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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19
THE Pacific Railroad scheme.

Our Wing friends seem much exercised upon
Ibis subject They appear very greatly reJ"lced IN
deed at the idea OF want of harmony IN the DEM
ocratc marty: and also at what they are pleased to
consider a coming over to the Wing policy there
uron All this we think premature, 1t is too much
in the fashion Ct drowning men catching at straws.
or ANYTHING else inefficient and incapable of sus
tanning their weight We have no idea that there
will be any division split between the President
and the State Rights Democrats upon it, because We
have no idea that the President will propose the con-
structon of this Road directly by the General Gov
eminent Some scheme may, perhaps, be devised
and brought forward whereby the influence OF the
General Government may be cast in favor OF the
construction of highway to the Pacific, by the
grant of the right of way and other means fairly
and properly within its jurisdiction, and in the ex-
ercse of it's proprietary rights over the public lands
through which it may pass. But its construction
by funds drawn out of the United States Treasury,
and the erection thereby of great government,
controlled corporation, with its hOrdes of employees
and officers, and means Of corruption is quite anoth-
or matter If there be a surplus in the Treasury
let our debts be paid If more than enough rev.
cnue be collected let the taxes be reduced and the
money be allowed to remain in the hands
Of the tax-paying people, who can apply it
to what purpose they choose If they want
a Pacific Rail Road they will build it, and Con-
gress will give it all the encourag cement and
assistance it properly and fairly Festal occa-
sions like that upon which Secretary DAVIS deliver
ed his speech at Philadelphia, are hardly the times
for the careful elimination of great and comprehen-
siye projects and must confess that the accounts
Of such Quotations among the last things read,
and the first things forgotten by u.s. in endeavors
to arrive at the actual position Of parties. men or
measures. The scheme, plan extent of encour-
ngement which the Executive may recommend to
be given to such project Pacific Railroad
should be known before they or can be criticised
We have no doubt, that when the time arrives for
the communication of such plan to Congress, it will
be found that much powder has been wasted As
for what the Washington Union may say or do tina
is none Of our business The Union we presume, is
responsible for its own course. Certainly, n0bodl
else is for 1t. We will publish Mr.. DAVIS speech il
a day or two, and shall certainly, at earlies
convenience, give our views plainly and fully.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19
The PestIlence in New orleans.

The New Orleans pa pers estimate the present pop
ulaton of their city at ninety thousand, of which
one-third are, unacclimated About one
thousand a week have died for the last few weeks,
while about five thousand have been attacked week
Iy, not more than out of five dying. They think
that the disease must abate or die out by the last
week OF the present month, since BY that time. at
the pre- ent rate, every unaccmated person in the
city will have gone through the experiment of death
or recovery and SO the fever Will fail for want of
food.
very able writer in the Delta SAYS that this Wis
Itaion has proved more conclusivey than ever that
white men cannot stand exposure to the sun in the
low countries of the South ard that negro labor is
absolutely indispensable to the cultivation of the
SOIL or the performance of any outdoor drugery-
Negroes, or white men who can take il easily and
without exposure, hardly known to take the
fever; the deaths occur among white working men,
whose avocatons force them to go about in the sun
OF the midday and in the dews of the evening The
reporters of newspapers have been very severely
dealt with
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19
s.aamhnnt Ae,eidlenf.

We learn that the Steamer Chatham, belonging
to the Cape Fear Line, running between this place
and Fayetteville, burst one of her boilers on Satur-
day last, when about thirty miles below Fayetse-
VILE on her way down. She sank IN seven feet wa
ter. negro fireman was killed by the bursting
of the boiler. The Captain was knocked overheard
and another person slightly injured. Loss not
known We presume the Chatham can be raised
and put again in order.
SUPERIOR CoURrs.-The Judges of the Superior
Courts have allotted the Circuits among themselves
al Wv
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

