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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-08-10


Washington Monument "A proposition has
been made by our fellow citizens of Lincoln
ton to the people of Wilmington, which, we
dare say, will be readily accepted by the lat
ter. 1t is contained in letter TO Edward
Cantwell, Esq, from highly respectable
source, and is contained in the following ex.
tract, dated, .@
Lincolnton, july IL, 1919.
"On the part of the citizens Of our county
and town, am requested 10 write you in re-
gard to it, and make the following proposition ::
"We have fine marble Of any size and
quantity that we can procure, but have no
means Of dressing the same Now we can
get the block of sufficient size and deliver it
in Fayetteville, if the people of Wilmington
will have the same hewn and sent to Wash
ington city. If your citizens will embrace
the proposal, call meeting, and respond
TO it. If they do not, similar proposition
will be made TO the town OF Fayetteville"
A Town meeting held in the Masonic Hall
during the first part of the last week, author
lied the Town Board of Commissioners to ap.
propriate suitable sum for this purpose.
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AGRICUL i R AL.

Parsnips for Savine.-The Germantown
Telegraph says. The parsnip Ihaye found
TO be an excellent food for swine, superior, ]
think, to the potato. The amount raised on
my farm in 1874, was something over three
hundred bushels-all of which. with the ex-
ception of what was required for table use,
was fed to my hogs. am informed that in
the Island OF Guernsey the raising OF this root
for swine feeding is a principal branch OF ag-
riculture. and that the parsnip is there rarely
appropriated TO any other use. This food inn
parts a remarkably fine flavor TO the meat.
which is beautifully white, sweet, and firm.
The parsnip is easily raised, and rarely infes-
ted with vermin. My crops, in tolerably ia
vorable seasons, cost me about eight cents per
bushel."
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Old Dr. Townsend Is about 70 years Of age and ha,
:ong been known as the AUTHOR and DISCOYEREH
of the GENUINE ORIGINAL IS TOWNSEND SAR-
SdPARILL.4." Being poor he compelled limit lis
manufacture by which means it has been kept of mar
ket and the sales crcumscrbed to those only who had
proved its WORTH and known Its value 1t had reached
the of many nevertheless those persons who had
been healed OF Diseases and saved from DEATH pro-
claimed its excellence and wonderful
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the hand of the stranger; ''you look so
well, have improved so greatly, that |
hope, nav, feel satisfied, that all has
gone right with you"
A tear trembled in the eye of the other
at so cordial and kindly a recognition; his
voice failed for moment-but then rally
ing again, he proceeded to tell his story.
AT the age of fifteen he was neglected
orphan, and with fine natural talents, a
cheerful disposition, and good heart, he
was thrown into the society of the vile and
dssolute, in one of the most wretched
sections OF Philadelphia county. There,
in connexion with several other lads,
equally deserted or misled, he committed,
was arrested for, tried and convicted Of
petty theft.
While in prison he was visited again and
again by the Philadelphia philanthropist,
who succeeded, not only in eradicating
the vicious views he had imbibed, but in
showing him the folly Of vice, and the
certainty of its punishment, and inspiring
him with determination to act correct
ly, the moment he should be released
The visiter was satisfied with his sinceri-
ty, and gradually took deep interest in
his case. At the expiration of his sentence
he provided him with means, and, having
stated all the facts in confidential manner
to friend in the West, obtained him a situa-
ton in fourishing city of that section Of
the Union. The youth was overwhelmed
with gratitude He had found friend for
the first time in his brief career. His
course from that moment was onward
He speedily won the confidence OF his en-
ployer, on whose death, ten years thereaf-
ter, he succeeded to large share in his
business.
81 am now," he said, San equal part
ner in the reputable and prosperous house
of - & Co., of -, and have visited
Philadelphia, not only on business, but
with the object Of seeking out and return
ing my heartwarm Acknowledgements to
my early, my ver-cherished, my often
remembered benefactor."
The old merchant wept with JOY at such
reform, and acknowledged that this sin
gle incident had repaid him for the hours
and days and weeks he had devoted, al
ways prayerfully, to the blessed cause OF
kindness and prison reform.
