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1'0 WILMIWi'JA HERALD. TH 0 MAs M. CO OK , Editor Frou! S.r-a, between .Market and Dock. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Single Copy •. - v.j; or C.urwr, one week , qap m^ntb.. ■ . t-e innnths “ > six months^.. ■ $ 10 . Tel Newsdbalors— - •• . Per each 100 copies 5 Per each 1000 copies 45 TERMS OF ADVERTISING. 10 50 50 00- 00 00 00 00 .SI 00 One square, single insertion,. . .. ... Yr v additional number ot insertions less than six per each insertion One week and over, each insertion One month and over each inse tion Advertisements of any length less than six squares will .b^ charged in proportion with the 60 50 (Contracts will be ma le on application at the o HP-'or half column and column advertisements. 0- Marriages and Obituary notices inserted at half the u-uai rates. Special Notices will be charged at the rate of 25 cents per line, each insertion. Al! auvertis umnts must bo paid for when sent ^ ^-No advertisements “ till forbidden” will be received. No attention will be paid to anonymous commu nications. i‘, ^Ir living on the line of the Wilmington and Wklon Roil Road, or at Smithville, Elizabethtown or Fai/etteviHe can note have The Herald sent them vgula rlg by mail. Wo subscription unaccom panied with the cash received. I’lie HERALD is sold by News- hivs on all She railroad trains Rail'd steamboats. WILMINGTON, JUNE 24 THE RESTORATION. Public Meeting at the Pity Hall to Memorialize the Provision al Governor to Reestablish Civil Government in Wilmington. to argue that the change from a white to a black garrison would be beneficial to the safety and good order of the town. But unfortunately the conduct of these black soldiers has not justified the good opinion we had formed of them. We state this as impartial testimony against them. The writer “Justice” knows but very little of the true relative situation of the garrison and the resident population of a town. A mili tary garrison is not kept here to overawe and tyraniae. over the people, by any manner of means, but rather to protect them and then* property, and preserve orJpr. Mr. ‘/Justice” widely, oversteps the mark when he talks so flip pantly and self-satisfactorily of “traitors ” and that like. If he be an officer of the colored troops—as we more than half suspect—we have no hesitation in saying to him that he was sent here for another purpose than to be a judge of the loyalty or disloyalty of the people. The people of Wilmington to-day—no matter what they may have been a year ago-—are loyal to the government and are entitled to its protec* tion. The government so judges the matter, and sends a garrison here to protect them. If a man offends a law, and then atones for that offence, or receives the pardon of the govern ment—it makes no difference which—he stands before the law on the same footing as the man who never offended. It will not do, therefore, to cry out “traitor” and “rebel” quite so freely. There are no traitors or rebels now out side the prisons of the country save a few fugi tives in Canada and across the water. Finally, the writer of the first communication, “Citizen,” was none other than what his signa ture intimates—a prominent and well known citizen, more deeply interested, by far, in the prosperity and safety of the town than he who signs himself “Justice,” aud fortunately one who never ^as identified with the rebellion in any way, being so clear from it that he has not even been required to take an oath to transact his business here and hold his property, but on the contrary possesses the confidence of the gov ernment to such an extent as to be entrusted with a most important mission in this commu nity closely identified with the prosperity of the United States. son. A circular of instructions and forms to be observed in these cases will be furnished-on aps plication to the commissioner of pensions. Agencies for paying pensions are about to be reopened in Virginia, Tennessee and Louisiana. Agents will be appointed in the other southern states as occasion may require. RECONSTRUCTION. The probabilities are, says the N. Y. Ilerobl that the southern states will all be provided with r-i^iil ar-oKphTA' isio mi 1 - s fate go ver n ni ent-sA e S6YK the national’ holiday pext month. On theJ^fh last'. .President .Johnson appointed provisional, governors for the states of Texas and -Georgia, subsequently for Alabama, and others for Flor ida, and South Carolina are to be appointed immediately. The following southern states have elected regular governors, as follows: Kentucky,... Maiyland..., Tennessee Virginia Missouri Arkansas. .. Loui-iana... tered out of HE HA1 to till tins office, he says, will soon become ne- MtluJSC KLDDL’R & MARIAN. European Squadron.