Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-07-19
welcome !. Flo,yers In May.

But her heart sore, and the tears sWeled er
Her eye, at the door, on that eve in May.
ssAnd take,' she CRIED to her young hearts pride,
From your plighted bride, on this holy day,
A true-oye token of fond VOWS spoken
That may not be broken-these flowers OF May
In life and IN DEATH if you hold to your faith,
Keep ever this wreath, twill be sweet in decay;
Come poor or with wealth, in sickness or health,
To my heart you'll be welcome as fow'rs in May.
YET oh! if ever, when wide sever
Our hearts, you waver in faith to me,
A true Irish maid will never upbraid
Affection betrayed-from that hour you're free!
81 set small store upon golden ore,
I'll love you the for your wealth from the
The hand that will toll at own loved soil,
Free from crime from spoil, is the hand for me 20
The blessing half spoke, her fast tears choke,
And strong sobs broke the young mans prayr;
One blending of hearts, and the youth departs
The maid weeps alone in the silent air.
Full many score that maid counted DER
Of day-dawns and night-fals-a year to the day;
When sadly, once more, at the seat by the door,
Stood the youth as before, on that eve in May.
For the love of that maid, wherever he strayed,
Kept his soul from stain and his hands from guilt;
Like angel from God, till his feet retrod
The cherished sod where frst-love dwelt
81 bring you no store of the bright gold ore,
But, poor as before, return to decay, t' p.
For my bride I've wealth but broken health,
Hopes wthered and dead as the flowers of May.''
maiden hosp ru00 love to her breasc,
Her joyful haste no doubts delay
In his she signs, "'Tis yourself price,
To my heart you are 'celcome as fOacers in May!
Descriptive Eloquence.
"Our country, tits of thee''
'Ma'am,' said free-spoken, warm hearted, enthu-
siastc, and rather quiZzical son of old Kentucky,
while paying his devoirs to of the famous lady
tourists of America, sMaam, YOU should have been
born in America the greatest country in the known
world Nature has clustered all her stupendous and
dazzling works upon this land and you should be
among them We have got the greatest men, the
finest women, the broadcast lakes the tallest trees
the widest praries the highest waterfalls and the
biggest hearts in all creation
sMa'am go and see the Falls Of Niagara. My
dear ma am if didn't think I'd walked up in futur-
ty when first seed that big slantendcular puddle
(slantendicular's an algebra word, ma am-you may
MT know it. Why, maam, | could tell you some
thing about them Falls-but you mustn't put it in
your book COS nobody will ever believe it. The peo-
pie that live round about there all lose their Speech
and hear each other speak for years, with the
noise of the cataract! Fact ma'am true as that's a
pencil and a notebook you're taking out of your
pocket. Why, there man lived there ten years,
and he got so deaf he never knew a man was speak
ing to him till pail of water was poured down the
back of his neck When you 90 to see the Falls,
ma am you must DO all the talking you want to be-
fore you get within twenty-five miles of them: for
after that, not word of any kind can be heard.
Then, ma'am, you should go and the great
cave in Kentucky, where the bats Intermediate in
countless millions. There is not such another hole
in the ground be found upon the face of the earth
Ma'am, if you go back to England without seeing
our Mammoth Cave, you'll put your feet in it-no,
beg your pardon, me-that's quite impossible;
but you'll leave big hole in the book you going
to write. There was no end known to it, ma am
IL Il IL II
twenty -fve miles broad. One of the rooms is called
the 'Antipodean Chamber from the unpronounce-
able fact that man walk just easy on the
ceiling upon the floor; and in this apartment,
there's natural fountain of pure brandy! The
same cave is positive cure for consumption.
You haint been South, yet, have you, ,no'unn e
You haint seen the Mississippi river and the city OF
New Orleans? Well, maanl, New Orleans is hun
dred and twenty-five feet below the level of the
and the Mississippi runs through canal bridge right
over the city! The inhabitants chiefly aligators
and screech owls, the last words have been vu carly
perverted into Creole. The food is chiefly gum, pro-
duced from trees in the swamp, and which they call
gumbo. There is paper called the Picaroon the
name being well chosen, significant of its professed
piracies upon Hunts Philosophy, Baron Munchau.
sen the Pilgrims Progress, Joe Miller, Washington
Irving and Bells Life in London. 1t is violent
and stupendous political print, and the Government
of the country has endeavored in vain suppress it
One of the peculiar marks about this extraordinary
city the entire absence of those small quadrupeds
of the genus most commonly known rats. One
was seen many years ago. by citizen, who brutally
murdered the unknown creature but was imrnedi,
atey tried and sentenced to be hung for the enorm
ty.
you will hear, ma'am, a great deal about the
floating population of New Orleans phrase which
you will understand when tell you that the town is
half the year under nundation from the Mississippi
You should have been born in America, my deal
fam but as you were not, you may possibly die
here, and that's some consolation for YOU