Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-01-29


This was pretty generally believed yet on slit
ing it. We could not find any confirmation sufficient to
satisfy u.s. No such news, know, had been received
at Magnolia the headquarters nearest to Jacksonville
and from which alone any reliable INFORMATION could
have been brought by the train.
The enemy has fallen back from Trenton, so that no
immediate advance is in progress in the direction OF
Godsboro In truth the Abolition forces in this State
are practicing either the most profound or the most
shallow tactics They are either going through the
celebrated evolution of the King of France, marching
up the hill, and then marching down again, for the
mere fun Of the thing they conceang very
occult designs under very mysterious movements. For
instance day Gen. PRYOR. in command of the Con
federate forces above Suffolk, found in bis front only
some twenty-five to twentyeght hundred of the enemy.
They had gone somewhere sag to Winton on the Che
River. The next dGy, the enemy appeared in force
not less than fifteen thousand. So they back and fl.
They advance from Newbern, ard they go back to
Newbern, with what precise military object we-canno
see unless they make armed reconnosnces in force for
the purpose of robbing henroosts stealing nigg88 and
committing acts of felony and other misdeeds.
We have referred to Suffolk in connection with the
Eastern part the State because in nearly every point
of view, or military movement in Eastern North Car
oina and il South Eastern Virginia are so mixed up
as to be almost ineeparable
Rumored disatIection in FosTER's army may have
paralyzed bis movements for the time being, it is
said to have doe BURNsIDE's, so much in the latter
70 make Che army Of the Potomac quite much
source OF uneasness to the Cabinet at Washington
to our Government at Richmond.
Somehow we have been able so far to contain our
souls in tolerable quiet spite of Gen. FOSTER who we
will venture to say, is not without apprehension of be-
ing himself attacked ard thrown the defensive in bis
own strongholds.
If any Abolition troops have been seen at Jackson
yille they must have been mere cavalry scouting par
ty.-Da,iy Journal, 22d inst.
THE most solemn farce of the season was enacted in
the House Of Commons of this State Tuesday last
by Mr.. Henry, Of BERTHE. who introduced the follow
ing
RfsoIred by the House of Commons of the General As
gemhg OF North Carolina that the language used by the
of the Stale towards the Legislature of Caro-
Gna alike SidnderJtS, CeSOTOuS and unjust and de-
serves the con and contempt OF every free and true heart
ed son If North Carolina.
ReS0Ced That it with III grace that any Richmond
paper seeks 10 eiae the Legislature OF North Carolina Or
portion of her people, long they the
homs na to IT, gn troops Of North OF c RGSa aH'
Be Il further IcsoIUed, That North Carolina is a free
and independent sovereign State viii all constitu
tional means defend her rights liberties insult
and oppression from whatever quarter it may
that these resolutions should be printed and made the
special order Tor twelve O'clock Thursday today
Surely, never before in the whole history of legisla
ton was any such thing seen as legislative body
chosen for the discharge of high and responsible duties
and ped fer such discharge leaving such things undone
and entering the arena of newspaper controversy with
journals printed in their own State rs well as out o. it.
Surely, before did any legislative body seek to
its
who express diaapprovaI CT its course as ilnatured
Parzan papers. and their language slanderous cen
serious and unjust Surely never before did any party
to discussion hope to carry its point by simply voting
itself right and its opponents wrong Surely, no man
or body Of men who did not feel that they were Justly
amenabe to CensuTo would attempt 10 lcresa the free
expression Of opinion by tegisating upon particular
newspaper paragraphs thus trying to bring certain
pressure to bear upon the liberty of the press-:bus
virtually making such liberty dead letter.
That q weak man, Ike Doctor HENRY, of Berthe
should imagine that by" exhibiting" so strong and
nauseaus dose, he would get credit for heroic prac
tice, well imagine, but it does excite our spe-
cial wonder that there wiser or cooer head in
the House to suggest the proprety at least the poll
CT o: mohering the bantlng before it allowed to
come forth fuipledged in all the honors Of type and
made the special order for a certain day.
In good truth, We are sorry that the House of Com
mons OF North Carolina should have stopped to cons
tute itself party 10 mere newspaper controversy be-
tween the raleigh Standard, the Richmond Enquirer
and some other papers. If the Standard ras getting
tie worst OF the controversy, the House of Commons
need not proclaim it ostenatUusy It is asked to
do by Doctor HENRY, of BERTHE. The Standard must
really be hard pressed when such undignied course
the part OF the Legislature is deemed necessary to
sustain it. The House must feel itself weak on the
of defenders when it is forced to ac itself right
by resolution.
We have taken little part in the bitterly viru-
lent discussions that have been going on for months
past Other interests, other and other anxieties
have occupied our mind and engaged our attention.
We have however, kept eyes open, and expressed
our opinions lairly and calmly as occasion required
seldom without provoking sneering ilnatured
retoFt, which we seldom stopped to notice. We have
remarked what cannot have escaped the attention of
any observer the manifest desire on the part of those
claiming to constitute lead the ocaed conserva
tive party to evade the real questions at issue By a
peang to prejudces in connection with matters wholly
irrelevant to the subject under discussion Thus in the
controversy between the Standard and the Richmond
Enquirer, the effort seems less to be to prove
the Enquirer wrong, than to excite q preiu-
dice against Virginia, and by such prejudice
1t IS even sought to Influence legislation This is hard
enough we think, and it has not even the excuse of
being fair We pass the small potatoe sneers of
the mere sattaes at English Irish South Caronians
HtP hoy arnH de- -,l,o