Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-07-11

tons and example, the nealable souls OF your sons
are Steel that they the coura-
geously overcome their yielding hearts so TO ten-
derness attune, that human pity will accompany
them through their whole lives the feeling OF God and
eternity deep in their souls impress that they
take root and bear the most excellent fruit Oh my
daughter then when you perhaps shall be no more
the heart of the noble will still beat tor the mo-
ther The world enjoys your fruits without having
known even your name and eternal love Chances
benignantly down upon you
Dear. eternally dear to our hearts may the religion
of Jesus be ! 1t has BEEN even to this moment, the
staff of my probty and the Of my peace and
consolation. At one time saw the most innocent
end warmest desire. of my heart, which bad for
years cherished, at crushed all my efforts to
obtain them were vain all sacrifices which | had
made for them, were lost. sought Il hand to help
me. heart to feel for me- consoling look and
found not pity. but GOODNESS exultatlon at my
msfortunes railery and contempt But how tran
quill became my soul, when it felt the consolation OF
Jesus: :: No hair falls from my head without the
will of thy Father in Heaven when | looked
upon the stormy and troubled days of his life. and
upon the tranquility and serenity of his heart upon
his battles and upon his glorious victory; when at
ter his example threw myself down in prayer be-
fore the Father of the world and when in the feel
ing of his power and wisdom forgot my own trallty
and t-sghtedness in the feeling of his love and
fidelity forgot the GOODNESS and falsehood OF man ;
then cried l. Father. all my hopes leave me, every
fstaff breaks, all yield-but not theenot eter-
nlty-nOt my own soul On ! II my spirit Ill tHeoe
sorrows tried. purer and nober comes forth II the
thought on thee more dear becomes and more etlca-
cious for all situations in life if thou for the poor
orsaken and disconsolate hast in store whole rich
eternity full of JOY and consolation for what am |
Iaisheartened Not my but s!thy will be done" And
wbeh imagine myself in that better world, when L,
l elevated over time and grief, looked with quiet
heart upon all here sowed in tears and with conf
dence Of soul upon the harvest of JOY to come how
small to me then appeared the earth with all It's dis
appointed hopes
Oh let this religion which was the staff and the
consolation of your mother. be also your staff and
your consolation in life and in death. The time
comes when every of splendor shall disappear
from before you. your eye itself shall be darkened
your blooming color in deaths paleness shall be IA
ded then shall the thought of that which you have
: been to Others the night of death enghten your
interior man" the desolation of the tomb out-live
and the pure, we'll meaning heart, the treasures OF
faith live and hope shall accompany you to eternity
RAIL ROADS NOT LIABLE FOR KILLING CATTLE
The Newark Advertiser reports case recently tried
} in that neighborhood before justice and jury O
twelve men, in which the plaintiff, Bridget Coyle
sought to damages against the New Jersey
Railroad Company for manning cow on their TRACK
in May last. The jury rendered a verdict for thu
defendants, on the principles laid down in Vande
grft V. Rediker 2 Zabriskie's Reports lS5, viz
: That engineer in charge of locomotive engine
is not lable for an accidental injury to cor which
sufered to go at large, had Stroyed the railroad
The of cattle bound to keep them an h7S C1r'
close at has re:W.'
SHIP BUILDING.-The progress of this branch o
business has been wonderful of late. The N. 4orl
Tribune remarks that it is but lately that hav
commenced building large ships, In 1914 it is si
there were but seven ships owned in New-York tina
were over 1000 tons Now think nothing Q
building steamers of 5000 tons and sailing vcssc
of less than 1900 tons is considered small affair
and in conversation with an eminent ship-buildet
not long since, he expressed the belief that in les
than ten years ships would be constructed of 500
. and 5000 tons.