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i 1 .... 7i , tt I p li. .J" i TKONGKTWAT: OP OUR COUNTRY-TIIE POPULAR HEART, CARPENTER & GRAYSCN, Editors. CLENDEKIN & CARPENTER, Pcblisheks. ' NO. M. VOL. I. RUTHERFORDTON, NJ V& 7 Terms of Subscription. 1 Copy 1 Year in Advance, '.$2.00 . 1-00 i t. e mon hip, knrr nerson Bendincr us a Chib of five Jih the Caah'ti above rates for one Year, ill be cutiuw i " I Hates or Advertising. lmo. 3mo. 6mo. lzmo. 11 inch ;2 mi 1.00 2150 K.00 .J.W...jJWQ 2.00 5.00 3 2.00 18.00 30.00 . i a on on nn n nn R nn . H 8 CO 20.00 35.00 45.00 10.00 1 column 15 00 40.00 C0.00 80.00 125 00 rp Special notices chnrped 50 per cent liigjer. Local notices 25 cents a line. g" Agents procuring advertisements will be allowed a commisnon of 25 per cent. i II 4 UU JI'.vV y.v. . t.t.'r it it - PROFESSIONAL CAIiDS. , DR. J. L. RUCKER,- . f' PHYSICIAN AND SURG HON, ' Grntclul lor the lfibcrlal patronajre hereto (ore received, lopes, by prompt nttentioii to 11 calle, to ment'a jcotitiuuauce of the same. i-tt W. LOG AX, LOG AX ATTORN J. il. JVSTICK. k JUSTICE, :ys at law, :lUTIIEKF01tr)T0K, N. C. Will give prompt ' tittcntion to ail business ntrusted to tlu ir care. i'articuTsir attention piven 10 collections in boili Snperior and juptices' CourtM. Itf "j. R. CARPENTER, ATTORN KY AT LAW, I Ruthkkforitox, N. C. rromMlT attended to. Itf HOTELS. THE BURNETT HOUSE, RUTHERTjORDTON, N. C. Is open (or tlje '.accommodation of-tle travellinjr public, jind with cod (arc, at ten live f,ervatit. d pond slabh s and fd for l orKt-s. tbe wc ridor :k? a sl.nre or patron ire ' , r C. BURNKTT, J'rcy r'ator ALLEN HOUSE. I HENDERSON VILLE, N. C; T. A. ALLKN, I'lopiietor. j (Joed Tables, atlentivo Servants, well venx tillatod-Rooms at'dl.'conilbrtable Stables. BUCK1H0TEL, . ASUKvlLLK, N. C, "j ' R. M. DEADER, Proprietor. BOAUD2.0O 1TR DAY. ICtf Flcmming House, 5 itijiiiio., is. c. Ronrd pet Dsiy", " . ' SI. 50 . Week, 1.00 " " Monti,. 21.00 24-tf B. B, FRKKMAN, Proprietor; " McDowell House, This bouse is now open !r the recej tion of .boarders and all transient custom. - c. c Mcdowell, ' 24-3m ' - I , Proprietor. BUSINESS CARDS. W. II. JAY, HOUSE AND SIGN RuTIIERrORDTON, N. C. Grninmp, Marbleling and Kalaoniing exe cuted in the best stylih Orders from neighboring towns promptly , attended lo. j . , . . 6 : 3m BLACKSMITHING. Bradley Dallon would nnnotjeeto bis .old friends and ; customers that bis Shop is till iu full blast on Main Street, South ol the JaiL Terms as low us the lowest. . : Shoeing Horses 1 .OO. Country produce taken in payment for work t market prices. Give lhiin a Call. 10-ly " , .- j- -- . ' VESTEIiN STAR LODGE No. 91, A. F. M. Me.etsjepularly on the 1st Monday tight ihO each ,mqnth, Tuesdayls of-feupeiMr Courts, jaud on the Festivals ot the Sts. John. J - J, -I RUCKER, W. U - R W. JMJAs:, Sec. v A - - ; Jf BLACKSMITH oil OP. The undcrsigjiicd would, reppcctfullj inform old customers .and -the Jtulli, that hi? Shop js Hill going ,00, and -tlmt he is prepared to do' all kind of work in his lino at short notice. ;;t'if f t My terms for work. 41 pay down." All kinds of produce taken -at market prices for ork. -j. ' . -y. 11 persons indc bted 4o me r for work " will te trouble by ealline and settling. '' ,Itf ; ; .J. Y. WILKINSON. The Wilmington Journal, "" Enoelhabd & SaujtderV ' . Editors and Publislicrs, ; "Wilmington, N. C. Diily-jvt'ry morning except Monday at $8 per year. '" . . Weekly evetr Frkbw at $2. 24 3 m Bear On. I Oh, never from thv temrited heart !Let thy integrity' depart,-;?? ' Z; When disappointment fills' thy cnp. ; Undaunted -nobly drink it'up ; Truth will prevail, and Justice snow Her tardy honors, sure, though slow; Bear on, bear bravely pn. Bear on 1 our life is not a dream, ThougK often such its mazes seem ; We were not born for lives of ease, r Ourselves alone to aid and please ; To each a daily task is given, v v A labor -which shall fit , for heaven, r When duty calls, let love grow warm, Amid the sunshine and the storm '; With faith,-life's trials boldly breast, And come, a conqueror, to thy rest, Bear on, bear bravely on. The Choice of "Locality The Ame'rican farmer has more freedom than any other in the world, but whetheT he uses it to the best advantage is doubtful. The rapidity with which our country has been settled as well as its great prosperity, have