SECURITY AGAINST RAILROAD ACcIDErs The N.
Y. Mirror, in view of the frequency of railroad &C.
cidents, recommends that the Legislature of every
State grant no further railroad charters without
providing that each and every road shall be built
With double track, the rails and construction of
competent commission, and its engines car wheels,
Sc, put to right test-as rigid as Government
ordnance is subject to before use-before road can
gointo operation. 1t should be further provided
that all rail tracks should be securely fenced In to
prevent animals from encroaching thereon.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

SENATOR DoUGLAS.-An item of European news
stating that distinguished American Senator had
formally joined the Catholic Church at Rome, has
given rise to the suppostion that Senator DOUGLAS
had done so, he being the only American Senator
now in Europe. 1t turns out that the person who
Joined is not Senator, but member of the House
of Representatives, Hon. J. R. CHANDLER, of Phila-
delphia whose wife and family are Catholics, and
who has long been so himself in fact, although not
formally.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

A New Use FOR P1NE.-The Courier Des Etots
INNS, French paper published at New York, says
that a Mr.. GRAs DEGoERsDoRF, near Warnebrunne.
in Germany, recently presented to the Society of
Natural Sciences Of Bonn, specimens of paper and
pasteboard, made of the wood of pine. The process
isst kept secret although it is understood that
the wood is pounded and bruised to a white
paste by hammers, then beached with chlorine and
put into tub, where it undergoes the same process
as ordinary pulp. The quality of this paper is said
to be equal to that of the article manufactured from
rags either for printing or writing purposes. We
presume that it is the white pine which is thus used
as it is stated that the older trees become untitled
by being too resnous, objection which would APP
ply to pitch pine of any age
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

ANOTHER PROOF OF STRENGTH--OvER THE LEFT
AS further proof of the overwhelming strength of
the Land Distribution issue, may refer to the re-
cent result of the Congressional election in the sixth
District, between BOYD, Democrat, and PURYEAR,
Wing. In this District, Gen. ScorT obtained a ma
jority of l06l votes and the ScoTT ticket was not
very popular in the counties composing it. Now, it
turns out that PURYEAR, taking, of course the dis
tribution ground obtains majority of 389, being a
falling off of almost seven hundred tremendous,
ly and overwhelmingly popular, powerful and most
irresistible issue-this the public lands has proved
itself little more of such popularity, and every
Whigin the State would have been defeated Gee
-hup-hobby- horse
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

THE Policy OF LOUIS NApcLEoN-A correspond
ent of the Courier des Etats Uns says that great
approximations have been felt in Paris lest Bona parte
should adopt one of those sudden and violent reso
lutions for which he is remarkable, and put an end
at once to oil propositions of peace He has been
very restless on account of the datory proceedings
of the English ministry--and very much dissatis
fed at the aggressive movements of Russia, Count
Nesselrodes note declaring that the Danubian occu-
patton was induced by the advance of the English
and French fleets, and would not he relnquished un-
til those fleets retire from the Egean, infamed him
still more. If this Russian pretenson that the wa
tiers of the Aegean not free, be allowed, she will
not only have bulled France and England but gain
ed point more important to her future designs than
the occupation Of the Provinces
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19
nIlssIsslppi.-An EIectlve Judlciary.

The Supreme Judicial Tribunal of the State of
Mississippi has recently decided that the State is
bound to pay the Union Bank Bonds and that no
action of the Legislature, vote of the people, can
affect the question. This decision is highly impor-
ant and gratifying, being an important step TO-
wards wiping off the stain OF repudiation which has
hung around the of Mississippi, and weighed
grcss Of its public works whether State corporate
the same time that it affords proud evidence of
the ultimate honesty and ability of all the States to
their obligations, in cases where they have
been cheated by their agents, and have received no
just equivalent for the debt incurred
But there is another aspect of the case equally
worthy of note This decision, directly at variance
with a ecent vote of the people of Mississippi, is
made by judges directly elected by that people, and
dependent upon them for reelection; and, in this
other. 1t goes far to prove the honesty and indie
pendence of an elective judciary-a system which,
sooner or later must become universal throughout
the Union, and we feel confident that the course of
these high minded men, unswerved by popular feel
ing or the hope of popularity the fear of the
verse, will be fully approved and sustained by the
voice of those against whose apparent interests it
might seem to initiate We are not now urging
the election of Judges by the people, but feelings
all must feel, that to this complexion we are bound
to at last, we cannot but be gratifed by this
proof of the independent working of our own fu-
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19
Malaria OH Rice Plantations,

