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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-03-22

In an editorial upon the above subject,
the Raleigh Sentinel submits some very i'm,
portant and interesting facts which bear
forcibly upon our present condition. The
number of voters, under the operation of
the Act of Congress, as we'll as the relative
strength of white and colored voters, are
questions of increasing interest, as the time
rapidly approaches for the official promul-
cation of orders by the Department Com
mander for the registration to begin. Our
estimate of the voting population of the
State does notvary materially from that of the
Sentinel. The option is not left to us to re-
main under military government, and by
that means to protect our suffrage laws from
sudden change, but whatever course the
Southern States pursue, the law, SO far as
it relates to the right Of suffrage and dis
reimbursement of certain citizens, goes into
Immediate operation. Resistance would
only increase the evil, and inaction trans
fer the oppression from the Federal to the
State government To submit to inevita-
bic necessity and bow to irresistible force,
cannot of itself disgrace us. Our duty is
plain, however hard and bitter it may be to
perform.
General Sickles will 10 doubt, soon after
his assumption of the command of his Dis
trict, issue orders and regulations necessary
to put in operation the provisions of the
Military law. He is lawyer of ability,
and we may therefore expect from him an
Interpretation of the laws of Reconstruc-
ton according to their strict legal eonstruc-
ton. We suppose he will make known by
his orders who are disfranchised under the
bill, that it may not be left to the uncer-
tain and, probably, partizan Interpretation
of registration officers.
The largest vote ever cast in North Caro-
lima was that given in the election at which
Governor Ellis was elected over Mr. John
Pool, the number being little over liz, 900.
We suppose there WAS then not more than
115, 900 or lie, 900 voters in the State, as the
excitement and interest attending that can
yRss brought ont nearly every one entitled
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-03-22
Death of Professor Phillips.

We learn from a private letter received
here on Friday morning, dated Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, March 18th, that Professor
Phillips, the oldest professor in the Uni
versity at Chapel Hill, died suddenly on
the morning of the 18th inst, sitting in his
seat in the Chapel while the bell was ring
ing for prayer. There was only one stu
dent with him at the time he was attacked.
but the alarm soon brought other students
and professors into the Chapel Prof. P.
did not utter groan or speak word after
his attack. The venerable professor was
highly esteemed and respected. He was
about seventy-eight years old at the time of
his death.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-03-22

Lawyers practicing before the military
courts in the Southern satrapies are ex-
pected to open their arguments with the
usual formula" May it please your shout
derstraps."
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-03-22

Prayer is the way to have hea0e~ upon
earth, and to have some foretastes Of the
grapes of Canaan, whilst we are in the
wilderness of the world, before we get
full meal of them.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-03-22
ationaI Convention.

In the proceedings OF the House of Dele
gates OF the State of Maryland on Friday
last, the Speaker laid before that body the
following letter from Gov. Worth enclosing
the resolutions Of the General Assembly OF
this State proposing National Convention
of all the States of the Union "to propose
such amendments to the Constitution as
shall seem fitted to promote the general
welfare, the peace, harmony and prosperity
of the Union of the United States
Gov. Worth's letter addressed to Gov.
Swan is rs follows
herewith enclose to ysu resolutions of the
General Assembly of this State, proposing plan
for composing our national troubles in exact con-
formity with the constitution Of the United States
Ii these resolutions shall meet the approval of the
States and of Congress, do not doubt that the
result will be such mutual concessions will lead
to a cordial restoration of the relations among
the States which of old made the American Union
the pride OF our people and the envy of the ma
tons. JONATHAN WORTH.
Governor of North Carolina.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-03-22
s. Getting on High Mountains"

The celebrated Georgia satirist, Bill Arp,
never gave better advice than that contain
ed in the closing paragraph of his last let
ter On the Situation" "Hope for the
best, my friends, says he, 1" Attend to your
business, keep Of It high maintain, and all
will be we'll
The disabilities of the Military Bill, the
terrible powers and patronage of Congress
are "mighty demoralizing," and several or
more may be induced to ''fall down and
worship" having followed Stevens to the
g top of a high mountain -
20 am afraid that while 10 Brown was in Wash
inGton somebody carried him up onto high
mountain, and showed him Kingdom or two and
he fell down and worshippcd. These little king
doms that man sometimes sees from the top Of
mountain are mighty demGrallZlng.
Bill -l1p March sth.
MIR. Sherman introduced a joint resolution re-
moving the disability from holding office from
Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, and Il. Nj. Patton
OF Alabama. Referred to the Judiciary commit
e."P2IoccedingS Of Inifed States Senate March
18Th.
THE STANDARD AN OFFICIAL PAPER.
Under the act of Congress approved March Cd
1867, the North CUTojin0 Standard has been Sc.
lected by Hon. Ed. Mcpherson, Clerk of the House
OF Representatives, as one OF the papers in this
State to publish the laws and treaties Of the Uni
ted States, and, also all advertisements Or
dered by the Courts and Executive Departments
of the United States The Standard will, there
fore, publish by authority the laws of the United
States, and all notices of or advertisements from
the United States Marshal, the Assessors and Col
lectors of the Revenue and the Army, Navy and
Postot1ice Department.
Raleigh Stanford, Aoych 1911.
"Hcpe for the best, my friends Don't ina
CINE you see painters and injuns, because you are
in Territory. Don't mistake Bureau track for
a bear sign. Don't fear it will be sickly, because
Florida is hitched onto our diggins. Attend to
your business, keep off OF high mountain, and
all will be well. [ would say more, but nv wife s
music has begun.
''Yours, respectfully,
BILL ARP"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-03-22
Buying and Selling Grain by the q

