Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-15
T,,e Right Spirit.

to Mr. COLLAMER formerly postmaster GENERAL. IL
is open, manly, and aboye-board, and breathes the
proper spirit throughout 1t is due to MIR. COLA
MER to state that Mr. LYNCH received verbal assu-
rance, which was rigidly observed during the time
Mr.. c. remained at the head of the Department
The letter speaks for ITSELF and is, indeed model
of its kind:
WELDON, N. c., March 10th, 1S49
SIR-You will please for the frank in
which shall address you in the following lines
hold the Office of Mail Agent upon the Wilmington and
Raleigh Railroad in of North Carolina and being
with family who dependent upon my e1ertions
support very anxious to know whether am to be
retained and shall take it great favor of you If
you will inform me- to be informed, what am
depend upon that may make calculations for the
present year.
If the necessary qualifcatonsrct attention to business,
habits good moral character &care deemed by
you all that hold Office under the adj
minsraton will refer you to every person. Wing Dem
ocrat between Weldon and Wimingtonaso, to every Per
son in Wilmington and Weldon-to say whether possess
these qualities not will also refer to Major s. R.
HoBBIE and Mr. W. II. DuNDAs, in the Post Office Depart
ment say how have discharged my duties during the
time have been holding the Office of Mail Agent.
But if being Democrat is looked upon by you dis
qualification then disqualified, for Democrat.
honestly opposed the election of Gen ZACHARY TAY
the Presidency and in all of my conversations upon
politics during the eleconeerng campaign, took bold
and decided stand against his election retained in
Office must be allowed the privilege of exercising rights
American citizen the right to cote and my
about public and and cannot consent
to receive or hold Office under Wing administration with
out their kno,cing political opinions Should you think
proper to retain after knowing them shall always look
upon great favor but should you conclude otherwise
shall sc content and always feel grateful for the avors
have received the hands of the Post Office Department.
Most respectfully, your obedent servant.
G. G. LYNCH.
Hon JACOB CoLLA,ER, P. NJ. General, Washington, D. c.
BARON Monday last HERR RrN1NGER gave notice
that he would walk on a wire from the roof of the
Washington and Lafayette Hotel to Mr.. LAwToN's
cabinet making establishment, where coffin was in
readiness in of accident. The performance was
fixed for p M, wind and weather permitting, and
for two hours before that time, the usually quiet
neighborhood of the Journal office looked quite ami
mated although it rained the greater part of the
time. We don't know when we have seen as many
colored pussons," with open countenances, looking
literally with mouth and eyes. About fifteen min,
utes before four it rained pretty heavily throwing
considerable amount of cold water upon the underta
king. However, the {: fusic - kept it up and about
the appointed time man, in black, appeared on the
balcony of the Hotel and made short Speech to the
effect that account of the weather. he had not in
tended to walk the wire that day, but seeing so ma
ny people, he would 90 it.' In few minutes af
ter, the same man made his appearance in flaming
red with white g continuations,' and made an ora
tion setting forth the fact that he the man. ant
the only man, what did or could cross rivers ant
so forth in this peculiar way. He said he had cross
ed the Delaware at the point where WASHINGTON
, crossed it, and he thought WAsH1NGToN's crossing
about the greatest crossing recorded in history
not excepting Pharaoh and his host at the Red Sea
He could not pretend to compare with WASHINGTON
but for Pharaoh and his host he was far ahead
| them, for he got over and they didn't After som
, other eloquent remarks the tired man" vanished
and shortly made his appearance at dormar win
dow, and from thence the roof where, after try
e ing the wire, and making of its proper adjust
0 ment, he retreated to the window, into which h
stuck his feet for the purpose of having them rubbe
: with chalk rosin, something else, and shortl
after set out his perlous journey, which he az
compished with seeming ease going at sort of tro
stopping two three times in his career and stanc
t ing the observed of all Observers The distanc
. was about four hundred feet and the highest poir
of the wire about forty feet it being supported
8 different points by posts. Mr.. RYN1NGER took tt
It precaution to take up collection beforehand whic
we'll though of, for it not FIVE minutes afte
the {; show" when the street deserted as eve
and nothing remained to tell the tale except the wr
Il suggestive of magnetic telegraph.
II BSE~Our modesty forbids US retaining unmerite
honors, and we must therefore, respectfully declir
~ the credit of making the remarkable discovery in
y gard to HORACE MANN and his constituents, whic
our friends of the Observer have been so kind as
attribute to US. We claim property in it whats
ever, for found it, in measure, running at larg
and our paragraph is the same or nearly the san
- in substance with one which We found in several
= Northern exchanges, and totally uncontradicte
" We have doubt of its accuracy-none in the worl
= But that is neither here nor there whatever We
the motives of the Convention the result of the ee
u ton in the Eighth District of Massachusetts she1
~ that the said HORACE MANN, Federast and FRI
Soiler, is elected by majority of five hundred ov
e the candidate of the Federalst Convention and 4
n other candidates, proving conclusyely that the Co
H. vention was not quite up to the mark of the par
which represented and that the of that
lg ty go for Horace MANN, through and through, u
s. restrained even by prudential considerations
Ras~The notification movement at the North pr
crosses and gathers force day by day. The idea
enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law is laughed at
- the New England States, and in of the Stat
. of the Northwest. The city of Boston is the vel
heart and soul of this lawlessness which displays
self throughout the whole State of Massachusetts,
III The Fayetteville Caronian, of the 9th inst in
t. article upon this subject, says: