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Mt;VERXQX, N. C.? Ma1 12; 1878. - ' VJ, -;' 3ilT. Verxok, N. C.
1)eak Watciimak UesioU directed y i,: March 25thtJ878.,
the farmer to regulate the time of so wiiig " - .
and harvest by the rising ami settiiig of -ear TVatchmyH .-r-The first sign of a
the ritiiades, a constellation in.llie lieav1 peaceable maaf i Uuifc lte.devotes air hi
mentioned in the book of Job, corat M1"0 ttt ow" calling. Ho "minds his
niouly known as the "seven . stars," and own business too closely to have leisure
"itjiated in the ueck of the, astronomical ftef to tattle himself or to give ear, to
iicure Taurus. The Homans called them Wle. gossip, - People meddling vrith mat
YeniilUtf, from rer, spring; beeause of j ters "which do not concern them produces
their rising about the vernal equinox, i. e., ! nearly al the discord and quarrelling and
the 1st of March. The ancients had ob- fighting and litigation in this unhappy
iierred seven stars in the Pleiades. Six world. -
try now perceptible; the seventh mid j Yet fc 18 a,uazitlS l"w they will keep it
to have disappeared at the siege of Trov. , the trade, I mean, of knowing and
Ovid, the ltonian poet says, it was so af- telling Il they can hear and more, about
ftctetl at the fate of that unfortunate city, i wter "wks. lean account for it in no
from grief to cover its face tith its J way than thatThe enemy of maiw
1,ad. In this group, wherein seven stars " always loose and always busy iu
formerly are reioiteLta. have : apiKjared, the hearts of men, since the curse fell
nnd siuce only six, ller scheirs telescopic pon Adam ; and that the ignorant, ya-
viiou soon- ooseryeu auu enuuieraiuu j
beventy. '
"Seven stars
Dwell In that brilliant cluster, and the Right
embraces all at oace; yetach from ea4i
Kei-eUes an lar as eacU el yieui troui ttarUi
And every Riar irom fwrj maer onrns
Soaive 1kh iWHHJte.- Fiwu the protound of heaven
t ntra vell'tl even In thoujf nt, keen, iJerclng rays
Dart through the void, revenllng to the Heii.se
Svsteius and worldunn umbered 'l ake the glass
X ml seaivh the skies. The opening skies pour down
l iKtn your traze thick showers of sparkling lire;
stars, crowded, thronged In regions so reuiote,
Tliat their swift beams the swiftest thin? that be
llave travell'd centuries in their night to earth."
In the poetic imagery of Job, no phrase
is more delightfully remembered than
"the sweet influences of Pleiades." It
calls to mind pictures of bursting buds
aud fresh green pastures; of lowing herds
and whistling farmer's boys; of rural
sights and sounds of every description,
'belonging to the lovely spring-time; and
the harvest moon is seen majestically
Hoatiug over the reapers returning gladly
homeward, laden with their sheaves
No wonder the heathen mythologists
deified these stars into Seven sweet bis
ters, descendants of the iuimorta gods,
changed into a group of celestial statuary,
looking down upon-us with "bright eyes
and broken hearts," from their lofty home.
The early men, in deifying the flowers of
nature, followed the same tendency which,
in modern ti'nies, leads tlie merely scien
tific mind to interpose as much uf visible
cause and. effeect, or as many "secondary
agencies as possible, oerweeu ourselves
amLa lar-oft' personal Deity. Hut how
'infinitely exalted, equally above the hea- i
men una scientist, is me ineoiogy oi me
inspired poet, : which appeals direct ly; to ;
our bosoms with the natural
and resist-
less questions :
"Is there not
A tongue In every star, that talks with man
And woos him to be wise ?"
Engrossed with the ordinary pursuits
of life,it is but rarely that we Inflow at-
teutionupou those most stupendous works
of the Almighty the sun, the planets,
.the myraids of stars of which the bare
.contemplation excites us to wonder and
to worship. The accidental .awakening
of our attention towards t iit-in lv the
above peculiar scriptural allusion ami the house and lie down on a mossy bauk bc
cui ions yioiinhiL--of seven f their number ! neat h a row of aspens and" cedars, and
should le 4eizel upon by iu to Acquire
the particular knowledge-relating to the ; Ke vvimaui xiervc. uai nuess, uifima
objects by ivhicli the spirit of inquiry was : five, Christian, kind. What neighbors
roused. ami friends they would make! W hat a
Thus we mav form a habit uf attention ! blissful, happy world it would be ! Weary
to our life-long amusement and instruc- j of content ion and worn out with bootless
tion; and not go through the world" blind j e fforts, the society ot such men would be
as the stouv images to"vhich the idolater Klysiuui, to the every-day traveller along
mostrates himself. Hut it is a habit to
he acquired by long sunt stead cultiva
tionno man is born with it iu liim.
