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I one of the great dangers attending the use of the various sedatives employed in from another paper: "We have before the uursey is that they tend to produce us a clipping from a copy of Liberty Hall, to recognition as our likes, and the pre- the opium habit. Theso quack medicines published m this city in 1816, where a Udiee which insists that black and white pass a law compelling blacks and whites to associate together. Oar dislikes are just as flfoeh entitled owe their soothing and quieting effects to most marvellous phenomenon is related should mingle socially, may be as question the action of opinm, and the infant is by the name of the physician being given able as the prejudice against color which them given a morbid appetite for narcotic of a Mrs. John Kelly of mercer county, is pronounced unreasonable.' Besides, it OUS WnNTHHi 3 "ir Jl -r-.-t" Tri-weeiiijr w . if-.. C laft)4 ..$5.0 ... , -1 ADVKR' 0E SQUARE 1 inch) Onortion $100 RfttM tor a greater mr of n10 SSJa. Special notice- 25 per cent. nore kasW laTadverliserncnts Readmg notices t5 centTptr line for each and every insertion. to the physical and moral deterioration of the race. In India mothers give to their infants pills containing opium, and the result is a languid, sensual race ot hoDeless debauchees. In the United THE OLDEST VOTER. A North Carolinian Living Now in Illinois who Saw the Bat tle of Guilford Court House. To ike Fditor of the Courier-Journal: Having noticed in several journals arti cles claiming for the various localities the honor of having in their midst the "oldest voter," I concluded to put in the claims stiumlants. J ho onenng for sale of cuch la, who had iust given birth to five ns not demonstrated that color alone is nostrums snouia De proniuuea, as tenamg cnuuren, inat oemg iae secona enoiv or nan or repugnance. mere are the kind within twelve months, or ten children horn within the year." And the Advertiser adds this: "Mrs. Kelly, refer red to above, 'resided' in ' Lackawannock township. Mrs Wallace, now residing upstates the poisonous dose rs administered in this place, remembers the circumstances ot the white to associate with the black, aortb Uarolma, May 17, 176'J ; conse- l i .t. I ..i : I .1 L4Lt.u,.i Hi t' . Ji I ivr tlJi j a L. I .1 : - I j j j at. v ander anouier uauw, uut iue consequences w. uie uinn oi iae ten cnuuren very wen, i unices iuc oiacK is uepnvea qi use same qucun is uw uuuurai mu uiimu jrors havtog been present on both mental, moral, physical and spritual qnal-1 of Monroe county, Indiana. l.t ' I 1 r I T . men wnicn we suspect have far mosvtO I living naar oioomington is our venera do With repagaaHee to hecoawf aegroia hie old friend. William Ross, who. accor ed to miscegenation. Again, there is ding to his own account and the family no social inequality implied ip the refusal I record, was born at Guilford Court llouse, r 1 KSKcbV Bftl will nrobably be the same between the New has nearly The competition York lines of ocean steamers reached a point which reminds one of the sharp rivalry in old times upon the Ches apeake, when passengers were begged to come aboard and furnished with meals and staterooms, and their railroad fares paid to their destinations. So it is said ; we do not vouch for it. Bat the Europe. an voyage now is at a merely nominal price, and it is as cheap to go to k ranee as to Niagara, From twenty to twenty- A! -ft.' S ' i r M J hve dollars ts the reduced tare over ana the different companies are as busily engaged in cutting each others throats as a com munity desiron if traveling economically could desire. Baltimore Gazette. on both occasions. Dr. MagofBu of Mercer was the physician. Mrs. Kelly died about a year after this event, btrt in the meantime had twins, having given birth to twelve children V . ' . a ar - WW wnnin twenty montns. sir. i.eiiy is still living, and now resides in Sharon. right to refuse to associate with the white Inequality consists in the enjoyment of privileges bv one side whicL are denied the oftief. To compel the whites to min gle socially with the blacks, ie to make social inequality and put the whites in a Ftate ot social bondage to the blacks. Now, the whites refuse to admit blacks to their schools. The blacks are at lib erty to refuse to admit whites to theirs. Is there any inequality about this ! All classes and individuals must be left free to choose their own associates They are just as mnch entitled to gratify , "Lrt us have a Couple or Dot lars.' -The Milwaukie Sentinefs Wash ington correspondent tells the following On General Rusk : "Congressmen are subject to all sorts of impositions and vexations. Bat innocence must suffer, their dislikes as they are to eratifv their and Congressmen must have their shares. 