WILMINGTON, .N-C, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1865.
VOL. I.]
[NO. 4
THE HERALD OF THE UMOM
WILMINGTON,
MAUCH
3.
LObAL INTELLIGENCE
serious Fracas. ‘
A fracas occurred on. Wednesday evening, in a’
restaurant on “Market street, between Front street,
and the wharf, by which a soldier lost his life. A
party of soldiers had been idling away their time
at the place mentioned, when one of t hem pretends
ed to have-missed some money, or really had los^
some, and demanded that all present should be
searched. One of the men, a member of Company
‘13,” 103d Ohio Volunteers, objected to the pro-'
ceeding and attempted to go out, pleading that he
■ was to*go on duly at once. At this he was set
upon by the loser of The money, who drew a knife
and stabbed hi a to the heart. The unfortunate
mgn*fell to the floor and immediate]} expired.
Several soldiers who were standing by interfered
at. this juncture, and attempted to arrest the as
sassin, when some of his friends rallied to his
assistance, and a general scuttle ensued. During
the melee one of the arresting party narrowly
escaped,with his life. The principal scoundres
made good his flight/ but two of his companions
were arrested.
Theatre.—The theatre was again too thorough
ly packed for comfort last night, and had we had
the time our inclinations would have held us from
crowding into such a throng. From a standee at
the door we were enabled to witness a portion of
the play, sufficient to impress us most favorably
with the acting of Miss Bridges, the charming'
commedienne whose facinations draw such .im
mense houses. Her reading seems to be exceed,
iagly perfect, and her manner eminently attrac
tive. A further acquaintance is necessary to
Mudge of her general merits : but the public seem
> have already passed a verdict of approval, and
' Made her a grand fa vorite. To-night die Serious
Family is on, to be followed by Our Gal making
‘ a grand bill for fun lovers.
The management, sympathizing with the popu
lar commi8seratio.il for the forlorn soldiers just re- ,
leased from rebel prisons, have set apart Saturday :
(to-morrow) night for a benefit in aid of their
. pressing wants. This step is* wisely taken and
speaks loudly for the humanity and patriotism of
the proprietors and managers of our only place of
amusement; Doubtless the house will furnish no
spare room on Ilie occasion.
MaqS*an;pious Sutlers.—Of the nine hundred
and odd paroled officers who reached this city
Wednesday not one of them was decently clad; and
but few had any money with which to supply their
• wants. In. the ■ emergency Messrs. Cutler & 1
French, the enterprising purveyors 4 an^ sutlers'
opposite 'our office, came forward, advanced to
such of them as needed it what money they want
ed; sold to others, of whom all they knew was
that they were destitute Federal officers, whatever
they needed, trusting to time and the lienor of the!
officers, foiyheir payment; Snd in every possible
manner showed themselves to be as magnanimous
as they are enterprising, and more accommodating
then sutlers are generally credited with being.
Upwards of four hundred officers procured new
outfits at this e^fcblislmient during*yesterday and
the previous day. . .
Jas.—We are assured, by those, interested *in
ths Wilmington. Gas Works, that, while they are
aware of the inferiority of their -gas, and the in
adequate supply furnished, ^he blame is.rath
er attributable to the disturbances natural to
a change of military occupation : and th&t exer
tions are mating*to improve both the qualify and
. • quantity at the earliest possible day. .We wait,
and hope for the improvement.
Sutler’s Good'. —Attention is directed to the
advertisement of Messrs. Dillingham & Co,’naval
sutlers, which appears ihour ad. eri f-ing columi ■.-
They are geniTemanl arnd honorable dealers*'and.
'deserve patronage? Ge them a call.
Thanks.—We are under obligations to Captain
Smith, or thd U. S., steamer Russia, and to Mr.
Woolery, the army -postmaster at this post, for
.copies of late Northern papers. , 4
FOR Beaufort.—The steamer Russia, Captain
Smith; sails for Beaufort to-day, carrying the
United States mails. Captain Smith is just the
in: n to travel with; and his vessel just the one to
travel on;, ' -.
Office of the Commandant of the.District 0 ?
. , m ( vavv vvBcpn urn u. uumpauy j,
WiLMlNGTON. ¥r 'Else ) wnera. appears the order oi Gen- , private John AI Porter, company F
era! Hawley/ assuming command of the District o [ I try: private B A.Biggs, company £
Wilmington. General Hawley’s Headquarters are
on Market Street, South side, between-Second and
Third.
