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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25

CALCUTTA, April 10.-Let me finish what have to
say Of Yeh-no longer Mr.. Commissioner Yeh" for
his degradation has down.
Since l last wrote a change has come over the be-
havour of Chinese detenu At that time he would
scarcely question A celebrated Faster scholar
called upon him to try to learn Buddhism from him.
tried to get him to admit that he knew of such
public opinion in England Yeh knew not of such things
Mr.. Layard told him that thinking he in the right,
he tried to prevent the expedition to China. Yeh
answered him only by grunt The fat unwieldy King
of Dude who occupies the house Immediately opposite
and grumbes all day long at being deprived of thesoace
of his Zenana manifested curiosity, from which it
seemed crowned heads not always exempt, and
tually applied to the Town Mayor to have some trees
cut down which intercept the view of Yeh's verandah-
The King would have called upon the mandarin if the
latter had given him the least encouragement but Yeh
treated all mention of him with the utmost sco refused
to believe that he had been king and would not look
towards his dwelling. An Englishman pointed out to
Yeh the Minister of the King of Dude, Ally Nucky
Khan, the Taleyrand of the East. He was told that
this thin willy Asiatic known to have been deeply
implicated in all the ntrgues which preceded the late
muny yet has trod the maze so cautiously that not
foot trace of his presence can be found. will make
a report upon your application" said Dr. Mcnamara
the other day in answer to Nucky Khan. Report '
said the Minister, with much scorn, withdraw my
application and take my advice, young man-never
write letter.. Yeh, however, could not be interested
in these black potentates He has great contempt for
US that We have left any of their heads on.
Correspondence of London Times.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25
From Havana.

New YoRK, June 20th-The steamer Black War
ror arrived here this evening with dates from Havana
to the 18th. The U. S. steamers Fulton and Water
Witch had touched at Cardenas and then resumed their
cruise. The American shpmasters had called meeting
at Havana to act on the basis of the Sces resolution
and put their ships in fighting order
Sugar and moasses were more active but prices un-
changed,
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Inquest.

Coroner r. j. Jones held an inquest, this forenoon,
over the dead body of W. G. BaIenton who died sud-
denly this morning, while on duty as one of the Town
Guard 1t appearing on investigation that he died of
disease OF the heart the jury returned verdict in &C
cordance with this fact
Mr. Balenton was about thirtyfye years Of age, and
leaves wife and two children.
Daily Journal, 23d inst.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25
From the Washington Union.
From Utah.


We subjoin a short letter from Gov. Cumming On the
subject of affairs in Utah It is evident to us that Gov
Cumming is exercising in Utah great good judgment );
and we have great hope that he will be able to solve
that extraordinary problem in American policy
Gov. Cumming informs us that the route to Califor-
MIA is now open ?
EXECUTIVE OFFICE GREAT SALT LAKE CRY, (U.T)
May II, 1858.
SIR: [ have returned from the south, after having
seen and conversed with large numbers Of the Mormons
who are journeyng in that direction have reasons
to hope that my intercourse with these persons has con-
trbuted to aay fears on their part which perhaps
unreasonable. [ regret to have been an eyewitness,
however, to scenes of great trial and suffering.
I have the qualification of authorizing you to an
nounce that the road open between Missouri and
California and that emgrants and others, adopting the
usual precaution for their safety against Indians, may
pass through Utah Territory without hndrance or mo-
Iesation. Parties will do well, however, to report
themselves at Fort Bridger where any information which
may be possessed Of Of Importance for their guidance
will be communicated to them.
am, sir, very respectfully, your obt servant,
A. CUMMING,
Governor of Utah.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25
From the Rnnistar.
Educational Convention.

Having been appointed committee by the citizens
of Statesve to make arrangements to convey delegates
and visitors to the State Educational Convention to be
held in the town of Satesve on the 9TH July, we beg
leave to state that the following have been
made: A train will be placed on the Western North
Carolina Railroad which will leave Salisbury the 9th
July, at 4 P. M, and on the It'll July at ~ A NJ,
connecting with c. S. Browns Western Line of Coaches.
r. F. SIMONTON,)
S. S. KIRKLAND, Com.
w. A. ELEASON,l
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25

B~ We requested to state, on behalf of the COM
mittee of arrangements that the Fourth of July will
be observed at Jacksonville Onslow county, on Monday
the 9th of said month Kadir &. Cox, Esq, will de-
liver the grafton, and Cooper Higgins Esq will read
the Declaration Of independence.
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Ernm ufah.

