Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-12-02
The Meeting of consre.s--The Proposed New Party.

The Meeting of congress--The Proposed New Party.
is to be hoped that the next session of Congress
will endeavor to create character for itself founded
upon attention to business, and an avoidance of
Buncombe talking but it must be confessed, that
this hope is not very strong 1t is simply desire,
without any very great expectation of fulflIment-
1t is true that there are in the various relations
of the country home and abroad, interests to be
attended TO- and business to be dispatched, fully
sufficient to occupy we'll and proftably the time and
talents of the members of both Houses. In the
sage of the President and the reports of the differ
ent Secretaries will be found food for deep and
rious consideration, over matters of foreign and do
nestle polcy-a revision of the tariff, to bring the
collections within the range of the necessary dis
bursements of the Governmental reorganization
and increase of the Navy i'm short, all the vast
and complicated machinery of great Governmental
organization is to be kept trimmed and adjusted to
the progressive and expanding circumstances of the
country To stranger disinterested spectator,
it might appear natural and proper, that these great
interests should claim precedence Of the small squab
bles of Office. hunters, or local faconists-that up
on the soundness of the doctrines and measures re-
commended in the message and reports, and the a
bility with which these doctrines and are
mount of support, of opposition which the Adj
miniStration would receive, which it would have
to encounter One would think that most q nation
al Democrats at least would endorse both the Ian
guage and spirit of the message of Gov Manning of
South Carolina delivered Tuesday last to tie
Legislature of that State, where be says:
have omitted any .of Federal affairs since
is we'll known of your views upon these Subjects that adhe
renee to the cardinal principles State ghts
struc of The
enueto economical application of the finances of the
of the aws and Of all its
obligations give your support to the present distinguish
dsegardng all local disputes contentious for the emolu
ments and spOs of office.
1t might above all, be hoped and expected that
no man, or body Of men, claiming nationality, would
cndeavor, under any form OF shape under any
Prctext whatever and least of all, that of devotion
to The South, revive the slavery agitation which
twas sought to quiet by the 81 fnaliy' of the COM
promise 1t might certainly be thought that, if
South Carolina is willing to bury the Ratchet, her
pretended friends at the North-in New York
might be willing to do so too, rather than to
ken so dangerous agitation by nvectives against
party friends and joint supporters of the compro
mise and the Baltimore platform-such invectives
being founded upon matters which it is the policy
of all to consider settled by these measures.
But that these reasonable expectations of the
country destined to some extent at least to dis
appointment there remains little ground for doubt.
The true character cf the opposition movements in
New York is beginning to develope itself: these
movements look forward to the formation of new
party the objects of which, understood by its
leaders, will be the elevation of Messrs. Dickinson
6. Co. to power in 1856, but Democrats Here
after, direct warfare is to be carried against
the President-the thin pretext of separating him
from his Cabinet will be thrown aside-the great
measures of policy the grand facts of his admins
tration will be ignored, and the magnanimous at
tack will be directed against the appointments to
office; hence it is, that we look for noisy session
for Buncombe appeals--for personal illusions and
factious divisions. The Administration cannot be
safely attacked upon its policy, nor upon its acts
No refuge is left then, for the factions, but person
al invective, or complaints that the right men
(themseVes)-were not appointed to office.
But these boilers rapidly cutting their own
throats Before the disguise was thrown off, they
might have had, and, in fact, did have considerable
influence and corresponding powers of efecting mis-
chief in the Democratic ranks. Now however
since it is evident that they aim at coalition with
1he remnants of the Wing party, for their mutual
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, their race may be looked upon as
pretty nearly run. If that party, by itself, ele
word for it, that if they build their hopes upor
any accession of strength numbers which this
mOngrel cong Generation may seek to draw from the
masses of the genuine Democracy, they will be woe
fully mistaken. They will not succeed in rallying
q corporas guard, mot even in New York.
CHANGE.-We ought, perhaps, sooner to have
mentioned the fact that the daily stage line between
Warsaw and Fayetteville has been reduced to tri
weekly line, which regret, as it is certainly de
sirable if not absolutely necessary for the prosper
ty of the two largest towns in the State, that there
should be daily mail connection and communica
ton between Fayetteville and Wilmington. How
ever, as the thing has been managed from the frs
from whose fault we cannot say-the daily stag
never amounted to much, letters and papers takns
several days to get along at any rate.
We must confess that we have always though
that a considerable blunder has been made in tn
mail arrangements of the State The largest com
mercial correspondence between the Seaboard ant
the interior of North Carolina is evidently that
ried on between Wilmington and the back country
for which it is the forwarding and shipping depot
and this, combined with that of Fayetteville whic
operates on nearly the same line, is very decided
the heaviest: and yet there never has been any re
cognition of this fact in the arrangement of tn
mails. Half the time the mail facilities from thi
place to Fayetteville, have been inadequate in q
mount, and always inefficient in operation; and fror
that point West, they have not been at all, every
thing having to take the circuitous and general
tedious route through Raleigh.
DRowNED.-Alfred Craig, aged 90 years, yer