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CQMMTJiaOATIONS.
: "ror tbe Watchman.
jLetter from .Jackson Hill. V
jacksox Hill, X. C, May 1, 1S70.
I.Editou aii.mia. . . I
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u IAr r till -t-w -
S . 1 ..aa I hum , "l 1 1 1 1 N T MM I.1IH llirill
I .rBftn, sotio uie men i ims ticihuv
I in narticolar wav. aecnrd- ?
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rrifnmiPr- here as elsewhere, on !
,l.lm nil UC PvUU mi ouoivuiiuvti nuu iu I
...' .hw.iii nil feel a deen interejl;.
I KUWo0 CSV " ; Z m V ' i
! nftor Li nlow. honeful. hannv. con-
i.ntr liereaiier, xie kuuwb uo can iniiKe
T I . 1 - 1 . , . 1
Znnneii for his own family, and feels quite
a Curv Vt u"o L
ff LlKJ.i" . -.7"
fnn.l left ou the : land sown. Ihe pros-
, . . ' .. - . .
f pectS IOT wucab uns juciiy guou, uio
f ' amount owu being large, and the ap
paraac4 so farf good enough. The fruit
crop has58ustaiued very considerable in
I jary, - from the recent great frosts,
r Peaelieiycxcept on very high sitaations,
we almost all killed. Apples are plenty.
They did not bloom sufficiently early for
the fhwtlto seriously injure them. ,
Mechauics, hereabout, who areexclu
givelj such, are not very -plenty, most of
tfieai being "Jacks of all trades, and good
at" noue,1' Carpenters and. "Lumber
rnn " tviti-im inn tmikiiik tr (iiir i ptncin.
tnre-so graciously bless d with a L.aborer s
Lien Law , to the exclusion of nearly ev-
iery otlief laboring 'class, are doiug quite
itrell j though they would wear better
countenances and swear less, it people
were more disposed to build than they
jiow are. ; j ';
j Lawyers' are scarce over .here. They,
its i class, have made more money since
the late war. tliah all . other literary classes
combined, i'oitjr .ytars ago,N a lawyer,
unless quite talented, and considerably
experienced, could not make much uiou
ey at his piof'essiou ; and, if his cranial
vails hapened to be somewhat thick, he
could not make enough to pay his taverh
billa, and would soon becomi)elled either
totake tije oath of insolveiie', or go to
jail. How different now ! Many who
never knew any thing ot the principles of
Elementary Law, and little more of Stat
ute Law than a township constable,with
nothing to recommend them but a cocked
hat, lughjheeled boots, a half-cent che
root between the lips, and claw-hammer
coat, ha Ve actually grou rich since the
war. a Of;i?uch there arc noue m this vi-
ciuity; and I hojie to be able to say this
next year. ,
rreachpift over this way -a re sufficient"
ly nunier,ous, unless they were better
teachers; pi N the synagogues. They, u'n-J
like the legal fraternity, do not make
much iuoiey at their profession ; but, on
the contrary. wheir:dt'pende!it,ou volun
tary eon tp but ions alone, are as poor as
Lazarus e;ver dared to be. JSonie of them
enhance? tiieir seanty incomes by riding
stallions, jaud vending- patent metliciues,
tl.il eaifying ou a triplex, business.
Many of tjheui are, uo doubt, good men,
and deserve better pay ; while others,
Derhansi would do well to lav aside their
caceruotaj roles for a season, nud repent
preach. X
I; Physicians in this and surrounding
neighborlioods, as also in every other part
fof Sorth Uaroliua, are haivug ji truly
knotty time, s They are almost all poor
nowadays.- None realfze much money
flroni the practice of their profession alone.
hVhyso f liecaitse their sentiments of
paianityjand Christianity drive them to
llractice I toilsomely und "exneusivelv for
one half df their patients, who could, but
will not, bay them. Thei r rights ignored
by every, legislature of North Carolina for
the last te.ii years, they have nevertheless,
with beconiing modesty, and without
coin plain!?, continued unceasingly tojm
prove in all things that pertaiujo an en
lightenetTtheory and practicoof their
professiouj. . ,
. Tbe inVchant8 of this place are cheer
ful and boyarit, and, judging from a p
pearnncesl 1 would sav thev not oulv feel
swell, hut factually live, well. They are
"-ns,wiug mm opemug ineir spring
and sutniaerstDek8, which are large and
ell selected, Jackson Hill is a place of
ery considerable . trade, fora country
wtuation,: and only needs the quickening
Ncli of a railroad to make it grow to the
dimensions of a smart towu.
