Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-17

tpllance with the law. AS a consequence thOuS-
4 ands of citizens adjourned to Fordham, fremont,
Morrisania and Jersey. or any place where there
was possible chance of imbibing. Many also
procured supply of liquor on Saturday, and
passed the Sabbath in putting it out of sight But
there were no drunke men upon the streets, and
the city was quiet could be desired by the
most ultra Sabbatarian.-N Y. Herald.
Senator Wright, of New Jersey, who rose from
his sick bed to resume his seat in thesSenate, to
vote to sustain the veto of the Civil Rights BILL
has been obliged to return to New Jersey, and
Will probably never again be able to resume his
seat
very distinguished statesman and orator in
New York, is said to be preparing thorough ven
hlatlon of all the acts of tyranny oppression and
cruelty of the Federal officers
The WHEAT CRoP.-A gentleman who has been
over good deal of Piedmont Virginia informs us
that the wheat crop was looking badly. In some
cases the blue grass had obtained the mastery
the wheat, and was killing it out.
Fredericksburg Herald
THE BoMBARDMENT OF VALPAR1so-The losses
of foreign residents by the bombardment of Val
paraiso estimated as follows American, $113,
OO0 English, $4,000; French, $275,OOO, and
German, $176, 900.
from the letter of a clergyman to the Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland presents very simple, and, he
says very eectual preventive of cholera, well
remedy of great power:
charcoal taken three four times week. in cup of cof
fee other liquid in the morning When attacked with
laudanum and of brandy other spirits may be
given, follows after being well shaken: teaspoon
eectuay to relieve and stay the disease AS the pa
tent becomes better the mixture may be given
intervals hav known patient in the blue stage, and
collapsed, perfectly recovered in few hours.
The charcoal was tried preventive large plan
tatiOn in the Maurtus and but single individual out Of
eight hundred was lost.
| The clerk of the Freedmen's Bureau Court at
Savannah, has absconded with the funds of the
itigants ...
| A negro threw stone at some ladies in the
street recently in Mobile He was shot dead for
| the act.
| Thaddeus Stevens, the leader of the Republican
party, It's foremost representative man, and the
pOnent of its best intelligence got up in the House
of Representatives yesterday and said he credi
bly, informed that, with free labor, cotton could
be produced for one cent a pound!
Would it not be base fattery to call this
lass?
OPENING OF A UNITED STATES COURT IN SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, Monday, May S.-The United States
District Court for the Southern District of Geor-
gia opened to-day, Judge Erskine presiding and
subsequently adjourned until Thursday next,
when the constutionality of the test oath will be
argued.
Among the leading representatives of the Geor-
gia bar present was Ex-Gov. Brown.
peared in the Mobile Register and Adrertiser of
May 1st
To the Voters Of Mobile county:
On account Of the strong public sympathy manifested
on behalf Of my competitor Admiral Semmes, who per-
formed distinguished and gallant services during the
late war; and to relieve my friends from embarrassment
have determined to withdraw my name a candidate
for reelection to the office of Judge of Probate.
GEORGE W. BOND.
CONGRESS ON THE NATIONAL BANKs-The House
has instructed the Committee on Banking and
Currency to investigate the failure of the Mer-
chants National Bank of this city, well as the
condition of the national banks generally, and to
report what legislation is necessary. The COM
mittee has power to send for persons and papers.
NeD York Post, SM.
The Florida and Alabama railroad is now run
ming nine miles out of Pensacola It's completion
to Montgomery by next fall is expected.
The Memphis Argus proposes to inquire into
the propriety of making new State out of West
Tennessee and North Mississippi, to be called the
State Of jackson, with Memphis for its Capital.
The TEXAS WHEAT CRoP.-The crops through
out the wheat region of Texas are represented as
promising beyond those of any past season at this
cents per bushel. o, for the railroads. Galveston
Ciruian, 21a uA
Gen. Beauregard and W. Adams have gone to
President johnson has modified their paroles so
that they can go and return.
A young lady in New Orleans is afflicted with
disease which the physicians have pronounced to
be the ancient leprosy.
The dresses worn by Miss Lucille Weston in her
character of Camille " were purchased by her in
Paris, and cost seventeen thousand dollars, inclU-
ding the importation tax and the jewels expressly
used in the decoration Of the robes