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THE WILMINGTON JOUKN AI ENGELHARD & SAUNDERS, Editors and Proprietors. Tlt WHOM ALL LETTERS ON BUSINESS MUST BB ADDRESSED TERMS OF SlH.N'KIlTIOX . THK PAILY JOURNAL is mailed to sub cribers at Kioht Dollars per annum ; Foub I)!llass tor sixmoiiths; Skventy-kive Cent. ner month fur a shorter period. THK WEEK IA" JOl'KNAI, at Two Ioi. LAKf per annum ; 0k J)iii.i.ak for six months. subscription received to the Weekly lor less than six month. item HATES OF ADVERTISISG. , One Square, one week 1 00 One Square, two weeks. ISO One Square, ene mosui 2 So One Square, three months... 00 Onefiquaxe, six months. 13 On Additional Squares at proportional rates. A Square is equal to tbw solip mjtzs of tut rertising type. Cttah, invariably in advance. 1 mi VOL. 29. WILMINGTON, N, C, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1873. NO. 16. ImiriPiM tlMJ lilmiiitjtoit journal. " WILMINGTON, N. C. : PEIDAY. MAY 2. 1873. iitxt:nA!, iii.i.i:i IM THE noitiM cm s : r . It won".-.1, possibh- have Let 11 well for General Gillem, even though a Federal officer, to have remembered the mes sage of tii!' King of Israel, '"Let not him that girdeth on his harness beast himself as he that putteth it oil." The General, some two wet-is ago, sent word to Captain .Tad; that he did not intend to leave the Lava Beds until he carried him and Lis tribe with him. Up to the present writing General Giilcm has not been able to secure either the Modoc Chief or his tribe. In fact, it is admitted, Ave be lieve, by every one, at least by every one outside of army circles, that our boasting General has been outwitted, if not whipped, in open tight. The telegrams inform us that occa sionally the Federals take a few scalps and that occasionally the Indians take a few. Each side now keeps its tally in scalps. Captain Jack's scalp, how ever, still rests securely on his own head, and the indications are that it will be some time ere it dangles at the licit of General Gillem or of any other man. If Gillem had only fought like he "bragged' the campaign would have come to an end ere General Davis, the hero of the Ebenozar Creek mas sacre, took command. It would have been a rare sight to have seen the dashing Gillem pulling off his harness, j hung an over witn reciting scalps. ; These bo:ists do not read well when j they get cold. They remind one of J Fope and Hooker. It A S T a I i 1 5 1 : T i: X A " s. It is well for the peace of mind of President Grant that he is so supreme ly indifferent to public opinion. If it were otherwise "the rapid transit 01 thought and matter" of the present day j would doubtless overwhelm him with the complaints and murmurs of dis- I sarisnett communities. .iie 01 his later provocations to public indigna tion was a request to the Governor of Texas to release two Indian chiefs now confined in the Penitentiary at Hunts ville. The people in that State have become greatlv excited over tho mat- ; i . . tcr, and justly too. Tt 4-l..4- t.,,,1 .1., ..,..1 ! , . , , , . , . having been caught in one of their , , many murderous acts, were brought ,",,, ,,,, ' , I before the State Court of xexas and . ; tried and convicted m due course of S law, just as if they had been white men, and sentenced to be hung. At the request of the President, the sen tence was commuted to imprisonment fwr life some year or more ago. Since then, their tribe has used every effort to free them and, as a final resort, sent two chiefs to Washington to see tho President in their behalf, where upon the President ret n tested the Gov ernor to grant a full ami free pardon, j This action on the part of the Presi- , dent met the disapprobation of the ' people and of theLi gislature ot Texas. ; The Legislature indeed went so far as ' to pass a resolution formally request- '. ing the Governor net to comply with the request of the Preside:;)". It is said that the ii;u- on tb.e Texas frontier, who are exposed to the ravages of the Indiau i rib- s to which : Santanta anil Rig Tree brh.iig. ! 11. t appreciate the wisdom !' the Indian, policy pursued by tho President. Rut ; it matters littlu' to our phlegmatic ; ruler what the people in Texas or any ', where else may think about him or 1 his policy. , 't in; oi.oit (H i:s! i.. ; 1 Ihere may be nothing in a name, j but there is undoubtedly something in ; ti color, at least in the "trooly loii"' city j of Philadelphia. As everybody knows, j the people of that city are just now ' much exercised about the proposed j Centennial Celebration. The ladies j even become ro much interested that j they formed a "female branch of Cen- I t-pnnial Commission," and undertook ; to solicit subscriptions for the general fund of the Commission, and have been going from house to house engaged in the good work. In blocking off the 'itv fur il-ii- -M-.ifl.- if '.iinu-!l- tll-- i , -. , . L ' , ,, , '1 ! deemed it best to "confine t lie colored ; committee f the wonnm's branch to those wards which are most thickly populated with the people of their race." At this restriction the colored committee took great offense, and issued a remonstrance, bitterly com plaining of the exclusiveness of the white portion of the female branch, and taking the ground that they agreed to work in common with American women, not as "Colored Centennial Women," there being no such body in existence. " Upon discovering that their ward was assigned them as a distinctive dele gation, and that every ward in the city had its own ward committee, they im mediately conferred with the secretary, and reported to the executive com mittee their unwillingness and ina- bility to work in any fixed sphere, j being ignored in their respective j wards, and they do protest against any such injustice because of Amen- j can prejudice, which ought to have ' vuimiu ii lino ........ t niversarv " Xi ' " , , 4, t i It seems that our Northern friends -, . . . , .1 do not like the taste of the cup they , 41 .... , prepared for their Southern brethren. a-, v. i i- r -,!, Ihe equality and mingling of South- . - em whites with negroes seems ngtu , m ; f Ti , enough to the Northern eye, out the , , , , ? -v- equality and mingling ot Northern J ... 0 . -. whites with negroes presents quite another and a different aspect. We frankly confess that we feel little or no sympathy when v.e see these people caught in the snare they set for others, The Northern people iorced negro sufWe and nem-,, eoualrtv upon us in the South at the point of the bayonet, thinking that they would never be troubled with it. They were mistaken, and it matters little to us if they be forced to drink the bitter cup to its 1 varra THE EW OICEEATVS PICAYUSE. This fearless journal announces that its printing establishment, including name, good will, credits, &c, lias been seized by the Kellogg tax collector, to satisfy the State for taxes. In speak ing of this, however, the Picayune thinks it "will still live," for the reason that "if it lacked vitality, the fact that Radical tyranny seeks to destroy it, will commend it to all who dare to be free. Radical hostility and hate witness to its fidelity; and Radical preservation, its righteous warfare, against ignomin ious fraud, usurpation and despotism. The Picayune may not bo offered up in their demon death dance to