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' ' ' t'eV'tork World. . tTp for KHiay is all that ice need,' ' For IZ' neTer m 1)6 W vTi"IT"W WiU P1 lut another to-day, - tU iu measure of joy and sorrow. ' hS forecast the trials of lif a i 8U 11 811,1 aild grave Pcrskenee, rtWaUh ml wait fw CIwd f 1118 at yet have no existence f". Strength for to-day what a precious boon the earnest soula ho labor, For the witling hands that minister ' , To the needy frii-nd or neighbor. Strength f"or to-day that the weary hearts 'In the liattle for right may quail uot, A.nd the ryes'bedi aimed with bitter tears : Jn their searcji for Ught may fail not. Strength tor to-day on the down-hill "track, op th travelers near the valley, That up, fir nft tht. Othor side . Ere lo.! they may safely rally. s StrengtJ for to-day that our precious youth May Kppflj hun temptation, And bu Jfc tram ihe rUe to the set of the sun; . - O9 a Jtrong and sure( foundation. : .. Strungi for toAlay in house and home .V:, Tjo ptwtice forbearance sweetly; To seal ,er kindE words and loving deeds, . Sun busting n Uod completely. i THJir.?,V"L,t,!GWHTHE SEW EEUISTEB.AND MnK COfV MtTlSG LINKS. v "R" in Hales tfee-klr, February", 1880. I ; JS'iM) York, .f'thtnaty 22, 1880. I see in a Norta Carolina paper that my old friend Capt T. A. Ramsey, formerly of Pitts boro, lis a copy j&f the Raleigh Minerva, of 11, pubiished weekly,: so it is stated, UndiD rk of the press established in the State capital." . There are several younp errors n this.; j The JTflerraas oublished by yfa. Boylai and A. II. Lucas. And the fi ft paper "established at Raleigh was thirteen years 5efore 18. It was the Jfcfifr, wel and edited by Joseph Galeiir:, father of the Joseph Gales. Jr., of. tfcv JSraliviur'- Ini-eUiffeneer, and of We!-tp RIeigh Gales,, who succeeded his fither. Ir, t rales was induced to ffo to ihp infant ISi te capital in the vear 17gv!by he ji rsnasion of the Hon. Ja- taaiiei Jia i"nen . in : Congress from il ho knew Mr. Gales as a Kith Carolin , reforter, and l th "Congress e best one of his day, in t Philadelphia. When I : wti a boy in tw nty Tears ie Register office, fifteen or ater, I saw some of Mr. tiruinsr this sten. exrtertintr. M.'6ns letters ane had gid reason, that Mr. Gales wijild be a wina sopporter of the Jeffer sotian Republficanl party, to which Mr. icon, oeiongef i. "S."In rer, April 7, 1877. Sjveasbaro. -JiriL5 877.-Tw- Ite session of the in the House ark for the new' rounty came up.. Veston R. Gales lace carried the of other years. lerished name in like a deep dive personal recol- les, the great- ton. He came i I was born r to enjoy the le bone of every rtnerehipi with of Kngland , he published For the utter- born of tne illustrated the trv in the last ales fell under h to relinquish iMontgomery to this country ear manacles. d with bis his- rs in this land ew or him he Raleigh. tilled with my es- AJmanack. lessons in as- Jiandry, pnar isrm Ik erature in the jecdotesii . Its monthly Jokout-l r-rain about- i op andWlown at judi- hnt stout farming ; Js, burns, whooping I the like ; ita lists of nembers of Assembly; e courts,, aad relishing are fresh, to the mind's s axtj. years since. " kl ft. great bunch of alsyiTeplenished by the t.,recurrug year, tied x a nail at his corner plaes: while a capa- ag the smoking to- hnv of the ReaiU;rva sprejid out and Atted under the JooKing-glaw, and other bjiies put up at,, ueeaiui places on tne t allnit 'only "for ornament, but to stop flur thinks and ktl the wind away. fresjialso to the mind's eye is the mem 14 pitture of the .venerable old man, tth or consulting. thP ever-fresh pages of t 14; almanac a&d the glorious al rtW; glorified Id4ady at the opposite uffn: iQi her knitting in ner ; xmsy and spectacles on ner prow, wmcn and anon drew down to. enaDie turn the seam "or pick .up . lost - j. her tlS' t. -: stitciml II I stick to it vet. she was one of the Xjfejtt women in thi worid, the stufi r ' mi that fctl-ds are made of.' It is in my heart I-tue this episbdey but ifr occurs to I 'vou ancf your - readers may have 'jjiiu-fathcrs and j?randrmothers as as myself. ' If you had not, I pity be gofd that was in the Galeses had. a ahjon of coming out in the newspapers blessing to their generation! greater, I ,1ltve thought, than the present brood ox r juiuruais, WHICH utia . ' -Accession of sensations. Do you recollect me 'motto of the as at. stood uud. r the conduct of the old gentleman, Hid t hat of his on Weston, the grand- dher of the lad first mentioned?-?-" -.4 (rS'th'eM'oflairdi"Pf? : L" n unKjd by party rage, to live like brothers.". Its paged 'were imbued with' the spirit of i lotto other Galea. Joseph, son bf the old for a trood part 01 tne nrsi nan miry at tne etutoriai xjjcjm mo euwencer : amoaeioi aignmeu lalism such asf we ae cr snau like agrain. Fop its power- ful and pronounced American feeling it had the honor to have its press battered down by the British, under Admiral Cock bum, in the war of 1812. But it arose from the ruin with renewed energy. The centre and focus of the best moulded thought of the nation it was confided in as an honest exponent of our new world institutions and doctrines, by men of all parties, at all seasons of its long existence. When party spirit was most turbulent, or 'whensleeping in the quiet of the "off years amid the storms of war, or in piping times of -peace, it stood serene in its grand patriotism in conscious dignity and power-i-commanding the respect of every American citizen, and doing more, perfmps, than any other agency to elevate our Republican institutions in the estima tion the nations of Europe. ? Speaking of the destruction of the In telligencer press bv the British, reminds me of a similar compliment paid to the Fayetteville Observer by Gen. Sherman. The resuscitation of the Observer, at Ral eigh, under so much of its, old inspiration, and -with its addition of fresh and ef fective ' talent, is indicative of a similar continuance of life and power. So mote it be! The old Observer, as well as the old Reg ister, was a favorite representative of North Carolina feeling, and guardian of North Carolina interest and honor. Though never patronizing in their tone, the "Pro vincial" pressjof the State recognized their influence. As an instance, awav back in 1840, and before, when your correspondent drove the editorial quill (and scissors), the mutilated remains of those papers weekly showed whence thei columns of the Patriot derived their spirit and their value. ' The constant and courteous recognition of the country press, by these leading journals, was one of the secrets of their popular power. i Now don't be jealous, boys, if I tell you that the first thing I look for, on opening your clean and beautiful sheet, is the pithy New York correspondence over the signa ture of "II." It has the old ring the true ring. " It makes one glad, these latter aays, to recognize tne veteran wno sug gests no compromise of principle, in poli tics or morals; whose sense and experience are such solid warrant against mistakes of judgment. " H." in The Observer, April 14, 1877. 