1 likes. Only yesterday, while your mutual mend, more sacred than the dislikes of the white General Rusk, was standing on a street man or white woman. Is it no part of corner, with a $2 bill in his band, which the business of government to secure so- ft ft m ft . r . . w i ne was nlavtullv twistiutr around tus lin ciai position to us citizeus. it is enousn Sv :V ' w w "W old the 17th of last month. Father Ross is in splendid health, visits Blooming ton ftequently during the pleas ant weather of summer, kills squirrels with his rifle, chops wood, works his own garden, and occasionally follows the plow and says be feels as young as he did a half century ago. Father Ross was not in the Revolution ary war, bat was an eye-witness of the battle of Guilford Court House, North Carolina, and makes no claim to having been a member of the military family ot General Washington, or of even having the General. He has voted for rue CiVflRITF HOME REMEDY. Thu unrivalled Medicine w warranted not to onuin Hinglc psrtksle of MaacURV, or any urinous mineral suufltance, dui m PJISGl" v get able. containing those Honthern Roots and Herbs, hirh on all-wie i'rovideoce has placed in countries where Lirer Diseases most prevail. U will cure all Diseases caused by Derangement ftfthc Lifer and Bowls, giaawas' Liver KegalaUr ar Mesltat. Is eminently a Famil Medicine ; and by beint? kept ready for immediate resort will save manj an hour of suffering and many a dollar in time and doctors' bills. After over Forty Years' trial it istill receiv ing the most unqualified testimonials to its vir tues from persons of the highest character and v responsibility, fiwiaeni- phyuiciaM commend it aa the most ... ww IXuM EFFECTURAL SPECIFIC For Dyspepsia or Indigestion. Armed with this ANTIDOTK, all climates and changes of water and food mav le fucred without tmr. AsaReme.lv in MALARIOUS FE VERS, BOWKL, COMPLAlKTO RE8TLE E88, JAUNDICE, NEAUHEA. ;ers, nicely dressed man approached him I for it to protect life with 'Good morning, General ; how is your 1 administer justice. health V The General answered him politely, supposing he had met an old triend, whose name he bad forgotten. A few words passed between them, and when the General was about to ask the stranger his name, the unknown friend said : 'General, please let me have a con- Death of Cochise. A dispatch from San Francisco announces the death of the Apache chief, Cochise. The last year or two of this notorious say age were pass ed without hostility, after a lifetime of uncompromising hate and revenge against the white race, and, as recently stated, his last days were racked with fever filled pie of dollars, and at the same time inno with horrid imaginings ot his victims ftent.iv takW the hill out of th Cfnra' haunting his bedside and tearing his flesh. H,ana, turned on his heels and walked off, foot to his own hind leg, and thus they r I i 1 a 1 a : a S ? i a. I I .. . l ne meaire or nis numerous irageaieB eavinir our Conffressman stand nc- in a nrndd fnr . r O " D 9 D I wwv" uwsmv miuvwiivvi VT AhiAMn MAtsta At A Matna on1 I a m na I vureuj imiw u. state ot perlect consternation. This is the way members are served in Wash ton. seen the uenerai. He uas The likes of the negroe can be no j ninety-four years, hut does not remember iiow many votes he has cast within that time, but must have been well on to two hundred times ; and has invariably voted the regular old Democratic ticket, and never tails to pay his taxes. He is cer tainly the eldest man in the United States' if uot m the world. and property, and The Mousb an d the Frog. A mouse in an evil day made acquaintance with a frog, and they set off on their travels to gether. The frog, on pretence of great affection, and of keeping his companion out of harm's way, tied the moose's hind embraced chiefly parts of Arizona and New Mexico, and it will be remembered, required no little fighting, a member of special messages, and considerable plead ing, besides the concession of his life, though the Modoc chief was scarcely more savage, to bring him to terms of space. T SI It la the at. Purest aad Beat Family ITerld ! i baa Msdicine in the Manufactured only by 7 H ZHILIN CO., Mncon Gta and Philadelphia Price, $1.00. Hold by all Druggists. LIMBURGER. On a tree there sat a crow, Id his bill a chunk of cheese ; On the ground a fx below, Said, "some music if you please ; You are beantiful