THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
"-MjniwTO- C FKIDAY.UtT. X,
"r "The Quarter's Exports.
We publish today our tabic of exports for the quar
ter ending September 30th, 1857, as compared with the
corresponding quarter of 1856. It will be seen that in
the important items of Spirits Turpentine ami Lumber
there is a very decided increase, amounting to some
eleven thousand barrels of Spirits, and some two mil
lions and a half feet of Lumber. The increase in Tim
ber although decided, is of less consequence. There is a
ciWit falling off in Rosin, while Crude Turpentine is
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about the same.
In the matter of Flour, Rice and I3readtufTs gener
ally, there is an apparent decline owing to the backward
ness of the season. Indeed, in the item of Rice, nothing
has been done, although the crops bid fair to show at
least an average yield. Cotton also is weeks behind.
Making the fair allowance of two or three weeks, or per
haps more, our exports of cereals will compare advanta
geously with any former year, and but for the disturbing
influences of the monetary crisis induced by speculative
movements at the North, there is every reason to believe
that our business would have made a full and satisfactory
summing up at the close of 1857. The gross of our exports
would have been above an average, and at rates for our
staples, which, while they could not invite speculation
nor stimulate over-production, offered ajiving remunera
tion and a moderate profit to the thrifty producer.
What influence the present financial excitement may ex
nrt in iletermininff 4he amount or modifying the char
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it. rPins.ins to bo seen how for its injurious influence wil
extend. We do not think any serious depression for
rth of time ought to resun. i
the North is suflering
and that this must, of
anv great Ion
that manufacturing industry at
uriflfT n tcmnorarv paralysis,
course, curtail the consumption of all articles used in the
arts and manufactures, turpentine among the rest, but
wo believe it to be equally certain that the stock in the
country, yet to come forward, is unusually small, neither
do we thWc it is heavy at any of the ports. The cool
Summer, late in opening, has been unfavorable for the
trees, while fewer hands have been employed in making
turpentine than formerly.
Great caution and even hesitancy, must for some time
characterise all movements in produce here and elsewhere.
No house at the South can feel assured of the perma
nency of anv house at the North, to whom shipments
are to be made, since the papers daily chronicle the
names of leading firms there who have gone down whol
ly, or succumbed for the time, who had stood, and with
reason, among the best and safest. Matters will soon,
however, adiust themselves to the now order of things, and
business once more flow in its accustomed channels.
The monetary distrust and consequent pressure upon
banks as well as individuals, may, to some extent, limit
commercial operations. bu1 less than might be supposed
by those at a distance. The circulation of the different
North Carolina Dank?, has, for a considerable time, been
very much contracted, and the excellent money changers,
from the unsound and suspended cities of Philadelphia and
Baltimore1, have made it a part of their regular shaving
IjusineFS to discredit and so get hold at a depreciated
price of every North Carolina note that strays abroad,
i.,. ,,,c.,,,tU- i.vcent ami demand therefor the
gold or lis equivalent. So far as our Virginia and South
Carolina neighbours an; concerned, thaj have uniformly
,i;,.vi .i;t (,ni- Mirrencv. We can have little
.,.,.,., ,.viwt r.-om Baltimore brokers than we have
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already experienced, and we think it will be found some
what difficult for suspended cities any longer sufficiently
to discredit Ihe notes of specie-paying banks as to ex
act a shave on them. At home there is not and ought
not to be the semblance of excitement. We do not sup-
nose that at any eriod in the history of the State, its
banks were in a sounder condition, or their resources
more ample. All, we believe, have laid by a contingent
fund, amounting in the cases of the Cape Fear ane
Stnte Banks to over twenty per cent on their capita
stock. It is true, a smaller institution away down a
Elizabeth City, in Pasquotank County, is reported to
have gone by the board, but that was in difheulty long
nun. as nearly everybody knows. We refer to the
Farmers' Bank. That is a very small affair, and its
failure or suspension i? really due to onuses existing
long anterior to the present difficulties.
Ft is true that men and corporations may be compell
ed, through the force of circumstances to adopt meas
ures which would neither be justifiable nor politic under
other circumstances. A planter, living on an alluvial
river, with his lands protected by a levee may keep up
his own embankments and use all proper precautions for
the protection of his own property and that of his neigh
bors. and vet find all his measures rendered abortive by
the weakness or negligence or criminality of others, and
k i-r,i'inf.llod to resort to measures not otherwise
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contemplated or justifiable. It may be that, by the fail
tnN. nf other to ki en un their financial embankments
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and protections, a torrent may be let in compelling even
the strongest institutions, who had most prudently guard
ed their own ground, to resort to the extrordinary meas
ure of suspension, which may then be excused on the
nle:i of necessity, but can never be .justified on that of
expediency. For we can never believe it expedient
it-hero it cm ro?sib!v be avoided. The character
must exert a exeat influence for or
against a market all tho difference between a curren
cy at nar and one at a discount. Two currencies of an
uncimal value cannot co-exist in the same community.
The weaker must give place to the stronger. 1 his panic
and i pressure, if strongly met by sound institutions must
from the nature of thincs soon pass awav. If violded to
no man can foretell its duration or estimate the disas
trous character of its effects. Should circumstances be
yond question prove the inevitable necessity of a suspen
sion by the banks of the State, the people will recognise
that necessity, but they will respond to no mere plea o!'
expediency. The necessity must be distinct and con
trolling, not ficticious.
The Bank Difficulties.
