Wilmington journal., 1859-09-16

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amply repay perusal 1t breathes the right spirit The
commencement will be found on the first page.
BSE- Last evening passed he old building on the
corner of Front and Princess streets, from which the
Journal issued for many years where 1t started
struggled and grew to such maturity possesses
The old partitions were all down. the very stairs were
gone-the floors with the marks and stains OF years.
with the very footprints into hem were taken up
and replaced by others fresh from the mlh-slmpiy
boards and nothing more. All the interior, with which
the associations of long years had made us familiar was
gone rubbed out removed, large room lett. 1t will
be an improvement no doubt but it made us sad to look
upon it.
The former Journal Office must be quite an old build
ing. It's present very worthy Mr. Bettencourt
does not remember when built, or even when 1t
was new. although its walls are firm and sound We
rather think it must date back into the last century
consideraby-ndeed it may not be impossible that it
belongs to the Revolutionary
1t was dweing-house opce and its old walls have
resounded to the feeble wall of infancy the gay laugh
of sporve youth And there has been sorrow there and
death and there have been silent grief or more ostena
tious mourning. There must have been many aspects
of life presented by the changing tenants OF that old
house in its duration of three quarters OF century, and
even we quiet as we have moved in the old tenement
have not been without our changing moods there-our
hours of deep detection renewed hope. But all these
things are passed now far the old house is
ed-st, pass by the impulse to turn and go in,
is almost irrepressibe; and again, whenever we look
old file of the Journal, our mind inevitably re-
vers to the old place where this article penned or
that little squib thrown ofwe can then see the little
room above the engine with all its dim and dusty
sories and casting regretu glance the past and
a somewhat doubtful one over the future, turn to
pursue our way in mood that is than seriousness
but can hardly be called melancholy.
Daily Journal 10th inst.
Bgg~ We notice a communication signed Morgan
ton" copied from the Salisbury Watchman, into the
Charlotte Bulletin. That communication good
many things which better information mature
reflection would have caused the writer to withhold that
is, if it re his design to do justice.
AS for the market to be found here Tor prcdnce we
take it that it is about good any other OF sister
towns We know by comparison of the market reports
that as good prices paid here in Charleston for
wheat cotton and corn and from furnishing the Whining
ton reports ourselves we are enabled to vouch for their
a more extensive shipping interest at this point We'll
perhaps he has right to, but don't think Our
rates of freight lower the year round than they are
from Charleston and could ship every bushe of West
ern n c. wheat three weeks, if required to do
so.
Morganton chooses to make it his business to reflect
upon the Sena tor from New Hanover, being hostile
to the n c. Railroad and the Western \. &. Railroad.
He seems forget that the n c. Railroad owes its very
existence in great measure to the gentleman in ques
ton That he was opposed to the Danville connection
is so not simply in tie interests of Wilmington, or Of
his own road but in the interests of the whole system
of State improvements. When the friends Of the West
ern Extension could not agree among themselves to
what they wanted how could they expect the people Of
the high htax-paying county OF New Hanover to assist
in forcing something upon them? Did the Burke in
terest in the last Legislature really want the Western
Railroad carried beyond Morganon, mot the correspon
dent but the county seat We don't think it did, much
as Morganton fuses about the matter.
If the writers who talk so largely about the amount
of money given to Wilmington, for which the West
pays taxes etc. would only bear in mind that the whole
amount of State interest in both completed Roads,
with line of 32O miles in leugth is six hundred
thousand dollars while the interest OF the State in roads
West of Raleigh is ten times as great, perhaps they
would see that their large talking somewhat ridiculous
if not more So But some who write most extensively
talk most loosely They know little of the facts, and
care less about the accuracy of their statements The
| Wilmington, Charlotte & Rutherford Road, about
which Morganton :" talks so much, is a great State
work. not a Wilmington work alone. The subscriptions
of counties aog the line 60 to show the interest taken
in it by as many, and as populous and productive
counties those trayersed by the North Carolina Rail
road
We make upon the n. q. Road We seek
no war with it. 1t is interest we'll as our pleas
ure to cultivate friendly relations with the people of al
portions Of the State especially with those OF the centre
and west but with those acuated by the spirit thai
seems to pervade the production of Morganton," WE
see no use in attempting to hold any terms. He grow
for purpose OF his To those who are liberal anc
minded we address remarks, not to those who
are designedly hostile.
u CAPE FEAR AND DEEP RTvER-This work is pro
crossing favoraby. We learn that Mr. Morris has nov
force of ninety hands, and hopes to be able tt
pass boats through by the st of January If his orc
could be augmented to SO hands, the probabilities of at
tanning this result would almost amount certainty
For reasons which will be easily understood Mr. Morri
is anxious to obtain as much slave labor as possible a
liab han FREQ I.hr aliv