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Tl anJeraifned waa on of th original proprietor of the Waihiiiglo Union, and hie long newapeper ex perieeea, befer and ino th oatabliahment of thai peper, juefifie bim in promieing Ih public a paper well worthy of their patronage. Tki Siateo will sot he) the organ of any ctiqa or faction, and with no par tial purpose to erv. th paper will addreas Maelf to th ban judgnarat af the people, anJ for eupport will tety apon their appreciation. Addrea J. P. HKISS, Wellington, D. C. Aoguet 8. 00 Iw -PROSPECTUS or THC North Carolina Presbyterian. TUB PieehyUriaa Church in North Carolina fcae to a labored andet aeerioue dreedvaaUge worn the ni f jxamel tJrate toe 4ii mmJ iuim tor intonate. It ie oatimated that only on Ihouaand ?rbyio(ia Woekliee r taken in the bound of our 'nro Proabyteriee. We nav thirteen IhouMiid Corn aiaairanta, and It ie eafe to infer that there ate thirty Ihooeand Preahyreriane in principle in th Hlate. Our (fyaud atand filth in Ih Union in point of number, and hat sHuntoretip i greater than lhal of any ttynod ttoalhot Weal of PenneTlvaoia. Our aiater Maleeon Ih North and Mouth, neither of which ha a membei ahip a arg ae rare, publieh Ibo Centrel, and Oi Howilbern PreekyUrun, tot tho tonrfit of their people. The lime ha come when tb Preebyurtan Ckurch in Korth Carolina ehould likewiao do her duly to her children. It i a eeaceded and important bet, that hondrede of ear mrmhere will lake a Hiahr paper who will take no ether. Toe Paper ia nee. led to be the organ of OHMMynodandPreahylerMOtooleeiloandaulightea tb piety of our membMahip by dirTuatng avangrlical know iedfe to praoaoi tb caue of Kdocalion 4 develop lb talente of oar Minutry, and to etrengihen I ho aUecbroeat of our people to the eoil and eeactueriee of their own State. If our Chareh in ottor Rut, and other Chorche in thia Mute, can aupply then meraheT with a Religioue Joarnal, why may net wel A ie North Carolina Pro. byteriana inferio. in talent, anergy and patriot m to their neighliore on Ilia North or Kouib.or to Christian of othe. denomineiiune at home I With the earn or better opp trtunitie of rcomptiahing Ihi work, ahall w leavo It nndoeft In tb bngueg of en of oar moat able and awful Minialeia, an adopiod aoa of our Oiate, It ought to have been undertaken twenty ye are ago, but it ie not too Ul to begin lo do right," In tho la two or tbre month, a fund of afoot f 3,000 haa been euberribed a a permanent capital. At a meeting of the contributor, held at Greenaborough on the Itihof May, Rev. A. Baker. Chairman, th Paper waa aaaniiaiu.iy located at Fayetteeille, under the nam and title of the AW CeWma I'mliylrrian. Rev. Wm. N. Meban and Ree. (iaotg McMrill were eterted Editor; Re. Meaem Oeorgo McNeill, Wm. I. Meban. A. Baker, and C II. Wiley, and Meeera. George McNeill, fir.. Job II. Cook and David Murphy won appuintel an Cieeutlv Committee, to ealaMiab lb Paper and manage ita buainea affair. It it our wiah and draign to mak th North Carolina PreattyU-rian a j iurnal of Ih firet rleee, equal lo the boat in Ih country In typographical appearance and in adaptation lo lb want al ourCburrhe. It column will affjfd tb leteet iotelligenre, both foreign and do meatic, and aiecial care will to taken to give a full and accurate aummary of Siate new. Tb nam of th Peoei la de.iined to he aneiaonent of ilechararierand neitenia, flora coneirtioo. it will advocate lb fe oereativc, orthodot, old ecbool doctrine and order of lb Church, Our tret pDt U U ur own people lo North Caro. linn Preelrvterian, Whilrtw rely eonfidenlly npon heir favor, we troel that th native ton of North Car linn who have found bmne in other Blatra, and th dnpled eilitene of oar Hlat who form important an lament in our Minietryand tnemtoralilp, will lake a irrf interaat in ihi antcrpiiaa and giv it their beirly aupport. 