North Carolina Newspapers

. ii.oiUi.uisiiED IN 1825. i ! . tSmMoriifatriot EKLY tXSIITIorV ' three tnontkft at) Mht , a u rLiI.nlrtopp the expiration of subecrip- ADTF.RTISIXO RiTrs : I ' ll c obeqaent insertion 50 cent. Ad vef,'r? contract for special rates in order to irettho benefit of Rich rates. Address i- JOHN B. ISITSSET, Editor and Proprietor.' GREENSBORO. N. C. FEBUART 7. 18M. ' senatorial VotingHow the System, of '' ; t Reciprocity WorKs. .' ' . j Washington Letter to AonsU Chronicle. Years ago, when Senator Matt Bansom, who is one of the brightr est of men, was a novice in the up per House of Congress, the vete ran Siihon Cameron, of PennSyl vania, took a fancy to him, and, as is the custom of the elder brethren. persuaueu nim to vote on bis Penn sylvania-Jine. once, in, open Sen ate, Mr. Cameron handsomely com I plimented I the North Carolinian and 1 ..-promised to reciprocate his kindness, i Off,,' the l Camcrons '. ;r liefer forget n tavor and always re 'li.paj? obligations. . This was notably t? illustrated wnen in e son or Simon paid the political debt of his, father to.wen.j3i.ii;. liutier. it happened that Senator Iiansom had a bill of some kind up and that one vote might defeat! it lie recollected the1 promise" Simon Cameron had made" him and looked around the cbantbi'r to remind v hint of it: : He was hot in his seat and could not be found in the cloak rooms '" Ran- som ran down to" the ' old ; gentle J man's committee room and pushed i I'iti ;Tle Penjisyl vania Senator was - .there surrounded byj a crowd ot 1- constituents, all' of 4 whom- were making merry with nnlimitcd Cham i liagiie. The old politician did not j. rrelish the: sadden; invasion of his ; castle and his -face was a thunder- .'i loudJ " Affecting, not - to notice i .tli is, lia nsom gasped out.' Sena tor Cameron you promised to vote :..with me when asked I The time 1' . bis borne. ; ram in a tight squeeze and ;you must come to the cbam- er and-'help. me onLv The old gentleman rose in high dndgeon. biitwent lortii perform his promise. ; .lie then retnrned to the friends he had rather1, turceremonously i lett. About ten minutes afterwards, who should pop in again but Matt Ran som i Walking up to'tbe astound ed Cameron, he said : 'Senator, I have come to ask of y pa another favor.9 Thb Pen hsjivaniaa glow ered at bisiNorth- Carolina colleage aiidsaid, with some asperity : uThe ' deuce you have! I dont know that ' I-shall grant itj sir. Ransom re plied, smiling: I think you will when yon hear me. These" gentle inetr shall j bo judge and. jury." Turning to the assembled company slip eoiitinned s . "Gentlemen, for twoyears past Senator Cameron ,1ms votetl meat least one hundred twines in the interest of Pennsylva nia. I have got only one vote from h in for North' 'Carolina and he is inad about it. Iask you, gentle tiKO ifi he b is anyright to bo dis pleased with; 1116?? The men thus appealed to thundered out that Xhrth ( 'nroliiia was acquitted of all htatne jind that Penusyl vania must : l0 f econcikHi. Then turning to the ' old Senator, iwho began to under stand and enjoyAthe situation, Gem Ikjiusoih added : "The favor ask oyou is an introduction to j"our .frjends and permission to-partici-pte: iu your festivities!" Old -S.impn, teamed; like one;of the re eent suiisets,; iind taking Ransom hy.the baud affectionately, presen-. I tett him to hisgnests as "my dis tioguished rebel friend, &c." Gen ierl hilarityj prevailed, another i basket of chain pagne was ordered and therJsorth Carolina Senator be came, the li6ri of the hour. U Part of U'ashlngton Clty'Wanted. ' ' t Washington Post. " i An important suit was filed last week m the Equity Court by Messrs 'r Ilildebrandtr, Morrison and Ililde bra'ndtagairist Ulysses S. Grant, " 'illiam B. Todd, James A. Har- nkjd, John B Alley, William W. ! ' tijrcorau, Gebrge W. Riggs, John A ;K J. Creswell,- James ' Donald 1 . Vbu?ron, Citizens' Building Com -rybf , Washington City, a cor - juration, George S. Dearing, Thos. - . tyggaman, Charles M. Mat tliews,! William IZ. Partello, the i Washington Association 'and Unit . ed States j Insurance Company5, a - corporation, and the unknown heirs ; ot1Elias .,B. 1 Caldwell, deceased. ' The suit is brought forVLorin Blod . get,; of Philadelphia, trustee for the ': estate of the. late Samuel Blod get, of this city, and representing the ; "'i latter's beirs.!Jt is, in brief, a claim totlie niain portion of a tract , of Iandt covering 500 acres, ,whicb Samuel iBlotlget, Jr., owned, and1 which, now includs the I most yal uaLlo property in the Capital. ' I- i v i ' .' .. - ;' . '"h.! Mr. Kaudalljand the Presidency. ; "j'-. 1 " 1--:t tBaatimore Spn. - !j. ' r Kli the' indications are that the Hon. Samuel J. RaudalHwill have a united' and ienthusiasticdelega- tki frotniPeiihsylvania iii the Dem-. ocratic National Convention in favor of Jijs nomination for the presiden ey The latest move in that direc tioiiiisIr, Rahdairs'uuanimous in .doysement for the., presidency by the i Democratic jcity committee of Philadelphia. The resorution df in dorsement sets forth Mr. Randall's , ; services "and leadership in Congress, ' and claims that Pennsylvania will give hini an overwhelming majority should bevbe the presidential nomi iiee. Thej-committee, mentioning that, it represents mere than eighty thousand Democrats, requests the ' Pennsylvania: -delegation j in the . ' Democratic national convention to . use all' honorable means for Mr. . ijandairs nomination. . i . - ! That was a cool Scottish "aside'7 oT -ah