch.' i i cents $ Bu tter Beans, $ quart 20 cents. ' j : -,- Green peas 10 cents $ quart. j Country Butter, 3540 cents B. Pigsfeet, at 25 cents $ lb. ! Onions. 10 cents ,i ouart. 45 cents Q week. Water mellons,, steady, at 1030 cents $ . piece. ; Chinquepins, $ quart,20 cents. Eels, 15 cents 1 dozen. Turkeys, very few in market, at $3 00 $ pair. ' Wild Forest grapes, at 75 cents $ bushel. 'Pears, very tew, at $1 50 $ bushel. j WHOLESALE PRICES. beeswax. iScantlinz.. 15 00(32000 $ . . . .... .. ..37(38. White pine.00 0Q00 00 BEEF OA-TTLE, LIME. z) ioo tbsv.oo ooraoo oo m bbi........o oorai 50 BAUHELS. Snts.T.. new molasses, H gallon Cubahhdi.... 52i55 N. Y. ...... $3 003 25 do tierce... ! 4748 , do bbl.;.... i 46 hand do.. 2 40.3 75 -BAGGING. iSyrup....i 60l 00 Gwiny......y... 2o20 lal Sugar lloiise ... J .4'J00 Duadoei ........ 00:3y Rope , 710 BRICKS. ' ? M 10 0015 00 cbrrEE, "$ lb. NAILS. 2. Cut ...... j.. 10 005 50 Wrought J.0000 oils, m erauon Rosin.... :...0 00090 Java............ S5m X ' 0 4Vi)tt! Lard 38(a) bo jjaguvra ,(tuv Kerosene.?... 00 42i Rio. w. ........ :.18(cg33 Sti .Domingo .2528 CANDLES, Vb. Sperm ...4550 Adamantine . .. 20 ($23 Tallow........ '..12i00 domestics, $ yard. Linseed...... 1'40150 Pitch....... 0 V00 00 PEANUTS $ bushel...f2 002.10 potatoes, bbl. Irishbbl.....f2 503 00 Sweet, bush.; 1 201 30 Sheeting, 4-4. . . . 1210 provisions, fl. Yarn, bun 2 102 15 Bacon, N.; C. Hams ....... Middlings. .. Shoulders, p. Host round . . j FISH, 41 DDI. ! Mullets .2324 .2122 .1920 I Jakbbls.f0 0000 00 Pine do..$7 OOM 8 00 .2022 Mackerel Bacon. Western No. I ibbll5 5000 00 No. 2ibblll5000 00 No. 3.. . 14 00(16 00 Sides 2021 Shoulders....: 1718 Hams.. 22(24 Kits....i.. 3 5O(dJ0,00 Herring, Nova Scotia bbs,..... 0 00 0 00 llerrimr. ehioked Pork. bbl. City m'ss 34 3534 75 Thin " 33 00(33 50 Prime.... 30 0031 00 .boxes. . . . . 00 Utxajuu uu Codfish 10; N. C. Roe...O 0000 00 FLOUR, bbl. Family... 0012 50 Super ....... 6 50 0 00 Fide 5 75G 6 00 grain, 39 bushel. Rumo.L.3IOO33oO Reef bbl. 14 5000 UO Butter. a Country.. J 4U(uo Goshen... !..... 5500 Western., i .. .-,.00(00 Cheese, E. English dairy State ... Lard, $ Ib.-f N. Carolina.. Northern.;... onions. , .2500 Corn. North.. 0 000 00 ,-. 1718 .2300 , 2200 Corn. EasCo. OOOftCOOO Oats 7590 Peas.........,l 051 10 Rice, rough.. 1 501 7o Rice. Carolina. 1U 11 ' bbi........4 000 00 E.I..ricft.i...- 00 O0 GLt'E,fiMb.?. 19(20 Gunnt Bags; . ..30 32 SUGAR, IB. Cuba..... 12il4 Crushed... ;.1800 Gua.no. Peruvian, Porto Rico.....! 1400 . ton.U950000 00 A Coffee. !1GI00 HAY. B do....i......il500 Eastern. . .I.Tl 451 50 C do.... ....... Il6i00 Northern.... 7o(cb IK) Havana Brown.. 0000 HIDES. salt, sack. Liverpool, from Green.,..1. V9i Dry ; 19 (20 store.... $1 800 00 Alum.f bush 1 7500 IRON, H. English, ass'd 8 (cb, 10 soap, n American,! rei. u M io Brown. . L . American,! sheer...' Swejde.. :.' Hoop. i shingles, V M ,.9 .10 (& 10 12 Common-.... 2 503 00 Contract..... 4 00(36 00 TIMBER iy ton. ioo vOTio. 11K 00 Shipping.. . 13 5014 00 Mill prime.'. 1 00M13 00 ' liquors, $ gallon I'Jrandv i 1 Mill fair 8 ou(giuuu French. I . 4 00 9 00 Mill ord'y.. 5 00 0 00 Apple, NC. 2 753 00 i jPeach ..!... 3 (X3 50 TOBACCO. Navy...i......J.OO00 Whiskey Medium i J. 0000 Manufactured, j 00(00 liourbon.'. i.WQ$ 4 w . E. Rum 2 00 3 00 lumber, river, M. ,VVidebd3.L$12 00(fel5 00 TALLOWi D B..i......ill12i wood, n cora !i3dautling.L10 0012 00: Oak $3 00(33 50 Acl, s on ... ..... Flooring. J. 15 00M17 uu Flooring rMill Rough . ...21 0023 00 Dressed J.. 20 00(oD,35 00 .......... - - Pine.... ..... 2 ffo3 00 I . TkT ATiri ton L'0000 1 Averaging Expenses. It is very seldom tliat any business can be counted upon as sure to yield a large and constant income. There are many chances and casualties in trade and business which xannot be foreseen. He is a fortunate' man indeed, whatever his calling, who does not find himself, sooner or later, going out of fashion."! The new comer, or more dash ing, ingenious, or wily competitor, will some times distance an old public favorite,, Or a successful man may be spoiled by success, ,and spoil bis own business by neglect, or over-confidence in his reputation, j For these and many other reasons, it ' should be the effort of every man to become independent of bis business. "We mean that he should place a part, however! small, of his earnings income description of invest . ment, which shall be secure from the cbances which affect his regular calling. To do this, he should tix, not his business j means, . but his personal vanity, and be content to creep, as the phrase goes, before he attempts to walk ; j and to walk before he essays to run. There is many a man who looks back ' on the careless