—Rear-Admiral Golds borough, commanding the squadron destined jpr European waters, sailed on the 20th, on board bis flag-ship, the Colorado. "ms win be Fahr " N^SON. Caidwell for president ot the western —-F-uahve;—The reported threats of the French .gOA er Him eat-in re-latio.ivto the Mexican junigra- Q^n scheme lui v.e.been confirmed, and pla WVS?}’. li g hL . l - .Thomas E. Bramlette. .Thomas Swann. ..William G. Brownlow. .Francis II. Pierpont. ..Thomas C. Fletcher. ..John Murphy. ..James Madison Wells. DiBD. M., wife of L. A. Merriman, a^ed 29Tears and 2 months. Hartford. Conn., papers please copy and send SPECIAL NOTICES 1 it Y •most liberal term June 26th ILVL 1. : . . OIGIIT Exchange for s !e insulin to suit June26 : Y'^'M JiA ™' The president has appointed the following provisional governors for the following states : North Carolina.. Georgia Mississippi Texas Alabama ,William W. Holden. .James Johnson. .William L. Sharkey. .Andrew J. Hamilton. ..Dewis E. Parsons. The provisional governors are yet to be pointed for the following states; South Carolina, Florida. ja^TaCFS OF T^F FFACF FOES ^W ESANOVFa^ 4'02 ^ FIL THE STATE OF X ORTH-CARO LEX A. AWW! AUCTION !! AT THE - ' STORE OF »• C. PI.AT.VEB & co., TO 0. Martin, Hall, No. 11 and 12 Front Street. . un /Krsigned being desirous ofclosing un L their business, off-r on Thursday, .June 29tb '6e, at less than e-t. th,- lUilon in..-.Lw.a . 1 W E, in oider to promote the speedy restoration of Civil Authority in the Ntateol N »rth Carolina, and ensure the.perpetuat ohof a Republican form of Government, and reposing special trust ano confidence in your prudence, integrity and zeal C othing, Boots and Shoes, Hats Ac June 26th 99-4t Fellow Citizens :—The time has come when some action should be taken to persuade the provisional governor to restore to our town the privileges and benefits of a civil government. 11 is therefore proposed that all good and loyal citizens of the town of Wilmington, who, under •iw.'governor’s res cent proclamation, will be entitled to vote at the election soon to be held for delegates to the constitutipnial convention, shall assemble at the CITY HA^, This Evening, June ‘loth, at 8 o'clock, To take action upon a memorial addressed to the provisional governor praying for the imme diate appointment of a mayor, town commis sioners and magistrates for the town of Wil mington. None others than such as can establish their loyalty to the United States government, and are MR. PENNINGTON AND THE CONVEN TION--NEGRO SUFFRAGE, AND CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE, We are much pleased to notice that our friend Pennington, of the Progress, has revised his pronunciamento in so far as the question of negro suffrage is concerned, and that a full and elab- orafe Affidseis made of the interview in this town between him and Mr. Chief Justice Chase. We are more pleased to notice this revision because of the wise and statesmanlike position taken by Mr. Pennington. In referring to the interview with Mr. Chief Justice Chase, Mr. Pennington “ We told him that our people would be oppo sed to giving the right of suffrage, to the freed negro, and that should the general government attempt to force it upon them, they would feel aggrieved and mortified —that should we be forced to accept it, we should have the union of states without, a union of hearts. We told him that if left alone, we thought the people of North willing t® give a hearty support now making to restore the state are expected to attend. MANY to the efforts to the union, CITIZENS. THE APPOINTMENT OF MAGISTRATES AND THE PUBLIC MEETING TO-NIGHT. The announcement is printed in another col umn of the appointment, by the Provisional Governor of magistrates for this county. The names of the appointees are 0. G. Parsley, Ab fred Martin, James Shackleford, William R. Utley, A. E. Hall, Dr. W. E. Freeman, D. G. Worth, John Dawson, and Edward Kidder. These are all good men and would make excel- . lent