Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-01-01
WHOLE NJ 1000


s.GoNE TO DINNER! Gone to diuner. Back
10 fifteen minutes" That notice stands on your
Office door. u
| You gormandizer! you ostrich you great pig!
Also, you lean. scrawny. wizzled, anxious :
looking old thing You poor, irritable, touchy
snsppish iellowl
| My gobbling friend, eating is not process
whose operations and results are wholly con-
nned within the stomach, as flesh is put to
seeth or soak within an iron pot. 1t tells upon
muscles ard virals, aud brain and nerves--
upon mind and soul. Fifteen minutesl Fifteen
minutes is enough to ca. one cracker IN
and TO drink a glass OF water and see
tne mass OF yictuals that you are pitchS
'orking into your countsnsnce asif you thought
harPy was watching to snatch itfrom you.
now dare you bolt those chunks of meat all
soaked with gravy" and that greasy, sodden
pie. and hot cakes. and kissing mud colored
conee, and then, while you miserable overs
worked old stomach is calling for alitne DIS
posio.e nervous energy Of your system to heIn
&c drudge in its tyrant,s task, Jumping head
long back into your dark, close counting room
and demand that same nervous energy from
the same source to engineer your brains and
eyes in absorbing exertoa Of makiug money
lgnsramus how dare yous
WeiL, poor fellow, sef no use to scold at
you, after all. Pity is much more appronrjsto
to your sad case. Who would be such Juice
less, dirt complexioned, dried-up huss, for all
your moneY, or all everybody else? Ii is bat
MANNED soul and deformed body that you
have acquired under that regimen. And when
your old, cracked, shaky constitution quite
breaks up, and you die permatuiely--w wretched
man, who knows what miserable fate you will
have incurred by your years of sitstill money
grubbing, and this intensified course of mad
aggreyatons with those unchewed meat. chunks
ana hot grease and drink all ablaze. Life III.
CONDITION. OF WALKERS ARM. THE New
Orleans Deutche zeiiung publishes the follow
ing passages from the letter of au intelligent
German In walkers army, which we publish
or the benefit Of, enthusiastic young gentleme3
out of occupation and in search Of glory
VIRGIN BAY. December /, 1856. Within
the last thirty days eur army has lost 400 men
by death in the hospital, 100 have been shot,
SO have deserted, aud over three hundred arc
now on the sick list. We have little medicine,
but poor phYsicians are plenty. We can
muster all told, but three hundred men fit for
service. The enemy number at least five
thousand men, among whom are many well
drilled Europeans -Englishmen, Germans and
Freochmen. From this you may judge what of
our hopes and anticipstions. Of US as arc
not carried Of by disease have the pleasant
prospects ahead Of being shot down by the
enemy.
"After our second assault upon Massays,
being compelled to retreat with the loss OF
many men, Walker issued an order to burn
down Granada, and TO retire 10 Virgin Bay, on
the Transit route Suss TS uesssco%plish our removal
four times. Walker left on the arst tim, and
as my company is attached to the body guard.
it was my good fortune to leave with hum
Those who were left behind Immediately com,
menced firing the city, and breaking into Inc
houses in search Of booty, where ,bey faund
stores Of the lest brandy, and of course an
handspot drunk. For two whole days Hepn-
ingson found it Impossible to get single mau
to work, to bring the ammunition or the cons
tents ofthe srsenal to the boats. The enemy
was Of course informed of all this, and soon
attacked the town with 1000 men seized the
docks, and shut in some 200 of our men. A
guard of 80 civilians, who had been placed in
a small fortress near the docks, to protect the
boats, were shot, but one man escaping, who
swan over two miles to the steamers. For the
last ten days we have heard nothing Of any of
the men shut up in the city. Tho majority Of
Ihem kaye probably ere this succumbed.
"Thus our number has been reduced to 190
able bodied men, including civilians. Our only
hope lies in an early and large accession Of
'ecruits-otherwise we are totally lost"