' t i ICIITIIYOrilAGOS.
; For the Watchman .
THE BLUE LAWS OF NEtf EXGLAm
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t CONCLUDED.
I jAniong the NVwEngland Puritans, as
we have seen, "the mere toleration of dif
ferentforps of worship was condemued
u nnquestiouablein." hey also con
fsulercd it "a heinous sin Jto be present
Ju Praye are: read out'pf a book by a
Jvicar or bishop," and thjey taught, "that
Pe lovm of Zion had better put their
ear8 to the mouth of hell, and learn from
5 vylnsners of the devils, than read the
pisliops' books." j Wilbi 71
? tlf Bay s Cotton blather, in 1G47, sev
ml years after Laud had been murdered
J the Puritans of England, "after men
pntittUQ ;iu obstinate rebellion against
peghf,;the civit magistrate shall walk
Jtowards tiem in softaud gentle commis
' eratwn, jris softness and gentleness is
IjjXttssiteparge to foxes and wolves, but
j"Vbowelfe are miserably straightened and
Jrdened;agaiust the poor sheep and
tombs pf prist, j Nor is it frustrating
end of Christ's coming, but a direct
j Jd?anciri u,lo destroy the bodies of those
Ijrtves who seek to destroy the -souls of
ioRe for whom Christ died." C. Mather,
jxWdliqJ, 7,Wilb;77j h
kAnd ilatheri was only re-echoing tlie
pHJionsndf ideas of his Englislifrierid
apologist, he distinguished liichaid
Fter, the
P16 "Saiuts' Uese "I abfior," &iid liax- j
Prt " unlimited liberty and toleratij of
: -r w "-"f
went. The lanuer, nere as eisewuere, on t. ' x ' " - -"c"
i t e.iti.nn.. n.wi : n I the waist, amid frost ana Know' and
all ; and tliiuk myself able to prove the
wickedness, of i it. Quoted in Xeal,
Suppl. iii, 3G8) I-;. ' 1 . . , ,
- By a law- of Massaclinsetts, passed ' on
the 14th of October, 1650, it was enacted
that any Qaaker lauding oiP the 'eoast
should be seized and thinned it tlien-iui
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iiiiuiiikii v r it iifim mnnp ani final
l.'VU VISB ftiUV VVlVll 1 . I LCIH AJaTUJ if
iou iecc ox. JLe looaeville I.b4l And
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"'cbd kih -.j n cio i ifiurauw y. vuiurecu
fri. rvi,-: ' .1
Three Quaker women were strinned to
.V f u?Wicu iu
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floirired thronfrli eleren towna. fGeo.
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Pat .rmi i 1 ?iao nAtAi !. Pnwu;j
druminerjpreventing any of their dying
words from being heard. The very cap
tains of vessels were flogged - for bringing
Quakers into port. ,s And every Roman
Catholic priest; who returned after one
expulsion, was put to death. De Toque
vilie i, 64: quoted by Curteis Connect
icut borrowed i most . of its laws and
judicial proceedings from Massachusetts.
Mr. Trumbull efen voluntarily concedes
as much. Blue Laws, p. 333 In 1650,
a code of laws was drawn np for this col
ony. yt beganj .thns ; 4 Whoover shall
worship any other God, but-Ihe Lord
sliall be put to4th.' BlaVphemyvadul-
tery, sorcery;
parents, were'g
theft, disobedience to
punished with death
because the book of Leviticus had so pun
ished theni ; "and people were" forced by
fines to - attend
divine service.- fDe
Toqueville i, C2
July 1651 j a Mr
tisf , wasvell w
quoted by Curteis In
Obediah Holmes, a Bap
liptj and that so bfirba-
rously, that for some weeks he could only
take rest upon his knees andrelbows, aud
the historian adds, 'bonds and imprison
ment awaited all Baptists in New Eng
land.'' f Cramp J Bap. Hist. 409: quoted by
Curteis As late as 1750, an old man
who had been long a member of the Eng
lish Chu.'.ch, was whipped publicly for
not attending the congregational meeting.
And they fined heavily, injhe same year,
au Episcopal ckfrgymau of English birth
and education, on the preteuce- that he
had broken the 'Sabbath' by walking
home too fast from church ; and at Hart
ford, one of the! judges of the county
court, assisted by the mob, pulled down a
rising chinch, and with the-stones built a
mansion for his son. Wilb. Amr.,C.h.