liberty, as a fitting holocaust to their infernal rule of oppression and villainy. They may find it a mightier instrument, for their final overthrow, infamy and ex tinction. They are right in striving to destroy it, if robbers can be right in seeking to perpetuate their robbery ; and whilst it defies their hostility, it dep preeates their dishonoring, debasing furor." If die it must, however, the Picay une proposes to die game, and says : " Well, if we have to die, we hope our friends will attend our funeral. Let no vile carpet-bagger or scallawag sup port our hearse, or drop the earth on our coffin. Let us die as we have lived with none but freemen around us ; and with hearts unbent and un- ! broken." " It is with no ordinary feelings of re gret that we contemplate the suppres sion of this staunch defender of the rights of tho people. The Picayune fir;st appeared on the 25th Jamiary, i,S;7 mid began a new era in journal- ism in the Southwest It was sold for a "picayune." a Spanish t ilver coin in j circulation in the South in that day, and worth six and a quarter cents, and from this fact the paper took its name. Messrs. Lumsden & Kendall were the founders of the paper. Mr. Lumsden, was a North Carolinian, we believe ; Mr. Kendall was a native of one of the Northern States. The J'icayune, from its foundation, has been identified with the growth and prosperity of the press, not only of New Orleans, but of the whole Southwest. If its existence should be blotted out, its loss will be felt far beyond the Crecent City. The contest in Louisiana is such an nmin:il nun flierrt seems to. be little , , , , . . . hope for her people to escape utter ruin and subjugation. Louisiana is now nothing but Grant s province, and T, - i - rn, ,,- Kellogg is his viceroy. Ihe I 'icaiuttc .i rr.ii. c trulv saws : That no governor of any , " , T, , , colony of anv European power looks i -t i 1 i i: i , more aoMmueiv aim iiciuni ei n inc. ! government of the country to which i it belongs, for protection and existence, than Kellogg to Grant and the Govern- ment of the United States. It is i scarcely to be expected that a journal ' so outspoken against the tyranny and : oppression of Grant and his minion I Kellogg, as the J'icayune has been, ! will be permitted to continue in exist ! ence in a State in which there is no 1 lav,- save that of the sword. o; 1: " wno.ti, CK.vrj;viAi,." j Under a resolution of the Commis- sion, adopted on the lth of December, j 1S72, the Kxecutive Committee were authorized to nominate, on behalf of I the United States Centennial Commis- j sion. to the stockholders of the Cen- ! tennial Board of Finance, fifteen stock- j holders from the city of Philadelphia) and eighty-five stockholders from the i several States and Territories, from j ,viin:;i the Board of Directors of the) Centennial Board of Finance were to ! be chosen. In pursuance of this reso- j lution, the names of one hundred stockholders were presented, fifteen from Philadelphia and eighty-five from the States and Territories, of which last - number about twenty-five were from the Southern States. On Tues day last the Board of Finance was chosen, composed of twenty-five mem bers, fifteen of them from Philadelphia and only tiro from the South Virginia and Alabama being the favored locali ties. It is not a matter of any great im portance how many members the South may have upon the Board of Finance; : indeed, we might survive if there I was not a single Southern man on the ! Board, and we refer to the matter only ; as ;tn illustration of the Northern nn- derstanding of the meaning of the : word "National." When it is remeni i bered that it is upon the productions ! of the South that the Nation relies for the payment of its immense foreign luc - . debt, a foreigner would doubtless think it strange tlnvt so insignificant a representation should be assigned to us. It does not seem at all strange to us however. We have been too long accustomed to this sort of thing. Xor are we disposed to complain about it, for we frankly confess that we find it quite impossible to get up any feeling 01 enthusiasm about this great National Centennial Celebration. The Phila delphians will doubtless "turn an honest penny" by it, but other people, especially the people of the South, will find little profit and as little pleasure A EV PARTY. The New York World has taken strong ground against any new organi zation, maintaining, that the old name and the old organization of the Demo cratic Party, pure and simple, is amply sufficient for present purposes. The Yor Id does not, however, by any means maintain, that the party ought to be bound by the traditions or pnn 1 C1les oi tlie pa ' cxcepi in BO Iar aa ! thev may be expedient in the present ; , L111 1 x 011 the other hand, it maintains that . uu ' I the party is essentially one of change 1 . . . and progress, and that the principles, : ,t . , - , .1 . 1 traditions and experience of the past, , . , , are valuable, only in so far as they ' " . teach us how to act m the present, " Cutting loose in this summary manner 0 ,. . lt- ! from all entai.ghngaUiances, the World i insists thatthe Democratic Party shall R.0 j)efore the country upon a single j wit: Free Trade. ; . . ! As nught have been expected from . - such a course, the World has made it self a target for attacks from all quar ters and without regard to party affili ations. The manufacturers will, to a man, be opposed to it in Massachu- setts, and so will the iron protection ists of Pennsylvania. Indeed, we al ready find the Roston Globe, a thorough going Radical, and the Philadelphia Age, a thorough going Democrat, oc cupying common ground in their opposition to the World, and urging that a tariff for revenue being neces sary, the question of protection is a merely incidental one. The opposition further South is based upon the detestation of the mode of raising money by the system of Internal Revenue taxation. If we have free trade, the Internal Reve nue system or direct taxation must be resorted to for the expenses of the Government. Hence the disinclina tion to accept the issue as presented by the World. As we have had occasion to say here tofore, we think any effort to form a new party, or to put forth new issues, is at the present time, ill advised. We have something else to do just now. We believe in the principle of Free Trade, but wo are not prepared to say that it is the only principle worthy of being one of the tenets of the Demo cratic Party. IJiDU'TJIESTS EOIl I.IHEl, AiD TIIi:iIt EFFECT. We presume there is scarcely a paper in the State or out of it, that at one I time or another has not formally pro nounced the Press to be the "bulwark of freedom." We all say it and know it to be a true saying too; but it may be doubted whether or not we appreciate the importance of securely guarding the "bulwark" from attack. Nor do we sufficiently appreciate how easily its strength and efficiency may be impaired. It is much to be feared that the Press, "bulwark" though it be, is more ofteu and more easily intimidated than its conductors generally admit. We intend no reflection, whatever, up on on r brethren, and make these remarks simply as a prelude to a confession of weakness on our own part. We con fess that we are afraid that Mr. Solicitor Cantwell