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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

MONSTER SHIP The largest merchant ship in the
world is about to be built in New York, by w. H.
~ feet breadth of beam and 25A feet depth of hold
She will be 25 feet longer than any merchant vessel
sailing from the port Of New York, (the ship Wash.
ington, the largest being 2O5 feet in length) and
considerably the targets vessel of her class ever
built. She is intended for the Canton and Califor-
nia trade
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

B@-We are requested by Gen, L. H. MARsrELLER
to call attention to the advertisement which has ap
peared in several previous numbers of this paper,
giving notice to all persons interested that the
next term of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
for the County of New Hanover will hold two weeks
term
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

AcoUITrED.-Ths Superior Court of Law for Sampson
County this week in session Clinton. On Wednesday
last Jury the of VIM. D. Smith, charged with
murder in shooting negro in this county, months
since after retiring for few minutes brought in verdict
guilty. Solicitor Ashe for the State, assisted by
NJ B. Smith, Esq. For the Prisoner Hon. Judge Strange
and 7 C. Wright Esq.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08
The FueitINe Bill.

Judge Story in his Commentaries on the Constitu-
tion gives exposition of the intent of the provis
ion for the reclamation of furgitves from service
and of the old law of Congress, which is in all
poets applicable to the new. He says:
This clause (the providing for the recapture
of fugitive slaves was introduced into the constitu
ton solely for the benefit of the slaveholdng States
to enable them to reclaim their fugitive slaves who
should have escaped into other States where slavery
was not tolerated. The want of such provision
under the confederation felt grievous incon-
venience by the slavehoding States, since in many
States aid or whatever would be allowed to the
ers and sometimes indeed, they meet with open
resistance. 1t is obvious that these provisions for
the arrest and removal of ugtives of both classes
contemplate summary ministerial proceedings, and
not the ordinary of judicial Investigations to
ascertain whether the complaint be we'll founded or
the claim of ownership be established beyond all le
gal controversy In cases OF suspected crimes, the
guilt innocence of the party is to be made out at
his trial, and not upon the preliminary inquiry
whether he shall be delivered up. All that would
seem in such cases to be necessary is that there
should be prima facie evidence before the executive
authority to satisfy its judgement that there is pro-
bable to believe the party guilty such as, up
on an ordinary warrant, would justify his commit
ment for trial
And in the cases of fugitive slaves there would
seem to be the necessity of requiring only primo
face proofs of ownership, without putting the party
to formal assertion of his rights by suit at the
common law. Congress appear to have acted upon
this opinion and accordingly, IN the statute upon
this subject, Chat of 1888 have authorized sum
mary proceedings before magistrate, upon which
he may grant warrant for removal"
THE PHILADELPHIA MINT.--The following is a
statement of the gold coinage at the Philadelphia
mint, from January 1st to October 3lst, 1850:
Gold coinage September 80, 1885, SIT 013 S72 81
| Silver do do do. 3I4 800 OF
/ Gold coinage to October 3d. 1s5OA. 1859 O55 o.
Silver do do do........... 1000 OF
Total. $40, os2 s27 81
Amount transferred in coin by Col Snowden, to his
| cessor, E. G. Dale, Esq, the 31st ult.
Mint proper gold silver and copper coins 1851 4se
| Office of Assistant Treasurer, u s., in gold
and silver. SIG $50 q
| Premium agent. 25,73O 81
] Total. s., 22s SCI
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

ExPLIcIr.--A correspondent of the Evening Post
thinks the following very plainly indicates the posi-
ton of Mr.. Hunt, the wing candidate for Governor
of n Y, on the slave question =:
"Vonce, a long viles ago, vent into mine abble
make mine vrow blum budding nit; and ven l
gets to de tobermost pranch, walls vrom dc lower
most limb NIT vone leg poth sides of de fence
and like to shove my outsides in"
WHAT'S THE PRICE OF Purity ?-It will require
$50 tons of putty to glaze the windows in the build
ing, TO be erected for the Worlds Fair i'll London
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

SEM1-WEEKY STANDARD.-On Saturday last, We
received the first regular semiweeky number of the
Raleigh Standard. Brother HOLDEN started his pa
per semi-weekly during the campaign, and worked
heroicaly in the good cause and we are glad to see
that sufficient support has been afforded to enable
him to revive and continue publication which has
proved itself so useful.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

