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The, Did Not Know It ,M There Ffifi&S . Fi Tne Affair Km HTorftellc. fighting to do, which, thTT2225 no Com-batta- nU Republic W. C. Whiting, of the C. jodgine Ilxey will Dlnpers. Who are to t the North Carolina an Independent Wb lkark that Major H. account of the attack by the played by - boys," T0 THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL. -- We take the following the 1 Will there b much War 1 Is Iuiin. At 6 o'clock p. m., on the glorious, but now twice S. A., who has been Acting'Inspector Gen'lof the State Yankees will only give eCt,a tS tilat Peace Desirable? federal steamer Monticello on Sewell'a Point Battery, them a chanceto? glorious 20th of May, the Sate Convention ol North of North Carolina since the commencement of the pres. By others it is ?urmised that WILMINGTON, N. CM THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1661. from the Norfolk Day Book Extra, of the 20th inst. the attack The rebellious persons in Virginia seem to have been Carolina passed unanimously, the ordinance of secession, ent difficulties has been ordered to Harper's Ferry. finished battery was intended ,tht accounts by telegraph and by the papers assert did not know . NEWS. called together by Mr. Lincoln's proclamation ordering thus severing the shadow or form of connection between We rather think that there is work about. Maj. Whit- Later the, it ,M there ffifi&S fi THE Monticello were oa-toraa- " that some six or seven men on board the whilst in pursuit of the stealer H MONDAY, MAT 218T. the seceding States to disperse." Before that proc- North Carolina and the once proud but now degraded ing leaves this afternoon. Captain Childs will probably FIT1 in Sunday's engagement, finding it unprepared to return their thS?Dkee-- lamation came out Virginia was as quiet as a lamb and of killed, and several wounded fire uev novelist, died at Italy, in the Union. We are no longer even in name the subjects be ordered to the same point. Maj. Whiting is known near bv to deter our folks frnm &nchnj Charles Lever, the Spezzia, steamer seriously injured, though the latter ap- North Carolina opened not her mouth, or if she did, it King Abraham and his military satraps, Scott, Wool as an engineer officer of high standing. Captain Childs and the they latter part of April Few readers of light literature as she was off the Battery th(a!!Wer Sfc from waa in a feeble way, through the mrdium of officers pears to have been repaired, Point HF'battery yesterday evening took ttl I', which so much abounds the Scuth. or Mr. Butler of Lowell, Massachusetts. had secured the confidence and respect of all the them . will forget the rollicking fan Minnesota, and also QUI lOCm ern Right3 organization, which, without circumstances Convention also on the same the next day in company with the UJ in " Harry Lorrequer," " and " Charles O'Malley," or We understand that the and men at the Forts here. had intervened, would have bad a long and hard struggle ordinance providing for of General the day following by herself : NORTH CAROLINA COSvSJq the more irresistible humor which every day, yesterday, passed another Harper's Ferry is under the command quieter, but steam-tu- g Kahukee, Captain B. Taylor, started FIBST DAT. before attaining ascendancy in the State. Lincoln's order the entrance of the State into the Confederacy, as soon Johnson, a brave and able officer formerly of the United The " crops out " in the LoiteriDgs of Arthur O'Leary. down on Saturday about half past twelve o'clock, to W. P. Leak nominated Hon. to disperse caused the Forts to be occupied, the Arsenal as the various forms and requirements can be complied strongly entrenched Weldon N m had seen much ofthe world, mixed with so- States Army. The troops there are carry one hundred negro laborers to the battery now in permanent President. award! f Dr. Lever U An 1 1 hr. KQlfrAl TtATVMnat A TT and Mint taken and the people to spring to arms. It with. This we suppose will be done promptly. and fortified, ably officered and superior in every respect course of erection at Seweli's Point When she arriv- ciety in all its phases, and shared in many of its dissi- The vote resulted Edwards 65. nzL' i," abam. worked like a charm. here on the receipt of the num- ed in the vicinity she saw the steamer Monticello laying &nlMr. pations. For years past he had been a resident on There was little excitement to any Northern force of anything like the same wards was declared duly elected Prai.. in well over in the mouth ot James River. The Kahukee On taking the