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SIMONTON
Statesville, N. C.
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Rev. S. TAYLOR MARTIN,
PRESIDENT.
Written for the Watchman.
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The Situation is remarkably healthy.
The building is an elegant brick structure,
admirably arranged for health and comfort.
Efficient teachers have been secured.
ON AN AGED HOUSE.
There was an old horse, who had "taken
his stand"
By the aide of a street, in the famed
'Dixie land,"
! Ev'ry week-day for forty long years, more
or less,
(As, forgetting to score, I shall now have
to guess,)
In the "carved line of beauty" his hack
m -
swaying low
Only three legs he had, when not aiming
to go
Or gaily a-ftshing down at the Big Shoal,
ft. - u I : J it
Or a-visitine round to the neizhborin
a rt w
steeds
f he staid at home, writing his life and
his deeds
If a spell of the colic or swinney he'd got
If he'd spraiued his left ankle too bad for
to trot
If the old tuwn would seer look natural
Fill "the sUod" he resumed that hekeot 1od
before.
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Pall Term begins September 22d, '74, ana Aristocrat hioe-hones looked -hhrh and
unlu PulirilQrv T.tli TfK Q : TI 1 I
February 5th, 75, and ends June 22d, 75.
Board and English Tuition, $100. Music,
$25. For other information send for Circu
lar.
away"
From the phalanx of spare-ribs that let in
the day .J. .
A square-built and lofty, decaying old
roan,
Whose first speed and bottom were going
and gone .
From the late Bee. W. H. McO UFFET. D.D. family relic a fossil old nag.
IjL.. jj., nyjestor of Moral Philosophy in I Whose past we would often dig over and
Voorlv nil diseases originate from Indi
mSm nnd Torniditv of the Liver, and
i alwav anxioiulv ROUKht after. If the
I ivT is Ketrukated in its action, health is al
Host invariable secured. Want of action in
the Liver catine Headache, Constipation,
Jaundic e, Pain in the Shoulders, Cough, Chills,
DuzinesM, Sour Stomach, bod taate in the
mouth, billious attacks, palpitation of the heart,
deireasion of spirits, or the blues, nnd a hun
dred other svmtnms, for which SIMMONS'
LIVER KEGULAT0E is the best remedy,
that has ever been discovered. It acts mildly,
effectually, and being a simpTe vegetable com
pound, can do no injury in any quantities that
it may be taken. It is harmless in every way ;
It has been used for 40 years, and hundreds of
the good and great from all parts of the coun
try will vouch for it being the purest and
beat
-8IMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR
OR MEDICINE,
Jj harmless,
If oo drastic violent medicine,
Jj sure to cure if taken regularly,
ig no tuzicating beverage,
a faultless family medicine,
g the --; f "i meuiciite in the world,
Jj given with safety and the happiest results to
the most delicate -infant,
Does not interfere with business.
Dims not disarrange the svstem.
Takr tlu- ulace. for Ouinnine and Bitters of
very kind.
Contains the simplest and best remedies.
FOH SALE BY ALL DBUGOISTS.
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TO THE
Wholesale Trade.
the University of Virginia.
University q Virginia,
October 28th, 1872.
I ask the privilege of introducing to any
among whom his lot may be cast, my friend
and former pupil, Rev. a Taylor Martin. He
is a Christian gentleman, a thorough scholar,
oi goon talents and much experience in
teaching. He may be depended on to per
form faithfully and, well whatever he may
be willing to undertake. Few men have
more practical tact and efficiency.
W. H. McGUFFEY.
From the Hon. WALT KB P. CALDWELL.
Greensroro, June 17, 1874.
As one of the patrons of Simonton Female
College at Statesville, I have had a full and
fair opportunity of becoming acquainted
with the resident, Kev. 8. Tavlor Martin.
and his corps of teachers, and with the sys
tem of study and discipline. I would there
fore recommend this Institution to all pa
rents and guardians as a very suitable place
for the education and training of their chil
dren and wards.
W. P. CALDWELL.
From the Bev. WALTEB W. P II ABB.
Mkcklenbtjro Co., N. C , June 16, 1874.