RICHMOND DAILY DIsPATCH.--This is the name of
beautiful little daily sheet which has just been
started in Richmond, Va. on the plan of the North
ern penny papers, being sold at one cent a number,
and all its business being in advance.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

1t is known that the Governor of Texas has issued
his proclamation submitting the proposition in
gard to the boundary of that State to the people 1t
would seem from the following, which we clip from
the New Orleans True Delta that the decision of the
Texan people in favor of that proposition will be al
most unanimous. The Delta says ia few days
ago stated that in Hays county the vote had been
taken on the boundary proposition, and that ma
joriy had voted to accept it. We now learn the re-
suit of the vote in Milan county, in Huntsville,
Walker county, and in Galveston. In Milan, there
but vote for rejection. In Huntsville, there
were 122 for accepting and "a for rejecting. In
Galveston, 135 for accepting and 81 for rejecting.
The Galveston News, which opposed the acceptance
of the proposition remarks the result in that city
I is rarely if ever that have witnessed little in
any election This mainly owing the universal
opinion that the proposition will be accepted by such
overwhelming majority render the vote of parcu
lar county unavang The small vote given here perhaps
pretty fairly divided between the opponents and the friends
of the the former bearing about the proportion
to the latter as if full vote had been given
We find the following additional returns in the n
O. Picayune of the 3Oth ultimo:
! To accept. Reject
|
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

CONSISTENT, Wharf.-The Boston Atlas states that
notification is rampant in South Carolina and that
her prominent men advocating resistance Well
sisted to produce that state of affairs by keeping up
this loathsome abolition excitement.--N. Y. Mirror,
,chtg. ~@I
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

p6TSome of our readers may have been puzzled
last week. by finding portion of a story about one
Mick Shouter,' mixed up with the domestic life of
the Hindoos people of whose existence the redoubt
able Mick is no doubt in blissful ignorance. This
occurred in the process of making up," and
was not discovered until about FIVE hundred papers
had been printed and packed up for the Post Office
DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN TAMMANY HALL-We
refer the reader to the of the proceedings of
meeting of the Democratic party New York, held
in old Tammany, which we extract from the Wash
ington Union. The resolutions breathe the right
spirit, and give further reason to hope for
the Union
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

R6~HUGH WADDELI. Esq, of Orange county, N.
c. has been appointed Consul General to Cuba, in
place of Gen CAMPBELL, recalled, and has accepted
the appointment, which is a very desirable one.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

No TRooPs FOR BosToN-A statement very gener-
ally made by the press to the effect that President
FILLMORE had ordered u S. troops to Boston, for the
purpose of aiding in the enforcement of the Fugitive
Slave Law, is authoritatively contradicted by the
Washington Republic the organ of the administra-
ton. So it would seem that the whole report is un-
founded, and that troops have been ordered to
Boston. We sincerely hope that Mr.. FILLMORE may
not be found wanting at this crisis. z
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

resemble the resolutions and speeches OF some OF our
own meetings, in one thing. They are got up for
efEect--for show-to operate upon the publicmndo OF
the South If So and if. as We believe, they are
prompted only by the fears of the New York mer-
chants who begin to tremble for their Southern
trade they cannot be received with too much eau
ton or suspicion We must see some tangible proof
of sincerity before we be willing to Join in the hal
lelujah with which they received IN some quar-
ters The resolutions are too non-committal. They
speak vaguely of agitators, ETC.: but they do not
dare to come out boldly and name them. Before any
good can be done at the North the people must come
out and brand these Northern nullifers and aboli-
tonists, personally and particularly, and let them
feel that they despse both the crime and the Grim
inal, and that both are marked.
There is another thing to be considered. New
York city is considerable of place. but it is not the
whole State-not by great deal. Neither is she,
even politically speaking, an influential portion Of
the State 1t is strange fact that the great cities
of New York and Philadelphia have actually no po-
cal influence in their respective States, apart from
their mere vote. We must wait to hear from the
New York State election. and if WASHINGTON Hunt
be elected Governor, we may set this meeting down
as worth Just nothing.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

