Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-08-06


My spirit guished along.
Ihoped to right my native isle ..r..
hoped soldiers fame,
lhopcd to rest in woman's smile,
And win minstrels name. .E-
Oh little have served my land,
No laurels press my brow. -...
have no wOman's heart or hand,
Nor minstrel honors
But fancy has a ma gic power,
1t brings no wreath nor crown,
But woman's love, the self-same hour, ri.
1t smites oppression down
Sweet thoughts bright dreams, my comfort be- srt
have no JOY beside; g.. g- GEL. .. g..
Oh! throng around, and be to me
Power, country fame and bride.
From the Commercial
PTTTsBURG, July % 1859.
The Stockholders of the Cape Fear and Deep Riv-
er Navigation Company, met in the Baptist Church
at - o'clock, and were organized by calling Col A.
S. McNeill to the Chair, and the appointment of J..
w. Scott and j. w Parish, Es1uires Secretaries
Henry Elliott and John H. Haughton, Esquires,
were appointed Committee to exarpne proxies, &c.
The whole number of votes on the stock is 55O-of
which 432 were represented by proxy and in person.
The Treasurer's Report was read and referred to
a committee Of three, appointed by the Chair, viz:
Messrs. Ncl McLane, John w Scott and DR.. Nc
CIenahar.
The Engineers Report was read md referred to II
committee of five appointed hy the Chair, viz =:
Messrs John Smith, Brooks Harriss, L. J. Haughon,
and Drs. +. J. Hill, and Robert K. Smith.
A Committee of Ways and Means elected by
the Company TO take into consideration ana report
the best mode of raising funds for the continuation
of the work, viz Peter Evans Henry Elliott,
Col. John McRae and Drs. J. F. Hill, and Thos d.
Hogg.
A recess thcr ordered until o'clock
AFTERNOON, : o'clock.
The Report Of the President and Directors WAS
read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and
Means.
The meeting adjourned to meet to- morrow morn
ing at I o'clock.
July o. 1852.
Col John MacI2ae made Report from the COM
mittee of Ways and Means, as follows:
The Committee appointed to devise ways and
meet the present liabilities of the Company and the cou
Directors be authorized and instructed borrow for the i'm
mediate use of said Company the of thirty Thousand
holders enter into bonds binding themselves in
exceeding fifty per cent of the stock held by them.
W. further recommend that all the day aborers in
the employ of the said Company, be discharged and thai
the hands hired BY be put on the lower works. AMI
be continued there until completed.
We also recommend that all the other expenses of the
Company shall be reaue in proportion to the force
With regard to the balance of the outstanding debts of
the CGmpan not otherwise provided for and to provide
mendatos contained in the Report of the President and
BY this memora,e nia e be rpn5d 5
OF turtle ald for the accomplishment Of this work,
which in their wisdom may proper.
The report was ordered to lie or the table.
A part of this Report rendered imperative,
from the fact that there is an implied contract with
the Companys hands not to go below IL certain
point on the River
The Committee on the Engineers Report asked to
be discharged being unable to throw any other
light on the subj iect than what is contained in the
Report itself They were discharged.
Mai ]. w. Scott. from the committee on finance
and 1reasurer's Report, made report declaring the
Treasurer's account correct. The following results
were embraced in the Report -=.-.
Receipts for the year past, from Stockholders.
State Of n. Carolina, and borrowed SlO2G0 Al
Expenditures for the same period SlO2,4 ,474 33
Balance on hand, S224 IA.
| The Report was received.
Afernoon 3 O'Clock.
! The chief business in the afternoon session,
the discussion of financial matters.
BaE~N. P. WILLIS, the we'll known writer, went
out last winter to the West Indies, in pursuit Of
health. The following, written by him in Martin
ique in rrl last, shows the result Of emancipation
in that Island and the authors opinion Of its effect
generally:
NEGROES WITHOUT MAsrERs.-The greatest ma
Ijorty of the blacks seem to be content with the
est animal existence, idle, ragged dirty and saucy
Emancipation seems to have degraded the many,
while it has elevated the very few. With the French
facility of anal lgamation Of color the more inteli-
gent negroes, when set free find the way to rcSncc-
liability easy and some of them have unduestona-
bly, taken advantage Of it; while, to most of them
freedom was but the license to be as brutal as their
nature dictated, and viciously idle. In cur evening
walk yesterday, we came upon group who
quietly looking on, while stout fellow furious
ly beating woman over her naked shoulders. with
a heavy stick and more rascally looking half do
zen human beings never saw. The men and
men-as little clad as is desirable lie down any
where in the dirt together. caring apparently, for
nothing on earth but the perpetual cigar-an exs-
tence which nothing but the liveliness of bad pas
sions prevents from being the most sluggish order of
braness vegetation. OF the negro intellect in ac-
tivty and cultivation have not yet, perhaps full
means of judging. find very contradictory opinions
among the residents here. to their probable pro-
gress with time and freedom-the majority decar-
ing, however that the negro relapse into barbarism
is instructive and inevitable, and that the presence
of the white man, who will soon be ou-swarmed and
driven from these lattudes, is all that binders their
sudden and complete abandonment OF the restraint
of civilization. Some negroes who returned educated
from France, by the way, started journal at st.
Pierre 1t lasted about two years. and little
except tissue of personal scurrilities 1t was final
ly quashed by suits for libel.
IMPuDENCE.-We thought we had seen something
of political efrontery and impudence in the course
of twenty years, but the attempt by the Southern
Scott press to prove Gen PIERCE an abolitonia isa
touch beyond the sublime in lyins-a fight une-
qualled by any Roorback imagination that ever fer
tilted the field of falsehood And then to pretend
to prove this by the most inscriptions abolition
prints that ever blackened an honest mans reputa-
tion-prints that have applied every opprobrious