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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-01-20
The Queens Railroad Carriage.

The saloon carriage used by Queen Vic
toria when travelling over the Great West
ern railway, after having done good ser
vice for more than twenty years, has inst
undergone a thorough retitting. The car
rage is divided into ompartments-the
saloon and it's retiring rooms. The walls
are lined with silver gray silk, trellised
with the tufts of the same material, and
the roof is composed of raised flutes of
silk, radiating from a centre, and inters
persed with crimson and gray gimp de-
signs, the whole being finished with mas
sive crimson ropes. interviewer by gold
The windows are fitted with silver plated
poles, from which depend green silk cur
tains. trimmed and Topped up with green
and white silk cord and tassels. The fur
niture is in luxurious taste, the royal sofas
and footstools being covered with crimson
brocaded silk, trimmed with gold and gray
cord fringes, and the carpet is of crimson
velvet. Altogether the decorations are very
perfect luxury without gaudiness being
the prevailing feature.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-01-20

Iess for on purposes but the intrinsic merit OF
Tho yyo, it's necessity it's Eoundless future. its
certain prosperity have triumphed over all diff
cnlties and eustained as under every disadvan-
tage."
Shall we fail to build this great work
SeIf-interest alone can decide the question
for us. We own as individuals and as a
corporation very large amount OF stock
Bnt even this is q very insignificant consld-
GRAFTON compared to the benefits to be con-
ferred. It's completion as ritaLly important
to tie Future qr01rM and areoM at VA
nsingt0n.
The President and Board OF Directors are
honest and capable. They embrace lead
inp business men of our city and the in
terror. The Chief Engineer and Superln~
tendent is O man Of great ability and vast
experience in the management of railroads.
These officers are determined to do all In
their power to push forward the work.
The remnant of the securities. we are sat
isfied, will be used 10 the very best adVan-
tage for this purpose, and the credit OF the
road will be strengthened by the honesty,
intelligence, economy and industry with
which its affairs will be managed. Let
every friend of the road give them help
ing hand and the work can be accomplished
and it's ownership and control secured to our
own people.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-01-20

Where are you going ON the 4th of July,
1876, when every American will be just
one hundred years old ?
Montreal has revived fogging for crime.
Cato tails are used. The thongs are
not knotted-knots being ont of fashion,
the makers say.
st. 10 brags of its game. Keno, wild
turkeys, black. tailed deer, chuck-a-luck,
faro and prairie-chickens are part of the
bill of fare.
A Chicago Dutchman has been fined
$40 for stealing a baby from a fellow
countryman, on the street.
Chinese artists are frightfully faulty in
perspective, but they know how to draw
tea.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-01-20
A ust Rebuke.

| Some time ago General Alcorn, the Re-
publican Governor of Mississippi, prom
ised to appoint one Robert Watkins Flour
noy, formerly of this State, Brigadiel
General of the State militia, Flournoy be
ing Radical of the blackest hue.
Subsequently. Flournoy, in the excess
of his zeal as a blatant Radical, made q
m can, low and Indecent attack upon the
m emory Of General LEE, the beloved and
veperated commander of the Confederate
armies. General Alcorn was soldier, and
good one, under General LEE. He had
personal knowledge of his worth and
greatness, and although he is now Cover
nor of the State of Mississippi through the
votes of scalawags and negroes, he has not
lost his admiration Of General LEES char
acter, and love fof his many virtues.
As soon as he heard of the dirty calum
MES thrown at the character of the great
and good LEE by this renegade Souther.
ner, he wrote him letter Withdrawing his
promise of commission as Brigadier Gen
eral, and in which he took occasion to ad-
minister the following just and we'll meri-
ted rebuke. In his letter Governor Alcorn
says
" feel it duty to my State TO refuse the is-
sue of q commission that would be even an ap-
parent approval OF your language on the death OF
General Lee.
General Lee was. perhaps, q rebel. yet in q
much humber position. myself stand guilty
of the same offense. Neither must overlook
the fact that my party embraces in it's ranks men
who have becl amongst the most devoted SOL
diers of the South. 1 cannot therefore seeming
ly approve of any slur cast upon the memory OF
General Lee, because of his participation in the
rsbellion.'
% a wise conpiliation would lose sight of the
rebellion in presence of the noble qualities OF
the man, and shining achievements Of the SOL
der
| This man Floutnoy, We learn, was once
respectable aud well-known citizen OF
Georgia, and a lawyer of large practice.
As might be expected from his present
| associations and conduct he basely desert
cd his wits, and with his m istress removed
to Mississippi. This woman had been
raised in his family as an adopted dsugh,
! ter. His conversion to Radicaism and 10
leadership in his party followed hard upon
his criminal conduct.
We have known Governor ALCoRN from
our earliest youth. and we recognize in
this Just and noble rebuke of his unworthy
subordinate those qualities of heart which
| once rendered him as attractive in the
social circle, rs his abilities gave him
prominence as a public man. Panied, as
We were, when Ie allied himself to q party
which obtained power through the humili-
alton and ruin of his own people. We can
not but rejoice that, unlike most of his
Southern prototypes, he has not thought
it necessary to prove his newborn loyal
ty' by the vehemence with which he
abused the living or the dead, who, like
himself, fought for the Lost Cause.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-01-20
The Methodist Recorder talks this hit Of

