Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-12-03

submitted by General Gardeld's sub-com'
mittee. It was ordered to be printed. Its
essential features are The establishment
Of census bureau under the jurisdiction
of the Interior Department; the appoint
ment by the President of commissioner
of the census. whose Office shall expire
three years from the date of his commits
sion; the appointment by the Secretary Of
the Interior of one deputy commissioner
of the census for each Congressional dis
trict. The time proposed for taking the
census is the month OF June, 1870. One
very important recommendation, among
others to be made by the committee, is
one providing for the enumeration Of the
| different religious sects.
The first twenty miles Of the Oregon
Central Railroad have just been completed.
It is expected that Jesse Apologize, Ihos.
A. SAVER and Edward r. Geary, brother
of Governor Geary, Of Pennsylvania, will
be appointed, to-day commissioners to ex-
anime the road.
The report of the House Judiciary Com
Dick Busted, formerly of New York City,
now carpet-bagger" United States Judge
in Ala bama, will, it is thought. include q
resolution impeaching him of high crimes
and misdemeanors If justice were done,
there would not be one in ten of the ''car
pet baggers" in the South, who are hold
ing place, who would not at least grace the
county jails for their rascality. If Busted
don't get white washed by his c0nfreres. I
lose my guess.
It is stated on good uthority, that Stan
ton can have the seat on the Supreme
bench to be made vacant by the expected
resignation of Judge Grier. Heaven for
bid Not that expect the Supreme Court
any longer to be safeguard to protect US
from Radical violations of the Constitu-
ton, for that instrument is laughed and
sneered at by those who are educated up
to the higher plane Of mental develop
ment, and the power yet possessed by the
highest tribunal in the land will soon be
taken from it, Senator Drake already hay
ing his spe ech prepared to advocate depri-
wing the Supreme Court of power to adju-
dictate on political questions. But to see
the notorious, bloody minded tyrant and
basely interruptions partizan on the bench
of q Court that was once graced by a Mar
shall, IL Story, and fancy, would Indeed
be Illuminating and degrading, though it
would be entirely in keeping with our lack
of public virtue and disregard Of the peo-
pies rights, and who SO we'll could mark
an epoch of De gradation as he who helped
to bring it abrlt, the woman hanger, E.
NJ. Stanton.
The discrepancy in the account Of the
Treasury Department with the New York
Bank Note Companies, which caused all
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and half printed notes, has been fixed
how is not stated. The Boutwell, buffers
are content to state ''that everything has
been satisfactorily counted up and note
printing is resumed and the delivery OF
currency to the Treasurer will be quite
large in the future" All of which is very
satisfactory and gratifying to the public.
But why the scare and what was it.
Data" Of the Baltimore Sun, says in
his letter: That the President completed
his message yesterday evening, and it is
understood it was read at the Cabinet
meeting aud some of its leading points
discussed. In the meantime should any
event trauspire which would lead the
President TO conclusions different from
those already reached, that portion Of the
message which treats of it will be altered
accordingly" The President must have
been very much exhausted by the strain
upon his mental powers in copying in ''his
one, probably Badeau, who is paid for
being abroad, complied from the reports
of his Secretaries. On the question Of
finance Boutwell, speaks through Grant
who is mere puppet in the hands of the
willy Secretary.
On the Cuban question Grant looms up
largely. He has a policy and views all
his own, nobody having told him. He has
handled the Cuban question himself de-
spite the efforts Of Secretary Fish to con-
troll him. His instructions to Sickles set
tied the question of the purchase OF the
sever faithful Iele," but he is determined
to have Cuba at all hazards, and even now
a speck of war appears. The activity
which has prevailed at our Navy Yards of
late is of easy solution now. aud ere Con
gress meets it is not improbable that the
Spanish Minister may be on his way to
Spain. General Grant with the instincts
of the bully and shoulder hitter thinks all
questions should be settled by brute force,
by that power he has risen to his present
position and by that same means he would
blind the people of the country to the his
tory of the past few months. The acqui-
sition of Cuba, with two Radical Senators,
would salVe over the ugly sore, the gold
panic, even at the expense of war, which
would also serve to divert the public at
tention from the evils that surround us.
John Sherman, Senator from Ohio, is
going to introduce bill authorizing Con-
gress to "male currency loan Of two
hundred million dollars, principal and in
terest to be paid in the curren-
cy of the country. The proceeds of this
loan to be cancelled and thus get rid of an
irredeemable currency for a Consolidated
bond This is very unpopular move
with the Western members who are clam
oring for more currency, while this bill of
Sherman's is contraction to the amount
of $500, O0O,OOO The West will go solidly
against contraction Of the currency in any
shape.
Immense Aggregate of Railroad Cars
In the suit of Joseph H. Ramsey and
others against the Erie Railway Company,
it is stated in the affidavit that the road
possessed last year three bundled and
seventeen engines, two hundred and
forty-three passenger cars, sixty baggage
cars, and six thousand and forty for freight,
making total of six thousand seven hun
dred and fourteen engines and cars. AL