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j.oec5. yiiUyASctoiQ V:7yrrfu - his' great
he liitiucnce rr tne noiy spirit,
i;re coal from the altar; Chrysostom meditated and
.'Ijrjied Adiilecontemplatinga painting of St Paul.
lhicm knelt down before composing his great
,.rk,an l prayed lor light from heaven. Pope
-ever coui.l eomposa well without first declaim
;Vr some time at the top of his voice, and thus
-ouqnz his nervous system to its fullest activity.
Uentham composed after playing a prelude
a the orgno, or while taking his "ante jentacu
.md "nost prandial" walks in his garden
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ihe same by way, that Milton occupied.
imard comoosed his meditation's
wools he delighted in nothing so much as the
v-jWviae of the dense forest, finding there, he
.u. I, something more profound and suggestive
rfian anything he could find in books. The
,jf,f3j would sometimes fall upon him there,
without for a moment interrupting his raedita
tlm. Camoens composed his verses with the
roar of battle in his ears; fur the Portuguese
poet wa a soldier and a brave one, though a
pcet. He composed others of his beautiful
vtvses, at the time when his Indian slave was
beting a subsistence for him in the streets.
Tusso wrote his finest pieces in the lucid inter
vals of madness.
Kossenu wrote his works early in the morning;
he Sage at mid-day; Byron at midnight
liar-
iloiiui rose at four
till late at nir!:t.
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in the morning, arm wrote
Aristotle was a tremendeou3
worker; he took little sleep, and was constantly
retrenching it. He had a contrivance by which
he woke early, and to wake was with him tj
commence work. Demosthenese passed three
winths in a c.vtrn by the sea-side, in laboring
:o overcome the delects of his voice There he
rtau, studied and declaimed.
Luther, when studing, always had his dog ly
o" :it his feet, a do-r which had b?en brought
frotii Wartbnrg, and cf which he was very fond.
An ivory crucifix stood on the table before him,
;nd the wal's d his study ,were stuck round with
caricatures of the Pone. lie worked at his desk
f.-.r days together without going out; but 'when
brain, he would take his flute or his guitar with
him into the porch, and their execute some
musical fantasy (for he was a skillful musician,)
when the ideas would flow upon him again as
fresh as flowers after a summer's rain. Music
was his invariable solace at such times. Indeed
Luther did not hesitate to say, that after theol
ogy, music was the first of arts. "Music," said
he, "is the art i' prophets; it is the only other
art, which, like theology, can calm the agitation
of the soul, and put the devil to flight." Next
to music, if not before it, Luther loved children
and flowers. That great gnarled man had a
heart as tender as a woman.
Calvin studied in his bed. Every morning at
ve or six o'clock, he had books, manuscripts,
and papers carried to him there, and he worked
"!i for hours together. If he had occasion to go
ut, on his return he undressed and went to bed
uain to continue his studies. In his last years
lie dictated his writings to secretaries. The
--cnences issued complete from his mouth. If
he felt his faculty of composition leaving him,
he forthwith quitted his bed, giving up writing
and composing, and went about his out door
duties for days, weeks and months together.-
Hut so soon as he felt the inspiration fall upoa
him he went back to his bed, and his secretary
set to woik forthwith.
Mr McCormick, who lives about two miles of
Newberg, New York, was born August 6, 1751,
and is now in tolerably good health. His voice
is very strong, hearing good, but his eyesight is
very poor. His hair is not gray yet. He was
married at forty-five, and had fourteen children.
He has been very temperate in his life, and has
never felt the want of drink as others do. lie
generally salted his food to such a degree that
no one but himself could eat it, and strange to
say, he very seldom felt the want of drink. He
did not commence 10 smoke until he was sixty
five years old; nev?r drank tea or coffee, milk
he greatly dislike 1. He always worked hard,
went to bed early, and got up early. His an
swer to the question what he thought, more
than anything else, caused him to live so long,
was temperance, exercise, plain food, regular
meals, regular hours in going to bed and getting
up. Any one, to see him, would take him to be
a man of about seventy. He sleeps well, and
eems to enjoy good health, and may live some
ten years more.
THE MARCH OF THE PLAGUE.
Our last advices from Europe indicate that
the fears of the visitation of the Cholera during
the year are rife throughout the Continent.