110 "It was' the Congregationalist
clergy," says Cramp, the Baptist histo
rian, "by whom the magistrates iu New
England were finstigated" to commit
such violence and excesses, and to enforce
such laws.
I have purposely omitled mentioning
some of the worst acts of the New Eug- L
laud Puritans of the 17th and 18th cen
t-tunes. I hey are too disirustiug and cruel
to chronicle, and it is not a pleasant thing
to go through the mental torture of re
calling these facts to the remembrance of
Christian men and women of the present
day. I am not accusing the old Puritans
for their intolerance and barbarity ; for
in their times, intolerance inherited from
former ages infected more or less all re
ligious parties. I)r. Stangton r quoted
by Curteis Hume 'goes' bo far as to
credit ne denomination, if left to itself
with the virtue of toleration. - He says :
"If among Christians, Ihe English and
Dutch have "embraced the f principles' of
toleration, this singularity has proceeded
from the steady resolution , of the civil
magistrate. Essays ii, 438 Curteis
savs, "Luther invoked the civil sword
against .thexAuabaptists ; Calvin burnt
Servetus ; Craumer burnt Jane Bonchier ;
and of Cartwright a dissenting writer
says, 'Parker and Whitgift persecuted
the Puritans j but if Cartwright had been
iu Whitgift's place, he would have dealt
out equal persecution to Baptists and
Independents." Bauip. Lec. 69 In the
16th and 17th centuries, the very men
who were crying out the loudest for-rc-ligioiis
fieedonit themselves, constantly
and most incdnsistently jrefiilted the
slightest ftoleration' to aliy, iliio but
their own. Wje can' scarcely believe
"that Buuyan, whom tlie latest historian
of the Baptists claims as the brightest
ornament of their communion, should
have said, 'I would be (aud hope I am)
a Christian. -. But as for those facj
tious titles of Anabaptists, Independents,
- i or tlie like, 1 conclude
they come neither from Jerusalem nor
Autioch, but rather from Hell aud Baby
lon. For they naturally? tend to divis
ions j you may know them by their
fruits.'" Cramp, p. 330, Ap..Gould, 21)5 :
quirted by Curteis.
Now while I don't accuse the Puritans
of being more wicked than other men, on
account of their, persecutions, at i the same
time I do not excuse them, and clear them
of all guilt. Every religious sect and
party has its own sins of omission and
commission to auswer for, as well as the
Puritans.. But it, will not do for the
modern apologists of the Puritans to en
deavor to poisouj the sources of history,
to blacken the characters of reputable
historians, and to slander a numerous
and resp?ctable body of Christians, for
the sore purpose of changing the verdict
which history has rendered against the
Puiitans. of New ..England. The chief
arguments used y j these apologists are,
that the author of the Blue Laws is an
'unadulterated1 and inconscionablo liar
aud 'forger' forgetting that Frost, Ban-
croft Ilildreth, Hinmau, and
other historjans I all testify ti
dozens of
to the sub-
Btautial truth of everything contained in which shall cany them out X: ' All
the notorious 'blue code' of Peters, who1 Mr. Trumbull's efforts cannot 'wipe oat
did not pretend to qote the laws as con- ! the ffaijaticism, 'bigotry,', and 'canting
tained in that "code" from any . book of liypocrisy?!of i the early settlers of Con
statutes. , IIo acknowjedged that they necticut, nor the cruelty f his own an
were mainly laws of usage and custom! ccstors toward an unoffending clergyman
Churchman, Aug. 1, 1877 Mr." Hin, of the Church of Englanditbytteraptin
man, who has written a book; upon the to stigma"twe Dr. Peters at he has in the
"Blue Laws," says that he has gone over
the collection of Peters, and expresses
h8"1?!?8? latteT slioQld.have jbeen
bo correct. Ana tne Kev. A. B. Chapin,
D. D., a man of wonderful learning, and
of great piety, said that Dr. Peters was
obliged to draw upon his -recollection for
his niaterials; while if he had had chap
ter and verse to go by, as he himself had
in his controversy with Dr. Bush well, he
wonld have been a severer historian for
puritanic misdemeanors than he is al
ready. .Churchman, Aug. 11; 1877
When I hear men admit the bluishness of
'the old Puritan laws,' nnd then- denounce
Dr.' Peters for all that rs black in the cat
alogue of crimes, charging him with hav
ing vilely "inveuted and forged" a blue
code, I am tempted to ask these self
confident critics which, and how many, of
the laws compiled by Peters,- are forgeries,
and which genuine. I have already shown
that the laws of a genuine code of old
Massachusetts were 'quite as bad as, if not
worse than; any of the Blue Laws of the
Peters "Code." Aud from what investi
gation I have given the matter, I think I
can safely guarantee, thatJor every law
of Peters which can be shown to be an
error, I can find another old Puritan law
which Peters overlooked, just as bad, to
put in its place. It is a very easy thing
for Mr. "J. Hammond Trumbull, and the
New York Christian, Observer to call Dr.