'I bin : fjer annum In eJvenre.er an delivery of Ih Rrot nuiaiiert t1 ho in ait tnonthe; $i at Ih end of Ih year. To elub of twenty-nva or more, paying in advaor and when Ih Paper ia aent lo one oddreea. a diwounl f lea nor cent, will to allowed. ft tit Mioiateea and ClJere are earnoetty deeirrd la act a A gent, end all other friendly la ihecaaeo will pleaw aaaial in procuring aa many uWilra a poeIMe, and forward Ih namee, iy Aug in! lef, lothia Office. A anon a I.A00 aubecritora an obtained, lha flrag nnmher will to laeard. If faithful and eigoroui effort at mail ia Ih neat two month by thoa who lake bly inleraat in Ihi work, w will, without doubt, to all to begin Ih publication at lb and of that lima ariih a paying aurxcilption Itet of al leaal 1,000. VT Addrea, F". .lit or a of lb North Carolina Preaby lorian, Fayatteeill, N. C. Jae 10. M lw . A New Treatino on Trigonometry. A MANUAL af Plan and Spherical Trigonometry, with aena af iu application. By Charle Phil line, Profeaaor In Ih t'nlveraity af North Carotin, too pp., Dido, MAM.ETT CO., chapel Hill. W. I. POM EROV, Raleigh. June IT. BJ- iThe Library of the Late Dr. Mitchell. I lAimivy workeon all thebramheaof ecienc, Wl er J .... ' afBl narifi tTri .... re now onerea lor erne at Mia lata reeulene. Thaw wiahing to buy ai requeued to eall and make a selection as aeon at convenient. Auguat to. ," , ' :& 03- aoaa rrarixeoa. , , nan wtoiitL. : 1857. -FaU Trade. -1857. , r STEVENSON & WEDDELL, . Importer. 4 Wholesale Dcalrrt ia Foreign i Domrslie DRY GOODS. Eos, 73 and 80 Eyeamore Street, --" P&TERSliJUlltlr VA ,.' A RE NOW RECEIVING, and will have in atore ready for inapeciion by the lat September, a large and commanding aloi'k of Taney and Staple Dry Goods, to which they reepectfully invite tho attention of the ftortli Carolina Itlcrrhaiil. ' Their elock will to kept full and complete during the aaaaon, by purchaaea at auction, and from first band. Order piomptly attended to. A;uel 19. . . . 08 India Jlubbcr Goods. UBBER DRESSING COM US, Bubber Kin i;omb, Rubber Porkrt Comb. Kublwr Kound Combe, Rubber SiJe Combe, Rublier Puff Combe, Rubber Heir Pin.. AIm, Bonnet Combe, a new and eiccllent article, at J. C. TUKREN TINE & SON'S, inly 15. . - . 07 C'lmOLI IE I prewW for Skirl. Emhroldereil ' Kkirui Ilr.u .iu Wlul.l.,u H.wt.o ....I Rlaetic lieli, by J. C. TUitREN TINE it SOX. CHOICE CALF 8KI.N8, 6ho Thread and hoe 'Kail, hy . I. C. TL'RRENTINB k SOX. IIOl'SE PAPER All grade.; Window bhadca, eery pretty. J. C. Tl'RRENTINE &. SON. VBAST POWDERS, - Bull' 8araaparilla, beat, Bchneidaa tkhnappe, Colognea aaaorled, at J. C. TURKENTINE Sl SON S. July 15, . , . ; 3 NOTZCS. THE eubaeriber moat reepectfully tendera hia thanke - for the liberal encouragement given him leal tear. and hegeleaea to inform tho public, that having aaao- ciatcd Dr. Hooker with him, lha hnvineae witlhereafter a44abavuaafc(tet jreirw eVTrmTKCM. FK1UE JUNES. March IS. 80 a. ratal ni. na. . nooaan. Sash, Blinds, Doors, &c. OUR muhinery being now in complete order, oar new engine lied, and foundry eetablialied, we are prepared to do either wood or iron work at abort notice, end on reaaonablo terme. We reeneclfully k a trial for home manufacture. PRICKS! 8aah, l lamtor.t by 10 at Te. per light. iby II at 10 by IJ at Sir. .. " 11 by 16 at 10c. " U by 18 at lOJc. " 14 by to at lie. " 10 by 0 at He. " Dan., S, 4 or pannele, from f 3 In ft 50. Blinda,alalinoary or on piente, 40. per eqoaro fooL JONES Si HOOKER. March I. 00 March II. 74- FOll SALE, t I.OT in th town of Graham, iramedialely in fron ' of th Court Houae, en Mouth Htreet, lying be tween th tor hoaaea of M'Lmb dk Manner and Al bright 4 Diton. Term to euit the purrhaeer. THOMAS NfcUII. January J. S3.. 110USK and LOT for Sulc. I offer for aale, on accommodating lenne, thai deairable llou.e and Lot on (J ore n Htreet, now occupied by Ml. Waehington. THOMAS WEBB. October SO. ' 61 Dcsiralilc luformation lo Evrrybodj. IltR eom lima pt I hava been engaged in a buei . nee (known only to myeelf end comparatively lew other whom I hev inetruded for V 1 00 each i which hia averaged me an income of from 13,000 lo 5,000 per annum and having ma.la arrangemenla ta go la the Eeatern Continent neat Fall, I am willing to giv full inetrucliona in lha art lo any peraon in lha Coiled Mtate who will remit me theefi'n of Two DoLttaa. I am Induced from tho eucceea I hae been favored with, and lha man happy acknowledgment I have tereived from thoa whom 1 have i net r acted in th art, aud who ere now clearing fiom to II 5 pet .ley. to tie every perenn a chance to come into pneaeaaion of line valuable meaneof making a email fortune. There i no Ilea). at a about Ih buarnee herein alluded In. Keferenco of lb beet dee can to given retarde it rharacler, and I can dao reler lo peraona in Chicago and Detroit, ae well aa in thia place, who hava within threa tnonthe rmhaiked in Ih buaineea, and who will lealify lhal they an making from M in $IU per day al Ih aame. r It ta a bnaineae in which either l.adieaor Umtlemen can en gage, and with perfect viae mak a eery bandanm in eoM. Keveral l.adie In varioua part of lllinoi and MiiaHniri, whom I have Inalrurled in lha ail.'are now clearing from 6 la IH per day. It i a geateel buei. no aud require hut a mar ahilling lo commenc it. I' pon receipt of t I will at once forward I th appli cant a circular containing full Inetrucliona In the art, which will to perfectly anderatood upon being one raao. AUdreoei EDWIN TEMl'LKTOX, No. 37, Fourth HtraeL Ht. Louia, Mo. Augnt6. 