Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-12

From the N. o. Delta, July %.
PE2soNAL.-Be it known to all our readers. I" and
the rest of mankind,' that Editorial corps, Or
dinarily embracing some four or five of the most
stalwart pens in the Union, is reduced to one
individual. Our most brilliant and poetic associate
is down with the yellow fever our most industrious
and laborious scssorizer is yachting the lake
shore and our wit, essayest, and lmner is lodging
Yellow Jack somewhere near Ocean Springs; and
'We alone.''
Excuse, therefore, dear readers any short comings
or deficiencies that may be manifest in columns
We are very much in the condition of Marshal NeY,
when alone. his companions having gradually fallen
off and the enemy pressing close upon him. he an
nounced himself as the guard of the grand ar
my. TO complete troubles and isolation. our
devoted devl-poor fellow he cannot afford it, did
not appear yesterday in his usual place; and, alas
to our anxious inquiries there was that
rowtul response" gone to the Hospital"
To keep up our spirits, we ordered what one of
sick associates would call paulo post natutinal
our usual Ganymede did not appear with the re-
quired refreshment. we inquired for him. He died
yesterday. of the yellow fever
These are certainly sorrowfu accompani-
ments of such laborous and wearing pursuit as
that OF an editor of paper, which makes its ap-
pearance twice day. and will, we know, be regard
ed by our readers ample for any defcien-
ces our columns may exhibit
TRurH--The following we extract from the Sci-
entfc american 1t is rule difficult of practice,
but it's adoption would greatly elevate the charac-
ter of journalism It is adopted, doubtless, but
conscientious Journalists admit exceptions; and
finding it hard to be Just to enemies as we'll as to
friends, find it harder still to be just to friends as
we'll enemies:
Truth should be their idol, their first and last
consideration always for unless truth is the leading
characteristic of the newspaper press, it cannot be
morally useful and beneficial, but pernicious and
hurtful. Yet when read the various papers be-
longing to our own, any other country, and wit
ness the various views expressed almost every
subject of general Importance, also the contradc-
tory statements in them respecting many events
IN which the papers themselves have peculiar inter-
ests-party or personal-we cannot but conclude
that truth is not yet the idol of the newspaper press
and that there is still great room for improvement
No editor is perfect, and no paper can be utterly
tree from error and mistakes but where truth is the
rule OF conduct although every essential error must
do evil the evil done will be greatly Modified by a
stern anxiety always to be right.
"Cnn't You Buy for Less!''
The following good joke is told of Charley c., a
notorious wit, and clerk in an extensive hardware
house in B.
One day c. standing in his store, which is a
double one having door cut in the wall between
the two houses, when he was accosted by very
grave parsonage, wearing long drab coat, and
whom he knew to be deacon, with the query
What's the price of nails!'
' Six cents" replied C.
"Too hgh,' said the deacon. "Can buy them
for five and half"
Cant you buy them for less ~ asked c.
No." replied the deacon "but get all
want for that"
Turning on his heel, the deacon went out and en-
tered the door of the next house. while c. slipped
through the middle door, and, having pulled off bis
coat, and picked up hammer, met the deacon, who
not recognizing him, inquired the price of nails
{" Five and half cents,' responded C..
"WheW ~ whistled the deacon Too biph-
can buy the best at five and quarter"
Can't you buy for less o. asked C.
No." said our friend, but can buy at that"
Away he went again, and walked up stairs, thro
another door-the upstairs being occupied by an
other firm and c., sliding into the lower house
again. and going up stairs again met the deacon,
who, for the third time, inquired the price of nails
Five and quarter cents" replied C.
Five and quarter % calculated the deacon
q Can buy the best at five cents"
"No less z" asked C..
"No,'' said the deacon, as he was about to leave
when c. took hold of him and said
Friend, Eve quoted nails to you at six, at FIVE
and half and FIVE and quarter cents: each time
you said you could buy them for less Now when
you preach again, just let me know, and will COR
roborate your statements"
1t is needless to say the enterprisng deacon made
his exit in double quick time, without having the
grace to reply to the accommodating clerk.
SCENE IN BEER SHop.-An enterrrsing Dutch
man who kept porter house in New York, gave the
following at the police Office. of assault
premises speaking OF the person who commenced the
row, he said:
He coined in, and asked me to sell him some beer ;
told him he had would do him goot-he
called me Dutch liar and pegin TO proke two of my
tumplers, me and Hans Speigler, and my wife and
dorter Petsy and all de odder and beeples about
my place, pegins TO put him out--and presently he
COON pact wild mord shees like him, and eay-I will
fix dis peer concern preak him up. and de shente-
mems as want 10 get trunk may go TO shumvers elsh,
and not en- this dam duch pisen. Den dey kick Hans
Speger pehind his pack and kissed my dorter Petsy
before her face, except de butcher and split my
wife and and fodder barrels of peer all de GEL
er Hans der door and called for vach house.
and my wife called tor murder like de tife but pefore
de watch house come, der tam rodes proke all 10
pieces, me and my wife and dorter Peisy and Hans,
and ter tam pottles and tumpers and blaes and dish
es, all smashed up togedder"
Rose Partington says she never cared much about
grand spectacles, other sights; but there two
things she would like 10 have seem the incubation d
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