Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-11-30

HE House OF ENTHUSIASTICALLY hall of the
House Of Representatives was re-opened on Saturday
tor public inspection, and was visited by number of
ladies' and gentlemen The improvements in the hall
have been of very thorough character, and were
much commended by the visiters- The columns have
been hung with new and beautiful crimson drapery,
suspended from a heavy, gilt cornicing. extending
around the hail. also the dais upon which are pla
ced the Speakers chair, Clerks desk and the seats
of the Sergeant-at-arms and Doorkeeper The floor
and passages are newly carpeted with rich carpet
ing of handsome pattern and heavy olcloth mating
ut each entrance On the south front the windows
are protected from the sun by tasteful and light win
dow-shades, ornamented with appropriate views,
which were furnished by CLAGETT 6 DoDsoN of this
city The desks and seats of the members have been
Vanished and appear as new and the whole interior
OF the hall has been newly painted; The portraits
OF w Washington and Lafayette, either side of the
chamber with the large copies Of the Declaration OF
Independence, have been newly vanished, and look
as II fresh from the hands Of the artist, and their
frames have been re-gilt in superior manner. The
marble figures of Time and the clock are relieved by
blue back ground, and the hall has been otherwise
beautihed and improved. The seats in the galleries
have been raised, widened, and newly cushioned,
which will add much to the comfort of loungers in
the Congress galleries The entire appearance OF
the hall is much improved. and reflects much upon
the taste and skill of those employed in its reftting
up.-Repetblic. a - taief1aaI *li.d4:|" no p.
ption of Cotton md Cotton Goods q. s.
- The itinerant editor of the n. O. Commercial Bull
letin writes follows, in recent letter: - !.
The present consumption of cotton in the Us is
estimated at 100000 bales per annum which is more
than the entire crop of 1925 but this is by means
correct estimate of the whole amount consumed for
itineludes only that portion of the crop which, hay
ing reached seaport is embarked in the statistics
of the crop, and does not include what may be con-
sumed in the Interior and which has been sent
to seaport market. There upwards oftaro hun
dred and fifty cotton mills to the South of Mason and
Dtrons line, and little or no portion of the cotton
consumed by these mills ever into the estimates
of the CROP and is not included in the quantity said
| to be consumed in the U. S. Then there is vast
quantity of cotton that is similarly situated that goes
up the Mississippi and Ohio, and cut from the Ten
nessee and Cumberland, for the supply of mills in
Indiana, Ohio, Western Virginia and Pennsylvania.
In all Of the above points and sources of consumption,
there probably at least 10000 bales consumed,
making in all not less than $4,000 bales annually
| worked at home. In former years, the consumption
of cotton in Great Britain was about three-ffth A
merican, and two-ffths India, Brazil Egyptian and
other foreign cotton. The proportion Of the latter
| kinds is no less. s.. 5-- ..s...'-.a.
The whole quantity of cotton goods made in the
Union is estimated at 720O00O00 yards, of which
about 8O,O00,OOO yards exported, leaving &c.
O0O,OOO for home consumption, equal to about 90
yards for every nhabitant great and small The In
crease of the population, including immigration may
be safely estimated at million annually for the
next ten years. which will require 100000 of yards
of cotton goods at four ounces quarter of a
| pouHu IL II:oOO sIlilu1es
to be set in motion every year to furnish this increas
ed demand for the annual accession to popula
ton. . .
PRoM1s1Ne YOUNG MEN.-Hooper, fthc Chambers
(Ala) Tribune, in recent number of his paper, has
some truthful and sensible remarks promising
young men. After promising that he one him
self Hooper says: Not one in thousand of the
tribe attains to the dignity of really usefu
man in society. The name spoils 'em! Just put i
into the grass green nodde, that its is some
thing above common lis really smart-will some
day become distinguished-in short, assure him tina
he is promising and from that hour, you make {
COMPOUNDED of him, and so he'll be apt to write
himself for life. He will have need to labor man
ually or intellectually -not he! His talents t.
carry him through. All knowledge will come t.
him intuitively all the circumstances of existenc
are to bow before his talents. He isn't in hurr,
to bring those talents into exercise. There is tim
enough for that In the end the promising youn
man turns out, at thirty, to be lquor-loving
ture with red nose soured temper little knowledge
bad habits and no money"