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5fj By P. M. HALE. ADVERTISING HATES. OFFICE: Fayetteville St., SecondTloor Fisher Building. BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION : One copy one year, mailed po&t-paid . ; ifci 00 One copy six months,, mailed post-pm"d 1 00 No" name entered without payment, aud no paper Bent after expiration of time paid for. Atlvertlsenlents will be inserted for One Dollar per square (one inch for the first and Fifty Cents for each subsequent publication. Contracts for advertising for any space or time may be made at the office of the RALEIGH REGISTER, Second Floor of Fisher Building, Fayetteville Street, next to Market lloiisc. VOT.. I, RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1884. NO. 31. irNTIl. NEXT gCJinER. kthei. i.tns nniiits Fold np the robes which the Rummer has kiss'd, I .ay them away, they will not be missed : (jrnmple the furbelows, fleecy and lijrht : Crush down the gossamer floating and white ; Fold them up softly, sweet maiden, to-day, For the sunshine of summer lias melted away. Thejoses and lilies," so fair and so frail, Have gone from the garden and died in the vale. Arid pansies and gentian and sweet mignonette, Wjth the tears of October are drooping and wet ; 8o,' fair little .maiden,, the light tissues fold !K(-ethesiin of November shines whitely and cold. Yet dream nut to wear them again, as to-day, Wjhen the weeds of the year cnislijie blossoms of May : -Kor ah ! the gay bodice may clasp in the breast A heart full of sorrow and weary unrest i And sonibre-hued sack-cloth the spirit may shroud. While the form bears the colors it flaunted un bowed. So folding thy vesture to lay out of sight; With sweet-smelling posies, with heart bound ing light, Yet fold in a prayer for the strength you may need A. prayer which lie grants to the storm-beaten . reed For strength in its weakness a stay evermore I'ntikwihtpfs and summers on earth shall be oer. ILVLnGHTHUIUIIES. 5 i CHRIST'S CIH H( H. Something About Its Past a nd Present. The; " friends and members of the Pro test nnj; Episcopal Church of the United States" in this city organized themselves into a congregation "bv the name of the Congregation of Christ's Church" at a) meeting held Wednesday evening, 5 o'- ', clock, August 1, 1821 as appears from the first entry in the old Vestry Book ; and elected the following gentlemen the ; first vestry of the parish, viz., Hon. John : Haywood. Hon. John Louis Taylor, Dr. A. S. II. Burgess, Dr. James Henderson, j and" William II. Haywood, J. In April of the following year (1822), at I he session of the sixth annual convention of the Church in the Diocese, held in the Supreme Court room in this city, it was formally admitted into union "with the Convention, with the Hon. John Louis Taylor, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Dr. A. S. H. Burgess and W. H. Haywood, Jr.. afterwards U. S. Senator, as its first lay delegates. St. Mark's Church, Halifax, and Calvary Church, Wadesboro", were admitted at the same Convention. - At this time the congregation of Christ's Church had no rector and only occasional services. It appears that the Rev. William Hooper, Professor of Languages in the Uni versity, preached here twice as a Mission ary during his summer vacation of 1820. The next year Rev. Wm. Mercer Green mow the venerable Bishop of Mississippi), Missionary, officiated here regularly once a month. During these years Rt. Rev. Richard Channing Moore, Bishop of Vir ginia, performed, at the request of the standing committee, episcopal duty in the diocese. But at the seventh Convention, held in Salisbury in April. 1823, Bishop Raveuscroft was elected, and took charge of Christ's Church as its rector on the 20th if December of that year, 182C. The same month, at "'an adjourned meeting of the Vestry present, Dr. Bur gess. Dr. Henderson, Wm. II. Haywood, Jr., and John L. Taylor it was, on mo--Hon resolved that the Vestry will rent the " house lately used as a museum, and fit up the same for the immediate use of the Church as a place of worship; which was accordingly done.'" This room was in a building then situated where Stronach's store (on Market- Square and in iar of the Citizens' Bank building) now stands, and was used for the first time for divine ser-' vice on Saturday, January 18, 1824, when the Bishop preached both at the morning and evening service.' The Bishop report ed to the Convention of this year, -'the number of communicants is about 23 : the number of members jj the congregation, declared as such, is about 35.'' To the Convention of 1827 the Bishop reports that "the building intended for a church is commenced in a central and convenient situation, and expectation is sanguine that it will have a favorable effect on the inter ests of the Church." This, the first church building of the parish, was completed, and consecrated bv Bishop Ravenscroft on the 20th of December. 1829. The following names are subscribed to the original instrument of ''donation and endowment " how in the keeping of the rector of this parish, to which is appended over his own signature, the first Bishop of North Carolina's certificate of consecra tion, viz. : William IL Haywood, Jr., George E. Badger, I. Wetmore, Hazlett Kyle, William Thompson, B. A. Barham, John Beckwith and Gavin Hogg. This old Christ's Church was a wooden structure and stood a few yards immedi ately north of the present stone church. Under its chancel were deposited in March, 18:50, the remains of Bishop Ravenscroft. It was used with occasional additions and repairs until 1853, when if; was given to the colored Methodists and removed to the corner of Edenton and Hargett streets. The present elegant granite building, designed by Upjohn and built under the ministry of the late R. S. Mason, D. D., was finished, with the exception of the tower, atacost, it is said, of about $18,000.' The tower was not completed until 1861. Towards its construction $2,500 had been bequeathed by a late vestryman, Dr. Josiah O.Watson. There had been a much ear lier bequest to the congregation, the exact amount of which it is impossible to state owing to the unaccountable absence from the church records of the vestry book of the parish during the whole of the thirty -flTrce -years of Dr. Mason's rectorship. Diligent search and inquiry have so far failed to discover anything as to the whereabouts of this book, which doubtless contains an accurate statement of the iiniount of the legacy referred to and the manner of its disbursement. The follow ing facts, however, have been gathered from entirely reliable sources : InTartboro, December 12, 1822, died Mrs. MaryjSum ner Blount (or Mrs. Jacky Blount, As she was most commonly known), the daughter of General Jethro Sumner of Warren