From what I know of the discipline, in
struction and moral influence exercised bv
the Sjmonton Female College at Statesville,
undef the control of Rev. S. Tavlor Martin.
can cheerfully commend it to the confi
dence and patronage of an enlightened
Christian public.
WALTER W. PHARR.
From Maj. W. M. BOBBINS, mernherof Con-
grmfrom the 7th District, N. C.
House op Representatives, J
WA8HIKGTOH, D. C,
June 17, 1874.
Rev. 8. Taylor Martin
Dear Sir : Being; a patron of your School
in Statesville, and having many opportuni
ties for inquiring into your method of in
struction as well as the progress made by
jour jpupils, I take pleasure in recommend
ing your Institution to the patronage of the
public. Your triend and servant,
WM. M. ROBBINS.
JudiMiu? the future bv the past, we enter
with confidence upon this our new enterprise
Sf enamting our Wholesale from our Retail
Trade, by having a seprale and distinct House
for each ; and in doing so we flatter ourselves
that it will not only meet the approval oi our
numerous customers, but that an "Exclusive
Wholesale House" will bring us a large influx
of new trade, and of a character not heretofore
enjoyed.
It must be obvious to every buyer that
trictlv " Wholesale House," arranged ana
adapted for that Trade only, with a corps of
experirntxd Wholesale Salesmen, with a stock
carefully selected for that Iraue only, ana
moreover, the avoidance of coming in contact
with retail buyers, which ire and you all have
heretofore found to be so irksome, as it fre
quently happens that the retail buyer is your
very neighbor, (per naps your own customer;
baeh a house, we assert, must and will com
mend itself to the Trade.
Four years ago we advertised that we intend
SB to make Charlotte a wholesale mart and
era "The Wholesale House." We now have the
proud satisfaction of seeing it an accomplished
uci.
We now call vour attention to the fact that
we have converted our suherb store into an ex
elusive Wholesale House, where vou can find
all line of goods necessary for a country store,
lo-wit : lrv-good. Clothing. Boots, bhoes
Hats, Notions, Groceries, Hardware, Millinery
all in complete lines, bought in large quantities
ana irom the very first hands.
Our stock is now arriving and will be com
plete about the 1st of September, and will be
- the largest of any here, the pretersions of others
to the contrary notwithstanding. We respect
fully invite your personal inspection, or write
to us for circulars.
Very truly yours,
WITTKOWSKY & RINTELS.
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Puts a New Complexion on the
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From Bev. MOSES D. H0QE, D. D.
Richmond, Va., Nov. 20, 1872.
I am gratified to learn that the Rev. S.
Taylor Martin is about to become the Prin
cipal of the Simonton Female College at
Statesvilie, N. C. My intimate acquaintance
with Mr. Martin enables me heartily to com
mend j him as a gentleman admirably quali
fied for such a position. His sympathy with
the young, his experience in teaching, and
his conscientious devotion to duty furnish
to parents and guardians the assurance that
pupils intrusted to his care will find a safe
and happy home, and enjoy every advan-
brag
And his name it was Diane ; (I'm willing to
vow
That my limping Muse canters in dog
ger rell now,)
Yet I'll wager this equiue Job stood a deal
more
Than Bucephalus dared ; and he ranked
far before
Rosinante, in all the original points
Of his ugliness dire and distortion of
joints
Not Joan of Arc's filly or J. Cesar's
pad.
Which leaped o'er the Rubicon, looked half
so bad -
Ihrough the summer-beats lighting at
blood-thirsty flies
Through the winter-winas wiping big tears
from his eyes
'Gainst the lamp-post where be was hitch
ed every day
n a. m mm .
or to watch and to wait lor to nght and
to pray
For to lash bis raw sides with his stumpy
old tail
For to stamp iu the mud with his hoof and
his nail
For to ponder his sad, disin al fate o'er and
o'er
For to wish that his scratchy heels wern't
quite so sore
Some contraband lay-sermons loud for to
preach
In the baggy-shaft pulpit-stand, and to be
seech From the tournament bot-flies a moments re
lief (Like Patience's monument, grinuing at
Grief.")
For to long for his oats for to deep
moralize.
And to dream of a home beyond town-
- roofs and skies.
Where the good horses never get hungry or
eold.
