Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-02-14

agrlcullufaIlsts VIII prompt them TO give an atrma
tive response.
Day In California.
Here is about the stile, the daily Routeene of
Mans Llte-gets up-say at 6-from hard ko
with kuppel OF Blankets on it-yorns & looks round
wot Is supposed by very Rash persons to be his Room
wors and scaling kuvered with Rotten Manter &
filled with Rat holes & Rat Nests stained orl owe,
gladden. his eyesite-a half burnt out kandel stuck
in broken bottel, stands Barrel near him. vile
stamps of rank cigars guilds of Tobakker odd Shoes
dirty Woollen socks bak numbers of old papers un.
clean linen, an old dagereotype certane-and an un-
sitely spltbox are sure to be He may be for
tunat enutt in having dirty wosh boe in one kor-
ner near witch on very rusty nail, buster or
puddin cloth may be hanging, used by him for a
tOWela thing used Tor years previously as curry
komb by ded hoser is hard by, vile orl around
the most perfekt disorder. rechedness and want of
comfort prevales. He goes out, perhaps talks his
bltters--1 e. twenty-five sents gone to blazes--orl
drinks are bits each-mind that. He turns his at
tenshun to his Observation-Disclosures kakes so cents
a plate Coffee 25 cents kup. Beefsteak 50 cents
Boiled eggs, rotton at that Dollar After Break
fast he is lost site of By his intimate Frend
wen of sudden he is sean Running orl over Town,
nodding and shaking hands with every Boldly Bid
ing Houses, Bying goods, Morgaging Property Loan
ing Mummy and Borrowing it at the same Time, now
an administrator Of Estait. & 10 minites arfter
driving oS-Teen,, this brings him to II o'clock,
when hearing a triangel jingel, or gong yelling
hideously, he is brought up with jerk, and goes
into a Kanvas Tent with Miners Retreat" ritten
in frun where spred out in friteful & greasy disor-
der, Bullocks 1eds with the Horns on and eve
~ variety of dish from a Sandwich Hand POI to a
dyspeptc punkn Pie. He puts this thro' in min
utes, and PUSHES out, fust stopping at the Magnolia
kept by Kernal Johnson of the Suthern Country, on
the East Banks of the NIississppy, and getting a
drink-25c. more gone. He then all about
town, By's out 20 kOnserns and sells EN- 10 minutes
AFTERWARDS, 10 friends that he never sor be-
foar, will agane-treats them-5 dollars
gone. Triangel brings him up agane; He goes to
tea--vulgarly kored supper-and about the time an
ordinary man would have sippd his fust mouthful
he's miles off & engaged in large damning ope-
rashun this lasts him till about o'clock when
darkness maiks him loose 81 ght for time of his daily
bisness and he retires to one of the hundred gam
bling saloons and drinking shops gets frghtfully
cooked and staggering stumps of trees, rats
myriads, delayed Bulls Heds, and filth of every
kind, he finds his Room GU where so Rats are enga-
ged in cordrill or sumthing else, scamper away,
squeakng and wishing and snOrting tho let loose
like pack of Hounds. Rats return-run over him
He, unkonshus dreams of little children in his old
Hoamsted, patting his cheeks, and tickling him with
their tiny fingers, and toying with his hair He
dreams of his brite reside and of his snug arm
chair, he Leers the Black bird in the wikker kage,
and sees him-yes sees him pecking at peace of
Loaf Shuggar. He is happy--he is agane at
home! What - Town lots Squatter Riots y
now? how he presses the hand of his deer little wife
and how she looks into his eye, tho her very sole
ordinary dongs in the Land of Gold. Oh that meet
ing-that meeting-it is Heven upon erth-The
Reality of Life and knot the Poetry-a Rat Returns
and Nibbles at his toe He wakes and the Monote-
ny of his CalitOrny existence agane commences. He
signs aloud, takes drink, and goes the Round as
have abuve deskribed.
The New York correspondent of the New Orleans
Bulletin relates the following of Aaron Burr
At chance visit New Years day. | became ac-
quainted with quite bit of romantic truth relative
to the ups and downs of life In Blocker street in
the midst of considerable poverty, is now living one
of the love victims of Aaron Burr, who resides with
her mother. At the time Burr became acquainted
with the former. the mother living in great
spendor with her husband, who was an extensive
merchant The daughter had been fastidously edu-
Gated and delicately nurtured pains expense
had been spared in her education. She became in
fatuated with Burr, and lived with him his mis-
tress. The step broke her fathers heart; he neg
leced his business and in year or two died, leay-
ing his widow a bare competency. The wonderful
destinations and seductive eoquence of her daugh-
ters seducer even her, and she accepted his in
vitation to become one of the family. She entrusted
to Burr the remnant OF her property At the latters
death, it came out that the competency was wreck
ed ; and for years mother and aughter-excellent-
ly connected and with blood relatives rolling in
wealth-have struggled on seamstresses for liv-
: ing. The daughter yet preserves the name of Mrs.
Burr, and is evidently the wreck of fine woman
On these circumstances being discussed in quite a
crowded parlAr where was. a subscription pro-
posed the spur Of the occasion by of the ladies'
and purse of one hundred dollars raised for New
Years Present to mother and daughter.
The Iowa legislature have passed law for the re-
mova of all free negroes who may hereafter settle in
that State Those already there allowed TO remain,
but not acquire any additional realestae.
SPEAKING IN PuBLIc.-'' julius did you ever speak
in public o.
{: In course did, nigga
"Whar -
! & At the perlice'
And what did you say julius, at the perlice o.
% Not guilty, Mr.. Snow. What else could gen.
tleman say under de pwessha OBJ de circumstances"
1t is said that Benz, the well known Polish Gener-
al, died at Aeppo in the first part of December. He
remained in the Mohommedan faith to the last and
was buried with military honors. With Benz faith
matter of small account; his business was &C
ton, and that of the most intense and tumultuous
sort. His only religion to avenge his country
upon the Russian despotism, and destroy the tyran-
ny of the Cars, Personally he of the bra
vest and most generous of beings; of most
fertile resources and original mind next to Napole
on and Wellington. the great commander of modern
times. He was small in stature but of active
and untiring temperament His will once fixed
thing short of mpossibility could turn it. and that
mpossibility he was the last to admit He was born
at Tarnow, in Gallacia. in 1875, and was according
| 1y ffty-fve years old at bis death.
man laboring under fit of delirium tremens
attempted to commit suicide in Philadelphia, by
swallowing gunpowder and eating live Goals. By
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