Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-31
AN EvENrrun CABRERA Confederate soldier

AN EvENTFUL CABRERA Confederate soldier
has just returned home after an absence of more
than four years in the service of his country. He
joined the regiment of Colonel or now Major
General kershaw, in this State subsequently,
changed his command, went to Virginia, was en-
gagged In thlrty-one battles, and one hundred and
twenty three skirmshes, not including the crows
on picket was shot twice returned to the field
and In the general fall, while making his way home
to South Carolina, captured and paroled. A
Confederate officer then pressed him and twenty
others into service to guard portion of the bag
gage train of ExPresident Davis, in which service
he was captured second time, Found with q
violated parole i'll his pocket he was carried with
his comrades, to Hilton Head, where they were
tried for their lives. The Military Court failing
to agree, they were sent to New York, tried Sc
cond time, and five of their number ordered to be
shot, which sentence was carried into execution
The remainder conveyed to a prison in
Springfield, Illinois, within sight of the home of
MIR. Lincoln, and there remained until the term
of their confinement expired. He has had four
wives, all OF whom are dead, and by each wife g
pair of twins whom he had not seen until his re-
turn, since the beginning of the war. Such man
is an embodiment of history-civil political mil
itary and domestic and certainly deserves med
al or monument.-Co luanbia, Is c., Cdroliaiaa-
Lemuel Cook, the Revolutionary soldier who
died in Clarendon, n. Y, Sunday night, was not
the last of the heroes of the war for independence
There two others still living, viz: Samuel
Downing, of New Hampshire, and James Barham,
of Missouri.
At negro picnic Whitmonday, near Louis
vile, Kentucky, sanguinary affray occurred be-
tween negro citizens and soldiers, and five six
were desperately wounded. The stampede of the
" backbirds y for the city that ensued is described
as at the same time terrific and ludicrous. An in
suit to colored maiden was the cause of war.
DEATH OF A NOTED EDrToR.-J P Chapman
formerly of the Indiana State Sentinel, known
throughout the country by the sobriquet of Grow
Chapman, Crow" died in Indianapolis last Sun
day.
DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN.-The Mobile Register
announces the death of the Rev. Joseph J. Mich
olson, which occurred at San Antonio, Texas, on
the 18th ult, in the 47th year of his age. The
deceased was a native of Maryland, and at one
time engaged in business at Annapolis. He sub
sequently devoted himself to the ministry of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, in which he con-
tinued to oficiate to the end of his life. He had
charge of parish in Maryland at first, then in
New York, and afterwards in Alabama and Tex
as.
The New York Irish american does not think
c. o. l. r. Stephens is 60 the man for the times. y
A VIRGINIAN PARLIAMENT. sitting mem
Der from Banbu1y, in the present Parliament of
Great Britain, is Bernhard Samuelson, native of
Virginia. His right contested, but his legal
counsel was lucky enough to remember an almost
obsolete act of Parliament, passed nearly CEN
fury ago, which enables the son or grandson of a
British born subject to take the sacrament in d
Protestant church or chapel. and then by taking
the oath of allegiance, to become British sub
ject and Mr. Samuelson having done these things,
retains his seat for Banbury.
He is the second American who has had q seat
in Parliament-the other being John Singleton
Copley, afterwards Lord Lyndhurst.
Petersburg Laoec.
Admiral Semmes has gone to Washington.
The wife of Peter Stanley, the collector of JEFF
ferson parish, was shot and killed at Greenville,
Louisiana, on the 22d by party of negro SOL
diers.
Governor Orr, of South Carolina, has left Co.
lumbia for few weeks for his home i'm Anderson.
for the purpose of recruiting his health
Those gentlemen of New Orleans who had been
imprisoned at Fort Pickens by Butler, Banks, or
some other military satrap, had reunion the
other day in New Orleans. with u sumptuous dim
ner accompanying it,
The Boston Journal says that counterfeit
"eagles" are afoat, sufficiently we'll executed to
deceive the most expert.