Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-05-14
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Military Affairs. 8Fs
Last Fall at great but unconscious risk to our PER-
sonal liberty and the free use of our trotters we
ventured to describe an imposing procession which
passed our Office in solemn order. That same pro-
cesson, somewhat curtailed by the addition of a
stump tailed dog. and the absence of the little mig
ger with the inverted shrt-rufes, again defled be-
fore us this morning retaining much of its pristine
splendor yet marked by shade of melancholy re-
greet for those who had gone from its ranks As at
present constituted, the procession walks thus
FIRST DIVISION.
CHIEF MARsHAL-Stump-T Tailed Dog.
Two Big Niggers, with red coats and white pants,
playing on Fife and Kettle Drum-Fifer
IL cross-eyed as usual.
s Their Heels.
Four Little White Boys Gnterpolated.)
Great Big Niger with Great Big Drum, looking
black and beating northwest end of Drum.
His Heels.
SECOND DIVISION.
We regret to say that the procession has just turn
ed the corner, and we are therefore, unable give
any farther description of it. We have indistinct
idea that its brought up by boy with a
brickbat, who as he was in the act of performing
flung the aforesaid brick but VIZ ether he struck Bill
ly Patterson not the houses prevented from
ing. 1t would seem also that the stump-tailed dog
must have gone into business upon his account,
from the hog-squealing which comes by distance
mellowed"-perhaps indicating the fall of pork. At
any rate the whole affair has gone like the baseless
fabric of vision and left but the memory of music
kettle drums and cross-eyed ffers. To-day, we
learn, there is muster and we presume the colored
gentlemen have been sent forth to beat up the mali
tias men.-DaHy Journal, Sh inst
0o-The Steamship Europa arrived at New York
on the 9th inst, with days later from Liverpool
Gus Fergus OConner.
The subject of abolishng the stamp duty on news,
papers and the tax advertisements had been in,
troduced into the British House of Commons but laid
over without action. Flax planting is going on ex
tensively in the north of Ireland.
A statement appears in the London Times to the
effect that Prince Schwarzenberg had addressed
circular to the European Courts stating his belle
that Louis Napoleon was about to erect an imperia
thrcne, adding that Austria felt alarm and advo
eating the claims of Napoleon to the friendship anG
alliance of their respective governments Russia
and Prussia answered that they distrusted Napole
on's foreign policy, but would recognize him EN-
peror if elected to that Office, merely elected
monarch, and not as the founder of Napoleonic
Dynasty.
La Patrie announces officially at Paris that thu
President has intention of proclaimng the repub
lie 1t is stated that camp of exercise, to be com
posed of 10000 men, under command of Napoleon
was about to be formed.
The prosecutions against the mother and sisters o
Kossuth have been stopped, and they will be allow
ed to come to America.
The ship Brilliant arrived in the Downs, from US
trala, with gold valued at 9217, 600 She also re
ports that the ship Statesman TO sail in Februa
ry, with $4,000 ounces. Twenty-one vessels, witt
emigrants from adjacent colonies were entering tn
harbor of Port Phillip when the Brilliant sailed.
The cholera has again broken out in different part
of Persiy, and is committing frightful ravages.