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WILMINGTON DIRECTORY 865-66.
HEDRICK & RYAN
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
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HATS
BUSINESS CONDUCTED ON THE
One Price Principle.
THE PUBLIC ARE INVITED TO CALL.
JOHN & HEDRICK;) 5 & 7 North Front Cs. ( JAMES H RYAN, Of Wiln'ygton 1 WILMINGTON. N.C. ( Of Wilmington.
JAMES MCCORMICK,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
READY-MADE CLOTHING, Cloths, Cassimeres,
VESTINGS
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS,
Tailors' Trimmings, &c.,
27 MARKET STREET,
WILMINGTON, N C.
E. B. DUDLEY.
R. C. DUDLEY.
FIRE, MARINE AND LIFE INSURANCE OFFICE, DUDLEY & BRO., Agents,
Are prepared to take risks against Fire, the perils of the sea, and Inland Transportation, and issue Policies in the following very reliable Companies :
GERMANIA, HANOVER, NIAGARA AND REPUBLIC Insurance Companies, KAREL TY THE UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY ;)
THE GLOBE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
OF NEW YORK :
NEW ENGLAND Mutual Life Insurance Company, OF BOSTON;
AND
THE NEW- YORK Accidental Insurance Co.,
OF NEW YORK CITY.
Office No. 5 So. Water St., (up Stairs,) WILMINGTON, N. C.
GEO. Z. FRENCH & CO.,
(SUCCESSORS TO CUTTER & FRENCH,)
NO. 10 SOUTH FRONT STREET, WILMINGTON, N. C., DEALERS IN
Groceries, Provisions,
WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, Wood & Willow Ware,
TIN WARE
CROCKERY, GLASS WARE.
COTTON AND NAVAL STORES
Bought or received on consignment.
EX LIBRIS
BRUCE COTTEN COLLECTION OF NORTH CAROLINIANA
WILMINGTON
DIRECTORY,
INCLUDING A
General and City Business
DIRECTORY,
FOR
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.COMPILED BY
FRANK. D. SMAW. JR.
WILMINGTON, N. C .:
PUBLISHED BY P. HEINSBERGER, L BOOK-BINDER AND BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURER, JOURNAL BUILDINGS.
FULTON & PRICE, STEAM POWER PRESS PRINTERS :
1865.
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JAMES S. TOPHAM & CO.,
No. 8 South Front Street, WILMINGTON, N. C., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
HARNESS, TRUNKS, Foreign & Domestic Saddlery, HARDWARE, &c.
A large assortment of the following goods on hand, and constantly being received :
Double Harness,
Single
do.
Cart and Dray Harness,
Wagon
do
Sole Leather Trunks,
Ladies'
do.
Mule
do
Packing
do.
Valises,
Bonnet Boxes,
Traveling Bags,
Ladies' Satchels,
Pocket Books,
Portemonaies,
Bridle Bits of all kinds,
Side Saddles.
Men's do.
Boy's· do.
Gig
do.
Horse Collars,
Carriage, Riding and Cart
Whips,
Feather Dusters,
Sweeping, Paint, Whitewash
and Horse Brushes,
Cotton Cards,
Plantation Hoes,
Harness, Bridle, Sole and En- ameling Leather,
AND A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
HARDWARE, AND EVERY THING IN THE SADDLERY BUSINESS.
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF WILMINGTON, N. C .:
BY C.
NEW HANOVER COUNTY was formed iu 1728, and called, in honor of the House of Hanover, then on the English throne.
WILMINGTON, its capital, the most populous and commercial town in North Carolina, named in compliment of Spence Compton, Earl of Wilmington, is situated upon the East bank of Cape Fear, er Clarendon river in North latitude 34 deg. 12 min., (48), longitude 77 deg 56 min. (18) West
It is below the confluence of the North East and North West branches The first runs up into the interior, in the direction of Duplin, and the latter past the town of Fayetteville, one hundred and twenty miles, to Haywood, in Chatham county, where it first assumes the name of CAPE FEAR, being formed by the junction of the Haw and Deep Rivers.
Like many other places, its fortunes have been fluctuating and its progress slow. The first settlements were made about one hundred and thirty-four years ago, and originally called Newtown, then New Liverpool, and finally WILMINGTON.
