Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-11
From the N. Y. Daily News.
I'm Havana British

From the N. Y. Daily News
,.,s, aupressions-Exctementi I'm Havan0-Brittsh
BEl'iS 0aiceS Arrested by Order of his Superior.
The excitement in reference to the outrages commit
t in the Gulf by the British naval officers is not con
fned to the United States. The iveest Indignation is
It nj Havana and the most serious consequences are
supposed likely to grow out of it. u.,o
The British officer arrested and reported 10y Iee-
raph to be sent to Jamaica Tor trial. Is statu " ue
fbe officer who visited the American vessels IN tne
harbor of Sagua Ia Grande-the cause Dehg' SO IL is
added, Exceeding his Instructions
# was this officer too probably, who landed British
marines upon the island thereabou to hunt up Bozal
NEGROES lust landed there from an American built vessel
The British Consul is reported to have made to the
Captan General all sorts of apologies therefor which, |
however the Captain General has not accepted but on
the contrary he has referred them home to Madrid.
It was the general impression of passengers on board
the Cahawba and of Americans and others in Havana,
that the course pursued by the Styx and the officer at
Sagua la Grande met with the strongest condemnation
from his SUPERIOR and it generally thought he would
he broken.
Another report is that intelligence of the visits to and
searching of American vessels by British cruisers was
still continued although the vessels about the har
Dor of Maanzas and to the eastward have received in
qtructions to be Very lille more polite and not to shot
their guns. 1t is well understood here that the farce off
arrest of the officer who ordered to visit and search
American shipping in Sagua la Grande, is only cover
to get out of bad scrape All the cases that occur of
aggression are not reported at the U. S. Consulate as
they should be.
There Is some Sickness among the shipping, DuI
city is perfectly healthy.
From the Ashevlle News.
AsHEyI1LE, May 81, '58
T. W. Atkin Esq., Eoit0r of NerCs:
Dear SRI am my return home from Rutherford
Court. On Tuesday Of the week of Court meeting
was held in the Court House by the Wilmington Char
Iottee and Rutherford Rail Road Company and ar
engagements made to make survey for Rail Road from
uherlordton to Ashevie and then to give assistance
to extend it to Duck Town, Tenn. The Western North
Carolina Rail Road Company will, have no doubt
give aid to make this portion of the survey as both
Companies interested in the extension. And the
people the line, in each county, will doubt furnish
the small amount required to extend the survey, with
the aid that will be received from companies at Duck
Town.
The survey will be commenced in june and finished
Your obt servant W. H. THOMAS.
Distressing Accident.
We regret to hear of a most distressing accident
which occurred at TawbOro, EdgecOmbe county, n c..
on Friday afternoon last and by which, doubtless very
worthy young man has lost his life. gentleman of
this city, in IawborO at the time, furnishes the follow
ing particulars The citizens having resolved to cee
brae the approaching Fourth of July party of young
gentlemen secured old cannon for the purpose of Civ
ing it thorough test, in order that accident might
when the time arrived to fire the national salute
The piece had been discharged once but unfortunately
the young gentlemen forgot to swOb the gum and while
engaged in rammng the cartridge for the second shot,
young gentleman named H. Tharp, incting frightful
wound through which his lungs were plainly SEEM tear
ing off large piece of flesh from the arm, and driving
several spners into of his thighs The services of
DR. n j. Pittman one of the most skillfu surgeons in
that section were Immediately procured who rendered
all necessary aid but the unfortunate young man was
sinking rapidly Friday night that all hopes of his
COyery had been abandoned.
Mr. Tharp is represented as young gentleman of
most exemplary character, and universally esteemed
lie native of Connecticut but has been engaged for
time past in the extensive mercantile establishment
Of Mcssrs r. E. Neale & Co., of Tawboro' Erp.
From the New Orleans True Delta
What Is the Movement!
Many persons affect to believe that only full con-
seriousness OF approaching pecunary disaster could have
reused the thinking and substantial men of this
nifty to true of the necessity of crushing out the
evil elements which, for several years past have ruin
CuSy dominated here. Than any such suppOsitiOn
thing be erroneous for public opinion in the
last two years las been gradually forming and matur-
ing to make the issue which presented namely
whether the cuthrOas and vagabOnds who cOngregate
here, like second San Francisco from every State in
the Union and every nation abroad shall rule and ruin
or, whether its industry, its integrity, and its ntel
gence shall the control ard compel such wretch
Is to abdcate and depart If the question ever
political has long since ceased to be in the est
nation of the public at large whether the kind Of people
who have been lOrdng it this city shall be permit
ted to rob- plumber, and assassinate at discretion
touched by the laws, unchecked by popular until a
length silent protests and universal disgust have giVer
way to determined organization and resOute intention
to maintain law and right by the strong of Legitimate
popular authority.
The generalization consequent upon what SCALED tn
success of Know Nothingism, exceeds belief hundred
of youths this city, many of them the of parent
OF the highest social standing and exalted moral worth
have been ruined in mind morals and character, bein
led into the ndug OF the lowest and bases vices ant
Cnrapped into the commission of punishable crimes il
order to obtain the of vicious indulgence. TIL
number of estimabe families who have thus been brough
to exceeds, as have stated, credbility AM
how could be otherwise when the meres boys assOcia
ted with the vilest thieves and murderers fOurshin
their knives and pistols drking for the fun of the thing
any obnoxious poor person that along and chan
ing in halEdrunken insanity Rip SAM" they yelle
and reeed to the lowest haunts to sleep off the effects
their first debaucheries? 1t is sights like these and
idle or real alarm for the safety of property which hav
at length stirred and quickened this torpid communit
into healthful activity and shall be disappointed
the composition of the who have taken control
the movement if they abandon it before city purge
of the villains who have made it by-word q scofi
reproaCh and hell
The man of property has of course a very great int
est in its preservation and he must be blind and stup
who does not observe how rapidly its value deprec
atng under the operation of the to which hay
so often alluded; but what is property compared wit
the moral health of the rising generation of this plac
or the decline in the value of lots in iuxtaposition wit
the purity, the sanctity the holiness of the domest
temple?
Ignorant and depraved brutes may laugh and thin
1t Is good joke to precocOus ruffansm play off
Sangunary tricks and we have seen we'll dressed pr
tentlOuS mlScreants stimulate to such exploits but Il
parent who for his own and his amilys honor mu
DC strangely constituted, if he witness such dec