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The Portland daily press., 1872-05-28

NOTICE Is hereby given that the Committee on
~ Streets, Sidewalks, and Bridges will meet at
the JUNCTION Of Pearl and Commercial Streets ON
Tuesday the fourth day of June, next A D.. 1872 at
O'Clock p NJ, and will then and there hear all par
ties interested, and fix the grade of Pearl Street
from Commercial to Lincoln Streets ft
. per order of Committee,
EBEN COREY, Chairman.
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The Portland daily press., 1872-05-28

Mrs. Sophia Jackson of Montville, while Ia
boring under insanity, took poison on Sunday
May 10Th, and died ON the following Tuesday
leaving husband and five small children.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-06-28
Grant and his Generals.

q Fighting Joe" Hooker has been in
terviewed by an enterprising newspaper
reporter in San Francisco. The General
was quite talkative. He says of General
O. O. Howard, the ChiefOf the Freedman's
Bureau: " rIe is very bad man, but he's
ga pious character. Oh, l know him SO
well. lie wrote to me in New York,
q offering me q professorship i'll his
E'negro college. | knew it would involve
q some money, and had none to spend in
that way. l respectfully declined the
honor. Howard is a queer man. lie
"went to Arizona to escape an investiga-
''tion of certain Freedman's bureau af
F'fairs. The Government had so many
" Investigations lately that they We're not
"anXiOus about it, and SO it was an easy
matter TO find preteNt to send him off,"
He was always q woman among troops
q If he was not born in petticoats he ought
&c to have been, and ought to wear them.
& lie was taken up with Sunday Schools
and the temperance cause. Those things
g are all very good, you know, but have
every little to do with commanding an
army corps. lie would command 4
prayer-mceting with a great deal more
g ability than lie would an army"
The following extract will show what
''Fighting Joe" thinks of the great Ulysses:
Reporter suppose you don't intend
to vote for Grant for the next term, then p?
Ger. IIOoker-Well, used to live here
in San Francisco, and I've come Out here
TO visit my friends. But I've got to get
back in time to vote for Horace next No
on hand this summer.
RepOrtcr-IOu seem enthusiastic on
the subject, General.
Gen. Hooker (With good-naturc0
laugh)-WelI he's going to he the next
President. had that fixed before | came
out here. His nomination is no Joke at
the East. But you are so far away here
| that news reaches YOU slowly.
| Reportcr-I suppose you have no very
/ excellent reasons to be partial to Grant
GRANTS MORAL. SENSE.
Gen. UOOKER (with considerable VIM
! Grant has no more moral sense than dog.
! His treatment Of me after the battles OF
/ Lookout Mountain and Ringgold proves
! that.
| Sherman, Hallcck, Meade and Schurz
aud indeed ali OF his brother Generals, cN
! cept Thomas, came in for large share o.
detractiOn, but we have not space for any
more of it. ''It is none Of our funeral
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-06-28
PubiiS Baths.

1t is conceded by all medical authorities
that 1he body cannot remain in healthy
condition if tie pores OF the skin are
closed with dirt. The skin has it's function
AS well as the lungs or the liver, and it is
hardly less important. A recognition of
this ftct led our city government to estab-
lioh III 1866 II system of free public baths.
Ofcourse it is impostiblp to state in figures
the exact value tie free baths have been to
the city, viewing the same from a sanitary
point OF view but careful observation has
shown that many diseases, especially those
"f "A Zymotic nature, have been much less
common in the Summer since the baths
were established. Their benefits have lln-
d0ubtedly extended to class or people
who you'd otherwise have had no bathing
facilities and Yet whose habits Of life and
surroundings rendered the need of baths
more imperative than with the wealthier
classes. The baths have been economical
ly managed, and their advantages are so
apparent that there is no expenditure more
cheertully conceded by tax X-payers than
that made for their support. They will
again he opened in about one week, under
much the same regulations last year
Boston GIObp.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-06-28
save him from his Friends.