And the goody colts never, oh ! never get
old.
Where they whinny and snort around, kick
up their heels,
And dance all the day to the cavalry
reels.
And lie down at ni6ht and sleep soundly till
morn
In gold liv'rv stables, crammed full of
sound corn,
T was an eve late In Autusan the winds
whistled low
Through the bleak woods and meadows, and
murmured of snow,
As I strolled in the wide sedgy fields near
the town.
Lost in reveries deep and in life-studies
brown.
When, aroused by the flapping of great
sturdy wings,
I was shocked by the sight of the strangest
of things !
Pale Death is impartial he knocks at the
gate
Of the cottage or palace though sometimes
he's late !
There, eyeless and dead, "Old Mortality
lay.
And the cormorant vultures were oickinsr
away !
Atlanta Herald.
mmry - C : . - - .
It seems that after all Mr. Davis and
his coadjutors have wasted much fine en
thusiasm and euergv of denunciation up
on crimes that were cot a to order.
Wbeu Col. Howard, last Wednesday at
the great DeKalb mass meeting, warned
the Uemocracy of the tricks of the enemy
and among other diabolical devices he
spoke of this very Gibson county outrage,
as it waa called, we cou Id see an exchange
of incredulous smiles even among rood
Democrats. The speaker declared then
and there that be believed Mr. Davis had
been imposed upon by the first reports of
tue massacre, and tbat before the cam
pargn waa over we would find oat thai this
Gibson county lie was only part and par
cel of an infamoos scheme of party man
agement tbat was inaugurated iu 1865 by
men who ought from their poaitwn to be
reputable. It seems that Col. Howard
waa exactly right. It seems tbat sixteen
negroes were involved in the Gibson
"Sonth Seas," mesnt the Pseille Oeeen.l
wboae waters were still little knowu to
Europeans, i bough eighty-uine years be
fore old Francis Drake's keels bad plough
ed around the bleak and naked recks of
Cape Horn for the first time. Within
these boemdsmes now lie the States of I
well ilfostnts the resJrtaions of. klaSjcf.
"Xoi oj SpamarxiMbut As$zstins f ML
ored be the memory ef the WiWl
chivalrous Frewcb gas lit
all Carolina I
It will perhaps prove not aural
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norcn ana routh Uarolina. lieorrta. a .
large part ( f Forida. AUh.ms. M i..i.inni TBS rosMa or ouvxrmxkt to whic
Tennee8e Louisiana, Arkansas and Tex- the pxoplb of JfOXTB1 tiWLiIi
HA VX BIXN UBJBCTBD.
First, we have the Rujal fTbveMIsm
of the province of Carolina under the
first charter to the Lords
This charter was doted the Soil
1463, bat the roaornssoat under
ss, the Indian Territory .New Mexico,
Arixona, a large pan of California, and s
considerable; portion of Mexico.
It is mora lbs n eight times as large as
Great Britain asm Ireland, tea Ussas
larsrer than Franc fntir rima tUm.
. . . - 7 IM1 sat th snumaint n4er it dm.
rnp"7 J, ' "" T" PHv began in September following, Whom
Sfca and,largT bj lb" GeDrummond was .prWed the
ands of square miles, thn M these to- t .-Ja .
iiu uukiu. x or on m.nm ilbit i . . - . , 11
tors were enlarged, and rorm mental au
thority was conferred on them, and by
1 hem the first General Assembly was
convened.
Next were introduced 1669, the J
7VTj " T pan-d for the Proprittors by the eelebra-
nr 1 re to AiiwnMn Ami Porhana it I r . r of
f m wai. a w avoBismv is wsmap
combined 1 Almost equal to one-third ot
Europe I Tree, it may be said, that this
doughty defender ot the Faith and Neill
f i , .
u wm, was aooui as ranch entitled to a
large part of this domain as he was to be
calltd iviug of France by the Gioee of
-ftJ i t . .
vjou ; out. neverihelesi. 11 nht waa
Nevermore will the town have the same
homely look
As it had when old Dixie was tied to the
hook !
Nevermore will his figure, so ancient and
dear.
Loom up in that picture, nnr vision to cheer !
