Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-10-17

Breadstufs 15S22 373 22,000,000
Manufactures 16325,5l7 $4,000 600
Foreign goods 9,477 ,65S 100000
Foreign coin 5,476.3l5 12000,000
United States coin 2,646679 100000
Total $15l. 900, $50 $2O6, 200 900
The total export of specie from the whole Union is
here placed at S32000000 that from New York is
officially given at S26,684761 In breadstuffs an in
crease Of S6000000 is based increase in Great
Britain of LOO 900 barrels of -four, worth $4,500-
Co., and also of other articles. Under other heads
although there has been increase. we have assum
ed diminution from last year In the leading item
of cotton the export is 1,988.710 bales, 100000
bales more than in 1850. The New Orleans Price
Current gives the average value of the bales at $50
we have taken at Sal The result isa total increas
ed export of S54 200 900, and aggregate OK
port equal to the whole import of goods That is to
say:
Imports, goods zoe, 100000
Exports and specie ZOE, POO 900
Excess exports ................ 100000
There was, no doubt. some profit on the exports.
and also freights, which would raise the figures but
there have been losses cotton, and Offset,
there have also been losses to foreign shippers of
goods to this market but, at the outside there can
he no commercial balance due from this country
absolutely
AS, however, many persons talk fippantly about
comparisons with 1886 let us take the imports and
exports of the three years ending with 1885, and
compare them with the three years just closed:
,sss gs 1os s5 aJR s5so EHiiis 7HPs
l5l9-'5o-'5I 52l,955,757 sos s5454O 28,lH,2l7
The excess of imports now is no more than. or not
quite enough to pay freight and profits while
der the sytem of open credits and United States
Bank operations in the three years ending with
1886, the excess of imports nearly five times
greater than now.
! At this moment the crop of cotton is backward,
because of the ability of the planters to hold after
high prices and 10000 bales less have been shipped
in September than last year, making difference of
50 900 900 in BILLS: and this added to the special
demand for specie growing out of the financial con-
fusion resulting from the resumption Of the banks
in all directions is the sole of the export of
| specie
count of a huge speciment of humanity, giant
which it averse is giant and one of the greatest
living curiosities exant He stands about eight feet
high, wei Ching four hundred pounds with good
proportion, and yet he is beardless by, and is still
growing. He is 81 ght worth seeing, as it is only
once in an age that such person is permitted to
grow.
Hon. JEFFERSON DAvIs.-This gentleman is lying
dangerously i'll at his residence in Mississippi 1t is
reported he has resigned his seat in the o. s. Senate
and also that he has considered his acceptance of
the nomination for Governor: and now declines
! RAILROADS Jo1NED.-The Georgia Central Railroad
and the Southwestern Railroad have been united at
Macon, and the cars now pass directly from Sayan-
nah to Oglethorpe.
Severe F1osts have occurred in South Carolina and
Georgia. The late Cotton will probably be jured
by it.
old Liverpool line of packets have presented gold
medal, worth $50 to Mary Jones, in testimony of
her faithful services stewardess in their employ
ment during the last twenty-four years. She has
made hundred and thirtysix passages across the
Atlantic in their ships
/ Man wants but little here below, nor wants that
little long, is lie-he wants all he get, and
wants to keep it as long he The fact that
he get but little and can keep it but short time,
i is negative on his wants
PouPEII.-A recent letter from an American gen.
tleman in Naples, says:
i "Vesuvus is calmly smoking and seems dis
posed to repose himself from the atgues of his de-
vastatng labor of the last year. Pompeii is slowly
appearing above ground. About twenty laborers
are kept at work who manage to get off CARLOAD
of earth day from the subincumbent city. Not
one half of the entire city is yet excavated. The
earthly mound which it, is exceedingly
beautiful and rich vineyard with houses of peasants
scattered over its surface baston of the seawall
has recently been unearthed which goes to confirm
the opinion that the now nearly mile distant.
once laved the walls of Pompeii"
= CUBA AND THE Presidential German paper in
= st. Louis publishes letter from Ex-Governor Rey-
nods of Illinois, in which he says he will vote for
no man who is opposed to Cuba, for President in
1852" and also uses the phrase, II think Douglass
will go for Cuba
| EXPERIMENTAL HANGING.--The New York police
returns tell queer story about amateur Jack
ketch named Colliga only Is years of age, who
had his Imagination excited by reading the ac-
of Stookeys execution in the newspapers that
he thought he would try it on" himself Accord
ingly he procured moose fastened it to beam in
the garnet, poked his head into it. and swung off
in the most approved manner The little shaver,
, however, soon discovered that hanging is hang
ing. The moose was drawn so tight that he must
have been Immediately vctimized but for his groans
that brought the neighbors to his rescue. When
cut down his face was black and blue his tongue pro-
truding from his mouth and life very extinct
: In Syracuse, various arrests have been made of
several individuals implicated in the of the
fugitive slave, Jerry from the officers of the law
The ringleaders of the riot not likely to escape
the penalty of their temerity from any lack of evil
dence.
E Ofthe one hundred and sixteen Cuba victims sent
prisoners to Spain, 81 ascertained to be of the
age of % and under down to the age of 16, and of
the whole number only Is above the age of 80
years.
A floating daguerreotype establishment is the Ia
test novelty at Cincinnati.