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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-07-05
From the Louisville Courier.
New Version of Widow NIachree.

D.. J. LYONS.
Och Widow Machree, when cowld weather comes on,
Och hone, Widow Maehree,
It isn't myself will be singing this song,
Och hone, Widow Machree;
For sure as I live, this body I'll give
To the fishes that swim away down in the sea;
And the sprat and the herrn shall come to my berrin
Och hone, Widow Machree.
Oeh Widow Machree, whin you hear of my fate,
Och hone, Widow Maehree,
The big tears NAV rowI down. but twill thin be too late
Och hone, Widow Machree;
For even the whale, at the sight, viii look pale,
As with heart full of pity he giares upon me
In the salt briny wave he will dig my eowld grave,
Och hone, Widow Maehree.
Och, Widow Machree, whin you marry O'Flynn,
Och hone, Widow Maehree,
And sit by the Preside looking at him,
Och hone, Widow Machree;
With a tear in your eye, and perhaps with sigh,
You'll remember that loved you better than he;
But the mermaids, poor man, will be atm me thin,
Och hone Widow Maehree.
Och Widow Machree, don't be snoring so loud
Och hone Widow Machree,
IT'S awake you should be, and making my shroud,
Och hone, Widow Maehree;
Have pity, pray, and only jist say,
That, at some future day, you will smile upon me,
And bad luck to the fish that would make me his dish,
Och hone Widow Machree.
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From the Dublin University Magazine
Dance Light. my Heart 1T lies under your Feet

Dance Light. for my Heart 1T lies under your Feet
Love.
''Ah, sweet Kitty Neil, rise up from that wheel
Your neat little foot will be weary from spinning;
Come trip down with m: to the sycamore tree
Half the parish is there and the dance is beginning.
The sun is gone down, but the full harvest-moon
Shines sweetly and cool the dew-whitene valley;
While all the air rings with the soft, loving things
Each little bird sings in the green shaded alley
With blush and smile, Kitty rose up the while,
Her eye in the glass, she bound her hair g,aneng
It's hard to refuse when young lover sues
So she couldn't but choose TOGO off to the dancing
And now on the green, the glad groups
Each gayhearted lad with the lass of his choosing;
And Pat, without fail leads out sweet Kitty Neil
Somehow, when he asked she thought of refusing
Now Felix Magee puts his pipes to his knee,
And, with flourish Free sets each couple in motion
With cheer and bound, the lads pater the ground
The maids move around just like the ocean,
Checks bright the rose-feet light as the does,
Now eoyly retiring, now boldly advancing
Search the world all around from the sky to the ground
No such sight can be found as an Irish lass dancing
Sweet Kate who could view your bright eyes of deep blue
Beaming humidity through their dark lashes mildly,
Your far-turned ARM heaving breast, rounded form,
Nor feel his heart warm, and his pulse throb wildly.
Poor Pat feels his heart, as he gazes, depart,
Subdued by the smart of such painful yet sweet love
The sight leaves his eyes, as he cries with sigh,
Dance light for my heart it lies uder your feet lore 20
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A Corn Shocking.

