Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-09-26

To CORRESPONDENTS Owing the indisposition the
Associate Editor have been unable the IA
of corepon nts of which have several hand
We ask their forbcarae until week, when all shall
ceivc proper attention.
Summary of the Week.
Apologies for the omission to do any thing, do not
do it, no matter how satisfactory such apologies may
be- nor how imperative the causes which necesstated
the omission We, therefore. seldom never indulge
in them at present, however, we will devate from
our rule in order to request the forbearance of
readers for a short time. A severe attack of sick
ness has confined our associate to his for the
last few days. and indeed, incapaciated him for bu
sness for more than week Those who know Mr.
PRcE. are aware that nothing short ofpositive phys
ical inability could prevent his being up and do
ing" as he hopes to be shortly. In the mean time
an unusual amount Of the business of the Office de-
wolves upon the editor; and it may be- that in the
multiplicity of it, some departments may be neg
lccted, or not as we'll attended to could
wish If such should be the case. do not ask it
to be excused for in matters of business, there is
no such word: but we do ask that the omission or
neglect should lie set down to the proper cause, and
not to yilful negligence inattcntion.
Nine days is the time usually asst gned for the du-
produces some prominent topic of discussion. At
present however, the times arc out Of joint Since
the death and burial of the Cuban excitement. and
the full knowledge of the details of the Christana
outrage, we are really ut loss to know what nine
days wonder is uppermost, whether there is any.
To be sure it is said. the authority of London
paper. that Spain is going to sell Cuba to the United
States but this we look upon as reTy probIematical
indeed. Besides, even supposing Spain willing, the
heads of the present administration are not the men
negotiate for the purchase and admission of new
slave State. The known antipathy and opposition Of
MesSrs. Fillmore and Webster to the admission of
Texas, when the measure of annexation consum-
mated, show concluSiyely what their course would
be in regard to Cuba. But even s"pposing that this
opposition to Cuba a slave State might not infu-
the administration personally. they would still
be afraid of introducing bone of contention
between the north and the South soon after the
partial subsistence of the great excitement of 1850
for every body knows that the South would urge and
the North oppose the acquisition of Cuba. and that
the would be strictly sectional in its charac
ter Still Cuba could be got in by union of the
commercial interest Of the North with the whole
South.
We think that the issues in the late election for
members of the State Convention in Mississippi,
are not we'll understood here. The Convention was
called at the suggestion of Gov. Quitman and was
to decide whether Mississippi should acquiesce in
the compromise or resist it. This precisely the
point. Had a majority of the secession delegates
been elected to the Convention members would have
chosen to cooperate with South Carolina in South
ern Congress. The mere abstract right of secession
az understood in North Carolina was not the main
point at issue That point acqticscence resiS-
tance. Gov. Quitmans letter shows that.
We publish piece on - Gov. Johnston, of Penn
sylyana from the Petersburg Intelligcnccr, the ed
itor of which paper, although strong wing, talk:
right mp and down upon the subject. lie cannot
fraternise with the wings of Pennsylvania, de-
fend them although the Fayetteville Observer can
We believe our whig friends hcrcaway will agree
with their brother wing of the Intelligcncer.
The whole amount of subscription necessary To-
the reconstruction of the Raleigh and Castor rail
road has been taken. and Mr. Mordccai, of Raleigh
appointed President; and MIR Bird, of Petersburg
general superintendent We have not the antag 90
nism to this work, to the city Of Raleigh tina
some folks might think but, in truth, have live
in North Carolina. and expect to die in it, and W
ashamed to sec her in everything made subsel
Went to her sisters the North and on the Soutl
who repay such subservicncy by undisguised sneer
Now, in business point of view the appointment
MIR. Bird may be very good appointment: but fl
State work-a work of which the State has bee
whole owner, and in which she has sunk over mi
lion of dollars. to be put openly under the contr
of the President of the Petersburg railroad compan
is certainly not calculated to build up State prd
or State character. A gentleman told us the 9th
day, that he actually met up recently with boo
which placed the Cape Fear River in South Caro-
and the Roanoke in Virginia.
How circumstances alter cases. Our fricnd-eve
bodys friend "Ruskns, in writing some capital le
tiers from Yankecdom to neighbour the editor of Il
Herald payfulIy caeth him . Homely Looking"
'Musty,' which cpithets the said editor rcpudate
in his paper of Wednesday, with warmth there
showing that he is a kourting karacter,'' and like
not to be thought & homely looking or musty
Now for the per contra although, with the except
of Gales, of the Register, the youngest edit
in the State. having been ushered into this breathe
world during the summer of '25, VIC already reioi
in the sobrIquet of the venerable. and don't Ca
a dried appe--peeling whether people think
26 or GO, having resolved on celibacy. and determ
ed some time other to enter Il nunnery with ht
intentions @. C. d., quantum suf:, pl,ribus anu
eli cetcrd.
Beg~We have got Cooley for October, and loci
at the pictures, which very fine indeed. Thu
are two fine steel engravings, one of them handson