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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01

The Baltimore American is responsible
for the following:
The following, which reads like an Arabi-
an Nights story, is vouched for as being
strictly true: In May last Mr.. VIM. Bring
ham, Segar dealer, No. 666 West-Baltimore
street, purchased dwelling, No. 936 West
Baltimore street and since that time it has
been his custom each fall to dig pit in
the cellar attached to his residence wherein
he stored turnips, potatoes and cabbages.
On Thursday last he went into the cellar
for the purpose of digging up some of the
turnips, and while thus engaged bis pick
struck upon a stone, which he removed,
and was surprised to find beneath it a box
about one and half feet square. Upon
attempting to lift it up he was still further
surprised TO find that it was exceedingly
w9ighty. The thought now flashed across
his mind that he had discovered a rich
treasure, and as consequence became
exceedingly nervous, but managed to re-
tain composure enough to remove the box
from the cavity where it lay concealed and
knock off the top. Upon the removal of
the top five canvass bags, rather rotten
with age met his gaze, and to sum up the
matter the bags were filed with gold and
silver coin and curiously wrought gold
chains, in all valued at about $1,000. The
money was of foreign coinage, and bore
date from 1742 to 1895. 1t is an old say
ing that " Blood cannot be extracted from
a turnip,'' but in this instance Mr.. Briug-
ham has accomplished q still more won
derful feat, as he succeeded from extracting
gold from a turnip. The finder of the
above treasure is a remarkable man as far
as money iacOucerned. A short time since
he received handsome sum by the death
of a relative, and few weeks ago he drew
several thousand of dollars in foreign lot
terry, and now he adds to his good luck by
finding gold mine in the cellar Of his
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01
The Arlington Estate-The RepubIi-
can Press Ashamed of the Robbery.
From the Cincinnati Enqui

We are glad to see that respectable and
influential Republican papers like the Gin
cinnati Gazette and baltimore american
are calling attention to the rank injustice
of the general government holding on to
the Arlington estate, which is the property
of Mrs. Lee, the wife of General Lee,
Of the Confederate army. The property
was always her own, she lnheriting it
from her parents, one Of whom was the
son of Martha Washington, wife of General
Washington, who was a widow with two
children at the time of her marriage with
the General. This property, lying oppo-
site to Washington city, consisting Of 1,l0O
acres, with the most valuable improve
ments, was bid in to the government for
taxes, for the sum of $92. Upon this mis-
cradle tax title the federal government has
thus far held this important piece of pro-
perty. There was never any confiScatiOn
of it, and could not have been, unless Mrs.
Lee had been tried and condemned for
treason, and then the forfeiture would only
last during her lifetime. There is always
an equity Of redemption in the extinglish-
ment Of a tax title, even in quiet or civil
times, and how much more so when it is
acquired during war and revelation. That
individual would have been considered a
shyster who, for the pitiful amount Of $92
GaA I)dlu Dy MIN, WOUlU seek 10 deprive
Mrs. Lee from the enjoyment Of the fee of
her estate, upon her making restitution of
it. All the generals and other leading
Confederates are peacefully living upon the
old estates they had before the war.
Where is the sense Or the justice in singling
out Mrs. Lee alone as an object of govern
ment plunder? Arlington has been made
vast cemetery, and the property so
changed that probably Mrs. Lee would not
desire to retain 1t, ard in that event a
compensation in money should be paid her
for the property-a compensation to be
agreed upon by disinte:ested parties. The
Gazette well says:
''PersOns may make savage declarations
against rebels to stave off reflection in this
affair, but an honorable nation cannot
maintain the position which ours holds as
to this estate. Sooner or later compensa-
ton will be made. The sooner it is done
the sooner will the government relieve
itself from position which will bear ex-
aminatiOn.''
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01
The KU-KIuX RepOrfS.

