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fill '1 aro ! . - " - o : .ina: 44 . Mo j u ol VOL IX.THIRB SERIES SALISBURY. N. C, . FEBRUARY, 7, 1878. 'i v. J1U V 1 1) II. i I I I 1 SANTA CROCE AND THE INQUISI TION IN FLORENCE. i Iu the gallery of the Marchess Caponi's Mt- Verxox, N. C. ; January 28th, 1878. Dear Watchman : Surface-scratching is the bane, and deep plowing isthcconstit uent principle of successful farming. Thii proposition is so well established by - saw a picture that lias haunted me ever science, reason and experience so freely ' gjBce. t do not intend to see it again, admitted by the mass of intelligent agri- to me in night watches, culturists, and so seldom disputed hymen . . . 6 , -. . worthy of debate, that we need not here when visions of distant years and cities either state in detail the ' tacts deduced stand up before the eyes of the soul, and from chemistry and from the fields them-" 8aVf "Here, look on me once more." It selves, or stop to cavil with a few isolated .g the picture of a WOraan, sitting on hobbyist beyond the reach ot information 1 ' 5 ind convincemeiit. But why does not the , t,,e floor Wlth Ler hands clasped about sub-soil plow follow the surface plow, in her knees, her head sinking upon her breaking np our lands, as constantly and breast: a small lamp dying out at her customarily as it is our interest to make feet give8 Ugt enough to disclose the twcr blades grow where there was but one ' ..,... i before, and to make two farms to one of r ruth that the fair offerer i. m a dan the surface cultivator one atove and the geou, walled up and left to perish! W ho other below T It is mere negligence, want is she f Is it the horrible fancy of sqnie 'of euterprise, and lack of that complete ! artist to make a. seiy?atiouaL-picturet-la .uuuw.uu.ugu. u.u,ire ; u fictJon founded on gome domestic twnicn gives me jaim me aoiuiug jutin . !in cood. thorough preparation of the soul, i tragedy? No, it is a veritable passage 'everywhere "known by its irorA." in the history of Santa Croce, a chapter in the chronicles of this beautiful Flor- Care of course must be taken to never, never u ing we suu-so. , uie iu,., - ft . tb anua,g of u Ue this is done, there need.be uo fears, even i ' - . f , ,ei Tli-it auu VyiiriSL-4iKe iiiuicu ui uuuic ; ; ; email in sandy soils, of running too deep the soft, finely cut-up and broken soil, of light, texture, should be afterwards rolled or brushed down till it is tirm enough to present a ready anchorage for the roots of wheat and corn, and this before any sow- I ing or planting is done, I do most assured- ly believe. And the harrowing or rolling of wheat after it is up, however, much it may benefit the plant, is not half as good j as to do this work ot compacting the bed I tell you the story t TILE STORY OF FAUSTINA. She was young and beautiful, in a "humble walk of life, endowed with ge nius, and by diligent study she had fitted herself t give instruction to the youth I before the seed is put in the ground. The of her own sex. i 1 l e ' .ii. -. . e i- . l T i In Florence, in the early part of the seventeenth century, the morals of of human nature. Shame it is that such a fact should be on record in the annals of any church, in any age of the world. This proud and wicked priest the con fessor of these young women, was, by the feet wide. The door was jnanw, the walls were stone. She was left with n lamp in lier hand and crucifix on which she fastened her eyes in despair, not hope. Her pleas for mercy, her agonizing strug- laws of his church, and in spite of his own j gle, against her awful doonr were all in depravity, suchas the power of super-j vain. The pikes of the rude officials stition over him, constrained to confess the j would have subdued her nad sue ottered secrets of his soul to to a brother priest ! i the least resistance to the item decree. In silence and woe unspeakable she stood in the living tomb, while with swift and hard freezing weather of December and January may uproot a great deal-of it be fore von can harrow in February if the ground is well packed in October or No- ! priests and peopje were alike corrupt, vember and early howed, its roots may be and virture was quite as rare as Solomon said it was among the women of his day. More than four thousand nuns filled secure, and the frosts cutting it off in I ffwul tiin it. Ni.iv Kfiiol tint, -si ml ' form n i solid mat upon the linn surface. A -Deep .preparation is, beyond question, 'the convents. The convents were gov j the best but, for corn and other tillable erned by the monasteries that were I crops, the deepest