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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-01-23


Steamer Sentinel from Annapolis
Steamer Eastern State from Annapolis.
Steamer Cossack from Annapolis.
Steamer Huzzar from Annapolis.
Steamer Northerher from Annapolis.
Steamer Z9uave from Annapolis
Steamer Wyandot from Annapolis
Steamer Ranger from Annapolis.
steamer Eastern Queen from Annapolis
Steamer Pioneer from Annapolis.
Steamer Admiral from Annapolis
Steamer New York from Annapolis.
Steamer Louisiana from Annapolis.
Steamer New Brunswick from Annapolis
Steamer Chassenr from Annapolis.
Steamer G. Peabody IRON Annapolis.
Steamer CoEdelia, barges Phila.
Brig Dragon from Annapolis.
Schooner Skimisher from Annapolis.
Schooner Highlander from Annapolis.
Schooner H. f. Brown from Annapolis.
Schooner T. W. Brady from Annapolis.
Bark Kate simpson from Annapolis.
Bark Guerrilla from Annapolis.
Ship african from Annapolis.
Ship 4. E Thompson from Annapolis.
ship Greenlea from Anna, oils.
Canal beat Ranger.
Canal boat Rocket.
Canal boat Bombshell.
Canal boat Grapeshot
Canal boat Rover.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-01-23
UNDER THE Local" head of yesterdays Norfolk
Dag Book, we fad the following:

1t was reported that the Admiral above mentioned
to arrive here last evening, by the train from Wei
DON 1t is said this morning that he passed through
without stopping, thus rendering abortive any
ment made to extend to him those couresies and hosp
tates dse bis rank 10 the service of uation which
at least is not unrendy to US. 1t is said that Charles
ton will be visited by the French naval authorities to
investigate the matter Of the attempted stone blockade
Daily Journal 21St inst.
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Constitutional Convention.

The convention now in session at Spring
field may be said to have got fairly to work
on Monday The standing committees
were announced on that day, and the
different subjects likely to come before the
convention parcelled out There are 81
committees, embracing Executive Depart
ment, Legislature Department, judiciary,
Apportio ,ment, Federal Relations, Reve.
nue., Education, Retrenchment, dc.
Among the first business ofthe Conven-
ton, was the decision of the question &c
to it's powers. These were regarded as
nmited only by the constitution of the
U. $. The convention had no doubt it
could do a good many things by "ordi-
nance immediately, without the formality
OF a submission to the people, and that
they were not even bound to submit the
new constitution they made to vote, al
though they unanimously agreed they
would do so. 1t is not unlikely, therefore,
in this view of their powers, that some
important. ordinance may at an early
period be adopted in reference to our
military matters. 4 call upon the State
board ofarmy auditors on M3ndayrevealed
the startling fact that our State officers
have SO far exceeded their constitutional
powers as 10 disbu-se some $500, 900 dollars
for war purposes without authority of law,
and even in the face of tho fact that the
general government has dies tred to assume
this whole business to itself If the con-
-vention really has the power TO curb Gov
ernor Yates propensity to show off as
" COMMANDMENT chief" and f.tten set
OF. state leeches around him, il is sincerely
to be hoped they will pass the necessary
-" ordinance at once.
Notwithstanding the appot tionment bills
passed by the last legislature, there Is no
doubt the convention will submit ain ell
tirely new apportionment both legislative
and congressional The latter, indeed. Is
unavoidable, a. the decision Of the Census
Bureau at Washington gives US one more
member of Congress than the present ap-
portionment provides for
\ proposition to adjourn over to October
was voted down by a large majority.
Two Stenographers have been employed
at $50 week to report the proceedings of
the convention, and the Springfield papers
are paid ST column for publishing them,
the bare cost" as those editors affirmed,
of putting them in type" We shou<6like
to put few thousand columns in type at
about two thirds those rates.
Chas II. Lamphier has been elected
printer, at the rates fixed by law for state
printing.
The movement in favor of abolishing
grand iuries seems to be popular in the
convention and will probably succeed.
There is little doubt but the present
constitution will be radically overhauled,
aud an almost entirely new constitution
adopted The term of our present State
officials will probably be shortened, as they
are evidently not popular with the eouven-
tion-even Wentworth having led off in IN
attack upon them.
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kENTCCEY.