03-Sm BLANKS (at iala at this OOico. ' . May your rich oil, Exuberant, nature' better lleaainga pour ! ' O'er vrj laud." , From th Plough, Loom and Anvil. . 8EED WHEAT MIXING OF VARIETIES. A the season for putting in the wheat crop ia near, farmers would do we 1 to con. sider the importance of sowing only the best seed. They have been too much in the habit of threbhiii" out a few shocks for sow ing, without niucn consideration of the soil on which it grew, and without sufficient care to cleanse it perfectly of smut and of sucn foreign seetia as might injure the crop, as if they would say, " Wheat is wheat, the world round, and if we sow wheat we shall get wheat" ' t c . . r . . . - e see it stated in the agricultural jour nals of gome of our great wheat-entwine- States, that great advautage is derived from me eicnanging ot seed, it is recommended not to bring seed from a widelir diflerent climate, but to select with regard to variety of soils to sow clay lands with need from loamy soils, aud the reverse. There may be something in this. We presume there is, or it would not come recommended from so high authorities as it does, as from the Michigan Farmer, for instance. Still we should look more at the perfection of the crop out of which the seed is taken, than at the character of the soil. Suppose we had harvested but a small crop the past year, and that not of the best quality, and that a neighbor, no matter whether very near or not, for good seed is worth going after a considerable distance, had harvested a very perfect crop, say forty bushels to the acre, clean, not a particle of smut, no cockle, nothing but the unmingled gilt of Ceres, and suppose he would sell it for a trifle more than the average price of wheat at tne time, we would sow that seed in preference to our own, provided the va riety were one we approved ; and then we would cultivate with the same nicety and care that our neighbor had. A new thought, at least new to as, about wheat. M. Lucien Rousseau, of Anger-tiller- France,- has Droaciiuu the idea, or rather has stumbled on it by accident, that the mixing of varieties of seed is favorable to the wheat crop. In 1855, he experi mented upon Sheen varieties of wheat, sowing each bv iuelf, and noting the results, both in weight of wheat and straw. The disparity, on the same land and w ith the same cultivation, was remarkable. But what was more remarkable, and the only point to which we wish to call attention, was that after sowing the fifteen varieties, a little seed ot each remained. Ihese fifteen par cels he mixed together and sow ed on a sepa rate patch, and although the land was no better, was more shaded, and no better cul tivated, the crop far surpassed either of the plots sown w ith a single variety. M. Rousseau's reasons, which we ropy below from the Michigan Farmer, appears hardly satisfactory to us, and yet there may be something in' them. At My rate we would recommend a trial of the same expe riment. It would be but little trouble to sow a field with five or six of the varieties accounted best for that region, keeping each variety separate, and then sow another part of the same field with a mixture of all, and note the results. The farmer who would make the trial for himself would have the advantage of knowing whether there is utility in the new idea, or whether it ia to be ranked with the thousand and one humbugs of the day. M. Rousseau's reasons are as follow si I. The several varieties do not head out at the same time, and therefore the period of flowering is lengthened, and the chances ot lerttltution are thus increased. 