France having declared war against England in 1744, a fort was ordered to be built by the Legislature of North Carolina, to mount twenty-four pieces of cannon, on the sea coast, which was accordingly erected at what is now known as the village of Smith- ville, and called Johnson, in honor of Gov. Gabriel Johnson.
Upon the death of Governor Johnson, Rice succeeded to his authority, and upon his death in a very short time, Matthew Rowan, the senior counsellor, was qualified in his stead, in Wil- mington, on 1st February, 1754.
About this time, Rowan received an express from Gov. Din- widdie, of Virginia, informing him of the alarming movements of the French on the Ohio, and that GEO. WASHINGTON had been sent there to examine and report, &c., and that he desired assistance from North Carolina.
Rowan, accordingly, issued his proclamation for the Legislature to meet in Wilmington, on the 19th of February, 1754, which met accordingly, and appropriated one thousand pounds for raising and paying such troops as might be sent to Virginia.
Col: JAMES INNE!, of New Hanover, marched at the head of a detachment, but no preparation having been made by Virginia for
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supplies and quartermaster's stores, Col. Inne ‹ returned to North Carolina.
A London Magazine of 1761 reports that a storm occurred, in North Carolina, which began on Monday, the 20th of September, and continued until Friday, but raged with most violence on the 23d. Many houses were thrown down, and all the vessels, except one, in Cape Fear river, driven ashore It forced open a new channel at a place called the Haul-Over. between the Cedar House and Bald Head. This new channel was found on soundings to be eighteen feet at high water, and is near half a mile wide.
In the town of Wilmington, iu 1765, on the 3d of April, Wm. Tryon qualified as Commander-in-Chief and Captain-General of the Province of North Carolina. Bred a soldier, and not destitute of mind, he was disposed to rule with an iron hand, and acquired in consequence of his despotic sway the soubriquet of the "Great Wolf of North Carolina " He would wheedle or cajole, whenever his interests were advanced by such conduct, or adopt an opposite policy when it conduced to his interests. He first met the General Assembly in the town of Wilmington, on 3d of May, 1765, one hundred years ago. During this session, the Assembly was so much exercised on the subject of the Stamp Act, that Tryon pro- rogued it, upon the 18th May of the same year.
: The Speaker of the House, John Ashe, told Gov. Tryon this act would be resisted to the death. Accordingly; upon the arrival of the Diligence sloop-of-war, in the Cape Fear river, Ashe, of New Hanover, and Col. Waddell, of Brunswick, marched at the head of the men of these counties to Brunswick, before which town the ship lay, prevented the Captain from landing the stamped paper ; - seized the sloop-of-war's boat, placed it on a cart, flew a flag from the mast-head and marched in triumph to Wilmington, where, - at night, the town was illuminated, The next day they called upon the Governor and demanded that he would desist from any attempt to execute the Stamp Act, and to surrender to them James Houston, the Stamp Master, an inmate of Tryon's house. He at first refused, but ultimately yielded to the popular demand. In case of refusal, they threatened to burn the Palace and its inmates. Whereupon Houston was reluctantly surrendered to the popular de- mand, and then taken by them to the Market House, and there forced to take an oath not to execute the duties of Stamp Master. These acts were performed in open day, by well known persons, and yet they are "not of the few, the immortal names, that were not born to die."
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" These are deeds which should not pass away, And names that must not wither."
In July, 1774, on the Boston Port Bill being enacted by Par- liament, the citizens of Wilmington met and declared : " the cause of Boston is the common cause of America," and Parker Quince was sent with a ship load of provisions to succour the Bostonians ..
On the 23d November, 1774, the citizens of Wilmington elected a Committee of Safety, of which CORNELIUS HARNETT, JOHN QUINCE, FRANCIS CLAYTON, WM HOOPER, ROBERT HOWE, JOHN ANCRUM, ARCH. MOLAINE, JOHN ROBERTSON and JOHN WALKER were members.
When Gov. Martin, the last of the royal Governors and Tryon's successor, summoned His Majesty's Council to attend him, on board the sloop-of-war in Cape Fear river, January, 1776, the Committee informed the members, then on their way, they could not, consistent "with the safety of the country, permit them to attend the Governor."
