Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-02-13


these men. in the simple words of that
Young girl. who stands there. with the
rifle LAID against The powder keg. ..F
They stood. as if spell bound, on toe
threshold os that chamber! E~ai. / -.i
AT last. one boIder than the rest, bravo,
whose face is haf.concealed in a thick red
beard. grasps his musket. and levels it at
the Young girls breast! --.v-sa.z~e,sas
Stand back, or, by -. / will FIRE =
Stlll The girls firm; the bravo advances
a. step. and then starts back. The sharp
click of that rifle falls with an unpleasant
emphass-upon his ear.
Bless, lam DYING gasps the old man.
family extending his arms. 'Ha. ha. we
fooled the Britishers! Come-daughter
I-kneel here !; kneel and say prayer Tor
me, and let me feel your warm breath upon
my face. for lam getting coId-O, dark
and cold ! -[ ....rl ~. .s...2 @-....-a
Look As those trembling accents fall
from the old mans tongue, those fingers
unlnose their hold of the rihe--areasIy the
troopers are serure of one victim. at least,
| a young and beautiful girl: for affection for
her father. is mastering the heroism of the
moment--look She is about 10 spring
into his arms But now she sees her dan
ger again size clutches the rifle; again
although her fathers dying accents are in
her ears--s,ands there prepared to scatter
that hcnse in RUNS, if a single rough hand
assails that veteran form. ...-...z ,s...:
There are few brief terrible moments
Of suspense. Then hurried sound, far
! down the mansion; then contest on the
stairs then the echo Of rifle shot aud The
light of rifle blaze then those ruffians in
the doorway fall crushed before the strong
arms of Continental soldiers. Then a wild
shrek qnivers through the room, and that
young gir--lha, Hero Woman. with one
bound, springs forward into her brothers
arms, and ne>,les there, while her dead IA
ther--his form yet warm--Iays, with fixed
eye-balls. upon the floor. ...,.. ...-
THE POTATO AND IT'S DISEASES.
The London Examiner has the follow
ing article, headed Anticipation Of the Pc.
talo Disease -
''ln a note in Darwin's Temple Of Ma.
ture, we find this remarkable conjecture
"'Mr. Knigh. first observed that these
apple and pear trees. which had beer
propagated for above century by ingralt
ment, were now SO unhealthy, as not tC
he worth cultivation. have suspected the
, diseases of potatoes attended with the curl
, ed leaf, and of strawberry plants attended
vilh barren flowers, to be owing to thei
, having been too long raised from roots. o.
? by solitary reproduction. & notlrom seeds
or sexnral reproduction, and TO have
, thence acquired these hereditary diseases.
"The poetic text illustrative of this opin
I ION Is as lollows: .....
: So, years successive, from perennial roots
. The wire or bulb with lesSenpd vIgor shoots
TIL cnrled leaves or barren flowers betray
waning lineage verglng to decay;
Or till, amended by COMMUNAL powers
Rise seeding prog-nies from sexual flowers.
e THAT the potato is an esculent. is th
: creature of cultivation. is quite certain. Il
: Dr.. Paris's Pharmacologia " find that
V Molina, in his history of Chill. speak
e ing of the potato. says: 1T is indeed toun
i in all the fields of this country, but ,h
plants tia, grow wild, called by the I"dian
e magIia. produce only very smai! root
off bitter taste.' DR.. Baldwin also foun
the wild parent of the potato plan, q: Mon
It tc Vidpo; and Mr.. Lambert informs II
$ tnat this statement has been confirmed b.
$ Captain BuwIes, who not long since re
he says, 1t is common weed in the ga'
i dens, bearing small potatoes, but 100 bite
e for nse.'"
II With regard TO the notion that the di'
r ease Of the potato may possibly arise iroI
S the cultivation of old and worn out vari'
l. ties, without resorting to the method I
= obtaining new sorts from cultivation b
o seed, the Examiner does not seem to b
C aware that all this matter has been yer
d thoroughly discussed by the agriculturist
;. Nor does the Examiner seem 10 know ,h
d from time to time. lew varieties OF II
h root. raised directly from the seed, are il
troduced, and The Older ones abandoned
lie as no longer fit for cultivation. Yet ,he'
Is new sorts are subject to the potato disea'
lie as well as the old. though some confer
e that they are not affected by it in SO gre
degree.
i AS TO the apple and pear and other fruit
: the theory of Mr.. Knight, thai the vari
h lies which have been cultivated for abot
a century by grating. grow -unheaIth,
has long been familiar to cuIitvators. an
,r at one time seemed to meet with very gel