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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-01
swamp Lands and immigration.

North Carolina has no voice in national
affairs, and it is perhaps well for our honor
that we have not the privilege of taking
part IN the utter destruction of constitu-
tional liberty in our country, and in estab-
fishing temporary reign of anarchy upon
which will rise despotism. 1t is not our
purpose to discuss subjects here which we
cannot enforce by argument in the nation.
al councils, but merely make these remarks
to direct the attention and energies of al
to the practical interests of our own State
While we believe in individual enter
prise, we are also satisfied that wise legis
lation should foster individual efforts il
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-01
The Coward Darlington and the Fort Phil
Kearney Massacre
From the Baltimore Gazette.


It would not be at all surprising if, among
the multitude Of superserviceable loyalists
and patriots that were spawned upon almost
every community during the late war, our
readers should have forgotten q certain
Brigadier General Darlington. He flour
ished in Ohio for some time, where he was
distinguished for the gallantry with which
he exhorted everybody to rush g to the
front, whilst taking especial care to keep
himself from bodily harm. He was equally
notorious for the extraordinary eagerness
he exhibited in denouncing and imprison-
ing copperheads For these eminent
services Darlington was in due time trans
ferred to Indiana, where he entered upon
a wider sphere of action. His commission
as Military Commander was not sufficient
to satisfy his patriotic ambition. He had
a soul above buttons and feathers and all
those sort of things so he supplemented
his military duties by adding to them the
more congenial offices of informer and spy.
AS an active public prosecutor he soon won
the confidence of Governor Morton, who
had fellow feeling for men of Caring
toms stamp, and delighted in the posses
sion of so useful and SO INSCRIPTIONS p
subordinate. They were admirably adap
ted to each other, and every one who re-
members Byron's definition of ''arcddeS am
DO, will readily understand why they should
have been so. Whatever Governor Morton
planned Darlington stood ready to execute
He had an especial aptitude for dirty
work, and his particular talent in that line
was not suffered to remain idle. He arrest
ed men son suspicion of being suspected. F"
He caused the office of Mr.. Voorhees, to be
broken open and his papers seized and
searched. He nosed out tremendous con-
spiracies, organized court-martials, and, in
short, did everything that such man could
do to prove the intensity of his loyalty, ex-
cept one-he could not be prevailed upon
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-01

This gentleman has recently written
letter, taking ground in favor of a conven-
ton of all the States, " to meet and adjust
upon the basis of the fundamental princi-
pies of the old Constitution and Union, the
new and momentous questions, and the al
tered condition of things arising out of the
late war. He also argues that Congress in
his opinion, "has no more constitutional
power to territorialize the seeded
States so-called) than to make Terrific
ries OF Ohio and Wisconsin Neither has
any other department of the Federal Gov
eminent, nor all the departments combined.
The States made the Federal Government
in the beginning, but now, the fable of Sa-
turn is reversed, and the child devours the
parent"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-01
SENATE.
THURSDAY MORNING, Jan. "a.