old dealer, who, when-exhorting his son to 'practice honesty in his dealings, j ;oii the ground of its being the "bestloh e.tn- ouieUv adde1. "I hae tried baith." .. ST 1825. TUB ROANOKE COLONY. Senator Vance's Reaolatlon to fvrect a ' , Monament. In the Senate of the United States on January 23d, 1884, Mr. vance asKeuana -ny unanimous consent obtainetl - leave to bring tue . toiiowing joint resolution which, was to lie on the table : JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the commemoration - of; the landing of Sir Walter Raleigh's colony on Roanoke Is land. North Carolina, in fifteen Hundred and eighty four. - Whereas, the first landing and settlement of any ieople of the Anglo-Saxon race upon the shores or the United States occurretl on or about the fourth day of July, fifteen hundred and eighty-tour (old style), at Roanoke Islaud, in the State of North Carolina, by a company ot Englishmen sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh, under the command of Captains Phillip Ama flak and Arthur Barlow; and, wuereaa, it is meet and proper that this remarkable event in the 1 A i iusiorav oi our race ujnm inis con tineut should le fitly cominemorat . a a . ei, ami nonor ione to tnc names of those whose enterprise and cour age achieved it: Therefore, t Resolved by the Senate and. House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as sembled, That a joint select commit tee, to consist of three Senators and five Representatives, to be se lected by the presiding officers of the - two bodies -respectively, is hereby appointed to prepare a de sign and arrange for the erection of a suitable monument or column at or near the spot where Raleigh's first 'expedition landed, on Roa noke Island, and secure sufficient ground therefor, and to cause to be placed on said monument such in scriptions as will v properly com memorate the event land ! honor those who planned and executed it. bee. 2.fxhat for this purpose the spin of. thirty thousand dollars, or so mucu tuereot as may be neces sary! is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be ex- pcuuei uiiuer me direction oi : me Secretary of the Interior; and the corner stone ot said monument or column shall be laid on the fourth day of July, 1884, in the presence of said joint committee,' the Gov ernors of Virginia, North' Carolina and South; Carolina (the States which constituted the "Virginia", of the first 8ettler8),and such officers of the Executive Department as the President may see proper to designate.!, . T j . - ' Sec. 3. That on the . request of the Secretary of the Interior, any officer of the Army or Navy may be detailed jor superintending or directing the work of erecting said monument; but no more than two thousand dollars of the sum here in appropriated may be n sed in de fraying the actual expeuses of the )ersons herein designated to wit ness the ceremonies of laying the corner stone of said monument. Grass la King. America is surely a blessed land. Without couuting any of the mul titudes for which she has to le thankful, we can find in one single gift of nature sufficient cause for rejoicing. An exchange says : "In its-direct money value, and in its collateral and indirect bene fits, grass is worth more to the world than I all the cereal crops combined. Its direct is nothing in comparison to its indirect value in the influence it has in preserving the! fertility of our farms by its mauurial wealth iu all form?. No man can thrive on a farm no farm cani be self-supporting whexe grass is wholly neglected, or advantage is not taken of stock raised on the grass farms, i It is Supposed by many that onl such soil as is not fit for cultivation in the cereals or roots should be devoted to grass. This is a mistake. We can afford to take our best soils for the pro duction of this crop, and this Is the real plan for bringing them up to the .highest point ot fertility. .In grass the whole west nnds its b?st friend. Without the rich and abundant grasses of the plains, the hundreds of thousands of cat-' tie upon which so many people de pend for a living, and which go to feed so mauy thousands of people in this and other countries "would have never had existence. The hay crop alone is said to surpass in mo- ueytvalue any other single crop in the! laud, and j the value- of the ive stock which depends upon uay aud grass for food is very nearly equal to the value of the ereals. And yet the grass of this country is by no means nsed to best advan tage, and millions of acres of land which imgut easily be made gooti pasture or rich meadow are suffered to lie in a state oi nature, covered with a scanty ! growth of pwild grasses oi comparatively mne value, or with bambles and weeds, or with a washy growth ot sour swainp grass. ! it Even where the grass is good the" owners fail to irootl use of it, bnt by want of thought suffer much of the best croif' ot the latid to be wasted. Grass requires little laoor, ami can be made to pay liberally." v ' Tobacco Inj Hen Houses. "Tobacco in its raw state, or previous to swcjdiug in bulk," says the American Poultry Yard, ms very powerful in its effect, and will cer tainly drive verinin from the lien's nest The whole leaves may be thoroughly dried so as to crumble easily, and put in the nest of the sitting hen as aj lining nuder the eggs. With precaution she will not 1 be driven from her nest by Vermin before the time of hatching arrives. Tobacco is often errone ously supposed Ito be difficult to cultivate. But it is really as easi ly raised as corn