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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-10
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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17
NEWS SUMMARY.

SAvANNAH-The Daily Savannah News and Her
aid of the Sd inst, says that the trial of James
Duncan, for alleged cruelty to Federal prisoners
at Andersonville, has been brought to Close and
the commission have determined upon the find
ings and sentence, but which will not be made
public until passed upon by the department COM
mander. ..
CONFESSION OF PRoBsT, THE MISUNDERSTANDING
ADE1PH1A, May 7.-Probst, the condemned muir
derer, has made full confession to his priest OF
all the murders of the Deering family, commencing
with Cornelius Carey, the hired boy. His account
of the murders agree with the general belief that
he had no accompice. .. ...
on Works BURNT.-PITTsBURG, May 1.-The
keystone Oil Works of Messrs Weisenberger &
Co., were destroyed by fire this afternoon, and
four hundred barrels of refined oil were consumed
The entire loss is estimated at $50, 0O0 Insurance
| S., 900. The origin of the FIRE accidental
CHOLERA AT N YORK QUARANT1NF.-NEw YORK,
May IA report from the hospital ship at quar-
antine to-day states that one new case of cholera
occurred on Saturday and five new cases yester
day. from the steamship Virginia. There are now
| 112 cases in the hospital.
The New SUNDAY LAW IN New YoRK.-On Sun
day, for the first time the liquor saloons of New
| York and Brooklyn were closed in accordance
with the provision of the new excise law. There
was as far as could be asceraiEed, the fullest com
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

AN INTERVIEW WITH THE POPE.-Letters received
in New York state that Bishops Stevens, of Penn
sylvania and Whitehouse, of Illinois, of the Epis-
copal church, were in Rome on the 9th ult., and
on that day had private interview with the Pope
of a most agreeable character On the following
day they had private audience from Cardinal
Antoneli, also.
The Presbyterian General Assemblies of both
old and new school will convene at st. Louis on
the 18th inst One thousand delegates are expect
ed to be in attendance. Mississippi packet com
panies, and several main railroad lines have agreed
to convey the delegates at half fare. A religious
convention, called by DR.. Brecknridge, of Ken
tucky, will meet at st. Louis at the same time
EPISCOPAL CoNvENTIoN.-The Convention of the
Episcopal Church of the Diocese of the State of
Mississippi will meet at Columbus on the Goth
inst.
Ex- President Pierce was confirmed member
of st. Pauls Episcopal Church, by Bishop Chase,
at Concord, n. II on Sunday.
It is said that the Methodist Episcopal Church
NOrth) have made arrangements for the purchase
of the Wentforth- Baptist Church in Charles
ton.
The Rev T. W. Lewis informs the Southern
Record, that the Methodist Episcopal Church
North) will shortly publish weekly in Charles
ton to be called the Christian Advocate
The NJ. E. Church (North) will be vastly bene-
fitted by the centenary collections. Why does not
the Southern Methodist Church inaugurate sim
liar plan
The income of the New York churches during
the present year exceeded eighteen millions OF
dollars.
The British Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel, is about to send three more ''presbyters
with salaries of 100 pounds sterling each, to Ha
waii, together with staff of Sisters of Mercy
The Baptist Home Mission Society has organ.
lied thousand churches in the West since it be
gan its labors. It has lately appropriated 49, 21C
for the Southern field, of which $41 735 have gone
to the freedmen, and Sc, Ats to the whites
! At Pekin, China, heathen temple has beer
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17
Hon. j, p. Scales.

