Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-04-11
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
WILMINGTON, N. c., MONDAY, APRIL q, 1856.

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spirit of old Greece breathes through the lays chantec
by the sterner sons of more Northern races, and still
we dream of seasons copied from Italy or tho Ionlan
Isles Centuries have passed since Chaucer borrowed
from the Italian Boccaco, or general Europe hung
upon the strains of the Ministries of sunny Provence
and still the influence of these earlier masters is fe
and still we talk in England or America of season
of Snring. known only in more favored chimes. The
Spring of Almanacs and Poets is simply humbug, tc
be found no where but in print. 1t is ante-dated at
least six weeks. March is Winter and not Spring.
and April is a sort of compromise more romantic
than pleasant.
The leafy month of June is the glory of the Amer
lean year. Hot, beyond question, but magnificent
weather for mint ,juleps Sometimes while perspir-
ing in our little den and cursng the frst-born OF
Egypt we have imagined cool retreat, about thou
sand feet above the level of the sea- under the shade
of big oak, and by the side of clear stream,-pre-
sent our individual SELF long straw and big iced
lemonade with a stick in it. Rather un6ociable at
first sight, but nobody is expected TO be sociable
with the thermometer above ninety.
To think of ripping and snoring in political har-
ness through the days, so.called because people
lead the lives of dogs during their passage But such
is destiny: In the beginning of the political season
the spring TO speak, the various parties liant their
seed-they hold their conventions. During the sum-
mer they work them assiduously and look for crop
in the Fall. The Know Nohings started too soon
They held their convention in February, and the
whole thing is getting chilled out. 1t will not sur
vive until the Fall. The only crop reaped will be
defeat.
But all that has nothing to do with the matter in
handspring is the question before the House. Our
old friend, the China tree at the corner, don't spring
bit. Poor old fellow his heart is broken and his
constitution generally appears to be injured There
is no reason to suppose that his costume this year
will be at all magnificent Whether he sustains the
hickory pole or the hickory pole sustains him. we
unable to say. An inebriated gentleman, t'other
day, was somewhat inquisitive and, no doubt, puz.
zled the hickory pole very much by demanding of it
why the ID it didn't sprout. The hickory pole
did not say a word.
Away long ago, in the hopeful days of childhood,
how we used to think and talk about next year"
There was a magic in the word that brought dreams
and visions Of knew not what, but something still
brighter and better than anything we had yet known.
1t was very spring time then All was anticipation,
and all anticipation was full of hope. 1t is old
and foolish tale to tell how soon such things pass
for all men know it from their own experience. The
next years." and the Springs, and all that sort of
thing lose the charm which anticipation cast around
them. We expect nothing, and are seldom disap-
pointed.
So, although when the above rambling and not at
all sensible remarks were penned, Or in a measure,
penned themselves, the weather was clear and fine
H.
find to-day suggestive of Prussic Acid and other mild
and genial tonics, besides being good for young
ducks"
Do Blackwood for March is on our table. 1t is
of more than average interest to American readers
containing two articles referring 10 matters cs-At.
lantic. The first, " Biography gone Mad " being de-
voted to review of the biographies of Bennnet and
Greeley, got out, one by some anonymous admirer,
and the other by Mr.. James Parton, man who
might be pitied for the awful rasping he receives
from some of the wits of Blackwood were it not
that the man who has had the courage the stupid
ly to marry Fanny Fern is either above or below pity
certainly beyond the reach of common misfortunes
Greeley's snobbishness, his vanity his fanati.
cism and his frequent vulgarity are all touched
up, but the choicest walls of the reviewers wrath
as unprincpled rascal and shameless in his rascal
lty. Somehow, we agree in the opinion. For once
in our lives we at liberty to endorse that maya
zine, and, although it comes down upon the Amer
lean reading public and attributes it to q lower
moral and literary tone than any approach to truth
would SUSTAIN still there is denying the fact that
the circulation and influence attained by such pa
pers as the Herald and Tribune are we'll calculated
10 convey unfavorable impression to other ma
lions, that the fact itself is matter not without
reproach 10 those among whom it exists
The other article in BIackwood, referring to this
continent, is headed {" Nicaragua and the Filibus
ters." 1t takes the regular English view of every
thing, and is, of course, unjust TO the United States
Putnam's Magazine, in literary point of view, il
able periodical, and therefore, is read and read
able, and if it con0ned itself 10 It's proper sphere, WE
would have nothing 10 say ; but it does not Il
chooses to claim for itself perfect independence
and 10 construe that independence into right to Ell
gage in the discussion of the most exciting partiza1
and sectional questions of the day, and so to atacl
the institutions of one section of the Union from
which it receives and is anxious 10 receive a liberia
support, Under the caption of The Real Question,
while starting out with show of fairness it conclude
by denouncing the repeal of the Missouri Compro
mise, and the Kansas Bill as acts of atrocitv unpar
alleled IN the history of legislation since the days
the French Revolution and urging upon Congress Il
Immediately admit Kansas as a Free State upon tn,
traitorous basis proposed by the Abolition Sharp
Rifle Convention and legislature lately assembled a
Topeka, in that Territory.
We long ago gave our views in regard 10 Harpe
and Putnam-but we suppose they amount to moth