Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-03-14

Wear neither great lawyers, great farmers, nor
great ythngs else neither Chief Justices nor
eighty years od and over the Boston Courier says
Judge Rulia is; but in one thing we resemble him
We hardly ever wear ali overcoat They used to say
the Judge never rrould wear onp.
Now the result of all this is, that whenever Or
wherever our exterior garment is put down, when
chance to hare there it s apt to stay, far
are concerned for forget all about it. and consequent
y, have had of these articles of clothing lost
or misaid v strayed stoen' than any FIVE people
ought to have become dispossessed and depropered
Of We never had anything else worth naming stolen
from us, that we know Of We are not apt to lose any
thing else-not even our temper,-(we don't count um-
brellas of course euer ybody loses Mem)
But it is not the loss that complain of most, al
though that is something 1t is the state of ncertitude
that kept in to know whether any given time
the OF the species OF property referred to-
Have We, or have not Bourbon among US? We
do not aue to Bourbon whiskey of course, since that
beverage in those vrtuous aGd classic pre-
cincs known the Journal Building wherein We have
all tie learned polessiuns-aw, physic and divinity
the latter occasionally only when reverend gentle
man honors us with visit or we take to little private
law and physc well represented by IL. L. Holmes,
NJ. B. Smith and DuI3rutz Guitar, ESqs, and by DR..
J. G. Walker.
| But stray from sui ject and become dtsutory.
The question is not Bourbon, but Beaver Cloth This
morning came down street, the coat and COnven-
tion question equally debated. Hare ave coat,
and shall we have Convention? We knJw now that
we have a coat or we touud it on our chair, in cur
editorial where had forgotten it yesterday
We think will have Convention II things go Oh
improving they appear to be doing trust that we
shall be able TO announce tomorrow or next day that
are to have Convention We bave not made auy very
critical examination Of the list of delegates chosen, but
take it that, generally speaking, they will do what
is right, and afraid Of their action. The
truth is that have much during the last few
weeks-haVe marked how events they have progress
ed have made their impression upon the minds of the
ablcst opponents of State action, that should fee
confident of the action Of almost any body of intelligent
and patriotic men met together in this State, whatever
their previous notions might have been We have heart
expressions made which Id us doubt the intelligence
or patriotism Of those making them, but few making
such Or believing them could easily find their way int
Convention.
somewhere and do nothing for a while, and think o
nothing. We feel iaded and worrited,' but Dethe
defeated nor dsprtpd w arc just as certain of even
tual success-complte success-as Of our lives
and we ready to give up hopes OF one as of TIT
Other. The growing OF certain organs in this State
the supposed result of the election will he turned nt(
a different note and they will sing different tune. Be
fore the peach trees now in blossom shall nave borne
fruit, the movement blossoming in this State viii
have rpened and matured and perfected the work o
independence from the rule of Black RepubIcanism aDt
the threats of coercion.
Would we boy again, yea verify, two or three
boys and several gals. It would be nice not to care
a continental for all sorts CT things that bother
We wish it distinctly understood however, tia. VT
don't want exactly to be ite-very little boys again
There is character in the play of London Assurance
whose queery suggestive to all specimens of di
mnutive juvenile humanity.-we refer to Lady Gay
Spanker The subject is painful one, although some
striking remarks might be made upon it, and do
care to dwell upon it,
The glorious sun shines in upon US, and fills the al
with light and splendor It is the se-same orb who's
earliest F2ams were reflected from the river that
forth out of Eden to water the garden whose lgh
glanced back from shield and sword and lance when "tb
Assyrian came down ike woif on the fold tha
saw Athens arise in beauty and sink in degradation
that lighted the trumphal pomp with which the mistres
Of the world greeted her returning from conquest
and again behed her, who had been the arbter OF 9th
ers' tate suppliant for her own. Even since yester
day. how many miller pairs of eyes have been turne
meet his rays; how many writhiDg on the bed of an
ush have yearned for chance to stray abroat
in the clear sunshine how many eyes that opened Il
his light yesterday will open again Over seuea
!; fg thousand people die every day.
No wonder that the ancient nations worship,ed tb
sun. We admire the very much ourselves and eve
the devil-as see Mr.. Milton who to have know
all about him. -even the devil spoke very respectful
of the sum- although subsequently he shook his fist
him. and told him how he hated his " beams" Wha
the sun replied is not stated He kept shining on, how
! ever.
The sun is great physician we'll great agr
cultural chemist ln the founding hospitals OF Paris
they have established by experiment that little tine,
cables who seem have vitality, pick up mightil
under the direct beams of the su1 They put them
standing sh. turned to the sum- and it does them an
amount of good. 1t seems to redden their bloodgiv
life to their frames, and vgor to their crying tina
thousands of them thus saved to be gamns of Par
sort of French bhoys-fghtng like the deuce eithe
for or against the Government, they don't much care.
AS for farming-why, the sun pumps up the wate
from the sea- and lets it down upon the land, wassn
the atmosphere of things hurtfu to animal life, but nu
trtive to plants; and 10 how bis heat concocs th
Juices and assimates all tEat sor of thing, why Pro-
Emmons gets paid for not informing Us on such points
But then it IS an honor to have such q thing abou
the State " as a Geologist.
And now the buds opening, rather prematurel
we think. just as it happens that our opponents ar
growing before they are ont of the woods. The TIM