If there be any truth in the old saying,
that a man is to be known by his friends
in a word, that g birds of feather will flock
together" "the present President OF
1he United States occupies 4 position that
it would be decidedly complimentary to
call q questionable" If he be an honest
man, personally, he has more cause than
ever President before had, to cry out,
save me from my friends" Anything like
4 complete list of the swindlers and thieves
who support and sustain President Grant,
would more than exhaust the columns OF
She JOURNAL Two men, however, who
have recently come to the front, in small
way, deserve a passing notice.
One Mr.. Bumpstead, the Chairman OF
thc Jersey City Grant Committee, was
delegate to the Philadelphia Convention,
and took an active part in the denomination
of General Grant. lie returned LONE jul
bilant with success, but Lad scarcely shaken
sile dust OF the Quaker city from his feet
orc l8c was sentenced, by an unapprecia-
tive Court, to the penitcntiary for rObbing
Inc city oil WlllCl he Is all OlIlCldl. n Gull
temporary pertincntly asks, will this create
4 vacancy in the Chairmanship Of the Jer-
@cy city Grant Committee Before we
reply, we desire TO know whether the
Court that sentenced the unfortunate
Humpstead was Il Federal Court, ana
whether President Grant has the power to
.arCiDn him.
Thc other prominent supporter to whom
,ye referred, is one Joseph q. Hester, a
native Of North Carolina, and well known
- the citizens of this place. Mr.. Hester
IS a noted spy and detective in the United
States service. Ills list exploit in this line
u.rs the chloroforming and kidnapping of
Dr Bratton in Canada. TO the citizens
nrWilmin2ton, however, he is better known
rs the man who, when agent for Raleigh
Lottery concern, swindIed them out of
funds entrusted to him.
Grant, Bumpstead and Hester what n
5u Get trio
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-06-28
LOCAL..
TIE RADICALS.
Delegates to the County Convention
The County and the CitvbOtA heard
frOnl-Schcnck Ahead.

! Delegates to the County Convention
The County and the CitVbOtll heard
frOn-ScIIcncEk Ahead.
| Yesterday was the day pitched upon by
! the Radicals for formally opening the cam
! pagn in this district by the nomination OF
| delegates from the different townships
| in the county, and wards in the city, to
the approaching County Nominating Con-
vention, to be held at Rocky Point on the
! 10Th inst. There are many aSpirants for all
| sorts Of offices, and 4 nomination i'll this
! county, with its huge Radical majority, be-
! ing equivalent to an election, there was
the more interest manifested i'll the nomi-
nation of the delegates. The principal in
terest, however, was excited by the fact
! that j. w. Schenck, Jr., the present in
cumbent,; and S. ii. Manning, a lner-
chant on the wharf, of Radical pro-
clivities, were running hard race
for the nomination us Sheriff.
Both have been working most strenuous
ly for many weeks past, and yesterday dis
| closed the result Of their labors, Schenck
| having emerged pretty well ahead. The
following are the delegates to the County
Convention, appointed yesterday from the
different townships, all Of which, except
Holly, have been heard from:
MaSOnJoyo'-John j. Orrell, Wn2. Pratt,
Joseph Smith, cOlorcd.
Union-Elijah Tate, colored, Timothy
Newton, colored, David Pigford, colored.
RocLY POint-Geo. Il. French, Thomas
Hill, colored, -- Gamberg.
Cds,ceL-John NeWkirk, colorcd, Ephr
aim Hawes, colored, - Bordeaux,
colored.
LncOll-aJohr Bell, colorcd, VIM. Nc
Intire, colored, VIM. II. Moore, colored.
CollnltJia-Archie Walker, coored, Bry-
ant Gtrganus, colored, ----.
Federal P0jnt-Sol. Reaves, Henry
Davis, Jr., colored, Bruce Freeman, colOred,
Uarmctt-J. w. Schenck, Jr., Wash.
Highsmth, colored, Ed. McCabe, colored.
Cupe Feur-II. e. Scott, Holly Grady,
colored, VIM. Moore, colored.
Grant-Alfrcd Lloyd colorcd, josh Nc
MILAN, colored, Charles Foy.
Y0lden-Tie vote. The delegates will
GHcIClOIC DC 'tpI'OIIi'Ni - wv \'"''''"J
ccutiVe Committee.
IoUy-NOt yet heard from.
WILMINGTON.
! FIRST IJ6ud-Jacob Wise, colorcd, Henry
BrewinetOn, colorcd, Aaron Kellogg, col
! orcd.
Secend UWd-W. +. Canaday, James
Heaton, Charles Mallett, Jr., colored.
Third ,U0rd-W. ii. Gerkin, Edward
Davis, colored, Edward Howard, colored.
Fourth WIdrd-Stacey Van Amringe,
John G. Smith, Joseph Willis, colored.
FT1h Ward d-Nm. A. Jordan, colored,
Robert j. Hill, colored, Nathaniel Sparrow,
colored.
The relative strength of Schenck and
Manning is generally understood to be rs
follows: Union, Rocky Point, Naswell,
Lincoln, Columbia, Federal Point, IIarnett
and Grant townships for Schenck, and
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-06-28
Horrible Rail Road Accident.

