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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28
COL. JOHN ID. CAMERON.

We have seen in our State ex-
changes the name of Colonel JOHN d.
CAMERON, editor of the Hillsboro'
Recorder, suggested as Chief Clerk of
the next House of Representatives of
North Carolina. We rise to second
the nomination. It is fitting that the
party, in selecting its officers, should
n:st take those who are competent and
worthy, and, second, those who have
entitled themselves to consideration by
their labors for its success. Wien we
promote the drones of the party after
victory is secured, we do injustice to
gallant men who have fought manfully
in the foremost ranks.
There is no man in North Carolina
who is more competent to fill the
ONCE OF Clerk of the House than Col
olnel Cameron, and there are few who
have done as much hard work to pro-
mote our success. We know the diff
culties by which he was surrounded;
We appreciate the personal influences
brought to disarm him. But no man
in the State was truer or holder in the
advocacy OF the cause, OF did drawer
% more efficient work in the canvass.
Colonel Cameron has deserved we'll
II the party and is entitled to its
Ecusid eration.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28
POOR SOUTH CAROLINA.

A little resume of Gov. Noses
official clemency in South Carolina is
made by the New York World, and
the kindliness of heart toward the
worst cri minals in the State, which has
characterized his administration, is
ominously striking. During the year
and half in which he has held office
his pardons have amounted to 421, or
almost one for every working day. OF
the criminals to thus experience his
mercy ffty-one were murderers, thir-
ty-three burglars, twenty-four incen-
diaries, four forgers, six bigamists,
six horse stealers, and over hundred
were guilty of stealing and even worse
rascality i'll a greater or less degree.
Besides these some twenty-i CT
thirty criminals were discharged in a
batch, no record being made of their
pardon. The County Treasurer of
Greenville, sentenced to two years
imprisonment and a heavy fine for
Incorporating public funds, was
pardoned after one months confine-
ment; the County Commissioner of
Barnwell, sentenced to ten years in
the penitentiary for the same offence,
was released after thirty-six days of
durance, and his associate got off as
easily. All these men possess political
influence of the very worst kind, of
course, and that is what Moses courts.
And after all, it would be more out
rageous piece of impudence for him to
plead his clemency as reason for his
reelection, than it was to claim that
under his administration the financial
condition of South Carolina had i'm
proved.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28

John Brown was hanged on the soil
of the State where he struck the first
blow for freedom. Mr.. Lincoln, the
first anti-slavery President, died by
an assassin's bullet, which, yet, was
scarcely more pitiless than the bio
graphy that afterwards tore his good
namc to tatters. Preston King, 1t is
said, committed suicide. Garritt
Smith is said to have lost his reason.
Jim Lane died by his own hand, the
victim OF a remOrse which even his
fierce, hon nature could not endure
Horace Greeley died in defeat and de-
llrium, amidst the excavations of the
party he had built. Mr.. Beecher still
lives, but only to look upon the ghast-
ly fragments of a reputation which was
the greatest of all-torn to pieces by
his own friends, who in turn, he has
ground into dust under his heavy heel
Charles Sumner died under the con-
demnation of his party, having lived
the last two years of his life under the
condemnation Of his State. Fremont
lives under the ban of outlawry of
French court before which he re-
fuses to appear to answer charges of
fraud. So much for the tragic fate of
the anti-slavery leaders. Turning to
the South to look after their great an
tagonists on the other side, we find
that Mason, Slidell, Soule, Brooks,
Wigfall and Keitt have died rc"cPfni-
ly on their beds Stephens LAS lived
to return to Congress, and Toombs,
Hunter, Wise and Davis live to see
the wreck and ruin of SO many of
their old antagonists. Slavery came
out of the contest defeated, and anti
slavery came out of it triumphant
yet the smitten South contains few Or
no graves of self slain or dishonored
leaders, while the victorious North is
marked with many davk spot where
an anti-slavery champion has fallen.-
ST. Louis Republican.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28
ANrI-RADICAL.
For the journal

