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A HOW .SKVQK f ( )
Ut ikpeud4iD thy tiUle5'na cuur
If, id French: pttg-rttyd,
5unJingt tlt ; door of k tint jrchecl brer
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a gorge in uie LeYiucs.wuuuw'H"! w
bsds farewell tokeroiMgBA moaiij
d oo asmair white ponny," Tootef fVar
leisly out of his bright bloe eyes, and,
lessing back his abundant tresses of fair
Lairibeiit to kiss thejiupthVs baud; then
ilcscentring a steep, winding path, over
which his intelligent' knimal picked a
kin, sure ftwting, the youug i ider disap
peared iuUie lark aides of a pine forest.
Jan Cavalier was ten years old ; Jis
cradle had been rocked to the I.om of
uiaanUlm storms; he was accustomed fo
scnfe' heights with fearU-u agility, beipg
sare looitti . -
n-D-liorii could saMrrbTnd ljeVotq
d.iuuth?ssly faced tihtriloujrideandthe
"peril of imprisoimieiiPfoave' ihe Hyes
.of five hundmV l-hnstmu jjich ami
men. It was nearly noon; all the huts,
beep-chtes, and cottages in the lower ad
joining valleys were deserted by their in
hahitaht, who had started at dawn for
the Winded mouiitatif of ' Houi ge,Ml6
to seek consolation .and stfenglb "in tlie
worship of Gol? f T i ;; ( j , i H 4
J'$ w:is the ju'iiod oftliat so-called
religious" war ' in Frauce Whuh lasted
twenty rears, and If Y
liOflis, Xn., "eniployed sixty tliojsjind
iolilicrs to "-exterminate tluee thousand
Protestant, Itecause. they persisted in
worshiping their Maker in their own taMi
ioiK Tliimh the liplHT va,lieys,' for some
wtrks previus to the" time of thi.s story,
there-had leeu fdund,Tn;nck cavities
snd hollow? trees, bits of wood carved
with the words "Manna in the desert,"
asd with certain simboliu marks whereby
all the faithful knew that the great pas
tor, Jtroussou,' emerging from hi secret
cavern dwelling, would meet aud minis
ter to his persecuted -flock in the"after
ii.)oii of 'the first day of the year 17t, at
tli'. Uotirges Mountain. Notwithstanding
all precaution, ii'evVs of the intended con
vocation had leached tin? towu ofllais,
and Captain Daiguirrier, 'with six hund
red men, was coming up from tho plain,
eager to surprise aud butclior tlu inno
cent eougregation a kind of achieve
ment not unfmpiont iu those tragic years,
.lust la'foie noou to-day Jean, when
rliinbinjr tieroi'k hack of his father's
hut in search of a missing goat, spied th
red bonners of the cavalcade, traversing a
delile far 1kIow; he knew well their terri
ble purpose, aud, hurrying down, &aid to
Li mother:
"1 have seen the king's troops going up;
there is none to give warning but me :
Twenty minutes later, Jean was riding
aloue through the dim foerst, intently
ruonjng the net-work of paths so familiar
to him, and trying to choose one by which
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no cuutu emtio uuuuuimiii uie .iss;iiu.
liuilli.rr of lun.rtlt -...
"ImuHcd, hesitating between two routes,
one smoother, thouglr longer, by which,
trusting to his nimble pony, he might
. MMxtilr fit-f-itrM iinluaa nvf l tfllon 1 tlin
r j 7 "t
trsope; the other lel througk'ravines and
-orer rocks iuttr tho very heart of the
ouutainsaud' was a hazardous - path'i
eves for a skillful clnnberrHf4ie-ek tbeUFiuis far, his utmost researches -have
latter, he must abandon his horse and
trtitt his ovu speetFand agility. Finally
deciding o tho smoother road, he as
tnrnifig toward it when he heard the souud
of a oueh-shell, and, on rite instant, a
fluh of scarlet streamed aroond a apur of
the ferret.; Quick-witted Jean rode at
once te meet the advancing" soldiers.
"Whither go yon f 1 asked the captain
"To the upper hills to seek my father,"
replied Jean.