of wing, and I bet that you can sing." Cheered by flattery, the crow Sang, and dropped the cheese below, Then the canning fox did freeze To the fallen chunk of cheese; And he calmly lugged it off. And scoffed the song with scoff. Homestead Decision. Chief Justice Waite, of the U. S Supreme Court, has recently decided in Virginia, that the interpretations of the Bankrupt Act de claring that the exemptions allowed a Rankrnpt should be the homestead , ex emptions allowed by the State where he resides, is not constitutional because not uniform. He also decided that the homestead in Virginia cannot be claimed against debts contracted prior to the 6th of July, 1966, in the bankrupt conrt any more than in the State courts. Virginia courts have decided, (and we think correctly, too) that homestead exemptions do not hold good against old debts. , The act of Congress of 873 is declared void for ununiformity is this, that it gave more exemption than the State laws gave when debts were contracted. Salem Press. MORAL. When they pat you on the back ; When they say that you're the oue ; When they say theye oa the track, 'And have been obliged to run When their eomplimeuts denote. They are going for your vote. You can do jutt as you please But you'd better watch your cheese, I Fort Scott Monitor. Now I Lay Me down to Sleep. m In the quiet nursery chambers, Snowy pillows yet nnpremed, ,v See the forms of little children Kneading, w hi t te-robed or their rest, All in quiet nursery chambers, While the duaky shadows creep. Hear the voices of the children ''Now I law me down to sleep." In the meadow and tho mountain. l almly shine the winter stars. Rut across the glittering lowlands Slant the moonlight's silver bars, In the silence of the darkness, Darkness growing still more deep, Listen to the little children Praying God their souls to keep. "If we die so pray the children, And the mother's head droops low ; (One from out her fold is sleeping ; Deep beneath the winter's snow ;) "Take our souls and past the casement Flits a gleam of crystal light, Like the trailing of his garments, Walking evermore in tight Little souls that stand expectant, Listen at the gates of life ; Hearing far away the murmur Of the tumult and the strife. We, who fight beneath those banners Meeting ranks of foeinen there, Find a deeper, broader meaning In your simple vesper prayer. When your hands shall grasp this standard, wiuch to-day you watch from tar, When your deeda shall shape the conflict In this universal war, 1r Kf to him, the God of battles, Whose strong eyes can never sleep, Ia the warning of temptation Firm and true your souls to keep. When combat ends, and slowly Clears IKa amnlro frnm nnt tlip alite. Then far dawn the purple distance All the noise of battle dies ; When the last night's solemn shadows Hetile do wn on vrm and mp r May the love that never failett) ... Take our souls eternally I They have a wonderful freak of nature in Wilmington a white child with black parents, It is nine mouths old, and (Hrl, and the Star says it is one ot the greatest cariosities of the human spe cies. i Its form and features are perfect op to the bridge of the nose, the cbfn, month and nasal organ being not only well-formed but really handsome in their symmetry and general appearance, but commencing with the eyes the (ace and head has the appearance of an animal, more resembling a .a a a white bear than anything else ot the animal species our informant could call to mind. The hair is of a whitish color and like the wool of a sheep. Its eyes are round and piercing, resembling those of a mink and revolve iu their sockets in a very pecnlhr manner. They cannot bear the light of a lamp or candle- and are in stantly closed when one is brought in the room and are only kept open in the day time when the room is somewhat darkened. t has no eyebrows and the lid is of a peculiar formation, in no particular resem bling the eyelid of a human being. It is very timid and wuen any one approaches it has the appearance and actions of a rabbit startled from its lair and is a fine held for those who make human nature in its various forms aud peculiarities an ob ject of study and analysis. The Late Severe Accident on the Central Railroad. The Wilmington papers of yesterday contain the latest information concerning the tenible accident which occurred on the Central Road, near Lilesville, on Wednesday morning, but have little ad ditional to the accouut given in our tele graphic columns yesterday. In addition to the three already announced as having been ' killed, the engineer, Mr. Galvin, died