BELLEVILLE, Juno 22.
The unfortunate train contained many minis
ters OF the English Church ega route home from
the Toronto Synod. About eleven miles below
Beleville Station the engine jumped from the
track, carrying death and fearful torture TO
scores OF passengers in the forward cars The
baggage car remained on the track and tel
cscOped the smoking car and the second-class
passenger car, leaving them on the top of the
engine, exposed to escaping steam from the
boiler. Here the poor creatures were hopelessly
penncd for some time, breathing vapors OF death
and suffering all the agony of immersion In
to boiling cauldron Of super-heated water
An eyewitness says that Immediately after the
accldeht lie went to the second-class car, that it
ana the smoking car were telescoped and on the
locomotive, from which steam was issuing and
filled the cars dcnsely that he could see 10th
ing. One after another OF the scalded victims
were crOwding from the openings of the cars
Crowbars were imm mcdately put into requisition
by passengers from the frst-class cars, all OF
whom escaped injury and openings were made.
Many were found cntangled, and were eAtricated
with the utmost difficulty, timbers having to
be broken. Five persons were found dead and
were carried to the roadside, where the wound
cd lay for nearly three hours in the most fearful
agony. The sight was one to battle description.
Terrible cries OF the sufferers rent the ears of
lookers-on who made every possible effort to
grant their requests for water. Two OF the first
class cars and pullman ear were com par ativefy
unlnJurcd and the plsseuge were transshipped
ami went East this forenoon. Sixty-iive men
aud women we're learly scalded and otherwis4;
injured, six OF whom died ON 1.-THE spot, four
more have died since, and others dying
every hour. Not more than one-lhird OF the
injured will live, tho wounded and dying
lying stretched on mattresses On the floor oi
the freight shed, they are 80 much dsfgnred a.
to be unrecognizablc.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-06-28
From the Newark On. J.) Register
A GRAVE MISTAKE.
a Corpse Missed at u Funeral.

cSterday three carriage loads Of mourn
ing friends went TO the Market Street
Depot with a hearse TO receive the
body of William White, who died III New
Ork and was to be buried in Woodland
Cemetery. They eIIquired iOf the baggage
master if he had received coffin from New
ok, and he replied that the had, and
pointed to one which had been placed in
the bagggaSc-rOOm awaiting 4 claimant
Mr.. Durham, the undertaken, at once
lifted the coffin, which was enclosed in a
burial case, and with the assistance OF his
driver, placed it in the healSe. The filncl-
al train then proceeded slowly and decor
oIISly TO the cemetery, where it was ascer-
tanned that the grave had not been dug
While the grave-digger was at work the
box was brought leverently TO the grave
side, ami the circle OF mOurners stood
round with their hoads bowed while the
minister of the Gospel recited the burial
service. lie feclingly alluded TO the loved
one whose body lay stiff and cold III the
box beside them. lie extOlled his virtues
and tenderly smoothed over his faults
The weeping relatives wiped their eyes, and
felt that they would gladly change places
with the dead to be so mourned. At last
the moment arrived when the box must be
raised from the ground and lowered into
the cold, dark tomb. 1t was a moment
OF awful suspense. The experienced
hand Of the grave-digger, however, felt
that the box was unusually light for so
large body, and asked was it a child they
were burying. ooh, no." they said, che
was full-grOwn man." "There certainly
is something wrong, then,'' he replied,
''this coffin is too light; there is nothing in
it." Immediately the sorrowing circle
closed around the grave, and it was decided
TO open the box at all hazards.
The tears were dried in eyes that now
almost popped out of their owners heads
III the anxiety to see what this awful mys-
terry meant. The lid was raised, and be-
hold the box was empty. For moment
not word was said, each man looked at
his neighbOr with blanched cheeks and
quivering lips, but when he attempted to
speak his tongue Glove to the roof of his
mouth. At last one with more practical
common sense than the rest stopped down
and examined the lid, to which was at
tached a small card. "Why," exclaimed
he, "thfs box is not addressed to Mr.. Dun
ham; it is marked for w. V. w. Vree-
land Here, then, was the solution Of
the mystery. They had taken the wrong
box. AT this, not even the solemnity of
the occasion nor the presence OF an open
grave could prevent the burst of merriment
that followed the discovery, and the entire
group--pastor, grave-digger and mourners
Joined i'll hearty laugh over the mistake.
The coffin they had taken from the depot
was for Coroner Vreecland's establish
ment, "a large portion of his stock being
manufactured iii New York and sent out
to him.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-06-28

now the right to bear arms, and in public.
Governor Caldwell says we have right to
unite in military organizations, and that
he will issue arms to us. If, then, in
crusade against "the wealth and intelli-
gence' of the State, that is against the
white people, it shall be attempted to bring
it about that there shall be no parler and
no kitchen, the attempt will be openly met.
The fruit of Radical teaching in 1865
was plentiful crop of crime. We trust Y
will not be the fruit of the teaching of
1872. 1t is strange, however, Or rather it
is not strange, that in each campaign the
same means should be resOrted to. Four
years ago we were threatened with muir
der and robbery and burning. In four
years a five column Address has simmered
down to five words, and they arc" No
parior and no kitchen.'
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-06-28
SOUTH WASHINGTON, June Goth. 1872.

