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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-08-01
tisneFai sset.'s Native Amsris.n Letter.


have ssussed several ieafs our friends and sub
sebus requesting ~ procure for them copies Of this
aHens We therefore fepubsh In order 10 comply with
their wishesi
WasHlKaroN, November 10, 1S4I
DEAR sia; have the honor to acknowledge your
letter OF the 9th Instant written you are pleased
TO add In behalf of several hundred native Ameri-
ean republicans of philadelphia.
mot eonhdentinlly, but not for publication, have
aiready replied TO letter from David M. Stone,
esq OF your city, on the Same subject. will write
10 you IN like manner and in haste. This is the
heaviest with me, leaving scarcely time for necessa-
ry sleep and exercise. must not, however, wholly
neglect your communication.
Should any considerable number of nv country
men assign me or desire to give me prominent po-
siton before the public shall take time to metho-
dize my views on the great question you have pro-
posed Those views had their origin in the stormy
elections in the spring of 1886, and were confirmed
In the week that the Harrison electors were chosen
IN New York. On both occasions was in that city,
and heard in the streets the cry. {" Down with the
natlres!" 1t was heard in almost every group of
foreigners as the signal for rallying and outrage
Fired with Indignation, two friends sat down with me
in my parlor at the Aston House, November, 184O)
to draw up address, designed to rally an Ameri-
can party The day after the election | set out for
appeal was not published. Probably the election of
General Harrison rendered it's publication at that
time unnecessary in the opinion of my two friends
now hesitate between extending the period of
residence before naturalization and total repeal of
all acts of Congress the subject. My mind in
cnes te the latter.
Concurring fully in the principles of the Philadel-
phia &c. &c, should prefer assuming the designa-
ton of American republicans, in New York, or
democratic Americans as would respectfully sug-
gest. Brought up in the principles of the revolution
of Jefferson, Madison, &C., under whom in youth
commenced life-I have always been called, i have
protested myself, simply republican or WING,
which with the thing. Democratic
Americans would include all good native citizens
devoted to our country and its institutons-w would
not drive from naturalized citizens who by long
residence have become identified with US in feeling
and interest.
am happy to see, by the Philadelphia National
American that religion is to be excluded as party
element. Staunch Protestant as | am, both by birth
and conviction, shall never consent to party or
State religion Religion is too sacred to be mingled
up with either. 1t should always be kept entirely
between each individual and God, except in the way
of reason and gentle persuason--as in families,
churches. and other occasions of voluntary atten-
Dance CATER years of discreton) reciprocal con-
sent.
Wishing success to the great work which you and
other patriots have happily set foot, remain,
with high respect, your fellow-citzen,
To GEORGE WASHINGTON REED esq, and others.
Philadelphia.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-08-01

A FUNNY CASE CoNsc1EScE.-Tbe following
most amusing story recently told the editor of
the Boston Post by wag of a doctor belonging to
Franklin county, VT, who stated that the case of
conscience really occurred in his practice
years ago. The story runs as follows
The wife of Baptist deacon, (whom. for the pur-
pose of the anecdote, shall call Mr.. Cushman,)
disocated her by fall, and the doctor sent
for, and came with all convenient despatch and put
the matter to rights Presently, after the opera
ton over, the lady seized with faint turn,
and beckoned to her husband for assistance. The
deacon was a man of slow motion slow of speech,
and rather slow in point of intellect. He was
strict temperance man." and conscientious in this
and everything else to the last degree Being never
quite sure that he fright" he naturally feared
to ''go-ahead" In the present emergency, he went
into the room where the doctor sitting and adj
dressed him in slow and measured tone, as follows:
Dr. B., YOU are, doubtless, of the principles
which Mrs. Cushman and myself profess in regard
to the use Of the Intoxicating drinks in any form
whatever. Now, doctor, / wish to put it to your
conscience as Christian physician whether il would
be in any manner culpable, in case Mrs. Cushman
was afflicted with faintness if should so far deyate
from our habtua rule as to hold bottle of camphor
to Mrs Cnshman's nose r. The doctor rushed into
the ladys apartment and found his patient had not
waited the issue of the deacon's casustry, but had
fairly .gene off, in fainting fit The devil take
your conscience !n said the doctor, half angry and
half inclined to Ego off himself in fit of laughter.
sThe devil take your doubts sir-in like this
one scruple of eamphor is worth twenty scrupes OF
conscience"
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Important from Mexico.