Upon the 27th of February, 1776, the battle of Moore's Creek was fought, between the Scotch Tories, under Brigadier General McDonald, and the Whigs, under Lillington and Caswell, in which the Tories were badly defeated, with the loss of their military chest. This victory entirely thwarted the plan of Gov. Martin, which was to form a junction with Sir Peter Parker, and Maj. Gen. Sir H. Clinton, and thus to overrun the Southern country. Delayed by weather, the military and naval armament did not arrive in the Cape Fear until the 18th of April, 1776. The whole naval force consisted of thirty-six ships.
While here Gen. Clinton ravaged Kendall, the seat of General ROB'T HOWE. History avers that he and Cornwallis surrounded the dwelling, and after murdering three women, they marched to Orton, where military stores and provisions were deposited, but in- formation of their purpose having preceded them, they had been removed, and the buildings alone were sacrificed. The fleet sailed from the Cape Fear on the 1 st June, and arrived off Charleston on the 4th. In a proclamation of free pardon " to all such as shall lay down their arms and submit to the laws," given on board the Pallas transport, by Sir Henry Clinton, on the 5th of May, 1776. CORNELIUS HARNETT and ROBERT HOWE were excluded from its benefits.
The following flattering sketch of the manners and customs upon the Cape Fear, at the period of which we are speaking, is from the pen of Mr. A. M. Hooper, contained in his biography of his dis-
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tinguished kinsman, the Hon. Wm. Hooper', one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The Hoopers have always been a family of scholars :- //
"Hospitality carried to the extreme, and excessive fondness for conviviality, were the characteristics of those days. In fact, every class of society became infected by the example ; and numbers of old families, now reduced to comparative poverty, have reason to '10'
rue the prodigal liberality of their ancestors.'
The British Governor Martin, having occasion to reply to an address of the inhabitants of Wilmington, presented by Mr. Hoop- er, styled it " the region of pr.liteness and hospitality.".
Festive entertainments, balls, every species of amusement which song and dance could afford, were indulged in. Everywhere, on the river Cape Fear, were men of fortune, related by blood, or connected by marriage. 1
This general ease and prosperity was highly favorable to the cultivation of polite letters and to the development of talents of a certain kind. The state of manners tended to awaken a spirit of improvement, which pervaded the whole community. Every famn- ily possessed a collection of the best English authors, besides which there was a public library, supported by a society of gentlemen, and styled " The Cape Fear Library:" Wit and humor, music and poetry, were drawn into action in social and convivial, inter- course. Conversation was cultivated to a high degree; Emana- ting from letters or science, or growing out of the busy scenes of life, it always teemed with instruction and imparted delight. The point of honor was understood and recognized, and the slightest approach to indignity resented; In this exercise of colloquial tal- ent, the ladies participated and heightened the pleasures. Then they were not, as now, as early instructed, or perhaps, not instruc- ted at all, in the rudiments of knowledge ; but they derived from reading, and imbibed from an association with eminent persons of the opposite sex, a tincture of taste and elegance, and they had a softness, sentiment, grace, intelligence-every quality which in the female sex can inspire and exalt the enthusiasm; of romantic passion. !
In the hospitable conviviality of those times, allurements, to dis- sipation were greater than social life usually presents. The actors were far above the cast of ordinary bon vivants. Among those were Dr. Eustace, the correspondent of Sterne, who united wit and genius, and learning and science ; HARNETT, who could boast a genius for music, and taste for letters ; Lloyd, gifted with talents
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and adorned with classical literature ; Pennington-(comptroller of the port, and afterwards Master of Ceremonies at Bath, England)- an elegant writer, admired for his wit and his highly polished urbanity ; McLaine, whose criticisms on Shakspeare would, if they were published, give him fame and rank in the republic of letters ; Boyd, who, without pretensions to wit or humor, possessed the rare art of telling a story with spirit and grace, and whose elegiac num- bers afforded a striking contrast to the vivid brilliancy of the scenes in which he figured ; Judge Maurice Moore, endowed with versa- tile talents, and possessed of extensive information-as a wit, al- ways prompt in reply, as an orator always " daring the mercy of chance ;" HOWE, whose imagination fascinated, whose repartee overpowered, and whose conversation was enlivened by strains of exquisite raillery. Wit and humor, and music and poetry, dis- played all their charms among the festive deities, and heightened the glow of delight. Is it to be wondered at, that the banquet was often carried to an "injurious excess ?" Mr. Hooper played his part among these distinguished wits, and shed a classic lustre over these refined revels.
