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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25
SHERMAN AND EHFs; .sDzsoG%.

Has it occurred to General Sherman
20 ask himself, or to ask any one else,
when and where he derived authority
to order ''the utter determination of
human beings without Judge or jury,
without even Il drum-head court mar
tial? Is it possible that General Sher-
man has any prejudice against the No
docs because of the color of their skins,
or that lie does not consider thamtn he
human beings Have Indians, *aya-
ges though they he, no rights that
white men are bound to respect? Gen
eral Sherman evidently thinks so. Cen
crs1 Sheridan evidently Thought so iii
January 1870, when by his order the
Pjegan Indians wern 1nassacred by
Colonel Bakers force, under orders
from him One hundred and seventy
three Indians. including women and
children, sick with smallpox, were
then slaughtered III cold blood aud
their village burned
Those Federal boys in blue do
Ipt HINttFS5 Iit"''ti- I'ii41i4E tiitli
delicate attentions to people Of
color Variety is the spice of life.
The proof Of this. without going
further off. or further back, Is to be
found in the burning alive, in his own
house, of brave old Reldick Carney,
in Pitt county, North Carolina, by n
detachment OF Federal troops under
command of Brevet Major WHY'S Ly-
man, 10th l. S. Infantry, Oh the morn
ing of Sunday the Doth April 1863. And
Vet we are a Christian people and live
in a Christian land, under II Christian
Government, and pray God to forgive
us our trespasscs as we forgive those
who trespass against lis
Is General Sherman the iiccGCrcnt
of the Almighty Ruler Of the Universe
and does lie hy~omc iljyin" commission
hold III the hollow II lis Isal'd the
lives of his fellow men He will look
III vain into the laws i.uI Constitution
OF his country tor any warrant t" order
the utter determination of sucking
babes, helpless women aad dccr"pld
old men, mumbling III their dot2gc,
without the form even Gf drum head
court martial
But what Federal officer i'll i!!is day
and generation cares for any law, iiti-
man OF divine?
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25

OF his high Office with a single eye to
the obligations of his oath. it is every
way praiseworthy. Unfortunately he
frequently yields to the opportunities
OF the politicians. He is llnyielding
amid popular clamor, but he bends
before a Congressional bore. In the
present instance, probably, he took
counsel with some one in authority
among the professional politicians, and
under this influence heaped contempt
upon the wishes OF the people.
The charge that the person ap-
pointed is unfit for the place puts the
Presidents action as low in respect to
morals as it is in respect to manners
1t is poor return for the revival of
love of our common country among
the people of the Southern States to
find that the administration joins
hands with those through whose igno-
rance and dishonesty the burdens of a
bad government have been added to
the dreadful losses of the late war.
AS Mr.. Bryant says, President Grant
'gross blunder."
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25
WILMINGTON. =. {. ::
FRIDAY, APRIL IS. 1873.
TEE ToNE'E.i.sX SJ'sg .EsDN.

The New 1-orl. E,c ;istI i'r,SF, re
viewing the monetary stuation, SAYS,
the movement Of the authorities in
that city to enforce the Itsury law, has
created no little cOmmotiOu among
Wall street people, a large part of
whom, having regarded the law as IA
dead letter, have violated t. Many
have been forced to do this OF Giscon-
time business, or submit to losses
which seem unjustifiablp. For i'll
stance SAYS the Past, "among the
stock brokers, borrowers OF money.
when the ruling pri e is ;,hult seven
per cent, have to pay tlie current rate
or suspend. The amount which they
borrow is DESIGNED to cover their needs
for the day. Often they hav" b;,Iaiccs
left over, and these they feel compelled
to lend for as much n they can get, or
as much is they cost them. III thi,
way, or in others which might be ex-
planned, nearly every one i'll business
III Wall street, it is said, has at one
time or another violated the law. It is
very generally admitted by intelligent
observers and men experienced, that,
with the New York money market free.
rates would seldom if ever rise above
twelve per cent. per annum. There
would be 40 risks Of prosecution to be
Unidentified, and no temptation for
spectators to lock up money, as a
means to friSi,ton holders Of stock into
selling, for no cn2 wo;1l,l bo frightened
at twel'-ea or eighteen per cent per
annum, and, therefore, this means of
the stock market would be
as useless. II prosecutions
now threatened viii hasten the repeal
Of the law, they will be welcomed:
they viii prove worse than
useless. Now, that there is SO much /
clamOr for more currency, it is desira- ,
ble that every unnecessary restriction .
on money be removed.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25
a.O9ji iSIANA.

