Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-01-19

The silver pitchers procured by the citizens
of Wilmington to compliment Col. Robert T.
Paine with, were presented TO that gentleman
on Tuesday of last week, inthe Senate Cham
Der of the Capitol at Raleigh. by our towns
men Messrs. VIM. A. Wright, Robert H. Cow
an, and T. D. Meares Mr.. Cowan .made
much admired address on the occasion, to
which Col. Paine replied Chronicle.
APPOINTMENTS By THE PREs1DENr-By and
Rifh The advlce and consent of the Senate -
Andrew B. Gray, of Texas, to be surveyor for
running the boundary line between the Uni
ted States and Mexico. .-...-. ~. 4
John D. Field, Jr., to be coiner of the branch
mint of the United States at Dahlonega, Geor-
gia, in the place Of D. II. Mason, deceased.
Fugitive Saues MIR. Faulkner, in the Viz
ginia Legislature. is urging the Importance of
some determined action on the part of the
State, in regard to fugitive slaves. He says
the slave population in some sections Of the
State is rapidly thinning ont, especially since
the recent legislation of Pennsylvania, pro-
| claiming protection 10 all who may cross her
borders. He estimates the yearly loss to the
State, through the connivance OF the laws of
the neighboring States, at 100000.
The Popular Tote-The popular vote in
all the States, on the Presidential question, is
ascertained to be as follows: Taylor, 1885,
1913; Cass, 1. 2l6. JAG; Van Buren,, % 1927 !;
Scattering, 4,033. The popular vote is p
86s,534, being an increase of 190,4l3, since
the election of 1914. SIS
From the Pld1ns.--A letter from Fort Lea
vensworth (says the Baltimore Sum- to the
St. Louis New Era, states that the contractors
for supplying provisions to the army al Santa
re, on their way out, suffered excessively
from cold, hunger, and fatigue, the last TWEEN
ty days of its march. One of the men perish
| ed with the cold, and sixteen hundred oren
died on the acay! This will be hard upon the
company contracting to do this service for the
Governments. The oxen and other animals
were the private property Of the contractors.
The snow at Fort Leayenworth, on the
9th of December, was twenty inches deep,
and the thermometer at zero.
The Steamers Ners-Efect on the Mar
kets.-The news BY the steamer America has
had rather a depressing effect on the markets
for breadstuffs in all The Northern ciiies----
Hon. Mr.. Clifford, our Minister 10 Mexico,
and family, arrived at Pensacola on Thursday,
4th instant, in the revenue cutter Walcott,
from Mobile.
For the Gold Region. We find in the New
York Journal of Commerce, and Courier g.
Enquirer, nineteen ships, nineteen barques,
fourteen briggs. five schooners, three pilot boats,
and one steam ship, advertised to proceed to
the gold Tegion-making total OF sixty one
sail.
Among number Of items of intelligence,
received at New York by letters from Califor.
7ia, it is stated that "Capt William G. Mar.
cy, son of the U. S. Secretary OF War, was
dlsposing of every thing in the shape of sup
plies at his camp. in exchange for gold dust.
He had collected fifteen barrels Of gold ore,
and having no means OF protecting the irea-
sure, he had buried it until a vessel of war
should arrive on the coast, which was daily
expected"
Major Dix. of the U S. Army, died of Chol-
era, al Hilsborough, Pa, on the 7th inst.
The Editors of the New Orleans Delta, in
noticing specimen of new Sugar, state that
they have received barrel Such an edito-
| rial remembrance would well warrant a COM
plimentary paragraph Chas. Courier.
The Editor of the Journal would agree to
write whole column of compliments for the
present OF barrel of the swate artacle.
The New York Globe, in speaking OF the
Secretary of the Treasury says:
| Mr.. Walker is undoubtedly the ablest man
of all who have filled the station now occu-
pied by him. He is the boldest reasoner in
the cause of free commerce that has ever oc-
cupied seat in the Cabinet.
| SURVEYING THE TsTHMus We understand
tsays the Baltimore Sum- that Brevet Major
Hughes, of the U. S. Typographical Engineers,
late commander of the Maryland and District
of Columbia regiment in Mexico, is about
starting TO make survey of the proposed
route for a railroad across the Isthmus, from
Chagres 10 Panama, for Messrs. Aspinwall &
Co., of New York Er- u. 3r