Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-06-24
1lt.le auakeress In a Hurry to gee aIarrled.

ssN6 adeertiseent rejecting private eharactef
can. under CIRCUMSTANCES, be adniitted.
A Little Quakeress In a Hurry to get Married.
An amusing matrimonial story is told of the olden
time of New England. 1t SO fell out that two
young people became very much smltten WITH eacn
other, young people sometimes do. 1he young
woman's father was q wealthy QGaker- the yonng
man was poor but respectable. The father could
stand no such union, and resnutely opposed IT and
the daughter dare not disobey-that IS to say, sne
dare not disobey openly. She 81 met him by moon
light" while she pretended never to see blm-and
she pned and wasted In spite Of herself She WAS
really in love-a state of sighs and tears which VIC
man oftener reach in Imagination than in reality
Still the father remained inexorable. Time passed
on, and the Marys daEnask cheek pa ssed on.
She let no concealment like " &orrt Id the bud,h
prey on that damask cheek however; but when her
father asked her why she pined, she always told him
The old gentleman was widower, and loved MS
girl dearly Had it been widow mother who had
Mary in charge, a woman's pride never would have
given way before the opportunities of daughter.
Men not, however, stubborn in such matters
and when the father saw that the daughters heart
really set upon the match, he surprised her one
day by breaking out" Mary, rather than NOPE to
death, thee had better marry thee chooses and
when thee pease-
And what did Mary? Wait till the birds of the
air had told her swain Of the change, or wait till
her father had TIME to alter his mind again Not
bit of it. She clapped her neat. plain bonnet on
her head walked directly into the street, and then
directly to the house of her intended the street
would carry her. She walked into the house with
out knocking-for knocking was not then fashiona-
ble-and she found the family just sitting down to
dinner. Some little Commo0n was exhibited at so
unexpected apparition the heress in the Wild
ows cottag ge but she Needed it not John 10 ked up
inquirngly. She walked to him. and took his
hands in hand 'John," said she, father says
may have thee" And John got directly up from
the dinner table, and went to the pars6ns In just
twenty-five minutes they were man and Wife
The London Daily News, of May Is, handsomely
acknowledges the triumph of America on the seas,
and institutes u comparison between British and
American shipmasters, much to the disadvantage of
the former. 1t says:
There is no doubt that al branches of the
American navy have the benefit of education fsr
superior to that which can be obtained by the
responding class in Great Britain In reference to
this it may be remarked that papers have been sup
piled by the American government to the masters of
great numbers of merchant vessels, containing q
system of directions with respect to observations to
be made during their respective voyages. Aided by
these, and the logs of the vessels Lieutenant Maury
has been enabled to obtain such knowledge of the
currents of the ocean and the trade winds to
duce the length of certain voyages by almost one
third. discovery of this nature has the effect of
giving the American something very like monopo-
ly of particular trade for certain time. 1t is
not too much to assert that the logs of the greater
number of English merchant vessels would have
been utterly USELESS in investigations of this nature
is no doubt lamentably defective"
In continuation, the News says: "We are me-
naced in our manufactures, in our trade and in
maritime supremacy. AS means of rising superb
or to these dangers none can be efficient than
sound practical education to the mercantile and
maritime classes Of our community"
The Duke Wellington aud our Second War WITH
Great Britain.
During the first occupation of Paris by the allies
In 1914, Lord ellington wrote many important let
tnrC fn fhou &c
addressed to Lord Liverpool refers to the proposal
then made to send him to America
81 have already told you and Lord Bathurst that
teel no objection to going to America. though I
don't promise 10 myself much success there | be-
ieve there troops enough there for the defence
OF Canada forever, and even for the accomplishment
of any reasonable offensive plan that could be form
ed from the Canadian frontier. am quite sure that
all the American armies of which have ever read
would not beat out of field Of battle the troops that
went from Bordeaux last summer, if common pres
cautions and care were taken of them.
That which appears to me to be wanting in A
merlca not general general officers and troops
but naval superiority the lakes till that supe-
rlority acquired it is impossible according to nv
nouon, to maintain an army in such situation as
to keep an enemy out of the whole frontier, much
less to make any conquest from the enemy which.
with those superior MEANS might, with reasonable
hopes of success, be undertaken. may be wrong
In this opinion, but think the whole history of the
war proves its truth and | suspect that you will
lind that PreYost will Justify his msfortunes, (Which
by-the-by, am quite certain not hat the Amer
caus have represented them to be-. by stating that
that the navy defeated and even if be had ta-
ken Fort Moreau he must have retired.
"Ihe question is whether We can obtain this ma
val superiority on the lakes If we cannot shall
do you but little good in America, and | shall 90
there only to prove the truth of Prevost's defence,
and to sign peace which might as we'll be signed
now There will, always, however, remain this ad-
vantage, the confidence which have acquired will
reconcile both the army and people of England to
terms of which they would not now approve
" In regard to your present negotiations, confess
that think you have right from the state of the
war; to demand any concession of territory from A.
merlca Considering everything, it is my opinion
that the war has been most successful one and
highly honorable to the British arms but from par
tlcular circumstances such the want of naval SUI
perlority Oh the lakes, you have not been able to
carry 1t ntotthe enemys territory Notwithstanding
your military success and now unbounded military
superlority and have cleared your own ter.
rltory of the enemy on the point of attack You
cannot any principle of equality in negotiation
claim cession of territory, excepting in exchange
for other advantages which you have in your pow.
err"
GIRLs.-Holmes in one of his poems, says, in q
parathetcal way,
-"My grandpa
~ Loved girls when he young. -
NO doubt of it; for Holmes is a sensible man. and
must have had sensible grandfather. All sensible
men love girls when they are young. and when thew
are old too. eve apply the :: old $ to the men, not
to the girls-mnd you.) Girlhood is an institution
"a peculiar instituton"-which as lovers of the
union p" feel bound to cherish and as to girls.
large and small we hold that NO f,,;J.s