oOUIh WASHINGTON, June 2Oth, 1877.
Dear Journal: Having been blessed
with an outpouring of the Radical party in
the shape of some fifty of the Fifteenth
Amendments, and only one of the original
Anglo Saxon color, in form of Township
Convention, to appoint and elect and send
forth delegates to Rocky Point, the train
brought forward yesterday from head
quarters an advocate for each of the as
pirants for Sheriff, one as Cicero, the
other as DemOSthenes, accompanied by
a considerable quantity of bad whiskey, to
cheer the dropping spirits of the patiiotic
assembly, which it did in a manner that
must have done credit to the many uSh-kd-
bGhS that were taken.
The meeting was loudly and Justify
called to order by the Chairman.
The Committee OH Delegates recon-
mended Radicalism, applauded, &C.; when
the Hon. q. l.. MADISON mounted a tar
pentine barrel and poured forth 4 storm of
eloquence, III his old-fashioned style, of
heaping abuse upou the lost, ignorant and
Gin the estimation of his hearers) the
heathenish Ku-KluX Democracy, while, in
strains Of sublime alteration and praise, he
lifted up Schenck TO his auditors gaze
While the whiskey operated magnificcntIy
OH the brains and legs of the crowd,
judging from The many high-fown words
used and the regular shifting. of knees,
two or three old gray monaIchs Of the
tribe of Cain were SO much affected with
the eloquence of the speaker that they
often and repeatedly groaned an
acquiescence, as4the hog docs when he
hears persimmOns fall from the tree.
After MADISON there came one, two, yes
three, Manning men to the barrel. Up
goes one while another thinks he is not
doing things up according TO Gunter and
tries to pull him oil and to mount himself.
Finally two succeed i'll gaining a foot
hold on the barrel, and both talk to the
crowd, who are all talking, and no one lis
tening. High words, fiourishing of fists,
sticks and bats becomes the order of the
day, and so ends the pow-wow Of the
Radicals at South Washington.
II. +. BEL.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-06-28

Masonboro for Manning. Cape Fear is said
to be divided between the two candidates.
The First Ward is conceded to Manning
and the Second, Fourth and Fifth to
Schenck, while the Third is divided. There
is some dissatisfaction expressed, however,
in regard to this latter ward, and some talk
of another meeting there tonight for the
nomination of new ticket.
TIE rapid increase Of business of the
Wilmington, n. c., Life Insurance Com
pany is most gratifying to the friends of
that young but vigorous institution. We
learn that the number Of policies issued
within the past four months has been more
than double the number issued by the
Company during its whole previous exist
ence. This extraordinary success is large
ly attributable to the energy and efficiency
of Major F. Ii. Cameron, the Secretary,
and James d. Brooks, Esq, General Su-
pervising Agent, officers of whose dis
tinguished services any Company might be
proud to avail itself. The surest means of
promoting the prosperity Of our State is III
sustaining and building up her institutions.
SO long as we continue to patronize North
ern institutions to the neglect Of our own
so long as every dollar Of surplus money is
sent out of the county-so long may we
expect our own State to Ian3uish, and our
own people to lag behind in the march OF
prosperity and Observation-Disclosures
RObcsOnidl.
TIE SAMPSON COUNTY PRISONERS
In the u. S. Circuit Court, at Raleigh, on
Friday, the case of U. S. VS.. Rayford Roy
all and 2G others, from Sampson county,
was called. This is a 4" ku-KluX' case,
and the indictment has a murder count in
it. Rayford Royal, Hardy Royal and
Isham NIcCIamm are the only three de-
PENDANTS that have been arrested, and they
were renanded to the custody Of the Mar
shal (whO put them in jaiD until the
question of the jurisdiction of the Court
shall be argued and decided.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-06-28
South Carolina Items.