2iew Y&rlc, Aprih 10, 1877. My gratifi cation equals my surprise at the compli ment paid me by my old friend who for merly presided so ably over the Greensboro Patriot, when he and I were younger than we are now, and by the assurance you give editorially that my random letters - are relished by your readers. Valueless as they are in themselves, and written 'under every disadvantage of time and circum stance, they are rightly received as evi dences of Undying affection for my native State and her people, than whom norfe are more worthy of the feeling. No one can understand how much I regret that cir cumstances seemed to me so imperative to require me to leave them ten years ago. But it is needless and unmanly to repine, especially when the end is so near. ..But how iaany- recollections spring upon me in regard to the Gales family! How the homely old face which I first saw sixty five years ago, grew to be lovable as the gentleness and kindness of the nature and habit of the good man were developed. How his quiet taciturnity contrasted with the rare conversational powers of bis wife. How he would look with admiration at her as she entertained and instructed and amused the company of the best peopla from all parts of the State, who were in the habit of meeting at their, table, in their parlor, or in their bookstore. She was a great talker, read everything and with un usual rapidity,' and was a ready writer of bjcxth prose and poetry, having published two novels, many editorials, and some very pretty poetry. Mr. Gales was a model of industry, never idle, day or night. Prudent, thriftyr raethodical, he acquired a handsome prop erty, and reared and educated a large' family in a liberal style. His childreti were nearly all remarkable for talent his eldest son, Joseph, pre-eminently so. He was the most" rapid writer I "ever knew, dashing o2 the brilliant editorials for the National Intelligencer with lightning speed in this as in some other respects the op posite of his father, who was very deliber ate. . and never in a hurry. Unlike his father, Joe, as he was always called, had ho idea of the value of money, but would lavish all he happened to have upon any impecunious applicant: His sister, Mrs. Seaton, was the first lady in Washington, perhaps ; not excepting- :Mrs. Madison. AnotheR remarkably talented sister, Ann, died yc&ng. As to Weston Raleigh, my contemporary,, there being a difference of only a few months in our ages, every body in Jforth 'Carolina knew him or knew of him as the generous, whole-souled gentle man, everybody's friend rather than his own. V The mention by Mr. S. of Gales' Almanac brings to mind theannual preparation for the issuing of that important publication the many evenings in which all hands assembled after tea to fold and stitch, a labor which was made delightful pastime by the cheerful conversation in whch all nAxxieA and which formed no unimpor tant part of the education imparted to the " boys ',' who were domesticated in . the family,5 as was then the custom. The compiler of the almanac was for ft nlain countryman named John Beaslev. who was seldom seen in town except "when he made his annual visit with badly written and ill spelled manuscript, coming in shirt-sleeves and stockingless. The, wonder always was how so illiterate a man should be able to deter mine for a year in advance the times of rising and setting of the sun and moon, but especially when it would show, and raih ' &c The vulgar notion was that he had a hole in the ground in which he would' stretch-: himself on bis back of nights and watch the stars. At last the old man died, and Mr. Gales had to find an astronomer elsewhere to regulate the oA Btt!nir of the sun. - The new a . hantt made no, pretension to "weather .sDk n "4ni? iWHned to embark in that li . v.,, i- itrmi 1 npVfti do: to issue 1 r -.ubkf that most essential e&tute Almanac would lose" its Wtlfi if U tailed to notify its patrons, 1 r - -v WA'v.wt of eonsultinsr it and implicitly believed in it, of the times when they might expect ram and snow, and the various other changes which are said to likenth'elements to woman s changeful .naturef- sThe old gentleman -was equal to the emercencyv'-He filled 'in .B.Mfi n Anril. 'and an c- casional "snow? h. : February, bat n months which were'itaore doubtful than half - a page' one word In lineIiookfc-forram -bout-thitimeVt and this doubtless maintained the reputation of- the almanac u :.,i:m ,-i-tlM. wohthcr question. ' v ! ' PArhana no' better 'iUiiHtration vol in rbnrntfr of the Old IfC ntleman Jcari be given than that afforded by a trial which . took place -before him when mayor of the City of Raleigh. A darkey was up before him for stealing a pig, and when ; the case was made very plain and the Mayor was delivering a lecture to the cul prit on the disgraceful act of stealing Mr. Smithes pig, the rogue excused himself by protesting, that "Fore Qod, old Massa, I wouldn't 'a took the pig if I'd "a knowed it belonged to Mr. Smith. I thought it belonged to t"H." in The Observer, December 7, 1S78.1 New Tori, December 5, 1878- Your city has lost two very prominent citi zens by the death of Mr. Moore and Major Seaton Gales. The former will be missed at the, Bar, where he stood pre eminent. The latter as the gifted orator, always gracefully eloquent and ready. He inherited his manner and' fluency from his father, who was noted for his" power in declamation. Certainly neither derived them from their staid, matter-of-fact anr' cestor Joseph Gales, a man of few words