Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-10-02


is for us to endeavour to look all thngto spread
around us atmosphere of thankfuness and content
men and we will feel less encined to grumbc either at
bad colds OR pecuniary difficulties,
BSP Speculations about the crisis-mOurnn5 and
Numbering it. will do of good. 1t IS as
u.s. and it cannot lie made otherwise by economy
and hard knocks-very desirable things to the right
minded, but not always appreciated by froward and
stfnecked generation and we find that censorious NOR
asts always class thus the immediate generation among
whom they themselves live and of whom they form
part.
We derive considerable relief from the reflection that
the main fault in the matter does not lie with the people
on this side of the Atlantic. We take ferocious de-
light in charging it upon the despots of the old world
and upon the greatest and ablest of themLouls Napo-
leon Bonapartc When that saturninc looking person
made his coup d etQt on the End December 1851, he
played the deuce in general but when time after
he married Miss Montjo, he played the horned and
hooed gentleman in particular
There is truth than poetry in this assertion
Man is an initiative animal and so is woman. For
reasons of state policy, well natural love Of spen-
dor, Napoleon naugurated style of lavish display ht
erto unknown, even in that land of pogeantry. Court
costumes of the most snowy and expensive character be-
came the order of the day. The looms of Lyons and ST.
Etenne were idle and the people suffering and dissats
fed Paris was ripe for any movement. The national
workshops, through which, under the feeble Lamarne
and his visionary coadjutors, the state made the
common employer, had fallen through. That was q
folly worthy of dreaming poets visionary socalistic
schemcrS. Louis Napoleon and his young wife tried
Thnvt, t # (tourt
the influence of example, The fces of the Emperor,
the hoops and style of the Empress carried the day. and
all female France doubled in size and quadrupled
in expense, while the rage for expensive dwellings
and costly adorments Therefor seized upon all classes
and both sexes who rushed into speculation, to
the means necessary to supply their newly discovered
wants, minister to their freshly acquired tastes. The
Credit Mobaer and hundreds of other schemes opened
up opportunities for gratifying this mania for specua
ton and even the grisetes and ganins of Paris tool
their chances on the Stockboard and became familiar
with the terms of the Bourse The immediate end O
the government, ettaincd-the popular mind wa
occupied, and work given to the producers of sill
aces, cRery and other costly fabrics while the mod'ste
were taxed to devise forms and styles of cxtrava
gancc to meet the demands of an cxigeant fashion.
+ Of all the strange forms of Mesmerism or Free Ma
sonry, whatever else it may be called there is
potent and irresistible thatTof fashion 1t has bee
T., said that might we'll be out of the world out
the fashion and indeed whether the doctrine be tr1l
false it is obeyed and acted upon with oil the ardo
of DEVOTION and all the blind obedience of anatcsn.
Nearly two thousand years ago DEGREES went forth ot
" Rome that all the world should be taxed and these dc
creeS carried into effect but not with any create
zeal certainty than the DEGREES that go fort
II from Paris commanding all the female world to we
hoops-to buy costly sks-to spend great sums irrt
spectve Of consequences and at the same time render
ing obligatory all the worscr half to aid and abe
thsto indulge their pet enormitiestop plunge il
to reckless speculatons to meet the expense incurred
sco houses merely sufficient for comfort and for IL
wants of their families, and to build palaces for show
which they to be at home and feel themselves on
-, dodgers for the balance of their lives
- How great impetus all this has received from Il
establishment of the French Empire may easily be
- dersood by any who will take the trouble to thin
- Being all sovereigns have sovereign right to ao
ourselves to be pulled about others may peasc-pe
= haps is right enough but it does appear to us thu
y, we would lose none of our sovereignty by asserting
~ little more Individuality The shifts and expedients Il
debts worrments and rettng to which the necessity
. keeping up appearances subjects people, poorly
90 compensed by the outside glitter produced.
~ We have no idea that anybody will care sixpen
~ about all this 1t is we know, most ridiculousy DIT
~ and uninterestingtha most ridiculous and unreadab
b of all things-pain fact But take great pleasu
- in throwing oil the blame of the crisis upon Lou
7r Napoleon, save aud except little for which Il
- good-lookng Eugene is chargcablc. But she is not
much to blame She married simply for the posto
and think she has right to it, and to amuse he
Il" self otherwise in the best way she can for little woma
IL Rs5" All the talk about temporary suspension
IL speedy resumption etc, by the Philadelphia Banl
amounts just nothing in the face of the fact that thu
are urging upon the Governor of PENNSYLVANIA to c.
Is an extra session of the Legislature of that State for
T. purpose of giving them pardon for the past and secur
IN from the future. They want the Legislature TO rene
IL the enacments by which the banks forfeit their charp
and incur other penalties ill of suspension The
u want not only to escape the legal penalties of the exis