coun ty, and widow of General Thomas Blount, several times a representative of his Dis trict in Congress, and brother-of General William and Governor Willie Biount, of Tennessee, The second clause of her will bequeathed all her interest in her hus band's estate (which at that time had not been settled by his executors) to the Hon. Duncan. Cameron and Rev. William Hoop er, in trust, for the purpose of erecting an Kpiscopal church in Raleigh, and, as . doubts were at that time entertained as to how far the courts might support this be- quest, it being to religious this being a new question purposes, and for our laws. she further provides that in case any doubts are raised as to the legality of such a bequest, or if any of her relatives should contest the same, then she bequeaths the said property to said Duncan Cameron and Rev. William Hooper, absolutely aud free of all trusts that can be enforced in any court, and leaves the disposition of the same to their consciences. This legacy consisted in Tennessee lands which were valued at "from $14,000 to $15,000," as reported by "the Committee on the state of the Church" to the General Convention of 1823, but there was a good deal of liti gation about them, and in the absence of the book already referred to, containing the minutes of the Vestry during the pe riod when the proceeds of this legacy were probably chiefly realized, it is impossible to tvy exactly, what it amounted to, or whether, as some say, it went "wholly to the construction of the first church build ing of the parish, or, as others think, in part at least to the erection of the walls of the present granite structure. It is safe to say, however, that the congregation of Christ's Church is very largely indebted to this munificent legacy of its "liberal ben efactress for its first material foundation and structure in this city. Mrs. Blount was buried in a private burying ground near the town of Tarboro, but the place had become ruined and the slab over her grave broken to pieces. The Vestry of Christ's Church, having lately been informed of this state of things by the Rev. Dr. Cheshire, gladly availed them selves of his suggestion and caused her re mains to be removed to the beautiful eem etpry of Calvary Church, Tarboro', and a neat and durable monument of granite, suitably inscriled, to be erected in place of the broken one, over the spot that now covers all that is mortal of this good wo man. It is a very small but not ungrace ful tribute to the memory of one to whose thoughtful and bountiful Christian liber ality the congregation of Christ's Church was so early and so largely indebted. The Snnday School "building was origi nally erected, mainly through the untiring exertions of a lady member of the then rector's (Dr. Mason) family in 18C7. It then faced on Wilmington street and occu pied very nearly the exact site of the old church. After a short time it was found too small for the wants of the Sunday School and was enlarged. In the winter of 1874-5 it was still further improved and removed to its present position facing on Edenton street, where it now admirably serves the three-fold purpose of Chapel, Sunday School building and school-room for the week-day charity school of the parish. The old bell, which was purchased in part by the "Ladies' Working Society" in 1832, after calling the congregation to their devotions for thirty vears, was in 1861 donated to the Chapel of the Cross, i Chapel Hill, and the present larger bell previously purchased was hung in the tower. In March, 1828, Bishop Ravenscroft changed his residence from Raleigh to Williamsboro'. in Granville county, where he took charge. of St. John's Church. This good and able man the first Bishop of North Carolina of such marked charac teristics, and whose great independence of ; spirit, earnestness, devoutness, and uncom- j promising faithfulness to his convictions j are so well known, died about 1 o'clock on the morning of the 5th of March, 1830, at the house-of Gavin Hoggj Esq., in this city, and was buried at his own request under the chancel in Christ's Church: a j tablet was erected in the wall over tlie j place of his interment at his own expense. His funeral was conducted according to his own written directions. His remains were drawn to the church by his favorite j horse Pleasant, led by his faithful body servant Johnson. The burial service was read by the Rev. George W. Freeman, rector of Christ's Church, and the 5th, 9th, I 10th and 11th verses of the XVIth Psalm j were sung, but there was no funeral ser mon. it being so directed by the Bishop before his death in. testimony of his disap probation of the practice of preaching at funerals, and since that time it has been customary in the congregation of Christ's Church to dispense with the sermon on funeral occasions, whether celebrated at private houses or in the church. Bishop Ravenscroft was succeeded in the rectorship of Christ's Church by the Rev. Charles P. Elliott, of Charleston, S. C, who who was rector only one year. He was succeeded in September, 1829, by the Rev. George W. Freeman, (uncle of the late esteemed Clerk of the Supreme Court, Edmund B. Freeman, Esq.), and afterwards Bishop of Arkansas. He was an earnest, industrious and pious man, unyielding in his convictions and candid in. avowing them. His rectorship con tinued till 1840. and during this time the congregation grew rapidly. In 1830 he j reports 30 communicants as against 16 two j year3 before, and in 1840 the number had j swelled to 75. Dr. Freeman was succeeded by the Rev. ; R. S. Mason, D. D., then President of j Newark College, who entered upon his j duties as rector on Christmas Day, 1840. j These duties he continuously discharged j for thirty-three years, distinguished for j his learning and piety and beloved by his j parishioners. During his incumbency the j number of communicants increased from j 54 in 1840 to f00 in 1850. 124 in I860, aud about 1C0 at the time of his death. Dr. 'Mason died of pneumonia at ' 11 o' clock a. in., on Saturday, February 21, 1874, and was buried from the church the following Tuesday, F'ebruary 24, in Oak wood Cemeterv, Bishops Atkinson and Lyman and the Rev. Dr. Aldcrt Smedes officiating. Bishop Atkinson delivered a shott but most feeling extemporaneous address. The Church was appropriately draped and filled to its utmost capacity by j a deeply sorrowing congregation and com- munity. A number of the clergy of the i Diocese were present in the church and at i the grave in their surplices, lie was a good man "full of faith and power," "honored as a scholar and theologian, be loved as a friend and pastor, pure in life, peaceful in death," and his works do fol low him. For some weeks after the death of Dr. Mason, first Bishop Lyman and afterwards Rev. J. E. C. Smedes, then Principal of "St. Augustine's Normal School ana Col legiate Institute" in this city, took tem porary eharge of the parish ; but at a meet ing of the Vestrv held on the 27th day of May, 1874, the Rev. M. M. Marshall, then in charge of Emanuel Church, Warrenton, the Church of the Good Shepherd, Ridge way, and Grace Church, Weldon, was unanimously elected its rector. He ac cepted the position and entered upon its duties on the 6th Sundav after Trinity, July 12, 1874. Concerning this distinguished clergy man one muht write with less freedom than of those other eminent names which have illumined the history of this parish. For praise of living men is apt to sound ful some and criticism ungracious. Yet it must be said that Dr. Marshall is not an unworthy successor to the good and able men who have preceded him. That he should be a Doctor of Divinity while yet a young man is of small account in these days when American Doctors of Divinity are more in number than the sands of the sea. But, though handicapped with thiar title, he is a man of mark. A good man,, of spotless life, an humble and devoted servant of his Master, a sound theologian,, a graceful, strong and impressive preach er, Dr. Marshall stands in the front rank of the clergy of the JState. As the days of man are counted, he has not yet reached his prime, and has, we trust, many years of usefulness and honor in store for him. During the ten years of Dr. Marshall's administration the parish has continued to advance in growth and material prosperity, which may not be passed over in anything that purports to be a sketch, however im perfect, of so considerable a period of time, although the evidences are necessarily maialy statistical. In these ten years 278 persons have been baptized, 139 have been confirmed, 59 marriages have been solemnized, and 156 persons have been buried. This is an av erage of a fraction over 27 baptisms, 13 confirmations, 6 marriages and 15 burials each year. The congregation has prompt ly met all its pecuniary engagements and assessments, whether parochial, diocesan or general. The total amount collected in the congregation for all purposes in this time is $51,123.37, being an average of $5,112.30 a year. This aggregate amount includes (besides the regular an nual contributions and assessments for all the various diocesan aud several mission ary and charity funds and parochial ex penses) the payment of a debt of $5,000 on the parish, the cost of a new organ valued at $2,200 recently erected in the church, and various other improvements and re pairs on the church, chapel, rectory and premises. There are now about 105 families in the parish numbering about 400 souls. The number of communicants reported to the last Convention is 200. About 25 others have during these ten years been lost to the parish because of their inability to get regular sittings in the church. This congregation has always had as it now has among its male members some of our best citizens, ' many among them distinguished in the affairs of the State as well as the Church. The most active members in earlier times seem to have been John Louis Taylor, Gavin Hogg, John Beckwith, Ichabod Wetmore, Dun can Cameron, Thomas P. Dcvereux. Geo. E. Badger, Charles Manly, Weston R. Gales, W. II. Haywood, Jr., E. P. Guion, George W. Mordecai, S. F. Patterson, Richard Hines, John H. Bryan, Louis D. Henry, E. B. Freeman, James McKimmon, Josiah O. Watson, William Thompson, W. H. Battle, B. F. Moore, &c, Ac. DOWN IN HYDE. How Rivera Rnn and Farina Flourtab. Elizabeth C ity Falcon. Have you ever been up Alligator river? If you haven't you have missed seeing and enjoyirtg a sail on the loveliest, grandest, and one of the largest rivers in North Cnfolina. From bank to bank across its mouth the distance is good six miles twenty-five times as wide as the mouth of the great Roanoke, that everybody is fa miliar with. Then up for thirty miles the course is perfectly straight no curve to mar its beauty a grand, stately stream, lined on either side with dense growths of cypress, juniper and other swamp trees. The view is beautiful. But when the great Alligator begins to narrow (after you have gone thirty miles) it does take a curious course for a fact. It twists and turns and writhes and wriggles and finally gets sa narrow that you could jump on either shore from the decks of the steamer. In many places two hundred yards of canal would shorten the distance a mile. You turn in and steam fifty yards, turn a point and follow the river back for forty yards, and keep this up for half a day for no boat can make time on such a wickedlv crooked course. The water at this part is of a dark, rich mahogany color ana iooks oeautuui as ine steamer piows through it. It holds its color when taken I up and put in a glass about the shade of I good stiff sherry, and very mellow and j pleasant to the taste. Of course you know it is thegetting-to-be-famous juniper water, and that the color and flavor come from the juniper trees that line the shores and cover the swamps that drain into it. This water will preserve its freshness for years, the tannic acid in the juniper preventing it from becoming stagnant. After following up the crooked part of the river about twenty-five miles you come to a six miles stretch of canal, at the end of which is Fairfield, the most prosperous village in Hyde county. The village has two or three handsome residences, six or eight exceedingly shabby looking stores, and the prettiest and nicest country church (Methodist) we have ever seen. But the glory of the place is the MAGNIFICENT FARMS surrounding. Great forests of splendid corn, from twelve to fourteen feet high, ex tend back in the distance for miles. We never saw any corn before, comparatively. Lands that have been steadily in cultiva tion for over half a century, without ever having been fertilized, bring ten barrels of corn to the acre through and through a big farm. The soil is black and of a veg etable formation. In dry weather it will burn readily, and care has to be taken to protect, it from the flames when burning brush, etc. The dwellings and farm houses through this country give evidence of general thrift and prosperity that are to be found to a like extent at few places in thi part of the State. M ATTAM I'SKKET I.AKK. A drive of half a mile from Fairfield brings you 'Yo Mattamuskeet Lake. To look at it for the first time is a revelation. A great inland sea it is, with an area near ly as great as the entire county of Pasquo tank or Chowan. Twenty miles is the length, seven miles the width over fifty miles around, with a good road following the shore all the way. It has no natural outlet and is about four feet above the level of Pamlico sound, whih is four miles