Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-07-09

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patriotic course.
RECHABTrE ANNIvERsARY-We learn that
the Rock SPRING TENT, No. 1870, ]. o. of r.,
will celebrate lis first anniversary on Saturday
next. The procession will be formed in front
of the TENT Room, on Market Street, and will
then march to the Methodist Protestant Church.
where an address will be delivered by the Rev.
Mr.. JONES, a member of the Order. The citi-
zens generally are invited 10 attend. We
trust the association may have pleasant day
for its celebration
MEXICAN AFFAIRs-SO it turns out, after
all, that Cen Scott has not yet taken up the line
OF advance from Puebla upon the capitol
Mexico. Accounts published in our paper
of last Friday, stated that, upon the 10th of
June, he had made the forward movement.
This, more recent accounts prove to be a mis-
take. In the Pcayune of the 3Oth June, we
find long correspondence from Mr.. Kendall,
one of the proprietors of that paper, dated at
Puebla, and leading from the 5th to the 18th
we have from that city. Mr.. Kendall says
that Gen. Scott will not make any movement
upon the city of Mexico till he is reinforced
y" further states, positively, that Santa Anna
is virtually the dictator Of the Mexican repub-
lie, and that he is making the most vigorous
eYertons to put the city in such a state as to
resist the attempt of Gen. Scott to take it. The
Mexlcans are casting cannon, shells and shot,
in vast quantities. Already they have some
70 or 80 pieces of ordinance. There is no
doubt now, upon our mind, but that Gen
Scott will have another hard fight before
he enters the 60 Halls of the Montezumas" Ii
is said that there are about &c, 900 troops un.
der arms in the city, and that they are deter
mined to make a desperate resistance. We
hope that Gen. Scott will be enabled to move
with such a force as will ensure for our army
a speedy and complete triumph. One thing
Mr. Kendall thinks is certain: that Gen. Scott
will not move till he is largely reinforced
This, however, will be in a short time
Dg-We call the attention of our readers to
the following editorial, which we find in the
Charleston Mercury of the 5th inst. The
Mercury seems to think that there is now nc
doubt but that the connection by Rail Road
from North to South will be built some arherc
This is our opinion too, and we have hereto
fore so expressed ourselves 1t will be seen
from this article of the Mercury that the peo-
pie of Charleston according TO the EDITOR are
interested in this matter No doubt of it ant
had Charleston, in days gone past, thought
and acted in the proper spirit, she and Will
mington might now have been moving han(
in hand in building the Connecting Link. She
did not.
We think it our duty to place these matters
before our readers; for the subject is one O
vital importance TO this whole section of Nortf
Carolina. The two articles which the Char
nal of last week and one from the Norfolk
Herald of Monday. L
Rail Road Communications from North t.
Sooth.-It has long been a struggle to maxi
the communications by Rail Roads compet
from New Orleans, by Montgomery, i'll Alaba
t ma, to Boston. 1t seems nOR to be in a way
, Kof accomplishment The two following arti
cles, as well as others which we have hereto
fore published, show that there is that at worl
} which the people of Charleston should Iool
, to. 1t seems Boston capital has come int
the affair. Messrs. Henshaw and Co. are mel
well known-remarkable for sagacity and en-
ergy, they have and can command ample capi
= tall 1t is clear that the Portsmouth Road i
not the terminus of their views. The Ports
mouth Road, and the Wilmington Road, o
l the Raleigh Road, filled out to the South Car
, DINA Road at Charleston, Manchester or Cam
den, will be the end aimed at, and Uit1matel
accomplished.
The reason of this is obvious. Unless thi
t conneAion is made complete by Railroad, tn
, line of steam Packets, the Southerner an
Northerner, and others that will be built an
put on with them, will divert so much trave
i,om the the North Carolina, Virginia, Mary
e land, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and othe
4 Roads the great Northern and Southern Line
that their profits will be materially diminished
By filling up the line from Wilmington or Raj
eigh to the South Carolina Road, this is rene
!, died perfectly, and an immense amount of ira
: vel drawn through on the line Messrs Hen
Il SLi'I" anu w. anu tliI P1OPlIO'OAS VI INV
of the Roads, comprising the line from New
: Orleans to Boston, know and feel this to b
: true. Their combined efforts, Joined with tn
: aid of local subscriptions, will as surely buil
+ either the Raleigh and Camden link, or tn
. Wilmington and Manchester, or the Whining
Il mington and Charleston, as human interest al
S ways seeks its own advantage.
Now which shall it be?
!. 1t is said, and we believe with more trut
than is generally credited, that Messrs. Hen
" shaw and Co. are in negotiation botiI wit
IS the Governor of North Carolina for the Raj
t, eigh Road and with the Wilmington and We
O don Road Company, with view Of purcha
:. sing one or the other lines.
- II the Manchester line is taken, what is t
IL be its effect on us Wilmington expects, b
l. a wide gauge of Road, to draw the trade
lie herself. Look at the article from the VIII
10 mlngton paper. This we don't fear. b
that much of the travel will give US the go by
: is very certain.
Arrival Of Cspt. u ilson-We have jul
heard that Capt, Wilson has arrived at h
= plantation near this place. A letter has bee
l. also received here from Capt. Solomon Pende
e but no further intelligence from our Voluntee'
than that which we give in extracts from til