officers, and we presume would be satisfac tory to the community. But unfortunately sev eral of them are away, and probably will not be back until the emergency that rendered the ap- gointments important shall have passed. This, however, is not the fault of the provisional governor. The people would not move in the matter, and he has been forced to do the best he could, lie might have appointed a list of dead men, for all the aid the people gave him. To-night—after so long a time—a public meeting is to be held at the City Hall, to take some action in reference to the appointment of a mayor and town commissioners. The public have been so slow in getting this .meeting up, that we should not wonder if, before its assent bling, Ilie names of some-gentlemen who have been for four years in their graves should be received here incorporated in commissions from Ine provisional governor for the offices referred to. However, let the meeting be held, and then, if such a contingency should arise, the provis ional governor will have some information to work on in revising his action. OUR CORRESPONDENTS AND THE COL ORED TROOP?, Severy reluctantly give place this morning to a communication in reply to one previously printed, in relation to the negro soldiers. We say we give" this place very reluctantly, not be cause we are averse to giving both sides a.full and hir hearing, or because we are hostile to th - black —Welch is not the case—but. supply because the writer of this communication has o'-in-stepped th e bounds of propriety in giving mi loan exhibition ot temper that is not war- lameil, and is only calculated- to aggravate the against jhe blanks.' We are now very fully convinced that it. will be unwise and im^ and that if hereafter he should show himself worthy of an extension of privileges, they would not be withheld—that while the present gene ration might deny them the right to vote, we could not bind or .-hape the action of future generations. We expressed before Judge Chase, as we do on all occasions, a kindly feeling for the negro, and advanced the opinion that in el* ucating, christianizing, and elevating him, the people of the southern states would elevate themselves.” This is certainly very clear and explicit, and moreover, in our opinion, a faithful exposition of the views of the mass of the people of this state. It will require at least one generation to fit the negro for the full enjoyment of all the rights of citizenship. And it is only with that one generation that we of to-day have to deal. If our descendents chose to extend greater priv ileges to these people, finding them qualified to enjoy them, that is their matter not ours. Mr. Pennington desires to place himself so unqual ifiedly on the record in this respect that he reit erates in plainer terms : “The free negros voted in North Carolina up to 1836, and we shall no more abuse our fathers for allowing them that privilege than we shall censure them for withdrawing it? and they may vote again, but if they do so in the election rear* ganiziny a loyal state governwent, or in the next, presidential election, it shall not be with our consent. Freedom may, and we hope will, prove a bles-. sing to the negro, but it will be for coining gen erations, not the present, to enjoy the fruits of it.” We give our friend the benefit of his pledges in this respect, and congratulate him on his boldness in thus unequivocally defining his po sition. We wish him, once more, every.success in his canvass of the district he aspites to rep resent. But we have been forcibly struck with the ridiculousness and unpleasantness of the atti-. tude in which Mr. Chief Justice Chase is left by this explanation, and the avowal of others with whom lie held interviews both here and in other states. His efforts at building up a negro suf frage party for 1868, with the expectation of marching into the white house by the aid of its votes promise utterly to fail, and leave him in the unpleasant, and anomalous situation of an intriguing politician, disappointed in his antici pations for the furtherance-of which he had ' compromised the enviable and honorable posi* tion conferred upon him' by the late President, aud which has ever been considered - the culm! nation of all earthly ambition and sufficient to litical party and faction. PENSIONERS IN THE REBELLIOUS polnie to bold our ooluMs -opin to a