has intimidated us. He has charged us in legal language with hay ing called His Honor, Hugh L. Bond, United States Judge, a scoundrel, and proposes with the consent of a jury of the good people of Bladen to subject us to fine and imprisonment therefor. Now, fine and imprisonment andCant well are not ingredients for a first class joke, whether "well shaken be fore taken," or taken "single shot." But this is not exactly the point of trouble. Mr. Cantwell, we learn, nays that Judge Bond is a "high-toned gen tleman." We do not propose to raise mi issue of veracity just now upon that point. Wo only propose to say that if Judge Bond is a high toned gentleman, we do not see how any other gentleman upon the Federal Bench can be denied the same honor able appellation. For instance, there is His Honor, Judge Underwood, the United States District Judge of Vir ginia. If Bond be a high-toned gen tleman, he would be a rash man who would assert that Underwood is a scoundrel. There however, an old saying to this effect, that "pretty is that pretty does." Now just here we feel intimidated. Mr. Cantwell has frightened ".is. If it be lib. ious to call Bond a scoundrel, it must surely be libelous to call Underwood a scoundrel; what, then, must we do in the face of the following facts? During the latter part of the war, proceedings were in stituted in Judge Underwood's Court i to confiscate the property of one Mc Veigh, a citizen of Alexandria. The property was sold by order of the Court, and Judge Underwood's wife became the purchaser at a merely nomiiiiil price. Mr. McVeigh, not be ing satisfied to lose his property in this manner, institute dproceedings in the State Courts, and on Wednesday last, the Supreme Court of Appeals, of Virginia, delivered an opinion, concur red in by all the Judges, in which it is said, the purchase by Judge Under wood of McVeigh's property at an enormous sacrifice, under a fraudu lently procured and issued decree of his own Court, was a transaction irhich must xhocl; the moral .venue of every honest man. But His Honor, the Federal Judge Underwood, was not the only party engaged in tho transaction. Other gentlemen, whether high-toned or not, we cannot presume to say, as they are not on the Federal Bench, well known to fame, were concerned in it. ' From the report of the proceedings in the Richmond Dispatch we learn that " Mr. McVeigh introduced tht depo sitions of Mr. J. C. Balderson, of the firm of Balderson, Ward & Co., of Baltimore; Mr. Francis Dane, of the firm of Francis Dane & Co. , of Boston, and Mr. Robinson, of the firm of Kim ball, Robinson Sc Co., of Roston, his creditors and plaintiffs in said attach ment suits, and gentlemen of the highest standing who were conversant with all the facts as they occurred, and were present at the confiscation sale and attachment sale, to show actual fraud, in fact, on the part of Judge Underwood, and of Oakes Ames, John B. Alley, and Samuel Hooper, mem bers of Consrress from Massachusetts, and, more recently, of Credit-Mobilier notoriety. If Judge Underwood did not wear tho Federal ermine we should feel very much inclined to quote the old adage that "birds of a feather will flock together. " It is pret ' y generally agreed, we believe, that Ames, Alley & Co. are scoundrels. But Judge Under wood, like Judge Bond, is a Federal Judge, and we dare not say that he is a scoundrel for fear Mr. Solicitor Cantwell may indict us. Here is a clear case of intimidation of " the bulwark of freedom." Wre propose to take legal advice upon the question of our right to indict Mr. Cantwell for intimidation and conspiracy, under tho Ku-Klux Act of Congress. Seriously, we think it quite unkind in Mr. Solicitor Cantwell to deprive vts of the luxury of calling a man, who does things that Underwood has done, a scoundrel. These are hard times, and though the Journal, is flourishing as it never before has flourished, we cannot afford expensive luxuries. And if it be that we have subjected ourselves to fine and imprisonment for a few delicate compliments to Judge Bond, we can not expect to go without cost for ex pressing our opinion as to Judge Un derwood. It may possibly be safe to say that we concur in the opinion of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Vir ginia that the purchase of property at an enormous sacrifice by a Judge un der a fraudulently procured and issued decree of his own Court is enough to shock the moral sense of every honest man. Not to put too fine a point upon it, we rather think the man who does it is a scoundrel. There now, if that be libel, make the most of it Mr. Solicitor Cantwell! We are immense ly intimidated. From the Poe Dec Courier. A rtlaHtrnaiit Prosecuting Attorney One Edward Cantwell, who was ap pointed by Governor Caldwell Solici tor of the Wilmington Circuit, has, as we learn, after repeated failures, at last induced a Grand Jury to find a "true bill" against the Wilmington Jottknai., for libel on Hugh S. Bond, a Judcra of tho Circuit Court of the United States. We do not know what is the particular matter charged as libelous, nor do we care. We know this, however, that the Radical party is willing, at any time, to use the power of Courts, or ganized on a party basis, to maintain a respectability not otherwise to be defended. And we feel sure that their purpose in doing so is to silence all criticism on tho conduct of their functionaries, some of whom, alas for the country, are as base as the limit of human depravity will allow. By this means they hope to break down the spirit of liberty, by making our people afraid to express their honest opinions, i and thus fasten the yoke of despotism upon them. Although this malignant attempt is in strait keeping with the history of this base party, we have confidence, that the independent spirit of Ameri can freemen will not tamely submit to this and kindred outrages upon their rightful prerogatives. There is a "power behind the throne," whose slow but sure edicts, all authority, however high, must recognize. Even the magnates themselves must be taught that if they wish to secure the respect and confidence of the people whose servants they are, they must act so as to deserve it. A Judge who will prostitute his high office to pur poses of personal and political ven geance, and who "speaks the law" so as to serve party ends, and not the ends of justice, is a knave and a tyrant and deserves tho scorn of all honest men. Men should fear the lair, not the administrator of the law. When tho latter is the case, it is certain that evil betides the land. Tho world has af forded cases of this kind, and the in famous name of Jeffreys stands out in English History in letters of intense blackness. We are not certain that some of the creatures who wear the ermine, to the curse of this country, will not go down to posterity, with names equally accursed. If judges wish to avoid criticism they must act as Judges and not as tyrants; and all efforts of Radical neophytes, who have sold their honor for "a mess of pot tage" to bolster up rotten reputations by bills of indictment, from truculent Grand Juries, will only add to the load of scorn which their clients will have to bear. We are not defending the Journal, but we are defending liberty of speech and of the Press ; and we feel an inex