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Wilmington journal., 1875-12-31
GRANTS TO RApAReAD.

As a matter of rdblic interest at this
time the Warrington correspondent OF
the 81 Louis Republican furnishes
Aaas paper with statement of the
grants of lauds by Congress to rail-
roads, from which it appears that this
policy of land subsidies had its origin
in 1850, when q grant of 1856, ,O53
acres was made to the Illinois Central
Railroad. This was followed in 1862
by the grant of 81, 900, 900 acres to the
several Pacific Roads; in 1866, of AZ.
COO, 600 acres to the Atlantic and Pa
cifc; l, 700, 900 acres to the st. Joseph
end Denver City Road; 1908, 600 acres
to the Southern Branch of the Union
Pacific Railroad 100000 acres 10
TO the Oregon Central Road; 16, 400,
COG acres to the Texas Pacific Road;
47.000,0O0 acres to the Northon Pacific
Road; and 3,20O,000 acres to the Ore
gon branch of the Central Pacific
Esoad-making total Of 160, ,290, COO
acres of public land granted to the
roads mentioned. The correspond Mt
gives, also. u record OF the votes in
the Senate on these grants. In many
cases there was no division; il those
where the yeas and nays were taken
the majority is generally large. On
the initiative vote on the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad grant the Western and
Southwestern Senators voted in favor
of the grant, the names of Atchison.
Benton, Chase, Bell, Dougless. Houston
and Shields being recorded amongst
the yeas.
Wilmington journal., 1875-12-31
WASHINGTO

WAsHGNGToN, Dec. 29.-The Col
lectJr IF Internal Revenue Shaugh-
messy, at Jackson, Miss, Jelegraphs to
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
that his deputy, W. b. Redmond, had
been drive Ii from his office and home,
and from county 10 county III his di-
vision, while disc Iarglng his official
duty, by armed bottles, who publicly v
defy the uthuriiy of the UGited States
and threaten to resist. Ii Redmond
cannot discharge his duties without
military interference, ins rue me IL
the premises. In reply, the Commis-
sioner telegrsphed: lis your evidence
positive of Redmond's pursuit by
armed bodies How numerous are
they and how large d force do you re-
qulre ?" To this, Collector Shaugn-
messy replied by teleS ;aph: 1.-The evil
derce is positive. Il umond is noti-
fed by the Mayor of Summit, Pike
county, to leave at once as be and the
peace officers could not protect him.
Che armed bodies, numbering from 50
ct 75, assert that he canuOt main III
the division. A commissioned ,.ticcr
and 25 soldiers. if stationed at Liberty
Ami e county, aad instructed to sup
port him for thirty days or uutil the
otfsnilug parties are arrested, would
DE sutfic.ent cavA!fy is preferred.
An escort could accompany him on II
tour through the bad counties and
have good effect.
The papers IN the case were transmit
t d to president Grant. who directed the
military offic commanding the de
par ment Of the South, to furnish IL
sufficient force of cavalry to enable
the proper officer to collect the rev.
--Hue,
Wilmington journal., 1875-12-31

F.: houn7. ID. voting himself entirely t.
his pr6ie sion. aud ignoring the ide,s
of Mr. C.!ho"n Mr.. Petigru removed
| TO ihHr;estoJt. wi.a:e ne rose t., ti.s-
| zenatn of iuie:i"ctuaI power HI
daughter Susan was on" of two chill
dren. aud she inheIittd d his fortune
his gilt of lnteiltct, for worldly goods
the had none. EAriy in life she married
Henry G a son of Hon. Michael King
the Aacenas of Charleston. Mr.. and
Mrs. King did not live happily togeth-
er. They had one child, Adele, the
present beau iiu: Mrs. Middleton. MIR.
Ming was killed during the war, while
serving as captain of the Calhoun
GUARDS, of Charleston
During the war Mrs King and her
daughters retired to Greenvllle under
the mountains, where they passed
fer the prettiest of imported BEAUTIES.
| Ill comparison with the mountain flow
ers. After the war, under tie rising
star OF Andy Johnson, Mrs. King went
10 Washington, where she was appoiut-
ed to cierkshlp IN the department.
HIRE. under the auspices of the greai
kentucky preacher, the blind Mr. MIL
burn, she made the acquaintance of
Congressman @. G. Bowen, The repres-
entative under Republican rule OF her
own district. He vas capable nan,
OF full sway among his coDstitu hts.
They were married. Gen. Sherman.
gave the bride away. President Grant
pardoned the blgamist Bowen for the
deed-tue temptation was more than
humanity could withstand After their
marriage Bowen treated her well. She
had all abundance of everything she
desired, except society /; this followed
her to her grave
Wilmington journal., 1875-12-31

