Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-04-03


poets of the South, [ have taken the
liberty OF asking q small space in your
Va rable paper relative thereto, and as
Pan! Prv says. I hope [ don't intrude.
l know that it's almost. useless to at
tompt description Of the condition of
the South without mixing somewhat
with politics, but I will DO my best to
avoid that as mucl! as possible
While the North was made almost |
i,Icoinpre!lensibly rich by the late war,
SO was the South, on the other hand, |
made extremely poor. The abolition
and political cnfranchisement of the |
slaves not only gave the property |
owners no chance to get a fair start |
again but it put Il class into power
who burdened the planter with heavy |
owing to the Republican plan of re- |
construction, causing the labor of tie
South, which is chiefly black, to be |
completely demoralized. Some may
ask what [ mem L. b. ing demoraliz- |
ell? [ mean that the negro imagines
or Csteems himself, Of l may so call
it, OF such Importance that you cannot
make him work as q usual thing over
four days in the week, as [ have al
ready remarked, | do not intend to
make this a political letter, but in Civ
ing truthful description OF the South,
L must give the cause Of the same.
The South depends almost wholly
on cotton to bring itself out again, or
at least upon its agricultural products,
but it may be safely said that while
the labor of the South is so trihipg and
trashy as it is at present, it is simply
an impossibility. The once beautiful
plantations are rapidly going to waste,
and growing into plny woods again;
in short, every thing cries out for
different plan of management, We want
more white people, 81 mean the work
ing kind, and we want them in such
numbers that they can successfully
| resist the current OF slothfulness that
exists throughout this country among
! the negroes and the old issue of labor
ing whites, who are, as the negroes
call them, the''poor bockera," and who
are even more trifiing than the blacks.
If we could have an immigration.
say of only from twelve to fifteen
thousand foreigners, two-thirds Ger
mans and Swedes, and the other third
10 be English or Cornish Miners, into
this State, the former element to befar-
mers and manufacturers, and the latter
to bring out the mineral resources of
tie State, which are very great if
properly worked, / say if some plan
could be devised by which these peo-
pie could be brought in, then we would
see the South start out Of its present,
deplorable condition, like weed in
the night time. Then and not until
then shall we be able to resist success
fully that current of laziness that ex-
ISIS among the colored people of the
South, and teach them to know that
you are not expected to coax, beg,
caress and then pay them for what you
might almost call nothing, to what
a real working man will generally
do" instead of conforming to their
misty mode Of living and doing bust
ness, they will be compelled to conform
to d tferent way Of getting a living,
viz: To work for what they get instead
OF living by stealing as they do now.
Ii some liberal plan of inducement
for immigration can be offered by
which these people may come, (who
a-e ready, and are going TO almost
every other part of the United States)
the next few years will put different
face upon the prospects OF this State
from the present one.
Hoping that some one more able
than myself may suggest or invent
some way to carry out the plan al
ready spoken OF, So that We may see
the South moving on to prosperity
once more, or at least that these few
words may be of some benefit / am
sir, yours truly, r. 7. II.
Treasurer 90 the State os Virginia.
GA L Charge OF Embezzienens--
gn.aHsfy OF tian Accused.
The Richmond Dispatch says:
No event which has TRANSFERRED in this
clfy Tor many years has caused SO
much excitement As thealleged forgery
and dofalcation in the sinking fund :;
the attempt on the part of ". ID. Cole
man, Secretary of the Board, to take
his Own hIe: his arrest, trial, crnvic-
ton, and sentence: the departure of
Colonel Joseph Mayo. State Treasurer,
st such an unreasonable time; his sub
aequelt return to the city and imrle-
dlat" arrest, and the sad condition
which l.i8 physicians now represent his
) mind to be III. And to add to the ex-
ment three Legislative committees
have been appointed to look into mat
terS appcrtainlug to this subject, and
although two of these committees have
been III existence some time no report
has yet been presented which would
tend to allav tile interest and excite
on the subject
Upon being carried before q magis-
trate for examination application for
bail was made, whereupon the follow
Ing proceedings were had:
GENERAL PICKETT
being called, said he was very intimate
ly acquainted with the accused; that
L., IL L.,
mind for some time past. He met him
on two or three occasions about four
weeks ago, when he became confirmed
in his belief that he was not in his right
mind Indeed, he was suffering mer>
tally, in his opinion, long before he
reached his present condition. He had
remarked to Judge Christian three OF
four weeks ago that he thought his
mind WAS impaired and had lost its
! tone.
COLONEL ROBERT l.. WITHERS
, WAS next called to tie stand, and testi-
fed that he was an intimate ac1uaint-
ancc OF Colonel Mayo and that for two
o. three weeks past he had observed
that his mind was certainly neither
what III ought to be, nor what it was;
that he was undoubtedly insane, or was
when he saw him in the morning; that
to contine him III jail in his present con-
dition might produce permanent men
tai injury.
The next witness examined was
Major Leigh Il. Page. He was well
acquainted with the accused and had
observed his mental condition for the
past two months. He had been so
much impressed with it that he felt it
his duty to go and see some of his
friends and ask them to take him in
charge. 4 conversation which he had
with him was marked by
THE GREATEST INDIFFERENCE.
He told his friends that he ought to
be taken charge OF. This CONVERSE
ton occurred i'll January or February.