or potatoes. A few plants only will give the poul terer plenty of leaves. -- Do Not Nefflect the Garden. . North Carolinian. Why is it that! so mauy people pay so 1 little attention to the gar den 1 . A cood garden is not only a luxury, but a profit ;also. A good supply of garden products for the table costs Hess than tne stan dard bread and meat, andiadds to the healthfulness and the nourish ing qualities ot the corn lieef, the salt Dork, and the small assortment usually found on the farmerf table Need wo add anj thing1: about palatableness, comfort, home en joymentt We not only speak from observation but experience. We have both seen and I tested the two sides of the question. We ku,ow what we are talking; about. Contrast a table set nearly the year round with bread, salt iork. corned beef, boiled , cabbage, anil occasionally a few other items, tjo a taoie additionally supplied in success iou with asparagus, green peas, lima and stiing beans, sweet corn, radishes, carrots, beet, par snips, celery, salsify, turnips, cauli flower, spinach; lettuce, tomatoes!, egg plant, rhubarb, squashes, onions and other things- hlled with currants, strawberries,; blackber ries, not to mention grapes, pears, etc And most., if not all these the farmer can have if be will. . Plain Talk to Girls. Your every day toilet is a par rt of your character. A girl who looks like a 'furry or a sloven in th morning, is not to be trusted, how ever finely she may look in the evening. No matter how humble! jour room may be,! there are eight things it should contain, viz.; ai mirror. ! washstaud, L soap, towel. comb, hair, nail and tooth brushes. Those are just as essential as your breakfast, before which you should make good and free use of them. Parents who fail to provide their children with such appliances, not only make a 'great mistake, but commit a sin of omission. Look tidy in the morning, and after the dinner work is lover, improve your toilet. 1 Make it a rule of your daily life to "dress up"! in the afternoou. Your dress may, or need not be, anything better than calico, but with a ribbon, or flower, or some bit of . ornament, you can have an air of self-respect and satisfaction, that invariably j comes with being well dressed. 1 1 1 Life Without a Newspaper. Once upon a time a certain mau got mad at the editor and stopped his paper. The next week he sold his corn at fonr cents below market price. Then his property was sold for taxes, because he didnVread the sheriffs sales. lie was arrest ed and fined eight dollars for going Hinting on Sunday, pimply leeause ie did not know it was Snmlav: and he paid three hundred dollars for a lot of forged notes that had H?en advertised for two weeks the mblic not to negotiate-them. He hen paid a big Irishman, with a foot on him like a forge hammer, to kick him all the way to the newspaper office, where he pa id. for onr years subscription in advance, and made the editor sign an agree ment to knock him downwind rob hi in it he ever ordered his paper stopped. Such is life without a newspaper. . Salt with Nuts. ! j One time, while enjoying a visit from an Englishman, hickory nuts were served in the evening, when my English lrieml called tor silt, statiug that he j knew a ca.se of a woman who was; taken violently ill by eating heartily of nuts in the evening. The celebrated Dr. Aber uetliy was sent for, but it was after he had become too fond of his cups, and he was not! in a condition to go. He muttered, "Salt ! salt P; of which no notice jwasj taken. Next morning he went to . the place, aud she was a corpse. He said that had theyrgiven her salt would have relieved her, and, if they would al low" him to make an examination he would convince them.. On open ing the, stomach, the nuts were found in ia . mass. lie sprinkled salt on this and solved. , , t immediately dis- V Creed In Chickens. In breeding to early market, it is important to have a breed that growsrapidlyaud fleshes up ouiig; the skin should ibe yellow, and if the feathers are all white, lntb the chicks and old j fowls will look much better when dressed than those with coloreil feathers. The color of the skiujis important, yet half of the fowls that are sent to market have anyjtliing but a yellow skin. Small bones, short legs and a well-rounded form are also de sirable and a size1,! when full grown, not less than five! 'pounds, and not over six before dressed, give the best early chicksjfor market. None of these qualities hre an injury to a laying hen; anl if to them are. added good layenjt hardy and quiet, we have combined the points nec essary for both meat and eggs. V- : M - , v Tin Discovered In Cleveland County. - Hickory! Prees.1 Judge A. C. A. very, of Morgan ton, has gone to King's Mountain to meet Prof. C lias. W. Dabney, State Chemist, 'xho together will examine a mine jvLere tin ore' has recently been discovered at that place. Some of I this ore was on exhibition at Boston daring the fair, and we understand was pro nounced by experts to be the gen nine article. It was first discover ed by Mr. Robert Clay well, of Mor ganton, i while at school in that town. This is said to be the first discovery, of the kind in the United States, and will doubtless prove a source of great profit. It is the property of Judge Avery, Capt; W. T. R. Bell and Robert Clay jwell. : (" 1: ; -1 ;- " - -A farm of 100 acres of good arable land should keep at least six work horses, twenty milch cows and twenty hogs. GREENSBORO, y.C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1884. Dou't Worry