But you must hear of the corn shucking The
one at which was present given purpose
that l might witness the humors of the Carolina ne
groes. A huge fire of hght-ocood was made near the
corn house. Light-wood is the wood of the long
for it is almost the heaviest wood in the world, but
because it gives more light than any other fuel In
clearing land, the pine grdled and left to stand
the outer portion Of the wood decays and falls off
the inner part, which is saturated with turpentne
remains upright for years. and constitutes the plan
ters provision of fuel. When a supply is wanted,
one of these dead trunks is feled by the axe. The
abundance of light-wood is one of the boasts of
Carolina. Wherever you are, if you happen to be
chilly, you may have fixed extempore a bit of
ight-Wood and coal give you bright blaze and a
strong heat in instant. The negroes make fires
of it in the fields where they work; and, when the
mornings wet and chilly, in the pens where they
are milking the At plantation, where
passed frosty night saw fires in small enclosure
and told by the lady of the house that she had
ordered them to be made to warm the cattle.
The light-wood fire made, and the negroes
dropped in from the eighboring plantations singing
as they came. The driver of the plantation, col
ored man, brought out baskets of corn in the husk
and piled it in heap; and the negroes began to
strip the husks from the ears, singing with great
gee as they worked keeping time to the music, and
now and then throwing in joke and an extravagant
burst of laughter The songs generally of a
comic character; but one of them was set to sngu-
larly wild and plaintive air. which some of our mu-
sicans would do we'll to reduce to notation. These
are the words
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RAvEL AND THE DANDY.-M. Antoine Ravel, the
successor of Gabriel and his close rival in panto
mine, is the hero of capital story in the Boston
Post. He was in the gymnasium one day, it seems,
when of the Boston bloods entered, and took him
for green horn; offering his services to show him
how to do things, &c. At last Ravel allowed his
teacher to give him lesson with the gloves, and
to get the better of him, seemingly, for while
Having INDUCED the young gentleman in this way a
little time, much to his satisfaction and after the
young gentleman had settled and shrugged up his
shoulders number of times, with air of self-con
sequence, they walked up to the chalk for the third
time the stranger saying he believed he had learned
the n'odus operand of the thing as he at once com
menced cutting young hero not only on both ears,
but occasionally rubbing his with the glove to
such an extent that his Southern friends at once
burst into tremendous shout of laughter, that SO
mortified his vanity he rushed in, letting fly first left
then right and the stranger ,'countered," and my
young hero supposed he had knocked the stranger
into the middle of next week. What was his sur
prise on seeing his antagonist turn two back SOM
mersets pulling off the gloves he spinning in
the air The Post describes the chagrin Of the dan
dy pugilist when the proprietor of the gymnasium
entered and said to the " green horn," Good morn
ING M Raveli"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-07-05

An exchange paper says: "When you see gen,
tleman at midnight sitting on the stoop IN front OF
his house. combing his hair with the door scraper,
YOU NAV conclude he has been out at an evening
party.''
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-07-05

Admiration profits not so much the object as the
subject of it. While rejoicing that man is great
we have also reason to rejoice that we are able to
appreciate his worth.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-07-05

Dr.. >. L.
w will of his sarsaparilla business including machinery
material hand, for the large of 100000
vertsng The purchasers Messrs. Nostrand Bach,
both wealthy and well known individuals They have we
6 mP ss haTs the componndng
under his immediate supervision They are men
celebrated medicine which has the reputation of being the
best preparation of Sarsapara made in the United States
The propreors understand warrant their article to
in all climates any length of time which have
doubt Of when by SO practical chemist as
Professor Chiffon who is well known to be of the first
chemists in this country.
The public are hereby notified that the preparation extern
sivey known DIR. s. p TOWNSHIPS CoMroUND EXTRACT
SARsAPAR1LLA is manufactured under my direction
P Townsend and certify that it composed of inged
sns purely rgea5f and eh9 als oh that
from them their greatest medicinal effects.
JAMES r. Chiffon, Chemist.
New York, February 1850.
The undersigned wholesale Druggists in the city of New
SARsAPART for several years and consider the Or
gal Genuine DIR. Townsends Saraparilla and that it
was the 'i Boyd pdrSaI Paul. ID pGGr G ~
Walter B. Townsend & Co, 2l6 Pearl-st.
Leeds & Hazard, III i Maiden I9i Lane
NJ Ward s Co, 50 Maiden Lane.
Graham & Co., 10 Old Slip
Osgood s Jennings l88 Pearlst:
r. B. uaviland Co.. Office III Broadway
4 Isa1Sn kS %anrs cs Sc R VI MntsFs'
William Underhill, IT. 1873 Water-st.
David T. Lanman, 90 Water-st.
Marsh s. Northrop, 60 Pearl-st.
Norton. Babcock s. Wood 139 Maiden Lane.
PenfoId, Clay s Co., Fletcher-st
Olcott, Mckesson & Co.. 127 Maiden Lane.
A. B. s D. Sands, 100 FutOnst.
Schieffelin Brother s Co, 104 and loo John-st.
Lewis & Price 80 Pearl-st
Havland, Reese & Co, 50 Maiden Lane
Rushton, Clark s. Co.. ITO Broadway, 10 Aston
House, and 273 Broadway, corner Chambers-St
Philip Schiefelin s. Co., l07 Water-st
Pou s Palanca SO John-st.
Sherwood s. Coffin, 81 Pearl-st.
Rust s Houghton, So John-st.
l. Minor s Co, PA Futon-st.
Ingersoll s Brother, 23O Pearl-st.
Joseph E. Trppe, rs Maiden Lane.
| Haydock, Cories & Clay. 2S Pearl-st.
Greenleaf & Kinsley. As Courtlandt-st.
DR.. A. C. EVANS & BROTHER the only wholesale
and retail agents. here, for DR.. S p TOwnsends Impro
we'd Extract Sarsapar where may be found at all times
large select of Drugs, Medicines Paints Patent
Medicines and the many fancy articles usually kept in the
largest establishments.
Wilmington, \. c., June %, 1850 42-tf
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THEREBY HANGS NO TAIL.-The last comet repor.
ted in our armament by the stargazer is said to be
destitute of a caudal appendage.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-07-05