For the .JoITnai.
NcSsrs. Editors of the Journal:
GENTLEMEN Il have been informed
that heretofore, il some OF the coun-
ties of the State which elected Radi-
cal Sheriffs, Clerks of the Superior
Court, County Treasurers and Eegls-
of Deeds, that Democratic Conserva-
tives, or at least those who claimed to
be such, became security Oh the Off
clat DO ads of those officers. If this is
true it is greatly to be deplored, and
it is to be hoped that the same thing
will never occur again. The time for
installation of Radicals who have re-
celtly been elected to county officers
Is near at hand, and any man calling
hims elf n Conservative who goes onthe
official bond of any negro, carpet Dagger
or scallawag after the passage OF the
civil rights bill by the Senate of the
United States, and the strong proba-
bility of its becoming law at the next
session of Congress, shonld be read
out of the party forthwith; it has no
use for such men in its ranks; they
should cross the color line and fall into
the ranks of the Radical negro party at
once
Mcssrs, Editors, have you reflected
on the subject ? Look at it: A Radical
negro, caspet-bagser or scallawag, De
comes candidate for an important
AMI responsible county Office, knowing
full well that if elected he could not
possible furnish security on his Official
bond inside of his own party, bnt he
looks around and fixes his eye Oh
C, rtain members of tho Demo
cratic-Conservative party who he Is
pretty sure have tender places III
their composition which lie can
touch, and thereby succeed in brlnS
ing about q little arrangement when
would enable him to put them oh MS
bond. Well, the election comes Oil
and he is elected; has beaten. periiaI,s'
a good and worthy Conservative. ne
calls upon those same men who he iiau
his eye upon in the meantime, toucneS
their tender places and succeeds WIN,
out any trouble at all, in making %.
little arrangement sure enough, when
places them on his bond. Now. w,'o
Is responsible for inficting On Tue
good people of their comfy such
curse rs bD1S Is fC inc lSattiCn1 IN
party? No, sir. 1t is the so-cai'eu
Democratic Conservative suretles on
The bond for if they bad not s'ghe"
he bond the office would have Deen
declared vacant, and then filled by
good and worthy man.
Now, it would have beer better
thousand times over, if those Demo,
,ratic- Conservatives had declared
Radicals in the beginn'pg;
nd shouted for Civil Rights with al'
heir might; the damage done BY them
n that way woald have been thoas
nd fold less than foisting upon 'ne
God people of this county q ar!
negro, corrupt carpet-baggs'
i worse than all. a. low. mean sealis
Jag officer. The finger of scorn s!lonlu
oint unerringly at any man clalpl.k
} be Conservative, who would 80 iaa
,rget what was due to the color OF us
Kin, his kindred and everything GU
llated to command the respeet Of de
snt public opinion, as to become
lrety on the bond Of d Radical ofhcel'
=. 49, g.Tfs5 I'll X.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28

Certain Cure for CHills and Fever
Severn years, agoSIl VIZ travelling
with vefy inteli gent Eensas stock
sdea1er. En th6course Of q conversa-
ton he remarked TINT il the early set
tlemento th Is State ne had suffered
nneh, all serly aettIen always do
in the Nest, From this disease He
had used the Ordinary remedies, large
~ composed OF qninine, with the usual
results-curing Tor the time being, to
return again in week or two.
Being among some of the Indians
south of that State, he came across q
Frenchman who called himself a doc
tor. This man advised him to get an
ounce of camphor, all in one piece, if
possible, sewing it up in a small cloth
bag, hanging it round his neck with a
tape, SO it would come at the, bottom
of the sternum or breast bone, and Sc
curing it there with another tsre round
the cody, to keep it in place. This, he
said, would all eyapor ate in q week or
ter. days when he must get another
and use it in the same way Two
ounces thus used, costing 90 cents,
would cure,J he declared, the worst
case of ague SO it would never come
back. The Kansas man declared that
he had tried this remedy in hundreds
of cases, and had never known it TO
fail. Since obtaining this information
l have tried 1t mary times, With the
same results. a. So simple and ham,
less remedy nught to be in general
uSe-PrQirte Farmer.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28
Wessrs Editors.

