VOLUME X.
LENOIR, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 8. 1885.
NUMBER 42.
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- - THE SEVEN DAYS'
From General Longstreet's contri
bution to the Century War Series,
in the July number," we quote the
following: "The Federals withdrew
after the battle, and the next day I
moved -on around by the route which
it was proposed we should take the
day before. Iiollowed the enemy
to Harrison's Landing,, and Jackson
went down by another route in ad
vance of Lee. As soon as we reach
ed front of the Federal position we
put out our skirmish lines, and I
ordered an advance, intending to
make another attack, but revoked it
on Jackson urging me to wait uutil
the arrival of General Lee. Very
soon General Lee came, and, after
carefully considering the position of
the enemy and of their gun-boats on
the James," decided it would be bet
ter to forego any further operations.
Our skirmish-liuea were withdrawn,
we ordered our troops back to their
old lines around Richmond, and a
month later McClellan's army was
withdrawn to the North.
'The Seven Days' Fighting, al
though a decided Confederate vic
tory, was a succession of mishaps.
If Jackson had arrived on the 26th,
the day of his own selection, the
Federals would hare been driven
back from Mechanicsville without a
battle. His delay there caused by
obstructions placed in his road by
the enemy, was the first mishap. He
was too late in entering the fight at
Gaines's Mill, and the destruction
of Grapevine bridge kept him from
reaching Frayser's Farm until the
day after that battle. If he had
been there, we might have destroyed
or captured McClellan's army. Hu
ger was in position for the battle of
Frayser's Farm, and after his batter
ies had misled me into opening the
fight he subsided. Holmes and Ma
gruder. who were on the New Mar
ket road to attack the Federals as
they passed that way, failed to do so.
"General McClellan's retreat was
successfully managed ; therefore, wo
must give it credit for being well
managed. He had 115,000 men,
and insisted to the authorities at
Washington that Lee had 200,000.
In fact, Lee had only 90,000. Gen.
McClellan's plan to take Richmond
by a siege was wise enough, , and it
would have been a success if the
Confederates had consented to such
a programme. In spite of McClel
lan's excellent plans, Gen. Lee, with
a force inferior in numbers, com
pletely routed him, and while suffer
ing less than McClellan, captured
over ten thousand of his men. Gen.
Lee's plans in the Seven Days' Fight
were excellent, but poorly e'xecuted.
Gen. McClellan was a very accom-
plished soldier and a very able en
gineer, but hardly equal to the posi
tion of field-marshal as a military
chieftain. He organized the Army
of the Potomac cleverly, but did not
handle it skillfully when in actual
battle. Still I doubt if his retreat
could have been better handled,
though the rear of his army should
have been more positively either in
his own hands or in the hands of
Sumner. Heintzelman crossed the
White Oak Swamp prematurely and
left the rear Of McClellan's army ex-
fosed, which would have been fatal
ad Jackson come up and taken part
in Magruder's affair of the 29th near
Savage's Station."
6EN. CORDON'S DIARY.
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Extracts from the Forthcoming YiIodc of
-III ill Fated Hero. -
Boston, June 24. The journals
of Gen. Gordon at Khartoum will
make a volume of over 500 pages,
and will be1 published by Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., of this city, Tuesday,
June 30. The book will contain an
etched portrait of Gen. Gordon, two
maps and illustrations, reproduced
in.fac-siroile from sketches Jby, Gen.
Gordon himself. " 1 :
Gen. Gordon's diary is in six parts.
The first, second, third and fourth
diaries are addressed to Lieutenant
Colonel Stewart, C. M. G. of the
chief jot the staff. The fifth is ad
dressed to the r chief pf staff of the
expeditionary" force before tb relief
of the garrison, and the sixth is ad
dressed in the same way.