Wilmington, as Viewed by Rebel
Eyes.
Ihe poor benighted beiugs in the interior of the
State are very much affected for the welfare of
the citizens of Wilmington. The Goldsboro State
■fournhl, of the 24th, holds forth in this wise on
the Federal occupation of this town:
So far as we can learn the enemy occupied Wil
mington day before yesterday forenoon, that the
chief town of North Carolina, and the last sea
port of the Confederacy is gone, ft is true we
may talk about^St. Marks at the mouth of the
Apalachicola river, and of Galveston in Texas, but
that will be simply talk.
It is believed that Haygood’s brigade, with uhe
exception of the 7th battalion, has been captured.
Some accideeiital cases may have escaped. They
were, on the west side-of the Cape Fear. The'
other troops on that side escaped.
Ihe last news we have is that our troops re-,
treated across the North-east branch of the Cape
Fear river, us what is known as Big Bridge Fe try,
or McBee’s Ferry. It is said that our forces'. a:»
.tempted io burn the railroad bridge at. North
East, nine miles from Wilmington, but were o nly
partially successful. There is reason to believe
that the enemy followed up our retreating troops,
and that their advance may even no wbe skirmish
ing with our .rear. We do.not now think tl, at
the line of retreat of our forces from the Cape
Fear will bring them in this direction, nor that
the enemy from there will visir Goldsbiro’ soon;,
but from what we have heard' from Wilmin.g>
ton we think it just about as well for our people to
keep their own eyes open as to depend upon the
military authorities, who acting either under spe
cial orders or from a supposed idea of duty, carry
out the notion of military reticence to a redich-
lous extent. They did so at Wilmington. Much
of the public and private property might otherwise
have been saved. This sort of thing is foolish—it
is criminal The time has now- come when the
government must trust the people or both are gone
up.
About ihe sacking of the town of Wilmington
and all that sort .of thing, we-believe very little of
it; indeed, almost nothing. All citizens were out
as a guard for private residences, especially those
in which ladies resided. Of course there will be
suffering, but all those who are compelled to stay
in Wilmington ought not to be denounced. They
arc there, and physically and pecuniarily they are
unable to leave. There are good and true men
and „^..i : among them.
Of course we have no mail or telegraphic comi-
munication with Wilmington. We do not kne’v
what has been done with the Carolinian; the
editors of the'Journal are in Confederate lilies.—
There may fee a few bales of cotton, or a few boxes,
of tobacco in -■Wilmington, but not, we think, as a
speculation. Most probably a soldier or a public’
man may have been forced, for want of means, to
leave his family, and he may have tried-Lo fix
something that •they could use to ^et something
to cat. With few exceptions, this we think is the
story of all the cotton.or tobacco in Wilmingtort,
and we think our inf of mast knows something
about it. . ' '
The people of Wilmington are depressed, but
they are Confederates, and Confederates outside
the lines knew it and feel it.. I Our informant.
thinks the Knows the people of 5 Wilmington
iotseV y that they know him. He request’
jaie he is well, and slopes to meet his
■J^ppier times. '
1 , of the Journal. For his edifica-
■ ae edification of other “outside bar*
baW^* we can tell him that a good Unionpaper,
caMed'Tui-1 Herald of the Union, is now issued -
^'^‘^ 0 ^ ^^'^^n office, and that the Journal
in the hands of the national authorities,
same as all other abandoned property of
rebels. The people in Wilmington conceal their
“ depression” with great' artfulness. We had .
thought they were all converted to Unionism from j
the gladness with which they greeted the Union I
army.
