Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-10-27
The News bv the Africa.

The News by the Africa.
The news by the Africa, which arrived at New
York on the goth inst with three days later news
from Europe, will take most people by surprise, as
il scatters 10 the winds the inflated accounts OF the
terrible defeats of the Russians, and the incredible
achievements of the allies, which seem to have ia
ken in everybody, even the sagacious and usually
well-informed London Times having expressed its
confidence in the substantial correctness of the ru-
mors Sebastopol may yet be taken, and it proba
bly, will-but it's capture, if long deferred, will be-
come very doubtful indeed as of course the armies
of Bessorabia and those previously operating in the
principalities will be pushed forward 10 the Crmea
with all speed, to so important, If not VITAL a
point 1t is said that Omar Pasha has orders also to
Join the armies of the Crimea, so that the main
struggle Of the is soon 10 be transferred to that
Peninsula, where each of the contending parties in
stead of sixty or seventy thousand men, may name
uvre three times that number, in a space not much
larger than the State of Massachusetts, AS such
immense ornaments must very soon exhaust the re-
sources of contracted aid poorly cultivated ter
rtory it would seem that the Russans-cut off from
supplies by sea by the overwhelming naval prepon-
derance of their enemies, and by land by immense
tracts of desert waste or sckly morass-woud labor
under great disadvantages, and had net selected their
theatre of war with their usual astuteness. With
the selection, however, they could have had very
little to do, as they now on the defensive and
must meet their enemies at the point of attack.
The powder burnt in France and England, over
the bogus triumphs in the Crimea may be very much
needed before the war in that quarter is brought to
close. We believe that the general effects of the
war upon commerce rather depressing than
otherwise, and, therefore, should like to peace
but not accompanied with such predominance of
the allies" as would leave then with the power
and appetite for further dictaton in the West after
their successful intermeddling in the East
The State Fair.
We learn, from a gentleman ust returned from
Raleigh that the crowd there is perfectly unprece
dented, and the dust enormous The articles ex-
hibition are said to greatly exceed in number and
quality those of the first fair. The address deliver
ed by Hon. Kenneth Rayner, is spoken of in the
highest terms and will, doubt appear better
upon paper it delivered under great disadvan-
tages. Our friends of Sampson county seem TO have
been largely represented and the articles sent from
the Clinton Female Institute were exceedingly beau
tfu The only article which our informant noticed,
/
Cassiday," exhibited by Jesse Cassidy; a Case of
Dental apparatus by DR.. Carr; model of patent
Single Machine by Jacob VESSEL and specimen of
rice by T. d. Meares; not certain whether the
latter halls from this county or Brunswick.
There a number of elegant carriages and
buggies, among the rest a carriage exhibited by
Messrs Dbble & Brother. The trotting and
ploughing matches passed off well, although not
quite on the go. 4O.'' order.
The "Don Quixote Invincibles were decidedly
conspicuous, with swords, hats, and shirt-coars
" prodigious," Dominic Sampson would have said.
This, we suppose was a burIesque on the militia
system.
The Democrats and FusIOnfsts.
The following from under the editorial head of
Quincy Qll) Herald, the Democratic organ in. Col
Richardson's district shows how that prominent lead
er is kept before the people:
The Right of the People Rule
Estate Sovereignty-NationGl Union"