The following are ; extracts from
the diary :
If it is right to send up an expe
dition now, why was it not right to
send it up before ? It is ''all very
well to say one ought to consider the
difficulties of the government bttt
it is "mot easy to get over a feeling
that "a hope existed of no expedi
tion being necessary, owing to our,
having fallen." As for myself, per
sonally, I feel no particular rancor
on the subject, but I own I do, not
care,tohowi that I like men, -whoever
they may.be, who act in such a
calculating way and I do not think
one is bound to act the hypocrite's
part and pretend to be friendly to
ward them. I do not judge the
question of abandoning the garri
sons or not. What I judge isthe
indecision of the government. They
did not dare to say : "Abandon the
garrison," so r tfiey prevented me
leaving f$r? the rj equator, with the
determination to relieve me and the
hope (well, . I will not say what this
hope was,) "March, April, August
why. he ought to have surrender
ed, he said, six months." There is,
: my point of complaint. ' T 1
: As for myself, I .could make good
my retreat at any moment if I wish
ed. Now realize what would happen
if this first relief expedition was to
bolt and the steamers fall into the
hands of the Mahdi. The second
relief expedition (for the honor of
England engaged in extricating gar
risons) would be somewhat- hamper-;
ed. We, the first and second expe
ditions, are equally engaged for the
honor ' of England. This is fair
logic. I came up to extricate the
garrisons and failed. Earle comes
up to extricate the garrisons and (I
hope) succeeds. Earle does not
come to extricate me. The extrica
tions of the garrisons we supposed
to affect our "national honor."
As for 'evacuation" it is one
thing, as for "ratting out" it is an
other. As to No. 1 we have not the
decision to keep the country. I will
be no party in No. 2,! this "rat"
business. First, because; it is dis
honorable ; second, because it is not
possible which will have more weight.
Therefore if it is going to be No." 2,
the troops had better not come be
yond Berber till the question of
what is to be done is settled. My
idea is to induce her majesty's gov
ernment to undertake the extrication
of all the people of the garrisons
now hemmed in or captive, and if
this is not their programme, then to
resign my commission and do what
I can to attain it the object. 1 As
long as a man remains in her majes
ty's service he is bound to obey the
i orders of his superiors, but if he
resigns he cannot be held as insub
ordinate if :he disobeys.
1
It is certainly a curious exempli
fication of how very lightly religions
sit on man, to note the fearful apos
tacy of both Mussulmans and Chris
tians when their lives and property
are menaced. There is scarcely one
great family of the Soudan families,
who can trace their pedigree for 500
years, who have not accepted Ma
homet Achmet as Mahdi to save
their property, though they laugh
at the idea afterwards. I am afraid
to say what numbers have been kill
through this present policy ; cer
tainly some 80,000, and it is not yet
over. For my part, I hope they, the
Arabs, will all run away. ; We have
in most effectual way restored the
slave trade and slave hunting, for
her majesty's government cannot
keep the Soudan, and never will
Egypt be able to govern it. , The
only thing to be done is to give it to
the Sultan. What an end of the
diplomacy of her majesty's govern
ment, and it was so easy when I left
in January, 1880, to have settled it
quietly, giving up Kordofan, Darfur
and Babr Gazelle and the equator
with decency and quiet. I want to
get out of tne affair, but with de
cency. Put yourself in my position.
If you say, "Rapid retreat and leave
Sennaar to its fate," I will say, "No;
I would sooner die first," and will
resign my commission, for I could
not do it. If you say, "Then you
are no longer governor-general, then
I am all right and all the responsi
bility is on you. It may be that all
this writing is unnecessary and that
you have other views, but it is as well;
you know my opinions. I am secure
against any loss by the king of the
Belgians. If I leave II. M. S.
therefore, I am, so to say, free of H.
M. S. If you turn me out of governor-general,
I am relieved from
all responsibility as to your action
in London towards the people. I do
not think I am insubordinate in this
matter, nor unreasonable.;
Quaes Victoria and Beatrice.
London Court Talk says that the
Queen's regret over the marriage of
Princess Beatrice deepens as the date
of the event approaches, j The de
parture of Princess Beatrice from
the maternal home will! certainly
prove inconvenient to her Majesty
in many material ways. The Prin
cess saved bei mother muoh state
work and mastered for her all the
state documents whose contents it
was necessBry for the Queen to be
personally made acquainted with.
