Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-09-19
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
Dull.

t. Is dull-very dull. Little OF any KIM 10 SUI
r;nr NJ, even breeze Some few jokes hoat about
nnsrentv not intended for jokes, and therefore 'ne
more irresistible. One of these is the solemn @u-
vice given to the Southern people to leave D"enan""
and 90 for Fillmore, because say they the ""ine
election has shown that Buchanan is weak a. W.
North and Fillmore the safer man. Inc De0noI'
only poll some forty thousand votes IN Slalne, VIM"
,HL;cs ,,ou five thousand and the Americans
- .bo,efore 90 for the candidate OF the " Amerl
,o FIR Fillmore. It ia much the safest Tor
~ hos M votes be can't lose anything and must
hold his own H. 5,1
The weather has again got warm and sultry' duii
and disagreeabe. Many people are out o, wv
and we don't blame them we would be Out .. "
ourselves if we only had our own way aDOu' ~
conld afford time and money, especially 'ilne'
Tho nol;tical contest is not yet so interesting do
- ;b+ ,b;nL It was. 1t is not triangular do
neople suppose at least 1T IS not SO at any Que
,1oco Here at the South it is useless 10 spehu pa
nor and ink showing up Fremont, and, so lar as 'ne
South goes, Fillmore is mainly out OF the way 'n0
real struggle is for Southern unity,-to secure pea
~ rronare for war At the North the case Is I'LL
foront Fremont is the antagonist and all the eneF'
rios If the Northern Democratic press are concen'
tra,ed in onpostion to Fremont and Black RePuol
oan;sro We have this morning. glanced over the
.oIurons Of the PennSylvanian, the New York Dd"y
No,,e, and New York Day Book, and the Boston FoSt'
and find that these papers and their correspondents
soraor, or never bother themselves with MIR. FIJI
more The Post more particularly, rather pats the
Fillmore men on the back in the hope OF creating
division in the Black K N. ranks, for be 1T known
that Col. Fremont is not simply the Black Repuhll'
can nominee but he is also the nominee of the North
49,, ord more nowerful wing of the Know Nothing
oaor Of the q" Third or Union Degree =" Americans
great thing once that degree But as we sad be-
foro the Democratic press of the North seldom
troubles itself with Fillmore, abiding 10 that gen.
tIemen and his small squad only occasionally to e1'
,oso some cooueng between them and the Fremont
men,-some coalition against Democracy as ID III
diana where the Fillmore and Fremont men have
one and the same electoral ticket, or pennsylvania
where the Fremont men have as yet no electoral
ticket in the field, holding Oft with the vie" ana uhuef
the impression that they will effect coalition win
the friends of Fillmore. 1t s thus only incidentally
that Fillmore is referred to at all North. In no
Northern State, in which elections have been held
this Fall has Mr. Fillmore's party been able TO even
organize State ticket
The general apathy and dizziness seem to have at
teced our North Carolina politics as well as business
The contest in August last brought out tulI vote
and the result was so marked to be considered de-
aisive by both parties This is one of the ex
stine apathy another is TO he found in the reaction
that always follows excitement People cannot keeT
themselves excited all the time upon any subject
Even during the Revolution, periods of apathy woulc
come. Let us, however, again impress upon tint
Democrats of the State, the necessity OF shaking OF
this e,hqrgy. II eternal vigilance be the price o
liberty it is the less the price of political sue
cess price which every party deslrous OF secunn
permanent. enduring, success must pay. In time Q
peace, prepare for war. In times OF comparatIV
quiet organize, to be ready Tor the day OF &C
tive contest. Only about eight weeks remain. be
tween this and the day of the Presidential election
Before we know where we are it will be upon US.
Business, too is dull.-very dull. The up countr
trade by the n. c. Railroad affords an opportunt
for extending our intercourse and business, whlc
ought not to be egIected-whch must be improve
upon if we would notFgo backwards. The hig
prices of colt on and the low prices of naval stores
have caused, or are rapidly causing, the withdraw
of the more Southern States from the latter branc
of business leaving it measurably, if not wholly
the original producers in this State, who will thu
have less competition struggle against, and the SUI
ply being brought into healthy relation
the demand, prices must eventually reach bette
living rate But this alone is not sufficient.
must take advantage of these facilities opened TO
or we might as we'll have no Enthusiastically no Cs
trail Road.
We want wholesale houses of every kind, whe
the merchant of the interior supply himself
We don't expect to rival New York Neither dot
Petersburg, but still Petersburg does large busne
in that way. We know that community hi
been and is passing through tight times but still tn
thing might, think, be arranged, if not indiVid
ally, then by association. We have received al
seen letters received by others upon this subject
may refer to ii again
Political ITEMS FROM THE INTERIoR.-We
reliably informed that James w. Osborne, Esq.
Charlotte we'll known as leading Wing, will sho
ly come out in a letter to COL Steele, defining his +
son in the present canvas. He goes for Buchan
and Breckenridge.
DR. Terry, Democratic candidate for the Senate
the district composed of Union and Arson, has Civ
Mr.. Myers notice of his intention to contest his Sc
reliable authority that Terry is certa
ly elected by majority of at least 80 of the lei
voters of the district.
0g-Godey for October is on our table. 1t is We
good in its way and ought to suit the Iadi
at any rate, it suit nobody else. 1t has st
plate 1.-The Star of Dawn" personated by a n
headed young woman dressed in the height of
fashion and spanged all over with stars from
size of bird.shot up TO that of cow-peas, green y
IOyU raJo and Giro, Cbo Aook