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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-07-25

nrst Monday IN August. Mr.. roy Will address his
felow-citizens at the above times and places.
A SPEcK OF Wharf.-The following card appears in
whole matter between Messrs, Brooks and BurIin-
game, it withdraws the existing settlement which
had been supposed to put end to the personal diff.
Guilty between them. Rumors prevail of a contem.
plated hostile meeting, hut nothing has occurred be-
yond mere conjectures 10 justify such reports
From the National Intelligencer.
CARD am informed that the Memorandum of a re-
cent conversation of myself and and friends with friends
OF Mr. Brooks has received in quartz rs posi-
ton appended to Mr. Brooks Speech Interpretation
which does injustice to its real meaning and my inten-
tOns.
This is what say, and have said relation my speech:
y decorum that could not qualify retract any portion
it, and held myself responsible any gentleman aggriev-
ed by it.
This the only construction which supposed would be
placed the memorandum which my friends reduced
writing that there might be misunderstanding. But,
inasmuch attempts not altogether unsuccessful have
And that there may not be any misrepresentation in the
future say, explicitly that leave my speech to interpret
itself and hold myself responsible for it, without quaca-
ton or amendment. A. BURLINGAME.
Washington, July 10, 1856
By the way, the memorandum alluded to states that
Mr. Burlingame distinguished between the act and
the actor-that is, he characterised the Gaming of
Sumner as a cowardly transaction, but at the same
time acquitted Mr.. Brooks personally of all imputa.
ton whatever. Mr.. Brooks's friends accepted this
but Mr.. Burlingame's not satisfied, hence this
card.
0u- We understand that the Commissioners of
Navigation have appointed Jame N. Craige and
Simon S. Grissom Fumgators, the former at Federal
, 1856-08-01

The INDIAN WAR.--Our accounts from
the Indian war do not vary much from the
news given lust week. From the Oregon
Times
ave learn that Kamiakin is probably
in the Blackfoot country, making effort
for recruits. Three hundred Of his choice
warriors are supposed to be somewhere in
the Walla-walla country.
"From Col. Wright, rumor has it, that
portion of the hostiles who are sick Of
the Hght, and pretty well starved out
were TO come in to see if they could make
a treaty. This is rumor-and has no ref
erence to Kamiakih or young Pee-peu-mox-
mox-who are intent on war--and calcu-
late on the Snake and Blackfeet Indians to
Join them. While our impression is that
the Blackfeet will not join Kamiakin, we
are still under the full belief that Kamiakin
and young Pce-peu-mox-mox, with their
bands Of Yakimas, Walla-wallas, and such
others as they can induce to join them, will
continue the war a long time yet They
will have to be whipped out in the end.
Col Wrights or any other mans treaties
with any Of the enemy in that section,
without kamiakin's and young Pecpeu
mox-mox's consent, will he worthless
, 1856-08-01

GoLD MINES IN WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
The following interesting items in refer
encc to the Fort Colyillc mipes, in this
Territory, we take from the Portland
Times .-F
We have been shown by Mr.. w. S.
Ladd, merchant of this city, some nice
specimens of gold which was taken from
Salmon Greek, a tributary Of the Pen d
Grille, and brought down from the Dalles
by Mr.. Cowne. The specimens We saw
were the result Of one duy's labor Of Mr.
LaAuer and his son--amounting to $65,S1
This gold is much coarser than that from
the Pen d'Orille. We learn that prepara
tions are being made at the Dalles by q
company Of miners to proceed into the
mining country though we doubt whether
il is yet safe 10 travel through hostile In,
dian country to reach the mines. That
gold exists in the Pen d'0rille country
there is no longer any doubt. The miners
who remained there last winter made well
we learn.
, 1856-08-01

PosrAGE REFoRx "A meeting was held
recently in New York city. in refereheeto
the postage system Of the United States, at
which the following reforms were propoE-
ed:- e
/. A uniform rate Of postage throughout
the United States-California, Oregon and
Washington included-which shall not ex-
ceed two cents half ounce. iaaw !.
3. The delivery Of letters in cities ,Ppq
principal towns, by carriers. without extra
charge. -
8. A uniform, simple and equitable sys-
TEN Of postage on printed matter with .
marked discrimination in favor Of prepay.
ment.
4. The abolition Of frauking, or pay
ment of all government postagos oltPb the
treasury.
s. A uniform and low rate Of, ocean
hostage between the United States and Tor
eign countries. .
g. A comprehensive for the trans
mission Of moneys in sums not exceeding
Sa5, BY order, from one post Office upon
another. sci i92
I, The abolition Of the law Of compulso-
ry prepayment, and double ehargeson
all matter not prepaid. q J w
, 1856-08-01