expenditure of past years j with regret, but who might now be assisted by the interest of his prosperous acquisi tions, if he had funded, instead of spending his money for temporary gratification. I Working men, while in tho prime of their strength and manhood, and in the receipt of liberal wages, might -secure themselves not only against the distant day of old age ; but also against much oi the inconvenience of" dull times, of feicknesa or bl forced inac- tivity from any other cause. Whoever will make a firm jule, and abide by it, always to live within his income, is on the to competence, if not to wealth. sa e road he Western ; ;WiId Man. MARK TWAIN INTERVIEWS HIM There Las been so much talk about the mysterious "wild man" out there in the West for some time, that I felt that it was my duty to go out there and "interview" him. There was something peculiarly and touchingly romantic about the creature and bis strange actions, according to the news paper reports. He was represented as being heavy, long-armed and of great strength and stature ; ugly and Cumbrous : avoiding men, but appearing suddenly and unexpect edly to woman and children ; going armed with a cub, but never molesting any crea ture except sheep or other prey: fond ot eating and drinking and not particular about the quality, quantity or character oi the beverages or edibles, living in the wood3 like a wild beast ; seeming oppressed and melancholy, but never angry ; moaning, and sometimes howling, never uttering ( articu late sounds. Such was "Old shep " as the papers printed him. I felt that the story of hi3 life must be a sad one a story of suffer ing, .disappointment, exile a story of man's inhumanity to man m some shape or other and.I longed to persuade - the secret from him. ' "Since you say you are a member of the press," said the.wild man ; I am willing to tell you all you wish to know. Bye and bye you will comprehend why it is that I am so ready to unbosom myself to a newspaper man when I have so studiously avoided conversation with other people. I will now untold my strange story. . I was born with the world we live upon, almost. I am the son of Cain." "What I" "I was present when the flood was an- nounced." "Which !" "Sir!" I moved out of reach of hi3 club, and went on taking notes, but keeping a wary eye on him the while. lie smiled choly smile and resumed : a melan "When I glance back over the dreary waste of ages, 1 see many a glimmering land mark that is familiar to my memory. And oh, the leagues I have traveled 1 the things I have seen ! the events I have helped to em phasize I I was at the assassination of Bse- zar. I marched upon Mecca with Mahomet I was in the Crusades, and stood with trod frey when he planted the banner of the cross upon the battlements at Jerusalem.) 1 "Une moment: please, nave you given these items to any other- lournal? Can I" "Silence ! I was in the Pinta's; shrouds with Columbus when America burst upon his vision. I saw Charles , I. beheaded. I was in London when the Gunpowder Plot was discovered. I was present at! the trial of Warren Hastings. I was on, American A. soil when Lexington was fought, when the declaration was promulgated, when Corn- wallis surrendered, when Washington died I entered Paris with Napoleon alter Elba. I was present when you mounted your guns and manned your lleetsior your war ot 1S12, when the South fired upon Sumpter, when Richmond fell, when the President's lite was taken : , la all the ages 1 nave neipea to celebrate the triumphs of genius, the achievements of arms, the havoc of storm, fire pestilence and famine." "lour carreer lias Deen a stirring one Might I ask how you came to locate in these dull Kansas woods, when you have beeu so accustomed to excitement duriner what . I may term a protracted period, not too fine a point upon it V j "Listen. Once liwas the honored servi tor of the noble and the illustrations" (here he heaved a sigh and passed his hjairy hand across his eyes), ''but m these degenerate days I am become the slave of quack aoc- tors and newspapers. I am driven ironi pillar to post and hurried up and down sometimes with stencil plate and paste brush to defile the fences with cabilistic legends, and sometimes in grotesque and extravagant character for ths behest of some driving iournal. I attended to that Ocean Bank robbery some week3 ago, when 1 was nam ly rested from finishing up the !pow-wow about the completion ot the Pacific Rail road; immediately I was spirited off to do an atrocious murder for the New York pa pers : next to attend the wedding of patri archal millionaire : next to raise a hurrah about the great boat race; and j then, just when I -had began to hope that my old bones were to have a rest : I am bundled off to this howling wilderness to strip, and jib ber, and be ugly and hairy, and pull down fences and waylay sheep, and scare women and children, and waltz around with aclub and play 'Wild Man' generally land all to gratify the whim of a bedlam of crazy news paper scribblers ? From one ead ot this continent to the other, I am described as a frorrilla, with a sort of human seeming about me and all to gratify this jquill-driv- ing scum of the earth." "Poor old carpet bagger !" "I have been served infamously, often in modern and semi modern times, I have been compelled by base men to create fraudulent I, . . 