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TEE ERA. RHPUBLICAN WEEKLY NEWS- pAPKK THE CENTRAL ORGAN oF THE PARTY., , . I , . t ... EMi PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. (SEE RATES OP SUBSCRIPTION ON THIS PAGE.) , BROWN, Manager. W. M. Office over the North Carolina Book---r- comer or Fayettevllle nnd Mor 1:111 streets, first door south or the State KATETSUBSCmPO: Job Work executed at short 1.0. tice and in n style unsurpassed by anv simiUr eatabliahment In the State. me 3-ear, - - - - $2 10 Six months - - - - 1 05 Three months, - - . 55 r Invariably in Adva!?cb.- PUOS PECTUS. VOti. IV. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1875. RATES OF ADVERTISING u V Ono soiiarp. on tima. - . ( t m , - y 4 VAJ ' two times, -1 50 14 three times, - - 2 00 TO 33 J Contract advertisements Uken at proportionately low rates. " ' 1 representative and Champion of Amer ican Art Taste KOETRY. prupeclu for 175 Eighth Year. THE ALDINE, Tin Art Journal of America, IH-SL'ICU MONTHLY. iii.iiiifM'ont r-oneeptien wonderfully clriedout.,' I ne necessity of h popular medium ;lie representation of ihe produc- of our great artita( haa always .11 reT'li.rTj, auu "mill ai.ciiiuu t.' h Uen made to meet the want. The . 'sive failures which so invariably j .ii,.wed e.-h attempt iu this country t., . -uMish an art journal, did not prove tit,. inditterenreof the people of iner ..1 to the -laiins of high art. So soon 1, a prr appreciation of the want and a i ability to meet it were shown, the in. " -at" once rallied with enthusiasm u. it. siiooort. and the result was a I -r-it artistic and commercial triumph "-THK ALDINE. TiikAuunk, while issued with all he ieru.Hr.ty, has none of the tempo r.rv or 1'I.mki.y interest characteristic of I ..r-iiii-trv periodicals. It is an elegant tin, cll.uiy of pure, light, and gracelul l.tt-ratnre; and a collection of pictures, in" rarest specimens of artistic skill, in l,;.t. k mul white. Although each suc----.lni numher affords a fresh pleas ur. t its friends, the real value and ;,. i ity f Thk Ai.uink will he most H'.i.rei iatod after it is bound up at the , 1. ol me year. nuouiuer jjuuuca i .ns mav claim sujKjrior cheapness, as ,-.) 1 1 pare. 1 with rivals of a similar class, Tmk A i.dink is a unique and original conception alone and unapproached ;i:...ui-.y without competition in price ,.r character. The p ssessor of a com '... te vol ume can not duplicate the quan i'i v f line paper ami engravings in any ,ti' shape or number ol' volumes Foil TKN T1MKS ITS COST; AN D Til EN, TH ERB THK CIIRoMO. BESIDES! The national feature of The Aldink rmit he taken in no narrow sense, .rue art is cosmopolitan. While The Ai. dink is a strictly American institu 11 n, it ilties not couiine itself entirely t . the reproduction of native art. Its minion is to cultivate a broad anl ap-prc.-i.uive art taste, one that will dis . ru ;n;itHonlv on grounds of intrinsic in. -rit. Thus while placing before the P nr . ns ot Thk Ai.dink. as a leading c!i;ir;.-ieristk the productions of the in-.-t 11 tcl American artists, attention will aiw.ivs be given to specimens tr .in foreign masters, givingsubscribers .ill tlic pleasure and instruction obtain :iS!e from home or foreign sources. The artistic illustration of American sccncrv, original with The Aldine, is an imp rtant feature, anl its magniti ( . :it pi it. s are of a size more appropri ;i t the satisfactory treatment of .! t;tiis than can be afforded by any in i. ri -r paze. The judicous interspeisiou .f landscape, marine, figure, and ani- in il subjects, sustain an unabated mter-t-st. impossible where the scope of the work routines the artist too closely to a single stvle of subject. The literature ..t I n k Ai.dink is a light and graceful a. . 01111. aiiitnent. worthy of the artistic .Love never Sleeps. 9 ; 'Love never sleeps!" The mother's eye .:;: Bends o'er her dying infant's bed ; And as she marks the moments fly. While death creeps on with noiseless tread, j Faint and distress'id, she sits and weeps. With beating heart! "Love never ' sleeps!"; j Yet, e'en that ad and fragile form Forgets the tumult of her breast; Despite the horrors of the storm, O'erburthen'd nature sinks to rest; But o'er them both another keeps His midnight watch Love never sleeps!"; i Around above the angel bands Stoop o'er the care-worn sons of men ; With pitying eyes, and eager hands They raise the soul to hope again; Free as the air, their pity sweeps 'ine storms or time: love never sleeps ! U ... I And round beneath and over all, O'er men and angels, earth