Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-05-13
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$l3,S34, 1853 AL


pendent of the New York Times, who is evidently
as conscientious as he is intelligent, has been wr-
ting series of letters in Virg nia upon slavery it
is there From of his letters we take the follow
ing passage:
II have seen the one intimately, and from what |
have at present seen of the other, must declare
that the Virginia slave is happy. COM
ortable in some sense more free and in better and
more manly relation to his masters, than the Irish
peasant the English agricultural laborer is to the
higher classes" of those countries. | wonder not
that the London Times moves against Uncle Tom
1t has a cut backward which its hundreds of thou
sands of English readers will not lose
Slavery will not die until the world has humbed
itself to learn lesson from it. Oh God who are
we that condemn our brother! No slave ever kill
cd its own offspring in cool calculation of saving
money by it, as do English free women. No slave
is forced to eat of corruption, are Irish tenants
No slave freezes to death for want of habitaton and
fuel as have men in Boston. No slave reels off into
the abyss of guilt from want of work that shall
bring it food, do men and women in New York
Remember that, Mrs. Stowe. Remember that, in
dgnant sympaihizers.
Oh, Christian capitalists, free traders in labor
there is somewhat to be built up, as well some
what to be abolished before we repose in the mcn-
iumn
SUGGESTION FOR THE GOOD OF ARcHITEcTs.-For
the advancement of architecture-an art in which
we are rather backward-our principal public edit
ces ought to be now and then rebuilt, to which end
it is expedent that they should be occasionally burnt
down. This object will be best accomplished bv
their being liable to catch fire. and it is satisfactory
to reflect that the requirement in question is gener
ally fulfilled by the arrangement of the ues in these
buildings which. for the most part is such as to dis
tribute not merely warmth, but fire all over them
There exist, in many of them. heaps of musty old
records not only involving tedious legal questions
about property, but also holding out temptations to
impertinent historical inquiries, tending to augment
our present cumbrous stock of knowledge, already
| so troublesome to acquire AS it would save much
laborious discussion if this rubbish were all consum
ed, let us hope that no alteration may be made in
the present contrivances whereby the lumber-rooms
it is contained in kept warm-when thew are not
kept wet. Because there is some though not much.
| fear, that some other means will be adorted for
warming these, and other Offices and national struc.
lures seeing that the devouring element the other
day. committed arson and high treason toeether at
Windsor Caste.-Punch.
| THE North PACIFIC EXPLORING EXPEDITION
The squadron Of Commander Ringgold, soon to dc.
part to survey Behring'S Straits, will shortly sail
from New York for Norfolk, where they will take in
| their armament, instruments, &c. Lieut. Rolando
is TO command Commodore Ringgold's flag ship the
Vincennes; Lieut.. John Rogers, the steamer John
Hancock Passed Midshipman Stevens, the Fenni
more Cooper; and Lieut.. Alonzo B. Davis, the Por.
pose. No commander has yet been designated fol
the remaining vessel of the squadron, the John P
Kennedy. The scientific corps of the expedition viii
be employed specially for the occasion from civil
life. Purser Boggs is to be the purser of the expe
diton. large portion of the North Pacific will be
examined, together with Behring's Straits, and the
adjacent coasts of Asia and America, and as much
farther north practicable.
The D1FFERENcE.-The Boston Post draws 8
striking distinction between the hopes of married
and single men, by stating that John Caple, bene
dict, who sentenced to death few days since il
Philadelphia appeared quite Indifferent to his fate
/ while Carson Emmos, bachelor, sentenced Mt tn,
II fiunn varfo az ha foft 11os- II.