Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-11-28
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effected one happy result-ln showing New England Il
of how little <importance she is n The direction and
control of the drstinies Of The country We nave all
heard so much of the immense moral power OF New
Engand-her- greatness and influence have been SO
often and grandiloquently lauded by her orators IN
and out of Congress-that it IS well she SHOULD be
taught The real position she occupies, and this has
been done pretty decidedly in the recent election.
The absurd assumptions Of superiority overtime rest
of the States set up by the men of Harvard and OF
Yale for The descendants Of the Pilgrims-the nces
SAINT boast about free s:heols.he delightful deshqut-
en- baS with which the 5ostonian has heretofore affect
ed to look down upon every body outside of his en-
lghtened city-all have been severely and eapltaliy
febuked. New England will now know that other
elements of national power and prosperity enter into
the genius Of the United States than the austee ethics
of the Pilgrim Fathers which have passed into the
form of rabid fana cism in the persons of their I'm
worthy children in the seventh generaton-aud the
narrow. minded politicians who have Immediately sue
ceeded to the actors of the Hartford Convention: will
learn that free schools, excellent agencies of;improve
ment they may appear TO the vision ct the Yankee
stateman will not avail every thing in the contest for
political control. The New York ErpresS had very
sensible editorial this subject a few days since'
which cut out for preservatlon,-We can only
give part of it, but this is the BEST and will be read
with interest. The Express says ----......
| The people of New Eng gland are intensely in
teIlrctual peoE le--but the fact is, they have not
enough to do to keep their -nteIlects usefuly en-
ployed Amusement among them Is to some extent
td6ooed except the amusement OF sewing meetings.
and hence the active mind rushes into the 1smS, the
ologies, and the ties The people, from the energy
of the climate, work Is Is hours day, if ne
cessary and they have hours enough to spare from
sleep for intellectual employ Hence, as In $ sew
ing meetings. sewing societies" &C., there is not
enough to do-the mind pants for other excltements
and agonzes itself upon affections the world over,
real maginary-and the it agonlzes ITSELF the
more ina gnary these Affections There lives not
negro in Georgia. that pains not some soft New
England heart-while starve hundreds, upon hun
dreds in tn Western Islands of Scotland, eVen-that
never give that New England heart a throb The
crme-the ndescribable misery of the barbarlsm IN
this great worlds etropos of ours, though printed
and published 10 all The varied forms OF our City
Press touches no, the chord OF New England sensi-
bility--but murder in Kansas m kes quake the
| whole New England heart. 'DIslahce lends en-
chanlment to the vew,'- and the greater the dis
lance, the more intense the tension of the New Eng
land heart strings. This metropolis election day
- as recorded in our City Press-was The scene of
fierce and bloody contentious as have disgraced
the fields of Kansas-bu, not a wall comes, yet,
up from pure YANKEE newspaper:
New England, New Eng lHnd-atd New Eng
land, i'll Northern Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan are
great States, pieces oil States The Industry and
energy of the PEG lie wonderful and cannot be
too hIshly extolled-but they are provincial only.
The s1nS the oogies and the ties of the nation worry
them to forgetulness of the nation itself. Reading
is gieat bIessingan indispensabity of life among
ing only opens the mental faculties to being excited,
in order to be imposed upon That sort of reading
which takes in only one side, and That side error is
of course than that of ignorance of letters,
which knows nothing of the alphabet, bat which
therefore, goes about anxious nquiring of all sides,
and therefore, learning from all. The humhIest
tgnoramus thus, that learns all on tNo sides, knows
more than the collesan who shuts his eyes and ears
to everything but what tckles his passions preJu
dices Reading, therefore, is not always intelligence,
hutO on ntrarN no
i then, reading among Yankee cOnntrymen is not
always source of instruction. but on the contrary
often of much error. Our good sisters Of Potsdam
Northern New York, had amid their very academies
read themselves into thorough convection that they
themselves in danger of being turned into slaves
and Of being victimzed by some slaveholdng master
If they could not have read line, they never would
have ben led into any such convictions, TO make
them unhappy as almost all or them are.
g ARTIFICIAL Ice -Phiosopher Merriam of Brook VI
Heights has been to Cuyahoga, New York. to wit
the operation of the machine for lac turing
" ice. The trial took place at the locomotive estab
: shment OF the proprietor of the machine The hlgt
y engine of the works was in operation, and The APP
g paratus speedily set TO work In less than an
hour the mercury in the thermometer within the APP
e paratus reduced from httythree degrees above
IL zero, twenty four degrees below that point. Mr.
} Merriam then cut apple in two pieces aud placed
it outside the pipes, and he says thai in few min
"a utes it frozen hard COZ per vessel was place.
IL,
ID water, which was in brief period converted int
solid ice. Water dropped upon the pipes was instant
( ly congealed Mr.. Merum states that the machine
in its present condition. is arranged to manufacture
ton of ice at a single operation. He describes tn
ID operation as fellows: ......
10 square cistern with double wall. has the spac
,e between the two walls, say about foot filed witt
st puveriZed charc oal inside of the inner wall ST
st rows each containing twelve cast ron reezers
l. each capable Of holding much wafer as will max
of thirty pounds of ice each freezer has depth Q
as twelve inches, and the length is the same as tn
depth, and the width is six inches hange or Fir
60 of half inch extends around the four sides Of tn
freezer and upon this the freezer sfuspent ed by
of tlves bars running at the mt angles The FLAIR
ges thus arrayed separate the freezers forming flu
n between each one inch width. A fue of equal thick
re ness extends nnder the bottom The steam engn
connects with air-pump. which is made to exhau;
O, the atmosphere from these fues, and as soon as
n. perfect is produced, a current of either
made to pass through these hues and con1n ued ii
all the water In the freezers is converted to so id ic
''White Folks Blame Fools.''
friend Of ours, says the q. 5. RcUelU, near amp
Bay in Florida, employed number of New Yor
y mechanics to do a piece of work 1t govern
III ment contract, and required particular dispatc
a l he men worked as northern mechanics know no
to work. Old Jupe, of their employers slave
watched them out OF the of his eye for sever
r. days,
on Something evidently working in his mir
70 which puzzled him badly At last he came up 10
what debbil youiall work for 50, ehi' 'Toearn o.
es' money. Jupe.' Money! said Jupe, money gre
ee. ting. Yon work so up Norf, Mass Charles? 'Ye
re Jupe.' You make great deal morey!' Not
ne great deal, Jupe; spring. and fall we do
but work is slack in winter time and il we g