Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-09-05
pestrue,lon Of the La.t.ng Observatory, etc.

On last Saturday morning fire broke out IN
cooper shop in AID street, New York, which rapidly
spread to lofty structure known as the Latting OBJ
servatory, which soon went, and the fire was three
times communicated TO the Crystal Palace, but always
extinguished with trifliDg damage. Several other
houses of comparatively little value destroyed.
The Observatory queer looking wooden affair,
nearly three hundred feet in heg hit and oddly built
and braced like open work iron light -honse
1t 10 said to have COST with its fixtures and appara-
tus, some $3.50, 900, the money being expended by
company who thought that the Crystal Palace would
draw all the world to see it, and that every visitor to
said Palace would certainly mount the Observatory
to have view of the city, and the whole of Man.
haitian Island, Brooklyn and Williamsburg, and Long
Island Sound the bay in front, down TO, and beyond
Staten Island and the Narrows, The Jersey shore. with
Jersey city and Hoboken and finally, the view up
along the North River But all the world did not
visit the Crystal Palace nor all who visited the Crys
tai Palace mount the Observatory, and so the CON-
pany lost money and the affair sold by the sheriff.
and the lot used as a marble yard. 1t was an ugly
thing while living but it died IN glory.
When we saw it. we remarked to friend who was
with us that it would make glorious fre-and ii
did Peace to its ashes. The view from Ii was very
magnificent, however, and the eye swept over the
homes of at least million of people, embracing many
rascals and some honest men, but mainly composed
of the toeraby honest, who as goood as the law
requires, and no better. 1t is terrible to stand or sit
so far up and listen the ascending and rumble
of large cy-the half sob borne occasionally by
the wind or waited off 20 the distance. 1t is thus,
when brought into such close juxtaposition that we
realize how intense is the excitement, how absorbing
the struggle for existence No daEes relax u
muscle unstrng He must ply the labor.
ing oar or 60 backward From the Fifth Avenue
speculator, whose wife and daughters wear thousand
dollar shawls 10 the poor seampstress in her little
room, all bent eagerly to the race or stretched
painfully on the rack. Others may take pleasure in
crowded cities, we DON'T.
If all this stuff has anything TO do with the deunct
observatory, we trust that somebody may find i: out
for us; we see none, and would turn the whole thing
over 10 the waste.bag, only that the "devil" has
marched off with it piecemeal, and there is
ering anything after it has gone to the D." devil"
RsA- We have before copy Of the San Francisco
Bulletin of the 5th August, for circulation in Europe
and the Atlantic States. 1t is sort of resume of the
articles appearing in that paper since the sailing oil
the last steamer. 1t is edited by Thomas s. King, a
brother, think, of the King known James King
of William The Bulletin is one of the leading or
gans of the Vigilance Committee, and also strong
Fremont paper "a bitter abuser of The South and
of slavery-and plainly Identifies lis course in one
regard with that in the other 1t keeps urging upon
the committee to Danish Judge Terry and keep him
banished Ii envejghs against the Democratic party
equally for its support of law in Kansas and in Cali
forna. 1t occasionally pretends 10 discard party, bu
only for the purpose of carrying out It's ends more
effectuaIy. lis Washington correspondent has more
inf1ammatory Abolition stuff about the assault on
Sumner than even the correspondents Of the New
York Times or Tribune, and we have not the least
doubt but the committee would have hanged Brooks
or at the least bansEed him, Kett and Edmundson
and in The late emergency have shipped off the PGesi
dent and Cabinet for their devotion 10 those things SC
hateful in the eyes of Abotonist viglants-" law
and order" We give one OF the communications
which We find in is columns, as specimen brick
from the Babel-a specimen of the tone and CHARACTER
of the whole affair, and of the Vigilance Committee
movement 1t is hardly necessary 10 say who How
ard, Terry and Ashe are against whom this secret
and oowardy band of eagued assassins plot and en-
Weigh. Judge Terry, General Howard and Dr. Ashe,
are high minded and chivalrous Southern gentlemen
Their assalants and traducers are lower than the
torous " Jim Lane" and his Kansas thieves and MUIR
derers:--
Judge Terry Liberty! Well, What The"s
Mr.. KNG-If the Vigilance Committee set
Terry liberty and he takes his seat with that cor
rupt vagabond, Judge Murray, on the Supreme Bench
and if johnson, the weak and mbecile Governor,
main in the chair If State with the blood Thirsty
Howard, chief military commander, where will the
Committee and all honest and peaceabIe citizens find
themselves within twelve months ? Why, bound
hand and foot, and crushed to the earth.
1t is folly to talk The Committee have only one
of tao courses to pursue viz, either TO make Terry
resign and leave the Stale, or hang him forth1cith.
The people not going to be longer ruled by a
few Texan desperadoes, such Howard, Terry and
Ashe, and other corrupt and desperate scoundrels.
MANY PEOPLE OF '49.
POLITICAL Map OF THE UNITED STATEs.-We have
received from the publisher, A. Ranney 1876 Broad
way, New York, broad sheet containing map Of
the United States, with the sayeholding States col
ored yellow. the .saveholding blue, and the ter
rtores pink, all except Kansas which is red. There
very good portraits of the candidates of all the