The arrangements for the celebra
tion of the jubilee in 1887, on the
fiftieth anniversary of Queen Vic
toria's ascension to the . British
throne, have already been begun It
is proposed to make the celebration
one or the grandest events of mod
ern times., It is reported that ,the
Queen has already expressed a desire
to conclude her reign on this anni
versary. Very little credence, ttow
ever, is given to this report.
imm !, o'
A Crank at tits Whita Koaa-
A supposed crank appeared at the
main door of the White House today
and announced that he was "the
sole representative of the Son of
Man," chosen to pay the respects of
the f 'Supreme Ruler" to Grover
Cleveland. He .was - dressed in a ,
white duck suit, with a blue silk
sash-aronnd his waist, ;and black;
velvet slippers. He carried a smair
basket of white flowers, and said' he
had just arrived - from Paradise,
; through California, by way of the
Golden Gate. The doorkeepers re- '
fused to admit him, and were about
' to summon a policeman. He said
tnere was no occasion ior raising a
disturbance. Having failed to per
form the mission upon which he was
sentj he would proceed, to Philadel-t
phia. Without f arther ceremony he
turned around and walked out of
grounds.
THE WHEAT CROP.
A Shortage of Orer 180,008,000 Bushels
Predicted by Mr. Talmadge.
Milwaukee, Wis. , J une 26. S
W. ' Talmadge, has reported his
monthly crop report and second es
timate on the probable wheat vield
of the United States for 1885, as
. follows : . .1
There is no longer a question as
to the damage and loss of the winter?
wheat of this country. A falling'ofl;
of 160,000,000 bushels in winter
wheat from last year is a calamity,;
and is unprecedented in the historyj
of wheat raising in the Unitedl
States. The present condition of,
spring wheat is good, but we must;
have favorable weather until harvest,'
to produce the amount of Avheat
shown in the table, as the estimates ;
are made based on the present con-
dition. The acreage in Minnesota,
Nebraska and Wisconsin is somewhat!
decreased ; Iowa 'about the same,
and Dakota slightly increased. f
The I estimate; as tabulated by
States and Territories are based upon i
late information from the State ag-1
ricnltural departments and other?
reliable authorities, and are as near-;
ly correct as estimates of this nature!
can be.
The estimate shows a probable!
yield of spring wheat at 121,000, 000 J
bushels; winter wheat; 210,000,0001;
bushels; total spring and winter; k
331,000,000 bushels. From thesef
figures it will be seen that the cropl
of 1885, compared with 1884, will j
show a shortage in winter wheat of .1
160,000,000 bushels, spring wheat?
22,000,000 bushels. ; total shortage
spring and winter 182,000,000 bush-l
els. I; The average wheat yield of the
United States for five years past is!
461,000,000 bushels. The estimate;
shows a shortage compared with the :
average five years past of 130,000,000 J
bushels. 1 ' 1
Becomes Inquisitive.
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BaVcrsville Democrat. i
Will Marshal Settle please inform
Democratic voters what inestimable
service Judge Dick, Marshal Keogh, ij
Bowman and Cooper have ever ren- I
dered the party who elected Cleve-!
land and thereby made him Marshal,
that he should receive them into his
counsels and ignore the wishes of
Vance, Johnston, Gudger, Adams,
Erwin, McElroy, and the entire
Democratic party of .his District in
the retention and appointment of
men politically the most objectiona
ble it was possible for hihv-to ap
point ? men, too, who are" already
shouting the shibboleth of the most
intensely bloody-shirt Republican to
be found in the community for
place at the next election. While
they make their nominations now
they will save the money received
from a Democratic office to fight the
party that feeds them. There is said
to be honor among thieves.' How
about politicians ?
, , Bob Taylor's Good-Bye.