out fFom the southern shore. It is pro posed to partly drain the lake by means of h canal connecting it with the" sound, and $10,000 has been subscribed for this pur pose. The trouble is that in wet seasons the lake overflows and submerges the farms in the neighborhood. Mattamuskeet Lake is very shallow. You might wade across j it but for treacherous holes in places. How j it ever came there is a sort of mystery that I will never lie explained; but it seems to be ! tolerably certain that nature didn't put it I there to becrin with. The most reasonable theory is that it was burnt, out, and'this is supported by the alleged discovery of charred timbers found about in places on the bottom. At all events it is a beautiful sheet of water, imposing and majestic. SHEEP AND DOGS. PRESIDENT BATTLE PROPOSES To Make Them "Mutual Friend." It is very evident that the people of North Carolina will not exterminate their dogs. They would greatly prefer to de stroy the politicians who would vote for it. The question has been agitated for years, and meet's with no popular favor. Shall we abandon all efforts to raise sheep because of the existence of their canine enemies? During the State Fair of 1883 President Battle, in response to a general call by the members of the Agricultural Society, made some suggestions which struck the attention of those present. We reported his talk, which was entirely impromptu, for the Fayetteville Observer. As all light possible should be thrown on this impor tant question of sheep raising, we request ed Mr. Battle to revise our report, and now present it to our readers with his emenda tions: PRESIDENT BATTLE stated in substance that he had not contem plated being called ont but as it appeared to be the wish of members to hear from him, he would offer a few suggestions on the subject of SHEEP It A I8ING. All agreed as to the importance of this industry of our people. As an economi cal foood supply, as a means of securing a cheap home made fertilizer, as a means of j utilizing much grass and other herbage on the plantation, which would otherwise run to waste ;in fine, as a source of profit from flesh, wool and manure, the best farmers of the most advanced agricultural sections place sheep-raising in the front rank of the luaustries. many sections oi jxortn v;aro Una are peculiarly adapted to it. There j is no section where it would not aid great- i ly in the support of the laborers and im- ! provements of the land. THE CHIEF OBSTACLE, j usually considered as insurmountable, is i the existence of great numbers of dogs, i more or less worthless. Many people have abandoned sheep in despair on account of this obstacle. Mr. Battle admitted the evil to some extent. He admitted, more over, the impossibility of getting rid of the evil. Our people will not, under any argument, surrender their dogs. Dogs have their good uses. They keep down foxes and other animals which would, without them, increase to a degree for midable to poultry and sheep as well. And the lonelv cottager, in a secluded spot, re mote from neighbors, often a timid wo man, would feel defenceless at night with out her faithful dog to protect the prem ises, and at least give warning of the ap proach of danger. We may persuade our selves as much as we please that they should all be exterminated, but any act of Assembly passed with this view would meet with general condemnation, and would speedily be repealed. The ques tion is, then, can sheep be raised notwith standing the dogs? In deciding this question we should in quire what other people do and have done, who now raise, and have for ages raised, sheep successfully. Let us examine the methods of Oriental nations, of Great Britain, of Spain, Italy, of Australia, of South America. We find that sheep always and every where have enemies, from which they must be guarded. They are timid, foolish and defenceless creatures. They need the care, the oversight, the protection of man. Wherever they get" these they flourish ; wherever they are neglected they come to nought. All through the Bible, and in the literature of Greece and Rome, we find proof of this. A SHEPHERD watches over and defends them. Christ used a metaphor well appreciated by his hearers, when he called himself the Shep herd and His disciples His sheep. And Da vid did not give up the raising of sheep because a lion and a bear came out of the woods to devour them. No, he arose and slew their wild beast enemies. Grant that we have in North Carolina formidable foes in the shape of vile hounds and "curs of low degree;" they are no worse than the wolves and foxes and jackals, not to men tion the lions and tigers and bears of other countries. Even if every dog in our State should be slain, OTHER ENEMIES would spring up, such as foxes and prowl ing human thieves; and the careless far mers would be grumbling over new evils, as sheepless as ever. In order to raise sheep successfully, es pecially on a large scale, there should be a shepherd, whose whole attention should be given to them. He should become an expert. He should understand their dis eases and the causes and remedies. He should have an eye on them by day and sleep near enough to them at night to be always ready, with shot gun in hand, to protect them from danger. This could be managed by having them driven up to the farm yard at evening, or by having a house for the shepherd so light that it could be hauled by oxen from one part of the plantation to another. The speaker called attention to the plan of protecting sheep found very effectual in South America and elsewhere. It is mentioned in the "Voyage of a Natural ist," written bv the great Charles Darwin, who gives philosophical reasons, founded on principles of human and canine nature, for its success. A new born puppy, he says, is "taken, and thenceforward segre gated from other dogs, is not allowed to play with puppies or even children. A ewe is held for him to suck three or four times a day. He sleeps upon -a nest of wool in the sheep fold; he is never to as sociate with any animals but sheep; he is castrated. He thus grows up with the af fections of sheep, without losing the cour age of a dog. Indeed, he becomes more courageous because he feels the support of his associates, and, moreover, in his faith ful nature is the instinct to stand up for his feeble friends. " It has been well said that an army of hares with a lion com manding is stronger than an army of lions with a hare as their general. So our dog becomes fiercer because of the army of sheep at his back. There is ANOTHER CURIOUS AND VALUA.E RKBULT. Other animals are afraid to ssail the dog while supported by his followers. Darwin says that a whole pack of hungry wild dogs will scarcely ever, (some say never), attack a flock guarded by even