in VII.THIED SERIES.
-rr; iT tJikL v J . J iJKiuxjkitrta. ana rropr.
-?lUa ,T.K. BRUNER, Associate Ed.
t.
t
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
WrYear, pay awe m .c,
......i9 00
...... 1 25
ADVERTISING RATES
,$reo'
1 60;
And lilt U. UIHJ j.-. ." -
'V. two nubHcatlOns.
Contract rates for months or a year.
3ST
TX OE.
jj, s. INTERNAL REVENU
SPECIAL TAXES,
Jlay 1. 1876, to April 30, 1877.
The Revised Statutes of the United States,
cWioos 3232, 3237, 3238, and8289, require
fVerv person engaged in any business, avo
sition or employment which renders him
nieto a SPECIAL TAX, TO PROCURE
lio PLACE CONSPICUOUSLY IN HIS
iiaTiBLISHMEXT- OR PLACE OF BU-
fclMSS a STAMPvrdenoting the payment
Uf' said -SPECIAL TAX for the Srwcial-Tax
'yca'r. beginning May 1, 1876, before com-
i jnencin or ponimuuij uusiness aiier April
2ft. iST6. :
:. y if Tare embraced- icithin the provisions of
the fair above quoted are the following, viz:
JBectlflcrs...- :..$200 00
neafrrs, retail liquor . 25 00
Eaters, wholesale liquor , . 100 00
' Wcrs in malt -liquors, wholesaler -J. 60 00
' 4 Dealers In malt liquors, retail , 20 00
iWr in leaf tobacco. ..,;.......... S5 00
J Will dealers In leaf tobacco: , 4 500 0
Vid'on sale3 or over $1,000, fifty cents for '
even-dollar la excess of tl.ooo. ,
Dealers in manafact ureu tobacco
' Manufacturers of stills. i
And for each still manufactured .-
1 sd for each worm manufactured
Wisufacturers of tobacco
Manufacturers of clears
-Peddlers of tobacco, first class (more than two
-f i horse or other animals)
Peddlers of tobacco, second class (two horses
! nr other-animals) . ... -,
5 00
CO 00
20 00
SO 00
10 00
10 00
50 00
200
15 00
10 00
50 00
100 00
iPeddlersof tobacco, third class (one horse or
I otner animai
Peddlers of tobacco," fourth class (on foot or
public conveyance)..:
Brewers of lessth.m sou hundredbafrrels .
Brewers of 500 barrels or more, .i
' Any person, o liable, who shall fail to
comply with the foregoing requirements will
"subject' to severe penalties.
Persons or farms liable" to pay anvof the
Special Taxes named above must apply to
J. J. MOTT. Collector of Internal Revenue
t Statesville,' X. C, and pay for 5tid pro-
.' cure the Special-Tax Stamper Stamps they
! need, prior to May 1. 1370, and WITHOUT
FURTHER NOTICE. " , f
i 4 ! D.'D. PRATT,
t ' Commissioner of" Internal Revenue.
Orn'cK or Internal Heventk,
I Washington, 1). C, February 1.1376. i
. (23:2tinM:2tinA).
To AMOS HOWES, ilcn-rfisident:
:Take' notice that the following: Sum
mon and Warrant of Attachment have btn
"i iMiied against you :
SUPERIOR COURT; V !-
i ' Rowan County.
Thomas J. Meroney and Phillip )
P. Merone. truditiff under the
firra'name of Mironev & Broth- Summons.!
er, Pliiirtt i 'jfi ' '
Amo Howes, Defendant.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
Tq the Sheriff of llowan County Greeting:
1 VOU ARE3 HEREBY COMMANDED
V.in the name oftle State to summon
Amo9 Howes, defendant in the above
, action, to appear at the next Term or the
-Suiwriorourt of the County of Rowan, at
the Court-House" in Salisbury, on the 6.th
- ilonday after the 3d Monday in Marclu 1870,
then and there to' answer the complaint of
Thomas J. Meroney and Phillip P. Meroney,
trading as Meroney fc Brother, plaintiffs in.
this suit. And jx,m arjefurther eonmanded
to notify the said defendant that if he fails
to answer the complaint within the time
specified by law, the said plaintiffs will take
: judgment against him for $4G4 50w1th in
terest on 4Sy 24 since 1st September, 1874,
and for alf costs' and charges in this suit in
Brred, i Witness, J. M. Ilorah. clerk of our
wid Court, at office in Salisbury, this trie
i 23d dav of February, Ai D. 1876.
rw ." J, M. HORAII,
il- Clerl Sup. Court Iioican County.
(warrant of attachment.)
Rwan County In the Sujerior Court.
Thomas J. Meroney and Phillip P. Mero
ner, trading under firm name of Meroney &
Brother, Plaintiffs,
AGAINST
Amos Howes. Defendant. " '
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
1 To the Sheriff of lloiran County Greeting:
TT appearing bv the affidavit to the officer
" granting tlii3Varrantvthaj;;tWeiJ
: are entitled to recover from the. dfJaff
1464 30 withMnterest since'lst.&epCTlTl?
; m 459 24, and thathe aboveliamed Amos
irowes departed from this State with intent
to defraud his creditor and is aliout re
roonng his. nrofifeftTfrTitn his State : You
'X re Jffih commanded to attach and
;,;iafcwrfttD all the nronert V of the said Amos
"owes m vour County, or so Tnucu inerecn
-.Asmay ie suthcicfctto -satisiy saia; aemautr,
c with costs arid expenses. -
j 24:6t:$16J : J. M. HORAILI Clerk.