Peters a 'liar' and 'rogue' but it will be
somewhat more difficult to prove these
charges.1 Dr. Samuel Peters was born in
Hebron, Conn., in 1735, where he lived
until the year 1774. He was a highly
esteemed, pious and popular clergyman,
of the Episcopal Church. Ho was driven
out of Hebron in 1774, by a cruel and
blood-thirsty iuob4 whose cruelties and
barbarities, inflicted upon their innocent
victims, were enough to Lave shocked the
sensibilities of any man with a spark of
goodness in his heart. His life was
threatened, and but for the courage of his
friends in Hebron who rescued him
from the hands of the mob he would
have been murdered. He was compelled
to leave the country with his family, the
ladies of which had also beeu grossly in
sulted by this fanatical mob. It was in
Loudon, shortly after this, that he wrote
his general History of Connecticut. Dr.
Peters returned to this couutry iu 1805 ;
and died in New York iu 18:16, beloved
and respected by all who knew him. In
1794 he was elected Bishop of Vermont,
but declined to accept the office. The
facts stated in his history were not called
in question during his j lifetime, aud his
great-grandson, Samuel J. McCormick,
in an article published in the ''Church
manlfif June 2d, 1877, says, "That the
work was well received by the intelligent
people of New England, 1 have positive
proof in letters to Dr. Peters, from par
ties residing there at the date of its recep
tion in the colony, and who indorsed it
as a true history at the time it was
written." He also says : "I have in my
possession correspondence to Dr. Peters
from 1772 to 1826, and iu no single in
stance can I find an expression that does
not breathe of 'love,' 'gratitude' and
'respect." These letters are not from oue
class of society alone, but range through
all classes from a nobleman to his
slaves and from various countries. I
would now ask, Could any oue (except
those imbued with the former fanaticisms
of their Connecticut ancestors) apply the
epithet of itiar, and 'rogue to Dr. Peters T
The truth is not always palatable, and as
the New York Sun say S, in its comments
on Mr. Trumbull's book : The early
laws of Connecticut have a specially bad
name.' It seems passing strange, that as of
ten as these very 'Blue Laws' have been
mentioned during the past century by so
many writers and authors of high stand
ing, we do not find a person having the
boldness to refute them, upon any
grounds of authority uufil the present
time j when possibly the greater portion
of the documeuts substantiating the
facts havebeen destroyed, and all interest
iu the matter has ceased to exist."
Again, Jib says : "ill. Trumbull pub
lishes the laws of the colony for the years
1639,J 1650 aud 1656, showing that uo laws
were then in technical existence like those
published by Dr. Peters, but unfortu
nately showing that such laws were in
virtual existeuce, and even quite as blue,
though clothed iu more subtle plkraseol-
ogy. Dr. Peters, in his history, says :
'Aud did not similar lawssfW prefoi7over
r v i.....t .... i e
0
country, I would have, left them in si-
lence, along with Mr. ; Mather's Patrcs
to my the projectors of j theiu were men
ft k m tTt If
best apology tliat cau be made for them
. .
is, that human nature is everywhere the
saniW and that the "mifred Zord" and the
"canting puritan" are equally dangerous ;
or that both agree in the unchristian doc-
trine of ierseciition,"and contend ouly
Ksuuscrtpii, uuu uio iniiMuicu b.iiui ui .111, ispirib, eiuiiiMJu men miunn nun iu.-. ,
v. ... . 1 4. ' . : x. 'ieuth. "If nnv m:11 will do God's will" One
sy .i . i . .. .. i ; . ..fir. i . ' . .. i : .i . . . i . . . w i n . ii -
rteui, iu titwiiuuc cuu ui 11 inc. uuuo ........ .