cultivation, (after the 8Warniing with monks. The civil power previous preparation.) is not always the ... . ., i i j test. Rut the plow should go, rain or no i 8onSbt to seParate the kindred mstltu f rain, constantly stirriujr the soil and keep- j tions, so great was the scandal, but the ing down all the grassy and weedy ene- Church was the superior authority, and iniesof the crop. Cloxe plowing, with m(ms and nuns had it their own wav. yarrow, keen and bright blades is the; ranstiua was not a nun. Ifc waa no thing no covering up ot grass or leaving i . ... . the slovenly ridge between furrows the unusual circumstance in those days for man that does it.may get over a heap of; the daughters of the proudest families to ground, but will eventually cheat hhnelf. separate themselves, nominally, from the (ftalip, and not quantit,, is the essential w ,d h siting upon them the vows of doctrine of the right kind of work. I, , ; a , ' , And this brings to my mind the foolish holv orders, onng men fled from the custom of allotiug as large -an acreage as conflicts of business, and wars, and so possible to each hand. Sir, it there is any ciety, to the ease, the plenty und the one thing iu particular, bef.ire all others, pleasures of monastic life. The garb of which lias ruined so many thousands ot , , L , , , , farms, and worn out so many millions of tho devotee was merely a cloak for selfish acres of laiuL here in the South, that cus- indulgence, and no class of persons had f torn is the oye thing which has lone it. , "lhirty acres to the hand," they sayl "fifteen iu small grain and fifteen in corn, tobacco or cotton." S7.r or Keren acres in corn is as much as any one man can do justice to, and cultivate without always being in that time honored but ridk-u-?lous fix of hurry, hurry, hurry, rip, rush and scramble, all through the hot 'season. Tho man is generally a laugha ible lump of. regrets and lamentations that ho "cannot get on faster," and "cau't get over his corn another time before it rains." .The poor.horse is driven at top speed, aud, if tho beast could speak, he would more Comforts and luxuries and enter tainments than these religions, who mere ly assumed the life of seclusion that they niighf be idle and well feL.without labor or care. Such was not the spirit or the purpose of Faustina Mainardi. Her early reading had inspired her with a desire to lead the young of her own sexto the higher en joyments which she herself had found in books and the pursuit of art, and at a How the plot thickens, and the policy aud craft of the Church are displayed as we rtrace the system in its successive steps. The Canon Ricasoli revealed iu confes sion to Father Marius the pleasures in which he was indulging in the school which it was his duty to watch over with pious solicitude : he knew it was very wicked for him to abuse his sacred office, and the confidence reposed iu him by the parents of tbe precious ytmth;ir Bnt he had led this bad life with the knowledge that if he confessed his sins in secret he would have absolution : to return to his sins and be again forgiven. In the weak ness of his vanity, it had never occurred to the learned and popular Ricasoli that his standing in Florence had excited the euvv and therefore the hatred of his brethren, who would rejoice in his down fall. The secrets of the confessional were regarded as sacred even iu those times of general corruption, but there was not a priest then, as there is not a priest now, who would not use the confessional for the good of the Church, though the ruin of individuals and families might also be tli6 result. When Father Marius had the eloquent Canon Ricasoli in his power, he was not slow in betraying him to his su periors. At this period, the Inquisition was in vigor. Father Marius informed against Ricasoli, and he was brought before the dreadful court. Faustina was arrested also aud with Ricasoli was accused of corrupting the minds of the young women of her school. If the words of the blessed Master had been addressed m the judges not one of them could have said a word against this erring woman ; "let him that is without sin cast the first stone." But the occasion was too good for them to lose the opportunity of showing zeal for mor ality, and in an age of general dissolute ness among priests and people they re solved to make an example of the priest and his victim. When we remember the power which a priest now has, and then had, over the conscience of a weak and gentle and confiding woman who looks up to him as her teacher, her father in God and the guide of heroul, it is right to ay that the sin was hugely