"There is time for everything. Winter is the
time 10 enjoy the Injuries of the rice plantation The
summer malaria of the irrigated fields is deadly poi
son nightly infused through the atmosphere, fatal TO
all unacclimated whites who breathe it those
few (chiefy families of overseers) who have been
brought up in it, generally feeble and Of weak con-
sttuton. AS to the degree of danger 10 others, 9
would rs stand fifty feet from the best Kentucky
rhemen, and be shot at, as to spend night my
plantation in SUMNER said Charleston gentleman
Two instances of the deadly work il sometimes does
were also mentioned 10 A party of six ladies and
gentlemen went out of town to spend day at the
mansion Of a rice planter, island. By an acci-
dent TO their boat their return the afternoon was
interrupted and they went back and shut themselves
within the house, had fires made, which they sat
around all night, and took every other precauton 10
guard against the miasma. Nevertheless, for o.
them died from its effects within week, and the other
two suffered severely.
1.-TWO brothers owned plantation on which they
had spent the winter, of them, approah
ed, careful to go TO another residence every ngh'
the other delayed TO do so until it was too late. One
morning he was found 10 be i'll physician could not
be procured until late in the afternoon by which time
his recovery was hopeless The sick besousnE
his brother not to hazard his own life by remaining
with him, and he obliged, before the sun SELL ~
| in whose in the course of the night he died. -,
"Negroes, although they do not enjoy as Sooa
health on the rice plantations elsewhere are Nv
subject to this fatal local fever The malaria seems
to be more deadly in South Carolina than IN ueo's"
| Except during the summer and the early aul". n
months, the rice plantations are very heaI'hy' anu
climate OF the country in which they are suae d n
experienced tits most delightful sufficiently MIR ose
permit one to dress lightly, and not requiring snG
apartments for even sedentary occupation anu gue.
Gently cool not TO occasion lassilude of early 'N'
even IN vigorous exercise"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

NEW YORK, Aug 13.-Up to o'clock yesterday
afternoon no less than 80 deaths reported at the
Coroners' office; of these, upwards of 20
ed by the excessive heat of the weather The Coro-
ners were bnsiIy engaged during the day in holding
inqnis;tion. upon the bodies of those who died on
Thursday. Many nquistions will have TO be defer
red until TODAY
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

PROGRESS OF THE SANDWICH IsLAED Ds3 States Ma
of July the cornerstone of the Uh''eu ~ Rincon
rine Hospital" was laid at Honolulu, o ~
Point The site of the building is on commune" view
emnence facing the harbor, atordlng % feet long
of the city. 1t will be brick edlhce lo architec.
and &c feet wide, in the Grecian style OF a The
ture and with all the modern imProseneee1s 5 900,
and Congress appropriated for thai nsad Rn
pose. In Honolulu library assoclatlo1n'a com
room two engine companies hook ana iauus corps
pany cavalry company, and an arI' nS t5e First
have been organized The latter is s'ysu and com,
anded by Capt. A McDufe, formerly ofd rn,lSd
delphia tits described as being finely Tpafnk
and well disciplined and numbering sixty mem Mounts
and file. The foreign population OF HonoiuiI ali the
to 2,000 of which / 700 are Americans IN 600
islands of the group there are said 10 DC "00''
Americans.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

SLIGHTLY WARLIKE.-The news by the Humboldt
seems to indicate anything but settlement of the
difficulties in the East of Europe, and confirm, to
some extent at least, the suspicion that Russia
er had any sincere desire for peace, but simply
trying to gain sufficient time by negotiation to
BILE her to complete her arrangements, and strength
en- her position The thing must come to point
for peace or war. The piece translated from the
Paris Seicle, which We publish to-day, also looks
rnrn Like decision
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

DANGERoUs.-We saw him go on-he went on
the cars and we feel certain of hearing from some
accident North of US. The train will be sure to
run of-he will fool the locomotive, for when he in
tends to look straight ahead anybody would think
he was looking to one side So will the LOCOMOTIVES
and big iron baby that it is will follow the direction,
and break its own cylinder and smokestack and half
the passengers neeks noses. No cross-eyed or
squirting man ought to be allowed near the iron
horse without blinds and green spectacles. Thems
our sentiments
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19
High AppreciatIon.-AlIs leepY-tiom Awake.

