Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-11-23
A California Newspaper Mar.

Editorial life in California is thus described by
e one of them" He is referring to the daily routine
First Gets up in the morning at ten o'clock,
dresses himself, puts his hat, in which six or
bullet hoes and goes 10 restaurant for break
fast. After breakfast, starts to the office to Look
over the papers, and discovers that he is called a
coward in one of them, liar in another, and pup
ply in another he smiles at the pleasant prospect Of
having something to do; fills out and dispatches
three blank challenges, ream two of which he
always keeps hand, ready printed, 10 save time
commences writing leader when the clock
strikes eleven large man, with cowhide in one
hand, pistol in the other bowie knife in his belt,
walks in and asks if his name is -; he answers
by knocking the intruder dowh two pair of stairs
with chair.
At twelve o'clock finds that his challenges have
been accepted, and suddenly remembers that he has
little affair of that nature to settle at the beach that
day, at three O'Clock goes out and kills his man,
and then comes in and dimes stewed grizzly starts
for the office, and while going there gets mixed in
street row, and has the heel of his boot shot off by
accident laughs to think how beautifully it
done; arrives at his sanctum and finds " Internal
machine upon the table, knows what it is. and
merely pitches it out of the window writes arti
Gle on " moral REFORM and then starts for the thea
ire attacked on the of dark alley by
three men, kills two of them and takes the other to
the station house Returning to the office at eleven
o'clock at night kills dog with paving stone );
gets run by cab, and has the tail of his coat
slitted open by thrust from knife, and two bullet
holes put through his beaver he steps within his
own door smiles at his escape, writes until two o.
clock and then turns in, with the happy conscious
ness of having two dues 10 fight the next day.
ANOTHER NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the English
journals to be veing with each other in the ut
terance of absurd stories concerning the United
States. We have already alluded to the ridiculous
fables put into circulation by the London Times the
London Morning Chronicle, and the London Globe
We suhjon another brilliant illustration from the
lu of thn Thoe 81
is the pro- Russian sympahes of the United States
In this we have the delicious bit of information tina,
Russians swarm in all the States, and especially in
the most enlightened, hich take the lead in politics.
and in the slave States of the first rank, whose par
tcular function is to keep in check the constitutional
lepubcanism of the North, and who amuse them
selves in the intervals of business with planning the
separation of Canada with its twenty thousand of
fugitive slaves and their progeney) from England,
and its annexation to the States To such listeners
Russians (some of them the Cars own correspon-
dents } talk constantly and effectively of Russian
greatness, influence, wealth, civilization and so forth
GREAT OCEAN STEAMERS Persia steamship
belonging 10 the Cunad line, recently launched at
Glasgow; the Adriatc, belonging to the Collins line
and the New York, belonging 10 c. Vanderbult now
building in New York, will be, when com rleed, the
largest merchant steamers in the world They will
be about 5000 tons burthen each, and will afford
ample opportunity for proving the quality of each in
the contest for the mastery of the Atlantic The
hull of the Persia is of iron, and her engines are 10
lie side lever timber The former is said to have
large oscilatng engines, the latter beam engines
| The keel of The New York is straight, and SO are
all her water lines, and her centre of displacement is
amidships; the Adriatic has hollow water lines and
has her centre of displacement 20 feet abaft mid
ships. The former is built much stronger than the
latter, and has more capacity for cargo 1t is be-.
ieved that the Adriatic has the finest formed hull for
speed, and that it will be the fastest steamer aoat
lime however, will try them all, their comparative
performances will be of great importance to the
commercial and engineering classes of all countries
Scientific american.
| DEBT AND CREDIT OF GEoRGIA-Fron the mes.
sage OF the governor of Georgia. transmitted to the
legislature recently convened we learn that the en-
tire debt OF the State amounts to $2,644,222 o.
The governor expresses surprise that the price
| OF Georgia bonds should be lower in market than
those OF other States which larger debt, and
he calls the attention OF the legislature to the fact
The governor attributes it solely to the reason that
the interest on the State bonds is payable at Augusta
and Savannah, and at the treasury at Mledgeyille.
The State of Georgia owes but small amount when
her vast resources are taken into consideration 1t
is recommended to make the interest payable in New
York, and to call in such of the State bonds as are
mot payable there and to issuelothers in their stead