For some time we could not take up a paper without
being sure to find its columns occupied by melancholy
details of the disaster to the Central America. Like
any other nine days' wonder, that has given place to the
next excitement that arising out 6f the suspension of
the Philadelphia Banks, followed as that suspension- has
been by a similar course of policy on the part of the
Banking Institutions of the States of Pennsylvania, Del
aware. Maryland, Rhode Island and part of New Jersey
and the District of Columbia, with some occasional
cases in the other States.
As men criticise the course of all concerned in or con
nected with the Central America, so will they criticise
that of the Philadelphia Banks, viewing it in tho light of
exjiediency or propriety.. Whether we approve of it or
not, may amount to little or nothing, apparently. 1 he
aggregate of public opinion i3 composed of any number
of minute particles, as we might say, singly insignificant,
but forming an almost irresistible whole. For our own
part, then, after looking at the matter in all its bearings,
we cannot sec that the movement and the movers are free
from blame either in the antecedents which brought on
the suspension, or in the suspension itself. That there
is as much specie in the country now as there has been
at any timo within the last twenty years, is certain.
That the rates of exchange are such as to ren
der impossible a drain of specie to foreign countries, is
equally certain. Indeed, with ruling rates, which, in
viow i if tho hiro-p crorw coming into market, cannot be
less favourable, and may bo more so, there is every pros
wet of an influx of the precious metals from Europe.
Why then, this suspension and wherefore its uecessity ?
It is known that for some time past the best bona fide
commercial paper has lxx.n discounted at ruinous rates
in the Northern cities, merchants having been forced to
submit to shaves of something like four or five per cent.
a month, rather than sacrifice their credit, by failing to
meet their acceptance, in the banks, which refused them
further accommodations. It is also known that the
means of many of these institutions were used to bolster
up pet interests which were in a sinking condition. The
North American delicately hints that the difficulties
of the Pennsplvauia Bank were due to its efforts to sus
tein an interest upon which the pressure bore with un
due severity. Others say that its loans to large silk hous
es prostrated it. At any rate this is plain. Hie banks
pressed on the mercantile community, which cheerfully
submitted to terrible sacrifices to sustain itself, and when
the pressure reaches themselves, they, instead of doing
what business men had been forced to do submitting to
some inevitable loss suspended. We repeat, the
specie was in the country and procurable, and all truly
sound banks had the means of procuring it at one-tenth
the amount of loss to themselves, to which the merchants
have been forced to submit for the purpose of meeting
their engagements. We repeat, it was the business of
these 'ranks to have sustained themselves and to have
)orne the losses incurred by their own acts, or by the
state of the times, not, by failing to meet their engage
ments to throw the burden of their faults or their mis
fortunes on the public.
We say that if these institutions were really sound,
and had not impaired their resources by that bolstering
up policy which ruined the United States Bank, and
which seems to have been left as a legacy by that insti
tution to the financiers of the Quaker City, it was in
their power to have sustained their credit, and maintain
ed their leg-al obligations to the community, by bearing
part of the loss to which, in such times, all other inter
ests, private and corporate, are forced to submit. The
Railroad that wants iron must submit to a shave on its
bomb to get it, if it can do no better. Were these
banks, who wanted another metal, any better than a
railroad. This pressure must, in the nature of things,
be over in a few months. Unless all indications prove
falsi-, it cannot continue. Suppose that, to procure the
specie to sustain themselves in a paying condition dur
ing the pressure, they had submitted to a loss equivalent
to the profits of a whole year, what more would they
have done than hundreds of merchants have been forced
to do ? And how much better would they and the com
munity have stood !
Business in Philadelphia is paralyzed. She can do
no trading with solvent cities. Her funds are at a dis
count of ten per cent. But this is not all. The effects
of such a movement end not with the community in
which it starts. It spreads distrust throughout the land
and occasions losses more than equivalent to all the sus
food, and tho highest and the most appreciative enjoy
ment of the beautiful in art ami nature; and the advance
ment of nations in the mysteries of the cusine, is a pret
ty fair index of the development of their knowledge and
susceptibility in other branches of art The nations of
Saxon origin are grosser and less artistic feeders than
the Celtic and Romanic races, and their art, as in Eng
land and America, is a mere feeble reflex of the exqui
site perfection of Italy or Greece the airy lightness of
France, or the wild beauty of the strains of Ireland or
the Highlands. It is only within sight of the Louvre,
in the centre of Parisian art. that the palate can receive
its highest gratification.
A glance out of window shows us a golden gleam up
on all things, and wo stand and look down the street
and across the river, which lies leforc us calm, polished
and glowing as a golden mirror, save that now and tlieu
some ripples pass over ita surface, as if to exhibit to
rrrf.ii tor iid vantage the brilliancv of the material, Ihe
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nninroWi sun. phiniiio- throusrh the thin soft naze oi
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an autumn evening sky, tinges the edges of the clouds
with n fircv linimr. fast assuming a redder hue, while
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every spar and rope of the shipping is defined clear and
sharp against the light. The trees beyond look like the
enchanted groves of some fairy land, and even the rough
sheds and piles of produce arc glorified by the light in
which they are placed, the very smoke from a screaming
locomotive rises up slowly in the calm air like incense
from some Magian's censer, catching a warm glow from
the sun-god
The whole fades away even as wo write, and the cold,
gray shadows of night spread over stream and trees, over
masts and buildings, but still a few faint rays tinge the
upper clouds, with a beauty no painter has ever success
fully imitated.
This: world i n bmntiful seen in a proper lurht. It
The Suspension and the Government Funds.
