North Carolina Newspapers

VOL IX. THIRD SERIES SALISBURY. H. C, SEPTEHfiiiR 261 1878 t-ii!)H ill Jtlj 1KJ49 i - ' - , - - - - - - .. Written for the Watchman. TO 'THE CRICKET. u)ioeW loves nature's wittiest moods, Ju forest, field or fen Vlioe'er loves peaceful solitudes, -far from the haunts of men Whoe'er enjoys the rural home's Warm fireside's fond delights, Id quiet pondering uusiy tones Through silent winter nights, Hath Jearned, sweet cbirpcr, long ago, Theutarthis chosen friend; ; That to Iris life thy tnnsic's flew -A ceaseless charia doth lewd , X(Mvouder suierstituiL comes, Wuen nund the house no more la heard thy voice, and wasted crumbs Thou seek'st not as before; The awful silence to construe Into aa omen dire CTdeath or sickness we most rue -; - oside that hapless, tire . A'ofvotidf r when thy soft notes ceased 'Neatl i hearth? roc, smaim noor, The aiieient rustical fears increased, In mystic day of-yore ! Whene'er aiy, wandering footsteps stray To yonder city's dome, At eve returning, round my way. Thy) welcome back to home I hear the singiug injherass . And by thy silvery streams That purl along the deep morass In evauescent gleams; Arid when. my study lamp is lit, And blow 1 dip my pen, How rapid" fancies round me flit, Where thou art chirping then ' Such time, from Dickens, wizard king Of fiction's wide domain, His "Cricket on the Hearth" would spring. Child of his teeming brain; Ami pensive (goldsmith mourned along .1 Deserted Village" street . The absence of thy social song, Where otiee trod busy feet; -O'er 'I'enseroso's" cheeks so pale, By Milton's pencil drawn, Just one bright gleam would fitful steal - Tiiy chirpings in the lawn ! When I am dead, I would not lie lu churchyard cold and grim. Hut in some pleasant garden, nigh To farm-house neat and trim: Where all among the joyous flow'rs Safe hid the live-long day, ' Full gaily thro' night's moon-lit bow'rs Thou pour'st thy gentle lay. Companion of my lonely life! " Attend me iu my tomb; litre calm my heaving bosom's strife There hallow my last home ! E. P. H. Sept. 1876. THE MOOUESVII.LE. MOCKSVILLE - - AND WINSTON HAIL KOAl). Mu, Editoi: : -The above is the title - , c o j ... "by tlic. Secretary yf State, iu nccoulauce to a general mil toad law passed by the Legislature of North Carolina wliieli ean 1m found 'in flattie's Revisal under the head 'of Kail Uoails. " . . The U)ai tl of directors, at tlieir meeting held in .uoorcsvme, employed .Mr. Moore to survey this Koad from Mooresville to Winston Ify way of Mocksville. On Thurs day, . SeptT 5th, if I mistake not, Mr. Mixtre, with his assistants began the sur--.vryaud has surveyed it to Third -Creek Mation on the Western X. C. H. II., and i now engaged iu running a second line to Mooresville, and if necessary will run a third line to Third Creek Station; and thence to Mocksville and Winston. There i -no. dQu,but the directors of this Hoad inteol to pktsli it through from Moores ville feu Whist'Mi as speedily us it can be don4 t If " ' TNliealvei- this road is built it will be of very great advantage to the people of Davi, Uowau, aad a portion of Iredell ami Wni-ttvtlio i'.itiit!iu . A iw I iTJf ol...nl.l - - - - - - - - - - --...... ... i 1 i. .v II' I. Ill 1h pushed through to Dauville, as is con templated 1 it will le a, great through freight line from Danville to the Southern ftates. The - city of Charlotte is much interested in seeing this Hoad completed, filP St will i At.k . ...11.- if she should conclude to thnvn an extra rail on hr road J'roni M(Mresville to the city of Charrotte.so that this road can run lier freight down to ' them. The citizens aleng the entire Hue art alive to the im- Irtaace, of 'aiding iii the completion of nil Koatl. . L.et those . wio Ihink this Hoad will lie a failure just watch and wait - the movements of the dhVetor on the imeoflLul Hojul. Mr. Isaacr -Harris, of Jiooresvrtk, is a team withia himself and he is too inn)i luf .t-ai tvrl ; if i. fail. ' 'r r - 'DAVIE." THE CONXECTICITT DEMOCKATS. Thf State Vonventum1larmoniblt Sett- 'ion-rXomiHationvf Aliae State Offi rtrg. " - ; , ' : ' t - Sew Ha vkx, Septemlter 1 7. The Demo cratic convention met in Music Hall this -ni'orniDg. Every town iu the Stote was represeuted. Fraucis A. Mtirden, of Stam hri, was chosen temporary chairman. He id the financial Viuestion was as iniKr Jantone before the con u try, and the peo- tllU t - a out i mi ii in:!! ii m n