Hon. Robert L. Taylor, recently
appointed pension agent at Knox
ville, Tenn., has published the fol
lowing valedictory to the readers of
his paper, the Comet, published at
Johnson City, Tennessee: SV -
"Today I bid farewell to the Com
et, and wipe my weeping eyes. I
love my babies because they give me
so much, trouble. I have a tender
feeling for the Comet because it has
given me more trouble- than forty
babies. I have nursed; the Comet
and sung lullabies to it. ' It has just
grow Jarge enough ,o , be interestT
ing, but J must leave it", alas 1 ' My
country oall& and I must go. I am
a patriot at heart." I never go back
on my country. I must double
quick to the front not exactly to
fight, but to pay pensions, to those
who did fight. I haven't made much
money in the newspaper business,
but I have had a power of f un This
instrument wit nesseth, that for and
in consideration of my desire to see
Robt. Burrow and Cyrus H. Lyle,
to have , some fun, I do hereby be
queath all my right, title, claim and
interest in and to the said Comet, its
debts, ' dues, duns and vexations,
unto .the said i Robt. Burrows and
Cyrus H. Lyle, their heirs and as
signs, to have and to hold and be
deviled for, ; ever in fee simple, To
all the subscribers and advertisers I
throw a kiss, and from this sanctum
vanish, forever more,'' i
Tk9 Keep Snake.
f-fr
Mr. W. H. Inloes, 1 of Asheville,'
N. C, writes to the Sun to Vsorrect
a statement from Mr. Rheira, of the'
Smithsonian Institute,' to the effect
that there; is no such thing as the ;
hoop snake.' Mr.' Inloes says; 1 "Two
years ago I was staying at the Black
Rock Springs, Augusta county; Va;',
when a young man, named Easrle, '
shot a snake and brought it . to the;
1. 1m. TL-" . a t.
'hoop
snake. .It was 4 feet long, white,
with black rings, and had twoTiorns 'H
at the end of its tail. Mr. Eagle ;
took a stick and pressed the end of !
the tail, when two horns came out
and emitted what seemed to be a
poisonous matter. It is said'Hhe
snake assumes the shape of a hoop
in making its attack,' and that the
only safety from it is to get behind
a tree,"
springs, wnere ii was examinea ny ,
at least fifty, of us. The mountain-'
eers said it was a 'horn' or 'hoon'
v The Kew York Appointments.
Washington, July 1. The Pres
ident in making the New York ap
pointments gives offense, as was
anticipated would be the case., to
some of the machine ' politicians of
his party, although, as it appears,
he has pleased others of the j same
character. He has, however, which
is of much more importance, given
satisfaction in these appointments
to "the great body of the business
cqmmunity affected, and this fact
will not onlv tend to strengthen his
administration, but to improve party
prospects in the State if good nom
inations are made. The new collec
tor, while said to be acceptable to
the County Democracy ; organiza
tion, is not expected to run the
custom-house with any particular
view to its interests. Now that the
New York appointments are out of
the way, it is supposed the President
will next give his attention to the
Philadelphia offices. Mr. Randall is
said to be anxious to have this little
matter off his mind.
New York, July 1. Taken to-:
gether, the three appointments, of
Mr. Hedden as collector, of Silas
W. Burt as naval officer, and of
Hans S. Beattle as surveyor, present
elements both of strength and of
weakness. In a party point of view
the appointment of Col. Burt will
probably create the ; most dissatis
faction, though as far as fitness is
concerned it is, an ideal choice. The
politicians have believed-that with
the re-appointment of Postmaster
Pearson the debit to the mugwumps
was paid, and to be obliged to swal
low another republican will be like
eating crow. Col. Burt, it is true,
voted for Mr. Cleveland, but his
entire antecedents "are republican.
A man who would consent to become
a beneficiary of the fraud which
made Hayes President, it is conten
ded, cannot be a very good demo
crat Col. Burt has served a full
term as naval officer, having been
appointed by Hayes to succeed A
lonzo B. Cornell at the same time
Collector Arthur was removed under
charges. Two years ago President
Arthur declined to reappoint Col.