his, and that he fchould bear the punishment which human tribunals would inflict. But the Inquisi tion never knew the attitude of mercy. It lived only to destroy. Its proceedings were the most part con ducted i tt secresy, the most profound. Into their gloomy chambers Faustina was taken for examination and the rack would cruel hands the opening by which she had entered, was walled np with solid mason ry, and she was left to suffocate or starve. The men who had doomed her to this horrid fate, ministers of God, high priests of Him who died for sinners,- at in their chairs of office, till the work -.was done, I and then went to dinner, -v v. -r"': : "The" Canon Ricasoli was condemned to the same fate, and the sentence was car - ried into effect. Scarcely more than two centuries have passed away since these events occurred iu this lovely city of Florence. Not a century has yet 6ped its course since the Inquisition was suppressed. Its infernal work was going on until the year 1782. God grant that it may never be re stored ! IREX.EU3. FATAL EFFECTS OF DISFORESTING A COUNTRY. INTERNAL REVENUE.' ' There is no complaint among manufac turer or planter that an internal revenue tax is levied upon certain articles, nomi nally of luxury, practically of daily and universal use. The needs of government, the pleasure of the public) debt, make such impositions necessary and there will always be cheerful disposition to meet them, provided they are impartially lev ied, aud without oppressive weight upon special industries. For certain purposes, the revenue tax has been a good tiling; to the people. In the tobacco trade, for in stance, by compelling the use of stamps and caution notices, upon which the place of manufacture was made obligatory, jit has created a .tal "revolution intho, sales of the rawmaterial ; has originated to bacco sales Warehouses, has concentrated business upon certain centres, has secur-. ed to the planter quick sales and immedi ate returns, has built up nianufacturies, called towns into existence, quickened the pulse of all business. All this is admitted to be fruits of the internal revenue tax. But while it is such, it is not because the tax is a large one, but because its require meuts are of that formal character which compel concentration. A less tax would act in a precisely similar way ; and witli the advantage that where there are ten THE BLAND SILVER BILL. Text of the Bill as Passed by the House and a Amended by the Senate Committee on Finance. it i lt . . Below will be found the Bland Silver bill as it passed the House and as it now stands before the Senate. The House bill ends with the words printed in brack ets. The Senate Committee on Finance struck out the words in brackets and ad ded the words which follow, embraced in quotations. The reader thus has both bilhvbefore bimRnd, wUWbe abk itu., un derstand ,the references made to them during debate, iiu , , -. An Act to authorize the free coinage. of the standard s'dcer dollar, and. to. ', restore - its i legal-tender character , . . ( . : ' TV jRe iCenactedt4l:e7 Th'aTTGeraTrsIiair, be coined at the several mints of the United States, silver dollars of the weight of four hundred and twelve and a half grains Troy of standard silver, as provided in the act of January eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty -seven, on which shall be the devices and suiKMscrintions-provi- ded by said act; which coins, together will all silver dollars heretofore coined by the United .States of like weight and fine ness, shall be legal-tenders, at their liom iual value, for all debts aud-lues, public ami private, except where otherwise pro vided by contract; and any owner of sil ver bullion may deposit the same at any L in tea states coinage mint or assay othce, to be coined into such dollars, tor his ben- "h: .reprove me master, and utter a sincere prayer for winter, aud rest-tune to come, success of one who is under the influence Now I contend that hurry is downright of a lligher motive lhau the pursuit of nonsense, and that steady, reasonable la- - , . bor is a positive pleasure. What! En- Sllin- oung women under her care, m danger your life and that of your beast, successive years became infused with her I in order to skim over a great half-sub- love of the beautiful and true; they sought uueaj nan-manured, imu-prepareu, wiiu, wrsdoin, knowledge and skill for the good bnene, weedy, grassy, wilderness of laud ... . y. , . . - -f-toake afewears of corn and a big thatwas in fl.em, and the joy they give pile of "nubbins !" How surprising that to expanding minds. many; otherwise sensible men will thus! The priests had their hands upon every act, iu obedience to a custom, which has only-that species of logic in it which we uav heartily wish, the devil fly away with! E. 1 II. very early acre she trathered a school in w .... ... 