Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-06-06

ference from abroad. What has Mr.. Stanly the
other persons at Raleigh and Washington City, who
are making themselves so very busy In attempting
to dictate to and control the people of this District
to do with elections Are not the people of
these mountains freemen Z? Are they so ignorant
and stupid that they cannot decide for whom they
shall vote without the assistance of these gentlemen
from abroad We believe they are entirely compe
tent to manage their affairs, and satisfied
that this unwarrantable and dangerous interference
with the freedom of the elective franchise will be
indignantly rebuked by the independent voters of
this District. When we feel that are the slaves
of the central clique, and know that we cannot get
along in elections without the precious advice
and assistance of Mr.. Edward Stanly and the iunto
to which he belongs, perhaps we may send on an
der for cargo of their pamphlets and documents, in
order that we may know how to vote.AShrtNe NelrS.
Canada IN England.
The Canadian Legislature, having obtained
act OF parliament enabling them to diminish the
laries of their officials. became DESTROYS to fix sala-
ries at still lower scale, and have written to Lord
Grey upon the subject Lord Grey, in his reply da-
ted March IA, although disappearing the reduction
of salaries states that the Government after mature
consideration, is willing to place the civil list Who'll
ly at the disposal of the Canadian Parliament; that
the salary of the Governor is to be betrayed out of the
imperial treasury, and that by way of equivalent for
these CONCESSIONS since Canada Tin Lord Grey opin
ion) possesses, in the most ample and complete
manner in which it is possible she should enjoy it,
the advantage Of self government in all that relates
to her internal affairs the troops maintained in Can
ada should be confined to the garrisons of two
three posts of Importance, probably only Quebec and
Kingston.
Lord Grey reminds the people of Canada (and the
London Times thinks with {" great iustce'') that
1.-THE advantages of self government ought to be ac-
companied by corresponding responsibilities that it
is only due to the people of gland that they should
now be relieved from portion of the charge which
has hitherto been imposed upon them for the pro-
lection of colony now able to do much towards
Ofaa+S,,1 St-ole that H., L.
former colonial policy of this country that the
American and West Indian colonies not merely pro-
tected themselves, but gave valuable military assis-
lance to the mother country in her with France
and that this policy would have been introduced at
earlier period but for depression which the change
from protection to free trade brought upon Canadian
interess.'
These are rather severe hits at the royal Canadi-
ans. but his LOrdship them that measures TO
which he refers not adopted under any idea that
the connection between England and Canadian colony
can be dissolved without in Jury to both, that there
is any probability Of such event. 'On the con-
trary" he says these measures regarded
SAFE because her ma jestys Government persua-
ded that the great benefits they enjoy from the sys
tenn of constitutional government now happily esta-
blished in the province under the authority of the
British Crown tn at it may properly be left to take
their share of the burden of maintaining and defen
ding order OF things from which they may reap so
much advantage Richmond Republican,
tic OF War.
It is very difficult to credit or adequately conceive
even the well-attesed statistics of war. When such
philosopher Dick, such statesman Burke,
brings before his estimate of the havoc which this
custom has made of human life in all past time, it
seems utterly Observation-Disclosures uncomfortable and
still more are staggered by the formidable array
of figures employed to denote the total ofmoncy
squandered on human butchery.
Baron Won Reden-perhaps the ablest statistcian
of the age-ellS in recent work of his that the
continent of Europe alone has full four millions
Of men under arms-more than half its population
between the ages of twenty and thirty and that
the support OF these immense preparations for war,
together with the interest and cost of collection and
disbursement the aggregate of its debts,
amounts to more than thousand millions of dol
lars year Let any man try to form an adequate
conception of what is meant by either of these sums,
and he will give up the effort in despair.
The Baron estimates the war debts resting
the States of Europe at $7,4lS,000. How shall we
realize what this enormous sum means -! Sfall we
count At the rate of $50 a minute, ten hours
every day. for three hundred days in year. it would
take more than eight hundred years barely to count
the present war debt of Europe alone.
Let us look for moment at what England vast
ed for from the revolution in 1858 to the down
fall C Napoleon in 1915 The sum total, besides all
that she spent upon her system in the intervals
of peace was So l500000O0 and if We add the
interest on her debts contracted in that period
the grand total will reach nearly $4,000, 100000!
At $50 minute, for ten hours in day, or $4,000
day and 300 days in year, it would require more
than 1914 years to count it all. Add average of
S800 900 year for the current expense of her
war establishment since 1915, aggregate of So
800 0O000 in these thirty-fve years, and have
sum total of nearly turenty thousand millions! No
wonder that the Old World is reeling and stagger-
ing under the burden of such expenditures
for purposes.
Twenty thousand millions of dollars 1t is nearly
thirty times as much as all the coin now supposed
to be in the world and if these $4,000, 600 900
were all in silver dollars. and placed in rows thew
would belt the globe than 160 times.
RICH Men IN New YORK A correspondent of
the Oswego Times, thus speaks of three rich men in
New York
Stewart, the merchant prince DR.. Moffat, and
VIM. B. Astor, are monopolising nearly the whole
of Broadway, both above, around and under ground.
They are generally reputed to be the richest trio in
the city Which is the wealthiest can't say. 1t
appears from statement made by the deputy re-
ceiver of taxes that Mr. Astor is possessed of pro,
perty to the amount of 300, and that his
yearly taxes amount to the snug little of $50
| 000 If that is all he is worth Dr. Mofat is the
richer man Of the two but the probability is that
Mr.. Astor is worth over S3.000.000. DR.. Motfa IS
dwelling house, with its outbuildings is valued at
1885, 00 and he OWNS other property in the city to
the amount of over million and half Besides
this. he Bank in Wall street. and farms, al
most inumerabe, within hundred miles of New
! York. His Life Pills and Phoenix Bitters yield him
vast revenue, which, in addition to his rents and
interest on money loaned renders his income truly
enormous. Stewart is said to be worth s., 600 600
He does business Of over S2000.000 year. which
. VIC Of 5000 600 I,era