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THE NORTH CAROL ISTEWSP’^Z^EIE. Z^ISTID Z^Z^IVCIL'Z' YOL. I. ASHE TILL E, N. MAB. CH 3 1, 18 70, NO. 9.- F0ETIR To “ELLA.” For tli« Citizen. In the (lituness cf the twilight, Musing in niy room alone, Memory of her I love, comes On fancy swiftly borne. In my thoughts I hear her laughter, riear her voice, and see hcrsnule, Thus, until the darkness gathers, I, my lonelioess beguile. Perfect is lier every fealuro, Every action fraugiit with grace, Fancy cannot portray truly Smiles which light, her heavenly face. I have learned to love so fondly, I am happy when she’s near, And if forced to weep her absence, ’Tis with agonizing tear. All tlie frowns the world can give me Care I not for, so that she iVill but sweetly smile upon me, And that smile will let me see. “God of love” protect and bless her, Keep her in the way of right, Safely shield lier from all sorrow. With thy powerful arm of might. Louis Napoleon’s Escape from Ham. The fortress of Ham built of brick and stone, impresses yzu at first sight by its sombre aspect.* It is a square, flank ed at the corner with heavy towers.— The spacious windows, which once ad mitted the light of day, have been filled with brick-work, leaving only a few small openings which are half choked by iron bars, converting it into the sem blance of a mausoleum for the dead rath er than that of a dwelling-place for liv ing men. Louis Napoleon was allowed to walk, at certain hours, over a platform forty feet Jong by thirty wide, on ihe parapet of the eastern rampart, overlooking the canal. In these walks, however, lie was atU'iidcd by a keeper, who followed him as close as his shadow. In this retreat the prisoner passed perhaps the six best years of his life. As some consolation, lie breathed the air of Erance. And be- sidesj thick as were his prison walls, they did not exclude all knowledge of what vvas outside tlietn. -Vfore vueo the sbiuiers offered to asJist his es cape, One day, Gen. Changarnier ar rived at the fortress of Ham. Without visiting the prisoner, he sent the whole garrison out of the fortress, leaving only a subaltern and thirty men to guard it. Tlie subaltern, pretexting some reason Jbr approaching the prince’s prison, whispered, “We are only a handful of men, and our one an<l sole thought may be easily guessed. If the prisoner wish es to escape we shall all be blind.” “I thank tlie brave fellow who tell tne that,” Louis Napoleon replied; “but I do not wish anybody' to run into danger on my account.” At another time a regiment had bivou- abked before the fortress gate. A stone fell at the prince,s feet, wrapped in a pa per, on which was written, “The regi ment desires to be passed in review by you to-morrow morning.” And, in fact, on taking his usual walk the next day, he saw the regiment filing ofi’ at a dis tance. These demonstrations in Louis Napoleon’s favor caused the authorities such uneasiness that, in the early days bf his confinement, the garrison was sev eral times changed without any warning. Afterwards it was determined to change it every fort-night, to prevent the troops having the time to take too much inter est in the captive’s position. On the 23d of May Louis Napoleon was visited by some English genlemen whom he had known in London. He begged them to lend him their passports, on the ground that his valet, who want ed to take a short journey, would find ^em useful in procuring post-horses.— The travelers, whether suspecting any move or not, were b«ppy to render the service, if trifling, still more happy, if important. By this means in the eve ning of the 2oth Thclin managed to en gage for the next day a cabriolet in the villiage of Ham. On the 15th the prince rose early, cut off his mustaches and imperial, and put on the prepared disguise—a complete laborer’s dress, consisting of blue linen blouse and trousers, a dilapidated cap, rough wooden shoes and dirty apron.— The costume was completed by blacken ed eyebrows, and a rough black wig hanging about his ears, a painted face, and a short elay pipe. Injspite of keep ing about him papers which might be tray his identity, he would not part with a couple of his letters, one from his mother, the othei" from the Emperor.