2. The several varieties are unequal in height, some being shorter than others at the time when the plants flower the heads therefore are not so clone, are more exposed to the air, and the duration is likely to be more perfect, and the fertilization more genera). This theory secma to be confirmed by the fact that where w heat plnnts are most exposed, or are a little thin, other circum stances being equal, the lertili7.ation is more general over the wholejiead, than where tfic wneai is iiiick. S. The clip teems (o ripen belter from the same cause, namely, the inequality in the height of the varieties, and in proof of, this it has been remarked that in mixtures of wheat and rye, often sown in Europe, and of barley and spring wheat, the grain is liner than that ol the same grains grown separately, and under the same conditions. This it considered to arise from the more complete arcation afforded by the two kinds of plant, one of which grows high and leaves room for the tun and atmosphere to ripen the whole more perfectly, than when the surface it composed of one unbroken mass of head of grain which shot out the light from the leaves and ttrnis, and that ripens one part of the plant before the other is matured. 4. Another advantage claimed by this mixture of seed it, that the rrop doet'nnt depend altogether upon one variety, which of ' ie i- r.-Li. c i. " ! ... iwii may oe nnsuuauie ur me auu wiicrc it is sown. The strong and healthy varieties will always fill op the spaces left by the il.m of tha tnnca ftallrata nr tender kinila. and thus in tome degree be more likely to l injure rop. VTe have often noticed that a kernel of wlieiit in k rjre fiel J tillers wonderfully and produces remarkably well.; Ia it possible that the different kinds of wheat will pro duct t like effect on each other i SAVZNG PEA VINE HAY-THE CHINA PRO ! . J.!FJQ PEA. .. Editor Southern Cultivator: In the Octo ber number of the Cultivator, I notice a com munjeatiou from " T. C. C" in'which he com plains that he can find no substitute for fod der, much as he objects to the loss of time and corn involved in pulling it. , lie says he basfouud it impossible to gather and cure ppadiar to that his horses would eat it, even afttf several days sunning. I think he world find it an advantage to pursue a plan introduced into our neighborhood by Dr. Goree, which is to plant the peat in ridges four or five feet apart, after he has taken off hit eat crop. Just before frostt he has the vines pulled up and thrown into" win-rows." After it hat taken one day's tun, and before the leavet get dry enough to crumble, he hat the rows chopped in two every ten or twenty left, (depending upon the amount ol vine, men loaded on a wagon, and driven to a con venient place for sucks, which are made by telling up posts fifteen or twenty feet in eight, well imbedded, and having holes bored liln a two inchausur every two feet, thronsh which are thrust strong pules extending five or six feet on each tide. On these are hung the vines, from bottom to top. The stack should be thatched with oat or other straw, and su Hired to remain untouched for a month: when lie will find a rich sweet lood that will keep his horses and mules (unlets at work) perlcctly fat without the assistance of other food. Another plan which we find successful, is to pit tne vines in rail pens, having alter each load two to or three rails thrust through from ope tide to the other, to that the next load niay partUlly rest upon them; in this war, admitting a free' circulation of air. "t,C. C." will find by adopting this pUn that hit most fastidious hurcet will willingly eat pe-hay. Mr. Wm". F. Douglas, of this county, is this year planting " China pet," which I think should supersede the use of every other. I ha'e noticed his crop from time to time during the season, and must say I have never seen anything to equal it. I shall plant no other next year, to well satisfied am I of its superiority. W. R. imitk Bend, Arlc Qct 1856. POTATOES THEY SHOULD BE KEPT IN " ' " " THE DARK. ' At the last meeting of the American Insti tute Farmer's Club, in New York City, there was an interesting discussion on potatoes: Solon Robinson There are ten timet as many potatoes spoiled in this city by light at are spoiled by frost If possible, a potato never should see light. It should be taken direct from the dark cell where it grows to a Uaik cell lor preservation, and, il possible, al ways keep it in the dark, and even tempera ture, until it is taken out to put in the pot. Dr. smith. I have often observed in Lan cashire, England, with what assiduous care the cottager many of whom are dependent upon their little crop of potatoes cover their potatoes at nmn at possible alter titer are dug. . it is to keep them from the light, as the people know that nothing it more in jurious, particularly if the tun is shinning hot upon tnera wnen taken