The Foreign Debt--ThreatS of England, France and
Spqin--The Garay Grant--D1r Webster's DIS
patch, &c.
By the arrival at New Orleans of the schooner
Robert Spedden, have received Vera Cruz dates
up to the 8h and from the city of Mexico up to the
4th inst.
The Foreign Ministers of England, France and
Spain have made strong represen tations to the
Mexican Government the ect of the payment
of the Mexican debts, which they have respectively
in charge. On the LIST of July, M. Pima y Cuevas,
on offering, in the Chamber of Deputies, a pro-
position to authorize the Government to pay imme-
diatey such debts have the sanction of diplomatic
settlements read correspondence which he had had
with the Foreign Ministers
To show the urgency of the case, NJ. Murcedo,
the Mexican Minister of State, repeated to the
Chamber the language of Mr.. Doyle, the British
Minister. held in a recent conference with him
"t, said MIR. Doyle, " | do not give information to
my government by the next packet, that the Eng
lSh creditors have been put into possession of the
principal of the debt it is likely that the British
government will take decisive measures to obtain
Justice The French and Spanish Ministers have
also declared that if the English cabinet proceeds in
that way, their respective governments would per-
ceve the necessity of following the example Re-
ports on the ubject expected in day or two
from the committee on public credit, and on foreign
relations.
There was report in the city of Mexico, on the
ID instant, that Mr.. Websters reply to the annun-
citation of the repeal of the Garay grant had been
received. 1t was said to be simple announcement,
without discussion that it would be bell for
the United States if the rights of American citizens
in Tehuantepec were disregarded. The TRAIT d
Union doubts this, and says that the only note
ceived by the Mexican Government from Mr.. Web
ster relates, not to the annulment of the Garay
grant, but to the refusal to ratify the treaty This
note without putting bett, is, according to
the Trait d. Union, strong possible and fore
shadows the attitude which the American Secretary
will take when he learns of the annulIing by leg
slave vote of the decree of President Salas, con-
hrming and extending Garays grant.
The American party, under Major Barnard, who
remained at Barrio, have made protest, through
the American Consul, against the orders they have
received to stop work the Isthmus.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-08-01
How very Hot 1t Is:

- = II s s
Did you ever know such weather 2
Seven bright burning days together;
Sweltring nights and broiling days,
Sultry moonbeams, suns hot rays;
No one knows which way to turn him,
All things either melt or burn him
Half the weight of all the nation
Is flying off in perspiration,
And every man and woman, too,
As fanguidly they look at you,
Excaims with moist and mournful phiz,
Dear me how very hot is -
Ladies all languid in muslin array,
Lol upon couches the live-long day,
Looking more lovely than we say
Though, alas! they are rapidly melting away;
g Bring my ice!' they languidly cry,
But alas and alack it is all s in my eye''-
For before it reaches the top of the stairs
It's turned into water quite s unawares,"
While John with his salver, looks red and stares,
As he wipes with his apron lis long, pale phiz,
'Oh-pooh how Internally hot 1t is u
Fat men waddle along the strand,
Wiping their foreheads-hat in hand;
Dogs hang out their tongues and pant,
And nobody gives 'em the water they want,
Until they go mad-you know, and then
They go about swapping at horses and men;
Costermongers slowly pass
With "cauty. f0tUer and sparrow grass ~
But these edibles green they cannot cry,
Their Threats so horribly hot and dry;
And you hear from each dusky phiz
''Ah me how desperate hot it is -
Oh, what treat 'twould be to wade
Chin deep in fresh iced lemonade
Or to sit a deep marble bowl within
And champagne gurgling around your chin
Kissing and sparkling around your nose,
I'LL you open your mouth and down it goes
Gulp by gulp and sup by sup,
Till you s. catawampishy chaw it up,
Refreshing your heart and cooling your faces
Burnt down they have been with all sorts of
Oh, the fellow who would thus lave his phiz,
Needn't care how warm the weather is !!
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FOR SALE or EOR RENn,

