Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-09-09
/" His sovship,'' james LA Royal Portrait.

.Tzas sovship," James LA Royal Portrait.
BY CHARLES DICKENS.
"Our cousin Of Scotland" was ugly, awkward aid
shutting, both in mind and person. His tongue was
much too large for his mouth, his legs were much
too weak for his body and his dull gogge-eyes star
ed and rolled like an idiots. He was cunning, cove
tous, wasteful idle drunken greedy, dirty, coward
ly, great swearer, and the most cOnceted man on
earth. His igure-what is commonly called rickety
from his birth--presented the most ridiculous APP
pearance that can be imagined. dressed in thick pad
ded Clothes as safeguard against being stabbed
of which he lived in continual fear-of grass green
color from head to foot, with hunting horn dang
ling at the side instead of sword, and his hat and
feather sticking over one eye, or hanging on the
back of his head, as he happened to toss it on. He
used 10 Toll the necks of his favorite couftiers
and slobber their faces, and kiss and pinch their
cheeks; and the greatest favorte he ever had USED
to sign himself in his letters to his royal master his
maiestys dog and slave,n and used to address his
majesty as his sowship.' His majesty the
worst rider ever seen and thought himself the best
He was of the most pertinent takers Tin the
broadcast Scotch) ever heard and boosted of being
unanswerable in all manner of argument. He wrote
some of the most wearsome treatises read, and
thought himself prodigy of authorship. He thot,
and wrote, and said, that king had right to make
and unmake what laws he pleased, and ought to be
accountable to no one earth. This is the plain
true character Of the parsonage whom the greatest
men about the praised and fattered 10 that de-
gree, that doubt if there be anything more shame
| full in the annals of human nature.
He came to the English throne with great ease
The miseries of disputed succession had been felt
so long, and so dreadfully, that he proclaimed
within few hours of Elizabeth's DEATH and was
accepted by the nation without being asked to
give any pledge that he would govern well, that
he would redress crying grievances. He took a
month to from Edinburgh to London; and by
way, | suppose, of exercising his new power
hanged pick-pocket the journey without any
trial and knighted everybody he could lay hold of
He made two hundred knights before he got to his
palace in London, and seven hundred before he had
been in it three months. He also shoveled sixty
two peers into the house of lords-and there
was pretty large sprinkling of Scotchmen among
| them, you may believe
4 Childs History Of England.
DEAR WOMAN IN PARAGUAY.-The author of s'Sketch
Ies in Paraguay" gives this fragrant morseI
Everybody smokes in Paraguay nearly every female
above thirteen years of age chews. | am wrong
They do not chew, but put tobacco in their mouths
keep il there constantly, except when eating, and in
stead of chewing. roll it about with their tongues and
suck it. Only imagine yourself about to salute the
rich, red lips of magnificent little Hebe, arrayed in
satin and flashing with diamonds she puts you back
with one delicate hand, while with the fair, taper fin
gers of the other she draws forth from her mouth
brownlsh black roll of tobacco, quite two inches long
looking like monstrous grub, and depostng the sa
worry mOrsel on the rim of your sombrero, puts VI
her face, and is ready for your salute have some
times over-delcate foreigner turn with shud
der of loahng under such circumstances, and get the
epithet of Ell savaUo (the savage applied 10 him by
the offended beauty for this sensitive squeamshness
However, one soon gets used to this in Paraguay
where you per force of custom, obliged to kiss
every lady you are introduced to and one half you
meet really tempting enough to render you reckless
of consequences and you would sip the dew of the
profered lip in the face a tobacco battery even The
double distilled honey dew of Old Virginia."
VEGETAR1ANIsM- The American Vegetarian Asso
citation closed its Sessions hilade pha on Thurs
day with banquet, at which vegetables were fur
nished in almost every imaginable shape, and fruit
and pastry supplied in the greatest profusion.-
Among the pastry was mince pie, but how such
dish is made Of vegetables, not informed. lh
dinner appears to have been quite lively and agree
able affair. The address adopted by the Association
declares
THAT war, slavery and ntemperance, three mon
ster evtls, now agtating the world upon which 81
much time, talent, prayers and treasure have been
! and are being expended, will not be fully overcom
until the majority of mankind become dieteicaH
, reformed.
The ALLEGED SPANISH FRorEcroRArE.--Th
Washington Intelligencer of Monday has the fol
lowing:
"There was a very improbable story in circula
ton not long since out of which our high pressur
journals endeavored to stir NJ some excitement, c
alleged Proectorate guaranteed by Spain to Mex
leo against the UnlteQ StdteS, Tor Whlcn the TOrme
was to receive certain territorial concessions. w
have received from abroad. from in the COZ
rectness of whose information we have entire con
l fdence. that nothing is further from the mind
the Spanish Government than to NEEDLE in the al
fairs Of the Spanish American States; and tina
however great its sympathy and regard for thos
regions may be, the Spanish Government is firml
resolved to attempt no acquisition of territory j
America as it is to preserve that which it alread
holds'
RIVAL CITIEs-New Haven and Hartford, Con
f necticut, rival towns. Here is a specimen
: their rivalry copied from the New Haven Register
Hartford is always trying to outshine city
Let do what will, Hartford goes right off an
does the same thing! The other day, one of tn
lady passengers in the to this city, made
mother in the ladies' saloon, at the station house,
Well, what do the Hartford folks do but 90 and &c
\ m the very next dav q similar case in the stain