and no grace, though of strong, practical good sense. The beginnings of Mr. Moore and Major Gales, how different ! Their pursuits and fortunes how different! yet each eminent in his own way. They are a loss to the city and the State. "H." in Hale's Weekly, May 11, 1880. The following lines said to have been written about thirty years ago by Frances Ann Brown, a blind poetess, bom in Ireland, stir up memories both -pleasant and sad : " When another life is added To the heaving, turbid mass; When another breath of being Stains creation's tarnished gluss; When the first cry, weak and piteous, Heralds long-enduring pain, And a soul from nou-existence Springs that ne'er can die again; When the mother's passionate welcome, Sorrow-like, bursts forth in tears, And a sire's self-gratulation Prophesies of future years, It is well we cannot see What the end shall bel" True and beautiful ! Rather more than fifty years ago I re ceived a letter from my excellent friend Weston R. Gales the friend of my boy hood and maturity, always till death took him in his prime in which he beautifully expressed his feelings on the birth of bis first child, "No sweeter sound had ever greeted his ears than the first feeble wail of his first born." Sire and son noble and generous and brilliant and beloved as they werenre both gone! "It is well we cannot see, what the end shall be." "I do Dot ask to see The distant scene; one step. enough for nm" Such the story of the old Raleigh Reg ister, and of the men who made it. Why and how the paper became a real power in the State, itself and its editors winning and retaining, the love of all sorts and con ditions of men. Volumes could not make plainer than these simple and unstudied letters of Edward J. Hale and Lyndon Swaim, clipped almost at random from their correspondence with The Observer and Hale Weekly. The new Raleigh Register, it is hoped, will succeed in gaining somewhat of the influence and affection enjoyed by the old, whose name falls to the new almost it may be said by inheritance. Printing the news, it will print it all the truth, the whole truth, and so far as it knows or can ascertain, nothing but the truth. Deal ing with men and events, and having very decided opinions as to both, it will strive to be just, never ill-natured, always free from bumptiousness; that is to say, from the belief or the appearance of believing that it alone "knows it all." So controlled, the Raleigh Reoister hopes to do some what for the success of the Democratic party, upon which, in its opinion, depends the prosperity of the people of North Carolina. 1 Demeeratle ProgreaK. .t- Tcr World. In 1876 the Democratic candftJe for the presidency received 1,250,000; more white votes" and 250,000 more vot4 over blacks and whites combined than were cast for the Republican candidate. In 1868, out of a total vote of 5,700,000, the Demo cratic party received 2,710.000, or only about 150,000 less than one-half the popu lar vote, dpite Gen. Grant's great mili tary renown. In'1880, in a poll of 9,212, 595 votes, Hancock received only 3,033 votes less than "Garfield. At the present moment there are Democratic Governors in twenty-five out, of the thirty-eight States of the Union, against Republican Gov ernors in twelve States and a Readjuster in Virginia. In the present House of Representatives there are 196 regular Dem ocrats against 110 nepuDiicans. . When Doctors Differ t Raleigh Christian Advocate. The saving, if you could buy some men at 'their own estimate, and sell them for their real value, you could soon mke a fortune, is too true. North Carolina Presbyterian. Wp mifst be allowed to doubt. At least if we should engage in such speculations, we should .expect to retire sooner uy uuy- - . . 1 . .. 1 . . .-1 ,7 ottllinrr sit their ing at tneir vmuc "'"'fa estimate. , , But ifhoww "a WIe Child?" - Charlotte Democrat. A contemporary said some time ago that Gen Jackson said he was bora m South Carolina, and therefore his declaration ought to settle the question. Now if there are any two things that a man does Prtainlv. it is where he was born or who was his father. The mother knows more about that than the child, and Gen. Jackson's mother sam tnat ne was m North Carolina. Don'tJIako It a I-egal Holiday. ' fate w York World. v When Mr! Beecher said on Sunday that a quarrel in a church was a holiday m SelJ what did he mean? Did he mean that the quarrel was so lively ; that it war ranted that description; dide mean that the quarrel turned the church into a K; or did hemean that it gjyeon for a holiday in Hades? Mr.vBeecbers phrats ringi-if you only get their bear- 'MV son," said an old negro, "now . JtJ .TiV-- WnftPntiarv trv ter Jeept, an' arter dis doan steal, leastwise fo?n do lack yer did befo'; steal a pair o' wat wal too big for C-gJ little fur yer ole daddy. Ef JW;M Sup suthin' atni do yer some good be honest.n ; ' . , ' V,t - ' ' . :' ' ' . - ' !- Tohnny said, the editor to Wsjiope. ful aTyou in -the first .class at schoblf "No repUed .the youngster, '.who had sSied t& V2' tercel as secOnd-class male matters, j t I , ' : -; - ! .!! - - I WADDELI, SOME INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE THE GIFTED CAPE FEAR CONGRESS JH AN. OF How he has Served His Country an JTbirr iiallHt, Soldier and Legislator. We propose fromitime to time to present to our readers brief sketches of prominent North Carolinians representative men who have impressed themselves upon the public mind, and whose individuality is so marked as to arrest attention whenever an occasion presents itself. As "the glory of a State rests upon the character of its citi zens, we conceive it to be a duty we owe to our good old mother that the reputation of her sons who have become distinguished in the walks-of life, whether in science, religion or politics, or even in the faithful discharge of its every day duties only, should be preserved and recorded, not only as an act of justice to" them but as an incentive to those who must soon appear upon the stage of action to remember and to imitate. ALFRED MOORE WADDELI. was born September 1834, and is descended from a family distinguished in the annals of the State from old colonial times. He was prepared for college at the celebrated school of Wm. Bingham, Sr., then located at Hillsboro, from which he was transferred