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IN ADVANCE
WM. J. YATES e DITOR AD PaOPREITOB
CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, ; OCTOBER 2, 1866.
FIFTEENTH ' VOLUME--.!! U II B E R ' Jtl
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(g)Pablished every Toesday,Q)
WILLIAM J. YATES,
XOITOB AHOPBOPailTO.
$3
PER ANNUM, in advance
$2
for. six months.
Transient adrertisements must be paid for
in Advance. Obituary notices are cbargedadrertis
ing rates. ' 1 . - . .
Adrertiiettenta 'Oot- marked ' 6n the manuscript
far a specific time, will be insetted until forbid, and
charged accordingly .is o :; . . - - :
$1 per square of ip lines (or less will be charged
for each jasertion f3,llbe,4l'ertlseaient is in
serted 2 months or more.
CIIiULOTTE FEMALE INSTITUTE,
c CUARLOTTErN.0.
The next session commences on the 1st of October,
18C6, and continues until 30th June, 1867. '
. ..The session is divided into two Terms of Twenty
weeks each ;. the onexoroniencing the 1st October,
1866, and the other the 15th February, 1867.
' ' Exptntt per Term of Twenty weeks :
Board, including t every .expense, except
washing, "f " " $105 00
Tuition in Collegiate Department 25 00
ti t Primary . 20 00
Moeic, Modern Languages, Drawing and Painting
taught by 'competent and thorough Instructors at
usual prices.
For circular and catalongne containing full par
ticulars, address
REV. R. BURWELL & SON, Principals,
July 9, 1866. Charlotte, N. C.
CORN MIXL, .and, SAW 111,1,.
The undersigued basin successful operation at
bis Steam Mills, 4 miles South of Charlotte, a mill
fur grinding' Cora at which be can grind 150
bushels per day. Will be pleased to' see his friends.
Send your Corn.
Orders for Lumber will also receive prompt at
tention. .P. S. Yl'UISNANT.
Sept 3, 1866. lmpd
Z. B. T4!CeB.
- O. DOWD.
R. I. JOn.TSTON.
VANCE, DOWD At JOHNSTON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Charlotte, N. C ,
Having associated tnemselves together, will prac
tice in the Courts Of Mecklenbure, Iredell, Catawba,
Davidson, Uowan, Cabarrus and Union, and in the
Federul and Supreme Courts. - . '
Ciiras collected anywhere in the State.
April 2, 1865 , . ; , "if ' '
.MEDICAL CARD.
DRS.- GIP.BON & McCOMBS, having associated
themselves in the practice of Medicine and Surgery,
respectfully tendertheir professional services to the
citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country.
From a large experience in private as well as
Field and Hospital practice, they feel justified in
proposing to pay special attention to the practice of
Surgery in alt its branches.
Office in Granite Row,' up stairs, opposite the
Mansion House. -'.
ROBERT GIBBON, Id. D.
Dec 11, 1865 J. P. McCOMBS, M. D.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS.
B3y All persons against whom I have claims,
(some of then) half as old as myself and who do
not intend to take-the benefit of. the Stay Law, (so
called.) will do me a favor and themselves a credit
by calling on me at Win. Boyd k Co's sUie, and re
newing their paper, and paying as much as the in
terest, if no more, as I am in want of the money.
J AS. II. CARSON.
July 16, 1866
tf
The Southern Express Company,
For the transportation ,xf merchandise, valuable
packages, specie, bank notes, bonds, kc, for all parts
of the Souih and Southwest, in connection with
ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY,
have established their agency at 50' BROADWAY,
NEW YORK, where orders to call for goods to be
forwarded South will receive prompt attention.
Merchandise and valuables delivered to llarnden's,
Kinsley's, American and United States Express Com
panies, for the Southern Express Company, will re
ceive prompt dispatch.
For particulars, rates of freight, 4c. kc, apply at
the office of the Southern Express Company, 59
Broadway. H. B. PLANT,
Dec 18, 1865. President.
JOHN VOGEL,
PRACTICAL TAILOR,
Respectfully informs the citizens of Charlotte and
surrounding country, that he is prepared to manu
facture gentlemen's clothing in the latest style and
at short notice. His best exertions will be given to
render satisfaction to those who patronize him.