AGENCY
E, THE UNDERSIGNED, have tjiis day
jormed a co-partnership tor , the purpose oi
purchasing ami sellincr real estate in the
States of Virffiniaiand North Camliha, and
fesneotfullv'nsk all Derson3 who have Rea
Estate for "sale, including water powers &c
" piace it in our hands. , ;
Ve j advertise generally throughout the
orth and Northwestern fetates. ;
J. W. McKINSEY,
D. F. M ELLEN.
By permission we resictfully' refer to
, Messrs; W. S. Pattoh, Sons & (Jo., uanicers
W T.Clark & Co.
r Danville Val; Hon. G. C. Cabbell, member
congress,: Danville, v a.; i. . Vi ceu
SalisburrvRnthrrlin ; Jnhnson. Charlotte
John Robeson, StatcsvillcN.! C; and
a. DowdenrPresident 1st National Bank;
! n,l Samuel Buck, President Millersburg
cantjihUerijtir Pennsylvania. ; ;
' Address. Danville Va.: Chatham, PHtsyl
" T&ia county, Val or Millersburg Dahphin
unty, Fcnn. v , ;
Danville, Va., December 8th, 1875.
' ' 10:3nw;Jd '
Cheap Chattel Mortgages,
LAjtD
varios ther blanks tor sale
berj
; ' 1 j ,i ;For tie Carolina Watchman.
; NORTH CAROLINA. .
Messrs. Editors. Few of your readers
know how highly they should appreciate their
right of citizenship in the i Old North Stale,
Why is it ? Why do bo many of qar noble
hearted youths j hasten to leave the paternal
root and the limit of their native Uate to ac
cumulate wealth and enjoy life among Strang
era in other Stages; where fortune's wheel ever
rolls as she does here, carrying the active to
the summit of success, aAd hurling the indolent
into the vortex; of degredaiion ? Why are so
many of our teeft td'do fdrmera sacrificing their
personal property and domestic happiness for
means to leave their "families to a land eaid to
offer advantages snperior to those of North
Carolina ? Simpty because the populace Ls
comparatively ignorant jof her real value and
actual advantage; ; Hr citizens, especially
those who are continually wanting to I'sell out
and leave,"! are like a Certain class of house
holders, orjrather iivisitor, who never enjoy
home, because they' are seldom there, and nev
er try to make itj attractive ; but are always
surprised ai the success! and home enjoyment
of their neighbors.
The Siren's song 6ysj ''In the west you
can secure largai crops with "little labor."
It neversays anything about, nor does the en
chanted: farmer dream bf tite double expenses
treble doctor-bill, and (sextuple moral disad
vantages, which generally exist in those sec
tions where crops: grow iso nearly spontaneously,
Our citizens should fern ember, that Sandy
Ridge and! Blackgum Texas, da not comprise
the entire State. Edgecomb will produce 5t0
lbs of lint to the ijicre ;
Columbus yield turpen
tine by the Cargo; Rowam creek bottoms will yield
100 bushels to the acrel Cabarrus 30 bushels of
wheat. The mountain section affords much of
arable land, adapted to) the .growth of cereals,
also excellent range for grazing stock. As tine
fruits as the continent j affords, are grown in
Western Carolina. The mica ;andother minerals
of the same region offer great inducements to
miners. No one! need I leave Carolina to find
pleasant and lucrative employment"
No where in tlje Union, are the educational
advantages better than in Carolina. North
Carolina, ;TtinitT, Daividson, Rutherford and
other Colleges, nieed nothing but a liberal sup
port frOm: good citizen to keep them equal in
grade to Havard or Oxford, and to make theni
surpass the present standing of those institu
tions in facilities; and pecuniary advantages.
Let our citizens then,'aive the worthof emigrant
and return tickets to Institutions of learning.
and send their sons artd daughters there to be
taught two years,; instead slaving them dur
ing that time in some western State, to return
weaker physically, mentally,' pecuniarily and
morally. ' :;
North Carolinians, lyour representatives are
amonz the most i noble at Washington now:
educate your sons to take their places; if you
do not, numWuils, nfgtoes or scallawags will
take them, r - : j
; ' M ; ; j c. w. c
Rutherford ColU X. C
PUBLIC INIQUITIES UNDER INVESTI
GATION.
Sermon bv IRev. T. De Witt Talmaae,
The Brooklyn New York, Tabernacli was
crowded in every part at the forenoon services
recently. 1 Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage continued
the series of discourses on "'Public Iniquities,"
taking for his text "O, thou man of God, there
is death in the pot" II Kings, iv., 40.
He said he wanted to go back of all public
iniquity and fimflts hiding place. What are
tile-sources of its hiding place. ' What are the
sources o fit? power ? What are the caldrons
frorn, which these iniquities are dipped out?
He belietfed an unhappy and disciplined home
to, be the source of a great deal of the iniquity
of the day.' A good home is deathless in its
nfluences. Rascally and vagabond people, for
the most part, come from undisciplined homes.
Parents harsh and cruel on the one hand, and,
on-the other, lenient to perfect looseness, rais-
ng npa generation of vipers.
A home in. which scolding'and fault-finding
nrtxlmnmntp is a blood relation to the callows
and the penitentiary. Petulance is a reptile
that may crawl up uito the family nest and
crush it. There are parents who disgust their
children Seven with religion. They scold
their little ones for nofloving God. Blessed is
he family altfr where the children kneel.