to Chapel Hill. After leaving college he studied law and was admitted to the bar in his twenty-first year. In 1856 he re moved to Wilmington and entered upon the duties of his profession, but finding more pleasure in the excitement of politics than in the dry details of the law," he bought, in 1860, the Wilmington Herahl, at that time conducted by C E. & R. Burr, and edited it ktntil the sprint; of 1861, when he entercu the Confederate army. He was Adjutant and Lieutenant Colonel of the third regiment North Caro lina cavalry, ana served until tne summer of 1864 when ill health compelled him to resign. At the close of the war he resumed the practice of his profession and was signally successful. His practice rapidly increased and soon became lucrative and extensive. .While thus engaged in his professional duties which he had come to regard as the business of his life, he was suddenly called to act upon a new and altogether different stage. The year 870 will ever be remembered as a memorable one in North Carolina. Portions of the State were under -martial law. Kirk and his ruffians, by command of the Governor, were arresting some of the most prominent and purest men in the State and casting them into filthy dungeons without a trial, the civil law was contemned and derided, and radicalism. th most ultra and malignant, had full sway over the lives and liberties of the people. An election for members of Congress was to lie held in August of that year, and a convention was held in Wadeslxro to nominate a candidate for the Third Con gressional district. The nominee o: that convention declined, the party was des pondent and demoralized and succesi was regarded as impossible; the election was only seventeen days off and the Goliath of radicalism, Oliver II.'Dockerv. the sittbg member, was again in the field with aliut twentv-five hundred maioritv at his bak. The Executive Committee appealed to d 1. Waddell to lead what all supposed to li forlorn hope. He immediately respondll accepted the nomination,- and the t day started after Dock cry who was e hundred and fifty miles away. I he c, oaiim was short, sharp and decis 1- Dockerv was regarded as one of le strongest men on the stump m the St, and was well known throughout the triet, had represented it in Congress d y rhad been nominated bv his partv forf election; Col. Waddell was comparati unknown and though recognized as a of abilitv and culture bv those who ktw him well, vet his best friends doubted capacity to cope with his formidable an;; onist before the .people. Their first mct jng settled the question of supremacy il satisnetrihw hitherto invincible l)ocky that, he had met Ins InaTclrond at evty subsequent meeting it whs more arfv-iime apparent how greatly Col. Waddell w;rs his superior in debate and as a popui .r speaker. To the astonishment of evej-v one he was eiecreu Dy a very nanuson: majority and took hTs seat -March 4. 187:. He was made member ef the celebrated "Kuklux" committee, and was the young' st and only "ex-Rebel'' member on it, and 1, s first speech was as a member of that com mittee and was made in April. 1872, on tie condition of the South. The impression made upon the House by that speech w , s marked; in fact it established him, if we may use that expression, and carried him proniinentlv to the front. He was re elected' in 1872, 1874 and 1876, receivii: larger majorities each time and growing in popularity and reputation at home and abroad. As an evidence of this it m n not be amiss to state th a brief speech of his on the Centennial "Bill in 1875, call-d forth the unstinted praise of the press of all parties from Maine to California aaid made him the recipient 'bf riwmy letti -s. of thanks from all parts of the country. Having served on the 'Post-office com mittee for several years, he was male chairman of that committee in the Forty Fifth Congress and served from ' 1877 to 1879, and was pronounced by the Depart ment officers the most efficient chairman in twenty-five vears. His reputation as a 1 l A. 1 1 1 . - ! belles-lettres scholar and graceful speaker ; was so well established that he was f rt- i quently invited to deliver lectures hi Northern cities and in Washington, which he did to large audiences, composed gen erallv of the learned, the cultured and refined,; and which added greatly to In. reputation as a writer and thinker.. i- J In 1878 when the vote of North Ca. ; Una fell off more than one hundred th. .. j and, he was defeated by Judge Russell. He was urged to;contest the election, lnjt the character of the man was shown iy the, reply he made on that occasion. Ite declined to do so, and in a published -card said 'that the place to contest an election was at the polls, and the time; j etectiiin day." He left Congress March 4870. In 1880 he was elected a delegate at large to the National Convention which nom inated ; Hancock, and was invited to second the nomination and would' hi?ve. done so but was engaged as a member 'of the committe on "Resolutions " and Pint form which was in session at the fuse. As a member of that committee he made a motion to strike out the word "onlj from' the tariff plank and supported it ' a brief! speech, in which he took (he ground; that the "phrase "a tariff for revenue only ? was misleading and would place the party in" a false position !tnd would probably cause its defeat. Al2 ligh Supported by several others, ' ha i-miiiion did not prevail, and fhe resut,was he predicted. ' -' 1 i - Immediately ! after the conventi irturnpd he was invited bv theiti ... f n 4Ud- llcial Hind 1 i k . if- i i i . . . r, .. i canvass for the ticket. He did so, and spent five months in New England, New York and Pennsylvania. He was gener ally regarded by the New England press and public men as the most acceptable of all the speakers in the canvass He spoke to' very large assemblies in New York, Harlem, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, &c, and was assigned the post of honor at the Irving Hall meeting in New York. It was generally believed that if Hancock had been elected, Col. Waddell would have been invited to a seat in his cabinet. After the canvass had closed and he had relumed home he employed his leisure hours in writing a history or his ex periences in New England in a series of letters in the Raleigh News and Observer