Nevermore will he build his alrcastfos so
grand, ,
(By the side of the street.) of the good-horse's
land !"
Nevermore will his "blood, sweat and tears"
freely flow
In the summer-time's duet or the winter
time's wow
Evermore shall he ronin in Elysian fields
Far removed from Tartarean thistle-down
yields !
He's a "clean gone up" uag he is sartin
sure" dead
Of the horse who lived always I've "never
county barbarities. Six of these had
peacbed on their gang of cut-throats and ceu better than that acquired to all the
it waa precisely these traitors to their set shores washed by the Pacific Ocean by
tbat the "eighty six masked horsemen" tbe erectioo f a standard on
succeeded in killing. The other ten ee snd wading into its waves with
caped, and left, like birds flitting through sword by Bajbon, for the Spanish sover-
the air, neither track nor sign. Never in tgn
civilised history have men so outraged all With this grant of land was also con
social and religious obligationa to secure f erred upon the Lords Proprietors, juris
1 he "base euds of party power, as we find diction, ss ample as the territory, to es
in the1, history of the Radical party in this I tabhah government, convene legislative
country. Even murder itself changes its assemblies, moke laws to pass upon lib-
hell Mi type, and becomes a pastime and crty, property and life ; to grant pardons,
a frolic to theee men, who after deluging regulate commerce, collect customs, wage,
the entire land in blood for the sake of par
ty success, now keep alive the fires of
perdition rather than lose tbeir hold on
the power and plunder tbat place-holding
affords-. What can be said of the South
war, create armies, exercise martial law,
grant tittles of honor, and many other
things pertaining to vice regal govern
ment that was in substance absolute ; the
only proviso being "Thai said laws be
manners.
MOSES D. HOGE.
RETAIL
Now a few words about that. We now oc
cupy the Riiperb lioune heretofore so favorably
known aa the Memra. Brem, Brown A
Co.' Dry-good House, to carrv on our Retail
wnuneaa, and as "ExceUor" is. and has alwaya
ocen, our motto, we claim also in that line to
excel in stock, to excel in lowuesa of prices, and
to excel generally We will, in that house,
nave a corps of thirty Salesmen and Sales-
Lsdies, all experienced, affable, and obliging.
MoT We wilt make the Millinery branch
specialty, -jf
W. A. R.
Charlotte, N. C, Aug. 20, 1874 2m oa.
Intelligencer Copy.
OTHER REFERENCES :
Faculty of Hampden Sidney College,
Faculty of Davidson College, N. C, ,X
Rev. Wm. Brown, D. D., Richmond, Va,,
Judge B. R. Wellford, Richmond, Va.,
Rev. D. E. Jordon, Oxford, N. C,
Rev. P. H. Dalton, High Point, N. C,
Col. John A. Gilmer, Greensboro, N. 0.,
Rev. Wm. A. Wood, Statesville, N. C,
Rev. J. Rumple, Salisbury. N. C.,
Rev. H. G. Hill, Fayetteville, N. C,
General D. H. Hill, Charlotte, N. C,
Rev. E. H. Rutherford, D. D., 8t. Louis.
Rev. Rich'd Mcllwaine, D.D., Columbia, 8.C.
Faculty of Union Theological Seminary,
Faculty ot university of Virginia,
luage A. a. Guigon, Richmond, Va.,
Major Robert Stiles, Richmond, Va.,
Rev. L. C. Vase, Ncwberne, N. C,
Rev. J. H. Smith, D. D., Greensboro, N. C,
Rev. F. H. Johnson, Lexington, N. C,
Rev. Alexander Martin, D. D., Danville, Yc
Rev. T. L. De Veaux, Fayetteville, N. C,
Rev. J. M. Atkinson, Raleigh, N. C,
Rev. John Miller, Princeton.
Rev. W. 8. Plumer, D. D Columbia, 8. C.
AUg.4J7, 1874. t:b'g:o
To J. J. Bell A wife Carolina Bell, Thomas
voughenhour, and William C. Coughen
hour.
