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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-04-30

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oeriKg the Intensive and Of NJ
and msodeons to 10 found in the city tho
selves Messrs w. Ladd co superior disyO prem
nm pianos; and hessrs. Carhart Needh
all OF which will be sold that defy oompeton
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-04-30

ortmcnt of celebrated pinos in The United States Gil
bort snd Co. premium olean piancs Horace Waters
tern anos and those Of large number Of other
bakers comprising the largest and mast desirable yssor
nans In the Union will be sold price which defy eompe
atisr for cash satisfactory paper Pianos 20 rent.
HORACE WATERS, S33 Broadway.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21

Who Stricken Down and who was Sustained
Some of the anti Democratic organs, here in this
State, talk about the Nebraska Democrats from tho
North not having been sustained at home. No, they
were not-they fell before the torrent of K. II. Flu
sion in that section. But that is not the worst of it,
Let us look nearer home. Who has been sustained
and who has been struck down in North Carolina g.
Only two Wings from this State were candidates for
reelection in August last Mr.. Kerr, Kansas and
Nebraska man, and MIR. Puryear, anti.Nebraska
man. Kerr was stricken down by the order. Pur-
year sustained and sent back. What is the use Of
talking about the North not standing up when this is
the way things are done in the South-when she sus.
tains those who desert her, and strikes down those
who stand by her The thing is worthy of being
looked at. And Henry M. Shaw, gallant Nebras-
ka man and Southern-rights Democrat, was stricken
down in Kenneth Rayner's Distrct-the District of
man who was willing to yield the whole principle for
which the South contends in the present issue.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21
From the London Times August %
Inc Late Allied Attack Oh SuenbOrp
WHAT ENGLAND LOST AND WHAT prss1, 60,

1h., . From the London Times, August %
WHAT ENGLAND LOST AND WHAT RUSSIA c1Ivpn
We must say that the actual results are an IN,
mense deduction from the boasted victcrv ina,
IonslueE now the matter really stood at the close
the Commandment between US and the Russians w.
had not silenced their batteries but we had s;loroS
our own. We were silenced, not only for the nroo
en but for the whole season, for anything that nav,
appears. The two immense fleets were heIrIess NV
cept 10 keep the Russians in harbor. We bad Jah
our sung IN the wound SIT is source OF universal
regret" says our correspondent, "hat there was moi
reserve OF spare mortars sent out not so much n
replace the Spoit ones as they became injured and
so continue the bombardment longer, but because We
might have followed this blow with another as 49,
we're IN different quarter Why, the bio shins
might have carried any number of mortars carr;agp
and ALL as ballast in fact, one ship is now taking
out mortars enough for the whole folla. In forv.
eight hours perfectly new mortar has been subsii
tuted tor every Spollt one, and the gunboas might
have presented themselves as the heralds of their
own victory at Revel or Riga or even Cronsadt, be.
tore the enemy had time to adapt his defences to the
very important fact established at Sweaborg. He
mad evidently made miscalculation there and was
not prepared for the means at our command he hal
probably made the same miscalcuation elsewhere
ana Is equally unprepared, if We only prepared
to meet the blow. This, unfortunately, we are not
30 we are forced to leave him time to improve the
occasion, and our victory at Sweaborg is only les
son Ia selt-detence which give Russia, at no great
cost to her, but at immense cost to ourselves Our
people, indeed are attempting TO calculate the dam
age we have done in pounds sterling But if this is
TO be the single achievement of the season in the
Baltic, we fear the balance is sadlv against u.s. for
the fleet in that have not cost the allies far.
thing under two millions piece, and the utmost
damage we can boast to have done at Sweahorg isa
million and hall, or thereabouts The mere pecu
mary results of the season, then, are immensely
against u.s. That, however, is small affair. The
WORST Is that we have thrown away the opportunities
of this year just for want of looking forward and
being prepared for the contingency of success Next
year. doubtless, we shall nave mortars enough; but
the Russians will then be prepared for us, and we
may not be able to go through our pretty but de-
srtuctive dance of gunboats, just within range with
the same success. The truth u.s. the Russians learn
faster than we do, and will always be Just so much
ahead OF US as to set at defiance our immense SUPER
onty OF wealth and mechanical skill; at least they
will do SO till there is rather of the Vlv1d us
Gnam', which is ever foreseeing and providing for
the future I'D our conduct of the war.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21
Turkey,