Blended with the history of the Cape Fear, at this period, is that of FLORA MCDONALD, the fair and gentle. protectress of the fugitive. Charles Edward ..
Encouraged by the representations of their countrymen, who had removed to the Cape Fear, McDonald of Kingsburg, and his wife Flora, arrived upon its banks in about 1775 or 1776. At the bat- tle of Moore's Creek, he having joined the royal standard, was ta- ken prisoner and confined in Halifax jail. Being finally released, he and Flora returned to Scotland. On the passage out, they be- came engaged with a French man-of-war. Flora remained on deck during the action, encouraging the men by her presence and coun- sel. The enemy was beaten, but during the confusion of the fight Flora was thrown down and had an arm broken. She is said to. have remarked : " I have hazarded my life for the house of Stuart - and for the house of Hanover, and I do not see that I am a great gainer by either."
Dr. Samuel Johnson, who had been her guest, says : " She is a little woman, of a genteel appearance, and uncommonly mild and well-bred." She died March 4th, 1790, and was' buried in a shroud made of the sheets in which Charles Edward had slept at Kingsburg.
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MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
From the Borough of Wilmington, from 1774 to 1836, when the Borough representation was abolished by the Convention of 1835.
1774, Francis Clayton. 1819 to 1822, J D Jones.
1775, Cornelius Harnett.
1823 Mont W Campbell.
1776 to 1784, Wm Hooper.
1824 and 1825, Rob't H Cowan.
1783 to 1786, Arch MeLaine.
1826 and 1827, Jos Alston Hill.
1787, Josh Potts.
1828 John Walker.
1788 to 1791, Edward Jones. 1829 and 1830, Jos A Hill.
1792 to 1809, Josh G Wright.
1831 and 1832, Dan'l Sherwood.
1810 to 1815, Wm W Jones.
1833 J D Jones.
1816 and 1817, Ed B Du lley.
1834, Ed B Dudley.
1818 Wm B Meares.
Contemplating this array of representative. men, we are struck by the combination of wit, humor, highly cultivated genius, and refined. culture with tact, talent, political sagacity and compreben- sive statesmanship.
Any constituency might be justly proud of such representatives, and should be careful to remember as their interests and fame ! suffered no detriment while under their guardianship, their mem- ories should be kept ever fresh in the minds of the people. As some- thing is due in life to death, so something is due from the living to the dead.
We are told by Diodorus Siculus that the ancient Romans were in the habit of placing in the vestibules of their houses busts of the illustrious dead, so that, in passing in and out, their virtues and their example might become familiar to their youth, thus early accustoming them to the contemplation of greatness and insensibly implanting a desire to achieve it Let us profit by the sugges- tion.
Among other sons, who have conferred honor upon .our town, are Johnson Blakely, Col. Wm. McRec, Col. Wm. Gibbs McNeil; Col. Sam. McRee, Capt. Alex. J. Swift, Capt. J. H. K. Burgwin, and Lieut. Wm. H. Wright, all of whom, except Blakely, were eleves of West Point.
Col. Wm. McRee is generally represented, by the army, as hay- ing been the ablest and most profoundly accomplished soldier in all that pertains to his profession, who has ever belonged to the United States army. He is said to be the father of the corps of
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engineers, and served in the capacity of chief of that corps, upon the Northern frontier, during the war of 1812, upon the staff of. Gen. Jacob Brown. At the close of the war, it was proposed by J. C. Cal- houn, on account of his pre-eminent abilities, to place him at the head of that department, but he declined the preferment because it would ovetslaugh a brother soldier, Gen. Armistead, and his sense of pro- fessional etiquette would not allow him to be a party to such an act of injustice. He shortly after resigned, in consequence, it is understood, of the Government conferring equal rank in his corps upon the French Gen. Bernard, who" had recently arrived on this continent and entered our service. McRee afterwards became en- gineer in-chief of the State of Missouri, and died of cholera, in St. Louis in 1831:
Gen. Wm. Gibbs McNeil belonged to the topographical corps. and was for a long while, before he left the army, engaged in civil service, in the State of Maryland, upon the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road, and afterwards in Massachusetts. After he left the service, he became the chief engineer of the Charleston, and. Cincinnati Railroad. He possessed in an eminent degree what is known in the military profession as the coup d'œil.