1 . . :u rT. . T. i IT u7" n story anu peraonaie an sons unmpussiuie hllfnh f ' te tTloafl nrnzv Junius Let- I " ' I 1 - . . T ruru i iiiiiiii'm ii r ihi i i n 11 iri 1111 1 1 1 - ,. - n n teen years, and wore a ridiculous Iron Mask ; k. . A . J - m 1 1 1 W V.. X. ... L. A . W V ... vMWHww I poked around your Northern forests among your vagaDona maians; a solemn a reneii idiot, personating the ghost ot a dead Dau phin ; that the gaping world might wonder if we had a Bourbon among us;' 1 have played sea-serpent off Nahant, and Woolly Horse, What is It, for the Museum : I have Interviewed' politicians for the Sun, work ed all manner of miracles for the Ilerald, ciphered up election returns for the World, and thundered Political Economy through the Tribune. I have done all thq extrava gant things that the wildest invention could contrive, and done them well, and this i3 my reward playing Wild Man in Kansas without a shirt !" "Mysterious being, a light dawns vaguely upon me it grows apace what what is yonr name ?" ! . "Sensation V I "Hence, horrible shape !" j It spoke again: j "Oh pitiless fate, my destiny hounds me once more. I am called. I go. Alas, is there no rest for me Yr j In a moment the Wild Man's features be gan to gotten and refine, and his form to assume a more human grace, and symmetry. His club changed to a spade, and) he shoul dered it and started atfray, singing profound ly and shedding tears. i "Whither, poor shade ?" j "To dig up tiie Byhox family !" i - ' Such was the response that floated back upon the wind as the sad spirit! shook its ringlets to the breeze, flourished) its spade aloft, and disappeared beyond the brow of the hill. All ot which is in strict accordance with the facts. Tl. 6.1 Attest Mark! Twain. The, Democratic Reign of Terror in Philadelphia From the Philadelphia Post At last, that which so long has threatened, has become a matter of fct in the history ot Philadelphia. Ever since the inaugura tion ot a Mayor not elected by the people. but bolstered into the position by the stuff ing of ballot-boxes, by repeaters and roughs imported for that special purpose from' New York, Baltimore, and other places, aiaea uy the cut-throats, pickpockets thieves and shoulder-hitters of this nlaoi the his- toI7 of the City of Brotherly Love has been wntren in dioocl The work of assassins has been done, hot only at night, but, in the broad glare of the noonday sun, an un offending officer of the United States Gov ernment was shot on one ot our principal business thoroughfares. The selection of a police force from such characters as those above named at once showed to our peaceable citizens, despite all 6ycopnantic pratings and would-be asser tions to the contrary, that there was little to be expected in the shape of order or safety. a The appointment of men to positions under the municipal government, whose records, if blazoned before the world, would put to the blush even themselves, spoke volumes against all hope of a just or vigor ous prosecution of the law. V hen those in high positions stultify themselves by evasive falsehoods, what can be expected of those whom they direct ana control l Since the opening of the present cam paigu the"unterrified" have restored to their old friends and allies, the pistol and th kmte. 1 heir actions previous to last night have already been chronicled in the columns of The rout. - Knowing that they need fear no interfer ences from the police force, they have chosen their own fields of operations, and their own modes of pursuing their hellish pur poses. Their outrages finally culminated in a bloody riot about half past ten o'clock last night, the details of which will forever stain the paces of Philadelphia's history, and which in result, deserve to outrank any previous riots, excepting only those of 1844 The night had been fixed for the parade oi tne organization known as tue ixey onrnniztfinn known as the. Kevstono Club. It had also been selected some days ago for the holding of a Republican mass meeting by the citizens ot the Second Ward, at Jefferson avenue