and heaven, A higher bends ! The slightest call Is answer'd ; and relief is given: In hours of wo, when sorrow steeps The heart in pain" He never sleeps !'' possible assistance to eoun terfoitera of the Congressional currency. Ad vertisements offering to supply it to persons going into the colonies were published in the official newspapers printed in New York, and flags of truce were taken advantage of to inlroducfi it within the American lines. The very paper used by Con- Krra was imuaiea, so mat little or no risk of detection was encounter ed. All efforts to prevent these practices failed, although whole is sues of the crenuine mnnpv wprp. from time to time, called in and de stroyed in order to render the coun terfeits useless. The effects of the inflation were similar to those which followed that of our times. Shrewd men. fore seeing what was coming, bought at an early period all the property they couiu my tneirnanas on, and ran in aeDt ior it to the extent of their t a. r-w 1 creuic. ine paper being a legal and throwing up his hands in the lenuer, debtors took advantage of most frantic manner fairly yelled, open your heart to me. Tell all of your trouble, and all will be wrell." Well, sir," replied the conduct or, " I will explain to you the na ture or my trouble." Then lower ing his voice as though to avoid being overheard, he said: "lam conductor on this train. We are running now at the top of our speed. "cttio a iian nuur wmuu time, and if we increase our speed the en gine must burst her boiler. Scarce ly a quarter of a mile behind us is another train, which is also behind time ; and being a much faster train than this, if we do not increase our speed, she will telescope this train. This, then, is my trouble. It is only a question whether we shall be tel escoped or increase our rate of speed and certainly explode the engine's boiler. What shall we do? is the question." The minister sprang from his seat, Oh! God of love ! our eyes to thee, Tired of the world's false radiance, turn! And as we view thy purity We feel our hearts Within us burn ; Convinced, that in the lowest deeps Of human ill' Love never sleeps !" .MISCELLANEOUS. its depreciation to swindle thpir creditors by Da vine off loans receiv ed in specie at a miserable fraction of their original amount. Widows and orphans, whose money had been invested before the war, were tne cnief sullerers in this way Speculation ran riot, and fortunes were made and lost in imagination. just as tney were in Wall street in 1864 and I8G0. A writer in the Pennsylvania Packet says : 14 1 had money enough to buy a hogshead of sugar. I sold it again and got a good deal more money than it cost 44 Burst her boiler ! For heaven's sake burst her boiler!" The conductor vanished from the car, and the minister, believing that his last moments were drawinsr "Little Bo-Peep" and the Iy ing Child. A writer in Cassell's Magazine says: I remember when I was nurs ing in a hospital once, there was a poor little boy. about six years old. dying of rheumatic fever. I was uiguiiUUISC 111 ilia naiu, uuu irgu- larly when the attack of pain came on, he used to scream out for me: 4Niirsey, sin:. It hurts me. Sing the hurt away." So then l7d prop him up on arm an' sing one song after another. 44 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" to 44 Blaek-eyed Susan," jtill the par oxysm of pain was over, an' he'd quiet down again. I always knew when that was by his joinin' his voice in too, such a weak, pipe of a voice, poor lamb, but I was better glad to hear it than any music, for it telled me the pain! was gone for awhile, an' I could lie him down to sleep again. Poor, wee mite! I .was singing 44 Little Bo-Peep" the night he died. I had him in my arms. He had been sinking all day. I knew .Hams at a recent meeting of iAn, that TwiTiSin, ,V?no. xi uppers i.K.i,eHi; pays. Lear&iid: 44 You mav take Tit . Hams was attracted As You LIk Ifc. hut r,i ntySLl ifhP nnnar Murknn I s a. . ucucvu I V Vi JL he couldn't last another, an' though iwsi, niuiweiiis were uiawius: u ,: ? k:,. nigh, fell upon his knees, and had ., i..:i. r.i just begun savins hi, prayers when T " ,:, ",! the locomotive whistled down .L!i.i i . uiiiiutcu lit iiij wciiu 111 y iiiLic siici. brakes, and the train gradually and quietly rolled up to the station and came to a full stop. The minister got off the cars, and was not inclined to resumehis journey until the joke was expiamea, wnen some mutter ed sentences escaped him which me. Yet what I sold it for, when I vvere not distinctly understood, but ! lures, with only su. n leennicai uis uiMt!Mns ;is ilo not interfere with the pj'Ular inte.est of thr work. l'UL.mm roil IS7S. I'.very sul-scribt r for 1S75 will receive a l.