About Yourself. '. i To retain or recover health, per sons should be relieved from anxie ty concerning ; disease. ..The mind has pbwer over the body for a per son to think he has a disease will otten produce that disease. This we see effected when the mind ;is intensely concentrated 1 npon the disease of another. We have seen a person sea sick in anticipation of a voyager lefore reaching the ves sel. We have known people to die of cancer in the stomach; or any other mortal disease. A blind-folded man slightly pricked in the arm, has fainted and died fromt believing he was bleeding to death. Therefore, lersons, to remain , well, should be cheerful aud happyi and sick per sons shall have their minds divert ed as much as possible. It is by their faith that they die; As a mau thinketh, so is he. , if be wills not to die, he can often live in spite of disease; and, it be has; little or no attach ir en t to life, be will slip away as easily as a child will fall asleep. Men live by their minds as well as by their bodies, j j Their bodies have no life of themsel ves; t hey are only receptacles of life tenements for their minds, and the will has much to do iu continuing the' physical oc , cupancy or giving it up. I A Thoughtful Daughter. "I don'tjsee how I'd get . along without Mary, nohow,f Mrs. Blu- cher observed, pausing1 to .wipe the perspiration. from her features and putting another ladle or soap into the steaming suds, ) while her daughter's voice at the piano could h distinctly recognized, floating out from the adjoining ( parlor. "I don't see how I'd get along without that gal, nohow. Al'ays on these days, when I . hev the tiriugest work, she lust picks out her nicest pieces, like 'Sweet rest,' by-and-by.' and , 'Mother's growing ; old,' and sings 'em, fur me afore sho goes out on the lawn to play croquet with tlie other,yonng folks. 'Taint eve ry gal as 'ud be so thoughtful, I kin tell you. Now most of 'em 'ud jest bang away with Mordan is a hard road to travel,' or Whoop em -via - a . up, jiiiiza jane,' out sue ain't none o' that sort. She's a pile 'o com tort to me a pile comfort," and Mrs. Blucher fanned herself vig orously with her soiled apron, pre paratory to running the clothes through the second water. Leaning Trees. Often in a fine orchard we find one or more trees i leaning over so Tar as to destroy, the beauty of the whole orchard. It is also much more difficult to cultivate around a leauing tree. This may easily be emedied, while the trees are young. by partially digging up and re planting the trees. ! The roots will usually be found smallest on the side from which the tree leans, and therefore these rOots should , be loosened from the ! earth, the tree set in a perpendicular position and tarefully: fastened j by stakes and guys, and the earth replaced around the roots. It vonld be well to add some rich compost to promote their growth. If, as is very probable, the top of the tree has become one sided, it should be ( pruned so as to estore the balance. In this way ivo have"righted up" pear-trees six nclies through the stem ; but the (best way is to look after the young trees and not ermit them to de art from the way of uprightness. Feeding Corn and Cob Tujjelher. The National Lire Stock Journal elieves in cri indiii'r corn and cob together, and gives these reasons : "The advantage of; grinding the cob and com together is not alto gether iu the nutriment of the cob, but because the cob, being a coarser and spongier material, gives bulk, nd divides and separates the fine meal, so as to allow a free circula tion of the gastric juice through the mass in " the stomach. Corn meal, when wet with plastiu dough, is very solid and not easily iene trated by any liquid; and when pigs are fed wholly on corn meal they often suffer with fever in the stomach, because the meal lies there tooong undigested. A Bridegroom Gets a Spanking.' A Meriden (Conn.) telegram says: Edward Baiibeault is about seven teen years old, but small for his age. He ran away ; with Emma Keefe. who is fifteen years old, on Saturday and the pair were mar ried in Hartford. Oii their return home iu the evening Edward took his bride straight to the residence of his mother aud sought her bless ing. He got instead a vigorous cuffing aud was sent "straight to bed," but the old lady subsequent ly relented and the couple were made happy. ' - . - - Fifteen Million Cows, t American Dairyman. It is estimated that there are now in the Unit'tl States 15,000,000 milch cows, and that there are madeaunnally 1,000,000,000 pounds of butter and 450,000,000 pounds Of cheese. Iu 18 0, as shown by the census, 772,204,000 pounds of butter were made on farms, and 20,451,000 pounds in factories, and a total of 243,145,000 pon uds of cheese. - Besides this over 17,000, 090 pounds of oleomargarine were also manufactured. March Pullets, i V 'The- early chick, gets the early worm," and the sooner begins to feed itself. March pullets are those which fill the egg' basket in the winter time. . Therefore set all the brood hens for which eggs can be procured as soon as iossible and take great care of the chicks which come in this mouth. A Warm run out of doors may be ; made under a hotbed sash, arranged between two coop s, and laid on boards set on their edges "Is that gentleman a i friend ofjyoursT" asked ai newly-introduced lady of another at a ( recep tion. "Ob, no, he's my husband,' was the inuocent reply. The Game Fish or Albemarle. -v. 