The news from kentucky is cheering
Col. Garfield, who was marching, according
to our last weeks report, on Hum 5hrey
Marshall, at Prestonburg, reached Paints
vile, within miles of Marshall's CAM,
on Monday of last week. He there met
a flag of truce from Marshall asking to
"arrange matters without fight. Gar
field replied that he must fight or surren-
der. Marshall thereupon made speech
to his men, telling them they had no al
tentative but to surrender or disband.-
They Immediately set fire to their encamp-
ment, provisions, &c, and after making a
brief stand, scattered in confusion. Col.
Garfield took % prisoners and a quantity
of stores. He then crossed the river and
occupied Prestonburg. Marshall had about
$500 men, while Garfield attacked him
with less than 1000. and no ordnance,
while Marshall had 3 guus.
Buell's army has crossed Green river,
but is able to move forward but slowly, on
account of the horrible state of the roads.
The rebels have entirely destroyed the
railroad.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-01-18

THURSDAY. Jan. q.

Senate-Various petitions presented
One from citizens of Pennsylvania asking
the censure of Secretaries Cameron and
Wells for the plundering of the Treasury
by their appointment of Cummings and
Morgan.
The correspondence in the Trent affair
was taken up, when Mr. Sumner proceeded
to address the Senate at great length on
the subject. He justified the course of the
administration in the surrender of Mason
and Slidell; paid high tribute to the
gallantry and patriotism of Capt Wilkes,
but said his action was not justified by
national law; and closed by maintaining
that our Government hadlgained greater
diplomatic triumph in the Trent affair
than that of England. AT the close OF
this speech the Senate took up the bill
providing for 20 mail clad gunboats, the
question being on striking out " the Secre-
tary of the Navy as the person under
whose saperntendence they were to be
built, and inserting the President" Mr.
Hale supported the amendment declaring
tnat alter Tire affair between Secretary
Wells and Mr.. Morgan, he was unwilling
to entrust the former with the expendit-
ure OF any more public money. Messrs.
Dixon and Doolittle apologised for the
Secretary, but this only provoked severer
attacks from Hale, Sherman Wilkinson,
and others The bill was finally laid aside
temporarily, and resolution adopted re-
questng the Secretary of the Navy to in
ha nft ha nd To
the employment of Geo. B. Morgan to
purchase vessels, and the amount of com
pensatlon PAID HIM. adjourned.
Hoasc-NarIous bills were introduced
among them one by Mr.. Richardson, to
establish an arsenal at Springfield H.
The House then took up the bill to
abolish the banking privilege, and debated
it until adjournment without coming to a
vote.
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ng Northern aboltionism@ asssl ting 4

ing Northern aboltionisni, Asserting -
supremacy of the Constitut ton, and that
the present Union, not a new tangled aboli-
ton reconstruction-but the present Union
must and shall be preserved
And this is not only tho language of
Indiana and New Hampshire, but were
the democracy of Illinois, or of Pennsylva-
MIA, or New York, or any other loyal State
to meet in convention to-day, they would
reiterate the same language
1t is time abolition-republicanism should
understand this-its full import 1t means
simply, that the conservative masses of
this country are determined to maintain
the Constitution as it is and to restore the
Union at all hazards, and that those who
would defeat this grand object by per-
verting the war from this its only legiti-
mate purpose-whether they be professed-
ly loyalits or open and avOwed rebels,
shell alike be crushed between the upper
a,f4 neither milestone.
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When VIII Wonders Cease.

A week or two ago, we had occasion to
mention wonderful case of penitence in
the conversion of JAMES REDPATH, who after
having for years played the part in print
of an atrocious instigator to war, blood
shed an all sorts of horrors, now announces
himself friend OF peace. If we were
struck by this instance of repentance, no
less SO were we by the following statement
in a recent number Of the Hartford Times !:
Nh BEEcnERs CONSERVATIVE VIEws-
Henry Ward Beecher !ectured last Monday
evening. to only moderately full house,
in the new Methodist Episcopal Church on
ASYLUM street. We did not hear him, but
are told that his discourse, instead of beng
a hi ghly-seasoned dish of abolitionism, as
many, doubtless, expected i. would be, was
a conservative and very temperate appeal
in favor of the Constitution, and against
the destructive scheme of Abolitionists to
overthrow it. He urged that the preser-
walton of the Constitution was of more i'm
, ortance to the cause of freedom and pro-
gress than the liberation of slaves in viola
ton OF that organic law.
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War News CO the Week.

