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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24
GambetgA On the Policy of rance

S;ambetEA On the Policy of rance.
Leon Gambetta in his recent speech
at Lyons sp oke as follows:
at Is as wise and statesmanlike as it
is necessary that the repnblic should
be considered as a republic of peace,
order and M rahty. It is necessa. y
that the world should be impressed
with the fact that the republics ex-
istence can give no umbrsge to the
powers on our frontiers. We have
often sinned thro ugh spirit of exces-
sive propaganda Let US begin by
looking at home. Let US heal our own
wounds, and leave ther OF the world
to mind its own business without OBJ
trading our interference.
.'Moreover. for long time past we
have had nothing to teach foreign
nations, but on the contrary much to
learn and borrow from them-from
England the freedom of the press and
the right of meeting. and from our ad-
versary of yesterday its military or
ganization aud it's really universal
compulsory service. On these condi-
and sympathy OF our neignbors. We
must repudiate proseiytism. We must
repudiate that sinister policy Of the
Second Empire which involved us in
the Mexican exp edltion. which be-
trayed Denmark, which allowed Aus
tria to De crushed. and which dug I'M
der our own feet gulf into which We
ali but disappeared. That doctriue Of
nationahties we must emphatically,
heartily, and sincerely repudiate."
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24

A New Orleans telegram to the
Shreveport Times says: The rejection
of Pinchhack Causes intense indigna~
ton among negro politicians, all of
whom denounce the Republican party
and express a desire for a coalition
with the whites. Hewitt, Pinch's
brother-in-law, says he will accept
Penn for Governor ard let him name
the whole ticket. Antoine also talks
of coalition. Nobody takes much in
terest except negro politicians. It is
rumored that Kellogg will resign and
let Antoine appoint him Senator.
Casey, Packard and Warmoth are
spoken of as KelIogg's probable ap-.
pointee. Very few seem to think
Eustis will he seated. The Juror among
the negroes is probably temporary.
When the canvass opeLs they viii, as
sual, fall into line.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24
WE DEMAND DIT AS A RIGHT.

That the officers and agents of the
Internal Revenue service. aided by the
United States Commissioners. have
been unparalleled in their tyrannlcal
and despotic rule in North Carolina,
no truthful man can deny. Iu many
cases, especially in the Western part
of the State. these representatives OF
"the best government the world ever
saw" have been corrupt az well as des-
potic and partizan, and it is high time
their villainies we've unearthed.
THIS is the day for investigation and
exposure and we venture to say,
from what we hear, that 10 rich
err mine of frauds, corruptions
and expressions can be fou-d tnan
that which will appear when the opc-
ra1ions of the Internal Revenue men
aud their partners in iniqnlty, the
United States Commissioners, shall be
uncovered. 50 say our friends from
the West, auG 81 We believe.
Touching this matter, The Charlotte
Observer we'll says:
I'VE make the assertion that the
rsvenu" departm"ut oi thego'efhnl Ill
throughout t!.e wilo!e OF Western
North Carolina is mass OF corruption
80 o T. !
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one vast combination, a 8'gahiic Fai'a
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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24
President Grant OH the InvestIga

President Grant on the InvestIga-
Warrington (March 10Y correspond ence of tie
Cincinnati Gazette-rep.l
The President in a recent CONVERSE
ton with a private gentleman, ex-
pressed himself very freely and earn
estly on tue subject of the pending in
vesugatlons in Congress and the party
which is conducting them. The Pres
ident said, in substance, the most of
tho Investigations are to drag out with
Olt any definite end and are designed
to accomplish partizan purpose. The
patriotic people of the Country, he
believed, would soon discover that the
Investigations ;nstigased by those who
had sought to dissolve the Union were
undertaken for the purpose of destroy
ing instead of reforming the govern
ment. Com mentin9 upon the post
Office Investigations, the President
remarked that it was signifi-
cant fact that the committeeman
who is most active in his assaults on
the government is the late Postmaster
General of the Confederacy. Reagan,
and that the witness upon whom the
comm lttee has most relied is a clerk
who was discharged from the Chicago
postoffice for cause, and who obtained
a position in the Postoffice Depart
ment under false pretenses. "Why,"
added the President, "they are even
trying to Investigate the conduct of
the war. A short time before Bel
knap's downfall the investigators sent
to the War Department for all the
records in the important Mcdonald in
vestigatiou in the Quartermaster' De-
partment in 1866. Belknap sent back
word to the committee that there was
not clerical force enough at his dis
posal to copy the records, and that he
could not permit the originals, on ac-
count of their Importance, to leave the
department. The Presidently signfi-
cantly added that he would himself
have liked personally to have ans wered
that application. 1t is evident that
this is Que of the Investigations which
the military com nittee has u1dertaken
to conduct secretly.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24
FasE nE~P83sz AEs1 EIs-Ess OErE1E
: IL EsiNESass AEEDS.

