Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-05-16
at Washington, and taken the cath of fidelity to old

looked Tor some time during the present week. 1t
appears that the Commander of Pickens has taken
the initiative by ordering Bragg to dispense"
Senator Bayard white headed veteran, accompanied
by his two daughters, had to make his escape from
Wilmington Delaware, for fear of an attack on his
person. Mr.. Bayard has strong Southern eanngs,
but Wilmington, Del, has only eanngs for Southern
money, and she has made money out of the South
One of Abe Lncons blockading tugs chased schooner
into York River on Tuesday last. AS the tug passed
Gloucester point, small battery recently erected
there and manned by the Richmond Howitzers, gave
her three shots in rapid succession, whereupon she
nut about crowded on steam and left York River at
rate of speed which astonshed every beholder
The Independent Light Infantry of Fayetteville, num-
bering lO8 men, including officers, non-commissioned
officers and privates was to leave Fayetteville at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon on the Steamer Hurt for
Wilmington, thence to 60 to Raleigh by Railroad
They arrived here some time during the night.
Messrs. Ohio Scott, Robert M. McLane, and VIM J
Ross Commissioners appointed by the State of Mary,
land to visit President Lincoln, have made report Of
their interview with that person, as also with the
Secretary of State and the Secretary of War, who
appear to have assisted in the interview with the
President. The closing paragraph of the report
appears to be the only that possesses any general
Importance beyond the mere local interests of the
State of Maryland. The Commissioners close as
follows:
The undersigned feel painfully confident that a
is to be waged to reduce all the seeding States
to allegiance to the federal government; and that
the whole military power of the federal government
will be exerted to accomplish that purpose and
though the expression of this opinion is not called for
by the resolutions of your honorable bodies yet hav
ing had the opportunity to ascertain its entire accu
racy, and because it will explain much of the military
preparations and movements of troops through the
State Of Maryland, it is proper to bring it to your
attention
The shipments Of cotton from New Orleans, from Sep
TENDER lst 1860 to May 1st 1861, have been 1858,
422 bales Corresponding period of last season
l,936,36O. The imports of specie at n. Orleans
since LIST September have been $13,779, 837 cores
ponding period last season. $6,299196.
SATURDAY MAY 18th.
A bill to define and punish treason, has passed the
Senate OF North Carolina and will soon pass the
House.
Sampson Co. has appropriated in all $2l 900 to equip
and sustain her Companies in the field and she will
give just as much more may be necessary. With
out disparagement to Others there are as good but
no better troops anywhere, than the Sampson
boys"
The Scientific american says that the real strength OF
the United States Navy, now fit for immediate SER
vice, is twenty four vessels carrying three hundred
and eighty-six guns.
1t is remarkable with what facility some people will lie
and other people give currency to the falsehood.-
There is now going the rounds of the Northern pa
pers statement that some four hundred and fifty OF
the South Carolina troops killed during the at
tack Fort Sumter, and further that they were all
buried in one big pit in Potters Field. Now we
have seen gentlemen both privates and officers from
Moultrie as we'll from every battery on Morris Is
lard, and we know this statement to be lie GU. If
the whole CLOTH AS to burying the dead, suppose
any body had been killed. in Potters Field, it may be
sufficient to remark that there is no such place, or at
least no place so known in near Charleston. What
once aCas Potters Field is occupied by the Ar
senal, late the United States Arsenal. The collins
had all been carefully removed and reinterred.
Also for the purpose of stirring up the Irsh they pub
fish story about an Irishman named Tracy, who
said to have been taken from his home near Coum-
bia, lashed put in prison and charged S. day for his
lodging and finally shipped off in a schooner from
Charleston. That story, too is all out of the whole
cloth. There is not word Of it true.
AeAp We would call attention to the notice of the
proceedings of the Directors of the North Carolina Mu
tua Life Insurance Company, at their called meeting
held at the Office of the Company in Raleigh on the
Goth April, 1861.
WE coll at To no cord of Mr. Acba nj
the communication of Capt Fremont in regard to some
occurrences at Weldon the 9Th instant or rather to
false, exaggerated and sensational account thereof
which appeared in the Richmond Examiner of the 9Th
in the shape Of communication to that paper. We
need hardly say that the statements of Messrs Ashe and
Fremont are entitled to the most implicit confidence
and will be so received by all acquainted with the
character of these gentlemen than whom the southern
cause has more devoted, reliable or active friends
AT HoME-Lieut Marshall Brown, late of the U
S. Revenue service, has arrived home from PASSPORT
Mane where he bad been stationed and where nothing
but his GOODNESS and determination saved him from in
suit and outrage However, he arrived here on the 9th
safe and sound, bringing his wife along with him. He
had rendered his resignation to Lncons government
take effect the 1st May, but has not heard of its
being accepted. 1t. Brown either has already rendered
his services to the Conederacy or to his native State
or will soon do so. He is son of T. W. Brown, ESQ.
Wilmington
At the election for Commissioners of Navigation held
here on Monday last the 9th inst 275 votes were cast
in all.
The Old Board consisting of 7. G. Worth, Geo
Harriss, J. II. FIanner Daniel NJ. Foyles and VIM. NJ
Harris was reelected.
AS the small vote proves, there was comparatively
little excitement, and but little effort made.
WE ARE indebted to the courtesy of captain
of the schr. John A. Burgess, for copy of the Bahama
Herald of the goth ult The captain left there on the
29th
The British steam Sloop-ofWar Styx appeared of
the bar of Nassau New Prouidence ON the 00th ,rtI