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The following brief address Of T. G..
HUNT, esq, at a great ratification meeting
held by the Wings of New Orleans on the
9th instant, whilst it adds to our hopes of
a glorious victory in Louisiana in Novem-
Der, is just, striking, and eloquent vim
dication of the policy of the Administra-
ton of the General Government:
FELLowCITIzENs thank you for the
honor you have conferred upon me by
your nomination. Should be elected,
need scarcely assure you that / will dis
charge the duties of the senatorial Office
with zeal and fidelity, and with whatever
ability may possess.
True to the Union Of the States and TO
our Constitution of Government, | will
ever be found in opposition to those
schemes and views of policy, whether
originating in the North OF the South,
which would, under whatever specious
pretext, array one section of the country
in hostile attitude against another. Salts
fed with the frame of our Government,
in common with all the Wings of the ma
ton, ! will support each department OF
that Government in the fair exercise Of It's
just and constitutional powers.
Fellow-citizens As your senator,
will use my best exertions to maintain the
rights Of the people, and to effect those
reforms in our system Of State govern
ment which sound policy and experience
may point out to be expedient or neces-
sary.
II will especially be my endeavor to
promote the cause Of popular education
for, IN my judgment, knowledge is essen
tial to the welfare and happiness Of the
people, and is the only safeguard and
guaranty of their Liberties
II shall also be a part Of my legislative
labors to encourage and to carry into OPP
Grafton such system of internal improve
ments as the wants and interests of the
State may require.
And lastly, it shall be my constant
effort TO maintain the honor and good faith
OF Louisiana unsullied, and TO advance her
IN her career of prosperity.
Wings The election of General Taylor
to the Presidency was great Wing vic
tory, and the fruits Of that victory have
already been gloriously displayed in the
conduct Of the present Administration.
Our Executive has pursued strictly the
neutral policy Of our Government, founded
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Books AND CoLPoRTEURs FOR THE PACIFIc.-At
the meeting Of the Executive Committee of the
American Tract Society Monday last, it was
found that the receipts for the last month were
$25,2ls, and since April lst, $l26,l45 The gra-
tuitous issues in five months amount to Is, 734, "a
pages.
letter from Rev. Mr.. Chamberlain, of the Sand
witch Islands mission, urges their claim for the APP
preparation of $4,000 for the mission press for
lS50'5l Judge Thornton Of Oregon wrote enclos-
ing 500, and asking for a shipment of S 500
worth of books and tracts for that territory. Mr.
Leonard, merchant of this city, e., route for San
Francisco, earnestly pleads for colporteur speak
ing Sp nish and English to be stationed at Panama.
Other appeals for aid from various quarters Of
the world. The interesting fact stated, that a
benevolent gentleman at Baltimore has paid for
III 900 copies of the recent volume on !" Home
Evangelization," by one Of the Secretaries Of the
Tract Society, for gratuitous distribution.
Netc York Journal Of Commerce
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The PANAMA RALRoAD.-The New York Jour
nal Of Commerce has the following article on this
subject:
eve are happy 10 learn that the Panama Railroad
Company have put under contract that portion OF
their railroad across the Ishmus which lies between
the Chagres river and the bay OF Panama, about
twenty zone miles-the whole distance from Panama
TO lImon bay being forty six miles. The contrac-
tors are Messrs. Totten and Trautwine, whose pro-
posals were the most favorable and who possess
the great recommendation of having been employed
for the last four or five years in the territories OF
New Grenada, in constructing canal ninety miles
long, to connect two branches of the Magdalene
river. They have accomplished this work entirely
with native labor, and though first encountering
great difficulty, they have succeeded in training
the natives into expert worklen, and will be able
TO carry over with them large force. Thorough
ly acclmated, and with perfect knowledge of the
character and habits of the people, they Will begin
the railroad with the advantage of all the expert
ence acquired in constructing the canal Their bid
was the lowest received, which is good evidence
that the difficulties are not so great have been
supposed by those less acquainted with the char
| acter and resources OF the country. They expect
to break ground about the first of December
suing.
