Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-04-05
NEWS ITEMS.

NEGRO SUFFRAGE IN WIsCoNs1N.-Ihe Supreme
Court of Wisconsin has decided that the law OF
1S49 giving the negroes of that State the ight OF
suffrage, is constitutional and they have the right
to vote.
SENATOR SrocKToN's SUCCESSOR rejection
of John p. Stockton has set the Legislature busiy
at work preparing to fill the vacancy. The name
A. G. Cattell, of Camden, is likely to be APP
pointed.
The ELECTIONS IN CoNNECTICUT.-Some half
dozen Senators, including Mr. Stewart, left Wash
ington Wednesday for Connecticut, to stump
that State for General Hawey, the candidate OF
the Radicals for Governor.
ARREST OF AN EXPRESS DEFAULTEB. Henry Lett,
an express agent between Montreal and Portland,
recently decamped with between ST 600 and IS, 900
in gold coin belonging to the exprass company
and to individuals He captured at Rutland,
Vermont, and delivered up s., 500 of his booty, a
gold watch and three horses with buggy and
harness, and was put under $4,000 to answer
Another HEAVY RoBBERY-The United States
bonded warehouse in New York, occupied by John
B. Hobby, was entered during Saturday night by
burglars, who succeeded in carrying Off five thou
sand dollars worth of valuable silks
SToCKToNs CAsE.-Senator Stewart of Nevada,
who voted last week in favour of Mr.. Stockton re-
tanning his seat was absent from the Senate cham
Der when the final vote was taken on Tuesday, al
though present during the morning. Had he re-
manned and voted as before, there would have
been tie
Mr.. YULEE.-We learn that ex-senator Yulee,
of Florida who has been imprisoned IN Fort Pu-
laski since May last, having been arrested i'll
the South soon after the close of the war; has been
ordered by the President to be released on parole
This is, of course by the earnest lntercess1On OF
friends It is fact that Mr.. Yulee though one
of the retiring Senators from Congress on the Sc
cession of his State, never in any way officially
connected with the Confederate government or its
armies 1T has been difficult therefore, to discover
the cause of his arrest and detention the first
place.
Major General Candy made his appearance in
the United States Court, at New Orleans, on Tues
day last, in answer to the summons of Judge Du-
reil. This is the first instance in the Southern
States since the war, that commanding officer
has respected the process of civil court.
Considerable anxiety is felt in Washington
among the radical faction to the prospective ac-
ton of the New Jersey Legislature IN regard to
the election of Senator to succeed Mr.. Stockton.
The position taken by Mr. Scovel, the president
of the New Jersey Senate not anticipated by
Senator Sumner and others, who evlnced such IN
decent eagerness to get rid Of Mr.. Stockton. MI
Scovel was here last week andin consultation with
these Senators, and had they not been confident
of his assistance in furtherng their schemes, it is
not probable their sense OF right and justice would
have been SO blunted.
The troops in Mississippi have been ordered tc
Jackson, presumably to be mustered out.
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.-In one mile of the cable
now being manufactured for the Atlantic tele
graph there are seven miles of copper wire, four
miles of gutta percha ten miles of galvanized wire
and fifty miles of Manalla spun yarn-seventy
miles of material to one mile of cable.
DEcEAsED.-Si William Gore Onsley the dis
tinguished English diplomatist, and formerly
minister at Washington, is dead. he was SIXTY
seven years of age. Sir William was married tc
an American lady at Washington in 1929. She
was the daughter of Governor Van Ness, of Yer
mont, and sister of Mrs. Judge Roosevelt, of New
York.
GENERAL THoMAs.-A correspondent of the New
York Ne,rs asserts that General Thomas suffered
his friends, in 1861, to apply to President Davis
for q commission in the Confederate army.
Business in New Orleans is lively, and the Gal
weston steamers are engaged many trips ahead.
The ESCAPE OF STEPHENS FROM IRELAND Ihe
Cork Examiner says it has excellent reasons fol
knowing that the report current that Stephens had
really left Ireland is correct and that stephens,
prior to his departure, enjoined on the members
of the Brotherhood in Ireland the advlsab1llty OF
lpaving more attention for the present to thell
peaceful pursuits than they had been doing fol
some time The Examiner adds that Stephens
wife was in Cork, intending to sail for America on
the 18th inst, in the City of Boston.