The amount of money in the United States Treasury
is decreasing, and trill continue to decrease during the
present fiscal year. It is now some eighteen millions of
dollars, instead of the fifty or sixty millions which san
guine distributionists pictured out as likely to fill the
government coffers to bursting, with money locked up
from the general business of the country. Under the
panic, restricting importations, and'the reduction of the
Tariff lessening the proportionate amount collected, we
feel assured that the quantity of specie remaining in the
vaults of the treasury on the 1st day of July, 1858, be
ing the commencement of the next fiscal year, will be no
more than prudencejwould demand. Some money must
be kept at the minta and assay offices, for the prompt
redemption of gold sent to be coined. Some fund a
small one, we admit, ought to be kept for contingencies,
and when this is done, there will be next to nothing left
for distribution or deposit,
Surely the example of 1837 Is not so encouraging as
to seduce the country into the measure of distribution or
deposit, under the plea of relieving the public distress.
It is true the crash of 1837 was different from the pre
sent one, as it is also true that it was complicated and
intensifial by the influences of causes which do not now
exist, but we have yet to learn that it was either avert
ed or mitigated by a resort to the mistaken palliative of
deposit. The worst came after that measure had gone
into operation, and the country continued disturbed and
unsound for long years
The efforts of panic-mongers to Institute a parallel be
tween the present condition of the country and that ex
isting in 1837, are simply preposterous. There is now
financial derangement, and that is about all, but the
country is rich and substantially prosperous. 1 be crops
are good and will bring money into the country. In
v For the Journal.
., Corresponeenee.
HnA9B0R0Sept. 21, 1&S7.
Catt. DeRosset : The " Orange Guards," Capt. Pride
Jones, intend celebrating their second anniversary at thia
St. John's, N. B., Sept 28. The steamer r.,M
Cork, with detes to the 17th, hSSSZ
tes from London are to Tuesday the 1 5th, four dargw
ine oura prings uui one paper only -tho fWV v
0 ... ammpr rF V ftinrorlnv. Slip haa . .
place on Tuesday, 27th October next, when and where we r7ZrZ'fZSat take
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shall be pleased to see ion. and the officers and soldiers un- '" ,X6A"'a vralvma Vutta.
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der your command, and have you participate with us iu the
festivities usual on such occasion?.
Respectfully yours,
THOS.WEBB.
I). 1). PHILLIPS. V Committee
THOS. L. COOLEY
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Wilmington N. C, 28th Sept., 1857.
Gentlemen : The invitation from the " Orange Guards" to
the " Wilmington Light Infantry," to participate iu the fes
tivities of their second anniversary on the zah prox., was
duly received, and the undersigned were appointed a com
mittee to communicate their acceptance of the same.
With the assurance of our high personal regard, we are,
Verv respectfully yours,
W. L. PeROSSET.
t. B. ERAJIBERT,
A. B. McDUFFlE.
To Messrs. Webb. Phillins and Cooley, Committee of Oraus-c
Guards, Hillsboro', X. C.
lth inst.
The Emperor Alexander has arrived at Berlin.
The cholera was ratrine at Hambunr. A dir.,,' c,-.,
holm and other places, and was very fatal. ' '
Ihe Bank of llolland has increased its rates tn i -
cent. It was anticipated the most of the Owman i. .V
would be compelled to follow the examnle. and n . .
rise be established.
The India mail brings dates from Delhi to tho 9hu .
August. Several sorties had been repulsed with tml
loss to the rebels but 500 British troops had betu k !
led or wounded in contests.
The Neemuch mutineers had reached Delhi, ,
Nicholson was daily expected from the Paummii. ,.::f
reinforcements. a
Gen. Uavelock occupied Bithoor on the 17th witu,,
resistance. Ul
Nena Sahib has escaped.
General Uavelock, on the 20th, defeated ten thousand
rebels on the road to Lucknow. The British low w,
trifling.
The Butcheries at Cawnpore are confirmed.
Accounts irom .Moldavia state that the recent election
The tate Lieut. XV. "L. Herndon.
Washington, Sept. 25. The officers of the Xavy
and Marine Corps, held a meeting this evening, in refer
ence to the death of the late William Lewis Herxdox, jn the Principalities resulted favorably to the Union
In a series of resolutions, they expressed their readiness
to maintain in deed the svmpathy they express in words,
in behalf of the widow and daughter of the lamented de
ceased ; and resolve to build a suitable monument in
memory, of Lieut. H. at the Is aval Academy. A com
mittee was appointed to carry the latter resolution into
effect.
Aujnist
is for us to endeavour so to look on all thing to spread 1837, the country was in actual distress, importing the
around us an atmosphere of thankfulness and content- very food necessary to sustain her people, while her sta
ment. and we will feel less enelined to grumble either at pies for export bore a very low price in European mar
bad colds or pecuniary difficulties. keta. According to the official statistics of the Treasury
Department, the amount oi t--pecie in me country must
be over two hundred millions of dollars, and, indeed, the
best informed statisticians place the amount nearer three
hundred millions. In 1837, it did not exceed ona-tlurd of
that amount.
The cry for distribution, or kindred measures, is all
Buncombe. It could amount to little or nothing at any
rate, as we have endeavored to show ; and Ixodes,
months must elapse before the talked-of relief could be
realized from that source. Better, far better, for the
country to meet the thing at once banish all fears, de-
Speculations about the crisis mourning and
mnnnderinfr over it. will do no manner of srood. It is as
it is, and it cannot be made otherwise, save by economy
and hard knocks verv desirable thinsrs to the right-
minded, but not always appreciated by a froward and a
stiff-necked generation, and we find that censorious mor
alists always class thus the immediate generation among
whom thev themselves live and of whom they form a
part.
Falluc of "IV. B. tovejoy Si Co.
Boston, Sept. 2C, 2 P. M. The failure of W. B.
Lovejoy & Co., a large clothing house on Commercial
street, m this city, is announced.
