THE r
lliLI/KiETH I'JdEEU
!;i}, n-I,i 1::-| J- 1«, 6S?S.
I:.-0 M«'T T© Bur.
f( Vi'ral ])ei'af)Hn, wTo holilliolp-
(irplians in ]?Oiulap'0, liave
oil'erd tlioiii io flic Orpliaii Asylum
ii>r Ml much immo)-. In oth.
vviirds, they wi.sli fii ujioii a spo-
cics Ilf iVmerican slave trade
'i licy seise orjilians and so op
press them as to make the benev
olent redeem them. Such a traf-
tie may be called a sale of sig-hs.
'\\T do not wish, to buy orphans
from any such partie.s; but we
appeal to our Judgos aiid Grand
.lurio.s to see that these orphans
are ]iennitfed to enjoy the f. w
rights which our jiresent laws
confer upon them. IVe rvere
jiresent in one instance when an
oiyihan was sold, and we .saw the
nioney jiaid for her ; but in that
disti’iet the Judge lias expressed
him.self against the Orjihan Asy
lum, and the Grand Juries give
orphans no jirotcction., Tin's
statemeut Is shocking to Iiuniani-
ty, much more to civnliiiation and
religion ; but, alas, it is true, and
the [irorif is jiresent with us. And
while the.se things are so, our law
makers have time to talk about
lish-traps, fox-dog.s|ancl bird.s.
OUM OOTUUS.
IV'c once improved some oftlie
hotels of our tstate by slmtiU'
telling' tlie Irutli on them. It is
our jiresent jiurjiose to imjirove
oiliei's in the same >vay. A.s our
ladie.s are lirst at borne, first
^ abroad, and iirst in the hearts of
their countrymen, we begin witli
tliem. I'our oi the beat hotels in
the btato are kept by widows,
ilrs.^ Miller, at Turnpike, has
coinlortable rooms, good fare,
and a pleasant location. Single
meals 25 els. i^Irs. Yarbro, at
Greensboro, occttjiies a small
lioUiSe ; but her titble is.. equal to
any in the Sttite, and her jirices
are moderate., Mrs. Troy is
known to,travelers whom she has
so often- fed at Hickory and tlie
bliops. yiie now supplies excel
lent sujipcrs .at Morriaville.
iiirs. Tucker, at Eranklinton,—-
well, just iiictui;e eggs, good
bread and butter, strong coffee,
rich milk and nice desert. ..
At jiotels kejit by widirws you
are not tmnoyed by superciliou.s
clerks, nor sent to the, seventlt
story. Widows also, giro yon
rai ro vicaiilsiind les.s ercclu ry
titan you sometimes find in hotels
kept by nten. I'ho Kimball
House, in Atlanta, lias crystal
fountains and royttl chandeliers.
IIO.IIBS FOK OSCFJIAtVS.
e continuo to receive apjill-
calions for orjibans, mostly for
girls, who are wanted for nurses,
or to as.sist, in g-encral liousoitold
work, but in very few instances
do the applicants state wliat they
intend to do for tliesc cliildron in
return lor the adytmtage thet' ex-
Jiect to derive from their labor, in
tlie way of providiiig for tiieir
comfort and fiitura welfare,
'We have more than once inti
mated that the Asylum was not
designed as a nursery for the col
lection of orphans to bo trained
and sent out as mere domestic-
servants. Eor is it designed, on
the ofhor luind, to jircparo tlioni
for jirofesjioiial carec-rs or train
llieni in ideas above a life of la
bor and u.sefuincss in ordinary
jairsults. If wo understand the
obioct of those wl o have labored
lor the organization of the imsti-
fution, and contributed and do
still so liberally contribute to its
sujqiort, it is, that the poor, lielp-
Ic.s.s orjilian girls and boys of the
State may be re.sc.ucd from the
misery ot friendless de.stitution
and, often, heartless tyranny in
which they have been jilaced by
the death of their natural protec
tors; give them fair English edu
cation ; impress on their hearts
the importance of honesty and
ujirightness and the great and
leading truths of Chfistianitv, and
then,tas far as practicable, toassist
them in obtaining homes where,
in return for the benefit to be de
rived from their labor, they may
find that symjiathy and enconr-
agement, of which they have been
jirovidentially deprived, and that
kindly taking by the liaiiil and
assl.sting forward in lilb -Hliicli is
si^ necessary to .success in flieir
efforts to become useful citizens
and rcsjiectable members of soci
ety. It is bnt reiisonalile that
Iboy and their friends should ex-
jiect this for them.
but
some of our. .widows could
imjirove the table. What a bun
gry traveler generally wants, is a
iiulo to look at, and a jilenty to
eat. David inarriod the widow
Abigail; but she Imd jiroyiously
fed him and bis men, and herbill
of fare, as given in Samuel, was
enough to tempt a king. But.
we must jia.ss on, and leave. the
widows.
