Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-02-19
UEFlIERS.

OFFICERS.
! Removal Of Sheriff and seventeen JUS
tees of the Peace of esscounty.
Special Orders No. 63, September -,
1867, are expressed as follows : 50 The fol-
lowing removals are made from the offices
OF Sheriff and Magistrates of Jones county,
North Carolina.
! Sheriff. Thomas Wilcox Magistrates,
J. II. Kinsey and sixteen others named.
Then follows "the following appoint
ments are made to the offices OF sheriff
aud Magistrates for Jones county.
Sheriff, O. + Colgrove, vice Thomas
Wilcox Magistrates, A. NJ. Haskill and
fifteen others Of whom [ know nothing. -
The order winds up rs follows - The
bond. required by law will be executed in
due form aud filed with the proper Off
Ger. The commanding officer, post oi New
bern, r. c., is charged with the execution
| of this order.
BY command O: Brcv't Maj. Gen. CANEY.
LEWIS Y. CAzIAHC,
Aid de Camp, A. \. A. Il.
BY law the Justices Of our County Courts
are required to receive and approve and
admit. to Probate AID order to rct;istrR-
ton. the official bonds offered by Sheritfs.
Q. &. CuIgruvc, tie new appoint"e, As /
AN credibly informed, came to this State
during the rs 3 Captain or Lieutenant
OF New York company o. cavalry, aud IN
the latter part nE 1860 or the first of 1896,
settled in The county Of jones, oil Il tract
Of land which Ito purchased On q credit
the yender retaining the title, or taktug q
lien TO SECURE The payment OF the purchase
money, which has not heeu paid.
The Court met 10 receive the bond. The
parties supporting to have signed 1t, as
sureties, were y. y. Colgrove, who settled
in Jones county soma months later than his
brother, the said O. L. Colgrove, neither
Of them having any visible unenoumbered
property. J. 4. Haskill another Northern
man, who came to Jones about tho same
tiue the CoJgroyes did, contracted for the
purchase Of q cotton farm at some 500, 900,
the seller holding tue title. ora lien on the
land, to secure the payment Of the pur-
chase money, little, if any OF which, has
: been paid I; and Ethelbub Hubble, q mer-
. chant Of Newbern. As to when he settled
3 in the State or what is his responsibility. l
t am not Informed but no proof was made
. to the Court that those purporting to be
. the obiigors, had signed the bond. The
! Court refused to accept it. The next day,
. OR very soon thereafter, the military officer,
+ sem. De ! understand, by The Post Com
! mander at Newborn, (notbiDg further
ha- ng been done as to the bond save
: putting a revenue stamp on it and
g leaving it i'll possession vi the Clerk,
. it being neither proved or registered,
q ordered the Clerk to administer to Col.
grove the oath of Office. The tax lists OF
3 1866 and 1867, previous, We're taken by
e military order from the old Sheriff and de-
livcred to tue new appointee. The old
2 Sheriff had paid the State taxes due on
> these lists to the Public Treasurer, and,
0 hence, the balances due on them were due
to him personally. On the lists Thus sur
rendered, the old Sheriff informs me the
balances due amounted to about $1,000
L [ wrote to Gen. Candy soon afterwards
y touching this matter, stating the material
facts above set forth, and demonstrating
, against the wrong Of taking from the old
Sheriff the tax lists, all the balances being
s due to the old Sheriff. / have received nc
D answer and learn from the Chairman OF
the County Court, that he has heard of lie
action by Gen. Candy since the refusal OF
i the Court to accept the bond offered by
S Colgroye, who has been acting as Sheriff
: of the county for the past six weeks OF
more, st the best season of the year fol
the collection Of the taxes.
q CASE OF CARNEY SPEARS, OF COLOR.
q At the Spring Term of Buncombe Supe
rior Court, 1867, Judge Merrimon presid
ing, negro named Carney Spears, was
9 convicted of In assault and on q white
1 man named Cook. And at the same term
@ the said Spears, under the advice of Col.
b. Henry, a leading Republican politician il
= that part of the State, submitted to O YER
n dict of guilty IN two indictments for horse
stealing. The offences were committed
Il about the close of the war. In considera
ton of the distracted condition of the
times, the liability OF his class to be mis-
> led, (he had white condjutors in the assault
IS and battery case, and his insolvency, the
O Solicitor for the State, Col. Coleman. did
~ not pray Judgment, and it Was suspended
:. in all the cases, on condition of his secur
't ing the costs, one half payable at the Fal
Q Term and the other half at the Spring
ia Term following. BY an arrangement be
, tween the negro and Nat. Atkinson, the
y lattor came into court and confessed judy
@ ment for the costs. What the arrangement
e was between the negro and Atkinson wa
IS not known tL the court or its officers
% Thereupon the negro was discharged from
custody and went to work with Atkinson
" In August last an officer of the Freedmen
it Bureau, whose name is net furnished me
i, cited Atkinson and the negro to appear be
- fore Captain Denny, Commandment of th
-, Post, who, after hearing the statement O
a tie negro setting forth that he had beer
ii vgongfully convicted, adiudged that tn
Is negro be discharged from his contract will
r Atkinson, and had an entry made on tn
docket Of the Court Ia copy Of which ha
, not been furnished me) suspending all &C
% ton in the matter until the pleasure o
it Gen Sickles could be known. Copies 0
- the letters of Judge Merrimon. Col. Cole
. man, the State Solicitor. and Mr.. Atkin
e son, dated 9th August. marked l.. NJ. n.
q from which | gather these facts, accom-
81 pany this narrative. / sent these letters t.
I Gen. Sickles without delay, and to m
great surprise, about the last of October
= was furnished with Gen. Canbys specia
"a order No 1S6, dated October sd, 1867, a
follows 1.-The General commanding hay
- ing become satisfied that no further actio
is necessary in the case of Carney Spears
lie a freedman, who was bound to work TO
Ct one Nat Atkinson until he, Spears, ha
d paid IL labor the costs of criminal prose
!. cution against him in the Superior Cour
- of Buncombe county, North Carolina, it
d ordered that the action of Capt. Denny
10 commanding station at Ashville, y. O., an
O. milling said contract and releasing sal,