Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-01-18
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
wII.MINeToN, N. O., FRIDAY, JAN.1s, 1850.

WILMINGToN, N. G., FRIDAY, JANIS, 1850.
NEw Posr OrF1cE,-A new Post Office has been
established at Cyprus Grove in this county, and O.
BowpEN appointed Postmaster
PosT OFFICE DIsCoNTINuED.--We regret to learn
from j. R. KEMP, ESQ., Postmaster, that the Post Of
flee at his house, in Bladen county, is no longer in
operation he having resigned the Office few days
since. Our papers heretofore sent to Kemper Post
Office, will hereafter be forwarded direct to Eliza
BEETHOVEN.
nsg~Mr LOUIS A. COPY has sent his card
and proof copy of his portrait intended to be pub
lished in the February No. of the Ladys Book" It
is good engraving and said to be an excellent like
ness. Mr.. Cooley has been very successful as pub
Usher, and has accumulated handsome property,
all of which he has made by his magazine, having
started without farthing. He is some 81 years
of age-his portrait looks more-and has very In
teresng family SO that he the less risk in
ding forth his " counterfeit resemblance" among his
thousands of fair readers Mr. Cooley is essentially
ladies man, as his editors contributors, readers
and for aught we know artists all of the genler
SEX A happy man is Cooley, if his fair subscribers
Only-poy up.
-GoNE-CLEAN GoNE.-Mr. WRIGHT GRE
CORY, of Sampson county, informs us that that big
Colewort, of which sometime since gave the di-
mansions, was on Christmas eve, carried Oft "root
and branch by some of the mirth loving daughters
of old Sampson.
NB-A bachelor friend of ours says he would be
content to be Colewort anything else, if some of
the Sampson girls would only take pity on him. and
carry him off too This renowned vegetable was
nine feet high from the branching out of the roots to
the topmost blade or, sailor would say, from
stem to sternn Following the photography suggest
ed by our friend of the CaroIinian, we would say
that this was essentially ''sum coluds.'
CENTRAL RA1LRoAD:-A Railroad meeting was held
at Salisbury, Rowan county, on the 9Th inst. The
meeting was addressed by Hon. CALVIN GRAVES, tx
Governor MoREHEAD and other gentlemen, and at
its conclusion, four additional shares of the hundred
were made up and subscribed. The number of shares
in Rowan now amounts to. fifteen Mr. GILMER Of
Guilford said that Guford would increase hers tc
sixteen. In Davidson, we understand that four ad
ditional shares of the hundred were taken at the
County Convention in Lexington Four or five of the
shares have been subscribed in Cabarrus county.
The Election of Clerk
It will be seen by reference to the Congressional
proceedings of the 18th instant, that Mr. CAMPBELL
of Tennessee, was on the Goth ballot, chosen CLERK
of the House of Representatives having obtained
a majority of all the votes cast Mr.. CAMPBELL
is Wing, and the Clerk of the last session In
the present instance he received the votes of eight
Southern Democrats, by which means he was elected
over the Democratic nominee, Mr.. FoRNEY, of Penn
sylvania. While we are pleased that Clerk has
been chosen, and an end thus put to contest Of
which we have no doubt the country is heartily sick
we cannot but regret the manner in which it has
been effected. Unfortunately every movement since
the meeting of Congress has tended to widen thu
breach between the different sections of the Union
and the possibility of any harmonious action between
the Northern and Southern portions of either party
has daily become less and less, but we know of n
movement more calculated to the seed of dissen
sions and distrust than this election of Clerk. MI
FoRNEY, the caucus nominee of the Democratic pal
ty is gentleman of high character and talents, an
as an editor, one of the most prominent able an
consistent advocates of Southern rights to be foun
either North South. 1t is to such men and to tt
influence welded by such men in the Northern State
that we must look for peaceable solution Of tt
great question which now agitates the country,
indeed, such q solution be looked for at ALL al
repeat cannot but regret the rejection OF SUI
man, by Southern men OF his own party who
votes elected Wing over his head. The office
SELF is matter of sort of consequence in par
point of view--in fact would just as soon that
Wing should have it as Democrat-but in the pre-
ent case, the desertion by Southern men of par
candidate from the North, against whose principl
N they have made no objection and the election,
their votes, of political opponent, simply becau
he is Southern man, savors too much of the app
cation of sectional test, and of wish to organic
strictly sectional party. Unquestionably, the Den
cratic members who voted for CAMPBELL thong
they were doing right, but we humbly conceive tt
II it would have been in better taste to have inform
the friends of Mr. FoRNEY of their intention so Il
that gentleman could have been withdrawn. A ref
ence to the detailed vote will show that the folio
& ing Democrats voted for Mr.. CAMPBELL: Mr.. VEl
Il BILE, of North Carolina Mr.. Orr, Mr.. WALLA
II Mr. CoLcocK, Mr.. MCQUEEN, and Mr. WooDwA
II of South Carolina Mr.. EWING, of Tennessee
Mr. HUBBARD, of Alabama.
"a The WASHINGTON UNIoN.-We would call the
tention of the proprietors of the Union to the
that, although regular subscribers to their
ly paper, it comes to irregularly than
paper upon exchange list. Sometimes ge
a many three papers in a bundle, sometimes we
none at all. We wish they would see to this, as,
der the present arrangement we might as we'll
have it at all The other Washington papers cc
regularly, why not the Union
Quick RuN.-The Savannah Republican says,
the Steamship Philadelphia recently made trip
Il tween Havana and that port in 48 hours The
q lance is ESQ miles, being an average of between
and IA miles per hour.