"This is not a safe country for young
terslike you to travel in alone," said the
officer,,,,
41 have confidence in (iod: TJioso who
do uo ill need fear none,"' returned the
'ild, calmly.
"Y(m hall come with me," continued
the captain suspiciously; "so fine a boy
must not grew up a rebel. J shall dedi
cate, you to the service of the king and
the church ; ') . .
Jean made no answer, riding on witb
lue captors, apparently in submissive com
' rHUrt? but e vigilant little fellow, quick
10 "i'nt contrjvisl to fall back grad
nalljlill, when the .lismounted troops,
Paiufliljr climbing, were ny. up a
k Jean was uiuoiiar't he 'liin.l.
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ouihI t
w tteitl
iu, ana Jean knew tteit W ti
yu 01 uioso cavrruB common
in a couutry of volcanic forumtion, the
trance tojvhich wa'4 concealeil by thick,
-usienng uusues. Seizing an opportune
-eUr, tne active boy tm uedl his pony,
flashed down into the brnok; leaped from
" teed, and ran into the tavern, -Some
Minutes elapsed before the more clumsy
"Idlers .could descend: whei- thvfnh.
fd the stream the pony was scrambling
Reward over the roek, and no tritce of
j1' ruler was visible. Little Jean trenib
jgly ciomhetl iu his covert during their
b,ief, Yaiit search; but kudu, eager for a
rSr prey, the pursuers returned to join
Merest of the band, .
- Wueujheiaat echoes had died awav
W ouly the brmik's gurglu was, audible
e-stillness, Jemi veuiured from his
ftreat awarethat the distance had been
increased, and the thne for ressue lesson
11 by hn capture; but his child-hoooTs
Wfe.'rf ctnwprV.fne,4w lightly, ltap
ilig friini bovtlder lo borwl4lry bj intricate
tv-rndi ArWtoUt pfonafefe told crwt,'-W
thw-o svfipging Lfptselfi bj gnarled roX
oversleep liA8tna.th intrepid. boy hunt (
ed breathlessly on.'- -
Not far away some hundreds of reoate
men and women were .assembled' ok a
rocky , platform, amid th deaplat 4jiUs.
Iusketss tt(d neat readj tpr a':tttdden
call to arais. Aroubd tHe'wotshiperf Waa
a chennut forest, through whose nortnous
trunks: and leafless boughs the; triad mbaa
ed in melancbolj cadence accompaaying
their psalmody and supplication. Oa a
fla, sniootlf stoineat flie Vasaof hi precip
itous il slooxl tbe nunistar, w)Miile
little JoyarJJL ieju, Ow
addresioj? the conerejration 1
"WltaVyout ble Too? send1 tH
.ieu iu ieeti uis propiier, ana win na not
igain work luirkcles? ' Has not his Holy
Spirit comfoited his, afflicted children t
lie conges be strengthens us. ;'lTtlihb
not inrtuifo-of aeedCiitise bis angla to go'
before us?
Cone hiding' thus, the preacher advanced
to a natural stone slab serviug as a sacra
mental alter, aud the assembly, iu rever
ential stillness, to which peril added a
solemn awe,"j carattj&if w4rdjtftrbvj Jrp
bareheaded. A cry startled them.
I j "Fly! the enemy comes!" rang in a shrill
childish treble from abore the kneeling
multitude nmi looking up tbeyaawy oa
the rocky ; summit liefoits the pastor, al it- J
tie figure, whose white goat-skin coat and
Jocks of gold gleamed iu the mellow sun
set as the rocks and caverns re-echoed bis
vibrating cry.
"Fly! for the enemy comes HV
The startled throng, gazing up, knew
not the sou of their neighbor aud friend,
Koland Cavalier. The solemnity of the
place, aud the danger always near their
worship, had infused their exalted minds
with a sense ef the immediate presence
of the supernatural, and the simple-hearted
peasants thought the child, Jean, a
veritable messenger from heaven.