(To he Continued.)
^ 1. Don’t sei?:© a poor orphan
girl withont kin, and expect -to
hold lier for life. She ha.s bad
very little to cook and nothing to
season it with. She ’will give yon
lard tare. Be.sides, il she should
become desirable, somebody will
desire her, I’ossibly she may
desire beu'seli and assert lior ina
lienable right.
2. Don’t try to. biimbug some
(dd negro ivlio has never lieai'd of
IJncoln’s proclamation. She will
hear of it some day, and , desert
you most unexpectedly.
J. Don’t bo tardy, irregular, or
jtarsiraonious in )-i)ur settlements.
Never jiay otf in old clothes. If
you do, the cook will get sick
and go home and never lie well
enough, to return.
-redbroaat elui'll visit
I’ev. Junius P. Moore jiroaclied
in the Ohajiel at the Asylum Sun
day afternoon. Hi.s subject was
the beautifnl scene de|)'ictc(l by
Isaiah of a little clilld leading tli"c
wild beasts of the forest side bv
side rvitli the animals tliov once
limited for ih.eir jircv. Kotwitb-
ilanding the inclen'iency of tlic
M cafber there were quite a., num-
lier out to hear him.
“Whou the old robiii
your cot,
And the udcles li;\ng at your door,
Whou your howl sunMcea with somothiuit re
viving and hot, ^
Then yon ought to roineinher the poor.”
St. Piuil puts Chtinty aa the
chief of tho Christiau Virtues—
even above Faith and hope. Acts
of benevolence flow out as nat
urally from a heart filled witli
Charity as lig’ht does from the sun.
We have all read what the Scrip
tures say of the man who jjrofoss-
es to love God and yet hates Ills
fellow-men; and Vv-e have read al
so wiiat tlie Savior said of those
wlio neg'locted to feed and clothe
the hungry and naked and to visit
and minister to those who. ■were
sick and in prison How can those
who read these jilalii declarations
as to onr duty toward the poor and
destitute, close their ears ’ and
hearts and jiockets to their cries
for SY'mpatliy and material aidF
It seems that any one ought to be
alraid to sitdowii iutltccnjovmeut
of tho abundance which theprovi-
clence of God hn.s blessed him
without first liberally coutrilmiim*-
Pur the Cliildrt'ii’s Fricini.
^[|J Dear Young I'nieuds :—I have
lived eleveii-foui'teeiiilijj of il.e
age allotted to luaii; can you tuU
bow old 1 am? Well, if you
have luund out my age, 1 will
tell you of a few ul the eliaiiges 1
liave witne-ssod siiiee my eiiild-
lioud, ill tilings tliat you see and
bear of almost o\'ei'y day.
W lion 1 was a boy iliere wove
no cast jiLows used b)' tlie farm
ers in this country, and very feiv
tanners bad iron traces for jilow-
ing as they do liow. 'i'lie plows
Were made of wrought iron m the
blacksmith shops ol the coiiutrv,
aiid theyt tised wliat was called
sbalt jduws, and very poor work
tljey ilid.'' Borne jieupie use the
same kind of jilows now for oxen.
■ Tiien there was no sueli thing
as a railroad in the Bu'ucli. I'eo-
jilo traveled in jirivale convey
ances and stage coticbbs, and the
cotton and tobacco were carried
to market, and goods brouglit
back, ill large road wagons drawn
byi four or six horses. Letters
were ctirried by stages and horse
mails, and the'jiostage on a letter
of one sheet was twenty-five cents,
and twenty-live cents for eaeli
additional sheet. I have known
the postage on one letter to be as
much as a dollar. Then there
Viiero no eiivelojis to jmt letters
in, but they were folded together
and sealed with a wafer or sealing-
wax.
'J’bere were no telegraph lines
in the country then. Now yon
can sit down in a telegrajih ollice
in. Kaleigh and send a message to
New \()“k and get an answer in
a few minutes, but when I was a
boy' you could not send, a mes
sage tliere- and get an
back under two or tliree weeks.