and Washington street, which the Republican Invincibles had been invited and solicited to attend. Tlie facts of the case were a3 follows : The-In vincible?, whom High Constable Clark and a detail of police and accompanied all the evening, had returned to their head quarters "at Fitth and Library streets, and had extinguished the lights and locked up the building. Many of the members had gone to their nomes, others were passing-up Fifth, street. When the line reached the thoroughfare on Chestnut street all was quiet,' anu as the hrst company oi the Jxey- stone arrived above the water fountain nearest Fifth street, a rush was made from the street at the crowd on the pavement. During this temporary halt, the lighted lamp3 were used pretty freely over the heads of the lookers on. The line again moved, and as the last company were cross ing Fitth street,' another rush was made op posite the fountain; and just at this time Archibald Potter, who was in the rear of the procession, cried out, "Come back !" and turning around, struck a gentleman in the mouth, knocking him down. High Con stable Clark seize 1 the offender and ran him into the Central station, mis unpro voked attack was the signal for a grand rush of the Keystone down Chestnut street, and into Fifth, where they commenced an indiscriminate fusilade of pistol shots. The small force of detectives who were on duty at the Central Station, placed their badges on their coats and attempted to press back the rabble, but their efforts proved as futile as a mouse trying to pull back an elephant, l lie crown pressed on, and on reaching the law office adjoining the Philadelphia Library structure, they were checked by a volley of shots from tho recess in ;front of the Library building Thi3 check was ,only temporary, for the representatives of the Democracy were now maddened and they discharged their wcap ons and pressed. on. Their shots went down the street, where not a soul was standing, for it must be known that there was not an Invincible to be seen in or around their headauarters. which had been deserted about an hour before. The Bloomer GirlsWhat a Couple of IJrave Wisconsin Girls Did up in the ChippewaAXesson' for the Stron Minded." 'From the Evening "Wisconsin. In our rambles " up the cuippewa," a few days ago, we chanced upon a dusky, brown faced girl plowing out a twenty acre corn field. She was rigged in a snun-coior- cd "bloomer," with a straw hat, and good, honest number seven boots. Tbere was no sham about her. She was evidently all girl, and working with a will. She had been in the field since early morning, taking long strides behind a spirited horse, with the lines thrown across her shoulder, and both hands firmly at the plow. It was ust , . - . , . c "good fun she said, to take care of twenty I in- t-s Willi ;l w ?i v riiiiT i. i n Litiuii.'ii iwjiv I . .1 -r. f. Ii nf.nrtft . h ff I l- r I V f I ' rows turning corners, kicking over sods, and never a thought of rest of "whoa," till the dinner horn sounded across the field On inquiry we learned that our cornfield heroine was one of two Xtew Hampshire cirls. who immigrated with their parents to Eau Ckire some dozen vears aero. Thev had little means, but were of good working " - stock. They bargained for a quarter sec tion of wild land, and set about making a farm. There were no boys in the family. The girls were young, bright, healthy, and full of pluck and vigor. Their mother dressed them iu bloomers, and gave them their choice indoors or out. From the start they took the place of boys ; they were not afraid or dust or sunshine : they never complained ; they never tired out; they sel dom missed a day from the fields through all the seasons, from earliest spring to latest autumn. As they grew older, they grew tough and wiry, and were alike readv at handling teams, breaking colts, building bridges, opening roads, fording , creeks, clearing meadows, loading hay, binding grain mounting a straw-stack. In good I seas they cut eighty tons of hay and eighty acres of grain. Iu rainy seasons they had to bring out their hay "by hand," carrying it on poles, knee deep, through ploughs and marshes. In winter they attended school. and took care of sixty head of cattle, draw ing hay from the swamps in the coldest weather. They hired no help, except in harvesting. They did their own trading and marketing, and could never be out witted by any of the store, chap3 at Eau Clare. The girls are now eighteen and twenty years ot age, and have done more farming than any two boys in the country. Their father, oegmmng with nothing, is now rich, with broad fields and thousands of ready stamps, mostly achieved through the grit and energy of his daughters. During