A Washington dispatch says: Ii IS
pretty definitely asccrtainod that the
administration has urged It's friends II.
the Senate ID resist by every possible
means the passage of the act passed by
the House for the protection OF VIII
nesses who testify before Cougressiu /
al committees. The effort to secrrl.
its defeat III the Senate will be headed
by Conkliug, who has been engag d
for several days in looking up author
ties TO support his side. Whether
Edmunds will second him or not is as
yet uncertain. Logan is especially
active to secure the defeat of themtas-
IRE because there are several persons
under Indictment in Chicago for their
connection with whisky frauds. WHO
would be glad to get off by telling all
they know about Logan's connection
with crooked whisky to a Cong ression-
al committee. 1t is really a matter of
life and death with more than one
prominent Republican that this act
should be defeated, and they viii ieaye
no stone unturncd to accomplish it.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24
TtEAT SHOWER OF FLESH IN
KENTUCKY.


The learning of the books" in regard
to showers of blood and flesh it is said
shows us, first, that they are reality;
secondly, that they arc mostly due to
dust taken up by the winds into very
distant regions; thirdly, that they are
not unfrequent, as they have occurred
on no less than, twenty-one occasions
during the present century in Europe
and Algeria. These remarkable show
ers mostly take place in the spring and
che autumn at the epoch of equinoctial
gales.
The same high authority tells US
there are many instances cited in which
nutritious substances have descended
i'll shower. Thus, in 1924 and 1928,
there was shower so abundanto of this
kind in one of the districts of Persia
that ii covered the ground to the
depth of five or six inches. It was a
kind of Hchen of a sort already known.
Cattle and sheep devoured il eagerly
and some bread was even made of it.
The descent of a soft substance Musch
enbroeck states to have occurred in
ireland in 1916. This YVES glutinous
and fatty, and softened when held in
the hand, and emitted an unpleasant
smell whom exposed to the action of
the fire.
But what a "Kentuckian" knows
L Al Ill H.
| ing of all the books. We let him tell
his own tale. Hear him:
New York, March IL, 1875.
| To the Editor of the Herald:
Being a Kontnckian I can explain
tile late shower of flesh in my native
State. In my Young days L was out
hunting on one occasion and had just
shot and killed fue deer, when Isaw
a whiriwind a preaching. [ coaght
up the deer end [ barely escaped by
stepping aside. as it passed ne With
terrific force. 1t was revolving with
the fearful speed of q shaft run by
lightning aud [ could see the deer
growing smaller and vanishing away
as it was briug ground up in the jaws
of the wind.
no VIII l"l1t P1Ho1NA od, OuU W
surprise, from a returning upper cur
tent of cir there came down a shower
of tue wenison ground as finely as Z en-
| tncky hominy.' For an hour afterward
1t Suited down, and l. gathered it up
until I had flied my game bag with
the wonderful sausage meat.
Tie ST 'angest part of this little oc-
crrrence was the fact that pieces of
| the bone cant. down curiOusly carved
by the ac,iCn of the air into buttons and
other forms If use and ornament,
among which [ still retain III my pos
,ession pair of sleeve buttons. 1 have
no doubt but that many other persons
have like myself witnessed similar
| freaks of the wind who did not think a
little thing of the kind worth mention
ing. 1t may be best to add that
might have been incredui )us had it not
been that [ picked up a piece of the
| deer's meat containing bullet with
my private mark on it. That settled
| question. JOEL SLoPER.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24

