Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-06-16

porarles out of the State, that public hanglngs are
not The usual places at which candidates for Governor
of North Carolina address their fellow citizens
We, Us & Co.
The editor of the Fayetteville Argus replied to Mr..
Bragg at Rock6sh, in Cumberland county, and thus
complaceny blows his own trumpet, and takes cred
it to himself for victory. The thing is among the
richest exhibitions of modesty we remember ever to
have read or heard. II is simply speclmen-a
brick from the Babel as it were-and upon the whole
not quite so bad after ALL Why shouldn't the Argus
blow its trumpet on the principle that the boy
insisted on picking his own nose on independence
dav He said sit was the Fourth of July and his
own nose and he would pick thunder out OF the
darned thing" It's the Argus own trumpet and
the editor has right to blow thunder out of the
darned thing, which he does at some length, IN the
style of which the annexed is an example,:
perhaps if we had suffered him to use US up at
Rockfsb as he and his friends calculated he would,
he wonId have spoken of US more chaTltably IN the
civ of Oaks. But he should remember the position
which we occupied. The interests OF the Wing par
ty were in our hands, and we could not permit them
to suffer The democrats went out to see US demol-
isbed and we did not choose that they should tr"
umph II is true we treated Mr.. Bragg as tenderly
as we could; but his arguments were SO very lame
his demagogism so uncommonly rank-hls bubbles
and tergiversations were so surprisingly AWKWARD
his attempts at Righteousness were SO exceedingly
abortive-that in spite of our good nature, we could
not help knocking his props from under him and let
ting him down-to the infinite amusement OF a large
and INTELLIGENT audience. And if his basement sto
nv was damaged by the crash it was more his mlstor
tune than fault he should have secured his toun
dation better But we crave his mercy and ask
him to pardon something to the lntrmlty OF human
nature and we promise that IT we ever get so COM
petey cornered by the actual production OF 'the doc
uments," that if we ever go out after wool and com
back so smoothly shorn he did on that occasion, he
and his friends may laugh at long and as loud as
they please-and shall be too proud to run over
the State and whine about it afterwards"
psE~ After all the big hourshes and unstinted use
of epithets in which the Fayetteville Observer has
been ndulging itself for the last few weeks in re-
gard to Mr. Ashes letters and General Dockery's
votes it at length ends by admitting the substance OF
the whole matter which went to make up the posi-
ton assumed by Mr. Ashe, in his defence-and
simply in his own defence-from the attacks of Gen
eral Dockery, namely that if he (Mr. Ashe) was
chargeable with inef6ciency, Gen. Dockery assert
3D. because his constitutional scruples would prevent
him from voting for general River and Harbor Bill
much more was General Dockery chargeable in the
same way, because his hide bound Tariff notions
the extension of Railroad iron, to which amend
ment was pending that would have brought the NortE
Carolina Railroads within the sphere of it's benefits
General Dockery, in his speech here, admitted tina
he did so vote, because he did not want to interfer
with the Tariff, until he could get ii he wanted it
This is the graUamen of the charge made by MI
Ashe and admitted and attempted to be defended b,
General Dockery other sde-lssues, as to whether
was once or t1v,ce are wholly unimportant, and no
worth wasting time upon, after the main question ha
been admitted by the Observer.
o. On last Saturday afternoon freight train on tn
Wilmington & Raleigh Railroad ran over COW abou
a mile from town. The cow caught the truck of tn
first box car and threw three others off negro VIII
| was on one Of the jumped off, and crushe
) by the cars which fell over on him. He was owne
in Halifax. Coroner ]. c. Wood held an inquest owe
the body yesterday Verdict in accordance with til
above fact. The accident happened at a curve
Burns the great-the immortal Burns-the her
of the Battle of Boston Court House--the colore
gentleman whose old clothes were generously mende
at a vast expense by Theodore Parker & Co,--thi
Niger of nggers-ths modern Otheo of all the abo
, lition Desdemonas of the "Athens' of Amerca-thi
remarkable and distinguished person arrived on Sat
urday last at Norfolk, board the Revenue Cutie
Morris, which vessel had the honor to "carry hin
back to old Virgnia,-To old Virginia shore" Tn
Portsmouth Globe says there is great feeling Their
against his being sold into freedom and into abolition
hands
Thomas l. Faison, Esq, is the Democratic candi
date for the Senate, and DR.. E. F. Shaw, and Co
Geo. H. Daughtry, Democratic candidates for tn
House of Commons, in Sampson County
/ Philadelphia Municipal Election.
a PHILADELPHIA, June THE election returns ar
not all in yet, but the whig nominees, endorsed b
the "know-nothings," natives and temperance men