Buying and Selling Grain by the Genital.
The ''cental," or system of buying and
selling grain by the 100 pounds, which is
now in general use in the West and in a few
Eastern cities, is likely to create some con-
fusion in the quotations, but IN order that
buyers and sellers may avoid error, we give
a rule by which they can make their own
calculations ''The standard weight of
wheat per bushel is sixty pounds; corn
and rye ffty-six pounds oats, thirty-two
pounds barley, forty-eight pounds. The
price per bushel being given, to find the
per GENITAL, multiply the price per bushel
by one hundred, and divide by the number
of pounds in bushel. For instance, at
81 80 per bushel for wheat, what is the
price per Genital ?--15Ox100--15, O0Ox6O
81 5O-which is the price per Genital
Again, the price per Genital being given, to
find the price per bushel multiply the price
per Genital by the number of pounds in a
b'lshel and divide by one hundred. Exam
pie: At 80 SO per GENITAL, what is the price
per bushel of sixty pounds ?-250x60-
o0Qx1QQ-$1 30. the price per hushel.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-03-22

There were seyenty-two fires in New York
city during February,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-03-22
5It5I PII1IIlE pdP5I
''To THE MAGISTRATES OF WILSON COUNTY

''ln accordance with d promise made some
months since, to the effect that it was the inten-
ton of the Proprietors of this Journal to appro-
pirate ten per cent. OF their proceeds, toward
founding a scholarship to be known as the ''North
Carolinian Scholarship for the education and
Improvement Of the destitute children of deceased
soldiers of Wilson county, we earnestly request
aetin {e oi rg No %a us
by at once giving us the names and ages of the
orphan children in their respective localities, who
require pecuniary assistance to enable them to
obtain a good English education.'
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-03-22

THE HALF YEARLY ABSTRACT OF THE MEDICAL
SCIENCES.
This is Medical work, issued every six
months, by Henry G. Lea, Philadelphia,
being an analytical and critical digest of
the principal British and Continental Medi-
cal works published in the preceding six
months
We have read some few pages in the
above work, and think we may at least call
the attention Of the Medical faculty to the
propriety of paying some attention to the
various reports it gives from the practical
science of Medicine and Surgery We do
not pretend to have any opinion relative to
such matters, but it does strike us that
much is to be yet learned-not only in
Medicine and Surgery, but in every branch
of Medical science
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-03-22
C0Iplrlenfsable.

The editors of the Wilson N0jah Carroll
ntdn declared their intention sometime
since to devote ten per cent. of their pro-
ceeds towards the education and improve
ment of the destitute children of deceased
soldiers of Wilson county We see from
that journal that steps will be taken imme-
diately by the generous proprietors to carry
out their commendable charity. Their ex'
ample is certainly worthy of imitation
We append the following notice from that
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-03-22
The Flood i'm the South west.

The flood in the Southwest has been
very destructive to both life and property.
The country surrounding the Arkansas riv
er has been overfowed, and great loss of
property and suffering Of the inhabitants
has been experienced.
The E0= cites Nashville special says:
ssThe reports of tile suffering at Chattanooga
and other places along the Tennessee river are
appalling. At Chattanooga on the 18th, the water
was from twelve to twenty feet deep i'll the city
Many houses are topping over and others are
floating away. The mayor with posse OF cltI-
zcns and soldiers, were foraging among the load
ed cars for food. The agents of the railroad pro-
tested, but the mayor said the people were starry
ing. Twent y-tive dead bodies seen floating
ing down the river at Bridgeport, Ala, on the
18th. The loss of property is estimated at MIL
lion of dollars. Gen. Carn at Nashville was
making efforts 10 send rations through to Chatta-
nOoga."
CAIRO, March 15.-The Ievce near Mound City
broke this morning. The breach is forty feet wide
and six inches deep. The citizens are sinking a
boat in the crevasse, and doing all they can to pre-
vent an inundation Of the town. The levees about
Cairo are intact and are believed 10 be capable OF
withstanding the flood at its maximum.
CINCINNATI, March 13.-The river at this point
is higher than at any time since 1856. There are
now fortyfOur feet six inches i'll the channel, and
rising about one inch per hour.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. March 13th.-The river 9
inches in IA hours up to 80 this morning, and is
now within feet ofthe rise of 1847, and feet Of
that OF 1882, rising inch per hour.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-03-22