11 which she taught with the devotion and I have stretched her joints witu torture uau she denied the charge. thing in those evil times. The holiest places ofliome were not too secret to es cape their intrusion; Then as now the confessional made the priest the ruler in every household. The master of all the thoughts as well as the actions, it 'Is the Of all the qualities that combine to form ' easiest thing in the world for priest to a good character, there is not one more become the tyrant of the family ,and to make works important than reliability. Most emphat- ; the weak, the superstitious and religious. THE RELIABLE MAN. ieally is this true of the character of a good business niau. The word itself em braces both truth and honesty, and the reliable man must necessarily be truthful and honest. We see so much all around us that exhibits the absence of this crown ing quality that we are tempted, iu our billious moods-to-deuy its very existence. But there are nevertheless, reliable men, men to bo depended upon, to be trusted, ill whom you may repose confidence, whose submissive to his will. Men are not as subject to the priests as women iire. In'Italy to-day the men do not frequent the confessional. Women are still its dupes aud"victims. The serpent is creep ing into the Church of England and silly women are led captive by the Priest in Absolution, w ho extorts the secrets of the heart by the awful lie that sin cannot be forgiven unless confessed to him. This jias been the real Inquistion of the Church word is as good as their boud and whose j Gf iJome in all the dreadful ages through promise is performance. If any one of you know such a man make him your friend. You can only do so, however, by assimilating his character. The reliable man is a man of good judg ment. He docs not jump at conclusions. 4 He is not a frivolous man. He is thought ful. He turns over a subject in his mind and looks at it all around. He is not a partial or one-sided man. He. sees through a thing, lie is apt to be a very reticent man. He does not have to talk a great deal. He is a moderate man, not ouiyiu liabits of body, but also of mind. He is not a passionate man, if so by nature; he has overcome it by. grace. He is a sin cere man, not a plotter or schemer, lie does not promise rashly. What he says may be relied on. He is it trustworthy man. You feel safe with your property or the administration of affairs iu his i. i . it.. ; .. i..i.f..i .umus. ii.u a...u., s..-u iusoircd and stimulated by a crafty, de lou feel secure within his protection.. el . . , .,.5,:ii tt " is a brave maiij for his conclusions are logically deduced from the sure basis of truth, and he dw?s. not fear to maintain them. He is a good man, tor no one can be thoroughly honest and truthful with out beiug good. Is such a quality attain - ablut, Most assuredly , so. It is not born, i 'Cotfessions'andastlie inuoceuce of their . uiaue. cnaracter may uo loruieu, oi votuse molded Current. sin and misery. Alas ! for the depravity which her power has been perpetuated among the families of the earth. Among the learned and accomplished divines who filled the pulpits and minis tered at the altars of Florence in 1645, there was one who had won great repu tation as a preacher and a director of schools for the young. This fascinating, saintly and distinguished priest, the Canon Pandolfo Ricasoli, had no difficulty in adding to his other very agreeable duties the same nature, the spiritual oversight of the school of which Faustina wasrihe teacher. It was the sad but too natural result of this association that she who first sought in the priest a guide and helper, pouring her heart and soulinto his ear, as her confessor, should gradually come to make known to him those romantic feelings aud passions whieh would never have ripened iuto evil had they not been 1 .,"1 TT -I siguiug ana uuprincipiea man. unuer his despotic power, her conscience was perverted and she became his tool aud ac complice in the corruption of theyoungjand tender uiiuds committed to her care. ' As their spiritual director ho received their . . . - . -. ... , ji'nSiun.-, '"-" HhAractnt f simpie natures was opened into his ears, then its com potent parts may lo 1 , , , , ., ltothat foru.tiou.