Wednesday night. The cause of the accident was the washing out of a culvert built in 1860, over which rested a firm old bank, and the track on that part of the road is in most excellent order Some six inches of rain fell Tuesday night, doing great damage to the crops as well as to the road, t he Wilmington Journal, alluding to the disaster, says : Everything possible has been done for the sufferers, and Col. Fremont left here yesterday afternoon, on a special train, for the scene. The entire community was dreadfully shocked, and nothing was talked of but the terrible disaster. We can only hope that we have already heard the worst. Mr. Galvin the engineer who perished at his post, was not only faithful and efficient officer, but he was one of the most clever gentlemen we ever knew, and we speak this advisedly, as we have many times ridden with bim on his engine over portions of the road. He has many warm friends and devoted relatives in this city, who are deeply grieved at the distressing news of his death. Col. Fremont, in a note to us, says: "John Galvin, that good engineer and faithful servant, long in the service of the Company, is dead, making four that have perished in this, our first accident, and the worst I have ever had in twenty years railroad service." Presently they came to some water, and the frog, bidding the mouse have good courage, began to swim across. They bad scarcely, however, arrived midway when the frog took a sudden plunge to the bottom, dragging the mouse after him. But the Struggling and flounder- ing of the mouse made so great a commo tion in the water that u attracted the at tention of a kite, which, pouncing down a a ms . a and bearing on tne mouse, carried away the frog at the same tiae iu his train. Moral. Inconsiderate and ill-match e 1 ulliauccs generally end in ruin; and the man who compasses the destruction of bis neighbor is often caught u his own snare. The city registrar of Charleston fur nishes some figures which show that the rate of mortality among the colored pop nlation is twice as great as among the hite inhabitants. These mortuary statistics relate to a year that brought no epidemic to Charleston. The number of deaths in that city from May 1, 1873, to May 1, 1874, was 1,255. The city con tains bont 25,000 whites and 26)000 blacks. The deaths among the whites were 485, and among the blacks 1,070 a mortally of a little over two per cent, for the one, and a little more than one tenth per cent, for the other. Foa the Watchman. Mt. Vernow. N. C, June 15th. 1874. Dear Watchman : I have last read, In your last issue, what yon say about raising a monument to Edo ar A I. I.EM Pox; and I seize my rusty pen to endorse every word of it, aad to thank you most heartily for such truthful and manly utterances. One of my best friends was persecuted, when a youth, for having been railed a Pres byterian ; and afterwards, as a man. be w dogged and ostracised because it was plain he did not lean towards the PresqrWrtana. Of course it was only to-called Methodists on the one band, and to-called Presbyterians on the other that descended to this contemptible work but most of them were men of influ ence, and did my friend a precioas sight of harm. I can testify, from my own personal ob servation, that my friend loves ftke church itb all his heart. Mot the MMkodist. or the Presbyterian, or the Baptist Or tb Epis copalian eburch particularly, but the whole brotherhood of bcUevert. whether thev are posted on the saiLt or sinner aide of puritan leal ledgers. He ia as kind-hearted aa the beat Biabop, and aa prayerful as any of them; yet he has been known to do Some things not inat right, and to have the ridiculous effrontery to acknowledge ft. I want you to talk on id that strain, when ever you feel like u; and 1 at alt gie you attentiou and hazsas to the extent ot my a bility. What has not aarrow-miaded bigotry done, to kill out all religion, if It could : it poisoned Socrates it built all the miUiona of fares around the martyrs fiom age to age it brought on the last war in this country it has forced the negro on ua as a votr it is discouraging and disgusting and lrnut ing and keeping thouaauda of good men oat of the visible church of Christ to-day. Shall 1 speak of what it did for 1'oe, and man v of his east of intlleet ? I do not doubt that the sanctimonious elect, vfbo would not osUntibhj hurt a worm or take; a lamb from its mother, who drove Tom UOod to appear half a scorner, and who could always do im mense hurt to human being hW raising and fostering prejudices and slanders, did tbeir meanest with a.. A. 