They quickly dispersed through pass
and dcnTc, and wlicu the troops arrived,
the early stars shone dowa on the deser
ted rocks and lonely forest,
Jean joined a party of fngitives, and
lived to bo a valiant aud famous defender
of the l'retestant faith. While the coni
inamley cursed htm as a treacherous little
rasi::il, most of Ue eougregation always
mniutattied 'that God ent an augel to
s;ive them.-. Xicholasor November.
WHY
HAYES IS HAPPY.
Mr. Hayes' cheerfulness while his
party U fulling to pieces is net. as some
suppose, the, result of heartless indif
ference. It springs from a belief that,
by the middle of November, the old
party will be so far demolished that he
can beg iu his great work of reconstruc
tion. His only real grief arises from
the fact that he can't find enough old
Whig timber for main pillars to the
new edifice, as he had fondly honed.
ll ncarthed but two suitable jpfeees, Col.
Thomjison and Kenneth Bayner.
These show slight indication of petri
fication, but Mr, Hayes thinks they
will do,-)'aming(oh Post','
PUBLIC MANNERS.
Hai-per's Magazine.
Nothing more surely marks a gen
tleman than his public manners. It
is, fornstanceimpossible not to feel
that a man who arrives at a hotel late
at night ano! goes noisily, talking and
laughing, along the corridor to his
room, Hinging his boots down heavily
and slamming the door, though an
upright and excellent person, yet lacks
the finer qualities of the gentlemen.'
The essence of courtesy is moral. It
is a sympathetic regard for the feelings
of others which spared them unneces
sary annoyance. When it is instinc
tive, it is called fact. But it is, at
bottom, humanity. So whed a public
man vituperates, another, -howerer
"imart" th abuse may4, be, there is an
instant perception of the want of true
gentlemanly feeling."
Misunderstood him. a young
bachelor who had been appointed
sheriff, was called upon to serve an
attachment agaiust a beautiful young
widow, fie accordingly called upon
her and said : "Madam, I bave an
attachment for " yotuw The widow
bTiisbcd, and said his attachment was
reciprocaicu. x ou aon t understand
me; 'you must proceed to court." "I
know it's leap year, sir, but I prefer
you to do tiie courtino-.w "Mrs P
fhl lt lift IIIK fur IfiHinrr- Ilia inefina
13 waiting ." The justice ! Why, I
prefer a parson
KgWTTOKK0ireESroypE:
IT
tOn!yp4ence pf the, Ralelg. Observer.) t j;
nf. V, ViXw'iYoRWfOct,;2i87a.i
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Af Bsffcsj' ,EuijT6Bsr,jrijert ' Is a Pair bewf
held iu "tlie unfinished Roman: Catholic
tathffa!&Un rfth.Avenue, whieb-sar-
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passes aojimas 01 me miou ib
thiscooatrv The price of fadmitsioa is
twenty-nre' cents; and the receipts at the
door 6fl SKfiOeetdnc were fir thous
and dollars showing tliat twenty theusand
Iersons trete present; and sioce. that eacfc
evening hae produced from two to three
thousand dollars from entrances. The
sales have beeu enormous, the profits hav
ing been ' about ten Thousand dellar a
dajr- X)f course many of the article sold
were eertrttmtioos.'and yn these tjie price
were all profit.. And prices are just what
the saleswomen think can i bej coaxed out
of tlie customer A geatlemau showed
me a cigar a very large one certainly-
which a friend had presented to him;4 and
which he had paid a dollar for. , And other,
thing in proportion. The Fair will con
tinue open for twenty-five days more, and
is expected to yield a profit of a quarter
of a million of dollars, all to be devoted
to the completion of the Cathedral, which
is Uy all odd the finest baildiag iii the
citv. As I do not fet'LiBcllnedTtoontri-
bui am&ttiw m&iMU
ond feature about it that is a repetition of
history! 4ji Old esthwejlterie
to raise mnyforuiMiug cliurcuesnM)th -
North aad South.' At this Fair the sys
tem of raffling is in Vogue-' andfthe dice
box is in use la all tmrU ofthe building.
Youug girl go around appealiag to peo
ple to take a chance, and of course it is
bard to refuse. Pictures are there te be
raffled off at all prices up to forty -thousand
dollars.