convention as would uudo tho fiuan- Clal kgWatigh of the last sixteen years. iue various coiuiuittees were appoint et and Mr. Morden chosen permanent President, with a vic'prmldraf from. each natorial district and a secretary from ch county. The committee onrelola ns are in favor of soft money. Senator hton and A. E, Burr, are not in the con potion, and it is reported that they left GwoiB disgust when they ascertained complexion of tltewmimittee on resi utions. The. old State ticket, E D Hub ard, of Ilartirdr for Governor, FrancU tt Looniis, ' of Tew London, for Lieuten- iOkGP ernra Dight Morria, of Bridge Ja;,8 J f State, Edwin A Buck, Huh? h f Trsurerajid Vchju C "War,l, of Middletown, for Comptroller, din re;.noninated by fficclamation. The tenant011 0f Frauiii U W,,ui (S. "l0ovenpr was rend and a accepted. for t ; ' irand fl)erby, was nominated ,eraaccitedthe odniinatiou- LAST WAGER OF BATTEL j On the 26th of May, 1817, a beautiful young woman named Mary Ashford, in , the bloom of her youth, being but twen- , ty years of age, went to dancoata village called Sutton Coldfield, near Erdington I in Warwickshire. It was a village path- i eriug held by a miscellaneous party at The Tuhur Tr.. ta,... r ' provided in pleuty ; and the swains of the neighborhood there collected by degrees became boisterous and riotous. The girl there met a farmer's son named Abraham Thornton, who resided in the immediate vicinity, and with whom she danced da rings the evening. She did not leave the gay scene until a late hour; saying she wuiypthetrgiTt bouse which was, handier to reach than her own home; and on leaving, she was escorted by Abraham Thornton as far as a style in the vicinity of the village, where the two were seen- talking together. It was the last time the poor girl was seen ulive, for the next morning she was found dead in a pit of water ; and there were evidences on her body that showed her death to have leeii caused by another. General suspicion Miuted to Thornton, and this became so intensified, that he was arrested and tried for the murder at the ensuing Warwick, assizes iu August fol lowing. There was powerful circumstan tial evidence adduced against him ; there were marks of a struggle jit the supposed place of the nurder, and the prisouerV boots fitted the imprints found ou that spot ; and other evidence-was given which formed a 6trong chain eucircliug him with the guilty crime. He, however, set up in defence an alibi, which was so well sup ported that it obtained for him a vedictof not guilty. So great was the feeling of indignation and surprise at iiis obtaining an uccquit al, that a new trial was asked for. Under the advice of an acute law ver iu the neigh boi hood, the lirothcr of the murdered girl and her next of kin, William Ashford, at once entered au appeal against the ver dict. Abraham Thornton was again ar rested, and sent to London in November following, to be tried before Lord Ellen borough and the full Court of King's Hench. The whole affair was noised about, and great excitement prevailed, for an appeal of murder was au uncom mon case. The lawyers even interested themselves, and discussed . therein its TegnTbeaTui's. " ' ' ' " " gaT 1 u due cmii-soT, Abraham Thornton ap peared before the full Court of King's Bench in the custody of the shiriff, by whom he was handed over, under the or der of the court, to the governor of the Marshal sea Prison. All formal prelimi naries were got through, and the prisoner was called upon to plead. -He was effi ciently and ably defended by counsel; and instead of a regular a ud usual defence by arguments, evidence, and witnesses, the prisoner boldly defied all common forms of procedure. He pleaded "Not guilty ; and I am ready to defend the same by my lody." He challenged his accuser to single combat, to decide his innocence or guilt by the ancient custom of "the wager of battel.' He acqmpanied his plea by the old form of taking off a glove (a horse glove), handed him by the coun sel, and throwing it down on the floor of the Court as a wager. William Ashford (a delicate looking young man) was in court, actnally came forward to accept the challenge, by pick ing up the glove, wheq he was restrained by those about him. ' The prisoner's plea and challenge cauie npon all concerned in the prosecution with so much surprise, ami indeed upon the court also, that the counsel for the prosecution moved for time to counterplead, which