The Brooklyn New York Eagle, COM
menting on the financial showings made by
the Congressional ku-Klux reports as to
the % Reconstructed governments Of the
Southern States,'' says:
"They exhibit degree and condition of
public robbery that make one wonder the
ku-klIlx klan is not of the proportions
wrongly cOEtended for by the majority. No
Dther people in the world would submit to
such state of things without revolution.
Were the States not the part of Union
which can and will redress the wrongs they
are almost pOwerlesS to remedy, revolution
would be inevitable. The extract we have
given weakly epitomizes condition of af-
fairs Northern readers now pretty well un-
derstand. That condition receives daily
confirmation in the haste with which the
Southern Governors are being sent TO the
penitentiary or United States Senate The
North has been called phlegmatic. But
half the wrong endured here that is endured
South would plant a gallows at every cross
roads,
On the subie of the majority report
even the republican New York Tribune
says
''Although there may be some difference
of opinion as to the verdict which should
Ku-Klux, there can be none as to the ex-
travagance and rapacity of the carpet-bag
governments. The comprehensive report
of the Hon. Job E. Stevenson is proof con-
elusive on the points heretofore urged
against these locust-like officials. Misrule
md corruption have combined with ruff
aanism and brutal mob-law to make the
South uninhabitable. Day after day and
week after week the crumbling fabrics of
these fraudulent political structures have
attested the truth Of all that the Tribune
Ong ago said of the carpet-baggers. If the
md Of the Ku-Klux shall come with that
Of the thieves, it will be well for the whole
country"
1t will be seen that the House of Repre-
sentativeS on Monday refused to print the
minority report unless all parliamentary
expressions were stricken out. The facts
Of the report are strong enough, it is true,
of themselves, and the investigation, if
undertaken by the majority with view of
making political capital, will not avail
party interests much, or be a sufficient ex-
cuse for the peculiar legislation of Con-
gress which has been enforced in the South.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01
INK SPOTS.

The next worst thing to raining pitch
forks-Hailng omnibusses.
Every new doctor can get on if he only
as patients.
Lips have they, yet5 kiss .not-litchcrs.
Teeth have they, yet chew not-Combs.
The woman's love that overtops every
thing-a love Of bonnet.
An almost infaIlible recipe for removing
stains from characterized rich.
The pleasantest ringing in ones cars
That Of the dinner bell.
To keep warm of a cold day, women dOll-
BILE the cape, and men double the horn.
A shoemaker always finishes his shoe at
the beginning, and begins at the last.
Why is U the gayest letter in the alpha
bet? Because it is always in fun.
For preserving the complexion-Tenn-
perance.
No one is so much slave as he VIII re-
ceives a favor.
The man who popped the question by
ssstarlight,' got his sweetheart's consent in
a twinkling.
A. little gill was heard to wish she was
boy, $50 she could swear when she drop
ped her books in the mud"
" Let the toast be, dear woman" the
man said to his wife when he wanted to
eat it all himself.
There is only one good substitutn for the
endearments of a sister, and that is the en-
dearments of some other fellows sister.
You may think yourself able to handle
an axe easily, but if YOU try to lick one on
a cold morning you will certainly get worst
ed.
Daily newspaper paragraphing is getting
to be iearfully abbreviated. Here's speci
men recording a death: CLAY Spencer,
colored, pint of Memphis whisky
''John," said a cockney lawyer TO his
son, 81 see yon never will do for All attor-
ney-you have no henergy." "Excuse
me, father" stit John, ''What | want is
some Of your chickenary.'.
A fashionable lady lately dropped one of
her eyebrows in the church pew, and
dreadfully frightened a young man sitting
next to her, who thought it was his NOUS
tache.
a candy boy, passing through Car, met
a cross old gentleman, and says "POp
corn, pop corn :" "Hain't got any teeth"
angrily replied the man. g Gum drops
gum drops! ~ calls the smart boy.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01

There is in the Auburn On. W State
prison a convict who for nearly ten years
has been shivering under the gallows. The
prisoner was convicted OF murder in 1862,
and sentenced to be hanged. Under the
provision of the old law the Governor could
order his execution at any time, and ,s:"an-
while he culprit was to be conin. d Ia ~
State prison. He is still there, IL. no uo,-
ernor has ordered his execution, but is
liable at any time to be taken out and
strangled to death. He is said to be in the
habit of thanking God every night for saw
ing him from the gallows fer that day. The
deaths already, and if he is not to be hung
it would be an act of the barest justice to
commute his sentence and relieve him of
bis horrible dread.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01
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RATES OF ADVERTxwv0
"My love, my darling-my own precious