It is understood - that the Tammany
candidate ia this city, have been assessed
to the amount of more than a hundred
thousand dollars towards the expenses of
the pending election. Schell, the candi
date, for Slayor, had to pay twenty-five
thousaud dollars, and ether candidates
froni one to ten thousaud. Candidates for
Judge were assessed at ten thousand.
Their salaries range from teu to seventeen
thousand five hundred.
The Kv. Dr. Deems has been examin
ed, as a wituess iu the Vauderbilt will
case. He gave the followiug history of
tlie purchase of the Church of the stran
gers by Commodore Vauderbilt, which
will be interesting to the many friends of
the Doctor in the South: A church in Mer
cer street was for sale, and he authorized
a friend to offer $50,000 for it. Soon after;
that he was at the house of Commodore
Vauderbilt and the Commodore asked him
if it was true that be had offered $50,000
for this church, and he answered "yes"
and the Commodore theu said, "Where
can you get $50,000?" "1 put my baud
iu ray pocket, playfully," said the witness,
and told him I had 75 cents towards it;
said he, 'Is that all you have gotf I said
I had made it a condition of the sale that
I sltould have tho church to preach iu for
six months. '1 thiuk,' said I, 'that there
is a need of a church for straugers that
shall at bo denominational, and if in six
months I can't raise the money from the
liberal people bfJNewtjY rk i I will, leave
the city and accept the, professorship, of a
college that has been offered me," Said
the ComnorettDi) WllWft
$50,000 to boy that church with," tad I
declined it. I told liini that no man was
rich enough to litre ate for' a c.liaplain and
he said, "God knows I have a little use
for a chaplain a any man you are ac
quainted with," aad he said, "I will give
you this $50,000 to buy that church with
if you want it.n I said, "If you will give
that to gentlemen ef different denomina
tions as trustees to hold so that wheu lam
preach isg the goeiel and am assailing
some sin of which yon may bo guilty and
you come iu I shall not be compelled to
shorten the range or change the shot, I
will take it," he said, I wili give it to
you because I think you are an honest
man," and I said, "If you give it tome iq
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I will
accept it," and he said, I,canuot give it
on that religious grouud, but I will gi ve
you $50,000 to buy that church with if
you will accept it," and I said, "I will take
it." I undertook to thank him, but he
said, "That is enough; let's go ia and talk
to the ladies;" 1 advised placing the di
rection of the charch in the hands of trust
tess, but he said, MNo, I always pick ray
man, aud then trust him' if you pot itia
to the hands of trustess and you preach;
so that they do not like it they will be-
devfl ylm UJitilyiuit; Irld rither
trust o man rthn a boardiud sf the
church ?was settled en me Until! mV tftJtli
and theYiWested in a boardof trusties'
to be selected by my church."... t r o
The truism that "corporations have no
souls" may be ; supported bj "an rexcp
tion which proves the-tuie. The Eleva
ted Railroad charges five cents for pass
age during the two-hours in the morning
when laboring people- go to their work
and two hours' in the eyehlug' whea they
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iciui u . m miaiQ.ui.ia.a in auiiTn mi.
lected ten cents iustead ef five for a time,
till nearly $400 had been thus improperly
received. As it coald not be returned to
those who had paid it, tlie natural con-
wmpyj nu.iu
rt-Jn mil luiir it" tv nllnvin k inn
t4 iu it. treasurr : hot not th.
directors resolved to give it to the yellow
aufferera, And accordiogly so paid it
9ikr& honor to them ! l hv jut
r . Another creditable incidenlc'Kniong the f
poster with their ewn hands, were.thu
at no expense, and received the Jum ef
$1CJJ0, which was forwarded to the
-Canget-away Clbtw id Atil 1
1 see that th:!06frri ija copied Mr.
Moorefs appeal td the Presaof North Car
olina in regard to h(s propesed History of
the State.' I have read hi sketclies.' ;aa
Cnblisbcd iu the Murfreesboxo" JZnqutrer,
ritlilnterest, and hkfe occasionally coaled
fmragfa'pjis"' frttui 1 them. Tlie' fotlbwin
front his last' number eoutains reminisceu
ces of "limes that tried men's souls:", ' .