Blessed the cradle where the Christian mother
rocks the Christian I child. BleRsed the song
tho little -one' sin23' at "nightfall, when sleep
is
closing the eyes and loosening the hand from
e-ttry -n the pillow. Blessed the mother's
he-toy
Veart whose eve.rv throb is a prayer to God for
?H salvation of her children. O fatherl O
I1IUIHVI -
tending?! I verily believe lhat three-fourths of
,.,ur- Irr orbich dirM-tion is our influence
the wickedness of the great city runs out rank
and nut rid from undisciplined homes.
The second caldron oi iniquity is an muo-
lent life. ; There are a great many young men
coming to du.vcity now with industrious habits,
and yet they see in the city a great many men
wno seem 10 g?s aiunjj wtiiiuui nj
have no business, and yet they are better
dressed than industrious men anq they seem to
have more facilities for access to amusements
They have plenty jof time to spare to. hang
around the hotels or lounge around the City
IlalL their hands in their pockets, a toothpick
in their month", waiting for some crumb to fall
from the office-holders', table, or gazing at the
criminals as thev come up in the morning from
the station houses, jeering at them as they leap
from the city Van to th Court House steps.
Ah! I would m soon think" of standing at the
ate of GreenWood Cemetery to enjoy a funeral
as to stand at the City Hall in the morning
when the city van drives up to look at the
carcasses of men ana women slain tor both
- a Thr inlnairi.ina npnnlA thji
idlers standing about aud wonder how thev
make their Uving.j I wonder, too. They have
ilenty of money for riding; they have plenty
of money to let on the boat race and on the
horse race; they can discuss the flavor of wines;
., i . t .. . i.' Tk
llleV liave me ucn xuib uifuiii a iiicauc.
Bui how do they get their money ? There are
just four waysiof getting money by inheritance,
by earning "it, by begging it, by steaUng it.
Now there are! a great many people in our
couimnnity who seem to have plenty of money,
who did not inlverit, and who did not earn it,
and who did not beg it; and. I do not like to
say how they 'got it. (Laughter.) There are
men who get tired of the drudgery of life, and
they see these prosperous idlers, and they con
sort with them, aiia they learn the same tricks
and they go to tin same ruin ; "at death their
departure causing no more mourning than is
felt for the fast horse they founder and kill by
loo. hasty watering at "TunisonV Tlje mul
titudes of (hose who get their living by sleight-of-hand
is raultiplying. What is the use ot
working in the store, office, shop, on the scaf
fold or by th forge, when yon can get your
living by your wits ?
A merchant in New York on seeing one of
hie clerk going into a low theatre, Raid to him
self, "I must look out for that young man."
The young man soon after was caught robbing
the merchant. That clerk had giving up hard
work and was living by wits. I tell you, young
men. you will get out of the world just so much
as yon earn by the grace of God and under the
grace of God. Men get nothing in this world
that is worth possessing of a moral, financial or
spiritual nature save they get it by their own
hard-work. - It is just so much you can plough
around by your own continuous and hard sweat
ing industries. ; "Go to the ant. thou sluggard,
consider her ways and be wise."
Another caldron of iniquity is the dramshop.
Surely there is death in the pot. Every saloon
builded above ground or dug under ground is
a centre of evil. ) It may be .licensed, and lor a
while it ma v conduct its business in elegant
style, but after a while the cover will fall off
and you will see the iniquity in its right color
nig. riant a grog shop in the nudt of the
finest block of housesjn the aty, and property
will depreciate hftv per cent. Men engaged in
the ruinous traffic will say, "Yon don't appre
ciate the fact that the largest revenues paid to
the government are by our business. Glad
stone said on that subject, Uentlemen, don t
he uneasy about the revenue. Give me dO.UW,-
000 sober people, and 1 11 pav all the revenue
and have a large surplus." But the ruin of
property is a very small part of the evil. 1 bis
evil takes everything that is sacred in the fami
ly, everything that is holy in religion, that is
infinite in the soul -and tramples it out. The
reverend gentleman drew sevral graphic pic
tures of the soul-destroying influence of intem
perance in society, and concluded by exhorting
his audience to shun the evils of which he had
spoken.
Appealfrom the Mount Version Associa
lion to vie L,aatcs oj iorm Carolina.
By yesterday's mail we received the follow
ing from a nrost estimable and well known lady
in Leaksville; which we take pleasure in pub
Jishing, and have no doubt the press at large
will give it f-ee circulation 1 he appeal reads :
It may not be inappropriate during the cen
tennial year to refresh our memories with some
facts counected with this Mecca of our country ;
and many inquiries addressed to me recently
on the pTeser.t status of Mt. Vernon induces the
hope mat me uueresi in me piace is reviving.
It is unneccfsarv here to review the history of
the purchase ol the place by Miss Cunningham
of South Carolina, aided 'y contributions trom
the women of the land. The payment of one
dollar made the donoj a life member of the
Mount Vernon Indies Association.
' This. Association was organized with a Re
gent and Treasurer, and a Vice Regent was
appointed trom each state by the Kegent.
The charter granted by the Legislature of
Virginia was given with limited powers,
and Virginia holds a reversionary right to
Mount Vernon should the Association violate
its pledge to ' keep and preserve the home and
grave of Washington-" Therefore it can never
become the property of the general government.
It came into our hands in a dilapidated condi
tion ; it is now an honor to the Association.