"My love, my darling-my own precious
wife! -
How ever got into the room-how
managed to make Clara comprehend that
was my own living self, and not a ghost
had arisen from tho shadow of the sepu-
chre, cannot tell to this day-neither can
she but know that young Birmingam
somehow disappeared, and was standing
with Clara clasped to my breast, the hap
piest man that ever breathed Gods blessed
air.
For Jones, Tewksbury, Farnum & Co.
were all wrong-and to use the words of
the orthodox fairy stories, slightly para
phrased, l and my widow "lived happy
ever attcrwardsr'
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01

pointedly than politely cried out that this
assertion of Dir. NOrtOn's was a lie, and
repeated the disclaimer several times, for
which he was iguominiously elected.
Mr.. Morton continued in the strain in
which he began until exhaustion compelled
Iim to cease. when the Senate adionrned.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01

The art collections of Prince Napoleon,
saved from the Palais Royale in May last,
have been brought to London, where they
will be sold early in the spring.
A Mr.. Palmer, an English Fran ciscan, is
compiling ''History of the Four Orders
contain between five and six thousand ex-
cerpts from the ancient British records.
The barber's duty is two-fold. He is a
brLIsher of whiskers and Whisker of
brushes.
Who was the first chiropodist mentioned
in English history? William the Cor1l-c,'-
Yer.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01

The Albany Krickerbocker tells SAL
story of the death of young lady residing
in that city who was to have been married.
the day on which she died. She suffered
from prostrating though not necessarily
fatal disease, and her father, who is re-
ported to be worth over 100000, refused
to secure medical care. Finally the young
lady's betrothed secured physician, but it
was too late. The funeral was a very large
one, and it Is reported that the expense of
She coffin, c. ,ages, &C., was borne by the
Young man 1, whom the lady was engaged
be marTieU.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01

An Act Supplementary TO an A ct efA
titled am Act to Raise Revenue, Rat
ified the 25th day of January, 1872


An Act supplementary TO an Act EN-
titled am Act to Raise Revenue. Rat
ified the 25th day of January, 1872.
WHEREAS, The General Assembly at its
present session, for good cause, hath super
seded the work on the main buildings of
the State Penitentiary, and therefore the
tax heretofore levied for said purpose is
more than will be needed, therefore,
Sec. l. The General assembly of North
Carolina do enact, That sect ion two of the
above recited s. Act to raise revenue" rati-
fed as aforesaid on the 18th day of Janu-
aTy, 1872, be amended so us to read as fol-
lows: A special tax of six and tWO-third cents
on the one hundred dollars shall be levied
and collected on all the taxable property of
the State to be applied to the erection of
the Penitentiary and support Of convicts.
Sec. 2. That sec. Of said act be amen
ded, by striking out 6 one dollar and five
cents " and inserting i'll lieu thereof q nine
ty-five cents
Sec. 3. That this act shall be in force
from its ratification.
In General Assembly read three times
and ratified this Sth day of February, A.
D., 1872.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
OFFICE SEC'Y OF STATE,
Raleigh, n. c., Feb'y IS, 1872.
|, HENRY j. MENNINGER, Secretary of
State, hereby certify that the foregoing is a
true copy of the original act on file in this
office.
II. MENNINGER,
Secretary Of State.
I'm addition there is tax FOR SCHOOL
PURPOSES laid in the School Act, of g
cents on real and personal property, and 20
cents on the poll-entire tax $1.15 on poll,
3S1 on property.1
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01
II. J MENNINGER.
CITY TAX Is.