The Senate was called to order at II o'clock.
Message was received from the House traus-
hitting documents from The Public Treasurer,
with IA proposition to print the same. Con-
CURED in
BILLS CALENDAR.
Bill to establish freehold homesteatis i'll this
State came up on its third reading, and mot on
of Mr.. Berry, it made the special order for
Monday next at II O'Clock.
Bill to amend all act to prevent caticing
wants or harborinS them, on it's third reading
amended SO that the title may conform to tho bill
and passed.
Bill to construs act to establish scale of
depreciation of Confederate currency on its third
reading. Passed.
Bill to protect landlords against insolyent ten
ants, on its third reading, on motion of Mr.. JONES'
of Wake, it was passed over informally.
Bill for the better suppression of the crime Of
stealing horses aut mules, on third reading was
amended, and the question recurring OH the pas
sage OF the bill, on motion of Nr. Hall, the ayes
and nays were called and the bill passed by vote
of % to 49,
Mr. Adams, by leave, introduced bill to amend
| an act entitled effectually to secure
the maintenance of bastard children, and the pay
ment OF lines and costs on conviction in criminal
| cases ordered to be printed and referred to the
committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Coward introduced bill for the relief of
| guardians and minor children. Ordered to he re-
printed and referred to the committee on the Ju-
dietary.
| A message was received from the House trans
| uniting resolution i'm favor of the Sheriffs of
OoAASSoOAc
Wayne and Johnston counties. On motion of Mr..
Berry, the rules were suspended and the resolu-
ton passed It's several readings.
On motion of Mr.. Moore, Of Martin, the rules
were suspended and resolution authorizing the
Public Treasurer to employ counsel in certain
cases, was taken up and passed its several read
ings.
Resolution authorizing the Governor to make
suitable arrangements for the preservation of the
weights and measures, came up on its third read
ing and passed.
Bill to amend 9th section, 48th chapter of the
Revised Code, entitled Is Fences" came up on it's
| third reading and passed.
Resolution allowing compensation to Judges
holding courts of Oyer and Terminer, came up on
their third reading and passed.
Bill to amend an act to regulate Salaries and
Fees, camekup on its third reading, was discussed
at some length, and the question recurring oh its
passage, Oh motion of MIR Cowles, the ayes and
| 80 to g
On motion of MIR. Berry, the rules were sus-
pended and the bill passed it's third reading.
| Bill to protect property sold under execution
from sacrifice came up under its second reading,
was amended, and the question recurring on the
passage OF the bill, on motion of Mr.. Wilson the
ayes and nays we're called and the bill passed by
o vote Of 40 TO 8.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-01
The Sugar Plantations of Louisiana.

Sugar plantations are in market now at unusu.
ally cheap rates. One situated about fifty-eigh:
miles above New Orleans, containing thirteen hun.
dred and ifty-nine arpents, with fine, commodious
dwelling house, built of brick, and improvements
an extensive brick sugar house with macbinery
complete cabins for eighty laborers, was lately
sold for s32.oO0: Terms, one-fourth cash balance
1866, an average season, two hundred and fifty
hogsheads of sugar. Before the war, this pIanta.
tlon with the negroes attached, was valued al
leans paper says that it will require about twenty
i've millions OF dollars in the way of loans to re-
place the losses sustained by the sugar planting
interest OF louisiana, and to place the several
hundred plantations in good working condition
discouragemsnts.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-01
,tal ......... ..G6S, 1855, 1852

number of interesting deductions can
be made from the foregoing exhibit. 1t
will be seen. in the first place, that some
what more than two-sevenths of the entire
revenue for the year 1866 was derived from
customs alone. In the next place it may
be observed, that the total revenue for
each of the two years is very nearly the
same, which is quite remarkable when con-
trasted with the extraordinary fluctuations
i'll the gross annual returns of our revenue.
This shows degree of steadiness in both
the revenue legislation and in the business
of the British empire-a steadiness which
is vitality important to trade, aud which it
would be well for our country to be blessed
with the same extent.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-01
The virginia stay Law.

The Richmond Wing says: Learning
that the decision lately rendered by Judge
Meredith, pronouncing the stay law uncon-
stitutional, has produced much uneasiness
in the country, from an apprehension that
proceedings to enforce the payment of debts
will at once follow everywhere, we take &C.
casion to say that the stay law is in force,
and will be SO until it is decided to be un-
constitutional by the Supreme Court OF
Appeals, or is repealed by the Legislature,
or expires by its own limitation. We are
assured by gentlemen of the legal profes-
sion that the question cannot reach decis
ion in the SupremeiC ourtin less than eight
teen months -
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-01

