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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05

Resolved That resisting all appeals to expediencv
and regarding the dignity and honor of North CAROL
mans as Infinitely above any question of dollars and
cents we are as we have always been fxedy and una
eraby opposed to distribution either of the public land
or their proceeds. 1t is old ISSUE but in qshatos
guise contrary to the Federal Constitution, and yoa
tive of the honor and dignity of the States.
Resolved, That North Carolina has the ability and
the will to educate her children without aid from
the Federal Government
Resolved That the administration of James Buchanan
has not disappointed but fully verified the hopes and
predictions of his Southern friends and therefore deserve
our warm approval and commentator. We heartily
express both.
RESOLVED, That the Lecompton Constitution va,
formed according to aav and an obedience to the REQUIRE
ents Of the act organizing the Territory of Kansas
and therefore refusal to admit the State of Kansas n
der that Constitution acod be an act of bad faith and
grossly unjust to the South.
Resolved, That the of our immediate Reprp
sentative in Congress- the Hon. Warren Winslow meets
our hearty approval. His devotion to the interest Of
the South deserves and hereby tender to him our
Warmest thanks.
Resolred That it would be an act of injustice to
faithful public servant and vioative of feelings were
to separate without expressing thanks to Thomas
Bragg for his faithful discharge of the duties of the Of
flee Of Governor of North Carolina and his great and
brilliant services to the Democratic party of the State
and the Union. He deserves, and we hope he NAV re-
ceive still higher honors.
In compliance with the first resolution the Chairman
appointed the following gentlemen:
n. B. Skipper, DR.. Powell w. A. Robbins. T. p
Lemon, III. &. Leonard, Jacob A. Evans James Biygs
Gabriel Holmes, Saml. Langdon, John D. Taylor, Owen
d. Holmes, Thomas Durant; John Mercer, Jesse Ian
caster, RobtJ Sharp, William Frink, Rob't W. Wood
side, John I'll. Hews, Saml. B. Hews, Saml. Bell
On motion, the Chairman and Secretaries were added
to the list of delegates.
Saml Langdon, Esq, being called upon, addressed the
meeting sustaining the resolutions in an eloquent able
and manly style, which was heartily approved by the
meeting and most forcby expressed by unanimous vote
of thanks.
On motion Of John D. Taylor, Esq, the proceedings
of the meeting ordered to be sent to the Whining
ton Journal and Commercial with the request that they
be published. JOHN III. HILL, Chairman.
E Edns = 4 GALn0wAr' (secretaries.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05

MEssRs. FULToN & PRICE This community has
been shocked by the mysterious disappearance of JAS
E. Shaw, wagner, from Alamance county, whose
wagon and team, trunks, cargo, &c. together with a
large amount of valuable papers, found in the pos
session of Bythe Mitchell and who has not been heard
of since he came to said Mtchells house. the 18th
u large portion of the citizens of the surrounding
neghborhood have been in search of the body for the
last two days. without success, though from traces al
ready discovered he was evidently murdered in the yard
of said Mitchell The citizens have determined to meet
and search from day to day until the body is recovered
Bythel Mitchell, white man, and Henry Patrick and
Joshua Freeman, colored men, have been committed to
Jail on suspicion of having been accessory to- having
committed the foul deed. The friends of said Shaw,
we hope will come and take possession of his property
they receive this notice, as no doubts
erained of his murder We forbear giving the circum-
stances in full at present NM
Maxwell's Brunswick Co, n. c., March LIST, 1858
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05
WIN. S. MULLINS,
Pres't W. & NJ. r. R. Co.