the present season the girls nave "let up," a little on their out-door accom plishments, and" are only cultivating twenty acres ol corn lor their own amusement. They have built them a spacious residence. They attend balls and parties, go a troutmg, . .! : ! . , . A j any tneir own teams, anu occasionally give the boys a chance to show their spunk and gallantry. ji course sucn gins are od- iects of excitement and interest m their neighborhood, lhey are lqokea upon as "capital prizes," and young fellows aro ready to break their necksior mem. They are now m the treshest oioom, witn thoughts ot love and romance beginning to steal about the back of neck and brains, and what may seem as strange, they are neither coarse or masculine in appearance; they are simply round, trim, sprightly, full breasted girls, with resolution in their eye and plenty of good sense in their heads. , It may be interesting to female politi cians to know that these Chippewa Valley girls never whine nor declaim about their "rights" or "position." They saw rough work to be done work most needed in our Western country and asking odds of no body, they went in bravely on their muscle antfdid it. They have made no noise about it. They have not cackled at con versations. They have never sit with Miss Anthony or Lucy Stone Blackwell. They have lairly won a seat among the queens of Amencau industry. New York City as U is. The spectacle presented by the govern ment and people of our Union during tnose four years of incessant warfare which mark ed the rise, struggle and overthrow of a for midable rebellion, will be chronicled m his tory as a sublime and imposing one. lie- pelting with one armed hand the aggrcs sions of causeless treason, while with the other she poised the scales or civil justice, or dispensed oenmcence mrougu ampie channels, our Republic occupied a position of unsurpassed greatness "The power of armies is a visible thing," but real national is to be sought for in the calm grandeur of civil institutions pursuing their uhdeviating march' apart from and indepen enc oi armies, inus, me wonuenui tqui- poise of our financial system; ' the continu ous application ot science to material wants ; the compensations of commeice, supplying new bases of profit in lieu bf disturbed old Ones: the harmony of legislation with pub- lib spirit, in meeting present exigencies, or anticipating future needs; and last, though not least, the quiet humanities which under ran our warlike action : all these evidences of national .sufficiency and lofty self-possession in government and people,.. were recognized guarantees of an exalted future for the Re public guarantees far outweighing in effect the sum of our soldiers, or the opulence of oui treasury. New York city, in her relations with gov- crntnent and the country, during those years oftiial and endurance, -occupied a very proud position, not only as the j great mart of commerce and the emporium of wealth. as the moral as well as material centre of the nation. Whether we recall the earli est uprising, m the majestic assertion ot loyalty, and with the offering of devoted livesn the altar of our L uion, or contemplate her iu the no less potent strength ot nuance, supporting the energies of government ; whether we behold her cheering iorth serr ried battalions, or administering relief to their families at home whether she honored a-cniel ov pi'iucclv ovations or rewarded a soldier with generous bounty the city of New York was always foremost in her alle to the common cause and the common counm And yet it was in no corporate capacity that our metropolis achieved her high repu tation for loyalty and patriotism-. It was the social asd commercial: community not the mere body politic that sustained Union and rebuked treason. And it is the citizen of New York, not the paltry official, who is entitled to esteem his franchise as ot more account than rank, and to hold his jus toga, his right to wear the mantle of citizenship, as of greater value than any title of honor or aitruiiv. it is tue citizen wno n no oe worthy oi the name, may look aro our. civic monuments with a pride as pure as the Greek felt in his Parthenon and with a reverence as deep as that wherewith the Hebrew regarded hi?, temple of Zion. hot the real monuments of Netv York city are not cf perishable brass and marble. They have sunk their enduring foundations in her marts, her schools, hei pulpits, her presses,' her hospitals, her asvlums :; they n ;C, grand ly. and .' tymmetricaily, ii her cr; :at enter- prise, her wide browed intellect, her broad cast free -intelligence, her f eloquent piety, her holy charity, wuich "droppeth as the gentle clew from Heaven, '- .Tjp.cn the place beiicath. New York is a "city sat upon a hill which: cannot be hid ; ' a city whose palladium is no carven effigv cf Minerva, but the pres ence of wisdom herself in a thousand tern-. pies of learning. If the Athenian lauded bis Porticos, his Prytaneum, his academic: groves, wei may wuii iar more justice do proud of our common schools. If the Spar tan boasted of his warlike phalanx, we may point to our citizen soldiery. If the Roman possessed 1 . . . . . .