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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
STATE NEWS.

DIED OF HIS INJURIES. We have to re-
cord the death of Mr.. Robert A. Pate, a
sad event that occurred on Monday night
at half past ten o'clock
MIR. Pate was in the twenty-third year of
his age, young man of good address, and
popular manners, and the melancholy ter
mination of his promising life, has cast a
gloom over the entire community
He was native of Greene county, where
he leaves number of relatives and friends
to regret his untimely end. To them we
tender our sympathies.
MIR. Pate, it will be remembered, was
wounded IN the affair of Sunday night
wilson Ca'OLinian, 1911 inst
A FORTUNE FOR A HALIFAX MAN,-From
some statements which have been made to
us, we are gratified to learn that there is a.
strong probability that Sheriff Snow, of
this county, is one of the heirs to a fortune
of fifty or sixty millions, in England
There is valuable portion of London
known as Snow Hill, which formerly be-
lOnged to DR.. Nathaniel Snow, who emf
grated to this country many years ago, and
died here, leaving no will. A man by the
name of Sam Snow brought suit for the
property in England, short time ago, but
failed to get it, because it was proven that
the property belongs to the heirs of DR..
Nathaniel Snow, and Sam Snow could not
prove himself to be one of those heirs. 1t
was proved, in the trial, that DR.. Snow en-
lgrated to this country and we learn that
there is bible in the possession of some
of the Snow family in Alabama, which
contains the family record of DIR. Nathan
lei Snow, and proves conclusively that our
Sheriff and the Alabama Shows are the
heirs of DR.. Nathaniel Snow.
Weldon STATE
FIRE AT MoREHEAD CTTY.-The store
and dwelling house Of Mr.. Wood, Ger
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
Increase of Population.

The Houston Telegraph says: 'FThe pop
ulation Of Texas at the beginning of the war
was between 600. 900 and 100000 It is
now at least 200, 900. It will soon have
as large population as the State of New
York. Population is flowing into it from
every part of the civilized world. No
country on this earth offers such induce
ments to emigrants as Texas"
1t seems also that there is considerable
emigration Of negroes from the cotton
States tending towards Texas. The editor
of the Houston Journal lately noticed three
car loads of negroes, big and little, passing
up the Central Road. They said "dey
were from Souf Carlina, and gwine to Tex
as" There were over one hundred in the
party, and the railroad officials informed
the Journal that the Government was foot
ing the bills. The same paper speaks of
crowds Of negroes brought over in the Mo-
bile boats, and says that the Government
is feeding them and paying their passage.
It has heretofore been stated that large
numbers of negroes have been moved by
the Government from South Carolina into
Florida.
So, then, the tendency of the black pop
ulat1On is to the South, and not to the
North and West. They can listen to the
preaching of the fanatic and abOlitionist-
those faithful allies; but they fear to trust
themselves among them; they do not be-
lieve in their sincerity and iberality, and
the country is too cold. When Texas fills
up with them, their natural outlet is open
into Mexico, where they will find the eli
mate more congenial to their physical ma
lures, and state of morals better suited to
their social condition; SO that they can
amalgamate with that already hybrid peo-
pie, and suffer 10 more from distinction of
race and color
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
Pork Packing in the West.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 9th. We continue the
publication of pork packing returns from
the packing points in the interior: Pack
ing to date, 1,941, ,304 estimate for the
season, 2, 1876, l90-total packed last season,
/, ,432, 993 The footings show an increase,
so far, of 753, 1877 this season. AS general
thing, the reports Indicate an increase in
the weight but what the actual increase is
cannot now be ascertained with any degree
of accuracy The total number of hogs
packed in the West last season was l 1,6S3,-
474, and the previous year 2, 451, 619.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
The Food Question in England-A Short
Crop.

The London Times says, according to cal
culations by an experienced agriculturist,
the food question until next harvest stands
as follows:
The annual consumption of wheat and
-four in the United Kingdom may be taken
at Is, 100000 quarters, of which our aver
age home growth is 10000, 600 quarters
The crop of 1866 is on e-eighth deficient
namely 100000 quarters, leaving 8,OO0,-
600 quarters to be imported between har-
vest 1866 and harvest 1867. The average
annual cost of wheat and flour for the last
three years has been (at Ais. per quarter)
$37, ,925, 900, and the probable cost of the
current years consumption lat 5Ss. per
quarter) will be s53, $50, ,OCO, showing an
excess of cost of wheat and -four beyond
the average of three preceding years of
els, 1885, 900. This makes no allowance for
diminished consumption, as the higher
price is more than met by the general high
rate of wages, and these figures apply to
wheat and flour only, and do not include
the increase of price on other descriptions
Of corn.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
The New Ocean Telegraph.