The Methodist Recorder talks this bit of
sense about pet names for adult women:
1--WE consider it a sickly sentimental
ism, if not sacriIegious brass, to ignore the
name sealed by the baptismal covenant
How it would point verse of Scripture to
have it put in modern style, thus: NOV,
q certain man was sick. named Lazarus, of
Bethany, the town of Mollie and her
sister Matte"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-01-20

It was an idea of minister down the
country, at the conclusion of marriage
ceremony, to use in his prayer for the bri-
dal couple the sentence, "Suffer little chill
dren to come unto me-"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-01-20

che will of the people being i'll favor of q
Convention, one was convened which al
tered the Constitution as it now stands.
In North Carolina, in 1886, the Legisla
ture not being authorized to call Con-
vention. appealed to the will of the people
the sovereign power of the State-and
the people at the polls fdeclar5d their
will that a Convention should be had
In these cases it was the sole duty of
the Legislature to provide the means Of
ascertaining the will of the people by fixing
who should vote, and when and how the
vote should be taken, for DANIEL WEBSTER
said in the Rhode Island case, "The will
of the people must prevail, but there must
be some mode of finding out that will"
The mode being prescribed by the Legs
Iature-the sovereign's will ascertained
clearly and unequivocally Hereunder
expression is the Supreme Law.
Now, then, doe the 18th Art. of cur
Constitution by which the Legislature is
prohibited from calling a Convention,
unless by two-thirds vote, destroy this
right of the people to call a Convention
by express sing their will under some law,
in pursuance of law? Not at all. For
when Sec. I, Art. Is was submitted to the
Convention OF 1885, it read, "No Conven
ton of the people shall be called except by
q two-thirds majority of the General AS
sembly." Upon objection, it was amended
to read "No Convention of the people
shall be called by tie General Assembly
unless by the concurrence of two-thirds of
all the members of each HOUSE of the
General Assem- bly,"
But was this charge made in the section
to preserve the right of the people to call
Convention That inference is irresis-
tible, as that very Convention had been
convened by the will of the people-so
declared in the preamble of the Constitu-
ton.
1t was not then Intended that this SOC
tion should interfere with the actually ex-
listing right of tho people under what is
now Sec. ) Art. l Of the Constitution and
that hight, then exercised, is as perfect as
it was i'll 1885.
But even if so intended, the section in
that respect would be inoperative-fo
otherwise it would restrict the power of
the sovereign. which cannot be accom-
plished in America for, if SO, then Con
at its inception, might be de-
clared perpetual, as the old articles of Con-
federation were. and would never be sub
iect to change and the will of the people
would no longer be the Supreme Law
7.et1uctj0 All qbSL1fI,i1n
But again, Art. Is must be construed in
to Art. l, Sec. 3 ; otherwise.
under Sec. 2 of that Article, Convention,
no matter how assembled. would have no
to alter any part of tho Consti
tuition, which leads to the same absurdity.
Therefore, to our mind, il is plain that
Art. Is was not intended to abrogate the
right of the people to have al expression
of their will taken with the sanction of the
Legislature and even if so intended, it
could not have that effect. And the pow
er of the Legislature to provide for an ex-
preston of the will of the people is just
as perfect as in 1885.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-01-20

BEEcHER's church pews sold two per cent.
higher this year than the last The ag-
gregate sale was SIS. 675. The first hun
dred varied from $3.50 10 $500.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-01-20

There have been about eight millions of
tennessee State bonds used by railroad
builders which were Wropgfully issued,
The New York herald., 1871-03-09
NEW YORK CITY NEWS.