In 1872 malicious persons made a series of
misrepresentation to the Governor and Legis
lature of Virginia as to the management, neg
lect &c., of Mt. Venlon. The Uquest urged
the appointment of aj committee, to inspect ihe
books, the mansion ahu the farm. Ou the loth
of May this committee, consisting of Judge
Thomas, General Meem. General Fitzbugh
Lee and Senator Burgis met the ladies ot tne
Grand Council at Ml. Vernon and the extract
will at once refute the charges. Judge Thomas
said it "gave hiirr great pleasure to -inform
them that the committee, of which he was the
head, had examined carefully into the work
ings of the Association, and the .financial ex
hibits as shown them, and were prepared to
state that they found everything entirely cor
rect. He complimented them upon the suc
cessful pursuit of their labor of love and warm
ly indorsed their action in regard io tne cnarges
imposed as tools and wharfage, as the only
recular source of revenue opened to theni He
regretted that the limited time at command
would not enable the Committee to prepare
and read to the Council the full report lhat
would be sent to the Governor of V irpinia, but
he-assured them that the Board had full con
fidence in the Association." The Grand Coun
cil meets in May at Mt. Vernon to which are
submitted the reportsofthe Regent, Vice-Regent
and resident Superintendent. The principle
source of revenue is from the steamer Arrow,
which brings visitors from Washington daily,
and the sale to them ot flowers, fruits, lunches
and potographs is considerable. We greatly
need an tndownment bind, the interest oi wnicn
will pnahle the Association to meet the neces-
Sary expenses of keeping Mt. Vernon in a con
dition of perfect repair and also to relieve it
from the duty of charging an entrance fee.
vraaa " ' ' lt O
Many of the States were apiealed to by the
Vice-Regents lor aid and respomieu on .me
22nd of February. I have the honor to ac
knowledge a handsome "Centennial ottering
to Mt. Vernon" from the ladies of Asheville
on that day.
Will not the ladies m other parts of the
State select the the 20th of May to make a
similar ottering to the treasury r
I It is a beautiful sentiment in th
e heart of
the American people, which prompts theni to
preserve the temple of our patriot, on his na-
I tirn.il dav. but lei us adopt me nonoreu ay oi
I iJl 11
the 20th of May when our forefathers took the
initiatory steps towards that freedom which
Washington achieved for us.
Contributions mav be sent to the National
Bank of Greensboro, or to Mrs. Letitia II.
Walker.
Vice Recent for North Carolina, leaKsvuie,
' . . . a v ' Ml
N. C.
t -
A Dyixo Max's Heroism. Superienten-
dent Flint, of the Midland railroad, after a
severe snow storm, monnted the engine wind
propelled a snow-plough and proceeded to clear
the track. 1 he snow-piougn anu engine, wmcn
started half an hour in advance of the mail
train, had arrived at the trestle work crossing
the Willowemoc, when, with a sudden crash,
the whole expedition was precipitated twenty
feet inlosthe rocky led of the stream below
pneine. snow-uioiitdis. rails and bridge timber
in one confused mass. All escaped uninjurec
PTcent SiiDerintetident Flint. He was entangled
in the ruins. ; Hefd fast by the iron monster
that had fallen across his lower extremities,
pnveloned in clouds of escaping steam, he was
found by his companions, who endeavored to
extricate himTrorui his perilous position ; but.
though suffering agonv, he rallied his ebbing
strength, and called out, "Stop that mail tram!
Having said this, he died, j The train was stop-
ned. and its load of passengers, that an instan
before were rushing on to quick and certain
destruction, gathered around and tenderly took
ud the remains of him who, in his dying agony,
had remembered their perfl, and by averting it
won his right to the title of hem
Tbey have got to finding solid chunks
of stiver ore lying around loose on top o
the ground in Arizona weighing 2,200
pounds
have concluded that if we cannot have
something better than silver plaited ban
dlea on the coffin that we won't have any
funeral. We're not proud, bat the t dig
nity of tbe editorial position most be
maintained, as tiey say about tho salaries
of Forp'sn- consuls.
A CARPET ON THE FLOOR.
i r i l '!:;--.
Letter, from a Distinguished North Caro
Unian. : - S i , i i ,
j . - ' 1 ; j
$2,25 PKB TABD CHARGED BY A FICTITIOUS IBM
- i AT 271 i CANAL ST.
! ' - j '; If ; ! !
The proof is coming off and we begin to look in
to things long hid Iroui sight. It has been discov
ered thiit bertarv of State Howertoa lat Novem
ber charged the btte $2,25 per yard for carpeting
otteii8ibiy from the linn bt Geo. Brown & Co.,
27t Canal street, New Vork. closer scrutiny de
monstrated a suspicious resemblance between the
handwriting of the; bills and that of the letters of
Brown & Warper which are now being made suffi
ciently familiar. U prominent North C'araiina
gentleman now in; New lork was written to and
lias replied in the subjoined letter. Sanipies of the
carpet were produced and; exhibited to experienced
merchants here, and they unhesitatingly agreed
they could have bought tiie same article in New
xorlt for 51,15, and put down here at $1,25. Here
is the letter which iwe use with apologies to the
author tor tne use of his uanie :
! ' New York, March 28, 1876.