1'oe. oseak 001 sir. Watchman ! You are tight ! E. P. H- WXLDOM. nights aear the crosses the two ne Hobbiblb Murder Near We learn that oa Wednesday horrible murder was perpetrated Seaboard railroad bridge, that Roanoke River st Weld on.' Mrs. S. Pressev, sn old long and faithfully served his as watchman, at a late boar ot the was called oat of his boose by gross who had a horse, which they told him they wished bim to pnt in bis 1 he old man complied with the thinking they were going to walk over the bridge to Wcldoo, be being on the Northampton side. Soon after one of the wretches went to the old man a boase aad told his wife thai her husband said uaeod bim his pocket hook." aad at that mo ment the report of a gun was heard. She suspected something was wrong aad re used to give bim thev pocket book and he departed She leafcad east ssv, aaal saw her husband coming toward the aoaoe l sV tAS aa"! a ana on rescuing h icu m tne aoor, ery iog oat, he was killed. He was shot through the neck, and expired ia a law moments, but before be did died gave the names of bis murders, to bis wife, and others, who came to the boose, hearing the alarm. On Thursday a party who went par suit, captured the two negroes, charged the murder. nc of them, Austin Hill made a desperate attempt to escape, and for bis folly, was shot down, hat wai killed. Both of the murderers have lodged in Northampton jail. Sentinel. A Sweet Thing on Jokes, F The Rock ford (Ala.) Grange has adop ted this resolution : "That we will re trench our expenditures for dress and living, and confine tbcra to articles actu ally necessary for decency, comfort and good health, and will deny ourselves, as far as possible, the purchase of such things both as to dress and living, as are super fluous." This resolution, rigidly enforced throughout the South, wonld be worth millions to the agriculturist ot this scc- tion. ri g i i. t mi ; m ' A Moral. A nut dropped by a squir rel fell through the opening in the middle of an old millstone which lay upon the a a i ground, ana being thus protected, grew into a thriving sapling that shot up w v B; through the opening. In a few years it had increased so that it filletF till Space and was firmly wedged to the sides of the heavy stone. Still it grew and in a few moie years, little by little it lifted the entire weigh clear from the earth, so that a man could sit beneath it. All was done atom for atom, borne by the sap to the growing trunk. Think of this, my little man, puzzling over "long division in arithmetic; little by little of thinking and working will take you through frac tions, rule by three, and those terrible problems at the end of the book, by and by : but he sure that the little by little is not neglected. And you, hard working lad on the farm, or m the shops, look at Franklin. Watts, Morse. Field, and thou sands more who have lifted the weight of circumstances that would hold them down like millstones and who have by their steady perseverance risen above their fellows easily bearing their hardens tt WW Jl: IS ana jveep oeggmy uivuy. Fairly Stated. 1 he Question of Special Likes and Dis- likes Calmly and Ably Discussed m a Northern Paper. Syracuse (N. Y ,) Standard. Put yourselves in their places, is good advice for those who insist that it is right to force the southern people to mingle with the negroes socially. Nobody thinks of providing that white people shall be treated as social equals by the negroes ; yet there wocld be just as much sense and justice in this. It is a kindness to the blacks to make their social recogni tion by the whites compulsory. One step more means practical miscegeuation, which nature stamps as a sin, and an amendent compelling intermarriage will be demanded as a supplement or the civil rights bill, if the latter is passed. Negroes will not consider themselves social equals, and in the enjoyment of all the rights of the white man, until parents recognize their right to conrt and marry white girls. This is what the civil rights bill tends to. It may be an unreasonable prejudice, as the Independent says, Jlhat makes the idea of mixed schools repulsive, but it is deeply rooted in hnman nature. Indivi duals who have never done each other wrong, are often mutually repulsive from first sight, while in some cases the repul sivenesa is confined to one side. Why may not races feer the operation of the same law, and acknowledge its force This wonld not be to do any injustice. It is bat to recognize a law of nature, and have regard for dislikes aa well as for oar food, so should it be with oar asso ciations. We have a choice. It