The progress OF Capt. Eads'
work on the Mississippi jetties has
been so favorable thus far that q lively
interest is manifested il the work By
the cities to be directly benefited by
the improvement. The plan of this
work, as most readers are probably
aware, is to make chanuel OF comps.r
ahvely Uniform width, by dykes con-
trolling the current over the bars, grd,
where necessary, by dredging tie bar
to give the average depth Of water.
The mattress work has been sunk in
the east jetty beyond tue bar. the sea
wall, it is reported, becomes more solid
every day, aid the current IN the South
Pass has been increased five to SIX feet
per second. 1ade' d the work is al
ready SO far ahead that a three-mf stsd
schooner with Il CO so of 2,250 bales of
cotton, aud draw 1g tiTrtren aud Il
half feet of water, has beer enabled to
pass freely through the channel. The
success of the work vii doubtless ado
to the commerce of the Mississippi
Valley.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24
GEFE SOUTH CAROLYN I'M
E,s:lCss II EE,E-EELDlSE 1sONES.

Pss4CsE1EE RT-JUDGE NOSES.
IMPROVEMENTS are the order of the
day. Mississippi has just concluded
one and ia about to begin another. At
Washington one has begun and others
will doubtless follow, how many
Heaven only can tell. Oar neighbor
p7er the way, the gallant Palmetto
State, las her trials too, as well as her
tribulations. Just now the impeach-
ment of Judge Montgomery Moses is
being tried ard dirty case of corrup-
ton it is, f the testimony be true.
But what else can be expected when
ignorant neproes and handful of cor
rupt white men banded together for
pillage and plumber call themselves a
government.
The following is sample of the tes-
timony against Judge Moses:
John q. Darlington sheriff # New
berry county, testified that be had
fir, queutly loaned Judge Moses money
o. one Of these occasions, at the
Mar h term 10 1875, the Judge had
told him that he must have mOnry.
He replied tnat he ~ tneSS) had none.
Tae Judge sad that fro9l the d: cree
that he ;ltl just male h. knew tina.
he (wienee~) d!l have soma. Witness
s,il he had offici Il lands; but that he
didn't know when the mon'.y would
b5 called for Judges Moses said The,
nancy was sdbject to the order of the
court, and the court waited it. He
sai further that ii" would pass no or
ders for witness to pay out the N }ney
until he (the con y b ii pad it back
lust at tnis rlme IL" attorney il the
case cat of which Moses wanted the.
money, applied to Judge Nose
Tor "cor,-ent order" il ti,e case, for
him (the wltness) to LAY nuo the money.
Judge Ios,+s refused To hear the order,
aud f:lme'llately adj burned tire court
sine die. Moses had then come t.
h n (wItn"&s) Ind sad: Il have I. -
fused the order. Now lrJ IN. have the
money This the witness did. H.
hal On two other occas iUns lent the
in &c money under TIE same uudrr-
standing, a2d tie judge had al aes
cfot"ctr.. him. Ba tad never lent
judg- h:osez any but offic! Il funds,
because Hn Thought tiie colI5 Giit 90
back oD aim Il it vas p*ivate iupd7,
and oou.lnt wei do 20 auuer the
circumstances He ard never been
ruled but once about not pny,ng orI+
nor g, and lie made thu following
answer - tb:s rule: ''Tne MONEY Is
:.'lhj"ct IT, th. order ot the court, and
IL: court bus tbs money" He haG
never heard or7 more from the rHl..
Tie c3ny.r>s.tioas h.0 always peau
private, anti r:e juiE" would never
= ecive i ciieck, bat ways took he
motley 4 Il & I'VE Il II doe bill, OF his
Iu.tic.al .niHrY
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24

The Boston Adeertjser reads a Sc
we're lesson to those Republican SEN
ators who made the introduction of
resolutions by Senator Gordon, look
ing toward more honest internal
revenue service, the occasion of par
tisan debate. It says:
can the revenue officers are now
Republicans. Is not General Gordon
foolish to proposera measure which, if
carried, would debar his party from
doing more than fill chance vac,s .c:es !?
The fact is, as anybody can see, that
Senator Gordon is meking Il PROPOSE
ton which. SO far from exposing him
Justly to the charge of partisanship,
would render it imr ossibJe to fill these
offices on partisan grounds, and which
gives them all in the fast place, for an
indefinite per Cd, into the hands of the
authors political opponents. But the
only worthy reason for advocating the
proposition is it that is wise and right.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24
The arrest in Alabama nnder III

