Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-12-24

eS TO rival this nfamy by bdclng through tie "oru
for helings nay, to eclipse it, by Selling ON the sim
pie negro and pushing him into the jaws OF death.
With twenty millions against six, they shrink from
standing up in their persons to the fight which
| they have wickedly made.
CnngmeI,.
We had the pleasure last night O! seeing this gallant
cicer. He is looking and traveistained but
healthy ard strong. With bis brigade, he has done
faithful service in this war. Clngman is of the men
charged by traitor Holden with sinking fight that
be helped TO bring Holden will be known in his
tory tory-CIingman as patriot
Petersburg Register.
Army OF THE PoToHAC-Late Northern papers
say:
| The Amy of the Potomac will be Immediately re-
organized and made larger and better in every way
than it has been at any former period lis Chief COM
mand will probably be rendered 70 either Hooker or
Thomas. 1t is believed that Thomas would prefer re-
naming where be is. Ho0ker's reputation since the
battle Of Lookout mountain, stands higher than
He is considered here, by some folks the Dext com
maader of the army Of the Potomac The present corps
commanders, with one exception, will be relieved.
late letter from ST. Louis says that the secession
lists of that city had been highly exctedby the arrival
there of the widow of Major General John j. Bowen =
who commanded a diVisisn in Vicksburg, ard died
shortly after the surrender. She received almost
conqueror by the entire secesh population Of the
city and in spite of her mourning had been the rec
per of dinners, tea parties, social receptions AID pri
vate attention from the moment Of her arrival Mrs
| !
interesting personal items concerning many Individuals
who left Missouri to join their fortunes to tie rebellion
in its earliest stages. She says that the South cannot
be starved, although Injuries scarce and command
| the most wonderful prices.
| TIE HANDSOME MAN.-Lncoln was an animal Curl
oslty before he had the small pox he must be per-
! eCt AdOns now There Is a very general d3slre to
see him in RebeldCm -couldnt Barnum be induced TO
| bring him Souttsbu ii speculation? He would equal
an entire menagerie in profts-provided the habeGS
| Corpus could be made to stick
FA1pH AND LovE.-In the Highlands ofoScotland
| there is q mountain gorge, twenty feet in width, AID
two hundred feet in depth It's perpendicular walls
bare Of vegetation, in their CreVices 10 which grow
wild flowers of beauty Desir0us OF OBJ
tanning speclmens Of those mountain beauties, some
scientific tourists offered Hig7,aLd boy hand
reward if he wf.ad consent 10 u lowered down
the cliff by rope, and would gather little basketful
of them. lie boy looked Wstfully at the money, for
his pareDts poor but when gGzad at the ya4n-
ing chasm he shuddeIed shrank back, and declined
But fIia love strong within him. and after another
glance at t6e reward and at the terrible fssure, his
heart grew strong, bis eyes flashed, and be said, III
g., il my tather VIII hold the rope" And then, with
up>hrikng nerve, cheek unbleached and heart firm y
strong, he suffered bis father put the rope around
him. lover him into that abyss and to suspend him
there while he filled bis little basket with the coveted
flowers. 1t was daring deed but his faith in the love
of fathers heart gave him courage and power to per-
form it.
CTRElGHT hAMPAET.-1G Is S2lC LQG 4 dnkee Colonel
Streight for whom General Morgan was held as host
age, became perfectly rampant and furious with anger
he read in the Richmond papers the account of
the latter's escape from the Ohio Penitentary. He
stormed about the Libby Prison door among his little
covey of brother ocefs breathing out "threateniDgs
and slaughter" cursing Morgan, JEFF Davis and TIE
Southern Contederacy. He declared that if the mil
lenium was coming next week God would put it of
til the North had crushed the South, and trampled it
and slavery out Of existence. Terrible he was as
chained tiger and it is alarming to think what terrible
things such terrible man would do if he was loose
especially since be and his twelve hundred men were
captured by four Observation-Disclosures
! S1GNIFICANr-Under the heading OF Money,
Stocks" &C. in the Philadelphia Inquirer of the 4th
| instant, we find the following opening paragraph
| THURSDAY, Dec. 3, l863.-The stock market has
been very much excited today, with perfect wildness
in the fluctuations, might have been expected after
the general ruah to sell yesterday and the universal
saughtering of stocks By the timid and weak kneed
bulls There a sharp rally, the market huctuatipg
every few moments the hopes and tears Of the OPP
rators got control Aside from the large purchases to
short contracts the market received its greatest
impetus from the character of the rumors from the seat
of war. Meade and Grant falling back. Longstreet
| safe, and Bragg reinforced, are items by no means
pleasant for the loyal heart but they bring with them
visions of protractsd war; and more paper and over
those tis bull reoices, the sure means of bringing
high prices, and letting him out of bis fancy stocks