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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-05-02
GRAS'E AND 'EIEz; TE%A<S.

1t is well for the peace OF mind of
President Grant that he is so supreme
ly Indifferent to public opinion. If it
were otherwise "the rapid transit OF
thought and matter of thepresent day
would doubtless Overwhelm him with
the complaints and murmurs of dis
satisfied communities. One Of his
later prOvocatiOns to public indigna-
ton was a request to the Governor of
Texas to release two Indian chiefs now
confined in the Penitentiary at Hunts
vile. The people in that State have
become greatly excited over the mat
ter, and justly too.
1t seems that these "nolle red men"
having been caught in one Of their
many murderOus acts, were brought
before the State Court of Texas and
tried and convicted in due course of
law, just as if they had been white
men, and sentenced to he hung. At
the request of the President, the SEN
tence was committed to Imprisonment
for life some year or more ago. Since
then, their tribe has used every effort
to free them and, as Il final resort,
sent two chiefs to Washington to see
the President i'll their behalf, where
upon the President requested the Gov
ernor to grant Il full and free pardon.
This action on the part Of the Frcsi-
dent met the disapprohation of the
people and of hcLegislature OF texas.
The Legislature indeed went SO far as
to pass resolution formally request
ing the Governor net to comply with
the request of the President
1t is said that the ,eopje on the
Texas frontier, who are exposed to the
ravages of the Indian tribes II which
Santanta and Big Ire" belong. q, not
appreciate the wisdom Of the Indian
policy pursued by the President. But
it matters little to cur phleGmatic
ruler what the people in Texas or any
where else may think about him or
his DOlicy
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-05-02

sets, and so will the iron projections
lists of Pennsylvania. Indeed, we al
ready find the Boston Globe, thorough
going Radical, and the Philadelphia
Agc, thorough going Democrat, oc-
cupying common ground in their
opposition to the World, and urging
that tariff for revenue being neces-
sary, the question of protection is a
merely incidental one.
The opposition further South is based
upon the detestation Of the mode of
raising money by the system of
Internal Revenue taxation. If we
have free trade, the Internal Reve-
nue. system or direct taxation must be
resorted to for the expenses of the
Government. Hence the disinclina-
ton to accept the issue as presented
by the World.
AS we have had occasion to say here
tofore, we think any effort to form new
party, or to put forth new issues, is
at the present time, i'll advised. We
have something else to do just now.
We believe in the principle of Free
Trade, but we are not prepared to say
that it is the only principle worthy of
being one of the tenets of the Demo-
cratic Party.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-05-02
= NEW PARTY.

The New York World has taken
strong ground against any new organl-
zatiOn, maintaining, that the old name
and the old organization of the Demo-
cratic Party, pure and simple, is amply
sufficient for present purposes. The
World does not, however, by any
means maintain, that the party ought
to be bound by the traditions or prin-
ciples of the past, except in SO far as
they may be expedient in the present ;
on the other hand, it maintains that
the party is essentially one Of change
and progress, and that the principles,
traditions and experience of the past,
are valuable, only in SO far as they
teach us how to act in the present.
Cutting loose in this summary manner
from all entangling alliances, the Wortd
insists thatsthe Democratic Party shall
go before the country upon single
issue, to wit: Free Trade.
As might have been expected from
such a course, the World has made it
self a target for attacks from all quar-,
ters and without regard to party atfill'
ations. The manufacturers will, to G
man, be opposed to it in Massachu
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WILMINGTON, n. c.:
FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1873.
GENERAL. s.zr.LI.N sssy 'EEaE
HEOifGG SkTs..E'.


Il would possibly hav, been well for
General ifillcm, even though Federal
officer, to have remembered the mes
sage of the King OF Israel, Let not
him that girdeth on his harness, beast
himself as he that putteth it off.
The General, some two weeks ago,
sent word to Captain Jack that he did
not intend to leave the Lava Beds
until he carried him and his tribe with
him. Up to the present writing
General Gillem has not been able to
secure either the Modoc Chief or his
tribe. In fact, it is admitted, we be
lieve, by every one, at least by every
one outside of army circles, that our
boasting General has been outwitted.
if not whipped, in open fight.
The kilograms inform us that occa-
sionallv the Federals take a few scalps
and that occasionally the Indians take
a few. Each side now keeps its tally
in scalps Captain Jacks scalp, how
ever, still rests securely on his own
head, and the indications are that it
Will be some time ere it bangles at the
belt OF General GiIlem or of any other
man. Ii Gillem had only fought like
he dragged the campaign would
have come to an end ere General Davis,
the hero of the Ebenezar Creek mas
sacre, took command. It would have
been Il rare sight to have seen the
dashinS Gillem pulling off his harness,
hung all over with rceking scalps.
These boasts do not read well when
they get cold. They remind one of
Pope and Hooker.
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ozt: ..sA,EEDNAL EENTEyNsiE..''