, ' "The condition of the State at the close
of the war was imply horrible. Sherman,
Stoueman, Scofield and Terry had all
marched hundreds ofjuiles over our terri
tory and between their depredations and
the? exaction of our own troop, famine
was upon the people.
Andrew Johnson, like all recreants, was
in a false positien. . Ho JMfc . betrayed
Teunessee iu .the JSenate Sud he was enl
a bed of tiiorn lest his fealty to the lle-
jiublieau party , houW be, suspjectedT
lbhddeus Stevens was, , appArently . nol
mole malignant to the fa lieu Confederate
headers than thp Andrew Johnson of 1865.
Among his earliest official acts was to an
nul the convention between Gens.. Sher
man and Johnston. President Davis aad
Gov. Vance were bunted like wild beasts,
and when captured the late head of the
Confederacy was immured iu a casement
of Fort Mouroc, where all his faults were
forgot teu, and he became dear to the
hearts of the whole South, in fact of his
vicarious passion in their behalf. Gov
ernor Vance was conveyed to Washing
ton city aud there held as prisoner in the
capitol. Perhaps in the history of the
world no people were ever so frenzied as
were those of the North at the murder of
Mr. Lincoln. They had not half the in
terest iu his life as the unhappy men in
arms against him. Many words and acts
had shown his benevolence in the prog
ress of the war. He alone could control
the malignity of a Butler iu the field or a
Thaddeus Stevens in Congress. The South
had every reason to prefer him to the ren
egade Johnson, and jet the people who
were typified in Robert IL Lee and Stone
wall Jacksou were held responsible for
the acts of an atrocious villain. The
names of leading Southern meu were most
foully aud falsely associated with the vile
cat-throats of Fold's theatre, and a great
nation became a pandemonium of suspi
cion and outrage. The articles of war
provide for the punishment of those con
nected with the army by means of courts
martial. The citizens of tlie country not
connected therewith, are in no way amcu
able to their jurisdiction. Yet such was
the delirium that Mrs. Surrat, a widow
who kept a boarding house and knew, no
thing of the conspiracy, because ef the
fact that some of the conspirators board
ed at her house, was dragged before the
military commission, found guilty as au
accomplice ami hanged - for a crime of
which she was as iunocent as Andrew
Johnsonr Joseph. Ilelt, or John A Bing
ham, the uu worthy authors of all her mis-
fortanes." IL
Another Horrible Outrage'by Tramp
New York, Nov."l. A dispatch
from Port Jarvis gives an account of
a horrible crime committed at Thom
pson, Pen n., where Miss Kennett, a
young school teacher, was outraged
by tramps whe, fearing identification,
cut out her tongue. The victim
seems to have had strength enough re
maining to have written her wrongs
en a blackboard in the school room,
and the trnstees gathering for regular
meeting last Friday evening, discov
ered the evidences of the crime in the
lifeless victim on the school room floor
and her written story on the black
board.
The Salem and 3loorevillc 12 ail road.
1
A' private letter from one ef the survey
ing corps, fa a gentleman in this place
says that the survey of the Mooresville,
vjfnston &. Saleui N'arrowTSauge Railroad
lsjbeiug vigorously pushed on from Mocks
ville to Winston. Two routes bave al
ready been surveyed from this place to
Mockaville. As soon as the survey from
Mocks ville to Winston has been complet
ed, the road will be located. The engi
ueersays that the cost ef building will
fall short of the first estimate made. Work
will be commenced on the road at no dis
tant day. Iredell Gazette.
Did you ever dabble in stocks ?"
asked a lawyer of a witness who was
kuown to have fled from Ins native
land to this asylum of the free. "Well
yes, I got my foot in 'cm once, in the
old count r'v," was the reply.
jii strten .rpje 01 iiue "Mr"! faaaes a saccesa in ai-
at Cornwall, p.tHi&n most any lirieji'his method 1$ 1 VortK
TO0Q, inhabiherBw, ttudyitig:; Hire i. t$ii l)iv
"S'i&fPtt sample, the famou. warjUSai; with
mane, recitations,; had.vadvertising, - & - r.; .
xILL -L4 .! fjjjIlxV' itli-L-i-ii.- rne. He teems to rareTr fail tn hit.