the part of the House. The manifes-
tations of public sentiment have been
too clear, on the subject Of Il third
term, for him not to have perceived
that he had no chance Of renomina-
tion by Republican National Con-
ventiop, on the old issues. This was
sufficient, and, as we suspect
controlling reason, for his idtrodu-
cling into politics a new add explosive
element, which migle blow up the old
Republican orsan1zation, leaving some
of the constituent elements, with
ore..r additions form other sources. to
reunite and from a new party, which
would naturally concentrate upon him
as it's candidate. And if a majority
of the voters of the United States
shall ever be so reused up and in
furiated by religious excitement as
to elect man President on sectarian
issues-it is by such e. party, if any,
that we may expect the third term
que ,tion to be looked upon as minor
and insignii cate. General Grant took
his only chance-a desperate one, it
may be. But he must have taken it
with full knowledge that he had no
other, and with too thorough an un-
derstanding of the views of the COLI
spicuous Republicans on the third
term for the recent vote to have occa-
stoned him either surprise or upeasi-
ness.
Wilmington journal., 1875-12-31
NEW YORK.

New YORK, Dec. 29-Rev. Henry
Bothem, better known as Father Both
esu, the oldest preacher of the Methos
dist church III this couH. ~ AID proba-
oily the OIuEsU eTgYIuau in the world.
died yesterday at the house of his
granddaughter, near Richmond, Stat
cn Isla d. On the Sth of last June,
the one hundredth anniversary of his
birth was celebrated at Jersey City by
the Newark Conference, when Father
Bothem submitted an outline of his
own IIfe and labnls IN the Methodist
church, and addresses were made by
other clerp y.nen. The excitement of
the occasion Frustrated him and though
he rallied, he was again seized with
illness on the II of this month while
attempting TO preach in the village
church at Richmond, Staten Island.
He was born i'll Lancaster county, Pa.
He joined the Methodist church in
1897. He served il the ministry in
Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland
and was the travelling companion of
Bishop Asbury. For more than thirty
years Father Bothem has been i'll the
New Jerss y Conference and as early as
1912, was On the list of supernumerary
preachers. He was buried on Friday.
A special from Vienna to the Herald
says the Secretary of State of the
United States has transmitted to every
European Governments a circular dated
in Washington, asking an expression
of views of each foreign executive in
regard to the question of American in
tervention in Cuba. The object of the
American cabinet minister is the OBJ
tanning of data TO be used in the prep
aration of President Grants supple
mentary message to Congress. All the
foreign governments have replied sat-
isfactorily. England is ready to en-
dorse the Intervention movement at
present moment. The other nations
express their willingness to support
the Intervention, but hesitate to tax
iniative.
Wilmington journal., 1875-12-31

