Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-12-14
Congress.


prospect of it. The rumor that the Democrats in
tended to run Howell Cobb in place of Mr.. Richard
son. turns out 10 be one of those groundless reports
so rife in the brains of Washington correspondents.
Up to the time of adjournmenN on Wednesday after
noon, there had been fifteen baloltngs for Speaker,
without result On the last ballotting the vote stood
as follows For Lewis D. Campbell, 90 w. A.
Richardson, IA H. M. Fuller, 10. The balance of
the votes scattered around on Messrs. Whitney,
Smith, BANKS, Pennington, Marshall Puryear, Thurs
ton Mace, Nichols and Oliver Whole number Of
votes cast, 219 necessary 10 a choice, 10. We
hardly look for the Message this week. One thing
is certain, the true Democrats will coalesce with
ching unsound.
No result yet, and consequently no message. Up
10 Thursday evening there had been q ballottiDgs
for Speaker of the House of Representatives. The
vote cast for MIR. Richardson, the Democratic cand.
date, varies very slightly and is about the same
on the 2lst the 1st ballotting. On the last he
got H. and L. D. Campbell, the highest on the oppo-
stion list, 46. The fact is that the Democratic vote
is the only thing fixed. The opposition keeps
sloshin' around" between half dozen OF course,
there are speculaons innumerabe, but We see no
figures that figure out Speaker this week.
A general feeling of upeasiness appears to be
gaining ground. A fear that long contest will
render any harmonious organization impossible, and
that flare up may be only the beginning of the
end The strange performance of isms-the reins
given to ultra notions, all add to the danger of the
position, because they weaken the reliance which
formerly existed in the ultimate good sense and
seryative feeling of Congress. No such reliance can
be placed in the strangely compounded majority of
the House Some Southern men we know have gone
determined to do the best and work for the best
but at the same time prepared for the worst. The
total want of mutual reliance is the great element of
danger We know not what may be the result, but
feel certain that few more such Congresses must
prove fatal to the Union So much for the first
fruits of' Sans" ascendency.
a. Well all the factions at the North made COM
mon cause against the Democracy and the Demo-
cratic Administration, and they carried the North
and they defeated PIERCE" aud the Southern oppo
sition reolced in the defeat of Pierce by the said
factions Congress has met and there is pretty
kettle of fish, surely. The only right up and down
crowd are the friends of the said PIERCE and they
stick up for straght.out national man for Speaker
having passed straight-out national resolutions in
their caucus. They in the minority, to be sure
but they occupy as bold position though there
was not an opponent in theiworld.
Now don't it strike every honest Southern man, in
view of the present position of things in and out of
the House, that there might have been great many
better movements, both in Southern and in national
point Of yew than this raid against the Democratic
party? Don't it seem as though the old Wing
strength might have been more advantageously
pIoyed than in combining with all sorts of people to
produce the state of things now known TO exist We
cannot but think So We cannot but think that the
sober second thought of rejecting, conservative
and patriotic men all over the country will sustain us
in entertaining this opinion. Upon the whole,
don't it strike anybody with half an eye or
half thought, that this much abused Pierce"
and the equally abused party with which he acts,
and which acts with him, stand long way ahead, in
and fidelity the South, of all the
bined elements opposed to them in the House? But
it would seem that are mole than half mistaken
in our reference to combined y elements. The on
ly real combination was to carry the electonsbeyond
that there seems to be anything else than unity OR
combination There is decided principle of action
embracing all the interests of all the countryno Co.
hesiye power The desire for Office and the wild
opposition to the national administration. However
powerful these elements may be for purposes of dis
traction and opposition, they must be totally power
less for useful conservative action. Look at the
thing it stands and judge it by it's developments.
OUTRAGE-A strange outrage has just come to our
knowledge, which indicates necessity for the adop-
ton of the most stringent of patrol. With
in the last two weeks Mr. H. Wood, formerly fer
ryman at the Market street ferry, going out TO
place be is working, about four miles from town,
when two negroes sprang out of the bushes and one
of them struck his horse over the head with stick
and killed him. Mr. Wood was lame from the effect
of some injury, and therefore happened to have
stick with which he struck the negro and knocked
him down--the other picked up his PROSTATE COM
panion and made off. 1t was after sunset, but not
very dark. Mr.. W God did not recognize the negroes
1t occurred we learn, about twelve days ago.
Qc+- Gody's Lady's Book for January is at hand
with steel plates and numerous illustrations on Wood
"a capital number, and handsome opening for the
new volume Price So year for single copy: two
copies for IS.
from Europe.
HALIFAX, N. s., Dec 5-The British and North
American Royal mail steamship America, arrived at
this port last night from Liverpool with advces to
the oath ut. There is nothing important in her
news relative to the war question, with the exception
of rumors of probability of peace being made,
which not lIv 1foJ