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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25
WHERE GRANT is not wretched failure

wuppr GRANT is not a wretched failure,
ba ID something, demonstratlvely, lar
worse. Imbecility and incompetency may
account for, and, to some extent, extenu-
ate the first-but the latter is the result OF
corrupt, wilful and mercenary design.
A Radical Convention, to nominate can
didates for State Offices in louisiana was
held in the Customh0uSe-a building de-
voted to commercial few days ago, IN
der the direct control Of the Presidents
brother-in-law, who is Collector OF the
port. This was bad enough, and mlgn'
only 60 to show that Grant was J0a1"re
in his appointments but 1t SILKS lhtO
utter insignifcance, compared Win the
daring intrusion OF Federal troops upon
the scene, with loaded cannon ana mus
kets. brought there for no other purpose
than to protect the Grant faction OF Rad1
caIism and to intimidate another II this
does not smack of the Empire, then noth
ING that Louis Napoleon ever attempted
did It is on par with Grants sending
Alderman, the law officer OF his Caolnet'
down to North Carolina, during the recen'
local campaign, and authorizing him &c
threaten the free people OF North Caroline
that, if they dared, under the peaceablF
forms of law, to amend their Constitution
he would come the coup Ge;n: upon then
with sword and cannon !! If such deVei
opments as these do not startle anc
awaken the popular mind, North ane
South, then is it torpid beyond even gal
vAnic resuscitation.
"Can such things be,
And o'ercome US like summers cloud,
And not excite our special wonder ?"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25
The Silver Lining.

On many accounts the defeat of the Con-
vention in North Carolina is to be regret
ted, because it opened the way to relief
from the debt, corruption, fraud, and a
degraded judiciary, which Radicalism had
faatened on that oppressed and outraged
people, by the present iniquitous constitu-
ton. Every ax-payer in the State feels
the imperative necessity of some change.
whereby impending bankruptcy and ruin
may be averted. But thousands of Con-
sentative voters, who had passed through
the fiery ordeal of reconstruction, and the
tyranny imposed by Grant and Holden,
thought it better to bear the present evils
than to furnish even the slightest pretext
for Federal usurpation again. They knew
perfectly we'll, after the audacioHs threats
of Alderman and other mercenary follow
ers of the President, tn at the success Of
the Convention would be seized upon as
an excuse for new outrages, and hence
they abstained from inviting that danger.
This is the true and only explanation Of
the recent election. Paradoxical as it may
seem, the Convention was defeated by
those who most desired If, because they
foresaw the consequences which would in
evitably follow its triumph, and understood
the INSCRIPTIONS character of the men
with whom they had to deal. The bar
rem victory of Radicalism is just the last
thing its leaders really desired. Pool and
Holden, and other renegade chiefs of the
rebellion, who plunged the State into
secession, and who now fifty guide
the Presidents counsels, at heart
preferred the defeat Of their
own party, though not daring to avow
it. Because by that means they could have
resumed control through military power.
which would have been ordered with the
same alacrity that was manifested at New
Orleans TO crush out a rival faction at the
point of the bayonet.
Stricken and PROSTATE as she is under
venal misrule and knavish conspiracy
North Carolina is still free from the intrl,
sion of Federal force. Now, at least, there
, is not the color of cause for marching
troops amouR that peaceable people.
Dark as the cloud is that lowers over liz
sad and desolate condition, there is al
least this silver lining to cheer the wearied
} spirit and to give hope of coming redemp
tiop. Washington Patriot.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25

According to statement which is now
going the rounds of the French press. the
total number of balloons which left Paris
during the siege, between September %.
and January %. 1871, amounted to Ga,
carrying the same number Of Bron0uts,
6, 600, 900 letters, large number Of official
dispatches, 1854 carrier pigeons, and 81
passengers. OF these Ga balloons only five
were captured by the German forces, two
were blown out to sea, and one crossed the
North sea, and, after perilous voyage of
about 1000 miles in.-forty-eight hours,
landed in Norway, where it created quite
a panic among the Inhabitants OF q small
village in the vicinity of Christians, where
it descended. The ballast, con-
sisting of bars and weights of metal
which was yet left in the basket after it's
descent. was. coined into small medals,
bearing an appropriate description. which
were soon sold ,all through Norway for the
benefit of the fund for the relief of French
wounded soldiers, widows and orphans.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25

The CINCINNATI and Baltimore railroad
will be completed and put in operation by
January !, 1872 Ii is simply western
continuation OF the Marietta and Ciucin-
natti Railroad. Its termini are the Buck
eye race track and the Plum street depot.
in Cincinnati. 1t is seven miles long,
being one mile shorter than the present
route into Cincinnati.
The other day a woman postmaster was
msrried-we call her maiden name Smith.
and her married name Jones. Now who
was the postmaster after that ceremony ?
Certainly not Miss Smith, for there no
longer ives Miss Smith. And certainly
not Mis-. Jones. for no such postmaster
was known to the Department. There's
the bother. And women must give up
matrlmony or must wave some Of her
rights. - Cleveland Herald,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25
DcthrOned SOvoreigns Seeking Asylum
Napoleon and Isabella.