1t IS greatly to be feared that tho
! late outbreak III Grant Parish is but
the beginning of bloody struggle il
! Louisiana. That unfortunate State is
now reaping the bitter fruits OF Prcsi.
dent Grants unlawful interference
( viii be, any man can foresee. 1t re-
/ Guires no prophet to foretell that men,
| and even women and children, will he
killed, property destroyed, and brave
people reduced to practical slavery in
State where acts like those detailed
in the following extract from the New
Orleans Picay,oae, receive the sane
ton of the highest State and Federal
authorities.
The Picay,osc of Tuesday last, says:
A body of negroes committed crime
against w. r. Rutland and his prop
erty. He made an affidavit against
tlfcm before ;il officer of Mr.. Kellogg's
appointment, who issued warrants for
their arrest. The officer who was des-
ignated to execute the warrants, at
tempted to execute them, but did not,
owing, it is said, to an armed force
lrraycd against MIN. He then
summoned a posse to assist him,
when there was some little skirmish
ing on the part of the negroes.
Mr.. kellogg's officer then sent certl
fed copy of the affidavit and of the
warrant, with his return that he could
not execute the warrants, for the reason
above stated, to Mr.. Kellogg. kel-
logg would take no action on it, al
though his officer called on him for a
sufficient military force to enable him
to Go 50.
w. II. Rutland then asked the arrest
Of the parties under the k1l-kluX law
but was not favored with Kellogg's
assistance.
The negroes and white men, whose
arrest Eutland had asked for, came to
this city and made affidavits before
Commissioner Shannon, and he has
issued warrants, under the ku- kluX
law. for the arrest of about fifty white
men of the posse who were summoned
to arrest the negroes, and. We are III
formed, officers left the city yesterday
20 make the arrest.
President Grant knew we'll what he
WAS saying when, III his inaugural al
dress, he spoke about the rapid transit
Of thought by telegraph and the great
changes it had wrought. It enables
him to overturn the legal government
Of TIL State of Louisiana and to install
another more to his liking instead. 1t
enables General Sherman to sit i'll his
ofire, III Washington City, and order
the utter determination of unnumbered
men, women and children, thousands
of miles beyond his sight
Oar President, who, we are happy to
know, has recovered from the ''severe
illness that afflicted him for a short
while after his return from his late
New York trip, spoke truly when he
said that ''rapid transit of thought
and matter by steam and telegraph y
had wrought wonderful changes"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25
THE WAY EAsEl LEGESEiEE IN
PENNSYLVANIA.

Just before the recent adjournment
of the Pennsylvania Legislature Mr..
Brockway offered a resolution appoint
ing a committee to ''inTite Hon. A. K
Mcclure and the balance Of the Liber-
al Hcpublicsm party 20 address the
Iionse on the corruptions of all the po-
iitical parties in existence The reso-
lIiinn was agreed to. Messrs. Brock
way, Josephs and Tittcrmary were APP
pointed the committee, and proceeded
in quest of Senator Mcclure, He was
soon found and escorted into the hall.
AS he entered the members of the
House rose and greeted him and the
committee by whom he was escorted,
with IA volleyof paper missiles, consist
ing of general assortment of all the
Legislative documents of the session,
in addition to cigar boxes, newspapers,
and large printed files of bills.
After running the gauntlet the entire
length of the hall the Senator took his
place upon the Speakers stand amid
applause, which was half earnest and
half ieering He addressed the men,
bers as follows
Mr.. SPEAKER AND CO1IMONERS OF THE
STATE OF PENNsYLvANIA: l thank you
for the distinction you have conferred
upon me by your invitation to address
you on the subject of reform. [ know
of no other body of men, either of
| Il l.,
tions on the necessity of both public
and private morality so much as the
House of Representatives of this State
so broadly and deeply experimental in
tie line of individual and official pro-
figacy. Laughter and applause. I
ann not surprised, however, that it is
so when I consider that of the mem
bers serving in this House from my
immediate locality many were not even
nominated, and few, if any, were
ever elected. [Shouts. of laughter. L
sent YOU reform bills which cost me
many days of anxious thought and
labor to perfect; but you danced not
when piped to you, neither did you
weep responsive to my mGurnings over
the deeeneracy Of the body polite. I
must admit, however, that you were
prompt executioners, for every bill
| that looked towar,1 reform was mega
| tived with a. yell as fast as the rules
would allow. But in political, as often
in moral and religious cycles, the dark
est hour is just before the dawn of day,
and it is gratifying that after you have
cons,1mmated all the harm you can
possibly infict upon the State, you
have by unanimous resolution called
for q confessor. Laughter. It was
well to pause thus, just for the sake OF
novelty or reference, SO that when the
tempest breaks you can point to thus
becoming act of contrition for the
wrongs done TO your constituents and
Commonwealth. Applause and sar-
castle shouts. Most of yos who
have for the past three months
been serving ii the places TO
which other persons were elected by
the peoplat have discounted the retri=
butive wave of popular reprahation hy
creating Offices by Legislative enact
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25
eASBY.S SUCCESSOR.