The old Puritan was not simply content
TO believe himself right He sought to force
others to recognize the fact. Nor was this
sufficient. He was not scrupulous about
the means resorted to to compel co-opera,
ton with him. Hence intolerance and
dictation were of the very essence of his
nature. Indeed, it is noble nature only
that is content with the consciousness OF
being right, and that SO respects the man
hood Of another as 10 be unwilling to invade
it by forcing the adoption of it's own con
victions. 1t is far more natural to say, 81
am right, and, SO far us | can, shall compe
you to agree with me-" But the great
Ruler of the Universe leaves man the power
of choice, even of seeking the wrong
That is stretch of magnimity of whic!
certain types of the New England
mind are incapable. Mr.. Boutwell,, OF
Massachusetts, is a shining example. He
stoops to petty malignity and a narrow
intolerance that belong to the days of the
Long Parliament, and his recent Legislative
career evinces a proscriptive, bitter, nm
manly bigotry, deplorable even in private
citizen, but disgraceful to one who aspires
to be leader of "the great party of free,
dom" His proposition to prevent citizens
engaged in the late rebellion from practis
ing in the United States courts is but one
of brood of similar measures. It is bad
enough to have man OF such a spirit as q
citizen amidst nation of freedmen, but
to have him in position to shape national
legislation is to make the records of the IA,
ton dishonor. In his brief speech in
support of the bill he talked about "the
respectability and dignity of the nation
being atfronted by the action of the Su,
preme Court, which, if unwilling to pro,
tect itself from the contamination and pre-
sence Of traitors, should be protected by
act of Congress. From this we infer that
Mr.. Boutwell, is IL lineal descendant of the
Pharisee who thanked God that he was not
as are other men. For the nation it is for
tunate that other men are not as he is.
National LatelLi0e1acer.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-01

message was received from the House trans
uniting memorial from the trustees OF the Uni
versity, with proposition to print the same. and
refer the matter to joint select committee concur
red in.
On motion of Mr.. Virgins the Senate ad-
journed.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-01
Large Recovery.

1t is stated that the owners of line of steamers
plying between Bost IN and Bangor have recover
ed $l,2OO,OO0 of the government charter during
the late war.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-01
HOUSE OF COMMONS.

THURSDAY, January "a, 1867
Mr. Ashworth presented memorial from clti-
zens of Randolph, praying modification OF the
Stay law. Referred.
BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS.
By Mr. Dargan, bill to abolish imprisonment for
debt.
By Mr. Patton, a bill to amend an act passed at
the session of IS and 81, entitled . an act TO
diminish costs on Equity sales for petition.
By MIR, Mckay, q bill to incorporate the Flat
Swamp Locks Creek and Evans Creek Canal
Company of the county of Cumberland.
thousand dollars for the purpose of suitably mark
ing and preserving the graves of soldiers from
North Carolina who were buried in Virginia. :
By Mr.. Gorham, a resolution that the Judi
ciary committee enquire as to the expectancy OF
empowering Guardians, Executors, &C., to COM
promise debts. Adopted.
By MIR. Rosebro, bill for the relief of Executors
and Administrators.
CALENDAR.
bill to amend chapter 40 of the Acts OF 1865,
concerning negroes and persons of color, mixed
blood bill to amend Acts heretofore passed for
the relief of Landlords resolution in favor OF
certain manned soldiers and bill in favor of vic
dissent from husbands will-passed their several
readings.
The following bills were rejected second
reading, viz bill allowing fees TO County Court
Clerks in certain cases bill to diminish costs in
GER ain cases bill for the relief of the people
and to prevent fraud in the collection of debts :;
and bill to facilitate the adjudication and set
Element of disputed boundaries.
The House then adjourned.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-01

Human opinion is but an unreliable at
fair. Half the great men who have figured
in the world have been looked upon as no.
bodies by certain class. Be what you
will, you will be passed for stupid with
many about you.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-01
The Constitution of the United States set 10
Music.