WASHINGTON, June 20th.-Col. Kane arrived here
last night bringing dispatches from Gov. Cumming,
whom he left at Camp Scott ON the 18th ut The dis
patches at delivered to the President of the
United States Their purport has not officially tran
spred but it is ascertaned that many of the accounts
with which the public mind has been occupied erro
neous and calculated to deceive the country respect to
Utah matters generally To this fact may be attributed
the uncourteous refusal of COL Kane to communicate
with the press.
1t is understood that Col Kane denies the truth Of
the Geographic announcement from Bonneville, 1ntma
ting that the army would move on the arrival of the
peace commissioners, when in fact Governor Cumming
has requested to remain where it is until orders shall
be received from Washington.
Contrary to the reports so widely circulated, Col
Kane does not admit that there has been any such want
of harmony between Gov. Cumming and Gen. johnson
as would leopard the public interests. He speaks in
eulogstic terms of Gen. johnson and the high state
discipline which that officer maintained in his forces and
of the praiseworthy spirit manifested by the army during
the winter
The friends of the administration are much pleased
with the manner in which Col Kane is understood tC
aIude to the conduct of Governor Cumming saying thai
he is deserving of the gratitude of the country.
There great hopes in Utah, an elsewhere, that Tho
war was at an end. A peace party had been formed
and sufficiently strong in time to arrest the marcel
of the Mormon forces against own last spring.
was the impression in Utah that Brigham Young, who
openly espoused the cause OF the United States, would
in this respect be able to maintain his position.
There was at one time strong opposition to him, be
fore emigration was resolved upon, but since Thu
the feeling Of hostility has been subsiding All TIN
northern settlements evacuated with the exception
of few Mormons left to guard the public property
Salt Lake city. Besides these there are no MOrmOn
forty miles south of that city The seventy families al
luded to in recent dispatch did not, stated app.
to Gov Cumming at Camp Scott for protection The
were brought there by him from Salt Lake city.
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n GILLESPIE
j. w. STOCKTON, !
w p CALDWELL, |

We understand that the invitation is extended to the
Charmen and members of School Committees, and in
deed to all persons concerned with educational matters
in North Carolina We trust that the Convention will
be fully attended and result in permanent benefit to the
great cause of education in State We more espe-
cially hope that our own county may be fully and fairly
represented.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25

TIGHT GR1P-A lady in New York, having bougn'
some clans on Saturday her little son, six years OF ag
ran his tongue into one to get the juice the clam sG
and nearly cut the little shavers tongue oil before LIE
mother could free his hold
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25

FIRE ON THE WILMINGTON & MANCHESTER RAIL-
RoAD.-We learn that down Freight Train on the
Wilmington Manchester Railroad, took fire yesterday
from sparks from the locomotive. We learn that the
loss of freight amounts to some seventy barrels spirits
and one hundred and eighty barrels rosn The exact
amount of injury to the five platform carrying this
freight we have not learned The fire was discovered
just before the train got the bridge over Livingston
Creek and the necessity of first securing the bridge from
destruction delayed for short time the attention of the
hands from extngushing the fire the train otherwise
the loss of freight would have been less.
Daily Journal 2Sd INST.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25

S1xTy-SIx MILES AN HoUR.-A special train on Ine
Canada Grand Trunk railway, the 18th May, Tau
twentyeight miles in twenty-five minutes ra'S -
sixtysix miles an hour.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25
Charles Dickens.
we may.