'is t Elizabeth City Economfatl f The American Angler, ot January, has an account of the game fish of Florula, and it has 8nggeste4 to us to give some account jof the game fish of our inland sert, Albemarle Sounds A e have lived amon them all our days, having angled fori them in ; our earliest., experience with angle worms, and 1 in bur later ex perience bobbed for eels" and sac rificed a reputation, fairly earned for energy and push, by a doggerel verse oi one of our brethren being fitted unfairly to ns : ' . . !X)h! h,ow happy a lazy man fools ' -Layins; on a lot bobbins; for els." " It will take us ten years of dili gent hard work in the eye f the public to recover the reputation we had ten years ago before that bit of doggered damned us to fame as a lazy man.! However, we are! get ting on and falsifying.the poet. But this is egotism. We started to write about the game fish of the Albemarle and find ourself writing in vindication ot one who is hot a game fish. In these waters we will commence at the bottom of the scale, (no pun, pon honor) when our acquaintance with them first began, on those glorious days when it was too rainy to go to school and not tooj-ainy to go a fishing, the pin hook period of lite, as it were when pleasures are always fresh and joy is always new. We will begin. then, with the All rt4 Atltt srsrvn roach. Shall we go out ot our way to describe a boy's first sensations upon catching his first roach upon a piu hook T Going a fishing is one of the earliest, and; strongest, and most enduring instincts of man. When Simon Peter said : VI go a fishing," he voiced the sentiment of humanity through all the ages. The first roach has a rosy place iu an urchin's heart that his first sweetheart! pales beside. His first sweetheart is mixed with distrust and jealously and fear and "misgiv ing, ,111s first roach is unmixed happiness. He's ' caught. : He's safe. His sweetheart pouts. His roach wriggles, but every wriggle is a joy. ' r' ' j ' 1 - . . The roach is about three inches in leugth, with bright, silvery scales, and bites quickly and raven ously. Sometimes he nibbles slow ly aud daintily, 1 but generally he takes right hold, like au earnest gapio fish that he is. He dies easi ly, without much struggling. His place in the economy of nature is apparently to develop that source of happiuess in man which is sometimes dormant, but is always au instinct capable of easy culti vation. -. . j ; j. Having finished the" a-b c of an filing with the roach, the apt boy passes into the next class and dis penses with, if he does not look with contempt, upon pin hooks. He now deals in earth worms and fish hooks of cheap manufacture, and fishes mostly tor wharf catfish, having at first fished in ditches. He sometimes catches a large cat tish aud his happiuess is then com plete. Sometimes an eel conies along aud taxes Ins ingenuity; to disentangle him He now grows in knowledge and. experience 'day by daj-, and his ingenuity m devis ing schemes to avoid creeping like an earth worm to school, as Shake speare jsays, is wonderfully devel oped. ; -. V I - Having, - finished through .the alphabet of roaches, . cattish and eels, our young angler -now feels himself a man ind gets a long reed pole and fventures out upon the deeper waters where he turns his back upon earth-worms and seeks other aud more tempting bait. Now crab brat, roach bait, clam bait, cut bait, and sometimes, when he wishes to yshow his learning, artificial fly, invites hi in. Now he enters upon a sea of happiness and swings in his dugout and sings to the tune of the "Bay of Biscay O." Now he talks about perch, espec ially he talks about speckle perch that frequeut our upper streams and do not go - into the broad wi-t;rs.- Hejtalks large about four and even live pound fellows that made his line hum. V: Watch' our young angler now and make hi In show his hsh, tor advanced angling is hostile to morality and seems especially favorable to the develop- ment. ot prevarication, opevniru perch are bold biters, lliey goat . a a a bait HKC a Hungry nuui hi h nn ter house steak. He means busi ness when he sees a bait. Gener allly he likes companionship and you'll find a dozen in a school suid then an angler lias quicK wor, ior work quick and bait quick is the word. Sneckled perch are game fish in the fullest sense of the word, in the boldness, with which they seize the bait arid in its table equal ities, no fish of our upper streams being superior to them. ' 1 Tae white perch frequents broadi- er waters and is found in the deep waters of Albemarle. He lays low aiid you find the finest fellows near the bottom in twenty feet waterl He is seldom found in the upper streams but likes sandy bottoms mid deliffhts in shoals. He likes a noise, being acenstomed to the sound of the waves, awl "sloshing! the Water hares him to the bait: He is.not so largo j as the specklco! perch, uor we think so luscious, but; per e; makes a dish to set before a king. ' I . ,' , j The chub, black blass, or welch inaii for he is a much-named fish is oJT the perch family, and dis- tinguished among the numerous family. He is generally a sleepy fellow, nestling quietly near shore and finding a cosy place by some stump or log. He pounces upon the bait with avidity ind is deceivj ed in his quiet home by throwing the bait about. He thinks it some delicate live morsel skipping about to tempt his appetite. He some-1 times weighs fdur pounds or even five and makes a dish to tempt the most fastidious epicure. But the angler now leaves the still streams and all the numerous I ierch family, embracing, besides r . - inose