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a. - v t . .- S3 1 -t 1 ;f:5jr-- II. THE "VVEEKLYEBA THE-JWEEKLY ERA: WM. M. BROWN, V 1 r; Man ag eii. 15F Rates o2 AdrcrtKing : I rinte of Bubcription t i Ono square,' one time, - ' ;- 1 00. : .. " two times, ' r V- -.150 r . " tlu-eeitty- , ",r : x 2.-00 iiailt One year, m advance, $7 00 Six months, in aJvancp, ,Z 50 i Three months, in Advance. 2 00 MJIU A square is tho width of n column and 1 inch deep.' . 1 - ... J ". , iZar Contract Adycrfcisciienter&eo ki Tri-Wkeklt Onoyear, in klvknce, $3 00 1 ft months, in advance, . 2 00 ! 3 months, in advance, 10" 1 month, iir advance. 60 Vol. 2. proportionately low ratesv-r - Wreici.t One year, in advance, - . . fl 0.) Profesional. Cardsr- not exceeding one ,i - Six months, in advance, i 50 square, will bb published one year for f 12. , ' '' ! ' 1 ' ' , " ' - ' I - - , ' , - , . ! 'fe - No. 21. i ; I i , i V I f Ix a lijcid ixtervai, the otlrer day; Thereto York Tribune said: "We have never agreed with 'these who re gard the President as harboring: Ideas of usurpation of purposes hostile to the Ilt'publicarj form of govern men i."" . : The Horse aialady. ' I . - me utp;iicnes announce 'the pres ence of the horse malady in Nprfolkj Virginia. ; M " Unless very stringent 'measures nre adopted and tlio greatest care talcen this malady will be in our State and city. The danger Is sufficient to alarm our people, and the near approach of thin terrible equine .pideinic ! suffi cient to startle them from their secjm- ing apathy and apparent indifference.. Virginia for G raj it. That Virginia will go fo'r Grant we have'had not a doubt since the August election in Richmond ing: . North Carolina. Enquirer comes. Now The to us say- hcther they will think it worth the trouble of going to the polls to vote for Mr. Greeley r not, we trust that none of our people'will fail to recognize the necessity t voting for their representatives in Congress. Some are trying to elect Greeley and leave Congress Republican ; while oth ers ho)e fccarry Congress, leaving Mr. Greeley to go to the devil. "You pays Aour money, you takes your choice. "A Long Pull, a Strong Pull, and a Pull all Together.' i Hon. I). M. Barringer, Chairman State DemJCon. Ex. Com., and Wi S. Mason, Esq., Chairman State Lib. Rep. Ex. Com.,1 are out in another long- winded address "to the people of Nofth Carolina," the last we shall probably hear of these gentlemen ; and as the dy ing song of the swan is the sweetest she sings, so is this the best of all the addresses yet had from these two con trary sources, running at right angles, like the waters of Cross Creek atFay ctteville. I The North Carolina Penitentiary. Some ugly stories are afloat regard- ing the management, discipline and inhuman punishments inflicted at this institution. The bayonet is said to piaya-consplcnnarpartr-titH the favorite instrument for "gaggin rr " as well as " punching" refractory con victs. ' S Death from gagging icith the bayonet is renorted to have occurred in these walls, and it is clearly the duty of the Governor to allude to the matter, in his message, by way of bringing up an in vestigation this winter, which, we ven ture to say, will result in something more than the investigating farce of the last Legislature ; and as it can't "hurt the party now, we predict some healthy changes in the personnel of the t ii a imminent of tluv North Carolina ....... (- Penitentiary. tunv itt-RXKRs John T. Miller and John F. Miller, (father and son) charged with burninir tho barn of Peter Z. Baxter, of Lincoln county, have been arrested an ar now in ia.il at Knoxville. Tenn. A re quisition has been made upon the Governor or Tennessee, by the Governor of North Carolina, for these parties, dui, ior some ue f.wt in tun i-onnisition. we leant from the SherilT or Lincoln, who has recently been trt Knrrvi!lfl after them, that a writ of ha- mrnujt has been sued out in their be- h:iir nn.i thev will nrobably be released fium custody. Hickory Tavern Eagle. jThere was no "defect in the requisi tion" of Gov. Caldwell for these par ties. They managed to sue out a writ, and the Sheriff of Lincoln, who had been sent to Tennessee for these men bv Governor Caldwell, could not wait frxr hn mnttpr to come ud on writ of habeas corpus, but had to return home to hold the Court of his county. The intimation of " a defect In the requisi tion" is a reflection on Governor Cald well, not intended by Tlie Eagle, wo feel quite sure. President " Grant's Inhumanity. We have heard a great deal about the inhumanity, despotism and indiffer ence of President Grant. The follow ing letter on the subject of change in the Indian policy of the Government don't read much like the writer was an inhuman wretch, or that he could be indifferent to the sufferings and woes f 'any portion of the American people. Taking the conduct of General Grant at Appomattox and the sentiments of this letter together, we do not see how any one can regard the President as an enemy and oppressor of the people of the