q
Music.
The following is from the Paris Figaro of De-
cembcr q
"All the papers have said that an American
composer, we'll known at BOston-Mr. Grceclcr-
was occupied in setting the Constitution of the
United States to music. This adoption has just
been given in public The performance lasted
eight hours. Our correspondent gives us the fol-
lowing curious part culars in regard to this strange
music: The preamble to the Constitution Is
grand and majestic relative well sustained ny al
to and contra-bassO voices The LIST article is writ
ten for a tenor voice. Other articles are writ; u,
some for bassO, some for soprano, some for harr-
tone. At the end of each article the recilaIivc
OF preamble is taken up again i'll chorus
'.Mr. GreCcler has betrayed bis opinions, and
has outdOne himself in the article relating to
State rights. This is written in minor k y for
base and tenor, and there is a struggle Of vol
ces and instruments which might make the au-
thor of Tanhausar jealous. The tenor, who APP
pears to sustain the doctrine of State rights, is
eventually overcome 10y the bass, whilst TIL small
flutes which support the tenor wage fierce war
with the trOmhOHes and bassOons the auXllialies
of the bass The violins lost aud frightened. do
the accompaniment in trrmuo and piZcat -
Finally the tenor and the flutes yield to the hra-
vicr instruments. and the return Of peace is cclc-
brated by the viOlinS in slow appreggiO. The
constitutional amendments are treated iugues,
and serve as Introduction to a formidable finale,
in which the bass drum and the tamtam play inn
pOrtant roles.
"Did not Jefferson say the Constitution OF the
United States was an admirable symphonyW
Stability In Legislation and in Trade.
A recent publication of the revenue re-
ceipts of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, for the year ending
December 81, 1866, contains the following
abstract of the sources from whence the
revenue is derived, and comparison of
the same with the receipts from the same
sOurcn in 1881
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-01

to exchange his harmless "dress parades "
in Indiana for the peril of active service at
the South. During the entire progress of
the war he never once smelt the smoke of
battle. After the war was over his official
patrons, DESTROYS of bestowing some reward
on so useful an instrument, and, perhaps,
anxious to rid themselves of him, obtained
for him the command of the frontier post
of Fort Phil Kearney. Here remote from
civilization, and under cover of strong
stockade, defended by garrison of regu-
lars, Darlington may very reasonably have
entertained hope that he would outiive,
in inglorious ease, the contempt of those
whose willing tool he had been and the ex-
ecrations of his numerous victims. Had
he surmised that the Indians might prove
hostile, it is very probable he would have
thrown up his commission in disgust
But as no trouble was at that time ap-
pretended, he concluded to accept the
command to which he had been appointed,
and set out on his journey across the plains,
taking with him his wife, Margaret, as his
military counselor and adviser For time
all was quiet enough, but at length there
were rumors of Indian outrages Emigrant
trains were attacked and plundered cattle
were driven off, and quite number OF set
tiers were barbarously murdered and their
women and children carried into captivity.
Then came the browning act of ALL Nearly
hundred officers and privates of the reg
ular service were massacred within a short
distance of the stockade commanded by
Darlington. While these bloody outrages
were being perpetrated, says the Fort Kear-
ney Herald, Darlington kept himself
safely enclosed within his newly made fort,
and when asked by his subalterns and by
travellers why he did not drive the Indians
from the public road, consoled himself by
impotently calculating 81 am no coward
l am no coward !; it is all my wife's fault
yes, Margaret is to blame for keeping me
fastened up in this Indian prison"
It needed but such q shameless avowal of
the most despicable poltroonery to make
the record of this man Darlington COM
plete. Acts almost as evil, tempers almost
as vindictive, and instincts almost as low
and degraded as those ascribed to him, may
have made other men as notorious as he in
their respective spheres. But whatever
may have been the wrongs they inflicted
upon others, many of them might claim
to possess at least one redeeming trait
that of personal courage. In the
case of Darlington even that question
able virtue is found wanting, and those
whose supple and subservient tool he was,
knowing their instrument as they must
have known him, cannot now, by ordering
his arrest, screen themselves from sharing
in the responsibility which attaches to him
hundred officers and enlisted men, almost
within sight of the fort of which they had
given him the command.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-01

The Senate called to order at II o'clock.
Message received from the House traus-
hitting documents from The Public Treasurer,
with a proposition to print the same. Con-
CURED in.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-28