had a tendency to make our people more dissatisfied with their cir cumstances and surroundings than th ey 4 wou 1 d have been h ad we reached our present position by slow and easj- stages, occupy ing several instead of less than one hundred years. The strife" for place, power and wealth which began with our estab lishment as a nation has constantly increased, pervading all classes of society, and resulting in an unea sy and restless spirit ! which never satisfied even with unparalleled successes, js we nave sam, no class of our people are free from contagion, and our farmers are ns h'jdK- affected as any nthnr class. They change locations as treely, and with as little eoucerti as thev would trade horses, 6eem- ing rrot to value inendship, acquaintances or associations in the least, their chief object in lite appearing to be the finding of a choice locality, ibey are con stantly moving cast, south, west; some gaining by the change, more losing : and the tide floors without cessation. Probably somewhat of this restlessness ot our people is owing to the many nationalities intermingling and making up the whole ; " but having "-arrived at nearly a centenarian ' age we should begin to coOl down and adopt a more fixed and permanent policy for all our actions. Be cause we happen to have a coun try extending from the Atlantic td the Pacific Ocean, and one of unusual richness of soil, it is not necessarylor advisable to spread ourselves over the whole at once, because the covering: will, be (as many have already learned to their sorrow). too thin for the pro fit 'or pleasure of individuals. Because there are better and more fertile soils in other localities than the one occupied; it may not by advisable to make a change sim ply for the purpose of possessing them. A poor soil may be more valuable even tor : the purpose of cultivation than the most fertile known, location making the dif ference. A man with means can make his own choice of-.-locality, but there are many things to be taken into consideration while choosing. The question which many of our eastern farmers are now discussing is, whether a-man caii' restore.'-the fertile of old and exhausted soils for a less sum than ;t will cost to purchase rich lands far distant trotn our best markets. An almost unyaryipgl difference , or one hundreor per cent, in the price of farm pro- price of fan dutcs and in favorer olde r fetates is quite an item, and j certainly worthy ofi consideration. Then, again tnere is another questiGirot equal importance to westerm far mers, and it is, which is the better policy, to keep thfirrich lauds rich, or exhaust ' the: fertility as soon as possible, and then Mseek new soils further Wjest, and a grea ter .distaucQj from good reliable markets? The scientific agricul turist usually adopts the ; former -policy, probably because, with i his superior intellicrence. he is en- abledlo make it,'thernost profita ble. Therefore in this and many other .instances iwhich might be nanied a jchoicc of locality for farming ;purpoS8es Iwodld not or need not mean -the; richest soil: It is also a notable ifact that the average product ot cnltivated lands in any. extended region of country w?here all the soil is extremely-rich is generally below those of varied character, or of only medium fertility. The cause may be found 111 the well-known fact that where nature is prolong ed ..man .becomes indoh-nt. Where little skill is required to make the earth yield bountifully. r little is bestowed in theculmreof plants. We haVe studied this subject of choice of locality for many years, and while admitting that there are differences worthy of note, still there is more in the men who occupy them than in the variation of natural facilities. Some men are capable 'of adapting themsel ves to circumstances and possess the abilities to make everything bend to their wishes. If their soil is poor; they know how to make it rich and secure a profit on the investment. If there is a good market near at hand they will cultivate those products which annot be transported a long dis- tance, and consequently avoid coming in competition - with the whole conntrv. But should the market to which the are compel led to send the products of their farms be a long- distance away, the concentrating priciple is adap ted. Instead of 1 shipping corn, wheat, oats, and other