ES- The Pioneer company, formerly
commanded by Capt. WHITE, and latterly
by Capt. Hicks, was discharged on the lst
of August on account of expiration Of SER
vice-they having been actively engaged
in the field for the last six months ,busied
in the erection of forts, &c. They are an
excellent set Of men and deserve the good
will of tEeir country. A more extended
notice of them aud their services will be
awarded next week.
, 1856-08-01

p6rWe have on hand several communi-
cations, from various sections of the terri
tory, which will hereafter be attended to.
Our friends must have patience, as tho
limits of our columns will not permit us to
give them that attention which we believe
they deserve.
, 1856-08-01

SS- A good joke was perpetratediuthe
Abolition Know Nothing State Convention
recently held in Connecticut. A gegi.e-
man was very anxious that Professor SUI
man should be nominated for Governor On
the ground that he was "a great chellst
and could analyze oil kinds Of soils-sHsynnes .,ns
Of the Minor men is said TO have repHea
that, " "eminent as he is in such matters F"
was doubtful II he could analyze the eie-
ments Of that convention" e,.r,,
, 1856-08-01

ny All things considered. we doeb.
whether tho cost Of the war, from hrst 70
last will be much under Rl0O, ,OO0, ,OOO--
an immense sum, but evidently not On ID
tolerable one, when it is considered that y
falls very much under the expenditars o.
ths country in the one closing year Of the
last great war.-LoRdon TSmcs.
, 1856-08-01

Borrowing to news, received at late
hour and press Of other matters, our pa
per this week appears one day after it,
usual time.
, 1856-08-01

b0- We invite the attention of our
readers TO various communications which
appear in this weeks paper. Some Of
them are quite rare and racy-one Of them
particularly, quite quaint and original, and
will be read at almost any time, with an
idea at the approach at the ridiculous.
, 1856-08-01

pd-Mr. DUNN, government expressman,
has our thanks for late papers, delivered
in advance Of the mail.
, 1856-08-01

Legal AdvcrtI0ments.--Afte this date, april
56 no legal advertisement will lie inserted in this
paper unless it is accompanied by the CASH
, 1856-08-01


Cincinnati, Ohio, June I, 1856"
Banks and johnson, the anti Fillmore
candidates, have declined, and the North
ern American party have endorsed the
platform and nominations Of the Black
Republicans.
Fillmore has accepted the nomination.
Advices from Kansas state that affairs
are assuming milder aspect Rumors Of
violence have almost ceased to be heard.
From Europe we have dates to June
4th. Ex-President Fillmore was pas
scugcr on board the Arago from Havre to
Cowes, and will return to America by the
Atidntic, leaving Liverpool, June IL,
The Central American Question was as
suming feature of considerable interest
and Importance in England. The news re-
ceived by the Hermann and AEerica having
added considerable to the excitement pre-
viously existing, was the means of calling
forth the literary powers Of the various
English journals.
In consequence Of the intelligence from
the United States confirming the recogni
ton Of Walkers government in Nicaragua
the funds had considerably declined.
The London Ncvs says;
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The methodist Episcopal Church.

The G neral Conference of the Mttho-
dist Episcopal Church, which meets once
in four years, will hold its next session in
indianapolis, commencing about the 1st
of May. The question of slavery will
be the all exciting topic of the occasion,
the delegates from the Eastern and
North Western Conferences being bent
upon procuring the adoption of some
rule or resolution which will have the
effect to relieve the Church from the
odium resulting from her past completely
with the peculiar institution. They will
encounter violent opposition from various
sources, and the fierce denunciations of
the Border Conference. 1t is by no
means certain how the matter will end.
-Clev. Leader.
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CLAY and Douglas.