State street is considerably excited to-day by the in
telligence from Philadelphia, but all the banks remain
firm, and have made large additions to their specie basis
within the last few days.
From the London, Times, Sept. 7.
Mormon Emlsratlon from Great Britain.
i and Hyderbad were quiet up to the Utii of
It was expected that Delhi would Rfin f.,li
Generals llevelock and Neil were advancing upon Luck-
now.
The butcher Nena Sahil was reported as haw
mitted suicide.
Three regiments of the Bengal native inf.,n.
hadrevolted and fled to Rose river, whnm i,
were pursued by Gen, Floyd, and 800 of the muting
were killed. The mutineers were also routed at Tinlal
pore. Mutinous plots had been discovered at Benan
and other places.
General Uavelock after reoccupvimr Cawnnnn.
Betoor.
Campbell had assumed command of the British forces
Details arc given of further atrocities by the Sepoys
Gen'l Uavelock while advancing unon Cinvl',R',
marched 126 miles in four days, and fought four de r
ate battles against JNena balnb, completely routine hi.
mm.
We derive coasiderable relief from the reflection that
the main fault in the matter does not lie with the people spondencies, useless panics and distrusts put the thing
on this side of the Atlantic. We take a ferocious do- through manfully, and, by exertion and economy, the
light in charging it upon the despots of the old world, panic will be subdued and the pressure removed, long
and upon the greatest and ablest of them Louis Napo- before the eleemosynary driblets from the treasury would
Icon Bonaparte. When that saturnine looking person nave time to percolate into the minute channels of trade.
New Mai or North Carolina. Mr. Saniue'
Pearce paid a visit to our sanctum Wednesday with a
ronv of the new .man of the State, published bv Mr.
Win. D. Cook, of llaleigh. The map is handsomely
gotten up a very creditable affair, indeed. It shows
all the existing divisions of counties the railroads either
built or projected the heights of the principal moun
tains, etc.. etc., and. so far as we have been able to
judge, is accurate and reliable. Mr. Pearce will wait
upon our citizens, and. we trust, will meet with encour
aging success n obtaining subscribers.
made his coup d' ctat on the 2nd December 1831, he
played the deuce in general ; but when some time after
he married Miss Monti jo, he played the horned and
hoofed gentleman in particular.
There is more truth than poetry in this assertion.
Man is an imitative animal and so is woman. For
reasons of state policy, us well as a natural love of splen
dor, Napoleon inaugurated a style of lavish display hitli
erto unknown, even in that land of pageantry. Court
costumes of the most showy and expensive character be
came the order of the dav. The looms of Lyons and St
Etienne were idle and the people suffering and dissatis
lied. Paris was ripe for any movement. The national
workshops, through which, under the feeble Lamartine
and his visionary coadjutors, the state was made the
common employer, had lallen through. 1 hat was a
of dreaming poets or visionary socialistic
schemers. Louis Napoleon and his young wife tried
another tack. Thev trusted to the prestige of the Court
the influence of example. The fetes of the Emperor,
the hoops and style of the Empress, carried the day, and
all female France doubled in aizc urnl quadrupled
in expense, while the rage for expensive dwellings,
and costly adorments threrefor seized upon all classes
and both sexes, who rushed into speculation, to secure
the means necesary to supply their newly discovered
wants, or minister to their freshly acquired tastes. The
Credit Mobilier and hundreds of other schemes opened
up opportunities for gratifying this mania for specula
tion, and even the griettes and gamins Paris took
their chances on the stock-board, and became familiar
with the terms of the Bourse. The immediate end of
the government, was attained the popular mind was
occupied , and work was given to the producers of silk
pended banks arc worth. It imposes undue burdens up- faces, jewelry and other costly fabrics, while the modistes
on institutions in other States, who are thus compelled were taxed to devise new forms and stvles of extrava
gance to meet the demands of an exigeant fashion.
Of all the strange forms of Mesmerism or Free Ma
sonry, or whatever else it may ha called, there is none so
potent and irresistible as thatTof fashion. It has been
to bear not only their own legitimate responsibilities,
but to sustain the extra pressure induced by these tran
sactions.
We hear more complaints among the merchants of this
place about the detention of Goods at Wilmington. One
house has goods out since thelSth August, on which day
the vessel on which they were shipped, arrived at Wil
mington. Another was informed of the arrival there of
goods on the 28th August, delivered to the Consignee,
the llailroad agent, and yet they have not been deliver
ed in Salisbury. This is unfortunate, to say the least,
for it will certainly drive off business from the Wilming
ton route. Snlisbvry Watchman.
e pulli;-h the above for the purpose of bringing it
before the Company. If there has been any error in
the matter, or it there has been any neglect by "the Com
pany here we have no doubt it will all be satisfactorily
explained.
From Havana. The U. S. steamer Catawba, Capt.
Ilawes, arrival at Charleston on the 28th inst., with
dates from Havana and Key West to the 25th. We
see nothing of importance in the news. See commercial
department for the Havana markets.
'like Had Cold and other Things.
Wc arc not sufficiently learned to be able to say un
der what class of diseases this affection should be placed,
whether epidemic, endemic, or sporadic, or whether, in
fact, it does not deserve some other classification, drawn
from the copious and high-sounding nomenclature of
medical science. As little arc we able to say whether
it is an affection of the head or the body, or the limbs,
or of them all at once, conjointly and severally. Differ
ent neonle take it differently, out nearly everybody vou
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meet is enjoying its blessings.
