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, '-'I If THE ORPHANS’ FRIEND. VVMljiestlay, Jaiiiiaiy IH77. IlUIiE xsicisje:. The 1-oad fi'oni Oxford to Hen derson is so bad that travel is possible, but very difficult. On th'ree da^ s in the week you can go through Raleigli without de lay to Fayetteville. At Cary Mr. Page has a good hot supper, and the turning table cari'ios every dish to every plate. We reach Fayetteville ale id of time and still the stage is gone half an hour. Disconnection prevails like an epidemic Leav ing tlie cliildren to iie over and go b}’ stage, we try the steamer down the Cctpe Fear, which is thirtj’-five feet higher than the usual tide. Instead of being down in a river bed, we ride among the treetops. At Wil mington by bed-time. A good bed at the Manning House, and by day-light the train is gliding through the swamps. Poor Ab- bottsbiirg is almost deserted, the lumber trade being very dull. Lumberton is still building new bouses, and growing. At Lau- rlnbnrg we oat a good dinner but the waiter hands an old shanghai, and calls him “turkey.” Quite complimentary ! The Ma tron at the Orphan Asjdum calls the children “honey,” (just to bo polite), though they are very different from that article of lux ury. Near Sand Hill the Chat ham rail-road unites with the Carolina Central. The grading is done, but the ties and iron are wanting. The site is suitable for a village, and a saw-mill is at hand, so that it can soon be built. At IMonroe, kindly received at Carter’s Flotel. Monroe has more preachers and more grog-shops than anv small town needs. Still business is very brisk and several large and handsome, houses are just completed. But it was pitiful and falling in the streets. One was lying on a hogshead. They called him a “Boyle Light,” a member of a new denomination, and he was trying to explain his theology. He seemed anxious to link the Bible and the bai’-room. The good people of Monroe (and they are many) ought to unite their strength against the sale of so much liquid ruin. They might close a dozen shops and do the town no harm. The ministers Messrs Brent, Brazington, Hoyle, Wheeler (and some others whom wo do not know) are efficient men and we certainly hope that great good may result from their labors. At the Depot a vast amount of cotton is ready for shipment and largo sums of money will cheer the people. We hope they will educate their children while they have the nieans. Mr. Hodges has a prosperous school and several smaller schools are in progress here. Taking up an orphan we “tarry but a night” in Charlotte and ho for the East. Tkavelek. This is an .age of investigation.^, and the voice of lamentation is heard from one of the tireless investigators declaring that at ' the furthest the fuel of America can hold out only seventy years. Woe unto the survivors 1 One thing necessary to instruc tion is a mind and mood ready and willing to receive erilicism, humble, teachable,, curious, when these are lost education is at an end “the god of bounds has come to his fatal rounds.” KiitlOrRGARTjGN. A long word this for the al most babies hero instructed, but many a mother has felt profound ly grateful for the institution. Perhaps the need of the Kinder garten is never felt to any extent in the sparsely settled region where each mother is teacher as well as ])aront, at least she in structs them up to the ages of 7 or 8 years, but in the city and even well-populated towns, the effects of vicious association tells on the children at a very early age. Many are depraved at the age of seven, and yet they were too young to be shut up in the dull school-room. The Kinder garten dive.sts instruction of all tile toil of studv’. For instance, the wee pupils of ages from two to eight are taken into a blight, we’l- ventilated room, adorned with pictures and all manner of objects attractive to children, the first step in this novel school is to teach the form of bodies, and the sphere is described by means of the familiar ball. Next comes color and the bright, attractive tints of the rainbow furnish ex amples, and thus step by step, while seemingly engaged in the pursuit of amusement, they have gained a fund^of knowledge, and learned to think, reason, in a way that will prove of incalculable value to them in after years. WEAKllXG MASKS. Perhaps the most difficult and and without doubt the most un pleasant lesson to learn, is that people and things are not alvva3’s what thejf seem to be. With a vividness that attests personal experience, Dickens has described the three periods of life, the indi vidual is first trusting, then as he finds all are not to bo trusted, lie doubts and suspect every one, and lastly he sees there is more good than evil in mankind, And it is not intuitive knowledge that discovers when the mask is woim it is by long observation, as to know the counterfeit bill from the genuine. But it is mournful to see the tendency to dissemble, imitation is one phase that it wears, and it is so prevalent that we trenlble to think that eventu ally the counfeit will altogether supersede the real, and that the genuine article will be found only in the cabinets of the curious. It is deemed a triumph of art to counterfeit the genuine so nearly that the difference is not discern- able, and so a fabulous price ma}' be fixed on an article, because of its cunning deception. 