8HOOTING 18 BETTER THAN
III
ting what he fireVat ' Yef-hi dVea not
appear to Uke aim t in fcil j tooting.
MIn fact," aayt a i newspnj sketch
of the man and his methods, "in" all
his ahooting he brings the ptect'only
to his shoulder and fires' tnstantan-
eousfr. SDeakinfr for hlmVi-lf b
thaj 3fi?ke deliberate , aim,
hba&mft tQ think of the possibili-
ly f missing, and then he never hits."
Now there is a great deaHn that sug
gestion of uhfoT the danger of deliber
ating when shooting time has come.
It is not that this marksman depre
cates preparation fur his work. On
the -contrary, he .takes great care to
have his rifle in good condition, and
cartridges of the right rt ; and- he 1
as " been making ready " for such
jjtlng e is uo, dofpjg by , long
y.ear.oi prance wi tU iiis :jcifle.: But
whea the time,; ha come for him to
shoot, he is to brimful of his purpose
Lr.it : 4Li'i'. A' . j .1 ii
ui iiuung iiiai Dira, or tnat glass nail
or that penknife blade, which is be.
fore him in the air, that he has no
time to take aim, or to deliberate over
his chances of success. He has just
one thing to do, and that is to shoot.
So he shoots ; and because of his pre
paration, and his former practice, and
his all absorbing purpose of hitting
that mark, his hand and his rifle are
all ready servants to aid him instinct
ively in the one thing for -which at
that instant he is living.
There can hardly be a question
that a great deal of shooting in this
world amounts to little or nothing be
cause of too much aiming. Many a
man fails to please by his words and
manner in conversation with some
one whom he is exceeding anxious to
please, simply for the reason that he
is aiming to please, when he ought to
be pleasing. His time is so taken up
witn nis aiming tnat nis manner is
embarrassed and his words are hal
ting. If he did less aiming, he would
do better shooting. If a man is writ
ing a letter to some oae on whom he
wants to make a good impression, he
is more likely to write stiffly and un
naturally so as not to represent him
self at his best, if he is consciously
aiming to do a good thing while wri
ting every line. If he would only
give himself to the main purpose of
his letter, whatever that may be, he
would be more of a success as a corres
pondent than he can hopo to be by so
much aiming to be. A great deal of
poor, .public . speaking political
speeches, prayer-msetiag talks, extern
pore sermous are spooled through
the speaker's aiming when he ought
to be shootinr. It is the business of
a public speaker to know his subject
to be full of it, to have object in speak
ing, and then to be absorbed in the
supreme purpose of the hour, so de
termined to hit what he is there - to
shoot at, that he will not think of
aiming; that indeed there will be no
need of bis taking an aim at his au
dience when he is fairly on his feet
before it: for his brain, his tongue,
his hand, his eye, every fibre of his
frame every atom of his being, will be
at his command, ready without his
thinking about it to do his instant
bidding in the oue object of his then
endeavor.
Aiming ought not so commonly to
be confounded with shooting. Toung
people have quite too" often been told
toA'aim higli" in their life work ; they
ought to understand that i$. is more
important that they shoot high in their
life work. It is shooting that does the
business. One of the very many
bright things said by the witty "mana
ging editor" of the' Chicago Interior
was in comments on the frequently re
peated announcement of a contempo
rary : We aim to publish a good fami
ly religious newspaper," "Well, that's
right so far as it goes," said Chicago
editor. "But don't be alway aiming
neighbor. Why don't you shoot?"
Although that may have been inten
ded as merely; play upon words, it in
cludes sound advice for everybody
who is in the shooting business.
"Don't bo always aiming, butshoiM."
S.S. rimes.