It was recently announced that the EN-
peror Napoleon intended to take up his re-
sidence at the Chateau of Arenberg, in
Switzerland. The Journal de Lyon de-
clares that the French government has
protested against this step. A Berne pa
per now points out that the Emperor Ma
poleon is Swiss subject, having acquired
the right of citizenship at Thurgau, and
having, in virtue of it. served in the Swiss
army. Apart from this, however, it trusts
that the right of asylum will be accorded
to the Emperor as to any other foreigner.
But now the New York World says it is
understood that previous to the fall of the
French empire at Sedan, Napoleon was in
negotiation with Richard Sohell, Of New
York, for the Jumel estate, which he pro
posed to use for a residence in case of be-
ing dethroned. The loss of much of his
wealth by the war forced him to look for q
retreat of more modest dimensions. he is
therefore, treating with Samuel l. M. Bar
low for the Burton Kennard estate, at Gler
Cove, for which it is expected he will have
to pay 100000. Meantime ex Queer
Christina, of Spain, is negotiating with
SchelI for the Jumel estate, for 81, 600,
600
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25
LOYALTY mt a. Discount.

The ultra loyal paper of New Zealand
complains that at Napier on the Queens
birthday the courts continued their session,
and the members of the provincial council
stubbornly kept their hats upon their
heads while the national anthem was being
played. This exhibition of democracy
shocks the nerves of the New Zealand press,
which GEES in it troubles for the home
government, and possibly the germs of q
revolution. 1t is to be said, however. that
the honest provincials exhibited their de-
mocracy at the expense of their good
breeding.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25
SUPERIOR CouRr.-The following casss

SUPERIOR CoURr-The following caess
were disposed of in this Court yesterday {:
State Us. Jno. Allen, for larceny. Guilty.
Sentenced to months in the County
Work House.
State rs. Henry Faircloth, for larceny.
Guilty. Sentenced to months in the
County Work House.
State rs Daniel 81. Workman, for as
sault and battery. Not gully.
State u.s. Adam Woodbury., for assault
aud battery. Guilty. Not yet sentenced.
State us. Samuel Prince, for assault and
battery. Guilty. Sentenced to 80 days
in the County Work House.
State us. N. Hutaf, for retailing without
license. Not guilty.
State cs. John Alleges, for larceny.
Guilty. Sentenced to months in til
County Work House.
State rs. A. Hawes, for fraudulent reg
istration. Special verdict.
State rs. @. Price, alias O. MCGOWAN
for larceny. Guilty. Sentenced to year
in the Penitentiary.
State vs. The same, for larceny. Guilty
Judgment suspended.
State cs. The same. for malicious mis-
chief. Not guilty.
State rs. S. Price, S. Owen, and Johl
McRae, for larceny. Guilty. Sentences
to 18 months, each. in the County WorI
House.
State us. The same, for larceny. Guilt
as to McRae. the others not guilty. Jude
ment suspended.
State us. Alex. Williams. for burglary
Remanded for trial at next term Of Court
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25

My wanderings led me one day to an old
grass, grown burying- ground just beyond
the boundary line of Washington City.
near it's northwest corner; and here /
found the grave of one whose sayings used
to be household words among those of
like faith with himself, but of whose burial
place scarce ''any man knoweth unto this
day"-the grave of Lorenzo Dow. Here,
in this retired, neglected spot, that stormy,
unquiet spirit, found its rest.-Letter in
N. Y. Tribune.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25

Wilmington, Charlotte d Ruther ford RAIL
Road
We desire merely to call attention to the
communication of an esteemed correspon-
dent, in regard to the Wilmington, Char
lotte Dc Rutherford Railroad. We are Sat
isfied that the management OF the Com
pany is fully alive to the important sug-
questions OF the letter, and will doubtless
take advantage of them. Want OF meanf'
alone, we know, has retarded the progre IS
of this great wo1k-a want which We be-
lieve will not much longer be felt. We
sh all not forget the kind invitation OF oul
friend
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25

An English critic has attempted a clas-
sifcation of living English poets. Thus
he places in the idylilio group Tennyson
and his disciple Jean Inglelow, Browning
and Story in the psychological; Rossetti
and Coventry Patmore in the preraphae-
lite. and Matthew Arnold, Swinburne and
Geo. Elliott in the renaissance.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25

Nashville has sensation. A white wo'
man has arrived in that city from ONO,
with a negro of the blacklist type. She
eloped win L.m. and was married to hini
in Nashville. The negroes OF Nashville arc
greatly Disguised at the poor taste OF theli
brother Ethiopian, and are said to be vio
lently opposed to this importation OF ONO
" poor WhisI trash.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25
Look Out For Them.