Shop opposite Kerr's Hotel, next door to Brown &
Stitt's store.
January t, 1866.
State of JYortii Carolina.
300 -REWARD.
A Proclamation by His Excellency, J ONATIIAN
YVoitTH, Governor of North Carolina.
-Wherkas. it has been represented tome that
JOHN H. ALLEN, late cf the county of Mecklen
burg, in said State, stands charged with the murder
of one Titus, a freedman, late of said County of
Mecklenburg, and that the said Allen .is a fugitive
from justice and has escaped beyond the limits of
this State
Now, Therefore, in ordef that the said Allen
may be arrested and brought to trial, - for said al
leged murd r, I, Jonathan Woutu, Governor of said
Slate, do issue this my Proclamation, offering the
reward of THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS -or bis
apprehension and delivery to the SherifF-of Mcck
Jenbnrg county.
. In witness whereof. His Excellency,
f s t Jonathan Worth. Governor of said State.
has hereto et:t bis hand and caused the j
treatbeal of the Staieto be nRixed.
Done, at the City of Raleigh, this the 25th day of
August, A. D., 1866.
JONATHAN WORTH.
By the Governor : - -
W..H. Baulky, Private Secretarv.
Dkscbiftios: John II. Allen is represented to be
about 32 years old" five feet nine incbes high.
strongly omit, and has Iiglit nair ana blue eye3
sept i, ibbo.
?t
Just ' Received.
100 Sacks Liverpool Sal,
300 bushels Corn, . - -
1500 Lbs. Hemlock Leather," '
5Q Sacks Family Flour of J B Stewart's mnke.
For sale by HAMMOND A McLAUOHLIN.
Sept 17, 1866. : V . ; ;
NEW POST OFFICES. ,
The following is a list of offices re-opened or
established in this State, with the names of Post-
njssters : - ...
Mount Ulla, Rowan, Jno R Goodman.
White's Store, Anson, Martin J liaroett.
- Killian's Mills, Lincoln, A N Alexander. , .
- Jacob's Fork, Catawba, Fred R Beck.
Oak Forest, Iredell, Marshall R Steele.
- Webb's Ford, Rutherford, Mrs Jane Webb
Norwood, Stanly, Miss Sarah Norwood.
Stice's Shoals, Oleaveland, Mrs Harriet E
Chambers. '
Mill Hill, Cabarrus, Mary J Stirewalt.
Pineville, Mecklenburg, Mary A Uarrison.
i New Sterling, Iredell, Miss Mary D Summers
Rowan Mills, Rowan, Mrs Mary Oweus.
Fancy Hill, Iredell, Jno A McLeland.
Union Grove," Iredell, Jas It Norman.
White Sulphur Springs, Catawba, Martha J
Jbckard.
High Shoals, Rutherford, Miss Delphina
Aydlott.
Big Lick, Stanly, Jno Hunnicutt.
NOTICE.
By virtue of a decree of the Court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions, obtained at July Term, last, we
will, a3 Administrators of C J Wilson, dee'd, sell at
Public Auction, at the Court House in the city of
Charlotte, on Mondav the 22d day of October next,
a valuable Tract of LAND, lying on the waters of
McDowell s Creek, adjoining tue Lands of Hopewell
Copper Mine, Thomas M . Kerns, David Allen and
others, known as the McKnigbt place, containing
about Two Hundred and Fifty Acres. Sold on a
credit of twelve months, the purchaser giving bond
witu approved security.
ALBERT WILSON,
J. M. WILSON,
Sept 10, 1866 6t
Adm'rs.
BUTTER AND EGGS.
We beg leave to inform the citizens of Charlotte
that we have opened a Store for the purpose of
dealing in country produce. We have now on hand
Aiple3, Mellons, Irish Potatoes, Oats, Dried Apples,
Candies, Cakes, Cigars, Tobacco, Snuff, Blacking,
Cooking Soda, Crockery Ware, and many other ar
ticles for family use.
All country produce dealt in, particularly BUlTMt
and EGGS Give us a call, vou will find us at all
times ready to buy or sell.
OZ.MENT & WHITE.
At E H White's Boot and Shoe Store, on Tryon street,
a few doors above the Methodist Church.
