Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-07-02

AVAILABLE BANK NoTE = it is known that The
Bank of England has issued four notes OF the dennm
nation each OF FL 900 900. After The
yray ed the plate desioyed. The Roihschilts bod
one of these notes. the laIe Mr. Couts, the banker.
was the possessoF of another, the bank OF England
holds The the third, and Rodgers the poet the fourth,
which decorates his parlor suspended gold frame,
EE. Paper,
These four notes simply preserved curiosi:5eS.
having been cancelled. We remember reaiing some
years since this atemen about Rodgers. the poet,
who IS also banker. having one of those million
censuring him for keeping lying IDLE from motives OF
vanity or ostentaton- This brought oat the expIana
lion we have given. They were issued on account
of loan made By the Bank 10 the government during
the terrible struggle with the elder Napoleon.
The Albany Atlas has the following hit at the last
Scott letter
" How Nor TO WRITE IETTER.-Mr Bolts read
in the Wing Convention. tbe following letter from
Gen. Scott. It is curious specimen Of political let
ter writing
My DEAR S1R: have decided to write nothing
to the convention. or TO any individual member be-
fore nomination, but, should that honor fall to mr.
lot. shall, in my acceptance give MT views the
compromise measures in terms at least strong in
their favor as those read to you two days since
Please say as much TO ny friends, Coz. Jones Mr.
Bolts, Mr.. Lee, etc. In haste. yours truly
N IA4lELD NtOII-
ITO Hon W S Archer
s'Scott was pledged to lis friends not TO write
but the cacoethes Firuent, and he could not
forego IT. He wrote TO say he would no, write but
if be should write, would write thus -,
There is no parallel for this, but the reply Of
GConnell to the autograph hunter Sir. you ask
for my autograph. As | have made q solemn re-
solve never TO grant such request n you Or any
lntermeddler Of your profession. | refuse your re-
quest, Yours. &c. DANIEL OCoxSELL-
General Scott-s pen. in the language Of the
Ereni"g Jour"oL -dims the glor:es Of his sword =
Winchell the dron tells story of tall gawk7
boy Who was leading little lad along the road at
fast pace, and who suddenly fronting face upon an
old farmer who leaning against his fence chew
ing his cud Of meditation tobacco asks : Uncle
lothian kin you tell me how far It's tew Uncle Syl-
vanuss 2
Farmer Tom. are you alters goin- tew be sch
plaguy fool, Tom You've been 10 Uncle Sylvia
nuss moren thousand tirnes-been there to ba7in-
and har1estin'-went there this mornin' to borrow
meek yoke Don't you know where Uncle Syl7anus-s
is. boy =
Boy" Why, yes! know where It's myself well
enough but I'm axing for this leetle boy be wants
to know
The following anec tote of the present Grand
Duke of Baden is worth transcribing:
A few nights ago whilst suffering dreadfulv from
the complaint which has since proved fatal he said
did you ever meet with any who suffered so much
as do E.
Yes replied the doctor. :. hare lately attended
a who is afflicted with precisely the same con-
plant and he has only straw to lie upon
Only straw :" calculated the benevolent prince
ringing the bell over bis couch and telling the ser
want who entered send of the best beds Of the
palace and ali other necessaries. to the poor man
whose address would be given by DR. Strickel.
incident occurred at The mint Philadelphia few days
since, Among number OF young females employed
there. who hal been deprived of two of the
senses-hearing and speakng-by the scarlet fever
for ten years. While employed at her occupation she
suddenly exclaimed. " Oh,l believe can sneak So
panioDs swooned, and most OF them were strangely al
fected. Since then, the young lady has entirely re-
covered her speech.
PRESENT TO AN EDrToR.-The editor of the New
York Journal Of Commerce has received from Florida
four quarts of mosquitoes, in glass receiver or lar
marked" Preserved Mosquitoes from Florida They
specimens OF the mosquitoes which, according to
statement in the Journal Of Commerce. thrust their
bills through old boiler, in which an unhappy Yam
kee had taken refuge 10 avoid The enormous mos1ui-
toes OF the everglades, The story goes tina, the Van
kee, on finding how matters stood in the morning went
TO work and cnched all the bills inside the boiler when
the mosquitoes, taking the alarm, rose with the boiler
and flew of at laundering raie, the direction of the
Okeefenookee swamp. Nothing is now wanted 10 sub
stantiate the story but The boiler
FALL OF Rocks AT NIAGARA FALLs.-On Saturday
night and Sunday morning large portions of the
rock the American Ferry broke off and fell in
to the river stirring up considerable additional COM
motion in the caldron of seeming waters The fall
ing rock was detached from the under wall of Point
View Many fine specimens of gypsum and mica
have been brought to the surface by this phenome-
non. and the whole army of explorers for GEOLOGICAL
specimens may be seen engaged in the busy pur-
suit.
Sea captains who sail out of Liverpool now a days,
assert that they no more for Asiatic cholera
than for ordinary cholic or sickness of the stom
ach, They have remedy which they pronounce
nfallble. and accessible and simple as to relieve
all apprehension of fatal results We shall nroha-
bly, tell many of our readers nothing new saws the
New York Times, when we state the prescription
Common salt, one table spoonful red pepper one
tea-spoonful in half pint of hot water Never
theless. we have heard innumerable instances of
its use, and not of its failure the repetition of
the formula may do no harm. 1t is at the service
of the reader.
COUNSEL FEES IN ENGLAND A recent Enolish na-
per, announcing the death OF Hon. J. Talbot. &C
al Brighton England, says that since 1886 he was one
OF the leading and most afuent members of the income
he derived from his professional labors Welding Els
ooo per annnm The last brief he held in railway
case, was endorsed with 300 guineas
The Wheat harvest in this neighborhood and nm
lower James River, Is now progressing finely. We
regret TO hear that several fine plantations on the
North side of lower James Piver the wheat cron h.
been terribly cut up by the 4rmy-worm, in some
one nth On several large estates on the Soutb side