Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-03-07
From the n. O.. True Delta.
Letter from Cap'n Bender.


Letter from Cap'n Bender.
HEwLETTs HOTEL, Feb IL, 1851.
To Mister Jeemes Pipes of Pipesville Californy:
Deer Jecms-Jenny Lind has RACED regular Juror,
as the French say in the City, and has nifty nigh
drained the country folks from there homes and of
there mummy. The Sante Charles theater WHARF she
sings crowded to deth every consert with the yuh
and buty of the cotton and sugar razers who pays
the hiest prices and has the best seets and does the
most talkin of emmy body in the hous. It's CRATE
pity that y7hen wmmen go to consert to here mu-
sick as is musck that they coodent be persuaded to
eve there fans and lungs at home for its the most
agravatin thing in the wurld to have folks talkin
round you when you're istnn to a hansum peece
of sngin But wimmn is wimmin all over the wurld
and thav will talk if thay shood die fur it, and you
mite as well try to ketch blak snake by sprinkln
salt on his tale to get of EN- to keep still when
she wanted to say sumthin.
line speekin feelinly on this talkin biznese, fur
was creme enuff to take ticket last mite in the urs
serce of boxes war all the elites and dly tantys
set and it wos rite in crowd of hansum gurls who
was drest merely to deth and KEEP sayn 20 my how
fne-aint that swete-what good lookin fellow that
chap as plays the foot is-how nice Mister Burk is
drest-and SIGH like nonsense till got mad enuf to
get up and choke them.
But Jeems-the gurls lord bless there purity soles
and boddys, don't to the consert to here the mu
sick, thay only Gums to show there hansum frocks
and dimons and fine sholders and all that sort of
thing and to look at the folks throo them double
!
them We as lives in town in the winters tell
the city gurls in theater from them from
the cuntry, fur the generally there frocks
cut off short top givin the wurld chance to see
the vallys of the white mountains while the uthers is
drest up to the throte eff they arade of takn
cold.
Now I haint no objection in the worl Id for rite
good lookn pidgeon breasted girl warm frok made
purity short top but it Amt quite the thing when
they has EN- so short as to be sppih down off the
| l. To Ao~o
Crossman to pass law agn it, for they say hese the
father of the city, and do just as hese mind to
with the wimmin. But Jeems | wisht you was here
to here Jenny Lind sing sum of our old fashioned
songs. Her Home Swete Home wood resurrect all
the better feelns of yure boyhoods days. and carry
you back, not to old Virgnny: but to the time when
you made of a happy family with father and
muher and sisters to luv and for you, and maby
a purity cusin to kiss sum times. 1t woodent make
no matter how NANNY piles OF cares and bother OF
bzness you had got stuck top of yure natra good
feelins, nor how much the ups and downs and ruffs
and tumbes of the world had wore off the wire eye
of them, her sngin would rake EN- all away, and
make you feel better and hapyer man fur havin
herd her sing. wood if Good tell you about her
singing the Last Rose of Summer and her Bird Song,
in which she MARBLES and sings easy as lark, and
almost makes you think you out in the woods in
spring tme lstenn to the musick OF the birds, who
always seem so glad when its gettin to be warm
weather. but the musick eddyturs Of the city papers
comes it so strong in there crttysisms that it wood
be foolish in me to attempt it.
l don't kno nuthin bout the French nor Italian
skools. but do kno that Jenny sing better than
any body ever heard, and whats more, she is won
of the people, and has such good natured easy way
about her. that she seems to take hold of yure hart
strings and do what shese mind to with it. John
its time to shut up the bar lie taste won of
his mite caps and wont say no more till next time
Yure friend CAPN BENDER.
AN ILLINOIS MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE.--A CORES
pondent of the Spirit of the Times, writing from
' Copperas Precnt' Illinois, gives the following as
among the rich ones" which his researches among
the legal records have brought to light. We give
his own language:
State of Tllenos Peoria county
To all the world Greeting Know ye that John
Smith and Peggy Myers is hereby certified to 60 to-
gether and do old folks does, any where inside of
coperas precint, and when my commission comes
am to marry good, and date EN- back to kiver ac-
| cidents. O. M R,
[ss] Justice Peace.
DREADFUL-A young man at Niagara, it is stated,
having been crossed in love, walked out to the preci
pice took off his clothes, gave lingering look at
the gulf beneath him, and then went home. His
body was found next morning in bed. 1t was quite