Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-02-26
RALEIGH. Feb. 18th, 1869.

Of seMatrr Rich, of Vermont.
RALEIGH, Feb. 10Th, 1869.
Dear J0,uuM The late diegracefuI &C.
currenccs in the Capitol, wherein the Su-
preme Court, our profane Governor, old
man Adams aud the Marshal figured, have
ceased to be the theme of conversation,
much less Of wonder. The disposition
which has finally been made of the whole
matter seems to be this The Chief JUS
tive and the Court have abated their wrath
against the Marshal for failing to Jug the
Auditor the Legislature, virtually en-
dorsiug, by their action on the summary
process by which the Court elected old
man Adams ''served him right," have d.
rected the Governor to find quarters for
him elsewhere and the Governor is mighty
sorry for his passion and his profanity.
l have said that this dlsgraceful affair has
ceased to excite comment or surprise. The
truth is that the painful, glazing and dis
gushing illustrations of Radical rule and
mongrel reconstruction follow each other
in such rapid succession, that chagrin and
at one development are
hardly aroused ere they are compelled to
give place to some fresh and keener morti-
fcation. The Reverend George Washing
ton Welker, who, notwithstar ding his
technical prefix, is not regarded as pat
tern of sanctity, publicly declared on the
floor of the Senate, day or two since, that
it would seem that the time had arrived
when the Legislature would have all its
time occupied in investigating charges
against public officers. What a senten-
tious and pungent, though, perhaps. un
whiting, commentary upon the state of
things which now affiicts us, as the result
of "loil reconstruction. If one half of
these Radical officials, elected by the ne
groes, were arraigned apon one half the
charges that might be preferred against
them. the Legislature aO0Md have no time
to consider aught else than the corruptions
of the Ring" the debsuchery and open
drunkenness of one or two Judges and the
Attorney General, the shameful exhibit
tons of Legislators and the numberless
populations of other public functionaries.
If ever there was time when the declara-
ton put into the mouth of Cato, by Addi-
son, that
1.-THE post of honor is the private station
was verified, that time is n0ec.
By the way, the Immediate occasion of
this slashing criticism of the picus Welker
was amusing.-being nothing less than
the insinuation by Wynne, Radical Sen
ator, that the carpet-bag Secretary of State
"a declared bankrupt-had lined his
pockets so effectually by official flching
that he was able to invest his super album
dant cash in a 81, 500 Piano for his wife
Vance once said, in one of his inimitable
speeches, that corruption was so foul in
Washington City, that the man in the
moon held his nose while passing over it.
Raleigh is, doubtless, equally distasteful to
the lunar Peripatetic.
1t is semi-oficially, and, you may rely
upon it, accurately, ascertained to-day,
that the decision of the Supreme Court is
ready for delivery, and that it is unaui-
imously adverse to the Chatham Railroad
appropriation. Of course, all other appro-
priations, in SimH cdsu, fall to the
ground, but even then sufficient load of
indebtedness is left to vex the weary Shout
ders of our people for many hard years to
come Even the devil should have bis
due, and this political court deserves one
white mark for it's just and proper decision
in the premises. Let it not be supposed,
however, that the active and shrewd ma
nipulators of this temporarily frustrated
scheme will "give it up So" Means of
some sort or other, and various expedients
will be devised to circumvent the difficult
ties by which the project is beset mean
while, on yesterday Mr.. Barnett introdu-
ced a bill in the House, proposing to sub
nit to the people all of these various I'M
derstood-io-be defeated appropriations.
White mark No. . The Supreme Court
have also decided that County Solicitor
ship is not an Office within the meaning of
the Howard Amendment. Mr.. Tate, Demo
crat, elected Solicitor in the Twelfth Ju-
dicial District, was not allowed by the So
called Judge ihereof to qualify, on the
ground that, having been Solicitor before
the war, and afterwards participated in
t" the rebellion he was banned by the
Fourteenth Article. Mr.. Tate applied to
to compel the Judge to qualify him, which
the Court grants in the decision referred
to. Meanwhile Holden had appointed,
with his usual insolent and malignant dis
regard of public and private rights. one
Henry as Solicitor for the District
Henry's career as Holden's Solicitor is
short-lived.
" II 80 soon I am done for
Wonder what was begun fort"
The School and Revenue bills are still
the leading subjects of legislation, the
former is represented to be abominably
and UNANIMOUSLY odious in many of it's de-
tails. It is the unmistakable production
of rank and offensive Purits nism. It
smells of God Fish and the nigge through
out Not the least obnoxious + its fea-
lures is that which gives to Ashley the
exclusive power to select all text books
used in the schools. What food-gate of
pestilent fanaticism and all other isms will
be opened upon us
Your distinguished fellow-citizen, Edgar
Miller, who bemeans himself by waiting
upon French, Estes, Ashworth, Joe Holden,
&C.. &C., in the capacity of doorkeeper, is
in bad odor with the "loil " white trash.
"To what base uses" may even Edgar
Miller come! Chicken Gunter, on yester