The Carrollton Miss Conservative says
On Monday last, I'd instant, all that was mortal
OF this distinguished gentleman were consigned to
their last resting place in Evergreen Cemetery
Capt. Scales was we'll known throughout the State,
and enjoyed the acquaintance of nearly every citi
zen In Carroll county, and we are proud to say,
none knew him but to love him."
Death heeds not what wreck he makes when his
sythe goes forth to slay, or he would have spared
little longer whom the whole community
loved and honored SO much. The deceased was a
man of strong social feeling, and his straightfor-
ward, upright ways had won for him the friend
ship of all who knew him. He was kind hus.
band, good father, an accommodating neighbor
and good citizen
MIR. Scales was lately Speaker of the House of
Representatives in the Mississippi Legislature,
and stood high in the confidence of the people of
the State He leaves wife and two young chill
dren to mourn his untimely and irreparable loss.
Mr.. Scales was a native of North Carolina. and
brother OF the Gen. A. NJ. Scales, of Rocking
ham county. =
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17

purchased, the idols have been removed and the
building turned into Missionary hospital.
The Catholic World says that within the last fif
ty years church has been so prosperous in the
United States theirs about two Thousand
churches and chapels have been built an increase
of one thousand eight hundred clergvmen-most
ly from abroad-one hundred and sixty schools
established for the Catholic training of ten thou
sand boys and thirty-three thousand girls.
The Congregational Church of Enosberg, Vt.
recently passed the following
Resolved That carrying milk to the cheese factory
Sabbath is violation of the command to 'sanctfy the
Sabbath"
The publication of the Tennessee Baptist al
Nashville, will be resumed on the 5th of May II
is to be edited by John Torell and n. M. Craw-
ford, the latter President of Georgetown College
An interesting revival is in progress in Bloom
ington, Ill, in the Second Presbyterian Church
Since the first of January seventy persons have
united with the Church-forty two on one Sab
bath. The interest still continues and meetings
are being held nightly, and are we'll attended.
There are in all fifty-fve churches in Washing
ton City. The Methodists have the largest mum
Der, namely, thirteen. The Presbyterians have
seven, the Episcopalians six, and the Roman
Catholics six The colored people have ter
churches, many of which are attended by large
audiences
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17

From the Hartford Courant.]
SIT is unsatisfactory to both North and South. -
IFrom the Buffalo Commercially
-"We sincerely hope that the plan will be repu-
dated and that Congress, that it has finally OBJ
tanned a report, and got the whole subject again
in its own hands, will speedily adopt some more
practical and feasible plan by which the whole
country can be brought together upon a just and
enduring basis of peace"
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.l
" 1t is in reality a scheme to postpone the re-
storation of the late rebel States to 1870 or, in
other words, to point of time subsequent to the
next presidential election. It holds these States
territories, by debating terms to them. 1t
holds them as States by calling them SO, and by
giving them vote upon q constitutional amend
ment 1t mixes things up in most absuld man
ner, and ali for the sake, not of peace and harmo
n.y. but of controlling the presidential canvass of
1862
From the Cincinnati COMMERCIAL
Gas q means of restoration and pacfcation it
is not decidedly pertinent clearly practicable.
1t may do better for party platform than Sum-
ner's programme, as developed on the first day of
the session. but there is no happy stroke of state
craft in it, and it will be taken by the country as
a lame result of five months strenuous effort. It
is wanting in the essentials of clear, simple, and
conclusive policy, and does not fully meet the de-
mand of the country for guarantees of peace, lib
erty, credit, and Union"
From the New York Evening Post.I
"What the country expected from Congress was
practical scheme for fastening the re-estabIsh-
ment of all the States in their full constitutional
relations. This report produces plan which
must inevitably put off this end, so strongly de-
sired and demanded Does any one believe that
the Southern States will accept the proposed consti
tutional amendment? Certainly they will decline;
they will say Let us see what the next elections
in the North will develop. This Congress may
recommend the amendment; the next Congress,
which is to be chosen in the fall of the present
year, and which may meet on the 5th of March,
1867, may be of different mind; it may repeal all
that this Congress has enacted; had better
wait ,"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17
Highly Important Decision.

