Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-02-16
AM nLn PHILOSOPHER.

We take the following from the Charleston
Evening News Of Thursday last If every
body felt, thought, and acted, as good old
Laurie d-Seedsman-there would be nc
need of an Ell Dorado in California 10 raise
the dropping spirits. Half the evils and MIS-
fortunes of life, if not altogether imaginative
are either the results of our own folly or eau
be cured or avoided by good sense and CON-
posure. We commend the extract 10 young
men in particular. There is gooo zeal OF
good, hard sense in it, that IN tnese Gays Of
adventure and fortune hunting. are worth mil
lions of easily gotten treasure. We like to
read the specuIations and the experience of an
old septuagenarian like this. II seems like
the admonition of faiher-of sober veteran
of the old times, risen from the dead to check
the extravaganza and the intoxication of the
new. We bless the Lord that there is at least
one sensible man left in "the city -
SCRAPS FROM MY NOTE BOOK.
WRITTEN FOR THE NEWS BY LAURIE TODD.
have thought, Mr. Printer, it's the duty oil
every member in the body polite 10 do what
in him lies, to promote the well being OF those
among whom he lives, moves, ard has his be-
ing. have thought, too, IFS the duty of the
elder TO hand down to the younger generation
the amount of his experience, that thereby
they may see and avoid the rocks on which
he has split. also think that many of the
sober realities in my life are so checkered
with the appearance Of romance and fiction
that if put on record fifty years hence, some
facts which now speak for themselves nigh
then appear like fiction for instance. if live
TO see the 18th day of next month, will en-
ter my seventy seventh year. Now my health
is as good, my personal feelings as comforta
| BILE, mind and memory as clear. as when in
my twenty seventh year and were it not thai
the shoe plnches by the change of the atmos.
phere acting on the corns, verify believe
could walk as far and as fast as at any past
period in my life Now should any repeat
this fact fifty years hence, it might be though
fiction bnt now, if any one between Bate
ry Place and Boundary Street have doubts
they may come and see. Does any ask, ant
how do you live | answer, never was once
drunk in my life, and never cal enough; eat
ing enough is only giving work TO the docto
and the grave-digger.
Besides, as have drank so much more deep
ly in the cup of pleasure than from the cup o
pain, think it's debt owe to the Giver o
all good, 10 let the world know it; my crosse:
were merely sufficient to give a double relish
to the pleasures which followed.
Besides, as so many extracts and muiIateC
parts of my history linked with fctionl have
appeared in Cults Laurie Todd, Magazines
Reviews, &C., owe it 10 the public to give a
plain statement Of facts.
My long and checkered life is summed uI
in two or three sections. made two for
tunes and lost them, land that's more thar
most men can hoast,l but it was neither BY
speculation, gambling or rotous living of my
self or children, but by the act of God, [as th'
Coroner says over a dead subject therefor
il never lost me an hours sleep. The ma
chinery by which these events revolved, will
compose the subject of the forthcoming chap
tiers.
This then may suffice for an introduction O
a preface, or call it what you please, to tn
forthcoming story. If life, health and tim
permit, will give you chapter weekly s.
if you think it may amuse or benefit your rea
ders, it's at your service.
would remark in conclusion, I am agai
in the full tide of successful experiment. Ia
friend Jefferson said of our model Republic
fifty years ago. and if life, health and strengt
are continued, | calculate to make my Mir
fortune before am four years older.