The Republican journal., 1871-02-16
LETTER FROM STOCKTON.
Correspondence OF the journal
STOCKTON, Feb. II, l.

STOCKTON, Feb. II, 1871
The lack of snow has caused considerable
Inconvenience in this section, and the recent
fall of the flakes has brought with it Il gener-
Al activity along the line. Fuel is being
rapidly gathered; kiln wood in large guam
titles is being landed on the wharves tor
shipment, and every conceivable kind OF a
team that can be found unemployed is being
drafted by Midget Libby & Griffin, to haul
the vast piles of timber of all descriptions,
with which they intend to feed their steam
mill the coming summer.
The winter thus far has been depressing to
our business men, and the prospects for the
coming season are not cheering. All the en-
ergics of our shipbuiders have been devoted
~ keeping up appearances, hoping tor better
times. But dividends come like angels Wis
it,. and the conclusion has been about reach
ed that it don't pay to build ships for the
sake Of selling them at a sacrifice of twenty
tive per cent. In the meantime, the Com
mittec on the decline of American ship build
ing has been trayersing the Atlantic sea
coast towns in u most luxurious manner to
ascertain what every Intelligent man in
America knows already-that the extinction
of American shipbuildng is owing to the eN
iSting prohibitory tariff. The remedy is not
found, and our carpenters, ioiners and other
mechanics are moving out Of town. Quite q
number have gone to Massachusetts within a
lew weeks, and more are going.
The barQue Caribou. launched by Colcord,
Berry & Co., AT Sandy Point, Thursday last,
il Of 700 tons burhen, buil under the French
t.loyds inspection and 4 superior vessel
She viii be taken to Boston Immediately
ton sale.
The harque Sarah, ,l.,S tons, launched a
few weeks since by y. f. Rice at Sandy
Point, is also for sale.
The National Insurance Company of Ban
COR, the stock OF which is largely owned in
Stockton, at its recent meeting made choice
of s NJ. Partridge, our accommodating
deputy Collector, one OF the directors,
and Capt. Hezekiah lEerriman, Surveyor
General for the American iloyd9 Of Maine,
us their marine Inspector With such com
petpnt officers, The stockholders may expect
1h. atfnn- of the company To he ably admin
i.tered
The appointment OF Hon. b. NJ. Roberts
"a the Collectorship OF Belfast, gives the
most emphatic satisfaction to the faithful in
this vicinity, who long have yearncd with
an ilrepressble yearning for an opportunity
TO vaccinate officially into the scrofulous
-vstem OF Waldo radlcasm the great moral
ideas 50 exclusively personitiea in Stockton
politicians The action of Ulysses, the great
American takist, in making IN appointment
.o Numerically opposite tp bis advanced
IDEAS OF civilization, j. a serious matter Of
conjecture. Can it be possible that Hannibal
and Eugene have imposed upon his innocent
creduity to such an extent i? Or is it not
more probable that Mr.. Roberts is friend of
the neutrality-suspicious. breyet cousin of Mrs.
Grant? Or ii may be that on one OF the re
mote branches of the genealogical tree, the
family of Grant and the family Of Roberts
nestled in sweet communion, like doves in
she lap Of Silenus. 1t is not vet definitely
known that he will leave his large, RESPONSE
bic aud remuneratve business which must
necessarily reqaire his personal superntend-
tnee to accept an Office involving 50 much
diligent care and perple kitty in making a
wise and judicious distribution of the gov
rrnment pap, to keep the wheels of party so
creased that not a squeak shall mar the
serenity of the most sensitive. And the ter
rble threat after the Republican County Con-
vention, never to touch a id polite again,
lieye it, for it has been said once OF twice
before, and only to see him attempting tC
solve another practical dtNc"hy within 4
short period As Benedict, when he said he
would die a bachelor, did not think he would
live to be married, so when an old soldier
like Barnabas says he is out Of politics forever
lac thinks he will not survive the vacation
that occurs between elections. But | CLEAR
from the knowing ones, that those sachems
of the party IIamlin, Hale and Ilichbom
did not care to entrust their interests to the
navigation OF the shoal water politicians Of
Belfast, whom they regard as first class eau.
Gus men, but not possessing sufficient brains
TO the square inch to comprehend such es
Sential points As County, Congressional anG
State matters. Therefore, it is pretty Ger
tain that Barnabas will accept, and the sur
of his intellect will shed bright moral LIGHT
over the destinies OF those loyal individuals
who 50 ardently advocate the admission O
nutmegs and iron free of duty.
Mr.. Roberts is a man of strict integrity
large business qualifications, very a'roit an,
sagacious as political manager. lie be
longs to the old abolition guard, and has al
ways been an active, indefatigable worke
for his party, contributing very Literally o
his means, and will undoubtedly prove
good collector, and faithful servant to hi
master. With lease Of only two years, an
reliable certainty of his exit bringing bac
the old Democratic rule, which predominant
ed when burdens were easy, and corruption
unknown, we send him to you with the hes
wishes Of his Democratic friends
HICKORY.