rain, the freight on which would con- RtirhP tli" linn -a ihnrA thev turn these into beef, pork, wool, but ter, or superior breeds of live stock, and by such a system ob tain a fair price and profitable re muneratiom for their labor. By looking at the subject in this light we can readily understand why! some farmers make money 111 cer tain localities, and under the same circumstances where othe.s utter- Iv fail to make a uare living. IV. Y. Sun. The Boy Organist. Mozart's first experience of a large organ was in the monastery of a little town on the banks of the Danube. He was then only six years old, and in company with" his tather,niad left his home in Salzburg, and started upon a long course of travel. All da' long the3r had been sailing down that majestic river, past . crumby ling ruins, frowning r.iins, frown ing castles, cloisters hidden away among the crags, towering cliffs, quiet villages nestled in sunny valleys, and riere4and there a deep gorge that opened back from the gliding river, its hollow distance blue With fathomless shadow, and its loneliness and stillness stirring the boy's heart like some dim and vast cathedral. ' The company of monks with whom they had been traveling that day were at supper in the re fectory of thejcloister, when fath er Mozart took Wolfang into the chapel to see the organ. And now as the boy gazdwitli something of awe uponthe great instrument , loonimg up in the shadows : of thevgreat, , empty church, his face lit up with serene siitisfaction, and every motion and attitude of the little figure xpresseu a wonaenng reverence. VVhat tones must even . now be slumbering in those mighty pipes -tones which, if once awakened, could give utterance to all that voiceless beauty which tlie-Cdays scenes had showed him life and death, m present and past ; the peaceful river and the deserted rtiiu; the suiishi ne unfailing and the unfailing shadow at its side. ; : 44 Father," said the boy, " ex plain to ine 'those pedals at the organ's feet, and let me play." : Well pleased, the father com plied. Then Wolfang pushed aside the stool; and when father Mozart had filled the gueat bel lows, the elfin organist stood upon 1 the pedals, and trod them as though he had never needed to have t h ei r, ni an agem en t explain ed. How the deep tones woke the sombre sfilluess of the old church! he organ seemed some erreat un- cuuiticreaiure, roaring lor very joy at the-caresses of the marvel ous child. The monks, ealhagjLheir supper in the refectory, heardxjthe tones and dropped ''knife and forkin as tonishment. The organist oYtJic brolterliood - was among theniY but never had he played with such power and freedom. They lis tened; some grew pale ; others crossed themselves ; till the prior rose up, summoned all . his cour age, and hastened into thcchapel. The others . followed, but when they looked up into the organ loft, lo ! there was no form of any organist to be seen, though the deep tones still massed themselves in new harmonies, and made the stone arches thrill with their pow er. 14 It is the devil himself;" cried the first one of the monks, drawing closer to one of his com panions, and giving a scared look over his shoulder into the dark ness of the aisle. It is a miracle !" said another. But when the oldest of their num ber mounted the stairs to the or gan front, he stood petrified with amazement. There stood the tiny figure, treading from pedal to pedal, and at the same time clutching the. keys above with his little hands, gathering handfuU of those wonderful chords as if they were violets, and Hinging them out into the solemn gloom behind him. He heard nothing, saw nothing besides : his eves beamed like stars, and his whole face lighted with impassioned Louder and fuller rose the bar monies, streaming forth in swell ing billows, till at last thev seem ed to reach a sunny shore, 011 which they broke and tlien a whispering ripple ol faintest melo dy lingered a moment in the air, like the last murmur of a wind harp, and was stilK Selected. Ittaiiufactiire of SiBk. Many efforts have been made in our country to make a success of sil manufacture, but none of them have yet brought that indus try to perfection here. x It was, as a writer "properly state?, "an object of attention and hope before the Revolution. In Pennsylvania a society was form ed to encourage the importation