named, because most distin finished,' also the leather ears, retl uu, roouins, anu otners too num erous to mention, and enters the lower sounds where the. salt and fresh waters commingle. Here he finds the game fish indeed, ; rocks first, sometimes called striped bass. It takes a man - to handle one I of those strong fellows. From (en to twenty and thirty nounds. mav In dicate the serious and heartv work of taking one in. - They bite like a bulldog and they can takeyonr nnger on at a snap. . It's heroic sport aud requires a man. Cut bait for them, or clam, or small fish. 1 They arid the bull dogs of the sound. v Down in the lower Albemarle, in Croatan and Roanuke Sounds, .1. a -ucre me waters mingle too close ivwitb the ocean to snnnort th life of the upper sound, corneal the usnerman's paradise. Game fish - uounuani ana luscious every- wnere and tnere are round the fish in which the angler most delights. kjin-triiut.ui, pnuceoi oners, uoto Ballast Point for them. They have antiquarian tastes, for their favor ite feeding groiiudsare on the bal last rocks which Amadas and Bar low, who first landed on the Ameri can Continent three hundred years ago, threw over to lighten their ships. ' ' ' ' Tailors, and trou' and hog fish, and spots and ; an endless variety of kindred fish are -found every where. : j But our space fails us to enumer ate the variety ot the game fish! of tne Albemarle. Come' with us across the narrow strip of sand against which .the sea beats, ns if in rage to get at the sound, just across the narrow barrier. Bring your longest Land lines with von for we are going to introduce von to the grandest fishing these eyes nave ever seen, the noblest Roman of them all Old Drum-Fishinirr any young kittens at your house t 13 ring tnem along with you. Thev are the bait that old-drums most delight in. Live and kicking all the better. Bring your, old-drum hooks, large and Istroiur. for you'll need large strong lines and" a strong hook- V hen you getto the sea shore watch sharp and you will see a school of old-tirums. Now .fix on your kitten bait. Quick. Fasten your hook on to him. Tin ust it thron gh his body just under the spinal eoulmn. Al right. ; Spit on his head- and then turovv luui howling over the b- eak ers into the sea. If you throw him into the school, they'll snap it in an instant, and you jean theii tlmiiv your line over your shoulder ami go rearing up the beach. If it's n fifty pound drum it will be no child's play to run up the beach aiid hind him on the shore. . Bait quirk again, another kitten. Over the breakers into the sea. If the school is' getting away his contortions will entice' them. Other bait,- fish, nit ar, beef, dead bait don't do so well. Get a live kitten if you can. When 3pu are a successful old drum fish erman you have got to the head of the class. Taking Photographs by Electricity aft j One Cent Each. ' A Cleveland telegram says aciti zen of that place after experiment iug for two years, has succeeded iu inventing a way to takeinstanteons and absolutely permanent photo-j graphs upon airy substance having a smooth surface, by lie action of electricity. The expense is less than one cent for each picture. Tlie importance of- this discovery can hardly be estimated It opens u au entirely new field in the art of photographyr and 'will work a rtj volution in all itsj branches. The a a a 1 system mventeu win uc especially valuable to I itogra pliers. In is is the first time that electricity has a . a ever been applied ; to tne anoi photograph'i and some little ex citement among the photographers of Cleveland has been, created. The iuventor! claims to have recei vi ed tome flattering, inducements from capitalists, but nothing defi nite lias vet been ueciueu upon. Articles describing the process are being prepared for eastern scientiiic jonrnals, but mention of the new d.scoverv aimears in print lor tue first time to-day. Tbe Keely Nootr. Iii a le'tef to Edward J. Randall; president of the Keely Motor Com J pany, the inventor1 announces, tuai the mechanical portion of his in ventioh is completej.. After the first of next month "nothing will IhV left,"he says, "but setting up the transinittter, whenjall labors will terminate preparatory to operating1. and showincr the specific qualities oi, me peneci- iuin.wj Mr. Keely asks that a suitaon place for a public exhibition, capa bio of accommodating several Hun dred persons, be secured tor an early day. Mr, Randall ha sent out a circular to all the stockholders aunouncing these facts, and infer! entially asking them to hold them; selves in readiness for the greatest exhibition the world has ever seenl The "greatest exhibition" will take place in Philadelphia. . arnriiin- the Preseriralloii oi tne 'j!'