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'Hero Shan the P,eS the People's Kights Maintain, Unawed by Influence, ana Unbribed by Gain.' $2.00 a Year. 5Uc g nil on ntrrimsc, PITISLISIIED EVKIiY SATURDAY, HY GEORGE A. WAR LICK. TEKMS: rW tp ir, .---.- js.x m .nth. ----- $2.0 1.0' Throe months 7 IXVAMAllLY IX ADVAXCK. To jH'rutis who make up clubs of ton, an ex tra ci'PJ" will be se,-t h"0- ADVERTISING RATES 1 in. 2 in. 3 in. cel. J Col. I I col. 1 wek, 6 4 St mefttfc 6 " IS " 1 1 00 $2 00 I $3 00 I $ti 00 $10 ! 13 I $li is 22 2l" 45 50 80 100 I AO 3 0 4 00 i 8 00 $ 0C 3 JO 00 9 00 If. n 23 30 45 (i0 10 CO 14 0J 3 0t : oo 10 00 6 00 In 00 8 00 12 00 12 00 IS 00 16 00 2G 00 15 00 I 20 00 I 31 00 Ye-irly .i Iverti-.emonts changed quarterly if desir ed. Tr:nient advertisements piyaMe in advance. Yrrly ;i ivcrtisrmcnts semi-anually in advance. A.lverti'tuents discontinued before tiie time con tritei for h expired, eharsted trausient rates for the time actually published. AJvcrtisements inserted in local column, chartred twenty-five cents per line, unless otherwise Coti- iHCtlhl. 'o alvertisemcnt considered less than a square. Address all letters, "THE ENTERPRISE." Tlie Happy Hour. The busy day is over, The household work is done ; The etires that fi-et the morning Have faded with the sun ; And in the tender twilight I sit in happy rest, With my darling little baby Asleep upon my breast. "White lids, with silken fringes, Shut ont the waning light ; A little hand close-folded Holds mamma's fingers tight ; And in their soft white wrappings, At last in perfect ret, Two dainty feet are cuddled, Like birdies in a nest. All hopes and loves unworthy Depart at this sweet hour ; All pure and noble longings Renew their holy power ; For Christ, who, in the Yirgin j Our motherhood has blest, Is near to every woman With a babv on her breast. Tiie Salvation Army at Work. The "salvation army," which arrived in Now York from England a few ('.ays ago, made its first attack on the sinners of the metropolis on Sunday last, although, according to all ac counts, with but indifferent success. Mr. Ralston, who calls himself the commissioner of the army, and two of his female lieutenants, visited several saloons, where the' were courteously received. In the evening they held a meeting in Harry Hill's theatre, which was crowded not only with (he usual habitues of the place, but with church members. The services con sisted chiefly of singing and prayer, interspersed with exhortation on the part of some of the lieuten ants. The language and efforts used was commonplace, while the un couth manners of the speakers and their pronunciation of certain words brought smiles often to the faces of the audience. Odd and queer, how ever, as the new-comers are, they seem to be terribly in earnest, and may be able to do rood siinnn who never attend churches --------- A man in Newton, Massachusetts, ban invented and patented a ballot-box that he claims is fraud-proof. If this is the case, he has struck a very valu able thing, that as the ancients used to y, "will fill a long felt want." The hox is a very simple one, and works as follows: The ballot is put in at the bP, through a small slit, and then losses between two rollers, on the Ingest of which is a canceling stamp After the ballot is cancelled it falls '"to the bottom of the box, the re "ptacle for the ballots. The ballot is . wn bet'oen the rollers by the turn !S of a crank, and when it is turned ell rings, to call attention to the !"tt that the box is i,, operation. A reg ister is attached which shows correctly be number of ballots that have passed ' 10 110 box The ballots can be re ved frmntlKM.ox at any time while nproCSVllld be counted; ft ,ngampisclian.rW. so. U-,t 101 removed from ,1.7. .' .... . . J lerent ki !-. n . -" Jux Will t Will )(:ir i 10U,, JI lvv( or more bal- 10 Pt in at once, only one is , and the register will indicate Then ;,ne ba,IU,a bc- be mberofvotes cast must agree Vi;,,dicaiedthe- tbutfVaud , y n0la-ree'llBl0w ludulent votes have been c;vst. is I riKc-c. YEARS IN BATTLE AND THREE IN PRISON. BY RANDOLPH A. SIIOTWELL. CHAPTER eTg liTII. Personal Narrative continued School Boy politics, and a task, of mob-law Propar- K,rr the UubK-on--GrPat Battle at IUM l,un How North Carolina eavctl the day A tare well to. youth, and school days -Starting on foot to run the Block ade isit to Thomas Bayard at Wil mington, Delaware. Investing half of my last half dol lar in a shabby breakfast, and deposit ing my satchel with the saloon-keeper, I sallied forth to visit the Lineoln ite Chiefs, an errand so absurdly hope