Sept 10, 1866 pd
On Consignment,
400 Bushels white Corn, 250 bushels Meal, li boxes
ordinary Tobacco, at
HUTCHISON, UUKKOUUHS & COS.,
Sept 10, 1866 Opposite 1st National Bank.
VAJiUABLE REAL ESTATE
For Sale.
My firm containing 175 acres, lying two miles
east trom Charlotte, on the sawyer 8 Koad, in a
good neighborhood. About one half of this tract is
wood-land. 1 he improvements consist of a double
Log-Cabin, Barn, kc , a Well of excellent water,
and ' an orchard of selected fruit on the premises.
Posession given 1st January, 1867, and permission
given to sow small grsiu this Fall.
Also, a Email brick Dwelling House in Charlotte
containing 5 rooms, located near the Depot fvnu
convenient to business.
Also a large brick two story Store room at David-
son Uoiiege, no dj iu leei, nanasomeiy nnisoeu
and centrally located, with a counting room and
cellar attached, and a small frame Dwelling House
and Well of water on the premises.
Any or all of these properties will be sold on
terms to suit the times, and must be sold.
JAS. H. CARSON.
July 23, 1866. tf
HIGHLY DESIRABLE PROPERTY
FOR SALE.
WTishinjr to chancre my business, I will sell 250
Acres of LAND in and adjoining the Town of Char
lotte, 40 acres in corporation). On the Tract there
is a good Mill-site, 22 feet rail, with a nrslrate uam
recently built, and race dug, and all the large tim
bers for a Mill House on the ground. The Tract
can be divided. It is worth the attention of any
one wishing a paying property, or as an investment.
Any information can be had by applying to the sub
scriber. . V. F. PHIFEIt.
Sept 10, 1866. tf
Wag-on and
To hire or sell. Apply to
Sept 3, 1866. tf
Team,
W. BOYD.
F0rv THE INFORMATION OF PER-
sons wishing white Apprentices Douna
to them, notice is given that four Boys
and a Girl will be bound out a"t the' next County
Conrt, on Monday of the-Term. The ages range
from 7 to 9 years.
Sept 17, 1866 "
J. Ts BUTTLER,
WATCH AND CLOCK MAKER,
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
Has just received the finest Stock of GOODS ever
offered in this market, consisting of
WATCHES.
Fine Gold Hunting American nd English Watches
of the best makers. Ladies fine Gold Hunting Ge
neva Watches; fine Silver American, English and
Swiss Watches. Watches of all sorts and all sizes,
from Five Dollars t' Three Hundred.
CLOCKS.
I have some of the best, which I will sell at prices
to please any one.
JEWELRY,
1 would say to the ladies, come and see for your
selves, the finest Stock ever offered in this city, con
sisting of fine Jet Sets ; fins Gold and Enamel Sets;
fine Coral Sets; Locket Pins, Ear-ring?, kc.
SILVER WARE. -Silver
Tea and Table Spoons,. Forks and Thimbles ;
plated Tea and Table Spoons, Forks. Butter-Knives
and Cups, Castors. Ac.
SPECTA CLES.
Fine Gold, Silver, Ste!, Ac, to suit all ages, . i
Guns, Pistols and Cartridges, and Musical In
struments. The above Goods Twill sell cheaper than yon can
buy them in New York or elsewhere. j
The highest price paid for 1
OLD GOLD AND SHYER.
Watch 11asse' only25 cents. ' "
Please accept ray sincere, thanks for your kind
and liberal patronage to me since my return from'
the army. -' ; .
Sept i7, 1866. 1 - , - J.- T. BUTLER. :
Ir. J. M. Davidson, ,
Offers" his professional services to the citizens
Charlotte; and the surrounding cdantrr.
Sit JO, 1865. ..
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- "From the P.aleigh Index.
THE PREEDMEN.
Passing, yesterday, tbrongh a certain portion
of the city, io which freed men most do congre
gate, we beheld what must have produced the
most gloomy forebodings io the mind or any
one who feels an interest in the future welfare
of either the white or the black race. We
passed a shed in which a big, stout fellow has
"opened a store" with a flock the entire pro
ceeds of which would not feed him two days.