AHCSSTS lIdtiC7S.
The Democratic Conservative party
OF Non, h Carolina is now in a position
to relieve the good people of the State
Of portion at least, of tie heavy bur
don which has been heaped upon them
by Radicalism, and it is to be hoped
that il viii rot fail to apply the rene
dN- 1t is this : Let the next Lepis
iature call Il Convention to alter and
amend the Constitution of the State
The most important changes to consist
IN aboIiShing the Supreme Court, the
office s of Attorney General and Justice
ctthe Peace; reestablishing the County
Courts aud creating High Court OF
Appeals and Err ors and the Offices of
State Solicitoi-Gencral and Trial
Justice; electing the Judges of the
High Court of Appeals aud Errors.
the State Solicitor-G General. Trial
Justices and Aldermen and Commits.
sloners of titles and towns by the Leg
lslaturt; increasing the amount of the
homestead and personal property ex-
enption, and making the homestead a
fee simple; requiring poll-tax quail
1icut1on for voters and jurors. Then
the era OF good government would
once more dawn upon the Good Old
North State" and ere long she would
regain the sobriquet of "Honest Old
North Carolina. Free and unrestricted
suffrage has been the bane of this Re-
public, and if it is not checked. will
most surely destroy it. A man who
has no real estate or personal property
upon which he pays taxes to tie State
Governn.C mt under which he lives, and
from which he receivs protection
shonld be willing to pay poll-tax at
least for the privilege of having
voice in controlling that government
NATIVE NORTH CAROLlNIAN.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28

.sudge McKoV
AWHILE. Auouet o. 80,

uce,rs Sf. itors: 1914.
At the election in this townsb;.
there W ouhu one solitary naa.p
who desiFeka 70 Vote the Conservat;ro
ticket. dfd VINO dared to do the Jaa1
After he3 nau voted, a threaten;n..
crowd gam efed around him. as ;f
tear him il pieces, and for a few m;s
utes he seemed IN imminent dancaa
but as soon las the whites found "':
what was golIlS on they rushed to his '
lection. DuriHg the melee au pro,
negro rushed MP in a frantic mannn a
crying, Let me speak! let me snaaI'::
and addressed himself to that Cnnsa.
vative thusly: 'or-
'You d-m tsceundrel! don,t
know that if McKoy is elected ~. you
niger that steals hog in the 10y
will be sent to the penitentis.. a..
eyes, but don't want to steal
hogs" answered the Conserv.t;y
darkey. .ts ~'''e
"Well, I have stolen many a one and
I expect to do it again, roared the ~. aa
cited radical, and the dusky crovS
yelled with applause. "u
About two weeks passed avov ..,
Judge McKoy charged the GRAVY J
Jury, IN presence of dense throne -.
our people, who had ASSEMBLED =.
Brunswick Court to hear and sec h..
that sit was better that the whole -aa
pie should be taxed to support crim;
nails, than that one poor man shouId
lose his little crop, or his few hoos
by stealing left unpunished;" and h.
spoke quite feelingly of the time which
has passed away when larceny vas
crime almost unknown in our corrts
Let us hope that the radical neoro
knew what he was talking about snS
that crimes will now be punished With
certainty, after due conviction. II 10
small punishment to have Judgment
suspended on the payment of costs
aid none at all to have the convict 5;s
charged on his personal recopnizanca
to appear at the next term to nav
costs, as he invariably finds it con-
venlent to go over to South Caroline
until the next election.
The case of the State against Statcb-
err, a policeman from Wilminoton
charged with breaking into and steal
ing from the premises of Sol Besr. has
been continued for the absence of his
witness.
Court is progressing satisfactorily
and our people are much pleased with
the new Judge and Solicitor.
Truly yours, &c, C.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28
''Said he. TN ruined man; I'm

"Said he. I'm ruined man; I'm
n ruined man -
II told him lie owed it to his friends
to give some explanation for his con-
duct. and asked him why he and his
wife had separated. to Which he re-
piled that he had not q word to say
against his wite-that she was a high
minded, virtuors lady. -
Gle then said that he alone was to
blame; that lie ha! decided to exile
himself among the Cherokee Indians,
and that he wanted me to carry his
resignation rs Governor to the Secre-
rary of State. This [ emphatically re-
fused to do, at first, but at his earnest
solicitation and that of DR.. Shelby, [
finally consented.
. ''The next morning, Houston, Shell
by and [ went aboard steamboat,
Houston being disguised SO that no
one recognized him. We babe him
goodbye, and he went down the Cum
berland. He told me afterward that
he got as far as Napoleon, Ark, with
out being recognized, and, in that
case, he begged the man to say moth
ing about meeting him. He went on
to Fort Smith, where he Joined
Cherokee by the name of JULY, whom
he had been familiar with while he
was agent for the tribe. He assumed
the Indian dress, painted his face, and
could not be distinguished from them.
ga few years afterward he passed
through Nashville, with delegation
of Indians, on his way to Washington.
/ recognized him, but wouldn't speak
to him. The fact il, his friends here
considered he had disgraced them,
and were disguised with him. While
in Nashville he went with his delega-
ton and called On Gen. Jackson at the
Hermitage.
"And how did Jackson treat him?'
I asked.
81 don't know, but I supposed he
treated him all right, as they had been
great friends. After reaching Wash
ington, knew me whipped member
of congress by the name of Stansberry
for saying something disr' spectful of
jackson.
| CATER this we heard nothing more
of Houston until just before the Mex
lean war, when we heard that he had
gone to San Augustine to practice law.
You know his connection with the
Mexican war, probably as we'll as L
do.
"'He married again. I believer
eyes. His wife got divorce, and
| he married Mobile lady, and she
made a man OF him. They visited
| Nashville together, ard I went with
them to see Jackson at the Hermitage,
| Twelve miles from the city. His first
wife married again, and IS living near
Nashville, unless she died recently"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28
THE COUNTRY MORALS AND A
CITY,S VICES.