South, unless we are prepared to believe that this man has more love for the Indians than for his own race and kindred. The italics are ours : Exkcutive Mansion. Washington, October 2(, 1872. Geo. II. Stuart My dear sir: Your fa- vor of the 24th instant,' saving that a change in the Indian policy or the administration . is reported to be contemplated, is just re ceived. Such a thing has not been thought of. If the present policy toward the In dians can be improved in any way, I will always be ready to receive suggestions on the subject; but if any change is made it must be on the sido of tho civilization aud Christianization of tho Indian. I do not be lieve our Creator ever placed the different races of men on this earth with the view of having the stronger exert all its energies in exterminating the' weaker. If any change takes place in the Indian policy of the gov ernment while I hold my present oftlce, it will Deon the humanitarian side. of thequcs- . lion. Very truly j ours, V. S. Grant. uoMrLiiiRXTABT. ihb hjka is very complimentary to Judge Merrimon and very severe on Gov. Vance and Gen. Han som. liat tioes it me&aj Charlotte Southern 11 ovic , -j - It means. General Hill, that TtiE Era was simply giving shape to the words of a very respectable body iof "Democrats" and "ConseTvatives,,, ;of this State, and . expression to a prevail ing .sentiment; for nvhich words and sentiment we don't wish to be under stood as at all responsible., exceot so far as the correctness of our statements as regards the 'feeling" are concerned. We know 'wTit the "conversation" and "sentlmeuV" of a large body of the Democrats"' and "Conservatives"' is. and wo took the liberty to embody such conversiition and sentiment into im ariicie ior me eaincation or, our readers and the benefit of our "Demo cratic" and 'Conservative" friends. As to Messrs. Ransom and Vance, per sonally, a comparison with most other men we know would be odious and uh fair to these gentlemen ; while anything tee might say "complimentary" of gen tlemen of the "Democratic" and "Con servative" party would be apt to be misunderstood by their political friends. But we have our nersonal likes and dislikes, which cannot be as certained or located by the standard of such articles as that of ours on "Fisliy Records." We were, in that article, writing the sentiment of a community of political opponents, and employing terms current among gentlemen of the opposition, in numbers and respecta bility, -power and influence, not to be despised by the rivals of their favorites in the approaching Senatorial contest. A AVord to lemocrats. There are thousands of Democrats in the land who will vote for Grant. They have abandoned the party that tried to sell them to Greeley and Brown. They clung to the old party until it sold its honor. Then they left it to join the .party of progress. To-day they are among our hard workers, and will re ceive the honors of the future along with those who have welcomed them to the ranks of the Republican party. There are thousands of Democrats who have not yet taken a decided stand with us. They oppose Greeley open 1 y i tpVsecretly favor Grant. We ,lti l appeal to mwe iitn Mr y mii t im r i hi . v . I r.TJ party and help us make tne defeat of Greeiev a rebuke that will stand as a warning to political tricksters through all time. The Democratic party can have no claim upon you. It tried to deliver vou over to raise Greeley to v E the Presidency. You refused to be de livered ; you protested against the cor rupt coalition ; you have used your in fluence to defeat its designs. You be long to the great party of progressive ideas ; your place is in the ranks of the Republican party come in, where your influence can be felt and acknowledged. Shake off the dust of a party that has ceased to exist, through the treachery of its leaders, and take your stand along with others who once stood by your side in the" Democratic party. The Republican party has a bright future before it. It is the party of universal freedom, and as such must continue to rule the nation throuerh a series Of years to come. Let every man who loves his country and desires to see It advance in power and glory enroll himself as a fifrhtimr member under the old Republican banner. The Letter of Captain Sliotwcll. . U We publish on our outside to-day the letter of Captain Shotwell, addressed to TJie Charlotte Observer. We do tins to iiid the vindication of this gentleman from a charge we never believed; and which we are glad to see he has de nounced and refuted. m j Certainly no friend of President Grant could have expected to advance his interest by purchasing the support of Captain Shotwell with a pardon, and we never believed that such proposi tion was made to that gentleman. . j Equally loth were we to believe that Shotwell was a man to be thus "bought Wo are glad that we have done him no injustice In this matter, and wo em brace, with pleasure, tne opportunity to place him before our readers in his true character. j Of his guilt or innocence