Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-12-26
a. From Dan even unto Bersheba--that is from

Boston to New Orleans-have we examined our CA
changes and find in them neither item OF news nor
ton;s of interest sufficient to base editorial upon
Congress evidently will do nothing until after the
bolidavs if them unless we count the attempts OF Inc
Black Republicans to keep up the agitation, az
amounting TO something. The fight 10 over for Inc
nrossnt The wrangle must degenerate into that
roos, nt.rminabIe and useless of all things-a mere
r IF xords II has no other issue if it be kept up
Thank the Lord, this Congress will come to close
IN the next fourth of March. Heaven send the next
one 10 be better compaced. Of the FUTURE We are
less sanguine than many friends of our own party
We have strong hopes, but we have also fears,
many fears.
A good deal of sympathy is getting up for Mica
ragua We fear it will be TOO late, unless the reports
received exaggerate the difficulties of Walkers posi-
tiop. COL Titus of Kansas notoriety, is said TO be
going ont with $50 men, and il is also said that $40
lrishmen are to be fitted out from New York. Poor
unaccimaed fellows, from their far Northern Island
only going to the Isthmus 10 die like sheep. Their
rich brogue will rejoice General Scott and Of
fend the intense Amercanism of no good Know
Nothing of the coming times. strange man Walk
or seems to be-cold, emooness, saying nothing to
anybody, evidently reckless, and most probably deS
impassibility of Louis Napoleon. Remove all the
fuss and excitement from around his schemes, and
we find five to six thousand lives unaccounted for, in
the wilds of Sonora the pestential junges OF MI
! caragua and for what? What has been done
what progress has been made
We notice that the once celebrated Dr. Pussy. the
head Of the Puseye party in the English Church.
died about the close of the last month The Dr. was
f A. ohS e
getter up of the famous Oxford Tracts, which tended,
30 said their opponents to the essential features OF
Romansm The " Court of Arches :" a sort of Queens
Bench in matters ecclesiastical, took them up and
the ultra Puseyites were slenced deprived OF their
ivngs and benefces unless they abandoned the cere
rnonals and doctrines of the Tracts, said to be ko-
rnanistic. DR.. Newman the coadjutor in his earlier
movements, with many other leading dlvineS Of the
established Church of England went over openly to
Romanism. DR.. Pussy backed out-not before he
was threatened with loss of living.
For the details of crime, or the rumors of SUCH
have little taste. In former times, after the passage
of the Irish Catholic emancipation, and pending the
struggles over the Parliamentary Reform Bill the
Tory papers, especially in Ireland, used to gather up,
rake and scrape up the details Of every violation OF
law-every outburst of passion-every deed of crime
under the caption state of the country" and pa
rade them as grounds for ustifying the authorities in
resorting to a course of tyrannous repression. The
same course is now resorted to by the governmental
Journals of Europe who gather up, from the thous-
and journals of the United States the many instances
of crime occurring in widespread land, with the
view of conveying the impression to their readers
that such constitutes the of daily life under
republic and is necessarily Incidental to the existence
popular liberty The abolition papers of the Nortt
seize upon every vague photographic rnmor of slav
insubord nation at the South in pretty much the sam
way, and from the same evil and unfair motives o
misrepresentation. Things either nsn-exlstent o
trivial end local in their nature are exaggerated int
something indicating deep.eeaed maIady, an I'm
medicable wound. The less currency the Souther
press gives to these generally groundless and Away
exaggerated rumors, the BETTER and we are happy t
see that this view is beginning to be generally take
and acted upon.
The proceedings of the Legislature of Mort
Carolina will be found under their appropriate head
ing. Both branches appear to be diligently an
faithfully at work. AS the affairs OF the State Of
come more complex, longer time Is required and
would be manifestly impossible to gel through
quickly now as it would have been some years since
The questions of Revenue, the Banks and lntern'
improvements are those requiring most care, though
and elaboration. Several bills up for new loc
Banks-for a re. charter of the Stale Bank-for cha
ter for Mr.. D. F. Caldwel's Peoples Bank II
bills are none of them before and can on
conjecture their character. Our notions about ban
in the State are fixed upon one point that th'
ought all TO stand on the same footing, and have Il
same privileges, based upon some general prncIp
All other things being equal, We think II would
quite as safe policy to re.charter an existing Bank
good standing, as TO create new one to take
place-but no favourileism thus the Stateand "a
Fear Banks were both offered re.charters two ye
ago, on certain conditions. One, the Cape Fear
cepted-the other, the State refused to accept. /
thing then comes 10 this IF the charter offered v
good enough for the Cape Fear, it was also &c
enough for the State Bank. If not good enough
the State Bank, it was not good enough for the "a
Fear The Legislature, if we understand the mat
is now asked 10 re.charter the State Bank without
restrictions against which the Stockholders oblec
In the last charter, and in spite of which sim
charter was accepted by the Cape Fear II the On
ter now asked for by the State Bank IS granted
her, it will follow, as a matter of equity, that
Cape Fear should be placed on an equal footing.
We find mention made of various bills, andrep
upon bills, for a Danvlle connection. The natur
these reports is not indicated. We have no ap1
tensions upon this score-jtor the present, We t
that the Fayetteville and Western road will pass
1t is a strangely tangled affair, and we think II
muSt he someihinC behind that we do not fully No