less, and so plainly dangerous, that on retrospect I fail to comprehend how any one should have been so 'green1 as to undertake it. Yet as I recollect it seemed the last resort. Casual inn ni nes while on the boat assured me that the entire river, both above and be low Washington, was closely guarded, owing to the large numbers of young Marylanders trying to escape across it. Persons were arrestci, even when travelling in carriages as though citi zens of the neighborhood ; and how much more suspicious would I appear, travelling on foot, carrying a valise", and inquiring the way as I went ! To cross below the city was-out of the question, while above it, I must first get over the canal, (which runs along the river bank for an hundred miles,) and then, after dodging between the Yankee pickets (posted all along the tow-path between the canal and the river to prevent the Marylanders from escaping, as well as to guard the ca nal levee from being cut by parties of Kebels in tb.e night), I must ovt the river, a not very promising pro& pect-when you consider that i couki not swim even the canal, much less the broad river ! So, in my weary and penniless condition the utmost risk appeared excusable, nay indispen sable ! Gen. Scott's headquarters were at Willard's Hotel, and as it happened he was standing in the door-way, about to take a horse to visit the camps on Arlington heights. He was surround ed by a glittering staff, but no one could fail to recognize the stout sol dierly figure, the massive head, and leonine mane, with the plumed cba peau, at that time lithographed in every shop window, and previously familiar from the colored prints to be seen in every public house or tavern representing him on a prancing charg er "entering Mexico," or posing as the "Hero of Lundy's Lane." He strode back and forth with knit brows and impatient look, but even upon my boyish and nervous observation left the idea that he knew he was "ob served of all observers" and in the atrical phrase was 'striking an atti tude,' for their benefit. Selecting the mildest looking of the brass-buttoned, gold-epauletted, red beited sons of Mars, clanking their swords and jangling their big spurs on the pavement, I ventured amid fear and trembling to ask if he would in troduce me to the General. "Who are you ?" quoth he. "I am a stran ger, sir, and wish to speak with the General." "What does the young man want?" said the big son of the War-God, coining to a sudden halt in front of us. I began a stammering explanation of my great desire for a permit to cross the river, when lie in terrupted me in a stern tone, saying i4I)o you want to join the army?" -Yes (hesitating) sir ; that is I had thought of it," and I tried to excuse conscience by adding the menial res ervation that 'the army' in my meau- . !.,. nt Mim ing was our own army, son s Hill, only four miles South of the Potomac. "Well," said be, "you are rather young for a soldier, but I was young myself when I entered the army; and we need young men. 1 told Mr. Lincoln" (he was address ing his staff rather than me) "three months a-'o we should need young brains and young v t energies to carry through this war to a success. minaUon, and already wo see that such is the fact. The country ca Is for McCIellan, and I am glad that he X". . 1 i n ! coming. Here, Orderly, shoiv w. NEWTON, N. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, "lan fa (ft Recruiting station, on the next block! Gentlemen, to horse!'' Then, climbing heavily into his magnificent saddle, he galloped off to tho Southward, followed by a clatter ing troop, leaving the impression upon my mind that he well deserved his reputation for pomp and parade, though assuredly a gallant soldier in younger days and a belter cause. WANDERING AROUND TOWN. Naturally I felt very ' much set aback on finding myself marched to a recruiting station, but retained self possession sufficiently to thank the Orderly at the door, and spend some time talking with the officer at the desk. It was observable that not a single other recruit was present; the recent battle having subdued the mar tial ardor of most persons in that re gion. In fact the city seemed filled wan discharged men: members of regiments whose term of enlistment had just expired. In the public build ings, notably the Patent Office, (whith er I went to pass an hour in thinking what to do next) great crowds of tat tered and muddy soldiers surged to and fro, some bragging loudly, but many complaining, of bad leadership and bad treatment altogether. More than once I caught the remark "Well, I'm done soldiering! I was fooled into this