pressible contempt for the sycophantic knaves, who, to secure their bread and win the smiles of the tyrants v ho are enslaving us, are engaged in iue das tardly and dirty work of silencing a political enemy, by oorr.ipt and unu sual means. Unless the course of Judge Bond, whose character Cantwell seem so so licitous to defend, has been greatly misrepresented, he has acted the part of a malignant tool of despotism and meanness, and not the part of a worthy Judge. Vengeance, not justice, has been his rnling motive the smiles of tyrants, not the plaudits of suffering mankind, have been his only and high- v cherished reward. Ihe tmth is, the Bench is now foully disgraced, by many an ignorant, corrupt and drunken scoundrel, who far better deserves the halter, or the horse-whip, than the woolsack of justice ; and these infa mous frauds upon humanity are placed in power only because they are the t t i i '11 1-1 more reauvaua iacue toois witn wnicn the ends of usurpers, thieves and tyrants, are to be accomplished. .Hark Tuain'w Tribute to Woman. At an annual banquet of the Wash ington Correspondents' Club the fol lowing toast was read : Woman : The pride of the profes sions and the jewel of ours. To which Mark I warn responded as follows : Human intelligence cannot estimate what we owe to woman, sir. She sews on buttons, she ropes us in at the church fairs, she confides in us, tells whatever she can find out about the little private affairs of our neighbors, she gives us a piece of her mind some times, and sometimes all of it. In all relations of life, sir, it is a just and grateful tribute to say of her she is a "brick!" Wherever you place woman, sir, in whatever position or estate, she is an ornament to the place she occupies, and a treasure to the world. Jiook at the names of history ! Look at Desde- mona ! Look at Lucretia Borgia ! Look at mother Eve ! I repeat, sir, look at the illustrious names of his tory ! Look at Elizabeth Cady Stan ton ! Look at George Francis Train ! And, sir, I say, with bowed head and deepest veneration, look at the mother of Washington ! She raised a boy that could not lie; but he never had a chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to a newspaper cor respondents' club. Mark looked around placidly upon his excited audience, and resumed : I repeat, sir, that in whatever posi tion you put a woman, she is an orna ment to society, and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart she has few equals, and no superior. As a wealthy grandmother with an incurable dis temper, she is corneous. As a wet nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without women V They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce! Then let us give her our support, our sym pathy ourselves if we get a chance. But, jesting aside, Mr. President, woman is lovable, gracious, kind of heart, beautiful, worthy of respect, of all esteem, of all deference. No one here will refuse to drink her health rieht cordially, for each and every one of us has personally known, loved and honored the best of them all his own mother. Cincinnati thinks that the business centre of that city won't be changed for a thousand years. If there is no change in the centre, there is like to be but little change m the business. THE bLD COAT OF CRAY. BY BLONDLNE. It lies there alone it is nifty and faded With a patch on the elbow, a hole in the side, But we think of the lrave boy who wore it, and ever Look on it with pleasure, and touch it with pride. A history clings to it over and over, We see a proud youth hurried off to the fray, With his'form like the oak and his eye like the eagle's How gallant ha rode Jn the rankj of the "Gray." It is rough, it is worn, it is tattered in places. But I love it the more for tbe story it bears ; A story of courage in struggle with sorrows And a heart that bore bravely its burden of cares ; It is ragged and rusty, but ah! it was shin iK In the silkiest sheen when he wore it away And his smile was as bright as tte glad sum mer morning. When he sprang to his place in the ranks ot the "Gray." There's a rip lu the sleeve, and the color is tar nished. The buttons all gone with their glitter and gold; 'Tia a thing of the past, and we reverently lay it Away with the treasures and relics of old As the gifts of a love, solemn, sweet and nn. hpoken Are cherished as leaves from a long vanished day We will keep the old Jacket for the sake of the loved one Who rode in the van of the ranks of the "dray." Shot through with a bullet right here in tho shoulder. And down there the pocket is splintereu and iwiled. Ah! more, see the lining is stained and dis colored ! Yes, blood draps the texture hath stiffened add spoiled. It came when he rode at the head of tbs col umn. Charging down in the battle one deidllest day. When squ&rirons of foumiin were broken asunder, AthI victory rode wiih the ranks of the "Gray.' It's memory is sw. etne.-s and sorrow com mine'e i To me it is precious more precious than gold, Iu the rent and the t-hot hole a volume is writ ten, On the stains on the lining is agony told. That was ten years ago when iu life's sunny morning He rede wi;h his comrades down into the I ray, And the old coat he wore and the good sword he wieldeit Were all that came back from the ranks of the "Gray." And it lies there alone ; I'll reverence.it ever The patch ou the elbow and the hole iu the tide. For a gallanter heart never beat than tho loved one. Who wore it with honor and soldierly pride. Let nn' bru.-h oif tne dust from its talters and tarnii.li. Let me told it u? clowly and lay it away it is all that is left of the loved and the Lost one, Who fought for tho riht in the ranks ot the (1 av." LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. Kabbalh St liool Convention. A State Convention in the interests of the colored Sabbath Schools in this State will be held in this city some time in May. An excursion down the river is talked of as one of the features of the occasion. The day of meeting will be announced in a few days. Death of jU. Co till, Esq. We regret to learn that Mr. Z. M. Costin, for many years back known as the affable and accommodating Register of Deeds in the good old Democratic county of Onslow, died at his residence at Jacksonville, in that county, last Monday, after au illness of only two weeks. Mr. Costin was about 40 years of age and leaves a widow and one ehild. Daily Jcurnal, 2oth. Major .Neill .TicK.. Itlceill. We had the unexpected pleasure of a visit last evening from our old friend and comrade-in-arms, Major McNeill, late of the 4oth N. C. T., now of Cheraw, S. C. It would have been unnatural had we not fought our battles over again and talked over the good old times when we both "wore the gray. e are glad to learn that he is prospering in life, lie served in the Army of Northern Virginia with honor to himself and to his State. Daily Journal, 2oth. The Sliooliiijr Scrape at Old S 1 11 11- dretl. Wo learn that Mr. D. D. Living ston, who war, so severely wounded by a pistol shot from one Jim Seales and his brother, on the 10th inst., is still in a very precarious condition, and his recovery is considered doubtful. As yet no arrests have been made by the authorities, although it is said that the men who did tho shooting have made no attempt