Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-01-08
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
w1LmINcToN, N. O., MONDAY, JAN. 1, 1855.
the business of our Port.

publish IaDe OF Exports IOT Llp SedIs ICJt, do
compared with the same for 1856. We also publish
our comparative table for the last quarter of the two
years respectively from which readers may be the
better enabled to perceive and estimate the effects of the
panic upon our trade Thus the exports OF Spirits Iur
penne show an increase for the year Of six thou
sand barrels i'll the face of falling off during the last
quarter of over eight thousand barrels as compared with
the corresponding quarter of the previous year. For
both the year and quarter there will be increase
in foreign shipments. in the article of Lumber there is
also aggregate increase in face of very serious tall
ing off in domestic shipments for the last quarter indeed
the whole increase of the year is in foreign.
Again. in the matter of rice there is marked in
for the year in the face of total cessation of
shipments for the last quarter Rice has hardly been in
the market at all, except for domectc consumption
Neither can wheat or cotton be said to have for
ward There is falling off of about 5000 bales, of
which thousand has been within the last quarter
Wheat is almost nothing Pea Nuts exhibit increase
Tor the year, while the last quarter shows not more than
Onethrd of the amount for the corresponding quarter of
1856.
From the exhibit presented it is apparent that the
amount of our exports for the year would have fully
equaed that of any former year, the most prosper
GUS, had it not been for the dead stand to which all
commercial transactions were brought through the
operation Of the monetary pressure and the total loss OF
confidence.
Whether the business has been paying and prof.
table one is question that cannot, we fear be an
sWered in the affirmative. We doubt if the mercantile
community of any city Or town in the Union could
figure up balance of profits realized during the past
year Such has been the state Of things that man
knew what house North he could ship to with any
certainty of having the drafts drawn against produce
paid at maturity. This has virtually stopped trade,
while it has subjected business and monetary
arrangements to the losses and fluctuations arising from
Northern speculation. 1t is a serious question for all
concerned whether safer and better guarded system OF
business cannot and ought not to be introduced No
better time than the present is likely to arrive. Bust
ness could not be more efectualy brought to stand
than it has been and when it starts again, start it
will it surely ought to have some sure safeguards thrown
around it. Hon. this is to be done is not for to say
We only deem it our duty to call to the subject the
attention of those better qualified to devise remedy
and better able to apply it, and certainly with every
motive and incentive to urge them on
Confidence is plant of slow growth, and therefore
speedy revyals are chimerical Things must at first
rectOn than with Railroad speed in any other We
think the closing quarter Of the year which we have
entered will show pleasing contrast with that which
has to an end but it would be folly to expect that
much embarrassment and continued pressure must not
be expected in the meantime. Equally foolish and less
PxcuSabe however, would it be for our community to
listen to the panic cry that Wilmington has turned the
point and must now go down, and all that sort of thing
In few years, the mistake of the panic mon9erS will
be seen. Wilmington has yet career of prosperity be-
fore her, and now in the general crash and under
dscOuragng circumstances she has sustained herself no.
bly,. The old North State will yet have additional real
son for pride in her noble little seaport.
Daily Journoi, Isl inst.
FnIBUsTER1NG.-T action of Commodore Paulding,
and of Captain Chaard all must condemn, because the
first has been manfcsty Illegal and hclattcr brutal and
ungentlemanly.
This we assert not as Southern men.--nOt from any
feeling Or prejudice but because eur Judgment and
mon sense compe to to this conclusion. So far
we go with the warmest friends of General Walker and
his expedition
But we cannot 90 with those who dcnouncc the adj
minstratiOn as anSOuthern, because it is antibuS-
ter The laws of the country directly opposed to
such expeditions. The Executive is bound to enforce
these laws 1t is bound to prevent organizations within
the United States for such purposes. 1t is bound to
arrest their going against foreign countries and if there
be people upon earth whose reliance is upon the laws
of their country for the protection of their own dearest
rights-the people Of the South is that people. Tho
people of the South is the people who, of all others
ought to set the example of strict obedience to the law
NEGRO HIR1NG-Ye sterday, January the LIST, was
an unusually fine day for the season of the year, and thu
inevitably unpleasant business of hiring progressed
well as could be expected Upon the whole, servants
appear to have gone rather lower than last year. with tn
exception onumber one cooks and other vourite servant
hired at private sale.
The falling in negro property either for sale or hire
is less than in real estate is usually the Stock
and real estate among the most sensitive description
of property.
To-day is rainy and unpleasant, and although Their
is crowd at the market corner it keeps together grn
blingly.
We suppose hiring will hardly be done with betor
Monday when those who have not hired out will do
and those still in want of servants will supply themselves
Daily Journal, I'd inst.
thieves ARouND.-We have been informed of
number of cases of stealing within the last few weeks
Clothes taken from rooms and entries and other proper
ty of different kinds carried off in the most audaciou
manner rendering it actually unsafe to leave door
bolted for the shortest period of time in the day
early evening. In order to try and find out and punisl
at least one of the thieves one of the editors of this
per offers the reward which will be found in anothe
column Some example ought to be made and, W
trust will be made.