Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-11-07
The Herald Office a Mandatory OF Presidential
Candidates.

Candidates. #
Everybody knows that it was the New York Her.
aid that made George Law great aspirant for the
presidency, but everybody does not know the
by which such exploits are accomplished. The Her
aid furnishes the information in the article below,
and, In doing so, gives clue 10 the mysterious ee-
vaton OF Col. Fremont to the same position SO re-
Gently occupied by George Law. Ii cost MIR. Law
one hundred thousand dollars, hut that was not
enough for Bennett How much il has cost Col
Fremont We shall know after Bennett disposes
of him as he has done of Law. Read in the fall of
George Law from his late dizzy height The fate that
awaits John Z. Fremont
lHE DANGERS OF A TOWERING AMBITIoN-Some
OF our cotemporaries, including few magnanimous
politicians, are mourning the su iden fall of
George Law IRON bis late dizzy political heigh: down
10 Inc bottom OF the deep of political obscuTity
They think that should not have thus cruelty at
single blow, demolished the god of our do!atry -
W. tnnk differently. George Law was public man
OF our manufacture. 10 gel him up in the political
world be cost rs SIC months Of huTd acork an aqcful
expenditure OF brains, and many thousand dollars In
paper and printing wasted upon him. When we Wis.
tied Europe last year we left him great man
strong IN his legs, upright in his postion-hiS brow
touching the sky and his shadow covering tile land
when we returned we found him Gown in the dirt
surrounded by clique Of hungry suckers, who had
persuaded him to set up business on his account,
and to kick from under Lin the solid platform which,
at vast expense of time, labor and money, we had
built for him to stand upon The suckers that had
gathered around him had fattered him into the idea
that he could stand upon his own bottom
we are now satisfied that he has behaved meapIv
ana shaoDLy IN various ways; That he has encour.
aged the absurd idea that he had bought up and con
trolled the New York Herald, just as he coxld buy
up an alderman: member OF Congress- rotten
member of the cabinet When cur magnificent ido
began thus to betray his instincts, we thought
1t time to demOlish him and The batch of suckers
that were bleeding him to death. He pcas political
experiment Of politician of our manufacture
WE MADE HlM-aad surely man nnay do qrhdt
he pedSes acith his OEn. Thus, having left him down
from his lofty delusions, he is at liberty to resume
mis- proper functions of buy ing and selling railroads
steamboats,, aldermen, congressman, cabinet officers
and other vendible articles; but he will have learned
this good lesson that it is dangerous TO play the
buyer and seller with an independent journal, which
has nothing 10 ask and nothing 10 fear of trading
politicians, big little We dare say that the suck
ers that have inflated George Law with the idea tina
he owned the Herald Office have feeced him of
least A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. HI
has cost us, perhaps, TWENTY THOUSAND, so tha
in cutting him down 10 his orig al dimensions there
will be saving on both sides. In relieving him o
his suckers our charity cannot be questioned The
prisoner is discharged.
HORRIBLE AFFA1RAA Gentleman Scllded TO Deaf
by his O1Cn SerUants.-lt was mentioned few day.
ago that Lewis B. Norwood, ESQ.,, an influential ane
widely known merchant of Granville county, N. c..
had come 10 his death on the night of Tuesday, the
2lst instant, in a sudden and mysterious manner
The Petersburg Express has the following addition
al particulars
"About his usual hour of retiring. o'clock, his
oVerseer left him in his chamber He was then ir
his usual health and condition, both of mind and
body. Some two hours after his negroes reported tc
the nelghbors that he had fallen in the fire and beer
burned 10 death. The neighbors Immediately assem-
bed, and found him corpse. Burns upon differen
parts OF his person discovered, but his hair was
not slnged even, and his clothing was without {
scorch. Under these circumstances it was supposed
that the burns must have been scads from hot water
His two little daughters were asleep at the time il
the chamber but of course could tell nothing of th
sudden and mysterious manner in which they hat
been deprived of their protector
An exam nation being instituted suspicion restet
upon his negroes, and II is ascertained that HI
was fouly and shockingIy murdered by TWO of th
slaves. From such facts we have been enabled L
gather, 1t seems that negro belonging 10 hin
had for sometime absented hin,sef. Mr. Norwoo
suspected that two of his negroes were harhoring tn
runaway, and to prevent continuance of the prac
tice had for several nights previous to his murde
locked up The two suspected, in an out house on hi
premises. On the fatal night, however he wa
stunned by blow, and large pot of boiling waite
which had been prepared for the purpose was pour
ed through funnel down his throat, until life be
came extinct He Was then conveyed to his chamber
and the neighbors alprised of the DEATH as we hav
stated above We understand that two of his ne
groes have been arrested and are in Jail.