Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-01-04
From the Washington Union.
Oh Gracious:

won't call any Names but Sam Jones killed my horse
Purcell
Who whistled?
Nobody, sir it whistIed itself !--1feIancthon.
Curiosity is singular continuance to worm secrets
out of everybody. 1t was invented by Mrs. Adam,
in the garden of Eden in the year of nakedness one
and shortly after the first snake came-blast his eyes
From this remote sprung this unsatlsed spirit
that clings close to womans lips and watches at the
porches of her brain. Sometimes curiosity Is 1ound
in male attire but then it cuts such RIDICULOUS ny
urc that it is soon laughed of countenance INTO
frocks and thus offends the eye OF man, IN panta-
looms or tights, no more. We have goodly PoFuoh
of the singular article; and though we keep DARK
for fear of the people, we hear and see everything
that is going on around u.s. for the good OF our coun
try and ourselves We always put our country hrst
of respect to seniority matter who calls to Or
der or batters our desk with unclvlllzed knuckles
This quality or property of the mind forced us to
snuggle ourselves into reporters desk in the peo-
pies House. and keep tally for three weeks in rep
resentative Bedlam, where everything was in order
but order and everything constitutional but the
constitution merely to know who was Speaker as
soon as the Speaker himself. Now, it so happened
that it did not make brass buttons difference to
who should be made Speaker, provided he was man,
and had voice and hammer-one to call chap
up and the other to knock him down, when he gotto
be patriotic Quixotic enough to be killed OH by
general consent, for the good of the body.
WE'LL we haunted the old hall We prayed under
the picture of Washington for country, and I'M
der the picture of Lafayette for liberty broad as the
universe and lasting time; counted our stars
night and morning to whether any had been eat
en- out by the aqua forts of anarchy and turned
our old eagle round to see that his tail was all right
and his toe-nals thunder bolts, olive branches and
ALL in applepie order, for occasionally some OF them
swore hard enough to take off a birds claws, and
haul out the tail-feathers of Fly THE CREEK, IN
pOkeberry time.
Well, after much tribulation, and multitude of
grumblng ma orty permitted Speaker to be made,
and 10 and behold, he was Democrats much to the
81 IL. 4Ia oIyI
ton adopted, who did not know Hoare hard it to
start impracticable Root after having Tuck IN an
abolitionst. We glory in the result and though as
Christians of the republican school, are bound to
keep within bounds, determined to get corned
on moasses and water, the first warm day-and blast
the EXPENSE
Yes, they have made Speaker-an honest Speak
era gentlemanly Speaker learned Speaker-a
Speaker that speak for himself and shell his own
corn without spelling the Cobb and having made
head, we DESTROYS to them complete the tail.
We had some aspirations for a part in the latter
category ourselves having been green enough to think
that we had bee7 some pumpkins in the Heroic
Age :" but, alas for poor human nature, we had no
trumpet and were taken down button-hole lower
than usual just for compliment-sake and in the end
1.-THE bitter end,) learned the unwelcome truth that
we were nobody, and had done nothing: We think
old lack and the people will tell different story.
But this is inter
Well, when they had made a Speaker, they swore
him in, and he swore them in, and they all swore to
support the constitution of the United Sates-some
by kissing, some by bowing some by the open palm,
and some by the closed fist. One member, who was
in hurry for business, wanted them sworn in in a
lump, DR.. Franklin proposed to say grace
over the beef barrel, to save time but strange to
say, the thing did not take and the odfashOned way
prevailed.
The American Commons then-oh Lord, where
is Mr.. Green, the reformed gambler !-playeda game
of chance for their seats. Luck in all other lot
teres, eccentric maiden of fifty mine years,
and some faces grew short and some greaW long, and
some grumbed and some jeered, and some damned
the game, after it played through and they had
lost as immoral and unfit for such body. But they
played it out, and again everybody sat down and
cleaned their drawerSWe mean the drawers OF their
desks-and finally came to order, and then, like an
angel of light Dutch built perfect Bliss with
message from the fountain of power enyeloped in
brimstOne-cOOred paper, with healing in its leaves.
Oh, how sopOrifc it's effect upon the late disor-
ganizng House 1t lulled them like the odor of pop
pies, and charmed them like music addressed to a
deaf adder in a cold day.
AS the message appears to have been revised since
its delivery by somebody, and the rest of man.
kndn have been blOtted out Of altogether, deem
it to be duty, faithful chronclers in this He
rOic Age to give Geographic synopsis of it for the
country, and to stand fast by the constitution, pow
der powder
We therefore proceed to lay before the great Amer
lean eye specialized not specialized, as the people
please the document which Moses wanted to see
which Daniel did get glimpse of, and which John
of Delaware, if not of Patmos wrote from ''Aby it.
self A-to cruGifx."
THE MESSAGE CONDENSED BY LIGHTNING.
FeVo,c-citi>ens &c.
l. Our eagle sixty years old, and in spite of evil proph
cts stouter than the gtoutest
Congress responsible everything from Plymouth Rocl
to Posterity.
peace with all the world, and anxious to be will
The resi- of mankind. Query: Who are the rest?
4. BEST with abundance-cursed with the choera-bette
for punishment-and thankful that it'sover.
5. Not insensble to in Europe; but, thank God W.
have had no hand in them.
6. Friendly with Great Britain ready for reciprocity
exchange of bgewater slightly ndiposcd towards France
though convescng and anxious get somebody exchange
for Billy Rives.
Knocked the German steamer in the head with the
stitution, and black-balled our predecessor.
8. Hunted after the German empire for five months; no
finding it, abolished the mission, and heurnure
Prussia.
g. Nipped the Round Islanders in the bud brought bac
Rey found nobody guilty, but think somebody should
punished.
acknowledged Hungary, if there had been any Hungary ef
by the Russian bear acknowledge, [Nem.-Every Hun
garan soldier Is a majorl
IL. Squared with Portugal and hope to get tn
balance.
r. Exceedingly amiable with eight particular
of course included in the world the rest of mankind
49, Have spoken to the Pope ye-government sta
BILE enough for money.
a. Policy requires us to humor Mexico keep faith wit
her, but plague take the Protocol.
Is Began the boundary of California but the CAV
out.
Is. Wanted United States lawyer to keep American ella
rnants from cheating the Mexican commission.