-. lis aqueducts, his Colliseum, his Mausolea, we have our crystal Croton river flowing in evc.i'i street, our superb theatres, our suburban cemeteries. :TheParisian and the "Londoner may-; extol t her puMic grounds and gardens, but bur Central Park will yetTival them all. Ihe Venetian, wno sent navies lrom his Adriatic canals, the "hierchant princes" of Genoa and Florence, I . yt t r TT 11 1 V1! the btates-uenerai 01 noiiana, onceuoiaing our island of Manhattan as the least of their Vast dependencies not all ot these com- bined, ever wielded more influence over the traffic of nations than ' that which our Chamber of commerce, exercises daily on every sea and in every market. : : But the Athenians claimed their Areopa gus that tribunal which, fortified by the wisdom of Solon, enforced good govern ment an t banished unjust rulers. The Spar tans, in nructcd by Lycurgus, denounced and punished bad citizens, high or low in rauk. Even the Romans, while yet members of a Common-wealth, feared not to stand up in their forum, to confront wrong and resist aggression. It was only .. when citizens of those ancient states forgot the responsibil ities of their1 citizenship that they jeoparded and lost botjh social importance and politi cal franchise, and became the mere popu lace of an empire. Very profitably to our selves, as citizens of New A'oik, we may re view these examples of good and ill in his tory. We are not called upon to institute ah arcopagus ; but we ought, at least, to purify our courts of justice. . Wc cannot ostracise bad citizens, or condemn to death corrupt officials ; but we have power to banish knaves from public employment and avenge the laws upon . lawbreakers. And until the citizen' ot New York shall recog nizc his duties, -and inflexibly perform them, wc must not presume to boast of our me tropolis ; we must forbear to felicitate our selves upon the intellect, the thrift, and the enterprise of our goodly city; because, in so ber truth, the city does not belong to us ; jit is claimed and held by others than they who bear burdens of society. It is a manor over run by poachers, a domain ruled by squat ters ; a town seized and kept for ransom by political brigands ; a realm of the mob whose elect leaders sport with the scales of justice, cut and rifle the public purse, and make spoil of the merchandise, the taxes, and the franchises which belong to the community of citizenship. Are we too severe ? Let the records of municipal rule for twenty years be consulted to test the truth. There was a time in the recollection of our readers when tho annual expense ot our National Government was no more than the present year's tax of New "WT All. l ork city. Ana what manner or men are they who now control our resources as they make our local laws and levy oiir local taxes ? Who are the custodians, disbursers, and recipients of nearly two millions of dollars extracted every month from the tax-ridden citizens ? It is related that when the invading Goths entered ancient Rome, and proceeded to the eapital, they were amazed to behold the majestic spectacle of the Roman Senate awaiting the approach ot their barbarian foe3: the "city fathers of that day. sitting in their ivory chairs, silent and composed m lofty dignity their countenances grave and calm like the statues of the gods. How bitter would be the satirical jest, if artist Nast should sketch the "city fathers" of our New Ydrk' at tho present day. He need not caripature them N. Y. Dispatch. A Southern Cotton Mill. A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal writing from Stonewall, Mississippi, de scribes a cotton mill in operation at the lat ter place. He gives the annexed facts : ' Iu the pine barrens, one hundred miles above Mobile and twenty below Meridian, on the Mobile and Ohio road, is the cotton manufacturers' village of Stonewall. The structures are of brick, the main building is one hundred and eighty feet long, hfty-tive wide, with two wings, each fifty feet square. iwo costly engines, each of htty-horsc pow er, drive the machinery ot tlie modern es tablishment. There is power enough for five times the number of looms and spin dles now in operation ; and since the num ber of superintendents and of costly em ployees and managers