DEFEAT OF HORACE MANN.-Ata recent Wing
Convention in the 9Th Congressional District of Mas
sachusetts, HORACE MANN failed in receiving the
nomination Of his party for reelection to Congress
1t has been supposed that this defeat of MANN
from disapprobation of his anti-savery course in
the last session. Such is not the fact It was only
feared that MAINS ultra course had deprived him
of the influence deemed necessary to lend weight to
the attempt to be made for the repeal of the fugitive
law, and hence SAm'L H. VALLEY, the present nomi-
nee was substituted expressly for the purpose of aid
ing in that repeal
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

p@~It appears from the report of the Register of
the Treasury that the receipts into the United States
Treasury, from the list of July to the Both of Sep
TENDER, were S15,622, 44O 65 and the expenditures
AuripR the same period &c. 8O, s54 Y.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

1.-THE LAST OF THE MoHICANs."-Mr. LYNCH, long
and favorably known as faithful obligIng and gen.
Hemanly Mail Agent upon the Wilmington and Raj
eigh Railroad has at last been removed, and Mr..
VIM LAsPEYRE appointed in his stead. 1t is unne-
cessary to say that Mr.. LYNCH is Democrat. I'm
like the Razor Strop man, cannot say " few more
of the same sort left for we believe he about
the last Democrat left in Office in these capes. Mr..
LAspErRE will no doubt make good Agent.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

UNION MEETING IN PH1LADELPHIA.-It is proposed
to get up a great Union meeting in Philadelphia,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

B5F~The " Mountain Banner at Rutherfordton,
N. c., has passed into the hands of FRANKLIN l.
WILSON, ESQ, and will hereafter be Democratic
paper. Mr.. WILSON is a good writer, and is said to
be a young gentleman of perseverance and industry
We have no doubt that in his hands the Banner will
be valuable accession to the cause.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

The dinner given to Mr.. AsHE, by his fellow
citizens of this county, in token of their approval
of his in the last session of Congress- came off
on Friday last the LIST instant. very severe
cold, from the effects of which we are still suffering,
deprived of the pleasure of being present. and
secretary is not of the regular officers of din
ner party somewhat at loss for the proceed
ings. However, from hurried " drop in" of some
thing less than FIVE minutes we feel authorized in
saying, that very large company of gentlemen sat
down to sumptuously furnished table, and did full
Justice to the viands placed before Them that good
speeches were made, and noble sentiments pledged
and that all went merry rs marriage bell, without
anything occurring to mar the pleasure, disturb
the harmony of the occasion. Among the strangers
present we noticed his Honor Judge BATTLE the
Hon. ROBERT STRANGE, and DUNCAN X. McRAE, Esq
of RALEIGH
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-08

transferred in coin by Col Snowden to his sue
cessor E. C. Dale, ESQ.,, the 3lst ult.:
Mint proper in gold silver and copper coins 1851 499 "a
Office of Assistant Treasurer, U. s., in gold
and silver. 516 $50 50
Premium agent. 25,73O 90
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-02
North Brothers,

Corner Of Magazine and Common streets, Men Orleans.
Importers of and Wholesale Dealers in
ENGLISH FRENCH, GERMAN AND AMERICAN
DRY GOODS,
HAVEat all times on hand large and well assorted Stock
Il L. consisting in part Of
French and English NEGRO BLANKETS;
10, "A and Twied LOWELL COTTONS;
"a, 7-8, A and Twled white and brown COTT0NSt
Kentucky JEANS and LINSEYS;
Glasgow JEANS and Lowell LINSEYS;
PLAID LINSEYS for House Servants;
Blue and fancy coored KENTUCKY JEANS;
White, blue, red, yellow and green FLANNELS;
Negro W0OLLEN CAPS, SOCKS and SHIRTS;
Heavy and light CoTTONADEs and DENNIS, for PLAN
tations;
Madras and Mock Madras HANDKERCH'Fs. for Negroes.
Blue, black and mixed SATINETS;
French CALICOES, GINGHAMS, Silks, and Bareges;
English CALICOES, NerinOs, AlpscHs and Bombazets:
English HOSE, UNDERSHIRTS, Drawers and Gioves
German HOSE and HALF-HOSE;
Plain, white. figured and colored SWISS MUSLINS;
Plain and cross barred CAMBRICS and MUSLINS;
IRISH LINENS, DRILLING and DIAPERS;
INDIA RUBBER SUSPENUERS;
APRON CHECKS;
COTTON and SILK UMBRELLAS;
COTTON and THREAD LACES.
....And Also.
great variety of FANCY GOODS, such gener-
ally sold by the trade, which they offer to purchasers
favorable terms. jal6 4m2dp&W
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-02