ROME, Dec. 2S. A special says yes
terday being the Pope's nameday. there
was series of receptions at the Vati-
can. The members OF the Papa staff
and their commanding officers received
the Pontifical Bcpediction kneelIng.
A special to the Herald from London
says the officials in Madrid having re-
fused to forward the following dis
patch, it was transmitted to this city
through another source: ''There are
indications of the near advent of q Sc
rious diplomatic complication There
is strange rumor afoat in trustwor-
thy quarters which alleges the near ad-
vent of European Intervention in
Cuba. The nations which may coalesce
for this purpose are not named. The
United States Govern ment Is probably
forewarned of the fact, as am assured
that lengthy dispatches in cipher are
passing between Madrid and Washing
ton.
Judge Donahoe decides that the rec
ognizances of Tweed's bail on seven
recent indictments for felony are for
feite1
Wilmington journal., 1875-12-31

I CINCfNNAFI puts III it's claim for the
National R"pub'ican Convention,
.her.by filiirg Cnicago and st, Louis
with pious horror at its auincity.
| Cleveland so has hopes.
The Kentucky Legislature assem-
b!es on Monday next. For .he dozen
or so minor Offices within the gift of
the Legislature there is said to be not
less than one hundred and ten cam
didates
The Cincinnati Republican, speak
ing of President Grant. says: HID
he been content to stop where the war
left him, the world would never have
known how poor a ruler a splendid
so dier can make.
JOYCE says that he is in patient for
the society of Avery, Mcdonald and
Babcock, and that if the Government
attorneys do their duty "the White
House will be badly scorched, the
President not excepted P"
ONE of Tweeds relations says that
he used 10 be fond of learning verses
from the Bible when a boy, and now
he has committed Exodus.
Mrs. S. M DICKNs, of Dubuque,
Iowa, has given birth to half q pound
of SOD, and the Chicago Inter- Ocean
calls it "a pocket edition of Dickens"
SENATOR JONES, of Nevada, has had
private Car built for the exclusive
use of himself. Il is a richly fur
nished house on trucks, and cost $11,-
900.
THE wife of Houston, the chief ell
gineer of the steamship Pacific, who
lost his life while trying to save the
women passengers OF the Ill-fated
vessel. has become insane from grief
at the death of her husband.
THE steamboat Mary Bell, from
Natchez to New Or,eaus, had the Iasg-
est load ever landed at the Crescent
City wharf, her cargo consisting of
7, 400 bales of cotton and 13, 700 sacks
of cotton seed.
A correspondent of the New York
World estimates that the House of
Representatives costs the country
500 600 day. $3.50 al hour, aud $40
minute. The other day mt mher
made motion to change the name of
n steamboat from John Jones to T!os.
jenkins. 1t took five minutes TO g9;
It through, and we, the people, were
out just $500.
IT is over six years since the terri
BILE disaster at the Avondale coal mines
in Pennsylvania, which resulted i'll
death of 10 men by suffocation Th..
sum of $155, 146, Al WAS subscribed
throughout the country a. relief
fund for the families of the victims,
and this sum was increased to STA
DAP by interest The fund has but
just o2en exhausted
THERE will be dead letter auction
sale at Washington. on January Il,
by order of the Postmaster General.
Among the $500 different articles.
which will be off red for sale on the
occasion, IA a testimony to the ctIe-
iessness of parties who use the mails,
are looks, music paper. epgraviugs,
jewelry necktles, baby oiothe-, socks,
scarfs, violin strlngs, scissors, knives,
shoe brushes, stockings, corn crushers,
scythes, stones, tOothpicks, charms,
shoes, gloves, astk matte fumigators.
nignt-caps, sheetings. ribbons, isaws
and corn huskers.
Wilmington journal., 1875-12-31
EEECTRICISMS

A Paris dispatch says Queen Isabella
has the measles.
A Madrid dispatch confirms the
death of DeRodas.
Auditor Tbayer, of New York, has
been suspended.
Lodicia Fredenburg and her sou
have been respited.
Nathaniel Carr, Boston merchant,
took out a box containing $50, 900
worth of bouds and papers from the
safe deposit vaults at the Blackstone
National Bank, and while examining
It's contents, his attention was called
off by strangers and the box Was stolen
81, 900 were negotiable papers. The
rest can be replaced.
The new bark Stonewall Jackson ar
rived at Norfolk from Boston. A large
crowd turned out. and the Light AR
ii lerT Blues salutrd her. She was
visited b. E.any prominen: citizens.
she steamship Amerique, disabled,
has been towed into Havre for repairs.
Wilmington journal., 1875-12-31
raE RUSxNESS OUTLOOK,