Counterfeit two dollar bills on the Ninth
National Bank of New York were put into
circulation in that city on Wednesday.
These bills are very good limitations. and
are printed upon stiff bank note paper.
They can, however, be detected by the in
ferior engraving of one of the female
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25
Cape Fea Agricultural Association.

We refer with pleasure to the very lib
eral premiums offered by Messrs. Dawson,
Teel & Henning, to be competed for at
the ensuing Fair of the Cape Fear Agricul-
tural Association. These make valuable
addition to those already offered.
The regular Pr MUM List will be issued
very soon, and those of our merchants and
others who may wish to assist the efforts
of the officers of the Association, by cffer-
ing Special Premiums, should do SO at
once. Those published subsequently to
the issuing of the regular Premium List
have but partial circulation. The iber
ality of our merchants last year was not SC
available as it would have been if their
offers had been made at an earlier day.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25

HAVE WE ANY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE
In view of the fact that the Justices of the
Peace and the township officers recently
express commandment of the law, in re-
gard to qualifying, the above inquiry may
be deemed pertinent one. It is contend
ed by some that the failure of these parties
to qualify as provided by law, within 10
days after their election, will cause va
cancy in the offices, and that these must
be filed by appointment by Superior Court
Clerk.
That all may judge for thems ,lves. we
quote the following:
Preamble $40, Cole of Civil Procedure.
says:
every person elected or appointed q
Justice of tho Peace, shall, within ten
days after such election or Appointment,
take and subscribe the prescribed oath of
office before the Clerk of the Superior
Court; which oath shall be filed by the
CLERK of said Court. And any person pre-
Stunning to act as Justice Of the Peace
without qualifying as herein directed,
shall be guilty of q r9isdemeanor."
| Section 6, Chapter 1876. Page 479, Acts
of 1868 and 1869, concerning Townships,
says:
such election shall be held in all re-
spects under the rules and regulations now
prescribed by law, at such place in each
Township a. the County Commissioners
may designate, and the return thereof
shall be made to the Board of Commits
eioners of each county, who shall declare
the result of said election, and within five
days thereof shall notify the persons re-
ceiving the majority of vot-s in each
Township of their election"
Section Z. Same act.
"The persons who are elected at such
election shall appear within five days after
service of notice, before the County Com
mjssioners, and qualify by taking and sub
scribing oath of office, which oath shall be
filed with the Clerk of the Board of Com.
missioners.
Section 81 of Article 4, of the Corst
tuition, says;
"Wher the Office of Justice of the
Peace shall become vacant, otherwise than
by expiration of the term, and in case OF
> failure by the voters of any district &c
elect, the Clerk of the Superior Court fol
the County shall appoint to FL the va
cancy for the unexpired term
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25
Radical Baxonets-Fres Ballots.


We have heretofore referred to the late
Radical outrage In New Orleans. 1t de-
serves more than a passing notice. Al
though both parties-the wrong-doers and
the wronged-were Radicals OF thestraight-
est sect, yet the injury extends to every
citizen of the country it strikes at the
very foundation of free government. We
certainly have interest in neither of the
contending factions in this Louisiana Rad
ical quarrel. Both are corrupt, lawiess
and selfish. Neither care for the common
welfare, but seek to retain power for mer
cenary motives. With them it is mere
struggle for the spoils but lis results
teach lesson, and give significant warn
ing to the people of the United States.
To understand this matter fully, we APP
pend the following from the correspond
ence of the Cincinnati Commercial Re
publican paper
"During the night preceding the Con
vention and the morning OF the day upo1
which it was held, the United States Mar
shall was busily engaged in appointing ane
swearing in Deputy United States Marshall
to the number of some two hundred. A
9 O'Clock in the morning of that day three
companies of United States troops-Nine
teenth Infantry-and two Gatlin guns ar
rived, and were marched into the Custom
house. AS soon as the troops entered, al
the doors of the Customhouse were closed
locked, barred, and guarded by detach
ments of q. 8. Deputy Marshals. All com
mercial business was suspended, greatly
mountaineering business men, and aston
ishing all who heard of these remarkable
proceedings. No danger of trouble o.
riot was apprehended by those who were
familiar with the workings of polite /
conventions in that city, and no real cause
was known for these extraordinar!
precautionary measures. A delegation G.
delegates, duly elected, and whose seat
were not contested, waited upon the Uni
ted States Marshal in the morning to asi
him by what authority he was swearing IL
so large q number OF Deputy Marshals
and by what authority United States troop
were called in to overawe q Republican
| Convention. He replied that he had tn
highest authority for his action. AS sool
as the delegates succeeded in obtaining
tickets, those friendly to Gov. Warmoutl
and his administration repaired to tn
Union League Club rooms, where coun
Gil was held. Those opposed to the Gov
ernor found means to be admitted to tn
Custom House, and 9 caucus was held b
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25