to evade it. Jim Seales, who received a ball m his leg from a return shot fired by Mr. Livingston, went to a surgeon ami had it dressed immediately after the occurrence, and he and his brother are still at large. Ihe beai.es lamily are represented as being a rough set, good farmers and peaceable enough when at home, Jbut perfect devils incarnate whenever un der the influence of liquor. .More lEeavy Fires. The list of casualties by fires in the woods is not yet full, and every day there is some new disaster to relate. The bad news, this time, is from Holly township and that portion of Duplin county adjoining it. Destructive fires have been raging iu that section for two weeks past, and some of our fanners have lost very heavily. The fires have been burning on both sides of what is known as Angola Pre coursin. Mr. Jacob James, on Sha cing Creek, in Holly, lost a 30 bar rel course of turpentine and some 5,000 boxes; Mr. John Batts, in the same township, but living east of Angola, lost all of his fences, fodder, A'C, and Mr. William Farrier, of Duplin county, lost 10,000 boxes and 70 barrels 01 turpentine already dip ped, in barrels, and ready for hauling. Others, whose names we could not learn, have also lost heavily. When our informant left his home, near Bannerman s Bridge, on W ednesday morning, the fires were still raging. Superior Court. This tribunal was engaged yesterday forenoon in trying some final cases, after which the Court adjourned until to-morrow morning, when tho civil docket will be called. On Tuesday three white men from Duplin county are to be tried for arson. Col. A. A. McKoy has been engaged for the prosecution of this case and Col. J. D. Stanford and Mr. Kornegay have been retained for the defence. The following prisoners, tried during the week, have been sentenced for the terms opposite their names : Richard Holmes, larceny, 5 years in the Penitentiary. Peter Baker, larceny, 5 years in the Penitentiary. George Thompson, larceny, 1 year in the Workhouse. Joshua Irving, larceny, 1 year in the Workhouse. Jim Cronly, larceny, 5 years in the Penitentiary. Sam Robinson, A. & B., 4 months in the Workhouse. During the week, there have been 33 convictions, as follows : For assault; and battery, 11 ; peace warrant, 2 ; misdemearor, 11 ; affray, 2 ; larceny 7. The fees of Solicitor Cantwell are $10 for the larceny convictions, and "$4 for the other convictions. So it will be seen that he has made $174 during the past week. DaJy Journal, 27th. Fatal SUootinj? Affair in Sampson County. We learn that a difficulty occurred late last Monday evening, at Taylor's Bridge, in Sampson county, between Mr. B. C. Barden and a colored man named Maner , which resulted in the latter being shot and killed by the former. We could learn but very little of tho circumstances other than Mr. Barden accused Maner of having set fire to the woods, from wluch a dif ficulty sprang up, when the negro shot at Mr. Barden, who returned the fire, with a fatal result. County Commissioners. At a called meeting of the Board of County Commissioners, held Friday afternoon, a communication was read from B. G. Larkins, Wm. Mclntire and Samuel C. Larkins, of Lillington, requesting that the Board appoint three registers and inspectors for a municipal election to be held there in May. There was no previous town govern ment and hence the application as above. The matter was deliberated upon and the above three parties were ap pointed as' the registers and poll holders for the said election. The Board then adjourned. For the Journal. Fire iu lite Woods. The people in the vicinity of Lil lington were aroused by the alarm of fire on the 22d, at 11 o'clock, on the lands of Mr. Grattan Williams and others, burning turpentine trees, fences, &c. The loss was quito heavy. It is supposed that Mr. Williams' loss is about SS0O or $1,000. The fire is not yet stopped. It originated from the carelessness of a neighbor singeing over his farm. It is not strange to be alarmed every Spring by the careless ness with firo of this same man. Won't our Legislature make a law for such men ? G. Lillington, New Hanover County, N. C, April 23d, 1873. State Educational Convention. The Superintendent of Public In struction desires to call special atten tion to the following resolutions adopted by the State Board of Educa tion, held in Raleigh on the lGth inst : Jicnoh cd, That the friends of edu cation in North Carolina are respect fully requested to meet in Convention, in the city of Raleigh, on the 9th day of July, 1873, for the purpose of con sidering and recommending such mea sures as they may deem advisable for the promotion of education in the State. Pettolctd, That the Superintendent of Public Instruction is hereby author ized and instructed to correspond with teachers and others, and invite them, on behalf of the Board of Education, to prepare and deliver addresses on the occasion on subjects relating to the object of the Convention. The Superintendent is now engaged in carrying out the instructions con tained in the last resolution, and Ave hope the matter may receive the atten tion of all parties interested. EXPLOSION. ' Explosion of a Soda Fountain Two Jltm Injured. Saturday, about 12:30 o'clock, a great many persons were startled with the noise of a loud explosion, accom panied with considerable of a jar to those who were nearest the scene. At first it was thought that one of the boilers at Messrs. Hart t Bailey's works had exploded, and a rush was made in that direction. It was soon ascertained, however, that the report crne from the rear of Mr. F. Mayer's bakery and confectionery store, on Market street, between Front and Second. Repairing to the scene, we found that the generator had exploded, tearing off the upper part, which was of copper, and shattering the walls of the room, and tearing up the floor of the little room in which the soda was manufactured. Mr. Thomas Mayer, a son of the proprietor, was at work in the room at the time, together with au old colored man by the name of John Lucas. Mr. Mayer was covered with the soda, from head to foot, and for a time it was though that he. was seri ously injured. We are pleased to learn, however, that the only injury sustained is in the eye and that is not considered serious. Lucas was struck on the head and thrown from the door into the yard, but his damages are very slight. Roth escapes are considered miraetilous. JACK F1COST. His ItaragfN in tliis section TIte Truckers all Lose lEcavily Dis mal Reports from alonr the Lines of the tltree Railroads The young Corn and Col 1011 Destroyed Fears for the Peach Crop. A very heavy frost whitened the ground in this city and section Satur day morning, and from all that we can learn, a very considerable injury has been the resiilt. In some portions of the city the young plants are badly blighted, many of them being entirely destroyed, while in others there is no perceptible injury. On the truck farms in this vicinity, as a general thing, the cucumbers, squashes and beans are cut down, while the pea vines have been very materially dam aged. Mr. Geo. Z. French, of Excel sior, thinks that he has been injured to tho extent of fully $2,000. He had begun shipping peas last week, but this frost will put him back now fully a week. From all along the