Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-07-18

The Hot Weather considered Ia Military Point Of
View with Grave Refcetions upon the Militia
System and "Reminiscences OF the same
Hot hotter. hottest THE weather seems gramsti-
cally disposed and inclined to put this unfortunate
adjective through all the degrees of comparison, to
say nothing of the other kinds of comparisons which
are sometimes rreverently made; as to say that it
is as hot as bazes thunder, the deuce, as the
final abode of wckedness and forth, and so FORTH
like an auctioneers catalogue. If we were only
dog we should certainly go mad, and bite the shns
of the people out of spite. Nobody is doing any bu-
sness-there is nothing in the papersthe lightning
has got lazy and wants greasing, so that the tele-
graph can't work telegraph something OF hum
bug, at the best. Pen has given out and won't ope-
rate without great deal of hard work We have
always got bad pen having classical example
therefor We are like ULYSSES nobody could bend
his bow, save and except his own private self-and
we can safely defy the world in arms to write with
the steel stump with which we indite these super
elegant medtations We once had a good pen but
we ruined it in this way 1t was gold pen and
pause and reflect upon the phenomenon-it had a
gold holder. In the unsuspecting innocence of our
heart, we once laid the establishment upon the ia
of physical philosophy, down upon the lighter
end, thereby reducing the pen to the position of
old soldier with but one leg we have never since
been able to raise another. The purchase of water
melons absorbs all our stray change during the hot
weather. We wish somebody would do something
eccentric-saw off his own nose or turn his mouth
upside down--we want something to write about.
Patriotism is not all dead, heroism neither.
The maltias out on Saturday we heard
the rub-a-dub and have since learned that the
ments of the day agreeably diversified by bat
tie royal between one of the non-commissioned off
GERS and high private. We have not been informed
which whipped, but the odds were in favor of the
high private. Nothing but the most sublime courage
and devotion could induce men to perambulate the
streets under July sum- with escort of little mig
gers. Little niggers are philosophers
| the advantages of fresh air-keep their mouths al
ways open to ventilate their 'innards.' SHARP
sighted man told us that little niger had stoler
an orange and eaten it; saw it plainly when he O.
pened his throat The militia system is certainly al
anomaly we have never been in any place where il
was not regarded as pretty much of humbug, ano
yet like the constitution of the United States it
ers all the States and Territories, and there is itt
prospect of its abolition. One of the earliest rccol
lections of childhood certainly one of the mos
vivid--is of one JENNY JONES, Or he styled him
self, Mr.. JAMES JONES, wko acted clerk pre-
centor in the Presbyterian church meeting hous
in the North of Ireland, the pulpit of which fill
cd by our respected father. We used to sit yer,
short distance from the clerks seat making desperat
efforts touch the floor with the points of shoes
and regarding the said JONES with the most perfec
horizon nd admire Ho lanfhorn. aJya
man, deeply pitted with the small pox, and with tn
stumps of black beard looking like coarse grains
powder shot into the crevices of his countenance
His hair was drawn down into little peak on tn
middle of his forehead, like the hand of a watch
pointing to his nose, and tortured into small horns
one over each temple. But his mouth the fea
ture par excellence. That mouth youthful
synonym for eternity. 1t had neither beginning no
, end. We can safely aver that ever saw bot
corners at time; could we ever, while look
ing him fair in the face, either corner. His hea
was peninsula, and out of that mouth issued sound
in giving out the Psalm" and in raising th
. tune,'' which made us think of scriptural thing
9 viz The Bulls of Bashan, Balaam's Ass take
h to the practice of religious duty their hool
=, and worshippng the Lord according to the usage
. of the Church of Scotland. The aforesaid JANE
! JONES of many avocations, and We
% also member of the Yeomanry Corps, corpse, a
- he used to pronounce it, and thereby hangs tai
8 which is impressed upon our memory by the reco
n lection of thrashing which formed epoch in OF
A youthful existence, and will remain with us unit
our latter end" 1t was all JoNEss fault he W;
Sergeant in the {: Yoes' and had hogs to SELL an
o. one fine day there was parade to come off in tt
market town about mile from our fathers hous
10 and perhaps mile and half from JoNEss. JON
or was an economical mamie liked to kill two birt
O. with stone-and so he thought he could after
;, the parade and also drive in his hogs to market
Is the prosecution of this laudable purpose he star
III from home about daybreak, and about 10 o'clock
ID NJ made his appearance on the road about hu
bo bred yards from our house, armed and equipp
is the law Directs, his loins being grded about wi
~ leathern belt and his shoulders covered by reg
mental coat the skirts whereof opening behind in
=. most picturesque manner afforded full view of Il
ii " stern realities of war. His hat we have forge
bo ten, but we remember that his I" combinations
+ were of corduroy He grasped his gun and q ba
al metz like an old campaigner making many and
: rocious charges upon the swine who unquestionab
on were in some way related to those into whom t
devils entered. 1t was the bull of Bashan in ne
''' aspect-it Balaam's ass in regimentals; and
also bore some resemblance to the prodigal ten
DIV ing swine. All this made up an attraction which
re- impossible for boy of six years of a
r to resist and did incontinently follow the man
- war and the swinish multitude into town, acco
Vi plishing the mile in the remarkably short space
We two hours and half. We found the Woman