Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-05-14
Extraordinary Energy.

The subjoined paragraph we find in the St. Louis
correspondence of Chicago paper The government
contractors to supply the army OF Uah with horses have
displayed an energy which deserves especial note while
their prompttude in the execution of the contracts
ample vindcation of the selection by the Secretary of
War for this important service The activity of the
contractors is indeed extraordinary
In nineteen days after signing the government con-
tract for all the horses that Mr. Buchanan wanted du
ring the year 1853 Messrs. L. P Sanger, John Frink
Thos. Dyer, and j. W. Singleton,-all Ilinosans-
bought and paid for seventeen hundred horses without
one cent of government funds and had them all collected
and delivered at Fort LeavenWOrth When we take in
to consideration the constant rains the swollen rivers
the necessity of transporting all these animals by rail
road and steamboat and the terrible scarcity of money
with the doubt of the passage of deficiency hangng
over them say there are few men in the nation who
could have done the thing, in the length Of
time, without dollar from the government"
DISCOVERY AND REscUE.-A week or two ago, the
oorkeeper of the House OF Representatives reported
Speaker Orr the finding by some of the subordnates in
the vaults under the centre (rotunda) of the Capitol
building, of large number of books belonging to the
Government some Of them of much value, not few Of
which were buried in boxes, we hear under heaps of
coal ashes The Speaker ordered their prompt rescue
and for time past they have been gradually ushered
into the light of the upper stories OF the building Thus
$4,000 volumes lave been dug out Of the catacomb in
which they have been entomed for years pastat least
long enough the doorkeeper tells u.s. to result in total
oblivion the part of those entrusted with their custo
dy to who responsible for their location there and
the shameful condition of not few of them. Among
those books 800 full sets Of the works of John Ad
ANS the records of the debates in Parliament far back
as 1000, various valuable French books and newspa-
per files in French and English, various manuscript
books connected with the details of the custom house
business of the country about twenty years ago. The
mass of rescued volumes published by order Of
Congress In ALL they will number perhaps 10000 vol
umes many of which have been irretrevably injured by
neglect the rats and coal ashes together.-Wash STAR
The FIRST New WHEAT.-A firm in this city, this
morning received from Mr.. Boughtol of Essex county,
Va bundle of stalks of wheat measuring forty
nine inches in head and which will be harvested and in
market by the latter part of the present month This
fully six weeks earlier in the than any wheat ever
before reached this market The stalks were taken from
field which will produce, it it supposed not less than
eight hundred bushels and were pulled ndiseriminately
/ from the field-BaH. Patriot, May
HALF OF A GENERAL ASSEMBLY on ONE STEAMBOAT
Captain Kountz was fortunate enough to be at Cairo
with his magnificent floating palace, The City of Mem
nhs in time to receive on board hundred and two
Of the Commissioners of the General Assembly of tht
1 which Thursday in New