the justice or injustice of his sentence it is not necessary to here express our opinion ; he has been convicted, and is under the pains and penalties of the law ; the de- mands of outraged law are oemg satis fied in his case; and the editor who gratuitously assaults his name, or as perses his character, now that he. is powerless, " is a vrretch whom it were base flattery to call' a coward." That Captain Shotwell and his asso ciates will all be released and returned; home long before their terms of im prisonment expire, we have never had doubt, notwithstanding the impru dence of their friends who seem to have systematically determined the preju dice of their-eases, but such release will not be obtained on any promisestof po litical support to the Republican party. Rut whenever tho President and the country is satisfied that the spirit s'of Ku iv lux ism is dead in this State, all who hjiye participated therein will be forgiven, and the punishment of those uuuer cuuvicuonoe prompuy remiiiuu. We confidently Jook to such consum- mationiand- we "earnestly appeal" to every citizen of North Carolina to join in bringing about an end and a state of anUirs so devoutly to be wished for by cyery good .man and woman of t he country." ' From Jfie Chicago Inter-Ocean.J Peace aud Ilccouciliatioit. 4 , "Vou may talk a boat peace and reconeil- '.iatipn as much as you please, buwc see our way to a terrlbleyengent's uppn tho Griv- ermnent and iip;n the negro through the lion of Iiorace Greeley." Qi7wiai(Ga.) Review. This is Southern sentiment: it is in strict accordance with the declarations of General Hodge, Greeley Elector at large for the State of I Kentucky ; with the assertions of Congressman Beck, of the same State : with the letter of At torney General Black, of Pennsylvania: and. with the report of the Democratic minority of the Committee on South ern Outrages, appointed by the Forty- second Congress. All these are author itative expressions of Democratic senti ment, and show as conclusively as lan guage can do, that in becoming the candidate of Cincinnati and of Balti more Mr. : Greeley became the repre sentative of the "lost cause." made "pledges direct pledges" to its advo cates and.exponents, and placed him self in the van of a movement not onlv violently reactionary in all its tenden cies, but having for its object the revival of caste in the South through the per secution and virtual re-enslavement of the' negro race. ' While Northern men in the Greeiev movement denounce the Republican party as the party of proscription and of hate,! and demand "reconciliation" through the revival of the accendancy of the Democratic party, Southern men deride the very idea of reconciliation. arid declare that they "see their way to a terrible vengeance upon the Govern ment and upon the negro through the election of Horace Greeley." And these are)'thei..men whom, at Appomattox Court House, iieneral Grant sent home covered, with the benediction of for giveness of treason to repair their shat tered fortunes and take care of their wives and children. These men who now invoke " vengeance upon the Gov- ernment and upon the negro" are the same from whose hands, red with the blood of .Union soldiers, and from whose heads, forfeited to a nation re stored by terrible sacrifices, the Gov ernment stayea the arm of justice; the ""'pftr ana upon wnom it reconierred KirhrilntrnnnEi.. Mi'hu, rnf V'-danaUl iPt if boJfwr;.hACmefrom F . . y-t r inmiMnn a inn nni nht I rt (.pdyerity ; the hrm but merciful course of the liovernment in repressing tne horrid crimes of the Ku Klux Klans ; the'" generous efforts of a Republican Administration and Congress to en lighten and educate the colored popula tions of t he lately rebellious States, and render them fit for the intelligent en joyment of liberty and equal rights all these have not. been able to eradicate the frightful virus, planted and foster eel by human slavery from the hearts of the Southern people. They still sigh for the time when 8,000,000 of men sub sisted in idleness off the labor, sweat aiid toil' of 3,000,000 of bondsmen ; they pjkiy for the re-erection . of the human auction ; block in the public square of every city ; they listen impatiently for the cry 'of the bloodhound, bounding oh the track of fugitive black men. And because the Government, clothed With the majesty of the people, in a spirit of Christian benevolence, has struck down all these bloody crimes agayist modern civilization, and made the Republic in fact what it was in name,- tltese misguided men of tho South seek "a terrible vengeance upon the Government and upon the negro," arid they seek it through the election Tof Horace. Greeley." If. - ?; - 3 JFroi; the Statesville American. -it T1iq."i:dio A Model Newspaper. UMr. Editor:. I accidentally picked uo.to-day a ; little sheet called The Echo. L published 'monthly by N. D. Fetzer, at object of Mr. Fetzer seems to be to ad vertise his drugs, medicines, fcc, but he giyes all loca and general news. And what strikes Jne with