chair, Mr. Well now the finest vessel in the United States Na- news. It was a foregone conclusion, and no man could ber that can possibly be sent against them. Harper's Edwards was recti.. less from choice, we earth-wor- ks the continent of Europe, presume, took her position as near the as prudent, applause. He gracefully acknowledged th looi the Convention who was opposed to se- compliment to him from the pressure of debt. His stories of camp vy, assisted by a smaller armed ship, has been battering Have gone to Ferry will be found to be a hard nut to crack. lowered her yawl and sent it ashore with as many of paid and pledged, as the nDexPectd than conld make, his utmost eflbrts to discharge tif 8Vetttfn " and banging away at a little earthwork thrown up has- cession. The State was a unit. On the question of laborers as would carry ; these were landed, and hi and field are inimitable. We think Mickey Free BgU We would call attention to the great letter of the it posed upon him in an efficient and acceptablB tie in immediately joining the Southern Confederacy there was about returning for another load, when ter an allusion to the wWv! !?&nnr-- will generally be preferred by the readers of Charles tily at Seweli's Point, some eight miles from Norfolk Mr. Marcy to Count Sartiges, on the subject of priva- the boat circumstances in At unanim-ty- , Monticello, which steamed away from placed, he said North Carolina was not wroft?A?to, and, strangely enough, neither the earthwork nor its de- may possibly be not quite so large an amount of the steamer hd O'Malley, to Dickens' character of " Sam Weller." teering. Its doctrines were endorsed enthusiastically by the mouth of James River and gone in the direction of ot the troubles with which the country wm n8lb fran u but we presume there will hardly be even a show of paid a high tribute to the character " Monsoon," Webber, Captaia Power fenders can be induced to " disperse." On the centra, the whole North, which now turns up its innocent eyes Old Point, as those on board the tug thought, came of the mnl' S Major Frank the convention and sat down amid loud cheer ComPoain- - revers ," for the Minnesota steam-shi- p ol opposition. extreme end of Seweli's Corney Delaney and msny other of his creations are ry, quite the in holy horror at the idea of Southern privateers. round the point of woods at the On motion of the Hon. Asa Biggs, the Cm gun power, with a Strangely enough, although promised telegraphs from Point, in chase of the Kahukee. The latter was now ceeded to the election of principal Clerk vention pt0. later and more pretentious style never untold size and fabuluus together of its rreat. His Convention, we The Petersburg Express, on the authority about three miles below Boush's Bluff, the only place Col.'W. L. Steele, of Richmond, and Jag t mate of been driven off and slightly dis- sundry parties both in and out of the in rp'.nu took so well. In one thing Lever had a great advan smaller her's.have three hundred immediate Raleigh weie put nomination. The vote ,re. of Norfolk correspondent, say that there are where there are any guns mouDted in that ."P-Ste- eU persed themselves. are yet ignorant of the organization or officers of that 94, Moore 18. Mr. Bteele was accrdinelv 1 Dickens he wrote of gentlemen and seeing Monticello about coming after Ex-Go- pT-S- tage over as a gentle Indians at that point, and that they come from the vicinity, the Reid nominated for 0.' body, and indeed oi everything about it further than as Monticello ' man. Dickens was and is a snob and a cockney. But the sinners ocght to tremble, for is not Mr. Gen- county of Cherokee, N. C, and under the skillful train- her, steamed up the river to escape. The hard, of Tarhoro'. L. C. Edwarda acd tw f m stated above. then fired a shot after her, which not answering the also put in nomination.. The vote stood Frio 5erg 're for believing that a collision eral Benjamin FraDklin Picayune Butler coming io 2 3. 5R- There are strong reasDns ing of Gen. Jackson, a distinguished member of the of her, she repeated by firing a shell, gelhard 33, scattering Mr. Edwards was Zu ? - This morning the Wilmingtoo Horse Artillery fired purpose, stopping '?cle(J- - Norfolk, between Fed- town ? Is he not the commandant of Virginia, North Pace of Randolph was then took place yesterday near Ya., North Carolina Senate from Cherokee, are now ready which we understand exploded about 50 yards in ad- priDciPal . Lovell a salute io honor of the independence of the State.: Doorkeeper and and J.
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