Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-10-17
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
Summary of the Week.

tualIy threaten TO make upon the United States
and whip her into submission. Certainly modest
proposition, and one to which the United States can
have very little objection and that little has only
reference to the submission part of it, which must
come from the other side of the house. However in
n conflict between Spain and the United States, the
ends of war would be fully answered. Somebody
would be most confoundedly whipped. Tt would al
solve the Flibustero controversy at once and give
us Cuba and Porto Rico, together with any other
Spanish possessions in the West Indies we might be
able to hunt up or care to take The article which
we publish from the London Leader gives anus
ing extracts on this subject from the Heraldo of Ma
drd, the Spanish official Journal Don Quixote for
ever, say we. The Dons
We have talked with gentlemen who resided in
South Carolina during the days of notification, and
who reside there STILL and they assure that in many
of the Districts the excitement is much more in
tense now than it was then. In Marion District it
has assumed more the character of personal feud
than political contest and this state of things may
in some measure be attributed to the fact that the
real main issue is already decided for we may rest
fully assured that whether the returns show a small
majority for against the seperate secession candi
dates, the result will be the same The important
and decisive step of secession will not be taken with
out perfect union among the people of that
State. Indeed, it has been admitted on all hands,
even by those who go as far as Mr.. Rhett himself
that without uniformity of sentiment closely
Approximatng to unanimity, secession would be i'm
possible. Circumstances have shown that such una
nimity does not exist and hence remark that the
main issue is already decided, and before the
election came off.
(.'To be weak is miserable says the devil-in
Millions Paradise Lost-and we perfectly agree with
the devil aforesaid especially in regard to weakness
in the region of the pocket, of which we speak
feelngly. AS for the head that is matter of minor
consideration, unless when combined with the other
more dangerous form of the disease, when it may
tend to aggravate the symptoms. The last heart we
have seen or heard Of that of sheep, some
other quadrupedal gentleman, which heart was for
sale in the market house. Not having eaten any of
it we cannot say whether the defunct deyourer Of
grass tender hearted or not. y
NIB. We have put the paragraph Immediately
preceding in parenthesis, to show that it has me-
cessary connexion with the news of the week, and
may be passed over without losing the thread of the
discourse It's simply little bit of sentiment which
we have INDUCED in on our own hook: We wax ro-
mantle at times ana II must come out.
Some French novelist commences of his tales,
in the gloomy month of November when English
men hang and drown themselves and the French
man was half right, for if they don't, they certainly
ought to. There is sort Of weather which is per-
fectly Suicidal and if it does not quite justify the
act certainly makes it venia Every body has heard
the story of the Scotch balie who being informed
that brother balie had committed suicide, gravely
enquired ''wha on ~ The present blowing and
clustering weather makes US feel inclined to commit
suicide after the BALES notion, if we only knew wha
ON If we had chance, would like to kill time
in some more pleasant manner than seated in this
leather bottomed arm chair, writing something very
like nonsense crbbed the chair not the nonsense from
neighbor H L. Holmes, Esq, but we belong to the
press-gang and must fulfil our destiny. FIVE could
get Aladins lamp what pretty little haul we would
make. We used to believe that story, and we guess
our readers did too We all knoar better now, but
none Of US feel half so we'll. Day by day from our
childhood up some illusion of hope vanishes, some
dream of the Imagination fades away, until the last
cold lesson of experience comes in the shape of death
and lays us IN the silent and forgotten tomb, where
all that had made life valuable had preceded us.
We have to record another signal conversion from
nets Nest" hath perpetrated matrimony-he has en-
tered into the United State of wedIock. May he b
happy and his union prove fruitful as that of tn
old thirteen. Badger is Benedict-a sober mar
ried man. So mote it be-
The panic pressure in the money market at tn
North is about over 1t had no real cause, but eve
for the short time it lasted, the injury was yer
great The foreign trade of the country this yea
has been enormous-the imports and exports hav
each exceeded 5000, 100000 We include Californi
gold among the EXPORTS since gold is as legitimate
the crop of California, cotton is of South Carol
ma. IT. in connection with this, we take the in
mense carrying trade of the United States which
greater than Great Britain, we will be enable
to form some estimate of how rapidly this country
advancing to the position of the first commercial nj
tion of the world.
The news from Pennsylvania and South Carolir
is satisfactory in the highest degree South Carol
will not weaken the cause of the South by seve
ing her destinies from those of her sister States;
will Pennsylvania tolerate such an abolitionst
drel aud demag ogue Johnston. We thought TIL
we knew the people of Pennsylvania, and we we
not deceived East of that we cannot speak, at lea
not farther than New Jersey-that State we know
be sound. Immediate separate secession is
dead door nail in South Carolina Johnstonis
and Sewardism are perfectly showed under in Pen
sylvania. All right so far.
We publish communication of some length fro
our friend and correspondent, A. O. g. of Dupli