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THE DAILY ERA. W3I. M. BBOWN, Manager: Fayettevillo St., old Standard Building. Cas h In vakiably in. Advance : THE DAILY ERA will be delivered anywhere in the City at Fifteex Cekts a week, payable to the Caruier,. weekly. Mailed at $7.00 a year; $3.50 far tx months; $2.00 f three months; and Seventy- Five cents a month. WEEKLY ERA. $2.00 a year. GENERAL DIRECTORY. U. 8. GOVERNMENT OFFICERS. U S Marshal Samuel T Carrow, office Club House. Ilillsboro street. U S INTERNAL R EVEN UK COLLEC TOR, 4tii District I J Young, office up stairs in the Fisher building. U S AsaEsson, 4tji District Wiiey D Jones, olfice Andrews' building, on Ilillsboro street. U S Commissioner It W Best, office on Ilillsboro street. U S Commissioner A W Shatter office in Club House, Ilillsboro street. Register in Bankruptcy A W Shaffer, office in tho Club House, Ilills boro street. Supervisor Internal Revenue I W Ferry, office Andrews' building, 1 1 illsb-H'o street. STAT K GoVKllNM R NT. Tod II. Caldwell, (i vcrnor. John li. Neathery, Private Secretary. Y. K. Howcrtoii, S-jcretary of State. Sam II Parish, Clerk. T. L. Hargrove Attorney General. Curtis II. Urogden Lieut. Governor. David A. Jenkins, Public Treasurer. D V. Kain, Chief Clerk. A. D. Jenkins, Teller, J. U. Martin, Book-keeper. John Iteilly, Auditor. W. P. Wetherell, Clerk. Silas Burn?, Superintendent of Public Works. K. P. Battle, Superintendent of Public Instruction. John C. Gorman, Adjutant General. V. C. Kerr, State Geologist Patrick JleGowan, Keeper of the Capitol. Theo. II. Hill, Librarian. CITY OFFICERS. I a 3' o r Wes 1 ey W h 1 1 alter . conAiiissioners Western Ward, John C. Gorman, Albert Johnson, Norneet Duns tort, j Middle Ward, K. P. Battle, M. W Church ill, W C. Stronaeh. Eastern Ward, J. P. Prarie, A. N. Up church, Stewart Ellison. City Attorney J. C. Logan Harris. Treasurer M. "W. Churchill, city Clerk and Tax Collector M. Graus 11:111. 'Jity Surveyor Fendall Beavers. A'eigh Master A. Sorrell. vJhief of Police and Clerk of the Market James King. Assistants to Chief of Police 1st, B. II. Diinston; 2nd, C. M. Farris ; 3rd, Alfred Mitchell. ; Street Commissioner J. T. Backalan. Captain of Night Police Joseph Watson. Sergeant of Night Police-VCharles Hun ter. V Police Nathan Upchurch, Jas. Doyle, J. M. Petross, M. Thompson, Robert Crosson, Itobt. Wyclie, and Win. Durham. Janitor Oliver M. Roan. WAKE COUNTY OFFICERS. Sheriff T. F. Lee. Deputy Sheriffs J. J. Nowell and A. Mag mn. Superior Court Clerk and Judge of Probate John N. Bunting. Deputy E. G. Hay wood , j r. County Treasurer Wm. M. Brown. Register of Deeds W. W. White. Keeper of the Poor House C S Jinks. Keeper of the Work House J. II. Furguson. County Commissioners Robt. W. Wynne, M. G. Todd, Win. Jinks, Henry C. Jones, S. Rayner. TOWNSHIP OFFICERS. Raleigh. Magistrates W H Harrison, W Whitaker, D A Wicker, Norfleet Dunston, It C Pet ti ford. Clerk, John E Williams. Constable, C M Farris. School Committee, Mingo G Groom, Joseph Watson, J C Gorman. Barton's Creek. Magistrates, J II Hutchison, John Nor wood. Clerk, J D Allen. Constable, .1 K Nipper. School Committee, Buekner Nip per, J M Adams, James Ray. Oak Grove. Magistrates, B Y Rogers, H W Nichols. Clerk, J P Beck. Constable, M V Rogers. .School Committee, J D Hall, D Carpenter, J Penny. Panther Branch. Magistrates, J H Adams, W D Turner. Clerk, W L Crocker. Constable, Jas Adams jr. School Committee, Ransom Gulley.S M Williams, Hugh Blalock. St. Mary's. Magistrates, W I Busbee, J G Andrews. Clerk, S C Pool. Constable, A Sturdevant. School Committee, S Ivey, C Baugh, Smith. Wake Forest. Magistrates, G A Sanderford, A L Davis. Clerk, E E Gill. Constable, Hut V atkins. School Committee, W II Stell, Jos Carpen ter, G S Patterson. White Oak. Magistrates, A C Council, A B Freeman. Clerk, WK Suit. Constable, G A Upehurch. School Committee, A G Jones, B G Sears, W W Holleman. Swift Creek. Magistrates, S C Adams, W E Fierce Clerk, C H Stephenson. Constable, AY II Utlev. School Committee, P ates, T G White, W A Keith. Middle Creek. Magistrates, W HStlnson.J A