WoRDswoRrHs SOLITARY JokE-We have heard
Of single speech Hamilton, and one idea people by
the hundred but we never knew that the author Of The
Excursion made but one wittcism in his life He was
the cause of many by other people:
One evening at Talfourd's the conversation turned
to wit. Moore, Sydney Smith, Barham, and manv emf.
nent men were there. Wordsworth the great noet
said don't think l ever was witty but once in nv
lfe This, of course, induced all to beg he woud 70
late his solitary witticism "Some time ago. contn-
ued Wordsworth, as l was standing at nv gate at
Rydal Mount, man came up to me- and asked If had
seen his wife pass that way? Whereupon I said
Why my good man, this is the first time that have
heard that you ever had wife" when Wordsworth
stopped All roared with laughter at the abgurdty
and the old poet to his dying day considered the merr
ment his obtuseness occasioned as tribute to his wit
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05

BE~ Our neighbour of the Herald in its yesterdays
issue has pretty long article dorm on Senator Biggs
because he was not willing to go for co,1c blanche to
pay for the entertainment Of Turkish officer who
Or is to como to this country to get vessel of built
for the Turkish Government 1t may look untashiona
BILE for us to say that we agree with Mr. Biggs far
as he goes but think that he docs not 60 far enough
If the Turkish Government wants ship Of war built
and desires to have built in the United States it is the
business of that Government and of the contractor who
may get the job. The Government is not the contrac
tor for such jobs 1t has to do with them than
it has with any other contracts. The Turkish officer is
not accredited to the government in any other way and
cannot but look upon any money spent upon him be-
cause he comes to lave ship built here, much of
premium given to encourage one private interest at
the expense of the general fund We would 60 for treat
inc Mr.. Mehemed Pasha with all due courtesy, and no
more. We think the whole matter Of paying his ex-
penses wrong If New York or Boston shipbuilders
want his job let them treat and honeyf1ggle him. We
think everybody is ashamed of the Kossuth humbug and
this is dozen times worse If Mr. BiggS finally voted
against the whole thing, he right. There may be-
and there are coureses which ought to be extended to
distinguished strangers and the salary of the Chief Exc
cutive ought to be large enough to permit him to
tend these courcsies at his option and as matter
of course but this congressional appropriation in such
case is a humbug.
What is Mehemed Pacha to us? What to us if he
does give Mr. Webb other northern shipbulder
Job? We cannot see for the life of us. Nor can we
see why we of North Carolina should help pay for drum
ming custom for northern ship-builders Let them pay
their own runners.
The report says that when it was proposed to make
an indefinite appropriation to pay the expenses of The
Turkish person while experimenting the building of
ship of war, Mr. Bggs proposed to limit the expense
five thousand dollars So far the principle is concern
ed one dollar is just bad as one hundred This
amendment we presume Mr.. Biggs proposed in Commit
Tee of the Whole with the intention of voting agant thu
whole bill when it came before the Senate.
Daity Journal I'd inst
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For the .Innrna.
WH1TEvILLE, March Sd, 1855

MEssRs. Fulton & PRICE The body of j. E,
Shaw the missing WAGNER has been fonnd in island
in large bay near Bythe MtchelPs house, about one
foot under the surface A jury of inquest has been
gagged for two days examining the witnesses, without
coming to final decision They will meet again to-
morrow at O'clock at this place, to proceed with the
case.
Shaw must have come to his death from the effects of
two or more blows on the head inflicted with axe
the skull is broken in such way to leave doubt
of this fact.
Mitchell and others have been under examination to-
day; and tomorrow WILL we have no doubt, bring the
whole subject to light We will then give the crcum-
stances of the case in full which we forbear doing at
present. Respectfully, ETC.,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05

Bas~ On Wednesday of last week, Geo. Davis, Esq,
of Wilmington, delivered, before the Cheraw S. c. Ly-
ceum, his lecture on The Last Days Of Royalty in
North Carolina" Of this effort writer in the Pee
Dee Herald says We are merely echoing the opinion
we have since very generally heard expressed when we
say that more eloquent display of chaste manly, pa
triotic eoquenCe before heard within the walls
of our Lyceum Hail. The writer, who is evidently a
man of cultivation, proceeds to review Mr. Davis lee
ture, and in terms of the highest commendation
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05

bas~ Will the editors of the Goldsboro Tribune beso
kind as to favor us with copy of their paper of last
week-of the 25th February. We find we have stirred
up little fuss by speaking out in meeting Our friends
of the Tribune, and contemporaries of the Standard
must be aware that we given to such things when
we know ourselves to be right as we do in this case
But we do not wish to multiply words just now All in
good time and the hardest end off, if our contemporaries
q0M have it so.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05