Mail advices from Europe confirm the
intelligence that the Spanish government
has granted to the International Ocean Tel
egraph Company, of New York, the exclu-
sive privilege fer forty years, Of laying tel
egraphic cables between the United States
and Cuba. It is also announced that the
Spanish government has further agreed to
grant to the same company an exclusive
privilege for a similar period for connect
ing by telegraph the islands of Porto Rico
and Cuba
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22

Wild Scene i'm the Tennessee Legislature.
The Nashville Union and Dispatch, thus
describes the passage of the Senate negro
suffrage bill by the House of Representa-
tives of the Tennessee Legislature last
Wednesday.
The galleries were crowded with negroes
while all the vacant seats in the House were
filled with spectators ladies and gentlemen
whom the interesting occasion had called
together The vote went on. The clerk
called each name clearly and distinctly, and
the response of AYE" or ''nO" was given
the same way. The end of the roll was at
length reached. The vote was counted and
the Speaker announced the result-affirma-
tive 80, negative 25. The bill was passed
and thousands Of negroes were by the
House at o'clock made citizens, and had
given them the power of the franchise law
the highest rank that belongs to man in Il
republican government. Wien the vote
was announced the scene that followed
beggars description. Loud and vociferous
yells followed, repeated and prolonged
Men clapped their hands, stamped their
feet, holloed and cheered, till the very walls
OF the capitol and its fiuted columns, mass
i've as they are, seemed to tremble
The Cincinnati Gazette correspondent
grshed over in the exnberance of his feel
lngS, and swung his hat around his head
and cheered most Justify while those who
favored the measure kept up the cheering,
the negroes in the galleries caught the in
fection, and stamped, clapped their hands
and yelled at a tremendous rate, on the
event vouchsafng to them more privileges
than are extended by any State in the
North. That grand capital hall never wit
messed such Il scene before, and few such
scenes ever tranSpirod in any capitol where
men Of dignity had convened for grave
and important purposes It was enough to
call the dead Strickland from his cofined
niche in the wall, and give him the power
of Sampson to tear down the pillars
of the capitol, and send the noble
edifce tumbling upon the heads Of those
who dared thus permit It's rude desecratiOn.
The usrrpatiOn was consummated, and tri-
vial jests and loud huzzas rang out from the
capitol building, where the last vestige of
Tennessee's S constitutional liberty was struck
down, The event will not be forgotten,
nor will the undignifed scenes following
it's consummation.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
Hamlet as a Yankee.
BY THE "FAT CONTRIBUTOR.
ST am thy fathers spirit

Ghost-I am thy fathers spirit
Hamlet-Yeou don't say SO ! Old man
give us your flipper. How de do Hahn t
seen you in coon's age. When'dye come
down ?
G--Doomed for cetain term to walk at
night
H-Why Oh airth don't you take hoss
car and ride Or do they quit too airly
for you? [ say, where do you hang eout
daytime
G-And for the day confined to fast in
H-Abeout heow fast are ye on a dirt
road Tew-forty?
G-Till the foul crimes done III the days
of my nature are burnt and purged away.
H-Are you purging bad Try "a little
Of this cholera medicine. Knock it higher'n
Glderoy.
G-But that am forbid to tell the Sc
crets of my prison house, [ could tale un-
fold
H-non't unfold it here, old man-lon't.
G-Whose slightest recital would harrow
up thy soul.
H-Fetch on your barrow.
G-Ereeze thy young blood
H-Git eout, you tarnal old refrigerator.
G-Make thy two eyes like stars start
from their spheres
H-Dew tell Yeou couldn't tell about
what time they'd start :?
G-Thy knotted and combined locks to
part
Hive parted with about all of them
locks now, specially on the top of my
head.
G-And each particular hair
HI amt particular to a hair.
G-To stand on end like quills upon the
fretful porcupine.
H-Neow look a here, old poppy, don't
fret your porcupine over me.
G-But this eternal blazon must not be
to ears of flesh and blood.
list
H-(Gettingangry)-Y be gol darned!
Didn't I list in Sol Peabody's Hum Guards
when yeou fed into Canada, takin' your
draft with ye? And where yeou was killed
by the Finnegans and it served you right:
Better go and list yourself, you tarnel old
critter stead Of prowlin' round nights dis
turbin' your blood relations Git eout-
Exit Hamlet in a rage. ~ 7. Clipper.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
Strike out theASG Whffe.,,