'The construction will be carried ON under new
organization. Col Hughes, of the old Topographic
cal Corps, under whose skilfu direction the survey
and location of the road were made has resigned
his place chief engineer and returned to the du
ties of his profession. The able and efficient man
ner IN which this work was conducted on the 18TH
mus, and the reports maps, and drawings prepared
| since his return, have given the company high
appreciation of his services, which expressed
by unanimous resolution of the board conveying
to him in strong terms their regret ut his with
drawal from the further prosecution of the work.
William H. Sidell, esq, his principal assistant ON
the Isthmus, has been appointed to succeed him.
Mr.. Sidell graduated with distinction at West
Point, and, Immediately afterwards turning his at
tention to civil engineering, has been employed
| some of the most important public works of the
country, and gave up the charge of of the most
difficult sections of the Erie, for the Panama Rail
road Under his superintendence the enterprise
will, we have no doubt be pushed to early
and successful termination.
"Wcalso learn that the government of New Gren-
| ada has manifested determination to give the
company large additional facilities so as to ensure
the route by the way of Panama, being the first
opened, and the leading communication between
the two seas
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Mr., KENDALL, Of the New Orleans Picayuns. in

Mr., KENDALL, Of the New Orleans Picay,ns, in
one Of his last letters from Europe says:
Every American almost who lands at Liver.
pool unless he has some business of paramount i'm
portance in England, drives straight 20 Paris. He
may condcscend 10 remain for one day in London,
TO see the Tower, st. PauPs, Westminster Abbey,
and get his linen washed; but he IL not satisfied
until he arrives in the French capital, and when
once comfortably housed he is perfectly contented
His pockets are full Of money, which he throws
right and left, or, TO French expression, out
of the window. His hat and his shirt collar betray
him il nothing else does, and the Partisan shop
girl charges him thirty three and third per cent
more than any other person with such amiabe
skill, that every purchase he makes is a bargain
'Before the revolution of AS, have been told that
Il was a common expression in Paris that the
Americans and the Russians, although in many
senses the sntpodcs OF each other had every thing
their own way there-the former now have the en-.
tire monopoly. The Russian Autocrat, in the plen-
itude of his power, and for his own wise purposes
secs TT TO keep all his subjects and their money ut
home, while Yankeedom roves AT will through the
Boulevards, and occupies all the best seats at the
theatres and the cafes. II such il the case now
what will the state Of things be ten years hence
One gets lost IN the speculation III endeavor-
ing 10 look even that far ahead"
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s'The Union and the Nicaragua Question"
The Richmond Wing of the 18th inst.
copies the following extract from the reply
of the Supreme Director of Nicaragua to
the speech of Mr.. Squires, and applies
the just rebuke to the '.toreign organ"
that follows the extract
Nicaragua has long felt the necessity of shelter
ing itself under the bright banner of the North
American Confederacy; but the time which the
Arbiter of nations had designated for such high
happiness and future prosperity had not arrived,
Before despatched legation to the minister OF
Guatemala and even before treaty relative TO u
canal entered into with Doctor Brown, citi-
zen of your republic, we had made some advances
to the American Government with view TO this
happy contamination; but our hopes were scarcely
sustained by the result"
''From this statement, 1t seems evident
that the government Of Nicaragua had
formerly made application to Mr.. Folks
administration, and that that functionary,
regardless Of the peculiar circumstances
of the case--taking no heed Of the fact
that the Mosquito country is within the
limits Of Nicaragua, and that treaty with
a Mosquito king would be about as bind
ing on that republic as treaty with Sam
Jones, or any other of the Florida chiefs,
would OH us-paying no attention to the
ambitious views Of England, seeking al
ways to increase her power and extend
her colonial possessions, until she may &C
quire preponderance on this continent
turned deaf ear to their representations
In the mean time, the British government,
catching a wild Indian, dressed him up
went through the farce Of GROWING him
at Balise-made him consent to hold I'M
der the British queen-and forthwith laid
claim to the largest and best portion of the
territory Of the Nicaragua republic! All
this seems to have been done with the full
knowledge Of Mr.. Polk, who might easily
have put stop to it; and yet his organ,
after it has been consummated, employs
column after column in abusing General
Taylor for his want of energy, and for
trucking to Great Britain, though it
knows nothing Of the progress of the cor
respondence between that Government
and this. Was there ever such an organ
as this of the foreign governmentsl'
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The coalition papers have been copying with
great satisfaction paragraph from the New York
Day Book containing some sharp reflections the
Wing party. As our opponents seem TO have so
much respect for the Day Books opinions, com
mend TO their consideration the following portrait
ure and comparison, which we find in late mum
Der of that paper:-Ufica ~ ~ Herald.
