Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-11-14

in which its character may at any moment be essentially
changed and sterner and more bloody coIoripg given
to its features. Men acting under letters of marque
from the President of the Southern Confederacy-vol
unteer militia of the SEAS as duly commissioned as any
OF our volunteers lard, having fallen into the hands
of the enemy have BEEN confined as lon and tried and
convicted or the charge of piracy. Not common
robbers murderers, but enemies of the human
race" In vain Judge Grier Of the Supreme Court of
the United States says that it is farce to try these
men that they ought to stand the same footing
enemies taken land. The judiciary is nothing un-
less prepared to obey the behests of the Lincoln Execu
tive.
Well our men are under conviction and possibly
sentenced. So corresponding number of federal
officers, prisoners at Richmond and Charleston Should
our men be put to death, theirs will be hung
Colonel, three Captains and ten Lieutenants will be
sacrificed to the names of seamen The list would
be nearly complete if one Congressman and one
Electric Oil man could be thrown in fer good measure.
The Electric man having turned parson could admins
ter spiritual consolation to his brethren and by his e
quence quite eecrify" the favoured individuals who
might have the pleasure of witnessing his last appear
ance on the platform.
VIII Lincoln DacK OUT or VIII ne not ! VI LniS
depends the future character of this struggle. II he
does not then the war on both sides will be of
termination indeed is its present tendency. While
the war is confined 10 the operations of large bodies
acting strategetcay for the attack defence of IRON
tier positions it may be confined within the usual rules
of national hostility but when, as in Kentucky and
Missouri, the fight RACES from county to county aud
from house to house almost the result must be to super
add bitter personal and individual hate to the already
sufficiently eXasperated feelings OF public animosty.-
When expeditions land at isolated points like Port
Royal with the view Of carrying ruin and desoaton to
quiet homes they ought to be of success before
they leave the shelter Of their ships for they ought to
know that the penalty Of failure is death.
No NEws.-The Charleston papers of yesterday, at
hand this morning. give accounts from the seat of
war in South Carolina, additional to those already in
possession of the public The regular dispatches
are probably suppressed by military authority Re-
ports that the town of Beaufort had been burned by the
enemy and that it had not been burned but occupied by
them, both asserted and denied They are only ru-
mors most likely surmses offered as SUCH but mis-
understood and circulated facts. This is one of the
times when we may and indeed must watch and
wait"
There is no news, indeed no mail and no papers from
North of Weldon the train that arrived last night not
having connected with the train from Petersburg So
we have slim array of exchanges, and the reading
public must depend upon the telegraph and other sour
ces of information independent Of the G. S. nails
We must buckle down to the work of aper-nakng
without outside help. We have one comfort, however.
There will be no Journal on Friday, that being a ma
| IT,1L do ,Ofh iliotiO and
Daily Journal, l2M inst,
The VOTE of Meckenburg county was TAI for VIM.
Lander, Esq. for Congress- No opposition. The Rod
and Guon electoral ticket got Goa votes for Rod
man, and Col for Guion to 1G7 for Graham and lG3
for Reid, for the State at Large. AS however, MIR
Reid was on the Rodman ticket as a district elector
and also on with Mr. Graham for the State at Large
his election is certain
The Newbern Progress says that Major Kenaa is
certainly elected to Congress from the third District
He received majority in Carteret which, the Progress
says, settles the matter.
In Jones County the Graham ticket received lac
votes, and the Rodman ticket SO votes.
The Raleigh Standard of Saturday last, has an eGi
toria article of length the subject of Calling
out the Militia" with the main propositions of which
we fully concur.
The Standard deems it hardly prudent, in times lik
these, to call out the entire militia of any county il
North Carolina, and rendezvous them points distan
from their own homes and fresides This is so eviden
that General Anderson actually sent home their res
pectve counties deachments from more than one of tn
militia regiments rendezvoused here time SINCE th
truth being, however, that the people turned out with
promptude and universally that really exceeded al
calculation, leaving literally no grown up white a
home under sixty years of age, in many districts.
We wish now to correct an error into which th
Standard has fallen and for which we are no doubt an
swerable Speaking of the inequality and partial ope
ration of call exclusively upon the sea-coast counties
the Standard asks, among other things why Columbus
Bladen, Sampson Dupn, Robson, ETC., should not
called on as we'll as New Hanover Brunswick and 9th
er coast counties.
Unwilling to indicate particularly our force here
the time when General Anderson had the militia out
did not then state how many here whenc
: they came. We may state now that Baden, Robesor
: Columbus Richmond and Sampson were called upo
and responded with zeal and entreness that can neve
be forgotten. The militia of Richmond county had 20
to the head of the road their way here, when the
met by orders to return home We do not suppos
f that Duplin called upon We know that no cour
ty in the State would forward with zeal tina
Dupln and next to their homes the people of tina
county would rally for the defence of the homes of he
e sister county of New Hanover and of the Town
e Wilmington.
We LEARN that there is now at the plantation
Major E. D. Hall, in Holly Shelter in this county,
pumpkin weighing over one hundred and sixty pound
Verify, tall vegetable. Like the gallant Major, it
4 " some pumpkins" and hard to beat
FROM THE accounts in the Charleston papers, athoug
no particulars are given we are lead to the inerenc