Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-05-07


enthusiastic friend of the Commercial having actu-
ally given vent to his feelings in immortal verse,
wherein May is represented lady deficient in
corporea! ponderosity, whose
- Steps everywhere.
On the passing breeze, the balmy air;
whether she has castlesn the air. deponent saith not
but unless the recolections of early days deceive
US too much even these fabulous structures are not
wanting to the youthful mind in a bright May
MORN" Towards the afternoon, they generally fade
away-especally if it should happen to rain, which
We have known it to d. throwing cold water upon
the anticipations of youth and hope; all which we
once read in book.
But the Herald man he goeth of-he evaporateth
he riseth into the seventh Heaven of beatitude,
and we see him more for time Our aged eyes,
dimmed by the and troubles of life, cannot fol-
low him in his aerial flight; and we sit quietly down
on old chair to await his return which he makes
in good, hearty wish that all the youth and beau
ty may enjoy happy May Day through life for
those who are not young or beautiful, they may go
to grass-Nebuchanezzarise -funkicate and be in
VISIBLE ust as they - please, for all the Herald
man cares.
But it is much easier to remark upon the doings
of Others than to equal them by our own perform
ances, as asserted by the fellow who, when he saw
the congregation dissatisfied with his sermon, told
any of them that thought he could do BETTER to
up to the pull pit and try and be hanged to him. We
could not if we tried, begin to equal the poetry of
the Commercial, or the q May Day" article of the
Herald but can say that we have been generous
for, having had it in power to have anticipated
them, we have neglected to do so-we have kept in
the back ground to let the young uns have chance,
and they have awaited themselves of it. There is a
confounded steamboat whistle splitting our misera-
BILE head And, as said before, bright day dreams
castles in the airforms of ideal beauty and
of fancied felicity to be realized float hroug
the busy brain of joyous youth in the bright Spring
time. Like the gaudy blossoms, all the flower and
perfume of youth falls and fades, until in the sere
and yellow leaf of autumn and of age nothing is left
but the withered branch and the naked trunk Yet
the good tree has brought forth good fruit and the
righteous man has laid up his treasure where Meth
err decay nor blight can come. And it is good thai
the tree should wither and that man should die
that spring may more revisit the tree, and the
spirit of man again return to the bosom of the God
who gave it.
We once had dog-a magnificent son of -
Newfound and, curly-headed and black-eyed, with
no other fault than prodgious appetite, and a
habit of going into the water and shaking himsel
when he came out, always taking his stand within
foot of venerable person. He got stoler
from fine First of May. We sincercl,
hope that he has eaten his new owner out of house
and home Fond memory brings the light
etc, and memory does dwell upon that pool
brute, while it makes record of the biped com
panons of those days. We felt assured of his sin
cerity-for others could we vouch. But this il
the dark side of the picture, and the sun shine
bright and the trees are green, and Spring--wt
hope is at last come, and the frogs will be about
and the snakes crawling and the mosquitoes ar,
singing, and-the Lord only knows what else is go
ing to happen, and therefore let rejoice and b,
joyful, and kick up heels with the cheerful re
Fiction that every of US is year nearer hi
grave than he was this time last year, and then lie
US go into the enrolling contest of politics, wher
every man has his selfish ambition, and scar our con
sciences for some petty personal end and be anothe
year the grave and ten years less fit for it.
Let who will play this game we will not We have n
personal ends to serve-no friends to reward and NJ
enemies to punish, and in all our course we hop
to be actuated simply by principle not at all
Amen.--Daily Journal, LIST inst.
Congress.
WASHINGTON, April 90.
In Senate, to-day, Mr.. Shields reported back, wit
amendments, the bill for the establishment of Boar
of Commissioners on Mexican claims The Wiscon
sin Railroad bill was then passed
In the House, the Homestead Exemption Bill wa
under discussion.
y; Jose NJ. j. Carabajal.
Since the late disturbances on the Rio Grandt
: headed by Carabajal, (pronounces Cara ba- hal
: some Importance has been attached TO his name an
t a little of his history may be interesting. Whe
= quite youth, by some means to US unknown, he wa
thrown under the protection and instruction of ths
distinguished controversialis the Rev. Mr.. Alexar
der Campbell, of Virginia, and remained with hil
. some seven years. There he acquired thoroug
. English education. Arriving at manhood. he r.
turned to his native country. and settled at Victoria
IL Texas, the capital of De Icons colony He was al
pointed princ pal surveyor of the colony, and ma
, ried daughter of Don MARITIME De Leon, the en-
q presario After the battle of San Jacinto, he an
N the family into which he had married, left Texs
and went into Tamaulipas. where the De Icons r
" manned till 1915 but Carabajal connected hmse
~ with the Federal or revolutionary party early
1882 and remained seadfast to its cause, till its st;
IL sunk in ignominious treachery, by the betrayal