THE unexpired lease Of my ROCK SPRING BAR1A
l. ROOM is for sale. fnot sold, it will be rented fron&L
the first of October next.
FOR RENT-A dwelling house suitable for two small
families situated the of Queen and Ann
the southeastern part of the town also, small Dwelling
in Oregon in the northeast part Of the for
tor one year from the first of next October. Apply to
Aug. [47-tfl DAVID ITALY.
at the Washington and Lafayette Hotel
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nN the goth inst. and comlled to this Jail of New yN
~ Hanover county, runaway slave negro boy az
by the Of JIM about II years Of age, Of yell n
low complexion quite stout-made, and a very likely ~
boy He he belongs man in Norfolk, Va by the
of Thomas Lewis who keeps sailor boarding house,
and taken by Captain of vessel who told the hoy he
had bought him from his MASTER and Immediately left with
the boy The owner of said negro is hereby requested TO
forward property and pay all charges and take
him away, otherwise he will be dealt with the law directs
OWEN FENNELI4. shift
BY JERE- NICHOLS, Jailor
Wilmington, n. c., July 21st, 1851 att
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Coop EvERYTHING.--A writer in London pa
per, of July, l776, speaking of what he calls 1.-The
American standard having snake with thirteen
rattes and the fourteenth budding thus expatates
upon the amiable qualities of the rattesnake. Such
benevolent philosopher would find 'good in every
thing ="
The rattlesnake is properly the representative of
America as this animal is found in no other part of
the world The eye of this creature excels in bright
ness almost that of any other animal She has no
eyelids, and is therefore emblem Ct vigilance
She never begins attack, and never surrenders !;
she is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true
courage. When injured, OF in danger of being in
iured, she never wounds until she has given notice
to her enemies of their danger. No other of her
kind shows such generosity. When undisturbed,
and in peace, she does not appear to be furnished
with weapons of any kind They latent in the
roof of her mouth, and even when extended for her
defence appear to those who not acquainted with
her to be weak and contemptible yet her wounds,
however small. are decisive and fatal Sheis solita-
ry and associates with her kind only when it Is ne
cessary for their preservation Her poison is at once
the necessary of digesting her food and GER
tain destruction to her enemies. The power OF tas-
cination attributed to her, by generous construe-
ton, resembles America. Those who look steadily
upon her are heightened and involuntarly advance
towards her, and. having approached, never
leave her She is frequently found with thirteen
rattles. and they increase yearly She is beautiful
in youth, and her beauty increases with her age
Her tongue is blue and forked as the lightning 2
Boston Post.
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COX REWARD.-Runaway from the subscriber, IA
ao-C about the Sth of July, muatto fellow NAM ~
ed WINDSOR about 35 years old lie is about five n
feet eleven inches high, full bushy hair rather slow
spoken and rather spare built his front teeth slightly decay
ed and probably both of his eye teeth out. Said
gro Cooper by trade, and will attempt pass as free
and may probably have free papers, he has Ea he
any where He is little nkey about the eyes, and
has old appearance The subscriber will give the above
reward for his apprehension and delivery him. in Conway
boro e, confinement in any Jail in North Carolina,
that he get him. Said negro belongs James NJ
Bell, of Greenvlle, n. c., of whom hired him.
August 1st 1851. S. BELL.
Fayetteville Observer IT, send bill to this Office
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Col. BEvr1N'S New WoRK.-The New York Mirror says
inc Mess!s Appleton have concluded arrangement with
Ex-senator Benton for the publication of the political work
n which he engaged in his retirement 1t will form
single volume of about 300 pages octave and although in
M main compilation selections from the speeches ofhe
during the senatorial debates for the last thirty year
we understand, furnish complete resume of the pot-
history OF the country during that time and include
@ sSriety of matters derived from the personal
% Tot Benton with the democratic administrations and
organizations of the same era and the experience
"'r TI ne has derived from his public life.
ate of e Of the work will be- Thirty Years ia the Sem
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-08-01

NoTE.-River Lumber, Tar, and Turpentine always
sold in the WATER and subject to the expense of landing
Inspection cooperage, &c. Lumber so 81 per
NJ Tar and Turpenne about 10 cents per barrel *For dry
Virgin mixed Turpentine deduction is according
to quality.
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aSThe Diploma of the Massachusetts Institute awarded
to Ags Cherry Peetora by Prof Webster when Chairman
of their Committee on Chemicals is exhibition at the
College this city, 1t is set with the medallion
the three great Institutes of Art in this country
and Gold Medal of the Medical Institute at Naples
Surely this discovery has received the hono of the great
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FOR SALE.

THE subscriber offers for sale the following tracts Of IN
l. land lying at Lockwoods Folly, in Brunswick coun- T
ty, only % miles from Wilmington. The property will be
sold in lots TO suit purchasers:
400 Of Turpentine and Corn land lying Lock
woods Folly River, and having excellent grst mill
400 only 10 miles from Smithvlc Also,
lot containing acres, and lying within few hundred
yards of ockwoods Folly Bridge the Georgetown
desirable site for country store.
Persons DESTROYS Of purchasing can make application in
Wilmington, to w. Il. Rourk, Or on the premises tn
u. w. ROURK.
Brunswick Co, Aug. ], 81. Aft
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DIED.

