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-I THE CONSTITUTION AND THE L A W S - T II E GU IANS OF 0 U R LIBERTY . Tol.sXLV. . HILLSBOROUGH, N. C, MAY 18 4. No. 2246. tl! , - Uwttl L - - f 3 3 II ' V 1 . II 111 ' III ' III V 1 r ii' k v ill in' J i ii hi i ii in mi ir tvi i ifi i ei iri , isi u-i 1 1 , t ii x rj4 . ,iiiiii ji . ii hi hi x 1 1 II lailllllMIIIIMI ! I " .. mi . in n. MMll THE FAITIIFML MOTHER. The mother of Daniel Webster was a woman of prayer. " Pray for my 6ons," said she to a friend and neighbor, " and t will pray for yours." She was not only a woman of strong intellect, but of devout heart. She longed for the education of her sons, but she desired still more earn estly their conversion to God. She taught them early to read and reverence the word ' of God. She prayed with them and for them, and sought for (hem the prayers of er christian friends. She taught them tie beautiful hymns of Watts in their arlicst years, and they could as easily have forgotten their native hills as those ungs that were impressed on their minds. Ezekiet Webster was no less remarks ble than his brother Daniel for his love of Watta's hymns, and his familiarity with them. In the house of God his fine, rich voice was often heard uniting with the choir in singing those sicred sons; and in his own house on a sabbath evening he would often repeat them. His life was irreproachable, lie was the peacemaker as well as the law-giver ol the community in which he lived ; the protector of the poor, the friend and counsellor of ail. Few men have ever been more respected and beloved than he in the circle in which he moved; or hive died more deehly mourned, mor justly lamented. Alter his death, upon his office table was found a paper containing a creed and prayer, which had been recently written, expressive of his belief in the re ligion of Chrht, and his humble trust in Cod. However variously the political life of Daniel Webster may be regarded, all know the deep impression which, the early in structions ot his mother made upon his tnind. We know too hew earnestly he studied the Bible; so that many a profrss rd theologian was scarcely more familiar with its pages. We know how frequently he conversed on religious subjects; how oft en he sought and how much he jnjoyed the society of religious men; we have been t told that his own thoughts were frequently apon religious subjects, while those about him were quite differently occupied. We have, as a nation, been present in his chamber oi death. We have heard his 'expressions of trust in Jesus Christ for psrdon and salvation ; we know his hope, that when this mortal should have pat on immortality, he should exist in a world of life and joy and blessedness." Were Jiot the prayers of this Christian mother heard and answered! Her own sphere in life was limited and obscure, yet bow extensive his been hef influence. How much reason lor gratitude is there that the mother of these men was a reli gious mother. Is not here encouragement to the ether mothers to labor and pray fur their children? Jmricjn Maunder. A HAITY HOME. In a happy Inme there will be no fault finding, no overbearing spirit there will be no peevishness, no frrlfulness. Un kindnrss will not dwett in the heart or be on the tongue. Oh, the tears, the sighs, the wasting of life, and health, and strength, snd time of til that is most to be desired in a happy home, occasioned merely b unkind words. The celebrated Mr. Wesley remarked to this effect, name ly: That fretting and scoldi:i seemed like tearing the flesh from the bones, and that we have no more right to be guilty of mis than we nave io curie, or swear or teal. In a perfectly happv home all self ishness will be remo'ved. liven as "Christ pleased not himself," so the Members of a happy hnr.ie will not seek first to please themselves, but to please each other. 5Checrfulness is anoiher ingredient in a Csppy heme. How much does the sweet ness emanating from a heart fraught with loTe and kindness contribute to render a hapny home. How attracting, how sooth ing is that sweet cheerfulness that is borne on the countenance of a wife and mother. How the parent and child, the brother and ister, the mistress and servant, dwell with delight on those cheerful looks, those confiding smiles that . beam from the eye, and burst from the inmost, soul of those who are near and dear. How it hastens the return of the father lightens the care of the mother renders it more ssv for youth to resist temptation ! and drawn by the cords of affection, how it induces them with loving hearts to the parental roof. 0. that parents would lay this subject to heart, that by untiring efforts they would so far render home happy, that their chil dren and doWstics shall not seek for hap piness in forbidden paths. Peace Speeches in the Yankee Congress. It is manifest that the opponents of a fin titer prosecution of the war have become m strong at the North that men do not fear now openly to express their views in