Wilmington journal., 1869-02-05
North Carolina Carpet-Baggers

| Our sister State is infested with the same
vermin that we are, says the Richmond
Whig, and perhaps in greater abundance.
Under the auspices of Gov. Holden, they
have been having jolly time. The poor
old State has been made to bleed freely
and the cries of frauds, swindles and vii
lainies of all sorts have resounded through
the land. A ''Republican Senator (Mr.
Sweet becoming possessed of facts, which,
in his opinion, would convict the guilty
parties, asked for committee Of investi'
CATION, pledging himself to make good the
charges of fraud and corruption. The
committee was granted. The first subject
that fell in its way was the Penitentiary
| job. That was at once explored, and,
resting upon record evidence, the facts
were easily ascertained-and they proved
all that had been charged. When the
committee was about to proceed to other
rascalities, which depended on individual
testimony, the witnesses all suddenly dis
appeared, and not one could be found.
Among those mentioned by the Sentinel as
thus suddenly and mysteriously absent are
Mrs Cavalry-who, it is said, has taken
refuge in Richmond--a Gen. Littlefeld,
editor of the Standard, whose whereabouts
is unknown, and Judge Alden, for whose
apprehension the Sentinel offers a reward
of $5O,OOO The investigating committee
being thus baked, the carpet-baggers are
for the time being in great glee, and de-
family call upon Mr.. Sweet and his com.
mittee to prove their charges Whether
they will succeed in the end in battling
justice, time will tell-the chances are il
their favor.
The Raleigh Sentinel has the following
notice of the fugitive witnesses. One O
the heinous offences of which they arr
privy is an attempted fraudulent sale O
the North Carolina Railroad, which is {
Penitentiary offence
$50, 900 REWARD ANOTHER CARPET BAG
GER ON THE WING
Judge Alden is off. We never saw him, ant
therefore can't describe his personal or intellec
tual characteristics. He shall be more fully de
scribed when our friends shall describe him to us
Send in your description of this flying carpet bag
gerl He belonged to Governor Holden'e recon
struction staff of the last campaign.
The attendants of our Catsllne pre-
ceded him. Mrs. Ann Cavalry, and her husband
preceded him Mrs. Ann Cavalry knew of briber!
and corruption. She so spoke to carpet bag mem
bers she suggested 3 committee of investiga
ton carpet-bag members declined to move fo
the committee. She talked with Senator Sweet
He moved for the committee. When the commit
tee is raised General Littlefeld is frequent visi
tor at the hotel where boards Mrs. Ann Cavalry
He is known to have been closeted, yes, shut uI
with her in the Exchange Hotel-holdipg more
than one interview with this lady, her husband
being co9niZant Of the fact.
Il On Monday the 7th day OF December, cold
dark and rainy, Mrs. Ann Cavalry, at twenty
minutes before o'clock, leaves the Exchange
Hotel, takes the omnibus for ST. Msry's Schoo
to visit her niece; instead of returning to the hote
she went to the depot; 20 minutes past O'Clock
she took the train for Richmond without hus
band or attendant, carpet bag, night cap or night
i gown; without the knowledge Of the landlord, OF
l of single boarder of the house. On the nex
train followed her bonnet box ard Saratoga
Il trunk.
/ When Senator Sweet asked her husband wher
l she would return, and if she had relations II
| Richmond Mr. Cavalry said she had none anC
wouid return in day or two. Yet the fact is
i and we know it to be 40, she has engaged board
at the Spotswood House in Richmond for month
i And thus did Littlefeld triumph over Sweet
Thus did wickedness tiumph over virtue, an(
falsehood over truth. Since Gen. Littleheld ant
his comrades, Mrs. and Mr.. Cavalry, Left 1udg'
Alden has also ovevtaken them, not on the Azure
ian road, Catsline did his confederates, but OF
| the railroad.