0 tem- pora ! 0 mores ! TJIE BETTERFEAf Ai\D THE CATERPJEI.AR. (.Trauslated from the French.) A vain butterfly was displaying the rich colors of his wings, and kissing the odorous stamens of the sweet flowers;, when the sight of a caterpillar, on a lily the object of his fickle greed, provoked his wrath. “Fy upon you I wliat a mon ster!” said he, recoiling; “what business has such a thing in the midst of flowers 1 Is there a creature more hideous or disgust ing? It ought to be banished from earth !” “ Be not so disdainful,” replied the other insect. “ In what fam- il}', now, do you reckon your ancestors! Remember, vain cox combs, that you sprang from a caterpillar.” The butterfly was silenced. He looked like a thief, and flew awajq like a simpleton, whoso impertinent folly has been ex posed i but the moralist, in good time, became a butterfly-, and exhibited equal follyc One who has risen in life is deserving of respect, if ho mod estly- wears his richeserhis fame : but for two such examples found, there are seen two hundred brag garts who have forgotten their origin ; and in this age of tinsel, gewgaw, and frippoi'y, it is very^ difficult for one wlio changes his skin, not to change his nature. UxcLB Al. TOB-ICCO.—(Fi'i.)!!! the Frencb.) There is a family- of poisonous plants, in which we notice Hen bane, Thorn-Apple (jimson-weed) and Tobacco. Tobacco is, probably-, not so poisonous as the Thorn-Apple, but is more so than Henbane, which is a violent poison. The Tobacco plant is as fine a specimen as you would wish to see; it reaches the height of six feet, and from the midst of its largo leaves of a beautiful green, there arise bundles of rose-like flowers of graceful and elegant pattern. i’or a long time, Tobacco flour ished solitary- and unknown in certain parts of America. The savages, to whom we gave bran dy, exchanged rvitli us Tobacco, the smoke of w-hich they- used as a stimulus, on extraordinary oc casions. By- this interchange of poisons, friendly relations were established between the two con tinents. The first who tried introducing snuff' up the nose, were, at first, laughed at, then persecuted. James I, King of England, wrote against those who used to bacco, a book entitled “ Miso- Hapnos,” (Hatred of Smoke.) A few years after. Pope Urbain VIII excommunicated persons who used tobacco in church. The-empress Elizabeth thought it her duty-to add to the penalty of excommunication against those who, during divine service, snuft’- ed this dark powder up tiie nose : she authorized the church officials to confiscate to their own profit the tobacco shops. Amurat IV forbade its use, under the penalty of having the nose cut off. A useful plant could not have survived such strictures. Sup pose, before this discovery-, some one had made this propo.sition: “ Lot us seek some moans of in troducing into the state coffers a voluntary tax of several millions per annum; let us sell to the people something that everybodv uses, that no one can do without. There is in America a plant which is essentially poisonous; if y-ou express from its leaf an empyreumatic oil, a sinple drop of this destroy-s the life of a dog with frightful convulsions. Let us offer tins plant for sale, cut up into small pieces, or ground into a powder; let us- sell it very- dear ; let us direct the people to put the powder up the nose. AV ill you force them to it by law ! Not at all; I spoke to y-on of a voluntary duty. As to that which is cut, we will tell them to breathe it, to inhale a little of the smoke. But, will it kill them % No, it will make them a little pale; they- will have sick-stom- ach, giddiness, sometimes cholic, hemerihage, occasionally pain in the breast—nothing else. Besides, as you know, it is said :■ “ Habit is a second nature,” and- it ought to be added,, man is like this' knife- which has passed through five successive changes—thrice the blade, and twice the handle. Man is no longer what liature made him, he is a bundle of hab its. Other people will do, as did Mithridates, King of Pontus, who accustomed himself to take poison (to keep from being poisoned.) The first time any one smokes tobacco, lie will have heart qjaiiis, nausea, vertigo, cholic, cold sweats, but these will gradnally- decroa.se (in intensity and fio- queucy); and in time he will be come accustomed to exjierience these sens'itioiis only occasional- Iv'; and only when he smokes bad tob-Vcco, very strong tobacco, or when he is not well, or in five or six other cases. Those wlio take snuff, will sneeze, feel a little badly, lo.se the sense of smell, and establish in their nose .a kind of perpetual blister. Ah, then, that feels very pleas ant ! No, on the contrary, it is a very disagreeable feeling. I say, then, that we will sell it, bad as it is ; that we will sell it very- dear, and reserve to ourselves the monopoly of this article. To a man who should have used such language, some one would have replied ; “ My good friend, no one will dispute with you the sale of an article which would have no buy-ers. He would do better to open a shop, and an nounce : “ Kicks, Sold Here,” or, “Blows with a