under the caption "A Rebel Brigadier in Northrn New England." They were writtei in that easy and graceful style in which he excels and attracted great at tentioi, were republished in many of the Nortbrn papers and were warmly com mended. There are few men who wield a more facile pen than Col. Waddell. He writes with great ease and elegance, and with striking power and captivating grace. Duiing the past year he edited the Charbtte Journal and Journal-Observer, and lis paper was regarded as one of the leaditg journals, and was recognized as a powei in the politics of the State. By in vitatbn of -the Democratic Executive Comnittee of the State, he canvassed the First District last fall in behalf of Skinner. How tffectively he did so may be seen in the result, and while we would not detract in thi least from the services of others durinr that campaign, yet it is not too; much to claim for Col." Waddell a con trolliig influence in securing the party's succep. He spoke frequently and the vote towed' the effect his speeches pro ducer It i thus seen that Col. Waddell has had ai extended experience at , the bar, on the hutings and in legislative halls. He is the est known ISorth Carolinian, except perhais one, outside of his State-, his capacty and attainments are known of all men, for he enjoys a national reputation achietd t an age when-most men are just beginning their toilsome ascent. As a statisman, with large and comprehensive views as an orator, eloquent, fearless and thorotgh'ly equipped at all points, and with ,n intimate knowledge'of the opera tions if government and a familiarity with puhli- affairs, which few men of his age posses, the question naturally suggests itself. is such a man to be allowed" to live in prrate life 4 We await the answer of the poplc of North Carolina. A Good Old Bible N-ame. "if wife hez jes" presented me wid de fines' 'mv in dis country," said Black Bill, enterfag a Little Rock magistrate's office, takin; off his hat and slinging perspiration from lis brow with a crooked forefinger. "Yep. genlemen," he went on, "de fines' chili ; eber seed. An' Fse jes' got a $20 gold piece right heah ter gib ter de man what can guess what I hez named him. Ter kep yer frum spredin' ober de whole universe ob names I'll state dat hit's a Bible name." "Abraham t" guessed some one. 'iNor sah." "!Pal?" "Nor sah." "Job?" "Guess again.' "Nicodemus?"' "Keep errcomin'." "Abimelech?" "Try me again." The guessing ceased after a time and finally Billy remarked : "I'se named dat boy Judas Escarut." "What'.'' said the magistrate; "Judas betrayed our Saviour!" "Can't help hit. Dat's de boy's name. Judas hez been slighted. Nobody hez eber had de immoral courage ter name a chile fur dat man. But dat ain't de main reason why I names him Judas. I'se got de Bible ter "stain me in gibin' de chile dat name." "How does the Bible sustain you in de- ' siring to perpetuate that name?" asked the magistrate. " Hit's disfack, Chris' in rem"rkin'-oh Judas said dat hit would hab bin, better fur dat man ef he hadn't bin bornj' v "Well." "An' considerin' how many moufs is opened at de doo' when I goes hpme wid a sid? ob meat, it would hab bin better fur dat boy ob mine ef he had neber sseed de daylight., I knows what I'ze a talking a out. I take de Scriptur' frum de refer e ces. In de futur' ef I finds dat de I) y hez made a . improvement on hisself, I n I'll ehange his name ter Jim." Death of a Llme-Klln Clabber. Detroit Free Press. 'It becomes 'my solemn dooty," said i rother Gardner, as he looked from Samuel hin to Pickles Smith and back, "to an nounce de fack dat Brudder Paramount Slawson, au Honorary member libin in To ledo, amno mo' on airth. He had climbed u p bn d roof of a shed to see a dog-fight, an' de cavin' in of de roof bestowed fo' different fatal in joories upon his pusson. When he realized dat he had got to die'he requested dat dis club attend his funeral in a body, an' he tried to borry money of his brudder-in-law to square up his back dues wid us. "Gem'len, in one respeek Brudder Slaw son was a fa'r to medium man. If he bor ryed half a dollar to go to de circus he'd pay it back outer money dat his wife aimed at de wash-bo'd. De poo' was neber turned away from his doah emptv-handed. He pitied de sorrows of a big tramp, an' let his wife go bar futted an' his chillen hun gry. He was kind-hearted, but alius be hind on his pew-rent. He was philan thropic, but he had to dodge his butcher. He was a kind f adder, but he has got two of de wust boys in de Stateof. Ohio. He was a luvin husband, but he wus content to sit aroun' de grocery jin' let his wife support ae tamuy. While' we may say dat we am sorry.dat death has come to sever ties an', bring changes, we have no occasion to. remark dat. de world will be any de wuss off." 1 : Tne Honeymoon In Georgia. Atlanta (Oa.) Constitution. A young, couple in Oconee county, lately married, devoted their honeymoon to sport and killed 120 rabbits.. They have salted down the meat and wijll save buying bacon next summer.' This sort of beginning is bound to win in the long run. hF?? f No Oath In the Indian Language. . !- Reading (Penn.) Times. -' "When an Indian "wants to swear he must leant the English language to do so, as r there is nothing in his own that he can use in taking the name of the Great Spirit in vain," said the'Rev; John J. Kellyr a grand specimen of the Chickasaw Nation, in his lecture ; in the ' Fourth street Methodist churqh last evening., I.V - NEW YORK. AN OLD SOCTHERIT' JOVRNAIiISTS WELCOIHE TO XIIK HEW HAL EIGH BEGISTER. "Personne's" Pleasant PeBcllUias About Noted People and Places In tne ereat GUy. Correspondence of the Raleigh Register. New York, February 16. It seems like 'old times" to be seated at a desk and writing a letter to a Southern . newspaper with the editor of which I was so pleasantly identified during the war. Heaven be thanked that the themes are different, and that one may dwell on the memories of the past rather than its stern realities.' Still, scarcely a day passes in our little Southern colony here in New York, when both are not vividly re called. Every where you meet OTTK OLP OFFICERS ANP MEN ; now at the Hoffman or Brunswick, anon, " in the corridors of the .. Metropolitan or; Astor Houses, and everywhere, the old as sociations come trooping back and