DIED.
On Merrick's Creek, New Hanover County on the 2ist
ins of consumption. Miss E1fzAyET DEfL, in the 27tk
year of her age.
IN this town, the 18th ult FRANCIS Asx daughter of
Andrew and Isabella McCEvIS, aged years ard months
At the residence of MIR THoMas WILLIAMS, about miles
from Wilmington Sunday last his daughter sAEAn aged
about years
oad 80 20 - NJ" AZ NJ -. ap ~ ,i'9
Rt Rev WILLIAM NJ. GREEN, d. d., Bishop OF the Diocese
of Mississippi.
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EpitaPhs'

Here lies buried beneath these stones
The beard, the flesh, and the bones
OF the Parish Clerk-Old David Jones.
Here lies | at the chancel door,
Here lies because rs poor;
The further in, the more to pay,
But here lies as warm as they.
My wife is dead and here she lies,
Nobody laughs, nor nobody cries;
Where she is gone how she fares
Nobody knows nor nobody cares.
Here lies the body of William Dent,
Death turned up his heels, and away he went.
Him shall never come again to We,
But shall surely one day go to he.
Too much blood a vein did bust,
And stretched Tom Tucker down in the dust.
Here lies the body of Betty Rowden,
Who would of lived longer but she couldn't,
Sorrow and grief made her decay,
Uatil her bad leg carried her away.
Here lies Dick and here lies he,
elu-jar-Hallelu-ge
Here lies my wife, and heaven knows,
no less for mine than her repose.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-08-01

" Mother, don't you wish you had the tree of evil
in your garden g Why, Josh, You sarpent, what do
you mean 2"
!. As moneys the root of evil if we had the tree
couldn't we get the precions stuff 2! =
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THE CHlED.

A TREATISE on the Diagnosis and treatment of The
"A DISEASES OF CHILDREN. according to the simple
laws of nature without Medicemcnts and upon BIRTH
nursing, and education of children well the
quen diseases from their infancy the period pube
tyiiusrated for the by description of
gathered during practice p years The book
can be procured by application to
J. T. SCHONWALD, DIR. NJ.
Wilmington, N. c., August l, 1851.
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SCHOOL ExERcIsEs.--Q. Who was the first man
A. The who looked out for No. l.
G. Right Who was the oldest man
A. Old Parr after him Old Grimes and Joice Heth
@. Correct. Who was the wisest man
A. Robinson
@. Which Robinson Not Jack
A. No. Robinson who went digging gold with
Phillips.
@. True Who went into the lions den
A. Herr Driesbach.
@. Right. How many were fed by the loaves and
fishes
A. Fifteen, besides the cook and skipper.
Teacher. Very correct, Go to the head.
LUDIcRoUs MIsTAKE.-A gentleman accustomed
to the signature of the firm in which he part
ner, having to sign baptismal register of of his
children, entered as the of Smith, Jones & CO.
The following is aunt Betsy's description of her
milkman -
. He is the meanest man in the world y she ex-
claimed. He skins his milk the top, and then
he turns it over and skins the Sides and then he
divides it into ten parts, carefully skimnng each
part
chap down East has invented machine to
make pumpkin pies 1t is driven by the force of cir
cumstances.
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The Gardiner Ciaim.-Frandulency of other Mexl-


