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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-12

THE FRANKLIN ExPEDITJoN.-Inorm of a
very interesting character has been received by go
vernment, which, if correct-and it has every ap-
pearance of authentcity--may turn out to be Of
great Importance hearing of the fate of the miss
ing Arctic expedition under Sir John Franklin. 1t
is to the effect that intelligence has been conveyed
to the Russian government at st. Petersburgh that
several of what called glass balls have been
found by the natives at the mouth of the river Obi,
which falls into the Arctic basin at the seventeen
parallel of latitude. The Russian authorities trans
mitted this information without delay to foreign
office, and request has been despatched that some
of the so-caIled glass balls''-more probably bot
tles-may be, if possible: secured and transmitted
to England.
The locality where these balls or bottles are said
to have been found is precisely that to which they
would probably have drifted, had they been thrown
overheard or otherwise detached from Franklns
ships, in the latter had attained high north
ern latitude for the current of the Arctic ocean
sets along the Siberian towards the European coast,
is evidenced by the great quantity of drift wood
&c, found on the shore. 1t would of course. be
premature to arrive at the conclusion that these
glass balls relics Of Franklin's expedition but
the information crude though it be, is of too mpor-
tant and curious nature to be summarily dismiss
ed as unworthy of attention.-London Times.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-12
The kaleigh District.

We do not pretend, as Democrats to conceal our
modification at finding that so strong Democra.lc
District as the above is to be represented or rain
er misrepresented, for the next two years. Oy
gentleman of political views directly opposed on
many questions, to the majority of his constituents
hut find some consolation in knowing that the
grand result so far as preponderance on the floor
of the House of Representatives is concerned, can,
in no wise. be effected by this exceptional case
and in hoping and believing that such occurrence
will put an end to the dssensions of the Democratic
partv in the Metropolitan District, by impressing
upon the minds Of its members the necessity OF har-
uony and strict organizations for the purpose of
preventing the recurrence of such an ah"r
MIR Venable is gentleman: whom spite OF his
faults and weaknesses we have always been inclined
to like and respect,-personally, at least,-nnd re-
GREETED deeply his course upon Bennets Land Bill
a course which we so little expected from him, that
without examining the reported votes, we put him
down as opposed to it in common with the great DO
DIV of his party at the South, and only thought OF
seeing into the matter when the Fayetteville Obser
7or pointed out our error This combined with Mr.
Venabe's subsequent course in the canvass, IS what
caused us regret-we feel none for his defeat when
we hope will teach lesson of Democratic harmony
while his election would have offered premium
upon false principles and dsorganizing conduct
If the course Of the party and its presses Mr. Ven
abes District be censurabe for aught, it is for an
undue leniency towards him; for an unwillingness
to stgmatise his political course as strongly and as
yompfu as it deserved-certainly not for undue Sc
verify There are, in each and every District, Pc
culiar difficulties, which only those resident among
them, and cognizant of their character and magnl-
tude fully appreciated and these should be pro-
perly understood by all inclined to cast any refec-
tions upon the of the party in the fourth Dis
trict One thing is now evident, of which we here
at a distance had means of judging-Mr. Lewis
was evidently weak and unpopular candidate and
this foistng themselves upon the party by unpopu-
lar incompetent men, is the difficulty against which
Conventions were intended to provide.
However, we are not without hope, almost a.
mounting to a certainty, that the untirng efforts
of the Democrats Of the 1st District have been
ed with success, and that DR.. Shaw will fill the
blank in the democratic delegation, caused by the
failure to elect Democrat in the Raleigh District
The second and seventh Districts true to their
colors and of course the third is. So we have held
our own and if unfortunate circumstances have
paralyzed for time the efforts of the good party
men of the fourth District, we have sort of grim
pleasure in knowing that our Wing friends have a
sort of sore place in Clingman's District. So lie
rejoice and take it easy, since it rains too hare
10 60 out of doors
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The Returns.

THE F1Rsr AND THIRD DIsrR1crs.-The full ON
cia returns have moi yet been received from these
Districts, but enough is known to place the election
of SHAW and CRA1oE beyond the reach of a doubt.
The first District gave Scorr four hundred, and
was looked upon as staunch Wing District. Inc
election of SHAW is, therefore, clear Democratic
oain. The seventh District gave SCOTT 49, out
wa. regarded as doubtful-REID having carried II
for Governor. The triumph of CEAIGE is fair test
of the politics the District which is thus shown TO
be Democratic by over three hundred majority
Tur OrrrR DISTRICTS the exception OF
tho Metronolitan, where the Democrats lost men,
her nv their own divisions, have gone as had been
anticipated. RuTFIN. regular Democrat carrying
the second by very large majority; AsHE' regular
Democrat. carries the third District as follows:
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DON'T he Uneasy,