; When the business of the day is over,
why, instead f counting gains and losses,
laying fresh plans or 'harrassing ourselves
with feverish memories of the few""" pre-t-eding'iiours,
do wc not retire within our
selves to commune with Deity f Why tLp
we .not forget, for at ime, life's corroding
cares! Can we never look upward !
'Night is the time to watch
OiMK-eau's dark expanse,
To h ill the Pleiades, or catch
The full moon's earliest irlanep,
Tr-at l rings into the home-sick mind
AH we have loved and left behind."
Hut such sad watching, however sweet
ly painted by Montgomery, is more poet
foal and -fanciful than is.-good-for the
health of the intellect. .' f" .
Let us rather look-up and exclaim with
the inspired poet : "Canst thou bind tlio
sweet influences of Pleiades or loose the
bands of Orion ; .
Reflection upon the omnipotence yof
God is always good for us; and the freej
'indulgence of a morbid aud inventive
imagination is not. Trust iu God is the
- very essence of Job's poetry.
- The-mild twinkle of the Pleiades is to
the splendors of Orion and the great con
stellations of the zodiac what th humble
violets are to the majestic wall-flowers
and roses iu the garden the modest
beauty which contrasts nicely ;vith their
gaudiuess, and gives a tasteful and be
witching air to tle whole parterre:. At
sea, they remind the sailor of the'soft-
eyed wife and little ones watchiug for- his
return,'ou the blissful shoves of homo and
native land. The seven sisters are em
blematic of modest womanhood in their
"sweet, influences." Oh! Is not woman
the index to the whole volume of oar
ideas of leauty in stafs and flowers and
all the other objects of the whole creation
which we admire for their loveliness ?
There is not ajeweliu the crown ofXight,
not a diamond on the brow of princes,
not a flower in the gardens of the Orient,
which wo might behold, without refer
. riug it to' its appropriate likeness in some
heart-enshrined female face and form.
- Pleasant for us indeed would it be, if,
as in ancient Eden, the flowers never
faded, the luminaries above shone with
pereunial lustre and the human beings
we love had the forms of immortality.
"Whatever we-liere admire must fade, and
'above the stai-s" alone can we find the
realization of our loves and hopes.
: E. P. II.
Pope Leo has been dealiu
tr w i t ! i 1 1 1
tramp question very sensibly. The death
of a Pope has unually aft'ored an oppor
tunity for plundering his effects at the
Vatican, and on the accession of a new
Pope the army of mendicants have nui
'formly beseiged him with their appeals
and custom has given a sort of prescrip
tive claim 4ipon his generosity. It As
stated that when this army of beggars
laid siege to the Vatican -after the corona
tion of Pope Leo, lie asked what the assem
blage meant. On being told what it was,
he sent word' that "it was God's will that
man should earn his daily bread -in the
sweat of hia brow," and the crowd dis
persed. - - ' - - '
, .
wen iiiuuoj ii ue u i in y scuuuuis auu uu
reasonable liars. , ..-'
Of all cowardsthe onarrelsonie, slander-
ons niatf U Hie mfenest, when the honr of
actual trial arrives' '"" Spending himself
continually npou insignificant contentions,
he has no strength iu reserve for occa
sions of momentous importance, when
divine honor and human rights are at
stake. No man that is brave and honest
iu public life is a churl among his neigh
bors and around the fireside.
'Too dear he holds his Interest, to neglect
Anotlif r's welfare, or his lljlit luvade :
Their interest, like a lion, lives on prey.
They kindle at the shadow of a wrong r
W rung he sustains with temper, lojoks on heaven,
Nor stoops to think his Injurer his foe :
Naught, out what wounds hl3 virtues, wounds Ids
peace."
When, the soft airs of spring play around
my brow, and the daisies aud violets are
being turned under the furrows run
across the fields ; when the robin is chirp
ing on the fences by mv side, and the par-
i tridge is piping for his partner in the
thickets beyond ; when a seaot peach and
cherry blossoms, swaying agaiust the
deep back-ground of .woodland green aud
meadow grass,, salutes, mv eye at every
turn, I cannot help' repeating to myself
the old familiar lines:
'Where every prospect pleases,
AwlTtaly man Is vile."
Happier far is he who. with horse and
plow traverses the lonely corn-field, un
disturbed by bn'sy-bodies, unconscious of
slanderers, "bothered'' bv nobo'dv, and
independent or the public smile or irowu,
tll Iit-tlblip imitim,
fat t U) 1)e tl;e butt t-r the ri(licule ;uul
the inalace of every fool and liar. Better
a crust of bread and one's own wide acres,
with peace aud quiet, than "luxuries and
the spoils of office, with brawling aud un
easiness and dependence upon the capri
ces of the giddy crowd." Tityrus, under
the beech tree, enjoys what Augustus, in
j the palace, longs for peace.
