Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-11-26

Railroad bonds $500 90
Do Wake Forest College bonds, $3.50 IS
Do. from sale of Swamp lands, l.223 81
---$164ls 81
Purchase of State bonds, $40. 500 90
Premium for the same 1873 IS
Loan to Chowan Female College, 3,GG0 90
DO. to VIM. d. Cooke. eco co
Balance. being cash now OF deposit in
Bank OF Cape Fear. 1,155 10
+ --Sl6419 81
The actual increase Of principal during the period,
amounted to 81 223 81.
From the New York Express
ireland is rapidly undergoing revolution in many
parts such does not attract much attention, but
such, nevertheless is great revolution. In an En-
glish paper, before it stated that the
ty Of Mayo is in transition from the cottier state
of society, in which the land thickly peoped,
and held by tenants in very small holdings, at very
high rents. to the grazing system. which it is
cupied merely by very few herds and caretakcrs.
and held either by the landlord himself or by one
or two great capitalist tenants The change is from
being stocked with men, women and children to be-
ing stocked with sheep and cattle. writer in the
London Times. drawing the picture of the change.
says:
':Ihc whole population Of district many miles in
extent simply turned out into the roads to 60
where they please, and live die they can. OF
course there are among them many old people hard
y able to get along, many sick persons; many little
chill iron, many women in an advanced state Of preg
nancy out they all go together. There seems to be
in the ejectng landlords very happy state of indif
ference to the question what becomes Of these peO
pie. But confess my weakness. | have not yet
attained this Indifference. [ inquired anxouS y
where the people were gone who few months ago
inhabited one of these districts. lately thickly peo
pied, and now a sheep walk, | told by gen
tleman, agent who stoutly defended, upon the
plea Of necessity, the proceedings in question, that
some of them, who had some little properly. were
gone to America; that many were in the Union
work-house; that some were in the lower parts of
the great towns of England Scotland, and Irelanl
but that, in his opinion, the greater part Of them
were dead
A few years ago men, women. and children were
the most profitable stock which landlord in this
county could encourage upon his property; they
lived upon the worst and least quantity Of food, and
paid rents which considering the quality of the
land and the total absence of any expenditure on the
part of the landlord, either in fencing draining
the erection of tenements) would in any country be
considered exorbitant. When, however: the potato
failed the human animal ceased to be Il profitable
rent paying stock, and poor laws had been I'M
posed al the same time, it became an expensive
Here we have in one word the rationale OF the
change.
The most noble Lord Marquis of Sligo seems to be
the great operator in this changing the habatons of
men to the haunts of cattle This writer in the
Times, whence we quote, says:
Near Westport for several miles, the most noble
the Lord Marquis of Sligo is at this moment clear
ing away the whole population. a few are already
removed in other cases, their furniture is standing
outside the cottage door, and the whole family are,
evidently the point of plunging homeless, into
! the world. Meanwhile, new and we'll built wall
is rising between the road and the land, which is
still the home of many lately happy families 1t is
sad to see that this very wal not YET completed, Or
there are breaches in many places, through which
the tenants have TO remove their all, Is built of
the materials of demolished homes. The obser-
want eye will stones still stained with SCOT which
one formed the chimney Of many cottage.
Beyond Westport the wall is complete, and the
people gone. The most noble Marquis, | con-
ceive will see and hear no more of them. in this
world at least The remains of the cottagesarc here
quite enclosed within the encircling wal. The dis
trict was cleared few months ago.
AS the traveller goes he enters the territory
of Sir Roger Palmer and then that of the Right Hon
the Earl of Lucan. Here things advanced
great part Of the land is already in large grass
fields, fed by sheep fine crops of turnips in OH
ers and in some you may the young grass among
the fresh stubble. All vii! very soon bear the APP
pcarance of district which man has pcopled
:: cannot exactly state tie extent of the district
operated upon. 1t begins three or four miles from
Wesport, and extends (though not without some
considerable intervals of land belonging to other
proprietors almost to the town Of Rallinrobe, DIS
! lance of perhaps IS miles. On both sides of the
road it stretches as far as the eye reach | was
informed, and believe (although cannot state it OF
my own knowledge) that the Earl of Lucan alone
has lately laid down in grass aboat 10000 acres Of
dense inhabited land"
| What mournful picture! What frightful spec
tacle it must be- But it is from the country where
this misery il not this oppression, exists that We
hear the loudest reproaches of our African slavery
and where such books Uncle Toms Cabin fine
the largest encouragement.
| franklin Pierce is the youngest man who has eve
been elected President of the United States. He is 4s
years of age. Washington, John Adams, Jefferson
Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Van Blu
! rem each So; jackson, 62 Harrison, 6s; Tay
or, sc; and Polk 40.
/ New HAMPSHIRE LEGIsLATUgE.--The Legisa; ur
of New Hampshire assemble on Wednesday at Con
cord. and Governor Martin delivered his Message
1t commences with warm congratulation on til
social, educational and political condition of tn
State recommending equality and economy in levy
ing State taxes suggests acton for preserving th
public lands, and virtually recommends the abe
lition of the statue of limitations in relation to th
collection of debts.
!, The message also suggests some additional legis
lation to prevent accidents rail roads and in man
featuring establishments 1t refers 10 the late gen
eral election and deprecates the bitterness of part
strife exhibited in the late campain. and close
with an appropriate notice of the great men recer
} tly deceased.--CaLHoUN, CLAY, WOODBURY. an
WEBSTER.
The New York Reyeille has caricature entile
" just in Time; American Citizen of the Pater
kind"
. Politician Crushing forward and enthusiasticall
9 embracing obese German )-Ah, my dear friend
you re just in time to the country, and rote
: our ticket I've carriage in waiting we'll be u
to the City Hall and have you nat uralized in.le
than time, if no sooner havn-t p,amant