Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-06-22

New ORLEANS, June 12.-The deaths in this city
last week were 375, including 200 from cholera.
[From the London Tmesl
Derby Day.
J For one day Sebastopol has been forgotten. For
twenty four hours Menschikof and Gortschakof and
omne duod exit in off have passed away from ;the
Anglo-Saxon mind, though such things as trenches
and Lancaster guns and saps and ravelns, and fas-
cines and gabions existed not If the Russians had
come in upon in our happy little island yesterday
we shoul have presented a grander spectacle than
those old Romans used to read about in school
boy days. who received the Gaus in full state sitting
upon curule chairs, and holding sceptres in their
hands They would have found universal England
upon Epson downs, cheering and shouting, and filling
up breakers of champagne for beautys llps thmble-
rigging slightly, and betting extensively it not
the Derby day? Yesterday really could not be
bothered with the Four Points. We were taking our
ease and disporting ourselves-t was time OF tecl-
ded truce. The Derby day turned out memorable
one in the Fast of EPSON. We do not shrink from
recording the fact in columns usually dedicated to
more important subjects, for might be omitted TO
accept the event as omen. horse-Wlld Day
rel is the excellent creatures namethe property OF
a gentleman not upon the turf, trained by his own
groom not by professional jockey has actually been
declared Senior Wrangler in the great Horse Inpos
No one who has not been initiated in the foul mys
teres of the turf, who has not been ndcctrlnated
by adept, have any idea of the culties with
which unfortunate quadruped has to contend which
is galloping for high honors
1t is actually necessary to surround him with de-
tective officers policemen for weeks, almost tor
months, before the day of the struggle to see that
some atrocous trick is not played by your own ia
r milar grooms by the very men on whom you chief
ly relied. Now he meets with stable accident
+ now he springs sinew while taking his breathing
gal0ps-now he falls sick of mysterious inter
nal disease which battles the skill of the horse faculty
The commonest, perhaps, of these acts OF rascally
is to be mix up ground glass in the favorte's oats
which modification in his diet is anything but calcu-
lated 10 promote equine digestion. Wild Dayrell had
the gauntlet of all these little playful projects and
by intense vigilance had been brought safely through
Grievous the dismay of the practical dipomasts
of Epsom-downs when they saw him yesterday
emerge from his stable in the finest possible condition
n and caner up to the starting post. The history Of
the will be found elsewhere in columns TO-
day; suffice it here 10 say the Wild Dayre made
very far weather Of it indeed and easily beat his
tagonists Let recommend the point to the medi
n taon of First Minister and his Austrian friends
and more especially TO the careful consideration O.
b the Chancery at ST. Petersburg. There are Wild
Dayrells elsewhere than on the of EPSON
= Chcane and trickery do not in the long run pre-
# vail, whatever may be the opinion of professional
Jockeys of professional statesmen. We take i
that the English people just now may be fairly rep
n resented by the winner Of the Derby yesterday
, Many trick has been tried upon US, many over
d weight has been placed upon our backs, many
pinch Of ground glass has been silly introduced int
our comfortable feed, at which confdingl
e champed in the unsuspiciousness of our hearts. W
IT lay down in own loose box, amid our owl
grooms, and fondly Supposed that attendants
who were SO highly paid for rubbing down, pro
moting little comforts, and attending to our in
terests, would stand between and all harm. TIL
Il of all this has turned out to be the fact
e Wild Dayrell however, is sick of professional jock
d eys, and calculates that if any person will fairl
sit him, and give him his head, he is able to give
L. good account Of himself against his competitors
N We have no doubt that in the long run Wild Dayre
will kick himself free and Justify the expectations
d. his original hackers
- miraculous EsCAPE."-Mr. Wedd, an English
S man, who travelled in America, and of course wrot
~ book about his travels and troubles in these wild
90 when he came home safe thus discouses of mir;
% culous escape from being over, which he " exp
4 rienced" in Ohio, when riding in light carriae
u driven by boy
If But when, on turning corner, we suddel
~ ly in sight of board with the we'll known motto
~ Look out for the locomotive qDhen the bell ring,
80 which was made more impressive by hearing the sg
70 nal, and seeing the line of steam announcing tt