J My grandmother had a favorite book,
, if was""Hervey's Meditations in-a Gar
1 den." J loved to take that volume, when
I was a child, aud go away off from the
there, read, and wish that all men . were I
the rugged pathway ot lite. ,
Jt was upon the bosom of such souls as
these that the poet t'w per, like a "strick
en deer," rested his dying head ; and like
the swan, emitted the sweetest notes of
song when about to depart forever. Amid
the shades of the retired village of Olney,
the soothing influence of Mrs. Urwin and
other' kind, and judicious friends saved to
us the immortal productions he would
never have written but for their presence
aud encouragement He likened his spirit
to a harp, shattered -by rough hands, but
toned at intervals by love to something
of its original music redeemed by kind
ness for a brief glimmering space, to siuk
away again into darkness, despair and
death. -
.You may sayr that this man was
diseased, aud that morbid sensitiveness
was his complaint; that he ought to have
had more courage and not looked on the
dark side ; aud a lot niore.of stereoty led
stuff. But I say, for God's sake don't
iudge what vour nature and teiniierauicut
incapacitate you troiu judging. And,
harm no one by thought, word or. deed
we know not how tliotiyhttessiietts alone may
wouud. - - - E. P. II.
WARNING to AMERICAN WORKMEN
The United States Consul at Hnenos
Ay res, in a recent report, states : "I have
been inreeeipt of frequent letters since I
have been here, asking iu regard to the I
conditions aud prospects of labor in this
country. I would not advise anybody to
como herewith a view, to bettering his
condition. They caijnot-expect to find
employment of any kind. Every variety
of manual and mechanical labor is suffer
ing with the general depression of bnsi
ness, and establishments requiring skill
ed labor are reducing rather than iucreas
inr the number of their etunlovees. If
o - -
persons will come here in search of work
they should bring snfticieut mouey with
them to pay their return excuses. Every
lew days the 'consulate is visited by dis
tressed Americaus, who, having been in
duced to come out here, have been sadly
disappointed upon their arrival to find no
opportunity to earn a livelihood; thus,
finding themselves without means either
to live here or return home, they become
objects of charity."
It will appear from the tenor of this as
from other similar communications from
our consuls in different parts of the world,
that our country is not the only one suf
fering from hard times, and that it is very
little use for an American workingman to
leave his country in the hopes of bettering
ais conditions v
The Democracy of Abbeville, S. C.,ed
off ou the 14th in opening the canvass for
1673. They fully and heartily endorse
the course of Gov. Hampton, and recom
mend his nomination for re-election.
NO UNDOING.
A little girl sat trying to pick out a
seam thai she had sewed together wrong.
Her chubby fingers picked at the thread,
that would break, leaving the end hidden
somewhere among the stitches that she
had labored so wearily to make short aud
close ; and though the thread came out,
yet the needle-holes remained, shewing
just how the seam had been sewed ; and,
J ' t ; . -l tin ... .
wiin tears in ner eyes, site crieu, -y mam
ma, I cannot undo it F 4 J
Poor litthi girl ! you are learning one of
the saddest lessons there is. The desire
of undoing what can never be undone
givetf us moro trouble than all the doings
of busy life j and because we know this so
well, our hearts often ache for, the boys
and girls we see doing the things they
wish so earnestly by and by to undo;
Is there any of you, old enough to read
this; who never laid your head ou your
pillow at night with a weary ache all
through you, as you could not shut out the
unkind words you have spoken to father,
mother, brother, or sister t Older loys
and girls have felt keener heart-aches for
graver faults. You all know something
of this desire to undo, and sorrow that
you cannot.
It is a very sad picture ; aud now where
is the bright side 1 Kight here, little bo3s
and girls, big boys and girls. Let us try
to do a thing the first time, so we will
never wish to undo it. We don't care to
undo the words of kindness we spoke to
our classmates when they failed in spel
ling, or cried because they could not re
member how many seven times eight
were ; nor would we take back the apple
we gave a poor beggar-boy, nor unsaw the
wood wo sawed for mamma this morning,
though our arms have ached all day, for
it was a nice kind of ache that we enjoy
ed.
No : we never wish, to undo a thing that
is done right. Then how much better it is,
and how much trouble we save ourselves,
if we do a thing right ajt first ! Some
times we don't know what is right ; but
we can always ask. If the little girl had
asked her mother about the seam she was
sewing, and done it as she was told she
would have been saved the trouble of
picking it out. We can ask our friends ;
and, above all, we can ask our heavenly
Father. Ho never lead.; us wrong; and
.i i i ri .