Burt, and from that time his dem
ocracy dates. Curiously, Gen. Ar
thur and Col. Burt, who are so wide
apart politically, and, it is said, per
sonally as well, were classmates in
college, served together on the staff
of Gov. Morgan and for many years
in the custom-house. Col. Burt
made a model officer. He introduc
ed extensive reforms in the naval
office, and made himself conspicuous
by his advocacy of civil-service re
form. He served for several years
as chairman of the custom-house
civil-service board. Two years , ago
he was appointed examiner for the
State civil-service commission crea
ted by Gov. Cleveland. '
Mr. Hedden's appointment will be
the subject of criticism by those
who will be pleased with the ap-
ointment of Col, Burt; t Mr. Hed
en has been for many years a
reputable merchant in this city.
His indorsements for the office were
of the highest character. About
the only objection raised against
him is that ex-Commissioner Hubert
O. Thompson advocated , his ap
pointment. The impression seems
to be among many that Mr. Hedden
foes into the custom-house as a po
itical representative of Mr. Thomp
son, and that the collector's office
will be managed in the interests of
that County Democracy leader. The
story is that not being willing to
appoint Mr. Thompson as collector J
the President, in payment of Mr.
Thompson's political services last
fall, allowed him to name a reputa
ble merchant to fill the place denied
to himself. Friends of Mr. Hedden
say that he will manage his office on
business principles, and will not be
controlled by anybody. Mr. Hed
den's appointment seems to have '
J been decided upon suddenly, A few
qays ago ne was entirely unknown
save in his circle ? of business ac
quaintances, and even yesterday
I people were asking who Mr. Hedden
was, i ureat confidence, however, is
expressed in the judgment of Presi-
; ning and Whitney, and it is believed
I that they would not appoint a man
to so important an office as that of
I collector without being sure that he
1 would serve the best interests of the
$ public and strengthen the party for
I the fall election. Mr. Beattle, who
was appointed as surveyor, is , a
i young man of education and ability,,
I and 'a member of the County Dem- '
,ocracy. He was' formerly - private
; secretary to Secretary Whitney when'
the latter was corporation - counsel."
He s now deputy county clerk.
Tki Figst Igaisst Lcrd Easdalpa.
Interest for this week will: centre
on -the ; tiny pocket borough of
3 Woodstock where, with one single
exception, the only sharp , contest
against a new minister is to be wag
ed. The borough has 1;126 voters.
Lord Randolph Churchill had 512
jvotesj, and a weak liberal candidate
452 votes at the last election, leav
ing nearly J one-sixth of the , ; whole"
Unpolled. : The liberals have' select
ed a bright,' likable young London,'
barrister1 'and' J journalist, Corrie !
Grant, to;make "the ! fight; against1
Lord ; Randolph, and the greatest !
possible aid from the liberal organi
zation will be given to him. The'
election will be held on July 4. The
efforts to defeat her husband have
so worked upon the feelings of Lady
Randolph Churchill that she has
declared her intention of making a
thorough i canvass of the borough
herself in person The English
people, for the firsttime in the his
tory of their country, will have an
opportunity of hearing an American
lady expound the politics of the
nation. Lady Churchill arrived
there on Saturday; night, and 'drove
a tandem through the town. She
was enthusiastically! cheered by the
populace, and at several points; the
crowd became so thick that it was
with difficulty that "the driver man
aged to keep from running people
down. Laqy Churchill was former
ly Miss Jennie Jerome, the daughter
of Mr. Leonard Jerome, of New
York. Lord Randolph Churchill is
idoing little or nothing to promote
his election, but is devoting his
time mostly to posting himself as to
his duties as secretary of state for
India. ; ;
England Awaiting the Defelopnient of Sal
isbury's Policy.
There is !a lnll in the " political
struggle while the British ministers
are being j : re-elected. Salisbury's
first speech! made an excellent im
pression. It was dignified and dex
terous, but contained nothing which
indicated the policy of the new pre
mier Mr. Balfour, Salisbury's
nephew, has had nothing better to
offer than a denunciation of Cham
berlain, without whom the week
would have been devoid of a stirring
topic. Chamberlain's allusion . to
Ireland isjeing assarted from two
quarters at the same, time, and this
has greatly advanced Irish interests.