— He might especially value the latter from its containing the sentence. “I hope that Louis Napoleon, as he grows up, will make himself worthy of the des tinies which await At seven in the morning the masons entered the fortress to resume their work, Theliu offered them something to drink, and having got together round thcTable in the vestibule, ran to tell his master that the moment was come. The prince shouldering a plank procured be forehand, walked down the stairs, avoid ing the vestibule where the men were .drinking. Thelin, dressed as for a jour ney, also stepped into the court-yard, leading a little dog by a string, and ■walking a few spaces before the prince. As he bad obtained permission the pre vious evening to go to the Saint Quen tin, the keepers ^Yisl!ed him a pleasant journey ; at which ho stopped to chat with them, to divert their attention from the prince, who was gravely advancing with the plank on his shoulder, held in such a way as to screen his face. So impossible was it to guess who it was, that a laborer, taking him for one of his comrades, went up to speak to him ; but Thelin, with great address, directed his attention to something else. A little furthur on he met an officer, who, lucki ly was busy reading a letter. Then he had to pass through a group of soldiers assembled in front of the guard-house. Finally, having passed through the out er lodge. The porter, fearing a blow from the plank, quickly drew hack his head. A few paces beyond the last sen tinel, who followed him with his eye, the prince dropped his pipe and picked it up again. The movement served to hide his face, already half concealed by the plank. At last crossing the two drawbridges, he was free ! Thelin ran to fetch the cabriolet he liad hired the day before. During his absence the fugitive waited with feverish impatience on the road to Saint Quen tin. Unconscious of the weight of his wooden shoes, he soon reached the cem etery of Saint Sulpice, nearly a mile outside the village. He threw himself at the foot of a lofty crucifix, which rises in the midst of the graves, and thanked Heaven for the liappiness vouchsafed to him. lie saw l^heliu advancing with his cabriolet ; Hut, nncther carriage -was fuTovving. lie vvni.fed till the latter h-id passed ofl'. Tiicn jumped into the cab riolet, he threw his wooden shoes into a field, and took the reins now playing the part of driver. A few minutes after wards two mounted gendarmes rode out of Saint Sulpice. But they took .an other direction; namely, towards Per- onne; Before entering Saint Qenton, which is a busy manufacturing town, Louis Na poleon got out of the cabriolet and walk ed through the streets till he left the town by the road to Cambrll, where Thelin w’as to pick hini up with another vehicle. He waited and waited: no Thelin came. He sat down by the roadside, leaning his head on his hands, and ask ed himself whether ho was again to he made the victim of a third disappoint ment. lie felt something gently jog ging his shoulder. It wuis tlie dog that Thelin led out tied with a stririg, run ning before the carriage, and came to carress him. In a few minutes they W’ere sitting behind a pair of post horses on the road to Valenciennes, whdre, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, they took the train to Paris, which stops there on its way to Brussels. AYilmington, N. C., March 12. Before the war there wore a large number of men in this State who w'ere Old-line Whigs. Among them was a speculator in merchandise named Geo. Washington Swepson. After the war ended, and when the State {N. C.) Con vention came up, “in the course of hu man events,” Swepson gained notoriety as a lobbyist. He cultivated the friend ships of a man named Littlefield, who had came from Philadelphia, and those ancestors were among those of the Pil grim’s ancestors who came from New England to the. Quaker metropolis. Lit tlefield had known W. W. Holden when he W'as in mediocre circumstances, and when Holden was the sole editor of the Raleigh Standard, a Radical Republi can paper published in North Carolina. When Holden became Govei'nor he os tensibly sold out to Littlefield. Holden, who controlled the State Legislature, secured the State printing for Little field, and Littlefield and Holden went “snuck” on the profits of the State printing, which was an agreeable pro ceeding for them. Swepson and Little field embraced, and them they took in W. J. Hawkins. The trio formed a ring, Sixteen million dollars in bonds were is sued for proposed railroad enterprises. The ring got control of the disposition of those bonds. Only ^1,300,000' of the bonds has been accounted for satis factorily. Swepson has fled the State.