Mr.. Stephen A. Douglas "gets it'' on
all sides for venturing to celebrate the
birth day of Henry Clay, at the Slashes
in Virginia. In forcible article on the
subject in the Courier and Enquirer, we
find the following comments
Had that hero been a living man in
1854, and in the Senate of the United
States, Stephen A. Douglas would as soon
have leaped into the jaws of destruction
as have faced Henry Clay with his prop
osition to make the eighth section of the
act preparatory TO the admission of Mis-
souri, into the Union imperative and
void" He would never have done it.
1t would not have been in the power Of
party to force him or to bribe him to do
it. To have walked into the Senate with
that Nebraska bill in his pocket, would
have made him tremble like sick girl.
To have risen in his seat and presented
that bill to the Senate would have been
utterly out of his power. His heart, his
head, his tongue and his legs would have
all failed him. 1t was only when the
great Paci6cator was cold and stark in
the grave, that the Agitator dared to
raise his front and do an act which should
again unloose the ferceness of sectional
discord. 1t was only when Henry Clay
was slumbering beneath the sod that Ste-
phen A. Douglas with gall that coins
like a mint, dared to vent con-
tumely upon the Missouri Compromise
and scout all compromises.
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LIQUOR Riot.

The jamestown Journal gives the
particulars of a novel riot which occur.
red at East Randolph, in Cattaraugus
county, on Friday evening. the 11th
inst. A party of most respectable la
dies Of the place assembled at "sur-
prise party" at the residence of Hon.
Benz. Chamberlain, when it was sug-
gested that a tavern kept by man
named Wheeler was an intolerable nui-
sance by reason of the liquor dispensed
there, and they resolved to abate it.
Before they arrived at the place of
attack, the landlord, having got wind Of
movement, had secreled his liquor and
barricaded the doors, and his wife had
provided a supply of hot water to give
the assailants a warm bath. Nothing
daunted, the feminine stolmers broke
open the door, and although the vol
lies of hot water did some execution,
rushed upon the foe. The landlord
took refuge in the garret, but was cap
tured and bound, and taken towards the
creek to be converted into "cold wa
ter man" by dipping, but he succeeded
in breaking his bonds and escaping.
The women then returned to his
house, demolished his jugs and casks Of
liquor. and his windows, and were about
to. make similar onslaught upon two
other establishments, when the enemy
saved themselves by capitulation.-
The women justify themselves for re-
sorting to these extreme measures on
the ground that the landlord continued
to sell to The brutalized husbands oI
some of them, despite entreaties, and
they could obtain no other redress
Buffalo Commercial.
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Your humble servant,

THE AMERICAN SQUADRON IN THE
MEDITERRANEAN. - The United States
Mediterranean squadron is now lying at
Genoa, and will remain until the 1st of
April. when it proceeds in the first place
to Spezzia to take in stores and after
wards to cruise in different directions
At present it is reduced to only three
vessels, viz: the Congress frigate, with
the flag of the commandant, Commodore
Breese; Saranac steamer, Capt. Long;
and Constellation corvette, Capt. Bell
The crews of these ships have suffered
a good deal lately from severe catarrhal
attacks, and which have been accom-
panied in several instances with the usu-
al feature of delirum. The worst, how
ever is now over, and most of those at
present in the hospital are convalescent.
The ships present a very favorable
specimen of the United States navy
Liverpool Times.
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From Household Words.
JUDGE NOT.

Judge not; the workings of his br ain
And ofhis heart thou canst not see
What looks to thy dim eye stain,
In Gods pure light may only he
A scar /; brought from some weIl-won field,
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.
The look, the air that frets thy sight,
May be a token that below
The soul has closed in deadly fight
With some internal, fiery foe,
Whose glance would scorn thy smiling grace,
And castthe shuddering on thy faceI
The fall thou darest to despise-
May be the slackened angels hand
Has suffered it, that he may rise
And take firmer. surer stand
Or, trusting less to earthly things,
May henceforth learn to use his wings.
And judge none lost, but wait, and see
With hopeful pity. not disdain;
The depth OF the abyss may be
The measure of the height Of pain,
And love and glory that may raise
This soul to God in after days
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GRoiee MlisttIang.
LIFE IN THE SOUTH AND SOUTH WEST.
By CHARLES sUMMERFIELD.
The Fighting Editor of Arkansas.


