Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-11-25
The Difference.

6 public cannot be guilty of greater mis-
take" says the " ilmington Journal,-than to do
what does the reader suppose. Why. of course.
to fail to perform his public duty, to commit
act of corruption. No such thing. These are mere
peccadilIoes, which the Journal did not even think
of. The greatest mistake which public
commit, according to the moral philosophy of the
! Wilmington Journal, IS to 1Cr1te letters!
Now, the great difference between the Observer
and Journal, by the above, is shown in the
Observers CHASING supposing that other people
would class failure to perform public duty, or the
commission of some act of corruption among mis-
takes; qUe would call these crimes, or at the least
faults misdemeanors. We put letter writing
down mistake on the part of public man, and
the Observer, at once assuming that mistakes and
crimes the things in politics, says that
place it above neglect of duty corruption, which
very different things. If the Observers code of
moral ethics so confounds things, ours does not.
Betsy, the faithful slave of Madame lie Vert
whom Miss Bremer's new book America has
made a historical character, jumped from the Will
mlngton On. c. cars one day last week during an
alarm of fire and cry for the passengers to save
themselves She not missed for moment Or
two when the Conductor was entreated to reverse
the wheels and go back for her. He refused though
offered $1,000 to do At the next station gen.
tleman promptly chartered an engine and returned
to the spot where the alarm occurred and there he
found the poor woman lying beside the track in a
state OF nsensibility, with her body bruised and
swollen that the physician could not decide wheth-
er her bones were broken dislocated. Her re-
!, cevery is extremely doubtful Great blame is at
tached to the conductor for his apparent Indifference
to the life of the poor slave Betsy has been fire.
qrenty at the North and in England, France, Ger
many, and Italy witt her mistress. Many times
the aboIitionists urged her escape but never with
success. Such attachments are by no means un.
common, and they speak well for tie care, affection
and attachment of those who hold the two relations
of master and slave--N Y Express.
The above has been going the rounds of the press
and, upon inquiry at the Offices of the Wilmington
| & Raleigh and Wilmington & Manchester Railroads
we are informed that the statement is false no such
accident having occurred on either road. We un-
; derstand that an alarm of fire was created on the
South Carolina Railroad in consequence of the fa
of a small metal lamp, which had been laced on
table in the lady apartment, breaking one of the
tubes and causing the Camphine to ignite. The
passengers were much alarmed, and a negro woman
D jumped from the cars and was seriously I'M ured -
E This, we presume, is the accident alluded to.
For the Journal
At meeting of the Proprietors Of the Whining
ton Cemetery, held at the Commissioners Hall, or
Wednesday evening, the 10th inst, motion o
Col John McRAe, John A. Taylor, Esq, called
to the chair, and M. London appointed secretary
On motion, the meeting proceeded to ballot for
President, pursuant to the provisions of the act
ncorporaon,) which resulted in the election of DR.
y Armand J. DeRosSet, Jr.
The meeting then elected the following named
ii gentlemen Directors, to serve until the regular
election Gas provided for in the charter) the 2HC
Y Monday of January next, to wit: Messrs James
: Cassidy John A Taylor, Henry Mutt George R
French Edward Kidder and w. A. Wright.
he subscribed @
y Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars, and appointed Nj
S London solicit subscriptions from the citizens
. large to further an object of so much importance
and pressing necessity.
> The following resolution was unanimously adop
e ted
Resolved That the of the town be requested to pub
of citizens the Importance of rendering their aid to tn
speedy accomplishment of object which will promote tn
health of the living and the departed restin!
: place provided by affection, and protected by law
JOHN A. TAYLOR, Prest
e M LONDON, sec'y.
o DEATH OF SENATOR ATHERToN.-We have jus
e received the melancholy intelligence of the death O
x Hon. Charles Q. Anterior, u. 5 Senator from New
9 Hampshire, at Manchester, in that State, at l O
clock vest rday afternoon He was lawyer of grea
emnence, and was stricken down in the out-roon
e the field of his labor and pre-eminent reputation
s. since his retirement from the U = Senate in 1910
p Bern and reared in the county with Presiden
Pierce. close and uninterrupted friendship has sub
> sisted between them for the last thirty years. A
S the last session of the legislature of New Hampshire
in November he re-eec ed to the Senate am
now in the vigor of manhood in the strength of in
. ellec and at the highest point of his reputation
a lawyer and a statesman, he is stricken down. w
n have no time to speak of Mr.. Atherton, or of tn
II loss which the nation. and especially the State
s New Hampshire, has sustained in his death VIVA
!. shadows We are Washington onion.
MIR. Atherton the author of the celebrate
anti-Abotion Anterior Resolutions of 1882
The Louisiana Elections.
New ORLEANS, Nov. If Full returns receive
indicate emoeratic majority of thirty on joint bal
g LOT in Legislature Our Congressional delegatio
e. will stand three democrats to one whig.