Under Il resolution of the Commits
sion. adopted on the 18th Of December,
1872, the Executive Committee were
authorized TO nominate, on behalf of
the United States Centennial Commits
sion. to the stockholders Of the Cen
tclllial Board Of Finance, fifteen stock
holders from the city of Philadelphia
;lli.i eigity-tive stockholders from the
several States and Territories. from
whom the Board of Directors Of the
Centennial Board OF Finance were to
be chosen. In pursuance Of tins reso-
luton. the names Of one hundred
Stockholders were presented, fifteen
from Philadelphia and eighty-tive from
the States and Territories, of which
last number about twenty-five were
from the Southern States. On IueS-
dav last the Board of Finance was
chosen, composed of twenty-five men,
bers, fifteen of them from Philadelphia
and only t,cO from the SOuth-Virginia
and Alabama being the favored lOcall-
ties.
It is not matter of any great i'm
portance how many members the South
may have upon the Board of Finance;
indeed, we might survive if there
was not q single Southern man on the
Board, aud we refer to the matter only
as an illustration of the Northern nm
derstanding of the meaning OF the
word "NatiOnal" When it is remem-
bered that it is upon the productions
OF the South that the Nation relies fo1
the payment of its immense foreign
debt, a foreigner would doubtless
think it strange that so insignificant 8
representation should be assigned tC
us. It does not seem at all strange to
Us however. We have been too long
accustomed to this sort of thing. MOI
are we disposed to complain about it
for we frankly confess that we find Il
quite impossible to get up any feeling
OF enthusiasm about this great Nationa
+ Centennial Celebration. The Phlla
delphians will doubtless turn al
honest penny" by it, butother people
especially the people of the South, vii
find little profit and as little pleasure
IN
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-05-02
THE OLD COAT OF GRAY.
BY BLONDINE.

1t lies there a.one-it is rusty and faded
With patch on the elbow, hole in the
But we think OF the brave boy who wore it,
and ever
Look on it with pleasure, and touch it with
pride.
history clings to it-over and over,
We see proud youth hurried off to the
With his form like the oak and his eye like the
eagles
How gallant he rode in the ranks Of the
'Gray."
1t is rough, 1t is worn, it is tattered in places
But love it the more for the story it bears !;
A story Of % courage in struggle with sorrows
And a heart that bore bravely its burden of
cares;
1t is ragged and rusty, but ah it was shin
In the silkiest sheen when he wore it away
And his smile was as bright as the glad sum-
mer morning,
When he sprang to his place in the ranks OF the
"Gray."
There's rip in the sleeve and the color IS tar
The buttons all gone with their glitter and
'Tis thing of the past, and we reverently
Away with the treasures and relics of old
AS the gifts OF a love, solemn, sweet and un-
Are cherished as leaves from a long vanished
day
We will keep the old jacket for the sake of the
Who rode in the van of the ranks of the
Shot through with a bullet-right here In the
shoulder,
And down there the pocket is spin.e7eo and
soiled
All more, see the lining is stained and dis
cOlOred!
Yes, blood drops the texture hath stiFened
and spoiled.
1t came when he rode at the head of the col
umn,
Charging down in the battle one deaalest
When squadrons OF focmen were broken
asunder,
And victory rode with the ranks of the
Gray"
It's memory IS sweetness aud sorrow COM
mineei
To me it is prec:ous-more precious than
gold,
In the rent and the sho hole volume is writ
ten,
On the stains on the lining is agony told.
That was ten years ago when in lifes sunny
morning
fray,
And the old coat he wore and the good sword
he welded
Were all that came back from the ranks of
the 'Gray.
The patch on the elbow and the hole in the
ride,
For gallanter heart never beat than the
loved one.
Who wore it with honor and soldierly pride.
Let ME brush of the dust from its tatters and
tarnish,
Let fold it up closely and lay it away
1t is all that is left of the loved and the Lost
Who fought for the right in The ranks OF the
Gay"
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before has hourished, we cannot afford
expensive luxuries. And if it be that
we have subjected ourselves to fine
and Imprisonment for a few delicate
compliments to Judge Bond, we can
not expect to go without cost for ex-
pressing our opinion as to Judge I'm
derwood. 1t may possibly be safe to
say that we concur in the opinion of
the Supreme Court of Appeals of Vir-
ginia that the purchase Of property at
an enormous sacrifice by a Judge I'M
der fraudulently procured and issued
decree of his own Court is enough to
shock the moral sense of every honest
man. Not to put too fine a point
upon it, we rather think the man who
does it is scoundrel. There now, if
that be libel, make the most of it Mr..
Solicitor Cantwelll We are immense
ly intimidated.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-05-02

