Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-12-28
Arrival of the steamer Asia.

they arrived here this morning.
Arrival the Steamer
HALIFAX, Dec. l8.-The Cunard steamer Asia ar
rived here this morning at 81 o'clock, with dates
from Liverpool 10 the 9Th inst
The steamer Hermann sailed from Liverpool on the
5th.
| The ship Constitution, from New York, total
Iy destroyed by fire in the river Nlersey on the day
after she arrived. Her cargo was also destroyed, but
the passengers baggage landed safely.
The English papers are filed with peace rumors,
but their assertions totally al variance with the
continental press The London Times and De Isra-
ellis organ the London Press, that peace is at
| hand-tbat Austria is about TO address ultimatum
To Russia, summOnlng her, under threat of break
ing off negotiations with her, to accept such condi
tons of peace the Western Powers are now will
ing 10 assent 10, nut which they will not agree to
| liter another successful Campaign.
The Berhn co, respoDhehce OF the London Morn
my ChrOlIce says that Austria maintains the valid
| ~ of The treaty of December I'd, and hence all al
| t~mpts of the other German States to exercise a
pressure upon he We>rern Powers, with view 10
ratification have been para ysed There various
repors of attempts al negotiation, but the state of
affairs appears stand thus: Austria has made
communication 10 France embodying the Terms which
france mas Submitted this COMMUNICATION TO Eng
land, and both governments have it now under con
sheraton The terms great advance upon any
vet offered but they are terms for Austria, not Rus
|
The ultrmAnh is reject, d, but only to suspend her
re aliOns with Russia
Tie London mes says positively that the treaty
with S. eden has been signed at Stockholm, while
he Post firmly denies it,
Private letters from st. Petersburg Indicate de-
sire for peace The overland trade was profitable
and money abundant
FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.-Advices from the Cri.
mra that weak fire sill kept up by the
bel gerens but nothing OF Importance had occurred
Tue moth side of Sebastopo was rapidly assuming
gigantic dimensions The preparation for destroying
The docks were nearly completed. The bulk of the
Russian army retained lis former position The French
army had hem reinforced with $4,000 troops. The
English and Sardnians had also been reinforced. 81
also the Russians The latter continue TO threaten
KerlcA, which has been largely reinforced.
a The Imperial Commercial Bank of Odessa had fail
! ed.
despatch from the Baltic dated Dec. 9th, state
that The united squadrons under Admiral Dundas
= were then passing the Bell homeward bound.
t RUS~IA.-A Russian Grand Council of " ar is t
be held St. Petersburg. settle tt plans Tor III
defence of the coast from The gulf OF Bothnia to tn
southern extremity of Vothynia.
r AsIA.-there is unconfrmed rumor that tn
e Russians have taken Kars.
Observation-Disclosures has been prOrogued Ii
Jan. 3lst.
u The King of Sardinia has returned to France.
A TROUT LIVING IN A WELL TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
II tlemun writing from South East, New York, No,
- 18th, says:
d Can any one tell how long a trout fish will live
:, twenty-five years the past summer | came on III
farm where now Almost the first work that
&c did after getting in my spring crops to drain
bog swamp, the outlet of which leads the Croto
j. river | had an old Scotchman to do the ditchln:
n One day he brought up trout fish about the size
II mans little finger in his whisky jug, (by the
- we used little on the fam then and not sine
I nutik in ho tho honso -
l. there now, grown to goodly siZe-say about fot
II long and large in proportion 1t has been fed bu
% very little once in a while some throws in
n grasshOpper or cricket, to see him catch it. Tt
well is thirty feet deep and water hard, and sel
rs down nearly to the bottom, and then again rises
is near the top. He has been taken out few times
If clean The well, but not for the last five years
" Friday last got grasshopper, the last one | e,
If pect to see this fall, and gave it to him. The
~ is twenty-five feet Deep but it hardly touchs
- the surface before he had it, If any one has tis
older than mine would like to know it.
=, Mr.. Henry c. Cary, the welI-known writer on p
litical economy, estimates the capital invested
IL railroads in this country at hundred millions
q, dollars Mr.. Cary in pamphlet recently publishe
ID has prepared table of twenty four principal railroad
rs the aggregate capital of which amounts to nine
eight millions of dollars. the total earnings of whic
" sixteen millions of dollars in 1854 against I:
n, millions of dollars in 1858 Notwithstanding tn
ne increase in the earnings of these roads, Mr. Cary
tees that the stock of these roads, which could ha
been sold two years ago for more than one hundrt
III millions Of dolars, now quoted at prices in tt
market that would only realize seventy-fve million
\, of dollars. If this rate is carried out as The basis
~ calculation, the depreciation could not be less lh
Vi one hundred and seventy millions of dollars on Il
railroad property of the country.
! How THE SUB TREASURY -WoRKs.-The Bost
Pos says" 1t is stated that Mr. Guthrie has
is teced all the transport of specie necessary for
a operation OF the government during the past ye;
he not only without expense to the department, b
E. under arrangements which have yielded profit
$4,000