Wilmington journal., 1872-08-09

bers of deputy marshals and revenue Off
GERS, were specially appointed to aid in his
election. In spite of all these efforts and
advantages, he is ignominiously defeated,
and we rejoice over it with great satisfac
ton. His competitor, Mr.. Leach, is chosen
by decided majority to represent the dis
trict. -
Settle, like. Holden, Pool, and that tribe
of reckless agitators, was rank secession
list, and served as captain and major in
the Confederate service, without winning
the least distinction as a soldier. In fact,
he was not ambitious of such laurels, and
retired from the scene of danger, to emerge
again as soon as the tide turned, convert
to the victorious side. He had not preach
ed secession and disunion on any terms,
as Holden had for twenty years, but he
was prompt to join him, who, after mis-
leading the youth of North Carolina with
his fire-eating harangues and editorial full
limitations, was among the first to desert
them, and then for pay to persecute the
misguided followers OF his own teachings.
There is not chapter in the history of the
civil war, sad as every page of it is, that is
darkened by more revolving treachery and
baseness, than this one in which Holden
and his corrupt crew figure as the chief
actors in the scheme of reconstruction, and
as the vindictive tyrants who were placed
in absolute power, to punish and prescribe
the young men, whom they hal led into
pernicOus courses.
[From the Boston POstl
| In the campaign Just closed III North
| Carolina, eX-Gov. Hartman, of New
Hampshire, Naval Officer of Boston, and
| ca1vasser i'll general of the several States
of the Union, has occupied a prominent,
not to say ludicr0us, place. 1t was he who
provided i'll his own person the victim of a
| ku-kluX outrage, when the very dislOyal
sugar-cask from which he was speaking
fell through. In Greensboro, too, lie made
| another speech, at a barbecue, when the
solemn impression left upon his mind by
the previous accident found expression in
such flow Of Scriptural phrases, that one
old negro remarked it to be Sas good a SER
mon as lie ever heard. Gen. Hartman is
| reported to have stated his belief that
"IIeaven's Court had decreed Horace Gree
ley to be the instrument of breaking the
Democratic party to pieces" The specia
| information of Gen. Hartman on this
point seems 10 have been erroneous. 1t Ii
also lamentable to learn that, at the same
meeting at which Gen. Hartman delivered
his "sermOn," one of his associate orator:
cursed and swore i'll most profane man
ner, and that negro who ventured to state
his trust i'll Greeley was forthwith put OVel
the fence and chased into the woods
Possibly these wicked acts counteractet
the effect Of our good Naval Officers re
marks, for something has evidently gone
wrong iii North Carolina.
[From the New York World
Tue final returns from the Old Nortl
State come in slowly, for the whole western
region of the commonwealth is a world b,
itself, almost unpenetrated by the railwa,
and the telegraph. This fact undoubtedl,
offers a strong temptation to the Admins
tration rings in Washington and in New
Yorl, to ''hedge,'' if possible, through thirt
parties on the heavy "bets" which th
members of those rings have made am
lost on the results of the first fight Of TIN
campaign. We fear that those of til
brethren of the leagues who have NOR
money than brains-and the number 0
such is not small-will be subtly seduce,
for three or four days to come by delusiv
dispatches into backing this dead game
cock, for the ultimate though unperceive,
! benefit Of their sharper fellow believers
The relations of such men as Tom Murph,
with the old Tammany Ring enable then
at such a time as this to work undergroun,
for the salvation of their own pockets a
rapidly as that ''Old truepenny" the GhOs
in ''IIamct.'
Indications are not wanting from Wash
lDSLol1 lltLSttiliIy OI Gic more ZGaIOll Oh III
party of e'addition, division, and silence
would be glad to see the State canvasser
in North Carolina practice little subtrac
ton also i'll regard to the Conservative
maiorities, and a good deal of 'nulLiplca
} ton with the Radical votes. But the Con
servatives of North Carolina are arouse,
{ and watchful; and we are glad to believe
too, That al least one conspicuous Radica
deeply interested in the result, MIR. Cald
well, the Grant Candidate for Governor, i
too honest aud upright 4 person to be
l party to such frauds as many of his sup
pOrters would doubtless esteem ''pious.
The moral fruits of our victory in Mort
Carolina are already secured; and It's ma
terial harvest also will be g;trnered in a
; rapidly as the old-fashioncd comlnunca
tons of that sturdy old State will allow.