The greatest sanirary precautions have been
taken to preclude the entrance of the plague in-
to Europe through vessels arriving from Ales- !
andria, in Egypt. Tidings from the East repre
sent that the Conqueror-Worm is extending the
fields of his ravages westwardly. Central Asia, "
Southern Russia, the jungles of India, the long
weary route of the Faithful Mecca all, in turn,
have been swept over by the desolating scourge,
aad the perishing victims are counted by thou
sands. Pilgrims who have come from afar to
kiss the sacred Kaaba, and to renew their vows
at the tombs of the Prophet, have been smitten
on their route, and have died in their tracks,
or have retraced their steps at the news of the
dreadful ravages of the disease in the sections
of country betipejjn them and the holy shrine.
In many cases those so returning Sheiks with
their trains had died upon the roadside, crowd-
el in tents and houses whereiu they had sought
refuge.
In Egypt the deaths are on a scale of the
most fearful magnitude. While towns and vil
lages have been depopulated, and the Destroyer
is still busy among his victims. The English
Government has taken the precaution to remove
the mail bags from the postal routes between
Great "Britain and Egypt, and has substituted,
therefor, boxes in whish outgoing and incoming
mails are transported. This precaution is taken
in order to guard against infection being carried
out of Egypt during the transportation of the
mails through the country.
A quarantine has been established at Mar
seilles ever since two passengers, in a dying.con
dition were landed from the Alexandria steam
er; and in all the French and Italian ports the
strictest quarantine regulations prevail. The
dispatch of the American Consul at Port Mahon,
in the Mediterranean, announcing the facts cf
the encroachments of the plague, and warning
Government of the danger to be apprehended
from it, and the action of Government, thereup
on, have been published.
Although some doubt iscxpressed in Europe
as to whether the disease that is playing such
havo? tbroughou1:, Asia . and Africa ?., vndetvl,
the Asiatic cholera, enough is known of its
ravages to warrant the most extraordinary pre
caution; and we hope the authorities, 'both State
and Federal, as well as those of Gur city, will not
fail in the adoption of, and rigid adherence to
such sanitary regulations as the possible threat
ening emergency would seem to call for. All
vessels coming from an infected port, or a port
in an infected country, should be subjected to a
quarantine of twenty, thirty or forty days. The
result at issue is too grave a one to be trifled
with; and whilst we can see no reason for alarm,
as yet, either in his country or in Europe, the
plain duty of authority is to guard, by all known
sanitary means, against the possible introduction
among our people of the fell malady whose pro
gress the civilized world is at present watching
with such anxious interest. Commercial Bul
If a man is given to liquor, let no liquor be
given to him.
A Government Inspector and his
"Partner." A Government Inspector, visit
ing a kinatic asylum, saw the medical superin
tendent, and said, "I dou't wish to go over the
asylum in the usual way, butta mingle with the
patietits as if I were an officer, a surgeon, or
even one of themselves. 13y so doing I shall
be better enabled to judge of their intellectual
state, aud of their progress in the direction of
sanity." With pleasure," said the doctor; "it
is Saturday, and we usually have a dance on
Saturday night. If you go into the ball-room,
as we call it, you will see them dancing and
talking without reserve." "Would it be objec
tionable if I danced with them?" asked the offi
cial. "Not at all," was the reply." The official
walked iuto the ball-room, and, selecting the
prettiest girl he saw for a partner, was soon
keeping up a very animated conversation with
her. In the course of the evening he said to
the doctor, 'Do you kuow, that girl in the
white dress with blue spots is a very curious
case! I've been talking to her, and I cannot, for
the life and soul of me, discover in what direc
tion her mental malady lies. Of course, I saw
at once she was mad saw it in the odd look of
her eyes. She kept looking at me so oddly. I
asked her if she did not think she was the
Queen of England, or whether she had not been
robbed of a large fortune by the volunteer move
meat, or jilted by the Prince of Wales, and
tried to fiud out the cause of her lunacy; but I
couldn't, she was too artful." "Very-, like,"
answered the doctor; "jou sec, she Li not a pa
tient, she is one of the housemaids, and as sane
( as you are. .Meantime, iue prenj oousemaiu
went to ail her fellow-servants, and said, "Have
you seen the new patient? He's been dancing
with me. A fine tall man, and beautiful whis
kers! but as mad as a March hare. He asked
me if I wasn't the Queen of England; if.a vol
unteer hadn't robbed me of a larpe fortune;
and whether the Prince of Wales didn't want
to marry me? He is mad. Isn't it a pitty?
such a fine young mini" Illustrated Times.