Coroner keenan, yesterday held an inquest at the
City Hall In the case OF James Clegg the lad twelve
years OF age, who was killed some days ago In front
Of premises 90 Robinson street by milestone fall
ing on him. The jury did not md that blame at
tached 10 any 0ne Deceased lived with his parents
at l02 Washington street.
Charles Henry. man twenty.one years Of age,
died yesterday IN st. vincents Hospital from the
effects OF having one OF his legs crushed the 2lst
uL by being run over by Greenp0lnt car, OF which
he was driver. Immediately after the accident
Henry was brought to this city and taken to the
house Of some friends, 257 Spring street, where,
alter remaining week, he was removed to the hos
pita Coroner Keenan, was n0tined to hold an In
quest
On Friday night last Patrick Murphy, residing
at 455 West Sixteenth street, was dangerously
stabbed IN tue left breast by an Italian musician.
While passing the corner of Tenth avenue and Six
teenth street yesterday afternoon officer White. Of
the Sixteenth preolnct, arrested band OF musi-
claus one OF whom, named Jean Battiste Jambere,
was idenllned by a TREND Of Murphy's, who was
with him at the time, as the party who committed
the assault. he was arragned before Justice
Snandey, at JEFFERSON Market, and committed to
await the result Of the injuries. Murphy Ia al pre-
sent confined TO nls ned under the care OF p1ysl,
clan. whs has hopes Of his recovery.
The New York herald., 1871-03-09
T r IPLE EFT
New York, Thursday, March 8. 1871
CONTENTS OF T0-DAY,s aERALD.

PAGE.
l-Advertisements
2-Advertisements.
3-News from Washington The Coal Strike-Lec.
ture by James w. Gerard, Jr.-The State Capt.
tai: Rumpus over the Holiday Bill-The Erie
Classification Act-Amusements
4-Ku klux Klan: Curious Developments at the
Holden Impeachment; RefOrmatf ry Powers
or the ORGANIZATIONS; Their Movements in
South Carolina and Tennessee-Proceedings in
the Courts-Crime in Albany-CruShing Out
non Scading Case.
5-Cr1me Against the Government: Secret Service
OF the Treasury Department-The Nathan
Murderer-Board OF Health: The Manure Dump
ers ROuted-A W est Virginia Fnancier-Al-
legged Malpractice Casa German Bigamist-
Caught in His own Trap-Financtal and Com.
mercia Reports-Real Estate Matters.
6-Editorials: Leading Article, 1.-The President and
Congress on Southern Outrages and the Ku
Klnx Klan"-Personal Intelligence-New
York City News-Amusement Announce
mentS.
7-Pars: Herald Special Reports from the French
Cap1tal-France: The National Assembly Elk.
pected at NersallleS-The French Assembly
Return OF the Vict0rs-England's Diplomacy
The Joint High CommissiOn-News from Cuba
and Jamaca-Bavaria: Important Result OF
the Observation-Disclosures Telegraph-v1ews
OF the Past-Business Notices.
S-Bedford and the Shysters-Sensble Negroes
Marriages and Observation-Disclosures.
9-Advertsements
To- The Union Pacific Railroad-Fisk In the Tolls
Custom House AfIairs-lnternal Revenue AZ
fairs-Shipplng Observation-Disclosures
11-AdvertisementS.
12-AdvertlSementS.
The New York herald., 1871-03-09
Personal Intelligence.

Senator Thomas Fitch, OF Nevada, has arrived as
the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Commander McCreery, OF the United States Navy,
is temporarily stationed at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Wendell Phillips Is staying AT the st. Denis Hotel.
General James 5. Whitney, OF Boston, is among
the arrivals at the St. James Hotel.
Mr.. d. A. Van Manner, Of Omaha, Is stopping at
the Metropolitan HOTEL
Mr. David A. Wells ex-Commissoner OF the Inter-
nal Revenue Is sojourning at the Albemarle Hotel.
John d. Perry, OF ST. Louis, is at the st. Nicholas
Hotel
Judge Morton, OF Springfield Mass, is temporarily
al the St. James Hotel.
John r. Carpenter, a heavy stock dealer from
Texas has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
MIR. John A. Poor, ex-Member Of Congress, has
arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
General McCook. OF Ohio, is quartered at the Hxfth
Avenue Hotel.
The New York herald., 1871-03-09