— Cor. N. Y. Sun. Significant! The following is from the Ruthernford Star, the most rabid, ranting, Radical sheet in North Carolina. It is one of the Radical “true blue,” and uow it bloweth bluely: The Issue, Shall W. W. Holden^ or the honest lie- puhlicans of North Carolina rule the State. The issue is made. The time for ac tion has come, and we want to see how many are ready and prepared to show their hands. There has never been, in the history of Republican Governments, a paralell to the administration of W. W. Holden the present Governor of North Carolina. Ilis administration, has been one of ty ranny, usurpation, treachery and cor ruption. he has usurped powers that did not belong to him, and he has exer cised those powers with an utter disre gard for law or Constitution. He has iyranised over the people, the State and even the Supreme Court of the State, in a way only suited to u de^oot and a iy- ranf^ He usurped the powers belong ing to the Superinlcndiint of Public Works, in the face of law and public opinion. He exercised those powers with corruption, by placing irresponsi ble and corrupt men, in control of our railroads, because he was afraid to trust men of honesty and ability to such ap pointments, knowing that they would not bo made tools of, in speculating upon, and swindling the people out of their mone3^ 11^ used these powers treacherously, because he promised the people to put honest and responsible men in charge of these important offices which he ignored in his appointments from A to Z. He exercised those powers ■«iili sel fishness and tyranny, by refusing to 'surrender tlieui to the jiropcr officer or allowing the question of power to be de cided by the proper tribunal. i'Tiic Su preme Court,) and now on the eve of a (iecission beiiu\jiig the be taken out of hi.' h-aiids, and as was in- tended by the Constitution and the law placed in the liands of the Superinten dent of Public Works, with nii utter disregard, and disrespect for that ‘‘time honored tribunal,” he put to work witli all the fWc/rcrVarid belonging to him by nature. iQ forestall decis ion, by repealing the law giving these powers to the Superintendent of Public W^orks, which we are very sorry to see, by the influence brought to bear upon the Legislature, he was successful in doing. Republicans of North Carolina, look at the picture. We have stated nothing but truths, and refer to all honest men as our witnesses. Are you willing that your State should be ruled and ruined by such a despot ? Are you willing as republicans to be quietly led. by this tyrant and usur- per to your ruin and destruction as a party ? "We ask of you, before it is too late to survey your position carefully, and strike while there is yet time. We call upon the Standard, and all other papers in the Stote, that are pub lished in the interest of republican prin ciples, to come out and show where they stand. The issue is fixed and plain, are goufor Holden or the republican party, and the redemption of the fgtate from the ruin and degradation brought upon it by his corrupt and unwise pol icy ? There is no time for delay. We want to know where you stand. You must take one side or the other, and the choice is left with you- Which will you take ? To follow Holden is to be politically damned, for all time to come, and it is to be hoped that republicans hawe their eyes open to the danger. “How this World is given to Lying!” Shakespeare. “Some of the Radical rural organs of the Democracy,” says the Asheville Pioneer, “are boasting that they will not allow the negroes to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment, and that the Amendment itself will be stricken from the Constitution.” Some people, 'who do not keep posted, might think there is some truth in the assertion contained in this extract, but there isn’t! No, not one word of truth in it, nor shadow of foundation for it.— Let the Pioneer give the name of the paper, and the language which would justify the cool deliberate assertion thus made.—Sentinel. Civilty costs nothings therefore misers are a civil race. Printers pay an ink-’em tax. [communicated.] Hendersonville, N. C. March 24 ’70 Mr. Loitoh :—Henderson County is ! ready to > nlarge your list of subscribers ; and whiht you have these claims' ripon our CouiJiy, she charges you with a duty towards .