Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-07-29
Kirk and tIlo courts.

nc Rim Q1StIhClOD Oh III NOEtH
Carolina st present, perhaps, does not de-
serve on excess OF respect. But 1t has GER
tainly got from the excellent Colonel Kirk.
whose exploits have been already cele-
| DRAFTED in these columns, as little rs it can
| possibly deserve. Thot amiable officer of
| the State militia has been Gratifying his
higher agpirationg by lending his lambs into
| tho pleasant pastures Of the private houses
of his military district and arreBting the Oc-
cupant5 thereof altogether at random. The
Chiof-Juatice of the State interposed writ
Of HaJ:as corpus as barrier TO the progress
Of the adventurous Kirk, bat that hero
leapt lightly over it, with tho flip
pant remark that "tbis thing was played
ont" This is the topo Of observation in
which the meek General Dix and the gantle
General Low Wallace used so indulge i'll
Now York md other capitals during the
war. bat there is as littie pretoxt for it in
North Carolina now as If the late General
Sanford had varied his blOodIoas glories
with the warlilzo feat Of barning eminent
citizens in their beds, or the present
Colonel Fisk should SO faf subordinate his
pablo function to his private interests as
80 order his command to IL midnight mas
saero OF Mr.. Vanderbilt and Of the resident
stockholders of the railway over whose in
tareats he himself prosides with such al.
InirabIo fidelity. But as Kirk has put
himself outside OF tho law by his treat
mont Of his ministers it is to DO hoped
that, III case the law should be found
powerles8 to vindicato itself, some ono of
Kirk s victims may take It int his own
hands by cutting the career Of Colonel
Kirk. Such o doing of little wrona, to
do q great right would 20 doubt iniiict
upon us the extra session CT Congress
which Mr.. Grants advocacy could not OBJ
tain. There wcnld be no moro difficulty |
about making out M assault upon Kirk to
be Z breach Of privilege than there was
about thC assault upon Porter; and tho |
Tribune would possibly represent TO us |
that 40 loyal mans life safO, and
that it was Indispensable, i'll view Of
this tragic occurrence that the negroes
of North Carolina should be presented |
each with a fnrnl. and an additional duty
OF 100 per cent. bo imposed upon ig-iron. |
But the per 13stfatOr would have tho coneO- |
lntlOn OF knowing tha1 he mad suppressed |
one Of the most Migrant Of all the nni1- |
ancas' produced by the anarchic condition |
whi:h Federal miagoVernnent has entailed |
npon some Of tho Southern States. N. T. |
VO53G
There will be 40 privatcoring in q war
between France and Prussia. 1t is forbid |
den by the Paris Declaration " of 1866,
which was signed 10y the onipotentiaries
of EDgiand, France, Prussia, Austria,
itussia, Sardinia, and Turkey. Tho exact
language Of the four points then agreed |
upon IS as follows:
j. Priyatooring is and remains abol-
ished.
e. The pontrai flag covers one.ay's
goods, with the exception of contraband
of war.
3, Neutral goods, with She exception of
oontraban,l Of war, are not liable to cap-l
ture under onemy's flag,
i. Blocllados, in order so bo binding,
muGs be effective that is to say, main
tanned by n force sufficient really to pre-
won't access to the coast of the enemy.
The American Government, is will be
declined to become party
to the above doolaratio1.-N Y Tribune.
A slight touch Of superstition is not in
itself Objectionable it only becomes so
when forced upon others. A hospital sur
gCOn who has made observations declares
that large per centage Of pationtB carry
with them some sort of a charm against
disease usually horse chestnut in the
pocket. But when The West Union De
fender (Ohio) expects it's readers to believe
a story about cure thus effected, it looks
like carrying things too far. The story is
that Mr.. Nicholas Plummer, Of North Lib
erty, substituted potato for tho conven-
ti0nal chestnut, his complaint being rheu-
matism. After carrying the potato eigh-
teen months In his pocket he finds his
departed and his potato turn
cd to stone. Solid stone none of your
such as rheumatic patients
get in their joints, but small brown rock
that resounds Oh being struci. with me-
tallic ring. A solanopathio school of med
icine may be expected.