Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-12-05

LIVERPOOL, Nov. l4th, 1861.
Cotton firm with upward tendency Sales for two
days of % coo bales including 10000 spectators
porters. Prices were unchanged.
Beadsufs were quiet but steady. Corn declining Pro-
visions dull.
LONDON, Nov. 14th, 1861
Consols closed at 93i a 81 for money.
American securities were quiet.
Is THERE not good deal OF common sense in tie
suboined article from the Augusta Chronicle and SEN
tinel7 We really think that it rather hits the nail on
the head" The law and ought to correct certain
abuses, within certain limits but beyond that it does
more harm than good.
Number One."
or all the great this wide eartb-of all the
patriots, generals, statesmen and phianhropists the
bravest the most patriotic the most devoted the most
unsel6sh, the most benevolent ia he calling himself
Number One"
True he follows Burns advice.
- He keeps himself, wells he can
From critical dissection,
But peeps through every other man
With sharpened. sly inspection"
But that's his vocation and it is mo sin for to
labor in his vocation"
Some mi ghty magnate in the State, some little
great man. theoretically the servant, practically the
master OF those who elected him, gets idea into his
knOWledge-box, that it would be good and popular
thing to interfere with the regular of trade in
particulars. Accordingly he seizes, without
thourty of law and on his responsibility, the peO
pies goods and says he is going appropriate them to
the public He takes private property for publc uses
IL Is 10 now lEe puDuc 10
ted when stop is thus put not only to selling but
tuaIly to buying. The act is popular however, A
good many people shout HOsannah forgetting that "he
poisoned chace may be commended to their own lips.
The officer expects higher advancement from the ma
ority, and he looks out for Number One What bu-
siness have small minority of property with
rights?
Well done says the usurer all speculation in all pro-
perty other than mine and by myself should be crushed
out. only ask twenty per cent interest tor my money
don't deal in drygOods groceries, am no specua-
tor, but believe in taking care of Number Que"
Good says the farmer, have lot of bacon left over
from last season, for which ask only 80 cents per
pound, thrice what it cost me- But am no Spectator
i am Number One" Down with all SPECTATORS!
Good saws the tanner l consume SALT coffee, whis-
kew &c but produce leather which | sell at thrice
the prices of six months ago, but buy hides at very
small advance old prices Nobody hurt yet but the
salt Spectator, and with me, be is Number Two L
say ditto to that says the shoeman though the tanner
to me is only Number Three
Good! says the miser drew from the banks before
they suspended and have boarded some hundreds IN
gold and silver buried in old shot bags IN my cellar
| expect the time when specie will be worth 2O per
cent, in currency, when it gets higher, shall SELL
look ont for Number One.' l am speculator-
perditon to hem they made me pay nine dollars for the
very salt they bought at seven.
Good saws the weaver, Governor did right =
To be sure sell for 80 cents per pound in cloth, the
very cotton for which paid CENTS but that Is not
OF the market. Number one is my man.
Good say the legislators the Governor has done one
class of spectators Brown let Outdo him and burn
oil spectators cnders Let enact that no man shall
sell his property, except at our prices Every body
will be 80 glad 10 see every body else scOrcLed that one
way or other the majority will be with Even il
every little at his own particular grievance
he will be consoed for his own little mlstortunes BY
contemplating those of his neghbors You see my BOY
says the Honorable Mephistophiles Trick EN-, to the
| oaIoIu cInO
member from Halacre county, it's going to be popular
and we'll get reelected upon it. That's the ticket, my
| boy Take a drink Here's success to Number
| One"
And so on to the end of the chapter. Well it is not
surprising that human nature is very much ike porcne
nature-with slight difference in favor OF the latter
as obviously supposed in the small article OF souls
A depredating pig gets hitched in fence, his squea
| call together all of bis name and species tor mile
round they rush to the ALARM from every direction
Immediately organize mass convention. GU had NJ
business trying candestiney to get at those nuohns
through such crack, says Tor might say one
Il Serves you right, says another, trying to mon0poz
what was intended for all our community. Forthwith
one sezes the TAIL others the hind legs and the poor VIC
tim of his own speculation is torn to peces-a sacrhc
to the pittess seshness of his porcne tellowclzens
every one of whom would have done as the sud7re
did, had they esped the crack, judged 1t large eneug
to creep through and the speculation pronaole one
The victim can't understand the point OF the argument
nor the Justice of his condemnation but the MAJORITY
can and that's sufficient. From all which we conclud
that pig is speculative animal per Ss though he 40
hors prota BILE speculation in others, like bis human
"feloT-creature and without attempting to defend ex
tortion and the grssping capacity which has dgrace'
the operations of monopollsts whose proceeding
we contem1 aud suffer by as much as any, aud regre
that an opportunity which appears to have been nev
table was offered for exorton, yet we would exnort al
those who are disposed to condemn others to examn
themselves and answer candidy if they would not q
Ebe same under similar circumstances and like opporu
nries If they conscientiously answer that they Wou
lake the best price they could get for their
then IRE they justly entitled to cast their weaker Dretn
rem the drst stone.
GooD.-rse manassas correspondent of the CharestO
Courier says hat BODY of yankees lately captured Their
all wore elegant winter clothing and by the side OF thel
rouRh and mscelaneously attired guard eoken really k
gentlemen. One # the boys in reply TO remark Dy
prisoner concerning his old cohGs told him the YANKEE
were very like bottle of four cent wbiskey 1t had yer
pretty bel on the OUTSIDE but mighty mean hqnor
The was good the TRUTH and the feio" ha
enOugh of both. Another answer to Inquiries
what he thought when he captured replied that
hadn't time to think anything fo he scared he didn
know his gun from corn-stalk."
A ONE SIDED BUs1NEss.-lhe Wilmington & We
don railroad brings mail pouch from Wilmington t.
Warsaw on the Accommodation train, but refuses t
carry similar pouch from Warsaw to Wilmington
We thus get Wilmington letters and papers in prope
time, but Fayetteville letters and papers delaye
equal to day. Surely this cannot be intentional OF
the part of the Managers of that road? Will they no
fho hauin thcir called tn 1T