-any tiling we uo unuer ins mimance we
shall never wish to undo. The Mirtl-.
A HARVEST OF CRIME.
During the last week a number of cases
of crimes of the most shocking character
have either occurred or been developed,
or have been brought home to the perpe
trators, some by confession. Thomas
Graham, a dissolute young man, employ
ed by Benjamin Hunter, of Camden, N.
J., has made a confession which implicates
both himself aud his employer iu the mur
der of James M. Armstrong at that city a
few weeks ao. Armstrong owed Hunter
money, and the latter by killing him hop
ed to obtain a sum which would be forth
coming on a life iusurance policy, lluu
ter hired Graham to do the deed, and then
assisted iu its exectttiou. The deed, was
oue of the most revolting ever recorded.
Not the least shocking of the occurrences
of thie week is the lynching of a murderer
at Wheeling, Va., on Suuday, morning,
by a large baud of armed men, who forci
bly took him from the officer iu charge,
himself had killed two women aud a babe
and after dragging him nearly a mile by
a rope around his neck, hung him to a
tree. The account states that the lynch
ers acted like so many devils. The man
out of pure spite. Other equally shock
ing cases have occurred, but we do not
even attempt t6 enumerate them, much
less to give details.
No thoughtful mind can fail to ask,
What are we coming to ! The frequency
of all sorts of fearfuLci imes is absolutely
alarming, not merely in regard to per
sonal safety, but for the future of society.
This great outbreak of shocking occur
ances is not peculiar to this country, it is
takiug place all over the world, and it is
a matter for philanthropist aud the Chris
tians carefully to consider. So far as we
are concerned, one thing is certain : we
must have in this country a more prompt
and rigid administration of law ; violators
of law must be prosecuted and punished
more surely and more swiftly, or we shall
be overwhelmed with a flood oferiine.
We have often maintained that sympathy
for criminals is outrunning sympathy for
society audi regard for justice, and we
are now reaping the fruits of this mis
placed tenderness in a harvest of crime.
Not until we have a reign of justice shall
we have a reign of law and order, or even
of mercy. There is no mercy or kindness
in dealing leniently with those who set at
defiance the laws of God and of man.
Governor McClellan is anxious to be
the Democratic candidate, for President
in I860. We have no idea that either
Tilden or McClellan will be again placed
ou the track. Tho Democrats will de
mand fresh horses whose plight is good
aud whose legs have uot been strained by
previous races. As the Augusta Chronicle
says, referring to Gen. McClellan :
i n n hnill v tnvA un' iii the race
f iftfU that tm i nlv tit to enter short
races for small purses. the Democracy
will take a nag whose record is good,
whose, wirfd is perfect and
been leaten."
who has never
Chablotte, N.C, March 30tli, 4.878,
To the Baleiyh Ken t 4iityJ; J;r. u
I am glad that ; you are .arousing put
farmers on the Stock law, for it is of greats
er importance to North Carolina tliaa&ny
measure that is agitating the public mind,
Mecklenburg was the first ttt.doptjthe
stock law, and 1 suppose many ? of d your
subscribers would like to hear of the fctrog?
gle and the triumph of the cause iit , thi
county. As the same argumeuts-will be I
used against the law in other . counties
I will give them as I write you a4 short
t.i-i. - ii e i
uisiory oi me opcrauuu ut,Mfeaw . y-s.-:
About the year 18G9 or :1&7Q joany,e6f,
the most intelligent farinersjeomnienced
to agitate the question. Con vert. were
rapidly made, aud during; the a? inter of
'1872 aud 1873 an act wa passed, which
to become a law had to be ratifie4kbx..th&
people. Tlen -came the tag of war2.
The opponents of the law were led by
some of our best citizens aud the canvass
was conducted with great vigor. The
great majority of the whites in the South
ern Townships were in favor of the law,
while in the city of Charlotte and the north
ern townships the opposition was the
strongest. All the freedmen of both sec
tions were opposed to tho law.