Our Northern exchanges, i'll speaking
of General Jefferson G. Davis, who has
hccn selected rs General Canby's
successor, say 9 II would b" difficult
to find an officer of the afms more
prompt to carry out to the letter the
orders Of his SupcrlorS; and those who
served with him in many engagements
cxprcSs the belief that If ii be the
desire. of the War Department and the
President to extcrminatc the trcacllcr-
ots Modocs, they have i'll General
Dayis Il man who will allow none to
escape the vengeance of his troopers.
It is, perhaps, no business OF ours to
express any opinion i'll reference to the
fitness of any Federal officer for any
position to which he may be assigned.
But whether it be any of our business
or not, we propose to say that, in our
opinion. the Secretary Of War IN
sending General Jefferson G. Davis to
look after Captain Jack and his Modoc
Band, has emphatically sent the right
man to the right place.
This General Davis is the man, as
we learn from our Northern
/ exchanges, WHO, during the war, shot
and killed his superior officer, General
: Nelson, III a private brawl. He is the
same man that caused "the massacre at
Ebenezar Creek" the details of which
/ are about as follows, according to the
/ same authority:
! At Ebenezar Creek, in the rear of
| Savannah, Davis command was SO en-
/ cumbere by negro refugees that 1t
dropped far behind the other corps,
and was in danger of attack and ami
hilation by the Confederate forces on
! it's fianks and rear. In this dilemma
| Davis resolved to save his corps at all
/ hazards. and, stationing guards at the
bridge of Ebenezar Greek, stopped all
! the refugees (some six thousand in
! u.1aber) until his troops and trains
had passed over safely. He then
burned the bridge, and, leaving the
negroes on the north side of the creek,
made a forced march, saved his corps
and participated in the attack upon
! Savannah. At this time Wheeler s
/ cavalry was close upon his rear, and
| on GTElfiHS ao oiio otAHSO'
smarting under the escape OF DAVIS,
madly charged upon the poor negroes,
and men. women and children were
driven into the muddy waters of the
E.benezar, where many were drowned.
It is evident that if there are any
colored men to be slaughtered. General
Jefferson G. Davis is the man to do 1t!
Verify, we have nice lot Of Christian
| soldiers to the front just now.
Sherman, the hero of burning Atlanta
and burning Columbia; Sheridan, the
| hero of the Piegan Indian Massacre
and Davis, the hero of the Ebeneza,
Creek Negro Massacre! We confidently
ask what age or what country scar
match them?''
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25

