Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-02-14


Congress is working along and perhaps maturing
business, but not disposing of much so far. The
cheap postage bill his not yet been acted on in the
Senate, although the committee to which the House
Bill was referred has reported the bill with amend
ments. Something may be done this week. stren-
effort is being made in favor of the Ebony line to
the coast OF Africa is to be hoped that it will not
succeed 1t and kindred expensive projects are re-
sorted to as indirect of getting at higher du-
ties by swelling the expenditures. A considerable
portion of two days last week was consumed in the
Senate in a discussion to whether Senator ap-
pointed by the Governor of State to fill vacancy,
should hold his seat until the meeting of the Legis
lature, by which successor is to be appointed or
until the Legislature has actually made such ap-
pointment, until the successor has actually ap-
peared and taken the oath. The Judiciary commit
tee to which the whole subject was referred report
ed that in the opinion of the Committee, Senator
appointed by the Governor of State to fill vacan-
cy in the Senate, entitled to hold his seat until
the successor was appointed and was qualified
The question arose in the of Mr.. Winthrop, APP
pointed by the Governor of Massachusetts, in place
OF Mr.. Webster, to whom, the Legislature of that
State has elected successor but who has not come
forward The successor is MIR. Rantoul, who will
not accept of the three weeks term, which the in
famous coalition had rendered him. The Senate
had made some progress with the House Bill making
land warrants transferable before the issue of the
patent. 1t postponed without final action: In
the House, many and strenuous efforts have been
made for the establishment of Branch Mint in N
York, with view to the ultimate removal of the
Mint from Philadelphia to that City. All such at
tempts have so far been defeated. The South,
general rule is apt to take sides with the Penn
sylvania interest than with that of New York, from
the fact that Pennsylvania has always been more
sound upon the sectional questions which have divi-
ded parties throughout the Union and because it is
beginning to be felt that the concentration of every
thing in New York, tends to build up commercial
dcspotsm in that city, which is dangerous to the
equality of the Union, and at the expense of other
cities and States. The Chairman of the committee
of Ways and Means has in vain endeavored tc get
the appropriation bills taken up and disposed Of
The House has been occupied in matters compare
lively tring, having spent days in committee oft
whole upon a bill to create Board of accounts
which has not yet been finally acted upon. 1t is
pretty certain that not one half of the projects be-
fore Congress be acted upon in the brief space
that remains and it is equally certain that many of
projects WHICH, pass VIII OO 81 "0 sA0 sSAJ
close of the session, and in tumultuous manner
The tarifites will make one more grand rally for
dear life, but will be defeated and finally and ire
trievably. Some attempts will be made to arrange
the currency to prevent the expectation OF sill
ver and the consequent scarcity of small change but
it is not likely that any efficient project measure
will be matured amid the noise and confusion which
characterize the closing of the short session.
G~rSHH
silver cannot long continue, and indeed, even now
is only speculative, it being stated upon good autho-
rty that the increased production of silver last year,
from the Mexican and other mines, has kept pace
with that of gold from California and the production
of neither is sufficient to deprecate the currency 1t
is probable that hundred millions of dollars
added to the circulating medium of the world in
1851, would not have much effect ten millions
would have had century ago; the area of trade
and civilization has increased largely and the in
tercourse of which gold silver is the medium, has
been greatly multiplied. The population of the
great commercial nations is three, four or FIVE times
as numerous as it was in 1750--new communities
have obtained place in the republic of commerce,
and new and extensive branches of trade have sprung
up among others, that in the great staple cotton
and the infinite variety of fabrics into which it is
converted. We think there Is no well grounded fear
of depreciation of the currency from any influx of
the precious metals, their production does not pro-
gress in the same ratio with that of the objects of
property of which they guage.
The slavery question is now and then alluded to,
when Mr.. Hale or Mr.. Seward introduces some abo-
lition petition, which is quietly laid the table and
never heard of. Giddings and his compeers in the
House cannot make showing. The census will
soon be out in full, and will know all about it..
1t is calculated that under the new apportionment
the South will lose about six members which will
go to the new States of the Northwest. North Caro-
lima will lose one member
Costume the Isthmus.
Godeys Lady's Book is publi-hing the Costumes
of all Nations" Among those which have not been
noticed by Cooley is the following, which we find
thus described by San Francisco correspondent of