, j . 1 1 1 -w iith the Saviour, "he shall know of the
VflAit il IUI1 ililll UllUU Ull - 1 CkUU -m . i j ; , .
ot "grace," "justice," or "iioerry," wnere another ; for "cnanty tnniKeiii 110 evil,
nothing but murdersA (fplunders,n and rejoieeth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in
"persecutions marked their steps. Tlie V5 js tbe "tr,lJ"ch
work he has recently published." ''
j The Purtau apologist are not content
with vilifying and defaming; withoitVny
proof whatever, (the dead Dr. Peter Tint
they mast deliberately and ungenerously
call to theit- aid jail the forces of prejudice
and hate againstthe Episcopalians of New
England, so that they njar'-t 6Ure of a
temporary! triumph. fTW Philadelphia
IPresbyteridjt, ; qnoted by "P.," contains
this parapraph t "The Episcopalians of
New England have somehow thought it
necessary jthaj; the Puritans should be
made responsible for these 'La W8V "
One of the Mpipcopal Journals in tima ted not
long ago, that tt teas in the interest of the
Episcopal Church, thit the genuiuess of the
'Blue Lairs? should be maintained, and all
attempts to prove them forgeries resisted.
And so all New England Episcopacy s is
willing to hear all the evidence which can
be fished from any. depth, even if it be un
clean, whicji tends to the conclusion that
there were j'Bl ue Laws.'"
I shall b glad to be furnished by "Pi"
or the Presbyterian with tlie name, nuni
ler, aud paragraph, of au 'Episcopal Jour
nal,' where! sucji an "intimatiou" can be
found. I am sure the the 'Episcopal Jour
nal' referred to would be willing cheer
fully to pay aj large reward to any one
who will discover such au "intimation ? in
any articlej vfhich has ever appeared in
its columns, j j
It is certainly a bad showing for the
theory that the Puritan "Blue Laws" are
"forgeries"j and caricatures," for its sup
porters to be; compelled to concede that
the Episcopalians of New England, who
certainly liaye some piety and love of
truth amoijg them, are unanimously con
vinced of tlie genuineness of th-"Kln
Laws." I wOllder What the ITnil-niina '
Roman Catholics, Baptists, and Quakers
of New England think about this ques
tion. They were persecuted under these
laws much jniore than the Episcopalians.
I should like to know what the late Jus
tice Story-la Massachusetts Unitarian
meant, when he solemnly declared, .'HhiU
Purifau Ntjwj England virtually establish
ed an Inqiijsi'ton, with a full share of its
terrors andkioleuee." -Story's Miscel., 66,
qouted by ihe "Churchman." Episcona-
uans aie oy no means the only believers
in the authenticity of the Blue Laws. On
i : i i . . . ...
the coutnirv: it is onlv mentK tlmf. nr
persons haye been found willing publicly
to pronounee them sjnu ious ; and the lead
ers in this ieic mvement have declared
themselves! in a disingenous way by de
nying the cfxtsteiice of a "code of statutes,''''
w hen even ! Peters himself had admitted
that these laws as a whole had never been
euacted in that form. The fact is, that
the Puritans haviug started out with the
assumption that the "laws of God" were
in full forcii all over New Euglaud, their
magistrates and judges, at tlie dictation of
the Puritaii ! clergy, not only had it h
their power to interpret the meaning of,
but also miilcc the law. All thev had to
do was to say that such and such an ac-
tion was either in accordance with or con-
traiy to the "law of God" liotwithstail-
1 i ii
g this opinion might, at the same time. 1
. . r v ', , , .
n strained, unnatural and altogether!
bo "a
false interpretation. The Blue Laws have
become historical. They are believed in
by all sort4 of learned uieu and Christians.