The New York Bulletin of Friday
says: ''The year is closing with symp-
toms of some improvement to the con-
dition of business affairs. During this
month there has been marked fall
ing off in the number of faiiUres,
which is rather remarkable fact CON
sideriug that the settlements 10 be
made IN the last month of tie year are
always the severest test OF the re-
sources of men of business. Failures
are in the best times expected at TIE
md of the year; but at present they
are few and insignificant. Another
welcome symptom is the growing ac-
tivity il the money market. It is re-
freshin9 to find the rate for call looms
quoted at plump Z per cent. and this
a;ot as the result OF any temporary
speculative manipulation. but of a
healthier demand for loans and of a
growing disposition throughout the
country to employ capital which has
long laid idle. There seems to be
some reason to hope that 1876 will
open with better feeling. After all
/ he liquidation Of the last two years,
the fall in prices, the cutting down of
wages, the economizing of trade ex-
renditures, the reduction of rents and
the wholesale wedding out of weak
tirms-after all this thorough work of
reconstruction, business eerte'nly
ought to be on a ar<basis safe enough
to encourage production and a gen.
orally freer employment of capital;
md merchants should feel that they
can afford to be less tin1id than they
have been since The panic"
Wilmington journal., 1875-12-31
f . r i 7 M
SPAIN.

MADRID, Dec. ga special says
that Count Punonraslro is new in
Paris engaged in the official duty of
arranging tor the return of ex-Queen
Isabella to Spain. King Alfonzo op-
pases the will of the mir istry in this
matter. He defes the cabinet, de-
claring that the ministers may resign,
but that his mother must have an asy-
lum in Spain Her residence is to be
ut Valladoilid, for reason that Madrid
is not considered a safe place for her.
It is now believed that teis serious is
sue has been forced on Alfonzo by Is
abella. The results will be most dis
q strous. The Spanish army will be
divided at once if the ex-Queen takes
any part In the direction as counsel of
the State affairs. Isabella's return
will even cause the loss of Senior Sa-
gasta 10 the Royalists.
Wilmington journal., 1875-12-31
S TELEGRAPH,
NEWS I'm GENERAL
iBY TELEGRAPH TO THE JOURNAL.
NORTH CAROLINA.
RIOT
DIsgracesTEi and sssoody R.os-Ewu
Negroes Killed.

anu ESsDoHy q
Negroes Killed.
CHARLOTTE, Dec 27.-On Saturday
last one of the most disgraceful affairs
that ever occurred in this city, was
witnessed by our citizens and partici-
pated in by about one hundred persons.
It seems that a disorderlv white man
became involved in a difficulty, AID nj
the interference of a policeman to ar
rest the partiet, a rush was made
upon the officer by squad of drunken
negroes and "A violent attempt made to
rescue tho coinbatants from his hands
4 general fight enSued. Pistols.
knives and clubs were freely and pro-
mi>cnously used. About thirty sho.>
were fired, when the .ity authoriti"s
succeeded in qu6liing the riot, a ne-
gro from the country and the leader
Of the posse, who instigated the affray
was found dead, having receiveie pis-
tol shot IN his b',dy. A great many
threats were made by the negroes OF
what they intended doing at night. but
nothing occurred 10 disturb the peace.
A l is now quiet.
Later-We learn that negro maj.
died thIs morning from u wound re-
ceivtd 2uriuS the riot.
Wilmington journal., 1875-12-31
lMPOKTED MACHINERY.