great force was tlie brevity, good taste, and fairness With which the editor writes his scraps. If he hast anything to say, he says it, and goes on to something else. This is as it should be. People who have work to do, and take up a paper to run over, don't desire, under the news column, to; read'all sorts of attempts at moraliz ing, punning, witticisms, &c. Again: When an editor of a netcs-paper under takes to state facts, even political facts. or to report a speech, even a party speech, he is expected to pay some re gard to truth and tairness, and state the Ijicts and points just as made, and not distort them for fear they may hurt his plirty, or weaken their torce by inject ing in the statement all kinds of com ments of his own. This should be done jo another place. ' i A little attention to these rules would inake Southern newspapers far more readable, and in due time give them much greater influence. I am happy to add that in all this, I can truthfully cpmmend The American. 1 , A Constaxt Reader. Copy of Lyman TrumbuWs Bill. T The United States "TVkT. (rVi,ml..,11 T "1SGU. . " April 19 To legal services in the cases of exparte McArdle and the . State of Georgia ; : against George G. . ; 'I Meade and others, in f .; ' the Supreme Court ' - of the U. S. at Dec. terras, 18G7 and 18GS $10,000 This Is the little bill Mr. Tiumbull collected against the United States for two hours' work; $5,000 per hour ! ax-payers, what think you of " Re form " like this ? , A Voice from AlbanyA j Vile Slanderllefuted Mr. It. A.jghot- - well Vindicates Himself. The Charlotte Observer i&y a: .The sub joined letter was received by us "from Randolph Ai Shotwell, whosnow confined in the Albany Penitentiary : Albany Penitentiary, October 14th, 1872. To the Editor of Charlotte Observer j My attention has been called tj the following article, copied from Tie N. Y. Herald, as I am informed, b a num ber of the State papers : '. X. ; M Klux Prisoner Wants to&lirmp for Grant. It has transpired that Rich- ard Shotwell, one of the leaders p the rvu,jvlux IsJan mirth.-Cptni;.rUvcAjehatt3 with - thatr-eptipn ?of now confined in the Albany Penlten tiarv. nro nosed to a prominent member of Congress that if the President would pardon him he would cheerfully take the study and labor lor the success of the Republican candidates, and de nounce tne ku kiux organization. Finding that he was disposed to plead for pardon, it was proposed to ask if he would give evidence against the prin cipal leaders, such as Ransom, Vance and Merrimon. This Shotwell declin ed with a defiant air, and said he would aie ratner man oetray anybody, vvpi plidation for the pardon was refused.- When Gerntt Smith visited Shotwell three months ago he said he found hitfr defiant and unwilling to accept a par dsn on any condition." I presume I am the person alludeqto in the above, although the writer, hiv ing set to fabricate a falsehood, has iiot thought it worth while to give e.ven the name correctly. The entire state ment is without foundation. I scorn to refute the imputation of having of fered to barter my principles for a far don ; but for the sake of my frienck , I will merely say that I have never ap plied for pardon, nor made any propo sals to a prominent member ol Ln-. gress, nor any one else. Having bten illegally arrested, falsely accused, tn fairly tried, and unjustly sentenced to the full severity of an unconstitutional law, I have long hoped (and shall con tinue to hope) that future development and the subsidence of bitter passion would lead to the restoration of my liberty as an act of justice rather than one of executive clemency. The last paragraph of Tlie Herald's morceau wrongs me in a two-fold de gree by imputing to me a piece of silly and theatrical brasreradocio in refusing: to accept liberty on any condition, on the one hand ; and again affording the President a fair excuse for declining to hear any future application in my be half. Mr. Gerritt Smith appears to be the originator of this calumny. It , may not be improper therefore to briefly state the facts in the case. Mr. Smith visited tho Penitentiary on the 8th of I innK"TVirMMM - - - ' me he was very courteous iFrar an swered all his inquiries with courtesy and frankness. After acknowledging that I had been a Grand Chief of the Klan, and was well acquainted with its designs, I assured him that it, and our people generally had been greatly misrepresented, not only by the Radi cal press, and irresponsible correspon dents, but also by the circulation of so called confessions and testimony in vented by perjured vagabonds, or ex hortedlfrom intimidated witnesses. I empha'tical ly denied t hat the Klan was a conspiracy against the Government, or against the negroes, or against any class of people on account of their po litical opinions. Reverting to the Gov ernment prosecutions, I called his at tention to the fact that there were sev eral gray-haired old men of QO years and upwards, doomed to years toil in this penitentiary, oyer a thousand miles from home, for