Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-07-06

chase at that exorbitant price The Tribune Herald
and Express had secured the cream of the Council '
and we were not disposed to purchase the skim milk
This accounts for our New York contemporaries fur n
nishing the proceedingssof the National Council in
stead OF ourselves. Those who profered their serv
ces to u.s. for heavy compensation, were hang dog
looking scamps, smooth OIL which made us think
of the razors sharpness"
FIGHTING SoUTHERNERs IN KANsAs-The Rev. MIR.
Starr, whose twnklng, in Kansas, was extingulshed
in nasty manner, on account of slight detect In
his ideas on Slavery, has been ecturing in New York
on the subject and attempting to impress NJ on his
audience the utter barharty of the Southerners he
saws that directly after the Kansas bill passed. great
emigration demonstration in Boston, took place which
efectually aroused the Mssourians, and led them to
saw that if the Northtrners came there they would
Outright them, for, says The Reverend Luminary,
s'they all have the idea that Southern man can
whip fifteen Northeners. | have friends there who
have just this idea that a Northerner can't fight.
don't know how to fight, hasn't got any blood in him
to fight and that Southerner is equal to fifteen
Northerne,s at any time in anything.
"PeopIe at the North talk all the while about
Southern chivaIry, as though there was not any
there. They think that when they to talk right
up to a Southerner, he will come down. At the
South, they say the Norherners do nothing but
gas all the while Now, 20 my mind, they both
badly mistaken. In the South there is utter
recklessness about which we know nothing at the |
North. They are always ready to fight at the drop
of hat. They had just lief die about a sixpence
as about million of dollars when their blood is up.
Here, at the North, men of different tempera
ment In the South, tell he lies, and he will
say, I want apology, I'll kill you,' and he is
taught to keep excited until he will kill you Hele
at the North tell he lies, and he is very much
obliged to you, but, until you prove it, it is merely
assertion. | suppose men North can fight just as
we'll as men South, but when the North think the
South have got no pluck they are Just as badly mis-
taken. The Northerner fights from feeling of du-
ty; the Southerner from excitement
AN UGLY CUsToMER.-A Mr.. Daniel Terryman
communicates to the MassiIIon (Ohio) News thrill
ing encounter he had with Il rattlesnake. On first
discovery his snakeshp preparing to appropriate
to his squirrel by the size of the road, but
probably fancying ger game, put after " Mr.. T.,
who gave leg bail and On finding that the
gap between him and the snake was closing, MIR. /.
sought the first weapon in the shape Of a club, and
turning, gave the snake blow just the reptile
paus ng and gathering for the fatal spring The
blow came Just in the nick of time, and just in the
right spot, severing the head from the body. Mr.
T. says:
/ AFTER the head severed the body continued
to run in different directions is generally the
previous to death but in this it continued for
an unusual length Of tme, owing no doubt to the
size of the reptile and the amount OF muscular
strength which it possessed. After it became sufi
GENTLY quiet that it could be Strengthened out |
measured closely, and found it to be exactly six
feet eleven inches in length, by nine and half
inches in circumference being the largest of that
species that had been in that region of the
country"
Mr. I. has preserved the hide and the rattles as
trophies of his victory.
, SENSIBLE TO THE CoRE.-In the course of some
judicous remarks matters and things in general,
! the New York Times observes:
GA coat that has the mark of upon it is re-
commentator to people of sense, and hat with too
! smooth nap and TOO high lustre is q derogatory
! circumstance. The best coats in Broadway are on
| he hac of hrOkpn.
clerks pitiful salaries, and that don't pay up
The heaviest gold chains dangle from the fobs Of
gamblers and gentlemen of very limited means cost
ly ornaments on ladies indicate to eyes that well
open, the fact of silly lover or husband cramped
. for funds And when pretty woman goes by in a
spirit of plain and neat apparel, it is the presump
ton that she has fair expectations and husband who
can show balance in his favor. For women are
like books-too much gliding makes suspicious
J., that the binding is the most Important"
? Physical Exercises.
y One OF the principal causes. if not the cause, O
II the attenuated and palld appearance OF Americans
III is doubtless the neglect, rather the vioaton--th
e habtual violation of the rules laid down by Nature
e for muscular development. The class of men il
II this country whose occupations are such amos
III necessarily lead to the formation of sedenary habit
is very large, larger perhaps in proportion, than tina
r. OF any other commercial nation. And this will &C
l. count in for the fact that the various com
W plalnts generally the cOnComtants OF insufficient
physical EXERCISE are more prevalent he:e than else
SC where. Our young men become clerks at an earl
d age, and being thus confined to the limits @
III a counting room at time of life when the open al
y and constant motion of the body are indispensable
it is not surprising that they should be in their
nc hood sadly deficient in muscular vigor and exhb
eu little of the athletic development that are locke
- for in the serner With many such their lot
oe their fate or is imposed as a necessity from whic
" there is escape and for these there is some excus
~ for the loss Of health and life But what shall
IN said of those who make effort to ameiorate the
y condition, or of that still more cupabe class wht
from mere Incidence, suffer their bodies TO was
away, to sink into premature old age--actuay pa
he ing premium for crooked spnes, bumped back
round shoulders, attenuaed limbs and dropping head
at Such persons are guilty of species of suicide whic
in inasmuch as it is deliberate, may be equally
re- not more criminal than when the /" brittle thread"
ST. severed In an instant by the victim of misfortune
ht- deiriun.
oil In Germany, the old men thought that they saw tt
ars youth degeneratng, both physically and social,
me and after severe study and mature reflection recon
mended by eloqent appeals through the public print
OF the adoption of vocal and gymnastic exercises
esS characteristics of the German race In short tim
IN gymnastc and vocal associations were organic,
De- throughout the whole extent of Germany, whit
The resulted in highly favorable revolution in the ply
or cal condition of the people 1t is not really nece
the sary fer proper and heahfu exercise that one shou
be- be provided with parallel bars, &C., for there
many things at hand that may be substituted for her
18th which can be made at expense trouble, equal
mes efficient. Flst-lrons it is suggested by cotempor
ag ry be used to develope the muscles of the arm
i'd and chest and rope to the same purpose
18th the lower limbs. If such simple exercises we
and practlsed daily within doors and in the open air
OK the yodth OF the country, there would soon be
li,oS,ou me H. !. r..