Am Act Supplementary to and Amen
datOry ef am Act entitled am Act to
Raise Revenue, Ratified the - day Of
January, a. ID, One Thousand Eight
Hundred and SeVenty-TWO, and for
other purpO ses.
Sec. 1. The General assembly Of North
Carolina do enact, That an act entitled
.'an act to raise revenue" ratified the -
day of January, A. D., one thousand eight
hundred and seventy two, be amended as
follows /" In the statement Of schedule B.
proceeding section one of said schedule,
strike out the words " city, town or other
municipal corporation"
Sec. 2. That no city, town or other mu-
nicipal corporation shall have power to i'm
pose, levy or collect any greater tax on
real and personal property than one and
one-half per centum ON the value thereof.
Provided, That this act shall not apply to
cities or towns where rate of taxation is
fixed in their charters.
Sec. 3. This act shall be in force from
its ratification.
Ratified the second day OF February, A.
D., 1872.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
OFFICE SEC'Y OF STATE,
Raleigh, February 4, 1872.
1, HENRY j. MENNINGER, Secretary of
State, hereby certify that the foregoing is a
true copy of the original act on file in this
office.
II. j. MENNINGER,
Secretary Of State.
Doctors generally agree about bleeding
their patients.
A dreadful story teller once asserted that
his voice was still for truth-and SO it was.
A bachelors face is often the worse for
wear, a married mans for wear and tear.
Steam is a servant that sometimes blows
up its master.
Why are handouts like guide-books P
Because they are made for two wrists.
An artist painted cannon SO naturally
that, when he was finishing the touch hole,
it went off at great price.
NAOMI, the daughter of Enoch, was $50
years old when she married. There hope
for some of you other ladies, after all.
The sportiye youths of both sexes in Ra-
cine have carried Racin' Oh skates as far as
II miles from the shore of Lake Michigan.
g Tell the mistress that have torn the
curtain," said a gentleman lodger to fe-
male domestic. every well, sir, mistress
will put it down as rent"
Advice to husbands-Settie as much
money upon your wife as you can for her
second husband, poor fellow! may not have
a SiXpence.-Judy.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01

The colored people of New Jersey hold
q convention soon to determine upon their
3olitical action in the future.
Sir Edwin Landseer has been appointed
sv the Emperor of Germany a Foreign
knight of the Order of Merit
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01

The annexed letter from one Of the State
Senators of North Carolina is Of interest TO
holders Of the debt of that State
LII,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, }
OFFICE SEC'Y OF STATE,
saleigh, n. c., Feb'y IS, 1872.

|, HENRY j. NIENNINGER, Secretary of
State, hereby certify that the foregoing is a
true copy of the original act on file in this
office.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01

Am Act Supplementary to and Amen
datOry 0f am Act entitled am Act to
Raise Revenue, Ratified the - day Of
January, a. ID, One Thousand Eight
Hundred and SeVenty-TWO, and for
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-07-20
The Nominees of the Baltimore
Convention.

Horace GEEELEY the nominee Of the Dem-
ocratic party for the Presidency. born at
mheFst, n II February Sd. 1911. He is the
oldest survivor of seven children. He is of
Scotch, Irish and English lineage His snces-
tors were farmers, and generally poor. At -four
years of age he could read aud spell ercditabiy
and at five he equal, in those branches, to
any one attending school. He began the study
of grammar ard mastered il at eight. His
school days in summer ended with his seventh
and in winter with his fourteenth year. being
much interrupted at earlier periods by the ne
ces,ities of life of poverty and labor He
never e jOysd the benefits of days teaching
in any other than rural common school Of
from two to four months each. When not
quite ten years of age, he, with his father and
elder brother, were employed in clearing laud
bv contract and farming on the shares. Dur
ing this time he employed his winter evenings
in reading nd studying books that we're loaned
TO him. At fifteen he was apprenticed to the
printing business and served four years. Ia
1881 he went TO New York and worked as
iuurneyman. In 1912 he started the DAILY
TRIBUNE. He was married in 1886 TO Mary
Cheney. They have had FIVE children, only
two of whom are living. He is very indus~
trious and temperate man-using no alcoholic
liquors or tobacco. Besides editing of the
most Influential newspapers in AmRIicS, he has
| found time to write several important works,
| among which are the "American Corfict ="
| Hints Towards Reform" and ''What Know
! About Farming. In lS4S he was chosen tn
! fill Il vacancy in the Thirtieth Congress Up
| to a rec ent date he has acted with the Repub~
| lican party, but account of the corruptioEs
| of the Grant administration, he denounced the
| malieasance of Grant in the most bitter terms.
! On the second of May last he nomiuate6
| by the Liberal Republicans as their candidate
| for President, and being placed on a subs tam
| TALLY Democratic platform and his nomination
/ being very luvorably received by the people,
| the Democracy have made him their nominee.
| B. GRATz BRowN, the choice of the DemoC-
racv for the Vice Pres dency, was born in Ken
/ tucky; graduated at Ydle College; settled iU
! Missouri and served a number of terms in the
| Legislature: from Ie50 to 1857 he was DIOR
! of the St Louis DEMoCRAT. and in $50 was
| elected Senator in Congress, from Missouri,
! for the term ending in 1867, serving on several
! important committees. In 1870 he WAS elected
| Governor OF Missouri, and his pure aud able
administration of the government of that State
| has commanded the admiration aud respect of
all good men.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-07-20