In the absence of news from the seat of war; and
OF any thing important when advces do come, has SET
cypress 10 specuating the probable future of Tur
key; and the conclusion seems to have been pretty
generally arrived at, that in any event, the Sublime
Pert is doomed to lose all its subliity it, indeed its
very existence as an independent power be not threat
ened And rightly enough When power ceases
to be power, in fact as we'll as in name what is it
but hypocrisy 10 keep calling it power 1t is sim
ply sham Turkey is merely a fiction Of European
state-craft 1t is time that fctions should cease 1t
is not nation. 1t never was nation. The Otto
man Turks never composed the majority in any pro-
vince OF the Empire, with the single exception, per-
maps, OF few districts of Asia Minor. They came
IN by the force of They claim no other title.
he European provinces have no Turkish nationality.
Few of the Asiatic have. The power of the sword
the genius in war, which gave the few Turks spread
over the provinces the ascendancy they have long
held and abused, is gone These qualities were all
that made the thing called Turkey. These being
gone, Turkey is gone There is no use in pretending
that it is not
France and England started out with the insolent
dream of making Russia pay the expenses of the war.
That dream is rather at an end, directly Perhaps
they may carry it out indirectly Russia is the ma
tural heir of Turkey The possessions dropping from
her nerveless grasp, must or would, in the course
of things come to Russia The western powers may
rob her OF her inheritance by forestalling her and
taking that inheritance, in what they assert to
be the lifetime of the last owner That is about the
only way that Russia will pay expenses. The French
and English are very disinterested protectors India
and Algeria will testify to that, and in few years
the poor old Porte will be equally qualified for wit
ness. The powers" as they called, give Tur-
key little or no influence or vote in deciding move
ments or negotiations, in which she is said TO be
principal like as most States refuse paupers vote
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21
The Siege of sevastopoI---OpenInsF Fire.

FOURTH DIVISION CAMP, Aug. 17.-At o'clock
this morning the English batteries opened heavy
hre along the whole of their line The Russians Ike OF
silence for full twenty minutes, when they replied in
good style The French were slow in cooperating
with US 1t was fully 81 O'clock before they opened
on the left, but when they did, it sort of inter.
mitcnt fire. their right pausIng when their left was
active, and Uice Uersa.
a report had been current that but for the action
on the Ichernaya the long talked of Commandment
was to have commenced yesterday OF noon, and when
at daybreak the of artillery was heard, it was
supposed the cannonnade had commenced in earnest
and would be vigorously sustained After a short
time, however, it sackened considerably and it be-
came evident that no serious bombardment was in.
tended During the whole day the cannonade has
varied in violence, and has often been scarcely more
svere than we are accustomed to witness nearly ev-
cry evening. At other times, howe YER, the fire has
been very heavy. Its real object is believe to en-
able the French 10 continue their approaches to the
Malakof: Many copjectures and reports are afoat
on The subject 1t has been said that the fire is to be
succeeded by feint attack. Then, when it is SUP.
posed that the enemy has brought large bodies OF
troops to the front of his defences more effective
Commandment is to take place, to be followed by
real attack on different point More authoritative
information has reached me, which, without entering
INTO details, gives me grounds to believe that some
thing serious will shortly occur, to which to.day's
hre has been merely prelude.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21

o. We pleased to notice that there are at least
evidences of abatement of the Fever in the nfec-
ted districts. The last report of deaths in Portsmouth
were only for the "A hours preceding the date of
said report, and few new cases. The deaths in Nor
folk still thirty per diem, but this is
sensible abatement. The epidemic broke out first in
Portsmouth, and the first and most decided improve.
ment is there. But no real, complete cessation can
be expected for weeks ye-not until after FROST nor
will it be safe for any person to go there until No
vember. The demand for assistance is as great as
ever. The number of widows and orphans, the az
gregate desdtution and distress perhaps greater
These are woundsiwhich time only can heal.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21
baltimore and FONTS South of 1t.

