Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-02-18
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And why is it 500 To great extent the tide of trade is
forced this through what may be termed natural
But then there other 1hy Peters burg gets much
of the patronage that ,coh be received by Wilmington
merchants Here is the secret Every month in the year
the principal houses have agents canvassng your State
all the counties where possible to influence divert
trade IN this direction. By this the people made
familiar with the Supposed-thouoh not real advantages
for patronzng Virginia State pride has very little to do
with man who has commodity to dispose of the price
he obtain for -and the articles he may want in return
with their value the main Let Wilmington
merchants then eend into the country agents well quail
fled to represent IN true light the numerous advantages
they haze and offer in he respective branches of trade
Let this be done continualv-and the result in my udg
ment will be complete success. You have, believe
deavored to convert the merchants this belief than
but the warning seems to have passed UNDECIDED
IS matter of two much Importance to Wilmington to be
passed over without the experiment being trieded thor
oughycnot in the send-aboy style. but upon the 60
youSelf principle. -.-.--N
The above idea has forcbly impressed me- since my
arrival here that with the hope of inducing of your
been induced to trespass upon time this much should
you see proper to give the same publicity in the Journal
Yours, &C., GOING NORTH.
Arrival of the Moses Taylor--Further California
New YORK. Feb 1.-THE Moses Taylor, from AS
plnWa with dates to the Sd instant, arrived here to-
night. She passed the 9th the ship of Brooklyn
steering southwest. She left at Aspnwal the United
States frgate Roanoke and sloop of war Savannah.
She brings San Francisco dates of the goth ut and
81 100000 in gold Her California adviees have been
mainly anticipated.
vein of COAL it is hoped equal to the Scotch camel
coal, has been found on Elder creek.
The centennial birthday of Burns to have been
celebrated in various parts of the State
The sugar refinery at San Francisco has been
much damaged by the explosion Of the steam boiler
One man killed.
The French have taken possession of Chpferton
island about 600 miles westward OF Acapulco
On New Years day the settlers at Pound Valley,
California, killed forty Indians for stealing stock.
Major johnson had arrived with troops to protect
the Indians
Lotto IN had hlo1L 1
eight or ten highWaymen OF between two and three
thousand dollars
Chill still disturbed, and the provinces were I'M
der martial law, and number of persons had been
rested for sediton The press entirely under the
direction of the government.
From Caoa the advces are that the prospect of a
general revolt increasing. While an edict was
being read the 9th ut prohibiting the tearing up of
rails and cutting telegraph wires the mob did everything
that forbidden. The streets strewn daily with
pasquines threatening Castillo with death.
pondent of the Panama Star says that by the next mail
may hear that the mob have been butchered the
government oyerthroWn.
Advices from Caracas state that the Republic
quiet. Gen. Paez was at Valencia. He had been
we'll received i'll all the towns through which he passed
CoMMERCIAL.-Notwth the doubts regarding
the increase of the tariff it is that gradual return
of prosperity is taking place all the country less
by far in the great West than in other sections but yet
dence and not protection the people desire. The
New England Manufactures are in comparatively
healthy condition the iron districts of Pennsylvania
not complaining loudly; indeed, both sections
knowledge that if the demand for their products be
kept up ten twenty per the average of what
it is, they will not grow, tariff tariff. Saga
cious manufacturers who have weathered the storm Of
the past eighteen months say that protection is capt.
tai thing if not great to induce too large in
vcstment of capital in this country, in the general
manufacture iron working line; if it does it is as
injurious to Tie general interest free trade for the
too great b. !c competition mischievous as too
great foreign and this extreme protection must be avoid
ed capital must not be crowded into channel
Give the Amm,rcan people what they call a smart
chance like strong government protection, in any
department. and instead of being ruined by foreign
ers under no protection they will ruin each other IN
a desperate competition.
We need only to point to the American clock trade
This trade hell the markets of the world. We could
undersc the universe and what the consequence?
Millions OF capital we're put in the trade here, more
than the demand needed and that silly fallacy, that
competition is the life of business, demonstrated
In twenty years, nine tenths of all who embarked
in the business were ruined. Here was the benefit of
controlling the market. Competition was the death of
the prQfts.-Ne1o Yo'k Day Book
PLUMBER OF LoNDoN-SOme of the French panph.
letters hold out to the adventures with whom France
is said to at this me Ill numbers unprecedented
in its history, the plumber to be found in London That
has always been tanalizng object the French side
of the channel, being so provokDgly near-like Cuba,
for example to the United sates-that its extreme us
cosness keeps the mouths of the Ookerson always We
terng and yet so hedged around with difficulties as to
make it entirely inaccessible. The cherries in both
ses hang near the wall but little too high for outsiders
to reach and are guarded besides by bulldogs of the
most uncompromsing feroclty
1t may be very natural that the French should want
the possession of London and look with eager eyes
the pyramids of spois which lis capture you'd yield to
conquerors hands That vast wealth is the product
and the proof of energy vast of enterprise that
is boundess, of commercial ardor that scale the
Hottest mountains dive uto the darkest vaes and defy
the most deadly chimes of political sagacty that
cenraes upon human affairs more watchful eyes than
those Of Argus and manufacturing industry which has
more hands than THOSE of Rrarus which harnesses the
waters and the fires to its CHARIOT and endues England
with Titanic power to crush into invisible fragments the
imperial lemigods of Europe. People who work for
their money are mere likely than any Others to fight for
their money, and people who expect to get their money
without working for it, could hardly choose more la
borous means of subsistence than to rob the capital of
England
If France would rival England in opuence, let her
give up her avorte passion of glory and go for SUBJ
stance let her renounce the rapacty and plumber of war;
and depend upon patient qnd pengakipg industry and
upon the productive arts of peace.
Richmond (Vn) Dispatch.
Is THE PLANET MARS INHABITED ?-The opponents
of tho doctrine o the nlnratv of worlds allow that