It may be like the " crisis," the result of undue ex
pansion, too suddenly checked the pores too suddenly
closed, and the whole system thereby deranged. Upon
the whole, it may be regarded as unpleasant in its effects,
whether these be exhibited in swelling the head and
causing the patient to speak of his " doze," meaning
therein' to refer to the most prominent feature of the
fac, or whether it causes him to stop and cough and
splutter, or whether each individual and particular part
in the animal economy feels sore and aching. In each,
any and all of its developements, it is a mean and un
pleasant affair not enough to get sick over, and far too
much to permit you to leel wen. Although serving per
force in the ranks of the bad-colders, we wish It distinct
ly understood, that we arc an unwilling recruit, and only
yield to the force of circumstances, being opposed both
on principle and from policy to the ascendancy of our
tyrant, who holds us with a grip once known as Tyler's,
from the then President, who had and still has a nose as
is a nose, yea. verily, a nose and a half. Wc record our
protest emphatically against bail colds, and more espe
cially that particular bad cold that has taken possession
of our personal corporosity, which corporosity being rath
er anunextensive affair, the cold has been big enough to
usurp the whole ground and make us sore from the ends
of our great toes even unto our scalp-lock, a most im
proper and unwarranted procedure.
Misery loves company generally and it is a great
consolation to us to know that a great many people are
no better off in this respect than we are. But we can
not say that we care for the company of our fellow suf
ferers in a personal point of view. We have a prejudice
against nasal pronunciation we object to weeping
snouts, and coughing and spluttering make us nervous.
Bad colds arc misanthropic aud unsocial in their char
acter, and properly so. They interfere seriously with
the pleasure of eating. We know that it is very com
mon with the foolish and unreflecting to affect to ignore
or despise these pleasures. There is a practical test of
the sincerity of this. Let any one be unable to test the
difference, by the taste, between a beef-steak and a side
of sole-leather, and he becomes melancholy and depressed,
and the fact that " he has no taste in his mouth" " can't
relish anything that he eats" becomes the burden of
his doleful complainings, even though he had laid claims
to the most unearthly contempt of merely physical
things. Indeed, it may have been remarked that the
same word " taste," is used to express the mere relish for J
said that one might as well be out of the world as out of
the fashion ; and, indeed, whether the doctrine be true
or false, it is obeved and acted upon with all the ardor
of devotion, and all the blind obedience of fanaticism
Nearly two thousand years ago decrees went forth from
Rome that all the world should lie taxed, and these de
crees were carried into effect, but not w ith any greater
zeal or certainty than urc the decrees that now go forth
from Paris commanding all the female world to wear
hoops to buy costly silks to spend great sums irre
spective of consequences, and, at the same time render
ing it obligatory on all the worser half to aid and abet
this to indulge their own pet enormities to plunge in
to reckless speculations to meet the expense incurred
to scorn houses merely sufficient for comfort and for the
wants of their families, and to build palaces for show in
No Run ox thb Savings' Bank. -Wc arc happy
to Bay that our friend Wiley A. Walker, Book-keeper
Secretary, etc., etc., of this institution, is as calm as a
summer s morning, and has not been troubled by the
panic. The savings of the community, just about now,
don't amount to enough to require the employment of a
large clerical force in keemng the accounts. The bank
will not suspend. No, sir, it won't.
Closing Stores. Wc understand that several of the
Merchants on Front and Market street have mutually
agreed to close their stores at 7 o'clock, from and after
this date, for the purpose of affording their clerks time
for recreation and opportunity for improvement. We
presume this movement will be general.
JBGfTJnioii county subscribes $60,000 to the Wil
mington, Charlotte &, Rutherford Railroad.
From the Beaufort Journal Extra.
Obstructive Fire.
Bkauport, Sept. 25. At 12 o'clock last night our
citizens were aroused from their slumbers by the alarm
of fire, and flames were seen issuing from the kitchen on
the premises of Mr. E. M. Dudley ; and before any as-
sistance coma oe renaereu, tne Kitcnen was in one com-
ple blaze, and the fire had connected with the large and
commodious dwelling of Mr. Dudfev. and the kitchen
and out-housos of Mr. J osiah F. Bell, all of which were
burned to the ground. By the almost superhuman ex
ertions of the people the dwelling house of Mr. Bell was
saved. It was on fare several times, but by the energy
of the workers, and with the aid of the Bait water it was
finally saved.
Ihe wind was blowing, at the commencement of the
fire, from the north, and it was the opinion of all, at one
time, that the greater portion of the town would be con
sumed. Great flakes of fire, and a perfect storm of sparks
was showered on all the houses south of the burning
buildings, and it required the utmost vigilance to keep it
unucr control, i ne three story ouuaing oi nr. King
was several times on fire, as well as the hotel of Mr.
Taylor, but was put out after much exertion.
Too much credit cannot be awarded to Messrs. Up
shur, W. Rumley, Jas. Rumley, Jr., Walker, Birth,
Adams, Styron, Morse, Squiggins, High, and several
others who not only worked like troopers, but periled
their Uvea to save the houses which were m the most
imminent danger. Every citizen, we believe, lent a
helping hand in removing goods, and in extinguishing
the flames, and it was only by their united exertion that
the conflagration wag finally checked.
I he furniture of both Mr. Dudley and Mr. Bell was
removed from the dwelling houses, though much of it
was considerable damaged. All the property that was
in the kitchens and outhouses was consumed with the
buildings. Despairing of arresting the conflagration, all
persons who had property in houses south of the burning
building had it removed to safe quarters.
The loss falls heaviest on Mr. Dudley, and is estimated
to be about $5,000. Mr. Bell's loss about $1,000, while
the loss of others, caused by removal and breakage, will
swell the amount to about 810,000.
This has been the most disastrous fire that has ever
occurred here, and the only one that has broke ont
for a number of ycari. To look at the situation of the
consumed houses, and the buildings contiguous thereto
which they cease to be at home, and feel themselves only being wooden structures it is a marvel that the fire
lodgers for the balance of their lives. did not spread over the entire block.