Adams. Clerk, J D Ballentine. Constable, S L Jones. School Committee, A E Rowland, Allen Betts, A J Blanchard. Keiv Light. Magistrates, J O Harrison, F J Bailey. Clerk! W J Ward. Constable, W H Man gum. School Committee, J D Turner, J A Powell, PM Mangum. Buck Horn. Magistrates, W B Jones, J T Adams. Clerlf, D B Holland. Constable, W II Nor ris. School Committee, Jas C Ragan, M B Royster, W G Burns. Cedar Fork. Magistrates, C J Green, O II Page. Clerk, S F Page. Constable, A. S Pollard. School Committee, W M Marcom, J W Booth. S F Page. Houses'' Creek. Magistrates, I King, J D Hayes. Clerk. Riley Yearbv. Constable, W R Perry. School Committee, Chas Cooper, Green Sanderford, H Jeffreys. Little River. Magistrates,!! Pri vett, W Hartsfleld. Clerk, VJ Montague. Constable, A J Richardson. School Committee, F J Reartslield, W II Chamblee, Jefferson Jones. Marks Creek. Magistrates. M G Todd, W A Rhodes. Clerk, L W Hood. Constable, J F Rhodes. School Committee, J W Marshburn, II W Rhodes, J J Ellis. St. Mattheics. Magistrates, Geo A Keith, J A Hodge. Clerk, N B Williams. Constable BB liutla loe. School Committee, Leonard Smith, J Rogers, F H Watson. MASONIC. Hiram Lodge. No. 40, A. S. Lee. Mas ter. Masonic Hall, corner Dawson and Mar tin sts. Meets third Monday night in each month. WM. G. Hill Lodge, No. 218 R H Simpson, Master, Masonic Hall corner Daw son aiid Martin streets. Meets second Mon day night in each month. Raleigh Chapter, No. 10, R. A. Ma-soxs.-I)r Wm G Hill, H P., Masonic Hall, corner Dawson and Martin streets. Meets Tuesday night after ad Monday in each month. n Vol. 2. THE DAILY ERA. THURSDAY, JAN. 16, 1873. ; Governor Ilolden's Disabilities. i The Senate Impeachment Court I tf the last General Assembly, in a j lit of partizan insanity, long since deplored by the people of the State, and disapproved at the time of all good people, sawproper, in dexosing the Governor from office, to also fix o:i him life-bans of political dis ability. At a time when so many of our people were seeking the removal .f disabilities imposed by Congress, and when the State Legislature was clamoring for the relief of divers prominent citizens of the State, that Legislature banned the only man in the world it had the power to touch. The mistake is now ap parent, and since Congress has re moved the disabilities of all, with slight exceptions, the disposition is manifest on the part of this Legis lature to correct the mistake of the other by removing the disability imposed on Governor Holden. A resolution has already been in troduced, and the matter is in proper shape before the Legislature. That it will promptly act favorably to the relief of Governor Holden, no one entertains a doubt, and as an earnest of a better era of feeling in our State, and a disposition to re pair the mistakes and forget the errors of the past, the public senti ment of North Carolina is strongly setting ia the direction above in dicated. The Republicans, always first in amnesty, will vote unanimously for this relief, and the Conserva tives will do honor to themselves who support this measure. It is hoped that the desired action may not be delayed si day ; and let the Legislature of North Carolina, with one voice, speedily send up an appeal to the Congress for the relief of the last one of our fellow-citizens, that V resident Grant may en ter upon a second term ox nis nign office with a country fully restored with not a single one of his fellow citizens under political bans the foot of a bond-man pressing the soil of the United States nowhere in all our broad, peaceful and free domain. The Western North Carolina Railroad. The Era, to-day, contains, in its correspondence department, an able, well written, intelligent and com prehensive article on the Western North Carolina Railroad, and the financial troubles and depressing difficulties which beset it. It is gratifying to observe, that, in whatever writers have to say on this subject, the official conduct of Governor Caldwell in reference to the matter is generally commended, in that he has but done his duty as the Executive of the State. Reference is