"Johnny come down de hollow.
Oh hollow!
Johnny come down de hollow.
Oh hollow!
De nigger-trader got me.
Oh hollow!
De speculator bought me.
Oh hollow!
I'm sold for silver dollars.
Oh hollow!
Boys, go catch de pony.
Oh hollow!
Bring him round de corner,
Oh hollow!
Pm goin' away to Georgia.
Oh hollow!
Boys, goodbye forever!
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LIST OF BLANKS.

NTOLASsES. u hhds crop Cuba Nolasses. Low
lNl for cash. at GEO. II. KELLEY ;.
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ag-We are authorized to announce THOMAS D. AIM
STRONG as candidate for the Office of Sheriff OF New
Hanover County
June 49, 1850 4%te
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being out of my power 10 canvass
the County, beg remind you that continue candidate
for the office of Sheriff. and respectfully ask your support as
literally as though you personally solicited
Your fellow-citizen, 5. ID. WALLACE'
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The song of Jenny gone away" was also g wen,
and another, called the monkey song, probably of
African origin, in which the principal singer person
ated monkey, with all sorts of odd gesticulations
and the other negroes bore part the chorus, Dan
dan, who's de daddy" One of the songs, commonly
sung these occasions, represents the various ami
mails of the woods belonging to some profession or
trade. For example,
De cooter is de boatman-''
The cOOter is the terrapn, and very expert boat
man he is.
DE cooter is de boatman.
John John Crow.
John John Grow.
De mocking- bird de lawyer
John John Grow.
John John Crow
The alligator's back is furnished with toothed
ridge, like the edge of saw, which explains the last
line.
When the work of the evening was over, the ne
groes djourned to spacious kitchen One Of them
took his place musician, whistling and beating
time with two sticks upon the floor. Several of the
men came forward and executed various dances, ca
pering prancing, and drumming with heel and toe
upon the floor, with astonishing agility and perse-
verance, though all of them had performed their
daily tasks and had worked all the evening" and some
had walked four to seven miles to attend the corn
shocking From the dances a transition made
to a mock military parade sort of burlesque of our
militia trainings, in which the words of command
and the evolutons were extremely ludicrous 1t be-
came necessary for the commander to make speech,
and confessing his ncapacty for public speaking he
called upon huge black man named Toby to ad-
dress the company in his stead. Toby, a man of
powerful frame, six feet high, his face ornamented
with beard of fashionable cut, had hitherto stood
leaning against the WALL looking upon the frole with
and demanded bit of paper to hold in his hand and
harangued the soldiery, 1t was evident that Toby
had listened to stump speeches in his day He spoke
of de majority of Sous Carolina de interests Of
de State, de honor of ole Banwell district" and
these phrases he connected by various explosives
and sounds of which we could make nothing. Al
length he began to falter when the captain with ad
mirabe presence of mind came to his relief, and in
terrupted and closed the harangue with a hurrat
from the company. Toby was allowed by all thu
spectators, black and white, to have made excel
lent speech.
J THEREBY HANGS NO TAIL.-The last comet repor
ted in armament by the stargazer is said to b.
destitute of a caudal appendage
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WILMINGTON, n. c., Ma

