Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-12-12

CRY POLICE, Nov 28--SToRnIsG a CAsTLE.--
Every man. house, says Coke. is his CASTLE
Philip Handy elderly colored gentleman, IN the
shoe mending business. had castelated himself in
-storied lead colored frame tenement in Schuy-
kill Sixth street. The owner of this property is an
other negro gentleman named Peter Wright, who
wished to eject dispossess his tenant, Mr. Handy
because the latter had neglected to comply with the
feudal ceremony of paying the rent Unacqua,nted
with the legal forms provided for in such land
lord Wright thought himself justified in expelling
Mr.. P. Handy vi ct arms, and he proceeded to the
premises with sledge- hammer in hand for the pur-
pose of executing this design. His wife-a portly,
greasy locking colored woman-accompanied him,
in order to afford him such assistance as one OF her
fragile sex would be capable of rendering Handy.
in the meantime had received intelligence of their
approach, and he prepared fo the expected assault
by establishing magazine OF brlck-bats and medl-
sized paving stones in the attic or second story
Mr.. and Mrs. Wright arrived in front of the tort
ress, and summoned the garrison to surrender
Handy poked his head out of the dormer window
and sgned his intention to hold out to the last
tremity-takng care to let the enemy know that he
was supplied with suficency Of provisions and mu-
nitions of war to stand long siege. Then began
an attack which has no parallel in history ro-
mance-if except the famous assault on the cas-
tie of Torquilsone. MIR. Wright took off his coat
and bat-tied handkerchief around his head and
began to thunder against the door with his sledgc,
like King Richard against the gate of Front de
DOcul HdHDy uTOppeu some ndtl uOZel DIlck-Udte
from the casement-four of which struck Mr. Wright
on the organs of sefcstcem, without seeming to at
tract that gentlemans notice. When the fifth brick
struck, Wright rubbed the top of his head and re-
marked to his wife-'I do believe the fellow is heay
ing sumfn out of the window
| Mrs Wright had not been idle the single win
dow of the lower story undefended by shutters
and the valiant lady, having raised the SASH efec-
ted entrance for her head and shoulders and then
her husband, with view to facilitate her further
ingress gave her pretty smart kick, which drove
the greater part of her person through the embra-
sure, but the sash falling at that nauspcious mo-
ment caught her by the lower extremites, suspen
ding her by the ankles with her feet alone visible
outside of the window. Her head, by i'll luck fell
into tub of water which Handy used for soaking
sole leather. Her lord was too much interested in
his proceedings against the door to take any notice
of her perilous siuaton,-and the door about tt
yield beneath the force of the sturdy old Ethiops
blows-when Handy bethought himself of a 9 hasty
kettle of SOUP" Gas Gen. Scott would call it, which
the luxurious cobbler had prepared for his dinner
The broth was smoking hot, but the desperate Han
by discharged it, kettle and ALL at his assailant-
Wright received enough of the scalding fluid dowr
his back and in his bosom to make him drop his
hammer and dance flndango but requiring his
wifes assistance to help him off with some of his
saturated garments, he seized her feet they pro
jected from the window and dragged her out Just il
time to her from suffocation in Hanby's soak
tub. The assailing forces being thus galantly re
pulsed, Handy celebrated his victory from the upper
window, with Ethiopian melody called g Juber :
but the arrival of police force somewhat dampeC
his raptures, and depressed his music. All the &C
tors in this warlike drama committed for dis
turbance of the -PenDSHranian