The arrest in Alabama, under the
Ku Klux act, of a number of citizens
Democrats exclusively who are &C
cused of having committed acts of
lawlessness six years ago, is sadly sig
nificant. It is stated that the3e persons
have not been away from their homes
for six years, but the officers, az was
the case in the Bacon-an Bread cam.
paign in 1874, refused bail and took
the prisoners to Huntsville. Alabama
Is a Democratic State, and has
Democratic government. The State
election takes place in August, and the
arrests are believed to be part of a
plan to overawe the whites and turn
the State over to the Republicans,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24
THE KHEBIVf,s VICTORY.
"A Virginia % Gene -al the Leading
Hero.

FROM TIE lklcDm mig.
The signal victory achieved by the
army of the Khedive of Egypt over
the black hordes of Ahyssinia, we are
grstitied to see. was due the military
skill OF General Lorlng, of Virginia,
formerly of the United States and sub
sequently of tue Confederate States
arm y, assisted by corps OF gallant
American officers, many of whose
names are very familiar II US in the
South. The victory seems to have
been quite decisive of the war.
Eighty thousand Abyssiniaus, who
attacked the Egyptian entrenched
camp. were not ou.y repu sed, but
after a desperate battle oomplete-
ly routed and put TO fight
leaving five thousand killed in the
trenches of the assalfed camp. The
Egyptian force Is estimated at between
fifteen and eighteen thousand, the Of
fccrs all b7ing foreigners except the
Pasha, nominelly in command. We
congratulate the Khedive on his
spieuid v.c-ory, and General Loling
and his com AIDES on the fresh !aureis
they have gathered IN "the land of the
Pyram Ids.
Is the Wing quite sure that General
Loring was a Virgipian There is
tradition on this side o. the line that
the General first saw the light on the
sacred soil of the old North Stat. Not
even 1.vuchburg, that renowned mother
OF mighty men, can claim the honor of
having given birth to General Loring,
if we are correctly Informed.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24

The total number Of soldiers mus
tered into the service of the Unit /
States during the late war was $685.
1923, of which 296, 600 were for sixty
days, 109, 416 were for three months,
IS, 5O7 were for one hundred days, AZ
were for four months. O,439 were for
six months, 373, 900 were for eight
months, and 1889 were for nine
months, making total Of 3O2, 661 men
who were enlisted for periods less than
one year. Pennsylvania contributed
the greatest number of less than one
year enlistments of any State in the
Union, being credited with Sd, 773 such.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24
THE SAYOaN EXPEDITION.


Like one of our exchanges. we had
almost forgotten Steinberger and the
Tuscarora. until the Louisville Courier
Journal again brought up the subject.
And here is what that paper says:
"Since Steinberger sailed away on the
ruscarora to the Samoan islands with
large supply of guns and ammun1-
ton furnished by order of the Secre-
tary of War, and established himself
at Apil. as an island monarch under
the protection of the Administrator
at Washing ton, no report Of the ex-
traordinary mission has been placed
before Congress; the Presidentdld not
allude to the subject in his message,
and DO explanation h as been received
from any quarter. Thus far the
Samoan expedition seems to have been
organized for the express benefit OF
Colonel Steinberger, to whom Presi-
dent Grant Is alleged to be under
pecnniary obligations. He furnished
Steinberger with voluminous letters OF
recommendation to the naked saVages
Of the islands, and assured them Of his
kindly feeling toward them. Th :
Navy Department not ouly provided
this blatant adventurer and carpet
Dagger with transportation, but left
him in the poss ,ssion of tteam
launch, with which to piow the waters
Of his new domln9us, ard supplies Of
whisky aud other provisions were
freely fnrnishe l. The last reports
which came from this favored repre-
sentative of the Grant group Were TO
the IF ct thai he WIS evidently III
BOSS 4ssion OF considerable sum OF
money, vas con- tii,ng the natives IL
.jai 4 ill.n q PIC ,, Was en@Gtlng laws,
bullying the native chiefs aud the
;Jn;fe,i state, consul. a.li swaggeriug
bon: lie streets Of iis capital uGder
lie influence OF gin aud whisky.
':prrsideut Grant has been IN the
habit of p. oy!ling 'mis5ions' for his
t4vDrites, out IN no Case i9s be taken
-Uca extraordinary precautions to get
..2lY o. them rGmnvod to such au OBJ
cure distance. OF provided them with
0 mauy cfea ure comforts. There
must therefore have been some power
fiil reason il the Presidential mind tor
i,llrryiug Stein berger off to the South
p.cltic There are doubtless Grant
group secrets hidden away in Stein
Dergrr's breast which might prove
damaging to the White House. Let
secretary Robson be required to show
the why and the wherefore of the use
Of the United States man-of-war Tus-
carora in this c ,nnection. Let the Pres
ident be requested to show his authority
FOX using the property OF the United
States to establish a monarchical form
Of government. The Steinberger ex
pediti0n is worth Investigating. The
President used Babcock in bis attempt
20 acquire land in San Domingo for
the benefit of himself and his friends,
and Steinberger seems to have been
his special agent to the Samoan group.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24