and nes Il, to which you hope to retire.
placed on a1iindefin;te en- nsr.ppII % of the
pastors and foiSndte foiSe1n t pa pay rGir luz % 'iie m
accordance with the rrevalent custom
| here to pension decas.d sta+o"1ao-
[Shouts of laughter. III S,a'uslneH, uou aaa1.
liberal counsels to have goea seed |
sown in the chaos of virtue that o ..,r
rounds you is hopeful sign of I. :.
times, and that if you do not cheat us
more than 10000 IN Philadelphia next
fall the places that know you now will
know most of you no more forever
Laughter. But I turn to the faint
silver lining on the deep cloud of your
record. One act of this House glad
dened the hearts of the whole people
of the State and reinspired hope
throughout the length and breadth of
the Commonwealth. [ refer to your
vote, in the midst of disorder that at a
Philadelphia fire would be called riot, =,
on Monday evening last. fixing an ear
y day for your final adjournment.
Laughter and applause. I have
heard of no citizen of the State who
did not heartily approve of that act.
Laughter. L am happy to point to it
as the oasis in the withered desert that
you have made about you, and to ac-
cord you credit for it. Hoping, gen
tlemen, if L may be pardoned the use
OF the term [laughterl, that the length
OF your lives may correspond with the
measure of your virtues, and that you
Will be succeeded by better men than
yourselves, I bid you goodnight.
The Senator retired amid roaring ar
plause and a liberal shower of paper
balls.
The Philadelphia Agc says it would
most willingly abate the severity of the
Senator's structures upon the House,
but it cannot do SO for they are Just.
1t says that one bill passed the Senate
unanimously, y, aud the House by a~two-
thirds vote. and that Mr. Speaker Eli
ott, of the House, then put it i'll his
pocket and thus prevented it from be-
coming a law. In other cases clauses
that had never been passed were stuck
On to bills, and in other cases still,
bills that had been passed were stolen.
4 genuine carpet-bag Legislature
;ould scarcely do worse
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25
NO. Is.
For the journal
TIE OLD CYPRESS TREE.

Oh. what was il struck me thus?
What pang is that l feel:
Las. too well L know the cause;
1t IS mans hated steel.
Young man, forbear, Mhat'ye l done
That you should use me So:
What pleasure can be to you
To lay my tall head low
Long centuries | have stood
Unheeded wind or rain,-
Nor have ] e'er had Il care,
Or e'er felt ought OF pain.
Never lacked 1 clothes or focd
In tn ages that have passed,
And Id thousht-oh foolish L
That this would always last
Near, the rci-man slew the uecr,
And meath my spreading shade
He wood his dusky fair one;
Here, many Il match was made:
Round my roots the blood hath flowed
rom wild beasts did not pour
>men came with blade and gan
NC fe'>man came 10 more!
me dtmb bra~a nes:ies at nv feet,
The wild fowls l>ck like leaves
Coming, find a refugteere
Each one my help recei.
Then why are YOU relentless"
How can you cruel be"
Prithee. let me rest in peace.
A harmless cypress tree.
What gain you by iey'ling me ?
What do you see you need
What profit expect to reap?
Wilt fell me now, indeed"
The young man chops, determined,-
No melting mercy mingles-
stops one moment, wipes his brow
And loudly answers - Shingles -
RIg
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25

The Scotch jury system, which Ia>,
been much discussed of late i'll New
York, as . desirable substitute for the
present jury system, which las prac-
ticaly failed there to secure the ends
of justice, is peculiar i'll more than one
respect. according to Scotch law, the
number of a jury, both i'll evil ana
criminal cases, is fifteen, to wit ten
common iurymen. drawn from people
paying the lowest average of rates, and
five special iurymen, drawn from peo-
pie paying high value OF rates, and
therefore presumably superior in cdu
cation, intelligence and social position,
and the verdict Of the jury thus co,i
stituted is rendered by majority vote
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25
FATE OF THE OUTLAWS OE'
GRANT PARISH IN LOUISIANA.
We take the following from I'll

We take the fOllOWlnS from the New
Orleans Picayune of the 10th:
In order that our readers may be
Informed of the origin and character
of the tragical events, which within
the past ten days have transpired in
middle Louisiana, we present a sue
cinct resume of the facts. as we have
learned and understood them.
The parish of Grant, on Red River,
has a population, white and black, Of
about 800, which is nearly equally
divided. In the election of November
4th, the declared return of the Forman
beard, composed of men of high char
acter and in possessions of the re-
turns, shows tile vote to have been:
For Governor, McEnery, Fusion)
515-Kellog, Rad.) 405; for Legisla-
ture, J. Fl. Hadnot, Fusion) 522-W.
Ward, (Rad) 33S; for Parish Judge,
w. A. Lea, Fusion) 522-J. Osborn,
(Rad. )4O4; for Clerk of Court, r. C.
Register, (Fusion) ar Walker,
(Rad.) $50: and for Sheriff, d. W.
Shaw, lFusionl 359-C. Nash, (Rad. }
! 49S.
Hadnot took his seat in the Louisi-
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25
An EXTRAORDINAR MURDER
TRIAL.

