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THE CHILDREN’S ERIEND. Wcdiicsda)', Mai-eli 1», IS'?®. THE OKPHAN OOMCEKT TKOUPE. Oil 'Plmrsdiiy last tlie Superin- teiulciit left the Asjluiu with tw elve Orphans for the ])nrposo of "’iviiig- conceits at the principal points on the N. C. Railroad bo- tw'een Raleigh and Charlotte. ’’Idle following gives all the infor- ' mation we have of their move ments since leaving: Yes, off with a dozen orphans. From O.xford to Henderson, the roads defy description, and cre dulity could not grasp the truth if told. Mr. Haithcock jnilled ns through the mud by hitching two strong horses before our mule, and so we made the connection, and took the train in Henderson. At Durham the Methodist church was full, and the attention was as good as that which Dido gave to fEnoas. The collection was lib eral and other things will follow. A. 51. Veazy was present and was astonished to see his poem on “Woman,” acted before an audi'- ehco; The hosjiitalit}’ of the peo ple was unbounded. On Friday, we take two hacks and ride to Hilhsboro. Good roads and pleasant w'eather. Hillsboro gives the oiphans a cordial welcome, ’rhe Masonic Hall refuses to hold the people and wo adjourn to the liaptist Church, and the people fill tlio aisles and windows and give undividedattention. Collec tion good. 5fr. Webb’s speech at tlie close of the exercises made a good impression. 55^0 claim no extraordinary commendation for pursuing a course wo conscientiyusly bolievo to he right, yet if such were neces sary to conhnn us in what wo liavo believed to be the right course to pursue in regard to the Imttery donation, we have such commendation in abundaiice. A minister of the N. C. Confer ence, of high standing, and in whose judgment wo have great conlideuee, ivritos : “I hasten to thank you for your course to ward the Lottery. Stand firm; God will sustain you and the jiebido will approve }'0ur course.” The Jioanoke News, of the 13th inst., says : “Mr. ,1. H. Stills, Superintend ent of tlie Oxford Oi'plian Asy lum, has refused to accept five lumdred dollars tendered him, for the . use of the As3dum, by the Wilson Gift Concert Association. AVhile the sum would greatlj' hel]) the institution we cannot but admire the course of Sir. Mills in declining to countenance such moans of obtaining money for a (OTise founded npon the principles of religion, beuevoleuce and char ity.” A gentleman of high standing, writes us from Asheville : “1 full)- endorse the course j'ou h.ave talcen in refusing the $500 from “ Tiie Grand Gift Concert. * * So far as I am concerned I had rather meet failure than lower the standard. Stand right square up and God will bless j'ou.” A friend who dates from 5Vil- inington writes: “Enclosed please find $20 for the orphans. 1 wish to express mj- hearty approval of v our action in returning the J.,ot- ter\- money.” There is no name to the lottw, but tho “enclosure” shoivs a, heuytiness that is (piite ro- I'resliing. I TWO PIETtJKES. A family residence. Time, eve ning. Fiither and mother seated by a comfortiiblo fire, their cliil- di en gathered rou?id them. One 1 jright-cj'cd bt>3' busy with the lesson to he recited in schot.l iie: t morning; a rosy-cheeked girl doopl}- engaged in the mj'steiy of joining a seam in “dolly’s” dress; otlior laughing, rollicking little cherubs tumbling promiscuously on the carpet. Fi'ovidence seems to have smiled beiiignl}' on the household. They- ai-e blessed ivith health, and industry and economy insures them not only a competency, but a share in the elegancies and luxuries of life. The parents look upon the chil dren and see the hoj)o and joy of tlieir maturer yeai-s and tho sure staff of age and decline. 'I'lie children look >q)on tho parents and read love and protection in each answering glance. Death lias made no broach in the happy’ circle aiid hence the sting of be reavement is not felt. O wbat a blessing to children to have a father’s and motlier’s love ! Now turii mo to a desolate cot tage. No light save what tlie few nickering brands in the chim ney may throw out. No father’s proud smile lights upon the for lorn, bereaved little group of ten-, der boys and girls huddled around tho desolate heartlu The father, the hope and stay of the household, has been taken away, and the red clay^ moiiud , in the grave-yard markshis resting jdace. Pi rhaps the mother jn-eceded lilm ti) the “lone land of di'eams,” and now there is no strong arm to win a subsistence for the or phaned, helpless little ones ; no mother’s tender hand to wipe away the tear of childisli sorrow. They’ mu.st separate aiul become dependent upon the charity’ and humanity’ of strangers. Tlie very food to nourish, and the cloihes to warm them—the kindly’ on- couragement and training to make them respootablo men and wo men in society' iu this world, and the patient, pious, diligent in struction necessary to their liap- jiiness iu the world to coma, must all be bestowed upon them, if be stowed at all, by’ those npon whom they’ have no other claim than the obligation that God has laid npon all to “vi.sit the fathei-- Icss." Let all who feel that they may', by’ the blessing of heaven, be in cluded iu the first group, reflect what they ought to do for those