New-York tribune., 1872-07-24
LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM GENER4L
WILSON

WILSON.
The anxious friends of Mr.. Senator Wilson,
who is now engaged in a missionary tour in
North Carolina, will be pleased to learn that
be was alive and tolerably well on the 22d inst.
at GodsbOro. We have by special telegram
to THE TRIBUNE authentic information that
the General was resting himself in that town
and repairing damages on Monday evening
last. He was lodging at the hotel, and so was
Gen. Bradley Il. johnson Of Virginia. A band
came and discoursed most excellent music on
the sidewalk. Hearing these dulcet
strains, Gen. Wilson hurried down stairs
with speech in his mouth, but was
informed by the gentlemanly clerk that
the serenade was for the other General, upon
which the Massachusetts, Senator and General
remOunted TO his dormitory, the crowd vocif-
erously cheering for Greeley and Brown This
shows the notifications, hardships, and re-
buffs to which even the political missionary IS
sometimes exposed. Should Gen. Wilson In
his search for Grant-and-WilsOn audience
lose himself entirely in some of the jungles
and morasses which are not wanting in North
Carolina, we shall be tempted to emulate the
enterprise of our neighbor of The Herald and
send down a special agent to rescue him.
In the mean time we are sorry to say that
the telegram received by us does not report
Gen. Wilson to have been in the best spirits
at Goldsboro. The enthusiasm for the
Philadelphia ticket in those parts seems to
have been limited in quantity, and by no
means frst-c in quality. Our dispatch from
Goldsboro says: yesterday evening Gen.
"Wilson was observed, apparently in de-
"sponding mood, sitting on one of the street
"cornersn He had "Only three colored COM
"panions,r which would seem to indicate that
his popularity among the freedmen Is not of
the warmest and most enthusiastic character.
1t pains us, however, to hear of his de-
spondency. Jordan may be hard road to
travel, but the easier he takes 1t the bet
ter for his health both of body and of
mind. That the General is lonesome down
there in North Carolina it is only natural to
suppose; but if misery loves company, our
Massachusetts, missionary will soon have the
pleasure of greeting Secretary Delano and
Observation-Disclosures Baker, who have
both left the public business in Washington
and rushed down to North Carolina to make
speeches for their alarmed leader. Moreover,
a letter from Easton, Penn, informs us that
the great j. X. Dawes, Postmaster of that
town, has abandoned his Post-ofiice to his
clerk. Ii he has no clerk we presume that
the Office is closed until after cleo
ton, for Dawes is not there, but
in North Carolina, working like beaver
for Grant and Gen. Wilson. The President is
evidently determined to have that State,
though he should be obliged to send every
ofiiceholder in Washington to the rescue, and,
leaving the joys Of Long Branch, even go
there himself to boss the difficult job. Mean
while, we entreat Gen. Wilson to keep up q
good carriage. lie has seen darker days than
this-the days, we mean, when for the sake
of his political salvation. he was forced to
coaesce with that Democratic party which
we are now given TO understand his soul
ahhOIS.