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TWewstertiaw; fVaV i
Pnoothe!rdestVimVai l6f the
Vance; of North Car6li6lfcrolfna
and her good areVeJtoa he
wuwicwi ms neananadwarge,
how noble, and how wahn'with hll
kindliness and generous feeling, that
great true heart b, can only be esti
mated by those who see him in the
discharge of his neverj neglected life
duties. His Donularitv an .'rwib..
is simply stupcndous,t4ithisinfJu-
enco. upon alldasseelah'tfTOn
men' is immense. Oue1 Veioti;af t jus
is his keen vmpkjk
meu, and his ability to enter into the
cares and weariness Of their-lives lof
toil, and to suffer and to enior JP per
fect unison with themaefvMlf i.5xlL.
is his wonderful quickness of mind
and versatility of genius, as wellJas
charming wit and deligbtfiiUuaainesa
of manner, and a brillfant bonhtmU.
To appreciate the warrff .wHfeh he
w esteemed la $wVnoktmtt Jee
4um am we have done, surrounded or
the citizen of some Jfobjted tillage, kr
gathering ot the coontryeoplo upeQ
. . '
,, vmuiiiia niusi -xie -sways the
crowd by his breathaodplanpon
its many minds and, passions. is one
would touch a compliatedmdsicai
instrument, drawing from'its numcr-
wu siiu uiscuruau( notes one lull auu
I J : j. .
perfect harmony.
"P : il. 1 .
jLsunug me war nis oonanct - was
such as to gain for him the praise and
admiration of the entire Confederacy,
and to raise his popularity in Carolina
to a fever heat.
Du ring his governorship in the war,
on one occasion, he sent out by the
famous blockade vessel, named faceti
ously after Mrs. Vance, the "Ad.
Vance," an order for a large lot of
cotton cards which hehimself had dis
tributed over the entire State. This
act of thoughtful consideration was
the means of bringing comfort and
happiness to a thousand impoverished
homes, and the name of Zeb Vance
went up to heaven erabalmedby the
blessings of those he had so much ben
efitted. We were sneak in? of this to
him one day. "Yes," he said with
a o
the peculiar twinkle of his brilliant
eyes that is sure to precede one of his
witicisms, "That was the best card I
ever played !"
Gifted, generous, the soul of truth
and honor, honest as the day-and s
high above all meanness and tittleness
as his native mountains arc above tlie
common fearth, Zebulon Vance may
wen siauu as me represmauve, anp
embodiment of the glorious State of
which he is the grandest nd mo$t
favored son.
Another Oast of Fatal Burning.
Day before yesterday : ifternoon a
little boy, son of a man , named .Par
ker, who lives near Monroe, was out
in the field witfi other members of
the family who wtre engaged in pick
ing cotton, and the weather being
cold a fire had been built up to keep
the hands of the pickers vwarra. The
boy spoken of, aged seven or eight
years, was standingi .closQtJje fir'
when his clothing caught, and before
the flames could be extinguished the
boy's clothes had been burned ; almolt
entirely off of him, and. he was so
serious'y burned that ' he died the
same night at 10 o'clock. Charlotte
Observer. v
While Mr. Hayes jwas, feasting oh
the various comeatibUCeiJubitcd 3y
farmer's wives atcouqUYjair, onp
of the ladies asked hituifJbeWould
try some bsunce, wler'eujW)a the
countenance of the 'Acting1 president
assumed a ruddy clow.and he replied
with much emotion thafcbeV wouldn't
try bounce so long as 4i" could avoid
it. ,
.if- ). - -i r
A policeman, who had qflered his
hand to young woman and had been
refused, arrested her and took her to
the' station house. " What is the charge
against this woman?" asked the Lieu
tenant. ".Resisting an offer, sir," was
the reply. She was discharged and
so was the officer. Cincinnati Satur
day Night.
There i said to bo living iu Cleve
laud county a woman who is one hun
dred aud ten vcars old.
