Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-05-24
Orators aud Statesmen.

Orators aud Statesmen. -
1850. How vast the difference between admins
tratIve and oratorical TALENT "A shrewd observer,
who has long shared and watched public affairs in
TINS country, lately said to me- that he fast COM
ing to the conclusion that In the current generation
at least great orators anything but great bless
ings Is there not great danger that aspiring ora
tors at Washington, each with bis own peculiar
scheme, may not impede practical adjustment OF
dlfhsaities! Are they the safest administrative
guides just now Is this not true of shining orators
at all times? Ciceros administrative craftsmanship
was a failure. Mirabeau Ca great actor at best,
could not have carried an orderly or disorderly
government. Sheridan, as mere orator the most
t9r moment trust with administrative statesman
ship. Bolingbroke failed and Walpole succeeded.
ne younger Pitt, as to whom contemporaries doubt
eo whether the orator statesman predominated, Is
now known to have been a disappointed public man,
dying crushed and broken hearted. Ersxine and
canning are no exceptions to my rule. The only
one is the elder Pitt But he was of the hero
&c species His eloquence in itself executive
He seemed to know how to talk down opposition and
TO talk up Nations spirit There is account OF
an interview between Pitt when Secretary of State,
and Field Marshal Hodgsdon, then about to set out
on military enterprise against some part OF the
French coast which is very characteristic. lie
kissed the General each cheek and told him to 60:
attack the French and take any responsibility he
Wlshed-he would sustain him an everything 1t
was no wonder such miAlster was successful. Yet
Englishmen are not as proud of Lord Chatham as
| they should be. Some day we will have Ameri-
can life of the great Commoner. Perhaps by and
bye one of his proudest monuments will be Pittsburg
The STATE VS.. GEORGE j. BuLLocH-An inter
esting question, in connection with this case, was
discussed yesterday afternoon before his Honor Judge
Jackson. The question arose on objection by de-
fendants counsel to the array of the Grand Jury
They contended that stockholders of the Central
Rail Road and Banking Company were disqualified
proPtes Gtectum from acting upon the mem
bers of the Grand Jury and that the same objection
applied to every citizen of Savannah, inasnuch as
the city in its municipal capacity was stakeholder
in the Company.
It was replied, that the objection might be good
in civil but not in criminal case, where the State,
and not the Bank, was the party prosecuting, and
further that if the position of the defendants
sci were right, then the State of Georgia. being a
stakeholder in the State Bank could not prosecute
any man who robbed it, because every citizen in the
State would be interested in the case. 1t fur
ther answered by the counsel for the prosecution,
that no case on the criminal side of the Court, pun
ished by fne could be tried if the objection was
ained inasmuch as the people of the country where
the offence committed would be interested to
the extent of the fine denounced by the law.
i The decision of his Honor has not yet been made.
| Whatever it may be- it is probable the will be
carried up to the Supreme Court.
Law and Barlow and the Solicitor General for the
State; Charlton and DeyLyon for Defendant.
SaUannaA Republican, May IS.
RIVER AND CRoPs-The Vicksburg Sentinel, of
the 18th, says:
The water at stand during the day, yester-
day, being about 7 inches below the high water
mark of l849, and inches below the highest mark
this year. For five six weeks past, the river has
varied but two three inches, and is about the
average altitude flooding all the lowands not pro-
tectcd by secure levees The accounts from above
forbid any hope that the flood will recede, or the
river be again within its banks, for a month two
Many look for the highest water known but
it must be remembered that in the present state,
spreading immense region of country UMPIRE
cedented freshes in several large tributaries would
hardly be sufficient to check fall. In addition, the
evaporation is very great at this of the year
AS matter of course there is possible chance fol-
cotton Drop many lnuland plantations, and the
crop of next year will be at least one hundred thou
sand bales short on this account. .-
! TEA CULTIVATION UNITED SrArEs.-Dr.
Junius Smith, who is experimenting on the culture
of Tea at Greenvllle, S. c., writes to friend in
New York that his plants are in remarkably thrifty
condition, promising to afford Tea of good bet
ter quality than any imported from China. The
plants began to deveope their leaves about the Goth
of April and are sufficiently matured to gather
for use but DIR. S. deems it prudent to permit the
plants to 60 to seed this year He is sanguine Of
ultimate that he unhesitatngly says every
farmer in the middle and Southern States may grow
his own Tea in his garden without the slightes
interference with his ordinary agricultural pursuits
: OPENING OF THE CANADIAN PARLIAMENT.-Tht
sessions of the Canadian Parliament were opened
Toronto, stated by telegraph, the 18th instant
by Lord Elgin. correspondent Of the Tribune thus
. speaks of his speech:
He stated that Canadian securities have risen il
England that reciprocal trade with the U. States il
delayed; that cheap and uniform rates of postage
are required that the Assembly should be more
merousy constituted than it now that public feel
ing is becoming more and more opposed to capita
punishment that improved assessment and jury
laws, and cheaper courts of justice required, &c
He believes annexation is unpopular in Canada, anG
will mark with the Royal disapprobation, annexa
tionists holding Office, &c.
''There were sixty members of the Assembly pres
ent, and forty absent In the legislative chamber
notices given of bills to abolish the law of pr
mogeniture to substitute for the council elective
Senate to abolish the court of chancery to forbid the
prescription of crown lawyers on political grounds
to repeal the usury laws and to abolish the endow
ment of clergy"
Mr.. Francis Parkman, Jr., only of the late DIR
at Kings chapel, to daughter Of Dr. Jacob Bige
low, of the same city.
; S1LAs WR1GHr.-The citizens of Weybridge, (Vt.)
where Silas Wright was born have commenced tn,
! erection of monument to his memory. The maiI
work is estimated at $4,000. A bust of Mr.. Wright
will be sculptured on the shaft.
F Ono CONSTITUTIONAL CoNvENT1oN.--This body
assembled on the 9Th of May The first question thai
came up the form of the oath proper to be taker
by members. 1t was decided that as the Conven
ton had met to tear doC the existing constitution
the State it would be improper to swear to support
1t. The members therefore, swore to support the
Constitution of the United States and to discharge