Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-04-16

THE CAPTURE OF LoPEZ.--Ihe man named Castit-
media, who captured Lopez, has feturned to Cuba
frof1 Spain laden with honors. The Queen gave
him $4,000, and made him a captain in the rural
militia with a salary of Sll0 month: ten negroes
and d tract of land have been given to him. ne
order of Isabel decorates his person his children
are to be educated at the expense of the Government
He can neither read nor wrte and is perfect spe-
cimen of vulgar; rough, unedcucated g"Gtfo, OF
country bumkin.
LARGE SALE OF Provisions .--The New Orleans
Delta of the 28th ult says:
sOne of our largest commission houses yesterday,
made sales which probably exceeded, in magnitude,
anv ever before made in this market at least by any
barrels of pork 100000 pounds bulk meat and about
800 barrels of lard. The aggregate value Of these
articles was not far from one hundred thousand dol
larSr'
Several of the principal cities have German POI
pulation as follows N. York city, 100000 Buffalo,
$4,000; Cleveland, 1000; Milwaukee, 10000; Chic
ago. 5000; Cincinnati. 10000.
Mr. Hill, pork packer of Mt. Tabor, Iowa, hav-
ing offered premium for the heaviest hog killed at
his house, received five hogs in competition. The
lightest weighed 7l9, and the heaviest I'll lbs.
The original Jim Crow, a negro, upon whose &C.
centricties T. D. Rice built his fame and fortune, is
yet living in Louisville.
Mister Speaker-My country beats all creation
last year we made fifty thousand barrels of whskey,
besides wasting thousands of bushels of for
bread p
SIZE OF ENGLISH CART HoRsEs.-The editor of
the Michigan Farmer says that the heaviest horse
he saw at the great Windsor cattle show weighed
twenty three hundred and fifty. His said that
many exceeded that weight and mentioned one that
weighed twenty-seyen hundred and fifty.
THE FIRE AT Conference.-The recent fire at
Cbillicothe Ohio, destroyed from 5000 900 to $780,
900 worth of property, and rendered about 1000
persons houseless. The Messrs Frazer had 20 900
canvassed hams consumed in their establishment
Marfeld & Luckett sustained a loss of $4,000. All
the principal warehouses in the town consumed.
HEALTH OF Mr.. CLAY.--A Washington letter says
that Mr.. Clay, after passing through stage of en-
couraging improvement begins to sink again. and to
yield to the prostration of his physical energies.
Baltimore Sun.
The Virginia Free Press says that Mr.. Fillmore be-
gins already with 119 votes in the National Conven-
ton, principally from the South and West, and has
fair chance for equal division in New York, Penn
sylvana and Ohio.
review of sixty regiments of all arms forming a
total of one hundred thousand is to take place
in the Camp de Mars on the 18th April. This will
be the largest review in France since that at Bogne
in 1904.
Otto and Jenny Lind Goldsch midi will sail for Eu-
rope the steamer Atlantic, in May next but pre-
vious to their departure they will give three concerts
III 1NeW lOIh' 4Hey Will take pldCe Inc 1ttSG Ol
April.
MARKS OF THE GENTLEdAN.-No man is gentle
man who without provocation, would treat with in
cviity the humblest of his species. Il is vugarity
for which accomplishments of dress address can
ever atone. Show me the who desires to make
every one happy around him, and whose greatest So
licude is never TO give just cause of offence to any
one, and will show you gentleman by nature and
by practice, though he may never have suit of
broadcoth, nor heard of a lexicon. | am proud
to say for the honor of species, there in
every throb of whose heart there is socitude for the
welfare of mankind and whose every breath is per-
fumed with kindness
A frightfu massacre upon two English ships, the
Victory, of London and the Herald, of Leith had Ia
ken place in the Chinese Seas. The Victory sailed
with Coolies from some Chinese ports 10 Chaao.-
They on the way, killed the master, mate and
cook, and then compelled of the mates 10 steer the
ship. They escaped, and Mr. Fogg, the mate, brought
the vessel TO Singapore. The Herald was homeward
bound from Shanghai, with crew OF NIanamen,
who became angry with the Captain for putting them
on the customary allowance. and murdered him and
the rest of the officers. They :hen deserted the ship
scutting her and locking the Captains wife into the
cabin, who thus lost with The sinking vessel. The
murderers have been happily arrested and sent to Ba-
tavia to undergo the operation of the law.