Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-04-15

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that nothing was required to give Mex;co ro" ana
supremacy in the control of silver but an e yu'
Gus population that would not be content to r"s
bananas and revolution. won
Increase of ship Building In tIo,D.
Maine is the greatest ship building STATE !, a..
Union and perhaps no district of country IN ~, %s
world of equa. maritime frontier can vie with h ~
this particular Ships are the great crop Of ,hs S,"
We have not the last annual returns at hand bpt y,
less than 200 tons of shipping were built in h.
State during the last year, or more than half If IN
sea going tonnage added TO our commercial m,sas
during that period. This branch of business has n.
creased very rapidly within few years hroushmt
the State, as we'll as all over the country B y.
that the prospect is that the business is 10 be po
ecuted 10 much greater extent The coming season
than ever before. In single town in WsldoborC
District (Rockland) 10000 tons are to be built against
43O9 tons last year. The Belfast and other more
eastern Districts also propose to largely extend their
business In Bath unusually large number Of ships
are on the stocks and projected. According to the
Bath Tribune about II, 900 tons. mostly large ships
are underway
We cannot undertake to say 10 what extent our
ship builders safely 60 in the construction Of ships,
though it would seem as though there must be pause
shortly. The business has been going on at con-.
stanlly accelerated rate ever since 1847. The IA.
mine of that year enhanced the price of freghts
Zingly, and an immense stimulus was Thereby given
TO the shipping interest. The sudden sprngng up Of
the California trade followed and sustained the move
ment More lattery, Australia has appeared and
made yet another new demand for ships The con-.
sequence has been that the increase of our mercantile
marine during the last five years has been prodgons,
From 1925 to 1885 the total increase not over
40, 900 tons per annum. From 1885 to lS45 was
not more than 1000 ions year, while from 1916
TO incl has mt ppl
short of $50 900 ions, or more than double hearUual
increase of the preceding ten years Such remark
able ratio of increase under ordinary Circumstances
would inevitably result in arunOus plethora oil ship
ping.
But under the extraordinary demand of California
and Australia, and what we think of more potency
than either the vast increase of our cotton crop ana
in the production of coal, the navigation interest
has suffered general reverse but has been lot Inc
most part, productive and prosperous But 10 all Suca
galloping movements there must come an end OF I"
least a resting spell otherwise we shall soon have
ship for every bale of cotton and every ton OF coa We
produce. But considering the new fields opened lo'
our commerce in the Pacific seas, and Inc rapHy ~
creasing products of the country for the coaS'"lSs
carriage, it is difficult 10 fix the precise limits When We
must stay our hand in ship building. we eau O"g
see that the time must come sooner or ia'eT' eve!
thing, however, is tending 10 throw the comne,e' ="
the world more and more into our hands, anu n -
terprise Of our merchant and maritime poPuSU" ""'
strike boldly for it, in every quarter OF Inc ea'
til they shall find they have reached the uI'I"a' P'
of peaceful connuest-Neay York Tribune
THE PRICE OF DIAMONDS DIAMONDS ="
for cutting. are sold FL l3s I'D. to IL the ca,'I s
carat is rather more than three grains anu a,ons.
carats equal to one ounce troy. But II lne I,t' i
are above one carat. the square of the "es ,S,t
multiplied by the price of single carat s ~ costs
for example, rough stone of three CARGO snnds
3x3x 2 or ELS. 1t is similar with cut dlaI0"r w.
and at present (1850) the purest brllanS s.r,ts
carat fetch more than f8, brilliant OF w" wv Ten
2x2x 8, or 932 When stones are over e'S"' o.
carats, however, this is altered so that ''ey ouar
ten valued still highly. Diamonds ., o. ,dslv
ter of ounce weight are extraordinary largest
but still larger met with, and one Of :"' ROrneo
known is that of the rajah of Mattun, ~ W. that
! which weighs nearly two ounces and """' Oae in
of the Sultan of Turkey weighs two ouhcts anal.
the Russian sceptre more than an ounce a'a -. uch
ter The greatest diameter Of the last Is WV r.
the thickness ten lines. The Empress Ca' l1am nd
! purchased it in the year 1772 from AmS'e e. ESQ
for it was paid ELS, 900 and annuity o. o., n the
Diamonds weighing an ounce exist al'~ most per
French and Austrian regala. One oil tn n ~t ds
feet is the French, known as the Pitt or hoo an 90
mond. 1t was bought for Louis XIV log ma ser
giShman named Pitt, tor the sum VI ~. One
ling. but has been valued at half miiilO ~ Kohi
the stones most renowned in the East, Is Wv dtb
moor, or Mountain of Light, now In possess 70 Pei
Queen Of England. 1t came from tiolcot sra ounce
STA, and while uncut weighed more than nv tra
, but now, polished, only about two ounces
ued at more than e2,000.000 sterling. 8 o.tmatin
If we look only to the common mode o. ~ pour
the value, perfect brilliant weighing ' ar stat
e would be worth G20,00000O. Some la, treasur
that such diamond exists among the roy" aordins
e of Portugal, as large as hens egg; "''''
} others this is only topaz
Mon EsrY-There is decidedly more n,'1 nobi
; the male sex than in the femae-we ne" I'D bach
personal to the ladies. of course. VI inc society
ors to be met with in large numbers IN n modes
but a fraction owe their position to s1ee' baudsO
It's no use to cut semi-circles around 10th OBJ
$ figure and charming face, with you: ma knot
tering, and your knees cracking Ike Pin.nn,ntoras
" ers, and your whole frame exhibiting sy%f tss $
the ague. Red lips were never maae au waist y
purpose of being looked at, nor snla aa while
: you might guess at its circnmeren;oor' the dnt
means of tasting the one or ascertalns your graz
sons of the other to nicely, are wi.n% he sure
Q IF you dread her as an angel, you n'5 faiat boz
E will laugh at you as great goose
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