Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-11-21

ment in Fortress Menroe. Indeed ming the news
did yesterday by telegraph the of the dispatch
and the authority given left doub of its correctness
The fact has been officially heated to the wa
department at Richmond
The arrest of these gentlemen is to be regretttti-
They are abe and dstiDg citizens of Che Confed
eracy but they would be the first themselves to scout
at the idea that the republic has not many very many
sons as able as devoted patriotic they are. The
country NAV regret her sons They are her Jewels but
the loss of one two from among millions will neither
dim the lustre of her crown the deprivation of their
services weaken her or enfeeble her councils
Captain Charles Wilkes, who entered the Navy in
l8l8 having been appointed from his native State New
York, and made Captain as late 1858, has sigma
lizd himself under bis title by rather omnous
achievements, having been volunteer participant in
some of the closing transactions OF the day and night
when the Federal power vanished from Norfolk aud
Portsmouth, not in blaze of glory His cruise in the
San Jacinto is probably bis first service under his
present commission, and it may we'll be doubted
whether his present rash act will shine here
after with less baIelu lustre than that given out
by the urd flames that enveoped the Navy at Gosport
and sought to envelope IN common ruin the twin cities
of the Elizabeth By mere brute force, against the
protest of the British captain he seized two persons
charged With political Offences and took them from the
deck of British mail steamer eitE in neutral Spanish
waters or on the high The right of visitation or
even of search in its broadest sense claimed by Great
Britain in her most arrogant days, never reached far
enough to cover an act like this and free nation
would ever consent to any extradton act that would
stpuate for the surrender of political prisoners View
ing the thing from every side from every point OF OBJ
servation and in every light in which it be placed
we cannot see how captain Wilkes escape dismissal
or the Lincoln Government avoid war if they refuse to
dsavow the acts OF their too Jealous naval officer.
Captain Wilkes is an instance Of the zeal of the Ma
w in maintaining the absolutsm of Lincoln. Although
a New Yorker by birth, Capt W. married Southern
lady-has children settled South-in North Carolina,
at Gharlote-he interests 10 this State and pro-
badly in South Carolina. We tbhk the lady he mar
ried was a daughter of Doctor Caldwell, President of
the South Carolina College at Columbia. After forty
three years spent in the Naval service of the United
States could hardly expect Captain Wilkes to act
against the service 10 which he had been long eng8g
co. but We can for his very forward zeal in
b other way than by RETIRING to the peculiar habits Of
bought which long possession OF authority apt to
s gender courteous gentleman in private life, Gap
s. tain Wilkes has always had the reputation of being
among the most rigid discP inaraDs in the Navy and
Indeed has been thought to have carried discipline to the
extreme of severity, if not cruelty No doubt be looks
upon the Southerners mutineeS and their secession
as volatve Of discipline and of that urquestionipe
Al obedience which is the first necessity of the service il
e which his life has been spent. 1t may be found, how
ever that there are other authorities in the world be
otblr no
Jacnto and other guns than these presided over b,
e Captain Wilkes
TIE ELECTION in this State is over and are salts
fed We hope everybody else is, for it would b'
neither profitable right for any of to indulge
growlings and as little 10 undue Civilizations. On al
average things have gone pretty much in accordance
- with our notions, under, the circumstances In most
cases where direct issue was made as IN the fifth
sixth and seventh DISTRICTS those Candidates for Cor
gress against whose positions we felt bound to protest
have been defeated We have not the returns from th
d vote for Presidential electors, but suppose the cke
the head of this paper has been elected at least tina
seems to be generally conceded, and is no doubt So
ro We simply state what we believe to be the facts wit
~ satisfaction naturally but without any disposition
ht exut crow since, in the first place. entered int
~ the contest if such it could be called, with sort
personal feeling, and in the second place. because tn
present is no time for the exhibition of any feeling
h triumph by anybody at the South any of their te
low citizens of the same section ever if they felt
II which we do not.
70 We would remark in reference to the result 10 til
ID 5th district, over which we regret to notice in tt
rp Raleigh Standard peculiar article at the expense
t one of the candidates. Mr. Venabe, with the person.
Il Eoolir hotu uhc nd
editor of the Standard we have nothing to do that h
70 result does not fairly certainly not fully warrant Il
Of differences drawn from 1t in the article in the Sanda,
on of the 16th headed Official Vote in the Fifth Iii
ot trict" We have been informed since the election b
on more than one gentleman, that so strongly had M
Turner avowed his Objectionable tenets that nearly
opposed to such tenets, resolved to cast their vote
m almost any one to defeat him. certainly to concentra
ed them either of the other candidates. if they on
m knew which the strongest The vote in the CAM
nd being heard before the time for the election in tt
d. counties decided the concentration upon Mr. Arrin
e. ton. Of this fact the vote in Warren is cited
If instance where Mr.. Arlington received this accou
is large number Of votes which he would not otherwi
r., have DONE and of course Mr.. Venable received mu
Oh smaller number than he otherwise would have DONE
m We do not mention this with the view of detractir
anything from Mr. Arlington, who would no dou
have been elected at any rate, it is evident that
I'm and MIR. VenabIe might have equally divided the AM
gil Turner vote between them aud either beaten M
by Turner.
7n- ENGLAND THE SOUTHERN CoNFEDSRAcY-Capt. Jam
bis D. Bullock who lately successfully the blockade viii
in command of the splendid steamship FDga has arrive
W in Richmond Captain Bullock says that the PEOPLE
England nearly all in favour OF the Southern Confede
acy Our cause is advocated by the respectable midi
on classes, the nobility and merchants, and majority
os pre- of Great Britain. He thinks there is likelihood
we'd in the seizure nv the Yankees on the high