Our contemporary of the Cheraw Is. CO. Gazette,
generally good, easy, quiet good-natured behind
lineage sort of Sheet took it into its good and wise
head, to thrust it's into the affairs of this North
Carolina District and find fault with the Democrat
ic presses thereof, for pursuing which they
deemed proper and necessary in the discharge of
their duty in the last election for members of Con-
gress. Forthwith or, rather, in some weeks after
as soon as the idea reached them, and they got the
cue, the good old Wing conestogas of the West are
re-publishng, doubt at second hand, the remarks
of the Gazette, which they pronounce every able
Democratic Journal" although never aware of its
existence before The Greensborough Patriot has
just got along with it this week Go it, old brow
sy-tweak your nose. and keep your eyes open.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

QUEER NoTIoN.-An exchange paper says that
there is benevolent gentleman il Boston who gives
twenty-five cents for religious purposes every time
he swears He has already id new steeple
on the Presbyterian Church, and is now engaged in
"cussing up' donation to the Home Missionary
Society,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

CLINGMAss Observation-Disclosures, official and re-
ported from eleven of the fourteen Counties in the
Mountain District show a majority of 2,499 for
CIngman over Gather. The remaining three Coun-
ties will not materially effect the result being quite
as likely to swell the majority as to reduce it.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

SPIRIT OF TEE PREss.-Democratic paper from
the 9TH District" CRAlCE s elected. Haleluiah !!
Hurrah!" Wing paper from same. OSBORNE s
beat. Anathema Boohoo" And that is all the
news and a fair specimen of the state of things
Everybody is trying to keep cool
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE New ORLEANS SUFFERERS
-BALTIMoRE, August 14.-The contributions al
New-York for the sufferers from the epidemic al
Newt Orleans have amounted to $50 600; at Phla
delphia to 50 00O and at Baltimore to $4,000
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

New ORLEANS, August 13.-There about
200 deaths from Yellow Fever in New-Oreans on
Fri
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

THE STEAM FRlGATE PRINCEToN.-The n. Hamp-
shire correspondent of the New York Herald let's off
the following broadside at that opprobium of mod
ern science and navigation, the Steam Frigate
Princeton
In previous communication, informed you that
the Princeton, in her run from Norfolk here under
all the steam her boilers could generate and with
every stitch OF canvass spread to fine breeze the
quarter, in tranquil that the three wise
men of Gotham mi ht have safely embarked in their
bowl could not attain greater speed than six knots
per hour.
| But to the Fishing Banks she must go, - CATERS
gaiters,' as the flag ship of the special TOM
cod and chOwder fleet, to the ocean with fish
kettle at her main, instead of a broom, and the 20
dacal gn of pisces at her FORE in place Of = free
trade and sailors rights" to compete with the De-
vastaton flag at bowls with icebergs, and with her
/ friction guns propagate the creed of Young Amer-
ca and manifest destiny. They ia K too of sending
her to China as Mr.. Walkers yacht. Why, sir be-
fore she reached there, the youngest bow on board
of her would be a gray-headed man, The biography
of the Commissioner become dusty to me, and the
Tartar and Pierce dynasties exist only in history or
tradition Far better send her to get deep SCUM
dlngs in the Maelstrom search for SIR John Frank
lin, catch the wandering Jew, or find Prester John
better to convert her boilers into fish pots her sails
into awnings, and her quarterback into ball room
whereon her gallant officers might trip it lightly
with the bellies of the provinces, in quadriles mack
erel mazourkas, and gudgeon galopades The pray
er of the church. will it is hoped be offered for the
preservation and safe return of this skinner of the
seas, and sincerely do trust that she will bring
to Barnum the bones of Captain Bold of Halifax
fishing for health and happiness.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