line of the W. .t W., the WT. C. & R., and the WT. C. & A. Railroads we hear doleful accounts. The more tender of the plants are ruined. The cotton and corn are cut down to the ground, and serious fears are entertained that tho peach crop has been destroyed, but this latter it will take some days to fully determine. The damage to Goldsboro' truckers alone is estimated at some 25,000 or $30,000, and those near Newborn are said to have also suffered severely. We doubt if the memory of the "old est inhabitant" can furnish a parallel to this cold snap so late in the season. At this time last year the truckers were doing a fine business, and every train that sped northward carried oil large consignments of early garden produce to the Northern markets. Rut this year it is different, and instead of money coming in, it is simply so much money going out, a dead loss to those who nau caicuiaieu 011 a iicuvj opuiig eiop. A dispatch from Paris announces the death of the famous opera danseuse Marie Taglioni, Countess de Voisins, who won her titled husband in the height of her fame and retired some years later with an immense fortune. She was in only moderate circum stances after the late French and Ger man war. Secretary Delano has been petitioned by a number of settlers on the Osage land3 in Kansas to re-open a former de cision which deprived them of their homesteads for the benefit of the Mis souri, Kansas and Texas, and Leaven worth, Lawrence and Galveston rail roads, which lands are embraced in the lands granted to the roads on con dition that they would locate their routes in 18G8. The settlers allege that the roads did not locate their loutes in 1868. Tho Secretary has de cided that the case cannot be reopened. Fiom the Charlotte Home. Seedy Ex-Confederates. Tho Springfield (Mass.) Republican is a Grant organ of great ability and immense influence. It has become quite disgusted with the persistent cry for office, which Southern renegades are constantly putting up, .and thus comments upon the rewards that they ought to have: "There is a swarm of seedy ex Confederates, who renounced the lost cause and took the stump for Grant during the late campaign, clamoring for office, and to these some-of the most unhealthy consulates will un doubtedly fall." This is coolly contemptuous! The new-born converts to Grantism are called seedy Confederates, their con version being attributed to hunger, want and misery. It is suggested that the poor creatures be given unhealthy consulates, where they may speedily lose their troubles and cease to annoy the Administration and disgrace their native kind. O, ye loyalists of the South ! it is hard to tell whether ye are most despised at home or across the Susquehanna! Look at the rewards given you by the Government ye have bowed down before and which scorned you while it gave the penny loaf. Holden was offered a position at San Salvador, the city so often destroyed by earth quakes. Captain Settle was banished to Peru and came back to the disgust of everybody as soon as he had swal lowed the rations. Lewis P. Olds went to Gray town, but the chills and musquitoes used him up in short order. Radham has been obliged to give up his "unhealthy consulate." Hester has become consul at some point off the coast of Africa. This is the "dirty dog" the Chester Reporter tells about, who carried on with such a high hand in that town. Coleman got some petty consulate on the North Sea or the German Ocean and had his loyalty frozen out, while his brother leaguers hr.d their loyalty roasted out. Cole m 111 was ko effectually cured of Grant ism that he supported Mr. Greeley last Summer. If Grant can only give ''unhealthy consulates" to tho "seedy Confeder ates," who adore "him, we would sug gest that he select these "unhealthy consulates" in Africa. This would be in accordance with the "eternal fitness of things." Surely there are places in Congo, Ashantee and Guinea "un healthy" enough for these "seedy Con federates." The President would de veloi an immenso amount of "latent Unionism" at the South by giving all these seedy fellows snug, warm berths in the land of the forefathers of their dusky pets. Autographs of General Lcc. In the New York World appeared some time ago a series of admirable es says, and among them .one ou auto graphs. The author is the Hon. Wm. R. Reed, a resident of Philadelphia, and a former United States Minister to China. After giving some of Welling ton, Chatham, and others, he closes his paper on his theme as follows : The great soldiers of America for such history, when our miserable bick erings are forgotten, will pronounce him ; the Christian gentleman ; the knightly leader of chivalry, not less glorious because unfortunate ; the man whom in his grave, all, truly brave and good, mourn and honor Robert E. Lee, of Virginia, is dead ; and, as these lines are written, is going to his grave, by the side of Jackson, at Lexington. Ilis autographs lie before me ; the penmanship graceful and delicate, like a woman's, and his words those of modesty and simple truth. As early as the 10th of November, 1Su2, he writes to a friend : "I concur with you entirely as to the importance of a true history of the war, and it is my purpose, unless pre vented, to write that of the campaigns in Virginia. With this view, I have been engaged since the cessation of hostilities iu endeavoring to procure the necessary official information. All my records, reports, returns, etc., witli the headquarters of the army, were needlessly destroyed by the clerks having them in charge on tho retreat from Petersburg, and such has been forwarded to the War Department in Richmond, were either destroyed in it conflagration or captured in the South in the attempt to save them. I desire to obtain some vouchers in sup port of my recollection, or I should have made some progress in the narra tive. I have not even my letter or or der books to which to refer. I have thought it possible that some of my official correspondence, which would be of value to me, might be found among the captured records in Wash ington, and that Gen. Grant, who pos sesses magnanimity as well as ability, might cause me to be furnished with copies. I have, however, hesitated to approach him on the subject, as it is one in which ho would naturally feel no interest." On the 2Sth of December, 18"k he writes : "If you see Mr. Davis, I bog that you will present to him my warmest regards ; ami, if yon can find fit words to express it, my deep interest in his welfare. You say rightly, that nothing can be done by his friends for his re lief, and that adds to the bitterness of my distress ; for 1 feel that any at tempt only serves to arouse afresh the slumbering ire of his opponents. We must, therefore, be hopeful, but pa tient." As late as the 11th of June, 1SG0, he says : "I feel more strongly than lean de scribe the importance of a true history of the events of the war between the Noithcrn and the Southern States, and had resolved to prepare a narrative of the military occurrences in Virginia. I have not changed my purpose, but at first thought the time was unprop tious. The passions of neither section had sufficiently c. titled to hear the truth, the only thing I cared to relate. I do not think that time has arrived yet, but it is approaching. 