Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-10-25

Look out sco1ndrei.
Owing to the great extent of our territory and
the sparseness OF our population the most ordinary
rouges are often able to impose successfully on the
community. But the plausible and accomplished
seldom fail under any circumstances to practice sue
cessfuIly their dishonest art One of the most sne
clous and artful of the profession has Just been COM
PEELED to leave this place. where he has been stavnp
two weeks and deceiving many persons He calls
himself Lieut.. Don Carlos Valencia of the 4th Regi
ment Lancers of Puebla. Mexico; claims to be son
Col. Valencia and nephew of Gen. Valencia of Mex
leo He processes to have served through the whole
OF the last and claims to have received several
honorable wounds. His appearace is very prepos-
sesslng, his carriage erect and military his dress
outwardly neat his manners, especially in the COM
pany OF ladies' gentle, refined and insinuating He
Is about feet or inches high has rather Dale or
darke complexion, black hair and eyes, good teeth.
small feet and hands, and wore when here q NOUS
tache and small imperial. He speaks English flu
emily, and with fOrei On accent and is about 25 or
70 years old, though he says he is only 81 He has
three and under the right side of the chin
which he says are bullet marks, and bullet scar on
the lett thigh. He seems to suffer from hemor-
rhage OF the lungs. caused he said until detected
by an unhealed wound in one of them He also
affects to be deranged at times and counterfets adj
mrably the rawlings of insanity. He also uses opium
Freely: he Is remarkably fluent and ready in con-
versation. and quite interesting as narrator of
adventures. He was fully Unidentified lust before he
lett as the same person who as an exiled Cuban,
lnsnuated himself into the confidence of some of the
vi newark and afterwards abScOnd-
ed with a watch and money. He is an exceedingly
plausible and artful fellow, and we'll fitted to impose
on even the least credulous. He wore, while here,
pair OF black pantaloons, with red and gold stripe
on the outside of each leg Let the public look out
for him. He was started to Raleigh from here and
: will probably go to Charleston, as he had tick
cts to that place. Editors of newspapers will do
well to Introduce this eaterprSing gentleman to the
e public. FAYETTEVILLE.
: CoTToN PIeKING.-A match race came off on Tues
day, the Sth of Oct, 1850 between Turner Walker
e and Arthur Freeman.
: Turner Walkers boy, Jim, aged 20 years, picked
o Az lbs. Arthur Frecmans girl Pink aged 16 years.
picked 430 lbs. They picked 10 hours and As min
e utes.
, To the Farmers of Edgecombe-beat this boy or
r, girl to the age. and we will try again.
m The hands were managed by A Freeman and w.
d E. Spicer. The cotton examined and weighed
by James S. Battle arboro' Press
g SMUGGLING ON THE STEAMER ATLANTIc-The n
,e York correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer
2 says that there bold attempt made to smugge
some $4,000 worth of laces free of duty into New
n York, on the last trip of the steamship Atlantic.
The fact came to the knowledge of MIR. E. K Col
lie ns the agent who promptly informed the govern
ment of it, and the result that the goods were
all seized.