was granted. With what surprise and amazement did' the assembly, aud indeed the nation, ask, whether such an obsolete mode of trial could be insisted on by a prisoner! Law yew withintiuite trouble searched through the musty aneieift records, in order to discuss the question authoritatively; and all wondered at such an old right being so suddenly unearthed from the depths of ancient law ! - In due time the prosecutor counter pleaded, setting forth the whole facts, and furtheiscircumstauces which had come to light, tending to fix the prisoner with his guilt, so as take away the right to wage battel. But after a further adjournment, the prisoner delivered the replication, setting forth his alibi, , and insisting on his ancient right. The prosecution de murred that the replication was bad in law; and the demurrer came on to be Lheard iu due course. The case was learn edly and ably argued for the prosecution. All the ancient writers were cited in sup port of; the argument of the prosecution, that uuder such a set of circumstances, as set out, the prisoner could not claim a wager of battel. On the other side for the prisoner, it was just as learnedly argued that he could. The arguments of the case were not concluded until after four sepa rate sittings of the court ; aad on April 16, 1818, after much deep research into the authorities and consideration thereof, the court unanimously gave judgment for the prisoner in favor of the ancient right of wager of battel whuh he claimed ; Lord Ellenborough, Lord Chief Justice, saying; "The general lav of the land is iu favor of the wager of battel ; and it is our duty to pronounce the law as it is, and not as we may wi8h ifc to Whatever preju- dice, therefore, may justly csist against tbU TOode of ria, 8tl11' M lt t,,e liW of the land the court must pronounce judg- mem; OT ,A"e "miam Asljford, through his counsel, informed tLe court that he dld not noW feel 1,,m" j-6 -n accepting the challenge ; and the Priner thereupon , discharg- eu irom cusiouv. nu aiu-rwurus mariieu and left this country for America, where he died in obscurity, (This case and the elaborate arguments are fully reported in the first volume of Barnewall and Alder son's Reports.) This was the last case of wager of bat tel ; for such was the wouder and regret at the judgment of the court y. such was case, and the law as propounded by the judges, that in the next session ef parlia ment an Act was passed by which wager of battel, appeal of murder, and other in congruous " privileges" were abolished. Sew York Observer, '....:; : "THE UTILITY OF SMALL THINGS. The poet editor of the Augusta Consti tutionalists has some excellent remarks upon the above topic. He says among other things : ''In America everything is wasted. In Europe everything is saved. Xothinc is too mean to be utilized. What the Amer-' can throws away, the Frenchman, for in stance, makes a profit of it. . He says they actually utilize empty sar dine boxes, a thing that would never oc cur to an American. We copy the follow ing suggestive and usefnl paragraph : "Too many of our people are wasteful , in small things.' The great art of econo- j my is unknown to all but the foreign ele- i ments in our midst. They are. .growing rich from paltry beginnings, because they ; have been educated to save where an American has leen taught to destroy, dis card or squander. Great tribulatiou will come to our people, greater than any they have hitherto known, in cousequeuce of their thiftless habits. Willful waste makes wofiil want. Let Americans take a lesson from the foreigner within and without their gates, or else prepare for a dismal future, in the loss of character, hanniness. comfort and partrimony. Xo man need be stingy or avaricious. Those are sins as well as the extremes of improvidence. !... :. : . : :.i i .. .n Lll - ..' " pse their generation, to practice pru dence and frugality iu small as well as great matters.' These be wise words. We are all far too apt to disregard small things. We are often penny wise and pound'foolish. We forget too the lesson of the old axiom, that take care of the peuuies and the pounds will take care of themselves. For tunes colossal Kothschild fortunes are made up of penuies. The sea is made up of drops of water, the earth itself of parti cles of dirt. Indeed "little things" play a most important part iu all that concerns us. Tho guano islands were formed by the gradual deposits