In the Circuit Court of Nelson County last week.
in the case of Walker VS.. Loving, Judge Sheffey
decided the following impor ant apd very inter
esting question:
l. That contracts made during the existence of
de fdctO government were valid and binding not
withstanding the subsequent overthrow of that
government.
2. That the sale of a slave in Virgins, in the
Confederate lines, prior to the 10th 0, Nril 1863
was valid and binding notwithstandir gEc eInan-
cipation clause Ill the Alexandria Cons ,rutiun.
| The case was ably argued by jude Broken
brouqh, of Lexington, for the plaintiff, and Rob
ert Whitehead Esq, of Nelson, for the defend
ant. Judge Brockenbrough maintained Il q atlr-
native and Mr. Whitehead the negative of these
propositions.
We understand the opinion of the Judge, Which
is regarded as very able one, will, by the unani-
nous request Of the bar, be published Lynch-
burg NeorS, ill.,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17

SOLID MATTER.-The Conan,ercinI Bulletin, in re-
ply to correspondent offering to "send some
thing to fill up with, says;
''That's just what we want Suppose You COM
mence now with a good roasting piece OF beef and
barrel of -four"
The Bulletin differs from most printers in thus
preferring "sold matter" but perhaps it desires
that the beef shall be " fat take"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17
CONFEDERATE DEAD.-The Petersburg bader fur
nishes the names of the following North Carolina
soldiers who are buried near that CITY.

d. A. Morrison, Co. d. 51st N. @. T.
]. T. Davis, Co. E. 51st N. c. T.
T. A. Thompson, Co. E. 51st N. G. T.
These three are buried the City Point road in the
edge of Blandford, near the Dstillery: e.
Lieut. J. Glenn Jereys, Go. 45th n. G. Regiment near
Norfolk Road, Just below the Iron Bridge.
j. Moore Co. G, Gath N. @. T. Head board nearly de-
stroyed. Killed 10th june close to City Point road and
between that and the county road. .-
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17

For the Journal.
MEssRs EDITORS The following exquisite lines are
from the pen OF gifted lady in this State and pre-
sented they sprung impromptu from her swept lyre
"Do you remember dear cousin in conversation yester
day both expressed belief in the instructive attrac-
ton Of congenial souls to each other?'
There is a strange mysterious power,
Uniting hearts-a potent spell
Which often works in short hour;
From whence it is I cannot tell.
Seas may divide them, years may roll
Perchance they seldom meet again,
But still impress on the soul
OF each will evermOre remain.
Obi tits sweet, tho mystic tie
Congenial spirits feel the bliss
And their fond hearts entranced would lie
Content to know such joy as this
If time and change did not occur
To all who dwell beneath the skies,
Such souls would seek their treasures here,
Nor ever higher wish to rise.
Why should some spirits upward spring
To greet each other all unsought
Why swifter than a swallows wing,
Turn from another all untaught?
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17
From the New York Citizen.
SrONEWALL JACKSON.

y a Distinguished Officer IN the Uniled States Nae
He sleeps all quietly and cold,
Beneath the soil that gave him birth;
Then break his battle brand In twain,
And lay it with him in the earth.
No more at midnight shall he urge
His toilsome march among the pines
Nor hear upon the morning air
The war-shout of his charging lines.
Cold is the eve whose meteor-gleam
Flashed hope on all within its light;
And still the voice that, trumpet-tOned,
Rang through the serried ranks of fight.
No more for him shall cannon park,
Or tents gleam white upon the plain;
And where his camp-tires blaZed of yore,
Brown reapers laugh amid the grain
No more above this narrow bed
Shall sound the tread of marching feet,
The rifle volley, and the clash
OF sabres, when the foemen meet.
And though the winds of autumn rave,
And winter SHOWS fall thick and deep
Above his breast-they cannot move
The quiet of his dreamless sleep.
We may not raise marble shaft
Above the heart that now is dust;
But nature, like mother fond,
Will ne'er forget her sacred trust.
Young April DER his lowly mound,
Shall shake the violets from her hair;
And glorious June, with fervid kiss,
Shall bid the roses blossom there.
And round about the droning bee,
With drowsy hum shal come and go:
While west winds, ali the live long day,
Shall murmur dirges soft and low.
The warriors stormy fate is o'er,
The midnight gloom hath passed away;
And, like glory from The East,
Breaks the first light of Freedoms day.
And white-winged Peace, DER all the land,
Broods like dove upon her nest
While iron war with slaughter gorged
At length hath laid him down to rest.
And where we won our onward way
With fire and steel-through yonder wood
The black-bird whistles and the quail
Gives answer to her timid brood.
Yet oft in dreams his fierce brigade
Shall see the forms they follow far,
Still leading in the furthest van
A landmark in the clouds of War
And oft when white haired grandsires tell
OF bloody struggles past and gone,
The children at their knees will hear
How Jackson led his columns on!
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17
TERE;s OF ADVERTISING.