HoRACE GREELEY ALWAYS DENoCRAT -
Horace Greeley was always a Democrats
Democrat even when be turned and assaulted
the men whose names were dearest to Us of the
Democracy. be was of the people; hs
came up from the printers case to be counsel
lor of the country. He was a royal Democrat
when he tramped into the city of n ew York on
the l7th of August, 1881. a thin, poverty ~slruek
boy Of twenty, and found job 10 set up the
New Testament with Greek margins at s.
week. We may dispute on the position OF the
negro, on the rite of interest or the general
policy of the government. but who among US
shall deny that he thin faced boy whose hat
covered his fortune-his brains--Was Demo
crat despite his creed1
The man who is honored above all other
men to-day has never turned aside from The
generous principles he first espoused. lie re-
members that the lines of his life we're origin
ally cast among the Peor and lowly, and now
among the poor and lowly he finds his warm-
est friends. He has strengthened the weak,
he has lifted the fallen. he has defended re'i-
gious liberty. he has been steadfast III his iaiih
to freedom during all the forty years OF ms
active life i Utica Observer.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-07-20
Total

The Alabama delegation. in changing
their vote, stated that they would have voted
unanimously to accept Horace Greeley's
letter, hat after voting against the plat foFm
they could not unanimously vote for it.
THE PLATFORM.
We, the democratic electors of the United
States. in convention assembled, do present the
following principles, already adopted at Gin,
ciHnati, as essential to just government:
First-We recognize the equality of all men
before the law, and hold that it is the duty of
the government. in its dealings with the peos
pie, to mete out equal and exact justice to al,
of whatever nativity, race, color persuasion,
religious or political.
second-We pledge ourselves to maintain
sne sn union Oh i~ese States, emancipation and
e''' .,ss,,ent. and 10 oppose any reopenin c
e 40 nnestions settled by the thirteenth four
% ta VIZ md fiftecnth amendments OF the consip
tuition. ,:.ta and ah
solute removal of all disabilities mi9seu "a
account of che rebellion. which was traS> SUI
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-07-20

IT is a melting and sOrrowful sight to obs
serve those republican journalists who, for well
nigh generation, have sat al the ieet OF Mr,
GreeIey. listened to his words. applanded and
endorsed his views, copied his articles, cut their
opinions ac ,ording 30 his pattern. and even
initiated his style. dress and address, turning
upon him. rejecting upon his history and be-
coming relentless critics of his course pcrs onai
eoudact and journalistic history. hat Is Tue
world coming to sher, nsen, simply because he
is a candidate for office, turn upon their NE
long prophet and instructor, aud not % nereif
re .udiate his couusels, but reflect upon ~. "
! motives, disparase his manners and Essa1e .,'S
charaeterq The suddenaess OF Their pefse' Stou i
-. go Mr. GreeIey's humble servants and
wsrn admirers: now nothing can exceed ''isn Tor
hatred of his qualities and their eoniemps '0'
bis understanding Ii Is tfuiy heAfte~u'H~
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-07-20

: IOtaI -----.--.. :,
Wild cheers, and the band played Battle
Cry of Freedom" followed by Han to the
Chief"
lowered at the rear of the stage presenting