A letter has been received in Washington saws a
correspondent of the New York Express by gentle
man, bearing date San Francisco, June 18th of which
the following is extract:
81 have examind the lists of awards and not fin
ding my among the fortunate feel much disap-
pointed, especially when see some of our old
acquaintances standing opposite to thousands
and hundreds of thousands, who had scarcely sha-
dow of claim.
"Yes, some not eUen shadow of claim, and ]
think should know a little about the matter That
of 1921 900 was poor devil like his partner. He
had, as UeH his partners, abandoned their mine be-
fore the 1Uaracere not banished-nor the mine confs
Gated. 1t was worth nothing, as had myself the
ore assayed. Mr.. Halsey, of the shareholders,
with Mr.. G. A. Gardiner and who is here, tells me
he has no idea where he raked up claim. l could
point you out others by the dozen of the same kind
and it appears to that there has been great in
justice done very, Uery uery many"
Something wrong Mr. r.. somewhere. l will
not say any thing of my own claim. You can Judge
of that. But there is Mr.. BIS claim-why has it
not been granted when honest man dare say that
it is not of the most just claims on the docket
and signed by most respectable gentleman from
Pennsylvania: an NJ D. by profession, who also
worked mine in Mexico, and was before the late
board as claimant for expulsion and consequent
damages named'
The Baltimore Sun says that copy of this letter
has been shown to the President and it is supposed he
will supona the parties here
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of August, for p.,~-lst and .n,,t.. cords %
patrons the favorable notice of William
shall remain in town for short Time and tho:e who prefer
to settle With personally do by calling my Office
in the London House. of Market and Front streets
August LIST. 47-2t] BARTON MUNSEY, NJ. d.
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D ECElVED Schr. FIiclia, direct from the Manu-
IL factory at Philadelphia, 25 dozen UMBRELLAS en-
fH"'"r great variety, and will be sold low the cash
a'i #.' .'.i G.. MYERS, Halter.
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MARRIED.

In Greensboro Georgia. the 23d ult., Mr. JoHN X.
Dix of Wilmington, n. c., TO Miss SARAH E. MARTIN,
daughter of RoBERr E. MARTIN Esq the former place.
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Commercial.

FAYETTEVILLE, July 29-Peaeh Brandy, so CSC. s1rfe
10 45e Beeswax 2Oa % Bacon l2l ID Cotton 6t
CORN w "; Coffee, 10 ii Flour, 81 Lime. 25
40 Il 45c. -
Turpentine, Virgin dip 81 20 to So IS; yellow 81 e5
Hard 81; Rosin NO. 8 76c. Spirits 25e.
BAIrMoRE, July 80 Flour 81 l2a 81 10y Corn NEAL
= o1h 81 81 Rye -four So 80 Wheat IS soc. Corn
Go 53c. Rye, Csc. Oats, 81 Acc. aRio Coffee. 81 Sc
Mess pork SIS so prime sl4 So Bacon, to IL cts
Lard, 94c. Whiskey, "a 2lc
NEwBERN, July 26th.-NAvAL SToKEs.--Turpcntine 81
% to 81 80 Meal so to 9Oc Bacon l2sc.
PHILADELPHIA, July 29-FIour 81 Is s425 Corn mcaf
81 S74. Rye flour, So 37k. Wheat 81 81 o. Rye re
Corn. 50 Gle Oats 40 4lc Ness pork SIS g. prime,
Whiskey 2St "a per gallon.
Cotton quiet with sales 10 bales at l rates
New YoEk, July 39-Flour, 81 O6 81 l2a. Corn meal
So 90 Wheat Gle to 81 OIL. Corn, 81 a 6Gc. Oats,
a 45e. Rye, re Mess Pork, Sl4 I2a 81 25 Lard
s. a &c Rio coffee, &c. Rice, 81 3ac Whiskey, 25c
tton is more active; sales of 5000 bales at Sac
Naval SroREs-Turpentne So. Spirits 81 to 25c Ros-
in 81 20 to 81. Tar 81 8Il 81 S7a.
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chap down East has invented machine to
make pumpkin pies 1t is driven by the force of cir
cumStances
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The 0a,yllu,r t,.a,,,,.

The New Orleans Crescent is pretty severe apau
the commissioners far allowing the Gardiner claim.
1t goes into an examination Of tho circumstances,
and argues that it was utterly impossible that Gar.
diner could have become the owner ofthe immense
mine, the disturbance of the operations in which
constitute the chief basis of the claim II say that
Gen. Waddy Thompson, who was the counsel of
Gardiner, who had " often used him through his me-
cesstes in no very honorable services at SIS the lob
knew the difficulty ofhis becoming the owner of such
property and well knew the jaletty of the claim.
and further it says that the Mexican Commissioner
knew the claim to be fraudulent and baseless As
the claim has been recovered it will be hard mat
ter to get back the funds even if it is proved to be
fraudulent As it involves very large sum, out of
which several persons have taken slice there will
be some hard swearing to keep the matter and the
money just where tits. Without knowing any thing
of the case, and without presuming to express any
opinion about it, We may say that frauds and corrup
tons in public affairs to be expected in govern
ment prosperous ours is. AS political blessings
showered upon people thepublic vices increase
and public virtue declines Opportunities for rogues
and rascas in high places topunder are multiplied
and they never fail to make them available
Richmond Despoteh