made, in the com munication of "Catawba," to the Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruth erford Railroad, in which the State has, or had a much larger interest and a more valuable property, be ing a line much nearer completed and producing a much heavier annual- income than the Western North Carolina Road. Another correspondent writes the Era and asks "Why is he (the Gov 41 ernor) silent on the Wilmington, " Charlotte and Rutherford Road a Road in which the State has in vested seven millions and is en " dorser for a million more a Road "that is surely worth protecting, earning annually, as it does, $350,000; with one hundred and "eighty miles of finished track, " and about all the grading com pleted?" The Legislature, last Winter, with all the facts before it, after a long, patient and exhaustive inves tigation, decided by its action that the State could afford no relief to the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford, and so events had to be left to take their course, and the State's interest to take care of itself, or be sacrificed. , The Governor could have accomplished nothing, whatever action he may have seen proper to take, and after the Legis lature had disposed of the matter, any interference of the Executive, unasked, would have been merely gratuitous intermeddling. In the case of the Western North Carolina Road it is quite different. Although the Legislature has had r JLd RALEIGH, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, the matter in hand, giving it a hasty and unsatisfactory consideration, friends of the Road and parties in terested therein have besought the Executive to bring the subject once again before the General Assembly. He took such action as was neces sary to procure tirru?, and a message will soon be transmitted to the Leg islature covering the ground and giving all the information on the subject-the Governor has been able to possess himself with. It is painfully apparent that little or nothing can be done to protect the damaged and sinking interests of the State in this Road, but very littie harm can result to any one from a further investigation of the subject by the Legislature, and if nothing can be done, why then the sale of the Road must take place, unless there shall be found good ground for litigation. The people of Western North Car olina, so much interested in the completion of their Road, and so manifestly impatient underjhe ex isting delay, are assured that the Governor is not hostile to them or their interests in this matter,' and he will do nothing in the premises he does not feel that his duty to him self, his high office and his State shall make it obligatory on him to undertake ; and if there is found no cause for litigation on the part of the State there will be none, and no unnecessary delay caused or useless obstructions thrown in the way of the early completion of the Road under the auspices of that associa tion of capital said to be ready, anxious and amply prepared to finish the Western North Carolina Railroad to the Tennessee line. CORRESPONDENCE. Superintendent Mclver refuses to give up the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. The following correspondence ex plains itself : Raleigh, Jan. 15th, 1S73. IIox. Alex. McIver, Raleigh: Dear Sir : Having received from his Exo.Vl.ncy OoTmnor CaMwull a. Commis. si on appointing me Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction of the State of North Caro lina, and taken the oath required by law, I respectfully notify jtou that I will be ready to take charge of the office on to morrow. Having derived great. pleasure as well as profit from the perusal of your exceedingly able report to the present General Assem bly, I hope, and from our friendly relation?, believe, that you will continue to aid me with your valuable counsels. Truly yours. KEMP P. BATTLE, Sup't Pub. Instruction. Office Sur't Pub. Instruction, Raleigh, N. C. Jan. 16th, ISld. Hox. Kemp P. Battle: Dear Sir : I have the honor to acknowl edge the receipt of your letter of the 15th inst., giving notice of your appointment by his Excellency