- MIR. Sherman introduced joint resolution re-
moving the disability from holding office from
Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, and L. NJ Patton,
of Alabama. Referred to the Judiciary commit
tee: proceedings Of Tnited States Senate March
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-03-22

NOMINATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT.
The President has nominated Henry W.
Wells as Consul to Naples also John w.
Frazier for Assessor, and Alexander Craw-
ford for Collector of the first district of
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-08

pires, is augnenting that debt at the
lamentabe of rate of about sne million
per week-a despotic and damnable mil
itary regime forced upon an already i'm
poverished and destitute South is nd
ding to the same colossal pile of gov
ernment Indebtedness about forty mil
lions a year, and when this alarmingly
accumulative expenditure on the part
of a prodigal and lawless Congress will
cease is beyond.t .the acumen of the most
prophetic financier or statesman to I'M
agine. Were it to cease to-day, Is there
the least possible hope that the present
debt could be-paidf To liquidate it
would require capitation tax of one
hundred dollars or more on every human
being in the United States, and to pay
the interest would require similar tax
of about fifteen dollars on every living
soul, white or black, whether in the
poor house, hospital, insane asylum or
State prison! But when we take into
consideration that the interest on some
one hundred and eighty millions Of
Government bonds are exempt from
taxation, the pro rata capitation tax
will be largely increased, for the bond
holders are not reckoned in the list of
tax payers. Should not every laboring
man reflect on the facts which stare him
so glaringly in the facet Do not the
farmers and the mechanics see the rea-
son why money is so scarce in the cOun-
try9 One hundred and eighty millions
of capital remaining idle and unem-
ployed in the hands Of the bond-hOlders!
II these bonds were taxed holders would
put their equivalent into greenbacks
and circulate them through the cOun-
try. Money would be plenty every
where and could be had by everybody.
All that is wanted in this region to
make the farmer and mechanic prosper
Ous is the free circulation of capital.
The swiftly sweeping current of politi-
cal affairs is rushing on to the dizzy
whirling cataract of reputation. The
people, who once were the masters of this
government, may, ere long. TO rid them
selves of debt which reason and COM
mon sense plainly demonstrate can
never be paid, cut the Gordian knot
that binds them down to abject ser,i-
tude and rid themselves Of such de-
testable incubus. Yours, &c,
MoUNTAINEER.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-08
From the Louisville Courier July 2sth.J
Another Melancholy suicide-A
Widow Lady Kills Herself TO Escape
The PauRs Of Disnppsinted Love.

The city was shocked last night with
rumors that most worthy lady had
committed suicide in tit of melancholy
produced by the desertion and subse-
1uent marriage of man to whom she
was engaged. A hurried investigation
placed us in possession of the circum-
stances attending the suicide, the names
of the parties and other particulars
which we feel authorized to to suppress,
out of regard to the feelings of innocent
persons:
The victim of her own rash hand in
this case was Mrs. Sallie Gibson, a
worth and respectable widow. For
several years she has made her home
chiefly at the house of Mr.. Lieberman,
on Green street, not far from the Gus
tom house. By her industry with her
needle and sewing machine, she sup
ported herself, her child of seven years
ard her aged parents, who reside at
some little town down the Ohio river.
Fer some time she indulged the expec-
tation of becoming the wife Of a man
who paid some attention to her; but
whether this expectation was a mere
infatuation of her own or was founded
on the plighted faith of the man, no
facts in our possession authorize us to
decide. Certain it is, however, that
upon the marriage Of this person to
another, she began to droOp, and be-
came about one week ago subject to
frequent hysterical fits. Her mental
depression became so marked as to alarm
her friends.
Yesterday merniDg she arose early
and prepared to go out. Her appearance
alarmed Mr.. Lieberman, and he begged
her not to go out. She said that she
felt very bad and believed that walk
in the morning air would relieve her
mind and make her feel better. She
went to drug store and procured three
ounces of laudanum which, it is belived,
she swallowed before reaching home.
After she had returned, the family OBJ
serving dangerous symptoms, sent for a
physician. The one sent for being alb
sent, some time elapsed before another
one could be brought, and then it seems
the case had passed beyond the reach OF
medical skill. Several physicians were
called in, but she died last night.
Whether her fatal insanity was caus.
cd by the disappointment of romantic
attachment. or by the dependency into
which she was plunged when disappoint.
ed in her hope of gaining helpmate in
her homeless poverty it is not our prov.
ince to discuss. Either acting upon a
feeble and perhaps diseased constitution
may have produced the sad result. To
the charitable it is enough to know that
she is at the bar of her maker, aud that
she has left an interesting child father
less, motherless, homeless, to grow uI
alone in this cold world, without Q
guide or friend, save such as Heavenly
charity may offer.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-08
The Tsx.tion Question.

