Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-11-13

overcome in this Congressional District,
and it seemed almost impossible to achieve
success in the face of such odds. At any
rate, if tbs white voters of your county
and city can reasonably explain heavy
Radical gain over their balloting in April,
Col. McKoy may then console himself with
the reflection thathis defeat was inevitable.
If the incessant labor and earnest appeals
of your able and influential paper could not
arouse your people, an unknown cores
pendent need add no words
I have been told (for as hav'nt Radi-
cal acquaintance, all such information must
be hearsay) that the successful party intend
this week going through the mock cere
mony Of burying Seymour and Blair in
this place. I see nothing inappropriate in
this those two candidates are indubita-
bly, dead, for this campaign at any rate,
and it is but natural that their names
should be anxious to "be in at the death. :"
We can only hope that they do not bury
with them civil liberty and Justice and ma
tional prosperity. However, while no
Democrat can fail to be filled with anxiety
at the new base of power acquired by the
opposite party, it behooves us to accept
the position and hope for the best. If
Radical rule means national mien it will
not the less surely, though slowly, be
ended. The Gods did not interfere to in
terrupt the feasts of Atreus and Sereus,
but nevertheless the final punishment was
melted out full and terrible retribution.
1t gives me much pleasure to testify to
the admirable course pursued here by one
of Holden's own appointees, even amid the
high state OF party feeling, which has been
AL &~@ al Io&l
sides. I allude to ". Fl. Porter, Mayor
of Fayetteville, late Chief Judge of the
Provost Court in this county. [ am not
given TO adulation of any man for the
simple performance of duty, and DR.. Por-
ter has done no more. But on the other
hand, l am not unwilling to do justice to
merit, come from what quarter it may, and
this Mayor has proved that, filing his Of
fec fairly and honestly, Holden made
mistake when he appointed him, and he
doubtless regrets it. In the first place,
strong effort was made to induce Porter to
appoint negroes on the police force, which,
as being inimical to the interests of the
people, he refused TO do. He has ever APP
peared anxious to promote good feeling ;;
he has presided (by invitation) in his Off
cial capacity, at public meetings. and has
twice taken occasion to publicly show the
falsity Of the statement that a garrison is
necessary here for the preservation Of peace.
It is said that he voted the Democratic
ticket ; of this know or care nothing, but
[ am glad that sometimes those who are ia
ken up as Radical tools prove to be sharp
edged ones, cutting the hand that would
guide them to evil. And just here let me
give you an instance showing the persist
ent efforts of the Radicals in this State,
headed by the Governor" at misrepre-
sentation. A few days since Holden wrote
a very sharp letter to Reilly, the Sheriff, sta
ting that information had reached him
from this place that precept could in no
case be served, such was the laWless feeling
of the people Radical as he is, the Sher-
if could not do otherwise than reply that
in no case had the slightest resistance ever
been made or attempted. In short it was
a lie throughout, fabricated for base pur-
pose.
Monk Julian alias Watkins, one of the
prisoners confined SO long at Fort Macon,
under sentence Of q military commission,
upon the charge of killing the negro Archie
Beebee i'll February, 1868, shot negro the
other day somewhere about the Cape Fear
river. The negro was shot in the leg as he
was running from Monk, two balls taking
effect upon him. The weapon was revol
yer, and [ learn that the wounds were not
serious. Monk was arrested, and after ex-
before Magistrate was bound
over Some insult or violence offered by
the negro to lame brother of Monk Ju-
liam is alleged to have been the cause of
the difficulty.
The question Of the Superior Court Clerk |
ship still remains in allegiance here. Cal |
Iahan, though not qualified, is still in of. |
fee, transacting business, and, suppose, |
money. The conduct of Judge |
Buxton is now unaccountable, and is |
strongly condemned by even those who
were most friendly and charitable The |
of "Justitia." his newspaper
was in such bad spirit that it has |
done him incalculable harm, and the re- |
markable letter of Mrs. Buxton in the col |
umns of the Standard, an insa.lter Of The cir
tue Of the aUOn1e1a Of North Carolina, Jour-
nal which all our ladies are supposed to
despise, has been viewed and read with |
something more than surprise-horror and !
disgust. [ dislike to lug the name of |
lady into public print, but there can surely |
be nothing wrong in mentioning q letter
which was requested to be copied in every {
paper Of the United States. Those who /
seek notoriety may always attain it. No
lice was given the proprietors OF the Fay
7tteville Eagle On the 31st of October, that
; suit would be entered against them for
libel and defamation of the character of
Judge Buxton. Damages are said to be
aid at heavy figure.
There will probably be no Superior
Court here this month, as there wGs to have
been. hear of but one paper made re-
turnable to the Court, and the lawyers, /
do not expect a session.
The garrison is still here the men be-
have very well.
Robinson's Circus will be here this
first Circus on this route for
many years. Look out for a crazy town
md county. Delta.
AGRICULTURAL COMMEMORATIVE Ayr
cultural Convention which assembled in
this city early in October, adjourned to
meet again on the fourth Thursday in No
Vember, when, it was expected, there would
be a larger and more general attendance OF
the planters of the surrounding countess
and the lmportant questions concerning