Governor Caldwell. Assured as I am from an acquaintance with you of mere than twenty years, of your eminent fitness for the duties of the office of Superintendent of Public Instruc tion, I would cheerfully surrender the office to you, if I believed that my term of office had expired, or that the Commission under which you claim is legal. By the first section of Article III of the State Constitution the term of office of all officers of the Executive Department shall commence on the first day of January next tkfter their election, aud continue until their successors are "elected and qualified." By section thirteen of the same Article: If the office of any of the said officers shall be va cated by death, resignation or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the Governor to ap point another nntil the disability be re moved or his successor be "elected and qualified." An officer is one who is investcd'with an office. Mr. Reid had not been invested with the office and therefore he was not an officer. The office of Superinntendent of Pnblic In struction never became the office of Mr. Reid and therefore it was not vacated by his death or otherwise. The Constitution continues the term of the present incum bent and no vacancy has occurred. It is reasonable that the Constitution should de signate the person, if it has a suitable per son on hand, to continue in office in case the person dies or refuses to qualify; and the Constitution of North Carolina does this very thing. It continues the term of the incumbent until his successor is "elected and qualified." No vacancy occurred, and His Excellency had no authority to grant the Commission to which you refer; and for that reason the Commission is null and void. I, therefoy, most respectfully decline to surrender to you the office of Superintend ent of Public Instruction. Sincerely yours. ALEXANDER McIVER, Sup't Pub. Instruction. Local and News Department. See Legislative proceedings on fourth page. t m i t Cotton Market. Up to 4 P. M., to-day there had been 46 bales of cotton brought to this city. Price IS. . Gold at 123. Price in New York 20. Sale of a Saw Mill. The saw mill of Hobby and Ktovons on Little Creek in this county w as sold last Monday to Henry Young 1$r two thousand dollars. This mill savvSgood lumber for onb dollar per hundred. Supreme Court. This morning the State vs. Eli Sim mons and Gus Allen Anson county, was argued. Attorney General for State and It. T. Bennett for Defendant. To morrow is the case of Western Railroad, W. II. Howerton et al, vs. S. M. D. Tate et al., W. II. Bailey for plaintiffs. An Old Pensioner Sick. Old man Joe Woodward of this city lies at his home sick unto death. .He was-in the war of 1812 and is now draw ing his pension. His wife is sick in the same room with him. When Mr. Wood ward first located here there was hardly any town at all. He is in his eighty fi rst 3rear. Hillsboro. The following colored people have re cently left Hillsboro to attend school in Charlotte and this eitjr. To the school in Charlotte: Walker Whitted, Fred Whitted and Elizabeth Berry. To Tup per's school in this city : Martin Whit ted, Alston Whitted and A. II. Haugh await. And to the other schools here, Alice Berry and Mary Whitted. Sports of the Blind. It was recess at the Asylum and the blind boys were walking on stilts. "Let's have a chase," said one, and two youths, nearly grown young men, took out, one after the other, galloping after each other. They started alter the wovd was given them by a little blind urchin, "one, two, three, four." A little deaf and dumb chap with a long keen switch would run behind and whip them up. The Skeleton. ' - A distinguished physician of this city has at our request kindly furnished us the following anatomical facts concern ing the human frame. The skeleton of an adult person consists of two hundred and forty-six distinct pieces as follows : Bones of the head, 8 Ear, Face, 14 Teeth, 32 Back vertebral column, 24 Ribs, . 