Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-09-04
The Priest and the Mulberry Tree.

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The good man discovered, with eyes of desire,
A muberrytree in hedge of wild briar.
High up bough, might have tempted brute,
Large, glossy and black, hung the beautiful fruit.
The curate was hungry, and thirsty to boot;
He shrnk from the thorns though he long for the fruit
With word he arrested his courser's keen speed,
Then stood up erect on the back of his steed;
On the saddle he stood, while the creature kept STILL
And he gatherd the fruit: till he'd taken his fill.
Sure, never he said, was creature so rare
How delicate, how true, is this excellent mare!
See, here now stand - and he gazed all around
GAS safe and as steady if on the ground;
Yet how had it been, if some fellow this way
Had dreaming on mischief, but CHANGED to say Hey!
He stood with his head in the mulberry tree
And he spoke out aloud, in the height of his glee
And down went nj the pre in the the Wd brsr maue s
He remembered too late, on his thorny green bed,
Much that well may be thought cannot wisely be said"
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The VOTE ON NEGRO SUFFRAGE 1oWA.-It is not
little singular that the vote that clause of the
constitution of Iowa which placed the negroes an
equality in point of political rights with the whites
should have been decidedly negatived by the people
of that State Iowa is considered a republican State
the republican leaders this part of the world have
lately made practice of counting upon it as thing
certain. Yet it that the republicans of Iowa do
not carry their republicanism far to admit the
negroes into community of political rights with them
selves.
been proved willing in the present day. to admit the
negro to political or social equality with themselves
Northern men ready enough to sympahise with the
alleged wrongs of the coOred in the South and to
make outcry about the justices of the holding of the
human creature in bondage by another. But when
these Northern are asked to sit at the same
table, or to ride in the cars or to occupy the
apartment or to vote side by side with these black
human creatures their idea of the anoogy becomes ma
teralIy altered In such States Rhode Island free
negro sufrages may pass muster; but in New York
and Iowa, it seems the prejudice of color operates
to debar the colored man from the privilege.
| We presume that, as in New York, the people Of
| Iowa will compromise the matter by tacking pro-
pery qualification to the negro suffrage and will declare
that black man who is worth one hundred dollars shall
be held to be human creature in all political intents
and purposes while the negro who has nothing shall be
only hybrid between humanity and chattedom. We,
therefore, ectionatey recommend all negros within the
State of Iowa either to get hundred dollars worth of
property without loss of time, to hurry back to the
South. We are full of compassion here in the North !;
but black humanity, to 60 down with us, must be
derately gilded.-N. Y. Herald.
| GEN WASHINGTON MARSHAL FRANCE.-It is
not commonly known that Gen Washington, during the
war of the Revolution received the honorary title of
Mareschal Of France. The fact however, corrobora-
ted by letter from G.. W. p. Custs ESQ, dated the
18th inst, which find in the Frederick (Md) Exam
iner, addressed to Col. Anthony kmmel. Mr.. Gusts
says:
! /" In regard to Washington as Marshal of France
have in this hour proof as strong as holy writ in an
|
ventor of the Logarithus which was presented by the
Earl of Buchan relative of the Philosopher with this
endorsement of the handwriting Of the Earl TO Mar
shall Gen. Washington with the respects of Buchan- =
Now, Buchan lived in the age of the revolution and
the associate of courts and certainly he would not have
addressed to one he loved and admired he did the
chief title to which the chief had no claim Lord Ma
pier, visit to- Arlington House. was greatly graft
fed by sight of this Renaissance of his ancestors treas
ured among the relics of Washington.
The history of the Amprcan q Marshal Of Eraucn
is simply this: When, in 1871, Col Laurens went to
France special ambassador, difficulty between
him and the French ministry to the command OF the
combined armies in America Our heroic Laurens said:
Our chief must command it is our cause and the bat
tie is SOIL Cest ampossibel' exclaimed the
Frenchan by the etiquette of the French service the
Count de Rochambeau being old Lieutenant General
can only be commanded by the King in person, OR
Mareschal de France. Then, exclaimed Laurens, make
Washington Mdreschdt de France and the difficult
ty is at an end 1t was done.
a friend of mine heard Washington spoken of as
Monsieur le Mreschal at the siege Of Yorktown. Our
beloved Washington coveted desired rank or
title but it is beyond doubt that the rank and title of
Mareschat de France conferred upon the Generali
Chief Of the combined armies of America and France"
DAMAGES FOR ISLANDER AGAINST A COUNTEss.-Ac-
ton has been brought at the Derby Asszes, by the
Rev. Mr. HighmOre, against the Earl and Countess of
HOTington for sander. The circumstances of the case
were follows:
Plaintiff appointed by the late Lord Harrington
to the living of ElvastOn In 1851 he was obliged
through Ill health to leave home he came back in S54
when he met with such abuse and scandal from the de-
endant which obliged him to come before the jury on
that OccasOnrumOrs accusations and charges of all
descriptions being made against him, all of which he
traced to the castle system of persecution violence
and slander commenced and continued against him
for several years, and the offences charged were commit
ted the first year that clergyman of the name of Jones
came to assist Mr. Highmore, this gentleman was fire.
quenty invited to the castle and there lady Harrington
made slanderous statement contained in the decara-
tion Mr.. Jones testified that Lady Harrington asked
him one day, who likely to administer sacrament on
Sunday and he replied that he had no knowledge Her
| ladyship then went on to say:
We never take the sacrament from that man High
more, because he is so wicked man whenever take
| it go to London have it administered to me at
GanswOrth. | never take sacrament here, because of
that man Highmore. He keeps the sacrament money,
and never gives anything to the poor and took the
money which the Duke of Lenster gave for the repar
ing the church. Her ladyship added He is such
low and drunken and bad character that Lord Harrng
ton cannot receive him. He is always playing at cards
and gambling, and encouraging the people of the village
in all kinds of gambling card playing and debauchery
he and his wife constantly rolling drunk on the
floor. He is always telling lies. He never speaks the
truth" Several statements of this kind had been made
previously.
The jury thought it hard case, and gave the rever-
end gentleman a verdict of ESQ ($3,75O)
CHcAGo-A recent assessment of the population,
valuation of property taxes &c. of the city of Chicago
for the year 1857, dscloses the following
Valuation of real estate, s29,919,9l6
personal property, 1928 053
Increase in one year, 4,52O8s6
Taxes 428 900
Population, 100000
The editor of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser COM
menng on the above, states that gentleman from the
east went to Chicago few months aGO Intending tn