He was quietly laid back, doubtless awaiting
customers and dreaming of wealth and distinc
tion to be acquired through the splendid busi
ness in which he has embarked. Near by were
three children, the largest holding the youngest
on his lap, and both the younger bawling as if
they would split their throats. The door of the
hut was standing open, and through it, on a
pallet of rags, lay a woman, the mother of .the
children apparently half asleep, and as indif
ferent to the cries of her children as if they were
so many pigs. Near by under a tree were some
four or five men and women, stretched in vari
ous postures of the most abandoned indolence,
and exchanging with each pother ribald and ob
scene remarks. Others were scattered about in
the neighboorbood, some leaning on a fence,
others sitting. on door steps, but not one appar
ently engaged in any employment whatever.
We spoke to the mother of the children, and
asked her why she did not give them something
to eat. She replied that she did not have any
thing to give them.- .We then asked her if she
could not borrow something from some of her
neighbors, when she answered that sher "didn't
reckon they had any thing, either."
ibis is but a specimen of what may be con
stantly witnessed all over the city, and in almost
every town and city in the State, and, we pre
sume, in every State in which the colored race
has recently been emancipated. It becomes a
question of vital importance, what is to become
of them t And more important still, what is to
bcc5nie of tfce whites and the industrious blacks
in the communities where these thoughtless im
provident, vagabond drones abound ? Talk
about equal rights and equal suffrage! If they
were allowed all the rights they can ask, (and
they are,) and were to vote every day of their
lives, it would never benefit them a straw's
worth, but rather conduce to their mora utter
demoralization, if that were possible. Some
thing else must be done io regard to them
their own welfare and the welfare of all other
classes demand that steps be taken to persuade
or force them to provide honestly for their own
subsistence.' - '
The winter is approaching, and death by cold
and starvation will be witnessed all over the
country, among the class of which we arc speak
ing, unless some extraordinary course be adopted
to make them go to work and provide for their
own wants. It is a public matter, and we think
those who have the administration of the law,
and the care of the public weal in their hands,
ought to take into serious consideration the pro
per course to be pursued to rid the community
of this incubus that hangs upon it. If there
are already laws on the statute books fitting the
case,' let them be enforced ; if other laws are
necessary, the matter ought to be brought to the
attention of the next General Assembly, that the
defect may be remedied.
We hope that, by this time, . the freedmen
have learned that they cannot live comfortably
without farming or working for farmers.
North Carolina Conference. The next
North Carolina Conference of the Methodist E.
Church, South, will commence its session in
Fayetteville, on Wednesday, November the 7th,
next. . Bishop Pierce will preside. Some have
desired a change in the time of meeting, but af
ter consultation it has been deemed best that
the original appointment of the Bishops should
remain. Raleigh Sentinel.
Bishop Wightmaii, who is to preside at the
South Carolina Conference, at Marion, has
changed the time of the meeting from Novem
ber 7th to the 19th of December next.
HEAD THIS FOR YOURSELF.
We are receiving our FALL and WINTER
GOODS, and we ask the public to call and see our
Stock of
DRY GO ODS,
consisting of Detains, Fallords, Poplins, black and
colored Silks, Prints, bleached and brown Domestic
Drills, Cotton Flannel, Bird Eye Draper, Table Lin
nens, and in fact everything that the public need.
GENTS' GOODS.
Fine Cloths, .Cassimeres, black and colored Ker
seys, Jeans, Shirtings, Shirt Fronts, Collars, kc.
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
of the best style and fashions well made.
H A T S.
Ladies' Hats, in the latest syle, Park Hats, Sea
Side, Sailors, and every style of the season.
HARDWARE.
Locks, Hinges, Screws, Cbissels, Hammers, Plains
and Bits, Brace and Bits, Boring Machines with
Biis, Anvils, Vises, Bellows, and in fact everything
in the Hardware line.
GROCERIES.
Sugar, coffee molasses, cheese, candles, soap,
spice, pepper, ginger, and all kinds of Groceries of
the best quality.
SHOES.
. We ask every body if they want good Shoes to
give us a call.. -
As for prices we only ask a fair show. It is to
cur interest to deal fair, and our principle to do
right. Call and see for yourselves.. We thank the
public for past patronage, and desire a continuation
of the same.
