Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-11-25

the last number of which opens as follows:
Buds, flowers green fields ripe fruit. golden grain,
varied and gorgeous foliage, all have gone With
or. we know mott The natural eye no longer sees
Them the ear no longer hears their music as ut
tered in the myriad notes of animated nature-the
babbling brooks@the soft murmur of the zephyrs
through the trembngs foliage the signing winds,
and The more solemn and einspiring tones of the
sweeping and roaring thunder - and SO and
so forth.
The dear romantic little souls! Per contra
Frank. Wilson publishes in Salisbury weekly
paper, called the Republican Banner" He has
got into quarrel with an individual whom he de-
nomina,eth Gus'avus Adolphus Foolerius Miller,
Editor of the Rowan Wing. Instead of the buds
and flowers and green fields which delectate the
young ladies' imagination. and lend charm to their
compositions, his leader commenceth in manner and
form follows:
The blind and toothless puppy of the Rowan
Wing took what he very appropriately des gnates
" Another Yelp" at US last week 1t is the same old
slang, the old batch of lies and few new ones
To save his printers trouble We advise him to get
| stereotype plate"
What sweet souls the young ladies of Miss Kill
bourn's Academy as we'll as young ladies in gener
al must be; and what horrid fellows Wilson and the
rest Of the politcianers Nevertheless, they do
sag. that Wilson is good fellow. and of Miss
Kbourn's doves may yet be fruitful in curtain lee
lures
Foreign News.
The Steamship Arabia arrived at New York on
the 18th inst, with Liverpool dates to the 5th-
The advices from the hostile forces the Banks of
the Danube very contradictory. One thing only
appears to be certain and that is that Turkish troops
have crossed the Danube into lower Walachia, and
that collisions have actually occurred between
them and some bodies Of Russian troops resulting
in one case-at Kalafat-favor to the Turks,
and in another-at rgeyoes-favorably for the
Russians. The numbers engaged and other circum-
stances differently given in different accounts,
and are probably exaggerated in ALL
The Russians had declared the princpalites in a
state of seige. Any person holding intercourse with
! the Turks would be shot. Fighting in Asia was
also reported to have taken place in the provinces
bordering on the Black Sea- The Turkish feet left
the Bosphorus the 25th ult., for the Black Sea-
The combined English and French fleets lie at Lap
sa, in the Dardanelles.
II is said that the Four Powers have ready the
draft Of another note for the settlement of this dis
pute, and that strong hopes are entertained of d
settlement being effected even yet. 1t is hard t,
know what value to attach to this, since the same
announcement has been repeated from the beginning
and has uniformly ended in smoke 1t does no.
seem natural that the other powers, with so much
to loose and little to gain by war, would negec
, any means by which it might be prevented; bu
with Russi :. absolute force alone will produce any
f effect and Turkey is at length driven to that poin
, beyond which she will not carry her concessions
even to please her friends.
Old Prince Paskiewitch. the conqueror Of POLAND
and of Hungary has set out to take command of thu
, Russian troops in the Princpalites If So Their
will be hard fighting unless the efforts of the allie
to patch up peace should meet with speedy sue
cess.
, The clipper ship Challenge had put into Fayal
leaky. This is the vessel whose captain was latel'
, so i'll while at the Chincha Islands.
ITALY-Aluch alarm was felt at Naples of an an
ticpated French invasion now that diplomatic rela
! tions between the two countries were suspended.
A naturalized American named Paper had beer
kept in custody at Ancona by the Austrian auth"ri
ties on no charge, except that of ertanng liberia
6 sentiments. The American consul had interposed
and, after numerous delays. Paper finally lib
Grated. He was, however. still kept under surveil
lance because he refused to sign declaration tina
he would never agdin visit Italy This seems 10 b
case demanding the prompt action ofthe u States
: DRowNED-The Salisbury IN. c. Waterman @
the 18th says, that. the 10th instant, ma
: named Corbn Edwards, Of Wake county, wa
drowned while attempting to the Yadkin River
at the old Trading Ford. He was in buggy an
supposed to have been intoxicated. The river wa
n up too high for fordng.