Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-05-22

home manufactures, and leave foreign luxur;os -
strangers whom her means have enriched at ha. W
expense. ' o"h
Under the existence of the free trade policy tho
south would have to pay towards the expenses e e
government, directly, the sum now paid indirecIe
or ABOUT twenty-five million dollars (S2 43 per 10y
tai annually. She would save however, as aboppn
SHOWN, the greater sum now paid as profit to Tho
American manu- facturer thus increasing her obl
10 purchase goods 80 per cent over her nresort my
pacty; or, II she already buys enough for her va,a
she might add a yearly sum of upwards of tb;.'
millions of dollars to her capital. The efacta
such an addition would be to launch her forth IN -
certain career OF prosperity. 1t would build her -
terna Improvements, restore the commercial baian
ces in her favor, establish direct foreign trade an1
roduce manufacturing industry into the list of b
pursuits 10 the South, therefore, Free Trade won5
afford the best encouragement for domestic industry
lnasmuch. also, as it would tend to restore an po;
llbrium Of woalth and power between the slavabaIa
ing and the sections, it's adoption
may be advocated as an excellent Union-sayinen
measure
Manufacturing industry, sprnging up under the
gradual operation of Free Trade, would be verv
different thing from what it becomes under the forc
ing system OF protective tariff. In the first case
1t ould have existence at the expense of tho
more important agricultural interests, but based m
the pecunlary surplusage of that interest therefore
dependent and subordinate to it, and Offering less ~
that dangerous contrast between the power Of canti
and the scanty rewards of labor which we see where
The former Is pampered into unnatural develop
ment In the latter case, manufacturing capital be-
comes The ruling force in the Government and society
IL roots out all the nobler influences and imnulses
winch ought to regulate the actions of nation and
OBTAINS so complete sway over the fortunes of the
laoonng masses, that each expansion enables it
TO sll farther dwarf the daily pittance allowed its
operatives and to swell still more it's already over
grown bulk Thence arises hostility between cantaI
which in q HAL
would be found 10 harmonic.
he state OF society thus produced is of course
unsOund throughout; but it breeds vast increase Of
population. The manufacturing cities of Manches
ter, Glasgow and Lyons, swarm with human beings
as rotten carcase sWarms with maggots. Want
and despair preside at the birth of their teeming off
spnng, for wisdom and foresight, and all the quail
Ties which go TO make up the real man, have fled
from the members of such population. They in
crease only to rVet the irons of necessity more closely
around them.
AS Government by its legislation, can thus stinu.
late the production of population, it is of great i'm
por ance for it to consider the intellectual and moral
qualification of the units, especalyin country like
ours, where each male is to become q voter. Even
under tie most favorable circumstances il is general
y confessed, that factory operatives are inferior in
intellect to the rest of the population from the con-
hnement of their metal activity 10 very narrow
circle of objects. Their dependent external position
likewise, is apt to destroy independence Of thought
and to beget servility apd imbeclty of spirit, un-
worthy of the freeman-or else rouses counter en-.
ergy, which finds it's aims and objects in. the last
excuses of riot and agrariansm Owing to the
unprecedented natural advantages of this country
these results have not yet overgrown the fabric OF
Northern society in their full extent but the seeds
and tendencies exist, and must at one time DESTROY
republican institutions there. Whichever triumphs
manufacturing capital manufacturing labor
some central tyranny must be evoked to keep society
in a stable orbit.
AS before stated, we would not anticipate any such
results where manufacturing industry attained its
normal growth and nothing more, as would be the
case at the South, under the restraining influence Of
FREE Trade An increase of population at large from
Its own stock, would, indeed, probably take place
but 1t would be Produced by the increased means of
subsistence and not result from the insanity of reck
less despair which experience shows to be the fact
IN communities at the mercy of manufacturing capital.
Curiosities of Sleep
In Turkey, if person falls asleep in the neighbor-
hood of poppy field, and the wind blows over to-
wards him. he becomes gradually narcotized and
would DE IT the country people, who are we'll ac-
quaned with the circumstance, did not bring him
to the next well stream, and empty pitcher after
pitcher OF wafer on his face and body. DR.. Appen.
helm, during his residence in Turkey owed his life
TO this simple and ef6cacious treatment. Dr. Graves
from whom this anecdote is quoted, also reports the
case OF gentleman thirty years of age, who from
long continued sleepiness reduced to a complete
living skeleton, unable to stand on his legs. 1t was
partly owing to dseas, but chiefly to the abuse of
mercury and opium until at last, unable to pursue
his BUSINESS, he sank into ahject poverty and woe
DR.. Reid mentions friend of his, who, whenever
anything occurred to distress him. soon became drow-
sy and ell asleep fellow student also at Elinburg
upon hearing suddenly the unexpected death of q
near relative, threw himself in his bed and amoS,
simultaneously, amid the glare of monday, sunk
into profound slumber. Another person aloud to
one of his dearest friends stretched on his death bed
tell last aSieaD. and hOnk in band
went on reading utterly unconscious of what he was
dong. A woman at Hamadt slept seventeen or eigh-
teen hours day for fifteen years. Another is record
ed to have slept oLce four days DR.. Nacnish men.
tons woman who spent three fourths of her life in
sleep, and DR.. Eloltson quotes case of young
lady who slept for six weeks and recovered The
venerable St. Augustine of Hippo prudentlv divided
his hours into three parts eight 10 be devoted to
Sleep eight to Rotations and eight to converse with
the world Manacs are reported particularly in the
EASTERN hemisphere 10 become furiously vglant dur
ing the full of the moon, more especially when the
deteroratng rays of its polarized light is permitted
to fall into their apartment, hence the name lunacs
There certainly is greater proneness to disease
during sleep than in the waking state, for those who
pass the night in the Champagne du Roma inevitably
become injected With Its noxlous air while travel.
lers who go through without stopping escape the
masna. Intense cold produces sleep, and those who
perish IN the snow, sleep till they sleep the sleep
OF Ceath.
SALE OF PLANK RoADs-The Charlotte and Taylorsvillo
by the securities Of the bonds of the Company.
The Western Plank Road running from Charlotte
Lncoton sold at public auction in this place recently
tor $l2,OO0-bd in by the securities
Flank Roads don't seem to pay in this part of tho State
The reason is in dry weather the roads as
extent In the eastern part of the State among
the sand hills Plank Roads generally used all times
ton, is think, they not sufficiently gradedand
urther eak plank arc inferior pine for road purposes