-her: “give her a chance.” Ilenders-County, ns to natural scen ery, ferti'ity of soil, salubrity of climate,- and natui'ul facilities for machinery, as well as, to her rich beds and mines of ores and valuable metals, has not a su perior ir North Carolina. Aye, may I not say, ;a any adjacent State. With all these attractions, she presents a beautiful level surface for miles in all di rections from the County site, here and there spotted with rich plantations ; and the very waters of the serene French Broad, trie roaring Mill River, the de ceptive Mud Creek and the limpid clear and Can-J Creeks, are ever inviting a rigid cuhivation of their rich banks and bottoms, and the whole prospect tells that the farmers of the County are too weak to' till the lands properly, and yearns ■’"' i' the immigration of iudustri- ous and scientific husbandmen to unloose the la powers of ^be soil and let them speak tlF truth boldly, and to give to the rnigi ty water-powers an opportuni ty of whirling the rude works of nature into the .uost desirable works of man under tl:3 auspices of immigrant ma chines. Henderson County iLeeds more farmers, and more mechanics ; and they ought to be men of means and enter prise. Tlie natives of the County are truly indastriously disposed, but have not the ability to develop the resources that are promised. By reason of the confusion created by the late war, there are several very excellent farmers and magiiificant building abundant, (and now only occupied by careless tenants,) which can be bought at one fourth their intrinsi<'t,^\-,\\u(i, and if purchasers would only vi:-!^ them, they would surely buy. Bbt w}i\ is ic immigrants have not long since svy'Ied up and improved our Coun ty ? The fact that they have not would i=-ocm tLc nVjovA teUICn t iJuD j. .1 easily accouiuvii for. Land- sc'archcrs have never found out the facts —they hiite had no one so recommend them to our county. We have but one news-paper published in the County : and that paper is exclusively devoted to religion: !ind the editor, therefore, can not safi'iy “pufl” for the count^L Ne^YS- papers published in the locality being immediately mlcvQ&ieOi in the growth of that place in which they operate, as a matter of course, will speak out in favor of that particular section, in preference to all others. And hence, Henderson Coun ty has suffered much for the want of “puffers.” But not so much for the want of “puffers” to magnify and exaggerate the charms of our section beyond reality, as for the want of responsible, reliable agencies to recommend to tiie inquiring world the real, unmistakable, attractions it presents. Henderson County there fore would respectfully ask the world and particularly the vast number of per- sens travelling in search of good lands (fc., stay a week put up with some good citizen, who will take a pleasure in ac companying “gentlemen from a dis tance,” to visit every good farm in the County, if necessary. And Henderson County claims that she has a right to be heard on the subject; and covenants that those who come “shall not go away empty.” From fifteen to twenty thou sand acres can be bought in this Coun ty, and good titles made; and this land is di\ided off, into farms of convenient sizes; on many of which there are ex cellent buildings. We cordially invite public attention to these facts. . To enterprising emi grants, J would say, you can’t possibly do better taking everything into consid eration, by risking an endless- tour through all the Counties of the Par ^Vest. 'There you find rich lands and gold; here you find good lands with good buildings, good health and good society; and all upon the prospoctive rout of tho great Railroad thoroughfare from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Charleston South Carolina. Tho people of Hen derson want your money and your en terprise and you want their lands; so let there be a mutual accommodation ar rangement effected. To the South of Hendersonville, the distantce, not ex ceeding five miles from town there may be found from twenty-five to thirty very excellent and costly edifices, together with little towns of outhouses appurten ant thereto, built upon good lands, one half of which desirable places can be boughtin all probability at very low figures. Turn your attention westward and you