stories of the bivouac and battle-field are related" with a zest that testifies how abiding is the interest in those 6tirring days. But, ah me! father time has swooped down on all of us and the young fellows of '61 have become the gray haired sires of '84. A few of them are passing by in mental procession at this moment. COL. JOHN J. G-AHNETT. Here, for instance, is the soldierly figure of Col. John J. Garnett, of Virginia, for merly of the battalion of Washington Artillery, of New Orleans, and a graduate of West Point. As the editoj and pro prietor of the Railway Age, one of the most valuable of our journals devoted to railway topics, and those that concern mechanics and mechanism, he is illustra ting that "the pen is mightier than the sword." One of the most popular men about town with officers of the Union Army, as well as with civilians engaged in the higher and intellectual walks of life, he bids fair to realize the results of well directed labor in his new field of work. A GALLANT TROOPER. Then there is the handsome General Rosser. who was also in the Washington Artillery, but afterwards became a dashing chief of cavalry. It is only occasionally that he visits New York, for his interests concern some of the great landed proper ties of the West, and it takes about all of his time to keep trace of his rapidly ac cumulating profits. It . is said that he is one of the wealthiest of the Southern con tingent who came to the North after the, war. Beginning his fortunes in the far North-West as a simple engineer on a I railroad, he purchased land for thirty 1 cents per acre that is now worth as many dollars, and bought largely of railroad j stocks when they were low. until now he i commands where at first he was compelled ; to obey. He owns a handsome estate in j Virginia and is a rising as well as a risen j man. IXDOMITAHLE JOHN GOROON. Gen. John B. Gordon, of Georgia, oc-' casionally drops in on us. full of sheep f ranches and railroads, and when here is a marked character even in the maelstrom of I Wall street. "It will be a cold day," as i the saying goes, "when he gets left," in- ; asmuch as the same indomitable ' spirit that carried him into the United States j Senate, permeates all of his business tran- j sactions and enables him to conquer where j others fail. j BEAfREGARO'S CfllEF OF STAFF. j Gen. Tom. Jordan, the Adjutant-General of Beauregard, is leading the plod ding life of an editor and is an authority on mining ventures. He, too, has made some money, and his crisp, pungent ar ticles are widely quoted. : ANOTHER LUCKY OLD SOLDIER, is Col. Dickerson, of Virginia. He has charge of the Mexican and South Ameri can departments of the New York Life Insurance Company, and is afflicted with the care of a salary and income that may be anywhere from thirty to forty thousand dollars a year. The poor man lives in the i e"W ork hotel, and entertains with prince ly hospitaiftj the Southern mends who pass his wav. But a ttuce-"to liiJA-d personal references, or I shall fill my letter witn them. A word or two about some of the leading events of the metropolis. PREACHERS IN HOT WATER AND SNOW. Chief among these is the ehurch scandal in which Rev. Dr. Newman, Gen. Grant's parson and "Consul-General around the world.' nas succeeded in dividing nis con gregation in two folds, by attempting to j "tote Metnoaism on one snouraer, ana Jongrresrationalism on the other. - He is "as mild a mannered man as ever scuttled t a ship," but is a sensationalist of the first water, and there are those who do say that when he preaches at the pockets of his rich parishioners, he hits the bull's eye every time. It's a very pretty quarrel as it stands, and a toss up which side steals the church. Dr. Heber Newton, an Episcopalian, has likewise got himself in hot water with some of his clerical brethren for too boldly enunciating his convictions concerning the inspiration 01 lue sorni,iuts, auu m ottui dingly to be manipulated over, the coals, in other words, "-disciplined. " He is one of the most eloquent of the metropolitan preachers, however,' attracts large congre gations, and has a following- that is well calculated to make some of his rivals jealous. Still another clervgyman. but of a dif ferent ilk, is one Father Macarthy, of the Catholic Church. He was barely out f one court, which the officers induced )mn to attend in connection with a woman scrape, when he was invited to another in that extatic condition which occasionally results ' from "looking throagfa V glass darkly," while sampling the "ould stbuff It seems that he took a sleigh ride with soma strange woman, :was thrown out while in . this condition of exhilaration and nmstliave struck on his head, for he has been sick ever since and dropped out of . the sight even of nis best mends. Fortunate is it for the decent public when the church doors are barred against such men. But haven't you had enough of preacnersf FRENCH AND OTHER GERMANS. New York is m the midst of its gala season. One night we have an aristocratic ball for charitable purposes; the t. next night . we have a French ball extremely 'gauzy!' in; its dress and surrounclings where tenthousand people flock to " raise cain.'V On Monday night the children had their carniVal, and were, inaugurated into all the mysteries of the mazy dance, pre paratory perhaps, to more dangerous ven'4 tures later on. In a few days, the German societies, the Arion and Liederkrantz, will have their annual jollity, -and under .cover of masks indulge in about as much polite iniquity as can be crowded into sit hours of ball-rooDf Treedodfv f You would be afr; iff tonished to see what a number of the so called fashionable and goody-goody people attend these frolics, and from behind veils and dominoes, look on the gay abandon of the revellers. They seem to like the danger of the thing. SALONS OF THE GILDED YOCTII. Did you ever visit the magnificent saloon of the Hoffman House, so famed for the beauty of its bric-a-brac, pictures and sculpture, and other things, especially the other things? I think you have ; I think I've met you there gravely contemplating the exquisite taste of Edward S. Stokes, the proprietor, in making sufch a su'perb collection of works of art, while the most distinguished men in the city stood around the great square counters and under the massive