Xou will take notice that I shall apply to
me Judge holding at the next Superior
to for Rowan County at the Court
House in Salisbury, on the 4th Monday after
Jrd Monday in September next, to have a
SBdmade to me as heir st Law of John I. Shaver
cd onn linmt rl anil aovpntr acres of land
ituated in Rowan and on the Waters of Grant's
yetk including the mills situated thereon and
Mlonging to Jacob Coughenhour, deceaa-
Mj." said lands having been heretofore
(Old Undr iImn- rxf iho Pnnrt nf F.ouitv
f KoWan Conty( an purchased by my anoes-
"onn 1 Hhaver, deceaHed."
EDWIN SHAVER, Heir
r;4, 1874 6t.
a 1 . am - . S . 1
ern man who aids and abets tbis ravening consonant 10 reason, and as near as may
l . 1 - - . II M a a
uoiue, eiuier uirceiiy or luairectiy. uc wuychwumt agreeaoiu 10 ine laws
and customs ot this our realm of Lng-
laod.'
Will Grant br a White Had t There seems to be no doubt that
Under this heading, the Richmond Lis-l tu v.i.r .
parcn oi yesterday says :
Will Urant allow his troops to stifle the was fardl npplted to ibis whole Atlantic
will of the people of Louisiana T Will he coast, and in this respect Virginia is the
prove to be false to his race and to his child of her daughter, the child being
country ? Will he reinstate a usurper, christened first. In 1562 Gaspaid de
well knowing him to be such ? Will he Coligny, the great Admiral of France,
snstaiu a robber 1 Will be sunoort a
douhle.dyed traitor to his race, bis State,
and bis country ? Will he not rather de
led John Lock, author of the "Essay On
tbe Humau Understanding," under wMeh
r y they governed, or professed to go vans, She
Lrm ProTc n"1 193' they ware eb-
rogated, and the direct role of the Pro
prietors was resumed, aud continued an til
1729.
In that year the charter waa sail on -
dered by seven of tbe eight Proprietors,
acid the Royal government waa reensaod.
hich continued until the beginning of
tbe Revolution.
Then the State rovernmenl and tbe
Central Continental Congress until 1778.
Then under the Articles of Confedera
tion until 1789. ,
Then under the Constitution of the
United States until 1860.
Then under the Constitution of the
Confederate States until 1866.
Then through tbe mixed and mingled
maxes of bayonets, military satraps, extra
and unconstitutional rescripts of Congress,
until the readmiesion of our delegates to
the National Legislature and the down
fall of the carpetbag dynasty.
I make no leas than ten radical changes
in tbe form of the powers by which we
have been ruled in oar history, from 1663
uone" read.
Sept. 12th, 1874.
E. P. H.
From the Daily News.
Grangers Bank.
Mr. Editor : I am glad to know the
Grangers have under consideration the
cide, as in the case of Arkansas, to hold I eovery, was to select a home for himself
off and allow the neoDle to decide the land bis persecuted fellow Uugnota in
questions at issue ? I the wilds of the new world,
But if the President shall come to the be unable to maintain themsel
conclusion that be cannot lecognise Mi- at home. Riband landed near tbe pres
Enery as the lawful Governor of Louis ent of St- Augustine, on the northern
iaua, let him at least refuse to restore tbe border of Florida, explored tbe country,
usurper. He knows that he usurped the I at)d returned With glowing descriptions of
office, and was supported in it bv the ac I the land and climate. The Admiral waa
lion of corrupt Federal judge who also I so charmed with the report tbat he de-
usurped jurisdiction in a esse which be I termiaed to tound a colony ot nis 1'ro-
could not lawfully have entertained. He testant countrymen there, and according-
knows that Kellogg cannot mnintain him t -y ,D 167, he dispatched six ships with
about 500 souls, nnder the charge ot
to 1870. a penod of 207 y
V'esre ssso m woe auujiisii vi a i nut.' , . -
dispatched ad expedition of two ships changes have average about one for
n . I n. r. w . I IWCIHT TW1 ! A M''"ft v
wuueft ocoii inunuu mi m lu-nrr. HI c low I ,
nurnoae of whleh. nnrler nretP.,P nf d... OO the SUblllty ol gOVCromenU, ITUty ;
3 a
and tbe more so. wben the
North Carolina ia usually
uneventful !
paper with
history ol
should they comparatively ai
vee by arms I 1 ih4al e06
propriety of establishing a Hunk, and to
fix tbe rate of interest at 6 to 8 per cent. ee'f office onless aided by Federal bay
Wo think the idea a rrw.d An nA onets. ntch htm overboard, whatever
be easily accomplished by the G.angers eU yU do' Mr' Preirtt.
under their organization, and the rate of
From the Norfolk Landmark.
