Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-07-20

HOOus HIS PiuNhlIIS lCiH-
ed by the lawyers cruelty to dumb animal,
and the perpetrators of the outrage should be
indicted. Old Whitley is as good as Posten's
Old Grey, and one tail is as good as another
in this blessed country, where liberty ties up
a mans tongue like the lockJaw, and freedom
is terribly eostiue.
Ingratitude, broken vows, shattered con-
sciences, spotted regulations, and strangled
hopes, are as thick now as tieas at husklng /;
and, if we must have day of fasting, humll.
iation, and prayer, we think We should bend
all our energies 10 root out and scatter lime
upon the Shiny carcass of
1.-THE HEROIC AGE"
IS The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel."-
g There is another platform il is that OF an
honest man, who says that he is wing, but
if elected 10 the Presidency. he will not be the
tool OF party-that he will be the President
Of the peope-that he has no enemies to pun
ish-no friends to reward"
:" The patriotism of mere politicians which
explodes in deceptive party pledges, is under
stood to be, as Dir. Johnson defines it, the
last refuge Of Seoundrel' ''-Speech Of Hon.
J. M. Clayton, an Senate, 18th July, l848.
The Taylor papers first justified Taylor's
odious prescription, by telling US that only
few Office holders had been turned out!
When this position felt by its own weight.
they next told us that the system of proscrip-
ton would only extend TO men put in by
President Polk.
When this failed, by the prescription of
men put in Office under Tyler, under Van Bu-
rem. and under Jackson, then we were told
that it was TO be justified from the fact that
Democrats held all the Offices
This excuse having failed them, from the
fact that many Wings have been holding Off
ces under all our administrations, the next plea
is, that Jefferson, Jackson, and Polk, have re-
moved Wings from Office.
Thus, then, has there been shutting, sub
terfuge, and prevarcation, to sustain a man
who has committed wilful and premeditated
falsehood in declaring that he would allow
no party feeling to govern his appointing
power, but that he would make " honesty.
capacity and fidelity" the standard for the be-
stowal of office, and their absence the '' cause
for removal" (See Inaugural) In the face OF
this declaration, of dozen other similar dec
larations, before declaration, and the declara-
ton of such men as Crittenden and Clayton
is it to be wondered at that the supporters OF
Taylor should find themselves driven 10 the
most contemplate shifts and eYasions 10 JUS
tify his course
Mr. Clayton intended 10 be very severe
when he spoke of &c the last refuge of a scoun-
drel." 1t is language which may be used by
men claiming all the decency, but never could
have originated from Democratic Senator.
1t is now a suitable time for Wing orators and
Wing presses 10 tell US what is the last refuge
OF a scoundrel, if a violation of all sacred OBJ.
legations, and the treachery of Parthan faith
are to be the subjects of their justification
The Alleged Pirate.-The newspapers in
sist that the GO Eudora of Bangor" was chased
by pirate boats near Cape San Augustine
! (fourteen degrees north OF Rio,) and that the
foremost boat was received with a volley OF
twenty muskets from the schooner, which cap.
| sized the boat, and killed and drowned it:
crew There is no vessel from this port o.
the name above, and as far as the story relates
TO the EudoTus, Capt Wiggin, it is entirely e
| fabrication. 1t purports 10 have been reee!v'
ed at Boston by letter from PASSPORT.
Bangor Wing.
The Boundary Line betreea the United
States and Canada, run in accordance with
| the Ashburton treaty, cost the labor of 300
| men 8 months. For three hundred miles
path was cut through the forest. 80 feet wide
| and cleared of all trees. At the end of every
mile is a cast iron pillar, painted white, square
| four feet out of the ground, seven inches
| square al the bottom, and four at the top, will
| raised letters on the sides, naming the Com
mssioners who run the line, and the date.
Grapes at all SeaSons.-Mr J. F. Allen, o
Salem, Mass is said 10 be the greatest pro
ducer OF grapes by artificial heat in the United
| States-havlng nine graperles. Some of hi
| hot houses are over 100 feet in length, ant
| ripe grapes OF the choicest varieties are hang
ing on The vines every month in the year Hi
| produce this year will be about 5000 lbs, AM
his arrangements promise to double the ye
for market, of course Peach trees and apri
cots are cultivated in the same way.
Flour Mills in ChHi.-A late VALPARAISO
letter in the Philadelphia Bulletin says
4" There are thirteen mills in Chill, all con
Quoted by American millers. They produc
| between 100000 to 400, 900 barrels of fou
annually. The wheat and flour are as goo
as they are in the United States. One mill a
Santiago has recently purchased $4,000 fame
gas of wheat, at from 81 25 10 81 373 pc
fanega of about D bushels. Besides tn
| American mills, there are great many con
Quoted by Chilians, which produce a larg
quantity of -four, though not so much as tn
American. Sales of wheat have been mad
at 81 25 per p bushels, and these are the 81
months prices"
Il New Outlet for Yankee Produce Til
Boston Times tells of shipment from Charlie:
town (Mass.) of large quantities of boiled lot
sters, packed in ice, preparing TO be shippe
for Barbados. This is certainly new fea
ture in trade, and shows uneqrivocally thu
the loss of home market is no obstacle t
the determination TO do business, which eve
ry Yankee seems to inherit, and exert til
more energetcally the greater the obstruction
placed in his path.
The U. S. Mint at Philadelphia is overru
with work, and deposits OF coin and buIlio
are not available in new coin without materi;
delay.
4 Nouelty.-We saw yesterday, lying
the harbor at the foot of Thames street, BIO;
SO curiously and novelty constructed, as
), excite the attention of all who see it. 1t
formed of an ordinary sail boat, Of about
1 feet in length, split in two lenethwise. Fac
n half is boxed up and made air tight, and tt
' two are strongly connected with each 9TH
: by timber knees, with an open space of abol
o four feet between them. The two halves
h the boat thus connected present somethin
II of the appearance of sleigh; on the top
J.. the boats, or runners, as they may be terme
al