chandeliers,, likewise contempla ting the lovely goblets and other kinds of glass ware. Well, do you know that crowds of ladies go there every day to inspect the wonders of the place and gratify a very commendable curiosity to see what makes the husbands and sweet hearts stop in on their way up town and keep the dinner waiting? The fact is, that the world is moving a great deal faster than it used to when you and I were boys. Old fashioned prejudices are wearing out. Beecher and Talmage go to the theatre, and are proud to have the star actors at dinner, so that they may get points, you know, for their next Sunday's sermon; while liberalism in all of its shapes per vades society from roof tree to sub-cellar. NOT SUCH A HELL AS IT'S PAINTED. Yet New York is not such a wicked place to live in after all. The good people who come here as "lookers on in Vienna" gen erally see more than the New Yorkers themselves, yet they find much in the brighter phases of its busy life, its noble charities and all that sort of thing, that largely compensates for the existence of the vice that must always be found in such a great gathering of humanity as is this. A word more and I'll stop this chirogra phic rambling. It's about yourself. May Heaven's best blessings attend the enter- prise you have begun. The people of North Carolina want just such a paper as you propose to give them, and knowing you as one of the sons of the State, famil iar with its every need, they will, I am confident, lend you their hearty support." If they don't, you may at least borrow some from your old friend "Personne." THE SCOTS OF CAPE FEAR. Why the Highlanders Sought onr Low lauds Breeches at the Bottom of It. Col. Cameron in Asheville Citizen. The New York Herald, referring to the coming of the. colony of crofters from the Isle of Skye to North Carolina, says: "North Carolina owes much of her pros perity to a lot of hard-working Scotch men, whom trouble drove from their native country more than a century ago. " . The sand hills of North Carolina, em bracing the present counties of Cumber land, Richmond, Moore, Harnett and Rob eson owe their settlement and subsequent prosperity to a lot of hard-Jighting Scotch men, who came over unwilling immigrants, it may be" supposed, expatriated after their defeat at the disastrous battle of Culloden, fought on the 16th of April, 1745, when the Duke of Cumberland defeated the army of Charles Edward. The leaders of the clans who had not perished in battle or escaped with their "King," mostly per ished on the scaffold. Many of the clans men were expatriated to the colonies, most of them going to the Cape Fear country. They were forced to take the oath of alle giance to George the 2d, which they ob served religiously in the Revolutionary war, when they were found fighting on the side of King George the 3d, against the troops of the American "rebels." But their attitude affixed no stigma upon them. They were not Tories. They were Royal ists from the force of their oath, and they were respected for their conscientious re gard to it. Connected with their location, it has al ways been the occasion of surprise why a mountain people should hve chosen for their new home a flat country, the very antipodes of their native country. The explanation is a curious one, and is connected with one of the caprices or tyrnnjes of fashion. All through the eigiiteenth century the public roads of England were terrible. (They were almost impassable for nearly all (vehicles. Nearly all travel was performed on horse-back. The English were a nation of horse-back riders, as travellers or huntsmen. They required a very durable dress ; and fashion brought into use buckskin as the proper material. Buckskin breeches became the rage. England could not supply them, and she was at war with so many nations that she could not obtain them through the aids of commerce. But Lnwson and other explorers had told of the vast number of deer to be found in the piney lands of North Carolina, and especially on the waters of the Cape Fear River. That region was covered with pine trees, the undergrowth being cane ana wild pea vines. It was for a long time the hunting grounds of the Catawba nd Tuscarora Indians, from opposite ends of the colony, who met there a9 on neutral, ground and buried the hatchet until the hunting season was over. The quantity of deer was exhaustless; in fact, until the time came when the piney woods were ifivaded by the turpentine getter, who in turn vis ited every tree in the woods, and thus frightened away the deer, their numbers "were still very great, say down to 1848. To this section the decree of fashion sent out a colony of Scotch hunters, whose sole business was to kill deer to furnish buckskin breeches for the fox hunters and riders of England; and the presence of this hunting colony led to the selection of the sand hills of Cumberland as the place of banishment for the defeated followers of Charles Edward, called unjustly, as many Scotchihen still think, the Pretender. Finding the Mean. Texas Siftings. "See here, sir," said a philanthropist to a seedy-looking tramp, "this is the third time you have asked for help this week." "I know it" "There is no need of any one getting so low down as you seem to have reached. I was careful in early life to keep some thing laid by for a rainy day. I don't see why other people can't do the same thing, and live within their means." .- f -- "It is easy enough to advise people to liveiwithiii their means" replied the tramp, "but the trouble is to find the means to live within. ,That'i what I'm after now." The monkey climbed toward the raging sky " And twisted his tail round a lofty limb, ' While the flood beneath went thundering by, For he was a moukey that couldn't swim. But the man taught In the torrents mad, And hi peecb in these words ran: - "If I had (A v'as my forefathers haA I'd be live monkey and not a drown'd ffsjua.'. J J - ! . a CHARLOTTE. PROSPEROUS AND PROUD OP IT.' Charlotte, February 21, 1884. i The many readers of the old National s Intelligencer at Washington City; the old' Raleigh Register, and the old Fayetteville . piiserver wil greet the new Register with, ' a most cordial reception. The very name reminds us of better days, when the pyss was presided over by the first men of tho . nation. We were then taught to respect . . and venerate such distinguishedrepresen tatives of the press as Gales and Sentonv . C 11 " 1,? . f A X1TX Tfc . 