The prevailing subject of gossip in literary circles on
the other side of the water is the hitch in the do
nestle arrangements of Mr. Charles Dickens novelist
sketchwrter editor lecturer, player, etc. etc. 1t is
said that Mr. Dickens is is to be- separated from his
wife, the mother of something like dozen young Dick
enses, and this after than twenty years of
bal bliss" Some two or three years ago. Mr.. Dickens
and other men Of letters got to giving amateur dramatic
representations number of these representations
given as VIC recocct for the benefit of the estate of
Douglas Jcrrod, deceased. When they got to going
more extensively into this matter the assistance of some
professional aystes of the feminine gender was deemed
essential among Others one Miss ernan, we think. 1t
is said that the young in question had been quite
intimate with Mr.. Dickens family. Scandal says, that
after the payactng business commenced she got to be
too intimate with member CT the family and that
the head thereof to wit the immaculate author of
" American Notes" Hence these " family Jars
This is substantially the scandal, limited around in
English circles and through English publications, and
boldly proclaimed in the London correspondence Of the
New York Herald no very good authority unless cor
rOborated. Mr. Dickens publication, Household
Words, OF the 9th instant, contains card from him in
reference to this matter 1t really explains nothing 1t
puts nothing to rest 1t leaves for conjecture wheth
er Mrs Dickens has separated-had separated or is to
separate from him whether any serious cause existed
for any such domestic troubles as he admits to have ex
ised and which he says patched up. But how 3
He simply protests vehemently and the thing remains
as it before he published his Card" which we
give below
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25

ma The second attempt at laying the wire cable Of
the Atlantic telegraph line is now being made. In
week we will probably hear Of its success Or failure
| The chances ore about equal.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25
The ISthnuS.

We are no abetors of fllbuserism and do not think
that Walker is the man to win success if success
of any value were atainable in that field No doubt the
miserable little humbugs of quasi republics on the
American isthmus are somewhat afraid of the United
States and their miserable little tryants still more
So But it is time that these contemplate little COM
munites were made to respect if they hate US
They are not fit to take care of theseves-they don't
know how to behave. 1t is duty to make them be-
have properly. We actually put up with more from
these little excuses for States, than we do from all the
world BESIDES while in fact interests and honor
require that influence should be paramount there al
most within sight of our own Shores on transit
which annually flows and returns current of American
life business energy and wealth. far exceeding the whole
amount and volume of the petty little Central American
States piled up and added together. We CAN admit Of
foreign adverse protectorate intervening between
us and our vast territories on the pacific.
One Monsieur Belly, nominaLy commercial agent
the representative of French company has risen into
Importance and become man of mark quite recently
He slipped into Nicaragua fed and feed the Nicaraguan
Them little oath to have the Cass
Yrissari treaty rejected after it had once passed the
cabal they call Senate in that blessed country causing
our Minister Mr.. Lamar to speak quite plainly to Mr.
RVaS, thf nominal head OF the plebald ana Speckled
government. Mr. Belly then crawled around and got
Convention framed, granting to Milaud & Co.. of
Paris, the right to construct interoceanic canal
through Nicaragua, with grant of territorial privileges
to Frenchmen the right of having French ships of
the waters of the canal to pass the ships Of the
pany free of toll together with other exclusive privileges
Added to all this by way of postscript A Declaration
against the United States"
Now, what is the President to do? What can he
do? Negotiate? What good comes of negotiating L?
We have negotiated until we have grown sick and tired
of it. Every little onehorse affair knows that Congress
adjourned without clothing the President with any au
thOry to vndicate our honor or defend our interests in
the only way that will be understood by these people
and by Monsieur BeIy's Master, Louis Napoleon. We
publish the declaration in another column It is a
document. Read it.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25

Mr.. W1NsLow.-The newspaper correspondents keep
up quite writing over our representative One says
that the mission to Sardinia has been rendered him. but
the North Carolina delegation object to the States &C
ceptng anything less than frst-class mission Again.
it is said that Mr. Winsow has got or is to get the
offer of the mission to Spain. Meanwhile the gentleman
referred to- with very becoming reserve keeps his own
counsel and the correspondents keep surmising. We
presume there is something in it. Let not the qud
nWncS burst in ignorance"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25
. Ga.
JOONE 8, 1858,

