Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-01-02
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
NTLIIN,groN, N. C., FRIDAY, JAW. 2. 1852.
1852.

We like to get used to things, and we must here
after adopt the above the date of all sorts of doc
uments we have tried by way of experiment, how ii
would look at the head of an article; as for what
the article may turn out to be. that is minor consi
deration of which we have not yet thought. 1t may
turn out song or sermon according to circum-
stances
We commence the year in a state of isolation from
all the world and have no mail communication with
the rest of mankind The connection has again fail
ed north of Richmond and there is but one boat fon'
the south, for the last two days We have, however,
got the proceedings of Congress for Monday. and
they of course amount to nothing. Every thing is
stagnant as a mill pond and nobody has done any
thing eccentric. with the exception of coored gen
tlemqn in Fayetteville, who suspended himself so
long by the neck that he got dead.
Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-two will be quite a
wear All of us who may be unfortunate as to live
through it will he year older. and President will
he elected. For that Office there very many
prominent candidates. Friends its use, are
not eligible. and must decline; thank you all the
same though We will be able to make pretty
good guess as TO who will DC the next President, af
ter the Baltimore Convention shall have been held.
year-to hire niggers and to pay debts the latter a
very painful operation with those who have not got
the money. We know it from experience
But we have turned new leaf-of paper and
feel that perhaps it ought to suggest to the turn
ing of new leaf in the book of life. 1t does So in
our case and it may be that not singular, for
few can pass by these mile-posts the journey of
time without an anxious wish to pry into the mystic
ries of tho future and selfaccusing retrospect
the errors of the past, For all that the world will
wag about as it used to do, and upon the whole
there will not be toss of copper of difference be-
tween the old year and the new. SO let it be. Our
destiny is fixed, and we must fulfil it.
Our readers friends, patrons, and the public in
general, have our best wishes for happy new
year. and if these wishes awaited ought they would
he happy their hearts could desire. But we
have lived long enough to understand what mere
wishes amount to, which is just nothing at all. 1t
is a work-a-day world, where every man is a sort of
Jshmaelite, and he who not up the stream will
be to drift down it, wishes to the contrary not
withStanding. After a while we learn to set down
our misfortunes: generally speaking among the list
of our faults, at best of our Weaknesses and the
world so looks at them; for few care to ally them
selves with the unfortunate while the majority re-
gard them as positively criminal A stout heart
and stiff upper lip among the necessities of sue
cess for mankind worships prosperity, real appa-
rent
The Kossuth mania will have eliminated and pass
ed away; revolutions in Europe may perhaps have
come and gone, all sweeping the surface of So
ciety without interfering with the scenes of humble
happiness, or touching misery which lie concealed
beneath IL and this day, in the coming year. may
perhaps find the editor addressing nearly the same
circle of readers may be that all will be changed
We neither know, nor could prevent it if We did
We are but the clay in the hands of the potter
Hupmlss'on Is our duty, resistance to destin,
would be folly.