There is one triiing popularity of Lococofo in
cumbcns of officcs-thatis that they will generally
steal when they have good chance with a
strong temptation, while the Wings, with repeated
opportunities and occasions of the same kind, al
ways scrupulously adhere TO the old fashioned
standard OF equity in the receipt and disbursement
OF moneys not their own"
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". Y. Day Book, I7h inst

Sioux yIsIr.-on last Saturday our town was
visited by almost the entire population composing
the two lower bands of Sioux Indians, (Wabashaws
and Red Wings,l on their way 10 the payment at
Fort Smelling. They came in their canoes fleet
OF some eighty or ninety vessels, laden, besides
men, womsn and children, with dogs, cooking
utcnsils-buffao skins forming the covering of their
'tepees," &c. They called halt opposite the
lower landing, and proceeded to moor their feet
along the shore of the sandbar opposite at the foot
OF Raspberry island. In quick time the squaws had
the baggage unpacked, lodge poles cut and erected
their bufialoes thrown over them; and an Indian
village numbering five hundred inha bitants, greet
ed the eyc
The warriors betook themselves 10 their toilets.
anu presently made their appearance in our streets
stripped and painted for the "Beggine Dane, .
This is dance performed in front Of the doors of
the citizens and the store houses Of merchants and
traders the Indians expecting, by way Of ooupen-
sation barrel Of flour pork or any thing in the
way OF provisions that the person victimized may
choose TO give. The dancing kept up till dark,
When the braves returned 20 their quarters on the
island, we-paid by our liberal citizens for the few
hours' amusement they had afforded them.-M;ne-
sofa Chronicle
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A REMAaKABLK FAcr.-The Cincinnati Gazette,
in article contrasting the conduct Of Dem
ocratic administration with that Of the Wings,
states the remarkable fact, that, during the nine
years between 1886 and lS45, when the Democrats
governed Ohio, the State debt ,oas increased from
Ss56,664 to the enormous sum of $20,0ls,6l :
and that the credit was at very low ebb. From
March, ls45, TO January, lS49, -four years, the
Wings governed the State. During this time the
State debt has been decreased 3 699,662! and the
credit of the State was completely restored.
