Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-01-05

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sus of 1860.
During the three quarters ending September Both,
1859, 5l67 applications for patents received
813 caveats filed, and 1884 issued and re-ssued
-Abolitionist Bound Over-CoId Weather.
We learn from friend just arrived from Raleigh,
that on yesterday man named Vesal school teacher
in Chatham county, was brought before His Honor
Judge Saunders the charge of giving free expression
to abolition views, and it said of circulating ncen-
diary documents but of this last fact friend is not
quite certain. 1t proved that he had expressed
sympathy with Old Browns" movement, and had de-
clared himself in favor of the abolition of slavery. He
was required to give bond in the sum of $4,000 for his
appearance at the next term of Chatham Superior
Court. He gave the bond, and departed.
At IL o'clock, P. NJ. yesterday the trees in Raj
egh and north were loaded down with ice, the weather
being as cold blazes.
LEAP YEAR-Among the other peculiarities of this
year of Lord thousand eight hundred and sixty
how strangely the sixty sounds-is that leap year
and census year. 1t is year when they say ladies have
the prerogative of taking the initiative in matters matr
monia. Whether they will exercise it not remains
to be If properly attended to it might be made
quite an institution. We shall see what shall see.
But this is also the year during which the
goes around enumerang the people, together with their
pigs and poultry, babies and other livestock The
sus man will be mpo1te as to ask the ladies
their ages for they put that down too just if it
any of their business Napoleon Bonoparte once asked
worthy lady of defective hearing, how many children
she had thinking he inquired her age she answered Fiji
ty-two next April" That would have been fact for
! the census.
By the way, speaking of the census, have noticed
that the enumeration is seldom satisfactory to the peo
pie of growing who apt to make conjectura
calculations good deal in advance of the actual num-
bers. AS political power depends upon population we
trust that every facility will be given to the different
census-takers to arrive at full and fair enumeration Of
the inhabitants of each of our towns and counties.
The returns of the WILL doubt exhibit some
strange results, and among them will be the still opera
ting tendency of our people to cOngregate in towns
and cities Even more than in the Over-crowded cOun
tries of the DID, do the people in the United States
sent to be damned up in crowded cities and pursue in
door occupations With continent as field on which
to operate, agriculture is comparatively neglected The
average product per of wheat and other crops
cially at the North and Northwest has been declining
with each decade Improvident culture has been wearing
out the soil, while the low rates at which new lands
could be obtained has encouraged this process of exhaus
| ton But we think point has been reached al
which this downward tendency ought to stop, as
indeed, it has stoT ped in many portions of owr
State Men improve the soil instead of exhaustine
it. Capital and skill found necessary to, and remu
nerative ill., the pursuits of agriculture, and we think
that the depopuatiOn of the country to swell the
ranks of the towns has received e check