1 have been collecting facts, but am at a loss in consequence of my records, papers, Sec, having been destroyed, awl have been so situated as to be incapable, of supplying them. Still, I am doing something, and hope to succeed." These were almost lii.s last words ; and they speak as a legacy to the South to do an unfulfilled duty, which a reconciled people will have a right to demand. As for him, though it may be that -his triumphs will be sung Bv some noinoulded tonirue Far on in summers that we shall net see," the duty of surviving contemporaries is to prepare tho record for the future. The leprosy is reported as alarmingly prevalent among the native population at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. Half a million pounds, or almost $2,500,000 gold, are to be expended on tho fortifications of Halifax, this year, by the British government. If by any chance au honest man ob tains a position in the Indian Depart ment, he is removed as soon as his failing is discovered, says the New York Sun. At a hanging in Georgia, recently, auctioneers and vendors of nostrums generally made a good thing out of it by Betting up their stands in the midst of the spectators. JIM BLEERLY'S GUNPOWDER PLOT Old Rumsoner was the presiding judge of the Toddiesoke circuit, and tho meanest old reprobate that ever disgraced the bench. He rarely went to bed sober ; got up every morning wrong end foremost, and generally be gan the day by some outrageous act of oppression. He was the terror of the bar all but Shad. Sharkie, with whom it was his normal condition to be sev eral "chips" behind at "poker," which made him, on the whole, rather civil to Shad. One morning "Old Rum" opened court in worse humor than usual. A bad "run of luck," and too much bad whiskey over night had told more than commonly on his temper. The first thing in order was to im pannel a jury of by-standers the regu lar jury, befogged by one of Old Rum's incomprehensible charges, being, and having been for the last forty-eight hours, "hung" on a question bf title to a yearling calf, sworn to positively by six witnesses on one side, and half dozen 011 the other. " Call a jury, and be quick about it, Mr. Bumpkin," growled the judge. I held the office of sheriff, and my right name was Lumpkin, but Old Rum would persist in miscalling it. The words were the signal for a gen eral stampede. To be caught on one of Old Kum's juries was generally con sidered about equivalent to going to jail. But the judge ordered the door to bo closed in time to bag a sufficient, number. "James Bleerly," I called out. Jim shook his head, and tipped me a depreciating wink, which I refused to understand. "Take a seat on the jury !" I vocife rated, with official emphasis. "Jedge," said Jim, stepping forward and blandly addressing the court, "I'd be happy to oblege ye, but the fact is it's onpossible." "What do you meau ?" roared his honor. "Ye see," explained Jim, "it's Pop's washday her name's Polly, but I call her Pop and she's sent me to town arter some bluin', and unless I'm back on tim well, ye know Jedge, how it is yerself." Fierce as Old Rum was in public, it was currently reported that ho was tame enough at home in fact, that his acquaintance with the proverb of the "gray mare" was something more than theoretical. At all events Jim's ap peal to tho court's experience had quite the opposite of a soothing effect. "Take your seat on the jury!' thundered Old Rum ; "and if I hear any more such impertinence, 111 I'll " "All right," said Jim submissively, starting toward the jury box. "Look'e here, Sheriff' he w hispered in passing, "jest let me go and look arter my critter, and I'll be back bv the time you've nabbed t'other 'leven.'" 'Tot her 'leven were speedily secured; for Old Rum would listen to no ex cuse not even to that of Hans Pretz elpresser, who solemnly protested he could nicfit rcrstec7i.cn English. "Is the jury full, Mr. Bumpkin"?" inquired the judge, looking up from his newspaper. "Y'yes, 3-our Honor," I answered unhesitatingly; "only Mr. Bleerly has stepped out to see his horse." "Who gave him permission ?" I had to acknowledge that I did. "And who gave you permission to give him permission ?" To this rather complex question I thought it best to make no answer. "Call the juror at the door !" bel lowed the judge. The bailiff sent to do so returned with the report that he had seen Jim Bleerly leaving town at full gallop, and, in passing the court house, he gave a sort of military salute but in stead of touching his cap, he had ap plied his thumb to the tip of his nose. Old Rum turned green and purple. It was some moments before lie could command utterance. Rage had fairly taken away his breath. " Make out an attachment for con tempt iigainst tho fugitive !" he direct ed the clerk as soon as he could speak, his voice quivering with passion. "And, Mr. Bumpkin" he laid mark ed expression upon the B this time "if you fail to have the culprit here before court adjourns, I'll make au ex ample of you." 1 knew the old sinner well enough to know he would keep his word, espe cially when he promised to do a moan thing. So, leaving a deputy in my place, I took the writ, as soon as the clerk had signed it, and set out to serve it. On reaching Jim's shanty it hardly rose to the dignity of a cabin I de tailed my assistants to act as pickets, and marched boldly up and knocked at tho door. "Come in !" growled a gruff voice. As I entered Jim glared at me fierce ly. He was a strapping six-footer, all brawn end bone, and ready at any time to fight for the love of it. If lie hed'nt come to town for "bluein',"as he pretended to Old Rum, he had, at any rate, managed to get gloriously "blue," and when in that state he was entirely reckless. "Jim, old fellow," I said In a concili atory tone, "I have got an attachment, for you. and want you to go with me." " Well, I ain't got none for you," he growled surlily ; "and what's more, I ain't goin'." I explained that resistance would be useless ; that I had' a strong force out side : and that I should be constrained to take him, dead or alive. But all to no purpi se. Jim, obstinate enough at ah times, in his present condition was perfectly mulish. Seeing persuasion was in vain, I sig nalh d my assistants. At the sight of them Jim seized a brand from the fire. " Ye see that kag, Mr. Lumpkin," he said, his eyes bloodshot and his voice husky ; "well, it's full o' gun powder and by the long toed Harry, ef one o' them onderstrappers comes acrost my thrashold, or ef you stay a minnit lot ger'n you kin git away, I'll tech her off, so help me ! " Jim, I knew, was a famous hunter, and used to buy Lis amunition by the quantity. A keg f powder was nothing unusual for him to have on hand. And then Polly began to cry and bike on in a way that went to prove the thing was not a joke. Besides, Jim was hist fool enough to do what he threatened. My two assistants took to their heels hke white heads, and it must be confessed, I made a rapid advance in the same di rection. At a safe distance, we rallied and held a council of war. V7e concluded to invest the place, and hold it iu siege for the present. At the end of an hour Jim appeared at the door, waving a white rag tied to a stick. " Is that a sign of surrender?" I shouted, from a safe distance. "No," hallowed Jim, " it's a flag of truce ; " adding, " Y'e han't got no tachment for Pop, hev ye? " I answered promptly I hadn't. " Well, I want to pass her out," said Jim. "She s getting stericky in here ; and case tho wust comes to the wust, I shouldn't want to be obleeged to blow the old gal up." I thought the proposition was rea sonable, and said so. In ten minutes the door opened and "Pop" came out. She wore a scoop bonnet, and kept her handkerchief to her eyes. Her form seemed bowed by grief. We respected her sorrow, and suffered her to pass. Hour after hour went by. I began to grow figety. It was already 3 o'clock. Court adjourned at 4 ; and unless I produced Jim before that hour, Old Rum's word was out to make "an example of me." At last I con cluded to seek a parley. "Hallo, Jim !" I shouted ; I want to speak to you." No answer. 