of birtls, one by one. The wealth of individuals and of natious arises in gradual accumulation the con stant, unceasing deposits, it may be of but one cent at a time. Old Dr. Sam John son thought so highly of the practice of frugality that he somewhere has said that it may be termed the daughter of pru dence, the sister of temperance and the nnr-nt f lilwfrtv a. .,.af,i 5.. i. above extract, the. practice of. economy, the indulgence of a saving, utilizing habit ueed not involve stinginess or avaricious ness. Not at all. A man may "utilize small things" and economize at every turn, aud yet be a generous, Hbcral, kind ly soul. Frugality and liberality should go hand in baud for thev are sisters born. William Penn said that "the first without the last begets covetousness," which is a great sin, and as mean as it. is sinful; while "the last without the first begets prodigality," which like a finger-board Ioints to shabby clothes, leaa diet and the poor house. We close with an anecdote. An agent representing a benevolent cause was about to enter a store. As he approached the door he heard the mer- chant soundly berating the clerk for his wastefulness in sweeping out with trash a small half-sheet of inferior wrapping pa- ne'r. At this the air,,r. n KSv. a - -- - w gwvus wm su ing it useless to trouble such a close-fisted old fellow with any application in behalf of the cause be represented. Afterwards lliinlrini. Wn. 1m Ii l i. .1 - 1 . J A - uuuaiuj l ! no II HUl UUIIO HIS UUiy,- he retraced his steps and entering the Btore interviewed the merchant in his counting room, laid before him the cause, and re ceived fifty dollars as a donation!. He was very much astonished of course, and theu u .. . uJi i i .i . . , told the merchant how he, the agent, had first passed by and why. To thig the fru gal man of business said : "My dear sir! it is by saving the little things that I anu able to day to give your cause fifty dol lars." Tisiikke Rosn Hasitaxa tr.-On the 27th of this month the Hebrew nation through out the would will celebrate the festival of Rosh Hashanah, or the New Year. It Is the beginning of the month Tishri, first of the Jewish civil year. The festival is . termed Youi Horushuea dar for hW. ing the trumpets and the first day is, ' according to tradition, the anniversary of the creatiou of the world. 1HMi'fffo Beriew. AFTER IJEATH WHAT t - I - kw.fa or.iuiaxBrDeovnor uad The Rer. Randolph S. Fosterof Boa-Int.heciiotttcoXw an ton, delivered at Fairport, NewYork, adiencefor dbjttr hiatanL KTho; trick few days ago", his second lecture, entitled Jwm cause of a great deal of speula "Beyond the Grave," to an Immense and 1 mn the ami Wats, who were pre. frrontlv intnito.l aint!nM TT. mm uvi voivu wuuivhvvi m BLnJ&D ass the effect upon the soul of the destruction of the body at death, aud said 'Sudden ly the human machiue stands stilL .What became of the man T We have ho . per sonal testimony. We have seen no man who has gone beyond the crave If we take the Bible away, our belief lira future life rests upon an insecure foundation. 1 .1 find myself a man. . I think, I feel, I hare emotions and feelings. I will, 1 am. I know all this. I think and feel that I am t&xfQKStTjU&k&'vxii tots ideft into me, and I will hold to it until lie takes it from me. He made me, and I cannot remake myself er pat myself out of existence. The proof is that what has been created abides, remains forever. There is no proof that any created thing has ever been abolished .or destroyed. No creature can destroy itself. It is true that forms perish, but forms are not things; they change, but the substance re mains. It is said that as animals perish so may men perish; but I deny it. The substance of the body is not destroyed, only the form. The soul of a man is a pure and simple substance; hence it cannot I"8" An anatomist can dissect the body, but no anatomist can dissect the soul. Evidence that man was ever anni hilated is challenged from all men. A human soul is a spiritual essence that can think or will. It is a growing something; it unfolds its power, and in this there is no limit." He then sketched the growth of the human soul from babyhood to the prime of manhood, and said there was no limit to development, which would go ou forever. He said : "Would God be so prodigal and improvident as to destroy the grandest of all the creatures he has made, the human soul ? Again, immor tality was inferred