Their substantial truthfulness can be
proved out of the mouths of the most par
tial and partisan Puritan historians and
chroniclers.
lloweref much he may be willing to Governor's 'pardon will intervene e'en
overlook the faults, and to excuse the sins beforii h js hands become inured to toll
of the Connecticut Puritans, I do not un- ' and', before one-fourth the, remainder
derstaud blow; "More Anou" cau . conclude of his ural life wilUiave been spent,
"that the sofConnectkutwereihdeed !the crimin3l wiu iWalk-.forth a free
sometimes; rigorous, but never inhuman." , r u
"Man's iuhnmauity ,to mau makes count- , man; Mark ' .1
less thousand mourn!" And that is ' Then let no man cross him in a
what the Connecticut laws made thons- trade. Let no man refuse to break a
amis of Episcopaliaus, Baptists, Quakers, bargain with another if Cox demands
Uuitaiiauij, Kouiaii Catholics aud Presby- tjvjt jfc lje done. The click of the re-
terians doi for all these weie more or less , V.i j i- r i ieje
volver will remind liim.ot Alstons
persecuted for alleged disobedience of , - ... - ii
most iniquitous laws ; fate, and if he still declines to yield,
The melancholy tacts which I have ex- let his aim be deadlier than that of
tracted frdmjthe history of the early reli- ' Alston or death in his, boots will be
gionists oi New England, ought to teach j the heritage of his children. Char
us all lessons of wisdom aud miKlenition. i ....
It should make all Christians of this eu
lighteued Jige sensible of the evils engen
dered by relgious bitterness, discord and
and iutoljerance. Every Christian is
bound to believe in "the truth of tliG gos-
pep'"thp truth as it is in Jesus." but
because we thiuk our brother errs in his
, faith is ud reasou why wo should either
hsite or kill him. The best Christians are
The best Christians are
A 1 . ml 1 . t. m , V W... .1 m .C ...
fence fow . rf Gwl and towanl men and
to guc, c6ritians, Gtwl will, by His Holy
Let us ihel-efore have charity, one for
CMOII III 'I 1 1 1 m II WrEVKlA-
, -r - ; M
"Jud"e" said ajawyer to "His Hon-
or dun tig a lull in a case on trial,
"wnat dJ you consider the best illus-
t rated naief?" "A thousand dollar
bank notje,"i
growled .the judge.
THBXOST OF A LIFE IX GEOEGIAl
A. " Alston, who i was
murdered a few weeks ago in Atlanta
was a member of the last 'Igislaiure
H WfS1 a.nS n!e serving in that
Mjr.s.Wiaa vcjiiefly I instrumental t, ju
securing the passage of a bill enabling
Jur(ies to desighate the grade of pun
ishment wKich' may be visited upon
ffCM itae.uman ,i It js a
gular circumstauee that-: Alston's
owu; .murderer is .the first man to re
ceive the benefit of theihwinvhich
piston sor actively interested himself:
te!isl-?u ! fhe case, and in conse-
iiueiice oi uiat law Edward Cox es
caped, the gallows which his crime so
richly .merits. ;j --
The issue in the case does not sur
prise us I vill be remembered that
we pretlicted it a week after the trage
$y. Human life has come to be so cheap
that we have about ceased. to look for
executions in cases where the mur
derers have rnncy or friends. The
laf rears its majestic crest with awe
inspiring seventy in the face of the
poor devil who has neither, but it bows
aud smiles obsequiously in the pres
ence of wealth and influence arid
touches witir ' graved hand the man
who can command either. "Oh, it is
terrible," said poor Alston, as he threw
himself- into a chair in the State
treasurer's office, "to be hunted dovn
iu tliis way? but Cox said he Only fired
in " sel f-defeuce, and Coxs lawyers
said that it was alla coil pi racy on the
part of Alston aud his friends to take
the life-of their , client ! "I will not
have any difficulty with you unless I
am forced to," said Alston, when he
had dodged his blood-thirsty enemy
as long as he could aud exhausted
every expedient which he could de
vise to escape his awful. fate. "Then
I will force you," was the response.
"Cox, are you going to shoot me?
Cox, are you going to shoot me now?"
pleaded the doomed man pleaded he
for his life like a very child. The
State treasurer, who swore to this col-
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lffuv did not hear Cox's reply but
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grows on Alston's grave, but the jury
say, that, the red -handed murderer
who deliberately planned this cruel
deed and relentlessly carried his bru
tal purpose to thend, hunting down
his enemy as a wild beast hunts down
its prey, does not deserve to die!
Hemp grows in vain, and "he who
shells man's blood by man shall his
blood1 be shed" was written for
naught. , ,
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i I uiere wouul ue jesS ,n uus ver
!Jct than there is to shock the sensi-
bilities of people, if there were the
slightest probability" that even the
j m:t;ir Tn.Tfrmpnf ivhieh'lins Loon rnn.