Comment is unnecessary
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THE FIRST CoTToN FAcToRy.--A correspondent
of the Providence Journal says:
'Ihe american Quarterly Register for June con-
tains very interesting manufacturing stalls
tics The editor has fallen into an error, however,
which we take the liberty to correct. Speaking of
the factory erected in bayfield,, Massachusetts, in
l793 he says it the first regular factory estab-
lishnent in the United States There are at least
two that took precedence of the Byield establish
ment, viz one in Beverly, Massachusetts, erected
in 1888 and chartered in 1889, and in Pawtucket
established in 1870. The spinning and weaving in
the Beverly factory done by hand power In
the Pawtucket factory the machinery was moved
by water power. In 1889 General Washington Wis
tied the factory in Beverly, and expressed a warm
sand yards Of cotton goods, such as corduroys vel
voteens &C., manufactured there. II was
day of small things, indeed but the representative
of branch of industry now vitality connected with
national prosperity"
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MISS CusHMAN's MEG MERRrtEs. The large.,
audience ever known at the Broadway theatre
assembled last evening To witness the Meg Merri-
lies Of Miss Cushman, many ladies standing pa
hentiy' and the aisles and doorways being densely
crowded during the performance. The succinct
character OF our paper allows only to say that il
was an extraordinary achievement Of art: In every
attitude, information, motion, look complete; unlike
any other performance of Miss Cushman's or OF
any other on the stage; possessing, as il seemed a
walk, countenance, mien, by itself, and standing
completely apart from all other stage representa-,
tons. In a word, the gypsey- woman is work of
genius She stands like a swarthy statue of stone
glides bat like across the scene speaks as with ~
voice OF the elements Her pathos is a pathos pecu-
mar To itself, and moves US with a strange mastery:
her storm storm by itself; her majesty a majesty
single from every other. From this character alone
we should augur great and peculiar career for
Miss Cushman--a dramatic sphere distinct from
all predecessors and all contemporaries
IN. " Dan Book I'm inst
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About one hundred Winnebagoes, men, women
and children, arrived here in the last boat from
Iowa; they their way to their own country ,
where they say they going to remain. They
report not more than seventy five of the tribe left in
Iowa
An old man along with this party says he was
camped on the Iowa river last summer, when a war
party of Pottawatomies and Sacs and Foxes re-
turned from expedition into the Sioux country
He says these the that killed the eighteen
Wachapoota Sioux; they brought four scalps in
Minnesota Chronicle, Sept. 80.
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THE Posi- OFFICE SwINDLER.-The New Albany
Qndiana) Ledger states that Robinson, the young
man who has been swindling postmasters in various
parts of the country by passing himself off
phew of Major Hobbie thus getting at their purses,
aud who detected short time since by the post
master at Evansville, has been tried, found guilty,
and sentenced to the penitentiary for two years.
He arrived at Jacksonville Monday last, and
without delay began his labors in behalf of the State
of Indiana
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ExPLoRhTroS,-Mr. Charles whittlesy is now in
Buffalo, engaged in making preparations for an
ploration, by order Of Government, Of the region
lying north and west Of Green bay, and between
the Menomonce and Wolf rivers. lie will engage
corps Of experienced Voyagru,, and II is expected
that he will find the country he is to traverse, rich
in mineral wealth.
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His excellency d. M. Barringer Envoy Extraor-
binary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United
States of America to her Catholic Majesty, with his
family and suite, arrived in Paris on Thursday
route for Madrid and are at the Hotel DIES Princes,
Rue Richelicu.-Pris paper, Sept. %.
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NAvAL.-We learn that Lieutenant Thomas
Brownell, U. S. navy, has been superseded as the
Government Inspector of steamships by Commo-
dorc M. G.. Perry.
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A meeting was held at Boston Sunday even
ing to devise means to relieve Father Mathew from
the debts he has incurred in Ireland and to enable
him to dispense with the "paltry stipend" he re-
ceives from the British government
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The collection at the Broadway Tabernacle, New
York, ON Monday evening for the Portuguese re-
hugees, was between 5000 and $7OO
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Judge HART, of Cincinnati, lately caused the
"criminal box to be taken out of court, on the
ground that no man need be disgraced before he is
found guilty of crime.
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A Row IN CAsApA.-A correspondent Of the Tn
buns gives the following particulars of Tory
"nurs' at London, Canada West, on the occasion
Of the visit Of Lord Elgin:
"Tbe mayor is violent Tory, and actually ex-
cited the people to violence by his conduct. When
the governor his road 10 town the Tories
cut down the arches erected and attacked the post
office; Mr.. Goodhue, the postmaster, being obnox-
ious because he had made preparations for grand
and his clerks with clubs, and overturned the let
ter-boxes, &c. The mayor, upon this, sent of an
express, warning the governor not to come, but
Lord Elgin continued his course About 900 peo-
pie assembled from all parts to meet him, and the
procession was three miles long. He addressed the
people from the balcony of the hotel, and there
were disturbances among the crowd. A pistol
shot was fired by Tory, and young man wound
ed in the cheek, but the assaiants were promptly
driven off,"