Our good and amiable friends of the Wilmington
Herald and Fayetteville Observer are quite clamor-
GUS in their interrogatOries with regard our posi-
ton in connection with the views announced in the
speeches of Mr.. DAVIS, and other members of the
Cabinet, the occasion of the Presidential visit to
New York, to be present at the opening ofthe Crys-
tai Palace We beg to assure them, that at the fit
ting time-that is to say, get chance to
examine into the subject in all its bearings, which
we have not yet done-we shall take occasion to
give our views upon any and every topic which may
seem to fall properly in way, and in such man.
ner that our position need not be mistaken by any
one not wilfully blind.
The truth about the matter is, that we have not
even read the speeches of Messrs DAVIS CUSHING or
GUTHRIE, about which so much is said, and we
should really like to do so before answering ques
tions about them. All in good time gentlemen and
there is plenty of time before the next session Of
Congress.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-12
MIR. Lewis

gentleman by this name candidate for
Congress in the Fourth District. A. w. VENABLE
was another and both claimed to be Democrats
MIR. LEWIS occupied what we looked upon the
true Democratic ground. and Mr.. VENABLE did not
So, upon principle, felt bound to desire the cleo
ton of Mr.. LEWIS. Ofhis popularity or other quail
tiles, beyond the fact that his ground on the land
question was the true one, knew nothing, and
pretended to know nothing, Our support, SO far as
it went, was purely upon principle, and therefore
would be again given should the same difficulty occur
But the difficulty to which we have alluded in another
article this subject, the fact that Mr.. LEWIS
being in the field the supporter Of the principles
of the regular Democratic party, could not be set
aside without widening the unfortunate breach al
ready existing in the Raleigh District; while at the
same time, his unpopularity and want of political
experience, untitled him for being the champion of
an imperiled cause. His defeat is midtown to the
which he advocated and the public mind is
abused by false issue thus made. 1t is for these
and other good reasons that we contend that no man
should be allowed to push himself upon party as
its champion. unless called to that position by those
in whose name he acts who may then be regarded
as triumphing or being defeated with him, and not
otherwise
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-12
ASHES maiority.......2l38


Ia the fifth District, JOHN KERR, Wing is elected
there being no opposition. We have little doubt
that PURYEAR, Wing is elected over BOYD. Demo
crat.-the odds-over a thousand--were too heavy
The seventh, we have already alluded to. CLING
MAN is elected we believe, in the eighth So after
ALL the delegation will stand four to four, and no
Democratic disorganizers.
1t is worthy of notice, that in every District where
in the Distribution question was made direct Is
sue, the Democrats opposing Distribution have not
only held their own but gained upon their oppo-
nents. SHAW carried the first District, and beat
OUTLAW, who had this boosted popular hobby to
sustain him. LoFT1N, in the second, and LEAK In
the third, are nowheres. Yet, how they did rant
and rare, and curse and swear, wherever they dare
Well, they did--in their gizzards.
In the Seventh District Craige had not only to
stand up against an eloquent and popular opponent
but he had to encounter the opposition of such DEM
ocrats as Venabe, Leak & Co., and he has triumPhed
over all.
How much idle prating hereafter to hear about
this most exceedingly popular hobby, its exceeding
" wise promoters-he of idea, and that not
half made up. Good men and true men have been
deceived and will continue be deceived in matters
with which they have not been called upon to make
themselves fully acquainted But if they allow them
selves to be deceived twice in the way then il
their own fault
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rh. coeta AFFAIR.

After all that has been said about maintaining
the independence and integrity of the Turkish EN-
pre we fear that it too late to do either and the
recent transactions IN the harbor of Smyrna go lar
to prove the truth of this. The whole of the pro-
ceedings of the parties concerned go far to exhibit
the contempt in which Turkish authority is held on
it's own SOIL and its incompetence to vindicate the
sacredness and neutrality of its territory and har-
bors. The act of the Ausrians, in forcibiy and
outrageously abducting the man COSTA, While sub
iect to Turkish law and upon Turkish soil was
clear and undouhted insult which nation would
dare to put upon another capable of defending her
self; and the course which circumstances forced
Lieut. INGRAHAM to pursue, can only be justified by
the failure of Turkey to adopt the proper measures
in the case ; for certainly, the very idea of the
armed vessels of different nations preparing to do
hattie in neutral harbor is contrary to all usage,
and an insult to the sovereignty of the nation to
which the harbor belongs. When a Government
gets to that point that it neither defend its soil
nor its harbors diplomacy 60 but little ways in
preventing its death, although it may retard is
bnr;a1
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-12
New Publications