24 Tongue, 1 Upper extremities arm, wrist and fingers, G4 Breast, sternum, 1 Pelvis hip, sacrum and coccyx, 4 Lower extremities leg, instep and toes, 60 Sesamoid, 8 A Johnston County Fanner. Robert F. Faucett moved from threo miles of Haw River in Alamance coun ty in 1867 and settled on an old worn out place in Johnston county where Jim Pearce used to live, and he has about paid for it this year in cotton. Mr. Faucett tells us that with only the help of his family he made fourteen bags of cotton last year and has already got nine hundred and ten dollars for thirteen of the bags, the money paid him by the Slate National Bank of this city, and the other bag as soon as he is through picking will bring him be tween seventy and eighty dollars. The secret of this farmer's success is : he had four sons. And they worked with father. Musical and Theatrical. The Rubinstein Troupe did not attract large audiences in Boston. "If we stay in Boston much longer," said Wieniaw ski, "we may become unaccustomed to appearing in public." Joe Jefferson will probably visit Rich mond again at the expiration of his Southern engagements, about three weeks hence, lie will probably play one night in Petersburg also. Robbie Foard, one of Rutherford (N. C.) amateurs, will do the tragedy in the town of Rutherfordton with his Happy Twelve The villagers and their sweethearts are so glad they've come. The Wilmington Journal says: The Oates troupe are to again give us the go-by, after having made an engage ment here. They were to have played at the Opera House on Friday and Sat urday evenings of this week. The Wilmington Star says: Among the theatrical celebrities already billed for this place the present season, be sides Madame Jananschek, we may mention the Fox Pantomime Troupe, February 3rd and 4tht Owens, the cele brated comedian, Feb. 10th, and the Duprez and Benedict Minstrels, Feb. 21st and 22nd. JANUARY 16, 187.3. Our State. State news is scarce. The Wilmington urchins are playing shinn3'. Titia Lyttle of Asheboro, color ed, drunk, fell in the fire. Buried. Will Benbow of Guilford is erecting a handle factory at Oak Ridge The colored citizens of Greens boro are going to establish a Freedmen's Savings Bank. They hired out the paujers in Jones county, and Mrs. Lucy Locky, very respoctable white lady, was bid off by a colored man. The town of Jefferson is so full of loafers that the Messenger received to-day contains two advertisements headed, "No loafers wanted." The New Year article written by Cameron of the Ilillsboro Recorder can not be surpassed in beauty by any editor in the State. Greensboro is bounded by two Buffaloes and a Turkey Ridge and is one of the vei g unest little cities in the State. The partridge abounds there and mink skins and coon skins hang a curtain of furtu re prosperity over the very hart of the eitjr. The hart is a tame one. A CORRESPONDENT Of the New York Herald says that Gen. D. II. Hill teaches a school in Hillsboro and edits a periodical called The Land We Love. He has only missed the town by one hundred and thirty-nine miles and would be quite correct as to the other if Gen. Hill only taught a school or edited any such journal. The Wilmington Star says: An old colored woman by the name of Mary Ann Quince, or Mary Ann Taylor, as she is better known, died here a da- or two since, in the 62d year of her age, and was buried yesterday in Pine Forest Cemetery. At the age of 11 years she was given to Mr. J. A. Taylor of this city, and has remained in his family ever since, a period of 50 years. Our City. It looks like plowing now sure. When the city gets hungry it feeds at Fraps' handsome lunch counter. One hundred and fifty bales of cotton were sold in this city yesterday rang ing from sixteen to eighteen cents. A Kentucky drove of ninety five rules ; wim "Mn- Itatlelxli tills week "and were sold very rapid at from $1.VJ to ?175 per mule. So much for cotton. The legislature is for turning over the clothing shucked of by the Kirk war men over to the use of the convicts in the penitentiary and the inmates of the Asylums. The new wing now being added to the Deaf and Dumb and Blind Asylum will be three stories, eighty feet long, heated up by furnace and supplied with water by pipes from