would be -as sensible and just to pass a law com pelling individuals, who are distasteful to From the Raleigh Era. The Old Whig. col, the Democratic candi date for Superintendent of Public Instruct ion, was an old Whig. Gen M W Ransom, the Democratic U. S. Senator from North Carolina, was au old Whig. Gov Vance, the regular nominee of the Democrats for United States Senator, was an old Whig. Mai Jesse Y, Yeates the Democratic candidate for Congress in the First Dia tnct, was an old Whig. . Cot Alfred M Waddell, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Third Dis trict, was an old Whig. Capt Joseph J. Davis, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Fourth District, was an old Wliig. Hon Tbos S Ashe, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Sixth Dis trict, was an old Whig. Maj W M Robbins, the probable Dem ocratic candidate for Congress in the Seventh District, was an old Whig. Gen R B Vance, the Democratic candi date for Congress in the Eighth District, was an old Whig. Capt Mills L Euro, the Democratic candidate for Judge in the First District, was an old Whig. Bartholomew Fuller, Esq., the Demo cratic candidate for Judge in the Fayot- teville District, was an old Whig. lion John Kerr, the Democratic candi date for Jndge in the Greensboro District, was an old Whig. Ihomas J Wilson, Esq., the Demo cratic candidate for Judge in the Salem District, was an old Whig. The only old Democrats who have suc ceeded in obtaining nominations from the present Democratic party are Col A A McCoy for Jndge in the Wilmington District and Gen Scales for Congress in the Greensboro District. Verily the Crescent was speaking truly when it said the old Democrats are only "hewers of wood and drawers of water for the old Whigs." What is Amber? Amber is a resin ous substance, yellow, hard, brittle, shape less and n-lo8v. It has been variously 0 . supposed to be a vegetable gum, a fossil, and an animal product. It is probably formed by a species of ant, that inhabits . i n a We r pine forests, l he bodies ot ants are frequently found in its substance. It makes a fine polish, and is used for orna mental purposes, and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it really becomes electric. HAVE YOU SEER TOM CO LUES 1 If you haven't, perhaps yon had do so, and as quick as, von can, for talking about yon in a very ner calling you bard gether saying things about rather calculated to induce leve that there is nothing you steal abort of a red hot stove. be is rough man and alto- yon that are people to bc- wooldn't Other lit REMARKS. While it is an undeniable fact that the lion's share of honors and emoluments have fallen to the lot of the "old line Whig" portion of the Democratic-Conservative party in North Carolina, we beg leave to assure our Radical Raleigh co temporary that it need not hope to take any advantage therefrom. 1 he devotion of the old line Democrats to the cause of good government, the rights of the States and the liberty of the citizen is not to be guaged by the measure of spoils that falls to their lot. Their political action springs from a cense of duty and if it happens that a greater- share of the honors and emoluments falls to tbeir old line Whig brethren than to themselves they will none the less do their duty. ,.j . ,.. . Our Radical friends will take nothing from their attempts to create disaatisfact ion in our ranks by appeals to the seU fishness of "old line Democrats. ' Bald Mountain Interviewed by ProJ. Brady, of East Tennessee University His view of the Causes of the Distur bances. The last Asheville Expositor has the following : Prof. Brady, of East Tennessee Uni versity, who recently passed through Asheville with the graduating class of that institution on a visit to the earthquake region of Bald Mountain, 24 miles east of as, publishes a letter in the Knoxville Chronicle, giving the result of his visit. The letter adds Hide new to what all were aware of before. The rumblings and other sounds had ceased on his arrival, and he only heard descriptions of them from others. Says the Prof. "There is nothing properly volcanic a- bout them, and the region shows no vol canic rocks. "Bald Mountain consists of micaceous and hornblendfc schists and gueisses, hav ing variable southeasterly dip character iatic of the whole range. "The upturned positions of the rocks a Aa ot all this region give abundant evidence that it has been a region of distcrbance through many ages past, and at the same time furnish the means of understanding the new phenomena. "Drying and cooling are both acenmpa nied by