Some one has written that ''lf there
be q monarch who can walk this earth
with an unshamed brow, it is the in
dependent farmer, whose house Is his
castle, whose acres his dominion, and
whose virtues are his crown of rejoic-
ing" Is is among these, says the
Memphis Appeal, and away from
crowded marts, that Beechers and Til
tons never appear, and among these
the simple precepts of christianity ere
practiced.- If the church be degraded,
and the very foundations of society
and government broken up by vices of
metropolitan life, the security of'the
family, its integrity and unity, on
which alone government rests m safe
ty, are maintained intact and spotless
in the country. If there be a mighty
church in Brooklyn, corrupted by the
example of its impulsive, learned and
eloquent priest. and if Tilton, and the
women who are his allies, would gloat
over the ruin wrought, we should
never forget that these incidents are
local, evanescent and almost trifiing in
the progressive fortunes and his
tory OF a mighty people. There
are thirty millions living en- farms
and in industrious villages everywhere
in this broad land who abhor every
incident and every deduction evolved
from this horrible record of vice and
corruption in the great metropolis of
America. We need not despair of the
church nor of the country. A thous-
and Beechers and Tiltons cannot shake
the faith of christian homes in the
sublime truths OF the Bible, and the
very prominence and conspicuousness
given the shameful facts, affecting the
great preacher of Brooklyn, SO repul-
sive to decency and vio,ative of chris
tian codes, demonstrates the horror of
men filing positions and guilty of con-
duct like that Of Beecher. The gen.
eral purity of public morals is not to
be Questioned because great preach
or may have fallen, and still less, if
New York Society be corrupt, need
wededuce the conclusion that myriads
Of homes in all this broad land have
felt the influence Of Beecher's exam
pie or of Tilton's or Woodhull's hor-
rible philosophy. Their teachings,
like Beecher's alleged conduct, only
excite horror and disgust, and affect
alone the men and women and society
Immediately involved.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28

The New York Herald relates that
beautiful young woman, apparently
twenty years of age, applied for lodg-
ing few nights ago at the Nineteenth
Precinct Police Station, in East Fifty
ninth street. Her dress. although
well worn, was neat and tidy. The
blonde hair of her head hung in curls
down a well shaped neck. Her form
was delicate. and her speech indicated
that her education lad not been neg
lected. She gave a remarkable story
of how, sixteen months ago. she mar
ried a man named Anthony Briggs,
carpenter OF no mean capacity, resld-
ing in Boston. Massachusetts,, where
her parents also lived in comfortable
circumstances. The young couple
lived happily together on the outskirts
OF Boston until last February, when,
IN company with several other tamil
lies, they e,nigrated to North Carolina
On the way thither her husband began
to show his true character, by beating
her without the slightest prUvOcation.
THIS he kept up at intervals, until
she lett hrm III the country near
Charlotte. North Carolina, with the
determination OF going TO her parcnts
IN Nj Issa chusetts, even II she was com
pel!e to walk the whole distance. She
accordingly started on her trip the
second week i'll April, with only few
cents more than 81 in her pocket She
travelled an average of five hours day,
the rest of the time being spent In
sleep, o. working for fami.ln s in order
to pre- ,ure a meal. Thus she travel
ed on foot and alone through North
Carolina Virginia, Mary lana, Pennsyl-
vsnia, and New Jersy, arriving in New
York last week, foot sore and sick from
lifelong journey she had taken After
making known her troubles to the po-
lice captain, through his exertions
sum of money was raised to enable her
to take the train for Boston, which she
did alter q few days rest She claims
that her friends in Boston are numer-
Gus, but she could not let them know
10 what an unfortunate position she
had been placed, although the fault
was not her own. She does not know,
or at least does not care, where her
husband is. 1t is her intention to APP
ply for a divorce at an early date
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28
TIL RACES.