thing once, but I've got enough. Others grumbled at having been carried into battle just as "their time w-as out." There was a modicum of truth in this. Gen. Mc Dowell, in explanation of his advance upon Beauregard, says that he had to fight, because the three-months vol unteers (particularly those from Penn sylvania and New York) "refused to stay an hour bejond their time. The with them in vain; thej- insisted on their discharge that Saturday night. And the next morning when the ar my moved forward into battle these troops moved to the rear to the sound of the enemy's guns." Perhaps they had lost confidence in their leaders. At an rate they were in the advance next da' when the movement on Wash ington began in such haste I AT THE WAR-OFFICE. Shortly after ten o'clock I ventured to call at the War Department. The corridor was crowded with men, both civilians and officers, awaiting au dience. A select number were ad mitted to the War-Oflice proper; and a still smaller number were granted personal interviews tvith the thrifty Pennsylvania Scott, panoplied with the Portfolio Armaque Vinun. Ush ers ami messengers, aides and order' lys, clerks and secretaries, were com ing and going incessantly ; the privi leged few, envied by all. My timid application did not at first receive even a reply : the official merely nod ding for one of the officers to follow bim into 'the Presence.' Several per- i sons in the waiting crowd said they had been kicking their heels at the same spot since 9 a. m. Very curious conversation was indulged in by some of them, Red Tape being most boun tifully abused. "It lost us tho battle the other day, and will lose us the capital, I'm afraid !" said ono. "Yes" quoth another "if 'Little Mac' doesn't make a speedy change, we shall have the old 1 Eladcusbury Ra ces' repeated, in Bull Run fashion. Why, do you know, there are 100 bar rels of gunpowder packed downstairs in the cellar this minute fixed to blow the whole Department sky-high ifthe'Secesh should get in ? Well, it's a fact ! And the Capitol is mined in the same way." "Bah ! that's all done for effect!" said another "of course, it is a good idea to make the country believe the capital is in dan ger. But everybody knows Jeff Da-; vis means to stand on the defensive. That's his strong card : 'only let us alone and we'll let you alone,' he says." "Yes, but suppose Maryland secedes? Then the Rebels will claim this city as being in their territory." "Pshaw! man, do you suppose the government will allow a secesh con vention to meet now ! Why, the State is full of soldiers already. You saw how they treated Marshal Kane the other day, and I hear there will be any number of big fish taken in be fore long." "They say old General ..no uui;iii uji two or i uree mem bers of the Legislature to give him notice of any attempt to pass an act of secession in secret session, and you may be sure if the traitors try that game they will land in Fort Mellen ry." Singularly enough these casual predictions were fulfilled within a month, by the wholesale arrest of the Maryland Legislature, the members being dragged from their beds at mid night, by armed gangs of soldiers, un der Gen. McClellan's orders ; an act of arbitrary and inexcusable despot ism which is justly considered the blackest spot upon his reputation, though he claims to have simpfy fol lowed Lincoln's orders. TWO NAPOLEONS. Promenading over a stone floor, in momentary expectancy, for four hours or longer, is a discouraging business, and I more than once was on evo of retiring in despair, when some new arrival or departure, would cause me to linger; which I do not now regret as ii gave me opportunity to see, at close view, several personages since prominent in history. First among these, perhaps, should be named Prince Napoleon, of France, (the pres ent head of the Buonoparte dynasty) who with his wife, the Princess Clo tilde, had just arrived in this country. He came up the stairway chatting rather noisely 'for a Prince' with Wm. II. Seward, the Lincolnite Secre tary of State. They had walked over from the Stale Department to arrange for "Pion-Pion's" visit to the Bull Run battle field which occurred duriu-r lhe same week. Ucn. lieau regard's pub lished account of his visit, expresses the belief that it had other objects than mere sight-seeing. Of this I -i-iy pra-:: in another connection. The real Napoleon had not yet ta ken his departure from the building, when a shout was heart! outside, and a squad of officers walked in with the "idol of the hour," the "hero ofBich Mountain," the "young Napoleon" who was receiving more newspaper and