i square, of 10 lines ess for each and every inser-
tion, 81.
Special Notices will be charged 50 90 per square for each
and every insertion.
All Obituaries and private publications of every cLarac
ter, are charged as advertisements
ASNo advertisement, rejecting upon private charac-
ter can, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, be admitted.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17
VOL. 22.
NAMES OF PRISONERS OF WAR

WHO dted al camp douglass, IH, during The Var 6el0ny
ing to North Carolina Regiments.
For fuher information in regard to disease, date of
death, No. of graves &C.. address E. s. Jordan Under
taker, P. Q. Box $685. Chicago Illinois, Remains be
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17

received the news, exclaimed cit is finished, the
sacrifice is complete"
He felt, too, the wickedness of despair, and
prayed heaven to send him some heart to lift him
above 1t and retrive his life from the desolatiou
of unavalling regret Time passed his PRAYER
was answered, and Albert was happily married
The wave of time rolled on again, and brought
him, at least contentment, and indeed happiness
but in the midst of his prosperity death came
entered his home, plucked two-bright flowers
from his heart, and then reaped the parent stem
away, and wife and children in one short week.
repos1ng together in the narrow home of the dead
Oh, now do some lives seem to bear q weight of
woe! Shadow after shadow falls over them sor-
row after sorrow, and evil ever seems Jealous of
their JOY So did it seem in the life of Albert
Fletcher. He bowed his head over his desolated
threshold In the bitterest grief, and went forth
from it forever.
The years flew on, and save pilgrimage to the
graves OF his loved ones, nothing seemed to at
tract his heart But Heaven is ever kind even
when darkness and clouds seem to surround its
prOVldenceS, and wreathe them in hopeless gloom
1t tries us to temper spirits with proper graf
ltude, and illustrate its benevolent interpostion
for our good. So did it prove in this instance for
one day. when, sad and detected, Albert felt that
Heaven had no more mercies in store for him. he
learned that his early love still lived and widowed
seemed reserved for him. The news semed Heav-
| en- sent. 1t electrified him with hope, and. seiZ-
ing his pen, he poured out grateful tribute to
God for her preservation, and once more sought
to unite their destnies
His letter reached Caroline, and found sin
cere response and, though surrounded by scores
OF fatterers, who, with the utmost eagerness pre-
terred their rival claims she was disgusted with
their evident nsincerity, and pressed to her heart
the evidence that there one who loved her Tor
herself alone.
In few weeks Albert wound up his business,
and set out to meet the object of his love
1t was still evening when be announced himself
at the door OF her residence, and ushered into
her presence With the single tress of hair, the
souvenir of their early love in his hand, he ap-
preached her, and, as she beheld it. so vivid was
the remembrance of their par ing scene, she burst
INTO tears Embracing her, while he struggled
With his own overwhelming emo,i Ms he said
Heaven has accepted your sacrifice and now re-
wards our love. Let lis be thankful and aclnowl-
edge the boon"
They were married, and their lives were bright
with every Joy and happiness and that raven
tress, the memento of trust and trial. ia the con-
secrated heirloom of a1ovely family.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17
"Athos and Mount Ida,
With dashing seas of eloquence between.