the Yankee Congress. In the House two re markable speeches, by Messrs. Lonj of -t a a . Unio ana Hams of Maryland, and in the Senate another by Mr. Henderson, a black republican, from Missouri, have boldly. ta ken the ground that the South cannot be conquered, and ought not to be conquer ed. In the eases of Long and Harris at tempts were made to expel them, but no movement appears to have been made in the Senate igainst Mr. Henderson, which shows that the public mind is becoming familiarized with the ides, and probably satisfied with it. Mr. Long argued that ''there are but two sides on the question. The one is Union without Slavery; the other is the immediate and unconditional acknowledg ment of the Southern Confederacy." He had once said, " If the pcopteof th'e seced ed States were all united, they could never be conquered. IIitorv furnishes no ex ample of such a thing. . I thought, howev er, they could be conquered, because I did not believe they were united." And now he goes on to argue that they are deceiv ing themselves if they suppose the rebels are weaker now than they were three years ago. The newspapers he says will tell you so. But he says if you will add up the number of desertions of rebel troops stat ed in the. newspapers, it equals the orig inal militia strength tf the South. The same authority tells us (says he,) that the rebel armies are in a state of starvation, and in the same column reports the de strnction of coin misery stores en the out skirts of rcbcldom sufficient to subsist their armies for three months. We are told by the reports of Chief Engineers and Major Generals in command that ftrts have been leveled'by our artillery, have become a mass of shapeless ruins and unavailable IV defence. TliC5C forts, for six months there after, have held in security Confederate garrisons, and yt frown defiance at our iron-clad navies." Mr. Henderson says that they have ex pended tw thousand millions of dollars and arc daily expending "three millions more, and dally property is destroyed well nigh equal to another three millions; that they have sacrificed a million of lives also; that the population of the border States is flying to the wilderness Territories to es cape the war" the curses of what they call American civilization." And he-comes to this conclusion: "Let the elements of opposition at once combine so that the friends cf the Union may determine upon the best course to secure pvce." TI.e Louisville Journal of the ISth Inst., has a Ions; commentary upon this speech, in which it says that the peace raca and the abolitionists will unite in the support of Lincoln, as a disunion candidate, against: McClellan, for the purpose of obtaining peace on the basis oi a disolution of the union. It says that the abolitionists ars opposed to the restoration of the Union, that they hate slavery more than they love the Union, and love power even morsthto they hale slavery ; that their most influ ential leaders were in favor ol acknowledg ing ' the independence of the Southern Confederacy at the outbreak of the rebel lion," and that this speech of Mr. Hender son's Is but one of a thousand develop tnanti, all pointing to the same issue." Foytttcpillc Observer. THE WL SPRINGS.! M riven hack. The Fpderali have repaired The following eautiful description it. ofijr fountain of n Florida : Except during the spring freshet, the ri- Taking a narra i, I crossed jthrough vers of Louisiana are not navigable to some dense unde , and all at once I steamers of any size. . stood on the bankhe Wakulla spans. pl . a . i i , mere was a oasiwater one nunareu HOW to meet hutei, exi-eases. yards in diametAost circular. The Air vou the keeper of thishere tavern?" attracted my atteland I seized a spear I am the proprietor of this hotel," re to strike them, loatman laughed and pi;ej the bustling little hotel keeper of an asked me how fJieath the surface I establishment between this city and Rich- uppueu mey wt answereu aooui nvond. " What can i no tor you rr A 1 A 1L m.. 1 -m m rt .ft f t I "tflfl three feet. He ai me that thev were at least twenty f hie.' and it was so. The water is of tilt marvellous trans parency. I dropjl ordinary pin in the water, forty feel I and saw its head .t . . . What do you ax for a bed ?" asked the soldier. " Seven dollars, sir," responded the gentleman addressed. n-l ......... ...II 4liat with pcifect distf ss as it lay on the t cheap; dog gone me ef it aint. Here's bottom. As we Jached the centre I a Confederate five and theie's a two; it's mm" "In course l did," wastne repiy. " i 5 water, which 8pect it's all right between yon." and l cieany "That's a blesstr, any how," said the m'ri on. WW w iwit m ----- beneath us pierclith holes : through Cerfainlv. sir." reolied Boniface..' it If S one fiel to look into unfa-I U all rrf7rilv correct" thomable depths. Iboat moved slowly y0 hearn him, didn't you Jeems" oa. and now we hltremblinsr over the the military p-entleman. addressing edge of the sunkelfT, and far below it one of his companions.". Ly a dark, yawnilnfathomable abyss. . I heern him," was the response. From its gorge colouring forth, with . And you heern him, too, didn't yer immense .velocity, ing river. Ike?" inquired he of another. i usiiing on jusi am us monimurup- ped a ten cent pieclo the is were.jyo leet fcpth, taw 11 tninintr nn Snlnm. I HIS Seems Unl,i;.. Inri nnnr UlietAF ft Tl v .w... OVIUIUI UUU . V " . V-. increuiDie. 