nc Es7c Dcc COnes
Paby
W. had the pleasure of a visit, last
evening, from MIR. Henry Ri,hton, the
Superintendent of the cotton mills OF
the Pee Dee Manufacturing Company,
located near Rockingham in Richmond
county. This Company seems to be
making their arrangements for an ex
tensive manufacturing business, on a
solid foundation and with skilful pre-
caution. They have, to begin with,
capital of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. have secured an ad-
mlrabie water power; erected thereat,
all tho necessary buildings; engaged
the services of competent and ex-
perlenced superintendent, who was
brought up t. the business in Lancas-
hire, England, and are now importing
all their most important machinery
direct from England, through tie port
of Wilmington. Fifty tons Of this
machinery, costing fifteen or twenty
thousand dollars, is now afioat for tbi,
port, and expected soon to arrive,
The duty, on these impoi tations, is
thlrty-tive per cent.-more than one
iilrd OF the original cost; and yet, as
Mr.. Rishton informs us, this ma
chlneTy can be delivered at the mills
OF the company near Rockingham, by
importation from England, through
Wilmington, at much less cost than
machinery of like description could
be procured from the Eastern work
shops and foundries, Besides, it is
claimed, and we do not doubt the JUS
toe of the claim, that cotton mill ma
ohinery, of nglish workmanship. is
superior to that of American workman |
ship, it being of more durable and |
nature, and of better
inIsh.
1t is truly with unfeigned delight
hat we chronicle every movement that
We hear of being made toward the
up of North Carolina man
and we shall rejoice to see
he day when the boot shall be shifted
rom the Northern leg to the South
'rn, when "Flee Trade" shall he tho
nckly watchword of the North. and
Protective Tariff shall be the policy
If the South.
Wilmington journal., 1875-12-31
(Richuoud DjsDat.h


The notorious Gen. Sherman has
been assiduousIy bunting fo- the little
end of the horn. aud has found 1t, Al
'Forefathers' dlnuor' in New York he
out-Shcrmaned Sherman. He, could
not be content-d with brayIng ove1
Plymouth Rock, but must go oat of hi4
way to Insult the people uI the South.
Ii belongs to ignob = Learts to do
Things like that Insulting the fallen
and his heart was ignubie enough for
the task. He tells US what terrible
tt'1ng5 be will do with the South if
Ekey dare CHERISH one thought of
hospitality aud boast of their old Con-
federacy." He is very Bubadli, and.
IKE ancient PISTOL, would readily sea.
the leek upon occ.. don.
What could the great sherman mean
hy Swelling and gobbiing IN such q
InanDer at II time OF profound peace.
when the ooutn Is quiet and law
abidlpg, by Railing at It's people a0u
telling them what he will 30 with them
IL they dare tu boast of their old Con
f5Heracy! 1t Was mere SLOW of
personal vanity aud nrkey-coch valor
"here there was DO risk III displaying
1t. LII was eUpty va.or and N ~ ehce
TO the defeated Without prov ocation ::
disgrace lui to the honorable vocation
of ;be warrior, 40 man worthy of the
Ihslgul of tue soldier would have per
petrated SO wantOn an outrage upon
au immense bod, of civi !izrd people,
Gen. Sherman, as though he were
lord OF the realm, tells The Southern
people that if they will do certain
things there will be equality, &c; as
though they We're born" on the sun.
fnce of plymouth RICK This is the
Iugenutty ot In>O eIce. Vino tIaG was
born anywhere else does not think
nora If his birthp ace than OF Pi,
mouth iiock? Was ever there a m..,,
who regretted that he was not bor,, on
the surface ot L ymouth Rock? Ii
there ever was sucI II peSon he would
assurediE have bis regret changed to
giadIe:s upon learning that Gen.
>':'"Tinan was one OF the chid Ell of
q lard, grai!tive q d .nseusib!e
IIirsher.
There was no n3td for GeA. SLet-
mon 10 Il axe ti:ls display Of himself,
ie las gan ed nothing by it, save per
Hepo sho lhcCtnse OF lue cuntunlut tss,t
fur Linn III tie South. He was ,Jreseu:
ai"fg < VIjh President Grant, who had
inflicted Uruei In7uit upon p..rsons
neat and dear to him. Yet hev.ed with
Gen. Grant IL courtlug the favor of
the very persons UIrant most delighted
III otfrring this Insult. Hewon their
appreciation, and that of even Grant
by his wantor aud ridiculous display.
Sherman had been justly regarded as
u valn, concritrd aud jealous man:
but he had not been regarded as
tnureiy 1ugenerous and a braggart
to consideration As n man DOS ,essed q,
any of the virtues that belong to no.
bic mpds. Like a foolish man. whose
heart is both lilly and wicked, he has
Wantonly lnsuited a people great Ill
numbers aud renowned in virtues aud
herolsln. he has spoken OF them
With the arrogauca of tyrant and the
Vu!garity of a man unacquaiilttd with
the Qualities oT gentle mau, aud uu-
restrained by tue sentiments of hu
mainly.
Wilmington journal., 1875-12-31
EDITORIAL. NOTES.