.. - : tional Bauks. .f Vt the meetiug of the House committee on 15 inking ana ur rency, the resolution of Jlepresen- tatiie Hunt, OI Jjouisiaua, uuro- lucediast Tuestlay, was discussed and with the amendment onerea by ' Kepresetitartive VMlkins, ot Ohio, was adopted oy vote oi w-io 4. Those" opiwsing were Buckuei andi3Iills of Texas, Gable and Rmmm. The reso ntioii as amend ed declares, that public welfare de mands that tue beneius oi me National Banking system be suu stantially preservetl and continued for the time being, proyiaeu mui thi resolution snai not oe con strued to be the declaration iu favor ! of a.perietuation of the puouo debt. A Fast Train to Xew Orlfaas. the llicJimoud Ihspatcn saysr The i Vircinia Midland and the Richmond & Danville railroad companies propose establishing a limited Express of Pullman cars between New York and New Or - . t leans by way of what is generally known as the "Piedmont Air-Line-" The proposed plan is to .attach a liotel car, to be called "the.New Or leans sleejer," to the Washington limited express, "eaving New York at 9 a. m. At Washington there will be added another hotel car for Orleans, a buffet-car for Augusta and points in Florida, "a mail-car and one baggage and express car. Engine No. 17, which took a prize at the Louisville Exposition hist year, will .draw the train from Washington to Danville, and from that point to Atlanta a heavy Bald- win locomotive, capable of hich' speed, will be used. Stops - will be made at onlv a dozen places be- tween New Tork and-Montgomery. An ; arrangement- will be made, if possible, with the Louisville and Nash ville people to ' use their line from Montgomery to New Orleans by way of Pensacola Junction and Mobile. The schedule time of the new train will be about thirty-nine Honrs; the present time is fitty four hours. I De Sensible. Do not be above your busiucss. He who turns up Lis nose at work quarrels with . bread ' and butter. He is a poor smith who is afraid of his own .snarks ; there's sonie dis- comioiT iu an Trades exreotM nim- 1 ! . - - . 1 . . i ney swei pmg. n sailors gfye up - . going to sea because of the Wet ; if Makers lett on baking bread because ip is F hard work ; if - ploughmen Would not plough because olcold, and tailors would not. 'make 'clothes. for fear of mickinjr their iiiiirers. Wliat pass we'd come to, Nonsense, my nne tellow, tnere s no shame about any honest calling; don't be afraid of soiling your hands, there's plenty of soap to be hau. , N All trades are gootl to goo-l jtrad- j ers. ljuciter matches pay vell it j jou sell enough of them. You can- not get noiiev n you anvtriiriitened nt oees, nor plant coi n it ym are airani ot -. etting imilii your boots, u hen bars of iron melt under; the souin wind ; wnen you can dir tue it ..'l .1 .....:. i i. i . - t i' i I iieiuH wmi roouiiHCKs: oiow , snips along with fans; manuie the crops Witn lavender water, and grow plum cakes in flower pots; there will be a nne tune lor dandies; but until the millennium comes we shall all have a deal to put up with. ! m a 1 a village sink Two Fct.rt Pleasant -valley, a small to tnon tlie riiiiadeipina and Keadiug Itail- road; a few miles from Wilkesbarre, i., was the scene of an extensive. cave iu on rriday iiicht by which many buildings in the town were badlv racked. No one was serious y injured, although many wen jrnised ami cut by falling plastet- and debris. 1 Alout fifty acres were ifl'ected lty the cave in, the ground sinking in some places more than two feet." The settling was accom panied by a terrible -crash, and for Mian the i Wildes cxciti-meut pre.-' va-h -d, the people ri'!iiug in aiaiui Iroui their tottei:ig dwellings. Masonic Hall, one of the largest huildiiigs is a -Jotal wreck, ;;nd there is not a house on the affected tract that is not damaged beyond repair. Fissures six and, eight inches wide were made,-across the main street The cave in was caused by the rotting away. of props infold mines of the Pennsylvania ! Coal Conipany,.J50 teet below Other settlings arc anticipated, and many t the dwellers above the old word ings are moving their housh.dd giKds to safe quarters. t : . . -J !niue . Itlood. . ' '- tl is en;la-d: - r p 1 (From the Hartfont Times.' The ilukedan of St. Albans . is less thin two hundred years'-"Id. The ftainiler of "he house, iu kii eestr of the present duke, "w as the illegitimate soli of Charles II. aiid the famous Nell Gwyhii, who was bor'u- in a cellar in tlie "Coal Yard," f-Drury Lane, Loudon, was reared iu the lowest haunts of vice, ped dhd oranges and sang songs - from tavern f to tavern, went on he. stagehand Iwcame tht mistress; of Ltrd Buck hurst, who sold her t Charles II for a political preferment. Several of the "noble".-families irt England lqive similar beginnings i IXjAMEUK'A. IFrom the'fexa Sifting. Yonr "father was nothiug but a .simp stone mason." r 'I If iinuv r here, von . ?ot -Ilia: til - format jiiu," qii'i'tly remarked the other.) i . i . v.- "Fri: w'liwii did I get itt" t ! From vour, father "Ilow'-do i hi know thatf1 "Ilee 'ause tur liitiier was father i odea frier.". War ua the Potato. 1 (Nrw "i ork TimeK.J The btato is perhaps tlur iroKt demoralizing lot" egi tables. It i I ' .., a. ..t T.' , r..... i . L. was ItrOMgni IO Junipc uuui iviuej- ica. where it had doubtless kept the native races in perpetual bar-j harism,! ami jnst in proportion as f any iiatMii has. become addcted to it that iiatioiilias deteriorated. The potato jcnntaiiis little wholesoine uoijirishmcii less, even, than the rice ea fen by OrieiU.al nations It prJduces tat biiit 'does-not piodii(t b iipo iml; sinew; and, wh it is by t - far its wiurst fault, it has a most disastrous influeui c upon the mind aiid iiior ds. k .;'. ' I. Xi Guiitt 'of C'orrupUdi: Mobtle Regi-ler.j V Whatever my be kiiiI il Sout if erni ent statesmen f the past and pre It must be;! acknowledged that tlu r failings lEive wn occimii ne direction of bribery and corrupt ioti. TlnU1 have (soaietiineslK ii over lea rinir. i soiuetinies iasioiiate, but rarely souieltiues. sectional, sordid. NEW SERIES, KO, 893 ;Was Tbia Judah P. Ilenjamin f The following letter from Judah P. Benjamin, then United States Senator fronii, Ix)uisiana. to th British Consut in New York", was among Thurlow Weed's papers. I .9 J al. . 