-,or.7iVce he poisoned them, and so led them into But what had the poor thing to do, except to admit, as she did most freely, that she had been guilty of every thing of which she was accused ; she had obeyed the priest whom she hon ored as one who hadthe Spirit of God, and she now bewailed her sin and surren dered herself to the judges. The Refectory of Santa Croce is the largest hall iu the convent. It is in the same state now in which it was in No vember 1&1, when it was the scene of Faustina's condemnation and sentence. At the end of the long room is a painting of the Last Supper, by Giotto, admired as one of his best preserved and masterly Above it is another picture, the Crucifixion, and at the sides are frescoes of Saint Benedict and Saint Francis. They have all been on these walls more than four hundred years. In the centre of the great hall mis raised a platform or scaf fold, hung with black drapery as for the exhibition of a corpse. The Inquisitors were seated iu elevated chairs around it The Cardinal, the chiefs of tho Medici family, priests, nobles and dignitaries of the city, filled the room. On the platform in the midst of this assembly the guilty priest, Ricasoli, and the miserable Faus tina were placed : they were dressed in robes painted all over with hideous devils and flames. Then they were made to kneel before the Grand Inquisitor, while a Monk, in a deen senulchral. voice read 7 4 & ' aloud the crimes which they had com mitted and had confessed. The sentence was pronounced and carried into im mediate exec ution. Underneath the chambers of the In quisition, was a row of dungeons where wretched victims were confined to wait their trial, and to which those were con signed whose fate was to escape the pen alty of death, aud drag out a miserable existence in these subterranean cells No light penetrated them. Air enough was allowed to protract their sufferings These dungeons are now to bo-seen in many old castles, and palaces and prisons iu Enrope. It was not uncommon for a feudal lord to have some of his enemies in dungeons underneath the floor on which he and his family were feasting. I have been in many of these cold, damp, dismal cells and have woudered how frail women or even strong men could endure a mouth not to speak of years in such a horrid den with scant food, the stone floor the 011I3 bed. - . Into such a dungeon Faustina was led It was but six feet long and four or five That the sanitary condition of a coun try is endangered by the removal of its forests is a well established fact which it needs 110 argument to prove, and to this we but add the additional fact that de pleted forests will finally, eventuate iu rendering the most fertile country upon the face of the globe unfit for the dwell ing place for man. This fact is well es tablishcd by reference to the present con dition of those portions of the earth which from the earliest ages have been, the hab itation of man. It is with extreme diffi culty that we can realize that Asia, as de scribed by Herodotus, the father of histo ry, is the same land we to-day behold it. When we remember the great multitudes which once populated the vast extent of territories which are to-day arid deserts, the thought conies home to the thinking mind with resistless force that man reck less and destructive man not only war red upon himself, but also upon nature, with the consequence, as we behold them, of making a fertile country a howling wil derness. This has evidently arisen from the long-continued destruction of the na tural forest, and stands as a startling cor roboration of the fact that forests are essential to the well-being, health and comfort of man. But in a continuance of this thought the present couditiou of Palestine stands out in flat contradiction of the Bible de scription of a land "flowing with milk aud honey." Nine-tenths of the country into which the-Israelites were brought by Josh ua, is to-day uninhabitable, and will pos sibly remain so to the end of time, beiug nothiug but a continuation of rocks, mountains and sandy deserts. Where now arc the vineyards and cultivated hills of Palestine t Gone after the once dense and health-giving forests which fell under the "axes lifted up upon the thick trees." Psalms 74: 5. And so we might point to various por tions of the Old World iu support of the fact that removal of trees will eventuate in the deatli of both man and beast. In journeying through Northern Michi gan in the past two months we have been struck by the evidence of the slow but sure process of nature's death consequnt upon the removal of forest trees. In con versation with old settlers we learn that the average rniu-fall is yearly becoming less w here the forests have been removed. The waters iu the streams have