Balfour denounced Chamberlain's
proposals as "home ule disguised,"
then forthwith himself advocated a
spread of self-government, while
Mr. Haworth, a well-known tory
provincial wire-puller, wrote to the
Times suggesting - hat Salisbury
trump Chamberlain'i card by mak
ing the abolition of '. Dublin Castle a
tory cry. He even uggested that
the tories seek ParneH's assistance ;
in governing Ireland! TheParnell
ites, on the other hand, do not re
ceive Chamberlain's and Dilke's
advances amicably, j
The newspapers are full of specu
lations concerning the effectiveness
of Lord Salisbury's foreign relations.
Some of them, howeyer, fear that
his well-known leaning toward a
German alliance will throw France
into the arms of Russia. ' Their
rapprochement is already marked. -
The electoral future is still dark.
The chances point tpja great liberal
victory, but if Salisbury's conduct
is decent, and he is ordinarily lucky,
then there is a faint hope that he
will win large sections to his opin
ion. .. -
The change of government in
England- is believed to have; im
mensely increased Ismail Pashas
chances "of being restored to ? the
throne of Egypt. The most signifi
cant indication of this is the sending
of Sir Henry Drummjond Wolff on
a mission to j Egypt,! which practi
cally makes him replace Sir Evelyn
Baring. Sir Henry, Who was Brit-,
ish minister to Turkey under Dis
raeli, has long been an admirer of
Ismail Pasha, and will have it in his
power to greatly fujrther the ex
Khedive's ambition. Several of the
tory newspapers are taking the mat
ter up and preparing Ithe way for
Ismail's return by violently denoun
cing his Son Tewfik Pasha, the
present Khedive. Afl the ills thnt
Egypt labors under ar, they charge,
due to the blunders of the Glad
stone government anc the imbecility
of Tewfik Pasha. , Now that the
'blundering cabinet is 'out of the way
the next step toward ihe rehabilita
tion of Egypt 8houldbe, they say,
the displacement of jthe incapable
Khedive. r
The radicals are thoroughly dis
gusted at the fact tht Russia has
not yet askd the Maiquis of Salis
bury to explain his aid Lord Ran
dolph Churchill's recent violent
language against Ruspia while de-,
nouncing the Gladstone ministry for
their alleged vacillating policy in
regard to the Russo-Afghan boun
dary question.1 -To the surprise of
the radicals, the official Journal de
St. Petersburg instead; of demanding
a retraction to the abusive language
of the new prime minister and his
secretary of state for ndia, expres
ses confidence that the Marquis of
Salisbury will act fairjy in the mat
ter of the Afghan question, an(i ,
make allowance for.Sthe difficulty,
Russia has always .encountered in
dealing with the Asiatic races.'
, Rortk Carolina Pensions. : 1
BalUmoN Bun.1 ; ' -
When the North Carolina Lesris-
lature passed' the bill (appropriating
$30,000 for the, payment of pensions
to disabled Confederate soldiers and
widows of soldiers, it jj was estimated
that there were 1,000 of all in the '
State.1 This was regarded as an out-'
side, estimate, 800 eing deemed
nearer the exact figures. r But it was
a poor estimate, as there are already
3,000 applicants, and! it is expected'
inis win do lncreasea so 4,uuu. aiosv
of the chums will doubtless be allow
ed, though of course ft number. will
be rejected. The examining boards
have already passed 04 many claims.
The matter is attracting much at
tention. It looks as ijf tne pension
ers will get somethinglike $10 each,
hardly more. .
TKE SOUTH 191 TEE I'XICH ir.HT.
The New York Evening Post clos
es an interesting article on "The
South in the Union Army" as fol
lows : .
"Even Tennessee, one of the States
which actually seceeded, furnished -no
less than 31,092 men to the Union
army. Altogether these half dozen
States contributed 315,045 men in
defence of the Union, while 23,045
came from other Southern States,
making . a grand total of 338,327
from that part of the country in ;
which slavery had existed. It thus
appears that almost one-eighth of ;
the Union army came from the;
South, and it is hardly too much to
say that the national cause could not j
have triumphed without this help.