because man has an instinct which teaches it. God created that instinct, aud he will not mock it. If man is not immortal he may indict the throne of the universe aud impeach the Almighty God of heaven, aud upon the grtm,,s ot justice. Hut God is just. His vin"itiou i complete He can do a better thing bv those who love Him thau : He does for them in -this life. He can hereafter put crowns of glory on their heads, and He will do it. There is no ' evidence that death is an everlasting I sleep, but there is evidence not enough, not fully satisfying that there is life beyond the graye." MACALLISTEK'S WOXDEHFUL BOX. Myxtcrious Xiyhtly Event On Broadway. TIip most wonderful feat performed by Macallister at the Globe Theatre is the Paudora Mystery, of which he claims the origination, aud which, ou ordinary prin ciples of analysis, is really a battling ex periment in legerdemain. A box con- ;tructed of common flooring is placed upon a couple of caqieiiter's dog's. The box is about four feet high by three feet in length and two and a half in breadth. The strips of flooring are securely nailed to upright standards, one in each corner. The angles are also securely strapped at intervals with iron straps screwed firmly to rue tniioer, ooiii attue siues ana at A i " 1 1.1 ..I 1 1 . sides and the bottom.. The lid is constructed of the 8ame material as the box, has a pair 01 neavy strap ninges ana is lasrenea ny a hasp and staple, the latter receiving a powerful padlock. Two carpenters were last night called upon the stage, as a spe cial committee, to examine the rccvptacle ' aml reIort httwr there was any false Itottou) or any mode of opening it except by unlocking it and lifting the lid. After a full inspection, during which the box was turned over, sounded, pulled about aud tested in every possible manner known to the trade, the committee pro nounced it a strongly made packing-box 01 H,e oru!DaiT P". une 01 mem, at P(l,,est of Macallister, then closed the box, the padleck, turuel the key, and Pt tho latter in hi. pocket. As further he tied up the padlock in such a msinncr that it was impossible to get at i thc keyhole. The piano played slowly, it 1! s . - and a screen moved between the audience i" . ' . . m " At . A A. A.. entirely irom view, or 10 aoinit 01 suo- 1 stitutien. The magiciaa passed behind (he screen as noiselessly as a cat. In less than 30 seconds the screen was withdrawn and the committee was requested to ex amine the box. Meanwhile the magician I . tl 4 B r ted that the lock had not been tampered i... .1 ,.tA-:.,i- : Ti with, unlocked it, aud lifted the lid, when up leaped the mysterious magician, like i Jack in the famous toy, or the goblin in 1 the Arabian legend. The question was how he got in there. The uext procedure was to lock the magician in the bex, with the same eareful and exact attention to detail that has been previously observed. Music trickled from the keys of an unseen piano, and the green screen almost as thin aa frAiim. cliil alitwlv into nlue. ami remained for about 20 seconds. Not the "slightest sound was heard behind the screen : the droninr of a nin could have distnrbed the silence of that breathless 20 seconds. The screen was withdrawn and revealed the magician sitting upon the lid of the box. The lock had not Ih ... ; EUfc.- iCJ lOrk ITmm:1 . ; in v.ii i THE DEATH DAMPEN "MEMPHIS. fl Cit&ypcad Ma', TupTfte phmmy -Breath . 0 rowing $tore StifflUg Erery paylie Failing jVoir, and the Prospects JTerrible Beyond Conception. , rroni the Memphis Avalanche. Ar .Another mUeTyturned., Aal castaways on desert isle each day for form and occupation's sake enter up in their log the monotonous record of the drea ry day, so we sit down to our log book to night. As the days of their lonely exile lengthen into weeks and months, and the new day brings naught bat the old hopes, the old longing and miseries ; as the hand shades the eyes from the setting sun for a last, long sweeping glance over the nndot ted waste of waters; as the seamen in the fire light then sits down to write the same record of disappointment nothing changed, only hope grown weaker; it can not but be a heavy, weary task. So we prisoners here many of us doomed and but awaiting the executioner turn to this daily duty with sad, sad hearts. Outside, the soft moonlight plays npon the street and wall and breaks iu shimmering bright ness o'er the slate roof above. The si lence of the street is exaggerated as the trees throw their weird shadow and the awnings darken the pavement. As the beautiful babe, so winning, that death even could not have the heart to mar the tlower which he plucked, lies as though 'twere sweetly sleeping; so Memphis, su pernaturally tiuiet with the softest and most beautiful lujht Hooding her streets, seems but sleeping; only sleeping. A noise ; and a heavy wagon laden with cof fins lumbers up and goes rumbling by. That wagon breaks the spell. The eyes are shaded by the hand which shuts the moonlight from Uie eye ami the bright fancy from the heart. 