Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-08-27

never did hear, since the days was small
Thin open the winder, my queen av affection.
Or what is as good, phase open the door
Nor drame that you're sure of escapin deto,ot
know yere awake, by the length ye're shn,oro
A Short Patent Sermon.
BY DOW, JR
AT the request of brother S. NJ. Kerr (Pboo,;,.n
cho, near Bangor will NEEDLE with the following nan
"Whar de hen scratch, dar she spec to find do hn
MY HEARERS [ am informed that q dorl -
Toned preacher in Columbus Ohio once took bo
for his text, and proved from it that our Fr
fell out of an appetree into mud-hole which %sentS
their first born to be as black your hat So c FUSED
that my colored coaborer has made much more o,
it than can, for, turn it over set it upon end I
down and sprawl it open-after all this old rooete 10y j
find great deal to pick at uOnt
In the first place, my brethren; I will pronound
pious conumdrum Why are men like watches uI "a d
cause they must look inside of them for their GOOD De
tiles, and judge of them by their works" 4u"F
We'll my brethren, the work of men and u,o,Oou
general consists for the most part in SCRATCHING 1
the prospect of bug is the incentive You nav NV nO
tice brethren that whenever hen makes scratch aI
always gives pick but whether she gets buo at n
cry Dip is very uncertain. I imagine not Nevprtbo
less where she scratches there she expects to find %
Expecting is one thing, you know, my friends aHi
finding another. You may turn over many stone IN
this precarious world, and find no bug after ALL Pbro
nologicaly speaking, the human head is one vast hm
Of expectation and nothing else.
There various sorts of bugs, brethren in tbis
buggy sphere There are big bugs little bugs tumhI
bugs, straddle-bugs humbugs and bug-bears But Won
needn't scratch about much to find any of these for
they are everywhere thicker than shippers in seven
year old cheese.
TO find the bug you earnestly desire, requires dill
gent scratching; and if so doing you don't happen to
catch it, you can comfort yourself with the reflection
that you put in the ticks for it, and it ought to have
been yours. If young man takes girl about to see
the shows feeds her with titbits, and buys her pretty
cacoes, his title to kiss is clear and indsputable
for where the hen scratches there she expects to find
bug"
The bug that you are all after my brethren, is the
gOld-bug but, alack-aday how many of you scratch
in vain; yet it is found in heaps as well as in
aurerOus places. The farmer turns up with his pillow
and the gardner with his spade and yet thousands keep
scratching here and there without finding 'arY bug
few years ago hundreds of you fell to scratching at
Kern river, expecting to find mighty big bug Well
you scratched and scratched, and scrtched and what
did you turn up at last?-a mOnstrous humbug? Got
frightened and scrabed fer home vast sight more bug
gy than you wentfor where the hen scratches there
she expects to find bug.
And now you all want to 90 to the Frazer River
country but there are so many different ways to get
there, you are in quandary which to choose 1t like
getting to Heaven. The Catholics insist upon going
straight through Purgatory-the Baptist go a rounda
bout way but keep where there is plenty of water
they belong to the class known as amphibG-the Pres
the Unversasts declare theirs to be the most pleas
ant-while the Methodists shout " Haeuyah" and
up rabbits, they journey upon the good old JO
dan route But when you once there lat the dig
gings mean-for L am not sure that you will ever
reach the other place. stands thus as good chance
as another-and don't know but little better. You
all have about equal amount of hope, if not pluck
and each will probably pitch in and dig with all the
energy of terrier at gopherholefor" where the hen
scratches, there she expects to find bug"
IF
Beware of oilytongued, sycophantc friend-who is
ever too ready to do you small favor-who processes
willingness to serve you at all times-who praises you
the fox did the for while he thus "quizng
himself into your good graces he has sly eye upon your
purse-yourself forgetting for the moment that where
the hen scratches there she expects to find bug"
My friends-how uneasy is the immortal mind in its
pent-up prison of clay How it seems to exult in its
freedom while wnging its way to yon azure fields Of
light and glory wandering amid the green old bowers
of the past where none but itself is permitted to roam
What then must be its delight when forever released
from its hradom of esh and longer dependent upon
bread, beef and potatoes The day will come when
liberty, such mortas have never yet known, will be
bissfuy realized in eternal sphere, where-where
80 where the hen scratches, there she expects to find
bug" So mote it be !-GoLden Era
ONE BAD EFFECT OF THE OCEAN TELEGRAPH-Onc
deporabe effect of the submarine telegraph to Eng land
will be- that in placing us in more direct intercourse
shams and flunkysm of royalty. This is apparent al
ready The minds of the people will become more ia
miarized with the hypocrisy of kingcraf, and begin
we fear to look upon such unnatural state of society
with something like respect. The Democratic sent-
men will thus be demoralized and the republican sim
pcity of our ancestors corrupted The political enden-
ces of this country since the rise of the abolition
deuson have been steadily monarchal and, at this mo
ment the entire opposition and not small portion o!
the northern Democracy are tainted with the herey OF
ricto ool
of our system can doubt this and naturalization with
crowned heads will tend still to fatter the vanity
of upstart gentry and lead them to ignore the SIM
plcity Of our sturdy ancentors.
The REASON FOR THE WAR OF ENGLAND UPON
CHINA.-The London Times says A Chinese manda'
rim has power to tax the English public than any
single member of the House of Commons. This rebel
lion at the antipodes has already cost industrious
classes much more than would have been required to
cleanse the Thames and purify the Serpentine. Inc
imperial armies before Nankin all paid from the
Shanghai duties, all of which levied upon the cotton
we sell and the tea and silk we buy These duties have
of late years been enormously increased, and are SUI
being increased for the purpose of maintaining that ld
army.
The Siskawit, fish of Lake Superior is reported to
be the fastest fish that swms either in fresh or salt wa
ter. The fishermen say that of these fish, when hung
by the tail in the hot of summers day, will melt
and entirely disappear except the bones In packing
about fifty barrels few ago, at Isle Royals one
of the fishermen made two and half barrels of oil from
the heads and leaf fat alone, without the least injury to
the marketabeness of the fish. Besides this leaf la'
the fat oil is disseminated in layer of fat and lay
of lean throughout the fish, They too fat to De
eaten esh and put up for the market like the lake
white fish and Mackinac trout.
When Agassiz declared the other day. to the scienI
assemblage in Massachusetts that he had rejected n'