Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-02-18

miles it was great punishment to me; hope Also
some degree, to my entertainers. The iron rule of
That house was place for everything and everything
its place.. WASN'T. The disgrace nay somewhat va
ront habits led me into was dreadful. The very first
Soning opened paterfamias's newspaper, which was
ways laid in familiar spot upon the breakfast table,
ever to be violated by any hands but his. There
Dood with my back to the fire, coming the ouspread
pets and nodding cheerful good morning to my host
Chen he entered. had the hardihood even to read to
him tout of his paper the last Indian dispatch
prv politely as thought-and to request his assistance
decpher the possible place intended by dozen letters
which The telegraph clerk appeared to have selected at
mndom. To do him justice, he bore this inroad on his
;cbts with toeraby outward composure bnt was
formally made aware, the first opportunity, by Mrs.
of the outrage had committed, and made to feel
uncomfortable as | deserved. Then left my handker-
chief on the drawing floor, glove the libra
table, another in the governess pa1aso (which,
tiny was not the place for it, and how it got there
have no conception) and formally presented with
each article separately and an account of its discovery in
the presence of the whole family assembled for dinner
One day. the whole household was under strict cross
examination as to who had come into the drawingroom
With dirty shoes. was the Gu prt of course, but was
ton GREAT coward to confess BESIDES the lady knew
PERFECTLY we'll who it was, but polite enough to
entertain the fiction that such conduct impossble
in anv well bred person 1t must have been one of the
children or the housemaids, of course and the whole
investigation intended for my solemn warning and
Improvement just they used to whip little boy vca-
ro1y to strike terror into miSbehavng little princes
Then the terrible punctuaity which made slaves of
ALL and kept me always looking at my watch, and al
ways afraid of being late for something, indeed was
once for dinner in spite of all precaution-four minutes
and half exactly. Shall ever forget it? If they
only had had the charity to sit down quietly without
me-f they had put me off with co soup, cold fish, and
the last ragged cat of the mutton-if they had sent
to bed without any dinner at ALL happened to
me when little boy inflicted upon any 9th
er reasonable or humane form of punishment-but no
there they were, all waiting for in the draWingroom
all standing up, the door wide open, and the head
of the family opening fire upon at once before
well inside it, with Now Mr.. -, will you take in
Mrs. P ?" Of course, | hammered and sammered over
an apology" quite unntentional &c. Oh of course
they knew it must be quite unntentiOnal-Cnly in
se1nwhsper- Mr.. p. did not like waiting for his din
npr ~
There was an abominabe child, too in that family,
the very incarnation of premature method and ORDER
All the other children had redeeming points of careless
ness and deStructveness about them y>and we
tabiShed sort OF reemasOnry among ourselves as te
low CuprS trying to keep each other out OF scrapes
much possible they conveying to me private
ings as to how the prayer bell would ring in the
morning, and furnish with much valuable secret intel
gence to the enemys weak points, and the nterpre
taon of the laws Of the Modes and Persians to whom
| was in captivity and l finding substitutes for i'm
pounded pencils, mendng broken Cupid, who carried
the matches in his quver brushing the boys clothes
after bird-nesting, before mamma them" and &C
tuay cutting up the ribbon of my eye-gass into shoe
strings for one young lady who generally in trouble
on that score. But as to the imp speak Of he was
ireprOachable If left the door open he got up and
shut it-not quietly you understand, but o1icousy and
reprOachfuly. If [ took down a volume from its shelf,
and left my hand for moment, if he could get
at it, it was up in its place again before knew what
had become OF it.
took courage one cold morning there being no one
hu+b n and I in the room the fire and the
poker when had done with it, under the CRATE (which
take to be the natural place for pOker when up jumps
this we'll behaved little monster and arranges by rule
and measure where he has been told it ought to be-
take credit to myself for very great fOrbearancehe and
| began alone-that | checked inclination to punch
his head with it. Is it excusabe in any rational beings
to put themselves under such lifelong penance this
and to bring up their Children and force the unhappy
stranger whom they get within their gates to do like
Wise?"
LATER FROM KINGSTON, JA.-We are indebted to the
courtesy of Captain Nelson, OF the brig E2G arrived
at this port on Friday llth nst from Kingston, ia.
for copies Of Jamaica papers of the 26th January They
contain later and important news from Haytl summary
of which will be found in another column EX-Emperol
SOOuque arrived at Kingston on the I'D OF January,
on board the British steamer Melbourne, from POrtau
Prince a fugitive accompanied by wife and daughters
and some of the officers Of his late government. The
American steam ship WdSh1ngton Captain WEIGH, from
New York Uia Aspinwal with 265 passengers, put int
Kingston for coal the 25th January. Upon reaching
Aspnwall, and learning that the Pacific steamer Her
mann had not arrived at Panama. she compelled tt
leave for Greytown where she landed stores and teer
of her passengers and there not being any steamer tt
connect with the Pacific ports, she would proceed t.
San Francisco via the Brazs. The steam ship Rather
Capt Rutherford, was to sail from Kingston for Liver
pool Uia New Y ork on Saturday, January 20.
From DeCordova's Mercantile Iuteiigencer, we hav
extracted some commercial items of interest. The i'm
porations Of flour for the week ending January "a ha
reached 1903 barrels and of rice 1861 bags No tran
sactions in Carolina rice are reported. Sales of Eas
India at 14s. cd. los. and Patna at II lis. Flou
had been moving freely. Sales reported at from 36s.
$751; and holders asking higher rates. the stocks bein
very light A cargo of P. p. lumber from CharestO
sold at lbs; W. P. sold at 7Os afoat and the lumbe
yards heavily stocked.-ChGrleston Courier.
ARMY AND NAVY INTELLIGENCE-THE NUMBER o
THE ARMY-UNIFoRM OF MARINES TO BE CHANGED, ET(
The Army Register for 1859 has just made It's al
pearance. We find that present force of regula
soldiers consists of nineteen regiments all told, as follows
Ten regiments of infantry, averaging ten companies
seventy men each four of artillery averaging twely
companies of about fifty each one OF mounted rtl
men, two of cavalry and two of dragons, each OF tt
latter numbering ten companies OF about sixty men,
would be difficult to arrive at correct estimate OF IL
actual fighting material at the disposal of the War ID
partment but we presume, the entire strength OF OF
army is little over or under 10000 The Register show
the grand aggregate of the militia all told to be 2Z4
1876
The United States steam frigate Susquehannah WI
hauled alongside the wharf on Wednesday, to enable tt
wormen to proceed more conveniently with her repair
as the desire seems to be all hands to finish her
soon as possible. The steamersofwar Niagara, Susqu
hannah Hartford, Lancaster, San JaclntO, RlchmOn
and four or five not yet named, being got ready
service at the different navy stations with the utmo
celebrity, and hear rumour that several sailing We
sells foreign squadrons will, before next July, be
placed by the above named.
On Tuesday next the new steam gunboat, winch h
been under way for some time at Boston, will be aunc
ed. brilliant expectations of the ensemble OF this sh