one of these faithful shepherds. He comes to the dwelling house for his meat, and as soon as it is given be skulks away as if asham ed of himself. He is afraid of every other i dog. When he is pursued he will run to his flock in the utmost terror. But as soon as he reaches them he turns and barks. The sheep range themselves behind him, and the pursuing dogs, no matter how nu merous, very soon run away. Their minds dimly recognize the power of organisation. They invest the whole flock with the at tributes of their leader. They see before , them in angry defiance not one, but, in fancy, a numerous band of angry dogs, and their courage quails. They dare not attack. A flock with such a dog can be left all day to itself. He wilt defend them from any animal, not human, and will do his best AGAINST MAN. To guard against the latter there should be a human defender. If a shepherd be not employed, the sheep should be penned at night near enough to the farmer's house for him to be aroused by a disturbance in the folds. Putting bells on some of the rams would aid in this. The combined noise of a barking dog and jingling bells should arouse any careful man from the deepest slumber. MANURING. To secure the best results in manuring very light lands, perhaps it is best to pen the flock at different places on the farm. VERY LIGHT LAND would thus be benefitted, not only by the droppings, but the packing of the earth by sharp hoofs. The English plan of hur dles ias recommended for making mova ble fences, i. e., panels made of two up right stakes, with sharpened ends project ing 18 inches below the cross-pieces. Be tween the stakes are woven long twigs of willows. These can be easily propagated along the branches or on river banks, and grow very rapidly, making twigs 15 or 20 feet long, light, pliable and hard to break. Panels made of these could be easily car ried wherever needed, and when the sharp ened stakes or posts are thrust into the ground, would make a pen strong enough to confine sheep. The patent movable fence of plank would answer, but is too heavy. The speaker has grown the variety of willow known as "golden," and knows that it fulfills the required conditions. President Battle urged the members to try the plan recommended for RAISING A SHEPHERD DOG. It would require some trouble, of course, ; but not more than is needed for training I other dogs. No hunter expects his setter to find the covey, point them, etc., with- j out previous training. It is better to ob- tain one of the breed of sheep dogs, but ! it is not essential. The only advantage is ; that, on account of their inherited instinct, they are more easily trained than others, j But an animal of any good courageous breed will answer. Any active farmer who loves his w ork can find time to carry out the plans. He must guard against his j charges, while young, injuring the lambs : by too much playfulness. Indeed, this is ; about the only difficulty in the way. The ; plan is not mere theory. It is constantly ! in use in South America and elsewhere, ' and has been for years. What other men can do we can do. The dog can easily be i taught to bring the flock home at night, i The true way to meet the evil of mean, sheep-stealing dogs is to use against them i the noble qualities of faithfulness and , courage and affection of good dogs. j : . ONE OF THE ( AI SES Of Languishing fommrrce and Trade. (iovcrnor Hendricks at Toledo. J My fellow-citizens, the candidate for Governor of the State of Indiana in a speech not long since boasted of the fact that when the Republican party came into power it found an empty treasury, but that it now has an excess in the Treasury ! of $400,000,000. This statement is true", that, when this speech was made there was $400,000,000 lying idle and unemployed in the Treasury at the end of the year. There will be added to that in new vaults another $100,000,000, and it will stand at $500,000,000, wrung from the people be yond the demands of the Government. Have you stopped to think how much that is; it is more tnan nan tne paper cur rency of the United States, and when it comes to be $500,000,000, as it will be at the close of the year and before Congress can act, if the population of the country is properly estimated at 50,000,000, there will beocked up in the Treasury and the vaults dug down deep beneath $10 for every man, woman and child in the coun try. What for? I am arguing the ques tion, ought there to be a change? The Democrats say in their platform at Chi cago that the revenue must be reduced to the requirements of the Government, eco nomically administered. What do you say to that, my fellow-citizens? Are you a Democrat? Are you a Republican? Are you a Granger or an independent? What ever may be your party relations, what do you say to that proposition of the Chicago Convention that the revenue shall be re duced to the needs of the Government economically administered? If you do not like that, don't vote with: the Democ racy, for when the Democracy comes into power, I undertake to say that the ma chinery will be turned for a while back ward, did I say no; forward, in favor of reform: in favor of reducing taxation to the wants of Government economically ad ministered. What are you going to col lect any more for? Have you stopped to think that that money which is now locked up is a part of our currency, that it has an office to perform, and that if the Government doesn't need it the people do? Whatever Government doesn't need be longs to the people. If you owe it to the Government pay it; if you don't owe it to the Government for the purpose of carry ing on its affairs, economically adminis tered,"4 don't pay it. Just stop to think how much that $400,000,000 or $500,000. 000 would do for you and yours. I don't know how much it would do. I do know that in Indiana, with a soil of wonderful richness, with many of the institutions that make wealth for the people manu facturing establishments I know that there is many a man who cannot find em ployment. There is many a family that are hard pressed, because enterprise has stopped, because there is no employment for labor. Ought that to be with $400, 000,000 locked up in the Treasury? The Democracy say "reduce taxation until the amount shall be just what the Govern ment needs." The war closed 19 years ago and in 19 vears this countrv should have been administered upon principles that gov- em in times of peace. Why should we have extraordinary taxation 20 years after we have passed away from the condition of war? W hy shall it be: When we re duce taxation upon these principles until there shall be no more collected than the Government needs, what will be the ef fect? That money which is now locked up in the Treasury will commence to flow outward. It will come back