Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-01-28
Things ia General.

Things General.
Somehow, the good things Of this world hardly
Eecm to be equally divided. A stranger going in
o one of our large cities of the North, will be
truck with the evidences of increasing luxury and
extravagance as manifested in elegant residences,
costly couipages, and splendid stores. The expen-
diture of money seems to be much larger than
Observation-Disclosures is carried on upon a more high
pressure SYSTEM and certainly fortunes have been
accumulated in several instance How much of all
this is shared by the actual producer Happen
ling to have some business with type-founder in
philadelphia, who also employs large number OF
printers, we took occasion to enquire the rates of
wagcs-certainty of employment etc, and found
little or no advance in wages and no greater GER
tsOay of employment-perhaps one-thIrd beng out
of work one-half of their time. The same or near
~ the same. is the case in the iron business al
though the price of iron has doubled. Indeed,
in no business has the price of labor at all kept
pace with the profits of employers.
One of the humbugs of the age is She lecture sys-
tenn On Saturday night last we went to hear Ihack-
arv the English Novelist, deliver lecture in Phia-
dclnhia uuon Hogarth the Painter and upon some
English writer's of llogarths era and we must say
that it was miserable affair; without critical taste
or accumen--a mere medley OF personal anecdotes
hastily gathered up and thrown loosely together.
he delivery EnglisE-that is to say-disagree-
able
Messrs Heron & Martin, of Philadelphia, talk Of
starting swift. lghtdraugtt propeller, to raln be-
tween that City AMI Wilmington. MIR. H. men
toned the matter to Us on Sunday last We
hcTe tie encouragement may be sufficient to var
IaIt the enterprise.
Judge Strange upon the AppoImInlen of Senator
We find in the Raleigh Standard the 10Th inst,
long and able argument from Hon. Rob't Strange,
in favor Of the power of the Governor to appoint q
Senator to succeed Mr. Mangum. Having been alb
sent from home this document did not sooner meet
our excellence our failure to notice it at earlier
day.
Judge Strange takes the ground, that upon the
expiration of MIR. Mangum's term on the 3rd O
March, there will be such vacancy in the Office o
Senator as the Governor will be required to ell; for
although y r. Mangums term will expire, the ofic'
of Senator from North Carolina will still exist anc
there being no incumbent of that Office, vocanc,
will, of course, happen.
The Judge next shows from various authorities
t3aat the word happen, in the Constitution. is USE
he the same manner: and with the same meaning a
occur take place., etc. and that, therefore,
stress can be laid upon the suppositon that tn
trainers of the Constitution selected the word hap
pen," as expressing any peculiar uncertainty, or a
not applicable to like the present. Nor is it
all probable that the trainers of the government
would have made use of language intended to ez
clude any State, under any circumstances, from it
full representation in the Senate of the U. States
which would be the effect of giving to this word til
meaning assigned to it by those who contend agans
the power of the Governor in this case. And
would be less indecent to suppose that the Trainer
Of the constitution contemplated and provided fc
such contingency as has actually occurred, than
suppose that they either failed to foresee it, or ha
ing forescen it to provide suitable remedy.
There is nothing in the history of this branch
the constitution, as gathered from the Journals
the Convention that framed it, from the prec
dents upon the point calculated 10 convey any in
preston that the failure of the Legislature presen
cd of vacancy excluded from the operation
the clause which gives the power of filling it to IL
Governor. The Journals and the precedents are r
viewed at considerable length.
We give in full the closing paragraph, whic
strengthens the views of the matter already take
in this paper:
Having thus considered this important qucstio
both upon reason and authority, we would add tn
it is maxim in all construction that it should
made III res magls raiedt guam pereat; and also th
the general purpose Of lhe maker of any instrumel
should be kept in view. Now if the constructic
contended for the other side is admitted the gel
eral purpose of the trainers of the Constitution th
every State shall have its part in the governmcn
will be partially defeated-that important instr,
ment be to some extent rendered invalid and Sta
for time shorn Of some of her rights without a
tanning. as far as is seen, any possible good. b
the construction for which We contend works no mi
chief interferes with nobodys Just authority, CARR
out the general purpose of the trainers of the Cons
tuition, and secures to each State inestimab
right-ronders that instrument more efficient, al
adds one more trophy to the foresight and wisdom
its immortal founders"