We see that both III New York and Boston orders
have been passed quarantining vessels from Balti-
more and points south Of it, until the 10Th of October.
Vessels from these points can proceed up in certain
limited time after visitation by the health officer and
clean bill from him, otherwise they will be kept
thirty days Or until they are pronounced healthy.
These sweeping guarantees are, it appears TO us,
not only unjust, hut ridiculous and hurtful Bati-
more is free from fever but as the disease is prevail
ing in the cities of the Chesapeake, and vessels on
their way from Baltimore may come in contact with
it in some way. But from the North Carolina line
down to New Orleans, sweep of near about two
thousand miles, there is appearance of epidemic.
and no necessary contact with it; and we cannot
but think it somewhat foolish to quarantine North
and South Carolina. Georgia and Alabama because
there is fever in Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21

The most satisfactory news we find is tina, the
fever in Norfolk and Portsmouth no longer claims
30 many victims. The deaths in ;orfok on Sunday
were Is; in Port smouth much smaller number
The death of Mr.. Singleton Mercer OF Phladel-
phla, which took place at the Naval Hospital near
Portsmouth, on this, Wednesday week last, while
giving his voluntary rvices as nurse carries
mind back some twelve years TO the year 1943, when
Philadelphia and to extent the Union was alive
with his trial for the killing of Mahlon II. Heberton,
for the seduction OF his Mercefs) sister, young girl
OF some fifteen or sixteen summers. Mercer was ac-
quilted on the ground of temporary insanity. The
morbid interest in the affair was kept alive and in
creased by George Lippard's novel of the Quaker
City, into which the main incidents of the seduction
homicide and trial have been woven. Mr. Mercer
has furnished somewhat chequered life by falling
in the line of duty and in the service of humanity.
We see that Father Gavazzi, the Italian priest is
coming to the United States. tc MD The K. Ms. il
their war upon foreigners.
1t would seem. from the extract we publish from
hd Moniteur, the official Journal of France that 'the
Powers y look with jealousy upon the United State
moyemen in regard to the Sound Duty There is
some thing like threat of interposition.
DaGlu Journal, 10Th INST,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21

says we summoned that deep reliance upon casuis.
try, for which he (we) are notorious" Did the
Herald happen to know or think that casuistry is
exactly the very thing to be summoned in such case?
That casuistry is defined by Webster as the science
OF determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of
what man maydo." This is an unwilling admission
of the Herald. but it is none the less true on that
accountability Journal, 18th INST.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21

GOT ScARED.-The last Warrenton Meas states
that our friend Dr. Lane, of this place, got up there
few days since, to recruit from slight attack of
chills or intermittent fever, when somehow, the
port got abroad that he was from Norfolk, and had
the epidemic. There was considerable excitement,
although the medical gentlemen of the place assured
everybody that the whole thing was mistake. FL
naly, the Doctor thought it best to come out and
walk around, to satisfy the anxious, who became
shortly cool, and the whole thing passed off as quick
ly and quietly as it began. Rather annoying but it
is to be expected that people will be scary about
these times
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21
Inc o. .. treasury statements show the following
as the value of those crops, except the last which is

The late crop would have fallen below 100000
bales, but for the unusually large receipts of new
Cotton in the month of August, which amounted to
34,O79 bales, against 300 bales new Cotton last
year, and 1852 bales the year before But the actual
production OF the year is reckoned to have been full
100000 bales and about 900 bales being re-
tanned IN the interior by reason of low water in the
Alabama Arkansas, and upper Louisiana rivers.
see that $4,000 of North Carolina State Bonds
sold at par yesterday, whilst Virginia bonds sold at
near Der cent discount
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21

NORFOLK AND PoRTsMoUTH.-The accounts from
the fever district still continue improving. On Sun
day the mortality was less than on any day yet since
the disease fully set in There have been rains,
with a heavy, damp state of the atmosphere, which,
it is feared, may tend to give the maady fresh
start. The Rev. MIR. Devln, the Catholic clergyman
at Portsmouth, is recovering from third attack. or
rather relapse,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21

BALTIMORE, September II The annual meeting
of the Good Lodge of the United States of the In
dependent Order OF Odd Fellows took place to-day
in this city. The officers were installed as elected
last year. Nothing else of Importance occurred
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21
WnshIngfnn IfaIns.