! Gov. Scott has appointed Captain A. Mi
| chaelS, a Pilot Commissioner for Charleston
and j. A. Schrock a Trial Justice for Ker-
shaw, vice j. w. DeIass, removed.
Six hundred thousand dollars of second
mortgage bonds OF the GreenYiie and Co.
lumbia Railroad Company were sold in
New y Ork at auction, on June 1St, ut
prices ranging from 25a to 29I.
The Radical mass meeting in Charleston
on the night of the 18th, to endorse Judge
Willard, was not success, either as to
speakers or to numbers. Several prOmi-
inent individuals whose names were re-
corded did not put in an oppearance.
The Charleston NetcS says: The prac-
tice of closing the wholesale sores at all
early hour on Saturday afternoons is now
being adopted by many of the leading
houses along East Bay and the other whole
sale business streets.
The Sumter VacItD,dn says A cotton
bloom, taken by Mr.. Il. j. Tnomey, from
his field OH the 10Th, has been left with u.s.
Also stalk of cotton about 80 inches high
with one bloom an1 many forms, from the
garden of Mr.. Baskins, of Sumter. These
are by no comparison, however criterons
OF the general crop, aud 10 calculations
should be made from them.
TIE NEWEST SLATE.-At the Willard
mass meeting, held on Monday evening,
the following State ticket was nominated :
A. j. Willard, (assOciAte justice of the Su-
preme COurt,) Governor; w. Is. Nash,
(colored senator from kichland,) Licuten-
ant Governor; E. j. Adams, (cOloIed
preacher,) Secretary OF State; f. l.. Car
dozo, (cOlOred secretary of State,) State
treasurer; r. Tomlnson, (eX-State audi-
tor,) mptroller-general j. n. Uayne,
(colored representative from Barnwen,) }
adjutant-general !; A. NJ. Warren, Oeacher
in the Avery Institute,) superintendent of
education. AS four Of these nominees are
colOred men, the projectors Of the new
movement have not stuck to their prom
ised "'Arf and ART" plan.-Challeston
NelVS.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-06-28
0llltu(lugtmr 9oWnd.
WILMINGTON. n. G.:
FRIDAY, JUNE 2S, 1872.
senator IsansOm's Speech.

In almost every section of the country
Senator EANsoM's late speech advocating
the removal Of Governor VANCE's disabil-
tiles is attracting attention and receiving
favorable and flattering comment. The
Baltimore Gazette, in an article severely
criti 'izing the course of Senator Bucking-
ham, thus incidentally refers to it:
"Our limits do not permit us to repro
,luce this really touching speech with which
General Ransom mOdestly advocated it. 1t
was model i'll this, that lie steered, with
infinite success, between concession and
anything like defiance. 1t was an inge-
nious, manly, and, in the true sense, sol
dcriy speech
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-06-28
COLOR RIimdnaASS.

At a recent meeting of the Boston Society
of Natural History, the methods Of testing
patients for color blindness and for loss Of
the power of color perception were en-
planned. An instrument invented in Ger
many for testing color blindness Was eX-
hibited and explained. This instrument
consists of u rotating apparatus which
moves a disk whose centre is a circle, one
half black and the other white outside Of
this is & ring half red and half green, then
another ring of violet and red, then the
outside ring is violet and green.
When rapidly rotated the centre appears
to be cOlOred grey, that is black and white
mixed. To green blind person the middle
ring will appear grey, that being Tia result
to him of 4 mixture OF violet and red. The
outer ring will appear grey 10 the red blind
patient, and the inner grey to the violet
blind. BY the use Of this instrument 1t is
evident a large number of patients may be
simultaneously examined for one or more
kinds of color blindness
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-06-28
Vol. 2S.

people of the State for the support of the
unfortunate creatures unHer their charge
and who refused to allow the officers Ofthe
Penitentiary to draw the money in the
Treasury of the State for the support Ofthe
cOnvictS until they were on short ratiOns,
and until a mutiny had broken out that
could not be quelled, until life was lost, this
same Caldwell, who could find no law to
organize the militia in time TO save the
lives of the gallant Wishart and the other
good citizens murdered in Robson coun-
ty, but who could find law to commission
and arm a company Of negroes in Whining
ton as soon as it was asked to be done,
the man who sought to continue the power
of the President to suspend the writ of
Hdbe0S Corpus, the man who went through
the HOlden-kirk war, the second officer in
rank i'll the State, without one word of
censure or disapprOval, the man who is
now the candidate Of a party that has for
mally endorsed that war, the man who
prepared, and by whose influence was
passed bill, that at one dash of his pen
gave to thieves and robbers seven million
dollars Of the peoples money; this man, we
say, now comes forward and pratcs about
protecting the rights and liberties of the
people Of North Carolina.
I" When Tod is q candidate,
Tod patriot would be j.
but we cannot forget that
When Tod is n Governor