-.iu;"iiui portrait, in oil colors, of the same ii'.Mc il whose picture in a former issue attracted so much atten tion. "nan'i I nelfiMli Friend" will he welcome in every home. Kvery 1. mI v loves siu-h a dog, and the por trait is executed s true to the life, that 1: seems iii- veritable presence of the anim:ii its. I;. The Kev. T. He Witt Ta!iii;iii t-lls that his own Newfound land d .the liiu-st in Hro. klyn) Uirks at u ! .-V 1 1 1 1 1 1 lt 1 1 natural. n one who sees thin preiiiiiim i-hiiniin will have tlirt slihtwst fear ot" lit;en. llesides the chromo, every M-lvance suhscriher to T11 k Aldink tor ls7." is constitutiHl a member, and entitled to all the privileges of ;n if aldim: aut u.mo.x. The rnion owns the originals jf all Thk A i.iink pictures, which, with other paintings and eiiravins, are to be dis t:i!tuel amoin; the members. To ev ry series of .",0lW subscribers. 1(X) d liferent pieces, valueil at over $2,5)0 of are 1 ist 1 . lutel as soii as the ceries is lull and the awards of each series as made, are to lie published in the ne.xt succeeding issiieof Thk Al dink. This fcatureoiily applies to sub vribers who pay for o.nk ykar IN AD vaxck. Full particular? in circular sent on application enclosing a stamp. TEIIJIJ : One Subscription entitling to THK A L DJXK one year, the chromo and the Art C'nion, 1'llU ANNUM IN ADVANCE. No charm; for postage.) .Steciuien Copies of Til K Ai PINE, .V rents. THK A I.D IN K will, hereafter, be obtainable only by subscription. There will be no reduced or club rates; cash for subscriptions must be sent to the publishers direct, or handed to the lo cal canvasser, WITIIOVT RKsroNSlBILI ty to thk im bi.ishkks, excen-i-n cases w here the certificate is givenT bearing the fac-simile signaiure of Jamf.s SCT ton, President. CAXVASSKItS WAYTED. Any person wishing to act perma nently as a local canvasser will receive full aiid prompt information by apply ing to THE AEDISE COJIPAXT", 5S MAIDEN LANE, NEW YORK. 13w j w . 1: r 11 r it 1 d c k , GKNKKAL COMMISSION M Kilt 'HAN'T in all kinds of PRODUCE, A LSO, Fresh and Salt Fish, Oysters, Terra pins, Game, Poultry, Eggs, Ac. Foot of Church Street, NORFOLK, VA. P. O. Box, 53o. 30-tf TTR W ITS AMPLE to Agent. La X AVJJiXLi dies combination nee ' , v -'h Chromos. Send stamp, ' v Bedford, Mas. 4w. Tlie Oldeo Time. 1 The continental currency of the Uni ted States and what was done wit h it.- Paper money, in various forms, was already familiar to the people of the American colonies when the Revolution broke out. Massachu setts had issued bins or credit as early as 1G90, and her example was followed soon thereafter by New York, Pennsylvania, and the other colonies. The total amount of tnis currency in circulation just prior to 1775 is variously estimated at from $7,000,000 to $25,000,000. It had depreciated in comparison with spe cie differently in dlnerent places. In New England it fell until it took six shillings to equal a Spanish dol lar, the par being four shillings and six-pence. In New York .eight shillings, and in Pennsylvaniafeeven shillings went to the same dollar. These rates seem to have become went to market asrain. would buv but a tierce. I sold that, too, for a great deal of profit, yet the whole of what I sold it for would after ward buy but a barrel. I have now more money than I ever had, and yet 1 am not so rich as when I had less." Congress endeavored, too, to ar rest the downward career of its cur rency. Besides making the bills a legal tender for the payment of debts, all. sorts of pains and penal ties were prescribed for those dis loyal citizens who refused to take them in the course of trade. To keep down prices, which naturally rose as the which sounded like that often used by railroad men, and sometimes by conductors. A Princely Swindle. The Pall Mall Gazette says : " A swindler of a really high order of ability has lately brought a brilliant career to a close at Moscow in the person of an ex-prince, Demetrius Tschawtschawadze, who has been levying contributions at a dozen of the chief towns in Europe, .London being especially mentioned, with continued success. The prince never an' when l came to the end of the verse- Little Bo-Peep she lost her sheep, And doesn't know where to find 'em ; vLet 'em alone, an' they'll come home, And bring their tails behind 'em he looked up in my face with a bit of a smile on his poor little drawn k white mouth, and said : "Nursey'li know where to find her little sheep when he goes home. Will I be long going home now, nursey?" Long! Ah, poor Iamb! ten min utes later an' he'd gone home. Hereditary Crime. i- ; Some of the inost remarkable sta tistics regarding hereditary disposi tion to crime. jthat has ever henn collected Dr the Association. tent ion of Dr to a county on in New York, in which the propor tion ox crime ana poverty to the en tire population; was extraordin great, there being aboutonecri al or pauper to every ten tants. The recurrence of certain names among the lit of unfortu nates also excited his interest, and. led hi in to genealogical investiga tions which have resulted in the fol lowing astonishing statement of facts: Seventy years ago a child, having no other name than Margaret, was a vagrant axut that locality. There was no alms-house, and it seems that the girl lived as a waif, occa sionally helped by the charitable, but never educated and never given a home. She gave birth to chil dren, who became paupers like her self; they increased and multiplied until, up to the present time, nine hundred descendants of the friend Who Wrote Shakspeare. Hamlet overheard Jill ilia Cn tell King Lear, on thn Tn,.mi. Night after the Tempest, that An- say neard Itomeo nnd .TnitAt Love's .Labor was Lost uhn ironus ;nss flnstnlAthfnrtmtwit r m II Erro.re a.nd mld to th5 Merchant of in in- vpnirti for forM. i,nn.. r i,i i inhnhi. i . , uiu jjour- bon and a package of noknr rhorL-a Timon of Athens find f!vmhiMnn were parties to the theft ? nnd. nfW drinking Measure for Measure with ine inerry wives or Windsor told King John all about it." Hichard III (a competent critic) said Ihrnn could write even a Winter's Tale, and Henry VIII says that settles it. So, why make so Much Ado About nothing? Othello was busy dealing a five cent game of faro to the IV, V, VI Henrys: and the onlv re- woman can iiuuieiisu uiuKeuy, menuinz nu lens this through six generations, two hund red of the more vigorous are re corded as criminals, and a larere - - - . - number as tuies, anu arunKaras. in ono sin gle generation there were twenty children, threeof which died young, and the balance survived to matu rity ; but nine were sent to State prisons for aggregate terms of fifty years, and the rest were constant inmates of penitentiaries, jails, and alms-houses. ! nlv 1 a w .. " mar mauo Dy tnem was an occa sional "Prindle, don't turn! hold on !" and a few other fnreihln r. marks of a cursorv nature nnd. n Richard II was absent. Tumi n thA o 1 t i i . ' - .1 r 1 ourew, jl couia get no lurtherevb be traced Of ?ence as to who wrote Shakspeare. ue iraceu. ui iMt a urn ir.n auv .ik.fl UCII LllilL rHIM Vfll. laws were passed regulating the wa ges of laborers, the charges of inn keepers and common carriers, and the amount of purchases to be made bv any one person at one time. To prevent owners of goods from send ing them away for sale and thus es caping these arbitrary restrictions, an emDarero was actually laid in 1778, and continued for several months, prohibiting the shipping of wheat, corn, beef, pork, live stock, and other provisions. To crown all, in the last days of De cember, 1778, an official denial was . 1 A A. t A At S - . jipoented as nermanent. and it is 'u UI rupun mai Vu .gic would not redeem the bills issued ers were accustomed to reckon by by them to defray the expenses of shillinfrs of one sixth of a dollar " :Hnr uul changed his very unpronouncable currency depreciated, name or his story, after the tashion would suffer them to sink in the hands of their holders !" Finally, in February, 1781, after every expedient had been tried in each, New Yorkers by shillings of one-eighth, and Pennsylvanians by shillinsrs of one-seventh of a dollar. When, therefore, in May, 1775, the Second Continental Congress ad- . .. . . i I nrl ho hv hnlrllvr thrnwinff his ner- ing money, it seemed co every oouy f . , . r x ' , ' u r pertnmgin ry :!VJ'"T""' "llT".r of those more vulgar impostors who contradict themselves by the fre quency and multiplicity of their in vention, lie was always a Kussian prince, had always been robbed just Before leaving Vienna by a young man he had unfortunately taken into his service as secretary, was al wavs exnectinsr larire remittances from St. Petersburg, and was mean while in the closest relations of inti macy with the Russian ambassador. It followed that he was for the pres ent unable to pay the bill he ran up at the hotel which Jie had hon ored with his choice, and was lur ther in want of a new secretary, to whom he could promise