1 "liroiigh the mind iu swift panorama tiiv.- hoi rid scene of the past day moves swiftly. We shudder and walkiug to tiie window again gaze upon the moonlight and its shadows. Yes, the - .... .i i . .. city still seems to bo sleeping, but. it is the sleep of death ! The day's record ii horrible. The few new cases reported are not a tithe of those which occurred. Negroes will not work, will not leave town, but lie about and draw rations, and then get sick and become a burden intol erable.. The fields are white with cottou, but uot a ftMJt will they move. They give their sick no care, and seem to thiuk they must be fed iu idleness and nursed with the greatest care. Mr. Laugstaff, presi dent of the Howards, was in despair. "I can get no foodfor my nurses. Onrmen are falling every day, and if we do not drive these lazy people out of town not one of us will lie left." And he expressed the awful truth, not overdrawn. The food remains and the fever feeds. The nurses iu two more days cannot attend one half the sick. They must die like sheep aud rot where they die, if some thing is not done that we cannot advise or see any way of accomplishing now. We are doomed, surely, truly, unmistak ably doomed. The cold shoulder has Wen turned on many a friend during the night of distress. Self-preservation has blotted out all other emotions. Tailing a Hole, in a Board. At the Smithsonian Institute tlte other t day Edison saw a phonautograph ma chine used for delineating graphically tho form of the sound waves, and examining it curiously a moment he remarked to a friend : "Wise men, these were, not to see that they could put a hard point aud a piece of tiufoil in front ot it and there was the phonograph." He was asked by a Southern Senator if he could iuvent a machine to pick cotton, and replied that he "thought so." loiter on the same day a jierson watching the operations of the phonograph said : "Edison, I wouder if you couldn't talk a hide through a board f" "Of course I could, was the reply; aud he took a slip pf pa per and rapidly stratch d the point of the phonograph iu connec tion with a small ratchet wheel, which in its turn by proper cogs connected- with a gimlet. Thus every vibration of the mem brane of the phonograph, instead of pro- thtt ixiint airaiust the tinfoil, would Lint the ratchet wheel forward and run the gimlet, and a man would actually, be able to talk a hole through a pine board. There is a lady iu Henrico county, Vir ginia, aged 40, who is the mother of twen ty -five children. This is on the authori if tlit Kiehmoiid Whin. The Wnshiucton Post has been interviewing Mrs. Austin, least for tow years to come.-CWofe a Union woman from Tennessee. She is Democrat. 54, and has given birth to forty-four " " children, and is very proud of it. She' Hayes seems to hare recovered his con has a sister 43 years old who has had fldeuce in the American people. At all twenty-six children. Her name is Mrs. events, he travels about without the least Carry Kinny. Her husband's sister has ! bad forty -one, ten of whom -are twins, - So, according to this, three mothers have J had one hundred and twelve children, Next. THE HONEY-MOON ECLIPSED. . VWhn you are looking on me you are looking down on a heart-broken woman," said Eliza Powers as she wiped her eyes before, the deski ' "They come here most every day," be replied. " "l was ma.sd.jnr. weeks ago," she sighed softly a she scratched lier nose. "I was living as cozy, as a duck, up ou Cheiie street, whep Powers first ftaind me. He said he was struck with my beauty." , . . , "Was he crazy r waiv inquired his Honor, after the. boys got through laugh- h? , nice, man, or u 1 ien.;; If e could quote off the nieest poetry you ever heard. He conld tell yoti how long George Washington was President, which is the biggest city in the world, when old John Brown was