am gentlemen, most respectfully. your ob't serv't,
[35-tel OWEN FENNELL
rs Chronicle Aurora and Commercial, copy till election
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To the Ffeemen of New-Hanorer County:
myself candidate for the Of
fee of Sheriff your county Should you be pleased to Ia
yor me with majority of your surage pledge my honor
that will discharge the duties of that Office to the best of
my ability. JOf1N J0ME tc;
June 18th, 1885, l4o-uI
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To the Independent Voters Of Ne'c Hamorer County:
FELLow-C ITIzENs-In accordance with the wishes of a
number of friends beg leave to offer myself candi-
the Office of Sheriff Should you hopor with your
surages pledge myself discharge its duties with fidelity
and impartiaty. G. ]. MOORE.
New Hanover county, Feb'y %. 1850 23-te
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ASFor sale in Wilmington, N. c., by
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FIT THOUGHTS. your thoughts be fit or suita
bic to the subject. Every day have high thoughts
ofGod-lower thoughts of self kinder thoughts O
around you
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Strike ont all aher the word "Resoirsd," and insert.
THAT the Committee Mileage be instructed 70 reports
bill 10 regulate and equaizs tue mileage OF mem bes OF tbs
House, and TO reduce the same, IT, IN ber opinion be
too great"
The CHAIR ruled the amendment Of the gentleman
from South Carolina TO be out OF order.
Mr. BURT moved the previous question and 10 an
swer TO question from member,
The CHAIR explained, that II the motion for the pre-.
vious question be seconded the question would be hi'
on The amendment to the amendment proposed BY the
amendment proposed by the gentleman from Indiana,
lMr GoRmAN1 and then the resolution as II may be
aMended
Mr.. SCHENCK requested the gentleman from South
Carolina [Mr BURT1 to withdraw the call for The pre-.
vous question, TO permit him 70 send 10 the Clerks table
TO be read for the information Of the House. proposition
in the way OF instructions TO the committee, which be
wished 10 offer.
The previous question was Withdrawn and then the
Clerk read the amendment, as follows:
Recommit, with insiiuctons 10 inqaire and ascertain
whether any amendment Is the present exist
ing law regulating the pay and mileage Of members o.
any snch amendment be necessary what should be- and
70 report by bill OF otherwise
Mr.. A. EVANS then addressed the House at consider.
able length on be subject OF mileage generally defending
members residing near the seat Of government from the
charges made against them in the remarks OF gentleman
from Ohio, INF RooT ! s4
On motion Of Mr.. RICHARDSON, the House proceed
ed 10 the orders OF the day; when +tiaAa
The SPEAKER laid before the House message from
the President Of the United States forwarding reports
from the directors Of the United States mnts showing the
amount OF coin turned out from each message and re-
ports laid on the table, and ordered to be printed
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the resolution Of the Committee Mileage, his object
to place this matter in practicable shape. The res
outon of the committee did not provide any permanent
remedies for what he regarded serious evil II the
resolution is passed. il only affect the construction of
the existing law, and when the construction is given il
maintained that the existing law is essentially wrong in
its principles and practical effect In the first place il is
grossly unequal and negotiable in IFS operation upon the
members OF this body Why sir. one gentleman upon
this floor draws from the treasury, for the services,
some 80 400; while ohes-members from Virginia and
New Yofkdo not draw much more than one. fourth OF
that sum. His amendment not designed to cut down,
but 10 equalize the pay OF members He did not con-
cieve thai right make such Determinations
made the custom OF constituting the law in the portion
OF the members pay received under the head OF mileage