once more into the pockets of the people and into the channels of trade. Where commerce and trade now stagnate and languish there will be prosperity and activity again. Where there is now no employment for la bor it. will b found everywhere. OLD HICKORY." SOME THINGS THAT HAPPENED In tbe Reign or Andrew Jackson. Mr. Higginson in Harper's Magazine.) On the day of his inauguration the President was received in Washington with an ardor that might have turned a more modest head. On the day when the new administration began (March 4, 1829), Daniel Webster wrote to his sister-in-law, with whom he had left his children that winter: "To-day we have had the inau guration. A monstrous crowd of people is in the city. J. never saw anything like it before. Persons have come five hun dred miles to see General Jackson, and they really seem to think that the country is rescued from some frightful danger." It is difficult now to see whatt this peril was supposed to be; but we' know that the charges of monarchical tendency made against John Adams had been renewed against his son a renewal that seems ab surd in case of a man so scrupulously re publican that he would not use a seal ring, and so unambitious that he always sighed after the quieter walks of literature. Equally absurd was the charge of extrava gance against a man who kept the White House in better order than his predecessor on less than half the appropriation an economy wholly counterbalanced in some minds by the fact that he had put in a bil liard table. But however all this may have been, the fact is certain that no Presi dent had yet entered the White House amid such choruses of delight; nor did it happen again until Jackson's pupil, Van Bu reu, yielded, amid equal popular en thusiasm, to another military hero, Harri son. For the social life of Washington the President had one advantage which was altogether unexpected, and seemed diffi cult of explanation by anvthing in his : earlier career. He had at his command i the most courteous and agreeable man- j, t ners. Even before the election of Adams. i DanieTWebsler had written to his brother: , "General Jackson's manners are better , than those of any of the candidates. He is grave, mild and reserved. My wife is for him decidedlv." And long after, when the President was to pass in review before those who were perhaps his most implaca ble opponents, the ladies of Boston, we ! have the testimony of the late Josiah . , i . r 1 1 i. Quincy, in his FijureH from tit? Past, that the personal bearing of this obnoxious of ficial was most unwillingly approved. Mr. Quincy was detailed by Governor Lincoln, on whose military stall he was, to attend President Jackson everywhere when visit ing Boston in 1833; and this narrator tes tifies that, with every prejudice against Jackson, he found him essentially "a knightly personage prejudiced, narrow, mistaken on many points, it might be, but I vigorously a gentleman in his high sense of j I honor and in the natural straightforward j courtesies which are easily distinguished : from the veneer of policy." Sitting erect ; on his horse, a thin stiff type of military strength, he carried with him in the streets a bearing of such dignity that staid old ! Bostonians, who had refused even to look upon him from their windows, would fi 1 nally be coaxed into taking one peep, and would then hurriedly bring forward their ! little daughters to wave their handker ; chiefs. He wrought. Mr. Quincy declares, "a mysterious charm upon old and young;" showed, although in feeble health, a great i .consideration for others; and was in pri i vate a really agreeable companion. It ap j pears from these reminiscences that the ; President was not merely the cause of wit i in others, but now and then appreciated I it himself, and that he used to listen with delight to the reading of the "Jack Down ing" letters, laughing heartily sometimes, and declaring: "The Vice-President must have written that. Depend upon it, Jack Downing is only Van Buren in masquer ade." It is a' curious fact that the satirist is already the better remembered of the , two, although Van Buren was in his day patronage of the nation, and to be called the "Little Magician. But whatever personal attractions of manner President Jackson may have had, he threw away his social leadership at Washington by a single act of what may have been misapplied chivalry. This act was what Mr. Morse has tersely called "the importation of Mrs. Eaton's visiting list into the politics and government of the country." It was the nearest approach yet made under our masculine political insti tutions to those eminent scandals which constitute the minor material of court his--torians in Europe. The heroine of the comedy, considered merely as Peggy O'Neil, daughter of a Washington inn keeper or as Mrs. Timberlake, the wife of a naval purser who had committed sui cide because of strong drink might have seemed more like a personage out of one of Fielding's novels than as a feature in the history of an administration ; but when fate made her Mrs. Secretary Eaton she became one who could disturb' cabinets and annihilate long friendships. It was not merely out of regard for her personal wrongs that all this took place, but there was a long history behind it. There had been a little irregularity about President Jackson's own marriage. He had espoused his wife after a supposed divorce from a previous husband ; and when the divorce really took place the ceremony had to be repeated. Moreover, as the divorce itself had originally been based on some scandal about Jackson, he was left in a state of violent sensitiveness on the whole matri monial question. Mrs. Eaton had nothing in the world to do with all this, but she got the benefit of it. The mere fact that she to whom the President had good-naturedly nodded as Peggy O'Neil had been censur ed by hisown officials, aftershehad liecome the wife of one of them, was enough to enrage him, and he doubtless looked across the fire-place at the excellent Mrs. Jackson a plain, estimable backwoodswoman, who sat smoking her corn-cob pipe in the opposite corner and swore to himself that Peggy O'Neil should be sustained. For once he over-estimated his powers. He had vconquered Indian tribes, and checked the army of Great Britain, but the ladies of Washington society were too much for him. Every member of his cab inet expressed the utmost approval of his ! position, but they said with one accord I that those matters must be left to their i wives. Mrs. Donclson, his own niece i that is, the wife of his nephew, and the 1 lady who received company for him at the White House would not receive Mrs. Ea ton, and was sent back to Tennessee. Mrs. Calhoun, the wife of the Vice-President, took the same attitude, and mined