fallen to insiguilicaiice where twenty years ago a rushing torrent was continuous. This may be considered trifling, but it is indic ative of the sure result of depleting our health and life-giving forests without re storing the same by the planting of young trees. The above which we take from the Lum berman's Gazette, is petinent ini double sense to many of the Southern States. It is an established fact that a country dries up when disforested ; it is also true that if trees be plan toil on arid wastes rain will factories run, there will be twenty if the ent, u,Km the sanie terms and conditions tax is reduced one half. Many who can- as gold bullion is deposited for coinage not nav twentv-fonr ent e.m n.iv twidvt under existing laws.l "Aud the Secreta- cents. And the mnltinlieation of small Kv of.tl,e Treasury is authorized and di . r rected, out of any money 111 the 1 reasurv factories, gives better evidence of the life not otherwise appropriated, to purchase, of the people than the erection of such from time to time, silver bullion at the colossal establishments as the Lorillards, market price thereof, uot less than two boastful of the payment of a tax of teu million dollars, and insolent in its demand for the extinction of its petty rivals. This government was made for the many, not for the few. Let Congress heod this car dinal priuciple-ii76or0wA Recorder. Neal Pow'js New Plan. Neal Dow has introduced a felony bill iuto the Maine Legislature which he fondly hopes will be more effectual than any of its predeces sors have been iu preventing the sale of liquor. The sale of liquor is to be pun ished by a fine of $200 and six months'' imprisonment at hard labor: second of fence, a year. No liquor is to be brought into the State even for private persons. People are to be held" responsible for li quors found on their premises, and the burden of proof as to ownership rest on them. Apparatus for selling liquor is to be deemed evidence of guilt. If a team is found drawing liquor, the horses and ve hicle are to be confiscated. Common drunkards are to be sent to jail for a year, but released on conviction of -the seller. Drummers for liquor houses are to be fin ed 81,000 and imprisoned for a year. Officers obtaining convictions are to be paid premiums. And so on, aud so on. General Neal Dow's legislation has in twelve years increased the county taxa tion at Bangor from $12,000 to $60,000, while the uumber of arrests for drunken ness in the city has increased from 222 at the passage of the Maine Liquor law to 770. Iu 1870 there were 332 arrests for drunkeness at Bangor ; in 1872, 417; in 1874, ti43 ; in 1875, 704, and in 1876, 770. New York World. million dollars per mouth, nor more than four million dollars per mouth, aud cause the same to be coined into such dollars. And any gain or seiguorage arising from this coinage shall be accounted for and paid into the Treasury, as provided un der existing laws relative to the tubsidi ary coinage; provided-that the amount of mouey at any one time, invested iu such silver bullion, exclusive of such re sulting coin, shall not exceed live million dollars." The Goloid Dollar. U'a..t'.nt.m Star. Perhaps t'.ie most attractive of the pro posed new dollars is the goloid dollar, of which we have a line photographic repre sentation from Mr. M. B. Brady, the pho tographer. It contains gold monetizing siver; forty percent, iu value gold and sixty per cent, in value silver. It is a ternary metal of a purple golden color, rings clearer than silver or gold, and maintains its brilliant color. The thirty eight stars represent the present States of the Union. The present mint capacity can coin $100,000,000 of it in one year Its value as coin is equal to gold. Halves, quarters, aud teu-eent pieces are to be made of it. The coin metal goloid" and processes of coinage were -invented by William Wheeler Hubbell, of Philadel phia. The committee on coinage of Con gress, of which Hon. Alenander II. Ste phens is chairman, directed the specimen coined. HOW SILVER WAS DEMONETIZED. Mr. Thurman said iu his speech last Thursday : "I say, then, it was not by the coinage act of 1873 that the dollar of 412i grains K(Muiance of boys and girls at the New York Post-office daily, picking up every It is hardly credible, but nevertheless a fact, that washing postage and revenue stamps has become one of the established industries of the country. It is estimated that at least one-twentieth of the thou sand million postage stamps annually used by the American people are washed and re-used. The greatest ingenuity is exercised iu collecting these stamps, and all sorts