would require no augmentation, the proprietors will at once double the length of the main building and fill it with machinery. With this view, the capital stock of the company, when incor porated, will be increased, and the quantity of goods manufactured will be doubled when the additional capital invested will not be more than one-fourth the original ; 1 outlay. At present lucre are only ulty-two looms and two thousand and sixteen spindles iu operation, consuming daily about three bales of cotton. Seventy-three women and girls are employed about the establishment, whose white cottages, furnished free of rent charge, dot the neighboring hill sides, There is not a negro, save the proprietors house servants, at Stonewall ; nearly every operative is the widow or daughter of tarn ilies impoverished by the war. Tlie wnoie tnontniy cost ot tno mill is $1,400, including fuel, oil, salaries of super intendents, and laborers. And yet the man ager ot the mill informed me that he was paying higher wages than any other manu tacturer in the South. When I sought in formation as to the profitableness of the es tabliishment I was told to make my own cal culations. We have cotton enough ot the best quality, which costs U3 less than twenty cents, to last till December. If we were not doing well we would have sold three hun dred baless at a profit ot ten cents per pound, ihe clear profits of the establish ment are not less than from $75 to $100 per day. One ex-planter has $50,000, another $25, 000, and three others $5,000 each, invested m this establishment. When the Legisla ture meets the Stonewall mills will beiucor porated, and the capital stock increased There is power enough to drive five times the number of looms and spindles now run ning, and the same number of superintend ents and overseers can supervise the addi lional machinery and increased number o hands. Another wing will therefore be added to the building. Five time3 as many loorn3 and spindles may be pnt in operation with an addition of only fifty per ceut. to their daily expenditures. Watch Screws. The screws in a watch number forty-four, or more than one-quarter of all its pieces. The magical little automata, run by nimbla lingered giris, convert shining steel wire in to infiuitesimal screws, pare dowrn their heads, and cut slots m them for microscopic screw-drivers. They are polished to per fect smoothness, and then, like every other part of the watch, brought to "spring tem per"'' the temper of the swordblade by heating, which leaves them of a rich, deep blue. There arc machines which will cut screws with five hundred threads to the inch ; the finest used in the watch have two hundred and fifty. Even these threads are invisible to the naked eye, and it takes one hundred and forty-lour thousand of the- screws to weigh a pound. A pound of them is worth six pounds of pure gold. Lay one upon a piece of white paper, and it looks like the tiniest steel filing. Only by placing it un der a strong magnifier can we detect its threads and see that it is shiniug ror, and as true and perfect as the as a mir-driving- wheel of a locomotive. Screws for the best compensation-balance are of gold. A ten-dollar piece will furnish material for six hundred and fifty of them. The compensation-balance comes from the Punching Room a solid piece of steel as large and heavy as a new penny, and in closed in u rim of brass. It is ground down, worked out, and polished till it becomes a blender wheel the outer rim, brass, the in ner rim and crossbar, steel lighter and thinner than a finger-ring. Through the double rim twenty-two boles are drilled fzr the screws. A chuck whirls the wheel around as one would spina penny upon the table four thousand eight hundred times a minute, while a lac. makes each hole by applying three tiny dr ,11s one after the other. He will bore one hundred wheels per day, or apply a drill oftener than once in six seconds from morning till night to sey nothing ot the time consumed in fasten ing on and taking off the wheels and sharp ening his drills. Screws of gold or brass are then cut in, acd the balance is complet ed. On this little part alone nearly eighty operations have beeen performed. Klanlis ! 