WASHINGTON, Sept. lit is reported here that
President Pierce has restored Commodore Stewart to
the command of the Philadelphia station, from which
he was removed by the action of the late Retiring
Board
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21

CHEcKERED PoLITIcs.-The Liberty Party Conyen-
ton held at Utica. N. Y, on Wednesday, placed on
their ticket for State officers two black men and FIVE
white ones. A black man Erred Douglass) is placed
at the head of the ticket for Secrear1 Of STATE
the other black man Gas. B. Pashan) is nominated
for Attorney General.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21
From MISUNDERSTANDING Party attacked by

CHICAGO. Sept. 15.-Dates from Nebraska TO the
9Th inst, have been received. Col. Nonne's party
of government surveyors had been attacked on the
Platte river by the Pawnees and dispersed. Col.
Monnie and five Others had arrived at Nebraska
city. The rest of the party missing and par.
ty of volunteers had gone in pursuit of them
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21

The New Quarantine Regulations New York.
The Board of Health ON Thursday adopted an Or
dnance providing that all vessels arriving from Bati
ports south thereof shall be placed in quar-
anne for thirty days, unless certificate in writing
shall be obtained from the health officer certifying
that sickness exists on board such vessel and that
in his opinion such vessel her calgo crew and
sengers Cf any are free from infection and may
safely proceed to the cty-such certificate to be de-
livered at the Mayors Office within twenty-four
hours after the same shall have been granted. The
duties imposed upon the pilots by the quarantine Or
dinance which goes into operation Immediately, and
will continue in force until the first day OF Noyem-
Der next
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21
From Mexico,

New ORLEANS, Sept. 1.-THE steamer Nautilus
has arrived with Brownsville dates 10 the sth Cen
Vol comes passenger Vaduri was at Monterey
the Army, and declares now that there is no armv
except the revolutionary
party OF l40 Government troops had been at.
tackled by the federas Reynosa and routed, with
loss OF 80 wounded and 40 prisoners.
zen. Castro with ], 800 troops, was at Matamoras
and would probably pronounce in favor of the Fed.
erals.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21
VIII of the late Abbott Lawrence.

The VIII of the late Abbott Lawrence, Of Boston
bequeaths to his wife $4,000; life insurance for
$4,000, the sum of 100000 in stocks, &C., 10 be
held in trust his household goods library furniture
and carriages, besides several houses and lots OF
ground. To James Lawrence, one undivided third
pat in the farm at Groon, together with interest
stock, &c; to Annie Bigelow, (daughter,) wife Of
BENZ. s. Rotch, the sum of $4,000; to Katherine
Blgelow, wife of Augustus Lowell, $4,000 to Jas
Lawrence, Benz. s. Rotch, Chas. H. Parker, T. Big
Glow Lawrence, and Abbott Lawrence, Jr., each the
sum OF $4,000; to each son the sum of $4,000;
to each daughter the sum of $4,000; to Mrs Eliza
Green, the wife OF DR.. Joshua Green, the sum
$4,000 to Mrs Mary Woodbury., $40 900 to Mrs.
SAT- an L. Fosdick, wife of Rev. David Fosdick, and
MRS Anna M Seaver, widow of the late Norman
Seaver. Esq, the sum of SO 900 each also, 10 each
OF the children Of "my sister, Mrs. Eliza Green
$4,000
To each of the children of Samuel Lawrence, S.
0O0
10 each OF the children of Samuel Lawrence, an0
10 each OF the children of I" my deceased brothei
Amos Lawrence. viz DR.. VIM R. Lawrence anl
Amos A Lawrence, the sum of $3.50 dollars, to O'
invested in or appropriated for keepsake, as a s'
hmony OF my regard and affectionate remembranE"
O00
To Samuel Chase, who for more than thirtyyeah
was faithful domestic in my family" $500; an
harriet Morton, for her long continued and snV
tIonate devotion to the interests of my family 81
600; also 10 John Wisner, $500 as
This is exclusive of the $4,000 he bequea'n ~.
| for charitable purposes The remainder Of the "a
tate, property: stock, money, &c., is 10 be GHu
equally among the children and his grand-c hIu'''
VIcIssITUDEs.-Rev. Dr. Cone, the Distinguish a.t
Baptist clergyman. who recently died in New .U
was formerly theatre actor and his last
on the stage was the terrible night of the Gs
ton OF the Richmond theatre in 1911 when the w.
ernor of Virginia and great many other POnl.nt,s
Citizens persisted in the flames He was atieF"GDr s
editor OF daily paper of Baltimore Md. tbeh '.mt
partmental clerk, at Washington. and in 1875 O'''
Baptist pastor in New York.
| UNITED STATES BANK.-The Trustees CT the pI
of the United States will make their final dViaen "s
the 18th of September, when the concern VIII Uasv
in any Shape TO exist. 1t has taken fourteen y ~
to wind up the concern. The assets realized sV .bs
sufficient to pay the ere litors of the BANK ~
the loss to the stockholders will be total.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21