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deced. against the prisoner would be
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enforced against him. But the same
influence which saved his neck will
follow him even to the'shadow of the
penitentiary'.6 walls, and when its
gates are closed upon him will do its
powerful work for him elsewhere. A
Hendersonville Courier, 1st : On Friday
i morning last, about 9 o'clock, near Grange
postoffice, in Transylvania county, Mrs.
Mary Ann Tucker, wifejrf B. F. Tucker,
Esq., hanged herRelf to a small pine tree
about 200 yards from the house by means
of two hanks of eouon yarn loopeu io-
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fl neek VarioQg fea.
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is that she was "greatly troubled on
account of pecuniary wapts, and many
k the manner of her death washered-
jrary-Lher grandmother alnl two uncles
having committed suicide,' and her moyier
once attempting to do so.
1:
I i Mr. Samuel Hartley returned from
Texas a few day's since, as well or
better satisfied with his old home than
before. He reports that he ate beans
'and new Irish potatoes while in Tex-
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How Hock Candy Is Hade.
Candy! All candy is nothing but
sugar -only it is done djfferentlyjust
the same as all printing is only types,
but they: set them pp diflereht ways.
Well let us begin 'at the beginning.
"s with sugar, loaf or 1 (imp
s6gargood, 'wtijte sugar of any sort
How are we to niake this sugar into
candy, into many candies we see from
lozenges, drops, stick caddy, and all
kinds; to rock caudy, so unlike all
the rest ? - They are all sugar, but
how very different ! Ve must start
somewhere. Let us take a teacup
half fdll of boiling water and drop'a
lump of sugar into it. It dissolves.
Put in another lump, ; and another?
they dissolve. The sugar disappears,
and the water becomes thick. We
are making a syrup. We are getting
sugar in a liquid state. What was
hard and white now has become
liquid and transparent, agreatchange
truly. Now keep on adding sugar as
Jong as4he water will dissolve any,
and when no more will be dissolved
put the cup aside, iu a warm place,
near the stove. Hang a thread iu the
liquid, and look at it every day. In
a day or two, or more, I can't tell
you how soon, as that will depend
upon the relative amount of sugar and
yater, you will find little bits of clear
sugar Btickiiig to the thread. Let
them alone for several days, still keep
ing the cup in a warm place, and you
will find the bits of sugar becoming
larger and of more regular sharw.
Why, it is rock candy ! Exactly so.
This is the way in which rock candy
is made. Just as much sugar as it
will dissolve is put in water, usually
in a tub, and threads are hung in the
syrup, and the whole put in a warrn
place. Gradually the sugar leaves the
water and gathers upon the threads.
Not in a shapeless mass, but all in
beautiful crystals, more nicely formed
than you could possibly make them,
and as clear and transparent as glass.
This, then, is the way in which rock
candy is made. Sugar after it has
been'dissolved in water, is allowed to
deposit itself slowly and quietly. The
regular forms it takes are called crys
talsi and they are"always of the same
shape, whether large or small, aud
are formed with as much care and
beauty is if they were diamonds or
other precious stones. You will ask
why they form upon strings. Crys
tals always form upon rough surfaces
sooner , than upon smooth - ones. I
cannot tell you why any more than
lean tell why boys and girls like
candy.
MjsterUns Disappearance of a Student at
thie University of Virginia.
Special to tbe Richmond Dispatch.)
Charlottesville, May 6. Mr.
A. W. Crawford, of Louisville, Ky.,
a student at the University, mysteri
ously "disappeared from his room at
the University, on Tuesday last
There are many theories in regard to
the matter. ' He was a young man of
most exemplary character, aud all
ideas, in regard to hoax or a desigu
to deceive are thrown aside at once.
He left his room as if to take a walk
for recreation. He left his best cloth
ing, his;watch, his books open,- and
his lamp burning, as if to be absent
but a few minutes. For some days
apprehensions were felt by his friends
and acquaintances, which were increas
ed by the fact that he was known to
have received a considerable sum of
money on the day he . left, and foul
play is painful suspected. The'SQ ap
prehensions increased upon his non-ap-pearanceyind
excited hisfellowstudents
so much thai study was impossible,
and yesterday lectures were suspend
ed. The students turned Out in a
body, scouring the country north and
west of I tlie University for five or
six mile$, leaving hardly a leaf un
turned tiat might, hide his, .body.
Nothing' Avas discovered. To-day the
country southland east was searched,
but without results. Intense excite
ment has been produced by the affair
throughout the whole community.