PERE HTACJNTHE, it is said, has de.
termined to locate psrmaa emily il
| Boston.
GEO. WILLIAM CURTIS says, in Har.
Per's Heekiy. that the Republican
party is shattered, and he also says
that none of the Grant group can be
elected to the Presidency. That rules
oat a Republican President next
year.
REPUBLICAN newspapers interpret
the spirit OF the times better than the
politicians. aud Senator Morton is re.
ceiving many admonitions from his
party journals to move cautiously in
his Mississippi election interference In
fact it is rather broadly limited that he
bad better drop it altogether.
A CINCINNATI jury has found that
Egner, who knocked down another
msn, beat HIM until he was senseless.
aud then threw him into a furnace.
was only guilty of murder in the Sec
ond Edegree. It would be inter-
esting to know whether anybody can
tell how, in Ohio. murder in the FIRST
degree could be committed.
Earl Fitzwilliam has taught strikers
rather severe lesson. Golfers struck
fol higher wages nine months ago at
his Rntherham pits, which were then
closed. They now went to resume
work on the owners original terms,
b-st the Earl has declared that the
colliries shall not be reopened during
his lifetime. His lordship is sixty
years of age.
EHE Pope has been building in
Rome at his QUE expense a number of
houses for the po.'r. They are called
economical houses, and are for the ac-
commc cdation of operatives and poor
people. Each house is divided into
ihilty-two lodgings, of two. three, or
four rooms. Each lodging has a
kithen. They are we'll ventilated and
full of hight; the doors have good locks.
there are bells, and the whole con-
truction is solid. The rent of these
lodgings is from IL to 90 francs a
month, according to the number of
rooms. The rent is paid by the mouth,
and without any demand of deposit IN
advance or as security.
The Dutch gouernment will show
at the Centennial exhibition a col!ec-
tive model illustrating tho progress
ma,e by Holland in hydraulic engie-
ering, and consisting of groups of mo-
dels of the principal great reclamation
and other works undertaken by State.
Among them will be shown the Haar-
lem drainage, the new canal. the Dor
drecht steel bridge, the Kullenllure
railway, new steam pump, copper
models of sluices, relief map of the
luyder Zee. &c. The objects are
now being shown to the pnblic before
being packed for America.
SENATOR FENToN writes from Flori-
la to his Albany physician that he has |
already been much relieved from his
throat trouble.
F Grant were only musical, with
what en.pressnaent he could sing '.Still |
70 gently round me stealingr"-BaH.
Gazette.
NEW reading from Shakespeare:
Page to Ulysses lid Term-My liege.
he Duke of Babcock is taken
Ulysses Hid Term-Of with Hender-
on's headi So much for Babcock.-f
siehmond Hngasirer.