Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-12-26
n0rThe present session of Congress promises to be

to revive the sectional SquaDDIe out tHey VIII DE
mostly unsuccessful, will also be the anticipated
effort for change in tariff and revenue laws
The oyerfowng state of the public Treasury is omi-
nous of all sorts of extravaganza, and nnumerable
schemes will, doubt be put foot for relieving
the plethora of Uncle Sans pockets by transferring
the contents to those of private SPECTATORS. Some
Of these may be successful. bill for Mint in
California has already passed the Senate. We pre-
sumo it will pass the House. 1t may perhaps be
good move, though we question much if the Navy
Yard and Mint at San Francisco do not cost consde-
rably more than they come to. New York will also
push for Mint, and the Pennsylvania influence,
backed to extent by the South will oppose it,
perhaps successfully. All manner of steamship lines
from New York to all imaginable places will be
asking assistance from Congress. By the way, New
York receives all the assistance in that way We
know of other port that gets any, worth mention
ing No doubt most vehement effort will be made
to obtain appropriations for various schemes of
internal improvement, most of which will fail
The public lands are the grand capital of cleo
tioneering at the West, and we should not be sur
prised if attempts made to appropriate the
most of them for the purpose of constructing inter-
nal Improvements in the States in which they
located. We fear that the time is rapidly approach
ing. when the national patrimony will be squander
ed away. without producing any effect beyond the
decentralization of those who receive it without due
equivalent. The large democratic ma jority may
strain these things but with overlooking treasu-
ry, there is always danger of extravaganza and cor
ruption.
- D1rTherc is no satisfying the Observer about the
caucusses Of course, it will discover something to
find fault with, and we would not, if we could de-
prive it Of so necessary of enjoyment. We
think the public understand fully this and
compromise matter Every body knows that the
Georgia platform became that of the majority of the
Southern States The resolutions of the Georgia
convention expressed acquiescence in the comprc
mise. upon the ground that under all the circum-
stances the State could accept it consistently with
her honor, not because it met her cordial approval
Such, we believe, the farthcst that any South
ern State went upon the compromise. It acquiesced
in but did not cordially approve. The resolution
introduced in the Democratic caucus by Mr.. Polk
expressed cordial approval. Not member of the
caucus desired or expressed desire to disturb the
compromise but many of them had voted against
it. AMI while they regarded it as final could not still
be inconsistent to say that they cordially ap
proved measures, some of which they had resisted.
they in such n desperate strait their OPP
ponents, who, having other chance, jumped upon
the compromise incontinenty, after having opposed
all in it of any value at the time when opposition or
support really meant something. But the thing is
so glaring that even the neutral press is speak
ing out against this humbug compromise test, wit
the Baltimore Sun, quoted in this paper Of the
18th.
The Wilmington Journal is very fond of telling
its benghted readers that the wing party is bro-
ken up dead and buried We doubt not that
many of it's readers believe it, however little the ed
itOr himself does. II the Journal would tell them
that Gen. Jackson is to be the democratic candidate
for the next Presidency, they would doubtless be
equally credulous.-FayctterWe Observer 18th INST.
There's precious piece for you, isn't it? Just
read it over once moro and admire it. Contemplate
the respectful of its reference to the majority
of the people of the Seventh District, whom are
happy to class among our benighted readers" 1t
is purely democratic and republican, is it not? Out
upon such miserable arrogance and insulting Fede-
ralism that which prompted the characteristic
paragraph we have quoted from the Observer. We
arc, Heaven knows, no demagogue, and would scorr
to appeal to social preudices or endeavor to make
capital by mixing them up with political parties Oh
questions, but much of this cool contempt
this personal sneering at the great body of the de
mocratic people, in the columns of the so-callet
wing press, that little we disposed to appl,
unweleome titles to persons or parties we are con
strained to believe and call such presses Federals
and Tory in the extreme. If the great body of gu
readers place confidence in statements, and W
proud to believe that they do. it is because the
have found in determination to state matter
fairly and faithfully and to the best of our knowl
edge; and to make assertion without eertaint
of being borne out by the circumstances ant results
1t is about time that of all parties shoul
sternly rebuke such sneerng, both open and cover
ut fully one half of their fellow citizens Many
our readers are whigs-in the town of Wilmington
about one-haf-and know that they, equal
with the members of our party, will coincid
with US in the opinions we have here expressed.
na~We like that idea from western paper, abor
Hacking the noses of delinquent newspaper sui
scribers although we are afraid that it might int
fere somewhat with the physical beauty of good
number of our patrons Walk up to the Captain
Office, gentlemen, and settle your tickets. and yor
noses shan't be blacked. The first of January is
hand, and oh. how we want money
From Havana.
The steamship Isabel arrived at Charleston,
Thursday morning from Havana which port 81
left on the 18th inst. Judge Sharkey, the rev
$. Consul arrived at Havana, on the 10Th in tt
steamship Philadelphia. Mr.. Owens the late Co
sui, came passenger in the Isabel. There is a
of inn he kets