There has been no movement whatever
on the part of the army on the Potomac
near Washington during the week. Quite
. number of vessels, among them the
Pensacola, have passed the rebel batteries
on the river without injury, although vast
amounts of shot and shell We're expended
upon them. Some of our gunbcats, also,
have been Smelling the rebel batteries, bat
with no known effect.
Gen. Mcclellan was on Wednesday be
fore the joint committee of Congress on
the conduct of the War He gave patient
and candid account Of his operations
The difficulties of his position, the amount
of labor to be done, the ferocity and
strength of the rebellion he has 10 van
auish, were grouped together in a manner
70 effective on the sympathy Of members
who had imbibed prejudices against him,
and the modest and steady assurance he
manifested of an early and utter overthrow
Of the rebels, give confidence in his capa-
city and Generalship that had not before
existed
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his assistance" but they decline it, saying
they need none But Mr. Cummings has
100000 to expend, ard must be doing
something. lie hires clerk-knows
nothing about him, but takes him hap
hazard on the recommendation Of Thurlow
Weed. What all Mr.. Cummings purchased
heaven only knows; but he and his clerk
managed, in Is days, to expend S250O0O,
when his career appears to have been
stopped. The following, however, one of
his transactions, may illustrate all the
rest He met in New York an agent
Of Corning & Co, dealers in hardware at
at Albany, and being informed that G. &
Co. We're large dealers in produce pur-
chased of them a stock. The following
were among the articles:
$50 pints ale at sl.S7. S525 90
81 quntas goldfish, 300 bxs herring, PA 90
200 bxs cheese, &c pkgs butter, l54l 70
3 bbS tongues, I27 so
l,670 dozen straw hats, Alas 6S
1850 pair linen pants, 1920 90
And so on, list amounting 10 $4,000,
not an article eff which by law could come
tipCi tiiS hcetet VI army SUDDtCS, ana
this tremendous purchase was pa GU
board the steamer Catalina, struggled
through to Annapolis, and there turned
over to the Government At the end Of his
glorious career of 10 days Mr. Cummings,
in his testimony before the committee,
says his purchases amounted to S25O,0O0,
which he retained, and paid over the
balance of the 81 100000 entrusted to him
to the sub-treasurer in New York It APP
peared afterwards, however, that he had
retained $4,000 more, to cover, as he
said, other purchases by his clerk Mr..
Cummings bad given no bonds, has never
settled with the Government, and at last
accounts was preparing to travel in
EUROPE
We nave only got into about third of
the volume before us, but must defer fur
ther " choice extracts to next week.
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Nero CnnGScafinn.