IMPORTANT MAIL DEcIsIoN.-The Baltimore
Patriot states that the Postmaster General has Just
decided that the different departments of the Gov
eminent are prohibited from sending letters and
ne~spapersfo officers and seamen in the Navy and
o ofleers In foreign countries, except those on
oiheial business from the Departments. 1t has
been the custom for many years for the friends Of
those persons to forward private letters to them
through the Departments, instead of through the
regular mail, and thus deprving that department Of
thousands Of dollars annually Of its legitimate
claims We also learn that there are some thou.
sands OF letters now in Washington which will NO,
be sent, as eeretofore, through the departments.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-02


LITERARY INTERoHANaEs.-- Occasionally the
Northern papers mention Mons. Vattemare as the
agent of the French Government in making dona-
tons Of books, engravings, ETC., to the States and
to the United States. We had thought him a
most philanthropic gentleman, second Smithson
only doing good while yet alive. But from con-
troversy going in the Newark Advertiser, it
seems this gentleman is very well paid for his lite
rary brokerage, He wished the legislature of New
Jersey to pay its proportion of the expenses Of the
agency, which, by his account, to $40, $50
The legislature refused. Some indiscreet friend
attacked the Legislature for its parsmony, and thus
brought out some curious facts about this dstin-
guished scholar, not much to his credit He ex-
hibits no credentials thai is he agent of the
French Government, and q, ne case now stands
he certainly must make some better show, or he
will be put down with the class Of respectable lite
rary imposters.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-02

Mr.. WEBSTER IN BosToN.-A dead set is making
against Mr.. Webster by the aboitionists and other
fanatics in Boston. A meeting was to be held in
the Faneuil Hail. without distinction of party, to
bear testimony against his speech, especially as il
relates to the non.appicaton of the Wilmot proyisc
to the territory Of New Mexico, the fugitive slave
bill, and the increase of new slave States out Of
Texas. Wendell Phillips, the rampant abolitionist
is also out against Mr.. Webster's speech in eight
columns of the Boston Liberator.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-02

NASHVILLE CoEvRNrIoN.-It is a singular
fact, that many abolitiOnists and free-sOlers join
with the South in favor Of the Nashville Conven-
ton. The National Era the leading free-soil pa
per of the country, says For ne,we shall not con,
denim, in advance, the Southern Convention. Il
will be time enough to denounce it as treasonous,
when il shall have committed some overt act
And we have no objection that such Convention
should calculate the value of the Union. Ameri-
cans are calculating people. We know nothing
SO sacred that it should command our blind vensra-
tionn
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-02

R'OG mnVOEN
We are authorized to announce A. d. CRossMAN the pre-
sent incumbent rs candidate for reelection, in April
Eds. Creseent-Pease announce the name of JoHN M
BELL candidate for the office Of Mayor Of this city, at the
ensuing April election, and ohlge many friends in the
fiI THREE MUNICIPALITIES.
Messys Editors Please announce a Candidate for
the Chief Magstrscy of the city. Election in April next
fy4 PETER L. JoRE. ex.La. State Librarian.
For Mayor, THOMAS j. SPEAR, Independent Crsvaaas
Candidate-the Poor Mans Frendto be elected in April
next fyl9
For Recorder:
Eds Crescent Please announce to the Voters of Munci
pality No. One, that w. NJ FLEMING is candidate for
Recorder, and will be supported by MANY VOTERS.
mh16 #
Recorder OF Municipality No. Two candidate for reGec-
ton in April next and that he will be supported irrespective
of party, by the [mh9l The PEOPLE
Eds. Crescent-Please announce L. u CAYENNE an
independent candidate for the office Recorder of the Second
Municipality, and oblige [fyll] MANY VOTERS
Mayors Court.
PERRY s. WARFIELD candidate for the office of Sec
ond District Attorney Election by the people on the fourth
Monday OF April apl I'd
Eds. Crescent Have the goodness to announce CHARLES
s. REESE ESQ., candidate for the office of Second Dis.
Tict Attorney. Election fourth Monday of April.
ap3 MANY FRIENDS.
Captain of the Watch.
|h6ssTs Editors Please announce Capt HENRY FoRNo
candidate for the office of Captain of the Watch of Mu
nicpaty No. Two. Election the fourth Monday in April
ap1
For Alderman.
INDEPENDENT TIcKEr-We present to the voters of the
Seventh Ward, as candidates for Aldermen
J. w. SMITH,
WILLIAM BARNES,
CLAUDE BRuGNrRNs,
subject to meeting be called at Charles Meyers Coffee
house, of Julia and Circus Streets on Monday Night
9th inst, at O'Clock. FRIENDS THE WARD.
~ We, the citizens of the Seventh Ward Second Ma.
nicpaity, do nominate Dr. g. W. Dalton as an indepen.
dent candidate for Alderman the next April Election
mills MANY VOTERS,
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-02