131anls ! I WE ARE NOW PREPARED TO SUPPLY law blanks in any quantity and on the most reasonable terms. All of the new forms now on hand or printed to order at very short notice. - ; Apply in person or send your orders to the Post Office, on South Front street, a few doors rom Exchange Corner march 21 3o7-t MISCELLANEOUS. AVE WOXJdLD RESPECTFULLY CALL THE ATTENTION of the public to our large and ei2nt sortment of BOOTS AND SHOES, I -HI emhraeinsr everv fetvle and nnitltv fennwn to "tue trade,! which having been purchased for Cash at low prices we offr at very iow rates. Our Stock of Goods for LADIES, MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S wear is very full and complete, very stylish and very durable. Our goods for GENTLEMAN'S wear consists of all kinds and qualities of BOOTS, SHOES, GAITERS, AND BAL MORALS, with and without the box toe, and the assort ment is so complete that we are enabled to suit the most fastidious. " WHOLESALE BUYERS .a r v - i --j v " t- will find it greatly to their advantage to vx amine our stock and prices betore making their elections. : We devote our seeond and third floors exclusively to jobbing, and keep at all times & larre an 1 well selected stock i.: BOOTS, SllOi-:8 AND BROG ANS, for M 's, Women's and Children's wear, -a Inch we gu- 'antee to sell as low as any jobbe-rs in Baltimore Or New York. We solicit ""vour atronae. GEO. II. FRENCH SON, S9 North Front SI. Sept 10 Published Daily, at ; Wilmington, N , C , , Wil. II. BERNARD, .'Editor and Proprietor. Inns oj JSuliscripticVi strictly in-advance. One jear..i. 7 00 Six Mouths .-. : 50 Three Months Ii 00 One Month 75 V M. or li&Ai; ESTATE. rpAKE NOTICE THAT I SHALL EXl'O.s JL to sale; at the Court Uouse door in Wilnii ni ton, .;on Monday the 11th day of October, lbuiK the mterest 01 the iollowinx nauied dekudanls iu the tracts ot land herealtur named to satisfy sundry executions to mo directed lrom the Dis trict Court ol the United titates lor the District of North Carolina, wherein 13. li. Moore, As signee, is riaintill, to wit : 1 tie interest ol El iu Artis in Lots. 6 ando, lilo.k in the City of Wilmington ot John A. franders ui 7A'6J acres ol land iu Midd e Sound iUitiict and ad- joining the plauli. ro id ; ol William II. Costm m . . 1. . . . ....... , Lot No. 1, Ulock 1U4, iu the City ot Wilming ton ; .also his interest in 100 acres of Lund (more or less) Ijiug in Middle Sound District. Also, the interest of J, J. Orrell in sixty-four acres of Land, more or less, adjoiniug the lauds of N. Fowler, lyiDg iu .Masonboro' bound District. Said sale will be to thq' highest bidder lor cash, and will commence at 12 M. on said day. S. T. C ARROW, Marshal. ; By J. H. NEFF, Deputy Marshal. . Wilmington, N. C, Aug. MS, lbOU. aug '-i'J i o'Jvj td ! APPLICATION w ILL BE MADE TO THE (JEN ERA L AS- senlbly'ot North Carolina at its next ses sion, for the passage of an act to repeal the act establishing the Special Court lor. the City of WUmiugtoiji. oct 3 - ' 313-lawli0d. S SAB OA It 11 AND Roanoke Railroad CONTINUES TO BE TIIE MOST POPULAli way of reaching Baltimore lrom tho fur South.; Connecting with the Wilmington anil Weldon Kail Road, the train reaches Ports mouth in tinie to connect with the Baltimore Stefmi Packet Company whose boats will com pare favorably with any ia the. country. The far is reasonable and the accommodations superior and the sail one ol the pleasantest in the country, sept 0 r oOO-tf DRTj.E. WIN ANTS, PENSION BUREAU, " Wilmington, X. (J. JdW-tl aug 1G FftEEDMAN'S SAVINGS MB WHm Chartered by Act of Congress Banking House, Pennsylvania Avenue, corner of 1'Jth street, Washington, D. C. BRANCH AT WILMINGTON, li. C. I Dock Street, near Front. Open from 9 a. in. to U p. m., and Saturday evenings from G to U p. m. DEPOSITS OF ANY AMOUNT, FHOM FIVE CENTS UPWARDS, KE- ' i CEIVED FROM ANY PERSON. Deposits can always be withdrawn without notice. Deposits in gold and silver are repaid in gold and silver. All other deposits are repaid in Greenbacks," or National liank Bills. . Interest is payable in March, July and Novem ber, three times in each year. All the profits belong to the depositors. Investments are only made in Securities of ti n I nited States. GEO. R. FRENCH, , Chm'n Advisory Committee. BENJAMIN DURE EE. Secretary. WM. WHITTLES Y, Acting Cashier. oct IS 210- FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF VIIiIINGTN, ' X. LY United States Depository and Financial Agent. DlliECTOK3: W. II. McRAUT, JaS. II. ClULDiJOUHJf 8.D, Wallack, Eli Muiuiay. v f Ed'win E. Buruuss, President Asa K. Walkbk. Cashier Wm. Laekins, Teller. . 1 XI.. M. Bowdex, Book-Keeper. S. D.j Wallace, Jr., Clerk THIS BANK 13 NOW OPEN FOli Tllfl TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS GOLD AND SILVER COIN, Government Bonds and Securities. NOTES OF SOLVENT and other State Banks purchased and sold. EXCHANGE ON NORTHERN AND SO I Ml pom FrrioNS8 r18 ?,hand ad for sal" uwi, i i in prompt return f JV1 -""V wa carelul attention evcu iv iuc ucvuunia Oi uusineiiss men. ans. 14 tj-inos U .i li I'
The Wilmington Post (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Oct. 7, 1869, edition 1
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