Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-08-31

RGAaWe were rather SCEuCR IhuFoo'y nv ""'''il6
a quaint comparison made by friend " Did you
ever read about Bob Smiths ram o said he " Bob
Smiths ram was always in the opposition and but
ting at something At le7gth Bob thought ne Woelo
fix him. He took good stout ma let and hung II
within easy reach of the RAM who Immediately COM
menced butting, and at nght-fall was lett so en-
ployed. In the morning when Bob went 10 see how
things got on, he found the mallet hanging up as
usual but the ram had butted himself all away, with
the execution of few inches of the end OF his TAIL
which every now and then made wiggle and
butt at the mallct same as if it had been ram IN
stead of piece of a rams tail"
Now said he, "that's Just the way with the
old whig party 1t has kept fighting the Democratic
party until it has butted itself all away save and ex-
cept small piece of the end OF its tail which men
row call the Know Nothing order, but which, with
the same vanity, which prompted the rams tail TO
think itself ram, really fancies itself party, and
arrogates the name of American, and insists that
everybody else is anti-Americau, like as you have
noticed drunken insist upon his own sobrlety,
and the tightnese of every body else. 1t is only
tail end-a remnant OF opposition and can never be
party
Our friend was not far from right. The only party
now is the Democratic party. All else merely COM
prises the tail ends of opposition that still keep
butting
PORTSMOUTH AND NoRFoLK.-The accounts from
these doomed cities become every day more painful
and depressing Not only is the disease really
fghtful in its ravag but the surrounding circum
stances add TO the gloom of the occasion. The
Yellow Fever is not an accimated disease there
there class in the community who, having had
it, under little apprehension of recurrence, and
therefore prepared to attend to the sick. On the
contrary every body breads it and everybody flies
f. M it. There are no nurses, no experienced at.
PENDANTS, no means of procuring aid or comfort In
New Orleans or Mobile the case is different The
strangers and unacclimated generally, get oE, and
those that don't can get attendance and medical aid
No great panic arises, S business wholly stopped
Politics and political meetings progress as usual as
we see is now the case in New Orleans, although
the last report snow three 10 four hundred
deaths from Yellow Fever in the week then closed.
The Democrats held meetings and the Know
Nothings held mass meetings, and the newspapers
discuss the topics of the day without any noticeable
change of tone.
But the painful fact remains that the disease 10
fearfuly on the increase in Norfolk and Portsmouth,
and that especially in the latter place the most har-
rowing scenes daily presented while over all
hangs the dread amounting 10 certainty, that the
worst has not yet been reached.
A physician writing from Portsmouth to the editor
OF the Petersburg Express under date of the 21st.
says that ne is competey exhausted with unintermt
ted exer1ons from in the morning until at night.
aud is physically unable to attend any more that
day. He says
am no alarmst, and have no disposition to exag.
gerate and certainly no wish 10 harrow the FEELINGS
OF any one by the recital of scenes of distress but il
won 0slcken any one TO know what is now transnir.
ing III our town. Whole families are down, without
the aon'y IN many cases to procure drop of water
Portsmouth. Oh God how long ~ All poor