There never was an age in the annals
of time. or a country on the face of the
globe, where duelling prevailed to such
an extent as it did in the early history of
Arkansas. Not one public man ever at
tanned to any considerable eminence, Ell
ther professional or political, in that pur-
pie land, where law insures not life, with
out first passing through the terrible
ordeal of blood and fire on the miscalled
field of honor. The Rectors, Conways,
Crittendens, SEWERS, Johnsons, and Bor.
lands-every name of note that can be
mentioned-all furnished so many ex-
amples of this strange yet general rule.
Even the learning and eloquence of the
mild and merciful lawyer and poet, AL
bert Pike, to achieve influence or dis
tinction, availed not until he had proved
his powers in mortal combat with a re-
doubtable foe.
In addition to the usual causes opera
ting on all frontiers TO produce such
state of society, another one existed in
the stormy sea of politics. The Wings
and Democrats we're nearly equal in nu-
neral force, and never did hostile fac
tons display more intense activity and
concentrated bitterness. On the stump,
in the forum, and through the press
everywhere, and by all possible means
they hurled their furious anathemas
against each other in terms of merciless
wrath and denunciation. AS a neces.
sary consequence, none save men of the
highest courage dared aspire to be lead
ers in parties, where such a position
must be won and maintained at The fam
ing mouth of the pistol, or before the
fearful point of the bowie knife and dou.
ble-edged dagger.
One horrible peculiarly marked the
course of such personal conflicts-they
almost always terminated fatally to the
individuals engaged in the unnatural
strife. No combatant thought his fam
vindicated by merely winging his an.
tagonist-nothing would suffice but the
coup de grace of death. Indeed, the
universal opinion of the community re-
garded bloodless encounters as shame
ful in the extreme-worse, even then
positive cowardice; and as every candi-
date for popular favor had prepared him.
self well. by long practice, to use the
last great argument, which closed all
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ELoPEMENT.-A Mrs. Sarah Courson
eloped recently from West Milford. Pas
sisc county, with a Mr.. David White of
that place, being the third time she has
figured as one of the parties of an elope-
ment. The woman is one of a family Of
six sisters named RyersOn, five of whom
have left their husbands and elcpe with
other men. AL six have been married,
and not one lives with her lawful hus-
band at the present; five having eloped,
and the only remaining one deserving
her husband, or refusing TO live with him.
A case of equal singularity cannot prob
ably be found anywhere in the Union
Ne,gark AdvertiSsr.
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Coleman's own signature, which excell-
ed any satire ever before seen in the
Southwest for awful, boundless, bitter
denurciations. Every wafture of the
ex-preacher's pen seemed like the dash
of an internal sword-every word pierced
like the thrust of poisoned dagger
The editor of the Democrat and all his
friends-indeed the whole party, and
even his family,-were subjected to the
penalty of summary massacre. He drag
ged into the light all their private as well
as political sins, and accused them of
immaginary crimes, that caused every
reader to turn white with horror.
Then, as soon as the newspaper was
issued, he left his room and promenaded
the public throughfares with the proud
and lofty tread of hero, accompanied
by Fent holland, both being thoroughly
armed. A challenge from Israel Woods,
then perhaps the most deadly duelist in
the world, was the immediate conse-
quence, and the youth accepted it, to
combat with pistols, at len PAGES!
The interview took place the next
morning at sunrise on the bank of the
Arkansas river, half a mile above Little
Rock; and never did a greater concourse
of spectators swarm to be hold a similar
scene.
AT the appointed hour, the seconds,
Elias Wharton for Woods, and Fent No
land for Coleman, stationed their princi-
pals in position, and the anxious throng
actually trembled in fearful expectancy
of the brutal signal. Indeed, the prox-
unity of the foes was so close that the
escape of either with life seemed Alto
gether hopeless.
In the meanwhile wonderful change
had been wrought in the aspect of the
formerly mild and merciful minister
His blue eyes looked luminous as fire.
balls, and the thoughtful sadness of his
countenance had been replaced by per.
petual smile-but such a smile, fierce,
scorching, murderous, as appeared to
have the power of blasting the gazer's
sight, like the fash of lightning from a
thunder-cloud.
As Fent holland left his friend, he
whispered in his ear: "Be sure and aim
at the enemy's head; and fire at the word;
it is your only chance
At length the signal sounded, and
both weapons roared apparently together;
yet, in fact. Coleman's had the prece-
dence by some half a second, and that di.
minutive fragment of duration made all
the difference of an entire eternity in the
result.
Woods fell to the earth like a stone
dropped from the hand, with bullet.
hole through his right temple, while his
own ball whistled the forth of an inch
above his adversary's head!
From that day the fame and fortune
of Levi Coleman might be considered
firmly established. He was installed
forthwith in the editorial chair of the Ar
kansas Whig, and welded pen and pis-
tOl with the same triumphant success,
until suddenly the angel of pestilence
cut short his brief and brilliant career.
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A RARE SPECULATION IN GRAIN.

