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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-04-30

FIRE IN RALEIGH.-A fire took place in Raleigh,
on the morning Of the 25th, at about halfpast one
o'clock, which destroyed the beautiful residence Of
L. OBJ. Branch, Esq, on Hilsboro Street, with all
the furniture in the Cd story. Loss between 6 and
81 900. No insurance. Commercial. 29th.
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BRIDGE BURNED.-The w & r. R...Road Bridge a.
cross Fishing Greek. burned down Wednesday
morning last how it occurred is not known. The
bridge was small, and will soon be up again. Pas
sengers will not De detained in consequence of it,
Com 2Qfh inst
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Gen. scott and HIr. E1ansum.

The recent movements of Mr.. Mangum, in favor Of
Gen. Scott, have created quite ferment in the COL
umns of the wbig press of the State. We have not
seen paper that sustains him, with the exception of
the Raleigh Register. Even the press of Mr. S!any's
District does not coincide in the opinions expressed by
the Senator, although Mr. Stany has thought proper
to place himself in the same situation The Fayette-
vile Observer of the 9th is full of the subject and in
one article headed Fillmore, Scott, Mangum, etc, the
following paragraph occurs:
Let not our people be deceived by the braggart de-
claratlons of Mr.. Mangum, that Gen. Scott is The
" available candidate If it be so, what but the sup
port of the Seward faction at the North, makes 1t SO
And is that d motive which should influenced Souhen
man 10 90 for him -! On the contrary, it is quite a
sufficient motive in opposing him to the last. And
90 not hesitate TO Say, that under present crcum
stances, maintaining his present position, Gen Scott
cannot possibly gel solitary electoral in all the
South. We beg that the dec Iaaton may he mark ed.
We meet every day with Wigs who declare that they
never will vote for him for President under any cr-
cumstarccS and with others who VIII moi vote for
HIM whilst he maintains his present attitude of silence,
for the evident purpose of corcilans those whose ia
/ vole candidate he is under>' pod TO be- Such too is
the tenor OF numerous let :, we have received We
speak plainly, Tor we desire that Northern friends
shall lie under 10 mlsapprehensoh The SUBJ ect.'
We are happy TO be able to with The Ob>er-
in It's upon this question, at least,
siderable extent. We do not like 10 dabbIe into our
is 10 be reconcied; we do say however, that
hope the position of the Observer upon this subject
may be maintained rather than that OF the Register
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-04-30

Resg~Our Dramatic friends, Jefferson Ellsler are
performing this week in Columbia, S. c. We pre-.
sumo they will shortly pay US \ visit.
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Re5 Reid and Clements, convicted some weeks &C
of murder upon the high seas, were executed .
Richmond on Friday last
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SLAUGHTER AT BUENos AYREs "A letter dated Bu-
enos Ayres, Feb. Is, describing the defeat of Rosas
by Urquiza says:
Urquiza is scarcely less of the tyrant and tiger than
Rosas. He shoots without mercy. Eighty men and
women shot at at the Qunta, on Thursday
last, and yesterday he issued proclamation which
compromises five or six thousand requiring all magis
rates to arrest them, wherever found and every
will be shot His first proclamation was that all who
found stealing or pIundering, should be shot in
fifteen minutes after sentence. 1t only necessary
to accuse-proof was scarcely wanted asked for. Ii
was estimated that 400 shot in three or four days
the last the fusilale of So
There has been discovery made at the Quinta,
which has produced some excitement even here, viz
some barrels Of picked human heads | believe they
carefully put each in a cask, fifteen twenty.
by themselves. Two explanations are given of it
one is, that Rosas intended them 10 grace triumpha
entry into the city, and the other, that they 10 be
sent into the interior at the roads,
as is the custom in Spain to this day
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CA typographical error occurred IN The report OF
the proceedings of the late Democratic District Con-
vention, published in the Daily Journal of Saturday
last. A few copies-some ten or twelve got ont with
the word imprisonments instead of Improvements, IN
one of the resolutions which sets forth Democrat
ic principle denial of power in Congress, to com
mehce and carry general system of Internal I'M
prorements,' instead of which, in the ten or twelve
copies alluded to, it read &C Internal mprsonments.
1t so happened that one of these stray copies sent
10 The Fayetteville Observer which is amused at the
new doctrine OF course it understands the state OF the
case
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Presidential Elections,