@ We learn by the Charleston Courier that a
new and splendid steamship is to be placed on the
line between New York and Charleston. In refer.
ence to it the N. Y. Journal of Commerce has the
following:
Messrs. Spofford, Tileston & Co. have con.
tracted with Mr.. W. H. Webb to build them new
steamer in the place Of the Northerner. The CT,
feet hold-which will make her about $50 tons
larger than the Northerner. The Alare Works
are to make the machinery. She is to have two
engines, which is . new feature in these steamers
81 inch cylinders, and feet stroke, and is to be
completed in nine months. The whole cost will
not vary much from $500, OO0"
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-02

The FIRST MUNIcIP ALIrY rs. THr GAS L1eHT
CoMrANT.-This case, SO important to the persons
residing in the neghborhood Of the Bayou St. John,
Is liked for argument to-day, in the Supreme Court
1he question involved, is, the right Of the Gas
COMPANY TO discharge the fntid water from their
WORKS into the Bayou We have read the learned
brief Of Mr. Preaux, for Plaintiffs, and imagine the
case must be villainous compound of law and
chemistry While the front part of the city is ben.
efiaed BY the operations Of the Gas Light Com,
pany, there is no good reason why the rear should
suffer BY them. The fact that the case is pending
before the Courts alone prevents our speaking
freely Of this nuisance
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-02

RIVER INTELLIGENcE.-At Louisville, on the
evening of the 10Th ult, tsays the Courier of that
date there were feet inches water in the canal
On the falls in the Indian chute, over the rocks
there were 6 feet inches water During the pre-.
vious twenlyfour hours the river receded Z inches
The weather yesterday was cold and freezing, and
last evening we had very considerable snow
storm, the ground being covered to the depth of
or inches. The fruit trees are very much injured
by the severity of the frost, and we learn that The
peaches in this vicinity are all destroyed.
At Pittsburgh, on the 18th ult, the river was fall
ing, with feet inches water in the channel. Al
Cincinnati, same date, the river had fallen fifteen
inches.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-02


From TExAs,-By the arrival Of the steamship
Galveston, Capt. Place, we have Texas papers to
the 9th ult
The most important news by this arrival is the
loss Of the steamboat Brownsville, which occurred
on the morning Of the 10th ult., on Trinity river
with loss of three lives. The Brownsville hat
passed the night of the 18th at the landing a
mile below Cherry's Landing, and $50 mile,
above the mouth of the Trinity, and had pro-
ceeded about three miles above Cherry's Landing
at sunrise the 10th when she struck a snaq
and sunk SO suddenly that it was with difficulty
the passengers could save themselves The boat
sank in 20 feet water OF the three who were
drowned, one was German blacksmith, named
Richter, from Galveston the second, a young man,
name unknown, from Mississippi, and the third, a
negro belonging to passenger The cargo of the
Brownsville is estimated at nearly forty thousand
dollars, but it is supposed that considerable por-
ton of it will be secured. Nearly all the clothing
and personal baggage of the passengers were
saved. We understand that the boat was owned
by Messrs. George Butler u Co. and Capt. Bod.
man, and was insured for only $4,000.
Near four hundred negro slaves have been intro.
ducsd into Gonzales county within the last year.
The increase of the white population has been pro-
portionably large.
We learn that the crops in this section of the
country are coming up finely. We were informed
by friend yesterday that his corn was eight or ten
inches high, and that all it needed was rain. We
have had no rain, with the exception of one shower
for abouta month. The clouds, however, at this
time, are lowering over and seem to be tantalzing
our farmers with promises Of an abundance.-SaS
Antonio Ierdn