contraction. As an apple dries. its pulp contracts ; and the skin remaining attached in part to the pulp, but not con trading, proportionally wrinkles ; as sn orange dries, on the contrary, the sun rind refuses to yield and remains smooth, the pulp being pulled apart. When the earth was hotter than now and there is reason for believing that it was once melt ed it was much larger and its crust was originally smooth. As the globe cooled its consequent contraction caused great pressure in the stiffening crust, and yielding to the pressors, the crust wrinkled. The same process of cooling and contraction is still going on, but the crust long since got too thick and stiff to bend readily, so that its modern yielding has been very largely by breaks. Very extensive and sudden fractures are naturally accompan ied by sudden displacements of the sur face (and often by lond noises) forming great earthquakes, whose effects are felt for hundreds or thousands of miles. But, if the breaks are small, the disturbance will be heard and felt at but small distan ccs ; and such have been all the earth quakes that have originated in the Ap palachions since the country has been and such are the The Fate of Two Lo vets. mi i here are one caverns and recesses as mongat the rocks ; one particularly which we took tbe opportunity of visiting, as it can only be entered at the ebb of the spring tide. It is very spacious, beanti fully arcbed, and composed of granite rocks finely veiued with alabaster, which tbe imagination msy easily form into semblance of a female figure, and is, of course, the Nereid of tbe grotto. We wished to stay longer, bat oar friends hurried us sway, lest tbe tide should rush in, which it is supposed to do from sub terraneous caverns, as it fills before tfiS tide covers the Band of the adjacent beach. I was particularly affected wilb tbe face of two lovers (a young gentleman and m AS e 1 1 v laay irom umtonj whose friends were here for the sake of sea bathing. They stole out early in tbe morning by them selves, and strolled along the beach til they came to this grotto, which, being then empty, they entered. They admired the strata of rock leaning in different di rcct ion?. They admired the incrustation which covers part of tho. sides, exactly resembling honey-comb ; various shells imbedded in the rock ; the sea anemone 1 m spreading its purple fringe an animal flower clinging to tbe rocks. They ad mired the first efforts of Vegetation in the purple and green tints occasioned by tbe lichens and other mosses creeping over the bare stoue. They admired these to gether ; they loved each other the more for having the same tastes : and they taught the echoes of the cavern to repeat the vows which they made of eternal con stancy. In the meantime the tide was coming in ; of this they were aware, as they now and then glanced their eyes on tbe Waves which they saw advancing at a distance ; bat, not knowing the nature of the cavern, they thought themselves safe ; when on a sodden, as they were in tbe fur there? t part of it, tbe watcis rush cd in from fishnres in tbe tock with terri ble roaring. They climbed from ledge to ledge of the rocks, but in vain ; tbe waters rose impetuously, and at length filled the whole grotto. Their bodies were fouod the next day, when tho tide was out, re clining on a shelf of rook ; he iu tbe tend er auuuue oi supporuoe; ner in the very highest accessible part, and leaning his bead in her lap so that! he must have died first. Poor lovers. rlfrs. BarbaukTs Life and Works. Governor Wl OV known to white men disturbances in question." Vance as a Grange .Lecturer. We knew that Got. VaRce was good in hand ling almost every aubjectaa a lecturer, but did not know that be could prore a success sa sn instructor to the Patrons lot Husbandry. He addressed, by invitatioo, the quarterly conven- uon oi i nc siuanuc ixuecu rairons oi Hus bandry, held in Uoldsborp on Thursday hurt, and we learn from those: who heard him that he made a most happy puocsss. riving to the farmers such practical stiggeittions and views best calculated to improve their general condi tion. The Newbern JaambUeaM-CMu Ur Urns lenka of Gov. VARCafs iehort : "The Council was addressed for nearly two hours hy Hon. Zebnlon J. Vance. The sub ject was rather a hard ode for tbe Governor as politics had to be en tire IS eschewed. The ft mi half hour was rather nsinterestinc. but finallv be began lo get warm ia the harness and be waded in, and thoroughly discussed the subject of caoitftl and labor : hi-Showed that iW arm 1 . " -. , w r. . . . , . pieniy oi rapiuu ownea an our