The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1838-02-02
GROWTH OF THE WEST,
oR,-THlsGs AS THEY WERE AND now Al

oR,-THlsGs AS THEY WERE AND NOW ARE.
Population Of Michigan IN year 1880 was
q .IS-accotding to recent State Gen.
sus ii IS l92 900.
Population Of the new States and Terri.
torres, created cut of the public domain
was, IN 1900, COCOON 1880, 1890 900
and al the present time il is set down IN
Mr.. Van Buren's las, Message at over three
millions and half !
In 1913 there were but three vessels on
Lake Erie. At this tune, the amount Of
tonnage employed on this Lake IS estimated
al one quarter of that Of the port Of Phila.
delpha.
/ The first steam boat on Lake Ere was
bun: in 1918. From that tire 10 ls24 but
one was butt. Ia .32 ten were built. Inc
present Number is about so.
In ISIS The first steam boat was built
% The OH, and Mississippi Rvers-at
present the number i 63s besides 5000
fat and keel boats, employing $4,000 men.
The y. I. Commercial oilhe | 9th ult. has
the following paragraphs.
The Dead of The Wreck We have held
conversation With The Rev Mr. Adaus. of
Londonderry, \. II. brother Of the Rev.
Mr.. Adams OF this city, vi no has fetufned
LON Orracocke whittier he he'd bcerto bring
home 70 Boston the remains oi his SISTER Mrs.
Io"Ies, one Of those who persisted in The
'amen,able disaster Of the steam boat Home.
Nr. Adams states that about a week before
his arrival al Ocracocke, the body Of zen
i'aman had been found floailng having on
pair of green spectscIes, which were tas'en.
I'd 10 the head. The body Wa inferred on
the Portsmouth side, BY the Captain of YES.
81 lying at the bar, who discovered it.
there would be no difficulty IN regaIminy
he body, should the friends of the deceased
suppose II sufficiently identified by the mark
thus gwen 10 institute further eyamlna,ion.
The body Of a Young female, supposed to be
IRON SIXTEEN TO twenty vars old, with red
hair, had also been iound ard buried.
II Is The oplulon OF Mr. Adams that tie
people Of Octacockr have been not n title
sIandered IN regard 10 their Imputed robbie.
RES OF III dead. Among other circumstan.
ees nducns TINS belief Mr.. A. mentions to
Us the facts in regard TO the bodq Of Cap
tain Ihom. When found, sum Of .,nnev
not exceeding a hundred dollars, was ken
tom his pockets, together With a .od
watch, both Of which we're reported 10 tho
wreck master. hts body has since ben
dlslnierred, and some fourteen hundred dol
lars more recovered from his clothes. This
circumstance proves that those v no have
been charged With remorseless piunder Of
the dead did not search yerl closely. Mr..
\. further believes that Mr. Hoard. hls
family, and the pilots, have been greatly a.
bused IN regard to the Whole matter.
Georgia Conference. -The following Re-
solutions have been adopted BY the Georgia
Conference Of the Methodist E,lscopal
Church, al lis late meeting held at Athens.
Rssoiped, That il is Ii. sense of the Georsi.
Animal Conference, that slavery, as it exists in
The tgt'ed States, is not moral evil
Rtsolued That We view slavery as civil and
dn estic institution and ore with which. a Min
listers OF Christ we have nethng 10 do, further than
to smeioraic the condition OF The slave, by sndca-