of expedients resorted to to ac complish the result. The punctual at THE PROPRIETIES OF COURTSHIP. From the New York Sun.) -"i l We continue to get very many ques tions from lovers which' concern the etU quette of courtship. "It is both gratifying and interesting: to observe bbW "prevalent is the desire anpoug engaged people to so conduct tbejmselves as not to offend the laws of the most rigid propriety; ,! In doubt themselves just nhat reserve is'rc : quired of them, both men and women who have-plighted their vows tometohtf 8tin for advice in this delicate inattcrV Inas inuch as ihe questions grouped ! together by a frieild iri North Carolina inelode those asked by scores of our correspond ents, it is right that we -should !anwer' - them with careund iri detail :' f 1 -i ;.r 4 . . Sib t Will you be so kind as to givome your opinion on the following questions? I. How late at night ought lovers to sit up alone! 2. After 'there- is an engage meut would it be impolite for the gentle man to ask for a kiss from his intended lady f 3. How often ought the gentleman to visit the lady f 4. Is it customary to present the lady an engagement ring with his and her name on the inside- of the ring t 5. How is the prnier way to eat a philopcua with a lady T G. Ought the lady to keep the gentleman's photograph iu the parlor for the inspection of all vis itors ! Long.. Creek; Loug Creek, N. C, Jan. 4. I. There is no exact hour of the even ing at which a lover should depart 'from the house of his sweetheart. It depends a good deal on the habits of the family; but it is the part of both wisdom and pro priety to make the hour comparatively early. Our previoioT decision that 10 -o'clock is late enough for him to stay, ou ... her account as well as that of the old folks, is one to which we adhere. i 1 1. As to that matter, we have nothing to say. It might be well to consult the leading authorities in poetry and ftction, to see what they make their iieroes do under such circumstances. Moreover, the views of the lady-ought to be con sulted. III-. He may visit her quite frequently. Some lovers call every evening, and their sweethearts think they do not come too often; while others pul in an appearance only once or twice a week, aud the girls are not dissatisfied. The great thing is so to act that you shaBnot wear your welcome out. IV. It is customer, of conrse, to give - an engagement ring, and usually the 1111 tials of the two are engraved on its inside, with the date when the happy pact was sealed. It is a very proper thing to do. V. Why, she simply eats one-of the twin almonds, and you the other. Then, if it js "give and take," the forfeit is due from the person who, having taken some thing at the hands of the other, is phiio penaed. It is obligatory ori yon opay your forfeit; "but if the lady neglects' to pay hers, you have no remedy, and niust make no complaint. You most assume that she has forgotten the circumstances, but be careful not to forget it yourself, if you have lost. VI. If she chooses to put his photograph np in the parlor, she has a perfect right to do it. Perhaps she herself so admires his manly beauty that she wishes her friends to see how handsome a felloWHshe has won. Some young ladies, however, prefer to put it in a less conspicuous place, where they may frequently contemplate the pictured features without ibeing seen, by any one. was demonetized. It was done by the passage of the Revised Statutes iu 1874 m As 1 have said, at; that time th e silver dollar of 412J grains was full legal tender for all debts ; public aiid private. But what was found in this book Revised Statutes after it had passed without read ing after it had passed as I saw without envelope thrown away by persons open ng their letters in the office, has often attracted attention and provoked the cu riosity of inquiring minds; but few per sons would imagine that the envelopes thus secured yield from fifteen to twenty dollars per thousand, thouli such is said ever the paclagc containing- the bill being to 1m; tllC fact Tlle cancciati U easily soon fall and vegetable life will renew its activity. This has been proved iu Egypt where a fertile tract has been formed out of the desert by artificial -plantations of date trees. The South. The above shows the necessity of fence laws to save timber. Every meaus possi ble should bo adopted to stop the de struction of timber in this country. It is said that Governor Hampton, of South Carolina has forwarded requisitions for the arrest of Senator Patterson to the Governors of Maryland, Delaware and Ohio, through which the Senator will pass on his way to