His Ravages in this sectiOM-Ehe
Truckers All Lose EEcavIy-Di>-
NAL Reports from along the Lines
of the three IsaiIrOad>-They young
Corn and COtrO nDestrOyed-Eears
for the Peach Crop.
A very heavy frost whitened the
ground in this city and section Satur-
day morning, and from all that we can
learn, very considerable injury has
been the result. In some portions of
the city the young plants are badly
blighted, many of them being entirely
destroyed, while i'll others there is no
perceptible injury. On the truck
farms in this vicinity, as Il general
thing, the cucumbers, squashes and
beans are cut down, while the pea
vines have been very materially dam
aged. Mr.. Geo. z. French, of Excel
sior, thinks that he has been injured
to the extent of fully $4,000. He had
begun shipping peas last week, but
this frost will put him back now fully
q week
From all along the line of the W. &
W., the W. c. & r., and the W. G. &
A. Railroads we hear doleful accounts.
The more tender of the plants are
ruined. The cotton and corn are cut
down to the gronnd, and serious fears
are entertained that the peach crop has
been destroyed, but this latter it Will
take some days to fully determine.
The damage to Goldsboro' truckers
alone is estimated at some S25, 900 or
$50, 900, and those near Newbern are
said to have also suffered severely.
We doubt if the memory of the ''old-
est inhabitant" can furnish a parallel
TO this cold snap SO late in the season.
At this time last year the truckers were
doing fine business, and every train
that sped northward carried off large
consignments of early garden produce
to the Northern markets. But this
year it is different, and instead of money
coming in, it is simply so much money
going out, dead loss to those who
had calculated on heavy Spring crop.
A dispatch from Paris announces
the death of the famous opera danseuse
Marie Taglioni, Countess de Voisins,
who won her titled husband in the
| height of her fame and retired some
years later with an immense fortune.
| She was in only moderate circum-
stances after the late French and Ger
man war.
Secretary Delano has beenpetitioned
by a number of settlers on the Usage
lands in Kansas to reopen a former de-
cision which deprived them of their
homesteads for the benefit of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas, and Leaven,
worth, Lawrence and Galveston rail
roads, which lands are embraced III
the lands granted to the roads on con
dition that they would locate theil
routes in 1868. The settlers allege
that the roads did not locate thei,
routes in 1868. The Secretary has de
cided that the case cannot be reopened
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VOL. %.
THE NEW ORLEANS PICAYUNE,