Escaped Union PRisoNERs.-^-The following is a
list of escaped Union prisoners that have been re-
oeived at the United States General Hospital No. 4;
in this city, up to this" date ;
Private Geo McHaney, company A, 53th Pa in
fantry; sergt Wrn Plumb, company A, 14th Illinois
cavalry;'cor.pl Geo Weiser, company A, 1.0th N J
infantry; private Henry Jerdo, company A, 1st Vt
cavalry; private Coriden Pierce, company A, 99bh
Ind infantry;-private Alfred H Leath, company A,
8th Iowa cavalry; corp! Dicen Ramsey, company B,
410th Pa-infantry: private James Bates, company 4
4.7 th Conn infantry; private G^dhss Seigle, company
'B, 14th III.cavalry; private Pius Banman, company
B, 132nd N Yintantry; private James Orrville, com
pany B, 2nd N Y cavalry; eorp^Isaae X Nwartland, i
company B, 103rd Pa infantry; bugler Henry R Har- |
den, company O', Sth lowa'cavalry; private Geo $ j
Day, company C, 8th Iowa cavalry;'sergt Francis M '
Lyon/c"onipany C, 8th Iowa cavalry; private John running XRcam&r
1.!,.™^.. r. ^1, U4 ^^^... A ouVof i^e ba^
site th e city.- ^
g' u ^ . and Kainan
ll w .1 and ope ned : lire upon her. before the VV ren
P genstalk:r, company C, 4th Md infantry;. sergt
John Coon:, Hi’t Pa infantry; private Joshua Bar-
ton, Company C, 12th Ind infantry; corp! Thomas
BirbeeS^empany C, 101st Pa infantry; private David
Nbults, dbmpr.ny 1). 42nd N Y ’in fan Ln; private
Nnuits, company D, rznu a x intantry; private v a ana ope n^. -r — -
Frank Ronabuni,^ company D, 2nd Ohio cavalry; & mid be clis: tbled her crew managed to g^f her
priva'e Isaac Palme. , company D, 6th Bonn; pri
vate Joseph E Raymond, company D, 6th Conn in- »
fantry; private John Ad^ms, company D, 1st N Y
cavalry; private Wm : - is, company D, 2nd UF |
cavalry; private Jas Su Xh, company D, 81st ’qj |
infantry: private Joseph Elmerich, battery LR
Ohio artillery; 411 i - Me Frederick Horn, compau .
103rd Ohio infantry; private Philip Fortune, ' 1 ’
Fpany D, 7th Gonn infantry; private W J Bum -
company D, 4th Mass cavalry; private Job n m Ta S ’
r&nce, company E, 16th Conn infantry; pri y
Underbill, company E,,85th N Y infantr 7 . d 0
Geo Winter, company E, 102nd N Y infer > R riv ^ te
■ John N Vance, company F, Sth Iowa e Tr’ _ ^ .
vate Joseph Lord, company F, 10th T / J infancy-
try: Jhivate B A Biggs, company R ^VoBM £
fantr; ; private W JI McPhial, company F, 1st D C
cavalry: private Win Hockenbranch, ’company F,
2nd Pa Horse artillery; private Essa Smart, compa
ny F, 16th Conn infantry; sergt Samuel F Haver-
land, company G, 15th' N Y cavalry; private Bobt
M Longstaff, company G, Sth Pa cavalry; private
William Collins, company G, 18th Mo infantry; pri
vate W II Thomas, company G, 17th Mich infantry;
corp! William Griffiith, company G, 90th Pa in
fantry; private James Langliner, company G, 9th
Tenn cavalry; corp! Edwin Wales, company 11,13th
Ill infantry;' private John Trainer,, co. H, 12th N
’J infantry; private Win F Everman, company II,
8th Iowa cavalry private Taylor Weeden, company
II, 14th Ill cavalry; private Adam Eltpence, com
pany H, 146th N Y infantry: private Patrick Fitz
simmons, company H, 2nd Mass,-horse artillery; pri
vate vaness V Coo’k, company H, 15th Mich infan
try; private Ruben Carey, company II, 49th Ohio
infantry; private Melvin, Mitchell, 7th N Y horse
artillery; private Charles Whitchons, company I,
61st Pa infantry; private Thomas E Rhodes, compa
ny I, 3rd Ill cavalry; cor.pl Jas W Parman, company
I, Sth Iowa cavalry; private Jas Ball company I,
20th III infantry; private William Davis, Sth Iowa
cavalry; private Miles Worton, company K, 6th N
Y horse artillery; private Adam Ohr, company K,
53rd Pa infantry; private A 0 Wyant, company K,
14th 1 a n ser\  infantry; private Thomas C Graves,
company K, 96th III infantry; private John Pierce,
company K. 1st Va cavalry: sergt Paul Twitt, com-’
pany K, 7th Ind infantry;'private John McCowan,
company K, 35th. N J infantry; corp! J Eddy, com
pany K, 1st Vt horse artillery; private Michel Kel
ly, company L, 14th Pa. cavalry; private John Gar
ver, company L, 14th Pa cavalry, private William
D Minge, company L, 2nd Ky cavalry; private Jno
Conwell, company M, 22nd N Y cavalry.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Sild. Qr’s., 3D istrict of WilmiugtOH,
Wil. Kington, X, 0, March 2, 1865.