As it seems now to US to be pretty we'll settled
that the Presidential Electors will be chosen accord
ing to the apportionment under the Census or looO
which will give this State ten instead OF eleven
Electoral votes and as the Wing Convention is to
assemble in this city week. and the Democratic
Convention in less than a month thereafter We deem
it not improper to bring the subject to the notice of
the Wing Convention, and to express the opinion
that the Democratic Convention would readily con-
cur in any reasonable plan that might be suggested
with the view of facilitating the election.
How would it do to assume that the present Con-
gressiona Districts should be. for this election, the
Electoral Districts, with Elecor for the State at
large? This plan, if adopted, would put 1T IN the
power once, of the two parties to nominate their
Electors and begin the campaign we have hereto
fore done, during the Summer-the discussion could
go on the people could know the Electors and their
Districts and before voting, the Assembly could,
and doubt would, legalize by special act for the
time being the plan thus adopted Without some
plan of this Sort it would be almost impossible for
the people, after the Districts shall have been laid
off, to assemble Conventions in time to nominate the
Electors and the Electors would, in all probability
have to be nominated by the members OF Assembly
from the Counties composing the Districts. The
latter plan it is true would not be Objectionable,
for the nomination of the Electors is but prepare
tory step, and have no effect in shaping the re-
suit of the popular vote bat it seems to us pretera-
BILE to fall upon some plan like the one suggested,
| for the reasons above set forth.
Our idea is. that it will be necessary, under any
view of the matter, to convene the Assembly some
five six weeks in advance of the regular period
We are, of course, not authorized to say what the
Governor and Council will do in the matter but we
feel fully justified in saying they will take such steps
as to render the vote Of the State certain in the
suing election and that the Legislature will be
yencd at time to be attended with the least public
inconvenience and expense.
We trust these suggestions will be received in the
spirit in which they made. This is question
which can have no legitimate connexion with party.
What we all seek is, to clear away the difficulties
which surround the subject, and to give effect to the
public will.-Roleigh Standard
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Gsz@y Yesterdays issue of the Goldsboro' Telegraph
contains the valcdictory of its late Editor George
Strong Esq, and the Introductory of his successors
Messrs Scpark and Whitaker. Mr. Strong carries
with him in his retirement our best and warmest
wishes for his prosperity and happiness. 1t is al
ways matter of regret with to part with gentle
men like MIR. Strong, whose courtesy and fairness
endeared them even to their opponents. We hope
that his successors may meet with political defeat,
and business prosperity
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3 A FRENcHMAN's PAssIoN.-1he A'o ,ha world IS
says that the most amusing man ]" al
Frenchman in passion ., three sew
!" By gar you call my wife woman OF aa,eb house y
fines once more. and | will call de Valen
blow off your brain like candle O} "'
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The Superior Court of Law for Sampson county is
in session this week His Honor Judge Ellis presiding
On Wednesday the 2Sth, free mulatto named VIM.
Boon alias VIM. Hussey, on trial upon charge
of Burglary with intent to commit rape. At2a
P nj, when the associate editor OF this paper left
Clinton, His Honor was charging the Jury. We
have not yet heard the result. Solicitor Strange
and j c. Dobbin Esq, for the State ; c. G. Wright,
Esq, for the prisoner.
The case of Bebee, a member of Johnson & Co. S
Circus Company, indicted for the murder OF Milton
Mathis in the neighborhood of Taylor's Bridge last
winter was to have yesterday Thursday Goth
inst) J. G. Dobbin and George Davis, Esqrs, for
the prisoner; Solicitor Strange and Duncan X. Nc
Rae, Esq, for the State
Mr. Fisher of the same Company. bound over to
the same time and place to answer the same charge:
had not made his appearance on the 18th.
HAIL SToRN.--On Tuesday morning last, heavy
shower Of hail fell in the ncighhorhood of Piney
Grove in the upper part Of Sampson county. The
gardens and carly vegetation generally, sustained
considerable injury.
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0G~OUR SAMPSON COUNTY FRIENDS. will please &C
cept orr warmest thanks for the very liberal manner
in which they voluntarily came forward at Clinton this
week, and made payment of very large number of the
subscription bills due 10 this office We are also graf
fled 10 them, for the very handsome accession of
subscribers 10 our list without any solicitation on our
part They have very best wishes for their welfare
and prosperity.
pa The steamship City of Glasgow arrived at the
Lewestown Del, Breakwater the Oath inst, in Is
days from Liverpool. News anticipated
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Lord Chesterfield SAID al the close {" ''T mDatbs
have recently read Solomon with kind D ps9 bon
ic feeling have been as wicked and b 'I 10 feel b.
not as wise as he; but am old enough rI5 is rapF
truth of his reflection All in the worm
opd vacation Of cnirif lraa
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wig stale Convention.

