Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22
STATE NEWS.


the mails on the Potomac boat, on the route
between this point and Washington, We're
being robbed. Detectives were set to work,
who succeeded in ferretlng out, one night
this week, the detective secretlng himself
in room adjoining the postal room. A
Young man named VIM. j. Lee, clerk OF
the General Post Office, employed as one
of the postal clerks to take charge and as
sort the mails on the boats between Wash
ington and Acquia Creek, proved the guilty
one He was arrested and acknowledged
his guilt.
Young Lee was not long since employed
in running as far as this point, ana Tor
q while upon the Wilmington road. His
robberies are thought to have amounted to
a good deal.-Weldon NeocS.
CONTACTS WITH NEGROES. learn that
q slight difficulty occurred between Mr..
Frank McIlwaine and a negro in his employ,
on the farm of that gentleman, day before
Yesterday, arising from the negro violating
his contract We heard (but not authori-
tatively) that the negro seized musket
and that Mr.. McIlwaine went into the
house to get his pistol. before he could en-
force his authority. The matter was settled
before tie Bureau officer by MIR. Nell
waine's paying him to date, and discharg
ing him. We have always thought it would
be better if our planters would make no
contracts with this class, as they but rarely
ever fill their portion of them but hire
them by the month or week, so that they
may be in q condition TO discharge them
whenever they fail to do what IS required
of them.--Newbern J0ur. Of Com.
QUICK TRAvELING.-We took tie train
on Thursday night at o'clock, for Peters
burg, changing cars at Weldon, and after
making so minutes halt at that point for
breakfast, we proceeded on the Petersburg
road, and arrived at $40 A. NJ. III front
of Jarratt's Hotel, in the old Cockade City.
Petersburg has somewhat repaired her
shattered windows and buildings, and
many improvements have taken place since
We were last there. After viewing the diff
ferent ruins and some of the old fortltca-
tons. and a few hours stroll about the city,
we again embarked for home, at o'clock
in tie afternoon, arriving in our sanctum
precisely at IL As P. NJ, (ochich is schedule
tinze) The accommodations on both these
railroads are excellent, and the Conductors
are very obIiging. All credit is due to
Col S. l.. Fremont, the energetic Engineer
and Superintendent of the Wilmington and
Weldon Railroad, and also to Col. IL. B.
Pegram, General Superintendent Of the
Petersburg Railroad, who have the man
acement Of these roads The travelling
public will now find it to their advantage
as well as comfort to patrOnize this great,
fast, Through Line.
Goldsboro' Rough Notes.
DEPARTURE OF UNITED STATES Prison
ERs.-United States Marshal, Robert G.
Kehoe, Esq, and his Deputy will leave on
the steamer for New York, this afternoon,
to conduct Charles Pollard and Zachariah
Williams (whO were convicted at the last
term of the United States District Court in
this city, of passing counterfeit money! to
the penitentary in Albany, New York
also John O. Moore, convicted of fraudu-
lently obtaining letters from the POStOftice,
containg money.
Pollard and Williams were sentenced to
three years imprisonment with hard labor,
and Moore to two years Imprisonment.
Newbern Republican,
ARREST OF A SUPPOSED MURDERER.
Ger James Peyton, of the police force of
this city, arrested on Wednesday night, at
a dance house at the foot of George street,
Isaac Shaw, who is charged with the muir
der of James Fisher, at Washington, n.
c., last Saturday night when out serena
ding, an account of which was published
in our issue of last Tuesday.
Shaw was brought before his Honor,
Mayor Palmer, on Thursday morning, and
by him remanded to the custody of the
Sheriff of Craven county, who will transfer
him to the Sheriff Of Beaufort county.
Newbern Republican.
HAIL-During the storm which passed
over this place on Wednesday evening hail
fell at point some three miles below here,
but we have heard of no damage being done
to other than one field Of young cotton
necessitating the replanting of the field.
Weldon NelOS.
SwEL1ISG-T fall of rain recently
above this point must have been extremely
heavy, Judging from the sudden rise which
has caused the Roanoke to swell to IN
wieldy proportions. She is well out of her
banks, and her muddy waters clap the feet
of Weldon as they rush by"
Weldon Neecs.
4 CROMWELL ON SMALL SCALE.-Have
We at last found a Cromwell ? Governor
Holden, of North Carolina, in a dispatch
of the 18th instant, over his own signature,
says ''tStriIe tie uSurper from lis seat. -
We suppose the next we shall hear of Hol-
den is that, following the example Of his
Puritan prototype, he has taken the broom,
gone into the White House, swept every
thing before him. locked the door, and
carried home the keys.-Baltimore San.
OUTRAGE By \ NEdRo.-Mr. John Ellen,
who lives in the vicinity of Raleigh, n. c.,
was decoyed into the woods by negro
who pretended to have discovered corpse,
and by him knocked down and robbed of
his hat, pants and vest.
PABTIzAN MISCHIEF. days ago, for
good and sufficient reasons, we learn, four
white men, employed to perform certain
labor at the County Workhouse, were dis
charged. subsequently these men made
affidavit before Justice of the Peace, that
they had been discharged by Mr.. Perry,
the Superintendent, because they voted
the Republican ticket at the late election.
The matter was made the subject of inves-
tigation before the military, on Friday,
and was finally referred to the Commits
sloners of the Workhouse for settlement.
We learn that the ollp0ad cbarco ic 1pbollv