killed, and lota of other things. And he called me his angel, sir, and lie was al ways talking about my raving locks and chestuut eyes." "llurry up come to the family fight as soon as you can," warned the Court, as she paused for breath. "Can't 1 tell what I wore when went to be married ?" "No, ma'm. The law doesn't know we as you wore anything." iWell, I did, sir. D'ye s'pose I'd be married without clothes, and good clothes, toot Well, as I was saying, we'd been married three days when I hit him a slap ou the ear and he gave me a cuff ou the mouth." "Any more f " "Yes, sir; but it was his fault. Ik called me names, and he objected when I took a little sip to drown my sorrow, and he was mad when I wouldn't draw my seven dollars out of the bank aud let him invest it for me. The other day he left me. We bad a row, sir, and because I backed him iutu iT wood box and jatned his head agin a rail he flew to Canada." "I'm left here with me sorrow This dark day; That I may die to-morrow I shall pray." "Pooh!" - "Oh, you may make light of this ach ing heart, sir, but I'll soon be under the sod." " ou'll soon get the red color out of j your face, your hands washed, vouv hair 1 . . . - combed, aud a job for sixty days," lie re plied. "Ifyousendme np I'll choke meself to death with a string !" "That is nothing to me, Mrs. Johnson. If I lend a man my snow-shovel and he breaks his back by falling over it, the law can't. hold me. Go in and sit down. There's a pan of snow apples, a dime nov el, and a good fire in there. . f'RANT AND LEE. - In the September number of the South ern Historical Sttciety Paper, a writer affr giving the Federal official report of the strength of Grant's army, says : "So that General Grant crossed the Hapidau with 141,160 men, andJiad as a reserve npon which he could draw au available force of 137,672, making a grand total of 278,813. His own official report shows that nearly the-whole of his force was actually engaged iu his and Hutler's operations, or iu Hunter's expedition, which latter, General Lee Was compelled to meet by hnvy detachment from his own army. To meet this mighty host General Lee had ou the Hapidau less than 50,000 men, and in bis whole "Depart ment of Northern Virginia (which inclu ded the garrison. around Richmond and the troops in the valley), his field return for tho last of April, 1804, shows only 52,t2 "present for dntyj The simple truth is that on that great camiMiigu Lee foiled Grant in every move he made, defeated him in every battle they fought, and so completely crushed him in that last trial of strength at Cold Harbor that his men refused to attack' again, and his brave army, "shaken in its structure, its valor qneuched in blood, aud thousands of its ablest officers killed or wounded, was the Army of the Poto mac no more." (Swinton) and the gov ernment at Washington would have been ready to give up the straggle if its fur ther prosecution had depended alone on "the great butcher." Grant says he lost in this campaign, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, IO.000 men, but Swinton puts his loss at over t!0,000. There is talk of sending Governor Hampton to the United States Senate if : the Democrats should secure a majority . the South Carolina legislature. Ao '"I 11 w, ;r Hampton can no ins mnie ven uiues more good as Governor at Columbia than he ' can as Senator at Wasluugtou. It would be a great injury to the State to remove apparent tear I liw me, aespiro me iacf that his chosen protectoi -from :i passim - tion, Maxwell, has been rutur--dy torn from his side and lodged in the pemtcu- tiarJ' THE NEW SILYEU DOLLAR ORDER. 4 The recent order of the Secretary of the Treasury to the Uuited States Treasurer- directing him to exchansw standard silver dollars for greenbacks o nud '.after ..Sep tember IG, is regarded at the Trcasury Departnieut as a practical resumption of specie payments, more sweeping, in, it effect than the resumption act takinv ef fect next January. The last named law provides for resumption, in sums of ftfty dollars and ita multiple, at sub-troasurie. whereas the letter of the Secretary ot Oh Treasury of last Saturday makes 116 limit as to amount, and prescribes no particular. piace, except the several snb-trauuriea where exchange of silver for crWnbacks Is to be made. . ' It is thought that the effect of the. new order will be to whollr ollih.r!it ili- small remaining premium on gold, thus making