Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-08-07
Signs OF Improvement.
1t IS seldom that we read such candid article as
the following. which wecopy from London journal


ment and we may add large portion of the Eng
| llsh people are exclaimng against flibusters and
| hlIDusterlsm, movement is set on foot to erect
monument TO one OF the most bloodthrsty of flibus
ters that ever drew breath or swore. We allude to
The late Lord Give, the military cOnqueror of the
Indies 1t is historical fact that the conquest of
| India by the English only achieved by the most
sangunary slaughter; that every foot print of our
progress in the East left traces of blood and rapine
| and that Lord Clive-the man whose memory the
lines OF tuesday slavered with the most disgusting
| and lying Hatterv-was the unscrupulous tool, the
ready instrument by whom all the villanies and
atrocities which won us our Eastern Empire were
perpetrated in the name of England and of the East
India Company.
The Times eulogies Give to the skies, but, with
CHARACTERISTIC dirtiness, puts prominently forth all
that redounded to his military glory while it care
tully abstalns from exposing to view the black and
helsh side of his character. The notorious General
| Chve-to whose memory monument is about being g
erec ed-went out TO India about the year 1850, a
pennlless adventurer. He became soldier of for
tune, wore the English Uniform, and, as cotempo-
rary historon says, having extorted from the un
happy natives of India half million and upwards
found himself powerful enough, in 1862, to pur-
chase Indemnity for the acts by which his wealth
had been accumulated, and Irish coronet conse
crate its future application ~
| The English Government encouraged the flibus.
tering propensities of Give. The India Company
which, at the outset of his career mere traders
|
as the same authority remarks when Give quilted
the East, bis masters had kingdom,-he had forty
| THOUSAND year" The native sovereigns in vain
resisted his progress, either by force of arms or by
intrigue he baffied, defeated, and ultimately strip
ped them of their lands, crowns, and revenues Some
men of feeling and humanity in the Senate of Eng
land, outraged by his enormties, protested against
the rascally proceedings of Give in the East and
Mr.. Burgoyne, in speech of great power, traced
up 10 him all the miseries under which the natives
! nrol I'LL H. c IL
English.
The same historian we before quoted, speaking of
Give, says He possessed ndomtable courage, and
sagacious mind than the two other famous
adventurers Cor lbuslers) Of his class, Corez and
Pizzarro." Now, the Times-with the fgrant in
consistency constituting one of its most deesable
characteristics advocates the erection of a costly
monument 10 Give, while it would quietly hand over
Gen. Walker to the tender mercies hangman and
his cord. Surely, if Give deserves monument,
Walker cannot merit gibbet. But yet there is no
journal so virulent and hostile to fbusters fill
busterism as the Times-excepting when they happen
to he of English extraction and ilibu>ters for the
benefit of The leading Journals chief patrons the
moneyed and commercial interest. What more right
had we TO conquer and subIue enormous Indian
empire, and hold two hundred millions of people in
subie con to the far distant of England, de-
pose their naliSe sOveregns and conf their
enues--as we have just done with the King OF Dude
| than Walker has TO emancipate the Nicaraguans
|
was bloodthirsty, unscrupulous. tyranncal adven-
! turer, the very mention OF whose name even now
causes The natives of India to shudder.
| The Times says: 8 All that nation owes to q
founder of empire and pioneer of glory, is due
from US to his memory" while few days back it
denounced the lesser and unsuccessful flibuster,
Walker, as one for whom hanging was TOO good -
Surely no moment could be more inappropriate for
erecting monument to the most gigantic flibuster
the world ever knew than now, when the English
| ay01 thn
cans for their alleged tilibustering propensites-
Hatred of republicanism blinds the Times to the
enormities committed under the shadow of monarchy
hence, in this case, its fragrant Inconsistency.
Screw steamers aud the Coal Trade.
The revolution in navi cation is evilent7 progre>
sing faster on the other side OF the water than
this. If there is profit IN using steam tugs for tow
ing or carrying freight, that of small size, there
IS evidently more profit in larger ones. few yeals
snre the steam tugs used for towing barges on the
Hudson river between New York and Albany were
all of small dimensions. Now see steamers of
monster size, pro, ,,elIed by engines of 300 horse
power each with paddle wheels 40 feet in diameter.
One of these vessels, perhaps $50 feet n length and
appearing like monster passenger stea ner, may 0e
seen in the mdt of feet of bages that extend
many acres, the steamer itself carrying nothing but
the crew and coal for voyage. The goods IN one
tip will often amount to six thousand tons, and these
are taken from seven to nine miles hour. Where
there is large freight traffic there is evidently
economy in having pair of engines to do much
as possible. With this idea the coal merchants of
Newcastle and London have commenced running z
g screw coers" Z" of large size. The first screw yes
sells III the coal trade OF moderate dmen ions
800 tons or less-and these found 10 be profa
bic, notwithstanding the prediction by many that
screw collers would never pay" The LIST move
in the coal trade of the Tyne is the launching
of The screw collier William Carey vessel pro-
peed by engines of $50 horse power, and capable Of
carrying a cargo of 1900 tons, besides fuel for the
trip This vessel is owned by Hugh Taylor, ESQ.,
chairman of the Lonlon Coal Exchange, and his
socates in the coal trade BY new process this
and other vessels now ballased BY water, not in
sacks casks, but in bulk, in tanks and this is
pumped in and out by the engines of the vessel -
lhe William Carey" with her 1900 tons of coal,
can be unloaded in dock in one day and receive bal
asst for the return voyage. The Gaesheai Observer
says, taking capacity and celebrity into account,
the William Carey will do the work of 20 colliers
of 800 TONS" That is of 20 sailors. Herein lies the
economy. Original investment, wages and keep OF
men, speed and saving OF time, insurance, rlsk and
trouble of managinG, all IN favor OF the large
steam vessel aud against the fleet OF sailors Ii il
pays in one place it must in another. Were The
| propretors of the bituminous coal mines of Nova
Scotia to try a screw vessel for their Boston trade
they ould find a great saving in it, in The speed,
cheapness and regularity of their traffic 1t costs far
less to prope 1900 tons OF coal through the water al
the of ten Twelve miles hour, in charge Of
thirty forty hands, than il does to pay hundred
and fifty two hundred men TO dance bout on the
in sal ing vessels the prey and sport OF every
storm, calm and contrary breeze. 1t is fixed MAXIM
in business that what will pay when done on small
scale will pay still more large scale we might
we'll attempt to return to the days OF coaches'
AMI driving twenty miles to market E lumber r
wagon, as 10 try to keep sailing vessels i" active
traffic where steam is imperavely demanded AL,
ready Scotch company has launched, ami carried
into successful operation, a seew steamer for deep
shin to Bafin's Bay to catch whales and seal With
haInoon guns to strike The of the Deep ard