Iroin the ground. Prof. Nash. The common practice of far mer leaving potatoes tm the ground in a hot October sun, it one of the most injurious things that could be done to the crap. Some of them are half cooked, and all are injured by light and heat. OUR OLD GRANDMOTHER. RIesaed be the children who have an otd faahioned grandmother. At they hope for length of days, let them love an.l honor her, for we can tell them they will never find an other. There it large old kitchen somewhere in the putt, and an oTd-ftahinned fire place there in, with itsttnnoth old jambt ufttone smooth with many knivet that liad been sharpened there smooth with many little fin gen that have clung there. There "are andirons, too the old and irons, with ring in the top, wherein many temples of flame have been builded, with spires and turrets of crimson. There it broad, worn hearth, by feet that have been torn and bleeding by tne way, or been made ."beautiful,'' and walked "upon floors of tesselateu gold. 1 here are tongs in the corner, wherewith we grasped a cut, and " blow ing for a little lite," lighted our first candle l there it a shot el, wherewith were drawn forth the glowing ember in which w saw our first fancies and dreamed our nrst dreamt the shovel with which w stirred the sleepy logs till thetptrkt rushed up the chimney a it forge were in blast below, and wished we had so many lambs, so many marble, or to many somethings that we coveted and to it was we wished our first wish. There is a chair low, rush-bottom chair ; there it a little wheel in the cornor, a big wheel in the gtrret, loom in the chamber. There are thesis foil of linen and yarn, and quiltt of rate pattern, tnd lamplen ia Iramct. And everywhere and aUivs the dear old wrinkled lace ol her whose firm, elastic tten mock the feeble tsanter of her children's children th eld-fashioned grandmother of twenty year tgn. She, the very providence of the old homestead the who loved at all, and laid the wished there wat more of ut to love, and took all the school in th Hollow for grandchildren betide. A (treat, ctpan tive heart was hers, beneath that woolen gnwn, or that nvr stately bmnbar.ine, or that tol heir-loom of silken texture. We can tee hue to-day those mild blue eyes, with more of beauty in them than time could touch or death do more than hide those eyes that held both smiles and tears within the faintest call of every one of us, and soft reproof, that teemed not passion but regret. A white treat hat escaped from be neath her tnowy ctp: the ha just restored a wandering lamb to its mother; she length ened the tether of a vine that wat ttraying over a winuow, as tne came in, anti plucked a four-leafed clover for Ellen. She tils down by the . little wheel a trest it running through lit. fingers from the distaff dis heveled head, when a small voice r.ics, "Grandma" from the old red cradle, and "Grandma!" Tonimv shouts from the top of me s lairs, uenny tne leu go me tnreau, lor her patience is almost at beautiful as her charity, and she touches the little red bark in a moment, till the young voyager it in a dream again, and then directs tommy i un availing attemptt to harnest the cat. The tick of the clock runt faint and low, and the opens the mysterious door, and proceeds to wind it up. We are all on tip-toe, mid we beg in a breath to be lifted up, one by one, and look for the hundreth time upon the tin cases of the weights, and the poor, lonely pendulum, which goes to and fro by its little dim window, and never comes out in the world ; and our petitions are granted, and we are lifted up, and we ail touch with a finger the wounderful weights, aud the music of the little wheel is resumed. Was Mary to be married, or Jane to be wrapped in a shroud t Su meekly did she fold the white hands of one upon her still bo som, that there tejmed to be a prayer in the in there ; and to sweetly did. tha wreathe the white rose in the hair of the other, thai one would not have wandered had more rosea budded for company. . tlow the stood between utand apprehend ed harm! How the rudest of uttoltened be neath the gentle pressure of her faded and tremulous band 2 From hercapaciou pocket that hand was ever withdrawn closed, only to be opened in our own, with the nutt she had gathered, the cherries she had plucked, the little egg she had found, the " turn-over" she had baked, the trinket she had purchased fur ut at the product of her spinning, the blessing she had ttorcd for us the otlspring