- Sept 17, 1866.. BARRING ER, WOLF CO.
PRODUCE BOUGHT AND HOLD.
UAMHOND & Mclaughlin,
" la the Brice Building, on Trade . Street,
Are constantly receiving and keep on hand for sale
a general assortment of , .
Groceries " r-
such as Salt, Iren, Leather, Sugar, Coffee, MoIa3es,
Sheeting, Baje Yarn, Liquors of all kinds, Ar i &c.,
.which they will sell at moderate prices for Casn or
exchange lor country rroauce ot every description
. - 11. -IS. ri Am MUX ut
: Sept i7, i8ca. " J. .Mclaughlin.
THE SOUTHERN STATES AND THE
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
The precise question now before the Southern
States still excluded from Congress is whether
they shall aecept the advantages offered them
with the immediate adoption of the constitu
tional amendment now before the States for their
ratification, or remain "out in the cold" for an
indefinite length of time onetwo, five ten or
twenty years, waiting for something more ac
ceptable as the price of their restoration.
- Tbia is the question, and we now feel it to be
our duty, in behalf of the South, the adminis
tration and the country at large, to urge upon
the excluded States the saving policy and the
great advantages of an immediate adoption of
toe conditions offered by Congress in this afore
said amendment. The great difficult? in this
matter lies in toe alternative presented of the
admission of the blacks to the elective franchise
or their exclusion' from the enumeration cf the
people of every State concerned in representa
tion in Congress. .
The ten excluded States, in accepting the one
alternative of universal suffrage will secure
sixty-one members in the House of Representa
tives, ana that by adopting the other alternative
of limiting the suffrage to the white population
they will only get forty members a dead loss
of twenty-one. ' This, among the Southern poli
ticians, may seen) a hard condition either way ;
but as it is evident that the North will not con
sent to a representation of the Southern blacks
in Congress without suffrage, the Southern
States must make their election upon this amend
ment, one way or the other. Nor can we under
stand why there should be any hesitation, under
the present state of things, in the choice of the
alternative. There is a prejudice of two hun
dred years' growth in the South against the ad
mission of the blacks among the Southern whites
to a footing of political equality. This preju
dice cannot be removed by Congressional legis
lation nor even by a constitutional amendment.
It must be left to the changing' influences of
time. Very well. Even so this amendment
proposes to leave it. Every State concerned
has the choice of admitting to or excluding from
the suffrage its black population ; and as this
prejudice against the blacks is the predominant
idea among the ruling Southern whites, their
only course is to accept the amendment with the
distinct understanding among themselves that
they will exclude the blacks from the ballot-box
in toto for the present, submitting to the loss of
their representation in Congress.
We recommend this course to the Southern
States with the adoption of the amendment.
They will not in reality lose much in the House
in losing twenty members, considering the over
whelming Northern majority against them in
that body. By coming in with even forty mem
bers they will certainly put an end to the power
of the radicals to carry their measures by a two
thirds vote, and we doubt not that upon their
extreme issues the radicals will be left in a.
minority, with the union of the Northern demo
crats and moderate republicans with the South
ern members. -
On the other hand, in the Senate these South
ern States remain by this amendment nntouched.
It is in the Senate, too, that the South, in any
event, must henceforth look for its balance of
power in Congress; and in the Senate it can at
once gain this balance of power by the adoption
of this constitutional amendment.
By means of this constitutional amendment
we shall get the Southern representatives into
Congress face to face with the Radicals, and thus
we ean defeat the faction which is so dangerous
to the country. N. F. Herald.
We publish the above to let our readers see the
argument used by the Herald, a paper which, al
though it has deserted the President's poliey, still
professes to be friendly towards the South.
Letter from a Confederate Exile.