a fine future career and a large salaryin imme diate prospect. So plaisible was this adventure, that at Berlin he not onlv left one of the thief hotels - - v . the most natural and proper thing the world for it to order the printing of paper money. There was indeed no other means available. The total amount of specie in the country did not exceed $5,000,000, and, as we have said, the existing currency did not exceed $25,000,000 more, and was probably less than that amount. We had no credit abroad, our com merce had been destroyed, and di rect taxation was not only impoli tic, but impracticable. Promises to pay were easy to make, and, thanks to the patriotic zeal of the people, were readily accepted as cash. The total amount of Continental currency put into circulation during the year 1775 was $5,000,000; in 1776, $y,000,000; in 1777, $8,000,000; in 1778, $05,500,000; in 1779, $114, 500,000 making a grand total of $200,000,000. During the same pe riod the individual colonies, and even private citizens, were also at work issuing paper money of their own, the aggregate amount of which is estimated to have equaled that issued by Congress. It thus come to Dass that a country of 3,- 000,000 of inhabitants was supplied vain and the currency was hopeless- without suspicion beforehis remit- ly gone, Congress appointed Robert tances arrived, promisiig to send Morris, Superintendent of Finance, payment of his account, which in- eluded a numoer oi ptny u aura- men's bills, from London, but car ried off with him to thai metropolis his landlord's son, whos little purse of nearly 50 his new, master bor rowed freely from, leading his vic tim just enough to go back to Berlin the failing fortunes of the country. In Mav. 1781. the Bank of North America was chartered, with a capi tal of $400,000, and its notes paya ble in cash on demand were made receivable for taxes and.duties. By with, when he was presently order- the aid of this bank, and of loans raised abroad to the amount of $42,- 000,000, tho war was carried on and brought to a successful termination. So great, however, was the public abhorrence of an irredeemable cur rency that when our present Consti tution was formed no power was given in terms to Congress to issue il a paper money, and it was expressly strength of his alleged intimacy ed there to await theprince on his way to Russia. On the young man's denarture the prince, who had been . . ' --. -.e inrrnriiioprt to some itussians oi means, borrowed 300 from one, ac cording to the statements made in the Moscow court, and wnn uns booty went off to Paris. Here, again, he borrowed from Russians on the forbidden to the States. A Frightened Parson aud an Unsaiictifled Conductor. A very amusing incident occurred sometime last week on the Illinois Central Railroad, west of Dubuque. The train was coming along .it the rate of about twenty miles an hour, when the conductor came into one oi tne passenger coacnes ana by the side of a sober- too k a seat with riirrenov amounting to $400.- looking individual, with whom he 000.000. which is about the same soon fell to conversing, ine con- thine- s if. with our present oopu- ductor soon discovered uiui ma iei- lalion of 42.000.000. we should have low comrade was a minister, aud he 1 . . . A a circulation of $5,600,000,000 ! politely listened to quite an exien- For the first vear of its existence sive and earnest &erraon. the Continental currency remained The minister seeing with their ambassador at ueriin, but disappeared on learning that inquiries were being made about him, owing to a warning sent from that capital. Having tried all the European courts out of his own country he appears to nave sougni refuge at Moscow, out nere nis ca reer ended. He was arrested on suspicion, and wa recently iueuu fled with one Linieff, a non-commissioned officer, who deserted some months before. For this desertion the Roi-disant prince now lies await ing trial, but his swindling is only mentioned incidentally. that his au- nearly at par with specie, and the ditor was inclined to pay more than onlv effect it produced was a steady usual attention and manliest very advance in the prices of all kinds of earnest heed to his advice and m oditifw. The besrinniner of structions. he at once felt a call to 1777 found it at a discount of fifty make a special and personal appeal ier cent., or. as we should say in to the conductor, which also he did i - i. . . these days, gold had risen to X). in tne most earnest ana pameuc Bv the 1st of January, 1778, specie language, which, coupled with sucn was worth four times as much as vivid illustrations oi tne nnai doom imner : hv December. 