M1sToR Mob, Deer Sn's: Received Letters from
You Last yeare And thOrt eye wod hit time
a goe but Did note Decide Mr. Nc Lv in This Pais Yet
whar thar eerers date But not Rename Long viii
QUITE off Buisenes eye doan wheer eye will Go De Noe
motherd the boays is Sic yet eye have Hear from them
EN- Mister Nc Mister Goodblod And fannie is Wei + Hell
from Them Las weake tina Ceapn hotel Mister GoodBod
is Lose Goo Eel for Geoge Race Geoge Race is Run Ore
Hear for Dept And lief lber with the Bag too hood
Mr. Sla sode 50 Gbers myers for GOodBlods Dept well i
Have saide nuf aboute GoodBlod Mr. Goodblod fannie
is well Ole John has the fines Boy ye hes most
year older he when you him las crmus 1853 We'll
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right son all well but betsy she is Sic
Mister NJ. C. if Il Cite ga - salvation In Youl
toune eye will Glad fal If hit will Pa eye Wi
sune out Bssnes for Mr. Wood & Roberts Ar a Co
Wind up thar Bisnes her in then eye will Bee Quite
Employ eye am fearde tina Given Us monthe
fead If you will Cite Plais eye Will Go month
Ma sho han right too the what wants too Hire
Eye Roe ALE the Letters for Mr. Wood Roberts eye rhal
Git inter s. Cum Misun Plas Where eye right Prin
cepul eye Doante mine much aBoue Big WaiGes lst
Ie Am mared to Mrss Rivers My wifi Rite me at Ice
Moste we're respecfule
ZACHARIAH RIVERS.
If any Cum Mssiun ~ merchant wishes to make ar
engagement with the writer of the above he can see the
" han right at this Office if he calls at 1ce.'
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25
Arrival of the Persia off Cape Race-Three Days
Later from Europe.

ST. JOHNS, June 21.-The steamer Persia, from Lv-
erpool for New York, with dates to Saturday the 9th
nst was bearded on Saturday the 18th, off Cape Race
by the yacht of the Associated Press and the fol-
lowing abstract of her advces reached here to-day She
will be due at New York on Tuesday evening.
The telegraphc fleet left on the 10th inst, for mid
ocean under sail. The steamer Niagara expected to
arrive on the 29th.
A new line of steamships from Galway for Halifax
and New York was to commence on the 18th.
The Cagari affair has been satisfactorily settled.
Later accounts from India state that the British had
occupied Barely after only slight resistance. The
British had also entire possession of Robilcund.
Warlike preparations continue to be made in France
to such extent to attract the attention of Parla
ment
Mr.. Fitzgerald stated in Parliament that the Amer
can Minister at Paris labored under grave msappre
hension in representing England acquesing in the
free labor movement
General Concha, it is said remains Governor of Cuba
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25
hAOAi AOuoSAoIu " VI Us; JUNE
A Card from Mr.. Charles Dickens.

Three and twenty years have passed since [ entered
upon my present relations with the public. They began
when l was young that l find them to have existed
for nearly quarter of a century.
Through all that time have tried to be as faithful to
the public as they have been to 1t my duty
never to tre with them or to presume upon their favor
or do anything with it but work hard and justify it,
have always endeavOred to discharge that duty.
My conspicuous position has often made me the sub
ect of fabulous stories and unaccountabe statements
Occasionally such things have chaed me, even wounded
me- but have always accepted them as the shadows
nseparape from the light of my notorety and
have never obtruded any such personal uneasness of
mine upon the generous aggregate of my audience.
For the first time in my e and | believe for the last,
now devate from the principle have long observed,
by presenting myself In my own journal in my pri-
vatc character and entreatng all my brethren las they
deem that they have to think well of me, and to
know that am man who has ever been unafectedly
true to our common calng) to lend their aid to the
dissemination of my present words.
Some domestic trouble of mine of long standing on
which will make no further remark than that it claims
to be respected being of sacredy private nature has
lately been brought to an arrangement which invoices no
anger iwi of any kind, and the whole origin pro-
gress and surrounding circumstances of which have been
throughout within in the knowledge fmy children. 1t
is amcaby composed, and its details have but now to
be forgotten by those concerned in it.
By some means arising out of wckedness, or out of
folly out ncOncevbe wild chance or out of all three
this trouble has been made the occasion of msrepesen
tatiOn most grossly false, mOnstrOus and most crue--
voving not only me but innocent persons dear to my
heart and innocent persons of whom have knowledge
if indeed they have any existence widely spread
that doubt if reader in thousand will perlse these
lines by whom touch Of the breath of these sand
ers will not have passed like unwholesome air.
Those who know and my nature need no assurance
under my hand that such cumnes are as rreconcable
with they in this frantic ncoherence with one
another. But there is great multitude who know me
through my writings, and who do not know me other
WISE and cannot bear that of them should be left
in doubt or hazard of doubt through my poorly shrink
ing from taking the unusual means to which now re
sort of circulating the truth.
most solemnly declare, then-and this do both il
my own name and my wifes-that all the lately whis
pered rumors touching the trouble at which I have
glanced abominably false and that whoever repeats
one of them after this denial will lie as wilfuy and
fouy it possible for any fasewitness to lie before
Heaven and earth. CHARLES DICKENS.
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Hon. LEWIS CAss, Secretary of State.
From the Weekly Platte Argus of June It'll