How great an impetus all this has received from the xv Tr I Xv? ! f an jnccndia7'
1 I r nrr inmrmpn that thoro 1-iaH Kru-r - fiTV
establishment of the French Empire, may easily be un- building from which the flames first issued, for several
derstood by any one who wilt take the troubfe to think, days.
Being all sovereigns, we liave a sovereign right to allow
ourselves to be pulled about as others may please, per
haps it is right enough, but it does appear to us that
we would lose none of our sovereignty by asserting a
little more individuality. The shifts and expedients, the
debts, worrimcnts and fretting, to which the necessity of
keeping up appearances subjects people, are poorly re
compensed bv the outside glitter produced.
1 1 y t " 1 it. l 1 t ii
e nave no uiea inai anyuouy will care sixpence
about all this. It is, we know, most ridiculously dull
and uninteresting that most ridiculous and unreadable
of all things plain fact. But wc take great pleasure
in throwing all the blame of the crisis upon Louis
Napoleon, save aud except a little for which the
good-looking Eugenie is chargeable. But she is not so
much to blame,
and wc think she 1
self otherwise iu the best way she can for a little woman
All the talk about " temporary susnensiou."
A "J
11 speedy resumption," etc., by the Philadelphia Banks
amounts to just nothing, in the face of the fact that they
are urging upon the Governor of Pennsylvania to call
an extra session of the Legislature of that State, for the
purpose of giving them pardon for the past and security
from the future. They want the legislature to repeal
the enactments by which the bunks forfeit their charters
and incur other penalties in case of suspension. They
want, not only to escape the legal penalties of the exist
ing suspension, but also free license to stay " suspended"
as long as they please. Not much like a speedy resump
tion."' Scientific grape eating is as follows : In health, eat
only the pulp ; as a laxative, combine the seeds with the
pulp j as a tonic, the skin with the pulp, ejecting the
seeds. Thus you accomplish the gratification of your
taste and ensure health. Eat immediately after a regu
lar meal.
P. S. Owing to the derangement of our office fhavinc-
had our materials removed for safety,) we will not be
able to issue the Journal next week : It will be issued
regularly each week thereafter.
The Philadelphia Banks Seeking Relief from the
Penalties of Suspension Gov. Pollock In Consul
tation with their Committee The New York and
Boston Banks Their Position, &c.
Philadelphia, Sept. 27. There is nothing definifplv
settled upon by the banks here yet, and they are una-
uiu iu uuuuiupiian unanimity oi action. Gov. Pollock
is in town, and was met by a committee last. mVht. who
made application to him to convene an extra session of
the legislature to enact measures for saving the banks
from the penalties of suspension, and for relieving the
wmuiuun; uj uuuiviug muse msiuutions to lurnisli the
necessary currency.
The general impression both here and in New York
" - l i ii i t
m regara 10 tne oanKs oi the latter city is that thev
ml
es
New York banks will suspend unon their rlprclt
as early as to-morrow. But supposing this not to be
the case, these parties think they will be compelled to
suspend within three days, or a week at furthest, and
then on both circulation and deposits. It is considered
in the quarters referred to that the New York banks
can redeem their present circulation of seven nr
millions with their twelve or thirteen millions specie, but
tuat uiCj uuui imy uu meir ninety mdfions of deposits
if a portion of it be turned into circulation in the fonn
of notes.
This being Sunday, wc have nothing conclusive from
Boston as to the course which the banks in that quar
ter contemplate pursuing. In intelligent financial cir
cles, however, it is not doubted that they will immedi
ately suspend should the New York Banks do so, and
probably will find it more convenient to followl the ex
ample of their Philadelphia and Baltimore friends in anv
case. J
She married simply for the position, will not suspend ; but some other wen-informed part-'
ias a right to use it, and to amuse her- think differently, and regard it as probable that tl
Virginia Banks.
Wheeling, Va., Sept. 26. A meeting of citizens
was held here to-day in reference to the present monetary
It is said that Mr. Buchanan is resolved to put down
Mormon ism at any rate, to break up the community at
Utah. There will be great difficulties, owing to the
weakness of the Federal Government, half of whose
force is reported to have deserted already. But the new
President is a resolute man when he has undertaken a
thing, and we hope the days of this abumination are now
counted. We certainly ought to wish for this, for it must
be conlessed that we are a good deaf concerned in the
growth of Mormonism. It is a fact that the majority oi
the community Mr. uarvalho says nine-tenths are
English, Scotch and Welsh. How is this? Who is re
sponsilfle for this' What have our orthodox parish
priests been doing, and what have our orthodox Dissent
ing ministers been doing, that their own congregations
have been the feeders of such enormity as this i
It is a very poor consolation, but, perhaps, it is some
little consolation, to find that with respect to our own
people, fanaticism has had more to do with the current
to this wretched delusion than vice. It would, in
deed, be dreadful to think that so many thousands of
our men, and especially our women, had designedly, and
with their eyes open, joined a system of the grossest poly
gamy. But it is only just to say that to a great extent
this was not the case. The new religion was, indeed, itself
a sensuality, but it was not joined by the great mass under
that idea. " The prophets had the wickedness to disguise
its grossness till their miserable victims had got so deeply
imbedded in the system that they could not extricate
themselves. It is a fact that, in order to b : beforehand
with report, they actually forged a service-book, profess
ing to be the service-book of their religion, and contain
ing, among other offices, a mariage office, framed on
the ordinary principle of monogamy. What, then, was
the inducement to this deluded crowd to join the new re
ligion ? It seems to have been mainly the extraordinary
prophetic show and pretence of the Mormonite impost
ure. The subject of prophecy has ever since the Reforma
tion had an extraordinary hold over the minds of reli
gious people in this country. The Puritans were mad upon
it. They dreamt of the battle of Armageddon, of G og and
Magog, of the seven seals and the seven trumpets, of the
star which was called Wormwood, and the angel whoe
name was Abaddon, till, wound up at last to frenzy, they
fhmiD-'it. t.hft world was eominr to an end. and that a!l
these mysterious events were close at hand, every mili
tary officer of any distinction imagining that he was the
person who was to have the especial honor of capturing
the grand dragou and delivering the saints. These spe
culations have never lost their charm among U3, and.
