Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-01-10
Suppression of Crime.

| SuppTeSsAOlh VA
General CANDY has issued Special
Order for the prevention and detection OF
crime, authorizing the County Courts CT
Jones, Craven, Lenoir and Pitt counties to
organize and employ, under the direction
of the Sheriffs of said counties, an armed
police force, to be composed of loyal citi-
zens, white and black, in the ratio of regis
tered voters.
In reviewing this Order the Raleigh Sen
tinel gives short sketch of the Sheriffs of
these four counties, and easily divines the
character and composition of the "loyal
police force which will be employed by
these officials. We think our contemporary
is mistaken in regard to the name of the
Sheriff of Pitt, but in name only, as what
is said of Latin will apply to Rich Rich,
we think, is the Sheriff by appointment
of General SIcKIEs. He is also o member
elect to the Convention. The article of the
| Sentinel is of sufficient interest to claim the
space in our columns which we give to the
extended extract from it, embracing as it
does some historical facts of the operation
of military law in this State.
| Says the Sentinel:
CHOW who are the Sheriffs who are to
organize this loyal police force, to be
composed of loyal citizens, white and col
ored in the ratio of registered voters p
| the registered negro voters in most Of these
counties, If not in every one of them, being
largely in the majority? So this police
force must consist principally of negroes,
and the balance of less eco1thy men, it being
what ''loyaI" means, according to the Radi-
cal Dictionary. But who are these Sher
ifs Z? Beginning with Jones:
! "Some six weeks ago, the Sheriff of
Jones was removed reason for the
removal being assigned. The old Sheriff
| has endeavored, in vain, up to this time,
to find out upon whose complaint, or for
what alleged cause, he was remo-'ed. One
| Colgrove, who came here as an inferior
officer of New York company of caval-
| nv and settled in Jones about two years
ago, was appointed Sheriff and required
| to give bond and take the oath of office.
At the same time, without any reason as
signed, II Justices of the Peace were re-
moved in that county, and their places
| filed with the names of new corners and
approved Radicals, -one of the number
being brother of the new Sheriff, and
| duOUucT 1uSOlNSuG LIMO A1uSc1l
The Court met to receive the bond. The
! sureties offered, residents in the county,
owned no real estate or other visible pro-
perty which could be reached by teri fa-
cias; and one Hubbs, a merchant in New
| Berne. Whether this man has any sub
stantial property or not, was not shown
| to the Court. It is known that he has
suffered his note for less than $500 to
be protested in bank. has not paid it since,
so far as we learn, and his creditor, who
will sue on it, and is denied the right, by
recent order, to exact bail, as provided
| by our laws, is expecting the common
fate of our credulous people who. trusted
these Northern adventures. No proof
the obligors were worth the penalty of
the bond. 1t is not probable that the
principal, or any of his sureties. is worth
| q dollar. But even the bond offered, had
| it been good as to the responsibility of
the obligors, was not proved to have
been executed by those purporting to have
signed it. Of course, the Court refused
to receive the bond. The next day, or
very soon thereafter, an officer, claiming
to act under orders from the Post Com
mander of the District, appeared in the
Clerks Office with Colgrove, the newly ap-
pointed Sheriff; O q. S. stamp was affixed
| 10 Lu0 SlkOIOod1S pdpOI, pOlIluS " 10 %
bond, and the clerk, under the order of
said officer, administered the oath of Of
fee, and thereupon Colgrove was declared
and proceeded to act as Sheriff of Jones;
and in compliance with the orders of the
aforesaid officer, the old Sheriff delivered
into the hands of this new appointee, his
tax lists, on which was due the sum of
$4,000 or thereabouts. The old Sheriff
had paid the amount due the State on
these lists prior to the end of the fiscal
year, Both September, 1867, so that the
balance of State tax due on these lists was
due to the old Sheriff.
'sThe new Sheriff is still acting-nothing
further having been done in relation to
his official bond, although Gen. Candy
was informed of the material facts above
stated many weeks ago. Such is the Sher-
Tiff of Jones.
"In Craven, as in Jones, the Sheriff
elected by the people, most estimable
man. every way we'll fitted to fill the Office,
was removed by the military and Mr..
Flemming, another Northern man, who
took up his residence in Craven, at or about
the close of the war, was appointed Sheriff.
Of his antecedants nothing is known here
but as the most worthy Northern men who
have settled here, since the war, uniformly
refuse to make haste to fill the Offices oil
the county, it is fair to presume that he
belongs to the class who is expressing a
distressed, conquered and impoverished
people.
"The Sheriff of Lenoir is d native, was
q secessionist, but has been endeayoring
, and has probably succeeded, in ingratia-
ting himself into favor with the negroes
and Radicals. Allow the citation of one
TACT to sustain this assertion : A negro, q
few months ago, broke into store in Lee
noir and stole therefrom lot of goods
The store was then set on fire and burned
down. The next morning part of the
goods were found in this negro's possession
He alleged he had bought an article, speei
ally identified, of o merchant he named.-
He was indicted for larceny, not arson. and
tried before Judge Warren. TIL merchant
of whom he said he had bough. the afore