From Whitaker, we have the following, for August:
CasseIs Natural History of the Feathered Tribes, ;"
part l.. % cents-6S large octave pages handsomely
illustrated
The Popular Educator No. 4,-about as octave
pages, illustrated. Price, 123 cents.
illustrated History of Hungary" by Edwin L.
GOdkin, to be completed in eight monthly parts 124
cents part
The Alps, Savoy and Lombardy," by Rev Chas
Williams, to be completed in twelve monthly parts,
25 cents part. Profusely illustrated.
The Illustrated Magazine of Art" for August,
good number of a valuable though roughly finish
ed work
"The History of the Painters of all Nations,' by
Charles Blanc. The present number comprises a
Biography of Yelasquez, illustrated by engravings
from his pictures.
All these are for sale by WHITAKER, and publish.
:. ea ~ ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY, Spruce st., N. Y.
SHOOTING CAsE-We learn that a case of shoot.
ing occurred at Caintuck, in this County, on Thurs
day, Sd inst, resulting in the death of man named
Daniel Johnson from the effects of shot fred b,
Henry BarnhiH. The affair occurred near the cleo
ton ground, but arose, We learn, from causes total
y unoonDected with the election.
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Rs9~ The Steamship Star of the West arrived at
New York on the 9th inst, with two weeks later
news from California. She brings about million
of dollars of gold freight and in the hands of
passengers, and reports million and half on the
way.
The Mining and Agricultural accounts gene
rally favorable. The towns of Ophr and French
Corral had been destroyed by fire about the 9Th ult
Loss 100000. Lola Montez has been married to a
MIR. Hail. recently of the San Francisco Wing
A DANGEROUS ARTIcLE.-Professor Silliman says
that the destruction of human life annually in this
country, from the Of fluid and camphene, is
greater than all the accidents by Steamboats, and
railroads.
1t is somewhat remarkable that, in this portion of
North Carolina, where camphene and spirits are SO
generally used, and frequently in the hands of ne
gro servants, accidents not to be thot
of, while at the North they seem to be so common
and so fatal.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-12
From the Melbourne Argus, April l5
Is Australia to become Independent

We want freedom! With that, all would 60 we'll
To achieve this grand desideratum should be the
principal object of that body which affects repre-
sent the public We shall get it some day, and
with the socalled representatives the alterna-
tive of acquiring it for us by constitutional MEANS
mary process. One or other must be done, and that
right early. The times brook no delay. Under or
binary circumstances night be contented to lin
ger along in the semi-death social and political,
which England seems to consider the proper condi-
ton for her colonial offspring; but this torpid con-
dition, disgraceful to men, and doubly dis
graceful to representatives of the vaunted race
of Anglo-Saxons is utterly incompatible with our
present condition. We must be free. The main
duty of our council will be to point out the mode
At present we are mere slaves-subject to the mis-
rule and bowling to the caprices of an irresponsible
nominee, who bitter, bitter experience has taught
us may be both very bad and very silly man
We slaves to all intents and purposes, and the
chains are not the less CALLING because they gilt
with some fanciful mockery of freedom. How true
is this, when the very body of whose composition
we now speak, the ''Legislatve Council" itself
that I" deliberative assembly, to whom we ought TO
look the constitutional of redress for al!
our grievances-that body upon which, as men
knowing what freedom u.s. we ought to be able i'm
mediatey to rely, nothing better than an assembly
deliberately packed of squatters and nominees
where the peoples voice is scarcely heard and
where their few real representatives constantly
0utVoted upon every great question. by the vote Civ.
ing machines of the nominee master of this nation
of slaves.
All this will have to change The present state
of things cannot last. government NAV linger
on utterly unpopular, for a while but the insolent
defiance of public opinion. which is the grand char.
acteristic of our present executive, carries within
itself the seeds OF its own destruction, and the de
struction too, of the vile system which could have
organized it. A change must come, and we cal
upon the Legislature of Victoria seriously to beware
that it come peacefully. We want no outbreak &
We hate bloodshed, whether the single murder o.
the gallows, the wholesale murders of the melee
but we cannot always continue race of slaves anc
the most AFFECT soul amongst may rest assured
that we shall not
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-12
Tennessee Election.

NASHVILLE, Aug. 9.-Complete returns from SO
counties show gain for Johnson, the Democratic can
ddate for Governor of 100 votes, and his cleo
ton is conceded. The wings, so far, gain member
of Congress, and have majority on joint ballot in the
Legislature.
DEATH OF Col. BLIss.-A ccordng to telegraphic
despatch in the Savannah News of Saturday last,
learn that Col Bliss, son-in-law of Gen Taylor,
died at Pascagoula the 5th inst, of Yellow Fe-
Yer
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Later from Europe.