personal adulation than any man in the war at that period. He was in his 35th year, stoutly built, soldierly looking, with a pleasing expression of feature, and little affectation it seem ed to me. He had just arrived from Western Virginia, and issued his first order on the following day. lie fur ring to this date afterwards, in an of ficial report to the Secretary of War, he wrote "I found no army to com "mand ; a mere collection of regiments "cowering on the hanks of the Potomac, "some perfectly raw, others dispirited "by the recent defeat. Nothing of "any consequence had been done to "secure the Southern approaches by "defensive works ; nothing whatever to "defend the avenues to the city on the "Northern side of the Potomac. The troops were not only undisciplined, j "undrilled, and dispirited ; they were j ' not even placed in military positions. ! lt? i Vas almost in condition to "have been token hy the dash of a reji i'ment if cavalry !" Another officer, who was not so quickly admitted to audience, was in L-Statescilfe Landmark. Gen. Patterson, the Federal com man- der in the Valley, who permitted Gen. The Iron Trade Boom. A Pilts Jos. E. Johnston to escape to Manas- burg (Pa.) dispatch says: "The con sas. So fierce was the howl raised in j dilion of lhe iron trade is moreencour conscquerwo, that Patterson bent be- "ging now than it has been for years, fore the storm, and resigned his com- j Orders are slill coming in freely from maud six days after the battle He ... ,,mcu x.siu. care-worn and and ! broken ; yet I am disposed to think link j the old man was a victim to the same popular injustice which followed ev- j cry unsuccessful Northern general, i n the East will be shori-Iived. Pud Ue had about 16,000 men. against i dlers there ask for $6. while puddlers 13.000 under Johnston (as the latter here are paid 87.25. The demand is himself admits,) and the valley is so conformed that an able general could I easily do. as Johnston did: to wit: present a bold front with 3r000 or 4,000 men, while secretly sending 8,000 or 9,000 through the mountain passes, towards the East. However, a seape-goat was badly needed, and Patterson had the misfortune to be a Democrat, and he might consider himself luck in not being thrown into Fort Warren, on a charge of dis loyalty, as was Gen. Stone after the failure at Ball's Bluff. to be continued. A little learning is a dangerous thing. This applies to violin playing. 1880. RELIGIOUS NEWS. Henry Ward Beecher says : "There is no use trying to dodge Jordan. If one proposes to follow the actions of Christ, he must be immersed." McKendree Methodist Church, at Nashville, is to be rebuilt at a cost of 830,000. The insurance upon the former edifice will furnish $25,000 of this amount. Of fifty-two Baptist preachers who died last year in this country, only five were under forty years of age. The oldest was ninety-nine, the youngest thirty-seven. Religious Her ald. -Rev. Geo. B. Taylor, D. D., general superintendent of the missionary work of the Southern Baptist Convention in Italy, has returned to his work in Rome, after a visit to his old home in Virginia. The average annual travel of the Bishops of the methodist Episcopal Church is fourteen thousand miles, at an average cost of little less than four hundred dollars. That is nearly forty-five miles for each working-day of the year. The money expended is doubtless the least of the outlay. Richmond Advocate. Dr. Hepburn, writirg from Japan thus speaks of the Pun-Presbyterian Church of that morning land: "The Scotch Presbyterian, American Dutch Reformed and American Presbyterian have united and formed one Presby tery, called here Chiwkae. This Presbytery is now composed of eigh teen foreign members and eight native -v . . 1 11 r i.tMui.s, auu eiuers irom iunc-tcen churches a large and respectable body of men." ' A Lucky Farmer Digs up SSOO. Mr. John Bidgood, of Nash county, living about eight miles from town. was made happy one day last week by being a recipient of a heavy wind fall. While grubbing in the corner of his fence he dug up a rusty, old look ing bundle, and upon examination found it to be a pocket-book. Being so elated with good fortune, he open ed it in the presence of Major Dozier, and found it to contain the srui"- sum of'SSOO in money. No one can tell which way the "wind listeth." Rocky Mount Progress. A New Revenue Bill. Col. Arm field has not yet perfected the revenue bill which he proposes to introduce during the session of Congress. He hopes, however, to present it about the 1st of April. It will provide for a very material reduction in the taxes on