though we do not make such warlike prophets as our
Puritan ancestors, prophecy is still the fashion. The
religious world throws itself into the future, and fixes
the era of the millennium with untiring ingenuity.
No two commentators agree on their date, but this verv
diversity gives a zest to speculation. It is really extra
ordinary what stuff comes out yearly in the 3hape of com
ment on those parts of Scripture ; what curious and wild
contortions and grimaces prophecy performs under the
guidance of its interpreters. AH this is seriously written
and seriously read. Men of education, scholars, acade
micians, please themselves with laying out the v ysterious
future with as much exactness as if they were laying out
a Dutch garden, or drawing a figure in geometry. They
are as familiar with the heavenly Jerusalem as they are
with the ground plan of their own houses. The pleasure
is that of a Chinese puzzle. There is endless room for
ingenuity in different juxtapositions of the various pieces
the pieces here being the different figures, types, num
bers, and personages of this mystical department. They
shake their kaleidscope and look through it to see what
they have got, and they shake it again and look through
it again, till they have got some figure symmetrical
enough. Every remarkable event of the day is sure to
be followed by a general shaking of rite prophetic kalei
docopc, because it must be brought into a figure. If a
King falls or a King rises there are three or four books
in the course of as many weeks to prove his connection
with one of the horns of the beast, and the coup d' ctat
of Louis Napoleon produced a general excitement in the
propthetic world.
bueh being the prophetic bias of many industrious
writers, imagine this influence at work in a low and
uneducated class. Imagine these rude and uncultivated
minds intent, so far as they think of religion at all, upon
the prophetic aspect of it, full ideas of a millennium and
a sort of earthly paradise, which they have caught up
irom xne glowing pages ot uirt lest anient prophecy, and
which, literally interpreted, does bear that meaning
however a more refined and a truer interpretation may
.-nlMdi.iln ?f Tl.f.., 41. m.l rv a..- i I
pjjuiiuauiu ii. xiiejr icau in me viu i ebiiuueiii propnecy
oi a region where men snail no more hurt or destroy
where there shall be no violence and no want, and they
give 10 ail tins a material interpretation. Under such
impressipns they will le very likely to be dupes of de
signing impostors, who come to tell them about a land
beyond the seas, where all is peace and plenty ; no op
pression, no extortion. If this was the picture of the
Mormonite paradise which was given them, its gross
features being kept back, their faith in it was, of course,
gross credulity ; but it is a credulity which our learned
ana educated zealots, who run mad on this verv sub
ject of prophecy themselves, have no particular right
to censure, ihey have set the example. "When
educated men, and even clever men, run into such
extraordinary follies and dreams on this subiect
it is not very surprising if a coarse, illiterate class!
nas gone a step further, and not on v indnbred
the dream, but acted upon it. It is a very good maxim
that no one class in society errs without the rest bcin"-
in some degree implicated. The prophetic mania in our
reugious wona is more or less responsible for the Mor
monite emigration from these islands. This extravagant.
adventure is only a coarse reflection of that wild pro
phetic speculation in which so large a part of the relig
ious public has indulged. The Mormonite emigrant went
in quest oi a sort ot eatherly paradise; bethought the
muicuuiuia uau come, and that he would take the ear
nesi advantage ot it.
We are speaking, of course, of the dunes of Mormon
ism, not of its prophets, and of the fanaticism of the
system, not of its grossness and sensuality. These
wretchetl dupes have been prepared for their delusion by
me. extravagance oi their betters, The ridiculous broch
iivjie r...tl 1 -ii 1 t .1 .1 1
ww ujaiti-uiiv niuusanus ii iney only hazard a new
prediction, the nonsense which is read with avidii von anv
subject connected with prophechy, is the upper-class
shape of Mormonism. We rush into a visionary future
as a relief either from the inequalities of the present scene
or its difficulties, or its dullness. This has made the
Millennarian, and it has made the Mormonite. The
Mormonite is the English form of Socialist. Both aim
at Utopias, only one in connection with prophecy, the
other in connection with social progress and the politi
cal regeneration of the world.
mpletelv
Nena Sahib's atrocities at Cawnpore beggar description"
Four hundred persons, including 70 women and 1 2j
children, were massacred in cold blood, so that the court
yard fronting Sahib's headquarters was swimming in
ui.i lji.:u -t i a a t . .p. 1
uiuuu. rcuuuj eeui)eu, out, suosequeuuy urowncd him.
self, together with his family.
From Washington.
Washixgtox, Sept. 29th. The Commissioner nf
Patents is sending out circulars with the view of ascf-r-taining
the amount and cost of cotton consumed in the
United States during the fiscal year ending the 30th cf
June last, and the qualities and values of the different
classes ol goods into which it is manufactured.
The President to-day returned from his visit to "Wheat
land. Col. Emory, the U. S. Commissioner for running the
Mexican boundary, has formally turned over to the In
terior Department the maps and official papers compet
ed with that work. The Mexican commissioner and
corps of assistants will leave this week for Mexico.