STRONG TEAM.-There are one hundred and
forty one locomotives in the employ of the Bal
tmore and Ohio Railroad Company. The Wheel
ing Gazette says that if hitched together they would
form a train over mile long, and present the most
imposing spectacle of the age. Several of them
are capacitated to run eighty miles per hour.
THE CHINESE ARMY.-TraveIIers agree in describ-
ing the Chinese army of the most extraordin-
airy things in the world and that the most faithful de-
scripton cannot convey an adequate idea of the Gel
estiaI warriors, pig tails, fans and all.
"The year of my arrival in China" says M. Paul
Penney, Apostolic Missionary TO Toris Tcheers, the
Mahommedans of Yum Nan, numerous party turn
ed out to oppose the authority of the Man
darins For The purpose of reducing them order
the Government General in-Chief hastily called to
his aid the military of the province, uniformly placed
under his Jurisdiction. | witnessed grand corps of
auxiliaries with the General.in Chief. The latter
in very elegant litter, carried the shoulders
of meE. His troops marched in the greatest magma
BILE disorder like band of real brigands. Each SOL
der carried through and through his umbrella and his
lantern, which gave the expedition quite indescri-
bable look. This army, without discipline and with
out experience, would be destroyed by single one
of battaons without the latter receiving single
scratch. European soldier burn at least twenty
cartridges while Chnaman would be firing one shot.
This is not all. When the guns are loaded he who
holds the musket turns back his head. while somebody
/ else applies the match
The House Telegraph Company are about extern
Z ding their line from Washington TO Richmond, Va
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19

The Post Office Department have recently decided
that under the law of 1882 subscriber residing in
the county in which paper may be printed and pub
Iished is entitled 10 receive it through the mails free
of postage from the postofice within the delivery of
which he may reside even though that office may be
situated without the limits of the county aforesaid
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19
From the WASHINGTON Tn
Party COnVentiOuSs

No one who has watched the course of party con
tests for few years past have failed to discover
that conventions for the purposes of party Organi
cation have ceased to command that respect which
formerly paid to their action. The reason of
this is apparent conventions were resorted to orig
inay to ascertain the will of maj GRITTY of the par
ty, and in that result it was the law of the party
that all should acquiesce. 1t is not to be denied
that in too many instances they have been made the
instruments of defeating the will of the ajority,
and it is this fact which has Distracted from the
weight of authority which they intended to
exert. A party cannot maintain its strength with
out union in its ranks and as long conventions
are gotten up with fairness and are made to reflect
honestly the will of a ma oriry they are probably
the most efficient mode of securing concert and uni
ty of action. Reform in this branch of party
ganization is essential, and glad to that
it is beg inning to receive attention The following
remarks by the st Louis Democrat have suggested
the foregoing refections
"Conyentons, however, have lost their authority
by reason of the uSurpatons and corruptions which
of late years characterized them. The democracy
have condemned them as usage Of the party but
in doing had 10 intention of relaxing patty dis
eipline and giving license to disorgonzers They
expected that all democrats would cheerfulv sub
NIT to the will of the ma orIty in whatever manne
expressed. Such requirement REASONABLE
enough, though the MAJ orltv should continue to ase
the convention system until better provided
But we were sorry to perceive that there sdne
democrats ready 10 Jake advantage or the nrSt pre-
text however faacious, to disregard the will of the
majority. They argued that if conventions we're
had, it virtue to expose them even agan,t the
wishes Of the party, although they could accom-
psh no good thereby. Their real object vas of
course to vent their spite because they not
nominated but they thought that those who them
selves opposed conventions could not denource them
for the course they had chosen to pursue. They
kept out of view the fact that they doing their
utmost to defeat their party under the preence of
opposition to conventions. If this example be
justified, then we will have independent democratic
candidates in every election that succeeds, and the
party consequently defeated. The only mode of
making nominations, aside from conventions, and
the one we prefer is to open poll in every ward
and precinct and let the nomination be by vote of
the party"