no other offence than having sought to -preserve order in their communities, and to shield their wives and daughters from the brutal passions of white and black despera does, &c.L Mr. Smith seemed surprised and shocked at my statements, and strongly expressed his intention to intercede with the President in their behalf. I learned that he fulfilled his promise, and recommended three out of four, whom he saw, as fit subjects for clem ency. But he grossly misrepresents me. Nothing was said of pardon during the interview except a volunteer offer on his part to write to a certain Republi can Judge in my favor, for which I thanked him, but thought it hardly worth while for him to be at that trouble, although I should be glad to have his own personal influence. Great was my astonishment, therefore; to hear of lus letter to Grant, and I am forced to conclude that it is a part of a scheme to exclude me from the bene fits of amnesty. Hence this statement of facts. Begging the indulgence of the public for so lengthy an intrusion of my pri vate misfortunes, I am, Mr. Suitor, Respectfully, Randolph A. Shotwelj... A Tennessee Belle in Italy. Lake Corao Letter to the Philadelphia Bul letin. i The Princess Marguerite admires Miss Polk very much. She often says, playfully, if she were a man she should fall in love with her. On Monday last she talked a great deal with our beau tiful American belle. The Prince also entered into conversation sometimes, and when he and the Princess regretted Miss Polk's projected visit to America this winter, Prince Humbert said, play fully, he should issue an order prohib iting her from leaving the country. As the Princess Marguerite admired Miss Polk's toilette, I must give it among the rest of my chiffons. The long flounced skirt and overdress were of white mull, with dark blue velvet sash and bows ; a blue velvet jacket, trimmed with broad white point lace, hung over her arm ; at her side was a rococo chatelaine, set "with rock tur quoises and garnets, with enameled chains for fan, scent bottle, portemon naie, parasol, etc., each of which was ornamented in rococo, as the chatelaine. She wore a Spanish hat of blue velvet, with long blue and white ostrich plumes; her splendid chestnut hair, which is all her own jaW .down in 1 . U lUv. mUii nnnl lung, ncit iu.'7 viii ni iiiv. " How pretty your hair is," said the Princess Marguerite, with the naivette of a girl. " I wish I had worn mine so j to-day. It is always the most becom ing style. -But I had it put up high on account of the fashion, and it is hot half so nice." . The Princess Marguerite also has beau ti f u 1 ha i r of h er own , and very naturally likes to show its richness and jengtn. I: Revival of Trade with the South. It is a very gratifying evidence that the people of the South are beginning to bend their energies to the pursuits of peace and. the develop nent of their j !rich resources, that the trade of our the - j country has greatly5 increased this fall. ;For almost every class of merchandise the orders have been larger and the quality of goods better than for many years past, and there seems to be an unwonted ability and readiness to pay cash or ask for only very short credit. Actual investigation show s that the in crease in business with thp different jSouthern States varies from 25 to 50 ier cent, of the whole amount for past seasons. j I This, of course, contributes to the prosperity of our own city, but that is the smallest of our causes for congrat illation. What is of far greater impor tance, it gives evidence bf returning prosperity in the South, and renewed commercial relations, which are al ivavs friendly and mutually beneficial, between that section and the North. The eroods furnished for the use of the pegroes, too, are of a less flimsy ,nd showy, and of a more substantial char acter. .which shows that they are nn- brovinsr in iudsrment and stability of Character. I Not onlv does the demand for more and better merchandise evince grow ing prosperity, but the cdll for agricul tural implements and machinery shows that the people are earnestly at worK establishing their industries upon a Solid basis. Nothing cculd.be more gratifying than these indications that the people of the South are forgetting those things which are behind and pressing forward to takd their part in upholding the general interests of the country, and assume thei proper place as valuable antL valued citizens. It is ;o be hoped that.jall breaches will soon 3e healed, old prejudices and harsh feelinsrs will have passed away, and that the whole people of the Union will be working in harmony to pro mote the prosperity and greatness of our common country. Jew York Eve- ning Mail. Turtles. I Turtles live to a great old age. In a document preserved among the ar chives of one of ' the old cathedrals of England there isjm Account'' of arLoldT-. rough, that was ' known to (. naverDee about two hundred andk twenty years old. He was so tame and so much at tached to the erardener that he would run to meet him, and