We have reliable information that one of
our doughty Legislators intends introducing
a bill to strike out the color white " from
all national flags that float on the breezes
of Tennessee. This is quite apropos-
Some think tbat streak of black will be
substituted for the white. Others think
that after the white is expunged, red (being
a rebel color also) will follow suit to give
place for black-leaving as the national
colors, black and bIUe Won't that be reg
ular b7uiser ?-NIrskUiUe Gazette
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22

Some of the newspapers in printing Mr.
Peabody's late letter, have unintentionally
omitted the words ''Southern and," the let
ter stating that the income of his gift is to
be applied for the promotion and encour-
agement of education, etc., among the
young of the more destitute of the South
ern and Southwestern States.
Colonel William S. King, the late State
Constable of Massachusetts,, has been bre-
vetted Brigadier of the Bay State militia,
for gallant and meritorious couduct in the
vindication of the Sunday laws upon the
persons of blasphemous Boston BARRIERS and
bean bearing Boston boys.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
Duel with "a New Result.

The Montgomery Mil says duel was
fought between a Major Baker, of Lown-
des county, and Mr.. Austill, of Mobile, in
which the former was seriously, if not NOR
tally wounded in the side. Mr.. Austill was
unhurt but his second was not so fortunate.
AS Mr.. Baker was falling he discharged his
pistol, but his aim being uncertain, the ball
lodged in the thigh of his antagonists sec
ond. We believe such an occurrence is
unexampled in the annals of dueling. The
distance was five PAGES, and the weapons
pistols
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
By Steam to Liverpool.

The British steamship Pioneer, Captain
Shack ford, was cleared for Liverpool yes.
terday by Messrs. W. B. Smith & Co., with
493 bales Sea Island, l, l23 bales of Upland
Cotton, and II packages Merchandise-the
whole valued at $52G9, 943.
This vessel carries the bulk of about
1900 bales compressed Cotton, on light
draft of water, and with fair opportunity
she will probably make good run to Liv-
erpool Charleston NetCS. 12M inst.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22

square, of 10 lines or less, for each and every
insertion, 81.
Special Notices will be charged 50 90 per squar
for each and every insertion.
ALI Obituaries and private publications of every
charac tor, are charged as advertisements.
RgNo advertisement, rejecting upon priva c
character, can, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, b
admitted.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22

A young wife demonstrated with her hus-
band, dissipated spendthrift, on his con-
duct. my love-" said he, I'm only like
the prodigal son I shall reform by-and-
by" And [ will be like the prodigal
son, too" she replied, "for 1 will arise
and go to my fathers" and accordingly off
she went
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22

The Troy "Times." of the 5th instant
says that lady who resides in Schenecta-
dy recently went to her parents home, in
Bennington, VT, to have her mothers care
in childbirth. Owing to the ill feeling of
her father toward her husband she was
driven away almost with curses. She was
passing through Troy on her way back,
when, on the evening of the 4th, she gave
birth to q child in the street,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22

A lady living near Rock Hill, South Car
olina, on last Saturday gave birth to a
daug hter and dforty-tw hours afterwards she
gave birth to another daughter and a son.
The weights of the infants were respective
ly, five and three-quarters, seven. and eigh,
and a quarter pounds, and they are all,
with their mother, doing AS we'll as could
be expected. The husband of this lady is
over seventy wears old
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
Sterling Price,

The Chicago Times says: 1t is announced
that Sterling Price has left Mexico. and is
now in the United States. We are in
formed by o gentleman who conversed with
him within the last week, that he an
nounced himself anxious to return to Mis-
souri,, and desires to make himself useful
in assisting to restore harmony to the peo-
pie of his own State.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
I'LL Kinds Of Blanks
EOR SALE

), Rev; George Trask, of Fitchburg, Mass,
Washington City, distributing anti-tobacco
tracts and delivering lectures against the
weed. He addressed four-page tract to
General Grant, exhorting him to drop his
cigar. -11'
Sheridan says that he did not arrest Sur
ratt brother in Texas, for the reason that
surratt never had any brother.
Geo. Bancroft, historian, has been NOM
mated to the Senate of the TTn;tod S+o+as
TO be Collector of the port of Boston.
..;r Inc snow drifts on the Allegheny noun
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22