Stick; Wholesale & Retailyou would find more customers than for y-our poison ous herb.” Ah well ! It is the second speaker that is at fault. The traffic in tobacco has been a com plete success. The kings of Franco have not intoi'dicted the sale and use of tobacco; thev have amputated no noses; they have confiscated no shops. On the co'itiary tliey iuive sold to bacco ; have laid a tax on noses ; have dedicated the shojis to the Doets with their-portrait above surrounded by- diamonds. This petty- traffic brings to then* more than a hundred million per an num. Uxci.E At,. THE TERKISJJ (^EESTJOK. This question has by tlie last news assumed a very- decided aspect. The Turk will concede nothing more tlian he has done, and Russia seem to bo shut up to fight, unless she can take advan tage of the almost unlimited vir tue of the word “if.” She may say “We threatened war (/"you did not do so and so, but you have publised such a good constitution and made so many concessions, all of which you will doubtless have to carry out faithfully- under the watchful supervision of the Great Poweis, that we see no present need for armed interven tion.” It is not likely- that Russia wishes to plunge into the bottom less aby-ss of war, especially at a time when it is so difficult to raise loans. She was almost ruined by the Crimean war, and this one might prove worse. We know not what importance to attaeh'to the- alleged spread of communistic ideas among the Russian people, but a war ivhich wottld tax the whole national strength would give every en couragement and opjxirtunity for the- -*Vorking classes to-assert their importance. The refusal of the.great coun cil the Turkish nation to give up any- portion of their national sovereingty and independence was, we think, to- be expected. They could do nothing else. Like the Papal poweif, that of the Sultan is derived, according to Li,s faith, direct from God, and tlig Goverfnent can no more alter the law of the Church. Non possim- its is therefore the only practicable answer for either power when pressed to make concessions at variance with their fundamenfel and professedly unalterable sys tem. The Pope lost his territan-, and the Turk m.-ty lose his, his but both must be consistent. Pha raoh of old would concede nothimr till ten plagues had fallen on him and his people, and oven after rill he wished to take back his concessions. Nothing would sat isfy him but drowning in the Red Sea. And he was neither the fii-st nor last man whose heart was hardened to his otvi destruction, So well is the unalterable law of the Koran known that when the Porte granted immunity for Mohammedans who became Christians itss Jmti-htimatfum was not obeyed by- any of the local antliorities. It is a fundamental principle of the Mohammedan system that a believer is immeas urably superior to a giaour, or infidel, and that no such thing as equality- can exist between thow. But all the concession required by the great Powers w-ent just to established this equality-. The Turks.may treat Christians, Jew's and other religionists with good faith, or even kindness, and as much fairness as the Koran allow's; but to admit them to a share of the government over Mohammedans—Never! Nor ev en to a share of the command of the ai'tny-. The Turks may bo driven out of Europe, but not out of the Koran, unless thev could be converted to a better faith. It is singular, however, that the' Christian subjects of the Porte seem to think their condition bet ter than it would be under the Fiiiperor of Russia.—N’^ew York Witiiess. WEEEaAGl'O.’K E'-tCKED El’. Fame is not always agreeable.- A famous behuty ouee took refuge- in a store to escape' from .spectiE tors, and the Duke of Wellington was licked iii a church to kee)) a apin.o- lifultitude from iulrudin-g „ . y6 on him.- Wlicn he was resting .at AVab mer Ca.stle, he had oeVasion, as Lord Wai'den, to attefid to some' Inisi-ne.-s in the cliapte of bt. Janies church, Dover. lie sent his groom to notify- the clerk to open the chapel, and also to no tify Mr. Jenkinson, the lieuten ant-governor, of the meeting. The groom attended to the former dit ty-, but neglected the latter ; and when the Duke reached the church, a great crow-d following out of curiosity-, the lioutenant- goyerner was not there. The clerk politely offered to go in search of him, but said an absence of an hour or more w-ould be necessary-, and meantime the people would fill the chapel. Ho suggested that the chapel door bo looked, and the Duke consenting, he took the key- with him, and the Duke was a close prisoner When the clerk returned with Mr. Jenkinson, in an hour and a half, the Duke remarked jocosely that it was his first experience as a prisoner, and close coiifin merit was no great hardship.—ibw/A’s Companion. From tlie Pliiladolpliia Iress wo Icafn that the Women’s Centennial Chorus, -wlwse ping ing-was a special feature at th-e opening anil elosijig ceremouies of the International Exhi- hitiou, has been permanently organized, un der the title of the Thomas Ch\)ral Society. A series of concerts will be g-iveli in Pliiladcl- phia by' the Soci'ety, with Mr. TholitaS' .'is leader, and in conjimctiou with his renowned .orchestra.
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