Thomas Sargent has been appointed receiver of the
land office at Fort Dodge, vice Mr. Van Nutwerp, and
J. D. E vans has been appointed receiver at M innea
polis, Minnesota, vice Wm. Russell, resigned. Ja.s.
uaker receiver at Chariton, Iowa, has resigned.
The Bank of Commerce and the Farmers and M
chanics' Banks of Georgetown have followed the exam
ple of the Washington banks and suspended specie pay
ments. None of the banking house have refused to meet
the demands made upon them, except the susjmkd
house of Pairo & Noursc.
The I'lnanrlnl Crisis.
Washixto.v, Sept. 29. The Bank of Commerce, at
Georgetown, whicli continued to redeem its issues ir.
specie up to to-day, has come into the arrangements be
tween the District Banks and suspended specie payment?
altogether. The Farmers and Mechanics' Bank of George
town had also suspended.
Richmond, Sept. 29. There ha3 been but a moderate
demand for specie on our banks so far and they still ei
press a confidence in their ability to meet any demand
which may le brought.
Norfolk, Sept. 29. The Formers' Bauk at K.'La
U:th citv, North Carolina, has snsiiended. HrV.
lore are buying its notes at SO per cent, discount. TV
Norfolk Banks arc all firm.
Albany, Sept. 29. The run on the Havings Bank
tere has subsided, gold drawn out under the influence o'
the panic yesterday being returned to-day.
Philadelphia, Sept. 29. A dispatch from RriiW
ton, N. J., denies the report that the Cumberland bur.k
has failed. It paid out liberally to-day and confiiktH
in its soundness is unabated.
Chicago, Sept. 29. Messrs Trinkham k Co. havn
uspenJcd, but there is no run on the other )mki.
St. Louis, Sept. 29. There is a run hero upon tr
bankers. Messrs. Buzy & Miitenberger have suspend.
in consequence of the non-arrival of a supply of sjkc;-1
now in transitu. They will probably resume "to-morrow
Our other banks have promptly met all demands upon
them.
Later from Ilnvnitn Seizure of Slnre.
New York, Sept. 29.--The steamer Philadelphia ar
rived this morning with dates from Havana to the 23d
The health of Havana was improving daily.
several cargoes oi slaves had been landed on tiie norm
side of the island, and two Spanish .slavers had b-'.
seized. Several parties, supposed to Ixj connected with
these importations of slaves, have been arrested Iy onkr
crisis, when the banks were retraested tn cncrvwi d
measure of precaution in consequence of a run upon the
banks by foreign broken. -
of the Captain-General and imprsioned.
Exchange on the northern cities was
par.
More Failures.
Bostok, Sept 28. Messrs. Jeyvett & Co., publishers,
hare suspended. Their liabilities amount to $100,000.
A Heavy Suspension In New York Liabilities Thrr
Millions.
New York, Sept. 27th. -The failure transpired!
evening of Messrs. Garner & Co., who are repwtnl t
be the heaviest domestic commission house in the csu.
The liabilities are not less than three millions of dollars
and the assetts are supposed to be double that sum.
This is the most important mercantile suswnsion iu V
York since the commencement of the suspoiwem-s.
Attempt to Commit Suicide.
On Monday evening, the 21st, a young man nime fcj
on the N. C."lload, and stopped at the Charlotte IMu
roffisterinsr his name as James C. Clinton. On
day afternoon, about 4 o'clock, he went to the clerk "
the hotel and asked for some paper and retired to
room. In about an hour afterwards groans were hw
proceeding from the room he occupied. The door
found locked on the inside, but an entrance was eucy
at the back window, when Clinton was found on hi
in a dying condition, having swallowed three tea?:".-'
fuls of " Powers & Weightman's Medicinal IW
Acid." Alarm was immediately made, and Drs. 1?
lor, Gibbon, Wysoog, Jones, Fox and Caldwell, prom?
ly attended, determined that the fellow should not w
the world without being properly called. After tism?
stomach pump, cold baths, Jfcc., for some hours, he
restored, for whicli he ought to be very thankful to
good Physicians who labored so hard to counteract
effects of the poison and save him from a worse '-'r'''
than this. .
A medical gentleman informs us that the action em
poison was rapid and characteristic of this powerful w ?
when taken iu large doses, producing the most agoD ' ;r
tortures. lie attributes the recovery in this case p
to the age of the drug, which from long keeping ana i
posure had in some degree lost its strength.
On entering the room a note was lbund besmt;
vial, directed to the landlord, requesting him to ru
a gentleman in New York named Kalloch, an, '
that J. C. Clinton died in this place on the 24tB
tember (the date being.a mistake, as it was tn0 j
less he expected to have two days of grace to
purgatory.) lie also recorded his death m a
longing to the room. He gave no satisfactory
for attempting to destroy himself, merely saying -did
not desire to live longer, and that his ideas oj
world were probably different from those oj "!
sons. Perhaps so ; but we must be allowed to con
late him on not succeeding in placing hintsclj ni
tion where something worse than Prussic Acw
torture him. As it was, he acknowledged tba i
dan was a pretty rough road to travel," consider
distance he went, and although he affected to ca n.
ing about it, we are inclined to think that ne ,
tirely satisfied at having met the good Samarnaw
way. ' " we
The only satisfaction that Mr. Clinton can ,
connection with the affair is, that he 35
something to talk about for a while, as well a- b - $
an opportunity to make an item and put
print. Charlotte Democrat.
The best description of weak .ess wc i haw ever
is contained in a wag's query to ha yM ttf
him some chicken broth, if she would try to cow
chicken to wade through the soup once wort.