On last Monday night week. all the prisoners in the
Jail of Guord county in this State, contrved te make
their way out and make their escape One of them,
Col. Wilmington, was put in for passing counterfeit
money. He re-taken and ensconced in his former
abode.
The elders and deacons of the Presbyterian church in
North Carolina held session last week in Greensboro,
for the purpose of promoting the interests and advancing
the of Christianity One of the leading questions
brought before that body what steps they should
take in order to procure ample support for their
preachers.
The Greensboro correspondent of the Petersburg
Erpres under date of the 18th ult says: We learn,
by letter from Elizabeth City, that about $4,000 of
the money belonging to the Farmers Bank Of that place
has recently been found concealed in safe belonging to
Mr.. w. w. Griffin, former Cashier of said Bank
Rascaty, like murder always will out, and should be
punished but public sentiment is too apt to brand a
man who steals dollar as thief while he who steals
thousands is gentleman
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05

BIG UOG.--A correspondent from kenansville writes
us about hog recently butchered in Dupn county,
which he thinks, will go ahead of anything in that line
which has yet been reported. Mr. Jacob Bostick, of
Dupln county, recently butchered hog thirty months
DID, which weighed G32 pounds 1t certainly large
for its age" Old DupIin is hard to beat
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05

BsU~Wc notice that the flags of The shipping in our
harbor are at hafmast to-day out Of respect to the
memory of Capt. CHARLES G. FREEMAN, commander of
the Brig S. z. Brown engaged in the trade between
this port and the island of Cuba Captain Freeman,
who died at Havana on the 10Th Feby, Of small pox,
aged about 43 years. was native of Denmark but for
the last twenty-five years citizen of Newport, Rhode
Island, where he leaves wife and three children to
mourn his death. He had been employed in the Cuba
trade from this port for number of years, and by his
uniform kindness and gentlemany department had made
large number of friends, by whom his death deeply
regretted. All who knew him speak of him as good
officer and clever man.-Daly Journal, I'd INST
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05
From Havana.

New YORK, Feb. 28.-The steamer Empire City,
from New Orleans with dates to the 20th arrived this
afternoon She also brings Havana dates of the 23d
The Spanish frgate Been and the steam frigate Bez-
nezuela sailed on the Odd from Havana was reported
for Vera Cruz
Sugar was quiet Molasses firm; Exchange tending
downward freights lower.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05

RaEA Messrs. w. III. Bum and d. S. Richardson
have started paper at Wilson, the seat of justice
for the county of the name in this State and the
first issue is before 1t is called the Wilson Ledger,
is of respectable size neatly printed and well got
up" 1t is published weekly at s. year, in advance,
and if the promise of the first number be redeemed by
subsequent issues it will be cheap at that and ought to
be in the hands of every citizen in its section of country
We wish Messrs. Bum and Richardson the utmost
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05

MORE BIG IIoGs.-Stephen Herring, Esq, of Duplin
county, Kenansve killed hog lately, two years
and two months DID, that weighed 595 pounds also
en- of fifteen months old that averaged 226 pounds.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05

Ia The Elizabeth City Sentinel goes for Conven-
ton of the Wing and American party and says that if
the Executive Committee of that party will not issue
call for such Convention then it ought to be issued by
the editors of the Greensboro Patriot and Flag.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05

OUR ONE APPoINTMENT-North Carolina gave H.
900 majority to Mr.. Buchanan, and has got the offer
of one Consulate which we understand the gentleman,
Mr., Daney, declines
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05

pa SO Santa Anna IS going back to Mexico to as
sumo the Presidency for the last time So Havana
letter received at New York
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05
or the Journal.
VI
The Kcnansville Female Seminary.

