Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-24
NEWS SUMMARY.


found a tin box filed with gold and silver coin,
amounting to several thousand dollars. Mr. Fen
nimore assisted the boy in selling the gold, and
although it is supposed the money was buried by
negroes owned by Mr.. F., before the war, the boy
Mingo receives the full benefit of this discovery.
citizens Was recently held in Montgomery, Ala
bama, to take action regarding the projected Cen
trail Railroad, to connect Montgomery with De-
catur, Alabama, and secure direct railroad COM
munication with the Northwest via Nashville and
Louisville The meeting resolved to raise 81, 600,
600 III city bonds to aid the enterprise.
Immense excitement exists among the members
of the Fenian Brotherhood in Brooklyn and Long
Island in consequence of the discovery of extern
sive frauds which have been perpetrated, as al
legged, by prominent leader in Brooklyn.
FORT GOODWIN NOT CAPTURED-Lieut. Gen.
Grant has received despatch from Major Gener-
al H. W. Halleck, in California, in which he says
that there is not word of truth in the report that
Fort Goodwin had been captured by the Apaches,
and the garrison massacred. He denounces the
report altogether sensational So says the
Star.
The sum of fifteen thousand dollars has been
subscribed in England testimonial of ex-Lleu-
tenant NJ. F. Maury, late of the ''Confederacy."
GREAT SALE OF GoLD-NEw YORK. May 1S.-A
single sale of gold is reported to have been made
to-day on Government account of ST. 600 at
1904. 1t is expected that the export of gold to
Europe tomorrow will amount to 100000.
Late intelligence from Paris announces the arri-
val IN that city from Egypt of Mr.. Jacob Thomp-
son, President Buchanans Secretary of the Int
riOr 1t is said that Mr.. Thompson says Were
the ban removed from him upon the charge ofhav
ing been engaged i'll the assassination conspiracy,
he would go to Missssi ppi and do his best to aid
in the reconstruction.
civil RIGHTS" IN TENNESSEE The Legisla-
ture House, of Tennessee, the 18th instant
passed bill comforting civil rights the colored
people by the close vote of 81 to 81 An amend
ment excluding blacks from juries, was carried
by 80 against %, and one, excluding their Chi
dren from common schools by a close vote.
The Prefecture of Police in France annually dis
tributes pecuniary rewards to any cabman or ON
nlbus driver who proves his honesty by bri aging
back to the Office for lost goods whatever ne NAV
have found in his vehicle During the e asst wear
the number of articles deposited at this office
amounted to 1897.
LET COTTON ALoNE.-The Augusta Constitution
aASf, very able Georgia paper, says to its read
ers
Let cotton alone. The mules and the Federal Gov
eminent and the nggers will eat all the tand give you
but monkey your master by right Of brute force
Will maunch the toothsOme kernel"
1t advises the planters to raise corn
A Pacific paper says "The late st news from
Montana is doleful enough-thous ands of men
valnly prospecting for diggings n othing paving
over two dollars per day men cons family freezing
10 death tea four dollars per pour I'd -four thirty
dollars per hundred men living on bread and
water venison straight
A singular duel took place off Yonkers. in the
Hudson river Two men entered a boat. rowed TO
the middle of the stream, to their feet and en-
gagged In desperate struggle, 10 which one went
overheard and was drowned, tb survivor rowing
TO the opposite shore
DISTINGUISHED. J. r. Naylor, of Brooke
county, West Virginia. has been disfranchised by
an order OF the Board of Registration of that coun
ty. The Wheeling Register mildly saws in COM
nentng on the fact, that s. it is disgrace to hu-
mainly that he should be DISTINGUISHED by the
pumps who compose the Board of Registration for
Brooke county,
RAILROAD BRIDGE DISASTER AT CLARKsoNv1LE
lENNEssEE-SEVEN LIVES LOST. LOUISVILLE, KY =
May 1S.-lt is reported, that at about ten o'clock
this morning, while a construction train. with
number of hands on board, was passing over the
Railroad bridge at Clarksonville, Tennessee one
hundred feet high, one OF the spans gave way,
precipitating the into the water Seven lives
it is said, were lost.
BAD FOR THE CHURCH-We hear it stated that
the president of the exploded Merchants Nation
al Bank subscribed S., 600 to the new Metropoli-
tan Church, on condition that the funds of the
enterprise should be deposited in his bank This
was done to the extent of $4,000 and it is stated
having been paid Wash Star.
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION Southern
Baptist Convention, formed in 1916, and COM
posed of representatives from the various churches
md State associations of the Baptist denomina-
ION In all the Southern States, including Mary |
and and Missouri, will be held to- morrow in Rus
ellville Kentucky. There will be present dele
gates from this city, and large meeting is anti
lpated. 1t has been several years since there has
Dee any representatives from this section, on &C
ouLt OF the war, and this is the first meeting of
he Convention, which meets biennially, since the |
of the war. 1t is a missionary body, |
having charge of the foreign and domestic mis-
ZION operations of the Baptist denomination of
he Southern States, and is an influential BODY
Rev. DIR. William j. Brantley, of Augusta, Geor-
5ia is expected to preach the Introductory SER
non Russellville, the place of meeting is one
hundred and thirty miles southwest of Louisville
md is thriving little town. The Convention
meets there at the invitation of the Baptist Gen
raj Association of Kentucky.
NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC.-SAN Francisco, May
"a dispatch yesterday states that an extensive
oal mine has been discovered at Sooke near Vic
Orla, v l.
At Fort Whipple, on the 10Th, the Moaui In
liam warriors arrived and surrendered their arms
General markets continue dull. The new crops
II grain, wool and wine of fine quality, are com
ng to market in great abundance.
1nefe seems to be more secessionists " in l.
massachusetts, than in any other State. Seven
uVorces were granted at recent term of the SUI
'r II m court OF Barnstable county. The people
II tnat state can t live in peace with themselves
II anybody else. !:
The Boston Advertiser grows very mad over the 4
prospect of Mr.. Davis escaping execution. If it i
annot get his blood it declares we shall care
cry little how soon afterwards the general am !
lesty for other offenders begins"
No less than seven different commissions arc