Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-02-13

things going to show that the enterprise must nave hung
fre to say nothing Of private hints and remarks going
to confirm this opinion. We suppose there need be no
long any peculiar reticens On this subject since it has
got into all the papersthe Richmond ones Of course
some going so far as to pronounce the Merrimac "an
abortion"
1t appears that the affair is too heavy and draws too
much water After this had been discovered on float
log her, and while attempting to shore her up sgain
she caught upon the blocks and received considerable
strain Her machinery had to be removed and guam
tity of dead wood will have to be introduced tocorrect
the tendency to hog thus Unexpectedly Developed
She draws so much water to prevent her being
used in active operations and about all that she will be
good for will be to moor across the Elizabeth river as
sort of floating battery or hulk.
We are only the more confirmed in the correctness Of
what we said some days ogo-that II instead Of the
vast amount Of money thrown away on the Merimac,
the same money had been spent on the class Of gun
boats suited to the waters of Albemare and Pamlico
Sounds we would have little fears fer Roanoke Island
and feel more confidence Of being able to give good
count OF Burnside'5 expedition.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTAL lad by the name of
Joseph Thomas, son Of David w. and Margaret j.
Forlaw, Ct Dupn county aged l3 years. was accident
ally killed on the 4th inst, by the falling of tree.
The Lincoln Naval Commander in the Gulf has a
queer name-Captain Farragut
Mr. MICHAEL CoRcoRAN, Colonel of the Goth Re
giment n. Y. " must begin by this time to regard
himself as a truly afflicted individual Hesseem des
tined to be hung. We shouldn't be at all surprised to
learn that be had fulfilled his destiny.
Poor fellow no sooner is he out OF one scrape than
he is in another. First be- Wilcox and others were
elected" to be hung in retaliation for priVateers
threatened with the fate Of pirates. Well the priya
teers are admitted to all the rights OF prisoners of war
and the rope taken from Michael Corcoran's neck
but to be almost Immediately replaced. General Hal
eck commanding the Federal forces in Missouri takes
into bis head that he Will do little hanging Of prison
ers, whom he denounces as fons and bridgeburners-
General Price says that the burning done by the
military, and under the order of the military superios
of the persons by whom it was DONE and that it was
done to forward military objects Haeck insists that
the who did it came in the garb and guise OF c
zens and under false colors and making false representa-
tons and that therefore he cannot recognize them as
soldiers. Next, President Davis informs Mr.. Lincoln
that if these Missouri prisoners be hung it will be his
painful duty to suspend Dr. NJ. Corcoran and sundry
other Federal prisoners still in cur hands. And so Mr.
NJ Corcorans wind is again in danger Of being stopp-
ed The fact is that being Colonel he is the recip
ent of the most marked attention, SO marked, indeed
as to be embarrassing. Mr. Corcoran, like Mercutio
In the play, will feel inclined TO fall out with both North
end South and ezcaim ga plague both your houses
He had better have still remained "Peeler in county
Sligo, or stuck'to his bar in New York.
WE THINK we may venture to assert, without fear of
contradiction Except from the Fayetteville Obse ger,
which ecW contradict any thing we may say) tn the
weather is far from pleasan-tha it damp underfoot
That the very atmosphere itself is spongy and bedrag-
ged and that, if any weather could justify slight
amount of suicide, that which we are now enjoying
would come as near it as possible.
WHEAT HAS been done towards pa ing impedments
in the channel at Roanoke Island is more than we can
say. The fear is not that the enemy can land there
and take batteries, nor even that they can shell
them out, but the danger is thai they may be able c
pass them at distance Of fully mile, and batteries
firing at rapidly moving boats at this distance, may OF
may not effect any thing 1t is mere chance. Roam
oke Island itself is not worth holding, save as the key
to Albemare sound II it Goes not keep the enemy out
of that sound of course it fails of its object We
await news with considerable anxiety. Nay, we may
as well confess, with great anxiety.
Mr.. BADGERS attempt to repeal the Stay Law hal
failed in the Convention So will all the attempts o
these conventional Legislators if the truly conservative
members of the Convention will only act up to thei
feelings and convictions A little nerve is actual.
needed now to save the State.
Why SHOULD Hamilton Fish, abolition Ex-GoverDO
Of New York, and Bishop Ames abolition Methods
Bishop land the abolition parsons are more even thai
the abolition politicians why should these two hostile
abolition, Sewardite, hypocritoal spies be allowed t.
traverse the South in all directions under the plea
humanity-of looking after the Lincolnite prisoners
We know no more proper use to be made of them if the
come South than to place them alongside Of other eVi
dences of Lincoln humanity - Load them with ston
and sink them with the other old whalers " in Char
lesion harbor. They will not blubber long
AMONG the subjects of taxation at the North w
End that the article Of gas occupies at not infero
position Surely if the New York papers are taxed il
proportion to the gas" they let off it will ruin them
and if the whole North honestly lists for taxation tn
amount of gas it expends there will be an immens
amount of revenue realized.
The question of questions now is-"When will tn
North Carolina State Convention adjourn?" This il
standing queson-one that we feel bound to press
The Convention has right to legisate yet it doe
Iegsate 1t pirates economy yet it costs FIVE hundred