Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-05-21

Postmaster General. and Chief of the Contract Of
fce has resigned his post to take effect ON the 18th
inst. Although rendered somewhat unpopular as
the agent of an indscrimnate prescription in his
department, Col. Warren was universally regarded
as the most efficient officer connected with the Post
Office.
KNOCKED INTO A Cooked HAT.-The Wing party
is essentially knocked into cooked hat since its
only hope is in the cooked hat and feathers of mil
itary chieftain.
Ra~Tt is now settled point that the japanese are
the rest of mankind to which President Taylor
SO feelingly alluded in his celebrated message
Lola Mon,ez wrote from Albany her friend Pick
in New York :-''l will never stop at "a Temperance
Houes' again. 1t contains nothing but bed-bugs and
Bibles"
pl%The annexed miserable and slanderous arti-
Gle came through the Post Office nearly u month
since. We have, in the meantime, forborne pub
fishing it. in the hope of detecting the unfortunate
perpetrator; but most sanguine expectations
have been doomed to disappointment, and, We regret
to say this dangerous character is still at large We
give it to the world. in order to put mankind in
general and the Editor of the Herald in particular
upon their guard against the author. In case of
detection let him be dealt with according to his
merits Let jury of inquest consisting Of six fat
old. bachelors. assisted by six thin old maids SIT
dorn upon his body corporate. and if he survives
that inhiction then let him be married to scolding
wife, and he'll IRISH he hadn't
I,es. For the Journal.
A Miserable Article by a Miserable Man.
Three and ten years, my dear Journal, con-
stitute good old age and form the cycle of mans
physical and moral nature-of the heplessness of
infaney--the development of youth-the maturity
of manhood, and decline of old age three score and
ten years are oftener attained by married men than
single, for you must be aware my dear Journal, that
Bachelors are not long lived people. This asser-
ton make with all due regret, with the candid
confession. however that in its composition there is
certain degree of selfshness.
But. sir it is true that Bachelors can't stay in the
house by themselves the contrary, they are con-
tnualy running about. both day and night, in all
sorts of weather. catching colds and hacking coughs
and what not; they Grape like tarrapin under
the notwithstanding cold O. nights, and in the
morning when they get up, they. ten to one, put
the same old buds they pulled off the night before.
You agree with me that these are unwhoesome prac-
tees.
Besides who has not observed, time and again.
the peculiar exposure which attends Bachelor
heel Who has not remarked the coquettish init
macy existing between his funny bone' at the ell
bow joint and the outer air and not reflected that
while the occasionally liable to be pierced
by needle, a ten penny nail: the venomous fang
of the serpent, the other lay unsuspecingy open to
! the insioious attacks of rheumatism!
D. u
after but themselves none to amuse but themselves.
to feed dress, comfort. love, and live for but
their own precious selves; and as Dame Nature is
withal careful economist of her great capital
life and generally proportions the duration of exis-
tence according to its actual and natural value so
it follows that find but few PARIS, Jenkins, or
Lawrences in that rank whose sole motto is ego
ipse
! Men live single from various motives-trom mean
ness-from necessity, and from insufficient energy
to go through the counting. | speak of men COM
monty, by means referring to those enthusiastic
beings who lead strictly religious lives; and who
like the ABILITIES of old have conscientious scrupes
on the subject of marrying. Their ways not the
worlds ways; their lives spiritual accordingly
and aim at objects above the desires of sense. Tt
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Alas for the poor Bachelor and his life of blessed
singleness. blessed indeed What is singleness hui
sefshness and what is sefshness but rebellion a
gainst our double nature denial of the socia
compact again, alas where is the discord by hin
attuned to sweetest harmony! Where the confu
sion by him reduced to order the shape of distor
ton moulded to q form of beauty! Where the ex
istence that he has made cheerful? or the futhr
that he has filled with hope? Where is the powe
of Love harmonious Love, that orders, beauties
and exalts the destiny of Man ? not in the man VIII
lives for self AS Rasselas, the Prince of Abyssna
IN vain pursuit after happiness, left behind hin
that pleasant valley whose groves covered Will
the verdure of perpetual SPRING and hourly enliven
ed with the melodious notes of BIRDS and murmu
of waterfalls so does incipent manhood, ambition
of distinction in the worlds great drama of Life. for
sake without regret the cheerful precincts of tina
; earlier youth to which he can never return
r Well for him. if, while yet upon the threshold 0
life, with the whole world before him "where t.
choose his place of rest. he single out some hear
that beats for him, and make his home among tina
best of all companionshp-tb human affections.
Poetical geniuses either marry carly. not at all
I The philanthropic Bachelor transfers the love h
felt for one to the great mass of man and woman
kind. in which that sweet sisterhood, by tn
common tie of humanity, mingled but not lost, en-
courages and blesses every endeavor he may max
to promote in some part that carse Of universe
good which is the good mans chiefest pleasure.