Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-01-01

While the great sun ct warns in his behalf,
and with his darts keeps Winter still at bay.
Yea, soothed and flattered in full many ways,
Tho all the fields be bare, and woodlands sere,
Half hidden from his sight by thickenlng haze,
Serenely smiles the slow declining Year;
Like one who has in goodness spent his days:
And waits his coming end without Tear.
From the Baltimore Gazette.
The Radicals i'm Danger of Being Hoistedi
by their own Petard--OpIniOn of the Con-
serva,ivss-The Tenure-of-ORce Act
Grant Wants the Thongs Untied-His Re-
ticence as to the Future.
WASHINGTON, Dec. %, 1868.
The atrocious legislation Of Congress is
beginning to plague the inventors. The
act comforting upon the " General of the
armies of the United States " military au-
thority paramount to that exercised by the
constitutional Executive-the "Tenure-of-
Office Act which. in effect, clothes the
Senate with the appointing power-the act
making Congress an uninterrupted and
perpetual body-and sundry others of like
character, are at last found to be so many
stumbling blocks in the Radical path,
threatening party disruption. All these
measures were streuuously opposed by the
Conservatives in Congress upon general
principles. It cannot have been forgotten,
also, that the Radical leaders pr0feSSed to
fucor them for reasons of general 0ppLica-
ton. They contended in debate that such
guards were essential, under any and all
circumstances, to the prevention Of Eixecu-
tive aggression, and to keep the one man
power within constitutional limits.
Tho very few Conservative members in
either House can have but little influence
either way in regard to these laws, and l
learn that they are nearly, if not quite,
unanimous in the opinion that they ought to
tuhe no part aOh0teUer in their repeal at this
jMacture IF, they argue, there was ever a
time. Or If there ever could be a time,
when such restraining statutes could work
benefcially to tho public, the present is
that precise moment. The country is in
a fearful state of decentralization, and the
GLASS OF men from among whom Treasury
agents are to be selected should be subject
ed to the severest scrutiny the times will
admit of. Undoubtedly under the present
system they will undergo more thorough
sitting than if the " Tenure. Of Office " act
shall be repealed. Besides, the present
incunlbents being, as is reasonably to be
supposed filed by this time to the very
throat with Treasury pap, will begin short
| ly to have some mercy on the Government.
4d1sop teaches us lesson in this respect in
his fable of the fox and the flies, which
ought not to be lightly disregarded. Some
one has said that " it is only by collision of
opinions that truth, that spark divine, can
be struck out into light divine" Let the
hammers of Grant ard the Senate be heard
distinctly upon the anvil before Conserv-
alive members meddle with the
| bellows, or, indeed, any part of the shop.
1t is known we'll enough here that the
coming man" desires above all things to
have his limbs unthonged He even
threatens q "called" session if the law
convening Congress on the 4th of March
is repealed and the "Tenure- Office act
shall remain on the statute book. If Con-
sentative members could but see their way
clear-if they could become convinced that
the antecedents and present pecuniary
status of those designed hereafter to finger
| Uncle Sans money would be thoroughly
scanned-if Grant, in short, would show
his strong suite-they might go the length
$50 abhorrent ere laws) to help him out of
this scrape. although they cannot be I'M
mindful that he las brought all this trouble on
himself to CRAFTY his revengefnl feelings
towards poor Andy, his predecessor. But
to his most intimate friends, as clamshell
npon these points. He must consequently
be left to paddle his own canoe!
Tragedy near Chattanooga-Fsur MEN
Killed
CHATTANOOGA, Dec. GA tragic affair
occurred on Salt creek, forty miles below
here, q few days since, the particulars of
which are as follows It seems that Mr..
Beane, a school teacher, attempted to whip
boy named Hutchinson, who resisted and
left school. A day Or two af5erward young
Hutchinson, accompanied by his brother
and a man named Smith. visited the school
house for the avowed purpose of chastising
Became, and not finding him there, they
proceeded to his residence. Became saw
them coming, and anticipating their er-
rand, armed himself, as also did Mr.. Moore,
who happened to be at the house
On their arrival Hutchinson said they in
tended giving him (Beane) thrashing -
Moore demonstrated, when Smith drew
pistol and shot him dead. This was a sig
nal for all to produce pistols. Beane shot
and instantly killed Cyrus Hutchinson.
brother OF the school boy. He had scarcely
fired, when Smith, who had instantly killed
Moore, fired another barrel of his repeater
at Beane q; the ball struck but failed to i'm
mediately disable him. Beane then turned
on Smith and lodged three balls in his
body, inficting wounds which resulted
mortally In few minutes. Twenty min
uteS alter the aHray commenced, Moore,
Became, Cyrus Hutchinson and Smith lay
dead on the ground within few feet of
each other. Hutchison's brother was the
only person who escaped unhurt,
Tried to Bay Rim
An article in the January Land TVe Lore
gives some of the "reminiscences of Ser
geant Bates late triumphantm march through
the South. It appears that Governor
Holden attempted to "buy off " the Ser