would eat out of his hand. His food in the early part of the season, was lettuce, dandelions, frreen neas. etc. In the latter part of thn season he fed on fruits exclusively. such as currants, raspberries, pears, ap ples, and peaches : and he was so ex cessively fond of strawberries and gooseberries that, to restrict his depre dations unon those fruits, the crardner bunched a hole through his shell, in sorted a chain, and kepti him part of ifhe time chained up tola tree. He would eat no animal food nor take any finuid. This turtle weighed thirteen bounds, and he would v alk across the garden with a weight of two hundred and fifty pounds upon ! his bad; In cloudy weather he would scoop out a cavity in his ground where he would repose, torpid and inactive, un til the warmth of the sijm roused him from his slumber. About jthe beginning Of October he went into ls winter quar ters, selecting for many years a partic ular corner of the garden, where he would dig a hole in an inclined direc tion, and enter the ground in the man ner of n. mole. The depth to which he penetrated varied with the character of the approaching season, peing irom one to two feet, according as the following winter was mild or severe: For about 4 month before entering his dormitory me out about he took no food. ie c:' he first of April. From the New York Telegram. Forrester's y ire. Biographical Sketch of Blonde Who Won the the Beautiful ff'ections of the Nathan Murderer. . The recent arrest of Billy Forrester, he suspected murdered of iienjamin renders any- Nathan, very naturally thinj? relative to him, and those con- nected with him, of interest. We there- fore publish the follow sketch of Lizzie Forrester, nee Thomas, the wife of the alleged assassin, and his copart ner in crime: lizzie is the eldest of two daughters of old Bill Thomas, of Baltimore, one of the mbst expert bur glars and cracksmen m the United States. She was born on the 2oth of September, 1850. Her father, who by his robberies was alway in funds, sent his two daughters to school at the con vent of Notre Dame ) des Victoires, where they received a first-class educa tion. At an early age the wife of Thomas died, and he took up his abode in the purlieus of Fell's Point, leaving his daughters at the convent. He con ceived the plan, however, of turning his daughters' accomplishments to ac count, and gave them! instruction in the mysteries of his profession. Lizzie proved an apt and willing scholar, and materially aided her father in entrap ping the unwary. As a woman, she is what the world would denominate beautiful. She is about five feet two inches high, of petite figure, and very light complexion or blonde, and with a Erofusion of light flaxenj hair. Her face as rather a sad expression. Her feet, hands, and mouth are sriiall. : She usu ally wears her hair hanging down her back, but at times has it done up in a loose waterfall or net. Her style of dress is simole and moldest. She was married to the murderer Forrester in Baltimore in July. 1869.' and she has had one child. From the Cleaveland Herald. Good; Losr. ' He finds a Lost Child at Niaht. and Keeps Guard Over Him for Many i. J Tours. . ' : I On Thursday afternoon and Friday morning The Herald chronicled the fact that a little hoy seven years old, who had wandered away fromv his home on Chatham street: West Side, and become lost, was found , "by a po liceman on Thursday .morning crouched in the corner of a vard at the corner of Bank and Lake streets, asleep andlialf frozen, for the weather was quite cold.. To this should now be added the fact that the boy, finding himself unable to mttk i'isMvnv: home, bopim txi ve' iirtl .wnnei nus cngageu, larye .uyg;: ap parently a cross between the hound and shepherd breeds, which the hoy had never seen before, came along, and, ap preciating the boy's distress, took up a position close to the boy, and remained on guard before him, lending the warmth of his shaggy covering to keep comfortable the feet and limbs of his human ward. He i was in downright earnest in ins sell-imposed guardian ship, for when the officer attempted to arouse tne little sleeper, and take him to the station for better security, the dog manifested a disposition to resist any interference with his charge, and it required considerable coaxing on the part of the patrolman to induce com pliance on the part ;of the canine con stable. He finally conceded the point, nowever, and sunerea tne little wan derer to be led to the central station, where he had a chance to get a good nap on a lounge in a warm room. But the dog did not desert him even here, seeming to think tne Doy might re quire further attention, and he follow ed on to the station; stole quietly into tne room where ne was taken, stretched himself on the floor; beside the couch of his little companion, and when the Sergeant, went thither at 7 o'clock in the morning, to look after the little fellow, the dog manifested no little anger at the intrusion, and stuck by the boy with a fidelity as devoted as it was