Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-08-21

The Board-The Regist.r-A Happy Kan
The Coroner and His OHice-The Sheriff
nlty-The surveyorship-Rooms for the
Clerk of the Superior Court.
SEITHvILLE, n. c., Aug. 18th, 1868.
MY DEAR JOURNAL IF your readers
could have but taken @ peep at the Board
Of Commissioners now in session in the
Court House, both yesterday evening and
this NJ corning, they would have been not
only amused, but they would have collaps-
ed at the melodramatic character of the
actors Melody there was none, and as
for drama, it was less than AHc Notwith-
standing, the performance was melodra-
ma. To us all a melancholy. The players
we're not toppish, were not witty, nor did
they put on "mock modesty and faucied
power" Harlequins I cannot call them,
for they sported no tight pantalets, nor did
they turn any pirouettes. My gracious
how they did squirt the deuce, and SWIVEL,
and Singer, and sniff Law It is not
necessary that we be lawyers to perform
the simple duty of citizens, or to admins
ter the public concerns of a county; but,
then, it is necessary that honest and intel
ligent men, men of common sense, be the
supervisors of a taxable community. Let
us glance at our Commissi oners. The
Chairman is evidently a man of common
sense, and possesses more brains than all
Of his colleagues together. He is honest
and candid in the statement that he hoped
the "good minded men of the county I'M
derstooG why he was there" He certainly
deserves the consideration of gentlemen.
We admire men honest in their opinions
aud especially SO when they are fearless in
the expression of them. To the right of
the Chairman sat jovial looking faced fel
low, very voluble, and as plausible as he
was laxative. His position was ludic-
rous one. He lay supine on a bench, his
limbs fexed. his heels resting in close
proximity to his launches, both arms
akimbo, the right holding a rusty knife
with it's blade turned towards the upper
| incisors He was all attention At his
feet sat mute, a grizzly bear of a man
with chopped, stiff, every colored beard,
with low, retreating forehead, and long
hair which resembled spoiled tow A blue
| Jane coat, pants of many patches rolled
up over muddy pair of brogans, no vest,
no suspenders, flannel shirt open at the
neck and in front, set off his appearance.
He never spoke but when asked. His in
variable reply was that he was ignorant,
that he would vote the way the others vote!
Next to him is the King of men, and King
of topers. A gentleman said he looked
like an orangoutang to me, good Judge
of bad whiskey-the odor whereof reached
many disinterested nostrils. He was lazy
looking man, not much exercised IN
thought, but much IN cups, and red hot
drinking, a vapid soul, and hiccoughs.-
The circsean cup had almost made him
wholly beast-withered cheeks. Hollow.
clearing, and unmeaning eyes. All go
on, sir. It is the bid of your county
Get gloriously drunk, and then bleed the
State. The new Register of Deeds is up
to qualify. His twenty days of grace had
passed. He had requested the Register
under the old regime to continue. that he
would be down in time to qualify. The
old Register notified him to come. He
comes, but not within the thine appoint
ed. He appears before the Com
missioners, and states that he does
not consider the notification of
his predecessor as valid, that this is a new
| Office, order Of things, and that by right
he was the register, and that he would act
as such. He said he had duly qualified, but
had not re-qualifed Good, says the King,
agree with you. But, says the Chairman,
Mr.. Rossafy did not obey the notice OF
Mr.. Galloway to appear, on the ground
that he, Mr.. g., had no right to give such
| notification. "You are right, by G..
Them are my sentiments, said the King