1779. forty of the careless and indifferent, seem times a much : anddurine 1780 the ed to carry conviction to the heart depreciation went on so rapidly that before the end oi tne year it mjok $525 in paper to buy $1 in specie I Then by common consent the cur rency went out of use altogether. The bills ceased to circulate as mon ey, and became objects merely of curiosity and speculation. As such they fluctuated in value from ow to of the conductor, who hung his head and appeared to be meditating very seriously, The perplexity and gloom which were depicted in nis countenance struck the minister as a positive ev idence of conviction, bo he very kindly inquired if he was not con victed that he was a sinner and in 1,000 for one. Their disappearance need of a Savior, and added that he caused no panic, and was universal ly rejoiced over. No attempt was ever made to redeem them, though the coin value actually received for them by Congress had been $36,000,-000. need not be ashamed to make the confession, as that was a necessary matter if he would obtain forgive ness. The conductor, who had not spo ken lor some minutes, now looked One thing which hastened the ca- up, and with a troubled countenance tastropne was ine enormous num- said : " -niy inena, x win ien yuu ber of counterfeits that were added the truth. I am in deep trouble, to the volume of the genuine mon- and know not how to avoid thedan' ey. As, during our late war, coun- ger that seems pending with such terfeit Hon federate notes were made imminence" in the North and carried to the Here the minister took the passive South, ro thf British Govern- hand of the conductor and said : Inducing the Weight. Fleshy persons usually eat light ly, while spare persons, the world over, are generally great eaters. The reason is this: What the for mer do eat they completely digest, extracting from it all its sustaining virtue so that they need but little ; whereas gourmands disorder their stomachs, so that the enormons quantities they consume are not converted into nourishment. A little food, well assimilated, yields far more nutriment and life than quantities crudely digested. In fact, gluttony doubly starves its subjects ; first enfeebling and disor dering digestion so that it cannot extract the nourishment from food, and secondly, by a gnawing, han kering, craving state of thestomach. akin to starvation. Old Parr, who became a father after he was 120, and retained his health and all his faculties unim paired till he visited the royal court, aged 152, died in one year from slightly letting down his extreme abstemiousness. Dr. Cheyne reduced his weight from 448 to 140 pounds by absti nence, grew.corpulent and sick on a more generous diet, and was re stored by abstemiousness. His practical and theoretical model was, 4The lightest and least of meat and drink a man can be tolerably easy under, is the shortest and most in fallible means to preserve life. What One Vote lid. A single vote in New York city, says the Express, made Jefferson President of the United States, and this one vote moved the policy of the Government, not only under Jefferson, but under his successor, James Madison, bo a single vote of 100.0UO votes made Marcus Mor ton Governor of Massachusetts. So one vote elected Wm. Allen, in the Chillicothe district, to Congress in ia4, and one vote suoquentiy made him United States Senator for six years later. The following case of the kind is still more re markable: In 1830 Dan Stone, of Cincinnati, was a candidate for the State Legislature. Walking up Main street on the morning of the election, he overtook an acquain tance going to the polls who intend ed to vote the opposition ticket. otone solicited nis vote, "we are old friends," said he, "and I know you will show an old friend that mark of kindness." Party spirit was then comparatively quiet. The voter replied, "Well, Dan, you are a pretty clever fellow. I don't care if I do." That one vote elect ed Stone, and gave a majority of one in the Legislature, which made Thomas Ewing United States Sen ator. Mr. Ewinir's vote on the question of confirming Martin Van Buren as Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain enabled the Vice President to give the ctisting vote against it, and so made Mr. Van Buren first Vice President and then President, and determined the gen eral noliev of the country for four years. By one vote only Andrew Johnson escaped impeachment and a judgment which would have made him ineligible to office. The