wonderful. The little fellow was then taken to the West Side station on Detroit street, the dog still attending him, and taking up a position at his feet as soon as they reached there, and viewing all comers with an eye of jeal ous and determined guardianship. What became of the two after this, be yond the fact that the boy was restored to his home, we know not, but the pe culiar, and wonderful conduct of that dog certainly deserves the mention and commendation we here make of it. Humors of Frontier Life. Eun in Arka?isas as Described in a Pri vate Letter.. From the St. Louis Democrat. I was only si . t at.Aictnme fcarryirig from behind the ferice.'as Jtvas passing his house, but I had loaded the two shooter as soon as I got it, and he didn't jump from behind that fence but once. I am glad that one of the barrels is a rifle, as I needed it for long range prac tice. The other I can load with buck shot, and can riddle a man nicely at close quarters. I mean to try both bar rels on those Jetts when I meet them. You see, old man! Jett stole a mule from us in the war, and pap laid for him and killed him. Then Nigger Tom " it V - li ili f - i Diru.s. oiiii nioru inguous i.iiuu living Jett, as we call him-the black-iacedVLJf distant points, and continued one he laid for pap and plugged him. Then I picked a fuss with Tom, and cut him into giblets, and since that time his brother Sam has been laying for me. I know it is his turn, but I think my double-barrel will prove too much for him:; i ! If you want to see fun come down for a while and bring a rifle. It don't make any difference which side you belong to, and it isn't even necessary to join the militia. ' It is easy to get up a grudge against somebody, and all you have to do is' to lay for your man and knock him over. Behind my pig pen is one of the host hiding places I know of, and it is so handy. A good many people come within range in the course of a week, and a man can pass his time right pleasantly. ! I wish you would send me a catalogue of Sunday school books, with the prices, if there are any in St. Louis. If we can get theni on time we will bike a big lot of books. lam superintendent of the Baptist Sunday school now, and am running it under a lull land of steam. Old man Byers, who was turn ed out, is right mad about it, and swears that he? will chaw mo up ; but he will chaw! lead if he don't keep clear of me. My wife wants to-'&now if you' can't send her a set of teeth without getting measured fori them. Her $25 set was busted all to flinders, .by 'a pisfo! shot that went through her 'mouth,' but- it didn't hurt her tongue. Write soon to .Your friend and parti, P. S. That sneaking, ornery cuss, Sam Jett, crept up last night and fired at me through the window, but ho didn't happen to kill anybody except a nigger girl, j I mean to go for him, though, to-day, and will be glad of the chance to try the double-barrel. -- An Awkward Compliment. The Empress Marie Louise had never been popular; in Pans, as Josephine was to the last, nor had she the. fine in stincts which so especially distinguish ed the first consort of Napoleon, who was. indeed his better angel, ior ex ample : one day Napoleon, having been provoked by her father, the Emperor of Austria, declared to Marie Louise that he was 'an old ganache" (Mock- head.). -'Her majesty asked one ti her ladies-in-waiting as she said .the em peror had called her father by that name the meaning of the word gan- achet and the lady, not knowing what to say in reference to the empress' own father, answered that it meant " a ven erable old man.'? Mane Louise oe lieved this, arid afterward, when Cam baceres came to pay respects to her, she, wishing to be very complimentary to i-: . .:i tie. T h a vo o ivo vs rp(mn Pf 1 you as the chief ganache of France." crowded into ouo bill during the ex Harper1 s Magazine. ' I piring hours of a session of Congress. A 'Countryman Alarmed. ! 'Scene at the Opera. 7 A New York' correspondent says:" Pauline Lucca created a genuine -.senrsa-tion the other evening in 4 Fra Dlavo-. , lo." She represents Zerlina in a very , natural and piquant way, according to . her own- notions-j-not those of any of her lyric predecessors or contempora ries. You, remember the seen& of -Iho bed-chamberi in .'which the? heroiio 1 stands singing before her mirror and disrobes for tho night -a 8ieno that the severe Mend lessohn , declared ho never could have" written. Aubur, a French- man: must have taken particular 'de- ' light in it, because there is suggested. '! by it no little ambiguity of .what is to . - Lucca st enicd ticsirous of making the passage emphatic by t transporting her r dressing-table to the front of the stage, and coming forward to prepare herself for her couch. In the audience was a plain and honest country gentleman bh ' his first Visit to the opera Avith his ' ! wife. He had told her much of the sins and iniquities of the great city;:' but until he had entered the academy that night lie had no Idea of an opera. . and consequently felt the deepest