The struggle was terribly long and ;
hard as it turned out ; with consid
erably more than 300,000 men taken
from the fighting force for the Un- .
ion and given to the Confederacy, I
the success for the Federal Govern- I
ment could hardly have been hoped
for. The non-partisan character of the
Union army, and the importance of
the Democratic contribution to its
ranks, are strikingly illustrated by a
political analysis of the Southern ;
continent.. Although delegates from
the border States sat in the conven- ;
tion which nominated Lincoln 1860, j
the Republican party scarcely, had
an existence outside of the free
States in that year, and in the whole
South only 26,430 votes (were cast
for the Republican candidate. Del- 1
aware gave Lincoln less than one
quarter of her Votes, and Vermont
more than three-ouarters. ' vet i Ver-
immi tsem vuiy oo pur ueuw ux uer
available men into the Union army,
and Delaware nearly 75 per cent.
Missouri gave Lincoln only 10 per
cent, of her votes, and Massachusetts '
63 per cent. ; yet Missouri sent 47
J. i 1 CD i. - 1 4
per pent of her voters into the Union
army,
and Massachusetts less than
12 per cent. more. Maryland gave
Lincoln less than 3 pe cent, of her
votes, and Iowa 54 per cent., vet
Maryland sent 46 per tent, of ner
men into the Union arbiy and Iowa
but 55 per cent. Kentucky gave
Lincoln only 1,364 votes and Wis
consin 86,110, yet Kentucky's con
tribution to the Union army was 44
per cent., as against 60 from Wis
consin. It illustrates the same truth
that the close State of Indiana, as
often carried by the Democrats as by
the Republicans, led the North in
proportion of soldiers to available
force, whilethat other close State,
Connecticut, surpassed the "Repub
lican strongholds' of Vermont and
Iowa." ' " .
Sporgeon on English Immorality.
The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon has pro
duced profound sensation by an ar
ticle over his signature in a recent
issue of the Monthly Review.- In
this the great preacher narrates in
detail the story of the death ' last
year of Justice Williams in a disre
putable house and the recent disclo
sures brought out in the recent Jef
fries case. He makes these ' exam
ples from high official life the basis
of a full-flavored denunciation of
English immorality, and says:' "So
dom in its most putrid days could
scarcely exceed London for vice. To
our infinite disgust and horror the
names of the greatest in the, land
are openly mentioned in connection
with the filthiest debauchery and
the most hideous evil that drags in
the wake of vice. These things are
alleged to be the chosen luxury of
certain hereditary legislators and
rulers in England. Woe unto thee,
England ! when thy great ones love
the 'harlot's housetop 1 Deep is our
shame when we know that ' our
judges are not clean, and that social
purity is put to the blush by magis
trates of no mean degree ! Yea,
that courts of justice Tend them
selves to covering up and hushing
up iniquities great ! Shall not God
be grieved by such a nation as this ?
What is coming over us ? What
clouds are darkening our skies ?
The Wanderer Returned.
Banner Elk, June 56.
To the Editor of The Lenoir Topic:
Arising this morning from break
fast, the news was announced! that
there was a lady lost in the vicinity,'
namely, Miss Nannie Rivers, of
Boone, who has been teaching ... here
some time. It is said she left Win.
Vuncannon s yesterday about 1 or 2
o'clock. A very heavy cloud, was
rising in the West and she was en-"
treated by friends not to start, as-
her purpose was to go to Mr. Lowe a
to obtain a horse to go home.. It is '
said she left without anything to'.
protect her from the storm.
' X 1119 UlUlUlUg I.UD UCWB VttBlO IU
Mr. .Vuncannon's that she had not'
been there, whereupon search began
to be made. A party, of two or,,
three found her track about noon to
day, where she had gone through an v
extensive weed1 field.This party
soon learned that she staid last ni; lt
at Mr. Robert Lowe's, a consider! 3
distance from the direction she star-4
ted. She wandered about 8 or 9,
miles before she reached Mr. Lowe's. '
Another partVwas preparing to
start, as she had left Lowe's this
morninz and it was unknown where,,
she was, when an old citizen carr.9 ,
up the road and announced that tha
wanderer had turned up at Ur. Ilil
lers.' X.
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