History. We shall demand thst they be
capable-that they be honest-thas they
ara opposed to Radicalism.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25

the South to purge itself OF this Ku. klux
crime and outrage; and there is but Une
way TO do so. and that is to throw the re-
lsponsibility upon the Conservative organ
ization, and let Democrats everywhere.
lsever their connection with the Oonserva-
| tive party, q name which, though the
political significance that has been given
It, stinks in the nostrils OF every decent
man of thrs country. 20 '-'s
You will bear me witness that have, as
Democrat, persistently fought this Con-
servative faction for more than four years;
and from it have predicted all manner of
Epermanent ills to the country. I have
charged that it was the result OF an at
tempt to undermine the Democratic party,
and finally compass its ruin, and il the
Democracy is not successful In the presl-
Dental campaign next year, we nave the
Conservative party and its ku-klux or
foundations to thank for such failure.
But for any further neglect or failure TO
organize the Democratic party on the plain
toutspoken principles, and IN the true
name of the old simon-pure-unterritie
Democracy, the Democrats OF North Oar
DINA have only to blame themselves here
after.
In conclusion. let me here add. that any
and every old line Wing, who cannot swal
low the Democracy. name and principles,
ought to be allowed and induced to go IN
to the Radical ranks while 1t IS as Ger
tain as tomorrow, that il the old Wing
politicians of North Carolina are Longer
permitted 10 control and monopolize the
politics aud political strength OF the State
there are several thousand Democrats II
North Carolina who will seek shelter, pro
lection and justice in the Republican party
before the opening OF another campaign
Very truly,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25
WIN. A. HEARNE.

P. SIN connection with this letter, /
enclose the last article I penned for the
Raleigh Telegram, and which appeared
the day after my connection with that pa
per had ceased. To the article in question
1 invite your attention and criticism, and
in justice to myself, I would ask that you
lay the article before the readers of the
Jo11RNAI. w. A. III.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-04-27
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10 look at llee that she could ont anything
except soup, but she has got an appetite
like q ercss-cut saF. and she mowsa swath
g 9table like sclf-rpkiug reaper
editor in Michigan keeps Standing at
the bead Of bis marriage notices, "Alelau.
choly Accidents
An editor 10 Maryland says be cannot
afford to write obituary notices gratis, but
We will make those Of our friends with
pleasure Hero is one ofhis samples:
John Gardner was blind ofsn ego.
aud in moment Of confusion he stepped
out Of q receiving aud diScharging door
/ 10 one Of our warehouses Into the ineffa'
Bile gloriey Of tic celestial sphere
A New Hampshire paper aqpospribg
the death of man, says:
lie leaves a wife and child by form.
er husband"
An exchange says this Of an eccentric
election notice; q T FTE
THE Norwich Bulletin heads It's Con.
ncciiclt elSction reIurDs with the sombrc
likeness Of q solemn owl, and gives Os n
tail:piece to the whole, tie likeness Of q
dropping rooster"
From time ihmemorial editors seem to
have had faucy for ish stories Hero is
one:
IN bar.roon in our'ciiy has precipa-
tctic oyster of the Burataria breed, which
il thoroughly domssticatcd, aud wanders
all over the lower part of the house, but
never attempts, however, to mount the
stairs
And here is response from another pa
per-
"It is said that ono of our fish dealers
has tame clam, which he has taught to
come at his whistle and follow him all
over tue house The clam will stand up
on its bind legs and beg. or lie down at
tho command Of his master, and will sing,
whistle, and count as high as thirteen, and
ifrcpnrts are true. is most remarkable
example Of what patience willaccomplish :"
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II
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