A RARE SPECULATION IN GRAIN.-
The Buffalo Express, April 5. says:
A commercial firm last fall, Just at
the close of navigation, shipped to this
port a cargo of $4,000 bushels of wheat.
They were then offered 50, 10 per bushel
for it, which they refused. They con-
cluded to let it remain in the hull Of The
vessel and thus save storage, and take
the chances of a market in the spring
They yesterday, in view of the breaking
up of the harbor and getting ready for
spring business, had their cargo elevated
into store, and sale of the cargo at
present ruling prices would place to the
account of profit and loss on their ledger
the sum of $500. Not very profta-
ble investment, taken all around.
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The Crystal Palace is advertised flr
sale, at auction, under the direction of the
Receiver, Mr.. WHITE, on the 22d Of May.
The Crystal Palace cost more than 600,-
900, and it can be purchased for the sum
of Sl25.OOO, considerably less than one
fourth its original cost. The sale is prob
ably ordered in consequence of refus.l,
on the part Of the Councils of New York
10 permit the building longer to remain
on Reservoir Square.
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A PARTING SHoT.-Edmund Burke,
whilom Commissioner Of Patents, has
Withdrawn from the editorial chair of the
New Hampshire Reporter. In taking
leave of its readers, he say>;
To the Old Guard Democracy he
would say. that they mu ever hold in
contempt and repudiate Mr.. Frank
lin Pierce, who, in his weakness and in
satiable desire for reelection. has betray.
cd both the principles and the men to
whom he owes his elevation to the high
est OF earthly honors.
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4oerg,
THE SOULS OF THE CHILDREN.
ny CHARLES NAcKEY.

ny CHARLES GACkEN.
'swho bids for the little children
Body, and soul, and brain 7
Who bids for the little children
Young and without stain
VIII no one bid" said England,
sFIr their souls so pure and white,
And fit for all good or evil
The world on their page may write ~
ave bid" .'said Pest and Famine,
ewe bid for life and limb;
Fever. and pain and squallOr,
Their bright young eyes shall dim.
When the children grow too many,
Wen nurse them as our own,
And hide them in secret places,
Where none may hear their moan"
al hid" said Beggary, howling,
81 bid for them, one and all
IN teach them thousand lessons,
To liz. to skuIk. to crawl
They shall sleep in my lair, like maggots,
They shall rot il the fair sunshine
And If they serve my purpose,
I hope they'll answer thine"
"And III bid higher and higher"
Said Crime, with wolfsh grin,
FOR love to lead the children
Through the pleasant paths Of sin.
They shall swarm in the streets to pilfer,
They shall plague the broad highway,
Till they grow too old for pity,
And ripe for the law TO slay.
Prison, and hulk, and galloEs,
Are many in the land,
'Twere folly not to use them,
So proudly as they stand.
Give me the little children
IN take them as they're born,
And feed their evil passions
With misery and scorn.
"Give me the little children.
Ierich, ye good. ye wise.
And let the busy world spin round.
While ye shut your idle eyes;
And your judges shall have work,
And your lawyers Eag the tongue,
And the jailors and policemen
Shall be fathers to the young"
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THoUGHTs AND FAcTs.---With a true
wife, the husbands faults should be Sc
cret. A woman forgets what is due to
herself, when she condescends to that re-
fuge of weakness, female con6dant-
A wife's bosom should be the tomb Of her
husbands failings, and his character far
more valuable in her estimation, than his
life. Ifthis be not the case, she pollntes
her marriage VOW, -
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PEACE CoNeUEsTs, VS.. WAR.-The
cost of publishing Lieut.. Wilkes book,
which grew out of the Antartic Explor-
ing Expedition, has already amounted to
a million Gnd a quarter Of dOllars9 So
says Mr.. Clayton. He also stated that
Com. Perry's book on Japan, has cost
the Government two hundred thousand
dollars, while three hundred thousand
dollars is the estimate for printing the
Report and engravings of the Pacific
Railroad route.--Esehdnge.
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A BOOK lately published in France,
states that the number of suicides com
mi,ted in Paris since the commencement
of this century, exceeds three hundred
thousand. %