NV Yong. August 7th.--The steamer Baltic arri-
we'd at noon today bringing 167 passengers and Liver
nool dates of july 27th. The Africa arrived out on
The oath The Baltic passed the City OF Manchester
on the goth, bound in.
The ship ] T., of New York for Liverpool took hre
at sea on July 7th from spontaneous combustion and
was consumed. 49,
Among the Baltic's passengers Bishop Nell
yaine T. Butler King and M. Julien.
RUSSIA Ind TURKEY.-The Turkish dlttculty was
considered as settled Although the Cars acceptance
of the proposal OF France and England had not been
received it was daily expected.
The vanguard of the Russians entered Bucharest on
July 18th Everything quiet in the pInc'pallt'es
The Costa affair in statu quo. The ST. LOUIS
had left Smyrna. Two Austrian trgates had arrived
there.
1t was rumored at Constantnople that the United
States are negotiating 10 purchase the port .rnelzza
ENGLAND.-The crops in Eng land and Ireland were
generally good There potato rot.
1t is reported that England is negotiating with Den
mark to obtain command of the entrance of The Baltic
in case of with Russia.
FRANcE-lt is stated that the opening of the French
ports to the imports of Breadstufs is TO quiet the
anxiety than from any fact OF a scarcity.
Christina of Spain is in Paris intriguing to marry
her daughter TO Prince Napoleon.
The news concerning the crops in the south OF
France ia. orable, particularly for corn. olives and
figs. The same is the in Cher and Normandy.
The funds are steady The three per cents, closed
at IS fr zoe. Four and Halves lo3 fr. SC.
INDIA AND CHINA The Indian Mail had arrived a
Trieste with Hong Kong dates of June 9TH, Calcutta
10th, and Bombay of the goth.
The Chinese Empire had been divided and Nankir
declared independent of the Tartar dynasty AT Can
ton great anxiety felt and approximations entertain
ed of rising of the people.
| Trade in India was dull.
| The British had made no advance on Ava.
The steamer Harrington was lost on her passag
from Shanghai to Hong Kong. Her crew and passen
gers were savad.
AUSTRALIA despatch from Vienna of the 22d
states that conspiracy had just been discovered ant
AZ persons, including several students, had been ar
rested.
/ The differences between Austria and Switzerlsn
had been nearly settled
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-12
The Expedition to the Amazon,

The note of Lieut. Porter, denying that he has OBJ
tanned furIough for two years, and been placed in
command of squadron fitting out for the Amazon is
not regarded by the Washington correspondent of the
Republic and others correspondents from Washing on,
settling the matter that efforts are making to get
up an expedition for purpose of going to the ANA
river The statement is, that Lieut., Porter had
been consulted about it. until his attention was led
to the iegality of it. Satisfied that it was illegal he
promptly abandoned it. TIE correspondent of the
Republic thus explains what done:
This subject involves more than the public are
aware. Prominent merchants of New York are desjr.
of opening trade with the countries watered by the
tributaries OF the Amazon. They argued that Fern,
Ecuador, Bolivia. and Venezuela, owning these tribu
taries, have right to use the great highway of the
Amazon to get out 10 sea and. upon The invitation to
those countries they propose TO vndicate that RICH,
by forclbly passing the Brazilian jurisdiction Armed
with this argument and an armfu of Vattel showing
the rights of Peru &c 10 navigate the Amazon Lieut.
Porer-the New York merchants at the head of the
movement-and ether parties interested, held con-
sultaon in this city not long since, and presented
their proceedings, Lieut. Porter declaring his readiness,
to fight against any odds if his country would but say
IT was right so 10 do. The subject was fully consid
cred IN Cabinet session. and the answer 10 the expe
dtonests was, that however perfect the right of Peru
and the other countries named, it was by no means
clear that they could transfer that right 10 another
Power, and that before the proposed expedition could
be legal, those engaged in it would have to denaona
lie themselves, become subjects of Peru or Ecuador
or BOLIVIA, when, of course, they would loose thei
Tight to protection by the United States At this point
believe Lieut.. Porter broke off his active connection
with the project.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-12

A Wisconsin lawyer is said to have commenced
an address to the Court in the following STYLE 'The
Court will please observe that the gentleman from
the East has given them very learned speech
He has roamed with old Romulus, soaked with old
Socrates, ripped with Euripides, and canted with
Cantharides; but what, your honor, does he know
of the laws of Wisconsin %
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-12

A Broad Il1NT--" Doctor" said waggish par
ishoner of good old Parson P to him one day,
think that must have pew nearer the desk
than where now sit" Why says the parson
{" can't you hear well where you are 90 = o yes,"
was the reply !" but that amt it. The fact is, there
are 80 many people between me and the pulpit that
BY the time what you say gets back to where /
am, it is as fat as -anater -
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LOUISVILLE, Aug 9.-It is ascertained TO a
certainty that Messrs. Linn Boyd, Chrisman Elliott,
Breckenridge and Stanton, democrats, and Messrs.
Grey, Hill, Preston, Ewing and Cox, wings cleo
ted Congress, making the delegation stand in the
last Congress. The wings have large majority in
the Legislature.