further dwyton ot this V^we ^ a t0pi( , genders so much feelin properly signs himself ce” exhibits, it is at such times as A reference to the columns Qf Taw Herald of about, the date of the nd. yt of these negro troops here, will show that our dispositioji To wards them was of the most friendly nature. We even went so far then and subsequently as Under the act of February 4, 1862,.the names ■of all pensioners on the rolls of the states lately in rebellion have been dropped. Those who are pi . pared to prove their continued loyalty during the whole period of the rebellion can make ap- 1 plication to the commissioner of pensions for restoration to the rolls, proving their place or places of residence and means of subsistence since January 1, 18G1. and file in the pension They must also execute A PITHY AND WISE ORDER. General Ames has issued a very pithy order, which is printed elsewhere in this sheet, and which a certain class tf midnight bachinalians will do well to read. Il will not take them long to read it, but it will take them a long time to recover from the consequences of not reading and heeding it. It is because of a large class of men who exist in every community,—who would consider themselves insulted were they called anything else than gentlemen—it is .be cause such characters will persist in abusing every privilege granted them, that such orders as this become necessary. The brevity of Gen. Ames’ order is a guarantee that it will be rigidly enforced, which, if done, will render the town much more habitable at night. BLACK VS. WHITE SOLDIERS. To the Editor of The Wilmington Herald: I hereby beg leave to reply toan article which appeared in your paper of the 23d inst., under the head of “White vs. Colored Trooj s.” The author of the article is represented to be a citi- izen of Wilmington: but theie are good reasons for believing that such is not the case, but that he holds a commission from the governor of his state in that white brigade of lawless marauders which he holds up as true types of American soldiers, and whose conduct, while on duty late. But as the author signshimself “Citizen,” I suppose he must bedealt with as such. First, then, we will take up the charges and objections as they stand, and then advance a few original ideas. One of the charges is theft and attempts to murder, a thing unknown while the city was garrisoned by the exemplary white brigade. As to it being unknown, I deny in the strongest terms, and assert on the authority of the general who commanded the district, that the order, be haviour and discipline of the colored soldiers is far superior to that of the white volunteer bri gade. Gentlemen of unquestionable respecta- b.lity and veracity inform me that while the volunteer white brigade were here on duty, it was positively unsafe to travel on the streets after nightfall; and that assaults and attempts at robbery were of nocturnal occurrence. He also says that privilegesale given to the colored troops that were never extended to the white. This is an absolute falsehood, and utterly void of truth; and I would hereby say that piivileges were given, and are even now granted to the enlisted men of that immaculate white brigade, that would under no circumstances be extended to the commissioned officers of Aha U. S. colored in fantry. The fact of officers and .men in a body leaving camp in the afternoon, and traveling eighty-five miles by rail for the mere pleasure of a night’s debauch, has never blackened a single page—no, not even a line of the history of the colored troops. Why, an officer to leave the limits of his camp without the permission of his commanding officer, is an offence severely punished in the colored service. Pshaw! talk about discipline: But facts are stubborn things. Another objection against the colored troops is. tli.it they are not favorably received nor accep table to the citizens of Wilmington. Well, this I shall not attempt to palliate nor deny, for 1 do not suppose that it is at all acceptable for masters to be arrested by United States soldiers, placed in the same dungeons iu which our own soldiers were starved to death, and there guarded by the same slave he a short time ago held as his property, but now transformed into a soldier, who, in bearing and. discipline, stands unrivaled before'the world. But the great objection after all, appearsto be that