General ORDER*, 1
No. I. J
In obediencoto orders received from Maj, Gen.
Schofield, CommanRi ng the Department, I hereby as
sume commandof th^ Dist. of Wilmington. The Dis
trict will comprise a 11 the territory under military
control in rear of the! armies operating from Cape
Fear Riveras abase.. J am also charged with the
duties of Provost Ma rshal General, within the limits
described. »
My head-quarters :ire established in Wilmington-
Capt. E. Lewis Mioore, will serve as Assistant
Adjutant General,
Liout. Col. James F. Randlett, 3d New H nap-
shire, is appoin ted Provost Marshal of Wilmington.
Further staff -appointments will be made soon.
JOS. P. HATTLEY,
Brig,. Gen. U. S. Vols.
NOTICE.
I N view»of the fact of the withdrawai of. colored
men from our Fire. D ^paitt nent, and the increas
ed stocks of Govornment .8 to res,'public and private
in .our City, together with the increasing popular
tion, all of which increases the risk .of loss by fire,
I propose and by order of th^General in Command -
to reorgani' • the Department and therefoi e call for
Volunteers to man the different Engines of the De_
partment. Every effort and expence will now bo
made to make it efficient and therefore require
names to be handed me promptly, that action may
be made ioimediately.
• ‘ JAMES II. MITCHELL.
Chief Eng’r. Pipe Department of town of
Wilmington
Marcs, 3, 1865, 16.
. BIocR^de- 'Kunmu^ obi the Texas
Coast.
[Now Orleans .Correspondence of the New York
Herald.]
New Orleans, La., Feb. 13, 1865.
On the nig ht of the 6th inst. two blockade
running school Tcrs were cut out of Galveston
harbor by two
cess Royal and
Both boats wor
Ensign Geo. H.
Annia Sophia '
captured, with
were then run c
prize crew. Th
cked and fifty 1
Sophia with ti
schooners were 1
boats’ crews—one from the Prin-
the other from the Bienville.—
e under the command of Acting-
French. The schooners Pet and
were boarded, and then.' crews
out causing any alarm. They
ut to the fleet in charge of a
e Pet was laden with two bun
dles’ of cotton, and the Annie
zles of the guns
Three nights 1
out the celebrat
Will-o’-the-Wisp
ing t^pass our 1
The rebels, mana
her cargo during
rendered useless
The Will-o’-the-
steamer, and is ri
fast and staunch
On. the. Inght
vo hundred and thirty. The
cun out almost under the muz-
of the fort.
jefore the schooners were cut
ed blockade running steamer
i was run ashore while attempt-
blockading fleet off Galveston.
ged to save a. large portion of
a dense fog, but the seamer is
from the firing of our guns.—
Wisp was a large two-piped
cpresente^ to have been a very
vessel •
•of the. 6th inst. the blockade
Wren, while attempting to pass
.■ of Galveston, grounded oppo-
ie United States steamers Pon-
ha discovered her in thisposi-
afloat, when she steamed toward the city, under
the gun's of f he forts. '
TheGsnbi -.AL IIos.-h-alat SAVANNAH.-yet-
tere from Sas /almah of a late date represent
H the great est Suffering Much prevails there
a not amon.' the persons who received the sup.
5“latelyso ^ by the charity of our citizens,
bnt in the 7 Bn ited States General Hospital. One
K dated F. ibruary 4th, says :
‘Ourdiospital s in Savannah are filled with
sick a* wound cd soldiers, who are dying every
M want of a few sanitary supplies.' Ihe
writer naturally s^ whether those who .have
taken up arms in behalf of their country should
be allowed thus to suffer, while plenty can be
had—and that plenty sent to rebels of the worst
class; as the people of Savannah have shown
themselves to be ; being even now so little im
proved in their planners as to give manifest to
kens of their contempt as they pass our soldiers
in the streets. These statements are given with
such particularity, and are from such a source,
that wo cannot refuse them our belief. If the
Sanitary Commission has not already provided
for this case,' there is an ample field yet open for
its benevolent interposition.—W. Y. Post.