tank. Mr. Mclver, the old Superintendent of Public Instruction, refuses to give up to Mr. Kemp Battle the new ap pointee, and the result is a suit between Messrs. Mclver and Battle. In Superior Court to-day Harry Cheek, colored, bastardy, not guilty. Woolvine, ' larceny, two years to the Penitentiary. George Keith pleads guilty of assault with deadly weapon, judgement reserved. Harry Lashley aud Alsy Holt jury out. Until we have the coal hucksters cry ing 'harcoal, and the newsboys' " here's your evening paper," and the boot blacks, " have a shine, sir," and have the streets lighted -with gas, wo shall continue to think we are in the back woods. And then a play-companyjust once and awhile. One is a blind colored man and he carries a placard before him, then an other is a lame colored boy on crutches, another is an old wizened black man, he looks nigh unto a thousand, another is an old white woman who says she can't use one of her arms, and another is a little thin red faced man who always asks you to " lend" him ten cents. There are at least twenty more in Ral eigh. Personal Intelligence. Judge Henry is in the city. Capt. Furmau of the Asheville Citizen is at the Yarboro. Paul Morphy, the chess player, is a modest lawyer in New Orleans. Gen. Joe Johnston is a leading insur ance man in Savannah, Georgia. WTe are glad to see our friend A. W. Cheek of Orange county, just returned from Arkansas, in this city. The Rev. Herr Leineweber, a German clergyman, has been sentenced to ten months' imprisonment for preaching political sermons. Prof. N. M. Mitchell, colored, of Mobile, Ala., Superintendent of the Sabbath Schools for the A. M. E. Zion church, is in this city. He has been visiting the school in Newborn and Wilmington and Fayetteville. Henry M. Hamilton, vice-president of the National Railway company, has been arrested charged with obtaining 50,000 from the Pennsylvania Railroad companv by falsely representing that he owned all the stock of the Hamilton improvement companv of New Jersey He was bailed in $10,000. No. 128. Fists. Ah, ha, see how it icorks. The Mobile Register fays: 44 Put' on the crown, put away the carpet-bagger and the scallawag, ad.you have our best blood to support and fasten your imperial sway from New England to California." Of course the terms car pet badger and scallawag are a mere shadow of excuse for this editor to writo his real sentiment. SOT " I'll td I can drink six glasses more," cried Amos Boswick, a New York boy, who had already drank eight glasses of Bourbon Whiskey. He staggered home, and as ho seated himself near tho table, his mother slapped him two or three times on the head witti her open hand. Tho boy at tempted to throw up his hands, but fell on the table with his head resting on his arms. After a few minutes his mother ordered him to get up. As she took him by tho arms lie gasped, and rolled from the chair to the lloor, dead. Oh, no, she wouldn't marry again. A beautiful girl she was, living in Georgetown, D. C. when a young man thero fell in love with her and they were engaged. But after all she married a dashing young officer who in the late war threw his fortune in favor of the South and died fighting under the Stars and Bars. She named her first boy after this first lover, and the widow and her son moved away out West. The other day the old Georgetown bach saw the death of this boy, aged 12 years, published in the newspaper, and he went right out there, and the old flames were rekindled, and they are now living, man and wife, together" in Georgetown. and not even the teeth are wanting to enable the wife to chew on tho cud of her firsu love. Harmon at the Academy of music in New York being asked whether he would build another Museum and Menagerie, said : Well, I am now nearly G3 years of ago. I can buy plenty of building sites and get plenty of leased lots for a new Museum, but I cannot trof a nnur lnoon -v f 1 1 f!r T o oitnof in this respect, same as Mr. Vanderbilt. A man offered to sell him a horse. "What is his pedigree?" asked Mr. Vanderbilt. It was given him. " Ah, that is the best blood in tho country, and I