whiskey and tobacco on the for mer say from 90 to 25 cents, and on the latter something like from 21 to 10 and will be directed toward a simplification of the internal revenue system, and have in view the reduc- lion of the vast armv of rev- enue offi cers. Under the operations of this bill lhe internal revenue service can be maintained, he believes, with entire j efficiency and vet at a iTeat reduction railroads and commercial centres, and j the demand is constantly increasing. ! u.e uemai.u is coi.Mani.y increasing. Country roads will soon be dried up Country roads will soon be dried up, nd orders will be still further increas cd. The idleness of fifty-seven mills i regarded here as reasonable, mills are all in operation. There Oar are no stocks on hand, and the production is greatly increased. The supply of pig iron is short, and, with increased prices to be paid on new contracts and pressing demands, all reports of j decline are pronounced absurd. ; in sicet-raii production alone the ca- jiacily will be increased 66 per cent. this year.' Never hesitate to give Shriner's Indian Vermifuge when your children I show the first symptoms of worms. lou cannot afford to trifle with worms, they work in earnest and to kill. Adv. 5 Cents a Copy. Xatn vn 1 U i st o r j X Ii Baby. What animal is this ? This is a baby. He is now about three years old, and at the wickedest point of his early career. What country does tho baby most ly iti habit ? He can be found in every inhabited country on the globe, the same as mosquitos and boils. Can they be tamed ? Yes, quite easy. After a little judi cious discipline they cease to struggle and become subservient to the will f man. Does a baby eat grass ? Yes, or anything else. They swal low pocket-knives, thimbles, buttons, spools, or any oi her object a little smaller than a tea-cup. If offered milk they seldom refuse it. Do they graze during the day, or iy at night ? on Thoy are always grazing, paying not the least heed to the hour. When not actually eating they generally givo utterance to a peculiar cry. Strong men often jump out of bed at midnight in the coldest weather when hearing that cry. What meaning is attached to this cry ? Men of deepest thought have agreed that it signifies to wake up the neigh-, borhood and have some fun. Of what benefit to mankind is a do mesticated baby? They are of no earthly account for the first few years, but by and by they can slide down hill on a cellar door and carry articles out of the house and trade for a wooden sword, or lose them in t he grass. Do you know of any instance wbero the baby has attacked the household and killed or injured any one? Such instances' have been related by such eminent naturalists as Georgo Francis Train and Texas Jack, but wo don't put much faith in them. How ever, if the baby was maliciously pro voked, there's no knowing what it might do. Are they a healthy animal ? No; on lhe contrary, no druggist could make enough profit in a year to buy him a pair of Arctic overshoes but for the presence of a baby in every household. There is hardly an hour in the day that the baby does not de mand peppermint, paregoric, ipicac, or something else costing money. What machinery is made use of to compel the baby to take a doso of castor oil ? There are several patent machines for the purpose, but most people fol low the rule of knocking him senseless, and getting the doso into his mouth before he recovers. Is the bald-headed baby more do mestic than others? Not a bit. He kicks around after the same fashion, and has even a worse time fighting flies and mosqui tos. What music do they seem to prefer? A base drum is their first choice, but they have a heavy leaning toward the sound of the stove-handle knock ing the nose of the pitcher with tho emptyings in it. This is all about tho baby. Take another look at him, for next week we shall write about some other reptile. Detroit Free Pre$. MsurIr.nn,IniWf h. xx(k fil.t h t , ... , . oave his entrance monev. route?" asked a rival when the bride and groom 6tartcd on their wedding tour. The rise in the price of paper has its good features too. Peruvian money will be worth something if the rise con- tinues. They went fishing. She looked languidly at bim and said : "I wish the fi.sb ,voud bite at your hook : if I was u 1, t WOuId." The bangs on a lady's brow are bet ter than a barometer. In wet weather ; they straighten dewnpn dry weather tbc' frizzJe UP A Murray Hill young man has com menced exercises in drawing. He sits down by his girl and draws her head over on his shoulder.
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