1 thinl water possessed a ir traveled as far as I hev. rou would want am confident that 0 geep mighty sudden." so uisiinciij ueriainiy, sir, au ngni, exciaimeu oh. C rowed Onitho lundlnrd 91 h TirnrpprlPd to nireet a. and suddenly re I wmnt to show the gentleman his apart- tvhirti were dart. 1 . the long flexible I Tfce soldier evidently slept soundly, but -ant frrPl on the I in., aarlv in tVia mnrninw ho Tr.i'rVit haTft bottam. ill rrnvp ItlA.t hpautlflll I k... en taef.ani1ina.flia ctll'l with prismatic hues. Tl ;entle swell occa- mattress upon which he had slept carefully sioned by the boat e to the whole an tied up and slung over his shoulder. He undulating motion, leathlike stillness had not proceeded far, however, before he reigned around, ant nore lairy scene 1 was met by the astonished landlord, who never beheld. indignantly demanded to know what he So great is the q tity of water here was doing with that bed. floured forth that i rms a river itself, Gwaine to take it out for the refgi arge enough to float boats wFth cotton. mentt"cooly remarked the soldier. The planter who livi ere has thus trans- You are, are you ?' roared the dis ported his cotton to Marks. Near the perated landlord ; how dare you carry off fountain we saw son. ' the remains of a my property in that manner?" mastodon, which ha ;en taken ftom it. "Your property I Well, I like that. The triangular bone low the knee mea- Didn't I rive you seven dollars for this sura. I L.k.. . I. tki i 11 rl- I..a L. 1 ! At magnifying power, the piece could no from a tower ISO (A toward the north perceived in the w tng hither and thi roots and the wide 1 ' lubuca un c biuc. 1UUW9W nere oeu, oniy iai mgiu, axu uiun nni entire skeleton has 1 1 ent to Earuum's oor fellows hear the trade i Your proper- -ueni. ty.eh?" 'Hie Indian name t le fountain is beau- "The seven dollar! you paid ine, vas tifulljr significant. ' kulla means "The for TOur lodging," said the proprietor, Mvsterv." It is said at the Snanish dis- .mwimr enmewhat irate ni he snoke. covertrs sprang into vith almost frantic jarj Edging ef I know it," responded joy, suppoting they h; liscovered the long the soldfer. I axed you what yoa axed sought " Fons Juvent s" or the fountain for t bej md rjaid ycr own price, and ae- of youth, which shou! rejuvenate them af- cordin' to the'natur of a trada the bed's ier uieir exnausuns trcnes ana oa.ues. mine.' w a . Well, sir." inrrtpted the angry host. Point on lied Hive -From the Augus- and what do you asl for your bed ? I ta Chronicle and Se nel we Icarn the want it." r..tl.....:.. C1. -1. - I ..fr.,1. . V 4.1t:r. -Itorl VnrtK Crnm do parish, Louisiana is situated in the lina.as he dumped the bed npon the floor northern part of the ute, on Itwl River, and carelessly threw himself upon it. .V.I 3.30 miles from its mo h. It is surround- want to bs reasonable, and being it's you, ed by an exceeding fe il planting region. I'll let you have the .bed for fifteen dol- wiuvc me war wiircTciri lias vecu u A-ijr. tensive depot for Conflerate supplies, vast J Fifteen dollars gisped the landlord. been collected there. The military prison "if a mm do:,'t make atleastone hundred iibs k nine, uijiiy i per ecru., uuui uiv vu v. Alexandria, 110 rsil-slora the neut.i.i j penses." . . we believe, the higheshoint on Fed River The landlord paid the money, and will expedition. Natchitot el, an eld French town, settled in 1713. i thirty miles above. It was former! situate on lieu River, but that stream by pursuit) a new channel of thirty nils, haves it four miles tt the right. During: high w; er the old channel is navigable. NatchiU .hcs is a very ia vignificaat place. From Shreveoort ta 'ixas is a fine wa gon road. Work on tie railroad leading io raarsnail, icxas, wis- sioppcu uj mc war. Arailro.nl rii ennlleted from Vitkl- bur; tn at far tvatt at n flnirhita river. and would have extendtd to Shrevrport, a. a.. m. a ft ouuiwas destroyed oyour forces, wnen probably avoid specuJating in la tare witn inv of the -North Carolina troops. " 2Ioui&Mrji Aizertiier. Vt Ltr Ulrnitfi Everr one who hai & garden should p'ant nustard-white, if they can ttt it; any kind, if they cannot. ii is very scar- 'yb" aamtthinv ii done soon, it cannot be pro cured at ail. The cultivation pays, and pays finely, teo. We have hearu of a gen tleman who lives near Columbus, who, by mistake, planted mustard, instead of tur nips. The crop yielded largely, and the gentleman has sold his mustard at three dollars per ound. CotumhuiSun
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