ntate 11 only a utilised, urged upon the j termers the necessity of kindness towards laborers, especially lbs colored race ; explained ko the Convention that inflation of the enrrencyj would not help the people of this State, whs do not make tbe pro per exertion to produce I something to bay tbe money with ; be was iolfsvnr of sock etuigra gration as would bring their families with suffi cient mesns to enable than to commence farming and manufacturing ; aa'm the brains pf ansae of the people of North Csrofina needed more guano than did the lands ; (spblause) ; he urged upon them the neecessity of more and better educa tion, and the necessity of making the bouse and tbe farm attractive in brdcr to encourage iu further improvement, Sr-, Upon the whole it was one of tbe be speeches we have heard fur some years. Koch senUcnenl as lie advanced Smbb a tendency lo create aa era et good fading " lie things of that nature be ia openly speaking of in public places, aad a a friend - although of course we don't wish to mske you fed uncomfortable we think yon oaght to take soaae notice ol them aud of Mr. Tom Collins. This is about the cheerful tn a very successful practical joke which been going rounds of the city ka tbe past week. It is not to thia manor bora, east belongs to New York, where it was play ed with immense success to crowded boas es nntil it played out. It seems lingular that such a flimsy a flair could take ia aad do for anybody ; bait it has, and of coarse the most unlikely to be chargeable with an offensive act in any was were gener ally selected as the victims. They bit like gars after a rain, somewhat after this fashion : Smith met Jones. Says Smith to Jones, "Have you seen Tom Collins ?" "No. Whyl Who is Tom Oollkaa T "Well, I don't know much about him, but he has been saving soaae wavy harsh thinks shoot yon, and so on, aeeording to the fertile imagination ot baatta. "Where did he say thai 1 Where eaa find the fellow T Condemn him I'll shoot him if he don't take it back." "Well be said it be for ; a (at King's or Bcs ache's, or McCullough's or anywhere.) Off tbe victim goes to one of vonte resorts, and somebody Thompson who n in the joke with Smith, tells Jones tbat be saw Tom Col lins at the Southern about half an so ago, and off Jonea goes to the where he meets Brown bim that he saw Collins at the not five minutes since, where be pealing these stories, and really Jooee ought to take notice of them beta as the oftcucr tbey were repeated without desks! from Jones, tbe more people would be likely to believe ibees, and ao forth. By this time poor Jonea ia all ewer swat, asm of course is ao mach the better fun, and be goes on until be "smells tbe mice," or knocks somebody down. The "Bel" acted in a dosea different ways with as many men, and ka Basra lhaa one instance the eltaaax was ladicro ha the extreme. At one time Jaaaa let as still call him went in asking everybody if tbey had Been that sow of the BOS oook Tom Collins ? "Yea," said a Smith No. 2. be was here not two minutes since ; oh, there he ia now across the at is at, pointed to a man notoriously oa has mas cle. Jones looked at tbe supposed Tom Collins for a second or two. He didn't look like a gift at a rongb and tumble, aad be had never seen tbe man as his hae be fore ; bat be had been circulating asseh fsV faroous falsehood lhat lite wasn't worth living onlees he could knock Tosa Collins down there and then, aad kick ike Mae down hie Tom's throat with the tees of bis number sevens. Jooee went across the stress, and aaid by way of gentlemanly warning, "Yaw are Tom Collins, aad before the man of muscle could ex p sin Jones past ad bim a hot one over the head, and was eontina ing the pasting business when the aaaa of muscle went into Jooea aw his awa ac count with this remark : "Well my name's not Tom Collins, bat I'm faet aa frood a man aa Torn Collins, and if Vrn owe Tom anything come sod pay me, 1 all here. Ibis is my racket, tU anger. If people had not interferred and ex plained tbe joke, possibly Jesses area1 have been more than ewer aarry abc Tom Collins. Aa a practical joke h w a success. As fail wall, it saay hav. been fun for Smith aad Brown, hat it was pretty near Hades for Jonas while it last ed. St. Louis Rrputl anxious u that he prom- aasssssasv A Virginia politician is bo go to Congress next session iscs faithfully to he conceal i and moreover that km will give S2.00C yearly from bis salary to religiaaa aad Benevolent organisations ia mm 1Kb- i A
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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