Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-03-21

will now compare the patronage given to North
Carolina, with that given 10 Ireland-ROman Cetho-
lie IreZand-and here desire the attention Of the
D ,mocracy of Wayne. Well, as before stated, North
Carolina has one Consul, and twenty places in
the Departments at Washington, whilst Ireland has
six Consuls and ffty-sx places in the Departments.
What contrast! What a commentary on the pro
LESSONS of love for the South, Franklin Pierce,
on his love of justice
We clip he above from the last Fayetteville Ar
gus. 1t forms paragraph in g No. OF series
of communications, addressed to the Democracy OF
North Carona,' by correspondent OF that paper
writing the signature of IS Richmond" Ihis
intelligent and veracious Know Nothing correspon-
dent totally forgets that North Carolina has q cabl
net and co diplomatic appointments for there Is lit
tie doubt that it is to North Carolina that Mr. Peden
owes his appointment, although he was not resi-
dent of our State at the time
This is specimen of the correctness with which
these flaming Known othing statements are gotten up
The whole affair may be judged OF by this small
brick which We have picked from the Babel.
Roman Catholic Ireland has this, that and the 9TH
er thing So says " Richmond Roman Catholic
Ireland has not the first ofice-not No man
hollis office save as citizen of the United States,
and if " Richmond =" is not aware of this then he
must be entitled to the appellation, literally, of a
KnowNothing,
L is usual with staticians of the class of Il Rich,
mo1d," to count as holders all the aborers, por
tiers. &c, employed about the public offices or
grounds and therefore, to infer that foreigners rule
the United States because Mickey Free yields a
spade in the public service, receives overwhem-
ing compensation of dollar or dollar and half
a day.
Let any man, with his eyes and ears open 90
through any of the public offices in Washington city,
and he will be convinced that all the stuff talked
about is nonsense. Some few natives of foreign
| countries he may fnd upon ri gid examination, but
the proportion will at srlike him smaller than
in any other business line of life Those that ne
does find have been citizens of the country, some as
long forty and, an average, over twenty years
So that the anxious enquirer will listen IN vain 1oE
the rich Irish brOgue,' or g sweet German accent
Some OF them as MIR. Marion in the Post-Ohce De-
patment, are long in the service, and have been re-
tanned, under all circumstances and administrations
from their fidelity and, in some measure their lndls
pensabiIity on account of their thorough knowledge
of a particular matter branch Of business, as II
occasionally the case with gentlemen, native or for
egn, totally irrespective of their place of birth
"PPoil''1NA'NN'- $1,000
that all have been made purely with reference 4
States or Districts, just the though they haC
been native citizens and, no doubt they recon-
mended by their friends and feow-cizens precisely
like any other citizens "Given to Roman Catho
Ireland" What has the President of the United
States got to do with Roman Catholic Protestant
or this man or that, save as they stand under In
constitution which he has sworn to support: and a
\ they are competent 10 discharge their duties.
We really had thought that the only legal, politi
cal character in which the natuaized citizen appear
s ed, was that of United States czenship-that it wa
by virtue of such citizenship alone that he could en-
JOY any political rights privileges, or that he coul
: hold any office. How, them appointments could b
: given to Ireland or Germany, or elsewhere, we knoN
not and do not believe that they have been. w
IF don't think any body believes SO either.
- Accidents and losses of life seem to be the orde
- Of the day. No sooner have got through publish
ing the details of terrible disaster on the Ports
mauth Road, than the papers bring the news of III
burning of a steam Ferry boat on the Delaware Riv
o er 1T Philadelphia on Saturday night. The boat too
! fire in the middle of the river. She was run in an
was nearing the wharf, but the tiler chains wer
disarranged-he head sheered of, and the fire pre-
vented the Eng neer from getting 10 the engine
stop it, the boat it'll the few remaining passenger
= rushed cut into the stream. She was on the ba
opposite Arch street The river was full of fOatin
ice to which some who sprang overheard. chung, b.
y still about thirty dead Or missing. They mus
o have persisted within three hundred yards of tn
wharf. The ferry boat " New jersey" the one burn
p ed, had neither small boats nor life-preseryers
" When will human life be sufficiently guarded ali
respected? Every now and then there is wakin
up and big talk, and in short time the whole thin
: ceases and we 60 in the old way until some 9th
err terrible affair axes up another couvulsive an
Intellectual movement. We do not know that tn
o particular parties upon whose works or boats sue
accidents occur, particularly blameable We pre-
70 sumo they about careful most in their line
+ indeed we question if the New jersey" the burne
II steamer, was not about as we'll supplied with sma
boats and life preservers any other of her class
:, None of them are so provided. If all reports al
. correct, the trestle work the Seaboard Road We
g as good as trestle work in general and yet defe
:, in tender axle it over, from which we suppo
the inference is iegmately drawable that any trail
- on any trestIe work is at the mercy of every ak
or and truck i'll the train.
II &C. The Pacific had captain and e.
n gneer-the Persia, the crack ship CT the Cunal
# line, was but three days behind her, and bets we
1t ont no off he tUo vessels Tho traf