MEssRs. EDITORS We had the pleasure of being pre-
sent last night at Concert given by the young ladies
of the Female Seminary of this place Wesay pleasure
because in fact it did afford real pleasure to witness
the triumphant success of the beautiful q underscore for
bacheos young ladies of this excellent Institution
the occasion The concert was all that its most sangune
friends had any right to expect A large assemblage
was present and delighted with the exercises. will
not undertake to discriminate where everything was
performed WE'LL but will say that the performances Of
The Jenny Lind Polka Katy Darling, The Twin Sis
and The Mocking Bird, afforded peculiar delight on
account of the fact suppose that these avore
airs of ours
The proficiency exhibited in the Musical Art by the
young ladies this occasion, paid very high compl
The Institution, under the management of Mr. Rogers
and lady, assisted in the musical department by the &C.
compshed Mrs. Bailey, is in most prosperous condi
ton. A.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05
\ rcrriblc Calamity in NcMbern. N. &.

See reports of Meetings in Sampson and Brunswick
They breathe the true Democratic spirit.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05
Diving at SebastOpOI.

letter describing the operations at Sebastopol for
raising the sunken Russian ships relates the following
incident
| Nov. Owe had terrible excitement on board one
day last week One of the divers (Harriss the English
Marne rstrae fellow, and bold lion, goes down,
examining the outside of the ship which they at
work He had been forward, and was going aft, along
the BOTTOM in sixty feet of water, when he suddenly sig
nailed for air. and though the pressure instant
ly increased, two signals for air and to come
up followed in rapid succession, and then ceased all
ply to signals given Thinking the fault in the air
pump the speed was increased until pipe bursting near
the engine showed that the hose was foul Then they
shouted to the other diving party, in row-boat at
little distance, to come to their rescue.
The diver was brought up by his tenders and COM
menced rowing for the steamer Meanwhile poor Har-
rs made response to the anxious signalling of
his tenders and they had tried in vain to haul him up
the life line - also foul. The pump was kept
slowly in motion, but bubbles from the water,
and we knew that no air reaching him. The
boat coming fast as possible but I thought it
never would arrive At last they came alongside. The
divers helmet closed strong hands worked rapidly
and silently and in instant he lowered out Of
sight the hose of his suocatng companion in his hand
there interval of two three minutes of fearful
suspense, in which word was spoken by any Of the
score OF men gathered there one whisper 1t must
be too late'
Suddenly a second column of rising air-bubbes ap-
peared The hose is cear-he has air. several voices
spoke eagerly. Then followed the signal for raising and
up ley cdlile- poor 11aGrlS all stark ana nlOuOLeSS
Stop the pump, he Is Dead said one, unscreWng the
eyegass through which he the gbasty countenance
and frothy lips. But the cold air striking his livid
face, the eyeds half opened and closed again He is
alive" they all cried joyfuly, and removing the I'M
slightly helmet and dashng water his head and breast
he presently began to breathe perceptby and after
hours dilgent rubbing from many strong and will
ling hands could get around him. he began to come to
consciousness He suffered great pain for hours in the
head and breast, but is recovered and diving as
usual On the whole, it was an occurrence as l hope
may not happen here again that ten minutes, in which
had the consciousness that was dying for the
want of assistance which could by no means give
cannot think of without shudder The lifeline was
fast on some old rigging down in the mud under the
bottom of the ship where he had crawed in his jealous
search after holes injuries The hose had got fast
der port cover in such way to cut off the air sud
denly and entirely He his life to the GOODNESS and
dextery of the other diver, who providenaly followed
the hose and cleared before descending to him. thus
giving him air two minutes than he could other
wise have received it and it came late enough
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05
A ComfortabIe ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

A correspondent of the New York Independent, thus
describes the domain of the Duke of Devonshire =
The domain of the Duke of Devonshire would c5ver
of our largest counties The park Immediately sur
rounding the palace is eleven miles in circumference
and contains 5000 acres. The principle garden for
vegetables fruit green house, ETC., is twenty-five
There thirty green houses each from fifty to
tyive feet long. We went into three four contain
ing nothing but pneappes, ripe; others containing
nothing but melons and cucumber One peach tree on
the glass wall measures yone feet in width and fifteen
feet high, and bears thousand peaches 1t is the
largest in the world The grape houses, five or six in
ALL are 600 feet long, and such grapes We pine
apples weighing ten twenty pounds EACH One green
house had only figs, another only mushrooms. But
what shall be said of the great conservatory filed with
every variety of tropical plants 1t is one of the
ders Of the world 1t covers of ground, is 10
feet high of oval shape and cost $50000O 1t is heat
ed by steam and hot water pipes, which in ALL six
miles in length. The apparatus consumes 600 tons Of
coal in year. We saw banana trees twenty feet high
with clusters of fruit, sugarcane coffee trees bamboo
and in short every tropical plant that be named
Several of the palmtrees from fifty to sixty feet
high The smoke of the immense fire underneath is
ried in pipes under ground to outlet in the woods
The coal is brought in tunnel 600 yards under gOund
One fountain throws jet of water to the height of 25
feet
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05