of the negroes. She denies, they tell us, to
her black citizens the equal protection Of her
laws. What legislation, then, on the part of
Congress will be appropriate to meet this case
That which the republican majority in each
House may think proper. This is the scope
of this fourteenth amendment, and we dare
say that the purpose which lies behind this Ku
Klux investigation of Senator Morton is bill
for the enforcement of this fourteenth article
which will astonish all those Southern and
Northern antediluvian politicians who still en-
tertain the delusion that State sovereignty
underies the constitution. We are informed
that message to Congress from General
Grant may be shortly expected on this subject
suggesting the necessity of decisive measures.
We are told that the resolution of the House
for the adjournment Of the session few days
hence has been laid aside in the Senate because
General Grant, for various reasons, wishes the
session prolonged, but particularly in view of
some legislation against these Southern Ku
Klux Klans.
We await some definite revelations upon this
business. Meantime our whole political hori-
zon looks lowering and stormy, and especially
down South. The Southern States are
apparently lost to the administration beyond
any remedy from Congress. Whites and
blacks within the limits of the late Southern
confederacy are, 80 far as we can learn, in har-
mony-at least upon one thing-the repudia-
tion of the national debt, or those taxes re-
quired to meet the costs of their subjugaton.
This is a bad sign for General Grant and
bow of promise to the flexible Northern demo-
cracy. Nor do we think that the demoraliza-
ton among the Southern republicans will be
mended by further repressive measures
against States or communities, or classes
or Ku X lux Klans from Congress. The Joint
| High Commission, the St. Domingo annexa-
ton and the Darien ship canal scheme pro-
mise to be high trump cards for the next
Presidency; but this Ku Klux business, il
taken in hand by Congress, we fear, will only
make this Southern confusion worse con-
| founded than ever, and concentrate the Presi-
dental fight upon the never-ending blunders
of Southern reconstruction. These things are
certain, at all events, that the great body of
the Southern whites now, as in the war of the
rebellion, are opposed to General Grant, and
that they have their laboring blacks within
their reach as political allies; th at the North
ern democracy on these heavy national
taxations are gathering strength, and that an
appreciable lessening of these heavy taxa
tions, more than any Ku Klux legislation,
is needed to secure the reelection of General
Grant and to secure the holders of the
national bonds from the hazards of sweep
ing political and financial revolution. We say
a sweeping revolution, for with the overthrow
of the party in power will not all its works be
cast out, as by the will of the people? 1t is
| not the Ku Klux but the tax question that
calls most urgently for remedy from Con-
gress. 49,
The New York herald., 1871-03-09

A BRICK BoATMEN's STRIKE is the newest
thing in strikes that we have at present. The
men who freight the bricks from Haverstraw
to New York demand higher wages, or extra
pay for piling the brick when they unload
them. As real estate is almost at standstill
just now we may put down the brick strike as
something less serious at least than the coal
strike
The New York herald., 1871-03-09

ST. PATRICK's DAY AND ssTHE FRIENDLY
Sons. IF the bill to make st. Patrck's Day .
public holiday has failed in becoming law
the national pride which all Irishmen feel In
celebrating the day shall never fail The love
for old Ireland and her patron saint ''was
never less nor can be more" than in the pres
ent day. The pride and the love are sponta-
neous now, as they ever have been, and shall
ever continue to be, and the idea of making 1t
compulsory holiday was naturally secuted by
all true Irishmen. The Friendly Sons Of St.
Patrick will assemble as usual to honor the
day, to s'drown the shamrock" to say kind
word for the s'ould sod"-in fact, to sing its
praises and its old renown. No society or
class of Irishmen celebrates the 18th of March
more enthusiastically or more patriotically
than the Friendly Sons, even though all politi-
cal questions, either of the past, the present
or the future are religiously tabooed.
The Boston Journal says :-'Our people
might as well be preparing themselves for
sort Of tidal wave Of enthusiasm in favor Of
the annexation Of St. Domingo when the Com
missioners return" Can the dumb talk or
the deaf hear? Howe is that for the High st.
Domingo Commission
TESTING New ARTICLE OF CABINET
The New York herald., 1871-03-09

JAMAIoA.-By special telegram to the
HERALD we learn that the cable expedition is
still actively engaged in operations to recover
the lost Porto Rico cable, and they will not
return to St. Thomas until successful. By
way of Kingston we learn of the death of the
Governor of the Danish West India Islands,
from enhancement of the heart.
The New York herald., 1871-03-09