of silk worms and the establish ment of filatures. The weaving, prepaying and dyeing of silk oc cupied the uttention of our ances tors, and they had hope of ren dering it a successful branch of industry. Yet, from various rea sons, they failed, and the next generation took up the task, to fail againvWhen theprotection of American marmfactures be came the principalof a great par ty, y encouragement to the silk manufactui,eves given with no more success than on previous trialsCi The great morus multi anlis; excitement had its origin in the hopes built upon the stab lishment of the silk manufacture, and, when that bubble burst, the effect .upon the silk production was seious Vet we have before us a hopeful condition ot affairs in reference to this industry. 'In 1860 the value of the silk manufacture was returned by the cehsiis takers in the United State kit 3,000,000. This capital has been increased ten time 111 the eou rse of ten years, and, val ued in 1870 at $30,000,000. It gave em ployment to 6,000 persons, and their earnings 'were upto$S,000, 000 per annum. Silk is woven in this country for inany articles of use and of apparel which do not compete with the7 flress, gocds from foreign countries. ; Neck- ties, fiearfs and ribbbna absorb a a considerable portiou of the manufactures, and dress silks are woven witli such fineness as to command sale. ' Sewing' silk is by for the largest and mo6timpor- tant branch of this production. New Jersey has, at Newark and other places, soma successful !fac tories devoted -to this branch of business alone; : In Connecticut a large in erest in this manufac ture, and those concerned in it are so well satisfied with their i pro gress, and the demand lor their goods increases so gradually and surely, that in ten years ; more we expect the advance in this rrancti of industry will be more remark- thiiii it hna hppn dnrirrcr tin utst decade." ic. Reasoning ought to be reason able. This maxim is so obvious that the utterancexof it seems to be an utterance that is more than supcrflous. True as tliat" is, still the reasoning of many persons is far from being in accordance.with the requisites as laid down in he maxim. That is to say, the rea soning of many persons is far frorrf being reasonable. To hear some persons reason you would suppose that they were .making a deliber ate effort to stifle the yearnings of common sense, instead of making an effort to apply its plainest dic tates to the subject matter in dis pute. All j-easoning consists in proceeding from what is kriown to the knowledge of other things previously unknown. Hence i'i all reasoning, soinetJiing must be taken for grantetl, and .vvnat it is to prove, must be shown to follow from that which is so taken for granted. Vhcre. rflierefore, .'prin ciples are not " self-evident, nor otherwise proved, nor convent ionally ageed upon, attempting to reason from theni is acting like ttieinau w uv euueavcrea to lift h i rhsel f over, the fence by taking hold ot the straps, of his boots. The effort may possibly be a salu tary cxerc.se, but it results in no advance towards the attainment of .what is desired. The attain ment of. truth should be the pur pose of all reasoning, and when any other purpose is desired, fal lacies are almost unconsciously re sorted to. The habit of resorting to fallacious arguments in order to serve a temporary purpose, is a most pernicious one. It confuses .1 trie reasoning powers 111 such a manner as to make theni b? dis trusted even when they are em ployed in the interests of truth. No person is bound to know eve rything, or to prove the truth of everything he knows. It is, there fore, right and properthat every person keep the range of his pre tensions within the rau ge of hjs abilities; anrftruth is often help lessly encuinoered with fallacies that are obtruded on her as the meansf support. Land and Law Advisor, j V , y Certainty of Puuisbmcnt. It is an old saying, and we be lieve it is a true one, that, for the purpose ofprcventing crime, the certainty of punishment is much more effective than is the severi ty xf it. ; Every circumstance that holds out to the criminal the slightest prospect of non-detection or of filial escape, is almost always magnified into au. antecedent gmiraiity of impunity. The con siderable impunity which crime enjoys throughout the United States is perhaps