1 drew nearer and shouted louder ; still no response. An idea struck me. Jim had proba bly fallen asleep after the spree. If so, I might steal a march on him. Stealthily advancing, I raised the hitch, and gently pushed open the door. In stead of Jim, drunk and asleep, the object that confronted me was Pop, wide awake and duly sober. "Where's Jim?" I exclaimed. "Gone this two hours," replied Pop, punching the firo. "For goodness sako be careful, madame," I expostulated, "about stirring up the sparks so close to that keg!" "Land sake, man !" cried Pop, "it'3 got nothiu' in it but beans. As tho enormity of tho sell flashed upon me, I beat, if anything, a more hasty retreat than I did when Jim threatened to blow ivp his household goods and me along w.th them. "Where's the prisoner?" roared Old Rum as I entered the court house alone. I tried to break it gently ; but it was no use. The conclusions of my state ments was lost in shouts of laughter. Old Rum's eyes rolled wildly. Hia faco went through the whole gamut of colors. What ho would have done neaven only knows, or ever can know. An appoplexy, which the old whiskey bibber had been honestly earning for twenty years struck him like lightning, and he rolled over dead. At his funeral few sighs wero heard, and few tears shed. No words spoken in commemoration of the virtues of the departed. Tho officiating clergy man expressed a faint hope, but he didn't seem very sanguine. All seemed to have "come to bury Rumsoner, not to praise him." 2Tew Yor It Ledger. The way they Tell the Story -"J 11 Scotland. Wo copy tho following from tho Edinburgh Scotchman of April 9th : To pay 50,000 for an office tenable only for seven years at an annual salary of 1,100, would seem to bo a simple but sure way of losing -10,200 ; but this is what the Hon. "Honest John Patterson, " now United States Senator for South Carolina, did b secure his seat in the Upier House of tho American Legislature, and he seems to have deemed the bargain au uncommonly good one for himself. It c:oes without saying that unless Mr. Patterson considered tho honor of being an United States Senator worth the difference between the price at which he bought his seat and the amount of his salary, he probably intends to make up this differ ence by selling his own vote to whomever might wish to buy it. A man willing to engage in this kind of business might well deem a seat in the American Senate at 50,000, Mr. Patterson evidently did and some weeks before the consummation of th bargain which he called his "election," and which took place in the Legisla ture r.t Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, last December, he avowed, with refreshing candour and frankness, his intention to purchase his scat at that price. Mr. Patterson was a "carjx't bagger" from Pennsylvania, who went to South Carolina two years ago, and there successfully put in practice, some schemes of legislative corruption in reganl to railways. The Legislature of that unhappy State oneo one of tho proudest and purest of tho Ameri can commonwealths was then, as it now is, largely composed of negroes ; these Mr. Patterson easily bought up, and thus accomplished what, in the American slang of the period, is known as the "stealing of a railroad." By this operation he netted the sum of 00,000 ; and in December last he re solved to use a portion r.f this money to secure his election x the Federal. Senate. "I have made 3 10.000 dollars," said he to a friend in Washington, "by buying the nigger Legislative of South Carolina, and this winter I am going to take 250,000 dollars, and have my self elected to the Senate." He was as good as his word ; and we have before us a long and official account of how ho did it. Tho story has its interest, and it can be told in few words. Tuc first step was to open "extensive headquar ters in the Capitol Saloon Building on Maine Street, Columbia" this building being a gaming establish ment. " Here lie rented a suite of half a dozen rooms," which were then fitted up in a manner sho wing much care and forethought. They were of various degrees of elegance, according to the various tastes of the members whose votes it was desirable to obtain. In some, the floors were richly urpeted with noiseless velvet ; the walls wero hung with alternate mirrors and paintings; the hVpii.l hos pitality of tho host sparkled in cut glass decaliters upon rosewood buffets; and over all -a "mellow light was thrown from gilded chandeliers." These apartments were for the enter tainment of tho more aristocratic members of the Assembly; and other rooms were provided for those of the, dusky legislators whose previous views of life had been from the vantage ground of the rice swamp or the cotton-field, and who wonld have been ill at ease in the midst cf magnificence. With genuine delicacy, Mr. Patterson -provided for their accommodation places iu which they felt quite at home. These were large rooms, with unadorn ed walls and unoarpetcd floors ; but in each - there was a table on which continually stood " an Twini-lT-renl cm shed incr of corn Wilis- ky." Here "the rural members J were entertained after their own 1 heart;' and here they received also the j sums of money which were necessary, j in addition to the whiskey, to convince them of the propriety of testifying ; their gratitude ami affectum lor Mr. j Patterson bv sending him to represent i South Carolina in the Federal Senate. The necessary number of thce Legis lators being' thus bought, at prices ranging from 13 up T 2M, a day was set for the "election," and Mr. Pattersou was chosen 1-y " decisive majority in both Houses of the Legis ture. The new Gardner gun, which com bines both magazine and breech loader, fires twenty-seven shotsin sixty -three seconds. A ltov 8 years old at Lowell, Mass., spelled' 7,000 words without a miss, and he put 100 to the committee and they missed fifteen. A cable dispatch confirms the report of the suicide of Earl De La Warr, by drowning in the river Cam, England. Charles Richard Sackyille West, Earl De La Warr and Viscount Cautilupe, C. B., was a major-general in the Brit ish army, an officer of the Legion of Honor, and highly distinguished for his services in India and the Crimea. He was High Steward of Stratford-upon-Avon. He was born on the 15th of November, in tho year T815, and succeeded to the earldom ot the 23il of February, in the year 1SCU.
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