All classes admitted that the saving in
the expense of fencing would be from 25
to 75 per cent, and that the rails now on
hand would last from b' to 10 years. The
opposition contended that fences as they
then stood were a necessary evil; that if
the law was adopted no one would Lie able
to raise stock iu this county; that we
would have to buy all our bacon, beef,
mutton, &c, and that even butter would
be brought here and sold to our far
mers. The tricks of politicians were introduc
ed and the cry of "The Ring ! The Ring !"
was raised, the King was to uuy at a
nominal price all the stock of poor men,
and all stock of the opposition that they
were unable to keep. The Freedmen
were very much excited. They could only
see in the law, evil for them, their stock
wrested from them or standing iu pens,
starving and dying, and to add to their
misery u Reverend wag circulated a re
port among them that the smakes would
over-run the land. "Put up the hogs and
the woods will get full of them." "You
know hogs eat snakes and that is what
keeps them down." "i'ut up the hogs
and iu a few years snakes will be thicker
than leaves." Those id' a religious turn
of mind argued that God made grass to
grow wild, expressly for stock, aud if the
stock was penued how could they get to
it, to eat it, forgetting that God said,
"Thou shalt not covet anythiny that is
thy neighbor's."
The friends of the law urged that it was
a relic of shivery, that free labor could
'not stand such an onerous tax, and gave
estimates of the. probable amount that
would be saved, fcc, &c. The Northern
men and foreigners, whether here as far
mers, miners or mechanics, joined with the
friends of the stock law and urged its
adoption. They stated that the old sys
tem was the great barrier to immigration,
&c, Sec.
The day of election came, and the stock
law was voted down by a large majority.
The law provided if the county refused
to ratify it, the trustees of any township
could submit it to their township by giv
ing thirty days no: ice. The Trustees of
the Southern townships immediately post
ed the notices for an election. The no
tices were posted according to law, but it
is said the 2eople did not talk much about
it. When the day of election came the
law was adopted and many, many a freed
man woudered how it was. "They had
killed it in the county aud got it in their
township." All went to work to adapt
themselves to the new order of things,
and before a year had passed alL opposi
tion had died out and those who were op
posed to tlie measure became its strongest
advocate. The opposition in the other
townships finding that the stock law
worked no iniai v. but was really a great
benefit, commeneed-to agitate the qnes-
tion sixain: aud one bv one the townships
i f .n ..n.i ;. t.,.,h.
..r,- 177 :, T.rd.lic. meetim? was called to
iust'ruct our Representatives iu the Leg-
:1:.inm to have nassed a stock law for the
entire county, and to appoint a committee
r draft tlie law and urire its passage.
All o.mosition having died out, it was
not dn.ed necessai v to submit it to a
vote of the people, and iu order .to show exasperated, eighty millions of Russians,
to the Legislature that it was not, a peti- We have repelled, and, 1 fear, estranged
tion with 3,400 signatures attached to it twenty millions of Christians iu the Turk
was sent with the copy of the bill that ' h Empire. We seemed to have passed
was desired ti be passed. The petition ; rapidly, and not without cause, .into a
was gotten up iu a week, and many more ' B-u i odor with its twenty millions of
names could have been had if it had been 1 Mohammedans. Ij is not hi France, Italy,
...M.d-ed necessary.
I and went into ef-
The law was passe
feet April 10th, and so well are our eiitiro
people pleased with it that I do not know
! a single person who is now opioscd to it.
The people of the other counties, of, this
State are like tha people of this county,
i they want to seo before they believe, aud
if we had only ono enterprising township
in each county, to let the others see "how
it acts," it would uot be two years before
the law would be general. j
Cotton planters are benefited more than
' thau an v other class of farmers. Cotton
iQi.u m nnrl-tul fnun Jamiarr to Jann-
' auJ nevr uiake nasturtv Tl
, : . , .v
The same
cotton,
liUm oclu useu i6"' J"
the fence around it, under the old system
was so mpch labor jwasted. ,i
tow-
"ffe kir6 the ; purity: of blooded r stock
$ie,6to;k:.lav.ia indispensable,. Already I
punch atteiitipn is.bein paid to -blooded
sfock lnjtlus cnnnty.j, We tan boast fas
fine.BerksaLreji Aiaerica. jcau vgwduce
and, one of our enterprising farmer rft-
ceived a pair Berk shires last falkdirect
from Engfamlf cWo avotmowughijfeii J
tf1", -fv u ,auu jieriuoa, puu came
that will compare with"' any east' of the
ajfuw uia .regiou. vur iarmers are in
Utter condition Co-day than they 'liave
been slnfie mewar. ! mile' the farmers
of other counties are making rails) bond
ing and repairing fences; our fanners are
making' com post; and it requires no math
ematician iai calculate-which will yield
the greatest return. .. t
4 VA well might the? Khedive of Egypt
attempt tovbnild Pyramids that will eqtrar
those that tell of labor uurecompeused in
the days of the Pharaohs, as for our peo
ple to live like the slave owners before
the war. North Carolina must leave the
old ruts of slave labor and enter tho road
of free labor.
Mecklenburg, proud of the position she
has taken, invites her sisters to come and
see her in her new dress, see her improv
ed agriculture, her improved stock, aud
her contented citizens; and when they sec
they will believe, and will go and do like
wise.