! There is good deal of political iargon
uttered on this subject By the abolition
press one would suppose that the President,
Gen Mcclellan, the democracy and con
servative men of the country were opposed
to touching a single slave belonging to
rebels, and. if slave came within the
American lines, that they would send him
back without ceremony. This is all nom
sense There is no more tenderness felt
tor the slaves OF rebels than for their horses
or mules What is contended for is that
when slaves belonging to rebels fall into
our hands they shall be put to work or ia
ken care of, not informed that they are free
and can 90 where they please, so that they
can find their way back to the rebel camp
with information to the enemy In other
words, the conservative men say, with the
Union men of the border slave states, I'VE
don't care how soon you confiscate all the
slaves belonging to the rebels; all we ask
is that you will not turn them loose upon
US, to disatiect our own slaves, Kill our
women and children, and rob our hen
roosts." The President has suggested
plan to colonize them; but better plan,
it strikes us, is that said to be proposed by
the military committee of the house, which
contemplates the confscation to the gov
ernmen., first, of the estates Of the rebels,
and then the hiring of the slaves to lessees
or purchasers of these estates from the
government.
This plan, by the way, is in the spirit of
a plan Yhich has been elaborated at some
length ~ an eminent citizen of Ottawa, of
which afew copies have been printed, and
OF which a copy we have no doubt is now
in the ha ids of the military committee of
the House. We have neither room nor
are we pehaps at liberty to go into the
details of this plan, but we may say in a |
word, thai it looks to us as feasible, and
is based o, principles that commend them.
selves to olrjudgment as just These are,
that the pollcy towards the negroes should
be at onca humane and just to them that
it should be in strict subordination to the
principlesbithe constitution; that it hould
not be in violent conflict with opinions
and prejualces in all parts of the country;
that it shotd involve no burdens on the
public treasury, but should be selfsustain-
ing and sef-executing and that it should
tend to::strengthen the arm Of the loyal in
all the states, while it paralyzes that of the
disloyai. The essence of the plants not at
once and violntly to set the slaves of re- !
bells free, but. 20 use their Il Dor in such
way as to relive the public treasury of the
burden of thtr care, and to compensate :
the loyal men f slave states for losses re- {
sulting from ueir loyalty.
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WOODEN SHOES FOR THE CHlyALRY-They
have opeEed at Raleigh n c. an establish h.
ment for the manufacture of wooden shoes.
of which the Standard thus speaks:
The enterprising manufacturers have
IN their employment some thirty hands.
and are turning out about one hundred
pair of shoes per day, The shape and size
of the shoe are first marked and sawed out.
and then it is bored and scooped out and
fashioned at the bottom, and sand papered.
and lined, and painted, and topped with
leather, and thus finished in various rooms
in the same building Most of this norl,
is done by machinery, driven by steam
The wood is gum and poplar, which is well
steamed before the shoe is made We
understand that these shoes are actually
lighter than the leather b-ogan of the same
number, and, as for durability, the bottoms
will last until the next war We learn
that Messrs. 1huim d: Traps, who are finish
ing one hundred pair per day, have more
orders than they can fill. Wooden shoes
are worn in the northern part of Europe.
and in some localities in this country; but
we suppose this is the first manufactory of
the sort by machinery and steam which
has been established"
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cotton IN UNION CouSrY.-We are IN
formed by one of the proprietors of the
he" cotton. gin, below town, that nearly
seven thousand pounds of good cotton
nave been brought in to be ginned bv the
farmers OF the neighborhood, although the
machine has but just been got into salts.
factory operation. The seeds are closely
saved and eagerly sought for by the people.
ana much larger breadth Of land in this
county will be devoted 10 the culture of
cotton the coming year than ever before.
We learn that five hundred mounds of
good cotton may be obtained per acre in
this section. At present PRICES, go to 40
cents per pound,) and which are not likely
to be.any lower while the southern ports
are blockaded, nothing would be so profit
able to our farmers, even if the crop did
not average over half that quantity
JonesborO Gazette
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The BURNSIDE EXPEDITION.