We think the IntelliqeRcer is disposed
to treat the question of taxation with
very little respect. Whether it regards
the subject as wanting in Importance, or
whether il fears candid discussion, we
cannot say. Certainly its last article
upon the tax question exhibits more of
a 0uibbling and evasive disposition
than Of the spirit of fair Investigation.
Take. for example. it's assertion that
slocal taxation is not matter of politi-
cal speculation" This proposition rests
upon the ridiculously incOnclusive argu-
ment, that " all parties united in favor
in" a levy for bounties during the war
The assumption that "local taxation"
has no purpose but the payment OF
bounties, hardly merits consideration.
Equally weak is the intimation that
the Democratic party forced the bounty
tax upon the State. The Radical editor
knows that these bounty taxes were
levied by Radical Supervisors in nine
teen twentieths of the counties in West
Virginia, and that, if he be q fair repre-
tentative, his own party avoided the
. exposed points" of the front" about
as vigorously Us the Democracy, and to
that end were Qnite " urgently in favor
Of bounty levy" to fill the quota of the
various counties.
The Intelligencer further assumes that
taxation can be no greater in other
ceunties than in our own. The basis
Of this profound deduction is the con-
stitutional provision that taxation
shall be equal and uniform" Our CO.
temporary's well-known want of famil-
iarity with constitutional principles
must account for his sad blunder in ap-
plying this provision. No writer with
suffic lent respect for q constitution to
study its Interpretation would have
committed such silly and pal
pable error. 1t is the work OF
an unpractised hand. His rendering
Of the clause he quotes would require
quire every county to spend pre-
cisely the same amount with eve
Try other in its local govern.
meut. He would compel them all to
equalize their countyleyies, so that rich
aud poor, large and small, must expend
annually the sameamounts. II Monon-
gala county subscribes literally to the
Slack Water Improvement which she
wants, Wetzel must expend an equal
sum in locking and damming Fishing
Greek, or in some other enterprise that
she don't want. Such is the IHtellisen-
GERS Interpretation of the clause of the
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-08
Letters from the People.
FROM TAYLOR COUNTY.
Thoughts by the wnyside.

GRAFTON, w. Va, August 5. 1867.
Editor of the Register:
Wearied with the briar-clad hills
where naugkt save the tempting black
berry fields greet the eye, and the chat
tering of the varied voices of the berry
gatherers salute the ear, concluded TO
visit this place, where the shrill and
piercing scream of the steam-whistle
and the sonorous pnffiing of the swiftly
prancing iron horse might be substitu-
ted as an acceptable change for the dull
nonotony of the last few days.
Grafton is busy, thriving town OF
some fifteen hundred or two thousand
inhabitants, surrounded, as it were, by
an amphithestre Ofhill, through which
the Tygart valley river seems to ha We
cut its way, to assist in forming the
beautiful Msnongahela. 1t has three
handsome churches, some fifteen or
twenty stores, four or five hotels, OF
which the Grafton House is the chief.
This house is kept in good
STYLE, and the gentlemanly host
seems determined that his guests
shall be we'll cared for. This town is
one hundred miles from Wheeling and
one hundred and four from Parkersburg.
It's citizens claim this rs the most con-
venient point for the location OF the
State capital. From my limited knowl-
edge of the geography of the State l am
inclined to The opinion that their claim
| is entitled to candid consideration. In
nv peregrinations may, however, visit
some of the other places which, / am in
formed, claim equal consideration for
the location of the capital. Should j
do so, i shall be egotistical enough to
venture another opinion on the subject.
find in travelling around the country
that there is insufficient attention paid
TO farming. There seems to be culpa-
BILE negligence in imparting to the soil
those fertilizers il absolutely requires.
1 A continual exhaustion Of certain prop
critics of the land renders it indigenous
to those briars which have so complete
ly 'scon6scated" or appropriated large
fields to their own use and have ron
dered them almost worthless to the
owners. Thus large portion of the
soil rendered almost totally unproduct-
i've and the steady increase of taxation
make a burthen too heavy for the farm
ers TO bear. And when the agricultur.
| lists do not. thrive all branches of in
dastry droop and dwindle to nothing
ness.
And here, Mr.. Editor, let me ask, is
there q single ray Of hope that the fu-
ture will or can bring any reiieff The
national debt is rapidly on the increase.
A causeless and shameful Indian war,
linaugurated for the express purpose OF