of her heart. What treasure of story fell from thoe old lips of good fairies and evil, of the old time when the wat a girl; and we wondered if eer but then the could'nt be handsomer or dear er but that the ever was" little." And, then, when we begged her to sing! "Sing ut one f tho) add avaga jpew ift-l ta oing muthae, grandma." " Children, I can't ing," thealwayt taid ; and mother used to lay her knitting softly down, and the kitten stopped playing with the yarn upon the floor, and the clock ticked loner in the corner, and the fire died down to a glow, like an old heart, that is neither chilled nor dead and grandmother sing. To b sure, it wouldn't do for the parlor and the concert-room now-a-days ; but then it was the old kitchen and the old-fashioned grand mother, and the old balla l, in the dear old timet; and we ran hardly see to write fur the memory of them, though it i a hand's breath to the sunset. Well, she ang. Her voice was feeble and wavering, like a fountain just ready to fall, but then bow sweet-tuned it wat ; and it be came deeper and ttionger; but it couldn't grow sweeter. What "joy of grief it was io su mere around the nie.ait ol us, except Jane, that clasped a prayer to her bosom, and her thoughts we caw, when the hall-door was opened a moment by the wind ; but then we were not afraid, for wasn't it her old smile she wore? to sit there around the fire and weep over the woes of the " Dab's in the Woods;' who lay down side by aide in the great Solemn shadows; and how strangely glad we felt when the robin-redbrcatt cover ed them with leavet J and last of all, when the angelt took them out of the night into day everlasting. We may think what we will of it now ; but the long and the story heard arjutd the kitchen fire have colored the thoughtt and livet of most of ut ; hare given ut the germs of whatever poetry blestesour hearts, whatever memory blooms in our yesterday. Attribute whatever we may to the school and the school master, the rays which make that little day we call life, radiate from the God swept circle of the hearth-stone. . Then she aingt an old lutlaby the tans to mother Aer mother tang to her ; but she duet not ting it through, tnd falters ere 'lit done. She reatt her head upon her hands, tnd it it silent in the old kitchen. Something glitters down between her finger and the G rel ight, ami it looks like rain in the toft sunshine, the old grandmother it thinking when the first heard the tong, and of the roice that sung it, when a light-haired and light-hearted gitl, the hung around that mother' chair, nor saw the shadows of th day to come. U! the day that are no more 1 What spell can we weave to bring them back again i What wonii can we unsay, what deeds undo, to tet back, just this once, the ancient clock of time ? So all our lttt.es hand were loi erer chug ing to her gurmeiits, and Having her as il from dying, for lung ago the had done lit ing for hrrtelf,and lived alone in u. Hut the old kitchen want a pretence to-day, and the rush-bottomed chair is tenantlcss. How she used, to welcome us when we were grown, and. came back once mure lo the homestead. . . : We thought we here men and women, but we were children there. The old-fashioned grandmother wa blind in the eyes, but she aw witli her heart, at she always did. We threw our Ions shadows through the open door, and she lelt them is they 111 over her ' form, and she looked d.mty up and taw tall ehipet iu the door-way, tnd she saja, II J i ward I loo, and Luvj'e twice I can hai. but whose is that otherl It must be JaneV for she had almost forgotten the folded hands. O i, no, not Jane, lor the let tne see she is waiting for me, isn't she ?" and the old grandmother wandered and wept. ; " It is another daughter, grandmother, that Edward hat brought,"' anyt some one, "for your blessing.", ',' Ha she blue eyes, my ton ? Put her hand in mine, for she is inr latest born, tha child of my old age. Shall I ting you a tong, children ?" Her hand is in her pocket as of old ; she is idly tumbling for a toy, a welcome gift to the children that have come again. One of us, men as we thought we were, it weeping; she hears the half-suppressed tob ; she says, at she extends her feeble hand, ' Ilete, my poor child, rest upon your grand mother's shoulder she will protect you from all harm. Come, children, sit around the fire again. Shall I sing you a song, or tell jou a story ? Stir the fire, Tor it is cold ; the nights are growing colder." The