Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-04-17

o. We ought sooner to have acknowledged the
courtesy of an invitation to Fayetteville. as guest
of the Independent Light Infantry, the occasion
OF the visit of the Wilmington Light Infantry TO that
ancient burg. We wish we could 60. These Fay
ettevIIle men great 10 squabble with on paper,
and equally great 10 have pleasant time with when
you meet them personally.
Also, we are indebted to young friend for copy
of the address delivered last year before the societies
Of our University, by Nj. w. Ransom, Esq. II is q
very able effort.
We have also the April number of the North Car.
DINA University Magazine, edited by committee OF
students; and, upon the whole, well edited. In
turning over its pages, we find some devoted to the
poems Of Philo e. Henderson. Poor rho, we knew
him well in other days, and regretted his death sin
cerely. His poems give but little idea of the man,
We knew him, and even the man too often gave
but feeble and improper idea of himself. We know
not why it is, that often, in speaking of the de-
parted, or the living distinguished by genialty
and that nameless something which people call 0eni
us, half subdued iona is adopted. and We murmur,
almost instinctively, Poor -" g Poor fellow -
| poor too poor, in worldly prudence-:oo poor in
happiness, too poor in SUCCESS however rich in other
endowments Well, il may be that the world and
all of US are wrong Who is happy! Is it you,
Mr. Prudent Man do you really know what hap.
pi1ess is? Have you ever taken time to be happy
Perhaps so, but We doubt, and so do you!
! However, all this has nothing to do with Phio.-
What sorrows shaded his life and made it abotive il
is moi for US 10 know say, but we do know that we
have heard from his lips flashes of wit, touches
oil poetry totally apar: and different from the rather
common place rhymes given 10 the world as his that
in the latter recognise not our old friend These
however were but the flashes, the random touches OF
undsciplined genius which could neither be sustain.
ell nor brought under control by mind impaired by
long indulgence in those Gesulory habits of reverie
which many mistake for thought.
Poor Phlo for long years he has lain quiet and at
rest where The hands of affection placed him. beneath
| the soil of his native Mecklenburg. Like all who
die, the grave gradually closes over his memory as
well as his remains In the battle of life we have
no time to look backwards-no energies 10 waste in
vain regrets, and it is only when some passing allu
slon, some incident occurring in our daily rounds
brings the name andAh image of the dead before US
| that we reopen the chambers of memory, ard after
hurrledly glancing over the pictures that we find
there, close them again, hurriedy, and pass on
upon our weary way, murmuring 10 ourselves "Poor
Phio J" unthinking that bis is the happier lo and
that we who toll and MOL beneath the burden of life
really the parties to be pitied Our little hopes
and fears our little joys, growing less as we grow
older, our little sorrows which once appeared noupht.
but eat into the bone like shackles of IRON are
they not objects of pity to angels and to the dsem
bodied spirits of those who dwell in the grave where
the wicked cease from troubling and where the weary
be at rest? Who would not be there.
Cape Fear and Deep River NavIga ton Company.
The stockholders in the above company convened
in regular annual meeting this forenoon, at Commits.
eioners Hall, in this place
| On motion of Co.. John McRae, the mee,;nu wa,
organized by calling Hugh Waddell, ESQ.,, to the
chair. Mr.. Waddell, on assuming the position to
which he had been called, made stirring address,
setting forth the magnitude and Importance of the
work, and appealing to the patriotism and public
spirit of the stockholders and citizens at large
His Excellency, Gov Bragg, arrived here by as
evenings train. We have no doubt of bis desire 10
do everything in favor of the work that he can dc
consistently with his convictions OF the duty incumbent
upon him as an executive officer under existing laws
If ne should feel called upon TO object to any ar
engagements made or contemplated, we feel confden
that he will urge objection that he can avoid an,
none in captious spirit
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