A Washington dispatch says: "Sen
ator John sherman, of Ohio, who came
here with an income of $4,000, and is
now said to be worth over a million,
may as we'll wrap his political winding
sheet about him and lie down and die.
The attention of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs is called to the present
occupant of the Consulate at Bremen.
John M. Wilson, late of Cincinnati.
Ohio, and the r1anner in which this
office was procured, as bride to vote
for Sherman for Senator If the com
mlttee will call the proper persons, it
will unearth rascalities and corruptions
that will make Bslknap saint as cons
pared with Sherman"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24
FIoridians who happen to he at tb

Floridians who happen to be at the
seat of our National Government.
must blush with shame to know tha,
Conover, one Of their State Senators.
stands charged with the embezzlement
of State funds to large amonnt; that
Purman, one of their Representatives,
is accused of selling a cadetship, and
other grave offences; and that the
Governor of the State is denounced ir
Congress as fool, liar and swindll-.
Thank heaven, the trio are carpet
baggers and Radicalsi So says the
Jacksonville Press.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24
General Gordon and Revenue Re-
form.

General Gordon and Revenue Re-
form.
From the Augusta Chronicle and sentinel.
Northern newspapers, it seems, have
different opinion Of Senator Gordon's
movement in the interest of revenue
reform from that expressed by the
weak knee Democratic Congressman
in Washington. All the Democratic
journals endorse his proposition, and
the Republican papers, except few
of the most Radical stripe, commend
his proposition to the attention Of
Congre s. Senators Sherman, Morton
Morton and Edmunds are receiving
some severe slaps from their party OF
gans for turning t ,e debate upon the
revenue into a purely partisan dis
cussion. They are tod that there
was nothing in General Gordon's
opening speech to provoke such treat
ment as he received AID that the
speeches of the Senators alluded to
betrayed an unworthy desire TO evade
the issue presented by opening a use-
less discussion upon the dead issues
of the war. General Gordon has the
satisfaction of knowing that he is sus-
tanned by the best journals of the Re-
publican party and by the best men of
the country irrespective of party. He
does not seem to be discouraged by the
manner in which the Senate received
his resolutions and has determined to
persevere in the good work of revenue
reform. He has carried his proposition
to the Way and Means Committee ofthe
Democratic House. where it will re-
ceive a more careful and more cour-
teous consideration. The recent whisky
ring trials in st. Louis have had the
effect of calling the attention of the
country to asystem of stealing that has
been in successful operation for the
past twelve years. Through the CON-
nivance and active cooperation of
revenue officials toe government has
been robbed, since the adoption of the
law imposing a tax on spirits, of enough
money to almost pay off the national
debt. The fountain of corruption is
found in the appointing power. We
hope that General Gordon will perse-
we're in the good work which he has
commenced in spite of the opposition
of Nc ton & Co.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24

Boss Shepherds Port Royal prop
erty lies about twelve mites from the
town, and it has been discovered, since
Shepherd made his investment, that
the water thereabout is freshcr and
better for the feet than the waters Of
Port Royal proper. The next move
will be to order the fleet down to
Shepherdtown or whatever t is called.
The Charleston NeaUs and Courier,
looks upon this as a singular coinci-
dence, but consoles itself with the re-
Election the the proper committee cal
r 1t this I'd that together.