Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-08-15
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
Summary of the News.


The elections are over, and although one cause of
heat 10 removed, the thermometer is as high as ever
We have no change to chronicle. This State, in
which all the recent elections have shown that par
ties are closely balanced, with slight but certain
Democratic prsponderance on the popular vote has
chosen six Feds to three Democrats, owing to the
iniouitous gerrymander Of '46. That ldW ought to
hare been repealed.
= That SrASLY should have been elected has taken
everybody by surprise and more especially is it sim
guar that he should have received an increased ma
iurity in Washington county, where all the leading
Wings are against him. 1t has doubtless been eff
(ccted by exciting the poorer class who do not hold
slaves against the leading men who do; Mr. STAN
LY setting himself up the champion OF the nom
slaveholdng interest. Mr.. COLLINS used to have
vast influence in that county, but it has been
broken down by representing him an aristocrat
Funny that. from the old Federal party-isn't 1t Z!
In a casual conversation with one OF our mcm-
bers in the last General Assembly. we remember
his mentioning the Indignation manifested by the
Wing members and Senators from the lower part
of the Eighth District when talking of MIR. STAN
LYs course in the last Congress. Some OF them
went so far as to say that he could not be elected
in his own county--nO not even to a constable S
Office But what change has come over the spirit
of their dream No doubt the very same men ex-
erted their whole strength for him when the trial
came RrFrIx however, got the full strength of his
party and sustained himself nobly. On the Wings
alone must rest the reproach of SrANLY's election
The elections in other States are chequered but
the result; if calmly viewed tells a uniform story
That story is that the Democratic party has made {"
uniform gain whenever it has gone into the contest
under its old colors and fought i'll behalf of the old
issues without erecting any new platform or making
any single question a shbboleth. No one idea par
ty can exert any permanent influence in the United
States. Union" or Secession" parties as such,
must necessarily be transient in their character and
cyanescent in their influence. The good old States
Rights Democratic party is the party for us. 1t up
holds the constitution--that is what we want. 1t
restricts the general government to its expressly del
cgated powcrs--th is all We want and, moreover.
it teaches us that the States sovereign and hold
in their own hands the means of redress in the last
crtremHy-Me. final resort.
CuBA.--Wcll, Cuba is decidedly bore consdc-
rablc of a humbug there is no Cuban news-posl-
lively not q word--dull as ditch water. We'll get
Cuba sometime soon, but it is too hot now The next
Presidential election will be warm enough without
that What right has the President to send the U
s. Navy to intercept Cuban sympathiscrs? None
that we know Of and yet he does it. The act of
1918 forbds the fitting up of armed expeditions
within the United States Territories to operate
against friendly powers but this law only operates
within the United States and Territories, and three
miles from the coast certainly not on the high seas
Wilmington is getting to be quite place, fit be
not so already Handsome houses and fine stores
are going up in all quarters, and of character wor
thy rather of the large cities Of the North, than Of
the former reputation of = Old Rip We will make
u list at an carly date of the houses put up since
have resided here, about two years and half
1t would be enough to make several county seats
Agriculture and stock raising is also progressing
On fiat at Market street wharf; we last week saw
youthful sheep, of the masculine gender, which
Mr. METrS bad imported from Western Pennsylya
mia, at Il considerable expense, for the improvement
Of his stock. 1t was its way to his plantation il
Brunswick Co. He was a most noble fellow, ant
though decidedly sheepish, looked good enough t.
cat.
Dec IOlente, the venerabc,n Starteth hi
winding way" to parts unknown, on this day an
year of our Lord, August the 18th, one thousan
eight hundred and ffty-one. He hopes that onion
may be plenty, that some 6 natural tears" may b
shed for his departure from the scenes of his labor
we wish that we could add reward, but we cannot
for the unfortunate rcioiccth in empty pocket
and single wrctchedncss Yea, verify Seriously, tn
Editor will be absent for two weeks, and any contrC
vcrses in which he may have been engaged with hi
cotcmporarics, will be suspended until his return
GOV. McDoNALDs letter is given in full. We Ca
attention to it.
There arc any number of valuable selections
this weeks paper, to all of which call attention