Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-12-26

mage PENNSYLVANIA owns tonnage amounting TO 28i.-
373, being increase Of $4,000 the previous
year. New York has 1,04l ,0i3, being an increase OF
900. Maryland has 204.444, which is an increase
of 1857 Delaware has $50 being decrease OF
:, $50 North Carolina has 1872, being decrease
of 81 ,496. Virginia has CO. 69 being decrease of
4,497 and the District of Columbia has % ,903. which
is an increase OF $500. The steam tonnage of the
United States has increased during the year, 57.76o
tons, and now amounts TO $50 COZ tons.
return just issued by order of the British House
of Commons. gives the following results of the rail
way casualties that had occurred during the half
year ending Both June last: Total number of pas
sengers carried: 37S84703; number killed, los
injured u.s. of which number IL were killed and
l42 injured by beyond their control
Thirty-our servants of the companies contractors
were killed, and 10 wounded Eight passengers
were killed, and 621 servants of companies con-
tractors were killed and ten wounded. in consequence
OF their own careiessness or misconduct Twenty
eight trespassers and other persons neither passen
gers servants killed. and injured. by crossing
walking on the railway. Three suicides COM
mtted.
William Cullen Bryant very truthiuIly says that
Journalism Is vocation which gives insight into
mems motives and reveals by what influences masses
OF men are moved but it shows the dark rather than
the bright side OF human nature and one who is not
disposed 10 make due allowances for the peculiar cir
cnmstances in which he is placed is apt 10 be led By il
into the mistake that the majority of mankind are
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relating to the events of the day, but that knowledge
is apt TO be superficial; since The necessity of attend
ing to many sub ecs prevents the journalist from tho
roughly investigating any. In this way, it begets de-
su'tory habits OF thought disposiDg the mind be
isfed with glances different questions, and 10
delight in passing lightly from thing another
The style gains in clearness and fueDoy bal is apt
become, in consequence Of much and hasfy writing,
loose. duse, and stuffed with ioca baroarsns AM the
cant phrases of the day.
| EoT-,I sill b2-a
| been written, and written concerning the e.
quality of the bnt that and perfect compan
ionship whi>h gives both man and woman complete
freedom IN their places without restless desire 10 90
out OF them, is as Yet imperfectly understood. The
time will come. when it will be seen that the moral
and intellectual condition of must be in exact
correspondence with that Of man. not only in its gen
eral aspect but in lis individual manifestations; and
then il will be perceived that all this discussion about
relative superiority is ideas controversy TO deter
mine which is the most important to the world the
| light of the sun or the warmth Of the sun.
A Jesuit who was passin. from France TO America
was strong Y recommended to the Captain of the
sci in which he embarked The Captain who saw a
storm coming up, SAID TO him, SO My Father. you have
your sea-legs the rolling of the vessel would be
dangerous to you get 10 the bottom of the hold as
long you hear the sailors swearing and stormng
this will be sign that there will still be hope but if
you once hear them embracing and reconcng them
selves with each other, then recommend yourself to
| God The Jesuit from time TO time, sent his
panon to the scuttIe 10 see what was going on
a" Alas my father said he 10 him, all is lost, the
sailors swear like demoniacs, their basp hemies
enough to the ship 10 be swallow ed up God
be praised,' answered the father come, come all
will be WE'LL.
| CAMEL CoAL.-Great quantities. OF camel COAL the
Pisburg Gazette says, exist in Little Beaver Valley,
lying in Pennsylvania and Ohio within fifty miles OF
PIttshurg, and equal TO that found in Eng land OF the
extent of the deposits, enough is known warrant the
suppostion that there many thousand acres of coal
of average thickness of eight feet. and capable of
atf0rding nexhaustlble supply. The coal is nearly
as n1ammable pine knot, burns with a clear bril-
liant fame and it is supposed will be found well adap
ted for the manufacture of gas.
/ The Washington correspondent of the New York
Courier aud Enquirer says that there is good reason
to believe that Sir Henry Bulwer will Immediately
return to Washington.
F. Miller, young printer, died at Pittsburg, on
last Thursday of lead fever contracted by the prac
tice of putting type in his mouth.
/ PETERssrRG.-The Petersburg Tneiligencer states
that the strongest evidence of the increasing prospe-
ty Of the city of Tetersburg is the rapidly Increasing
value of the lands in its vicinity part Of the Ros
lin plantation, sold Friday, brought 80 per cent more
than it could have commanded five years ago.
WISCONSIN ELECTION i he official vote of Wiscon-
sin shows five hundred and seventy majority for
FarwelI, Wing candidate for Governor. The Demo
cratic candidates for the other State Offices have
jortes ranging from two hundred TO five thousand
seven hundred all.
A QUESTION OF PRopERTY.-A Western editor asks,
If chap haint got nothing marries gal moth
ing has. is hiZZen bern hern hiZzen % Not only
so, but also
A FLEET OF BALLOONS The Museum, of Berlin,
, says that Prussan has discovered in the ruins OF
Ninevah basso relieve representing fleet of bal
= looms.
D KNITTING MhcHIxE-There is a knitting machine
in operation in Philadelphia, which knits three hun
dred and eighty stitches at each turn of small
n crank, which crank may be easily turned by hand
n from one hundred to one hundred and fifty revou.
tons per minute making from forty to sixty thou
sand stitches per minute. ut the rate of about
three million per hour
- Some innovator has introduced resolution into
the Kentucky Legislature, requiring the keeper oil
. the penitentary to dye the nose Of every conyic
blue.
HoRR1Di-A blind man, who was eye witness t.
t the affair. informed deaf reporter that dea
Y and dumb was knocked speechess by an arm
s less man next week.
n NOTHING LIKE AIRs-An odd little steamboat pass
ed Cincinnati last week that had no pilot house. an,
the captain put umbrella the wheel to keep III
! appearances,
Old Mr. Kyserly says that he is the last man il
% the world that will ever force daughters affection
A So long she marries the that he chooses 70
N her he quite Indifferent whether she loves anybo
n dy or not.
n. THREE CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH.--We ale in
formed by the Coroner of this county, L. NJ McLendon
t. Esq, that Wednesday last he held an inquest OF
the dead bodies of three negro children the proper
to of Anna Baily, daughter OF Thomas B. Baily, an
A. grand daughter of Samual Pratt The lrquest wa
held a. Hiram ]. Pratts, 3 miles from borough