Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-03
STATE NEWS.


ner and military chief, understand, is to be
present at the June commencement at Chapel Hill.
Inis fact will impart additional interest to that
usually attractive occasion, especially it is
pected that he will address the students 1t is not
only the fact that Gen. Lee had in the army he
commanded in person many citizen from our State,
which will attract host of people, and insure him
welcome and enthusiastic reception, but this
Will be so from the fact that he is q ripe scholar
Besides, he has since the surrender at Appomat-
tox Court House steadily counseled the citizens of
the South to proceed with the work of restoration;
to revive their educational interests to go to work
either with head or hand and thus secure social
ana pecun1ary independence. Let him come, then,
and give us an opportunity to manifest the re-
spect we bear him well as benefit by his wise
counsels.-Propess,
PERsoNAL-Maior General J. B. Steedman and
Brigadier General James S. Fullerton, detailed
by President johnson to inspect the workings of
freedmen's Bureaus in the Southern States az
rived in town last night, and have taken quarters
at the Marlborough House.
How long these officers will remain in this city
we are not able to state ) but long enough no
doubt to obtain accurate knowledge of the senti-
ments of our citizens and their attitude towards
the government at Washington We bespeak for
them gentlemen and liberal minded Americans
the courtesy and confidence of our people
Progress.
THE Work AMONG FREEDMEN.-Rev. Fl. NJ Tup-
per, graduate of Newton Seminary, and now a
that he has organized regular Baptist church of
most humble and faithful Christians He says:
eve have purchased building lot in pleasant part
of the city have advanced the money to pay it, my
savings while soldier. Some one must make the sacr-
flee, and am on the field the need and with
church. labor boldly, trusting in God endeavoring
to show to all that my work is one of love This course
to us at the beginning."-N Y. Evening Post.
THE SCOTT OUTRAGE Some seven or eight of
the ruffianS engaged in the recent outrage on Mr..
Scott and his family, at Deep Gully have been
arrested and are confined i'll the city Jail. The
police are on the track of the remainder. We
understand the charge against them will be that
of arson, if not of burglary and robbery.
Necbe,n COnlmerciM..
The remains of Capt. f. O. Daily, of Fayette-
vile, were inferred i'll that city lately.
There are fifty students at Wake Forrest Col
lege.
vessel at Portsmouth is now discharging
cargo of crystal blacks for the North Carolina
fisheries.
Greensboro has gas in her streets.
PARDoNED-We are informed that j. Parker
Jordan, Esq, of the counsel for Mrs. Ball,
tried by Military Commission in this city for
killing a freedman in Warren county, has received
a dispatch from Washington that Mrs. Ball who
was sentenced to one years imprisonment, has
been pardoned by President Johnson, and that
she will be released i'll few days.-RcA. Standard
BAPrIsM-THE REvTvAL.--In spite of wind, cold,
cloud and mud, the Baptists still prosecute their
religious efforts. Last night, the church was we'll
attended; large number of penitents appeared
on the anxious seats, and there one regenera-
ton We understand the ordinance of baptism
will be administered this evening, after discourse
by Rev. G. G. Chaplin, of Danville.
At the M. E. Church suppose the good work
prospers.-Rah Progress.
1Cb4 Of WoJo
the Croatan light, near Roanoke Island, North
Carolina will soon be rebuilt
We learn from the Fayetteville PRESBYTERIAN that
Col John W. Hinsdale of that place has been ad-
mitted to practice by the Supreme Court of
New York. Colonel H. intends, we believe, to
make his future home i'll Arkansas.
The FUNDING ACr.-We are gratiied to learn
that the Public Treasurer is in constant receipt of
numerous applications for the funding of State
securities under the act of the late Legislature.
AS very many of these applications come from
Northern creditors, the interference is gratifying
that they do not anticipate that there is danger
of the States being turned over Ito the " tender
merces" of the Radicals. Raleigh Sentinel.
DISTINGUISHED ARR1vALs-Gens Stedman and
Fullarton, who have been sent South by President
Johnson for the purpose of investigating the ope-
rations of the FRI edmen S Bureau, and reporting
upon the social and political status of the South
ern States arrived in the city last night. They
WILL we suppose be called upon to-day by the
prominent of citizens of all parties, from
whom they can obtain correct information as to
the true condition of things in midst They
are, we doubt not, honorable, fair minded and
courteous gentlemen, who will give true and
faithful report of the condition of things here and
we shall be much mistaken if they do not arrive
at very different conclusion in regard to the JUS
tice and loyalty of our people, from that of many
of the letter writer's for the Northern papers,
ISulisbu7y Old North State.
HOME AGA1N.-Our whilom friend Lou. Ander-
son, Esq. has returned from the South, where he
was acting in the Quartermaster's Department.
He was first engaged at Nashville, Tenn, and from
there was transferred to Raleigh, n. c., where he
has been the past year He is an Andy Johnson
man, and says the people of North Carolina are
peaceable and well disposed towards the govern
denying them their representation in tiat body
and their rightful place in the Union
Canton (Ohi0) Democrat.
PERsoNAL-The venerable Ex-Chief Justice
Rufin and the Hon. Josiah Turner, Jr, were in
this city, on yesterday. Sentinel, 27M.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
The Austrian-Prussian Difc culties-NVar Consid-
Inevitable.
New YORK, April IA.
The steamship America, from Southampton on
the 18th inst, has arrived at quarantine. The
ship Eliza from New York, for Bremen, was run
into and sunk off Portland, and all hands but one
man perished.
AUSTRIA PRUSSIA.
The Iianes's Paris correspondent says Marshal
Mel who commands one of the greatest of the
French military divisions, has had interviews with
the Emperor in Paris, and is inferred that if war
breaks out between Prussia and Austria a corps of
observation would be formed on the Rhine, Mar