clock in the corner struck nine, the bed time of those old days. The song of life was indeed sung, the story told ; it wa bed time at last. Good night to thee, grandmother. The old-fashioned grandmother was no more, and we miss her forever. But we will set up a tablet in the midst of the memory, in the midst of the heart, and write on it only this : SACKED TO THE MEMORY . . ; OF THC OLD-FASHION RD GRANDMOTHER; ' 000 BLESS HKR F0RKVKR. THE MODEL HUSBAND. On t week day he walkt out with hit wire, and is not afraid of a milliner's shop. He even has "change" when asked for it, and never alludes to it afterwards. He is not above carrying a large brown paper parcel, or a cotton umbrella, or the clogs, or even holding the baby in his lap in an omnibus. He runs on first to knock at the door when it is raining. He goes outside if the cab it full. He goes to the bed first in cold wrath. er. He eats cold meat pies and puddings. ne cncese is never too strong, or the beer too small, or the tea too weak for him. He, believes in hysterics, and is instantly melted with a tear. He patches up a quarrel with a velvet gown, and drives away the sulks with a ride to Epsom, or a trior in the nark on a Sunday. He goet to church regularly, and lanes his wue io tne opera once a year. He pays for her losses at cards, and civei her all his winnings. He never flies out about hit buttons, or bring! home friends to tupper. ma ciouies never smell ot tobacco. He res pects the curtains and never smokes in the house. He carves, but never secretes for him self the " brown." He lacet hit wife'i atav even in December, and never asks for a fire in the bedroom on the most wintry nights. tie respects tne Helton ol his wile a age, and would as toon burn his fingers at touch the bright poker. He never invades the kitchen. and would no more think of blowing op any ol the servants than of ordering dinner, or hav ing tne tray Drought up alter eleven, lie i innocent ol a latch key. He lett the family go out of town once every year, whilst he re mains at home with one knife and fork, lit on a brown Holland chair, sleeps on a cur tainlest bed, and hat chairwoman to wait on him. He goet down on Saturday, and comet up on Monday, taking with him the clean linen, and bringing back the dirty clothes. He payt the house keeping money without a suspicion, and thutt his eves to thai - sunt) rtet." lie il very easy and affection ate keeping the wedding anniversary punc tually, never complaining if the dinner is not ready ; making the breakfast himself, if no one it down ; letting hit wife waltz and drink porter before company. lie rout all her er rands, paying all her bills, and triet like a child al her death. I Womttrfut People, iy Stayhtw. Anecdote or Jonx Randolph. He was traveling through a part of Virginia in which he wit unacquainted. During the time he Hopped a night at an inn near the fork of the road. The innkeeper wit a fine gentleman, and no doubt one of the first families of the Old Dominion. Knowing who his distin guiahed guest was, he endeavored during the evening to draw him into a conversation, but failed in all hia efforts. But in the morning, when Mr. Randolph wat ready to let out, he called for his bill, which, on being presented, wa paid. The landlord, still anxious to have some convert ttion with him, begin as fol lows: Which way art you travelling, Mr. Ran dolph I" Sirr" mid Mr. Randolph, with a look of displeasure. " I asked," taid the landlord, " which way are you travelling;"' " ilate t paid v..u mv bill Yea." D I owe you anything more?" "No." " Well, I'm g'ling jiit where I please ; do you uinlei stand I" Yes." j The landlord by this time got somewhat excited. and Mr. KiiidolpH droteoff; but, M ! the landlord surprise, in a few minute sent one id Ins senaiit to inquire ninruol the fork of the road to take, Mr. R.mdolprt not being out of hearinj distance, the landlord spoke at the top of hi voice, " Mr. Raiido'jih, yu don't owe me one cent i just take which road you plca-c." It it taid that the air turned blue w ith the corset of Rand dih. Sj'f ,1k .vie. A young Mr, Rarnet, of Selmi, Ala., wit bitten a few tlayt sine by a rattle-make, nd died within twelve hour afterwards. The Rrpuiter m t'isf sfier death the body anuincd thepccu'iersppcarsnceof the rattle soak. ... ' '
The Durham Recorder (Durham, N.C.)
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Sept. 16, 1857, edition 1
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