SENATOR SUMNER, it seems, is actually to
be displaced from the Craftsmanship of the
Committee on Foreign Relations, and Senator
Morton or Cameron put in his place. In view
Of the pressure of foreign negotiations upon
Us at the present time no action could be more
unfortunate and ill-timed.
The New York herald., 1871-03-09

THREE SEAMEN are undergoing trial in the
United States Circuit Court for arson on the
high seas, in having set fire to and burned the
ship Robert Edwards when eight hundred
miles at sea last May. The offence is pun
isbable with death, and each one of the prison.
ers confesses to participation in the dread
{ul deed
The New York herald., 1871-03-09

EXIT VICTOR HuGo.-The French National
Assembly knows Victor Hugo no longer.
Yesterday he rendered his resignation and
abruptly quilted the Chamber, because be was
hissed for advocating the legality of Carl
baldi's election. 1t is pecularity of Victor
Hugo and the other French radicals that they
advocate in all seriousness what seems very
absurd to everybody else. Garibaldi is an
unnaturalized foreigner, and one would have
supposed that the invalidity of his election to
the Assembly would have been recognized and
admitted even by the men who voted for him.
Not 90 Victor Hugo and the Universal Republi-
cans of France. They hold that Garibaldi, being
q republican, is a citizen OF the world, and is,
consequently, eligible to legislate for France
The absurd idealism characteristic OF Victor
Hugo has caused him TO collapse temporarily.
We expect however, that he will recover
himself in few days and astonish the world
by publishing an address to the French
people, aboundin0 in ernletives and infat ed
rhetoric.
The New York herald., 1871-03-09

The MANURE QUESTION, thanks to the
glimpse of the hereafter which the HERALD
gave several members of the Board Of Health
who were going astray, has been settled by
that body with righteous Difference to the
absolute needs of our citizens. The Sanitary
Committee yesterday reported very stringent
measures, providing that all ordinances rela-
tive to the removal of manure heaps from the
city limits be rigidly enforced, and that no
manure dumps other than boats or vessels
would be permitted; all others to be removed
by May l. These measures, after short
debate, were carried
The New York herald., 1871-03-09

RoGUEs IN GRAIN.-A Western paper states
that a Chicago grain dealer has got himself
into trouble for obtaining false grain certif-
cate. 'Rogues in grain" have rarely been a
scarce article in that latitude.
The New York herald., 1871-03-09

PARIS STILL DIsoRDERLY.-Our special and
general advices from Paris agree in represent
ing affairs in that city as unfavorable to order.
The National Guards seem bent upon row.
They have formed camps, supported by artil-
lery, at Montmartre, Belleville, La villette
and other quarters of the city, with the evil
dent purpose of resisting any attempt to dis
arm them. Our dispatches refer to deplora-
BILE acts of violence, without mentioning any
specific acts. Enough is said, however, to
prepare us for news Of formidable outbreak
on the part of the reds and bloody collision
between them and the troops. Well may the
press (republican, we suppose) appeal to the
rioters.in behalf of order on the ground that
republican government is compromised by dis
orders. Nothing else can make certain the
restoration of the empire or establishment
of the kingdom than continuance of scenes
in Paris which are vaguely spoken of as
terrible.
The New York herald., 1871-03-09

MOST OF THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED Southern
newspapers pay more attention to railroad
jobs than they do to the gathering and publ
cation of news This is not the way to con-
duct a newspaper-North or South. Give
news. We advise our Southern contempora-
ries that details Of reported outrages received
through other than our own special corre-
. spondents are not reliable.
The New York herald., 1871-03-09

ANOTHER NEW HAMBURG RAILWAY TRAP IN
EMBRYO. The attention Of the officers Of the
dangerous condition of the bridge at lO4th
street. The slightest divergence or swaying OF
trains-which is so likely to occur at time
like this, when the frost is coming out Of the
ground-as they pass each other at this point,
is likely to produce catastrophe so frightful
as to throw the New Hamburg slaughter en-
tirely in the shade. A number Of correspond
ents have called our attention to this subject,
and we in turn invite the immediate attention
of the railroad managers to it, Commodore
Vanderbilt among the rest.
A PATENT HASH MACHINE is wanted in Mis-
sis2inni nnlu af Maridian for aiX daYA