J. D. Camiron, Lditok Daily News:
Dkak Sik: -l can Bnd no record w hatever of
Geo. Brown & Co. being now in existence or ever
having been as carpet niei chants. ; 1'he directories
of the city since Hay, 1875, give no such firm, and
the commercial reference books make no such men
tion, and the principal eonniiercif 1 credit reference
office has no Such arm and say lUey never had.
There is a firm Ueo Brown & Co.. quoted as auc
tioneers in commercial refeience book- but not in
directory. A prirminnt man whose son is a
member ol a noted &m within - eight doors ot 271
(203) Canal street, aays they never heard of such a
li i in as U. u. A Co. in that street, that (.eo.Lj
(J. Hyatt &i Co. are carpet men at 271, Canal
street. .' '
1 am using! every leflort to send forward the bills.
Mr. Vogler liroinited me without fail to give it to
me by 4 o'clock this ; evening. Mr. Vogler with
very little persuading, will go to Noitli Caroliua
and testify vsjjnlow'erton and will be a mobt im
portant witness for you. Dr. Hoverton's general
behavior is ifully known ta V'ogler as he went
around with him . 1 These persons say that there are
from 25 to 3(1 per cent. diBerem-e between goods of
first and tliiid class. 1 think Vogler and Huling
can place thi goods furnished by Brown & Warner
much below jtirst class. Two of the parties told me
they thought; C-qririRn was buying lor himself in a
s.ntil way, and that samples mrnisl.ed by thein to
Oorinan were no criterion to jurce lirown &. War
ner s buppiies to the Mate, loi ti e samples sent to
Corman welt; for cbods Btrictly firbt class, in small
quantities., jif you have serious" trouble jou niusi
nave ogier;anii Hnungcome down and llowerton
will regret tj.eir coding.
I hope to mail you copies of the bids furnished
Howoiton by other houses by next mail. 1 will
gladly look bp anything lor you which I can. Do
not hesitate to call" on me.
i Yours most truly,
J ,' ( J. Tl'KNKK MOKEHEAP.
We hepa jcther cif our friends in New York and
elsewhere will shovir the same zeal and willingness
in ferreting tit hkt frauds upon the Treasury of
the Stats. Hal. Jf:
(118.
A MORTGAGE.
In the whole range of tacied and pro
fane lileraiinv, perhaps, there is nothing
i ecorded which bus such staying properties
as a good healthy mortgage.
A uioilgnge can be depended on to stick
closer than a bro.licr. It lias a mission
lo perloi iii : which never lets up. Day
after davi it is right there, nor does the
slightest, tendency to slumber impair its
vigor in i he lea fit. Night, and day, and
at holiday! ttmci, without a moment's rest
lor sicklies or i: lt cieation, the biting off
spring ot Its existence goes on.
The seasous tmy change, da's run in
to weeks, 'weeks into lujuihs, and months
be swallowed up into the gray man oi
advancing yeaic, but th.it mortgage
stands up; in stuepiess vigilance, with the
uteres! , u pcnenuial bticum, ceaselessly
uuiiiug on. , ,
Like a huge nightmare eating out the
sleep ot some restless eluoiberer, the uih
paid mortgage rears up its gtatit front in
perpetual torment lo the miserable wight
who is held within its miserable clutch.
It holds the poor viciiui with the relent-
ess grasn of a giant ; not a moment's eva
sion of its hideous presence. A genial
savage of mollifying aspect while the in-
lei eel is paid ; a very devil t)t hopeless
destruction when the payments fail.
Other i liabilities taay be evaded or
smoothed; aside ; but a mortgage hangs
oil with the pertinacity of a bull dog, or
the grip ot a blacksiuiib s vice, if the
titi'iest is not paid it is added to swell lis
grim parent, the principal, and it holds
up its horrible front with a harder seem-
iug than before.' It will have the pound
ot tle&h which is nominated in the bond ;
and more terrible than the fearful witches
iu Macbeth, the threatening fiend, Fore
closure, rears no its dreadful menauce with
ihe crushing weight ot hopeless despair.
1'ity tor the poor man who has the
t I til TI
grim fiend in ins Household. iuvery
hour of his life is fraught with one intact
endurance of; misery and dreadf embitter
ed with a gitevous load he is poweilee,to
shake away. Industrial Age.
LIFE.
The evening of every man's days is
lining oh apace. The day of life will
soon be spent. The sun, though it may
be up in the mid heaven, will pasa swittly
down the western sky and disappear.
What shall light up man s path when the
gun of lift is gone down ? lie must trav
el ou to the next world ; but what shall
illuminate the ; footsteps after the night
fall of death, amid the daikiiess' of his
journey i What questions more impor
tant, more practical, more solemn, for
each reader of our journal to ask himself I
That is a long journey to travel without
a fiiend,yet every man must perform it.
Tbe lime; is not far distant when all men
wJl begin tae journey. There is an
evening star in the natural world. Its
radiance is bright and beautiful, and
cheering to the benighted traveler, but
life's evening star is a good hope of
heaveiK fits j beauty and bi illiaucy are
reflected rom the Sun of Righteousness,
whose bright rays light up the evening of
life, and throw their radiauce quite across
the darkness of the grave into linman
uel'a Laud. t has iilumiuated the foot
steps of; many a weary traveler into
eternity; li;is of priceless value. A
thousand Worlds cannot purchas eit ; yet
it is offered without money and without
price, tbj'jbiiiii who will penitently and
thankfully teceive it.
! Among the (visitors to the .Methodist
Centennial in this city was that veteran
Methodisi William Overman. Esq., of
Salisbury lie left yesterday for a visit
to bis sonin4aw, Prpf. A. AV. Mangam
of Chapel
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SOUL-SICK.