they are not. wanted here, because they are black. A -color by the way, while siaves, not at all objectionable. When we consider that the first necessary services after coming into existence and up to the closing of eyes in death has been performed by that-now detesta-. ble color, and judging from the different shades of complexion, would suppose that even closer relations-existed. Don't wantthem here. Well, there are many things here that the de- funct aristocracy of Wilmington does not want, but how can they help it? A people whose hands are yet red with the blood of their fellow- countrymen, and hearts black with treason, should not dictate terms, or hang out a schedule of preferences. JUSTICE. Mustered Out.—Generals Butler, Banks and office the oath proscribed Heintzelman, neglecting to send in their resig. nations on or before the 15th inst., were mus- *J the amnesty proclamation of President John* ice for the H . S Government shall continue in this state, and no privileges, powers and authorities, uscfel and ne- cessary to the just and proper discharge of vour duties, under the Irws in being prior to the twen- such other instructions as may His Excellency, WIL- the State of North Carolina by appointment of. Andrew Johnson, President of the United States o' qted un -by a majority five W. proclamation; may be in lispensable i > a proper trajnsac the courts law of the state in force previous to the 20th of May, 1861: and to allow bail where thecase is bailable, according to the usage of the state; June 26 99 Houses of Entertainment to be Closed in the Evenings. Wilmington, N. C., Jum AH houses of entertainment, saloons and res taurants will be closed.at 10 o’clock, P. M. ted and their stock in trade confiscated. N. H. EDGERTON, Gapt. & A. A, A. G., Post Adjutant. June 26th 99-1 w ^SW ADVERTISEMENT# ENAMELED CLOTH, DASH LEATHER, Acythe Blades, Tin Kettles, all sizes,, Lead, Cop per, Pistol Cartridges, Rope, Lining, Ski ■ s, Bind ing, Skins, i t ench Calf Skins, Able Leather, Har ness and Lace Leather, Qotton Yarns from' No. 6 to No. 14,.Spirits Turpentine, Tobacco. Bourbon Whiskey/Ac., at WILSON’S., Hard-ware and Harness Establishment. June 26 99-It JAMES AADERSO, Commission Merchant, A ND dealer in Nava 1 Stores, CA "n and other produce; No. 9 South Water strfeet, Wilmington, N. C. June 26th 99 1m . GOLD’ GOLD!! OAUf A LIBERAL per centage paid for Gold, at No. Il Market' street, FRENCH’# Boot and Shoe.Store. June 26 99-2t THE GREATEST IMETHOS GF TSE AGE K^bitien-Vt ^.L mui.t or ( seen its adaptado; vour oi ders. COPAL TUOMAS M. COOK & C h that establishment. W one, and firm ot "ofore executed THOMAS Mu COOK; T. V. FOLEY. , June 24, 1865 fectly sound and gentl HA all at wirranted per- > and 7 years of on Ma. ket st. 19-31 RAIL ROAS HOWL; J. 11. FAULKER A. 4’0.. Proprietors, IS now open tath 1. ings furnished. quality alw YA^. mUE umL-;/ ^ day ot Jul June 24th • ML ! A rear the . in - 10th in the pon a cur- quarterly It will be ood order ynce A:.. BADHAM. 1-0 T inform the ar the 1 of the town. There nished. A g od Iron commendation. June 24th no re REUBIN JONEN, Proprietor. 98 Im LIQUORS JEST KEi ac Choice Port, and Sherry Wine: Claret, Ale and Porter. or gallon. June 23d by thebo'tle TS. - SOSA WATER. L EMON and Sarsaparilla (manufactured and bottled.) Also, Pop and bottled Philadelphia 1 At; and Porter Lt RUNGE & KORDLANDEll’S. ’ I RESPECTFULLY announce to my old custo mers before Sfe war, that I .iave resumed my June 24th ALE, KOH BLANDER. 59 CASES and 40 barrels. .For sale by THOMAS LYNTJ), 11 and 12 Water st., cor. Princess st. June 23d GIT! KllTBL. ripHE Subscri -er c b's i:-e attention o'his friend I anf. ‘nerally bonis Branch Saloon at the City' Hotel, cm nrr of Mar ket and Second Streets, The best of Wines, Liquors, Ale and Cordials always-on ham!. May 26th ®AL .A . . .L 11 Ac 25 BARREL' by June 23d (10 VERN A g>O£5i ^TI LL he VV the .11 m; ne Cider. Forsyte ./S LYNCH, r st., cor. Princess st. (IRAI j^M, Ril 23 Sea Auction and golds $. CJ on Monday, June 26th, L 65, AT 10 aDLOCK, A. AT Terms cash. (Quartermaster’s Voucher's will- bereceived as cash.) The property to be remora - - immediately after the sales' Juno 19th by -H. B. BLACKMAN, Capt. & A. Q. JI- SEGA! 1 : nd Brown. For sal® TI O 1 VS LYNCH, 11 and 12 Water s’., cor. Princess st. June 23d
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