An exchange says: - An Australian cler-
gyman, named Booth, has been compelled
to resign his charge in consequence of the
strong public feeling excited by his brutal
treatment of small dog which had strayed
nto his church"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22

In addition to Raphael Semmes, Gen.
Joseph Wheeler has been elected to a pro-
fessorship in the Louisiana State Semi
sciences.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
KITCHEN AND FLOWER GARDEN,
ADMINISTRATIVE NOTICE,

FTNHE undersigned having, at December
i Term 1866 of the Court of Pleas and Gu trter
Sessions for New Hanover county, qualified as Ad-
ministratr upon the estate of Willie p. Keith, de-
ceased, hereby gives notice to all persons indebt-
ed to said estate to come forward and make pay
ment; and all persons having claims against the
same are hereby notified o present them duly au-
thenticated within the time prescribed by law 9TH
erwise this notice will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery.
FRANCES KEITH, AdmX.
January 9th, 1867. 112 3t-1-3w%
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
DIED.,

In Onslow county, N c., On the 9th day of Feb
ruary. 1867, ROBERT WHlfE' in the 10th year
Of his age.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22

A Chicago clergyman, who didn't draw
the Crosby Opera House, took his revenge
on the following Sunday by preaching
from a text in iah, which reads thus
Gas the partridge sitteth upon eggs and
hatcheth them not, SO he that getteth riches
and not by right, shall leave them in the
midst of his days, and at the end shall be
a FOOL
There is nothing like showing proper re-
sentiment upon all occasions and under all
circumstances.
Representative Dawes, of Massachusetts,
having selected from his constituents a
commission to fill the cadetship in his gift
by mpetitive examination, they held the
examination on Friday, and selected for
the appointment Lieutenant Geo. B. Davis
of Springfield, a young man who served as
an officer of volunteers during the late war.
The funeral obsequies of Judge William
Miller took place at Mount Vernon, N. Y,
in the Methodist Episcopal Church on Fri
day afternoon. The Revs. VIM. H. Boole,
Mallory, Collins, Seaman, and J. E. Smith
were present and delivered short addresses.
The remains were placed in Woodlawn
Cemetery.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
GOODIES FOR SLANG.

was counting beautiful girl one night,
Whom I woTshipped as almost divine,
And longed to hear her breathe the sweet little
That told me she would be mine;
I praising the wealth of her chestnut hair,
And her eyes OF machless blue,
When she laid her dear cheek on my shoulder and
Hurrah! That's bully for you."
I started in terror, but managed to keep
From showing my intense surprise,
And pressed my lips lightly brow and on cheek
And on her meekly closed eyes;
told her my love was as deep as the sea,
CAS- felt her heart go pit-pattery,
And she whispered, ''Oh! haFs ectafs the
nlGtteI!' -
told her that her check would the rose put to
Hcr teeth the famed Orient pearl,
And the oceans rich coral could never compare
With the lips of my beautiful girl;
That her voice was like the music that comes to
the ear
In the night time-and sweet was her smile
As that of an angel and softly she breathed,
s. On that you can Just BET yOuT puen
In the hush Of the starlight still whispered on,
And pressed her more close to my breast;
Talked sWceter than Romeo, dearer than Claude,
And told her how true love was blest;
OF bliss in a cottage, of flowers and birds,
(IhOugh felt at times strange out of joint,
When she looked with smile, and dainty hsped
In my car, " / cant qoHe see tie point %
pressed her still closely, talked still more sweet,
Called the stars to look down on our love,
Made love rhyme to dove, and kiss rhyme to bliss
And vowed by the heavens above
I'd be constant and true if she'd only be mine
Pressed her lips and caressed her brown locks,
When she answered me back, with rlCh saucy
laugh
"L0oE here! amt ger qt1e, the rocts.'"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
Appointments for Roanoke District, NJ.


