Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-02-26

dubitable fat boy in Pick wick lolling from
the sleepy visnorpy of Toi Caldwell. It is
asserted, upon something like positive au-
thority, that Boz first got his idea Of
Squeers, the Yorkshire schoolmaster, from
studying Pilgrim Ashley, the Yankee peda-
gogue from Buzzard's Bay.
It has leaked out since my last, that
another important decision by the Supreme
Court will be forthcoming in the course of
a day or two, viz: declaration Of the I'M
constitutionality of the Stay Law. The
opinion in the case involving the decision
is prepared, and very reliable rumor as
signs the Only dissent to Judge Rodman.
The consequences of such a decision will
be OF very grave character upon public
and private interests While few will
question the more than doubtful expe-
diepcy of the first passage of Stay Law,
even during the war, still fewer will con
cede the expediency of the present re-
moval of all such barriers to the unfeeling
raids of relentless creditors The Legisla-
ture, however, as soon AS the 9ictnnt Of the
Court is officially male known, will pfoba-
bly devise some steps to clrcImvent it.
At least, such is the talk.
Every step taken by the Legislature in
the matter Of adjusting the Revenue but
involves the financial wiseacres in new
labyrinths. They have just moor porated
in the Bill ciause-demanded. they con-
teud, by the Constitutional limitation and
by their promises to the people during the
campaign- that The entire tax, for State
and county purposes on real and personal
estate, shall NOS exceed two-thjrds of one
per cent. And III the very next breath
they insert proviso that this shall not be
held TO embrace the taxes levied TO meet
L. 4! Irt,u Cor
poses. which must, of themselves consti-
tute the great burden of taxation upon the
people and yet again, in the next mo-
ment, realizing the stupidity Of their di-
lemma aud the transparent hypocrisy and
bumbuggery Of their action, they hope to
muddy the water by enacting that none of
these latter taxes shall be colectabe during
the years 1S69-'7O! The meaning Of it all
Is that these men see now, staring IN their
faces, tue inciI,ient results If their mad
and mcrcenary folly, which will ripen into
a population Of their illegal debt and q
storm IF Indignation uron their guilty
heads.
HleanwhiIe, pending all this financial
legislation, tho opinion Of the Court ia the
Chatham Railroad Injunction case is not
officially promulgetl. It's generally known,
however, that 1T is prepared and that it
makes the Injunction perpetual, as stated
in my last. [ AWosc, personally, this to be
the case as, also, with regard to the other
decision Of which / wrote you. [ can give
youioo con jecture as to the cause of the delay
in their delivery, other than the possible
ono that the Court will adjourn IN a few
DAYS, and their Hon4rs would defer to the
last moment the obiurgations which the
ring" will be certain to empty upon
their devoted heads. Already, by tho way,
it is not difficult to detect a member of the
Golden Circle 10y a certain elongation
of yieage--such as Holden constitutionally
wears such as, it may be supposed, Lit
tletield and Alden are wearing Ia their sew
eral places Of retreat or such as Cat1so
Mayo put Oh when the feloniously abstrac-
ted pistol was seen sticking out Of his
breast pocket
Yesterdays proceedings IN the Legisla-
ture were, as they have been for several
days past, wholly unimportant, if L may
except the final passage, by the Senate, of
the machinery Revenue bill, and the intro
duction, in the House, of another bill, by
French, affecting the Wilmington, Char
lotte and Ruthe rford Railroad the details
Of which am not yet cognizant of. Both
Houses, after paratiyely short sessions,
adjourned in honor OF Washington birth-
day. 1t was enough to have made the
illustrous Father of his country turn over
in his grave, that the resolutions of respect
to his memory should have been intro
ducod by two such men as John Ragland
aud Curtis IL. Brogden-c onfessedly about
the sorriest representatives of Radicalism
in the Assembly. IL there could be @
"lower deep" than this, what plummet-
line can fathom it ?
1t is quite notorious here that no partic
ular good feeling exists among the various
officials in the State Capitol 1t is even
suggested that, we're it not for the discredit
it might bring upon "the party and the
lack of the necessary q,tantum of pluck,
there would be frequent repetitioIs. below
stairs. of the pugilistic settlement of diff
culties resorted to by Edgar Miller and
O'Hara, up stairs, and by Speaker Joe and
Attorney General Coleman in Theim's bar
room. 1t is made no secret that Dayey Jen-
kins has no peuchant on the carpet bag
wing of the State administration, and that
Menninger, Ashley & Co., have rs little use
to BIO but one point UPON which they are
all agreed, and that il, that poor old man
Adams was mighty badly treated by the
naughty Chief Justice, and thatJin Harris
(nigger) and Holden are the great and
shining lights Of the Radical Republican
party.
Among all good people here it is held
to be matter of profound regret that A.
j. Jones, of cotton notoriety, should have
been elected to the Senate frora your
neighboring District. His presence may
be an accession to the Ring" but not to
the decency or responsibility of the Legis-
lature-if such qualities may be supposed
to exist in it. How sriU he get along,
when the Treasurer has no money, and all
the faithful are on the borrow :? By a
draw on the ScripturaL Banh-eh:? Dor.
An Act to be entitled an Act to prescribe
the power and duty OF the Governor In
respect TO Fusitfves from Justice.
The General assembly Of North Carolina
To enact: Section ]. That the Governor
on information made to him of any person
having committed q felony, and of having
fed to parts unknown, whether within or
without the jurisdiction Of tho State, may
issue his Proclamation, and therein offer
a reward, not exceeding five hundred
dollars, according to the nature of the case
for the apprehension and delivery Of such
fugitive to any common jail in the State.
Sec. .. That the reward authorized in
the preceding section shall be paid to the
person or persons who may arrest, and