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

short of 900 miles, and as they travel by sight and
not by scent, the fact is the extraordinary Sir
John Ross, we believe, took five pigeons with him,
which, it may be remembered, stated in the |
last accounts received of him to have been at that
time all alive, that there still three to be ac
counted for NORTH British Mail.
The Turkish Empire.
very interesting article appears in the Boston
Daily Advertiser, the present condition of the
Turkish Empire, showing the amelorations which it
has undergone during the reign of its sover
eign and that of his immediate predecessor The
article is presumed to be from the pen of Mr. Brown
who accompanied the Turkish Ambassador, Amin
Boy, to this country:
He says the standing army of the Sultan is COM
posed ofabout 100000 men, divided into six corps,
and composed and commanded wholly by Mussul-
mans. Another corps is being formed near the
Danube on the Hungarian frontier. Christians
exempt from military duty by the payment of tax.
The Sultans navy is composed of from 80 to 90 YES
sels-of three deckers IA seventy fours 16 frig-
ates corvettes, 90 briggs and schooners steamers
of from 400 to 45O horse power and IA others of va
rious powers. Some of the best of these ships were
built by Americans, of New York, the late H. Eek
ford, and F. Rhodes.
Steamers belong to the Sultan and his officers ply
between Constantinople and the Southern shores of
the Black Sea, Asia Minor Syria the Islands of the
Archipelago and Salonica and through these facil
tiles for travel new spirit for knowledge and in
qulry Is sprlnglng up among the most distant parts
of the Empire. Steam is affecting important chan
ges in the east. large commerce has sprung up
within comparatively recent period, between Tur
key and Mesopotamia. 1t is wholly under the con-
troll of the English. The provinces of the Sultan on
the Southern shores of the Black Sea- and in fact of
all Asia Minor new fields thrown open to the
commerce of the United States; and the writer is
confident that in the of few years. this
try will do for England what since 1880 she has done
for usyiz supplant her cotton manufactures there:
by the introduction of those of our factories.
The whole revenue of the Empire is said to be Sl5,
100000; it has public debt and, Notwithstanding
the urgent persuasons of some of the great Europe
an Bankers backed by the influence of an interested
government, it has constantly refused to make a
loan.
The press in the Southern States is calling upon
Mr.. Fillmore to act with more energy. 1t is invo-
king him to issue warning proclamation. In this
decisive position happy to find two very deci-
ded wing papers--the Petersburg Intelligencer and
the Fredericksburg News. There is halting shiv-
ering, or backing out in them The Petersburg In
teligencer calls upon the President in the most en-
phatic and thrilling terms to do his duty by the
stitutiOn and the laws: Wash. Union.
1.-The President knoacs, everybody knoms that the
law has been nullifed in Boston that two citizens OF
the South who visited that city in quest of their pro-
perty, prevented from arrestng their slave and
bringing him up for examination to his Identity
were imprisoned under VIGOROUSLY false pretences
and afterwards held to excessive bail and finally in
terror for their liv>S had to leave the city without
their property. Use facts are notorious to the
whole country. Ghe South, then, has right tc
look to the President for the application of this
edy, which alone the Union for, certain
as the sun shines, the South will in the absence
this first and best remedy, resort to the second
that is secession from the Union 1t will not do tt
talk to of the South about the general prevalence
of conservative opinions and feeling at the North
1t matters not to us the value of brass farthine
whether the law is nullifed by multitude or by
squad-by million of men or by dozen In thu
one and in the other the result is the same W.
are cheated OF our property the constitution is null
lifted and the contract which bound together
having been violated by one of the parties to it. ha
ceased to be binding on any"
INsURRECTIoN IN CHINA.-The province of Kwangs
is at present the theatre cf a serious outbreak
but whether on the part of the unsubdued tribes O.
of the banditti who nfest its borders is not YER
clearly ascertained There is no doubt, however
that large body of men in actual rebellion agans
the imperial authorities over whom they have oh
tanned some important advantages. Recently the,
have taken the chief city of the Ho district place
of great commercial importance, bordering on tn
provice of Kwang-tung on the Northwest the cit,
being situated on a navigable branch of the Cantor
river 1t is stated good authority, that tn
rebels, 1000 strong, have penetrated into Kwang
tung, and are within one hundred miles of Canto!
city.
The leader, who is named Lifting -pang, has assn
med the title borne by the highest Tartar Generals
, and displays banners inscribed g Commissioned b.
Heaven to exterminate the Using (the present Man
chu) and restore the Ming (the former Chinese dy
nasty') He is said to have under his command SO,
900 men in all which is probably no exaggeration
He and his fellow chief, Tsau, are said to ASSUME
great state, and about in chairs with fou
bearers. After successful attack on Kong nun
in the district of Szhwai the pawnshops rifed
and 10000 taes of silver extorted from rich inha
bitant after which hundred cookshops were set VI
to provide food for the band 1t is futher reported
besides some persons of Importance having fallen il
the fight, that the Governor of the province, anc
the chief magistrate of Woo-chau, have committed
suicide in despair; but these reports also require
, confirmation The province contains many indepen
| dent tribes, who have never owned subsection t.
the present dynasty
SHOULDER CoFFINs.-' We have but one more
word to say Nothing but union can now say.
the South. the Union, the Constitution. That mus
now be on the Missouri line 1t is an issue of life
and death with us. For one we are prepared tt
march up to Sc 80 with our coffin on our back. Wht
goes with us Charleston Erening Ne,rs
To which the Buffalo Courier makes the following
reply
1T strikes US that wouldn't be bad uniform
Imagine about thousand South Carolinans drawn
up in line, preparatory to a march, and the com