Sketches of North Carolina.
tage for improvement in mind, heart, and Rye, barley and fodder, and sweet clover
bay.
And soft beds of straw, made for Dixie
and Gray,
Lee's gallant old vvhitey and Bonaparte's
Lear,
The Icelandic pony- and Arab's pet mare ;
In that Lome, to which waited by buarard's
awift wiegs.
Whip, harness snd spur are impossible
things ;
Just sixty leagues off from the dry desert
field
Where the " cussed mule" picketh the
wild thistle's yield,
And broils in the hot sun a billion of years
Just to make up for kicking clear out of
his gears.
Now skeptical reader, give Dixie his due.
And harbor no doubts that my legend is
true
For without some air-castles, some mirage
of hope,
How can man or beast either with life's
evils cope ?
And how could poor Dixie have borne it so
long.
Without some such reflections as these in
my song ?
There he stood, ss a sentinel firm to his
Pet,
While his "blood, sweat and tears" on
the sidewalk were lost.
In a "cause" which the good horses all must
approve-
As the "lone star" of duty, obedience and
love,
A-waiting and waiting for master to ride.
Through the long weary hours, till I'd
thought he'd have died ;
But he held out so well, that the horse
prophets swore
He would always be there and would live
evermore
As a curb-stone fixture and bot-fly's nest
As a statue of Pain and an emblem of
Best.
But I "missed him" at last from his wonted
horse "perch,"
And I wondered if be could hove gone to
the church.
interest reduced, and more money made
at a low rate of interest than at the pres
ent usurious rate charged by our present
Banks. Before the war our Banks oaid
1 : t 1 1 1 m
me siocauoiaers o per cent, every six
months, and bad a large surplus to carry
Profit and Loss account. This 10 per
cpul annualy was paid clear of atl taxes
and expenses. Wbv can't it be done
a 4
again 1 It certainly can be doue. Tbe
profits of a Bank is made by promptness
and frequent turning over the same money
or interest paid every 30, 60 or 90 days.
An I re n n nro Anhiho vans snoonj
vj v wis j 1 '"rj r f vuuiuiuo J vui luvsMiv-
establish your Dank, and m a tew years
yon can have a branch in every Oongres-
ional District, and if you choose in every
county in the State, aud vou will deserve
more credit than all politicians in the
State.
Wake.
GRAND GIFT CONCE BT
w 11 be given in the City of Gree ns
C
A
boro,
December 31, 1874,
for the purpose of erecting an
ODD FELLOWS TEMPLE.
The Grand Gift is the
Benbow House,
worth: s6o,ooo.oo
GRANh CASH QUI
$10,00 0.
Real Estate Clifts, $8 1 ,5O0
Cash . $88,500
Only 100.000 tickets to be issued.
Price of Tickets, $260.
IIOW THE EARLY VIRGINIANS GOT
Wives. The history of the Common
wealth of Virginia, says the Richmond
Whig, commences with an auction sale
not, however, in a store, but benoath the
green trees of Jamestown, where probably
THE ERA OF DISCOVERY THE
CLARENDON GRANT A WILD
ROMANCE AND A BLOODY RETRIBUTION.
'Wot as Spaniards but Assassin. "
Ten different Forms of Government from
the Colony to the Present Date, drc.,
dtc.
NUMBER 1.
In the leafy month of Jane, in the year
of grace 1667, that merry monarch and
some hat dissolute man, Charles the Se
cond, by the grace of God, of Great
Britain, r ranee and Ireland, King, De-!
fender of the Faith, etc., dec, was gracious
ly pleased to grant unto bis "right trusty
and well beloved cnusing and counsellor,
Edward, Earl of Clarendon, our High
Chancellor of England ; our right trusty
and entirely beloved constn and counsel
lor, George, Duke of Alberroarle, master
of our horse," and with like expressions
of courtesy and insincere regsrd, to the
Rene Laudoniene. Tbey landed on the
same spot as Riband's party, built a fort
which tbey called Arx Carolina or Fort
Charles, and named the country Caroline
or Carolina after the wretched bigot
Charles IX. of St. Bartholomew memory.
