Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-05-21
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All eyes IN Europe are straIning after the first I
premonitory symptoms Of {: dawn-the dawn of en-
pre- IN France Each day adds to the accumulated
evidence There Is, no doubt, a vast existing con-
spiracy, in which all the Bonapartes are involved E
urged onward to q hasty consummation The re- 1
public OF to-day is the anti-type of the monar- {
chy OF tomorrow. The French people move
about among shadows. Simulacra OF royalty are
all around Them They are in transition state
Between any two given days. the change may be /
wrought. Any day of parade or review. any feast
or fast day upon the calendar of Saint Napoleon,
may be celebrated by the mperializing of the gov
eminent The materials are all ready the specta-
tors look on anxiousy; there needs but the fat of
the magicians to effect the transformation. In
France as in England, and throughout Europe, no
one seriously anticipates any other result While it
is quite easy to what the Prince President has to
gam by throwing off the disguise of republicansm
1t is impossible to find any reason why he should
not do so.
Let all things their own names The French /
government is not republic, but an unmitigated
despotism. Notwithstanding the session of the two
chambers and the ASSURANCES conveyed to them at
its opening that the dictatorship was then and there
ended decree after decree. promulgated the soil
tary authority OF the President, appears daily In the
Monueur, introducing sometimes the most moment
changes in the civil religious and educational
interests of the people. There is no attempt what
ever to keep up appearances The corps, senatorial
and legislative, were stillborn. They were among
the most imposing of the spectres coniured up to
amuse the world, while the great preparations for
! the coming event were moving on but being now
no longer needed they may be stored away, and pre-
served, if possible, to figure as the Roman Senate
! figured during the long years Of the decline.
Let US have the empire, them fast as it can be
hurried up. All its worst features exist already
add the good ones. The Partisan press is of this
opinion. They talk as pleasantly of 'pacifc en-
pre- to come, Elder Brigham Young discusses
the millennium, drawing upon it. however, at some
what shorter time They ''have reason" France,
as peaceful monarchy, may attain the acme of ma
tonal splendor. The ambition of the President lift
fulfil its present promise will lean consistently to
peace and the means to make peace mightier than
war. His plans all tend to develope the national
grandeur. A thousand schemes for improvement
are afoot Unlike the Roman conqueror, he propo-
ses to rebuild the oil capital rather than erect new
one. All manner of magnifcences promised for
Paris. The various schemes agitated, once real
led Paris will be the Babylon of these latter times,
and pious folks who to Plus TX. have applied apoca
lyptc names, derived from Assyrian antiquity will
have to mend their phraseology forthwith. Perhaps
Louis Napoleon may pass muster for scarlet
man of Babylon.'-Neac York Times
Horace GREELEY WHEN BoY-The Boston Mail
thus refers to Horace Greeley, when apprentice
in country printing Office in Vermont:
''On a visit connected with political matters, to
the Hon. Rollin c. Mallory, then of the most
distinguished members of Congress-, and the most
able champion of the 'Amercan System" we
went with him into obscure printing Office at
: Poultney, Vermont his place of residence. Among
other things, he called our attention to young
positor, who rather awkwardy sticking types
and who. though then full grown, evidently an
apprentice in the office His legs run good deal
more than q feet" through bis pantaloons; the
sleeves of his scarcely reached below his elbows
t his hair very 1rhte and fayen, and he was,
the whole in the aggregate taken separately and to-
gether, the greenest specimen of humanity we ever
looked at and this is saying good DEAL for we
2 keeps looking glass
BUSINESS PICTURE GREAT CoUNTRY"-A
new penny paper, the Sun, ust started in Cncin-
natl, gives the following picture of the business of
that city:
Here on the landing lying side by side are
steamboats, which have come from Pennsylvania,
Virginia Kentucky Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana,
! Tennessee, Iowa, Arkansas Mississippi and Louis
lana! Old States and new States, slave States and
free States, Northern States and Southern States.
are all here yng quietly together in the friendly
embraces of commerce. But, look again from what
Il countries came these cargoes of merchandise and
= produce Is it not and the country
: Here the products of the Aeghanies, the grain
Is of Ohio the salt of Virginia, the tobacco of Ken
e lucky the lead of Missouri the iron of Tennessee
: the cotton of Mississippi and Arkansas, the sugar
and molasses of Louisiana, and the rice of the Caro-
e linas! And what are there returned for them z!
is Bacon for the negroes sugar mills for the planter
3" bread for the manufacturers, oil and lard for al
. countries. Can the most active imagination con
ceve of elements of consolidation in nationa
Is interests and of fervent patriotism in people 2"
4 Colors II Ladies' Dresses.
n, Incongruty may be frequently observed in the a
l. dopon of colors without reference to the accordance
n, with the complexion or stature of the w
H. continually see light blue bonnet and flowers SUI
n rounding sallow countenance, pink opposed +
v one of glowing red pale complexion associate
n with canary or lemon yellow, or one of delicate re
and white rendered almost coorless by the vicinity
z. deep red Now, if the lady with the saow complex
n, had a transparent white bonnet if the lad
e, with the glowing red complexion had lowered it b
n, means of bonnet of deeper red color if the pal
n, lady had improved the cadaverous hue of Der coun
e, tenance by surrounding it with delicate pink hue
". or had the face
P Whose red and white
70 Natures own sweet and cunning hand laid on,
e been arrayed IN a light b ne, light green, or in
transparent white bonnet, with blue pink flowers O
:. the nsde-how different and how much more agreea
10 bic would have been the impression the spectator
N How frequently, again. do we the dimensions of
~ tall and embonpoint figure magnifed almost Brobdie
~ nagan proportions by white dress. or small woma
~ reduced to Lilli putan size by black dress! Now,
- the optical effect of white is to enlarge objects, an
r. that of black to diminish them, if the large woma
~ had been dressed in black, and the small one in whit
" the apparent size of each would have approached til
$50 ord nary stature, and the former would not have al
r. peared gianess, or the latter dwarf.-MrS Merr
w. field in Art Journal.
,y POPULATION MoNTREAL.-The Census of MOI
treal has just been published; the total number
of inhabitants is 577l5 divided into the followin
IRA classes; Canadians of French origin, 26 ,020; Ca
adams of the other origin. 1894; Irish, IL 73e
,at Scotch $3.50: English, 1858 Natives of the I'm
m ted States 913 French 1873 natives of other cou
on tries 4O5 Of the whole population, Al, 463 a