You may talk abcut the "lean and
hungry Cassius." but did you ever
take a side-view of the man who has
run a store for (e.i years without ad-,
i
vertising ?
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J. lie more a man accomplished the
more he may. 'An active tool never'
grows rustr.l You al wars finA 1
raenjwhb are the in oTt forward to cIo!
gpoq, .or to improve times and man-'
nersl biiay. I Who start our rail rr,UL
and Bteam-lwvitQ
and jour manufacturies ? 1 Men of In-
putwpnse. AS ion? as
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s , i fm - nviiv uuiiir
nicy jive mev KPpn nt rcn-h- i:
something to benefit; themsclvead
Phers. J i just, 80sWith a aan whbu
Is benevolentr-the more he iWes the'
pori he feels like giving. - We go for
Activity in body, in mind, in cvery-
ithink L Let H ie p-old
toor the thoughts become stale, i Keen
all things, .in motion., Wc would
rather that death should find us seal-1
inga mountain than sinkinu in a
mire -breastinsr a wbirlwind tW
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sneaking from a cloud. ' t
v Af Old Org an. A -friend in
Condord told us that he spent anight
with Mr. Jacob Stirewalt, one of the
best men of Cabarrus, and that in the
room where he was nuit
founjl a large Organ, and wondered
how it was ever got into that - second1
story room, j Ou asking foran expla
nation, Mr. Stirewalt told him that
his father built the organ iu theroom
many years ago, and-probably never
thought about moving it whenv4)uUd-!
ing it. Tlie machine is loud and
well toned, but would not make as
fine a Parlor ornament as organs of the
present day. .
This reminds us' that the Town
Clock of Asheville, which was in use
some vears sra fnnd
was built by a Lincokton mechanic,
and was said to be as good as anv ever
made inConnecticutAndnowremenr
ber that t here is an Organ Factory at Mt
Airy and a Sewing Machine Factory
at Shelby, N C, and we believe that we
can manufacture anything here that
is made at the North. Charlotte
Democrat.
Mr. Stirewalt, the same referred to
flbo VP (if tvn mictalrA .smi U..TI
. uiiawnc iiuvy, uiou UUU
an Organ for "the Organ Church,,,
in this county, in the gallery of which
it was used fpr many years.
Hon. Walter F. ix?ak died at his
home in Rockingham, Richmond
county, on tlie 28th ult., in the 80th
year of his a. He took an active
part in public affairs for many years,
having servecl in the Legislature sev-
pr.il fprnis nnd nnmt n v!m
candidate for Governor before the
Democrats made a regular nomina
tion, but after such nomination was
made, Mr. leak withdrew from the
field. He wias well informed on pub
lic affairs and was a Democrat of the
old school. I CTiarlotte Democrat.
Senator Henderson of Rowan, In. a
cvj uic xkan-iu Aiews, says mai
theA.ct prescribing a short form for a
Real Estate Deed was ratified by the
presiding officers of both Houses -and
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enrolled, although it never passed
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cither Uouse ot the Legislature. Mr,
Henderson is of opinion that it i not
a law. Jt slmutd not be considered
la w,jtncT neither should the School
Bill which, ii is said, did pass both
Houses, but which was not ratified by
the presiding officers. . Things aro
mixed. Oidrlotte Democrat. 1
' Col. Mosby" is accused by a lady,
who writes from Tlong Kong to a
friend in Norristown; Pa., of sitting
with is feet on the table when Ameri
can gentlemen call to pay their res
pects. "At the table,", continues the
letter, an extract from which is prin,
ted in the Norristown Herablhe
does the most dreadful thing!,ajnong
the rpst uses his napkin instead of a
pocket handkerchief."
As God is-bi tying and forbearing to
us, let us be pitying and forbeanngjo
our fellow mn. This is the lesson to
be engraved n golden letters on tho
buman heartj All experience teaches,
and the soul of man proves, that there
is no'satisfactjion in -indulging an in
tolerant spirit, and that nothing bat
l!rs i . .iix-i.-.i L i-t - -
ed from the taking of vengeance. V-
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--j..in u ruiauiiga, uuu ueres wnere
I plant myself," said a tramp as ho
entered a farmhouse ncarFreeiort,Ii1.,
and seated himself at the table, "we
Ullers bile Durs." said the farmer's
wifeJand sbu$od him rth idith-pii'
'm il - t " 1
ful o
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