Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-02-22

ordinate branches of the Federal Government were
brought under the same influences as the House. what
woud be the state Of affairs! Seeing what we see
! knowino what we know-can we bring ourselves to
saw that the slavery question be ignored! Can
the Southern people be brought up TO the support OF
anv party that pretends to ignore it ? AS we'll might
the Louisiana planter be told to ignore the floods OF
the Mississippi and taught to consider his leVees ana
embankments "uncaed for and unnecessary" AS
we'll might the hunter of the North west be advised
! r., ;an,ra the wolves that are bowling his track
This question cannot and will not be ignored
II is the paramount issue which will absorb all
others lust as isavery at the North has absorbed
every partv and faction which united with II IN 1854
and the beginning of 1855 to defeat the Democracy.
The Know Nothing victories of the North turn OUT
when brought to the test either to have been at the
time Free Soil vctories,or since that to nave Oeen "o
sorbed in the prevailing element And even the SIX OF
eli ght so-called Nationals" failed IN the hour OF tr'a
60 We have but recently been put IN possession
! of the two volumes marked u > Naval As'lo'
nomica EXPEDITIONS" containing Lieut. dIlllss report
of the doings of said expedition under his command
in Chill with statistics of the ountFy, as well as
other interesting information relating thereto. This
! is in the first and most bulky volume. The second
contains Lieu Arch. McRaes Report of several
trims made bv him across the Andes, on the route
from Santiago Chill, 10 the La Plata river on the
Atlantic.
Along with much pleasure which we have derived
from perusaI of these narratives, we must also put
down to their account rather Iate or rather, early
hours, on more than occasion the tones OF Inc
clock alone warning us that the small hours OF the
morning had overtaken US.
To no class of her citizens, public servants, is
the country more indebted than to the scientific and
eDergetic officers of the army and navy under whose
superintendence, or by whose personal exerh ons I'M
portant surveys have been made and valuable info--
nation gained The lahors of the Coast Survey un-
der Professor Bache; the voyages of Wilkes,
Harstene Kane, and others; the exploration of the
Amazon by Herndon and Gibbon; the Astronomical
Expeliton under Grliss and McRae, remain as
monuments of courageous and intelligen effort fol-
the advantage of the country and the world at large
Iieut. McRae in his first trip across the mountains
from Santiago de Chill. to Buenos AyreS' mad the
misfortune TO break some of his instruments by acct
dent and their loss interfered with the accuracy and
reliability of his observations. He returned to the
United States obtained leave of the department IL
20 over the ground again, and did so at his own ex
}, pense.
These volumes, with Ferndon and Gibbons report
of their explorations of the Amazon, throw consider
, able light upon portion OF the world hitherto Du
j. little known, and that little vague and indefinite. !
we had thorough survey of the La Plata, or rather
" of the Parana and it's tributaries on the south, and
3 the Ornoco on the north, the geography OF South
America would become a branch of knowledge rathe
: than of conjecture, as it now is to some extent
l. A SCREW LoosE-The 22nd of this month is thu
day set apart for the meeting of the grand nominating
Convention of the Know othiug order, at Phiadel
phia Every paper of the order, that we have seen
seemed TO go for postponement of any nomination
W deeming the day eary y. Such, certainly, ha
been the tone of things in North Carolina. Amon
the papers urging postponement, has been the " Or
5, GAM at Washington City. Suddenly, however, tina
paper seems 10 have made discovery. It think
D. that no reinforcement ought to be habitat III
nomination cannot be made too soon, and that de
Law in the nomination of candidates would probably
t. result in disaster to the K. N. cause. The tact is
that hf gs have 10 such pass that unless tn
nomination be made immediately it cannot be made a
all, The order is splitting up so rapidly into secona
fragments, that postponement would be equlvalen
to an abandonment, siace no Convention could eve
= again he got together. The Organ argues that
postponement of the nomination would render tn
t. American party less harmonious than ii is now.
l. There is plainly trouble i'll the wigwam. TIL
D. Organ evidently does not like to run the sam
risk that the man did who dreamed of being invite
It, to drink punch with the Pope, and lost his drn
because he woke up while the water was heating
- whereas had he been content with it cold, he wou
~ not have lost his toddy. The Organ - would Ink
it hot, say in May June, but is afraid to wait lie
w in the meantime the people should become full
:: awake and the game be up entirely. 1t is cold
r nothing--now never.
n 10 The following description of KnowNothin
is ism, by of its friends certainly not one of
.ys enemies is rich and racy Even & Sam hms
lis might read it with smile that is, il Sam be in
err condition smile, and if the truth did not rather
M coed the poetry. 1t is from a recent number of
ace New York Courier and Enquirer:
rh Under what happy star was it that our friends
tho & Kn0r. NothingS' found their name very 81
- and babyish some thought tia shocking b
'ih and most ouandlsh name in the mind of others
the new and most fantastic NAME all agreed. 1t tur
De- out to have been just the thing-a hit-a papaE
hit 1t has all the qualities of good
euphony it is like of HoMER's epithets. 10
dis iginay, BUNYAN could not have done better
lent significance, fitness, and application, there
tlet ANYTHING in the whole range Of party nomenclatu
IL like it, 1t is as full of meaning as an egg is of m
iie descriptive through and Interchangeable
NIT st;n,nIativa outandout It is more than mere
les- signation it is apohegm in itsef-a watchwc
H. roottoa thinu tn he horne in mind and liz