paper, silver and gold dollars of equal value as circulating mediums. It is not thought that the order will place more of the silver dollars it rjrculatipju importers having customs duties to pay will take their greenbacks to obtain sil ver for them at one window, aud then ex change silver dollars for silver certificates at another . window. This practically jjnakes greenbacks equal, with gold and silver for payment of customs. It is not thought any amount of -silver" worthy of consideration will be taken from, the Treasury, because, for the purposes of commerce, the greenback is preferable, and the new ones and twos may now be had at the Treasury iu any amount. Baltimore S'mm. ' Female Duel. A good deal has lately been heard of the progress of female emancipation iu Russia, but it is some what of a novelty to find the Russian la dies figuring in the character of duelists, as was the case not long since with two lielles of Petigorsk, a weU-khowuiashioii-able resort ou the northern slope of the, Caucasus. A dispute arose between the rival beauties, springing out of tho atten tions paid to each in turn by a handsome young cavalry officer quartered in the neighborhood. The quarrel ran so high that one of the Amazons at length dis patched her maid to the other with a for mal challenge, which was instantly ac cepted. The belligerents met without seconds in a lonely place outside the town, eueh armed with a brace of loaded pistol?. Ik-fure. however, they Lid even taken their respective position's; the trembling of the one lady's hand caused her pistol to explode prematurely, sending a bullet through thejlress of the other, who shriek ed and fell down in a swoon. The assail ant, frightened out of her wits, flung away her weapon ami ruhed to raise the supposed corpse;-hut her ungrateful an tagonist, recovering her senses as sudden ly as she had lost them, clutched her by the hair with one hand, while loxiug her ears with the other iu the most energetic style. The firing having now ceased, the battle proceeded hand to hand. LoeKsof hair, ribbons, and slircds of cloth iug flew in every direction, and but for the timely advent of three or fonrpolicemeiLthc "af fray might have ended like the somewhat ' similar combat of the Kilkenny cats. The military Lothario's only remark on hear ing the storywas, "It's luckj' they took to clawing each other instead of me." .Worth Carol'ma History. Do the Schools and (Tilleges in tlte State teach any North Carolina Iristory T We fear not much. We hope more atten tion will hereafter be paid towards in forming children in our Schools some thing altuiit the history and resources" of their own State. Who will move in tne matter ! We have heretofore thought a good deal on the subject, and our attention was re called to it by seeing the announcement that a history of South Carolina has been prepared for the Schools of that State. That is right, and North Carolinians' should also have a history taught in their Schools. The Principal of the Charlotte Institute for Youug Ladies told us that' he was ready to introduce such a study in his School if the necessary book could lx obtained. We ask the co-operation of the press, the teachers, and the eop1e'of the State generally in the matter. Char lotte Democrat. " DR. ASUUUY'S INVENTION. Rejiorts reach us through reliable chau nels that the fruit and tobacco drying a jLjatus t.fo'ir countryman, Dr. Dai iel Astuiry, whbh is now on exhibition at Danville, Va., has created a great furor among the tobacco dealers of that lively city, and the weed producer! of the sur rounding country. Its work in" drying toliacco is pronounced almost phenome nal. Then-ait; in DiMville fori e another machines used for drying tdaect, aud.' this is pronounced by all who have sech . it incomparably superior to any of them in the manner in which it do.- jU work,, and iu the. time ecu untied it excelled the quickest of the othersby 14 hours. A barn of tolmcco dried by this process sold readily at $1.00 per pound, whereas lay ers said that dr'eil by any o'her system it wo II not have comn:a ided iho.v tliau 40 cents. The.ielief isgeitei al among tb..v who have seen this nppai-.t iof ir . Asbury that he-has a IWrtiinv i.i it. We very much hope that sub-equnt events' may be such as to justify lln In-lref.. Ch'trloll? Obscnu. 5 I s i iii a fi i , h ft J t-s 'I i ;i r- l f i i H 1 1 1 1 1. 1 i , k t " t i t ? 1 i 1 I I If h 4 - i 1 i