1 . - vi 11 asmugiuu uuy, veswn u. uaies, of Raleigh, and E. J. Hale, of Fayetteville, ; Such men had force of character,. to fomi' and lead public opinion. Honor to their hames and peace to their ashes; even nj we reel like liftinsr our hats whenever fJ names are mentioned. 1 We hope to sec the new Regibt,1 the place of the old Register, discussi ciples and measures from a high sj point, free from personal allusion and - twritinn 'FVio ,firTl n l,o nnnn r ......... . -J'V. .I.t. . 1, . 1 V. V. ... V personalities since reconstruction - ciN menced; it has accomplished "ndgood.;Y lowered the dignity of political office ana in a great measure destroyed the influence- of the press. " " , a myriad of people working."" '' j This little city of ten thousand inhald- tants is still improving in population, varied industries and wealth. " Factories,, 1 foundries, oil-mills, planing-mills and ma chine shops are springing up on all side--." ' The wholesale trade is gradually increas ing, notwithstanding the army of commei- ' cial tourists, sent out from New York, Bal timore and Richmond, who make Char lotte their headquarters for the two Caro- . linas. This seems to be the general dis tributing point for commercial drummers; the distribution takes place every Monday morning, and the collecting together, tak"s place Saturday night. They come in empty, and ,go out full. Every Sunday the city is crowded with strangers, who come to have a pleasant rest and enjoy the excellent accommodation at our hotels. railro.b"Bd business FACILITIES.' 1 It has been long said, that nothing adds so much to the business interest of a place as its railroad connections, and next in. im portance are its banking facilities,' and thirdly its hotid accommodations. If this be true, Charlotte certainly has a bright future, and is justly called the New York of North Carolina, and the future London of the south. We have railroad connections,, unsurpassed, bankingcapitaU emergency, and our hotel accJ are unequaled in the south. newspapers. The Charlotte Observer, the lea 01 western JNortn Carolina, is 11 in its influence and circulation. Colonel Charles R. Jones, is the mcl fatigable worker, writer and spei ever knew. His motto is semper and truly he does seem always p to move in any work that will benet public and build up the city. Muci i 'ruirlnttp's thrift, nnil nrnianeritv m i1I2 his great energy; he works with a w.SS" L hand day and night. Harris, the loeaLT still holds the. fort, but rumor -li.-is it, in matrimonial circles, that he is soon ;tb V embark in bliss." If premonitory symp toms are any indication, there must be some truth in the rumor. He can often lc seen wrapped in the solitude of his own" imagination humming the old song, " A man that is not married, his pleasures are 5 small, 11. I- l.'l - .3.. 11. -. ... . . ." 1 ... ..1, ' a A I r : t " Yy W. J. Yates, formerly editor of 1 ihey Charlotte Democrat, is now one of the'iedi- i tors of the Home and Democrat, and will in . T i j 4lf IK Mil' H llllir (HILT Wil li llfl I 11 II Ml. Mil u. f luture taKe a leading pan in its eauerja columns. His many friends are glad him return to his first love. We thought friend Yates suited to the farm orl, ' 11 f I i SCHOOLS. 1 The city graded schools have' now over pne thousand four hundred pupils. Under the management of Professor Mitchell they give general satisfaction and are pat ronized by all classes, the wealthy as well as the poor. This city has expended in buildings alone for school purposes twenty thousand dollars in the last year. watek-wobks. s Charlotte City Water-works is another rgiLui'v'essing to our people. Before they were built, we tnoujtjaljftiejrar portance, but we firfd it an i, spensablfe eecessitjy a great pleasure comfoi-jt; .H(e have often thougt ,rj Kaleign never. had them. - v . , . i AS A COTTON M.ABKET. i The cotton receipts for this year are h so large as last year, owmar to t crop. The market here all he season ruled so high that our cotton' buyers aru complaining dreadfully ol not being able to make any money.. CotnpetitioH ' has ! been very strong and the price' higher 1 than at any point in the south: This works well for the farmers, who arc shrewd" to take advantage of our market.- , TOO busy for prematuue POLITICS. V . There is but little said about political ' , imatters here. Many citizens regret the . !tariff tinkering now going on at Washing- 4 ton. Nothing can be done towards reduc- --y tion while the President and Senate are . committed asrainst such a measure, and ' there are many who believe that protection to American industries is protection .ta American labor,and are opposed to any further agitation of the tariff quesrioif This issue, how ever, ..wili aot i?.de tfi pany in iuc uiai. wulcbi., a vui. will be guided by good common .not try to force unnecessary issues. In the race- for the othce of U-ov that patriot soldier and statesman, eral Alfred M. Scales, is a long ways ah bf any man in the State, . WHO 18 AND WHO WAISTS TO BE P. X. The fight over the post-ofiice here? is still going on. Jenkins, the present incum bent, has served two terms and has the en tire confidence of the people,- ha made : an excellent officen His petition has been signed by a large majority of the busmesa - ;men of. the city. Doctor R. M. JSorment is also an appucant. I he JJoctor has many personal friends in the city. - , SCPEBIOB COURT.; - The retnilar term of our Superior Court ' 1 will commence Monday, 25th, Judge Mc- Rae presiding. Judge McKae nas held court here once before. He presided with great dignity, and was regarded as a most excellent Judge." Our criminal docket is small; civil docket large,; The court will continue for three weeks. Judge McRae pushes business, jbut we fearwith a court calendar fixed lor - him, he t-Slnbt'inafce much progress, and business w III drag along without much being done. 1 - '.. ' CBYISO FOB REFORM, There are four things on which the country needs legislation -festivals, base ball, arm-clutch and comtrcalendari. We hope -to-jsee our legislature take the matter , in hand and have them abolished. Wli" will "uauev oi Meckienuurg -say to i r ML V I 'A "Mr: .J 1 1 ... r s a 1