Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-08-05

What this may be will vary according to age, state OF
health, etc: but rule 1t may be laid down that
slight feeling of assude is about the best measure you
can have The healthy will only increase their debility
by attempting long constitutional walks beyond their
powers, and without proper training. Great mistakes
made here by young men in their summer excursions
from which they often return with the seeds of jaundce
and fever lurking in their constitutions, in consequence
of over-heatng, chilling and Over-eXertOn. Sedantry
persons shoud-iced moderately and avoid lermenting
liquors as much as possible especially if of naturally
saDguineOus temperament. Those who naturally
pald and dyspeptic should use more generous diet,
eating moderate quantity at each repas and above all
things avoiding that disturbance of the digestive process
which is the application to study after eating An
excellent drink for such persons is bitter beer, with
dash of saltwater into it in the proportion of about
hatand-half."
COTTON-G ROWING OUT OF THE UNITED STATEs.-Eye-
ry movement calculated to affect great staple wheth
in quantity quality, in whatever part OF the world
it may be made, cannot fail to prove interesting to Amer
readers and more particularly to our friends In the
South Yet there several reg ions where cotton
cultivation is sprngng up that have thus lar been almost
overlooked in American considerations OF the great sub
ect and among these may be specially mentioned
Africa both on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
The returns of Egypt we are familiar with That
country produces enough for home consumption, and
exports few hundred thousand bales. The cotton fields
of Algeria however, steady increasing both in sur
face and yield. and that too under the wise and bene
awarded liberal premiums to such planters produce
the most and to others who bring forward the best spe
cimenS and report recently made to Louis Napoleon,
shows that the cure has largely increased and that not
withstanding injuries from climate or agricultural in
experience to the crops the confidence OF the cooniss
in their future success undated. They had become
quite expert the selection Of their ground for planting
in skill, tending and irrigation. Then the number of
native Arab planters is increasing and had reached
maximum of six hundred and jury appointed to in
tbpf
verdict There is every to anticipate trum-
plant future in the cultivation OF cotton in Algerian
Gold medals ali other prizes Of honor awarded
to the grower Thus it will be that tie French,
as well as Il, British government, is doing all in its
power to tos aid promote the production of colonial
cotton. In Irndostan and in Dcmarara, the British
authorities active, and the increase OF East India
cotton last year. we have already shown consider
able. But turthCr-at recent meeting in Liverpool,
experiments made by British planters at and near Sierra
Leone of the hottest parts of the African coast al
though at first partial failures, have since resulted in
a measurable success much So that the ma
tves, who have little experience last year sent in nearly
four and-a-ha millions of pounds of clean cotton equal
to two thousand American bales. 1t also said that
African cotton, from whatever part of that continent it
comes will invariably sell in Liverpool Manchester
for two pence or three pence pound more than the
East India product. More money has been raised in
Lancashire and more machinery Implements and choice
seeds have been recently sent out to promote the cotton
planting interests of British Africa the western coast
The subject is of extraordinary interest to this
try, tending, within few years. to probable reduc-
ton in the price of our staple. And yet, the other
hand it should not be forgotten that the consumption
of cotton textiles in every country the face Of the
globe is annually incrGasng-sO that the chances are
that there will be abundant room for profitable cotton
farming wherever it be carried on for the next cen
tury-PemnSylUan1o Inquirer.
SOLDIERS LEAvE-TAKING IN PAR1s.-The Paris
Correspondent Of the Boston Traveller writes: Drunk
jS in Paris aUn1
by the government, because it makes the soldiers and
cOnscrp pts tOrgcteUerythlng, at moment when
ry is prone to bc busy, and remembranccs pain
full The discipline in this particular is entirely relaxed.
have company after company along drunk
they could scarcely walk. AS their guns will be taken
away from them, and will be given to them only when
they reach Genoa, there danger of their doing dam
age with their weapons. The srangest thing saw was
at the Lyons railway station where troops took their
departure hudled together. They were without wea-
pons Each had a weIl-llcd knapsacE on the back of
which strapped fat cake Of brown bread foot
wide and four inches thick These were original dimen
sons, but many curtaed Of the proportion till lit
| tie remained hut huge slice.
The space in front of the departing" station was
filled with fellows stretched at full length the ground
sleeping off in the the fumes OF the wine. Here were
sergeans busy engaged in calling the roll and load
! Ing their men into the There were drunken fell
lows examining all their pockets will hard boiled Easter
eggs Many groups were formed by weeping mothers
and sisters and fathers and brothers, bidding farewell to
the loved How many Of all these have seen de-
part will return here agan2 No scene-believe me,
saw many painful scenes-of all those saw touched me
so near as the parting between brother and sister
such was their relations, heard them say. The girl
was seamstress, and no bonnet but neat mus
lin cap decked with cherry ribbons, which set off her
embrowned face with great advantage. do not think
she could have been more than eighteen.
Tears streamed down her cheeks She filled every
pocket he had with something another she bought
| from the pedders that hawked eatables around and
when his pockets FULL she took little silk apron
she wore and packed it to its utmost capacity tied it
securely and placed it under his arm. When the part
| ing hour came-l 900 men sent off every hour
the poor child hung to her brother if she would have
that second eternal and bowling her head his breast
wept silently, bitterly His lips quvered and tears stood
in his eyes. "He Ia bas 81 81! de peche-oi donc,"
cried the sergeant The brother kissed the girl on both
cheeks, and in moment laid by the great door, be-
hind which none hut soldiers go. / walked behind
the poor girl she returned home. She lived not far
from Notre Dame She occupied room in the garnet,
for her open the window and sitting it, bury
! her face in her hands.
VESSELS IN THE NAvY.-At the close of the present
summer the American Navy will comprise ten ships of
the line, ten rgates twentyone sloopsofwar, three
briggs schooner thrtyseven steamers of differ
ent grades nine side wheel steamers of different grades
three store ships and five receiving ships total ninety
nine vessels This is about onesevenh many as are
in the English one-fth many as in the French and
Austrian, and little than oneourth as many as
are in the Spanish navy; yet, except the first named
Power, we have more seacoast to guard and probably
numerous merchant marine to protect than all
i other nations named taken together.