Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-08
DestitutiOn in New York.


A letter from New York to the Philadelphia
Ledger says:
The Commissioners of public charities are out
with touching appeal on behalf Of the poor
They say their office In Chambers street is crow
ded from morning till night with applications for
aid which cannot be responded to for want of
means. There is more downright destitution
among u.s. just at present, than has been known
for many years, owing to the decline Of business
and general scarcity of employment. Many young
men who have come from New England in search
of work have been sent back home by the COM
missiOners.
A Michigan woman wants q divorce be-
cause her husband cannot raise moustache.
There are two hundred funerals daily in
London.
The late Gen. Cass's cradle was O. COM
mon sugar trough His babyhood must
have been sweetly spent.
The Legislative Council of Colorado has
passed resolutions requesting the removal
of Governor Cummings
In England 143, ,343 widowers yearly mar
ry splnsters, whereas only 6,625 widows
marry bachelors.
They have female beggar in Quebec,
who goes on her professional rounds in O
sleigh drawn by her own horse.
In the North as in the South of England.
nurses think it lucky for child to CRY at
its baptism.
The Montreal "News protests against
small menageries, panoramas of the Amer
lean war, and fat women, as "degrading
exhibitions"
Ex-Governor Parsons, by request, has ad-
dressed the Alabama Legislature in conven-
tion In emphatic opposition to the consti-
tutlonal amendment
The trial Oft the thirty ladies of Greenfield,
Ohio, for mobbing the liquor dealers, was
concluded last week. The jury returned the
verdict of $625 for the plaintiffs.
It is suggested that the French troops in
Mexico will be SO happy when the ships ar
rive to take them home, that they will i'm
medlately go into transports.
An intended marriage was broken off in
New Haven because the lover pawned
diamond ring his betrothed had given him
to have repaired.
A number of Partisan seamstresses have
been suffering from violent cholics from
putting the silk they use in sewing into
their mouths This is attributed to sulphate
of laod
The Magistrates in Derbyshire, England,
have just sentenced Jim Mace, Joe Goss
and three other less noted pugilists, to q
months imprisonment with hard labor, for
taking part i'll prize fight.
A fire in Chicago, Friday night DESTROYED
a new block of six brick buildings, owned
by j. D. Jackson, of South Adams Massa-
chusetts. The loss is ST., 200 insured for
$4,000.
Rev. Joel Lindsay, who has been on trial
for whipping his child to death at Albion,
Orleans county, New York, has been found
guilty of manslaughter in the second de-
gree.
In Milwaukee, La Cross, Prairie du Chen,
Madison, Wis, ST. Paul, Mimi, the snow
storm was the heaviest which has fallen for
many years. Eighteen to twenty inches
deep on a level, and drifting badly. The
trains are all hauled off
A carpenter named Schroeder, living in
Third avenue, Chicago, attempted to shoot
his wife Friday night. The ball grazed
her face, not inficting any injury. Schro-
der fled and has not been seen since. It is
thought he has committed suicide.
A war between Greece and Turkey, grow
ing out of the Cretan revolution, appears
to be imminent. Greece is preparing for
it. The Sublime Porte has addressed let
ter to the three protecting powers, Eng
land, France and Russia, asking their inter
ference, which will not probably be accor-
ded
Official letters from Florida state that the
Indians in the Everglades are determined
to keep the negroes in the tribes as slaves,
denying that the white mans laws are ap-
plicable to them on the subject The me-
groes claim their liberty, and have appeal
ed to the military for assistance. 1t is fear
ed there will be trouble in Florida touch
ing the matter
It is officially reported that the freedmen
throughout Florida are renewing their con-
tracts in large numbers. There is numer-
Gus immigration from South Carolina and
Georgia, for the purpose of obtaining work
or colouizing on the st. Johns river or
South thereof General Ely had arrived
from South Carolina with colony of eight
hundred freedmen. Colonization agencies
in the Southern part of the State seem very
popular.
A difficulty has occurred at Fernandina,
Florida, by some citizens resisting a seiz-
ure made by the sheriff of property sold for
taxes The sheriff was driven off, and ap-
pealed to Governor Walker for O military
force. The Governor had no men, and
asked the interference of the military Col.
Sprague declined, and the Governor ap-
Piled to the President for assistance. All
is now qniet, the parties awaiting instruc-
tions from Washington.
An official letter from Florida says the
Indians in the everglades of that State are
determined to keep the negroes in their
tribe as slaves, denying that the white mems
laws are applicable to them on the subject
of slavery. The negroes have claimed their
liberty, and have appealed to the military
for assistance. 1t is feared that there will
be trouble in Florida touching this matter.
Wash. Correspondent Bait. Sun. 9Th inst.
NATIONAL BANK CURRENCY. CY.-For the week
ending the 26th instant, national bank cur
rency to the amount of $104, ,275 was issued
by the Acting Comptroller. he total cir
culation issued up to date is $500, 9O7, ,896 !;
actual circulation, $298, 748, ,964, for which
securities are held as follows For circula-
ton, $40, 514, 900 snd for deposits, $685.,
76l, ,45O. Total securities held $379, ,275,-
45O.