S. B. Alexaxdeu.
AX-ESCAPED PENITENTIARY CON
VICTHE SPENDS SEVERAL
MONTHS IN LENOIR.
Last Saturday night, Chief of Police,
Johu G. Grier, of Greenville, S. C, passed
through town en route to Ore Knob Ashe
county, in search of Mat Evans, au es
caped negro penitentiary convict. The
Chief was accompanied from here by Mr.
Granville Presuell, of. this place.
About two years -ago' a disastrous fire
occurred at Granville, S. C, and, with
several oiner negroes, .uat was arrested lor
j.1 : a. :., i t ; i t r i . I
iue ci ime, uieu, aim con vicieu, ami semen-
ceuio tne penueuuaryior inc. veicavn
Al. A J. 1. . . . . A 1 . 11 1 I
mat uie convicted negroes oeiongeu to a
gangoiiiiievesaiuiiiouse-uurners,andthat
.uat r.wms was ineir leaoer. i nose who
eluded arrest or escaped conviction, made
up a purse ot eigi.ry uouars, wuu wnicn
they bribed the guard, and Mat made his
escape about four months siuce. Early
in December last he appeared
IX LEXOIH,
where he rented a shop and worked at
shoe-making. While here he went by the
name of Jack or Frank Hill. He called
at this office several times and asked for
newsr.aners narticnlarl v South Carolina.
papers. He semed verv much interested
in the Libcrian movement, aud made fre
nnent emiuiries about it. Doubtless his
object was to remain as near Charleston
as he thought was safe, and when the
timi. arrived, to take naRsaire on the steam-
' CT
er for Liberia. He represented himself
as having lived iu Richmond, V"a., just
prior to the war, aud said he was a native
of Alexandria, Va. He is a dark, burly-
looking negro, seems to be. slirewd and
cunning, and spent much of his time here
in gambling with other negroes. He seem
ed to be interested iu tho laws of our State
as he went to a prominent gentleman in
town to borrow law books.
About three weeks ago he left here, in
company with several negroes, for Ore
Knob, Ashe county. We learn that he
was quite a politician in South Carolina,
and at one time was a member of the
Legislature.
The' pursuers returned Tuesday, with
their prisouer. He was taken to Hickory,
where they took the train for South Caro
lina. Lenoir Topic.
Mr. Gladstone, iu an article which he
contributed to the Nineteenth Century for
.March, makes tlie following severe,
. mougu mim.y e.vmcsseu, reiiecuo..s on
l .i i ;i n l .1
rhc course of the British Ministry in the
' Eastern troubles, by which they have
alienated many if uot quite every nation
j m Europe
I "I am selfish enough to hope, in the
interest of my country, that in the ap-
' proaching Conference or Congress we may
. have, and may use, an opportunity tone-
quire the goodwill of somebody. By some
I body I mean some uatiou, and uot merely
some Government. We have, I fear -for
the moment, profoundly alienated, if. not
I ' formally that we have made any con-
, Ue8ta of "Auction, to make up for such
great defaults. Nor is it in Austria, where
every Slav is with tho first twenty mil
lions, and every Magyar with the second.
Where is all tins to stop I Neither in
persoual nor in national life will Keif
glorification supply the place of general
respect, or feed the hunger of the heart.
Rich and strong we are;
but uo people s
rich enough to disregard the priceless
value of human sympathies."
Hon. Beverly Douglass, of a., has dis-
' craced himself by aiMJeariug iu the House
in a beastly state of intoxication
It is
not improbable he will bo .expelled fitm
Congress.
Noting tlie fall of Russian bonds in
European markets in consequence f- the
warlike attitude of England and the rind
ry of the two powers in providing them
selves with torpedoes, the New York
Times is remindedtbat at the first outbreak
.of the Pamguay-Hraxiliau jwar au enter
prising speculator offered his services to
the Paraguayan government for . a hand-,
some, consideration iu, blockingthe ad
vance of Ui e Brazil ian fleet upon the ri vers
b"y means of torpedoes. This done, he
instantly, sent word to bis partner in New
York to come down at once and offer his
servicestp .Brazil for .the removal of the
torpedoes, whoso whereabouts was to bo
indicated by iv signal. In this way, says
tke"Tiniesrpie, one partner . continued t&
plant them and theotherQpullthen up
daring the whole of . tho four ycarswar,
after which those enterprising Yaukees,
having earned upwards of $100,000 by
their united exertions, wound up by sell
ing the still un exploded torpedoes to the
government ofLNicaragua.
'
HON. THOMAS ASHE.
'From tlie Wadesboro Argiis.