thereby her husband's political prospects, Mr. Cal houn being utterly superseded in the Pres ident's good graces by Mr. Van Buren, who, being a widower, could pay attention to the offending fair one without let or hinderance. Through his influence Baron Krudener, the Russian Minister, and Mr. Vaughan, the British Minister, both bach elors, gave entertainments at which " Bel- lona," as the newspapers afterwards called the lady, from her influence in creating strife, was present. It did no good; every dance in which she stood up to take part was, in the words of a Washington letter writer, "instantly dissolved into its origi nal elements," and though she was placed at the head of the supper table, every lady present ignored her very existence. Thus the amenities of VanBuren were as power less as the anger of Jackson ; but the as tute Secretary won the President's heart, and with it that of his whole immediate circle cabinet proper and cabinet im proper. It was one of the things that turned the scale between Calhoun and Van Buren, putting the New York "magician" in line for the Presidential succession; and in this way Peggy O'Neil had an appreci able influence on the political history of the nation. It was fortunate that she did not also lead to foreign embroilments, for the wife of the Dutch Minister once re fused to sit next to her at a public enter tainment, upon which the President threatened to demand the Minister's recall. All this time Jackson himself remained ut terly free from scandal, nor did his ene mies commonly charge him with anything beyond ill-timed quixotism. But it shows how feminine influence creeps inside of all political barriers, and recalls Charles Churchill's couplet : 'Women, who've oft as sovereigns graced the land, But never governed well at second-hand." The two acts with which the adminis tration of President Jackson will be long est identified are his dealings with South Carolina in respect to nullification, and his long warfare with the United States Bank. The first brought the New England States I back to him, and the second took them j away again. He perhaps won more ap plause than he merited" by the first act, and more condemnation than was just for the other. Two new States were added to the Union in President Jackson's time Arkansas (1836) and Michigan (1837). The population of the United States in 1830 had risen to nearly thirteen millions (12,866,020). There was no foreign war during his administration, although one with France was barely averted, and no domestic contest except the second Semi nole war against the Florida Indians a contest in which these combatants held fhir nmnn,! un woii ,,nrin, i,.i,oif llllA , :J J 1 I. . 1 . 1111 ItV i L 1 1 V iiiii i - U1CUU ' chief Osceola, that he himself, was only captured by the violation of a flag of truce, and that even to this day, as the Indian Commissioners tell us, some three hun dred of the tribe remain in Florida. The war being equally carried on against fugi tive slaves called Maroons, who had inter married with the Indians, did something to prepare the public mind for a new agi- tation which was to remould American j political parties, and to modify the Con stitution of the nation. It must be remembered that the very air began to be filled iu Jackson's time with rumors of insurrections and uprisings in different parts of the world. The French revolution of the Three Days had roused all the American people to sympathy, and called forth especial enthusiasm in such cities as Baltimore, Richmond, and Char leston. The Polish revolution had excited universal interest, and John Randolph had said, "The Greeks are at your doors." All these things were being discussed at every dinner table, and the debates in Vir ginia as to the necessity of restricting the growing intelligence ol tbe slaves had added to the agitation. In the session of 1829-30 a bill had passed the Virginia Assembly by one majority, and had failed in the Senate, prohibiting slaves from being taught to read or write; and the next year it had passed almost unanimous ly. There had been, about the same time, alarms of insurrection in North Carolina, so that a party of slaves were attacked and killed by the inhabitants of Newbern ; " alarms in Maryland, so that fifty blacks had been imprisoned on the Eastern Shore; alarms in Louisiana, so that re-enforcements of troops had been ordered to Baton Rouge; and a traveller had written even from. Richmond, Virginia, on the 12th of February, that there were constant fears of insurrections and special patrols. Then came the insurrection of Nat Turner in Virginia an uprising described minutely by myself elsewhere; the remarkable in flammatory pamphlet called " Walker's Appeal," by a Northern colored man a piece of writing surpassed in lurid power by nothing in the literature of the French Revolution ; and, more potent than either or both of these, the appearance of the first number of the Liberator in Boston. When Garrison wrote, "lam in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse. I ! will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard," Andrew Jackson for once met a will firmer than his own, because more steadfast, aud moved by a loftier purpose. Thenceforth, for nearly half a century, the history of the nation was the history of the great anti-slavery contest. The administration of Jackson will thus be most remarkable, after all, not because of any triumph of his will, but because of something that arose in spite of it an agi tation so far opposed to his wishes, in fact, that he wished for the passage of a law excluding anti-slavery publications from the mails. It was an agitation des tined to draw new lines, establish new standards, and create new reputations: and it is to be remembered that the Demo cratic President did not abhor it more, on the one side, than did his fiercest Federal ist opponents on the other. The Federal ist William Sullivan, at the close of his Familiar Jitter on PuMir Characters, after exhausting language to depict the out rages committed by President Jackson, points out as equally objectionable the rising antislavery movement, and predicts that, if it has its full course, "even an Andrew Jackson may be a blessing." But of the wholly, new series of events which were to date from that agitation neither Sullivan nor Jackson had so much as a glimpse. Why His Cow are Fat. Snow Hill Telejrrapn. Noticing some very fine cattle in the pasture of Mr. G. B. Pate, we inquired of him the cause, and he informed us that in ' his pasture grows a kind of sedge known I :n . 