Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-11-01

Patterson, sort Of a model Of a man.
| The town of Morganton, the present ter
minus of the Western n. c. r. r., is my
| resting place but for the time. Here J. bid
farewell, for a while, to Rail Roads, and,
after the fashion of the old four miles an
hour Jog my way, still keeping to the
West, over many a hill, now and then a
mountain. / aim first of all for Asheville,
but will write you, ''if see anything, "
from a point West of Buncombe.
CORES. of Raj. Sentinel
LETTER FROM JUDGE FowLE. RALEIGH
Oct. IS, 1867.-HessTS. PeU and G0!es:-
/ Gentlemen was informed this afternoon
that [ was nominated to-day. at Auburn,
for a seat IN the approaching Convention.
am deeply sensible Of the compliment,
but am so situated that it would be impos-
sible for me to give that attention to the
canvass which the emergency demands,
and | therefore ask that you will announce
that cannot be II candidate. Ny sympa-
thieS are entirely with the Conservative men,
and opposed to the Radical element, which,
if successful, will bring woes unnumbered
upon our much loved State.
My support will be given to the nomi-
nees of the Convention to be held In
Raleigh on Thursday next and | trust that
the people of Wake county will show, by
their votes, that whilst the fullest Justice
will be done 10 the colored race, they will
be governed IN the future, as Ill the past,
by the Anglo Saxon race, which the teach
ings of history demonstrate IS the only safe
custodian of true constitutional liberty.
Yours respectfully,
DANIEL. G. FowLE.
Raleigh Sentinel.
U1lON SUPERIOR CorKr.-Thc Fail Term
OF this Court was held last week. Judge
Little presiding, and ". 2. Caldwell, Esq,
Solicitor. There was no capital case be-
fore the Court-mOst OF the time Was Occu
pied with aftray and larceny cases.
Judge Little, at one time, decided to
grant judgments for debts contracted pre-
vioua to December, $780, and where the
tenth had not been paid, and some so Or
60 cases were SO disposed OF bnt after
wards the Judge changed his opinion and
ordered ali such cases to lie over.
Charlotte Dsmoc1Gj
U,IoE C0uNTY.-A public meeting at
Monroe last week nominated Rev. Edmund
Davis as Il candidate fur the State Conven-
ton. The county is entitled to but one
delegate, but the meeting resolved that if
it should appear that they are entitled to
two, then Col. j. Trull should be the other
candidate. -CharIotte Democrat.
COTTON PICI1ISG.-We learn that Oh Sat
urlay, Oct. 10Th, the hands on the planta-
ton cultivated 10y Judge Fowle and John
Pu8h Haywood, Esq, at Rogers Cross
Roads, IN this county, picked for prizes,
With the following result
John Bvoaje..--.,....--.....--.. So pounds.
allen Rogers. ...-.... ......... .i7t $
Henry Temple. ..............3 iG .
Joe WOmaCh. .-...... .-...-..;}l7
Henry Peoples -........... .t'JI
Pretty good picking before frost.
M. John Fort had the superintendence
of hands and plantation.-k Sentinel.
SICKLEs' LoYAT STUDENT.-Thc Danville
Times gives the following pedigree of Gen.
Sickles' loyal student" to whom he re-
ferred in his speech III Philadelphia. This
same Johnston is the man who, with the
aid Of ToTgee and others, has managed,
by false representations, to procure the az
rest and trial by Military Commission Of
the estimable Sheriff of Caswell, who was
simply the agent of the violated law in
holding the malefactor III confinement
"The "LoyM student the martyr
referred to, is the notorious freebooter
and desperate, of illegitimate birth, Bill
Johnston, whose eyes first beheld daylight
in the county Of Rockingham, North Caro-
lima, and whose L0yaIty consisted in his vol
unteering in Rockingham company to
fight Gen. Sickles and his g loyal " troops,
and after serving in the Confederate army
for some time, deserted, and came back to
Rockingham, where he joined band of
robbers and desperadoes, and distinguished
himself much greater for crimes of the deep
est dye than for his l0.yaAy House-break-
ing and robbery were some Of his g amuse-
mentS," and on one occasion he entered
the house Cf old Mr.. Moore in the dark
ness Of GIe night, seized him, and leading
him IN the woods, tied him to tree, and
then robbed his DEMONSTRATING S37 COnfed-
crate money as part of the booty.
Before or Immediately after the war was
over, he was arrested and held to account
for the commission of crimes which, by the
laws of North Carolina, forfeited his life
About his person were found burglars
tools. Able counsel was assigned him by
court, and such had been the extent Of his
lawlessness and rascality in Rockingham
that he moved to have his case removed to
and tried IL CaSwelI County. 1t was grant
ed. He had u fair trial was convicted !;
the penalty of the law was death; that pen
atty was pronounced against him. and Gov.
Worth subsequently pard0ned him. This
IS q brief statement OF the 'Ioyal StYdent'S'
case over which Gen. Daniel e. Sickles
SeeIns to be weeping"
PoLITIcAL.-The Conservatives of Cabar-
rus held a meeting III Concord on Tuesday
last. They were ably addressed By W. FL.
Bailey, Esq, of Salisbury. Mr.. John Hile-
IMAM was unanimously nominated as the
Conservative candidate for the Convention,
and accepted. OF Mr.. Hileman the Press
says:
His friends are confident of his cleo
ton by a large majority. He is highly
spoken Of by his neighbors as being an
honest man, an humble christian, q man of
fine practical sense and always ready to do
a good deed. His charity was proverbial
during the war to the poor OF all classes,
irrespective OF color, politics or religion.
We need the best men that can be found
to represent the county in the coming Con-
yentiOn. Mr.. Hileman's friends claim for
him every clement that constitutes q good
man."
CONSERVATIVE MEETING At AUBURN.-A
meeting of the Conservatives of Auburn
was held on Saturday. Proceedings in our
next. Delegates were appointed to the