Who would not be a Pagan?
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Things that we've trusted, every cne
busted.
He'gho J ; what shall we do ? I
Pack all our duds up aud, while our blood's
. up, : - j
Sail, ho ! I for Timbuctoo ! f
We want to be a pagan,
Andi with the pagan's stand. .
Oh, for he wings of a dove, a wild-
goose or a I buzzard, that we might fly"
away and be at rest among the Fejees
the Hotrentots, or some other, nobler -and
better race than our own braggadociously4
enlightened Columbian barbarians, ouf
own boastfully-christian heathen. Ob,
that we might trade off our mulatto gou
dess. of liberty for the queen of the Can
nibal Iglands or any similar wenchy po
tentates. Oh, for a roosling'place among
the Kvckapocs, Uanbs or New Zea
anc
n ev?-edit-
crs. Pagans as ihey are, they have
er yet wallowed in lire mire of c
mob-o'-liar, custom house and whis
key-
ring robberies and frauds; or sounded the
finthomless infamous depths of preslden
tial Bueak-ihieveiy, nepostistic cortrjoraii
cy, dirty jobberry, ofiice peddling
universal dead-beatery. Oh, for a podge
auiid the sun-scorched black amocrs of
the Niger and Zambesi, or the tawny
savages cf Polynesian Archipelagoes.
Tattooed missionary eaters as they are,
they have a million moial leagues in put
rifying iniquity yet to sink, before ihey
reach the nadir of degradation, rottenness
and shame ihe low, low, bottomless lev
el of our christian patriots, heroes and
statesmen. Ransack all their dark and
gory caverns; drag out the last slimy rep
tile from tlnir hideous dens of cijuelty,
rapine and lust ; -and you will fiiid tio
parallel lor the beasts that prowl ai d the
deeds that are done in all our council
chambers, our social halls and the U tuples
of our God. They have no pillage made
milliqnairey senators like llailand, Sher
man, Chandler, and Cameron; no fugitive
stool pigeon and swindlers' decoy-duck
blackleg foreign ministers like Sc lenck;
and no peijureo, bribe-stained, gunning,
Sunday-school haranguing vice pre fidehts
like Colfax. Oh, for a dwelling oi Pata
gonian,'s frigid shores, w here s laggy
haired Goliaths welcome the shipwrecked
stranger to warm and spacious soujp ket-
t
les, and each hapless guest supplies the
hiii-bones for his hospitable entertainers'
shin-bones lor ins nosp
broth. Oh, for an arbor of gourd-vihes
on the torrid banks of Nyanz;i's or
Ngami's flood, where the gentle bushman
dines on his grand mother and nibbles
vermin for desserts. 13enighted and
beastial devil-worshippers as they are,
they have no whited-sepulcber, pharisaic
Bcechers and Havens, saintly guidje ppsts
ou the turnpike to perdition, preaching
heaven and practicing hell. Nb long
faced hypocrites groaning overj oihet
men s sins in amen corners Sundajy, and
dabbling in multifarious villainy jail the
rest of the week; breaking the body of
Christ in the sanctuary, and cracking the
bones of their brethren in the office, mar
ket, shop and store; sipping the fched
blood of the Savior at the altar, and vara
piieliko draining the last drop from the
liearts of the victimized fellows at the
counter or desk. No bogus refonh legis
latures; no Louisiana Pinchbaek and
Kellogg hellionism; no South, Oaroliua
bigger supreme court aud lawgriuding
nit i
menagenes ot Daboons grana-ofns; no
satrap reconstructions; uo pantry-rifling
Beastie Butlers; no ulcerious, fiend in
spired Leper Morton; no carrion! tearing
Jackal Blaines; no blasphemy ipalsied,
hyena"!frolh-souled Brownlows; np lobby
liars and scrap-suatcliers; no j female
traffickers in legislative oaths, votes and
souls; and no itchy handed, beggar's-brat,
royalty-aping Grants and Dents. All
these are ihe home products, the peculiar
luxuries of this enlightened and ejichrist
tianed yankeediddledoodle land, j Ob, for
a homo where the Bengal tiger wpoes his
dusky mate, with vibratory tail and jun
gle flighting serenade; Where the In
dian mother tosses her choeolatecdlored
cherub'to the crocodilian god: Where
the HUdoo widow, instead of drawing a
SlOjOOp policy on her dead husband's
life jaiiitt petting out with' ostc itatious
flourish of her grief to catch a second
gudgeon, as her civilized-er eisier does,
lies down and inaks a savory fricassee
of herself amid the tl lines of her (defunct
one's funeral pyre; Or where the; Mada
gascar belle receives her suitors, in a lull
court costume of two ostrich feathers, a
paloi-Ieaf fan and a string of shell-beads.
There would we requiescat in pate rest
in peace, r. i. p. For though upon their
untaught ears yet never fell the twang of
school-marui's voice or thump of bible
nauler's fist, they are blessed with over
running cups ot negative felicity. j Ihey
have no sanctimonious old womeii Snivel
ing over the fly-specks on some j sister's
fair escutcheon, and utterly blind to the
whole half acre of twill tub splotthes on
llieir own. No sanctified old she j pickle
jars raising their skinny paws hi holy
horror at some young girl s j gllaiug
through the graceful mazes of a Otillion,
or vpntniing into a circus-tent toifee the
giaecntus, hippopotamus and Wpllapus;
aud in the next half moment, retailing
scandals enough to damn a whole camp
meeting of cherubim and seraphiin. No
sewing societies with tongues ail million
fold sharper than their needles. Ko sim
pering, giggling meeting house flirts,
dazzling the watery eyes of soft-skulled
whipper-snappers, counterbopping man
ikins, leaded-witted fly-up-the-creeka.