AN INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL
FORREST.
Jus Vernon of the Fort Pillow Massacre.
A correspondent of the New Orleans True
Delta describes an interview with Gen. Forrest,
at. Meridian, Mississippi. Forrest he says is a
man of fine appearance, about six feet in height;
dark, piercing, hazel eyes; carefully trimmed
moustache and chin whiskers dark as niaht:
finely cut features and iron grey hair. His form
is lithe, plainly indicating great physical power
and activity. The writer asks, after some pre
liminary questions :
"Now that you have time, General, do you
think you will ever put upon paper the true ac
count of the Fort Pillow affair?"
"Well," said he, "the Yankees ought to know;
they sent down their best men to investigate the
affair."
"lut are we to believe their report, General?"
"Yes, if we are to believe anything a nigger
says. When I went into the war, 1 meant to
fight. Fighting means killing. I have lost
twerhr-.nine horses in .t'hewar, and have killed
a ma a each time. The ot her day 1 was a horse
ahead hut at Selma they surrounded me and I
killed two jumped my horse over a one-horse
wati'Wvund got away." I began to think I had
sotnv idea of the man at last, lie continued :
4M-y "Provost Marshal's book will show that I
hawc taken thirty-one thousand prisoners during
the v;hr. "At Fort Pillow I sent in a flag of
truce, and demanded an unconditional surrender,
or X woul'd not an wer for my men. This they
refused. Ient them another note giving the.n
one hour to, determine. This they refused. I
could see on the river boats loaded with troops.
Tiny senrbac'v asking for an hour more. I give
the: twenty minutes. I sat on my horse during
iL.ffvhoIeniaie;
"The fort was filled with negroes and deserters
from our army men who lived side by side with
my men. I waited five minutes after the time,
and .then blew my bugle for the charge. In
twenty minutes my men were over the works,
and the firing had ceased. " "The citizens and
Yankee3 had broken in the heads of whisky and
lager beer barrels, and were ail drunk. They
kept- up firing all the time aa they went down
the hill. Hundreds of them rushed to the river
and tried to swim to the gunboats, and my men
shot them down. The Mississippi lliver was
red with their hlod for three hundred yards
During all this, their flag was still flying, and I
rushed over the works and cut the halliards, and
stopped the fight. Many of the Yankees were
in tents in front, and they were in their way, as
they concealed my men, and some of them set
them on fire. If they were burned to death, it
was in these tents.
"They have a living witness in Capt. Yroung,
their Quartermaster, and I will leave it to any
prisoner I have ever taken if I have not treated
them well."
Good Advice.- The Cultivator gives some
excellent advice to our young men in the follow
ing, which it would be well for them to rrofit
by :
Go to Work! Young man ! jubilant in the
prideof your strength! pull off that coat and go
to work! If you wait for something to turn up'
you will die of that "hope deferred" .which
"rnaketh the heart sick!" Take hold resolutelv'
yourself, and turn up something ! Lands, every
where, in the South, can be had almost for noth
ing; and no soil is so poor but that some crop
may bo successfully and profitably grown upon
it.
The merchants and mechanics ef our towns
and cities ueed all the supplies we can furnish,
at highly remunerating prices; and you have
the additional reward and pride of feeling that
you are producing and really doing some good
in the world. Do not be lured by the miserable
"clap-trap" and bug-bear of superior respecta
bility" into any of the already over, crowded
"professions." A good, steady, industrious, in
telligent farmer or gardener is practically worth
a dozen "jackleg" doctors or pettifogging" law
yers! The people need food and clothing, not
"law" or "physio" so we again earnestly ex
hort all our "stout and brare" young men to go
to work, at once, on the farm, in the workshop,
or wherever else real earnest work is needed.
ARTEMUS WARD IN RICHMOND,
KlCIIMOND, ya , May 2$ 65.
OLONZO WARD.