Swift and Burgwin were both martyrs to the war with Mexico. The former dying in New Orleans of disease contracted at Vera Cruz, and the latter fell a victim at Puebla de Taos, in obeying a senseless order to charge a stone church. Being assured in his expiring moments that justice should be done his memory, his. dying utterance was, " that justice should be done to his men." Wm. Henry Wright, an accomplished officer and soldier, was never in active service. The greater part of his life, after leaving West Point, was spent in the construction of FORT WARREN, located in the harbor of Boston, Massachusetts. His chief reputa- tion, however, is based upon the publication of his work on mortars. JOHNSON BLAKELY emigrated with his father from Ireland, and arrived in Wilmington in 1783-'84, aged about three years. It was not long before the father died, and Johnson became the pro- tege of Col. Edward Jones, who charged himself with the nurture and education of young Blakely, a duty which he faithfully dis- charged. In the fullness of time he was sent to the University, and soon after the completion of his course there, joined the United States Navy as Midshipman, and in 1800 he was ordered to the Mediterranean with Com: Preble, and soon, by attention to duty, and the propriety of his conduct, secured the confidence and regard of his commander, his officers and his men. Meeting with. speedy
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promotion, he was ordered to the Wasp, and sailed from Ports- mouth, N. H.
In June, 1814, he fell in, off the English, coast, with His Ma- jesty's sloop-of-war Reindeer, Capt. Manners. A sharp action; ensued. Manners, the first lieutenant, and many of the crew were. killed and the ship surrendered. Blakely writes the Department : " We fell in with, engaged, and after an action of nineteen min- utes, captured His Britanic Majesty's sloop-of-war Reindeer, Capt. Wm. Manners, commander." From the first to the fifteenth of August, he captured fifteen of the enemy's ships. In one of these he placed Lieut. Geisenger, as prize master, with dispatches for the Government. Geisenger arrived safe in Savannah, 4th November, 1814, and brought the last authentic intelligence ever received of the gallant dead. Capt. Blakely married in 1813 Jane Hooper, and left an only daughter, Udney.
In December, 1816, the Legislature of North Carolina resolved unanimously, that the child should be educated at the expense of the State, which was accordingly done. She acquired her educa- tion in Philadelphia, and shortly after married, and went to reside in the West Indies. Before leaving this country, however, she sent her portrait, as a token of kind remembrance, to the family of her father's early patron.
We have already learned that Wilmington entitled herself to a just renown in her struggles anterior to, pending, and succeeding to the revolution of 1776, during the wars of 1812 and also that with Mexico. How shall we characterize her conduct in the bloody drama which has been enacting from 1861 to 1865, and which may with truth be styled "the bloodiest picture in the book of time ?" . Let the blood of her sons which has soaked every battle field from Fisher to Sharpsburg, and whose bones are bleaching from Charleston to Gettysburg answer.
The number of men contributed could be easily computed, but the value of their services could not be so readily ascertained. The amount of munitions of war, quartermaster's and commissary's stores, and other advantages secured by the exports and imports of the blockade running, it is alike difficult to estimate. They exceed many millions !
In 1819 a great fire occurred, which consumed about two hun- dred buildings, and property valued at $1,000,000, Population in 1830, about 3,000; 1840, 4,744; 1850, 7,264, 1853, about 10,000; in 1865, about 15,000.
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COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.
Shipping of the district, June 30, 1854, according to Custom House returns, amounted to an aggregate of 10,684 tons register- ed, and 9,271 tons enrolled and licensed. The foreign and coast- wise arrivals in 1852, exclusive of Charleston steamers and North Carolina coasters, were 753.
The following is the table of principal articles exported, coast- wise and foreign, in 1853-'54:
1853.
