Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-08-29
u, 256, 500 %, 306, OLA
p, 256, $50

Total excess of imports exports under the
tariff OF lSl0. 2,049, 494
This, then, is the enOrmus about which the
protecnon!sts making such fuss as if the whole
country was going to be ruined by it. Two whole
millions OF dollars Only think of it Truly the
ProtectlonlSts are nfortunate-very. Their calcu-
latons, equally with their representations, prove
addle. Taking the whole period from 1910 inclu-
slve to the present time exports exceed cur i'm
ports more than S30,000,000 So that, according to
their theory Of the balance of trade all is right on
this head, Notwithstanding the tariff of 1916
Another fact which appears from the above sta
tistics is, that the quantity of gold and silver in the
country, so far from having diminished within the
last % months, has greatly increased. There never
was so much specie and bullion in the country be-
fore. Without counting any of that brought by i'm
migrants, and after deductng all that has been ex-
ported, still have balance of some $50 600 900
more than we had % months ago. Let the pan
lc-makers mediate on this fact, and then croak
about all the specie going out Of the country.
The difference between these two sums is $n.l7IO52
AS the exact figures for the year ending 3Oh June 1850
known those for the subsequent months will be M O6
Soo provided that 02 the true of imports
for the whole 70 months OF course do expect
but trust we have made approximation to the
truth.
COMET ENDANGERING THE EARTH.-Southey in
his " COMMONPLACE Book relates that in A. D.
l712, Winston predicted that the comet would an
pear Wednesday, 18th October, at five minutes
after five in the morning, and that the world would
be destroyed by fire on the Friday following. His
reputation was high and the comet appeared. A
number OF persons got into boats and barges on the
Thames thinking the water the safest place South
Sea and India stock fell. captain of Dutch shin
threw all his powder into the river that the ship
might not be endangered. Al noon after the comet
had appeared, it is said that more than one hundred
cerGymen were ferried to lambeth to request
that proper prayers might be prepared there being
none in the church service. People believed that
the day of Judgment was at hand, and some acted
on this belief if some temporary evil was to
be expected. On Thursday more than 1000 kept
mistreSses were publicly married. There was pro-
digiouS run on the bank Sir Gilbert Heathcote at
that time head director issued orders to all the fire
offices in London requiring them to keep good look
out, and have particular eye upon the Bank Of Eng
land.
The Indiana Sentinel, in reply to Il Wing had
taken an economical fit gives the following striking
exploit in the way of observation-disclosures the only
one the Wings attempted in the federal govern
ment
At the extra session of lS41 the Wings organized
q committee on retrenchment. This committee Wis |
tied the ustom-houscs in Philadelphia and New
York, eat fine dinners and drank good wines at the
expense of Uncle Sam, and after long sitting, they
made report reducing the pay of the orphan boys
who acted as pages about the capitol reducing their
number. and limiting the amount of stationary, say
ing nothing about their pay mileage and
finally requiring Jenny Maher, the public gardener,
instead of feeding the grass he cut from the public
grounds to his to advertise and sell it at public
aucon.-This. Jenny an honest man, faithfully
carried out and the result was that the advertise
meat cost the government four dollars and the hay
sold for three dollars and forty cents. So much for
Wing economy AMI Wing retrenchment