Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-03-13


article to be incorporated into the Consti-
tuition on the subject of amendments there
to was taken up.
Section LIST was read, when Mr.. Durham
moved to substitute the present provision
in the State Constitution for altering and
amending the same.
Mr.. Heaton said he would accept it. with
the change of the name of the House of
Commons to that of the House of Repre-
sentatives.
Mr.. Durham said that would follow as
matter OF course, as that change had already
been made by this Convention.
Mr.. Durham moved then to strike out
the two-thirds majority required by that
provision for amendments and to substitute
three-tfths. He called for the yeas and
nays, and, the call being sustained, resulted
in a vote of yeas %, nays C.
The yeas and nays were then called on
the second reading and passage of the ar
ticle, and the vote stood yeas 81, naYs7.
On motion of Mr.. Heaton the rules were
suspended and the article was read for the
third time, and put on its final passage ac-
cording to the rules.
The yeas and nays were called and the
article was adopted by a vote of yeas IS,
nays 5.
fIr. IOurGee, by consent introduced
resolution, raising committee of three,
by cote, to inquire whether the signature of
the presiding officer, who is not regis
tered voter, to the Constitution, would be
valid.
Mr.. Tourgee moved to suspend the rules
and adopt the resolution.
After a long debate it was adopted
The Convention then proceeded to elect
members of the committee, and Messrs.
Rodman, Heaton and Poole were selected.
Mr.. Cowles (the President arose to a
privileged question. He said that he was
surprised at the suddenness with which the
matter was sprung. 1t seemed to him that
delegates had been goaded to it by the rep
RESERVATIONS in certain journal in this
city, (Sentinel,) and he was surprised that
gentlemen followed the lead of paper that
denounced all loyal men. He had never
failed to support the Union, and was only
involved, technically, in 1861, after the Sc
cession Of South Carolina. He took the
Office of postmaster Of the town, when his
predecessor refused to hold office under
Lincolns administration that had brought
this investigation upon him. During the
war he had been arrested from time to
time, and suffered in various ways for his
loyalty. He had never, while acting as
postmaster, taken any Of the required oaths
of fealty to the Confederate States govern
ment. He went on to state how he con-
trived to keep his LOFTY" intact to the
| United States. The reason why he acted
in the capacity of postmaster under the
Davis administration was because his life
was threatened if he should refuse SO to
do |! ! In regard to his not registering, he
said that, on close examination of the
oath, he found, in the words "those who
had held offices or who had exercised the
functions of an Office" some reasons to
| hot hh
take it. Upon stating his case to the
Registrars, they told him he could take
oath, but one of them advised him not to
do it.
By consent, Mr.. Latin introduced all
ordinance that in thirty days after the
approval, by the Congress of the United
States, of this Constitution, the Commits
sioners of the Sinking Fund, and all the
offices in the charitable institutions, rail
roads and other corporations, under the
control of the State, shall be vacated by
the present incumbents, and the places
filled by appointment by the Governor. -
Lies over.
Mr. Hare offered a resolution to the effect
that the Convention should adjourn sine die
on the 10Th inst. Ruled out of order, on
account of committee having previously
been appointed to take into consideration
this subject.
After some minutes being spent in I'M
important matters, the Convention ad
journed until u this evening.
Blessings of a Military Government
The Marion Crescent of last week pub
fishes the following card:
TO the people Of Marion District:
I am the wife of Edward c.. Collins, and
daughter of Colonel Levi Legette have
seven small children and the eldest sickly !;
my husband was my only means of support !;
he was arrested by military authority on
the 18th of August last, and is now i'm
prisoDed in Castle Pinckney, Charleston
harbor. When in the Marion jail the Off
GERS refused to let his friends see him. He
had bought Galivant's Ferry, and was
making support for his family. The Off
GERS said that the Ferry was abandoned,
and gave an order to Clayton Bailey to take
the Ferry, which he still has in possession.
[ have no mule, horse, or OK, or means to
buy.
My father is in the seventy-Second year
of his age my father-in-law six or seven
years older, and threatened with apoplexy.
My father has been sick more than a year.
My father and father-in-law are very poor
and can hardly support their families. My
father has reduced himself to want by as
! S1StlnS my family. MY Iatncf naQ twenty
negroes and my father-in-law seventy. My
friends are reduced to poverty-those who
would help are unable. [ am now in suf
fering circumstances, myself and children
are almost without clothes-and if my hus-
band is not released from prison, or [ re-
ceive assistance from friends, we must in
evitably starve. [ am ashamed to make
this appeal, but my children are heart
broken and starving.
MARY COLLINS.
Compliment to General HRncnck.
The compliment paid to Major General
Hancock last Saturday evening, at the
Opera House, where the whole house rose
en- n1asse to cheer him at the close of the
celebrated duet, "Amour Sacre de la Pa
trie, " was alike honorable to him and cred
liable to our people. 1t demonstrated at
once, not only the popularity gained by
his upright and dignitied course in admin
istering the affairs of this department, but
love for the man. The endorsement of a
community. SO .pointedly expressed, is, i'll
this republican country, ample recompense
for the denunciatory growls of q scoro of
tricky politicians or ambitious /" men on
horseback New Orleans Times. Sd