-1854.
Spirits Turpentine, bble.
Coastwise. 113,717
Foreign. 1,457
Coasticise. 119,308
Foreign. 1,314
Crude
.4
51,828
21,454
65,102
Rosin,
369,770
10,679
441,692
12,071
Tar,
21,609
4,521
32,919
11,603
Pitch,
5,019
1,904
4,624
7,188
Flour,
1,349
86
14,431
1,001
Timber, feet,
1,030,441
85,154
1,350,263
630
Lumber,
25,646,792
12,511,158 5,223,750 154,782
20,003,958
206,915
Shinglee,
11,118,180
Staves,
5,128,259
Ground Peas, bushels,
69,624
87
91,807
133,819
Cotton, bales,
7,515
10,328
32
Sheeting, bales,
2,320
1,689
..
Yarı,
6
317
206
Warp,
122
181
Paper, News, bundles,
2,120
2,805
Wool, bales, ..
182
39
Rice, clean, easks,.
1,724
2523
401
164
" rough, bushels,
102,917
137,672
2,581
1,573
Waste,
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COMPARATIVE TABLE
Of Exports from the Port of Wilmington, N. C., compiled from the reports of the DAILY JOURNAL, for the first quarter of 1861, compared with the first quar- ter of 1860, ending 31st March of each year.
1660.
1861.
Coastwise.
Foreign.
Coastinise. 20,643
Foreign.
Spirits Turpentine, bbls.,
27,133
3,836
728
Crude
66
21,100
3,577
11,987
2,020
Rosin,
104,403
13,356
75,754
11,939
Tar,
66
17,994
1,238
22,507
2,593
Pitch,
1,838
514
1,090
185
Timber, Pitch Pine, feet,
65,000
Lumber
980,347
2,803,750
1.535,608
3,687,131
Shingles,
14,000
514,500
1,859,000
Staves,
5,545
Pea Nuts, bushels.
57,071
65,138
Flour, bbls.,.
259
10
Cotton, bales, .
10,791
22,724
713
Sheeting, bales,
279
449
Yarn,
66
430
239
" Warp,
Rice, rough, bushels.
55.670
36,169
Rice, clean, casks,
1
30
Paper, News, bundles,
509
Wool, bales.
1
20
Wheat, bushels, .
236
MISCELLANEOUS-COASTWISE.
Flaxseed, 510 bushels; Empty Barrels. 73; do. Kegs, 406: do. Hhds., 7; Soap Stone, 379 bbls .; Liquor, 52 bbls .: Merchandise, 226 packages; Dried Fruit, 10. boxes, 1,246 bags, 449 bbls .: Hides, 500; Fish, 5 bbls .; Old Iron 105 tons; Corn, bushels, 19,138; Tobacco, 9 boxes; Bones, 18 bags; Sugar, 3 hhds .; Copper Ore, 282 bbls .; Old Copper, 5 bbls .; Potatoes, 5 bbls .; Soap, 37 boxes; Juniper, 86 cords; Beeswax, 1 bag, 20 bbls .; Oils, 30 bbls .; Rags, 30 bales; Tallow, 8 bbls .; Salts, 25 sacks; Eggs, 4 boxes, 8 bbls .; Fur, 10 boxes, 3 bags, 10 bbls., 13 hhds .: Molasses, 76 hhds .; Hay, 61 bales.
FOREIGN.
Corn, bushels, 200; Peanuts, 40 bushels; Peas 94 bushels.
We publish to-day our table of exports from the port of Wilming- ton, for the quarter ending March 31, 1861, as compared with those for the corresponding period of 1860. In Spirits Turpentine there is a falling off, as there is in every article of naval stores, with the single exception of Tar, which shows a slight increase.
In Timber, Lumber, Shingles and Staves, there is an increase, especially in the foreign shipment. There is a slight gain in Pea- nuts, and a decided loss in Rough Rice, but the most marked fea- fure is in the increase in Cotton from 10,791 to 22,724 bales coast- wise, 713 foreign, this increase far more than making up for any falling off in naval stores. Owing to the short Wheat crop last year in our Middle and Western counties, there has been no shipments of breadstuffs from our port, and little of North Carolina produce from any port.
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