other morning a nice vouncr idiots, lunatics, prosti- man Sot. into a car on the Dayton ouort ljine ivanroaa, and saw to his delight the only vacant seat in the coach was by the side of a vonn lady acquaintance. He reached for that seat with joyous strides, and her eyes answered his delighted looks. But just as he crot there, an elderly party from the other end of the car waltzed -up the. aisle, and dropped into the coveted seat. The young man approached moreslowlv and accosted the young lady. "How is your Drotnerv" he asked. "Is he able to cet out?" nh she said. "Will, he be very bad fy marked?" he continued ; and the old gentleman grew suddenly Inte rested. " Oh, no," said the fair de ceiver, " with the exception of a few small pits on his forehead, you would never know he had everriad it." " Were you not afraid of tak ing it?" the young man went on, while the old gentleman broke out in cold perspiration. " Not at all," she replied; "I had been vaccin ated, you know." The scat was vacated instantly, two young hearts beat as half a dozeti and the prattle of 44 nice talk " .strewed that part of the car, while a grayhaired old man scowled upon them from the hard accommodation of the wood box. Printers' Errors. It is only wonderful that printers do not make more blunders than they do ; and few persons are aware of the minute care necessary to avoid them. The New York Sunday Times gives some amusing specimens of typographical errors. The mis placementlbf a " space " made Adi rondack Murray refer recently to 14 them asses of the people," when he meant the masses. Whittier's " Brevvin of Soma" was printed ment, as a war measure, lent every " TbaVs right, my dear sir. Go on ; j health and serenity, Every Man Should Read This. We have probably all of us met with instances in which a word heedlessly spoken against the repu tation of a female has been magni fied by malicious minds until the cloud has been dark enough to over shadow her whole existence. To those who are accustomed, not nec essarily from bad motives, but from thoughtlessness, to speak lightly of ladies, we recommend these hints as worthy of consideration : Never use a lady's name in im proper places, at an improper time, or in mixed company. Never make assertions about her that you think she herself would blush to hear. When you meet with men who do not scruple to make use of a wo man's name in such an unprincipled manner, shun them they are the very worst members of the commu nitymen lost to every sense of honor, every feeling of humanity. Many a gotd and worthy woman's character has been forever ruined and her heart broken by a lie man ufactured by some villain and re peated where it should not have been, and in the presence of those whose little judgment could not de ter them from circulating the brag ging report. A slander is soon propagated, and the smallest thing derogatory to a woman's character will fly on the wind and magnify as it circulates, until the monstrous weight crushes the poor unconscious victim. Ke spect the name of woman ; and as you wrould have the fair name un tarnished, and their lives unembit tered by the slanderer's bitter tongue, heed the ills your words may bring upon the mother, the sis ter, or the wife of some of your fel low creatures. kluvn n.. T .1 "uii""o "a juuiu. jv urtunuiic critic closed his notice just in time for the make-up with " a word of compliment " to the music director and found it printed "a word of complaint." The Dunkards, the most temperate of people, generally appear in print us Drunkards. Gen eral Butler begged the voters in 1867 to give a good account of them selves for the honor of the Old Bay State, and an enthusiastic composi tor produced it as " for the honor of aened"hlu- Mr.' 'Wufl-WrtS had qpee gone out of his way to compliment him on close punctua tion and clean setting, made in a single "take" of "copy" one of the most ridiculous blunders on record. It was a portion of a ser mon of a prominent divine of Chi cago, that had been written: "And he saw Abraham afar off, and Laz arus in his bosom." The "clean setter" read it: " And he saw Abra ham afar off, and a horse's ears in Boston." A compositor on a St. Louis paper, the other day, made an editor say that " this war-cry is the key-hole of victory." Curious Statistics. The following interesting statis tics are extracted from the address delivered before the National Agri cultural Congress at Atlanta, Ga., by J. It. Dodge, statistician of the Department of Agriculture: "Less than a third of the States, and less than one-fifth of the entire