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

K N. Ism IN V1RG1e1A.-The Virginia Know-No-
thing State Council met al Richmond, Va, on the
23d inst, and adjourned on the gath. we see h'sie
of importance in the proceedings, as reported oy
correspondent of the Lynchburg pargsn'am' unless
we attach that character to the following Out Ine
maternity of the resolution is against 1t, Tor John
Minor Bolts never did touch anything that DID not
eventually fall through The VirginiGn says:
An informal resolution rather recommendation was
presented by Hon. John NJ Botts embracing the
that both the religious test Of the party ought
be abolished that the naturalization laws should be
totally repealed. The object merely to Ve
sense of the Council the questions and it was
in the Affirmative.
Sac transit Come cticut Know Nothingsm admits
all Potestants native foreign; South Carolina ad-
mits all natives Protestant or Catholic; virginia,
Louisiana, Texas, and, we presume, the great ma
iority of the Southern States will do the same How
is it in North Carolina Will the order here keep
I'D the religious test after it has been abandoned all
around Will it keep closed doors -? We shall see,
what we shall see Is not exclusion Of Catholics an
essential part Of Know Nothngism Is it not part
of the oath prescribed to be taken and yet the State
councils coolly do away with it, Suppose the order
no longer keeps up the fuss against "papists," what
are its organs to do with all the bottled thunder
they have been keeping in readiness for that dreadful
old man the Pope? The idea of losing much of
the raw material is awful. We would respectfully
suggest to the State council the propriey of allowing
time for said steam 10 be peaceably blown Oft before
the valves are shut down for it is bound to come,
and if it don't come fairly and regularly, it will
burst out and kill the organ grnders-a catastrophe
not to be contemplated without fear and trembling
Dg- We most firmly believe that everything ants
mosquitoes all sorts of bugs and cockroaches included
was made and ordered for the BEST and must, there
ore have uses and values of its own, although soot
to say. have never yet been able to discover them
Now, what can be the use of the gray speckled mos
quito-the fellow that prowls about IN the daytime
singing and biting in the most malicious manner
Surely ii would be enough to bite, without singing
over it. That is adding insult to injury. We dom
like it. Then there is great, enormous, laundering
prodigious big bug, about as big a sweet potatoe
with wings that sail into the open door window
and cavorts round your head IN distressing manner
We have made acquaintance with one that regular
ly pays us visit about ten O'Clock every forenoon
making perfect riot in our quiet sanctum. w
know it's the same fellow, for took the law of hr
one day, throwing the whole revised statutes at bi
head Since that time he is lame in two of his four
teen legs, and has cast in his eye. That big bu
we mean to kill We don't like his looks.
Ants are no great favortes OF ours; we don't Xix
> ants. They are plague, a nuisance verminou
set OF litte.waisted rascals. Who likes cockroaches
! Nobody.