Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-07-02
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HEAD OF NAVIGATION. SALT RIVER,

HEAD OF NAVIGATION. SALT RIVER, !
June odd 1852.
News having reached US last evening of4he inten-
tons of the whig party pay visit or before
the 9th OF November next, | am authorized by the
captain of the feet to say that have made ample
provisions for their conveyance and maintenance
here for the next twenty years, Scott free! Your
obedent servant, JEREMIAH WATSON WEBB, elk
The gentleman who received the above despatch
informs us that the wings of Maiden were swear
ing mad when they heard of SCOTS nomination.
and that three or four of the leaders among them
are pledged to vote for Pierce.-Boston Post
LEADING WIG FOR PIERCE AND K1NG-Mr.
Gentry. Wing c. from Tennessee said in Con-
gress, on Mondays
If thought one mans vote or influence were ne
cessary to cast the vote of Tennessee for Pierce and
King my voice and my vote should be given to them
unhesitatinglv.
that John Kerr argues against Free Suffrage, and
pronounces the Constitution it is perfect rs ev
er was vouchsafed to SHINING people )" but because
the amendment was proposed by Democrat, he is
opposed to the peoples obtaining it in the mode for
which they have already expressed their preference
and insists on the more expensive and more danger
Gus medium of an pen and unlimited Convention
Bear it in mind that Gov. Reid is the author of
this sacred and just principle Of popular liberty in
North Carolina that in his first canvass the measure
itself tras opposed, and not much the mode Of Civ
ing 1t vitality and operation and that the leaders
of the Wing party after ascertaining that the peo
pie, by majority of thousands. for its adoption
as part of their fundamental law are driven to that
wretched exhibition of sefshness which marks the
conduct of some people, who, if they cannot get
things however desirable, their own way. prefer to
forego them altogether Is such opposition to a
measure manly? Is it just. fair patriotic! Let
the answer come from the ballot-b Standard
ScorT g RATIFICATION" IN BosToN-The following
extracts from five of the daily whig papers in this
city show how the wings here feel at the entertain
ment to which their national convention has invited
them
The news is received with EVIDENT cHAGR1N
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We fear that it foreboles DISASTROUS CONSEQUENT
cEs TO THE WIG PARTY AND THE COUNTRY, in put
ting the party upon effort which we conceive to
be HOPELESS.-DaHy 1fdrertiser
The announcement in Boston fell like FUNERAL
PAIL upon the spirit of its inhabitants Courier.
| The nomination fell like SHOWER OF ICE over
the city. The intelligence regarded as the an
nouncement of PUBLIC CALAMITY.-Bee.
result which is so much at variance with the
feelings and wishes of very La re number of the
wings of this state hardly be supposed to give
Immediate or general satisfaction.
UnprecedemteGpS pee
The telegraph express train from New-York 10 Buff
falo on Tuesday last. made the run in IA hours and
25 mnn'es-withn five minutes of the lime table mark
The actual running time, exclusive of all stops, was
/ II hours and % minutes i-dsiance 472 miIes-an
average OF one minute and twenty seconds 10 mile
on the whole distance
The distance was " done - as follows: