Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-29
NEWS SUMMARY.

CABINET CHANGEs.-It is rumored at Washing
ton that Mr.. Speed is about to retire from the
Cabinet, and that Mr.. Stansbury of Ohio will sue
coed him as Attorney General. We earnestly
hope that the result will verify the rumOr. Any
change in that Department will be for the better
THE PETERSBURG BRIDGE.-This bridge, known
rs the long bridge, and burnt at the time of the
evacuation of the city, has nearly reached compile
ton. Only few spans remain to be finished
Richmond Examiner.
Dry GOODS FA11ING-GooD NEWS FOR THE La
DIEs-The announcement that dry goods had fall
len quite an hundred per cent. in New York has
caused them to topple in Richmond. Already
tllicoeS of good quality and patterns are selling at
twelve and half cents per yard, and of course
other goods will subside to a corresponding price.
Richmond Enquirer.
New ORLEANS, March 22.-The planting of SUI
gar is going on rapidly. The steamboat Butler
was seized at Shreveport, on account of the MUIR
der OF a negro soldier Thirty of the crew were de-
tanned. 1t is believed that there is no cholera or
the Gulf or the Spanish Main, and the quarantine
will be removed.
WASHINGTON, March Pas the friends of the
President are unanimously opposed to the civil
rights bill, it is presumed that he would have
signed it at once if he approved it. He would
hardly hold it seven days, unless he has found
serious objections to it. His vetO if is sent,
will be an argument based upon close investiga-
ton of law and facts which is more than it has
received congress on either SIDE. Many re-
publicans give it up to-day that he will veto the
bill.
tremendous specializing ring has been form
ed here to defeat Mr.. McCulloch upon his loan
policy.
New HAMPsHIRE EIEcTIoN.-The Boston Her
AID gives the full vote of New Hampshire, with
the exception of few small towns, for Gov
ernor, and the result is Smyth Republican,
81, O22 Sinclair Democrat, SO, 40; Republican
majority 1882 against G, 1913 last year. The total
vote of the State now is 65, 480, an increase of
1921 over last year. The Republican vote shows
an increase of 877, and that of the Democrats
2423 leaving net gain of $40 this year for the
Democrats.
GALVESTON, March 2O.-But little of public in
terest has taken place in the Texas Convention
i committee of nine members has been appointed
TO prepare an address to the President.
Mr. Bartlett, Union, Ofereda proposition to pay
the widow of General Houston the full salary he
would have received Governor for the full term,
from the time he was dismissed by the secession
Convention.
In his speech before the Democratic State Con-
vention of Indiana the Hon. D. ". Voorhees,
marked in regard to his expulsion from Congress,
that it RENTED him to the society of gentlemen,
and permitted him to choose his own company
The House recently passed concurrent re-
solution to adjourn in May. The country viii re-
spond to this action much in the same temper
the maiden whose lover, after his acceptance,
urging an early day for the marriage. 'Why not
in May, dearest ?' plead the imprisoned swain
when, seeing she hesitated, he added eff May is
too soon, call it June, my angel - ooh y re-
sponded the bssanticipating damsel eff you leave
it to me, [ shall say April
The Selma Messenger says: eve are reioiced
to learn that the distinguished General W. J. Har-
dee has, at the request of Generals Grant and
Sherman, received from President Johnson an as
surance that he may continue IN the pursuits OF
civil life without fear of molestation by the United
States authorities.
LOUISVILLE, March 21.-Sterling King who con-
tossed himself guilty of attempting to assassinae
Seward endeavOred to commit suicide this
ing by severing blOod-vessel of his arm His
recovery is doubtful
Generals Meade and Thomas are at st. Louis,
attending to their duties members of the army
board for brevet promotions.
George Lunt, of Boston, it is said, is likely to
be appointed Professor of Mental and Moral Phi
losophy, in Washington College, Va.
General J. C. Vaughan, who commanded at the
Piedmont fight, after General Jones fell, writes to
gentleman in Augusta county: ..
'I have never returned to Tennessee since the
surrender. My wife and children were all arrest
ed and sent North as prisoners-our home was on
Sweet Water, Monroe county, East Tennessee
and all we had was confscated even ward
robes were destroyed Therefore, I brought my
family to this point on the Florida line only for,
ty miles from the coast and am trying to support
them by hard labor. [ had nothing left at the
close of the war - WyteriUe Dispatch.
Hon. Pierre Soule's mansion ON Espaianade
street, New Orleans, for about two years occupied
as a Freedman's Orphans Asylum, has been
stored to him by order of General Howard.
General Wade Hampton, in manner not to be
misunderstood, denies the charge of General Sher-
man relative to the burning of Columbia.
General Stephen D. Lee has leased cotton
plantation In Mississippi.
Generals D. r. Maury and Braxton Bragg are
spoken of for the Presidency of the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad. Ha-...'
Hon. Cave johnson, one of the Oldest and most
distinguished citizens of Tennessee, for many
years Representative in Congress, and Postmas-
ter General under James K. Polk, is now candi-
date for the United States Senate from the Clarks
vile District.
Certain persons residing in the so-called Con-
federate States during the rebellion, and who had
dOmicil In said States before the civil war and
during It's continuance now come and demand of
the Government balances which they alege were
due and payable to them, before said civil war be-
gan; but the second Comptroller of the Treasury
has decided that they are not entitled to the pay
ment of these balances. The laws of nations the
laws of Congress and the decisions of the Supreme
Court, he says, justify that decision.
EFFECT OF THE LOAN Bill ON GoLD-Ghe pas
sage of the Loan Bill by both Houses of Congress
on Friday, had a marked and Immediate effect on
the gold market. On Saturday gold went down
III New York to 1851, or lower than it has been
since October &c, 1862. - ,s1->..- ~ E.'..- =