Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-07-03
STATE NEWS,

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of responsibility and means in that citv
have determined to place line of boats
on the Roanoke to run between Clarksville
and CASTOR, and that a sufficient amount
has been subscribed to insure the success of
the enterprise. This will afford a conve
nient outlet to the produce of Mecklen-
burg, Granville and part of Warren, and
will prove of much benefit to the Peter
burg market.
| CONCORD FEMALE CoLLEGE.-The Com
mencement exercises of Concord Female
| college, Statesville, closed on Thursday
The American speaks in the highest terms
OF the proficiency of the pupils, the ahiii-
| ty Of the Faculty and the literary address
by Rev. DR.. McPhail. Twelve young la
dies graduated With the late session
closed the official connection of Rev. J. N.
NJ Caldwell with the institution. He goes
to take charge of Edgeworth Female Col
| lege at Greensboro, with most of the pre-
sent Faculty, AMI Rev. E. F. Rockwell
will assume the Presidency of " Concord"
assisted by competent and we'll qualified
Professors.
CRoPs.-Our friends from various parts
of this (Wayne) aud Lenoir county, send
us cheering reports in regard to crops
The corn crop seems to be very promising
and cotton is said to bid fair to crops of
ol!en times.-Goldsboro' Rough Notes.
Running AGA1N.-Our mills, which we're
stopped last week in const quence of re-
pairs upon the canal, have again gone to
work. The delay occas1oned much incoD-
veulence to the surrounding community,
IS it caught many families aud farms With
ut meal. Iudeed, the markets of Will
rnlngton and Raleigh arc largely supplied
rom these mills Weldon Neacs
F1RE.-Last night, about two o'clock an
.iarm Of fire was given. Proceeding rap
idly to the spot we found that Little Coop
II Institute and large wooden building
tdJolning were III flames. The fire had
gained such headway that it was found i'm
possible to save the buildings, A wooden
building had to be torn down to prevent
further damage. The loss is between 81
700 and So, 600. .-Newbern jour. Of Com.
FEDERAL CoURr-A Nut FOR THE RAD1-
GALS TO CRACK The Circuit Court of the
U. s., Judge Brooks, presiding), after a
session of more than three weeks, with
leavy docket, adjourned on yesterday.
We learn that case which excited some
interest, came up before the Court a day or
two ago. Several years before the war a
northern man, calling himself Rev. John
2. Nevill, settled in Raleigh and became
the purchaser of real estate and negroes.
He did no claim connection with any
church here, but built him house of wor-
ship and preached son his own ho ok. -
In 1861 when the war broke out, Mr.. Ne
viii, sympath!zlng with the north, left
taleigh and went to Minnesota, leaving an
agent to sell his real and personal proper
Cy, including the negroes. The agent, in
,Hn col
1T public auction, and Mr.. W. T. Askew,
Of this city, became the purchaser of one
Of the negroes, girl, for the sum of $685.,
md, according to the terms of the sale,
gave his note for the amount to the agent.
Under the sequestration acts of the then
Confederate government, the sequestration
.gent or receiver sued the agent for the
delivery of the property or effects of the
aid Nevill, then an alien, in his hands,
nd obtained decree of the Confederate
Court to receive said property. Whether
the note against Mr. Askew was all the
funds or property of Nevill in the hands of
uhe agent at the time we are not advised,
but the note of Mr.. Askew was delivered
tip to the sequestration agent or receiver,
sud he afterwards collected the note from
Ir A,kew.
some time ago, Mr.. Nevill commenced
,uit against Mr.. Askew in the Federal
court in this State, for the recovery Of his
property which had been illegally seque.-
trated. The case was brought: J. P. Ne
viii, of Minnesota, VS.. VIM. F. Askew, of
North Carolina, and regularly tried before
Judge Brooks, at the session of the Circuit
Court just euded-Messrs Phillips and
Battle appearlng for the plaintiff, aud Col
ed. Graham Ha, WOOD for the defence
Che case Was ably conducted on both sides,
he question turning, IL the mind of the
Judge, only upon the point whether the
;ute was a sealed note or otherwise, aud
,e SO charged the jury. Various other
Joints were made by counsel, but were not
notice int he charge. The jury brought in
/ verdict for the plaintiff. and Mr.. Askew
.ill, therefore, be compelled to pay the
IOte twice. The defendant was, perhaps,
ntlrely liable, in view of the fact that the
| Federal Court heretofore universally deci-
led that payments to Confederate seques-
ration receivers being invalid, could not
discharge the debt. The question wheth-
r contracts for the purchase of slaves made
1861 were valid, was not point in the
case.
" refer to this matter to show the utter
want of consistency in many Radicals in
ienounces slavery with all its concomitants
we'll as our former shareholders,
| bitterly in Minnesota, and yet will sue
| IAN who bought his slave in North Carroll
u, and who held her until she was freed,
tving paid for her in Confederate times,
| nd who now, after the loss of almost
verything, is made TO pny second time
rr the slave, although the Radical party
:enouuces all such debts as invalid, and
lenounces the men who attempt to collect
,hem. Such is northern sense of Justice.
It is wrong to pay a southern STAKEHOLDER
or a negro you purchased Of him, but it is
.ll right when you bought the negro OF "a
.tOrthern Shareholder So We 60.
Raleigh Sentinel.
SALE OF A GOLD MNE.-Messrs. F. W.
8enuett & Co., auctioneers, sold yesterday
IT the Exchange Sale Room, all the prop
erty of the Baltimore and Montgomer,
Mining Company, better known as the
Steel gold mine, on the Uahavie river, in
Montgomery county, North Carolina, con-
tainiug about seven hundred acres of land,
with all its equipments, consisting of two
steam engines-one of 1O-horse and
the other 25-horse power-pumps, 2 round