Nor was he the unworthy peer of those lustrous per
sonages. He breathed his native atmosphere amid the
intellectual lights whose eXtnguishmCn would
have left disastrous eclipse the Legislative halls Of
the nation. 1t was his msfortuneto lave been thrust
forward by his cOuntryen during the progress Of great
revolution but let it be added to his honor that when
madness ruled the hour and dreary night Of reyou-
sraning part in the most important Of that reyo
uton-and illustrated his character by renewed evidences
Of conservatism and ability.
Jefferson Davis has descended the vale of years
in health bankrupt in fortune and the martyr of
with which he believed bound up the liberties of his
country. Is there nothing in all this TO excite the sympa
thy of his feow-menof his corntrymen? We will not
ntrude with profane gaze upon the meeting between
devoted wife and such husband. There scenes
sacred and touching for the cold descriptions Of the pen
to convey silence such occasions is the eloquent
tribute which pay to the of his fellow
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17

|
We read in Washington despatch that the Government
has granted Mrs Davis permission to visit her husband
at Fortress Monroe. Although a partisan press has
s95sd sn & h tins rp Piece s % e9snGy W to
that there could be found the length and
breadth of the land with the slightest feeling of hnn
sympathy in his heart who does regard the indulgence
exhibited, IN this instance proper, humane and mag
tory and the ever-fowng tide human events has swept
past him forever If the Macedonian conqueror known
to this day Persia the mighty murderer understood
how to extend generous protection to the wife of the
fallen Darius if the boOd-sained Caesar could weep
war-ke Aurelian illustrated his virtues by the
pardon Of Zenoba, his most formidable enemy; surely
Andrew Johnson the Christian President Of Christian
people, should not be magned for the practice Of similar
Indulgence. We should not be driven to Pagaus for our
We blush to admit that SO many Of our countrymen are
dead to the instincts of humanity. If Confederate
of the historian will not fail to immortaze be it with
honor or nfamy, the men who accord him justice and
those who would Wrea their malice his helpless head.
Arguing from the most standpoint whatever may
have been his errors they were errors OF which millions
were equally guilty. When the cry for retaliation
wrung in his and the power to enforce lodged
in his keeping, his uniform and determined reply
never; the innocent must not be punished for the
crimes of Others He charged with obstinacv self
Will and disregard OF the opinions OF his advisers but
it was obstinacy which should be remembered to his
advantage to-day 1t saved the life of those who had
out to the gueras, and other Confederate soldiers
cuted by Federal commanders We well remember with
clamors raised for his removal and amid all his
steady adherence to the most humane Of civilized
He was an open, honorable and formidable foe
the fortunes of have placed him i'll the power of the
Government and struck down the eagle from his quarry
Vuperation revenge sectional and petty
ence have followed like yultures the bound Promethcus
his lonely CELL and will doubtless pursue him the
end-ti bursts his mighty soul from the tabernacle of the
flesh And who is this man. that he should have thus at
racted the gaze of the world and stirred the Of
great nation to a tumult of stormy agitation? An Amer
lean citizen who added usre to the name and rOd
the paths OF greatness giant among the Ians Of the
field, the Senate and the Council Nature endowed him
with elegant person, demeanor Of grace and dignity
and among his natural gifts heightened and embeshed
by profound cultivation numbered eloquence
which flows ordinary conversation, and Of
passing fascination He sat in national forum, with
Webster side, Clay the other, and Benton and
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17

The following sensible and wel-consdered article from
the Baltimore Catholic Mirror, needs introduction:
jefferson Davis.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17

purchased, the idols have been removed and the
building turned into Missionary hospital.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-04-18
Selected Poetry.
JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN.


JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN.
The following verses are taken from thu
" Celestial Country Of Bernard de Morlas
A. D. 1145:
Jerusalem the golden!
With milk and honey blest,
Beneath thy contemplation
Sink heart and voice oppressed.
know not. oh! know not
What social joys are thercl
What radiancy of glory,
What light beyond compare!
And when I fain would sing them,
My spirit fails and faints;
And vainly would it image
The assembly of the saints.
They stand, those halls of Zion,
Conjubilant with song,
And bright with many. an angel,
And all the martyr throng;
The Prince is ever in them,
The daylight is serene;
The pastures of the blessed
Are decked in glorious sheen.
There is the Throne of David;
And there from care released.
The song of them that triumph,
The shout of them that feast;
And they who with their leader
Have conquered in the fight,
Forever and forever
Are clad in robes OF white