1. , .i . rVi V w. ri -i i! a u i t hoof ai3 rati 1' Mr. Pate says it looks somewhat like a reed, grows about three feet high and arnns out almost as fast as it is bitten off. and is said to be better pasturage than cither grass or reeds ; of one thing we are sure, Mr. Pate's cows are fat, and he says that one acre of waste land well set in this growth will well keep two or three cows. Our farmers should look into this matter. Promine Faithfully Fulfilled. " I do not feel that I shall prove a dead head in the enterprise if I once embark in it." Speaker Blaine to Fisher. "Owing to your political position you were able to work off all your bonds at a very high price." Fiher to Blaine. CAMPAIGN NOTES. SCALES AND YORK JN THE WEST. A Democratic Trlampk at Asheville and Waynesville. Correspondence of the Raleigh" Register. A large crowd assembled at Ashevillc to hear the candidates. Accommodations not being sufficient in the court house, the speaking was held on Battery Porter, n beautiful site in the midst of the city. General Scales was borne thither from the Swannanoa Hotel in a fine carriage, ac companied by a long procession of the best citizens of the town. York went along, on foot-, with such a crowd as one of his political traits could attraet in a Democratic town like Asheville. The Doctor, having the first place, pro ceeded to deliver his usual harangue with Very little sympathy from his audience, outside of the negroes and confraternity of revenuers. When the first speaker had closed, Thos. D. Johnston, Esq., introduced GENERAL SCALES to the audience as a man who,, in the dark days of North Carolina, stood by the poor and the rich, the honest man of toil and the lover of his country. In war he fought for our rights and in time of peace ho has defended our rights; and when elected to the Governor's chair, he will administer the affairs of State for the good of all, both the white man and the black. When General Scales took the stand, almost the entire audience rose to their feet with shouts of applause for our Dem ocratic leader. Scales made -one of his best efforts, captivating every Democrat and winning over many from the Repub lican ranks. At night the lines were drawn closer and the COLOR OF EACH PARTY was more distinctly displayed, About nine o'clock the brass band of the city, composed entirely of negroes, collected at the Eagle Hotel, where York was stopping, to give the Doctor a serenade. A cracked drum, poor music, and negro musicians were fit emblems of the principles which the civil-rights champion had espoused. In response to their calls York came to the front and made a few very common place remarks in a mechanical manner, and then withdrew as if disgusted with his own constituents. No sooner was this scene and discord over than the Asheville cornet band, accompanied by the Ashe ville Light Infantry, in procession proceed ed to the Swannanoa Hotel to pay their respects to General Scales. A large crowd of the best citizens were collected around them. Tbe band played some of its sweetest music and those who have heard them know how enchanting that is. Gen. Scales came to the balcony on the second floor, escorted by a number of ladies who were guests of the hotel, and made one of the choicest speeches I ever heard. His sentiments were beautiful; his expressions chaste and pointed. He did not strike a false note, but made music at every touch. He paid many well-merited tributes to the city of Asheville, and complimented the ladies by some of his happiest and .most appropriate anecdotes. AT WAYNESVILLE the people gave General Scales a grand ovation, and treated York with much cool ness. A procession of mounted horsemen met the General at the depot and paraded around and through town with a show of triumph. In the speaking Scales com pletely demolished his opponent, and the people went away with the assurance that Haywood would give the largest Demo cratic majority that she has ever polled. On the next day following the speeches of the candidates for Governor, the candi dates for Congress in the 9th District spoke at Waynesville. CAPT. THOS. D. JOHNSTON, Democrat, spoke first and made one of the most vigorous speeches I have heard in the campaign. Johnston is a great campaign er and is thoroughly acquainted with tbe questions at issue. He is doing as much to enlighten the people and awaken enthusi asm as any man in the field. Mr. 11. G. Ewart, Republican, says many things, but not much He tries to fool the people with the old trick, that they ought to support the min and not the party. Mr. Ewart is a very clever gentleman, but he will l: left far behind in November. NATIONAL HOTEL. While at Waynesville your corrcsKn dent stopped at the National Hotel and found such accommodations as are rarely equalled in the State. Everything is kept in the most elegant style and the table supplied with all the bounties that the rich county of Haywood can afford. Mr. E. H. Norvell, the proprietor, makes it his highest pleasure to see that his guests are entertained and satisfied.- The most interesting feature of our stay there was the opportunity to attend a Calico Ball. The participants were all dressed in calico costumes. To see the ladies in such dress was not so unnatural, and yet unexpected on an occasion of that kind ; but to see the young gentlemen in full dress calico breeches and spike-tailed coat was a spec tacle both novel and amusing. If such a fashion should come into vogue generally it would very much lighten the expendi tures for the ball-room. W. H. O. Preaching to Deal' Earn. llaner's Magazine Drawer.) In the village of there is a Presby terian church, several of whoso" ine,mlers are Scotch-Irish . Their views and their practices on the subject of tempcrnlnce are not in strict accord with the notions of their pastor. Some years ago he preached them a sermon in which he "came down pretty heavy," as the younger brethren de scribed it, upon the habits of that portion of his flock which came from the province of Ulster. One in particular, McA , ti good old man, with but one failing, who occupied a pew at the side of the pulpit, was so clearly hinted at that all eyes were upon him. Even the minister expected that Mac's " Irish blood wonld be up." The offending brother was slightly deaf, but the teacher was so much in earnest that even the deaf could hear. But McA knew how to turn his infirmity to ac count. The benediction was scarcely end ed when he had the pastor by the hand. "Brother W ," he exclaimed, -"an" it is dauncing ye are gieing it to the young folk about?" Brother W waited some time before he ventured another temperance sermon. A Cotton Picker Invented. The Charleston (S.C.) Newt and Courier alleges that a practical cotton .picker has at last been invented and stands the test of actual use. The machine is claimed to pick cotton in the field for one-seventh the cost of human labor in that direction. The late crop cost fifty million dollars to pick by hand.