~ believe that the alcohol which is
found by chemical analysis in pure wine,
is so combined with the mass Of the fluid
as to form an integral part of it. Hy-
drogOn is part of water, but you do not
drink hydrogen and oxygen when you
drink water. So when you drink wine
you do not drink a mixture of some-
thing with alchohol, but you drink wine.
/ mean to say that the alcohol is in such
a combination in the wine, that mix
ture of a certain part Of alcohol with
water, even when combined with sugar
and favored with other things, would
have very different effect from the wine
produced by fermentation, otherwise wine
could be manufactured which would have
the same effect as natural wine"
DIR. Edward II. Clarke, Professor of
Materia Medica in Harvard; Il lived
at one time for about three years in an
almost exclusively vine-growing coun-
try, and / looked upon the light wine
there produced as being an addition to
the comfort and sustenance of the peo-
pie. The case of Germans, the Italian
nobleman, and other experiments, have
demonstrated that, without sufficient
amount of food, the system may be sus-
tained longer if wines are taken than if
they are not The best Psychologists
say that the question whether alcohol is
assimlated as food in the system has
not been decided. | think If men were
debarred the use of alcoholic stimulants
of all kinds, they would seek some other
source of excitement. A gentleman who
has been druggist in one of our towns
tells me that before the liquor law was
enforced there, he only sold opium by
the direction of physician. Since then
he has sold an average of one grain per
day for every man, woman and child in
the town"
Professor James G. White: ~ have
directed my attention especially to the
experiments of Laldmand, Perrin and
Duroy, the French chemists. They
simply proved that certain portions of
alcohol were eliminated by, the lungs
and kidneys, amounting to small por-
ton only of what was drunk, and left it
to be inferred that all was. What be-
comes OF the portion not eliminated is
the undetermined question, on opposite
sides of which psychologists and chemists
are arrayed. i agree entirely with DIR.
Clarke
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-28

Ia There is a new magician in Lon
don, named Rubini, one Of whose tricks
is to cut off the head Of young lady
and carry it to the back Of the stage,
where he unveils it, aud where, at his
bidding, it addresses to the audience
moral and didactic sentences.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-28

BGA- The New York Citizen says that
an enterprising manager proposes TO
consolidate all the theatrical companies
in the country into one troupe, and play
Beecher's Norwood He expects even
then that some of the performers would
have TO sustain double parts"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-28

I6- The new law in Connecticut
against statesmen entering the State is
enforced most vigorously. No manu-
facturer, merchant or corporation can
send a clerk there without taking out
State license Of hundred dollars, and
separate one Of from twenty five to fifty
dollars for each town or city visited.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-28

B@-Admiral Tegethoff is still await
ing, in Mexico, the final decision of the
Government on the application for the
remains of Macmillan. There appears
to be no probability of his success in his
mission.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-28

B9"A Coptic Christian is about to
open hotel at Luxor, the ancient
Thebes. 1t is said to be a handsome
house, built in the European style, and
surrounded by a pretty garden full of
trees-a very pleasant thing in Egypt.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-28

p@. General Apathy" publishes a
card in which he dsclaims most pointedly
having had anything to do with the re-
cent Ohio election He pleads an alibi
he was not in the State during the pro.
gress of the canvass or on the day of the
election.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-28

R@-The returns of the Philadelphia
banks to the Controller of the Currency,
show that they have reserve of $l9,-
100000, being $4,000, 900 in excess of the
amount required by law.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-28

pA- Twelve young men have been
severally fined in five dollars and costs
for riding one Joseph Martin, of Col
chester, Vt, on a rail for marrying his
cousin, girl twelve years of age.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-28

BA. George Francis Train has spoken
or written ON nearly every popular sub
ject of the day, except training up chill
dren in the way they should go " fifty
better" on four aces.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-28

H6S Fredericka Schieroth hanged her
self to bed post, in st. Louis, on
Wednesday night. She had been insane
for some time.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-28

a@- David X. Sprague Jones, the
forger, who lately conducted an exten.
sive business at Boston, has been SEN
fenced to six years in the State Prison.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-28

Ea- Jose Maria Lucunza, one of Max
milian's ministers, who has been excu-
ted, buried and embalmed, is alive and
we'll in Havana,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-28

l@~ The Georgia railroad declared a
dividend ofthree and a half per cent on
Wednesday, payable in January next,
free of Government tax.