No bare-ebouloered, promiscousl vbugged
ball-room or watering-place belles with
hearts aa empty as their souls, and
tongues whetted on their gi bids tone
hearts. No dandies, no poodles, no
gunjun rubber bustles, spiral pafpitators,
false calves, false carls, false -teeth, false
smiles and false professions. No grave
stone speculation thieves. No contracting!
ghouls catting ihe carcasses of their dead
soldiers to pieces in order to draw full
pay for barynig a body on each carrion
fragment. No'malefacfor president and
no cabinet of ring-rogues and jail-birds.
All these are civilized and christianized
commodities, delicacies and Belzebubbles.
Ob, that we were a pagan, a cannibal-
anything but a highly favored United
otatian, an eniigutcnea American patriot,
statesman, saint or hero 1 For the mien
of Ninevah, offSodom and Gomorrah, 'of
Babylon the lewd the very Sutrahs and
Fellatahs, witlf tbe clotted flesh of their
mother-inlaw Sticking to their fangs'
shall rise up, in the judgment against
this pe6tiferous;debaached nation of frauds,
braggaiis, hypocrites and learned, and
polished assassins and cat-purses; and
condemn the-whole vile and hideous com
poodle ! Ameif ! Vive Le Pagan ! Abas
Le Radical Pharisee !
MAIlSIl'p OPPORTUNITY.
Mr. Caleb P. Marsh is a fortunate man.
What we mean by that is that he -is a
man who has kept his fortune. Mr.
Belknap is saip to have squandered his
ill-gotten giin. Marsh has husbanded
his. Belknap; has hardly enough means,
so it is stated,! to pay his couusel for
defending him. Marsh has obtained a
virtual pardoni In advance, and needs no
defence. !
What of all this ? Just this of it :
Marsh has it in his power to atone, in
part, for the vfrong he has done by send
ing all the moWy he has made by .his
bribery, to be divided among the poor
soldiers who havebeen despoiled, by him,
of their hard earned pay.
Restoration ;in good, old Bible doctrine.
Marsh ought to be very grateful that he
is not sent to the State prison, and be
ebould manifest his gratitude by paying
back ihe monev.
Will not Mrs. Marsh come to our aid
in enforcing this advice ? It her husband
would have been, as she expressed it, a
pig not to make any presents in return fur
a post tradership, will ho not be a hfg to
keep the moirey belonging to the poor
soldiers ? N. Y. Sun.
Isn't Anxions to hear Grant's Centennial
1 Speech
To the Editor of the. Sun Sir: 1
see by your paper that Mr. Grant is to
make a speech at the Centennial opening.
Now, as a ciiizen of Philadelphia, deeply
interested in the success of the Centennial,
I respectfully beg the Commission to re
consider its invitation to the President,
aud to ask liim, out of respect to all
honest and Respectable people, to stay
away from Philadelphia-
His presence at a celebration of national
progress I should consider a deep humil
iation. I kqbw a good many citizens and
neighbors of : mine, who believe with me
that this vulgar man, whose ideas arc tbe
ideas which . govern highwaymen, who
sees the nation robbed on every band, and
uses his power to protect the robbers
from punishment, is a national disgrace
and had better be kept out of sight at such
a celebration. Philadelphiax.
Philadelphia, March 2S.
Or, if he will go, let him rise not to
explain not to congratuhite the American
people, but--to resign the place he so
foully disgraces.
If farmers would keep a elate hanging
up in their barns or work-shops, with a
pencil attached by a string, so us to note
down work o bc done on rainy or stormy
days, when the hired men could not work
out of doors, it would be found t- be of
great advantage. Have it understood
that whenever a rain comes, the slate ; is
lo be referred to for orders, so that if you
are away frcm home, the work cau go on.
There are scores of things that can be
profitably dque such times, and just so
much time saved in good weather. All
the wagons and carriages can be greased,
the harness piled and repaired, the axes,
hoes and spades ground or cleaned, fl iors
of barns or outhouses cleaned or repaired,
tools or implements repaired or painted,
bee hives, chicken coops and other things
made, hen houses cleaned or fumigated
with sulphuj- if fowls are lou3y, cellars
cleaned, apples and potatoes assorted, and
all such work be done and without the
loss of lime. Fanners, keep a slalo and
i . ri.-i i !
ruane a noia or wuai woik can De done
at such times. liurald Wyorld.
