Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-08-16

on the advantages of that region for IL
location Of a Penitentiary. Gov. Wort
will call the Board, appointed by Gener
Sickles in reference to a State Prison, /
meet at al early day.-RaI. Sentinel
TUCKER's HALL.-This beautiful Hall wa
opened to the inspection of the press 0
Tuesday evening last, when the stag
scenery was reviewed by delighted aud
ence.
The Messrs. fuckers have erected
magnificent building, and all its depart
ments will be fitted out in the very bes
style Our citizens may look forward con
ment in the spacious hall, when the Muse
shall have finally taken up their abod
within its walls.-Raleigh Standard
MAJ. D. G. McRAE.-This old citize1
of our town, who was arrested more thar
two months ago for alleged completely il
the murder of a negro by mob in this
place last February, has been discharged
by the Military Commission now sitting il
Raleigh. No evidence was elected which
connected him in the remotest degree with
the occurrence, and yet he has been com
PEELED to suffer from an imprisonment OF
several months, because the idle tale of an
abandoned woman was believed by those
to whom the administration of justice has
been committed. At liberty again, and
with his good name fully vindicated, the
Maj or receives the congratulations of his
friends with overflowing good nature
The trial of the others who are charged
with the crime is dragging its slow length
along. Eleven new witnesses for the pros
ecution were summoned or Saturday last
Fayetteville Presbyterian.
DEATH OF Hon. r. C. PURYEAR-We an
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cuishcd man, which took place at his resi-
dsnce in 1adkin county, on Wednesday
the 31st ultimo. In his death the State
has lost one of her most useful and patriotic
citizens. Colonel Puryear was we'll known
throughout the State, having been for
number Of years member of both Houses
OF our State Legislature. He was subso-
quently, in 1868, elected Il member of the
House of Representatives Of the Congress
of the United States, where he served with
distinction and usefulness for two terms,
after which he was no more in public life
His talents were of the solid rather than
the snowy order, and few men were gifted
with sounder judgment Or more sagacity.
There is no stain upon the history of his
private life, and the purity and unselfsh-
ness Of his patriotism was acknowledged
even by his political opponents. On one
occasion it was subjected to the seyerest
test, but he showed himself capable oil
that as on all occasions, Of rising above all
considerations Of party or sectlon-we al |
lude to the occasion of the pas
sage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill
He foresaw and foretOld the awful conse-
quences which have flowed from that fatal |
and with a moral heroism, never
surpassed in the political history of this
country, opposed by nearly all the South
! 4l,
North Carolina delegation, with the single
OF Hon. Sion H. Rogers, he
breasted the storm and voted
against l. at the risk of sacrificing all his
splendid political prospects. No man was
more ardently attached to the Union, or
opposed with more zeal than he did the
secession movement. After North Carolina
3eceeded, he, in common with hundreds of
others of the ablest and best union men in
he State, joined his fortunes to those of
he Confederacy, and stood by it to the
asst with answering fidelity. His last
political act was his attendance upon the
Philadelphia Conservative Convention in
August, 1866. us a delegate at large from
his State. OF such man the State may
veil be proud. We knew him we'll, and
eel sure that he richly merited all that We
lave said of him.
His disease was paralysis, of which he
eceived a severe stroke some two months
lnce, lingering until the day of his death,
Nay
Perennial laurels above his ashes bloom"
Salisbury Old North tShue.
BEAR.-The Goldsboro' Morning Star '
earns from farmer in Carteret, that, on
Oing into his corn field few mornings
lnce, he was greeted by five black bears,
elping themselves to the young corn. Be-
lg alone, with no gun, he concluded that
quiet retreat was prudent.
This might have been expected when | |
'orth Carolina became a Territory, Bill l
rp to the contrary Notwithstanding. -
OURNAL. j
OUTLAws.-A few days since, whilst De
uty Sheriff Foust, of Pitt, was summon {
lg the jury, in the lower part of the coun-
7, near the Craven line, he was attacked )
y five ruffians-one of them armed with a : I
uble-barreled gun-who demanded his
honey and papers. Observing the leader,
nth the gun, to look down the road as if q
,atching for some one approaching, the i.
herlf put spurs to his horse and dashed :
Il, making his escape. The leader of the
and snapped two caps at him, as ne made q
ALLEGED ABDUCTION IN NORTH CAROLINA q
Y ORDER OF GOVERNOR BROwNLOw, OF "
ENNEssEE: EE:-The Winston IN. c. Sentinel j
ates that one day last week a party of a
len from Tennessee, claiming to belong y
} Brownlow's militia made a raid into +,
likes county, N. c., and arrested and Il
lrrled off a young man by the name of Il
Tagoner. Wagner is a native of John q
IN county, Tenn, and at the commence Il
ent of the war joined the first North Car !,
Ina cavalry, and did not visit his home t.
aring thestruggle and since the war, being n
raid to return home, he settled in Wilkes +
,unty, and recently married. The men il
ho carried him off told him they were w
ting under authority of Brownlow, and ir
at he also offered four hundred dollars re- II
ard for him. The captors placed guard ~ ~
two men, one on each side of him. and II
en placed rear guard over him, with in ~,
ructions to fire off & gun on the approahc =
any one that had the appearance of pur- n,
ut, and the firing of the gun was the sig ri
u to the guards near Wagoner's person to 8
IL HIM; When the party was approach +
6 Iaylorsville the rear guard stopped at T
branch to drink, and fell to the rear some .,
!rty OF forty yards. Wagner conceived W
is to be the best and last chance to os ~