| This fearless journal announces that
its printing establishment, including
name, good Will, credits, &c, has been
seized by the Kellogg tax collector, to
satisfy the State for taxes. In speak
ing Of this. however, the Picayune
| thinks it ''will still live" for the reason
that ''if it lacked vitality, the fact that
Radical tyranny seeks to destroy it, will
! commend it to all who dare to be free.
Radical hostility and hate witness to
its fidelity; and Radical preservation,
its righteous warfare, against ignomin-
ious fraud, usurpation and despotism.
The Picayune may not be offered up
in their demon death dance to liberty,
as a fitting holocaust to their Internal
rule of oppression and villainy. They
may find it mightier instrument, for
their final overthrow, infamy and ex-
tinction.
They are right in striving to destroy
it, if robbers can be right in seeking
to perpetuate their robbery; and
whilst it defies their hostility, it dep
precates their dishonorinS, debasing
.f1rOr."
If die it must, however, the Picay-
unc proposes to die game, and says
Well, if we have to die, we hope our
friends Will attend our funeral. Let
no vile carpet-bagger or scallawag sup
port our hearse, or drop the earth on
our coffin. Let us die as we have
ived-with none but freemen around
us; and with hearts unbent and IN
broken"
1t is with no ordinary feelings of re-
gret that we contemplate the suppress
sion of this staunch defender of the
rights of the people. The Picayetrac
first appeared on the 25th January,
1887, and began a new era in journal
ism in the Southwest. 1t was sold for
a ''picayune, a Spanish silver coin in
circulation in the South in that day,
and worth six and a quarter cents, and
from this fact the paper took its name.
Messrs. Lumsden & Kendall were the
founders of the paper. Mr.. Lumsden,
was North Carolinian, we believe ;;
Mr.. Kendall was a native Of one of the
Northern States. The Picaysuac, from
its foundation, has been identified with
the growth and prosperity of the press,
not only of New Orleans, but of the
whole Southwest. If its existence
should be blotted out, its loss will be
felt far beyond the Crecent City.
The contest in Louisiana is such an
unequal one, there seems to. be little
hope for her people to escape utter
ruin and subjugation. Louisiana is
now nothing but Grants province, and
Kellogg is his viceroy. The PicuynnC
truly says That no governor of any
colony of any European power looks
more absolutely and exclusively to the
government of the country to which
it belongs, for protection and existence,
than kellogg to Grant and the Govern
ment Of the United States. It is
scarcely to be expected that a journal
SO outspoken against the tyranny and
oppression of Grant and his minion
Kellogg, as the Picay,nae has been,
viii be permitted to continue in exist
ence in q State in which there is no
Law save that of the sword
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VI Il
AT an annual banquet of the Wash
ington Correspondents Club the fol-
lowing toast was read:
Woman: The pride of the profes-
sions and the jewel of ours.
To which Mark Twain responded as
follows:
Human intelligence cannot estimate
what we owe to woman, sir. She sews
on buttons, she ropes us in at the
church fairs. she cOntides in us, tells
| whatever she can find out about the
/ little private affairs of our neighbors,
she gives us a piece of her mind some
| times, and sometimes all of it. In all
relations of life, sir, it is just and
grateful tribute to say of her she is a
"brick -
Wherever you place woman, sir, in
whatever position or estate, she is an
ornament to the place she occupies,
and a treasure to the world. Look at
the names of history! Look at Desde-
mona Look at Lucretia Borgia. =
Look at mother Eve! I repeat, sir,
look at the illustrious names of his
tory! Look ut Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton! Look at George Francis Train
And, sir, say, with bowed head and
deepest veneration, look at the mother
of Washington! She raised a boy that
could not lie; but he never had g
chance. It might have been different
if he had belonged to q newspaper cor
respondents club.
! Mark looked around placidly upor
his excited audience, and resumed
Irepeat, sir, that in whatever posi-
ton you put woman, she is an orna
ment to society, and treasure to the
world AS a sweetheart she has few
equals, and no superior. AS a wealthy
grandmother with an incurable dis
temper, she is gorgeous. AS a we
nurse, she has no equal among men
What, sir, would the people of tht
earth be without women? They would
be scarce, sir, almighty scarce! The1
let us give her our support, our sym
pathy-ourselves if we get chance.
But, jesting aside, Mr.. President
woman is lovable, gracious, kind o
heart, beautiful, worthy of respect, o
all esteem, of all Difference. No on
here will refuse to drink her healtl
right cordially, for each and every on
of us has personally known, loved ant
honored the best of them all-his owl
mother.
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F1om the Charlotte Home.
Secdy Ex.COnfederate