1.. m- and is given in the volume of mem oirs of his grandfather which Thutv low Weed Barnes isy now carrying through the Press. It is reproduced here from the advance sheets of that volume: - v ! New Yobk, Aug. 11, 1800. Dear Sir : I exeeediugly regret your absence from Jew lork at this-time, as the important object of my visit is have a personal and confidential interview with yon. my apoiog for this breach of conventional usage,, in presuming to address you wituout the formal lty ' of an introduction, may be iiarV doned in consequence, of the : very ' extraordinary nature of the bu si- j neiis which iuduced me to approach yu without the friendly intervene tion of a third nartvn Indeed.it would not only have been unwise! but actually dangerous for mo to iuo m-u wrue u iencr- oi luiro- duction ;7- '.v' . I - -:: Haviug assumed the whole ' res ponsibility of this very critical step, I cannot use too much caution a . - 1 aim circumspection to insuremv personal satety and the successful accomplishment ot the mission I uave in view.' xneretoro;! l preter trusting my own indgnieuMn aiV- proaching a genteel str.angcr ion such busiuess, to that of j bringfug I into my service the scrawls ot G6v. ernors or members of Con frrU I ... - - v wiiu wnom, peruaps, you are as little acquainted as myself. 1 ! V lhe oolcial confidence which your Government seems b repose n you, by ihstrusting to your charge its great-commercial affairs iu the most important city on this continent, I think is sufficient to warrant me in- trusting to your dis cretion, patriotism, and -.loyalty a secret of the greatest importance and interest to her Britannic Mai- esty's kiugdom. - The present disastrous condition of political aflairs in , the United States (which has no parallel in the" past Instorv of the eomrtrvi sieins to uave split the creat Democratic party into many contending fac I tions, all of which are so hungry aner tlie mib icsnoi s that its 1 is uuegraieu parts render tnem an - . i i . . . ... easy prey to the. opposing ' Black Kepubucans. - The doctrines- maintained by the Kepublican party are so unsuiblblo to the great interests of the whole South that an election of their can dicate (which is almost certain) amounts to a total destruction of all pbuitatioii-interests. which the South, as sure as there is a Gol iu heaven, will not submit to. Sooner than yield to The arbitary. dictates of traitoiq-js allies and false friends who have proven recreant to the solemn obligations of our ohl Con- ditution, we will eithersecede from - Che Union aud form a separate (overnmeut, or, upoti certain con-- - diiious, at once return to our al legiance to Gre.it Britain; our moth- 7 I er country ; . ' " y'A- -:' ;, ': ';, Many, very many, of the most wealthy aiuL intfuential planters .. throughout the South have already " disenssed' this alternatiie, Jn the event of tlie election of 'Mr. Liu- i 7 coin, aud the popularity of the pro- , J positiort seems to pass from one to" another almost- with-an electric rapidity. It is true they have made i 110 public demoiistratiotiof their iu tea lions, fof such a course - would ; be attended with direful coiiseqii- : ences at this time, but the peajrwill be fully ripe before November. (Gossiping newsmonger an bal- bling pothouse iKiIiticiaiuf are not allowed to know what is going oh ; iu their very midst. 1 -j ' I ', 'elect" dinner' parties come off . every ilay throughout the whole i Smith, audjiot one of tliiem - ends j without a strong accession to our.. forces. . ; :.';.' j - j - '(,.' t:, I have even heard some of them , r address each other by titles al ready. - ; 1": f'". -.j' My object in approachiitg you is , to cultivate your fiiendsliip, and procure your co operatioirin aid of accoiuplishiiig this grand object of f : returning to the dominion of our . fathers' kingdom.- Through your : kindness and loyalty to your Queen lam desirous of properlya'pproachi iug her Majest'sIiiiistert Washl : ' ington city, with a view to theaci com plish ment of Uds great end. If you will condescend to grant me the necessary assistance for ibis purl pose, you will soon receive the; meritorious reward of your most ; gracious Queen ; and the hearty "" cheer from every true Bpton's hea r for hiTving aided in the retTrnr- of tlie National Prrnligals. ,ri j ; lleposing that confidence in you whicliyour position ii life warrants me ih doing, you must t present excuse me Jor not signing niy name for fear of a n acciden t. This much you may know: I am a Southern, and a member of Congress, whose untiring lierseverance will never! cea sc n n ti I t b e objec t I h a v e f h u s boldly undertaken is fully accom plished. Be so kind as to answer this as early as itossible. AUCw tne a personal interview, and, if you cannot come tff New York, address your answer to "Benjamin," iu car'e of some one at your oflice. The "Little Langtry" Cold .Mine. A Columbia, SC ,telecrain. sa3 s: Quite a sensation has been created' throughout the upper, portion of the State by rich developments in a deserted gold mine in Yoi k coun ty, near the North Carolina line. Some time ago it. was juirchased by a Mri! Arinstroug, of lJiclimond, Va., for a li.tle less than 1 ,000. Its latest priMlnct is a liJTgget weigh iiigaboilt twenty )Hunds and con- taiuing about C3 per ceiit.- of pure' gold. I Mr. Armstrong has now us sociated with him Messrs, Buggs and Bo.vall, cf Baltimore, who are iu the! North purchasing the neces sary machinery for the Fpcrdy de velopment of the Little Irfiiigtry" gout mine, j : I" .,4J 1; i ! ! , - 1' I ; . ..