The Oxford (Mississippi) Falcon publishes a
letter, dated in Dublin, from the Hon. Jacob
Thompson, one of the Confederate refugees, in
the course of which he says :
"I assure you that, with all her faults, I love
my country. There is no other such country in
the world. I have visited every kingdom and
people which have any position among the na
tions of the earth, and with the intention if
ever I could find an acceptable place to settle
down and gather my little family, around me,
and there, io quiet, spend the remnant of my
days, but I find no place in which I am willing
to leave my family. No, for good or evil, the
best country is in' the United States; and if
there could only be security of person, property
and reputation, it would be the most desirable
country on earth. At all events, those depen
dent on me, I want them to remain and abide
the fate and destiny of their country. What
shall become of me is of but little consequence
my days of usefulness are past. My sun is fast
hastening to its setting, but my will shall be
that, when life's, fitful fever is over, my body
shall be buried beneath the soil which has been
fattened with the blood of my ancestors in the
struggle for its independence.'
Mr Thompson complains r bitterly of the ac
cusation of complicity in Mr Lincoln's murder,
and says :
I weigh not my own fate as a feather in the
balance: I only hope to live "until I shall have
power nnder the law to prosecute , the perjurer j
nnrl inflict nnnishment UOOB tho8C :W00 have f
wronged me. And although I have knelt at
the . tomb of our Saviour, yet I fear that the r
punishment that awaits the evil doer in toe next
world would be too long in its coming.
Mr Thompson was Secretary of the Interior j
under Buchanan's admtoistratioo.j
A fearful visitation of Providenee happened j
- ' i
at Chicago on a tailor, irotn uermaoy, nameu
Lubenbeimer, residing on the north side, who was
accused of hating stolen some money, which be
positively dented, calling upon Uod to strixe -j
him dead if be was not speaking the truth, j
Tk fox-fiil Imnrooatinn bad hardlv been otter-4
1
$4 before ht fell to tha .floor a dead mao.
'- - " CBUELTY TO . CHILDREN,
Another case of fatal child-flogging, if possi
ble more revolting in shocking details than the
recent Lindsley child-murder in Medina, .New
York, occurred at Sarnia, Canada,' on Wednes
day last, the victim, in this instance, being a
little girl five years, of "age, named Kate Sib
L?y, the illegitimate daughter of Schuyler Sib
ley and a Miss Kate Davis, and the alleged pro
vocation leading to the cruel act being the refu
sal of the child to ea j its prayers. From the
evidence elicited at the inquest on the body of
the child, it appears that on the night in ques
tion the mother had beaten the child' with a
raw-hide for nearly an hour, and when rendered
insensible by pain and loss of blood, thrust it
into a chair and went to bed. For a time the
child was heard to moan as if in intense agony,
but soon became quiet, and nothing more was
heard until near morning, when a servant en
tering the room found the child dead and im
mediately gave the alarm. Upon lifting the
child from the floor, where it had fallen, a most
revolting sight was presented. The head, face
and shoulders were, scarred and .discolored from
the terrible blows of the rawbide,v while the
body from head to foot, presented a shockingly
mangled and bloody appearance. Old scars,
scarcely healed, were also visible upon the body,
testifying to former cruel floggings. . The mcd-.
ical evidence showed that the injuries pf tha
flogging were alone sufficient to produce death,
but that serious internal injuries, the result of
kicks and blows, had praviously been received;
and the entire absence of food for many hours
had also something to do with the result. The
murderess, io being examined, confessed thai a
few days previous to the fatal act, the father of
the child had administered to it a most unmer
ciful beating for not saying its prayers, and or
dered her to do the same whenever it refused.
The jury returned a verdict criminating both
parents, whereupon they were both committed
to prison to await the trial of murder. 'Canada
Cor. New York Sun.
ABOUT OLD MAIDS. .
Woman was not made to live alone. When
she fail 8 to lead the "double life," there is an
incompleteness about, the expansion of her na
ture which is patent to the most shallow observer.-
Do what she will let her be good; in
dustrious, unselfish, educated, refined like the
artisan whose duties -develop only one set of
muscles, while the rest of his body is untrained
and disproportioned, an unmarried woman can
never fill up the outlines of ber nature j and the
world always feels, if it cannot indeed under
stand, what is the something which she lacks.
- We believe that one-third of the work of the
world is done by old maids. Their names are
household words in toe humble dwellings of the
poor. Whenever anything is to be done, and
our restless immortality is ever finding employ
ment for willing hands and hearts, there they
may be found, undergoing fatigue, enduring an
noyance, and laboring energetically and in
silence, to make the world wiser and better.