inter est in its progress. . v. When Zerlina had removed herbrace lets, taken idown her. hair ami put off her bodice, the simple-minded rustic, who had watched her eagerly, revealed . the liveliest symptoms of apprehension, not to say disgust. He looked around, ! evidently surprised that the elegantly- " dressed ladies still kept their seats. , Then, rising, he said' to his consort, . . Well, Mary, we'd : better get out of this. This may be all right for city ' folks, butjit's no place for us. 1 1 never . seen the opery before, and I pever want to see it i again., I can stand almost anything, but. when it comes to a wo man undressin' erself before the pub lic, you can count me out. Come along, Mary, we !may be green, but. by" cracky. we are decent anyhow." j' So speaking; ana with indignant -i glances at the high-bred indiffercntists around him, he and his spouse depart ed in anger and confusion. If he would have tarried but a few minutes longer he would have discov ered the scene to be harmless, though I must confess it has always seemed to mo a trifle too suggestive: nor do I wonder that a man or woman who had never witnessed an opera should fall into such an error as the plain gentle man from Schoharie. ; . There is evidently a little rowdyish- ness in Lucca's composition. She seem- ; ed, the other evening, to relish the sen sation she created by italicising, so to speak, the bed-chamber scene of Fra Diavolcj She enjoys, I should judge, treading on the edge of decorum, but she does it with a grace and vivacity that make you forget that decorum has anything to do with her charm inar. thomtfi isonietimcs indelicate, mode of A Wild Iigeon Koost in Maryland. Probably the largest pigeon roost', ever known in Maryland says a Balti more paper, is now existing on the farm of Mr. Willisn Schley, near Oakland, in Alleghany county. The pigeons col lect nightly on a tract of ground cover ed with alder bushes, occupying about six acres. The pigeons first appeared about ten days ago in countless flocks. The Cumberland Keics says: The in flocking pigeons gradually settled down upon the bushes, until they were bent to the ground by the weight of the , birds. Still more pigeons came flying to settle down upon the already living ." mass, untii the whole five or six acres were completely covered. So great was the number of birds that they were' , piled upon each other in places from -one to two feet m depth. The pigeons continued flocking in and setting upon and among each other from about l . ; o'clock in the afternoon until nightfall, when at last they became still, and pre pared for their night's rest. With tho early dawn of the morning flock after flock arose and flew away in all direc tions, which departures, were continued until about 9 o'clock, when the pla'co was deserted, ami not a living bird to be during the remainder of .the day, until toward evening, when they again began flocking back to thesamo roosts, and the scenes of the evening before were again witnessed. All this has occurred daily for the past ten days. It is estimated "that all the flocks of pigeons for perhaps fifty or sixty miles around thus gathered at this one spot ea-h evening h;ri:ig their annual -migratory vifl'i o the imna-r.sM foreht re gions of Jk-" Alleghany Mountain'- in: quest of tho lu-avy ," mass ; of 'acorns' abounding ihere. This is the only roost known this season in this or any of t he neighboring counties, and is, perlia's, the only one v. ft bin a circle of sever:! 1 hundretl miles. It. is a well-established fact that Hies:' birds-have but 0:10 roo:;t ing place within a - very large ter ritory, i'.nd in their tmnsit to warmer, latitudes, and during their stoppage by the way, use one place only as a roost at night. At this wonderful roost, on Col. Schley's place, thousands j and thousands of pigeons have been nightly captured by men and boys, with guns,' clubs and bags. After . nightfall a per son can go among the birds and scoop them into the mouth of a bag. It is needless to add that thousands of them have been wantonly shot, and allowed to remain upon the ground, where they died. ... ' ; . , ;- ,'. - ' ' .- Meeting of the Forty-Third Co;i f - ' , gress. ' ' -i'-'. The forty-third Congress will not . meet until tho first Monday of Decem ber, 1872, unless sooner called together in extraordinary session.' The impms-, sion prevails among many persons that the act of January J22d, 18G7, rcquiriDg a new Congress to assemble on March 4th, immediately on the adjournment of its predecessors, is still in force, but K5j lfl TV W'SlR reoealed by tho 13th sec tion of the United States . statute ap proved , April 20thr 1871, .and to bo found on page 12 of the laws passed at . the first session of the forty-second Con gress. The repealing section 'is con- tained in a deficiency! appropriation act, and the entire statute is well worth examining, sis a curious illustration of the i incongruous measures that are i :i i m XL
The Era (Raleigh, N.C.)
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