owing more to the incompetency of pnblic prose cutors, than 1 it is to any other cause. Those functionaries do not always seen to be awate of their responsibility to the public. Their nominations and elections are generally accessories to' larger and more pregnant political movements. And, like other ac- I . ... cessories, they follow tr their prin- cipals : and; furthermore, they do so regardless of their own exist ence." An , effective remedy for snch an evil is very U?irable But the i attention of the public must first.: be aroused to ah appre ciation of the evil itself.; Capital punishment rliving m Washington. The Chemical News describes !two Tnejv and 'powerful "French magnets, made accord ingiaivnat 16 claimed to be a greatly'fmprov d system. One of these weighs six , kilogrammes,; , and carries eighty; the other thought to be the most powerful ever .made carries about five 8 hundred vkilo grammes, having a;: weight ten times less. It is asserted thatths prtncljiles vir"vhicii-tltU4rf-- sible magnet may5 be constiucteil from plates of a gt veil steel and aud lengths are bi iefly these v The contact should conceal the entire magnetism expended over the'ex t.erfor surface of the magnet, juid for this, a sufficient mass should be given it; this mass giveh'tlie surface of adherence should hex reduced ill one perceives an in crease in the small amount of free4 magnetism which the application, of the contact leaves on the mag net; the length and breadth of the plates being determined, their number should be sufficient to cause a little frep magnetism to appear on the nfagnet when the contact is applied if their nurri ber is less, the limit of perman ent force is not reached, and, i greater, nothing more is gained ; the armatures should be strong an( Avell applied, but. their weight should not be exaggerated. The rolling of ships is now re corded, and at the1 same time the form of the wave indicated by an ingenious arrangement; A revol ving cylinder, coverd with paper and turned by; clock work,- re ceives marks made by several pens, une 01 tnesc pens records time. jei Ka ociug an- o r 4 1 . . I,. rni . ... ... .-: i; 1 II 11 I ' I UtV.U 44. Li lUU V. V, 1 1 . V. I 4 a, gra- vuy or ine snip, a peuuiuui v&i lat'ing in a plane trans.ve.e1y witn; the 'keel records, continuously by a second pen, the angles which the ship at each moment makes with the -meat) or effective surface of the wave Another nen, actu ated by a rocking arm, kept l&vel by an observer on deck, and be-y ing pointed to thev horizon, re cords, by a third pen, the angle the ship makes with the horizoni. From the records thus obtained: the amount of rolling of the ship f may be at once obtained, and the form of the yave can be easily worked out graphically. An ap- paratus is also uescriueu in wmcii. is employe 1 a very statu ry wheel so delicately supported as npt tv. receive any rotation .from the . ship's motion ; this whichj placea . traversely iu the ship, will remairi" . still without rotatiug, and thus supply the place of the horizontal ; bar iieia level oy cue ouserver, oil deck. A story is told about a Yankee . who lately settled out in the West. He went to a neighbor accost him thus, " Wa'al I reckon you ain't got no old hen Or .no-' thing you would lend me. a cou-( pie of weeks, have you nei;h ; bbr "I. will lend 3ou one with " pleasure," replied the gcnttenian, picking out the very finest hen . in the coop. The Yankee took the hen home, and then went to , another neighbor ami borrowed,, a dozen eggs. He then set the ; hen, and, and in due time she . hatched a ; dozen of chickens. ; The Yankee 'was again puzzled; ; he could return the hen, but how was he to return the ergs? An(j other bright idea." lie . would, , keep the hen till slio laid a dozen;; . of eggs. Tht3 . ho , did," aiid thea., i returned the hen and egg4 to their, respective owners, remarking as 7 he did so, "Wa'al . I reckon I've I y : - " ''"'' ....,.-- got as nne a uozcu ciuckcus iwy uu t;) ever laid eyes on, ana tneyaia i cost mea cent nuther, -f It is easy in the 6rld tp,i6.r after: the world's ; opinion---it is ; easy in solitude to live after yourt own; bnt the great rnati is ::he ,v , who, in the midst of the worlds keens with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Em" lersou. t; mi
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