FROM ^EBELDOM.
Spirit of the Southern Press.
THE CRISIS OF THE REBELLION.
The Inaction of the Rebel Con
gress.
MOVEMENTS OF GOV. NANCE.
&C.
&C.
&c.
&c..
Where Next ?
[From the Raleigh Progress, Feb. 24.]
Now that, Schofield is in possession of Wil*
mington, and Sherman has passed Columbia and
is moving in the direction of Charlotte, there
can be no kiud of a doubt but it is their inten
tion to strike at some other vital point in North
Carolina ; and that point aimed at is on the
North Carolina railroad, and between Charlotte
and Goldsboro. Both Charlotte and Goldsboro
may receive a passing call, but as they are of
but little importance, in themselves, onr im
pression is. that Greensboro’ and Raleigh are the
main objective points of the enemy in North
Carolina ; and unless our authorities can con-
Scentrate a sufficient force, te arresF their prog
ress, but a few weeks can elapse before both
will be occupied. Raleigh, being the capitol of
the State, will certainly be visited if the inva"
ders be not defeated before they can reach it.
We do not write thus to create apanic or ex-
eitement, but reason and a common sense sur
vey of the present situation, inevitably leads to
such conclusions ;.and we do it to impress- au
thorities, army and people with what they may
expect.
Sherman; Foster, and Schofield cannot have
an aggregate of ftss than one hundred thousand
men, and this force, moving in three columns,
from Winnsboro,’ Charleston and Wilmington,
is to be concentrated in North Carolina for a fi
nal blow upon Richmond. Assuming, then,
that these speculations are based upon sound
reason, it is apparent that this force must be
# met and defeated before it reaches Virginia, or
both Richmond and General Lee’s army must
fall by the combined forces of Sherman and
Grant; and to avert this, and so concentrate
all our own strength, we shall not be surprised
to hear, at any moment, that Richmond and Pe
tersburg have been abandoned and. the whole '
army of Northern Virginia is falling back into
this State, In fact, we do not see how we are
to hope for success,’in a conflict with the -pow
erful armies of Sherman, unless we can bring
the veterans of Geneial Lee’s army to confront
them ; and taking this view of the matter we
think it more than probable that the next great
battle, and possibly the closing struggle of the
war, will take place somewhere oh the North
Carolina railroad, or between that and the Roan
oke river. # .
-But speculation will avail but little; impor
tant events are following rapidly upon the heels
of one another, and a few weeks will no doubt
enable us to know the best or the worst. Of .
cue thing there can be no doubt—the hour of
trial and suffering, for North Carolina, is upon
us.
'The Crisis.
[From tlfe Raleigh Conservative, Feb. 25.]
It reqifires no extraordinary prescience to see#
that we are at the very crisis of our fate. What
is to be the fate of ourselves and posterity in
the sunny South must be determined, in all
probability, in a very' few weeks. Had the gov
ernment earlier taken the course which it is now
driven to adopt, of giving up all the seaports
and concentrating all the forces thus rendered
available at the vital point, we hardly have been
hi the condition in which we are to-day. We ©
feel compassion for our good citizens thaj thus
would sooner, have been thrown at the mercy of
our enemy, or driven from their, homes, to de
pend for subsistencee often upon heartless spec
ulators or strangers, straightened to procure the
necessaries of life for themselves- But as this
must occur sooner or later, as our experience
has proved, it would have been well for it
to have occurred sooner, that the day of their
deliverance and that of the country might, have
been hastened also. But no. That squeamish
ness and disposition to stand upon punctilio,
evinced in the effort to retain Secretary Seddon
irrhis position, against Vie united remonstrance
of almost the whole country, and to refuse tore-
store Gen. Johnston lb command, when the
united voice of both the people and the army
was loud' in ’demanding it, said that it shou
not be done. And h-day, both the citizens o
our seaport towns afe well as a large portion
those in the interior are reaping the bitter fruits
of the blind policy pursued. , .
We hope and believs that it is not 1
now to save the country from annihilation by
its enemies ; if the proper course after adoptaon
be vigorously pursued. Sherman at our late_t
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