Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-05-21
The Riverside.

number is an original and powerful picture
of a Giant, accosted by two travellers, by
John La Fargo, and the first story explains
the picture. 1t is relief to find that the
two small men escaped with their lives
Hans Anderson has some characteristic
Sunshine Stories, we'll fitting the month of
May: pretty picture, by NJ. L. Stone,
accompanies it. Jacob Abbott explains
the philosophy of the Hoop. Annette
Bishop gives another of her delicate fairy
poems and pictures. The sculptor Kuntze
describes how Amber is found in
the Baltic. Abby Sage tells another story
from Chaucer. The Hunting Scenes in
Africa, the Rambles about Constantinople,
Porte Crayon's Young Virginians, and
Mrs. Weeks Adventures among the In
dams, are all continued; while sandwich
ed between the different articles are a mum
Der of pretty poems. There is something
for everybody in it.
! In addition TO this fine Monthly, each
subscriber receives u beautiful colored
engraving entitled 1.-THE QUAcK DocToK.
The chrome has been very carefully e1ecu-
| ted in fac simiic of Mr.. Stephens painting,
! and represents the visit of ROueu drake
! to o sick Brahma rooster, whose wife and
little children seem very anxious for the
Doctors opinion. The Doctor, with spec
tacles on nose and chin resting on his cane,
looks sagaciously at the invalid, who, with
bilious complexion and closed eyes, seem
entirely oblivious to all the affairs OF
this world. They are all painted from life;
tho chicken, /; highly valued Brahma cock,
went the way Of all chicken flesh few
days after.
The chrome is the most successful pic
ture yet made hy an artist who has wide
reputation III this class OF subjects, and Is
sends the full subscription, - 30, for the
" Riverside" to the Publishers, IInrd ~
Uonghtou, New York.
Attack Tx President Davis.
We have received the advanced proof
sheets of n scurrulous attack upon OK
President DAVIS under the following i'm
posing title
Life of jefferson Davis, with Secret History
of the Southern Cnnfcderacy, gathered 'behlnd
tho scenes in Rlchmond' cont aiming CutiOue
and Extraordinary informa ton of the Pr ncipal
Eou,hern Eh aractcrs IN the Late War. in ConEcc
ton with President Davis, aud i'll Relation to the
various lntr1ues Of his Administration. BJ Ed
ward A. Pollard, author Of the Lost Cause,
etc, etc
We are requested to state that the book
will he sold only by subscription, and that
agents are wanted by the National pnh-
fishing Company. AS editors we will be
glad to see the work when completed, to
correct lis Misrepresentation and false
hoods, but we trust that there will be few
OF ous people who will subscribe to this
SANDER upon one of the most distinguished
and beloved of our leaders during the late
war, and hope there are none SO situated
that they will be compelled 10 make IL
livelihood by extending the circulation of
such an infamous attack upon the revered
President Of our short-lived but glorious
Confederacy.
We had supposed Pollard had obtained
notoriety enough since the war and had
the test-oath, by his letters befonling his
family circle, by trading upon the assassi
nation of his brother, by attacking the
lesser characters and events of the war,
not to BE- forced to apply his already
Initiated talents to SANDER the central
figure of the revered heroes of the Con
federate States
Envious of the success attending the ex-
hibition of the pretended old clothes of
Mr.. DAVIS, and the modern Cerberus which
was sa d to have kept sleepless watch at
Castle Thunder aud Andersonvilie, this
man Pollard desires to trade upon the
credulity of the Northern people--a ere
duIity fed by hatred towards his own reo-
pie. He cares but little for this, and ii he
can only put money in his pocket he reeks
not the Diury done to the memory of the
dead, the fame of the living or the pros
poets for the future Of the South. Last
year scribbing n fnisome history of the
war, last month subscribing to the iron
clad oath for ii paltry situation and pal
try salary, last week protesting against
crime as displayed IN his brothers death,
and then violating the hottest obligations
which moral or civil law recognizes, to day
trading upon the malignity of the North
aud the defeat Of the South, and to-mor-
row taking advantage Of the silence aud
restraint which misfortune imposes upon
its more distinguished victims, this man
Pollard will serve any master or uphold
any cause by which he can turn the wolf
away from bis door.
We hope he will find no agents or pur
chasers of his work in the South. We
trust the Southern people will not add one
cent TO tho profits of this slanderer, this
trader upon the preiudiccs of one section
and the misfoTtunes of the other.
HE political ''heavens are hung with
black" for the Boston AdreHiSer. Grant
is a failure-his Cabinet miserable patch
work, bis appointces worthless as po!iti
clans and useless as public officers, aud
things going to the bad with beadlopg