\ remarkable murder trial has re-
Gently taken place in the county OF
Tyrone, Ireland. In June, 1871, Mr.
Glass, the cashier of the Northern
Bank at Newtovnstewart, was found
murdered in the bank, and il was sub
sequently ascertained that a robbery
had been committed, nearly e2 900
having been abstracted. A sub-in-
spector of police named Montgomery,
who had been on terms of intimacy
with the cashier, was arrested and
brought to trial on the charge of being
the murderer An officer of the Royal
Irish Constabulary occupies the same
social position in Ireland that a COM
missioned officer in the military service
occupies in England, and the proceed
ings in the case of Montgomery excited
intense interest among all classes in
the community where they took place.
The first trial occurred last year, and
the feeling against the prisoner was so
strong in his own district That all jury
men living within five miles of New
were excluded from the
jury-box The result of the trial was
a disagreement of the jury. The second
trial took place about a fortnight ago,
and occupied more than ten days.
Eighty three witnesses were examined,
and the counsel for the defense made
a speech ten hours in length. The
Jury deiberated for twelve hours
without being able to agree upon a
verdict, when they were discharged,
and the case was assigned for third
Trial. This has been the most pro-
-racted case ever on trial III Ireland, |
and it promises to furnish occupation !
,or courts and lawyers for long time
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25

December. We stated yesterday, as
We do to-day, that George l..
MADISON was also not of the number,
he having been clicked out some
time since, for having daredto express
his preference, in caucus at Raleigh,
| for Settle in preference to John Pool,
; for cabinet Office. MADISON is a col
ored man, q native citizen, and one of
| the leaders of the colored people in the
State. His rejection leaves only two
eot,sed men from this city, Burney
an anu Lowrey, in the Custom
House ,,,quad. 1t is asserted
ina mat the vacancies made by
the resignation # Mr.. Strausz and the
rejection of Mab-,n have not been
retilled, ana this wiz therefore leave
the list of the squad at - enouob in
all conscience, one would i,ink fo do
the work of three or four ea;cas tha
size of this.
If Mr.. Savillc had come down ,.re
as real ''reformist," and not simpI.
as All inspector" there would
have been, undoubtedly, some
rare looping off of loyal heads,
and the payroll Of the Col
lector's office would have been
very materially reduced. He would
have found, to say the least
that one inspector can very readily do
the work now apportioned among six,
but then the said one inspector
couldn't have very conveniently run
the Opera House, a carriage manufac-
tory, and several other private busi-
ness; besides, there would not be re-
wards enough to apportion among the
faithful, and the Custom House ring
would not be so powerful political
machine as it is now.
The Post, with very laudable de-
sire to shield it's friends and allies
from d possible threateped danger,
rushes very nada- fully to the rescue.
In its zeal it has rather overrun the
bounds of discretion, and the general
tenor of its article seems n reproach
upon us for having entered the sacred
purlieus of the ring and brought forth
some few facts to the light It forgets
that, in the light of old-timc constitu-
tional law, the people are the sover-
eigns of the rulers and not the rulers
OF the people. Let the people see to
it that this same old-time constitu-
tional law is preserved to them IN all
OF its purity and strength.
.IOUy720I, 1871.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25

The engagemcnt OF the Duke OF
Edinburgh to the Grand Duchess
Maria, daughter Of the Czar, will be
made nuhlio nom Sorrento, shortly
after the Empress arrival in that place,
and the betrothed couple will meet
there.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25

Blanton Duncan, of Kentucky, de-
clares that "if principles are to gov
ern, the Democrats have bright flu
ture before them"
But what will become of Duncan?
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25

An ounce Of preventive is worth a pound OF
cure. To prevent Chill and Fever, take SIM
Nuns LIVER REGULATOR.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25

~ With its elegant new suits of roo.as, aEd
the great improvements in Hanover street, the
American House, Boston, bids fair to become
a greater favorite than ever with the travelling
public. Messrs. Rice * Son deserve their pop.
alarity.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-25
F8ctvarc sf Csa!onEef,

gse Dooley's / east Powder if son relish light,
sweet, wholesome Biscuits. Kocs. Pastry, &c
Your grocer sells it, Full weight and strength.