He wished all TO be paid fair compensation for the time
actually required in travelling between the seat OF gov
eminent and their respective homes and the expenses Of
such journeys II required but eight OF ten days longer
10 come from Texas 10 Washington than was occupied by
members from New York city In getting here. the former
receiving $4,000, while the latter for their journey
only paid some 800 each way He desired TO have il
understood that he not for reducing the pay oil mem
bers, but his object was to equaze H.
\ Mr. SWEErSER remarked that, in reporting the pre-
amble and resolution by him reported. he was willing TO
man from Mississippi felt disposed 10 impose that whist
he felt disposed TO assume the responsibility he wasun
willing to admit that the resolution was reflection upon
the honor OF the members OF the House; no such puI
pose was intended, and no such inference can De larry
drawn from the preamble and resolution Ihe aenuon OF
the country had been called 10 the subject o. the abuses
that had hitherto existed in regard to the subject OF mile
The object he had in view 10 check the evil at
once, and in due time amendment to the law would be
reported Mr. 8 said he was willing 10 take all the re-
spousbity that the introduction OF this subject fixed upon
him. He was determined to pursue the matter until an
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ted States She came erect-not Inundated, but hrm;
her steps were onward-hey were earnest and drawn BY
the chords OF affection. She entered this Union for the
purpose OF benehting, and not disturbing it. II conse-
guencss Tor which she Is not accountable have resulted
take her share Of them. -
move. MIR. President that this resolution be laid upon
SEWARD VIII h eI SoDolpaSs senator withdraw
his motion for q few moments'
Mr.. HOUSTON withdrew the motion accordingly
Mr. SEWARD. ask the indulgence OF the Senate
for one moment in reply to remarks Of my friend
from Georgia. [Mr. DAwsoSl He has alluded to the mo-
,yss which ne supposed . operate upon members Of this
aeter. My reply TO that senator will be exceedingly
brief Its, that am here for public measures, not Tor
Pnvsis sndsna, 70 mpu,aoa which can S &c made even
my friend from Georgia, shall ever put before this
body, any other, defence Of myself against susp
cons complaints OF this kind And now, sir, the point
in the rsuarfs which made which elected the most Sc
were rsbuke from my friend from Georgia was, that had
suxgesed that had always been opposed to the applying
q s i he s pas
the senator persisted in supposng that intended that
thsy should be applied for no other purpose than CHAIR
% ohes LOT 10 Ue I'M o
revenues TO State and great national purposes and objects
Inc Distinguished senator from Kentucky, Mr. CLAy,l
Of the nation, secured the ssu;ou amona The several
States OF this Union Of apoon Of these and other surplus
revenues q this government was at distance, an
suit Of II in other States know not But YOU, Mr.
President testify with the result the benefcent
result in the State OF New York. from which we come
The share which allotted 10 us was ssOOOo00 !;
the amount we received was $4500,o0o Every dollar
Of that four and half millions, sir, than ten years
ago went To the formation Of public schools academies
senninares and other higher institutions Of learning and
OF libraries for the common people. And, sir, will now
stata 10 the Senate--and am proud that, in behalf OF
the State Of New York. am here this day to state 10
the praise and honor OF the distinguished senator
from Kentucky--tbe condition OF the Stale OF New
York, Of the people, bond and tree--l might say, u
we had any OF the former clase-native and foregn.,
TO which they have been brought by this act Of justice
Twill not call benevoence Sir the State OF New YORK,
in II one child Of citizen foreigner that s not educated
from the age OF 1--WE years to the age OF twenty years.
the public cost and expense Again, sir at the distance
OF every mile and half every main-road, railroad,
canal, and acknowledgement by onya mile and