Afore I com rue nts this letter from the la te
rebil capitol I desire- to cimply . say that I have
seen a low and skurrilous noat in the 'papers
from a certain pnrsun who signs hisself OIodzo
Ward, & sez he is my berruther. I did once
have a berruther by that name, but 1 do not
recognize him. To me he is wuss than dead !
I took him from college some 1G years ago and
gave him a-, good situation, as the Bearded
Woman, in my show. How did he repay ine
for this kindness ? He basely undertook (one
day while in a lackna!ian mood and rum, and
right in sight of the audience in tent) to stand
upon his heal, whereby he betrayed his sex on
account of frs boots & his Beard fallin' off his
face, rooinin' my prospects in that town, & like
wise incurrjii' the scris displeasure of the Press,
which sed b!dly 1 was triflin' with feelin's cf
intelligent (public. I know4 no such man a'
Olonzo Ward. I do not ever wish his name
breathed in my presents. I do not recognize
him. I perfectly disgust him.
- RICHMOND.
The old man finds hisself once more in a
Sunny clin;b. f cum here a few days arter the
cattcrpillertulashum.
Mr naburs seemed surprised & astonisht at
this dariti' bravery into the part of a rain at my
time of 1 if"1, but our family was never knowed to
quale in danger's stormy hour.
Mi father was a sutler in the Itevolution War.
MI father once had a iatarvoo with Gin'ral La
Fayette.
lie ashed La Fayette to lend him five dollar",
premising pay him in the Fall; but Lsffy said
he "couM'nt see it in those. lamps." Laffy was
French, -nd his knowledge of our langwidgo
was a li;:lc shaky.
Immfjutly on my 'rival here I proceeded to
the Spltswood House, and calliV to my a
sistonis a young man from our town who writes
a goo(d runnin' hand, I put my ortograph on the
Itegistor, and handin my umbrella to a bald
headed rr.an behind the counter, who I s'posed
was Mr. Spottswood, 1 said, "Spotsy, how does
she rue"'"' . -
ilea"lil'i a culled parson and'said:
"$';ov the gen'lmau to the cow yard, and give
him fart No. 1."
"TVt General Grant here?" I said. "Per
h.ips I'lysis wouldn't mind my turnin in with
hiia."
'M'o you know the Gin'ral?" inquired Mr.
Spo?'swood.
j'all, no, not 'zictly, but he'll remember me.
His broth?-iidaw's aunt bought her rye meal
ofj !:iy uncle Levi all one winter. My uncle
Levi's rvo meal was"
i"'Pooh, pooh I" said Spotsy, "don't bother
rric,'' and he shuv'd my umbrella onto the floor.
Obsarvin to him not to be too keerless with that
woin, 1 accompanied the African to my lodgins.
V ,;My brother." I said, "are you aware that
you have been 'mancipated? Do you realize
how glorious it is to be free? Toil me, my dear
brother, does it not seem like some dreams, or
,b you realize the great fact in, all its livin' and
lijly magnitood?"
He said take some jin.
I was show'd the cowyard, and laid down
nnder a one mule cart. The hotel was orful
crowded, and I was sorry I hadn't gone to Lib
by Prison. Tho' I should have slept comforta
ble enuffef the bed cloths haden't been pulled
off me during the night by a scoundrel who cum
and hitched a mule to the cart and druv ii ofi
I thns lost my covering and my throat feels a
little husky this morning.
General Halleck offered me thb hospitality of
the city, givin' me my choice of hospitals.
He has also placed at my disposal a saiall-pcx
amboolence. - , '
Robert Lee is regarded as a noble feller. lie
was opposed to the war at the fust, and draw'd
his sword very reluctant. In faet he wouldn't
have drawn his sword at all, only he had a large
stock of military clothes on hand, which he
didn't want to waste. He sez the colored man
is right, and he will go at once to New York
and open a Sabbath School for negro minstrels.
The silk-worm feeds upon the mulberry leaf,
and spins his silk. The poet feasts: upon the
world of nature, and spiDs his beautiful thoughts
and fancies.
"I bad rather have nothing to wear than be
out of fashion" said a youag lady. "You-may
be in fashion with the new style of bonnet and
still be nearly in that undesirable nude, condor
tion," was the reply.