'J’bera. -were no jihotograjih gal
leries wlien I -was a bo.v. No
body ill tbi.s country' liad ever
thought or dreamed of taking a
jiictni'e of a jierson or anything
else, in half a minute, by' means
ol tlie sun-llg'bt. Nim' ■\'ou can
have a dozen jii'cturcs of .y'ourself
taken to .g-ive your friends, for
three or four dollars ; but 'Vr-lien 1
wa.s a, boy it would have cost ten
or fifteen' dollars -for one of the
same -size jiaiirted on ivory or
some other surface, and if it were
life size-on canvass, it inigiithai'e
cost a hundred or two hundred
dollars.
Lucifer matches were not in
use when I was a boy. 1 remcnir
her giving twenty-live cents in
silver for the first box I ever saw,
and burned them nearly.all, slioiv-
ing my schoolmates what a won
der and curiosity they were.
Then, when the fire went out, it
was started b\' sjiarks struck with
a flint and steel on tinder, or by
going to the nearest neighbor for
a “chunk.”
But I cannot now speak of all
tho inventions of the last fifty
years, tliat have come into such
common use as to be considered
absolute necessaries ol life. I may'
.speak of some otliers hereafter.
’These that 1 have alluded to are
among the mo.st prominent and
laimbar, and they' are all the i'Gt
.suit of hnaiu-ivork. The men who
invented the cast plow and its fix-
tnre.s; tho railroad engine and
the telegrapli; the discoverer of
the jiropcrty of light in jiic-
turo ^taking, and tlie chemical
combiii^itiou of the friction match,
were once Intle hoys like many
who may read this letter. Many
of tliem had not the advantage bf
good schools, and nothing like
the good and u.seful books that
cliildren may now have, but they
by many to'be yet in tlieir Infaii
c-y, and that many and great dis
coveries and iin eiitlons are yet to
lie made. W'lileh of my voutiu
r, aloj's have siiilleieut eourago
and ambition to resolve that theii
names shall be wriiteu among
liio.so who are yet to benefit man
kind by their labors and .studies
ill tiie Lisefni arts aiidseiencesl
Jacossu.s.
A MOVE iSi 'J'lSE KJUU'l'’
irsBEcrsojii’.
“ The lady' members of a
Grange in Edgecombe Cou..tv
have decided to buy only calico
dresses in the future.” ■
The above iiem we find float
ing around ill several of, our ex
changes. We are rather at.a loss'
whether to regard it as a hoax or
not. If it i.s true, we consider it
as an important move on the pan
of Siime of our ladies in the light
direction, and sincerely' liopo it
will be followed by- otliers. lYe
are no Quakeress, (tliougli we
have always admired the neatness
of their costume) y'ot w'e are con
strained to believe that a great
deal might be saved for the
church, the Orjihau Asylum and
other benevolent enterprises.
If our ladies would observe
more economy in their articles of
dress, wo behey'e it would con
tribute to, instead of detracting
from their cliuniis. L. K. W.
Feiv words in our language are
more frequently' niisajiiilied tliai
the word want. It falls dalL
from the lijis of tliose vdio hav>-
never ielt the need of anvthing
answer except tlie habitual siijiertlnitii.'
wliicli, Paley says, w ill beemne
wants; but the Inxunous elves
that minster To jiamjicred desire.-
cannot be made to resemble the
grim .sjiectre that haunts tln-
ab'ides of poverty', pinching tlu
inmates with cold and humver.
“Notbing is so hard for those wIio
abound in riches as to concoivc
liow others can be in want.” The
poor are.#a legacy left by' our .Sa
vior, and it is a duty entailed on
all bis folloiver.s, to mir.ister to
tlic wants of the needy ; nor is it
su.fiicient to relieve only' those
wboso sufferings chance to come
under our .observation ; we mu.st
seek them in obscure corners, and
instead of .saying, “I do not know
a case of distress in my neighbor
hood,” we .should be able, after
c ireful invesii.ration, to
“there are none.”
“Oh tor a Lodge in some vast
wikleriiess,” sighed tlie poet Cow'-
per, oppressed by' tlie wrongs of
bis race; too many' echo the
sentiment and retire to their com
fortable firesides and there muse,
jierhaps, on some gigantic scheme
of philanthrojiy, which is destin
ed to pori.sh without lightening
the load of a single over-bnrden-
ed fellow-cr-iature. Of what n.se
are benevolent feelings if we do
not give them vent in action f It
does not feed tiie hungi-y' or rig'ht
the oppres-icd, becamse we wince
at the recital of their destitution or
fiusli with indignation at their
wrongs, .
c iting tlu'iu that some moans will
Oe devised for .sending them to
-chooi. .Such views of want ai.J
distress ai'e the siu'ost check to
exti-avagaiit desire, for wo ureajit
t.) foi'get selfish ends in mlnisler-
ing to others ; discontent and bc-
novoleuee are rar-ely' found in the
same individual; if we cultivate
the latter, the former will never
trouble us. L.