find the Davis Farm, on French Baoad and also the farms of Johnston, Henry, McBrayer, Morgan, King, Mill er, Sumraoy, Spann and others, and at the junction of Mill River with French Broad you.find the Myers Farm consist ing of near one thousand acres of the most productive bottom lands—and ad joining the farm of Capt. Ivens—next the preceding in value* Then go ifyou please along tho meanderings of that beaati'fifl ITttle River upward, some six miles'.arid pass the fine farms of Corpefi- ing, Summey, Evans, Johnson, Carlin, Allen, Kimsev, Murray, Brittain, Whit akers, Tayler Rickmans and others. Many of these farms can be bought at low figure.s, arid any of these may he bought at their value. And further these lands will be effectual by the com pletion of any Railroads through “West ern Carolina and enhanced in value and are all lying in the heart of the very best of neighborhoods. Let purchasers come and let them not be afraid. As the merchants say : “Give us a trial; we will not charge for showing.” J. J. 0. For Moderate Drinkers. A “Merhant prince” of New* York— a portly “cix-footer” of great manly beauty, who never dined without his brandy and water, nor W’ent to bed without a terrapin or oyster supper, and who Avas.never known to be drunk died of chronic diarrhoea, a common end of those who arc never intoxicated never out of liquor. Hall’s Journal of Health gives this account of his death: “Months before he died—he was a year in dying—he could eat nothing without distress, and at death the whole alimentary canal was a mass of disease; in the midst of his millions he died oi' inanition. That is not the half reader. He had been a steady, daily drinker for twenty eight years. Scrofula had been eating up one (laughter for fifteen years ; another is in the mad house ; the thir(J and fourth were of unearthly beauty ; there was a kind of grandeur in that beauty; hut they blighted, and paled and fadod—lr..to Heaven, we trust—in die;” sweet t'*ens : o>^''t.her is tottering (ill liic verge ot the grave, .nui viic is left with all the senses, and each of them is as Aveak as \vatcr.” Tlie same periodical instances an other case that should supplement the one just gi ren : “A gentleman of thirty-five, Avas sit ting in a cliair'with no specially critical symptoms prescn^; still, he Avas knoAvn to be a dissipated young man. lie rose, ran fifty feet, fell down and died. The ; whole covering of the brain Avas thicken ed, its-cavities were filled Avith a fluid that did not belong to it, enough to kill half a dozen Avith apoplex}'; a great portion of one lung Avas in a state of gangrene, and nearly all the other was hardened and useless ; blood and yellow matter plastered the inner coucring of the lungs, Avhile angry patches of de structive inflamatioii Averc scattered along the Avhole alimentary canal.— Why, there was enough of death in that one man’s body to have killed forty. The doctor who talks about guzzling liquor ever day being “healthy” is a perfect disgrace to the medical name, and ought to be turned out to break stone for the term of his natural life, at a shilling a day, and find himself.” Keeping Lent and Health.—Dr. W. W. Hal], the publisher of Hall's Journal of Health, in his recently pub lished and most excellent Avork on “Health and Good Living,” has tho fol- loAVing on the physical benefits of keep ing Lent strictly, Avithout the dispensa tion usually granted: If all persons for a month in early spring Avere to abstain from all meats Avhatsoevcr, ns the spirit of the doctrine of Lent requires, it would add greatly to the health of communities, by enabling the system to throw off the impurities of the body acquired by the hearty eat ing of winter ; Avould cool off the lioutcd blood, and thus destroy the germs of spring and summer disease ; and thus it is that the proper practice of the precepts of religion promotes not only the spiritual but the physical health of man. These are simple measures ; they are pra.cticable, cost no money, and are available to all,- and if liecded in a rational manner death would be kept from many a dwellin,, and life-time scr- rows Avould be lightened to many bosoms. A Avell known young lawyer obtained a divorce for a pretty and Avealthy client. He sent a bill for f1,000. The next day tho lady called on him, and inquired if he was in earnest in proposing to her. “Propose to you, Madam! I didn’t pro