domain of the United States is mapped into farms, and of this farm area only one-fourth is tilled or mowed. "Wheat occupies an area less than the surface of South Carolina, and if the yield should equal that of England half the area would suf fice. "Corn, which grows from Oregon to Florida, and yearly waves over a broader field than all the ce real! besides, covers a territory not larger than Virginia. "The potatqerop could be grown in the area of Delaware, though yieldingless than a hundred bushels per acre. "The barley for our brewing re quires an areajess than that of one half dozen counties. "Tobacco sufficient to glut our own and European markets, is grown on an area no larger than a single county. "The total acreage in cotton is leas than one-sixteenth of the area A Vessel Towed by n Whale. Vrigteffio atTHiiffix, states that on the Grand Banks, on the 23d of November, his vessel was riding at anchor, with 150 fathoms of cable out. Two of his dories, with two men in each, were away tending their trawls. The reriiainder of the crew, who were below, observed that the vessel was moving. On going on deck they found th schooner going through the water at the rate often or twelve knots an hour. Shortly after an immense whale rose Just ahead of the v sse!, with the anchor caught either in his jaw or blow hole. After the vessel had been towed for an hour by the fish, and finding that the dories were already out of sight, the captain cut the ca ble. The Sultan then returned, picked up her dories, and sailed for Halifax to procure a new anchor and cable. An incident of an al most similar nature happened tothe American schooner C. II. Price, of Gloucester, on the banks, about eighteen months ago. She was tow ed by a whale lor a day and a. half, when the fluke of the anchor broke and the vessel was released from her novel predicament. lie Economical. of the State of Texas." A sympathetic newsboy in Lex ington, Ky., seeing a convicted murderer on his way to prison for life, gave him a newspaper, saying: "I'm sorry for yer, boas that's the best I can do." It was the first kindness shown to the prisoner, and he quite broke down with emo tion, wnile the witnesses of the scene rewarded the boy with currency. Truth. A wide-awake newspaper man expressed the opinion that the pub lic can be better reached through the columns of a newspaper of a fair circulation than through all the other mediums, costly circulars, cards, posters, give-aways, and jim cracks put together. The old estab lished weekly newspaper is, after all, the only general, judicious me dium for advantageous advertising. A thousand doors are open to wel come it ; a thousand messengers are weekly seeking the post-office to re ceive it; a thousand families look for its coming, and ten thousand read it when it does come, adver tisements and all. There is much truth in this. "Take care of the pennies." Look well to your spending. No matter what comes in, if more goes out you will always be poor. The art is not in making money, but In keeping it. ' Little expenses, like mice in a barn, where there are many, make. great waste. Hair by hair gets bald ; straw by straw the thatch goes off the cottage, and drop by drop the rain wines into the chamber. A barrel Is soon empty if the tap leaks but a drop a minute. When you mean to save begin with vour mouth ; many thieves pass down the red lane. The ale Jug is a great waste. In all other things keep within compass. Never stretch your legs farther than your blankets will reach, or you will soon be cold. In clothes, choose suitable ! and lasting stuff, and no gaudy fine- nes. To oe warm is me uimg, nevermind the looks. A fool makes money, but it needs a wise man to spend it. Remember It is easier to b u i 1 d t wo ch i m n eys t h a n to keep one going. If you give all to back and board, there is nothing left for the savings bank. Fare hard and work hard while you are young, and you will have a chance to rest when you are old. . A good test on a young man's strength of character is to have him stay in his own town while he raises side whiskers. On retiring from business a wise old man said to his son and success or : " Now, my boy, remember that common sense is the best thing you can bring to bear on every affair of life except love-making." . A Williamsburg man woke his wife the other night, and in a atari led tone of voice informed her that he had swallowed a dose of strych nine. " Well, you fool," said she, " lie still, or it may coma up.";
The Era (Raleigh, N.C.)
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