Pennsylvania, to visit Old Simon Cameron. The friends of the Sen ator thiuk this action shows a "want of jrratitude" for his service lately rendered in seating Senator Butler. This is mere nonsense. Senator Butler may feel grate ful to "Honest John." and would prob ably shield hinito the extent of his pow- . . rft . TT a 1 er: hut we warrant uov. uampron uas untied on your clerk's desk, but the bill simply read bj its title ; what was found in it ?" He then goes on to saj- that silver was thus secretly demonetized "Without, I venture to say, ten men-in either body every kuowing that there was any such thing iu the bill or would be iu the law." - That ought to settle that disputed ques tion. MONTGOMERY COUNTY LETTER. CorrespoDdent ot tlie Raleigh Observer. Montgomery, January it?, 187, Messrs. Editors : Montgomery coun ty is wedged in between the Yadkiu and Little rivers so tight that it spread out East some ten miles over the latter river. It is governed at present by Radical offi cials, but it is admitted by all that this is their last term, which will cease at our next election. The inhabitants are most ly fanners, most of whom are good, socia ble and honest citizens, and by their en ergy, and through a kind Providence, show signs of improvements, notwithstanding hard times and Radical rule. Last season they turned their attention to Syrup ; there was made in the county 8,000 gallons. One firm invested $140 in removed by the use of a little castile soap and tepid water, judiciously applied. This it is said cau be done by a novice, with at least fifty per cent, of the cancell ed stamps, while, with an expert, eighty to ninety per cent, readily yield to soap and water. This is one of the Yankee industries, we suppose, at which the New York Times tells us the Yankee man works, ahd bis wife works, and his children work, and ill work together. It is an industry un known at the South.- Hal. Observer. SINGULAR PHENOMENON. We learn from the Alamance Gleaner that on Monday evening, th21st iust., a water spout bursted about two miles south of Graham. It was seen in the air and in shape resembled a horn, and seem ed composed of something like the 1'oUU and billows of a dense smoke coming from the smoke stack of a furnace. It moved iu an easterly direction, appearing in un easy commotiou until it reached a poiut AN ALPHABET OSGOOD COUNSEL, Attend carefully to tho debuts of. your business. - lie prompt iu all things. -. Consider well, then decide positively. . Dare to do right; fear to do wrong. Endure your trials. patiently. Fight life's battle bravely, manfully, Go not in the society of the vicious. Hold your integrity sacred. Injure not another's reputation or busi ness. Jofh hands only with the virtuous. Keep your mind from evil thoughts. Lie not for'any consideration. Make few acquaintances. Never try to appear what you are not Observe the Sabbath day. Pay your honest debts promptly.""" Question not the veracity of a friend, Respect the counsel of your parents.,- Sacrifice money rather than principle. Touch not, taste not, handle not iutoxr icating drinks. Use your leisure time for improve ment. . Venture not npon the threshold of sin. Watch carefully over your passions. 'Xtend to exery one a kindly salutation, Yield not to di&couragcments.' Zealously labor for the right, Aud success is certain. Concord Sun : Two more gold mines were-opened in number nine township six mines 111 last week. On Tuesday a lump of gold as about two miles from that place, when it large as a hen's egg was picked up iu one bursted aud emptied its contents, which flooded the ground instantly, to a depth of at least six inches ou level ground. There was a slight rain near by, but the few acres covered by the spout were con- ot them. 1 here aro now that immediate vicinity. Asheville Citizen : One Patterson, sen tenced to the penitentiary at the late term of the. Transyivauia Superior Court for mule stealing, was shot iu the-flionlder a cane mill and evaporator which made . verted into a lake for awhile. 2,450 gallons ; tlie toll charged was one I It was observed by people iftiles away . f i- 1 ..rn 1. ' - 1.1 . ii . ' 1..I fPl.A amin cjklla rilit v at 11 Mnfj ourl ita itniifdu f 1i.m1 T.frli i ii r i.f t Ti i - i i , t - . i . no such leenng ana win ormg me tuiei 10 j mim. . n.. v , , .iUU ....... ...... ... ..v a-jU severely woumieu oy ine guuru at justice, if there beany law in the land. per gallon, making a handsome profit on sort ."was ever known in those parts be- j the: Railroad works at Swannanoa- Gap Hal. Xetcs. the investment. Operator. fore. ' last week while attempting to escaie.