At some period in the history of every single
woman there comes a time when, as if by a tacit
verdict, society decides that she ought to be laid
on the shelf. In case of sickness, when Mrs
Brown "cannot possibly leave her children," or
be absent when her husband reaches bene,
"Miss Polly Lonesome may be called upon she
is so accommodating, and such a good nurse;
and then, you know, she has nothing else to do "
And so good nature is imposed upon, and this
noble class made to do the drudgery, which the
"trials and duties" of a wife and housekeeper do
not permit the married woman to perform. .
A woman may go through life almost un
known and unnoticed, who, if married, would
be the cynosure of all eyes, and be loved and
honored by all within and beyond her home.
We are not of those who believe that any wo
man is compelled to live alone, irho does so
from choice, of course, it is her own business
certainly not ours and we wish her well; but
let those who prefer the married state remember
that it is their own fault if they remain single.
It is the duty of every woman to make herself
capable of filling the station- which Providence
has designed her to fill, and of convincing some
estimable man of her worth, ability and desir
ableness Whatever they may say to the con
trary, it is not true that old maids are necessi
ties. One of the deepest thinkers of our day
declares with great emphasis : "Any woman can
marry any man she pleases." ,
Failure results from an ignorance of the mode
of procedure, or the failure to set a proper val
uation upon womanly attractions ; the means are
not used how can the desired result, be ex
pected? ' " "Viator. ,
Norfolk Old Dominion. ,
Afraid He Might be Dead, 'Gris of
the Cincinnati Times, gives the following:
cene at the counting Toom " of a morning
newspaper. Enter, a man of Teutonic tenden
cies, considerable the worse for last eight's
spree.
Teuton (to the man at the desk) 'If you
blease sir, I vants de baper roit dis mornings.
One vat hash de names of de beebles vot kills
cholera all dc vile." "
lie was banded a paper, and after looking it
over in a confused may, said:
'Vill you pe so good ash to read de names
wot don't have the cholera any more too soon
just now, and see if Carl Gciuscnkoopenoffen
bash got 'em?' , . -
The clerk very obligingly read the list, the
Teuton ' listening " with trembling attention,
wiping the perspiration from bis brow mean
while in great excitement. When the list was
completed, the fiame of Carl Geinseo
well, no matter about the whole name, it wasn't
there. The Teuton's face brightened up, and
he exclaimed: "
You don't find em r
Clerk No'such name there, sir
Teuton (seising bim warmly by the band)
'This ish nice this ish some funs, that ish
mv names. I Din drunk ash never was, and py ;
tam, I vas fraid I vas gone ted mit choleTa, and j
f didn't opws it.
Mjne Col! I vos eeart! I
, -. , . w ; . " - IS IT RIGHT f 1
Is it right? Is what right? Why,ia it right
to employ a man's servioes hia time, talents,
and acquisitions and render him no compensa
tion? You say no; it ia not right.' Is it right
then jo employ a man and give him bat half his
jnst earnings T Not this is not riht. either.
Why, then, do yoa treat jour minister to?
Why treat Christ's serfant thus? II u time,
and mind, and services to' tou are measured bj
business rules, worth double the salary joa pT
him.-' - .v, ;.;i , . ;;:. Z 9
You say that you pa him all that yott COTe
nanted for. He agreed' to labor for so much,
and you give it to him. - Well if you give it to
bim in full, and in doe time, you may not, in
this respect, be charged with covenant-break
ing. - But still you 'may be guilty of a great
wrong toward your minister..
The minister is called of Jesus Christ, and Is
set apart and bidden "to preach the gospel. He
may not decline. - He must preach. A duty it
laid upon him. Wee to him if he preach notl
lie bas vowed aaa given mmself to the work;
and he may not draw backmay not torn aside
to other things. Now it may be that you take
advantage of this necessity.' ' You say to him,
u Well, so much we are willing to give you, and
no more-" Then, as he is obliged to work, in
this line, and may not chaffer .about pay, there
is a ' necessity for bid yielding necessity of
hunger, it may be; certainly a moral necessity;
an official and religious necessity. You then
take an advantage of him. You practice upon
the very benevolence ot bis heart, and extort a
service from him at less than its value.' Is this
right? - . -'
No; it is a great wrong. ! You are bound, Jost
as truly,' to give bin a fair remuneration-
bound by duty ' to your and his Lord and Mas
ter as he is bound by the same Lord to preach
to you the gospel. An agreement, even though
it were on his part entirely voluntary eould
hardly relieve you of your obligation; . but if it
has been a forced agreement, how can you be
innocent? Christ's people are requested to con
eider these interrogatories, and answer them
conscientiously and practically; taking into ao
count their poverty, their wealth and their pas
tor's needs. ............ , .
THE SHOWMAN'S COURTSHIP,
" BY ABXEMUS WARD.
Thar was effecting ties which made me hanker
arter Betsey. Her father's farm jined our'n;
their cows and our'n quenched their thirst at
the same spring; our old mares both had stars
in their forreds, the measles broke out in both
families at nearly the same period; our parents
(Betsey's and mine) slept every Sunday in the
same meeting house, and the nabera used toob
seive "bow thick the Wards and Peasles airi"
It was a sublime sight in the spring of the year
to see our several mothers (Betsey's and mine)
with their gowns pinned up so they couldn't eile
em, eBecbuntly biling soap.- together and abus
ing the naburs. f . ,
Altho I. hankered arter the object of my af
fechuos, I darsunt tell her of the fires which
was raging in my buzzom. I'd try to do it, but
my tung would kewollop up agin the roof of my
mouth and stick thar like death to a diseast
African or a country postmaster to bis office,
while my heart w bagged againtt my ribs like an
old fashioned wheat flale agin a barn door.
"Twas a carm still night in June. . All na
ture was husht and nary zoffer disturbed the sc
reen silen.i. . I sot with - Betsey Jane on the
fence of her father's pastor.. We'd bin rompia
throo the' woods kullin flowers and . driving
the woodchuck from his native lair (so to speak
with long sticks. ; Wal, we sot tbar 00 the fenoe,
a swinging our foet.two and froo, blushing as
as red as the Baldwinviile school-house whea it
was first painted, and looking very simple I
make 00 doubt. My left aria okepied in bal
lunsin myself 00 the foncc, while my right was
wound lovingly round her waste.
I cleared my throat and tremblingly jsd
'Betsy, you're a Gazelle' . - -r
I, thought that are pretty fine. I waited to
see what effect it would have upon her. It
evidently didn't fetch her, for she up and said:
"You're a sheep!" v
Scz I "Betsey Jane, I think very machlj ot
jou." -
" "I don't' believe a word you say so there
now come! with much observation she bitebed
away from me. ., .. ' '
"I wish thar was winders io my sole," sod 1,
"so that you , could ; see some of my frsiiaa
Tbar's fire' enuff in here," sed I, striking 10 j
buzzom,. "to bile all the corn beef and turnips
in the naberhopi. Versuvioua and the critter
aint a cirkumstansl" . " : .
She bowed ber bead down and commanrt
chewing the strings of her bonnet. .
"I wont listen to your nonsense no, longer.
Jest say straight out what yon are driven at- If
you mcao gittin married I'm in!" ,
"I considered that enuff for all practical par
poses, and proceeded immcjitly to the peraoo'f
and made one that nito.
A Grasshopper Plague in Kansas.
They Hide the Sun and Slop Railroad Train.
Our western exchanges are all more or less
excited on the, subject of grasshoppers,' which
are represented as numerous as locusts io Egypt
during the reign of Pbaroah, some time ago..
The Wyandott Gazette says that en Cross
creek, between Topcka and Wamego, they fill
the air like snow flakes jo,a winter atom, la
Marshall county they have made their appear
ance in myriads, doing immense injury to tha
crops and grass. " The. insects, are said to ra
ge mile somewhat our" common prairie grasshop
per, with some obsraeteitstics of the locust.
They are . traveling east, and destroying every
thing vegetable along the route . - ...
M iss Throckmorton, of O wensboro, Ky.? loved
Mr Uainea of that place, but bef father did not
Mr Haines was determined to have her. He
induced his friends to get up a coon boot last
week, to which the father, who was fond of the
sport, was Invited. While the stern carent was
after the cooo, his daughter "plsyed possum,"
and ran away with her lover to Cincinnati, where
they were married.