APPLEs.-We received yesterday, from our friend
R. C. Murphy, Esq, of this county, something less
than a bushel of most magnificent apples. We
weighed three of the largest and found them as fol-
lows II, Is and 13 ounces respectively. These we
look upon as good fruit, and worthy specimens of
what can be done in the classic precincts of Upper
Black River."-(Uide Herald OF last week.)
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21

A FACT WORTHY OF NoTICE.-I.as; week num-
Der of executions, amounting in all to about twenty
six thousand dollars, returned by Sheriff Hall,
fully satisfied, and the best Of was, that not dol
lars worth of property had to be sold by the Sheriff
Considering the hard times, this is matter OF con-
graduation and speaks we'll for the soundness Of
people.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21

TESTIMONY ON THREE PoINTs.-~We find in the
Baltimore american, of the 18th inst, letter from
u s. Senator Pratt, Of Maryland, upon the state of
parties. We commend the following remarks OF the
Senator Wing as he is. the attention of those who
take Democrats to task for asserting the unconstltu'
tiona tendencies of the order. He says
alt seems to me 10 be impossible to doubt that the
Constitution secures to the naturaZed citizen certain
privileges, and amongst them, that OF eligibility to
all offices except that of President and Vice President
cf the United States and that it to all the
native citizens OF the country equal CIVIL Feglous
an political rights
Would not an act of Congress, or OF State Le'
oislature which declared that 10 Catholic citizen or
naturalized citizen should be eligible to any Office, be
clearly unconstitutional
Would not the determination of dominant party,
having the power to efe It its object, that no such
citizen should hold Office, be equally violative OF the
shirt of the Constitution The only distinction
would be that the in ured citizen, in the one case:
would possess the power to have the law declared
void by the proper judicial tribunals, whist, IN the
other case, his constitutional privileges would be
equally violated without remedy
This is clearly put, and covers one point. Again,
on another point the Abolition connections and af-
fnities of said order he says
1.-The reputation by the delegation from every
non .sayeholding State (except New York; in the re-
cent Philadelphia convention of the 18th, conser
vative slavery article adopted by that body, clearly
demonstrates that the Northern organization OF that
party is openly avowedy opposed to Southern inter
ests and cannot consequently be relied on by the
conservatives Of the country it the approaching crI-
sis''
So far Senator Pratt. In confederation of another
point, made in the resolutions of the recent Demo
cratic meeting held here, we find the following par
agraph in another column of the same paper:
SHAREHOLDERS Observation-Disclosures an
Kentucky.-Et has been proposed to us, by several
gentlemen who own slaves in Kentucky, that they
(the saveholdeTs) hold convention at Frankfort to
adopt some plan for the abolition of slavery, and that
we go announce it and that Hon. w. H. Luke Of
Pendleton county, STAKEHOLDER, be appointed by the
friends of the Convention, one in this part OF the
State to draw up proposition for its gradual aboli
tion.-Ne1port (Ky) Neacs.
The fact is that the evidences of the perfect truth
of those resolutions lie all around, and paper can
hardly be opened without meeting them
Newport is on the Ohio River nearly, if not quite
opposite Cincinnati the hot-hed of abolition and
the influence of that feeling is plainly apparent in
this movement in Kentucky