CIVIL WAR IN SoNoRA-Capt. Stones Surveying
Pary-The U. s. transport schooner Monterey arrived
at San francisco the 2lst January from the Gull Of
California q days out from the Colorado river and 20
days from Guaymas in the Mexican province of Sonora
She brings from that port of dssension and war
between the Gandary faction and the authorities of So
nora.
Capt Walsh likewise reports that it is feared the In
dams viii resist Capt. Stones surveying party and that
he will require about 600 men as guard to protect
them.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05

MARCn-March, this year is the good old traditional
month that comes in like lion polarbear Blow
ing and freezing at night freezing and blowing during
the day time-cod generally but comfortable if you are
well clothed, well fed well housed and well warmed
Under other circumstances, think frosty weather is
not the thing it is cracked up for If there be peach
blooms Or any other kind of blooms they must bloom
in some other region than this. Still, the sun shines
down warm and glorious dim and cloudy umlnary'
like the thing that passes for sun in more puvius
cImes but the same jolly old that Apollo used to
drive round the heavens his two horse buggy with long
names and tails to the horses
The old provcrb which says that March comes in like
a fcrocous ANIMAL also states, for comfort that it
goes out like lamb With the recollection Of several
Marches before us, we feel inclined to say-bah But
when March really docs come in so fercey there is a
hope that it will go out in better humor, and surely it
cannot 90 out in worse
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THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
~ surroundings circumstances depress or elevate

No. Surrounding circumstances depress or elevate
our feelings They give to the impressions OF our mind
n sombre or cheerful tone, as the case may be- And
these mprssions reproduce and intensity themselves by
causing us to see everything through the medium OF
distorted mental vision so that after while it is i'm
osble to discriminate between cause and effect or to
say which is which.
We have looked this morning over our exchanges
Turned them over and over, and then returned them
again. but whether the fault be in or in hem we have
been unable to shake off the uncomfortable feeling which
their perusa has awakened. Somehow there seems to
be an unusual development OF evil and unhappy things
of suffering and sadden death, of failures and distress,
of murders and suicides. Seldom any terrible accident
unaccompanied by some dark imputation-seldom any
failure unaccompanied by suspicion.
A fire at midnight wraps hotel in flames and some
thirty persons perish miseraby And yet even this is
hardly accepted as an accident 1t is asserted that
miscreant or miscreants set the Pacific Hotel in ST.
Louis on fire. yea even the proprietor does not escape
SUSPICION when turns out that he had really inter
est that the belonged opartes with whom
he was at feud How the standard of dollars and cents
is brought forward to measure everything!
Even our own section has not been without its record
Of blood Nor has the element of avarice been wanting
to lend to that record its darkest lines We aude tc
the murder Of poor Shaw, the wagner.
Death too, has been busy in midst, sweeping of
numbers especially Of the young. Many mothers
heart has been wrung by grief that the world knows
not Of
Congress has been much taken up with refractory
witnesses upon bribery and corruption cases. 1t would
seem if nothing any longer sacred from scheming
corruption and moneyseeking Or, at any rate, as if no
body any longer had faith in anything being thus sacred
The times out of joint perceptions are Per
haps we see these things through jaundced medium
Or perhaps we see them with too little disguise or u
sion-who shall say?
The air is cold out of DOORS but they say it is pleas
ant We are glad to hear this-glad that somebody
feels well and able to rejoice in his strength.