The Springfield (NIass.) Republican
is Grant organ of great ability and
immense influence. It has become
quite disgusted with the persistent cry
for Office, which Southern renegades
are constantly putting up. and thus
comments upon the rewards that they
ought to have:
''There is swarm of seedy ex-
Confederates, who renounced the lost
cause and took the stump for Grant
during the late campaign, clamoring
for Office, and to these some of the
most unhealthy consulates will un-
doubtedly fall
This is coolly contemptuous! The
newborn converts to Grantism are
called seedy Confederates, their con-
version being attributed to hunger,
want and misery. It is suggested that
the poor creatures be given unhealthy
consulates, where they may speedily
lose their troubles and cease to annoy
the Administration and disgrace their
native land. O., ye loyalists of
the South it is hard to tell
whether We are most despised at
home or across the Susquehanna!
Look at the rewards given you
by the Government ye have bowed
down before and which scorned you
while it gave the penny loaf. Holden
was offered position at San Salvador,
the city SO often destroyed by earth
quakes. Captain Settle was banished
to Peru and came back to the disgust
of everybody as soon as he had swal-
lowed the rations. Lewis 2. Olds
went to Graytown, but the chills and
mosquitoes used him up i'll short order.
Badham has been obliged to give up
his ''unhealthy consulate" Hester
has become consul at some point off
the coast of Africa. This is the ''dirty
dog" the Chester Reporter tells about,
who carried on with such high hand
i'll that town. Coleman got some petty
consulate on the North Sea or the
German Ocean and had his loyalty
frozen out, while his brother leaguers
had their loyalty roasted out. Cole
m IN was SO effectualiy cured of Grant
ism that he supported Mr.. Greeley last
Summer
If Grant can only give unhealthy
consulates" to the ''seedy Confeder-
ates," who adore him, we would sug-
gest that he select these ''unhealthy
consulates" in Africa This would be
in accordance with the eternal fitness
of things" Surely there are places in
Congo, Ashantee and Guinea Gun
healthy enough for these ''seedy Con-
federates." The President would de-
velop an immense amount of ''latent
Unionism" at the South by giving all
these seedy fellows snug, warm berths
in the land of the forefathers of their
dusky pets.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-05-02

Theleprosy is reported as alarmingly
prevalent among the native population
at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands.
Half million pounds, or almost
S2,5OO,O 900 gold, are to be expended on
the Notifications of Halifax, this year,
by the British government.
If by any chance an honest man OBJ
tains position in the Indian Depart
ment, he is removed as soon as his
failing is discovered, says the New
York Sun.
At hanging in Georgia, recently,
auctioneers and vendors of nostr1lms
generally made good thing out of it
by setting up their stands in the midst
of the spectators.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-05-02

The new Gardner gun, which coll4-
bines both magazine and breech-
loader, fires twenty-seven shotsln sixty
three seconds.
A boy years old at Lowell, Mass,
spelled 1000 words without miss.
and he put 100 to the committee and
they missed fifteen.
A cable dispatch confirms the report
of the suicide of Earl De La War;, by
drowning in the river Cam, England:
Charles Richard Sackville West, Earl
De La War; and Viscount Cautilupe,
C. B., was major-general i'll the Brit
ish army, an officer OF the Legion of
Honor, and highly distinguished for
his services in India and the Crinlea.
He was High Steward of Stratford-
upon-Avon. He was born on the 10Th
of November, in the year 1919, ana ani I
succeeded to the earldom OIL The 23d
of February, in the year 1869.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-05-02
Explosion Of a Soda EOuEsfasK-
Two Tsen injured.

Saturday, about 1870 O'Clock, a
great many persons were startled with
the noise of loud explosion, accom-
panied with considerable of jar to
those who were nearest the scene At
first it was thought that one of the
boilers at Messrs. Hart 4 Bailey's
works had exploded, and a rush was
made i'll that direction. 1t was soon
ascertained, however, that the report
came from the rear of Mr.. T. Mayors s
bakery and confectionery store, on
Market street, between Front and
Second. Repairing to the scene, we
found that the generator had exploded,
tearing off the upper part, which was
of copper, and shattering the walls of
the room, and tearing up the floor of
the little room in which the soda was
manufactured. Mr.. Thomas Mayer, a
son of the proprietor, was at work III
the room at the time, together with an
old colored man by the name of John
Lucas. Mr.. Mayer was covered with
the soda, from head to foot, and for a
time it was thought that he was seri-
ously injured. We are pleased to
learn, however, that the only injury
sustained is in the eye and that is not
considered serious. Lucas was struck
on the head and thrown from the door
into the yard, but his damages are very
slight. Both escapes are considered
miraculous.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-05-02

Cincinnati thinks that the business
centre of that city won't he changed
for a thousand years. If there is no
change in the centre, there is like to
be but little change in the business.