The Wing State Conventions which assembled ut
Raleigh on Monday last, nominated John Kerr, ESQ.,
of Casweli as the Wing candidate for Governor
The Convention also passed resolutions in favor OF
Fillmore and Graham-also sustaining the Compfo
mise and another declaring that, whenever the Peo
pie require the Constitution to be changed the pest
mode to effect changes is by Convention formed on
the Federal basis
This last resolution, although at variance with
the views and feelings of the great majority OF the
Wings of this county, does not surprise US at all
We have known and felt for time past that
such would be the course of the " hIg Convention
and it is more than probable that the next will
be declaration of the propriety and necessity OF
aboishing the present basis in the Senate altogether
By the way we have heard some of the most absurd
assertions made in regard to this basis matter OF
which sensible men could possibly be guilty " e
have actually heard it asserted that the abolition OF
the landed qualification for Senatorial electors would
be an abolition of the property basis in the Senate
Now to show the falacy Of this, it is only necessary
to refer to the federal basis, in accordance with
which members of Congress and State CommoneFS
are elected and by which no distinction IS made be
tween individual voters, whether they he saVehoid-
ers or not 1t is purely matter OF districts or OF
counties and not of individuals. This everybody
knows and yet nobody pretends to say that the
raj basis is in any way intcrfercd with ltwould be
equally absurd to say that equal suffrage" or the
doing away with the personal distinction between
free white men. would interfere with the property
basis in the Senaesince in fact the representation
is founded upon aggregate taxation, and not in any
wav upon individual wealth.
1t is the interest and the duty of the people of n
Carolina to give her towns fair chance-to impose
no disqualifications upon those who may devote them
selves to commercial, mechanical, or professional
pursuits for the great want Of State has been
some large towns to give a market for the surplus
produce of the surrounding country; and in return
supply the people, with the necessities and eleganceS
/ of life at a reasonable rate No one who looks a.
the matter canddy fail 10 perceive the eHee
which the growth of Whining ton has e1erted upor
the prosperity Of the Cape Fear country OF course
the benefits have been mutual, and we claim NJ
praise for the towns that do not accord to The
counr7-what benefits the one benefits the other :
but the towns in our State small, weak, anC
struggling, and while they should have no exclusive
privileges, ought to labor under peculiar disqual
ifcations such as that created by the provision il
the constitution which requires the possession of 81
acres of land in order to have vote for Senator IL
the State LegiSlaure--a provision which virtual.
DISTINGUISHES the town of Wilmington in the Senate
OF course. we alIude to this place simply by way
illustration and not of pre-eminence.
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