We notice that a correspondent of the
Raleigh Observer nominates ,.this gentle
man for the place of Chief Justice, mak
ing some very just remarks as to his fit
ness, and the duty of the people to put
men of his character in responsible posi
tions. We endorse all that was said by
the correspondent, aud feel sure the peo
ple will not be disappointed if they choose
to entrust Mr. Ashe with the duties of this
hj,,, 0fflcc
Another correspondent of tlie Observer
on the next day says that "Mr. Ashe is
not an aspirant for this office." 'Tis true
he is not an asoirant in the ordinarv sense
of the term, for he is not seeking the
office and recommending himself for it ; he
is not electioneering for the place because
he thinks it unbecoming so to do, and
that office shonhrok th , j,.,d ,w,f
mau tl0 otticc He 1)elieves tie p0l0 nf
vortll Carolina should r-hnns far them-
Bl,i,.00 i,;i.
t - .tiv inii uiio oiitiii vv. L it I r if lilt: 1111:11
plilces in theil. ift Wo V4fIltnre to
lhjlt xrr. AHile .vill V-H1i,i to tr(, YO: of
the lK,ople in convJntion, and take the
..1:lcl5 ass;,MUHl .;. ; tK, r:,m.
x o o
paign.
A LEECH BAROMETER.
To the Editor of tlus ikxntiic A merican ;
The following is a simple way of making
a "leech barometer." Take an eight ounce
phial, and put in it three gills of water and
ahealthy leech, changing the water in sum-
,uer once a Week' aml in wiuter onc 11
fortnight. If the weather is to bo line,
the leech lies motionless at the bottom of
the glass, and coiled together iu a spiral
. "form ; if rain may be expected, it will
r 11 V l" u, "ui 1,1 115 ""8'8. "
I :.. i ;n i.i ...i.i.i . :r
1W"",U l"lc 1,11 u" WCrtU,K1 ,s "
we are to have wind, it will move througl
its habitation with amazing swiftness, and
seldom goes to rest till a high wind be
gins ; if a remarkable storm or thunder
and rain is to succeed, the leach will re
main for some days before almost con
tinually out of water, and show great un
easiness in violent throes and convulsive-
like motions. In frost, as in clear, sum
mer-like weather, tho leech lies constant
ly at the bottom ; aud in suow, as in rainy
weather, it moves to the very mouth of
the ohial. The top should be covered
over with a piece of muslin.
Emvix S. Cloltm.vn.
South Boston, Mass.
TnosR Chuistiass. When the smoke of
the battle, and the still denser smoke of di
plomacy, clears away, we shall learn some
thing of the new status of the Turkish
Christians alout which Russia and the En
glish iron-clads have manifested so much
concern. These Christians most of them
merely nominal comprise no inconsidera
ble part of the population. of the late Turk
ish emnire. There were, according to the
most reliable accounts, 2.').0,000 Armeni
ans, 1,130.000 Greek churchmen, 740,000
Roman Catholics and some 40.000 Protest
ants, or a total ot 53,9130,000 in the various
parts of the empire. They have suffered
severely during the war, as the provinces in
which they mostly reside have been overrun
by both armies, and the lawless Hordes of
irregulars attached to the Turkish forces
have inflicted all manner of outrages upon
them. Thcirusuaily oppressive taxation has
been increased, while all business has been
pretty much destroyed. The treaty of pi-ace.
it is understood, provides for their protec
tion; but unless the humiliation to which
Turkey has been obliged to submit exercises
a wholesome fear of retribution, treaties, as
in the pasf, will lw little observed by her
fiiitulc8S government. Still it is to 1 hoped
that the near approach she has made to ut
ter national ruin will work a reformation in
this respect, and that the Christians may in
deed be protected. Standard.
Value of rolitcncss.U always pays to
be polite. As the steamboat Magenta was
I descending the Hudson river last week
crowded -with passengers, an old gentle
man was unable to find a seat. A young
mau noticing this gave the old gentleman
his chair and went forward. Two min
utes afterwards the boiler blew up and
j the old gentleman was killed, while the
mau who had given up his seat cscaitd
-
unhurt. &'hict'jo Tribune.