THE MYSTERY jO yELto
.i 5?Imfcute-i V mi i
' ThemedicaVirWenlrVJja.v HffJaiU :!
ed to discover .the natttrt.of tbal eyil-tt
low fever, the ' gonrnallsU bfNew t
OrleatftliavendertasH
intb a corner! theuctTVe fjtf '
tern. They have boiled dowiflhe:';
observaUons during tha prejent Ma- f
son, and the result is - found in t tha t
following facts 1 Ytllow fever spreads
irom iu initial focus by slow degrees;
rersons who spend the day ia the Ifl
fected district and the nlahi W ' those "
which art not infecteof rarely contract !
we disease, rersons who Tesida , im,ui
adjoining towns not infected. :,iait
2itw Urleans to safet provided ther -i
return before nisht-fall. i?rom ii '
it is inferred that the germs of yel
low, fever are generally taken into the
system duriug the .night. It was. fur :
ther observed that it took the fever
a month to extend Itself from 'its-
original clistrict - below Canal street
i . ,T..tLi a.i . s .
uu swtc uacsjson street, ailnougU
persons were inojnstancommuniea
tion betwen these sections , duriug the
time mentioned. From'this ' Let it is
presumed that yellow frr er progressed
very slowly aud uaiformly. lt 4
ther presumed that the ; yellow . eyer
spore is propagated at night, from the ;
fact that mauy of the Tower orders of
organism, suoh as vibrios7 infusoria?,
bacteria;, etce., which, by the way, are
short-lived, are only developed in
darkness. Moisture is also believed
to be essential to yellow fever, as
germs are also conveyed in bilge
water. Moisture is also plentiful du
ring the hours of night in the forms
of dew and mist. If these facts, are
as stated, they furnish a basis: for the
study of the disease and the discover'
of a remedy. .
From tfie Charlotte otaerver.J
AMNESTY TO DISTILLERS.
Thcy are Offered the Terms Offered th
Distillers of South Crwliua and ,
Georgia.
The associated press dispatches pub
lished yesterday morning' contained the
information that the illicit distillers of
the sixth district of North Carolina had
petitioned the Commissioner of Internal'
Kevenue, at Washington, to allow them
to come in and submit their cases and re
ceive the amnesty of the government un
der conditions that they would not again
offend acainst its laws th arrangement
beimg the same as that offered to the il
licit distillers of South Carolina and Jeor
gia. The Observer has fuller information.; ,
however, than that telegraphed fjo.UJ,
Washington on ihe subject. , , , , -j , 1
This petition to Commissioner Ranm wa
not the work alone of distillers, nor did. i ,
thej even inaugurate it. But Judge.
Dick, District Attorney 'LeskjCollectoj,,
Mott and Special ACQt Chapmantebv
graphed to Washington daring th$ first
of last week, asking for permisAlon
libTd orit to violators .of law the terms
above stated. Thursday afternoon toefr
telegram was answered by IL C, Roger,
acting com misssioner of internal rev-
nne,71 in effect that Gen. Raum was ah-
1
sent from Washington, but that the scat
ter would be considered. Friday night
a second telegram was reivea irom
Washington, this conveying the intelli
gence that the administration gave its con
sent to the suggestion and would grant
amnesty to tlie offenders under the term
propesed.
Notice that the government had grant
ed the petition was accordingly given out
yesterday morning at Statesvill where
the Federal Courtis now In session and
attended by many witnesses and parties
defendant, aud the indicted persons pres
ent accepted the proposition JoyfuJIy.
They came into court and as fast as the
eases could be called submitted to verdicts
of guilty, paid the costs and had ,thir
oases nol prosed. Up to noon as maiyaa
three hundred submissions were taken,
and the offenders, giving their pledges te
abide by the taw ia future, departed fT
their homes. ;
Such action as this oa the part of the
administration is calculated to increase
public regard for the laws, and should be
the beginning of a suicere determination
on the part of offenders against the reve
nue law to conform their future conduct
to them, however burdensome they may
feel them t be; and in AQ especial man
ner are the block aders indebted to the
judge, district attorney, collector and spe
cial agent of this district for their grner.
ous offices in the premises, for it was alone
through their influence, as iro under
stand it, that the favorable terms of re
lease were secure! for thew.
An old lawyer says that whenever
a witness under cross examination
takes to frequent spitting he is lyinir
and takes to expectoration just lo gaiif
time to think. Otherwise witnesses
rarely spit while giviug tcitiouuy.