Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-08-01
From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
The progress of our Race.

In the enjoyment of almost physical comfort
Americans tits almost impossible realize the day
sh ancestors Yet do not have back far in order
find period when baths almost unknown when forks
of the rich only curious book this subject has lately
appeared London entitled The Domestic Architecture
of England from the Conquest to the End of the Thirteenth
Century, from which we learn how little civilized
fathers notwithstanding their proximity the CONT
nent.
1t appears from this work that it till sixteenth
century that chmneys into ordinary that
as in Indian wigwam allowed escape through the roof
Only the of the nobility gentry chimneys
The common people, meantime lived huts of wattles and
mud not at all superior in construction to the cabins of the
beaver Few the better dwellings were built
not until the thirteenth century that the present
brick was brought into for houses & all this
too at time when magnificent palaces of marble be-
ing erected in Italy, at but few days journey from Great
In the indoor conveniences of life our foreotbers were
equally deficient 1t not until the thirteenth century
that conduit of first established London: be-
fore that period the precious fluid hawked about by
riers milk is in time. Earthenware plates first
made their appearance in the century, they did
totally unknown: Edward the First when he died had
The other dinnerervc equally meagre Except the
huge placed conspcuousy the board there
was little to be few wooden trenches in the
the poor, and scany display of gded silver dishes in
the mansions of the h constituted the entire of
the table Spoons would plenty, though they
of wood universally unless among the wealthy The
meat was served by being brought in Spit when each
bare of furniture There generally huge bench
in the hall of the dwellings the gentry but the common
Ruhes supplied the place Of even in the
sons of the great late the reign of Elizabeth while
quently undraned that Baths of being an ord
nary convenience luxury confined to the few, and
were unknown even to English monarchs till the reign of
Edward the First.
1t is instructive like these for they exh
bit in forcibe manner the Improvements in material civil
zaon Our ancestors five centuries ago. were in all the
ordinary comforts of m but little advanced beyond
life and their fields and houses undrane
they fell victims to petence, history records by millions
lives comfortably than did the proude in the
days of which speak. With improvement goes
moral progress that better well healthier
people Let still cultivate the physical meioration
satisfied that in it lies the advance humanity
let visionary theorists say what they will
MAN OF BUs1NEss-At the Green County IN. W Ag-
ricutural Fair, address made by Col Zadok Pratt
from which take the following passage:
"And now will show you the advantage those dreary
hemlocks have been to the farmers of
Since engaged farming it has been my lot to en-
poy fifteen thousand years of other mems obor
of thirty thousand have employed and have paid
those men for their labor alone over two million five hundred
thousand dollars have cleared thousand
land used two hundred thousand cords hemock bark
and paid half million of dollars for it
FIVE hundred horses thousand yoke of oxen
hundred thousand bushels of OATS hundred and
twenty thousand hay thirty
and pork and nearly hundred thousand barrels of four
and potatoes without number have tanned
million two hundred and fifty sides of leather My usual
bursement five thousand dollars per day. and have
used in business here ten millions Every laborer
received his moneyyea, every his penny-in peace
and to the credit of this community be it said that
had side of leather ston and chosen defendant
in law account of business transactions during my
residence among you The great object my living
useful Live with your neighbor and not on him Allow
gentlemen and ladies' to conclude by congratuating
you upon the rich blessings of health power prosperity
which surround and may succeeding generations do
have done towards national wealth and indus
try, which the safeguards of independence
| Coon IN EvERYTH1NG-A writer in a London pa
MOI of nj of wi ho lie thn
American standard, having snake with thirteen
rattes and the fourteenth budding thus expatiates
upon the amable qualities of the rattlesnake. Such
a benevolent philosopher would find ''good in every