Twenty years afterwards, when Walter
Raleigh's colony, nnder Ralph Lane, was
first established on Boanoke Island, and
Amidaa aud Barlow had earned baek to
Queen Elisabeth their enchanting stores
of tbe country, its inhabitants and pro
ducts, she was so pleased that she order
ed the land to be called Virginia, in hon
or of her virgin self. Thus the name
Virginia superseeded that of Carolina,
until it was subsequently revived by the
patents of Eliaebeth's aucesaors and ap
plied to the territory south of 36 degrees,
30 minutes. The fate of this colony gave
rise to one of
THE MOST SOMATIC
and heroic incident even of those chival
rous and advaniurous times. The 8pan
iards, who claimed the whole continent,
resented this intrusion of the French Pro
testants, and seat a force under command
of Adroeral Meneodox against them.
T.hey surrendered to overpoweriog nam
bers on a promise of aafety, but, with a
perfidy which no modern European ex
cept a Spaniard; could ever equal, they
were immediatly slaughtered. A few
wbo escaped to the forest were captured
cruel
their
SOME OBSERVATIONS TJFOM
STITUTIONB OF LOCKS
Although they proved entirely impracti
cable, and were soon abrogated, tbey are
infinite service to the wise statesman, as
proving conclusively the worth leaess of
governmental theories concocted in the
closet ot tbe scholar. If intellect sad
study, abstracted from oil contract with
actual life, could under say dreams tan
ces found a government adapted la aha
wonts of a distant people, it would seem
tbat tbis great Englishman, wbo bad
sounded 'he depths and shallows of the
human mtiid would have doue it. Tot
this work, prepared ith tbe utmost ears
and tried with patient f lirneas. proved an
utter failure. TLe simple eoneeptiuas of
the rude pioneer, squatting in tbe loreet,
w ithout books, papers or learning to road
them, in regard to the laws be wonted,
were worth all the fine mediutioas of aha
disciple of Aristotle and Plato. Laws
are suggeeted by tbe daily recurring wants
are as varying as the conditions and cir
cumstances by which men are sur
rounded. A government so framed as to
be promptly responsive to these wants will
constitute tbe perfection of human rale.
Necessarily such an one must be
piece meal.
the most anxious and interested crowd of Ejr of Craven j Berkley, Lord Ash- nd Pn be trce with tbe
auction nanitnes ever Known in ine history i0V o:, nrM Willi. urLi,v ih. but characteristic inscription upon
of the world were gathered. In a letter, ' , m-,cnt A. it j bodies. "Not as Frenchmen but as Here
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nhiMli In mnriorn I Hfco
all time. Little did
still to beseen, dated London, August 21, b a soveHgIl apon
1621, and directed to a worthy colonist of J m if)
inlll..l il.o writer llAMI M U., ' '
AGENTS WATED.
SfiT For further particulars, add:
Manager, Box 8, Greensboro, N. C.
C. P. MEN DEN FI ALL,
the
that settlement, the writer begius by say-
mg:
"We send yon a shipment, one widow
and eleven maids, for wives of. tbe people
of Virginia. There has Leen especial care
in tbe choice of them, for there hatb not
oue of them been received bat upon good
recommendations. In case tbey cannot
be presently married we desire tbat they
may be pat with several householders that
have wives until they can be provided
with husbands."
But the writer of this epistle had little
reason to fear that any of the "maidens
faire" would be left over. Tbe archives
contain evidence to prove that these first
cargoes of young ladies were pat ap at
auction and sold for one hundred and
twenty pounds of tobacco each, and it was
ordered that tbia debt hould have prece
dence of all others. Tbe solitary "one
widow" went along with tbe others, for
they could not be particular iu those days.
Tbe good minister of the colony no doubt
had a busy time tbat day. He did
Charles know what he was giving, and as
little did these subjects know what tbey
were received. Even now but few con
sider the imperial character of the terri
tory granted.