©use tsviKG Ai\B> ouie dead.
The last number of this month
ly' magazine contains some verv
interesting articles, and sucli a
periodical deserves s'.iccess. Col.'
Pool, (tho Editor,) invites con-
iribiitions on both sides of several
very- imponant e lucational que.s-
tions. Y’e will tell him a story :
When J, M. Stone was a candi
date for the Legislat ire, be took
the stump in Granville, and gen
erally' ojioned his sjteeches by
saying, “Fellow-citizens: In tne
first place, I will tell y'ou what I
am fur, aifd In the second place,
I will tell you wliat I am agin.”
When he closed, the people knew
where ho stood. So w'e want our
Superintendent of Public L,.,-50... -
tion to g'O before the Le .islatm e
with an educational pr gramme
of his own, and fight i out on
tliat lino. Let him tell as what
ha is “fur” and what ha i.s “agin.”
lEoM&e ictfiuefi&eva.
say,
The influences of homo ])orpC't
uate tliL-ULselves. Tho g'eiulo
’■race oi rhe iiu.'iher lives in. licr
d.iughters long afier her iieaii is
jnlluwed In tiie dust of the eartli;
ajid lallierly kiiidiies.s finds ins
c'lo ill tile n 'bilily and courtesy
of so.IS ivli.i eonie to wear his
• aaiiile and to {ill Id,s place; while
on the otiier Invid, fr.>in an trn-
iiappy, nds-govcriied and disur
dcred honif, go C.nth ])ors'>n,s ^vllo
sli i.l ma’ 0 oth- r li imes mi.ser -
ble, and p-apot .nte dm Konnies.i
l. lid sabless, the co.itemions and
sirife.s and railings, which liave -
m. ido their own early' live.s so
wretched and di.storted'.
Toward tho cheerful home the
children gather “as clouds and as
di.vei to their windows;” while
from tho homo which is the abode
of discontent and strife and tioii-
blo tiiey^ fly fortli as vu!tures®to
rend their prey.
d'he class of men that di'sturb
and d'sorder and di.stres.s the
world are not those born and nur-
lured amid the hallowed infiuen-
CG.S of Christian hoine.s; b it ralli-
er those whose early' lives have
been a scene of trordile and vex
ation, wlio liave started ivroiig iii
the pilgrimage, and wlio.se course
is one ot disaster to themselves
and trouble to tliose around
tiiem.—liurul Yew Yorker.
.0 Hio.se m dcsbtution, for tear the 1 studied and worked patiently and
ciiixsi; ol (uid should be visited on the world b,as l.ecn vastly be
him m some, .shaiie tbr .such lla- filed by their labors
grant neglect ol lus command.
eiie-
But science and imt arc thouglil
The most charitable peojile are
their own almoners; wlien they-
see poverty and des-titution, they
seek most earnestly to relieve it;
after visiting a starving family-, it
i.s not easy to sit down to a well
sjiread table without first sending
something to the sii.fferers; furs
and flannel will not Ixeeji the c-liill
from the heart while ga'zing at
the jioorly' clad cinhi of poverty,
shivering in the, wintry blas't;
daily contact with i.gnorant, de-
gratlcd children will so iiapres.t
one with tho necessity for edu-^
»ec ciiul itU is iSiffht.
It is always bad to start on a
journey without having looked to
the harness and to the horso'.s
shoes; and it often hapjiens that
the time saved by' omitting exam
ination turns out to be a dead
a 1-
loss when tlie trav-der lias
vancod a little on his journo'.
Not one minute, but a hundnd
minutes may be lost by the want
of a little attention at first. S it
the morning watch with care, if
you would be safe through tho
day'; begin well if you would end
well. Take care that the liolm of
the day is put right, look TV'ell to
the point you want to sail to,
then whether j'ou make much
progres.s or little, it will bo so far
in tlie right direction. The mor.i-
ing hour is.generally the index of
the day.—Spurgeon.
A nifin liit.
ii.- u.i.i't; n^Aiit tu tiv.'j an nncivil
:U’t one; no uuire ri-ijlit to say a
tiling to moiiiiur than to kuoc\ liiiul lown.