THE RACES.
Since the recent elections Nc-'a0in
writer's and paeers are inclined 10 mis-
represent the feeling towards the ne
groes among the Southern whites.
Recent disturbances and troubles are
pasced at the doors of the whites. and
political triumphs are ALLEGED, r. ;ntol-
been followed BY aF 81 our people. We
erancs f AHe contrary, speaking of the
region with which we are familiar, the
vhites have shown q truly wonderful
forbearance and self-control, consider
ins the extreme violence of the social
revolution brought instantly upon
them by external force. And there
has never been the smallest danger OF
tiot, disturbance of the peace or vlo-
fence. that we know anything about
which has not been created by the ag-
sressiye course of some OF the negroes.
II is true, as we are glad to believe,
that the great body of the negroes are
inclined to peace, but this rule admits
OF many exceptions, and there are
in every community turbulent and
oyerbearing spirits who seem to de-
liaht in acts and speech which are
veil calculated to excite and in
fame the most seif-possessed and
create exacerbation in the communl-
ty. It is true, well-disposed people OF
color should not be held responsible
for such behavior among the ll-dls-
rosed and violent but tits also true
That they do not rebuke it, and On the
contrary almost habitually suffer them
selves to be represented by the most
aggressive and abusive at their public
meetings, and even to loudly applaud
Whatever is said peculiarly bitter,
malignant and revengeful in reference
to the whites.
This is not right nor prudent. Every
good man, of both races, ought to see
that since Providence has placed them
together here, it is the first duty OF
both to study the things which make
for peace. and to restrain all those
small acts of aggression, which breed
iII-blood-such as rudeness on the
streets or public conveyances to de-
fsnceless ladies', and to children pass
ing to and from school-t0 maintain
proper decorum in all the relations OF
life and to rebuke rudeness and vIo-
lenee wherever found.
So far as the Northern papers and
writer's represent the inevitable effect
of the Civil Rights bill, if passed, on
the harmony Of the Southern States,
they are right. The attempt to en-
force social amalgamation by the Fed
erai law will be dismal failure, and
probably result in frequent personal
collisions which cannot be guarded
against or prevented, but which will
keep up perpetual ferment and
trouble, and prove exceedingly injurl-
ious to the relations of both races.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28

A letter from Catania to the Augs-
burger Allegmeine Zcit,ng, of Au-
gust LIST, says:
"Since the beginning of May the
highest and largest volcano in Europe
the Htna--appears to be in period
of activity which announces an ap-
preaching eruption. 1t will soon be
five years since torrent of lava, is
suing from the principal crater covered
the Vale de Sove. From September,
1869, to the present day the mountain
has cen quiet. Professor Sylvestri,
who has studied with attention the Sc
ries of phenomena produced, recently
passed two days and nights on the
summit Of the cone. and concluded
from what he saw that a new erup-
ton may be expected at no distant
date"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28

Now, since the election is over the
carpet-bagger element of the Republic
can party in tins District, having
elelected Seymour, Judge, and Hyman
to Congress, crow Justify over their
spoils and make bitter war upon the
native white Republicans who failed
to support either of the candidates on
account of race or nationality. The
Newbern Times, in it's issue Of the 18th
inst, reads Gov. Holden, Richard W,
King, John V. Sherrard and others of
the oldest native Republicans out of
the negro party. After naming these
parties, the Times concludes
Now, We claim to be Republican,
and do desire the increase of the prin-
ciples of that party. and We now throw
down the ''gunntleS," and intend to
fight for our rights, and tell gentlemen
plainly and unequivocally that We do
not intend to be ignored in the politics
OF this State, because we are Northern
men, and we will meet the issue every
where. if you dare make it, and will, If
need be, carry it into national politics.
We claim the right to carry our princi-
pies to any portion of the United
States"