The newspapers have been talking foi
at least five months past about great
naval expedition fitting out at Annapolis
to sail for the southern coast under COM
mand of Gen. Burnside. The expedition
was to be larger, in many respects, than
that which sailed under Dupont and
Sherman but it was noticeable that the
vessels were generally of much lighter
draught, so that, instead of being destined
for the distant South, the general news
paper speculation as to Its destination has
preponderated in favor of its being de-
signed to operate on the Potomac or James
River The feet finally got ready, and by
Saturday last all the vessels and troops
had rendezyoused at Fort Monroe The
number of vessels of which it is composed
is not closely given. We have, however,
in the list. 10 gunboats carrying from to
guns each; 20 transports, armed and
unarmed; a lot of steam tugs, hospital
ships, pontoon bridge schooners, floating
batteries, &c. The number Of men sailing
with this expedition is also not accurately
given Some 5000 men sailed in the
transports from Annapolis; but in addition
to these, about l., 600 men were assembled
at Fort Monroe, who could haze been
spared to 90 with it, bat how many went
is not stated. 1t is safe, at least, to place
the number Of men at 10000 The whole
number of guns carried by the feet can
not be less than 500, large proportion Of
which are light artillery, for operating on
land
The destination Of the expedition had
been kept a profound secret until Monday,
but as the entire fleet had or that day and
the evening before sailed from Fort Mon
roe, it was no longer deemed necessary to
keep its destination secret, and the country
is now informed that it viii enter Hatteras
Inlet and operate on the North Carolina
coast in Pamiico and Albermarle sound
Its first job viii probably be to drive the
secessionists from their Notifications on
Roanoke Island; thence operations will
be directed against any other important
points in Eastern North Carolina. The
feet must by this time have passed Hat
teras, and doubtless in few more days we
shall have exciting news from that quarter.
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SNEERIxG AT WEST PoINT-The sneering
at West Point graduates, which has lately
become so popular with a certain class of
politicians in Congress and the "On to
Richmond newspapers, is pure political
malice, and has lis origin in the fact that
very few West Point graduates happen to
be abolitionists. We have had, in our day,
little experience in the army, and "were
around where a good many West Point
officers were on duty, and we can say this
that we never saw a second rate man among
them. As quartermasters, commissaries,
paymasters, or at the head of companies,
regiments, or divisions, they were always
more trusty, reliable and efficient men than
volunteer officers of the same grade, with
hardly an exception that can be named
The truth is simply, that without West
Point officers in our army now; it would
be little more than mob
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Ill. CENTRAL X. r. BoNUs-It appears
the Illinois Central r. r. Co had refused
10 pay over the per cent of its gross
earnings in July as provided by its charter,
claiming an offset charge for transporting
State troops. The Constitutional Conyen.
ton, however, seems to have gwen the
Company some alarm-at all events, a
telegraph despatch now announces that
"Mr Osborne, the President of the Com
pany, has telegraphed the State Treasurer,
Mr. Butler, that the Z per cent. tax in full,
in gold, is paid in to the order of the State
of Illinois at the American Exchange
Bank, New York"
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Times have been brisk and busy at Cairo
during the week, in pushing forward the
great Expedition into Kentucky General
McClernand's brigade leads the van, and
went down the river on Friday as far as
Mayfeld Creek, u miles below Cairo, on
the Kentucky side. The troops expected
from St Louis, to follow in his rear, were
unfortunately arrested by the ice in the
river, and have only commenced arriving
at Cairo by railroad This unforeseen
accident eaused considerable delay. How
ever, on Wednesday, Gen. Grant with q
large additional force, followed McCler-
uaud to Mayfeld Creek, and as he landed,
the other started for Blandville, still
keeping in advance. His pickets now
daily seour the country within six miles
of Columbus. On Wednesday they took
a nephew Of Gen. Polk prisoner, with
despatches from Bowling Green to his
uncle. The force now under Grant at
Nayfieid and Blandville amounts to ahout
10000 men and six batteries, and this,
with the troops coming from st. Louis and
Paddcah, will in few days double his
army. This force, with the eun-boats,
mortar boats, &c, on the river, ready to
sail. certainly means al attack on Co
Iumbus.
Three OF the rebel gunboats came up
from Columbus to see what was up, but
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PORT ROYAL

Since the affair at Port Royal Ferry, on
the LIST of January, no movements of any
sort are noted in and abou. Port Royal.
There seems to be disagreement among
the commanders. A prisoner taken in the
affair at the Ferry is reported to have said,
"that party was on foot in that region in
favor of settling the question at issue by
Commissioners, and that both Dayis and
Stephens are in favor OF it, bat that the
Rhett party had frowned it down"
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Information has been received at Fortress
Monroe, from New Orleans, that Mr. James
f. Otis, one of the editors of the New Or.
leans Pscay',ne, had been placed under ar
rest for utsering seditieus language. Mr..
Otis is native of Newburyport, Mass,
and was connected with the press of Phia-
delphia for many years before going south.
The Picoyune, it will be remembered, resist
ed the secession heresy even after the
secession ordinance had been passed, and
only gave in its adhesion when 1t could no
longer successfully resist the pressure of
external circumstances The arrest of Mr..
Otis now would seem to show that there is
a little of the old leaven still left in the
establishment.
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ILLINOIS SrGaR-

capability of Illinois to make its own sugar
must be regarded as settled At the
recent meeting of the Executive Commit
Tee OF the State Agricultural Society at
Springfield, Mr.. J. II. Smith, of Adams
-, presented specimens Of lot of over
o,ooo lbs OF sugar which he made during
the past season. The sugar was made at
an expense OF about4 cents per ID. and
the molasses he made cost about % cents
His experiments in sugar maxine have
embraced some half dozen varieties Of
cane, only one Of which-Imphee-b
found to be valuable, though all are
valuable for syrup. This variety will yield
seven parts OF sugar to three of syrup.