! it7-.? -j j
t, Not the least a!iraWAmtej-M
planttdsoNvnrlrV
farmer or n mmKmm rhi '4
smoothing and plrfcf mj ffiti,?tich',,n
are to be lanteVIIJLU i'A
several inrth6(tlW'cti4ffimni luclt a ""x
dragjJrat one ofthe Wlesirfiike''1
two pieces of jolsts-acTi ith1 the 'Trout
tnu beveled likethe front'of led'run'
ner, and .then naiFotf pfofik 'cro4 iheVu, L' ' '
on tlie-nnder at leiig theTaiilis! ditd v
out by the joistSa foor'o fiLfpV
may be of any f"or weight,' immt? J 1
aceordinsr to th n4or, ..r Xist-i
according to the amount of Teamlo'be
used.
on two narrow srrips upo toface4oflue '
plank, to-collect the lumps of sVdlinddfhg''
them aloug until crushed, or uutilanuIii '
eqhalities in the snrfsco' are filled "up! " '
mecentlrftJeetred a tMdTjlescri
tion of h pnlverizer with T half dozen or 1 '
more cleats 'nailed upo the under sidc'of
the drag for more thoroughly pulverizing5
aud leveling the soil. They are nailed "
on with the onter endslbrward of tlie
middle, and thus tend to gather the soil
toward the middle, and 'prevent ridgc&v
being left at the sides of the drag wlreu"in
use. Either of the various styles arc ve'iy "
useful in their place, and the cost of mak-"
ing one is-so small that every" farmer -should
have one of 1.4s own. The y are'
sometimes used for covering potatoev
fodder corn, or other crops, and may of
ten pay for themselves in a single 'd;ivs
use. On lands clear from stones they
may be used at seediug time instead ef a
roller for fitting fields for the mowing ma
chine or sevthc". 7i.
A Beautiful Men. Away among' the
Alleghanies there is a spring so .small that
an oxen in a summer's day could drain it
dry. It steals its unobtrusive way amo'ug
the hills until it spreads- out Jnto tho
beautiful 'iio. Thence it stretches away
a thousand miles, leaving on its banks
more than a hundred villages and cities
tnd many thousand cultivated farms, and.
bearing o:: its bosom move than half a
thousand steamboats. Then, mining the
Mississippi, stretches away . some 1,500
miles more until it -Ail IV-' into the great
emblem of eternity. It U one of the great
tributaries of the ocean, which, obedient
only to 'God, shall roar until the angel,
with own foot on the sea and the other on
the laud, shall lift up his hand to Heaven
aud swear that time shall be no longer
So with moral influence. It is a rill a
rivulet an ocean, bouadlesslind fathom-'
less as eteruitv.
Wonderful philanthropy.
While bankruptcy after bankrupey is
over the wires ; while hope is dying in ii
thousand breasts ; while all dismal night
aud no bow ofpromi.su spans tile sky, cr
star of hope is visible above the horizon,'
we are cooly told that oar "foreign credit
must be maintained." This disinteres
ted philanthropy that forgets its own kith
and kin, aud is willing to rob the present;
aud the future that "the poun.T" of flasli be
deli ve red , is a rroga t i ug to i tsei f, po wei s and
privileges of which it will yet be stripped;'
and with thongs will be driven from the
temple. Would not a better way to main
tain our credit abroad, be, have more at
home. Individual credit, State credit,"'
then national and foreign credit will coino
as a mutter of course. Journal ofAyrl
culture. A telegram from St. Joints, Florida, .
dated March JJI, says: Captain James B.
T3aus nas oeen neie ioi tne past lew nays.
making au examination of the river with,
a view to ascertaining if the channel at
the mouth can be impro.vcd. ' lie submit- '
ted a report, yesterday, to the Mayor,
stating that with the jetty system, from
twenty to twenty-four feet of 4 water cau
be obtained at a cost of .$f ,750,000.
Governor Hampton is making a genuTLo
triumphal journey through the Staie of
South Carolina. At every town aud vil-,
lage he is received with popular demon
titrations uf delight. Even tho colored
people, in some places have turned out to
greet him. At one town ucolo.cd woman
stopped in front of tho crowd and said; .
'Governor Hampton ! You stay Governor. f
We?s had a better time since you's made.
Governor thau w-'s had Lefore seuso, tho
war.'' s., .
Two cit i.ens of VY inchester, Mass.', havo
determined to present an equestrian statuo .
of Leo to the State of Virginia. Martin -Milmore
is t be Uie sculptor. The Bos-"
ton papers say that the statue will be of
bronze, cast at Chico.x-e, and that the
base and x-de.stal aje to by of Maine- and
Virginia granite trimmed w i thLTen ncssee
marble; tliat the coutract for futuisliiug
the material on tho work has been award---.,
ed to Sit p'leii MilmoieT" brother of tin;
sculptor, and tharho has been paid there-:
on the first install men t of .co1). - - -
There are times wlieji a Utile child can
plunge us into the depths of de.si.air,
Such a time happened recently.. We had
company to tea, and iSas trying my bcsts
to amuse them, when my little four-y ear--.
old daughter solemaly piped out, ptduU
iug to a bald-headed-geutlemua: "Papa,
did God make that white spot on Shv!5.' -head
for the tiiv- to play on "
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