Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-10-10

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Scene Wife-Charles. these doeskin cassi
meres which you received from Stitch the tailor mt
me exactly. shall wear them myself, you may Or
der another pair.
Husband, {meekly )-Whatever you say, my love
Scene WJe--What are you going to do with
those black pants of yours?
H,tsband-Sell them to old clothes man.
WIfe-Indeed you shall do no such thing; I'll cut
them down !; they'll Go beautiful for Harriet Jane.
A worthy old farmer residing in the vicinity of
Lake Mahopac, worried to death last summer by
boarders They found fault with his table, and said
he had nothing fit to eat Darn it, said old Isaac
day, 'what fuss you're making. | can eat
anything" - Can you eat a crow q said one of the
boarders g Yes kin eat crew. e Bet you hat"
said the guest. The bet made, the crow caught
and nicely roasted, but, before serving up, they con-
trved to it with good dose of Scotch snuff.
Isaac sat down to the crow, he took good bite, and
began to chew away. g Yes | kin eat crow Can
other bite and awful face,) L kin eat crow but
III be darned # banker arter it.'
Gen Cass has written letter to Senator Clemens
of Alabama, in which he says of public sentiment at
the North ' There is better feeling at the North,
and though fanatcism will talk and write still there
is just is little probability of our interfering with
slaves, there is of your interfering with our
houses and landsn
DANIEL WEBsTER-The Boston Bee of last Mon
day has the following:
We have been for some time aware-and so have
the people of this State generaly-that the friends
Of Mr.. Webster intended to call convention this
fall, for the purpose of placing his name more pro-
minently before the peoples candidate for the Pre-
sidency, and happy to learn that their inten
ton is to be carried into effect in the of No
vember.
REACTION The ship Constitution, which sailed
from New York for Liverpool on Tuesday. is said to
have taken out two hundred and twenty mine Irish
immi grants who were not satisfied with America,
and DESTROYS to return to their country.
The Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is owned
by the children of the late Gen. Jesup and the chill
dren of the late Colonel Coghan. who received it
bequest from wealthy relative.
CoTToN.--It seems to be generally conceded that
the present crop of Cotton will be usually short from
the long continued drought, rust, &c. Indeed this
impression has already had its effects in Liverpool if
we may judge from the gradual advance in price by
every successive arrival. In this part of the State
the scanty crops almost entirely open and the
weather fine for picking Our extracts in another
column show the deficiency to be general through
out the whole Cotton region.
Huntsville, (Ala.) DEM, 18th.
Four thousand dollars have been collected in n
Orleans towards the erection of monument to Gen.
Jackson.
WELDON BRIDGE.-The commissioners appointed
by the Court of Northampton n. c., decided Sat
urday last to allow 500, 500 damages for the stone
piers in the bed of the great Roanoke River 1t is
considered too much by the railroad company,
who have discharged their hands.
VIsITERs TO THE CRYSTAL PALAcE.-According to
the official statistics. the number of visitors to the
Crystal Palace from May l, to August 80 was 4 POS.
500. The fullest day July Is then there were
| "A. 100 persons in the building.
A CHANCE FOR THE Ci1pPERs-M. Ennis, the
chairman of the Midland Great Western Railway, in
England has published letter. offering twenty five
l. hundred dollars premium to any ship that will make
a voyage from New York to Galway within nine
days and fifty dollars per hour for every hour inside
| the nine days.
Darius Dawson, of New York, announces that he
is going build yacht of the capacity of the Anne
RIGA which he will sail against the world. without
regard to wind or weather. In case the yacht wins
the the vessel which comes ont second and the
vessel last out in the to De forfeited to him
And in case his yacht is beaten, be will deliver her,
with all her appurtenances, to the winner of the
race as prize.
/ The London Standard saws A conversion to Pro-
testantism that astonishes much than the con-
version of the duke of Norfolk, is now to be an
nounced: the conversion of DR.. Pusey."
A SOLEMN QUEsTIoN-At a recent meeting of a
parish, solemn, STRAIGHTFORWARD and most exenl-
plary deacon submitted report. in writing, of the
destitute widows and others standing in need of as
sstence in the parish. g Are you sure deacon that
You have embraced all the widows He said he be-
Hered he had done So but if any had been omitted
the omission could easily be corrected" He did not
| take atall.--hnjckerbocker.
| w men Df Johnson cOurteu MIS-. POtter, whom he
afterwards married. he said that he was a man of
mean extraction. and had no money and that he had
an uncle hanged. The lady by way of reducing
herself to equality with the doctor said that she
had no more money than himself: and though she had
no relative hanged that she had plenty who deserv-
ed hanging.
| ExCELLENT-Punch says. an astronomer being
asked what the use of an eclipse replied--'Oh,
don't know. It gives the time for reflection .
There arrived at New York during Sunday and
Monday last 229l immigrants from Europe.
! Why is a pig the most extraordinary animal in
killed---Er. paper.
EXTREME DEL1cAcY OF TAsTE-An earthquake
has refused to swallow the king of Naples Punch
Bad is, it certainly enables its votaries to
accomplish unheard of feats that would be certain
death to a sober man. An Englishman, named John
Connard. Saturday, at Philadelphia while brim-
full of the ire-water, cut his throat with a razor,
and then threw himself from the roof of two story
building to a shed, and from thence to the ground
without receiving any injury that is likely to prove
| fatal
/ An Engshman having asked a of Erin, if the
roads in Ireland good. Pat replied
/ ''Yes, they are so fine that wonder that you de-
not import some of them into England Let me see
there's the road to love- strewed with roses to mat
rimony, through nettes: to honor through the camp
to prison through the law: and to the undertakers
through physic."
Have you any road to preferment ?" said the Eng
! lishman.
Yes faith, have, but that is the drtiest road ir
/ the Kingdom
An elitor out west has married a girl named
Church he says he has enjoyed more happiness,