Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-15
STATE NEWS.

REcovER1NG.-The many friends of the
Rev. Charles F. Deems, formerly of North
Carolina, and,now in charge of a Methodist
church in the city of New York, will be
pleased to learn that he is rapidly GONZALES
cling from his recent severe sickness, and
has already resumed his ministerial duties.
A MEETING OF WHITE MEN will be held
in Oxford on Saturday 9th instant, to-
morrow for the purpose of perfecting a
thorough organization, and take such steps
as may be necessary for their own protec-
| ton, and for the overthrow of the negro
ating-degenerating concern that
has been puked up by q miserable radical
ism, within our border. Let us have a full
meeting The lines have been drawn-the
gauntlet has been thrown-and now, neces-
sity requires that we should at once pre-
pare for the occasion that acW present it.
self, to shake from us the CALLING and de-
grading yoke that, by pusiilanimous in
genuity, has been forced upon us. There
is no neutral ground now-no hating be-
tween two opinions. We must either be
| fish or fowl. A man who will not come
out III such an emergency, and show his
colors, is no friend to us-he is secret
enemy. He that is not for us, must be
against us-Henderson Hder.
ARRESTS IN PITT COUNTY -The people OF
this county would seem to be mourning the
particular animosity of the United States
soldiers just now.
We understand that a body of Cavalry
have Just been through the county, arrest
ing every Conservative citizen who made
himself at all conspicuous in the last elt c.
ton. Several of the more prominent were
carried to Goldsboro', on the charge of en-
deavoring to intimidate voters, but not be-
! ing able to sustain the allegations they
were discharged.
We have indeed arrived at the lowest
stage of military despotism. God protect
the old North State in the future. It looks
| indeed dark.-Tarboro' SOutheTner.
CHEAP LAND-We recollect of reading
some months since, in a Northern paper,
that the taxes would be laid on the land in
the Southern States so heavily, that such
quantities of them would be forced into
market under the sheriff's hammer, at pub
! lie auction, that they would not command
shilling per acre. This prophecy has
been already verified in the county of Wash
ington Blair and Reuben Trogden. We
| learn that six hundred acres of good tim
bered land was recently sold at auction IN
Asheboro', at ten cents per acre. This is
the beginning of the end. 1t is needless
to add, not an acre of this land was bought
by freedman. -Greensboro Patriot.
The ELECTION IN MARTIN CoUNTY.-The
Radical leaders in this county have most
clearly shown that they are not to be out
done in meanness by their delectable breth-
rem in other portions of the State and that
they are equally as proficient in the knowl-
edge of how to make the votes count for
them, whether or no. Even after giving
the scallawags all the fraudulent votes they
could obtain by affidavit and other means
it was universally acknowledged even by
the leading Radicals themselves that the
county had declared against the Constltu-
ton by small majority and had elected
most of the Conservative county officers
| But it was thought best as the contest was
so close that tie returns from one precinct
should be retained in order that any small
deficiency might be supplied by examining.
This was accomplished and We have no