will buy him at a fair price. How fast is ho?" " I think ho will travel in two twenty when he gets old enough." re plied tho owner. " lie is a two-year-old colt!" "A colt! I can't wait for colts," exclaimed Mr. Vanderbilt. I can scarcely wait for leases ; but younger mainiiprn of uiv-fainilvdesire me to erect, In tbla city, nn establishment wort lry of New York and or myseir. It will be no small undertaking; for if I erect such an establishment, it will pos sess novel and costly features never be fore attempted. I have it under consid eration, and within a month shall deter mine whether I shall do it or not. Col. Keating in his travels gives the following of how they fatten their women foi the African and Asiatic markets : As soon as betrothed she is cooped up in a small room, with gold shackels on her ankles. If her proprie tor has lost a wife by death or divorced one, her anklets are sent forward to the matrimonial candidate. When she has attained a desirable size, indicated by filling the pattern rings, sho is carried in triumph to her new homo. The pre paration of food that actually produces that coveted dimension a mountain of fatness is called dough, made of tho seeds of a vegetable peculiar to the country. Some positively die from ex cessive fatness in an effort to surpass in that bewitching accomplishment rival candidates for matrimonial positions. These famous mortals are not tho poor girls. They are the higher orders in society, and therefore are ambitious, like fashionables .in some civilized States, of securing an elevated position with a rich husband, Bruce the traveler, saw a great queen in Africa a gem of women, the envy of her sex and wife hunters wlio weighed over four hun dred. jfS" Boys, this is of a little sailor boy who was sent up the main mast to furl a sail while the storm was raging ; read it, and it will tell you why the little fellow wasn't afraid : 44 Why did you send him? Ho can not come down alive." " I did it," replied the mate, 44 to save life. We've sometimes lost a man over board, but never a boy. See, how he holds like a squirrel. He is more care ful. He will come down safe, I hope." Again I looked till tears dimmed my eye3, and I was compelled to turn away, expecting every moment to catch a glimpse of his last fall. In about fifteen or twenty minutes, he came down, and straightening himself up with the conscious pride of having performed a manly act, he walked off with a smile on his countenance. In the course of the day, I took occa sion to speak to him. 44 Why did you hesitate when ordered aloft?" " I went sir," said the boy, 44 to pray." 44 Do you pray?" 14 Yes, sir. I "thought that I might not come down alive, and I went to commit my soul to God." 44 WThere did you learn to pray?" 44 At home. My mother wanted me to go to Sabbath-school, and my teacher urged me to pray to God to keep me, and I do." 44 What was that you had in your jacket?" 44 My Testament, which my teacher gave me. I thought if I did perish, I would have the word of God close to my heart." THEPAILYERA. , Rates of Advcrtlsln gi One square, one insertion, $ 1 00 One square, two insertions, 1 54 One square, three insertions, 3 00 One square, six Insertions, 8 50 One square, one month, .'. 8 00 One square, three months, JO'OO One square, six months, . 80 00 One square, twelve months, 50 00 An Inch lengthwise the column Is a tquare. Twigs. Mr. Havens has not taken 4ono swallow", of cither food or drink for 57 days. What a favorito that young man wonld bo with a boarding house keeper! When tho Boa Moines police scoop out dens of iniquity the names of tho young men of 'high tocial position" who are found thero are suppressed. The penniless chaps get Into print. Gov. Walker, of Virginia, in his message, reconfmends tho equalization and correction of assessments and the more thorough assessment of personal property by which the total assessed valuation of real aud personal property will reach $ 100,000,000; tho anuual tax u pon w h ich w i 1 1 be $2,000,000. Tho tax from other sources is estimated at fJSOO 000, making a total .revenue of $2,800 000, of which $400,000 is to bo appropri ated to schools, leaving n balance of $2,400,00 available to pay tho interest on the public debt and pay tho current ex penses of tho State Government. Sophron, a wiso teacher, did not al low his grown-up sons and daughters to associate with thoso whose conduct was not perfectly correct and pro per. 44 Dear fathwr," said tho gontle Eulalio to him ono day, when ho for bade her. going in compauy with her brother to see tho light-minded Lucin da, 44 you must take us to bo very child ish if you think she can do us any harm !" But the father quit t!y took nn extinguished coal from the fireplace and reached it to his daughter. 14 It docs not burn," said ho; 44 take it child i" Ku lalie did so, and behold ! hor delicate hand and puro whito dress wore soiled at once. 44 Ono cannot bo too careful in touching coal," said sho impatiently. 44 Certainly," replied her father. 44 You see, my child, that coal blackens ovon when it does not burn ; so does tho so ciety of tho immoral." Reban. Farm-Yard Scraps. Nearly seven thousand men and ono thousand horses are gathering ico on the IIudson, and it averages "eleven inches in thickness. About 9,500 tons are gathered a day. The crop will reach 1,500,000 tons, and will be gath ered by the 1st of February. During the past year 2,000 pounds of walnut kernels were shipped by rail from Broadway depot iu Rockingham county. They sold at 30 cenU por pound, bringing tho handsome sum of fjiiOO for these small and seemingly worthless things. Tho Register says: "Theso walnut kernels wero gathorcd mainly by poor i hildren in Brock's Gap, who had no other way in which to turn an honest penny." They aro used in making candy. Tho Charlottcsvillo (Va.) Chronicle says: 44 Wo learn with much plcasuro that parties exploring thisounty in XTfl: nMrrw to. ve recently dovel It. Woods, and thero iajrrery rwu. believe tho Vein continues through tho adjoining lands of John Wood, Jr., and perhaps on to adjacent lands. ITheso discoveries aro within on-half a, milo of Ivy depot, on tho Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad." Every farmer knows, or ho thinks ho knows, bow to take caro of potatoes for winter use, but wo will describe briefly our methods. Dig tho potatoes, if pos sible, when the ground is dry; but If this cannot or has not been' done, they should bo allowed to dry on a barn lloor, the adhering soil removed, and then the roots may bo carried to tho cellar. We provide large boxes which will hold about twenty bushels each, (cast off three boxes) raise them a few inches from the cement lloor by cross pieces of scantling, and then fill them with the clean and dry potatoes. A lid excludes them from the light. If thero happen to be a few wide cracks in tho bottom of tho box the ventilation will bo better; and if tho tubers aro clean and the cellar cool thero will bo little rot. BY TIM!. FOUR O'CLOCK. Louisiana Scnatorshlp. New Orleans, Jan. 16. In Kellogg's Legislature John Ray elected U. 8. Sen ator in placo of Kellogg resigned and Pinchback for long term. In the People's Legislature Warmonth eleeted for long term, and W. L. McMul len for short term. From Cuba. . Key West, Jan. 10. Steamer Edgar Stewart hero under command of Capt. Sommors, lato U. S. N. IIo confirms' landing recruits and munitions of war to the Cuban patriots. Frank Blair goes by tho Board, Washington, Jan. 10 L. V Bogy succeeds Frank Blair as United States Senator from Missouri. Arkansas Seiiatorship. Little Rock, Jan. 16 Dorsey re ceived 40 ; Garland 35; Bowen 19. Markets. London, Jan. 10. Consols 02; Fives 801. Liverpool, Jan. 16. Cotton opened dull; Uplands 10 ; Orleans 101. Later Cotton dull. New York, Jan. 16. Cotton quiet, sales 775 ; Uplands 201 ; Orleans 21 ; Flour firm ; Wheat quiet, firm, 1.6601. 67 ; corn quiet quiet, old Western mix ed, COJ; Pork quiet: mess 13.70 13.75; Lard firm : western steam 8J ; Turpen tine firm at 6262i ; Rosin firm at 3.85 3.95, strained ; Freights quiet ; Stocks dull; gold firm at 123 ; Money firm at 7; Exchange, long 93, short 101 ; gov ernments dull and steady ; Slato bonds dull and heavy. ' t