included iu tho second. Wliilo it •goos well with ns lot us show our appreciation of the blessings we enjoy’, by’ imparting to those who need, lost it become necessari’, for our good, to teach us a lesson by laying upon us a share of their atllictions. * The Henderson Tribune say’s : “We hear many glowing re- porls concerning the Children’s Friend, a paper jjublished at the Oxford Orphan Asylum. We have often predicted gi’eat suc cess for this paper and we be lieve the day is not far distant wlien it will have the largest cir culation in the State. It already’ ha.s tlie largest iu the county’.” We Iiave no intention of get ting into a squahlile with any in regard to circulation. Indeed if our circulation rivaled that of tho Now York Herald it would not be in the way of our county con temporaries. But we guess our friend of the Trihune is about right in what he say’s, and lienee we otl'er our columns, to a limited extent, to advertisers who may M'ish to avail themselves of tlie adriUitage. MAS«JiI€ MBCOKJBs. The next jiroceedings of tlie Grand I,odge which we find in the volume alluded to last week, was thatOf the session of 1807, wliicli convened in Raleigh on Saturday evening, Nov. 21st, “pursuant to order of Alost Wor- shipful the Honorable John Hall, one of the Judges of the Sujireme Court of this State and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Nortli Carolina and Tennessee.” The Grand Master being ab sent, The Right lYorshipful Gen eral Jiontford States, D. G. 51. presided at this session. There were twenty-eight North Caroli na, and five Telinessee Lodges represented. After the transaction of some preliminary; business, appointing cbnimittee3,;&c., the Grand Lodge adjourned to the next Saturday. At this adjourned session a num ber of subordinate Lodges, on motion of the Grand Secretary’, were ordered to be notified to ap pear by delegates t.) tlie next an nual meeting of the Grand Lmlge and show cause wliy their char ters should not be arrested for non-payment of the ammal step- end, five pounds. On the recommendation of the committee of foreign correspon dence, two delegates from North Carolina and one from Telinessee were appointed to tho “Superin tending Grand Lodge of America’' soon thereafter to be held in Wasliiiigton City’. Unfortunate ly’ the annual proceedings of the Grand Lodge fori 808, 1809 and 1810 are r.ii.ssuig, and consequent ly’ we have no rojiort from these delegates, and no information whatever of the result of their ap- pointmeht. , From the proceedings of this y’ear we leafh that the jewels, fur niture, Ac., of. Democratic Lodge, which had ceased to work, had, at the preGous session, been turn ed over to Hiram Lodge. Agiiinst this the Grand Secretary, Robert Winiam.s, enters his jirotest, join ed by three.Atlier members of the Grand Dodge, which protest ap pears spread upon tlie minutes. In the onumeration of reasons for protesting against the action of tho Grand liiodge in tlie matter, .some curious facts, peculiar to 5Iasomy at that time, perhaps, are mentioned. The jirotestauts opposed tho action because, among other things, it would set a procedeut for action in similar cases, iu the. futm-e, ivkere a mun- ber. of members of the deceased Lodge luid . become connected with its successor, and as Jerusa lem Lodge had a right in proper ty’worth tlifee or foui- hundi-ed dollars, thej Lodge at Halifax owned aFoul.thirty negroes, and the Lo,dgessit lYilmingtou and New- , bern owned property worth eight tliSiisand'ajidto'uthousand dollars rssjieotivolyjj't'iio, precedent might be pleaded, iin cases of the de mise of any of these Lodges, by’ succeeding Lodges, if they had a portion of their membership, in their ■ application to liave said property turned over to them. How Roy’al 5Vhite Heart Lodge came into possession of “thirty’ negroes,” for what purpose, and what became of them, the records do not inform us. The minutes of this session wore printed “at the Press of Win. Bay’lan, Raleigh,” on better paper and in somewliat better style of typo than were those of 1804. * (To he continued.) Siipcriiitoiidont Mills, like iindo Jimmie ’’rowlfs, (.Imi’t siuoko, iK'vertiu'Irss atlmitioii is calleil 1o llic advpvtisdiient yf Messfis. Lyei, ' Ualliy tic I'u. iu thiis issue, EASSaA^ MOVE' A writer in the New York Oh server, alluding to the early- 'I’e n- perance movement in Washi.ig- t ID City-, mentions the names of many’ of tlie most illustrious Sen- at.irs and Representatives of th, t day’ as engaged in it. 'Die oansi of tho failure of many of these to stand firm to the pledge, is given by the writer in these words : “Phe futility’ of tlie attempted distinction between distilled and fermented drinks was sadly illus- traterl during the first decade of tlie society’, when, as, alas! now,, .sometimes ‘femperanee effort and the champagne bottle went to gether.’ Even the ]dedge against ‘wine the mocker’ did not save ‘poor Dick Yates,’ nor all of his day’ in Cong-ress.” This allusion to ‘poor Dick Yates’ calls up in the mind of the writer of this, the time when, in a small town in the far West, he first heard him lecture, in strains of eloquence not often equaled, on the evils of intemperance. He was a man of much learning, and extraordinary’ genius, and of fine personal appearance. But the de mon of intemperance had fastened his coils about him, and notwith standing his occasional, spasmodic efforts to release himself from tlie chains tliat bound him, he finally succumbed and yielded to the power which, though desirous, lie was unable to resist. Thoug-h this was forty’ years ago, ive re member a passage uttered by him in the lecture alluded to. He was urging the young not to contract the habit of using intoxicating drinks. He said, “I have been a dnmkard. I liavo wasted mi- substance, alienated most of my- i’riends, destroyed my’ prospechs in this life and well nigh destroy ed my’ hopes for the life to come And all this because I contracted the habit in early’ y’outh of using- intoxicating liquors. I hope 1 am now free from tlie chains that bound me, but if I fall, it will be because this habit—this taste, contracted in ^rly’ life, shall prove too strong for the resistance of maturer y’cars.” It did prove too strong. Ho sfrugg'Ierl, we believe, hard and honestly, to overcome it, but in vain; perhaps because he made theeffort rei ving only on his own streng-lh. He fell, then tried again, then fell to rise no more. I'here are thousands of just such experiences as tliat of Rich ard Yates, and they are full of warning to tlie y outh of our conutry. 5Iany a young man says, “0 I can stop drinking wlieu I please.” If this be true, then it is the right time to stoji, for there may’ and ]irubably will come a time, as it did with ‘‘poor Diok Yates,” when you will find it impossible to stop. —Teachei’s must ahvay’s bear in mind that the children before them do not all stand on the same intellectual level. Even when they are as far a.s possible of the same age, their powers of com prehension are, for the most part, very different. To neglect the backward children, and only take pains with tliose that are more ca llable, is to do a grievous ivrong. Each one must, with conscien tious fidelity, be kept in mind, and the -weakest are jn.st those to whom tho greatest" attention should be paid. It is not by’ a cold, lieartless “No,” too often the dull child’s only’ answer when lie has made a mistake, that love t'l the Saviour is to be aw-akened and inclination for knoivledge in creased, but by a kindly' explana tion of all errors.—Selected. STATIS'iTCAS, F-ACTS. Careful observation of many scientific men iu different coun tries, shows the following facts : Tho average of Imniau life is thii'ty’-three y’ears. One out of every’ four dies under seven y-ears of age. One iu every’ thousand persons attains tho age of one hundred y-ears. One iu every- hundred reaches the age of eighty years. About thirty’-lour millioi s die every- year ; .ninety-two thousand every- day’; .eight thousand evei-y-- honr, and about sixty’ every' every minute. 5iarrled, persons live longer than the umuarried. 1 Tall persons live longer than short ones. ' Women have inore chanct s of life before fifty, a*nd fewer aiter- ivards, than men. The number of mairiages is about seven out of ten. Inhabitants of mountainous countries live longer than those in the plains. OleaoHness adds two and a half per cent to life. About twenty per cent of the offspring of near relatives who marry- together, are physically’ or mentally deformed. Masonic lYorks for sale by James Southgate, of Hillsboro, N. C.; I. RevEL.I.TIOXS OS' A SqUAHM, witli illustrations,by Dr. Geo. Oliver. II. Wasuixgtos .AX'D HIS Masoxic CoMPEEKS, illustrated, by Sydne-y Havden. III. 51.A.SOXJ.C U'oKEN, with illus trations, by W. 'r. Anderson. iV. i\jtuEBSON’.s Ancient Consti tutions, illustrated. . Masonic Sxai-i-ch Book, illps-. ti-ated, by various Yiasonj.c Authors. VI. SiG.Ns AND Symbol.s, illustra ted, by’ Dr. George Oliver. VII. ANTlyUITIES or Freemason- IIY, illustrated, by’ Dr. Geo.i Oliver. lie is also Agent for tlie sale of tho History and Digest, and Common I,aw of Masonry- bv tlio late Dr. Mitchell. Any person wishing to supply- himself with any or all iff the above standard Masonic works, or with tlie General Ahiman Rezon, or Freemason’s Guide, can do so by sending to the above address. To Purify a Ztoom. A room full of close and foul all- can be made perfectly sweet and pure without opening the windows. A pitclier of cold wa ter will do the work effectually. It is dangerous, therefore, to drink water which has been long standing: .-'i - Set a jiitcher of water in a room, and in a few hours it ivill have ab,sorlj(.d all the'respired ga ses in the room,, the air of whicli \i ill become purer, but the water perfectly filthy-. The colder the water is, the greater the capacity to contain those gases. At ordi nary’ temperature, a pail of water will contain a pint of carbonic acid gas and several pints am monia. The capacity- is nearly doubled by reducing the water to the temperature of ice. Hence, water kejit in a room awliile is always unfit for use. For the same reason, the water from a pump should alway-s be pumped out iu the morning’ before .any of it is used. Impure water is more injni’ious than impure air. The human heart is made for love, as the household hearth for fire ; and for truth, as the house hold lamp for light.
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