It embraced " all that province,
territory, or tract of laud, situate, lying
and being within our dominions of America
extending north and eastward as far aa the
north end of Cun i tuck river or inlet, upon
a straight waterly line to Wyonoak creek.
which lies within or about the degrees of
thirty-eix and thirty minutes, northern
latitude ; and so weat in a direct line as
far as the South Seas ; and south and
westward as far as the degrees of twenty-
nine, inclussive, of northern latitude ; and
so west in a direct line as far aa the South
Seas ; together with all and singular tbe
ports, harbors, bays, rivers, and inlets be
longing unto the province or territory
aforesaid : and also all the soil, lands,
fields, woods, mountains, farms, lakes,
rivers, bsys and islets," Ae.t Ace, to bo
therein.
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not
montinn .n v fWa nor did the bridegrooms
think of tendering say. All was joy and THW YA9V
gladness, no storms ahead ; norosqoisitive ! stretches across the entire continent, from
clerk to stand and say "Here's the license ocean to ocean ; five hundred miles in
fork over the $1," Nothing of the curt. ! breadth and two thousand seven hundred
From some of these eoaplee the first fam- miles in length, and embraced an area of
( ilies ol Virginia art decended.
The blood of these murdered French
men cried in vain to the corrupt and
bigoted French eourr. The gratification
of in tolerant hatred to Protestants, ia
bearing of their slaughter, was groat as to
drown the voice even of natioual pride ;
and no redress for the cruel outrage was
demanded by the government. But it was
not so with their brave countrymen. A
Gascon gentleman, Dominique de Goar
gues, a bold, patriotic and glory loving
soldier aud navigator, after exhausting all
other efforts to avenge the murder of bis
countrymen, to do it himself. Selling bis
entire estate be built a few small ship,
fitted them oat at his own expense, and
without a band of eboooea companions
into whom he bad infused his gallant
spirit, boldly set lis prows towards a coast
three thousand sides distant across au
ocean swarming with the ships of the
mightest power in Europe, io search of
the murderers of bis countrymen. In due
time he foand them, and with bis Gallic
blood 00 fire, came down apon tbe Span
ish colony like the avenger of blood. The
woods of the coasts of Caroline resounded
with the desperate conflict as be drove
tbem from fort V fort, slaying as be went.
The few that escaped the sword wore
hooa to tbe wide spreadinr branches of
tbe rreen live oaks ou the shore, and to
1 sore than one million rquare miles. The fsir bodies affixed inscriptions which so
GOVERN M 1X8 GROW,
snd this growth is slow and natural, sad
dependent, like all other products, apon
soil, climate and cultivation. Hence tbe
utter folly of tbe Lord's Proprietors in
employing a metaphysician to draft a eea
stitution of their colony, scarcely yet bora,
three 1 bout and miles distant ia a load bo
bad never seen. Pre-natal baby garments
arc never remarkable as fits, and I fancy
the erode, red faced, squalling colony of
Carolina, w tapped in the f owing and
courtly robes of tbe "Fundamental Oon
stitmiou" resembled very much a new
born infant, (though born to be a bruiser)
done up in one corner of a suit of long
clothes ! rraetical people could
abundance of government and but
little baby, and snrely, if a man ef
mon sense will look over tbe one hundred
and twenty sections of that instrumenr
and compare its absurdities and
tal regnements with rude but homely
with tbe colonists built up for themselves,
piece by piece, eaeh born of a want and
tested by tbe fire of experience, be can
not fail, to see where the fine gold of gov.
em men tal policy is doc wp, and bo wfO
feel tbat this groat folly of making a
Ttopian Constitution to order and ship
ing it to a strange people like a cargo of
shoes, regardless of sise and numbers, is
only atoned by tbe grim joke of
King Charles, expressed L-rds,
be says they have sought the grant "be
ing excited with laudible and pions sml
for the propagation of the Christian faUkT
No donbt of it all ! One of these
nrnnaeatora was a member of the
ous Cabet. and several of the others
high in the annals of that tieentloaa Coart.
Bat saoh were tbe beginnings of groat
events. Result are iu the hands of God ;
and no matter what the saoirvt
characters were the genesis of
things in America.
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