Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-05-10

roguery and crime He was yesterday respected, in
fuential and supposed to be afuent and his family
were treated and treated themselves accordingly but
to-day he is disgraced and steered clear of-without
resources or prospecs-yery likely in prison and ex
posed to ignominious punishment sVile wretch -
say the million :" it is good enough for him. but we
must pity his poor family
Certainly, we must pity them all who suffer
still more all who sin and suffer They need pity,
and there is no danger that we shall pity them too
much. But the impression conveyed of the inno-
cence Of the fallen mans family and their unmerited
exposure to want and ignominy, is often very far
from the truth
In fact, half the men who are loathed as dragging
down their families to shame and restitution are re-
ally themselves dragged down by those families
driven to bankruptcy, shame and crime by the /
thoughtless and basely selfish extravaganza of wife
and children. Let man be in the way of receiving
considerable money, and having property in his /
hands, and his family can rarely be made to compre
bend and realize that there is any limit to give and
spend. Fine dresses and ornaments for wife and
daughters, spending money and broadcoth for hope
full sons-eostly parties every now and then, and
richer furniture and more of it at all times-these
few of the blind drains the governors means
which are perpetually in action. 80, what's hum
dred dollars to doing such business 2" is the
indignant question in of any demur remon-
STRANGE his part. Not of them could bear to-
disgrace him by earning dollar; they couldn't go
out shabbily dressed for fear his credit would suffer
They can't see how a man who can get discounts in
Bank need be short of money stingy in using
it. All his talk of difficulties or hard times they
gard as customary fables intended to scrimp their
drafts his purse enhance their of his gen.
erosity. When it is SO easy to fill up check why
will he be hoggish Let him give fifty dollars to
any philanthropic object invest five hundred, how
ever safely, in any attempt to melorate the suffer-
ings of the poor, and they now clearly that he
has hords of gold, and can just as well give them all
dresses and jewels as not. Thus the man of means
of business is too often regarded by his family
a sponge to be squeezed, goose to be plucked an
orange to be sucked, spring to drink from when
thirsty without at all diminishing its flow. The stuff
is there in prOfusOn-the only trouble is to make
him give it up.
In vain he demonstrates -implores-put down his
foot. He cannot be eternally contending with those
he loves best-he wants quiet at home in order to
mature his plans and perfect his operations. If he
resists importantly, the pumps set going, and
what man can stand the April showers of feminine
sorrow? He gives way at last and throws down the
money demanded hoping that great news by
the steamship turn of luck in his business, will
make it up to him. Perhaps it Does and he floats
on perhaps it DON'T and this last feather has bro
ken the elephants back. The end however near or
distant is morally certain. Treated always as a
mine to be opened at will he finally grows desperate
and rushes into reckless speculation, or blasting
1 crime and is overwhelmed with ruin. " Selfish vii
liam p say the ignorant crowd; +" how could he run
such a career? How we pity his family !"-No doubt
of it But if you knew more perhaps you would
pity HMM. Y. Tribune.
ison (Wisconsin) Argus says: at least reports a
Milwaukee correspondent of Hartford paper-that
another large cave has recently been explored
Madison, by Mr. Howell Lumley, a member of the
late Legislature and four other gentlemen. The
party in the cave five days. and finally emerged
by another opening than that by which they enter
ed. The account however, is deficient in accuracy
of detail respecting the dimensions of the which
is spoken OF as being IN one part seventy feet high
and having great mineral wealth. such as immense
silver. 1t is supposed to extend over much of two
counties. Crystals are represented as having been
found in great abundance with stalacttes and sta
lagmies of large size. lake thirty feet deep
was also found and considerable waterfall. Ac-
cordng to the account the is remarkable for
its richness as for its extent.
MED1rERRANEAN SQUADRoN.-The United States
frigates Independence the ST. Lawrence, the Cum
berland and Mississippi steam-frigate at Ma
Piles April A. but would shortly proceed to Marseles
The frgate Constitution was at Toulon, and the cor
u vette Jamestown route to the United States. In
" February there had been twenty of small poz
on board the Independence, with two deaths, and
great religious revival, with seventyfve converts.
A TALE OF A TAl.-Some of the western news-pa.
per states that lusus nature has been discovered al
Louisville-a young gentleman with tail. He il
said to be of the bloods of that city, and about
"a or Is years of age Heretofore he has carefully
concealed his misfortune, but the caudal appendage
which is about four inches in length has lately be
come troublesome that he has submitted it to al
: eminent surgeon for examinat in with the view O
4 having the tail cutaed. the deformity is describ
ed as continuation of the vertebral column simila
s to that spoken of by traveller in Africa as thu
h characteristic of an Ethiopian race We presume
that when the tail is amputated its weight in go
# may be obtained for it at the American Museum.
PROFITS OF THE Pacific STEkMERs.-A correspon
dent of the N Sun says that the steamships ran
:: ming between Panama and San Francisco carry OF
d an average $50 cabin passengers each way at $50
EACH and $50 Storage passengers at $50 each thu
lie realizing s82,5OO. The expenses do not excee
$780, 700, that the profits the voyage in passen
s, gers alone, 100000. Add to this the freight
say $8000 and the total profit amounts to Sill 300
y NUMBER Two-The second tallest man in Amer
" ca measures seven feet three inches and half. Til
y very tallest man has not been measured yet the
- are waiting for pine tree in Maine to grow lon
u enough to do it with.
Some of the New York dancing masters have in
troduced new cotillion, called the Kissing Coil
lon," the peculiar feature of which is you PISS th
IS lady as you swing the corners All the beaux lik
it, and so do the belles-the dance We mean.
IN Now, girls said our friend Mrs. Bigelow, to he
ut daughters, the other day, you must get husband
II as soon possible they'll all be murdered.
IL why So ma g inquired one
OF why, see by the paper that we've got almos
er fifteen thousand post-of6ces and nearly em DI
of PATCHED A MALE OR TWO EVERY DAY-the Lord hay
OF mercy on us poor widows and orphans and the oil
lady stepped briskly to the looking glass to put
On her new cap. #F
a THE ENDLESS VERSATILITY OF LORD BRouGHAM.-
he That the King dies and Lord Brougham neVe
of sleeps two leading features of English eonsttl
nd tonal doctrine. Whenever the time may come-an
n we sincerely trust it may be far distant-when til