Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04

Vi Tie 1OIu neSlu1euJ OF N. -. hl1tla rs
| sembied at the Academy Green, on yester-
| day morning. The oath was administered
to the commissioned officers by Justice j..
J. Robertson, and their commissions placed
In their possession. An election was held
for Field Officers, with the following result :
For Colonel-E. NJ Duguid
For Lieut. Colonel-John OCOnnOr.
For Major-Wm. Geo. Brinson.
Ne,Cbe7n Times
THE LEGISLATURE. Gov. Fl. T. Clark
is candidate for the Senate in Elgecombe
Calvin Koontz is out for the Senate for
Carteret and Jones.
DR.. John L. Bellamy is candidate for
the Commons from Edgecombe. Col Jno
n. Whitford is candidate for the Com
mons from Jones.
FREEDOM SHRIEKING PHILANTHROPY
There passed through this city, so we are
told, on Thursday evening, a genuine Sam
SHcker, originally from Vermont, for many
years an abOlitionist of the straitest sect
and latterly teacher of the juvenile and
black idea in a North Carolina ncighbOr-
hood not far from Danville.
The fellows name is VIM. F. Glover. and
he is returning to his northern home, to
vote the Radical ticket at the fall elections
under pressure of the following circum-
stances He has had a school for some
months, for teaching which he has exacted
from the freedmen good solid tuition fee,
payable quarterly III advance. Very lately,
business becoming dull, and the prospect
of a speedy fortune seeming blue, Glover
determined to make ten strike and de-
camp, so he started a scheme for the pur-
chase of library for the colored people
and appointed himself treasurer for the
collections. After one hundred and nine
ty dollars had been collected, this friend
to the oppressed borrowed the best shirt in
the wardrobe of his friend, Billy Mitchell,
(colOred) and started to Danville to pur-
chased the books.
Since then his patrons have heard moth
ing of him, as he has abscOnded with their
hardly-earned savings, and was, says our
informant on his way home when he left
Petersburg. Who is your friend, Bureau
Pet. hader.
IMPROVEMENTS. We see that the Office
of the w. & ". Railroad is in course of de-
molition. Another and more suitable struc-
ture will be erected IN its place.
The wOrkmen on the Roanoke Railroad
Bridge are still busily employed putting on
the finishing touches. The structure will
be both handsome and durable, when COM
pleted. Weldon State.
A TERROR TO EvIL-DOERs.-Judg Fowle
is rightly pronounced one of the best
Judges on the Superior Court bench in this
State. He held Orange Superior Court
week before last, and we learn from the
Hillsboro Recorder that eight persons we're
whipped at the public whipping post-four
whites and four blacks. One white man,
Wesley Watson, a notorious horse thief,
was sentenced to receive 50 lashes forth
o.
Wednesday of March court and to remain
in custody till all costs were paid Two
other white men, represented to be bad
characters, were condemned to receive 80
lashes forthwith, to stand two hours in the
stocks on the Doth day of November, to re-
ceive 80 lashes on the 9th of the same
month, and to remain Ill custody till all
costs are paid.
Pretty severe punishment but just and
necessary. Thieves who are prowling about
the country should be severely dealt with.
Charlotte Democrat.
JUDGE HEATH-This distinguished Jul
rist has recently been on a visit to his
friends in this State. We learn that he has
settled permanently in the practice OF the
law at Memphis We are not disposed to
bestow mere compliment on Judge Heath.
He does not need it. Our Bench never had
an ADLER OF more upright Judge. We wish
him much good fortune in his new home.
RaIeigh iStun0o0'L
The TOBACCO CEoP-The Danville Reg
lister says THE hill tops OF Pittsylvania
and Henry and Franklin and Caswell and
Person and Rockingham and Alamance,
are smiling N the livery of the bright
goldenhued weed The like has scarcely
ever been seen before. Such a tobacco
crop, 50 extensive and yet of such superior
quality, has not been raised on these favor
ed lands within the memory OF the Oldest
among US.
4 DARING AND OUTRAGEOUS ROBBERY.-
We learned yesterday from Mr. ". Ames,
a very peaceable and worthy citizen, who
is running the celebrated farm of Council
WoOten, near Mosely Hall i'll Lenoir county,
that party of half dozen or more white
men on Saturday last went to his farm to
take his mules, and on being resisted by a
boy III his empty, they killed him on the
spot, firing some four or five pistol balls at
him. Mr.. A. hearing the atfray rushed to
the scene Of action in time to secure seven
or eight Of the ten or twelve mules which
they had taken from the negro boy, they
having broken loose through fright which
the melee had caused. These hardened
wretches stood their ground for time and
threatened to shoot Mr. Ames, but he stood
firm in defence OF his property, and the
cowurdly scoundrels finally left with only
two or three of the coveted animals. No
arrests have been made up to this writing
that We know of, and we have not learned
whether any pursuit was made or not
Nerbe771 Times
WAYNE SUPERIOR CoUKT.-This tribunal
commenced its Fail term in our town yes
terday. The charge of his Honor, Judge
Barnes, to the grand jury, is spoken of as
one among the ablest ever delivered in our
court house. 1t was very lengthy, and en-
braced an allusOn 10 every species Of crime
known TO our laws and SO pointed We're
the specifications, and the Injunction Of
his Honor to the jury to be faithful i'll their
findings shat We are prepared to look for
an unusual amount of business cut out for
our next term. Judge Barnes has made a
favorable impression, and with his determi-
nation TO visit the law in all its rigor, upon
the evil-doe}, we look forward to Il better
state OF affairs. He will be seconded in his
| good work by the welI-disposed portion of
the community.-G 0JGS60To' -Ners.
| WAKE SUPERIOR CoURr.--Wake Superior