Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-06-06
SHAFT 0f Mails,

We are without mails this morning from either the
North or the South and thus compelled to draw up
oa our resources and reervei stores OF lnor
nation from other quarters.
We wish now, however, to say word or two TO cor
respondents SINCE perhaps, more than one will say Why
if the mails fall and FORTH do you not NIL up your
paper with my humble effort 2"
We daily appreciate the kindness of all who think
enough of our little sheet to employ themselves in pre-
pairing anything for insertion in its columns. We beg
of them to add to their kindness by believing that ID
cases where their contributions not inserted there
satisfactory for such course apart from the
most distant thought suspicion of dscourtesy to them
Some understand this, others do not The editor OF
paper must be the judge of these things else he virtually
ceases to be the editor.
In these times people are in earnest Mere abstrac-
tions mere essays illusions fancy skeches-"com-
positions are not read Any actual facts or sugges-
tons bearing practically upon the existing state ofthngs
that which in the of events may exist
attended to- because people have interest in them
Intelligent speculaons require the part of those in
dugng in them considerable observation habits of
Fiction and knowledge of events.
Poetry is said to be the language of excited feeling
This may account for the large number of lines which
are commenced with capital letters. But feeling alone
however much to be respected does not always supply
language and expression, does the semblance
of something like rhyme-suppy all defects in rythm.
When do not publish verses sent to US, it may be
that look forward to the time when their authors
will thank US fer keeping them back. Poeta nasciur
non fit, which being freely translated means No more
a man make himself poet, No more'n sheep can
Oa tcclf but thp iS q
the useful and respectable animal of the two Then
why strive to be goat?
Ia brief then brevity and distnctnss are the allies
sentia matters ard would be most sincerely obliged
to friends in all the different localities throughout the
Stare in the camp Cut OF the State, who would let US
know just what is happening, when anything does hap
pen suggest anything which may be of practical i'm
portance to our people -Dally Journal, 4th inst.
The blockade and non-inercourse between the North
and the South is working well in one way. The strych
nine whisky that they used to send from Cincinnati
down the river to Tennessee, Mississippi and louisiana
and all around until got this far bound to stay
at home The health of the lower Mississippi is much
improved while the troops" of the Pork State are
very much tange-legged and have cobwebs their
faces OF course they are driven to desperation when
they drlnk their own liquor knowing now IL was MADE
but they don't want to waste they throw themselves
outside of it, to prevent its running away Ten cents
gallon for rot gut. We glad that traffic is stop
ped Without joining in the repetition of hackneyed
phrases about King Alcohol, which all ought un-
derstaud and appreciate by this time, if they could be
made to do so by dnt of iteration, will venture to
say that dscredabe potentate made his appear
ance in a more abomnabe or unwholesome guise than
that of Cincinnati whskey Even absynthe is perhaps
less horribly noiSOnOus