pose to you,” replied the astonished at torney. “Well, you asked me for my fortune, and I thought you Avould have the grace to take me Avith it,” Avas the calm reply. The lawyer Avilted. A Lover on a Rampage, It is singular what strange cjiisodes the fender passion sometimes occasions. It is not unfreqnently the cause of bil'- liousness, producing dyspepsia and other complaints of the digestive organs; it has been asserted that cholic is some times the result of it, and a Avonderful tendency is created by it. Meditative' Avalks, sileht riiiveries and self-communion spring inevitably from the first advances of the observing emotion. These are common and anticipated .results : but it has been left to Julius Cober to disclose a new feature in the universal malady. It seems that Julius had Leon siniticn Avitli the bright eyes and rosy cheek.s of a cabbage vender in the Pavdras market; He visits her daily, dinner in Iter pres ence on rashers of bacon and cold veget- a'bTes,-and..pn one of those occasions sum moned sufficient courage to proffer his suit. But his embarrassment caused him so much excitement that he actually overturned a jug of carbolic acid, wliich had been put under the table by the maiden’s respected progenitor. The noxious fluid rapidly spread upon tho pavement and a most (jffonsive odor from it. “W’hat’s that?” inquired the little maiden, elevating her olfactory member, and making evident signs of distress. “It’s my love,” continued Julius, ob livious in liis excitement, of the smell, and supposing her inquiry to refer to his attachment. ' “Oh, my ! You dont tell me that’s love ?” “Of course it is, ray dear. Y^ou have no idea how strong it is.” “Y^es, I have—my goodness!” ex claimed the beauty, as Julius’ feet stir red the sediment, and more sickening odor arose. “WTiy, it’s terrible.” “Indeed it is ; and I’ll certainly die if you don’t marry me.” “And ^v^lI it always be thi.s Avay ?” and again the little pug nose shot up in the air. “Always.” ‘•J>ut J c.'in’t .iJaii/l it.” “ItAvon’tbe quite so violent, hut just as strong.” “I—I—I—don’t thiiik I like lo bo loved, sir; it smells too bad.” “W’hat,” said Julius, A/ith another scrape of his foot—-ami tins time ob taining a good draught of the carbolic acid. “It smells so!” the maiden again re peated. “But that ain’t love—it’s something under the table!” “Oh ! Avell, now, I thought as how when people loved, they smelt!” “Oh, no,” said Julius; a-nd an im mediate search revealed the cause of the offensive odor. It is useless to say that thereupon Julius became happy and his ewcctheai'fc radiant. The Man Who is In Love- . There is something very cruel in the crued contempt Avith'Avhich women, as a rule, look upon a man who' k in love.— One might have thought that compas sion (Avhich is nearly akin to contempt, however, Avith many people) Avouid have been a more appropriate feeling ; but it cannot be denied that a man is never less n hero Avith the women of his ac quaintance than Avhen he is do.speratcl-y in love with some particular Avoman.— If it be his good fortune to have inspired a similar attufehment in the bosom uf the young person Avho has upset his reason, she, out of all her sex, may be inclined to see something fine and noble in his devotion; but your ordinary Avoman— and, above all, your oxtiaiurdinary avo- raan, Avh-'o has some power of satire, and loves to revenge the Aveakness of her sex by liiugliing at the other—cannot help regarding a lover as a rather silly per son, Avho has caught a fever Avhich is about as ridiculous ns mcascls to a grown-up man. In novels the case is quite otherwise; and notliing in fiction attracts the syrapathy of Avoman so much as a perfect abandonment to a wild and impetuous affection, Avith the spectacle of a rhetoric-loving young man conquer ing every difficulty, and overcoming all obstacles, for the sake of his sweetheart. But in actual life, a man finds himself compelled to keep a strict Avatch over any exhibitions of affections he may be inclined to indulge in ; and if he does not, the woman of his/icquaintancc look upon him as a “softy,” and shrug their shoulders in a highly humorous Avay over his folly. As for the modern young lady, she conceals her affection so thor oughly that you would almost imagine she had none. The man who tore his coat thinks rents are increasing.
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