Poisoned Ar rotes of the Papuans '
The warlike habits of the Papuans and
their implements of warfare are described
in a pi ivate letter recently addressed to
Dr. Hooker; The writer says that ; no
man leaves iis dwelling, for his bit of
cultivation even, .without his powerful;
bambco bow and a few deadly poisoned
arrows. These poisoned arrows are only
a few among a great number not poisoned,
the former being distinguished by elabor
ate carving and printing, probably to pre
vent accident among themselves. They
are ecb pointed aud barbed with human
bone brought to almost needle-like sharp
ness, most carefully and neatly finished
they are poisoned by plunging in a hu
man corpse fir several days. Poor Gom
modore Goodenough and his men suffered
from arrows; so poisoned. It is a sort of
blood poisoning that, like other kinds of
inoculation, does not develop itself for
several days, the slightest scratch oem
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suiucieni to reuaer aimosi inevitaoio a
horrible death. Tbe systoms are accom
panied by yiolent spasms like tetanus,
with consciousness until tbe last. 'Na
ture. . i f j' i
The sting of a bee carries conviction
whit it. I wakes a man a bee leaver at
once. ' , "')'"!'"
i Col. DoxiN.-j We note tbe' name of
Col. P. Donan has disappeareif from, the
masthead of tbe Sentinel. r V'V 'i
j Snow in Hickory -was 9 inches deep;
in Lenoir, JO ; in tbe Yadkin Valley 12,
and at Old Port : . '
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! !Rryer Myers who was formerly a' dis
tiller in Petersburg was arrested tbe other
day in New York charged with removing
liquor from his establishment without
faring paid the duty. ' ;
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The property of the Carolina Park As
sociation, late the grounds of the IJew
Fair, of the Caroiihasf is, advertised to bo
sold under execution ori Monday, 22d of
May- Charlotte1 Observer. ' - - , s '
I The prettiest talk made straight bat
and without any! notes during the centen
nial is said to have been the address by
I Rev. J. J. Renn at the Sunday School
mass meeting at metropolitan Hall.
News.
There is a story going the rounds of a.
woman having served six months in CoL
Zeb. Vance's regiment without her sex
being discovered. Those who know
Gov. Vance will; find it difficult to credit
this yarn -Richmond Whig. ;
Five young men went to a spiritualistic
seance in Terra Haute the other night,
with lamp black on the palm of their
bands. Then they shook hands with tbe
materialized spirit that appeared, and af
ter tbe lights were turned up, the medium
who had been "in a trance" in the cabi
net also bad lamp black onJier bands.
A great event has occurred at Jcrdfia
lera. The Musaelmen have permitted tho
Christians, who1 dispute tho possession of
the church of tbe Holy Sepulchre, to put
up bells in it. Such a sound has" not
been heard in the building since the day
when the Sultan Saladin entered the city ,
n the twelfth century.
A New Paper. Jas. n. Enniss fe
Co. will soon commence in this city tits
pub! ication of "The North Carolina Far A
wcr," a Monthly Journal of Agriculture,
Horticulture and Domestic Economy. It
wilFrie a 16 page quarto and full of prac
tical information for the farmer, garderier
and the housekeeper. Price $1.00 per
year. liat. Jseics.
People who sit at their front windows
and stare at their neighbors from morning
.ill night, will, perhaps, not be deterred
by tho fact that a south Brooklyn woman,
3u this line of business, had her nose fro
zen fast to the window-pane one day last
week, and was; subsequently obliged to
bave the tip of it amputated. Nevertlrei
less, the affair cast the radiance of a. pro
found joy over the entire neighborhood.-
Brooklyn Argus. -
If yon are troubled with rats get nt tb
Drug Store some crude potash and pat
it in their runaways aud hiding holes -the
potash will'stick to their feet, and
disliking that, they will try to lick' it off,
and will get their tongues burnt by th
operation, and they will soon leave the
premises in disgust. At least so says on
who pretends to know bow it is hire
self.
t LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM.
St. Louis Times.
They were silting together on the banks
of the Chattachoochee, like two ebony
images, he staring vacuity out of counte
nance, and she resting her raven crimps
on his heaving shoulder. "Miles away
from hyar' she fondly murmered, "wbere;
dc baffomolo1 rips and ta'rsand frows
dirt at the settin' eun, dai's wbar we'll go'
Gawge." -
Gawge's lips moved not, neither did he
titter any work, but the whites of bis eyes
repeated, 4,Dar's whar we'll go."
The Nashville American, speaking of
the death of the Atlanta (Gal) HeraTdt
says : "The Herald's suspension sap
ports the proposition we have heretofore
advanced,tbat to each city of not less
than-3.0,000 population, ooty one daUy
journal cau have reasouablefhope of re
manerative existence. One daily .to ever
40,000 of population is about the newspa,-
per supporting capacity ot tne largest and
most prosperous cities. Its surviving
rival had an clder existence and more
permanent good will, for papers long cs
tablishcd seem to have a marvelous ten,
acity of life.'' "
Ihe first postal system of tbe colonies
were organized by four printers, Frank
lin, Holt, Goddard, and Hazzard, July.
177o. Congress appointed Franklin the
fir?t Postmaster-General, with a salary of
Sl.000, residence in Philadelphia, and
instructions to establish posts froaTFaL
month, New England, to Savannah, Ga.
wjtu cross posts, and; ratet twenty .'per
finnl llltiuy tlinnlrl Ptirlt-imniitdvt, AlinvMaa .
The Secretary aud Gomptrojler got 340
e4ch; . i 1
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To T1E Poixf. An exchange Bays
Compare the publisher of a newspaper,,
who has get to go all around the country
la collect his pay, to a farmer wbo slla
4 is wheat on credit, and not more ttban a
bushd to any person. If any farmer wjU
tty the experiment of distributing tbe pro
ceeds of bis jabor over two or .three coun
ties, with an addiiioiul oneia two nr ljire
distant States fir one year, we wjll guar
antee that be will never, after that year's
experience, sk a publisher to supply bin;
with a paper; a rear or Jlwo wiiliQut tb
"v for it. i -. . - -