From the Weekly Platte Argus of June llth
Horrible Tragedy Mt Weston, MO.-Man Killed by Il
Woman in Defence of her Husband.
On Saturday night the City Marshall was aroused
from bed to 60 to house the northern extremity Of
IeavenwOrth street.
Here was horrible sight. Sitting up in bed was
man by the of Branham, his face bruised up his
shirt covered with BLOOD and his young wife, young
good looking in much Distress and attending tc
his bruises. About twenty feet eom the back door, in
the garden, lay the dead body of Hugh Wilson, his ea
lures scarcely recognizable his forehead smashed ill., and
the blood and brains oozng out profusely large and
bloody club by his side with which the woman, wife
of Branham said that she had done the deed in defence
of her husband The plain story that hetw told was,
that Wilson Gntoxicated) had forced the lock Of the
back door, had erked Branham out Of bed and dragged
him out into the garden. The wife flew to her husband
assistance with club and by dint Of well directed blows
made of Wilson the most horrible corpse one could well
look on
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-06-25

DECISION JUSTICES
90 We, the undersigned Justices, agree unanimously
that the homicide committed by Mary Branham on
Hugh Wilson was ustifable and she discharged from
CUSTODY
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Myself and husband had retired to bed, when some
broke into the house, and to the bed before
we could get up. The seized my husband and
dragged him out, striking at and beating him. He
called to me for help-said that the trying to
wiring off his neck. | could not get hold of anything
except piece of board the same now in court. With
this ran up to my husband and found him down, with
strong man resting one knee on his breast and strk-
ing him very severe blows.
AS l got in striking distance the man was making
attempt to wiring off the neck of my husband who
seemed to be almost helpless. Immediately struck him
husbands head and neck was relaxed. struck him with
nothing but the stick My husband had been sick in
bed for week previous, and almost as helpless as
child. [ struck to my husbands life, and believe
he would have been killed in few minutes if had not
ctrucE
The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-10-23
Thanksgiving.

" !" notieing the fact that the Governor of
:'e" Hampshire has set the example of nam
lnS the 18th of November for THANKSGIVING
Day, and the suggestion that all other Co.
's'nors follow suit, the Albany Journal re-
4AaFAs; "Ihe 18th of November is the Cen
san'al Anniversary of the surrender of For,
pu Quesnc (now Pittsburgh) which termi-
mated the rule Of France on this Continent.
II Is also the Anniversary of the Evacuation
VI New York by the British, which occurred
"en'y- five years later. WASHINGTON march
81 into each place with his victorious troops
saI ,. ''me' These events would give a Pc
S0''"f significance to National Celebration
VI mat day." We hope Governor LOWE
", WI act act upon this suggestion, and appoint
''e 10Th pro1imo, a day of THANKSGIVING,
The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-10-23

= One O! the best printed and edited papers onour
exchange list, is the Council Bluffs NOnpGrsH. ed ted
10y uur Uld friend. W w. MAYNARD The NonpgeH
institution which the Slope could atfJ to
be wlthout.-Des MONIES Monthly Reporter
Y-e-o-u don't say! If we didn't
know you. WEBB, we should think you vas
trying to poke fun at us, but as it is, bdng
we'll posted on your idiosyncracies, We viii
content ourself with marking it down clear
case Of obfuscation. If that suits you, say
so; if you don't want to say so, you tan
"squeze our hand" when we M et you at he
Capital, one of these days.