Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-09-15

subject OF direct steam navigation between tnat pOrI
and San Francisco
Miss Kate Hayes, after giving concert at Honou
lu, had left for Australia.
IMPORTANT FROM CH1NA.-By the arrival of the
English clipper North Fleet at San Francisco, we
have later advices from Canton. The captain OF the
n F. reports that Canton had surrended TO the in
surgents
TAnother despasch states that Canton had moi SUR
rendered, but surrounded by the rebel army.I u
ANNEXATION OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS, Among
the passengers by the Star of the West are Governor
Davis, of Oregon, and family, and Lieutenant Beck
with, of the surveying party
1t is rumored that the annexation OF the sandwich
islands to the United States had been finally agreed
upon ard that the consent for the cession of the
eregnty of the islands to the United States is now
on lis way to Washington.
Vermont Election.
New YORK, Sent. 5.-Vermont held her State cleo
ton yesterday and elected the entire Antl-Nehraska
ticket Judge Boyce, Maine Law Free Soil Wing,
was elected Governor by $4,000 majority IN the
place of John S. Robinson, Democrat The Legisa-
Wings Wing Free.Soil U. S. Senator will, there
fore, probably be elected to fill the existing vacancy
How an Indian Can Die.
A touching instance of this characteristic trait
occurred at the late engagement between small war
party of the Chppewas and greatly superior party
of Sioux, near Cedar Islands Lake. The Chlppewas,
who were en- route tor a scalping foray upon the
Sioux villages the Minnesota, here fell into an
ambu scade and the first notice of danger that salu
ted their discharge of fire arms from
thicket. Four of their number fell dead in their
tracks Another, named the War Cloud, a leading
brave had a leg broken by a bullet. His comrades
10th 10 leave him, and while his assailants were
re-loadlng their guns, attempted 10 carry hlm along
with them to where they could get the shelter OF
thlcket, short distance in the rear. But he com
manded them TO leave him, telling them that he
would show his enemies how Chippewa could die
At his request they seated him log, with his
back leaning against tree. He then commenced
painting his face and singing his death song As his
enemies approached him he on y sang louder and
liveer strain and when several had gathered around
him, fourshng their scalping knives, and screech-
ing forth their demoniacal yells of eXutation not
look or gesture manifested that he even aware
of their presence. At length they seized him and
tore the scalp from his head. Still seated with his
back against large tree, they commenced shooting
their into the trunk around his head, grazing
his ears neck, &C., until they literally pinned him
fast without having once touched vital part Jet
our hero remained the same imperturbabe stole,
tinung to chant his defiant strain, and although
of the number ourshed his reeking scalp before his
eyes, still not slnge expression OF his cOuntenance
could be observed to change. AT last one of the
number approached him with tomahawk, which
after few unheeded iourshes he buried in the cap
tive's skull who sank in death with the song still
upon his lips. He had indeed succeeded well in
teaching his enemies how Chippewa could die"
A few days afterwards they were taught how Chip
peWa could be avenged
St. Paul (Man.) Democrat
i EvadIng the Census.
The ladies have been compelling the Registrar
General to present the public with sta
tistca version of the satrcal jest that has been i'm
puted to almost every remarkable man from Cicero
TO Sir Walter Scott. The individual in question,
whoever it may be- was appealed to by some female
relative attest the fact that she but twenty
FIVE years of age; and, in confederation of her state
ment he observed that it must be le, since she had
given him the for the last ten years
Now fewer than $4,000 ladies have been giving
the Reg strar- General the same assurance for ten
years. The number of women between thirty and
thirty five is far small for the number of women
who reported themselves to be of the favorite age
between twenty and twenty fve in 1841 and on the
other hand, The number of girls between ten and f-
teen in 1871 not at all sufficient 10 account for
the present number of women rrofessedly between
twenty and twenty five. The number of ladies who
obstnate keep on the safe side of forty is roughly
estimated at the number we have stated above. The
Registrar General is scandaIized at the foolish
ness and at the confusion which the ladies un-
~r'nnrously Introduce into statistics and gentle
t mrr& regard the female with other than sta
tistca feelings have through succeeding centuries
d been perplexed 10 know the practical advantage
s which the ladies to themselves by saying thai
they are young, when they are just far from the
|. CRADLE and are practically many years old, as il
q they confessed it. But the is evident; the
= woman who is thirly-fve and calls herself twenty
nVe does not so muCn lnenu 10 CneaC her own SenSa
: tions, her looking g lass the spectator; but
virtually, what she says by the statistical paradox il
-" Whatever my age may be, treat me not thirty
five, but as twenty five" And why should she no
n be taken at her word !-London Paper.
THE SUCCESSFUL BARRIsrER. According to thu
correspondent of the Atlas, young Engishman bar
Il rister had succeeded in marrying Madm'll. RI
the wealthiest heress Paris, and connected will
one of the highest families. The young lady wa
: known to possess undlsinguished weakness for
well dressed man, and by loudly expressing this opn
ION had been of more service 10 the tailos of Paris
Il within the last year than Count dOrsay in double thu
space of time The barrster had many rivals, Blu
the most formidable gentleman acknowledge
to be the most approved dandy in Paris. The la
dy selected these two TO decide from and invited
p them both to Der chateau The Frenchman declared
his friends that he meant to cut the matter shor
at once by outshining the Engishman by his dress
that the latter would retire from the field crushed
t. atoms by the superior skill he determined t.
n manifest on the occasion.
b The Englishman said nothing, made no boast, bu
accepted the inviation and together by the train thu
n two rivals proceeded to the seat of war It so hap
pened that the French dandy had furnished himsel
with regular trousseau for the occasion at the grea
IL English ailor's in the Rue du Heder, and the Eng
- ish tailor, out of sheer compatriosm, had told Mr.
e H of what it was composed. sudden idea flash
ed across the brain of the barrster. His servant
y one of the sanctifed, hypocrcal roue Wallets fol-
C. whom London was always famous, is something
about the height and size of the French pretendu-
re MIR. H Immediately ordered for this ally the ex
ID act counterpart of every suit already ordered by thu
n Marquis de la B The first day at dinner thu
poor young marquis was rather disconnected, wher
upon entering the dining room his chances alightec
v upon the very counterpart of himself standing stiff
r and self-centured behind the Englishman's chair
l. and he looked angrily at his rival to if any in
suit intended but the Englishman was too in
" tent upon making himself agreeable 10 the ladv Fl