Appnointrnents for Roanoke District, NC.
Conference.
Warren, at Warrenton, Dec % ~
Wilson, Jan'y. & 6
Tawboro', at TaWbOrO', II y 13
Roanoke, at EbeneZer; ~ u ~
Williamson, at Williamson, 26 Y
Plymouth, at Plymouth Feby. z 3
Washington, at Washington, ~
Bath, at Woodstock, 10
Matamuskeet, at Swan Quarters 23 q
Hatteras, at Hatteras, March
The District Stewards meeting will be held at
the Church in TarborO', on Saturday the 18th July
The Stewards are Messrs. H. Palmer, E. A. Thorn
Marcus Battle, r. Z. Weat6ersbee. Chas. Latham
John Arthur, Jas. Clark and DIR. S. A. Long.
do not know who are the Stewards for Wilson and
Hatteras. 1t is important that all should be pres
ent.
As the returns from the Annual Conference thus
far indicate that the plan for the introduction OF
Law Representation" proposed by the late Cen
eraI Conference Will soon be officially announced
as the law of the Church the district Stewards III
anticipation of such announcement will elect four
Delegates to our next Annual Conference, III con-
formitv with the provisions of said law
My Post Office, for the present, Is IarDoro'
NJ. S. MORAN, P. E.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22

Mr.. Davis health is better than it has
been for six months.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
BURLINGTON.
BENNETT, VANPELT L. co..

23 WHITEHALL STREET. NEW YORK.
SHIPMENTS OF COTTON, NAVAL STORES,
- Provisions, &C., will be forwarded to us by
who will pay revenue tax and other charges. Ali
advices.
Feb. IL o AZ
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22

Irregular lines addressed to daughter now NJ
more, on her birthday, accompanied by a copy 0
Shakespeare:
Wake dearest! 10! to chase away
Dull sleep, and greet thy natal day,
Thy father brings a rich bouquet
Or wild flowers culled by Shakspeares hand;
Fresh when first
Their buds they burst
In far off realms OF fairy land
Sweet as the wild-crab blossom bright
And clustering as the gems of night;
More various than the feeting hues
Which mark the pathway angels use
On errands from above
Enduring yOn Quenchless flame,
AS Shakspeares own immortal name,
Or thy fond fathers love.
Yet sooth a simple gift;
Mere fancy flowers but then We know,
Straws tell how softest zephyr's blow,
Or gentlest tides of ocean flow:
So - trifles light as air may show
The heart streams drift.
Let wealthy fools, kings, dukes and carls,
Boast of their diamonds and their pearls,
Dear bought in distant mart:
Not all their wealth power suffice
To gain that pearl without price
true and loving heart.
Let FASHIONS slave i'll frigid zone,
L
False Loves caress, felgned sorrows moan,
Barter for gold away;
Not the proud Cars imperial throne
Can tempt true love no love alone,
True love, can e'er repay.
The costly gauds which Pride bestows,
Oft by their vain display,
The giver's hollow heart expose,
And selfish aims betray;
But tokens of love, tho slight
As was of old the widows mite,
A wid-iower pIucked from secret nook,
A pebble from the CLASSY brook,
A petted bird or favored book,
4 gentle word or tender look,
Thrill the heart with pure delight;
Loves very thOu2 hts like lightning fly
From soul to soul, from eye to eye,
To make joys day-dream still more bright,
And gild the hours of Grief's long tedious night
What tho the gift
In sOrdid eyes
Of little worth may seem;
Or vanish swift
As spray updashed from mountain stream,
Or young ambitions fitful dream;
The cherished flower may droopir & lie,
The woodland warbler sing and die;
Yet as they perish thoughts arise,
Sweet thoughts, to fan Loves holy flame,
Still, still, to grow within the soul
When she has left her earthly frame,
And reached her destin'd goal.
Yes, there s on earth heavenly joy
For loving hearts too vast, too high,
Too free from earth's impure alloy,
For pride to feel or wealth to buy:
And there's a solace too in grief,
For loving hearts sweet relief
To worldly souls unknown
Felt in Affections every tone.
Her cheering smile, her soul-heaved sigh,
The gracious drops" that from her eye
Fall fast and bright,
Like meteOrs from the troubled sky
OF wintry night.
Yes, darling G., thy heart would hold
Affections simplest proofs more dear.
The soothing tone, the smile sincere,
The deep drawn sigh and falling tear
Than aught that can be bought with gold.
And dearest Love,
That gentle flial heart of thine,
Believe me, | would not resign,
To make earth's hidden treasures mine
Or the deep seas, nor might join
With these, the starry worlds that shine
In Heaven above,
GOODIES FOR SLANG.
was counting a beautiful girl one night,
Whom l wOrshipped as almost divine,
And lOnged to hear her breathe the sweet little
word
hot toll ba bo min
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22

Irregular lines addressed to daughter now no
more, on her birthday. accompanied by copy of
Shakespeare: