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He did not wish to fight, but the challenge ' was peremptory and "honor" demanded its acceptance. He was shot according to the most approved rules) of the code. No point of etiquette was omitted. The most punctilious propriety was observed in the .killing,,vH!eJdied on "the field pf honor" in the most honorable and approved manner The courteous deportment of the seconds j and the chivalrous bearing of the princi- i1 pals were beyond all praise. , The whole j affair was managed so . artistically and so; beautifully that there . is nothing to re gret save f:that an immortal - soul ; was thus hurried into the presence of God save mat sieepiess nignp ana wearisome days are appointed to jthe sfayer save that jthe fair young girl, the tender mother, the venerable father, the loying sisters will carry a burden of sorrow to their graves. ; Worse than all, a pernicious ex ample will be set, which will lead to imi tation and to the establishment of a false standard of honor arid ! to more misery and bloodshed. ; j t v - -Can nothing be done to arrest this hor rible system of legalized murder? It rests upon the false assumptiqn that it is necessary for the vindication of .courage and of honor. We. had fondly hoped that the war had demonstrated the notorious -want; of pluck of professed duelists' and that the veriest cowards were jthose, yv ho had had most personal jjaffrayk :j We re member that a captain of a company ran at the first fire at Contreras;'Mexicb. ' Cpl. Herbert, afterwards Gov. of Louisiana, told the writer of. this . that tjie poltroon had fought six duels and killed:three men. The professed - duelist like the old field "bully, has; all the ad vantage. in jthe contest anif 'if lAtliia wKinh tnri 4rA hihi ovtifif?l Jt r1 fi M v mj m.M tj ma - Fu j ft wm vj jlcv i 4l j courage, wnen an cnanpes arermaae even on the battlefield, jhis .hativei cowardice appears. If called upon to name the man; who in our opinion1 wal the .coolest, the calmest and most determined of all, who shed their heart's blood in the cause of Constitutional liberty, we . would. reveren- tialiy designate a man who repeated 1; .V declirhBd personal combats. On the other ftf hand, wo know many Instances of men Ijif behaving ; badl in action, who had made Mnttr AIAIl r 3 At T l A 4 W A ; i ' m . ' - -v -''i :..-.! , fyf ;h Two substantial' reasons can be given why dueling can never le , a f .est of jcour 1 age. . First. bf.all, the moral enses of a 1 1 Largo part of mankind condemns the praer tice as barbarous, brutal and Wicked. A man of tender' conscience will! .therefore, go on the field unnerved by the conscious ness that he is; perpetratingl a wrong against society and his own soul. The man of more .brutal instincts and lesl conscien tiousness does -not go on the -field iuoder this . depressing influence. . On, the qon tfary, he may fancy that he is performing a highly commendable act ?of heroism; How can that system ; prove any thing in regard to pluck, which makes a man brave according to' his depravity: and cowardly acqorumg w uio uiurai worm The second, reason t has already been I Mentioned (incidentally. The expert has ! the advantage immensely over tne inex ert. 5 Familiarity takes! away tne sens f danger. The sailor, who, in the wild: lest storm, will go without tear .on tne Syard arm, will turn pale when moun ted on ilk restive horse; On tne btner I handj fparey, tho horse-tamer,, migui.ue ingm I J I ened at a slight storm at sea. J The pror jessed duelist then is artificially stimu llated not merely by confidence' in his owii 6kiUi hut by familiarity with' the weapons land modes; of, combat. His - antagonist "fmight he braver than he,; and yet lack fioohiess on the dueling ground (from his ti",- i .-iJ H if f"i, '' i -3 ;- ;. . . -'.. - ( . f, :. want of confidence in bis own skill and from the novelty of. the! scene first pre sented to his view. ; The expert might be cool and : collected though naturally a coward. H .vvonld- feel no nervousness on account of a iack'of dexterity in the use of the deadly r weapons. I. He: would not be startled by ;the novelty of the situ ation: The greatest' nuisanceand. cufsi to society is the man, who trains himself to kill his fellow creatures. Bat the per nicious system of dueling makes this' man appear to be a hero on the field, when it is probable that he is a miserable crave'n at heart. Put him where shot (and shell are r fly i ng and helsoiTa Jevel wit 1 other men with no more advantages than they, it -is likely that he! will then makejas good time as our Kirk-Ku-Klux Governor did, when the Georgia soldiers were after him. The system of dueling developsv fosters and encourages this spurious class of heroes. Under, this murderous code, a pestilent set of fellows has been foisted upon society. v j i We condemn the. whole thing as a relic of barbarism, and as-establishing a false standard of courage and honor. It can be abolished by the united action- of the late Confederate soldiers, who know so well what does and what does not consti tute true courage. The bully with his fists and the bully with his pistols could not be depended upon in the hour of trial. Let the soldiers then declare everywhere that there is no dishonor in decliniD challenge. Washington declined iao did Stonewall Jackson. The illustrious rebel of '76 and the illustrious rebel of '1, both put the: seal of their disapprobation upon a code alike silly, wicked ;and barbarous. The "Old North State. Mr. Hanes, the editor of the Old North State, replies in good taste and temper to some strictures of the Southern Home upon his issue of August 5tb. Our remarks were not intended to provoke controversy, as Mr. Hanes supposes, but were made for the purpose of exposing the spirit and designs of . the moderate faction. We; spoke courteously of our contemporary. If we wished to injure him. which we do not, we are sure that we can say nothing so damaging to him as have been his own editorials of the , above date. His article on the Ku-Klux was all that Forney and Holden could have desired, was unjust to the people of North Carolina and will dpubtless.be, quoted as Conservative an thority ,in justification ' of the brutalities of Kirk,. Holden and gang. ' uNot less unfair and unkind was his charge of duplicity against the Conserva- party He said "The result, whatever, it may be, will be the signal for the disssolution of the so-called Conservative party. It Is quite probable that the moderate and tolerant conservatives will never again unite in an election with the violent and intolerant men of the party. The moderate, and tolerant portion of the party, if party it can be called r accept of the reconstruction policy of Congress as a final settlement of that qustibn and will not stand upon any other platform. A large portion of the party, it U well known, do not accept of such a platform, except as a mere electioneer ing ruse." . Now it will bo noticed that Mr. Hanes in troduces his wrongful and injurious charges against the Conservative party by applyj irig to it the contemptuous epithet so called," made odious to our people by being the very term of opprobium so often used by Mr. Seward when ; speaking of the Confederacy. The Conservative mem bers of the last Legislature issued an ad dress to the people, in which the following language was used : "In the last contest in this State, the prin cipal issue was upon the question of colored feutfrage and the civil rights of the colored ace. That matter has been decided, upon solemn appfeal, by the people of the United States. The guarantee ,ot their rights has how become a part of the Constitution. To that Constitution we have ever been willing to defer, to the laws made in pursuance of it, we yield, and ever have yielded a ready obe dience. , . The reconstruction acts of Congress, with thecivil and political rights they confer on the colored race, we regard as a finality. ' We accept them in good faith. We are one of the States of the Union, , Let us seek to for get the bitterness of the past, to build up the places made waste by the unfortunate war, and to "promote the harmony and prosperity of all sections of our great country. . i The colored man now enjoys the same po litical and civil rights as the white man. We accept his status as fixed, by the Constitution of this State and the United States, in good faith.We regard it aaja final settlement of the question. It now Womes our duty as' good citizens to elevate him morally and in tellectually." : ; ,; ; ( Our candidate for Attorney-General, said : . ' . ! , . "One question which has hitherto agitated and disturbed the public mind is settled be yond controversy. I mean the question of negro suffrage. ,His rights are now secured by consti utional I provisions of the .United States anState governments. " Jf do not, nor does any Southern man, desire to disturb this constitutional settlement, much less to reduce the inegro to slavery again , as is sometimes charged.fi -r. (, . .,r : : -.'u - a, j Judge Shipp Was voted for and elected on this platform by the honest citizens of North Carolina. ; What right , has. Mrt Hanes to charge them !with "falsely; and treacherously using-'this platform as an "electioneering ruse ?" 1 The Central Ex ecutive Committee used similar language. A.11 thetcounty meetings, all. the Conser vative papers and all the Conservative speakers in the State endorsed the Legis lative Address." - Surely, Mr. Hanes "is somewhat sweeping in , his accusation -of hypocrisy (and; double-dealing against a party . so bound , ', by . the , most solemn nled fires. Will Mr;? Hanes "bo so kind as name a sihgle Conservative, who acted in bad faith and used- the platform of his rjartv as an "electioneerinar v ruse.' We know of not one. ? In that "large' portion of the pariy," of which hfe speaks.1 . he bright to be able to give one solitary name. Wo would like to know the1" name bricast Ohe of the deceitful: hypocrites. We trust that ir. Hanes wil expose the treacher ous individual. f j ; r: " V Again, Mr. Hanes in his allusions to the Ku-Klux is still; more defamatory, of the Conservative partyj InJiisJssue of the 5th of August, he said : - 'And if we fail to 'elect bur candidate for Attorney-General, it ill be the fault of the leaders, who sneered at moderate and toler abl men spaUiaieWthe deeds of the Ku 'Jtx' while professing to denounce themJf , (lwjr.: Hadjis toor ahrowUainarl, no! to know that !a charge without a specification is notliingr We want ' the proof. ! Wo want tne name of just one Conservative leader,1 jwlio "palliated the deeds of the Ku-Klu!xj Swhile professing to dettounce them." His charge is wholesale aildl universal against all the Conservative leaders We ask hirai to designate one of thej tricksters said : The Legislative Address "We denounce crime wherever and by whomsoever committed i be the pepetrators white or, black, Loyal leaguers or Ku-KluxJ 11 any sucn orgamzauqns exitt ; auu we uerc declare them enemies of ; society and wicked ministers to that spirit of lawlessness and contempt of the forms of. law from which our unhappy country has suffered so much under Radical rule. Secret political I organizations areprodueiive only of feyi!, let them, at once be disbanded and letnieii succeed at elections upon their meritsand hot by force of a terror ism exercised-over their oath-bound confed erates. That man who, upon his own im pulsesr in obedience to the mandates of others, seeks to punish ; crime without ihe Wue course of law, himself becomes a crimi nal! If crimes are to be punished, if wrongs areto be avenged, the 'Courts House should be, the place, and day light the time." Dhe Conservative speakers and Conser vative county meetings endorsed this language in the most solemn and emphatic manner. In the very face; of all these honest pledges by the best people of the State. Mr. Hanes tells us that" the leaders "palliated the deeds of the Ku-Klux while professing to denounce them." Let us have the name of one of these trick sters and we will help to expose his fraud upon a duped people. As Mr. Hanes desires us to copy his reply, we will, do , so, with pleasure, making such running comments as the subject calls for : . "Gen. Hill pays us a higher compliment than we deserve, in saying that we are the brains of the moderate faction,' and, we sus pect,: a far higher one1 than he intended to pay us. For 'the moderate faction,' as Gen. Miil has been pleased to term it, contains its full share of the intellect of the State, whether Gefi. Hill may be aware of the fret or not. Indeed, since the election, we meet with few thinking men who do not agree with us fully in otlrviews that moderation and discretion in the use of theifpower can alone enable the conservatives long to retain it." That is exactly the point ! Moderation after a victory is magnanimous and com mendable. We took exactly that ground in pur issue of the 18th of August. But moderation during the progress of the fight is the worst possible policy. No enemy was ever whipped by blank car tridges. In the English and Chinese war of 1842, the Chinese sought to whip "the! barbarians" by ugly grimaces The moderate faction seemed to think that they could conquer the Holdenites by oily speeches. ; me Speiiing'-Dook oueht to have taught them better. Kind words, Webster tells us, did1 not move the thiev ish bpy in the apple tree; Next soft turf was thrown at him, but the rude young ster only laughed till the pelting stones came hurtling around his ears. The Hoi den thieves loved the golden apples just as well as the saucy youth,-and theywere only ( amused at- the sweet words and honeyed phrases of the moderate-faction. They . had to be knocked out of the tree. "But it is to notice the construction that Gen. Hill is pleased to place upon the quoted sentence from our article of the 6th of Aug., that we have commenced this article. After giving us credit for being 'the brains' of our wing of the party, he makes us do what none but a fool would xlo in letting out a secret prematurely. ' ' Surely every intelligent man that lhas read the article, Gen. Hill alone exr cepted, has seen that, so, far from disclosing a 'secret, ' we were merely speculating upon the probable future of the Conservative par ty. And every .intelligent reader, except Gen. Hill, we imagine, saw that we did not make that probable future to depend upon any i particular contingency, but that we thought the same . results were as likely to follow the victory as the defeat of the Conser vative party. Surely no other intelligent man will construe the quoted sentence, ob serving closely the words "which we have italicised, as Gen. Hill has construed it. Ahd in say ing what we did we expresssd not our opinion only, but the opinion expressed to us by several of the ablest men of the State, men Who labored with all their energies to gain the late victory, and who, as sound and reliable Democrats - and Conservatives, com mand the highest respect, even of Gen. Hill himself. And the idea, too, that we could not Wait a week to disclose a 'secret' political design, only to be executed upon a contin gency that might never happen, when we might; know , whether it would happen or not, by waiting that long, is' simply absurd. If there is anything in the world for which we aire noted as ah editor it is for our abun dant? caution and prudence. What some Conservatives meant to -do in case of Conser vative (defeat we know notbut if there was any plan to treak up the party, in that event we were . fie ver apprised , of the fact And in truth We think the greatest danger of such breaking up lies in the very large majority whichthe Conservatives haVe in the Legisla ture. Ind if such turns out to be the case the fatdt shall not be ours," ; , . We cannot admit that we did Mr. Hanes injustice in the construction that we put upon' his language. Grant that it is not a threat that the moderate. faction would break Hup the Conservative party, Mr. Hanes. modestly denies that be is the head-centre of the faction, and therefore his language rWas not an order to his fol lowers,. , But if not an order, it is a prophe cy : that "the moderate, and tolerant por tion Of the pairtj) if party it can be called, w6uldiiever agAin1 'twite in1 arf election With the violent ' and intolerant men of 1 i JP; :.. r ;, - ...... : y .. ,i the party." And the reason is given why the moderate faction would slough-off - j -. .. . , , from ' the 5 Conservative' party : 4a iarge portico of the partyCbnseryativo) it is well known,'do not accept of such a.plat form (i. e., the reconstruction policy,) ext cept as: a mere electioneering ruse." If this language does not implya separation of; the moderate faction from the Conser-i vative party, because of l thb trickery of the latter, there is absolutely no use for an English ,alphaeC iWords constructed from itj are totally devoid of ineaning. I "The Geneml's insinuation as t what cer tain Conservatives intended to say to the Radicals in the event of a consei vati ve defeat can not possibly apply ito us, a General Hi! must know; and it is difficult for us to believt that it was inlijnded fqrusJv We dehbunced the whole course of fixiud arid corruption by the BadicpJ part' iu the lest Legislature in the strongest terms, r.Lfl i f.iikuded the an- pointment Of Gov. B xgg Vs one o the com- man in, the State to vi 'f an aiticle denounc ing Gov. Holdeu's m'lirr '' movement, and to expose the wicked design and ol ject of it, and would have been the first to publish it, if our paper had; been "la daily instead of a weekly. We happened to go to Raleigh' the very day that Poo. and Abbott left and were one ,of the very first to bh informed of the plot Week after week we denounced Gov. Hol den 's military commission as beini without the shadowi of authority of law, and declared that all executions by it would be mnnleis. We gave a tttthful account ofihe outrageous conduct of Kirk's men as they passed through Salisbury, holding it up to the condemration cf the people, while oiir better conservative neighbor of the Examiner, remained almost a silent spectator of the ame.- Surely; then; the General's insinuations cannot be intend ed for us; but we will not undertake to say who they were intended for." ( . , In justice to Mr. Hanes, we will say that for some time before the appearance of the b,i8a0d9 T-tbt?Un W6 ow where to locate hni). But after not kn Holden developed hisiinfamous plot, Mr Hanes denounced the whole military movement in a manly manner. But he kuows full well that , a portion of the moderate faction was! mum whilst brig ands from Tennessee! and the scum of JNorth Carolina were insn tinsr. mobbing. . - . . . , outraging, arresting, j imprisoning ana hanging the most law-loving and law abiding people of the State. If we have held Mr. Hanes responsible for this most singular silence, it was because we re garded him as the brains and leader of the faction. As he disclaims this, we withdraw that portioij of our remarks which reflected upon this silence. MAs to Mr. Turner, we-envy him no part of the glory which he has won as 'the hero of the camjkfign' and as a martyr to civil liber ty; He coes not wear a single laurel that we would pluck from his brow. In what, then, does our offense consist ? We hope it does not consist in our believing, what we think Gen. Hill inust believe by this time, that the Constitutional Union Guard, or White Broth erhood, alias the Ku-Klux, had! an existence in the State, and that in certain counties it was an organization subversive of vtl) good governmen:, all law and aH sound moraiity. and that, so believing, we denounced it Al J ,i, i WT A K1J 1 that Gen, H?ll is so elated by a conservative victory, with less than 5,000 majority, thathe wants to drive off the nicxlerate inejuBut if such should really be his objecthe will in no wise influence tne course jf mis paper. Having always heai-dthat Gen. Hil" was a high-toned and magnanimous gentleman we expect him to publish this article, or the &ub- J ih his paper ias an act of justice I stance ot i to us.l We are not proud of our majority of 5,000. We believe that it would have been much larger had not the moderate faction soothed and satisfied the people with Radical rule. Nor do we wish to drive off the moderate men. If they will turn Conservatives and fight under our banners, we will be glad to receive them. But so long as they stand upon a neutral eminence, firing blank cartridges at Radi cals and hot Shot at Conservatives, their presence on the field of battle is more to be dreaded than desired. 7 ; ' For the Southern Home. The Radical party has made its boasts, that when the Conservative party came into power in North ( Carolina they would find a bankrupt Treasury and not one foliar on which to rbn the State ma chiner3'. This boast and consolation of this party of rule and ruin in North Caro lina, only illustrates its infamous charac ter. The credit of the State has been wholly ruined by the Holden partyv both at home and abroad, as evidenced by the price of State, bonds. The State stock of the Wilmington & Weldbn Railroad has been sold, the swamp lands and mountain lands owned by the State are also gone. The North Carolina Railroad has been forced to make dividends; to pay Kirk and his men and thus enable the would be Executive to prosecute wjith vigor his war upon the rights and liberties of the honest and unoffending people oil the State, while the yery dividends thus -forced out of the Treasury of this Road were then and are now needed to purchase engines, coaches and cars to do the necessary business of transportation.' Thus every outside Bource of income has been wantonly and cruelly wasted by the present worthless and profligate administration,! while the taxes wrung from a poor and oppressed people are more than double (according to the value of their property) what they ever were before. . t , ; j r Thus have all sources of revenue been exhausted and the proceeds squandered in the most shameless manner bv the present incumbents in office. Indeed, we r - ' ' are informed that, about $1,000,000 have been thus spent in the ordinary adminis tration of the government- independent of any extraordinary expenditures. - . It is true the highest administrative, abilities and the wisest legislation jwill be required to restore, the State and her credit tQ some respectable status. ' The incoming arty will have but little means,5 certainly, with which to institute and:vinalnia!n:proef government for, the people. . The appre hension is. that the last dollar of taxes paid in by the Sheriffs before the meeting of the Legislature; will have been squan dered. Some' emair sums' may stilly be gathered frpm'S her ilA j.u t.r ' u i. T -i-. i ., u, & . i. -4 Legislature from the heavy taxes levied the last two years; Indeednf consistent with, their obligatiohs,.they;' would be jus- tified'in hotl accounting to the oorriiDt' - . i r . i r H xi r" . - r V "o rti.muv. collections uiitil after aibotter control of the public funds is established. The W: r in Enrcpe. The Prussians have been steadilv march- ing on Paris, since our last issue, and are 5te.JtTyJifore;jt8 fortifications to-day, 15th. Me tz i, and Strasbourg' are still untaken. Bismarck says that Prussia will not .make, peace until she has peeured these two fortresses as her own. That Strasbourg at least must belong forever to Germany. I The French loss at Sedan was enor mous. The official report from the Prus- sian head -quarters, states : tore il anl25j00 prisoners Were can- tured in front' of Sedan hefnrp th rnnif ing,01 maiviauat power- ana responsibility ,?U 3 $ V ' ?? P a .?&yi;Xl: i" the tata gives every man afeeiise of sel?: lation. Jiighty-three thousand capitulated importance which has its ludicrous SiUeJf hut with Sedan; of these 14,000 were wounded, helpsto elevate the imanh&rs1 and charaeier Pour hundred field pieces, including TO of people. An American yields on iv to mitrailleurs, and 150 siege guns were also ! m? ??hich fniapates from the W callti.redJ together withlofoOO horses and 3 J tlonr an immense amount of vyar material." which is pleasant enough, however odd it The surrender is one of the most hu- looks to a stranger; but this. is sometimes ae L.'v i- u i ; , companied by a swagger of pretentious equal- mihating affairs, we have ever known.- it- which is extrenTy distesteful to the d- i ne r rencn were driven trom intrenched 1 P9itinS b' tille-y kre alone, an imf$$Jil$r, 'igih'e occurrence with Confederate troop3.!ld world. Even the children have; rpi . 1 , i I ,., 1 he Confederate loss in battle was seldom and sometimes as high as a half. Bet the French surrendered when their loss was less than an eighth. The French are.i as brave as tbe Confederates, but their , , rrwi. ' tsv. v.v --vj ,v yc, excitable-people and unfitted to defend noKifiors whilft Ihov ovoo all thp world " positions, While the excel all the world in the attack. The reader of Napier's Peninsular War will recall many instances : . . -.., ' i'.- ; Ot their heroism in assault and failure in1 defence. The elan of the French soldier L , , , t , has been the dread of all Europe. - But' in this unfortunate war with PrussiaVth , , u , - A - , French have been called upon to hold positions,ja task for which their mercurial i temperament unfitted, them. " AVe have been surprised that in all of the criticisms upon the campaign, no writer has alluded to the marked characteristic ' of the French soldierjv ' It is said that United States Govern ment has fecogniseoVthe Republic of France!: j B-rltw: : Berlin, Sept. 12HThere is a great sent cixu o ,i;oi;v. e a,u-? Z?A T, " "r" ""I" T " "'.r l," !thepeoBle and tr? to get them back. " Here i5an Croyernment tb Bancroft, expressing . comes the Coloneicried some of the crovrd. the hope that there would now be a ces-; Clear the way for the Colonel; he's. going sation of the War, in view of the fact that j to jump.' -( ' On theicoutr-ary,' said the. Col its aim the dethronement of Napoleon. hae-! onel J consider this ' a:nost; undignified been accomplished- The dispatch Was 1 R!:1 !, ' s to .king William by a special messen - ger. ' London, Sept. 13. The Telegraph's Paris correspondent says, that the Amer can recognition is already little valued, and i regarded as a mere expression of good wijl, without material weight in the European system. On Sunday a Prussian reconnoitering party encountered the French at Chateau Theirly. The Prus sians w.ere repulsed Ayith considerable loss. Paris, Sept. 13. Fonville, the celebratr ed aeronaut is constantlv off the watch in his balloon, for the approach of the Prus-1 siars. uther DaiJoons are prepared and properly anphored to, watch the entire field. . . ; - ' : " .-, .... rrh ..K 1, TAij u , , irom. tne dook i:eF: THE AM2tlTf!A3SrS ATiTo: ! Pv..jvn-Tvir! VawSl, uuuCCS 01 macrue, . wh:cfc she h chosen evince, a tn6rough Esq., of Scotland, we have bsen favored with i knowledge of the wants of Southern hou--a copy of the Inverness Courier, containing j keepers, and a' competent mind for.-, the fcup- a hotice of h?s b-ok. 'We give ; below om'e PfeinS,c? at demand. In the arrangement , , . , , , . of aer bock in the ?rfene?s of ner style; in exiiac irom -tne notice end a few selections MimnitA,vv :iurr. t.-,.,., . tKu feKETCHE? OF AM3MCAN MEN, MANNERS, ' ?a fe7- ;'aVe .O'yed-g J LWCtlCIll and Institutions. By D&vid Macrae. tY1 ' 0A0U:? jWl mut be of 1 Edinburgh : EdmSnstc& Douglas. V 1 W-h W Uf h,ei . m. , . , , . , , ah employ her diTctioKs. We Wish that Ihe skecciiss of wiich these vokmes c.r3:WAt-F n0- iUr -i n.vv.h.i,, wmhwccu . vj. vilo . ac uu? aAJiuv Jxi Aiueixca, uunng ine yesr-s 150 i tna ibw. JSij. Txaujutr iiitvcJcru unuugu u jfifai, Of Slaves, visroaz 10 i principal cities and prominent institutions and comr'ng z to contact with lead'" n z wri ters, officeri and sttemen. To British jti, ne uevoies cniy a jew cnaptersfc out weave veref mn anateremng BKetcasa . of mei-a'ru uii4,sin uie un;iec rsrares. in ti"av e'ng though Canada; Which h'visitcd fi-?t, having Ipnaea at Queoec, he felt it strange to find himself getting into so many differen t national'ties In the district of Glengf 3 :.7 there is a colony of twenty thousand High landers most of theniMacdonr J(s, and in the back settlement;' Gae?''c 82-mn tc be the lan cuage princrky spoken. Further down ihe Wiwiwiw,.i-w a e'-emenC or ea mns belonging to the once powerful Luois, and s Jl speaking their ancient Lawrence, there is a seivement of Red Ind Iroq language. ' One of the? chiefs. De Xorimier, claimec to nave ocotco blood in hts veins. "My mother" he said there's so much blood what to call mvself. Scotch, half French! and the rest Indian!" In certain districts of Lower Crnada, French' is almost exclusively spoken, pnd is'Mont real public notices have? to rbe printed in French as well as English. Visiting. the Hotel Died one . day, MrJ Macrae asKed a friar in the schoolroom what he was teach- 1 to be hoped, was quite an exception, A few i" .'SSSS amusement wt j ated in this country by an account of a (in the Canadian House of Commons, weeks ago considerable amusement was cre- a scene when the , members - appeared to be u trying: how many languages they could speak. ;Tne oe currence is j only a development ; of what frequently takes place on a' smaller scale:' ' "In the CouncUandfeven in ihe ParPa ment at Ottawa;! members wH reply ; in French to speeches made in EngPsh, and a discussion will ensue in both languages, v If they carried the principle out, ana permitted Gaelic, German, and Mohawk; it would be interesting to hear a good debate. Babel (as the Yankee says) would not he ia circu m stance to it,,.;; .A , n $ . i : t (1 Mr, Macrae looks; with.; a kindly eye i on American institution, and is; more ready to obsejere their good qualities than to point out theijr deficiencies , Evidently possessing strong democratic sympathies, he ia anxious to see how popular Government, in the full est sense; succeeds in the new world. His but not English: indeed the frirHM nnf nn. iVanis" nnaewianqa you? climate, your .1 : j TT!T usi,i mi.! . , .r . !. CeQa and orchftrd. t .Trn,rrerii uemuiuu xntiiiLiiiskx uuucwjii. r uuis scaooi. It IS ! ffrantinir that some of their exnerimenta adUisfaffalion tne Whole seem to be well : managed, and J expedience will suggest im- Klrff'' wew. Yorwita;air it8 ly concemned. The P?ured lilto ;; mvu jwvKy aim corruption, is not entire- ine orea.8 or iurone nro riums or commerce it bf-s a vastjiopulation oi uie uAi.iuiiii uul vh-ious. i Theuneduca- ted masses have the tame. voice in the Gov ernment as, ne intelligent, and ignorance prevails there, tp' ? a greaier extent i than in : other cities of the United States. 44 We must . educata our mcsters'said Ulr. Lowe, speak i ing of the extended franchise in this country. In America education Is general enough, but i the Irish are masters in N e w York, and are liable to abu. e their orl viieses, 41 The fact " i cumstanccs law and order prevail; and life jw-wuiatr, " liit.i, 111 sp.ve OI . ail Cir- ana property a re secure-Lhat the vast coni mercial interests "of the cliy continue to ex pand and her social condition ta improve tb ?s fact in view of the fearful strain to which American institutions are subjected makes New York, in spite of i her misgovern ment -one of the most remarkable proofs of the strength and stability of Republican Goveru mentri' The, work conveys the impre-sion that American institutions tend to raise the people in dignity and intelligence. By the mingling of all ranks freely together, a cer tain amount of refinement; ! and ; coun?v spreads among the lowest classes. The leei- 21- i aiauonai caaracier i wanting in mat -reverence for usages arid 1"!- 1 MUIO Sf 111... 1 riirir i mens ui luucucuueuic aim euuttiuy, aim are t k vuih int cnhmkBinn not to be eoered into submission. Mr. Macrae devoted some of, his book to his I visit to the "future .London of the South': I and of the men and things he saw there. He thus speaks of Gov. Vance : ' " Vance is a great favorite with the people i 1 x - 1 1-1 1 uu uas iHjpuiar canumaie at- one time or anotner tor almost every omce of importance' in the State. Many amusing stories are tla about him. On'oiie occasion he was stUmping the Statc; against Colonel C In one of the western counties, at a U2e jfc U?? Co?on1. peared on the ground wjjrt a keg oi whisky,.. which produced such a "strong diversion in his favor, that Vance was soon le t with a, mere handrul of aucitors. Seeing that feome- thing must be done, he stooped his speech, ihose around him to a jump. The Americans have aji a iovc of the grotesque, and the very ab- surdity of the proposal made iche more acce7ioie. mie was urawn, auu vnnee and his handful cf supporters were soon tus- ily engaged inUjyiug who could tekethcr longest pirmp-a gamein which Vance, being feomething .of 'an athlete, cxcelJeu. This mtular proceedins attracted the. attention of some of tne adjoining crowd, who, after, a moment's hesitation, came over to see what the ftm wti. 1 This ?rew the eyes of the others,' aod presen tly of more, till in a few minutes almost the whole boc'y of electors , was crowding round to see the sport, leaving ' JLV. 1- 1 Jll 1 ', . .a re colonel with r. i keg. There Was r vne oionei witu ;:o auu.uoy DUt ms emery no resource out tc ioKow j The rem? j ' If yqu, ai . Liitr i irrr 211111 ri 1 il i i t f 1 ;ui.i iiinl iit--ii: jti. 11 . n tk w?s not received' with ; favor. . are too proud to jump with us,' cried one, l reckon you are too proua to suit this here county.' ' Oh, I d;dn' t me&n that ?dd the CcloneJ I'll junrV if the electors wish it. ' The pacified crowc cleared a way, and some, one, amidt laud apl,use, proposed that the.vofe should be given t? the candi date who junroed farthest This sealed ti e Colonel's fate. TpM, s;;ff, and unused to this kind of exercise, he had no chance against his supple opponent, end Vance came Tin at the top of the poll. Vanee speaks of it him self as the time he 'jumped into office. V' From what we have seen, we do not think that this book will be acceptable to the Southern people, Mr. Macrae expresses his admiration of Beecher, Emerson, Wendell PhLUips and other fanatical demons. .... , 1 . 1 f0 ii SOUTHERN CooKKRV.-By Mrs. E. J. Veis- tiVe. New York : Owens & Aga' We have upon cur table a co-.y of ih's u iVil and ercel'ent work. It is from e. Sovch- v.,. , aaks w , uciurauiiuaui 111c nui.jcr . rajcaiion of the meri-,(t-. emh.. Mrs V tCe d 'splays tht which few other ,wr; err- ters . of Z ZG WrK " IOr WC j -vo p.fti1"(Q till t they Would r v 1 be del'- htier w! i'r. if. nifi derive , fizxn icitnanv useful ant. serviceable"1 fcuase-- -vions. Our mouth waters for the good things tliat ht; receints show 4iow 50 make.-as we j glance throu.i lis ps.es: ad we imend tlrat fh k!n? ot our libuseho'd shaT.t the he:e wlio 1 1 ?r:is of I have ued- the look sneak of it imnii'l5fied t:r.?f. A lady , . lend cf ours wa recen tly present ed with a copy A' the voh'roe. . Sae was so delighted wu a it, an to ca 17 it wifh heroic a"v!slt tOome relitiv a ai a jreat 'ci'sVnce, that they m well us s-ie might g?i the benefit of its ii .vr'uable suggestions. Another lady" compJa;ns that hers h o perpetually on the loan, : do ner. out fitue . uood 1 and ? as to ; have en nearly worn out with use though j she has had it bJt twiJ un ipotMn j 1 LaeM just -t-edtc the fbT'6wing tfties pf the chapters, fiutl Kjy!- whether you would HCUD.1 Fisn .'! Mea.,1iiiM.', V.wt'.ln Brojd, Batier-Ck29 90u Vafflw Yeast: Deli cacies for the Sick, Ca kes, y Icings, Pastry,. Puudings, Custards, , Preserves, Jell es, Wines, Cordials, Pickle?. &c. &e- v 1 ' And then recollect 'that the authored of uiis uooK nves in your 'midst, knows vour gar- ftiwAVA I ir ? ' wor: is unpretepa- lace, introduction or self-nraise. It stands on its own merits and 011 taem' alone.' It' was published; about four years since, 1 and we understand has; been , surely; but -.quietly making its way into general, circulation. We hope no lady who. reads our, paper' .will fail t invest her money in hvand, our word for it. 'she will consider it- as - lone as she lives, the very best spent $i 60 that ever let Ben Goodman, Radical Post Master at WilliamstonN.'C. has been arrested for' stealing. A few more of ; the game-sort left ... ; t r. ,", 1 Tbe world has had its iron age,' its; gold en age and its age of bronze; " Bad ical ism has made the present an age of steal. "wa a Mack But J T - J y - vv W1C VU4UUVi a . v9 - J?ati:-."-. DUV to nave a wise i.iend sKWAvoit vAniur in, m;me don t Know. nm 'z": irr' : I am three-eighths- 2J rsJ:' , V